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Introduction to the Special issue "Great Britain - RUSSIA: ON THE CROSSROADS OF CULTURES"
Russia and Great Britain have a rich history of cultural ties extending back far in time. Our two nations have enhanced each other’s cultural traditions through their respective distinctive, unique and transcendent cultural heritages that have for centuries been shaping our civilization.
Both the British and the Russian people worship the names of William Shakespeare and Lord Byron, Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, Jonathan Swift and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky, Charles Dickens and John Galsworthy, Anton Chekhov and Ivan Bunin, Boris Pasternak and Mikhail Sholokhov, Oscar Wilde and George Bernard Shaw, Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vsevolod Meyerhold, Lawrence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Modest Mussorgsky and Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Henry Purcell and Benjamin Britten, Dmitry Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, Thomas Gainsborough and William Hogarth, Isaak Levitan and Mikhail Vrubel, Joshua Reynolds and J.M.W. Turner, Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov, Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich, Henry Moore and Francis Bacon, and other outstanding cultural figures. These are names that will live forever in the minds of the citizens of both our countries: it is in them that we find the promise of enduring spiritual and aesthetic meaning, and the lasting contribution of the British and the Russian people to the treasures of world culture, as well as the key to trust and understanding between people of different national identities and faiths, notwithstanding their backgrounds, political environment, or form of government.
Despite all the ups and downs of the current moment, the mutual exchange that is the UK-Russia Year of Language and Literature 2016 provides conclusive evidence of the important role that culture and art can play in bridging the divides between nations and serving our shared ideals of humanism.
The unique exhibitions that the National Portrait Gallery and the Tretyakov Gallery are currently exchanging, as well as presentations and seminars organized by the British Council and the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation will provide the public in both Moscow and London with unforgettable cultural experiences.
From left: Peter Funnell; Dr. Rosalind P. Blakesley; Dr. Laurie Bristow CMG, British Ambassador to Russia; Vladimir Drebentsov; Tatyana Karpova; Otar Margania; Zelfira Tregulova, Director, State Tretyakov Gallery; Olga Golodets, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia; Dr. Nicholas Cullinan, Director, National Portrait Gallery, at the opening of From Elizabeth to Victoria at the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, April 21 2016 Photo: Evgeny Alexeev
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What did we find
The ideas, comments and votes shared in the online workshop were analysed to identify themes, key messages, potential barriers and even recommendations. The data were grouped into recurring themes and subthemes.
The online workshop contributions revealed 9 recurring themes. These themes essentially represent the factors that people believe impact their ability to take charge of their own health. By analysing the semantics of the ideas and comments within each theme, we were able to discern:
- a narrative that is typical within Greater Manchester regarding each theme,
- the key challenges that the people of Greater Manchester face with regards to these themes and how they prevent people from taking charge of their health, and
- some potential solutions that participants shared as well as good practice cases that is already being implemented (either in Greater Manchester or other regions of the country).
It’s worthy to note that 3% of those who answered the snapshot survey questions were discounted from the analysis for living outside of the region.
As alluded to earlier, logic would dictate that someone who describes themselves as generally healthy would have lower than average health issues, if any at all, and report no real desire to improve their health. Likewise, those who describe themselves as unhealthy would have a poorer than average health i.e., they would report a number of unhealthy behaviours and/or long term conditions, and we might expect them to report a desire to improve their current context.
Yet, such a simplistic logic was not present. Of those who live in Greater Manchester, everyone could be divided into the six groups.
Our work also uncovered insight from three further groups:
There’s a common “golden thread” linking most “unhealthy” people
Public knowledge about healthy lifestyles is actually quite high. Indeed, people broadly understand what a healthy lifestyle entails. The reason they are not taking the next step is because their barriers, i.e., root causes, are not being addressed in the design of programmes and interventions.
A lack of personal confidence, self awareness and old beliefs keep people stuck.
The perception that personal resources are an issue is further undermined by a lack of confidence or awareness (reducing resourcefulness).
People feel the environment we live in is “dehumanised” – from failed one size fits all designs, to inaccessible or poor parks and leisure facilities, to unsupportive workplaces.
Health and care information and services feel “dehumanised” too – a lack of empathy and connection to real needs with a workforce that is equally as ill as the general public.
In short, confidence and perceptions are the biggest barriers to taking charge. Indeed, it seems more than half of Greater Manchester’s people are sacrificing their own health for fear of being judged. This is food for thought that will be discussed in our recommendations for action.
Might the “moderately unhealthy” middle be the target for change?
Another key insight in the data is that the “moderately unhealthy middle” be a key target for change.
Typically resources across the localities of Greater Manchester are being allocated to help unhealthy people to address their needs. What if our moderately unhealthy middle could be the “persuadable middle”?
39.7% of our snapshot survey sample can be defined as “moderately unhealthy” (with 2-3 unhealthy behaviours or conditions each).
If one quarter of these people (9.9% of the population) could stop one unhealthy behaviour we would see:
- a reduction in the proportion of moderately unhealthy people from 39.7% to 29.7, and
- a subsequent increase in the healthy, from 25.6% to 35.5%.
The graph here illustrates this shift. Might such a change perhaps even initiate the radical upgrade in population health that’s envisioned by the GM Strategic Plan?
We can apply our new insight regarding the 6 types of people in Greater Manchester to further explore the insight regarding the size of our moderately unhealthy middle population.
We learn that a shift in the moderately unhealthy would play out differently across the region’s six types of our people. And we can deduce that prime targets for interventions would be “head in the sand”, “unhealthy and I know it” and “optimists” and now we can be clear that approaches to these groups would need to be different to achieve the goal, or we would need to understand and target a core shared view. This is food for thought that will be discussed in our recommendations for action.
How can we take these insights forward – what are our recommendations?
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Franco Petocchi – Projects for transitioning to Circular Supply Chains & Sustainable Solutions
Watch the presentation video from the 2020 PM² Alliance Conference.
The presentation summarizes the following topics:
- The relationship between circular economy and the climate change, its definition, the Covid-19 context and its momentum in Europe;
- An introduction on circular supply chains and the current state of supply chain sustainability;
- Circular supply chains projects in the fields of resource efficiency and producer ownership, an overview and a few examples;
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This well known quote is from Michelangelo regarding his sculpture of an angel, now situated in Basilica of San Domenico in Bologna, Italy. The story goes that other artists had seen the rough lump of stone and had thought they could do nothing with it. But Michelangelo, the master craftsman, had looked deeper and seen something beautiful and unique within the marble, waiting to be set free.
Oh, how true this is of each of us, created in the image of God. Others may have thought poorly of you, spoken harshly to you, treated you badly, not recognised your worth. You may have done the same to yourself! (And to others?) But there is true beauty within you, once you recognise it, waiting to be set free.
Another famous quote by Michelangelo, this time about his statue of David, is ”David was always there in the marble, I just took away everything that was not David.” How profound! And how relevant for us all, when so much has been painfully taken away from us over this past year in particular, with the COVID19 pandemic.
I don’t know about you, but I haven’t liked everything that has been, at first, revealed in me – some attitudes and anxieties! But even this is good because in facing and addressing those things I am able, with God’s help, and sometimes with the help of other people too, to sculpt or remove them. And that allows more of my true, God-given, God-reflecting likeness to be set free. | <urn:uuid:e040def0-2ec3-436f-adf8-dfdf3121aa06> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jennyhewettcoaching.com/2021/04/13/i-saw-an-angel-in-the-marble-and-i-carved-until-i-set-him-free/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.9785 | 327 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Linking Journalism with the Web of Life
The coronavirus pandemic has exposed the inequalities for groups that are particularly vulnerable to disasters, such as female-headed households, children, people with disabilities, indigenous and ethnic minority groups, landless tenants, migrant workers, older people, and other socially marginalised groups.
People living in densely populated informal settlements fall into this highly vulnerable category, with poor access to public services including health care, water, and sanitation. It is these communities that are also on the frontline of the climate crisis.
This online event will bring speakers from social movements and networks working with indigenous people, people living in informal settlements and women working in the informal economy, to reflect on the response of their communities to COVID-19.
The event will examine inequalities in impacts and coping strategies and discuss mechanisms to address inequality and manage future risks and shocks.
How do we make room for innovation, how do we become more accepting of risk and increased experimentation? And what we can learn that will help us tackle the climate crisis?
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Physical fitness is an important part of any outdoor activity. But for those people interested in getting into trekking, physical fitness is probably less of an issue at the start than you might think. Since you will be starting with short treks and working your way up, your fitness level is likely to build along with your experience. An enthusiastic attitude is far more important at this stage in the game. You can be the fittest person in the world but if you have no genuine interest in trekking it will not become a long term activity for you.
However, if you are planning to join a commercial trekking or mountaineering expedition you will need to develop a high level of fitness so that you can comfortably and safely endure several weeks on the trail.
There is no single fitness program to suit every person. We are all different. You are advised to consult a fitness training professional to work out a program that suits you but here are a few suggestions:
Just do it: There is no better training than trekking itself. Get a daypack on and get out there as often as you can. But if, like most of us, your free time is limited there are other things you can do to fill the gaps.
Treadmill: A treadmill is an awesome machine for building fitness and stamina. It is the ideal instrument for helping to build a rhythm because it can run at a constant speed. A good treadmill will also have an incline function to simulate hills and a custom program function that lets you ‘dial your own trek’, hills and all! One big advantage of training on a treadmill is that you can gradually increase your pace and train your body to perform at a faster pace comfortably. This is vitally important if you eventually plan on joining a mountaineering group where safety and efficiency require the entire team to move quickly and together. For example, in a storm or avalanche prone environment. It’s worth a thought at this stage.
Weight training: This is a subject that has sparked hot debate in the past among trekkers and mountaineers. Some seasoned trekkers will tell you that there is absolutely no need to weight train for this sport, with some claiming that they have never lifted a dumbell in their lives but can trek for days on end. This may be the case, but again, everyone is different. Remember that your body is the vehicle that you are preparing to take offroad. Commonsense suggests that if the various muscle groups are worked and exercised regularly then they will perform more efficiently when the going gets tough and the trail gets rugged. Again, consult a fitness professional for advice on a program that suits your individual needs before attempting any of the above. | <urn:uuid:61619501-69f3-47f9-a368-4ef13726abf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ukoutdoorpursuits.co.uk/blog/physical-fitness-for-hiking-or-trekking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969303 | 551 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Follow Juliet Sear’s step-by-step guide on how to make a tsunami cake. From funfetti sponge to double cream icing, discover everything you need to know about making a tsunami cake.
We’ve teamed up with baking expert and best-selling cookbook author Juliet Sear to create the latest food trend – a tsunami cake. It’s called a tsunami cake, as the icing is held in place at the top of the cake with acetate, wrapped around the outside of the cake. The idea is to carefully and slowly lift the acetate up, allowing the icing to cascade in a ‘tsunami effect’ down the sides of the cake.
Also known as a ‘pull-me-up cake’, a tsunami cake is the latest showstopping cake trend to go viral. If you like a baking challenge and have already tried making a drip cake, cleverly hidden shape cupcakes, or a layered rainbow cake, you may want to add this masterpiece to your list.
In our exclusive video, Juliet talks you through each step of the process – and we’ve also outlined the method below. Juliet, who is also a regular on ITV’s This Morning, says, “The great thing about a tsunami cake is that it bring theatre to the table. It’s all about movement.”
Watch our step-by-step video on how to make a tsunami cake
In this article, we look at the following stages of making a tsunami cake:
Do you need special equipment to make a tsunami cake?
The most important piece of equipment needed to make a tsunami cake is acetate. Juliet says; “The idea is that you build your cake wrapped in the acetate, as shown above. You wrap the sponge tightly so that you can pour the icing on and then you just lift it up which allows the icing to flow all at once.”
Juliet uses a 20cm high acetate but says, “If you can’t find the tall ones, you can just sellotape two pieces of acetate together so if you want to make something really nice and tall.”
To make a tsunami cake Juliet has used the following:
- A medium crank handle palette knife for frosting
- Piping bags
- Cake leveler or large bread knife – we recommend Tala cake leveler
- 6” round thin cake card to cut around and use as a base
- Large lipped cake plate or stand
- Acetate to wrap around the cake, 20cm high – we recommend Cake Collars, available in different sizes
- 7” round cake tin/s
- Baking parchment
How to make a tsunami cake
Before you start making your tsunami cake make sure you have everything you need out in front of you. It’s best to create this cake in stages. Start with the sponges first. Leave them to cool completely and then you can move onto the buttercream. Once the buttercream is ready and in piping bags, you can move onto making the tsunami cake frosting and assembling.
Begin by preheating the oven to 180 degrees fan. You will also need to grease, base, and sideline 4 x 7” round cake tins (or do in batches if you do not have multiple tins)
Step one: How to make the tsunami cake sponge
Juliet has used her funfetti sponge recipe for the cake, with added sprinkles. This is perfect if you’re choosing to make this cake for a special occasion, and adds an extra ‘wow’ factor when it comes to cutting. You could make this with readymade, shop-bought sponges instead if you’re short of time – and you could also experiment with different flavours too, like a chocolate sponge cake base, lemon drizzle, or even a marble cake.
Ingredients for the tsunami cake sponge:
- 400g soft salted butter, at room temp
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
- 400g caster sugar
- 8 medium free-range eggs
- 400g self-raising flour with 1 tsp baking powder whisked into it
- 4 tablespoons bright bake stable cake sprinkles
Method for the tsunami cake sponge:
1. In a stand mixer bowl with a paddle beater attachment or a large bowl using a hand whisk, beat the butter, vanilla, and sugar on fast speed until really light, pale, and creamy. Stop the mixer and scrape the bowl down as needed throughout.
2. Add the eggs, one at a time, and beat until combined at a slow speed. Add the flour and baking powder in increments of 3, beating very slowly until only just mixed.
3. Throw in the sprinkles and mix through gently
4. Divide the batter equally into the tins and bake for around 20-25 minutes until the sponges are springy, lightly golden, and cooked in the centre completely.
5. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a cooling rack, remove the paper and allow to cool. While the cakes are cooling make your frosting.
Step two: How to make the buttercream frosting
For the buttercream, Juliet Sear has chosen a sweet strawberry buttercream, which is made using strawberry jam and flavouring. She has also used a subtle vanilla buttercream too, which creates an impressive finish to your cake once cut. The buttercream sandwiches the cake layers together firmly. Once the buttercream is set it should keep the cake steady, so it will remain in place once the acetate is removed.
“I’ve put the buttercream into a piping bag as it makes it easier to get into the acetate as the acetate is quite tall. And you’ll get a much neater finish,” says Juliet. “I’ve gone for a 1cm thick layer of buttercream so you can really see the defined layers.”
Ingredients for the buttercream frosting:
- 300g soft unsalted butter
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 900g superfine icing sugar, sifted
- 2 tablespoons strawberry jam, sieved
- 2 tsp strawberry flavouring
- Yellow and pink food colouring
Method for the buttercream frosting:
1. Place the butter and vanilla in your stand mixer bowl with the paddle beater or use a bowl with a hand whisk and beat on high until very creamy and smooth, for a minute or so
2. Gradually add the icing sugar, about a quarter at a time, beating each addition on slow first so the icing sugar doesn’t puff up everywhere, once combined turn to high speed for a minute or so each time. Juliet says; “A good tip to ensure your buttercream is creamy and fluffy – add a tablespoon of recently boiled water into the bowl with each addition of the sugar, mix it on slow then turn up to high.”
3. Take 400g of the frosting and tint it a light yellow colour and place it in a large piping bag
4. With the remaining frosting, add in the jam, flavouring, and colouring and beat through, place into your piping bags.
Step three: How to assemble a tsunami cake
The main thing to keep in mind when assembling a tsunami cake is that the edges of the sponge cake and the edges of the buttercream touch the acetate completely all the way around the cake. This will form a barrier to stop any of the tsunami icing seeping through the cake or down the sides when you don’t want it to.
Pressing the sponges down firmly when assembling and putting the cake in the fridge to cool will also help to prevent this from happening as Juliet discusses below.
Method for assembling a tsunami cake:
1. Level off any uneven humps from the top of each cake to make flat with a cake leveler or bread knife. Cut a round 6” disc from each cake to trim off the crust so that the cake sprinkles can be seen in the sponges. You’ll have a total of 4 layers now to sandwich together.
2. Place your first layer onto your stand, board, or plate and spread over a thick layer of strawberry frosting. Add a second layer of cake and press gently. Now wrap around the acetate making sure it is tight and neatly secured against the sides of the cakes. Press the sponge down now firmly, to push the frosting up against the acetate. “Press the cake firmly so it really attaches to the slides of the acetate,” says Juliet.
3. Now build up with a layer of yellow frosting saving a little for the top and add the third sponge.
4. Add another layer of strawberry frosting and top with the last sponge, inverting it so the smooth part is uppermost. Go over the top with a thin covering of vanilla frosting to seal over and create a barrier to hold back the tsunami icing.
“Adding a thin layer of buttercream on top seals all the edges. Make sure all of the buttercream is touching the acetate so when we pour on the tsunami icing it’s not going to start drizzling down the side. It can trap it, ready for the big reveal.” says Juliet.
5. Chill in the fridge for about 30 mins to an hour or until firm. Meanwhile, make the tsunami icing.
Step four: How to make the tsunami cake icing
For the tsunami icing, Juliet has opted for a pale blue food colouring, which makes this cake a real showstopper. The tsunami cake frosting or icing is one of the most important parts of the cake. This needs to be done precisely in order to get the best reveal and ‘ooze’ effect.
The double cream makes the icing luxurious and creamy. The cornflour and condensed milk thicken the icing to make sure it’s not too runny otherwise it will seep through the cake or slide off completely. “The idea with this is you need it to be thick enough to cling to the cake as it cascades down it and not too thin so it just runs off.”
Ingredients for the tsunami icing:
- 350g double cream
- 350ml semi-skimmed milk plus an extra 35-40ml for making the cornflour solution
- 35g cornflour
- 1 can condensed milk
- Blue food colouring
- Sprinkles and gold and silver balls
Method for the tsunami icing:
1. First of all, make the cornflour into a liquid/paste by adding about 35-540 ml milk into it, mix with a spoon, this will prevent your icing from being lumpy.
2. In a medium saucepan, whisk together the cream, milk, and cornflour mix over medium heat, whisking constantly until it begins to thicken. It will take about 6-7 minutes.
3. Add in the can of condensed milk and whisk for another 20-30 seconds until it’s all come together, remove from heat, whisk in a little blue colouring, and place into a bowl to cool completely. Place over a piece of cling film or parchment paper directly onto the surface of the mixture to prevent skin from forming.
4. Once the mix is cool, you can pour it onto your cake. If you think it looks a little lumpy you can sieve it first.
Step five: How to reveal a tsunami cake
Revealing the tsunami cake is by far the best stage. Lift the acetate slowly and steadily in an upwards motion. The icing will cascade down the sides of the cake creating a tsunami effect.
Make sure you have plenty of edge around the cake so the icing can collect at the bottom of the cake instead of covering your table or ending up on the floor. Juliet has chosen to present her tsunami cake on a large lipped cake stand.
Method for revealing a tsunami cake:
1. Place the chilled cake onto your stand with plenty of room for the icing that will spill over the sides. Pour the blue icing all over the top filling up to a few inches in the acetate. Top all your sprinkles.
2. When you’re ready to reveal the tsunami effect, gently loosen the acetate from the cake base, then pull upwards and allow the icing and sprinkles to cascade all down the sides of the cake.
3. If you find the acetate is hard to pull up after the cake has set and chilled, you can warm up around the outside with your palms or a hairdryer to soften the buttercream frosting on the outside so the acetate will pull up.
Please note this recipe serves 20 (small portions) and will take around 1 hour to prepare and 20-25 minutes to bake.
How to store leftover tsunami cake
Ideally, a tsunami cake is made, revealed, and eaten on the same day as it’s a very messy cake to store. However, if you have any leftovers it’s best to keep this cake in portions in the fridge.
As the icing is made with double cream the fridge is the best option to keep the cake fresh. It may dry the sponge out a little so only leave it in the fridge for up to 2 days.
If you want to make this cake ahead of time you could prep and bake the sponge cakes in advance. You can also make the buttercream in advance too. Store it in the fridge and then bring it to room temperature before using it again.
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You can save a life — or two !
Every year, six to eight million dogs wait to be adopted from animals shelters — so many, that millions are euthanized each year due to overcrowding.
Adopting a shelter animal not only gives your pet a second chance in a happy home, but can also save it from being euthanized.
One of the big myths about shelter pets is that all of them have behavioral issues or have been rescued from abuse. Many shelter animals, however, end up there because their owners can no longer care for them.
Shelters provide a space for animals of all different breeds, ages, shapes, sizes and personalities. They house so many different pets that you are sure to find an animal that fits your lifestyle and will serve as your perfect companion.
I know very well that we all feel a great sorrow when looking into the kennels where shelter animals are kept, but can we begin to think how that poor sad soul is feeling, looking out to us. After all, they only want to give unconditional love.
Please consider adopting, before paying thousands of dollars to breeders, who don't realise how many pets we have waiting for their own loving homes. | <urn:uuid:cfe65c4c-72c3-4dfd-ae5d-db49e0a27678> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.spcawb.org/pets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.967078 | 254 | 2.25 | 2 |
Guest post from SPM member Adrian Gropper, MD of HealthURL.com.
Information is the foundation for patient engagement. Nothing about me without me. Although personal medical information starts out with your various institutions and doctors, it doesn’t just stay with them. The information moves and collects in secondary locations such as insurers (claims), public health agencies (vaccinations), online health records (Microsoft HealthVault), exchanges (master patient indexes) and regulatory registries (narcotics and all payer claims databases).
These aggregators of personal medical information may not be directly involved in patient care today but they are increasingly important as a convenient perspective into our fragmented healthcare delivery, a guide to reducing our insurance and out-of-pocket costs, and a convenient way to monitor both fraud and accidental errors. All too often, because healthcare providers are distressingly reluctant to share information with patients, these aggregators are also the best source of primary information. What better way do I have to know what care my mom might be getting than to download her BlueButton file from Medicare?
The patient’s right to access, ideally convenient access, to aggregators of personal medical information is not guaranteed. It’s actually a shell game between federal (HIPAA) and state privacy regulations where, as with most shell games, the patient usually loses.
All Payer Claims Databases (APCD) are a good example. Price transparency is almost unknown in US health care and a major impediment to patient engagement even as family healthcare costs cross $20,000 per year. State regulators eager to cut Medicaid and private insurance costs set up databases to inform policy decisions but, for political and technical convenience, make that data inaccessible to the patient themselves. Is this fair? Is it legal?
The legal situation situation is murky. APCDs point to HIPAA when it’s convenient even though HIPAA was designed to protect primary data sources such as hospitals and insurance companies that have a direct relationship with the patient. At the state level, privacy regulations are all over the map with powerful providers, insurers, agencies and special interest groups drowning out the common patient and family perspective.
Federal health care reform efforts are trying to do what they can. The recent ONC initiative on governance of entities connected to the evolving nationwide health information network seeks input on future regulations that could strengthen HIPAA and clarify the fairness and legal issues around state and commercial information aggregators.
Patient input into regulation is critical to the evolution of APCDs, the effectiveness of health insurance exchanges, the sustainability of health information exchanges and the ability of commercial services to innovate in support of real-world patient engagement. I posted some e-patient highlights here to get you going. Keep in mind that state-level efforts are arguably more important than federal ones.
It’s time for immediate, convenient and open authorization-enabled access to our personal medical information in all state and national projects.
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West Roane County Volunteer Fire Department (WRCVFD) can use the talents of most anyone who has the desire to help in accomplishing the goals of the Department. Firefighters
Smoke alarms save lives. Smoke alarms that are properly installed and maintained play a vital role in reducing fire deaths and injuries. If there is a fire in your home, smoke spreads fast and you need smoke alarms to give you time to get out. | <urn:uuid:02d08774-72ef-4115-bd07-29babba781c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://westroane.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947784 | 88 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Built in 1907 when the central Nevada town of Tonopah was at the height of its silver boom, the Mizpah Hotel opened its doors to provide a place to wow and woo potential investors from the East. It quickly became the town’s epicenter, and at five stories, spent 25 years as the tallest building in Nevada.
The hotel was named for the sobriquet bestowed by a prospector’s wife on the first silver lode discovered in the region, a biblical reference meaning “to come back together with those you love.” The Mizpah’s fortunes fluctuated along with Tonopah’s boom-and-bust mining economy throughout the 20th century, and by 2000, it was shuttered. It went on to spend the next 10 years with its doors chained and windows boarded.
But in 2011, the owners of several Sonoma wineries purchased the Mizpah, renovated it back to its former Wild West glory, and reopened the hotel in October of that year. The stained-glass windows, lighting fixtures, elevator, clawed-foot bathtubs, and the majority of the lobby’s furnishings are said to all be the originals from the 1908 opening.
The Mizpah has since gained a reputation for its fair share of ghosts, recently being recognized as the number one haunted hotel in the U.S. by USA Today. Several of the suites are named for some of its supposed permanent guests who haunt the room or its surroundings, with a plaque outside each room providing the grisly details.
Stories include a senator whose body was hidden in a bathtub full of ice within the suite before his final election to allow fellow democrats to announce a replacement after his reelection; and the infamous Lady in Red, a 1920s-era prostitute strangled in a jealous rage by one of her johns at the end of the fifth floor hallway, whose ghost is said to leave behind the pearls that tend to mysteriously and inexplicably turn up around the hotel. An ornate book is displayed prominently at the front check-in, in which guests are encouraged to write about their encounters with the Lady herself, the children who haunt the third floor, and the various miners whose apparitions are said to make frequent appearances throughout the hotel. | <urn:uuid:adae9b61-20be-4c41-958e-3f343cf773f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-mizpah-hotel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.97998 | 473 | 2.078125 | 2 |
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”
― Marianne Williamson
Forgiveness is a part of all of our lives. We have all been the givers and receivers of forgiveness.
Though it has seeped into our lives, there is discomfort associated with it.
And, it's not fair. Asking for forgiveness takes courage and the awareness that one needs to improve, that we weren't right.
And, giving forgiveness takes strength.
In the situation that we are the ones whom we need to forgive, it gets more complicated.
So, let's take the help of affirmations here.
Forgiveness is a gift that we give to ourselves and others. That even if it isn't easy, we are making a choice that will greatly help not only them but ourselves too.
Forgiveness brings peace and freedom.
Also, I want to make it clear that forgiveness is not a substitute for accountability. While advising forgiveness, I want you to maintain your self-respect.
Abusive people must be cut out from your life. And, even if you choose to forgive them so that you can be free, it doesn't translate to reconciling with them.
Same with you, if you have made a mistake, yes, forgive yourself in time, but don't take it as a license to not make amends, ask for forgiveness, improve yourself, and do your best to not repeat it.
I have a post talking about forgiving yourself in-depth if you're interested.
And, with that, let's dive into positive affirmations to help you form a freeing, forgiving mindset that leads to a more peaceful life:
- I accept my past.
- I have faith in my current and future decisions.
- I acknowledge that I did the best I could with what I knew at the time.
- I put down the heavy burdens of guilt, fear, and humiliation.
- I let go of the past to move forward.
- I learn from my mistakes.
- I am ready to love myself completely.
- By forgiving myself, I am becoming more patient.
- I am choosing to treat myself with respect and kindness.
- I believe in my ability to create a better future for myself.
- I take full responsibility for my past decisions.
- I let go of negative, harmful thoughts and habits.
- I am free from self-resentment.
- I am focusing on the present.
- I heal and recover at my own pace.
- I forgive myself for my past decisions and actions.
- I forgive to set myself free.
- I have the courage to recognize the light within myself.
- I am capable of healing.
- I am a being of love, compassion, and peace.
- I trust myself to build a better future.
- I am learning and growing every day.
- I approach myself with patience and understanding.
- I am worthy of healing.
- I allow myself to start over.
- I have a forgiving heart.
- I see the good in others.
- I release the past so I can step into the future with pure intentions.
- I am capable of moving beyond my mistakes.
- I am worthy of all the compassion and kindness life offers me.
- I forgive myself one day at a time.
- I set my past free and forgive my participation in it.
- I trust my present and future decisions based on love and good intentions.
- I have the courage to heal and become whole again.
- I am treating myself with respect and kindness.
- I forgive others as I forgive myself: with ease, sincerity, and loving compassion.
- I am willing to live with all of who I am.
- I am capable of loving all of who I am.
- I go with the flow that life brings me.
- I grow more patient and understanding of others by forgiving myself.
- I melt into an ocean of love and forgiveness.
- I forgive myself so that I can have inner peace.
- I am releasing all the resentment from my mind, body, and soul.
- I am ready to be healed. I am willing to forgive. All is well.
- Each day is filled with new possibilities.
- I am a strong, loving, joyful person.
- I have a compassionate and forgiving nature.
- I forgive you.
- I forgive myself.
- I bring joy, love, and gratitude to the world.
- Through forgiveness, I learn and grow from my mistakes.
- All answers come naturally to me.
- I am now transforming into the best version of myself.
- I am capable of offering unconditional love anytime.
- I accept myself with unconditional love and let go of my past.
- I give up the hope of a different past by accepting my true past.
- All is well between us. Peace be with you.
- I am abundant in all aspects of my life.
- My heart is free of resentment, anger, and hatred now that I have forgiven those who have hurt me.
- I am doing the best I can with what I have.
- Each day I am getting better at being a good person.
- I am practicing compassion and understanding.
- As I let go of the past, I allow new joyful relationships to come in.
- I let go of all my expectations of other people and accept them for who they are with unconditional love.
- I let go of negative patterns and habits.
- I release my past and forgive my participation in it.
- I forgive the part of me that holds resentment.
- I am free from the prison of resentment.
- I can forgive myself, as I would forgive others.
- The universe always has my back.
- I trust in the universe.
- I can help others by learning to forgive.
- I am now filling my heart with compassion for others.
- I forgive myself for my imperfections.
- The forgiveness I give propels me forward.
- I am done beating myself up for what has happened in the past.
- I am healthy.
- I am a pioneer of the future.
- As I let go, I feel myself blooming in all areas of my life.
- I am creating my future in a loving way.
- I forgive myself for my past decisions and actions.
- As I forgive others, I am forgiven.
- I release all judgment, guilt, and shame.
- I move from survival to thriving.
- I am grateful for the lessons my mistakes have taught me.
- I am at peace and in harmony with myself.
- Forgiveness allows me to let go of negative energy and thoughts.
- I am choosing to love myself.
- Forgiveness gives me freedom.
- Forgiveness makes me feel empowered.
- By accepting responsibility for what happened, I can achieve personal growth.
- I am treating myself with love and respect.
- I let go of control.
- I am appreciating myself for learning all the good things from the past.
- I let go of all the barriers and hurdles that come in my way to success.
- I let go of all the negative thoughts that affected my past.
- I am trusting the phases of life and releasing the past with ease.
- I am grateful for knowing about the reality of many things in my past.
- I am releasing all the painful thoughts of my past.
- I am converting my past into my future very positively.
- I am releasing all the things from my past that are not for me.
- I am forgiving myself for my mistakes in my past.
- I am now living my life the way I want to.
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Arbitration Agreements in Employee Handbooks: Are they Enforceable?
Jun 19, 2006
Employees in Texas are generally considered “at-will” employees. This means the employer may modify the terms and conditions of an employee’s employment at any time with or without cause, or notice. If the employer notifies the employee of the modifications, and the employee continues working after being notified of them, the employee is deemed to have accepted those changes. Mutual promises to submit employment disputes to arbitration are also legally enforceable because both parties are bound by promises to arbitrate.
Problems can occur, however, when the arbitration agreement is contained in an employee handbook, especially when it is a handbook the employer retains the right to unilaterally change. If an employer has the unilateral, unrestricted right to modify the handbook, and the arbitration agreement is in the handbook, there is a good chance a court would find the agreement unenforceable. This is because the employer’s ability to arbitrarily change the arbitration agreement theoretically permits the employer to cancel or void arbitration agreements, and its employees would, consequently, receive nothing in exchange for their unconditional promises to arbitrate. The end result is that a court would, in all likelihood, refuse to enforce the arbitration agreement and the employee would be free to pursue her claims in court.
To be safe, employers should not include arbitration agreements in their employee handbooks. Instead, arbitration agreements should be stand-alone documents. Employers whose arbitration agreements are contained in employee handbooks should ensure their handbook’s unilateral modification language does not apply to the arbitration provisions. | <urn:uuid:4c96a890-5cf5-4802-8d9d-78d044ad5ea6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thompsoncoe.com/resources/publications/arbitration-agreements-in-employee-handbooks-are-they-enforceable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948486 | 334 | 1.5625 | 2 |
What is cryptocurrency?
by SMEBOOK (admin) · October 18, 2020
Cryptocurrency is a virtual currency or digital currency that is encrypted to secure the currency dissemination online and in order to avert the currency abuse like fake currency or to avoid duplicate payments. Cryptocurrency is based on blockchain technology which is used to secure the currency network and ensure the authenticity of transactions. The first cryptocurrency named Bitcoin was launched in 2009.
SMEBOOK is reinventing the management of tech companies’ assets by providing a matchmaking algorithm capable of recommending partnerships according to needs and interests. | <urn:uuid:1ac046ad-9857-4b61-bbf7-8abc3cabf32e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://smebook.eu/knowledge-base/cryptocurrency/what-is-cryptocurrency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.932591 | 118 | 2.9375 | 3 |
G7 leaders stare down energy and climate tug of war
The geopolitical fallout from Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine is on display at the ongoing G7 meeting in Germany, where climate change is a key topic of conversation Monday.
State of play: In the bucolic Bavarian Alps, world leaders are wrestling with how to alleviate short-term worries about securing adequate energy supplies and lowering energy prices without tanking efforts to limit the severity of climate change.
- There is a tug of war between how much G7 nations will emphasize burning more fossil fuels in the short-term with the transition to clean energy in the long run.
- This stands in stark contrast to last year's G7 meeting in Cornwall, England, where climate change was a top priority heading into the Glasgow Climate Summit.
- The question then was how far and fast some of the world's biggest emitters would go to slash emissions. Now these questions have taken on more of an "if" quality to them.
Why it matters: With the price of oil, gasoline and natural gas at painful levels in Europe and the U.S., the balance that leaders strike will help determine whether the Paris Agreement's targets are met.
- The U.S. is facing record-high gasoline prices, which is an albatross for President Biden and the Democrats heading into the midterm elections. Biden has called for oil companies to boost their domestic production and refining output.
- Germany has announced the restart of some of its shuttered coal-fired power plants, which use the most carbon-intensive fuel source, in order to help build up natural gas stocks for next winter. Other European countries are making similar moves.
The big picture: The U.S. and nations in the Middle East and possibly Africa are taking on new importance as natural gas exporters to Europe, with several new terminals for liquified natural gas already approved for the continent.
- U.S. LNG exports to Europe have nearly tripled since March, according to a joint statement Monday from Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
- Climate activists and scientists have warned that building infrastructure that could be used for the next few decades could lock in enough emissions to nullify the Paris targets.
Yes, but: The imperative of providing relief from high energy prices now may cause the G7 to back away from implementing some of its most recent climate commitments.
- These include the curtailment in overseas fossil fuel funding, an "eventual" coal phaseout as well as a push to generate electricity from a grid that is "predominantly decarbonized" by 2035.
- Fatih Birol, the head of the International Energy Agency, is participating in today's G7 meetings and urging countries to take steps aligned with a transition to clean energy, per IEA.
- A potential price cap on Russian oil, which is also being discussed, might allow Europe to import Russian oil but at a predetermined, artificially low price. Proponents say this could lower gasoline prices while also reducing oil revenue going to Putin's regime.
- But it could also boost demand for gasoline, leading to more fossil fuel consumption and higher emissions.
What they're saying: "We’re in a moment of massive disruption due to the invasion, and that’s either a big risk or it’s a big opening on the climate," Jennifer Morgan, Germany's ambassador at large for climate change, told the NYT.
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The challenge: Many service-based games last for years, which necessitates a content treadmill to keep players fed and happy. However, many common progression systems borrow from RPGs and MMOs and involve leveling up in linear fashion. Players grind up to some max cap, at which point the numbers have started to break down. Such games run into power creep, diluted rewards and other balance issues when they belatedly extend the progression for a few thousand hours more.
An alternative is cyclical progression. This is where they player starts growing in power but eventually finds themselves (due to a variety of potential reset mechanisms) coming back around to the start of the progression.
Examples of cyclical progression systems fall in at least a couple main categories…
Hard cycles: The player progresses upward in a roughly linear or exponential fashion. And then they do some form of a hard reset.
- Seasonal leagues in sports and esports
- Season passes in various F2P games
- Permadeath in rogue-likes
- Ascension systems in idle games
Soft cycles: Instead of a hard reset, cycles blur into one another.
- The changing of the seasons. The original cyclical progression.
- Item decay like the weapon breaking in BotW
- Star Wars Galaxy’s unique crafting resources that then become scarce
Question to tackle at Project Horseshoe
What could the work group tackle? This is a relatively focused topic, but one that I suspect is worth a few hundred million for the right team.
- What are examples of cyclical progression?
- What are advantages?
- What are pitfalls?
- What are opportunities?
- Other lenses for looking at this topic?
Just some rough notes to kickstart people’s thinking.
1. Ideas from linear progressions
Cyclical progression is contrasted against linear progression (up and to the right!) where players steadily gain in resources and power.
Several key ideas in linear progressions that are also important to cyclical progressions.
- Shape: Every progression has a shape that determines pacing and feel of the progression. Common shapes for linear progression include exponential and sawtooth.
- Loss: The key benefit of linear progression is that players never are forced to feel loss. Since losses result in intense negative emotions that result in churn, many games intentionally use never-ending collection and leveling.
- Content treadmill: The downside of using linear progressions is that they put the team on a content treadmill. Where they must constantly make large amounts of fresh content to extend the linear progression. How might cyclical systems minimize the treadmill?
2. Managing loss aversion in cyclical progressions
Cycles inevitably involve loss. There are some very solid existing systems for managing that loss.
- Opt-in: If the player makes a conscious choice of their own volition to restart, the pain of loss is less.
- Gearing: Idle games use gearing systems where you lose your progress on one linear progression to gain progress on a much slower linear progression. A small gear slowly turns a big gear. You transfer the player attention away from the short term loss and towards the long term gain. Rogue-lite systems like Rogue Legacy are a version of this.
- Obsolescence due to environmental shifts: If items become slowly obsolete, players don’t feel loss as strongly. Winter boots are great in winter, but by the time summer rolls around, you don’t feel the need for them as much.
- The fading of memory: There’s a natural decay of human attention over time, where a thing that was once important no longer matters so much a few years later. Perhaps if decay is slow enough, no one will notice.
- Unique scarce resources: Star Wars Galaxy generated unique scarce resources that feed into the crafting system. Since the resources ran out, player would be economically incentivized to switch to more available substitution good. And once that is exhausted, the process repeats. Conceptually this is similar to obscelence, but coopts the opt-in agency of a trade economy.
3. Meditations on ritual and progress
Humans are inherently cyclical creatures. We live in a world with seasons. Our communities involves overlapping cycles of birth, growth, death. Many traditional cultures and religions emphasize cycles and their associated rituals. Are there ways of building cyclical progressions that enhance the gentle living of a player’s life? Or must games always be about climbing the infinite mountain. | <urn:uuid:0a3149d0-259b-4ce0-90e9-b5f2967c7ff3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.projecthorseshoe.com/2019/09/17/cyclical-progression-systems/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.933373 | 924 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Tips to making tough strategy decisions:
1. Don’t allow groups a long time to generate proposals separately
Many groups give small groups large chunks of time to develop campaign proposals and then come back and present them, after they have refined and finalized the proposal. For example, during a strategy retreat groups split for a half-day to refine their plans. That’s often a mistake because by that point, people have invested huge amounts into “their” proposal.
The goal of reaching a decision is that people have to let go of “their” proposal and allow it to be the group’s. That means detaching from their ego.
You can help people detach by giving them shorter times for working on a proposal. Then have them come back and present their findings, and share feedback with the large group––and only then go back and do more refinement.
2. Avoid too much large group discussion; use lots of small groups
This is especially true early on in the process. Most decision-making processes are more effective with lots of small groups. Small groups allow more people to talk, express themselves and really listen to each other. This is very useful when the group is making a decision.
Alternatives to large groups include:
- Break into small groups with a task
- Use the mingle to get reflection and feedback (see The Mingle)
- Try having people create skits to show, rather than just talk about, actions they might do (see Skits)
- Use planning tools like the Paper Plate challenge or Spectrum of Allies to get everyone on the same page (see the Paper Plate Challenge and Spectrum of Allies).
