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Chris and I recently enjoyed a date night. As part of our special evening, we went to a movie. The credits at the end of the feature included a character identified as compassionate woman. Her small act of kindness in the movie did not merit her having a name.
“And some have compassion, making a difference.”
The same can be true of real life. Small acts of compassion and kindness are often not given merit, except by the recipient. People value and remember when others show them kindness. Noticing someone is like giving them a gift.
Acts of compassion include benevolence, empathy, grace, kindness, mercy, sympathy, tenderness, charity, clemency, commiseration, condolence, consideration, and softheartedness. True compassion focuses first and foremost on the revelation of God’s great love demonstrated through His Son Jesus Christ.
Earlier today, I read an article written by Bette Owens on compassion. “When I think of a compassionate woman, I think of a godly woman.”
Bette Owens also describes the characteristics of a compassionate woman:
- A compassionate Christian woman has a hunger for God.
- A compassionate Christian woman lives for eternity.
- A compassionate Christian woman avoids sin.
- A compassionate Christian woman loves others.
In my first novel, The Whispering of the Willows, the Ashby children have endeared themselves to a single woman living across Big Creek from them. They escape to her and call her their “love aunt” for good reason. In many ways, her hospitality shows through, by her taking the time to listen to the children, and taking action on their behalf when called for. She hides a child in safety and she calls the sheriff when an investigation is warranted. My own sweet aunt is the prototype of the loving aunt in my story.
Recently, I enjoyed reading a story featuring another compassionate woman. This woman is the teacher of a child who has been wronged at Christmastime. She has put away extra gifts for such a time as the story presents. I highly recommend A Perfect Tree by Denise Dunham for your younger kiddos this season. Disappointments abound in life, but compassionate women can make a difference.
“A compassionate Christian woman will make a difference in the lives of all who meet her. Her life is truly one that makes a difference. We can all be a compassionate Christian woman and make a difference if we would love and serve the One who makes a difference.” (Bette Owens)
Author Tonya Jewel Blessing is working on her third novel in the Big Creek series. Don’t miss out on her first two installments, they have been highly recommended by many readers!
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Screw the scale! These three words are trending, and lifestyle, fitness coach and CEO of “Step It Up With Steph” Stephanie Mansour joins The Doctors to explain why!
Stephanie says this phrase refers to people obtaining their best bodies by focusing on building muscle. She says since muscle is denser than fat, people may actually gain weight on the scale even though they are happier, healthier and more in shape with their body.
Tons of before and after photos posted online demonstrate that the number on the scale isn’t everything! Stephanie says she loves this trend since it is leaving people feeling empowered and not solely focused on being thin as a rail.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Andrew Ordon notes that so many people do over-fixate on the scale and it can lead to eating disorders and psychological issues when people weigh themselves multiple times a day. Screw the scale and instead, work on incorporating at least 30 minutes of strength training into your workouts 3 times per week.
Stephanie demonstrates some strength training moves that people can do at home. She combines two exercises into one to get the most bang for your buck! Check out the above video to see how they’re done and as always, please consult a physician before starting any new fitness regimen.
Curtsey lunge + side lift
The curtsey lunge works the standing leg’s thigh, glute and hamstring. Adding the side lift to the exercise will help get a round, plump and firm booty!
Overhead press + side crunch
For this move, Stephanie uses dumbbells but if you don’t have any at home, you can use heavy household items like laundry detergent or a gallon of milk. The overhead press works the upper body while the side crunch whittles the waist. | <urn:uuid:31db96d8-8512-450b-84f3-59d9cf4863f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedoctorstv.com/articles/can-gaining-weight-give-you-perfect-body | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.908434 | 621 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Summer is an exciting time for readers like me. This is the time of year when I can grab a book and sit on my front porch or at the edge of the ocean and allow my mind to take flight. Summers give me a chance to reconnect with old friends in books I finished years ago, while discovering new writers or going back through my “To Be Read” list. I honestly believe that summer was made for reading.
I guess that’s why I’ve been spending so much time reflecting on my own reading habits and what science has told us about reading development. What we know is that growth in reading happens at different times for different people. That said, we also know there are five clear stages that readers progress through at various times. Understanding these stages helps us support developing readers in specific and intentional ways.
Stage 1: Pre-reading/Emergent Readers
During this phase, developing readers show interest in books for the first time. They should be read interesting and dynamic books.
Stage 2: Reading/Early Readers
This is the phase where you will see readers start to memorize stories and make connections between sounds and print. Help readers focus on the letters in their own name. Learning the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they represent is also important here.
Stage 3: Responding/Progressive Readers
Readers will understand that the words on the page represent a story. It’s best to help readers in this phase sound out words that are unknown using the phonics skills they gained in previous phases.
Stage 4: Exploration/Transitional Readers
More accurate and fluent reading can be expected in this phase. Helping these readers choose books that interest them is key.
Stage 5: Independent Readers
Readers in this phase will read for different purposes and start to analyze what they have read. Continue to provide them with books that match their interest.
The most important aspect of this concept is the reality that readers need not be locked into one phase. It is perfectly normal for an independent reader to approach a book that might not necessarily be on his reading level with a new set of eyes. Summer is my favorite time as a reader because there are no strict rules or lists I must cover. Readers get to slow down and savor the words on the page and make deep connections without the pressure of having to take a test afterward.
Let’s cherish these few remaining days of summer and use this time to read for pleasure, read with passion, and allow all our minds to take flight.
Dr. Tracy Bailey
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Today I am dedicating my blogpost to one little item. On first glance you are probably thinking it’s just a simple blue and white striped blouse. A vintage item most probably (this is me after all and it is highly unlikely to be modern), but this blouse is much more than it at first appears and also helps to tell a story about an important period in Britain’s fashion history.
There is one small label sewn into the side seam of this blouse which makes all the difference: A cc41 label. What I really like about this blouse is that it shows so many of the restrictions in one item.
First off (although difficult to tell by my picture) the blouse is really quite short. Now whilst the length of a blouse was not rationed many manufacturers made garments that were designed to be tucked in to quite a short length to save on fabric. When looking inside the blouse you can also see how tiny the hem is, again a fabric saving device. All of the seams in the blouse have very small seam allowances as is illustrated in the pictures, and again was a necessary fabric saving device.
Next is the collar (I’m a sucker for a Peter pan collar any day of the week). One of the rulings under utility was that a collar could be no deeper than 5” as illustrated here, this is a very short collar!
If you look at the sleeves you can see how they have been made to look like turnback cuffs, yet the “turnback” is actually a strip of fabric stitched on as turnbacks cuffs where strictly prohibited. The sleeves also do not have any buttons- this would make it easier to get into the blouse, but restrict the amount of buttons that could be used elsewhere, hence why there aren’t any.
I think the most canny part of the blouse though is the centre front button fastening. Under Utility restrictions a blouse with full length sleeves could have up to 7 buttons, whilst one with short sleeves was restricted to just 5. This blouse originally had just four (currently 3 as one is missing) and the rest of the blouse fastens with poppers. Two at the bottom of the blouse and one for security at the neckline. I feel that the ones at the bottom of the blouse actually act as a really good design feature, if you are tucking the garment in you would not have the added bulk from the button showing through your skirt.
And, whilst researching into utility I also found out something rather interesting about the manufacturers labels themselves, they could have “no more than one name tab and one drop ticket in addition to the size tab and utility label.” This blouse has its manufacturer label and then details about the fabric “moygashel” on the same label. It is interesting to consider how in 40s garments these details would often be on two separate labels, but under the utility restrictions only one label could contain all of these details. The smaller label underneath is the utility design no. which all utility items should have.
And on another note some may be wondering what is this mystery fabric moygashel? It is a particular type of linen fabric from the area of Moygashel in Ireland, it is quite a strong hard wearing fabric and was particularly popular during the 40s 50s and 60s before falling out of favour. I have to say that the vintage moygashel garments I have come across all seem to be particularly hard wearing and also they retain their colours rather well.
The label also states that it has “tubernised fused parts” (it too me a while to work out what this word actually said) basically this was a finish that helped garments to look “fresh and clean all day” and reduced the need to starch or boil your garments (in particular this finish was used for men’s starched collars.
So all in all a very interesting little blouse, and what is even better. I am selling it! Find it over on my ebay here. I’m selling a lot in the next few weeks and months including some amazing vintage Biba and Alice Pollock, so do keep having a look. | <urn:uuid:331984d4-c3b8-4f72-8df3-5eb52c530652> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://advantageinvintage.co.uk/category/ebay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972877 | 882 | 2.03125 | 2 |
WCC Central Committee adopts statements on Middle East issues
The WCC Central Committee today took action over the situation in the Middle East, among other places.
In a resolution, the committee “expressed its deep concern and disappointment” at the 18 February veto by the United States of a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning continued settlement construction by Israel in the Palestinian Territories.
In a “minute” written to its 349 member churches, the WCC called for the churches to “pray and continue to be involved in proactive ecumenical advocacy in solidarity with the churches in the Middle East.”
It also called for member churches to assist the churches in Iraq by “providing support to the newly formed Christian Council of Church Leaders in Iraq” and support the churches in the rebuilding of their communities after war.
Six Iraqi leaders attended the Central Committee meetings during the first week and called for the creation of an “atmosphere of security in Iraq.”
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Bani is a powerful WordPress blog theme, It supports 5 different post formats. You can create a standard blog post or you can use shuban to create video, audio, status or a gallery post type. In this documentation, we will learn how to create a video blog post. This feature is only available in Premium Version.
What is post format?
Post format is a theme feature introduced by WordPress with its version 3.1. It is an extra piece of meta-information stored with the post so that it can be used by our WordPress theme to customize the post’s look & feel. In short, Shuban used this information to know more & to customize about the blog post. WordPress can support different post formats. With Bani, we are supporting Audio, Video, Gallery, Status & Standard post format.
What is video blog post?
Video is a post format which we use to create a video blog post. On this link, we have a video as a post thumbnail instead of an image. You can play this video even from a home page without going to the blog post.
How to create such blog post with Bani?
Follow these steps to create a video post:
- Login to WordPress admin dashboard.
- Go to Posts > Add New.
- On ‘Add New Post’ screen: Select ‘Video’ radio button in ‘Format’ meta box displayed on the right sidebar.
- When you select ‘Video’ radio button as shown in step 3, a new meta box (Video Post Metabox) will appear below our main text editor. If you don’t see new meta box appearing, check this link.
- Enter link of your video into the text box as displayed here:
- Add other post information like title, your post content, category, tags etc.
- Click on Publish button.
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Are you going through rough times? Do you need money to fund a new project? Are you looking for funds to help you grow? If so, have you considered grants for small businesses like yours?
Grant funding is a resource that a lot of creators don’t think about. But there are pools of money out there specifically for creative entrepreneurs and their businesses. Here are seven examples:
National Association for the Self-Employed
NASE offers growth grants up to $4,000 for marketing, advertising, hiring employees, expanding facilities and other specific business needs.
You must be a member for 3 months to apply.
The Girlboss Foundation awards $15,000 twice a year to females pursuing creative endeavors in design, fashion, music, and the arts.
In addition to the money, the foundation offers exposure through its platform and community.
You must be at least 18 years old and be a US resident.
The next application cycle should be opening soon. It was scheduled to open after a winner was chosen on April 6, 2020.
WomensNet, offers the Amber Grant for women business owners. This year, the grant doubled to $4,000 and you’re eligible for an extra $25,000 grant at the end of the year.
The next application cutoff date is May 31. There is a $15 application fee.
PEN America provides grants ranging from $500 to $1,000 to help writers and translators cover an acute financial need.
If approved for a grant, you’ll also receive one-year complimentary membership. The organization says it’s aiming to respond to applications within 14 days.
The Writers Emergency Assistance Fund
This fund normally grants money to help freelancers who are unable to work because of illness, disability, a natural disaster, or an extraordinary professional crisis.
But amid the coronavirus pandemic, grants are only available if you cannot work because you’re sick or caring for someone who is sick.
You don’t have to live in the U.S. to apply
Facebook is committing $100 million to provide ad credits and cash grants for small businesses affected by COVID-19.
To qualify, you must have between 2 and 50 employees, have been in business for over a year and be in or near a location near where Facebook operates.
The Authors League Fund
Here is a fund offering grants to help authors, dramatists, journalists and poets who are experiencing some type of emergency circumstances, such as illness, overwhelming medical expenses, financial crisis or post-natural disaster.
Priority is given to sick and/or older authors.
The minimum or maximum amount of grants is not disclosed.
If you’re feeling this Money Bite, sign up for Direct Connect on the right-hand side of the page so you can stay in the know.
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SOUNDS IN OUTER AND INNER SPACE: AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF THE HUMAN HEARTBEAT
Thursday, December 1, 2016
6:00 p.m. Doors open
6:30 p.m. Lecture begins
Mary Harris Auditorium on RMCAD’s campus
About the Lecture
Artist Dario Robleto will present a performative lecture expanding on the artist’s extensive research into the heartbeat. Part storytelling, part original research, and part rare sound archive, this lecture weaves together topics as diverse as the earliest attempts to record the heartbeat as sound and image, the heartbeat and brainwave recordings currently on a probe heading for the edge of the Solar System, pre-Edison sound recordings, and recent developments in the history of the artificial heart. The result is a creative intertwining of multiple histories of human exploration, in both outer and inner space. This event will include a short post-lecture reception with the artist.
About the Lecturer
Robleto lives and works in Houston, Texas and has exhibited and given lectures on his work both nationally and internationally. In 2015 he joined a distinguished team of scientists as the artistic consultant to “Breakthrough Message”—a multi-national effort that aims to encourage intellectual and technical debate about how and what to communicate if the current search for intelligent beings beyond Earth is successful. Learn more about Robleto here. | <urn:uuid:826a5288-0cc3-49ae-9866-491caad43d0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rmcad.edu/event/dario-robleto/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.912744 | 300 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Building a business at home can bring in money, and it can also help you balance life and work. But, to have a successful home based business means you need to know how to make a profit, something many people have problems with. What are the right steps you can take in creating a home-based business that is profitable? In this article, we will discuss some of the top tips from the pros, for making your business a success.
Don’t forget to take tax deductions for your business Internet use. You can deduct some of the cost from your profits, but you cannot claim more than 50% if you also use it for personal use.
Creating a home business is fun but challenging to do. You must find a niche first. It can be nearly anything, but it’s better if you’re knowledgeable about the subject. Make sure you spend a lot of time researching before you put all of your eggs in one basket. Make sure to network as well with others that have created successful home businesses.
Even when you are working from home, you should take pride in your appearance. There is a great temptation to not dress professionally when working from home. Dress business casual, as you would for most jobs outside the home. Wearing real clothes affects not only your appearance, but your motivation to get down to business.
You have to be determined and self-starting if you intend to make your home based business successful. You may want to build your own home office that your customers can enter, since many counties have office regulations. This is also helpful for drawing a clear line between your work and your personal life.
When you no longer have inventory of a given item, be sure to inform potential buyers. Nothing upsets customers more than finding out that the products that they ordered are not going to arrive for weeks or longer. Suggest your customers purchase a similar product by being honest when items are not currently available.
When you open for business, email everyone you know and tell them that you are ready to accept their orders. Offer them a freebie or discount to help get your business started. Encourage these people to share your name. There is nothing quite as effective as personal referrals.
Offer incentives to customers who refer others to you. The best advertising is of course word of mouth, as everyone values a friend’s recommendation more than marketing materials. These referral incentives also encourage repeat business and loyal customers.
Working as a home business owner is ideal if you want a flexible schedule and balance your personal and professional life. The key is to make that business profitable, if you are to stay successful. Making money need not be hard if you utilize good advice. A online business is not only a great investment, but also a valuable asset. | <urn:uuid:8d4b8aad-6801-45ef-9dc4-071849f2a77d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businessforumz.com/how-i-started-my-home-based-business/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970941 | 564 | 1.757813 | 2 |
In the complicated world of Medicare, companies known as MACs (Medicare Administrative Contractors) actually run the business of Medicare payments and also set policy (under defined rules) as to what procedures are covered in their area of control.
One such company, Novitas, is currently seeking to limit access to vertebral augmentation or kyphoplasty, a life-saving procedure that has been around for decades. It’s no surprise that the company Novitas is actually owned by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Florida, a private insurance company. This company controls and profits from the administration of Medicare services in the following states: Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi.
I’m not going to dive into Novitas and the scary world of the overlap of private and public healthcare administration. I’m mostly going to stick with the procedure at issue and the crazy-wrong proposed changes. If you want the links to comment on this proposed LCD, you can skip to the end of the article.
Kyphoplasty has been around since the turn of the millennium. It is, quite simply, the closest thing we have to a miracle cure for a condition in spine. It is a minimally invasive procedure with a tiny incision that uses a mechanical device to create a cavity in the fractured bone, and then bone glue (polymethylmethacrylate) is injected to stabilize the fracture. So in a way, it’s like putting a support structure or cast inside the vertebral body.
The success of kyphoplasty lies in how well it works, how minimally invasive it is and recovery time. The medical literature estimates from controlled studies tend to run in the 93-95% success rate. There is simply no other spine procedure in medicine with that type of success rate for patients in severe pain. The incision is less than a quarter of an inch because the procedure is done entirely through a needle smaller around than a number 2 pencil. As a result recovery time is minimal because from the patient’s perspective it’s more like a minor biopsy than a surgery.
Furthermore, the pain relief comes with an extremely low complication rate. Estimates of significant complications run in the 1 in 3,000-6,000 range in most studies.
As a result, kyphoplasty/vertebral augmentation is the single most well-studied procedure in spine. There are around 2,000 English language peer reviewed articles. In these, there are absolutely no well-designed, randomized controlled studies that show kyphoplasty doesn’t work.
Recent Literature Controversy And Aftermath
As with any new procedure, there has been some debate with success rates in the early literature as best practices have been developed. The longer this procedure has been around, it has become apparent that the majority of perceived failures of kyphoplasty are due to inexperience by the evaluating or treating physician. Most commonly this is due to either missed diagnosis or technical error. For example, a doctor who uses imaging to diagnose the fracture and does not examine the patient can easily treat the wrong level or leave other fractures untreated. One of the most common technical problem leading to perceived failure of kyphoplasty is not injecting enough bone glue, a common problem with a related procedure, vertebroplasty.
There is some confusion in the literature because a pair of poorly designed and since downgraded studies were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2009 by Buckbinder and Kallmes. These studies only looked at vertebroplasty and not a kyphoplasty. Part of the problem with the studies is that many of the patients assigned to not have vertebroplasty ended up deciding to have it, but it didn’t go the other way. That really fudges the scientific validity of the statistics in a problem called “cross-over.” Cross over was so one-sided (from suffering with no pain relief to having vertebroplasty) that it doesn’t take a genius to see which patients got pain relief. Moreso, the authors proportedly used a placebo ‘sham’ procedure which was NOT a sham procedure.
Most opponents of kyphoplasty will refer to the NEJM articles, but these studies did not look at kyphoplasty, only vertebroplasty. Further, neither study showed that vertebroplasty was ineffective or worse than the ‘placebo.’
After the NEJM articles were published, there was a steep drop in the number of these procedures being done. This resulted in more patient deaths. Two key studies, one in 2017 and one in 2019 proved that kyphoplasty saves lives in the Medicare population.
In 2017, Kevin Ong et al did a deep dive on the results of this effect in an article published in Osteoporosis International titled “Were VCF patients at higher risk of mortality following the 2009 publication of the vertebroplasty sham trials?” In this study, they looked at the entire CMS (Medicare) dataset. They identified over 2 million patients who were diagnosed with vertebral fracture. What they found is a significant drop in the number and proportion of patients treated. This was associated with statistically significant increase in deaths in these patients.
Furthermore, in looking at the entire dataset, they found that the 10 year survival rate of patients diagnosed with a vertebral compression fracture was only 15%. That is, 85% of these patients will die in the next decade. Those who were treated with kyphoplasty had a 19% lower risk of death.
In December 2019, Hirsch, et al, published a groundbreaking study in the American Journal of Neuroradiology entitled “Number Needed To Treat With Vertebral Augmentation To Save A Life.” This study looked at the 10 year dataset and compared mortality of untreated patients and patients treated with kyphoplasty or vertebroplasty. What they found was astonishing and no seen in any other spine procedure that Medicare covers.
The Hirsch paper found that for every 15 patients treated with kyphoplasty, one life was saved in the first year. At 5 years, that number was just 12 kyphoplasties to save one life. That means that not only is kyphoplasty a clear-cut life-saving procedure, its benefit improve with additional time after treatment.
Summary and Proposed Coverage Changes
For 3 decades, the clinical practice has been to treat VCF with kyphoplasty based on symptomatology as determined by physical examination. This is a highly successful (95% success rate) procedure with a very low complication rate (significant complications in the 1 in 3,000-6,000 range) that has significantly improved pain, function, quality of life and has extended the life of millions of osteoporotic patients worldwide.
As a result, vertebral augmentation is the single most well studied procedure in spine. There are around 2,000 English language peer reviewed articles. In these, there are absolutely no well-designed, randomized controlled studies showing inferiority or non-superiority of balloon kyphoplasty relating to sham or placebo. As such, including vertebral augmentation with cavity creation in what appears to be an LCD directed to vertebroplasty is inappropriate. They are two clinically distinct procedures with overlap.
- Add the requirement of a “multidisciplinary consensus” (including neurologists who do not perform nor generally refer for the procedure).
- Require outpatients to fail a ‘periosteal injection’ before kyphoplasty.
- Limit kyphoplasty to the first 6 weeks after onset of pain.
The requirement of a panel consensus is unheard of in routine practice. Most patients have difficulty even getting it to be seen by a specialist performing this procedure in six weeks and often waits for specialists including neurologists can be up to six months. There is no logical reason for this change. There is no such requirement for spinal fusion or so-called spinal cord stimulator placement although these are highly more invasive, life changing and more expensive procedures.
These requirements, if they go through, would provide an impediment to treatment in this life-saving procedure.
The requirement for periosteal injections is completely unfounded in the literature. In my decades of experience with vertebral augmentation, I have never known anyone to use periosteal infiltration for pain from vertebral fracture except in the ICU setting. It’s just not appropriate, and it doesn’t work. It gives only short-lived pain relief and increases costs unnecessarily.
Most significantly, the proposed restriction to treatment in the first 6 weeks after injury further places an undue and unrealistic burden on the patients themselves. Most patients are unable to get in to see a provider who accepts Medicare and performs the procedure within the 6 weeks. A typical scenario is an elderly patient who lives alone and suddenly is forced into immobilization without a caregiver at home. These patients have difficulty getting to appointments and arranging a driver.
The even bigger problem with this proposal is timing. In best practice, almost every VCF patient should have some period of conservative care prior to kyphoplasty. This proposed time restriction will limit providers from giving additional conservative care and will likely have an unintended consequence of creating an artificial ‘race against the clock’ to fix a fracture – resulting in unnecessary procedures.
To set a time on acute on chronic fracture age would make the spine the ONLY bone in the body where treatment of a fracture is limited in this way. There is absolutely no literature evidence for limiting the timing of the fracture treatment, the requirement for periosteal infiltration or the requirement for multidisciplinary consensus.
Lastly on this point – and most significantly – the literature shows there are no outcomes tied to timing of a fracture that have ANY STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE (see Rand/UCLA criteria).
If the proposed LCD goes into effect as is, it will result in the following:
- Novitas will be encouraging medically unnecessary and experimental procedures (periosteal infiltration) at taxpayer expense.
- Undue burden and restriction to access will occur for our most vulnerable patients.
- As proven by peer-reviewed evaluation of the entire CMS dataset, actual deaths of Medicare beneficiaries will occur and, unfortunately, a so-called ‘death panel’ will go from the stuff of conspiracy theory to reality. The blame will rest squarely upon those in the MAC.
Lastly, many of my fellow physicians were shocked that another MAG, MGS, unilaterally pushed these changes through reversing completely what they had agreed to in a conference call with providers in 2019. It certainly makes it look like there is a purposeful move to exclude treating physicians from decision making process.
So what is at work here? It’s hard to know, but there is one possibility that particularly concerns me as a physician as a US citizen. Private insurance companies administer MACs and this LCD goes along with trends that we have seen private payors forcing through. Given the out of touch verbage in this LCD and the decision by MGS to completely ignore the consensus agreed upon in the conference call, this suggests a corrupt process and blatant disregard for lawful administrative procedure.
Basically, is seems that these companies are trying to ramrod these changes through against the advice of physician experts and the only reasonable explanation for that is corporate profits. Given the overlap in ownership interests between the private companies and MACs, this suggests a blatant attempt to limit access to this life saving procedure for purely fiscal purposes.
I hope that my suspicions about the private payors are wrong, but I believe in trust and verify.
Novitas is currently in the process of accepting public comments on this proposed change. If you or a loved one have osteoporosis, have received life-saving kyphoplasty or are concerned with what these limits might due to your neighbors, I would encourage you to comment during this public comment period. Feel free to use any of the wording or points that I have used, although it will mean more if you use your own words.
The comment period started on 12/26/19 and ends 2/8/2020. You can email your comments to [email protected]
The proposed policy can be found here: https://www.cms.gov/medicare-coverage-database/details/lcd-details.aspx?LCDId=38493&ver=12&Cntrctr=All&UpdatePeriod=865&bc=AAAAEAAAAAAA&
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You can often feel as though you are a victim when you have poor credit. Your credit may have suffered from unfortunate life incidents or perhaps you made a few mistakes, and that low credit score can keep you feeling depressed and stuck. There are several techniques you can use to improve your credit scores. Read this article to get you started today with MKE Credit Repair.
Remember that even asking for credit has a negative impact on your FICO score. One or two inquiries are not that big of a deal, but keep in mind that these inquiries stay on your credit for 2 years and they will add up. Don’t apply for cards or loans just to see if you’d get approved.
Do not make credit card payments late. By remaining on time with your monthly payments, you will avoid issues with late payment submissions on your credit report. It is not necessary to pay the entire balance, however making the minimum payments will ensure that your credit is not damaged further and restoration of your history can continue.
To fix bad credit, restrict yourself from borrowing any more money. Ask yourself if you can really afford what you want to buy, and if you really need it. By reducing your unnecessary expenses on a daily basis, you should be able to set enough money aside to pay back your creditors.
Avoid any company that tries to tell you they can remove bad credit marks off of your report. The only items that can be taken off of your report are items that are incorrect. If they tell you that they will delete your bad payment history then they are likely a scam.
When starting the process of rebuilding your credit, pull your credit report from all 3 agencies. These three are Experian, Transunion, and Equifax. Don’t make the mistake of only getting one credit report. Each report will contain some information that the others do not. You need all three in order to truly research what is going on with your credit.
If an action can result in imprisonment, draw the line. There are plenty of credit scams that purport to erase your existing credit file and create a new one. Of course, this highly illegal, and it will cause you even more problems, because it will not go unnoticed. The end result of getting caught during the crime could be expensive legal fees and a possibility of time behind bars.
Look into the credit bureau disputes procedure. It is a bit of an art to get the results that you seek, but if you hire a professional to draw up the letters, you may see the reduction of the money that you owe certain creditors, Additionally, you may even have things on your credit report completely removed.
If you have gone bankrupt, you may be tempted to avoid opening any lines of credit, but that is not the best way to go about re-establishing a good credit score. You will want to try to take out a large secured loan, like a car loan and make the payments on time to start rebuilding your credit.
Find out how the process will affect your credit rating before you agree to any debt settlement agreements. There are methods that are going to be less damaging than another, and all should be researched before you enter an agreement with a creditor. Creditors just want their money and really aren’t interested on how it will affect your score.
The better your credit score is the better rates you are going to get from your insurance company. Pay your bills on time each month and your credit score will raise. Reduce the amount of money that you owe on your credit accounts and it will go up even more and your premiums will go down.
No one has to live with a bad credit score. Even though the sound of repairing your credit sounds daunting, it can be accomplished. The first step is to determine what is hurting your credit score. After figuring this out, begin taking measures to minimize the damage. Next, begin steps to start adding positive data to your credit history, like paying bills in a timely manner. If you feel you need help in this endeavor, try to find a reputable credit repair company.
If you can’t pay a debt off, you should contact the creditor your debt is through. Many creditors are willing to work out smaller payments so you can get a debt paid back to them without negatively affecting your credit report. They would rather accept a lower payment than none at all.
You should know you are eligible to receive your credit report for free each year from all three of the major credit reporting bureaus. You should be sure to take advantage of this and check all three of them. This way you will know what is negative on your credit report.
Keep detailed notes of all conversations or communications with the credit bureaus and your creditors. Include copies of any documentation submitted, as well as information about contact names, dates and telephone numbers. Having information to refer back to can help you if it takes several conversations or letters to resolve a dispute.
Obtaining a new credit card can be a great way to improve your credit and prove to creditors that you are now capable of paying your bills on time. However, many people with poor credit are hesitant about applying for a new credit card out of fear that their application will be denied. If you are one of these people, you should go ahead and apply anyway. Getting denied will not hurt your credit.
Find a professional that knows credit laws very well, such as a credit attorney. When it comes to credit repair, you don’t want to utilize the services of someone who could be leading you towards the wrong practices which could cost you a lot later on. If you find a professional that knows the credit laws in place, you can be sure to avoid any liabilities and penalties.
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Phase Four raises $26 million
WASHINGTON — Phase Four has raised $26 million in a Series B round that will allow it to accelerate production of its satellite electric propulsion systems.
The company announced June 11 it raised the round led by venture capital firm New Science Ventures LLC. The company had raised about $20 million in earlier funding rounds.
The El Segundo, California-based company has developed a plasma propulsion system called Maxwell for use on small satellites. Strong demand for Maxwell after the launch of the first spacecraft with those thrusters earlier this year prompted the funding round in order to fuel the company’s expansion.
“A lot of customers get more interested once they realize that this product is real and it’s working in space,” Beau Jarvis, chief executive of Phase Four, said in an interview. “We got a lot more inbound demand and our team has been pretty small up to this point. In order to make more Maxwell systems we needed to raise more capital.”
Phase Four was introduced to New Science Ventures through another investor, he said. That VC firm has previously invested in ABL Space Systems, a small launch vehicle company, and PlanetIQ, which is developing a constellation of satellites to collect commercial weather data.
“Phase Four has the management team, core technology set and product strategy to build a leadership position in the in-space propulsion sector,” Somu Subramaniam, managing partner of New Science Ventures, in a statement.
With the new funding, Jarvis said Phase Four plans to scale up production of thruster systems. “We’re going to triple the production of Maxwell from now to the first half of next year,” he said.
The first satellites with Maxwell thrusters launched in January, and the company now has three systems in orbit. Jarvis said the customers have asked not to be named for now, although Phase Four announced in 2019 orders from Capella Space and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. The company expects to have up to eight thrusters in orbit by the end of the year.
The systems that are in orbit are working well. “Our engineering team says the data on orbit is as boring as the data in the environmental test facility, which is always good,” Jarvis said. “That’s given us the confidence to build more of them.”
Those thrusters in orbit use xenon as propellant, but the company is studying the use of alternatives that can provide cost and mass savings. The company won a Small Business Innovation Research award from the U.S. Air Force in April to work on a version of Maxwell that uses iodine as propellant. Iodine doesn’t require high-pressure vessels for storage and is less expensive than xenon.
