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Wax resists are a great way to end the quarter! Each student created an abstract or realistic drawing, colored a thick waxy layer with crayon, crumpled it and painted it with india ink.
Supply Set-up Video: Ink Set-up
PowerPoint: Bold Wax Resists
- 9″ x 12″ or 9″ x 9″ drawing paper
- India ink, watered down (approx. 1 part ink to 3 parts water)
- Wide bristle brushes
Every teacher develops a toolkit of lessons that get kids through those last few weeks of school before a big vacation. With summer break inching towards us, I knew I needed to unleash one of my special projects to keep my third graders excited about their artwork. What I love about wax resist is that the process is oddly calming – coloring a thick waxy layer of crayon is a good way to work out some frustration!
Coloring a thick waxy layer of crayon is a good way to work out some frustration!
I let them know that their design needs to be big and bold because small details will be lost once you crumple and paint the paper with ink. But other than that, they are free create any idea they like! It’s a project that kids can easily choose their own subject for. The majority of my students decided to create abstract designs.
When we use 9″ x 12″ paper the coloring takes awhile, usually two solid days. At the end of the second day I might have a kid that is ready to ink. This year, I used 9″ x 9″ paper instead. Most kids were able to finish coloring during the first class and then ink during the second. I was excited that there was a way to make this a two day project!
I keep the inking at two or three tables that I call kids up to when they are finished coloring. The kids rotate in and out of inking. When they are finished inking, they go back to the coloring table to work in their sketchbook. I decided to make a quick video about how to set up the table for ink. It has streamlined that process to be able to point to the paused video and say, “When your table looks like that, I can give you the ink.”
Crumpling the paper is so much fun for the kids! I make sure to tell them about that step before we even start sketching, so that they don’t feel surprised or sad when I ask them to crumple their artwork. I show them how to open and crumple several times to get cracks in the wax. We talk about how the ink will soak into those cracks, but the wax on the rest of the paper will resist the ink.
My demonstration for inking is a little dramatic. I make a very big deal about how india ink is permanent. I tell them that even if they aren’t inking, they need to walk around the room calmly and carefully during this project. You never know who might be behind you with artwork covered in ink! It is essential that they wipe off all the ink from their paper before they walk it to the drying rack. Cleaning up india ink trails from the floor is no fun!
Getting a good coat of ink without over-doing it can be tricky for a lot of kids. Not enough ink means the cracks don’t show up. But too much ink can mean that their paper tears when they pick it up. I’ve started telling them to “scrub” the ink into the paper with their bristle brush. I also have to remind them to paint all the way to the edges – that’s what the newspaper is for!
I’ve started telling them to “scrub” the ink into the paper with their bristle brush.
The results from this project are stunning! Most quarters, we were working on this project when the Showcase was already hung up. I definitely was tempted to mat their wax resist projects and hang them up in between classes! I’ve thought about re-structuring the order of my projects, but the wax resist is such a perfect way to keep my 3rd graders engaged before a big transition that I think I’ll keep it right where it is. | <urn:uuid:f7b5825e-8550-460e-83d5-b8286a69edbf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artfulsquid.com/2016/08/30/wax-resist/?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973264 | 912 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Opioids and opioid policies have received increased attention over the last year in light of the “opioid epidemic.” Opioid overdoses and deaths have reached staggering numbers and have led to a prevailing belief that opioids and people that use opioids are “bad.” This perspective has unfortunately been a distraction from a crucial problem: poor and ineffective pain management. Yes, addressing opioid abuse and providing addiction treatment is important, and if we do not also emphasize the importance of providing patients with early access to effective pain management, we are essentially just putting a bandage on a wound that will continue to bleed.
We recently published an editorial in Pain Management (free to download and read) that discusses the current state of chronic pain management in the context of the opioid epidemic and outlines recommendations for policy development. In this editorial, we focused on pediatric chronic pain management, as it is often absent from the media and policy proposals despite its prevalence, economic impact, and relevance to the current opioid epidemic.
Children do have chronic pain. Unfortunately, this pain is not well treated, which increases the likelihood that these children will become adults with chronic pain. In fact, studies estimate that 5-38% of children and adolescents suffer from chronic pain[2-4] and up to 73% of these children may continue to have pain in adulthood.[5,6] Data from the United States estimate that the economic cost of pediatric chronic pain is 19.5 billion dollars annually and accounts for 11.8 billion dollars in total health care expenditures paid by insurance companies and families, an amount greater than expenditures for obesity and asthma combined.
In our editorial, we presented an argument for how this significant problem developed. Collectively, the healthcare industry’s attachment to the biomedical approach (i.e. to focus on and treat physical processes that affect health, such as the physiology and pathology of an illness) has resulted in a limited understanding of the complex, biopsychosocial nature of pain and how to treat it. This simplistic model has increased the likelihood of potentially harmful treatment (e.g. continuously refilling opioid prescriptions with no indication of improved pain or functioning). Complicating factors when treating pain are that a single medical test cannot confirm the amount of pain a child or individual is experiencing, and pain can persist when there is no identifiable damage. These issues present a problem for providers working within a biomedical framework. Pain is experienced and maintained through complex mechanisms including biological, psychological, and social factors that all alter our pain experience.[10,11] This is why relying on or focusing on one type of medication will not resolve the problem. But, healthcare providers do not receive adequate training in pain management. In a United States medical school survey, only four schools had a pain course requirement and only one of those schools included pediatric pain management in the curriculum. The cumulative number of pain teaching hours across schools ranged from 1-31 hours. So, depending on how long it takes you to read this post and whether or not you review the articles cited, you may now have more knowledge about pediatric pain than most physicians.
So, where do we go from here? Perpetuating the message that opioids and opioid users are “bad” without offering an alternative or understanding which treatments are indicated for a particular pain condition does not help individuals in pain nor does it help healthcare providers better understand how to relieve their patients’ suffering. Healthcare providers and policy makers need to receive education surrounding the proper use of opioids and the importance of incorporating biopsychosocial assessment, education and treatment in pain management. Yes, opioids are initially cheaper. But we argue that the costs associated with untreated pain are large. A consequence of undertreated pain is that many patients may turn to dangerous means to relieve their pain and suffering. Thus, inadequate pain management will continue to have a significant negative economic and societal impact. Although there is growing evidence to support a biopsychosocial approach to pain management, uncertainty remains and more research is needed to determine how to best match patients to the most optimal treatment. This is especially true for pediatric pain management as evidence is even more limited in pediatrics and the treatment of pain in a developing child may pose unique challenges. Funding and policy proposals should prioritize the development of effective and accessible evidence-based pain treatment and best practice guidelines for adult and pediatric populations. Additionally, there needs to be increased chronic pain education and training initiatives. Only then will the “opioid epidemic” be adequately addressed.
About Sarah Martin
Sarah is a postdoctoral fellow in the Pediatric Pain and Palliative Care Program at the University of California, Los Angeles. The work described above was conducted with Sarah’s postdoc supervisor, Dr. Lonnie Zeltzer. Sarah received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Georgia State University under the mentorship of Dr. Lindsey Cohen. Broadly, Sarah’s research interests include the examination of individual and social-cultural factors that influence pain experiences in children with chronic or disease-related pain. Her current work – funded by the National Institutes of Health Heart Lung and Blood Institute – examines the effects of hypnosis and social factors (stigma and loneliness) on physiological pain responses in teens with sickle cell disease. Sarah was also an international trainee member of Pain in Child Health: A Strategic Research Training Initiative of CIHR. When not in the lab or clinic, Sarah can be found at the beach, snowboarding, travelling, or running with (or after) her very energetic dog.
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INTRODUCTION Before the Spanish invasion of the region, what’s now California enjoyed the highest human population density north of what is today Mexico. Today, Los Angeles is home to more people of Native ancestry than any other metropolitan area in the US, a population which includes peoples indigenous to Southern California as well as people … Continue reading No Enclave — Chumash Los Angeles
The term "papoose" in English refers to both young Native American children and their cradle board carriers. The word come to English from the Narragansett term papoòs. As evinced by the following historical photographs, cradle board carriers were once popular not just within the Alqonquin nation but throughout much of indigenous North America and maybe beyond. I don't … Continue reading In praise of the papoose – Happy Native American Heritage Month!
Cast and Crew Members at Inceville in Santa Monica, circa 1915 Before the emergence of Hollywood and the studio system, moviemaking was something of a free-for-all, open to anyone that could afford it. In the US, that privileged group was almost exclusively white and male. Roles for minorities were usually crudely stereotypical, minor, and liable … Continue reading Red Wing and Young Deer, the First Couple of Native American Silent Film
It's not that surprising, given our Hollywood history of Native Americans, that the media feel it necessary to coin a term like "Urban Indians." Since Native Americans exist in popular culture as stewards of nature who spend their lives camping under the stars and measuring times in "moons," the fact that millions of Native Americans … Continue reading Urban Indians – Great Cities of Native America – Happy American Indian Heritage Month
NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH The first American Indian Day was celebrated in May 1916 in New York. Back in 1990, President George H.W. Bush named November National American Indian Heritage Month. The purpose of the observance is to highlight the roles America's aboriginal peoples have played in the country's history. It's kind of interesting. … Continue reading November is Native American Heritage Month | <urn:uuid:588fad7e-d66e-4f1e-bbed-c8e2c48a7c94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ericbrightwell.com/tag/native-americans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951545 | 430 | 2.375 | 2 |
Predicting aggregate consumer spending is vitally important to marketing planning, yet traditional economic theory holds that predicting changes in aggregate consumer spending is not possible. Previous attempts to predict consumer spending growth using standard macro-economic predictor variables have met with little success. The authors show that the lagged chance in customer satisfaction, which contributes to future demand, has a significant impact on spending growth. However, this impact is moderated by increases in consumers' debt service ratio, a key budget constraint that affects consumers' ability to spend. Using an asymmetric growth model, more than 23% of the variation in the one-quarter-ahead spending growth is explained, which represents a notable improvement over prior specifications.
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While the rush to keep pace with Moore’s Law is getting rather “chaotic”, researchers at IBM announced on Wednesday that they have drastically reduced the space required to store a bit of information down to that of a single atom.
This tiny advancement in storage technology, is a big deal. Given that modern hard drives need about 100,000 atoms to store a single bit, this development could shrink the size of future storage mediums by an order of magnitude. IBM figures that it can store the entire iTunes catalog (all 35 million tracks) onto a disk the size of a credit card by using this technique.
The system uses atoms of holmium seated atop a magnesium oxide surface, which keeps the atom’s magnetic poles stable — even in the presence of other magnets. The orientation of these poles determines whether the atom constitutes a 1 or a 0. To write to this storage system, a microscopic needle induces a current to flip the atom’s orientation. Reading the information, conversely, is simply a matter of measuring the magnetic current passing through each atom, which varies depending on which pole is facing up.
But don’t expect this technology to show up in the next iPhone, mind you. It currently requires a liquid nitrogen-cooled tunnelling electron microscope operating in a vacuum to work. The study was published today in the journal Nature.
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In 2015, for example, London’s Tate Britain Museum featured “Sensorium,” which included tastes, sounds, and smells designed to trigger feelings or make certain colors seem more intense. In 2014, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York worked with a visiting artist to create “Multisensory Met,” which added sound and smell to small replicas of the museum’s famous sculptures. Recently in Watertown, Massachusetts, the Dorothy and Charles Mosesian Center for the Arts let visitors to get up close and personal by touching and feeling pieces of fine art in “Please Touch the Art.”
While these kinds of exhibits draw all kinds of patrons, museums and artists are increasingly collaborating with members of blind and visually impaired communities to reconsider how art is shared in their spaces.
Exhibits like “Please Touch the Art” and others are not just about touching fine art, observers say. It’s about creating a unique experience for all museum visitors by inviting them to engage all five senses to connect more fully with the artist’s intention, says Georgina Kleege, who teaches creative writing and disability studies at the University of California, Berkeley. While informational encounters are helpful, such as audio tours, more aesthetic experiences are more rewarding – for both blind and sighted art patrons.
“Really, it’s only through touch that … all the qualities of the work are released,” says Professor Kleege, who juried and curated “Please Touch the Art.” Professor Kleege, who is blind, says these haptic encounters are crucial to exhibit engagement.
John Olson, founder of 3D Photoworks in New York, agrees. Mr. Olson develops touchable versions of famous works for museums around the country. The three-dimensional pieces incorporate braille descriptions, textured surfaces, touch-triggered sounds, and sometimes even scent. In his rendition of “George Washington Crossing the Delaware,” an audio component allows visitors to hear water splashing against creaking wood as a narrator recounts historical details about that moment.
“The stimulant of scent can be very powerful,” says Mr. Olson. “When you can smell the water, when you can smell the gunfire, it helps … create that mental picture.”
In Watertown, “Please Touch the Art” grew out of a suggestion from a designer who wanted to rethink how to convey meaning for different audiences, says Aneleise Ruggles, director of exhibitions at the Mosesian Center. To think beyond sight was a challenge taken up enthusiastically by 40 artists who created 52 pieces for “Please Touch the Art.”
“Inherently, visual art doesn’t have another way of engaging on site,” says Ms. Ruggles. “We see [‘Please Touch the Art’ as] much less as an exhibit for blind people. We see it much more as an exhibit that doesn’t exclude people who are blind or have low vision.”
Adding a new level of interaction to art also cultivates shared experiences between patrons by encouraging conversation and connection, she adds, as visitors discuss the sensory details of a piece.
“That people of all abilities and all interests and all perspectives are able to come and engage with the same work of art is really important to us,” says Ms. Ruggles.
During the final weeks of “Please Touch the Art,” one group of patrons with visual impairments appeared particularly focused. At first, tentative hands passed over the cool, vibrant, sharp-edged tiles that formed a wide-eyed fish in Jean Cummiskey’s “Go Fish.”
One man was drawn to the textured blue canvas of Claudia Ravaschiere and Michael Moss’s “Whirl.” As he ran his hands over the canvas, soft synthesizer music followed his movements, creating a unique composition.
By the end of the tour, the visitors had lost all shyness about touching the pieces and they encouraged each other and wrapped themselves up in hanging felt and stuffed velvet.
Exhibits that invite patrons to interact with artwork have the potential to change perceptions of what is considered fine art, but it won’t happen overnight, says Professor Kleege. “Art audiences as well as art critics and scholars will need to come up with new ways of understanding what art is and what it can do,” as well as “a way to talk about what artists are doing when they produce work meant to be touched.” | <urn:uuid:b66947fb-bc75-4d9f-859c-c0b019dba056> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://msensory.com/please-touch-the-fine-art-multisensory-exhibits-on-the-rise-csmonitor-com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956937 | 963 | 2.71875 | 3 |
This norm applies BENG, which is determined with NTA8800. It outlines a method which establishes the energetic quality of a building, based on its properties and facilities. However, practical experience indicates a mismatch between the actual energy intensity of a building, and the energy intensity that is determined according to the energetic qualities of a building based on the BENG calculation. Therefore, an instrument is required in addition to BENG which can be used for guiding towards the actual energy intensity of buildings. For this purpose, initiators TVVL and DGBC have developed WEii.
WEii is an acronym for the Dutch ‘’Werkelijke Energie Intensiteit Indicator’’, which is the actual energy intensity indicator. The WEii of a building is determined based on the measured, and thus actual, energy use and floorspace of a building. The applied unit of WEii is kWh per year per m2. WEii is constituted of a calculation protocol, a classification of building types and classes of energy intensity per building type. WENG, an acronym for the Dutch ‘’Werkelijk Energieneutrale Gebouw’’, meaning truly energy neutral building, and Paris Proof, a building that meets the requirements of the climate agreement, are two of the most ambitious of a total of seven classes of energy intensity. WEii provides a uniform and objective method to describe the actual energy intensity of a building. Using this unambiguous definition of the actual energy intensity allows for clear communication concerning the actual energy performance of buildings. WEii is not a commercial tool and is therefore available for free use.
The WEii protocol, the English version of which can be downloaded below, describes the background and prescribed use of the WEii calculation tool, as well as a classification of building types and classes of energy intensity per building type. | <urn:uuid:c0a2ec6c-e9b6-477b-9cde-5916b2942bc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weii.nl/english-5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916286 | 386 | 2.796875 | 3 |
3 Ways to Delete Your Computer History (for Chrome Only…
3 Ways to Delete Your Computer History (for Chrome Only… How to Delete Your Computer History (for Chrome Only). Google Chrome stores various web-history data to streamline your browsing experience. You may want to delete your browser history for several reasons: perhaps you visited a website. Delete Browsing History - How to View and Clear Browser… What is Browsing History and How to view and Delete it on your device: Computer or Smartphone Chrome keyboard shortcuts - Google Chrome Help
14 Feb 2019 Google Chrome is by far the most popular web browser on Windows 10 PCs. The process to delete browsing data is very straightforward, How to clear history Google Chrome for Windows 10 - YouTube 22 Mar 2017 Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. How to clear history Google Chrome for Windows 10 A guide on how to clear history and cache in Google Chrome browswer for Windows 10. Windows 10 - How to Delete Browsing History - YouTube 20 Sep 2015 This video shows how to clear or delete browsing history on Windows 10.
How to Clear Browsing History in Any Browser - Troubleshooter 30 May 2019 In order to delete browsing history on Google Chrome, you will need to first open Chrome 6 Ways to Delete a Stuck Print Job in Windows 10. How to Automatically Clear Browsing History in Google Chrome You can Automatically Clear Browsing History in Google Chrome on Exit, while allowing Open Google Chrome Browser on your Mac or Windows Computer. How to Delete Temporary Internet Files, Cookies, and ... Deleting temporary Internet files, cookies, and browsing history of your Internet Open Google Chrome For Mac OS, click the Safari menu, then click Empty Cache; For Windows, open Safari, click Edit, select Empty Cache, click Empty.
Clearing the History in Any Web Browser in Windows 10. Follow the For clearing the history in Google Chrome, you need to perform the following steps:. How do I clear my Internet browser history? - Computer Hope 16 Nov 2019 Microsoft Edge; Mozilla Firefox; Google Chrome; Google Chrome on Android Microsoft Edge is the default browser in Windows 10, replacing Permanently Delete Browsing History in Google Chrome 26 Sep 2019 How to Delete Browsing History in Google Chrome with Best Data the three dots at the top left of the browser window; Click History>History. Why can't I clear my browsing history? - Windows Report
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Carbon Farming and Regional NRM Organisations
Regional NRM organisations have been involved in carbon farming since the beginning. We have a long history of supporting the development and refinement of methods for the Emissions Reduction Fund and other policies- this is reflected in the Carbon Credits (Carbon Farming Initiative) Act 2011, which refers to alignment of carbon farming project proposals with regional NRM plans.
There are lots of benefits for regional NRM organisations in being involved in carbon farming. Working with landholders to support planning and development of carbon farming projects means we can achieve other regional NRM goals or ‘co-benefits’, such as biodiversity protection, improved water quality, or soil conservation, that we might not otherwise have had the resources to support. Regional NRM organisations can also play a role in minimising risks arising from both individual carbon farming projects and carbon farming at a landscape scale, by being the ‘eyes and ears’ on the ground, and providing an early warning system for policy makers about possible perverse outcomes from carbon farming projects.
Regional NRM organisations are as diverse as the regions they represent, so different organisations are playing different roles in the carbon farming sector. These roles range from simple information provision, to full carbon project planning and delivery. Resources in our Knowledge Hub including the Broderick 2021 report and the videos from some of our presentations and webinars, showcase the diverse roles we are playing in carbon farming.
NRM Regions Australia project- Knowledge for Capacity in Carbon Farming
In recognition of the role NRM organisations continue to play in carbon farming projects, planning and policy, the Australian Government Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources (DISER) provided funding to NRM Regions Australia until June 2023 to help build capacity in regional NRM organisations to engage with carbon farming and the ERF. Some of the functions and support that are provided through this funding include the employment of a part-time Knowledge Broker – Carbon Farming and the Emissions Reduction Fund. NRM Regions Australia also runs a Carbon Farming Community of Practice to share knowledge and provide information and resources. We also develop and share resources within the Knowledge Hub to support NRM staff – from dedicated carbon farming staff to the ‘carbon curious’ - to engage with carbon farming. Some of these resources are housed here in our website, but others can be accessed via our members-only Knowledge Hub and Collaboration spaces which you can login to from here.
If you would like more information, or to join the Carbon Farming and ERF Community of Practice, please get in touch with Knowledge Broker Rachel Clarke at [email protected].
Melinda Cox, Local Land Services NSW - A Biodiverse Carbon Farming Project, Carbon CoP Dec 2021
Melinda has been working on a pilot public/private partnership project with Greening Australia. The goal was to get 20 landholders over an area of 500ha committed to participating in a carbon farming project using the environmental plantings method under the Emissions Reduction Fund (ERF).
Carbon Plus Biodiversity Pilot Part 1 - Overview with Professor Andrew Macintosh, ANU December 2021
In Part 1 of the webinar, Professor Macintosh provides an overview of the design of the scheme and the anticipated outcomes and benefits.
Jayne Thorpe presents on the SQ Landscapes project on local perspectives of carbon farming.
This social research project undertaken by Southern Queensland Landscapes and funded through Agrifutures in Queensland focused on understanding the experiences of landholders who have participated, or considered participating, in carbon farming projects, primarily under the Human Induced Regeneration (HIR) method.
Carbon Plus Biodiversity Pilot Part 2- Don Butler on understanding scoring for biodiversity benefits
In Part 2, Dr Don Butler, an Ecologist from the Australian National University, explains how the scoring system for the biodiversity benefits of the national carbon plus biodiversity pilot works.
Updates from the Dept of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
Carbon Plus Biodiversity Pilot Part 3 - Q&A with Professor Andrew Macintosh & Dr Don Butler of ANU
In Part 3 of the webinar, Professor Andrew Macintosh and Dr Don Butler of the ANU respond to questions from their presentations on the design and implementation of the pilot.
Carbon Plus Biodiversity Pilot Part 4 - NRM overview by Nick Maclean, Qld and Susan Stovell, SA
In Part 4 of the webinar, representatives from two of the regional NRM organisations that helped to deliver the pilot on the ground. Nick Maclean of Burnett-Mary, Queensland and Susan Stovell of Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board, South Australia, describe their experiences and hopes for their regions as the pilot is delivered.
Carbon Plus Biodiversity Pilot Part 5- Participant view by Kerry Bridle, Beaufort farms, Tasmania
Part 5 of the webinar features a presentation by Kerry Bridle, the Environmental Manager of Beaufort Farms in northern Tasmania, and explores the experiences and decision-making processes that they underwent in applying to participate in the Carbon plus Biodiversity pilot.
Carbon Plus Biodiversity Pilot Part 6- Presenters panel discussion
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WASHINGTON – Strengthening the GI Bill, institutional accountability and protecting military-connected families from unethical and illegal practices were among the top concerns that various veteran and military-service groups want to see addressed in a reauthorized Higher Education Act.
At a brief press conference Thursday at the Longworth House Office Building, representatives of several advocacy groups and nonprofits spoke about common concerns among their constituents. The show of unity included organizations such as the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, Veterans Education Success, Student Veterans of America, the American Legion, the National Military Family Association and organizations representing vets from the Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Ashlynne Haycock, deputy director of policy for the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, said her organization, which represents 85,000 people, shares the same goals as the other groups.
“We want to make sure our students are not just getting an education, but a quality education,” Haycock said. “And make sure that bad actors are penalized for preying on military-connected students.”
In addition, closing loopholes in the required 90-10 ratio of federal funds to other payment sources received by institutions also was cited as a major concern. Some schools take advantage of loopholes to garner a larger proportion of federal funds than regulations allow them to have.
That was one of two main issues highlighted by Jennifer Davis, government relations deputy director for the nonprofit National Military Family Association.
The hoped-for change isn’t selfish on the part of organizations that advocate for veterans and military service personnel, Davis told Diverse.
“We’re very mindful there is a broad range of individuals who receive federal educational assistance,” she said. “We definitely don’t want to focus only on us and put the burden on somebody else, make somebody else a bigger target. We definitely would like to see a comprehensive, targeted approach for anyone who is affect by this loophole. I think we’re pretty optimistic. We’ve seen some movement lately.”
Some suggested categorizing financial benefits for military-connected students, such as the GI Bill, as federal funds would help prevent some schools from using predatory tactics to lure those students and drain their benefits while having low persistence rates or causing students to graduate with unnecessary debt.
“Military-connected students tend to be targeted by bad-actor institutions, it appears, because we have access to educational funds,” said Davis.
She echoed a call for preserving loan forgiveness for public service and simplification of the existing program.
“It’s pretty complicated right now,” Davis said. “And we’d like to expand it to other occupations such as the mental health field. Nationally, there’s a shortage of providers and the need for mental health services is growing. Including that field in public service loan forgiveness would incentivize providers to go that route. In turn, that would benefit those who need the services.”
The issues raised Thursday are part of a “comprehensive list” of priorities for Student Veterans of America, said vice president of government affairs Lauren Augustine, who represents the 1,500-chapter nonprofit.
SVA, she said, is taking a holistic perspective “that both doubles down on the investment America is making” in military-connected students “and also grows protections for those students to prevent predatory practices that promote fraud, waste and abuse.”
Veterans organizations often collaborate on common interests, Augustine said, and HEA reauthorization is one of major importance.
“The veteran world is uniquely cooperative and nonpartisan,” she said. “We’re always appreciative when we can come together and speak as one voice.”
Augustine characterized the overall mood across the organizations as “cautiously optimistic.”
“We know there’s a lot of good will to address some of these things in HEA,” she said. “We hope we can help drive that to a reality.”
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Master Plumbers Salary: How Long Does It Take To Become A Master?
The average life expectancy of a person is around 80 years old. So if you are over the age of 50 then you have probably lived longer than most people. If you think about it, most people don’t get to see their children grow up or grandchildren until they are older. Most people aren’t even married when they reach their late twenties. After you reach a certain age you have probably experienced a lot and seen so much change.
The Point: Most people are not alive long enough to become master plumbers. From that, you can tell that most people don’t live their lives to the fullest until later on in their lives. This is true for most people, but not for master plumbers.
To become a master plumber, you must have years of experience in the plumbing field. Experience is gained from doing. So, most master plumbers are in their forties or older. People that become master plumbers are those that have been doing the job for years and have finally made the decision to take the test for their master license.
Master Plumbers: How Long Does It Take To Become A Journeyman?
The average life span of a human being is around 80 years old. That means that most people have lived half of their lives by the time they reach the age of fifty. Most people still don’t know what they want to do with their lives, or they are tied down by jobs that they hate.
In the years following high school, many people go to college and get a job. They spend their adult lives working at that job. Most of these jobs do not fulfill them. It takes most people years before they figure this out.
One of the most fulfilling jobs is that of a plumber. It takes a long time to become a journeyman plumber, but it’s worth it. The feeling that you get from fixing water leaks and clogged toilets cannot be matched by any other job. Plumbers literally save people from disaster. Most plumbers are in their forties or older before they become journeymen.
They spent most of their twenties working and saving money for the test.
Most young people are not patient enough to become plumbers. They lack the maturity that is required to deal with the public. The best way to learn how to be a plumber is on the job training. Many plumbers will hire people that show promise and give them a chance.
How long does it take to become a master plumber? It takes at least ten years. People that want to become master plumbers need to be patient and save their money. They must take tests to prove that they know the knowledge of plumbing before they can take their final test. These tests are given by the state that they live in. Master plumbers that don’t pass their state’s final test must repeat all of their past tests until they do pass.
Most plumbers don’t get to become master plumbers. Most of them give up on their dreams and take a job that is less hassle. Some of them become managers or owners of plumbing companies. Some move to different states and give it another shot. Master plumbers are used mostly for large construction projects.
They are not usually found working in your house or office.
The average person calls a plumber when something is broken or leaking. Most of the time, plumbers are able to fix the problem and get back to work. A few plumbing emergencies require immediate attention. People that are having plumbing problems call a plumber in the middle of the night. Most plumbers own trucks and drive around from call to call.
Master plumbers can make over one hundred thousand dollars a year. Most of this money is from jobs that they have bid on. A master plumber must have several employees underneath him to make this much money. Journeymen plumbers can earn up to seventy thousand dollars a year. This money is earned while working on the job site.
Most plumbers do not make as much money as one would think.
Most plumbers work long hours and spend a lot of time away from home. It is not uncommon for a plumber to have to work over the weekend. Plumbers usually work until the problem is fixed. This can sometimes mean working in the freezing cold or sweltering heat. Most plumbers take a lot of pride in their work and always finish what they start.
Many people that graduate from college go on to become lawyers or doctors. The life of a plumber is not for everyone. It takes a special person to handle the long hours, dirt, and public contact. A plumber must be able to read and write. Most plumbers attend trade school for three or four years.
Trade schools are different than colleges and universities. Trade schools offer courses that teach people specific skills. Many plumbers learn their skills through an internship while in high school.
Most young people don’t decide to become plumbers until later in life. They may have tried a lot of different things before deciding on becoming a plumber. Many people think that they can’t become plumbers because they don’t have the intelligence to handle the math and science involved in it. This is simply not true, plumbers need mechanical skills and hand eye coordination more than a college education.
There are many misconceptions about the life of a plumber. Many people think that all plumbers earn a lot of money and live glamorous lives. This is simply not true. Many plumbers work long hard hours for barely enough money to pay the bills. There is a shortage of plumbers in the U.S.
and many are desperately needed for new homes and businesses. This is a great opportunity for young people to get into a booming new trade.
A plumber’s job is to make sure that the pipes in a house are cleared out and working properly. This means finding and stopping clogs and other problems in the pipes. A plumber must be able to read blueprints and understand them. A plumber must be able to use several different kinds of tools and be in good physical condition.
Most new plumbers work for a plumbing company. Most of these companies are run by a master plumber. The master plumber accepts jobs, hires journeymen and apprentices and oversees all the work. Journeymen plumbers work on the job site and do the labor involved in completing a job. They usually are paid on a job by job basis.
Apprentices work under a journeyman and learn the trade. They are paid a small wage and attend classes at night in order to become a journeyman themselves.
A plumber usually begins his day by reading the newspaper for announcements of new homes being built or businesses opening in the area. He then meets with the master plumber to see what jobs are available and where they are located. The plumber will then go to these locations to look at the blueprints for the job. He must decide how many men he needs, the equipment needed (such as trucks and cables for larger jobs) and the materials. He then arranges for all of these things and the job begins.
When he arrives at the building he assigns each worker to a specific task. He may be performing some of these tasks as well. He oversees the digging of trenches for water and sewage pipes. He must make sure that these trenches are dug to specification and aren’t too shallow or too deep. He must also make sure all of the pipes fit correctly, since a mistake can often mean cutting open a wall and starting all over.
After the pipes are in place, the plumbers must make sure that they all fit correctly. Then the connections to the house or building must be made. During this time, the plumbers are working with pipes and tools that are under a great deal of pressure. One wrong move could mean serious injury or even death. Once the pipes are all connected, the plumbing crew can finally relax and the real work begins.
The plumbers must now go through the house or building and look for clogs, leaks and other problems. A clog in just one drain can often flood an entire room or floor, so the plumber must be very alert at all times, even when not working. When a clog or other problem is found, the plumber must remove the pipes that lead to and from that section of pipe and replace them with new ones. If there are leaks, the pipes must be found and secured before the ceiling or floor collapses.
The most tedious part of a plumber’s job is cleaning out the drains. The drains in a kitchen, for example, must be perfectly clear in order to properly dispose of dirty water. Otherwise the pipes might back up and flood part of the house. This part of the job is often given to apprentices because it is generally considered rather boring.
As you can see, being a plumber is far from easy. A plumber has to know all about building and infrastructure of houses, as well as be in good physical condition in order to maneuver through sometimes tight areas of piping. A plumber has to work with pipes that are under extreme pressure and can easily cause harm.
Still interested in this field? If you still think you’ve got what it takes, read on. Otherwise, you may want to choose a different career path.
One of the best ways to become a plumber is to first become a carpenter or joiner and then take some additional courses in plumbing. You can then find work as an apprentice plumber or even earn your journeyman’s papers and go into business for yourself.
You will need to learn all about different kinds of piping and how they work. You will also need to be able to calculate the amount of pipes and fittings that you will need, in addition to learning about drainage and sewage. You must learn about different kinds of joints and couplings used in piping.
Once you feel you are ready to test your skills, you must contact your state’s plumbing board in order to take the journeyman’s test. You must be at least eighteen years old and also have a clean criminal record. You will be required to pass an ethics test as well as a written exam on your knowledge of the trade. In some states you may also be required to pass a physical skills test, such as demonstrating your ability to use common tools required for the job.
Once you have passed your tests you can use the title of journeyman plumber and work under another master plumber until you have enough experience to open your own plumbing business.
Remember that you will always need to keep your knowledge and skills up-to-date in this field. You may also want to get involved in your local plumbing guild or association. There are many opportunities for you to get more training in specialties such as water and waste management, heating, air conditioning and energy conservation.
The pay for a plumber varies depending on where you live and the size of the job. In cities like New York City or Chicago, the pay is much higher because of the high cost of living there.
Did You Know?
The first toilets in Europe were simply holes in the ground over which a wooden box would be placed. The “modern” toilet that we are all familiar with was not developed until the late eighteenth century.
Source: Crazy Like Us: A Cultural History of Mental Illness, Eric Marcus
You Call This Art? You decide!
Do you see a valuable work of art, or just an ugly mess? It all depends on your taste in art, and that is certainly a matter of opinion!
Some people say that the worth of a piece of art is in the eyes of the beholder, but it isn’t quite that simple. The reason that some people value this painting at $90 million is not just because they like the way it looks. The artist has a reputation for creating masterpieces and this painting is very rare. While all artists start out with sketches and drawings, not all of them progress to painting masterpieces. There are some artists who produce many sketches or even a few paintings that are good but not great.
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For circuit operation, the variations between de and ac functions are not too dissimilar. For de signal voltages, the individual stages of the instrument are directly coupled. Direct coupling can also be used for ac voltage signals, but typically capacitors are used to pass only the ac signal voltages from one stage to another. The test indications for ac must be handled slightly differently because of the nature of ac waveforms and the different ways of describing their levels. One ac wave has average, effective (RMS), and peak values. The analog meter movement responds to the average ac value, but we all use the effective or RMS value to describe a waveform, such as 120-V ac line power. The ac meter is calibrated for the effective value, even though it reacts to the average value.
For greater accuracy, ac signal voltages are first rectified into dc voltages for measurement. This section will describe where and how these rectifier circuits interact with the amplifier stages. Ac signal circuits usually use capacitors to couple the test signals from one stage to the next, although they are not necessary, ac voltages can be amplified by a deamplifier, but ac amplifiers are less prone to drift than de amplifiers. Also, many circuits under test could have ac signals occurring on a de level, and reading them both directly could give misleading results. Capacitors will pass ac signals while blocking dc signals so that the ac test voltage or current can be accurately measured. The capacitors are generally part of the input line to the voltage input network and the input to the first amplifier stage or follower circuit. The capacitors can also be used between the other amplifier stages, but do not have to be since the ac voltage will have already been separated. Since the capacitors must be inserted by the ac/ dc function switch, too many capacitors to be switched in numerous locations could cause wiring issues.
A capacitor is not used for ac current measurements until after the current input network converts the ac test current to an ac test voltage.
Ac to dc rectifier circuits function the same way when they are part of the amplifier stages. One diode is generally used for half-wave rectification, and four diodes, arranged as a bridge network, can be set up for full-wave rectification. A diode can be used as a rectifier because it is only effective in passing current in one direction. It passes only one half of each cycle, and the average level of the passed pulses drives the meter. The full-wave rectifier passes both halves of the waveform, but in only one polarity. This produces twice as many de pulses as the half-wave rectifier. In either case, though, the meter dial is calibrated to read the corresponding effective or RMS value.