3. Make other, less important decisions, before the big decisions
Decision-making is a habit. Groups who get used to making small decisions will get into a routine of good decision-making habits: accommodation, deferring, listening, asserting, and respecting each other. Making smaller and lower-stake decisions first will make the job of making big decisions easier.
In a strategy session, for example, the facilitator may consciously create many “decision-making” moments for the new group because even little things can make a difference, for instance:
- Asking the group to decide on how long the next break should be: 15 minutes? 20 minutes? 30 minutes?
- Having the group do a physical activity that involved decision-making, like Blanket Game or Menu of Tasks (see The Blanket Tool and How to Get Others Involved: Using the Menu of Tasks).
- Having the group decide on the five key criteria for choosing the next campaign or the top three issues they want to focus on for the next campaign.
4. Affirm areas of agreement whenever possible
Facilitators should note whenever the group is close to agreement. For example, while presenting vastly different plans, workshop groups may come back with the same target and at least two similar tactics. That deserves immediate affirmation from the facilitator. This allows the group to be energized by shared ideas and values. Showing similar ways of thinking allows the group to stay connected.
5. “Test” the decision before making it
Decision-making is not a moment. It is a series of steps that each group takes in its own way. One step requires people getting a sense of what others are thinking. Large group discussion does this, but one of the quickest ways to do this is an exercise called dotocracy:
To lead dotocracy:
Put the name of each different campaign on the wall. Then give everyone three stickers (often small round dot-shaped stickers are used for this exercise, so that’s why it is called “dotocracy”) or a marker (for making dots). People put stickers or make dots next to the choice they want—a kind of voting or straw poll system. You can vote on the same campaign many times, spread the dots among several campaigns, or not use any at all.
This process is helpful for most groups because it is a way for individuals to reflect on their own priorities and see how the group as a whole is thinking. It’s not a decision, because it shows the group how individuals are thinking: it allows the group to “test” a decision before trying to making it.
6. If this is about another issue, deal with that first
Making a decision about a campaign is difficult enough, but if the group is really having a fight about something else—maybe some infighting, interpersonal conflict, or power dynamics—then it’s much harder. If at all possible, resolve those issues before making the decision about the campaign. If you can’t, do your best to separate that from this decision. If you don’t, the entire campaign may be affected by those other issues. If necessary, consider alternative conflict measures:
- Speak-outs, allow individuals to express themselves publicly about issues important to them that the whole group needs to hear.
- If it’s just high tension, use team types or other tools that allow people to use humor and lightness to express difference in the group (see Team Types).
- Create a fishbowl where a couple of people (who may seem hopelessly divided) come to the center of the room and sit together. Have them communicate and try to figure things out, with the loving attention of the group. This allows everyone a chance to hear different opinions in the whole group and often reveals hidden solutions.
- Talk to people outside of the room, including mediators or communication outside of the space and with other appropriate people.
Using these tips, here’s an example of a 2-hour session to make a decision on campaign proposals (assuming the proposals have already been generated):
- Large group presentation of each campaign proposal (15 minutes)
- Small groups rotate to spend some time at each campaign proposal, reviewing each proposal, asking questions, and offering feedback (30 minutes)
- Dotocracy: what campaign do you want? (10 minutes)
- Break (10-20 minutes? ask the group to decide length)
- Large group: review the results of dotocracy, ask for reactions? (10 minutes)
- Small group: now what do you think the group should do? (15 minutes)
- Large group: final decision (20 minutes)
- Closing with a group appreciation
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Behavioral Determinants of Obesity: Research Findings and Policy ImplicationsView this Special Issue
Research Article | Open Access
Trevor J. B. Dummer, Sara F. L. Kirk, Tarra L. Penney, Linda Dodds, Louise Parker, "Targeting Policy for Obesity Prevention: Identifying the Critical Age for Weight Gain in Women", Journal of Obesity, vol. 2012, Article ID 934895, 7 pages, 2012. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/934895
Targeting Policy for Obesity Prevention: Identifying the Critical Age for Weight Gain in Women
The obesity epidemic requires the development of prevention policy targeting individuals most likely to benefit. We used self-reported prepregnancy body weight of all women giving birth in Nova Scotia between 1988 and 2006 to define obesity and evaluated socioeconomic, demographic, and temporal trends in obesity using linear regression. There were 172,373 deliveries in this cohort of 110,743 women. Maternal body weight increased significantly by 0.5 kg per year from 1988, and lower income and rural residence were both associated significantly with increasing obesity. We estimated an additional 82,000 overweight or obese women in Nova Scotia in 2010, compared to the number that would be expected from obesity rates of just two decades ago. The critical age for weight gain was identified as being between 20 and 24 years. This age group is an important transition age between adolescence and adulthood when individuals first begin to accept responsibility for food planning, purchasing, and preparation. Policy and public health interventions must target those most at risk, namely, younger women and the socially deprived, whilst tackling the marketing of low-cost energy-dense foods at the expense of healthier options.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) estimates that globally 1.5 billon adults are overweight and 500 million are obese . Almost 25% of Canadians are currently obese, with an estimated 1 in 10 premature adult deaths attributable directly to obesity . Obesity rates in Nova Scotia have more than doubled since 1985 [3, 4]. With 20% of Nova Scotians classed as obese and a further 35% classed as overweight, the Provincial rate is substantially higher than the Canadian average of 16% and 32% for obese and overweight, respectively . Further, overweight and obesity rates are higher in Nova Scotian women than men . These trends have important implications for population health and health system planning.
Obesity is a serious public health issue. It is a risk factor for premature mortality from a number of causes, such as hypertension, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes, as well as many types of cancer [2, 6].
While the causes of the obesity epidemic are simple in principle—an imbalance between energy consumption (diet) and energy expenditure (physical activity)—in reality the problem is complex and the result of an interaction between genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors . A greater understanding of policy options and of potential target populations for obesity prevention is therefore necessary.
Understanding the parameters of maternal weight status is of critical importance for a number of reasons. Maternal obesity is related to a significantly higher risk for complications during pregnancy, including a higher rate of delivery and surgical difficulties, hypertension, thromboembolism, and gestational diabetes which also contribute to fetal complications such as congenital malformations, macrosomia, and antepartum stillbirth [8, 9]. Furthermore, pregnancy often alters the weight gain trajectory of an individual by increasing the likelihood of postpartum weight retention if gestational weight gain is greater than the recommended range [10, 11]. This cycle may then be repeated with each additional pregnancy as increases in maternal body weight can occur with parity, further perpetuating the obesity epidemic . Obese women are also less likely to breast-feed for mechanical as well as physiological reasons, removing a fundamental safeguard against long-term weight gain for themselves and their children . These early life factors, among many others, make it more likely that the children of obese mothers will themselves be overweight or obese, or at greater risk of becoming overweight or obese adolescents and adults . In particular, the relatively new concept of assortative weight gain suggests an important role of the mother in influencing body mass index (BMI) of daughters, with a weaker relationship seen between fathers and sons . Studies have identified that women of childbearing age are at a particularly high risk of weight gain and future obesity . Amongst this group, the highest risk has been identified in the 25–45 age range .
Identifying the target for policy approaches requires some consideration. For example, prevention of obesity in children is an important element of obesity prevention , but targeting children without also addressing parental obesity may not be an effective or viable solution. Therefore, targeting obesity prevention policies at childbearing women could offer a dual benefit—to both the mother and the child. However, information on the parameters of maternal weight status is limited, particularly in terms of identifying critical periods for weight gain.
The purpose of this study was therefore to identify the socioeconomic, demographic, and temporal trends of maternal prepregnancy bodyweight for Nova Scotian women. Specifically we analyzed changes in prepregnancy body weight of women giving birth in Nova Scotia between 1988 and 2006 to identity the critical window for excessive weight gain in this substantial cohort of women. Our overall aim was to understand how weight gain varies at different age points in order to understand better the role of lifecourse factors that influence obesity risk.
2. Materials and Methods
Canada has no national surveillance system in place to assist in the identification of overweight or obese women giving birth. Therefore the development of evidence-based public health policy is problematic. The Canadian Perinatal Surveillance System (CPSS) is the closest system and collects 27 health outcomes however height, weight, or waist circumference of the mother is not included. In Nova Scotia, the Atlee Perinatal Database (NSAPD) records information on pregnancy outcomes and was used to analyse trends in maternal prepregnancy weight. Ethical approval was obtained from the Research Ethics Board at the IWK Health Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The total female population of Nova Scotia in 2010 was approximately 485,000. The NSAPD represents a sizeable fraction of this Nova Scotian female population, with prepregnancy self-reported body weight from over 110,000 women, and a total of 196,209 individual deliveries, collected between January 1st 1988 and December 31st 2006. Of these deliveries 23,829 (12%) were excluded from this analysis, mostly because prepregnancy weight was not recorded but a very small number had no parity information recorded, resulting in a total analysis dataset of 110,743 women with 172,373 deliveries and prepregnancy body weight measurements. No other covariates beyond age and parity that are relevant to obesity risk were available in the NSAPD, although we were able to use the residential postal code for each woman to define urban/rural residence and assign an indicator of socioeconomic status from census information.
2.2. Outcome Measures
Self-reported prepregnancy body weight in kilograms (kg), taken from the standard provincial prenatal form used in Nova Scotia, was used as the principal outcome measure. For all women this information was collected at their first physician visit where their pregnancy was confirmed. This was used as a continuous and discrete variable; for the discrete comparisons, individuals were classified as underweight (<55 kg), normal weight (55–75 kg), overweight (>75–90 kg), or obese (>90 kg) using the same classifications developed by Robinson et al. in an analysis of body weight changes in the NSAPD . Demographic variables analysed were age, by year and in six categories (<20, 20–24, 25–29, 30–24, 35–39, ≥40), parity, income decile (derived from census data), and location (urban versus rural residence).
Descriptive statistics were used to explore temporal, socioeconomic, and demographic trends in body weight. Multivariate linear regression modelling of body weight was conducted for the following predictor variables: year of birth (of the offspring), mother’s age (continuous, six categories), socioeconomic status (income deciles), and location (urban/rural). These data relate to prepregnancy body weight at specific pregnancies in a longitudinal cohort of women, and therefore the analysis was clustered on maternal identifier, and robust estimates of variance were used . The overall significance of each regression model was assessed using the -test; significance of individual coefficients was assessed through inspection of the -statistic and the 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the coefficients. Statistical analysis was performed using STATA 10 .
Prepregnancy body weight was recorded for 172,373 deliveries to women resident in Nova Scotia between 1988–2006. There were very few deliveries (<0.1%) to women aged over 45 years in the cohort. Overall, the average age at first birth was 26 years, increasing from 25 years in 1988 to 27 years in 2006, highlighting the trend for women having babies later in life. Figure 1 shows the change in median body weight over time for primiparous and multiparous women, which represents a steep upward trend over the last two decades. Multiparous women were consistently heavier than primiparous women, and the difference in median body weight between these groups showed evidence of widening in the latter years of the study. The percentage of individuals in each weight category by four-year time periods displays a clear trend, with notable increases in the number of overweight/obese women and a fall in the percentage of those women classed as underweight (Figure 2). During the first time period (1988–1991) the overweight and obesity prevalence was 14%, whereas by the final time period (2004–2006), the prevalence had increased to 31%. Extrapolating these percentages to the total adult female population of Nova Scotia in 2010 (485,000 women) the province had an estimated 150,000 overweight or obese women, compared to just 68,000 women overweight or obese if the 1988–1991 obesity rate still applied.
Table 1 shows the results from the linear regression modeling of body weight socioeconomic and demographic risk factors (adjusted and unadjusted). For continuous variables (year and income deciles), the coefficient represents the weight change (in kg) for every unit change in either year or income decile. For categorical variables the coefficient represents the weight change in kg for each category, compared to the mean weight in the baseline category (i.e., the coefficient for the constant). Body weight increased by 0.5 kg each year on average across the duration of the study period. In each age category women were between 6 kg and 8 kg heavier than the youngest age group of women aged <20 years, even after adjusting for parity. Although women aged >40 years of age were heavier than women in the younger age groups, the adjusted regression model (Table 1) suggested that weight differences in women in age categories older than 29 years were not markedly different and the largest increase in weight was in the 20–24 years group. Body weight declined by 0.17 kg for each increase in income decile, compared to the baseline category representing the lowest income group. Women living in rural areas were also significantly heavier than women in urban areas, especially after adjustment for other variables in the model.
Figure 3 shows the change in mean maternal prepregnancy weight by year of age for ages 16 to 45 years by time period. For all time periods average weight increased steadily between ages 16 to 24 but from age 24 upwards weight increased more slowly until women were in their forties. The increase in mean body weight between ages 16 and 24 years was sharper in the later time periods compared to 1988–2001. The pattern in change in weight by year of age was similar for primiparous and multiparous women. Linear regression modelling of weight difference by year of age is presented in Table 2. The modelled weight difference is the weight change with respect to the weight at the baseline age 16 years. There was an increase of between 1 kg and 1.5 kg in weight with respect to the weight in each previous year of age until age 19. The largest increase in weight difference between each year of age (2.2 kg) was between ages 19 and 20 years. There was very little variation in weight difference after age 24 years of age, except for the much older ages, but the sample in these older ages was small, and the 95% CIs indicated generally that these findings were insignificant.
|1Weight difference compared to baseline weight at age 16 years.|
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the socioeconomic, demographic, and temporal trends in obesity in women residing in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia to identify the critical period for weight gain. During the course of this study, body weight in this large sample of the female population increased significantly, and results showed similar socioeconomic and demographic correlates to obesity as seen from other studies [21–23]. Lower socioeconomic status and living in rural areas were associated significantly with higher body weights. The overall upward temporal trend for weight in Nova Scotian women echoes the increases in overweight and obesity rates over the past few decades worldwide [1, 24]. Although prepregnancy weight increased with age even after adjusting for parity, the highest weight increases were primarily in the younger women aged below 24 years of age. The largest single increase in weight by year of age was between 19 and 20 years (2.2 kg), and there was very little difference in mean prepregnancy weight in women aged between 26 and 40 years old. Although the heaviest women were generally aged over 40 years of age, the number of women in this age group was relatively small, as reflected in the wide confidence intervals in the regression modelling. Therefore, weight gain was highest for the younger women in the “transition age group” from adolescence into adulthood: the age when they will be taking responsibility for planning, purchasing, and preparing meals for the first time.
Over the course of this study overweight and obesity prevalence more than doubled from 14% in 1988–1991 to 31% in 2004–2006. These changes suggest that, in 2010, an estimated 150,000 women in Nova Scotia were overweight or obese, representing an additional 82,000 overweight/obese women compared to the number expected from observed rates of obesity two decades ago. Given the clear association of many health risks with obesity , this substantial increase in the overweight and obese population will have major implications for health service provision and utilization and healthy public policy .
The study data provide a much needed evidence base with which to support public health policy development and targeted public health interventions, information that is currently lacking in Canada due to the limited availability of surveillance data regarding maternal weight status. Our analysis suggests that the critical age for weight gain in this large cohort of women was in the younger age groups, and there was little change in mean weight of women beyond age 24 years. These trends are of importance to public health planning and policy since maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain are recognized as contributing factors to child obesity [26–28]. These findings have implications for the intergenerational transmission of weight gain and highlights the unique role that women of childbearing age may have as both a contributor to and a potential solution for the obesity epidemic . Excessive weight gain before and during pregnancy, particularly when subsequently retained postpartum, influences the health of both mother and baby [10–12]. Excessive weight gained during an individual’s early twenties carries with it a range of health risk factors, including cancer and other chronic diseases, that they will carry into middle and older age. Prevention efforts targeted at women preconceptually, particularly young adult women, may therefore be necessary to reverse these trends. However, this is not a group typically targeted for interventions to prevent weight gain.
The transition age between adolescence and adulthood is a time of increasing obesity, especially for specific racial/ethnic populations . Our findings suggest that this age is critically important for obesity in women. The identification of this at risk age group provides an important focus for policy development and prevention intervention design. Women at this transition age are generally characterised as newly independent and gaining responsibility for family shopping, food choices, and meal planning, but are typically not an age group targeted for intervention. At this age incomes are generally lower, and issues around food insecurity are likely to be heightened. Social and economic resources and food costs influence individual food choices, and energy-dense foods are typically the lowest cost option . These foods contribute significantly to the obesity epidemic . Many young adults, by virtue of socio-economic circumstances, are therefore vulnerable to the marketing of low-cost energy-dense and obesogenic foods. We suggest that policy to tackle the obesity epidemic is focused both at those most at risk—young women at the transition age—whilst also tackling the food supply industry. The food industry continues to promote and market the availability of low-cost energy-dense foods, at the expense of healthier options, which are generally more expensive . By contrast, more costly but healthier options are much less appealing or practical to individuals living under economic constraints, experiencing food insecurity, and who may not have much experience in food preparation. Targeted education and supportive public policies may encourage individuals to perceive these types of products as more desirable, but the food industry needs to ensure that these foods are also affordable and readily available.
Weight reduction for obese and overweight people is inherently problematic, and such interventions are rarely successful within the limitations of our current health system . Thus, it is crucial that public health strategies focus on prevention of excessive weight gain. These should promote an integrated approach to food, leisure, transport, and built environment policy and planning, developed in conjunction with public health strategies targeting at-risk individuals and at-risk communities. This approach requires the identification of critical at-risk age groups for weight gain, as identified in this study, in order to provide a focus for prevention interventions and targeted policy initiatives. Our findings of increased obesity in rural areas and the more socially disadvantaged communities suggest that these should also be the focus for targeted interventions and prevention activities.
The use of self-reported body weight in this analysis is a limitation, although given that body weight is often under-reported, this is likely to lead to an underestimation of the problem, making these findings all the more concerning. Further the NSAPD does not record height, and therefore it was not possible to calculate BMI, which is the usual indicator of obesity. However, maternal height distribution is unlikely to vary substantially between communities across Nova Scotia; therefore the use of the distribution of body weight as a surrogate for the distribution of obesity is reasonable and has been used elsewhere . This study analysed change in body weight distribution over time (1988–2006), and in the absence of any substantial shifts in population height over short periods of time, there would be no advantage to using BMI since change in body size over time in the absence of changes in height is measured equally well by change in body weight.
These results relate to a subset of the population, women of childbearing age giving birth, derived from the NSAPD. However, this sample provides body weight data related to 172,373 deliveries (over 100,000 women) and is geographically representative of the whole female population. Therefore, the trends described in this study relate to a representative proportion of the Nova Scotia population, and, further, there is no reason to suspect that the body weight increases in this subset of the population have not been similarly experienced by other groups of women. In the absence of any alternative dataset of a comparable size and level of detail that is representative of the provincial female population, these data provide very valuable information for policy making and prevention initiatives.
Our findings add to the literature by clearly demonstrating the inexorable rise in body weight that has occurred in the last two decades in a subgroup of the population of childbearing age that precedes pregnancy. These findings support the targeting of prevention initiatives at younger age groups, as well as those from socially disadvantaged and rural communities. Younger women are at a transition age, newly independent, gaining responsibility for food choices and experiencing food insecurity, and therefore extremely vulnerable to the marketing efforts of a food industry which promotes the consumption of low-cost energy-dense foods over and above healthier but more costly options. However, this age group is not a traditional focus for health promotion and we suggest that policy options need to go beyond promoting healthy eating for individuals to tackling the food supply industry and its overemphasis on obesogenic foods. Our findings offer insight of relevance to public health planners and policy makers and suggest that obesity prevention initiatives aimed at women of childbearing age, both before and afterconception, may hold promise to deal with the consequences of the obesity epidemic, whilst also supporting strategies to deal with the causes.
Conflict of Interests
The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests.
The authors acknowledge the following funding: S. F. L. Kirk and T. L. Penney were supported by funds from the IWK Health Centre, Halifax (Scholar Award to S. F. L. Kirk). L. Parker acknowledges support from the IWK Health Centre, Halifax (Establishment Grant).
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Modern agribusiness is a huge energy consumer, environmental polluter and resource abuser, dependant on fossil fuels. According to most research, most food products on the grocery shelf travel well over 1500 miles before they reach your table, with 80% of the total energy going toward transportation, packaging, storing and chemical fertilizers and pesticides. This is not sustainable agriculture.
Local sustainable agriculture is a prcatice in resource management, protecting the environment, building up the soil and minimizing the large energy output that goes to transportation, packaging and processing. By utilizing farmer’s markets, local food markets and restaurants, farmers, from small sustainable farms, contribute to a healhty food community while reducing the negative impact on the environment through a much smaller carbon footprint.
How do you benefit from buying local?
Several benefits are evident right up front:
- More nutritious: Less travel time from farm to table
- Less impact on the environment: A smaller carbon footprint due to less transportation, packaging, chemical fertilizers and pesticides.
- Money stays in the local economy
On a more wider scale we see many more important benfits:
- Support of the local farmer: Farmers are laboring in the elements; the hot sun, the cold, the rain, insects, etc. They are long hours and often stressful hours. As a grower I know what it is like to see crops fail due to the weather, diseases or insect attack. There is stress in the timetables and making sure the sowing and planting is done on time and likewise the harvesting. Farming is labor intensive. The rewards are there as well. Looking out over the farm, there is a feeling that you know you are contributing something very good to the benefit your community and to nature. When you purchase from a farmer, whether at a Farmer’s Market or grocery store, or visit a restaurant that supports your farmer, you reward the hard work and help support a local member of your community.
The opportunity to meet the person who grows your food is certainly valuable. You can ask questions about farming practices used or about the crops grown and find out more about harvesting dates, subscription services and more. You are meeting and making friends with the person growing your food, that’s totally cool!
- Food Safety: How many times over the years have we read about or heard about food recalls due to Salmonella or other bacteria? Too often! Not only that but we are faced with foods on our shelves grown with unsafe pesticides, fungicides, hormones, genetic engeneering and artificial fertilizers and as we watch year after year, the crops need more and more of these to grow while the yields decline. Many of the major foods like corn, soybeans, wheat and others have the herbicides and/or insectcides genetically engineered into the seed from the start! This can not be good for you. Buying local lets you ask the farmer how they handle these problems in a safe way. | <urn:uuid:51a44acb-1ed8-4c8a-87cc-ce155b3cfd63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gainesvillefarmfresh.com/local-vs-global/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.938694 | 612 | 2.9375 | 3 |
The injector liners tend to get contaminated over a period of time due to injection of dirty samples. Due to adsorption on liner walls there is loss of some sample components and as a result there is a drop in sensitivity accompanied with broadening of the chromatographic peaks. The degree of deterioration of signals depends on the level of contamination of injected samples and can even become apparent even after 10 -15 injections. In such cases back flushing of columns is of little help. You may consider modification of the sample extraction and preparation stages but this can be time consuming.
An alternate option would be to clean or replace the liners. This is a time-consuming process as shown in the video and can interrupt the analysis sequence.
The interruptions are likely to be more frequent when you are engaged in pesticide residue analysis in fruit and vegetable specimens. In such cases you may have to remove liners for cleaning or replacement at shorter intervals. In such situations an automated liner exchange system can give you a lot of peace of mind. It makes possible liner exchange any time during the sampling sequence or at defined intervals thereby saving your valuable time and also saving you from cumbersome sample cleanup steps during sample preparation. Such an assembly comprises of programmable temperature vaporizing (PTV) inlet in combination with an autosampler. Every liner is fitted with a transfer adapter and an electrical gripper. A number of liners are sequentially picked up at predefined intervals and exchanged . The adapters provide a gas tight seal for contamination free storage and exchange.
Several commercial automated liner exchangers are available in the market which can be used for cool on-column inlet replacement .The injector top and the transfer adapter remains cool during the liner transfer .This results in minimal septum bleed or bleeding at the O-rings. The automated liner exchange has no significant effect on the performance of the gas chromatogram.
Gerstel automated liner exchange (ALEX) system is popular automated liner exchange which can be used with the Agilent GC and MS systems .
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This project relies on Ned Konz's Connectors. I am at this point using Connectors 1.9-
link to The Interactive Design and Simulation System
The ECEToolkit simply allows you to connect some logic gates to inputs and outputs. When you have a fully connected circuit, a truth table will be generated and displayed.
How to get started:
The file is here, http://vanjulio.swiki.net/.uploads/ECE.cs.
When you file this into an image the postscript code will open up a Toolkit box. This is meant to be just like the Object Catalogue. -Just drag and drop pieces from the toolkit and then wire them together with the connection wire.
- Note that also you can branch wires off each other...
- Try starting a new connecting wire from an existing connection inside your circuit.
- This allows you to sample intermediate values within the diagram.
- The truth tables are triggered by the connecting wire: any time a wire is adjusted and the circuit diagram is complete, the truth tables values for the inputs and outputs will be generated.
There are a variety of limitations at this stage of development:
- The circuits cannot be built with cycles.
- Cycles of course are necessary in circuit design to make things like registers, latches, flip-flops, etc.
- The attachment points of the gates are arbitrary and need to be fixed to exact points on the morph's graphical form.
- 7/1/03: this has a fairly simple correction available within the connectors attachment point protocol. I just havent gone back to hook into that protocol yet.
- The gates only provide 2 input channels. The underlying code provides scalability to an arbitrary number of inputs, but I didn't want to deal with the complexity of variably sized logic gate widgets in the toolkit itself.
- Besides, the clever user can implement an arbitrary number of inputs to a single gate function by chaining 2:1's together.
- A future goal would be to combine boolean algebra symbolic expressions with the truth tables — but as of now the system has very little designed into it to allow such a mapping between concepts.
- Ideally, this would be easily implemented into a proper ECEToolkit. Would free all students from having to work with paper and pencil? | <urn:uuid:d6218ad2-f5ce-48e4-b8cf-906e6d08bba6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/3198 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.88814 | 501 | 3.25 | 3 |
The Mexican law student was surprised by how easy it was to get into Iran two years ago. By merely asking questions about Islam at a party, he managed to pique the interest of Iran's top diplomat in Mexico. Months later, he had a plane ticket and a scholarship to a mysterious school in Iran, as a guest of the Islamic Republic.
Next came the start of classes and a second surprise: There were
dozens of others just like him.
"There were 25 or 30 of us in my class, all from Latin
America," recalled the student, who was 19 when he arrived at the small
institute that styled itself an Iranian madrassa for Hispanics. "I met
Colombians, Venezuelans, multiple Argentines." Many were new Muslim
converts, he said, and all were subject to an immersion course, in perfect
Spanish, in what he described as "anti-Americanism and Islam."
The student, whose first name is Carlos but who spoke on the
condition that his full name not be used, left for home three months later.
But his brief Iranian adventure provides a window into an unusual
outreach program by Iran, one that targets young adults from countries south of
the U.S. border. In recent years, the program has brought hundreds of Latin
Americans to Iran for intensive Spanish-language instruction in Iranian
religion and culture, much of it supervised by a man who is wanted
internationally on terrorism charges, according to U.S. officials and experts.
They describe the program as part of a larger effort by Iran to
expand its influence in the Western Hemisphere by building a network of
supporters and allies in America's backyard. The initiative includes not only
the recruitment of foreign students for special study inside Iran, but also
direct outreach to Latin countries through the construction of mosques and
cultural centers and, beginning last year, a cable TV network that broadcasts
Iranian programming in Spanish.
Regional experts say such "soft power" initiatives are
mainly political, intended to strengthen Tehran's foothold in countries such as
Venezuela and Ecuador, which share similar anti-American views. But in some
cases, Iranian officials have sought to enlist Latin Americans for espionage
and hacking operations targeting U.S. computer systems, according to U.S. and
Latin American law enforcement and intelligence officials.
A report this year by an Argentine prosecutor cited evidence of
"local clandestine intelligence networks" organized by Iran in
several South American countries. The document accused Tehran of using
religious and cultural programs as cover to create a "capability to
provide logistic, economic and operative support to terrorist attacks decided
by the Islamic regime."
Singled out in the report is an Iranian cleric and government
official, Mohsen Rabbani, who runs several programs in Iran for Latin American
students, including the one attended by Carlos. Rabbani, a former cultural
attache in Buenos Aires, was accused by Argentina of aiding the 1994 bombing of
a Jewish community center in that city that killed 85 people, the country's
deadliest terrorist attack.
Iran rejected the allegations and has sought to dismiss the
Argentine prosecutor as a "Zionist." Rabbani has denied any role in
the bombing or any other terrorist operation.
But Rabbani has made no secret of his interest in drawing in young
Latin Americans who admire Iran's fiery defiance of the West. A report for
Congress by IBI Consultants, a Washington-based research company that advises
U.S. government agencies on Latin American terrorism and drug-trafficking
networks, estimated that more than 1,000 people from the region have undergone
training, mostly under Rabbani's supervision, in Iran since 2007.
Only a handful of graduates have talked about their Iranian
schooling publicly. One is Carlos, who was struck by the effectiveness of a
program that isolated a small group of foreign students, and subjected them to
weeks of theological and political indoctrination. He recalled how some
classmates who had seemed merely curious about Iran and its religion ended
their study as committed disciples.
"Some of them," he said, "I'd call
What exactly the Iranians saw in Carlos is not clear, even to him.
At the time of the diplomatic party, Carlos was a first-year student in the law
program of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He introduced himself
to Mohammed Hassan Ghadiri, the Iranian ambassador at the time, and blurted out
that he was interested in learning about Islam. The diplomat was warm and
polite, and the two followed up by telephone the next day.
"Why don't you stop by the embassy," Ghadiri asked,
according to Carlos' account.
At the Iranian mission, Ghadiri mentioned a special course in Iran
that had been set up for Latin American university students like Carlos. If he
was willing, the Iranians would pay for everything, the ambassador said. He
could be enrolled in the next semester's classes, just a few months away.
Carlos thought briefly and agreed to go.
"I was scared, but they took care of everything," Carlos
The Mexico City native, now 21, described his encounter during an
interview in a West Coast city that is his temporary home while awaiting a
decision on a U.S. asylum application. The Washington Post agreed not to reveal
some particulars about his identity, including his full name, because of his
fear that Iranian officials may attempt to retaliate.
The youth was given plane tickets and a letter of acceptance for
the Iranian school he would be attending, the Oriental Thought Cultural
Institute, in the ancient city of Qom.
He knew nothing of the institute's director, having never heard of
Rabbani or his alleged ties to terrorism in Argentina and elsewhere. Later, he
would encounter the former cultural attache at the school and learn of his
prominence on Iranian television programs and websites, where Rabbani is a
tireless proponent of exporting Iran's Islamic revolution to the
In addition to the training centers he runs, Rabbani helped start
Iran's largest Spanish-language website and was instrumental in launching
HispanTV, a cable network that broadcasts Iranian programs and commentary in
Spanish. Rabbani would boast in a 2011 interview of having shattered "the
American myth" by helping drive Latin American opinion away from the West
and toward Iran's vision of revolutionary Islam.
After landing at the airport in Tehran, Carlos was met by a
Spanish-speaking escort and a driver who took him to Qom, the center for Shiite
theological study for half a millennium. There, he found himself surrounded by
Spanish-speaking students representing almost every country in the Western
All of them lived, ate and studied together for three months.
Carlos described fellow students as intense, serious and seemingly in the
thrall of the school's religious teachers.
"All the classes were ostensibly religious, but the teachers
would interject politics all the time," he said. "If the subject was
economics, the message was about how the United States was manipulating the
economy for its own benefit."
According to Carlos' account, the institute's Iranian staff began
to view him with increasing suspicion. In March 2011, school officials seized
cameras and tape recorders Carlos had brought from home and accused him of
being a spy. Carlos left the school one evening and found his way to the
Mexican Embassy in Tehran, where he sought his government's protection.
Eventually he was allowed to leave for Mexico, but Iranian
officials, then and in the months that followed, hinted that they were not
finished with Carlos. Later that year, Ghadiri told a reporter in a
Spanish-language news interview that his government had kept track of the young
Although Carlos witnessed the daily bombardment of anti-American
messages, he said he did not observe overt attempts to recruit students for
anything other than learning. Iranian officials insist there weren't any.
Indeed, the officials are open about their ongoing efforts to
attract promising young foreigners through programs such as the Oriental
Thought Cultural Institute, and they are hardly alone in doing so. The State
Department spends millions of dollars annually on officially sponsored U.S.
travel for foreign students as well as budding journalists, politicians and
"Cultural and academic exchange is a normal practice among
countries, and Iran, as a country that enjoys a remarkable number of high-rating
scientific and cultural institutions, is not an exception," said Alireza
Miryousefi, a spokesman for Iran's diplomatic mission to the United Nations in
But for some U.S. officials, the worry is that the increased
recruitment is tied to a larger effort to woo not only individuals, but
countries. Iran has more than doubled the number of embassies in Latin America
since 2005 -- to 11 from five -- while building 17 cultural centers and
numerous mosques throughout the region. Its HispanTV network beams daily into
millions of Spanish-speaking households.
"Iran is ramping up its strategic messaging to the
region," Ilan Berman, vice president of the Washington-based American
Foreign Policy Council, said at a recent congressional hearing. The prevailing
message is "one that promotes its own ideology and influence at the
expense of the United States."
Not all those messages manage to penetrate. Some of Iran's
overtures in the region have been firmly rejected by Latin American governments
that see little benefit to cozying up to Tehran, a relatively weak economic
power viewed by most Western countries as a pariah because of its sponsorship
of terrorism and its controversial nuclear program.
The State Department acknowledged in a report in July that Iran
has "increased its outreach" to Latin America in recent years but
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Although ethnic Greek mathematicians continued beneath the rule of the late Roman Republic and subsequent Roman Empire, there were no noteworthy native Latin mathematicians compared. It is unclear if the Romans first derived their numerical system instantly from the Greek precedent or from Etruscan numerals utilized by the Etruscan civilization centered in what is now Tuscany, central Italy. He is thought for his hexagon theorem and centroid theorem, in addition to the Pappus configuration and Pappus graph.
The delivery of the plus sign goes again to the late fifteenth century, when mathematicians took the minus sign and added a cross to characterize addition, according to Joseph Mazur, professor emeritus of arithmetic at Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vt. If the guide of nature is written in the language of mathematics, as Galileo as soon as declared, the Covid-19 pandemic has brought that fact residence for the world’s mathematicians, who’ve been galvanized by the rapid spread of the coronavirus.
Greek mathematics tremendously refined the strategies and expanded the subject material of mathematics. Although they made just about no contributions to theoretical arithmetic, the traditional Romans used applied mathematics in surveying, structural engineering, mechanical engineering, bookkeeping, creation of lunar and photo voltaic calendars, and even arts and crafts. Chinese mathematics made early contributions, together with a place worth system and the first use of adverse numbers. Islamic mathematics, in turn, developed and expanded the mathematics identified to those civilizations. Contemporaneous with but independent of those traditions were the mathematics developed by the Maya civilization of Mexico and Central America, the place the idea of zero was given a normal image in Maya numerals.
The short phrases are often used for arithmetic, geometry or easy algebra by students and their colleges. Arguably probably the most prestigious award in mathematics is the Fields Medal, established in 1936 and awarded every 4 years to as many as four individuals.
Mathematical study in Egypt later continued beneath the Arab Empire as a part of Islamic mathematics, when Arabic turned the written language of Egyptian students. Prehistoric artifacts found in Africa, dated 20,000 years old or more recommend early attempts to quantify time. The Ishango bone, found near the headwaters of the Nile river , could also be greater than 20,000 years old and consists of a series of marks carved in three columns working the length of the bone. Common interpretations are that the Ishango bone reveals both a tally of the earliest identified demonstration of sequences of prime numbers or a six-month lunar calendar. Peter Rudman argues that the development of the idea of prime numbers may solely have come about after the concept of division, which he dates to after 10,000 BC, with prime numbers probably not being understood until about 500 BC. The research of mathematics as a “demonstrative self-discipline” begins within the sixth century BC with the Pythagoreans, who coined the term “arithmetic” from the ancient Greek μάθημα , meaning “topic of instruction”.
His Collection is a major source of information on Greek arithmetic as most of it has survived. Pappus is taken into account the last major innovator in Greek mathematics, with subsequent work consisting largely of commentaries on earlier work. From the Hellenistic interval, Greek replaced Egyptian as the written language of Egyptian students.
On the opposite hand, sometimes these ideas and rules are found in the actual world after they are studied in mathematics; this has happened many times in the past. In general, finding out the foundations and ideas of mathematics can help us understand the world higher. Some examples of math issues are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, calculus, fractions and decimals. A calculator answers each math downside within the 4 fundamental arithmetic operations. The word comes from the Greek word “μάθημα” (máthema), that means “science, information, or studying”, and is sometimes shortened to maths or math .
- Numerical analysis and, more broadly, scientific computing additionally examine non-analytic subjects of mathematical science, especially algorithmic matrix and graph concept.
- Computational arithmetic proposes and research strategies for fixing mathematical problems that are usually too massive for human numerical capacity.
- Numerical evaluation studies methods for problems in analysis utilizing useful evaluation and approximation theory; numerical analysis includes the research of approximation and discretisation broadly with particular concern for rounding errors.
- Other areas of computational mathematics embrace laptop algebra and symbolic computation.
- Evidence for extra complicated mathematics does not seem until round 3000BC, when the Babylonians and Egyptians started using arithmetic, algebra and geometry for taxation and different monetary calculations, for building and development, and for astronomy.
The Fields Medal is usually considered a mathematical equal to the Nobel Prize. Understanding and describing change is a common theme in the pure sciences, and calculus was developed as a tool to investigate it. The rigorous examine of actual numbers and capabilities of an actual variable is called actual evaluation, with complex evaluation the equivalent area for the advanced numbers. Functional analysis focuses consideration on (sometimes infinite-dimensional) areas of functions.
Progress in understanding the nature of arithmetic also influences the way mathematicians study their topic. Sometimes, arithmetic finds and studies rules or ideas that we don’t understand yet. Often in arithmetic, concepts and rules are chosen because they’re thought-about easy or neat.
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The antiquarians of this country contend, that Ireland is pointed out by Diodorus Siculus under the name of BELEPION, i. e. the Erin of the God Beal. He described it as being about the bigness of Sicily, and being over-against the Celtae, as fruitful and pleasant, abounding with large groves, and round temples, wherein the Priests, or Druids, sung to their harps the praises of Apollo. He reports, that the God used to converse with the natives, and that in nineteen years they could bring the moon so near as to discover her mountains and vallies. From whence they would infer it to have been intimated, that the Irish were acquainted with the cycles of both sun and moon, and that they had made some progress in astronomy by the help of glasses. Be this, however, as it may, there is a concurrence of so many circumstances, in this passage, applicable to Ireland, that it amounts to an exact description.
p.449The name Erin, the situation, the size of the island, the Druids with their harps, the harp sacred to Apollo, and at this very day the ensign armorial of the kingdom.
But it is not necessary to recur to dubious authorities for proof that the Irish were, in a very early period, addicted to music. The fact is supported by the most unexceptionable evidence; a sketch of which I cannot refrain from giving you, though I must confess that I never so much as learned the gamut. I shall not therefore pretend to write as a musician, but as an antiquarian and you will allow me to be, like some other antiquarians, very fond of what I do not understand.
We have already seen that the Druids, Bards, Musicians, &c. of Ireland had portions of land assigned them for their maintenance. It may be well supposed that the musicians had this legal ettablishment, not only as they were officers of the court, but as they were ministers in the public worship of the Gods. The high honours and emoluments, attendant on this art, must naturally have produced eminence in
p.450many of its numerous professors. Accordingly, Cambrensis, who scarcely allows the Irish any other good quality, confesses their transcendancy in music. He strains his style to such a pitch, in order to express this peculiar excellence, that it is almost impossible to translate him. In musicis solum &c. I can only praise their excellence in instrumental music, in which they are skilled incomparably above any other nation I have seen. Their instruments are the harp, the pipe, and the timbrel. Polydore Virgil holds the same language, Hiberni sunt musicae peritissimi. And the Welch chronicles affirm, that Griffith Ap-Conon, King of North Wales, being of Irish lineage by his mother, and also born in Ireland, carried with him from thence divers cunning musicians into Wales, who revised in a manner, all the instrumental music used there. Which appears as well by the books written in the same, as also by the names of the tunes and measures used among them to this day.
The Cognoscenti, I think, allow that Ireland is a school of music. Ellen-a-Roon
p.451has always been esteemed as one of the finest melodies of any country; Langolee and Kindu-Deelas are of the same cast. Pasquali used to play the first of these with variations; which, they say, only weakened its original force. Though nothing can be more lively than their common jig tunes, their finest airs are of a plaintive turn, and supposed to have been those set to the elegies for renowned warriors, or to the sighs of complaining lovers. Of the latter sort are those I have named, as is evident from the titles61; and in the same line is that charming melody, Molly-a-Store; for which Mr. Ogle, knight of the Shire for the county of Wexford, has written some beautiful stanzas.
