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The latest official statistics confirm that antibiotic usage within UK agriculture fell by 50% between 2014 and 2022.
The actual sales figures are 446t in 2014 versus 269t in 2020.
Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) agriculture spokesperson, Tom Elliott has welcomed this trend, given the beneficial impact it will have on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) levels.
He said: “There is an emergence and spread of drug-resistant organisms, which is largely due to the over-use and inappropriate use of antibiotics in both humans and animals.
“AMR is one of the most serious threats to health across the world. New infection strains emerge that cannot be killed by particular antibiotics.
“The five-year action plan on tackling antimicrobial resistance in Northern Ireland states that if we cannot develop new drugs that can treat the infections caused by resistant organisms by the year 2050, we can expect about 10 million deaths per year, worldwide, from drug-resistant infections.
According to the UUP representative, one of the main drivers of the emergence and spread of drug-resistant organisms is the over-use and inappropriate use of antibiotics in both humans and animals.
“While I don’t have specific figures for Northern Ireland’s agricultural sector, it is welcome news that there has been a 50% reduction in antibiotic ingredient sales in the UK over a recent six year period,” Elliott said.
He stressed that AMR is an area where all livestock farmers and veterinary practitioners can assist, which also helps to save financial outlay for such products in the process.
He recently submitted a question to the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (DAERA) in Northern Ireland, querying two specific issues: What steps have been taken to reduce the use of antibiotics in farming?; and has there been any decline in antimicrobial usage over the last three years?
By way of reply, a DAERA spokesperson confirmed the launch of the aforementioned five-year action plan to fight AMR, adding: “DAERA’s specific actions within the plan include a reduction in the need for antimicrobials by lowering the burden of animal infection through implementation of strategies to reduce endemic disease, including the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea eradication scheme and the promotion of good farm biosecurity practices.
“Another specific action will be that of optimising the use of antimicrobials in animals and agriculture, e.g., through the provision of responsible use of antimicrobials training to over 11,000 farm business members.”
Other steps envisaged by DAERA include further innovation being brought to bear through the funding of a series of projects.
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What methods should users who encounter the D3dx9_43.dll error apply? Here are effective solutions!
D3dx9_43.dll error is a very annoying problem faced by most of Windows users. This issue is usually caused by an issue with DirectX. Users can solve the problem encountered by applying various methods.
What Should Be Done to Solve the D3dx9_43.dll Error?
- restarting the computer
- Update the graphics card
- Installing the latest version of DirectX
- Uninstalling and reinstalling the game or program
- Scan with anti virus
- Adding the D3dx9_43.dll file
- update windows
1. Restarting the Computer
You can solve the problem that occurs on your computer with Windows operating system by restarting the system. Restarting can fix many issues. After restarting the computer, check if the problem is fixed.
2. Graphics Card Update
An outdated video card can cause many problems. Updating the video card may resolve the dll error you encounter. If you do not know how to update an AMD or Nvidia graphics card , you can take a look at our article on updating the graphics card.
3. Installing Latest Version of DirectX
You can fix the problem you are facing by installing the latest version of DirectX. Most video games come with a DirectX installation file. You can access this file from the games installation file. You can also download and install this file from the internet.
4. Uninstalling and Reinstalling the Game or Program
If the methods in the first three items did not solve your problem, there is another method you can apply. The program or game on your computer may not be installed properly and this may lead to a dll error.
To fix this problem, you can delete and reinstall the program or game you are having trouble with. There are multiple ways to implement this method, but the most effective is to use a computer cleaning program .
After completely uninstalling the program or game, reinstall it. After reinstalling, check if the issue is resolved.
5. Scan with Anti Virus
Some malware infecting the system can lead to the said dll error. Scan the system with an anti virus program. If no malware was found during the scan, the source of the problem you encountered may be the antivirus itself.
Antivirus software can sometimes interfere with the system. For this reason, try disabling the antivirus after scanning.
6. Adding the D3dx9_43.dll File
If none of the above methods worked, you can manually add the D3dx9_43.dll file to the system32 folder. It is very important that you download the dll file from a reliable website. You should also be very careful while adding the downloaded file to the system32 folder because if you do something wrong, you may cause some serious problems.
7. Updating Windows
- Open the settings with “Windows + I”.
- Click on the “Update & Security” category.
- Click on “Check for updates”.
If your system is not up to date, you may be exposed to the dll error in question. Click on the “Update & Security” category in the Settings window. By selecting the “Check for updates” option, it will be checked for a new update.
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Together, Protection & Advocacy agencies (P&As) comprise the nation's largest provider of legally-based advocacy services for people with disabilities. P&As have the legal authority to:
- Investigate suspected abuse or neglect and seek justice for victims and their families.
- Have access to records and facilities necessary to investigate abuse or neglect or to monitor the treatment and safety of residents.
- Pursue litigation and all other appropriate remedies under federal, state, and local law.
- Provide information and referrals regarding entitlements to services and other legal rights.
- Educate policymakers on needed reforms to disability-related laws and services.
While their focus is most often legal, P&As also engage in a range of other efforts to promote the rights of individuals with disabilities. They often provide information and referrals, as well as training and technical assistance to service providers, state legislators, and other policymakers. They also conduct self-advocacy training and raise public awareness of legal and social issues affecting individuals with developmental disabilities and their families.
Working Toward Inclusive Education and Independent Living
P&As provide substantial advocacy and legal services on education issues, and work to ensure that students receive an appropriate education in an inclusive setting.
P&As have also made great strides in increasing the opportunities for individuals with disabilities to make decisions for themselves about where and with whom they live.
Olmstead and Other Cases
P&As have been involved in a significant number of landmark cases and work closely with other entities, especially State Councils on Developmental Disabilities and University Centers for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities Education, Research, and Service. P&As work to implement the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1999 decision in Olmstead v. L.C., which requires states to eliminate unnecessary segregation of people with disabilities, and to ensure that they receive services in the most integrated setting possible.
ACL administers the four Protection & Advocacy programs described below.
- Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities (PADD)
Under the Developmental Disabilities Assistance and the Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (DD Act), each state and territory must have a protection and advocacy system (P&A) designated by the state’s governor. The DD Act and other authorizing statutes give the P&A authority to advocate for the rights of individuals with disabilities. The DD Act states that each P&A must have the authority to “pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies or approaches to ensure the protection of, and advocacy for, the rights of such individuals within the state." 42 U.S.C. 15043. P&As use a range of remedies to advocate for individuals with developmental disabilities, including self-advocacy assistance, negotiation, and litigation.
Under the DD Act, P&As also have the authority to investigate abuse and neglect in any setting where a person with intellectual or developmental disabilities receives services. With this authority, they may access and monitor both facilities and records to ensure that people’s rights are protected. P&A authorities are critical to exposing abuse and neglect of people will disabilities and safeguarding individuals’ right to live with dignity and self-determination.
PADD Outcome Data Tables
The DD Act requires AoD grantees to report annually on progress achieved through advocacy, capacity building, and systemic change activities.
P&As, using their annual Program Performance Report (PPR), submit data to AoD. The following tables provide select data for each state/territorial P&A as well as for the nation.
Clients by Age
Clients by Race and Ethnicity
Clients’ Living Conditions
Reasons for Closing Cases
Problem Areas/Complaints of Clients Served
Frequently Asked Questions: PADD Data Collection Methodology
What is a State Protection and Advocacy System (P&A)?
Federally mandated in each 57 states and territories (see the Native American Disability Law Center), P&As provide protection of the rights of persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities through legally based advocacy. Its functions are to enable individuals to become independent, productive, integrated, and included into their communities.
Who does a P&A serve?
A P&A provides services to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities based on several factors: population, financial need, and need for services (as determined by discrimination against an individual or denied services).
You must meet three criteria to be served by a P&A:
1. An individual must be eligible for P&A program services. You must refer to the program specific authorizing legislation for eligibility criteria.
2. The P&A has opened a case file, which includes at least your name, address, age, race, disability, signed release of information form (if appropriate), the individual’s issues of concern, and the action taken by the agency.
3. The P&A provided at least one “significant service,” such as a supervised referral that allows follow-up to assure that the referral was appropriate and completed; or the provision of any allowable service beyond I&R services, as defined above.
How can I contact a P&A?
There is a P&A System in each state and territory in the U.S. Find yours at this page.
What type of services does a P&A provide?
The P&A serves short-term assistant, investigation/monitoring/technical assistant in self-advocacy, negotiation, mediation, litigation, and administrative hearings.
How does AoD collect data from P&As?
All 57 P&A submit an annual program performance report to AoD. Data from those reports are compiled and made available at AoD.
Does AoD collect information about the people served by a P&A?
No. AoD does not collect any individualized information about people served by the P&As. Data collected is only a summary of groups served by P&As, with no personally identifiable information included.
What are the main components of the program performance report (PPR) from where this data is compiled?
The main components are:1. Summary data of people served (by age groups, ethnicity, and racial backgrounds)
2. Living conditions of people served
3. Outcomes for people served
4. Intervention strategies used in addressing complaints
5. Reason for closing cases
6. Outcome of P&As goals and objectives
What does AoD do with this data once it is collected?
Besides providing a summary of achievements of P&As, the compiled data is used in AoD’s bi-annual report to Congress and the President, reporting Government Performance and Results Act of 2010 outcomes.
Other PADD Resources
- Proposed PADD Program Performance Report (DOCX, 135KB)
- NDRN Report on Community Integration and the Need for Monitoring and Advocacy
Report on two community monitoring and advocacy projects focusing on individuals transitioning to community settings.
- Segregated & Exploited
- National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) found a total failure of the disability service system to provide quality work for people with disabilities. The report focuses on the problems with segregated work, sheltered environments and low wages, and highlights a massive breakdown between good federal and state policies and their implementation and oversight.
- Protection and Advocacy for Assistive Technology (PAAT)
This program provides protection and advocacy services to assist individuals of all ages with disabilities in the acquisition, utilization, or maintenance of assistive technology services or devices. ACL provides formula grants to P&As established under the DD Act.
Grantees provide information, advocacy, representation, training, technical assistance, and general guidance to increase access to and provision of assistive technology devices and services. The emphasis is on consumer advocacy and capacity-building through P&As in the states.
The PAAT Program: Annual Report describes the activities and outcomes of the PAAT Program during each fiscal year. It uses data collected through a Program Performance Report (PPR) form approved by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
Ophelia McLain, DHA
Program Manager – Administration on Disabilities
- Protection & Advocacy for Voting Accessibility (PAVA)
Help America Vote Act (HAVA) programs are designed to establish and improve participation in the election process for individuals with the full range of disabilities. Signed into law on October 29, 2002, HAVA assigns responsibility for the administration of the law’s disability provisions (sections 261 and 291) to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, who delegated the responsibility to the AoD. Currently, funding is awarded to eligible Protection and Advocacy Systems (P&As) under section 291 as well as entities providing training and technical assistance to P&As. P&As assist state and other government entities by surveying polling places, identifying potential modifications to make specific polling places accessible, and developing criteria for identifying accessible polling places.
Ensuring Full Participation in the Electoral Process
In each eligible state and territory, P&As work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can participate in every step of the voting process. P&As educate individuals about voter registration and their voting rights, provide voter registration opportunities, and help individuals access the polls on election day. Individuals interested in filing complaints may also be assisted and represented by the P&As.
Providing Training and Technical Assistance to P&As
Eligible nonprofit organizations receive discretionary grants to assist P&As in developing proficiency in the use of voting systems and technologies for individuals with disabilities and demonstrating and evaluating the use of such systems and technologies. P&As also receive training and technical assistance for providing non-visual access in the voting process. Grants are authorized under section 291 of HAVA as a seven percent set-aside of the total funding for P&As. After receiving training and technical assistance, P&As may inform others on the availability of accessible voting equipment and its use.
- Protection & Advocacy for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury (PATBI)
Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) are often faced with improper diagnosis, inability to access support or rehabilitation services, institutional segregation, unemployment, and being forced to navigate complicated and cumbersome service and support systems.
The goals of the federal TBI Program focus on helping state and local agencies develop resources so that all individuals with TBI and their families will have accessible, available, acceptable, and appropriate services and supports. The Protection and Advocacy (P&A) TBI Grant Program is one way the federal TBI Program advances these goals.
The P&A TBI program is a formula grant that provides funding for the 57 P&As in the U.S. and its territories as well as the Native American Protection and Advocacy Project to assess their state/territory P&A Systems' responsiveness to TBI issues and provide advocacy support to individuals with TBI and their families.
All P&As maintain a presence in facilities that care for people with mental illness, developmental disabilities, and other disabilities, where they monitor, investigate, and attempt to remedy adverse conditions and situations. They devote considerable resources to ensuring full access to inclusive educational programs, financial entitlement programs (e.g., Medicaid and Social Security), healthcare, accessible housing, and productive employment opportunities; and they respond to allegations of abuse and neglect.
- State P&A Technical Assistance
The National Disability Rights Network (NDRN) is the nonprofit membership organization for the federally mandated Protection and Advocacy (P&A) Systems and the Client Assistance Programs (CAP) for individuals with disabilities. Through training and technical assistance, legal support, and legislative advocacy, NDRN works to create a society in which people with disabilities are afforded equality of opportunity and can fully participate by exercising choice and self-determination.
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- excessive, erratic and improperly managed mental solutions, especially outrage;
- natural habits that are harmful to you or even to anyone else, including paying sprees, way too much entry to alcoholic beverages otherwise drugs, self-harmful acts, and you may intimate indiscretions;
- suspiciousness, misperceptions, a shaky self-image, an awful feeling of the identity, and you can difficulty in need significantly less than fret; and
- tumultuous relationship one to cover anything from extreme concern about abandonment so you can attacks of extreme outrage directed on the a guy most close to you, in addition to wish to move away from that individual.
*The expression borderline ailment is utilized on this website since there is actually ongoing debate in regards to the scientific basis from the terminology one of leading scientists in the world. Also, many patients and you may friends discover introduction of the term “personality” throughout the label of your own ailment is stigmatizing and you may offensive.
Signs or symptoms of borderline identity problems constantly very first take place in the brand new adolescent years and you can early twenties. Although not, onset might result in a number of grownups adopting the chronilogical age of 30, and behavioral precursors was apparent in some students.
Borderline sickness often contributes to devastating outcomes for those who sustain of it, as well as their own families and you can family. The fresh new habits in the borderline identity sickness is generally extremely turbulent into the lifestyle in many ways, in order to your loved ones also, leading to constant arguments, fights, powering out, absences out-of and you will bad show in school and you will functions, frequent job change and you will divorces. The kids off a dad which have borderline identity sickness are specially impacted.
Neglectful parenting, and constant actual, mental and you will intimate abuse, and you can abandonment into the teens have become well-known environmental chance items you to subscribe to the seriousness of borderline sickness when it comes to those people who have hereditary risk factors
The outcome from a huge, well-held research financed of the Federal Institute out-of Psychological state 21 shows that the latest existence incidence speed out-of borderline infection concerns 6% of the standard society, and seems to exists equally within the visitors. These email address details are in contrast to the ones from previous, much reduced training, and therefore stated prevalences of just one in order to 2%, and you will prices three times usual in females compared to people. To put these types of number in direction, at this specific rate, up to 1 in all the 17 somebody do suffer with the disorder. For this reason, we individually learn than just anyone beste LGBT Dating Apps having borderline illness, and you will in the one to friends into the four have some one within their family members towards the disorder.
Those with borderline infection are a lot expected to look for scientific help for real and you will psychological attacks than many other people in the newest standard society
Such as for instance, good disproportionately great number of clients observed in no. 1 worry configurations suffer with borderline disease. 10 % of the many psychological outpatients and you may 20% out of psychiatric inpatients have borderline sickness, although the diagnosis can be overlooked or perhaps not submitted.
Borderline disorder is even in the a greater rate off most other psychiatric issues, eg anxiety, panic disorders, substance abuse, and you can ADHD, as compared to frequency of these problems regarding general populace.
Tragically, regarding the 9% of men and women which have borderline infection to visit suicide, one of them a great number of kids and you may young people. Several haven’t received procedures, otherwise have been misdiagnosed, leading to therapy inability.
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Borrowing money is the first option that comes to mind when we are faced with a medical emergency or fall short of funds for making down payment on our new house. And, the most common form of loan taken at such junctures is personal loan. Now while some may approach a bank or a non-banking financial institution (NBFC), many also contact money lenders. So, the question to be asked is whom should one approach —a private money lender or a bank?
Let’s look at some of the key factors that differentiate loan taken from banks and the one taken from money lenders:
- Loan amount: Lending institutions take into account your current and expected income and repayment capabilities before deciding on a loan amount. Therefore, chances are the amount they sanction might be less than you require. However, money lenders do not conduct a background check and therefore tend to give the exact amount you need. This though may seem a good aspect is actually not as you may be taking a loan beyond your repayment capability, and may get further entangled in a debt trap.
- Interest rates: Money lenders charge higher interest rates than lending institutions. The interest rate on a personal loan ranges from 10.25% to 24% per annum while money lenders lend at a rate of 2%-3% per month.
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- Documentation: Some people willingly approach money lenders as they offer loan instantly with almost zero documentation. Whereas taking a personal loan through a formal channel would require a thorough documentation process.
- Credit history: Another advantage of borrowing money from a bank is that it will improve your credit history/score if you make all your payments on time. Banks send all the information to credit bureaus, such as Credit Information Bureau Limited (CIBIL), which prepare credit history of people, scoring them on the basis of their credit track record. If your credit score is high you can bargain for lower interest rate on future loans. However, borrowing from a private money lender will not be considered in your credit history as it is an informal lending mechanism and is not legally approved.
- Tax waiver: Taking personal loan through financial institutions can also provide you tax benefits, depending on the end-use of the loan amount. For instance, if you have taken a personal loan to fund the purchase, construction or renovation of your home, you can claim a tax deduction of up to Rs 2 lakh under Section 24B for the interest paid during a financial year. (Note tax benefit is on the interest amount and not the principal amount.)
However, if you were to borrow money from a lender there will be no tax benefits. So, if you also include the tax benefits, your effective cost of borrowing will come down.
- Terms and conditions: Another issue when borrowing from a money lender is the absence of a formal agreement. The terms and conditions are hazy and unclear and there is no legal binding. As a result, the money lender may ask you to repay even before the tenure is over or he may increase the interest rate at a whim. But loan taken through a financial institution requires signing of a legally binding agreement which clearly states the terms and conditions related to the repayment tenure, mode of payment, interest rate etc.
So, essentially, this is how it can pan out if you are a salaried or self-employed individual
With good credit history
New to credit
With bad credit history
|All banks and NBFCs will be willing to give you loan at good interest rates.||You may have slight difficulty as banks will decide on the basis of your income and geographic location. Some institutions you can consider are ICICI, Kotak, Tata Capital, Bajaj Finserv and Fullerton.||You will have a lot of difficulty in getting a loan. Most lenders will consider your qualification and property assets before approving, which will be at a very high interest rate.|
All in all, I recommend you opt for a loan from a lending institution to meet your financial emergencies and avoid falling into the trap of a money lender.
By Naveen Kukreja
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Date: 26 September 2017
Russian Are Back in Belarus. Nuclear Weapons in Proving Grounds
Moscow criticized the “hysteria” of the West related to the Zapad-2017 exercises. Meanwhile, it may be confirmed that the activities that took place in proving grounds over the last week were only a small part of the training. The Russian army does not slow down. Even if Zapad-2017 is over, the Russian still perform their military drills on land as well as on water and in the air. Spetsnaz forces landed in Minsk where preparations for joint exercises are currently in progress. In western and central Russia, over a dozen units of rocket-propelled nuclear weapons have been trained during only one day. Also other types of troops have their military exercises in various parts of the country. The apogee of the autumn maneuvers is expected at the turn of September and October.
On September 25, a subdivision of the Russian Airborne Forces arrived in Minsk. The Russians and the Belarusians will conduct bilateral tactical and special exercises on one of the Belarusian proving grounds; preparations are currently in progress. Its start is scheduled for October 8. Also on September 25, more than 600 units of Strategic Missile Troops (RVSN), that is overland nuclear-weapon division of the Russian Armed Forces, were deployed over one day. On the evening of September 14, an alarm was announced in units of the Western and Central Districts. At night, Topol, Topol-M and Jars missiles were launched by regiments deployed in five regions of the country, from Tver Oblast to Altai Krai. Once the mission had been completed, missiles returned to their respective bases and they were replaced with new subunits. During these exercises, launchers were put into combat positions; in addition, they were provided with some engineering protection along with camouflage. At the same time, other units simulated the destruction of hostile groups of enemy partisans. Moreover, the exercises encompassed a simulation of missile launch, including intercontinental ones (Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles, ICBM). These are preliminary exercises in two military districts before large maneuvers of missile units planned at the end of September. They will be held in Novosibirsk Oblast with more than 4,000 troops and 400 units of equipment.
Between September 25 and 26, drills were conducted in various parts of Russia, from the Arctic to the Far East. At the same time, the Onega and Naryan-Mar vessels of the Northern Fleet trained repelling the enemy’s air attack on the White Sea. On the same day, more than 20 other Northern Fleet ships, including the battlecruiser Pyotr Velikiy and 10 underwater nuclear warships (along with 30 aircrafts and helicopters) carried out missile and artillery exercises in the Barents Sea. During that time, 13 guided missiles were launched, also from the submarines’ level.
The drills included also other types of forces. On September 25, aerial tactical exercises involving bombers and fighters began in the air centre in Lipetsk. Also on September 25, a war alarm was announced for about 3,000 troops of the 90th Armored Division of the Central Military District. Over 800 units of equipment participated in these drills in the Southern Ural. On the same day, the assault group of the Airborne Forces in Ulyanovsk conducted the first tactical exercises with the use of the latest BMD-4M and BTR-MDM Rakushka fighting vehicles, which were commissioned in August this year. They practised combatting diversionary and reconnaissance groups of the enemy. On September 26, an alert for a motorized infantry brigade was announced in the Tarskoye proving ground in North Ossetia. More than 500 troops and 100 units of armored equipment participated in the exercises. At dawn of September 26, large air force maneuvers began in the Far East of Russia. All equipment of the Eastern Military District in Primorsky Krai and Khabarovsk Krai are actively engaged in the drills. The exercises will include ground targets bombardment and aerial warfare at high altitudes.
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New mobile phone towers will be built at Cape Conran and Manorina (near Bellbird Creek) under round four of the Federal Government’s $220 million Mobile Black Spot Program.
Federal Member for Gippsland Darren Chester announced Licola would also have improved mobile phone access via a small cell upgrade.
“Upgrading mobile phone towers are important steps to improve mobile phone coverage across the region, benefiting businesses and visitors,” Mr Chester said.
“Connectivity in all its forms, including mobile phone and internet coverage, is critical to the economic growth and prosperity of regional Victoria.
“But more importantly in emergency situations, like a car crash or bush fire, improved mobile phone coverage will help to save lives.
“The ability to stay connected will underpin job opportunities and the social fabric of our regions for decades to come.”
Twelve mobile phone base stations in Gippsland have been built or upgraded under previous rounds of the Mobile Black Spot Program at locations including Benambra, Buchan South, Sarsfield, Lake Tyers, Tongio, Dargo, Butcher’s Ridge and Bonang.
Minister for Regional Services Bridget McKenzie said the two new base stations in Gippsland were among 180 to be built across Australia for regional and remote communities.
“The announcement of successful round four base stations means 1047 base stations are being delivered under the Mobile Black Spot Program. This reaffirms our commitment to delivering 21st century connectivity to our regions and will benefit thousands of Australians,” Minister McKenzie said.
“Our continued investment in mobile phone infrastructure is proof we are focused on connecting all Australians no matter where they live.”
The Mobile Black Spot Program enables mobile carriers to service areas where it would otherwise not be commercially viable. So far, the program is generating over $760 million of new investment including contributions from state and local governments, mobile network operators, businesses and local communities.
Base stations announced under the first three rounds of the program are expected to be operational by June 30, 2019. The first of the new base stations announced under round four should be activated by the second half of this year.
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The _________________ is often calls "the body's first ___________________ of defence". It acts as armour, resisting many germs that might harm the more _________________ parts of the _______________. Any ___________________ in the skin, even a pin ____________, provides an opening for _______________ germs. Some ____________________ enter the body through the ____________________ and __________________ and other natural openings. These areas provide warmth and _________________ in which germs thrive. When the ___________________ of the nose and throat becomes irritated, we cough or _____________________, blowing out the unwanted substances.
Other body _________________ also provide a defence against ________________. Tears, for example, wash _______________ from the __________________. Tears also contain substances that fight bacteria. Acid in the _________________ kills many germs before they can reach other _________________ of the body.
Exersice 10.Choose the correct answer.
1) She died after a long _______________________.
disease failing illness sickness
2) The doctor had three _____________________ of nose-bleeding in the same day.
aspects cases examples illnesses
3) The teachers at the school went ______________ with flu one after another.
down off out under
4) Malaria is _______________ by the female mosquito.
broadcast sent transmitted transported
5) Mary is in bed with a ______________ attack of flu.
hard heavy severe large
6) My brother was ________________ ill yesterday.
broken caught fallen taken
7) Several _______________ cases of malaria have been reported.
cases doses occurrences types
8) He ______________ a rare disease when he was working in the hospital.
caught infected suffered took
9) My headaches are usually brought ___________ by worry.
in on by out
10) The doctor examined him carefully and _____________ influenza.
concluded decided diagnosed realised
11) Some diseases ______________ quickly from one person to another.
catch get about move spread
12) The local medical officer reported a serious ______________ of food poisoning.
event incident outbreak state
13) He had a very bad cold and couldn't stop _______________.
sneezing snoring spitting yawning
14) She was in terrible pain, so the nurse gave her a(n) ______________.
injection needle vaccine scratch
15) If you've got measles, your skin is covered in _____________.
blots dots rash stains
Exercise 11.Choose the right answer:
1. The ____ of his leg was so terrible that he would go mad.
2. Steve is permanently ____ as the result of a car accident.
3. The fracture itself wasnít much. The only ____ needed was the arm in sling for a few weeks.
4. The doctor examined Billís hand, painted the cats with ___, and gave him some opening medicine.
5. The nurse was going from patient to patient taking off old bandages and putting ___ the new ones.
6. Half an hour later Tom was in a hospital bed and the doctor was ___ his arm.
7. William was ___ in the accident. He was laid up for a month with a broken leg.
8. I saw an accident yesterday. Fortunately nobody was ____.
Exercise 12.Read the following passage from a health education booklet and answer questions 1-5.
Cuts. Bleeding can usually be stopped by applying pressure to the cut for 2 or 3 minutes. The cut then can be carefully inspected. If it has bled freely any germs will normally have been washed by the blood. Apply a plaster dressing firmly, bringing the edges of the cut together so that it knits quickly. Keep dry for 1 to 2 days. If the cut is deep and the edges cannot be pulled together with a dressing consult a doctor or the practice nurse. A tetanus injection may be needed.
Crazes. Dirt will often enter a graze caused by falling on a hard or rough surface. It must be cleaned out carefully with an antiseptic solution. After cleaning, leave the graze uncovered. Exposure to the air will caused a scab to form. This will gradually dry and fall off. It is not a good idea to apply a dressing. This may stick to the graze or make it soggy and infected.
Bruises. Bruises are very common in children. They normally get better in 7 to 10 days. Parents sometimes worry that a bone may be broken. Children's bones are rubbery and rarely break, but if in doubt consult the doctor. If a child gets up at once after a fall and moves about normally, it is unlikely that a bone has been fractured. But the child may be stiff the next day because of the bruising which has occurred. Serve bruising can be treated by rest for 24 to 48 hours. In the case of a badly bruised leg, the limb should be raised. Lying in bed is the easiest way to do this. A cold compress may ease a bad bruise if applied at once. This is made by soaking some material in water and applying it to the bruise.
Bruises on the head may cause anxiety. If the patient was not "knocked out" and can remember the accident it is unlikely that serious injury has resulted. But if the patient was knocked unconscious and cannot remember what happened, he or she should be taken to a hospital casualty department.
Insect bites. These are common in the summer. They look like spots about 5mm across. They are very itchy and usually appear on exposed parts, e.g. arms and legs. The itching can be relieved by calamine lotion.
Burns and scalds. Minor burns and scalds cause redness of the skin. Immediate treatment by pouring cold water over a burn is often helpful. If burns cause severe blistering or break the skin, the doctor should be consulted. Sunburn should, if possible, be prevented by avoiding long exposure and covering exposed areas adequately. It may be treated by calamine lotion and solute aspirin to relieve the pain.
1. The purpose of the booklet is:
a) to tell us what to do until a doctor arrives;
b) to explain what causes minor illnesses;
c) to show that it is unnecessary to call a doctor;
d) to help us to treat minor illnesses at home.
2. The one injury which we are told not to cover is:
a) a bruise;
c) a graze;
d) an insect bite.
3. When treating a minor cut, we are first told to:
a) clean out the injury;
b) press down on the injury;
c) wash the blood away;
d) close up the injury.
4. The injury which we are told how to avoid is:
b) insect bites;
5. Patients with badly bruised legs are advised to go to bed so that:
a) they can rest completely;
b) their injured leg can be lifted up;
c) they can soak their leg in water;
d) a cold compress can be applied.
Exercise 13.Complete the text below by filling each gap with one of the following verbs:
dressing setting giving taking saving fitting
sterilizing taking out transplanting taking off performing
Well, don't you think it's unfair? There they are upstairs, _________________ bones, __________________ skin grafts, __________________ pacemakers, _________________ organs, _________________ lives and exciting things like that. And here I am spending the whole of my day __________________ people's pulse, _________________ injections, ________________ bandages, ________________ stitches, _________________ wounds and __________________ bottles. And to think they earn four times as much money for all the fun they have!
Exercise 14.Where can you find these patients? Match the patients with the correct wards or departments.
1) Intensive Care Unit
2) Casualty and Emergency Department
3) Paediatric Ward
4) Maternity Unit
5) Orthopaedic Ward
6) Surgical Ward
7) Geriatric Ward
8) Ophthalmic Ward
9) Gynaecological Ward
a) Mary who has just had a baby
b) John who had fractured his leg
c) My grandmother who is suffering from pneumonia complications
d) Peter who will have his appendix removed
e) Betty's mother who is suffering from women's disease
f) My mother who will be operated on for an eye cataract
g) Samuel who is unconscious
h) Paul who has just been in car crash
i) Jack who has measles
Exercise 15.Give the name of the persons defined below.
1) a family doctor - g _ _ _ _ _ _ p _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ er;
2) someone who looks after sick people in hospital - _ _ _ s _;
3) sick person who has to stay in hospital - i _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _;
4) sick person who has to visit hospital regularly - o _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _;
5) someone who operates on sick people - _ _ _ _ _o _;
6) person badly injured in an accident - _ a _ _ _ _ _ _;
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What are all the plants to be kept under the terrarium?
Sometimes when people are tensed due to their work pressure, they cannot able to concentrate on other works. So they would get relaxed by concentrating on other activities like playing, having fun with children, etc. And some people will get relaxed by the view of terrarium plants. It gives a mini forest look while having inside the room. A miniature green scape that has been built inside a glass container gives a unique appearance. After preparing this bottle until the plant survives inside the bowl it gives the pure expression of nature appreciation. There are many online sellers like Terrarium Workshop Singapore that help to prepare it.
Normally we cannot able to see the complete formation of plants and trees from its bottom layer. So, while seeing a prepared terrarium you could imagine how those plants, trees are grown with help of soil. In real life, most places will avoid using charcoal but when the process comes under tiny bottles it should have high-protection. While having the plants inside the transparent glass it will allow both light and heat to enter the systems. Clothes set-up creates a natural water cycle and helps to have a humid environment. When you place the terrarium, it should be sufficient for the plants or else overheat or high cooling will spoil the plant growth. Official critters like springtails are added inside the bottle to maintain the dairy adaptive.
What are the plants that should be kept inside the terrarium?
First, we can see about the shoots of strappy leaves which turn out from green to black after attending the growing days. Black Mondo is a kind of terrarium plant that appears in the spring season. When you grow these kinds of plants in the garden pot it will grow up to 15 inches. And if you want this plant to grow inside the glass bottle you should have the size of the glass bottle more than the plant’s growth which means it should have 20 inches space to have black Mondo in it.
Secondly, the moon valley plant provides patterning leaves with textured valleys. We can find this kind of plant sooner by evaluating the under region of leaves with red colour. You can place this plant in any bottles while reaching the box edge then the leaves can be adjusted. For example, if you cut down the black Mondo leaves it will reflect the cropped areas. But while adjusting the moon valley plant it will not reduce its beauty even after cropping the plant.
Why leaves in the start fish plant are grown in the stem part?
Each species has different growth and structure of leaves while growing. According to plant growth, it will alternate its shape. Thirdly starfish plant is one of the most attractive and beautiful ones. Here the strap-like leaves nearly grow with iridescent stripes. All leaves are grown only in the middle part of the plant. It has two mixed colours in it like red to maroon coloured leaves, then white to the dark green one. Another speciality of this flower is it will have some tiny flowers and still, many plant species are specially kept in a terrarium. | <urn:uuid:03306923-aef4-440d-a156-54d1a6ba9785> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.salemlutheranchurchdalbo.com/what-are-all-the-plants-to-be-kept-under-the-terrarium/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.947722 | 630 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Ayurvedic Yoga Massage
.is a deep tissue oil massage followed by assisted yoga stretches. It is adjusted to suit clients – relaxing, energizing, soothing, deep or remedial. The method was developed by Master Kusum Modak in Pune, India, after many years of studying traditional ayurvedic massage and Iyengar yoga.
In practical terms, treatments include working with the whole body, with emphasis on the areas that need more work. The therapist starts with an oil massage with their hands and feet, gradually warming up and softening muscle tissues, fascia and organs, facilitating breathing and improving circulation. We work with the breath, so that the nervous system can let go, and this process can be effective as well as pleasant and effortless. We use natural oils and a powder from the ground root of Acorus calamus, a wetland plant in the sweetflag family. The use of calamus creates a pleasant exfoliating feeling, but mainly it helps improve blood circulation and warm up the tissues quicker, intensifying the benefits of the massage, such as detoxing and inducing a feeling of wellbeing.
The oil massage is complemented with gentle mobilisations, tractions and assisted (passive) yoga stretches, which help lengthen the tissues and can help bring a deep sense of relaxation and renewed energy. Through these gentle movements we also help relax tendons and ligaments, and renew the synovial fluid in joints.
Both by working with oil massage and with movement, we usually work close to the client’s limits on the day, depending on what the body and mind are ready to receive. We combine working close to the limits with using the breathing to help activate the parasympathetic nervous system and release tension. Massaging, moving or stretching tense muscles can cause pain, resistance or agitation. Mindful touch and deep, relaxed breathing, can help activate the parasympathetic nervous system, which not only helps release, but it helps retrain the nervous system to release quicker when agitating circumstances occur in our lives. This brings a lasting feeling of being centred, where we are less likely to feel agitated or restless, and experience increased clarity of thought.
On a conscious level we are also developing body awareness, and learning to listen to our bodies more.
AYM is also wonderful to offer. Initially we move through working with different parts of the body in a sequence, which allows the session to become a moving meditation. Even new practitioners can experience this, by working to a set sequence that they plan at the beginning of their session. Read more about how AYM training works, and what people have to say about their AYM training. | <urn:uuid:94778f60-8323-4852-bf15-70ccbb68011a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://what-is-ayurveda.info/ayurvedic-yoga-massage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.954107 | 552 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico two weeks ago and the depth of the atrocity is still being unravelled.
The storm knocked out the main power supply, leaving more than 90% of the island’s 3.4 million residents without electricity. Supplies are short and many have no access to clean drinking water.
The latest news is that Puerto Rican authorities have said that it will take four months, maybe even eight months, to restore power. This will have severe repercussions as a result. Electricity is a necessity for all of us reading this, so could you cope without it for four months? No heating, no internet, accommodation, and hospitals cannot run without electricity. The reliance on generators is proving difficult.