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What was one reason the Roman Empire fell?
In conclusion, the Roman empire fell for many reasons, but the 5 main ones were invasions by Barbarian tribes, Economic troubles, and overreliance on slave labor, Overexpansion and Military Spending, and Government corruption and political instability.
How long was Rome abandoned?
Rome ruled much of Europe around the Mediterranean for over 1000 years. However, the inner workings of the Roman Empire began to decline starting around 200 AD. By 400 AD Rome was struggling under the weight of its giant empire. The city of Rome finally fell in 476 AD.
How did Constantinople fall?
Fall of Constantinople, (May 29, 1453), conquest of Constantinople by Sultan Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire. The dwindling Byzantine Empire came to an end when the Ottomans breached Constantinople’s ancient land wall after besieging the city for 55 days.
When was the end of the Western Roman Empire?
What areas made up the Western Roman Empire?
These became the Western Empire which included Iberia, France, Southern Britain, Italy, North Africa and parts of Germany, and the Eastern Empire which included the Balkans, Turkey, the Levant and Egypt. Rome ceased to be the capital from the time of the division.
What was the language of the Western Roman Empire?
Latin and Greek
What is the capital of Western Roman Empire?
What two groups sacked Rome?
The Sack of Rome on 24 August 410 AD was undertaken by the Visigoths led by their king, Alaric.
Who destroyed Rome in 455 AD?
Over the centuries, their name became so interchangeable with destruction that it became its synonym. But it turns out the Vandals, a Germanic tribe that managed to take over Rome in 455, may not deserve that connotation.
Who destroyed Rome in 410 AD?
What religion were the Goths?
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Carol Deering’s poems are exceedingly well made. They are lyrical, concise, and filled with memorable imagery. The poet herself is perceptive, humane, and eloquent. The publication of this collection is a welcome and noteworthy event. Here is a book that should be read many times over and deeply appreciated for its own sake.
—N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa writer of fiction, essays, and poetry, is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of House Made of Dawn.
In her impressive debut collection, Havoc & Solace, Carol Deering celebrates the inland West. Ecstatic and luminous, her poems construct a “tracery of awe” in that intersection between the self and the natural world: sunrise and dew, the coyote and the meadowlark, lightning on the horizon and “little moons reflecting in our eyes.” Cognizant of the “brittle” world and the tenuousness of peace, these are poems of witness, wonder and revelation, poems that rejoice in the act of looking carefully and intensely until “all the senses ring.”
—James McKean earned his MFA from the University of Iowa Writers’Workshop and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa. He is the author of three books of poetry: Headlong, Tree of Heaven, and We Are the Bus.
From poignant encounters with wild creatures to vivid evocations of Western landscapes and people, Carol makes magic with words.
—Lynne Bama, an award-winning poet and journalist, is the author of Yellowstone Rising.
We love her voice and think it’s an important one to share.
—The Crow Literary Journal, editor Joy Austin.
Havoc and Solace is an ode to place, Wyoming and the American West, where “[f]ences wear wild grapes and roses” and “[t]arpaper farmhouses / flap to the beat of a breeze.” Deering’s spaces are vast and intimate, sacred and inhabited by all manner of wildlife: deer, coyote, cattle, elk, bison, bear, mayflies, a spotted fawn, pronghorn, rabbits, rattlesnake, lizard, packrat, “lambs and wolf pups,” and so many birds! We feel Deering’s love for the land and her fear for its future. These highly condensed imagistic poems are utterly devoid of sentiment, cliché or any sense of straining to sound poetic. I so appreciate Deering’s rigorous restraint and complete absence of poetic self-consciousness! “Angle of Incidence” ends in a powerful but vulnerable place where “little birds on roadside stalks / rise and shiver to a mist / shying me to tears.” It takes a lot to earn an ending like that, but Deering pulls it off again and again in spare free-verse poems that, delicate and vital, feel like sculpted air.
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Introduction: Cross Puzzle
This is an easy puzzle to build and it makes a great gift. It is moderately difficult to solve but, once you know how, anyone can do it.
Step 1: Materials and Tools
You will need
- 20 inches of any type of wood 1" x 1" (I chose to use maple)
- 3/8" dowel 10" long
- 4 glass or metal spheres 1/2" in diameter. (I bought slingshot ammo)
- wood glue
- clear finish
Step 2: Cutting
First thing to do is to cut your 1" x 1" material to length. I chose to use a table saw but you could use a chop saw or hand saw as long as you end up with accurate pieces with squared up ends.
You will need 2 @ 5 1/2" and 4 @ 2 1/4"
Step 3: Layout
Next you will need to lay out where you need to drill. You will need to drill a hole centered 1/2" away from both ends of the 5 1/2" pieces and on one end of the 2 1/4" pieces. I used a combination square to mark X's on the ends of all of my pieces. This ended up being redundant because of the way I used my vise as a jig but it was still a good way of double checking that my vise/jig was accurate and still aligned correctly.
Step 4: Drilling
When I went to drill my holes, it made sense to use my vise as a jig to ensure accurately located holes. I started by putting a 1" Forstner bit into the drill press and clamping it in my vise so that it made contact at 3 points. This would make sure that all of my holes were drilled exactly 1/2" from the end and each side. I then used a C clamp to hold the vise in place, removed the 1" bit and exchanged it for the 5/8" bit.
The 5 1/2" long pieces I drilled 1/2" deep on each end.
Make sure that you remove any chips that fall into the clamping area because that will cause misaligned holes.
The 2 1/4" pieces I drilled 3/4" deep on one end.
I then removed the 5/8" bit and replaced it with the 7/16" twist drill. I stood the pieces on end and drilled through the piece until the bit appeared at the bottom, like in the picture.
Step 5: Drilling the Center Hole
The next step is to drill a hole exactly in the center of the two 5 1/2" pieces. Carefully lay out with a pencil and ruler and drill a hole with the 7/16" drill. You will want to chamfer the holes slightly as shown in the pictures to ensure the dowels slide easily.
Step 6: Cut and Chamfer Dowels
Insert the 3/8" dowel into one of the puzzle pieces and mark the length as shown in the picture. Then chamfer both ends of all the dowels. This will ensure that if there is a slight misalignment the dowels will still move freely back and forth.
Step 7: Assemble and Glue
The next step is very important and care must be taken so that your puzzle will work properly. Don't forget to put the 1/2" spheres into the holes as well as the dowels. Also you need to take care not to use too much glue. I apply a spot of glue as shown in the pictures and then spread it evenly with my finger. If you apply too much, wipe off excess onto a rag. I let the glue sit open for a while to let some of the glue absorb into the wood.
Now is a good time to get some clamps and scrap piece of 1" x 1" material that is less than 2" long. Clamp the puzzle as shown in the picture with the scrap wood as a spacer. Make sure that the spacer is pinched tightly in the center and if the ends aren't flush that the overhang is equal on both ends.
Step 8: Sand and Finish
To finish up your puzzle, remove any excess squeeze out with a chisel or scraper. Then, sand all of the surfaces smooth and flat. You will also want to slightly round all of the corners and edges. This give the puzzle a nice feel and makes you want to hold it in your hands. I finish it off with 3 to 4 coats of spray lacquer sanding with 220 grit sand paper after the first coat..
Step 9: The Solution
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November 1, 2006 (Vol. 26, No. 19)
New Technology, Such as Viral Vectors, Makes Vaccines More Commercially Viable
The vaccine industry is a hotbed of activity. News of vaccines moving through the clinical pipeline and reaching the market, novel vaccine and viral vector technology emanating from industry and academia, and new disease targets, immunization strategies, and target populations appear regularly on health-related news services. These advances are expanding the spectrum of vaccines and opening new markets with highly attractive commercial potential.
A range of viral vectors for use in vaccines and gene therapy are now in the clinic, led by adenovirus-vectors and recombinant pox virus vectors. Recent progress in the market, however, such as the approval of Gardasil®, Merck’s (www.merck.com) vaccine against HPV and two oral, live attenuated vaccines against rotavirus infection—Merck’s RotaTeq® and GlaxoSmith-Kline’s (GSK; www.gsk.com) Rotarix®, is what has brought renewed excitement in this once ho-hum field. “Gardasil really opened up people’s eyes,” says Dana Leach, senior vp of business development and COO of Pharmexa (www.pharmexa.com). “It straddles the divide as it is an antiviral vaccine with potentially an anticancer effect.”
Other recent additions to the vaccine toolkit include a shingles vaccine (Zostavax™, Merck) to prevent against reactivity of varicella zoster, the chickenpox virus, and accelular pertussis boosters, which also protect against diphtheria and tetanus (Boostrix, GlaxoSmithKline; Adacel, sanofi-aventis (www.sanofi-aventis.com).
Just five years ago, however, vaccines were not viewed as commercially attractive products. The approval of Gardasil, significant financial investments to develop vaccines against bioterrorism agents, a new focus on pandemic flu, and the hope surrounding cancer vaccines potentially prolonging survival and enabling the use of lower doses of chemotherapeutic drugs has created a paradigm shift, says Jens Vollmar, M.D., medical director at Bavarian Nordic (www.bavarian-nordic.com).
It has clearly been an extraordinarily visible year for vaccines, says Dino Dina, M.D., CEO of Dynavax (www.dynavax.com). It is interesting, Dina notes, that despite these innovations and the recognition in the industry that vaccines have the potential to be billion-dollar products, “there are no commercial-level independent companies—they are all part of big pharma.”
In the future, protective vaccines against a range of infections that plague travelers and even therapeutic vaccines to combat metabolic disorders, such as diabetes, will be key components of the discovery and development pipelines in a growing number of biotech companies and represent attractive in-house and licensing opportunities for big pharma.
The HIV vaccine market is also growing, according to Dr. Vollmar. “In the past it was thought feasible and necessary to have a vaccine that would give sterilizing immunity. But now, a partially protective vaccine that would not prevent the infection but rather would control the HIV virus when it enters the body would be seen as a major breakthrough. Even such an imperfect vaccine that could keep the viral load at a low level could provide a tremendous benefit in HIV endemic regions. It would prolong the period of latency and help control the epidemic by reducing the transmission to other persons.”
The growing elderly population is another attractive group being targeted for vaccine development, with prophylactic vaccines for age-related disorders, such as Alzheimer’s disease and therapeutic cancer immunotherapies, in development. Cell culture-based influenza vaccines and needleless flu shots, as well as pandemic flu vaccines and immunizations against potential bioterrorism agents are other examples of vaccine targets that would expand traditional age groups for immunization.
Viral Vector Platforms Evolve
Leach sums up the evolving history of vaccine technology as follows: “Protein vaccines have not been particularly good at developing T-cell responses, DNA vaccines have not been particularly good at developing antibody responses, and plasmid DNA has not been particularly good in humans. Viral vectors and other special delivery methods will hopefully bridge that gap.”
Pharmexa’s lead therapeutic vaccine, based on its GV1001 technology targeting telomerase, is a peptide vaccine that targets both helper T cells and cytolytic T cells. Telomerase represents a different type of cancer vaccine target, according to Leach, “because it is a functional target and is necessary for maintaining the immortality of cancer cells.” The most advanced application of GV1001 is in pancreatic cancer, with Phase III trials under way.
Therapeutic cancer vaccines will likely require multiple serial vaccinations to maintain an anticancer effect. “Multiple vaccinations is a technical hurdle to be overcome when using a viral vector,” says Leach. The risk is that the patient’s immune response to the viral vector used to deliver an antigenic payload will dominate the response to the target antigens.
Strategies being evaluated to overcome the multiple vaccination issue include prime-boost approaches or alternating use of different viral vectors. A group of researchers working with the Cancer Research Institute/Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research’s Cancer Vaccine Collaborative reported in PNAS promising clinical findings in late-stage metastatic melanoma using a prime-boost strategy to induce a therapeutic immune response. A small number of patients received multiple doses of a recombinant vaccinia vector carrying the NY-ESO-1 tumor antigen and a recombinant fowlpox-NY-ESO-1 vaccine. The treatment stimulated both humoral and cellular immune responses with evidence of disease stabilization, delayed progression, and even tumor regression.
Alan Kingsman, Ph.D., CEO of Oxford BioMedica (www.oxfordbiomedica.co.uk), on the other hand, sees the field of cancer immunotherapy moving toward more highly engineered vaccines that will incorporate novel tumor antigens and ultimately combinations of antigens that can elicit an even more potent immune response.
Oxford Biomedica’s cancer immunotherapy products are designed to drive an immune response against self-antigens and would be administered in cycles of multiple vaccinations. From both a medical and economic perspective, this represents a significant shift in perspective from traditional prophylactic vaccine administration.
TroVax, Oxford Biomedica’s lead product, delivers the 5T4 cancer antigen using a pox (modified vaccinia ankara, or MVA) virus vector and has potential use in most solid tumors. Phase III trials are set to begin in renal cell carcinoma, with ongoing Phase II studies in colorectal, breast, and prostate cancer.
In general, “viral vectors and molecular techniques are gaining momentum,” asserts Bill Enright, senior director and head of vaccine business development at GenVec (www.genvec.com). They offer three key advantages: the ability to engineer vaccines for defined targets, a choice of different vectors with distinct benefits, and the ability to manufacture large quantities of vaccine cost effectively in cell culture.
Selected for its versatility, tolerability, and broad applicability, the adenoviral vector-based vaccine platform employed by GenVec for the development of its prophylactic vaccines for HIV, malaria, foot and mouth disease in animals, and influenza enables vaccine production in cell culture. The company’s multistage malaria vaccine contains two antigens that target both the blood and liver stages of infection.
With four therapeutic viral vector-based products in development, Transgene (www.transgene.fr) is pursuing the cancer and infectious disease markets. Its vaccine strategy involves introducing immunostimulatory molecules and viral or tumor-associated antigens.
Transgene’s lead product, TG4010, targets non-small-cell-lung cancer in combination with chemotherapy and is in a Phase IIb study in Europe in patients with advanced-stage disease. The vaccine is comprised of an MVA-based vector and the MUC1 tumor-associated antigen.
“MVA is a very safe vector—nonreplicative and nonintegrative,” says Jean-Yves Bonnefoy, Ph.D., vp of R&D. “This virus allows you to bring into it quite a significant chunk of foreign DNA. Additionally, based on data we are accumulating in man, immunity to MVA does not seem to be a handicap—and that is a major plus.”
Transgene’s TG4001 vaccine is indicated for the treatment of HPV-induced precancerous cervical lesions. The MVA vector expresses the E6 and E7 antigens of HPV16 together with IL-2. Phase II results were reported in April: 18 women with high-grade cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN 2/3) related to HPV16 infection received three injections of the vaccine. Of the 18 women, 10 had normal colposcopic evaluations of the cervix at six months, nine had no evidence of CIN 2/3, and nine had no HPV16 mRNA. “This is the first time it has been shown that a therapeutic vaccine has worked on a chronic infection,” says Philippe Poncet, CFO. Larger studies are planed to confirm these results.
TG1042, an adenovirus-vectored vaccine expressing interferon-g, has completed a Phase I/II trial in patients with cutaneous B-cell or T-cell lymphoma who have failed radiotherapy. The goal is to induce a nonspecific local immune response.
Over the past year, Dr. Bonnefoy has also observed growing recognition of the potential value of combining new classes of therapeutic vaccines with existing cancer treatment strategies to take advantage of their complementary and sometimes synergistic effects. The addition of immunotherapy may allow for the use of lower doses of chemotherapeutic agents with improved outcomes.
Avant Immunotherapeutics (www.avantimmune.com) collaborated with GSK on the development of Rotarix and is producing several oral, single-dose vaccines against bacterial targets aimed at preventing diarrhea and enteric diseases. Although the company’s bacterial vector platform is based on live attenuated cholera or typhoid fever vaccines, it believes that it can use this technology to vector viral antigens to protect against viral disease, according to Una S. Ryan, Ph.D., president and CEO of Avant.
Following promising Phase II results of its CholeraGarde® cholera vaccine this summer, Avant reported that the International Vaccine Institute had received a $21-million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a Cholera Vaccine Initiative that will include further trials of CholeraGarde, including immunization concurrent with measles vaccination and use in HIV-positive patients. Phase III trials planned for Bangladesh are designed to compare vaccinated villages (vaccination of adults, children, and infants) with unvaccinated villages for disease incidence.
Avant’s typhoid fever vaccine is in Phase I/II testing, with a Phase II study anticipated to get under way in the first half of 2007. Its cholesterol ester transfer protein (CETP) vaccine aims to raise levels of HDL and has completed Phase II testing. The company has reformulated the CETP vaccine with a new adjuvant, a TLR ligand, and is now testing this new vaccine formulation.
The company plans to apply its bacterial vaccine platform as vectors for delivering various disease antigens, such as enterotoxigenic E. coli or plague. According to Dr. Ryan, one of the company’s ultimate goals is to combine several of its vaccines to create a super-protectant against the many potential causes of traveler’s diarrhea. Another planned application of the technology is to develop a preventive vaccine for pandemic flu.
Lentigen (www.lentigen.com) is leveraging its LentiMax™ lentiviral vector system in a recently announced partnership with Dharmacon (www.dharmacon.com) to develop and manufacture lentiviral expression reagents for gene-silencing applications. The lentiviral reagents will deliver shRNA expression vectors into cells for RNAi-mediated gene silencing.
On the therapeutic front, Lentigen continues to develop its lentiviral vector system as a manufacturing platform for vaccine, Mab, and therapeutic protein production. Its lead target is pandemic and seasonal influenza. Within five weeks the company can produce virus-like particle-based vaccines containing three to four viral proteins, including a hemagglutinin neuraminidase targeting the desired virus strain, according to Boro Dropulic, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Lentigen.
Other advantages of the lentiviral platform include the ability to produce virus-like particles (VLPs) in standard manufacturing cell lines and long harvest times, because VLPs do not kill the cells. Ongoing collaborations in the area of gene therapy focus mainly on cancer with additional projects in regenerative medicine and infectious diseases.
Influenza-Seasonal and Pandemic
Vaxin (www.vaxin.com) is also developing adenovirus-vectored vaccines, including human influenza vaccine, a vaccine against Alzheimer’s disease, and an immunization to protect poultry against avian influenza.
Two types of flu vaccines are in development. One type includes improved conventional influenza vaccines incorporating adjuvants to boost the immune response. These will not, however, prevent against new influenza strains that present a risk for pandemic flu.
VaxInnate (www.vaxinnate.com) is exploring the role of the innate immune system in regulating adaptive immunity. The company is identifying ligands that activate Toll-like receptor (TLR) pathways to stimulate a more potent immune response to disease antigens.
The company’s lead flu vaccine program targets an antigen conserved across influenza A strains, linked to a ligand for TLR-5. Jeff Powell, Ph.D., vp of research, says that the vaccine “has the potential to provide an antibody response that could protect for more than one year and cross multiple strains,” and he anticipates that the vaccine will enter the clinic next year.
Dynavax is developing a universal flu vaccine using invariant genes and proteins, based on the company’s TLR-9 agonist-based immunostimulatory sequence (ISS) technology. The vaccine contains two proteins: recombinant nuclear protein (NP), which is invariant across all influenza A strains, and M2E, a matrix surface protein that induces formation of cytotoxic antibodies capable of destroying infected cells.
“We have shown that immunization with NP can protect mice against challenge with pandemic flu strains,” says Dina. “The animal data, including studies in primates, are supportive that the vaccine will work in humans.” It will enter the clinic in about 15 months. Dina envisions the combined use of these core proteins with other company’s influenza vaccines to augment their potency and broaden their protection to cover potential pandemic flu strains.
In addition, the company has a heplisav hepatitis B vaccine in Phase III studies and Dynavax hopes to bring it to market within two years. Also, a collaboration with the NIH focuses on development of third-generation, lyophilized anthrax vaccine that could be stored for long periods of time at room temperature. In addition, the company recently announced a research collaboration and license agreement with AstraZeneca(www.astrazeneca.com) for the discovery and development of TLR-9 agonist-based therapies for the treatment of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
PowderMed’s (www.powdermed.com) H3 DNA vaccine against influenza is about to enter the clinic. Healthy volunteers will be immunized and later challenged with a weakened version of the H3N2 strain of influenza virus. The vaccine consists of gold particles coated with DNA delivered using a needle-free system. PowderMed is leveraging this same technology to develop an avian flu vaccine.
Crucell’s (www.crucell.com) H9N2 virosomal vaccine is already in large-scale clinical trials to protect against avian influenza virus infection in humans. About 560 healthy adult volunteers will receive one of three H9N2 vaccines: either a whole virion vaccine without an adjuvant; a whole virion vaccine with an alum adjuvant; or a virosomal subunit vaccine. The trial will also assess an intradermal delivery route with the aim of reducing the amount of antigen needed.
Evolving HIV Vaccines
HIV vaccines may not offer the pizzazz of a blockbuster new drug or a pandemic flu vaccine, with the largest markets in developing countries. Consequently, there will be substantial pressure on vaccine producers to keep costs low, as well as provide HIV vaccines free of cost to poor nations. Yet many companies are pursuing the challenging task of developing and testing a preventive HIV vaccine, and others are bent on pursuing therapeutic vaccines that can overcome the challenge of creating a successful immunotherapeutic for a patient population that is immunologically compromised.
The unmet need is great, and the number and diversity of vaccine strategies is growing, with a variety of vaccines now in clinical testing. The Chinese government recently announced results of the country’s first human trial of an HIV vaccine. In the U.S., big pharma is leading the way, with Merck’s candidate adenoviral vector-based vaccine in Phase II studies, and competing DNA and recombinant protein products in the clinic at Sanofi-Aventis, Wyeth(www.wyeth.com), Novartis(www.novartis.com), and GlaxoSmithKline.
Bavarian Nordic’s vaccines are all based on MVA, an attenuated pox virus. A therapeutic HIV (MVA nef) vaccine is in Phase II studies, with a prophylactic vaccine strategy against HIV also in clinical development. Imvamune®, a prophylactic third-generation vaccine for smallpox, delivers the naked MVA viral vector and is currently in large Phase II trials and is providing safety data to support the company’s other vaccine programs.
Pharmexa’s multiepitope EP 1090 vaccine to treat HIV is in Phase I/II studies with ongoing trials experimenting with naked DNA, new delivery systems, and alternative viral vectors aimed at enhancing the immune response.
Bavarian Nordic and Pharmexa are collaborating on a prophylactic prime-boost HIV vaccine strategy. Bavarian Nordic has both preventive and therapeutic HIV vaccine candidates in the pipeline. Vical’s (www.vical.com) prime-boost strategy combines immunization with a plasmid DNA vaccine and an adenoviral vector-based vaccine and is in a Phase II trial.
GenVec’s therapeutic HIV vaccine also relies on a prime-boost approach; it entered the clinic this summer. The NIH-sponsored Vaccine Research Center is conducting a Phase I study to assess a DNA prime/GenVec adenovector-based boost vaccine strategy to treat HIV infection. The HIV vaccine targets multiple clades (A,B, and C) and multiple antigens (a gag-pol fusion protein) and “will be a worldwide vaccine,” says Bill Enright of GenVec. A Phase II efficacy trial in 10,000–15,000 patients is planned for early 2007.
Other products in development include CytRxs(www.cytrx.com) DP6-001 prime-boost vaccine regimen, Mymetics’(www.mymetics.com), AlphaVax’ (www.alphavax.com) prophylactic vaccines, and Bio-Bridge Science’s (www.bio-bridge-science) oral HIV vaccine.
The NIH awarded CytoPulse Sciences (www.cytopulse.com) a $2-million grant to commercialize its Easy Vax DNA vaccine delivery system. The grant will fund a two-year project to develop a pilot manufacturing system for the device, evaluate the device in humans, and complete development and test the safety and efficacy of a dengue DNA vaccine as a model for the delivery of polynucleotide vaccines against biodefense pathogens.
The Easy Vax consists of an array of hundreds of small needles coated with the vaccine. In the presence of an electric field, the DNA penetrates dendritic cells in the skin, which then present the foreign material to stimulate an immune response.
Vaxin presented encouraging results of animal tests with its E. coli-vectored cutaneous vaccines in the journal Infection and Immunity. According to the company, 90% of mice given a topical E. coli-based tetanus vaccine survived lethal challenge with Clostridium tetani, while untreated mice died. Similarly, 55% of mice treated with a cutaneous E. coli-vectored anthrax vaccine survived lethal intranasal challenge with Bacillus anthracis spores.
Earlier this year, BioVex (www.biovex.com) initiated a Phase II trial of OncoVEXGMCSF in malignant melanoma and in head and neck cancer. The vaccine delivers an oncolytic virus that kills tumor cells and induces them to secrete GMCSF.
Intercell’s (www.intercell.com) therapeutic vaccine for hepatitis C is in Phase II trials.
Ark Therapeutics Group (www.arktherapeutics.com) reported positive results from a Phase II trial of its Trinam® gene-therapy product for preventing blood vessel blockage in kidney dialysis patients that have undergone vascular access graft surgery. The grafts of treated patients remained functional on average more than five times longer than those of the control group. Trinam delivers the gene for vascular endothelial growth factor in an adenoviral vector (Ad-VEGF-D).
Nabi Biopharmaceuticals’ (www.nabi.com) NicVAX® targeting nicotine addiction to promote smoking cessation entered a Phase IIb proof-of-concept study in May 2006, with results expected in mid-2007. The company’s StaphVAX® vaccine to prevent hospital-acquired Staphylococcus aureus did not meet the primary endpoint in Phase III trials. Based on a subsequent review of the program, Nabi has decided to pursue development of StaphVAX and is modifying the structural characteristics of the vaccine and various product-testing procedures.
Cytos Biotechnology (www.cytos.com) is developing several therapeutic vaccines as part of its Immunodrugs™ program. CYT-009-GhrQb, an obesity vaccine designed to induce ghrelin-specific antibodies, is in a Phase I/II trial. Other products in the clinic include Immunodrugs targeting nicotine addiction and Alzheimer’s disease, allergy, asthma, and atopic dermatitis, psoriasis, hypertension, and melanoma.
In October, a report in the New England Journal of Medicine presented positive treatment results of a Phase II/III trial with Tolamba™, an immunotherapeutic vaccine comprised of a TLR9 agonist linked purified Amb a 1, the main ragweed allergen. The treatment was well-tolerated and reduced allergy symptoms, including ragweed-induced allergic rhinitis, with symptom relief extending at least through the second ragweed season.
In late summer, Protein Sciences (PSC, www.proteinsciences.com) licensed its FluBlok recombinant influenza vaccine to Japan-based UMN Pharma (www.umn pharma.com). The agreement grants UMN rights to manufacture and market the vaccine in Japan for both annual and pandemic flu use. PSC plans to file a BLA for FluBlok in early 2007.
Based on disappointing results of a Phase III trial in patients with advanced pancreatic cancer, Therion Biologics (www.therionbio.com) announced that it would not file a BLA for Panvac-VF for this indication. The therapeutic vaccine is also being tested in patients with advanced ovarian, colorectal, or non-small-cell-lung cancer.
The company’s Prostvac-VF vaccine did not meets its primary efficacy endpoint of improving progression-free survival in men with advanced prostate cancer in a Phase II trial completed earlier this year. Study results did, however, suggest that the vaccine may be beneficial in patients with less advanced Dendreon (www.dendreon.com) submitted the clinical and nonclinical sections of its rolling submission of a BLA to the FDA for sipuleucel-T (Provenge®), the company’s active immunotherapeutic for the treatment of asymptomatic patients with metastatic, androgen-independent (hormone refractory) prostate cancer. The submission contains clinical trial data supporting an overall survival advantage of four and a half months on average compared to placebo. Dendreon’s second product candidate, Lapuleucel-T, targets Her2/new positive cancers. | <urn:uuid:6ee4f362-7d42-4266-885f-82a061436d20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.genengnews.com/magazine/59/novel-vaccines-expand-potential-markets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.915199 | 5,401 | 2.5 | 2 |
By Tom Yamachika – When I was growing up there was a hilarious cartoon involving a roadrunner and a coyote. The coyote was always trying to catch the roadrunner, presumably to make it that evening’s dinner, but never succeeded. More often than not, the coyote would find the bird resting near the edge of a dangerous cliff. The coyote would lunge at it, the roadrunner would deftly sidestep, and the coyote found himself past the edge of the cliff with nothing but air under his feet. Wheeeeeee…splat.
There are also treacherous cliffs in the tax world. Take, for example, our conveyance tax that is imposed on real estate transactions. The tax rate on commercial property is 0.1% if what is paid for the property is less than $600,000, and 0.2% if it’s $600,000 or more but less than $1 million. However, when the second tax rate kicks in it applies to the whole transaction price, not only the amount over $600,000. This means that if the transaction price is $599,999, the tax is just a shade under $600; but if the price is a dollar more, the tax jumps to $1,200. Our conveyance tax has five more brackets, for transactions with progressively higher amounts, and in each case a taxpayer who falls off the cliff and lands in a higher bracket is taxed at that rate on all of the dollars that otherwise would have been in lower brackets. To take another example, if a property is sold for $5,999,999 the tax is just a hair under $42,000; a dollar more and the bill is $54,000. These bracket changes can start costing serious money.
Another tax cliff example is in the City & County of Honolulu’s real property tax system. This year the tax on residential property is $3.50 per $1,000 of assessed valuation. But if the property is worth at least $1 million and no homeowners’ exemption is in place, then a “Residential A” property classification applies and the tax rate springs to $6.00. A family with a $1 million home close to work and a $1 million beach house at the North Shore will wind up paying $3,500 for one home and $6,000 for the other. If the second home was worth $1 less, both would have similar tax bills. What a difference one dollar makes!
When I hear from people who know of the cliffs in the system–especially from those who fell off one–I hear nothing but complaints. People have groused that the cliffs are unfair at best, and some have ventured to say that they are unconstitutional. They don’t mind progressive taxes, namely where higher income or higher transaction size is taxed at a higher rate, but they expect something like the income tax system where there are no cliffs.
Why do lawmakers pass tax legislation with cliffs in them? My theory is that they put in the multiple rates and don’t know or don’t care about the cliffs. Both the conveyance tax and the real property tax on residential real estate used to be single rate taxes. Lawmakers then added more rate brackets with wording similar to the existing law. That created the cliffs.
So what can be done about these cliffs? It takes more work to design a tax system without cliffs, but it is not an impossible task; lawmakers just need to follow the wording in the income tax system. With fewer cliffs there is less anxiety experienced by taxpayers close to the cliff lines, and fewer hard feelings by taxpayers who have experienced the “wheeeeeee…splat.” | <urn:uuid:4902800a-9357-43d9-8693-93641c866643> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hawaiireporter.com/falling-off-the-cliff/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961443 | 768 | 1.710938 | 2 |
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VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - Taxpayer-funded agencies headed by Vatican health conference celebrity speakers Francis Collins and Anthony Fauci financed the creation of "humanized mice" using aborted baby parts, according to peer-reviewed journal Scientific Reports.
The project grafted "full-thickness human fetal skin" from the scalps of 18- to 20-week aborted babies onto rodents to create "humanized rat models," using fetuses supplied by Planned Parenthood with the "written informed consent of the maternal donors."
Although the experiment's results were published in September 2020 in the paper "Development of humanized mouse and rat models with full-thickness human skin and autologous immune cells," the barbaric nature of the study and Planned Parenthood's role were made public after four experts testified before a Pennsylvania House Health Committee hearing Tuesday.
The experiment was carried out at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and aborted babies were obtained through the Magee-Womens Hospital of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and the university's Health Sciences Tissue Bank, researchers said.
Pittsburgh University said Planned Parenthood had not supplied the fetuses and its research was not funded by the taxpayer. However, the experiment's published paper acknowledges that the study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).
The Center for Medical Progress reported that "local Planned Parenthood of Western Pennsylvania abortion providers supply the aborted fetuses, while Pitt sponsors the local Planned Parenthood's operations, in what looks like an illegal quid pro quo for fetal body parts, forbidden by 42 U.S. Code 289g-2 and 18 Pennsylvania Statutes 3216."
The paper specifies that the project received NIH award P30CA047904 and NIH Fogarty International Center grant D43TW010039, amounting to $430,000 over 2018 and 2019, according to the NIH project database.
NIH, the world's largest public funder of biomedical research, is headed by Director Francis Collins, a physician-geneticist appointed by President Barack Obama in 2009. Collins has resolutely defended human fetal tissue research as scientifically and ethically justified despite fierce criticism from pro-life groups.
When Obama named Collins NIH director, some researchers worried Collins' faith would influence his leadership, according to the journal Science, but "his religion never became an issue — he followed Obama's order to loosen rules for stem cell research."
Collins suffered a setback in June 2019 when the Trump administration clamped down on research using fetal tissue from elective abortions. But on April 16, the NIH reversed Trump's pro-life policy by permitting scientists to resume studies using aborted babies.
A day before his address at the Vatican health forum, the pro-abortion immunologist and chief medical advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden spoke at the Further of Healthcare: Bold Bets in Health conference sponsored exclusive by abortion giant Planned Parenthood — raising questions of a "serious conflict of interest."
Collins is an evangelical Protestant who holds to theistic evolution. In 2009, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Collins, a convert from atheism, to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences.
Fauci, a self-identified humanist, was brought up Catholic and is an alumnus of New York City's Jesuit Regis High School and a graduate of the Jesuit College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.
Later in the week, Collins and Fauci spoke unchallenged at the Vatican summit "Exploring the Mind, Body and Soul," even though conference organizer Mgr. Tomasz Trafny offered assurances that controversial speakers would be challenged and asked difficult questions.
"We think it's better to raise their level of sensitivity and awareness instead of only complaining or condemning them," Trafny told Vaticanist journalist Edward Pentin, on the issue of abortion-tainted vaccines. "They are deeply convinced they're doing good and sometimes only lack sensitivity because they're not formed in the way we are."
But organizers from the Pontifical Council for Culture completely ignored issues of abortion in medical research — providing no response to the role of Fauci and Collins in the breaking scandal involving the creating of "humanized rodents" using aborted baby scalps.
While Fauci used the Vatican platform to combat vaccine aversion, reinforce mask-wearing and defend his much-criticized flip-flopping on a host of COVID-19 measures, Collins spoke on the complementarity between faith and science — slamming a literal reading of the creation texts in Genesis and promoting theistic evolution.
In fiscal year 2019, 196 NIH-funded research projects involved fetal tissue, accounting for a total of $109 million out of the agency's approximately $39 billion budget, Nature journal reported.
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April Koh is a businesswoman based in the New York metropolitan area. She should be best-known to people because of her role as the CEO of Spring Health, which is a mental health benefit for employers. In recent times, interested individuals might have seen Koh’s name come up because of reports that Spring Health hasn’t been practicing what it preaches.
1. Plays the Oboe
Koh plays the oboe. This is a kind of woodwind instrument that can be made out of either wood or a number of synthetic materials. It isn’t clear how the oboe came into existence. However, the English name is known to have come from the Italian name, which in turn, is known to have come from the French name. Koh has a pre-college diploma for the instrument from the Juilliard School.
2. Went to Yale University
Education-wise, Koh went to Yale University. There, she focused on a couple of subjects. One would be sociology, which is focused on exactly what one would expect based on its name. Meanwhile, the other would be computer science, which has become more and more important in modern times.
3. Seems to Have Been Interested in Entrepreneurship from the Start
Often-times, entrepreneurs choose to spend some time working in a relevant field for the purpose of building up useful skills as well as other assets before pursuing their true ambitions. However, Koh seems to have been interested in entrepreneurship from the very start. This can be seen in how she seems to have served as a co-founder of Spylight right out of school, with the result that she served as the Chief Product Officer.