They talk of a wonderful master they had of late, called Carolan, who, like Homer, was blind, and like him, went about singing and playing his rhapsodies. His poetry was in Irish, and not much praised, but his music is celebrated. From an early disappointment in love he is said to have attuned his harp to the elegiac
p.452strain. I have heard one of these compositions played, and to me the sounds were as expressive of such a situation of mind, as the words of a love-sick elegy. The history of one of his famous compositions, called 62 Tiarna-Mayo, which was somewhat in the dirge style, is said to be this: The musician had offended Lord Mayo by some witty sarcasms, of which he is reported to have been very liberal, and was forbid his house. After some time he prevailed to be heard, and he sang this palinode in concert with his harp at dinner; with which, Orpheus-like, he so charmed the powers of resentment, that he was presently restored to his Lordship's favour. I have heard divers others of his tunes called Planxties, which are in the convivial strain, and evidently calculated to inspire good humour, and heighten the jollity of the festive hour. They go by the names of those gentlemen, for whose entertainments they were composed, as Planxty-Connor, Planxty-Johnston, Planxty-Jones, &c. The last of these has been
p.453dignified by better words than those of the Bard, by Mr. Dawson, late Baron of the Exchequer, and is now called Bumper Squire Jones.
They tell me, that in his latter days he never composed without the inspiration of whiskey, of which at that critical hour, he always took care to have a bottle beside him.
Ennius ipse pater, nunquam nisi potus, ad arma
His ear was so exquisite, and his memory so tenacious, that he has been known to play off, at first hearing, some of the most difficult pieces of Italian music, to the astonishment of Geminiani.
The name of Mr. Poeckridge ought not to be lost to the lovers of harmony, as he has enriched the art by the invention of the musical glasses now improved into the harmonica; an instrument, if not of the greatest force, yet certainly of the sweetest tones in the compass of melody. He was born to a good estate in the county of Monaghan, but more attached to music
p.454than oeconomy, he, like many other men of genius, outlived the possession of it, and was obliged, in his old age, to make out a precarious subsistence by the exercise of his art: he lost his life but a few years since, in an accidental fire in Cornhill.
From what has been now observed relative to the distinguished excellence of the Irish musicians, particularly in ancient times, compared with what has been proved, in former letters, that Ireland was the old Scotia, it will not, I flatter myself, be difficult to trace the origin of what is now called, and justly enough, the Scots music. We have seen that there is proof positive, from their own chronicles, that the Welch received their instrumental music from Ireland, let us now see whether there be not proof presumptive, the strongest which the nature of the thing is capable of, that the British Scots borrowed their music also from the same quarter.
It is in vain to say, as is generally said, that David Rizzio was author of the Scots music. There is an internal evidence against such a supposition; the wild and pastoral singularity of the Scots melodies is
p.455incompatible with the grave and learned compositions of Italy. And there is an external evidence still more strong: Rizzio was Secretary, not Musician, to the Queen of Scotland. His father had been a musician by profession, but we do not find that he was one himself. That he might, however, have played, improved, and collected the Scots airs, is very probable; but that a young dissipated Italian, busied in the intrigues of a court, and attendance on a Queen so fair, and so condescending as Mary, could in a few years have disseminated such multifarious compoistions through a nation, which despised his manners, and hated his person, is utterly incredible.
Nor can this invention be ascribed to the Abbey of Melross. For where is the likelihood that a set of cloistered monks should either invent or propagate a national music? The most that could be expected from such a lazy tribe would have been a jubilate on the nativity of their founder, or some ascetick of their order. For what have such places ever produced, but meagre annals of the church, superstitious lives of
p.456ficticious saints, or some wretched Latin rhimes? Monasteries have, to be sure, been the conservators of literature, but rarely the inventors of any thing laudable.
Nor is it to be believed, what is still more credible, that James the First of Scotland was the author of the Scots tunes, though Buchanan does say, that he excelled in music more than became a King, and though Tassoni relates that he composed sacred hymns, in which he was imitated by a prince of Venosa. As well might we suppose, that his descendant, James the Sixth, was author of the literature of England, because he was a very learned clerk, and wrote the Basilikon Doron.
The honour then of inventing the Scots music must be given to this country, the antient Scotia, so renowned for music in old times; from whence, as we have incontrovertibly proved, the present Scotia derived her name, her extraction, her language, her poetry, &c. I have said incontrovertibly; but what will not be controverted, as well as advanced? Mr. Guthrie, the geographer, among other excellencies of his native country, would persuade us that it
p.457was of old famous for cookery, for this reason, that minced collops is a Scotch dish. The learned writer, however, must have forgot that Macbeth had said, when he found that, though Banquo was murdered, Fleance was still alive, and fled,
We have scotched the snake, not killed him.
The scotch is, to this day, in universal use in Ireland for that operation of mincing or bruising their flax, whereby they separate the pith from the stalk; and for which, I am told, they have scatching mills. We may, therefore, venture to restore that savoury dish scotch'd collops to Old England, and the Scots tunes, as well as the songs of Ossian, to Old Ireland.
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This article lists all information about CH4 8DB postcode, such as Residential Properties, Schools, and nearby places. Other information listed are property sales data, trends, estimated property prices, etc.
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AB22 8SA is a residential postcode in N/A, N/A. AB22 8SA postcode is currently an active postcode. You can use the postcode to send mail within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean. According to the 2011 census, AB22 8SA has 10 properties within its service area. AB22 8SA is located in Bridge of Don, Aberdeen City region with center coordinates 57.18417200, -2.11795000.
The population of AB22 8SA postcode is 20, and all individuals are eligible to receive mail through Royal Mail Service.
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Geography And Location Details
|Grid Reference Code||NJ929103|
AB22 8SA postcode has center coordinates [57.18417,-2.11795]. Altitude reading for the postcode is 70 Meters above sea level. The postcode location can also be represented using #NJ929103 National grid reference number.
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|Last Updated||August 2022|
|Mail Frequency||Low (Postcode Recieves < 25 Mail per day)|
|Postcode Range||Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean|
This Royal mail postcode was first introduced and became servicable in 1990-08-01. Total number of mails recieved in AB22 8SA is less than 25 mails per day. Mails getting delivered may take longer than normal as per Royal Mail records. Postcode range is limited to one specified apartment or building exactly at specified lat,long.
|Rural / Urban||Large urban area|
|Poverty Ratio (IOMD)||
5296 / 6975
|Census Output Area||S00090812|
|Built Up Area||N/A|
|Built Up SubDivision||N/A|
|Lower Layer Output Super Area||Balgownie and Donmouth West - 04|
|Middle Layer Output Super Area||Balgownie and Donmouth West|
This location is a large urban area. According to 2011 census, 75.93% of the people in AB22 8SA is below poverty.
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The world knows renewable energy offers extensive, far-reaching benefits that can help mitigate climate change. If we want to make progress, we need to move away from fossil fuels permanently. That’s an issue where most people agree. It is now evident there is another argument for renewable energy besides sustainability. This option has become much more efficient, both production- and cost-wise. Let us explore how renewable energy manufacturing has become more efficient in recent years:
Production Innovations Boost Effectiveness
Consider how renewable energy was received publicly 10 or 15 years ago. It wasn’t exactly an avenue that most individuals or businesses knew existed. There have been various challenges regarding implementation across America. Hurdles like government support and wide-spread education are examples.
That’s changed as more information has been released about how fossil fuels negatively affect our planet. It’s now evident that renewable energy prospects continue to grow annually — even during COVID-19. That’s largely due to how production methods have transformed over the past several years.
The renewable energy industry can now manufacture sources through smarter means. For example, we used to harness wind power from land-based turbines. Those opportunities have expanded as offshore capabilities are now more mainstream. This innovative progress has become applicable to other sources, too.
These new ideas are significantly responsible for how renewable energy has become more efficient. If we never changed our manufacturing processes, we couldn’t produce renewable energy on a large enough scale. There’s no denying that continuous innovations will make choices like solar, hydro and geothermal increasingly accessible.
As a result, we can enjoy more options as consumers. There’s also cost to consider — which unquestionably determines how efficiently people view renewable energy. They need to be even cheaper than fossil fuels.
Costs Are Lower Than Ever Before
It is important to highlight how renewable energy has turned into an affordable alternative. This cost-efficiency will be necessary to help people choose renewable energy sources over fossil fuels. There are many reasons why prices for eco-friendly power have fallen.
The most significant components are subsidies. These government-backed incentives help manufacturers switch to alternative energy sources for less money. It’s also evident that options exist for individuals and businesses. People can access tax incentives to support their sustainable power pursuits financially.
2. Non-Profit Organizations
There’s also help from green non-profit organizations. Take GRID Alternatives Mid-Atlantic as an example. They provide free solar panel installation to households that can’t otherwise afford renewable energy. That’s a useful resource to help drive accessibility to these alternatives.
What about renewable energy investments? These endeavors are more prevalent than ever. If our country’s most influential figures put their money in renewable energy, we can expect to pay less for green power. Texas has the lowest energy costs in America — and they also use the most wind power. That’s not a coincidence.
These three points ensure that renewable energy becomes more affordable yearly. Various entities need to work together to ensure that sustainable options are accessible. They need to be more available than fossil fuels to ensure they catch on as alternatives.
Future of Renewable Energy Manufacturing
There’s a bright future for renewable energy. As a result of innovative and cost-effective manufacturing progress, Americans now have access to various eco-friendly power sources. If we can keep making strides regarding production, we should be able to create renewable energy on a far-reaching scale.
This process won’t happen overnight. It’s taken decades for renewable energy to be seen as even a viable alternative to harmful fossil fuels. But we’re in an ideal place right now. It shouldn’t be long before renewable energy becomes even more efficient. There’ll then be no excuse for people to keep using fossil fuels. | <urn:uuid:9be8efd2-4fed-4544-b36b-2ec5a4923456> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bioenergyconsult.com/tag/renewable-energy-investments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.934757 | 806 | 3.375 | 3 |
Age, Social Class, and New Parents
I recently had the privilege of visiting a couple in Europe; I arrived the day before their first child was born. The parents are both in their mid-30s. They both have advanced degrees. They each speak 4 languages. They had read a bunch of “baby books” before their daughter arrived. Labor and delivery went well. The mother’s milk came in on day 3, and breastfeeding went well.
On day 5, the couple went home with their new daughter. Once they got home—as a wise friend once said—they acted as if (and surely thought): “We’re home now with our baby. What do we do now?” So, here is a mature, educated couple with a longawaited baby. They love her, even had a pediatrician visit them, but they felt as disarmed by the presence of this tiny new person as any single teenaged mother.
It’s been a long time since I had the chance to observe new parents “up close and personal” for an entire week. (I was a new parent 27 years ago, and I seem to have forgotten much of what the first few days were like. Maybe I was as stunned as this new father seemed to be?)
What are the points I’m trying to make in this brief essay? First—and this is obvious but bears repeating: we should not make too many assumptions about parents’ preparation for the arrival of their first child based on their education, age, or social class.
Second, as pediatricians we should expect plenty of questions and be available to answer them.
And last, as with many things in pediatrics, expect that time will help. New parents, with some encouragement, realize (as Dr Spock said) that their common sense will assist them enormously in most new situations.
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Nestled deep within the English Lake District between Coniston and Hawkshead sits Tarn Hows, a beauty spot accessible to the masses.
Away from the big touristic lakes and towns but with car access by its side and the lack of need to trek or climb adds to what has become a very popular spot in the summer. You will find it is one of the most visited places in the Lake District.
The walk around
I took the opportunity as ever to wander round this gorgeous escape before the big busy season and enjoy in a calm.
The path around Tarn Hows is only about 1.5 miles of well maintained unsteep path. It is very accessible for wheelcjairs. Perfect also for families, dog walks, picnics or relaxing in the fresh air.
There are of course upper paths to take if you would like a little uphill or some of the more expansive views.
Parking can be expensive if staying a day I must admit. I personally would park at many of the car parks that you see on the road leading to the place. There are many just before Coniston if coming from Ambleside.
Parking Postcode: LA22 0PP
If heading there from Hawkshead then there are laybys and small car parks on the road in. Both these options provide you with an extra couple of miles of beautiful walk to discover plus as you come over the hills overlooking the waterscape then the panoramas with mountain backdrops are a gorgeous extra.
History of Tarn Hows
Once out and overlooking the tarn you sense immediately the beauty of the area and also how it is different from so many spots of the National Park.
In the 1800s this area was three separate open tarns more typical of what you see elsewhere in Cumbria.
The then owners enhanced the spot by artificially joining the tarns together forming the one bigger one and planted many varieties of conifer around. The beautiful tourist spot was created.
In 1929, 4000 acres of the local land including Tarn Hows came up for sale. It was bought by Beatrix Potter whom sold half the land, that included Tarn Hows to the National Trust. Beauty was thus preserved to this day.
Rose Castle Cottage
Wandering just a couple of hundred metres from the track above you can find all sorts of hidden treasures like this lovely 19th Century cottage, Rose Castle Cottage. The National Trust lets this out as a holiday cottage, miles from neighbours, a setting by Tarn Hows and modern gadgets inside. Away from it all.
It is a perfect place to relax by the calm water. A gorgeous Spring day with the remnants of winter clinging to The Old Man of Coniston and the Langdale Pikes in the background. The backdrop here is immense.
There can be fewer nicer spots to reflect in thought with reflections before you.
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Dr. Reckeweg Aurum Muriaticum 1000 CH Dilution (11ml)
Dr. Reckeweg Aurum muriaticum(Dilution)
Common Name: Chloride of Gold. Na Cl, Au Cl3, 2H2O
Causes & Symptoms for Dr. Reckeweg Aurum muriaticum
Heart symptoms, glandular affection; warts on tongue and genitals is relieved with Aurum muriaticum
Valuable in climacteric. Diseases of frontal sinus. The glands and parts inflamed become indurated.
Many complaints are associated with cardiac disease. Burning pains in many parts is relieved with Aurum muriaticum.
Pains are tearing, drawing, pressing and stitching, particularly valuable in hemorrhages at climacteric.
Warts appear in various parts on the tongue, on the genitals.
Mind and Head
Weariness, aversion to all work, sensitive to noise, starting when spoken to is an indication to Aurum muriaticum.
Weeping and aversion to his occupation.Extremely anxious with palpitation, Extreme mental and physical restlessness
Dwells upon his broken health, Constant burning in whole head, worse left side.
Eyes, ear, nose
Neuralgic pains in left eye, chronic inflammation of margins of lids is relieved with Aurum muriaticum.
Burning and itching behind ears worse night. Music relieves the ear symptoms. Eczema behind the ears.
Tingling, burning, and itching in nose, redness and inflammation, with itching,sensation of stoppage, yellow pus.
Mouth and Throat
Frequent desire to swallow, increased saliva. Ulcer of the lips is relieved with Aurum muriaticum.
Painful swelling of the submaxillary gland.
Stomach and abdomen
Drawing feeling in stomach. Slow digestion. Swelling of inguinal glands.
Burning, cutting, stitching in stomach, cramps.Burning in the liver. Tight feeling in the region of the liver.
Drawing pains and distension from gases. Great tenderness of abdomen is relieved with Aurum muriaticum.
A heavy ring of warts around the anus with copious moisture. Fig warts of the anus with ulceration.
Stool and Anus
Hemorrhoids, bleeding during stool with pain in bowels.
Albumin in the urine is an indication of Aurum muriaticum.
Exhausting erections. Drawing along spermatic cord.
Heat and itching in vagina. Burning stitching of vulva. Chronic inflammation of uterus and ovaries.
Inflammation of the bone and periosteum; caries, exostosis, trembling of the hands in the morning
Caries of the joints with nightly boring and gnawing pains. Stiffness of arms and fingers.
Swelling of the wrists, tearing pains in middle finger after meals.
It has many bone symptoms and pains and they are worse at night. Cold, wet weather ameliorates.
Warm air, warm bed, warm room, warm wraps, becoming warm even in open air, and warmth in general aggravates the general feeling.
Exertion and walking increase many symptoms. Drawing pains in various parts, especially the extremities.
Fullness of the veins all over the body is a strong feature of this remedy
Side effects of Dr. Reckeweg Aurum muriaticum
There are no such side effects. But every medicine should be taken following the rules as given.
It is safe to take the medicine even if you are on other mode of medication like allopathy medicines, ayurvedic etc.
Homeopathic medicines never interfere with the action of other medicines.
Dosage and rules while taking Dr. Reckeweg Aurum muriaticum
Take 5 drops in half cup of water three times a day.
You can also medicate the globules and take 3 times a day or as prescribed by the physician.
We recommend you to take under physicians guidance.
Precautions while taking Dr. Reckeweg Aurum muriaticum
Always keep a gap of 15 minutes before or after meals when you take medicine.
If pregnant or breastfeeding, ask a homeopathic practitioner before use.
Avoid eating tobacco or drinking alcohol during the course of medication.
Terms and Conditions
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Games by Type
There are a lot of games out there. If you are just starting to explore the hobby or are looking for something specific, it can be overwhelming to navigate the multitude of gaming titles. Use the following to help you narrow down what you are looking for or explore new games.
- Abstract Strategy Games (82)Abstract Strategy games are often (but not always) theme-less (without storyline), built on simple and/or straightforward design and mechanics, perfect information games, promote one player overtaking their opponent(s), little to no elements of luck, chance, or random occurrence, and can be minimal in design. (source: BGG)
- Action / Dexterity Games (38)Action/Dexterity games often compete players' physical reflexes and coordination as a determinant of overall success. (source: BGG)
- Adventure Games (29)Adventure games often have themes of heroism, exploration, and puzzle-solving. The storyline behind such games often have fantastical elements, and involve the characters in some sort of quest. (source: BGG)
- Age of Reason Games (1)Age of Reason games are set in the late 17th century to late 18th century. For gaming purposes, the Age of Reason started around 1690, coming to an end with the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Era. (source BGG)
- American West Games (13)American West games often have themes or storylines set in the Western United States during the latter half of the 19th century. Some of the themes and imagery found in the most popular American West games concerns cowboys, sheriffs, outlaws, prospecting, colonization, and railways, among others. (source: BGG)
- Ancient Games (16)Ancient games often have themes or storylines set in the Old World, between 3000 BC (the beginning of the Egyptian dynasties) and AD 476 (the fall of the Western Roman Empire). Some of the themes and imagery found in the most popular Ancient games concerns ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman civilizations. (source: BGG)
- Animal Games (70)Animal games involve animals as a major component of the theme or gameplay. Animals games often require players to attend to the management or control of animals. Players may even take on the role of an animal (or animals) in the game. (source: BGG)
- Aviation / Flight Games (5)Aviation / Flight games are primarily concerned with mechanical flight, including planes, helicopters, and gliders. (source: BGG)
- Bluffing Games (65)Bluffing games encourage players to use deception to achieve their aims. All Bluffing games have an element of hidden information in them. (source: BGG)
- Card Games (452)Card games often use cards as its sole or central component. There are stand-alone card games, in which all the cards necessary for gameplay are purchased at once. There are also Collectible Card Games (CCGs), where players purchase starter and "booster" packs in an effort to compile a more and more powerful deck of cards to compete with. (source: BGG)
- Children's Games (39)Children's games are often driven by a set of simple rules and elementary themes geared towards younger players. However, the most popular Children's games are just that because they can be (and are) enjoyed by gamers of all ages. (source: BGG)
- City Building Games (20)City Building games compel players to construct and manage a city in a way that is more efficient, powerful, and/or lucrative than their opponent's cities. (source: BGG)
- Civilization Games (15)Civilization games often have players developing and managing a society of people. The aim of each player is usually to employ citizens in ways that are beneficial to society, and have them progress throughout the game so that their civilization gains superiority over others. Civilization games may have each player build their society independently, or through warfare and diplomacy, each player may find themselves benefiting or suffering from the actions of others. (source: BGG)
- Civil War Games (1)
- Comic Book/Strip Games (1)
- Cooperative Games (95)Cooperative games encourage or require players to work together to beat the game. There is little or no competition between players. Either the players win the game by reaching a pre-determined objective, or all players lose the game, often by not reaching the objective before a certain event happens. Semi-cooperative games are very similar, but players only need to work together to a certain point and victory goes to one player at the end. (source: BGG)
- Deduction Games (73)Deduction games are those that require players to form conclusions based on available premises. These games are quite varied, including several different types of logical reasoning. Types include "Cat and Mouse" Deduction games where players use a set of observations and truthful feedback to narrow down possibilities, "Elimination" Deduction games where players arrive at the right conclusion after narrowing down possibilities from a large list, "Signalling" Deduction games where players make choices off of player-driven feedback (which may not be truthful), and "Induction" Deduction games where players must derive a general rule out of near infinite possibilities. (source: BGG)
- Dice Games (83)Dice games often use dice as its sole or principal component. Dice games traditionally focus almost exclusively on dice rolling as a mechanic (e.g., Yahtzee, Liar's Dice, Can't Stop). Generally, Dice games also refer to a number of Wargames that frequently use a large number of dice to decide a majority of game outcomes and variables. Usually, dice will account for the "luck" or "random chance" factor often needed in military simulations. These types of Wargames are colloquially known as "dice-fests". (source: BGG)
- Economic Games (34)Economic games encourage players to develop and manage a system of production, distribution, trade, and/or consumption of goods. The games usually simulate a market in some way. The term is often used interchangably with resource management games. (source: BGG)
- Educational Games (21)Educational games have been specifically designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand a historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play. (source: BGG)
- Environmental Games (14)Environmental games often have themes and storylines regarding environmental conservation and management. (source: BGG)
- Exploration Games (25)Exploration games often encourage players to discover and search new areas or territories for particular objects or goods, and/or to search for people to become trading partners with. (source: BGG)
- Fantasy Games (147)Fantasy games are those that have themes and scenarios that exist in a fictional world. It is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there can be a great deal of overlap between the three.
Fantasy game elements usually include:
a- Creatures that are common in fantasy books and comics, such as orcs, trolls, goblins, dragons, etc.
b- Magic that can be used with units or abilities
c- Can involve a struggle between good and evil forces.
- Farming Games (24)Farming games encourage players to build and manage farmland for the purposes of growing crops and/or tending to livestock, often to be sold or traded later on. (source: BGG)
- Fighting Games (49)Fighting games are those that encourage players to engage game characters in close quarter battles and hand-to-hand combat. Fighting games differ from Wargames in that the combat in Wargames exists as one part of a large-scale military simulation, while in Fighting games the focus is on the particular combat scenarios, like a skirmish. (source: BGG)
- Firefighting Games (4)Firefighting games focus mostly on controlling risk by "putting out fires". Thematically, the players most often take on the roles of firefighters.
- Food / Cooking Games (20)Food and cooking games simulate the process of preparing, cooking, and serving food.
- Game Expansions (55)Game expansions add to a base game and almost always require the player have access to the base game, but not always. Some game expansions can be added or played on their own. Game expansions tend to add either a new level of difficulty, a different style of play, or more options to the players.
- Game News (1)
- Game Systems (8)A Game System is an item whose components are not a game, per se, but are used to play games. The best example of a Game System is a deck of standard playing cards. (source: BGG)
- Horror Games (43)Horror games often contain themes and imagery depicting morbid and supernatural elements. (source: BGG)
- Humor Games (70)Humor Games often have themes and gameplay that provoke laughter and amusement. More specifically, humor games may require players to engage in clowning, comedy, jokes, and/or satire as an objective of the game. (source: BGG)
- Industry / Manufacturing Games (6)Industry / Manufacturing games encourage players to build, manage and/or operate tools and machinery in order to manufacture raw materials into goods and products. Many of the most popular Industry / Manufacturing games are Economic games as well. (source: BGG)
- Literature (16)Written and illustrated works. Everything from books to comics. Some are considered superior with long-lasting artistic merit. Others...not so much.
- Mafia Games (2)Mafia games have themes and scenarios related to classic Sicilian criminal organizations. However, some games in the Mafia category may be related to other organized criminal groups. (source: BGG)
- Mature / Adult (1)
- Maze Games (6)Maze games often require players to navigate a series of pathways that are located on the game board. The maze itself might be prebuilt before game play or built by the players during the game. Mazes can also change, making it difficult to navigate. (source: BGG)
- Medical Games (4)Medical games have themes related to the science of natural healing. Themes may include surgery, cures, recovery/recuperation/physical therapy, psychiatry, pharmaceutical prescription, and other medicine-related items. (source: BGG)
- Medieval Games (37)Medieval games often have themes or storylines set in Europe or Asia, between the 5th century (the fall of the Western Roman Empire) and the 16th century (the beginnings of European overseas colonization). (source: BGG)
- Memory Games (28)Memory games require players to retain and recall previous game events or information as an objective. (source: BGG)
- Miniatures Games (17)Miniatures games use small scale figures to represent specific characters and objects during gameplay. Knights, trees, giant robots, buildings, etc. The most popular Miniatures games are characteristically known for their use of detailed plastic or metal figures. (source: BGG)
- Movies / TV / Radio Themed Games (2)Movies/TV/Radio games are often those that are thematically linked with a popular movie, television show, or radio program. Other Movies/TV/Radio themed games may test players' knowledge about these media, or the game environment may be set in the movie, television, or radio industry. (source: BGG)
- Murder Mystery Games (10)Murder Mystery games often involve an unsolved murder or murders. A requirement of these games is usually for players to investigate these crimes, and determine the criminal details and/or perpetrator(s). (source: BGG)
- Mythology Games (8)Mythology games are those that often incorporate a thematic narrative that defines how the game world or characters came into existence, specially those related or based on narratives of ancient civilizations of the world. The storyline in a number of Mythology games usually includes supernatural elements, such as gods, goddesses and demigods, and are sometimes set in a fabled, primordial time, which usually corresponds to a general corpus of folk stories (myths) that used to have some form of religious or sacred nature for the cultures that engendered these stories. (source: BGG)
- Nautical Games (10)Nautical games involve sailors, ships, and/or maritime navigation as a major component of the theme or game play. Most Nautical games require players to effectively control ships as an objective. (source: BGG)
- Negotiation Games (17)Negotiation games explicitly involve and encourage making deals and alliances with other players and backstabbing when appropriate. Winning is rare without participating in these deals. Unlike cooperative games, Negotiation games are still largely competitive, while granting players certain times to make mutual agreements through discussion. Negotiation can also include bribery. (source: BGG)
- Ninja Games (5)Ninja games often have themes or storylines that involve ninjas, martial arts, and combat. These games are often set in feudal Japan, but not always, as ninjas are eternal. It is a well-known fact that ninjas and pirates are sworn enemies. If you see a ninja, it is only because the ninja wants you to see them.
- Novel-Based Games (8)Novel-Based games are those that are thematically linked with a popular novel or novel series. (source: BGG)
- Number Games (7)Number games require players to use or manipulate numbers to achieve their aims. (source: BGG)
- Party Games (81)Party games are games that encourage social interaction. They generally have easy setups and simple rules, and they can accommodate large groups of people and play in a short amount of time. (source: BGG)
- Pirate Games (29)Pirate games often have themes or storylines of piracy. Some of the most popular themes and imagery in Pirate games concerns treasure hunting, sea robbery, swords and cannons, swashbuckling, and ship racing. Many Pirate games occur in timelines prior to the 20th century. Pirates hate Ninjas. (source: BGG)
- Political Games (18)Political games encourage players to use their character's authority to manipulate societal activities and policy. (source: BGG)
- Prehistoric Games (7)Prehistoric games often have themes or storylines set in a time before prerecorded history. These unwritten histories are usually compiled under time periods, including the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
Many of the popular Prehistoric games are set in the Stone Age, hunter/gatherer societies, or time periods when dinosaurs existed. (source: BGG)
- Prepublished Games (270)Prepublished games are those titles that have not yet been published, but might soon be. These games are typically requesting crowdfunding through Kickstarter or Indiegogo. Many try and few succeed. If the prepublished game has been successfully published and we have released a review for the published version, the prepublished version of the review will point you to the updated content.
- Print and Play Games (14)Print and play games are those which are often free to any player who wishes to print them off themselves. Many are available on the Internet. (source: BGG)
- Puzzle Games (49)Puzzle games are those in which the players are trying to solve a puzzle. Many Puzzle games require players to use problem solving, pattern recognition, organization and/or sequencing to reach their objectives. (source: BGG)
- Racing Games (24)Racing games often involve players in a form of race, where the objective is to be the first to reach a checkpoint, usually by having greater speed and/or control than your opponents. Although many games in which players attempt to reach a particular goal more quickly than other players are described as Racing games (e.g., Dominion), this game type specifically refers to racing that also includes some element of steering, by which players navigate their piece(s) around obstacles which generally stay on the board from the start. (source: BGG)
- Real-Time Games (34)Real-Time games often allow for players to take their turns (or part of their turns) simultaneously. This is in contrast to turn-based games. There are also some Real-time games in which there is a consequence if a player does not play their turn in a set amount of time. (source: BGG)
- Religious Games (6)Religious games feature elements, narratives, settings, or characters that relate to current belief systems (religions) of the world, either in their historical aspect and its development through time or in their actual objects of faith, like sacred scriptures and articles of doctrine. This can be done through direct reference or by exploring different aspects of the faith in a playful fashion. (source: BGG)
- Renaissance Games (8)Renaissance games are those set between the 14th century (when the Renaissance began in Italy) and roughly the early 17th century. (source: BGG)
- Role-Playing Games (10)Role-Playing games (also known as RPGs and sometimes simply "roleplaying") is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines that most often use dice and probability. Most RPGs have a referee who leads the story and directs the action. (source: Wikipedia)
- Science Fiction Games (76)Science Fiction games often have themes relating to imagined possibilities in the sciences. Such games need not be futuristic; they can be based on an alternative past. (For example, the writings of Jules Verne and the Star Wars saga are set before present time.) Many of the most popular Science Fiction games are set in outer space, and often involve alien races. (source: BGG)
- Solitaire Games (62)Solitaire games are designed to be playable with only one player attempting to beat the game.
- Space Exploration Games (8)Space Exploration games often have themes and storylines relating to travel and adventure in outer space. Often, players must seek and gather resources and territories as objectives of the game. Many of the popular Space Exploration games are also categorized under Science Fiction. (source: BGG)
- Spies/Secret Agents (12)Spies/Secret Agents games often have themes or storylines relating to espionage. Often, players must identify another player who has taken the role of spy or secret agent and attempt to reveal secret information that this player holds. Many of the most popular Spies/Secret Agents games are also categorized under Bluffing and/or Deduction, and as such have an element of hidden information to them. (source: BGG)
- Sports Games (25)Sports games often have themes or storylines related to the physical activity of sports. The sports represented in the most popular Sports boardgames are football and racing (whether car, boat, bicycle or horse). (source: BGG)
- Storytelling Games (9)Storytelling games deal with communication and creativity. The rules to such games are often light with emphasis on using the imagination and wit.
- Territory Building Games (25)Territory Building games have the players establish and/or amass control over a specific area. Often, these games employ Area Control and Area Enclosure mechanics, in which the areas are not necessarily delineated at the beginning of the game but are instead contained from larger territories as the game progresses. (source: BGG)
- Toys (14)We like to play with toys, as well as games. Make no mistake, the imagination is the greatest game you will ever play with.
- Train Games (6)Train games often involve game play and imagery related to railroads and rail vehicles. Many of the most popular Train games are set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (source: BGG)
- Transportation Games (11)Transportation games often have game play involving the movement of goods or people from one place to another. Many of the most popular Transportation games are also Train games. (source: BGG)
- Travel Games (4)Travel games often have game play where an objective is to move to and from different geographic locations. As such, Travel games usually employ a map as the main feature of the game board. (source: BGG)
- Trivia Games (8)Trivia games often test players on their knowledge of general interests and popular culture. There are also Trivia games that focus on specific topics and subject matter. (source: BGG)
- Video Games (6)While we love playing games offline at the kitchen table, one cannot discount the appeal of the fantastic video games available for geeks to waste their time on.
- Video Game Themed Games (7)Video Game Themed games are often those that are thematically linked with a popular video game. (source: BGG)
- Wargames (25)Wargames are games that depict military actions. Wargames are set in a variety of timelines, from the Ancient period to present conflicts and even in the future. Thematically, Wargames cover everything from actions between small units on a very small board to larger, extremely detailed conflicts and even global-scale wars. Although most Wargames are based on historical situations, there are Wargames based on fantasy or science fiction, as well as Wargames based on hypothetical but historically-based situations (e.g., nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the USA). Probably the most popular period for Wargames is World War II, followed by the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War. However, Wargames cover a vast range of conflicts, and if you are interested in a particular war you are quite likely to be able to find a game that covers it in some way. (source: BGG)
- Word Games (25)Word games often require players to competitively use their knowledge of language. Language knowledge in Word games is often focused on spelling and definitions. (source: BGG)
- World War II (3)World War II games have storylines set during various military campaigns in Europe, Asia, and Africa from 1939 until 1945. Most World War II games are also categorized as Wargames. (source: BGG)
- Zombie Games (22)Zombie games often contain themes and imagery concerning the animated dead. Some of the more popular storylines in Zombie games include apocalyptic themes, horror, and fighting. (source: BGG) | <urn:uuid:ee384e63-42ae-473d-9e34-8503b6f51fa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fathergeek.com/resources/games-by-type/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963252 | 4,842 | 2 | 2 |
When you upcycle something, you take an old object and turn it into a new one. reuse, on the other hand, is when you use an object or resource more than once. When designing your home, for example, you might choose to reuse furniture that you find in a garage sale.
Both upcycle and reuse can result in eco-friendly designs as well as savings on materials. So, before throwing anything away – whether it’s old clothing, furniture, or electronics – think about how you can reuse or upcycle it to create a new and more sustainable product!
Definition of Upcycle
Upcycle is the reuse of materials and objects to create a new product, service, or system. It has been defined as a “cyclical process of transforming waste materials into valuable products, services, or resources” (Simplify). Reuse can be seen as a subset of upcycle because it focuses on the reuse of materials. Upcycling can be done with any type of material and can involve adding value to a product before it is recycled or disposed. Reuse typically refers to the reprocessing of used products into new products.
There are many benefits to upcycling and reuse. First, it saves resources because recycled materials are often less expensive than new materials. Second, upcycling creates new jobs in the recycling industry and reduces the amount of waste that needs to be created in the first place. Finally, upcycling and reuse help reduce pollution by reducing the amount of waste that needs to be shipped off-site.
However, there are also some risks associated with upcycling and reuse. First, improper handling of recycled materials can lead to environmental contamination. Second, upcycling may not always produce desirable results due to the various methods used to create products from recycled
Definition of Reuse
Upcycle means to reuse, convert, or transform an old item into a new product or service with improved function or efficiency.
Reuse means to use something more than once. Items can be reused in different ways, such as through recycling, upcycling, and product design reuse.
The two terms are often confused because they have similar meanings, but there is a key distinction between them. Reuse refers to using an item multiple times, while upcycle refers to using an item in a new way. For example, you can recycle an old shirt into a new one by cutting the shirt into shorts and using it as a skirt. Upcycle is changing the original use of the item while reuse is using it in a new way.
The Difference Between Upcycle and Reuse
Upcycling is the process of turning an unwanted or waste product into a new and valuable object, while reuse is the process of using something that has already been used once.
The two concepts can be difficult to differentiate, but here are some key points to help you understand the difference:
Upcycle: Upcycling is when you take an item that is considered to be waste and turn it into a new, valuable object. This could include turning old furniture into new decor, using fabrics that would otherwise be thrown away to make new clothes, or even creating new items from materials that would have been discarded in the past.
Reuse: Reuse is when you use something that has already been used once. This could mean using an old shirt as a dust cloth instead of throwing it away, using an old pair of shoes to store toys instead of buying new ones, or even recycling materials that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.
How to Upcycle
Upcycling is the process of taking an old, unwanted object and turning it into something new and useful. This can be done by repairing or refurbishing the object, creating a new one from scratch, or using it in its original form as a component in another project. Reusing is the act of using an existing object instead of buying a new one. It can be done by reusing parts of the object, recycling it, or lending it to a friend or family member. Both upcycling and reuse can help reduce waste and pollution, conserve resources, and create jobs.
There are many ways to upcycle an object:
-Fixing broken items: A broken item can be fixed and turned into something new, such as a lamp that can now serve as a nightstand or side table.
-Recycling materials: Materials that would have been thrown away can now be used in other projects, such as creating new furniture out of old wood or fabric scraps.
-Making new items: Objects that are no longer needed can be turned into new objects, such as making a mirror out of an old window pane.
-Using objects in their original form: Using
How to Reuse
There is a big difference between upcycle and reuse. Upcycle means to use a product or material in a new way, while reuse means to use a product or material again after it has been used in a previous way.
For example, you can upcycle old clothes into new clothes by altering the original design. You could also reuse old clothing as rags to clean something new. Another example of upcycling is turning an old toy into a new toy. Reusing means using something that has already been used once by someone else. For example, you can reuse an old cup by filling it with flowers and giving it to someone as a gift. | <urn:uuid:a23a831a-0b58-4a64-85d6-3a6192424acd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ecoziko.com/difference-between-upcycle-and-reuse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956833 | 1,109 | 3.78125 | 4 |
Renewable energy company Drax Group is expanding its operations into Japan as part of its ambitions to increase sustainable biomass sales to support energy security and decarbonisation in Asia.
To celebrate the launch of Drax Asia and the opening of a new Drax office in Japan, more than 160 guests including government officials, major trading houses, energy businesses and shipping companies, attended a reception at the British Ambassador’s residence in Tokyo.
At the reception, British Ambassador to Japan Julia Longbottom said:
“The global issues facing us today highlight the importance of clean and secure energy supply chains. We are happy to support Drax in their expansion into Japan.”
Drax Group, the world’s leading producer and user of sustainable biomass, aims to increase its wood pellet production capacity to 8 million tonnes a year by 2030 from 5 million tonnes a year currently, supporting global efforts to displace fossil fuels and decarbonise energy systems.
As a supplier of sustainable biomass pellets to customers in Asia and Europe, and with more than a decade of experience in converting the UK’s biggest coal-fired power station to use sustainable biomass, Drax is uniquely placed to support Japan as it further decarbonises its economy and energy system.
The British-headquartered company is also pioneering bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), an essential carbon removals technology which provides renewable energy while also permanently removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Drax Group’s Managing Director for Asia, Yasuhisa Okamoto, who is based in Tokyo and will oversee the company’s ambitious plans for growth in Japan and the region said:
“Drax’s unrivalled expertise across the entire biomass value chain – from sustainable fibre sourcing, pellet manufacturing, supply chain management, biomass power generation and BECCS – can support Japan’s climate targets, accelerating the move away from coal and enabling investment in clean energy technologies.
“We look forward to continuing our partnership with Japanese companies, supporting them as they decarbonise their businesses, using sustainable biomass.”
Drax’s conversion of its UK power station to use sustainable biomass instead of coal is Europe’s largest decarbonisation project, reducing fossil fuel emissions from Drax’s power generation by over 95% since 2012.
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In a fascinating use of words, the same word “artifact” has a home in the language of the arts and in the sciences. In the language of the arts, artifact refers to a relic—typically valued—of another era. In the sciences, artifact is an observation that may only occur because of something that we as the researchers did in the research itself. Research artifact means that what we observed in our study is not usually present; so instead of giving information about the process or variable, we are studying, the research artifact or atypical occurrence gives us information about the study design or the study method or the study team. Thus, we are not discovering more knowledge about what we are seeking to study or what naturally derives from nature or our care systems, but about our “workmanship.” In this regard, some might consider the research artifact that results from our study manipulations or actions as a mistake and thus not real—and in the classic sense of scientific control, well it might be given the label of “mistake” and description of “not real.” But a research artifact—just like a mistake—can be quite instructive in all of the sciences. If made and analyzed, the research artifact can be an invaluable teacher for us.
In the basic sciences, when a surprise finding emerges, the wise counsel is to repeat, repeat, and repeat yet again the same study methods under the same conditions to see if the unexpected outcome continues to result. In the social sciences, we use feasibility and pilot studies to see if we can separate and distinguish research artifact from reality. Because many of our studies and all of our clinical care situations deal directly with complex humans experiencing complicated health conditions, our ability to separate research artifact from reality is challenging. We are not as able to “repeat, repeat, repeat” many of our study designs without notable financial, human, and time investments. As members of the editorial board, we understand this limitation for the social sciences. How then do we identify the research artifact and learn from it?