In such dire conditions, many are thinking of leaving and moving into the mainland of America. They have every right to do so as they are US citizen; Puerto Rico’s economic crisis has made many leave in recent years, in high numbers. These can all be considered as the main push factors for migration.
This is going to have a huge political effect. Florida and New York are popular for Puerto Ricans to move to. Florida is home to 1.5 million Cubans but Puerto Ricans make up nearly 900,000 of the population, catching up in numbers.
States are normally divided into blue states (Democrats) and red states (Republican). However, Florida is a mix and has been held by both. Puerto Ricans living in Florida are known to be more conservative than those in other areas. The POTUS just visited this week, on Tuesday.
As Washington Post has said, extraordinary crises are a good test of leadership for presidents. It is clear that Trump has failed this test. His comments were demeaning. There was no empathy behind his words and this was clear to see.
A natural disaster is a natural disaster. It doesn’t matter the scale, it causes chaos everywhere and for everyone. A person’s world is shattered, leaving them to pick up the pieces and try to make sense of everything again. Myself and many around the world know that Trump does not understand how serious this issue is.
The atrocity that occurred isn’t being given much coverage as it deserves. It is being glazed over.
For Trump to make comments like the following show that he has not an ounce of empathy.
One quote was that Puerto Ricans “can be very proud of” a small number of deaths caused by the hurricane. At this point, the official death toll was 16. Now, the death toll is at 34.
Another quote, claiming that Puerto Rico had not experienced a “real catastrophe, like Hurricane Katrina.”
No one is safe from Trump’s criticism. The tweets he aimed at the Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulín Cruz, showed what he really thought of the people of Puerto Rico. Trump accused Cruz of “poor leadership” and also said too many people in Puerto Rico “want everything to be done for them.”
The citizens of Puerto Rico are recovering from a devastating hurricane which has wreaked havoc. People are barely surviving. Trump does not know what that is like – to survive on a minimal amount, to be looked down upon when you are at your weakest.
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Launched in 2010 by the University of Indonesia, the UI Green Metric is an annual international ranking of universities on the basis of green and sustainable development. Universitas Sebelas Maret (UNS) is currently sitting amongst the top 10 of the UI Green Metric table 2020. The university is continuously providing efforts and initiatives to ensure the integration of sustainable development goals into the university’s vision and missions, by linking education and research with sustainable operational management, activities, green infrastructure, as well as research and innovations. The UNS Green Campus is a platform for all faculty members, the Rector, lecturers, staffs, and students to work collaboratively in providing various green-related programmes, activities, and infrastructure, all of which promote the achievement of Sustainable Development in our community. | <urn:uuid:e3e1af50-33ea-46f5-80fb-b3d1d7a6881f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://greencampus.uns.ac.id/elementor-3419/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.922223 | 173 | 1.710938 | 2 |
There are over 4 million Syrian refugees (half of them children) outside their country, living in precarious situations.
The Canadian government is committed to bring 25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada. Religious groups, individuals, and others are rallying to bring Syrian refugees to Canada through the private sponsorship program.
Many are asking the question, “How can we help Syrians when they arrive in Canada?”
You can help by offering housing, volunteering, or donating. Contact Immigrant Services Society of BC for more information. Follow emerging information through AMSSA.
What happens to desperate people who don’t get sponsored?
Some Syrians and people from other countries arrive in Canada as asylum seekers without the help of sponsorship. Canada’s legal commitment to the right to asylum allows people to seek refugee protection inside ismedicine.org our borders. When asylum seekers get to Canada, they complete identity and security screening, go through a preliminary interview process, and become refugee claimants.
Kinbrace works with refugee claimants. Over 15,000 are expected to arrive in Canada this year.
Kinbrace’s main offer to Syrian refugee claimants is to help them access Canada’s refugee protection system with our new resource Refugee Hearing Preparation: A Guide for Refugee Claimants, now available in Arabic for Vancouver, Toronto, and Calgary. We will also provide housing and integration support to a few, as we are able, in Metro Vancouver.
To help refugee claimants through Kinbrace, donate:
- new or good quality used blankets, sheets and pillowcases (single size), pillows, and towels;
- gift cards loaded with value for grocery and clothing stores (Superstore, Safeway, Old Navy, No Frills, Army and Navy etc.);
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Volume 15, Number 1, Jan 1993, p.16
With less than eight hours' warning, Hurricane Iniki struck the island of Kaua'i and the Waianae coast of Oahu at about 1:30 pm on September 11, 1992. Kaua'i was without electrical power for 40 days, without telephone communication for almost a month in some areas, 80% of the homes were damaged or destroyed, most schools experienced extensive structural damage and book loss, and museums and historical sites suffered structural damage and vegetation loss. Although individual artifacts and collections in museums or historic sites were damaged, a major consequence of the hurricane was the dramatic alteration in collection environment, resulting in widespread problems of mold, corrosion, and infestation.
Kaua'i museum, school, and historic site staffs have done a remarkable job in ameliorating these drastic conditions even though each individual had equally difficult personal circumstances; the island was without electrical power, generators were limited in availability, and frequent rain continued to cause problems for structures with roof and window loss. After restoration of electrical power, fans and dehumidifiers were in short supply or unavailable, air conditioning mechanicals were damaged or blown away; and delivery of collection care and construction supplies is often delayed.
Funding from the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts has made possible three public clinics on Kaua'i and two clinics on the Waianae Coast of Oahu in an effort to reach individuals needing help with the care of personal possessions damaged as a result of the hurricane. Susan Sayre Batton, book and paper conservator, and Diana Dicus, objects conservator, have been conducting these clinics. Betty Kam, Bishop Museum Archives Collection Manager, joined Susan and Diana for one Kaua'i clinic, to advise on care of photographic materials.
Recovery from Hurricane Iniki will take many months for the cultural institutions and historic sites as well as for individuals, services, and commercial establishments. There is a body of information and insight to be gained from our experience with the disaster recovery process for cultural patrimony. As we take in and incorporate the experience, we look forward to discussing and exchanging information with interested curatorial, collection care, and conservation professionals. Pragmatic disaster planning is a story which gives us "chicken skin." | <urn:uuid:abea24f2-acdd-4280-bde8-63132ab66ac8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cool.culturalheritage.org/waac/wn/wn15/wn15-1/wn15-106.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.959349 | 468 | 2.25 | 2 |
Debt consolidation is usually an excellent option when considering financial debt relief choices. This is due to the fact that it permits you to handle your financial obligation better, while also minimizing passion fees. Generally, debt combination is an act of refinancing that entails obtaining one more financing to pay off outstanding debts with a lower rates of interest. This typically describes the process of people taking care of high customer debt, though in some cases it may additionally describe the financial strategy of a nation to settle Government debt or company financial debt into the nation’s budget plan.
As a whole, financial obligation loan consolidation offers individual lower rates of interest than the mixed rates of interest of all previous debts, and it generally sets you back the like paying each creditor individually. However, prior to choosing financial obligation loan consolidation, individuals should understand the advantages and disadvantages entailed. The very first benefit is that a person can delight in a lower regular monthly settlement. This is particularly useful if the monthly repayment on various other lendings currently totals up to a big amount. A person may additionally conserve cash, given that he no longer pays multiple rates of interest. debt online
One more advantage is that financial obligation loan consolidation lender usually supply much better car loan terms than individual financial debt consolidation lendings. This is because they normally acquire the financial debt at lower rates of interest. Nonetheless, this lower rates of interest is not always a sensible advantage due to the fact that it implies that the complete amount owed will certainly likewise increase. The combination of a greater interest rate as well as an increased regular monthly payment is usually the downfall of people who choose debt loan consolidation.
On the other hand, financial obligation loan consolidation loan companies usually require a reduced rates of interest than other readily available alternatives. This once again is advantageous for the person. However, it does mean that a private threats shedding vital benefits such as the ability to use credit cards or get finances at low interest rates. The most effective means to secure one’s credit score in the long run is to stay with an acceptable monthly settlement. This suggests that if a financial obligation consolidation loan company uses a reduced interest rate, it must be used to take full advantage of regular monthly repayments.
Loan consolidation versus financial obligation administration. Financial debt loan consolidation is the procedure of paying off all existing loans with the help of one consolidated repayment. Financial obligation management is the contrary. It is the process of handling current financial obligations by making routine settlements for the comfort of the debtor. There are advantages and also drawbacks between these 2 processes. A debtor may pick to go with financial obligation administration in order to lessen interest rates while he repays his present debts or to optimize monthly settlements by combining all lenders’ settlements right into one.
As a whole, financial obligation loan consolidation car loan service providers often tend to supply far better conditions when compared to financial obligation administration companies. In fact, it has been observed that borrowers that opted for financial obligation combination experienced a significant reduction in the overall amount owed each month. The greatest advantage of this choice is the capacity to pay only one single regular monthly payment towards the financial debt consolidation finance. The major downside is the boosted rate of interest, which might occasionally surpass twenty percent. consolidation Harrisburg
Financial obligation debt consolidation is in fact a kind of financial obligation refinancing which entails taking out one loan in order to pay back several others. This typically refers to an individual personal money strategy of many people managing high customer debt, often it might additionally refer to the fiscal policy of a country handling large quantities of financial obligation. A typical example would be an individual taking out a financial debt loan consolidation mortgage to buy a house. The original finance might have been secured against residential or commercial property, or another type of financial obligation instrument like a small business loan. And the new loan could be in the form of a financial debt consolidation mortgage.
Nonetheless, for those who don’t own building to protect the funding, there are various other options. Among the most preferred alternatives for this would be to get a financial obligation loan consolidation finance from the lender, utilizing their existing home as collateral for the brand-new finance. Nonetheless, you will certainly often require to provide security for the lending in the form of residence equity or some other asset. And also since the rates of interest on these kinds of fundings is typically a lot higher than those of unprotected finances, you might end up paying quite a great deal more in time.
So essentially, the first manner in which you can settle your financial obligations is to get a debt combination lending from the loan provider. As well as the second is to utilize a cash-out refinancing from your bank. If you have a great credit report, the banks may even allow you borrow a single credit line versus one account, to make sure that you can pay the passion as well as costs over a set period of time. In this manner you can keep the month-to-month payments to a minimum, while settling your smaller lendings as well as expenses at the same time.
When you are looking for debt combination loans for bad credit rating prospects, you need to understand that these type of lendings are really pricey and also you will likely need to pay a higher rate of interest overall. This implies that even if you do qualify, you may wind up having to pay even more for the total cost of the car loan. It’s critical to bear in mind that these types of car loans are designed just as a short-term solution to your temporary debt troubles. In most cases, you will probably have to get one more financing within simply a few years, and also most likely pay high interest rates on this new finance as well.
One more choice for debt combination for bad credit score candidates is to make smaller sized repayments much more on a regular basis. If you can pay for to do this, it’s an excellent concept since in this manner you will certainly have the ability to develop energy and raise your chances of qualifying for a reduced interest rate on a lasting basis. To do this, you can transfer the equilibriums of credit card financial obligation that you intend to decrease to an interest-only card or an initial offer card. Then you will certainly just have to make your repayments on schedule, as your credit report starts to show your excellent settlement habits. debt online
Debt combination for poor credit report candidates can be challenging, but it does work. You do not need to continue to bring huge charge card balances, as well as you don’t require to continue to make disorderly repayments to all of your various lenders. You do need to want to devote yourself to settling your debts in a practical amount of time, however, and also until then you might want to consider various other alternatives such as equilibrium transfers. In either case, make certain to speak with an expert who can help you with this strategy prior to making any decisions. | <urn:uuid:76b4a1e3-c736-4977-b05e-9f18bced7e80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stcroixlibationsociety.com/2021/07/28/why-is-everybody-discussing-financial-obligation-debt-consolidation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.962659 | 1,397 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Joint Rendering and Segmentation of Free-Viewpoint Video
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing volume 2010, Article number: 763920 (2010)
This paper presents a method that jointly performs synthesis and object segmentation of free-viewpoint video using multiview video as the input. This method is designed to achieve robust segmentation from online video input without per-frame user interaction and precomputations. This method shares a calculation process between the synthesis and segmentation steps; the matching costs calculated through the synthesis step are adaptively fused with other cues depending on the reliability in the segmentation step. Since the segmentation is performed for arbitrary viewpoints directly, the extracted object can be superimposed onto another 3D scene with geometric consistency. We can observe that the object and new background move naturally along with the viewpoint change as if they existed together in the same space. In the experiments, our method can process online video input captured by a 25-camera array and show the result image at 4.55 fps.
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Ishii, M., Takahashi, K. & Naemura, T. Joint Rendering and Segmentation of Free-Viewpoint Video. J Image Video Proc 2010, 763920 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/763920
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Unwaveringly compassionate, this intimate and wrenching observation of a refuge for children, shot in pre-invasion Ukraine, deservedly won the Directing Award, World Cinema Documentary at Sundance 2022
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A dilapidated building near what was the frontline of the Eastern Ukraine battlegrounds provides shelter for children who have been temporarily removed from their homes by the state because of neglect. Here, a small and dedicated team of social workers strive to provide a loving environment for their young charges while the latter’s future custody is decided by the judicial system and their parents’ ability, or not, to take care of them.
The film focuses on three children, Eva, Sasha and Kolya, and follows them through the nine months the children generally remain in the refuge. Although they are unrelated, their experience of traumatic familial situations, often triggered by the Russian/Ukraine conflict in the Donbas, draws connections between their splintered lives. War and the societal breakdown and turmoil it induces may be the backdrop, but the film instead captures the children’s incredible ability to discover or create magical moments despite harsh realities.
Danish director Simon Lereng Wilmont’s equally haunting, Oscar-shortlisted The Distant Sound of Barking Dogs (NZIFF 2017) was also filmed in Eastern Ukraine, an area he has been working in since 2015: a “part of the world that [he] has completely lost his heart to.” It should be noted that as of the time of writing the children of the shelter have been evacuated to a safer area to escape the bombing threat. — Sandra Reid | <urn:uuid:89da2d9f-bcd3-42cb-ae71-84ebbe1be833> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nziff.co.nz/nziff-2022/auckland/a-house-made-of-splinters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.965326 | 343 | 1.523438 | 2 |
What We Do
Founded in 1999, FaithsTogether (FT) is an organization of members from various faith communities in The Woodlands. The statement on the cover of each program at our annual “Giving Thanks” Observance in November defines our goal:
“FaithsTogether is a fellowship of religious communities that honors spiritual diversity by building relationships and understanding among people of different faiths.”
While planning the Giving Thanks program, the FT committee selects a theme. During the program, each member congregation is encouraged to interpret and demonstrate the message of the theme through song, dance, drama or other types of verbal or visual presentations.
As members of FT, we acknowledge, celebrate and honor religious diversity in our community. We learn from each other about individual beliefs, religious holidays, events, etc. We establish relationships, make new friends, and respect our differences.
Among the many activities we have shared:
• An annual inter-religious “Giving Thanks” program in The Woodlands beginning in 1999, with more than 500 people attending in 2019.
• Sponsoring and attending an inter-religious dinner dialogue.
• Working as volunteers together through community programs and projects such as the Montgomery County Food Bank.
• Sponsoring and hosting educational programs through the Academy for Lifelong Learning at Lone Star College - Montgomery to include knowledge and information about various religions in our
• Volunteering side by side in numerous other community service projects. Some sponsored by FT member congregations, such as the Peanut Butter Factory or Love Your Neighbor Day.
• Visiting worship services or special programs at each FT Community location and learning more about each other’s faith.
This is not an all-inclusive list but is indicative of the variety of activities we share together, and hopefully gives you an idea of who we are and what we do as FaithsTogether. Our overriding message is one of love and respect.
FaithsTogether is a fellowship of religious communities that honors spiritual diversity by building relationships and understanding among people of different faiths.
You're invited to visit faiths in our community.
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If your boiler is leaking water, you have to give urgent attention to your heating system. Without the interruption of the heating engineers, you may have to face severe damage. The most common reasons for the fault in your boiler is high pressure, loose joints and corroded pipes. If you have recently installed your boiler, then the issue might be with the faulty installation.
Even when you have noticed a slight leaking, you must not wait for some other signs. Contact the technician right away!
When your boiler leaks water
If you have encountered the issue of leaking water from your heating system, you must not try to fix it. Today, a lot of people do that which increases the chances of some more accidents. They become so much confident just by watching youtube videos that they think of themselves as a professional engineer who can tackle such plumbing mishaps.
Boiler faults are difficult to notice. Only professionals can guess what has exactly happened with the system. Being an amateur at diagnosing the boiler fault, you should not try to fix it or change the boiler casing. It might be lethal for you. There are still a few boiler faults that you can handle easily and which don’t require any expert hand.
Follow up these guidelines whenever you come across the boiler leaking situation:
- You need to turn off the main water supply
- Immediately switch the heating off
- Clean up the water you can see
- Get in touch with an expert engineer
Don’t attempt to fix the issue by yourself. You must contact a Gas Safe registered engineer to install a new boiler only.
The common causes of leakage
There might be several reasons for the boiler leakage, some can easily be seen other need an expert hand to get to the root cause.
- Corroded pipes
The corrosion in the tank or pipes can slowly weaken the system which results in water eloping from the system. If the corrosion remains in a single pipe then the damage would be less but if the corrosion spreads throughout the system then you won’t have any option than to replace the corroded pipe. The worst part about corrosion is, if it spreads into the entire system then you have to replace your boiler.
The leaking water from your boiler causes the pressure to rise up. This happens because the boiler releases some extra pressure in order to avoid imploding of the unit. There’s a way through which you can tell if the boiler pressure is high. Check out the needle which is there on the pressure gauge. The needle should not point above 2. Just reduce the pressure if you think it’s too high. Normally it should be between 1 and 2.
Every boiler has a temperature control system. This system is known as the temperature control valve (TCV). it helps in monitoring the temperature of the water. So it will stop the system if it gets too high. If you have encountered with leaks, it means that the boiler temperature has become too high.
- Pump seals
What a boiler pump does is, it pumps water around your heating system. If the pump isn’t sealed off correctly then chances are it will leak. In this case, the pump will either have to be replaced or resealed properly.
- Loose joints and pipe connections
When the system gets old, you may have to face with wearing off the parts. One of the things that get on the natural wearing time is loosening of the pipe connections and joints. This situation takes place because the water is being repeatedly expanded while it is heating on and then contracting while it’s being cooled down. The only solution for this is to tighten up the joints in order to prevent water from coming out of the system.
- Bad way of installing
If the boiler hasn’t been installed in a proper way, you may have to face with leakage troubles. This usually happens when you hire an unprofessional person to handle your heating system. When the pipes aren’t fitted properly, you may have to suffer from a leaking issue. To avoid such issues, only allow a boiler service and repair by an engineer in your home.
- Getting old
As happens with every device and home appliance, you have to tackle with wear out the situation. A boiler can only last up to 10 years and after that nothing can fix it. You will then have to go with a new one. Replacing your boiler with a new one will be a worthwhile decision as you don’t want to be old enough with the technology that might help you with the more energy-efficient process.
Can a leaking boiler be an emergency?
Most of you must be pondering if leaking boiler can be an emergency. If your boiler leaks, it can also be havoc for your home. When you detect your leaking issue at the earliest sign, you can save the life of your boiler plus a lot of money being shredded down.
Any type of ignorance can lead to heavy corrosion and mould formation. Don’t miss what you are encountering. Contact a gas safe registered engineer to get it fixed ASAP.
Can the boiler be still in use if it is leaking?
It would be advisable to not use your boiler if you have encountered with leakage. Switch it off until the engineer arrives at your home.
Does the leakage cause low pressure?
Definitely, the leaks cause low boiler pressure. If the pressure is low in the boiler, it won’t be able to work efficiently, Hence, you must not use the boiler during such time. Prefer calling a professional to get it fixed first before using it.
Is leaking boiler dangerous?
Yes, if your boiler is leaking, it has the chances of damaging your boiler plus your home in general. If somehow the water leaks inside the electrical system then you may have to encounter short-circuiting. These things depend on the location of your boiler and how far the leakage has happened.
Is there a way to avoid leakage?
Just be aware of the weird signals that your boiler gives every time when it is suffering from some kind of failure. Call the technician as soon as you came across this leaking situation. For minor issues, you can get in touch with the local plumbers in London who can guide you with the minor solutions to deal with it. | <urn:uuid:6134014e-355f-4207-b40f-63d215c895ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lenhambusiness.co.uk/the-common-reasons-for-leakage-around-a-boiler/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951706 | 1,288 | 1.664063 | 2 |
When people make music together their brain activity synchronizes – even when they aren’t playing the same notes.
Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin used electrodes to trace the brain waves of guitarists playing in duets. And, they found, similarities in brain activity couldn’t be put down to perceiving the same stimuli or performing the same movements.
Instead, the two brains appeared to be synchronizing to support the coordination of their actions.
The psychologists placed 32 experienced guitarists in pairs and attached 64 electrodes to each of their heads. The musicians were then asked to play a rondo sequence from the Sonata in G major by Christian Gottlieb Scheidler a total of 60 times.
Importantly, the two partners were given slightly different tasks. They had to play in two voices, and one of the two was assigned a leading role, making sure that they both started at the same time and kept the same tempo.
And they found that the difference between leader and follower was reflected in the electrical activity captured by the electrodes.
“In the player taking the lead, synchronization of brain waves measured at a single electrode was stronger, and already present before to the duet started to play,” says Johanna Sänger.
This was particularly true for delta waves, which are located in the frequency range below four Hertz.
“This could be a reflection of the leading player’s decision to begin playing,” Sänger suggests.
The scientists also analysed the correlation between the signals from the different electrodes – and found what they decribe as ‘remarkable’ results. When the musicians had to actively coordinate their playing, especially at the beginning of a sequence, the signals from the frontal and central electrodes were clearly associated between the two heads.
“When people coordinate actions with one another, small networks within the brain and, remarkably, between the brains are formed, especially when the activities need to be precisely aligned in time, for example at the joint play onset of a piece,” says Sänger.
“We assume that different people’s brain waves also synchronise when people mutually coordinate their actions in other ways, such as during sport, or when they communicate with one another.” | <urn:uuid:331ef133-c836-4f82-9e60-fda34d031833> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tgdaily.com/science/67782-musicians-brainwaves-synchronize-during-playing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.972607 | 475 | 3.71875 | 4 |
MEXICO CITY -- Officials in Mexico City held a small ceremony and unveiled a plaque Tuesday to re-brand the way the 1520 defeat of Spanish conquistadores in Mexico's capital has been remembered.
For centuries, Mexicans called June 30, 1520 “La Noche Triste,” or the “Sad Night,” the name given to it by the eventually victorious Spaniards. That was because hundreds of Spaniards and their Indigenous allies died when Hernán Cortés and his troops fled the increasingly rebellious Aztec capital, now Mexico City.
On Tuesday, Mexico City officials unveiled a plaque and banners celebrating the Spanish defeat, calling it “The Victorious Night.”
The ceremony is symbolic of how Mexicans have struggled with how to mark the 500th anniversary of the 1519-1521 Conquest.
At that time, Aztec warriors under their new leader, Cuitláhuac, attacked the Spaniards as they fled from the island city of Tenochtitlan, across a narrow causeway.
Once they reached dry land, Cortés reportedly sat and wept under a tree. The original “Tree of the Sad Night” was later burned.
But on Monday, city Culture Secretary José Alfonso Suárez del Real y Aguilera planted a small tree of the same kind — a Montezuma cypress — at the site and unveiled the “Victorious Night” plaque.
“Let’s break with these legends of sadness and tears, and recognize the strength, the courage and the audacity of the Mexica peoples who stood up the invaders,” Suárez del Real y Aguilera said.
Drawing a parallel with the current coronavirus pandemic, he urged Mexicans to remember that the Aztecs were defeated as much by smallpox and other European diseases that the Spanish brought, as by their swords. “Let’s recognize that, if it hadn’t of been for the smallpox, the Conquest surely would not have been as easy and simple as it was to cruelly attack people dying of hunger and an unknown disease.”
The fleeing Spaniards dropped some of the gold they had looted from the Aztec capital, then known as Tenochtitlán. Some of the gold was later found and was tested recently, confirming it was likely Aztec gold.
Cortés retreated from Mexico City, regrouped, gained more Indigenous allies and in 1521 returned to conquer the Aztec capital. The Spaniards went on to conquer the rest of Mexico in the ensuing years.
Mexico has struggled with how to mark the 500th anniversary of the conquest, which resulted in the death of a large part of the country’s pre-Hispanic population.
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The 10th circuit court rules reprimand that the tax debt may not be exempted for the client under Chapter 7 if the income tax return is filed late. Income tax return debt can be discharged under chapter 7. However, it needs to fall under certain criteria. The income tax returns are a mandatory procedure that citizens of the USA need to follow every year. Tax debts can be huge, and the clients may seek discharge. You can visit Recovery Law Group for good advice.
The income tax return debt can be discharged under Chapter 7 when-
- The tax debt is income-based for either State or Federal.
- The income tax return was last filed 3 years before applying for bankruptcy.
- The debtor filed the last return 2 years before applying for bankruptcy. This is under discussion in the 10th circuit rules. Whether to consider 2 years as late for filing a tax return to avail discharge in a bankruptcy case filed under chapter 7 bankruptcy.
- The income tax department must have evaluated the client’s tax returns 240 days before filing for bankruptcy.
- The debtor must be true and not dodging the tax laws by not filing at all or filing a fraud or dupe return.
What does file of late tax return mean under the 10th circuit rules?
When the client files his tax return 2 years before applying for bankruptcy it is considered as a late return. However, this point is still debatable and is under modification stage. A tax return is considered a late return when the IRS files a substitute return when all the debtors’ filing dates are expired. Apparently, a tax return may not be considered late if the IRS files the substitute tax return with acknowledgment of the debtor.
The 10th circuit court rule may not consider the tax return ‘late’ payable 2 years prior the filing of bankruptcy if a substitute returns is filed with acknowledgment under Internal Revenue Code Section 6020(a). The client’s tax debt can be exempted as per the 10th circuit rule if the client is within this parameter.
The final verdict
Since, it’s still debatable, the case may go to the US Supreme court for the further outcome. However, for now, it is established that the tax return is late if the IRS files a substitute tax return within 2 years of applying for bankruptcy. Subsequently, the client will not acquire discharge on tax debts, even under chapter 7. You can receive more information by calling on-(888-297-6203). | <urn:uuid:fe17bfef-cbf4-418f-96f7-686b75155660> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://recoverylawgroup.com/the-10th-circuit-rules/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.921597 | 505 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Windows 10--bear with me--has shipped, but this column isn't about the new operating system, which has received generally positive reviews from our friends at PCWorld and elsewhere. Rather, it's about a feature that started receiving attention a few weeks before release and more on the ship date: Wi-Fi Sense.
Wi-Fi Sense allows Windows 10 users to connect automatically to open Wi-Fi networks, as well as to share access to Wi-Fi networks for which they have passwords. The former isn't controversial at all: iOS allows carriers to set up automatic connections to networks they run or partner with as of several releases ago. Many apps for mobile devices and computers also allow this.
The latter could be a problem. The case has been both overstated and understated, and it's tangential to you if you don't use Windows 10 (including Windows 10 Mobile), but you'll still be subject to Windows 10 users who have access to any networks you run or use.
Senseless Wi-Fi lends
A Windows 10 user logged into a Microsoft account with Wi-Fi Sense active (which is on by default, but can be turned off) who is given or has a password to a Wi-Fi network that uses "personal" style protection can opt to share access to that network with anyone in her or his Outlook.com contacts, Facebook friends, and Skype contacts. The system doesn't share "enterprise" flavors (such as the dominant WPA2 Enterprise), which require individual user certificates or user-and-password logins.
Any Windows 10 user can access networks from other Windows 10 users who include him or her in their contacts unless they disable the feature. The proviso is that one can only use shared Wi-Fi network information if one has already shared a network. If someone never participates by using Wi-Fi Sense to share, that person never gains access to contacts' shared network.
Microsoft's implementation sounds reasonably clever. The Wi-Fi password is both encrypted and sent securely from a user's Windows 10 system joining the network. However, this relies on Microsoft managing the encryption keys. Microsoft notes, "Your contacts don't get to see your password, and you don't get to see theirs," and while that's true, the password does need to be decrypted within Windows 10.
Microsoft only allows first-degree sharing--the person connecting to a network can share only with their friends, and those contacts cannot share in turn with others. It also requires that for each network joined for which a password is entered, that a user must agree to share it, and can choose over which social networks the Wi-Fi network is shared.
(Earlier reports either said or implied that the default Wi-Fi Sense setting not just opted users into being able to use it, but automatically shared joined networks. Colleague Ed Bott put the kibosh on that.)
This prevents an actual network effect, in which sharing a network would quickly cascade across six degrees (whether Kevin Bacon is involved or not), so that every Windows 10 user would have access within a few weeks to every shared network by any Windows 10 user. Microsoft's design prevents that.
Windows 10 also puts in a kind of local firewall for users who access a network through Wi-Fi Sense, which is very similar to the Guest network feature added to Apple base stations a few years ago. Locally available resources--like computers, home-sensing devices, printers, and the like--can't be reached because Windows doesn't provide network routes to them.
Sense and Sense's ability
Microsoft's approach is better thought out than the advance word led me to believe. At each opportunity for access to be spread farther or potentially expose network users, they've clamped it down. However, it does introduce risk by allowing first-degree acquaintances of those who have password-based access to a given network and who choose to share it.
As with all such risks, the question is how useful is that vulnerability to exploit, and how much effort would it take? Malware targeting Windows 10 could potentially intercept or decipher passwords delivered for network access. (The passwords must be locally cached in some fashion, because without Wi-Fi network access, Windows couldn't request the encrypted form on demand to connect to the network in question.)
And while Windows 10 blocks access to local resources, it's possible again that malware could bypass that resistance, and that block doesn't exist if someone recovers the password. However, on balance, it seems unlikely that there's a good vector to exploit that would harvest enough passwords or network access that were useful enough assuming malware could be developed to do so, because the value of a Wi-Fi password is only in your physical proximity to a network. A Wi-Fi password doesn't help with a remote network break in.
Apple chose a very different approach with syncing Wi-Fi passwords. Starting in iOS 7.0.3 and OS X 10.9, enabling iCloud Keychain copies Wi-Fi passwords among all devices that use the same iCloud login and likewise have the keychain feature enabled. This is nice at coffeeshops: I've logged in using a password on my iPhone, and then my laptop automatically connects a moment later. Passwords are protected using encryption information particular to you. Even though it's synced via iCloud, Apple lacks the pieces necessary to decrypt those items. (This is distinct from photos, contacts, and the like that can also be viewed at iCloud.com, which by necessity Apple has to decrypt to show to you.)
Microsoft provides a couple different opt out methods. Windows 10 users can disable the feature (Settings > Network & Internet > WiFi > Manage WiFi Settings). As soon as a Windows 10 user turns off Wi-Fi connection sharing, all of that person's entries are no longer available to contacts, and vice versa.
And there's an opt out at the base-station level, if you want your network to remain unusable by Windows 10 people you know. Microsoft says add _optout anywhere in the network's name, such as Glenn Home Network_optout or even Hey_optout_this_network. That's similar to Google's _nomap option to prevent a base station's inclusion as a data point in Google Location Services.
An AirPort base station user can make this configuration change by launching AirPort Utility, selecting the base station, and clicking Edit (enter its password if prompted). In the Wireless tab in OS X, rename the network in Wireless Network Name. If you have multiple base stations with the same name for roaming, rename all of them identically.
This is a hassle, because the changed name means that all of your devices that connect to the base station have to be re-associated to the new name, and the password entered again for each device, except those synced via iCloud Keychain after you enter the first one.
Obviously, changing a network's password will prevent the shared version from working until the sharing user updates the connection, if they're even given the new password. But it has the same problem of requiring re-entering the password on routinely connected devices.
Should Microsoft have deployed this feature? I suppose. It seems like guest networking, widely available on Apple and non-Apple Wi-Fi routers, is an easier solution. For users who are capable of entering a password correctly and choosing to share it, enabling guest networking on a modern router doesn't seem impossible difficult and it's easier to control or change.
It has such a feel of a marquee feature that sounds good, but in practice offers very little to the most likely users. But it doesn't seem to open up networks to easy exploitation or on any real scale. | <urn:uuid:d98c17ec-aafa-4931-9845-fd389b88c9f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cdn.cso.com.au/article/580977/wi-fi-sensibility-really-risky-really-needed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951597 | 1,574 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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The AecLineworkMerge command can be found on the Home ribbon tab, on the Modify panel flyout, by selecting the Merge tool from the Merge/Subtract flyout. If the Merge tool is not displayed on the Merge/Subtract flyout, select the right side of the split button (down arrow icon) to deploy the flyout and choose the Merge tool. Or, with no command active, you can right click in the drawing window, and choose AEC Modify Tools > Merge from the context menu.
The AecLineworkMerge command is used to modify the extents of closed Polylines, Circles, Hatches, AEC Polygons, Mass Element Extrusions that have an embedded profile and Spaces, as well as Block References which contain any of these objects by "merging" the original object with one or more other objects that define the change to the perimeter. In lieu of selecting one or more objects to merge into the initially selected object(s), you can also specify a rectangular area by selecting its opposite corners, and that rectangular area will be merged into the the intially selected object(s). You will be given the option to erase the object(s) to merge (the object or objects selected at the second prompt for the object(s) that define the changed perimeter); the default is No, which leaves the object(s) to merge in the drawing file.
If you select multiple objects at the first prompt, the AecLineworkMerge command is applied to each of those independently, using the objects selected at the second prompt on each of those selected at the first prompt. Here are some additional notes regarding the AecLineworkMerge command:
- Open linework cannot be used as the linework to add to (first prompt), neither can MText, Text, Ellipses nor Ellipse Arcs. The command will allow you to select an open Polyline as the linework to add, but will not make any change to it.
- MText, Text, Ellipses and Ellipse Arcs can be selected as (part of) the objects to merge. For MText and Text, the bounding box of the text is used as a rectangle to be merged.
- The type of the initial object selected will determine the type of the merged object. Allowed AEC objects will result in an AEC object of that same type, as do Hatches. Closed Polylines and Circles will result in closed Polylines.
- Mass Elements with a shape other than "Extrusion" and Mass Element Extrusions that have an external Profile can be selected as linework to add to, but will not affected by the AecLineworkMerge command. These types of Mass Elements can be selected as an object to merge.
- If a Block Reference is selected as linework to add to, only those nested objects within the block on which the AecLineworkMerge command works will be affected.
- Attributes within a Block Reference will not be affected by the AecLineworkMerge command.
- If a Block Reference is selected as linework to add to, it has nested elements that can be affected by the AecLineworkMerge command and it is the only instance of that Block Reference in the drawing, then the original block definition will be redefined to include the effects of the merge. If at least one instance of the Block Reference remains unaffected by the merge, then the original block definition will remain unchanged and the affected instance(s) will become instance(s) of new, anonymous block definition(s).
- If a Block Reference is selected as linework to add to and it has multiple nested elements which can be affected by the AecLineworkMerge command, the merge will be applied to each of those elements independently.
- Multi-View Blocks can be selected as linework to add to, but will not be affected by the command.
- If the active View Block of a Multi-View Block contains linework that forms a closed boundary or contributes to a closed boundary, it can selected as an item to merge.
- Selecting an associative Hatch as linework to add to will result in a non-associative Hatch, regardless of whether or not the boundary of the Hatch is also selected as linework to add to in the same AecLineworkMerge command.
- Associative Spaces, Walls, Doors, Windows and Door/Window Assemblies can be selected as linework to add to, but will not be affected by the command. These objects can be used as object to merge. Non-associative Spaces can be modified by the AecLineworkMerge command when selected as linework to add to.
- The object(s) to merge do not have to form a closed loop. If multiple objects are selected, they do not have to meet endpoint to endpoint, although the results may be unexpected if there is overlap.