4. Believes that Becoming a Young Entrepreneur Has Its Advantages
Koh has stated that she believes that becoming a young entrepreneur has its advantages. In particular, she talked about starting a family, which is a huge issue for female entrepreneurs as well as other business-women because having a child uses up a lot of time and other resources. As Koh sees it, becoming a young entrepreneur means being able to focus on the business now while holding off on having a child until later. Of course, there are other potential benefits as well. To name an example, some people become too comfortable in their positions, with the result that they become unwilling to start their own businesses because the latter is always a significant risk. As a result, a lot of would-be entrepreneurs never become entrepreneurs because of this reason.
5. Believes that She Over-Compensated By Seeking Experienced Team Members
On a related note, Koh has mentioned that she over-compensated when she was starting out by seeking out experienced team members to the neglect of other potential considerations. This doesn’t mean that she thinks that experience is unimportant. Just that she thinks that experience is one of a number of important considerations when hiring personnel, meaning that it cannot come at the expense of everything else.
6. Youngest Woman to Run a Multi-Billion-Dollar Company
Earlier in 2021, Koh received a lot of interest because she became the youngest woman to run a multi-billion-dollar company thanks to some very successful fundraising. Naturally, those funds are meant to improve upon the company’s existing offerings while also providing it with a way to pursue expansion into other national markets. It is interesting to note that Spring Health has very ambitious plans in this regard, seeing as how it seems to be eyeing most of the countries that can be found on the planet.
7. Her Company Is Named for Exactly the Reason that What One Would Expect
Some people might be curious why Spring Health is named Spring Health. If so, they should know that Koh’s company is named for pretty much exactly the reason that they might expect, which is to say, it is a nod to spring’s status as a symbol of new things as well as positive change. Something that can trace its roots to the very basis of agriculture-based societies. After all, winter tends to be an extremely inhospitable time, meaning that it would have been an extremely dangerous time for farmers who were relying on their stored food to make it past the season. In that context, spring would have been a natural reprieve, thus causing it to become associated with many good things. Besides this, Spring Health was also apparently founded in May, which would be spring-time.
8. Interested in Data-Driven Mental Healthcare
One might say that Koh’s background in computer science shows when it comes to her goals for Spring Health. In short, she says that she is working to bring about a world in which mental healthcare is accurately tailored to each individual, which is contrasted with the current world in which it is often a matter of guessing more than anything else. Naturally, this wouldn’t be possible without data. Something that has become extremely important throughout the tech industry as well as everything connected to the tech industry because of the insights that can be gleaned from properly collected and properly analyzed data. Indeed, Koh believes that this future way of providing mental healthcare will be data-driven in nature.
9. Believes in the Importance of Having a Team with Diverse Backgrounds
Koh’s company is very upfront about its belief in the importance of having a team with diverse backgrounds. For that matter, it isn’t hard to see why this would matter for a healthcare company. Simply put, different backgrounds result in different experiences, which in turn, make people form different assumptions about the world around them. This means that there are numerous stories of excessively homogeneous management teams being blindsighted by issues that would have been obvious to people of certain backgrounds. Certainly, interested individuals can compensate for this problem by looking into these issues. However, that assumes that they are actually aware of the existence of a potential gap in their knowledge, which may or may not be the case because our decision-making is so closely bound to our assumptions. In any case, Koh’s company is taking aim at a wide range of industries in a wide range of countries, so it pretty much can’t succeed unless it builds a diverse team capable of handling diverse challenges.
10. Apparently Runs a Very Fast-Paced Company
Recent reports say that Koh apparently runs a very fast-paced company, which isn’t uncommon for companies involved in tech in some way. The problem is that such a pace can be brutal on the employees, thus resulting in burnout as well as other serious issues. Considering Spring Health’s focus on mental healthcare, this isn’t exactly a good look for it. | <urn:uuid:9bae2180-ee28-4b8d-9971-5c559ec17961> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moneyinc.com/april-koh/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.979869 | 1,365 | 2.109375 | 2 |
The Mexican Peso (MXN) is the official currency of Mexico and it is made up of 100 centavos. It is listed as the 15th most traded currency in the world and it is directly connected with various factors that make the MXN a very important currency in the financial market. First, Mexico is a major trading partner with the USA since many Americans either have a business or family in the neighboring country. Thus, many of them travel frequently to Mexico making the value of the Peso strictly connected with the US market. Moreover, the proximity of the two countries makes Mexico an attractive investment destination which is boosted by the higher interest rates that Mexico has compared with the USA.
The Peso was the official currency of Spain, known as the “real”. The Mexican Peso was a silver 8-real coin that was in circulation until the mid-19th century. The first Mexica peso coins were issued in 1863 and were denominated in centavos which worthed one-hundredth of the peso. After the huge oil crisis in the 1970s, Mexico failed to repay its external debts and the value of its currency was significantly devaluated. Thus, in 1993 the government of Mexico made a new peso called the “nuevo peso” which had a ratio of 1:1,000 to the old peso. After the uncertainty of NAFTA's future in 2016, the Mexican peso lost another 20% of its value leading to great problems across Latin America where it is the most traded currency.
The MXN is the abbreviation for the Mexican Peso and it replaced the former abbreviation of MXP. It is the 15th most traded currency in the world and is the most popular in Latin America.
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All students in the Frederick feeder system have the opportunity to attend preschool at Spark! Discovery Preschool.
Spark! Discovery Preschool serves all families and children in the Carbon Valley community. We offer a comprehensive early learning program focused on Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). We serve nearly 300 preschoolers in the Frederick High School Feeder, including those that will later attend Centennial Elementary, Legacy Elementary, Prairie Ridge Elementary and Thunder Valley K-8.
Spark’s preschool program is family focused and the standards-based curriculum promotes learning through play and discovery. One of the main goals of the preschool program is to prepare children for kindergarten.
We offer the following preschool programs:
- Tuition programs for 3 and 4 year old children (2, 3 and 4 half-day sessions)
- Colorado Preschool Program (CPP) for eligible 4 year old children (4 half-day sessions)
- Special Education services for eligible preschool at our site children 3 to 5 year old children (2, 3, and 4 half-day sessions to meet individual needs).
- We work collaboratively with Spark! Discovery Preschool’s Child Find Department in the assessment, identification and programming for children with disabilities from birth to age 5. | <urn:uuid:e43164d3-c37d-461b-8a09-1232632cc85f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legacyes.svvsd.org/es/academics/preschool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.930623 | 258 | 2.15625 | 2 |
By David Apgar, the co-founder of GoalScreen LLC, which has a free cell phone app in testing at www.goalscreen.com that helps you test what you think drives results in your job, fitness program, love life, investments, and upcoming sports events in order to determine which assumptions are helping you succeed and which ones are undermining you
Jeff Sachs has always been the most outspoken advocate of development aid so it would be out of character if he were not outspoken about becoming the head of the World Bank. But there has always been a lingering concern about his projects and his approach to development. And it sheds a lot of light on where development, economics, and politics are heading even if it’s the wrong concern.
The concern is that because Sachs is so sure he has identified the best places to apply development aid – and so outraged aid offered to date has failed to meet his standards even for obvious causes such as health – he brushes aside risks like corruption and mistakes in program design. Worse, he sometimes seems to accuse aid critics of bad faith. And yet there are cases like Ethiopia where government military offensives have indeed followed periods of drought that saw big increases in assistance – at the urging of Sachs, among others.
In his defense, however, corruption in Africa is probably nowhere as vicious, privileged, and pervasive as what he saw in post-Soviet Russia. In Russia, furthermore, Sachs was only tangentially involved with Jonathon Hay’s conflict-ridden Harvard Project. And aid critics in the US routinely level baseless accusations of corruption, most recently at the Global Fund to Fight AIDS.
A deeper question for Sachs is whether impatience is really always a good thing in development. It’s a natural response, of course, when rich countries squabble about assistance levels in the middle of an acute famine in poor ones. Beyond the emergencies, however, impatience with the provision of funds for development is hard to separate from impatience with the often very slow process of learning about which interventions work. And his impatience puts Sachs in the company of the glassy-eyed optimists who have an enduring belief in the simplicity of development solutions.
The Millennium Development Goals, for which Sachs served as Special Advisor at the UN under Kofi Annan, represent a stark belief in the simplicity of development objectives if not solutions. The Goals focus on health, education, and poverty reduction. It is no coincidence that these are exactly the areas that allow statistical tests of effectiveness. You can jab a random sample of the kids coming into a clinic to see if they avoid tuberculosis but you cannot start dam construction near random villages up a river to see which ones supply the best labor.
Partly as a result, a cottage industry has sprung up, centered on MIT’s Jameel Poverty Action Lab, to test development effectiveness in the kinds of programs that admit randomized trials. Even as these trials shed light on health and education interventions, however, they are having the unintended effect of marginalizing the vast majority of programs that do not let you set aside a control group.
Money for metrics is the new mantra. On its own merits, it is a very powerful mantra. Monitoring and evaluation have transformed development assistance into a learning enterprise over the past ten years. And if formal impact evaluation is limited to health and education – well, those are not bad places to start. The trouble is the background assumption that everyone needs to measure the same thing. After all, that’s what statisticians do. It’s certainly what the Millennium Development Goals do.
And it’s true that indicators defined inconsistently across countries or aid projects can ruin an otherwise brilliant PhD dissertation. But what matters to a government trying to tackle endemic poverty or a region fighting a collapse in its water supply or a village with too many three-year-olds dying is just this – whether someone measures what people are doing about the problem with enough consistency to tell from results whether it works. Health and education programs that are amenable to control groups will benefit from faster learning. But learning does not stop in areas where control groups are impractical. It just slows down, as in much of the rest of life.
There is something that those governments, regions, villages, and aid organizations need to measure. They must measure outcomes of the most precisely described components and risk factors of the programs or strategies that they are pursuing. The more precise the strategy description, the more information actual outcomes will provide about whether and how it works. Just don’t expect those components and risk factors to mesh with other projects in other places attacking related problems.
In one sense, this cautionary note is not new. The Millennium Development Goals have drawn criticism precisely because their uniformity contrasts with the growing sense that every country has a separate path to development. The newer concern is the idea that you just cannot tell whether those paths are heading in the right direction unless you describe them precisely.
Precisely described strategies, however, are not widely shared. The challenge for brilliant, articulate development economists with an enduring belief in the simplicity of development solutions is not that simple solutions, be they free-market or statist, are inherently ineffective. The challenge is that solutions must be at least as complex as the problems they are to solve. And the simple problems have already been solved. | <urn:uuid:4ad45b5e-1639-49cb-aca6-9f0ed50ab151> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/03/david-apgar-the-trouble-with-jeff-sachs.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962877 | 1,084 | 1.757813 | 2 |
What if you’re working on a job and have to use custom brushes they’ve made? Or, a friend wants you to check out a cool new brush they’ve made? You can import them, using the Brush Library However, you will see two cases below where it might not be quite that straightforward.
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The brushes I want to import were created in a different version of Sketchbook than what I have
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Importing brushes in Sketchbook Pro for desktop
There are two ways to import a brush on desktop. The most straightforward is to drag and drop the brush into the canvas or double-click the brush file. If it isn’t handy, try this:
Loading brushes using Import Brush Set
- Download our Free brushes (or wherever there's a brush set) and save it to your computer.
- In the Brush Library, tap a brush set.
- Tap-hold and select Import Brush Set.
- Navigate to your Downloads folder. (This is the default location for where the downloaded brush set should be.)
- Double-tap the brush set. Even though it's a zipped file, this shouldn't be an issue. The set is immediately loaded into your Brush Library.
An alternate method to import a brush
- In the Brush Palette, tap to open the Brush Library to open the Brush Library.
- Tap within a brush set to access .
- Tap and select to create a brush.
- In Create a Do-it-Yourself brush, tap Import.
- Select a brush and tap Open. The brush will be loaded into the Brush Library.
Pinning a brush set to the Brush Palette
Now that you’ve created and probably imported brush sets into the Brush Library, you may have found a set you love to use. If so, why not pin it to the Brush Palette? This will replace the current brushes in the palette with those in the chosen set.
- In the Brush Library, tap the brush set you want to pin to the Brush Palette.
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A new General Assembly subcommittee will figure out why progress on Hurricane Matthew recovery has been slower here than in neighboring states.
The Joint Legislative Committee on Governmental Operations heard Wednesday, Aug. 29, from a handful of lawmakers who voiced concerns with delays in aiding communities hit by the storm nearly two years ago. The storm caused 26 deaths and more than $1.5 billion in damage in North Carolina alone.
“Our questions are simple: What has the governor been doing for 573 days?” Sen. Danny Earl Britt Jr., R-Robeson, asked.
Since Hurricane Matthew ravaged eastern North Carolina in October 2016, more than $740 million in federal, state, and local funds have gone to recovery efforts. But the heart of the issue is with the Community Development Block Grants for Disaster Relief, a program administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
HUD has awarded more than $230 million in CDBG-DR grants — with $168 million expected to be awarded soon — but so far only $1.8 million has been released. Robeson County is the only county to see any CDBG-DR money.
The North Carolina Emergency Management Agency administers the program. It’s the first time the agency has had this responsibility. Before Matthew struck, the N.C. Department of Commerce had authority. Then the General Assembly handed the reins over to NCEM.
“The biggest fear of hurricane victims is that they will be forgotten,” Rep. John Bell, R-Craven, said.
Republican legislators repeatedly said the hearing was not political or to assign blame, but their Democratic colleagues didn’t seem convinced.
“It seems to me that this committee is about delving into blame and we’re doing a very good job of that today,” Rep. Darren Jackson, D-Wake said.
Jackson said it didn’t make sense NCEM Director Mike Sprayberry wasn’t given the opportunity to answer questions at the hearing even though he was present.
Senate leader Sen. Phil Berger, R-Rockingham, said the purpose of the meeting was to determine whether a subcommittee was needed. Berger said the subcommittee would be a better forum for state officials to answer questions. The subcommittee can hire outside investigators and subpoena records.
Cooper’s office didn’t take kindly to the new investigatory committee.
“This sham hearing was an embarrassing use of the legislature’s time,” Cooper’s spokesman Ford Porter said in a statement after the hearing.
“Republican politicians decided that the way to help Matthew survivors is to create another bureaucratic committee while the Governor and his administration are focused on actually helping hurricane victims,” Porter said.
General Assembly leadership said the subcommittee was necessary because many hurricane victims are still waiting for relief and questions are unanswered. Legislators also wanted to know why the administration tried to alter the evaluation of a multimillion-dollar bid for recovery efforts, as a WBTV investigation uncovered.
“Governor Cooper has avoided further explanation for months, and that only adds to the appearance of wrongdoing,” Berger said in an emailed statement. “We hope there were no serious legal or ethical lapses, but the subcommittees and its investigators will use all of the power vested in them to find the truth.” | <urn:uuid:aeabc211-73b4-4272-b095-9b5d29903047> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.carolinajournal.com/new-ncga-oversight-subcommittee-will-review-delays-in-matthew-relief/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.960292 | 695 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Margaret Stock, moderator of the panel titled “Immigration, Race and Incarceration in the United States,” explained that the rising levels of incarceration of Hispanics are mainly due to an increase in immigration enforcement. Investigative journalist Maria Hinojosa presented clips from her documentary Lost in Detention, in which she revealed how the Obama administration’s immigration policy has contributed not only to higher levels of imprisonment, but also to the deportation of non-criminal immigrants and hidden abuse in detention centers. Sara Elizabeth Dill, an immigration and criminal attorney, shared her experience in representing immigrants and noted that the discrepancies between the immigration and criminal justice systems expose the flaws of a broken judicial system, because immigrants don’t have access to appropriate counsel. Lisa Marquardt, Maryland office of the public defender, called for the restoration of judicial recommendations against deportation. JRAD was part of the Immigration Nationality Act on 1952 that allowed a judge in a criminal case the discretionary authority to prevent deportation of a noncitizen. | <urn:uuid:eb6888fa-0ef0-41a3-ae84-cfb187ad641d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawprofessors.typepad.com/immigration/2012/08/immigration-race-and-incarceration-in-the-united-states.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.938245 | 251 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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Class: Pruning 101 Workshop
January 27, 2018 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm UTC-4Free
Learn the fundamentals of tree pruning and methods to encourage healthy tree structure. Trees with good structure are more resistant to storms and other natural forces. Learn from horticulturalists at the National Park Service who grow and nurture the stock of American elms to be planted on park land including the National Mall. The workshop starts indoors with an introduction to the basics of tree pruning to promote good structure. Then participants will head outdoors and practice these principles by pruning American elms at different stages of development. This will involve the use of manual tools ranging from hand pruners to pole saws.
Put these new pruning skills to use this summer! We will need your help to restore the historic cherry trees along the Tidal Basin. You will receive an invitation to help prune the suckers off of these famous trees.
American Elm Nursery 50 Marina Drive Alexandria, VA 22314 United States
From D.C. head south on the George Washington Memorial Parkway/Hwy 400. Approximately 0.3 miles beyond Reagan National Airport, turn left across the Parkway and the Mt. Vernon Trail onto Marina Drive. Bear right then turn right, away from the marina, and continue beyond the DO NOT ENTER signs to the nursery facility. Cyclists are encouraged to come on their two-wheelers as the Mount Vernon Trail provides easy access.
Melissa Westbrook, Horticulturist, National Park Service
Who Should Attend?
Open to the general public for anyone interested in learning how to prune young trees using hand tools.
All attendees must register online prior to the class in order to complete the required waiver.
No specific skills required. The hands-on portion of this event will begin with a tool safety demonstration followed by pruning instruction.
This event will take place rain, snow or shine barring severe weather so please dress comfortably and appropriately for the weather and wear closed toe shoes. Participants will start the day indoors for an hour of classroom instruction before heading outdoors for the hands-on portion of the training. For predicted inclement weather participants will be notified in advance if the workshop is being rescheduled for its snow date on January 27th, 2018.
All attendees will be provided with a light breakfast. Please note your dietary preferences and/or allergies when registering so we can attempt to accommodate your needs.
Continuing Education Credits
ISA Continuing Education Credits available.
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BY ANETT GRANT 4 MINUTE READ
I first heard about “Mr. Positive” when I was coaching leaders from a major multinational company a few years back. As his nickname would suggest, he had a reputation for relentless optimism–so I decided to shadow him for a day to see if he really was as positive as everyone said.
It turns out he was. No matter the situation, he was the one employee on his team who always found a way to spin things optimistically. And what’s more, it didn’t come off as annoying boosterism or feigned enthusiasm. When I first met Mr. Positive, he was a general manager, but in just five years, he’d become the CEO of another major company.
A career trajectory that rapid is pretty rare in the business world, but since meeting this world-class optimist, I’ve begun to notice similar traits in many of my most successful clients: no matter how challenging the situation, they typically manage to muster optimism to rally their teams. Here’s what it takes to master the art of positive talk–even if you’re a natural pessimist–and why that matters so much in tough workplace situations.
1. FRAME YOUR WORDS IN A WAY THAT ENCOURAGES ACTION
Fundamentally, positive talk is all about framing what you say. You can express the same idea in completely different ways, eliciting two completely different reactions.
Say you’re struggling to maintain your margins in a price-competitive market. If you remark to a coworker, “Why can’t you meet their price and still be profitable?” they’ll probably feel attacked. But if you say, “How are you going to meet this challenge? I know you’ll figure out a solution,” you’ll be more likely inspire them to action. This might seem obvious, but under pressure many people aren’t just more likely to think pessimistically, they’re also prone to point out the problem rather than discuss actions that might solve it. Just switching up how you frame conversations like these can make a huge difference.
2. ZERO IN ON OTHERS’ STRENGTHS, NOT THEIR WEAKNESSES
Another key to the art of positive talk is inspiring confidence by focusing on people’s strengths. While you can’t ignore glaring weaknesses, you’ll get more out of people if you don’t make their flaws the center of your conversation.
For example, let’s say I’m working with a speech-coaching client who can be accurately described as “hyperactive.” I might be tempted to comment, “You can’t stand still or stop fidgeting, and you keep flapping your arms in space. You need to get a handle on yourself!” That may be true, but it probably won’t get us very far. In order to smooth out these tics, I first need to come across as optimistic that my client can actually do better. “You speak with tremendous energy and exuberance–so much power,” I might say instead. “By focusing on channeling that energy, I know you’ll be able to achieve even more impact.” Sure, call it sugarcoating if you like, but this can-do attitude can be really effective. It helps people feel capable of change while still ensuring they feel comfortable with themselves.
3. STAY RESPECTFUL
Being respectful may sound obvious, but it’s important to consider how your words can affect others–which can be easy to do when the going gets tough and you’re tempted to look on the downside. Just focus on using language that’s clear, precise, and descriptive rather than language that’s sarcastic, ambiguous, and judgmental. When you’re a leader, it’s hard not to lash out occasionally, especially when you’re frustrated. But you’ll be more likely to get good outcomes when you remain as respectful as possible.
For example, let’s say you’re dealing with a lot of complaints from customers about delivery delays. Don’t say, “Keep this up, and pretty soon our customers won’t be complaining about their orders. They’ll just cancel flat-out! What’s wrong with you guys?” Pessimism in this example–the real worry that you’ll lose business–becomes weaponized: now, rather than just being one possible outcome, it’s a barb you’re hurling at the very people you need to rely on to find a better outcome.
So instead, try something like this: “You need to address customers’ concerns about the delays in delivery. Review the entire process from their perspective and your perspective. You have so much knowledge and experience–how can you be even better, no matter what issues customers bring to us?” That’s a respectful, action-focused comment that makes you sound like the most confident one in the room that your team can pull through this rough spot together.
The thing many people mistake about positive talk and optimism in general isn’t about being “nice.” It’s about communicating with people in a way that motivates them to be the best they can be. Your career trajectory might not resemble Mr. Positive’s, but by mastering this key speaking skill, you can increase your influence and create more opportunities in your professional life. And that’s something worth being optimistic about.
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The Magic Mirror
I feel that Huna has a great deal to say about self-image, because self-worth is the fundamental basis for establishing happiness--the aloha consciousness--which brings contentment and spiritual evolution, for "To Love Is To Be Happy With." Dr. Serge King has stated "The main thing that keeps us from feeling good about ourselves is our Self Image. This is the set of ideas that we have about ourselves." Dr. King gives many techniques to improve one's self-worth, or self-image (See Dr. King's article, "How To Feel Good About Yourself").
One of the goals of shamanism is to learn how to break the cycle of self-defeating thoughts and actions that are the result of lack of positive self-imagery. Huna provides practices and mental actions that will improve self-esteem, and with that improvement will come increased self-confidence, as well as greater understanding of yourself and your world, leading to greater happiness. Again, Love is to be happy with.
The essence of self esteem is that how you feel about yourself significantly influences how you think, how you react to life events, your ability to function harmoniously in your life and your ability to solve daily problems. A positive self-image leads to greater success in all areas of your life, whereas poor self-image leads to malfunctioning of your consciousness and mind and thus failure in almost all areas of life. This is a negative aspect of Kala (there are no limits). In this case it means you are bound and stuck at a level of consciousness that is not harmonious to you or anyone else.
Self-esteem is the measure of your respect for yourself and thus your self-confidence. It seems that a lot of people suffer from low self-worth, which manifests as feelings of inadequacy, insecurity, fear and most often as guilt.
As you grow in greater confidence, optimism and compassion,the Aloha spirit, you can enhance your positive self-imagery and develop the assurance that you are competent to live your life.
You will develop have greater resiliancy and ability to rapidly bounce back from difficult problems, assuring greater success in the areas that are vital to you.This is Pono, which allows flexibility of your mind to develop more creative approaches to life, and Kala, there are no limits.
Here's the secret: Your mind needs to understand that accepting yourself does not necessarily mean liking. Accepting does not mean you cannot hope for improvement. Like the basic statement in Dynamind, "I have a problem and that can change." Accepting means experiencing something without avoidance or denial. Accepting means accepting a fact as a fact. It means the body you see in the mirror is your body--plus a mental attitude. Again, pono, effectiveness is the measure of truth.
Here is a simple technique. Go to your personal garden, and imagine a full length mirror in front of you. Say "mirror mirror before me now, am I the fairest of them all? Look at your digital mental representation of your self in that magic mirror, look at your body.
As you look at the different parts of your body, be aware of the subtle emotions that arise in your mind. You will find that some parts of your body induce more approval and that other parts induce disapproval. You might find that some parts of your body are more difficult to look at and that the mind wants to rapidly move on to another part of your body. When this happens, the mind pushes these thoughts out of your consciousness, Lono, into your subconscious, Ku, by denying or rejecting certain aspects of your being that are symbolized by various parts of your body. Stay focused on the task of looking at your body in the mirror.
The next step is to tell yourself something like, as in the Dynamind basic statement, ŅI have imperfections now, and that can change, I accept myself and know that these imperfections can change." Give your mind time to grasp the meaning of what you are saying. Breathe deeply, and as you inhale, slowly repeat your statement. Repeat this process and continue to repeat the affirmation for one to three minutes.
Doing this will bring about a more harmonious relationship with yourself, leading to greater self-confidence. At the same time, you will find that you develop a deeper and more positive relationship with everyone your meet. Life takes on a new glow, a new meaning and a new joy, which is what the aloha spirit is all about.
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What’s the best way of treating a disease? Regardless of which disease we’re talking about, the answer is surely that which offers the greatest chance of success at the lowest risk of further damage or health complications. So obviously, an experimental and dangerous surgery is always going to be less desirable than a natural remedy that’s been proven to work–and that’s as true of Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) treatment.
But let’s back up. Understanding what Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is, and how it works, is essential for understanding how it’s treated. Many people know this as a condition that afflicts many women and causes infertility, which is entirely true. Still others know it as an ovarian disease, which is less accurate; though it obviously affects the ovaries, the condition is actually a hormonal imbalance, rooted in Insulin Resistance.
The condition can cause a wide range of symptoms–anything from obesity to acne, baldness to depression–but its effects on ovulation and fertility are especially troublesome to many women.
Surgery Options: More Bad Than Good?
For years, doctors have sought to treat Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) in a variety of ways. In particular, doctors used to frequently fall back on a surgical condition called laparoscopic ovarian drilling. What this technique does, in essence, is remove part of the ovaries. The thinking, of course, is that this will eliminate the effects of the disease.
But not so fast. Doctors have largely abandoned the surgery as it has been shown to cause scarring and long-term damage to vital tissues. On top of that, it isn’t guaranteed to help women get pregnant; remember, we’re dealing with a hormonal disease, not an ovarian one, so removal of ovarian tissue does not really get to the root of the illness.
So what’ the healthier option for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)? The key is not to treat the symptoms, but rather to treat the root cause, which is Insulin Resistance. You can treat this naturally, and without risk, simply by embarking on a healthier lifestyle. Just by boosting your level of exercise and improving your nutrition, you can reverse the effects of this disease!
To learn more about the subject of What Causes Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) and surgical options, visit us on the web at https://www.pcos.com/ovarian-drilling/ or visit https://pcos.about.com/od/callingyourdoctor/f/ovariandrilling.htm
Insulite Health, a Boulder, Colorado USA based company, is committed to reversing Insulin Resistance – a potentially dangerous imbalance of blood glucose and insulin. Scientific research has revealed that this disorder can be a primary cause of sleep disorders. Insulin Resistance can also underlie the increased risk factors for PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) – a major source of serious diseases as well as cause of excess weight gain, obesity heartbreaking female infertility.
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Becoming victorious over the symptoms of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome is not an easy task, but you can overcome your symptoms to live the life you deserve.
It takes strength, courage, and perseverance. It can be challenging and that’s why Insulite Health created the PCOS 5-Element System. It’s a step-by-step process that will help you balance your hormones and reverse PCOS symptoms using our proprietary 5% Solution.
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About Insulite Health PCOS.com
Insulite Health, is committed to helping women reverse their symptoms of hormone imbalance. Scientific research has revealed that this imbalance can be a primary cause of many devastating health symptoms. Hormone Imbalance can also underlie the increased risk factors for PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) – a major source of serious diseases as well as cause of excess weight gain, adult acne, unwanted facial hair, depression, anxiety, and heartbreaking female infertility.
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The former is applied in the bowls of small plain turned vases and tazze, the substance of parts or the whole of their hollowed portions being reduced, until sufficiently attenuated to become transparent. Ivory, from its strength and tenacity, is the most appropriate material, while it possesses an incidental advantage from its structure, the different layers of which are very visible in these thin works. This elegant effect may be enhanced by selecting a piece of ivory from a tooth of nearly circular section and of coarse grain, and chucking this with the nerve precisely central; the entire thin surface then exhibits a delicate transparent pattern, composed of a numerous and regular series of eccentric rings or ovals of varying opacity.
The sections given to the vase are those of the hemisphere, the tulip, the oval divided upon its shorter, and the ellipse upon either diameter, all forms having their greatest internal width at the mouth. The piece is first turned nearly to its external and internal shape, the curvature of the latter is then completed and polished, after which the work is mounted on a solid wood arbor chuck, precisely fitting the internal form. The wood chuck having been reduced nearly to this, the entire surface of the hollow of the vase is moistened with some coloured mixture, such as powdered red chalk and oil, and the work is applied to the chuck to obtain its exact counterpart. It marks all parts of the chuck that require further reduction by the tool, and the work is continually re-applied in the same manner, until by alteration of the former, the two surfaces prove to be identical in curvature.
The whole surface of the chuck is then coated with lampblack mixed in water, to which size or a small quantity of melted glue has been added; and when this is dry, the chuck and work having been slightly warmed, the two are carefully cemented together with thin glue all over their respective surfaces. After an interval to allow the glue to thoroughly harden, the external central portion by which the bowl is attached to its stem, is turned to shape, partially pierced with a plain hole or cut with a screw and polished; subsequently to which, the thickness of the bowl is gradually reduced externally, with the ordinary hand turning tools. As it becomes sufficiently thin the blackened surface of the chuck shows through the ivory, the equality of the colour shown affording the guide for the further and parallel reduction of the work, which by careful management of the tools may be continued to great tenuity. The upper edge may be left of the same thinness as the rest of the bowl, or it may be strengthened by a small bead or moulding turned upon it, as with the piece below, prior to reducing the remainder to transparency. The finished form is then polished, and the work is separated from the chuck by immersing the two in a vessel of water, until the one can be removed from the other without difficulty.
Similar specimens may be constructed in wood, but the material presents difficulties without usually allowing such complete results. The chuck and the work having been carefully prepared, the former is covered with white chalk rubbed on dry, a small portion within the lip of the vase only being glued, this glued portion being cut off and left on the chuck to release the finished work. Although not so readily executed in wood, excellent specimens may be met with. One, a masterpiece of antique German turning, in the author's possession, is a truncated taper vase made in beechwood, the transparent cup measuring two inches in diameter by the same high, mounted in the solid, on a turned beechwood stem, ornamented by mouldings, the milling tool and incised work. The bowl contains fifty similar cups loose one within the other, the smallest the size of a thimble. All these are left from the tool, semi-transparent, parallel in thickness, perfectly smooth within and without and very pliable, being only the substance of a thin wood shaving.
Additional elegance may be given to the foregoing works by mounting the transparent bowls upon delicate parallel shafts, some three to six inches high, terminating above and below in small spreading mouldings to break their junction with the vase and the foot. In ivory, such stems may be readily reduced to one sixteenth of an inch or less in diameter, and they are mentioned, as being among the more delicate specimens of slender turning, a term comprehending all long works of relatively small diameter ; the management of larger examples has been incidentally referred to in preceding chapters.
The piece for the shaft is securely mounted in a small, plain metal chuck, and supported by the point of the popit head. The terminal forms and mouldings are sometimes both first completed and polished at either end, while the piece is still strong; that most distant from the chuck, and its pin or screw for attachment to the bowl, being in all cases finished prior to any reduction of the slender stem. The whole length of the parallel portion is then a little reduced in diameter and turned true, after which a short length of about an inch, more or less, according to the size and length of the shaft, is further reduced with a small gouge or round tool, and finished to the required size with a narrow flat tool, the last held slightly tilted, as described page 303, so as to place both its corners free of the work. The reduction to size is commenced against the moulding and gradually completed towards the chuck, to careful measurement with the callipers or some other gage; after which, this short portion of the parallel stem is polished.
A second and shorter length is then reduced to size in the same way, commencing at the termination of the first and proceeding towards the chuck, but with the left forefinger placed around the work from below, so that the first joint or the tip of the finger may restrain the work in true revolution and support it against the thrust of the tool; and this is continually repeated upon shorter and shorter lengths, until the entire shaft is completed. Every length being carefully measured for diameter, more especially where it joins the preceding, and polished, before commencing the next. With increasing length a very slender stem runs risk of fracture from its gyrations; the popit head has then to be withdrawn, but the work may be restrained by being passed through holes, sufficiently large to allow complete freedom of rotation, pierced in one or more thin pieces of wood attached at intervals to the lathe bearers after the manner of the boring collar. The moulding and the pin or screw beyond it at the chuck end of the shaft, to attach the stem to the foot, is usually turned last, with the work still in the same chucking, or with the piece reversed, and carried in a long wood spring chuck.
Other equally slender stems are turned with a variety of small ornamental shapes, left at intervals, which appear as if threaded upon them; that about the center of the length being generally larger, while the base of the shaft springs from some appropriate ornamental foot. These works, often eighteen inches or more in height, are constructed in pieces of moderate length, attached to each other at the larger ornaments. A short length is indicated by fig. 762; this would be readily turned as one piece, solidly chucked in one of the screw or die chucks or driven into a plain chuck.
The work as before is commenced at the opposite extremity to that in the chuck, and is turned in short lengths, every one of which is completed and polished before proceeding to the next. The piece if long is soon unable to sustain its own weight in the horizontal position, while its gyrations early require restraint; the wooden frame and cross threads, fig. 138, best meet both requirements, and two or more of these supports may be employed. The screw by which the lower end of every length is connected to the next, is cut by hand, or with the traversing mandrel, from the shoulder towards the chuck, subsequently to the completion of the piece, which is then severed from that remaining in the chuck, leaving the work suspended in the threads,
When the sphere shown in fig. 762, is of a larger size, in place of turning it in the solid with the stem, it would be chosen as an appropriate piece to attach two lengths of the latter. A solid turned cube or other rectangular figure, or a sphere containing some other turned solid, is frequently employed for the main central ornament of the stem; the general effect being increased by the contrast between their magnitude and the delicate slender stem by which they are supported.
To leave a column in the solid, not to interfere with its strength as a support and at the same time for economy of material, the furniture turner sometimes adds the piece to give additional diameter for a central or other ornament, in a manner different from any previously described. These works, although the antitheses of the delicate productions last mentioned, may be conveniently referred to here.
The column, fig. 763, is first turned to its general proportions, after which the width of the part that has to receive the piece to give increase of diameter, is reduced below the level of its neighbouring portions, turned to a true cylinder, and the narrow surfaces thus formed above and below it, turned square to its axis. The piece to be added, shown shaded, usually required of the same material, is selected of straight grain and rather too large in diameter; it is first pierced with a cylindrical aperture carefully measured with the callipers to fit the cylindrical portion turned upon the shaft, after which its two surfaces are turned flat and true, until its height exactly agrees with the width reduced upon the shaft.
The annular piece thus prepared is then split with the grain into two halves, the two halves of the hole and those of the fracture, the cylinder and its two containing surfaces, are then all lightly coated with thin glue and quickly placed together; a screw clamp being immediately fixed upon them to force the two halves of the ring into contact with each other and the cylinder. When the glue has become hard, the shaft is again mounted in the lathe to turn the added piece to shape; this removes the marks left by the chisel or other tool used to split the ring, when, should a suitable piece of material have been selected and the work skilfully performed, the line of fracture is not easily detected and the completed shaft appears to be one solid. | <urn:uuid:aaec405d-331f-491d-b4f4-3d7a3265dd83> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chestofbooks.com/home-improvement/workshop/Turning-Mechanical/Transparent-And-Slender-Turning.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963474 | 2,155 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Huge potential but little implementation so far – this is how one could describe the global situation of Solar Heat for Industrial Processes (SHIP). Although experts acknowledge that process heat shows the greatest potential of all solar heating and cooling applications, the share of SHIP systems in total installed solar thermal capacity has remained below 1 %. To tackle some of the barriers, such as missing standardisation, system costs and reliability, the INSHIP project funded by EU Horizon 2020 was launched in early 2017. It aims to devise a European Common Research and Innovation Agenda (ECRIA) on SHIP within the next four years. The project is coordinated by the German Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE and involves 28 European research institutions from twelve countries.