We must see the research artifact for what it is at its best—a remarkable one-of-a-kind learning opportunity. We may not be sure if a finding is artifact, but approaching it as if it could be would provide a chance to reflect, dissect, analyze, and reconsider. This is really what the “Discussion” section is in a manuscript—a chance to reflect, dissect, analyze, and reconsider. Too often we use that section to repeat and support our findings as if to persuade readers as to the veracity of the findings. This is not a wrong use of the Discussion section, but it leaves the reader without the one-of-a-kind chance to think at least twice about a finding—to join with the author/s in pondering what is real, what is chance, and what could be the meaning behind what is real if only by chance. Analyzing our research artifacts—or mistakes—is a scholarly effort with practical outcomes that include helping to prevent others and ourselves from producing the same research artifact in the future. The Discussion section is where the scientist scholar challenges his/her findings; this is where the scientist scholar dissects what is validated and repeatable (or not) with crystal clarity and helps the rest of us to know what is verifiable and real. Most certainly the methods, setting, design appropriately matched to the study focus and sample, and the study team's preparation to execute the study strongly determine the likelihood of a research artifact, but it is the scholarly act of reflecting, dissecting, analyzing, and reconsidering findings that stimulates the thinking and doing of readers, and it is that scholarly behavior that we seek in the Discussion sections of the manuscripts submitted to CANCER NURSING: An International Journal of Cancer Care. We seek an unapologetic analysis in the Discussion section of what happened in the study and how that produced the study findings.
With all best wishes,
—Pamela S. Hinds, PhD, RN, FAAN
Department of Nursing Science, Professional Practice, and
Quality The William and Joanne Conway Nursing Research Chair Professor
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine & Health Sciences
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Our literary and musical tip for the pre-Christmas season:
E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Nutcracker and Mouse King" & Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker
E.T.A. Hoffmann's art fairy tale "Nutcracker and Mouse King" is a Christmas classic and inspired Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's most popular fairy tale ballet composition "The Nutcracker" in the French arrangement.
A great arrangement of the fairy tale with Tchaikovsky's music can also be heard on Youtube.
Overture (The Nutcracker) Op.71 - YouTube
As an introduction, there is also a short, funny to go variant:
Nutcracker and Mouse King to go (Hoffmann in 9 minutes) - YouTube
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In many American communities, rivers irrigate the farms that feed families, quench people’s thirst—rivers are the source of more than two-thirds of the drinking water in the U.S.—sustain wildlife habitat, and provide an economic boost for communities. Yet only a very small portion of those waterways are protected from threats ranging from pollution to damming, which would wreck the water’s natural flow. … California’s Regional Water Quality Control Boards have authority to designate ONRWs but to date have done so for only two bodies of water: Lake Tahoe and Mono Lake. However, the state did initiate an analysis of the Smith River as an ONRW but has not completed the effort. The Smith is a Pacific salmon stronghold. | <urn:uuid:41b3a84c-14e0-467a-b0d0-a322ca81da9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.watereducation.org/aquafornia-news/blog-more-us-rivers-deserve-outstanding-designation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.959306 | 155 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Volume : 09, Issue : 07, July – 2022
65.BILOSOMES: A NOVEL VESICULAR CARRIER FOR DRUG DELIVERY – A REVIEW
Gouri Jayachandran M
Vesicular drug delivery systems are promising agents with diverse applications in pharmaceuticals, cosmeceuticals and cosmetics. Bilosomes are bilayered vesicles of non-ionic surfactants and bile salts which are similar to niosomes. Bile salts are endogenous surfactants which act as a double-edged sword by increasing the aqueous solubility and permeability of active pharmaceutical ingredient. These vesicular structures increase the solubility of lipophilic drugs and increase the stability of the formulation in the gastrointestinal tract. Bilosomes are ultradeformable flexible structures which increases the stratum corneum permeability. Thus these have applications in both oral and transdermal drug delivery. These vesicles are utilised for topical drug delivery like ocular and intranasal drug delivery. In addition, bile salt integrated nanomedicines like probilosomes, surface engineered bilosomes and non-oral bilosomes have been surveyed. Tremendous research in the last decade has made bilosomes a potential carrier system. The extensive search has been presented related to the formulation and characterisation of bilosomes. Bilosomal systems have profound application in biological therapeutics and vaccine delivery. This review offers a comprehensive and informative data focusing on the great potential of bile acid and their salts for therapeutic application. In conclusion, bilosomes are superior to other conventional vesicular carriers (liposome and niosome) with regards to the stability, low toxicity and bioavailability.
Key words: Vesicular drug delivery system, bilosome, endogenous surfactants, aqueous solubility, permeability, ultradeformable, nanomedicines, biological therapeutics, vaccine delivery, bioavailability
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Please cite this article in press Gouri Jayachandran M, Bilosomes: A Novel Vesicular Carrier for Drug Delivery – A Review., Indo Am. J. P. Sci, 2022; 09(7).,
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Contributions to Proceedings:
L. Panfili, M. Wimmer, K. Krösl:
"Myopia in Head-Worn Virtual Reality";
in: "2021 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW)",
IEEE Computer Society Press,
In this work, we investigate the influence of myopia on the perceived visual acuity (VA) in head-worn virtual reality (VR). Factors such as display resolution or vision capabilities of users influence the VA in VR. We simulated eyesight tests in VR and on a desktop screen and conducted a user study comparing VA measurements of participants with normal sight and participants with myopia. Surprisingly, our results suggest that people with severe myopia can see better in VR than in the real world, while the VA of people with normal or corrected sight or mild myopia is reduced in VR.
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In Seattle, Capital Heating, Cooling & Plumbing is in the middle of a long-term project for King County Transit. We’re pretty excited about this one—it tests our technical and collaboration skills and, at its conclusion, we will have upgraded a major heating and cooling system for the city’s main bus hub—an operation with its own vehicle maintenance infrastructure, paint shop, tire shop, and more.
For this job, we’re swapping out all of the equipment and mechanical components for full HVAC systems in three of the facility’s most important buildings: the vehicle maintenance building, the the non-revenue vehicle maintenance building, and the tire mill. We’re also replacing their vehicle exhaust systems—a huge welding job.
In other words, we’re helping Seattle heat and cool three important, decades-old buildings more efficiently.
Chris Seversike, our project manager, is overseeing the removal and replacement of all rooftop equipment, duct work, and installing. (Cool tech side note: a water source heat pump is a hydronic—or water-powered—system that produces heated and cooled air, a system you can use in place of a conventional furnace. Environmentally, they’re pretty nifty: because they use less fuel, they’re better for the planet. They also make less noise than a conventional furnace.
A couple of factors make this a tricky job, Chris tells us. First, the proximity of electrical wires overhead makes the use of some equipment and vehicles impossible; tall trucks won’t work for this site.
Second, this is an important hub doing work that can’t stop just because the HVAC system is being replaced. Chris and his team are working closely with the client and with other trade teams to coordinate. To get it done, they’re sequencing the work: shutting down just one work bay at a time. As Chris says, it’s a study in coordination.
Our hats are off to King County for making this happen. It’s a big job. But once it’s done, their employees will be working in healthier buildings with heating and cooling systems that run at a lower operating cost. And this more reliable, more efficient equipment will likely not need to be replaced for decades.
Chris says the project is due to wrap up this August. Until then, he’s happy to be on this team. “We’re working with a lot of talented people. It takes a great team to make a remodel job like this successful.” | <urn:uuid:00502c05-7c81-4b49-9629-0646e4dfcd31> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://capitalheatingandcooling.com/commercial-project-king-county-transit-hub/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.944037 | 538 | 1.75 | 2 |
Food is about so much more than nutrition—it’s one of the most personal expressions of our cultures, values, and traditions. Our series, Behind the Recipe, profiles a different healthy cook every month to explore the personal, untold stories of their favorite dishes. This month, Eat Cho Food creator Kristina Cho shares a very special almond cookie recipe, inspired by what her goong goong (maternal grandpa) used to make. The recipe is excerpted from her new book, Mooncakes and Milk Bread, out this month.
Even though I grew up in a very food-centric house, no one in my family really baked. My grandparents moved to the U.S. from Hong Kong in the late 1960s and my goong goong (or maternal grandpa, in English) started working in restaurants. Eventually, he opened his own restaurants and that became the family business. Because of this, I was always surrounded by really incredible chefs, but baking wasn’t exactly part of our family culinary history. If there were pastries at home, they came from a box mix.
I was in middle school when I decided to try baking myself. I watched a lot of Food Network and would practically be drooling when I saw the bakers on TV bite into a gooey chocolate chip cookie or plunge a fork into a moist chocolate cake. I think part of why it also appealed to me was that a lot of the desserts I saw on TV were so classic American. Growing up in a Chinese American family, we didn’t eat a lot of chocolate chip cookies or pie.
One of the first baked goods I made was cheesecake. My mom used to buy frozen cheesecakes at Costco that I just loved (honestly, anything with cream cheese had my heart), so I decided to try making a homemade one. And you know what, it was pretty good! I started to bake even more and my family was all about it. After all, who would complain about homemade dessert?
It wasn’t until I got a little older that I started to explore Chinese baking more. What I’ve learned is that Chinese baking doesn’t necessarily mean a baked good. Often, it’s something steamed or fried. Similar to Western baked goods, Chinese baked goods still include foods like breads, cookies, and cakes. What sets Chinese baking apart are the distinct textures and flavors. Milk bread is extra fluffy, tarts are extra flaky. Whatever natural flavor the dessert centers around (such as a fruit), the other ingredients play up that flavor even more.
Since my family is so filled with cooks rather than bakers, the majority of the time I baked alone. But I do remember making almond cookies with my goong goong. Back in Hong Kong, my grandfather was a teacher. He taught reading and writing to elementary school kids. It was a job that he really loved, but wasn’t one he was able do in the U.S. That’s when he started working in restaurants. One of his first restaurant jobs was baking almond cookies, which were served for dessert in the restaurant where he worked. Since he made almond cookies every single day, he got really great at it. Goong goong’s almond cookies really were the best.
One time, we made the almond cookies together at home. It was actually the only time we made them together. By this time, goong goong had his own restaurant and he wasn’t making almond cookies anymore. In fact, they just served fortune cookies instead because they didn’t have time to make fresh almond cookies every day. For a very long time, goong goong didn’t make any almond cookies. That is, until this day, right before I left for college, when I asked him to make them with me. It’s such a sweet memory for me, making almond cookies with my goong goong and enjoying them with the whole family afterward.
When I started thinking about what recipes I wanted to include in my cookbook, I knew I had to include them. The problem was, I didn’t have the recipe; goong goong never wrote it down and he passed away in 2009. All I had to go off of was a crumpled piece of paper with ingredient measurements for a restaurant quantity of cookies. I had to figure it out on my own, just going by the memory of what it tasted like. I enlisted my other family members to help. “What do you think, a little more sugar? A bit more salt?” I’d ask my mom, after whipping up a test batch. I wanted it to be as close to his recipe as possible. After a few tries, I think I got it right.
It’s so special to me, seeing people make my goong goong’s almond cookies now. I wonder what he would think of it. My goong goong was such a humble guy that he would probably just blush and smile. He might say something like, “wow, that’s crazy!” but I think it would be very sentimental to him. After all, making almond cookies was never really part of his plan. He was a teacher. But like many immigrant parents, my goong goong came to the U.S. to create a better life for his kids, grandkids, and everyone who came after. Somehow, making almond cookies became a small part of that. And I’m so glad it did.
Kristina Cho’s goong goong’s almond cookies recipe
1 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp coarse salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened
2/3 cup sugar
1 large egg
3/4 tsp pure almond extract
1 large egg yolk
15 sliced almonds
Flaky salt, for topping
1. In a medium bowl, whisk to combine the flour, baking soda, and salt.
2. In another medium bowl, mix to combine the butter and sugar with a flexible spatula until smooth. Add the egg and almond extract and continue to mix until fully incorporated. Add the dry ingredients and mix until a thick dough is formed (it will be sticky). Cover the bowl with plastic wrap and chill until slightly firm but scoopable, about one hour.
3. Preheat the oven to 350°F and line two large rimmed baking sheets with parchment paper. Using a 1 1/2-tablespoon cookie scoop, measure out 1 1/2 tablespoons of dough and place on the prepared sheet. (Or use a spoon to scoop and roll the dough into a smooth ball, wetting your hands if the dough is still sticky.) Repeat with remaining dough, spacing them 3 inches apart. Wet your fingers with water to prevent dough from sticking and gently press down on the dough balls with your fingers until they are a half-inch thick.
4. In a small bowl, whisk the egg yolk and use to lightly brush the tops of the cookies. Place an almond slice on each cookie.
5. Bake until cookies are golden brown and crisp around the edges, 16 to 18 minutes. Transfer the sheets to a wire rack, sprinkle with flaky salt, and allow cookies to cool on the sheets for five minutes. Transfer cookies to the rack to cool. Serve warm or at room temperature.
As told to Emily Laurence
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Felters who make handmade felt all have pieces lying around that were either sample tests, projects that just were not right or simply bits left over from larger endeavours. There is nothing like handmade wool felt, and even the smallest pieces never get thrown away, after all.. each piece was lovingly made by hand! For those of you who are not felters, follow these directions using just about any fabric.
Those fabric remnants/felt scraps often just sit in the studio yearning for a new life. Well here is what you do. Make covered buttons.
For larger production, purchase a proper button machine press with a cutter and dies like the Osbourne or Handy machine. (note those machines need a die set for each size)
Large or small, they can be used in a myriad of ways. Here is a peek at the process.
What you will need:
- circle of thin felt, thick felt is too bulky (nuno is gorgeous as a button!)
- button parts – they come in a variety of sizes and are available in every most sewing stores (and online in larger quantaties) – these are size 75 (4.75cm diameter) I love this size, but also use other sizes right down to just over 1 cm wide.
- assembly tool – old tech like the Dr*tz covered button kits our mothers all have in their sewing kits 1 part rubber, 1 part plastic.
What to do with felt covered buttons? a million things …
- use them to spruce up a great coat or shirt
- closure for purses
- accent a hat
- use for darting on upholstery or pillows
- make ponytails.. house favorite here – my daughter and I use them all the time, admittedly they are cuter on her than me.
You can also use wire cutters to remove the loop on the back – I usually do this before assembly if I plan ahead, then you can attach them to findings that you can purchase online using a good quality adhesive to create:
- magnets for your fridge or blackboard
- thumbtacks for your corkboard
- hair clips
- lapel pins
- they are a great addition to the perfect felted shawl or collar
- you name it…
I often use these as a little gift when I send a package to a customer, just a little something to say thanks.
Here is a quickie project.. make a pony tail.
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There are three levels of general practice: generalist practice approach, general generalist practice and expert generalist practice. Koki Kato explains how they can help GPs explain what they do.
Healthcare professionals deploying to and practicing in conflicts and catastrophes can experience a plethora of negative emotions due to perceived or actual transgressions of their core ethical principles. In his final Ukraine report, Richard Armitage gives a powerful personal reflection.
Anaemia is a serious public health concern globally, yet WHO's cut-off values for Hgb were established in 1968 using predominantly White populations in Europe and North America. Is it time to update to population specific cut-offs?
Movies allow health care professionals to immerse themselves in “near-true” experiences that challenge their values and principles. Beatrice Khater and Bassem Saab discuss using The Last King of Scotland in family medicine training at the American University of Beirut
The Ukrainian system of medical education is considered to be both one of the highest quality and relative affordability in the world. Richard Armitage reports how things are affected by the war in Ukraine.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a significant and well-recognised threat to human health in Ukraine. Richard Armitage discusses how this is further complicated by the war.
For as long as the war in Ukraine continues, the country’s existing substantial unmet need for palliative care and pain relief will increasingly intensify, and ever greater numbers of people with life-limiting conditions will experience intolerable yet preventable suffering at the most
As of day 70 of the Ukraine–Russia war there have been 186 attacks on health care. Drawing comparisons to Russia's involvement in the Syrian Civil War, Hareen De Silva BEM describes the devastating and long-term tolls these attacks have on civilians.
General public concern over the adequate control of blood pressure is notably high within Ukraine, possibly due to the concerning prevalence of hypertensive disease, public awareness of its associated risk factors, and successful health promotion by primary care and public health professionals.
Richard Armitage discusses many Ukrainian families have been separated, meaning the vast majority of refugees are women, children, and elderly people, who are often unaccompanied. These vulnerable individuals are exposed to substantially increased risks of being affected by modern slavery, sexual and
Richard Armitage asks if the prevalence of conscientious objection among clinicians could compromise the provision of abortion services in Northern Ireland.
Oleksii Korzh writes from the Kharkiv Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education, Ukraine, to describe the effect of the conflict on primary healthcare.
Richard Armitage reminds us that, while they play no part in geopolitical games, it is children – in particular the maintenance of their health and wellbeing – that pay one of the largest and most deeply unjust costs for the accident of
In an open letter to BJGP Life, Roghieh Dehghan and members of the Medact migrant solidarity group argue that deporting refugees to Rwanda is an uncomplicated moral wrong and note the frequent silence of healthcare leadership when these wrongs are mooted by
Richard Armitage uses the inverse care law to discuss the health inequalities affecting Ukrainian civilians who have been unable to flee the country.
Richard Armitage is usually a GP in Nottingham but is currently providing primary care to internally displaced people in the east of Ukraine. He discusses issues for primary care in the region.
Koki Kato reflects on the tension between patient safety and patient centered-ness with a hypothetical case that will be familiar to many. Does it have to be one or the other?
Aaron Poppleton, Dennis Ougrin, and Yana Maksymets give a responsive overview of the health needs of Ukrainian refugees and provide a list of useful resources for GPs
Orest Mulka and Philip Evans discuss the development of general practice in Ukraine and the role of international collaboration in the development of primary care
Kath Brown argues that although Covid has exposed our long-standing domestic drivers of poor health, we simply cannot ignore global health inequalities during a global pandemic. Vaccinating the world also in all of our interests.
Maria Victoria Bovo and John Launer give an account of a remarkable conversation they had in December 2021 during an online workshop in narrative medicine, about Long-COVID and a colleague.
Koki Kato introduces us to phenomenology as an approach to understanding patient-centred care, using his own illness-experience as a worked example.
Felicitas Selter, Kirsten Persson, and Gerald Neitzke discuss the similarities and differences in animal and human euthanasia as a source of moral distress for the practitioner.
Basem Saab and colleagues from the American University of Beirut illustrate the complexity of COVID-19 requirements and air-travel, for which patients may attend their family doctor for advice and documentation.
Medicine is the discipline of uncertainty, and this is true of GP training. Koki Kato suggests managing these uncertainties in the same way that we do in consultations.
Why does France seem to be so much better at protecting its population than the UK? Peter Toon reflects on his experience, and advises the Government to put some cheese as well as eggs in its basket.
What can a doctor offer to a patient who has lost three first degree relatives within three weeks? Sajitha Rahman reflects on the role of doctor as witness, in the midst of grief.
Do you feel confident in meeting the needs of Afghan asylum seekers and refugees? The issues are not new. Emily Clark and Rebecca Farrington give us some valuable guidance.
My country was trying to cultivate the tree of democracy and freedom when on the 1 February 2021 the military coup took us back to the dark days of military rule ...
BJGP Life has sought to keep us all informed about the medical and humanitarian crisis following on from the coup in Myanmar. Jim Brockbank tells us about a current initiative to get financial aid to Myanmar.
For so many of us this has been a hard, even a heartbreaking time. But let us also remember the people of India, and especially our colleagues in the UK who have family there and are seeking creative ways of helping them.
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James Bennett was born at Blackheath and was living at Halesowen when he volunteered for the Worcesters. He joined the 2nd Battalion and campaigned through the battles of the Somme in 1916 and Third Ypres in 1917. During the German Spring offensives of 1918 the Worcesters were still in front of Ypres and positioned near Neuve Eglise. Greatly outnumbered they withstood the first day of the German advance on the Lys on the 9th April but they were forced back over seven days with great losses in killed, wounded and captured. Private James Bennett was killed in action, probably near Kemmel on the 17th April and is commemorated on the Ploegsteert and Halesowen Memorials.
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Gun purchasing among Californians rose sharply during 2020, and the trend is likely related to the increase in gun violence currently happening across the Golden State.
Gun violence experts look at federal background checks to determine the rate of firearm purchasing, and evidence shows that purchasing increases during periods of unrest or crisis.
Prior to the pandemic, California was reporting about 100,000 checks in the National Instant Criminal Background Check System per month, according to statistics collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In March 2020, that number shot up to 164,000. Background check rates in California have remained high throughout the pandemic, racial reckoning protests and presidential election of the last year.
Now, those like Garen Wintemute, director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis, say the state is starting to experience the effects of that purchasing surge. He said the mass shooting in San Jose on Wednesday, which left nine dead and several injured, is part of an increase in gun violence in California this year. A purchasing surge can contribute to that, he said.
“There was an unprecedented surge in firearm purchases, and up through the middle of last year, the size of the increase in violence was proportional to the size of the increase in firearm purchasing,” Wintemute said in an email. “There was also social disruption on many fronts, on a scale we’ve not seen in many years. We are just beginning to experience the effects of those changes, and preliminary data suggest the increase in violence has continued in the first months of 2021.”
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Many health-conscious consumers wouldn’t touch whole milk or full-fat yogurt or cheese with a 10-foot pole. When it comes to dairy, they go low-fat or nonfat all the way…or maybe use a little whole milk in recipes when they are feeling decadent. But: It’s time to rethink this aversion to dairy fat—because it now seems quite likely that whole milk has gotten a bum rap for decades.
It started back in the 1950s, when saturated fat was linked to increased blood cholesterol levels. Because dairy fat is about 65% saturated, it was deemed harmful…and today the USDA still urges Americans to choose low-fat or no-fat dairy foods. However, there has never been strong evidence for the hypothesis that saturated fats cause disease, and now that myth seems to be dying for good. For instance, you could hardly have missed the recent headline-making news of a large study in Annals of Internal Medicine that found no link between increased cardiovascular disease risk and higher consumption of saturated fats.
PUTTING DAIRY FAT THROUGH ITS PACES
To discuss whether Americans should stick with low-fat dairy or switch to full-fat, we spoke with Mario Kratz, PhD, a nutrition scientist and associate member at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. He said, “For decades now, people have judged the health effects of dairy fat mostly on its high saturated fat and cholesterol content, assuming that dairy fat is simply an unnecessary source of calories and fats that elevate LDL ‘bad’ cholesterol. However, they’ve been neglecting all the other fatty acids in there, some of which may be quite beneficial. We were overdue to look at the data and see whether dairy fat consumption is indeed associated with health risks, as has been assumed all these years—or whether it is not.”
To that end, he and his colleagues carefully evaluated numerous studies on dairy fat and its effects on three important factors—obesity, metabolic health and cardiovascular disease. Here’s what they found regarding…
Dairy Fat and Obesity. Of the 16 studies that Dr. Kratz’s team reviewed on this topic, 11 showed that people who ate more dairy fat or more high-fat dairy foods tended to be leaner and/or to gain less weight over time than people who ate less dairy fat. In studies that directly compared high-fat dairy to low-fat dairy, high-fat dairy was associated with better weight outcomes. None of the studies found a link between high-fat dairy and higher weight, nor between low-fat dairy and reduced risk for obesity.
Conclusion: The studies do not support the commonly held impression that dairy fat leads to weight gain, Dr. Kratz said. Rather, the evidence suggests that high-fat dairy foods, within the context of a normal healthy diet, may guard against weight gain.
Dairy Fat and Metabolic Health. There were 11 observational studies that evaluated the association between dairy fat and the development of risk factors for diabetes, such as elevated blood sugar and insulin levels. Of these 11 studies, six showed that higher dairy fat consumption was associated with markers of better metabolic health…one was partially suggestive of such a beneficial relationship…and three found no association either way. Only a single study showed an association between higher dairy fat consumption and a marker of poorer metabolic health—and it was just one marker, the glycated hemoglobin value (an indicator of blood glucose concentration over time). As for the development of type 2 diabetes itself, of the eight studies that looked at this issue, three reported that high-fat dairy intake was associated with lower risk for diabetes…four found no association between full-fat dairy products and diabetes…and one had inconsistent evidence.
Upshot: The preponderance of evidence does not support the idea that high-fat dairy promotes metabolic disease. Instead, it appears that high-fat dairy may protect against metabolic disease and diabetes.
Dairy Fat and Cardiovascular Disease. In the 15 studies that looked at a possible relationship between dairy fat and heart health, results were mixed, with some linking dairy fat to improved cardiovascular health…some showing no association…one finding different effects for men and women…and just one suggesting that dairy fat was bad for the heart.
What this means: Overall, the majority of the evidence indicates that dairy fat may be good rather than bad for cardiovascular health.
Alternative explanation? We asked Dr. Kratz whether it could it be that lots of study participants who were already overweight or at risk for diabetes or heart disease might have chosen to avoid dairy fat in an effort to control their weight or reduce their risk…so that would be why lower consumption of dairy fat was associated with being heavier or having worse metabolic or cardiovascular health.
Dr. Katz’s response: “That is what’s called reverse causation, and it could account for some of the favorable associations seen between full-fat dairy products and health outcomes. For most of the studies, however, this is unlikely to explain the results. For example, for the association between full-fat dairy products and obesity-related outcomes, the associations held even when investigators adjusted for baseline body weight. For studies focused on cardiovascular disease or diabetes, these were prospective studies, with no evidence of disease at baseline. And the main point still stands—that there is little in the literature to support the notion that full-fat dairy products promote obesity, diabetes or cardiovascular disease.”
WHAT MUDDIES THE WATER
Why isn’t the evidence for or against full-fat dairy foods more clear-cut? For one thing, geographic discrepancies muddy the water (or the milk, as the case may be). As Dr. Kratz pointed out, dairy-fat studies conducted in the US often came to different or even opposite conclusions compared with studies conducted in Europe—in general, dairy fat came out looking safer in the European studies than in the US studies. There are several possible reasons for that…
• The US has done a thorough job of publicizing the perceived risks of saturated fats—so most Americans consider animal fats, including dairy fat, to be unhealthy. It makes sense, then, that people who habitually consume full-fat dairy foods despite their bad reputation might also have other habits that are considered unhealthful. Two studies confirmed that assumption, finding lower fiber intake, less exercise and more smoking among the people who consumed the greatest amounts of high-fat dairy. “Thus, the higher risk for cardiovascular disease or diabetes in people in US studies who consumed the most full-fat dairy could really be due, at least in part, to other unhealthy lifestyle factors,” Dr. Kratz said.
• Sources of dairy fat in the US diet are different from those in Europe. Here, much of the dairy fat people eat comes from ice cream and prepared foods such as pizza. These products often contain lots of sugar, salt, preservatives and/or other unhealthful ingredients, making it hard to separate the health effects of the dairy fat from those of the other components. In contrast, the dairy fat in the typical European diet comes from whole-fat cheeses, butter and unsweetened yogurt—foods that do not mingle the dairy fat with so much unhealthy junk.
• The quality of the dairy fat itself may differ. In the US, dairy farming is highly industrialized. Our cows have little access to pasture, are fed corn- and soy-based concentrates, and receive a growth hormone that’s banned in the European Union. However, European dairy production is far less industrialized, and in many regions the cows eat mainly grass. “Grass-fed animals produce milk with higher amounts of many unique fatty acids that may have beneficial effects on health,” Dr. Kratz said. “It’s important to note that, while we know that milk-fat composition is affected in a major way by what the dairy cows eat, we know very little about whether these differences between milk from grain-fed and pasture-fed cows affect the health of people who drink it.”
Another reason why it’s tough to make firm pronouncements for or against full-fat dairy has to do with research limitations. All of the studies included in Dr. Kratz’s review were observational, not interventional—and there’s a huge difference between the two. Observational studies simply watch what has happened with different groups of people over time, so they cannot show a cause-and-effect relationship. The best they can do is lead to hypotheses that must then be tested in interventional studies. However, interventional studies in nutrition are notoriously hard to carry out. It would be nearly impossible to control the diets of large groups of people for a long enough time to definitively determine whether one group develops more heart disease or diabetes, for example, than the other group.
BOTTOM LINE: WHAT TO BUY?
Here’s what we do know—and it’s different from what you’ve been taught: There is very little evidence to support the belief that low-fat or nonfat dairy foods are better for us than high-fat dairy foods. In fact, most of the evidence indicates that high-fat dairy foods are better. This is not to say that it’s OK to eat premium ice cream by the gallon or to have prepackaged double-cheese pizza every night (there’s too much other bad stuff in those products)…but it’s fine to use whole milk in your cereal, soups, casseroles and coffee and to opt for cheese and yogurt made with whole milk. (If you’re having trouble finding full-fat yogurt in your US supermarket these days, check for brands such as Stonyfield or Horizon.)
Do keep in mind that, like all fats, dairy fat is calorie-dense, so moderation is still important. We asked Dr. Kratz whether he agreed with a guideline of aiming for one to two eight-ounce servings of full-fat dairy food per day—but he preferred to keep things flexible. “If someone drinks a lot of milk, then I don’t know of any reason to discourage him from having four or even five servings per day of whole milk,” he said. “The one point I am adamant about is that it’s OK as long as we consume the dairy fat in whole foods, as part of a normal, mixed dietary pattern. Adding sticks of butter to everything because now ‘dairy fat is healthy’ is almost certainly not a great idea.”
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For many businesses, internal recruitment is rapidly becoming a popular alternative to the traditional external interview process. Companies are finding that, by investing more in their current staff, they are incentivising the workforce and increasing overall quality of output. However, if not handled properly, internal recruitment can completely backfire and lead to dissatisfied employees. So, what exactly is internal recruitment? And how can you implement it effectively?
What is internal recruitment?
Internal recruitment is when a business hires an existing employee to fill a job vacancy. This can take a number of forms, including:
- Promoting employees into positions of higher authority
- Transferring employees across teams
- Taking on apprentices or work experience candidates as full-time employees
- Retired employees returning for part-time or advisory work
If done effectively, internal recruitment can be a great way of building a culture of progression and development at your company.
What are the benefits of internal recruitment?
- Save the time, money, and effort of conducting an external interview process
- Boost company loyalty and employee engagement
- Avoid the risks of hiring someone you’ve never met
- Minimise onboarding time and reduce disruption to the company
While internal recruitment can be an incredibly fruitful policy, we’d advise striking a balance between internal and external recruitment. This helps you to progress employees at your company without suffering from cultural stagnation.
Read more on the advantages and disadvantages of internal recruitment here.
How can I introduce internal recruitment at my company?
The first step to implementing internal recruitment is to develop a cohesive and comprehensive internal recruitment policy. After that, it’s a matter of following these simple steps:
- Write a coherent job description
- Advertise the role internally
- Encourage the right employees to apply
- Screen the candidates
- Conduct a balanced, unbiased interview process
- Provide all candidates with constructive feedback
We’ll be breaking down each of these steps in more detail below, but this is the basic structure that any successful recruitment process, internal or external, needs to follow.
How to develop an internal recruitment policy
You may think the process sounds simple enough. However, drawing up a concrete policy before the process begins will ensure that it’s delivered as efficiently as possible. A successful internal recruitment policy will include:
- Deciding exactly who will be involved in the crucial decision-making processes
- Establishing clear regulations for anyone who is overseeing the process
- Placing limitations on team leaders to prevent them from holding back employee progression, or unnecessarily poaching employees from other teams
- Deciding the specific tasks and questions for the interview process
Writing the job description
In any recruitment process, transparency is key. That transparency starts with a clear and comprehensive job description. Make it absolutely clear what the job is, what the duties are, and what the benefits of the job are.
Work together with your recruitment team to decide the person specification. The more effectively you communicate the type of candidate you want, the more likely you are to get an optimal pool of internal candidates.
How to advertise a job internally
To make employees aware of a new opening, you can utilise the following tools:
- Online message boards
- Internal social media platforms
However, you may want to consider how widely you advertise the opening. Sometimes, it can be good practice for team leaders to approach specific employees who they think would be suited to the role. By advertising to everyone, you risk unsuitable employees applying and becoming disheartened and disillusioned with the company when they don’t get the role.
Whichever option you choose, make sure that employees know who to contact if they are interested in applying.
Screen the candidates
Even though you may know the candidates already, it’s important to still carry out a screening process to ensure that they are the right person for the role.
Talk to their line managers about their performance and consult any files that could indicate key performance factors. For example, they could have a history of lateness, or they may have had conflicts with other employees.
Conduct a fair interview process
If you’re not careful, an internal interview process can be governed by bias. Even if it's unconscious, bias towards certain candidates can lead to unrest amongst the workforce. Bias can occur if:
- The candidate is a member of the interviewer’s team
- The interviewer and interviewee are friends outside of work
- The candidate has a very different personality, political stance, or age from the interviewer
Therefore, it’s important to involve a range of people in an internal interview process. Some companies even bring in external recruitment experts to guarantee total impartiality. These people can give a fully professional opinion, as they will have no conscious or unconscious emotional ties to the candidates.
Provide all candidates with constructive feedback
One of the biggest dangers of internal recruitment is that an unsuccessful internal candidate could become disheartened and apply to jobs elsewhere. To ease their disappointment, we’d strongly recommend providing all candidates with constructive feedback after the recruitment process has concluded. Make them aware of their worth to the company and how they can further develop their career in other ways.
You could point them towards relevant training courses, or maybe suggest another role opening to which you think they’d be better suited. Pay rises are also a popular method of incentivising employees to stay at a company.
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For more than three decades, the Carter Center, which was founded by former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, has been sending teams of election observers around the world. Their goal is to make sure foreign elections are free and fair and run the way they're supposed to.
This year, The Carter Center is looking at the United States’ election for the first time. It is not directly observing it the way it typically does in other countries — rather, it’s working on projects to encourage transparency and build voters’ trust in the US election.
The Carter Center has said it plans to continue its US projects beyond 2020 to “ensure independent nonpartisan election administration and redistricting, transparency in campaign finance, expanded digital literacy, and reforms to the electoral college.”
David Carroll directs the democracy program at The Carter Center, which is based in Atlanta. He spoke to The World’s host Marco Werman about why the nonprofit felt the need to assist the United States this year.
David Carroll: Yes. And as you noted, we're not working as observers and we've never observed formally in the United States. We are engaging in a public information and education campaign.
It's the first time we've done this in the United States. And it's really just a reflection of the degree to which, when we looked at the United States election process this year, it became obvious to us that it fit all the characteristics of the places that we would highlight when we say where should we engage in the next year or two years down the road? And usually, internationally, it's a country context where there's either the beginning of a democratic opening or a transition or where we judge that a country is at risk of some serious regression or backsliding in its election processes.
There's no longer the kind of public trust that we've known to be true in the United States, in our election institutions and in our authorities. That deep political polarization, even societal polarization, together with this lack of trust layered over that, the increasing amounts of disinformation that we have and that our elections are subject to — those are the kinds of things that are very troubling signals to us that suggest a country's elections are facing severe threat.
The public information campaign is a series of reports, webinars, other events about the election process and about voting options and about the timeline for getting results. What we've learned internationally is that critical to public trust is transparency and good information. We're trying to do this in a way that can hopefully increase, a little bit, the level of public trust and confidence.
It usually will come down to having a strong election administration. So, one of the biggest problems we have is that our election processes are not standard and uniform across the states. In some states, it's much harder to get access to this fundamental right to participate and to vote. So, it will require some creative thinking to try to make a more uniform and harmonized election administration when you also allow it to be run at 50 different state levels. But I think it's just important that we do that. And there's a lot of good international examples.
If you'd asked me 15 years ago, 20 years ago, even after the 2000 elections, when it became more clear on people's radar screen that maybe we weren't such a model to hold up to the rest of the world, I wouldn't have thought that we would be engaging in the United States with this level of concern. But, you know, the signs have been there and they've only been increasing in how clear and critical they are.
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High heels are arguably a quintessential part of being a woman. They're stylish, they give a normally short-statured woman a boost, and people wearing it tend to walk in a unique stride.
The problem with it: it hurts. On top of podiatrists and general practitioners dissuading females from wearing extremely high heels out of health and posture concerns, heels break easily, and that makes for a rather humiliating sight especially in a formal setting such as a party or a business meeting.
- In the third episode of the original Gunsmith Cats anime, Rally tries on, and staggers about unsteadily in, a pair of high-heeled shoes bought for her by Minnie May. Within a day or so, though, she's comfortable and adept enough to wear them in public at an award ceremony.
- The 2006 incarnation of Wonder Woman had Diana complain about the stilettos as part of the disguise Canary issued to her.
- In contrast to Elsa being very much used to strolling around (and running) in stilettos, her younger sister Anna is clearly uncomfortable with wearing them all day in Frozen II, when she took off her heels after the "Some Things Never Change" musical number.
- Daniel in Mrs. Doubtfire was incensed at the idea of high heels when he assumed the role of the title character, muttering that he'd kill the "misogynistic bastard" who invented them.
- As if running in high heels is uncomfortable enough, try running with high heels on ice as what this video discussing about Elsa's stiletto habit shows.
- During the party at Beacon in episodes 6 and 7 of RWBY Volume 2, Ruby has problems walking in high heels (and later fighting in them), and is visibly close to twisting her ankle at one point, after which she mutters, "How can Weiss fight in these things?"
- As mentioned in the intro, this is why podiatrists have from time to time either outright dissuaded or advised people not to wear high heels, or at least wear them only on occasion.
- Not only that it can hurt a person wearing it, it also causes damage to certain types of wooden floors as well, to the point that areas frequented by women end up looking like the surface of the moon due to the floors being peppered by indentations made by heels. This led to some areas, especially historical landmarks made of fragile antique materials, banning stilettos due to said concerns. | <urn:uuid:4858f50e-5971-483b-afa7-c1abe565554d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://allthetropes.org/wiki/High_Heel_Hurt | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96685 | 514 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Interoperability: Why Policy Makers Should Make It Their Personal Mission
In the fall of 1999, while working at Portland General Electric, I was given a unique opportunity to start building a dream that several of us in the industry had for many years: Build a virtual peaking power plant using customer owned backup generators. This program, eventually called the Dispatchable Standby Generation (DSG) program, has become a very successful program for PGE and recently exceeded its original goal of acquiring 100 MW nameplate of peaking capacity for the utility.
For the initial pilot project in late 1999 and early 2000, however, we began with only one 500 kW Katolight generator as part of the program. That generator was located at a state facility, the MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility. That little generator created many headaches for our team, but, together with the generator control system we purchased from EnCorp, it also taught us many hard lessons related to interoperability.
That fall and winter of 1999-2000 was extremely cold and wet, and the generator and the switchgear/generator-controller sat outdoors on a small piece of property just outside MacLaren’s security fence. To keep relatively dry, we built a rag-tag shelter with tarps to keep the rain off. For a short time, we had the luxury of a small, unheated construction trailer left behind by EC Power after it installed the generator.
Our first challenge, after getting grid power to the installation, was to get the EnCorp Generator Controller to communicate with the Katolight generator. We followed the manufacturers’ recommendations to the letter, using an expensive grounded communication cable—“the fancy cable,” we called it. We wired up the system and set about testing. It only “sort of worked.” It was inconsistent—sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. We kept testing, our frustration growing every day as we tried to fight off hypothermia. After weeks of trial and error, we learned that the system did not work because of inductance issues on the fancy cable; we discovered that substituting a simple low cost twisted pair of wires—speaker wire, I called it—did the trick.
That was only the beginning. Next we had issues with the generator controller not talking with the software system due to interface problems. My boss wondered why we were spending several months in the field and why costs were rising on the installation.
Fast forward twelve years to 2012 for PGE’s Salem Smart Power Project. Once again inductance and interface issues made communication between smart inverters and the 5 MW lithium-Ion battery storage system challenging
for our team. In our brave new world of inverter-based distributed energy resources (DER), plug and play is still the dream – not the reality.
Interoperability should be simple. When you purchase a piece of equipment that’s designed to communicate with another piece of equipment, they should work the first time. There are probably some energy policy makers out there that believe that’s the way things actually work: you plug it in and “there you go.”
I can tell you that is not how it works. Rarely, in the distributed generation or demand response equipment areas, do systems inter-operate. In fact, each generator or demand response site poses its own unique challenges to inter-device communication.
Let me give another example; Kettle Foods in Salem, Oregon, a major potato and other chip maker, installed one of the first greater-than 100 kW solar arrays in the Pacific Northwest. I wanted to obtain the data from that system. PGE had recently been experimenting with a new Ethernet radio system that seemed to offer simple wireless communication between field DER and our fairly new control system at PGE’s headquarters. We call that control system “GenOnSys.” We could also use a PGE SCADA (System Control and Data Acquisition) radio communications tower in West Salem to receive signals from Kettle Foods. This could ultimately provide a slick system for smaller generators in the Salem area to participate in the dispatchable standby generation program. In addition, solar or demand response systems could potentially utilize that approach in the future.
