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Masses of animals fascinate...
Birds, bugs, mammals--when they all get together in vast quantities, they amaze us.
This week we want to search out two particular kinds of swarming animals to get a sense for how many of them move en masse together, and how they're doing these days.
As I mentioned, I've seen fairly large numbers of ladybugs gathering on stone walls in Yosemite:
Now imagine this same kind of ladybug swarm extending for another 20 meters down a long, low, granite stone wall...
1. What's the largest ladybug grouping together that you can find? (Or a swarm, or a loveliness of ladybugs, although that mass noun is disputed.... but it's such a great term!)Even though "loveliness" is a great term, the fact that it's disputed suggests that it's probably NOT a great search term. In this case, let's start with the simplest possible query:
[ largest ladybug swarm ]
(For the record, I tried aggregation first instead of swarm. But aggregation seems less commonly used.)
With this search I found the Wikipedia page about ladybugs (of course) about quickly learned that they're called Coccinellidae (the scientific family name), they enter diapause (a kind of overwintering hibernation), and that many species collect into large swarms at diapause time. In fact, the Wiki page has a great photo of ladybugs emerging in the spring from a diapause swarm at Stevens Creek, which runs right along the edge of the Google campus in Mountain View, CA.
|Ladybugs covering a fallen tree, Stevens Creek Canyon, CA|
P/C Wikimedia, photo by Lettersee.
[ ladybug collectors insect ]
(I had to add "insect" to the query to avoid all of the "ladybug collectors" of jewelry websites.) But once I did this, I found even more sites talking about mass quantities of ladybugs.
In short order I found one report from Boulder, CO (with a picture similar to that above), and yet another article that mentions ladybug dealers/collectors that can harvest millions at a time with snow shovels and buckets.
That article led to the website of the Lost Ladybug Project (run by the entomology department of Cornell University). This research project is dedicated to understanding what's happening the ladybugs in North America, and why some ladybug species are becoming rarer, while other are moving their range.
As you'd expect, I did a search of that site for both diapause and swarm:
[ site:www.LostLadybug.org swarm ]
That search led me to an article written in Entomologica Americana by Eric Denemark and John Losey, "Causes and consequences of ladybug washups in the finger lakes region of New York State (coleoptera: coccinellidae)." Entomologica Americana 116.1 (2010): 78-88.
As I skimmed this paper, I noted a particular phrase written by J. L. LeConte in 1850 (see reference below):
‘‘..they [ladybugs] were driven on shore, particularly on sand beaches, by the winds and waves after being drowned in the lake..’’I think I just found the answer to the next Challenge...
2. While you're thinking about ladybugs in large groups, sometimes vast numbers of ladybugs somehow die-off together. Can you find out how / when / why this happens? What are these mass die-offs called? (In the special case of ladybugs, there's one particular term that's used.)Although I wasn't directly looking for this paper, I found it while searching for the large ladybug swarms. When the text mentions masses of drowned ladybugs, I naturally get curious. How can this happen?
This paper ("Causes and consequences...") is by Denemark and Losey. Those names also rang a bell. Where had I see them before?
I had just been looking at the Lost Ladybug Project and remembered seeing those names listed on their About page. This is a pretty reputable journal about entomology, and these two folks are deeply into ladybugs.
You can read the paper yourself, but it basically looks at ladybug washup data for the Finger Lakes (in upstate New York), and makes the case that:
"...The frequency, composition, and duration of washups in the Finger Lakes support the hypothesis that a weather condition known as a lake breeze forces coccinellids [ladybugs] to fall into the water. These animals subsequently arrive on shore in large numbers."
The last section of the paper summarizes their findings and gives some important context, including a subtle reference to a paper "Ladybird population explosions" by Majerus and Majerus (1996) ("Ladybird" is what the Brits call "ladybugs.")
That looked interesting, so I went to Google Scholar with the title and found the paper on the "Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations" website. As I scanned it looking for information about ladybug washups, I found this stunning paragraph and tag line:
We once calculated the approximate number of ladybirds that would have been in the tide-lines along the southern and eastern coasts of Britain on a single day in late July 1976. Assuming all to have been one of our larger species, the 7-spot (which they were not), a conservative estimate gives a figure of some 23,654,400,000 ladybirds (estimated by counting the number of 7-spots in 15 200 mm sections of tideline and multiplied up by the amount of suitable coastline between Land's End and the east coast border between England and Scotland). This figure is difficult to comprehend, but it is about four times the current human population of the Earth and, of course, this was just the ladybirds in the tidelines on a single day. It does not include any of those that stayed on land, or those that were washed out to sea, or those that were eaten by other starving ladybirds or other predators, or those that were killed on the roads or elsewhere by the devices of man.
Not surprisingly, a crash in ladybird populations followed.
Wait a second. That's 23 billion ladybugs that washed-up on the shores of the British Isles.
Now that's a loveliness of ladybugs...
For a great video about more everyday ladybug aggregations, watch this short (created by the local PBS station--this is a great video series, well worth subscribing to):
3. The spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias) is a remarkable fish. Like many fish, they often school in large numbers. What's the largest report of a dogfish school you can find?
|Spiny dogfish, Squalus acanthias. Just so you know what we're talking about.|
[ dogfish large school ]
[ squalus acanthias large school ]
And with these queries it's easy enough to find multiple sources that report schools of dogfish in the thousands (e.g., University of Michigan animal web, the FAO United Nations page on dogfish, or Fishbase).
With comments about dogfish being the most abundant living shark, and the only shark species that supports fisheries of a size rivalling those of the more commercially important bony fishes. Bigelow & Schroeder (1948) noted that in a time of peak abundance in 1904-05 an estimated 27,000,000 dogfish were taken off the Massachusetts coast each year.
So... why "dogfish"? The name "dogfish" was adapted by fishermen who referred to the schools of them chasing schools of smaller fish as "packs."
The lifespan of a dogfish is estimated to be between 20 and 75 years. It's a very long-lived fish that matures late and reproduces slowly, with gestation lasting two years – the longest of any vertebrate. It's ovoviviparous, meaning that spiny dogfish develop in eggs within the female, living off their yolk sacs. For each female, six to seven live young are born, measuring 20 to 33 cm. At birth, the mother shark has a series of rhythmic contractions, just as in mammals, and the young are delivered head first. Larger and older females have bigger litters with larger pups; a large female can carry up to 4 times as many embryos compared to a smaller female. Larger, older females have higher survival rates than those born to small females.
As a consequence, despite their large numbers in schools, dogfish are vulnerable to being overfished. It takes a long time for a crashed dogfish population to return.
I was curious about what large schools of dogfish had been observed. Anything more than "thousands"?
I did several searches like this:
[ enormous dogfish school squalus ]
and then varied the adjective (trying "gigantic" "massive" etc.)
Notice that I had to add the term "squalus" to eliminate all of the dogfish results having to do with beer (there's a popular brand named "dogfish"), pubs, B&Bs, etc.
I found several more references to "thousands" of dogfish in schools, including a personal observation of fishing vessels pulling up overloaded nets full of nothing but dogfish. (see: "Development and observations of a spiny dogfish...")
|A school of dogfish brought up in a fishing net. P/C Wikimedia and John Wallace of NOAA.|
But there are hints at truly massive schools of dogfish. When I started by queries with this variation:
[ immense schools dogfish squalus ]
I found one article ("The Spiny Dogfish--a Review" published by NOAA) that quoted the Cape Ann Advertiser of February 10, 1882 as saying that: "Immense schools of dogfish,extending as far as the eye can reach, have appeared off Portsmouth, an unusual sight in winter... "
This version of the query proved to be really productive, as it led me to the most remarkable work in the spiny dogfish oeuvre, that being the monograph The Spiny Dogfish (Squalus acanthias) in the Northeast Pacific and a History of its Utilization, by K. S. Ketchen (1986), published by the Canadian Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. (It really is a good read. The section on the history of dogfish utilization is fascinating. It includes such tidbits as Native American dogfish art, including totem poles, and how dogfish oil was used in coal miner lamps in British Columbia.)
In this remarkable text, anecdotal evidence spiny dogfish schools in in Queen Charlotte Strait can be found in a remark of Syd Cooke, then editor of Western Fisheries magazine:
Clearing from Hardy Bay, and while on the approximate 39-mile course to Shushartie Bay, on the northern end of Vancouver Island, we ran through a dogfish school which extended for that distance, and as far as the eye could see to seaward. (Western Fisheries Magazine, Mar. 1946)
As the ichthyologist Milton J. Love later wrote about this observation, "Heh, that is a powerful lot of dogfish."
I'm trying to imagine 39 miles of dogfish, "as far as the eye could see..."
There are several,
1. You might have to try different variations on a search term. In the ladybug example, I tried both "aggregation" and "swarm," and got different (and usefully different) results. In the dogfish Challenge I tried variations on the adjective: gigantic, enormous, huge... When I finally tried "immense" I found some really useful results.
2. Double source everything. In this case, it was pretty easy to get multiple articles that said the same thing (e.g., "dogfish schools with thousands of fish"). Importantly, they were all reputable sources--biology departments of universities and the like. Also importantly, they did NOT repeat the same information word-for-word. If you see that (and you will), you can't count the copied text as another independent source. (It just means they copy/pasted the finding.)
3. When getting lots of spurious results, try adding in a technical term to get more on-topic focus. When I did the search for [ dogfish school ] I had to add in "squalus" as a search term, just to remove all of the commercial results for beer and vacation spots named after the fish. They like dogfish alright, but they never use the term "squalus"!
Lake Superior: its physical character, vegetation, and animals, compared with those of other and similar regions, Louis Agassiz, James Elliot Cabot, 1850. Quote from Leconte's chapter, "General Remarks upon the Coleoptera of Lake Superior," page 201
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Orgonite and 5g - how does it help?
Orgonite and 5g - how does it help?
"We must be quite clear about this: in the days when there were no electric currents, when there were no electric wires buzzing in the air, it was easier to be human." ... Rudolf Steiner
A lot of people are very worried about 5g. Connections between the ongoing pandemic and the rollout of 5g technology have been suggested. In the early days of this worldwide event, emergency doctors in New York City reported the strange similarity between acute SARS-Cov19 cases and radiation sickness.
These voices have been successfully stifled on most social media platforms but we still remember, don't we?
Dr. Cowan, M.D. from Canada pointed out the coincidence between major epidemic outbreaks and step-ups in electromagnetic radiation in history:
- 1918: massive rollout of electrification around the world, first introduction of radiowaves world wide ==> Spanish Flu
- WWII: Invention of radar - microwaves buzzing the atmosphere the first time in human history ==> major epidemics, aided by starvation
- 1968: satellites start rounding the earth ==> outbreak of the "Hong Kong flu"
- 2019-2020: In the last 6 month a major quantum leap in the roll out of electromagnetic frequencies has happened. 20,000 new radiation emitting satellites blanketing the earth, Wuhan, the first city totally blanketed with 5g coverage is also the epicentre of the pandemic attributed to COVID-19 ==> "Coronavirus pandemic" or "Wuhan Flu"
How does electromagnetic radiation affect us?
- The direct effect of heating up tissue: We all know what a microwave oven does to our food. It cooks it. That's the direct heating effect which is strongly related to the measurable power in Watt/cm2. This is the only effect authorities take into consideration and where they derive their safety standards from. This is obviously dangerous when you are close to a high powered microwave antenna, but most likely not the main reason why people get sick.
- Frequency resonance: We know from the research of Royal Rife and others, that every living organism has a specific resonance. Hitting such an organism with it's resonance frequency can kill or seriously damage it. Researchers have suggested that the frequency of 60GHz which is employed in some 5g networks leads to blood clotting
- DOR or stagnant life force: The concept of DOR or Deadly ORgone energy was formulated by Dr. Wilhelm Reich, the pioneer researcher into Orgone energy in the 1950s. When life energy is blocked from flowing it turns toxic and causes disease. Similar concepts are very familiar in Chinese Traditional Medicine (CTM) and many other ancient traditional healing systems.
We think that the 3rd aspect is what really makes us sick. The hard microwave radiation, similar to the Gamma radiation coming from nuclear power stations, hammers the living ether into stagnation. Clairvoyants can clearly see a black aura around any "untreated" cellphone tower, be it 3G, LTE or 5g. This aura can be half a kilometre in diametre and looks like a flattened melon, anthracite with gray veins. It is in fact a depiction of the torroidal field shape of every magnet.
Once we introduce orgonite* into this field, everything changes:
The visible field of the cellphone tower changes to a vibrant colourful mix of hues. The original blackness still emanates from the panels but stays confined to the immediate vicinity of the emitting panels.
*Orgonite is the magical combination of resin, metal filings and quartz crystals. It turns negative stagnant energy (DOR) into lively Positive ORgone energy (POR) which is beneficial for life in all it's forms.
Immediately we see enormous changes happening in the sky. When we initially found a soupy, hazy and unstructured cloud cover before this "gifting" of orgonite, suddenly the sky clears up, often a blue hole appears over the tower site and the clouds start taking on an articulated appearance, typically in the form of happy looking cumulus clouds. We have seen that so many times on our expeditions:
Why is 5g more dangerous?
5g is a whole bundle of technologies combined to create a ubiquitous field of extremely high bandwidth connectivity. It is not even a specific frequency and can emply frequencies above and below the previously used spectrum for various purposes. So don't get too hung up o the 60GHz (60 billion pulses per second) story! It's only one small aspect of it.
Basically it's a giant step up in the intensity and ubiquitousness of these fields.
The soup is getting thicker
Many people don't know this: higher frequencies are less penetrating than the lower ones. So in order to achieve the same availability inside closed spaces the energy has to be amped up or the distance between towers has to be reduced. That's why you see smaller antennas popping up in your neighbourhood. The 5g antennas are smaller (smaller antenna = smaller wavelength = higher frequency)
In other words where previously 1 or 2 cellphone towers sufficed to provide enough signal for a small suburb, you may now suddenly find 20 small masts and antenna sites on higher houses.
Many people experience headaches, sleeplessness, high blood pressure and other complaints as a result.
You should have a zapper
A large part of electro-hypersensitivity is your parasite load.
The average person in the United States carries approximately 1 pound of living parasites according to the CDC.
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In an effort to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of law enforcement searches for human remains in the wild, searchers should cover the same area twice from two different angles and work no more than 1 to 2 meters apart while exploring the area.
Initial discovery of skeletal remains often is by chance instead of through an organized forensic search. Human skeletal remains in outdoor forensic sites often are dispersed from their point of initial deposition making locating isolated bones difficult. Forested areas in particular may obscure remains, as bones stained from soft-tissue and leaf-litter decomposition may blend in with the forest floor. Wide skeletal dispersal presents other problems for searchers, including the difficulty in keeping track of which areas have been searched and maintaining proper spacing of searchers to prevent gapping. Little is known about success rates when searching for dispersed skeletal elements and almost no testing has been done on this topic until now.
In order to test how challenging it is to find bones scattered on the surface in a forest through a simple visual search, researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) laid out a search grid at Boston University’s Outdoor Research Facility in Holliston, Mass. The searchers, all BUSM graduate students in forensic anthropology, searched for bones that had been randomly placed on the grid through multiple trials. White-tailed deer and pig bones were used and stained natural colors to increase the difficulty in finding them.
Researchers then examined the effects of searcher spacing and the utility of multiple passes through each grid. “Even with careful searching under controlled conditions, exposed surface skeletal elements can be missed, a concern that is likely amplified under real field search conditions. To maximize remains detection, forensic search protocols should include narrow searcher spacing and double passes through search areas wherever possible,” explained corresponding author James Pokines, PhD, associate professor of forensic anthropology at BUSM.
According to the researchers, studies like these increase our ability to use our law enforcement resources more efficiently and effectively when searching for human remains in forested environments, as in much of New England. “Better skeletal recovery makes it easier for us to find missing individuals and also to identify these remains once located.”
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A journey way back into history
The museum is dedicated to the Roman site of Bilbilis, origin of the present day city.
This monographic museum on Bilbilis is set in the Palacio de la Comunidad building. Among the remains conserved, special mention should be made of the Forum, Theatre, Thermal Baths and Temple. Visitors will see what day-to-day life was like at that time, thanks to a range of sculptures, architectural items, paintings, ceramics, precious metalwork, inscriptions, personal items... You can also see objects from prehistoric times and the Celitiberian civilisation, as well as the Moorish period and the Middle Ages.
Calatayud Municipal Museum
Plaza de Santa Teresa, 3
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Adams Abigail was the wife of the second President of the United States of America. Abigail depicts the ideal woman that lived in the early nationalism stages of the United States. She’s remembered as the Early First lady and the position she took on the fighting for women rights. In her works will propagating the women rights, she wrote a lot of letters to her husband. She was competent ion farm and financial management. From the content of the letters she wrote her husband one can judge that they lived happily as a family (Norton, 2001).
Role of women in early United States history- Abigail Adams
Birth of Abigail Smith (Abigail Adams), 1744
Abigail Smith was born in November 1944. She was daughter to a gifted reader that owned a whole library. She happened to have been born at time that girls were discriminated against in terms of denial of formal education. The United States at that time was a British colony and so her home town Massachusetts was under the British authority. She and her two sisters developed the interest for reading and hence they spent most of their time in their father’s library reading .Abigail’s dad encouraged her to read and this pushed her esteem high that she started pursuing other fields such as Letter writing, hosting and even sewing. It was at this point that she gained a lot of interest in letter writing that in the later stages of her marriage, she used this talent to push for the women agenda through writings to her husband. Her confidence in pushing what other women had not done made her to be recognized as the revolutionized woman who could achieve that which others couldn’t. The writings she did bring out a woman who was well versed with the nationhood struggle of the time even as America fought for its independence from the British.
John and Abigail Marry, 1764
John Adams was only 16 when she started visiting Abigail’s home and it didn’t take long for Abigail to discover that John to had the passion for reading. The attention that John gave to Abigail helped in bringing up the relationship and sooner they started exchanging letters during the times that they couldn’t meet. They later married in 1764 and settled at the Johns farmhouse in the nearby Braintree. A year later they were blessed with a daughter they called Abigail but mostly they would prefer calling her by the nick name Nabby. It was after two tears from the birth of Nabby that they were blessed with a son they called Quincy Adams. In a span of eight years the couple had been eight children. Abigail was in the pan of ten years in marriage preoccupied with taking care of her children and the far4m.This was because the husband was busy dealing with national issues that involved fighting for the independence of the United States. The only time before America’s independence that she moved out of the home was when Adams (her hubby) took her and the children to Boston as he participated in the workers’ rights there.
The Adams had four children by the time John got into active politics. John’s involvement in the continental congress made him to be so busy living his wife Abigail to run the family and the farm. During the independence war she actually devoted himself to education of her children. With time they bore more children bringing the number to eight. It is out of this children that Quincy the second born became the sixth President of the United States.
ABIGAIL DURING ADAMS VICE- PRESIDENCY AND PRESIDENCY 1789-1801
John Adams was Vice President for the United States from 1789-1797 and was President from 1797-1801. Abigail was more involved in the management of their home and did not spend much time even in the White House when the Husband became President. On the retirement of the husband, they lived out of the public life in Massachusetts. We are well able to learn about this great woman through the letters she wrote the husband. Abigail died just seven years before the Presidency of his son Quincy Adams (Singer, 2008).
The French Looming attack-1778
Abigail and John Adams were not just husband and wife but were close friends, lovers and this complemented their duties from family matters to the Presidency of John Adams. The effect of Abigail was felt in Johns Presidency through the advice she gave the husband on several decisions that he made. Case in point is the looming attack of the United States by the French in 1798.She advised her husband who was President to Attack France. As much as this did not happen, the actions taken by President John Adams were much in one way or the other incorporating her views. This led to the formulation of Acts that provided that aliens who talk anything negative or one that is against the policies of the American President would be traced and prosecuted. Abigail went ahead and supported this though it didn’t fully show what she had suggested but had partly dealt with the matter.
SERIES OF LETTERS-1774-1778
Abigail’s Letter May 7, 1776
This role played made the Americans to give her the reference title “Her majesty.”She fought for the change of laws to allow women to participate more in political affairs as is evident in her letter to John Adams of May 7,1776 "But you must remember that arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken; and, notwithstanding all your wise laws and maxims, we have it in our power, not only to free ourselves, but to subdue our masters, and without violence, throw both your natural and legal authority at our feet."
The relationship between Abigail and John was always a warm one from the letters she used to write the husband. This was due to the fact that they bonded by Abigail helping with the domestic issues at home while at the same time playing the role of an advisor to John. John was always keen to listen to Abigail’s advice which was mainly framed on the basis of the freedom of women. It is a fact that Abigail did not like the absence of her husband while on duty but she had to contend with this by having constant communication through letters. The letters they exchanged showed a lot of frankness and intimacy. Abigail could not take it lightly when she discovered that one was against the policies of the husband. She would therefore handle such people with a lot of resentment. She and her husband agreed on a number of issues one of the m is having the antislavery opinion. Adams and Abigail took this as a backtracker on the fight for concrete democracy in the United States. This is even demonstrated when Abigail took in a black boy that had the zeal to pursue education.
Fight for the Legislative amendments 1776- March 31st 1776 Letter
Abigail is today revered and remembered as the founder of the women rights activists in the United States. She directed the path that the women took to the independence of the nation and at the same time fought for the Legislative amendments that would see the rights of the women are protected. She fought for the education of the girl child and was herself on the forefront when she went in for the science classes while the husband was working in England. She accepted the fact that the only way that women can mentor their children to living fuller lives was through their acquisition of education. Her believe in education as an important tool for empowerment of women led her to write the letter to the husband which became famous in March 31st 1776 that actually persuades Adams to have women rights incorporated in the new laws; "I long to hear that you have declared an independency. And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.
"Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the husbands.
"Remember, all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.
"That your sex is naturally tyrannical is a truth so thoroughly established as to admit of no dispute; but such of you as wish to be happy willingly give up — the harsh tide of master for the tenderer and endearing one of friend.
"Why, then, not put it out of the power of the vicious and the lawless to use us with cruelty and indignity with impunity?
"Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness."
She coordinated other women in fighting for the revolution that concerned their rights through the support in formation of women organizations that facilitated collective bargaining. It is through this organization that the women from all over the country could be mobilizes to demand for their rights (Kleinberg, Boris, & Ruiz, 2007).
Women rights campaigns-March 1776 Letter
The women rights campaign which she got involved in had included various grievances which she got from experience and from the public forums and round table meetings she held with them. She fought for the education of the women and the change in nature of roles of women as concerns household management. She argued that men and women working together on the domestic roles would produce better results. This is shown in her letter of March 1776; "Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the (servants) of your sex; regard us then as being placed by Providence under your protection, and in imitation of the Supreme Being make use of that power only for our happiness." "We have only the name of masters, and rather than give up this, which would completely subject us to the despotism of the petticoat, I hope General Washington and all our brave heroes would fight."
She however respected the responsibilities that women must play at home. She never neglected this at any one point of her life both through her words and actions. This is what has made many to refer to her as the propagator of early feminism. As much as Abigail’s fight for the rights of women in the United States did not bring wide changes ,she left a great impact in the form of insight of what women can be given the chance that their rights are protected. This with time led to legislations that empowered women in many years to come (Wheeler, 2009).