Jarvis said the funding round will support work on the iodine-fueled version of Maxwell, including a new vacuum chamber dedicated to testing that thruster. “Our team right now is doing some initial testing with the new version of the thruster that will handle iodine. Later this summer, we’ll be doing our first in chamber tests with iodine,” he said. If all goes as planned, that thruster would be commercially available in early 2023. | <urn:uuid:9209001b-ae8a-4fa5-be8e-6aa1aeb24f38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spacenews.com/phase-four-raises-26-million/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960023 | 672 | 2 | 2 |
Seth Rogen, an actor and comedian hailing from Vancouver, is well known for his penchant for smoking lots and lots of marijuana. Maybe that’s why he proved he has no filter when it comes to speaking about what it means to be Jewish and how he feels about Israel. But he certainly made a lot of Jewish people angry with his comments on these issues in an hour-long interview with Marc Maron.
Rogen’s comments intimated that when the State of Israel was founded, the place was empty of Jewish inhabitants: “I also think that as a Jewish person I was fed a huge amount of lies about Israel my entire life! They never tell you that — oh by the way, there were people there. They make it seem like it was just like sitting there, like the [expletive deleted) door’s open!…They forget to include the fact to every young Jewish person.”
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How to Pick a Phlebotomist Training Program near Chicken Alaska
Enrolling in the right phlebotomy training near Chicken AK is a critical initial step toward a fulfilling career as a phlebotomist. It may seem like a challenging undertaking to investigate and compare each of the school options that are accessible to you. However it’s important that you do your due diligence to make certain that you obtain a superior education. In fact, most students start the process by considering 2 of the qualifiers that initially come to mind, which are location and cost. Yet another option you might look into is whether to attend classes online or commute to a nearby campus. We’ll talk a bit more about online schools later in this article. What’s important to remember is that there is a lot more to checking out phlebotomy training programs than locating the cheapest or the closest one. Other variables including accreditation and reputation are also significant considerations and need to be part of your selection process as well. Toward that end, we will furnish a list of questions that you should ask each of the phlebotomy schools you are assessing to help you choose the ideal one for you. But before we do that, let’s cover what a phlebotomist is and does, and then continue our conversation about online schools.
Phlebotomist Job Description
A phlebotomist, or phlebotomy technician, draws blood from patients. Although that is their main responsibility, there is in fact far more to their job description. Before collecting a blood sample, a phlebotomist needs to confirm that the instruments being employed are sterile and single use only. After collection, the sample needs to be properly labeled with the patient’s information. Next, paperwork needs to be properly filled out in order to track the sample from the point of collection through the lab screening process. The phlebotomist then transports the blood to either an in-house lab or to an outside lab facility where it can be screened for such things as pregnancy, infectious diseases or blood type. Some phlebotomists actually work in Chicken AK laboratories and are in charge of making certain that samples are analyzed correctly using the highest quality control procedures. And if those weren’t enough responsibilities, they might be called upon to train other phlebotomists in the drawing, delivery and follow-up process.
Where do Phlebotomy Techs Practice?
The easiest answer is wherever they treat patients. Their work places are numerous and diverse, including Chicken AK hospitals, medical clinics, long-term care facilities, or blood centers. They can be assigned to collect blood samples from patients of all ages, from infants or toddlers to senior citizens. A number of phlebotomists, depending on their practice and their training, specialize in collecting samples from a certain kind of patient. For instance, those working in a nursing home or assisted living facility would solely be collecting blood from older patients. If they are practicing in a maternity ward, they would be collecting blood from mothers and newborns solely. On the other hand, phlebotomists practicing in a general hospital setting would be drawing samples from a wide range of patients and would work with different patients every day.
Phlebotomy Technician Training, Licensing and Certification
There are basically 2 kinds of programs that furnish phlebotomy training, which are certificate and degree programs. The certificate program usually takes less than a year to complete and furnishes a general education along with the training on how to draw blood. It offers the quickest method to becoming a phlebotomist. An Associate of Science Degree in Clinical Laboratory Science, although not exclusively a phlebotomist degree, will provide training to become a phlebotomy tech. Available at community and junior colleges, they normally require two years to complete. Bachelor’s Degrees are not as available and as a four year program offer a more expansive foundation in lab sciences. When you have finished your training, you will no doubt want to become certified. Although not mandated in most states, many Chicken AK employers look for certification prior to hiring technicians. A few of the principal certifying agencies include:
- National Phlebotomy Association
- National Healthcareer Association (NHA)
- American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP)
- American Medical Technologists (AMT)
There are several states that do require certification in order to practice as a phlebotomy tech, such as Nevada and California. California and a few other states even require licensing. So it’s essential that you pick a phlebotomist training program that not only provides a superior education, but also preps you for any licensing or certification examinations that you are required or elect to take.
Online Phlebotomist Colleges
To begin with, let’s dispel one likely mistaken belief. You can’t get all of your phlebotomy training online. A good portion of the program of studies will be clinical training and it will be conducted either in an on-campus lab or an approved healthcare facility. Numerous courses also require completion of an internship in order to graduate. But since the non-practical part of the training may be accessed online, it could be a more practical alternative for some Chicken AK students. As an additional benefit, many online schools are less expensive than their traditional counterparts. And some expenses, including those for commuting or textbooks, may be lessened also. Just make sure that the online phlebotomist school you choose is accredited by a national or regional accrediting agency (more on accreditation later). With both the extensive clinical and online training, you can receive a premium education with this approach to learning. If you are dedicated enough to learn at home, then earning your degree or certificate online may be the ideal option for you.
Subjects to Ask Phlebotomy Schools
Now that you have a basic idea about what is involved in becoming a phlebotomist, it’s time to begin your due diligence process. You might have already picked the kind of program you intend to enroll in, whether it be for a degree or a certificate. As we mentioned earlier, the location of the school is significant if you will be commuting from Chicken AK in addition to the cost of tuition. Maybe you have decided to enroll in an accredited phlebotomy online program. Each of these decisions are a critical component of the procedure for choosing a phlebotomy school or program. But they are not the sole concerns when arriving at your decision. Below we have provided a few questions that you need to ask about each of the programs you are looking at prior to making your ultimate decision.
Is the Phlebotomist Program Specific to Alaska? As earlier discussed, each state has its own requirements for practicing as a phlebotomist. Several states call for certification, while a few others require licensing. Each has its own prerequisite regarding the minimum amount of practical training completed before working as a phlebotomy tech. As a result, you might need to pass a State Board, licensing or certification examination. Therefore it’s extremely important to select a phlebotomy program that meets the state specific requirements for Alaska or the state where you will be practicing and readies you for all exams you may have to take.
Is the Program Accredited? The phlebotomy school and program you pick should be accredited by a recognized national or regional accrediting agency, for example the National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences (NAACLS). There are many advantages to graduating from an accredited program aside from an assurance of a premium education. To begin with, if your program has not received accreditation, you will not be able to take a certification exam offered by any of the previously listed certifying organizations. Next, accreditation will help in obtaining loans or financial assistance, which are often not available for non-accredited programs. Finally, graduating from an accredited school can make you more attractive to future employers in the Chicken AK job market.
What is the Program’s Ranking? In numerous states there is minimal or no regulation of phlebotomist colleges, so there are some that are not of the highest quality. So in addition to accreditation, it’s essential to check out the reputations of any schools you are looking at. You can begin by requesting references from the schools from employers where they refer their graduates as part of their job placement program. You can screen internet school reviews and rating services and solicit the accrediting agencies for their reviews also. You can even contact several Chicken AK clinics or hospitals that you might be interested in working for and find out if they can provide any insights. As a closing thought, you can contact the Alaska school licensing authority and ask if any grievances have been submitted or if the schools are in full compliance.
Is Enough Training Included? To begin with, check with the state regulator where you will be practicing to learn if there are any minimum requirements for the length of training, both clinical and classroom. As a minimum, any phlebotomy program that you are considering should furnish at least 40 hours of classroom training (the majority require 120) and 120 hours of practical training. Anything below these minimums might indicate that the program is not expansive enough to provide adequate training.
Are Internships Provided? Ask the programs you are reviewing if they have an internship program in collaboration with local healthcare facilities. They are the ideal means to obtain hands-on practical training typically not available on campus. As an added benefit, internships can help students develop relationships within the local Chicken AK medical community. And they look good on resumes also.
Is Job Placement Help Provided? Landing your first phlebotomy position will be much easier with the assistance of a job placement program. Inquire if the programs you are considering provide assistance and what their job placement percentage is. If a college has a high rate, signifying they place the majority of their students in positions, it’s an indication that the school has both an excellent reputation as well as an extensive network of professional contacts within the Chicken AK health care community.
Are Class Times Available as Needed? And last, it’s critical to make sure that the final school you choose provides classes at times that will accommodate your active lifestyle. This is particularly true if you decide to continue working while attending college. If you need to attend classes in the evenings or on weekends near Chicken AK, make sure they are available at those times. Also, if you can only attend part-time, confirm it is an option also. Even if you have decided to attend online, with the practical training requirement, make sure those hours can also be fulfilled within your schedule. And ask what the make-up procedure is in case you have to miss any classes as a result of emergencies or illness.
Enrolling in Phlebotomy School near Chicken Alaska?
If you have decided to enroll in a Phlebotomy Training Program in the Chicken AK area, following is some interesting and perhaps useful information about the location of your future school campus.
Chicken is a census-designated place (CDP) in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska, United States. Chicken is a community founded on gold mining and is one of the few surviving gold rush towns in Alaska. The population was 7 at the time of the 2010 Census, down from 17 in 2000. However, usually year round, there are 17 inhabitants. Due to mining, Chicken's population peaks during the summer. It has frequently been noted on lists of unusual place names.
Chicken was settled by gold miners in the late 19th-century and in 1902 the local post office was established requiring a community name. Due to the prevalence of ptarmigan in the area that name was suggested as the official name for the new community. However, the spelling could not be agreed on and Chicken was used to avoid embarrassment. A portion of Chicken, with buildings from the early 1900s and the F.E. Company Dredge No. 4 (Pedro Dredge) is listed on the National Register of Historical Places as the Chicken Historic District. Chicken is the outpost for the 40 Mile mining district. There are still active gold mines in this area. Enough gold was mined here to make it worthwhile to haul huge gold dredges to this remote location. There are still several inactive gold dredges in the Chicken area.
Chicken first appeared as an unincorporated village on the 1930 U.S. Census. It appeared on the 1940 and 1950 censuses, but then did not appear again until 1980, when it was made a census-designated place (CDP). It was removed as a CDP for 1990 and did not report a population, but had its CDP status restored for 2000 and 2010.
Find the Right Phlebotomist College near Chicken AK
Making certain that you enroll in the right phlebotomist training is an important first step toward your success in this fulfilling health care field. As we have addressed in this article, there are a number of factors that contribute toward the selection of a superior school. Phlebotomy training programs can be offered in a number of educational institutes, such as junior or community colleges, vocational schools, and colleges and universities that offer an extensive array of programs in medical care and health sciences. Course options can differ slightly from state to state as each state has its own prerequisites when it concerns phlebotomist training, certification and licensing. The most critical point is that you must diligently research and compare each program before making your ultimate selection. By asking the questions that we have furnished, you will be able to narrow down your choices so that you can pick the best program for you. And with the proper education, you can reach your goal of becoming a phlebotomy technician in Chicken AK.
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Why is there this reluctance to feel that which you can't put your hand to at times?
I mean, we wake each day with a process. We breath, we stretch, we yawn, then we begin to think. Do we ever question the reason we are even the recipients of thinking? We have a great power that we seem to lose. Is it for the lack of belief and care or its benefits and grace? Do you ever think that without hope, one does not think?
Yes, it is a valid statement. For to hope, one must first think. Even before that, one must, believe. So, what do you think of? That answer is simply in the core of what you call your structured belief. Most artists, as myself, have a free-spirited understanding of this concept. We are not bound by the structure of nominal placements, but by the limitless structure of our beliefs. Which is how we think. Therefore, it is what we share in hope for. It is ever-changing for some. Others, it remedies of a capacity to exert the misunderstood energy that pulses through their being. Seen in its convoluted passages, at times, to experience that thirst.
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The facet joints, also referred to as zygapophyseal joints or z-joints, is a true joint in the posterior (closer to the back) elements of the spine formed by the articulation between all the spinal vertebral levels. Each level has two facet joins, one on both sides. The Facet joint contains two smooth surfaces covered in cartilage, and the joint contains joint fluid. There is a joint capsule around the joint to hold the joint fluid in place. The facet joints allow for the majority of flexibility of the spine.
In general, most medical studies that investigate facet joint disease state that it accounts for 15-40% of low back pain and 40-60% of axial neck pain. If the facet joints are damaged for any reason pain may develop. Injury may result from trauma, arthritis, repetitive injury or other causes. Individuals with facet joint disease usually present with pain over the affected joint, and pain may refer to different area. There may be associated crepitus (grinding, popping and clicking sounds) with movement of the area. Pain is usually worse with movement of the affected area, and worse when extending and rotating the affected segment. The facet joints in the neck (cervical facet joints) may refer pain into the head, which causes headaches. There have been been very eloquent studies completed which maps the referral pattern of the cervical facets, and they can refer to the head, neck or shoulder blade and upper arm area. Facet joints in the mid back (thoracic area) usually cause pain over the affected segment. Lumbar (low back) facet joints can cause pain over the joint, but also refer pain into the buttock and down into the thigh.
Imaging studies can be helpful, such as x-ray, CT scan and MRI, as they may show abnormalities in the facet joint, but in some cases there may be “normal” findings on imaging and the imaging does not always correlate with the extend of pain. Diagnostic facet joint blocks are still the gold standard for diagnosing pain from facet joint disease. | <urn:uuid:3b2e5b4a-449a-4ace-8e0d-86b6ee5ae545> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://backpainsa.com/conditions-we-treat/facet-syndrome/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958246 | 430 | 3.09375 | 3 |
09 Jul 5 Common Questions on Banana Puree
Healthy, tasty, and simple, Banana Puree is a good food choice to enhance the flavours of fruits and vegetables. It is more nutritious than other pre-made food. It is also one of the fruits most paediatricians recommend as a starter food for babies. You can best mix it with milk to get a smooth consistency. But, paediatricians recommend mother’s milk to prepare Banana Puree for babies.
Whether you plan to feed your baby with Banana Puree or use it to prepare your food, you may have questions. And here are the answers to your questions.
- Is Banana Puree Healthy?
Banana Puree is a good food option. It is easy to consume and makes for a perfect go-to snack. In addition, the fruit puree is also nutritious and contains high fibre and antioxidants. But many doubt banana puree has a high sugar and carb content. Because of this reason, the fruit is high in starch, resistant starch, and sugar.
And on the other hand, it also contains a decent amount of fibre, magnesium, and potassium. All the healthy nutrients have several health benefits for digestive and heart health. Although Banana Puree can cause side effects for diabetes, they are incredibly healthy food.
- How to Store Banana Puree?
Banana Puree is delicious and mixes well alone or with other fruits. You can serve it immediately or refrigerate the leftover banana puree in BPA-free container for up to 3 days. Or freeze it up to 3 months and thaw overnight in the refrigerator.
- Is Banana Puree Good for Babies?
Potassium-enriched Banana Puree adds texture and sweetness when mixed with other fruit purees. In addition, the fruit puree has a smooth texture that’s easy for babies to consume. It is also one of the first ideal fruits after babies have tried different veggies.
- Can you Warm Banana Puree?
Banana Puree is often best served at room temperature. However, if you wish to warm banana puree, it is best to reheat it until hot. You must avoid reheating the food partially and steam it well to kill off bacteria. The best way to reheat this fruit puree is in the microwave or on the hob. If you are cooking a portion of the frozen banana puree, make sure you cook it a decent number of times and stir well. Remember that you can only reheat food once, and divide your banana puree into baby-friendly portions before storing it in the fridge or freezer!
- How to Select Banana Puree?
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Agile & Security: How to keep it safe when you’re moving fastFebruary 28, 2013 No Comments
Talk to any software developers and they’ll tell you about the importance of security. A key component of development, effective security practices that prevent compromised data, exploited vulnerabilities and other breaches are critical for creating a solid product that satisfies and protects customers at the same time.
Plenty of developers will also tell you about the multiple benefits of Agile methodology. By addressing issues from scalability to cost to time-to-market, Agile development can offer a significant advantage over waterfall development in many ways.
So do security and Agile go together? Yes, they do. But some developers don’t know that. They see Agile’s speed as a stumbling block when it comes to implementing effective software security. Agile’s rapid development cycles means that releases occur in often just two to four weeks – and the process is so dynamic that many teams think they don’t have time to follow a long and complicated security checklist. As a result, some developers skimp on security measures, opening the door to a host of possible threats.
In fact, smart security practices can and should work in tandem with standard Agile methodology – and teams can build secure code without sacrificing time or resources. Because Agile technique involves detecting defects early in the development lifecycle and quickly making course corrections, in some ways it’s uniquely suited to building software tailored to the customer’s specific security needs.
Team Training: The Foundation of Secure Development
To incorporate security practices smoothly into Agile methodology, the first step is understanding the difference between development methods. Teams using waterfall or other methods usually feature one or two security experts who play a defined and critical role. This is in stark contrast to Agile, where hierarchy is discarded in favor of skilled and nimble teams.
What this means for your team: training. Thorough, ongoing, up-to-date training. While you’ll want to assign your strongest, most experienced developers to the most security-sensitive parts of the project, the entire team must understand secure development. What’s also critical: ensuring that whoever is in charge of prioritizing the project tasks grasps the importance of security.
Security concerns must be addressed from the beginning. Smart and effective measures need to be included in design and coding at the start; the team must be able to foresee possible problems and vulnerabilities to choose the right software design and platform. Security dialogues should be included in all daily meetings, with any impediments addressed like any other obstacle.
One of the top criteria for a security-savvy Agile team is knowing the right risks to watch for during the development lifecycle. To identify possible attack vectors, they should consider the software’s purpose and deployment, as well as the kind of data it will involve. As the software evolves, practices like pair programming and automated testing can catch and remove defects; changes to high-risk code should be manually reviewed against security coding checklists. Your team might even consider doing a security sprint focused on identifying and fixing security issues.
Delivering Speed and Security Together
All of this might sound burdensome, but it can and should become a part of Agile methodology. Don’t think it has to slow you down, either. With the right training, Agile teams can move as quickly as ever. In fact, Agile’s adaptability and accelerated delivery cycle can be an advantage when it comes to security.
Why? Well, think back to the days when software was developed over many months, then pushed out via a packaged disc. Security flaws weren’t exposed until it was too late. Agile releases, on the other hand, offer an opportunity to revisit the security of your product and identify any vulnerabilities, thereby minimizing post-production security risks. Just as efficient teams use a roadmap of customer challenges to deliver user-oriented solutions in their products, they can utilize the real-time feedback and review process to cater to unique customer security needs.
Of course, part of what makes security threats so tricky is their tendency to keep mutating. It’s not enough to incorporate a set of security measures into your development lifecyle; to address the latest threats, your team must stay knowledgeable on industry security standards. Regulatory bodies like PCI DSS and HIPAA have guidelines that are changing and evolving all the time – and those guidelines have a strong impact on security, especially when it comes to cloud infrastructure.
To guarantee a secure product, your team leaders must not only monitor those standards closely, but align your development practices with them. Remember when we said your team would need ongoing training? Keeping up with the evolution of those guidelines is one reason why. Agile developers must understand the latest security requirements and weapons for every project.
Customer Satisfaction, Company Success
Agile development is known for several traits: accelerated market time, technical excellence, and a commitment to customer satisfaction. Implementing smart and current security measures should be a mandatory aspect of Agile methodology for all developers – and by following the right steps, they can partner those practices with their customary speed to offer a truly exceptional product.
Cliff Schertz is the CEO of Tiempo Development a nearshore software development company that focuses on cloud enterprise software. Cliff is a recognized leader in Agile methodology for both engineering and corporate strategy. Cliff works with universities in the US and Mexico along with the government of Mexico to create a regional strength in software engineering. His work has brought many professional jobs to the border region of the US and Mexico.DATA and ANALYTICS , DATA SECURITY, Fresh Ink, Top Stories | <urn:uuid:cabd772a-e623-4681-9c43-ff1f210869a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.itbriefcase.net/agile-security-how-to-keep-it-safe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941119 | 1,171 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Neurons are essential cells involved in the transmission of messages in the central nervous system (CNS) and peripheral nervous system (PNS). The transmission of the messages is accomplished by networks of neurons forming biological communication networks. Neurotoxins affect neurons, leading to their death or injury. Transected neurons are severed cells with altered chemical and structural ability to transmit impulses along the CNS or the PNS. They lack functional extensions like the axons and dendrites, and the myelin sheaths. It has been demonstrated that most neurotoxins affect the cell bodies of neurons in both the PNS and the CNS. However, some neurotoxins act on the axons of neurons, severing the myelin sheaths surrounding the extensions, but leaving cell bodies intact. In such cases, the neurotoxin leads to chemical transection of the axons. Such axons become biologically isolated from the cell body of the neuron. Research demonstrates that chemically transected axons of the PNS can regenerate while those of the CNS cannot regenerate. Different chemicals have different modes through which chemical transection of neurons is initiated.
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DDT is an organochloride neurotoxin that alters the rate at which potassium ions get into neurons. It also affects the active transport of sodium ions out neurons when they are repolarized. The organochloride inhibits Na+, K+ and Ca2+ ATPase when neurons are repolarized. These actions of the neurotoxin result in prolonged negative phase in the action of the stimuli. The repetitive stimulation in the PNS is further amplified in the CNS, resulting in continuous tremor in the poisoned individual.
Organophosphorous pesticide effects are produced by inhibition of the enzyme acetylcholinesterase, which hydrolyzes acetylcholine. When the enzyme is inhibited, there is prolonged stimulation in cholinergic nerves by the neurotransmitter acetylcholine. Prolonged stimulation of the muscarinic nerve endings leads to hyperactivity of multiple responses in the parasympathetic nervous system. Prolonged action of acetylcholine also causes neurons within the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system to be depolarized.
Organophosphates have been implicated in delayed neuropathy resulting several days after the initial exposure. The delayed neuropathy has been attributed to demyelination of axons and phosphorylation of esterase in neurons. However, acetylcholinesterase and paraoxon do not produce delayed neuropathy.
Carbon disulfide induces axonopathies by interfering with transport of chemicals along axons. The interference is achieved by linking filaments within axons via covalent bonds. Acrylamide is another neurotoxin that has been shown to cause axonopathies, beginning at the terminals of axons and proceeding proximally. There is controversy on the exact mode of action, but several studies support the idea that impaired transport along axons is involved. Organic lead has been confirmed to cause myelinopathies which are characterized by chronic exposures. The myelinopathies produced by organic lead mostly affect motor neurons rather than the sensory neurons. Hexachlorophene also induces myelinopathies by oxidative phosphorylation within neurons, affecting the myelin sheaths of the axons. The compound is rapidly absorbed by human skin, and it affects both the CNS and PNS. One of the most common effects of this neurotoxin is edema in the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. Myelinopathies lead to altered conduction of impulses along nerves. The properties of the alteration produced may be decreased speed of action potential, blockage or irregular transmission. It has also been shown that axonopathies mostly affect long axons of the central nervous system and peripheral nervous system. | <urn:uuid:1e1f139c-4471-42f7-8c82-a04c7abbd6ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ivypanda.com/essays/chemical-transection-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.931247 | 809 | 3.234375 | 3 |
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Sun. Sea. Sand. And all that goes along with it — is what the Bahamas is made of.
In 1492, Christopher Columbus discovered the Bahamas for Western Civilization when he made landfall on the island of San Salvador in the eastern Bahamas (called Guanahani by the Lucayan Indians).
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This pallage, and others of this Prologue in which great stress is laid upon obe trutb of the ensuing representation, would lead one to suspect, that this play of Henry the Vilith, is the very play mentioned by Sir H. Wotton, [in his letter of 2 July, 1613, Reliq. Wotton. p. 425.] under the description of a “ a new play, (acted by the king's players as the Bank's Side) called All is True, representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry the VIIIth." The extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, with which, fir Henry says, that play was set forth, and the particular incident of certain cannons foot off at the king's entry to a masque at ibe cardinal Wolsey's boufe, (by which the theatre was set on fire and burnt to the ground,) are strictly applicable to the play be. fore us. Mr. Chamberlaine, in Winwood's Memorials, Vol. III. p. 469, mentions,“ the burning of obe Globe or playhouse, on the Banke fide, on St. Peter's-day (1613,] which, (says he) fell out by a peale of chambers, that I know not on what occafion were to be used in the play.” B. Jonson, in his Execration upon Vulcan, says, they were two poor cbambers. (See the stage direction in this play, a little before the king's entrance. Drum and trumpet, chambers disi barged.] The continuator of Stowe's Cbrenicle, relating the same accident, p. 1003, says expressly, that it happened at obe play of Henry obe VIllıb.
In a MS. letter of Thomas Lorkin to fir Thomas Puckering, dated London, ibis left of June, 1613, the same fact is thus related. " No longer fince than yefterday, while Bourbage his companie were acting at the Globe the play of Henry VIII. and there shooting of certayne obambers in way of triumph, the fire catch'd &c. MS. Harlo 17002.
TYRWHITT I have followed a regulation recommended by an anonymous correspondent, and only included the contested line in a parenthesis, which in some editions was placed before the word beside. Opinion, I believe, means here, as in one of the parts of King Henry IV. cbarafier.-TO realize and fulfil the expectations formed of our play, is now our object. This sentiment (to say nothing of the general style of this prologue,) could
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It is no secret unforeseen damages to your home can leave you with an unsettling feeling. This sinking feeling can quickly escalate if you are to learn these damages are not covered by your household insurance due to blocked gutters.
It may not be at the forefront of your mind but it is a pertinent issue that needs to be discussed. Did you know you may be left out of pocket if it is assessed that damages to your home are due to ill-maintained gutters?
So, what does Home and Contents Insurance cover? We have sifted through three Australian insurance company’s Product Disclosure Statements. Let’s have a look at what their policies are regarding gutter blockage below.
Suncorp’s advice to their customers is to make sure everything is well maintained in order to be fully claimable.
“Your home is not covered from damages caused by blocked gutters when:
An escape of liquid happens as a result of a gradual process of leaking, splashing, dripping or overflowing over a period of time when you haven’t taken appropriate measures to fix the issue, or
any wear and tear happens to your gutters that causes damages your home. Most gutters have a limited lifespan. Therefore, they might need repairing or replacing. Doing this can help to prevent problems and give you a strong basis if you had to make a claim for damages to your home.”
However, if it is assessed the damage is caused for instance by a heavy storm and strong winds then it may be claimable, provided gutters are in good condition prior to the event.
Similarly, RACQ’s Product Disclosure Statement does not cover damages or losses caused by preventable wear and tear, as seen in the ‘General Exclusions’ section. They clearly state the homeowner is not covered if “you don’t maintain your home and contents in good condition.” (RACQ, 2013)
Another reason to book in a gutter clean is that RACQ may not cover any damages or losses caused by pests or parasites, “including rats, mice, cockroaches, termites, fleas, lice and bed bugs.”
Pests will take any opportunity, with damp, debris-ridden gutters being a very enticing access point to your home.
RACQ may also not cover damages caused by birds unless they cause damage to glass, in which case the break must extend through the entire thickness of the item.
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Likewise, Allianz state “depreciation, gradual deterioration, wear and tear or lack of maintenance” is always excluded from coverage. (Allianz, 2020).
It is very important to have a solid background of your policy, as well as the inclusions and exclusions. It can be seen that if you do not uphold regular upkeep on your home, it can have a significant effect on your claim if problems are to arise. It is not worth the risk. If your insurance provider assesses that maintenance work has not been carried out, they may reject your claim.
Professional gutter cleaning services will ensure the job is done efficiently, and will provide you with a receipt of the service.
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While rebellious women began wearing pants in earlier decades, in the 1930s there were several social situations that were acceptable for women to wear pants in public.
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Pants generally were wide legged trousers with a front crease or very wide flowing culottes that looked like a skirt when not moving, with a high fitted waist. Calf length culottes pants were even wider legged.
The double button “sailor” front was common, as was a side zipper or button closure. They were usually made of a durable cotton fabric like twill or wool for winter.
In summer, beach pajamas, which looked like palazzo pants with an attached sleeveless top, graced the beaches, seasides, and pools of 1930s Hollywood. They were made to comically extreme widths and in bold geometric patterns, but were (and still are) extremely comfortable to wear. Beach pajamas became popular for a day at the beach or a “restful day at home.” Beach pajamas were also house pajamas along with silky nightgowns, robes and slippers.
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I planted some stephanotis (a.k.a Madagascar jasmine) seeds last January. I fear that they may be growing more than they should. They are under lights and I water them regularly. One of them is 17" tall. It is growing at about 1" a week. That seems very nice. But I have read that if they do not get a winter dormant period, and grow all winter, they will not flower next spring - presumably because their natural cycle has been disrupted. Any comments? | <urn:uuid:114d4c53-68cc-41e3-8e67-8dd740693637> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://forums.botanicalgarden.ubc.ca/threads/stephanotis-question.32972/#post-173276 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.984275 | 106 | 1.5 | 2 |
The Texas Library Association (TLA) is a 501(c)3 educational, charitable non-profit. It was established in 1902 to promote library services in Texas.
TLA has more than 6,000 members made up of librarians and library workers from academic, public, school and special libraries. Membership also includes library advocates, educators, vendors, and others who support libraries, reading, and literacy.
What are the benefits of TLA Membership
TLA exists to serve libraries and librarians in Texas. Here are some of the benefits of membership:
- Advocacy to communicate the value of libraries and librarians, to improve library funding, and to influence public policy about library-related issues at the local, state and national levels.
- Awards to recognize excellence in the profession, scholarships to promote library careers, and grants to nurture quality library programming.
- Communication and networking through TLA publications, Continuing Education events, and members-only Distribution Listservs for TLA groups.
- Continuing education opportunities.
- Stipends for attending Annual Conference.
- Employment assistance through Jobline, an online service that connects employers and jobseekers; and the Placement Center at Annual Conference.
- Intellectual Freedom materials and assistance.
- Links to TLA’s corporate sponsors and an online Buyer’s Guide for library-related products and services.
- Professional support including leadership training, Continuing Education opportunities, liability insurance for librarians, and advocacy to promote fair salaries.
- Public relations campaigns to promote libraries and reading.
- Reading lists for tots through adults.
- Texas Library Disaster Relief Fund to assist libraries devastated by natural disasters.
- Standards and guidelines for school and public libraries to ensure quality service for library users.
- Free registration to webinars on a wide variety of library topics.
How is TLA structured?
TLA is governed by its membership through an elected Council and Board of Directors. The Council, which consists of about 50 representatives from all TLA divisions, Districts, Round Tables, and Committees, decides the major policies for the association, sets priorities, and approves the annual budget. Councilors for each unit are designated as such by their respective units. Every year, Council meets twice at Annual Assembly and twice at Annual Conference.
The Board of Directors is determined by an association-wide election and is composed of 11 positions: president, past-president, president-elect, treasurer, ALA councilor (TLA is an independent state chapter of the American Library Association), five representatives-at-large (i.e., from school, public, special, and academic libraries), and the executive director (who serves in an ex officio role). Each Board member serves a term of three years. The Board makes recommendations to Council with respect to matters of policy and operations, and is also responsible for hiring of the executive director, who manages the association, works with TLA units, oversees the headquarters, and manages staff.