- The object(s) to merge do not necessarily have to intersect the linework to add to object(s). If the linework to add to objects support it (), a single object with two disconnected parts will be formed (Hatches, AEC Polygons, Mass Element Extrusions that have an embedded profile and Spaces). Closed Polylines and Circles will generate a closed polyline around the object(s) to merge or indicated rectangle, but will remain separate from original objects. (If a Circle is the linework to add to, and the object(s) to merge do not intersect it, it will remain a Circle.) If a Block References is selected as the linework to add to, and the object(s) to merge do not intersect it, there will be no change (unless you delete the object(s) to merge, in which case that object/those objects will be deleted).
There are object types and combinations of objects within a Block Reference that I did not test. When using the AecLineworkMerge command in a situation that you have not previously encountered, you may want to use the Mark option of the UNDO command, so that you can easily UNDO Back to the point before the command was used if you get unexpected results.
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Getting pulled over in America is already nerve-wracking, but when it happens somewhere far from home it can be even scarier. Laws are different, customs vary, and you may have to pay a fine on the spot. Here’s what you need to know before you get behind the wheel outside of the U.S.
This should be obvious, but in case it isn’t, you absolutely need to do research on driving in the country you’re visiting. You need to know the basic laws and customs for the area, as well as be aware of the items you should have on hand or in your vehicle while you drive. Some countries require your car to have a spare tire, reflective vest, and traffic cone. Others require you carry an extra pair of prescription glasses if you need them to drive. The moment they see you’re a tourist, there’s a good chance they’ll look for any way they can ding you, so be ready.
If you’re not sure where to look, start with the U.S. Department of State website, and search for your country. Or do a web search with these terms:
“U.S. Embassy & Consulates in [country you’re visiting]”
You should see a URL like “https://fr.usembassy.gov” (that’s the one for France) in your top hits. Go there and look for a “U.S. Citizen Services” tab. On that tab, look for the “Additional Resources for U.S. Citizens” link. Then scroll down and look for the “Driving in [country]” section or link. That should give you all the vital information you need to know, or at least guide you to where you can get it.
If you do get pulled over, try to find a place off to the side of the road and stay in your car the same way you would here. Some countries, like Australia, New Zealand, and Great Britain, may allow for drivers to exit their vehicle and approach the police officers, but this is not common in most places. Most police officers around the world would rather you stay in your vehicle and await instruction, so do that. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
When they approach, crack open your window and keep your hands on the steering wheel. If something feels off, ask to see their badge. There have been incidents of fake “police” pulling people over and demanding bribes in some countries. A real officer will gladly show you their credentials.
There are several documents you should have and be able to easily access in the event you get pulled over or go through a police checkpoint. You should have:
- Valid U.S. driver license.
- International Driving Permit (IDP) if required in that country.
- Vehicle registration document.
- Proof of motor insurance.
- Passport and visa.
- All relevant paperwork give to you by the rental company (if you rented a vehicle).
If you’re not sure whether you need an IDP or not, check the laws of the country you’re visiting. Most non-English-speaking countries require them. You can get them through AAA.
If you don’t know the language, let them know that you’ll have a hard time understanding their instructions. Knowing simple phrases in the local language, like “I don’t speak [language]” or “I don’t understand” are good to know. It might be useful to keep a pocket phrasebook or a card with some essentials stashed with your other driving documents. You’ll be able to access it easily and without raising suspicion.
Yes, you could bust out the Google Translate app, but reaching for your smartphone isn’t ideal. They might think you’re trying to record them, activate something, or that you had your phone out while you were driving—which is often even more illegal elsewhere than it is here.
In addition to your driving documents, you should have some cold hard cash on hand. Why? Two reasons: paying fines up front, and paying bribes to avoid hassles. For the first, it surprise many folks who drive abroad when a police officer issues a ticket then asks for payment right then and there. But this does happen!
If you pay it at the time of the infraction, they’ll give you a receipt and you’ll be on your way. If you don’t, they might warn your car rental company (who will charge you later); or worse, take your license or IDP until you come to the station to pay. It’s best to have some cash in your travel budget specifically for this purpose. Just pay it upfront and be done with it. Don’t forget to research how ticketing and fines work in the country you’re visiting before you go.
Some “fines” aren’t exactly what they seem, though. If you’re in an area known to have corruption problems—Mexico, Russia, parts of Africa, parts of Southeast Asia—any fines you’re asked to pay might just be them asking for a bribe. Again, trying to avoid paying will likely make everything worse. Give them cash and be on your way. They rarely ask for much, so don’t give them any reason to harass you further. The best you can do is pay up, then let the nearest U.S. consulate know what happened. They can’t reimburse you, but they might be able to appeal to the local government, or at least warn other travelers. Always check for travel advisories before you head out so you know what you might be up against.
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In terms of insurance plan, the common automobile owner is liable for paying out anywhere from $1,a hundred to more than $5,000 a year. It is vital to recognize that prices can differ widely from point out to state. In some states, whole coverage charges twice as much as least coverage. Detailed under are a few ideas that can assist you get the best rate. A minimum amount liability limit is barely expected in some states, though full protection generally includes a $five hundred deductible.
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Just about every state sets its very own minimal automobile insurance policy prerequisites, and these guidelines are damaged down into three separate quantities. In California, as an example, that you are necessary to carry at least fifteen/thirty/5 in bodily harm legal responsibility coverage, and thirty/50/five in home damage legal responsibility. These figures can vary broadly, so it’s best to check your state’s specifications ahead of driving. Though alternate insurance policies could be a choice, it isn’t normally a good idea.
The minimum amount coverage expected by your condition is frequently liability protection, but several lenders need entire coverage. Comprehensive protection refers to equally collision and in depth insurance policies, and it might be essential by your lender if you’re financing your vehicle. Liability coverage covers damages to Other individuals’s home in the occasion of a mishap but not your personal car or self. Bodily injury liability and home injury legal responsibility insurance is often combined to present you with the top coverage at an extremely affordable selling price.
No matter if you’ve got collision coverage on your car insurance coverage plan relies on your circumstances. Even though you might not be required by law to own this protection, lenders will most likely involve it if you plan on funding your automobile. Lenders could also require you to hold collision insurance plan Should you have a financial loan, which implies which you need to order complete coverage auto insurance. This coverage is actually a necessity for most of us who finance an auto, whether new or utilised.
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Legal responsibility protection for car insurance policies is critical so that you can secure you and also your house in opposition to promises of harm or home hurt. This protection can protect the cost of protection or settlement do you have to be uncovered at fault for a mishap. There are plenty of varieties of coverage, so it is important to find out the difference between them to stop expensive surprises. Point out Farm offers regular rates for a variety of levels of protection. You may locate it extra helpful to pick a medium protection degree.
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In just about just about every condition, it is prohibited to generate without legal responsibility coverage, which includes house destruction legal responsibility. If you bring about harm to somebody else’s house, legal responsibility protection pays for repairs. Having said that, your automobile insurance policies plan won’t include your very own car or truck’s damages. Your condition could possibly have distinct minimum amount needs for legal responsibility protection, so it is important to check your plan before you purchase it. Residence coverage can be essential for the economical protection. It helps you stay away from staying remaining with large coverage bills should you result in an accident.
Your insurance plan policy have to have some sort of home damage protection to compensate you in the party of the collision. This protection pays for just about any damages you cause to a different particular person’s car or truck, together with repairs. In addition, it pays for that elimination of debris following a collision. Assets coverage is commonly penned with a few numbers, which include bodily personal injury protection per accident and property injury coverage for each incident. Larger boundaries, nonetheless, present additional coverage. Be sure you browse your coverage and ask your coverage consultant if you’ll find any exclusions or restrictions.
In Ny, you’ll be able to declare uninsured motorist protection if one other driver does not have ample insurance plan to protect the expense of your collision. This coverage applies when the opposite driver is not really recognized in the slightest degree plus the accident is a success-and-operate. The Insurance plan Legislation SS 5217 specifies the uninsured motorist coverage must be obtained in almost any physical collision, but courts have interpreted this provision to only use in a very Actual physical collision.
Underinsured and uninsured motorist coverage are optional in certain states, but in other states, you needs to have them both equally. Buying each coverages will provide you with extra protection just in case you need to pay health care expenditures or other expenditures. If the uninsured driver leaves you which has a broken car, the uninsured motorist protection can purchase the repairs. Although this protection is just not needed, it may be a sensible idea to carry a minimum of the least degree of legal responsibility coverage.
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Are you currently a young driver looking for auto insurance policies low cost offers? Here are some recommendations you can abide by to economize on car coverage protection: Increasing your deductibles, obtaining a no promises low cost, and obtaining a plan using a regional insurance company. The following pointers can save you many bucks annually on your auto insurance policy. In addition they assist you get the lowest fees doable. Continue reading to determine much more. You may be glad you probably did!
Younger drivers can save cash on car insurance policies by driving more safely and securely, decreasing the volume of miles they push, and allowing the insurance company observe their driving behavior. You can even lessen your rates by purchasing all-around for automobile insurance. Quite a few insurers cost a higher fee for youthful motorists, so it is vital to shop all around. Fortunately, you will discover cost-free on the web estimate comparison resources which make this easy. Furthermore, you can request a reduction For those who have several cars and have them insured by a similar business.
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Most insurers present no statements discount security for any payment of all over PS25. It lets you make a specific quantity of promises each year devoid of stressing regarding your rates going up. It is also doable to add it to a whole new plan Should you have a no claims bonus. Also, you are able to transfer your no claims price reduction to another insurer if you wish. To maintain your no promises low cost, you ought to consider switching suppliers each and every year or two.
When hunting for a low-cost car or truck insurance policies quote, boosting your deductibles is a terrific way to get lower rates. Some estimates say It can save you in between fifteen and thirty % on your high quality by elevating your deductibles. These financial savings will vary extensively determined by your driving record, the sort of car you generate, plus your state’s guidelines. Increasing your deductibles may lessen your yearly premium by nearly 40%.
When raising your deductible is not the suitable preference for everyone, it may help you help save A huge number of dollars in excess of the long run. Whilst the quantity you select to raise your deductible will count on your economical scenario, gurus propose conserving a minimum of two months’ really worth of living expenditures. Moreover, it can reduce your insurance plan fees each and every month. You will also preserve a substantial amount of money in the event you ever come up with a declare.
Getting a policy by using a regional insurance company might be beneficial for motorists using a poor credit history. It could help you save funds every month with your regular insurance coverage Monthly bill, and you’ll make the most of savings and excellent customer support. Getting a policy having a regional insurance company is on the market in all 50 states, and you will Examine premiums by state to uncover the lowest charges. However, it is vital to notice that it may well take a couple months to lift your credit score score, and many motorists having a poor credit rating record can end up shelling out about $400 a 12 months.
Erie Insurance is yet another regional insurance provider that provides cheap automobile insurance. This company is based in Pennsylvania, and has been in organization because 1925. Erie features auto coverage, existence, and home insurance. Even though Erie only presents coverage in sure states, it’s over thirteen,000 unbiased insurance policies agents through The us. You’ll be able to select an agent or possibly a regional insurance company In line with your needs. However, it is usually recommended that you simply read all high-quality print before you make a choice.
If you’re a substantial-hazard driver, you need to Evaluate automobile insurance policies prices and come across the cheapest policy for your needs. You should also look at the amount protection is out there close to you so you can figure out if a decreased rate is feasible. It might be a lot more very affordable to acquire far more protection When you have decrease possibility or if you settle for a higher deductible. It all relies on your needs. Thankfully, there are various choices available to you.
In case you are searching for The most affordable car or truck insurance plan quotation for top-hazard drivers, you happen to be in luck. You can certainly obtain 1 by using a handful of clicks on the web. The net can provide you with various offers for coverage in a fraction of the expense of regular car or truck coverage. Not just that, but it may also make signing up for insurance policy a lot less complicated. All You must do is fill out an easy on line kind, shell out your quality, so you’re carried out! The insurance provider will then print you a card as proof of your insurance policy protection and you will have a plan over the road.
When you’ve got a very poor credit history, you might be thought of a superior-danger driver by several insurance coverage organizations. It’s because you usually tend to file an insurance policies declare than a driver with superior credit score. Your credit history score is usually a Think about how insurance corporations view you, in addition to a previous DUI/DWI will elevate your quality by just as much as 65%. This really is comparable to an additional $477 over a six-month plan. Another variable that insurers think about is your driving historical past. A DUI/DWI can boost your top quality by around $174, plus a speeding ticket can increase approximately about forty five%.
In case you have a DUI with your document, you are able to opt for The most cost effective car coverage service provider. Businesses such as State Farm, American Loved ones, and Progressive have some fantastic solutions offering lessen rates for high-risk drivers. They also think about your credit rating when analyzing your top quality. Insurers think about these elements when determining the amount you shell out for your coverage. A poor credit rating rating could cause insurance fees to skyrocket, so it’s critical to learn your credit score score before making a call.
There are a number of variables to take into consideration When picking The most affordable automobile insurance policy for younger motorists. Your age and marital status play a major role with your vehicle insurance fees. The sort of car you drive may additionally have an impact with your quality. For instance, higher-effectiveness automobiles are usually more expensive to insure than lower-functionality autos. For that reason, step one find the cheapest motor vehicle insurance coverage for youthful drivers is to find a motor vehicle with several basic safety attributes.
A great way to decreased the price of car or truck coverage for young motorists is always to lessen the coverage you would like. A lot of insurers provide savings if you are a very good student, or Should you be in driver training. On the other hand, lowering your protection could lead to enormous out-of-pocket expenditures When you’ve got a mishap. Hence, be sure to weigh the hazards of this selection cautiously, and constantly err about the side of discovering much better price.
Young people Use a complicated time securing low cost auto insurance. Though the cost of a coverage to get a 16-calendar year-old driver is much bigger than that of an Grownup, it may be lessened by introducing a teenager to an present plan. This option increases fees by an average of $1,461 a 12 months, but is usually cheaper than getting a separate coverage. Also, should you be a younger driver, try to find savings together with other techniques to save lots of.
The price of car insurance policy differs broadly based on your profile, which may necessarily mean that you need to store about for The most affordable insurance policy for small-hazard motorists. Insurers consider numerous factors when deciding on an insurance plan coverage, like your driving file, demographics, and All round chance degree. Mentioned below are classified as the five most significant factors to contemplate when comparing insurance plan quotations. Take into account that lessen insurance policies charges You should not suggest that you have to sacrifice top quality.
For starters, think about your zip code. People in significant-criminal offense spots will facial area bigger fees. Also, insurance plan organizations choose visitors volume into consideration. Also, make certain you don’t have any accidents or statements on the report, as these will increase your premiums. Last of all, Take into account that you need to Assess premiums every single 6 months to avoid shelling out in excess of you have to. It’s also advisable to contemplate obtaining a multi-policy low cost if you’ve multiple coverage with a certain insurance provider.
While credit score scores usually are not lawfully utilized by insurers in a few states, They are nonetheless crucial factors when comparing car insurance premiums. In Hawaii, drivers with poor credit can pay 168% greater than similar clean up drivers. In Massachusetts, substantial-risk drivers pay back thirty% in excess of clean motorists. For brand spanking new drivers, a DUI, dashing ticket, and terrible credit rating will improve prices much more than Many others. You’ll want to get hold of several quotes before you make a choice.
The zip code you live in is a major factor in the expense of coverage. If you reside in a place with higher criminal offense and incident prices, it is possible to count on to pay for a lot more for insurance policies quotes. Moreover, elements like traffic volume and incident background can boost the expense of insurance. Most insurance businesses also take a look at a driver’s driving background to determine what charge they must charge for his or her plan. Normally, motorists which has a lousy driving history shell out a lot more for coverage than People which has a clear driving record.
Vehicle insurance coverage has risen by $fifty – $100 in the last 5 years, as health care costs have been expanding. Motorists will also be needed to carry uninsured and PIP insurance policy, which are higher than-ordinary condition requirements. Numerous states only call for legal responsibility insurance plan, but Ny involves motorists to hold equally. These optional coverages boost the price of coverage, and will usually enhance the whole premium. Finally, motorists ought to Verify their protection limitations, as some procedures Use a decrease minimum level of protection than Some others.
In Big apple, the typical person spends two.8 % in their income on motor vehicle insurance policies, that’s somewhat better compared to nationwide common of 2.forty per cent. Folks inside their 30s, 40s, and 50s pays marginally lower than the standard. The 70+ age group will pay higher rates than drivers with fewer driving knowledge. Those who are married can pay somewhat higher rates, but nevertheless reduced than one men and women.
In addition to lessen prices, motorists also can get defensive driving classes. These lessons are 320 minutes in duration, and include things like discussions of driver Angle and targeted visitors legislation. Additionally they instruct defensive driving approaches which can drastically cut down the expense of insurance coverage. They may also assistance to boost their driving file, so completing a course can lessen the price of an auto insurance policies quote. Having said that, if you’re Uncertain about the precise protection you require, you are able to Examine Together with the Insurance plan Information and facts Institute.
While gas rates vary by state, the cost of a vehicle coverage quote in other states can be better or lessen than your own private. Some aspects may account for this, together with The proportion of uninsured drivers, state insurance legal guidelines, and the speed of theft. Also, the incidence of negative weather conditions can alter the price of insurance policies in numerous states. The next desk exhibits common car insurance rates in several states. These estimates are according to a comparison of point out coverage needs.
Missouri is The most affordable condition for whole-coverage auto insurance, paying just $944 below Louisiana. Also, this condition has certainly one of the lowest costs for each capita, and is also rated fifth with regards to expense of living. In distinction, Texas drivers pay out one of the most for their motor vehicle insurance policy, having to pay approximately 33% of their annual cash flow in complete. This disparity can be as a consequence of the fact that the condition provides a large range of uninsured drivers and plenty of lawsuits.
The countrywide average for comprehensive coverage car insurance coverage is $1,771 a yr. The point out with the most expensive insurance policies high quality is Louisiana, by using a high quality of $2,839, a 19% raise from 2020. Conversely, Maine’s average insurance policy quality is just $858. It is because no-fault states have larger coverage rates. The price of a vehicle insurance policy coverage in other states can vary substantially. There are various components to consider, like your state’s rules on insurance policy.
Should you are looking for significant-threat driver car or truck insurance coverage near me, you may well be wondering how to get a very low-Price tag coverage. Substantial-possibility drivers spend increased insurance policy rates than regular drivers. This is due to they have an inclination to obtain additional incidents or violations on their own history. According to the condition, the limit may be a few yrs or five years. In some cases, you can find reductions if you’re taking a driver basic safety training course.
Whilst the countrywide averages for top-risk driver vehicle insurance coverage around me are really reliable, you’ll find that rates fluctuate wildly from point out to state. Some businesses modify their fees to unique states, Therefore if you reside in a particular state, you could find that 1 insurance provider features you the top coverage to get a lower value. The most cost effective substantial-chance driver car or truck coverage in close proximity to me comes from Point out Farm, that has a long-standing name for delivering exceptional services.
The ultimate way to locate a higher-possibility driver automobile insurance policy close to me is usually to enter your ZIP code and Look at quotes. The cost of large-hazard auto insurance plan in close proximity to me can vary from condition to state, but most massive insurers supply these kinds of coverage. Many of these corporations concentrate on large-danger protection, like Countrywide General. You could even be able to find a cheaper coverage Should you have good grades plus a small-danger automobile.
There are various benefits of comparing automobile insurance policy organizations. In the following paragraphs, We are going to focus on some of A very powerful attributes, like scores, reductions, and customer care. Choosing the ideal plan is essential for your safety and defense, so make time to check the various guidelines from unique businesses. By the time you complete reading through this post, you’ll need an notion of which insurer presents the top protection at the lowest Expense. Here are several tricks to select the right a person to suit your needs:
To have the best fee, you need to compare auto insurance policies rates from different corporations. Insurers use lots of components to determine the cost of insurance coverage. You have to recognize your personal requires and Review prices from quite a few providers. By way of example, sports activities cars can Price more to insure than normal cars and trucks. Furthermore, your locality and driving heritage could also affect the costs that you’ll be quoted. By using a comparison Device, you can find the lowest amount on a similar coverage Together with the very same deductibles.
Insurance plan rates may vary substantially, so it’s crucial to know how Every single coverage works. Amongst the factors that have an impact on rates are driving background, age, and credit historical past. You may also Look at the benefits that every company presents, including roadside assistance or incident forgiveness. Even though this might look like a frightening endeavor, it can assist to compare quotations from various suppliers and select the proper one particular. Outlined under are some ideas to get you started out.
With regards to evaluating vehicle coverage providers, you might like to begin with the J.D. Power motor vehicle insurance provider ratings. These are dependant on client fulfillment surveys that survey A huge number of car insurance customers nationwide. The final results are compiled into numerical scores that characterize the businesses’ common shopper fulfillment rating. These rankings are published each year, and the most beneficial auto insurance policies corporations in Each individual group are awarded gold medals. But how do you know if the businesses you are thinking about are any great?
There are numerous approaches To guage the economical strength of car or truck coverage firms. First of all, you could Check out the AM Finest insurance provider ranking, which provides economic steadiness scores for vehicle insurance policies businesses. Whether the car insurance provider has an A, B, C, or F rating, it is vital to know how stable it truly is ahead of picking a policy. This is an important aspect of customer care, so you should definitely study the testimonials and read the wonderful print prior to making a call.
Car or truck insurance coverage organizations provide many different discount rates. Numerous of these bargains is probably not readily available for everyone, so it’s important to examine the corporate Internet site to ensure you qualify for your savings that apply to you. Some companies offer a number of reductions, and It’s also possible to talk to your coverage agent When they are eligible for any certain price reduction. Nonetheless, the procedure is a snap and sometimes requires fewer than one hour. Under are some samples of achievable automobile insurance policy savings.
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As mould is a common problem in many properties, people have been trying to prevent it in various ways. In the past few decades, air purifiers have been used in the attempt to get rid of mould allergens. But are all air purifiers efficient at removing mould from the air? And can air purifiers get rid of mould in a home? Let’s find out below:
What Are Mould Spores?
Moulds are a vital part of nature and can be found virtually everywhere. Mould spores are airborne microscopic particles that act as the “seeds” which mould needs in order to spread. While mould spores are also present in homes, the actual visible mould grows only when it has the right conditions. It requires a source of food (such as walls), moisture, and warm temperatures. Unfortunately, most homes meet those requirements, causing potential health risks.
How Does Mould Affect Our Health?
Not all people are equalliy affected by mould. The most at-risk individuals are those who are allergic to mould or suffer from asthma. Mould allergy symptoms include sneezing; itchy eyes, nose, and throat; watery eyes; redness of the eyes; runny nose; coughs; and skin rashes. Even if you’re not allergic to mould, long-term exposure may cause several problems, such as irritant reactions (headache, skin irritation, eye irritation, and coughs). The amount of mould in properties should be minimized to avoid such health hazards.
What Do Air Purifiers Do?
There are several types of air purifiers. Those that are the most effective at removing mould spores from indoor air are high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) air purifiers. HEPA filters capture 99.97% of 0.3 micron particles, including dust and other allergens, and an even higher percentage of larger particles. Since mould spores are usually about 1-20 microns, the HEPA filter is perfect for extracting mould spores from the air. However, air purifiers should not be used to treat the underlying mould problem.
What Air Purifiers Don’t Do
Although HEPA air purifiers can filter mould spores out of the air, the mould that releases mould spores in the air must be removed first. Air purifiers do remove mould spores, but can’t remove the mould growth which put the mould spores in the air. To get rid of a mould problem, it’s best to call a mould restoration company. These companies use specialized equipment and techniques to detect and remove mould growth. They also dry and restore affected surfaces according to industry standards.
The Bottom Line
Air purifiers can be a great help to those who are allergic or sensitive to mould spores. These machines can filter out mould spores and other allergens from the air. In addition, air purifiers can help prevent mould growth by stopping mould spores from spreading. However, air purifiers won’t kill the mould that’s already growing on surfaces. To get rid of the mould infestation, the mould should be removed and the moisture problem must be fixed.
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In 1853, a French missionary recorded that the Montagnards in Vietnam believed writing to be an act of magic. As a Montagnard American in the twenty-first century, H'Rina DeTroy believes writing to be a kind of sorcery, too.
She was the recipient of the Cafe Royal Cultural Foundations Winter 2020 Grant in Literature, and the 2019 Emerging Writer Fellowship at Aspen Word in Memoir. Roxane Gay selected her essay entitled The Vengeance of Elephants for the 2017 Curt Johnson Prose in Creative Nonfiction by the literary journal, December Magazine. Her personal essay, Knot, was published in the anthology Borderlands and Crossroads: Writing the Motherland by feminist publisher Demeter Press; the essay was also selected for the AWP Conference in Washington D.C. Her work has also appeared in the Huffington Post, OkayAfrica, The Villager, Flavorpill.com, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Glimpse Abroad Magazine, and other publications.
She has a master's degree in Journalism and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hunter College. An adjunct instructor in and around New York City, she also teaches private workshops in Creative Writing and cultivating creativity. A convert to the power of owning one's narrative in the face of systemic oppression, she created Apocalypse Never: Writing Our Origin Stories and Imaginative Futures as Montagnard Americans, a writing workshop that centers the Montagnard American and diasporic experience. She has also created Multi-Verses: Writing Our Immigrant Origin Stories. As a community arts organizer and activist, she is passionate about creating limitless spaces for Montagnard stories and imagination -- a magical weapon against structural legacies of erasure. | <urn:uuid:419d7ed4-a3f2-439c-8c2d-b52ab65cedeb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hrinadetroy.com/bio | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.946217 | 347 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Hundreds of thousands of people who smoke cannabis describe themselves as non-smokers, a study has revealed. Experts fear the findings mean cannabis users may not appreciate that smoking the drug carries many of the same health risks as smoking tobacco.
The study, published in the journal Addiction, and based on a survey of almost 13,000 British adults, estimates that 380,000 people who describe themselves as non-smokers are smoking cannabis with or without tobacco at least weekly.
A further 830,000 tobacco smokers also smoke cannabis at least weekly, suggesting that there may be around 1.2 million weekly cannabis smokers in Britain, a figure borne out by previous studies.
“It is extremely concerning,” said Hannah Walsh of King’s College London, one of the study’s authors. “It is possible that they do not realise they are putting their health at risk. It’s also a concern that people may be unwittingly establishing a tobacco addiction, with cannabis acting as their route into a lifetime of smoking tobacco.”
The study discusses recent research suggesting that UK-based recreational cannabis users who mix the drug with tobacco will use about 0.35g of tobacco per joint, equivalent to one third of the content of a cigarette.
“This exposes participants to cotinine (the main metabolite of nicotine found in the bloodstream) levels suggestive of moderate tobacco exposure, equivalent to that found in light/moderate cigarette smokers,” the study notes. It also points to research that finds mixing cannabis and tobacco produces more negative acute cardiovascular effects and is associated with chronic bronchitis.
“Government generally sees cannabis and tobacco as separate issues but plainly their use is deeply interwoven,” said Hazel Cheeseman, director of policy at Action on Smoking and Health. “There is an opportunity to address this in the government’s planned Addiction Strategy. This strategy must include measures to tackle the overlapping use of cannabis and tobacco and the resulting harm to health.”
The study found that cannabis was disproportionately used by younger people. Seven out of 10 of people who had taken the drug in the past year were under 39 years old. It also identified that people who said that they used cannabis and tobacco together were more likely to report mental health problems than those who used either product on their own.
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USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) Chief Dave White announced the agency will fund conservation projects in 41 eligible watersheds in 12 states.
The funds are designed to help landowners and producers within the Mississippi River Basin voluntarily implement conservation and management practices that prevent, control and trap nutrient runoff from agricultural land.
“NRCS is working hard to improve the health of the Mississippi River Basin,” said White.
“This funding will help producers further implement a system of conservation practices that will reduce erosion, improve water and soil quality, and provide wildlife habitat.”
Weakley County has received nearly $40,000 in MRBI funding to assist local landowners with controlling and trapping nutrient runoff. Participating farmers and landowners voluntarily implement conservation practices that improve wildlife habitat; restore wetlands; and maintain agricultural productivity.
These conservation practices are carried out in a site-specific manner to create a system that addresses natural resource concerns and fits within the operational needs of the farm.
Under the Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative (MRBI), NRCS will provide up to $43 million in financial assistance through conservation programs to support more than 70 existing projects in the following states: Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee and Wisconsin.
Tennessee will receive a total of $529,000 for projects in the Forked Deer, South Fork Obion, Obion, and Red River watersheds.
Local poultry producer Darwin Koehn recently participated in the MRBI program.
NRCS assisted Koehn with building a Waste Storage Facility.
A waste storage facility provides temporary storage of waste, protects surface and ground water, and provides a safe environment for storing and handling manure.
The watersheds that are within the MRBI qualifications in Weakley Co. are the South Fork Obion and the Obion. Land owners who operate within those watersheds may be eligible to participate in the program. NRCS is now taking applications for 2012.
Come in to your local NRCS office and sign up.
The Weakly County Field Office is located at 196 Hunt St. in Dresden.
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All the stories about trouble in Iraq have got me wondering. When did the practice of suicide bombers develop? Is it related to Japanese kamikazees in WW2, or did it arise independantly? I remember an old Porky Pig cartoon that featured an Arab suicide bomber, so they go back at least to the 1950’s or so.
There are numerous articles which mention the descent of the modern suicide bomber from the Anarchist movement, so I suspect that even though they obviously were not first, they were most influential.
Tuchman’s book, BTW, is incredibly good. We totally forget today the wave of European assassinations (many more than the few heads of state mentioned in that quote) that prefigured WWI and it’s shocking to read of the level of violence that was standard in the day.
Certainly the idea of dying in a suicide attack goes back, at least, to the Vikings. They had the whole “dying and going to paradise to live the rich life” thing down pat millennia before the radical Islamists stole the idea. And not just dying in battle, for them dying in what you knew was a lost cause got you a seat at the head table.
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Picnics are popular in the summer months and it is something that can be included in a preschool curriculum. We have found 25 books about picnics for preschool children that can be incorporated into your early childhood program. Keep in mind that picnics can be just as fun indoors on a rainy day.
25 Books about Picnics for Preschool:
Top 10 Health Benefits of Going on a Picnic (Good for children and adults)
- Outdoors – Spending time outdoors, basking in nature, breathing fresh air and enjoying a great view. The pure air invigorates you and leaves you feeling rejuvenated. For those with respiratory disorders, breathing clean air helps clear the lungs.
- Family bonding – Spending time with family is always a great bonding experience. In the fast-paced, urbane lifestyle of today there is often limited time for maintaining relationships with some of the most important people in your life. Staying engaged with your family and friends can help build stronger bonds and foster warmth, security and love, as well as feelings of belonging.
- Enables communication – Since picnics often take place in warm environments, the tendency to participate in relaxing small talk is high. Simply keeping updated on what is going on in other people’s lives and learning what their plans can improve relationships. Conversations during the meal provide opportunities for the party to bond, plan, connect and learn from one another.
- Grants time for self-reflection – While picnics offer many social benefits, you don’t have to spend the entire time chatting up a storm. Picnics offer an excellent opportunity for you to spend time meditating about your life, the decisions you have made and the decisions you will make.
- Foster healthy eating habits – Meals prepared and eaten at home are usually more nutritious and healthy than eating out and particularly so for when you bring food for a picnic. The typical portrait of picnics present a wicker basket full of fruits, vegetables, dairy and grains. These foods provide nutrients such as fiber, calcium and essential vitamins.
- Stay active – Regular picnics can foster a family ritual where young ones are introduced to sports, games, and nature and encourages adults to partake in physical activities as well. Mini games between family and friends like tug-of-war, 2-hand-touch or flag football and kickball can be played before a meal to help induce a feeling of achievement prior to a well-deserved meal, while playing more casual games like horseshoes and bean bag toss can serve as a relaxing but still active activity. Even consuming the healthy food usually provided at picnics keeps you energetic and active through the day.
- Mood booster – Eating lunch outdoors is a natural mood booster. You can be amazed how much the lack of sun in your body can affect you mood. There’s something about fresh air, sunshine, or a nice breeze that just puts you in good mood and motivates you making you want to get some exercise.
- Relieves stress – Picnics are a great stress buster as it helps reduce the stress and anxiety related to work and home. Being an adult isn’t always easy and it’s great to be able to ease up on the responsibility from time to time by lounging in the sunlight.
- Builds stronger bones – The vitamin D we get from the sun is needed for maximum absorption of calcium from the intestine, which helps build strong bones and teeth. Getting enough vitamin D can help you reduce your chances of getting bone deterioration diseases like osteoporosis. For children, regular sun exposure helps increase the process of growth and height and can decrease the risk of rickets. The sun also provides benefits to your skin by providing a nice, warm, sun-kissed glow.
- Saves money – Picnics are known to be quite inexpressive. All one has to do is prepare meals at home and head out to a park or picnic area. If you have a well-stocked refrigerator and pantry, you may not even have to spend a cent! | <urn:uuid:0168624b-3f03-4da7-98f5-c1ef43a9df6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theearlychildhoodacademy.com/25-books-picnic-preschool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.952738 | 842 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Let’s start with reading a short fairytale love story which gives us a perfect example of what gaslighting is. Trying to collect the perspective of the gaslighter and victim both this short story may help you recognise what gaslighting is.
“He made little digs at my appearance all the time, and he shattered my once high self-confidence.”
When we first started dating, my boyfriend made me feel like I was a princess and complimented every aspect of my looks, down to my fingers and toes. As time went on, the flattery faded, and it was replaced with small criticisms. My clothes weren’t the right style; I should wax every part of my body, I should lose a few pounds… the list was endless. It wasn’t until a mutual friend asked what he liked about me and he was completely silent that I realised it had all been a facade. He didn’t like what I looked like or who I was; he liked what I had to offer. I walked away from the relationship, but the years of gaslighting me into believing that I was unattractive left my confidence at an all-time low.1
What is Gaslighting?
To gaslight is to manipulate another person into doubting his or her perceptions, experiences, or understanding of events.2
Gaslighting is an emotional and psychological abuse done to anyone which makes them go through various kinds of unusual feelings at the same time. The victim often ends up being confused, with questioned self-worth, low self-esteem. It is like someone acting as a janitor and constantly trying to change your perception and memory while disconnecting you from reality.
Origin of the word Gaslighting
The term ‘Gaslight’ came from the 1938, British stage play, by Patrick Hamilton. The play was followed by a film in 1944.3 Where, a husband manipulates his wife into thinking she has a mental illness by dimming their gas-fuelled lights and telling her she is hallucinating. Since the 1960’s the term has been used to refer to people who make covert attempts to manipulate people, particularly in abusive relationships.
How Gaslighting works
Beginning with a person first praising his/her companion and the shift from praising to criticising is gaslighting. The victims of gaslighting experiences absence of self worth, their memories, recent events and their perceptions as well. The victims of gaslighting often end up being confused about themselves and the gaslighter blames the victim and judges them for being too sensitive. There are many tactics you can see when the person is gaslighting you.
People who gaslight may pretend or show they care about you but they often end up bitching and disrespecting you. They end up making people believe that you’re crazy or you have some disorder. The people gaslighting you makes you believe bad about other people as well.
The gaslighter tends to shift the blame on you, questioning you constantly and making you realise that you are the one who must have done something wrong. Even when you try to communicate how the abuser’s behaviour makes you feel, they again shift the whole conversation to you. For ex: forcing you emotionally to behave in a certain manner to get the behaviour you deserve.
Not accepting their own doings
The abusers usually have a habit of denying or not accepting the harm they have caused someone emotionally. This habit of abusers creates a negative impact on the victim making them questioning their self worth and believing that something is wrong with them only. This tactic makes it very difficult for the victim to move ahead in their life. For ex: Cheating on someone and not accepting it, while shifting the blame to another person.
Habit of lying
The abusers have a habit of lying to you for silly and small things as well. They are pathological liars sometimes with narcissistic traits. Which makes you believe at a time that it is you who is judging or overreacting, even if you caught them or confront them with a proof, they puts it on you with sentences like: “you’re making this”, “such things never happened”, “you’re the one who is lying”.