Class enrolement-1784-Education for Empowerment of women
Abigail is a show of the women in the American society that were able to focus beyond their shortcoming and hindrances. While many women of the time would consider their education background as a hindrance to laying out their demands publicly, she did not behave this way.
She infact despite of her lack of competence in French tried to learn the basics that helped her cope with the society. She went ahead and decided to educate herself by taking science classes while in England with her husband in the 1780s. She studied topics which at the time were thought to be the domain of men such as Magnetism, Electricity and Hydrostatics. All along she lived a life of letter witting which became the most common way of giving her opinions and views. She wrote many letters to the husband in way of advice to the leadership of his husband and America as a whole. She even exchanged her views with great personalities such as Jefferson which actually singled her out as a woman with self confidence who had a lot of interest in the current affairs that took place those days (O’Connor, 2010).
Staying at home -John Adams Vice-Presidency-In Massachusetts
Abigail spent most of her time in Massachusetts when her husband was Vice-President. It only took the persuasion of her husband for her to occasionally go to Philadelphia. In the footsteps of her predecessor, Martha Washington, she kept off the political public fare. As much as she shared Adams federalist position she did not take this to the podium but only to that role of an entertainer to the husband’s political and social allies. She kind of demonstrates the kind of support that wives of public figures have today. This is seen when she defended the kind of staff that President John Adams picks while serving as President .She refers to them as,” truly American honorable and professional” Her writings are a depiction of a woman that was very concerned of the reputation of the Husband. Despite the constitutional order of the day that could not allow her to vote, she wielded natural powers which she used to urge a sizeable population to support her husband and the Republican Party.
Falling out with Jefferson 1800-1808
As much as Abigail went above the limits of feminism that described the people of the time, she was very careful not to go overboard that would have been beyond the definition of feminism at the time. She was careful to the extent that she even never published anything using her name. Her views which she noted that went against the majority views she kept to herself. On political matters, she was careful in the sense that she did proper analysis of a political situation before making any step which ensured that she didn’t go overboard. She was very careful to whatever she said. Whenever she had given information or a statement that would kind of bring conflict, she would be very willing to retract her statement in order to ensure that everybody was peaceful. She was always on the side of her husband even when it came to her relations with the husband’s friends. A case in point is when John Adams fell out with Jefferson; she decided to go underground on her relations with Jefferson until they started communicating with Adams again. She always stood by the husband to the extent that whenever they were in public functions she would shelve her personal views towards various issues and let those of the husband to prevail (Burt, 2001).
The Church at Quincy -1801-1818
Abigail and John Adams participated actively on the church matters even after their change from public life. The couple fellowshipped with the Parish Church at Quincy even after the end of John’s the pos-presidential term. They lived quietly in Braintree as they appreciated the fact that their son Quincy was gaining more prominence politically. It later happened that Quincy became the sixth President if the United States of America. She is today remembered for her life as the most liberated woman and a mother that participated in the building of the most prominent family. Her spiritual background is seen as a boost for her character and role in the society.
Abigail’s Death, October 1818
Abigail died of Typhoid fever in October 28, 1818 at the age of seventy three. This was one year before the end of her husband’s Presidential term and seven years before her son Quincy became the sixth President of the United States.
Abigail Adams accomplishments may have not have come through crusades but the lifestyles and her actions as the first lady of the United States left a lot to be learnt in the minds of many. She played a pivotal role in ensuring the girl child is given the formal education ending the gender based prejudice that had for many years left the women in the pit of illiteracy. She used her position as the wife of the second President of the United States in a shadowy way in pushing for the women agenda while at the same time performing her role as caring mother and wife. She is today gone in History as a mother and wife to the United States Presidents. The status of the liberal American woman today has taken decades to be where it is and Abigail Adams played a key role that had this long term implication.
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If energy costs are taking a bite out of your operating budget, you’re not alone. Utility rates have been climbing for years and experts predict the trend will continue. As a facility owner or a manager who’s looking for a way to control energy costs – a rooftop solar power plant might be the answer.
Green Power: How Does it Work?
Adding a solar rooftop system to your facility is a sustainable energy option that can produce some or all of your building’s energy needs. North American Roofing’s clients can choose off-grid solar arrays that produce energy in remote or isolated areas, or grid-tie systems that integrate with existing utilities.
A rooftop solar power plant features solar panels that collect free energy, via the sun’s rays, and convert it into DC power. Inverters then change the DC power to AC power, making it suitable for use in your facility. If you choose a grid-tie system, power produced in excess of what your facility uses, transfers to the electric grid. Depending on the wattage of your solar roofing system and your energy usage, there may be times when your electric meter spins backwards, crediting your utility account.
In addition to generating power, the panels block harsh rays from the top of your building’s roof, reducing heat absorption and consequently, your cooling costs.
Today’s Solar Panels
Today’s high-quality solar panels feature safety glass that resists surface impact and tolerates extreme weather situations such as heavy snow loads and harsh UV rays without warping or weakening. Designed to offer years of energy-producing performance, today’s panels are even suitable for areas that regularly experience high winds and other diverse weather conditions.
Years of rigorous electrical, thermographic and mechanical load testing in the laboratory, and in the field, have resulted in superior-quality panels that are as durable as they are efficient. If you haven’t checked out solar panels in a while, you might be surprised to learn that today’s panels are also fire and chemical resistant.
The Next Step
Installing a rooftop solar array isn’t a one-size-fits-all solution; every facility is different. North American Roofing’s Energy Services Group specializes in integrated roofing systems and offers individualized solar solutions to fit your specific needs. We design and install high-caliber solar arrays that provide extraordinary performance and the best financial return for your energy investment dollar. North American Roofing’s solar installation teams are among the most experienced in the industry and we have a proven record of success. | <urn:uuid:f9bbdb8d-8628-405b-8c11-e6e282c77aef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://naroofing.com/blog/turning-rooftop-solar-power-plant/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.916861 | 535 | 2.03125 | 2 |
We have developed an objective soft x-ray flat-field spectrograph installed in electron microscopes (EMs). The spectrograph has two attractive features. One is that it is designed to cover a wide energy range of 50-4000 eV by using four varied-line-spacing holographic gratings (VLSHGs) optimized for 50-200 eV, 155-350 eV, 300-2200 eV, and 2000-4000 eV. The gratings dedicated for the respective energy ranges can be accommodated in the single spectrograph. This advantage comes from that the positions of the source points and image planes are assumed as the common parameters in the design of all gratings. Therefore, it allows to easily change the energy range by only choosing an appropriate grating and its position. The other is the application of a newly invented W/B4C multilayer coating. It has been adopted to the grating for the 2000-4000 eV range to overcome the considerable decrease of the diffraction efficiency in the energy range above ∼2 keV. The novel coating makes it possible to enhance uniformly the diffraction efficiency at a constant incidence angle in the whole energy range. | <urn:uuid:a7062f6a-a528-40c3-9e9a-996cbfc4e6c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tohoku.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/development-of-an-objective-flat-field-spectrograph-for-electron- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925155 | 245 | 1.5 | 2 |
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Sets the alignment of the markers with relation to the x- or the y-axis depending on where the measure is. In case both axes have measures on them, this is determined by the orientation of the chart.
List of the chart's channels' configuration. The chart object also extends the channels object as a configuration shorthand.
Parameters for the markers' base color. The markers' actual color can also be affected by the lightness channel.
Sets the coordinate system for the chart. Switch to the 'polar' coordinate system to create a chart from the pie/radial chart family.
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Parameters for markers' lightness.
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The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) currently being considered by Congress would improve health care affordability for many Californians by addressing high and rising drug prices and by extending the improved premium affordability assistance to Covered California enrollees that began in 2021. The extension of federal premium assistance would also unlock additional state-financed affordability help to reduce how much Covered California enrollees pay out-of-pocket when they access care.
Laurel Lucia is director of the Health Care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where she has worked since 2009. Her research focuses on health coverage and cost trends in California, and policies to improve access to and affordability of health care for California workers and their families. Recent publications have examined the impact of rising health care costs for workers in California, policies to improve access to health insurance for California immigrants, shifts in health coverage during COVID-19, and the health coverage and economic impacts in California of the possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
She provides technical assistance to policymakers and stakeholders, and her work has been covered in the Los Angeles Times, the Atlantic, and National Public Radio. Previously, Laurel worked on issues affecting long term care workers during her time as a researcher/policy analyst for the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She has served as an elected officer for two unions. Laurel received a Master of Public Policy degree from UC Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University.
Comments on Rule Proposed by the Internal Revenue Service on Affordability of Employer Coverage for Family Members of Employees
Comment submitted to the Internal Revenue Service on proposed regulation that would address the ACA “Family Glitch.”
The Medi-Cal redetermination process has been paused during the COVID public health emergency. As a result, many more individuals have newly enrolled in Medi-Cal than disenrolled, increasing Medi-Cal enrollment by almost 2 million since the beginning of the pandemic. This blog post summarizes (1) the available estimates of the potential reduction in Medi-Cal enrollment once the PHE is unwound and redeterminations have been completed, and (2) the likely eligibility for and enrollment in private coverage among those losing Medi-Cal.
California has the opportunity to expand Medi-Cal to all low-income Californians, regardless of immigration status or age. This policy would result in a massive increase in coverage, bringing close to 700,000 undocumented Californians into coverage and reducing the uninsured rate for residents under 65 to just 7.1%, the biggest single improvement since implementation of the ACA.
The Threat to Coverage and Affordability Gains in Covered California if Congress Fails to Renew Subsidy Enhancements
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Congress enacted the American Rescue Plan of 2021 to provide additional temporary financial help for buying health insurance through the ACA Marketplaces. If these enhanced subsidies are not extended for 2023 and beyond, we project 220,000 fewer Californians would have individual market insurance in 2023 than if enhanced subsidies are extended, and premiums would be less affordable for more than two million individual market enrollees.
The state of California is ready with $304 million to help lower- and middle-income consumers pay for health insurance if federal subsidies end. But the fund will cover only a fraction of what would be lost. “We’re fortunate the state has the program, but it’s not enough,” said Laurel Lucia.
Much of the cost for increasing premiums has been swallowed by employers, but it gets passed down to employees anyway. When health costs increase, wages stagnate, said Laurel Lucia, director of health care at the UC Berkeley Labor Center.
If the state pours more money into part-time faculty health plans, “unions and the districts may negotiate to improve the benefits currently offered,” said Laurel Lucia. Colleges that already offer health plans to part-time faculty “might reduce the premium amount that the worker is required to pay or they might reduce the amount that people have to pay out of pocket to access care.”
Two women’s stories suggest why California’s expansion of Medicaid to undocumented older adults is a big deal
Gov. Newsom’s proposed budget has proposed providing the final missing piece and the largest group remaining: all low-income adults ages 26 to 49, regardless of immigration status. That move would represent the state’s biggest coverage expansion since the Affordable Care Act’s implementation, and comprises about 670,000 people, Lucia said.
“Our health insurance system, which is primarily tied to employment, is not financed in a way that’s progressive,” said Laurel Lucia. “Low-wage workers who get coverage through their jobs pay a much higher percentage of their income than middle- and higher-income workers.”
Lack of access because of immigration status is just one piece of the remaining uninsured. Many other Californians forgo coverage despite being eligible, likely because of the cost. According to the UC Berkeley and UCLA study, 2 million uninsured people qualify for Medi-Cal, employer coverage or Covered California.
“Unfortunately, employers use this threat to discourage workers from going on strike or to push workers to end a strike before an adequate contract agreement has been reached,” says Laurel Lucia.
“We do have a challenge with staffing problems [in healthcare],” said Laurel Lucia, director of the healthcare program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center. “I don’t see how this is the solution. Removing labor protections and benefits for healthcare workers will be bad for both workers and patients.”
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Technology is giving companies an unprecedented view of their customers: demographic data; buying preferences; behaviors that signal the intent to buy; and analyses that enable them to develop expectations about how customers are likely to act during the buyer-seller relationship. Those abilities are new and, in many cases, hold a lot of promise.
However, as we expand our capabilities to understand the customer through technology, it can become easy to overlook the fact that customers have changing expectations as well. Buyers want an easy buying experience, and they want to feel as if they are being sold to as people, not as consumers.
Too often businesses miss the “relationship” part of CRM and create processes that run directly counter to the expectations of customers. While those expectations are changing, they have not become unpredictable.
What Customers Expect From Businesses
The easy stuff should be easy. Customers expect that getting basic information about a company should be a snap — a visit to a website should present the obvious information at a glance. How customers can contact the business, what it sells, where they can buy it, how they can get problems solved, and other basic information should be readily available, without forcing customers to go on an exhaustive hunt (website search is ideal for this).
The more complex your product is, the more things fall into the “easy stuff” bucket, so think like a customer and make sure you provide answers to the most pressing issues. Keep track of the things customers call and email about, because they indicate things that are not easy to find.
Make sure that your site makes information easy to find on mobile devices, too. Customers use their devices more than they do their PCs, so making it easier to find information on one platform than it is on another makes no sense.
Your marketing should bring me value. Customers expect a return on the time they invest in listening to you. It’s not enough to send an email with your potential customer’s name in the subject line. You have to provide customers something that provides sufficient value that the customer thinks it was worth the time to look at.
Verticalization of marketing content is much more useful than personalization; by understanding who customers are and delivering marketing content specifically focused on their needs, you can go from being a glorified spammer to a company that’s a trusted source of information, and one that demonstrates its intent to help customers succeed.
If you want me to choose you, make an effort to be the choice. Customers expect sellers to be active and present during the decision process, even if they’re not in direct contact with the sales force. Customer journeys should be opportunities to discover the best purchase to address a buyer’s needs. If you want to be part of that journey, you need to be active in creating points within it.
That means being serious about mapping your content and creating content when it’s needed to fill in the blanks. It also means responding to buyers in social media when there’s a conversation you can contribute to. It’s not enough to set up a storefront and expect customers to wander in — you need to be active in capturing their attention and demonstrating why you’re the best choice.
If I’m ready to buy, be ready to sell. When customers are ready to hand over their cash, companies need to ensure that deals get done — not at the speed of the company’s processes but at the speed the customer expects. Delaying the completion of deals with manual processes for quote generation, approvals, contract signatures and other readily automated activities works against the ideal of sales acceleration, and in this day and age it’s disrespectful of the customer’s time.
Worse yet are the byzantine internal processes of some companies that can delay deals for no reason other than to satisfy internal demands. Ask yourself what’s more important: closed sales and happy customers, or the placation of someone internal who insists on a process working a certain way?
When I have a question, you should have a satisfactory answer. Customers expect your business to be the expert on your business, and this expertise is delivered via service and support. Service has been called “the new marketing,” and while this greatly undersells the things done by actual marketing, the truth is that support can keep customers from churning, and turn unhappy customers into satisfied and loyal ones.
To do this, companies have to arm their service agents with two things: knowledge about products, instilled through training; and the power to make changes to keep customers happy. “I don’t know” and “I can’t do anything” are not acceptable answers.
Knowledge about me should be transferable. Customers know that businesses collect information about them. Their relationship with the business may be primarily with one person or a small team, but their perception is that the entire business knows about them and who they are.
In this age of automation, it’s inexcusable for customers to have to reintroduce themselves over and over again each time they have to work with a new person or a new department. When this happens, it reveals a neglect of the customer information infrastructure — a neglect that springs from the business’ utter disregard for the customer’s time. It’s disrespectful, and customers know that it’s unnecessary.
Your relationship with me does not end with a closed deal. Customers expect an ongoing, business-based relationship. Getting the deal done is great — but that’s just the beginning of a longer relationship, especially if you work within the subscription economy.
A lot of companies, however, fail to keep up their end of the relationship after the deal is consummated. Marketing to those customers ceases, human contacts dry up, and the customer ends up feeling jilted. This may not matter much until renewal time, which may be the moment when you realize that your competitors have been more active in communicating with your customers than you’ve been. The “wham, bam, thank you ma’am” approach just does not work in an era when buyers expect much more from sellers. | <urn:uuid:836f3361-33e6-41cc-a3f6-de54be229135> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.crmbuyer.com/story/what-buyers-want-82170.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955293 | 1,282 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Some Illinois residents fear their home phone service might go away permanently if AT&T ceases to provide traditional landline service by lobbying to change state law.
The telecommunications provider wants to change that mandatory requirement in Illinois, which the Citizens Utility Board says could affect more than a million Illinois residents and businesses that still use landline service. Some residents, like Michele Charous and Carol Kolen, said they have joined CUB and its "Save Our Service Campaign."
“What would I do?" asks Charous. "How would I talk to my friends?”
"The Illinois Telecom Act is up for review in the 2017 legislative session, and AT&T is pushing two deregulation bills—Senate Bill 1381 and House Bill 2691," says the Citizen's Utility Board website. "The bills would open the door for the company to end traditional home phone service in Illinois and push consumers onto less affordable and reliable alternatives."
AT&T says more than 90 percent of households have either switched to modern internet based home phone service or wireless service.
And even though they say those numbers ring true, the telecommunications giant says that by law in Illinois, it still has to invest hundreds of millions of dollars into keeping voice-only landlines up and running in the state.
“We are not at the point we can guarantee that this is going to work all the time,” says Kolen.
“I would be just isolated because how would I be able to talk anybody if the battery died or I forgot to charge it what would I do,” Charous says.
The Citizens Utility Board says many in Illinois, like Kolen and Charous, rely on landlines for their communication needs.
“For a lot of people a landline is there most reliable and affordable lifeline to vital services,” said Jim Chilsen, of the Citizens Utility Board.
Paul Laschiazza, president of AT&T Illinois, says advancements in technology is driving change.
“Telecommunications in Illinois has not kept pace with how consumers communicate every single day,” Laschiazza said. "We are really investing in technology that nobody wants. AT&T’s desire is to use all that capital investment on new technology.”
But Charous feels a change in law would cause her telephone bill to go up and her phone service to suffer.
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Statements of the United Presbyterian Church bear witness to the belief that motherhood should be a choice of free citizens and that women have a right to bear children when they are prepared in their own view to undertake this responsibility. Forced motherhood is not the basis on which a democratic society can function. It is against the best interests of children, women, the family, and the society itself. Only tyrannies insist that women must bear children as a duty they owe as citizens.
Furthermore, the positions of the General Assemblies of the United Presbyterian Church recognize there are competing rights within the situation of pregnancy: The rights of women, other family members, and the medical care personnel-but, the person most responsible for the consequences of the pregnancy, the woman, is the proper person to make the decision. Few women make an abortion decision without careful and soul-searching thought.
United Presbyterians know that a variety of Biblical and theological views on abortion have traditionally been held by people throughout history and across diverse religious communions. Significant and contradictory views of sincere religious groups with respect to abortion a re found in our country. While the General Assemblies of the United Presbyterian Church support safe and legal abortions, we know that some religious groups and their members believe that abortion is against their theological understandings. We regret the confusion and the sometimes heated debate between religious groups on abortion. It is important to note, however, that the Supreme Court decisions of January 22, 1973 on abortion do not force any person to violate a religious principle or moral law but allow each woman to decide on the basis of her personal religious or moral belief whether to continue or to abort a pregnancy. These decisions coerce no one and establish equal freedom of choice for all. On the other hand, the proposed constitutional amendments would compel women to bear children against their consciences and force particular religious and moral standards on every citizen.
In conclusion, let me briefly review some of the possible consequences of approval of the constitutional amendments against abortion rights:
1. The proposed amendments would severely limit the right of women citizens to privacy and equal justice under the law by removing their freedom to make decisions about their own bodies when they are pregnant. This is a most serious erosion of our individual freedom.
2. These amendments would cause return to the hazards and tragedies of illegal abortions, high maternal death rates, unequal treatment of poor women, uplanned large families, an increase in abandoned and abused children, and an increase in public assistance costs. In addition, severe laws would again be permitted with criminal penalties for women who feel they must prevent childbirth. To approve these constitutional amendments would create greater problems than it solves.
3. Severe stress between religious groups would result if either of these constitutional amendments come to the States for ratification. Because religious people hold deep and contrary views about their theology and abortion, the harmony of our religious institutions will be disrupted as persons on each side of this question marshal their arguments and prepare as citizens to influence each State legislature. The ecumenical movement will be tragically fractured.
4. Finally, the effect on American communities will be divisive. Where church members have strongly differing views about abortion, the State-by-State ratification of these proposed amendments will erode the mutual respect and goodwill upon which our democracy is built.
On behalf of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., I affirm the belief that freedom of personal choice in problem pregnancies is better than a return to uncontrollable illegal abortions and maternal deaths. I support the Supreme (Court rule which allows safe and legal abortions on the decision of the woman. I oppose the proposed amendments as a serious infringement on the rights of women to plan their families, and the rights of all persons to realize a full and healthy life and to increase the public well-being.
I urge this subcommittee to turn back these attempts to amend the ('onstitution and reduce valuable privacy and responsible freedom in our society.
Senator Bayu. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. I would like to ask a question or two if I might.
You came down pretty hard on the issue of concern over implementing, within the confines of the Constitution, the religious beliefs of one particular religious sect. Is that really a fair assessment of the opposition to abortion?
Mr. THOMPSON. I believe, Mr. Chairman, if you read the statement, that I have not attributed the views opposing those which I expressed to any one particular sect. I recognize they are held by many religious persons, and it would be the imposition of those views. upon the rest of the citizenry who hold the contrary view.
Senator BAYI. I just thought you had stressed rather strongly that this was imposing the beliefs of one religious group upon everybody else.
Mr. Thompson. This was certainly not my intention. If I gave you that impression. I regret it. I have reread my testimony, and I believe that my intenton is clearly stated in there. .
Senator Bayu. The full freedom of personal choice is an interesting question. Is it prudent to impose any limitations, in your judgment, on abortion? Is there a time beyond which it would not be wise to have an abortion?
Mr. Thompson. The position of my church does not make any distinction between one time as compared with another.
Senator BAYI. How about William Thompson?
Mr. Thompson. My own personal view? As a lawyer, I support the position of the Supreme Court. I think it is judicially sound. My church's position is much further beyond that.
Senator Bayu. So you feel the Court's three-trimester distinction makes sense to you from a legal standpoint?
Mr. THOMPSON. That is correct and is historically based upon common law developed over the past century or so.
Senator Bayi. The right to privacy, of course, is one of our basic rights. The Court decision commented on the right to privacy of the mother. Cardinal Krol today responded to a question I directed to
him with the following statement : "that the right to privacy of one individual has never been protected if it required itself the taking of a life of another individual.” As a lawyer, what is your professional opinion on this statement?
Mr. THOMPSON. I heard the cardinal's testimony. I think in this particular area that so much depends on how we define our terms.
The Supreme Court in its majority opinion said that the right of privacy includes the right of free choice in the case of an abortion, and it defines the right of the mother to make such a free choice as a part of the right to privacy projected to her under the laws of our land. If we define the fetus as a human being, which these amendments would do as a matter of constitutional provision, then we would come out where Cardinal Krol does. If on the other hand, we define the right of privacy as including the right to decide whether or not one would have an abortion, then we come out on the side the Supreme Court does. My own view accords with that of the Supreme Court.
Senator Bayu. I suppose there is a great temptation to determine where an individual wants to go and figure out how he gets there.