What are TLA Units or Groups?
TLA units, or groups, provide opportunities for members to connect with other members who work in the same type of library, live in the same part of the state, and share common professional interests. Units also include committees which plan and direct association projects and activities.
Divisions: Representing the various library types. Membership in one division is included in basic dues. Additional divisions can be added for a fee.
- College and University Libraries Division
- Public Libraries Division
- Special Libraries Division
- Texas Association of School Librarians
Districts: 10 regional Districts. Every member of TLA is automatically a member of a District based on their preferred address (home or work). Additional Districts can be added for a fee.
Round Tables: Created to address professional interests such as archives, collection development, programming for youth, reference, etc. There are currently 29 Round Tables. Each Round Table has bylaws, elects officers, and establishes any internal committees or working groups that it desires. Membership in one Round Table is included in basic dues. Additional Round Tables can be added for a fee.
Discussion Groups: Organized by interest or activity for the purpose of providing member opportunities for informal discussion. There are no officers, or dues associated with discussion groups.
TLA Standing Committees: Permanent committees which address specific activities and issues that impact the library profession generally (i.e. Legislative Committee, Professional Rights and Responsibilities Committee); or are responsible for specific activities such as the Texas Bluebonnet Award Committees. The TLA president-elect appoints committee members who begin serving when that president-elect’s term begins.
TLA Task Forces: Appointed by the TLA president to achieve her or his particular goals for the presidential year. Task Forces terminate when their charge is achieved, usually around the end of the presidential year of appointment.
Conference Committees: The two appointed committees oversee the planning of the TLA Annual Conference: the Conference Program Committee and the Local Arrangements Committee. Both dissolve at the end of the relevant conference.
How do I get involved?
TLA is an open, friendly and welcoming organization. Learn how to maximize your membership! Become familiar with TLA activities, groups and resources. Attend the TLA Annual Conference and your local District Fall Conference. There are endless ways to be involved! Reach out to other TLA members through your Division, District, and Round Table listservs. Volunteer! There are many opportunities, large and small, to contribute to the association, and expand your professional horizons. Start by completing this Volunteer Form.
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Emma McDonald Director of Library Services, Mesquite Independent School District What inspired you to become a librarian? Libraries have always been an integral part of my life. Although I didn’t […]Read More | <urn:uuid:3fe821b5-79ed-42b0-ace4-6e21074a1464> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://txla.org/about/faqs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.943858 | 1,242 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Unless you’ve been living under a rock recently, you’ve probably heard a thing or two about the microbiome — you know, the 1.5 kg community of microbes living in and on you. The microbiome is currently a hot health topic, receiving plenty of attention for its role in regulating disease.
While it’s an exciting frontier in science, there are still a lot of questions about this community of bacteria and how they influence our health. Let’s tackle the basics.
The microbiome refers to the trillions of bacteria that live in or on our bodies, including all of their genes. Located primarily in the gut, these microbes have at least 150 times more genes combined than we do. These genes collaborate with our own in running our bodies and provide us with a greater genetic diversity important to the survival of the human species.
The gut microbes help us in many ways. They break down the leftovers after the stomach and small intestine have done their job, converting the remains into energy. They also feed the cells lining the colon, manufacture vitamins and other nutrients, break down toxins, and train our immune system. In other words, they are critical to a well-functioning body and a healthy immune response.
In simple terms, a healthy microbiome is characterized by two key traits: Having a variety of bacteria (the more diversity, the better), and the right kinds of bacteria.
The problem is, we as a society are disrupting the balance of the microbiome. We wash our hands with disinfectants and swallow antibiotics when we have a cold; our social and economic policies discourage women from breastfeeding; and to top it all off, we overload our bodies with fast foods high in bad fats, simple sugars and low levels of dietary fiber.
All of these factors contribute to dismantling the diversity and healthy types of microbes in our gut. And new research shows that imbalances in the gut bacteria are linked with diseases like Irritable Bowel Syndrome, autoimmune disease, diabetes, colon cancer, autism, allergies, asthma and mood disorders.
It is tempting to classify certain bacteria as “good” and others as “bad.” But as Ed Young points out in his book, I Contain Multitudes, “There are no clear heroes and villains in the world of microbiology.”
The microbiome is affected by factors such as age, genetics, environment and diet. Consequently, a type of bacteria that can restore microbial health in a 5-year-old might create havoc for the same person at age 70. It all depends on the context. For example, the bacterial strain Helicobacter pylori seems to have a protective effect in childhood, but has been associated with ulcers and even cancers later in life.
All of these foods are good sources of dietary fibers, which are important for keeping the gut microbes healthy.
Our microbiome can wander astray when we fail to feed it the right kinds of foods. Saturated fats feed inflammation-creating bacteria, as do sugars and other elements used in processed foods.
Dietary fibers and fermented foods, on the other hand, provide nourishment for healthier bacteria species and support a more varied microbial community. Getting on a high-fiber diet — including oats, barley, onions, tomatoes, squash, peas, lentils, garlic, bananas and mangoes — provides a variety of excellent plant carbohydrates. These foods in turn provide the raw material for bacterial fermentation. In addition, when you eat more fiber, the gut bacteria produce short-chain fatty acids, which feed the cells lining your gut.
This is one reason why going on a low-carb diet might not be the best idea. Extremely low-carb diets can result in getting too little dietary fiber, in turn decreasing microbe diversity.
Along with dietary fibers, other types of nutrients are also beneficial, including omega-3 fatty acids.
Studies have found that higher intakes of omega-3s are linked with greater microbial diversity, independent of dietary fiber intake. In addition, omega-3s seem to particularly support the Lachnospiraceae bacterial family, which may help protect against colon cancer.
Research indicates that getting omega-3s through liquids or foods might have a greater impact on the gut microbiota than capsules, even when the same dose is consumed.
Omega-3s are beneficial for gut health in other ways too. Researchers have found that, besides possibly increasing microbial diversity, omega-3s also help increase the production of short-chain fatty acids. In addition, animal studies indicate that omega-3s help maintain the integrity of the intestinal wall and interact with host immune cells.
While there is more research needed to clarify the role of omega-3s in the microbiome, these results are promising. However, it is also important to note that how you go about increasing your omega-3 intake probably makes a difference. For instance, in one study, the researchers compared the effects of supplementing patients with 4000 mg of EPA/DHA either via capsules or a functional food drink. The researchers found that the functional food drink had a greater impact on the gut microbes, increased the amount of two important, health-promoting bacterial strains.
This research could in part explain why increasing omega-3 intake via fish oil capsules is often found to be less effective than other types of supplementation and eating fish.
Keeping your microbiome healthy is not just about diet. There are many factors that play a role, starting at birth.
Getting inoculated with a good dose of bacteria as we exit the birth canal is one important way to set up microbial health from day one. For instance, it is known that babies born vaginally get colonized with the Lactobacillus bacteria, while babies born by C-section are first introduced to less healthy hospital bacteria. This early exposure is a critical early step in the development of our immune system.
Similarly, breast feeding sets the stage for a good immune system. Breast milk not only has the perfect nutrition for a baby, but it also contains the perfect food for feeding the baby’s bacteria — specifically Bifidobacterium longum infantis, or Binfantis for short. This bacteria protects against harmful microbes, so it is an essential part of the baby’s defense system. Moreover, Binfantis feeds the infant’s gut cells by releasing short chain fatty acids. It also prompts the gut cells to make adhesive proteins that seal the gaps between cells in the gut lining.
A person’s future microbial health is strongly impacted by their earliest exposure to bacteria.
It has also been postulated that our pursuit of cleanliness reduces microbial health. Urbanization with smaller families, concrete city blocks, chlorinated water and sanitized food, and a lack of closeness to animals have reduced our exposure to a wider range of bacteria. In fact, lack of microbes seems to be consistently linked with a higher risk of allergic reactions and inflammatory diseases. This can also explain why studies have shown that children with older siblings, or dogs, seem less likely to be bothered by hay fever and other allergies.
Finally, many of microbiome experts advise that we reduce the overuse of disinfectants and antibiotics as a way to promote microbial diversity.
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Whatever you choose to eat, keep it wholesome and fiber-rich. Your bacteria will thank you for it.
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Proverbs 15:1-33 NKJV
A soft answer turns away wrath,
But a harsh word stirs up anger.
The tongue of the wise uses knowledge rightly,
But the mouth of fools pours forth foolishness.
The eyes of the LORD are in every place,
Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
A wholesome tongue is a tree of life,
But perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
A fool despises his father’s instruction,
But he who receives correction is prudent.
In the house of the righteous there is much treasure,
But in the revenue of the wicked is trouble.
The lips of the wise disperse knowledge,
But the heart of the fool does not do so.
The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD,
But the prayer of the upright is His delight.
The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD,
But He loves him who follows righteousness.
Harsh discipline is for him who forsakes the way,
And he who hates correction will die.
Hell and Destruction are before the LORD;
So how much more the hearts of the sons of men.
A scoffer does not love one who corrects him,
Nor will he go to the wise.
A merry heart makes a cheerful countenance,
But by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.
The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge,
But the mouth of fools feeds on foolishness.
All the days of the afflicted are evil,
But he who is of a merry heart has a continual feast.
Better is a little with the fear of the LORD,
Than great treasure with trouble.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is,
Than a fatted calf with hatred.
A wrathful man stirs up strife,
But he who is slow to anger allays contention.
The way of the lazy man is like a hedge of thorns,
But the way of the upright is a highway.
A wise son makes a father glad,
But a foolish man despises his mother.
Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment,
But a man of understanding walks uprightly.
Without counsel, plans go awry,
But in the multitude of counselors they are established.
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth,
And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!
The way of life winds upward for the wise,
That he may turn away from hell below.
The LORD will destroy the house of the proud,
But He will establish the boundary of the widow.
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the LORD,
But the words of the pure are pleasant.
He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house,
But he who hates bribes will live.
The heart of the righteous studies how to answer,
But the mouth of the wicked pours forth evil.
The LORD is far from the wicked,
But He hears the prayer of the righteous.
The light of the eyes rejoices the heart,
And a good report makes the bones healthy.
The ear that hears the rebukes of life
Will abide among the wise.
He who disdains instruction despises his own soul,
But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding.
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom,
And before honor is humility.
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– 69% of employers find it difficult to fill job vacancies; increased demand in technology & logistics segments
– 76% of the tech talent supply does not possess the required skillsets to fulfil tech job roles
– Digital Engineering and the resultant spend are expected to accelerate across industries, resulting in a convergence of skills, further widening the talent supply-demand chasm
– India, China, Canada, Poland, and Mexico emerge as top COE hotspots in the world
The unprecedented need for companies to innovate and digitalize faster, has made talent a top priority. With the ongoing talent wars, organizations have been scrambling to manage the ‘Great Resignation’ as well as find the right talent. This is evidenced by the ever-widening gap between the talent demand and the woefully inadequate supply. A case in point is the global Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) talent gap that companies are grappling with as they adopt platforms and data-driven models. Zinnov‘s analysis shows that while the global AI/ML talent gap stands at a massive ~1.2Mn, there are only ~650,000 AI & Big Data/Analytics professionals who are directly employable in these roles.
To bridge this gap, companies will need to explore newer talent strategies including leveraging global talent hotspots. Zinnov’s one-of-a-kind study titled, “COE Hotspots of the World,” is a comprehensive look at the top global destinations with under-tapped talent pools. It explores the factors that make these locations conducive to set up full software engineering teams, and how globalization is a critical lever in winning the talent wars.
An amalgamation of extensive primary and secondary research, the Zinnov study covers 13 countries from across Asia Pacific (APAC), North America, Latin America (LATAM), and Eastern European regions, evaluated across four key dimensions of talent availability, software engineering ecosystem maturity, ease of doing business, and cost analysis. The countries evaluated include India, China, Philippines, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Bulgaria, Belarus, Romania, and Czech Republic using data from the US as the baseline.
Building scalable Centers of Excellences (COEs) with the capacity to house complete software engineering teams requires the organizations to identify the best-fit location. Although all 13 countries evaluated exhibit high potential for setting up software engineering teams, they show different degrees of potential in terms scalability of teams, availability of diverse talent to build complete software engineering teams, affordability, and ecosystem maturity. The maturity of these ecosystems is reflected in the presence of academic institutions for building talent pipelines, Service Provider companies to leverage local partnerships, start-ups, and ease of doing business in terms of languages spoken, government regulations, geopolitical stability, IP, and data privacy.
The pandemic brought the criticality of globalization into razor sharp focus, not only to ensure business continuity, but to future-proof organizations against disruptions. The role of talent in future-proofing organizations, especially now with the proven success of the remote work model, is undeniable. Zinnov’s analysis shows that enterprise software companies with globalized engineering R&D locations are valued higher at a 7.1 multiple, compared to companies with domestic ER&D at a 5.4 multiple. Adding to the fray, the acceleration of global Digital Engineering spend across industries will result in a convergence of skills, hence putting a premium on skilled talent around the world. This global talent crunch, if not addressed by solving for the source of talent, rather than competing with the same pools, will inevitably lead to a stalemate, that will not only hamper business growth but also cripple organizations with scaling challenges.
As organizations chase talent around the world, a distributed multi-hub strategy will become imperative to drive business growth and accelerate innovation. And trends such as increased adoption of business communications platforms, development of Cloud-based infrastructure for closer collaboration, and the emergence of new regulations have further emphasized the effectiveness of a multi-hub strategy.
Speaking about the unique study, Pari Natarajan, CEO, Zinnov, said, “Talent will be at the core of decision-making for organizations across the globe. As leaders grapple with the increased talent crunch, it will become critical for them to identify new talent hotspots to build Centers of Excellence where full software engineering teams can be housed, that can take end-to-end ownership and be scaled at optimal costs. Our experience with our customers in a post-pandemic construct, highlights the potential that Eastern European countries possess in terms of high-quality talent; however, this is hampered by scalability challenges due to limited talent pools. India emerged as the best-fit location as it will be home to 1/8th of the world’s digital talent by 2030.”
“Additional dimensions such as geopolitical stability; ease of doing business; a mature ecosystem of technology start-ups, universities, and Service Providers; and strong processes that go well beyond business continuity to create business excellence, are what continue to make India the top choice for companies. With a continued focus on human development programs, Asian countries specifically, have the potential to outpace other economies in growth, primarily due to the talent advantage,” he further added. | <urn:uuid:d1228bb2-2d5b-4589-882b-c84c7c85e6c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aiglobalmedialtd.com/the-world-is-headed-towards-a-severe-talent-crunch-globalization-is-key-to-bridge-the-talent-chasm-says-zinnov/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.923863 | 1,092 | 1.65625 | 2 |
In my last post, I talked about removing ‘ly’ adverbs to strengthen prose. But here’s a challenge – I’ve read a new microfiction by one of my favourite writers, Lydia Davis, where she uses five ‘ly’ adverbs in the space of about 100 words. And yes, the piece works. I like it a lot
A five-day workshop with nine other writers and with the brilliant tutor Sean O’Reilly, organised by Stinging Fly at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin in late June, also shook up my self- imposed rules on editing. I learned not to edit stylistically to begin with, but to ask the question ‘what is this story really about?’ An obvious thing to some writers perhaps, but I’m not sure I’ve ever edited my fictions with this fully in mind. I’ve concentrated on structure, point of view, sentences (yes removing adverbs). It’s harder and sometimes uncomfortable to discover the truth of a story after you’ve written it and to strengthen that aspect first.
It was either Sean or Clare Keegan, who came to talk for one afternoon, or both of them who suggested to write as far out of your comfort zone as possible. When the group and Sean were concentrating on one of my story drafts, I got interested in an underlying theme about choice. I didn’t begin with the idea of writing about the choices people make and their sometimes dire consequences. A couple of the men in the group were angry with the woman in my story, who by her actions, put her husband in a life-threatening situation. I liked them having this reaction – this aspect of the story provoked the strongest emotional response and I could see that deepening it would create a much stronger piece.
After reading the flash fiction I’ve linked to above, by Lydia Davis, I was left thinking about the nature of perception, not about her use of adverbs. The narrator creates a whole life for a person on a wrong perception, a perception that is confounded at the end of the piece. As a reader, I was challenged in the same way. And being challenged in some way is one of the most exciting things about reading fiction. | <urn:uuid:dda45a05-238b-41e3-a9a3-84e73844e7a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.judehiggins.com/2015/08/breaking-writing-rules-if-there-are-any/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.969263 | 470 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Oxford International Women’s Festival
WOMEn's Creativity and Survival During Covid 19 and itS Aftermath
1st—14th March 2022
Join us for two weeks of events around Oxford celebrating women’s strengths, successes & solidarity.
Women’s Creativity and Survival during Covid 19 and its Aftermath
The 33rd Oxford International Women’s Festival
March 1st – March 14th 2022
Since the Oxford International Women’s Festival began in 1989, it has always focused on Women’s International Day March 8th , the day when women throughout the world celebrate women’s struggle for political, trade union and employment rights. It has also covered a wide range of topics ranging from the arts to the sciences, as well as women’s creativity, and initiated and supported campaigns on women’s rights.
Since the 2020 Festival, Covid 19 has changed women’s lives dramatically and provided them with many new challenges. The Festival Collective was able to respond to some of these challenges and put on a successful online Festival in 2021 which celebrated women’s creativity in this depressing period.
The title for the 2022 Festival, ‘Women’s Creativity and Survival During Covid 19 and its Aftermath’ will continue this theme by illustrating how women have found positive ways in surviving the events of the last year. The 2022 Festival will be a celebration of women’s survival as well as a memorial for those who did not survive. It will also focus on why it is important to keep up the struggle for women’s equality, both locally, nationally and internationally. This will be illustrated and communicated through music, dance, film, discussion and debate.
Behind the Illustration
The artist Marcia Davies
Marcia Davies is a Bath based graphic communication student and practitioner. Inspired by people
and social activism, Marcia uses her creative repertoire to explore and shed light on movements of
interest such as feminism, environmentalism and mental wellbeing.
Marcia’s mediums of choice are digital illustration, print and collage. She finds peace within bold
lines, graphic shapes and strong colours.
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Blue Brain Technology
Blue brain technology is otherwise known as artificial brain. In today’s world, scientists are in research to create an artificial brain that can think, respond, the ability to take decision, and keep everything in memory. To upload the human brain into machine is the main aim of this technology. So that a person can think, respond to something and the ability to take resolution without any endeavour. After the death of the individual, this technology will be act as a man. So, even after the death of a person this virtual brain will not lost the knowledge, personalities, memories and feelings of that man.
Keywords- Virtual brain, Nanobots, NCC, neurons, cerebellum, cerebrum.
Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1804020Page Number(s) - 107-111Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 4 | October 2018DOI (Digital Object Identifier) - Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)
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C.Sunitha, V.Sivaranjani, "Blue Brain Technology"
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Germany will buy 35 U.S. F-35 fighter jets to replace its ageing Tornado, it said on Monday, announcing a first big defense deal since Chancellor Olaf Scholz pledged a 100-billion-euro upgrade to the military in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
The move appeared to be part of a tectonic shift in German security policy, including a pledge to reach NATO’s 2% target for defense spending, Reuters reported.
“After looking thoroughly into all available options, I decided to initiate the purchase of F-35 aircraft as replacement for the Tornado in the role of nuclear sharing,” Defense Minister Christine Lambrecht said in a statement.
The Tornado is the only German jet capable of carrying U.S. nuclear bombs, which are stored in Germany, in case of a conflict. read more But the German air force has been flying the Tornado since the 1980s, and Berlin is planning to phase it out between 2025 and 2030.
As a replacement, the F-35 offers unique opportunities for cooperation with NATO allies and other European partners alike, Lambrecht said, referring to the fact that many other nations have ordered the stealth jet built by Lockheed Martin.
A German defense source told Reuters in early February that Berlin was leaning toward purchasing the F-35 but a final decision had not been taken.
Berlin will also purchase 15 Eurofighter jets equipped for electronic warfare, a capability yet to be developed by Franco-German producer Airbus (AIR.PA), according to a confidential document sent to lawmakers to inform them of government plans.
The F-35 purchase will be a blow for Boeing, whose F-18 was favored by former German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer to replace the Tornado.
The decision could also upset France. Paris monitored Germany’s deliberations over the F-18 or more advanced F-35, fearing a deal could undercut the development of a joint Franco-German fighter jet that is supposed to be ready in the 2040s.
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New higher education center, The Hub, opens in Federal Way
Access to higher education has just come closer to Federal Way.
The Hub: Federal Way Higher Education Center, located at 1615 S. 325th St., houses two classrooms, a computer lab, study spaces, offices and more. The new campus opened on Monday, September 27.
A partnership with Highline College, University of Washington Tacoma, City of Federal Way, and Federal Way Public Schools brought The Hub to life, as well as improved local access to higher education at Federal Way.
The Hub provides post-secondary and adult education to Federal Way and surrounding communities.
Traditionally, educational institutions have expected students to be college ready, but “we are reversing that and recognizing that there is a whole variety of people approaching higher education,” he said. said Tammy Hauge, program manager at The Hub.
As a âstudent-ready institution,â education and city partners meet people where they are to help them move forward and achieve their goals.
In 2016, the city released a Higher Education Needs Assessment report, which found there was a lack of higher education among people 25 and older in the community, Hauge said. Although high school graduation rates are higher in Federal Way than in surrounding cities, residents of Federal Way hold a lower number of bachelor’s degrees.
In a city of about 100,000 residents, only about 27% of the Federal Way population aged 25 or older has a bachelor’s degree or above, according to the United States Census Bureau.
One of The Hub’s goals is to strengthen the needs of businesses in the region and provide educational opportunities to a range of community members, which could lead to the addition of high paying jobs to the Federal Way economy going forward, Hauge said.
The Hub also recognizes the educational needs of people outside the age group in this study: adult learners, English language learners, people new to higher education, first generation students and beginning students, among others.
The new campus wants to be a flexible institution capable of fine-tuning its education offerings as programs and community interest grows, Hauge said.
âWe try to be as holistic as possible,â she said. âWe want to be able to meet the needs of the community.
As a first step, the site will offer support services to Highline College students, such as general admission, counseling and enrollment assistance. In the future, The Hub will offer credit courses; short-term certificate courses in early childhood education, health care and informatics; English language learning and adult education courses; and UW Tacoma professional development courses, according to the website.
Tuition and fees will depend on the partner offering the courses or program the person is pursuing. Students can also be supported through financial aid opportunities.
As of 2021, Highline College tuition is around $ 4,230 per year and UW Tacoma tuition is around $ 11,889, according to the institutions’ websites for costs. in force.
âWe have always viewed Federal Way as a valuable partner in our mission to expand access to higher education,â said former University of Washington Tacoma Chancellor Mark Pagano.
Access should not be limited by city limits or traffic jams, he added.
âThe Southern Strait is emerging as the next hotspot of economic prosperity in the Puget Sound region, and UW Tacoma is proud to work with all of our partners to achieve this vibrant future together. ”
The city had previously considered placing an institution of higher education near the Performing Arts and Event Center in downtown Federal Way, but a change in rental agreements led to its location along Pacific Highway South.
For projects where the college needs to lease space, research and negotiations are carried out with the Washington State Department of Business Services (DES), said Michael Pham, vice president of administrative services at the Highline Middle School.
âWe looked at several potential properties. There was one that we entered into negotiations that was unsuccessful due to costs and rental conditions, âsaid Pham. “So we worked with the City of Federal Way to identify other potential properties until we found one that worked for all parties involved.”
As a stand-alone building, The Hub measures 7,300 square feet and about twice the size of previous spaces the partners were looking at, Hauge said.
In a way, Federal Way residents have the opportunity to lead the way to the Hub as partners strive to meet people where they are.
âIt’s super exciting,â Hauge said of the project coming to fruition. “I know this space has a ton of potential for whatever it can be⦠and we’re open to redefining what the Hub will become once we get to know the community.”
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The recent Turkish earthquake, as with its modern predecessors, has shown that the witches’ brew that crony capitalism produces is a leading cause of death and severe injury. Control fraud, the use of a seemingly legitimate entity by those that control it to defraud, exists in all three major sectors – private, public, and non-profit. Crony capitalism typically involves the interaction of public and private sector control fraud. I have written primarily about accounting control frauds, which are property crimes of mass destruction. Anti-customer, anti-public, and anti-employee control frauds can all cause mass casualties. Earthquakes and the tsunamis they produce can kill hundreds of thousands of people. Government programs have been exceptionally successful in reducing the loss of life from natural disasters. Early warnings, evacuation routes, barriers, and training can greatly reduce the losses caused by tsunamis. Seismic building codes, if properly enforced, can reduce direct deaths from earthquakes to exceptionally low levels even in severe seismic events. The saying is: earthquakes don’t kill people; collapsing structures do.
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RPO-10 provided technical assistance to the LGU of Lanao del Norte on the training on “Gender Sensitivity and introduction to Gender Analysis Mainstreaming”. This activity was funded by the local government of Lanao del Norte and held last October 27 to 29 at the Luxe Hotel in Cagayan de Oro City. Two (2) RPO-10 staff gave technical assistance as resource persons. Thirty-five (35) department heads and supervisors of PGLDN attended this 3-day activity. The topics of the training were: Basic gender concepts, gender socialization, gender issues, violence against women and children, pursuing gender equality, gender analysis and mainstreaming gender in the local plan of PGLDN. The participants appreciated the training. They were very thankful to POPCOM-10 for sending two (2) resource speakers that provided the technical assistance they needed. | <urn:uuid:89b7e575-0869-448f-a151-0f398bd739ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rpo10.popcom.gov.ph/popcom-10-and-provincial-government-of-lanao-del-norte-conduct-gender-sensitivity-training-for-pgldn-chiefs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941369 | 182 | 1.601563 | 2 |
1736 – Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, French physicist and engineer is born.
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb was a French physicist. He was best known for developing Coulomb’s law, the definition of the electrostatic force of attraction and repulsion, but also did important work on friction. The SI unit of electric charge, the coulomb, was named after him.
1777 – The Stars and Stripes is adopted by Congress as the Flag of the United States.
On June 14, 1777, the Second Continental Congress passed the Flag Resolution which stated: “Resolved, That the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.” Flag Day is now observed on June 14 of each year. While scholars still argue about this, tradition holds that the new flag was first hoisted in June 1777 by the Continental Army at the Middlebrook encampment.
1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author and activist is born.
Harriet Elisabeth Beecher Stowe was an American abolitionist and author. She came from a famous religious family and is best known for her novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852). It depicts the harsh life for African Americans under slavery. It reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and Great Britain. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote 30 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters. She was influential for both her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day.
1822 – Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”.
On 14 June 1822, Charles Babbage proposed the use of such a machine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society, entitled “Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables”. This machine used the decimal number system and was powered by cranking a handle. The British government was interested, since producing tables was time-consuming and expensive and they hoped the difference engine would make the task more economical.
1949 – Albert II, a rhesus monkey, rides a V-2 rocket to an altitude of 134 km (83 mi), thereby becoming the first monkey in space.
Before humans went into space, several animals were launched into space, including numerous non-human primates, so that scientists could investigate the biological effects of space travel. The United States launched flights containing primate cargo primarily between 1948-1961 with one flight in 1969 and one in 1985. France launched two monkey-carrying flights in 1967. The Soviet Union and Russia launched monkeys between 1983 and 1996. Most primates were anesthetized before lift-off. Overall thirty-two monkeys flew in the space program; none flew more than once. Numerous back-up monkeys also went through the programs but never flew. Monkeys and apes from several species were used, including rhesus monkeys, cynomolgus monkeys, squirrel monkeys, pig-tailed macaques, and chimpanzees.
The first ever primate astronaut was Albert, a rhesus monkey, who on June 11, 1948, rode to over 63 km (39 mi) on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight.
1951 – UNIVAC I is dedicated by the U.S. Census Bureau.
The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. Design work was started by their company, Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and was completed after the company had been acquired by Remington Rand (which later became part of Sperry, now Unisys). In the years before successor models of the UNIVAC I appeared, the machine was simply known as “the UNIVAC”.
The first Univac was accepted by the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year. The fifth machine (built for the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission) was used by CBS to predict the result of the 1952 presidential election. With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it famously predicted an Eisenhower landslide while the conventional wisdom favored Stevenson.
1962 – The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris – later becoming the European Space Agency.
The European Space Research Organisation (ESRO) was an international organisation founded by 10 European nations with the intention of jointly pursuing scientific research in space. It was founded in 1964. As an organisation ESRO was based on a previously existing international scientific institution, CERN. The ESRO convention, the organisations founding document outlines it as an entity exclusively devoted to scientific pursuits. This was the case for most of its lifetime but in the final years before the formation of ESA, the European Space Agency, ESRO began a programme in the field of telecommunications. Consequently, ESA is not a mainly pure science focused entity but concentrates on telecommunications, earth observation and other application motivated activities. ESRO was merged with ELDO in 1975 to form the European Space Agency.
1967 – Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched towards Venus.
Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus 1967) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus’ atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above the planet. Its goals were to measure interplanetary and Venusian magnetic fields, charged particles, plasma, radio refractivity and UV emissions of the Venusian atmosphere.
Mariner 5 was actually built as a backup to Mariner 4, but after the success of the Mariner 4 mission, it was modified for the Venus mission by removing the TV camera, reversing and reducing the four solar panels, and adding extra thermal insulation.
Liftoff took place on June 14, 1967 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Launch Complex 12 on Atlas vehicle 5401. Booster performance was normal through the Atlas portion of the launch and the first Agena burn, with all systems operating at the proper level. During the second Agena burn, abnormal fluctuations in the engine chamber pressure occurred, however they did not preclude successful interplanetary injection. There had been several occurrences of this behavior on previous NASA and Air Force launches and a program was initiated to correct it which led to a redesign of the Agena turbopump gearbox. Mariner 5 flew by Venus on October 19 that year at an altitude of 3,990 kilometers (2,480 mi). With more sensitive instruments than its predecessor Mariner 2, Mariner 5 was able to shed new light on the hot, cloud-covered planet and on conditions in interplanetary space.
Radio occultation data from Mariner 5 helped to understand the temperature and pressure data returned by the Venera 4 lander, which arrived at Venus shortly before it. After these missions, it was clear that Venus had a very hot surface and an atmosphere even denser than expected.
The operations of Mariner 5 ended in November 1967 and it is now defunct in a heliocentric orbit.
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Geographic Distribution and Habitat
The kipunji, sometimes called the highland mangabey (even though it is not a mangabey), is an Old World monkey endemic to Tanzania. The species became known to science in 2003, although local communities had been long familiar with these large charismatic monkeys. Dr. Tim Davenport, the Wildlife Conservation Society’s (WCS) Director of Species Conservation for Africa, and his team, who are responsible for describing the genus to the world, monitor the kipunji population. Only a little over 1,966 individuals exist. Kipunjis are sometimes referred to as “Africa’s rarest monkey.”
Kipunjis live in montane forests and are found between 4,265 and 8,038 feet (1,300–2,450 m) above sea level. Two main kipunji populations are found exclusively in protected areas: one resides in Livingstone (Kitulo National Park), Mt. Rungwe (Nature Reserve), and Madehani (Village Forest); the second much smaller population is found in Ndundulu in Kilombero Nature Reserve. Kipunjis prefer the shelter of the forests and avoid open spaces, even as the forests where they make their homes have grown thin due to logging. Their populations become more fragmented as their habitat degrades. However, as a result of holistic conservation work, illegal activities in the forests have fallen by 81% since 2007, with a total reduction in illegal timber activity of 90%.