“There is more final energy consumption of heat in the industrial sector than there is electricity consumed worldwide. In peoples’ minds, however, energy is often confused with electricity,” emphasised Dr Pedro Horta, Coordinator of INSHIP and Head of the High Temperature Solar Thermal and Industrial Processes Group at Fraunhofer ISE. IEA’s statistics put heat consumption in the industrial sector at 85 exajoules in 2014, whereas the global electricity demand of all three – residential, services and industry – added up to only 71 exajoules. This means that there is a large need for coordinated R&D activities to speed up deployment. The around 500 SHIP installations operating worldwide have at least a combined 400,000 m² of collector and mirror area and produce around 180 GWh (= 0.001 EJ), so that solar thermal covers only 0.001 % of the total industrial heat demand of 85 exajoules.
The solar technologies available on the market already meet the heat requirements of a wide variety of industrial end users, although there are still technical questions to be addressed when considering these applications, e.g., how to incorporate those technologies into existing heat supply networks, what restrictions they will place on the space available, how reliable and durable the solutions will (have to) be and how to approach high-temperature use or hybridisation and waste heat integration. Based on ECRIA, SHIP research activities are said to be coordinated in line with the following objectives:
- Increase and enhance cooperation between EU research institutions
- Harmonise different national SHIP-related research and funding programmes to avoid overlaps and duplicates and identify gaps
- Accelerate knowledge transfer from and to Europe’s industry and become the leading organisation for promoting and coordinating international SHIP research collaborations
- Develop activities with the aim of advancing SHIP beyond the technologies available today
INSHIP has two work sections. The first follows research activities among consortium members for developing SHIP beyond state-of-the-art systems within four projects:
- To enhance the current state of low and medium temperature applications
- To further develop medium temperature technologies for specific industrial applications (e.g. available space, steam network integration)
- To develop process-embedded solar concentrating technologies for high-temperature applications to make use of SHIP in the EI (extractive industries)
- To explore additional synergies at industrial parks by using centralised heat networks connected to district heating and the electricity grid
The second INSHIP section aims at developing an Infrastructure Access Scheme. There will be two opportunities during the four-year period when new consortiums can submit R&D projects in collaboration with partners from INSHIP. These projects will then be classified based on their compliance with ECRIA’s objectives and the industrial companies’ degree of involvement. The Infrastructure Access Scheme is thought to support the evaluation of submitted R&D projects. The first round of applications will be accepted this August; the second is planned in April 2019. The projects chosen during that time will be financed by the INSHIP project. | <urn:uuid:6fb7371a-aa6b-48aa-891d-5aea9a649687> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://solarthermalworld.org/news/europe-way-shared-ship-research-and-innovation-agenda/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.916425 | 788 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Apple on Tuesday expanded the lessons available in the GarageBand Lesson Store to include two classic Rush songs and a John Legend song. Rush’s guitarist Alex Lifeson takes you through a simple way to play the intro riff to one of the band’s most popular songs, “Tom Sawyer.” After learning the opening riff, Lifeson then breaks down the rest of the song, showing you the chords and solo techniques.
The second song Lifeson shows is “Limelight.” This song comes from the same “Moving Pictures” album as “Tom Sawyer,” but features a more guitar centric opening riff. Lifeson takes you through the riff, chords and solo for the entire song.
John Legend’s video teaches you how to play piano to his hit song “Ordinary People.” Legend shows both a simple version and a more advanced way to play the song.
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Elderberry Decoction Healing
This time of year brings with it Cold infections as the temparatures drop, and the seasons change nursing a families and friends through snotty, coughing that can seem to go on and on can be tiring.
Protecting yourself as you nurse others is essential the wonderful Elderberries, thankfully around right at this time of need. It is all very well making syrups and Tinctures and drying things for storage but there is nothing better than Fresh vibrant medicine straight from the tree.
Elderberry decoction is in order!
- Firstly go n pick 10-20 heads of the berries, then pick the berries off into a pan with a fork (mind all the spiders)
- Cover with about a litre of water.
- Add a cinnamon stick, 3 cloves, 2 star anise, pinch o grated nutmeg and allspice (from our myrtle bush).
- Bring to the boil and then simmer for 10 mins mashing with a potato masher to squab all the berries.
- Strain through a sieve
- Add half a lemons juice and some honey.
- Drink freely -makes you wee tons!
Chemical constituents in elderberries help reduce swelling in mucous membranes, such as the sinuses, and thus help to relieve nasal congestion. Elder has anti-inflammatory, antiviral making it perfect for helping the bodies natural defences to shake off flu’s n colds. Containing high proportions of flavonoids, which have antioxidant properties helping prevent damage to the body’s cells.
Flavonoids, an amazing array of over 6,000 different substances found in virtually all plants, are responsible for many of the plant colors that dazzle us with their brilliant shades of yellow, orange, and red. from the Latin word flavus meaning yellow their colour in nature
Classified as plant pigments, flavonoids were discovered in 1938 when a Hungarian scientist named Albert Szent-Gyorgyi used the term “vitamin P” to describe them because of the effect they had on the permeability of vascular capillaries.
They are organic compounds called secondary metabolites because they are not directly involved with the normal growth, development or reproduction of an organism, they are mainly involved with a plants defense mechanisms like UV filtration.
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Typically when you have the word, or derivation of the word, shamble in the same sentence as golf, it's something like this: "My golf game is in shambles!" However, if you've ever been invited to play in a corporate or charity golf outing you may have heard the term "Shamble," and you scratch your head and say, "hmmm, what is a Shamble in a golf event?"
A Shamble or Scramble? That is the Question!
So glad you asked! For many, a Shamble is the perfect format alternative for the standard, "Scramble" format. Are you completely confused? Our assistant golf professional Chris Baisch explains in this video clip:
If you've ever played in a big golf event, you're probably familiar with a "Scramble." This is when all golfers tee off and the person with the best, or most preferred shot, is played by all golfers. They each hit their shot from that location and the same routine ensues - the best shot is selected and all golfers play that shot until the ball is holed out.
In a "Shamble," each golfer tees off and the best shot is selected, but from that point, each golfer plays his or her own ball until it is holed out. What's fun about a Shamble format is that each person gets the benefit of the best drive, so they typically start out with a nice advantage (assuming there's a big hitter in the group)! In either case, the format is intended to be fun and relaxing for all golfers, whether high or low handicappers.
Next time you're putting together your golf event, consider a Shamble format. you'll find it's a fun alternative for golfers who really want to feel like they're playing the course as individual golfers.
Hazeltine National Golf Club is a private golf club located in Chaska, Minn., about 30 minutes southwest of downtown Minneapolis. The club opened in 1962 with a mission to build and maintain a golf course suitable for the conduct of national championships. Hazeltine is one of only two courses in the United States to have hosted the U.S. Open, PGA Championship, U.S. Senior Open, U.S. Women’s Open, U.S. Amateur, and Ryder Cup. Hazeltine’s meeting and event space, golf shop and specified services in the learning center are open to the public. More information about becoming a member at Hazeltine is available at www.hazeltinenational.com. | <urn:uuid:9aa7a71d-4b5a-42f2-b5f2-a61d3e2cd76b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hazeltinenational.com/blog/2013/06/what-is-a-shamble-in-a-golf-event | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96635 | 538 | 1.546875 | 2 |
This plant-based herb dip recipe is a delightfully light snack made with a base of creamy cashews, fresh herbs, and a squeeze of lemon. Serve it as an appetizer with your favorite Flackers and assorted fresh veggies.
Why you soak cashews for plant-based recipes
Not only are cashews an excellent source of vitamins and minerals—they’re also a wonderful substitute for traditional dairy ingredients in your favorite recipes. That’s because cashews whip up into a nice creamy texture when soaked and blended with nut milks or water.
Soaking the cashews allows them to soften up so they’re easier to blend into the creamy consistency you’re looking for in a classic dip recipe. You can soak cashews overnight or in 1-2 hours with boiling water.
2 cups raw cashews
2 cups boiling water
½ cup cashew milk, unsweetened
½ yellow onion, chopped
2-3 cloves of fresh garlic, minced
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice (about ½ of one lemon)
3 tbsps fresh dill, minced
3 tbsps fresh basil, minced
3 tbsps fresh chives, minced
Salt and pepper to taste
- Add cashews to a large mixing bowl and carefully pour 2 cups of boiling water over them. Let the cashews soak for 1-2 hours.
- Add lemon juice to a jar with garlic. Stir and let sit for a few minutes.
- Drain cashews and add them to a blender with the lemon juice, garlic, chopped onion, salt and pepper. Blend until mixture is creamy and smooth. Add cashew milk as needed for desired creaminess.
- Add blended mix to a serving bowl and stir in the dill oregano, basil, and chives. Add salt and pepper to taste if desired. Refrigerate for a couple hours before serving with Sea Salt Flackers and fresh veggies. | <urn:uuid:69fbbeab-cf5c-4f5a-aa41-0c674a8d78d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://flackers.com/blogs/flackers-blog/plant-based-creamy-herb-dip-recipe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.898142 | 407 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Fuel injectors play an important part in a vehicle; they regulate the quantity and timing of fuel entering the combustion chamber throughout the power stroke, guaranteeing optimal combustion and efficiency. However, like any other vehicle part, fuel injectors may malfunction without proper maintenance, resulting in certain noticeable signs highlighted below.
Low Gas Mileage
If your fuel injectors are leaking, you will notice a considerable drop in your vehicle's fuel efficiency. This is because the fuel injectors are leaking additional gas into the engine and the engine is burning it off. You may notice additional black exhaust if the situation is severe. Additionally, poor fuel efficiency may be caused by an engine that is pushing too hard to create power due to clogged fuel injectors.
If you can't get your car started at all, this might be a sign that your fuel injectors are clogged to the extent that they cannot spray fuel into the intake manifold or straight into the cylinders. Signs like sputtering and stalling before the dead engine might indicate blocked fuel injectors or a blockage in the fuel system.
Dancing RPM Needle
While the vehicle is idling, take a look at the tachometer to check the RPM needle behavior. If the RPM needle is bouncing about or dancing, it's either receiving too much air or too much fuel, depending on the situation. Fuel injector leaks, clogging, low fuel-air mixture, as well as vacuum leaks and air spurts, are all explanations of the RPM needle behavior.
The engine of your car may misfire if the fuel injectors are dirty. This issue causes the vehicle to vibrate. Misfires may occur when a faulty fuel injector disrupts the delicate balance between the fuel and air entering the engine.
Rough idling indicates that your car's engine is not receiving enough fuel, and one explanation for this might be that your fuel injectors are clogged. As the vehicle idles, you may notice your car vibrating and hear the engine cutting in and out. If your fuel injectors are severely clogged, the engine may stall. The vehicle is supposed to idle smoothly.
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After you've created your test app in Principle, it's time to show the world! (or at least some people to test it and provide feedback for you!)
(Your participants will need the Principle Mirror App to see your creation.)
You will be prompted to provide a URL for your prototype. As Principle prototypes are not URL-based, you'll need to create a location. The easiest way to do this is to put the .PRD files into Box, Google Drive, or Dropbox, using that URL.
The PRD file can then be downloaded by your participant from the public/shared Google Drive or Dropbox file that you've created and shared:
Next, the participant will tap "Open in Principle".
This will allow access via the installed Principle Mirror app, and you can get started with your study session!
(Note, this is easiest for a moderated session, so that you can help walk your participant through this process!)
From Principle's documentation:
If you'd like to share your design with others so that they can interact with it, they can install Principle Mirror on their iOS device (Please see note below about iOS 13) and you can send them the file. The file you share must have the .prd extension and cannot be zipped in order for iOS to open it in Principle Mirror.
Email--To open an attached PRD file from an email, tap the attachment and then the iOS share button. Select Principle Mirror in the sharing panel, or the "Open In..." button if Principle isn't visible.
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Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, etc--You can upload your .prd file to a file sharing service and generate a link to the file.
Note about Dropbox:
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Note about Google Drive:
The Google Drive app has problems with special file types, so we do not recommend using it to share Principle files.
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Reverse culture shock: A comparison of the expression of hospitality in Sweden and Taiwan
By Huiyu Chuang
As mobility makes up one of the core values of the Euroculture program, every Euroculturer more or less has cultivated a certain level of “Cultural Intelligence” (CQ) in order to handle all sorts of situations related to intercultural adaptation. Before moving to a new destination, we consciously or unconsciously take different approaches (that are influenced by our personal motivations, and personality) to better prepare ourselves for new cultural encounters. However, when we have to temporarily break away from the culture we have become so comfortable with — or even to go home, back where we come from — we are at the frontline in experiencing possible reverse culture shock.
Reverse culture shock is the process of readjusting, re-acculturating, and re-assimilating into one’s own culture back home after having lived in a different cultural environment for a long period of time. I wonder how my fellow European classmates (who share a common sense of European identity yet are still differentiated due to their unique national cultures) go through the emotions and experiences of reverse culture shock as I do. Crossing over more than five thousand miles from one culture to another, I found that the moment I landed on my homeland (Taiwan), within a week, I felt a weird feeling that strikes me as strong as a typical subtropical typhoon rain. The best way to get out of the storm without getting soaking wet is not to compare cultural aspects of another country with what cultural aspects in our country lack. Aspects that we see as positive in one culture could not be “transplanted” from one place to another without taking fundamental differences and local conditions into consideration. Thus, in this article, I aim to share my experience by showing you the different ways to express hospitality in Taipei (Taiwan) and Uppsala (Sweden) and how this reflection once again reminds me of my responsibility of studying cross cultures.
The most beautiful scenery is…
“The most beautiful scenery in Taiwan is its people.” This is a famous slogan that the Taiwanese tourism sector proudly uses to highlight how hospitable Taiwanese people are. Its credibility is endorsed by international media and many foreign travelers’ testimonies. I have never doubted it, but honestly, I do so based on national pride. For local Taiwanese people, Taiwanese hospitality has never been consciously appreciated because we are so used to it, that to some extent, we take it for granted. This is especially true in the service sector. In the context of Taiwan, it is important to keep in mind that the majority of customers wish to be served hospitably as VIPs, so bosses expect their employees know this “common rule” as well as to provide their hospitable service to the maximum level. The career training often encourages employee to accept this rule by heart and show their hospitality sincerely and naturally as a habit. For those who are naturally critical of this, they might find similar awkwardness as I did in the following stories.
It was about seven o’clock in the evening. I accompanied my parents to a mobile telecom company service center. I did not realize this visit would become a one-on-three private lesson, which causes the staff to work overtime in order to maintain their highly valued “customer satisfaction”. The staff not only completed the basic demonstration and system setting for the new phones, she even accepted my dad’s request to set up everything on the new phones exactly the same as the old phones. Two hours later when everything finished, she came out from her counter and said goodbye to us. I asked my parents: how much do we pay her for her help? Of course, I knew the answer by heart. The service charge covers only the phones — so why is she willing to provide her service to such a degree, and how can customers like my parents be that happy while being served “extra” as the staff did, knowing it is not fairly remunerated? I carried these complicated feelings on my next purchase at a Taiwanese pharmacy chain store.
It was the final day before my coupon expired. When it was my turn to pay, the staff smiled and said, “I am sorry, the gift mentioned on the coupon is out of stock. However, you can wait until our next program starts which is next week, and use the coupon then.” Sounds pretty reasonable, so I brought those products back to the shelf, but she stopped me and explained which of the products I chose were going to have its prices raised next week (so I should buy them today) and which ones will retain its current price. I was embarrassed because she thought I cared about the price difference, when actually what I really cared about was the coupon. It seems that she knew the customer’s concern, so she actively responded by that suggestion even though I did not mean it and ask for it. But, I still appreciate her unexpected hospitable customer service for a poor student. During the following days, similar patterns keep happening in different cases, in noodle restaurants, in the household registration center, and so on.
In Taiwan, 60% of the population contributes their labor in the service sector, which accounts for 63-65% (2010-2017) of the GDP. The notion of supplying a person’s service as his act of labor implies that whoever can provide better service, decides who can win over customers’ hearts and their money. Drawing on my own observations so far as well as information from local Taiwanese magazines, “good service” is defined by maximum customer satisfaction. In many cases, Taiwanese people care more about affection than rationality. Staff is always expected to figure out what customers’ request is and try to satisfy it. If they can’t satisfy the level of “rationality”, they have to take care of the customer’s affection, usually by giving them alternatives, further suggestions, compensations such as discounts or gifts, or any possible way to make them feel better for the inability to attain the customer’s request. Gradually, some customers are spoiled by the so called “customer first” or “customer is always right” philosophy. Then a term, “奧客” (ào kè direct translation — difficult customer or problematic customer) is created, referring to a customer who places unattainable requests. They follow the original price set, but try to ask for more benefits, and make the supply-and-demand relationship out of balance. To handle this type of difficult customer, the Taiwanese service sector is trained to be super caring to the extent that it becomes my reverse culture shock.
Ask, and it shall be given you
Reverse culture shock is usually derived from a comparison a person makes with a different cultural environment in which he/she has grown accustomed to. In my case, the expression of hospitality I have received in Sweden is different. There is a balance between showing an amount of hospitality (which is considered as “appropriate”) and how much the recipients express his/her need of it. If a person does not express his/her need for help, then another person would usually not interrupt his/her silence (a laissez faire approach, so to speak). I learned this lesson by going through several interesting stories. Many times, I have difficulties making my mind to buy either item A or B. While I was struggling, I noticed I have a lot of personal space in the stores in Sweden. Even so, once I asked for some opinions from the staff, they were sincere in offering their knowledge, but just the information they think they know. This perfectly corresponds to a saying, “To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.”
Besides the retailor sector, I also found similar proof in other aspects of my daily life. While staying in “corridor style” dorm, I enjoyed the balance between having my own space in my private room and social life in the common areas. My “corridor life” was composed of four people in a house. One is Swedish, one has lived in Sweden for more than ten years, the third one is an Italian learning Swedish language and culture, and me. Coming from a culture that cherishes collectivity, I got used to it quickly. However, when hard times came and I needed help, I found that my roommates have been holed up inside their respective rooms for many days, or often rushes into their own rooms right after coming back home. I thought I had better forget my need, but later I realized it does not necessarily mean they are shy or cold like the stereotypes about Swedish people. Once I took my first step to ask, I got tons of helpful responses. Sometimes, if concrete help is not available at that moment, it is very possible that it comes a while later. Several times, I found a sticky note written with the answers to my question on my room door next day. Or similar to another surprise I received from the language center, they informed me of a chance suddenly emerged after my request was declined due to high demand for their language consultancy.
After comparing the different expressions of hospitality in Taiwan and Sweden, I notice the position of “the giver” is stronger in the former case, where one is more active in exerting his/her hospitality as a natural gesture of friendliness, or a trained reflective habit to cater to his target. As for the later case, it takes a step back perspective to embody the concept of egalitarianism in interpersonal relationship without leaving trace of intrusion and pre-assumption.
Do similarities or differences attract each other?
The theories of similarity attraction and complementary principle are not that unfamiliar to most people. Though in interpersonal relationship perceived similarity is more proven as a factor to result in human liking by scientific researches, complementary principle still explains those exceptions. For example those people who are into intercultural exchange. When we are exposed to various cross cultural input during our study, one of the relevant topics constantly being discussed is the attitude to immigration and the tolerance to cross culture underlined by it. Generally, older people are more concerned about immigration than younger people. One of the reasons is the difference of birth cohorts that decides what life experiences they could have.
Young generation has many chances to receive diversity training (e.g. Erasmus program, international voluntary projects, overseas working experience). These opportunities empower us to shape our future society as open and friendly to cultural differences, which can better collaborate with cross cultural organizations beyond the governmental level. However, this vision would happen only when we are fully aware of the responsibility we are taking to reflect on our attitudes across cultural differences. It is important for people who learn culture to be able to sensitively observe and possess sympathy to differences by using our creativity, passion, and bravery to question why things are the way they are.
Featured picture: Chris-Håvard Berge/Flickr
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Catch-22, by Joseph Heller, is a fictitious novel that depicts life on an American bomber squadron on Pianosa, an island off the coast of Italy, during the closing years of World War II. A bombardier by the name of Yossarian, the main character in the story, is joined by many others to create a comic drama unlike any other. But aside from the entertainment, Heller uses Catch-22 to satirize many aspects of everyday life that consist of hypocrisy, corruption, and insanity. From the laziness of policeman to the fake happiness brought about by money, the novel is painted with a great number of points targeted against the faults of modern society.
However, along with these smaller targets, a majority of the Heller’s satire in the novel is aimed specifically at the imperious bureaucracy in the military, the current nature of man, and the corruption of religion; all of which accentuate the senselessness of war itself. Through Yossarian, who is conscience of what is sane, along with characters who are not, Heller emphasizes his ridicule by making what is appropriate seem peculiar and what is ludicrous seem common, ultimately giving the reader a viewpoint that proves astonishingly effective.
One of the few main targets of Heller’s satire is the bureaucracy and unfairness of this system within the establishment of the military. Because the book is set in a military base during the war, Heller uses characters and situations to manifest his ridicule upon the higher ranked men who are responsible for this. Colonel Cathcart, the commanding officer in Yossarian’s regiment, is obsessed throughout the book with becoming a general and that is what his character desires to achieve throughout the story. He is also joined by his lieutenant colonel, Colonel Korn, who is obsessed with being a full colonel.
But in the novel, these obsessions become relentless and higher ranking officers such as Korn and Cathcart yield power to their advantage for their own ambitions, thus stripping away democratic freedoms of the lower ranking officers such as Yossarian and creating a relentless bureaucracy. Instead of flying the extra missions Colonel Cathcart continuously assigns for his country, Yossarian realizes that it really has nothing to do with the war effort and begs the question, “am I supposed to get my ass shot off just because the colonel wants to be a general? 133).
Yossarian is no longer fighting for himself or his patriotism but instead for some dictating men at the top of the ladder who are using the lives of Yossarian and his friends as pawns for their lavishness. When Yossarian rebels against this system of injustice commanding over him, the narrator states that Milo is ashamed of Yossarian who is “jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them” (415). According to Milo, it is not fair to fight for your own justice as an American in the military.
This statement is foolish and is exactly what Heller satirizes in the book; the fact that during war, the freedom and individuality of lower ranking officers are stripped away from them to satisfy the needs of higher ranking officers. Yossarian later discovers through Major Danby that Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn “can prepare as many official reports as they want and choose whichever ones they need on any given occasion,” which is another example of the bureaucracy allowing men to cease liberties in order to incite more power for personal use (452).
When continuing his discussion with Major Danby at the end of the book, Yossarian uses an analogy to indicate to the Major just what it is like being controlled by higher powers. After Danby wishes he was a cucumber or some kind of vegetable so he did not have to make important decisions, Yossarian states that if he was a “good one” then “they’d cut you off in your prime and slice you up for a salad” and if he was a “poor one” then “they’d let you rot and use you for fertilizer to help the good ones grow” (457).
This reveals to the reader exactly how “they” (meaning high ranking officers) carelessly use the soldiers in combat missions and the only important decisions Major Danby discusses with Yossarian are decisions involving the dispensable lives of the soldiers and regardless of how many die, Cathcart and Korn still remain on top. Nevertheless, in the eyes of Colonel Cathcart and Colonel Korn, they see themselves “risking their lives” for America, but they do not even go on combat missions and all they are really only responsible for is shuffling papers.
Through these characters, Heller satirizes how corrupt and unfair that system is, where essentially random men are called upon to control other random men in an dictatorial bureaucracy. Human nature is yet another target of Heller’s satire in the novel and is seen throughout many different characters. Heller explains to the reader, through this method of satire just how selfish and greedy men are and become during the war. Chief White Halfoat recollects his past life in the States where him and the rest of his Native American kinsmen would not be allowed into certain hotels because of their ethnicity.
He states to Yossarian in a serious and convicted manner that “racial prejudice is a terrible thing” and that it is “terrible to treat a decent, loyal Indian like a nigger, kike, wop or spic” (53). Chief White Halfoat is against racism but refuses to have an open mind toward other races and only cares about Indians, which results in Chief White Halfoat being a racist himself. This is seen in modern American society today and Heller uses the Chief and his ignorant statement to show the absurd selfishness of man.
Toward the end of the book, another instance comes up in which Heller shows the carelessness of man when it comes to his pride and greed. Aarfy is seen raping a girl in Rome and throws her out of his apartment window to her death. Yossarian sees this and is appalled by what has happened. When he reaches the apartment room, he begins shouting at Aarfy in a skeptical and accusing manner and asks why he did not just buy off a prostitute if he wanted pleasure. To this Aarfy brags that he “never paid for it in his life” (428).
Aarfy is yet another man who has such an excessive pride in his personal accomplishment of not paying for sex that he ends up raping a girl to have sex with him instead. In his mind, he keeps his pride in doing so but it is obvious that rape is a far more ignominious than paying a prostitute for sex. Men generally do make the mistake of holding their pride above all else resulting in a carelessness that makes them look even worse and Heller uses Aarfy to satirize that part of human beings.
Finally, Milo represents all that is selfish and greedy in man as he is continuously thinking of only himself. When his stock in Egyptian cotton inflates and he has a surplus of the product, he goes to see Yossarian who is naked in a tree watching the funeral of Snowden from a distance. The whole time, instead of giving any concern to others and paying any respects to the funeral that is going on just a few hundred feet away, he continuously chatters away about himself and his business.
When Snowden’s coffin is lowered into the grave, Milo shudders violently and says, “I can’t watch it,” but instead of referring to the funeral, which is what any sane man would do in that situation, he continues to say, “I just can’t sit here and watch while those mess halls let my syndicate die” (274). This predicament along with the dialogue is a demented one because of the emphasized disrespect and carelessness Milo shows.
Heller uses these characters to exaggerate their greed and parsimony by making it seem so common in the story, thus becoming a satire on human nature. The last concept that Heller focuses a lot of his satire is on the shame in religion and how it is used so corruptly. Instead of using religion for virtuosity and righteousness, modern society uses it in shameful and negative practices. For example, demagogues are profuse in world of today who thrive off religion to build more and more power.
When Colonel Cathcart summons the chaplain to his office to discuss the idea of saying prayers before each mission, he finds out from the chaplain that there are no “humorous” prayers “that stays away from waters and valleys and God” so he decides to “get some new ones” (202). Colonel Cathcart seeks to get in The Saturday Evening Post to make himself look better by shaping religion to his personal benefit. In the bigger picture, he is merely using the concept of religion and faith to get him promoted to general. Along with being used in shameful manners, religion is also seen as being used as an excuse for the colonel’s laziness.
When the chaplain mentions with the utmost sincerity that Yossarian is unstable and unhappy and that something should be done to help him out and give him hope, Colonel Cathcart thinks about a solution “in a heavy silence for a few moments” and then says to the chaplain, “tell him to trust in God” (207). This turns out to be the resolution the colonel put so much thought in as he ends up disrespecting religion as a whole by using it to evade more work and thought. Likewise, Heller uses the belief in God to show the differing morals between each man. To Colonel Cathcart, “atheism is against the law” and is “un-American” to be one (203).
He views people who have a religious faith as better than atheists, who he assumes has no morals because of their lack in belief. Contrary to this conception, the men who have a belief in God often times use it as an excuse to feel like it is morally accepted to do obviously immoral things such as using men to improve selfish ambitions. Yossarian on the other hand sees the God that everyone believes in as a “clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed” and asks “what in the world was running through that warped, evil, scatological mind of His when He robbed old people of the power to control their bowel movements?
Why in the world did He ever create pain? ” (189). Yossarian goes on to create his own morals without the kind of “divine approval” that everyone is so worried about and he ends up being one of the most virtuous and morally correct men in the story. Heller uses the idea of the protagonist being against God, which is usually uncommon is novels, to show that religion has in fact provoked many immoral things in society. In the end, it is clear that Heller is commenting on the evil that comes out of war.
Not only because of the violence, but because of all the things wrong with the way they are established and positioned. There is a myriad of pointless constitutions in the military that result in even more death and disaster. Ex-P. F. C. Wintergreen is stationed to dig up holes and fill that back up continuously, and he is accepting of this roll because he states that it is part of the war effort, when it obviously has nothing to do with winning the war in any way possible.
This is just an example of the senselessness war invokes as there are situations when men find themselves not fighting to win the war, because the war is close to being ended, but instead to save their lives. And as a result, the true flaws of society come out. Heller emphasizes the unjust bureaucracy of the military, the greed and selfishness of man, and the corruption in religion through many different characters who emphasize what is wrong by making it seem right, creating a deeply affective and wonderfully entertaining satire. | <urn:uuid:861fdc38-48f8-4538-abf2-da62fe63888b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studyboss.com/essays/satire-in-catch-22-by-joseph-heller.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974852 | 2,487 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Station: Concord, MI
Concord was settled in 1832 in southwest Jackson County. The town was also known as Van Fossenville. It was renamed Concord in 1836 and incorporated as a village in 1871.
Photo Info: Top and 2nd, an old photo of the Michigan Central depot, elevator and water tower in Concord. You can see farmers with their horses at the right and a standpipe for the water tower at the left of the branch line. [Dale Berry collection]. 3rd photo, a closer shot of the depot with a group of nattily dressed onlookers. Note the velocipede on the track and the train box on the wall of the depot, commonly used on the MC Air Line branch.
1917, The MC had an agent-operator here around-the-clock. [TRT]
1920. On the Michigan Central Air Line, this is a passenger, freight and express agency joint with the American Railway Express Company. Interline tickets are issued. E. J. Boylan is the agent. The telegraph call sign is "CD". [MCOAS] | <urn:uuid:f168c54c-7c8b-433d-982c-78fa9de0b88b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.michiganrailroads.com/stations-locations/102-jackson-county-38/1041-concord-mi?tmpl=component&print=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963299 | 235 | 2.34375 | 2 |
The possession of marijuana (also referred to as cannabis) in the State of Florida is a criminal offense. Marijuana is a Schedule I controlled substance and the State typically enforces harsh penalties for its possession. If you are charged with possession of marijuana, it is imperative to seek help from a lawyer who practices in drug crime defense. The penalties for possession, no matter how little or how much, can be severe and potentially life-altering. An experienced lawyer can consider your case from every angle and craft a defense that can lead either to dismissal of your case or much more agreeable consequences than if you acted alone.
WHAT IS POSSESSION?
Florida Statutes provide that “[a] person may not be in actual or constructive possession of a controlled substance unless” it is prescribed. F.S. 893.13(6)(a). When it comes to “active” possession, the State must prove the marijuana was in your hand or within easy reach and in your exclusive control when you were caught. Otherwise, the State may try to convict you on a charge of constructive possession. In order to prove a charge of possession, the State must successfully show:
- There is a substance in your control or possession;
- You had knowledge of the control or possession of that substance; and
- The substance is a controlled substance
These elements come into play in a number of ways. For example, if a suspect is caught with marijuana in his or her vehicle, and the suspect is the only one who owns and was operating the vehicle, then elements 1 or 3 may be difficult to dispute. However, proving the suspect had knowledge of the marijuana (element 2) could be a different matter; after all, the suspect’s friend could have left the substance in the vehicle unbeknownst to the suspect.
If the State pursues a charge of possession, you may be charged with simple possession or possession with intent to distribute.
Simple Possession of Marijuana refers to the possession of marijuana for personal use. If the quantity of marijuana is 20 grams or less, then the crime is a first degree misdemeanor. However, if the amount is more than 20 grams, it becomes a felony, which comes with harsher penalties.
Possession with Intent to Distribute
Possession with intent to distribute refers to the possession of marijuana for the purpose of selling, manufacturing, etc. This is a more serious charge than simple possession and is automatically a third felony. How law enforcement determines whether possession of marijuana is for personal use or for distribution depends on multiple factors, such as:
- The suspect’s statements
- The quantity of marijuana in the suspect’s possession
- The packaging of the marijuana (e.g. marijuana being divvied up in small plastic bags may be an indicator of an intent to distribute)
The State of Florida enforces heavy punishments for possession of marijuana. 20 is the magic number when it comes to this offense: simple possession of 20 grams or less of marijuana is a first degree misdemeanor, with a maximum penalty of 1 year in prison and a fine of $1,000. Additionally, your driver’s license will be suspended for 2 years. Possessing more than 20 grams of marijuana is a third degree felony, punishable by up to 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Possession with Intent to Distribute as well as Trafficking in Marijuana are also third degree felonies. The State of Florida reserves even more severe punishments if one engages in trafficking more than 25 pounds of marijuana.
Please keep in mind these are the maximum penalties. A growing practice in some parts of Florida is the Pretrial Diversion program. With this option, the court withholds adjudication of the case so long as the defendant meets certain obligations, such as attending rehab classes or performing community service. The court may also forego the option of jail and instead sentence someone guilty of possession to probation, community service, or another alternative.
Being sentenced doesn’t end there, however. Being found guilty of possession of marijuana can have other detrimental effects on your life as well:
- Drug charges may render you ineligible for financial aid in college
- Your eligibility for government programs may be adversely affected
- Your chances of employment or acceptance to an educational institution may be impacted
- Your driver’s license will be suspended for two years
With the multitude of ways a charge of possession of marijuana can adversely impact your life, it is important that you receive competent service from an experienced lawyer. There are many legal defenses a lawyer can employ to help your case or even have it dismissed, including:
- If law enforcement’s actions violated your right to freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures, then the evidence law enforcement finds in an illegal search cannot be used against you in court
- The State has insufficient evidence you had knowledge that the substance was in your control or possession
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- 1 What is a carb kickdown?
- 2 How does a kickdown work?
- 3 What does the kickdown cable do?
- 4 When should you use kickdown?
- 5 How tight should the kickdown cable be?
- 6 How do you install a transmission kickdown cable?
- 7 Does a C6 need a kickdown?
- 8 Can I drive without a kickdown cable?
- 9 Is a kickdown cable necessary?
- 10 How do you kick down a automatic transmission?
- 11 Why does my car jerk when shifting gears with an automatic transmission?
- 12 What is a kickdown switch?
- 13 Is downshifting in an automatic bad?
What is a carb kickdown?
The kick down cable is mounted to the carburetor, or, in the case of fuel injected vehicles, the throttle body. It runs from the butterfly arm on the carburetor down to the side of the transmission, where it attaches to an arm that allows the transmission to shift gears.
How does a kickdown work?
When the accelerator pedal is pressed all the way to the floor (beyond the position normally regarded as full acceleration) a lower gear is immediately engaged. This is known as kick-down. If the accelerator is released from the kick-down position, the gearbox automatically changes up.
What does the kickdown cable do?
One component that helps both drive systems communicate is the kickdown cable. This device helps the engine relay information on revolutions per minute (RPM) to the automatic transmission and essentially tells it that it’s time to shift gears.
When should you use kickdown?
Why would you use kick-down? Explanation: The action of sharply pressing the accelerator to the floor (kick-down) will send a signal to the transmission to select a lower gear. This is useful when wanting to accelerate briskly, such as when overtaking another vehicle.
How tight should the kickdown cable be?
you want the cable to just about tight at full throttle. so yes, there might be slack in it at part throttle.
How do you install a transmission kickdown cable?
Method 1 of 1: Replacing the kickdown cable
- Materials Needed.