Mr. THOMPSOx. That is the hazard. I think that is characteristic of much argument, certainly in this field in which we are now engaged.
Senator Bayit. One of the most, if not the most, fundamental disagreement, of course, is, when does life begin? Do you care to say anything further relative to your views as to when life is really constituted ?
Mr. THOMPson. Well, let me again state the position of my church. In the view of my church, this is a question that need not be determined, because the position of my church is that an abortion should be a matter of choice for the entire period of pregnancy.
If you are asking me personally, my personal view, I share the views expressed by Mr. Justice Clark in the Law Review article. which I quoted and which Mr. Justice Douglas quoted in his concurring opinion.
Senator Bayu. Your closing concern about fragmenting the ecumenical movement, can you tell how, without violating the rights of all of our citizens to be heard in legislative halls, there is not going to be some significant development of ecumenical differences now after the Court's case ?
Mr. THOMPSON. I think, Mr. Chairman, that we all recognize that there are differences within the Christian church, using that term in the most inclusive sense. There are certainly differences of opinion within the United Presbyterian Church. But to create situations in which those differences of opinion are aired publicly is to do a disservice, it seems to me, to the unity of the church unless the particular discussion is absolutely essential.
Now, it seems to me that the arguments against submitting these amendments to the States for ratification are overpowering. But in the event that they are submitted to the States for ratification, one unforunate result will be that we will have a public forum in which the differing views of persons will be expressed with great emotional intensity, and the result will be an adverse effect upon the rather fragile ecumenical movement.
Senator Bayit. I am sure that is happening now. There have been some who have suggested the way to keep this from happening is to just not have any hearings.
But that seems to me then to jeopardize the basic concept of free expression.
Mr. Thompsox. I quite agree with you. I certainly do not wish to be understood as being critical of this subcommittee.
Senator Bayu. Oh, go right ahead. I did not bring that up to criticize either. I just wanted to get your view.
. Mr. THOMPSOX. Quite the contrary, I think it is very important that the subcommittee hear the views of people on all sides of the issue. And it seems to me that the substantive arguments against the proposing of the amendments are very convincing.
I merely mention that one of the effects of submitting the amendments to the States for ratification will be this adverse effect upon the ecumenical relationships that have developed.
Senator Bays. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Thompson. I do not think there is any need to delay you further. I appreciate your contribution and that of your church.
I understand that our next witness, Dr. Robert Moss, the president of the United Church of Christ, is unable to be here; and Dr. Howard E. Spragg, executive vice president of the board for homeland ministries of the United Church of Christ, is not able to be here with us. But we have Rev. Sidney Lovett, Jr., and Mr. Tilford Dudley present who will present his statement.
STATEMENT OF REV. SIDNEY LOVETT, JR., CONFERENCE MINIS
TER FOR THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC CONFERENCE, ACCOMPANIED BY TILFORD DUDLEY, DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Reverend LOVETT. Mr. Chairman
Senator Bayit. Reverend Lovett and Mr. Dudley. I want to apologize for the lateness of the hour, which was something we did not anticipate. We should have but we did not.
Reverend LOVETT. Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the United Church of Christ I want to thank you for your openness and willingness to extend the hour and your patience and wisdom. I shall be very brief, abridging the message from our denomination for your consideration.
My name is Sidney Lovett and as the elected conference minister of the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ, I am appearing today on behalf of Dr. Robert Moss, president for our denomination and the Rev. Howard Spragg, executive vice president of the board for homeland ministries of the United Church of Christ both of whom were unable to be here at this time.
I would like to have their statement entitled "Freedom of Choice Concerning Abortion" submitted into the record.
Senator Bayh. Without objection. [Statement of Robert V. Moss and Dr. Howard E. Spragg follows:]
STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT V. Moss And Dr. Howard E. SPRAGG OF THE U'NITED
CHURCH OF CHRIST ON “FREEDOM OF CHOICE ('ONCERNING ABORTION” This statement is submitted by the Rev. Dr. Robert V. Moss, President of the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. Dr. Howard E. Spragg, Executive Vice President of the Board for Homeland Ministries of the United Church of Christ.
The United Church of Christ was formed in June 1957 by the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General ('ouncil of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States. It has just under two million members in about 6,900 local churches, which are grouped in area associations and state conferences. The top deliberative body is the biennial General Synod, with about 800 delegates chosen by the churches through their conferences. The U.C.C. national office is at 297 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10010. Its local office is at 110 Maryland Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
The Board for Homeland Ministries is an independent agency, founded many years ago to render service in the fields of home missions, church extension, Christian education, evangelism and research, health and welfare services, higher education, race relations and church publications. When the l'nited Church was formed, BHM was recognized as a United Church instrumentality. Its top full time officer is its Executive Vice President.
I'NITED CHURCH PROCEDURES ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT
Great emphasis is placed in the United Church on the preferences of individnal members and of the local churches. Consequently the Standing Rules require that Pronouncements proposed for General Synod action, and Proposals for Action in application of a Pronouncement, must be submitted to the national Secretary at least four or two months, respectively, before the opening of the Synod. The Secretary is to send the proposed Pronouncement and/or Proposal for Action to the local churches, conferences and known delegates at least three or one month, respectively, before the Synod. Each local church and/or individual is asked to study the proposals and to send in any yotes, opinions, remarks or other reactions offering guidance. Copies are given to the proposal's sponsor to the Synod Committee.
At the Synod the Committee on Pronouncements holds an open hearing, receives presentations from delegates and instrumentality representatives, consults with interested parties to produce maximum agreement and prepares its own recomendation to the Synod delegate body. At the plenary session the floor is open for the usual parliamentary motions, debates and votes.
HISTORY OF ABORTION DISCUSSIONS IN UNITED CHURCHI
In the late 1960's, many of our local clergy in New York, California, Ohio, Minnesota and numerous other states were voluntarily involved in the original inception of the Clergy Consultation Service on Problem Pregnancies--a network referral service that served thousands of women across the country. In time, United Church Conferences in such states as New York, Ohio, Minnesota, California, Washington, Connecticut, Indiana and Kentucky supported through formal policy statements and direct voluntary action a position of freedom of choice for women facing problem pregnancies.
In mid 1970 the l'nited Church Board for Homeland Ministries adopted and issued a statement calling for the repeal of all laws forbidding or limiting abortions. In September 1970 the ('ouncil for Christian Social Action, an official agency established by and within the United Church of Christ, adopted a statement entitled: "Toward Freedom of Choice in the Area of Abortion." This statement found that many abortion laws "are neither just nor enforceable" and "compel many women either to bear unwanted children or to seek illegal abortions.” It noted a "wide variation in theological and scientific views as to when personal human life begins" and called for a wise law" which would repeal “legal restrictions on physican-performed abortions during the early months of pregnancy.” The ('ouncil called upon the l'Of churches and their members to involve themselves in the "repeal of overly restrictive legislation."
The Council for Christian Social Action also voted to submit its statement to the next General Synod scheduled for June 1971. At its next meeting, on Feb. 6. 1971, the Council noted the disagreement between itself and the Board for Homeland Ministries, the Council favoring no legal restrictions during the "early months" of the pregnancy and the Board supporting no legal restrictions at ans time. Hearing that attempts at reconciliation had failed, the Council voted again to submit its statement to the next Synod and to face there any amendments proposed for liberalization.
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Download the book Volunteers bring you 9 recordings of The Feast of Lights by Emma Lazarus. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 18, 2011. Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights, is the Jewish festival commemorating the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem during the 2nd century BCE. This poem celebrating Hanukkah was written by Emma Lazarus, a Jewish American poet. Emma Lazarus also wrote 'The New Colossus,' a sonnet which is inscribed on a plaque on the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty. | <urn:uuid:c9345221-383f-4cb0-a835-012268830df1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beelingo.com/Audiobooks/Book/6190?genre=Ancient_Texts&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968696 | 110 | 3.015625 | 3 |
Lesson 1 – Party Monkey
- To be able to work on these tutorials you will need Blender installed.
- Blender can be downloaded for free from – https://www.blender.org/download/
- One you’ve downloaded and installed Blender on your machine, you are good to go.
- This tutorial is called, “Party Monkey”.
- In this tutorial we will, Create a 3D model of a monkey wearing a party hat using Blender.
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The 34th annual Buffalo International Jewish Film Festival — the longest-running film festival in Buffalo — will take place March 22-28. The Jewish Community Center-run festival will feature critically acclaimed documentaries and dramas from around the world.
The festival includes a lineup of events with various producer and filmmaker panels.
“We're small, but we have a lot of history,” festival chairman Michael Silverman said.
Silverman is responsible for researching and recruiting films from around the world. This year the BIJFF is featuring 11 films.
“The first thing I look for is quality,” Silverman said. “The second is films that deal with societal issues.”
Tickets for any of the screenings are $10 and can be purchased online or at the theater.
Silverman said the festival still draws crowds despite movies being available for streaming. The average audience count last year was 57 for a screening and the Saturday night screening usually sells out, Silverman said.
“Seeing movies on the big screen in a theater is always more exciting, engaging and enjoyable than watching at home,” Silverman said. “Then, too, are the ‘extras’ that often come with festivals; the expert presentations, directors, producers and other special events such as we try to provide.”
Matthew Shoychet, a Toronto-based director, will be leading the discussion for the screening of his documentary, “The Account of Auschwitz,” on Sunday March 23.
“The Account of Auschwitz” follows the 94-year-old former Nazi, Oskar Gröning, as he faced trial in Germany for the murder of roughly 300,000 Jewish people in the Holocaust. Gröning made international headlines at the time of his trial.
“He’s such an interesting character because he was so old, he was 94 at the time, so [the film] is talking about the passage of time, and how far does complicitness go,” Shoychet said.
Shoychet said the responses from the audience have been overwhelmingly moving. The film considers how and why society holds war criminals accountable and the importance of preserving history, according to Shoychet.
“As we move forward in time we're losing all the holocaust survivors,” Shoychet said. “We’re losing all the veterans, we’re losing all Nazis and the people who were there to witness it. So it's important to film them and capture the stories. This happens to be in the context of justice.”
The film had its world premiere at the Hot Docs Film Festival in Toronto and won second place for the audience award. The film has been featured in different festivals around the world including Poland, Jerusalem, London and New Mexico.
Silverman said he thinks films like “The Account of Auschwitz” are likely to draw more young people to the festival.
“I think that college students might find some of the dramatic documentaries particularly engaging and relevant, such as ‘The Waldheim Waltz,’ ‘The Accountant Of Auschwitz’ and ‘93Queen,’” Silverman said.
The BIJFF is also holding a speaker night featuring Hollywood producer Linda Reisman. The producer of “The Danish Girl” and “Leave No Trace” will be speaking at the JCC Benderson Family Building on March 9 at 7 p.m. Tickets are $36 with proceeds benefiting the BIJFF.
Alexander Shapiro, a junior mechanical engineering major and president of the Jewish Student Union, said he thinks the event is important for students to know about.
“I think that the Buffalo Jewish community, the JCC, could do a better job of trying to advertise to students, but we shouldn’t blame them,” Shapiro said. “We as the Jewish Student Union should be doing a better job of keeping tabs on what's happening in the Buffalo Jewish community.”
Shapiro said students aren’t aware of the festival and events like it in Buffalo. He is looking forward to attending the festival this year after recently learning about it.
“There’s at least one film I’m really excited to see,” Shapiro said. “[“The Accountant of Auschwitz”] highlights the recentness of the Holocaust in the grand scheme of history and the historical trauma that is deeply embedded in the Jewish community, as well as how we balance the values of justice and forgiveness.”
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Image copyright PA Image caption Apotex is one of Canada’s largest drug makers
Canadian pharmaceuticals giant Apotex is one of 13 companies to have paid $100m (£77m) as part of an agreement to help the US government’s investigation into alleged price-fixing.
Apotex admitted price-fixing in contracts between 1992 and 2007.
It is one of six Canadian drug makers to reach a deal with the Justice Department.
It is also among the six that have admitted a part in an international price-fixing group which has since shut down.
The case against the companies is being heard at the federal court in Colorado.
Canadian drug maker Apotex is one of the eight remaining in the national case.
It made a total payment of $35m in the first settlement.
Apotex will receive a fine of $5.2m, reducing its interest expenses.
Last year, the company was fined $45m in separate Canadian proceedings.
The deal ended a six-year investigation by the Justice Department of violations including conspiracy, interstate commerce by fraud, fraud in violation of a Supervision Law and the sale of drugs without valid prescriptions.
Companies involved were charged by the Attorney General of the United States of America with conspiracy to eliminate competition, sale of drugs without valid prescriptions, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and other violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act.
Companies may also face civil and criminal penalties and have their business licences suspended.
In addition to US and Canadian authorities, the investigation has included Brazilian authorities.
Got your say
Barry Sherman is remembered fondly by some colleagues at Apotex who did not want to be named.
One of them said the 70-year-old drug maker would be remembered for his “casual approach” and humour.
The employee added: “I remember a time he walked in, didn’t look at the desk or at his card, and because he was paying by cash walked in and did some work, he’d leave and off he’d go.”
Mr Sherman has a long record of philanthropy.
In 2005, he vowed to donate $30m to the Cancer Research Centre at the University of Toronto, which named its new building in his honour.
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Chlamydia, bacterial pathogenesis, gene regulation, gene expression, transcription, developmental regulation, systems biology, host-pathogen interactions, centrosome, cancer, cilia, infectious disease, sexually transmitted, infertility, trachoma
To apply for a postdoctoral position in my research group, please email me, describing your research interests and goals and attaching your CV.
Our research in the fields of bacterial pathogenesis and infectious diseases looks at how the intracellular bacterium Chlamydia causes disease. Chlamydial infections are the most commonly reported infectious disease in the country. Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common cause of bacterial sexually transmitted disease in the developed world, and a leading cause of preventable blindness in the developing world. In addition, genital strains of C. trachomatis have been associated with cervical cancer. A second species, Chlamydia pneumoniae is a common cause of community-acquired pneumonia.
All chlamydial species share an unusual developmental life cycle that takes place within a eukaryotic host cell. We are studying a number of aspects of this intracellular infection:
1. Gene regulation: A central question is how this pathogen replicates and converts between two developmental forms within an infected host cell. We are studying the temporal control of chlamydial genes by mechanisms that regulate DNA supercoiling, transcription (alternative forms of RNA polymerase and transcription factors, such as activators and repressors) and translation (small RNAs). The approaches used include molecular biology, biochemistry, genetic and whole genome approaches, and bioinformatics. We are also using 3D electron microscopy to study how chlamydiae use cell size to control developmental conversion.
2. Host-pathogen interactions: Chlamydia manipulates and subverts numerous host processes in order to support its intracellular infection. We are studying how Chlamydia causes centrosome dysregulation such as the production of multiple centrosomes. These studies may provide a potential mechanism to explain the epidemiologic association of C. trachomatis and cervical cancer. We are also studying how Chlamydia causes loss of primary cilia, which is a signaling organelle on the host cell, and disrupts motile cilia, which may lead to infertility in women. These Chlamydia cell biology studies are a collaboration with Dr. Christine Suetterlin of the Department of Developmental and Cell Biology. Together, we are using a variety of cell biology approaches including immunofluorescent and electron microscopy, and protein analysis.
Dean’s Junior Physician/Scientist Award, College of Medicine, UC Irvine
Excellence in Teaching Award, School of Medicine, UC Irvine: 2004-2016 (8 times)
Excellence in Graduate Student Teaching Award, School of Medicine, UC Irvine
A list of publications can be found here:
Tan, M. and Bavoil, P.M. (ed.). Intracellular Pathogens I: Chlamydiales (Tan, M., Lead Editor) (ASM Press, Washington, DC), 2012.
Tan, M., Hegemann, J.H. and Sütterlin, C. (ed.) Chlamydia Biology: From Genome to Disease (Caister Academic Press, Poole, U.K.), 2020.
Batteiger, B.E. and Tan, M. Chlamydia trachomatis (trachoma and urogenital infections). In: Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett’s Principles and Practice of Infectious Disease, 9th edition. J.E. Bennett, R. Dolin, M.J. Blaser, ed., (Elsevier, Philadelphia, PA). pp. 2301-2319. 2020.
Rosario, C.J., Soules, K., Hefty, P.S. and Tan, M. Chlamydia gene regulation. In: Chlamydia Biology: From Genome to Disease. M. Tan, J.H. Hegemann and C. Sütterlin, ed., (Caister Academic Press, Poole, U.K.), pp. 219-240. 2020.
Brothwell, J.A., Sütterlin, C., Rudel, T. and Tan, M. The chlamydial protease CPAF. In: Chlamydia Biology: From Genome to Disease. M. Tan, J.H. Hegemann and C. Sütterlin, ed., (Caister Academic Press, Poole, U.K.), pp. 177-194. 2020.
R01 AI044198, NIAID, NIH, 5/17-4/22, “Mechanisms of developmental regulation in Chlamydia” (PI: Tan)
R01 AI123998, NIAID, NIH, 8/17-7/21, “Late developmental regulation in Chlamydia” (PI: Tan)
R01 AI151212, NIAID, NIH, 2/20-1/25, “Mechanism of RB-to-EB conversion in Chlamydia” (Multi-PI grant, PIs: Suetterlin, Enciso, Boassa, Tan)
R01 AI153410, NIAID, NIH, 4/20-3/25, “Primary cilia loss and cell cycle re-entry in Chlamydia-infected cells” (Multi-PI grant, PIs: Suetterlin and Tan)
American Society for Microbiology: Division D (Bacteria of Medical Importance) Chair (2005-6), Division Advisor (2006-7)
Chlamydia Basic Research Society: Secretary-Treasurer (2007-11), President-Elect (2011-2013), President (2013-2015)
Infectious Diseases Society of America: Fellow
Cellular and Molecular Biosciences
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- To provide information on global land use for research on human-environment interactions.
- The Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 1 data set describes globally-significant ecological patterns within the terrestrial biosphere caused by sustained direct human interaction with ecosystems, including agriculture, urbanization, forestry and other land uses. Conventional biomes, such as tropical rainforests or grasslands, are based on global vegetation patterns related to climate. Now that humans have fundamentally altered global patterns of ecosystem form, process, and biodiversity, anthropogenic biomes provide a contemporary view of the terrestrial biosphere in its human-altered form. Anthropogenic biomes may also be termed "anthromes" to distinguish them from conventional biome systems, or "human biomes" (a simpler but less precise term). This data set is distributed by the Columbia University Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN).
- Recommended Citation(s)*:
Ellis, E.C., and N. Ramankutty. 2008. Anthropogenic Biomes of the World, Version 1. Palisades, New York: NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC). https://doi.org/10.7927/H4H12ZXD. Accessed DAY MONTH YEAR.
Ellis, E.C., and N. Ramankutty. 2008. Putting People in the Map: Anthropogenic Biomes of the World. Frontiers in Ecology and the Enviroment 6 (8): 439-447. https://.doi.org/10.1890/070062.
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We are pleased to announce the Spring 2020 Making a Difference awards.
Mass Administration of Antibiotics: Reaching Clinical and Community Equipoise
Anthony So, MD (Johns Hopkins University)
Mass drug administration (MDA) of antibiotics to all children in a community or population has the potential to reduce infectious diseases and reduce childhood mortality globally. However, MDA requires weighing near-term gains against longer-term risks of antibiotic resistance, which would impair treatment of serious bacterial infections; fairly distributing benefits and risks among individuals, communities, and whole societies; obtaining informed consent, and engaging the community.
A Rubric for Algorithmic Fairness for Predictive Analytics in Healthcare
David Kent, MD (Tufts Medical Center)
models, which are increasingly used in clinical medicine, raise concerns about
introducing or amplifying health disparities. Different conceptions of
fairness, however, may be mutually exclusive in predictive models. The
investigators have shown how different fairness considerations are salient in
situations involving allocation of scarce health care resources among patients
compared to situations where the patient and physician make a shared clinical
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Running requires the coordinated control of each segment of the leg as 3-5 times your body weight impacts the ground over a 0.2 second period. Inefficiency in any portion of this motion can lead to:
Beneficial for all runners, whether casual or competitive, your evaluation will be performed one-on-one with an experienced Physical Therapist and will include:
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- A free CD of your analysis to take home and review.
- A customized exercise program and training recommendations to address any areas of weakness or inefficiency and to make you a better, more injury-free runner.
- Recommendations for follow-up visits as needed to ensure progress towards your personal goals and advance your training to the next level.
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- Are you running with good form?
- Do you want to run faster and more efficiently?
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The definition of an entrepreneur differs from one person to another. A hopeful business owner needs to be motivated to make his/her service a success. A business owner needs to be an excellent salesman and needs to have a strong feeling of self-esteem. An effective entrepreneurship calls for creativity as well as a concentrate on long-term results. Other than declaring, an ambitious participant should have a sense of experience as well as agree to take dangers.
An entrepreneur is an individual that takes a possibility and also transforms it into a service. Most of the times, an entrepreneur is an individual that has little cash or an inadequate business plan to start a service. A hopeful participant determines a market requirement as well as utilizes restricted resources to develop the remedy to meet that demand. Then, an entrepreneurship job includes economic danger. The objective of an entrant is to create worth.
The definition of an entrepreneur varies widely. In several contexts, business owners create new services by recognizing unmet requirements, creating new products, marketing them, as well as marketing them. Some business owners continue to launch brand-new organizations and also usually become serial business owners. Although words “business owner” is connected with start-ups as well as small businesses, numerous effective household-name service owners started as business owners. In addition to being the founder of a new company, a participant can be a person that has a passion for addressing a particular trouble.
The role of an entrepreneur varies. The function of an entrant varies depending on the type of service she or he has. The function of an entrepreneur is to produce revenue more than expenses. This can be accomplished through marketing, word-of-mouth, as well as networking. Profit margins will certainly enhance when business expenses are less than expenses. An effective entrant is likely to be able to locate ways to stay clear of tax obligations as well as pay a minimum amount to cover costs.
An entrant is a person that wants to be self-directed and also in control of their activities. They typically do not fit well right into standard work duties as well as do not fit into the mold of a normal employee. Their concept is distinct and they can resolving troubles in new means. They do not care about the cash they make; they’re just curious about making their very own business. A growing entrepreneur makes it possible for the society to fulfill its requirements.
While the word business owner has no straight definition in English, it has been used in the English language as early as the 13th century to refer to a person that undertakes a business venture. In scholastic circles, the term entrepreneur has been utilized given that the early 1800s and was first utilized in the French language by Richard Cantillon. The initial scholastic use of words participant remained in the year 1730 by a male named Richard Cantillon who defined the definition of a participant as the desire to take personal economic danger for a task. Later, the term was used in business economics by Jean-Baptiste Say and also John Stuart Mill. The function of an entepreneur is to produce value and relocate resources.
An entrepreneur has an unrivaled vision of the future. They may have the capability to determine unmet requirements and also develop as well as market an item that serves those demands. They might additionally be a serial entrant, regularly beginning a brand-new organization. Along with their vision, an ENTREPREENT has the capability to see, really feel, and act on their vision. Ultimately, it is an effective entrant who takes dangers to make his/her organization a success.