Size, Weight, and Lifespan
Kipunjis are large monkeys that can reach up to 35 in (90 cm) in length and typically weigh between 22 and 35 lb (10–16 kg). Because they were so recently described, there is no definitive information about their lifespan; however, scientists have estimated (by looking at similar species) that they could potentially live as long as 45 years.
The most striking physical characteristics of kipunjis are the triangular crest above their heads and the triangular tufts of hair on the sides of their cheeks. Their faces are hairless and black with a narrow nose line, slanted nostrils, a protruding muzzle, and light hazelnut eyes. Long spiky hair fans out at the shoulders. Their pelage, on the whole, is light brown—though it grows darker at the hands and feet with a white patch at the chest and tip of their tails. Kipunjis’ tails are longer than their bodies. There is no differentiation in appearance between the sexes.
Upon first encountering kipunjis, the WCS team believed them to be a species of mangabey, hence the misnomer “the highland mangabey,” mentioned earlier. However, DNA testing proved them to be more closely related to baboons. They are, in fact, a unique genus: Rungwecebus, the genus name derived from Mount Rungwe, where so many of these monkeys live. This is the first new genus identified in Africa since 1923.
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The first study of the kipunji’s diet was published in 2010, revealing that they are plant-eaters. The primary species consumed was Macaranga capensis var. capensis—also known as iphubane, unompumelelo, and umfongafonga, or David’s heart because it has large heart-shaped leaves. This deciduous, medium-sized tree has a round crown. Its sap is watery and its fleshy fruit is yellow, small, and round with purple seeds. It is also used for medicinal purposes by indigenous people. During the wet season, they prefer fruit; during the dry season (late June to October), kipunjis depend more on leaves than fruit. They also occasionally add bark, moss, seeds, fungi, and even soil to their diet.
Behavior and Lifestyle
Kipunjis live in large groups of 10 to 35 individuals. Within these groups, there are typically only two infants, which rely on their troops for protection and care. Kipunjis are shy monkeys. Some scientists believe this trait contributed to their going undiscovered for so long—that, and the fact that humans rarely venture into the remote areas where kipunjis live.
They are diurnal tree-dwellers and are rarely found on the ground. In the trees, they do their best to remain out of sight. These monkeys have a very limited range—researchers used GPS to track 34 groups of kipunji and found that they remain within a range of 6.8 sq mi (17.7 sq km).
The kipunji wasn’t discovered until 2003. It is among the newest named African monkey species, and the first new monkey genus to be named since 1923.
Daily Life and Group Dynamics
Because kipunjis are so shy and elusive, little is known about their day-to-day lives. What can be gleaned from the research is that they are largely sedentary—they do not move around all that much—and they live in large groups. If anything, this dearth of knowledge emphasizes the need to protect this species, so more can be learned.
DNA reveals that some kipunji populations have cross-bred with baboons.
The kipunji’s vocalizations are extremely unique, and have been described as a “honk-bark.” Tim Davenport, who has been at the forefront of kipunji research, explained it as a “goose followed by a dog.” These monkeys also “chirp.” The meanings of these vocalizations are unclear, and they have only been observed in the kipunji population found in the southern highlands
It is likely that, like other primates, they communicate through a variety of vocalizations and body postures.
Reproduction and Family
Little is known about the kipunji’s reproduction habits. We do know that females display genital swelling when in estrus, that they are group-dwelling monkeys, and that infants, like many primate infants, are helpless, or altricial, meaning they depend upon adults for basic necessities and protection. In 2013, a rare photograph of a baby kipunji was taken, along with its mother, who, despite having lost her hand in a snare, still cared for her baby.
Low genetic variability is a concern for the conservation of the species. Within large groups of kipunjis, small numbers of young are observed. As mentioned before, there is evidence of cross-breeding between kipunji and baboons, though this only exists in the DNA of monkeys who live in the southern highlands. Kipunjis found in the Udzungwa Mountains, however, have no traces of baboon DNA. While this does not reveal much about the reproduction habits of these primates—breeding between different species isn’t exactly uncommon—it is valuable knowledge within the context of conservation efforts to protect these monkeys. Some scientists speculate that the kipunji has a hybrid origin.
Like many monkeys who eat a mainly herbivorous and frugivorous diet, the kipunji’s feeding habits likely contribute to seed dispersal.
Conservation Status and Threats
The kipunji is currently listed as Endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, appearing on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN, 2018)—downgraded from its original status as Critically Endangered following a survey that showed a significant increase in the population. A more recent survey, published in the International Journal of Primatology, February 9, 2022, reveals that the total population has jumped by a full 65% in the last 15 years, proving that this uplifting upward trend is holding.
While this increase is huge percentage-wise, the number of kipunji in the wild remains much too small, and this species still faces far too many threats for conservationists to feel at ease. Destruction and fragmentation of kipunji are ongoing. Logging and the clearing of land for agriculture have severely degraded many of the forests this species calls home. Nudundulu Forest, one reserve where these monkeys are found, remains in good condition, but Mount Rungwe, the mountain from which this monkey’s genus name is derived, has not.
As these forests become more fragmented, so do kipunji populations. This trend drastically reduces their chance of survival. Kipunjis are also illegally hunted by humans, often in retaliation for raiding farmers’ crops.
If a serious effort is not made these newly discovered primates will be gone before we can learn anything more about them.
When it was first discovered in 2003, the kipunji’s future looked bleak. The earliest surveys taken in 2007 found a mere 1,117 individuals living in severely degraded and fragmented habitats. The IUCN declared the species Critically Endangered, and it was placed on Primate in Peril’s list of the 25 Most Endangered Primate Species in the World in 2006 and 2008. Researchers estimated that their species could be wiped out in as little as 20 to 50 years if drastic action wasn’t taken immediately.
Since those initial findings, a number of events have already begun to significantly improve the kipunji’s situation. Mount Rungwe—gazetted in 1949 as a Catchment Forest expressly for the conservation of its water resources—was upgraded to a Nature Forest Reserve as of 2009, thanks in large part to this rare monkey.
The Wildlife Conservation Society of Tanzania (WCS) has engaged local and international entities in efforts to conserve the region’s rich biodiversity. In 2014, WCS partnered with the Fish and Wildlife Services Division of International Conservation to support community-based initiatives that have focused on the long-term survival of the kipunji in Mount Rungwe and Livingstone forests. Such initiatives have included educating local farmers about kipunji to reduce retaliatory hunting.
Since 2016, the McArthur Foundation and the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) have been working with the Tanzania Forest Services to better preserve Mount Rungwe National Reserve ecosystem. These projects are funded in part by ecotourism, which includes primate sighting tours. Although these sorts of attractions require the utmost care to avoid cross-species disease transmission—especially during the current coronavirus pandemic—they do bring invaluable funds that sustain conservation in the region and boost local economies.
In April 2020, the non-profit Ecosia, in collaboration with WCS, announced four new reforestation projects to take place around Mount Rungwe and the Njombe forests. By planting a mixture of native trees, fruit-bearing trees, and woodlots they hope not only to ensure local people’s livelihoods but to protect local habitats and biodiversity as well—in particular the endangered kipunji.
These projects are having a phenomenal effect so far. The most recent survey from 2021 recorded a 65% increase in the kipunji population—bringing their total numbers up to 1,966 individuals. While this is still a frighteningly low number, it does indicate a significant shift. The data also show that human activities that damage kipunji habitat—particularly logging—have decreased by a whopping 81% in the last 15 years. Altogether, the holistic approach conservationists have been using in this region is working wonders to bring the kipunji back from the brink. Hopefully, as these projects grow and flourish, their positive effects will only become more and more apparent. Perhaps their phenomenal success will even begin to inspire similar movements for other primates around the world.
- International Journal of Primatology: https://rdcu.be/cGIn2
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Whistler recorded 1,120 COVID-19 cases from the beginning of January to March 28, with 218 of them last week alone, driven by the P.1 variant most commonly associated with Brazil. The majority of cases – 83.2 per cent – are in people aged 20 to 39.Variant that forced B.C. ski resort shut is rapidly spreading, sending more young people to hospital — https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-covid-19-variant-spreading-rapidly-in-bc/
Young adults age 18 to 34 years hospitalized with COVID-19 experienced substantial rates of adverse outcomes: 21% required intensive care, 10% required mechanical ventilation, and 2.7% died. This in-hospital mortality rate is lower than that reported for older adults with COVID-19, but approximately double that of young adults with acute myocardial infarction.4 Morbid obesity, hypertension, and diabetes were common and associated with greater risks of adverse events. Young adults with more than 1 of these conditions faced risks comparable with those observed in middle-aged adults without them. More than half of these patients requiring hospitalization were Black or Hispanic, consistent with prior findings of disproportionate illness severity in these demographic groups.5,6Clinical Outcomes in Young US Adults Hospitalized With COVID-19 — https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2770542
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Karlis Osis and his colleague Erlendur Haraldsson examined whether NDEs varied between cultures. In their book 'At the Hour of Death' (published in 1977) they concluded that, although there were considerable similarities between Indian and American NDEs, the religious personages and symbols appearing in death-bed visions were different for each culture.
Although the majority of reports of NDEs describe the subject as having been in a state that could be likened to heavenly bliss, this is not universally the case. The myths on which many of us were reared, which conceivably may have their roots in experiences of the ancients akin to NDEs, are myths of both heaven and hell. As mentioned earlier, not all NDEs are sweetness and light. There may, for instance, be something in the Japanese culture that predisposes them to negative NDEs, at least according to one small study:
The Japanese find death a depressing experience
A study in Japan shows that even in death the Japanese have an original way of looking at things. Instead of seeing 'tunnels of light' or having 'out of body' experiences, near-dead patients in Japanese hospitals tend to see rather less romantic images, according to researchers at Kyorin University.
According to a report in the Mainichi newspaper, a group of doctors from Kyorin has spent the past year documenting the near-death experiences of 17 patients. They had all been resuscitated from comas caused by heart attacks, strokes, asthma or drug poisoning. All had shown minimal signs of life during the coma.
Yoshia Hata, who led the team, said that eight of the 17 recalled 'dreams', many featuring rivers or ponds. Five of those patients had dreams which involved fear, pain and suffering.
One 50-year-old asthmatic man said he had seen himself wade into a reservoir and do a handstand in the shallows. 'Then I walked out of the water and took some deep breaths. In the dream, I was repeating this over and over.'
Another patient, a 73-year-old woman with cardiac arrest, saw a cloud filled with dead people. 'It was a dark, gloomy day. I was chanting sutras. I believed they could be saved if they chanted sutras, so that is what I was telling them to do.'
Most of the group said they had never heard of Near-Death Experiences before. Perhaps the idea of dark, gloomy surroundings, ponds and reservoirs and pain and suffering appeared less like heaven to them and more like their experiences of Tokyo on a wet, winter Monday.
From an item by Peter Hadfield in the New Scientist (Nov. 30th 1991).
Margot Grey's investigations also uncovered a number, albeit a tiny minority, of unpleasant NDEs. Positive experiences, as we have seen, include a feeling of wholeness, joy and a lack of isolation; those who have negative experiences, while they only occasionally describe 'hell-like' scenes, nevertheless find themselves on the edge of something unpleasant, and unwilling to die:
Hanging on, in agony, to life
I felt like I was in a great black vacuum. All I could see were my arms hanging on to a set of parallel bars. I knew if I relaxed, my grip on life would cease. It was a complete sense of knowing that life had to be clung to. I knew without any question if I let go, I would die. The feeling of agony of hanging on only lasted a brief while.
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In a day when good is called evil and evil is called good, it is very difficult to establish boundaries, especially involving questionable issues. Churches seem to accept more and more worldliness, while some Christians are getting less and less tolerant of anything except their version of the truth. Gray areas are widening by the minute. Choices aren’t as simple as they used to be.
This article seeks a balanced response to deal with the many areas where the Bible is silent by using Halloween as its primary example. I choose not to give a simple ‘Yes/No’ answer lest I offend some disagreeing soul without good reason, nor do I wish to lead any agreeable souls to a decision without conviction. Here are four guiding principles from the Scriptures:
#1 – Whatever I do should glorify God.
In I Corinthians 10:31, the Apostle commands that everything we do, including even eating and drinking, should be according to this rule. This is the greatest of principles. Many times, the first question a person asks about a ‘gray area’ issue is: “What’s wrong with it?” This is really the wrong place to start. The Christian perspective dictates we ask: “What’s right with it?” Eph. 5:10 puts the responsibility on the individual to “Prove what is acceptable unto the Lord.” The ultimate right is God’s glory.
In the context of Halloween, for example, pumpkin carving is neither moral or immoral. What you carve can glorify God and ‘give light’ or not. Dressing up in costumes is not, in itself, bad, yet the outfit may be God-honoring, flesh-appealing, or flat out Satanic. God must be glorified in our actions, as well as our motivations. One does not nullify or justify the lack of the other.
#2 – Everything I do should benefit the gospel.
I must consider whether what I do helps (or hinders) the salvation of lost souls (I Corinthians 10:33). If I participate in the questionable issue, will it spread the gospel by adding to the mission or hurt Christ’s cause by distracting from the message?
Halloween turns out to be one of the greatest annual opportunities to share your faith. People will actually come to my door, my church, my booth asking for a treat… If you miss this open door, well, here’s your sign! Light shines bright when the world is so dark; yet at the same time, worldliness can dim your ability to share your testimony (Matthew 5:15-16). Separation from sin should be practiced, but not to the point of isolation from sinners.
#3 – What I do has an end.
Everything has consequences. Have I considered where the gray area in question will lead? According to I Corinthians 10:23, some things are allowed (lawful), but not everything is beneficial to me (expedient). Although this is not an end-all, I must give proper consideration for where my actions will lead myself and others in the future.
Halloween often affects families with young children. And children often practice in excess what their parents did in moderation. As a general rule, each generation gets further and further from purity and piety. For example, Halloween was outlawed in America until 1845, and now it is very odd when families, even churches, do not celebrate this ‘holiday’ (holiday used to mean holy-day). It doesn’t take very long to observe the fairly-steady progression of wickedness in ones’ own lifetime, but you should take time to look far into your grandchild’s lifetime, too.
#4 – What I do affects my Christian family.
Does it bless my brothers and sisters (I Corinthians 10:32)? Will it edify (build up) or will it offend (tear down) their spirit? I must consider other Christians, especially those with weak(er) consciences (I Corinthians 8:9,13). Even if I do not necessarily have a conviction about it, I should seek not to offend someone else who might. If I have a conviction about it, must be careful not to offend someone who doesn’t. Romans 14:1-5 is clear that I have no right or basis to judge (condemn) another Christian and his views. I stand in danger of God’s judgment when I do so. I must be fully persuaded in my own mind, not in everyone else’s!
Halloween is a simple example of how well-meaning Christians can differ in opinion/conviction with regard to an issue where the Bible is silent. The best practice is liberty. Live by the ancient wisdom: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty; in all things, charity.” When a Christian jumps to a judgmental conclusion against another Christian, he only reveals that he indeed is the weaker of the two. He is the immature, self-righteous ‘babe in Christ’ given to conflict (I Corinthians 3:1,3). Take the high road: determine not to offend nor to be so easily offended (I Corinthians 8:13).
Footnote: As to the question: Do I celebrate Halloween? My personal response is simply, No. We celebrate Harvest. This might seem like a cop-out justification to some, but consider this… Halloween is not evil because of pumpkins, costumes, and candy – but because of the culture of violence, fear, death, and especially the demonic occult.
Yes, our children carve pumpkins. This year, one carved ‘Jesus is Alive,’ one ‘God Hearts U,’ and the other, a cross. My boys even put their pumpkins out on the street to witness to the drive-bys. They have one heartbeat – that the light of God shine in the darkness. We usually don’t dress up – but we never dress up in fear-mongering, violent, bloody, sexual, humanistic, faddish outfits. We usually use a little creativity and share the common grace of simple, innocent, childish imagination and pretend. But we don’t limit this to one time of the year – we do it throughout the year. And just because the world is doing something doesn’t make it wrong, nor does it mean we cannot. For the last decade our family has participated in the biggest outreach of our church: Tract-n-Treat on Main St. We have averaged giving out 3,000+ tracts and toys to families in a one and a half hour time frame. We participate, but only for the glory of God and the salvation of lost souls.
Where do you stand and why? Do you stand upon the Word of God or upon your feelings? I’m only a student of the Bible and don’t pretend to be an expert… I only hope this makes you think. Take time to look up a reference above, research God’s intent, and take your stand. I welcome your comments – both of disagreement or of affirmation. (Thanks to Patch for the inspiring words) | <urn:uuid:55dac12d-e2a8-4693-9fd2-5f5ab1c4f44b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://deafwatchman.wordpress.com/2013/10/25/can-a-christian-celebrate-halloween/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.935861 | 1,498 | 1.546875 | 2 |
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Ambassador John F. Tefft, the U.S. Ambassador to Russia left post on September 28. He is also retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service for the second time after 45 years of public service. He pens the following op-ed for The Moscow Times:
On the Day of My Departure
We need to rebuild trust between our two countries.
When I first joined the diplomatic service, working on the Soviet desk in the 1980s, our relationship with Russia was at a low point. The Soviet Union had just shot down a Korean Airliner, with almost 100 Americans including a Congressman on board. There was a lot of anger in America.
Today, as I prepare to leave Russia, our relationship has reached another low point. Americans are concerned and angry about Russian interference in our elections and by the Russian authorities’ refusal to accept their responsibility for it.
As Secretary Tillerson said, we need to rebuild trust between our two countries and move our relationship to a different place. The American people want the two most powerful nuclear nations in the world to have a better relationship. From the earliest days of this Administration we have said time and again that we would prefer a constructive relationship with Russia based on cooperation on common interests. We remain prepared to try to find a way forward.
Serving the American community is at the heart of the work of the U.S. Mission in Russia, and it will continue to be a main priority moving forward. The U.S. Embassy and our Consulates General throughout Russia first and foremost are here to provide services to the Americans living, working, and traveling in Russia. During my time here, I have seen what Americans can do in Russia to bring our countries together on a people-to-people, business-to-business, scholar-to-scholar, performer-to-performer level. This gives me hope, even during these difficult times.
With the help of our Foreign Commercial Service and Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. and Russian businesses receive assistance developing and expanding new relationships and introducing innovative technologies. This increases trade and investment and strengthens ties between our two countries. I have seen how cattle ranchers from the United States and Russia work together to produce high quality beef for the Russian market and how American-trained managers bring productivity and streamlined processing into Russian businesses to help make them more profitable and more successful.
I am particularly proud of the positive influence U.S. companies have had on the Russian business culture. When I contrast the present business culture with what I witnessed here in the 1990s, I notice tremendous progress in the areas of transparency, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility.
U.S. companies have led by example on corporate social responsibility. One major soft drinks manufacturer has partnered with governmental and non-governmental organizations to preserve and protect important watersheds; an oil and gas corporation has provided over $250 million to support infrastructure and community projects in Sakhalin and Khabarovsk Krai; and a paper and pulp producer supports social programs in Svetogorsk. These are just a few of the many examples of the benefits of the presence of U.S. companies here in Russia. I have also been very impressed with Russia’s talented business leaders, including women, many of whom rose from entry-level positions at U.S. companies to the highest ranks of leadership.
As I look back over my time here in Russia, I am struck by the richness of Russian culture and history. I will look back fondly on my travels to places like Tikhvin, where I had the pleasure of visiting Rimsky-Korsakov’s childhood home and seeing the piano on which so many amazing and talented Russian composers played and composed their works. I will particularly remember my annual visits to events such as the pop-culture and entertainment conference Comic-Con, my travels throughout the country to visit American businesses and partnerships, and all of the opportunities I have to meet with many creative, intelligent young Russians who are inspired by the possibilities of what we can do when we work together.
We will continue to stand up for our interests while looking for avenues of dialogue. We remain dedicated to finding ways to bring together Russians and Americans both to discuss our differences and to discover the many things we have in common. Having seen how we weathered the storm in the 1980s and the dedication of our staff of talented professionals in the State Department back home and here in Mission Russia, I remain optimistic that our governments will ultimately find a way forward. On our side, we’re certainly ready.
Ambassador Tefft served as the United States Ambassador to the Russian Federation since September 2014. He previously served as Ambassador to Lithuania from 2000 to 2003, to Georgia from 2005 to 2009, and to Ukraine from 2009 to 2013. He worked from 2004 to 2005 as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs responsible for U.S. relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova.
Ambassador Tefft retired from the Foreign Service in September 2013 and served as Executive Director of the RAND Corporation’s Business Leaders Forum from October 2013 to August 2014 until his recall to duty and confirmation as U.S. Ambassador to the Russian Federation. From 2003 to 2004 Tefft was the International Affairs Advisor at the National War College in Washington, D.C. He was Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from 1996 to 1999, and was Chargé d’Affaires from November 1996 to September 1997. His other Foreign Service assignments include Jerusalem, Budapest, and Rome.
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I totally want to have a discussion of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, but I don’t want to spoil it for anybody.
So I’m putting the rest of this post behind a cut tag.
Some critics are complaining that the ending is unsatisfactory. This is because the film ends in the middle of the second act of the three-act play.
Here’s a refresher on what usually defines the “acts” in modern western cinema, at least in terms of the core conflict:
Act I: the protagonist(s) set out to resolve a conflict
Act II: (first half) progress is made on resolving the conflict.
Act II: (second half) we learn that the REAL conflict is something bigger, or something else entirely.
Act III: All conflicts are resolved.
In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest the audience may be tempted to view that film as a single, complete, three-act play.
Act I: Will sets out to save Elizabeth
Act II: Will discovers he’s really saving his Father, as well as anybody else in Davy Jones’ “employ.”
Act III: Will and Elizabeth are reunited (check!), Davy Jones’ weakness is discovered (check!) and successfully exploited (oops…)
That “oops” in Act III causes the third Act to fail to satisfy many viewers.
So look at it this way instead:
Act I: Will sets out to save Elizabeth, Elizabeth sets out to save Will, and Captain Jack Sparrow sets out to save himself.
Act II: (first half) Will, Jack, and Elizabeth all reach their goal simultaneously.
Act II: (beginning of second half) Commodore Norrington foils their plans to destroy Davy Jones, turning control of Jones over to Lord Beckett and the East India Trading Company. We (the audience) realize that the EITC suddenly has not only the force of law (Beckett has deposed the Governor, usurped his authority, and controls the British fleet in the area) but the force of Davy Jones (who can theoretically be threatened with destruction, and pressed into EITC service.)
What happens in the NEXT movie? Well… it should be obvious:
Act II (second half): Beckett and the EITC are exposed to the protagonists as the real threat.
Act III: the conflict is resolved… because, you know, it’s western cinema. The conflict HAS to be resolved.
For the second film to work, however, it can’t just complete the first. It also has to have a three-act structure itself… otherwise us antsy-pants western viewers won’t know how to sit still through it. We need cues to tell us when to cheer, and when to feel threatened. We expect to be manipulated, but it has to be done pro forma, or we’ll complain.
Using the standard conflict formula for a three-act play, then, and mapping it onto the existing one-point-five-act arc, we should end up with the following:
Act I: Jack Sparrow’s crew sets out in search for Jack, led by (spoiler alert) the my-he-looks-fresh Captain Barbossa. During the quest, they discover how huge a threat the EITC is now that Davy Jones reports to Lord Beckett.
Act II: (first half) Jack is back, but there are strings attached.
Act II: (second half) Barbossa betrays them, all looks bleak. Oh, and something I have no ability to predict happens.
Act III: Barbossa, Jones, and Beckett are all put down, the strings still attached to Jack are cut, and he drops out of the Jack-Elizabeth-Will love triangle. Whatever unpredictable thing came up also gets resolved.
Clear as mud?
On a related note… do you know why the second Act is so often broken into two pieces? Because that’s where the intermission goes. And that’s where we are, right now: in a one-year intermission, in which we’re allowed to leave the theater and eat whatever we want.
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HAVANA TIMES, Feb. 26 (IPS) — The momentous events of Tahrir Square, Egypt also signify a huge step forward for gender equality in the region, women’s rights activists said Friday.
Nora Rafeh Refa Tahtawi, a youth activist who participated in the Tahrir protests and is now in New York for the two- week Commission on the Status of Women at U.N. headquarters, recalled that women stood side by side with men, all sharing the feeling that they belonged to the same movement with the same goals.
Dr. Azza Kamel, a prominent Egyptian women’s rights activist, was also part of the movement that toppled President Hosni Mubarak earlier this month.
The Egyptian people simply want “freedom, justice, dignity”, Kamel told IPS, and “this is the first time that women deal with dignity as equals with men.”
“There is no room for ethnic tension,” she added, highlighting the idea of “family” described by Tahtawi with the formula “one heart, one hand, one brain”.
“No one will manage to divide them [the Egyptian people] now,” Kamel said.
Dignity – karama in Arabic – is a word that was chanted often during the protests. It is also the name of an international grassroots organization created in 2005, which is based in Egypt and has programs throughout the Arab world, with offices in Sudan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria, and Jordan.
Hibaaq Othman, founder and executive director of Karama, emphasized to IPS that “this revolution brought people who are completely different, of class, of education, politically, in every way.”
“They saw themselves as a community,” she said. “They have unified their vision, they have unified their energy, this was about them and for them. Every woman was suffering the same way.”
“When people come together…nothing is ever going to stop them,” she told IPS. “They become the bulldozers. They broke the wall of fear, of gender, of poor and rich… everyone was equal standing there.”
According to Kamel, while Tunisian women were the “catalyst” for Egyptian women, now Bahraini women are breaking barriers too, even though the society is more conservative.
“We are writing our history now, and the sky is our limit,” said Tahtawi, promising the Libyan people, “You will win.”
The head of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights, Nihad Abou El Komsan, agreed that, “When women decide, there is no barrier.”
She added that freedom can be more difficult in some ways than slavery, because it implies responsibilities. “The future is not guaranteed,” she said.
Othman identified a “window of opportunities” for women. They were a very big part of the protests, and now they have to insist “to be involved in the draft of the constitution, they have to make sure that they are in every important committee,” she told IPS – especially when the constitutional committee “doesn’t have any women yet”.
“We will have very tough times now” to establish democracy, she acknowledged. People must unite, demand dignity, respect, and freedom – political, social and religious. “That’s when you realize democracy,” she concluded.
The newly launched U.N. Women has an important role to play to ensure that women have a place at the decision-making table. The agency is reformulating its programs in Tunisia and elsewhere in North Africa and the Middle East to include these new opportunities, said Moez Doraid, deputy executive director of U.N. Women.
“Gains and victories have been achieved at the political, societal and gender levels,” he affirmed. “[We] need to sustain the benefits…and be vigilant to avoid reversal.”
One way to achieve this is the use of affirmative action and quotas, he added.
According to Othman, U.N. Women needs to focus on civil society women’s organizations, “reflecting the aspirations, the themes, and the beauty of women, politically speaking.”
She stressed to IPS the real challenge now is to ensure that this new U.N. entity will do what it has promised: prioritizing women. It was “brought by women, and it should be for women,” she said. | <urn:uuid:348ba268-c3cb-4bed-a219-ed9eb2c41458> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://havanatimes.org/latin-america/egyptian-women-and-men-shoulder-to-shoulder/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.973511 | 993 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Jansuh Adleiba, an Abkhazian public activist, ended a three-week hunger strike after meeting with Abkhazian President Aslan Bzhaniya who promised him that within two weeks Abkhazian petrol prices would be as low as they are in Russia.
Adleiba met Bzhaniya on 28 June. The president also told the activist that they would have a more in-depth discussion on 4 July.
The same day, Adleiba also met with opposition leader Adgur Ardzinba, who also told Adleiba that there was now sufficient reason to end the hunger strike.
Adleiba’s protest, during which he camped out at Freedom Square in Sukhum (Sukhumi) sparked a wave of public support, with thousands signing a petition in which the activist called for lower petrol prices — which have recently spiked in Abkhazia.
Before meeting the president, Adleiba met with lawyers and economists and visited Abkhazia’s Cabinet of Ministers. The explanations he received from Abkhazia’s elected representatives — that the purchase price of petrol from Russia has become higher — he did not find satisfactory, he said, adding that he did not think the government was acting in good faith.
‘We live in a country where laws do not work. We live in a country where hundreds of laws have been passed throughout the post-war period. And knowing that none of them works, hoping that something can be achieved legally — it does not seem possible to me. Understanding all this, I am here. And there are many people like me’, Adleiba told reporters two weeks into his hunger strike.
According to the activist, he did not have much hope that his hunger strike would actually help lower petrol prices but instead hoped to signal that Abkhazian society will not be deceived by the government.
The first major rally in support of Adleiba took place at Freedom Square on 24 June, with roughly 300 people attending.
‘Our government, instead of protecting our interests, including economic interests, is protecting the interests of fuel companies,’ said Adgur Lagvilava, a local resident who came to support Adleiba.
‘We have thousands of people in our country who don’t earn money. And we already have a price increase for almost all types of goods, and also to overpay for petrol, that is, pay money into the pockets of fuel companies, which already receive super-profits from the sale of fuel in Abkhazia.’
All petrol supplied to Abkhazia is purchased by fuel companies in Russia. According to representatives of these companies, the petrol sold today at petrol stations in Abkhazia was purchased in March, when the price of petrol spiked in Russia. Due to fears that the fuel cost would rise, a petrol company representative said in a meeting with government officials, they purchased particularly large quantities. As a result, she stressed, they will not be able to reduce the price of petrol and diesel fuel.
Former Abkhazian MP Natalie Smyr also came to the rally in support of Adleiba. She headed the state budget committee and had an idea about the financial and economic aspects. According to her, the authorities made a big mistake when they changed the pricing scheme for petrol.
Until February 2022, the Cabinet of Ministers set prices for fuels (including petrol) and lubricants but afterwards, the Abkhazian Cabinet of Ministers instead set a maximum surcharge on fuel prices (e.g. 10% on top of the price for which petrol was initially purchased by the reseller in Russia).
Concomitant with the rise in the price of petrol, the cost of public transport fares has also increased. In Sukhum, the cost of a single fare, for instance, has gone up from ₽25 ($0.46) to ₽30 ($0.55). Taxi prices have also increased.
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The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has begun its search for an anti-submarine bistatic sonar system that works to maintain a ship’s stealth while in operation, Military & Aerospace Electronics reported Monday.
John Keller writes DARPA seeks companies to develop active sonar sources, signal processing and undersea communications technology for unmanned underwater vehicles under the Mobile Offboard Command and Control and Approach program.
The program aims to help U.S. Navy submarines detect and track enemy submarines with the use of active sonar pings from UUVs while protecting its stealth, according to the report.
Keller writes DARPA also wants submarines that can coordinate the functions of UUVs under a clandestine communications environment between the host submarine and supporting UUV.
DARPA plans to award $12 million for the program’s first phase that is set to run for 15 months, the report said.
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Paraphrasing some tweets on the matter earlier, the result is rather underwhelming because it plays on a discrepancy between what they mean by quantum supremacy (QS) and what people tend to think QS means.