Once again, the ugly reality of non- interoperability raised its head. The solar array’s inverter at Kettle Foods did not offer a way to communicate. Generally it is best to get information directly from the solar inverter, the device that converts DC power from the solar panels to AC power for the utility. That inverter was not capable of communicating with PGE. The meter used on the project, a SquareD PowerLogic meter, should have made communication easy. I’d had a lot of experience with that system, so it should have been a piece of cake. Not so: the radios we were using were Ethernet-based, similar to what you might find on your home wireless internet system. The meter only communicated via serial Modbus. That meant we needed a separate black box, a Modbus to Ethernet Converter, to communicate. Once again, several of us tried, carefully following the manuals, to make the systems talk. It took too long to try to make it work. Finally, PGE’s most experienced SCADA tech, who had worked his entire career on serial communications, got the system to work, but only after a trial and error process of rewiring each pin connection of the cables several times to find the right combination for the serial ports.
After this experience, along with several years of having to re-wire serial communication pin-outs, I started speaking at conferences about the need to standardize with Ethernet communications for distributed energy resource (DER) installations. To this day, many generators and solar inverters only offer serial communications. Why? Because it’s cheaper for the manufacturer. Once the manufacturer sets up the system, their techs can use it over and over and it works pretty well. Also, by using this type of proprietary system, the manufacturer believes it forces you to use its products and services for communications. Which, by the way, works: Most utilities or industrial customers will stick with a particular manufacturer and make its products their standard—thus achieving interoperability, but at the cost of forgoing more robust competition.
For the many of us stuck with having to integrate different manufacturers’ equipment, it requires learning how each manufacturer’s devices communicate and adapt to their various protocols—each situation a one- off—which causes much wasted labor and longer project completion times.
The hidden cost of non-interoperable equipment? Millions daily in time and labor
By now you may dismiss this issue as being too technical. I agree, device communications should be simple. The fact is, on every single generator, solar array inverter, fuel cell, battery storage system, thermostat, communicating electric meter and the myriad converter boxes I’ve tried to connect is that they don’t speak a common language or don’t connect in a common way. I believe millions of dollars in this country and the world are wasted each day in trying to make grid devices communicate with each other. Based on my experience, a good one-third to half of the installation costs of a grid DER system is the labor to allow the systems to communicate with each other. In my observation, the three biggest issues causing cost overruns on projects are equipment shipping delays, software modifications and interoperability issues.
The bottom line is this: If we are to have a successful smart grid world or Internet of Things (IoT), this lack of interoperability cannot continue. Instead, energy policies must be established that embrace and nurture device communication interoperability.
Now that I’ve retired from PGE, my biggest consulting mission is working to understand the root causes of interoperability issues and solving them. I’m currently supporting the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) and working with a company called QualityLogic that understands how to reduce interoperability problems. Their testing and certification systems have helped eliminate issues we had in the 1980s and 1990s of getting our PCs to talk simply and easily with our printers, so that fonts and layouts that you see on the screen show up on the printed page. QualityLogic has now set its sights on smart grid devices.
Part of my recent work for Quality Logic was with the Pacific Northwest Smart Grid Demonstration Project. Each of the 11 utilities participating in this ambitious project documented interoperability issues via a detailed survey that we conducted. Based on survey results, we learned that most of the system interfaces used between devices were proprietary. This means that each utility and almost all devices—including smart appliances, water heaters, generators, battery storage systems, lighting systems, thermostat systems, etc.—had a unique way of communicating. Each device had to be de- bugged, reconfigured, re-wired, had special black boxes installed that converted one communication protocol to another, all in a customized way that likely can’t be used again. In several cases, the device manufacturers actually claimed that their equipment’s communication was open- standard. | <urn:uuid:adb25a1b-e019-4e4f-b6b9-6a1207cd6384> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.qualitylogic.com/knowledge-center/interoperability-why-policy-makers-should-make-it-their-personal-mission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954503 | 1,899 | 1.75 | 2 |
Addiction Treatment Centers, Behavior & Mental Healthcare Providers, and Life Coaches
Behavioral and mental health care professionals have unique legal and regulatory needs, as they come under different Boards and regulatory structures than physicians. And as addiction treatment centers have come under scrutiny, the addiction and recovery field can benefit from robust compliance advice.
Kinds of Behavioral Health Service Providers & Facilities We Represent
Our law firm is experienced in handling the legal needs of:
- Addiction Counselors
- Alcohol, Drug Abuse, Addiction Treatment Centers
- Group Homes
- Licensed Educational Psychologists (LEP)
- Life Coaches and Health Coaches
- Licensed Professional Clinical Counselors (LPCC)
- Marriage and Family Therapists (MFT)
- Other Mental Health Care Professionals
- Psychologists (PhD)
- Sober Living Facilities
- Social Workers (CSW, MSW)
- Substance Abuse Treatment Centers and Recovery Facilities
- Youth, Educational, and Family Services
The regulatory territory for behavioral healthcare providers, including healthcare facilities such as addiction treatment centers, as well as individual mental health professionals, is complex and always changing. Our behavioral healthcare attorneys keep up with the latest regulatory developments, both federal and state.
As well, we understand the needs of mental health professionals and the healthcare facilities that serve clients with addiction, mental healthcare, marriage and family, and other issues. We resonate well with therapists and therapeutic facilities because of our unique commitment to human growth and evolution. As a law firm, we have a coaching culture; we understand the value of personal and professional growth—of seeing our shadow side and always developing and refining our best selves. This is who we are.
To quote Michael Valentine Smith, we grok you.
And we’re committed to bringing the best of our legal knowledge and regulatory brainpower (right and left).
Legal Services for Addiction and Substance Abuse Treatment Centers
Addiction and substance abuse treatment centers have been targeted by enforcement authorities, as well as commercial insurance payors, for audits, investigations, claw-backs, monetary penalties, and other action.
The opioid crisis has fueled coordinated enforcement efforts aimed at addiction treatment and substance abuse treatment facilities and centers.
According to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), federal laws related to substance abuse and mental health services include:
- Affordable Care Act
- Children’s Health Act
- Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act
- Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act
- Sober Truth on Preventing (STOP) Underage Drinking Act
- Tribal Law and Order Act (TLOA)
And federal regulations related to substance abuse and mental health services include:
- Charitable Choice
- Emergency Response
- Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness Program
- Synar Amendment and Tobacco Regulation for Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grants
- Federal Workplace Drug Testing
- Certification of Opioid Drug Treatment Programs
- Patient Record Confidentiality
- Other federal regulations
In California, the Substance Use Disorder Compliance Division (SUDCD) at the California Department of Health Care Services:
focuses on compliance with State and Federal statute, regulations, and other governing requirements. SUDCD oversees licensing and certification functions, monitoring, and complaints for Driving-Under-the-Influence Programs, Narcotic Treatment Programs, and outpatient and residential providers. SUDCD also oversees conducts complaint investigations on certified Alcohol and Other Drug counselors. SUDCD is also responsible for implementing the Drug Medi-Cal Organized Delivery System and Opioid STR grant, which aims to expand access to Medication Assisted Treatment to combat the opioid epidemic. The Division also ensures compliance with the statewide criminal justice treatment programs and counselor certification.
The Substance Use Disorder Compliance Division’s role includes Licensing and Certification of facilities. The Division notes that it licenses and/or certifies facilities:
providing 24-hour residential nonmedical services to eligible adults who are recovering from problems related to alcohol or other drug (AOD) misuse or abuse. Licensure is required when one or more of the following services is provided: detoxification, individual sessions, group sessions, educational sessions, or alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment planning, incidental medical services. Additionally, facilities may be subject to other types of permits, clearances, business taxes or local fees that may be required by the cities or counties in which the facilities are located. You may also want to check with your county alcohol and drug program office to ensure compliance with any requirements they might have.
Many facilities licensed by DHCS are also certified. Certification by DHCS identifies those facilities that exceed minimum levels of service quality and are in substantial compliance with State program standards, specifically the Alcohol and/or Other Drug Certification Standards.
Our substance abuse facility lawyers can advise on licensing and certification to operate an alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facility, a narcotic treatment program (NTP), or other similar facility, and other compliance requirements by the Substance Use Disorder Compliance Division.
Among other items, we have previously advised on the provision of “incidental medical services” by authorized alcoholism or drug abuse recovery or treatment facilities licensed by the Department of Health Care Services. “Incidental medical services” means optional services provided at a facility by a health care practitioner, or staff under the supervision of a health care practitioner, to address medical issues associated with detoxification, treatment, or recovery services. IMS must be provided at the facility in compliance with the community standard of practice. IMS does not include general primary medical care or medical services required to be performed in a licensed health facility. This definition represents a change in the law in that the corporate practice of medicine doctrine historically barred most facilities in California, other than those organized as professional medical corporations, from offering medical services or hiring a physician.
Our healthcare lawyers have counseled addiction treatment centers both preventatively and in the face of an insurance audit or enforcement action. Addiction treatment and recovery centers turn to our healthcare attorneys for legal advise on a range of healthcare compliance issues, from anti-kickback and fee-splitting questions involving compensation of marketing personnel, to privacy and security / HIPAA, to involvement of psychiatrists and other medical personnel with the addiction treatment process.
Legal Services for Behavioral Healthcare Providers
Our lawyers advise our clients on how to structure their clinical and other practices, including issues of:
- Contracts and General Corporate Legal Issues
- Employment Agreements for Clinicians
- Informed Consent
- Insurance Practices and Third-Party Reimbursement
- Liability Risk Management
In additional to counseling behavioral healthcare clients on legal transactions, our behavioral health attorney team also advises on healthcare regulatory issues, such as:
- Board Investigations and Disciplinary Issues involving behavioral healthcare professionals
- Clinic or Facility Licensing and Permits
- Fictitious Name Permit
- HIPAA, privacy, and information security compliance
- Incorporation – Professional Corporation
- Medicare Issues (Including Opt-Out)
- Other Regulatory Compliance Matters
As stated, we understand the needs of mental healthcare providers as they often diverge from the liability concerns of our physician clients. For example, one of our clients was a licensed psychologist who included energy psychology among her therapeutic modalities. Unfortunately, one of her patients with borderline personality disorder began alternating between idealizing and demonizing the psychologist, ultimately writing a detailed complaint to the Board. We provided expert legal counsel to help defuse the Board’s concerns, and ultimately get the investigation dismissed.
Another client was licensed as an MSW and wished to partner with a clinical psychologist to create an intensive outpatient program (IOP) and partial hospitalization program (PHP). We were able to navigate our client through the interlocking set of legal rules that that imposed constraints on the business structure, including:
- prohibitions against the corporate (and unlicensed) practice of medicine and psychology;
- scope of practice limitations on non-MD, behavioral health providers;
- rules governing professional corporations;
- legal rules relating to naming and branding the enterprise;
- third-party reimbursement issues;
- Stark / self-referral and anti-kickback / fee-splitting concerns;
- liability risk management; and
- privacy, security, and HIPAA issues.
State laws differ in the way they define the professional practice of psychology, marriage and family therapy, social work, professional counseling, and other behavioral and mental health disciplines. In addition, a whole panoply of healthcare law rules can apply to a given business structure, so it is important that our healthcare attorneys be well versed in multiple areas of the law affecting healthcare practices and practitioners.
Health Coaching and the Nuances of Scope of Practice
The world of health coaching is continually expanding, as healthcare practitioners recognize the value of augmenting traditional, licensed healthcare services (such as, for example, psychological counseling) with coaching patients on diet, nutrition, exercise, lifestyle, and ways to address habits and goals so as to reduce overall stress.
Health coaching practices are subject to considerable legal ambiguity. Among other things, the term “health coaching” is not necessarily one defined in a statute or regulation, but more of a label for a set of practices. And health coaching can be done both by non-licensed practitioners (especially in states such as California, which have a statutory carve-out for non-licensed practice), and, licensed practitioners. Where the licensed practitioner, such as an MD, chiropractor, NP or RN, PA, or clinical psychologist, attempts to “remove” the professional hat and operate as a “health coach,” there are additional legal ambiguities where strategic legal input can be valuable.
To give an idea of how dense are the statute and regulations defining professional practice, California law provides that a person represents himself or herself to be a psychologist when the person uses a title such as “psychology,” “psychological,” “psychologist,” “psychology consultation,” “psychology consultant,” “psychotherapy,” or holds himself or herself out as trained, experienced, or an expert in psychology.
In California, no person may engage in the “practice of psychology,” or represent himself or herself to be a psychologist, unless licensed. The practice of psychology is defined as:
rendering or offering to render for a fee to individuals, groups, organizations or the public any psychological service involving the application of psychological principles, methods, and procedures of understanding, predicting, and influencing behavior, such as the principles pertaining to learning, perception, motivation, emotions, and interpersonal relationships; and the methods and procedures of interviewing, counseling, psychotherapy, behavior modification, and hypnosis; and of constructing, administering, and interpreting tests of mental abilities, aptitudes, interests, attitudes, personality characteristics, emotions, and motivations.
The application of these principles and methods includes, but is not restricted to: diagnosis, prevention, treatment, and amelioration of psychological problems and emotional and mental disorders of individuals and groups.
Psychotherapy within the meaning of this chapter means the use of psychological methods in a professional relationship to assist a person or persons to acquire greater human effectiveness or to modify feelings, conditions, attitudes and behavior which are emotionally, intellectually, or socially ineffectual or maladjustive.
The licensing statute provides a carve-out, which allows certain non-psychologists to do “work of a psychological nature consistent with the laws governing their respective professions … provided they do not hold themselves out to the public by any title or description of services incorporating the words ‘psychological,’ ‘psychologist,’ ‘psychology,’” and so on, and “do not state or imply that they are licensed to practice psychology.”
The list of providers includes “qualified members of other recognized professional groups licensed to practice,” “persons utilizing hypnotic techniques by referral from persons licensed to practice medicine, dentistry or psychology, or persons utilizing hypnotic techniques which offer avocational or vocational self-improvement and do not offer therapy for emotional or mental disorders.”
The statute also allows “activities of a psychological nature” by psychological assistants offering services within their scope of practice. A psychological assistant, registered with the Board of Psychology, may be employed by a licensed psychologist, under the psychologist’s immediate supervision, to provide psychological services consistent with his or her training and experience.
California law also defines the practice of clinical social work, and other licensed professions (including LPCC (Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor) and MFT (Marriage and Family Therapy), which are regulated by the Board of Behavioral Sciences.
By way of contrast, California law provides that an individual practices “medicine” when he or she:
practices or attempts to practice, or … advertises or holds himself or herself out as practicing, any system or mode of treating the sick or afflicted in this state, or … diagnoses, treats, operates for, or prescribes for any ailment, blemish, deformity, disease, disfigurement, disorder, injury, or other physical or mental condition of any person.
California law authorizes non-licensed individuals to render services, so long as they do not: (1) conduct surgery or set fractures, (2) administer or prescribe x-rays, drugs, or controlled substances (or recommend discontinuance of the same); (3) diagnose and treat under circumstances that present a risk of great harm; (4) represent being a physician, or violate other enumerated proscriptions.
Supplementing all of these definitions, in California, there is a statutory carve-out for persons who are only rendering nutritional advice:
This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit any person from providing nutritional advice or giving advice concerning proper nutrition. However, this section confers no authority to practice medicine or surgery or to undertake the prevention, treatment, or cure of disease, pain, injury, deformity, or physical or mental conditions or to state that any product might cure any disease, disorder, or condition in violation of any provision of law. For purposes of this section the terms “providing nutritional advice or giving advice concerning proper nutrition” means the giving of information as to the use and role of food and food ingredients, including dietary supplements.
Any person in commercial practice providing nutritional advice or giving advice concerning proper nutrition shall post in an easily visible and prominent place the following statement in his or her place of business:
“State law allows any person to provide nutritional advice or give advice concerning proper nutrition—which is the giving of advice as to the role of food and food ingredients, including dietary supplements. This state law does NOT confer authority to practice medicine or to undertake the diagnosis, prevention, treatment, or cure of any disease, pain, deformity, injury, or physical or mental condition and specifically does not authorize any person other than one who is a licensed health practitioner to state that any product might cure any disease, disorder, or condition.”
The notice required by this section shall not be smaller than 8 1/2 inches by 11 inches and shall be legibly printed with lettering no smaller than 1/2 inch in length, except the lettering of the word “NOTICE” shall not be smaller than 1 inch in length.
The statutory provisions are not all in one place. It takes careful work to piece together the law that might affect a given healthcare practice; and understand what opportunities and potential legal limitations the practitioner—or a team of healthcare providers—might face.
In addition to this mix of rules, California law regulates who can be a shareholder, director, officer, or employee of a professional corporation. Under the Moscone-Knox Professional Corporation Act, which governs professional healthcare corporations, some practitioners can “mix and match” within a given professional corporation. However, these are nuanced rules that require careful analysis for any given proposed business arrangement involving healthcare providers from different disciplines or professions.
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Let’s talk about that repair phase of a response workflow. The repair phase might not be the most time-consuming, but it can be the most risky.
In fact, about 50% of outages can be traced back to a network change. That’s the last thing we want to do when we’re troubleshooting — make matters worse. To avoid that, a lot of organizations have procedures and approvals to ensure changes are made carefully. When these approvals become just a rubber stamp process, that’s when teams can run into challenges.
Runbook automation can help here too. A runbook is used to define the network change and communicate that change plan across the team with an approver. The approval process can follow your traditional processes. For example, a change can be requested and approved through ServiceNow, and that approval will unlock a change runbook in NetBrain so that it’s allowed to be executed.
The last phase of the change process is to verify the impact of that change. This is typically done by verifying, say, a critical application or multiple applications inside NetBrain to verify that they’re not impacted by that change. And that can also be done through runbook automation.
See a demo showing how Executable Runbooks can make changes less risky
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Last week’s news about Orexigen’s Contrave obesity drug and its struggles with the FDA’s Division of Metabolic and Endocrinologic Products has left me puzzled. Obesity is such an enormous epidemic, one has to wonder why the FDA is taking such a hardline approach.
Ignoring the advice of their own Advisory Committee last December, which voted for approval, they have now rejected what seems on the surface to be a robust proposal by Orexigen to do one of the largest Phase 3 clinical trials ever to bring Contrave to market. In an attempt to address the cardiovascular risk questions posed by the FDA’s Complete Response earlier this year, Orexigen proposed a very rational REMS approach to safe use of the drug and doing a monster 12-15,000 patient study. That’s a huge trial. But apparently not big enough. Using the FDA’s statistical powering methods implied that the trial size they wanted would need to include 50,000-100,000 patients. That’s an absolutely untenable, multi-year, many billions of dollars study.
How is Orexigen, a small cap biotech, supposed to fund that? It’s not. The FDA doesn’t want Contrave to see the light of day.
Where’s the FDA’s consideration of the benefit part of the “risk-benefit” calculation? Even modest weight loss has been shown to have big health benefits, , particularly related to prevention of diabetes. Contrave showed in multiple studies it could consistently deliver placebo-adjusted weight loss of almost 5%. Would the FDA have approved it if it were 7.5%? 10%? I’m not sure. We’ll find out with Qnexa, Vivus’ obesity drug, that appears to deliver weight loss near 10%, but its hard to be enthusiastic today.
Fundamentally, the only interpretation of Contrave’s struggles, and that of the other Phase 3 anti-obesity agents, is that the FDA does not believe obesity is a disease. For a group supposedly focused on science and data, I think that’s astounding.
Sadly, a lot of people don’t believe obesity is a disease. Many believe its simply a lifestyle choice, and that changes to diet and exercise are the only “right” ways to treat obesity. But the data certainly don’t support that notion. There’s an important role for lifestyle modifications for sure, but the molecular physiology of chronic obese patients suggest there’s a lot more going on than just too many calories and too little exercise. There’s a growing scientific literature around altered molecular pathways in obese patients, genetic parameters, epigenetic changes, serious metabolic and mitochondrial dysfunction, impaired ability to burn fat and an exaggerated storage of fat, common viruses causing fat deposition, etc… Once these changes are in place at the molecular, cell, and organ level, they don’t just switch back to normal with diet and exercise. Furthermore, we all know the lean person that eats a ton and never exercises, and vice versa. We simply don’t fully understand the drivers of obesity today. But its clearly more than just a lifestyle issue. Some contend, convincingly, that dietary imbalances are an important driver of the disease (and not overeating or sedentary lifestyles). But once you’re obese, however, you are stuck there without a serious intervention.
Take one of Contrave’s Phase 3 studies: the drug was given on top of “intensive lifestyle interventions” that included counseling, diet, and exercise. This “placebo” treatment led to a respectable 5.1% weight loss after 52 weeks. A whole year’s worth of lifestyle changes led to an average loss of 5%. This means that many (if not most) patients in the study failed to achieve even 5% weight loss after a full year of intensive lifestyle modification. When Contrave was added to this, patients lost 9.3% – more than 80% greater weight loss than lifestyle changes alone. This just underscores for me that both approaches are important to get to the goal of reducing obesity, and that neither alone represents a solution to the problem.
The advocates of lifestyle-only intervention seem to be religious in their approach: driven by beliefs rather than data. Diet and exercise don’t typically work on their own, and don’t lead to long term outcomes in most patients. Even the celebrated community- and school-based programs for reducing childhood obesity, like the Shape Up program in Somerville MA that involved intensive lifestyle and diet changes for eight year olds, have achieved only modest weight reductions at best (i.e., Shape Up reduced the weight of the top quartile of kids by less than 1.5% after 8 months of aggressive intervention). Don’t get me wrong: I’m all for these preventative strategies, eating better foods, reducing sugary drinks in the diet, encouraging more exercise for both kids and adults, etc… These all feel like the right things to do. But I don’t think they will by themselves solve the obesity crises, especially for those adults that are already obese. We should be careful not to confuse these useful programs with treatments for obesity. They simply do not, and cannot drive weight loss in the population of high risk patients with established obesity.
I think the lack of advocacy within the FDA in support of medical interventions for obesity, especially in light of the 10s of millions of adults with obesity and more critically morbid obesity, is a travesty of our current healthcare and regulatory system, and we’ll pay the price for this in the future. The FDA approves poorly tolerated and incredibly expensive medicines that provide only glancing benefits to many diseases (like a few weeks survival benefit in cancer), and supports devices for surgical treatment of obesity despite significant rates of death and serious comorbidities. The playing field is simply not level, and our healthcare system will one day pick up the tab in higher costs for treatment of obesity-derived diabetes, arthritis, cancer, and heart disease.
“However much the image of people being medicated to reduce the obesity epidemic may discomfort those who seek a behavioral or public policy remedy, to cease the search for safe and effective medications would be to abandon a major segment of the population to an unhealthy fate”
Furthermore, by putting up seemingly insurmountable roadblocks to getting new medicines approved for obesity, the FDA’s actions are driving scarce R&D and venture capital funding out of the field which will have long term negative consequences to patients and society – no new funding, no new research, no new drugs, and no new levers to pull in the battle against obesity. | <urn:uuid:b9a01400-2170-48fb-b396-c12c6380bd9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifescivc.com/2011/06/contrave-latest-casualty-in-the-fdas-war-against-obesity-drugs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948841 | 1,401 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Dedicated to all child victims of racial discrimination
The history and lives of South Africans are beset with ironic contradictions. As the saying goes: the more things change, the more they stay the same. In my life time alone, I have witnessed a white supremacist system of oppression obsessed with race replaced with an Afrocentric socialist system fixated on achieving equality through racial quotas. Left-wing racialist agendas have now completely conquered my erstwhile homeland and this system gets re-elected time and again despite its obvious and dangerous failings. Its re-election is mostly riding on a catalogue of grievances against the white community cynically exploited by black nationalist parties such as the African National Congress and the Economic Freedom Fighters. Some of them are genuine grievances, but others are simply divisive inventions and the antithesis to the non-racial society envisioned by well-meaning South Africans during the transition period from minority rule to democracy.
Even after the advent of multi-racial democracy, there remains much division between different race groups in South Africa, although there has been drastic improvement. Whether it will be sustained, depends on whether liberal colour-blindness will triumph over leftist race-obsession, but I am not holding my breath.
We came to the United Kingdom, to provide our son with a better education free from the failing system in South Africa and the illiberal education with its distorted view of our history which is imposed by the government on the vulnerable minds of young children. So, the educational needs of our son are of paramount concern to us.
We are therefore horrified when we were informed of the creeping pressures in the United Kingdom to have Critical Race Theory (CRT) included in the training of teachers. This is nothing more than a subtle and surreptitious attempt to smuggle a racialist agenda into education of children, which is premised – and goes in tandem with – the decolonization of British – specifically white Britons’ – history. Teach the teachers and they will ultimately – whether subtly or directly – teach the children what they as teachers have been taught.
A crucial element of CRT is the belief that white people – including their children – are inherently racist. Even if they do not intend to be racist, they are nonetheless racist. The only redemption from this political original sin is to admit and confess one’s racist leanings and one’s subconscious belief in white supremacy. Denying that you are inherently racist is an act of racism and makes you an even greater racist.
Conversely, liberal universalism and colour-blindness have always been the natural enemy of all racial educators. Both Black consciousness movements and the alt-right share a core belief that races are fundamentally dissimilar and they should be treated differently including in their schooling. CRT is an off-shoot of black nationalist ideology, such as black consciousness, which are the opposite of liberal values. It is worthy of mentioning that black consciousness leader, Steve Biko, made no secret of his deep dislike for white and black liberals, neither did Pan-Africanist intellectuals. They could stand a white racist, but not a white liberal, because the former’s ideas were founded on racial dichotomies (which they understood), not on universalism (which they disapproved of). Denying that there are indeed such moral divisions amongst races, would pull the rug from under their nationalist feet and that is why they resist it tooth and nail.
Despite its patent insanity, CRT is winning ground in educational spheres, precisely the space where we want our son to receive a proper education free from politics. Many schools are now requiring their educators and other staff to undergo training such was the case of the notorious ‘Racial Literacy 101’ training of teachers planned by the Brighton and Hove City Council (BHCC) as part of their strategy of becoming an ‘anti-racist council’. Ant-racism in itself is commendable and I would decidedly support it, but the council’s idea of anti-racism is far removed from the common sense and dictionary definitions of anti-racism. It is itself racism masquerading as anti-racism in the same manner that North Korea calls itself a democracy.
There are many aspects of CRT making it unsuitable to teach to young children, such as the scientifically flaws of the theory and other points of criticism too numerous to discuss here. But as a parent, there is a dimension to CRT teaching, which perturbs me, namely the detrimental effect CRT will have on children’s mental well-being. And for me the stakes are particularly high as I am the father of an impressionable, kind-hearted (white) eleven-year-old boy. My wife and I can only do so much in the privacy of our home to counter the anti-white prejudices of the CRT curriculum. Our son spends a large part of his day under the care of teachers armed with woke notions. He will inevitably be indoctrinated with the idea that he is at heart a dyed-in-the-wool racist, whether he intends to be one or not. In other words, he is taught that he is a villain (as he would say: the bad guy), solely because of his history and racial descent. It is common sense that such an approach will do nothing but damage his self-esteem and his view of himself. Surely, no form of education that is calculated to make my son have a negative appraisal of himself and cause irreparable damage to his mind, can be lawful?
Purely on this point itself, there is a strong case to be made against CRT in its various guises: It is patently a form emotional abuse. CRT education is simply cruel and inhuman and a safeguarding issue.
Furthermore, accusing white children of being inherently racist, smacks of racial essentialism which is a text book example of racism. And here is another evil that raises its ugly head: CRT will achieve nothing less than legitimizing racial discrimination in education as white and black children will be taught different facts and disseminate (false) differential perceptions of themselves. (One can, amongst other laws, argue that it is a breach of the Equality Act 2010.)
It must be borne in mind that the necessary campaign against CRT in education, also affects other areas of society, as once CRT becomes accepted in education, there will be a drive to have it accepted in other spheres of public life too until it becomes ubiquitous. At that stage, the damage to British society will become irreversible. Therefore, it is in the interests of all Britons, whether one has children or not, to make their voices of opposition heard.
There are two steps for creating a unified front against the leftist forces wishing to undermine liberal values. Firstly, all like-minded individuals and organizations should congregate around a single platform through which ideas and strategies can be discussed. In order to create this platform, current structures should reach out to one another with the view of forming such a forum. This platform will form the springboard from which legal actions can be taken. A joint organisation will be able to mobilise support for the cause to keep children safe from woke indoctrination.
Secondly, funding is indispensable and there will be a need for active campaigning by the mentioned platform to raise the resources required for litigation. This will mean that the platform of all concerned about CRT in education should approach the public, charities and political formations for financial assistance. It will be a good call to first introduce the forum to the public through the media. I believe there are many high profile and ordinary, skilled people who can contribute to this. YouTubers, writers, journalists, bloggers, pamphleteers and others can pool their services together to engage the public and present arguments and facts about CRT encroachment on the liberties of the British people. It will raise awareness of the threat that woke education poses and invite the public to assist the platform.
I sincerely believe that approaching the courts will be the most effective means to protect children from CRT indoctrination. Not only is this the most powerful tool as it can be enforced through the remedies available in law, it is also the most honourable solution. It is opposed to becoming a populist movement which resorts to public mudslinging and trolling in defence of its cause, such as many alt-right organisations and left-wing activists choose to utilise. The strategy of choice will be to confirm and protect the rights of children through the courts.
In conclusion, in spite of my reservations about Steve Biko and the black consciousness movement, I do agree with his assessment that whites are not better than black people and black people not inferior to whites. I believe that Biko’s essential intention was for whites and blacks to meet each other as equals and not in a position of power of one over the other and this is a profoundly sensical one. This also accords with the liberal observation that there is no skin colour for human evil and no particular ethnicity for moral goodness. Reality shows us that no race is per se villainous or heroic and no child should be taught otherwise.
Judging all people based on their character and not on physical features is a noble approach which should never be abandoned. It was this ideal which informed the civil rights movement of the American Dr Martin Luther King, anti-apartheid politicians such as Alan Paton and Frederick van Zyl Slabbert and a plethora of other liberal thinkers. Non-discrimination is the culmination of centuries of liberal theory’s development.
Without colour-blindness, Britain will collapse in competing racial nationalisms such as has happened in the Balkans, which will lead to a dark place where this country will destroy itself.
Let us rise and fight all ideologies on the left and right which want to take us there.
Johan M. Labuschagne is a South African lawyer currently residing with his family in the United Kingdom. He read law, psychology and German literature at the University of Pretoria and worked in various fields of the law.
The 2018 HM Government report, ‘Working together to safeguard children’, defines “child emotional abuse” as: “The persistent emotional maltreatment of a child such as to cause severe and persistent adverse effects on the child’s emotional development. It may involve conveying to a child that they are worthless or unloved, inadequate, or valued only insofar as they meet the needs of another person. It may include not giving the child opportunities to express their views, deliberately silencing them or ‘making fun’ of what they say or how they communicate. It may feature age or developmentally inappropriate expectations being imposed on children. These may include interactions that are beyond a child’s developmental capability, as well as overprotection and limitation of exploration and learning, or preventing the child participating in normal social interaction. It may involve seeing or hearing the ill-treatment of another. It may involve serious bullying (including cyber bullying), causing children frequently to feel frightened or in danger, or the exploitation or corruption of children. Some level of emotional abuse is involved in all types of maltreatment of a child, though it may occur alone.”
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He may be diminutive in size but he towers in stature. His legend is known worldwide but he is a local Melbourne man. His voice is rich and calloused, bearing testament to the artistic excellence and grace of a man who loves to tell a tale. But this one is real — it is his own.
In ‘Jack Charles v The Crown‘, playing at Arts Centre Melbourne, Uncle Jack Charles quotes Shakespeare’s King Lear because he, too, is an elder — of theatre and of our community. He is also a survivor of the legacy of colonial actions against the first peoples of this country. He has earned the right to tell his story and have it trumpeted.
It’s about the settling of scores and cleansing of records. Literally.
Much like the 2009 documentary of his life, Bastardy, this play recounts both his back story and pilgrimage to Canberra to have his criminal record expunged.
The play speaks honestly about Charles’s corruptions and vices. It touches on his childhood as an orphan raised in public care, to his criminal history, 22 years of incarceration, and long-term drug addiction. He recounts growing up in the Salvation Army Home for Boys, not knowing how many siblings he had, let alone who his mother was.
A natural performer and larrikin, Charles has a talent for showmanship. He found an alternate brotherhood in theatre. A key figure in the theatrical scene of the 1960s and 1970s, Charles was a co-founder of the Indigenous theatre company Ilbijerri. The award-winning actor featured in numerous films and television shows.
Three musicians play live on stage to support this master orator and accomplished singer. The set recreates his beloved pottery studio in Castlemaine Prison, the site of solace throughout many of his terms of imprisonment. There is a down-home authenticity to him. It’s this frank and honest mien he takes to the High Court late in life to have the marks of colonialism removed from his story.
This play is chock full of one-liners, quotes, and ironic puns. It’s a storytellers’ delight! Charles’s life is rich material. The sadnesses, the high and the lows, and incursions in and out of legal record, make for great theatre.
More than that, they tell us of a great man, who, despite all his setbacks, still speaks of his life as mirror of the cause of his people and dispossessions, for which the nation bears no charge. He has the last word.
Jack Charles lives on stage and in our minds as a champion.
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A report from McKinsey estimated that as much as $12 billion was invested globally in artificial intelligence technologies during 2016, including projects focused on machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, and autonomous vehicles. That figure cuts across industries, and in real-world terms represents thousands of individual R&D projects.
Unless you’re closely monitoring developments in artificial intelligence, you probably learn about new AI technologies one headline at a time. “New AI system beats champion Go player” or “Advanced AI improves doctors’ diagnoses.” That sort of thing.
But you can get a much better sense of the scope and diversity of newly emerging AI technologies by learning about a lot of them at once. In this case, 27 different projects transforming 27 different industries. Which is what our research has produced, as you’ll see below.
News of a single AI technology can be pretty exciting, even inspiring. Understanding the diversity and vision of dozens of them underscores just how powerfully transformative this current generation of AI technologies already is, or will soon be.
Here’s our roundup of disruptive AI technologies being designed, built, or deployed in 27 different industries:
1. Aerospace. AI algorithms enable an entirely new type of self-healing aircraft that makes use of new sensors and other on-board recording devices. Smart systems could use data from these tools to spot problems long before failure occurs, making planes safer, lowering maintenance costs, and reducing the number of delays caused by mechanical issues.
2. Defense. The military and intelligence worlds are changing in a big way, with AI increasingly important to national defense strategies, on the ground and online. New AI cybersecurity platforms are being fed massive amounts of user-generated data so they can learn to spot anomalies associated with cyberattacks. In addition to using AI for cyber defense, the U.S. military wants to build autonomous weapons, such as drones that can conduct real-time surveillance of enemy territory, jam communications, and fire against enemy combatants.
3. Automotive. Mass adoption of self-driving cars is still some ways off. But AI is already impacting the auto industry in ways that weren’t possible just a few years ago. A new generation of smart features such as accident avoidance, alerts, and automated braking systems contribute to safer driving conditions for everyone. AI systems are being used to predict mechanical failures as well, employing sensors, apps, and Internet of Things technologies to track performance in individual cars. The data collected triggers alerts to drivers to warn them of potential problems, while manufacturers use the same data to improve production and identify faulty or unreliable parts.
4. Consumer Goods & Services. Clothing and cosmetics companies—just to name a few—are using smart algorithms to bring shopping experiences out of department stores and into consumers’ homes. A consumer who wants to purchase new make-up need only open an app on her smartphone, and she can “test” a range of product shades to see whether they suit her skin tone. Meanwhile, a person in search of new jeans can pop his measurements and style preferences into a simple interface powered by an online shopping algorithm based on a selected brand’s sizing trends. These experiences are powered by AI technologies such as facial recognition and machine learning systems that use partial or uncertain data to make predictions.
5. Energy & Utilities. It’s difficult to find a segment of the energy industry not being impacted by the opportunities and challenges of AI, including renewable energy producers using big data to better predict supply and demand as well as traditional utilities rolling out smart electrical grid improvements. AI is helping paint a truer picture of the oil industry as well. Not all oil-producing nations are fully transparent about their supply picture, which creates uncertainties in the commodities markets and volatile oil prices. But a combination of convolutional neural networks (CNN), shadow detection, and satellite imaging is shining an AI-powered spotlight on the situation. By analyzing the shadows on oil storage tanks, AI systems can assess how full the containers are and approximate oil supplies in any part of the world, forcing greater transparency on oil-producing nations.
6. Manufacturing. Factory productivity doesn’t have to come at the cost of workers’ safety. Japanese researchers are studying how AI can not only detect defective products and increase quality output, but how it can monitor workers’ physical conditions as well. Fatigue can cause serious mistakes, particularly when a worker is operating heavy machinery. AI systems can determine when an employee becomes drowsy and needs to be reassigned to a safer task. Greater productivity and better working conditions are a win for everyone.
7. Transportation. Self-driving cars get a lot of media attention, but the entire transportation industry is evolving rapidly with AI technologies. One interesting development is in environmental improvements. The transportation industry accounts for 27% of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. When you add up the impact of a cluster of AI-powered autonomous transportation technologies being rolled out for airplanes, cars, trucks, trains, and ships, the potential environmental benefits are significant.
8. Logistics. Ever wonder how goods get from their point of manufacture to your local store? That’s the business of the logistics industry, and it too is undergoing major changes via AI technologies, allowing more goods to get to more places more quickly. The recipe for the supply chain of the future mixes autonomous delivery vehicles—cars and trucks, but also container ships and drones—with predicative analysis to reduce transport times and fuel costs. Taken together, moving goods from point A to B can happen autonomously with greater speed and efficiency.
9. Agriculture. Automation systems are already relieving humans of dangerous farming jobs like picking lettuce, which can expose workers to potentially toxic chemicals. AI may also hold the key to the use of automated farming to solve the global food crises by ensuring better crop yields through targeted farming strategies. Drones can already collect data from vast swaths of farmland to identify which areas are thriving and which are at risk of failing. Some researchers are even attempting to teach drones to cooperate with one another, converging on areas with significant weed problems so they can unleash pesticides on the afflicted sections.
10. Banking. Advances in natural language processing (NLP) have made financial industry self-service systems capable of increasingly complex functions, such as onboarding new customers and assisting them with major loan decisions. Also, machine learning and optical character recognition are further simplifying banking by allowing people to submit financial documents through their smartphones. A customer can snap photos of the documents and the system will automatically upload the images, extracting the relevant information.
11. Education. Blended learning, in which teachers use technology to enhance traditional classroom environments, is gaining prominence in American schools. Technologies such as machine learning and NLP create the potential for AI-based lifelong learning companions. These programs would tailor their content to individual students based on the subject areas a child struggles with and which lessons are most effective. AI already serves as a kind of digital teaching assistant, taking over tasks such as grading homework and papers so that teachers can focus more deeply on lesson planning and student engagement.
12. Food. A powerhouse combination of machine learning and DNA sequencing could lead to food products that help people manage chronic disease. We’re not talking kale and blueberries here, either – these superfoods would be developed around specific peptides and how they impact diseases such as high blood pressure and Type-2 diabetes. The speed of AI-powered analysis could advance a field of study that has long grappled with slow results and extremely high costs, and could lead to breakthroughs in nutrition.
13. Government. AI is augmenting government work across the spectrum, from data entry to disease outbreak responses. Cognitive applications based on neural networks now analyze data anomalies that impact terrorist threat levels or signal shifts in the markets, events that require urgent government attention. Real-time tracking is also helping the government improve medical outcomes by identifying clusters of serious disease outbreaks. The military is developing technologies that can assess soldiers’ wounds based on data collected through wearable technology, enabling medics to prioritize treatments and treat urgent cases more swiftly. In more ordinary cases, sensors on street lights collect real-time data about traffic and maintenance needs and give citizens a heads up when their parking meters are about to expire.
14. Healthcare. Machine learning is helping doctors make faster, more precise diagnoses by studying medical records and contrasting images of healthy versus diseased organs. This technology could be used to solve the global caregiver shortfalls with better medical diagnosis and healthcare. In 2015 alone, China’s 80,000 radiologists saw 700,000 new cases of lung cancer. Fortunately, AI programs that can identify lesions and other disease markers are helping radiologists and doctors make earlier diagnoses and therefore prescribe treatment sooner.