As a young business owner, you will require to read more about yourself. At first, you might have to transform what you do for a while, yet after you have done that, you will be a better person. This is the time to develop a deeper understanding of on your own as an ENTREPREUNTER. Apart from obtaining a new perspective on your organization, ENTREPETUOUSNESS is a procedure of understanding and development. The sooner you can locate your niche and concentrate on it, the far better it will certainly be for your company.
A good ENTREPRESE has an atypical company version. It is an extremely complex system of business that can change the globe. If you are an ENTREPRETREPREENT, you have the capacity to alter the world by creating your very own distinct concepts. A VENTUREURER is not a normal business person. It is the owner of a service as well as the one in charge of developing that company’s culture.
An entrepreneur is a person that sets up a business, typically as a side hustle, as well as ultimately develops it right into a full-time work or sustainable service. An entrepreneur is a pioneer and enjoys to trying out originalities. They usually change the regulations of what’s taken into consideration common as well as change them with a fresh one. There are many different kinds of business owners, varying from little home businesses to international business. All of these companies have their own distinct qualities as well as challenges, and they all look for to develop profits with labour, resources and natural deposits.
A business owner is often an enterprising person. Words business owner comes from the Greek verb resourceful, meaning to take on a brand-new undertaking. An aspiring entrant will certainly build partnerships with others, but is unlikely to need a great deal of assistance or approval from others. Commonly, entrepreneurs are passionate regarding what they’re doing and will not quit till they’ve produced the service to a trouble. In order to end up being effective, a future entrepreneurship can make an excellent addition to any organization.
A business owner will be an excellent manager if they’re passionate about what they’re doing and can interact their suggestions well. A terrific business owner can be a great communicator. A vision is vital to a business owner, and also it will certainly drive his/her success. An artisan is the excellent instance of a decorum represented by an entrepreneur. A wise participant will want to work hard to obtain their item to market and also a positive track record from the public.
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Long lived herbaceous perennial dye plant. Slightly scrappy to look at, the weak stems often lie along the ground, but can climb up to 1.5m high by means of tiny hooks. Leaves are formed in whorls starlike around the central stem. Flowers in mid-late summer are inconspicuous, with five pale yellow petals, followed by small (4–6 mm diameter) red to black berries in autumn, then the whole plant dies down in winter. The roots can be over a metre long, with side roots which run under the surface of the ground for some distance, sending up new shoots. Madder prefers loamy soils with a constant level of moisture.
Madder roots have been used as a dye for materials such as for leather, wool, cotton and silk for over 5,000 years. Archaeologists have found traces of madder in linen in Tutankhamen’s tomb (1350 BC), and in wool discovered in Norse burial grounds. The minimum age for harvesting is three years, but the best age is five years, when the roots are pencil thick. Fifteen-year old plants produce roots that are 2.5 cm in diameter. If you wish to harvest madder regularly it is best to have three or more beds, and dig them in rotation.
The outer red layer of the root gives the common variety of the dye, the inner yellow layer the refined variety. The dye is fixed to the cloth with help of a mordant, most commonly alum. The roots contain the acid ruberthyrin. By drying, fermenting, or a treatment with acids, this is changed to sugar, alizarin and purpurin. Purpurin is not coloured, but is red when dissolved in alkaline solutions; mixed with clay and treated with alum and ammonia, it gives a brilliant red colourant (madder lake).
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There are a lot of talks these days about solar energy and whether or not it makes sense for homeowners. Is my home too old for solar panels? Is my roof too shaded? How do I know if solar is a good fit for my home? In this blog post, we’ll help you answer those questions and decide if going solar is right for you!
Is My Home Too Old for Solar Panel?
If you’re considering investing in solar power, there could be a variety of obstacles. Perhaps your work hours or the upfront cost are not enough to make solar a feasible alternative.
Many homeowners live in older homes and older structures, such as those with asbestos floors and walls. With the passage of legislation and advancements in technology, these homes could frequently be outdated in electrical safety standards.
While the living conditions in an old home might seem like a hassle concerning solar energy, the good thing is that it’s rare. Older homes can vary in quality and age which is why we’ve created an overview of the most frequent issues that can affect the cost of obtaining solar panels for older homes.
If your house is powered by electricity and is in compliance the house is not old enough to switch to solar. While your home might not too old, however, the same can’t be said about other aspects.
Factors to Consider
Is my home too old for solar panels? Consider the following factors before installing solar panels in your home.
Switchboard and Meter Upgrades
If you live in an older structure, it could be that you have a switchboard that does not comply with the current standards and could pose an extreme risk to safety. Switchboards of the past were usually constructed of flammable wood or chipboard and backed by asbestos that was toxic or had old-fashioned porcelain fuses. They don’t typically have the safety switch, intended to shut off the circuit in the event of surges or faults.
Legally, your electrician has to ensure that all electrical work complies with the latest regulations. When solar panels are fitted in an old residence, you will likely have to shell out additional money to make the switchboard conform to current safety and legislation standards. This is the case for any electrical work carried out in the building. Is my home too old for solar panels? Check your switchboard and meter upgrades.
Aged Trees and Shading
Older homes often contain trees that have grown over the years. The issue with an old, tall tree is they could outstretch the solar in certain parts of the day or during different seasons.
If a single cell of the solar panel is surrounded by shade, then the entire string of panels will not function as the system would be able to operate with less energy. It’s crucial to know if hanging trees, roof arches, or similar structures can cause shade during the daytime.
An experienced installer can estimate what amount of sun all day long in addition to during winter and summer. So you’ll know if there’s diminished efficiency of the shade. You should also ensure that you’ve placed them in the most optimal location. Is my home too old for solar panels? Check aged trees and shading.
Since the majority of residential solar energy systems are on the roof, it is crucial to have a sturdy base to build it. The most suitable roof for this project is one made out of composite shingles. Roofs made of slate and clay tile do not suit this type of construction. Concrete or flat roofs are difficult but as feasible as wood shake roofs.
Additionally, the roof must not be steep because there will be regular maintenance on the roof. Since personal solar systems can last between 20 and 30 years or more, it’s suggested for the roof to have the same course to prevent taking down the solar panels from putting shingles on the roof. Is my home too old for solar panels? Check your roofing.
Can Solar Panels Be Installed on a Wall?
The wall is not a common installation surface for solar panels. Solar photovoltaic (PV) modules are usually installed on rooftops because they need to be positioned at a particular angle to capture sunlight most effectively.
There are a few reasons why walls are not commonly used as an installation surface for solar PV modules:
- Walls are not usually strong enough to support the weight of solar PV modules.
- Solar PV modules need to be positioned at a particular angle to capture sunlight most effectively, and this is usually only possible on rooftops.
- Walls are often shaded by trees or other buildings, which reduces the amount of sunlight that reaches the solar PV modules.
- Solar PV modules need to be kept clean in order to function properly, and this is usually easier to do on a rooftop than on a wall.
If you are considering installing solar PV modules on a wall, it is important to consult with a qualified installer to determine whether your wall is suitable. The installer will also be able to advise you on the best way to mount the solar PV modules on your wall.
Solar PV Installation for Heritage Properties
If your home is classified as a structure of historic significance in the local council’s heritage register, you might need to get approval before installing solar panels. If you’re unsure whether your home is on the heritage register, you can ask your local council for more details.
Although modern technology is installed in heritage buildings, the visual impact on the building is likely to influence the chances of getting approval. Heritage experts may be required to determine the location of your solar panel according to how it is facing and how much it can alter the style of the building.
Solar is now becoming more prevalent in older homes. It works efficiently on heritage properties and can provide significant environmental benefits for older homes.
Solar Panel PV Installation Requirements in Ireland
All solar panel PV installations in Ireland must comply with the requirements of the Irish Building Regulations. In addition, all solar panel PV installers must be registered with the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI).
The SEAI has a list of registered solar panel PV installers on its website. This list is updated regularly and provides contact details for all registered solar panel PV installers in Ireland.
The Irish Building Regulations require that all solar panel PV installations must be carried out by a qualified installer. In addition, all solar panel PV installations must be inspected and certified by the SEAI.
Solar panel PV installations must comply with the following standards:
- IEC 62108 (Photovoltaic systems – Design requirements)
- IEC 62109 (Photovoltaic systems – Safety requirements)
- EN 50380 (Electrical safety of photovoltaic power systems)
- EN50438 (Grid connection of energy storage systems connected to low-voltage networks)
In order to be registered with the SEAI, solar panel PV installers must have completed an SEAI-approved training course. A list of approved courses is available on the SEAI website.
If you are considering installing solar PV panels on your home, it is important to ensure that your installer is registered with the SEAI and that they have the appropriate qualifications. EcoPlex Energy Solutions is an SEAI-certified solar panel installer.
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Are you looking for 5th birthday gift ideas?
Whether you are looking for an inexpensive gift for a 5 year old boy or princess gift ideas for a 5 year old you are at the right place.
At the age of five, kids let their imaginations go wild and are quite active compared to the other ages. There is lots of social play and a lot of motor skills where they use movement plenty.
At this age, most things are basically new, from new interests that are more specific, new milestones to new social needs.
Therefore toys from beforehand may not invoke their curiosity or involvement anymore. As mentioned before, their interests are then more specific since they are starting kindergarten at that age, learning new things including things they love for example art and crafts, sports or music which makes it easier to know what kind of toys they may prefer.
But since kids develop at different degrees, their needs may vary. This article will be diverse enough to cater to all those needs and knickknacks and most important of all, both genders.
5th Birthday Gift Ideas for Girls
Everyone loves a good sing-fest especially a five year old since at this age, they portray a very impressive sense of rhythm.
There are however factors to consider when purchasing a karaoke machine for kids.
- Volume control and key features – first off, this feature is crucial to control the volume at which the child listens to due to their sensitive hearing system. Second, you do not want to have your alone time and suddenly have your little one driving you out of your mind being loud.
- Via Bluetooth karaoke machines – karaoke machines come with inbuilt songs that are more likely to start sounding boring to your kid the more they listen. Make sure to purchase one that can be connected to Bluetooth or an mp3 player for more song options.
- Is it fun? – the whole point of a toy is to have fun with it. Make sure it has features your kid will enjoy working with as she lets out her inner rock star. Features like disco lights to set the ambience and fascinate your kid, different and funny sound effects, pretend play instruments, or a light up keyboard.
- Additional benefits – for example if you’re getting a karaoke machine that you can connect to the screen for the display of the lyrics. Your kid will enjoy singing along as she read the lyrics and better yet, improve her reading and speed skills.
The Ballerina Music Jewelry Music Box has a popping ballerina spinning to the swan lake tune. What’s even better, it has kids treasure box with 4 pull out drawers that can be used for storing her tiny secret treasures, a glass mirror and water color art which is however optional on various ballerina music boxes.
They come in different bright colors that you can choose from depending on your child’s favorite color and different styles that would include more drawers if it is bigger for storage of more stuff.
They also come with varied detailed artwork with lovely shades that are an unmistakable artistic treat to the eye.
It can make a beautiful art piece in the little girl’s room as much as it will make the perfect gift for a birthday occasion and a wonderful possession in the little one’s heart.
Trust me, if your five year old is a dance lover or a ballerina, she will go crazy for this one. The tune it self can be loved by anyone.
The ballerina musical jewelry box is bound to be a treasured possession for quite a while.
Other than it’s appealing look, the drawers placed on the back, front and both sides will encourage your little one to be more organized.
There is enough space to arrange her little possessions like notes, charms and other accessories.
Girls love dolling up stuff including themselves. They will watch you do various stuff and will want to try them out.
For example watching you applying on your make up and I can attest to the bugging they can deliver till you have done the same to their tiny faces.
This kid’s make up kit will take them away from your own make up kit. It is also non-toxic and safer compared to your own due to their sensitive skin.
The make-up will unleash her creative side and cultivate to her imagination while having fun at the same time.
The washable make up kit comes in the prettiest make up bag you will ever see.
The accessories and the cosmetics will be stored up very nicely inside and allow your girl to carry it around without creating a mess.
- Other than organization and portability, the little bag is designed to look like the mom’s cosmetic kit.
- The make up uses a water soluble formula that is not irritating to the skin. Adult make up uses a lot of chemicals and it definitely safer to buy your girl one with no preservatives and chemical elements.
Watch her engage herself in the fun role plays and make herself up to the little princess she is.
You know anything Disney will get your kid’s attention. This Disney princess dress up trunk has four classic Disney princess outfits: Snow White, Cinderella, Aurora and Belle.
They are not the only princesses though. Different Disney princess dress up trunks will have other Disney princess.
It all depends on your girl’s favorite princesses. What’s even better is these Disney princess outfits come with matching accessories that are all royal-like.
The storage trunk alone is enough to catch her attention. It is big enough and versatile with charming royal decorations.
The matching accessories come with additional stickers that allow the five year old girl to customize them.
This 5th birthday gift idea will keep your girl occupied and playing for hours. Especially with her friends.
The fashion head bands kit is more of a mini craft kit. It houses all the accessories needed to make beautiful head bands, for play and for style such as feathers, rhinestones, ribbons, etc. so your girl will be sure to come up with something unique every time while she portrays an unlimited imagination and creativity.
It will develop their imagination, color coordination, creativity and self-expression whilst having immense fun.
What’s amazing is, the kit is a wonderful kit for sleep overs or a group of friends having fun creating different blings and also promoting a healthy competition.
You girl will definitely love this vanity set where she can sit and do her make up the way you do too.
It is also perfect for dress up games and role play games.
It will also add to the touch of elegance to your kid’s room that will make her proud of her room and love the little royal space.
As mentioned, it includes a table with a very nice finishing, a stool fit for royalty, storage drawers to store her make up kits and other accessories and a three way mirror depending on the style.
The whole package comes while disassembled requiring you to assemble it from scratch with instructions attached.
Following the stuffed animal popular trait, the girls doll are next in line in being famous among young girls.
Every girl owns or has owned one at some point in their life and that point in life is best marked by five years.
These girl dolls come with accessories or custom and hand made pieces like clothes, hair brush and are made to represent different characters.
The most popular one may have been the Barbie doll but currently, they are everything your girl would want.
She would describe a character and you wouldn’t have a problem finding a girl doll that represented that.
They are extremely customizable, especially the accessories and better yet, they are made to look like an actual human being making girls everywhere treat them like one.
They role play with them, walk around with them and even talk to them.
They have had quite the impact considering that every year, a new American doll is released representing a certain real life character who has had some impact in the world.
I can assure you, your girl will go crazy over a new tiny best friend.
7. Doll House
A doll house is like a miniature toy house which usually contains dolls and tiny furniture to play with.
It is yet another loved, timeless and popular gift among young girls.
At this age when young girls love to role play so much, a doll house would simply be an amazing gift to them. They vary in different sizes, even your little girl’s size, big enough for her big imagination.
There is enough room to play together with other kids, a bunch of movable objects that can be moved around in different rooms and various furniture and accessories to give your child a chance to arrange and design the house how she wants to.
She can basically do everything she watches you do at her glamorous tiny mansion with her tiny dolls and literally take hours playing with it.
She will most definitely enjoy being the head of a certain house.
5th Birthday Gifts for Boys
1. A Bicycle
Five years old is literally the best age to get your child a bicycle. A child develops agility and a sense of coordination and balance between the age of 3 and 8, depending on how fast the kid grows.
Most children younger than this do not have the strength to control the hand brakes.
For safety however, purchase a bike with both hand brakes and coaster brakes.
Other factors to consider are:
- Size – getting the right sized bike for your child is key. Your child should be perfectly comfortable and should be able to move the bike with both feet on the ground. Getting on the bike should not be a struggle either as she should be able to mount the bike with one foot tipping on the ground for support and elevation.
- Coaster brake – a coaster brake, also known as a back pedal brake is a braking system that is activated by peddling backwards. They are mostly found in kid bikes since most of them do not have the strength to press the hand brakes with their small hands since they are still developing their coordination skills. Once they show strength and dexterity, hand brakes can be used.
- Head protection – make sure you do not forget the helmet when buying a bike for your child and let her fit it to make sure it fits well for comfortability.
These are self powered and the whole point is to control them from afar by usage of a remote that works using radio waves.
Remote controlled (RC toys) are most popular among boys. They could either be cars, planes, trains, control boat, motor trucks, toy drones and so forth.
It also improves their motor and cognitive skills giving them a sense of control.
The light up dance mat will help unload your boy’s energy since they can be quite rambunctious. It has corresponding arrows that light up to lead his steps as you it plays his favorite tunes via Bluetooth.
It will help his movements, be fun, aid in exercising and make him fall in love with it.
Stuffed animals and plushies will always be a classic and timeless gift to kids. They will always be our first friends that taught us love and security.
Most of us, in our later year, still have that special plushie that we probably pass down to our children to give you the same comfort and security they once gave you.
For young girls, stuffed animals like unicorns with bright colors or their favorite colors, is perfect but for young boy, get one with his favorite color or representing his favorite cartoon character.
He will love it! Teddy bears are the famous stuffed animal gift and cuddle buddies for most.
Kids get easily attached to plush animals that they end up having a sentimental value on top of their warmth and softness.
Some stuffed animals come with an in built singing machine that will talk or sing to your little one when pressed.
Now, a combination of this gift to your young boy and his best friend, will have him going nuts.
They can literally communicate even when each is in their respective homes and have role plays as spies or talk and about anything and everything.
It has a control lock that you can use to control when he uses it and who he is talking to.
6. A T-rex
Not just a T-rex toy but also one that can roar, and move and be controlled. Young boys take time to outgrow their T-rex or rather their dinosaur phase and if he is in it, make sure to get a bunch of dinosaur action figures to play with.
It will mainly be the best gift for your boy if he loves dinosaurs.
LEGOs build a concentration span and give your kid something that will get his brain thinking.
The company LEGOs has action figures and the best part, Lego sets that you put on each other till you have built something.
They do not require glue or anything to hold them together which has made them pretty popular in the toy world.
At five years, your little boy is starting kindergarten and something he will love and encourage him to study more often can not be such a bad thing.
There is nothing he will love more than his little workspace. This children writing desk is adjustable to match his height, lamps and storage spaces to keep his school and home possessions.
It is as educative as it is fun considering that they learn it as a subject in school. If you want to start a whole crafting center for your child, this is the best place to start as it has everything you need to get creative.
This library has over 1000 pieces that will spark his imagination and keep him from that device.
Conclusion: 5th Birthday Gift Ideas
In summary, get your five year old child toys that complement their new age and their new curiosities with the help of this article.
It is easy to spark the curiosity of a five year old and are particularly appreciative so it is not necessary for you to spend so much money on a gift.
Some of the gifts mentioned on this list are not specific to the gender of your kid. Most of the gifts can be enjoyed by both genders e.g. a bicycle or a karaoke machine since they all can show singing prowess from an early age and it something they both can enjoy immensely too.
As long as it keeps your child engaged, excited and safe, it is perfect for him or her.
Make sure your child is engaged more physically and mentally at this age since they tend to more influenced by screen time.
I hope you found this blog post on the best gifts for 5 year olds helpful.
Now I would like to hear from you.
What gift will you be getting your 5 year old child?
Is there any 5th birthday gift idea you would like added to this list?
Let me know in the comment section below.
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In a recent CIO Insight article, Elizabeth Edwards has an interesting quote about the lack of media coverage for her husband, 2004 Vice Presidential Nominee John Edwards. She states “We can’t make John black, we can’t make him a woman. Those things get you a lot of press, worth a certain amount of fundraising dollars.”
She does have an interesting point as Senators Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama appear to get the majority of the media coverage for the Democrats (Edwards is a distant fourth, behind Al Gore who isn’t even running).  It’s almost a given that Clinton or Obama will gain the nomination which, in either case, will make history. In my home state of Massachusetts, last year’s gubernatorial race was similar where Deval Patrick was vying to become the state’s first black governor and Lt. Governor Kerry Healy was hoping to become the state’s first elected woman governor (Patrick eventually won by a huge margin). Even though Patrick had a commanding lead for the last few months of the campaign, the race still had a significant amount of media coverage.
Speaking of Massachusetts governors, on the Republican side, Governor Mitt Romney is getting a lot of attention because of religion — he’s a Mormon. Mormons are famous for their television commercials and for allowing polygamy in the 1800’s (which they renounced in 1890) so the media is having a field day here. Romney’s religion seemed to steal the thunder from former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Italian heritage.
I don’t blame the candidates for this as they appear to be trying to discuss the issues (and the debates on both sides have had some memorable moments), but the media appears fascinated with what should be non-issues. What’s interesting is that Clinton and Obama have been able to capitalize on what some would consider to be a challenge while it’s been somewhat of a crutch for Romney (although he appears to be making progress).
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Somalia launches the Peace Building Fund
The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) in conjunction with UNFPA Somalia and UN Habitat Somalia on 19 April 2018 launched the Peace Building Fund (PBF) worth $2 Million. The PBF aims to facilitate youth political empowerment by enabling Somali young women and men to meaningfully engage in governance, peacebuilding and reconciliation efforts.
The launch was attended by high-level figures in Somalia including government ministers, donors and top UN officials.
Minister of Youth and Sports Honorable Khadija Diriye said at the launch that she was pleased with the efforts to include young people in the country’s development agenda saying historically, Somali youth were the driving force in establishing the state from colonial rule.
“Thirteen young activists formed the celebrated Somali Youth League in which they protested, lobbied for the rights of the nation and played a key role on Somalia’s road to independence in 1960,” said Honorable Diriye. She said the freedom fighters did not however have similar opportunities that the PBF is offering.
“The young people today are luckier than in the 1960s because they have more opportunities to prosper. As Somalia enters a new phase of state formation now, many young women and men are eager to be a part of the constructive efforts to rebuild this nation,” said Honorable Diriye.
She thanked the United Nations (UN) and donors for their support and keenness to support Somalia’s peace building initiative through young people adding that the youth aspire to having a socially inclusive society in which they feel valued, with opportunities to learn well, find decent work, engage productively in the community, have a voice and establish their own homes in a peaceful environment.
“We commit as the Ministry of Youth and Sports to support young people’s political participation at all levels,” said Honorable Diriye.
Dignitaries at the launch of the Peace Building Fund
Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) Mr. Peter de Clercq hailed the youth in Somalia for their tenacity and pledged strengthened UN support towards youth development and peace building initiatives.
“In some parts of the world you must be courageous to be a young person. Here’s to Somali youth for their tenacity and the bright future they are building for Somalia. I am pleased to help launch our UN Peace Building programme on youth political empowerment today,” said Mr. de Clercq.
He said the young people represent the future of Somalia and that they need to work on correcting the image of Somalia as one of the most dangerous places on earth.
Mr. Per Karlsson Head of Development Cooperation in the Somalia section of the Swedish Embassy commended the Federal Government of Somalia for adopting the Somalia Youth Policy in December 2017 as part of the efforts to empower the youth in the country.
“The launch of the Peace Building Fund is a very important step in the implementation of the Federal Government’s Youth Policy in Somalia. Sweden is one of the major donors to the Peace Building Fund and we share the belief that the launch is a tremendous effort for building a new and peaceful Somalia,” said Mr. Karlsson.
UNFPA Somalia Representative Nikolai Botev said Somalia is demographically young, with over two thirds of the population under the age of 25 saying there is great need to invest in them and that the PBF will contribute towards this investment.