- Step 1: Jack up the front of the vehicle and set the jack stands.
- Step 2: Place wheel chocks on the rear wheels.
- Step 3: Disconnect the kickdown cable at the carburetor or throttle body.
- Step 4: Remove the kickdown cable from the mounting bracket.
Does a C6 need a kickdown?
There should be a lever behind the shift lever on the shift shaft for the detent to hook-up to. Without it you’re going to have soft, early shifts and of course, no kickdown.
Can I drive without a kickdown cable?
Tools R Us said: Shouldn’ t be a problem. The cable adjusts system pressure, so shift pressure. With the cable fully retracted it will shift lazy/slip a lot, if the cable was pulled fully out it will shift more firmly, less slip.
Is a kickdown cable necessary?
In fact, if you don’t mind downshifting manually with the shift lever when passing, there’s really no need for a functional kickdown cable or switch at all. You must install a true TV cable with the correct throttle-lever pivot geometry and then adjust it properly or you will burn up the trans!
How do you kick down a automatic transmission?
However, in an automatic, to get this change down of gear, called ‘kick-down’, you need to sharply press the accelerator pedal right down. This causes the quick down change of gear and more power for accelerating. When the need is over, just ease off the accelerator and the car changes up gears again.
Why does my car jerk when shifting gears with an automatic transmission?
Automatic transmissions that shift hard, jerk or shake during a shift change may mean your transmission fluid needs changed or fluid level is low. In manual transmission vehicles, abnormal gear shifts could indicate damaged gear synchros, worn clutches or other, more severe issues.
What is a kickdown switch?
An electrical switch that is used to cause a transmission to downshift from a higher to a lower gear ratio.
Is downshifting in an automatic bad?
Never use the automatic transmission to slow down This practice is not acceptable in automatic transmissions because a forced downshift at high-engine RPMs can result in excessive transmission wear, specifically to the clutch friction plates and the transmission bands. | <urn:uuid:ba965a58-7133-469a-ae37-d3212737fbf1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dellorto-pe.com/carburetor/often-asked-what-is-a-ford-kickdown-on-a-carburetor.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.87428 | 971 | 2.25 | 2 |
Background Aprepitant can be an FDA-approved medicine for chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. presents yet another problem that may significantly affect standard of living in those currently facing a malignancy diagnosis and undesireable effects from antineoplastic therapies. Pruritus is usually regarded as a multifactorial sign which may be induced by regional pores and skin immune responses aswell as global neurological pathways. Regional cutaneous pathways are mediated by itch-selective C nerve fibres, whose indicators are augmented by regional T cells, mast cells, cytokines and neuropeptides. The C nerve fibres synapse with second-order projections, which continue steadily to transmit signals towards the thalamus for digesting . Aprepitant, accepted for make use of in chemotherapy-induced nausea and throwing up in 1089283-49-7 2003, continues to be used with raising frequency because of this sign both being a stand-alone treatment and within mixture regimens. This medicine is certainly well tolerated. Within a organized review including 8740 sufferers treated with aprepitant, statistically significant distinctions in exhaustion and hiccups aswell as infections had been seen; of take note the sufferers contributing to elevated infections had been from an individual research where high dosages of dexamethasone had been utilized concomitantly [2, 3]. Aprepitant is certainly a neurokinin-1 (NK1) receptor antagonist that may combination the blood-brain hurdle; it prevents chemical P from binding to its NK1 receptor. Chemical P, a tachykinin neuropeptide, mediates nausea pathways in the brainstem aswell as itch pathways from your skin to spinal-cord . Injected chemical P in to the epidermis of non-atopic sufferers induces an itch response in regular and inflamed epidermis . Atopic dermatitis sufferers have been noticed to have elevated chemical P-positive and NK1 receptor-immunoreactive nerve fibres when compared with healthy handles . Chemical P has been proven to bind NK1 receptors on keratinocytes, which activate mast cell degranulation and discharge of cytokines and chemokines such as for example histamine, prostaglandin D2 and leukotriene B4, which mediate itch . NK1 receptors may also be within rat dorsal horn neurons, which might are likely involved in neurologic itch . The need for these neurotransmitters particularly in oncology sufferers is not researched and their jobs require further analysis. Pruritus may also 1089283-49-7 be a nonspecific delivering complaint of root malignancy. While that is most often referred to with Hodgkins disease, additionally it Cd63 is reported numerous solid tumors such as for example those while it began with the breasts, gastrointestinal program and liver organ. 1089283-49-7 In small research of sufferers with nonspecific generalized itching, root malignancy was discovered to be the reason for itch in less than 10% of sufferers . Appropriate evaluation of accurate, diffuse pruritus symptoms contains an age group and symptom suitable malignancy evaluation. The pathophysiology of malignancy and itch provides yet to become clearly elucidated; nevertheless, many mediators have already been suggested to are likely involved. Recent studies suggest that the T-cell dysregulation connected with Hodgkins lymphoma plays a part in high prices of pruritus connected with this malignancy as well as the cytokines IL-6, IL-8, and IL-31 could also enjoy jobs in lymphoma-associated or persistent itch . Inside our reported situations, sufferers experienced from cutaneous lymphoma, which unlike pruritus with out a allergy, provides multiple potential contributors to itch symptoms. These sufferers had been concurrently treated because of their major malignancy with adjustable response. Although malignancy treatment could also alleviate pruritus, in every of our situations, sufferers got previously failed common treatments for itch for most a few months prior. Our situations also reported pruritus cessation within hours to times after aprepitant treatment, in the placing of intensifying or continual malignancy, recommending that aprepitant includes a direct influence on symptom relief.. | <urn:uuid:ece209cb-3d63-472c-bc70-7f8ed84f0448> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gpr139.info/background-aprepitant-can-be-an-fda-approved-medicine-for-chemotherapy-induced-nausea-and/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947923 | 887 | 1.945313 | 2 |
We’ve compiled a list of 10 quality assurance training courses designed for operation managers, customer-facing employees, sales managers, software developers, and others in similar fields. These courses cover specialized topics such as site observance reports, ISO 9000, manual testing, automation testing, and information systems audits.
Hosted on EdApp, the Quality Assurance course by Errigal provides workers with a general overview of total quality checks, non-conformance reports, site observance reports, and inspection and test plans. In addition, workers will also learn about the best practices for product installation and proper processes for uploading, completing, and exporting checklists. These reports and checklists are required for thorough quality inspection and compliance with statutory standards in fields such as manufacturing and construction. With EdApp’s user-friendly authoring tool, you can import this course directly from the course library and edit its content according to your organization’s branding guidelines. You can even translate the entire course into over 100 languages through the platform’s AI translation feature.
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EdApp’s Quality Control course is designed specifically for workers in the manufacturing industry, giving them a broader understanding of quality control processes, quality assurance, supplier quality, and inspections. It goes over the eight dimensions of quality, which include performance, features, reliability, conformance, durability, serviceability, aesthetics, and perceived quality. These dimensions were originally conceptualized by David Garvin and can serve as your team’s framework for strategic analysis and product performance quality. As your workers go through the lessons, they’ll also learn about internal and external auditor and auditing procedures that are required for ISO 9000 standard registration.
Accessible through a desktop or mobile device, this microlearning course allows learners to complete lessons at their own pace. You can even send out automatic push notifications through the app to remind them when a new course update is available, ensuring a quality system standard among your learners and higher engagement and completion rates.
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The Quality Assurance Management course, created by the Academy for Health & Fitness, aims to provide managers with extensive knowledge on quality concepts and categories, key terms, experiment designs, control charts, supply-chain, and sampling. This IAO (International Accreditation Organization) accredited course also delves into six sigma, its steps, and the 6 specific six sigma challenges. Through Reed’s platform, learners will have 24/7 access to interactive and high-quality lessons, as well as full tutor support and learning assistance. To receive certification, they’ll need to pass an automated multiple-choice assessment at the end of the training course and unfortunately, they’ll also have to shell out an additional £34 for both a digital copy and a hard copy of the accredited certificate.
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If you decide to try out this course, keep in mind that you’ll need to set your profile settings to public, accept freeCodeCamp’s academic honesty policy, and complete all the certification projects to receive certification.
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The Call Center School developed the Quality Assurance course for call center managers, team leaders, quality assurance specialists, and analysts who want to improve and streamline their quality assurance knowledge and skills and provide excellent customer service. Some of the topics covered in this course include quality monitoring forms, calibration meetings, coaching basics, quality monitoring programs, customer voice, and interaction analytics. Learners are given six months to complete all the modules and by the end of the entire online course, they’ll be able to execute fundamental quality assurance and control processes with ease. All of the training materials are made available through a mix of self-paced videos, narratives, scenarios, and self-assessments. Participants who successfully complete the course and pass the 30-question quiz will be able to download and share their certification.
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Available on Reed, the Quality Assurance (QA) Manager by One Education is a specialized training program designed for anyone working in quality management fields and those seeking quality assurance or quality manager positions. Divided into five main lessons, this self-paced online course allows learners to explore quality concepts and categories, understand customer input, create quality experiment designs, learn how to use control charts, and delve deeper into the six sigma quality management system.
While the course isn’t free, Reed’s online learning platform allows learners to enjoy perks like voiceover and visual content, 24/7 accessibility, tutor support on weekdays, and instant assessment results upon completion. Do note that if you want to get a certificate licensed by the Quality License Scheme, you’ll need to get a 60% mark or higher on all of the course assessments.
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Created by H2KInfosys, the Quality Assurance Training course will provide banking, healthcare, finance, and telecom QA specialists with hands-on quality assurance experience using Cloud Test Lab. Through the course, they’ll also learn more about manual and automation testing through different environments including ETL, SAP, Web Services, and Mobile App Testing programs. The lessons also tackle specialized topics such as testing life cycle, test plans, software project architecture, performance testing, data warehouse testing, configuration management, and quality controls. A huge perk of this online course is that all the lessons are instructor-led and live, so learners will be able to ask questions in real-time. There are also mock interviews and resume preparation assistance to help aspiring QA specialists ace their job application process.
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Alison’s Introduction to Quality Management course provides companies with a comprehensive overview of quality management, quality engineering, and a deeper understanding of quality assurance standards and best practices. Some of the topics covered in this 3-hour online course include ISO 9000 regulations, the six sigma system, and quality management processes for the day-to-day operations of both small and large businesses. Your workers can also expect to learn more about the different customer acceptance criteria which include performance, aesthetics, special features, safety, reliability, durability, perceived quality, and service after sale. Through Alison’s online training platform, learners can directly take down notes, set study reminders, and access customer support around the clock.
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Made available through Coursera, this course on information systems auditing, controls, process improvement, and assurance is designed by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology to help IT professionals and QA specialists boost their knowledge regarding information security, IT management, risk management, continuous improvement, and change management. This course also delves into more technical topics like information systems auditing, business application development, and information system maintenance and control. The 4 modules are spread across 4 weeks to help learners retain new knowledge better and avoid information overload. It can easily be accessed via desktop or mobile devices and is made available in 9 different languages including English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, German, Russian, French, Arabic, and Vietnamese.
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Another valuable course to include in your quality assurance training is the ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System (QMS) by Alison. Here, your workers will learn how to maintain quality management systems according to the ISO 9001 standard, as well as incorporate some vital changes from the revised 2015 version. It also discusses in greater detail the standard clauses, regulation outlines, QMS framework, and all the basic ISO 9001 concepts, which are crucial for new quality assurance learners. By understanding these elements, your team will be able to comply with all quality standards and requirements and ensure customer satisfaction through the delivery of high-quality products and services.
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Quality assurance is a systematic process designed to help organizations determine if their products or services meet quality standards and requirements. It’s frequently used in different industries like manufacturing, construction, technology, healthcare, and hospitality, as it allows businesses to detect potential errors and issues in their products or services and ensure that these are fixed before implementation. Without quality assurance systems in place, an organization can face regulatory sanctions, risk major operational costs, damage its reputation, and lose customers. As an employer, you can prevent these outcomes by providing your workers with quality assurance training. We've provided some of the most comprehensive and up-to-date quality assurance courses that can help your team boost their knowledge and skills and effectively implement quality management processes. | <urn:uuid:2adc4413-2035-46b1-9367-cac0abd3ac42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edapp.com/10-quality-assurance-training-courses | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928699 | 1,922 | 1.757813 | 2 |
|Pharmaceutical Name:||Fructus Jujubae|
|Botanical Name:||Ziziphus Jujuba Mill.|
|Source of Earliest Record:||Shennong Bencao Jing|
|art Used & Method for Pharmaceutical Preparations:||The ripe fruit is gathered at the beginning of autumn and dried in the sun.|
|Properties and Taste:||Sweet and warm|
|Meridian:||Spleen and stomach|
|Functions:||To replenish qi in the middle jiao (spleen and stomach)
To nourish the blood and soothe the mind
To moderate the action of herbs
|Indications and Combinations:||1. Weakness of the spleen and stomach manifested as lassitude, poor appetite and lose stool.
*Use with Ginseng (Renshen) and White atractylodes (Baizhu).
2. Hysteria manifested as grief, weeping and sighing.
*Use with Licorice root (Gancao) and Light wheat (Fuxiaomai) in the formula Gan Mai Dazao Tang.
3. Moderating the action of other herbs.
*Use with Peking spurge root (Daji), Kansui root (Gansui) and Genkwa flower (Yuanhua) in the formula Shizao Tang.
|Dosage:||3-12 g, or 10-30 g|
|Cautions:||This herb is contraindicated in conditions of excessive dampness, epigastric and abdominal distension and fullness, retention of food, intestinal parasites, pain of decayed teeth and cough due to phlegm-heat.| | <urn:uuid:2b3740c3-9871-42eb-9c0e-91417bb26387> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chinesenaturalherbs.com/index.php/bulk-herbs/jujube-dazao/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.725414 | 396 | 1.945313 | 2 |
RIO stands for 'reverse implement operation'.What is a RIO button and where is it? Thanks
RIO can be activated with the RIO button OR by lifting the PTO lever to the RIO position (positions are off - on - RIO). It must be held in the RIO position until reverse motion has started -- it moves back to the on position when released.
Activating RIO before starting reverse operation will allow the PTO (deck) to continue running in reverse and when RIO is activated and machine is reversing button/lever can be released and the deck will continue to run.
Those that learned to steer with left hand and operate transmissions, motion control levers, hydraulic functions etc etc with the right hand, often find it easier to to get in the habit of using the PTO engage lever - which for RH operation is much handier than the button.
The engage lever does not 'detent' in the RIO position -- it returns to the 'on' position when released. As above, if in reverse motion when it is released the function will stay active until the next time travel is stopped.
The RIO button is the yellow button on LHS of steering wheel in the picture.
There is (or was) a decal on the machine that indicates the RIO button and RIO position for the pto lever.
If button/lever timing is off, and reverse motion occurs before the RIO is activated, the deck will disengage. To re-engage - stop travel and the pto will need to be moved to off and then re-engaged. | <urn:uuid:6513f24a-8b1b-48e9-99b9-36ce5f74a3d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greentractortalk.com/threads/x73x-throttle-cable.211143/?u=131333 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.912749 | 345 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Nick Symmonds is officially the first athlete to criticize Russia’s draconian anti-gay laws on Russian soil, and did so after winning a silver medal at the World Track and Field Championships in Moscow:
US middle distance runner Nick Symmonds dedicated his 800-meter silver medal at the world athletics championships Tuesday to his gay and lesbian friends back home, becoming the first athlete to openly criticize Russia’s controversial anti-gay law on the country’s soil.
“As much as I can speak out about it, I believe that all humans deserve equality as however God made them,” he told R-Sport after running a 1:43.55 at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. “Whether you’re gay, straight, black, white, we all deserve the same rights. If there’s anything I can do to champion the cause and further it, I will, shy of getting arrested.”
Symmonds, 29, made his opposition to a new law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors known in a blog post for Runner’s World magazine on August 6.
Despite his outspokenness in the United States, he said he would he would not bring up the subject in Russia out of respect for the host country’s laws.
“I respect Russians’ ability to govern their people,” he said Tuesday. “I disagree with their laws. I do have respect for this nation. I disagree with their rules.”
Joe points out that there is speculation, despite how carefully Symmonds worded his comments, as to whether his words put him at risk of being arrested. There will be more and more athletes who do this, though, and that just goes to show how appalled the rest of the world is by Russia’s actions. | <urn:uuid:5737f71b-80f0-4a6c-b929-3fff817f6b93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.truthwinsout.org/news/2013/08/36852/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.980584 | 381 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Maximus the Confessor (580-662), giant among early Byzantine theologians, stands at the summit of the Greek patristic tradition. He is spokesman of the Greek-speaking "East" in something of the way Thomas Aquinas came to speak for the Latin "West." His extreme importance as a spiritual writer is evidenced by the huge space assigned to him in the Philokalia.
Believing in the intimate link between dogma and prayer, Maximus opposed the heresies of his day with his own unmatched synthesis of Christian truth. For this, he was persecuted and mutilated, and died in exile. The modern rediscovery of Maximus, begun by Western Christian scholars such as Vittorio Croce, Pierre Piret, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Lars Thunberg, and Juan-Miguel Garrigues, has led to an ever-increasing use of his theology and insights by Orthodox and Catholic theologians throughout Europe and North America. Maximus has also become a central point of reference in Catholic-Orthodox dialogue.
Aidan Nichols has provided the English-speaking reader with a reliable guide to the major studies on Maximus done in Europe in the past twenty-five years: the period of "rediscovery." He reads Maximus through the eyes of those who have studied him in depth, and builds up a multi-faceted portrait of this prince among theologians, and a comprehensive overview of his theology, his "Byzantine Gospel." Along with a brief biography, and an account of the history of the relevant scholarship, sufficient primary texts have been included to convey a sense of Maximus' powers both as a summarizer of the previous tradition, and as an original theologian in his own right. | <urn:uuid:6c87cf3d-b55f-478e-aa58-7c10edb94f40> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wipfandstock.com/9781532659829/byzantine-gospel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972178 | 356 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The objective of this article is to review the pathophysiological bases of gray matter heterotopia and to appreciate their involvement in brain cortical development and functional consequences, namely epilepsy. The development of the cerebral cortex results from complex sequential processes including cell proliferation, cell migration, cortical organization, and formation of neuronal networks. Disruption of these steps yields different types of cortical malformations including gray matter heterotopia, characterized by the ectopic position of neurons along the ventricular walls or in the deep white matter. Cortical malformations are major causes of epilepsy, being responsible for up to 40% of drug-resistant epilepsy, and the cognitive level of affected patients varies from normal to severely impaired. This review reports data from human patients and animal models highlighting the genetic causes for these disorders affecting not only neuronal migration but also the proliferation of cortical progenitors. Therefore, gray matter heterotopias should not be considered as solely due to an abnormal neuronal migration and classifying them as such may be too restrictive. The review will also summarize literature data indicating that besides ectopic neurons, neighbor cortical areas also play a consistent role in epileptogenesis, supporting the notion that plastic changes secondary to the initial malformation are instrumental in the pathophysiology of epilepsy in affected patients.
Keywords: Cortical development disorders; Epilepsy; Neuronal migration; Pathophysiology; Progenitors.
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Diabetes might not even have been diagnosed when patients start to feel pain in their legs. Of course, they will not readily connect this pain with any internal disease such as diabetes, but will seek orthopaedic or other help which might lead to a long and painful medical history.
A neurologist would immediately know what is wrong because in about 50% of all patients, diabetes mellitus causes several clinical neuropathic (meaning affection of the nerves) syndromes which are the reason for this pain. Neurologists are trained to look out for certain typical pain patterns and are alarmed by them. Diabetic polyneuropathy progresses insidiously over five to ten years and can occur even long before the diagnosis Diabetes is confirmed.
There are different types of neuropathy with different typical patterns of pain distribution. For instance there is the:
Symmetric type of diabetic neuropathy
Characterized typically by sensory loss, weakness and painful burning of toes and feet. First symptoms of the symmetric polyneuropathy may appear in the sole of one foot or even involving half a toe, then gradually spreading circumferentially up both legs to the knees, then into thighs and finally the hands. The latter pattern is also termed as “stocking-glove” distribution. Neuropathy always is length-dependent, because the longest axons are the most vulnerable. Patients describe tingling, prickling, burning, numbness and a band like pressure.
Due to sensory deficits, small cuts and wounds will not be noticed by the patients at first thus causing seemingly inexplicable infections. Later, weakness of the muscles will develop, particularly expressed by the fact that patients cannot stand on their heels. With progressing sensory disturbances spreading up also into the tips of the fingers, patients will have difficulties holding objects. Most common is a painful burning in the feet which gets worse with high temperatures. Light stimuli applied to the numb areas may be experienced as extremely painful. Also an imbalance of the gait, getting worse in the dark, is a common symptom of patients with Diabetes.
When the onset of diabetes occurs at a juvenile age of the patients, neuropathies may be first noticed as late as in their thirties to fifties but when the onset takes place at an age over 50, they tend to occur readily with adult-onset. There is a known correlation between the occurrence of neuropathy, the duration and the severity of diabetes, body weight, body size and long-standing hyperglycaemia which must be investigated individually with each patient.
Apart from the above described symmetric form of neuropathy there are other diabetes related neuropathies in different classifications:
showing focal weakness or sensory loss of single nerves, mainly in one upper arm, one thigh or the cranial nerves.
Asymmetric focal and multifocal types
The distinction between the different kinds of neuropathy is crucial as far as the different approaches to diagnosis and management are concerned, but also regarding the prognosis.
The most essential part of the evaluation of diagnosis and therapy are – apart from an intensive neurological examination – the electro diagnostic studies of the nerves. The examination comprises Electromyography (EMG) and nerve conduction velocity (NCV). The EMG involves recording electrical potentials by an electrode placed into the muscle, both at rest and during voluntary contractions. The NCV is carried out by stimulating the motor and/or sensory nerves electrically. From the data recorded, informative characteristics of the recorded forms of waves can be determined, thus leading to a clear picture and appropriate treatment.
In the long-term, by way of Diabetes and Complications Control, trial patients who controlled their diabetes meticulously showed significantly less neuropathy. When symptoms of neuropathy occur in patients suffering from diabetes or early signs of polyneuropathic pain patterns as described above, occur, an early neurological examination is of the essence.
Dr. J. Marquardt, MD, PhD
German Senior Consultant in Neurology
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“When SMU students were asked to leave,” wrote SMU junior Rylee Bailey in her quarantine blog, “we weren’t sure when or if we would come back for the semester.”
Social distancing and self-isolation, “requires discipline, mental toughness, and courage; not traits I particularly associated with myself.” This was an early realization shared by Southern Methodist University junior Rylee Bailey in her March, 2020 pandemic blog. Bailey, a student staff member at SMU’s Maguire Center for Ethics & Public Responsibility, began writing and sharing the blog on social media when the campus shutdown.
Student identification and discussion of ethical issues is not new for the Maguire Center. Since the Center’s 1995 founding, student ethics projects have begun with the question, “What’s important to you?” said Professor Rita Kirk, the Center’s current director. The Center mirrors the University’s mission of cultivating students’ principled thought and intellectual skills in an environment that emphasizes individual dignity and worth. The Center has provided $450,000 to students exploring ethics in public service and through research.
Bailey, a Corporate Communications & Public Affairs major, said that she has noticed how ethical issues have shifted since March. First, it was, “how can I stop the spread and flatten the curve?” Then, “What risks am I creating if I return to campus?” Her blog has also addressed social inequities and governmental leadership.
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May 30, 2022 | Monday
As a student passionate about economic issues, Albin Bushi is the newest Young European Ambassador, who studies that which he cares about most; the economic situation in the EU and its consecutive enlargement.
Albin is a dedicated student at the University of Ludwigshafen, Germany thanks to the Erasmus+ program, and uses this overseas experience to hone his skills and learn more about European as well as economic values to put into use. However, Albin’s capacities don’t conclude there. Having previously studied Transport Engineering at the University of Prishtina as well as currently tutoring Universum colleagues in Economics, Albin also keeps his time full with goals such as delving into Blockchain, Technology, Finances, and Politics.
But above all personal passions, Albin upholds the integrity of a Young European Ambassador title by making his primary focus the connection of Kosovo with other regions using his expertise as a transport engineer, so each culture can impart and adopt different new values, cultural practices and connect with no barriers.
A good start to that gleaming goal is Albin’s idea to use his gap year towards digital innovation, connectivity, green transition, youth participation, and other fields which he believes need support, attention, and action.
Part of becoming an Ambassador is taking up the responsibility to see the objective flaws of the country, and subsequently the potential for progression with a proper perspective and long-term strategy.
As such, Albin attended workshops that teach him to become just that, his most recent trainings being with the European Council, Balkan Trafik Festival in Brussels and the honor of meeting the EU Ambassador, Tomáš Szunyog.
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For Health Agencies
Welcome to the “For Health Agencies” web page. This page has been created for health agencies to provide resources and capacity to engage in Land Reuse and Environmental Health. These resources include the Engaging Health Departments in Brownfields/Land Reuse Redevelopment short videos and the Environmental Health Resources Self Learning Modules.
Engaging Health Departments in Brownfields/Land Reuse Redevelopment
These three videos highlight the ways that local health departments (LHDs) and other health agencies can enhance a community health focus to promote and help build capacity to become involved in brownfields/land reuse activities and redevelopment. While larger LHDs may have the capacity to be involved in land reuse work, smaller health agencies may be overburdened and short on resources. They may be unaware of funding that is available to them to work on these land reuse issues, and they may be unaware of ATSDR’s support and technical assistance for LHDs.
The examples of projects of state and local health departments representatives may inspire local health departments/health agency staff to become more engaged in brownfields/land reuse:
The Environmental Health Resources Self Learning Modules provide health agencies with an overview of environmental health topics. Click on the Environmental Health Resources: Self Learning Modules image below for an overview and to select individual models.
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Tanzania needs treatment support services that can improve the quality of life, ensure adherence and result in viral suppression. Treatment support services can be provided through a variety of models, including at the community level, through the facility or through some combination of the two. Understanding the cost of each model is essential for policy-makers who must allocate resources. Though community-based HIV services are available in Tanzania, uncertainty about the costs of these models remain. This study assessed the costs of treatment support services at 27 sites in Tanzania.
Forsythe, S., B. Lee, Tarimo, K., Silvan, B., Balampama, M., et al. 2019. “HIV treatment support services in Tanzania: a cost and efficiency analysis at facility and community levels.”African Journal of AIDS Research. 18(4):306-314. USAID DEC: PA-00T-Q13
English External LinkDecember 2019
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The Truth About Us, by Brant Hansen
MAY 2, 2020
It almost sounds crazy: “Hello. My name is Brant, and I am not a good person.”
Not only is it countercultural, it even runs counter to our physiology. Studies show we actually get a dopamine hit when we think we’re proven right. We can literally become addicted to the sensation of our rightness. “Your body does not discriminate against pleasure,” writes clinical psychologist Renee Carr. “It can become addicted to any activity or substance that consistently produces dopamine.” This might explain why we spend time scrolling through and enjoying information and news links that prove—once again—how right we are. Wow, do we love that feeling. It also might explain why many have gone to their graves insisting they were right, even if it made them miserable in the process. Addictions work that way.
W. H. Auden was right: “We’d rather be ruined than changed.”
We actually get a dopamine hit when we think we’re proven right. We can literally become addicted to the sensation of our rightness.
Jesus insists on this willingness to change, because he knows that self-righteousness will separate us from God forever. We’re all at high risk of becoming sick with self-righteousness, and if we don’t submit to his healing, it’s terminal.
Listen to Jesus and it sounds like he’s doing an intervention, except instead of a group of people surrounding an unbelieving addict, it’s the crowd that needs to get the message, and just one man is delivering it.
“Interventions” like that historically haven’t ended well for the message bearer. Calling out our self-righteousness isn’t popular, and believe me, this isn’t lost on me as I’m writing. (Note to self: Next time, use a pen name. Pick something cooler than “Brant Hansen.”)
FAQ: But, Brant, don’t you think that someone writing about self-righteousness can be self-righteous himself?
A: YES. A thousand times, yes. This is a daily struggle for me.
It so happens I’m dealing with a bit of it right now as I type. Seriously. I’m currently sitting outside a restaurant on a pretty day. A Lexus SUV is to my left, parked in a spot that has a sign in front of it. The sign says that only people with a permit for disabilities can park there. The man who parked there does not have said permit. A lady in the spot next to him called his attention to the sign. He looked at it, shrugged, and walked off. I am morally superior to him.
I like to call this “righteous indignation” because he’s clearly wrong, but if I’m being honest, it’s not just indignation. It’s tastier than that. I kind of enjoy it. There’s a sweetness in noticing the flaws in others, and—oh wait, here comes the guy. He’s finally leaving. I was hoping he’d get a ticket, but he didn’t. It would have felt great to see him get his comeuppance.
I don’t park in handicapped spots. Me? I break other laws. Like the speed limit. But at least I don’t do the thing that guy just did. (I’m kind of a Jedi master with the “At least I don’t . . .” thing.)
So, yes, I’m as self-righteous by nature as you are. Like Steve Brown writes, “It is difficult (maybe impossible) to write about self-righteousness without being self-righteous.” I’m not exempting myself from any of this.
I want us to consider the possibility that our lives are largely shaped by this desire to convince ourselves that we’re good people. This is what it means to be human and broken. The goal is to lighten your load, and to help you see just how good God is and how much more relaxing life can be when we come to terms with who we are. The same Jesus who keeps trying to show us how we’re not as good as we think we are is the one promising that his way is lighter and easier.
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On Jan. 31, President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill the U.S. Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Antonin Scalia. Judge Gorsuch currently serves on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit and previously worked as Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice.
“Associated Builders and Contractors congratulates Judge Gorsuch on his nomination and commends President Trump for taking swift action to fill the vacancy on the Supreme Court by nominating a judge with a strong record of judicial integrity,” said ABC Vice President of Regulatory, Labor and State Affairs Ben Brubeck. “Filling the vacancy on the Supreme Court was one of ABC’s top priorities for the Trump administration to fulfill and we encourage the Senate to act quickly to restore the court to its full strength so America can benefit from a functional judicial system.”
To be confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Judge Gorsuch must receive a 60-vote supermajority. Because Republicans only hold 52 seats, Senate Democrats may attempt to filibuster his confirmation. If a filibuster occurs, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell can resort to the “nuclear option” to permit Judge Gorsuch’s confirmation with only a simple majority.
The Senate previously confirmed Judge Gorsuch’s appointment to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on July 20, 2006, by voice vote without opposition.
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The terminal, set to open in 2019, will be equipped with the latest cargo handling technology to serve the needs of large ships.
APM Terminals MedPort Tangier announces the arrival of three of the newest and largest ship-to-shore (STS) cranes in the world, designed to handle vessels carrying 22,000 or more containers, now plying the Asia/Europe trade lane.
The three cranes represent the world’s largest double trolley STS cranes which weigh 2500 metric tons, have a height of 144 meters when boomed up, an outreach of 72 meters with twin-lift/tandem lift capability. The remote-controlled cranes will enable fast, safe and efficient loading and unloading services to some of the largest container ships on the sea.
APM Terminals MedPort Tangier is strategically located on one of the world’s busiest and most important shipping arteries, the Strait of Gibraltar, which sees more than 60,000 vessels a year. The terminal, which will serve as a trans-shipment hub for Maersk Line and its alliance partners, will help improve global supply chain performance by attracting more vessel calls and creating more routing options. The terminal is being constructed using the latest technology, ensuring greater cargo-handling efficiency and enabling more capacity.
Keith Svendsen, Chief Operating Officer of APM Terminals said, “Maersk Line commissioned APM Terminals to build and operate APM Terminals MedPort Tangier so we are designing it around the customer by integrating operational excellence, the most modern cargo handling equipment and an ideal location for connecting global supply chains. This creates the necessary port capacity for the future. Equally important, this port creates another wave of future investment momentum in Morocco as a business and trade centre.”
“These cranes use digital technology to ensure the most effective during their movements. This will help us to deliver increased productivity throughout the process from lifting a container box off the ship until it is delivered to its stack in the yard, and vice-versa,” added Dennis Olesen, Managing Director, APM Terminals MedPort Tangier.
Press Release: apmterminals.com
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The brief variation: The satirical PRSM social networking, using its huge get to and immediate sharing capacity, might appear to be a harmless laugh to start with, but you realize which is in fact how the net works, and it is a little bit terrifying. Endless, ad-free posting is the tongue-in-cheek promise from the PRSM community, which already features accessibility private information from over 320 million Americans (that is everyone). If you’ve never given a lot considered to how much cash painful and sensitive details you give every click, like, swipe, and message, the PRSM group is here with a gentle indication: We’re usually seeing.
When you are alone and searching the net, you can envision yourself as a clandestine and unknown individual discovering internet based content material without anybody becoming the better.
But in fact, every mouse click is actually a footprint that is effortlessly tracked and taped by many people questionable internet based organizations. Somebody views a cat video clip, and an algorithm stimulates more pet movies. Some one visits an X-rated hookup site, and their intimate proclivities become a permanent element of their unique information profile.
Because it works out, cyberspace sort of is some tubes, and they’re drawing up private information on a scale never seen before. Social support systems, internet dating sites, the search engines, as well as other websites collect enormous amounts of individual data from customers with zero responsibility.
I don’t wish to be alarmist or any such thing, but it is possible we are careening toward a dystopian future where confidentiality is an archaic and utterly meaningless phrase.
In 2013, privacy supporters at Datacoup produced a fake myspace and facebook labeled as PRSM to question the wisdom of revealing absolutely every thing on line.
Hyping itself as “globally’s largest data middle,” PRSM claims it can handle over a quadrillion needs per second and store up to 5 zettabytes of info. These unimaginably astronomical stats really come notably near to the real life on the internet. Yearly traffic is quick approaching the zettabyte age and Google handles trillions of online searches each year.
With a satirical connect, PRSM boasts having Bing among the essential associates, plus it phone calls out Twitter, Apple, Microsoft, Yahoo!, and AOL as complicit in substantial data revealing methods with turned consumers into products â without end up in picture.
“PRSM was established to help people discuss much more about on their own,” said Casey Falvey, who’s the CTO at DataCoup and genius behind PRISM. “In some sort of in which posting actually usually caring, PRSM desires to help connect the difference between TMI (way too much info) and NEI (lack of information).”
Excess Suggestions & Not Enough Accountability
Growing upwards, my mother ended up being always specific in what to-do if a stranger in a van granted me personally sweets, but she never ever stated everything about a complete stranger with an app supplying candy to crush. Websites might seem harmless, nevertheless can present a threat to people who’ren’t mindful about where they go, whom they talk to, and in which they entrust their unique information that is personal.
Some internet based daters have found, to their alarm, the dangers of sharing their personal physical lives on a not-so-discreet web site. The Ashley Madison information breach of 2015 is a chilling note on the physical lives that can be wrecked if once on the web companies neglect to shield personal information from cybercriminals.
Revealing personal information on a personal web site have serious consequences. It isn’t simply an issue of annoying specific adverts or invasive marketing and advertising. Using the internet companies can push men and women from the wardrobe and change their particular exclusive resides into a public spectacle.
That is probably precisely why online styles called PRSM “the scariest, truest satire out there.” It strikes on greedy data-gathering techniques that purchase and sell individuals exclusive lives.
“People must look into using PRSM if they’re ready for sharing a little more about themselves than they previously imagined,” Casey stated.
If any interested consumers need in fact join PRSM, however, they are in for a harsh awakening. Whenever you click the “Sign Up Now” switch, you’ll see that your particular personal product and identity is already an element of the system. Sorry to inform you, but your government is seeing you.
A ReadWrite analysis stated, “PRSM is only the latest effort from worried people promoting the united states to learn more about the shady procedures by federal government intelligence companies.”