Examples of Gaslighting
This refers to a person questioning someone’s memory and making them believe that something is wrong with them or they have a weak memory. Using statements like: “why do you never remember anything?”, “you have such a poor memory”, “are you sure, or you want to rethink?”.
In this the person uses the technique of not understanding what the victim is trying to convey in order to avoid having a conversation and getting confronted. Refusing to what the person is trying to say using statements like: “I’m not getting what you are trying to say”, “you’re not making any sense to me”.
The gaslighter may also end up using the victim’s age, sexuality, ethnicity, nationality, caste, religion etc to control them and make negative impacts. For example: telling a male it is not ok to cry or express or using statements like: “you’re acting like a kid, grow up”, “don’t be a girl”.
This involves abusers to pretend to forget the events or incidents that occurred. They clearly deny saying or doing a thing that may have hurt another person. For example using statements like: “I do not remember doing that, you’re making this up”, “I never said that, you are overthinking”.
This is the technique of shifting the focus of communication or argument to the victim, basically diverting the topic of conversation. Using statements like: “stop getting new ideas from your friends”, “stop wasting your time on making up scenarios”.
This refers to when the person does on accept, validates and degrades the feelings of another person. They tend to manipulate the victim by denying their feelings and making a fuss about everything. For example using statements like: “why are you being over sensitive?”, “you’re overreacting”.
Signs of Gaslighting
Experiencing gaslighting makes you go through certain mixed emotions and many mental health problems like: depression, anxiety and other concerns. It is important to identify whether you are being gaslighted or not. To check that you should ask yourself certain questions that the given statements are relatable or not?
- You second guess yourself: Whenever it comes to individuality, you always end up second guessing yourself. Remembering past events, it gets difficult for you to share with others in fear of you assuming.
- You feel inadequate: You feel you are not good enough or you do not deserve anything good and no matter how hard you try or do things you will never be able to make people love and accept you.
- You feel worthless and question your feelings: Whenever you feel any positive or negative emotion, you question your feelings whether you are right or wrong, whether you should experience these emotions or not.
- You assume others’ feelings and thoughts towards yourself: You think that if you behave authentically or who you are, other people may judge you or may think you’re crazy. You’re always consciously thinking that other people are disappointed in you.
- You spend most of the time apologising: Most of the time, you end up apologising for normal behaviour thinking that you deserve to and you are grateful for having people in your life and you should take care of whatever you are getting.
- You distrust yourself and your decision making skills: You always make your family, friends or companions make decisions for you because you do not trust your decision making and doubting yourself that you will ruin it for yourself and others.
- You feel confused: In some incidents you get confused on how you should react, there are a lot of mixed feelings present that it gets difficult for you to acknowledge the real or first emotion you are going through.
- You judge yourself for not acting right: You judge yourself over silly things, you wonder whether you acted right or noty, whether the second person may get hurt or not with your behaviour, even when you are correct you blame yourself.
- You feel alone and powerless: The feeling of being alone and powerless is constant. You feel alone in your life journey and you do not deserve anyone’s support which is often reflected on the path you choose and you end up stuck in similar situations again and again.
- You doubt your feelings and reality: Accepting the reality gets difficult for you as mostly you find yourself questioning your own thoughts. You come to a point in your life where you do not even feel like expressing or confronting your real feelings and emotions with anyone.
- You feel insecure and vulnerable: While experiencing a certain emotion or going through a phase you feel insecure about yourself and you fear opening up about yourself in the fear of people judging you for being vulnerable. The absence of acceptance and validation is present.
How to respond to Gaslighting
Gaslighting is not an overnight process, it requires repetitive patterns. You need to identify certain patterns if you are being gaslighted.
Always remember your truth and trust yourself
If you are being gaslighted, remember to trust your memory and your instinct first. The gaslighter never focuses on your side of the story and constantly tries to shift the focus of communication. Try to be connected with yourself in order to be sane.
Recognise the warning signals
It is not as easy as it sounds but there are few things that may help you recognise that you are being gaslighted. This feeling of being gaslighted often leaves you confused and numb. Remember the focus always.
Do not second guess your feelings
Never lose trust in yourself, because if you do then it changes the game. Always remember it is about you and your feelings also matter, whenever you feel unheard or misunderstood try to focus on yourself rather than making them understand, leave.
Get an outsider’s perspective
Talking about your situation with an outsider like family or friend may help you look at a bigger picture and identify whether you are being gaslighted or not. This gives you an unbiased different perspective.
Save the evidence
If you feel you are being constantly gaslighted, start saving evidence for the events that have happened because being gaslighted may leave you confused and at a moment of time you may end up questioning yourself and find it difficult between distinguishing the reality and a made up story.
Listen to your gut and end the relationship
If things are getting too overwhelming for you, the gaslighting is rapidly increasing and getting out of your control, then end the relationship. It is difficult to end a relationship but if it is affecting you, it is the best way to stop any kind of abuse.
Tips for seeking help
Seeking help can be very difficult, because sometimes it gets very difficult for people to even realise that they are being gaslighted, even if they do gaslighting in some relationships the emotional dependency is too high it gets difficult to just leave. Gaslighting leaves you with a great sense of loss of personal identity. In order to seek help, go to a therapist and maybe try talking about it. Because sometimes you have to choose between being lonely and being crazy. 4
Living with a constant state of loss of self worth and interest leaves you with problems in even functioning properly sometimes. Online counselling is a great way to seek help from your own place.
A therapist offers you:
- A safe space to open up
- An unbiased perspective
- Helps you explore yourself
- Helps you bring back to reality and identify what is right or wrong
- Set healthy boundaries with the gaslighter
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This year is a year of great celebration for the entire nation as Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first monarch in our history to reach a Platinum Jubilee – 70 years as monarch. For an event of such magnitude, a brand new Silver Proof Five Pound coin has been minted.
The design shows the Tower of London, an historic monument that, for centuries, has been closely associated with the monarchy in Britain. Also in the design is an arrangement of summer flowers, in full colour! What a superb way to celebrate Her Majesty’s Jubilee – a massive posy of congratulations, as it were – on this superb silver coin.
The flowers shown include Lily of the valley, which is The Queen’s favourite flower. The other flowers are species that will flower during the summer (Cosmo, Gerbera, Rudbekia, Blue cornflower) and are likely to be used in arrangements and gardens throughout the country during this summer of celebration.
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You can learn about Aikido from books, but learning to do Aikido requires a teacher and training partners. These books do not give instructions on doing techniques. Instead, they discuss philosophy and history, the people who have influenced the development of Aikido, stories from people’s lives, and ways of looking at the art and training from a variety of perspectives.
Note – For convenience, I am including links to the Amazon page for the print version of each book. Some may also be available for Kindle, or as audiobooks. These are not affiliate links. I don’t get anything if you buy the books.
New to Aikido? Read These First:
The Way of Aikido: Life Lessons From An American Sensei – George Leonard
I recommend everyone read this first. The Way of Aikido gives a vulnerable, human, and deeply personal introduction to what Aikido can mean in your life. It may change your thinking about martial arts practice.
It’s one of the first Aikido books I read, even before I started looking for a dojo, and Leonard Sensei became an instant role model for me. I found it heartening to know that someone who started training at my same age (46 at the time), and struggled through being a beginner, as we all do, could go on to become a well-loved and respected 5th Dan with his own dojo. If you have any “I’m too old to really go anywhere with this, but I’ll just play along as best I can” thoughts haunting you, read this. Leonard Sensei wrote the famous essay “On Getting a Black Belt at Age Fifty-Two.” I made it my goal to follow in his footsteps in that regard, and indeed I did earn the rank of shodan (first degree black belt, or “beginning rank”) at age 52.
Read this book particularly if you train in a California Aikido Association (CAA) Division 3 dojo, under Robert Nadeau Shihan. In this book the late George Leonard Sensei tells of his early training experiences as a student of Nadeau. The book is full of insights about the joys and difficulties of training, particularly training with Nadeau. Having read it is one of the reasons I chose the dojo I did – because Nadeau is my teacher’s teacher and I value that influence in my training.
George Leonard, also authored the classics Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment, and The Ultimate Athlete, among others. I strongly recommend both of those books as well, to anyone, not just students of Aikido. Mastery is a must-read for anyone looking to move beyond instant gratification and quick fixes in any pursuit. The Ultimate Athlete is probably responsible for first nudging me in my current direction of becoming a personal trainer and fitness coach.
Horsemanship Through Life – Mark Rashid
It was the talented horseman and writer Mark Rashid who suggested, when I participated in one of his horsemanship clinics, that I look into training in Aikido. For that I am eternally grateful. I had been a fan of his other books already, had worked with him before, and I trusted his advice.
In Horsemanship Through Life, Mark Rashid tells about his life as a well-known clinician, traveling the globe helping horses and their people, and then beginning to run into difficulties. He comes to learn of Aikido through one of his students, and it sets him on a transformational journey from world-famous expert living in his comfort zone to complete beginner in something entirely unfamiliar, with all the awkwardness and frustration that entails. He discusses the lessons he learned about being a teacher, about being a student, and about bringing the practice of our art – whether horsemanship or Aikdio – into our daily lives.
Whether you are a horse person or not, Mark’s writing is engaging and entertaining, with a certain direct cowboy wit and down-to-earth honesty. What you will get from this book, in addition to enjoying some just plain great stories, is a good sense of perspective about training in martial arts, particularly Aikido. After reading it, when you encounter the challenges common to beginners, you might find yourself saying “Oh, right… I heard this might happen.” It’s good to know some things are to be expected, and you shouldn’t let them discourage you.
If you enjoy this book, I urge you to read his other books as well. For anyone with even a casual interest in horses they are great reading, full of moving stories and important lessons.
This book was my introduction to meditation and embodiment. I was one of those people who, as is common in our culture, thought of my body as a thing whose job it was to haul my brain from place to place. It needed fuel and maintenance, like a machine. Aside from trying to keep it in good running order and ignoring occasional pains I didn’t give my body much thought. I certainly didn’t listen to it, or even consider that it might have something to say. I had no idea what meditation was for, and didn’t see the value in practicing it. I didn’t get it about experiencing or expressing things through the body. This book changed all that, creating openings for my sensei’s teachings to get through. I’m very glad I read it right at the beginning of my Aikido training.
Wendy Palmer is also a horsewoman, and was a student of Nadeau along with George Leonard – another link back to that lineage.
In Search of the Warrior Spirit, Fourth Edition: Teaching Awareness Disciplines to the Military – Richard Strozzi-Heckler
I found this book especially interesting because it takes a hard, real-world look at the applications of Aikido, somatic or embodiment training, and meditation practice. Solid work, with sometimes reluctant students, in a hard-core, all-business environment where results count. There’s nothing “airy-fairy” about it. The work done in this early experimental program continues to influence the development of US military personal today.
Richard Strozzi-Heckler is a prolific writer in the areas of Aikido, somatic theory (and its application), and leadership. All of his books are worth reading. He was also an early student of Nadeau Shihan, and a contemporary of George Leonard and Wendy Palmer Senseis.
Another of his books I recommend, especially if you are interested in work influenced by Nadeau, is Aikido and the New Warrior, which is a collection of about 15 short pieces by a variety of writers, several of whom trained (or continue to train) under Nadeau. Aikido and the New Warrior includes the essay mentioned above, On Getting a Black Belt at Age Fifty-Two, by George Leonard.
This is a great book for getting oriented as a new student! It includes the names of things, how some schools arrange items in the dojo, traditional events and celebrations, myths and legends about washing or not washing your belt, and what about those people who go around grunting “Oss!” I would guess his other books are worth reading, too, but I haven’t gotten to them yet.
Aikido Exercises for Teaching and Training: Revised Edition – Carol M. Shifflett
Shifflett’s background is, I think, in human anatomy and technical communication. She combines them in this book of easy-to-grasp information for beginners, and teachers of beginners. I only scanned through the book, right at the beginning of my training, and luckily stumbled on some good facts and tips that really helped me with a couple of chronic (until then) problems – some things no doctor or physical therapist had mentioned. If you are interested in the hows and whys of techniques, body mechanics, safe training, and health, I recommend getting this handy and information-dense book.
Japanese Language / Aikido Terminology
The Japanese terminology we use in Aikido can be intimidating to new students. Many more advanced students and even instructors use much of it by rote, without really understanding the meaning behind the words. The Language of Aikido: A Practitioner’s Guide to Japanese Characters and Terminology, by Michael Hacker, is hands-down the best book on the subject. Here’s what I said in my review of it on Amazon:
This is a book all Aikido people will want to read cover to cover, probably more than once. It is a detailed reference work, and also human and readable. Not only is it well-written, it’s also beautifully formatted.
I bought the Kindle version so I can have it with me on my phone, for reference, and am looking forward to both the print and audio versions. This may be the first book where I see good reason for buying all three formats!
I don’t say this lightly: this book is going to be an instant classic that every student of the art should own.
Some Classics Everyone Should be Familiar With:
The Art of Peace: Teachings of the Founder of Aikido – Morihei Ueshiba, Translated and Edited by John Stevens
This is the little book of Morihei Ueshiba (O Sensei) quotes you will find in every dojo, and you should have a copy. There’s a little pocked-sized edition, but I recommend the bigger standard paperback-sized one. The brief introduction by Stevens Sensei is one of the best “What is Aikido?” overviews I’ve come across. My copy of this book always has a dozen or so PostIt Notes hanging off it, marking things I want to share in class or with friends online. If you want to share a little Aikido philosophy with a friend, this book makes a great gift.
Of course, anything at all by O Sensei would be worth reading. This book is a good starting point. Accessible and easy to grasp… relatively.
It’s a Lot Like Dancing: An Aikido Journey – Terry Dobson
This book of personal, philosophical stories and beautiful photos should be on every Aikidoka’s bookshelf or coffee table.
A first-person report of a year of hard training in Japan. A very different kind of training, in a school of a different affiliation from mine, but good reading just the same.
Interested in Aikido History?
Although I have some of these books, I have not read most of them. I bought them on the recommendations of knowledgeable friends, and feel confident in passing those recommendations along to you. The name links below go to the respective author pages on Amazon.com, so you can see the complete listings of their books.
Anything by Donn F. Draeger.
Koryu Bujutsu: Classical Warrior Traditions of Japan – Diane Skoss
Anything by John Stevens.
Books about application of Aikido to Conflict Resolution, Leadership, Business, Health Care, Trauma Recovery and PTSD Therapy, Education, etc.
Coming soon …
More Books Worth Reading
Anything by Gaku Homma. I particularly enjoyed Aikido Sketch Diary: Dojo 365 Days, which follows a year in the life of an uchi-deshi (live-in student) at Homma Sensei’s Nippon Kan dojo in Denver, Colorado. It is a fascinating, casual, personal look at that kind of intensive training, and gives some good insights into dojo culture – especially helpful as an introduction for new students. (If you’re ever in the area, I hear the dojo has a very nice cultural center and sushi restaurant, too!)
Homma Sensei has generously shared a PDF version of Aikido Sketch Diary: Dojo 365 Days, for free, on his dojo website. It is 205 pages. If you like reading on a computer of tablet, check it out. If you like hard copies, it would probably be more economical to purchase the book.
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Disclaimer/don’t call me out for stealing content: I didn’t pinch this from Disney’s Inside Out, I’ve been pondering this question for a long time.
I think sadness probably has many purposes, but in the interests of keeping this post short enough to comfortably read in one sitting, I’ll only explain a few of my theories. I’ve not studied this from textbooks or questioned experts, it’s only what I’ve gathered from my own experience and the occasional video on the all- knowing, 100% reliable, television and internet 😊
I think sadness is first of all necessary in order to heal and move past events that cause distress or unfortunate situations. Sadness as an emotion, and specifically the shedding of tears can release hormones and chemicals in the body and brain including numbing agents and painkillers. Tears produced for different reasons (in response to pain, cutting onions, cool air being blown and/or intense emotions) contain different chemicals to deal with the situation. Put simply, crying until you feel numb is a real thing; it’s something your body does to help you feel less sad. It’s also the reason listening to sad music can make you feel happier – it intensifies the sadness and makes your body release happy chemicals to remedy the situation. Very melancholy art such as music can also make your life seem less upsetting in comparison to the unfortunate situations described in said art.
Sadness, unlike anger, is a passive emotion, so it can help keep you out of trouble. It makes you slow or shut down for a little while, preventing you from reacting in dangerous ways. Anger will get you fired up and can block your rational thinking, allowing you to jump to conclusions or make silly decisions that you wouldn’t make if you were sad. Being sad is little motivation to do anything; even if you’re sad because of a situation, you’re unlikely to be in a state to fix it. Sadness can be turned into anger more easily than the reverse, much like how it takes longer for tea or coffee to cool to room temperature than it does to first boil the water.
The third and final reason I’ll cover today is that sadness is useful as a communication tool, a distress call if you will, to others that you require assistance or help. If you see a person crying, you will notice it more so than if a person was smiling. It seems to set off a kind of trigger in the brain – probably because as humans we are a very social species. We as people need emotional support from each other, and as a result we can be very attuned to noticing sadness even if it isn’t obvious. It’s non-verbal communication at it’s finest. And when someone we love is sad, we want to help. So when we are sad, it is useful for us to communicate this to others in the hopes they can help.
So please don’t fear sadness, it’s there for a reason. Don’t be afraid to show emotions, you are a human who was designed to feel things. Hopefully you understand sadness a little more now, and if you can understand what it can do for you maybe you can learn to use it in your favour. If you can sense yourself getting fired up and don’t want to get into a fight, listen to some sad music. If you’re sad, don’t be afraid to cry until you can’t feel the pain anymore because it will really help. Don’t hide your sadness from others and put on a happy mask, because there are people who can help you if they just know that you’re feeling down. These ideas don’t completely explain extreme sadness or disorders/illnesses/conditions like depression, but hopefully they can be of some use to you. | <urn:uuid:14d95162-fa87-4c66-97d2-bde657170b63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://keyboardphilosopher.wordpress.com/2019/02/27/what-is-the-purpose-of-sadness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.955334 | 822 | 2.453125 | 2 |
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Adhesives are actually frequently used for bonding components for example UPVC, glass in addition to the a lot more the apparent locations involving Wooden and metallic. Glue varieties like PVA are in regular use not merely for bonding elements together but also for priming surfaces (in diluted sort). Water-resistant variants may also be often specified. Make contact with adhesives are on a regular basis specified for big sections of metallic, plastics, or decorative characteristics such as coving As an example. Usually readily available in tube type cartridges (demanding a dispensing gun), get adhesives are applied again for large sections or parts where nails or screws are to be avoided or are less attractive. If utilized adequately in accordance with the producers Guidance, seize adhesives can produce quite robust bonds. Resin type adhesives are made up of two aspects, which are combined at the point of use. Perhaps considerably superseded by The provision of prepared to use cartridge glues, resin does continue to come across a place Primarily the place robust bonds are expected for example anchor details for shelving - when employed along with screws or expanding bolts and so on.
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David De’ath hosted Wickford and Runwell history day at Christchurch Hall. On show were “finds” discovered at Beauchamps (School) dig in the 1960s and loaned by Southend Museum, and other Roman pots found by David in and around the area. His large collection of historical maps were also on show. Any profits from the day were donated to the Brain Tumour Trust. He invited Wickford Community Archive to put on a display of photos covering the period 1886 to 2012.
The Billericay Town Cryer announced the display all around central Wickford. If you were there you could not have missed him. Visitors began to arrive within minutes of him leaving the Hall. During the day we must have had over 200 visitors, all seemed very interested and more than one older resident met friends they had not seen for some time. They were able to have a sit down, a cup of tea and a natter. There were photos for all ages and modern ones for newcomers. Some of the photos had been paired “Then and Now”.
The Community Archive gave out many postcards with the Wickford History website address so hope that we will have many online visits in the coming months.
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Those suffering from blindness may be able to qualify for Social Security Disability in Kentucky. In this blog, we cover critical details regarding blindness and benefits, including qualifying for SSDI benefits, working while receiving benefits, and how the government calculates your benefits.
How Do I Qualify For SSDI Benefits for Blindness?
In order to qualify for Social Security Disability in Kentucky for blindness, you need to meet the Social Security Administration’s definition of blindness. The two factors that determine your eligibility to receive benefits involve your central vision acuity and vision field efficiency.
Central vision acuity refers to your ability to see things in front of you. If your central vision acuity is 20/200 or worse, you could be considered legally blind. An important qualification is that your vision needs to be 20/200 while using lenses. If you have less than 20/200 vision but you have corrective lenses that improve your vision, you likely won’t qualify for SSDI benefits.
If your central vision acuity is greater than 20/200, you may still be able to qualify for SSDI benefits through your vision field efficiency. Vision field efficiency refers to your peripheral vision. If your peripheral vision is 20 degrees or less, you could qualify for SSDI benefits.
Another important element with both central vision acuity and vision field efficiency is that the assessments have to involve your better eye. If one of your eyes sees 20/200 but your other eye sees 20/100, you wouldn’t qualify for SSDI benefits because your stronger eye is not legally blind.
To prove you meet the Social Security Administration’s qualifications, you’ll need to have your eyesight inspected by an optometrist or ophthalmologist.
Working While Receiving Benefits
Those receiving Social Security Disability in Kentucky have limitations regarding the amount of money they can earn per month, but those considered legally blind can earn a higher wage than those on other forms of SSDI benefits. As of 2022, those receiving SSDI benefits for blindness can still make $2,260 per month. If you earn more than $2,260, your SSDI benefits will end. Those receiving SSDI benefits not related to blindness can only earn $1,350 a month.
If you’re over the age of 55, the Social Security Administration will not end your benefits if you earn over the limit. Instead, you’ll qualify for benefits every month that you earn under $2,260.
How Are Blindness Benefits Calculated?
The Social Security Administration calculates your benefits based on your average lifetime earnings, so someone who made an average of $100,000 a year will receive more money in SSDI benefits than someone who only made $50,000.
Fortunately, the Social Security Administration offers a disability freeze rule for those who are legally blind. If you’re blind and you continue working, you can freeze your contributions to your average yearly income. This benefits those who make less than they did in previous years because of their disability. For example, if someone earned an average income of $50,000 before they became legally blind and now only make $30,000, they can use the disability freeze so that their yearly average remains at $50,000. The Social Security Administration’s disability freeze is only available to those who qualify for Social Security Disability Insurance benefits but are still working without receiving SSDI benefits.
Contact a Western Kentucky Social Security Attorney
Social Security Disability Insurance benefits are critical for those suffering from legal blindness, but, sadly, many applicants struggle with receiving the disability benefits they deserve. The process of receiving approval for SSDI benefits is time-consuming and is often difficult. In fact, the Social Security Administration denies 63% of SSDI applicants. Additionally, only 22% of applicants receive approval when they initially apply.
If the Social Security Administration denies your claim, you’ll likely need to undergo multiple appeals to prove that you qualify for SSDI benefits. Sadly, numerous applicants give up during the long and difficult process.
If you’re struggling to receive the Social Security Disability Insurance benefits you deserve, you need legal support to help you through the appeals process. Hiring an experienced Social Security attorney will help you prove your qualifications and receive the SSDI benefits.
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'An Evolutionary Throwback': Panda Filmed Eating Meat
The staff at a Chinese nature reserve have caught a very rare thing on film: a wild panda eating the meat of a dead widebeest.
"Staff at the Wanglong Nature Reserve in southwest Sichuan province set up the camera after noticing dead animals with chew marks. It was not known if the panda had killed the animals.
"The Pingwu County forestry bureau says the panda appears to be healthy and strong."
While pandas are known to mostly eat bamboo, they have been known to eat some meat. The World Wildlife Fund, which uses a giant panda as its logo, says that only about 1 percent of a panda's diet "is made up of other plants and meat."
What's interesting is what you hear Lin Youping, of the forestry department, say in the video. That watching this is watching an "evolutionary throwback."
The WWF adds that pandas are members of the bear family, so they have the digestive system of an animal that eats meat. "But they differ in the sense that they have adapted to a vegetarian diet," the WWF reports.
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Anil Jain, a jewellery shop owner in one of Mumbai's biggest gold markets, is worried about his business after the government recently raised the import tax on the precious metal.
"The import duty is a big blow and we expect business to go down by another 25 to 30 per cent because of it," says Mr Jain, whose shop is in the bustling Zhaveri Bazaar in India's financial capital alongside dozens of similar stores.
"We think there will be big momentum in smuggling of gold now, so the trade will go into the wrong hands," he adds.
In a surprise move, India's annual budget, unveiled by prime minister Narendra Modi's government this month, hiked the duty on gold imports to 12.5 per cent from 10 per cent even as the nation's demand for the yellow metal was taking a hit from higher prices.
Gold prices have risen to above $1,400 an ounce this year as investors turned to haven assets, as volatility continued in the oil market and Brexit and trade conflicts added to concerns about a weakening global economic outlook.
The US Federal Reserve’s dovish stance and expectations of interest rate cuts have also supported gold prices in recent weeks. The higher levy in India, the world’s second-largest consumer of the metal after China, adds to the price of gold in the domestic market.
“The import duty hike on gold will negatively impact India’s gold industry,” says Somasundaram PR, the managing director for India at the World Gold Council. “This will impede efforts to make gold as an asset class, particularly when gold prices are already rising globally. In addition, the grey market will thrive, which will dilute efforts to reduce cash transactions.”
Demand for gold jewellery totalled 598 tonnes in India last year, down slightly from 601.9 tonnes in 2017, according to the World Gold Council data. Gold carries great importance in Indian culture and tradition, being the centrepiece in weddings and religious festivals, and the precious metal is often used as a means of storing household savings.
But the Indian government is keen to reduce the country’s gold purchases because the vast majority of the precious metal has to be imported – a major burden on India’s current account deficit. Mr Modi’s government is also concerned that gold can be used as a means of storing illegal wealth.
In 2013, India raised taxes on gold three times in an effort to control its current account deficit. But high taxes on gold have led to a rise in smuggling. Up to 120 tonnes of gold was brought into India illegally in 2016, according to the World Gold Council. Reports in the Indian media of thwarted attempts to smuggle gold into the country via air and sea are frequent, and there are many cases that go undetected.
Industry insiders widely describe the tax hike in the budget as “disappointing”, explaining that the sector has struggled to recover from the impact of demonetisation, when the two highest-denomination banknotes were banned in November 2016, followed by the introduction of a new goods and services tax the following year. There had been widespread expectations in the sector that, if anything, the import tax would be reduced to bring some relief.
“The gem and jewellery industry is going through very tough times with a decline in exports and job losses and the industry expected some positive announcement as encouragement to our sector,” says Pramod Kumar Agrawal, chairman of an Indian trade body the Gem and Jewellery Export Promotion Council.
Industry members say the higher duty, which makes gold bought through legal channels more expensive, only further incentivises people to smuggle gold into the country to avoid paying the higher rates.
“Genuine and law-abiding businessmen will be affected,” says Anantha Padmanaban, the chairman of the All India Gem and Jewellery Domestic Council, an industry group, explaining that it is seeking an “immediate rollback and further reduction in the import duty on gold”.
The World Gold Council says that slower economic growth in India could also weigh on consumer demand for the precious metal in the near-term. India’s gross domestic production growth ground to a five-year low of 5.8 per cent in the first three months of this year, official figures show.
“We estimate that the recent announcement of a 2.5 per cent increase to gold’s import duty by the Indian ministry of finance may result in a reduction to 2019 demand of approximately 2.4 per cent,” the council said in a research note. The organisation adds that “if the higher levy was to become permanent, it could reduce long-term Indian consumer demand by slightly less than 1 per cent per year”.
Mukesh Kumar, a member of the council’s market intelligence group, wrote in a blog post that “we think [the tax hike] may be a temporary measure [and] when the government’s books are in better shape we may see some of these tax increases rolled back”.
Mr Kumar explains that the duty hike was part of a broader plan by the government to generate much-needed revenues for its coffers.
Some analysts say that even if gold prices are high, Indians are unlikely to dramatically lose their appetite for the yellow metal because of how deeply rooted demand for it is in India.
“I think the demand per se on an annual basis will not go down dramatically,” says Naveen Mathur, the director of commodities and currencies at Anand Rathi Shares and Stockbrokers, in Mumbai.
Many households, particularly in rural areas, prefer to store their savings by purchasing physical gold, rather than putting their money into banks.
Gold is considered an “idle” asset in terms of its role in the economy. Consequently, the government has made efforts to bring demand for the precious metal into the formal financial system in recent years, through the launch of a sovereign gold bonds scheme launched in 2017, for example.
“It’s a transition for India to move from the physical gold to gold as financial instruments because largely the rural population is still invested in physical gold,” says Mr Mathur. “For them, that’s the only channel for them to have any asset or save money. They’re still not inclined towards equities and so on. There’s still a long way to go.”
Sachin Kothari, the director at Augmont, a precious metal management company and digital gold platform in India, explains that gold as a formal financial investment is still popular.
“At an India level, where the consumption of gold is concerned, obviously demand has taken a hit,” he says. “But as far as the investment demand is concerned, people are regularly investing in gold. It’s considered a safe haven and it has a natural edge against inflation. It acts as a diversification for investors’ portfolios.”
He adds that he also wants the duty on gold to come down to discourage smuggling and give a boost to the sector.
Back in the Zhaveri Bazaar gold market in Mumbai, Mr Jain says he and some other jewellers plan to lobby the government to reconsider the duty hike. They are particularly worried because the festive season, which begins next month, is a peak time for gold purchases in the country.
Mr Jain fears the latest move could even put some jewellers and goldsmiths out of business.
"Why will people buy gold in India now, when they can buy it at cheaper prices abroad?" he says.
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Winternachten literary festival and the art of decolonization
The Jakarta Post, February 2, 2020, by: Linawati Sidarto
Former Dutch colonies are the focus at Winternachten in The Hague, one of the Netherlands’ biggest literary festivals. “Again, your excellency, we are in 1939, and just as your parliament expressed expectations that it would take at least another century before Indonesians are ready for independence, I am also voicing my expectations that before the end of the next decade, and most likely after a regrettably bloody independence struggle, I will be sitting at the same table with your Queen to discuss the independence of my country and my people.”
This imaginary letter from Mohammad Hatta, who at the time was jailed in Banda Naira and later became Indonesia’s first vice president, to then-Dutch prime minister Henrikus Colijn, was penned by Dutch author Reggie Baay. He and eight other writers — all with roots in Indonesia, South Africa, the Dutch Antilles or Surinam — wrote and read out the “letters” written to or from people of these former Dutch colonies. This performance in mid-January was part of the annual Dutch literary festival Winternachten (Winter Nights), which this year celebrated its silver anniversary.
“In 1995, we organized an arts festival to commemorate Indonesia’s 50th anniversary. We thought it would be a one-time thing,” said Winternachten founder Ton van de Langkruis. The Netherlands only recognized Indonesia’s independence, proclaimed in August 1945 by Sukarno, in December 1949. “It always puzzled me why Dutch performing arts did not weave our colonial history into their creations.” These thoughts resulted in Festival Indië/Indonesië (Dutch East Indies/Indonesia Festival) with 10 days of dance, music, theater, film, art and literature, featuring guests like Rendra and Sitor Situmorang. The last day of that festival was filled with discussions among participating writers, dubbed Indische Winternacht (Dutch East Indies Winter Night).
“After the festival, a number of writers asked me: Why only limit these literary discussions to one time?” Ton van de Langkruis recalled. “Thus, Winternachten became a regular event as a forum for writers to meet each other and their audience.” In 1998, the festival expanded from Indonesia to other regions where the Dutch had been present, such as South Africa, the Antilles and Suriname. While this further broadened with literati from countries such as Malaysia, India, Turkey, Iran and Morocco, Indonesia and Indonesians were almost always present.
In January 1999, for example, Winternachten’s theme was Reform in Indonesia in the wake of president Soeharto’s fall from power. The festival welcomed Eka Kurniawan in 2006, his first trip outside of Indonesia, years before he became an international sensation with the English translation of his book Beauty is a Wound in 2015. In addition to writers, it has also invited figures from other disciplines, such as Gadjah Mada University (UGM) historian Bambang Purwanto in 2007 and human rights watch activist Andreas Harsono in 2010.
Writers Unlimited, the foundation responsible for Winternachten, also organizes tours where four writers from four different regions, including from the Netherlands, would go to a country and interact with students. Indonesia is a regular destination, with visits to numerous cities such as Bandung in West Java, Yogyakarta, Bandar Lampung in Lampung and Makassar in South Sulawesi. To mark its silver anniversary this year, Winternachten revisited its first edition’s theme of liberation, decolonization and the Netherlands’ ties to Indonesia, Suriname, the Antilles and South Africa, noting that this also included “decolonizing the mind”.
Around a 100 writers, performers and musicians participated in the festival, including veteran Indonesian journalist and writer Goenawan Mohamad, who was also present at the first Winternachten, as well as newcomer Angelina Enny, who is active in writing and theater in addition to her day job as an accountant in Jakarta. Thousands of people attended the four-day event, spread over 10 locations in The Hague.
In a session about how Indonesia looks at its history, Goenawan said the following when asked about the country’s colonial past: “Our nation has had many traumas. Piles of new traumas sometimes set aside older ones, like colonialism. Maybe this is why we don’t talk as much about that time as the Dutch do.” This was further emphasized by Angelina, who is writing a novel about traumas surrounding mass violence after the failed coup in September 1965, blamed on the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI).
Her novel is inspired by her beloved nanny, who was a victim of the post-1965 tragedy and yet never spoke about it. “She passed away in our house and she was silent about it till the end.” This “silence”, in turn, also confronted Dutch poet, musician and actor Robin Block when he tried to find out more about the younger years of his grandparents in the Dutch East Indies. “It is the elephant in the room; some things are never discussed,” he said. Many Europeans and Eurasians, or Indo, living in the Indonesian archipelago were interned in camps during the Japanese occupation between 1942 and 1945.
After Indonesia proclaimed independence in August 1945, Dutch East-Indies civilians were caught in the midst of the physical and diplomatic war between Indonesia and the Netherlands, which ended in 1949. Between 1945 and the mid-1950s, some 300,000 people left Indonesia for the Netherlands. The legacy of the Dutch East Indies was at the center of a session with prominent Dutch writer Adriaan van Dis, and journalist, poet and musician Ellen Deckwitz, respectively second and third-generation Indisch, meaning that their parents and grandparents were either born or lived in Indonesia when it was under Dutch rule.
Adriaan, born in the Netherlands in 1946 from Dutch parents who felt rooted in Indonesia, grew up with half-siblings who had an Indonesian father. “I look as white as snow, and yet my whole household was Indisch. I wanted to be darker,” van Dis said, recalling his childhood.
Meanwhile, Deckwitz, who was partially brought up by her grandmother, said: “In a way, I inherited this feeling of displacement, of not really feeling at home anywhere.” Their Dutch East Indies background is amply represented in their writing, such as My Fathers War, one of Adriaan’s most successful books, and Higher Physics, Ellen’s book of poems.
Langkruis, who will step down as director after 25 years, hopes that Winternachten will continue to inspire audiences, particularly the younger generation. “Literature does not always mean it has to be on paper but can also be in the form of rap music or multimedia performances, a mixture of on-screen and on stage.” This seems to be working, at least for Artien Utrecht, who has attended almost all the Winternachten since 1995. “Young writers and poets tend to look forward. How do they relate to colonialism today and how do they find their own perspective in it? They often use multimedia, and this gives the festival a fresh infusion,” she said.
Philip Vencken, who spent his childhood in Jakarta in the 1950s, praised Winternachten as a “wonderful way to focus on this very special subject”. He particularly enjoyed the session between Adriaan and Ellen, noting that he could “fully identify” with their stories. | <urn:uuid:06e02e1e-fb5c-46dc-a6b4-160e4941ffc3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historibersama.com/winternachten-literary-festival-the-jakarta-post/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.97045 | 1,665 | 2.53125 | 3 |
The business community and consumers are continually expressing their concern regarding climate change, energy security and the increasing price of electricity. Within these scenarios, renewable energy technologies increasingly present themselves as viable alternatives. With the increased penetration of renewable generation sources on the electricity network, the aging grid infrastructure can struggle to cope with the operational challenges presented by these new technologies, such as intermittency, voltage rise and oversupply. A solution being employed to deal with these challenges is a relatively new grid structure known as a Microgrid.