“The large number of young people could spur economic growth if harnessed well, or could result in tensions and unrest if young people are left unemployed and disenchanted. Countries with the greatest demographic opportunity for development are those entering a period in which the working-age population has good health, quality education, decent employment and a lower proportion of young dependents. When this happens, the national economic payoff can be substantial,” said Mr. Botev.
Young people express happiness with the launch of the Peace Building Fund
UN Habitat Country Director for Somalia Mr. Doudou Mbye also highlighted the importance of engaging young women and men in decision-making and creating platforms and mechanisms for their direct participation in peace and state building processes.
“Young women and men are assured that they will be closely involved in the implementation of the PBF as decision makers, equal partners and agents of social change,” said Mr. Mbye, adding: “the future of Somalia lies in the hands of the youth. The project activities are designed to empower young women and men to become agents of change and peace through the provision of training, creation of participation platforms and intergenerational dialogue.”
The UN Peace Building Fund is currently supporting more than 120 projects in 25 countries by delivering fast, flexible and relevant funding. Since its creation to the end of 2015, PBF has allocated $623 million to 33 countries to help prevent (re)lapse into conflict and sustain peace.
Following a request from the General Assembly and the Security Council, the Secretary-General established a Peace Building Fund (PBF) for post-conflict peace building initiatives in October 2006. The PBF constitutes an essential component of the enhanced UN architecture to provide for a more sustained engagement in support of countries emerging from conflict and will support peace building activities which directly contribute to post-conflict stabilization and strengthen the capacity of governments, national/local institutions and transitional or other relevant authorities.
The PBF in Somalia allows young people to voice their challenges and grievances and raise their potential of inclusion in state and peace building processes through various expressive means. Through the creation of alternative plate forms using art, it promotes and increases their place in the society and provides new type of understanding and relations with other segment of the population, and in particular can bridge the gap with older people.
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Myanmar wants the U.S. Embassy to stop using the term “Rohingya,” when referring to the country’s unrecognized ethnic minority, a government official told VOA Wednesday.
“We will be happy if the embassy refrains from using this term,” said Aung Lin, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Continued use of the word “will not be helpful to us,” he added.
The official said, however, that the ministry on Tuesday made no formal request to the embassy about the terminology.
An embassy spokesman in Yangon, who did not want to be named, told VOA, “We do not comment on our diplomatic discussions with the government.”
U.S. Ambassador Scot Marciel, in an April 28 news conference, however, rejected eschewing the term even if Myanmar's government will not use it, saying it is normal practice for the United States and the international community to recognize that “communities anywhere have the ability to decide what they should be called. And normally when that happens we would call them what they want to be called. It’s not a political decision; it’s just a normal practice.”
The embassy has faced criticism from Myanmar's nationalists since it issued a statement of condolence after an April 19 maritime accident in which as many as 40 Rohingya drowned.
The victims were traveling to a market and a hospital from a camp for internally displaced people in western Rakhine state.
The embassy's statement linked the tragedy to restrictions on basic services in the state, which it said “can lead to communities unnecessarily risking their lives in an attempt to improve the quality of life.”
Myanmar's government claims those calling themselves Rohingya are Bengalis who have illegally entered the country.
Myanmar, a predominately Buddhist country, has received international criticism for its treatment of the mainly Muslim minority, which is largely denied citizenship and many other basic human rights.
There had been expectation abroad that the plight of the Rohingya might improve after Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy took power last month.
Others have pointed out, however, that neither Aung San Suu Kyi nor any of her deputies gave any indication – before or after the NLD's landslide victory last year – there would be policy changes concerning the Rohingya different from the situation under Myanmar’s military-led governments.
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for Human Rights, early last month, gave Myanmar's incoming civilian government 100 days to improve living conditions for the Rohingya.
The United Nations has repeatedly called for Myanmar to provide full rights for Rohingya, nearly all of whom were stripped of their citizenship in 1982, losing most of their rights to education, services and freedom of movement.
U.N. agencies estimate one tenth of the Rohingya population has fled Myanmar in the past four years following a 2012 outbreak of religious violence that left more than 200 dead.
A fire swept through one predominately Rohingya camp in rural Sittwe on Tuesday, destroying or badly damaging structures housing about 2,000 people, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
At least 14 people were injured by the fire in the Baw Du Pha 2 Muslim IDP camp, which appears to have resulted from a cooking accident, according to OCHA, which added it could not verify unconfirmed reports of fatalities.
“Local and humanitarian organizations are supporting the authorities in responding to immediate needs in medical aid and shelter, and in the coming days in assessing and responding to humanitarian needs such as food, water and sanitation, and other basic necessities,” said a statement issued by the U.N. agency.
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by Megan Redshaw, Childrens Health Defense:
A prominent vaccine injury law firm says it can’t help people injured by COVID vaccines because COVID vaccines are not covered under the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, forcing many to raise funds for their injuries online.
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“Our law firm has concluded that there is nothing our attorneys can do to significantly assist you,” the firm states on its website.
That’s because the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) — also known as “vaccine court” — does not currently handle COVID vaccine injury claims, though the law firm says it is leading a national effort to get COVID vaccines covered under the NVICP.
“If and when COVID vaccine injuries are covered, we can begin the process of reviewing your claim to determine if you’re eligible for the VICP,” the firm states.
According to an op-ed by Jenna Greene in Reuters, it’s not that Maglio’s firm doesn’t want to help. Representing people who’ve had serious adverse reactions to vaccines for tetanus, measles, hepatitis, influenza and a dozen other vaccines is its “bread and butter.”
But the current system for handling COVID-related claims is different than other vaccines — and not in a positive way. If you’ve suffered an injury related to the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson (J&J) vaccines, you’re out of luck.
There are only two programs in the U.S. that help people with vaccine reactions, but only one of them accepts claims related to COVID vaccines — the Countermeasures Injury Compensation Program (CICP) — and it almost never awards money, Maglio’s website states.
Renée Gentry, director of the Vaccine Injury Litigation Clinic at the George Washington University Law School, said COVID vaccine claimants have two rights: “You have the right to file,” she said. “And you have the right to lose.”
“We didn’t know how good we had it,” Maglio said. The vaccine court “is not without problems, but it does work, and people do get compensation.” But that’s not where COVID vaccine claims are being adjudicated.
The NVICP is a special, no-fault tribunal housed within the U.S. Court of Federal Claims that handles injury claims for 16 common vaccines. To date, it has awarded more than $4 billion to thousands of people for vaccine injuries.
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National Nurturing Schools Programme
The National Nurturing Schools Programme is a programme that allows staff to develop and embed a nurturing culture throughout their schools, enhancing teaching and learning, promoting healthy outcomes for children, all by focusing on emotional needs and development as well as academic learning in a whole-school environment. Highburton CE (VC) First School are working towards the award and are embedding the principles of nurture throughout the whole school. We hope to gain recognition for achieving a high level of nurturing provision from The National Nurturing School Programme. The programme is based on the six principles of nurture that have successfully underpinned nurture groups for over 40 years.
- Pupils benefit – from the approach that supports them in their specific needs while delivering teaching and learning in a way that all can access. The pupil is at the heart of the school focus and their learning is understood developmentally.
- Parents benefit – from being involved and welcomed in school, in seeing the improvement in children’s learning, behaviour, confidence and attendance. A better outcome for their children, both in and out of the school and classroom.
- Teachers benefit – from a renewed focus on their pupils and a culture change where every voice counts. A more balanced measure of outcomes for individual pupils ensues.
- School benefit – from showing our commitment to developing an ethos and culture that is inclusive and supports everyone in and associated with the school
- Communities benefit – from having a school that wants to be at the heart of the community and demonstrates its central role in children and young people’s lives.
The nurturing approach offers a range of opportunities for children to engage if missing early nurturing experiences, giving them the social and emotional skills to do well at school and with peers, develop their resilience and their capacity to deal more confidently with the trials and tribulations of life, for life.
The 6 Principles of Nurture
- Children's learning is understood developmentally
- The classroom offers a safe base
- The importance of nurture for the development of wellbeing
- Language is a vital means of communication
- All behaviour is communication
- The importance of transition in children's lives
National Nurturing Schools Programme Information
National Nurturing Assessment Report
Here are a few photographs of our Nurture Room. This is where we run interventions, both emotional and academic and where sometimes children like to come when either upset or to self regulate. | <urn:uuid:672b297a-5168-44bb-8f33-3cde36adc39e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.highburtonfirst.org.uk/our-school/national-nurturing-schools-programme | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961328 | 503 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Huaiyuan eight-treasure rice pudding
On Jan 28, Wei Xiulan, a Huaiyuan eight-treasure rice pudding production skills inheritor in Huaiyuan town, Hechi’s Yizhou district, displays her eight-treasure rice pudding. [Photo/VCG]
Huaiyuan town is located in Yizhou district, Hechi city. It is one of the four famous ancient towns in Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region with a history of more than 1,300 years. In 2018, the production technique of Huaiyuan eight-treasure rice pudding (ba bao fan) was selected in the seventh batch of representative projects of intangible cultural heritages in Guangxi.
The ingredients for Huaiyuan eight-treasure rice pudding are particular, needing only high-quality glutinous rice from the surrounding area. Red dates, wolfberries, Barbecued pork, winter melon sugar, lotus seeds, green fruits, melons, and kernels are among the ingredients. Making sweet, delectable eight-treasure rice pudding upon entering the lunar December has become an important part of local residents' Chinese New Year's celebrations.
Copyright © Hechi Municipal Government. All rights reserved.
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One of the tests which Dr. Henry Lee wanted to perform during his inspection of the Brilliance of the Seas cruise ship was dropping a life size mannequin from the rail of the balcony.
A metal awning is located several floors below the balcony. It is around 12 feet wide and ran the length of the cruise ship, covering the lifeboats on each side of the ship. It is convex in shape with the high point in the middle, sloping gradually on one side toward the ship and on the other side gradually toward the water.
Before we boarded the cruise ship, Dr. Lee explained the tests he wanted to perform.
One of the issues which we wanted to determine was where the mannequin would land on the surface below. What was the most likely location where the “dummy” would land if it was sitting on the rail and slipped and fell straight down? Where would the dummy land if thrown from the balcony? On which side of the high point of the surface would it land? Would the mannequin tend to roll toward the water or safely back toward the side of the cruise ship?
Answers to these questions may assist in answering the basic question of whether Mr. Smith slipped off of the balcony or he was thrown overboard. There was great debate in the media about this. Was there a fight in the cabin which led to Mr. Smith going over the rail? Or was this a simple case of falling overboard? Vanity Fair magazine published an article which concluded that Mr. Smith was intoxicated and decided to sit on the balcony rail and fell off while smoking a cigarette – a conclusion I thought was unsubstantiated and silly.
Before we arrived at the port, the cruise line notified me that Dr. Lee would not be permitted to conduct the test. With news reporters and camera crews at the port covering Dr. Lee’s inspection and helicopters hovering overhead, the images of a mannequin repeatedly being thrown over the rail was obviously a spectacle Royal Caribbean wished to avoid being shown on the nightly news channels.
On the morning of the inspection, I decided that our team would not take "no" for an answer. So I placed the dummy in a six foot box, tucked the box under my arm, and walked toward the cruise terminal with Dr. Lee and our team.
One of the senior security officials at the cruise line stopped me outside of the entrance to the terminal. He told me that I would not be allowed to enter the terminal with the mannequin. About a hundred news reporters and cameras were watching about 50 feet away. I smiled and asked him if he wanted to get into an arm wrestling match before the reporters? He smiled back and said no. We entered the terminal with the mannequin.
Once I and the dummy were inside the terminal and outside of the view of the cameras, the cruise line security personnel confiscated the mannequin. The test would not take place.
Royal Caribbean would later tell the media that it did not permit the tests for the "safety of passengers." The cruise line also offered an opportunity for us to conduct the test while the vessel was in dry-dock in the Bahamas, safely outside the view of the U.S. media. But flying Dr. Lee and his team around the country was not an inexpensive undertaking.
Dr. Lee never performed this experiment.
I have always wondered what the tests would have revealed. Is it possible to fall off the balcony and roll off of the awning? Or could this have happened only by being thrown over the rail and/or dragged off of the surface below?
This article is part of a series of articles this week: Disappearance of George Smith IV – Six Years Later.
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artist, curator, educator
lives and works in Meanjin (Brisbane)
Meanjin based artist Carol McGregor is of Wadawurrung (Kulin Nation) and Scottish descent and is a possum skin cloak maker, painter, printmaker and sculptor.
McGregor engages with cultural practitioners, archives and material collections to visually activate memories and sustain intergenerational transmission of Indigenous knowledge systems. Her recent art practice revives the traditional possum skin cloak as a contemporary art form and a way to strengthen community and individual identities.
"As we unfold from the national and global events of past few years, we reveal subtle shifts in our understandings and values—with reflections on a deeper knowing of our communities and environs. Often these shifts or transferences advocate a release of busyness, a focus on personal and communal presence, nourishment and balance.
Since the Tamworth Fibre Textile collection began in 1973 artists have interwoven and shared lived experiences and negotiated stories through the materiality of textile practice.
The 5th Tamworth Textile Triennial builds on this tradition with a future focus on the intangible essence of what it means to be human in the fabric of today’s society and will be an opportunity to celebrate Australian textiles practice, for artists to create and explore the relationality and residues of change through a multiplicity of materials, methods and meanings. "
Carol has completed her Doctorate at the Queensland College of Art in Fine Arts and is the Director of The Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art degree at Griffith University. McGregor has exhibited extensively and her work features in national and international collections including QAGOMA and the National Gallery of Australia. She has also undertaken several artist residencies with the Kluge Ruhe Aboriginal Art Gallery, USA; Tokyo University of the Arts; Bundanon Trust, NSW; Ballarat Heritage Festival and Museum Victoria. | <urn:uuid:b0e0bd4f-c433-4485-844e-460138235313> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tamworthregionalgallery.com.au/5th-tamworth-textile-triennial-curator- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9326 | 394 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Two novel types of photomagnetic hybrid ultrathin film (film A and B) of metal cyanides have been fabricated by means of the modified Langmuir-Blodgett method using a smectite clay mineral. Film A is composed of an amphiphilic azobenzene cation, a montmorillonite, and Prussian Blue in which photocontrol in the magnetization was realized by the photoisomerization of azobenzene chromophore. The observed photomagnetic efficiency was large (ca. 11%) due to the well-organized structure of the ultrathin film. Film B is composed of a quaternary ammonium salt, a montmorillonite, and Co-Fe Prussian Blue in which the photoinduced magnetization caused by the electron transfer exhibited an anisotropic response with regards to the direction of the applied magnetic field. This phenomenon is ascribed to the unique structure of Co-Fe Prussian Blue formed onto the clay layer.
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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Sec. Coral Reef Research
Trade-Offs Associated with Photoprotective Green Fluorescent Protein Expression as Potential Drivers of Balancing Selection for Color Polymorphism in Reef Corals
- 1Coral Reef Laboratory, Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- 2Institute for Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Photodamage of symbiotic algae exposed to thermal stress is involved in mass coral bleaching, a major cause of reef decline. Photoprotection is therefore a vital part of coral stress physiology. Corals produce a variety of green fluorescent protein (GFP)-like proteins, some of which screen the symbiotic algae from excess sun light. Different tissue concentrations of these GFP-like proteins distinguish color morphs that are characteristic for many coral species. The question arises whether these pigmentation differences may diversify the niches that can be occupied by corals along the steep light gradient that structures coral reef communities. We assessed the implications of GFP-like protein expression in two color morphs of the symbiotic coral Hydnophora grandis, both associated with the same Symbiodinium sp. (subclade C40). The color morphs of this species (high fluorescent, HF; and low fluorescent, LF), characterized by markedly different contents of a cyan fluorescent protein, were exposed to different quantities of blue light (470 nm) that matched the major absorption band of the host pigment (473 nm). High intensities of blue light caused less photodamage to the symbiotic algae of the HF morph and resulted in higher growth rates of these corals compared to representatives of the LF morph. In contrast, under low intensities of blue light, the HF morph showed lower growth rates than the LF morph, indicating that trade-offs are associated with high levels of fluorescent protein expression under this condition. Both morphs showed highest growth rates at medium light intensities with no obvious influence of the tissue pigmentation. Reef coral color polymorphism caused by photoprotective GFP-like proteins may therefore be a product of balancing selection in which high pigment contents may be beneficial at the upper and detrimental at the lower end of the depth distribution range of symbiotic corals. Conversely, color morphs with GFP-like proteins that function to optimize symbiont photosynthesis in low light environments could gain an advantage from the benefits offered by high pigment levels in deeper waters.
Elevated sea water temperatures are a major cause of mass bleaching events and associated coral mortality (Hoegh-Guldberg, 1999; Hughes et al., 2017). Heat stress inhibits the repair of photosystem II (Takahashi et al., 2009) and lowers the photoinhibitory threshold of the symbiotic algae (Jones et al., 1998; Warner et al., 1999; Bhagooli and Hidaka, 2003; Takahashi et al., 2009), thereby facilitating light-induced damage to Photosystem II reaction centers, particularly the D1 protein (Aro et al., 1993). The resulting faults in energy transfer and electron transport can lead to oxidative stress (reviewed by Pospíšil, 2016) that can cause the breakdown of the symbiotic association and loss of algal cells from the coral tissue (Lesser, 1997; Rehman et al., 2016). The susceptibility of corals to heat and light stress-induced bleaching is increased by unfavorable levels of nutrients in the water, in particular by phosphate deficiency (D'Angelo and Wiedenmann, 2014; Rosset et al., 2017). Bleached corals die unless the symbiont population recovers (Glynn et al., 2001; Baker et al., 2008). Corals and zooxanthellae have therefore evolved protective mechanisms to reduce the impact of light stress. In zooxanthellae, these mechanisms include: xanthophyll cycling (Ambarsari et al., 1997), the use of alternative electron pathways (Reynolds et al., 2008); and the downregulation of photosystem II reaction centers (Gorbunov et al., 2001). Both corals and zooxanthellae produce antioxidant enzymes (Lesser, 2006; Levy et al., 2006) and mycosporine-like amino acids (Banaszak et al., 2000; Shick, 2004; Starcevic et al., 2010) that help to protect the organisms from the negative impact of high light intensities.
A photoprotective function has been also assigned to fluorescent pigments that are often produced by corals and other cnidarians (Wiedenmann et al., 1999; Salih et al., 2000). These pigments belong to the family of GFP-like proteins (Matz et al., 1999; Dove et al., 2001; Alieva et al., 2008). Based on their optical properties they can be divided into fluorescent proteins (FPs) and non-fluorescent chromo-proteins (CPs), noting that CPs are the product of multiple parallel evolution (Gittins et al., 2015). GFP-like proteins can contribute up to ~7–14% to the soluble cellular proteins in coral tissues (Leutenegger et al., 2007; Oswald et al., 2007) suggesting that they fulfill a significant function within the host. Experimental studies have confirmed that CPs (Smith et al., 2013) as well as green and red FPs (Salih et al., 2000; Gittins et al., 2015) in shallow water corals can exert a photoprotective function by screening the algal symbionts from excess light. However, this function may not always be evident (Dove et al., 1995; Mazel et al., 2003). High levels of fluorescent proteins also occur in mesophotic corals (Eyal et al., 2015; Roth et al., 2015) and other deep-water cnidarians (Vogt et al., 2008), suggesting that these pigments can have functions other than photoprotection. In low light conditions, for example, coral GFP-like proteins have been suggested to enhance light availability for photosynthesis of the algal symbionts (Salih et al., 2000; Eyal et al., 2015; Lyndby et al., 2016). Indeed, recent studies have demonstrated that Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)-mediated wavelength conversion by orange-red fluorescent proteins promotes the light penetration in symbiont-containing tissue in corals from blue-light dominated deep water habitats (Bollati et al., 2017; Smith et al., 2017).
Among FPs, four color groups have been identified: cyan, green, yellow, and red (Alieva et al., 2008; Nienhaus and Wiedenmann, 2009). In contrast to yellow FPs that are rarely encountered in reef organisms (Alieva et al., 2008), red fluorescent proteins are fairly common. Based on the biochemistry of the chromophore and distinct spectral features, red FPs can be divided into a group in which the red chromophore is formed in an autocatalytic reaction (Matz et al., 1999; Wiedenmann et al., 2002) and a group in which the chromophore is formed by photoconversion of a green precursor (Ando et al., 2002; Wiedenmann et al., 2004; Oswald et al., 2007). The latter optimize the internal light environment for the symbionts in corals from less light exposed habitats (Smith et al., 2017) whereas members of the first group can be found in shallow water corals where they exert a photoprotective function similar to CPs (Smith et al., 2013; Gittins et al., 2015). Cyan and green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) can be frequently encountered in most reef environments (Salih et al., 2000; Eyal et al., 2015; Roth et al., 2015) and representatives of this color group have also been shown to be photoprotective in shallow water corals (Salih et al., 2000). Cyan fluorescent proteins (CFPs) contain the same chromophore as GFPs (Henderson and Remington, 2005) but have characteristically broad absorption/excitation spectra with peaks at 440–460 nm (Alieva et al., 2008) that overlap with the absorption / excitation spectrum of photosynthetic pigments of the symbiotic algae (Smith et al., 2013). CFPs with emission maxima around 485–495 nm have evolved as a product of positive natural selection (Field et al., 2006) and are therefore recognized as a separate color class (Alieva et al., 2008). Their production in corals is often regulated by the intensities of blue light (D'Angelo et al., 2008).
Many coral species exhibit color polymorphisms caused by stable differences in CP and FP expression (Kelmanson and Matz, 2003; Klueter et al., 2006; Oswald et al., 2007; Gittins et al., 2015). In Acropora millepora, the pigment concentration in the tissue of different morphs is strongly correlated with the number of gene copies with a particular promoter type, indicating that color polymorphism in reef corals is caused by the differential expression of multicopy genes (Gittins et al., 2015). We have proposed that the balancing selection driving the evolution of color morphs could be due to the benefits from photoprotection offered by the pigments in niches with high levels of light stress and the trade-offs associated with the productions of large quantities of pigments in the absence of light stress (Gittins et al., 2015). Such a balancing selection may allow different color morphs to persist within a population and increase the range of niches that can be occupied by a species across the steep light gradient that structures coral reef communities. However, at present it is unknown whether measurable trade-offs are associated with the expression of photoprotective FPs. On the one hand, no other enzymes and co-factors are required for the pigment production and the proteins have a slow turnover with a half-life of ~20 days, suggesting the energetic costs for their production could be relatively low (Leutenegger et al., 2007). On the other hand, a high-level expression of at least eight FP gene copies is required to accumulate pigment concentrations in the tissue that are sufficiently high to fulfill a light screening function (Gittins et al., 2015). Therefore, we have assessed whether the expression of a photoprotective FP in Hydnophora grandis is associated with trade-offs that manifest in changes of growth rates in different light environments. The two color morphs of choice were associated with the same Symbiodinium sp. (C40), but differed markedly in their expression of CFPs (D'Angelo et al., 2008). The capacity of the CFPs to exert a photoprotective function by selective screening of symbionts in the blue spectral range was assessed by exposing the corals to either blue or orange-red light. Orange-red light was chosen for the control treatment as it is not absorbed by the CFPs and should therefore negatively affect both the high and low fluorescent morphs due to the detrimental effect of this waveband on algal photosynthesis (Smith et al., 2013; Wijgerde et al., 2014).