15. Law. The use of AI in the legal discovery process is becoming more mainstream. Technology is expanding into other areas as well, including predictive analysis and contract reviews. The former could prove especially valuable to companies as they determine whether to go to trial and assess their risks. Knowing the likely outcome of a case could save significant resources and shape better policies down the road.
Although lawyers must be involved in contract reviews, legal industry machine learning platforms can decrease the time lawyers spend on those tasks by 20% to 60%, allowing them to focus on high-level tasks only humans can perform. Litigation strategist James Yoon said clients are still willing to pay a premium for complex, high-stakes legal services. “For the time being, experience like mine is something people are willing to pay for. What clients don’t want to pay for is any routine work.”
16. Nonprofit. AI is literally saving lives in the nonprofit world. One suicide prevention hotline uses machine learning for the greater good to identify the phrases most often associated with emergency cases so it can prioritize those messages and respond faster to people in need. Another nonprofit, this one aimed at improving students’ writing, uses natural language processing to address users’ problems with sentence fragmentation. The organization had its system analyze 100,000 grammatically correct sentences, then used an NLP platform to break those down. Once the program learned to distinguish sentence fragments from complete thoughts, it showed an 84% accuracy rate on picking out fragments in students’ writing.
17. Insurance. How much privacy would you trade for cheaper insurance? Artificial intelligence is powered by data. And when it comes to data, often more is better. One distinctive aspect of the insurance industry’s adoption of AI is how these companies intend to collect their data. Insurers are turning to sensors that collect data directly from individuals, including technologies like in-home monitors, automobile transponders, and wearables. These new data sources open the doors to new products and pricing models, but whenever data collection intersects with a real person’s life, privacy questions emerge.
18. Mobile telecommunications. Wireless telecommunication companies have access to volumes of data from their millions of customers. One telecom implemented a real-time customer analytics system that enabled it to track and respond to consumers immediately. The data gathered by the new program facilitated better customer service communication driven by the insights from the custom AI system.
19. Investments. People are not, generally speaking, purely rational investors and their irrationality is what makes markets unpredictable. An artificial intelligence algorithm that can anticipate human behavior while also monitoring economic signals in real-time could be highly disruptive to today’s markets (though some insiders have their doubts). Whether or not an AI “super investor” appears on the scene, the investments industry will require ever-smarter safeguards against exploitation and risk.
20. Travel. Online travel booking is nothing new, but AI-assisted vacation planning? That’s more of a novelty. Beyond aggregating flight times and hotel prices, computer programs now pull data about customers’ online behaviors and use learning systems powered by past preferences to personalize recommendations. When a human agent isn’t in the picture, chatbots can now answer questions and book reservations as well. ‘Nothing will ever replace the expertise and intuitive nature of travel agents,’ said one travel industry veteran. ‘Artificial intelligence brings just another component to their tool kit.’
21. Information Technology. IT professionals in particular find themselves at an exciting turning point in their careers. As more companies integrate AI into their processes, to one extent or another, IT teams are learning how to engage with these new technologies. A 2016 report from Narrative Science and the National Business Research Institute predicted that 62% of enterprises will adopt and use AI by 2018. Given that, IT could soon encompass competencies in machine learning platforms, natural language processing, decision management software, and AI-optimized hardware.
22. News media. The media has been under siege by critics and fake news purveyors during the past several years, but it may find an ally in AI. The Associated Press uses AI software to crank out earnings reports, and data companies are increasingly generating information useful to reporters. The lightning speed at which AI algorithms can gather and process multiple types of data could be a boon to journalists, enabling them to report breaking news as it happens. The Los Angeles Times encountered this firsthand in 2013, when it used a bot to report on an earthquake almost as it was happening.
23. Pharmaceuticals. Pharmaceutical researchers are using machine learning to transform drug creation. These platforms analyze medical histories, chemical databases, and past scientific findings to identify correlations between genetic markers and patient outcomes. This method of drug testing costs 50% less than traditional approaches and provides insight into how a treatment might impact certain types of patients. Pattern-recognition technology can provide a view into how different diseases work as well, allowing researchers to develop drugs that will target them more effectively. Most important, AI deep learning enables doctors to provide more targeted treatment plans based on an individual’s genetics and history.
24. Online dating. Can autonomous systems make better matches than people? After all, people have been matchmaking practically since there were people to match. Dating itself is ripe for disruption: it is time- and labor-intensive and carries a high failure rate. There’s plenty of room for improvement. So it’s not surprising that the online dating industry is exploring adding AI to the game of love, addressing common online dating complaints like dishonesty in profiles and increasing the relevance of the data underpinning matchmaking algorithms.
25. Motion pictures. Hollywood loves making movies about AI. Now it’s using AI to make and sell movies. There are AI systems that have been used to create movie preview trailers and even write screenplays. But the movie business might see an even bigger impact from AI systems that predict the likelihood that a given script will be a blockbuster. The system was trained using scripts and box office revenue data going back to the 1980’s. Given that just 20% of movies break even, there is a lot of room to improve the greenlighting process.
26. Publishing. With more than 1 million books published each year—a figure up 400% from just 10 years ago—competition for readers’ attention is fierce. Data can help publishers make decisions about which books to publish, but the best-in-class reader analytics solutions can take up to 4 weeks to process data before providing actionable insights. A new generation of AI publishing systems is rewriting the rules, analyzing the text of books to predict reader engagement and sales performance.
27. Semiconductors. You don’t have to do much more than read business headlines to grasp the impact AI is having on the semiconductor industry. Nvidia, until recently known for its graphics processors used in video games, is emerging as a leader in processors for AI number crunching. Google has launched its own AI-focused chip. The CPU king Intel is making acquisitions to catch up. Winners and losers are to be determined, but clearly the chip industry is being shaken up by the demand for AI processing power.
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Abstract: The authors investigate the conceptualization and measurement of service quality and the relationships between service quality, consumer satisfaction, and purchase intentions. A literature review s...
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Abstract: Our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities A variety of evidence is presented supporting this simple and compelling premise Related streams of research are identified and drawn upon in developing this concept and implications are derived for consumer behavior Because the construct of extended self involves consumer behavior rather than buyer behavior, it appears to be a much richer construct than previous formulations positing a relationship between self-concept and consumer brand choice
01 Sep 1982-Journal of Consumer Research
Abstract: This paper argues for the recognition of important experiential aspects of consumption. Specifically, a general framework is constructed to represent typical consumer behavior variables. Based on this paradigm, the prevailing information processing model is contrasted with an experiential view that focuses on the symbolic, hedonic, and esthetic nature of consumption. This view regards the consumption experience as a phenomenon directed toward the pursuit of fantasies, feelings, and fun.
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Abstract: We discuss the cognitive and the psy- chophysical determinants of choice in risky and risk- less contexts. The psychophysics of value induce risk aversion in the domain of gains and risk seeking in the domain of losses. The psychophysics of chance induce overweighting of sure things and of improbable events, relative to events of moderate probability. De- cision problems can be described or framed in multiple ways that give rise to different preferences, contrary to the invariance criterion of rational choice. The pro- cess of mental accounting, in which people organize the outcomes of transactions, explains some anomalies of consumer behavior. In particular, the acceptability of an option can depend on whether a negative outcome is evaluated as a cost or as an uncompensated loss. The relation between decision values and experience values is discussed. Making decisions is like speaking prose—people do it all the time, knowingly or unknowingly. It is hardly surprising, then, that the topic of decision making is shared by many disciplines, from mathematics and statistics, through economics and political science, to sociology and psychology. The study of decisions ad- dresses both normative and descriptive questions. The normative analysis is concerned with the nature of rationality and the logic of decision making. The de- scriptive analysis, in contrast, is concerned with peo- ple's beliefs and preferences as they are, not as they should be. The tension between normative and de- scriptive considerations characterizes much of the study of judgment and choice. Analyses of decision making commonly distin- guish risky and riskless choices. The paradigmatic example of decision under risk is the acceptability of a gamble that yields monetary outcomes with specified probabilities. A typical riskless decision concerns the acceptability of a transaction in which a good or a service is exchanged for money or labor. In the first part of this article we present an analysis of the cog- nitive and psychophysical factors that determine the value of risky prospects. In the second part we extend this analysis to transactions and trades. Risky Choice Risky choices, such as whether or not to take an umbrella and whether or not to go to war, are made without advance knowledge of their consequences. Because the consequences of such actions depend on uncertain events such as the weather or the opponent's resolve, the choice of an act may be construed as the acceptance of a gamble that can yield various out- comes with different probabilities. It is therefore nat- ural that the study of decision making under risk has focused on choices between simple gambles with monetary outcomes and specified probabilities, in the hope that these simple problems will reveal basic at- titudes toward risk and value. We shall sketch an approach to risky choice that
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01 Dec 1998-Social Science Research Network
Abstract: Although the relationship metaphor dominates contemporary marketing thought and practice, surprisingly little empirical work has been conducted on relational phenomena in the consumer products domain, particularly at the level of the brand. In this article, the author: (1) argues for the validity of the relationship proposition in the consumer-brand context, including a debate as to the legitimacy of the brand as an active relationship partner and empirical support for the phenomenological significance of consumer-brand bonds; (2) provides a framework for characterizing and better understanding the types of relationships consumers form with brands; and (3) inducts from the data the concept of brand relationship quality, a diagnostic tool for conceptualizing and evaluating relationship strength. Three in-depth case studies inform this agenda, their interpretation guided by an integrative review of the literature on person-to-person relationships. Insights offered through application of inducted concepts to two relevant research domains — brand loyalty and brand personality — are advanced in closing. The exercise is intended to urge fellow researchers to refine, test, and augment the working hypotheses suggested herein and to progress toward these goals with confidence in the validity of the relationship premise at the level of consumers’ lived experiences with their brands. | <urn:uuid:f2242ba5-7bd6-4608-bddb-77feffff49eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://typeset.io/topics/consumer-behaviour-1m8a4hh8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.921677 | 1,231 | 2.078125 | 2 |
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Throughout the UK Energy Efficiency Certificates are created making use of basic approaches and also energy presumptions which permits buildings to be compared with another rather. By doing this it allows owners, prospective purchasers or renters to see the forecasted energy intake and also carbon ratings over an annual basis, so they can think about the total energy performance and gas prices as part of their investment or living costs.
All Energy Performance Certificates are accompanied with a recommendations report which outlines cost-effective measures that can be put in place to improve the overall energy efficiency rating of a given property. A typical recommendation could be to upgrade a building’s heating system, increase insulation levels in a loft space or to upgrade single glazed areas to double glazing.
The Power Efficiency Certification is very important as greater than 50% of the UK’s power intake as well as carbon discharges are created by the way that we light, warmth and also typically utilize buildings. Relatively little changes such as setting up low power or LED lights in all electrical outlets of a structure can have a profound effect on power usage.
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When is an Energy performance certificate required?
Your residential or commercial property’s EPC needs to be readily available to potential purchasers as quickly as you start to market your home up for sale or rent. EPC Certificates came to be a governing requirement in April 2008. You need to obtain an accepted Domestic Energy assessor to create the EPC
A need on all domestic residential properties, that are either being offered, constructed, or rented, and also need to be supplied to a possible customer or renter cost free.
Are there any cases whereby my building may be exempt?
The solution is indeed! The complying with scenarios deem your residential property exempt.
Some detailed buildings.
Structure due for demolition resulting in site due for redevelopment.
Building to be offered or rented out with uninhabited belongings.
Places of prayer.
Industrial websites, workshops and also non-residential agricultural structures that have a reduced energy demand.
Stand-alone business buildings with an overall valuable floor space of much less than 50m ².
What are the penalties for not having an EPC?
As from the 1st April 2018, there will be a requirement for any properties rented out in the private rented sector to normally have a minimum energy performance rating of E on an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC). The regulations will come into force for new lets and renewals of tenancies with effect from 1st April 2018 and for all existing tenancies on 1st April 2020. It will be unlawful to rent a property which breaches the requirement for a minimum E rating unless there is an applicable exemption. A civil penalty of up to £4,000 will be imposed for breaches.
This guidance summarizes the regulations: Find out more
You do not pay anything until the survey is has been fully carried out and that you are happy with the service. Invoices will be issued at this point.
What is your Energy Performance Certificate process? Property Assessed Clean Energy Entity
- Upon arrival to the residential or commercial property, the energy assessor will introduce themselves, lug and also describe the process out a health & safety and security risk assessment for safety objectives.
The assessor will require access to every one of the rooms in the residential or commercial property, including (where relevant) loft space hatch, room in the roof, extensions, sunroom, electrical and gas metres.
The assessor will certainly attract an illustration plan of the total floor location of the home. When this is done they will certainly resolve each space taking accurate measurements and also recording all pertinent data (Property age, construction materials, Wall thicknesses, heating systems & controls, hot water cylinder details, water cylinder insulation, Additional furnace (if appropriate), Floor construction, glazing type as well as reduced power illumination.Please keep in mind that we respect your residence in all times and will guarantee that it will be left as it was before we performed our study.
Schedule your EPC
Among our qualified EPC assessors will certainly see you at your premises. The survey will take normally between 1-2 hrs to complete.
We will publish your Commercial EPC to the government register within 24-48 hours of leaving your property and send you a copy directly via email.
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Emphasis 360 has 10 years’ experience in providing SAP assessments to a variety of customers based in Bristol and also all over the UK.
We provide a working as a consultant strategy to conformity and also constantly have your demands at the forefront of what we do.
When dealing with challenging growths as well as are yet to be defeated by a challenging score to date, we are well versed.
At Focus 360 Energy we complete both layout phase and as-built components of your SAP Computations in Bristol as well as we will email your report within your target dates.
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Most of the tasks we tackle need an enhancement rating of 40% or over which we have actually always managed to attain regardless of sometimes having limited spending plan restraints set out to us.
Because of this alone, we are confident that you won’t be disappointed in what we need to use.
We comprehend that you have deadlines to satisfy so always offer the same day action. We use a 48-hour rapid track service and very same day EPC Certification as common, so you won’t be maintained waiting.
SAP Estimations (Conventional Evaluation Treatments) are a building policy demand as well as the UK government’s picked methodology for analyzing the power performance of all new build conversions, dwellings and expansions.
Once SAP Calculations in Bristol have been successfully completed on a dwelling an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) is generated. The energy performance certificate is an additional document required for building control sign off and is a legal requirement when selling or renting out a home.
AP rating is a method of comparing the power efficiency of different houses and is racked up on a score range between 1 and also 100 (100 standing for a house with a zero-energy expense and also 0 with a high energy price). From the SAP estimations, we are able to function out a power expense for a provided building.
SBEM Calculations (Simplified Building Energy Model) is a tool that is used to analyse the compliance of your new non-domestic building with Part L of the building regulations (England and Wales) and equivalent regulations in Scotland, Northern Ireland.
The SBEM estimations procedure is created by considering the recommended buildings use products, heating system, air conditioning, hot water, ventilation and illumination services. Along with this the estimation also checks out what renewable energy sources have actually been made use of, such as solar photovoltaic or pv, solar thermal, ground/air-source home heating.
Once this data is modelled in our federal government approved software application, we can offer an accurate understanding of what the buildings power efficiency as well as carbon exhausts will be. This outcome is gauged versus a notional building of the exact same dimensions hopefully enabling excellent as well as innovative design to dominate. By collectively measuring the textile, solutions, lighting, sustainable and also low carbon modern technologies to a notional building we can enable some compensation in between the different components.
Who needs SBEM Calculations?
BEM Estimations are a required requirement for any type of heated brand-new develop commercial property which surpasses 50m2 in size. Along with brand-new construct business buildings some renovation and expansion projects will certainly need an SBEM calculation also.
Structure control will certainly need a style phase SBEM calculation to be sent at the exact same time as your structure policy application. Structure control will not allow the structure commence without receiving both files.
Structure control will need both the style stage SBEM Calculation as well as Business EPC once the structure has been constructed. Structure control will unlikely sign the building off without both records.
Air testing (Also known as Air Permeability, air leakage test and pressure test) is a measure of showing how good your building is at keeping the head in and the cold out.
All brand-new advancements in the UK are called for to have an air examination carried as part Accepted File Part L (England and also Wales) as well as area 6 of the technical handbook (Scotland).
As soon as the structure has been completed and also before the occupier relocates in, the Air test will certainly always be brought out.
Fundamentally, the lower the air leakage, the far better the building is at keeping out the chilly as well as the reduced the power expense will be. Having a 100% air-tight building is not necessary a good point as problems may occur such as mould and also condensation. Striking an equilibrium in the result is vital.
You can pick not to check all stories on a larger site, but it deserves noting that the SAP score will certainly be penalised on those not tested. This is generally referred to as self-confidence variable.
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The ILC’s staff and management were saddened at the recent passing of Kumanara Lester OAM.
“The Yankunytjatjara elder’s life and accomplishments should be held in the highest regard”, ILC Chair Mr Eddie Fry said.
“Kumanara was perhaps best known as one of the Aboriginal people impacted by British atomic testing in South Australia’s outback in the 1950s, soon after losing his sight.
His campaigning on behalf of those affected led to a 1984 Royal Commission recommending compensation and a clean-up of contaminated lands.
“But that alone should not define him.
“Kumanara Lester was instrumental in the struggle for land rights in South Australia and the Northern Territory, notably, leading to the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Land Rights Act, which granted rights well in advance of other land rights legislation, and negotiations over decades that saw the historical handover of Uluru-Kata Tjuta.
“Indigenous people and Australia as a whole have lost an important voice.
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As an entrepreneur and having spent over 10 years studying various entrepreneurship models, I’m convinced that our answer lies in innovation, especially innovation for social change.
You see there are two types of innovations:
Sustaining Innovation vs. Disruptive Innovation.
A sustaining innovation improves existing products. It does not create new markets. It produces better quality products augmenting existing ones, meet existing customer needs.
Example of sustaining innovation would be when Apple introduces upgraded version of iPhones 6, 7, 8.
A disruptive innovation helps creates new markets. It offers simpler, more convenient, less expensive products and in the process creating new customer base.
A classic example of disruptive innovation is Henry Ford’s Model T.
Through mass production, Henry Ford democratized the ownership of cars by making them simpler and affordable to own to millions of people who could not afford them.
Before that cars were expensive and only owned by the elites, rich people and kings.
By democratize I mean to making social services accessible to thousands of people at affordable rates in a sustainable manner.
Modern examples of disruptive innovation is:
- Low-cost airline carriers that provides no frills flights, making flying accessible to a lot people who could not afford it;
I would like to introduce another type of innovation, called: Catalytic Innovation.
But what is catalytic innovation you asked?
Based on Clayton Christensen’s disruptive-innovation model, catalytic innovations challenge organizations by offering simpler, good-enough solutions aimed at un-served groups.
Catalytic innovation shares the same traits as disruptive innovative but focuses more on social change.
Disruptive innovation – seeks to increase competitiveness, whiles Catalytic innovation – seeks to solve social problems
Here are the 5 qualities of Catalytic Innovation: [Slide]
1 Create systematic social change through scaling and replication
2 Meet un-served needs of the market.
3 Offers products that are simpler, affordable but good enough for customers
4 They generate: resources, donations, grants, volunteer manpower, and intellectual property
5 Often ignored, disparaged by existing players
The idea of catalytic innovation is to democratize social services and make them easier and accessible to many people who could not access them.
To solve poverty we need to stop obsessing about building elitist institutions, but focus on building institutions that will offer simple, accessible, good enough and affordable products to poor communities.
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MoMA Restitutes Ernst Ludwig Kirchner Painting to Heirs of Jewish German Collector
The New York museum has been praised for its handling of this complex case.
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has restituted a painting by the German expressionist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner to the heirs of the Jewish German art collector Max Fischer.
Fischer inherited Sand Hills (Bei Grünau) (1917–18) from the collection of his parents, Ludwig and Rosy Fischer, in 1926.
The restitution process was complicated by the fact that the work was listed in MoMA’s records as Sand Hills in Engadine. Subsequent research indicated that the two names referred to the same artwork.
MoMA is currently home to a high-profile artwork looted by Nazis that has been restituted in recent years. Gustav Klimt‘s Adele Bloch-Bauer II (1912), one of five paintings by the artist that were the subject of a extended legal battle between the Austrian state museum and the portrait sitter’s niece, Maria Altmann, is on long-term loan to the museum.
According to a statement released by the museum, extensive provenance research—conducted after the Fischer family attorney David Rowland submitted an inquiry—showed that the Sand Hills painting was part of Fischer’s collection until at least 1933. Records show that the work was acquired in Germany by the collector Kurt Feldhäusser in 1938.
Following Feldhäusser’s death in a bombing in Germany in 1945, MoMA acquired the painting in 1949 at New York’s Weyhe Gallery, to whom Feldhäusser’s mother had consigned the artwork.
MoMA determined that Fischer was forced to leave the bulk of his collection behind when he fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to the United States in 1935. The museum concluded that it was highly unlikely that Max Fischer had any knowledge of the transaction or that he profited from the sale, which occurred three years after he fled Germany.
“Provenance research is an important and ongoing practice at MoMA,” the museum’s director Glenn D. Lowry said in a statement. “We are grateful to the Fischer family and to David Rowland for their collaboration, and are pleased that the painting will be restituted to the heirs of Max Fischer.”
“There’s no sense of loss. It feels like we’re doing the right thing,” Lowry told the New York Times.
Rowland praised the MoMA for its role in the restitution. “MoMA’s professional handling of this matter, cooperation in sharing research, analysis of complex historical information, and ultimate restitution of this Kirchner artwork is an example of museum best practices in the handling of Nazi-era art claims,” he said in a statement. “The heirs of Max Fischer are grateful to MoMA for their return of this important artwork,” he added.
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If you are searching for a plan, You should definitely compare a number of prices in advance of deciding on the a single with the highest price and the very best high-quality. It is usually achievable to find an insurance company who’ll perform together with you. This allows you to change the policy as your driving behavior change. Make sure to have a look at guidelines that give related types of coverage in the sense that the deductibles and limits could come up with a a massive big difference. An excellent policy need to contain enough coverage for motorists who’re younger to stop financial destroy.
Savings for no claims on automobile insurance policies is a great way for you to economize in your rates. Request your insurance provider how they use the discount. According to the insurance provider the discounted can variety in between thirty and 65% in the main calendar year as much as 65% in 5 years. Remember that For those who have a mishap, You will be answerable for two years of no claims reward. A number of statements also can eliminate the no-statements reward. It’s very important to inform your insurance provider immediately Should you be hurt in a mishap. If this is not completed, subsequent claims could be denied.
Insurance corporations provide no-claim low cost security for around PS25. You can make a predetermined amount of statements for every annum without worrying about the expense of your insurance policies climbing. It is possible to incorporate it to an present plan Should you have no-claims bonus. Additionally, you could transfer your no-statements lower price to another insurance company if you want. Switching providers annually is a terrific way to maintain the no-promises discounted.
If you’re in quest of very low-cost vehicle insurance, expanding your deductibles will assist in getting reduced fees. Enhance your deductibles to save 15%-thirty% with your cost, based upon particular estimates. The price savings you can find will count on your driving behaviors along with your driving record and also the guidelines of your respective state. Your annually premium might be minimized by raising your deductibles to around 40%
Although raising your deductible might not be the ideal choice for just about every person, it could produce a variation in conserving you A large number of dollars In the long term. Professionals recommend that you save no less than two months of living fees, in spite of how much you decide to raise your deductible. It can even reduce the expense of insurance plan you pay out regular. It can even preserve you a major amount of cash in case you at any time should file an coverage assert.
For the people with bad credit score, it can be done to acquire a plan by means of an insurance provider that is certainly regional. This can assist you spend less every month on the expense of your regular monthly insurance policy and also provide superb customer aid and Unique discounts. It is feasible to find the policy in all 50 states. It really is doable to also Evaluate premiums across states to determine quite possibly the most affordable fee. It is necessary to do not forget that you might demand making your credit score rating more than the training course of. Certain drivers with terrible credit histories will pay greater than $400 per year.
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A great deal of insurance providers check out you to be a significant-chance driver When you’ve got a poor credit score. As you are less likely in order to file an insurance claim than another person with excellent credit, this is due to The reality that: Credit rating scores are an essential Consider how insurance policy firms see you. A DUI/DWI may possibly cause your high quality to increase by as high as 65 p.c. This amounts to the $677 raise over a six thirty day period coverage. Insurance firms also take note of your driving file. A DUI/DWI could increase your insurance policies top quality by just as much as $174. On top of that the expense of a dashing ticket could improve your top quality by 45%..
A DUI conviction with your report could assist you decide on the most very affordable insurance provider. There are a number of alternatives, such as American Spouse and children, Progressive, State Farm and American Spouse and children. These businesses provide decrease fees to substantial-danger motorists. They will also bear in mind your credit score score in figuring out the quality. Insurance policies organizations think about these areas when choosing the amount you shell out to your coverage. You can obtain your insurance rates larger For those who have lousy credit rating. Before you make an expense, it is important to assess your credit rating.
There are a number of areas to acquire into consideration when choosing by far the most reasonably priced car coverage for motorists that are young. Your marital status and also the age of Your kids are considerable in the expense of your car insurance policies. Your high quality can also rely upon the kind of motor vehicle that you choose to push. It really is dearer to insure high-functionality vehicles as compared to very low-general performance autos. It is necessary to choose a car or truck with many security features for getting the bottom motor vehicle insurance coverage.
A great way to lessen the cost of car insurance policies for young drivers is to scale back the amount of quantity of coverage you require. Coverage companies generally provide discounts for students and motorists who will be in coaching. Should you be hurt in a mishap however, chopping your protection may end up in big out-of-pocket expenses. This is certainly why you must cautiously weigh the benefits and pick the most value.
It is difficult for teens to search out economical car or truck insurance. A coverage for your 16-12 months outdated driver is more expensive than a single for an adult. Nevertheless, you may decrease the Charge by including a teenager on to an current coverage. The average Price is greater by $one,461 each year, but is usually more cost-effective than buying an insurance policy coverage By itself. Should you be a younger driver, you may qualify for savings together with other Rewards.
The price of auto coverage differs according to who you are. This could bring about All those with higher hazard requires the minimum economical insurance policy. Insurance organizations just take into account many different areas when determining whether or not they must insure you. These contain your driving file and demographics and also your Total possibility profile. Five key factors to recollect when evaluating insurance policy quotations. Keep in mind that lessen costs Never call for you to definitely sacrifice excellent.
To begin with, look at your zip code. Men and women living in spots with high criminal offense premiums will experience dearer prices. Coverage corporations acquire the volume of site visitors into consideration. Coverage firms also contemplate targeted traffic quantity. This could effect the cost of your insurance plan. Remember to Assess your regular monthly premiums in order to prevent having to pay far more. When you’ve got various procedures from the exact insurance company, there’s a chance you’re ready to avail a reduction for a number of guidelines.
Despite the fact that credit scores is probably not lawfully used by coverage providers in every point out however, they must be viewed as when evaluating car plan costs. Hawaii drivers with weak credit will probably be billed 168% much more than very similar cleanse motorists. Massachusetts high-hazard drivers make 30 p.c much more than normal drivers. Premiums will rise for motorists that are new because of DUI, speeding tickets and poor credit score. It is important to have a look at various quotations prior to deciding to decide.
The cost of insurance policies is tremendously influenced by where you reside. If you reside in a region with the abnormal quantity of crime and superior charges of incidents, you are able to count on being charged a lot more for insurance plan offers. The expense of coverage is often influenced by variables like website traffic quantity or accident historical past. Insurance plan firms also acquire into account a driver’s driving file in deciding the worth they ought to cost for his or her coverage. Typically, motorists which has a inadequate driving historical past are charged additional in excess of all those who have a very good driving document.
As the price of well being care continues to increase, auto insurance policies has greater by fifty-one hundred pc in the final five years. Uninsured and PIP protection are obligatory for motorists. These specifications are increased than common. The big apple, contrary to other states, requires motorists have PIP and legal responsibility insurance plan. These optional coverages enhance the price of insurance policies and will raise the expense of insurance policy. Also, it is important to know about their protection restrictions given that some procedures provide a reduced least number of coverage than other guidelines.
New Yorkers shell out two.8 percent on their own vehicle coverage. This is certainly a little bit decreased in comparison to the national regular of two.forty %. The standard man or woman will pay slightly lower than Individuals of their 30s and 40s. The rates are greater for all those aged 70and in excess of than those with significantly less driving experience. Couples pays slightly additional, but nevertheless lower than single folks.
As well as reduced charges, drivers could also enroll in defensive driving classes. The courses operate for around 3 several hours and include dialogue about driver attitude and targeted traffic principles. They educate defensive driving which can help to lessen insurance policies expenditures. They may enable to enhance their driving expertise by finishing a category, which could reduce the expense of a car or truck insurance plan quote. Having said that the Coverage Data Institute is in a position to assist you in figuring out the exact protection you demand.
Though gas costs may differ throughout states, automobile insurance plan fees in other states could be A lot more or less compared to the costs in your own private state. The proportion of drivers who’re uninsured, condition insurance policies laws and the speed for theft might all Participate in a job Within this. Undesirable weather may influence the expense of insurance plan. The next desk illustrates the cost of vehicle insurance in just about every point out. These estimates were being dependant on an Evaluation of your insurance plan demands of every condition.
Missouri is the only real point out which presents automobile insurance protection with comprehensive protection for under the cost of Louisiana. Missouri expenditures just $944 a lot more than Louisiana. What’s more, it has the lowest Value per capita and is particularly fifth in expense of dwelling. Texas motorists spend 33% in their earnings on motor vehicle coverage. This is likely due to high figures of drivers who will be not insured in Texas and plenty of lawsuits.
The average nationwide price of full coverage auto coverage in The us is $1,771 for every annum. The state which has the most expensive coverage cost is Louisiana, by using a premium of $two,839, a 19% improve from 2020. Maine’s insurance coverage common premium is $858. This is because no-fault states have higher insurance coverage premiums. It is possible that the price of auto insurance policies in A further point out is substantially costlier than listed here. It is best to consider lots of factors, including the legislation of your point out relating to coverage.
Are you presently searching for high-threat driver coverage close to you? Significant-threat drivers have a tendency to fork out increased rates for insurance than regular motorists. This is because they have an inclination to acquire much more incidents or violations on their records. The state may Restrict enough time for this to become 3 many years, 5 several years, or perhaps more time. Often, discounts can be offered if you are taking a driver basic safety coaching system.
Although the nationwide averages for prime risk driver motor vehicle insurance plan in the vicinity of me are pretty regular, you will discover that rates fluctuate wildly from state to point out. There are a few companies that adapt their rates in accordance with the point out These are in. Chances are you’ll discover one particular insurance service provider that gives the most thorough safety in a decreased Price tag regardless of whether your point out isn’t integrated. The most affordable higher-danger driver automobile insurance close to me emanates from Point out Farm, that has a protracted-standing track record for offering outstanding assistance.
You’ll find significant-risk driver automobile insurance coverage near me by typing with your ZIP code and comparing estimates. When large-chance insurance coverage on automobiles can be priced in another way in numerous states, the majority of huge insurers will present the coverage. Countrywide Normal and various large-possibility companies give insurance plan coverage. If you have great grades, a very low threat car, and have the ability to attain an insurance policy plan that is certainly reduce you may be able to get 1.
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The price of insurance plan is matter to substantial variants. It truly is therefore imperative that you discover the way in which Every coverage operates. The leading things that impact the cost of insurance policies consist of driving heritage, age, and also credit rating background. Look at the advantages supplied by Just about every enterprise, for example incident forgiveness or roadside support. This will seem to be daunting nonetheless It is doable to compare offers from unique organizations and choose the most suitable a single. Here are some recommendations that can assist you get going.
With regards to the comparison of auto insurance companies it is recommended to start with the J.D. The J.D. Electric power score of car coverage firms. They are based upon the outcomes of purchaser pleasure surveys that take the type of surveys that study countless numbers of customers of vehicle insurance policies nationwide. These scores are converted into numerical scores which reflect the standard customer gratification rating. These rankings are released after a each and every year. The gold medals are awarded to the best-rated coverage corporations for every course. How will you find out if the insurance policies companies you are looking at are respected?
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Legacy Discount rates: Motorists who will be new may be suitable for a discount should they purchase their plan throughout the dad and mom. The lower price commonly is about 10%. This lower price may be used to thank your mother and father through the years for his or her guidance of your online business. It could also make it easier to get monetary savings on insurance policy for your car. A lot of coverage providers provide savings for more mature motorists. It can be really worth searching into regardless of whether your online business supplies these bargains. It is also probable to look at the policies provided by American Spouse and children, Farmers, or USAA.
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Detailed study of Law 2 (PL2) on family law reform has just begun, and Minister Simon Jolin-Barrette has already stated that the concepts of gender and species identity will be grouped “under the same hat.”one in the Civil Code.
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However, they are not included in the Canadian and Quebec Declaration of Human Rights, which rightly recognizes gender identity or expression as a prohibited basis of discrimination as distinct from sex. “Sex” (social structure) and “gender” (related to biology) are indeed two different concepts recognized by our Terms. Why would it be otherwise in the Civil Code?
Despite many fears raised in the summaries submitted to the parliamentary committee for PL2, the Quebec government has chosen to combine the two concepts.
In doing so, it reduces an immutable biological feature to a sociological and behavioral concept that evolves over time. This renunciation of the scientific meaning of “gender” has tangible consequences for the entire population, especially for women who find themselves disembodied in a vocabulary that empties the meaning of the word “woman.” Thus, it will be possible to talk about “people who are pregnant, breastfeeding or menstruating”. In addition to the deep humiliation this dictionary expresses, refusing to recognize the unique circumstances of women is tantamount to jeopardizing the measures taken to secure their rights to gender equality and dignity.
In addition, by combining the concepts of gender and gender, the statistical data that enable the recognition of the reality of women disappear. However, the absence of reliable biological data on sex jeopardizes women’s sport and the advances needed for women’s health and safety.
Mixing sex and gender will have a huge impact on women’s sports teams built for greater equality, considering the physical differences that separate them from men. Therefore, the “gender” descriptor helps ensure the sustainability of women’s sports competitions, which were developed as it recognizes that there are significant genetic, anatomical and physiological differences between men and women, which are at a significant disadvantage in women’s sports competitions. The American experience shows that more and more young girls are losing competitions and associated college scholarships to trans people who are biologically male, faster and stronger than they are.
Gender-specific data are necessary to ensure that each person’s biological reality is taken into account in clinical and biomedical research, as well as for the health system to provide quality care. For example, it is this type of data that saves lives by concluding that heart attack symptoms differ greatly between men and women.
Confusing gender and gender also jeopardizes the effective treatment of people who are hospitalized in an emergency who cannot speak. Emergency physicians must be able to act quickly in a crisis to find out whether they should investigate the side of the prostate or a possible ectopic pregnancy, without having to undress the patient.
It should be noted that first responders have particularly gender-specific data to identify traffic accident victims, victims of crime, to facilitate the search for criminals or to issue AMBER alerts.
Gender integrity is also necessary to meet international standards, such as the United Nations Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which states that “different categories of prisoners shall be placed in institutions or sections of separate institutions according to their sex”. […] »2nd.
Mixing “gender” and “gender” also poses significant security risks for women. For example, in Canada, Madilyn Harks, formerly Matthew Harks, a serial child molester suspected of more than 60 victims and nearly 200 crimes, sexually assaulted two female prison inmates who “looked like children”.3. At a shelter and resource center for women survivors of sexual and domestic violence in Toronto, women who hesitate to share a room with “trans women” with penises are sent back to the streets and find themselves homeless. . Security needs are not taken into account4.
The Government of Quebec’s promotion of the society we hope is certainly not by rejecting scientific concepts, creating new forms of discrimination against women, or proposing hastily assimilation without adequate discussion of gender and gender. It is truly inclusive.
I look forward to a real social discussion to find a respectful passageway for all!
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What do you do when you don’t know what to do?
In such a place, waiting for direction, I encouraged myself by reviewing the hard circumstances where God placed Moses. From the moment he appeared to him in a flaming bush, his life was never easy.
Go to Pharaoh? Lead the Israelites out of Egypt? Who, me?
After all his objections, Moses consented and set off on mission. Here’s the part of the Exodus story I love. God said to him:
- I will be with you.
- I will tell you what to say.
- I will tell you what to do.
Moses didn’t have to worry about what to say to Pharaoh. God told him, “When Pharaoh says… you say…” In every confrontation that’s how he operated. He just spoke the words given him.
Our God never leads us to go on mission in our own wisdom and strength. In my waiting place, feeling inadequate and unsure of what to do or how I could do it, he whispered, “You don’t have to do it. I will.”
Encouraged by Moses’ experience, I went forward, trusting God to be with me, to tell me what to say, and to tell me what to do, expecting him to do what he had purposed. And he did.
Is he calling you for a special mission? Are you feeling inadequate and unsure about what to do?
Remember the mighty acts of God throughout history—he isn’t known for sponsoring failures—and go forward in total reliance on him.
“In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion… I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only” (Psalm 71:1, 16).
Dianne Barker is a speaker, radio host, and author of 11 books, including the best-selling Twice Pardoned and award-winning I Don’t Chase the Garbage Truck Down the Street in My Bathrobe Anymore! Organizing for the Maximum Life. She’s secretary of Christian Authors Network and a member of Advanced Writers and Speakers Association. Visit www.diannebarker.com. | <urn:uuid:6af2f0bc-d317-44a8-a4f3-7bd8f1ff1f46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christianauthorsnetwork.com/what-to-do-when-you-dont-know-what-to-do/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951793 | 490 | 1.8125 | 2 |
There's a blog for SQL Server that says returning a scalar using
SELECT is wasteful:
SELECT should be used for returning resultsets, not scalars. This procedure uses a SELECT statement to return a single value to the client. This is inefficient because most applications will have to prepare additional objects (typically referred to as "recordsets") and other support in order to consume the result. While it is certainly valid syntax to use SELECT to return scalar values, this does not need to be common in production code. This is the kind of thing that can make it slightly harder for high-end applications to scale.
Does this apply to PostgreSQL as well? Should functions always use
RETURN for outputting scalars, or is it ok to use
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Secondary wastewater treatment removes soluble organic matter and suspended solids that remain following primary treatment. This stage involves biological processes aeration for the decomposition of solids and the use of chlorine to disinfect the liquid.
During different stages of secondary treatment, the level of oxygen in the wastewater is altered to create aerobic and anaerobic environments to produce bacteria that remove pollutants from the water.
Under anaerobic conditions, hydrogen sulphide (H2S) gas typically forms. A pollutant commonly found in wastewater, H2S can be severely corrosive to components and machinery during secondary wastewater treatment.
Standard bearings can quickly rust in such conditions. According to Tony Tormey, Industrial Bearings Product Manager at CBC, Schaeffler’s FAG Black Series radial insert ball bearing and housing units, feature a Durotect®B surface treatment to improve the bearing’s corrosion resistance to these harsh, corrosive environments.
“The advantage of the Schaeffler Black Series bearing is that the added surface protection makes it a great choice anywhere in the treatment that is subject to wash down or H2S gas, which in treatment plants can be very corrosive,” Tormey explained.
The resistance of the FAG Black series against corrosion means that it has much greater longevity, requiring less maintenance and downtime. This also makes the units suitable in wastewater plants, where downtime can be costly.
“Standard bearings usually rust within a few months, or even less, under corrosive wastewater treatment conditions – these will last much longer,” said Tormey.
Other features of the Black Series also make it a robust choice for wastewater plants. The low frictional torque of the radial insert ball bearings involves minimum heat generation and therefore maximum grease operating life. Relubrication is made easier via a seal that is firmly staked in the outer ring, which retains grease in the bearing.
Further, the vulcanised seal lip of the bearing prevents dust and water entering the bearing, while an outer flinger shield is fitted on the inner ring to protect the lip seal against damage.
“Also, these units come pre-assembled,” said Tormey. “The housing is already there and all you have to do is block it down and lock it in. Usually with other bearings, the housing and bearing are separate, and they have to be assembled together.”
The FAG Black Series housing units feature flake graphite cast iron housings with a concave bore in which the radial insert ball bearings are fitted. These units are matched to each other and are available as plummer block housing units, flanged housing units and take-up housing units.
While the FAG Black Series offers added corrosion resistance, enabling a reduction in downtime due to bearings replacements, another Schaeffler range of products is specifically designed to reduce change out times significantly: The FAG Split Spherical Roller Bearings and Housings.
Tormey said that at treatment plants, replacing bearing units in captive locations often requires operators and maintenance teams to bring in heavy machinery to move a gearbox or take a drive off, which is a significant cost in time and money.