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My Turn: Women vote differently, but they need to vote
My Turn: Women's suffrage came at great price. Yet Arizona ranks 43rd in the percentage of women who vote.
On Aug. 26, Arizona women will celebrate women’s right to vote. They will commemorate the sacrifices and perseverance of those who fought 50 years to secure for women the right to vote.
Women stood in pouring rain and freezing snow. They were beaten, jailed, went on hunger strikes, were force-fed and called crazy for wanting to vote. The women experienced harsh conditions in prison with poor sanitation, infested food and dreadful facilities.
Early fighters such as Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone and Sojourner Truth passed the torch on to other women such as Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns.
Anthony never lived to vote legally; she had been arrested for voting before the 19th Amendment passed. Paul never lived to see the Equal Rights Amendment passed — indeed, it’s not passed yet — but in spite of violence and abuse, betrayals and reversals, she and the other women never wavered in their dedication because the movement was not just for them. It was for the future — for us.
More women leaders, fewer women voters
Arizona women will celebrate the right to vote on Aug. 26 because in the 96 years that women have had the vote, the worst fears of the opposition in the 1800s have come true — women vote differently.
The gender gap has been apparent since 1980 and was decisive for the presidential victories of Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. It is expected that this election will produce the largest gap yet.
Voter-suppression efforts, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court in Shelby vs. Holder, redistricting shenanigans and the gridlock in Congress has, as intended, discouraged many from voting.
Arizona is in the top third of states with women representatives in the state Legislature, but there has been no improvement since 2004. In spite of the political representation by women, Arizona ranks 46th for the number of women registered (59.3 percent) and 43rd for the number who actually vote (46.8 percent) — a very low turnout indeed.
Women, like African-Americans, paid a high price for the right to vote.
Today, Baby Boomers and African-Americans vote at the highest rates because they understand the price paid and the value of constant civil-rights agitation.
Women of all ages need to understand the significance of their vote to elect the first woman president — a final vindication for the arrests, beatings, force-feedings and prison endured by women who fought for the right to vote.
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Inecraft is a game that allows players to explore, build and discover anything in an infinite sandbox environment. Minecraft offers a wide range of items to fit its infinite sandbox nature. Some items can be used to enhance and decorate players' structures and builds, such as the Totem of Undying.
The most commonly used blocks for building are decoration blocks. Blocks like brick, terracotta and prismarine can make a building look elegant and professional. Some blocks can also be used as light sources. These blocks can be used to decorate or illuminate certain parts of a structure. The sea lantern is one example of such a block.
Sea lanterns, beautiful underwater light sources, spawn in underwater structures such as ocean monuments or underwater ruins.
They emit the bluish, ghostly level 15 light which is the brightest level of the game and can be used to help players navigate Minecraft's oceans.
Redstone lamps, glowstone and lanterns are all examples of blocks that can produce light levels above 15: redstone lamps, redstone lamps, glowstones, lanterns, beacons shroomlights, conduits, and jack o’lanterns.
The "Silk Touch", enchantment that can be applied to sea lanterns, allows the player to pick them up with a pickaxe. The block will drop 2-3 prismarine crystals if it is broken with anything other than a pickaxe that has silk touch. Players can increase the number prismarine crystals that are dropped from the block by using the "Fortune", enchantment.
You can make sea lanterns on a Minecraft crafting bench. Two resources are required: prismarine shards, and prismarine crystals. These are the ingredients:
5 Prismarine crystals
4 Prismarine shards
Sea lanterns are not only useful for lighting up the sea, but they can also be used to perform a variety of other tasks. Here are some examples:
Sea lanterns can be used by players to activate a conduit. You can build a structure around the conduit. This will enable the conduit to emit "Conduit Power", within a defined radius.
The "Conduit Power", effect gives any player within its range three underwater status effects: Water Breathing (Night Vision), Haste, and Haste. You can also use prismarine bricks, dark prismarine and prismarine to perform this function.
Sea lanterns emit the "Clicks and Sticks” sound when placed under noteblocks.
Sea lanterns are transparent blocks that block sunlight. Players and mobs can become suffocated inside them. It also blocks the beam from a Beacon, preventing it from activating. It does not block chests opening and it is infeasible for slimes or monsters to spawn on it. It does not transmit redstone signals. | <urn:uuid:de6acecd-45d3-4d3b-a75d-709b1c201749> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://minecraft-servers.cloud/how-to-get-sea-lanterns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.900679 | 567 | 2.53125 | 3 |
When first landscaping your garden, it is easy to get a sense of the layout.
A feature area provides aesthetic appeal and makes your garden memorable as well as beautiful in the evening or during the day.
The one thing that makes a feature area unique is that it was designed by you!
What Type of Style Are You Going For?
One of the first things you need to decide when planning to create a feature area in your garden is the style of your choice.
The style of your feature area will add a certain amount of formality to the overall look and feel of your garden.
To create a feature area, yard grading will be necessary along with some landscaping. You will need to make sure that you check with local authorities before any grading or landscaping takes place.
Be sure that the area you are working on is not in a flood zone or near sewer lines, gas lines, power lines, and so on.
Where to Place Your Feature Area
The question of where to place your feature area is also important.
Feature areas come in all different shapes and styles. You may decide to greater a water feature using a pond or pool, or you may even decide on a structural feature like one of the beautifully constructed Eco Rooms that are perfect for gardens.
Now, unless you have the space for an entire backyard full of features, then you may be more inclined to consider the ideal spot for creating your feature area and then planning around and for it, this is called “landscaping”.
Color Palettes for Your Garden Feature Area
Now that we have figured out what type of style and location for your feature area, it’s time to think about colors.
You will want to consider the natural colors of the area you are working with, as well as seasonal considerations of light.
The best way to ensure a cohesive look is to create a color palette based on the colors you have chosen.
This helps to create a sense of harmony throughout your garden.
Garden Ornaments and Accessories to Beautify the Area
To build appeal and add interest to the feature area, garden ornamentals are an ideal choice.
These include such things as sculptures, statues, bonsai trees, bird baths or feeders, and fish. These can be placed in a variety of locations suitable for their intended purpose (for example a sculpture can go anywhere but you’ll want to be able to see it).
An ornamental pond or pool also adds to a feature area’s uniqueness.
If you have chosen to create a structural feature in your garden it is important that you consider issues of safety as well as aesthetics when creating such an element.
Safety is a huge concern when you have a water structure in your garden.
If you choose to create an ornamental pond or water feature (like the one shown below) be sure that there are no exposed sharp edges that may injure anyone walking through your garden.
Another option is to put in a structure like a gazebo, stand-alone platform, archway, pergola, deck, or eco room. | <urn:uuid:09b7e3ad-0fdb-493a-8c58-e80bf8ac2965> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.letangerois.com/how-to-create-a-stylish-feature-area-in-your-garden/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.945505 | 644 | 2 | 2 |
Australia-based Silex Systems Limited has announced the execution of a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) between Global Laser Enrichment (GLE) and Constellation Energy Generation for the purpose of assessing areas of cooperation in the nuclear fuel supply chain. The LOI identifies a number of key areas of potential cooperation, including measures to support GLE’s deployment of the Silex laser enrichment technology in the US and diversifying US domestic uranium, conversion and enrichment capabilities and capacity.
GLE is the exclusive licensee of the Silex laser technology for uranium enrichment and is a 51%/49% jointly-controlled, joint venture between Silex and global uranium and nuclear fuel provider Cameco Corporation. Subject to market conditions, regulatory requirements and other factors, GLE could become a significant contributor to nuclear fuel production in the US for the world’s current and future nuclear reactor fleets. GLE said it is uniquely positioned, through its ongoing commercialisation of the Silex technology, to address the “triple opportunity” emerging in the nuclear fuel supply chain as a result of global climate change and geopolitical issues. These include:
- Tails processing at the Paducah Laser Enrichment Facility in the USA to produce natural grade uranium hexafluoride (UF6) and help alleviate UF6 conversion supply pressure;
- Building capacity to supply enrichment (separative work units) to the market for the production of Low Enriched Uranium (LEU) and Low Enriched Uranium plus (LEU+); and
- Building additional capacity to produce High Assay LEU (HALEU) fuel for next generation advanced small modular reactors. | <urn:uuid:3f6be0f7-1a67-4d47-9a16-bcba99941147> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.neimagazine.com/news/newsgle-and-constellation-to-assess-potential-cooperation-in-nuclear-fuel-supply-chain-9775634 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.888922 | 347 | 1.710938 | 2 |
A PC video card is an extension card that allows a PC screen to show pictures, pictures and different graphics. It is one the numerous PC equipment vital for a PC to work appropriately. The PC video card is otherwise called a graphics quickening agent card, show connector or graphics card. Something beyond a PC segment for showing graphics, the video card adds to the speed at which pictures are delivered onscreen – the quantity of casings every second. It contains a graphics preparing unit that communicates signs to the PC screen. A PC video card’s speed is controlled by various variables including center clock speed, memory clock speed and number of pixel pipelines. The center clock speed of a PC video card speaks to the quantity of clock cycles the GPU can perform every second. It is communicated in megahertz. The memory clock speed is like the center clock speed however gauges the speed of the video card’s memory.
A PC video card with more pixel pipelines can handle pictures quicker than one with less pixels. A video card with 4 pipelines may have the option to handle half the same number of pixels as a video card with 8 pipelines, accepting that the two cards have a similar center clock speed. Memory data transmission likewise assumes a part in the general speed and proficiency of a PC video card. Memory transmission capacity is the speed by which the GPU moves information to graphics memory. With a higher memory transmission capacity, a video card will have the option to recover information from its memory quicker. Like sound cards, network interface cards and certain other PC segments, video cards can be coordinated into a motherboard or sold independently. In many occasions, coordinated video cards are less incredible than isolated, committed video cards.
This can cause slacks in execution particularly if the PC client is running graphics-serious programming or different nvidia applications simultaneously. Very good quality devoted video cards offer included capacities for example, video catch and FireWire uphold. They may likewise brandish outside ports that grant the expansion of an additional PC screen and a S-Video Out port that allows the PC to speak with a TV. These amazing video cards can sell for as much as two or three thousand dollars which make them extravagant PC segments. For the standard PC client who just uses his PC to ride the Web or run office applications, an incorporated video card can stay aware of all registering undertakings. For PC gamers, graphics architects and other hefty interactive media programming clients, an amazing graphics card combined with other top of the line PC equipment are fundamental for smoother and clearer graphics activities. | <urn:uuid:1a571a0b-2da8-475d-b093-d932f526fdce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ivernature.com/what-is-a-computer-video-card-need-to-know/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.929273 | 509 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Beaconing is one indicator of what a piece of the future of mobile commerce might look like.
Rather than information being pushed to a consumer at some random time or location, beacons are starting to be used to pre-identify what information or service a shopper may need and provide that information at the most relevant moment.
Yesterday, I caught up with Dave McMullen, co-founder of Nashville ad agency Redpepper, who sees beacons as facilitating a type of digital concierge service.
Redpepper recently created a spinoff just to deal with beaconing. It has its own app (Taonii), at least for beacon demonstration purposes, but primarily sells its technology for retailers to use anonymously inside their own apps.
The idea is that the app taps into the merchant’s other customer tracking and sales systems so that behavioral data is included in the beaconed activity.
“It’s great if it’s perfect timing,” said McMullen. And that is the great potential of beaconing: timing the perfect messaging to a person in the most relevant context.
In the case of Taonii, the technology behind the scenes pre-determines what information is sent to a shopper. When downloading the app, the consumer also creates a profile of personal interests by giving a thumbs up or down to a series of one-word items.
From a larger perspective, that is what the Internet of Everything (IoE) is all about: making meaningful connections, not just from machine to machine (M2M), but from technologies to people.
In the future, the consumer will have to add less information manually for desired results, since networked sensors of all types will continually tap into the cloud, where usage of big data will be leveraged in a big way.
Beaconing is just the tip of a very big iceberg. | <urn:uuid:d3173db6-4d4b-4b9e-b736-80d38fffd79c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/242524/beaconing-the-internet-of-everything.html?edition=79676 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.927003 | 399 | 1.960938 | 2 |
What’s more intimidating than a determined Jewish mother? How about 500 of them?
At Moms on a Mission, a VolunTeam organized through Jewish Volunteer Connection, a group of Jewish mothers are dedicated to providing the local community with support to get through challenging times.
“It’s kind of like a combination of a mom’s night out, where we can do a little bit of good in the community, help out different organizations, but also have that social piece and connect with other moms in the community who have kids of similar ages,” said Laurie Rosen of Pikesville, the group’s team leader.
The group currently has 535 members, who typically meet once a month in groups that have ranged from 15 to 30 and spend their time on a plethora of different volunteer projects. These have included collecting 334 children’s winter hats for Weekend Backpacks for Homeless Kids, sending 160 individually packed dinners to the Ronald McDonald House, collecting 590 peanut butter and jelly sandwiches on behalf of Our Daily Bread and raising $2,000 in March of 2019 to purchase bagels for the staff of area hospitals.
JVC provides assistance by identifying partner organizations in need of volunteer manpower, or womanpower as the case may be, and connecting them with the Moms on a Mission group, Rosen said.
Rosen started the group in October of 2019.
After two years of working as a community connector with the Macks Center for Jewish Education, planning and organizing different events, Rosen realized she still wanted to stay connected in the Jewish world but was not sure in what capacity. Staff at JVC suggested she begin one of their VolunTeams, and she realized it was an opportunity to combine her passion for volunteering while being social and connecting with the community. She began with a simple Facebook group that has since taken off.
The Moms on a Mission VolunTeam had held six in-person events when the pandemic began in March of 2020. After that, the group pivoted to holding virtual events from April to July. From August to November, they began holding in-person events with social distancing and mask wearing. They returned to virtual programming in December and January, but are hoping to hold an in-person event in February.
Word of mouth has played a major role in the group’s membership, Rosen said. Members of the group commonly invite their friends or neighbors to tag along. Members aren’t required to be Jewish, but Rosen estimated that only a handful were not.
The only requirement for joining is that members have at least one child under 10 years old. This helps give all members a subject of conversation and common ground to stand on, Rosen said.
“You might have a child, let’s say a preschooler, who’s struggling with their sleep, and then you find that at an event you’re talking to another mom who also has a preschooler who’s struggling with their sleep,” Rosen said. “So we just kind of find that keeping that age range just makes it more relatable.”
When asked what she hopes members get from the experience, Rosen said that “I hope that they feel good about doing something good, knowing that we can put all of our heads or hands together … and help our community. And they get to walk away, hopefully, with a new friendship … and meet other moms of kids of similar ages.” | <urn:uuid:4ff0e4b2-9a4b-4523-a06d-12716dcfab22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jewishtimes.com/volunteer-group-500-moms-strong-serves-community-and-friendships/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974361 | 715 | 1.585938 | 2 |
|Posted: May 23, 2017|
Research reveals insights into optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures(Nanowerk News) University of Arkansas researchers have helped define the optical properties of plasmonic nanostructures, work that could lead to improved sensors in security and biomedical devices, and have applications in solar cells. The research team in the Department of Physics recently published its findings in the journal PLOS ONE ("Calculated thickness dependent plasmonic properties of gold nanobars in the visible to near-infrared light regim").
|Plasmons are waves of electrons on the surface of a metal. The frequency of these electronic waves can be altered to couple with light by changing the particle size, shape, material and surrounding environment. The plasmons can increase light intensity and focus the light down to nanoscale volumes, which can be useful for a variety of nanoscience applications.|
|The core of the work is the subject of graduate student Pijush K. Ghosh’s master thesis in physics. Ghosh collaborated with fellow graduate students Desalegn T. Debu and David A. French for the journal article, titled “Calculated thickness dependent plasmonic properties of gold nanobars in the visible to near-infrared light regime.” The students are part of a physics research group led by assistant professor Joseph Herzog.|
|This work explores the optical properties of rectangular-shaped gold nanoparticles, in particular how they scatter light and the strength of the scattered light near the nanoparticle. The researchers determined how variations in the structures’ geometry affected how they coupled with light, making it easier to work with structures that aren’t perfectly square. The findings could enable plasmonic devices, such as sensors, to be more accurately tuned for a specific application.|
|“Making nanostructures with perfectly square corners is difficult using common nanofabrication techniques,” Ghosh said. “In our work, we investigated realistic structures with rounded corners. The work determined the difference in resonance wavelength of round-corner and sharp-corner nanobars. We also found how the spectrum precisely shifts as you make thicker nanobars. This reveals insight into another dimension of the structures that allows for more control and tunability of these plasmonic nanostructures.”|
|Ghosh is pursuing his doctorate in electrical engineering. He is working on a thin-film capacitor project with funding from the U of A’s Center for Power Optimization of Electro-Thermal System, a National Science Foundation-sponsored center.|
|Source: University of Arkansas|
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The SOMEONE (SOcial Media EducatiON Every day) initiative was launched in April 2016 and is currently funded by Employment and Social Development Canada and the Michaelle Jean Foundation. It consists of a web-based portal of multimedia materials aimed at preventing hate speech and building resilience towards radicalization that leads to violent extremism.
The materials target youth, school and community members, public policy officials, as well as the broader public by focusing on the development of critical thinking and information literacy skills, and encouraging democratic dialogues in online and offline spaces.
Through twenty-one (21) distinct projects — all led by practicing researchers —, the initiative has seen the rigorous development and evaluation of curricular activities for elementary, secondary and post-secondary institutions. Such activities include, but are not limited to:
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Our work is framed in principles of social pedagogy which encourages the inclusive adoption of mobile and digital media by members of the public to create alternative narratives to the divisive and violent messages propagated by hate groups. With the rise of hate speech both online and offline, it becomes increasingly urgent to ensure that social, public and curricular policies related to public safety, education and the common good are guided by empirical and theory-driven research such as that conducted by the Project SOMEONE’s team and its growing network of partners. | <urn:uuid:047ada67-df56-4f3b-88c2-3d7d4a82c957> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chaireunesco-prev.ca/en/projects/project-someone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.943997 | 315 | 2.96875 | 3 |
GIRLGUIDING is celebrating its’ centenary this year and to mark the special occasion, members of Cheshire Border have entered a garden into the RHS Tatton Flower Show.
The back-to-back garden - entitled ‘Growing Girls Growing Guiding’ includes ideas by girls from across the county, co-ordinated by Guide Leader Libby Mooney.
The final drawings have been designed by two Manchester Metropolitan University students, Danielle Bentley and Louise Nugent.
The garden has traditional but will show how Guiding is a modern, forward thinking organisation with over half a million members in the UK.
The garden includes a water feature to symbolise the global nature of Guiding, a carved wooden owl, silver birch tree and a beautiful wrought iron bench. They are brought together around a curving pathway to symbolise the journey girls make.
The garden will feature planting to attract wildlife and lots of the flowers in the centenary colours of pinks, blues and yellows.
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MS Calculator – software for the calculation of the elemental composition, the molecular weight, fragmentation and isotope ratios from the measured spectra.
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Pictures frequently say more than volumes of text, and they often say it more effectively. Pro-life leaders and educators know the amazing power these images have to change the hearts and minds of people on abortion. Individuals often forget what is said in pro-life educational presentations or written in literature. However, they almost always remember the dramatic images of life developing in the womb.
America has become a visual society. It is evident in the way advertisers market their products. Visual graphics and pictures are a crucial part of the World Wide Web. Web sites are primarily designed to communicate visually.
Life Issues Institute is regularly asked for fetal development pictures for use in educational applications. Yes, quality pictures of unborn babies are available. However, they are often exorbitantly expensive and highly regulated in their use. Many good photographs are prohibited from being used when associated with the abortion issue.
The primary goal of Life Issues Institute is to serve the educational needs of the pro-life movement. With this in mind, we searched for and located quality fetal development pictures that we can offer at a very affordable price, while also providing unlimited usage.
Life Issues Institute is very pleased to offer Windows to the Womb, 19 new images of unborn babies of the finest quality. Each of these documented photographs, taken in Poland, are available on CD in three different resolutions, depending upon the application.
Our primary concern is not to make money on the sale of these images, but to distribute them as widely as possible. The abortion industry knows as well as we do that visually seeing the beauty and humanity of the unborn child will change the hearts and minds of the people who see them. As a result, all 19 images on CD are available for only $20.00, including shipping and handling. A full-color insert providing documentation and the images is included.
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Hold up, gents: we all know sleep deprivation can reduce muscle growth – but did you know dozing too much can also inhibit progress? In this world of online fitness gurus and eight-week programs sometimes it’s hard to discern fact from fiction. Not to mention: opening Instagram and thumbing past several sets of conflicting advice (all in the same minute) can leave you more confused than enlightened.
Enter: Peter O Reilly, a fitness coach who does not sway with trends. Instead, Peter uses scientific data to guide his advice. To that end, Peter recently posted a graphic to Instagram which everyone – whether you’re an insomniac office worker, a carb-backloading gym-junkie or a layabout student – should take note of, if you want to achieve your muscle-building potential.
The ideal way to sleep for maximum fat loss and muscle gain.
While the popular belief seems to be that ‘six hours is basically fine’ and ‘anything over eight is awesome’ neither of those statements are true; if you want to achieve peak fitness, sleeping for as close to eight hours as possible appears to be your best option.
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“A study carried out in 2010 investigated the effects of sleep duration on body composition in people that maintain a moderate caloric deficit,” Peter captioned the post. “The researchers found that sleeping 8 hours per day results in more fat loss and muscle preservation when compared to sleeping only 5 hours per day.”
So far so intuitive.
Things then got interesting, when Peter pointed out that, “The research found… a significant difference between the two groups’ results as the group that slept for 8 hours lost on average 50% more fat than the group sleeping for just 5 hours.”
Not only that but, as Peter reveals, “More recent research supports [the idea that] sleep restriction tends to negatively affect muscle preservation and fat loss while on a fat loss diet.”
“So… getting an adequate amount of sleep is more important than you think! It’s best to aim for at least 7 hours and no more than 10!”
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Adjustable glasses enable a greater range of comfortable body positions and postures by increasing the size of the focussed vision field. With adjustable glasses, the body and eyes can relax into the best posture and position, leaving the mind to fully concentrate on performance.
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To solve these problems Hilo adjustable A‐frames were invented. Adjustable glasses adjust the glasses instead of the body and eyes to allow better ergonomic postures and relaxed eye positions to eliminate stress, pain and distraction to keep you in the zone.
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by Andrea Lundgren
In writing, there is generally a push to be original, as there is with most art. To do something new, exciting, and fresh. To break out of the old molds and create a masterpiece.
But I think most of us write a more “collective” version of fiction, where we share a theme, an archetype, a trope, or a plot device with another work. And this isn’t a bad thing. It can actually be a strength. When we admit to being similar to something else, we can actually use what has come before to sharpen our own work.
You see, the trouble with being “new and different” is that such stories don’t always resonate with readers. They may be noteworthy, but they may not mean much to people, in general. They don’t relate to any archetypes (which is a long name for the ordinary human longings which humanity, in general, experiences–to be saved from punishment, to be loved, to have life conquer death, light defeat darkness, etc.).
The old stories lasted and were returned to, over and over again, because they meant something to the people who heard and read them. They play our heartstrings, speaking to us in a deep way, and hitting notes we long to hear. Thus, these stories are considered worth preserving, worth sharing, and worth reading again, even when other, new stories come along.
So here’s a look at some of the common archetypes that appear in fiction (and movies).
- Cinderella story. We’ve all seen these, good and bad, to the point where it has become a cliché, but a Cinderella story is one in which the hero goes from “rags to riches.” Thus, King Arthur (going from the orphan Wart to the recognized king of the realm), Joseph and Moses in Egypt (going from powerless to powerful), and The Little Princess all fit this mold. Even stories like Mansfield Park, where the heroine goes from being unwanted and unappreciated to being valued and loved have a Cinderella aspect. The archetype is there because we all long for things to improve, to get better, for the worst to be the turning point where things start getting better, where what looks like defeat turns into glorious success.
- Savior story. This doesn’t have to be Christian, though Christian fiction often uses this archetype. It occurs where a world (or person) is in trouble and a hero must come, sacrificing greatly to save what is otherwise lost. In this vein, we have stories like Captain America, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Casablanca, and Gweneviere and Lancelot and their sacrifice of their love for the good of Camelot (which didn’t entirely work, probably because the sacrifice was too little, too late). I’d even say that, in some ways, Pride and Prejudice fits this mold because Darcy rescues the Bennett family from complete social ruin and gives up his family pride for the sake of Elizabeth.
- Revenge story. While this isn’t always the happiest of plots, revenge has a long-standing tradition and links with the archetypal longing for justice, for wrongs to be righted. In this respect, many westerns with vigilante justice as part of their plot belongs to this category, as does The Count of Monte Cristo, Hamlet (up until Hamlet returns to Denmark, in my opinion; at that point, he has given justice into the hands of Providence), and one of the plots in The Princess Bride (“Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”) To some degree, I suppose even the Harry Potter series has a touch of this, where Harry is trying to stop the villain who killed his parents.
These are just a sampling of the many archetypes available to writers, but all speak to a desire. We long for justice, for riches/love/beauty, and for salvation from troubles, and thus, plots where these things are addressed and lived out have a deeper quality to them.
And then we have the “almost archetypes:” variation fiction where we repeat a theme, motif, or trope, but we don’t tap into anything deeper. This includes the “hero-in-training” plot, where we spend copious amounts of time on how a gangly, awkward youth becomes a tough, capable fighter. The “transformation romance,” where a less-than-lovely tomboy becomes a dazzling young woman, captivating all the men around them. The “survivor” plot, where it is a battle to the end to see who will live and enjoy great victory and who will get knocked out of the challenge. The “epic battle” plot, where everything builds to a big climactic fight, and the “political intrigue” plot, where you never know who you can trust.
And, while these can be amusing, they don’t always have as much intrinsic power, I think, on their own because they lack archetypal “umph.” They don’t speak to a particular desire so much as tell a particular kind of story, and while they can be sharpened and deepened by including an archetype in them, they often remain a “bare bones” plot, and when you run into it, you say to yourself, “Ah, yes, we’re in for that sort of story.”
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Request For Permission Definition and Legal Meaning
On this page, you'll find the legal definition and meaning of Request For Permission, written in plain English, along with examples of how it is used.
What is Request For Permission?
“Courtroom procedure where one party requests that the opposition admits to certain facts’ validity. For purposes of the case at hand, the facts are then assumed to be true if the party admits their validity or does not respond in a timely fashion. | <urn:uuid:61f923ca-326d-4637-acc5-d7467a63ceac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legal-explanations.com/definition/request-for-permission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.917598 | 101 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Young people across the world’s largest advertising markets will spend more time accessing the internet via mobile than via all other devices combined by 2018.
This is the key finding from a new global insight study into changes in mobile behaviour conducted by ZenithOptimedia and GlobalWebIndex.
The research, using GWI’s panel of 200,000 internet users, found that within three years, 16-24 year-olds across 34 of the world’s largest advertising markets will spend more time accessing the internet via mobile than via all other devices combined, regardless of their location. Some countries, such as Mexico and Saudi Arabia, have already reached this tipping point.
The first of the top 10 advertising markets to reach the ‘mobile tipping point’ is Brazil. By 2016 Brazil will see its population of 16-24 year olds spend more time accessing the web via mobile than all other devices. South Korea and Argentina will also reach the mobile tipping point next year. China and Japan – the second and third biggest advertising markets (ZenithOptimedia’s Advertising Expenditure Forecast September 2015) – will hit the tipping point in 2017. USA and Germany (the first and fifth biggest markets) will pass the tipping point in 2018 followed by UK (fourth biggest) in 2019.
In our study, entitled The Mobile Imperative, presented at dmexco 2015, ZenithOptimedia and GWI found that across all 34 markets surveyed, 41% of Mobile First users – defined as those with 90% internet access via mobile handsets – are from the 16-24 age group. A further 31% of Mobile First users are aged between 25 and 34. The markets which currently have the highest penetration of Mobile First users across all age groups are in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, 11% and UAE, 8%) and Scandinavia (Sweden, 8%). Not surprisingly, the majority (63%) of Mobile First users live in urban environments.
Mobile First users spend a significantly large amount of time on the mobile web, on average 3.59 hours per day, and 23% said they had bought a product via mobile in the last month. The most popular mobile web activity for Mobile First users is using a social networking service, coming in at 44%. This is closely followed by checking the weather (38%) and watching an online video (22%) – which has significant implications for marketers investing in content programmes. ZenithOptimedia and GWI also found that changes in mobile behaviour are set to have a significant impact on online search, which has been one of the key drivers of the internet economy, worth $140bn (US) last year, according to eMarketer.
From the study, we found that use of search engines for research, across all internet users, dropped by six percentage points between Q1 2014 and Q1 2015, from 55% to 49%. The change is even more pronounced for 16-24 year olds, dropping 10 percentage points from 53% to 43%. This trend is being driven primarily by the rise in app usage. Mobile behaviour is fundamentally app-based – apps represent 86% of time spent on mobile (source: Flurry) – which has had a profound effect on browser usage via mobile. We are also seeing the rise of ‘social discovery’, with the top eight social networks driving over 30% of traffic to websites last year – up from 22% the previous year (source: Buzzfeed).
Today’s 16-24 year-olds are already online via mobile for more than three hours each day, showing just how much smartphones have already changed the game. However, by 2018, our global forecasts shows that the time they devote to mobile will outpace all other devices combined – a significant tipping point which will herald the arrival of the truly Mobile First consumer.
Jason Mander, Head of Trends, GlobalWebIndex
In just three years’ time mobile will outstrip all other digital devices combined when it comes to young people’s share of internet time. This has profound implications for marketers, many of whom will need to accelerate their mobile programmes to keep pace with the rapid consumer adoption of mobile.
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Autumn in Aarang Kel
Located close to River Neelum, the town of Aarang Kel is a beautiful reminder of why Kashmir is referred to as heaven on earth
Having heard about the beautiful Aarang Kel numerous times from friends, it was on my bucket list for a long time. So October last year, I and two of my friends found ourselves en route to Kel from Muzaffarabad. It took us around eight hours to reach Kel after an exploratory lunch break at the Shardah and a few other short stops along the Neelum River. The drive was beautiful but the road was not. We had the blue waters of Neelum River continuously flowing alongside us and most of the valley was forested with tall green pines. Though the tourism facilities are still limited, one can clearly see why Kashmir is referred to as heaven on earth.
We stayed at Kel for the night, which is one of the last big towns in the upper Neelum Valley. The road continues for another three hours and ends at Taobut near Pakistan’s disputed border with India. Close to Taobut, the Kishan Ganga River enters Pakistan and its name changes to Neelum River. At Kel, we had some amazing freshwater trout dinner before we went to sleep. We were ready to head for Aarang Kel early in the morning.
We drove for five minutes towards the Neelum River which was at a few hundred meters drop from where we had parked our jeep. When it was time to cross the river we found out that a locally made but reasonably maintained cable car would take us across the river to the Aarang Kel side of the deep gorge. There was only one car or cabin to take people across and bring them back. As it was early October and off-season, there was no rush and we were on the cable car in no time. Frankly, the ride was breathtaking with cold winds blowing in our face as well as somewhat hair raising and we kept saying our prayers constantly. However, the beautiful scenery with Neelum River below and thick green jungle all around clearly was worth the adventure.
Sitting in the cable car, we could see the beautifully forested mountain wall in front of us. Our guide told us that Aarang Kel meadows are on the top of this nearly vertical mountain wall. We landed into a thick jungle on the other side of the river. It was time for the thirty-or-so minutes’ steep hike to the top. The hike was on a well-trodden but narrow path and we were soon panting for breath. We were sweating even though it was cold with almost no sunlight reaching us through the thick jungle. It was heartening to see many other tourists even at this time of the season. A good proportion were families from Karachi.
After puffing, panting and resting a few times, we finally saw the landscape opening up into a plateau and soon entered the expansive Aarang Kel meadows. We were lucky to find a gracious fellow on the route who was staying at the Army hut at one of the vantage points in the meadows. So we took some rest and after having tea and some nice pakoras, it was time to explore the vale. A part of the meadows is occupied by typical Kashmiri houses and some modern Swiss cottages while the larger part is still farms, water streams and forests.
It was, of course, a treat to find two Mercedes Benz trucks and a tractor at the meadows. I could not help wonder that if the only way to the meadows is through the steep hiking trail, how were these beasts transported to the meadows? Locals informed me that these vehicles are the collective property of the village and were brought from time to time in parts, getting re-assembled on reaching the meadows. One of the trucks having served the community for decades now stands quietly in the middle of the meadows watching the village turn into a bustling tourist spot over years.
After strolling through the village for some time, we crossed a nullah towards the jungle and meadows at the base of the mountains overlooking Aarang Kel. Besides pines, we could see walnut trees and potato and other farms. There were meadows all around and the pine jungles from meadows to the mountain top varied from golden yellow to light green to green. We walked for a couple of kilometres from the village into the jungle at the base of the mountains and it gave us a lovely view of the colourful Aarang Kel village.
We stayed at Kel for the night, which is one of the last big towns in the upper Neelum Valley. The road continues for another three hours and ends at Taobut near Pakistan’s disputed border with India. Close to Taobut, the Kishan Ganga river enters Pakistan and its name changes to Neelum river.
We sat in the jungle for some time listening to our guide who would conveniently bring in the topic of how close the Indian border was and the chances of our being captured by Indians whenever we asked him to explore a bit further into the jungle. The view from the jungle at the base of the mountains was beautiful. We had golden yellow trees between us and the village which looked beautiful with bright and colourful rooftops. Behind the village we could see mountains soaring up into the skies with peaks covered with snow and all of this was under a clear blue sky. Aarang Kel is indeed a picture-perfect postcard village.
After having another nice cup of tea at the army hut, we took a parting look at this heaven on earth and left for the hiking trail. Despite what you may think, while ascending a mountain hill takes a toll on your lungs, steep descent is equally unpleasant for your knees. We reached the cable car in twenty minutes and after waiting for some time, we were again on board the cable car on our way back to Kel.
Besides the army huts, there are a few second-tier hotels in Aarang Kel. However there is definitely a need to develop better boutique hotels in Aarang Kel along with strict regulations for tourists. It is still beautiful and it appears that people of Aarang Kel, as well as the government, are conscious to keep the village clean. However a more deliberate effort to make Aarang Kel the next sustainable tourist destination is needed. Similarly, it would be good if the government can replace the current locally assembled cable car with a proper cable car system both to avoid the rush in summers and also to ensure safety. Aarang Kel is definitely recommended for an overnight stay to imbibe the true spirit of this heaven on earth as the sunrise and evenings at the village are scenic beyond any description.
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The kummut, also known as (particularly in North American) a bureau or a dresser, is a kind of cabinet (which is the piece of the furniture) that’s multiple parallels, horizontal drawers usually stacked one after another.
Determinants To Consider When Buying The Kummut
You’ll be required to view the below mentioned essential factors before deciding on a chest of drawers:
- Firstly, get exact dimensions to gauge when your drawer fits existing space whilst simultaneously viewing other vital aspects like windows and doors.
- Make sure the very presence of the gliders helps drawers close and open placidly.
- Consider the no. of drawers you will require.
- Opt for hardware and finishes that will embellish the existing home furniture.
- Measure the height when you decide on placing the table lamp, decorative items, or mirrors on top of a cabinet.
Advantages of Having the Chest of Drawers
- It can be utilized to store clothing like underwear, towels, socks, and several other things.
- It can also be utilized to store utensils and knives away from access to kids.
- The top region can be enhanced with vases, table lamps, and several other decorations.
- One can keep their books, phone, laptop, and several other electronics away in their drawer cabinet.