We predicted that the CFP plays a photoprotective role in H. grandis and that therefore the high fluorescent (HF) color morph would show a higher growth rate than the low fluorescent (LF) color morph under high intensities of blue light. We also predicted that removal of essential photons by CFP under low intensities of blue light together with the energetic cost of their high level production would cause the HF morph grow at a slower rate than the LF morph.
Materials and Methods
Origin and Maintenance of Corals
The experimental corals, produced in aquaculture at Fiji, were obtained via Tropical Marine Centre London. Corals were cultured in the experimental mesocosm of the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton (D'Angelo and Wiedenmann, 2012) and propagated by fragmentation for >5 years before the start of the experiments. Hence, the corals were fully acclimated to the conditions in the experimental aquarium. While the being genetically homogeneous, replicate colonies within each color morph represent independent units with individual life histories.
Identification of Algal Symbionts
The Symbiodinium present in each color morph of H. grandis were identified to the subclade level by analyzing the ITS2 region of genomic DNA samples from each color morph. A modified CTAB type extraction was carried out (D'Angelo et al., 2015). The region spanning the 18S, ITS1, 5.8S, ITS2, 28S region of the Symbiodinium spp. ribosomal DNA was amplified by performing a PCR using the primers SYM-VAR-FWD, and SYM-VAR-REV (Hume et al., 2013).
Amplification was accomplished in the presence of 2 μl of 50 × dNTP mix, 1 μl of each primer, 1 μl of template DNA, 0.5 μl of Advantage 2 polymerase mix (Clontech), 5 μl of 10 x Advantage 2 PCR buffer, and 40 μl PCR grade water. The PCR encompassed an initial denaturation step of 1 min at 95°C, followed by 30 cycles of denaturation (95°C for 30 s), annealing (62°C for 30 s), and elongation (68°C for 30 s). A final elongation step of 5 min at 70°C performed. The PCR products were then cloned as describes in the StrataClone PCR Cloning Kit protocol. Plasmid DNA was prepared from 10 Escherichia coli colonies using a ThermoScientific GeneJET Plasmid Miniprep Kit. Sequencing services were provided by Eurofins MWG.
The ITS2 region of the PCR fragment was isolated using reference sequences available in Genbank using the BLAST tool (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/blast). The software package Geneious was used to visualize the vector sequences. The ITS2 regions of the 10 samples were then compared to reference sequences available in Genbank.
Light Exposure Experiments
Coral growth and changes in CFP concentration were assessed in three experiments set up in different flow-through compartments of our experimental mesocosm system (D'Angelo and Wiedenmann, 2012). Five replicate colonies of each color morph were used per condition. All experimental tanks were connected to the same recirculating water system (D'Angelo and Wiedenmann, 2012). Replete levels of dissolved inorganic nutrients were used since imbalanced nutrient levels or low phosphate concentrations can significantly increase the susceptibility of symbiotic corals to light stress (D'Angelo and Wiedenmann, 2014; Rosset et al., 2015, 2017). The water temperature was kept constant at ~25°C. Prior to the start of the light exposure experiments, the corals were cultured under white metal halide light (Aqualine 10000) at a photon flux of 250 μmol photons m−2s−1 on a 10:14 h light:dark cycle. LED stripes (Reef Blue, Aquaray, Tropical Marine Centre London) with controllable output were used to expose the corals to narrow-banded blue light (~470 nm) that matches the excitation spectrum of the coral CFPs (Figure 1C). Colonies were acclimated for 3 weeks to the experimental light condition by changing the light intensities of blue LEDs gradually from ~150 μmol photons m−2s−1 to reach final photon fluxes of 1,100 μmol m−2s−1 (high light treatment), 300 μmol m−2s−1 medium light treatment), and 10 μmol m−2s−1 (low light treatment). Light intensity was measured using a LI-COR LI-250A Light Meter directly at the water surface level, situated ~3 cm above the coral colonies. The height of the LEDs above the water surface was adjusted until the desired light intensity was reached. The weight of the replicate colonies was determined after a 30 s drip-off step on absorbing tissue to remove excess water. Quantitative fluorescence data of the colonies were measured every 2–3 weeks (D'Angelo et al., 2008) using a Varian Cary Eclipse fluorescence spectrophotometer for recording of spectra in the range of 250–510 nm with the emission wavelength set to 540 nm (slit-width 5; scan speed medium). For imaging purposes, coral fluorescence was excited by ~470 nm light provided by the Aquaray Reef Blue LEDS, which closely matches to the absorption maximum of CFPs. Photographs were taken with a Olympus Tough camera (Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, Japan) equipped with a yellow long-pass filter (Nightsea, Andover, USA) to block reflected excitation light. Due to the optical properties of the filter, only the green portion of light emitted by the CFPs is detected by the camera and, accordingly, the corals in the photographs appear green. Since the corals under study contain only CFPs, these images nevertheless give a truthful representation of intensity of cyan tissue fluorescence.
Figure 1. (A) Excitation and emission spectra of two color morphs of Hydnophora grandis. Peak maxima indicated by dashed vertical lines with peak wavelengths (nm) being indicated. Excitation spectra are scaled to the maximum of the corresponding emission spectra. (B) Photographs of representative colonies of HF (top) and LF (bottom) morphs under daylight (left) and blue light excitation (~470 nm; imaged with a yellow long-pass filter) (right). (C) Emission spectra of blue LED (blue line) and orange LED (orange line) used in aquarium experiments. The CFP excitation spectrum of the HF morph is included for comparison (green line). (D) Fluorescence emission intensity (measured at the peak wavelength) of both morphs at the end of each experiment under low (10 μmol photons m−2 s−1), medium (300 μmol photons m−2s−1), and high (1,100 μmol photons m−2s−1) intensities of blue light. Bars display mean values of 5 colonies. Error bars show standard deviation. Brackets above two bars indicate p-values for statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences between the fluorescence emission intensity of each morph at the end of each treatment, determined by one-way ANOVAs.
To measure photodamage of the coral symbionts, three colonies of each morph were placed either under 2,000 μmol photons m−2s−1 of blue light (~470 nm) provided by Aquaray Reef Blue LEDs or under the same photofluxes of orange light (~595 nm) produced by P4 Amber Star LEDs (Seoul Semiconductor, Korea, Smith et al., 2013). Light intensity was measured and adjusted as described above. The colonies were kept under blue light for 2 months and under orange light for 6 days. The maximum quantum yield (Fv/Fm) of the algal symbionts was measured using a Waltz Diving PAM as an indicator of photodamage (Warner et al., 1999). Measurements were taken after 14 h of darkness and colonies were exposed to the minimal light levels during measurements to minimize the effects of chlororespiration (Warner et al., 2010). Dark adapted Fv/Fm was used as an indicator of the efficiency of Photosystem II (Krause and Weis, 1991), and the degree of photodamage suffered by the zooxanthellae (Genty et al., 1989; Warner et al., 1999). A precision hole saw was used to remove circular tissue samples of identical size from the center of the treated area of the flat replicate colonies or from control regions in the periphery of the same corals. The tissue samples were homogenized in sterile seawater and zooxanthellae were isolated by differential centrifugation (1,000 g/10 min). After a wash step in sterile seawater, the algal cells were recovered by centrifugation, resuspended and their numbers were determined using a hemocytometer. Zooxanthellae numbers were then normalized to the surface of the cut-out samples.
Coral growth and fluorescence intensity data were plotted and analyzed using GraphPad Prism 7. Paired t-tests were used to analyse weight data at the end of each experiment. The significance of the differences in fluorescence emission intensity between the two morphs under all light treatments were calculated with a fully orthogonal two-way ANOVA with fixed effects, followed by a Tukey's multiple comparison test. The significance of the differences in the fluorescence emission intensity of each morph at the end of each experiment were calculated with one-way ANOVAs, followed by Tukey's multiple comparison tests.
Fv/Fm data were plotted in GraphPad Prism 7. Data was log transformed prior to generation of linear models using R.
Zooxanthellae numbers from coral tissue samples were plotted and analyzed using GraphPad Prism 7. Unpaired t-tests were used to calculate the significance of the differences in zooxanthellae numbers from tissue samples of treated and untreated areas of tissue in both morphs after exposure to high intensities of blue and orange light.
Characterization of the Color Morphs
The sequences of the ITS2 region isolated from both color morphs under study matched those of Symbiodinium C40a and C40b (GenBank accession numbers AY589747 and AY589748), indicating that the symbiont complement of both color morphs is dominated by the same Symbiodinium sp.
Both morphs contained CFPs, with a broad excitation spectrum ranging from ~350–500 nm with maxima at ~420, 443, and 473 nm (Figures 1A,B). Emission spectra peaked at ~492 nm (LF morph) and ~495 nm (HF morph), respectively. In colonies growing side by side under a photon flux of ~250 μmol photons m−2s−1 of white light illumination prior to the start of the experiment, the cyan fluorescence of the high fluorescent (HF) morph was approximately ~3.1-fold more intense compared to the low fluorescent (LF) morph (Figure 1A). The fluorescence maxima of each morph remained essentially unaltered throughout the light treatment experiment, while the intensity of the fluorescence emission changed under the different treatments (Figure 1D). The HF morph remained more fluorescent than the LF morph in all conditions, but the ratio (HF/LF) of the peak fluorescence emission intensity between the morphs ranged from ~8.0 (low light), ~6.9 (medium light), to ~3.4 (high light). Highest tissue fluorescence was shown at medium light (HF morph) and high light conditions (LF morph). Fluorescence in low light treated corals reached only ~30% (LF morph) to ~60% (HF morph) of these maximal values. A two-way ANOVA showed that the HF morph was significantly more fluorescent than the LF morph under all light condition (p < 0.001), but that there was a significant interaction between the light intensity and color morph (p = 0.0255). A one-way ANOVA showed significant differences in fluorescence of the LF morph between low and high, as well as medium and high light intensities (p = 0.0003 and p = 0.0191 respectively). Compared to the low light treatment, the fluorescence of the HF morph also increased significantly under medium light intensities (p = 0.0183) (Figure 1D).
Photodamage under Intense Blue and Orange Light
The efficiency of algal photosynthesis measured as Fv/Fm in both morphs decreased rapidly over the first 4 days of exposure to intense blue light (2,000 μmol photons m−2s−1, Figure 2A). During this initial phase, the Fv/Fm values from the LF morph were significantly lower compared to those from the HF morph [linear model: F(2, 21) = 5.944, p = 0.0042]. The response of the symbionts from the two morphs remained significantly different in the following period during which the values increased again [linear model: F(2, 201) = 148.1; p < 0.001]. After ~3 weeks, Fv/Fm values of the HF morph reached the initial value of >0.5. In contrast, the photosynthetic efficiency of the LF morph did not show full recovery and the Fv/Fm values remained below 0.5. No bleaching was visible in the HF morphs whereas visible bleaching started among replicates of the LF morphs after 4 days of exposure to blue light. By the end of the experiments, all LF specimens were bleached in the treated central area of the colonies. The HF morph, in contrast, showed only a mild paling in the light exposed areas.
Figure 2. (A) Change in Fv/Fm in two color morphs of Hydnophora grandis under high intensity blue light (2,000 μmol photons m−2s−1). Error bars indicate the range of mean values of 3 replicate colonies. Red circles highlight the first occurrence of visible bleaching. Lines represent exponential decay and saturation fits, respectively. (B) Change in Fv/Fm in the HF and LF color morphs of Hydnophora grandis under high intensity orange light (2,000 μmol photons m−2s−1). Error bars indicate the range of mean values of 3 replicate colonies. The first occurrence of visible bleaching is marked by red circles. Lines represent exponential decay fits. (C) Photographs of representative colonies of the HF morph (top) and LF morph (bottom) taken at the end of the high intensity blue light (left) and orange light (right) treatments. (D) Concentration of zooxanthellae in tissue samples of both morphs after exposure to 2,000 μmol photons m−2s−1 of blue and orange light (treated) and control tissue samples exposed to ambient light intensities (control). Error bars show standard deviation. Brackets above two bars indicate p-values for statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences between the zooxanthellae concentrations in treated and untreated tissue samples of each morph under blue and orange light, determined using unpaired t-tests.
Under the same photon flux of orange light (2,000 μmol photons m−2s−1), symbionts of both morphs showed a rapid decrease in Fv/Fm values down to ~0.2 (Figure 2B). There was no significant difference in the response of both morphs to the treatment [linear model: F(2, 33) = 3.18, p = 0.48]. Bleaching was visible in both morphs after 2 days and became severe after 6 days when the experiment was terminated.
Analysis of zooxanthellae number of the treated parts of the experimental colonies and control areas showed that the visual bleaching (Figure 2C) was caused by a loss of algal cells. The treated regions of the LF colonies suffered significant losses of zooxanthellae under both blue and orange light exposure [unpaired t-test: F(1, 53) = 7.3, p < 0.001; F(1, 35) = 3.0, p < 0.001 respectively]. In contrast, the illuminated region of the HF morph lost significant amounts of zoothanthellae only under orange light [unpaired t-test: F(1, 35) = 6.5, p < 0.001] (Figure 2D).
Coral Growth under Different Light Intensities
Under low intensity blue light (Figure 3A), colonies of the LF morph showed a 25% gain in weight that was significantly higher [paired t-test: F(1, 4) = 3.8, p < 0.001] compared to the HF morph. The latter showed essentially no weight gain over the duration of the experiment. Under high intensities of blue light (Figure 3C), the colonies of the HF morph gained significantly more weight than the LF morph [paired t-test: F(1, 4) = 1.2, p = 0.045]. At the end of the experiment, the weight of the HF morph had increased by ~33%, compared to the ~18% increase of the LF morph colonies. Under medium intensity blue light (Figure 3B), both morphs showed comparable growth (HF morph: ~115%; LF morph 127%, non-significant difference). The growth rates of both morphs were substantially higher under medium light conditions compared to both high and low light treatments (Figure 3D).
Figure 3. (A–C) Percentage change of wet weight of LF morph (brown circles) and HF morph (green circles) of Hydnophora grandis over time under three different intensities of blue light. (A) Low light (10 μmol photons m−2s−1), (B) Medium light (300 μmol photons m−2s−1), and (C) High light (700–1100 μmol photons m−2s−1). Bars display mean values of 5 colonies. Error bars show standard deviation. Asterisks (*) above data points indicate statistically significant (P < 0.05) differences between the weighs of the colonies of each morph at the end each experiment, determined using paired t-tests. Initial weight for each colony was set to zero. (D) Total weight change of each morph under each light intensity at the end of each experiment given as percent of the initial values. Error bars show standard deviation. Brackets above two bars indicate p-values for statistically significant (p < 0.05) differences between the weighs of the colonies of each morph at the end each experiment, determined using paired t-tests.
The diversity of coral colors contributes to the visually arresting appearance of coral reefs. Frequently, representatives of different color morphs can be found side-by-side, raising the question of whether these striking differences in color have any ecological significance. Therefore, we tested our hypothesis that the benefits of photoprotection offered by some coral pigments in niches with high levels of light stress might be outweighed by the trade-offs associated with the productions of large pigment quantities in the absence of light stress. Such a scenario could offer an explanation for the evolution of color morphs as a result of balancing selection (Gittins et al., 2015). We chose the coral H. grandis as a model since the two distinct morphs differ significantly in the amount of cyan fluorescence proteins from the family of GFP-like proteins that they accumulate in their tissue (D'Angelo et al., 2008). The minimal difference in the spectral properties of the tissue fluorescence such as the 3 nm-shift of the emission peak between the LF morph expressing the protein hgrFP492 (D'Angelo et al., 2008) and the HF morph could be a response to the cellular environment in combination with the deviating pigment concentrations or due to small differences in the amino acid sequence of the proteins (Alieva et al., 2008). Importantly, in both morphs the host pigment absorbs incident photosynthetically active radiation in the blue-green spectral region, covering large sections of the in situ absorption spectrum of photosynthetic pigments of the algal symbionts (Smith et al., 2013). We showed that both morphs used in our study were associated with the same Symbiodinium subclade, thereby reducing, yet not excluding, the probability that differential responses were due to physiological differences associated with the taxonomic background of the symbionts (Robison and Warner, 2006).
We first tested whether the high CFP concentrations in the tissue of the HF morph could indeed protect the symbionts by screening excess light as it was previously demonstrated for the purple-blue chromoproteins and some green and red fluorescent proteins in shallow water corals (Salih et al., 2000; Smith et al., 2013; Gittins et al., 2015). Measuring changes in the photosynthetic efficiency after dark recovery (Warner et al., 2010) and loss of algal cells in response to exposure of high fluxes of blue light, we show that the HF morph was more tolerant to the light stress. In agreement with a wavelength-dependent screening function of the CFPs, both morphs displayed comparably intense signs of light stress when they were illuminated with orange light outside of the spectral window covered by the protective host pigment. Orange-red light has been shown to negatively affect the photophysiology of Symbiodinium in coral tissues (Smith et al., 2013; Wijgerde et al., 2014). The comparable susceptibility of the two morphs to photodamage in this spectral range supports the conclusion that higher resilience of the HF morph under blue light stress is due to the screening by the CFP rather than by other photoprotective mechanisms that might be more dominant in this morph. Our photodamage data are in line with results of an earlier study in which daytime photoinhibition of the algal symbionts of the green fluorescent morph of Acropora palifera was reduced as compared to less fluorescent morphs (Salih et al., 2000).
To test whether trade-offs are associated with the high-level expression of the photoprotective CFP, we monitored the growth of the HF and LF morphs under different intensities of blue light. Photon fluxes corresponded to light levels that can be measured around noon in depths of ~1 m (high light), ~15 m (medium light), and ~50–60 m (low light) (Stambler et al., 2008; Eyal et al., 2015; Ziegler et al., 2015). It should be noted that our experimental corals experienced these light levels for 10 h per day, not just around noon, so the dose of photons received by them per day was higher compared to corals from aforementioned depths in field settings. Corals showed highest growth rates at medium light intensity with no significant differences between the HF and LF morphs. This may indicate that at favorable light levels and in the absence of other forms of stress, the expression of photoprotective pigments may essentially be neutral in the overall performance of the organism. Such a scenario could be supported by the comparably low energetic costs associated with the production of individual pigment molecules (Leutenegger et al., 2007). However, a previous study has reported a higher tolerance of fluorescence corals to heat-stress-induced bleaching (Salih et al., 2000). It should therefore be considered that there might be effects on fitness parameters such as reproduction rate (Loya et al., 2004) or stress tolerance (Salih et al., 2000) that are not assessed by the present experimental set-up.
In the experimental treatments (high vs. low light) that simulated light conditions similar to those at the upper and lower depth distribution limits of several symbiotic reef corals (Eyal et al., 2015; Ziegler et al., 2015), the growth of the HF and LF morphs was strongly reduced in comparison with the medium light treatment. This indicates that both over- and undersupply of light can negatively affect the performance of the corals. Yet, the causes for the reduced growth rates under the two light levels are likely to be very different. A supply of excess light may require an increased investment in several forms of photoprotection, for example in the synthesis of mycosporine-like amino acids (Shick, 2004; Starcevic et al., 2010), antioxidant defense (Lesser and Shick, 1990), or alternative electron transport pathways such as the Mehler reaction (Roberty et al., 2014). Energy may also be invested in repair processes of the photosynthetic apparatus of the symbionts due to photoinhibition and subsequent damage to the D1 protein (Aro et al., 1993; Warner et al., 1999; Gorbunov et al., 2001; Hill and Takahashi, 2014), although it has been suggested that photoinhibiton may protect against oxidative damage caused by excess light (Adams et al., 2008). Furthermore, high light intensities have been shown to cause nutrient limitation of the zooxanthellae, leading to decreased productivity (Dubinsky and Jokiel, 1994). The associated redistribution of energy resources within the coral holobiont and reduction in productivity of the symbioses may result in lower growth rates observed in specimens from the high light treatment. At low photon fluxes, Symbiodinium photosynthesis provides only ~40% of the carbon needed by the coral host (Falkowski et al., 1984), and therefore colony growth may become carbon-limited (Dubinsky and Jokiel, 1994), a potential explanation for the reduced growth of our low light corals.
The growth rates of the two Hydnophora color morphs differed significantly under both extreme light conditions. In the high light treatment, the HF morph grew faster compared to the LF morph, suggesting that the high-level expression of a photoprotective CFP could indeed offer a measurable benefit for coral fitness in environments with exposure to excess light. In contrast, under low light levels, the highly pigmented HF specimens ceased to grow, while the LF colonies showed slow yet steady growth. Under these conditions, the expression of photoprotective pigments by the HF morph may represent a disadvantage since it requires an energy investment in the form of the accumulation of large amounts of proteins that offer no functional benefits. On the contrary, the screening of photons by the coral CFPs may actually be detrimental for the productivity of the symbionts since it further deprives photosynthesis from much-needed photons under light-limited conditions. The downregulation of FP expression under low light levels (D'Angelo et al., 2008), visible also in the present experiments, offers a mechanism to reduce these unfavorable side-effects. However, similar to the highly pigmented morphs of Acropora sp. (Gittins et al., 2015), this is possible only to a limited extend since the constitutive expression of photoprotective pigments of the HF morph still reaches ~60% of the maximal expression under high light.
Our study shows that, depending on the light environment, high-level expression of photoprotective GFP-like proteins can have either beneficial or detrimental effects on the fitness of symbiotic corals. Therefore, some form of niche partitioning across the steep light gradient characteristic for coral reefs could be expected. Indeed, corals expressing photoprotective chromoproteins (CPs) (Smith et al., 2013) are most abundant in 1 m depth (Salih et al., 2006). Their share of the total population decreased continuously to depths of 40 m. Also, fluorescent corals were most abundant in 1 m depth and their proportion decreased with depth. At the same time, non-pigmented corals became more abundant (Salih et al., 2006). Furthermore, a recent study showed that CFP-expressing corals were less numerous at lower end of their depth distribution range as compared to GFP-containing or non-fluorescent corals (Roth et al., 2015). Also, the color morphs of Anemonia viridis expressing high amounts of cyan and red fluorescent proteins as well as chromoproteins have their distribution maximum in the shallowest waters whereas the non-pigmented morph tends to be more abundant at greater depth (Wiedenmann et al., 1999). Furthermore, a fluorescent clone of this species was more successful than a non-pigmented clone in a long-term competition for space in a shallow water habitat (Wiedenmann et al., 2007). Future work should aim to provide insights in the mechanisms underlying the trade-offs associated with the high-level expression of GFP-like proteins.
We conclude that the extreme light conditions at the upper and lower end of the depth distribution range of symbiotic reef corals exposes them to opposing selective pressures that promote the evolution and persistence of intraspecific color polymorphism. However, as the present study shows, both color morphs performed comparably well under medium light in the absence of other forms of stress. This neutral behavior of the pigmentation under ambient conditions may explain why color morphs can co-exist even in shallow sites (Wiedenmann et al., 1999; Paley and Bay, 2012; Gittins et al., 2015) as the selective advantage of high level pigmentation may become only effective during sporadic episodes of increased stress (Salih et al., 2000; Paley and Bay, 2012). Thereby, color polymorphisms may diversify the niches that can be occupied by a coral species, a capacity that is further enhanced by the light intensity-driven regulation of genes encoding photoprotective GFP-like proteins (D'Angelo et al., 2008).