“However, the FAG Split Spherical Roller Bearings and housings enable the unit to be installed in situ. This reduces downtime necessary for installation by around 50 per cent compared with a standard Spherical Roller Bearing and Housing” he said.
Moreover, Tormey said the Schaeffler FAG Split Spherical Roller Bearings are dimensionally equivalent to the unsplit standard types, so no additional modifications are required to the shaft or mounting locations.
“The FAG Black Series and Split Spherical Bearing and Housings ranges are stocked at CBC branches nationally, which also means that availability is not a problem” Tormey explained.
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UPM Raflatac and Kuehne and Nagel Integrated Logistics have partnered in a study to evaluate and develop the sustainability and performance of UPM Raflatac’s supply chain.
During the study, UPM Raflatac got a numeric estimation of its current supply chain sustainability, and is now able to follow how the supply chain evolves, study changes and steer development in the right direction. The degree of supply chain sustainability was evaluated using a new model that considers 15 key performance indicators under ecological, economic and societal categories.
“The study provided a deeper insight into the broader sustainability impacts of our supply chain. This can help us make informed decisions regarding our logistics optimisation,” says Oona Koski, senior specialist, Sustainability, UPM Raflatac.
Companies need to understand and measure their supply chains in order to manage multiple risks and maintain competitiveness. Most organisations measure only ecological indicators, typically carbon dioxide emissions. The new model of evaluation additionally considers economic and societal aspects. When the impacts of all three aspects are evaluated, sustainability and the performance of a supply chain are assessed more comprehensively.
The new model is part of continuous development between UPM Raflatac and Kuehne and Nagel. It can be used when evaluating future changes in UPM Raflatac’s supply chain to support the company’s sustainable development.
“Our strategic partnership with UPM Raflatac aims to optimise the performance of UPM Raflatac’s logistics. This model provides an opportunity to strengthen our relationship and further benefit both companies,” says Teemu Koivunen, Director of Kuehne and Nagel Integrated Logistics Finland.
The new evaluation model was developed by Anne Winter (PhD) from the University of Strasbourg. Her study is titled ‘Evaluation Model of a Supply Chain’s Sustainability Performance and Risk Assessment Model Towards a Redesign Process’. | <urn:uuid:eebba614-f0f4-4bbc-9c3e-cab482584781> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.convertermag.com/new-model-helps-to-develop-the-sustainability-of-a-supply-chain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.919277 | 408 | 2.046875 | 2 |
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and to-day the archæologist can pass from spot to spot and declare, with almost absolute certainty, where the successive scenes in the great drama of Roman history were played.
The Palatine is the site of the most ancient city of Rome, the Roma Quadrata, the fortress of the Pelasgi. Here, according to tradition, was tbe dwelling-place of the ShepherdKing Evander, of Faustulus and of Romulus. Here was the Palace of the Cæsars,
commenced by Augustus (who was born on the Palatine), enlarged by Tiberius, and extended by Caligula. Here, as the Palace was destroyed time after time by fire and other causes, it arose more magnificent and more extensive, till the entire area was covered, and for a long period it retained its grandeur; but when the seat of empire was removed to Constantinople its decay began, Goths and Vandals pillaged it, and now it is a mass of stupendous ruins.
Without attempting to describe it in detail, it may interest the reader to know what he can see if he walks about the Palatine Hill, “on whose summit Romulus, a simple shepherd boy, stood and watched his flight of birds of good augury, while Remus, from the adjacent
round the outsides and joining the ends-an ellipse, measuring nine hundred and thirteen feet six inches by seven hundred and fifty-four feet six inches, or two hundred and twenty-six feet four inches one way, and one hundred and eighty-nine feet four inches the other, larger than the Colosseum. To this area must be added that of the Piazza Rusticucci at one extremity, which measures two hundred and sixty-six feet three inches
by two hundred and twenty-five feet; and the irregular square in front of St. Peter's at the other, which measures three hundred and seventy-two feet nine inches by three hundred and sixty-seven feet six inches." *
A broad flight of marble steps, with colossal statues of St. Peter and St. Paul at the foot, leads up to the vestibule. Before ascending these to enter the largest church in the world, a few particulars may be given of this marvellous building, though it would require a volume to describe it in detail. It stands on the site of the Circus of Nero, the scene of the terrible martyrdoms of the Christians, and on the traditional site of the spot
• Wood, “New Curiosum Urbis."
where St. Peter was buried after his crucifixion on the Janiculum. As early as the year A.D. 106 an oratory was erected here to mark the site of St. Peter's tomb; and in the year 319, Constantine, at the suggestion of Pope St. Sylvester, founded a basilica on this spot, and worked with his own hands in its construction, by carrying twelve baskets of earth in honour of the twelve Apostles.
This basilica stood for over a thousand years, and then threatening to collapse, Nicholas V. in 1147 determined to erect a more magnificent one in its place; but the idea was not put into execution till 1506, when Julius II. laid the foundation-stone of the present church. The first architect, Bramante, designed the building on the plan of a Greek cross, but he died while the works were in a very early stage of progress. Then Raphael, with two other architects, was appointed, by whom Bramante's design was altered, and a Latin cross substituted. These architects died, as did the Popes who appointed them, and for years the works were suspended; but in the time of Paul III., Michael Angelo, then in his seventy-second year, had the superintendence of the work committed to him ; and it is one of the most marvellous events in the career of that marvellous man that in fifteen days he had completed a new design, on the plan of a Greek cross. He did not live to complete the whole work, but he succeeded in carrying the dome, according to his own design, to its present height. Under other Popes and other architects the work progressed, sometimes with extraordinary rapidity, as when Giacomo della Porta, during the pontificate of Gregory XIII., employed six hundred workmen night and day for twenty-two months, and completed it, with the exception of the lantern and the portico of the façade. The latter was entrusted to Carlo Maderno, who prolonged the nave into the form of a Latin cross, and marred the exquisite design of Michael Angelo.
Fifteen architects succeeded one another in the construction of St. Peter's during the pontificates of twenty-eight Popes, and during a period of one hundred and seventy-six years ; or, including the colonnades erected by Bernini, and the sacristy consecrated by Pius VI. in 1784, three hundred and thirty-four years. According to the calculation of Carlo Fontana, the cost, exclusive of 405,453 pounds of bronze used in constructing the chair of St. Peter and the confessional, amounted to about eleven millions of our money.
The following figures may be of interest. The space occupied by the buildings is 240,000 square feet. The façade is three hundred and seventy-two feet broad and one hundred and fifty-four high, ornamented by eight columns ninety-three feet high, and crowned with thirteen statues, nineteen feet high, of our Lord and the Apostles. The vestibule is two hundred and thirty-five feet long, forty-two wide, and sixty-six high. The length, from the statues of Constantine and Charlemagne in the wings of this atrium, is four hundred and sixty-six feet. The interior of the basilica is six hundred and nineteen feet long, and from the floor to the summit of the cross four hundred and fifty-three feet. The number of columns, within and without, including the colonnade, is seven hundred and fifty-six, of which two hundred and forty-five are in the interior; the number of statues, three hundred and ninety-six. “There are forty-six altars and one hundred and twenty-one lamps, the greater number of which are always kept burning. One hundred and thirty-two Popes have been interred here, counting from St. Peter to Gregory XVI.” The sum annually expended in keeping the building in repair is 30,000 scudi, or £6,300 sterling.
The impression produced on the mind of the beholder on entering the nave has been given a hundred times over, and in a hundred different ways. One sees it like some great work of nature rather than the work of man, unparalleled in beauty and of surpassing splendour; another sees a noble work desecrated by vanity and ambition; in one it inspires reverential awe and worship, in another it gives the impression of a pantheon rather than of a Christian church; one sees in it a place in which the soul may find a heaven, another sees “the angels in the baptistery enormous giants; the doves, colossal birds of prey.” One feels that it is a place in which every Christian heart can find rest and satisfaction; to another it appears “like an apotheosis of the popedom rather than a glorification of Christianity and its doctrines.”
Whatever other feeling may impress the visitor on first entering St. Peter's, there is one which is universally felt: it is the failure to recognise the real magnitude of the edifice; nor can the mind be disabused of the idea that the church is only of ordinary size until the eye has accustomed itself to take in the immensity of the whole by careful examination of different parts. For instance, the cherubs supporting the fonts for holy water appear to be but models of little children; standing beside them, however, they are found to be larger than ordinary grown-up people. There are ledges and ornaments on the pilasters which the guides take pleasure in asking if you think you can reach, and the visitor unhesitatingly replies in the affirmative; but on nearing the object, he finds it is as high again as he anticipated. It is by such devices as these that the colossal size of the building is estimated, but it is a controverted point whether or not it is a radical defect in architecture to need such aids. On the floor of the nave there are stars indicating the length of the building as compared with others : viz., St. Peter's itself, 619 feet; St. Paul's, London, 5161 feet; Duomo, Florence, 495 feet; Milan Cathedral, 448 feet; St. Petronio, Bologna, 440 feet; St. Sophia, Constantinople, 364 feet, &c.
On the right side of the nave is the celebrated bronze statue of St. Peter, whose extended foot has been kissed by generations of worshippers until it is worn out of shape. It is asserted by antiquarians, and others, that this is a statue of Jupiter adapted to its present purpose, the symbolical key being placed in one hand and a halo over the head. One thinks of the joke of Dean Swift, that the only difference between the ancient and the modern city was that the one was the worship of Jupiter and the other the worship of Jew Peter. It is curious how the Roman Catholic Church has always had the knack of adapting what it finds to its own purpose;—this statue, for example, is only a transformed statue of Jupiter, executed in the worst days of paganism; the Column of the Immaculate Conception was an unfinished column of an amphitheatre, and lay for centuries in neglect, till Pius IX. found a use for it, to commemorate a dogma; and the very chair of St. Peter las carvings on the back representing the labours of Hercules, and an inscription in Arabic proclaiming that “there is but one God, and Mohammed is his prophet!”
Standing beside the statue of St. Peter, one of the finest, or perhaps the finest view of the dome is obtained, but it is impossible to convey any idea in writing of the magnificence of this stupendous vault; it is useless to give the measurements or other details. “The cupola,” says Forsyth, "is glorious, viewed in its design, its altitude, or even its decorations ; viewed either as a whole or as a part, it enchants the eye, it satisfies the taste, it expands the soul. The very air seems to eat up all that is harsh or colossal, and leaves us nothing but the sublime to | <urn:uuid:e3f684c4-c064-4509-9b69-57d1bf9378f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.mk/books?id=xi8BAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA3-PA172-IA9&focus=viewport&vq=hundred&dq=editions:LCCN03026786&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962229 | 2,243 | 2.6875 | 3 |
For this assignment, conduct research and consider current national and international regulations. As the aviation industry is evolving, regulations need to adapt to meet the changing landscape. Research one national and one international regulation to identify an area where the regulation could be improved based on current, or future, industry changes. As an example of potential changes coming to the aviation industry watch How Autonomous Flying Taxis Could Change the Way You Travel (8:04/Ted Talks) (Links to an external site.). You may choose any two regulations you wish. Then write a two to three-page paper, not including the title page and reference page, that identifies the regulation and then explains and supports your proposed improvement.
Your paper must be supported by a minimum of three scholarly references, should be grammatically sound, and free of spelling errors. You must include a properly formatted title page, in-text citations where appropriate, and a reference page formatted according to current APA guidelines. If you have any questions regarding APA requirements, please refer to the current APA manual or ask your instructor.
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To plant is to hope
To restore is to heal
To protect is to love
The Communion Forest is a global initiative comprising local activities of forest protection, tree growing and eco-system restoration undertaken by provinces, dioceses and individual churches across the Anglican Communion to safeguard creation.
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The Communion Forest: Practical, symbolic and an act of hope
- Safeguarding the integrity of creation, and/or sustaining and renewing the life of the earth
- Helping with afforestation and preserving biodiversity, providing habitats, protecting ecosystems and removing some carbon dioxide from the atmosphere
A symbol of:
- Our commitment to God’s creation
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I encourage you to join in this exciting initiative, whether by protecting a precious environment, restoring a degraded one or planting something new. All these activities are spiritual acts too.
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March 14th is a great day to celebrate your inner math and science geek. Not only is March 14th Albert Einstein’s birthday, it is also Pi Day. You know, pi… the ratio of a circle’s circumference to it’s diameter… 3.141592653 etc. etc.
THIS year, Pi Day is extra special… it’s the Pi Day of the century! March 14th, 2015 at precisely 9:26:53 a.m. we will celebrate more consecutive digits of pi than at any other moment in either the previous or the last one hundred years. Stand proud, math geeks!
To celebrate Pi Day, we’re making Grandma’s Taffy Mini Pies. These bite size pastries ooze caramel goodness, and are delicious with or without the addition of pecans. Enjoy!
Ingredients and Directions (Makes about 40 mini-muffin size pies)
Crust: Cream together 1 (8 ounce) package softened cream cheese and 1/2 cup (1 stick) plus 3 tablespoons softened butter. Blend in 2 1/2 cups of flour. Roll dough into marble size pieces (like cookie dough) and place one piece into each cup of a mini muffin tin. Push dough in center to mold inside of each mini muffin tin.
Optional: Place a pecan half or a few broken pecan pieces on the inside bottom of each mini pie crust.
Taffy Filling: Beat one egg and whisk in 1 cup of brown sugar. So easy! Spoon 1 teaspoon of egg/sugar mixture into each mini pie crust, being careful to keep the to keep the egg/sugar mixture below the level of the pie crust sides.
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The history of our Institute begins from the Institute of Mechanics
of the USSR Academy of Sciences that was organized in May 1939 under the
Department of Engineering Sciences of the Academy. In different years
the Institute was directed by eminent Soviet scientists, a full
member (academician) of the USSR Academy of Sciences Boris Grigorievich
Galerkin, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences
Nikolai Gurievich Chetaev, a corresponding member of the USSR Academy
of Sciences Aleksei Antonovich Il'yushin, and Professor
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Nikol'sky.
The Institute of Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences had Department of Elasticity and Plasticity, Department of Gas Dynamics, Strength Laboratory, Department of Aerodynamics, Department of Hydrodynamics and Filtration, Department of Wave Dynamics, Department of the Shell Theory, Department of Analytical Mechanics, Department of Dynamic Strength, Department of Cavitation and Water Ballistics, and Department of Thermohydrodynamics. The Institute has played an important role in the development of mechanics in the USSR.
However, in the middle 60's of the 20th century, mechanics was called up to solve challenging fundamental problems that were highly important for the development of the entire exact natural science and engineering. Most of these problems were on the border of mechanics with physics, chemistry, and biology.
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was initiated to be a great scientific center for studies in the fields of mechanics that were highly essential for science and technologies but, nevertheless, had been developed insufficiently by scientists in mechanics at research institutions of industrial branches or at higher educational establishments. The Institute should become a center that would consolidate scientists in the fields of mechanics from all over the USSR and keep creative contacts with main institutions and research teams dealing with studies in the area of mechanics.
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences was
organized on January 8, 1965 under the Resolution of the
Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences No. 385 of December 04, 1964
to provide investigations in new fields of mechanics. The Resolution was signed
by the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences Academician
Mstislav Vsevolodovich Keldysh.
The organizer and the first director of the Institute was an outstanding
scientist of our time in the field of mechanics Academician
Aleksandr Yulievich Ishlinsky. He headed the Institute till 1990 and
then was the Honorable Director of the Institute until his death. Under his
management, the Institute had become the greatest scientific center of our
country in the field of mechanics.
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics dealt with fundamental investigations in new fields of mechanics using recent achievements of related sciences, physics, mathematics, and chemistry.
Main studies covered physical gas dynamics (mechanics of combustion,
explosion, shock waves, and plasma, as well as issues related to the mechanical
effect of laser radiation), mechanics of polymers (investigation of the
strength of polymers taking into account their physical structure and
transformations), chemical mechanics (hydrodynamics of suspended layers and
other multi-phase systems, hydrodynamics of reacting systems, and mechanics of
abnormal fluids), dynamics of inelastic media (dynamics of heterogeneous
systems, including soils, subject to high-rate deformations), and control of
mechanical motion (optimal stabilization and correction of motion,
pursuit-evasion problems for controlled systems).
The Resolution of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences on the
organization of the Institute noted that the Institute for Problems in
Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences would be placed in the building of
the Institute of Mechanics of the USSR Academy of Sciences on Leningradskii
Avenue. However, the same Resolution commissioned K.N. Chernopyatov, a
representative of the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, to write
a proposal for construction of a new building in Moscow.
This building was constructed in the South-West of Moscow. The Institute
moved to the new building in 1976 - 1977. The construction of the building was
supervised by Mikhail Ivanovich Yakushin, a well-known scientific
experimenter and a good manager.
Since the time of its organization, the structure and scientific priorities of the Institute have been updated. These changes were due to the development and appearance of new fields in mechanics, as well as due to the necessity to solve new practical problems.
In 1990, Academician D.M. Klimov became the Director of the Institute. For 15 years on this post, he was keeping the traditions that had been laid by A.Yu. Ishlinsky.
Recently, the latest election of the Director of the Institute was held (2004), and some changes in the scientific structure of the Institute were performed.
At the present time, there are 19 scientific laboratories at the Institute:
- Laboratory of Mechanics of Systems (Head of Laboratory: Yu.K. Zhbanov)
- Laboratory of Mechanics of Controlled Systems (Head of Laboratory: A.A. Melikyan)
- Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics (Head of Laboratory: N.N. Bolotnik)
- Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics (Head of Laboratory: Yu.D. Chashechkin)
- Laboratory of Mathematical and Physical Modeling in Hydrodynamics (Head of Laboratory: V.I. Polezhaev)
- Laboratory of Smart Fluid Mechanics (Head of Laboratory: A.N. Rozhkov)
- Physical Gasdynamics Laboratory (Head of Laboratory: S.V. Chalov)
- Thermogasdynamics and Combustion Laboratory (Head of Laboratory: V.M. Gremyachkin)
- Radiative Gasdynamics Laboratory (Head of Laboratory: S.T. Surzhikov)
- Laboratory for Mechanics of Laser Discharge (Head of Laboratory: N.G. Solov'ev)
- Laboratory for Interaction of Plasma and Radiation with Materials (Head of Laboratory: A.F. Kolesnikov)
- Laboratory of Modeling in Solid Mechanics (Head of Laboratory: A.V. Manzhirov)
- Laboratory of Mechanics of Strength and Fracture of Materials and Structures (Head of Laboratory: R.V. Goldstein)
- Laboratory of Mechanics and Optimization of Structures (Head of Laboratory: N.V. Banichuk)
- Wave Dynamics Laboratory (Head of Laboratory: I.V. Simonov)
- Tribology Laboratory (Head of Laboratory: I.G. Goryacheva)
- Laboratory of Geomechanics (Head of Laboratory: Yu.F. Kovalenko)
- Laboratory for the Mechanics of Natural Hazards (Head of Laboratory: S.Yu. Dobrokhotov)
- Laboratory of Computer Engineering (Head of Laboratory: N.E. Isikov)
The Institute performs basic research in a wide spectrum of issues of mechanics and related sciences. The investigations are conducted under Resolutions of the Russian Academy of Sciences, within the framework of Federal and Special Programs, and under contracts with various organizations. Since the time of organization of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), employees of the Institute have won 20 - 30 grants for initiative projects annually. The Institute collaborates with related institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences located in Moscow (the A.A. Blagonravov Institute of Machines Science of RAS, the V.A. Trapeznikov Institute of Control Problems, The Institute of Applied Mathematics, the V.A. Steklov Mathematical Institute), as well as with institutes of the Siberian, Urals, and Far East Branches of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The Institute's investigations are important for applications in aerodynamics, geophysics, space exploration, and instrument-making industry. The Institute has close contacts with leading research institutes of industrial branches and universities. Among these institutes are the Institute of Mechanics of the Moscow State University, Central Aero- and Hydrodynamical Institute (TsAGI), A.I. Krylov Central Research Institute, Central Research Institute of Machine Building (TsNIIMash), Moscow Institute of Heating Engineering, S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation , Central Research Institute , the S.V. Ilyushin Aviation Complex, the All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Railway Transportation, the All-Russia Scientific Research Institute of Gas (VNIIGAZ), LUKOIL Company, and many others.
None of the institutes of the Academy of Sciences can work successfully
without talented young scientists and contacts with universities. The history
of the Institute is closely related to such universities as Moscow Institute
of Physics and Technology, two chairs of which ("Mechanics and Control
Processes" and "Physical and Chemical Mechanics") have been based at the
Institute for more than 30 years, the M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University
(Department of Mechanics and Mathematics, Department of Physics, and
Department of Computational Mathematics and Cybernetics), the N.E. Bauman
Moscow State Technical University (Department of Special Machine Building,
Department of Power Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Fundamental
Sciences), Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, Moscow Aviation Institute
(MAI), Moscow Energy Institute (MEI), and Moscow State Aviation Technological
University. Most employees of the Institute graduated from these universities.
In 2005, four Educational Scientific Centers in the field of mechanics and scientific foundation of engineering were organized at the Institute:
- Institute for Problems in Mechanics / Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
- Institute for Problems in Mechanics / Moscow State Aviation Technological University
- Institute for Problems in Mechanics / the Bauman Moscow State Technical University
- Institute for Problems in Mechanics / Physical Department of the Lomonosov Moscow State University
The Institute for Problems in Mechanics has Post Graduate Courses (Ph.D. Courses) for training young scientists. Enrollment to the post graduate courses was not interrupted even in the most adverse years of perestroika. Currently, there are 22 Ph.D. students that are trained at the Institute. Recently a Doctoral Study was organized at the Institute as an additional measure for attracting young scientists who have a Ph.D. degree and want to work for science.
There is a Dissertation Council at the Institute. Academician A.Yu. Ishlinsky was the chairman of this Council until his death. After A.Yu. Ishlinsky's death, the Council has been headed by Academician Klimov. About 10 sessions of the Council occur each year. On these sessions, Ph.D. and D.Sc. dissertations are successfully defended by scientists from both the Institute for Problems in Mechanics and other organizations.
To obtain achievements in science, it is necessary to have modern technical facilities. Much attention has been given to the creation of powerful engineering support for experiments since the organization of the Institute. The engineering basis for experiments was created and is being maintained at the Institute. The Institute has about 70 experimental complexes, the most powerful of which are:
- high-voltage plasma generators of power up to 1000kW;
- technological lasers of power from 1 to 10kW;
- hydrophysical complex of equipment for studying turbulence, jets, traces, vortices, internal waves in heterogeneous media, and other phenomena;
- installation for tri-axial compression of solids and rocks;
- robotic wall-climbing research complex;
- installations for visualizing micro-jet processes and studying rheological properties of fluids;
- installation for studying flows of viscoplastic media in channels and cavities with vibrating walls.
Four experimental installations - laser installation "Lantan",
plasma generator "Plazmotron 1000", robotic complex "Robot B",
and "Hydrophysical complex" had a financial support from the Ministry of
Science and Technologies of the Russian Federation as unique equipment.
The Institute has always been equipped with newest computers.
The scientific results of the Institute are well known abroad. Research projects of the Institute have been financed by various international organizations, including European Space Agency, International Space Station Project, INTAS (International Association for the promotion of cooperation with new Independent States from the former Soviet Union), CRDF (U.S. Civilian Research and Development Foundation), and Humboldt Foundation. Among the Institute's employees, there are winners of international prizes and members of foreign Academies.
The results of the Institute's researchers are published in leading journals in Russia and abroad. About 300 monographs have been published for the entire history of the Institute. These monographs are exhibited in the Institute's foyer.
Scientific achievements of the Institute's employees have always been highly accessed. This is indicated by awards and prizes that our employees won in different years. First of all, these are Lenin Prizes and State Prizes in the field of science and technology, as well as Prizes of the Russian Academy of Sciences and international awards. The Institute has always provided possibilities for creative growth of young scientists. This is proved by the list of awards and prizes. These are Lenin Komsomol Prize and State Prize for Young Scientists.
Nowadays, the Institute has 372 employees, including 4 full members of the Russian Academy of Sciences (two of them are part-time employees), 3 corresponding members of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 57 have a D.Sc. degree, and 87 have a Ph.D. degree.
Among the Institute's scientists, there are 3 Lenin Prize winners, and 18 State Prize winners.
Directors of the Institute for Problems in Mechanics
Academician Aleksandr Yulievich Ishlinsky
Director of the Institute from 1965 to 1990
Academician Dmitry Mikhailovich Klimov
Director of the Institute from 1990 to 2004
Academician Felix Leonidovich Chernousko
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Oct. 12, 2012. There is a special place for Christmas trees in the hearts of everyone. Along the Parkway can be seen this symbol of Christmas, but come and learn about this beloved fir beyond is tradition at the Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Program Oct. 20, at 7 p.m.
Oct. 5, 2012. October is upon us and the mountain foliage, true to form, is beginning to make the transition to the colors that bring so much attention here in the fall. Typically, the Blue Ridge Parkway experiences the much anticipated change in fall foliage around the middle of October. Many factors however contribute to variations in when and where colors will peak.
Sept. 18, 2012. Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs Sept. 21–23, 2012, are free and open to the public. What has a four chambered stomach, feeds on vegetation, can run up to 40 miles per hour, and has beautiful spotted young? Join a ranger to find out more about our furry friends the white-tail deer.
Sept. 18, 2012. In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Civil War historian and award winning author Michael Hardy and a group of historic re-enactors will give a presentation on the Civil War in the Appalachian Mountains.
Sept. 14, 2012. The High Country’s most well known resource for weather, Ray’s Weather, has recently announced the winners of the annual Ray’s Weather Calendar photo contest. As was the case in 2011, the Blue Ridge Parkway will be the theme for the calendar.
BY PAUL T. CHOATE
Sept. 10, 2012. The Linn Cove Viaduct turns 25 tomorrow, and numerous events are taking place celebrating the anniversary. (Post includes feature story by Randy Johnson depicting the history of the viaduct that was in High Country Magazine‘s Aug./Sept. issue.)
BY JESSE WOOD
Sept. 6, 2012. The anniversary celebrations for the Grandfather Mountain Mile High Swinging Bridge and the Blue Ridge Parkway Linn Cove Viaduct will be Sept. 11, 2012. Historic photos will be on display for those who have a personal connection to the building of the Viaduct or for those who want to simply enjoy the beauty of the area.
Aug. 21, 2012. The Blue Ridge Parkway has been called “America’s Favorite Drive” and for good reason. For generations people have stepped out into this living museum. Upon learning many things in this parkway ranger program you can test your knowledge about the great & small that define the beauty of the Blue Ridge.
Aug. 14, 2012. Join the rangers for a 2 mile evening stroll to Moses and Bertha Cone’s final resting place. Discover more about the Cone family…both their good and bad times. Meet on the Cone Manor Porch wearing good walking shoes and bring water and a flashlight for this 1.5 hour hike.
Aug. 9, 2012. Blue Ridge Mountain Ranger Programs for Aug. 17-18. In recognition of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Civil War historian and award winning author Michael Hardy and a group of historic re-enactors will give a presentation on the Civil War in the Appalachian Mountains.
Aug. 7, 2012. Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs Aug. 8-12 are free and open to the public. Join a ranger for a tour of the second floor of the beautiful, former home of Moses and Bertha Cone. Tours are held Saturdays and Sundays and last about 45 minutes. Tours will end the weekend of October 21, 2012.
Aug. 3, 2012.When local moonshiner Charlie Fox has a change of heart about his illicit line of work, he finds out that his “business partner” has no intention of letting him renege on their agreement. Charlie’s clever solution to his conundrum has become a local legend. Come hear the story from a Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger at this Aug. 10 free program.
July 31, 2012. Hear great stories from the Blue Ridge Parkway Rangers: When local moonshiner Charlie Fox has a change of heart about his illicit line of work, he finds out that his “business partner” has no intention of letting him renege on their agreement. Charlie’s clever solution to his conundrum has become a local legend.
July 24, 2012. Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs July 27-29 are all free and open to the public thanks to the Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, Eastern National and FRIENDS of the Blue Ridge Parkway for their financial support of these programs.
July 9, 2012. Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs July 11 – 15 are all free and open to the public thanks to the financial support of Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation, Eastern National, and Friends of the Blue Ridge Parkway. Join a ranger for a tour of the second floor of the beautiful, former home of Moses and Bertha Cone or visit the Linn Cove Viaduct.
June 26, 2012. UPDATE: Now includes statement from FHWA. Less than three years after a similar “rehabilitation” job, re-repairs to the Goshen Creek Bridge began in May to replace defective railing and the adjoining concrete deck. The bridge is located on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Concrete has been falling on an underpass and a nearby field that features a walking trail.
BY JESSE WOOD
May 25, 2012. Join a park ranger to learn how William Linville and his son would give their lives near the river’s end, to find out the name of that bird that gets up at 5 a.m. to sing into your window, and to learn about species conservation efforts. Each program is free to the public and are about 45 minutes in length. Friday, June 1 and Saturday, June 2; each program is at 7:30 p.m. | <urn:uuid:ba0821fa-4357-4c8f-af75-82fb8f74e860> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hcpress.com/tag/blue-ridge-parkway | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950878 | 1,218 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Teenager counselling in London
Have a teen who is struggling?
From exams and deadlines, to the pressures of growing up, and the endless comparison game social media encourages, teenagers face many challenges. If they feel unsupported or overwhelmed, the result can be depression, identity issues, stress and anxiety, low self-esteem, drug and alcohol abuse, eating disorders, and relational difficulties.
It is estimated that only one in four young people in the UK who actually need mental health services receive help1, even when talk therapy is often a very successful treatment.
Benefits of teenager counselling
Psychological therapy for your teen offers them:
- a safe, unpressured space to relax and be authentic
- the chance to figure out who they are and what they want to be
- unbiased support for issues they are facing like bullying or LGBTQ+ issues
- help with communication skills and self-expression
- the abiilty to see bigger perspectives and recognise their own values
- tools to raise their confidence and manage their thoughts and emotions
- a focus on their strengths and not just their weaknesses
- coping skills to manage the challenges ahead.
Let us help your teen to help themselves
We'll connect your teen with a psychotherapist or psychologist who has significant experience in working with young adults. Among the specialists are psychotherapist Philippa Donald, clinical psychologist Gemma Allison, and child and teen psychotherapist Theodora Savvidou.
What issues can adolescent psychotherapy help?
If you have a teenager who is showing signs of adolescent psychological problems, then counselling could help. This might look like:
- difficulty in coping with daily life
- excessive worrying and anxiety
- extended period of depression and lethargy
- negativity and hoplessness
- identity and sexuality issues
- noticeable changes in eating and sleeping
- struggling at school or not wanting to go
- putting themselves down
- references to suicide or self-harm
- changes in personality or acting out
- volatile moods
- drug/alcohol misuse
- unexplained medical symptoms or constant colds/flu
- social withdrawal.
What is a session of teenager counselling like?
Counselling for teenagers uses all the same principles as adult therapy. It is based on developing a relationship of trust and openness, using active listening, reflecting back, and asking questions. The idea is to open up new perspectives, as well as help your teen focus on their strengths. And depending on the approach the counsellor is using, sessions might include practical exercises to help your teen deal with their thoughts and emotions.
How is teen therapy different than adult therapy?
The difference is that teenager counselling can be more underpinned by strategies from developmental psychology. A teen is in the phase of life where they are still determining what their identity is, who they are apart from their family and peer groups, and what values they will lead their life from.
Adolescent therapy - The Harley Therapy™ approach
All our psychologists and teenager counsellors at Harley Therapy™ have specific training, and have undergone a CRB check. They are experts in their field who work with teenagers as it is their passion and interest.
Further reading on Adolescent Counselling
- How to Help a Teen With Depression
- Self-esteem for Teens - How Can You Help Your Child?
- Your Teenager's Brain - What's Going On in There?
- Adolescent Counselling - Some Facts Explained
- The Dangers of Facebook.
1 According to The Local Government Association, January 2022.
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is an association for UK-based counselling professionals. It supports practitioners, enabling them to provide a better service.
CITE THIS PAGE
Harley Therapy Ltd. “Adolescent Counselling in London • Psychologists for Teenagers”. Harley Therapy, 11 Feb. 2022, https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/adolescent-teenager-counselling-london.htm. Accessed 10 Aug. 2022.
Harley Therapy Ltd. (2022, February 11). Adolescent Counselling in London • Psychologists for Teenagers. Retrieved from https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/adolescent-teenager-counselling-london.htm
Harley Therapy Ltd. "Adolescent Counselling in London • Psychologists for Teenagers." Last modified February 11, 2022. Accessed August 10, 2022. https://www.harleytherapy.co.uk/adolescent-teenager-counselling-london.htm.
Issues for Teenage Therapy
- academic difficulties
- body image issues
- family troubles
- eating disorders
- identity struggles
- LGBTQ+ issues
- low self-confidence
- peer pressure
- parental divorce
- relating difficulties
- sleep problems
- social withdrawal
- suicidal thinking.
Each therapist in the UK will have their own speciality, so search for adolescent therapists and focus on practitioners with experience in the areas you’re looking for support in.
You can get family counselling on the NHS, but there may be lengthy waiting lists and a limit to the number of sessions available to you for free.
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The effects of external K+, H+ and Ca2+ concentrations on the intracellular K+ concentration, [K+]i, and the K+‐ATPase activity in 2‐day‐old mung bean roots [Vigna mungo (L.) Hepper] were investigated. [K+]i, in mung bean roots was markedly decreased by external K+ or H+ stress and did not recover the initial value even after the stress was removed. This decrease in [K+]i, gradually disappeared with the addition of (Ca2+. Ca2+ may offset the harmful effects of ion stress. Ca2+ seems to have two effects on K+ transport; control of K+ permeability and activation of K+ uptake, although K+‐ATPase activity was inhibited by Ca2+ concentrations higher than 10–4 M. We suggest that Ca2+ activates K+ uptake indirectly through the acidification of the cytoplasm.
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- Intracellular pH, ion stress. K‐ATPase
- Vigna inungo
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On 29th June, 2019 one of Namibia’s oldest desert elephants, Voortrekker, was culled. The price of his death? 120,000 Namibian dollars.
According to a Facebookpost by MET Namibia (Ministry of Environment and Tourism), this bull was put down due to him being a ‘problem animal’. The evidence for this is presented in pictures; damaged fences, broken over-ground water pipes and obscure shots of a deceased cow. A justified hunt? It is hard to determine exactly what happened, but owing to the little explanation and evidence it seems the killing was overwhelmingly misjudged.
Voortrekker was the elder of an inspiringly resilient herd of elephant bulls known as desert elephants. These mammals are not a unique species. What makes them special is their ability to adapt to the harsh climate through learnt behaviour. Their survival is not through genetic adaptation, but through a passing on of knowledge. During the 1980s they were driven out from their natural habitat and into the desert due to human expansion.
Leading up to the death of Voortrekker, complaints had arisen regarding a particular herd of elephants that were disrupting the land and communities of the Omatjete constituency. Voortrekker was part of the Ugab West population of bulls situated next to the Ugab river. On 24th June 2019, the concerned elephant conservation organisations urged MET officials not to hunt any elephants living in this area as these particular bulls do not cross into the Omatjete. Several online reports state the following from the Ugab Concerned Conservancies, including one from the NY Post:
“We understand that complaints have been received from communities living in the Omatjete area. The Ugab west population of desert elephants do not cross into those communities,”
Despite these concerns, a government appointed trophy hunter was still given the go-ahead. The question is: Why?
Trophy hunting is still legal in Namibia. If you go onto the MET Namibia’s website, you can fill out a hunting application form. There are even tourist sites promoting the ‘sport’. Although MET Namibia claim that the shooting was for the benefit and safety of the local community, there is not a definite answer as to where this $120,000 will go. Do these communities actually benefit?
A Sky News report from 2016 claims that trophy hunting actually aids the population of elephants in Namibia. By issuing a limited number of hunting permits a year, it restricts poachers from doing unregulated damage. A hunter from this report claims that they shoot the bulls because they love them. Elephants are carefully selected if they are old, have finished breeding and are ‘ready to die.’ However, through careful observation and research, conservation organisations such as the Desert Elephant project have discovered that this is not the case. The males have a higher breeding age and generally don’t begin mating until age 30+. This allows for developed survival skills and intelligence that they are able to pass onto their offspring.
For a population of elephants that have already fought their battle against poachers, it is this that plays a vital role in the continued survival of their species. Not trophy hunting.
At WorkingAbroad, we were outraged to hear the news of Voortrekker. Vicky McNeil, our co-founder observed him three years ago on a trip to promote our Desert Elephant Volunteer Project in Namibia and to meet the volunteers.
“He was known as the gentle, peaceful elephant who always had a calming effect on the other elephants around him – they called him the Old Man.” Vicky says. “I am incredibly saddened by the news. He was a beautiful, impressive animal and will be sorely missed.”
The Desert Elephant Project also runs a PEACE project (People and Elephants Amicably Co-Existing) which aims to educate local communities about the elephants. By eliminating fear through education, people can learn to live alongside these magnificent bulls thus avoiding the ‘need’ for human intervention. A spokesperson from The Desert Elephant Project told us:
“The shooting of Voortrekker comes as a total shock to The Desert Elephant Project and the communities where he roamed. He was incredibly important as he was the main breeding bull and as the eldest bull he also played an important role in mentoring the younger bulls to ensure good behavior and knowledge.
The Desert Elephant Project stands behind the conservancies we assist in their objection to this hunt and their commitment to conserving their small population of desert adapted elephants. The Desert Elephant Project is committed to providing all the help we can and extending our PEACE project to ensure everyone understands how to live safely with elephants and therefore accept their presence.”
The Desert Elephant Project’s officialFacebook page has received hundreds of comments expressing the sorrow and outrage that has arisen since his shooting. Many who have seen and worked with the elephants recount first hand experiences of what it’s like to work with such amazing animals.
“It was amazing to be so close to the animals that people have described as dangerous. I felt very nervous but still amazed as I watched them. Then, after some time, I felt at peace as if I am one with them.We are still waiting for enquiries into this tragedy but it is clear that is has affected many people who knew him and beyond.” Otjiperongo teacher
Voortrekker was a legend – and still is – and it is hard to comprehend the motives behind his shooting.
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Objectives: We examined the impact of household income on the use of medical services in Japan, where there is a "health care for all" policy, with important, centralized influence by the national government designed to ensure universal access. Methods and Subjects: All healthcare societies operating in 2003 were included in the study, representing 14,776,193 insured adults and 15,496,752 insured dependents. The mean case rate (the average number of monthly bills per patient), the mean number of service days per person, and the mean medical cost per person served as indicators of medical service use. Multiple regression analysis was performed by the forced entry method using case rate, the number of service days, and medical cost as outcome variables, and average monthly salary, dependent ratio, average age, and premium rate as the explanatory variables. Results: In the multiple regression analyses, average monthly salary showed a high positive correlation of outpatient and dental indicators, including case rate, the number of service days, and medical cost. If the average monthly salary were reduced 20 percent lower than the mean, the estimated changes (95 percent CI) in case rate for the insured were -7.49 (-8.14 ∼ -6.84) percent for outpatient visits and -8.16 (-8.77 ∼ -7.56) percent for dental services. Conclusions: Average monthly salary intensifies the effects of copayments on the case rate, the number of service days, and medical cost in the "Employees Health Insurance" in Japan. Thus, a low salary appears to discourage patients from seeking medical and dental services.
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The P301S mutation in exon 10 of the tau gene causes a hereditary tauopathy. While mitochondrial complex I inhibition has been linked to sporadic tauopathies. Piericidin A is a prototypical member of the group of the piericidins, a class of biologically active natural complex I inhibitors, isolated from streptomyces spp. with global distribution in marine and agricultural habitats. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is a pathogenic interaction of the environmental toxin piericidin A and the P301S mutation.
Transgenic mice expressing human tau with the P301S-mutation (P301S+/+) and wild-type mice at 12 weeks of age were treated subcutaneously with vehicle (N = 10 P301S+/+, N = 7 wild-type) or piericidin A (N = 9 P301S+/+, N = 9 wild-type mice) at a dose of 0.5 mg/kg/d for a period of 28 days via osmotic minipumps. Tau pathology was measured by stereological counts of cells immunoreative with antibodies against phosphorylated tau (AD2, AT8, AT180, and AT100) and corresponding Western blot analysis.
Piericidin A significantly increased the number of phospho-tau immunoreactive cells in the cerebral cortex in P301S+/+ mice, but only to a variable and mild extent in wild-type mice. Furthermore, piericidin A led to increased levels of pathologically phosphorylated tau only in P301S+/+ mice. While we observed no apparent cell loss in the frontal cortex, the synaptic density was reduced by piericidin A treatment in P301S+/+ mice.