- It can conveniently be placed in the garage to store essential tools.
- It can even be utilized to store video games, CDs, and toys, in the children’s bedroom.
What differentiates a chest of drawers from a dresser?
Chests of drawers happen to be somewhat taller and narrower when compared to dressers that are generally wider and shorter. They can house identical things. However, it just boils down to the size. Dressers even tend to possess the mirror kept direct on them, whilst chests of drawers generally endure on their own; at most, they are placed next to the full-length mirror.
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Sulkhan treads carefully past shacks where goats are busy digesting the next batch of eco-friendly fertilizer. A group of around 40 young men is gathered down the path, at the entrance of a greenhouse. They wear muddy rubber boots, which clash somewhat with their tattoos, long silver chains and body piercings.
Sulkhan asks them to sing the Learning Farm's welcome song, in honor of their guests.
The boys, aged 15 to 22, are attending a five-month program at the Learning Farm to become organic farmers. But Jiway Tung, the group's director, explains the program goes beyond learning a new trade. He says his school is a school of life.
"For a lot of these youths, in their lives, there's been very little in the way of expectations and accountability," he said. "So the discipline that we insist on is a way of saying that we value your potential, just as Nature holds us all accountable. If you don't apply good farming methods, if we don't apply good techniques, and we don't follow up on a daily basis, the crops tell the story to the youths".
Susanto, a gruff and bulky 17-year-old, has had a lot to learn. At 14, he says he could no longer tolerate his parents' beatings, so he fled and joined a group of street kids in the city of Jogjakarta. He says he did everything people do when they live on the streets - stole, used drugs. Susanto says he liked street life, where no one could tell him what to do.
But Susanto discovered that life held many dangers. After a two-month stint in jail, he took the advice of a graduate from the Learning Farm and decided to join the program.
It is not easy to coax young men into going to the countryside. Even though Indonesia remains very much a rural country, city dwellers sneer at the ways of rural residents. Jiway Tung, however, insists that Indonesians are not really cut off from their rural roots.
"When we go to farms, you can see plants that have very specific uses but have been forgotten or neglected by more recent generations," he said. "But these plants, whether green manure or natural pesticides, where planted there with a logic, with a purpose, by older farmers. So, again, we're reconnecting. It's not bringing in something foreign; it's re-discovering and re-envisioning"
Arief Syaffudin, a 17-year-old, carefully scratches at the roots of a broccoli plant. He says that chemical farming is not really stupid, but it is a very selfish method. He prefers a more wholesome approach, a type of farming where you have to listen to the plants, and fulfill their needs to also fulfill your own.
Organic produce sells at a higher price than conventionally farmed vegetables. And Jiway says, since organic farming does not require costly fertilizers or pesticides, it can generate a better income for farmers. Although the Indonesian market for organic produce is still small, there are opportunities; the Learning Farm is talking with a large supermarket chain about selling its produce.
This type of project motivates the students, like Sofian.
He says that he did not stand a chance to improve his life in the city: he lacked the money and the education to make it in Jakarta. He says here at the farm he feels at home and he can grab the chance to live a better life. Now, he could become a businessman farmer.
It is lunchtime. The boys tidy up their tools, dust off their hands and knees, and head toward the kitchen, petting the goats as they walk by. Many have no family, and only vague dreams about a modest future. But walking along the green slopes of Java's volcanoes, they have a chance to build new lives. | <urn:uuid:74a61274-85fc-41d6-af65-0c98fa09c4d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.voanews.com/a/indonesian-street-kids-find-rescue-in-organic-farming--83214097/111857.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973544 | 808 | 2.015625 | 2 |
HIV-positive women in Uganda fear for their health as food shortages leave them unable to take medication
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By Sally Hayden
GULU, Uganda, May 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Before Uganda's coronavirus lockdown, HIV-positive Matina had a morning routine. After waking she drank tea, ate something small, and took her antiretroviral drugs as doctors instructed.
But since restrictions to stop the spread of COVID-19 were introduced in March, her situation has changed. She has nothing to eat so she avoids her medicine as it makes her feel nauseous and dizzy if taken without food.
Matina, 67 - who asked to go by her first name for fear of stigma due to having HIV since 2014 - said her relatives cannot work due to rules against travel and non-essential services. The seven children she supports eat at most one meal a day.
"Corona has brought so many problems to me," Matina told the Thomson Reuters Foundation while sitting outside her small grass-roof home in a leafy, poor part of Gulu, northern Uganda.
"Getting food is not easy. I cannot buy beans because the price has increased and I cannot afford it. There's no money. Maybe corona is better because the hunger will just kill you."
Two months into a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, many Ugandans are struggling.
In Uganda, about 1.4 million people, or just over 3% of the population, are living with HIV or AIDS, according to government figures, one of the highest rates in east Africa, with about 23,000 people dying each year and 50,000 new infections.
Women are disproportionately affected, accounting for nearly 60% of adults living with HIV. New infections among young women aged 15–24 years are more than double those among young men and stigma against those with HIV is rife.
Uganda has, however, made major strides to combat HIV/AIDS, bringing the infection rate down from 18.5 percent in 1992, according to U.N. data, with one million people on drugs to slow HIV developing and hold off progression into AIDS.
The national parliament in 2014 criminalized the intentional transmission of the disease.
RACE TO STEM VIRUS
But the fast spread of the coronavirus meant Uganda's lockdown included a nationwide travel ban imposed with one hour's notice, leaving no opportunity to plan.
Local authorities told the Thomson Reuters Foundation they had no time to make proper provision for people with chronic illnesses, or those who needed emergency healthcare.
At least 11 pregnant women have died because of problems accessing maternal healthcare, according to the Kampala-based Women's Pro-Bono Initiative.
"This element was not addressed at the initial stage of this lockdown due to the pandemic," said Dr. Kaggwa Mugagga, HIV advisor at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Uganda.
"We had to sit back and look at what was the impact of the lockdown on various programmes."
He said at first there were problems distributing medicine but increasing numbers of volunteers are cycling and on motorcycles to deliver drugs to HIV patients whose compromised immune systems are feared to put them at greater risk of COVID-19.
Uganda's Ministry of Health has also set up a programme to allow community health workers to collect HIV pills for patients.
But more recently, Mugagga he said he has heard increasing reports about food shortages due to people being unable to work.
The ongoing uncertainty has been "psychological torture" for people with HIV, he said.
Dr Joshua Musinguzi, the AIDS control manager in Uganda's Ministry of Health, said the government has been trying to address problems with food as well as supplying people with the drugs they need. The government has also urged the public not to relax efforts in combatting HIV/AIDS despite all energies being targeted towards fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far infected about 250 people in Uganda.
"We are not in normal times so it is possible that not all of them are being reached ... there could be gaps and patients could be experiencing hardships," said Musinguzi.
TOO HUNGRY FOR DRUGS
The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), a non-governmental organization set up in 1987, is continuing with testing, the distribution of medication, home visits for bedridden patients, and following up with people who miss appointments.
Michael Ochwo, TASO's Gulu centre programmes manager, said while some patients say they are struggling to eat, "currently the funding does not provide for food".
He said TASO is speaking to the government taskforces to see what can be done. In Layibi, a neighbourhood in Gulu, Walter Ojara, 49, is mourning his sister, whom he described as friendly and popular.
Beatrice Oceer, who was HIV positive, died aged 33 on March 21, days after the ban on public transport came into force.
Oceer was a victim of domestic violence and previously stopped taking antiretroviral medication for a few months when she escaped her husband, Walter explained. In the months before the lockdown, she contracted tuberculosis and again missed medication when she had no food to take it with.
As the pandemic began to spread, she stopped eating totally.
"The impact of the lockdown caused a lot of problems because there's no movement, no money, no one can support you," Ojara told the Thomson Reuters Foundation outside the metal-sheet roofed home he had shared with his sister, wife and children.
Oyoo Robert Ricky, a health centre facilitator in the Gulu clinic where Oceer was treated, said a shortage of food was becoming a problem nearly everywhere.
Three of 941 HIV/AIDS patients have died since restrictions began, he said, including a 34-year-old mother-of-two.
In a neighbourhood nearby, Acen, a single mother with five children, laughed sadly when asked what she's eaten during the lockdown. Once a day she boils plants, but it's not enough, she said.
"We're hungry, the children are complaining, there's nothing to do because it's not there, there's nothing available to give to them," said Acen, 36, who has battled HIV for six years after contracting it from her ex-husband who cheated on her.
While she continues to take her antiretroviral drugs, Acen said it was causing her problems.
"It's punishing me a lot when you take a medication on an empty stomach, it gives you a funny sickness," said Acen, who also asked for only her first name to be used.
Before the pandemic she would help out in people's houses in return for a small payment. Now, she said she can't afford a mask which she's obligated to wear to collect her medication.
"We would rather buy food," she said.
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From Lewis S Blevins Jr. MD – Macroadenomas and massive macroadenomas tend to regress significantly in response to treatment with dopamine agonist drugs. I would say that about 30% of tumors do not regress at all and require debulking. Some of these tumors regress dramatically and it is impossible to see any evidence for residual disease while others may regress only 30-50%. There are no predictors of the degree of regression. Sometimes, the prolactin will normalize but the tumor does not regress at all. In other cases, the prolactin does not normalize but the tumor becomes “invisible.” When I was a younger physician I used to MRI regularly to follow the regression but now feel that this is unnecessary. My current practice is to wait until a nadir prolactin has been reached and wait 2-3 months thereafter to repeat an MRI. This approach decreases anxiety, builds confidence, and saves money. An MRI Performed 6-12 months after starting treatment seems reasonable If the prolactin does not normalize.
Microadenomas seem to be less likely to regress in response to treatment. No one knows why. I have seen tumors regress completely but most of them remain ever present, Perhaps a little decreased in size, despite normalization of serum prolactin concentrations.
See more Pituitary World News articles on Prolactinomas here.
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Nitinol (°°50% nickel, °°50% titanium) alloys exhibit two closely related and very unique properties: shape memory and superelasticity (also called pseudoelasticity). Shape memory refers to the ability of Nitinol to undergo deformation at one temperature, and then recover its original, undeformed shape upon heating above its "transformation temperature." Superelasticity occurs at a narrow temperature range just above its transformation temperature. In this case, no heating is necessary to cause the undeformed shape to recover, and the material exhibits enormous elasticity – some 10-30 times that of ordinary metal.
Nitinol's extraordinary ability to accommodate large strains, coupled with its physiological and chemical compatibility with the human body have made it one of the most commonly used materials in medical device engineering and design. One such application for nitinol alloys is medical stents.
Shape setting refers to the process used to form Nitinol. Whether the Nitinol is superelastic or shape memory, in the cold work or straightened condition, it is often necessary to form the material into a new “memory” shape. This is done by firmly constraining the material into its new shape in a fixture or on a mandrel and then performing a heat treatment. The heating method can be an air or vacuum furnace, salt bath, sand bath, heated die or other heating method. The temperature should be in the range of 500-550°C (930-1020°F) with higher temperatures resulting in lower tensile strengths. Cooling should be rapid to avoid aging effects, a water quench is recommended. The heat-treatment time should be such that the material reaches the desired temperature throughout its cross-section. This depends on the mass of the fixture and material and the heating method. Times may be less than a minute for heating small parts in a salt bath or heated die. Times may be much longer (10-20 minutes) for heating massive fixtures in a furnace with an air or argon atmosphere. In these cases, a thermocouple in contact with the material or fixture is recommended. In all cases, experimentation for the proper time and temperature will be required to determine the combination that gives the desired results.
Aging can be done to raise the A ftemperature of superelastic Nitinol components. Aging is done by heat treating to about 475°C (890°F) for extended periods. Aging and shape setting can be done simultaneously by firmly constraining the material to its new shape in a fixture and heating to around 475°C (890°F) for up to an hour. Longer times result in higher Aftemperatures. Aging can also be done on material that was previously shape set. As with shape setting, aging times must be determined experimentally because they depend on the processing history of the material, the heating method and temperature. It is advisable to perform a water quench after aging to sharply define the heating time. | <urn:uuid:9b762446-079d-4d1a-a222-009f25fd5372> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.industrialheating.com/blogs/14-industrial-heating-experts-speak-blog/post/88984-heat-treatment-of-nitinol-alloys-part-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.927847 | 625 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Dryer Mixer with Dimple Jacket
Dimple jacket is one of the most popular jackets for dryer mixer. That is a mixer with a thin external shell affixed to the vessel shell with spot welds onto the potions of the vessel. The cooling or heating medium flows through the jacket.
With the development of material process, the mixer is more and more used for multi-functional mixing. The dryer mixer could be applied for mixing material with max 70% water content and dry it through heating jacket together with vacuum. For some particular material, the drying effect could be 0.05% water content at last. The basic design of dryer is a stationary horizontal cylinder, which is top loaded and bottom discharged. The standard tools are plow-shaped and radiate from a horizontal shaft that is supported by outboard bearings. Other mixing tool designs are also available.
This dryer operates according to the proven "fluidized bed" mixing principle whereby the materials being reacted are maintained in a mechanically fluidized suspended state, thus permitting the reacting mediums, gas-solid, or liquid-solid, to achieve intimate contact with each other and the heat transfer surfaces.
Heating jacket and vacuum design is needed. During mixing and drying process, the material will be dried through heating jacket transfer heat into vessel. Then, huge steam pressure will be happen inside vessel and take steam out by vacuum pump. According to different applications, different kind of mixer and mixing agitator could be used. We design dryer mixer comply with pressure vessel code to ensure safety use and quality.
Suitable Mixer Type:
● Plough Mixer
● Twin Shafts Paddle Mixer
● Ribbon Mixer
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Google has disabled 1.7 billion ads in 2016
In 2016, Google has disabled 1.7 billion ads for the violation of the rules of advertising. This was reported in the annual report on Better Ads.
In 2015 the company blocked 780 million low-quality ads, in 2014 524 million, in 2013 350 million.
Increase in the number of disabled ads contributed to several innovations. Among them:
- The ban on advertising short-term micro-credits in Google AdWords. This change came into effect in July 2016. Since that time Google has blocked more than 5 million ads for violating the new rules;
- The updates of the algorithms of the advertising system. In particular, Google are now more likely to detect low-quality ads. Among them, the so called trick to click ads that are disguised as system notifications and fraudulently force users to download malware. In 2016, Google identified and removed 112 million such ads - six times more than in 2015.
Google also may more efficiently identify ads that look like news, but actually lure users to sites selling illicit goods. In 2016, was disconnected more than 1,300 accounts that placed this type of advertising and 80 million of these ads.
In November, Google had reviewed the advertising policy AdSense sites for fake news. By the end of the year, the company checked the 550 sites suspected of publishing misleading content. Against 340 of them were taken measures for violations of the rules. Accounts of 200 publishers were blocked.
For advertising unauthorized medicines was disabled 68 million ads.
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Santa Monica is one of the most beautiful cities along the West Coast. This seaside city sports about four miles of beaches and breathtaking ocean views. From it’s inception to its present state, Santa Monica has a rich history and landscape that captivated early settlers and those who visit this city in droves each year. How has Santa Monica become so popular over the years? Here’s a little bit of Santa Monica history.
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, an Iberian explorer, first came into San Diego Bay and Santa Monica in 1542 as a part of a larger expedition to explore the west coast. In 1769, a group was sent out to start a settlement around the Santa Monica area. Father Juan Crespi was among those men who dubbed this beautiful seaside city “Santa Monica.”
The city’s name is inspired by Saint Monica. She was the mother of Saint Augustine, and legends claim that she wept for her son every night. When some explorers arrived at a spring in the Santa Monica area, the waters reminded them of the legend of Saint Monica. Over a century later, Santa Monica was incorporated in 1886, and the first city council was established in 1947.
Santa Monica Accolades
Santa Monica is not a super large city, but it’s a huge leader in a number of different areas. It has been listed as one of the “Top 10 Beach Cities In The World” by National Geographic in 2010 and featured as one of the best places to live by TIMES magazine. This city leads nationally in sustainability and environmental consciousness.
It has one of the top two-year community colleges in the state, Santa Monica College, and it’s home to three of the most prestigious healthcare facilities in the state, including Providence Saint John’s Health Center, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, and Kaiser Permanente.
Santa Monica Pier
Possibly one of the most popular attractions in Santa Monica is the Santa Monica Pier. The pier took about a year and a half to construct, and it was officially opened to the public on September 9, 1909.
On opening day, thousands of people gathered to take a stroll along the new Municipal Pier, swim, and listen to live music. Over the years, the pier grew to include a number of shops, an amusement park, and the legendary La Monica Ballroom.
Big Dean’s Is A Must Stop For A Little Piece Of Santa Monica History
Today, Santa Monica is just as beautiful as it was centuries ago. One of its main attractions, the Santa Monica Pier, is even more popular. If you’re looking to lose yourself in a seaside city full of amazing ocean views, Santa Monica is the place for you.
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Most of my readers are too young to know who Esther Williams was. But if you like bathing beauties, pin-up girls, singing, acting, swimming, big production numbers (Busby Berkeley) and corny romances, you’ll want to know more about the legend we just lost at the age of 91.
Esther Williams Life Through Photos
I grew up watching her beautiful face -predominately smiling at me from underwater- and marveled at her swimming, acting, singing, figure and ability to seemingly do it all submerged in a pool. She aged as gracefully as she swam, a beauty until the very end.
I’ve gathered some of my favorite images, facts, movies and more about the Million Dollar Mermaid for your entertainment and education.
“Wet she was a star.” –Hollywood producer Joe Pasternak
She was born Esther Jane Williams in Inglewood, CA on Aug. 8, 1921, to Lou, an artist and Bula, a member of the Inglewood Board of Education who helped raise funds for neighborhood school’s swimming pool. Esther took to the water at a very early age, earning her first paycheck at the age of eight as a towel girl at a local swimming pool. Her older brother Stanton Williams was the first member of the family to become a star by appearing in a handful of silent films and stage productions before his untimely death at age 16. His sister took the athletic route and gained fame as a teenage swimming champion; by 16, she had earned three national championship titles in freestyle and breaststroke. Eventually, she made the 1940 Olympic swimming team, but her dreams of a medal were dashed by the outbreak of World War II.
Undaunted, she took up part-time work as a model while studying at Los Angeles City College. Theater impresario Billy Rose saw one of her print layouts and immediately contacted her to audition for his Aquacade, an all-singing, all-dancing, all-swimming production at the San Francisco World’s Fair. Former Olympic swimming medalist-turned-movie Tarzan, Johnny Weismuller, was the star of the show, and according to showbiz legend, he personally selected her to be his Aquabelle No.1.
Williams’ looks and flawless skill with the show’s choreographed swimming duets captured the attention of audiences, as well as executives at MGM, who saw a box office bonanza in her abilities. She was quickly signed up for a screen test opposite none other than Clark Gable, the then-reigning King of the Movies. Both the star and the studio liked what they saw, and Williams was signed to a contract. Her movie debut came with a small role in 1942’s “Andy Hardy’s Double Life,” with star Mickey Rooney giving Williams her first screen kiss.
Audience response to Williams was overwhelming. She was already a star by her third picture, a Red Skelton comedy originally titled “Mr. Coed” that was transformed into a starring vehicle for Williams and re-dubbed “Bathing Beauty” (1944). A special tank was built at Stage 30 on the MGM lot to accommodate choreographer Busby Berkeley’s elaborate water routines. The film’s climax, which sees Williams crowned as queen amidst an orgy of smoke, flames, synchronized swimmers and gushing fountains, became one of the most iconic numbers in Hollywood history. The film itself became the third highest-grossing title in MGM’s history to that date.
The film’s success led to a 10-year string of aquatic-themed musicals for Williams, each more lavish than its predecessor. There were occasional forays out of the MGM pool, such as 1946’s “The Hoodlum Saint,” which paired the 24-year-old actress with the 54-year-old William Powell as her love interest, and Berkeley’s terrific “Take Me Out to the Ball Game” (1949), in which baseball players Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly vied for the hand of new owner Williams.
But for the most part, audiences preferred seeing Williams in the water in features like “Million Dollar Mermaid” (1953), a biopic about real-life swimming star Annette Kellerman, or “Jupiter’s Darling” (1955), which found her in the improbable role of a Roman woman who helps Hannibal (Howard Keel) swim the Tiber River. The aquatic features were challenging and even dangerous – prolonged exposure to the studio tank led to repeated eardrum ruptures, near drownings and a broken neck during a diving sequence for “Mermaid” – but Williams was “America’s Mermaid,” as the press dubbed her, so she had little choice in the matter.
above: images of Esther in Million Dollar Mermaid
But she was also shrewd enough to realize that her particular brand of musical was limited – there were just so many films that could be built around her swimming routines. She departed MGM as audience demand for their musical product began to dry up, and moved to Universal for her first drama, “The Unguarded Moment” (1956). A lurid melodrama about a high school teacher (Williams) who becomes the object of obsession for a deranged student (John Saxon), the film raised eyebrows with its sexually suggestive subject matter but failed to translate into a lasting dramatic career for Williams. She appeared in several more forgettable features before retiring at the demand of her third husband, actor Fernando Lamas, in the early 1960s.
In the late latter part of that decade, Williams was approached by swimming pool manufacturers, the Delair Group, to license her name to their above-ground models. The decision was a savvy one, and the line became one of the most popular for suburbanites across the United States. Further licensing agreements led to her own line of swimwear for older women, based on the suits she wore in her movies, and a modern line for younger women. All three business decisions proved to be lucrative and popular for the former actress.
In 1999, Williams penned her autobiography, The Million Dollar Mermaid, with co-author Digby Diehl. The tome generated a great deal of press for its controversial stories about her love life, which included trysts with co-stars Victor Mature and Jeff Chandler; a revelation about the latter actor’s penchant for women’s clothing was among the book’s most scandalous statements.
Williams also discussed her three marriages (she had a fourth after the book was written), which included loveless unions with a former college classmate and singer/actor Ben Gage, whom she described as an alcoholic spendthrift.
In addition, the book recounted her various struggles with studio heads, fending off the amorous advances of Weismuller and Howard Hughes, and dealing with the egos of co-stars like Gene Kelly and Lamas, who reportedly demanded total servitude from Williams.
Some career milestones:
1941: Signed MGM contract
1942: Film acting debut in “Andy Hardy’s Double Life”
1942: First came to attention in her first swimming film, “Bathing Beauty”
1949: Twice made the annual exhibitors’ poll of top ten box office stars; placed eighth both years
1955: Last major aqua-musical, “Jupiter’s Darling”
1955: Ended MGM contract (date approximate)
1957: Made TV debut in “Lux Video Theatre’s The Armed Venus”
1958: Last film for three years, “Raw Wind in Eden”
1961: Made one-shot return to films to play a leading role in “The Big Show”
:Retired from the industry in the early 1960s
1994: Was one of the hosts of the musical compilation documentary “That’s Entertainment III”
Hubby #1: Leonard Kovner. Married in 1940; divorced in 1944; met when he was pre med student at USC.
Hubby #2: Ben Gage. Radio announcer. Married in 1945; divorce became final in 1958.
Companion: Jeff Chandler. Actor. Worked together on “Raw Wind in Eden” (1958).
Hubby #3: Fernando Lamas. Actor. Married in two separate ceremonies: a civil ceremony in Europe (some sources say in 1963, others 1967) and one in a church (Founders’ Church of Religious Science, near Hollywood) on December 31, 1969; born on January 9, 1915; died in 1982.
Hubby #4: Edward Bell. Businessman. Married on October 24, 1994; met during 1984 Summer Olympics.
10 Fun Facts About Esther
1. She First Gained Fame in California as a Competitive Swimmer.
Born in 1921, Williams started swimming at an early age and quickly distinguished herself for her speed. By 16 she was winning national championships, and by 19 she had shattered records for breast stroke and freestyle. Williams planned on competing in the 1940 Tokyo Olympics, but the event was canceled due to the outbreak of World War II.
2. in 1941, she signed with MGM studios, with whom she began starring in “Aqua-musicals.”
In her memoir, Williams said that just a year after the end of her swim racing career she, “walks through the gates of MGM a year later and swims her way to movie stardom.” Her first films helped to show off her swimming abilities by prominently featuring her in pools and bathing suits.
3. She appeared in some of the highest-grossing movies of the 1940s and 1950s.
The 1940s and 50s catapulted her to stardom. During this movie she started in movies with Mickey Rooney, Lucille Ball, Gene Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. Many of her films, like Thrill of Romance and Neptune’s Daughter were some of the highest grossing films in the years they were made.
4. Her nickname was the “Million Dollar Mermaid.”
The name of one of her most popular films, Million Dollar Mermaid would stick with her as a nickname for the rest of her life. The 1952 film was a major hit and earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Cinematography. The nickname also stuck because as her fame grew in the 1940s and 1950s, so too did her income.
5. She left MGM in 1959 and retired from movies in the 1960s.
Her memoir explains that the time period around 1959 was a dark time for her.She had recently gotten a divorce, she suffered from alcoholism and exhaustion, and she found herself in an increasingly fragile mental state. She eventually retired from film.
6. She created a line of swimwear and lent her name to a brand of swimming pools.
Later in her life, Williams helped to create a line of retro-style swimwear like the kind she wore in her hit films. This business, as well as the pool company named after her, helped to keep her busy until her death.
Vintage Cole of California Esther Williams Swimwear ads:
7. She served as a commentator during the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
In 1984 she served as a commentator for swimming events, specifically synchronized swimming, in the Los Angeles olympics. According to a New York Times interview, she had a face lift before the event to look her best.
8. She was married four times, the last marriage being to Edward Bell. She had three children: Benjamin Gage, Born in 1949; Kimbell Gage, Born in 1950 and Susan Gage, Born in 1953.
9. In 1959, Cary Grant claims he used LSD with Williams, she confirmed this in her autobiography.
10. She suffered a stroke in 2007.
some of the above 10 facts are courtesy of Heavy
Her complete filmography:
Cast (feature film)
1. Busby Berkeley: Going Through The Roof (1998) as Interviewee.
2. That’s Entertainment! III (1994) as Host; Song Performer.
3. MGM: When the Lion Roars (1992)
4. The Big Show (1961) as Hillary Allen .
5. Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958) as “Sheila Brooks” from Andy Hardy’s Double Life .
6. Raw Wind in Eden (1958) as Laura .
7. The Unguarded Moment (1956) as Lois Conway .
8. Jupiter’s Darling (1955) as Amytis .
9. Easy to Love (1953) as Julie Hallerton .
10. Dangerous When Wet (1953) as Katy [Higgins] .
11. Skirts Ahoy! (1952) as Whitney Young.
12. Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) as Annette Kellerman .
13. Texas Carnival (1951) as Debbie Telford .
14. Callaway Went Thataway (1951) as .
15. Duchess of Idaho (1950) as Christine Riverton Duncan .
16. Pagan Love Song (1950) as Mimi Bennett .
17. Neptune’s Daughter (1949) as Eve Barrett .
18. Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) as K. C. Higgins .
19. On an Island with You (1948) as Rosalind Rennolds .
20. Fiesta (1947) as Maria Morales .
21. This Time for Keeps (1947) as Leonora “Nora” Cambaretti .
22. Till the Clouds Roll By (1947) as Movie star .
23. The Hoodlum Saint (1946) as Kay Lorrison .
24. Ziegfeld Follies (1946) as Dancer in “A Water Ballet” .
25. Easy to Wed (1946) as Connie Allenbury .
26. Thrill of a Romance (1945) as Cynthia Glenn .
27. Bathing Beauty (1944) as Caroline Brooks .
28. A Guy Named Joe (1944) as Ellen Bright .
29. Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942) as Sheila Brooks .
30. Glorious Technicolor (1998) as Interviewee.
31. Golden Globe’s 50th Anniversary Celebration, The (1994)
32. Stars and Stripes: Hollywood and World War II (1991)
33. 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards, The (1991) as Presenter.
34. Thalians, The (1991)
35. Happy Birthday, Hollywood! (1987)
36. Esther Williams at Cypress Gardens (1960) as Host.
37. INFLATION (1943) as Mrs. Smith.
Esther Williams aged beautifully as you can see from these later photos (with the admitted help of a face lift or two):
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I’m glad for books like Michael Cathcart’s The Water Dreamers. In recent years, history has been reinvigorated by taking new slants on old narratives. Here, Cathcart traces the familiar narrative of Australian history by concentrating on water, namely a lack of it, in a dry ‘silent’ continent. What this approach allows is a kind of environmental, as well as economic, history to unfold as the new colony rapaciously moves outward, subsuming indigenous communities in search of scarce water resources. This is contrasted with the indigenous husbanding of the land and its water, and the deep knowledge and often ingenious systems devised to use water in concert with the land, rather than against it. Overlaying this is the larger cultural picture of Australia as a hostile place, with an enormous silence at its heart. In the European mind, the land is under-utilised, waiting for the civilising touch of resource exploitation and development. The question that constantly came to mind while reading was ‘How far have we come?’. As recent history has shown and Cathcart suggests, the answer is not far. This is a fascinating history that fits nicely into the larger picture of Australia, while exploring some of the things we take for granted in our national psyche.
Clayton is the founder and managing director of Boomerang Books. In a past life, Clayton worked for 12 years as an intelligence officer in the Australian Army and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. He is a graduate of the Australian Defence Force Academy and the Royal Military College Duntroon and holds a BA (Hons) in Political Science and a Master of Management Studies (Human Resource Management) from the UNSW. He is also a trained Indonesian linguist and served with the United Nations in East Timor as an interpreter/translator. View all posts by Clayton Wehner | <urn:uuid:dc410feb-9c29-4a64-b390-3891b610cf8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.boomerangbooks.com.au/the-water-dreamers-how-water-and-silence-shaped-australia-by-michael-cathcart/2009/07 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.950821 | 394 | 2.40625 | 2 |
With a flurry of international efforts toward satellite launch capability (from one's home country), getting back to the moon and putting citizens in space, some experts say we are looking at a new space race-one focused on total space dominance. Should we be worried? After all, the first space race had at its core a battle for who could build the biggest intercontinental ballistic missiles.
No doubt about it, says Henry Hertzfeld, research professor at George Washington University's Space Policy Institute, "there are a lot of new starts." But he cautions that it's important to put them in perspective. "There are different launch vehicles and different capabilities, too. Comparing a manned capability that India might want to spend some money on with Iran launching a very small, very low Earth orbit satellite is really apples and oranges." Here is a look at the capabilities of the top-and most-talked-about-space-faring nations in what may be a new world order. The race is on for space dominance.
Last month, France signed on for a sat launch on a Chinese Long March rocket. The deal circumvents U.S. restrictions on Chinese commercial launches by using a satellitemade without American parts. It should boost China's economic clout by setting an important precedent in the lucrative commercial-launch market. Meanwhile, China continues to send taikonauts to orbit aboard its Shenzhou spaceship and has just announced plans to build a space station. Is a manned moon landing next?
Capability: High, along with its ambition.
The European Space Agency has seemed content to sit back and watch the rest of the space-faring world pour money into manned spaceflight and exploratory missions while focusing on lower-cost satellite launches. But plans to convert its Automated Transfer Vehicle from a space cargo container into a manned spaceship--unveiled last year--could make Europe the fourth world power to develop manned spaceflight capability, if it so desires.
Capability: Moderate, limited mainly by its own ambition, or lack thereof.
While waiting on the new NASA leader, the United States continues its focus
on the moon--with Martian aspirations--with its technically troubled Constellation system. After the space shuttle retires in 2010, NASA will find itself without a manned spaceflight capability until Constellation is completed-as early as 2015.
Capability: High, but subject to change with the retirement of the space shuttle.
Six private cosmonauts have paid tens of millions of dollars each for rides on Russian Soyuz ships, and the demand is now so great that the Russian space agency plans to launch the first mission dedicated to paying passengers next year. Russia seems to have found its niche, serving the emerging commercial spaceflight industry--including selling rides to NASA's astronauts. It has even approved plans to send a manned commercial mission to the moon-if only two passengers will step up with $100 million each for tickets.
Capability: High, limited by private capital.
Japan wants to recover its reputation in the space-launch business-tarnished with the 2003 failure of its H-2A rocket-with the new H-2B. The bigger, more powerful rocket should enable the launch of multiple satellites simultaneously, thereby making Japan more competitive in the sat launch business. It will also lift the new H-2 Transfer Vehicle, built to deliver supplies to the International Space Station.
Capability: Moderate, but growing.
Last month, India's Planning Commission signed off on a proposed two-person manned spaceship to be launched by 2015 on an existing satellite launcher. The plan follows last year's successful launch of the Chandrayaan 1 lunar orbiter that dropped a smaller probe to crash-land the Indian flag on the lunar surface. The agency also plans to build and launch a Mars probe in the near future.
Capability: Moderate, but growing.
On February 3, the Iranian government unveiled a space launch center and launched a satellite called Omid, or Hope, into orbit on a Safir 2 rocket. "With this launch, the Islamic Republic of Iran has officially achieved a presence in space," President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced to the world. Ahmadinejad denied that the launch was anything but a statement of "peace and brotherhood," but that is just a matter of semantics, says the Space Policy Institute's Henry Hertzfeld. "In space, there is nothing that I'm aware of that doesn't have dual uses, from the most modest of launch vehicles and satellites to the very big programs," Hertzfeld says. In other words, a satellite launcher and a missile are virtually indistinguishable.
Capability: Low, but slowly improving.
North Korea says it plans to launch its Kwangmyongsong-2 satellite on a rocket dubbed Unha-2 any day now. The Koreans and Iranians have been sharing rocket technology, and their programs have progressed at similar rates. Even though Iran succeeded in reaching orbit first, Nathan Hughes, a military analyst at global intelligence firm STRATFOR, says that North Korea is actually ahead of Iran in building "what is basically an extremely large Scud," a missile built by the former Soviet Union and a direct descendant of the World War II-era V2 rocket.
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London 2012: Olympic Flame handover ceremony to begin
The Olympic Flame Handover Ceremony is about to begin in Greece.
During the ceremony, which starts at 7pm local time (5pm British time) at the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens, the Olympic Flame will be handed to the British London 2012 delegation, led by The Princess Royal.
The Flame will be flown from Athens to RNAS Culdrose in Cornwall tomorrow, ahead of the start of the Olympic Torch relay on Saturday morning.
Since being lit in Ancient Olympia last week, the Olympic Flame has been taken on a relay around Greece, visiting places including Crete, Thessalonica and Larissa.
Today’s handover ceremony at the Panathenaic Stadium will begin with the Olympic Anthem and will be followed by the national anthems of the United Kingdom and Greece.
The High Priest and Priestesses will then come into the Stadium and position themselves around the altar.
The last torchbearers, Chinese gymnast Li Ning, who was the final torchbearer at Beijing in 2008 and lit the torch in the Olympic Stadium, and Greek weightlifter Pyrros Dimas, will arrive and light the cauldron.
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Usually there is only one final torchbearer but the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) this year decided on two. The committee said: “The last torchbearers will be this time, two in number and their presence will be symbolically linking the past Olympic Games in Beijing, with Greece, the birthplace of the institution and the upcoming Games in London.”
Spyros Capralos, the president of the HOC will make a speech, followed by a speech by Seb Coe, chairman of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG).
The Olympic Flame will then be handed to the British delegation, who will leave the Stadium around 7.45pm local time (5.45pm British time).
Also attending the handover ceremony are London mayor Boris Johnson, Olympics minister Hugh Robertson, former England football captain David Beckham and five young people from across Britain, including Sakinah Muhammad from Clapton Girls’ Academy, Hackney.
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Always consult your doctor prior to you start taking a supplement or make any kind of adjustments to your existing medicine as well as supplement regimen. This is not medical guidance, but it is details you can utilize as a conversation starter with your physician at your following appointment. Here is the vitamin for better sleep [วิตามิน ช่วย ให้ นอน หลับ, which is the term in Thai]:
- Vitamin D
Most of us recognize Vitamin D for its function in bone health and wellness. It’s also vital for managing mood, sustaining immune function, as well as aiding to manage to swell. Vitamin D is catching plenty of passion for its potential benefits for rest, as well as for the rest consequences that go along with Vitamin D deficiencies. I’ve written before about the partnership between sleep and Vitamin D. There’s a new research study that is including in our understanding of how this vitamin, as well as a lack of it, may impact our every night rest.