What I find most people think QS is supposed to mean, and what I assumed it meant until a month or so ago, was that there exists a computable problem (in the CTT sense of computation) and an actual quantum computer, such that, at some scales, the problem is tractable on the quantum computer but intractable on all classical computers.
The problem the Google QC folks have demonstrated is not computation in the CTT sense. It is a physical process of sampling that involves computations as part of the process, and as with any physical process, it can be simulated approximately by computation. They have good reason to believe (proof? I'm not sure but it should reasonably be assumed true by default anyway) that computation to similate the process is going to be intractably slow. This is not surprising at all. It's a fundamental consequence of quantum mechanics that lots of physical processes will have that property.
That's not to say it's entirely uninteresting. There are likely useful applications of the sampling problem they implemented, and as I understand it, it provides examples of large classes of physical systems which are not amenable to efficient computational simulation. But it has nothing to do with whether or how soon a QC will be able to compete with a (classical, CTT) computer solving computable problems. | <urn:uuid:880a4179-cb5d-44de-966e-bd77875da071> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://quantumcomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/8554/what-does-googles-claim-of-quantum-supremacy-mean-for-the-question-of-bqp-vs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.964172 | 317 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Many watch enthusiasts have a special love for mechanical watches. Mechanical watches don’t run on batteries. Instead, they’re powered by the mainsprings and the motion of your hand. This type of watch can last for generations if cared for properly. Here are the five tips that you can follow to maintain a mechanical watch and keep it accurate.
1. Wind It Regularly
There is a huge fan following for hand-wound watches. If you own a mechanical watch that needs to be manually wound, you should do it every morning. Typically, hand-wound watches can keep the power reserve for two days. To wind the wristwatch, remove it from your wrist and wind it completely. When you feel resistance, stop; otherwise, you may damage the delicate gears inside.
2. Clean Your Watch Carefully
Wristwatches easily attract dirt and need to be cleaned regularly to be kept in good shape. Use a soft cloth to clean your watch, and avoid using alcohol-based liquids as they can damage the strap and dial. Follow the instructions given by the watch’s manufacturer to clean it safely. You can also read watch reviews like Seiko reviews and Timex reviews to learn more about how watch owners maintain their timepieces.
3. Keep Away from Magnetic Fields
Mechanical watches are made of components like springs, gears, coils, and lugs. When your watch gets near magnetic fields, it can damage the gears and affect precision. Avoid placing your mechanical watch near electronics that use strong magnets.
4. Service Your Watch
Mechanical watches contain delicate parts that need to be serviced every three to five years. Don’t open the wristwatch by yourself unless you’re an expert, as the watch contains many small components that are difficult to identify. Take your watch to a professional and get it serviced.
5. Avoid Extreme Conditions
Some mechanical watches cannot withstand extremely high or low temperatures. Exposure to these weather conditions can damage the gears. Keep your wristwatch away from moisture and hot places. Also, place your watch in a proper box while it’s not in use. | <urn:uuid:2e400034-e625-4264-9d98-646baca01e51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publicmags.com/5-tips-to-maintain-a-mechanical-watch/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.93807 | 440 | 1.976563 | 2 |
One of the most depressing aspects of the decade of the 2010s, well before Covid-19 struck, was the apparently very slow growth in productivity.
This is not a mere ivory tower issue. It is only through increasing productivity that rises in living standards can be sustained. Productivity is the key measure of the efficiency of the economy.
On an everyday level, the previous decade seems to have witnessed a surge in innovative ways of doing things. Companies like Amazon and Netflix make life easier, more enjoyable. Computing power has made dramatic advances. In the past few years, there have been major new developments in the science of artificial intelligence.
But hardly any of this seems to be reflected in the official statistics. Between 2010 and 2019, these show that productivity in America grew by only 0.6 per cent a year. In the UK, growth was even lower, at just 0.3 per cent a year.
An important paper by Stanford’s Erik Brynjolfsson, in the latest issue of the American Economic Journal, goes a long way to resolving this paradox.
The analysis is based on the concept of what is known in economics as a general purpose technology (GPT).
GPTs are technologies which have a large and pervasive impact on both the economy and society. The steam engine was the first, during the first Industrial Revolution in the late 18th and the first half of the 19th century. Electricity was another, around a hundred years later.
Such technologies are far more efficient than the competitors which they replace. In 1830, for example, the crack London to Edinburgh stagecoach took 39 hours. By the middle of the century, it had been driven out of business by the railways.
They revolutionise many aspects of life. Steam power enabled factories to be built. These in turn led to huge shifts in population from rural to urban areas.
Computers have had a major impact since around 1980. But as economics Nobel Laureate Bob Solow remarked, “one can see the computer age everywhere but in the productivity statistics”.
Brynjolfsson and colleagues argue that GPTs need a lot of complementary investment in order to realise their full impact.
Computers, for example, require firms to develop new business processes, develop the experience of management, retrain workers and the like.
The key point is that many of these investments are intangible and do not appear on the balance sheet. They are particularly difficult for national accounts statisticians to deal with when they estimate the size of an economy.
The authors estimate that productivity levels in the US were 15.7 per cent higher in 2017 than the official numbers suggest. This means that the size of the American economy has been potentially underestimated by some 3 trillion dollars.
A similar exercise has yet to be done for the UK. But we can reasonably expect it will boost the numbers by between £200 and 300 billion.
So we are, in another piece of good news for the New Year, much better off as a nation than the Office for National Statistics says we are. | <urn:uuid:8ec4e6eb-7000-4980-aede-c14a99e6b41d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://volterra.co.uk/blog/our-tech-advances-are-difficult-for-productivity-stats-to-compute/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965397 | 626 | 3.28125 | 3 |
In terms of indexing webpages and choosing interior links, Get to Know Google’s Pre And Post Search Operatorsis a convenient tool to possess readily available. It is possible to determine which webpages have been listed and which of them have not making use of this user. It is also easy to find web pages that you simply do not wish to be listed, such as individual webpages. You won’t have to manually check out each site to determine what ones are indexed when you use these research operators in the correct way, and you can save your time Get to Know Google’s Before And After Search Operators doing this.
The “id” operator’s main goal when it was initially applied was to identify the canonical directory model of a Link. While it is not really recommended for use, it can nonetheless be helpful in a number of conditions, including when trying to find the canonical listed version of any Website url. In addition, you have the choice of utilising the “daterange” owner to find a particular date utilising the Julian time file format even so, accomplishing this will commonly cause outcomes which are irregular. Try to stay away from the “time” user for everything that is a lot more difficult than the usual uncomplicated day. Thankfully, the “day” user remains a useful choice.
The after user provides you with far more customization choices, whilst the before owner is used to exclude a specific keyword in the search engine results. As it will replace any missing out on terms with some other word, the after proprietor helps when you need to carry out a far more complete research. When you are evaluating video lessons online employing filters, this proprietor is particularly valuable for the reason that search engine rankings will likely be considerably more complete. While using the wildcard operator with regular queries will never come back relevant effects, working with it with Internet Search will make the wanted effects.
Another feasible user to utilize is “filetype” or “extension,” that can be found in many pc file names. This particular one will assist you to narrow down your quest based on a selected file extension which you key in. | <urn:uuid:83157d13-b3aa-404c-a42e-daf589cb884c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nsitedesigns.com/what-are-some-examples-of-search-operators-that-can-be-used-to-find-information/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.938397 | 453 | 1.539063 | 2 |
- Numeraire (NMR) is an Ethereum based platform founded by Richard Craib in 2015.
- The platform aims to decentralize data science where developers and data scientists can create machine-learning models to predict stock market moves and earn rewards.
- Numeraire claims it is powered by 4,515 staked AI models, with a staking value of US$13.96 million.
The global crypto market was down 3.95% to US$1.52 trillion at 4:47 am ET on Monday. Bitcoin (BTC) fell 3.54% to US$33,454.97, and Ethereum (ET) declined 4.55% to US$2,447.31.
Numerai or the Numeraire (NMR) token was also down as part of the broader market decline, slipping by 4.69% to US$18.60 at 4:44 am ET on Monday.
The token ranks 306th based on its market capitalization, as per coinmarketcap.
What Is Numeraire (NMR)?
Numerai is an Ethereum based platform founded by Richard Craib in San Fransisco in 2015.
The platform aims to decentralize the data science field where developers can experiment and create more reliable machine-learning models and earn rewards in cryptos. The platform offers cryptocurrency staking to provide incentives to data scientists. It claims to be the first hedge fund to launch a cryptocurrency and conducts weekly data science tournaments globally.
Also Read: Why The Graph (GRT) crypto rising?
The machine learning models are built at these tournaments using abstract financial data to predict stock market moves. The developers are rewarded based on their performance. They need to submit the best machine learning models to power Numerai’s global equity hedge fund. The platform does not trade in cryptos, but it has been created as an institutional-grade market-neutral hedge fund using crypto incentives.
Numerai’s founder Craib was named in the ‘30 under 30’ list of Forbes in 2017. He is known for his new approach to hedge fund management, mainly his reliance on AI for stock price prediction.
The platform is backed by Peter Diamandis, Union Square Ventures, and Renaissance Technologies cofounder Howard Morgan. The NMR token is used to reward tournament participants - data scientists whose model performs well in the tournament. The token value increases as the number of participants grow.
The platform relies on data and predictions produced by tournament participants, unlike traditional hedge funds in the stock market. Numerai provides users with quality hedge-fund data for free to build their machine learning models, which allow Numerai to use and actively participate in the stock market trading depending on the results shown by these models.
NMR is the sole utility token for staking on the models in Numerai tournaments. If the platform selects a model, the developer or the data scientist gets a fractional payout on their stake.
The NMR token has a market capitalization of US$109.5 million. Its circulating supply is 5.89 million NMR out of the total supply of 10.95 million.
The token can be traded on Binance, OKX, DigiFinex, MEXC, BingX, etc.
Also Read: Is TRON (TRX) crypto rising on USDD news?
Numerai is powered by 4,515 staked AI models, with a staking value of US$13.96 million. Crypto assets are highly volatile, and investors must exercise caution before investing in them.
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How a dog was rescued by University vets and generous donorsShareAfter a shocking cancer diagnosis, Tom's dog Barney needed highly specialised surgery. With donor support, the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital stepped in to save him.
Three years ago, Tom received the news that every pet owner dreads - his beloved dog, Barney, had cancer. They'd been together since Barney was a tiny, six week old pup, so Tom was devastated.
"My vet told me it was a grade three mast cell tumour, one of the most aggressive tumours a dog could have, and it was inoperable. There was nothing they could do. He only had a matter of months.”
Desperate to do anything he could, Tom took Barney to the University of Sydney Veterinary Teaching Hospital. To better understand Barney's condition, they suggested an MRI.
I couldn't think about anything else but Barney. The thought of losing him was devastating.Tom, Barney's owner
When the results came back, it was good news. The cancer was contained and hadn’t spread. It wasn’t going to be an easy road, but surgery was an option for Barney.
Because of the complexities of the case - the type of tumour, its location, and how aggressive it was - the treatment Barney needed couldn't be done at a general practice. It needed a specialist team, and it was going to be expensive.
“I was told what it might cost, and it was totally out of my reach,” says Tom.
The decision to go ahead was no longer about Tom wanting to save Barney, but if he could afford to. Having spent his savings on vet bills and the MRI, Tom was heartbroken to realise had no way to cover the costs of the surgery.
He prepared himself to say goodbye. "I wasn't thinking about anything else but Barney. The thought of losing him was devastating.”
How donors made a difference
Just when Tom thought all hope was lost, Barney's vets suggested the Animals in Need fund. Launched by the Sydney School of Veterinary Science in 2012, the donor-supported fund helps the University’s teaching hospitals treat animals whose owners cannot afford to pay for their care.
Dr Jason Hoon, along with Dr Laurencie Brunel and Dr Katrina Cheng, was on Barney's veterinary team at the University Teaching Hospital, "As vets, you always want to do what's best for the patient," he says. "But obviously, finances play a huge role."
For Tom, the Animals in Need fund was the difference between going ahead with the surgery or not. “I was given that little bit of hope, and I immediately switched to fight mode. I needed to fight for Barney." It didn’t cover all the costs, but it was enough to ensure Barney had his surgery. "There was no way I could’ve afforded the treatment without it.”
A multidisciplinary approach
The successful surgery was followed by six months of chemotherapy.
For Dr Hoon, Barney isn’t a case he will forget in a hurry. "He was one of my first patients when I started at the University, and it’s not a procedure that is done on a routine basis. We had to remove the tumour, as well as do quite a fair bit of complex reconstruction work to re-route Barney's urinary tract.”
"The unique benefit here at the teaching hospital, is we have a multidisciplinary centre. Multiple specialists are involved in the surgery and medicine departments as well as imaging and anesthesia. We're able to all come together to provide the right treatment and the right aftercare."
Three years on, Barney is healthy and cancer-free. He continues to visit the University Veterinary Teaching Hospital for his annual check-ups and is also now part of a unique vaccine trial. Led by a team of researchers at the University, the trial uses specific samples of Barney's tumour to create a vaccine for the patients.
Tom couldn’t be happier. “I look at him every day and thank my lucky stars he’s still here.”
To learn more about this story or to support the vital work of the Animals in Need fund, please contact Judith O'Hagan. Phone: +61 2 8627 4490. Email: email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:4c4e3e6c-f24f-4fcb-abf2-0ec1c18c16c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.univetscamden.com.au/blog/they-saved-a-dogs-life-by-donating | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982806 | 910 | 1.742188 | 2 |
When choosing where to break up your plan, and how far beyond the matchline each Dependent View should depict (model and annotation), keep in mind that Revit will automagically add a revision to the Sheet if a View on that Sheet contains the full extents of a revision cloud in that View. If you only place revision clouds on the Sheet itself, you have no worries. But for plan revisions, I prefer to place the revision clouds in the View, so there is no need to worry that the View will move on the Sheet without the revision cloud also moving.
If you show large areas of the model beyond the matchline or if the annotation crop extends well beyond the matchline, you are increasing the odds that a small cloud drawn on the View of one Sheet, but near the shared matchline, will also fall completely within the adjacent View's annotation area. If you are issuing both Sheets, that is not a big deal. But if you are only issuing the Sheet that actually has the revision, you would not want the revision to show up on the adjacent Sheet. Keeping things as tight to the matchline as possible will minimize the chance that this will occur.
Sometimes the way the project is laid out makes it difficult to establish a clean matchline to which you can closely crop the Dependent Views. Other times, a revision is relatively small and right next to the matchline. Here are a couple of ways to avoid having the revision show up on the adjacent Sheet.
- If you have additional revisions in the same View, you can combine the cloud of the revision near the matchline with one that is farther away, and beyond the annotation area of the adjacent Sheet's View.A revision cloud does not have to consist of a single, closed loop of revision arcs. It can be open, and can also have multiple, unconnected runs of arcs. If any part of the graphics of a revision cloud is beyond the annotation area of a View, it will not show in that View, and will not result in a revision line on the Sheet on which that View is placed.
- If you do not have additional revisions, you can edit the revision cloud to include a very small arc that does not fall in the annotation area of the adjacent View, in a discreet location in the View with the revision. If the graphics this generates disturbs you just as much as having a revision line on a Sheet that was not issued, and you turn off the display of revision clouds from previous revisions when making the next revision, you can wait until after you have printed the drawings to be issued, and then go back and add the small segment just before marking the revision as issued and turning off the display of the revision clouds for that revision. | <urn:uuid:64fa0174-b2fd-4c2f-84cd-30b7d893e660> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://architects-desktop.blogspot.com/2011/12/multi-sheet-plans-and-revisions-in.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.939654 | 555 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The body of missing Tasmanian man Thomas Courto and the boat he and two other friends were travelling in are still missing after more than two weeks.
- An expert says it's not unusual boats disappearing in the ocean, never to be seen again
- On Saturday, the 11-day search for Thomas Courto's body and the missing boat was called off
- When currents start moving around, the boat may be found, but that could be months away, the expert says
But how does a boat just vanish in Bass Strait without a trace?
Senior lecturer in oceans at the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies Dr Stuart Corney said it was like looking for a "needle in a haystack".
"I'm not surprised that the boat can disappear," he said.
"It's not unusual that it never gets seen again. It's a small boat. It's a big body of water."
Mr Courto and his two friends — Bree-Anna Thomas and Isaiah Dixon — failed to return from a day trip on the water in the north-west on October 18.
The bodies of Ms Thomas and Mr Dixon were found, washed ashore, near Table Cape two days later.
On Saturday, the 11-day search for Mr Courto's body and the boat was called off after a "comprehensive independent review".
Dr Corney believes the boat took on water and sank.
"You certainly hope that the boat is floating and the people are fine, so you assume it moves with the wind — but it turns out it had probably taken on water," Dr Corney said.
"It would have been moving with the current, potentially in the other direction, and all of a sudden it's 60 kilometres away from where you were targeting your search.
"Those currents can be around that 2-kilometres-an-hour speed."
Current will switch direction and may give up clues
Dr Corney said the speed of currents would make the search for the boat difficult.
"After a few days, the search radius is so great that it is very hard to find," he added.
"It's a massive area. It's almost an impossible task."
Dr Corney is holding out hope the boat will be found, but that could be months away.
"In six months' time, that current will switch around and the boat will start moving in a different direction — so it may wash up or be discovered," he said.
Vessel could be wedged on the ocean floor, expert says
Waratah-Wynyard Mayor Robby Walsh said he was surprised the boat or any debris had not been found.
"It's just an absolute mystery that nothing's been located at this stage," he said.
"Three helicopters were working out of the airport there for several days and the detector aircraft found nothing. It's amazing."
He raised the possibility of the body and vessel being stuck under subsea shelves near the coastline.
"It may be where the vessel's trapped, who knows," he said.
"We wonder if it might have hit a whale, or something like that, we just don't know how the accident happened.
"While it's a terrible tragedy, we just need something to be found in regard to the vessel to give some closure."
Dr Corney said there was a possibility the vessel was wedged on the ocean floor.
"There are likely to be geographical features in that area and, if the boat is underwater and has sunk, and it's being slowly moved by the current, then it gets to a shelf like that, and it could well just be sitting there pushed up against it," he said.
Friends, family haven't given up hope
North-west commercial fisherman Pete Smith, who has been based at Wynyard for the past 27 years, said he was "surprised" the boat hadn't come to the shore yet.
"It's just the ocean. Some things happen real quick and then sometimes, for some reason, it takes longer," he said.
"But I am surprised that there hasn't been something of the boat come to the shore at this stage.
"I think something will show up. Just, sometimes, it takes longer."
Mr Smith said he was not aware of any ocean shelves the boat could be stuck under in the area.
"Around Table Cape the rock formation doesn't go out very far at all, so you can virtually throw a stone off the rocks and it's sandy bottom," he said.
"There's a few bits of reef in the area but, predominantly, once you get out of Table Cape, there isn't anything out there for quite a while."
The sea search has been one of the biggest to have taken place on the north-west coast, and also the first time Tasmania Police had used the type of sonar technology employed to search the seabed.
However, Mr Walsh said locals were still searching the area.
"Friends and family haven't given up hope of finding something that will give some completion to the ordeal," he said. | <urn:uuid:c2484ce7-261f-4742-b796-ba59217e6a45> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-03/how-does-a-boat-just-vanish-in-bass-strait/100589028 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985891 | 1,055 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Fire Damage Awareness
Fire can cause more damage than meets the eye. Of course, fire itself causes much of the damage to a home or business. Did you know that smoke can cause just as much damage too? Smoke and soot can permeate through walls, ceilings, upholstery, and air conditioning vents. Many of these spots are very hard to clean when not properly educated on the issues associated to fire damage.
Not only is there visible damage to the structure, but also damage that can be unnoticed. Structural damage can occur to support beams, weight bearing walls, and studs etc. and these are places that you would not check unless you know how to properly restore a structure after this type of loss.
SERVPRO uses our advanced cleanup methods and detection tools to check from closet to closet, room to room, and floor to ceiling, to detect all fire and post-fire damages. We know where to check to make sure your HVAC system will not spread smoke and toxins after a fire. We will make sure that your insulation is intact and that the structure of your home is safe. If we detect any need for replacement and restoration, we provide a range of services, including building services, that can take care of any fire and water damage and debris.
Because secondary fire damage, such as water use from firefighting efforts can also be an issue, our specialists pay much attention to a full, detailed analysis of your home’s damage before making a plan of action and beginning cleanup and restoration.
Contamination is not always seen by the untrained eye. It can be hidden in places such as your HVAC (air conditioning and heating) systems. SERVPRO inspects the home from attic to basement, to ensure that all vents and air circulating systems are completely clean. If you were to neglect this part of fire damage cleanup, there is always the possibility of blowing toxic dust, ash, and soot, even on the microscopic level, into your cleaned home, effectively re-contaminating it and exposing residents to its dangers.
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Our daughter is in the final stages of her college search and selection process.
She has participated in virtual events, on campus events, Zoom calls, email exchanges, and other communications with a number of colleges and universities. As she is narrowing her list, our family is now visiting a few of these wonderful institutions for “admitted student events.” Each of these schools are producing the kinds of educational and co-educational experiences she is seeking. But, some of these institutions are missing opportunities when it comes to showcasing fully their distinctiveness.
Throughout this search process, all of the institutions to which she applied have used their events, their materials, their communications to tell her (and us) about what makes them special and distinctive. They have sent her printed pieces full of stats and pictures of fresh-faced undergrads highlighting innovative projects with professors and other interesting experiences of their students. Their events have featured presentations from admissions officers, current student panels, student-led tours, etc.
Some institutions, though, have found ways to communicate more personally with our daughter. They have made it a point to put our daughter in smaller, less formalized settings, with current students, with professors, with admissions officers, with study-abroad professionals, with co-curricular leaders, etc. And, in these moments, the focus of the communication flow is not about them telling her but, rather, about them asking her.
During these occasions, they have started by asking simple yet captivating questions like, “tell me about you. . .” and “what are you interested in?” and, “what experiences are you wanting to have over the next 4 years?” And, then, they frame their programs, activities, and opportunities based on her responses.
Most all of the institutions our daughter is considering offer similar programs, use similar language to describe themselves, and have similar statistics around students, cost, outcomes, and rankings. Objectively, they aren’t that distinctive from one another. They all serve similar students and do similar things in similar ways.
But, if you were to ask my daughter which institutions stand out to her or which she finds most distinctive, she can easily list her top choices.
Interestingly, the same institutions that have consistently asked about her, her interests, and her aspirations – and let her know they have listened – are the ones at the top of her list.
Our daughter’s college search process has been a real and important reminder for me about how our approach to advancement work – both in admissions and development – matters.
People won’t become more interested in our institutions because we tell our story better. People will become more interested in our institutions because we ask about and listen to their stories better. | <urn:uuid:65f9709f-2e33-4cdb-8705-28e4919655f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jasonmcneal.com/2022/04/asking-your-way-to-becoming-distinctive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.976466 | 569 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Looking to embark on a treasure hunt at the beach? What an exciting prospect! Beachcombing can be a fun and rewarding activity, particularly if you live near the coast. Not only can you find lost coins and other trinkets, but with a bit of luck, you may even stumble across something more valuable, like jewellery or ancient artifacts.
Aside from its rewards, this particular hobby comes with a handful of challenges as well. But with the proper tools and equipment, as well as a bit of know-how, you can overcome any obstacle and make the most of your time at the beach. One of the most important pieces of equipment you’ll need to get is a suitable metal detector for beach exploration. Stick around to find out how to choose the right one for you.
What Are the Best Types of Beach Metal Detectors?
When it comes to scouring the beach for valuables, you’ll want to make sure you have the right type of detector for the job. There are three major types of detectors, depending on their scanning capabilities.
Very low-frequency or VLF detectors are the most popular type of metal detector for beach on the market. This is because they offer a good balance of features and performance without being too expensive. They’re also relatively lightweight, so they’re easy to carry around.
VLF detectors use two coils to locate metal objects. One coil acts as the transmitter while the other receives electrical signals. When they’re close to a target object, they emit a sound that alerts the user. This gives them the ability to locate delicate objects, such as coins and jewellery.
Their design makes them ideal for beginners, seeing as they’re pretty easy to use and don’t require a lot of experience. So, if you’re looking for a place to start, a VLF beach metal detector might be exactly what you need.
Pulse Induction Detectors
If you’re looking for a more sophisticated metal detector, a pulse induction (PI) model may be a good option. These detectors are more sensitive than VLF devices and can track down smaller objects more easily.
In terms of build, both the transmitter and receiver are located in the same coil, which allows the device to emit a short pulse of electricity that travels through the ground. If the signal reaches any metal objects along the way, it will create a change in the pulse that the detector can pick up on.
Although pulse induction detectors are more sensitive than VLF detectors, they do require more experience for proper use. This is because they can often give off false positives in mineralised soil, which can easily trick the untrained eye.
This device measures the magnetic field that is created by metal objects. It is useful for finding objects that are deeply buried, as well as those that are small or made of non-conductive materials such as gold or silver. When such valuables are detected, the magnometer emits an audible sound.
When it comes to their structure, magnometers are often larger and heavier than other types of metal detectors. They also require more care and maintenance, as the electronic parts are more delicate.
What Beach Areas Are Best for Using Metal Detectors?
There are a few key areas you should focus on when using a metal detector for beach exploration. Visiting these places increases your chances of finding something valuable.
Whenever people decide to head into the water, they leave their belongings behind on the towel line. More often than not, some of these valuables get left behind, giving you a whole playground of lost treasures to discover.
High Activity Areas
These locations are generally louder and more congested, which inherently means that things will get lost more often because people are more likely to drop something by accident. Such places include beach bars and restaurants, lifeguard stands, and public showers.
The beach can be a hot, sunny place, and sometimes people just want to take a break from the harsh and scorching sun rays. In cases like that, people oftentimes retreat to shady spots to cool down a bit. These can be under an umbrella, underneath a tree, or in the shadow of a building. Once they’re huddled up in the shade, people are more likely to take their eyes off their belongings, making them more likely to lose something.
When Is the Best Time to Go Metal Detecting on the Beach?
Timing is everything when it comes to beachcombing, which is why you should pay special consideration to when you go off on your metal detecting adventure. Some weather conditions are more beneficial than others, so you’ll want to take that into account.
One of the best times to detect on a beach is during low tide. When the water recedes, it reveals new areas of sand that were previously underwater. This, in turn, exposes any objects that may have been caught in the tide or washed ashore. Of course, you should be careful not to get stranded on an island or lose track of time, as the tide can come in quickly.
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Toys bring joy to families recovering from Hurricanes Irma and Maria
The employees in the Alpharetta Office collected toy donations over the holidays to donate to needy children in Puerto Rico. Those toys were recently given to the children and were received with much delight. The toys were a blessing to these children, especially since the island is still in full recovery mode following last year’s Hurricanes Irma and Maria.
On January 24, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reported that a total of 450,000 residents of the American territory are still without electricity. Damage costs are estimated to fall somewhere between $45 billion and $95 billion, and residential real estate, which was thought to be among the biggest drivers of economic loss, could be between $25 billion and $55 billion. | <urn:uuid:8f932357-9e4b-492a-a2a5-eb648c38d32c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://argos-us.com/community/alpharetta-office-donates-toys-to-needy-children-in-puerto-rico/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.984733 | 158 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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Back to my conversation with Toni-Ann. Wellness is at the core of success when it comes to overall health because wellness isn’t just about your weight or how you look. Wellness speaks to your overall state of being – your emotional, intellectual and physical health. It’s about how you manage stress and how you care for yourself.
Self care is not selfish. It’s about listening to your body and giving it what it needs. That can mean rest, exercise, nourishing food or even a bit of indulgence.
Like most, I’ve tried the fad diets. The ones with strict rules and little flexibility. The ones that leave you hungry and constantly craving more of what you can’t have. These types of diets have two problems: 1) they aren’t sustainable or a way of life, and therefore 2) they don’t set you up for success.
For me, wellness is about taking control of your life and being intentional. I’m a huge Mel Robbins fan and loved “Take Control of Your Life” on Audible.
She highlights how our bodies give us signals before our minds even know what’s going on. The key to success… paying attention to those signals instead of ignoring them. This is one of the reasons that I love the concept of intuitive eating. It encourages you to focus on what you need instead of what you want or is most convenient. It helps you get in-tune with your body, which in turn allows you to better manage wellness overall.
With the holiday season right around the corner, food and drink are a huge part of being social. The ability to enjoy a glass of wine or indulge in a sweet treat not only brings pleasure but also brings belonging. An ability to connect with others in a shared way and truly enjoy an experience.
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|Dr. Jose Protasio Rizal photo courtesy|
The Philippine Postal Corporation (Philpost) has in on its part released new commemorative stamps and reprinting limited quantities of past Rizal stamps. The country’s central bank, the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, also released a gold-plated bronze commemorative coin for the national hero designed and approved by Rizal's descendants and the numismatics society. A marker was also unveiled in Barcelona, Spain, and a travelling Rizal museum scheduled for the US and across Europe. The National Parks Development Committee (NPDC) has on their part been refurbishing the Luneta Park (also called Rizal Park) by sprucing up its gardens, repainting its statues and adding new facilities. Luneta Park, formerly Bagumbayan, is the spot where Rizal was executed by a firing squad on December 30, 1896 for opposing Spanish colonialism through his critical literary works. Several local groups equally prepared for the celebration of Rizal's birthday.
How can Dr. Rizal’s charisma compare with the founding scions of many African nations? This paper thus seeks to compare and contrast Kenya’s Jomo Kenyatta with Dr. Rizal. This reflective paper is not exhaustive.
Both individuals were born in relatively good families; born in the late 1890s, Jomo Kenyatta belonged to a respectable family where his father was the chief of a small agricultural village in Gatundu Division, Kiambu District; one of five administrative districts in the Central Highlands of the then British East Africa. After the death of his father, Jomo, was adopted by his uncle Ngengi, the latter who also took over the chiefdom. Born on June 19, 1861, in the town of Calamba, Laguna, Rizal was the seventh child in a family of 11 children and where his family was able to support his education by sending him to notable institutions in Manila such as the acclaimed Ateneo de Manila and the University of Santo Tomas. In their own ways, both individuals had envisioned the value of acquiring formal education; Dr. Rizal’s academic acumen was manifest from a tender age. For instance, in 1877, at the age of 16, he obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree from Ateneo de Manila.
In the same year, he enrolled in Philosophy and Letters at the University of Santo Tomas while simultaneously taking courses leading to the degree of surveyor and expert assessor at Ateneo. He finished the latter course on March 21, 1877 and passed the Surveyor’s examination on May 21, 1878, but being of a minor age of 17, he was not granted a license to practice until December 30, 1881. In 1878, he enrolled in medicine at the University of Santo Tomas but had to stop his studies when he felt that the Filipino students were being discriminated upon by their Dominican tutors. On May 3, 1882, he sailed for Spain where he continued his studies at the Universidad Central de Madrid. On June 21, 1884, at the age of 23, he was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine. Rizal continued his quest for the academe by studying further at the University of Paris and at the University of Heidelberg where he earned a second doctorate.