Notably, the neutral behavior of the pigmentation under ambient conditions together with the fact that multiple gene copies are involved in the color polymorphism could have been a major driver of the evolution of the staggering diversity of GFP-like proteins: mutated gene-copies may have been balanced by functional copies until a gain of function eventually stabilized the novel variants in the gene pool. Examples are chromoproteins in A. millepora that are almost exclusively expressed in larvae and have likely evolved from a red fluorescent ancestor protein that also gave rise to a red fluorescent variant with a photoprotective function in adults (Gittins et al., 2015). Interestingly, these larval CPs evolved independently from photoprotective CPs produced in adult corals (Gittins et al., 2015). Other examples include the green-to-red photoconvertible FPs (Ando et al., 2002; Wiedenmann et al., 2004; Oswald et al., 2007; Eyal et al., 2015) that have gained their red fluorescent chromophores by parallel evolution of a green ancestor protein (Field and Matz, 2010). Along with green fluorescent variants (Lyndby et al., 2016), the latter proteins are prevalent in coral species that live preferably in less light exposed habitats where they optimize the internal light environment for symbiont photosynthesis in deeper tissue levels (Bollati et al., 2017; Smith et al., 2017). Thereby, they offer an explanation for the observation that fluorescent corals become again more abundant at greater depth after initially decreasing from the shallowest sites downwards (Salih et al., 2006; Roth et al., 2015; Smith et al., 2017). Due to the different function of the pigments, strongly fluorescent morphs gain an advantage at greater depths (Smith et al., 2017), whereas the trade-offs associated with the high-level production of the pigments give a selective advantage to less colored variants in shallower water.
Our study highlights the critical need to assess different types of GFP-like proteins separately when analyzing their biological function and their ecological significance in structuring reef communities.
CD and JW: provided the research question and designed experiments; CQ: conducted experiments and produced data; CD, JW, and CQ: analyzed and discussed the data; CQ, CD, and JW: wrote the paper.
The study was funded by NERC (NE/I01683X/1 & NE/K00641X/1 to JW), European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement n. 311179 to JW and an IFLS studentship Award to CD.
Conflict of Interest Statement
The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.
We thank Tropical Marine Centre (London) and Tropic Marin (Wartenberg) for sponsoring the Coral Reef Laboratory at the University of Southampton.
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Keywords: coral color, green fluorescent protein, photoprotection, color polymorphism, balancing selection, light stress, coral bleaching
Citation: Quick C, D'Angelo C and Wiedenmann J (2018) Trade-Offs Associated with Photoprotective Green Fluorescent Protein Expression as Potential Drivers of Balancing Selection for Color Polymorphism in Reef Corals. Front. Mar. Sci. 5:11. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00011
Received: 12 April 2017; Accepted: 16 January 2018;
Published: 06 February 2018.
Edited by:Daniel Wangpraseurt, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
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ACU-HORSE: A Guide to Equine Acupressure:
Introduction – Ancient Healing and Equine Health
Since the beginning of human history, the horse has been our constant companion in farming, war, travel, and sport. These powerful animals have played an important role in human survival worldwide. Because of the horse’s athleticism, intelligence, and adaptability, humans have forged a bond between our two species that will never be broken.
When we domesticated the horse, we also took on the responsibility of caring for horses. We realized if we were going to rely on the horse’s strength for food, travel, military purposes, and communication across distances, then we’d best take good care of this living, breathing resource.
The ancient Chinese were well aware of their dependence on horses and the need for their horses to be healthy. Acupressure-massage has been used with both humans and domesticated animals for thousands of years in the vast countryside of China. Equine acupressure-massage charts that document the use of these ancient healing techniques still exist. What started as tribal healing evolved over thousands of years into a more pervasive and codified science. Fortunately, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has been passed down from generation to generation.
Modern medicine has finally “caught up to” traditional medicine. Current conventional veterinary medicine has also begun to see the value of integrating modern technology with a form of medicine that has thousands of years of clinical observation to support it. Both approaches to medicine have their place in caring for ourselves and our horses. By combining the strengths of each form of medicine, we can reap the benefit of health and well-being.
Acupressure-massage, called Tui-Na in Chinese, is noninvasive, always available, deceptively gentle, yet profoundly powerful. Horses have proven to be excellent candidates for the healing nature of acupressure because they’re highly attuned to their internal energetics and sensitive to external, physical stimuli. Just think of how the horse wards off a fly even before it lands on him. Also, when horses stampede, they rarely, if ever, bump into each other.
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Acu-Horse provides a key that will help you unlock your healing ability as well as assist your horse in fulfilling his promise.
The following chapters of Acu-Horse covers the evolution and nature of the horse, Traditional Chinese Medicine concepts and theories underlying equine acupressure followed by a step by step approach to assessment and the acupressure session protocol.
The final chapter of Acu-Horse provides over 30 specific condition acupressure point charts for common equine physical and emotional health issues such as arthritis, colic, pre- and post-performance, founder, and many musculoskeletal problems.
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Kuwait City: Kuwait announced that women will be allowed to register for the military service, according to local media reports citing the Kuwait army.
Kuwait’s deputy prime minister Sheikh Hamad Jaber Al-Ali Al-Sabah, who also serves as the minister of defense, announced the ministerial decision to open the registration for women to join the country’s national military service.
During the initial phase, the applicants will serve in the field of medical and military support.
“Kuwaiti women have proven their achievements in several fields, and accordingly the approval was given for women to enter the military corps along with men,” he said.
Kuwaiti women have been serving as police officers for the past two decades, which paved the way for women to join the army.
Kuwait has made significant progress in the last few years in assuring the rights of women to work in various fields dominated by men. In 2005, the gulf nation passed a bill to grant women the right to vote and run for elected office. The bill paved the way for four female candidates occupying parliamentary seats out of fifty available in a general election a few years later. | <urn:uuid:9da3a882-fbb4-448d-a77c-3c658dea045f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thesouthasiantimes.info/kuwait-allows-women-to-serve-in-army-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968553 | 239 | 1.734375 | 2 |
SSD has faster read/write speeds compared to a hard disk. Using an SSD on your work or personal computer significantly decreases system response time. But no hardware is full proof, it can be human error or technical error which may lead to loss of data from SSD. Given the highly complex nature of SSD’s most users believe that data is permanently lost from their SSD and cannot be recovered.
And every once in a while we receive inquiries from our readers for the same. The most common one is, “How to recover deleted files from SSD”? So I decided to create an ultimate SSD data recovery guide.
Quick links to specific parts of the article:
- What Are Various Reasons For Data Loss In SSD?
- What Is Trim SSD & How To Restore Data From Trim Enabled SSD?
- Recover Deleted Files On SSD Using Data Recovery Software
What Are Various Reasons For Data Loss In SSD?
There are many reasons why data might be deleted from your SSD and each reason may require a different solution for recovering data. I will be discussing some of the most common reasons why files might be deleted from your SSD or why you are not able to access them.
1. Partition Corruption Due To Secondary OS
No two users are the same, some use their machine for professional use while others for entertainment. For work or for curiosity some time you have to install a different OS into your computer. While the process is straightforward but sometimes during the installation, the partition where you’re installing the secondary OS gets corrupted for one reason or the other.
If you too have a similar issue then you can try these partition recovery software to restore the files from the SSD partition.
2. Virus Or Malware
Everyone tries to protect their computer from viruses and malware but they sneak every once in a while. And, most often they delete or corrupt the file on your SSD. If you do find yourself in a similar situation then you can check out how to repair a corrupted hard drive article it would also work well on your SSD.
3. Physical Damage To SSD
If you have damaged your SSD while installing or handling it then a software solution won’t be of help to you. I would recommend reaching out to a technician who can look into your SSD and advice you whether data can be salvaged in some way or not.
4. Accidently Deleting A File
Sometimes in hurry, we can delete an important file accidentally, I know that because I am guilty of using the shift+delete button unsparingly. For those of you who aren’t aware, this command in Windows will permanently delete your file from the computer.
In most cases, the files from the empty recycle bin can be recovered from the SSD using third-party data recovery software.
5. Ageing SSD Or Bad Sectors In Your SSD
One major disadvantage SSD have is that they have limited write capacity. Meaning each SSD has a fixed amount of data that it can store in itself during its lifetime. And, that’s why the manufacturer even provides you with tools to monitor your SSD health. For example, Western Digital provides a WD dashboard for its SSD users that helps you monitor the SSD’s health. Samsung offers Samsung magicians software to monitor the health of Samsung’s SSD.
So if you have an old SSD that is acting funny then I would recommend checking its health. If you find the SSD’s health to be poor then I would recommend getting a new SSD and cloning the old one to the new one. Meanwhile, you can use the data recovery software for restoring the deleted files.
What Is Trim SSD & How To Restore Data From Trim Enabled SSD?
Before we start with the solutions to restore data from your SSD, we need to talk about TRIM SSDs. First and foremost, let’s understand how data recovery software works.
Storage devices like the hard drive are made of several sectors, for better understanding let’s call them pockets. When you install a program or save a file it is stored in these pockets.
Like Index on books that points at which page you can find a particular topic, hard drive also does that but instead, it points to the pocket/sectors. Whenever open a file, the hard drive points to the pockets where the files are stored just like an index of the books.
In the future, if you delete your file or uninstall a program from your hard drive, OS might show you that the file is gone but it still remains there. On a Hard drive, the file is removed from the index when it’s deleted so OS cannot find it but the file isn’t deleted. And, it will remain there until that sector/pocket is overwritten by new data.
During the early days, SSDs worked on the same principle too. However, to improve the read and write function TRIM-enabled SSDs were launched. This made the SSD faster but it also made data recovery almost impossible. Trim-enabled SSD deletes the file from the sector/pocket immediately so the file is not available for recovery.
By default, this function is enabled in most new SSDs which makes it difficult to restore the data. Unless you have manually disabled the TRIM function using the command, data recovery would be difficult if not impossible. You can still test the data recovery software I have mentioned here but your chances of recovering the file would be slim.
How To Find Out If TRIM Function Is Enabled In Your SSD?
If you want to find out if the TRIM function is enabled or not in your Windows PC, you can follow the steps below.
- Open Start Window and Type CMD.
- Right-click on the Command Prompt App.
- Four options would be displayed, click on, “Run As Administrator“.
- Windows Terminal would open up, copy and paste the following command, fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify and press enter.
- If the following results are displayed like in the image below then it means the TRIM function is enabled on your SSD. “C:\Windows\system32>fsutil behavior query disabledeletenotify
NTFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Disabled)
ReFS DisableDeleteNotify = 0 (Disabled)“
Note: ‘0’ means enabled in this case.
How To Disable TRIM Function In Your SSD?
If you want to disable the TRIM function so that you can restore your files in the future then you can also do that. Repeat the steps I have mentioned above. Once you have completed those steps enter the following command.
- Firstly type, fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify NTFS 0 and if the result that is shown is disabled in the command prompt then type, fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify NTFS 1 . It will disable the TRIM function partially.
- Next type, fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify ReFS 0 and if once again the command prompt tells you that it is disabled then type fsutil behavior set disabledeletenotify ReFS 1. And, now you have completely disabled TRIM function in your SSD.
Now TRIM function in your Windows computer has been successfully disabled. If in the future you want to recover your deleted data using data recovery software from your SSD then chances will be higher.
How To Recover Deleted Files On SSD Using Data Recovery Software
There are lots of recovery software available in the market but only a handful of them actually work. And, one of those is Stellar Data Recovery Software, which is one of the best Windows data recovery software you can use to recover deleted files from SSD.
It has a clean easy to use interface which makes the software easy to use. And, today we will be trying to recover deleted files from our SSD using the Stellar Data Recovery Software.
There are a lot of features in the software and we have covered them in our Stellar Windows Data Recovery review. So do read it if you want to know all the functions and features software has to offer.
If the file you are restoring is less than 1 GB in the size then you can use the free version of the software. However, if it exceeds the size then you will be needing a paid plan. If there are a lot of files that need to be restored then I would recommend the premium plan of the software.
Once you have installed the Stellar Data recovery software into your computer then follow the steps below.
Recovering Data On My TRIM Disabled SSD
By default my laptop had TRIM enabled on it but I have disabled the TRIM to test whether or not the file will recover. And I am going to run the Stellar data recovery software to see whether or not I am able to restore the file. For this test, I have selected an image, video, and mp3 file that I am going to delete from my New Volume F.
Now follow the steps below to restore the file:
- Open the Stellar Data Recovery app on your computer.
- Upon opening, the first screen of the app would ask you what to recover. You will have various options on the display which include Office documents, folders, emails, photos, audio, & video. I would recommend choosing the file type if you are looking for something particular as it makes the recovery easier.
- The next screen of the software will ask you where do you want to recover the file from. It simply means where was the file stored before it was deleted. You can select a particular drive/partition or choose a specific folder, desktop, or document folder. If you aren’t sure then you can select all of them.
- Once you have selected the drive/partition, press Scan.
- On the next screen, a dialog box will pop up telling you that, “Scanning Completed Successfully”, Click on OK to dismiss the dialog box.
- After that, you will see a list of files and folders that can be restored from the drive. If there are a lot of files available to restore then you can use the search box on the right side.
- In my case, I have deleted three files which are named ‘trim disabled image’, ‘trim disabled mp3 file’, and ‘trim disabled video’. I will be typing trim in the search box.
- As you can see software was able to find and detect the deleted files. By default, the software would have selected all the files for restoration, you can unselect them by clicking on the checkbox next to the file name. After that select the files you want to restore and click on Recover.
- A dialog box will appear asking you to select a folder where you want to save the file. Click on browse, then select the location where you want your deleted files to be restored, and then click on Start Saving.
- Once files are saved, a dialog box will appear congratulating you for the same.
Using the software, I was able to restore all three of my files and all three files were the same as before. As you can see in the images below, the file wasn’t corrupted or partially restored. I was able to get all three of my file perfectly intact.
Recovering Data From My TRIM Enabled SSD
If TRIM was enabled by default on your computer then the chances of file recovery are low. However, you can still try using the free version of the software. It would allow you to find out whether or not software works without spending a single penny. You would only need a plan if you are restoring files that exceed 1GB in size.
Steps for restoring the deleted files from your TRIM-enabled SSD would be the same as above. So follow the steps above to restore the file.
Talking about my experience, the software didn’t work for my TRIM-enabled SSD. The Stellar Data recovery software was able to identify the deleted file and restore them but restored files were corrupted. You can see this from the image below. However, I would still recommend giving a free version a shot anyway, maybe it works for you.
Can Deleted Files Be Recovered From SSD?
Yes, if the TRIM function is disabled on your SSD. You can try recovering from TRIM-enabled SSD using third-party software but chances would be slim.
Can Permanently Deleted Files Be Recovered In SSD?
Using third-party software you can recover permanently deleted files on your computer.
How Can I Recover Permanently Deleted Files For Free In SSD?
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1 edition of Tenants-in-common structures (TICs) and section 1031 like-kind exchanges found in the catalog.
Tenants-in-common structures (TICs) and section 1031 like-kind exchanges
|Statement||chair, Michael M. Sullivan ; faculty, Brenton J. Allen ... [et al.].|
|Contributions||Sullivan, Michael M., Allen, Brenton J., Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (1982- )|
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|Pagination||xii, 162 p. :|
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Why a modified Tenants In Common (TIC) structure is better for a exchange. Remember, a x requires the swap of like-kind real estate. Under IRC section , all real property is “like kind” to all other real property — as long as it meets the qualified use test. Necessarily, a tenant in common interest in one property can be The tenants in common ownership structure also allows the joint owners to change the ownership shares. If, for example, one wants to sell part or all of their holding, the ownership percentages can.
Tenants in Common is a form of A condominium is a form of ownership in which unit owners legally own a particular unit in a multiple unit structure of a building. The condo unit owner has a share and a right to use common areas such as hallways, elevators, gardens, swimming pools, and clubhouse within that structure. Having the right structure will help ensure you protect your investment while saving on tax at the same time. Eddie Chung explains When it comes to structuring, whether it’s for property investment, property development, a business, or any other activity, there’s no one-size-fits-all solution.
Parties Involved in a Tenant-In-Common ("TIC") Investment Offering. The number of parties involved in a normal tenant-in-common or “TIC” investment property transaction confuses even the most savvy real estate investor and for good reason: the structure of these investment offerings necessitates that additional parties be involved for securities and income tax law purposes. A tenancy in common is a form of property ownership that does not provide any survivorship rights among the co-owners, unlike with a joint tenancy. When one tenant in common dies, that tenant’s.
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WHEREAS, the Owners desire to provide for the ownership, operation,File Size: 67KB. Tenants in common is one way for two or more individuals to hold title to real property.
You can't be a tenant in common by yourself, but there's no limit to the number of individuals who can hold title to the property with you. A property held by tenants in common can be owned by two owners or plus owners.
Tenants in Common. The best way to explain Tenants in Common is to give an example. Bob and Steve are two unmarried friends. They co-own a piece of real estate (land) and both have their names on the deed.
This is called owning something as Tenants in Common. The first and primary right for tenants in common is the ability to access and use the entire property. Regardless of what percentage of the property each co-owner controls, everyone must be allowed unimpeded access to the Tenants-in-common structures book property.
Any attempts to withhold access to certain portions would be illegal. The Right to Property Income. By Amber Busch, CPA. Tenancy in common (TIC) is an ownership arrangement in which two or more parties jointly own property, and title is held individually to the extent of each party’s interest.
Unlike a partnership interest, TIC interest, can be exchanged in a tax deferred exchange. The validity of the TIC status is imperative to preserve the like-kind exchange. There are many forms of ownership structure in property. And tenants in common is one such structure that is very common among co-investors.
Under such legal arrangements, each individual or entity owns an undivided interest in the whole property in question. No party is able to exclude any other party or make a claim for any portion for themselves. This wraparound tenants in common financing structure has several advantages for all parties as compared to traditional group TIC loans.
For the buyers, it eliminates the risk that one buyer’s mortgage default will blemish another buyer’s credit, or worse, cause another buyer to. Tenancy in common is an arrangement where two or more people share ownership rights in a property or parcel of land.
The property may be commercial or residential. When a tenant in common dies, the. The primary characteristics of a tenancy in common are: Each tenant in common holds a separate and undivided interest in the property.
Tenants in common may, but are not required to, hold different percentages of ownership in the property. There. A tenancy in common (TIC) is one of three types of concurrent estates (defined as an estate that has shared ownership, in which each owner owns a share of the property).
The other two types are a joint tenancy and a tenancy by the entirety. A TIC typically has no right of survivorship. A tenancy in common is one of several ways numerous people can hold title to property together.
According to Ward and Smith, a law firm in North Carolina, most unmarried co-owners hold ownership this way. You might end up owning property as tenants in common by default -- if your deed doesn't specify exactly what kind of tenancy you have, ownership is legally treated as a tenancy in common in.
Tenants in common may sell, encumber or devise their interests any way they like. On the transfer of the interest of a tenant in common, the new owner becomes a tenant in common with the remaining owners. In case of obscurity or vagueness in the wording used for the creation of a joint estate, the normal rule of construction is to presume the.
Tenants in common A. Overview B. Tenancy In Common Requirements C. Issues for Lenders and Two General Contexts D. Key provisions in TIC agreement General Lender Requirements D.
Need for each TIC to be an SPE E. Appointment of managing TIC or other designated manager F. Additional Management Structures. Tenants in Common. English Español Join Us. ¡Únete. Resources FAQ Map About Us Recursos Preguntas Frequentes Mapa Sobre Nosotros Tenants in Common.
English. Español. Join Us. ¡Únete. Resources. FAQ. Map. About Us. Recursos. Preguntas Frequentes. Mapa. Sobre Nosotros. English. Diana. Charles. Mimi. Sally. Carolina. Zerita. Robert and Greg. From a tax perspective a tenants in common arrangement describes a partnership where two people are carrying on business in common with a view to profit.
Generally this will mean both parties are on the property title and will be liable for the mortgage. Investments in tenancy-in-common interests ("TIC") in real estate have been exploding.
While TIC investments provide significant benefits, including preserving the ability to dispose of or acquire such properties as part of a Section tax-free exchange, they also present many practical and legal issues that a TIC investor must consider before signing on the dotted line.
Instead, the reader and her husband owned their property as tenants in common. For this to work, you must own your property as tenants in common. Tenants in common each own a distinct share in the property.
You say you hold the property as tenants in common. Real Estate Tenants in Common-Up, Up and Away. Robert J. Walner, W. Rob Hannah III, and Greg Paul.
Illinois Real Estate Journal. April 1, The Tenants in Common (TIC) structure is becoming a popular arrangement to complete tax-free exchanges involving real estate, but regulatory challenges continue to make this investment option a. There are several ways to hold title to a piece of real property in Tennessee.
A tenancy in common is the predominant method. When two or more people hold title to property and they are not married and there is no additional language outlining their interest in the real property, then they are likely tenants in common.Tenants-In-Common.
Inthe IRS issued formal guidance regarding the use and structure of DSTs as qualified replacement properties in exchanges. A few more years passed before DSTs became the preferred vehicle for fractional interest programs.
Beforethe more common syndicated program was the tenants-in-common structure, also known as a “TIC”. Hence, the TIC structure permits the taxpayer to buy part of the replacement property thereby greatly expanding the properties available to the taxpayer to defer the taxes due.
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Many software engineering courses are centered around team-based project development. Analyzing the source code contributions during the projects’ development could provide both instructors and students with constant feedback to identify common trends and behaviors that can be improved during the courses. Evaluating course projects is a challenge due to the difficulty of measuring individual student contributions versus team contributions during the development. The adoption of distributed version control sys-tems like git enable the measurement of students’ and teams’ contributions to the project.In this work, we analyze the contributions within eight software development projects,with 150 students in total, from undergraduate courses that used project-based learning.We generate visualizations of aggregated git metrics using inequality measures and the contribution per module, which offer insights into the practices and processes followed by students and teams throughout the project development. This approach allowed us to identify inequality among students’ contributions, the modules where students con-tributed, development processes with a non-steady pace, and integration practices render-ing a useful feedback tool for instructors and students during the project’s development.Further studies can be conducted to assess the quality, complexity, and ownership of the contributions by analyzing software artifacts.
Tipo de publicación: Journal Article
Publicado en: CLEI Electronic JournalAutores
- Sivana Hamer
- Christian Quesada-López
- Alexandra Martinez
- Marcelo Jenkins
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CLEVELAND (WJW)– It has become a hot topic across the country and now it’s becoming a hot topic here in Ohio: the debate on transgender females and sports.
State Sen. Kristina Roegner (R-Hudson) is backing the two bills, House Bill 61 and Senate Bill 132, which would ban transgender females from female teams.
“I believe it is not only an issue of fairness, but of safety for our girls and women to play sports,” she said. “You don’t want your daughter playing on a field or running against other girls that have used performance enhancing drugs, so why would we want them playing on that same field as someone that was born as a biological male?”
Eliana Turan is the director of development for the LGBT Community Center of Greater Cleveland. She said Ohio cannot let history repeat itself.