- Vitamin E
An effective antioxidant, Vitamin E aids preserve healthy cell features as well as safeguard cells from damages. It also supports immune health and wellness. Vitamin E’s antioxidant capacities may likewise assist with sleep- and rest-related health problems.
- Vitamin C
One more antioxidant giant, C is the vitamin a number of us connect most strongly with immune health. It’s additionally crucial for cardio wellness and required for the body to make collagen, which is essential for healthy and balanced bones, teeth, as well as skin. Vitamin C’s health-promoting abilities might additionally include rest.
- Vitamin B6
Vitamin B6 is involved in numerous features of the body. It supports immune health and wellness, and aids in cognitive advancement as well as features. There’s proof that B6 likewise aids sleep, and influences our dreams.
- Vitamin B12
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The terrapin and his house are one.
Though he may go, he’s never gone.
He’s housed within, from nose to toe:
A door, a floor, and no window.
There’s little room; the light is dim;
His furniture is only him.
He doesn’t speak what he thinks about;
Where no guest comes, a thought’s a shout.
He pokes along; he’s in no haste:
He has no map and no suitcase;
He has no worries and no woes,
For where he is is where he goes.
Ponder this wonder under his dome
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Huguenot Lives in Ireland
What activities and work were they involved in?
Huguenots brought new techniques to Ireland and were skilled in a wide variety of crafts. There were brewers, map makers, glass blowers, goldsmiths, horticulturalists, printers, bakers, silversmiths, tanners, watchmakers, linen makers and weavers. In addition, there were significant numbers of soldiers, seafarers, engineers, farmers, scientists, pastors, merchants, musicians and shopkeepers.
Famous Huguenots and Their Descendants in Ireland
Some well known Huguenots and their descendants in Ireland include:
- Richard Gandon, the architect who designed the Four Courts and the Custom House;
- Richard Cassells who designed Leinster House, Powerscourt and Carton House;
- Artists – Gabriel Béranger and George Victor Du Noyer;
- The La Touche family who started the Bank of Ireland;
- Goldsmiths and Silversmiths – the D’Olier and Le Bas families;
- Linen manufacturers – the Crommelin and De La Cherois families in Lisburn;
- Writers – Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Robert Maturin, Dion Lardner Boucicault and Samuel Beckett;
- William Dargan, the engineer who constructed Ireland’s first railway line;
- Oceanographers – Mathew Fontaine Maury, Peter Mazière and Francis Beaufort, famous worldwide for the Beaufort Windscale.
Leaving Their Mark
Many place names, street names and family names that sound quintessentially Irish now, are actually French Huguenot in origin such as Dublin’s D’Olier Street, and Digges lane, Cork’s French Church Lane and Lavitt’s Quay.
Surnames like Champ, La Touche, Maury, Vignoles and Le Fanu no longer sound ‘foreign’ to the Irish ear, although they are all descendents of Huguenot refugees. Even the word ‘refugee’ is believed to trace its origin to the forced Huguenot migration from France (réfugier, to seek refuge). | <urn:uuid:c46997e6-cae7-487c-b668-a194f8dda029> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://huguenotsinireland.com/?page_id=25 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.910799 | 472 | 3.5 | 4 |
Last week, while most of us had our eyes glued to the U.S. election, Canada’s top doctor and science power ranger Theresa Tam updated the guidelines around mask-wearing. Most notably, Tam increased the recommendation from a two-layer to a three-layer covering, following the example of the World Health Organization, which has been calling for triple-decker masks since June. So, what took Canada so long? Where can one find a three-layer mask? And does this mean all of our two-layer masks have to go in the trash? Here, we break it down.
What exactly are the new three-layer face mask guidelines?
You can watch Dr. Tam’s full briefing here, but basically the updated government recommendations advise adding a third “filter layer” to your non-medical mask for an extra layer of protection against COVID-19. How much extra protection? Up to 30% more, according to Dr. Jane Wang, a researcher at the University of British Columbia, who says that the right filter can bump mask efficacy from about 60 to 90%. The additional layer should be made from material that is both tightly woven and breathable (more on that in a sec). It goes between the inner and outer pieces of fabric and is capable of trapping the even-smaller aerosol particles of the virus that have also made headlines in the last few days.
Wait — what aerosol particles? Is this thing airborne?
Also last week, the Public Health Agency of Canada updated its guidelines mentioning the risk of aerosol transmission for the first time. So yes, technically this means COVID-19 is now considered “airborne,” but no, that is not as close to an end-of-days disaster movie as it sounds. Aerosol droplets are the microscopic particles that escape your mouth along with more visible spit that comes when you’re speaking moistly (speaking moistlllyyyyyy). The key difference is that while spit is subject to gravity, aerosol droplets can linger in the air. Note that their XXXXS size makes them way less of a potential transmitter than a larger loogie. Outside, aerosol droplets are very quickly diluted, but if you’re in a poorly ventilated indoor space, there is a possibility that these invisible specks could cumulate into something more dangerous.
Is that why the triple-mask change is happening now?
Definitely that’s part of it. But the main reason for the new government recommendations is even more obvious: “Cases are on the rise, so we need to do a better job of protecting ourselves and others,” says Dr. Wang. Add to that the fact that, sigh, winter is coming, which means more time indoors where aerosol spread may be an issue.
So, we should be wearing masks inside?
Depending on where you live in the country, indoor gatherings with anyone outside your home may or may not be advisable right now, but if you are going to spend time with people who don’t live with you then yes — mask up. Three layers is ideal, but ultimately not as crucial as making sure that the mask you are wearing fits properly. “It doesn’t matter how many layers if your mask is falling past your nose or moving all over your face,” says Dr. Wang.
Will the extra layer make it harder to breath?
It shouldn’t. New research says that mask-wearing does not hinder breathing for otherwise healthy individuals, even during the most vigorous activity. If it does, then you’re probably not using the right material. PHAC is currently recommending non-woven polypropylene fabric such as craft fabric, a piece of those reusable shopping bags, or folded paper towel, all of which should be placed in between two layers of tightly woven linen or cotton fabric. Dr. Wang, who tested the breathability and filtration capabilities of 41 different materials earlier this year, has another suggestion: dried baby wipes, which can be replaced daily. “They’re as effective as Health Canada’s suggestions and significantly more breathable,” she says.
Got it. Does this mean I have to ditch the masks I already have?
Not if you’re up for doing a little DIY. “We’re not necessarily saying throw out everything that you have,” Dr. Tam said last week. The PHAC laid out sewing and non-sewing methods for upgrading your existing two-layer pieces. And you can also make a three-layer mask from a bandana, two elastics and a piece of paper towel.
Where Can I Buy A Three-Layer Mask?
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Where should I write? When should I write? How much should I write each day? Should I outline or should I wing it?
Those voices in your head reside on a crowded, noisy street where writers of every caliber (including me) are often found—asking the same questions.
I wish I had a spoonful of sugar to help this medicine go down, but here it is anyway: Your daily discipline will make or break you as a writer.
Manuscripts don’t don’t become books by your hoping for a series of productive writing days. I know. I’ve written 195 of them.
So here’s a humble offering of tips that work for me, in the hope that these may add fuel to your writing week.
Tips for Serious Writers
- Write in a life-giving place. When my writing cave was a hotel room or some other remote location, time away from my wife Dianna proved far less productive because I missed her. Nowadays, my writing cave is 100 feet from the house, so we’re together for meals or whenever I need a break or just want to see her. And when I’m done writing each day, she is my reward.
- Know your body clock. First thing in the morning is the best time for me to write, before anything else clouds my brain. What I write before noon is usually my best work, and the most I’ll complete all day. But do what works best for you. If you’re a night person, write at night.
- Write rested. Whether you’re a morning person or a night person, both, or neither, write when you feel most rested. But don’t wait until you’re completely cogent, coherent, and inspired or you may never get to the keyboard. You get better by flexing those writing muscles.
- Set daily milestones. I know how many pages I need to finish each day to make my deadline. If you keep track by number of words, fine. But monitor your progress for that satisfying sense of accomplishment—and, more importantly, to stay on a pace that keeps your deadline sacred.
- Tap into your muse. Ideas seem to hit me most often in the shower. Maybe the water stimulates my brain. I learned years ago to trust what some call the Muse. My muse is spiritual, that vital part of the creative subconscious I surrender to God. Foreshadowing and plot threads appear as I write. I may not be sure at the time why I include certain things, but later in the manuscript, the reasons become obvious. Whatever serves as your muse, learn where it resides and access it.
- Talk out your story. Many writers, primarily novelists, fear losing their creativity if they utter even a word of their story before getting it down. I find, however, that when I tell my story to someone I trust, I tend to expand on it, embellish it, flesh it out. See if that works for you.
- Jump-start the process instead of staring at a blank screen or page. Like stretching before exercise, I start my writing day with a heavy edit and rewrite of my previous day’s work. That seamlessly catapults me into today’s writing.
- Turn off your internal editor. Once you’re into the new day’s writing, leave its revision to the next day and get that first draft produced. Consider it a hunk of meat that can be carved later. If you’re editing while trying to create, you might stifle your creativity.
- Know when to stop. If things go well and I reach my goal before noon, I resist the temptation to try to knock out another batch of pages to make the next day easier. That’s it for the day. But on the other hand, if for some reason it takes till midnight to finish my pages for today, I stay with it. I don’t want to fall behind and be forced to write more tomorrow.
- Stay at the task. It’s easy to beat ourselves up for falling behind or not producing at the level we (or our editors) expect. The solution? Get your seat back in that chair and tell yourself yesterday is gone. Today is spilling over with fresh, pristine hours, and nothing—I mean nothing—will feel as good as actually doing the work. Poet Mary Oliver says, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” I plan to write. How about you?
(c) Jerry Jenkins
Jerry B. Jenkins is a 21-Time New York Times bestselling novelist (including The Left Behind series) and biographer (Hank Aaron, Walter Payton, Billy Graham, and many others) with sales of over 70 million copies. He shares his little-known writing secrets with aspiring authors at JerryJenkins.com through in-depth guides (like this one on how to publish a book).
About Dead Sea Rising:
Nicole Berman is an archaeologist on the brink of a world-changing discovery. During her first dig in Jordan, she believes she has found concrete evidence of a biblical patriarch that could change history books forever. But someone doesn’t want the truth revealed. While urgently trying to connect pieces of an ancient puzzle, a dangerous enemy is out to stop her.
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jai alai (hīˈlīˌ), handball-like game of Spanish Basque origin. It is also called pelota. Jai alai is played on a three-walled court with a hard rubber ball that must be hurled against the front wall with the cesta, a wicker basket attached to the player's arm. The court is about 175 ft (53 m) long, 40 ft (12.2 m) wide, and 40 ft (12.2 m) high. Spectators sit behind a wire fence or plexiglass wall on the fourth side. To their right is the front wall, or frontis. The object is to hurl the ball against the front wall in such a way that it cannot be returned. The ball may hit the side or rear wall, but not the spectator wall, before striking the frontis. The ball, which reaches speeds of 150 mph (240 kph), is caught in the cesta and thrown in a continuous motion. Jai alai is played as either singles or doubles with scoring similar to that of court handball. Betting on games is popular; parimutuel wagering is legal in a few U.S. states. Jai alai is also popular in parts of Europe, the Caribbean and Latin America, and the Philippines.
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Japan Now has to Deal with Abe’s Legacy
BEIJING, China – On July 8, at a campaign rally in the ancient city of Nara, Japan’s first established capital, Shinzo Abe, the former prime minister of Japan, was shot and killed.
Gun deaths in Japan are incredibly rare. In all of 2021, there was just one. Gun ownership in the country, per head of population, is the lowest of members of the G7, at just 0.3 per 100 people.
Handguns are banned but weapons can be purchased, under strict guidelines, for hunting. Those wanting to apply for a license are subject to mental health and drug checks, as well as criminal background checks.
This should make the streets safe. But there is still at times a sense of menace. Attacks on politicians in Japan are not common but they are also not unheard of. In 1960, in what seems like a cruel coincidence, Abe’s grandfather, Nobusuke Kishi, who was prime minister at the time, survived a stabbing by a far-right fanatic. Kishi was suspected of war crimes but never indicted as the Korean War disrupted Washington’s plans of a Nuremberg-style procedure in Tokyo to bring war criminals to trial.
In the same year, the leader of the Socialist Party was fatally stabbed in 1960 by a 17-year-old rightist while making a speech in Tokyo.
In the years that followed, Prime Minister Takeo Miki, Deputy Prime Minister Shin Kanemaru, and Prime Minister Morihiro Hokosawa were either attacked or shot in 1975, 1992, and 1994, respectively. They all survived.
In 2007, the mayor of Nagasaki was shot and killed in an attack blamed on an organized criminal gang.
The country’s streets are normally serene, even polite. With one glaring exception. The far-right is allowed cruise up and down the roads in what are called sound trucks, in reality, large vehicles with loudspeakers attached, bellowing out racist bile against the Chinese and Koreans.
To these fanatics, Abe was a hero. He was the man who was going to re-arm Japan by reinterpreting Article 9 of the Japanese Constitution.
The article is written in crisp and clear language and does not need reinterpretation. “Aspiring sincerely to an international peace based on justice and order, the Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation and the threat or use of force as means of settling international disputes. In order to accomplish the aim of the preceding paragraph, land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be sustained. The right of belligerency of the state will not be recognized.”
Abe’s death, of course, risks the chance that his legacy could pave the way to overturn Japan’s status as a pacifist nation. Abe was a powerful advocate of doubling Japan’s defense spending to 2 percent of GDP. On Taiwan, he bluntly warned Beijing they should have no doubts about Japan’s response if China pursued military action against Taipei. In Beijing, this was seen as confirmation that the United States and Japan would respond militarily and therefore Japan posed a direct military menace to what Beijing views as an internal matter. This was the first time since 1945 that a leading Japanese figure had threatened to take military action.
Abe was a frequent visitor to Yasukuni, a shrine in central Tokyo that celebrates Tokyo’s militaristic past. No emperor has gone to the shrine since 1975. In 1978, a committee overseeing the shrine said that the souls of Japanese war criminals would be interred and venerated there. In 1978, the souls of 14 Class-A war criminals (those who plan and conduct wars of aggression) seven of whom were hanged after the Tokyo trials, were enshrined.
This was an incredible victory for the militarists, but it had to be kept quiet, at least initially. The news was not publicized until 1979.
Abe stopped going to the shrine as prime minister in 2013 in large part due to pressure from China and South Korea. Though he visited in 2020 just days after stepping down, sending a clear disturbing message to South Korea and China.
Abe publicly questioned whether Japan’s wartime conduct in Asia could be described as aggression again angering Seoul and Beijing.
“The definition of what constitutes aggression has yet to be established in academia or in the international community,’’ he told parliament. “Things that happened between nations will look differently depending on which side you view them from.”
Abe did try to resurrect the moribund economy but his efforts, though widely publicized, met with little success. Massive monetary easing, fiscal stimuli, and structural reforms were carried out under the banner of “Abenomics” but to little or no avail.
Policies are often presented in poetry, and government is normally conducted in the less-idealistic manner of prose. But Abe’s attempts at reinterpretation tried to shape the future by ignoring the past. South Korea and China are painfully aware that the lessons of history, unless addressed, have a nasty habit of repeating themselves. | <urn:uuid:5f83848a-1ac5-457b-88d6-9297a90642bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intpolicydigest.org/japan-now-has-to-deal-with-abe-s-legacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973526 | 1,083 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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Hinduism is an ancient religion with diverse traditions such Shaivism, Vaishnavism, Shaktism and others. Each tradition has a long list of Hindu texts, with subgenre based on syncretization of ideas from Samkhya, Nyaya, Yoga, Vedanta and other schools of Hindu philosophy. Of these some called Sruti are broadly considered as core scriptures of Hinduism, but beyond the Sruti, the list of scriptures vary by the scholar.
Several lists include only the Vedas, the Principal Upanishads, the Agamas and the Bhagavad Gita as scriptures broadly accepted by Hindus. Goodall adds regional texts such as Bhagavata Purana and Yajnavalkya Smriti to the list. Beyond the Sruti, Hindu texts include Smritis, Shastras, Sutras, Tantras, Puranas, Itihasas, Stotras, Subhashitas and others.
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Onychomycosis is estimated to occur in approximately 10% of the global population, with most cases caused by Trichophyton rubrum. Some persistent onychomycosis is caused by mixed infections of T rubrum and one or more co-infecting nondermatophyte molds (NDMs). In onychomycosis, T rubrum strain types may naturally switch and may also be triggered to switch in response to antifungal therapy. T rubrum strain types in mixed infections of onychomycosis have not been characterized.
T rubrum DNA strains in mixed infections of onychomycosis containing co-infecting NDMs were compared with a baseline North American population through polymerase chain reaction amplification of ribosomal DNA tandemly repetitive subelements (TRSs) 1 and 2. The baseline DNA strain types were determined from 102 clinical isolates of T rubrum. The T rubrum DNA strain types from mixed infections were determined from 63 repeated toenail samples from 15 patients.
Two unique TRS-2 types among the clinical isolates contributed to four unique TRS-1 and TRS-2 strain types. Six TRS-1 and TRS-2 strain types represented 92% of the clinical isolates of T rubrum. Four TRS-1 and TRS-2 strain types accounted for 100% of the T rubrum within mixed infections.
Four unique North American T rubrum strains were identified. In support of a shared ancestry, the T rubrum DNA strain types found in mixed infections with NDMs were among the most abundant types. A population of T rubrum strains in mixed infections of onychomycosis has been characterized, with more than one strain detected in some nails. The presence of a co-infecting NDM in mixed infections may contribute to failed therapy by stabilizing the T rubrum strain type, possibly preventing the antifungal therapy–induced strain type switching observed with infections caused by T rubrum alone.
Reports of mixed infections with nondermatophyte molds (NDMs) and dermatophytes in onychomycosis are rare, possibly owing to the inhibition of NDM growth during traditional culture. We sought to determine the prevalence of mixed infections in onychomycosis using molecular identification.
Molecular analyses were used to identify infecting organisms directly from at least two serial great toenail samples from each of the 44 patients.
Mixed infections were present in 41% of the patients (18 of 44). A single coinfecting NDM was the most common mixed infection and was detected in 34% of patients with onychomycosis (15 of 44), with Fusarium oxysporum present in 14% (6 of 44), Scopulariopsis brevicaulis in 9% (4 of 44), Acremonium spp in 2% (1 of 44), Aspergillus spp in 4.5% (2 of 44), and Scytalidium spp in 4.5% (2 of 44). Mixed infections with two NDMs were found in 7% of patients (3 of 44).
Mixed onychomycosis infections may be more prevalent than previously reported.
Hematoma refers to the collection or extravasation of blood, usually clotted, in a closed tissue space. It is caused by leakage from local vessels damaged by blunt trauma, local injury, or surgical dissection. In the postoperative phase, a hematoma often results in edema, pain, wound dehiscence, infection, and scarring of the surgical wound. We describe a 44-year-old woman who developed severe complications, including hematoma, abscess, failure of internal fixation, and loss of soft-tissue structures, after hallux abducto valgus surgery. Hospitalization was required for infection control, soft-tissue coverage through negative-pressure wound therapy, and first metatarsophalangeal joint stabilization through external fixation. Early recognition of the signs of infection and hematoma can help decrease the incidence of postoperative complications. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 97(5): 410–414, 2007)
A universally accepted histopathologic classification of diabetic foot osteomyelitis does not currently exist. We sought to evaluate the histopathologic characteristics of bone infection found in the feet of diabetic patients and to analyze the clinical variables related to each type of bone infection.
We conducted an observational prospective study of 165 diabetic patients with foot ulcers who underwent surgery for bone infection. Samples for microbiological and histopathologic analyses were collected in the operating room under sterile conditions.
We found four histopathologic types of osteomyelitis: acute osteomyelitis (n = 46; 27.9%), chronic osteomyelitis (n = 73; 44.2%), chronic acute osteomyelitis (n = 14; 8.5%), and fibrosis (n =32; 19.4%). The mean ± SD time between the initial detection of ulcer and surgery was 15.4 ± 23 weeks for acute osteomyelitis, 28.6 ± 22.4 weeks for chronic osteomyelitis, 35 ± 31.3 weeks for chronic acute osteomyelitis, and 27.5 ± 27.3 weeks for the fibrosis stage (analysis of variance: P = .03). Bacteria were isolated and identified in 40 of 46 patients (87.0%) with acute osteomyelitis, 61 of 73 (83.5%) with chronic osteomyelitis, 11 of 14 (78.6%) with chronic acute osteomyelitis, and 25 of 32 (78.1%) with fibrosis.
Histopathologic categorization of bone infections in the feet of diabetic patients should include four groups: acute, chronic, chronic acute, and fibrosis. We suggest that new studies should identify cases of fibrosis to allow comparison with the present results. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 103(1): 24–31, 2013)
Background: We sought to determine the similarity of pathogens isolated from soft tissue and bone in patients with diabetic foot infections. It is widely believed that soft-tissue cultures are adequate in the determination of causative bacteria in patients with diabetic foot osteomyelitis. The culture results of specimens taken concurrently from soft-tissue and bone infections show that the former does not predict the latter with sufficient reliability. We sought to determine the similarity of pathogens isolated from soft tissue and bone in patients with diabetic foot infections.
Methods: Forty-five patients with diabetic foot infections were enrolled in the study. Patients had to have clinically suspected foot lesions of grade 3 or higher on the Wagner classification system. In patients with clinically suspected osteomyelitis, magnetic resonance imaging, scintigraphy, or histopathologic examination were performed. Bone and deep soft tissue specimens were obtained from all patients by open surgical procedures under aseptic conditions during debridement or amputation. The specimens were compared only with the other specimens taken from the same patients.
Results: The results of bone and soft-tissue cultures were identical in 49% (n = 22) of cases. In 11% (n = 5) of cases there were no common pathogens. In 29% (n = 13) of cases there were more pathogens in the soft-tissue specimens; these microorganisms included microbes isolated from bone cultures. In four patients (9%) with culture-positive soft-tissue specimens, bone culture specimens remained sterile. In one patient (2%) with culture-positive bone specimen, soft-tissue specimen remained sterile.
Conclusion: Culture specimens should be obtained from both the bone and the overlying deep soft tissue in patients with suspected osteomyelitis whose clinical conditions are suitable. The decision to administer antibiotic therapy should depend on these results. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 98(4): 290–295, 2008)
Background: Prediction of amputation would aid clinicians in the management of diabetic foot infections. We aimed to assess the predictive value of baseline and post-treatment levels of acute phase reactants in the outcome of patients with diabetic foot infections.
Methods: We collected data prospectively during minimum follow-up of 6 months in patients with infected diabetic foot ulcers hospitalized in Dokuz Eylul University Hospital between January 1, 2003, and January 1, 2008. After excluding patients who did not attend the hospital for follow-up visits regularly (n = 36), we analyzed data from 165 foot ulcer episodes.
Results: Limb ischemia and osteomyelitis were much more frequent in patients who underwent amputation. Wagner grade, which assesses ulcer depth and the presence of osteomyelitis or gangrene, was higher in patients who needed amputation. Ulcer size was slightly larger in the amputation group. Baseline and post-treatment C-reactive protein levels, erythrocyte sedimentation rates, white blood cell counts, and platelet counts were significantly elevated in patients who underwent amputation. Albumin levels were significantly suppressed in the amputation group. Univariate analysis showed that a 1-SD increase in baseline and post-treatment C-reactive protein levels, erythrocyte sedimentation rates, and white blood cell counts and a 1-SD decrease in post-treatment albumin levels were significantly associated with increased risk of amputation. Post-treatment C-reactive protein level was strongly associated with amputation risk.
Conclusions: Circulating levels of acute phase reactants were associated with amputation risk in diabetic foot infections. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 101(1): 1–6, 2011)
Vancomycin is a common treatment option for skin and skin structure infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Given the increasing prevalence of MRSA, vancomycin is widely used as empirical therapy. In patients with lower-limb infections, antimicrobial penetration is often reduced because of decreased vascular perfusion. In this study, we evaluated the tissue concentrations of vancomycin in hospitalized patients with lower-limb infections.
An in vivo microdialysis catheter was inserted near the margin of the wound and was perfused with lactated Ringer's solution. Tissue and serum samples were obtained after steady state for one dosing interval. Tissue concentrations were corrected for percentage of in vivo recovery using the retrodialysis technique.
Nine patients were enrolled (mean ± SD: age, 54 ± 19 years; weight, 105.6 ± 31.5 kg). Patients received a mean of 12.8 mg/kg of vancomycin every 12 hours (n = 7), every 8 hours (n = 1), or every 24 hours (n = 1). Mean ± SD steady-state trough vancomycin concentrations in serum and tissue were 11.1 ± 3.3 and 6.0 ± 2.6 μg/mL. The mean ± SD 24-hour free drug areas under the curve for serum and wound were 283.7 ± 89.4 and 232.8 ± 75.7 μg*h/mL, respectively. The mean ± SD tissue penetration ratio was 0.8 ± 0.2.
These data suggest that against MRSA with minimum inhibitory concentrations of 1 μg/mL or less, vancomycin achieved blood pharmacodynamic targets required for the likelihood of success. Reduced concentrations may contribute to poor outcomes and the development of resistance. As other literature suggests, alternative agents may be needed when the pathogen of interest has a minimum inhibitory concentration greater than 1 μg/mL.
The infected diabetic lower extremity has enjoyed a surge in popularity in the medical literature. There have been numerous papers outlining classification systems for ulcer depth, surgical approaches, and microbiology. Discussions on antibiotic use have usually been directed toward therapy of the "diabetic foot infections" as a group, without regard to differences in severity and location of these infections. These infections can vary from the most superficial of processes to a severe life- and limb-threatening sepsis. The author presents a review of the processes involved in the diabetic lower extremity infection and suggests a classification system for selection of empiric antibiotic therapy based on the severity of the infection.
The treating podiatric physician should consider underlying malignant disease when evaluating a child with any slowly healing or nonhealing infection involving the lower extremity. This article reports on an infant who was treated for suspected osteomyelitis involving his right fifth toe that did not improve with standard surgical, medical, and antibiotic treatments. He was later diagnosed as having acute myelogenous leukemia. (J Am Podiatr Med Assoc 97(2): 145–147, 2007) | <urn:uuid:f5d509e0-cc99-4dce-9229-a3613bf15284> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://japmaonline.org/search?access=all&page=3&pageSize=10&q=%22infection%22&sort=relevance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.93779 | 2,673 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Cooling Skid System
The Cooling Skid System is consider of Plate Heat Exchanger, Pump, and The filtration system that is manually clean by worker( Without the wire mash to collect debris).
In this situation The Cooling Skid system is using in an instant noodle manufacturer factory. It is using to lower the cooking oil temperature but as it is using to cook noodle there would be debris from the noodle which create problem to the filtration system. As the only method of cleaning is manual and if there is no cleaning the PHE and pump will not work as efficient as before. All of this take time and some even crate a huge loss and high opportunity cost for the factory.
However with Rano Tech Cooling Skid system that are design by professional engineering team. In our Cooling Skid System we also include the filtration self cleaning as well!
Rano Tech offer the customize in PHE, Plate Heat Exchanger, Gauge, and all other control system that you need in the Cooling Skid System. In order to control the temperature of the Cooling Skid System.
Our Cooling Skid will help you in long-term planning in cleaning not day by day like the old system because efficiency and productions never stop. | <urn:uuid:225f6b2d-9b6c-4876-ab48-f20fb344cc3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ranotech.com/en/cooling-skid-eng/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.951247 | 266 | 1.507813 | 2 |
When Hilton Hotels & Resorts decided that they needed to upgrade their high-frequency use pool gates with heavy duty closer hinges, they reached out to Waterson. According to the Hilton, their pool gates opened and closed on average over 1000 timers per day, over 30,000 timers per month, and easily over 1,000,000 times in 3 years. Therefore, they needed durable hinges that could handle the rigors of extensive use.
“We have a very heavily used pool acces gate,” says Hilton Chief Engineer, R.J. Roberts,. “It recently failed after over 3 years of extensive use, which is really good!” As a result, Mr. Roberts returned to Waterson in search of a reliable and heavy duty replacement closer hinge.
Pool gates serve a critical safety function that requires self-closing for optimal effectiveness. The 2021 International Swimming Pool and Spa Code (ISPSC) states that “Outdoor pools and spas and indoor swimming pools shall be surrounded by a barrier.” A barrier, such as a fence and a gate, helps prevent accidental drownings in pools, spas, and other water features – a properly-closed pool gate ensures that young children can’t easily approach a hazardous situation. Self-closing gates with effective latches are a common solution to ensure optimal pool safety.
The Waterson gate closer is crafted out of durable 304 or 316 stainless steel, which ensures corrosion resistance from pool chemicals and the like. In addition, the Waterson patented internal mechanism design provides effective speed and tension control, making gates ADA-compliant with under 5lbs opening force and 5 seconds closing time. At the same time, Waterson closer hinges are weldable, which strengthens their durability even more.
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Climate Change Across Seasons
For many of us, winter in the northeast means cold temperatures and piles of snow, drifting through trees and across fields. It’s hard to imagine that winter here could look different, but climate change has scientists asking just what northeast winters might look like in the future – and how those changes might impact northeast forest ecology.
At the U.S. Forest Service’s Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest (HBEF) the future researchers are thinking about is the year 2100, when temperatures across the northeast are anticipated to be a full 3-5⁰C (5.5-9⁰F) warmer than today. In the northeast, warmer temperatures could benefit trees with a longer and warmer growing season, but warmer winters actually see more frequent soil freezing, which can damage tree roots.
It seems backwards that soils freeze more during warm winters, but the reason is the snow. The blanket of snow that usually accumulates during a northeast winter acts to insulate the soil below, preventing it from experiencing the full, sub-freezing temperatures of the air. When warmer temperatures leave a thinner blanket of snow, or none at all, the soil is more likely to freeze.
To tease apart the opposing effects of warmer growing season and soil freezing, the HBEF started the “Climate Change Across Seasons Experiment” (CCASE), which investigates cross-season effects and focuses on maple trees. In previous experiments HBEF scientists have seen that maple trees can be more sensitive to soil freezing and they may turn out to be the canary in a coal mine for seasonal climate changes.
To really understand what CCASE is all about, I caught up with Geoff Wilson, a research technician at the HBEF, who explained the history behind the project. It all started in the mid-1950s, when the HBEF began long-term watershed monitoring. Now fast-forward several decades to the 1990s, when climate change researchers noticed something weird in the watershed records: unexplained spikes of high nutrient snowmelt in some years. They suspected the nutrient spikes were linked to the weather, because the spikes happened in years with less snow.
To figure out what was really causing this high-nutrient snowmelt, Geoff was part of the HBEF team that conducted an initial soil freezing study in 1999. They used shoveling to mimic reduced snowpack on 10 x 10 meter plots of sugar maples and yellow birch. I can only imagine an unlucky technician drawing the short straw and trudging out to the study plots after every snowfall. It was worth it, as the research team found some clear consequences of soil freezing.
First, the plots that were shoveled, and therefore experienced soil freezing, had high levels of nutrients in the water collected from them, which in spring could become the high nutrient run-off that the climate change researchers first noticed. Second, these plots had more root damage than plots that stayed insulated with snow. And finally, the team also saw that the trees most affected were the sugar maples.
Like all good science, this first study led to yet more questions, which is why the HBEF started the CCASE project.
Geoff explained that the new project tracks six 11 x 14 meter plots of red maple. In some plots, the soil is warmed 5⁰C during the April-November growing season, and an insulating blanket of snow is left for the winter. In other plots, the soil is warmed for the growing season, but the snow is shoveled off in the winter to let the soil freeze. It took 3 weeks in the summer of 2012 to bury the 2.5 miles of electrical cable that is used to warm the soil. “The electricity bill must be enormous!” Geoff commented.
The CCASE experiment measures nutrient and water uptake by trees, root growth and death, and competition for nutrients between plants and microbes. CCASE is also looking at the impact on soil arthropods, as researchers have seen soil arthropod diversity drop after soil freezing events.
CCASE is a multi-year study that is still in progress, but Geoff shared that HBEF scientists have some early conclusions. They’re seeing that the extra warming in summer plots does increase tree growth. Unfortunately, any increased growth is limited if the trees experience soil freezing in the winter. Studies like CCASE are helping us picture the future for a world experiencing climate change, but there are still many questions ahead before that picture will be complete.
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Do not litter with words
“Poles in Ukraine”.
Poles have always lived in Ukraine. Polish culture doesn’t exist without Lwów or Wilno – the cities that nowadays belong to Ukraine. “It was the revenge of Stalin, we all now it”. Many Poles in Ukraine do not know the language, many do not cultivate the identity. In the old times it was even dangerous to admit it. Many Poles have been sent to Siberia and the fathers of the families killed.
Now the Poles in Lwów and other parts of the country try to cultivate the cultural heritage. Polish government help to renovate catholic churches, palaces and galleries that were once Polish. Otherwise, they would disappear.
Born and raised in Lwów. Being a social activist is her vocation. Journalist – is her profession. The president of Polish Radio Lviv.
“The new elite for a New Europe”
There is a lot of dirt in our country. In the outside but in their hearts, people try not to throw litter about. Not to litter with thoughts, with words. Not to offend. Think positively. There are not only human rights, that we talk about much here. There are also human duties, that Moises and later Christ told about.
Human rights are in danger. We now the situation in Georgia in the eastern Ukraine. If you add terrorism in France, in Belgium than it seems clear that there is a crisis of the leaders, of the elites. They need to be formed from the beginning.
An NGO activist. Profession – IT specialist. Engaged in citizenship education. Worked for the IEARN network (International Education and Research Network) that associates one milion terachers and students. Later, she took part in “PiE Summer Institutes” from citizenship education. Volunteer for the ONZ. Worked with youth as a part of UNDP “Integration for social engagement in Ukraine”. Coordinator of international internships and seminaries. Since the last year she works in Erasmus +Inclusion in Eastern Partnership countries and Russia”. Analitics. | <urn:uuid:c70bcb70-0dae-4f3d-a694-511b728f39bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://voicefreeeurope.com/2004/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.953288 | 466 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The wolf is the biggest canid species and the second largest predator in Europe after the brown bear (Ursus arctos). The height at the shoulder varies from 50 to 70 centimetres, length from head to tail 110–150 centimetres. The weight of an adult male is usually from 30 to 60 kg. The female is a little lighter. Biggest wolves in n the northern parts of the range. The wolf has long legs and direct back line, giving a somewhat rectangular shape to the animal. Pelt
colour varies from white in the arctic areas to darker, usually brown, grey, reddish and silverfish, in the boreal forests. Cheeks are usually paler. The wolf runs effectively for long periods.
Distribution/range – global and regional
Norway and Sweden have a common wolf population in the south, part of the animals moving in both sides of the national border (e.g. Ekman 2010). Single wolf packs live also in some discrete areas all along the Scandinavian mountains and in Finnmark. In Finland the wolf is patchily distributed in southern half of the country, and on the Russian border further north (Jdeidi et al. 2010). Up to the 19th century wolves lived all over the Barents Region, but the species went almost extinct in the mid-1900s due to heavy persecution, expansion of human settlements, and steep decline of prey populations, especially the moose. Originally the wolf had the widest distribution of all the terrestrial mammals, living throughout the northern hemisphere north of 15°N latitude in North America and 12°N in India (e.g. Boitani 2000).