In 1912, having completed his mission school education, Jomo became an apprentice carpenter. In August of 1914 he was baptized at the Church of Scotland mission, initially taking the name John Peter Kamau, but later changing it to Johnson Kamau. His ambitions saw him depart mission for Nairobi to seek employment, starting out as an apprentice carpenter on a sisal farm in the neighbouring urban enclave of Thika. Avoiding recruitment into the British army as World War 1 progressed, Jomo relocated to the distant town of Narok, living amongst the Maasai community, where he worked as a clerk for an Indian contractor. It was around this time that he took to wearing a traditional beaded belt known in Kikuyu dialect as 'Kenyatta.'
By Satwinder Rehal
Associate Professor, De La Salle College of Saint Benilde,
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Year in Review: McMaster looks back at 2021
Innovation and discovery happen every day at McMaster. And it’s a great thing when we get to share our achievements with each other, and the world. Here are some of the top McMaster stories that had people in our community and across the world talking on social media in 2021.
Community members gathered for a moving ceremony at the Indigenous Circle on September 30th to mark Orange Shirt Day as part of an effort to recognize and raise awareness about the legacy of the residential school system in this country.
This year also marked the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, which recognizes the ongoing and traumatic legacy of the residential school system while honouring thousands of lost Indigenous children, survivors, their families and communities.
The Indigenous Education Council also released its new education strategy, which will act as a guide for the University as a whole. Its overall aim is to enhance the visibility and impact of the Indigenous community on campus and further the University’s commitment to a culturally safe campus for Indigenous students, staff and scholars.
Several buildings across McMaster’s main campus are lit orange this evening to honour the children who did not come home from residential schools, survivors and their families. #OrangeShirtDay pic.twitter.com/VF1x1Gzuy9
— McMaster University (@McMasterU) September 30, 2021
2. Researchers to begin human trials for promising new inhaled COVID-19 vaccines designed to combat variants of concern
Human trials are set to begin for two next-generation COVID-19 vaccines developed by a team of scientists at McMaster University.
Both are designed to combat variants of concern and will be delivered by inhaled aerosol, not by injection, and will target the lungs and upper airways, where respiratory infections begin.
“McMaster has a very long and illustrious history in the study of adenoviruses. This human trial builds on that pioneering work,” says Matthew Miller, an associate professor with McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research and co-principal investigator.
The vaccines were produced at McMaster’s Robert E. Fitzhenry Vector Laboratory, one of a very few facilities in Canada with the capacity to develop and produce viral vector vaccines for clinical trials. The laboratory and the researchers are part of McMaster’s Global Nexus for Pandemics and Biological Threats
Researchers from @MacGlobalNexus will soon start human trials on two vaccines that are designed to protect against COVID-19 variants of concern and will be delivered straight to the lungs by inhaled aerosol. | @machealthsci https://t.co/dqDznNOk1p pic.twitter.com/QYNGU5PNjo
— McMaster University (@McMasterU) December 7, 2021
In a year where we were all urged to stay home, McMaster University Library staff did their best to keep us connected to our furry friends.
Library Pets turned virtual this summer, with staff giving students the chance to interact with their pets during a virtual drop-in every week.
The response from students was so strong, staff continued the practice into the fall.
“We are thrilled to offer a free activity that has such a positive impact on our student community,” said Sandra Rakovac, library assistant and co-lead of Library Pets.
The McMaster Museum of Art opened its doors to visitors once again in September after having to close in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visitors were treated to Immune Nations, an evidence-based exhibition that addressed the constructive role that art can play in public discourse around life-saving vaccines.
The timely and thought-provoking exhibition examined the capacity of artistic research to encourage public engagement and nuanced debate on pressing global issues.
Starting today: @MacMuseum reopens with Immune Nations, an exhibition that brings together art and research, exploring complex issues and the capacity of artistic research to encourage engagement and nuanced debate on global issues. | @MacGlobalNexus https://t.co/B8mSy42wjk
— McMaster University (@McMasterU) September 14, 2021
The next generation of big thinkers from the DeGroote School of Business will have a new lab in which they can embrace digital technology and experiential learning, thanks to a $1 million gift from the KPMG Foundation and KPMG in Canada’s Regions East offices.
The KPMG Ignition Lab will be a dedicated innovation, analytics and advanced technology space housed within the new McLean Centre for Collaborative Discovery, a multi-storey addition to the DeGroote School of Business.
A cohort of first-year engineering students became the first group to experience in person the transformed design studios, labs and lectures as part of a major curriculum transformation.
The Pivot, the Faculty of Engineering’s largest transformation of its curriculum in its 62-year history, aims to give first-year students the fundamentals of engineering while putting design thinking, entrepreneurialism and real-world problem solving at the forefront.
A team of McMaster researchers found out how, exactly, the COVID-19 vaccines that use adenovirus vectors trigger a rare, but sometimes fatal, blood clotting reaction called vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia or VITT.
Building on that discovery, a grant from the Public Health Agency of Canada has cemented the McMaster Platelet Immunology Laboratory (MPIL) as Canada’s centre for combatting vaccine-related blood clots.
The expansion of world-class rapid laboratory testing will also allow our researchers to provide expertise to other countries and help in the global fight against COVID-19.
The @MacPlateletLab is Canada's only full translational blood lab, making it a national hub for testing and research on vaccine-related clots. A @GovCanHealth grant will allow our researchers to help other countries, too. | @MacGlobalNexus @machealthsci https://t.co/kk3yBY7pOw
— McMaster University (@McMasterU) November 13, 2021
A global resource pooling together the efforts of ordinary people working at the grassroots level to further participatory democracy got a big monetary boost to expand its reach and impact.
Participedia, an international network of researchers, educators, practitioners and policymakers sharing research and information about democratic initiatives around the world, received a $2.5 million Partnership grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).
The global resource is housed within McMaster’s Centre for Human Rights and Restorative Justice and includes 63 researchers from 22 universities and 21 organizations across 12 countries.
Findings presented by McMaster researchers at COP26 in November showed, for the first time, how much carbon is stored in Canada’s landscapes, and revealed how these carbon-rich areas, if disturbed, could have enormous ramifications for global climate change.
The research promises to have a huge impact on the way conservation activities and policies are approached in this country and underscore Canada’s global responsibility to help in the fight against climate change.
Beneath the trees and networks of roots are the decomposed remains of plants that have been accumulating since the end of the last ice age, about 10,000 years ago. It’s carbon that for millennia has been kept from circulating in our atmosphere.https://t.co/jlPTQXcmAH pic.twitter.com/6uHLq6xQzx
— The Globe and Mail (@globeandmail) November 10, 2021
Our increasing dependence on the digital sphere demands uniquely skilled policy makers to understand and legislate the digital era. McMaster is meeting that need.
The university welcomed its first cohort of students into the Master of Public Policy (MPP) in Digital Society, the first MPP in Canada to offer a specialization in online environments and to address a national and international need for creative, digitally minded policy practitioners.
“We need more programs to prepare interdisciplinary policy practitioners to work across public, private, and non-profit sectors and wrestle with the intricacies of this unique space,” says Vass Bednar, executive director of the new MPP program.
Our new Master of Public Policy in Digital Society is a 12-month interdisciplinary program that addresses our growing need for creative people who can shape the policies that govern and protect our digital spaces. | @McMasterSocSci @VassB https://t.co/uP0arEASfk
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The effect of combined addition of phosphorus and titanium on dislocation loop formation and void swelling of austenitic Fe-Cr-Ni alloys under electron irradiation has been investigated with a HVEM. It was shown that phosphorus atoms (or phosphorus-titanium complexes) serve as nuclei for interstitial loops in the alloy containing both phosphorus and titanium as well as alloys containing phosphorus only. In the alloy containing phosphorus and titanium, vacancy loops were formed at higher temperatures compared with an alloy containing phosphorus only. As a result, a substantial suppression of void formation was observed, suggesting that the co-addition of phosphorus and titanium is very effective for increasing the swelling resistance.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Nuclear and High Energy Physics
- Materials Science(all)
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Cowboy boots are one of those things that people either love or hate.
There are many different types of leather used in making cowboy boots, but most of them require some type of maintenance to keep them looking good.
If you’re interested in learning how to properly take care of your boots, here are some easy steps to follow:
Cleaning Your Boots
The first step to taking care of your boots is to give them a thorough cleaning.
This includes washing both sides of the boot, inside and outside. You’ll want to use a brush, soft cloth, and soap to wash it.
Make sure to rinse it well afterwards.
Conditioning Your Boots
After giving your boots a good cleaning, the next thing you’ll want to do is apply a conditioner to the leather.
Be careful when applying the conditioner because too much can dry out your boots.
Apply the conditioner liberally and let it sit for about 10 minutes. Then, gently wipe off the excess with a damp rag.
Polishing Your Boots
After you’ve applied the conditioner and wiped off the excess, you’ll want to apply a small amount of polish to the leather.
Once again, be careful not to overdo it. Too much polish could cause your boots to become brittle.
Polishing a pair of cowboy boots requires special attention to detail.
This is because there are many different types of leather used in making cowboys boots, each requiring a unique polishing technique.
Snake Skin Boots – A snake skin boot needs specialised care to keep it looking beautiful.
If you want to shine up those boots, make sure you read the manufacturer’s instructions before applying products.
Suede – Suede boots are one of the most popular styles of footwear today. They come in a variety of colors, designs and materials.
To properly maintain suede shoes, use the correct tools and techniques to keep them looking fantastic.
As we’ve seen, boot care is essential for getting optimum performance and longevity out of your boots.
We’ve put together this complete guide to show you just how easy it is to clean cowboy boots properly and some tips and tricks for keeping your boots looking good, and much more.
Here are some things you’ll want to have on hand before starting:
- A soft brush. This is useful for gently brushing away dirt and debris without scratching the leather.
- An old toothbrush. Use this to scrub off stubborn stains and grime.
- Cleaning solution. You can use soap and water, or one of our recommended solutions.
- Rubber gloves. These help protect your hands and prevent staining.
- Old socks. Socks absorb moisture and provide cushioning for your feet while walking around town.
The most important thing about cleaning cowboy boots is to make sure there are no cracks or holes that could allow water or moisture inside.
If your boots have leather uppers, it’s best to keep them dry and avoid putting them in wet areas like showers.
Leather boots need to breathe, so don’t let them sit in plastic bags or boxes too long.
Saddle Soap Vs. Boot Conditioner
Boot conditioners are great products that help keep your boots looking good.
They protect against water damage and soften leather. But what about saddle soap? Is it really necessary?
How do you know which one to buy? What does each product actually do? Let’s take a look at both options and see how they compare.
What Is A Boot Conditioner?
We mentioned earlier about the boot conditioner but what actually did it?
A boot conditioner is a cream-based product designed to clean and condition your leather boots.
Boots are usually cleaned once a week, depending on the type of leather used.
This helps prevent staining and keeps the leather soft.
Some people prefer to use a boot conditioner every day because it helps keep the leather supple and protects it from water damage.
Saddle soap is a type of shoe polish that’s commonly found in retail stores.
It’s typically sold in small bottles that you use to apply the soap directly onto your shoes.
Although there are dozens of different kinds of saddle soap available for purchase, most consist of some basic ingredients, including lanolin and beeswax.
Lanolin is a wax-like material secreted by wool-bearing animals like sheep, goats, and alpacas.
Technically speaking, lanolins consist mainly of long-chain fatty acid esters, along with traces of lanolin alcohol, acids, and hydrocarbon compounds.
Between 8,000 and 20,000 different types of ester exist in lanolin.
This unique composition makes lanolin and products containing lanolin particularly effective at cleaning and conditioning leather products.
How Do You Know Which One To Buy?
There are many different types of boot conditioners on the market today. Many are specifically formulated for certain kinds of leather.
Others contain ingredients like glycerin, aloe vera, and lavender essential oils to further enhance the smell and feel of the boots.
Some even come with built-in odour neutralizers.
The main difference between a boot conditioner and saddle soap is that the former is meant to clean and condition your boots while the latter is intended to just clean them.
Both are easy to apply and don’t require much maintenance.
However, a boot conditioner is better suited for everyday use since it contains moisturizing agents that make the leather softer and easier to care for.
Cowboy boots are one of those items that require special consideration because they are exposed to extreme weather conditions, dirt, dust, moisture and even rain.
If you don’t treat your boots correctly, they could end up being damaged beyond repair.
Here are some tips on how to best protect your footwear.
Don’t Seal Them In Plastic
Plastic doesn’t allow air to flow freely through the boot, which causes the leather to dry out.
This creates cracks and holes in the material over time. To avoid this, never put your boots inside plastic bags or containers.
Instead, place them inside a shoe box or other type of bag designed specifically for shoes.
Ventilate Your Boots
Leather boots need to breath, so make sure there is plenty of airflow around the outside of the boot.
A simple way to do this is to hang your boots upside down from a hook in your closet.
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Money Grabbing Imperils Justice
Along with gas and food, another staple is getting more expensive this summer: justice.
Court fees around the country are on the rise. In some states, including Florida and Kentucky, the increases are prompted by state fiscal crises. In Colorado and other states, the increases are being used to fund new court buildings.
Filing fees are often appropriate and valuable tools for funding critical parts of the justice system. But the integrity and independence of the courts are jeopardized when legislatures regard the courts as revenue-generators. Without proper safeguards, the increases make it harder for low-income litigants to get their fair day in court.
State judiciary systems take up a tiny proportion of total state budgets, between 1% and 3%, on average. Yet many legislatures assume that the judiciary should be largely self-sustaining. When times are tight, they expect the courts to raise funds through civil filing fees, surcharges, and mandatory assessments heaped on largely indigent criminal defendants. Worse, states increasingly look to courts not just to fund themselves but also to boost revenue for other government functions.
Florida leads way
Consider Florida’s new court fees, which went in effect July 1. Faced with a budget crisis, Florida has raised its filing fees to among the highest in the country: $300 for most civil cases, $397.50 for divorce and $270 for eviction actions. Florida does not, as do other states, waive civil filing fees for indigent litigants. Instead, court clerks negotiate payment plans with those unable to pay up front — and add a surcharge for paying over time.
Florida is also putting the squeeze on criminal defendants, most of whom are indigent. Those who cannot afford their own lawyer must pay $50 to apply for a constitutionally mandated public defender. If convicted, they face assessments for the costs of prosecution and defense regardless of their ability to pay. These charges are added to other assessments.
When the defendant can’t pay, the court often takes away his driver’s license, ensuring he won’t be able to do the one thing necessary to pay the debt: work.
Perhaps the worst feature of Florida’s court fees is the fact that only 61% of the new fee collections will go toward funding courts, prosecutors and public defenders, according to a recent news report. The rest will go to the state’s general revenue fund.
Across the country, legislatures and courts should affirm basic principles to preserve access to justice. Fairness requires that court fees be waived for the indigent. Fee waivers also ensure that scarce resources aren’t spent chasing down those who can’t pay.
Legislatures and courts should also perform an impact analysis of all new fees to determine how access to justice will be affected. For criminal fees, policymakers should consider the amount of sanctions already paid by criminal defendants and the effect on public safety of heaping debt on those who can’t pay.
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BIG OIL INTERESTS REVVING THE ANTI E15 PR ENGINE
Big Oil and their supporters are at it again, spreading half-truths and outright lies regarding the safety and feasibility of higher ethanol blends such as E15. The facts speak for themselves – America’s corn farmers have the ability to provide safe, clean-burning and renewable fuel, and consumers across the country benefit from choice. That’s why we are thanking President Donald Trump for his support of ethanol and E15 specifically by his decision last week to direct the EPA to write rules to make E15 available everywhere, year-round. You’ll likely be hearing Big Oil’s lies in your local media soon, if you haven’t already, because E15 is a threat to oil’s market share at the pump. Here’s a look at one of their bogus claims as it relates to engine damage.
False Claim: Auto industry studies have shown E15 can damage vehicle engines and fuel systems – potentially leaving consumers on the hook for expensive repair bills. -American Petroleum Institute
- The Environmental Protection Agency approved E15 in 2011 for vehicles from model years 2001 and later – nine of every ten cars on the road today.
- Since the approval of E15, there has not been a single case of engine damage from its use, and 5 billion miles have been driven with the fuel.
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St. Louis Air Cargo—An
Aerotropolis Too Far?
In USA, if one believes its proponents
– and one shouldn’t – the Midwestern State of Missouri
Legislature has exhausted its session before it had time to commit funds
that would enable St. Louis Lambert International Airport to become
the Midwest China Hub.
But some think that this bid may be an
“Aerotropolis Too Far,” a bad idea or maybe even a big,
“How?” you might ask and if
so, you’d already be more diligent than legislators who supported
about $400 million in public subsidies for this white elephant in waiting.
That the State of Missouri has already
wasted state and federal public dollars provides a case of carelessness
and impropriety of the sort inspiring taxpayer revolts across the state
St. Louis area business leaders and airport
operators propose to divert regional air cargo now dominated by Chicago
O’Hare International Airport to what locals call the “Midwest
China Hub” and “the Big Idea”. Rather than test the
likelihood of the hub’s success, proponents and their enablers
simply assume Lambert will attract the required service and then promise
benefits based on that success. The proposition’s champions and
their consultants performed a meager analysis. Shockingly, the State
of Missouri has already directed millions in public money on that basis
and the Missouri Legislature almost approved hundreds of millions in
additional support without any independent analysis.
Had an independent analysis been conducted,
overwhelmingly critical concerns would have been exposed. Mere
context is damning enough. According to Airports Council International
– North America, St. Louis ranked 39th among North American airports
end of calendar year 2010. By comparison, Kansas City International
Airport was ranked 45th and until 2009 had led St. Louis for a decade.
In fact, St. Louis not only trailed Kansas City but also Des Moines.
During a decade that found the U.S. air cargo industry in collapse,
St. Louis’ annual air cargo volume declined 20% comparing 2010
levels with calendar year 2000. St. Louis’ air cargo slide is
not atypical of the industry but nothing suggests it is in expansion
Worse, an unprecedented surplus of on-airport
air cargo capacity exists after a decade of nationwide contraction that
witnessed the disappearance of such formerly common on-airport all-cargo
names as Airborne Express and Emery Worldwide, as well as sharp contraction
by BAX Global and DHL. Medium-sized U.S. airports are fortunate to still
have both UPS and FedEx. The two integrated carriers account for at
least 90% of air cargo at most U.S. airports, including St. Louis.
With hubs in Louisville and Memphis and
regional hubs in Rockford, IL and Indianapolis, IN, neither UPS nor
FedEx (respectively) have any foreseeable need for a significantly expanded
role at Lambert. Even St. Louis’ champions concede that point
but without registering that therefore their cargo efforts must advance
without carriers that presently account for almost all of their already
unimpressive market. Almost all examples of successful alternative gateways
in the U.S. are anchored by one of these integrated carriers.
During the same period, the passenger
industry also contracted with TWA acquired by American, Continental
by United and Northwest by Delta. These consolidations created additional
surplus on-airport cargo space and in the skies, also affected capacity
because space offered in bellies of passenger aircraft is critically
important to international air cargo transport. Dominant Asian and European
air cargo carriers operate both passenger and cargo flights, maximizing
their efficiency by providing both whenever possible in gateways like
Chicago. Freight forwarders – who account for the majority of
international air cargo bookings – rely on gateways to provide
the maximum in network connectivity but St. Louis’ proponents
hope forwarders will ignore superior flight frequencies, international
destinations and mix of operators (both all-cargo and belly-offering
passenger carriers) at Chicago O’Hare.
should not only abandon consideration of future funding, it should
seek to recover what has already been wasted. Legislators and
state bureaucrats, as well as members of the media who lazily
parroted talking points, should repent for having so carelessly
treated a potential obligation of hundreds of millions of taxpayer
dollars, even as so many much more worthy priorities confront
Rohrmann, Building China Hub For St. Louis— in December
2009 the St.
Louis Post Dispatch reported "Mr. Rohrmann last
month agreed to a $931,000 consulting deal to persuade manufacturers
and air freight companies that St. Louis is a good place from
which to ship cargo overseas, particularly to China."
St. Louis’ big idea is a $400 million
speculative venture that from inception excludes participation from
global integrated carriers DHL, FedEx and UPS that account for about
90% of the current St. Louis market but already have established hubs
in the region. Worse still, it will compete with Chicago O’Hare,
which hosts international and domestic passenger hubs for American and
United Airlines, as well as international gateway operations for numerous
Asian, European and Latin American passenger carriers. O’Hare
also hosts freighter operations from many of these passenger carriers,
as well as international all-cargo airlines such as Japanese operator
Nippon Cargo Airlines and European all-cargo power Cargolux.
Before St. Louis even begins, almost
all of the domestic and international market has already been excluded!
Moreover, contraction in the Chicago market (not nearly as bad as St.
Louis’ 20% but still about 6% for O’Hare over the same 2000
– 2010 period) and one of America’s most ambitious expansion
programs will greatly enhance the proven gateway’s capacity and
not coincidentally its operating efficiency. Unlike St. Louis, Chicago’s
program has already been scrutinized and approved by the industry and
is in fact, well underway. St. Louis entirely speculative “big
idea” will confront a proven dominant competitor in peak form.
With no evidence, “big idea”
champions believe shippers need an alternative to O’Hare, suggesting
that international air cargo shippers are disadvantaged by having to
truck freight a few hours past St. Louis to Chicago but many international
shippers already truck shipments from the Midwest much further to gateways
like Los Angeles and Miami. Trucking company Sterling Transportation
Inc. does nothing but truck freight between Miami and Los Angeles to
leverage the superior Latin American access of the former and the Asian
superiority of the latter. So when trucking economics sustain competitive
advantages on segments as distant as Miami and Los Angeles, the distance
from St. Louis to Chicago hardly seems excessive.
“Big idea” proponents offer
such testimonials as area cattle exporters being significant resources
and beneficiaries of the Midwest China Hub but if such demand exists,
St. Louis would at least already have international livestock charter
flights. With strong support from the Missouri Department of Agriculture,
Kansas City International Airport actually built a livestock-specific
export facility in the 1990’s but in roughly twenty years, the
facility has been used for its purpose only a handful of times because
of a lack of demand. Livestock breeders are able to ship hundreds of
future heads of cattle as semen in test-tubes – hardly the basis
for supporting scheduled service. Breeding stock of livestock is still
occasionally exported “on the hoof” but neither it, nor
more common slaughter stock is shipped regularly enough to even remotely
anchor this development.
Given that Kansas City International Airport
is roughly equivalent to St. Louis in cargo volumes (having led St.
Louis until 2009), is further from Chicago in terms of offering a discrete
alternative and has always been perceived by the air cargo industry
as much more cargo-friendly, folks in the western half of the state
should be infuriated at statewide tax dollars being directed at St.
Louis but not that Kansas City should be given another $400 million
but rather this idea is a non-starter on both sides of the state. Most
air cargo industry experts would likely slot Indianapolis and even Rockford,
IL (to name but two) as far better prospects to attract such service
than St. Louis or Kansas City.
By now, one may wonder how Missouri officials
ever wasted more than $1 million taxpayer dollars on this effort already
– let alone considering another $400 or so million in future subsidies.
The St. Louis Business Journal reports that well connected
St. Louis area lawyer Steve Stone and his law firm, Stone, Leyton and
Gershman, have contracts up to $400,000 from the Midwest-China Hub Commission,
the City of St. Louis and the RCGA (St. Louis Regional Chamber &
Growth Association) for work related to securing air cargo flights.
Stone’s contract with the China
Hub Commission for business consulting is for $15,000 per month ($180,000/year)
and his work for the city for writing legislation that will provide
tax incentives for the effort is for $100,000. His contract with the
RCGA will be between $100,000 and $120,000 this year. As will be detailed
momentarily, much of the Commission’s budget comes from state
and federal sources, so Stone is being paid by us to lobby for our money.
Drawing further from the Business
Journal’s piece, the commission has an annual operating budget
of about $1.5 million, including three major contracts totaling $804,000
per year, including $180,000/year for Jason Van Eaton, the commission’s
executive director (and his Spectrum Group consulting firm), and for
$450,000 a year with London Export Corp.’s Stephen Perry, a relative
of Stone and British exporter whose family has “long and deep
experience in Chinese trade”.
Were this effort solely dependent on St.
Louis area funding, it might be less irritating to those beyond its
metro area. However, the commission is funded with federal grants and
$100,000 annual contributions from presumably statewide entities the
Missouri Partnership and the Missouri Chamber of Commerce, as well as
most appallingly, the Missouri Department of Transportation and the
Missouri Department of Economic Development.
Project champions tout relationships in
China, but relationships with U.S. politicians are what have carried
the project. Detailed in “Fired Up! Missouri”4, the Missouri
state legislature was lobbied by U.S. Senator Christopher “Kit”
Bond (R-Mo.) to appropriate $12 million in federal stimulus funds for
the project with $10 million for renovation or construction of a new
building and $2 million for developing backhaul.
As reported in the St. Louis Beacon,
the effort was the beneficiary of a $1 million federal earmark requested
in the U.S. Senate appropriations bill for fiscal year 2010 by Sen.
Bond “for oversight, management, travel and outside support for
the Midwest China Hub Commission whose Executive Director is Bond’s
own former Chief of Staff, Jason Van Eaton who left Bond’s staff
amidst embarrassing disclosures of lavish spending of public money for
travel to Asia and far more serious concerns about his pivot role in
removing U.S. attorney Todd Graves.
Besides funding lavish travel for a former
congressional staffer whose past includes taxpayer outrages over travel,
a cargo director at the airport receives about $150,000 per year - at
least 50% more than pay for a comparable position for a major U.S. airport
operator – including Los Angeles World Airports and the Port Authority
of New York & New Jersey, operating two top twenty cargo airports
Yet the “big idea” folks
think that air cargo development at the 39th largest cargo airport in
the U.S. is worth at least $50,000 per year more than a similar position
at the largest U.S. airports. The sheer audacity of “big idea”
champions is further revealed in their including up to 27 million square
feet of additional area warehouse space for well-connected local developers
to extract additional corporate welfare, including a developer who failed
to provide acceptable returns on past incentives. Those 27 million square
feet contrasts with regional hubs of FedEx and UPS – much larger
than anything St. Louis could achieve – which require only 300,000
to 500,000 sq. ft. With a target of 8 weekly international freighter
flights, St. Louis’ cargo facilities need would be closer to 100,000
to 200,000 sq. ft.
The audaciousness of St. Louis’
bid to rip off taxpayers statewide is particularly galling because provisions
exist for St. Louis to make an earnest bid without disgracing itself.
Airports operate in a closed funding loop, in which airport-generated
revenues are restricted from being diverted off-airport with the caveat
that they should also be self-sustaining, rather than depending on local
taxes from constituents who may not use the airport. Airport
operators submit to a rigorous long-term master plan and land use planning
process that ensures its forecasts must be credible with both the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) and its tenants, who presumably know the
industry. Cargo facilities may be developed by the airport operator,
itself, using its internally generated revenues and favorable bond treatment
or by partnering with private cargo facilities developers. The ability
to attract funding for such development and private partners is an excellent
test of the worthiness of expansion, especially when an unprecedented
surplus capacity of on-airport cargo facilities already exists. Yet,
St. Louis apparently needs to circumvent the vetting of the FAA, of
its airline tenants and especially of analysts not already in the pocket
of their “big idea” cronies.
Rather than merely revise the scale of
this project, Missouri should recognize that it has been hoodwinked
so badly that not only should the State abandon consideration of future
funding, it should seek to recover what has already been wasted. Legislators
and state bureaucrats, as well as members of the media who lazily parroted
talking points, should repent for having so carelessly treated a potential
obligation of hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars, even as so many
much more worthy priorities confront Missouri.
Editor's Note: Michael Webber is the president
of Webber Air Cargo, Inc., a consulting firm primarily serving cargo
planning needs of airport operators and civil aviation authorities.
While U.S.-based, he has completed multiple projects in Asia, Africa,
the Middle East and Latin America. On a consulting basis, he previously
managed cargo affairs for Airports Council International – North
America. He has recently completed cargo assignments for airport operators
in Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Vancouver,
and has additional assignments underway for the City of Chicago Department
of Aviation, the Miami-Dade Aviation Department and the Alaska International
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In the present research, the result of anti-recombinant adhesion molecule (SUAM) antibodies against intramammary infections (IMI) was examined utilizing a passive protection model. lactoferrin (LF). Further in vitro research demonstrated that SUAM takes on a central part through the early occasions of IMI via adherence to and internalization into bovine mammary epithelial cells (BMEC). Systems root the pathogenic participation of SUAM rely partly on its affinity for LF, which together with a putative receptor on the surface of BMEC creates a molecular bridge which facilitates adherence to and internalization of into BMEC [7C9]. We also discovered that SUAM has a LF-independent domain that also mediates adherence and internalization, and that anti-SUAM antibodies blocked both pathogenic mechanisms . Further studies using a SUAM deletion mutant showed that adherence and internalization of the SUAM mutant strain into BMEC was markedly reduced as compared with the parent strain . In an attempt to enhance mammary immunity during the late nonlactating and periparturient periods, we conducted a vaccination study using recombinant SUAM (rSUAM) as antigen. Results showed that significant increases in anti-rSUAM antibodies in serum and mammary secretions can be achieved during these high mastitis prevalence periods . Furthermore, vaccination-induced anti-rSUAM antibodies inhibited in vitro adherence to and internalization of into BMEC . The purpose of the present study was to extend our observations by using an in vivo approach to evaluate the effect of anti-rSUAM antibodies on the pathogenesis of IMI. Materials and methods Antibody production Recombinant SUAM was purified as described . Concentrated rSUAM was sent to Quality Bioresources, Inc. (Seguin, TX, USA) for production of antibodies. Anti-rSUAM antibodies were affinity purified from sera of rSUAM-immunized steers using rSUAM conjugated to Ultra Link Biosupport (Thermo Scientific, Rockford, IL, USA) and SGX-145 eluted with 0.1?M citrate buffer. Final antibody concentration as determined by ELISA was 21.0?mg/mL. Bacterial strain, culture conditions and preparation of challenge suspension UT888, a strain originally isolated from a cow with chronic mastitis, was used in this study . Frozen stocks of UT888 were thawed in a 37?C water bath, streaked onto blood agar plates (BAP), and incubated for 16?h at 37?C in a CO2: air balanced incubator. A single colony from the BAP culture was used to inoculate 50?mL of Todd Hewitt broth (THB, BectonCDickinson, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA) and incubated for 16?h at 37?C in an orbital rocking incubator at 150?rpm. The resulting suspension was then diluted in PBS (pH 7.4) to a concentration of 4.0 log10 colony forming units/mL (CFU/mL), mixed with anti-rSUAM antibodies at a final concentration of 15.0?mg/mL and further incubated for 1?h at 37?C. The challenge suspension used for positive control mammary quarters was prepared in parallel but omitting the addition of anti-rSUAM antibodies. Challenge Rabbit polyclonal to EIF4E. protocol Twenty mastitis-free (negative bacteriological culture and milk SCC <250?000 cells/mL at quarter level) Holstein cows in their 2nd and 3rd lactations and in their first 60?days of the lactation were used. Cows were allocated randomly to the experimental (UT888 opsonized with affinity-purified anti-rSUAM antibodies (opsonized UT888. Non-infused quarters were used as negative controls. The experimental IMI protocol was approved by The University of Tennessee Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. Clinical assessment of animals following challenge Challenged cows were monitored twice daily during the 1st week (CH0 through CH?+?7), and once daily at CH?+?10 and CH?+?14. Of these inspections, rectal temperatures, medical evaluation of mammary and dairy glands, aswell mainly because local signs of inflammation were recorded and monitored. Dairy and mammary ratings had been evaluated utilizing a rating system referred to in Desk?1. Table?1 SGX-145 Mammary milk and gland evaluation and rating. Mammary quarters were taken into consideration categorized and contaminated as IMI as described . Subclinical mastitis was thought as quarters without medical symptoms having positive isolation of SGX-145 (500 colony developing products per mL (CFU/mL)) and/or related boost of SCC (>2.5??105). Clinical mastitis was thought as quarters having ratings of >2 for dairy and mammary appearance. Dairy sample evaluation Examples of foremilk had been collected.