Datacoup Envisions a Future in which Users Control their own Data
PRSM is actually operate by conscientious objectors to the substantial government spying carried out from the National safety institution when you look at the U.S. The parody page in the end directs readers to learn more about the NSA’s dishonest and unconstitutional security methods.
The PRSM sharing community is actually fake, however the passion behind it’s actual. a startup also known as Datacoup established PRSM in 2013 to emphasize the privacy issues tainting online connections, advertising, and revenue.
The designers of PRSM stated, “We look at privacy as a consumer empowered through its information. Undertaking along with it whatever they see fit. Confidentiality, for us, is actually a consumer having an equal seat on data settling dining table with companies (as well as federal government).”
Datacoup aids worldwide’s basic private information market in which people can pick to pay their particular information as if it is an internet money â because it is. The working platform offers value toward customer by permitting them to offer and examine their particular information in a straightforward method.
The Datacoup platform consolidates private information from business reports and social networking profiles, thus providing customers a whole see their particular effect during the data industry. Whenever people choose to discuss, mouse click, and engage on the web, they’re able to earn money within wallet owing to Datacoup. This transparent and paradigm-shifting setup comes with the power to alter the information marketplace.
By promoting individuals to “reclaim their private data,” Datacoup has placed itself as a responsible replacement for PRSM’s endless posting dystopia.
“generally, all of our purpose would be to generate revealing your private details as smooth that you can,” Casey joked. “No friction allowed. Therefore seamless, you will not also recognize you’re online to meet total visitors!”
PRSM: Where complete Access methods Zero Privacy
The PRSM social networking is the waking horror of privacy advocates almost everywhere. It uses users wherever they go, unobtrusively collecting information and picking huge amounts of physical lives for its own get. While PRSM isn’t really genuine, the data-mining methods it talks of are.
For decades, websites provides tantalized people who have their wealth of understanding and discussing energy, but sometimes their so-called no-cost solutions go past an acceptable limit. Some sites cannot provide any ads since the product they can be selling is you â your likes, your demographics, along with your habits. Datacoup is found on a mission to bring this deal to light making customers more conscious of the way they spend their own information.
Whether you are joining a social media system or a dating website, you ought to be cognizant with the trade-off between personal confidentiality an internet-based services, so that you you should not reveal way too much and shed yourself.
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Cape of Good Hope(1889)
The 1889 Cape of Good hope patterns were struck in Europe, as salesman samples. Wolfgang Lauer prepared the dies and worked together with Otto Nolte of Berlin acting as agents to solicit coinage contracts. A few designs are known for this particular series. Around nine variants of 1P in the C.G.H. series are known with three different obverses and two reverses.
These patterns were produced with bronze, nickel-plated copper, aluminium, tin and silver compositions. One variety is where the obverse, depicting Queen Victoria is identical to 1890, Griquatown patterns, and the "1 PENNY" obverse is used as a reverse in the O.F.S and Z.A.R. series. | <urn:uuid:c40daec9-fde0-4bed-81e2-17e3f6277f53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.muntstuk.com/category/226-cape-of-good-hope1889 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969756 | 162 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Debugging Routing Rules
This chapter describes how to test routing rules without sending the message through the entire production. It also contains flow diagrams that can help you debug problems in routing rules defined for EDI messages in a production.
Testing Routing Rules
Using the Test tab of the Rule Editor, you can see whether a message triggers any of the routing rules without having to send the message through the entire production. Running this test does not transform or send the message, but any functions in the condition are executed as if the message ran through the production.
If you want to test a rule’s constraint that is based on the source of the message, use the Production source for test field to specify the business host in the production that is sending the message. You can click the Select button to choose the business host from a list.
You can use the Context Document object field to specify the contents of the message in one of three ways:
Paste the raw text of a message into the test tool.
Specify the Document Body ID of an existing message. You can find the Document Body ID for a message by looking at the <Object Id> field on the Body tab of the Message Viewer.
Specify the Message Header ID of an existing message. If the Production source for test field is blank, the Source Config Name in the message header is used as the source. You can find the Message Header ID for a message by looking at the <Object Id> field on the Header tab of the Message Viewer.
Testing with Raw Text of a Message
You can test a routing rule by pasting the raw text of a message into the test tool. To do so:
Optionally, in the Production Source for test field, enter the business host that is sending the message.
Choose User Input from the Context Document object drop-down list.
Click the Data Form button.
Paste the raw text of the message in the HL7 Document Content text field.
Enter any other constraints that you want to test by entering information in the HL7 document object properties fields.
Click Run Test.
|The message met the rule constraints and triggered a When or Otherwise clause.|
|The message met the rule constraints but did not trigger one of the When or Otherwise clauses.|
|The message did not meet the rule constraints.|
A user must have the correct security privileges to test routing rules. They must have USE permissions for %Ens_RuleLog and %Ens_TestingService . In addition, they must have Select SQL privileges on Ens_Rule.log and Ens_Rule.DebugLog tables.
Strategies for Debugging Routing Rules
This section describes strategies for debugging the routing rules in an EDI message routing production.
The primary symptom for problems in routing rules is that the message does not reach its destination. Perhaps the message reaches a point along the way, such as a business operation or routing process within the routing production, but it does not reach its target destination, which is generally an application server outside InterSystems IRIS®. In that case you can follow the problem-solving sequence captured in the next four drawings: “Solving Problems with Routing Rules,” Drawings A, B, C, and D. | <urn:uuid:757a0132-f0b5-443a-9432-858591fdab3e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://docs.intersystems.com/healthconnectlatest/csp/docbook/stubcanonicalbaseurl/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls?KEY=EBUS_debug | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.827287 | 713 | 1.710938 | 2 |
We are surrounded by a huge amount of information and our brains are constantly choosing what to get out of our focus range because dealing with all of it can sometimes be too much. This is why we are not used to focusing on an essential aspect for a long period of time, so our memory storage capacities might have to suffer because of it.
If you want to buy a new telescope and you read an article about another perspective on the C90 model, for example, you might want to remember the information you have just read. But because your brain is not used to remembering everything you read, you might be surprised that you will forget a lot of the information in the article.
Therefore, a great thing to do is to engage in strategies that have been proven to be effective and will help you a lot especially when you are studying or reading about subjects that you are really interested in.
When you are facing difficult concepts that you are not familiar with, a great practice is to visualize them in order to remember them. For example, if you want to observe the stars using a telescope and you have never used one before,you should try to envision the process while reading about how to do it .
You can even draw the inside of a telescope if you want to better understand how it works, as this will help you remember it a lot better and the next time you come across information about its structure you will be able to remember and understand it.
- Linking information
You know that a good way to create a new habit is to link it to another existing habit. The same principle lies behind linking new information to memories that you already have. So, if you have used a pair of binoculars before, when learning about telescopes, you can link what you already know about lenses with the new information that you want to acquire. Pretty simple, right?
- Sleep on it
Research has shown that for the brain to work properly you need to get between 7 and 8 hours of sleep. A study on mice has led researchers to conclude that if you sleep right after you have learned something, the networks in your brain that are used to form that memory get stronger. So don’t be afraid to take a nap once in a while.
- Structuring is the key
A great way to better remember the information you learn is to structure it. You will be able to remember it better than if you would learn it in a chaotic manner. Taking structured notes about the topic you are studying is very helpful and you will be able to remember it a lot easier the next time you come across it.
Memories are not as enigmatic as they were 100 years ago. Scientists now know a lot of things about what happens in your brain while creating memories about different things and the advice we have given you here is backed by science. Try to put them into practice and we can assure you that you will become great at remembering what you learn. | <urn:uuid:2ed68698-c54f-4caf-8942-a719be610b5d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mediadrumworld.com/2020/06/16/4-steps-better-memory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964535 | 603 | 3.25 | 3 |
|Nomination for Nobel Prize in Physics|
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Thirteen laureates were awarded a Nobel Prize in 2021, for achievements that have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind.
Their work and discoveries range from the Earth’s climate and our sense of touch to efforts to safeguard freedom of expression.
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Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday announced that US President Joe Biden and a dozen other top officials had been banned from entering the country in a reciprocal response to US sanctions.
The measure, which also applies to Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, “is the consequence of the extremely Russophobic policy pursued by the current US administration”, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.
In response to Russia’s military intervention in Ukraine, the United States banned Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as well as adopting sanctions that have largely cut Russia off financially from the rest of the world.
Russia also put on its stop list Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley, National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns and White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki.
Also on the list are Deputy National Security Advisor Daleep Singh, US Agency for International Development chief Samantha Power, Deputy Treasury Secretary Adewale Adeyemo, and US Export-Import Bank chief Reta Jo Lewis.
Russia also banned from entry Biden’s son Hunter and former secretary of state and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
The foreign ministry warned Moscow will soon announce additional sanctions against a range of “Russophobic” US officials, military officers, lawmakers, businessmen, and media personalities. | <urn:uuid:38114985-6311-4129-9969-b90c8e85c09a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://insidenews.com.ng/2022/03/15/russia-imposes-sanctions-on-biden-other-us-officials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.938019 | 274 | 1.546875 | 2 |
That’s the idea behind a crop of startups that are borrowing the tools of Silicon Valley to create a true digital sharing economy. Many of them are structured as cooperatives — democratically owned and governed organizations. But they all seek to treat workers more fairly and allow them to share in the fruits of their labor. Think of them as Fair Trade apps. Here are some to be on the lookout for.
After Austin residents voted for more stringent regulations on ride-hailing services in May of 2016, Uber — along with Lyft, its smaller rival — abandoned the city. That has prompted a host of new startups with more driver- and community-friendly services to take their place. One of those is RideAustin, a nonprofit ride-sharing company that began phasing in service in spring of 2016. As a nonprofit, the startup vows to work with the city and share data to help improve transit planning. And the app allows customers to round their fares up to raise money for local charities that will include free and reduced-rate rides for low-income elderly and disabled citizens.
Juno is a new ride-hailing service that opened for business in New York in 2016. It’s not a co-op, but co-founder and CEO Talmon Marco has called it “an ethical, socially responsible ride-sharing service.” Marco is betting that by treating workers better, he can attract the best drivers and take market share from Uber.
Juno takes a 10 percent cut from each ride, compared with Uber’s average commission of 20 percent. It also provides smartphones to drivers and pays for their data, and plans other driver-friendly features such as 24-hour support and the ability to block riders.
And unlike Uber, ownership of which is closely held by its founding team and investors, Juno has pledged to put aside half of its founding stock — or a billion dollars’ worth — for drivers. The shares will be awarded to drivers who work for Juno full-time or close to it, and drivers can earn more shares the more time they put in driving for Juno.
If Etsy were owned by its crafters and buyers, you might begin to get something like Fairmondo. Based in Berlin, the site is a digital marketplace for sustainable and Fair Trade products from smartphones that are ethically manufactured with conflict-free minerals to organic clothing. Since it launched in 2013, Fairmondo has attracted 15,000 users, including 2,100 members, each of whom buys a 10-Euro share in the company. In addition, it has raised funding through two successful crowdfunding campaigns.
Now Fairmondo is looking to expand globally through a network of co-ops in different countries that are independently run by locals in their native languages. Next up: the UK, followed by the US sometime in 2017. “Fairmondo is to me a big experiment to create a new model of multinational corporation, which is transparent, decentralized, and democratically owned by its local stakeholders,” says founder Felix Weth. “As a marketplace, Fairmondo will hopefully help other good businesses reach customers who care for the future of their children.”
One common complaint of creative workers in the digital age is that their work is being commoditized. From musicians to artists to writers, the freewheeling internet has driven down prices — and morale. Enter Stocksy, a stock photography site based in Victoria, British Columbia. Unlike other stock photography sites, it is owned and governed by its photographers and employees. At Stocksy, photographers keep up to 75 percent of revenue, compared to 15 to 45 percent at most sites. And the company distributes 90 percent of its profits at the end of each year among its photographers. That has helped it attract more than 900 photographer-members around the globe. Stocksy’s staff are also owners.
In recent years, domestic workers have banded together to create cooperatives to control their destinies. Now a new app is helping the co-ops expand their presence into the digital sharing economy.
The app, called Coopify, was dreamed up by the Robin Hood Foundation, a nonprofit that fights poverty in New York, and the Cooperative Development program of the Center for Family Life, a social services organization. The two organizations approached students at Cornell Tech and challenged them to create a digital platform that could benefit low-wage workers.
The result, Coopify, will allow customers to book services with organizations like New York’s Si Se Puede! Women’s Cleaning Cooperative and Golden Steps, a co-op of elder care workers. The students at Cornell Tech worked closely with co-op workers to create an app that reflected their needs, including multilingual support and SMS text messaging for those without internet access or smartphones. Coopify is being beta-tested by the cooperatives and is expected to launch publicly in January 2017.
Josh Danielson got his first taste of the sharing economy when he began renting out his San Francisco apartment on Airbnb to help cover the rent while he was in business school. He realized the power that flowed to the booking platform owners, and decided to create a more worker-friendly version. The result: Loconomics, which launched over the summer of 2016, is like a digital cooperative for all sorts of freelance professionals, from web designers to masseuses.
The freelancers pay an annual membership fee that gives them access to the site’s tools, including software to post a profile, manage bookings and payments, and see customer reviews. They also receive a stake in the company and a vote in its management. Danielson worked with the Sustainable Economies Law Center on the co-op’s bylaws. At press time Loconomics was operating only in San Francisco, but plans to expand to other parts of the country.
Amy Cortese is a New York-based journalist who writes about topics spanning business, finance, and food. Her book, “Locavesting,” was one of the pioneering works on the emerging local investing and community capital movement. More recently, she founded Locavesting.com, a media and educational site that covers this evolving financial landscape. Follow her on Twitter: @Locavesting. | <urn:uuid:98b300bd-d0e5-4bc1-afe3-94924df115e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socapglobal.com/2016/09/6-innovative-companies-unlocking-the-real-sharing-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96917 | 1,327 | 2.15625 | 2 |
What is asexuality? asexual is a term to describe a sexual orientation, just like heterosexuality or homosexuality. The difference is that people with asexual sexual orientation have neither sexual desire nor sexual attraction to others. For more details know Asexual Meanings: What Does It Mean? and How Do I Know if I am asexual, below.
Have you ever asked about the asexual definition dictionary, how common is asexuality, asexuality symptoms in men and women, and what causes asexuality? or maybe sometimes I feel as if I’m asexual. Find the answer in this article!
What is asexuality
Asexual is a sexual orientation as well as heterosexual or homosexual. However, people of this sexual orientation have no interest in others, both the opposite sex and the same sex.
Although there are people who have an interest in others, usually, people who are asexual choose not to pass on the interests they have in others. That is, the feeling he has is just a sense of ordinary interest, not a desire to perform and benefit from sexual intercourse.
How common is asexuality
Although the researchers don’t know for sure, they estimate between 1% and 4% of the population is asexual.
Asexuality is not a sexual disorder
You may think that asexual is a sexual disorder or mental illness that needs to be cured. However, the thinking was not correct.
Asexuality cannot be said to be a disease or sexual disorder that must be addressed. Labeling asexuality as a disease is not appropriate because it seems that this condition makes it difficult for those who have it.
Those who identify themselves as asexual are in no way bothered with their self-asexuality.
According to the definition dictionary, a disorder or mental illness must be something that causes suffering, disability, or poses a health risk to the person who has it.
Asexuality doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with the body
Asexuality also does not mean having a low sex drive. The reason is that these two things are not the same. When you identify as asexual, you have no interest in sexual activity, but can do so.
Some asexuals are disgusted by the idea of ‘sex’ and choose not to engage in sex in any form for life, but it doesn’t apply to the whole.
An asexual person can still date, engage in sex, masturbate, fall in love, marry, or have children.
There are many reasons why an asexual might do the above without the need for the presence of sexual attraction. Experiencing sex drive or orgasm is also still possible for asexual people.
Even so, a person who claims to be asexual may have certain health conditions that cause him or her to also have difficulty getting aroused with others.
What causes asexuality
The causes of sexual dysfunction are generally divided into two types, namely physical factors and psychological factors. Sexual dysfunctions that occur due to physical factors can be caused by various diseases, including:
- Hormonal disorders.
- Heart disease.
- High blood pressure.
- Neurological diseases, such as Parkinson’s disease and multiple sclerosis.
- Injuries to the nerves, especially the nerves that govern erections.
- Side effects of certain medications, for example, antidepressant drugs.
In both men and women, hormonal disorders can result in sexual dysfunction. For example, a decrease in estrogen levels during menopause will also decrease a woman’s sexual desire. In addition, a decrease in the hormone testosterone in men can also reduce the desire to engage in sexual activity.
Not only physical disorders, but sexual dysfunctions can also occur due to psychological disorders. Psychological factors that can cause sexual dysfunction are mainly:
- Excessive concerns about his sexual performance
- Problems in relationships or marriages
- Feelings of guilt
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- Conservation des écosystèmes
- Création-Gestion d’aires protégées
- Bénéficiaire BIOSFERA
- Montant du projet 173.145€
- Subventions FFEM 75 000€
État du projet en cours
The uninhabited desertic and arid island of Santa Luzia is located at 8.5 Km to the neighbor main inhabited island of São Vicente. The Natural Reserve of Santa Luzia, considered Priority Key Biodiversity Area (KBAs), counts with a land surface of 3.500ha and 27.200ha of ocean surface. It holds the entire world population of the endemic and Critically Endangered Razo Lark (Alauda razae) which was reintroduced to Santa Luzia from Raso island in 2018 by the Biosfera and SPEA (BirdLife Partner in Portugal) teams (70 specimens). It also holds more than 1 000 nesting females of Loggerhead Turtle (Caretta caretta, EN) each year and is the only refuge for four endemic species and sub-species of terrestrial reptiles with unfavorable threat status (Tarentola raziana, NT and Hemidactylus bouvieri razoensis, CR). Biosfera has initiated a co-management process to formalize its long-term commitment and take part in the decision-making process regarding the protection of the island. This process is currently being developed and requires strong advocacy work to convince the authorities to validate, implement and monitor the Natural Reserve management plan. Finally, citizens are not sufficiently aware of all these because of the remoteness of the island.
As an uninhabited island it makes it extremely fragile to anthropogenic threats. The perfect example of this was the extinction of all seabird colonies present on the island, which became extinct due to the introduction of invasive species such as cats and mice. Nowadays, this invasion is over but because of regular fishermen landing on the island, protection measures need to be kept. Another anthropogenic threat to the biodiversity of Santa Luzia is coastal pollution, with direct impact on the turtles, birds and terrestrial reptiles. Finally, the area is unfortunately insufficiently protected by DNA (National Directorate of the Environment), the authority in charge of its management. | <urn:uuid:49b6de40-dd20-4695-ab70-83349a1650e9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.programmeppi.org/en/projects/sustainable-management-and-monitoring-of-endangered-species-and-vulnerable-ecosystems-at-santa-luzia-reserve/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.907193 | 487 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Why do we have more than 200 consecutive nines?
With mu(n) the Möbius function, is the limit equal to $-2$?
Prove this identity [PF, 2000] relative to harmonic numbers whose indices are squares(!).
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Homes for Rent in Clayton, NC
The community which has grown into the Town of Clayton was built on a road cut blazed by Governor Tryon’s troops around 1770 as they marched north from New Bern to Hillsborough against the Regulators. Nearly 100 years later the railroad came through and the community had its first name—Stallings’ Station, since the depot for the North Carolina Railroad was in the home of Mrs. Sarah Stallings. The name lasted only three years, however, before officially becoming Clayton. Incorporation followed in 1869.
The new town was far from prosperous, however the Civil War made a depressed local economy even worse. Many prominent citizens moved away during that period. But, following the war, the railroad was extended and businesses began to pop up. Ashley Horne developed a successful farming and merchandising business to become one of the most successful merchants and manufacturers in all of North Carolina. Horne’s success inspired two other men, McCullers and Barbour, to open businesses that also did well, beginning an era of growth that lasted well into the next century. Some of the businesses that flourished during that time were lumber plants, a brick kiln, cotton gin, gristmill, sawmill, tobacco warehouses, cotton mills and a turpentine distillery.
By the early 1900’s, the town had become a major market for cotton, watermelons and tobacco. In 1907, the Raleigh Evening Times of nearby Raleigh wrote that there was “more money per capita in Clayton than any city its size in the world”. Unfortunately, the town lost its financial eminence in the 1930’s with the onset of the Great Depression, and its population grew slowly for the next forty years. The three local cotton mills continued to be a major source of jobs during that time, with 1,000 employees, but the local economy was modest and cotton was soon on its way out. By the early 1960’s the mills were gone and cotton was no longer a player in the local economy. But, Tobacco was in, and the population shot up for awhile before settling back down as farming became less and less profitable.
The state began to change during the 1970s. An industrial base began taking shape and residential growth was increasing in the Raleigh area nearby. Clayton’s workforce adapted, shifting to a more service/trades-oriented economy and the town began to grow once again. By 1980, the population had increased from 4,091, to 4,756 by 1990 and, then jumped to 6,973 in the year 2000 census. Today, manufacturers like Caterpillar and bio-pharmaceutical companies like Talecris and Novo Nordisk are big local employers.
Commercial development along US 70 through town has changed the face of Clayton in recent years with thriving retail and service sectors. However, downtown Clayton still boasts quaint specialty and coffee shops, a thriving financial services area, furniture stores, restaurants, jewelry stores, and more than a dozen personal care businesses. Some of Clayton’s oldest businesses such as Beddingfield’s Drugs (1919), Jones’ Lunch (1958) and TR Lee Gas & Oil (1958) still operate downtown today. In recent years, a strong effort to protect and preserve the traditional downtown has helped the area maintain its economic vigor and historic charm.
Attractions and Activities
The Clayton Center
The Clayton Youth Theater
111 East Second St
Clayton, NC 27520
Hocutt-Ellington Memorial Library
100 S. Church Street
Clayton, NC 27520
The Clayton Community Center/Community Park
Amelia Church Road
Clayton, NC 27520
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It’s quite frustrating when you are doing everything right, following all the golden rules to lose weight to the T, but the extra pounds just refuse to melt away! Hitting the gym with a vengeance will not be fruitful without straightening out underlying conditions because they might be the actual reasons why you are not losing any weight despite dieting and exercise. Calorie deficit is the key to unlock weight loss; however, in certain conditions, burning fat can be a bit more complicated than maintaining a deficit and burning calories through exercise. So, let’s find out what underlying causes make it extremely difficult to lose weight.
1. Insulin Resistance: Insulin, which is a blood sugar regulating hormone, also plays a huge role in fat metabolism. When we eat high-glycemic foods (sugar, refined carbs, etc), the level of blood glucose rises. When that happens, insulin is released by pancreas to regulate and bring down glucose levels and also to carry glucose into body cells to be used as an energy source. However, when there is high amount of glucose circulating in the bloodstream on a steady basis, after a point, body cells become less responsive to the efforts of insulin. When that happens, all extra circulating glucose is directed to be stored as body fat. If you are insulin resistant, it can prevent weight loss and encourage storage of body fat. In fact, high and frequent insulin secretion will block fat burning (aka lipolysis). Insulin resistance also lowers metabolism, leading to weight gain. To correct insulin resistance, stay away from refined carbs, white sugar, eat veggies, increase protein intake, and also correct magnesium deficiency if any.
2. Thyroid Issues: Hypothyroidism results from an underactive thyroid gland and appropriate treatment from a doctor becomes absolutely necessary to treat the symptoms. An underactive thyroid fails to produce enough T3 (triiodothyronine) and T4 (thyroxine) hormones, and these hormones are needed to regulate metabolism, and in such a situation, weight loss becomes a lot difficult. Do seek medical help to rule out hypothyroidism.
3. Leptin Resistance: Leptin is also called the “satiety” hormone. Low level of leptin keeps one in a constant state of hunger and you would constantly crave for food, all through the day, calorie surplus, and creation of more fat in the body. There are two hormones that regulate your appetite – ghrelin is the “hunger” hormone which signals the brain that it’s time to replenish energy and that the body needs food to do so whereas leptin (satiety or fullness hormone) signals the brain that there’s enough energy and your appetite decreases, and you would stop craving for food. In short, leptin (which is secreted by fat cells) regulates appetite and signals the brain that you have had enough food. However, when leptin function gets impaired, it fails to send signal to the brain, and the body is always in a state to replenish energy through food. As a result, one tends to overeat and gain weight in the process. Leptin resistance can also slow down your metabolism. All these factors not only prevents weight loss, they can make you gain weight with each meal. So, it becomes important to correct leptin resistance and here’s “How To Boost Leptin Hormone For Weight Loss” in this post.
4. Birth Control Medications: Not all, but certain birth control pills tend to cause slight weight gain, but the good news is that it’s due to water retention, and also temporary. If water retention is an issue, here are “12 Home Remedies to Reduce Water Retention.”
5. Steroid Medications: Certain steroid medications have been found to increase appetite, cause fluid retention, disturb sleep pattern, and also disrupt functioning of certain hormones. To avoid these side effects, continue watching your diet and exercise regularly.
6. Not Eating a Balanced Diet: For the body to function and also for important fat-burning hormones to remain at optimum levels, nutrients are necessary. Vitamin deficiencies and lack of nutrients have been strongly linked to obesity. Counting calories would totally be ineffective if you are not nourishing the body with vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients through the diet. Lack of vitamins, vitamin D3, magnesium, calcium, iron, chromium, coenzyme Q10 can absolutely stall the fat-burning process. It’s important to follow healthy diets, like Rati Beauty diet, to lose weight successfully that are not based on food deprivation and help you eat a nutrient-rich diet and be in calorie deficit at the same time. Download the Rati Beauty app for more details.
7. Chornic Stress and Tension: When you cannot keep a tab over stress, it can cause a lot of damage to the body. Increased stress levels also increase the production of hunger hormone “ghrelin” since it acts to lower stress and that explains why most people tend to overeat when they are stressed out or even just anxious. Stress has also been linked to increase in belly fat. Burn the stress off by working out, listening to music, yoga, pursuing new hobbies, or just taking a stroll with your pet.
8. Gut Imbalance: Maintaining a healthy gut is of supreme importance because an unhealthy gut can lower immunity, increase weight, cause hormonal imbalances, affect mental health. Read about “15 Ways to Improve Gut Health” in this post.
9. Chronic Inflammation: If you have been counting calories, exercising for hours together, and still not shedding any significant weight, it’s most probably inflammation that is stalling weight loss from happening. When one puts on weight, leads an extremely stressful life, eats processed food, sleeps only for a short period of time, a protein called as C-reactive protein, which is considered to be an inflammatory marker present in the blood also rises up, making the body more and more acidic. Inflammation makes the body insulin resistant, and by now we know that insulin is also a fat-storage hormone which triggers the creation of new fat cells. So, inflammation triggers insulin resistance, which in turn leads to more insulin production, and larger creation of fat cells which converts all extra calories into fat, and stores it particularly around the belly area. Here’s how you can “Reduce Inflammation in the Body.”
10. Sleep Deprivation: Sleep deprivation throws all hormones out of whack, especially leptin and ghrelin, increasing the level of ghrelin and dropping leptin. When you sleep well at night, the levels of sleep hormone melatonin increases which in turn lowers hunger and stress hormones (ghrelin and cortisol respectively). Also, a good night’s sleep is extremely essential to reset metabolism and keep the fat-burning process correctly. In fact, sleep deprivation even for one night considerably increases inflammation, which is one of the major reasons for weight gain. So, do sleep for at least 7 hours every night to lose weight successfully. | <urn:uuid:3dec23ba-72ed-4899-aba1-4df100a78322> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://makeupandbeauty.com/underlying-conditions-that-make-it-difficult-to-lose-weight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.936542 | 1,466 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Master of Social Work
In this article, we will have an in-depth analysis of MSW course. MSW stands for Master of Social Work. It is a job oriented Postgraduate level course. This article covers topics such as – course details, eligibility, admissions, colleges, syllabus, PG courses, careers and salary.
Are you passionate about helping people? Do you want to bring about a change in the lives of people? Are you interested in uplifting the living standards of the poor and the underprivileged? If yes, MSW course will be of help to you! | <urn:uuid:09d884f2-96dc-4234-b15d-5b8232d3a772> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bishopambrosecollege.in/research/msw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.94373 | 120 | 1.671875 | 2 |
While the Pages, Knights, and Kings are all about questions, movement, and seeking in the external realm, the Queens are all about going within. The Queens are also all about heart. In the case of the Queen of Pentacles, she’s about our connection to the material realm through our bodies and how we are grounded to the earth. When things are out of alignment in that respect, the Queen of Pentacles helps us find the adjustment.
The Queen of Pentacles is surrounded by a lush garden, indicating material and sensual pleasure. The rabbit hidden in the bottom, right-hand corner is both a sign of fertility as well as an indication that we should look before leaping. Rabbits are also grounding symbols, given their closeness to the earth. The mountains in the background represent the timelessness and endurance.
Upright: When the Queen of Pentacles appears in a reading, this is about a perfect balance in life. This Queen is a master of work/life balance. She is fiercely determined, deeply compassionate, and creates a warm home for her friends and family. The card is an indication that you take care of others while also managing a career and personal self fulfillment. The Queen of Pentacles urges us to be practical and resourceful, maintain compassion for those around us, and let generosity and kindness be our teacher.
Reverse: When the Queen of Pentacles appears in the reversed position, it’s an indication that things are out of balance. Either work has become all consuming or we’re overwhelmed by the needs of others. Something has to give. Alternatively, this can be an indication that while our intention is to be nurturing, in reality we’re being overly protective and smothering. A final alternative meaning is that sometimes the card comes up when we’ve become overly dependent on others.
In many ways, the Queen of Pentacles is a reflection of the Empress. Both share the same deep compassion for others and for the earth. Both nurture the world around them and encourage things to grow. The difference is the Empress teaches us how to receive while the Queen of Pentacles helps us realign and reconnect with where we need to go. | <urn:uuid:f2e015b0-856a-40bc-bad9-a30bc6a80d94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://helynmcqueeny.wordpress.com/2018/04/13/queen-of-pentacles-mother-of-earth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950562 | 450 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Building smart energy services with IoT
Smart IoT with cloud-edge-device architecture powers integrated energy services.
Chinese power grid companies have been transforming from traditional electricity suppliers into integrated energy service providers in response to the opportunities and challenges brought about by the green energy revolution.
State Grid Hunan Integrated Energy Services (IES) and Huawei have developed a Smart IES IoT solution based on cloud-edge-device IoT architecture, aiming to tackle common problems in developing integrated energy services. These problems include a lack of basic data and platforms, difficult O&M management, software and hardware coupling, multiple access scenarios, and on-site deployment difficulties.
The Smart IES IoT solution comprising apps, a breakthrough IoT gateway with smart edge computing capabilities, and a multi-container technology that decouples software and hardware. It support flexible service expansion, open data-sharing, and smart cloud-edge collaboration, and provides an intelligent, open, and efficient digital platform for integrated energy services, powered by big data, AI components, and microservice architecture.
Hunan's Better Life Group adopted the solution to transform over 100 of its stores to provide refined energy management, real-time energy consumption management and control, and intelligent air conditioning and lighting management. This has helped Better Life save more than 20 percent in energy, boost corporate management, and meet its green targets.
With fossil fuels becoming scarcer, pollution increasing, and climate change becoming more severe, the efficient use of green energy and renewable energy is essential for society to progress. As a green, clean energy type that's high-quality, efficient, and renewable, electric power can meet most energy needs.
China is committed to creating a global energy Internet and promoting clean and green ways to meet global electricity demand, pledging to accelerate reform for building an energy sector that’s clean, low-carbon, safe, and efficient.
Power grids, transmission, and distribution will remain under central control, with free market forces allowed to act on power generation and consumption. This will establish a more complete, fully competitive, and effective energy market, and facilitate efficient energy use and healthy development.
Grid companies are targeting new opportunities in the IES market. State Grid Hunan IES set up an integrated energy service subsidiary to transform from a traditional electricity supplier into an IES provider, and established new service types to help satisfy diverse energy demands, boost user stickiness, and increase income from value-added income.
Integrated energy services can meet diverse energy production and consumption needs, including energy planning and design, engineering construction and investment, multi-energy operations and services, and investment and financing services.
State Grid Hunan IES develops personalized services for energy-intensive customers for whom air conditioning makes up a large proportion of electricity consumption, such as commercial buildings, industrial enterprises, and large campuses.
On the supply side, it established an electricity-based multi-energy power supply system that helps customers reduce energy costs, including distributed power generation, tri-generation (combined heating, cooling, and power), and energy storage.
On the energy side, it developed an electricity-centric device energy consumption system to help customers improve energy efficiency. The solution provides energy-saving services, energy O&M, and energy consumption monitoring and analysis. It promotes energy and information integration and makes full use of technological, resource-, and funding-based approaches.
When State Grid Hunan IES first launched integrated energy services, the main issues it faced were the lack of detailed energy consumption data and a basic digital platform for support service development.
Energy customers don't usually have detailed data about energy use, like energy by category and item, consumption time and spatial distribution, overview and indicators, or abnormal energy consumption warnings. That means there’s no data to analyze energy use, no way to manage energy, and no way to verify energy efficiency transformation.
When State Grid Hunan IES first launched, it lacked an intelligent digital platform for the remote management of equipment and software upgrades or energy data analysis to support mass data analysis and flexible applications, which severely restricted how fast it could develop its services.
State Grid Hunan IES teamed up with Huawei to develop an innovative Smart IES IoT solution based on the cloud-pipe-edge-device core architecture that would allow them to build an integrated energy service digital platform to support data perception, edge processing, and smart applications; meet the IoT application requirements of integrated energy services in multiple scenarios; and support the development of such services.
At the cloud layer, we adopt a cloud management architecture comprising an application layer and a platform layer.
The application layer provides an open northbound interface for industry integrators to build app service packages and provide professional services for energy customers. This leverages industry vendors' deep understanding of the industry and the technology of the application scenarios.
The platform layer provides the IoT platform, a big data component, and an AI component. It supports remote visual management of the full lifecycle of millions of end devices, real-time monitoring of whole-network status, rapid fault location, and the analysis and processing of mass energy consumption data. It incorporates the latest industry policy changes, identifies high-value data, and discovers energy customers' requirements.
At the edge computing layer, we use edge computing technology to redefine the energy gateway device and give it a smart brain. The Smart IES IoT Gateway acts like a smartphone – functions can be customized or added on-demand and it can flexibly share data so it can link to different service ecosystems. This creates a multi-functional device and avoids redundant development of other hardware systems.
Cloud-edge collaboration is also used to support hierarchical data analysis and processing for efficient applications. The cloud and edge collaborate efficiently – with the cloud mainly handling big data analysis of energy consumption, human-computer interaction, and strategy generation, while the edge mostly deals with data pre-processing and strategy decomposition and execution.
At the data collection device layer, we use lightweight data collection devices and lightweight converters that adopt industrial-grade high-speed power-line communication (HPLC). That means devices can network over power lines; have plug-and-play capability; and use ordinary power lines to collect energy consumption data economically, reliably, and efficiently. They also support multiple-wired/wireless-interface conversion, which fully meets the service access needs of scenarios like electricity, water, gas, heating/cooling and provides basic data for integrated energy services.
In 2020, the energy consumption of one company, which has partnered with State Grid Hunan IES, was projected to rise to over 500 million kWh. With energy costs increasing every year, the company’s major priority was to improve energy efficiency. By conserving energy and reducing energy consumption, it could strengthen its competitiveness and ability to survive.
A lack of data for energy efficiency transformation and manual energy management were general issues at the company's stores. Energy consumption data was collected through manual meter reading, which is inefficient and error-prone. There were also no detailed data measurements by item such as air-conditioning, lighting, and freezers. Moreover, energy consumption data from individual stores was siloed, making it impossible to generate cross-comparison data.