Key habitats - seasonality
The wolf is very adaptable to live in almost all kinds of terrestrial habitats with a sufficient density of suitable prey species, especially the moose, reindeer and roe deer. Wolves hunt both in all forested habitats as well as in open terrain, most often in peatlands and tundra, seldom in agricultural lands. Due to century-long and still-lasting persecution the species avoids close contact with human. Most wolf packs live in remote areas far from settlements, houses, cottages, roads, ski centres and other areas with regular human activities. In southern Barents regions however, some packs and single wolves live in smaller forest areas closer to rural villages and fields, preying sometimes dogs and livestock, most often sheep and young cows.
Biology – migration, life strategy, feeding, trophic relation, etc.
Wolves are social and live in packs which consist mostly of families and other closely related individuals (e.g Mech & Boitani 2003, Ekman 2010, Boitani & Powell 2012, Laaksonen 2013). The dominant pair (alfa pair) breeds, and the younger females remain reproductively suppressed unless there is an abundant amount of food available within the pack´s territory. Typical size of a pack is 5–12 animals, but it may be up to ca. 20 animals. The pack defends a territory of ca. 500–2,000 km2 depending on prey availability and habitat. Territory ownership is marked by howling and scent-marking, and intruders from other packs may be killed. The den is in a secure place under rocks or a tree trunk, behind thick row of spruce saplings or other vegetation, or in a hollow on the ground. The main mating period is from February to March, and the female gives birth after nine weeks. Litter size varies from one to 10, but usually there are 4–8 cubs. The female nurses her cubs for 8–10 weeks. Female becomes mature at the age of 2 years. The longest-living wolves may live in nature over 10 years, but the average longevity is hardly half of that. Wolves are generalist carnivores and hunt all kinds of mammals but take occasionally also other vertebrates and bird eggs. A full-grown animal may eat 3–6 kg meat a day but is able to fast for at least half a week. In winter the majority of food consists of moose (Alces alces) calves and females, reindeer (Rangifer tarandus), roe deer (Capreolus capreolus) and other large ungulates in addition to carcasses. Solitary wolfs are unable to kill large ungulates alone and, instead, hunt smaller mammals like mountain hares (Lepus timidus) and small rodents. Lone individuals are many times obliged to hunt dogs, sheep and other livestock. In summer with larger variety of food sources it is more common for wolves to hunt singly, in pairs or small groups. Wolves prefer sick or injured prey animals in order to save energy and avoid risks of getting hurt or even killed by e.g. a strong moose. Wolves often cache surplus food.
Population status – numbers and trends
There are no reliable estimates of the global wolf population published recently, but it must be well over 100,000 individuals (e.g. Sillero-Zubiri et al. 2004). In global scale, wolf populations in Scandinavia and Finland are tiny while both the range and population size in various parts of Russia are considerably larger. The present population in Norway is ca. 30, in Sweden 230–260, and in Finland about 200 individuals. In Russian part of Barents Region the wolf population is many times larger and a common animal and the numbers tends to increase. Northwestern Russia has probably about 1,000 individuals (Large Carnivore Initiative for Europe 2007, Wabakken et al. 2009, Franzen 2013, Artsdatabanken 2014, Riista- ja kalantutkimus 2014). The species was almost extinct both in Scandinavia and Finland in the first half of the 20th century, with only some tens of animals left in total in all the Nordic countries. In Sweden, only ca. 10 wolves were left in the 1950s. The Fenno-Scandian population began to increase slowly after legal protection and positive changes in public attitude since the 1960s and 1970s, in Finland also thanks to a growing number of newcomers from Russia. Many wolf packs have territories along both sides of the Finnish-Russian border, and according to genetic characteristics, the wolf population in Finland and northwestern Russia form a singe effective population. The Scandinavian wolf population has slowly increased in recent decades but the Finnish one almost halved during the last ten years due to illegal killing. Numbers have felled considerably down also in northwestern Russia due to excessive hunting. Globally the population has remained at the same general level (Jdeidi et al. 2010).
Threats – natural and anthropogenic
As in other top predators, natural threats to wolves include primarily intraspecific strife, starvation, illness or parasites, very rarely killing by a brown bear. The main cause of excess mortality and major threat of wolf populations in Barents region is killing by humans, motivated by direct economic losses like livestock and dogs especially when the dogs are running freely in moose hunting (e.g. Kojola et al. 2004). Preying of game animals by wolves is a general argument against this predator, too. Actually, the wolves cause very little economic damage compared to other reasons of mortality of livestock and game animals. Quotas of legal killing – often too high and based on non-scientific reasoning – and especially illegal killing are motivated also due to primeval irrational legends and misinterpretation of wolf’s biology and behaviour. Poaching occurs in all three Nordic countries but has been most devastating in Finland, where the population decreased from almost 300 to ca. 150 individuals in four years since 2007 (e.g. Boitani 2000, Ekman 2010, Franzen 2013). In northern Fenno-Scandia governments allow almost all wolves to be killed by special permits (needed because of the strict legal protection by national and international legislation) to protect reindeer husbandry. This hinders gene flow between the eastern and Scandinavian populations in Barents region; the Scandinavian gene pool is too low for a genetically viable population in the long run. In Russia excessive hunting is motivated also in some scale by fur trade. Fragmentation of habitats because of settlement and road building, infrastructure for recreational activities and other human use of remote areas pose a local threat due to diminishing of suitable habitat and collision with cars etc. Modern forestry, however, increase population sizes of moose and roe deer, which is beneficial to wolves.
Conservation measures and needs
The wolf is strictly protected in Scandinavia and Finland, in Sweden and Finland also by the EU Habitats Directive (1979). The species is included in Appendix II of CITES agreement (1973). Enforcement of legal protection, however, varies, and it has not been able to stop poaching. Boitani (2000) identified three key goals for wolf management in Europe, and they are relevant in Barents region, too: 1) to allow wolf to recover throughout the Europe, 2) to minimize conflicts between wolves and humans, and 3) to achieve a large-scale management of wolf population throughout the entire range. Compensation of true losses of livestock owners and reindeer herders should be improved, in connection with better protection by fences and more intensive guarding where possible (Hobbs et al. 2012). Acceptance of wolves by the general public should be improved by awareness campaigns and popular books like e.g. by Ekman (2010) and Laaksonen (2013). The local and regional economic value of living wolves and other predators should be increased by developing eco- and nature photographing tourism in co-operation with nature conservation administrators and private companies. One of the research topics of high priority is the effect of wolves on prey populations (e.g. Kaartinen 2011, Boitani & Powell 2012). | <urn:uuid:3c27d423-c194-4b44-af3c-16ee56f5e5c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.barentsportal.com/barentsportal/index.php/en/more/barents-sea-region-red-listed-species/522-gray-wolf-canis-lupus | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928993 | 2,026 | 3.84375 | 4 |
I didn't know there was a 12th century accordion, unless its something else called an accordion, but I don't think the word accordion even existed in those days - too complicated a word for people of the 12th century.
I`m not 100% sure if this is correct Chronologically but apparently the designer of that first squeezebox travelled all over Europe with it and at one point was in Italy , stayed at a farm owned by the Soprani Family for a night and one of the sons of the farmer, Paolo, copied the design drawings ---- the rest is History .
I believe the origins of the European accordion was the Sheng - a reed instrument brought back from China by a Jesuit priest.
In England Wheatstone - later a famous physicist - invented the Symphonium (1829) - essentially a sheng with metal reeds and buttons to unstop them.
He would have been really fed up had he known about the twelfth century bellows as it took him a while to transform the Symphonium into the English concertina.
Amazing , I thought a Symphonium was a type of music box with interchangeable "records" ..... The Sheng sounds interesting ..... I`d like a Martin Horn (a really bizarre Free reeder like a cross between a trumpet and a bicycle horn) | <urn:uuid:676c450c-b8bd-4e7d-a130-667eb5b50245> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.accordionists.info/threads/squeezebox-from-12th-century.520/#post-11039 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977169 | 281 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Did you know that glazed stoneware was being created almost four thousand years ago in Ancient China, owing to the discovery that kilns could be fired at even higher temperature? And the very earliest pottery, before that, was fired at relatively low temperatures in ordinary fires. The point of firing a clay object is to make the material hard and firm and usable for multiple purposes. It is actually only after heat is applied that clay or other materials become what we call pottery.
If you are looking for pottery supplies, there are many options available to you. Beginners should consult with pottery experts on the best materials and glazes to use, since some are easier for beginner projects and kiln users than others. Before looking at kilns for sale, make sure you have the proper space and licensing to own and operate a kiln, since the rules vary state by state for this. Small kilns that can only fit a few objects are often good for beginners.
Pottery wheels for sale are a good pottery supplies purchase, since with time and practice it is easy to produce beautiful clay objects by movement and hand manipulation. Make sure that your pottery wheel can go at the speed you desire. Some are foot pedal operated, while others are electronic.
If you are looking for pottery supplies and wondering whether it makes sense to buy pottery clay or pottery glazes used, you can, but be very wary to check the quality of the items you are receiving. If it is in large quantities, ask to test a small piece of clay first. More. | <urn:uuid:17d8dfb6-46a2-4fd8-8b1b-a5cf8601865b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hawaiimagicforum.com/pottery-supplies-the-basics-of-the-craft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.971139 | 321 | 2.546875 | 3 |
is a measure of the amount of one specified element
or component in a compound
. Concentration may be expressed both qualitatively or quantitatively.
Qualitatively, terms such as dilute and concentrated are use to describe relatively low and high concentrations, respectively.
Quantitatively, there are a number of different ways to express the ratio of the part to the whole. The most common are:
- Mass per unit mass - percentage by mass. For example, if substance a has a mass of 50g in a total mixture mass of 100g, then substance A has a concentration of 50% m/m in that mixture.
- Molarity (M), or moless per liter. For example, a 1.0 liter solution containing 5.0 moless of a solute would have a concentration of 5.0 M. Although molarity is the most common method of specifying concentration, it is dependent on temperature and pressure (due to change in volume). If an experimenting is being performed such that the charge of a solution is important, then knowing the mass proportion of the ions in the solution is irrelevant, as different ions will have different masses, but may have the same charge. Thus, the molar concentration of the substance is required, as molarity takes into account the atomic mass of the substance.
- Molality (m), or moless per kilogram. For example, a 1.0 kg solution containing 5.0 moles of solute would have a concentration of 5.0 m. Molality is used when temperature varies in an exothermic or endothermic reaction because it is not dependent on temperature or pressure. The unit symbol for molality, ''m," conflicts with the SI unit meter; the intended unit, however, can be determined by context.
- Mole fraction (χ), or moless per moless. For example, 5.0 moles dissolved in a 10 mole solution would have a mole fraction concentration of 2.0. Since the number of moles essentially measures particles, the mole fraction measures particles per particles.
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As Rama prepared to leave for the forest, Seetha pleaded with him to take her along, because she could not live without him. Rama permitted her to follow him.
Even Lakshmana insisted on going with them. He did not wish to live in Ayodhya without Rama.
Rama hesitated, for there was a very strong bond of love and affection between the two of them. At last, Rama permitted Lakshmana to accompany him. Rama, Seetha, and Lakshmana took the blessings of their parents and elders as they prepared to leave. They sat in a chariot dressed like hermits.
Dasaratha was thinking of Rama the whole night. He was unable to bear the agony of separation and passed into eternal bliss. Messengers were sent to Kekaya to bring Bharata and Shatrughana back. Bharata was shocked to see the entire city of Ayodhya in the gloom. He rushed to the palace to find out what was happening. When Bharata found out about the wicked plans of his mother and her maid manthara, he was disgusted. He cried at the loss of his father. He cried that Rama was exiled because of his mother.
No thought of being a Ruler.
Bharata never wanted to be a king. Kaikeyi now knew how great her mistake was. Bharat made up his mind to go in search of Rama. He left Ayodhya with a large army and entered the forest. Kaikeyi and the other queens also followed him. On the other side Rama, Lakshmana, and Sita crossed the river Ganges searching for a land undisturbed and isolated from everyone.
Soon they reached Chitrakoot, a beautiful place with many trees and streams.
They built a small hut near a stream and lived there. Bharat and his army approached Chitrakoot. As soon as Bharat saw Rama, he ran towards him and fell at his feet. Shatrugna also offered his salutations to Rama.
Bharat broke the news of their father’s death. Rama was shocked to hear it. Bharat pleaded with Rama to come back and rule Ayodhya, but Rama refused to say that the death of Dasaratha would be meaningless if he were to come back to Ayodhya. He asked Bharat to go back and rule Ayodhya wisely. But Bharat was equally stubborn. He did not want to go back without Rama. At last, it was agreed that Bharat would rule as Rama’s representative for the next fourteen years. Bharat took Rama’s sandals and carried them back to Ayodhya on his head with great respect. After Bharat’s departure, Rama did not wish to live in Chitrakoot anymore. They left the forests of Chitrakoot and started their journey to the forests of dandaka. The forests of dandaka were dark and deep.
Divine Sage Visit.
Then they traveled to the south of the vindyas and visited the abode of the divine sage Agastya. Sage Agastya advised Rama to settle at Panchavati on the banks of the river Godavari. On reaching panchavati, Lakshmana put up an elegant hut. It was here that they met the vulture king Jatayu. Jatayu was a friend of Dasaratha and wanted to help Rama in whatever way it could. | <urn:uuid:d4c256f7-26ab-498f-a77d-9e3f853e27b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://magicbox.co.in/ramayanam-sri-rama-in-chitrakoot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.988634 | 751 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Most recently, the UAE’s cabinet announced a charter “Vision 2021” which indicated its political leadership’s commitment to excel in each and every filed and achieve desired socio-economic goals. It seems that Vision 2021 is inspired by the principles of UAE founding fathers, it is also guided by the National Work Program launched by His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the President of the UAE, and adopted by Their Highnesses the Rulers of the Emirates and Members of the Federal Supreme Council.
The charter draws the broad contours of the roadmap that the country intends to take in realising those goals. It showed the positive attitude of its visionary leaders. It reflected the humanistic spirits of its rulers towards the people at large. The charter seeks to make the UAE one of the best places in the world to do business. The cornerstone of vision 2021 is the welfare of the people. Read More »VISION 2021: A WAY TO GLORY | <urn:uuid:bcfbeb1d-d55d-48b1-ab33-dfc6c56f9a9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.opfblog.com/date/2010/02/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95508 | 210 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Journal of Policy History 14.2 (2002) 191-203
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The National War Labor Board and American State Building:
Bartholomew H. Sparrow
In his article "Creating the National War Labor Board: Franklin Roosevelt and the Politics of State Building in the Early 1940s," Andrew Workman argues for a revised "institutionalist" understanding of the creation of the National War Labor Board (NWLB). 1 Specifically, Workman includes interest groups, networks of policy intellectuals, and intragovernmental relations in an institutionalist account of the origin of the NWLB. Existing accounts that focus on the government's dependence on labor unions (Sparrow) or partisan politics (Katznelson and Pietrokowski; Katznelson, Geiger, and Kryder) do not explain the complex origins of this key wartime board. 2
Workman's account of the Roosevelt administration's handling of labor-management relations during the mobilization period of late 1940 (the surrender of France) up to mid-December 1941 (immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor) follows from the work of J. P. Nettl and Stephen Skowronek: the former indicates the importance of crises in state-building; the latter discusses the role of historical contingency and the influence of the particular organization of the preestablished state. 3 Workman builds on these two approaches to present an account of the Roosevelt administration's labor policy as it evolved from the formation of the National Defense Advisory Board in mid-1940, to the NDAB's transformation into the Labor Division of the Office of Production Management (OPM), the creation of the National Defense Mediation Board (NDMB), and ultimately [End Page 191] the establishment of the National War Labor Board in early 1942.
Workman uses primary sources (agency records, presidential correspondence) and the secondary literature (newspapers, journal articles, books) to trace out the labor politics of the period, explain the failure of the Roosevelt administration's initiatives prior to the creation of the NWLB, and argue that FDR's labor-management policies favored the unions rather than business. He rejects the resource-dependence perspective used in From the Outside In for the reason that it misses the other political players--beside the unions--in the mix. The resource-dependence perspective also mischaracterizes labor's advantaged status in the NWLB, as Workman sees it. Whereas the state building that resulted from the war "did not redound to the benefit of the American labor movement" (as Workman quotes me), Workman sees the glass as at least half-full, or fuller. He points out that the NWLB saved the unions from anti-union congressional action, protected union security, and established a relatively benign mechanism for settling labor-management disputes. 4
A partisan account of labor policy is also deficient, according to Workman, since the conservative Democratic-Republican coalition then dominant in Congress was unable to control the creation of the tripartite wartime labor boards (that is, boards composed of representatives from the labor, business, and public sectors). By establishing tripartite bodies for handling labor policy, FDR was able to avoid working through the (hostile) Congress. 5
I have no great quarrel with Workman's argument. I appreciate his attention to labor policy as a component of American state building of the early 1940s, his close historical research, and his challenge to some of the dominant accounts of organized labor in the United States at mid-century. But I should clarify the record on two basic points, and make a few other comments.
First, it seems that we are mostly talking past each other. My purpose in From the Outside In was to test an organizational model of state building, one that I could apply to democratic governments and across different policy domains. The resource-dependence perspective as I adapted it so that it could be applied to government organizations, in lieu of business firms, posits that in times of crisis (here, World War II), democratic governments have to reach out to [End Page 192] societal (that is, nongovernmental) actors--whether individuals or associations--so as to secure needed resources.
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(Bel Air, MD – October 6, 2008) – – Harford County Executive David R. Craig has announced the recommendations from the Commission on Efficiency and Economy in Government. The Commission was established in November of 2007 in response to the fiscal crisis of the State of Maryland.
The county executive formed the Commission pursuant to Article IV, Section 412 of the Harford County Charter and charged the Commission to make recommendations with respect to how county government could be more efficient and save taxpayers money.
The Commission conducted more than a dozen meetings over the course of eight months in studying current operations and practices of Harford County Government for the purpose of identifying opportunities for improvement and seeking ways to maximize existing resources.
The bi-partisan Commission was comprised of 11 members who were well versed in government, business and law. The Commission was chaired by Scott T. Gibson, Director of Human Resources for Harford County.
“I am deeply grateful to each member of the Commission for the sacrifice of their time and commitment to this initiative,” County Executive David R. Craig stated. “The recommendations are sound and we will endeavor to implement those we can as soon as practical. Naturally some of the recommendations have an initial fiscal impact that will provide cost savings and efficiency in the long run and will be addressed through the legislative process with our County Council as necessary,” the county executive remarked.
The 39 page Commission report contains recommendations to reform the culture of government, make departments of government more accountable for their performance, require more accountability from the Board of Education, reform procurement procedures, better manage facilities and operations and overhaul the Office of Information Systems so departments can better utilize technology.
The Commission, under the leadership of Scott T. Gibson, Director of Human Resources, began their work late last year, well before the current state of the economy was known or projected. The Commission’s recommendations include short term – those that can be implemented immediately and long-term, those requiring time and a fiscal commitment by the county to bring about long-lasting cost-saving improvements to government.
“Now more than ever, due to the state of our economy as well as the fiscal state of our state, we must work to find local solutions to our problems. This report will help serve as a blueprint of things which can be done to improve the operation of county government as well as save taxpayer’s money,” County Executive Craig remarked. | <urn:uuid:66eb5418-8020-4607-b07f-e61b43efc8a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.daggerpress.com/2008/10/07/county-executive-craig-announces-recommendations-from-the-commission-on-efficiency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964872 | 492 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The global power rental market is evaluated at US$14.576 billion for the year 2020, growing at a CAGR of 9.96%, reaching a market size of US$28.341 billion by the year 2027.
Power rental is the facility to hire a power source to provide to an industrial unit or wherever required. Power rental has several benefits over the other solutions available for the same purpose. The key advantage of a power rental solution over its counterparts is that it gives the customer a significant level of flexibility in the power rating that can be given; moreover, it has almost negligible installation and maintenance costs. Additionally, a critical factor that has been driving the market of power rentals is the fact that they are readily available on short notice, which has proved to be noticeably beneficial for many firms. Moreover, power rental is not just used for particular companies but also for events that happen worldwide, as it is costlier to buy a whole new source of power that might be useless after the event wraps up. Thus this proves to be a more efficient option for the organizers. The power rental market is also fuelled by the growth of oil & gas projects around the globe that require power for a particular period during exploration or production.
The segmentation of the power rental market has been done into fuel type used, applications, end-user industry, and geography. By fuel type, the classification of the market has been done into diesel and gas. Based on applications, the market segmentation has been done into standby, peak shaving, and baseload. By the end-user industry, the market has been segmented as oil & gas, construction, mining, events, and others. Furthermore, based on geography, the global market is distributed in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the Asia Pacific.
Increasing demand for power supply in the oil & gas sector
The increasing demand for power supply owing to a significant number of upcoming projects in the oil & gas sector is expected to drive the market in the coming years as such projects and operations take place in remote locations. Furthermore, the increasing need to reduce operational expenditure and increase marginal profits has made the plants adopt power rental solutions. With the dynamism in oil prices and other similar fuels, sometimes it becomes difficult to make a profit through the prices. Thus these plants prefer to cut down operational expenditure, opting for power rental solutions. Moreover, the demand for a continuous power supply in this sector has increased over the years with vast upcoming projects in the sector.
Expansion in the power distribution networks might restrain the growth
The power grids in several countries have witnessed a significant rise in their sizes with the development of more interconnected power networks across the country. This factor is expected to inhibit the growth of the power rental market as the need for power rental solutions will diminish if the network is spread wide enough to reach the locations of production plants. For instance, according to the Canadian Electricity Association, there are about 35 electric transmission interconnections between the United States and Canada, with other cross-border projects in different stages of development.
Middle East & Africa to witness a promising growth
Geographically, the Middle East & Africa region is expected to grow at a significant CAGR of x% during the forecast period owing to noticeable amounts of upcoming projects in the region. Several countries in the region have an ample number of oil & gas projects lined up, which in turn is expected to fuel the market of power rentals in the region. For instance, a major gas refinery project costing US$ 13 billion is in the process of development in Iran and is expected to be one of the biggest gas fields in the world. With such a large-scale project, the requirement for energy sources would be huge, given that the project will be taking place in a remote location in the country.
The players in the global power rental market are implementing various growth strategies to gain a competitive advantage over their competitors in this market. Major market players have been covered along with their relative competitive strategies. The report also mentions recent deals and investments of different market players over the last few years. The company profiles section details the business overview, financial performance (public companies) for the past few years, key products and services being offered, along with the recent deals and investments of these important players in the market.
APR Energy Ltd secured contracts for eight turbines with a total capacity of 265 MW at three locations in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico, in May 2020. APR Energy is a global provider of deployable, large-scale, and fast-track mobile power generation equipment.
Aggreko introduced a 1 MW solar power renting option in October 2020. This novel solution is designed for off-grid or weak-grid settings and provides clean energy. This solution is accessible with no upfront CAPEX and a three-to-four-month deployment period.
The advent of COVID-19 harmed the market since the pandemic forced the activities in various industries to a standstill, including all the oil & gas, construction, and mining projects across several countries, and slowed the growth of the power rental market to a significant level in the year 2020. With the industries getting back on track and recovering after suffering losses due to the pandemic, major activities like production and exploration have resumed. The growth of the power rental market is expected to show a gradual increase initially. However, it is expected to witness rapid growth after the industries resume full-fledged activities in the coming years.
|Market size value in 2020||US$14.576 billion|
|Market size value in 2027||US$28.341 billion|
|Growth Rate||CAGR of 9.96% from 2020 to 2027|
|Forecast Unit (Value)||USD Billion|
|Segments covered||Fuel, Application, End-user, And Geography|
|Regions covered||North America, South America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific|
|Companies covered||Wärtsilä, United Rentals Inc., Caterpillar, Sunbelt Rentals Ltd, Wacker Neuson SE, Herc Rentals Inc., Atlas Copco (India) Ltd, Cummins Inc., Aggreko, Generac Power Systems, Inc|
|Customization scope||Free report customization with purchase|
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Q1. What is the size of the global power rental market?
A1. Power Rental Market was valued at US$14.576 billion in 2020.
Q2. What will be the power rental market size by 2027?
A2. The power rental market is projected to reach a market size of US$28.341 billion by 2027.
Q3. What are the growth prospects for the power rental market?
A3. The global power rental market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 9.96% over the forecast period.
Q4. What factors are anticipated to drive the power rental market growth?
A4. The increasing demand for power supply owing to a significant number of upcoming projects in the oil & gas sector is expected to drive the power rental market.
Q5. Which region holds the largest market share in the power rental market?
A5. Geographically, the Middle East & Africa region is expected to hold a significant share of the power rental market.
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A durable, drought-tolerant, sun-loving Australian native with graceful, upright branching and fine but dense, needle-like, lightly aromatic green foliage.
Small spring flowers open white and age to rosy-red. Adds vivid color to a low-water garden. The loose, airy sprays of waxy flowers are prized by florists for long-lasting color in cut flower arrangements. Evergreen. In late spring, it grows clusters of tiny, white, waxy flowers, which are very fragrant.
It has thick, highly-textured, medium green leaves. The heart-shaped leaves turn to brilliant shades of orange and pink in the fall. This shrub grows best in rocky soils with excellent drainage. It is a fantastic choice for foothills landscapes with partial shade. Geraldton Waxflower is a native of the Shark Bay region of western Australia. It is an evergreen shrub with narrow needle-like leaves on thin stems, and clusters of honey-scented 5 petalled flowers from late Winter into Spring.
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Effects of Psychosomatic Disorder on Adolescence
By: Sahil Pawar
Adolescence is a pivotal link between childhood and adulthood, characterised by significant physical, social, and psychological transitions. While these transitions present opportunities to influence the present and future lifestyle of young people positively, they may also pose severe risks if not dealt with wisely. In what is already considered a sensitive and stressful phase of life, adolescence can quickly become an overwhelming predicament for a child if a psychological illness, such as psychosomatic disorder and its effects, enter the picture.
According to psychology experts, the prevalence and effects of psychosomatic disorder in adolescents are reported to be between 10 and 25%.
What is Psychosomatic Disorder?
Psychosomatic disorder is a psychological condition involving varying physical symptoms that usually lack a medical explanation. Physical symptoms of the psychosomatic disorder are caused or exacerbated by a mental and an emotional issue rather than a physical pathology. Somatic symptoms, somatic symptom disorder, and somatic pain are some other names for psychosomatic disorder.
Adolescents with this condition may have excessive thoughts, feelings, or concerns about the physical symptoms, affecting their ability to function well in daily life. However, they usually do not report overt signs of psychiatric distress. Instead, they believe undiagnosed medical conditions cause their problems.
So if an adolescent has been complaining of a stomach ache, chest pain, nausea, or a physical symptom of any other sort, but the doctor is unable to come to a diagnosis because everything looks all clear physically, then the teen may be suffering from psychosomatic illness.
Symptoms and effects of psychosomatic disorder in adolescents may be a result of unaddressed emotional stress and mental health issues due to:
- Family conflict or issues
- Academic pressure
- Peer pressure or bullying
- Chronic disease
- Shifting to a new place
- Negligent Parenting
Effects of Psychosomatic Disorder on adolescence can be broadly classified as:
1. Physical Conditions as Effects of Psychosomatic Disorder
There is a common misconception that psychosomatic disorder is all in the head and thus imaginary. However, in reality, the physical effects of psychosomatic disorder in adolescents are genuine and require treatment, just as any other illness. It is psychological function that causes and influences the physical symptoms in this case.
Common physical signs include, but are not restricted to:
- Muscle aches and pain
- Digestive issues
- Dizziness or shaking
- Elevated blood pressure
- Racing heart
Bodily signs in adolescents can vary for different genders. For example, biological females often report symptoms such as fatigue, irritability, abdominal bloating, and menstrual changes. Signs in biological males, however, usually include chest pain, changes in sex drive, and increased blood pressure.
Signs and symptoms in adolescents may also vary by age. Children often experience physical stress as they cannot communicate correctly how they feel. For instance, a child having a hard time at school may suffer from and complain about frequent stomach aches or headaches.
Symptoms in teens can be particularly intense due to periods of significant social adjustment, hormonal shifts, or adolescent depression.
2. Exacerbating Mental Health
Adolescents suffering from psychosomatic disorders are under stress and cannot vent their emotions healthily. Therefore, they eventually reach an emotional breaking point which may result in chronic medical illnesses or worsen the existing ones if not attended to.
Worsening mental health issues can hamper the ability of adolescents to function efficiently on a day-to-day basis. In specific cases, teens may characterize obsessive-compulsive personality disorder, hypochondriasis, severe dependency, or neurotic preoccupation with self.
Some common mental health conditions adolescents suffering from the psychosomatic disorder may develop are clinical depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder, addictions, prodromal psychosis, etc.
Based on the above two points, some more specific effects of psychosomatic disorder in adolescents are:
Adolescents with a psychosomatic illness often turn into hypochondriacs due to the disease. A hypochondriac lives with the fear that they have a serious, undiagnosed medical condition, even though the diagnosis may show nothing is wrong with them.
Hypochondriacs who are adolescents experience extreme anxiety from the bodily responses which are usually normal. For example, they may convince themselves that something as simple as arm pain is the sign of a heart attack.
Frequently asking their parents to take them to the doctor, asking to have their temperature checked unnecessarily, talking excessively about their health issues, frequently complaining about feeling pain that has no reason, etc. are some behaviors hypochondriac adolescents may exhibit.
2. Poor Immunity
Compromised immunity can be another effect of psychosomatic disorder in adolescents. Some teenagers may catch colds, flu, or infections when under pressure and may take longer to get better. They may tend to fall sick more frequently than their peers.
The fight-or-flight response of the body to stress is the release of certain chemicals such as adrenaline, which can be very useful in a life-or-death situation. Adolescents with the psychosomatic disorder have high amounts of these chemicals that are released continuously over an extended period due to chronic stress. These chemicals may do more harm than good, like compromising adolescents’ immunity.
3. Stunted Social Growth
Social skills are vital for every child’s development, and lacking them can be a severe problem. A child’s ability to communicate, social interaction, and emotional intelligence is key to how well they may thrive socially as adolescents and adults. Psychosomatic disorders can make children socially inept due to various mental health issues.
The adolescent may even struggle to form and maintain meaningful personal relationships like making friends, which may affect their social life as an adult.
Left unattended, the adolescents can even develop Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) or Social Communication Disorder (SCD).
4. Poor Concentration
Attention and concentration difficulties are prevalent in school-aged children. However, children with psychosomatic illness can have a tough time focusing on studies or any other activity that requires concentration. They may be unable to sit still, easily distracted, unable to complete their work, and struggle with their learning.
Consequently, some teens may develop behavioral signs such as moodiness, aggression, or irritability. Due to affected concentration, some may even show clumsiness or poor gross motor skills such as jumping or running.
5. Eating Disorders:
Proper nutrition is crucial to adolescents as the body is at a vital developmental stage. However, poor eating habits or eating disorders can impair their daily health and wellbeing, and may even lead to specific ailments.
Eating disorders are severe medical conditions related to persistent eating patterns that negatively impact one’s emotions, ability to function in critical areas of life, and overall health. The most common eating disorders among adolescents are bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder.
Poor nutrition can contribute to the risk of developing other health problems in teens, such as obesity, tooth decay, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, heart diseases, diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer, or depression.
6. Issues with Adulting
Considering the above-mentioned effects of psychosomatic disorder, it is quite self-explanatory that adolescents dealing with the illness have a hard time being completely independent.
Adulting is an integral part of adolescence. Working shifts, paying bills, making meals, running errands, doing chores, making essential decisions, etc. All these responsibilities can be too much for someone dealing with the debilitating effects of psychosomatic disorder.
Psychosomatic disorder in adolescents is commonly encountered, yet challenging to deal with. Those caring for the adolescents should be informed and remain alert for the occurrence of psychosomatic illness. In case of signs or symptoms similar to psychosomatic diseases, professional medical help must be sought from a licensed therapist or a physician.
Although patience and consistency are required of medical professionals and family members as treatment progresses, eventual improvement in the patient is a realistic expectation in most instances. In fact, in several cases, physical pain disappears after the patient realizes that the source of their pain is emotional stress.
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He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted. – Lao Tzu
We have heard and read a lot concerning the so called Tea Party conservatives. From vituperative language to questions about their mental stability to their motives. I do not think that anyone has actually looked too deeply into to this particular group though.
Just look at this data. Over half are men, own guns, are very religious, have has at least some education beyond high school and over 45 years of age. And nearly completely non-Hispanic white. And nearly all hate and fear the federal government.
Look at the charts. Guns, religion, age and the government. This is NOT about money and never really has been. It’s about CONTROL. Conservatives have always been control freaks but these people are off the scale. According to Dave Masco they are viewed as Rich Bullies who are very insecure.
Tea Party viewed as rich bullies who want it their way
According to the New York Times/CBS News poll, “the Tea Party movement burst onto the scene a year ago in protest of the economic stimulus package and its supporters have vowed to purge the Republican Party of officials they consider not sufficiently conservative and to block the Democratic agenda on the economy, the environment and health care.”
At the same time, the poll noted how the Tea Party supporters’ have “fierce animosity toward Washington, and the president in particular, is rooted in deep pessimism about the direction of the country and the conviction that the policies of the Obama administration are disproportionately directed at helping the poor rather than the middle class or the rich.”
Also, the poll showed that the overwhelming majority of Tea Party supporters say President Obama “does not share the values most Americans live by and that he does not understand the problems of people like themselves. More than half say the policies of the administration favor the poor, and 25 percent think that the administration favors blacks over whites — compared with 11 percent of the general public.”
The poll is shocking in its findings that Tea Party members “are more likely than the general public, and Republicans, to say that too much has been made of the problems facing black people.”
But I think it also goes deeper than that. They fear government in their lives in any way shape or form because they fear the government. They hate the idea of government providing anything because they fear and hate any dependence on it. It’s absolutely about loosing what little control they feel they have over their lives. They do not trust the government and most likely do not even trust themselves. And they feel victimized and paranoid. So the tea part is very supportive of the military and the wars in general. just no “Obama’s Wars”.
I do wish however that I could find an even more detailed view oh those who consider themselves staunch tea-party conservatives. Whether they are overly concerned with personal security. That they are more likely to have guns would suggest this. Whether they are more likely to be self employed or have a small or smaller business. The religious factor suggests a deep seated fear of the future and their anti-gay stance shows to me that they are very sexually insecure as well.
Their statements and willingness to destroy an economy that is already causing them financial distress appears to be irrational. People who react almost totally emotionally will be irrational since emotions nearly always block out any rational thought. As Bill Cosby once observed – Scared children are very difficult to get along with. I would like to add angry children as well. | <urn:uuid:7777bd73-1438-42c5-9d98-a958da722961> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shadowproof.com/2011/07/29/the-tea-party-conservatives-a-study-in-irrationality/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.977352 | 728 | 1.5 | 2 |
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By default, a piece of code in the Fuchsia tree cannot be added to any SDK: participation is a strictly opt-in decision. Additionally, this decision is encoded locally within the code's build file. This was done for multiple reasons:
In order to be made available in SDKs, a piece of code must follow a set of standards and guidelines.
The SDK creation pipeline consists of two pieces:
The backend really is just a specialized use of the build system. In other words, running the SDK backend amounts to passing the right set of arguments to the Fuchsia build system, which in turn produces an archive with a set layout. The inner workings of the backend are described here.
The term frontend is used to describe any process that ingests a Fuchsia SDK archive and applies transformations to it.
In the Fuchsia tree, frontends are used to generate SDK distributions, e.g. a Bazel-ready workspace.
Frontends may also be used to adapt a Fuchsia SDK archive for consumption in a particular development environment by for example generating build files for a given build system. The presence of extensive metadata in the archive itself allows for this kind of processing.
Build packages for SDK definitions are located under
//<layer>/packages/sdk. Use the normal build process using this build package, adding an extra GN build argument:
build_sdk_archives=true. The resulting archive will be available under
The first step is to make that content available to SDKs. This is done by using a set of templates listed in the backend documentation. The next step is to add that content to an existing SDK definition. For a target
//path/to/my:super_target, this is accomplished by making the implicit
//path/to/my:super_target_sdk target a dependency of the
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