Category Archives: Imidazoline Receptors
Voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels control the upstroke of the action potentials in excitable cells. potential for suppressing pain and itch. Our antibody strategy may have SNX-5422 broad applications for voltage-gated cation channels. Introduction Voltage-gated sodium (NaV) channels are responsible for the action potential initiation and propagation in excitable cells. Humans possess nine highly homologous NaV channel subtypes (NaV1.1-NaV1.9), and each subtype plays a distinct role in various physiological processes and diseases such as cardiac arrhythmia, epilepsy, ataxia, periodic paralysis, and pain disorder (Cox et al., 2006; Escayg and Goldin, 2010; Jurkat-Rott et al., 2010; Zimmer and Surber, 2008). In particular, recent human genetic studies have demonstrated a critical role of NaV1.7 in pain sensation. Loss-of-function mutations in (the gene that codes for NaV1.7) in human beings result in congenital lack of ability to feeling discomfort and anosmia without affecting other feelings such as contact and temp (Cox et al., 2006; Weiss et al., 2011), whereas gain-of-function mutations result in episodic discomfort such as major erythromelalgia and paroxysmal intense discomfort disorder (Drenth et al., 2001; Fertleman et al., 2006). Consequently, subtype-specific NaV1.7 inhibitors could possibly be novel analgesics for a wide range of discomfort circumstances. Despite the need for subtype-selectivity, current NaV channel-targeting medicines are selective among the subtypes badly, which might underlie their negative effects (De and England Groot, 2009; Nardi et al., 2012). To eliminate devastating off-target results (i.e. cardiac toxicity) and improve medical efficacy, it really is urgent to build up subtype-specific therapeutics against NaV stations (Bolognesi et al., 1997; Echt et al., 1991; Britain and de Groot, 2009). Due to SNX-5422 high series similarity between the different NaV route subtypes, the seek out subtype-specific NaV route modulators continues to be slow, despite latest Rabbit Polyclonal to RALY. achievement (McCormack et al., 2013; Yang et al., 2013), and mainly limited to little molecule testing (Britain and de Groot, 2009; Nardi et al., 2012). Subtype-specific NaV modulators could be effective pharmacological tools to review unknown physiological tasks of every NaV subtype, that may complement hereditary knock-out studies. For instance, although the part of NaV1.7 in dorsal main ganglion (DRG) continues to be extensively studied, its involvement in nociceptive synaptic transmitting is not crystal clear. Furthermore, a NaV1.7-particular modulator can address the role of NaV1.7 in other sensory features such as for example itch feeling. Although pruriceptive neurons certainly are a subset of nociceptive C-fiber neurons in DRG, latest progress indicates that we now have separate tagged lines for itch and discomfort in the spinal-cord (Akiyama and Carstens, 2013; Han et al., 2013; Mishra and Hoon, 2013; Sun and Chen, 2007). Pain is known to suppress itch via an inhibitory circuit in the spinal cord under normal physiological conditions, and this suppression might be disrupted in pathological conditions (Liu and Ji, 2013; Ma, 2010; Ross et al., 2010). The unique role of NaV1.7 in acute- and chronic-itch conditions has not been studied. The pore-forming subunit of NaV channels is composed of a single polypeptide with four repeat domains (DI-DIV). Each repeat contains 6 transmembrane helical segments (S1CS6). The first four segments (S1CS4) comprise the voltage-sensor domain (VSD) and the last two segments (S5CS6), when assembled in a tetrameric configuration, form the pore domain. Within the VSD, S4 contains the gating charge arginine residues that sense membrane potential changes and, together with the C-terminal half of S3 (S3b), SNX-5422 form a helix-turn (loop)-helix known as the voltage-sensor paddle (Jiang et al., 2003a) (Figure 1A). Structural and biophysical studies have shown that the voltage-sensor paddle moves in response to changes in membrane potential, and this motion is coupled to pore opening, closing, and inactivation (termed gating) (Armstrong and Bezanilla, 1974; Cha et al., 1999; Jiang et al., 2003b). Because the motion of the voltage-sensor paddle is key to channel gating, locking it in place via protein-protein interactions modulates channel gating. In fact, this strategy is employed by a class of natural peptide toxins called gating-modifier toxins (Cestele et al., 1998; Swartz and MacKinnon, 1997a). Figure 1 Locations of the epitopes and their sequences among the NaV subtypes We hypothesized that the voltage-sensor paddle region is an ideal target to develop subtype-selective NaV channel modulators because of its allosteric control of channel gating and its sequence diversity among the NaV subtypes (Figure 1B). Moreover we reasoned that a monoclonal antibody would be well suited to attack voltage-sensor paddles since it can form highly specific interactions with its target,. | <urn:uuid:9c0391d4-5c83-40c8-a143-1585d60dd88b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bioinformatics-toolkit.org/category/imidazoline-receptors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.927464 | 2,245 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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Facteurs sociaux influençant l'acquisition du français par les jeunes Franco-ontariens
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Maintenance of French in Ontario: Is education in French enough?
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This paper demonstrates that French language maintenance in Ontario does not depend only on French language schooling. Other contributing factors include francophone concentration and institutional support for French in ...
Bilingualism, Language maintenance and Religion in Gaspe East
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Why is it so important to take care of your Fascia? Fascia is the largest organ in the body and almost all pain you feel is in the fascia.
The Swedish Fascia Vibes treatment may appear gentle – but during treatment there is a lot that is happening in the body. Learn more about how the machine increases the fluid flow in the tissue and turns of pain receptors.
Yesterday Lotta Orrholm tried Fascia Vibes for the first time at Global Champions Tour in Stockholm. She came with a Frozen Shoulder and left six minutes later with full mobility.
A research study published in 2019 shows that this type of treatment could be a good solution for patients suffering from Frozen Shoulder.
Johan Hedström is one of hundreds who has tested deep wave treatment for help after a whiplash injury. “I am not completely restored, but it is much better”.
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Dream. Plan. Profit.
That’s this year’s theme at the Scheinfeld Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Santa Barbara City College. (See scheinfeld.sbcc.edu/.) This fall semester brings the introduction of an Associate of Art degree in business administration, with an emphasis in entrepreneurship and a corresponding certificate of achievement in entrepreneurship.
“The AA degree in business administration with an entrepreneurship emphasis is new,” said the center’s executive director Melissa Moreno, “and I know these types of degrees are growing in number around other community colleges.”
The center is also piloting a new project under the Students in Free Enterprise, or SIFE, program called “EntrepriseLAUNCH.” SIFE students will work with Jon Anton, an entrepreneur with a doctorate from Harvard and former researcher at Purdue University. Working with the Scheinfeld Center and its business administration chairman Bonnie Chavez, Anton wants to guide SIFE students through a launch of student businesses in a single semester. Anton is volunteering his time and has made a donation to support seed funding.
SIFE is an international nonprofit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to help students make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders. SIFE students meet Friday mornings for three hours for no credit, as if they are participating in a campus club.
“We are pushing students in product development at a small enough scale to be easily funded with the moderate funds we have,” Moreno said. “At our first orientation meeting, we had 45 students committed to the process.”
She said students formed teams based on interest and personality type. “Each team performed a skill-set and interest analysis to come up with a realistic product to match the skills of the team members,” Moreno said. “We will work over the next 13 weeks to launch products and subsequent sales.”
Meanwhile, the cofounder of Carpinteria-based Lynda.com, Lynda Weinman, will tell her story of starting and running a dot-com company on October 23, 3-4:30 p.m., at SBCC’s Fe Bland Forum. A networking reception will follow. Preregistration is required.
Also, through the Small Business Development Center, or SBDC, the Scheinfeld Center provides no-cost targeted consultations and training sessions to small business owners in Santa Barbara County.
“(SBDC) is providing no-cost, targeted one-on-one counseling to small businesses in both south and north counties,” Moreno said. “We are required to engage clients long-term and focus on creating scopes of work for the clients to increase sales, create or retain jobs, secure financing, or help start-ups reach milestones.”
For Santa Barbara County SBDC services, visit sbcountysbdc.org.
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Distinction between Interior Decorator and Interior Designer
With regards to home upgrades, you frequently hear the terms interior decorator or interior designer. Generally these terms are traded, yet did you realize these two really contrast? Allow us to learn and separate the two, would it be a good idea for you are intrigued to seek after a lifelong in both of them. First let us take a gander at what an interior designer does. They are the imaginative experts who work on the underlying part of a house. They need to make designs, outlines, plans under severe wellbeing codes and guidelines. Be that as it may, preceding this, an interior designer is expected to take classes to get essentially a confirmation, even better a four year college education or even continue for aces. From that point onward, they are as yet exposed to permitting tests, which would permit them to work particularly in specific states. A few interior designers who get sufficient training and experience can likewise continue to function as guaranteed planners.
An interior decorator then again doesn’t need that much proper preparation and a permit to work. Their preparation requests are less thorough. A few decorators are self-educated; the same length as they have the right feel to enhance a space, while others can pick to take short preparation programs or a partner’s certificate in a junior college. The idea of their work likewise changes in that an interior decorator is concerned for the most part on the presence of a space. This would incorporate things like what colors the walls ought to be, what window hangings would supplement it, the number of toss cushions to incorporate, or would it be a good idea for you is setting a rug nearby. They could change the floors or moldings on the roof; however they can’t change any standing design. Similarly as their title suggest, they just make beautifying changes and upgrades.
Interior designers work all the more intimately with planners, despite the fact that designers can’t modify or move load-bearing designs, they can change the non-load bearing apparatuses in a space. To do this, they would require a design, which can go from a sketch to an arrangement which he can likewise deliver in 3D. They likewise work with different components like lighting, entryways, or windows. They must make sure that a design falls inside security guidelines. A designer’s anxiety is more about the all-out appearance of a region, including its building components, while a decorator is restricted exclusively on great plans for a superior living space. | <urn:uuid:d424be0e-0e44-4e45-9815-e16cc1f94000> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neworleanssaintsteamonline.com/2022/business/distinction-between-interior-decorator-and-interior-designer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963858 | 519 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Cybersecurity and compliance company, Proofpoint Inc, has unveiled its annual Human Factor Report, which provides a comprehensive examination of the three main facets of user risk—vulnerability, attacks and privilege—and how the extraordinary events of 2020 transformed the current threat landscape. Human Factor 2021 draws on data and insight from a year’s worth of research, covering threats detected, mitigated and resolved across one of the largest datasets in cybersecurity.
“Attackers don’t hack in, they log in and people continue to be the most critical factor in today’s cyber attacks. The threat ecosystem has evolved over the past year and this report explores how a people-centric approach to cybersecurity can reduce today’s risks,” said Ryan Kalember, EVP, Cybersecurity Strategy, Proofpoint. “In addition to troubling growth in volume and sophistication of ransomware and business email compromise (BEC) attacks, we discovered massive spikes in lesser-known methods like CAPTCHA techniques and steganography, which proved surprisingly effective.”
According to Proofpoint, it analyses more than 2.2 billion email messages, 35 billion URLs, 200 million attachments, and 35 million cloud accounts. “This report draws on analysis of that data throughout 2020 by our team of expert threat researchers and reveals risks and vulnerabilities that persist today,” Kalember said. “Ransomware was omnipresent, with more than 48 million messages containing malware capable of being used as an entry point for ransomware attacks. Email remains a crucial part of these attacks, serving as the route through which much of the first-stage malware used to download ransomware is distributed.”
Emile Abou Saleh, Regional Director, Middle East and Africa, Proofpoint, added: “In the Middle East, our recent research revealed that CISOs in the UAE and KSA have seen an increase in targeted attacks in the past year of 76% and 69% respectively. As cyber criminals continue to exploit vulnerabilities created by remote working, the shift to e-commerce and cloud, and the acceleration of Digital Transformation across all sectors, it is more important than ever for companies in the region to employ a people-centric approach to their cybersecurity practices.”Click below to share this article | <urn:uuid:8c9d3454-50ad-43b0-9088-a812c2dbbb94> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.intelligentcio.com/africa/2021/08/10/proofpoints-annual-report-how-2020-transformed-todays-threat-landscape/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.939806 | 462 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Stefan Pallantzas discusses how building and renovating houses to passive house standards can help meet nZEB requirements under the EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive and how the Hellenic Passive House Institute will demonstrate this in the RINNO project.
The EU Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) requires all new buildings from 2021 (public buildings from 2019) to be nearly zero-energy buildings. Passive houses have such high energy efficiency that building or renovating houses to Passive House standards makes it significantly easier to reach nZEB requirements.
What are Passive House Standards?
Passive House is an energy efficient, comfortable and affordable building standard. Passive House is not a brand name, but a tried and true construction concept that can be applied by anyone anywhere.
Passive House buildings allow for heating and cooling-related energy savings of up to 90% compared with typical building stock and over 75% compared with average new builds. In terms of heating oil, Passive House buildings use less than 1.5 litres per square meter of living space per year – far less than typical low-energy buildings. Similar energy savings have been demonstrated in warm climates, where buildings require more energy for cooling than for heating.
Passive House Implementation
The Passive House Institute lists detailed criteria to meet Passive House standards at a high level and defines a passive house as one the meets the following criteria:
- Space Heating Demand should not to exceed 15kWh annually or 10W (peak demand) per square metre of usable living space.
- Space Cooling Demand should roughly match the heat demand with an additional, climate-dependent allowance for dehumidification.
- Primary Energy Demand should not to exceed 60kWh annually for all domestic applications (heating, cooling, ventilation, hot water and domestic electricity) per square meter of usable living space, being produced by RES.
- Airtightness with a maximum of 0.6 air changes per hour at 50 Pascals pressure.
- Thermal Comfort must be met for all living areas year-round with not more than 10% of the hours in any given year over 25°C (without the use of active cooling).
What are the Benefits of Passive Houses?
While arguments on affordability, comfort and versatility can be made for a variety of approaches to building design, Passive Houses have major benefits over traditional designs – energy efficiency and eco-friendliness.
Specific Annual Heat Consumption by Annual Heat Requirement (© PassivHaus Institut)
Passive House buildings are praised for their efficiency due to their high level of insulation and their airtight design. Another important principle is “thermal bridge free design“: insulation is applied without any “weak spots” around the whole building, so as to eliminate cold corners as well as excessive heat losses. This method is an essential principle assuring a high level of quality and comfort in Passive House buildings while preventing damages due to moisture build up.
Ecology / Sustainability
Passive House buildings are eco-friendly by definition: They use little primary energy, leaving sufficient energy resources for all future generations without causing any environmental damage. The additional energy required for their construction (embodied energy) is rather insignificant compared to the energy they save later on. It is worth mentioning though, that the Passive House standard provides this level of sustainability for anyone wishing to build a new construction or renovate an older one at an affordable price – A contribution to protecting the environment. Principles are all published and the design tools have been made available for all architects.
Are Passive House buildings a good investment? Passive House buildings not only save money over the long term, but are surprisingly affordable to begin with. The investment in higher-quality building components required by the Passive House Standard is mitigated by the elimination of expensive heating and cooling systems. Additional financial support increasingly available in many countries makes building a Passive House all the more feasible.
What are Nearly Zero-Energy Buildings? Aren’t they the same as Passive Houses?
A Nearly Zero-Energy Building (nZEB) is defined as a building with high energy performance enabled through renewable sources produced on-site or within close proximity. Not all nZEBs are passive houses, but all passive houses are nZEBs. Passive houses seek to reduce energy consumption by factor 10 and use renewable sources for that small demand. nZEBs have a different philosophical disposition in that their goal is to be as close to energy neutral as possible. In effect, to have little or zero carbon emissions. Unlike Passive Houses, minimising energy consumption is not that important provided such energy can be generated from renewable sources, ideally on-site.
HPHI at RINNO
As part of RINNO, HPHI will design, develop and implement passive building applications and services at the projects’s Greek pilot site, a 1960s four-storey multi-family building with eight apartments located in the municipality of Moschato-Tavros.
RINNO Pilot Site in Moschato-Tavros, Greece
By applying these standards to achieve deep energy efficiency renovation, RINNO will demonstrate the efficacy of passive house standards to achieve nZEB requirements. As part of RINNO, HPHI will conduct both baseline and post-implementation audits to validate the impact of RINNO technologies, using its proprietary PHPP software as well as dynamic energy balance analysis through DesignPH and DistrictPH. It will also implement training and certification programs for engineers and other deep renovation stakeholders on passive house standards, nZEB and these tools. | <urn:uuid:0e9b3d42-ae69-4d95-a382-28d081009c30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rinno-h2020.eu/nearly-zero-energy-buildings-passive-house-rinno/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.939406 | 1,141 | 2.875 | 3 |
Since the inauguration of the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, there have been both major and minor changes in Korea-Japan relations. Starting with the dispatch of the Korea-Japan Policy Consultative Group to Tokyo, Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa attended the inauguration ceremony of President Yoon and agreed to expedite high-level consultations between the two governments to resolve pending issues. People-to-people exchanges began to resume, and operations on the Gimpo-Haneda flight route resumed after two years and three months. In such a positive atmosphere, the expectations of the people of both countries for improving bilateral relations are also higher than ever.
In the meantime, U.S. President Biden’s first trip to Asia was South Korea from May 20 to 22 and Japan from May 22 to 24. Also, there was the Korea-U.S.-Japan leaders’ meeting at the NATO Summit on June 29 which reaffirmed the importance of trilateral cooperation. At the Korea-U.S. summit meeting, the two countries agreed on the future vision of the two countries’ alliance by consolidating the “global comprehensive strategic alliance.” At the U.S.-Japan summit, the two countries established each other as a true global partner. Meanwhile, the leaders of Korea and Japan met for the first time at the Madrid NATO summit in late June. Although no bilateral talks were held, the two leaders were able to discuss their shared values and norms and comprehensive cooperation on global issues through the Korea-U.S.-Japan summit as well as the meeting of four Asia-Pacific Partners (AP4: Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand).
Japan’s Progress Through the U.S.-Japan Summit
President Biden’s first visit to Japan received attention as he officially launched the “Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF)” and held the second face-to-face Quad summit between the U.S., Japan, India and Australia. What is the significance of the U.S.-Japan summit?
First, the summit was held amid intensifying U.S.-China competition, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and provocations from North Korea. The U.S. reaffirmed its commitment to the Indo-Pacific and Japan committed itself to helping the U.S. balance China’s increasing military and economic threat. The two countries discussed global issues such as the international order, regional security, economic growth, health, and climate change, and Japan positioned itself as a U.S. global partner. This built on last year’s summit with former Prime Minister Suga and President Biden. Also, it means that the U.S. and Japan will discuss and act together on global security and economic crises beyond cooperation on regional issues.
Second, compared to the Suga-Biden summit, Japan’s direct criticism of China was presented more specifically. In last year’s joint U.S.-Japan statement, direct criticism of China was mentioned twice in terms of regional security, but at this summit, it was mentioned six times in terms of international order, regional security, economy and military. The strengthening of the Kishida Cabinet’s balancing against China is relevant to the Senkaku Islands issue, rising anti-China sentiment in Japan, awareness of threats from China, and heightened anxiety caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. From Japan’s perspective, authoritarian China with its rapid economic and military growth could forcibly change the status quo by following the footsteps of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. That is, if the international community fails to stop Russia’s invasion, it could lead to China’s use of force against Taiwan. Therefore, Japan has strongly condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, placed sanctions on Russia, and supported Ukraine on par with the G7 countries.
Third, discussions on strengthening Japan’s defense capabilities will accelerate. Outside of the U.S.-Japan summit, Prime Minister Kishida has already expressed the necessity to strengthen Japan’s defense capabilities several times. Public opinion is not opposed to this. For example, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun poll taken between June 3 and 5, 72% of Japanese respondents were in favor of “Japan’s defense strengthening” while 21% were against it. Also, 53% were in favor of increasing the defense budget while 43% opposed any increase. As such, Japan is expected to take a step-by-step approach to strengthening its defense capabilities and engaging in practical activities based on public support in the unstable regional situation. Discussions on constitutional revision are expected to be revisited in this process.
Implications for Korea
First, Korea-Japan cooperation needs to be strengthened in conjunction with Korea-Japan-U.S. cooperation to deal with North Korean issues. As confirmed at the U.S.-Japan summit, the more unstable the international situation is, the stronger the U.S.-Japan alliance will become. In the process, cooperation between Korea, the U.S. and Japan will also be emphasized. The Yoon administration has also emphasized the importance of Korea-U.S.-Japan cooperation being actively carried out to cope with the North Korean issues. However, Korea-Japan cooperation, the weakest link in trilateral cooperation, is still difficult despite its importance and necessity. In this situation, recently, judgments about North Korea’s missile tests from South Korea and Japan have often been inconsistent. The problem is that security on the Korean Peninsula could be threatened if it becomes difficult to properly respond to inaccurate information caused by such differences in intelligence assessments, not which information is right or wrong. Trilateral cooperation to deal with North Korean issues is essential, and a security vacuum should not be acceptable for the sake of the lives and safety of people.
Therefore, it is necessary to actively consider the normalization of the General Security of Military Information Agreement (GSOMIA), which is currently in a “conditional extension.” South Korea has already signed a GSOMIA with NATO and 34 countries including the United States and Russia. The GSOMIA between Korea and Japan has the advantage of sharing intelligence more quickly and accurately using various information assets as a way to respond to North Korean threats. Security issues should be judged based on whether they are beneficial to the national interest from a realistic point of view, excluding public antipathy caused by historical conflicts between Korea and Japan. Also, it is necessary not only to have sufficient discussions with experts in related fields, but also to inform and explain accurate information to the public.
Second, it is important to take a step-by-step approach to relieve the tensions between the two countries. Even if the Kishida Cabinet continues over the long-term, it is unlikely that Japan will sharply decrease its current hard-line stance toward South Korea. This is not only because of the Japanese government, but also Japanese public opinion which is quite tough on historical issues with Korea. In other words, the Japanese government’s hard-line attitude toward Korea is supported by Japanese public opinion. In such a situation, it is difficult to expect a sudden change in Japan’s attitude despite the victory in the upper house election. Moreover, Kishida has not shown the leadership needed to persuade hardliners and public opinion in the Liberal Democratic Party to improve Korea-Japan relations. Therefore, rather than expecting a change in Japan’s attitude, it is more practical to form an atmosphere for improving Korea-Japan relations and take a step-by-step approach.
Therefore, the two countries should solve pending issues that are relatively less sensitive and easy to resolve, in order to improve relations and to maintain their own interests. In that sense, the two countries should consider the normalization of people-to-people exchanges, the revival of mutual visa exemptions, and the removal of Japan’s export regulations. Japan’s export regulations against Korea in 2019 have not been removed, despite all three issues such as “discontinued Korea-Japan policy dialogue”, “insufficient catchall control on conventional weapons,” and “insufficient export management organization and personnel” raised by Japan at the time. Even though there are various evaluations of Japan’s export regulations, there is no disagreement that these measures have led to distrust between Korea and Japan and increased instability and unpredictability in the economic field.
Therefore, the ongoing export restrictions, which have exacerbated the anxiety and discomfort of both economies and the negative feelings of the people of both countries, should be removed as soon as possible. Moreover, with the recent rise of economic security issues, cooperation between the two countries to stabilize supply chains is becoming more urgent. Continuing unfair measures to limit cooperation between Korea and Japan which have high economic connectivity is not only helpful economically, but also against the economic security trends. Therefore, Japan should confirm that all the suspicions and problems raised in 2019 have been resolved and remove the economic regulations. This could be a beginning and a catalyst for improving Korea-Japan relations.
The Korean government has made efforts to improve Korea-Japan relation such as launching a public-private consultative body on July 4 to resolve the forced labor issue, the biggest source of conflict between Korea and Japan. It will be difficult to resolve the complicated issues between the two countries, which are related to history and law, politics and diplomacy, domestic and international politics. However, the two countries should be able to incrementally resolve the current Korea-Japan tensions while seeking cooperation on common tasks facing both nations, such as the Ukraine crisis, the U.S.-China conflict, and the North Korean issue. | <urn:uuid:6db7074b-058a-472b-b93f-67de612ded21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.asaninst.org/contents/japans-strategic-outlook-and-implications-for-korea-japan-relations-after-the-kishida-biden-summit/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956268 | 1,981 | 2.578125 | 3 |
When it comes to talking about intelligence, someone’s intelligence quotient (IQ) is usually what comes to mind; however, there is another type of intelligence that’s often overlooked but equally important: your emotional intelligence (EQ).
Your EQ is a key component of building any professional or personal relationship. Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand and manage your emotions and other people’s. It is important for navigating your relationships with your boss, colleagues, friends, family, and your significant other.
According to Dr. Sanam Hafeez, a neuropsychologist and faculty member at Columbia University, there are three primary pillars of emotional intelligence: self-awareness, motivation to rationally look at a problem and find a solution, and the ability to develop social skills. Luckily, you can constantly work on these three pillars to boost your emotional intelligence so you can develop a stronger self-awareness, which will impact your ability to interpret and respond to other people’s emotions and your own.
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Here are seven expert tips to help you boost your emotional intelligence.
1. Interact Often
Dr. Julie Gurner, a business consultant with a doctorate in psychology, suggests that you incorporate more social interactions into your day. She recommends adding more small talk to your routine. For example, instead of listening to music, texting, and checking your email while walking to work, seek out genuine interactions with the barista at the coffee shop or the person you see as you walk by the dog park every morning. According to Dr. Gurner, “Small, brief social interactions outside our office helps us to connect better with others inside our office.”
2. Keep a Journal
Dr. Danielle Harlan, the founder and CEO of the Center for Advancing Leadership and Human Potential with a doctorate in political science and a masters degree in education, emphasizes the importance of journaling regularly in order to identify our emotions. “Part of being emotionally intelligent involves knowing what you are feeling at any particular point in time,” she says. Harlan explains that, “Journaling (especially after emotionally charged interactions) helps people to better understand what they were feeling and to recognize patterns of behavior in themselves and others.”
"Small, brief social interactions outside our office helps us to connect better with others inside our office."
3. Help Others
“Doing something completely out of kindness and for a cause you believe in puts you in touch with others with similar perspectives, but likely others outside of your normal social sphere,” says Gurner. And connecting with people outside your industry or social circle can expand your EQ as well. Similarly, Dr. Melanie Ross Mills, a speaker, counselor, and author with a doctorate in temperament therapy, emphasizes the importance of demonstrating empathy and consideration throughout the day. “Get outside of yourself to think about others. From the smallest gesture to one that stretches you. Be available.”
"Part of being emotionally intelligent involves knowing what you are feeling at any particular point in time."
4. Be Present
When you are truly present, you are able to recognize and understand other people’s emotions. Harlan recommends observing people’s body language and changes in mood or energy. She gives the example of a colleague who is always energetic and engaged, but seems unusually withdrawn or slouched over. This behavior may signal a mood change that could be a result of a recent incident or circumstance. As a sensitive colleague, your communication with her should change as well, she says.
5. Take a Breather
Have you ever written an email or text message when you were angry and sent it without really thinking about the implications? According to Mills, you should not avoid your emotions but you need not always act on them. “It’s easy to let things go that are difficult to address," she says. Part of maturing in our emotional development is found in allowing ourselves to feel what we truly feel. It’s also developed as we learn to contain our emotions. Self-awareness breeds self-control.” So it may be a good idea to wait twenty-four hours before firing off a response to your boss’ all-caps email. In the meantime, practice what she calls emotional reframing. “Restart, refocus, refresh, and re-engage. When you sense that your stress levels are heightening and your negative emotions are taking over, take a pause and reset.” Go for a walk, take three deep breaths, journal your emotions, or find another way to reset until you feel ready to re-engage in a sensitive and balanced way.
"Part of maturing in our emotional development is found in allowing ourselves to feel what we truly feel."
If you feel you may lose control, Harlan suggests calming yourself down by focusing on a task that requires the logical-analytical part of your brain, such as reading a business article or thinking of 10 things you like that begin with the letter P. “These seemingly random activities will actually force your immediate focus out of the ‘emotional’ reptilian area of your brain and back into the executive and logical area that makes good decisions,” says Harlan.
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Mills recommends taking a break to pay attention to your thought processes before jumping to conclusions. She advises against making assumptions before gathering all the facts and urges us not to take other people’s responses personally because, for the most part, “it’s not about you.” Instead, “Strive to keep your mind clear and clean from the clutter of worries and angst that don’t have to be present and aren’t productive.”
7. Listen Carefully
Instead of providing solutions when others are struggling, Harlan favors being a good listener which will enable others to “work through their problem entirely on their own and come up with the exact right solution.” When someone arrives at a solution on her own, she’ll “tend to be more motivated to pursue it and more engaged in the long run than if you tried to come up with a solution for them.”
Of course, one of the simplest suggestions Harlan has is to ask people how they’re feeling if you’re unsure. “No matter how high you are in EQ, sometimes it’s just really hard to read how someone is feeling. In these cases, it’s okay to just ask them how they’re feeling and let them know that you’re there to support them if they need it,” she says. | <urn:uuid:e11d976e-2a66-4634-bbb2-bce674554bb5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.womenshealthmag.com/life/a19942998/boost-emotional-intelligence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957402 | 1,400 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Where you live can drastically affect the long-term value of your home, according to a recent SmartAsset study.
SmartAsset examined home prices dating back to 1997 across 400 metropolitan areas in the U.S. and ranked each based on home value growth and price stability, which is the probability that a home will experience a price decline of 5% or more at any point in the 10 years after it is purchased.
While top markets like Austin, Texas, have seen home price growth of 384% since 1997, homes in the 15 bottom-ranked markets have only increased in value by an average of 84% in that time.
The lower-ranked markets tend to be in so-called rust belt states: former manufacturing hubs that have experienced long-term industrial declines. These include Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
While past performance does not guarantee future results, the study provides some insight into a given market’s desirability over time.
As an investment, the annual return on home prices varies widely depending on the local market. And generally speaking, the stock market offers better long-term returns and more liquidity.
However, homes aren’t just financial assets. They offer utility as places that you can live in for decades.
Owning a property provides some cost certainty to your budget as well, as monthly mortgage payments tend to be predictable and stable over time. This is especially important for people on fixed incomes, like retirees, or people who aren’t able to work.
Plus, with home ownership, thousands of dollars that would have otherwise been spent on rent payments goes toward an asset that you will ultimately own and can sell later. And since interest on your mortgage is tax deductible, your annual taxable income can potentially be reduced by thousands of dollars.
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This time of the year (late June - August) is known to be a great time to look for pelagic species as well as some less common Terns which are moving north along the Red sea on their post breeding dispersal. Over the last weekend together with Re'a, Yotam Lenhardt, Avi Meir and Uri Kolker , we spent at least 3 mornings at sea both on the beach and thanks to Avi also from the boat.