State Grid Hunan IES and the company signed a strategic agreement for integrated energy services, building a three-level energy management and control platform that adopted Huawei's Smart IES IoT solution. The platform can collect data from over 50 different types of appliances, including air conditioners, elevators, sewage pumps, large advertising screens, and quantitative lighting.
It also provides a package of sub-services. These include energy efficiency transformation and operation monitoring for devices, line status early warnings, abnormal operation warnings, load forecasts, energy consumption rational analysis, use management for lighting and other appliances, energy efficiency improvement recommendations, and the construction of charging piles for parking lots. Thanks to these functions, the platform has helped the company implement refined energy management, implement "last-mile" energy management, and build an integrated energy service management and control platform. Services like energy-saving, power O&M, and energy consumption monitoring and analysis, have helped the company improve energy efficiency, reduce energy costs, eliminate potential energy safety hazards, ensure green and safe operations, and improve corporate management.
State Grid Hunan IES will continue to work with Huawei to create leading energy solutions based on 5G, AI, cloud and other innovative ICT capabilities to better serve energy customers. Huawei's Smart Integrated Energy Service IoT solution digitally manages vast amounts of energy assets, realizing efficient device-to-device, device-to-people, and people-to-nature synergy, helping partners establish integrated energy services for a better future. | <urn:uuid:9b74a5f7-3668-4cd3-bd08-842419c16e9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huawei.com/us/technology-insights/publications/huawei-tech/90/smart-energy-iot | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.915916 | 1,797 | 1.875 | 2 |
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Quantifying the Digital Revolution
July 12, 2018 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
The Digital Revolution and the proliferation of digital economy goods and services have been truly astonishing. However, what seems evident in daily life is not reflected in the nation’s GDP statistics. The value of “free goods” companies like Google, Facebook, and Amazon produce is not included in GDP, which understates their contribution to economic welfare. As a result, true economic growth is also understated and the rate of inflation overstated. Policy makers rely on these important indicators to formulate monetary and fiscal policy.
New research by Charles Hulten and Leonard Nakamura addresses this issue, explaining that many of the benefits of the information available over the internet are targeted directly at consumers and therefore bypass GDP. Thus, conventional measures of GDP miss much of the consumer welfare created by such technological innovations.
Join the Technology Policy Institute and a panel of experts to discuss these and other new ideas aimed at quantifying the digital revolution.
Confirmed panelists included:
Ana Aizcorbe, Senior Research Economist, US Bureau of Economic Analysis
Carol Corrado, Senior Advisor and Research Director, Economics Program, The Conference Board
Shane Greenstein, Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School
Charles Hulten, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Maryland, and Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology Policy Institute
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New York is gearing up for an epic food fight.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., singled out Grubhub over the weekend, calling for greater oversight after allegations of unfair trade practices. The senior New York senator was reacting to recent reports that the delivery app company had improperly charged restaurants fees even when an order had not taken place.
Councilman Mark Gjonaj, the New York City lawmaker spearheading the push to regulate Grubhub, said it goes beyond just bogus fees.
"These mom-and-pop shops have an unfair disadvantage," Gjonaj told CNBC's "Fast Money" on Monday. "They're competing against billion-dollar venture capital-invested companies. The fee structure is up to 33% of the total charges, and we know [their] profits are 6% to 12%. On every order, there is a net loss to these small businesses."
In one of Grubhub's example pricing breakdowns, the company says it charges a 20% marketing commission, 10% delivery commission and roughly 3% processing fee to the restaurant on every order. That amounts to upwards of a third of the total revenue to the restaurants. Grubhub notes that commission rates are negotiable.
Gjonaj recently escalated the fight against Grub by petitioning New York Attorney General Letitia James to open up an antitrust investigation into the company. Grub holds nearly 70% market share in New York City, according to research firm Second Measure, its largest footprint in the U.S.
"We're still dealing with all the stakeholders and we're trying to determine the best course of action, if any," said Gjonaj. "We hope that [Grub] first steps up to the plate and [does] the right thing by refunding any fees that shouldn't have been charged to small businesses to begin with. And then from there, we're looking at the fee structure, we're looking at the potential of an antitrust violation, if one exists."
New York City is leading the charge in what Gjonaj hopes will expand into a nationwide effort to level the playing field between delivery app companies and their restaurant partners. The New York City Council held a late-June hearing with local restaurateurs to address accusations of phantom fees and allegations it had created fake websites for restaurants to drive sales through the platform. Gruhbhub has disputed both these claims.
"It should be to no one's surprise that New York is taking this lead. This is the first hearing in the country. This is going to involve city, state, and federal branches that come together to address this issue, but we hear it on the streets from our local stores," said Gjonaj.
A Grubhub spokesperson told CNBC that the company welcomes "the opportunity to work with Senator Schumer, the U.S. Small Business Administration, and others to show our proven commitment to the restaurant community" and to disprove the "flagrantly inaccurate narrative that our business practices are misleading or lack transparency."
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CLUES FIESTA LATINA is a free community festival for the whole family that celebrates Latino culture through arts, food, entertainment, health and community resources, sports activities, and much more.
CLUES’ annual Fiesta Latina encourages families of all backgrounds and heritages to come out and learn about Latino art and culture in their community. We expect more than 3,500 people to join us. The event will be packed with valuable resources, authentic Latin food, music, dance, entertainment, and family activities focused on arts, culture, health, and wellness. Visitors will be able to access free health resources such as screenings, COVID-19 vaccines, and free healthy food distribution. And that’s not all because we will have raffles and giveaways throughout the event. This year attendees will be able to travel for free to FIESTA LATINA thanks to Metro Transit.
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IRCCS Hospital San Raffaele
Prof. Gianvito Martino
The San Raffaele Hospital is a clinical-scientific-university facility of international significance and high specialization on several vital diseases, opened in 1971 and recognized in 1972 as a Scientific Institute for Research, Hospitalisation and Healthcare (IRCCS).
It is a High Specialty Emergency Center (H.S.E) and a teaching and care center of the University Vita-Salute San Raffaele. In May 2012, San Raffaele joined the San Donato Hospital Group, thus becoming one of eighteen excellent facilities of the essential health groups in the country.
The Hospital San Raffaele IRCCS is a polyclinic accredited with the National Health Service, with over 50 clinical specialties and more than 6,000 employees. The hospital covers an area of about 300,000 square meters located in the northeast of Milan. Moreover, it includes some branch offices: the San Raffaele Turro Hospital and the Cardinal Schuster and San Donato Milanese Outpatient Clinics, for a total of 1,318 beds (in 2015). About 34,000 surgeries, 51,130 hospitalizations and over 950,000 outpatient services are performed each year.
The multidisciplinary structure, technologically advanced by the continuous interaction between scientific research, teaching, and clinical activities, have enabled the Hospital San Raffaele IRCCS to achieve results over the years, becoming the leading research institute in Italy and a reference point in Europe and worldwide for the study and treatment of many diseases and the development of innovative techniques.
San Raffaele was the first center in the world to use stem cells in clinical routine for corneal transplantation and the first to perform a gene therapy procedure to treat a rare immune disease. On top of that, it is the reference center in Italy for pancreatic islet transplantation.
The hospital’s mission is to foster disease knowledge, identify new therapies that benefit patients, and create the most conducive environment for young scientists and physicians to thrive.
San Raffaele, like the entire San Donato Hospital Group, strongly believes in the humanization of care and therefore promotes projects and activities to promote the physical and psychological well-being of patients.
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Did you know that over 543,000 new businesses get started each month?
The world of businesses are getting more competitive than ever which is why we need to develop the way we do things to make our business stand out above the rest.
What is more surprising is that many businesses did not even get through the 5th year and that gives us all the more reason to move further because the more we push ourselves to grow further, the easier it gets for our business as well.
Before we get to the good part, let’s first take a look at…
What a Business Really is?
Many a times we hear the word “Businessman” but have we ever stopped to think at what these things are?
Business is actually an economic activity, one that involves the act of selling something be it clothes or food, in exchange of money.
It used to be small but now the way we do business is evolving and there are always new streams of income to grow our business which is what we will be covering today.
But one thing to always bear in mind is that no matter how many businesses are there in this world today, the one that clicks with the customer’s interests the most is the one that will win the majority of the business.
How to Grow Your Business -5 Ways for the Unwary
Isn’t it annoying that no matter how hard we try to grow your business, it doesn’t seem like it’s going anywhere?
A thing to bear in mind if you want to grow a business, is that it is always better to find new ways instead of spending all your time and effort on trying harder to work faster.
Here are some of those ways which you should take note of…
1) Expand your business online
Bill Gates said that by the end of 2002, there will be only two kinds of businesses – those with an Internet presence, and those with no business at all.
Did you know that many small businesses fail because they did not want to invest some time on building an online presence?
Nowadays people EXPECT businesses to have a website and if you are a company with several businesses, you are going to need websites for all of those.
Building a website isn’t as hard as it used to be though, because 10 years ago you need to learn coding which nobody understands.
Today, you can literally build one yourself to save more money while you’re at it.
Here’s a video on how to build a professional website in 30 seconds or less…
2) Adding a “blog” section on your website
Did you know that 79% of companies that have a blog report a positive ROI for inbound marketing?
Everyone can have a website, but not everyone have the will to add a blog section to it.
If you don’t know the difference between a blog and a website, just know that a blog is also a website – The only difference is that a blog is updated regularly.
The reason for this is because having a blog will…
- Boost your company image to show that you are trendy and updated.
- Give the image that you are more approachable.
- Capture the majority of the traffic online.
A common dilemma when it comes to blogging is that you will run out of ideas on what to write about, or not knowing how to make your articles more engaging.
To avoid that, I recommend you joining a blogging community which is also an online classroom called Wealthy Affiliate.
At Wealthy Affiliate, you will learn how to get more ideas to write about, how to make your articles beg for comments and even ways on multiplying your online income stream.
3) Consider franchising to other areas
One of the best ways of growing your presence is to franchise your business elsewhere.
A lot of business owners always wanted to create a franchise but they are reluctant to leave their current business in the hands of their staff.
To resolve this, you need to let go of your fear of leveraging work to other people and start trusting your employees more.
This will not only create trust, but will also prove that your business has room for career growth which will also attract more eyes which you would definitely want.
You’ve be amazed as to how far your employees can go if you allow them room to do so.
After seeing your employees take flight in their career, you can now focus on finding co-founders to help franchise your business.
You have 2 choices of hiring co-founders: Internally and externally.
Hiring co-founders within your own business is definitely cheaper, but they might lack business skills.
However, they understand the most about how your business works which is also something to consider.
Hiring co-founders externally is a more common approach and is definitely easier as there are many places you could go to in order to hire them, one in particular is Founder2be.com.
A pretty cool example of using co-founders for franchising can be seen from a Malaysian company called Mindvalley.
Take a look at this…
Mindvalley has one of the best family-oriented business plans I’ve ever seen as even if they have franchises in many different countries, they keep track of all of them and show it on their website.
4) Specialize in more services
Sometimes putting your trust in just one method of making money is the very reason your business isn’t growing faster than it should be.
In every business, you should have a funny strategy on what you offer.
For example, if you have a bakery and you want to go one step further, you could consider selling the home-made dough you use for added income.
This way, you can attract not only customers who are interested in baking your breads, but also attract your own competitors to buy your dough because they want their breads to be like yours.
After feeling confident enough, you could even throw in baking classes every week which further adds another stream of income and this is how your business can grow further.
5) Win a contract to supply for the government
Have you noticed how small stores in London became big because they provide for Queen Elizabeth?
If the Queen trusts a simple cheese shop, why wouldn’t the rest of the people?
Similarly in other countries, you can win contracts for the government especially since you already conversing in their own language.
Sure there are a lot of controversies when it comes to the government but at the end of the day, it is them who wants to see your company grow because by doing so, they develop their own country.
A Congresswoman from the Ranking Democratic Member of the House Small Business Committee called Nydia M. Velázquez actually stated that “The best way for a small business to grow is to have the federal government as a customer” (Click here to read that interview of hers)
A great tip to make your business look stronger is to try to get certificates beforehand because when associations trust you, there is no reason why other corporations won’t put their faith in you either.
My Final Word
Developing a business is everyone’s dream but it’s not as easy as it seems.
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You Will Certainly Never Thought That Understanding Style Could Be So Beneficial!
Today, the apparel industry has very little alike with the artisan’s craft of a century ago. The fashion industry is more precisely called the competitive quest of successful designs by multinational conglomerates, making use of the most efficient modern technology and the very best shipment methods. It’s likewise regarding a great deal more than clothes. Individuals really feel encouraged and excellent concerning themselves when they are wearing a certain item of apparel. Dopamine, a natural chemical launched by satisfaction and also pain, is released into the brain when garments we such as make us feel happy.
The design of garments we wear also reveals our individual and social group association. For example, if we are in secondary school, we might be classified right into a “group” based on what we use. The fashion of this team will develop stereotypes and distance between participants of the same group. In a business conference, a business person could see a kid with eco-friendly hair and several piercings as an outsider. He might view the boy as a strict conformist or a rebel. how to uninstall valorant
In regards to styles, there are a number of subgenres. One of them is preppy fashion, which was influenced by the style in The United States and Canada’s prep schools. Preppy fashion contains khaki pants, button-down oxfords, as well as polo or henley shirts. It also includes products of clothes that emphasize convenience, such as slouches and also hair slides. Regardless of the name, geek fashion is a part of the fashion industry.
In spite of the variety of these subsectors, the connection between the manufacturer and the retailer has continued to be cooperative. In the past, a stress existed in between these 2 teams. As retail and also wholesale began to compete for profits, the equilibrium of power often tended to tip away. Nonetheless, over the last few years, this dynamic has changed. The store currently works as a manufacturer of their own styles. And also since the retail sector has broadened to a much more focused degree, the manufacturing industry has actually ended up being more concentrated on certain classifications.
Another subset of the apparel market is body precious jewelry. Other than fashion jewelry, apparel can consist of spangles. These decorative pieces are generally plastic or metal as well as have an opening for sewing. Some tucks are narrower than pleats as well as lie on the very same surface of the garment as the pleats. Furthermore, they can be transformed outside the garment to create ornamentation. A 3rd subset of tucks is restored fibers.
As the garment industry expands, so does its circulation. As social media and fashion publications, fashion fads are commonly shared. Style magazines like Style and Elle use the fad info they get to make sales of clothes. Whether they’re made from artificial fibers, textiles, or fabrics, the info is used to market clothes. If the information is offered online, it’s commonly readily available with blog sites, social media sites, as well as fashion publications such as Vogue. the evolution of fashion
Macram(tm) is a technique that includes knotting 2 to 4 various strings or threads into small pieces. The method has actually become classy periodically, but normally just as belts or trimmings. Decorative cords or braids are often included into macram(tm) layouts. These hand-woven items frequently have grains that contribute to the overall appearance. Those associated with macram(tm) are most likely to be a part of this style.
Style is a reflection of history. It began as a functional requirement and also gained power as teams started to wear them. Miners arrived for their denim pants, which were strengthened with copper rivets positioned at stress and anxiety factors. A service was required to prolong the lives of denim jeans, and Levi’s was the very first to take advantage of this opportunity as well as provide a product that is legendary today. Now, the brand name continues to be among one of the most widely known names in denim.
Tucks are a way to control fullness in a garment. They are made by folding an item of material in half, then sewing a row of stitches alongside the fold. The volume is released when the sewing finishes. Unlike pleats, tucks are smaller as well as often just an inch broad. Tucks might additionally be transformed outwards as well as function as ornamentation. Designer generally utilize both types of tucks. human hair extensions
Lolita fashion is a style fad that celebrates the appearance of a victorian-era lady. Lolita style is a preferred style that includes big ladies dressed like little women. Lolita-style gowns include fancy waistcoats, puff-sleeved outfits, as well as adorable headwear and also published socks. No matter the pattern, the suggestion is to flaunt the female behind the stomach. So what’s the most up to date in fashion for pregnant women?
The connection between manufacturer and also seller has actually evolved right into a complicated one, with each offering a various feature. In the past, the two sides were traditionally antagonistic, however today, the partnership in between them is symbiotic. However, in the period of industrialism, the equilibrium of power has actually tipped even more towards one side in the race to order earnings. On top of that, the fashion industry is now extra customized and more concentrated in particular classifications. | <urn:uuid:24ef8cf7-b842-41f6-9031-8dbf5c3ad3a1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thebarsrock.com/2022/07/29/you-will-certainly-never-thought-that-understanding-style-could-be-so-beneficial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.975726 | 1,135 | 2.03125 | 2 |
ADULTS! Here is your opportunity to:
- Learn (or relearn) to play piano or sing in a safe, fun environment.
- Develop technical skills while deepening your personal experience.
- Explore and enjoy your response to playing or singing music.
“A safe space for childhood joy to resurface.”
Restorative Music is for adults who want to feel joyful when playing piano or singing. You may be new to lessons, or you had a bad experience with prior teachers. You may have been told you can’t sing, or you don’t enjoy playing piano even though you have technical skills.
“It’s a judgement-free experience quite different than all my previous experience with music lessons. I feel better going out of each lesson than I did coming in, and I’m connecting with myself musically in a healthier way than I ever have.”
In Restorative Music, we explore your musical experience and technical skills. Together we can discover playful methods to quiet your inner critic, practice guided imagery to help you get “unstuck” and explore music that entices you.
Finding the right teacher is crucial. I encourage you to explore and discover a teacher who appeals to your left and right brain. | <urn:uuid:145af6bd-3d5b-4203-bf95-14aef5a3be79> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://susankeitermusic.com/restorative-music/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.934506 | 264 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Communities need to compete more for people, jobs will follow
Jobs follow people, not vice versa.
Economist Michael Hicks of Ball State University told a luncheon audience at Hardin-Simmons University on Wednesday that jobs don't necessarily draw people to communities. It is just the opposite, people draw jobs to town.
Hicks, who spoke at the annual Ray Lewis Lecture, said community or regional economic development efforts need to take that into account.
Since 1970, 90 million jobs have been created in the United States — 10 million in Texas, he said.
'Jobs are coming to Texas to be around the people,' Hicks said. 'And a lot of people are coming to Texas because they want to live here.'
His study concluded, 'The first clear policy implication is that efforts to attract households should receive a greater share of emphasis and local resources than policies attempting to attract businesses.'
Hicks also has researched the relationship of tax competitiveness and amenities available in communities.
'People are moving to areas (that) have low taxes and amenities,' he said.
The top two amenities, or quality of life draws, he mentioned are schools and safety, but he also brought up recreational attractions, such as lakes.
'Low amenity places have to be twice as reactive to surrounding community tax actions than high amenity communities,' Hicks' research concluded.
In other words, they need to pay more attention to other communities raising or lowering taxes, and be more competitive since they are at a bit of a disadvantage.
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Nearly half a century after a Gold Rush-era quicksilver mining operation shut down in northern California, mercury continues to flow into a nearby creek, and federal officials blame the mine’s state landmark status for cleanup delays.
In its heyday, the New Idria mercury mine was the second most productive mine of its kind in the U.S. By the time the mine closed in 1972, it had produced more than 38 million pounds of mercury. Today, the site is a remote ghost town 135 miles southeast of San Francisco where history buffs visit, but less than 10 people live nearby.
California condor, giant kangaroo rats, blunt-nosed leopard lizards, and other endangered or threatened animals live in the area. Mercury and other toxics like arsenic are still present, posing a threat to those species as well as to fish and grazing cattle.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokeswoman Margot Perez-Sullivan said in a July 8 email that work at New Idria—now a federal Superfund site—was taking longer than planned because it’s also a state landmark, requiring coordination with the State Historic Preservation Office.
But the EPA hasn’t reached out to California about full cleanup of the site, and previous contacts were about small projects there like tree removal, State Historic Preservation Office Spokesman Jorge Moreno said.
“Note that it is the responsibility of the federal agency to consult with the SHPO, not the applicant,” Moreno said in an email. “However, nothing further has been received on this project.”
Mercury Keeps Flowing
An estimated 1.5 grams of unfiltered total mercury flows into a creek each day from New Idria, according to researchers from California State University, Northridge, who took water samples in San Carlos creek about a kilometer from the site in 2019.
The coronavirus pandemic has interrupted additional research and data processing, but more investigation is needed, said Rachel Hohn, who conducted sampling and research as a graduate student and is an engineering geologist with the State Water Resources Control Board.
The remote site, with no nearby development, and limited research has “been able to slip through the cracks,” Hohn said. “There’s not a lot of data.”
A settlement between the EPA and the current owner of the site, Ohio-based Buckhorn Inc., was announced in December 2018. It required Buckhorn to investigate the contamination at New Idria—a review that would likely take two years and cost $2 million, according to an agency news release.
Neither Buckhorn, nor representatives listed in the settlement documents as cleanup agents, responded to requests for comment.
EPA wouldn’t make project staff available for comment. A later email from agency spokeswoman Soledad Calvino on Tuesday said the agency was preparing documents for a consultation with the state. Calvino didn’t explain the reason for the delay.
“We are all interested in getting the work done as quickly as possible,” she wrote.
Impact of Mercury Mining
The first mining claim for New Idria was filed in the early 1850s. Ore hauled out from over 30 miles of underground tunnels was first moved out by burro, then trains. The first brick furnace was used there, to roast mercury sulfide into cinnabar and then a vapor, which was cooled and bottled.
Contamination is spread across roughly 40 acres. Some of the waste pilings from mining operations abuts San Carlos creek, which runs through grazing land and drains into another creek that opens into Mendota Pool, a popular fishing spot, according to the EPA settlement agreement.
Work was done between 2011 and 2015 by EPA and Buckhorn to expand a settling pool, stabilize the waste piles, and divert surface water. Fencing and diversion of mine drainage has also taken place, Calvino wrote.
Mercury vapors in hot spots are a public health hazard and mine tailings could expose people to mercury and arsenic, which could elevate health risks in adults and children, the federal Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) said in a 2016 report. Skin contact or drinking surface water wasn’t expected to be harmful, though the agency in its report couldn’t determine if contaminants were impacting public water wells or harming people.
Exposure to mercury can come from the air and food, particularly shellfish and fish. Short term exposure to vapors can cause lung damage, increased blood pressure, and skin rashes, while exposure to metallic, inorganic, or organic mercury can damage the brain and kidney, according to ATSDR.
When New Idria was added in 2011 to the Superfund list, the EPA said contamination there posed “a significant risk to endangered and threatened species and a unique wetland environment.”
State toxics and water agencies said the EPA is the lead agency and didn’t comment on the site’s status.
More Sampling Needed
Calvino said the EPA was aware of the Northridge research, but because the stream is ephemeral, more sampling and analysis is needed to determine what may be transported downstream.
“The research available is varied and EPA data shows the San Carlos creek to be seasonal, connecting downstream only during periods of heavy precipitation,” Calvino said.
Extreme weather is a reason for concern because the mercury is believed to come from waste piles on the banks of the creek, rather than mine drainage, said Priya Ganguli, an assistant professor of geological sciences at CSU Northridge who has studied New Idria for years.
High flow events could swell the creek, overtaking waste piles. One rain event could increase mercury contamination by 45%, Ganguli said.
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Income tax assumes gratuity as capital receipts and exempts gratuity receipts up to Rs 10,00,000. This means that you need not to pay tax, subject to some conditions, for gratuity receipts up to Rs 10 Lakhs. Gratuity beyond this limit is paid by employee under ex-gratia head and always taxable.
Calculation of tax empmption:
Categorization of employees for exemption Under Section 10(10) Are:-
- Government employee and employee of local authorities.
- Employee covered under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972
- Other employees not covered under the Payment of Gratuity Act, 1972. (Gratuity payments under this category is hardly seen and hence not discuss in this paper)
Exempted amount should be Minimum of the Following:
i) Actual gratuity received
ii) 15 days Basic and DA for each completed year of service or part thereof in excess of six months considering 26 days in a month
iii) Rs 10 Lakhs
See the attached files for the complete articles on "Gratuity - Taxation Issues"
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The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and You—beside—
The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—
The other day I found myself in a conversation with someone where the matter turned to spirits and the supernatural and how we should engage such matters. She was an advocate for being open minded about these things. And had an anecdote or two in support of that.
In part I have to agree. We need to be open, we need to be curious. But I also felt my teeth go on edge. There is, also, of course, the matter of having one’s mind so open that one’s brain falls out. And I think we were drifting into those muddy waters, where subjectivity was going unchecked.
I believe we can make sorts all along the way and we don’t have to dig into every matter as if it can make an equal claim on us. We have brains and they are meant to be used. One can be sympathetic without buying in to any old assertion.
And here’s a fact about those brains. They’re meant to be used in every aspect of our lives, including, I believe the great matters of our hearts. Not just the supernatural, but the deepest questions, those ones about life and death, meaning and direction. Personally I’d go a step farther and say they’re intricately connected. Both have to do with knowing, and are about how we live in this world.
And, with that, as it happens Faustus Socinus, also known as Faust Paolo Sozzini and sometimes as Faust Socyn was born on this day, the 5th of December, in Siena, Italy, in 1539.
He is one of my heroes on the path of the integrated life. He would grow up to articulate much of what I consider the wisdom of the West, the wondrous complement of liberal religion that I find I need to fully live into my Buddhism.
Born into a wealthy merchant family Faustus was educated at home where he fell under the influence of two relatives. First, his uncle Celso, who encouraged the boy’s searching intellect. And, of another uncle, Lelio, who was a full on Renaissance humanist, intellectual, and increasingly anti-Trinitarian thinker. When he inherited a small fortune Faustus began more formal studies at the Academia deli Intronati, There he showed talent in law as well as a poet.
He quickly showed his own intellectual capabilities, as well, as that his thinking was moving in very dangerous directions for that time and place. And, by the beginning of 1561 he was noticed by the authorities, falling under suspicion of harboring “Lutheran” views, meaning as best I can tell that he was challenging some bedrock assumptions of the Catholic church’s teachings when there weren’t many words to describe doing that.
He found it wise to move on. By the next year it was obvious “Lutheran” wasn’t quite right. Faustus was writing against the divinity of Christ and the idea of an immortal soul as contrary to both scripture and most importantly as an affront to common sense, to reason. He returned to Italy and for a period of time kept his developing views to himself while working as a lawyer.
Faustus then settled in Basel where he threw himself into a serious study of the Bible. From there he found it wise to move to Transylvania, which for a brief glorious moment was the center of intellectual and spiritual freedom in Europe. There he collaborated with the anti-trinitarian theologian Francis David. However, eventually, they fell out over the use of traditional theological language being applied to the new radical unitarianism.
From there Faustus moved to Poland. And here he fell in with the Minor Church, better known in some circles as the Polish Brethren. Possibly the most important thing about the Polish Brethren was the press they set up at Rakow, which spread the Socianian teachings throughout Europe, and which many years later would be influential among Enlightenment era spiritual thinkers.
Faustus Socinus is a critical ancestor in the move toward what has been called “rational religion.” In the English speaking world it would become an important current in Anglicanism, and the very foundation of Unitarianism. It is, essentially, the belief that human reason is the “image of God” sung of in the scriptures. For Anglicans reason is part of a larger whole, a “three-legged stool,” including scripture and tradition along with reason. And as Earl Morse Wilbur said for the Unitarian expression “freedom, tolerance, and reason.” While these are both fascinating, I find myself wanting to dig into reason itself a bit more.
I particularly think of how reason itself can be understood as more than logic. When D. T. Suzuki and Paul Carus translated the <em>Dao De Jing</em> in 1913 the called it The “Canon of Reason and Virtue.” I find how they chose to translate the word Dao as “reason” very intriguing. Dao or Tao in the increasingly archaic Wade Giles use literally means “way.” In the Buddhist encounter with Chinese culture it came to be word they used to translate Dharma – itself literally “law” and pointing to that which is real, that which is.
Way. Law. That which is real. That which, as Robert Anton Wilson so well put it, “reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” Reason is intimately turned toward the real. That real, the real which does not vanish when we cease holding it in our heads. And, here I feel we can begin to see the mystery of reason. It may present as and it certainly includes the powers of reasoning as in logic, that minute investigation into the nature of things.
Again, that investigation is into the real. And what we find is that taking things apart and looking at them in their detail, while enormously valuable, is only a part of the path. Within the way we need also to look at the whole.
And as we include the whole as the thing in itself, we find we’re not actually speaking of science, at least not precisely. Rather as we move into the realm of the thing in itself, the mysteries of presentation, we find the path of reason is in fact the path of wisdom. And wisdom is, of course, another term anciently associated with religion as one of the traditional ways, along with devotion, and work.
But not moving too quickly from the meeting of science and religion, I am endlessly intrigued by a quote from Albert Einstein. There are in fact variations of what Einstein actually said cited here and there. I kind of like that. Wisdom is frequently slippery. Best I can tell the first version was reported in the New York Times, citing a letter he wrote in 1950.
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.” Okay, that’s the set up, the necessary predicate.
What follows is Einstein’s articulation of the wisdom way. Albert sings to us, “Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” He then adds a caution, a necessary modesty we all need to hear. “Nobody,” Albert reminds us, “is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is in itself a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security.” We are always a part contemplating the whole, the reed carved into a flute, recalling in its haunting melodies the reed bed.
Einstein’s wisdom perspective is pretty good. And it informs me.
And, wisdom is found everywhere. It is founded in our seeing the intimate and the whole. Should a wave realize it is part of the great ocean – that is wisdom. While as best we can tell a wave never knows its connections, the joy of our condition as human beings is that we can. For us wisdom, the heart of reason, is discovering our individual lives, so precious, and passing, fleeting as smoke, are also at the very same time part of the whole, the great mess, all of it. I find it easy to see why we might name that great mess divine.
The critical point of our healing from the wound of separation turns on our understanding how we’re connected. Let’s step away from the image of wave and ocean. Wise not to be caught by one image, by one metaphor, by one analogy. Here’s another for the most important thing we can discover about ourselves. We are, each of us, the meeting of many strands in a vast web of relationship. Our finding this as our deepest truth and living from that knowing of our larger intimacy: that is wisdom. Whether we fancy it up with a capital “W” or not, that is wisdom. | <urn:uuid:655d22cf-c287-4336-bb64-20b7892ee185> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patheos.com/blogs/monkeymind/2019/12/faustus-socinus-and-the-wisdom-of-the-west-bringing-brain-with-heart-onto-the-intimate-way.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972583 | 2,058 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Epiphanie Mukashyaka founded Buf Café in 2003, which she now runs with the help of her son, Samuel.
The name ‘Buf’ comes from the original name of the region ‘Bufundu’, where all of their washing stations are located.
Epiphanie was widowed in the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed over 800,000 lives in 3 months. Instead of fleeing she chose to stay and develop and rebuild her families small coffee farm.
Epiphanie established her first washing station, Remera, in 2003 and Buf Café was born. She was able to do this with a loan from the Rwandan Development Bank and USAID-financed project PEARL. The project was aimed at changing the focus of coffee production in Rwanda to quality instead of quantity, in the wake of the 1994 genocide.
Buf Café now has 4 washing stations in the region – Remera, Nyarusiza, Umurage and Ubumwe.
Buf also has very strong links with the communities around the washing stations, providing jobs for hundreds of people.
At the end of each season, Buf shares any surplus profits with the cooperatives it works with and also the washing station managers.
Epiphanie has become and inspiration to other female entrepreneurs across Rwanda’s coffee community for her hard work and determination.
Ubumwe Washing Station
Ubumwe washing station is located 20 minutes away from Rwanda’s capital city, Kigali, in the Kamonyi District.
Buf did a great amount of research regarding the potential for quality in the region before investing in the washing station. They found that the Ubumwe area has rich soil nutrients, especially Phosphorus, Potassium, Zinc and Boron, which are necessary for coffee growth and which contribute directly to cherry ripeness and root development.
The original washing station that was there had fallen into disrepair, Epiphanie and her team worked hard to rescue it for the smallholder farmers in the area.
Even though Ubumwe is near Kigali at a relatively low elevation, it receives cherries from approximately 500 farmers living at 1,550 to 1,700 metres above sea level.
Ubumwe is also unique in that it has a dry mill and a cupping lab facility directly attached to the washing station, this enables them to give feedback to the surrounding smallholders who bring their coffee for processing pretty quickly. Quality is checked easily and regularly, and farmers are brought directly into that loop.
Below you can find some more specific info for our Rwanda Ubumwe!
Region: Kigali, Kamonyi District, Southern Province
Farm / Co-op: Buf Ubumwe
Altitude: 1550m – 1700m
Varietal: Red Bourbon
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A pinup girl or pinup model is a model whose mass-produced pictures see wide appeal as pop culture. Pinups are intended for informal display. Pinup girls are often fashion models, and actresses.
The term was first attested to in English in 1941; however the practice is documented back at least to the 1890s.
Many pinups were photographs of celebrities who were considered by some to be sex symbols.
The genre also gave rise to several well-known artists specializing in the field, including Alberto Vargas . (Source Wikipedia)
This page contains some examples of pinup girl paintings, posters, and prints. One of the most popular pinup girls was Bettie Page, pictured here. | <urn:uuid:83335a2b-1c55-4768-8d4f-d56c3bf73773> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://vision4art.com/vintagepinupgirls.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977865 | 149 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Investing in primary health care is an urgent priority for saving lives and a critical first step toward achieving universal health coverage by 2030 under the Sustainable Development Goals.
At least half of the world’s population still does not have access to quality essential health services and 100 million people in low- and middle-income countries are being pushed into poverty because of out-of-pocket spending on health. To overcome these inequalities, United Nations member states designated the achievement of universal health coverage (UHC) as a priority commitment within the Sustainable Development Goals of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. A strong primary health care (PHC) system is a cornerstone of achieving UHC. However, PHC does not rank highly on the list of global health policy or financing priorities, despite the fact that 90 percent of a community’s health needs can be met with a well-functioning primary health care system.
The PHC Strategy Group, a civil society coalition with representatives from around the world, advocates for policy and financing mechanisms to strengthen PHC systems. | <urn:uuid:281fdbff-78d8-45ef-9d8d-03d44e328617> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://phcpathways.pai.org/global-advocacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.937759 | 212 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The importance of security requirements elicitation and how to do it
Marcos Antonio da Silva / Moisés Danziger
The most of security flaws discovered in applications and system were caused by gaps in system development methodology. In order to cover this problem, it will be presented aspects of security development process improvement along product/project life cycle, in particular covering the best practices for Security Requirements Analysis.
Nowadays, the information security is demanding a great attention due to a large number of discovered vulnerabilities in the applications/systems announced as secure. It is well known it is very hard to build an application with no bugs and/or security breaches, nevertheless, the companies cannot give up improving development processes and adapting them to the current scenarios.
Besides the several publications of academic researchers and industries about the importance of security practices in the System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), there is a paradox for implementation. Most of development centers fail to apply the recommendations due to resistance to new processes and mindset adaptation. It also common the engineers and developers are resistant to accept their applications are subject to security flaws.
Even the development teams understand the importance of new security paradigm for SDLC, although, they are concerned about it, unfortunately, this is not enough. In order to reach the security goals, it is necessary a detailed and deeply knowledge on security procedures and techniques. A comprehensive Security Policy (SP) is the most important reference to guide a security development and all hardware engineers, developers, application architects, software engineers, testers and project leaders must see it as a law. It establishes rules for all development phases: requirements, design/architecture, implementation, testing and maintenance, and shall define the responsibilities for all roles involved in development process. Also, establish rules for requirements phase must attend the security principles, such as information security, integrity, privacy, confidentiality, Information availability, continuity, based on environment and public threats to the system. Certainly, process and its implementation require preparation time and a detailed planning.
This presentation will cover the Security Aspects on Requirements Analysis, the first step of SDLC. This is the proper step to identify and define the security specification targets, the necessary methods for the system and how important these activities are. Next, a discussion about security principles that support Requirements Elicitation, analysis and specification disciplines is brought to the audience. Of course, a model must be flexible to fit all needs and it will be presented hints on how to adapt the Security Requirements Modeling and, finally, a practical case of study will be presented to demonstrate the concepts in practical way.