This study shows that exposure to piericidin A aggravates the course of genetically determined tau pathology, providing experimental support for the concept of gene-environment interaction in the etiology of tauopathies.
Matthias Höllerhage, Roman Deck, Anderson De Andrade, Gesine Respondek, Hong Xu, Thomas W. Rösler, Mohamed Salama, Thomas Carlsson, Elizabeth S. Yamada, Seham A. Gad El Hak, Michel Goedert, Wolfgang H. Oertel, Günter U. Höglinger. 2015. Piericidin A aggravates tau pathology in P301S transgenic mice. PLOS one 9(12):e113557.
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Understanding Financial Aid: A Panther’s Guide to Financial Success
Paying for college can be a challenge at the best of times, and especially now. Through a collaboration with BMCC’s Financial Aid services and the ASAP Success Program, we will show you how to find free money and make it work for you and your future! In this workshop you will discover scholarship opportunities, financial literacy tips, and learn to navigate the FAFSA and TAP financial aid applications. With the addition of ASAP, you will learn about the great benefits of being part of ASAP, including learning how to acquire the highly desired monthly MetroCard, for free.
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In 2009, on the anniversary of one century since the discovery of natural gas in Romania, the Natural Gas Documentation and Information Centre was set up at Mediaş. This centre promotes the natural gas sector by organising related exhibitions and scientific events. The exhibitions are displayed in a modern manner, with the use of audio and video systems.
The centres’ thematic exhibition includes:
- A collection of parts, models, documents, patents and awards which certify the importance of the discovery of natural gas in Romania;
- A collection of minerals encompassing a wide range of rocks.
The Natural Gas Documentation and Information Centre from Mediaş rents a specially equipped room for conferences, reunions, business meetings and training. For further details, please go to: www.muzeulgazelor.ro
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It's tough to find the budget for fancy dental equipment when you're just trying to keep your head above water.
Nearly five years after floodwaters tore through Duluth's Lake Superior Zoo, the rebuilding effort is getting a boost from a group of veterinarians – ones who care for animals' teeth, in particular.
The zoo announced Thursday that a grant of $9,500 from the Foundation for Veterinary Dentistry has helped it buy equipment and supplies to improve the dental care of its animals.
The foundation works with the public, with vets, and with veterinary colleges to raise the profile of veterinary dentistry.
Their "Make Me Smile" program focuses mostly on animal shelters to help them get dogs and cats ready for adoption.
Dr. Michael Overend of the Lake County Veterinary Clinics in Two Harbors and Grand Marais helped arrange for the donation to the zoo, KBJR reports.
Equipment replaces items lost in flood
The zoo – or much of West Duluth, for that matter – has not been the same since the night in the summer of 2012 when nine inches of rain fell.
Floodwaters from Kingsbury Creek killed 14 of the zoo's animals and washed away some buildings. A couple of harbor seals gained fame that night when they rode the high water right out of their enclosure and were eventually found out on Grand Avenue.
Parts of the zoo, such as the polar bear enclosure, were not rebuilt. The Lake Superior Zoological Society, which operates the city-owned zoo, now has a plan for redeveloping the zoo on a smaller footprint in Fairmount Park.
But keeping its head above water financially is also a challenge for the zoo and it needed an emergency infusion of cash from the city last fall to stay afloat. | <urn:uuid:13bcae00-bb38-4402-bd28-ee64a0ed7e41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-lifestyle/duluth-zoo-animals-will-get-those-pearly-whites-checked-thanks-to-donation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951629 | 357 | 1.75 | 2 |
Now, more than ever before, people are looking to their computing devices to shop.
According to the results of a recently published global study, mobile commerce is rapidly gaining in acceptance among consumers as they look to their smartphones and tablets for discounts, product reviews, associate assistance and shopping maps.
The study also showed that shoppers enjoy using m-commerce location based features in-store.
The shoppers using mobile commerce appreciate having WiFi available to them when they are shopping in a brick and mortar shop. The research was conducted by Zebra Technologies, which determined that 51 percent of shoppers feel that they are quite interested in taking advantage of mobile coupons. Equally, another 45 percent said that they were interested in using shopping maps, and an additional 41 are interested in associate assistance.
Of the study participants, 76 percent of consumers around the world felt positive about mobile commerce.
This didn’t necessarily mean that they were using it, yet, but they did express that they had positive feelings toward it. Moreover, almost half of the study participants felt that online and mobile technology solutions are helpful to brick and mortar retailers and that they enhance the overall shopping experience.
Nick D’Alessio, of global retail solutions development at Zebra, explained that the findings of this recent study underscore the value of the One Store, One Experience campaign from the company in terms of focusing on the experience, delivery, and fulfillment from the brand, in addition to big data, loyalty, and store mobility for a transformation of the customer experience.
D’Alessio also pointed out that as the expectations from customers continue to rise, retailers are accepting that online and mobile commerce has never been more important. He said that “As online and mobile shopping become more prevalent and accepted worldwide, the importance of the customer experience remains high – as noted by the majority of respondents who would buy more merchandise from retailers they believe provide better customer service.” Mobile tech offers additional real-time visibility to customers so that they will be able to gain access to product, brand, and company information wherever they are and whenever they want it, including while in-store. | <urn:uuid:e52cafb8-1194-4060-aef2-bb59e5314128> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.qrcodepress.com/online-and-mobile-commerce-are-feeling-the-love/8530910/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975109 | 433 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Although the challenges in our lives seem to be headed our way with increasing speed, the blessings that we are given far exceed the challenges when a moment is taken to reflect.
The amount of information that is available to all of us is truly staggering compared to years past. We are now able to empathize with people from the four corners of the globe when tragedy strikes. We almost instantly now know of matters that just ten years ago would have gone unreported to us, and thus unnoticed.
How do we survive the onslaught of information and maintain the inner peace that we all strive to attain? Counting our blessings each and every day, not just on Thanksgiving, is one path that can provide some perspective and help calm the soul.
The ability to turn on the tap and have safe drinking water is something that I just take for granted (even in the midst of drought) until I actually think about it; flipping a switch and getting electricity; walking into a grocery store and having 10,000 choices for food; hopping into our car and driving up to the pump to get gas; having well-trained doctors and nurses and emergency response teams at our disposal; charitable organizations that provide temporary safety nets for us all and reach out to provide help to those less fortunate…
The list is really limitless when blessings are recognized.
The blessing of health is the one that seems to be overlooked the most until we are robbed of the feeling of wellness. To receive the love of another, and to be able to love someone are more of the blessings that get overlooked.
The challenges are there, to be sure. However, the tremendous blessings that surround us will hopefully help us gain perspective and help us survive the challenges.
We are all in this together which is actually another blessing that often goes unrecognized. Despite our differences, there are actually many many more common bonds that we share that will allow us to work together when the going gets tough.
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Two men became benighted near the top of Rossett Ghyll. They were located by team members and escorted down. A beautiful wet night for wander up on t'fells...
Even modern batteries hate cold weather. Their performance deteriorates significantly in lower ambient temperatures.
Keep battery powered devices protected inside bags or jackets, and always carry spares for 'mission critical' devices (apologies for that phrase, but it does best describe devices such as torches and GPS).
Beware of battery life indicators on devices as well. They actually signify voltage drop, and most batteries maintain a steady output for most of their life and then drop off VERY quickly. A battery showing anything less than full charge may not have much life left in it | <urn:uuid:8f4cf55d-8302-4038-a6fc-1cd0c7dfd5a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lamrt.org.uk/index.php/incidents/2012/incident/86 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962656 | 150 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Boxelder bugs are primarily a nuisance because they enter homes and other buildings, often in large numbers. Fortunately, they do not bite people and are essentially harmless to property. When abundant, they can stain walls, curtains, and other surfaces with their excrement. Occasionally some may seek moisture and may be found around houseplants, although they rarely attack them. In the few cases when they do feed, boxelder bugs are very unlikely to injure indoor plants.
Biology and Life Cycle
In Minnesota, boxelder bugs emerge from overwintering sites during spring as the weather starts to warm up. Adults feed on low vegetation and seeds on the ground during spring and early summer, and begin mating a couple weeks after they started feeding. Starting in mid-July, they move to female seed-bearing boxelder trees where they lay eggs on trunks, branches, and leaves. They are rarely found on male boxelder trees. Boxelder bugs may also feed on maple or ash trees. There is no noticeable feeding injury to these trees. During years of high populations, you may find nymphs on the ground or in gardens feeding throughout the summer.
During late summer and fall, boxelder bugs start to leave the trees from where they were feeding to find protected areas for the winter. Although nymphs may be present in the fall, only fully grown adults survive the winter. Adult boxelder bugs typically can fly several blocks, although in some cases they can travel as far as two miles.
Some homes are especially attractive to boxelder bugs, while neighboring buildings may have few. This usually depends upon the amount of sunny exposure a building receives. Boxelder bugs like warm areas and are attracted to buildings with a large southern or western exposure. Buildings standing taller than surrounding structures or standing isolated on flat ground can also attract large numbers of boxelder bugs. Color does not appear to influence boxelder bugs as they are found on buildings of all hues.
As the weather cools, boxelder bugs push into cracks and spaces around homes. In some cases they end up in the interior of buildings where they are often found around windows. They remain active until it becomes cold, which could continue into winter when the weather is mild. While you may see persistent numbers of these bugs, individuals are short-lived, only surviving for a few days up to a week. Other boxelder bugs end up in sheltered areas in walls, attics and similar areas where they remain until it warms up.
During winter, boxelder bugs are generally inactive. However, during mild, sunny days, boxelder bugs become mobile with the increased temperature. They enter a home’s interior from overwintering areas within the home, e.g in walls or attics. As they wake up, they follow the warmth into the home’s living quarters. Once there, they typically move towards windows and other sunny areas. However, the warmth does not reach the insects equally and they do not all become active at the same time.
Eventually by spring, all the surviving boxelder bugs that overwintered inside buildings become active. They try to move outdoors but many remain trapped inside. Despite the circumstantial evidence, they do not reproduce in homes — all the boxelder bugs seen inside during winter and spring entered buildings the previous fall.
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Mind Pembrokeshire is proud to introduce Mums Matter, a service for new mothers struggling with mild to moderate mental health issues during the perinatal period across Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
Mums Matter is an early intervention service, offering a safe, supportive environment to meet with other mums with similar experiences. It provides an opportunity to talk through issues and offers helpful ideas they can use to help with feeling better. Encouraging ongoing peer support is also built into the course. The eight week course also includes one session for partners or supporting family members.
The perinatal period refers to any time from becoming pregnant up to a year after you give birth. Therefore, this service is designed for pregnant mums and those with babies and toddlers.
Kalindi Black, Mums Matter Regional Co-ordinator says, “Mums Matter is a service designed by mums, for mums. Coinciding with Maternal Mental Health Week, we are offering online courses starting from 6th May. Once restrictions continue to ease, we hope to be able to bring this service face to face across the three counties according to need.
“This service has been trialled in other parts of the UK and Wales, with some parents describing it as ‘lifechanging’. We are proud to be able to launch for mums across west Wales.”
You can be referred to this service through health professionals, or if interested you can self-refer. For more information please contact email@example.com or phone 07949 531305. | <urn:uuid:bab95a00-851d-4b69-b6c5-2d342467c2df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hduhb.nhs.wales/news/press-releases/mums-matter-service-launched-across-hywel-dda-uhb/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.948412 | 343 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Description: ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ is possibly one of the best things to ask children because you can get all sorts of answers. It’s great to see how their mind runs free and they aspire to become something different every day. However a gender-stereotype study conducted in the UK among kids of age 7-11, revealed that over 80% of them had a clear gender skew for specific jobs. For instance, 81% of children identified nurses as female and 88% of children identified builders as male. Unfortunately, it’s a reality that society carries gender roles and labels when it comes to the professional world.
Our ‘Jobs have no gender’ illustration aims to re-establish a healthy balance because we firmly believe that kids’ ambitions and professional aspirations should never be limited by gender stereotypes. Let’s broaden their horizons and allow them to dream to be anything they want to be, without restrictions. Let’s empower them to truly express themselves, based on their talents, interests and abilities, without clipping their wings.
Because raising children who value and respect themselves and others means creating a generation of kind and conscious adults.
Artist: illustrated by Nicoletta Carlotto for Amaranto Collection.
Technique: pencil and acrylic on paper, with digital touch ups.
Paper: printed on off-white textured Pastel 160gsm paper.
Frame: by selecting the framed option you will receive the poster in a natural wood frame with plexiglass, very delivery-friendly and kids-friendly. | <urn:uuid:3929dd1f-34fa-41bc-9436-93b051ae058c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://amarantocollection.co.za/product/jobs-have-no-gender-eng/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951863 | 328 | 2.15625 | 2 |
A control system that uses type-2 fuzzy logic controllers (FLC) is proposed for the control of anon-isothermal continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR), where a first order irreversiblereaction occurs and that is characterized by the presence of bifurcations. Bifurcations dueto parameter variations can bring the reactor to instability or create new working conditionswhich although stable are unacceptable. An extensive analysis of the uncontrolled CSTRdynamics was carried out and used for the choice of the control configuration and the developmentof controllers. In addition to a feedback controller, the introduction of a feedforwardcontrol loop was required to maintain effective control in the presence of disturbances.Simulation results confirmed the effectiveness and the robustness of the type-2 FLC whichoutperforms its type-1 counterpart particularly when system uncertainties are present.
|Numero di pagine||16|
|Stato di pubblicazione||Published - 2011|
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Operating out of the capital of Amman, Hikma is transforming the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry (Photo: Manni Manae)
Ever since its inception, the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry has steadily grown into the country’s highest value-added export industry. By 2010, sixteen pharmaceutical companies were exporting 81% of their production per year to over sixty countries, with high quality products and affordable pricing driving demand. In 2008, sales of the top ten pharmaceutical companies exceeded US$ 500 million. For much of its history, Jordan’s pharmaceutical industry has focused on producing affordable generic drugs. Jordan’s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2000 and a free trade agreement with the United States in 2001 strengthened its intellectual property (IP) system, and the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry has been evolving as a result. Leading this evolution is Al Hikma Pharmaceuticals (Hikma), the largest pharmaceutical company in Jordan.
Founded in the capital of Amman in 1978 by Mr. Samih Darwazah, Hikma’s initial focus was to develop a branded pharmaceuticals business across the Middle East and North Africa region (MENA), which it did by manufacturing patented pharmaceutical products under license. In 1991, the company’s success led it to establish a presence in the United States through the acquisition of West-Ward Pharmaceuticals (West-Ward). In only three years Hikma became compliant with United States Federal Drug Administration (USFDA) regulations, and in 1996 it became the first Arab company to receive USFDA approval. Shortly after its early successes in the United States, Hikma established an innovative injectable pharmaceutical manufacturing venture in Portugal targeting the MENA and Portugal markets. By the late 1990s, Hikma’s organic innovation and presence in Europe, MENA and North America led to significant expansion of the company.
Hikma’s early success came through the manufacturing and marketing of branded generic drugs. While this continues to be an important part of the company’s overall strategy, Jordan’s comprehensive economic reforms, its accession to the Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement and the country’s increased level of IP protection brought many new opportunities for Hikma. The greatest of these was the increased confidence of international partners, which brought even more licensing and partnership opportunities. Prior to Jordan’s IP reforms, companies in the country would use slightly different formulas to manufacture a patented product for the generic market. While this was not considered to be IP infringement, it proved difficult to attract foreign investment in the industry. Under the new IP laws, Jordanian companies seeking to make generic versions of patented products cannot use different formulas or ingredients; they must use the exact, patented formula. To do so would require licensing and partnership agreements with the patent holder, and this change brought an opportunity that Hikma was quick to seize upon.
Obtaining products under license has always been a part of Hikma’s strategy, and the new IP laws helped the company capitalize on the increased appeal of the country’s pharmaceutical industry generated for foreign investors. The company’s strong market position and established infrastructure made it a clear partner for multinational pharmaceutical companies seeking access to fast growing MENA markets. By the time IP laws in Jordan changed, Hikma already had a proven track record of working with global licensing partners, and its USFDA approved facilities combined with its highly skilled workforce and existing production capabilities made the company even more attractive to multinational partners. In 2007, the company’s successful utilization of new domestic IP laws through increased licensing agreements and partnerships yielded profits of US$ 198 million. As of 2010, it manufactured and marketed 40 licensed branded products through partnerships with multinational corporations such as LG Life Sciences of the Republic of Korea, Sinclair of the United Kingdom and MonoSolRx of the United States.
Licensing deals and partnerships have also given Hikma unique acquisition opportunities, which in turn have brought the company access to new markets. In 2007, Hikma acquired Arab Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (APM), which was the third largest pharmaceutical company in Jordan, through which it significantly increased its presence in Saudi Arabia, as APM gets over one third of its revenue from Saudi Arabia. That same year, it entered the Egyptian market through the acquisition of Alkan Pharma, which became Hikma Egypt, and also entered Germany through acquiring two well known pharmaceutical companies in the injectable oncology market: Ribosepharm and Thymoorgan. These acquisitions, along with new licensing agreements, allowed the company to launch 28 new products, receive 167 approvals and submit 74 regulatory filings in Europe, Jordan and the United States in 2007.
Injectable products are one of Hikma's three major business segments (Photo: Adrian Clark)
Hikma commercializes its products under three major segments: branded, injectable and generic pharmaceuticals. The branded segment manufactures branded generic pharmaceutical products for sale across the MENA region and Europe. The company has been involved in branded pharmaceuticals since its start, and as such enjoys a very good reputation in this area. The company’s injectable segment manufactures injectable generic pharmaceutical products in powder, liquid and lyophilized forms for sale in MENA, Europe and the United States. Lastly, the generic segment produces non-branded generic pharmaceutical products. This segment is focused primarily on the United States, as it is the largest market for the company’s non-branded generic products. The company’s business in this segment is operated by West-Ward, and as of late 2010 it sold 49 generic compounds in 108 dosage forms and strengths.
The company has twelve world class manufacturing facilities which provide it with the flexibility to select the most appropriate manufacturing strategy for a particular product, taking into account factors such as cost, regulatory requirements and capacity. Manufacturing facilities are located in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, five of which have been approved by the USFDA, which provides the company with the capability to produce products for the United States market at a lower cost. Maintaining a local manufacturing presence in the MENA region is essential for the company’s growth, as some markets restrict the range of products that can be imported from outside the region.
Sparked by Jordan’s new IP framework, Hikma has secured the resources it needs to continue and expand its research and development (R&D) activities through licensing agreements, partnerships and acquisitions. The company’s R&D team is spread throughout Europe, Jordan and the United States, and focuses on developing technically challenging products such as injectables, complex formulations, unstable compounds and sustained release tablets and capsules. The R&D team aims to continually increase the number of approvals that it receives from regulatory authorities in its markets for newly developed products which have a strong market potential.
Hikma’s R&D division is in charge of product formulation, process design and monitoring of bio-equivalency testing for all of its business segments. Beyond developing new products, it also improves existing products and manufacturing techniques, as well as performing R&D activities related to the manufacture of chemical synthesis, fermentation and purification. To accelerate its R&D efforts, Hikma aims to invest up to six percent of its total annual revenue in R&D, and also cooperates with leading R&D organizations through its collaborative partnerships. All of these factors have allowed Hikma to transform into a company that not only produces generics, but into a company that innovates new products, making a substantial impact to the growth of the company and the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry. At the end of 2009, Hikma’s R&D department contributed to a total of 116 compounds and 190 dosage forms and strengths pending regulatory approval, giving the company a significant pipeline of innovative new products.
The Hikma trademark is protected in Europe (OHIM trademark No.005727425)
In 2007, Hikma filed its first Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) international patent application for a nanoparticle pharmaceutical carrier invention made in collaboration with the Queen’s University of Belfast. By 2010, the company has also filed three patent applications with the European Patent Office (EPO).
Because branded products are an important part of Hikma’s business, the company has protected several of its brand names through registering trademarks. The company has utilized the international Madrid system to register a trademark for its Cefofix antibiotic in 1992, which was granted in 1995. It has also registered its name and slogan, “Hikma Quality,” with the Trademarks and Designs Registration Office of the European Union (OHIM).
As the IP landscape in Jordan has changed, so has Hikma’s approach to its future growth and success. Foreign investment, licensing, partnerships and acquisitions have all contributed to Hikma’s rapid growth. The company’s success was recognized internationally in 2005 when it was listed on the London Stock Exchange. In 2007, it had an increase in revenue of 41.6% from the previous year. By 2009, Hikma was the fifth largest pharmaceutical company in the MENA region, enjoying a 3.7% market share, 12.4% annual growth rate and over US$ 400 million in sales. For the six months ended June 30, 2010, revenue was up 11.3% and operating profit was up by 20.2% on the previous year. The company is one of the top twenty generic prescription providers in the United States, has a geographic footprint spanning 49 countries, and is the licensing partner of choice for multinational companies looking to expand into the MENA region.
Jordan’s strengthened IP system has helped put the Jordanian pharmaceutical industry on the path of innovation. While many Jordanian companies were previously focusing on manufacturing generic drugs, Hikma is an example of a company that is now creating its own patentable drugs and innovations. Inspired by Hikma’s success, Jordanian pharmaceutical companies have expanded their distribution networks to over sixty countries worldwide. Jordan has evolved into a leading knowledge economy in the region, and the pharmaceutical industry is just one example how IP can lead the growth of an entire economy.
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The Montana Cancer Coalition resource maps showcase cancer resources and information for cancer screening and treatment services as well as cancer survivorship resources and support.
Available cancer specific resources located in Montana include but are not limited to:
- Low cost cancer screening services
- Cancer treatment services (Medical, radiation, and pediatric oncology, genetic counseling, palliative care, and hospice)
- Support services for cancer survivors and caregivers (in-person and virtual)
- Cancer counseling services
- Cancer patient advocacy services
- Financial counseling support services
- Retreats for cancer survivors as well as caregivers
- Cancer specific physical support services for survivors (Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Speech/cognitive therapy, mind/body, sexual, incontinence, sleep)
- Support services for those experiencing cancer side effects
Please access the links below to view all services in Montana.
SCREENING AND TREATMENT SERVICES:
QUALITY OF LIFE SERVICES:
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Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) [Explained]
Cisco Fabric Services (CFS) capability simplifies provisioning by automatically distributing configuration information to all switches in the network.
Nexus Switch features can use the CFS infrastructure to distribute feature data or configuration data required by the feature.
cisco fabric services (CFS) synchronize the features between devices under the same region. By default, All devices begin in the same region, and this region is called the default region.
To create new region:
# cfs region 100
CFS configuration example:
cfs ipv4 distribute
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When the Rio Paralympic Games are over, wheelchair sprinter Marieke Vervoort of Belgium wants to end her life, LGBTQ Nation reported. "I started thinking about euthanasia," said Vervoort, one of nine out Paralympians competing this year. Euthanasia is legal in her native Belgium, with the consent of three doctors in writing. The 37-year-old suffers from an incurable, degenerative spinal disease so painful that she has already planned her funeral, reported PinkNews.
In Germany, intersex individuals are calling for a "third gender" option for everything from restrooms to paper forms, TheLocal.de reported. The article focuses on an intersex person named Vanya, who, with advocacy group Third Option ( Dritte Option ), want to create another official identification beyond male or female, such as "inter" or "diverse"and the group is bringing a case to the German Constitutional Court. The German Ethics Council had recommended in 2012 that the government have an "other" category.
For what appears to be the first time in Russian history, two openly gay men are running for seats in the State Duma, the lower house of the country's Federal Assembly, Towleroad noted. Both men have been outspoken gay rights activists and say that the 2013 anti-gay propaganda law spurred them to run for elected office. Bulat Barantayev and Aleksei Korolyov are both running as part of the liberal Parnas political coalition.
Netflix has released I Am the Ambassadorthe documentary series that follows the career of the openly gay U.S. ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Giffordfor online streaming, Out.com noted. The six-episode series first aired on Danish television in 2014. While Gifford enjoyed making the show, he actually expressed some anxiety about the show premiering globally.
In a lawsuit against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, an Iranian refugee claims that a 2007 documentary outed him as a gay man, subjecting him to violence and persecution in the Islamic republic, Courthouse News Service reported. The CBC film Inside Iran's Secret Gay World detailed the country's "perilous and inhuman circumstances faced by homosexuals and their struggle for civil rights," Farzam Dadashzadeh claimed in his Aug. 15 lawsuit in British Columbia Supreme Court. Dadashzadeh says he was studying English and working as a hairstylist in Tehran during the filming, and had not disclosed his sexual orientation to family or friendsnor did he ever intend to.
The Evangelical Alliance of South Africa will snub a planned tour of the country by extreme anti-LGBT pastor Steven Anderson, PinkNews reported. Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Phoenix, is one of the United States' most homophobic pastors, having celebrated the Orlando massacre that claimed 49 victims at Pulse Nightclub. Moss Ntlha, of Evangelical Alliance of South Africa, said it was regrettable that Anderson had chosen to come to South Africa so "his hatred for LGBTs may be spread here."
Also in South Africa, the country's first gay and inclusive competitive rugby team, the Jozi Cats, is planning a tour into the sport's heartlands to fight discrimination, Gay Times Magazine reported. The Johannesburg team is planning a December tour of the Free State, and possibly Western Cape, to play some matches, fight discrimination and provide coaching clinics in underprivileged areas.
A gay Chinese student activist lodged a suit against the ministry of education over school textbooks describing homosexuality as a mental disorder, Yahoo! News noted. Homosexuality was listed as a mental disorder until 2001; however, Chinese universities continue to use textbooks that contain terms such as "disorder" and "impediment" to refer to homosexualityresearch the Gay and Lesbian Campus Association of China carried out in 2014 found.
In Australia, openly gay Olympic gold medallist Matthew Mitcham is one of 200 cultural leaders who have signed a letter opposing a public vote on equal marriage, PinkNews reported. The country's right-wing prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has avoided a free parliamentary vote on marriage equality, instead making plans to take the issue to the public in a non-binding plebiscite ( public vote ) to avoid a rift with his own conservative anti-LGBT MPs. But the proposal is being blocked by opposition parties, who support equal marriage but see a plebiscite see it as costly measure that invites anti-gay debate rather than swiftly resolving the issue in Parliament.
A Spanish group that fights against homophobia has filed a complaint against a therapist who offers "to cure homosexuality," TheLocal.es reported. Arcopoli has brought charges against Elena Lorenzo Rego, a psychotherapist who offers treatment for those wanting to change their sexual orientation from homosexual to heterosexual. In an interview with Portaluz in 2014, Lorenzo said she didn't carry out the treatment based on any moral or religious standpoint, but to help certain people who choose to recover from same-sex attraction in order to be attracted to the opposite sex.
A trans-rights activist and actor has been shot and injured in Peshawar, Pakistan, according to PinkNews. Didar, named by the Express Tribune, was shot in the hand and taken to the Khyber Teaching Hospital. Didar apparently loaned money to a man who shot at her when she arrived at his house to ask for it back. Police earlier this year arrested a man suspected of shooting trans activist Alesha, who died in hospital from her injuries, after staff deliberated over which ward to place her.
Boxer Manny Pacquiao has said that he "regrets" saying gays are "worse than animals" but won't change his position, PinkNews noted. Earlier this year, Pacquiao ducked a fight with former world champion Shane Mosley, who said he would challenge Pacquiao to a fight and would champion gay rights. The sports star and wannabe politician has most recently claimed the comments were taken out of context.
Indonesia authorities have announced plans to ban gay dating apps like Grindr, PinkNews reported. The ban is reportedly being proposed after a pedophilia ring used the app as part of its operation. The move to ban such apps, not only limited to Grindr, comes amid a wider crackdown on gay people in Indonesia. | <urn:uuid:07f469f9-79ce-4642-a548-85466540199f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.windycitytimes.com/lgbt/World-Paralympic-athlete-intersex-activists-gay-Russian-candidates/56473.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968618 | 1,298 | 1.546875 | 2 |
SMA Solar Technology AG (SMA) has been named a finalist for the 14th German Sustainability Award. The expert jury selected SMA as one of the top companies in the transformation field of climate. SMA convinces with forward-looking innovations and solutions for a fast decarbonization towards climate neutrality. The renowned German Sustainability Award will be presented in Düsseldorf on December 3, 2021.
"As a company that contributes to mitigating climate change with innovative technology, we were able to convince the expert jury and, as a finalist of the German Sustainability Award, we are already one of the best in the transformation field of climate with our contribution," says SMA Chief Executive Officer Jürgen Reinert. "The nomination is a great appreciation and incentive for all SMA employees to continue driving the energy transition in the future with technological innovations and solutions and our comprehensive sustainability strategy."
"Climate change, plastic waste, species extinction. Sustainability has become a question of humanity's survival," says Stefan Schulze-Hausmann, initiator of the German Sustainability Award. "Our finalists are driving the transformation and are contributing to its implementation with high ecological standards in production and special social commitment in the supply chain. Can companies save the world? A look at the DNP finalists shows how powerful their impact can be as drivers of change."
The winners of the 14th German Sustainability Award will be announced in Düsseldorf on December 3, 2021. The award is the largest and most prestigious of its kind in Europe. For 14 years, the Stiftung Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis e.V. (German Sustainability Award Foundation), in cooperation with the German government, business associations, civil society organizations and research institutions, among others, has honored companies where sustainability is part of the business model. Awards are given to business players who make effective contributions to transformation with innovative products and services, high ecological standards in production or special social commitment in their value chain.
As a leading global specialist in photovoltaic and storage system technology, the SMA Group is setting the standards today for the decentralized and renewable energy supply of tomorrow. SMA’s portfolio contains a wide range of efficient PV and battery inverters, holistic system solutions for PV and battery-storage systems of all power classes, intelligent energy management systems and charging solutions for electric vehicles and power-to-gas applications. Digital energy services as well as extensive services up to and including operation and maintenance services for PV power plants round off SMA’s range. SMA inverters with a total output of more than 100 gigawatts have been installed in more than 190 countries worldwide. SMA’s multi-award-winning technology is protected by more than 1,600 patents and utility models. Since 2008, the Group’s parent company, SMA Solar Technology AG, has been listed on the Prime Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (S92) and is listed in the TecDAX index.
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Are you thinking about getting a life insurance policy to protect yourself, your loved ones or your assets? You’re not alone. With the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic, many Canadians are starting think more about the future and the possible event of a life insurance claim. But where to start? Our article on life insurance basics can help get you started by going through the fundamentals. We have also compiled some information about the different types of life insurance policies, and how to make the right choice when it comes to your policy and finding the right coverage.
Is it good to have life insurance in Canada?
Typically, life insurance is used as a way to pay off a large debt, such as a mortgage on a home, that you want to leave to your beneficiaries. But technically, you do not need life insurance. It’s not required by law in Canada, like car insurance is.
How much life insurance do you need in Canada?
Experts generally recommend purchasing life insurance coverage worth seven to 10 times your annual salary in order to protect your family.
How long after death do you have to collect life insurance?
Life insurance companies pay out the proceeds to your family after you have died and the beneficiary of your policy files a claim. A beneficiary is the person, persons or organizations you name to receive the payout (death benefit) when you die. They should be able to collect the life insurance payout within 30 to 60 days after submitting the completed claim forms and the supporting documents.
Which is the best type of policy to have?
There are several types of life insurance policies to cater to each individual’s personal situation:
- Term life insurance
- Whole life insurance
- Universal life insurance
- Mortgage life insurance
- Group life insurance
Can my life insurance claim be denied?
Insurers deny the death benefit on life insurance claims for reasons of policy delinquency (non-payment), material misrepresentation (inaccurate information on your policy), contestable (questionable) circumstances and documentation failure.
Is life insurance taxable?
No. The good news is that most of the money received from a life insurance policy is not taxable. However, there are fees that accrue tax that will come out of the money left for them. These fees probate fees, estate planning fees and more.
When should I get life insurance?
While many believe timing has to do with your health, the real sign that you may need life insurance is whom you’re leaving behind. Deciding to get life insurance is about leaving money for your loved ones. Do you have dependents whose lifestyles would change should something happen to you? This would include a spouse, children or someone elderly. If yes, then it’s time to get coverage.
How do I know how much life insurance I need?
It depends. The amount of life insurance you need depends on many things, like your income, outstanding debt (like your mortgage), your assets (including savings), number of dependents and more. Speak to one of our isure brokers to help calculate what would be reasonable for your individual circumstances.
Why should I shop for life insurance online?
You could get life insurance from the place where you bank or where you got your mortgage, but it’s worth shopping around for the best rates. That’s where isure steps in. We shop the market for the best life insurance rates to compare products and coverage.
Do I need life insurance if I already have mortgage insurance from my bank?
Mortgage insurance is for your mortgage; life insurance is for protecting more. If you’re unable to pay for your mortgage, the lender is protected with mortgage insurance. But that doesn’t help replace missed income or help your loved ones maintain the lifestyle they once had when you’re gone. The two types of insurance aren’t interchangeable, and it’s good to know that.
Do I really need to do a health exam to get life insurance?
It’s your choice. No-medical life insurance is available in Canada. But it is worth knowing that these types of policies can cost more than ones that require medical. With that said, it’s worth asking about how COVID-19 has affected testing, as you’re going through the process. You may find out that the medical exam isn’t as rigorous as you might expect.
How does life insurance work if you don’t die before the end of the policy?
If your policy expires and you have not, then everything you paid into that policy is gone forever, unless you have a whole or permanent policy. However, term life insurance policies do have an end date. Most life insurance companies offer the option to convert your policy to a permanent one before expiry, which is a good option if you want access to some of that cash.
Can I cancel my life insurance policy early?
You have more options if you decide to cancel a permanent life insurance policy. There are some permanent policies whose features will pay out an amount, known as the ‘cash value’, if a policy is cancelled early. Additionally, if extra amounts are paid into your investment portion of a permanent policy, some or all of that investment would be paid to the policy owner when cancelled.
What if I am self-employed or my coverage at work isn’t enough?
If you are self-employed, or if your group benefits from your employer are no longer enough to serve your needs, you have options. Whether you pay for your policy or your company does, always ensure that it includes short term and/or long term disability. If you didn’t ask about it when signing your employment contract, it’s not too late to ask the HR department. Critical illness is another type of coverage to consider. It offers you a single payment if you are diagnosed with a condition or disease, such as cancer, multiple sclerosis or paralysis.
No two people are the same, therefore neither is their insurance coverage needs. Be sure to take stock of your situation and assess how much coverage you may need. Check out the different types of life insurance available to you, and be sure to contact one of our isure representatives to assist you in choosing a policy that promises ample financial security to those who love you. | <urn:uuid:05ad7911-e243-4066-a8ed-2c78a22a961a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isure.ca/inews/can-my-life-insurance-claim-be-denied-and-other-common-questions-answered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95351 | 1,305 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The word property is a noun. Property means (1) any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie, (2) a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class, (3) a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished, (4) any area set aside for a particular purpose, (5) something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone.
The following articles and web pages elaborate on the word property.
- Property Managers
managers oversee and maintain properties. Learn more about real estate property
managers and find links to real estate companies and agents, as well as commercial and residential real estate.
- Property Maintenance Directory
Browse this property
maintenance solutions directory for information about property maintenance services in the United States. The photo on this page depicts the use of a power lawn mower to maintain the groomed appearance of a lawn.
The World Intellectual Property Organization, established in 1967, is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international international property
(IP) system. The website has links to patents, trademarks, copyright, and more. Also on the website are resources for delegates, journalists, students and others, plus most requested
- Local Real Estate
Land and the permanent buildings located on it is referred to as real estate. Each state features a real estate commission to regulate the real estate profession.
- Property Insurance Directory
insurance directory lists local property and casualty insurance service providers that are located in each state of the USA. The photograph on this page depicts a house surrounded by a life preserver.
- Property Management Directory
management directory lists local property management service providers that are located in each state of the USA. The word cloud illustration on this page highlights property management-related concepts.
- The European Patent Office
The EPO provides a uniform patent application procedure for individual inventors and companies that protects the owner in 37 countries. It lists publications, events, and job openings. On the homepage is a guide to apply for a patent. Users can search in several languages. There is also a section called Topics where users can find out more about patents and legislation relating to them.
- Home Security Systems
Home security systems provide protection from intruders and help keep your home and property
safe. There are many different types of security systems available.
- Economy-class Hotels
A two-star hotel may feature high speed Internet access, and it may have a restaurant on the property. However, room service and bellhop service are usually not available.
- Real Estate
Find a helpful directory of real estate links, including real estate agents, appraisers, and property
managers for all 50 states.
- Real Estate Companies
Real estate companies may be residential or commercial, and can specialize in appraisals, brokerages, development, property
management, and relocation.
On this site, users can search for rental properties and place rental ads. Searches are by location and property
type. Apartments.com is located in Chicago and takes its listings from 180 newspapers and strategic partners around the country.
- Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
This website, a project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several Universities, aims to help users understand the protections of the First Amendment and intellectual property
laws give to online users. It addresses abuses where a site owner is forced to remove information that may or may not be against the law. The site is searchable by topic such as copyright, linking, and more.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
Formed in 1990, the EFF, a non-profit group made up of lawyers, is concerned with defending free speech, privacy, innovation, and consumer rights on the web. The EFF has worked to oppose some legislation and acts as an information source for policy makers and the public. There are links to concise information about privacy, intellectual property, fair use, blogger's rights, and much more.
- United States General Services Administration
The GSA, formed in 1947 under President Truman, has the mission of helping federal agencies by offering superior workplaces, expert solutions, acquisitions services, and management policies. It employs around 13,000 people. The website thoroughly describes all of its services and products, including information about bidding on government contracts, property
disposal, a forms section, and more.
Synopsys, founded in 1986 and located in California, delivers semiconductor design software, intellectual property
(IP), design for manufacturing (DM) solutions and professional services that companies use to design systems-on-chips (SoCs) and electronic systems. The website has links to problems and Synopsys solutions, information about training and support, and more.
- United States Geological Survey
The USGS provides the nation with scientific information about the Earth. This information is used to help manage the country's natural resources efficiently, minimize loss of life and property
from natural disasters, and protect and enhance our quality of life.
The following articles provide recent property
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To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. ― Thomas Campbell
Today is Memorial Day in the United States, a day when we honor the memory of the men and women who have died in military service. It’s also a day for celebrating the arrival of summer with family and friends, but because of the reason for the holiday, it has always felt a bit odd to me to say “Happy Memorial Day,” so instead, I’m wishing you a day filled with love and beautiful memories.
I believe that one of the greatest sacrifices our military personnel make when they deploy is having to leave their beloved pets behind. Thankfully, there are organizations like PACT for Animals, who assist members of the military in finding temporary foster care for their pets during deployments. The video below shows the joyful reunion between two cats and their soldier mom.
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In our recent Live Cast we talked about courage and how to step into opportunities instead of living with the regret of choosing to stay safe. We all need to be brave at times. But let’s face it, acting bravely is easier said than done. It requires rising above our evolutionary response to protect ourselves from pain, and avoiding the risk of losing something we value—like our pride, our status in our job or the approval of our friends or our colleagues.
With courage, all things are possible. You become unstoppable. With courage, you are living from your heart and moving forward in a way that is authentic for you. Boosting our courage isn’t about eradicating our fear; it’s such a primal, instinctive response that this isn’t a realistic goal. Instead, it’s about learning how to respond to our fear in a healthy way.
Face up to the fear!
A courageous life sounds great, doesn’t it? Why, then, aren’t more of us living like that? Fear. Fear happens when we let our mind rule over what we want in our heart. Fear holds us back. Fear is the inner critic and that voice in your head that tells you to play it safe, reminds you that you want security and comfort. Its going to keep second-guessing you.
● What if I fail?
● What if I am laughed at?
● What if, what if, what if?
Now don't get me wrong- Fear is very helpful in situations where we have control in a situation and we want to minimise the risk of some disaster scenario coming true. A helpful, courage-boosting question to ask yourself when deciding how to respond to a situation is:
“Am I avoiding pain, or seeking growth?"
Courage does not mean you are fearless. Courage is moving forward despite your fear. So get clear on what really scares you about the situation. You need to be honest about what it is that you are scared to do and be. And then you need to face that – because as some famous person once said, the only way out is through.
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2021 May Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month was established in 1949 to increase understanding of the importance of mental health and wellness, and to celebrate recovery and hope. Please join us and our community partners as we build our collective understanding of mental health and well being in our community. Mental well-being demands we challenge stigma in all places where we live, work, play, learn and pray. Together, we can support one another and fully recognize that mental health *is* health.
The BHRS Prevention and Outreach Team is pleased to announce a series of events in honor of May Mental Health Awareness Month.
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