These were probably the most interesting observations so far for the season.
On Friday morning from the north beach, Yoatm spotted in the distance a Skua which soon become a wonderful adult Long-tailed Skua which got a nice record shot on the next morning by Uri.
Also on Fri', we spotted 6 Cory's/ Scopolis Shearwaters flying inside but fairly distant. According to the new "Birds of the Middle East" 2nd edition the presence of Cory's is questionable. On the next morning we went inside with the boat and got some very good close ups confirming that most (if not all) of these were in fact Cory's Shearwater with their complete black under primaries and thicker trailing edge. I believe that with these photos, there is not much room for doubt ...
Here is what Hadoram Shirihai has to say on these birds - "...Well, to my opinion all these birds are borealis (the Atlantic form). The differences that you see between the individuals are of mostly sex related..."
It is interesting to note that during these days we only had a single Sooty Shearwater. I presume that they all flew down south again after refuelling and resting for some 3-4 weeks at the gulf.
Out on the boat we also had 3 Arctic Skuas (1 pale 2nd summer, 1 pale ad' and 1 dark ad').
Among the many groups of Common Terns and Little Terns, a single White-cheeked Tern and 3 ad Bridled Terns were seen well.
And altogether we had 4 different Mangrove Heron including one 1st year which was fighting for food I wonder where did it breed?!
and a 2nd summer White-eyed Gull
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THE Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has revoked the certificate of authority of Super Cash Lending Corp. due to its unfair debt collection methods.
In a statement on Monday, the commission said that according to a Nov. 11 order, its corporate governance and finance department (CGFD) determined that Super Cash had incurred nine violations under SEC Memorandum Circular No. 18 dated 2019, which mandates for the prohibition on unfair debt collection practices.
CGFD said the company had threatened borrowers with the publication of their loan and personal details, including estafa and theft charges, on social media.
Super Cash has online lending platforms such as Super Cash, Cash Porter, and Loan Bee.
According to CGFD, Super Cash threatened that borrowers would be blacklisted at the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI), and used profane and abusive language when collecting debts.
“In one of the screen captures submitted by one of the complainants, messages showing threats of inflicting grave physical harm upon the person of the complainant could be seen,” CGFD said.
CGFD said a third violation under the SEC’s circular is the charge of a monetary fine, suspension, or revocation of the company’s certificate of authority depending on the gravity and facts of the case.
“[T]he revocation of respondent’s certificate of authority is not merely appropriate, but rather necessitated by the gravity and number of its offenses,” CGFD said.
SEC Commissioner Kelvin Lester K. Lee said the agency will never tolerate the harassment and other abusive practices of lending and financing companies.
“As we pursue erring lending and financing companies, we also advise the public to be cautious and mindful of their transactions with entities representing themselves as such,” Mr. Lee said.
SEC also revoked the certificate of authority of FCash Global Lending, Inc. for its unfair debt collection practices. The company had one of the highest number of complaints for collection harassment starting 2017.
Meanwhile, SEC also ordered for the closure of four online lending applications, namely: CashAB, CashOcean, KwikPeso, and Little Cash due to the lack of authority to operate as a lending or financing company.
The SEC’s memorandum circular 18 took effect on Sept. 18, 2019 in response to the complaints of unreasonable, abusive, and unfair practices that are done by lending and financing companies used in order to collect debt.
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More than 1000 Sunan : Sayings & Acts of the Prophet صلی الله علیه وآله وسلم
Based on the Arabic Book 'Akthar min alf Sunnah fee-al-yawm wa al-laylah'. More than 1000 Sunan for Every Day & Night - Based on the Arabic Book 'Akthar min alf Sunnah fee-al-yawm wa al-laylah'. Is it not amazing that in the course of a normal day, many of us are capable of practicing more than 1,000 Sunan? Surely, in clinging to the Sunnah is safety and security, as Imaam Maalik said: "The Sunnah is like the Ark of Noah-whoever embarks on it reaches salvation and whoever refuses is drowned." This short booklet contains statements and actions of the Prophet Muhammad صلی الله علیه وآله وسلم that are performed in a typical day - how many of these are part of our daily lives? This work is the English-language translation of the Arabic booklet, More Than 1,000 Sunan Every Day & Night, complied by Shaykh Khaalid Husaynaan. He is a contemporary student of knowledge of our time who is preoccupied with reviving and following the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad صلی الله علیه وآله وسلم. | <urn:uuid:a058dc2f-0a69-4746-8cd2-1c8df8f063ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://islamicgoodsdirect.co.uk/collections/hadeeth-sunnah-sirah/products/more-than-1000-sunan-sayings-acts-of-the-prophet-drs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.893796 | 319 | 2 | 2 |
When it comes to using radio, the old school political playbook has been to use it in the home stretch of the campaign to get out the vote and reinforce messaging airing on TV. But a new case study involving a pair of well-known gubernatorial candidates from both sides of the political spectrum makes a strong argument for not waiting until the last few weeks of the campaign to hit the AM/FM airwaves.
In Arkansas Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) logged radio activity in March, well before the political window even opened in her state and more than two months prior to the state primary. Ditto for Stacey Abrams (D) in Georgia. Not only has radio been a major part of their marketing efforts, both candidates bucked the trend and introduced radio advertising much earlier in the election cycle.
Going under the hood of both campaigns, Katz Radio Group says it uncovered evidence that the strategy of using radio early and often is helping these candidates build support and win votes.
“For both the Huckabee Sanders and Abrams campaigns, radio is playing a major role in energizing the base and laying groundwork for the November general election,” Katz says in a new insights piece on its Sound Answers blog.
So how did these “early and often” radio efforts influence voters? To find out, Katz conducted online surveys in Arkansas and Georgia among likely primary-goers during the week leading into the May 24th primaries. The results of the study, it says, showed that radio advertising “successfully increased voter intention for both candidates.”
Georgians who heard Stacey Abrams' radio campaign were 19% more likely to vote for her compared to those who did not hear her radio ads. And in Arkansas, primary-goers saw a 13% increase in intention to vote for Sarah Huckabee Sanders among those that heard her radio campaign compared to those who did not.
“Stacey Abrams and Sarah Huckabee Sanders show that candidates from both sides of the political spectrum stand to benefit from using AM/FM radio to engage with voters,” Katz concludes. “They both invested early in key markets, getting their message out early for primaries, and setting a firm stage for the November elections.” | <urn:uuid:775df969-86a5-4906-abec-25e1e1e32b26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.insideaudiomarketing.com/post/katz-study-gubernatorial-candidates-benefitted-from-early-and-often-radio-ad-strategy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.96898 | 445 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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Split Rock Lighthouse’s Longest-Serving Keeper Retires After Nearly Four Decades on Lake Superior
For 36 years, Lee Radzak has cared for the National Historic Landmark and called it home
Since it first opened in 1910, Split Rock Lighthouse on Lake Superior has only been entrusted to a handful of head lighthouse keepers. In April 2019, Split Rock's latest and longest resident keeper, Lee Radzak, will retire after 36 years in the role and 42 at the Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS).
When Radzak first started the job at Split Rock Lighthouse in 1982 after six years as an MNHS archaeologist, he and his wife Jane took up residence in one of three historic keepers’ houses at the site. They have spent almost 40 years living and caring for one of Minnesota’s most popular tourist attractions, and the couple easily holds the record for the longest residents at Split Rock Lighthouse in its nearly 110-year history.
While job duties as site manager of the lighthouse don’t involve protecting ships from Superior’s rocky shores—Split Rock was decommissioned by the Coast Guard in 1969—Radzak’s work has included everything from dealing with power outages and raging storms to overseeing restoration on the site’s historic buildings. All while welcoming a constant stream of year-round visitors; an estimated 4.75 million people have visited the site during his tenure.
“It’s arguably the biggest tourist destination north of Duluth. 160,000 people now come here every year and have ever since the highway opened up in the 1920s,” Radzak said. When he’s asked by visitors if it ever gets lonely, he has to laugh a little. “You want to say: ‘Well look around, there’re 50 people standing behind you walking up to the lighthouse.’ No, it’s not a lonely place.”
While today few people can say they’ve lived and worked at a lighthouse for so long, Radzak is humble about the unique experience. “My wife and I feel that we are just ordinary people that were given the unique privilege to live an extraordinary life at Split Rock.”
Split Rock’s Story
Radzak’s time as the lighthouse continues a long tradition of resident keepers tasked with protecting ships—often carrying iron ore—on Lake Superior during the May-December shipping season. Novelist James Oliver Curwood once called the North Shore “the most dangerous piece of water in the world.”
During Lake Superior’s iron ore boom in the early 20th century, a single November 1905 storm damaged 29 ships on the lake—one-third of the U.S. Steel Corporation's uninsured property. After lobbying led by U.S. Steel’s president, Congress appropriated $75,000 to build a lighthouse and fog signal at Split Rock to protect ships along the lake’s rocky shores.
Construction was completed in 1910, and Orren “Pete” Young became Split Rock’s first head keeper tasked with keeping the station operational. For its first 15 years, the isolated lighthouse was only reachable by water; it didn’t become accessible by land until the Lake Superior International Highway was built in 1924.
The highway made it easier for keepers and their families to live full time at the lighthouse, and it also brought a tourism boom to the North Shore. By 1938, head keeper Franklin J. Covell estimated nearly 100,000 people had visited the site.
Over time, with the rise of new navigational technology like GPS, lighthouses became increasingly obsolete, and Split Rock was decommissioned in 1969. The site was obtained by the state of Minnesota in 1971, which transferred management to the Minnesota Historical Society in 1976. It remains a popular tourist site and is one of the most photographed and iconic locations in Minnesota.
Lee Radzak's Career at the Lighthouse
Radzak’s career has paralleled some the biggest achievements in the site’s last 40 years, including the Secretary of the Interior naming Split Rock Lighthouse a National Historic Landmark in 2011—one of only 25 in Minnesota—a process that took several years to complete.
He also oversaw construction of a visitor center in 1986, led the celebration of Split Rock’s 100th birthday in 2010, expanded the interpretive program and led a major restoration of the lighthouse and fog signal building.
Radzak has been repeatedly recognized for his service on the North Shore and in the lighthouse preservation community, including receiving the 2014 Lake Superior Magazine Achievement Award and the F. Scott Holland Award, the American Lighthouse Council’s lifetime achievement award, in 2016.
“I can't think of a better representative of the Minnesota Historical Society than Lee Radzak,” said Ben Leonard, director of Greater Minnesota sites and partnership sites at MNHS. “Over his years working with millions of visitors, Lee has truly embodied a commitment to preserve, protect and share Minnesota's past with the world.”
About Split Rock Lighthouse
Split Rock Lighthouse, a National Historic Landmark, is the place to discover Minnesota’s role in Great Lakes shipping and life on the North Shore through guided tours and a visitor center with an award-winning film, exhibits and museum store. The site is located in Split Rock Lighthouse State Park on U.S. Highway 61, 20 miles northeast of Two Harbors. For more information, visit www.mnhs.org/splitrock.
The Minnesota Historical Society is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution established in 1849. MNHS collects, preserves and tells the story of Minnesota’s past through museum exhibits, libraries and collections, historic sites, educational programs and publishing. Using the power of history to transform lives, MNHS preserves our past, shares our state’s stories and connects people with history. Visit us at mnhs.org.
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Reading Scribd documents on Android with Scribd Reader app
If you’re a student, a teacher, or just someone who loves to read, you’ve probably heard of Scribd, the popular online multi-format document sharing, social publishing website that lets you access documents and books.
The site carries a wide variety of topics covering health, music, politics, science, literature, and even more–practically packing everything you could ever want, Scribd makes researching for your school project or presentation a dream.
Scribd’s use isn’t limited to individuals in the school setting, however. Writers can also get their work out into the world through Scribd. If you’ve got a document you’d like to share with the world, whether it’s your own writing or an electronic copy of a book, Scribd allows you to upload to its network. If Scribd sounds too good to be true, then it gets better.
While Android users were previously only able to access the website and its database through the original website or third party clients, accessing Scribd directly from your Android device is now possible.The official Scribd client for Android has just recently rolled into the Google Play Store, which gives Android users the power to search for a document they need and to read it directly from their Android devices.
Looking for text on a certain topic? Input your keywords into the search tab and you’ll see a list of documents that may just match what you’re looking for. The app also gives you recommendations about documents you might be interested in. You’ll never have a boring commute home or vacant period in your day again.
Once you’ve chosen a document, tap it to read it in full screen. You can even use the usual pinch-to-zoom gesture to zoom in and out of the document. Swipe left and right to turn pages.
If you’re afraid that you might forget the names of the documents you had been looking through a few moments ago, you can check them out in the Recent Docs tab.
If you find the text on your document way too small and eye-strain-inducing, you can adjust the size of the text according to your preferences. The text will be automatically reordered for your pleasant reading experience.
In terms of bringing Scribd to Android, the official Scribd reader App is pretty straightforward. At the moment, users can’t upload and download documents or share documents with others, but these may be features we’ll see in future versions. In terms of giving you access to a rich library of documents, however, this app certainly delivers.
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Self-adhesive protective film
IDEAL FOR PROTECTING A VARIETY OF SURFACES
WHAT IS A SELF-ADHESIVE PROTECTIVE FILM?
A self-adhesive protective film consists of a support layer (mostly LDPE) and an adhesive layer. The film, in combination with the adhesive layer, determines the extent to which the product is suitable for temporarily covering a surface. Every surface is different in structure, and, therefore, almost every surface needs its own surface-specific adhesive layer.
The self-adhesive layer can also be structured in different ways in terms of composition. For example, there are solvent-based adhesive layers, water-based adhesive layers, but also adhesive layers on a rubber basis. Each type of adhesive layer has its own unique properties.
SELF-ADHESIVE PROTECTIVE FILM BY EASYDEK
Almost all self-adhesive protective films manufactured by Easydek are equipped with a water-based adhesive layer. The film is a special LLDPE foil with a higher elasticity and is, therefore, able to deal better with intensive loads.
Easydek offers different thicknesses for covering a floor or staircase. However, practice shows that professional users work almost exclusively with the 100-micron variant. This is an extra thick protective film that can withstand even intensive construction work. A 200-micron protective film is also available as a solution for the most demanding applications.
Easydek only works with the very best qualities in adhesive layers and films. This results in products that are unrivalled in quality, and the risk of complaints during use is reduced to a minimum.
USING SELF-ADHESIVE PROTECTIVE FILM
The self-adhesive protective films are mostly reverse wound. This means that the adhesive layer is on the outside of the roll. This has the advantage of being is very easy to deploy by hand or foot. Simply place the roll on the surface to be protected and roll it off. When the seams overlap, it forms a seamless and moisture-proof surface cover. This means that you no longer have to use adhesive tape. | <urn:uuid:e67675ea-b907-40d3-8579-357ddb966a01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.easydek.com/en/applications/self-adhesive-protective-film | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.936472 | 447 | 2.203125 | 2 |
(Wired) – Georg Petschnigg is distracted. He’s trying to tell me about his company’s new app—Paper for iPhone, an adaptation and re-thinking of the wildly celebrated iPad sketching app—but the gold Galaxy Note 5 sitting on the table keeps catching the CEO’s eye. “Man, that would be a really nice form factor for this app,” he says. A few minutes later: “I wish I could just—whoosh!—wave the magic hand” and move the app from the iPhone 6 in his hand to the Note 5.
The Note would be perfect. It has a big, high-res screen; a pressure-sensitive stylus; and a self-selecting set of users who buy the phone because it promises Maximum Productivity. And productivity, perhaps even more than the sketching or doodling FiftyThree’s app has become known for, is what the new Paper is all about. Same goes for the new iPad Pro, by the way, or the new Apple Pencil, the stylus that mimics FiftyThree’s device both in purpose and in name. But Petschnigg isn’t worried—his company will support the new Pencil, too, and he hopes Apple’s foray into stylus territory will be good for everyone. Plus, he thinks he’s onto something better anyway.
“We’ve always been about capturing ideas,” Petschnigg says. When FiftyThree decided it wanted to create something for the iPhone, they started to look at what people do differently on a phone. The team discovered two things: People spend a lot of time composing notes-to-self, and a lot of those notes are images. Not just pretty and well-composed photos, either: screenshots of text, pictures of signs, all sorts of hacky capture methods. “We started combining that,” he says, “with this basic truth they’ll teach you in design school. That is, if you want to remember an idea, you have to put text and images together.” | <urn:uuid:8ac4edd0-6996-40b9-b926-314544014dde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blackpressusa.com/paper-may-be-the-best-app-yet-for-taking-notes-on-iphones/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952589 | 447 | 1.640625 | 2 |
For Rudy Favard, football is a big part of everyday life. But an even bigger part comes at 8:00 each evening, when Rudy goes to visit his friend Sam Parker. Sam is not a fellow student or a football teammate. Sam is an 8-year-old boy with severe cerebral palsy. Rudy visits him each day to help Sam’s parents perform an important task, carrying Sam up the stairs to his bedroom.
Due to his cerebral palsy, Sam cannot see, speak, or control his arms and legs. So the Parkers must carry him up the stairs each evening. Mr. Parker had done the carrying until recently, when surgery prevented him from lifting Sam anymore. Rudy was asked to come and help the Parkers with this daily task, and he quickly agreed, saying “I wanted to help. I didn’t think it was a big deal.”
But a big deal it is! Rudy gives the Parkers gifts of time, strength, and support, 14 stairs at a time. And to Rudy’s surprise, his visits to the Parker home are a gift to him too. His visits give him perspective and gratitude for the blessings he has and can share with others. Here is an article about Rudy and the Parkers.
Topics for Discussion:
- Rudy was glad to help the Parkers because he thought that it wasn’t a big deal. Is there something that’s not a big deal to you but that might help make someone’s life better?
- Rudy has found that helping the Parkers has had a great positive impact on him. Have you ever helped someone and felt that same kind of impact?
- Do a small kindness today for a family member and see how just a little effort can brighten someone’s day!
- Check out the Kids 4 Change website to learn things you can do to help the world around you!
- Here is a link to a Critical Reading Skills worksheet that you can use for elementary school students.
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How The U.S is Learning From President Bio And Sierra Leone
The Minister of Basic and Senior Secondary Education, David Moinina Sengeh has enlightened the U.S Representatives of Foreign Affairs Committee on the access to Education in Sierra Leone at a virtual hearing held by the Committee.
Minister David Moinina Sengeh was on the 2nd February 2022, invited by the U.S House of Representatives, House of Foreign Affairs Committee to be part of a Hearing on “Improving Access to Quality Education in Africa scheduled for yesterday the 8th February 2022.
Sierra Leone which has been doing extremely well in the Educational sector even during the Covid 19 pandemic has gathered so much praise and admiration around the globe as the minister of MBSSE was recently interviewed by BBC Focus on Africa on International Day of Education.
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This invitation from the U.S did not come as a surprise as they seek to learn from Sierra Leone. On the virtual hearing, Representative Omar asked Dr. Sengeh two key questions; how they can help Spread Sierra Leone home-grown solutions and what can the U.S learn from Sierra Leone.
In his response, the Minister of MBSSE Dr Sengeh was very eloquent in making his point.
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After increasing cigarette taxes no fewer than 105 times in the last decade, it looks like states may finally be tiring of pounding smokers with higher rates every time budget trouble rolls around. The AP reported late last week that New Hampshire, New Jersey and Rhode Island are all considering lowering their cigarette excise taxes this year. These proposed reductions run from a mere $0.10 per pack in NH (which already has the lowest cigarette tax in New England) to $1 a pack in RI.
The push for lower taxes on smokes is being driven by the realization that tax tourism and smuggling might be hurting revenues while failing to keep cigarettes out of the hands of smokers. Cigarette taxes in the northeast are some of the highest in the country, so it’s small wonder that frustrated smokers might go elsewhere for their fix.
This problem is especially visible in Rhode Island, which has the second highest cigarette tax in the country and the third highest level of net smuggling, according to this Mackinac Center analysis. Indeed, over 40 percent of the cigarettes consumed in the state are estimated to be illegal. By reducing the cigarette tax, Rhode Island lawmakers are betting that encouraging people to buy legal cigarettes will bump revenues enough to overcome the effect of the lower tax rate itself.
A rate reduction might even generate some new business for Rhode Island retailers. Smokers would pay only $2.46 per pack were the reduction to go through, well below neighboring Connecticut’s $3 levy. This, in turn, would create further tax revenues.
New Hampshire has less to gain from their reduction — a $0.10 per pack drop, or $1 per carton is not likely to discourage people who already get their smokes illegally to stop doing so. It’s alsouncertain whether it would encourage more out-of-state smokers to come buy in New Hampshire.
Still, it’s a good sign, purely on philosophical grounds, that legislatures are moving away from cigarette taxes. Research has shown again and again that cigarette taxes are regressive — they take proportionally more money from the poor than the rich. Moreover, they’re unfair; why should people have to take on more of the burden of funding government (by paying an extra excise tax) just because they consume a socially unpopular product?
The common counter-argument on the left, that smokers should be taxed to compensate society for the money it spends treating their smoking-induced health problems, doesn’t make a lot of sense. That’s because not everyone who smokes will contract a costly illness; thus, they exert no economic harm on society at large and the tax money the government wrings from them is pure profit.
If public health advocates are concerned about people burdening society with the costs of their risky behavior, the conclusion is simple: allow people to bear more of those costs for themselves. Not only does that disincentivize risky behavior in the first place, it means no third party is on the hook for the consequences of someone’s actions.
Although recent developments in health care policy haven’t put us any closer to such a system, that’s no excuse for relying on cigarette taxes to punish smokers. We’re lucky that some states are starting to realize that. | <urn:uuid:64de9994-4c64-4612-8aa3-20a4f2e23d20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reason.org/commentary/states-are-finally-turning-their-ba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95716 | 668 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Microglia are the macrophages that reside in the brain. Activated microglia induces further activation of astrocytes and neuronal cells for mounting an immune response. However, activated microglia release neurotoxic mediators causing neuroinflammation, which is associated with chronic etiology of neurodegenerative diseases. We investigated the effect of ethanol extract of Physalis alkekengi L. var. francheti fruit (PAFE) on neuronal cell death mediated by activated microglia. PAFE decreased NO production and IL-6 secretion in LPS-stimulated BV-2 and primary microglial cells without reducing cell viability. Consistently, treatment with PAFE decreased iNOS and COX-2 expression and ERK phosphorylation in LPS-stimulated BV-2 cells. Finally, apoptosis of N2a cells grown in conditioned media prepared from LPS-stimulated BV-2 cells containing PAFE was inhibited via downregulation of the Bax/Bcl-2 ratio. Taken together, PAFE alleviates neuronal cell death by reducing neurotoxic mediators such as NO and IL-6 from activated microglia. Therefore, it could be a potential candidate to treat neurodegenerative diseases caused by chronic neuroinflammation.
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Book includes knowledge about primates living in flooded environments around the world, explaining the animals’ relationship with these places and how research can help in their conservation.
Researchers at the Mamirauá Institute captured two jaguars that will be included in the monitoring and study initiative of felines in the Amazon. The surprise, however, was to see a baby jaguar.
Researchers at the Institute Mamirauá caught a large-headed capuchin monkey preaching the nest of a black caiman with the help of a tool.
Today, faced with an increasingly erratic climate, some “predictions based on traditional knowledge of the riparian are no longer reliable, ” says a fishing technician.
Research of Mamirauá Institute shows that these animals are able to live in the flooded forests during the months of full water in the Amazon.
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Augustus, Chapter 65: Problems in the family.
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|But in the midst of all his joy and hopes in his numerous and well-regulated family, his fortune failed him. The two Julias [Note 1], his daughter and grand-daughter, abandoned themselves to such courses of lewdness and debauchery, that he [Note 1] banished them both. Gaius and Lucius he lost within the space of eighteen months; the former dying in Lycia, and the latter at Marseilles. His third grandson Agrippa, with his step-son Tiberius, he adopted in the forum, by a law passed for the purpose by the curiae; but he soon afterwards discarded Agrippa for his coarse and unruly temper, and confined him at Surrentum. He bore the death of his relations with more patience than he did their disgrace; for he was not overwhelmed by the loss of Gaius and Lucius; but in the case of his daughter, he stated the facts to the senate in a message read to them by the quaestor, not having the heart to be present himself; indeed, he was so much ashamed of her infamous conduct, that for some time he avoided all company, and had thoughts of putting her to death. It is certain that when one Phoebe, a freedwoman and confidante of hers, hanged herself about the same time, he said, I had rather be the father of Phoebe than of Julia. In her banishment he would not allow her the use of wine, nor any luxury in dress; nor would he suffer her to be waited upon by any male servant, either freeman or slave, without his permission, and having received an exact account of his age, stature, complexion, and what marks or scars he had about him. At the end of five years he removed her from the island [where she was confined] to the mainland, and treated her with less severity, but could never be prevailed upon to recall her. When the Roman people interposed on her behalf several times with much importunity, all the reply he gave was: I wish you had all such daughters and wives as she is. He likewise forbade a child, of which his grand-daughter Julia was delivered after sentence had passed against her, to be either owned as a relation, or brought up. Agrippa, who was equally intractable, and whose folly increased every day, he transported to an island, and placed a guard of soldiers about him; procuring at the same time an act of the senate for his confinement there during life. Upon any mention of him and the two Julias, he would say, with a heavy sigh, Would I were wifeless, or had childless died! [from the Iliad 3.40] nor did he usually call them by any other name than that of his three imposthumes or cancers.||
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(This piece is the Movie Essential in Paste Quarterly #1, which you can purchase here, along with its accompanying vinyl Paste sampler.)
We often celebrate the best films and filmmakers for taking a familiar experience like movie-going—an experience we think we know and understand well—and giving us something that feels surprisingly new. Movies that make us fall in love with movies again are rare, and I’d suggest that it’s even rarer that such a sensation comes from a documentary. But Raoul Peck tasked himself with making a film about one of America’s greatest sons, James Baldwin, and pulled off quite a feat with I Am Not Your Negro. Peck (who previously directed Lumumba and Sometimes in April) resists some of the most common approaches to documentary story-telling, and the result is an incredibly intimate experience with an icon.
Peck focuses on Baldwin’s unfinished book Remember This House, a work that would have memorialized three of his friends, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. All three black men were assassinated within five years of each other, and we learn in the film that Baldwin was not just concerned about these losses as terrible blows to the Civil Rights movement, but deeply cared for the wives and children of the men who were murdered. Baldwin’s overwhelming pain is as much the subject of the film as his intellect. And so I Am Not Your Negro is not just a portrait of an artist, but a portrait of mourning—what it looks, sounds and feels like to lose friends, and to do so with the whole world watching (and with so much of America refusing to understand how it happened, and why it will keep happening).
Peck could have done little else besides giving us this feeling, placing us squarely in the presence of Baldwin, and I Am Not Your Negro would have likely still been a success. His decision to steer away from the usual documentary format, where respected minds comment on a subject, creates a sense of intimacy difficult to inspire in films like this. The pleasure of sitting with Baldwin’s words, and his words alone, is exquisite. There’s no interpreter, no one to explain Baldwin but Baldwin—and this is how it should be. After all, what other voice could you possibly want to hear after Baldwin, speaking of Martin, Malcolm and Medgar, declares in a letter to his literary agent, “I want these three lives to bang against each other.” Or, I should say, what other words could you want to hear—it’s easy to forget that the voice you’re hearing read these words is Samuel L. Jackson’s. But Jackson performs his role as narrator beautifully; most viewers won’t even know it’s him, and won’t care either way because the film (along with Jackson) does the work of centralizing Baldwin’s messages, his enormous energy and his inimitable style.
Baldwin was concerned with countless issues that may or may not have been centered on race, and those of us hoping for a film that covered his work against homophobia, as well as his views on religion, will have to wait for another film. Peck streamlines here, and although there is mention of Baldwin’s sexuality (in a letter from FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover), the focus is on Baldwin’s distinctive perspective on race in America.
In the film’s strongest moments, we veer away from Baldwin slightly, to sit with some of the acclaimed movies and TV shows of his time (including Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner and In the Heat of the Night), which he criticized with great vigor. These are powerful scenes because they allow us to not only hear Baldwin’s message—but to see it for ourselves. Film is propaganda, and through Baldwin’s keen eye, we experience a feeling that is at once thrilling and discomfiting for movie lovers. I Am Not Your Negro is a celebration of the power of cinema, and an indictment against Hollywood’s insistence on stories that speak to the desires of a white population molded by white supremacist ideals. Supremacy, Baldwin and Peck remind us, comes in many forms, including beloved, fictional white heroes and fictional black heroes who exist to reassure white movie-goers that black people do not despise them.
If there’s any misstep in the film, it may be the inclusion of contemporary footage showcasing acts of resistance in the face of the very same brutality Baldwin speaks of throughout I Am Not Your Negro. There is that sensation of being pulled out of Baldwin’s world for a moment, and it feels unnecessary and even redundant for those of us who were already making the connections, who have already been re-reading Baldwin every time a black man, woman or child is murdered by the police. But I can’t begrudge Peck’s choice, because there are, sadly, far too many people who might not draw such conclusions otherwise—people who need to be clearly told that the notion of “progress” must be interrogated when a film about James Baldwin’s work feels timely in 2017.
And so this is not a film necessarily meant to inspire hope. One of the most devastating things one might realize when watching this film is that the many questions Baldwin posed to white America in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s—questions which so brilliantly and succinctly got at the root of America’s race problems—remain wholly unanswered. In hearing Baldwin ask white America why it “needed a nigger,” and in hearing him ask white folks why they’ve no idea what’s happening to black people in the next town over, we receive great clarity in Peck’s mission. There’s no need to wonder why he chose this subject, at this time, for his film. One only wonders when a film like this will feel like it belongs to the past. Because right now, I Am Not Your Negro might very well be the most politically and socially relevant film of the moment. | <urn:uuid:3944fb74-f6c3-488d-b026-faf58cb93580> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://staging.pastemagazine.com/movies/james-baldwin/essential-movie-i-am-not-your-negro/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964867 | 1,268 | 2.234375 | 2 |
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Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation doi: 10.1002/rse2.147
Understanding insect and fish interactions from a spatial and temporal perspec-tive can have implications on large-scale phenology in freshwater systems, yet current information is limited. We employed a novel approach of combining information from acoustic telemetry for six freshwater fish species and weather radar to assess the phenology of mayfly emergence and foraging patterns of freshwater fish. We hypothesized that freshwater fish conduct synchronous movements with annual mayfly hatches as a pulse resource opportunity. Gener-alized additive models were developed to assess movement distance as a func-tion of species and time; before, during, and after annual mayfly hatch events. A cross-section abundance index was also employed to quantify dynamics of aerial mayflies. Hatch dynamics revealed nocturnal emergence behaviour with annual variations in intensity, spatial extent, and origin. We found that the hatch was likely a pulse resource feeding opportunity for channel catfish, com-mon carp, freshwater drum, and walleye instead of a synchronized feeding event. Bigmouth buffalo and lake sturgeon utilized riverine habitat away from the hatch and did not likely forage on the emerging mayflies. Remote sensing of fishes and emergent insects using our approach is the first attempt at bridg-ing the capabilities of fisheries ecology and aeroecology to advance movement ecology. | <urn:uuid:ba8c6641-779d-4a01-b900-290c9086816d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/natrespapers/1111/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.927944 | 339 | 2.40625 | 2 |
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