A considerable amount of applications and systems have been faced serious security threats due to the large number of new available technologies and the lack of knowledge and investigation about them. In the past, security concerns were basically around network infrastructure layers. Currently, due to the growing use of networks and the Internet concept dominance, such as cloud computing, Software as a Service (SaaS), serious vulnerabilities are being discovered by attackers in the application layer. Therefore, the concept of application security layer emerged as an essential task in the development process.
According to Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) (The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), 2010) there are three security core principles that guide the information security area:
- Confidentiality: preserve the access control and disclosure restrictions on information. Guarantee that no one will be break the rules of personal privacy and proprietary information;
- Integrity: avoid the improper (unauthorized) information modification or destruction. Here is included ensure the non-repudiation and information authenticity;
- Availability: the information must be available to access and use all the time and with reliable access. Certainly, it just must be true for those who have right of access.
When these principles are broken, it is defined the level of impact that they can generate for the organizational information, organizational assets or individuals. Generally, the impact is qualified as:
- Low: generate a limited adverse effect;
- Moderate: generate a serious or critical adverse effect;
- High: generate a severe or catastrophic adverse effect.
Bringing to application SDLC, these principles can be sum up in four verbs with a simple explanation:
- Identify: allow users tell to application who they are;
- Authenticate: verify the credentials of users;
- Authorize: define the rights and permissions for users/third parts;
- Audit: do evaluation for users usability.
The core security principles are the pillar of security and must be whole understood until apply security for SDLC. It is recommended the book Information Security: Principles and Practice (Stamp, 2011) for readers who need additional security knowledge.
Security into Requirements Model
The analysis is the most essential activity to obtain the understanding between the development team and the business team. It maps the information to develop systems/applications in accordance to business and user needs, provided by stakeholders as high-level statements on features and functionalities.
In order to cover security aspects it is necessary to bring together business, development and security teams to understand the key sensitivities and business consequences caused by risk of security flaws. Since SDLC is a feed forward process and errors introduced in this phase will be spread in the next development phases, it is important to analyze security risks at very early stages.
Currently security requirements are categorized as nonfunctional requirements, which are usually defined as attributes of the software, skipping to be mapped to proper functional requirements and therefore, may not built into the software neither tested appropriately. However, what is the security impact if the security requirements are not captured or defined? Probably the result application may not be assessed for success or failure prior to implementation. Map the nonfunctional to functional requirements, the security requirements become a part of the overall requirements analysis process and, in this case, if conflicts are inevitable than they need to be identified and treated properly.
To show how this discussion has high security impact for application, the IATAC published the report Software Security Assurance (Goertzel, et al., 2007) where the authors met the main security-specific issues involved in requirements engineering, among them:
- The people involved are not likely to know or care about nonfunctional requirements. Stakeholders have a tendency to take for granted nonfunctional security needs;
- Traditional techniques and guidelines tend to be more focused on functional requirements;
- Security controls are perceived to limit functionality or interfere with usability;
- Stakeholders must understand the threats facing a system in order to build defenses against them;
- The users who help define the system are not typically the abusers from whom the system must be protected;
- It is more difficult to specify what a system should not do than what it should do.
Note that there is a high level of complexity to deal with this change, mainly for the stakeholders. In fact, they think about what their system need to do, instead of what it should not do.
After this brief discussion, all security requirements shall be captured by requirements analyst and analyzed by security team as part of functional requirements and added in the Security Requirements Specification (SecRS) document, which may be a section in the System Requirements or a Software Requirements Specification. Exhibit 1 show some expected information for the SecRS.
To reach good results during the security specification, the requirements analyst needs to spend special attention with the Stakeholders. He/she shall consider they have not enough security experience and so, there is a big chance to security be the last thinking. To avoid it, elaborating a questionnaire it is a good approach. The following example set of questions can help to establish the questionnaire roadmap:
- Secure against what?
- Secure against whom?
- What is to be secure?
- Who or what should provide the security?
- In which way will be the security provided?
Yet, knowing the security risks involved to the application and its impacts on the business can also facilitate the work. In this way, some examples of risks are listed in the Exhibit 2.
After the risk classification, the Analyst has two main activities:
- Define what need to be protected – Analyze assets and their value. A correct analysis of the asset values can facilitate the definition of the security goals and avoid unnecessary efforts;
- About what should be protected from – Analyst should have a good knowledge about the potential threats that can damage assets and the business. This activity helps to avoid mistakes when defining the controls to protect the assets and information.
With this information and going back to the security principles discussed in the previous section makes possible defining the actions to reach the security goals. Following, Exhibit 3 includes some examples based on OWASP Application Threat Modeling (OWASP Foundation, 2014).
Summarizing, the security requirements must cover areas such as:
- Authentication and password management
- Authorization and role management
- Audit logging and analysis
- Network and data security
- Code integrity and validation testing
- Cryptography and key management
- Data validation and sanitization
- Third party component analysis
Tasks for Security Requirements Development
Certainly, some security models were proposed to treat the security concepts into the requirements phase. There are some well know security models, such as CLASP (Comprehensive, Lightweight Application Security Process) (OWASP Foundation, 2014), Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) (Microsoft Corporation, n.d.), Security Quality Requirements Engineering (SQUARE) (Mead, Hough, & Stehney II, 2005), Secure Requirements Engineering Process (SREP) (Mellado, Fernandez-Medina, & Piattini, 2006), etc.
Looking at these models, CLASP model was chosen as base for the proposed set of tasks that can help the requirements analyst because it is a model developed “after years of extensive field work in which system resources of many development lifecycles were methodically decomposed in order to create a comprehensive set of security requirements”. Below, there are six basic tasks describing the proposed adapted model.
1. Specify Operational Environment
This task focuses on understanding the operational context and its relationship to the secure system building. In order to map the operation environment, the Analyst must perform the following activities:
- Identify requirements related to individual hosts – Identify anything that could be potentially security-relevant. For example, if the project is expected to interact with important system components or libraries bundled into the Operating System (OS).
- Identify requirements related to network architecture – The network environment brings concerns like topology, configuration details, available services, single-sign-on mechanisms and type of protection configured.
2. Identify Resources and Trust Boundaries
This activity gives an architectural vision on system security requirements. According to CLASP model, this task is composed by two activities:
- Identify network-level design – When it comes to identify network-level design, the most difficult work is to identify all product/software parts that depend on network environment. For example, client software middleware and any database should be identified. When identifying components, it is important denote trust boundaries, such as firewalls. A network-level design developed through diagram coding can facilitate communication.
- Identify data resources – For identifying data resources, the Analyst needs to identify data resources that might be used by the application as much granular as possible. Some example of resources include: databases and database tables, ACLs, cryptographic key stores, audit logs, configuration files, web pages, registry keys, etc.
3. Identifying User Roles and Resource Capabilities
Everything users may be able to do into systems needs a good understanding. It is common restricting sensitive operations applying the principle of the least privilege by binding capabilities to roles only when necessary. The Analyst must perform the following activities:
- Identify the Resources – Thinking in security vulnerabilities, threats could be originated in any place of system/product, therefore it is important to identify each resource and respective capabilities.
- Identify the User Roles – An important task for the Analyst is mapping the capabilities to the classes of users. In addition, it is necessary to define one role for every set of resource capabilities one might want to allow. It is recommended mapping roles to static sets of capabilities and specifying the default set of capabilities for the role as well as the maximum set of capabilities for the role.
- Establish the Access Control mechanisms – All the operations on resources shall be mediated via access control mechanisms such as reading, writing and executing privileges on a file system. Nevertheless, it is also necessary to control other operations that could be considered “meta-operations” are often overlooked as setting file ownership or reading and writing file attributes. Remembering the system, itself can have an implicit role (or set of roles) with all capabilities and mediates access to them (client-server application).
4. Document Security-Relevant Requirements
The Analyst must document the following requirements categories:
- Goals – This document must cover all information about security risks and additionally, determines risk mitigations for each resource – i.e., which risks on individual resources need to be addressed.
- Content – Risks on capabilities may differ depending on the lifetime of a system and, when specifying functional requirements for protecting data, it should be explicitly considered. If data-flow diagrams are available for the system, one should trace each core security service at each step, particularly assessing whether currently identified controls are valid at each trust level. Functional requirements should specify what mechanisms should be put in place to provide security services on resources. Such mechanisms address particular risks and if the chosen mechanisms may not address all risks, every time a new risk is identified, the security expert needs to insert it into requirements document and the mitigation plan must be updated. When a system has multiple levels of requirements, it is a good practice to divide in global, business and functional requirements.
5. Detail Misuse Cases
Sindre and Opdahl firstly proposed the misuse cases (Sindre & Opdahl, Eliciting security requirements by misuse cases, 2000), (Sindre & Opdahl, 2005), however, John McDermott and Chris Fox (McDermott & Fox, 1999) was the pioneers to show the concept of abuse cases. Although both means the same, the name misuse case seems to be more common and used. According to authors, “a misuse case is the inverse of a use case, i.e., a function that the system should not allow”. They also defined the misusers or mis-actors as the inverse of actor, i.e. “an actor that one does not want the system to support, an actor who initiates misuse cases”.
Based on those works and others from Ian Alexander, (Alexander, 2003), (Alexander, 2003), the requirement Analyst must identify the possible misuse cases using the following activities:
- Motivation – Sometimes potential risks may be lost during discussions with stakeholders or, they may not be comprehended. So, one interesting activity and recommended by several process, is the application of misuse cases.
- Goals – This is a specific technique to help the requirements Analyst to communicate potential risks to stakeholders. They are almost identical to use cases; notwithstanding, they are developed to detail common attempted abuses of the system.
- Content – Like use cases, abuse cases require understanding the system actors. Whenever possible, those actors should be mapped to capabilities. For each one should be designed misuse cases starting with high-level and refining them after a good understanding. It is possible to develop misuse cases recursively, going from system to subsystem levels or lower as necessary. Lower-level cases can highlight aspects not considered at higher levels, possibly forcing another analysis. It is recommended the important misuse cases should be represented visually through a shaded background. For when misuse cases were not depicted visually, and they are still important, they should be documented explicitly.
- Security threats are rarely neutralized completely by mitigation measures. Thieves pick locks and break into systems through unsuspected access paths. Partial mitigations are still useful as long as they afford a realistic increase in protection at reasonable cost. The goal of neutralizing all possible threats is of course wishful thinking and cannot be stated as a requirement.
- According to Lan Alexander (Alexander, 2003), “there is a clear relationship between the hostile actors who initiate misuse cases and exception classes (i.e. exception classes are simply named categories of exception, situations that cause system to fail)”. The author shows devising threats and malign agents with misuse cases sometimes are a more powerful technique than simply stepping through a template or thinking about exceptions. By inverting the problem from use to misuse, it opens a new avenue of exploration, helping to find requirements, which might have been missed.
- Defense mechanisms should map directly to a functional requirement, or, in case of defense mechanisms be user-dependent, it should be inserted in an operational security guide.
- Besides, they help to discover exceptions classes, misuse cases may be used to help in other phases as test and design. For example, for test phase, it can help tester engineer to define the test plan and for design phase, to design trade-offs. Nevertheless, the main and most important contribution of misuse cases is probably related to the risk analysis process.
- Some kind of diagram tools can help to create misuse cases. It is also possible to use simple text tools with graphic capability as, for example, UMLsec or SecureUML (Jürjens, 2002).
6. Review Security Requirements
Reviews are good activities for security analysis. Therefore, although the resistance from Analysts, the review can avoid flaws in the understanding of security requirements. It is recommended that both Analyst and the Security Team make the review. Many times, even after two or more review from Analyst it is common the security team find bad description about the security requirements. Furthermore, generally the security team has more security skills that requirements Analyst and acts as a third party review.
A good practice for review security requirements is the confrontation of analysis between Analyst and the Security Team analysis. This approach can be seen as a trust checking and can avoid misunderstanding.
A Study Case
This section summarize the proposed methodology in practical example to perform a Security Analysis. The Requirements Analyst can describe the application using different tools, such as informal drawings, pictures, sketches etc. The Requirements Analyst also can use high-level risk tables to help the security requirements definition. Exhibit 4 and Exhibit 5 give a macro vision about the security goals, presenting methods that can be used to achieve the protection or mitigation and some tools that may be used to help.
The content should be reviewed during the initial analysis and/or always when some modification is necessary into application.
The Exhibit 6 presents an example of security requirement table, suggesting the priority level.
Misuse cases can be presented by either describing extensively the fact or/and by diagrams/flows/figures as illustrated in the Exhibit 7, which presents the misuse case for a typical Address Book application, using the UML notation as seen in (Jürjens, 2002).
Exhibit 8 shows one misuse case, Spread Malicious Code (presented in the Exhibit 7), using an extensive version. This approach allows the Test Analyst to create test cases for Security Requirements.
Capture and treat the security requirements may do a great difference in the final system implementation. Several researchers have been studying and proposed new models to simplify this complex task for the requirements Analysts. In this work, we presented a discussion about the security into requirements phase. In addition, we showed six tasks method that may facilitate the Analysts activities, illustrated by a practical study case that can be adapted and used by readers.
Looking at those activities, we call attention for misuse cases that present a visual form to see the security requirements. According our studies and experience, they are the best form to elucidate complex security requirements when the most of applications have presented a growing complexity to development.
Finally, we have been seen two serious flaws in the security for requirements analysis phase at companies: the lack of security skills for the Requirements Analyst and the negligence with security role into business applications. We are working to change it and we urge all project managers to think out of box and add the security as priority for their applications.
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He may not be Jacques Cousteau, but William Fenical from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is exploring the ocean in a whole new way.
According to a paper published in Angewandte Chemie, his team recently unearthed a new chemical compound from the sea that may become an effective treatment against the potentially deadly bacteria anthrax and MRSA.
The compound comes from a microorganism known as Streptomyces, which the team first collected off the coast of Santa Barbara, CA, in 2012. They named the unique compound anthracimycin, and they hope it can be developed into a new antibiotic drug.
Fenical worked together with a San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company to analyze anthracimycin with a technique known as spectroscopy. Their initial testing showed that the compound was potent in killing both anthrax (Bacillus anthracis) and MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus).
“The real importance of this work is the fact that anthracimycin has a new and unique chemical structure.
The discovery of truly new antibiotic compounds is quite rare. This discovery adds to many previous discoveries that show that marine bacteria are genetically and chemically unique.”
The oceanography people at Scripps say the discovery of anthracimycin by William Fenical and his team adds to evidence that the oceans are a “vast resource for new materials that could one day treat a variety of diseases and illnesses.”
Fenical helped in the foundation of marine biomedicine as a field of study at Scripps, and he continues to bring attention to the benefits of exploring the ocean in the name of science.
Fenical told Medical News Today:
“The last chemically-novel antibiotic was introduced in 1993. The vast majority of our antibiotics are derivatives of well-known chemical structures, many of which were discovered over 40 years ago.
To overcome the medical emergency we face with drug-resistant infectious diseases such as MRSA, we need to discover entirely new antibiotics. By new, I mean compounds with chemical formulations never seen before.
Anthracimycin is just such a discovery. It is composed of a chemical structure never seen or envisioned in the past.
Its potency against anthrax and MRSA suggests that this new structure type should be carefully explored by those industries that are developing antibiotics.”
Reducing MRSA infection in both hospitals and the community is a high priority for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (resource no longer available at www.cdc.gov). The public health organization is running both short- and long-term infection-tracking projects in a bid to fully understand the burden of MRSA.
The CDC reports that in 2003-2004, about 1.5% of the US population was infected with MRSA in the nose alone (about 4.1 million people). And in 2005, 278,000 hospitalizations were related to MRSA infection.
The CDC has, however, found that as a general trend, rates of MRSA infection are falling. The body says it is committed to identifying risk factors for MRSA infection through its Active Bacterial Core surveillance (ABCs) program.
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Get Published: The Nuts and Bolts of Good English, and How to Impress a Publisher (3)
A well-punctuated approach letter may make the difference between acceptance and rejection by a publisher's commissioning editor. In this article, I'll look at just one small, but often bothersome, piece of punctuation: the apostrophe.
One of the biggest problems that writers face when it comes to punctuation concerns this seemingly insignificant little squiggle. This article will show you how easy it is to use, for the rules are few and simple.
When I edit books for print publishers, I find that the apostrophe is one of the most niggling problems for writers when it comes to punctuation. It needn't be such a challenge, and, when you've read this short article, you'll probably wonder what all the fuss is about.
There are many useful punctuation and grammar tips in a downloadable book I co-wrote on how you can get yourself published very quickly, You Can Write Books (at www.youcanwritebooks.com), although its main focus is on how to get your work before a publisher. Here, however, I'll deal with this one, potentially trying, little fella.
There are jokes about the so-called "greengrocer's apostrophe." That happens when one of these little tadpole's appear's in word's in which it is not supposed to appear -- as it did in three words in this sentence (you spotted them!). It's called the greengrocer's apostrophe because you often see handwritten signs saying, "pea's ..." and then the price per pound or kilo, or "carrot's ..." or "potato's ..."
So, if it's a simple plural, don't use an apostrophe.
You'll have seen it used as it is in less formal writing in this article so far: in words such as it's and you'll. It's been used where there's a missing letter: you'll is short for you will, for instance; there's is short for there is.
The apostrophe's biggest use, though, as I'm sure you know, is for possessives. These are simply words that indicate possession (they're also called genitives). But here many writers run into problems.
If you want to show that a book belongs to Joe or Jane, you write "Joe's book" or "Jane's book." If that car belongs to that guy over there, you write "that man's car." If a hat belongs to a boy, you write "the boy's hat."
I'm probably not telling you much you don't know, but where many writers come unstuck is when they get a plural, and they want to make it a possessive. What if there are two or three boys? Simple, you move the apostrophe to after the s: "the boys' hats."
So you'd write "the mens' cars," right? Er, no. This is where the complication begins, but I'll give you one simple rule and, if you remember only this, you won't go far wrong. The rule is: if the plural ends with s, put the apostrophe after the s. That's all you need to remember, because, if the plural doesn't end with s, then, quite simply, you don't put the apostrophe after the s: you leave it before the s.
Words such as sheep, cattle, men, women, children, and people are plurals, but they don't end with s. So leave the apostrophe where it was for the singular: sheep's, as in "that sheep's fleece", becomes ... well, sheep's, as in "those sheep's fleeces". Don't write "those sheeps' fleeces." Similarly, write "the cattle's drinking trough."
You often see captions or headlines in catalogues or signs in shop windows saying "childrens' wear" or "womens' fashions." At least they've bothered to use the apostrophe, so let's give them two marks out of ten. However, the plural of child or woman isn't made by adding an s, so write children's and women's.
I have a final word of warning, though, on a small word that traps many writers. You'll have seen the word it's used a lot in this article. It's short for it is, of course. Although we use apostrophes to indicate possession, it is an exception: the possessive is its. Write down this sentence and use it as a mnemonic: "It's good in its way."
Who said the apostrophe was difficult? It isn't. Just keep this article handy, and you'll never have a bad-apostrophe day again.
Andrew John is co-author of You Can Write Books, a no-nonsense downloadable book from http://www.youcanwritebooks.com that will get you into print if you follow its advice. He and his co-author, Stephen Blake, have written more than a dozen print titles (details on http://www.youcanwritebooks.com). Both are writers and editors, and You Can Write Books is crammed with advice you can trust.
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Open any book on 'how to write,' and somewhere you will find a discussion of how many words you should write every day. Forget the struggle to get ourselves to the paper or the computer every day, now we have to produce a certain number of words?Me? I don't write every day (Quick! Call the Writer Police!), I don't do 2000 words, and you don't have to either.
That Cute Lil Ol Apostrophe
Have you ever had a student write to tell you they've achieved Grade A's at exams? I have, and one of them was a grade A in English!The apostrophe seems to be the most misunderstood punctuation mark in the English language, and yet its use is really very simple.There's really only one rule: an apostrophe is used to replace one or more missing letters.
Rules for Getting the Story Down
1. Write it fast, fix it later.
Screenwriting - Five Golden Insights
Originality emerges from structure. Once you have a story idea, you can expand the idea into a story by using structure.
Water to Swim In
Not long ago, I took stock of my unrealized desire to be a published writer, or maybe I should I say ‚??Writer‚?? with a capital ‚??W.‚?? For some reason it always seemed a lofty goal, to want to see my byline in print. | <urn:uuid:acecc7a3-fbe9-461d-b1fc-aacdaf876a29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.languageisavirus.com/articles/writing/writing/46757.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.961212 | 2,317 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Minnesota Interstate Bridge Collapses, Kills Seven People
An Interstate highway bridge in downtown Minneapolis loaded with rush-hour traffic dropped more than 60 feet into the Mississippi River on Wednesday night, sending at least 50 vehicles and passengers into the water.
Chief Jim Clack of the Minneapolis Fire Department said at least seven people were killed and more than 60 were injured. The Star Tribune of Minneapolis, citing the State Patrol, reported that 20 people were missing.
“This is a catastrophe of historic proportions for Minnesota,” Gov. Tim Pawlenty said at a news conference about three hours after the collapse.
The eight-lane bridge on Interstate 35, the main north-south route through Minneapolis, was being repaired at the time, and an eyewitness told MSNBC that he had heard a jackhammer being used on the roadway just before the collapse at about 6 p.m. Witnesses said the bridge, which was built in 1967, collapsed in three sections. One section of the bridge lay flat in the river, with cars parked on the rolling pavement.
The collapsed section of the bridge, which was about 1,000 feet long, had been supported by a steel truss structure. Repairs were being made to the bridge’s concrete deck, guard rails and lights, state officials said.
Divers and rescue boats continued to search the river and the twisted wreckage of the bridge, with darkness setting in and rain beginning to fall. The Star Tribune reported that some people were seen floundering in the river, calling for help.
Leah R. Fulin, 16, of Minneapolis, had just crossed the bridge and was on the Washington Avenue exit when it collapsed behind her.
“Most of the cars that were on the bridge went into the river,” she said. “There was a whole bunch of smoke when concrete breaks like that. There were people screaming.”
Janet Stately was returning from Duluth, Minn., and decided to take an adjacent bridge to avoid traffic when the collapse occurred.
“I heard an awful noise and saw what looked to me like a piece of the freeway just going down flat,” Stately said. Then she said she saw the road collapse into a V and cars rolling into the river. “I clearly recall horns honking. I was screaming. We were trying to call 911 on our cell phones.”
Television pictures showed a school bus on one section of the collapsed slab, but the back door was open and no passengers were visible. Red Cross officials said 60 children were taken off the bus, 10 of whom had injuries that were treated at city hospitals. A column of smoke curled up from a tractor-trailer near the bus. “I saw a lot of crying,” Courtney Johnson of the Red Cross told CNN. “Some of the older children were comforting the younger children.” The children were 4 to 12 or 13 years in age, Johnson estimated.
Dr. Joseph Clinton, chief of emergency medicine at Hennepin County Medical Center, said six patients at the hospital had critical injuries, and 22 had injuries that were not considered life-threatening. There was one fatality there, Clinton said.
“This is a very busy bridge,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., whose home is nearby. “It’s really right in the heart of the city,” Klobuchar told CNN. “Thousands of commuters use this bridge every day.” | <urn:uuid:ed211fe8-9e12-4e7f-b0d9-a8742a571f18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thetech.com/2007/08/03/long1-v127-n30 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.984802 | 726 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Salient Points About Adopting Exotic Pets At Home. People have different reasons why they get an exotic pet. Some people have them purely to stand out from their peers and a few get these exotics just because they want one, putting little thought to the implications of keeping such animals. However, these reasons are not very good ones. Exotics have unique requirements and should be kept only by those individuals who understand, and have the time and financial resources to meet all of those needs. Exotics also live for a very long time, and in some cases even outlive you. Only keep an exotic animal if you can commit to caring for them over the long haul.
Snakes are one of the more popular exotic pets. They require low maintenance, being that they are only fed once every five to fourteen days and do not require a lot of space. Keep in mind though that they are adept escape artists, thus, having an escape-proof vivarium is necessary. Settle for snakes that are smaller and easy to care for like corn snakes, and never get large constrictors and venomous ones.
Tarantulas are also quite in demand among exotic animal fanciers. There are a number of tarantula varieties, but those of Brachypelma genus are the ones recommended to those who are caring for spiders for the first time, since this kind is relatively less aggressive. These spiders are not social creatures hence you have to allot one cage for each. To thrive, you need to give the spider a living environment that mimics its natural habitat. For instance, if you have a burrowing tarantula, you need to fill its terrarium with enough dirt it can burrow itself into, and structures that allow them to hide when they want to such as halved clay pots, cut side down. If it is tree dwelling variety, then you should put in branches it can scale from time to time. For your tarantulas to thrive, you need to keep the temp inside their terrarium within 75 to 85 Fahrenheit and misting it once a week to keep its tank from drying out. As for feeding requirements, you have to give crickets and other bugs once a week and place a receptacle containing a small amount of water so your pet won’t get dehydrated.
Lizards, such as iguanas and geckos, make for interesting pets too. The price for the lizard itself is typically not very high, however, the cost of keeping these exotic pets can easily become prohibitive though since you would have to provide adequate ultraviolet light and keep the temperature in the tank warm. The implements that allow you do achieve both UV lighting and control temperature gradient are costly, and need regular replacement. You also have to have a terrarium that simulates its natural habitat so that the lizard won’t get as stressed. Fortunately, you can now find several ready-made vivariums, Exo Terra terrariums being one of the most popular. Exo Terra terrarium reviews are extremely favorable. The design of Exo Terra terrariums allows for sufficient ventilation and easy upkeep. They also have well-secured lock doors, another benefit pointed out in most Exo Terra terrarium reviews.
Safety should always be a top priority when you have these exotic pets at home, especially if you have young children. They can be aggressive, dangerous, destructive, and toxic. Remember as well that they can harbor disease causing organisms. Lizards for example are known to harbor Salmonella, a disease causing organism. Hence caring for these exotics requires specialized training and knowledge. It is recommended to adopt exotics that have been raised in captivity, as these tend to be less aggressive and can adapt better to its new environment.
Article by Ronald Wicks. If you want to get an exotic pets, you should have a vivarium set up beforehand. Exo Terra terrariums are great choices for your snake, lizard, and frog pets. Vivariums can be found here.
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Washington County Population Clock
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Free population counter of Washington County (Pennsylvania, Usa)
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On 01 Jul 2020 Washington County population was estimated as 208180 people. On 01 Jul 2021 Washington County population will be 208173 people.
It’s +-0% (7 people) compared with the population of Washington County on 01 Jul 2021.
These data (statistics and projection) are based on information from the United Nations and Census on the assessment and forecasting of the Washington County population.
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Urban Recovery Process in Pisco After the 2007 Peru Earthquake
Osamu Murao*1, Tomoyo Hoshi*1, Miguel Estrada*2,
Kazuya Sugiyasu*1, Masashi Matsuoka*3, and Fumio Yamazaki*4
*1Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, University of Tsukuba, 1-1-1 Tennodai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8573, Japan
*2Japan-Peru Center for Earthquake Engineering Research and Disaster Mitigation (CISMID), National University of Engineering, Av. Tupac Amaru 1150, Rimac, Lima, Peru
*3Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259-G3-2, Nagatsuta, Midori-ku, Yokohama 226-8502, Japan
*4Department of Urban Environment Systems, Chiba University, 1-33 Yayoi-cho, Inage-ku, Chiba 263-8522, Japan
Post-disaster urban recovery is a significant matter in disaster management that represents government efforts after a disaster and victim satisfaction with these efforts in affected areas. Understanding the recovery process is a procedure necessary for evaluating government strategy. From this view, the authors dealt with the recovery process at Pisco, the area most devastated in the 2007 Peru Earthquake. Research was conducted through the following procedure: (1) a field survey including interviews was carried out in July 2012 to clarify post-earthquake conditions in urban Pisco, especially from the viewpoint of the physical environment, (2) recovery conditions were compared with damage conditions investigated by CISMID just after the event using satellite imaging and building recovery data obtained in the survey, and (3) post-earthquake recovery was quantitatively analyzed in terms of building recovery. Results indicated that 93.2% of seriously or severely damaged buildings had been reoccupied. In addition to quantitative analysis, recovery-related problems are discussed based on interviews. Results will be useful in the next stage of our research using remote sensing data for the chronological understanding of the post-earthquake urban recovery process in Pisco.
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http://www.inei.gob.pe [July 3, 2012]
- Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI), “Learning from Earthquakes The Pisco, Peru, Earthquake of August 15, 2007,” EERI Special Earthquake Report – October 2007, pp.1-12,
https://www.eeri.org/lfe/pdf/peru_pisco_eeri_preliminary_reconnaissance.pdf [accessed July 6, 2012]
- 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake Reconnaissance Team by Japan Society of Civil Engineers (JSCE), Japan Association for Earthquake Engineering (JAEE) and University of Tokyo with the Collaboration of CISMID, National University Engineering, “A Reconnaissance Report on the Pisco, Peru Earthquake of August 15, 2007,” pp. 1-109,
http://shake.iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp/Peru2007/JSCE_JAEE_Report/ [accessed July 11, 2012]
- International Recovery Platform, “Recovery after the 2007 Pisco, Peru Earthquake,” ABAG Earthquake and Hazard Program, Local and Regional Disaster Recovery Planning Issues Paper, pp. 1-2, 2008.
- J. C. Ventura, “Avances en el Proceso de Reconstrucción de Ica., Abril 2010,” Fond de Reconstruccion del Sur (FORSUR), 2010.
- S. Matsuzaki, F. Yamazaki, M. Estrada, and C. Zavala, “Building Damage Distribution by QuickBird Satellite Image for 2007 Pisco Earthquake, Peru,” Journal of Social Safety Science, No.13, pp. 407-413, 2010.
- Ministro de Vivienda, Construcción y Saneamiento, Peru, “Presentación del Ministro de Vivienda, Construcción y Saneamiento,” 2011,
http://www.vivienda.gob.pe/popup/Documentos_presentaciones/10_05092011_presentación_comision_de_vivienda.pdf [accessed Oct. 31, 2012]
- A. Jaime and M. Tsukazan, “Vulnerabilidad Físico Habitacional: Tarea de Todos ¿Responsabilidad deAlguien?,” Estudios Urbanos, 2009.
- Perú, Instituto Nacional de Defensa Civil (INDECI), “Lecciones Aprendidas del sur Sismo de Pisco, 15 Agosto 2007,” 2009.
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Grocery Shopping In Boulder? Don't Forget Your Reusable Bags
It’s not as controversial as Colorado's new gun laws, perhaps, but a new ordinance in Boulder is also taking effect July 1.
Starting Monday, shoppers at Boulder grocery and convenience stores will have to shell out a 10 cent fee for disposable paper and plastic bags.
The city council passed the ordinance [.pdf] in November 2012. There are some exemptions -- including bulk food and produce bags, newspaper bags, and for restaurants that package food to go.
The Boulder Daily Camera reports the city purchased 40,000 reusable bags in May, and has so far handed out 36,000 of them free to area residents. Sustainability workers plan to hand out the remaining bags outside grocery stores Monday.
A few other Colorado cities have adopted ordinances to reduce the use of disposable bags, including Aspen, Telluride, Basalt, and Breckenridge. Across the Atlantic, Scotland plans to implement its own disposable plastic bag fee in 2014.
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A good night’s rest is important for your mental and physical health. Unfortunately, some people develop problems that affect them while they sleep, so this period can actually create trouble for them. Individuals who grind their teeth while they sleep are dealing with a problem known as bruxism. This issue interferes with their well-being because it creates unwelcome tension on their jaw joints and muscles, and because it leads to dental damage. Another problem that can affect you at night is sleep apnea. If you struggle with this problem, you may suffer from issues with snoring, and you can have difficulty completing your rest cycles. At our Mansfield, TX dentist’s office, we can help patients affected by these issues. The right oral appliance can ensure that you sleep soundly and without difficulty!
Problems That Occur While You Sleep Can Affect Your Daily Life
Difficulties that affect you while you sleep can have more impact on your daily life than you might anticipate. If you are unable to sleep peacefully because of sleep apnea, you may show signs of fatigue, irritability, and a lack of focus. You can also experience physical troubles, particularly if you have let sleep apnea go untreated for an extended period of time. Those who are affected by bruxism can find themselves waking up to pain in their face and jaw, experience headaches frequently, and even experience discomfort with their jaw movement.
Correcting Breathing Problems To Address Sleep Apnea
An oral appliance provided by your dentist can help you by keeping your airways clear while you sleep. Its presence addresses problems with restricted airway flow that will upset your ability to remain in a state of rest. When worn, it changes the position of your jaw so that your soft tissues do not block your throat. Putting a stop to these interruptions will effectively put a stop to nightly disruptions in your sleep cycle that have kept you from enjoying the full benefits of rest.
We Can Keep Teeth Safe With A Guard To Protect Against Bruxism
In time, bruxism can do enough damage to teeth to require cosmetic dental work, or even restorative dental work due to significant chipping and cracking. To stop yourself from grinding your teeth while you sleep, your dentist can provide you with an apparatus that keeps your upper and lower rows of teeth apart during the night. Creating this separation protects your enamel, and it can stop you from continuing to cause tension on your jaw joints and muscles.
Talk To Your Mansfield, TX Dentist About Using A Custom Oral Appliance
In some cases, the use of a custom oral appliance can help a person stop ongoing problems with their oral health which affect them at night. To learn more about how we can use these appliances to help those experiencing sleep apnea or bruxism, reach out to Mansfield Dental Associates by calling 817-473-6227. | <urn:uuid:eca617e3-1b37-4776-854f-88f6fdd7408f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mansfielddental.com/2020/08/27/nightly-issues-we-can-treat-with-custom-oral-appliances/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.944561 | 586 | 2.125 | 2 |
The National Universities Commission has approved the establishment of additional three universities in Imo to address the challenges of admission in the country.
The universities are: University of Science and Technology, Omuna Isiako, University of Creative Technology, Umuna and the University of Medical Sciences, Ogboko.
News Agency of Nigeria reports that with the additional three universities, Imo now have five universities, the only state with the highest number of universities in the country.
Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, Executive Secretary of the commission, while receiving the master plan, Academic brief and Environmental impact analysis from Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo on Tuesday in Abuja, said the universities would meet the needs of the country.
Rasheed noted that the commission would move into action on how to develop the curriculum for the universities to be allowed to commence operations in the university of creativity.
He said: “On behalf of the NUC, I congratulate the Imo governor on his efforts in supporting university education in the country.
“By the provision of the law establishing NUC and by the power converged on me and having Imo House of Assembly to pass the law for the establishment of the universities, I hereby recognise the three universities.
“What will be left is due diligence of the NUC for the take-off programmes of the newly established universities.
“We will have to quickly work on how to develop the curriculum for the universities to be allowed to commence.”
Earlier, Okorocha explained that the need to satisfy more candidates seeking for admission informed the establishment of the universities.
Okorocha noted that there was need for more manpower to handle the medicals, sciences and the creative sector of the country.
He said: “The challenges of no admission for our children will be reduced with the establishment of the new universities.
“The support from NUC is encouraging public private participation in university education.
“As a state, we have made adequate plans in sustaining the university through enough funding to run the universities.”
The governor, however, added that the state had made education a pivot point with which other sectors could thrive, hence the need for adequate funding of education.
He said: “Education is a matter of priority. If Federal, State and Local Governments can prioritise education, then funding will not be a problem.
“The danger of not allowing children to go to school is enormous, in other words, this project has been on for the past five years.
“It is about the vision to give free education to the people. We should not be depending on the government for funding, we are ready to take up the funding of the universities.”
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