“The bills are harmful because it really puts female athletes down and it makes women sound as if we are not as good as male athletes,” Turan said.
“Black athletes weren’t allowed to compete with white athletes, and we know that that was wrong. Why are we taking the same logic and just putting it on the trans community?”
Right now, the Ohio High School Athletic Association allows for transgender females to play on girls’ sports teams following a year of hormone therapy or test results that show no physiological advantages over genetic females of the same age group.
The OHSAA said in a statement to FOX 8 it has not been presented with any information that would suggest that female athletes in Ohio are losing participation opportunities, championships or scholarships because of transgender athlete participation.
Since the 2015-2016 school year, there have been 48 transgender athlete rulings in Ohio, 11 were approved. No transgender athlete holds a state record.
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I am not sure who originally coined this phrase or where I heard it but it goes a long way in describing my coaching style and how I interact with players.
"Practices are for the coaches and games are for the players."I have always felt that if I have to bark orders all game to my players about what to do and where to be, it is an indication that I did not prepare them well enough in practice. As I've stated numerous times on this blog, baseball players must be calm and in the right mind frame to succeed in the very difficult game of baseball. A coach who is constantly in his players ears all game is not helping in my opinion. At the high school level, I want my players to learn the game and think for themselves instead of relying on the coaches to do all the thinking for them. It seems hypocritical to me that a coach would control every aspect of a player's thinking and then complain that his players cannot think for themselves.
In 2009, our team won the Pennsylvania 4A State Championship. The championship game was televised. Our pitcher that day, now a pitcher at Winthrop University, threw very hard. Early in the game a right handed batter on the other team smoked a line drive straight down the right field line. A sure double and maybe a triple. Instead, it was right at the right fielder who was literally playing 15 feet off the right field line before the pitch. One out. When I watched the replay of the game on TV, I laughed out loud. The announcers were shocked and couldn't believe where the right fielder was playing as they watched the replay. They glowingly praised the coaching staff on our "scouting report" and knowledge of the opposing hitters. I laughed because, ironically, we did no scouting prior to the game. We also didn't tell the outfielders to play the hitter that far the other way. We said nothing. What we did tell the outfielders many times in practice was to know who is pitching, to read the batters' swings, and to adjust their position accordingly. All three outfielders communicated amongst themselves and shifted far to the opposite field completely on their own based on what they noticed during the season and during this particular game. They knew that we trusted them enough to make that decision on the fly. If they had relied on the coaches, they may not have shifted and a double or triple would have been the result. A close win for the championship may have turned into a disappointing loss because of that one play alone.
Even the most knowledgeable coaches cannot possibly see everything that happens in a game. The coach has one set of eyes and sees the game from the dugout. The players have nine sets of eyes and see the game from all areas of the field. Collectively, they will see more real-time things than the coach. I say tap into that. Show that you trust the players enough to take what they see and act on it. Of course, the risk in all of this is that players will act incorrectly and make mistakes. It is true. This will happen occasionally. But not always.
I read where a high school basketball coach got so fed up with his players lack of court awareness and failure to do what they were told that he tried something different as a way of sending a strong message to his players. Right before the next game, he told his team that he wasn't going to say a single word during the game. Not one word. He was going to sit on the bench and stay completely silent from start to finish. They had to make all the decisions from play calling to timeouts. He thought since they were playing the best team in the league and had little chance of winning he could teach his team a lesson by allowing them to get beaten badly. "See what happens when you try to do things on your own and don't listen?" was what he planned on saying after the game. You can probably guess what happened. His team played the best they had all season and won the game. They also seemed to have a great time in the process. What started as a lesson for the players turned into one for the coach. Following the game, he was more than a little uncomfortable when reporters asked about "his" masterful game plan.
In my opinion, the short-term gain of having every pitch, play, and position coded on a wristband and determined by a coach is offset by the long-term problem of players not learning how to think for themselves and to react accordingly.
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It was announced 40 years ago (April 27th, 1981), that Paul McCartney's solo band Wings had disbanded. McCartney and his first wife Linda had formed the group in the summer of 1971 with drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist and Moody Blues co-founder Denny Laine. The McCartney's and Laine remained the nucleus of the band's ever-changing line up throughout their decade-long run. At the time of Wings' split the band included Wings' third lead guitarist Laurence Juber and fourth drummer Steve Holley.
The same day the announcement was leaked to the press, McCartney, along with Linda and their four children, joined his bandmates from his other band, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, at Ringo's wedding to actress Barbara Bach in London.
McCartney first broke Wings in by playing small, unannounced university gigs throughout Britain in early 1972. Gradually, he began booking the group into theaters and arenas across Europe, Australia, and America as the group started racking up Top Ten hits such as “Hi, Hi, Hi,” “Live And Let Die,” “Helen Wheels,” “Jet,” “Junior's Farm,” “Let 'Em In,” and “Goodnight Tonight,” along with the Number Ones “My Love,” “Band On The Run,” “Listen To What The Man Said,” “Silly Love Songs,” “With A Little Luck,” and “Coming Up.”
In 2001 McCartney released his Wingspan documentary chronicling the group's career. He admitted at the time that he was horrified by at the public and critical beating Linda took after marrying and co-founding Wings with him: “She took some s*** — major league. Not only from the critics, (but) from the fans. I mean, we had stuff daubed on our front wall in large letters, and it was highly offensive, y'know? So, she had to put up with that. Luckily, she was a very strong woman, and was able to overcome it and the period passed, and as she went on, people started to appreciate more and more.”
Denny Laine says that despite the band's success, being an active member of top act like Wings is hardly as easy as it looks: “Well, there's a lot of pressure on you when you're in a band like Wings — to come up with the goods, to be continually working. It's not like taking it easy and taking it at your own pace. Y'know, you're out there and you've got to do what the public expects you to.”
The Beatles' late-engineer Geoff Emerick, who went on to work on several Wings projects, including the One Hand Clapping film and the Band On The Run and London Town albums, told us that above all the members, it was Linda that was really the unsung hero of the group: “Wings was Wings, and Linda was such an integral part of that — if you took Linda's vocals out of those harmony voices — it wasn't Wings anymore.”
Wings' final lead guitarist, Laurence Juber, told us that although the band was specifically not brought on for McCartney's Tug Of War sessions, they remained an active studio unit for McCartney's other recording work — including his still-unreleased outtakes project, Cold Cuts: “George Martin didn't want it to be a Wings album, that's what I was told. Paul called up and said, 'George wants to make this a 'Paul McCartney' album and thanks, but no thanks.' But subsequently, we were still back in the studio as Wings, 'cause during January of '81 we were loosely working on what was called Cold Cuts.”
Beatlefan magazine publisher Bill King had covered all of McCartney's exploits leading up to Wings calling it quits — including his infamous January 1980 Tokyo drug bust which curtailed Wings' second proposed world tour. We asked King if he was shocked by the announcement signaling the end of the band: “I was mildly surprised but after the who Japanese thing, that was sort of a major demarcation in his life and career. 'Cause we had heard the reports that the last British tour was underwhelming. Everybody remembered Pete Townshend's comment about him getting out there with an 'under-rehearsed band.' I seem to recall that my feeling was that this had run its course, it was a good time for him to try something different, and to basically record with a whole bunch of different people.”
McCartney biographer Christopher Sanford feels that there was probably no clear moment at which McCartney decided that Wings was an unworkable situation: “His solo album (McCartney II) that came out in May of '80 was sort of an organic process. I don't think there was a 'big bang' moment where he decided to demolish Wings. And I think it developed in the first six or seven months of 1980. And I suspect that John's murder had — among many other horrible repercussions — a disinclination to go out on the road immediately. I mean, for one thing, you're more vulnerable physically; and secondly it's hard to go out and sing with the best will in the world 'Silly Love Songs' and the other upbeat stuff when you're grieving your best friend.” | <urn:uuid:6336499f-bc39-4f48-b5fc-32424519ba20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://d1698.cms.socastsrm.com/2021/04/26/40-years-ago-today-paul-mccartney-disbands-wings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.98897 | 1,147 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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Do you notice frequent changes in your bowel movement? Have you found traces of blood in your stool? They could be early signs of colorectal cancer. Colon cancer or colorectal cancer is a form of cancerous growth that first begins in the colon area (large intestine). This type of cancer may be benign (harmless) or malignant.
It is quite perplexing yet true that a cancerous growth can start developing anywhere in the human body, which is primarily made up of trillions of cells. When you get cancer, the orderly process of the cells in your body gets disrupted. Cancer cells are abnormal cells, and these cells live on even when they become old or damaged. New cells are formed even when they are not needed by the body and they keep dividing without stopping. The extra cells form tumours. Cancerous tumours may be malignant or benign.
Beta Thalassemia is an extreme form of anemia. It is an inherited or genetic blood disorder in children. Anemia, as we all know, is caused due to low hemoglobin levels. Similarly, the beta thalassemia condition affects the healthy production of hemoglobin. There are many types of thalassemia, and a child can be severely anemic depending on the type of thalassemia he/she suffers from.
Is your child having an upset stomach and belly cramps? These health issues could be signs of gastroenteritis. Well, the term gastroenteritis can be also defined as stomach flu. It is a common disease in kids that causes diarrhea, vomiting, and stomach pain. Most cases may last for several days without turning serious. Children can get better with plenty of rest and intake of liquids at home. However, acute gastroenteritis may need hospitalization. | <urn:uuid:66aaee3d-f0e0-442b-b9b7-e231d93a2282> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eg.doctoruna.com/en/practice/1252/oncology-clinic-in-giza-square-in-cairo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.933522 | 423 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Houston Video Crew Lifts Off At Space Center For ESPN Spelling Bee
Shooting this piece was a blast! We got a free lesson in rocket science as spelling bee genius Syamantak Payra guided us on a tour of Space Center Houston. First we visited Mission Control where NASA monitors our current trips to Mars and dates back to our first trip to the moon. It’s only open to the public on the weekends. Aren’t we lucky:)
Next we were off to the breathtaking Saturn V Rocket, which played a major role in transporting and landing American astronauts on the moon. Here I am in front of 5 F1 rocket engines. The size of these things is breathtaking to say the least.
For our interview, I set up in Syamantak’s trophy room using my Sony F3 and a Canon 5D Mark II, both set up using Canon L-Series lenses. By using the Canon standard scene profile on my F3, the 5D will match seamlessly in the edit room. Man, that’s a lot of trophies for a 13 year old! Keep up the hard work Syamantak. | <urn:uuid:be531f37-dc96-44d8-933a-bcf08ec806f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gototeam.com/2014/houston-crew-lifts-off-at-space-center-for-espn-spelling-bee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.873635 | 237 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Terrafame is planning to start the recovery of natural uranium and its commercial utilisation.
How much is there uranium in the ore excavated by Terrafame?
The ore excavated by Terrafame has a small concentration of uranium, approximately 17 mg/kg. The average concentration of uranium in Finnish bedrock is 4 mg/kg, and the concentration in granite is considerably higher than that in many places. Ore with an average uranium concentration of at least 1,000 mg/kg is classified as uranium ore, which means that Terrafame ore is not uranium ore.
Does uranium pose health or environmental risks at the site?
The ore in Terrafame’s processes and products does not pose threat to humans or the environment, as the concentration is very low, and the composition of the uranium is natural uranium. The radiation level at the Terrafame site does not differ from nature’s normal background radiation level.
Are the nearby waters exposed to uranium from the Terrafame mining site? Does uranium pose environmental risks for the nearby waters or Lake Nuasjärvi?
The uranium concentration in Terrafame’s discharged water is extremely low. The concentration of uranium in the purified water released from the Terrafame site in 2016 was on average 0.5 micrograms per litre (µg/l), whereas the average uranium concentration in the household water in Finland is approximately 1 microgram per litre (µg/l). The reference point of action for uranium, i.e., the point after which the purification of drinking water is recommended, is 100 µg/l for household water, or approximately 100 times the average uranium concentration in Terrafame’s discharge water.
How is uranium processed at the Terrafame production process?
Uranium is leached in a bioleaching process into the process solution, just like other metals. Approximately two thirds of the uranium being dissolved is returned to the secondary bioleaching heap, approximately one third remains at the gypsum ponds, and a small amount is included as impurities in the present products.
How do the refiners of Terrafame’s nickel and zinc products process uranium?
The low uranium content in Terrafame’s present products is an impurity and is, depending on the process applied, not applicable to refining. Metal products supplied by mines always contain impurities, such as uranium or other metals, which means that the products from the Terrafame mining site are not exceptional in this respect. According to information available to Terrafame, only Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta has recovered uranium included in the nickel product supplied from the Terrafame, as it would have adversely affected the refining process. Norilsk Nickel Harjavalta has the appropriate environmental permit for this. Terrafame is unaware of any of its customers utilising the uranium impurity in any way whatsoever.
Why has Terrafame not previously recovered uranium during the production process?
Terrafame has concentrated on the ramp-up of the operations, and uranium recovery has not earlier been topical for the company. Terrafame owns a uranium recovery plant that has previously been built in the industrial area. There is an environmental permit for the plant and uranium recovery, but the uranium plant still requires a permit from the Finnish government before commissioning, and Terrafame has applied for it in October 2017. According to Terrafame’s estimate, uranium recovery could be topical toward the end of 2019, if the necessary permits are obtained. Uranium has also been considered in the environmental impact assessment process for the production.
Are the uranium concentration and radiation regularly measured at the site?
Terrafame monitors uranium concentrations in its official environmental monitoring, the results of which are also reported and published on the Terrafame website. In addition, the Radiation and Nuclear Safety Authority monitors the operations at the site.
What is essential is that the uranium involved in the process and the products is still natural uranium, and the radiation level at the Terrafame site does not differ from nature’s normal background radiation.
How much uranium could Terrafame produce if it decided to start recovering uranium?
In the new environmental permit application submitted in August 2017, Terrafame has applied for a permit to produce at most 250 tonnes of uranium. For the business plan and attaining the company’s long-term economic goals, uranium is not a decisive factor.
If Terrafame started to recover uranium in the future, what would the uranium be used for? Would the recovered uranium be suitable as fuel at nuclear power plants?
The uranium recovery plant in the industrial area would, after additional investments, be able to produce uranium oxide. This, per se, would not be suitable, for example, as nuclear fuel but would require further refining. The uranium recovery plant owned by Terrafame would only enable the uranium recovery. | <urn:uuid:52dbdf8a-d34f-447d-b28a-d88cca3298b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.terrafame.com/questions-and-answers-about-uranium-recovery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.941195 | 1,015 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Porcelain Gallbladder: Is Observation A Safe Option?
*Haley DesJardins, *Lindsay Duy, *Christopher Scheirey, Thomas Schnelldorfer
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center, Burlington, MA
Objective: Management of gallbladder wall calcifications has been under controversy for many decades. While the traditionally perceived strong association with gallbladder cancer mandated prophylactic cholecystectomy, newer evidence suggests a much lesser association and may indicate an observational approach.
Design: A retrospective cohort study of 113 patients with gallbladder wall calcifications diagnosed between 2004 and 2016 at a single institution. Radiographic re-review identified patients with definitive (n=70) and highly probable (n=43) gallbladder wall classifications. Patients were categorized according to their designated treatment plan.
Setting: Academic tertiary care center.
Patients: Patients with gallbladder wall calcifications.
Main Outcome Measure: Rate of gallbladder malignancy.
Results: Of 113 patients, 36% underwent radiographic imaging for abdominal pain. In the observation group (n=90), delayed cholecystectomy for gallbladder-related symptoms was necessary in four patients (4%). None of the patients in this group were diagnosed with a gallbladder malignancy during an average 3.2+/-3.2 year follow-up. In the operative group (n=23), perioperative complications occurred in 13%. Gallbladder malignancy was found in 2 patients; all with a gallbladder mass seen on initial radiographic exam. In group comparison, while patients in the observation group were older (73 versus 65 years, p=0.003), the rate of adverse events was similar (4% versus 13%; p=0.15) with an overall low risk for potentially life-threatening complications with observation.
Conclusions: For patients with gallbladder wall calcifications, there appears to be no significant difference in adverse events, including development of gallbladder malignancy, with an observational versus operative approach. While there is a clear need for intervention in the presence of radiographic findings suggestive of malignancy
or in the presence of symptoms, the need for prophylactic cholecystectomy for asymptomatic patients remains questionable.
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- Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed;
who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
- The Lord God has taken an oath by his holy name, that the days are coming when they will take you away with hooks, and the rest of you with fish-hooks.
- And you will go out through the broken places, every one going straight before her, and you will be sent into Harmon, says the Lord.
- Come to Beth-el and do evil;
to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins;
come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:
- Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly;
for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.
- But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
- And I have kept back the rain from you, when it was still three months before the grain-cutting: I sent rain on one town and kept it back from another: one part was rained on, and the part where there was no rain became a waste.
- So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
- I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
- I have sent disease among you, as it was in Egypt: I have put your young men to the sword, and have taken away your horses;
I have made the evil smell from your tents come up to your noses: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
- And I have sent destruction among you, as when God sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick pulled out of the fire: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.
- So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.
- For see, he who gave form to the mountains and made the wind, giving knowledge of his purpose to man, who makes the morning dark, and is walking on the high places of the earth: the Lord, the God of armies, is his name. | <urn:uuid:5b3e28bf-3318-4239-972a-5301dc05f2a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://superbook.org/BBE/AM/am4.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982966 | 641 | 1.867188 | 2 |
To decode and to decrypt that code, you’re in a have to have a sport copying software. But, which software program instrument is the best to make use of? On the lookout for a software to burn their games, some Xbox gamers will look to web sites that offer free recreation copy softwares. Nevertheless, you must be cautious when in search of free softwares as some can download dangerous malware or different viruses along with the software.
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In early 2021 China and Russia agreed, after more than a year of negotiations, to develop a joint BMEW (Ballistic Missile Early Warning) system. This involves Russia providing the tech needed to bring Chinese BMEW equipment up to Russian standards. As an incentive for Russia to cooperate, and provide the needed tech, Chinese Internet censors were ordered to allow open discussion about Chinese claims on a quarter of the Russian Far East and most of the prime coastal areas. China never cancelled these claims, even in the 1940s and 50s when China was very dependent on Russia. Once China got what it wanted, censors were ordered to block any talk of regaining border areas that are now Russian but claimed by China.
China has begun working on a BMEW system since the 1960s and continued this effort into the 1980s. The Chinese built two long-range radars but never got beyond that. There were more important priorities, like figuring out how to censor the Internet in China and hack the Internet outside China.
After 2000 China revived its BMEWS project but did not have much success, at least not compared to what the Russians and Americans had accomplished. It took nearly two decades but the Russians managed to replace their Cold War era BMEW radars with modern models. That new system was completed in 2021. Russia was still having problems building and maintaining the space satellites that are a key feature of any BMEWS. China has surpassed Russia in the ability to build and launch satellites. It is assumed that China will contribute some of this space-based BMEW tech to Russia while the Russians will provide China with the tech to build modern ground-based radars. Both China and Russia realize that the United States has upgraded its ground and space-based BMEW equipment and this new Chinese-Russian BMEWS will close the capability gap both nations have with the Americans.
After the 1990s Russia worked hard to rebuild its Cold War era BMEWS. That did not go well with the space-based component. In 2014, one of the three remaining Russian satellites built to detect ICBM launches failed. The failed satellite was an Oko-1 that was launched in 2012 and was supposed to last 5-7 years. Russia began launching the Oko-1 satellites in 1991 but only two of them lasted more than five years. The Oko-1s are GTO (high stationary orbit) type satellites costing $45 million each and two are needed to provide worldwide coverage. The older satellites are in lower, non-stationary orbit and with only two of the pre-Oko-1 satellites left can detect American ICBM launches for only about three hours a day. Russia was not completely blind as it was having more success rebuilding its network of long range (over-the-horizon) radars. These provide less warning, and less time to decide what to do.
Despite budget problems, Russia moved forward more quickly that earlier believed in building and deploying its new Voronezh-M early-warning radar. All nine of the new radars were operational by 2018. The government considers these radars essential to protect Russia from the growing possibility, according to Russian leaders, of nuclear attack by Western nations like America, Britain and France.
These new radars replaced the Daryal radars and the even older models than Daryal were still in service. The older early-warning radars were usually in areas that were part of the Soviet Union but since 1991 are no longer in present-day Russia. The new early warning system provides detection for missiles coming from all directions. Russian leaders proclaim NATO to still be the major threat but some of the radars face China, just in case.
For a long time, Russia was seriously concerned about Chinese aggression in the Far East. In the early 1960s the Russians discreetly approached the United States to see if they were interested in a joint nuclear attack against the Chinese to neutralize a “mutual threat.” The U.S. declined. Tensions between China and Russia escalated and by 1969 there were a number of border battles resulting in hundreds of casualties. By late 1969 a ceasefire had been agreed on, at the same time the United States was discussing a peace deal that would include the U.S. recognizing China and not the Taiwanese “government-in-exile” as the legitimate government of China. By 1972 that diplomatic switch had been achieved and the Russians were not happy.
After the Soviet Union dissolved and the new, much reduced Russia realized that its Far Eastern region contained about 40 percent of their territory but only about right percent of their population. China had historical claims on much of that Far East region and Russia had far fewer resources to resist such an attack.
In 2008, after nearly have a century of hostility, China and Russia settled disputes over exactly where their border was. As part of the deal, Russia returned two islands in the Amur River, and China dropped claims on some other river islands. This did not eliminate Russian fears of a Chinese attack.
In late 2013 Russian defense officials proposed reversing the plans to create a brigade-based combat force and return to the use of divisions and rebuilding a large reserve force that Russia had favored for over a century. The reason for this was the possibility of a large war in the east. The only major foe out there was China but China was not mentioned. Nevertheless, China is the major potential threat to Russia. At that time the Chinese Army was already three times larger than Russia’s and had 15 tank and mechanized infantry divisions it could place on the Russian border. China was also reorganizing its ground forces into one based on brigades rather than divisions. Still, China had three times as many brigades in 2013. Officially, Russia has ceased to consider Chinese ground forces a threat, as Russian nuclear weapons were supposed to be what would stop a Chinese ground assault. Traditionalists in the Defense Ministry are pointing out that nuclear war would destroy both nations and that the current situation allows China to quickly grab the Russian Far East, which China has long claimed, and then call for a peace conference. This is the sort of tactic China has used in the past and the Chinese are big fans of their imperial past. The pro-brigade leaders won this debate and it is apparently agreed that a brigade-centric army would be more successful in fighting the Chinese threat.
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When I was a child, I had an obsession with rocks.
When I visited river banks, lake shores, roadsides, and random fields, if there was a rock I probably picked it up, and about half the time I took it home (the prettier the better, but I wasn’t too discerning). Family road trips in the summer inevitably ended with me sacrificing my legroom for bags bulging with rocks I collected, and at least once I paddled a canoe with my pockets stuffed with rocks; it was a very lucky thing that I didn’t fall in.
Of course, when I came to work at the CFDC last year I was haunted by rocks; specifically shale. Because of course.
As a field technician you can probably guess my life at work revolved around shale and fossils. I looked for fossils (in shale), lead tours to look for fossils (yup, in shale), and of course, removed overburden (crushed up shale already looked through for fossils).
To keep our dig sites clean and productive, the overburden must be raked, shoveled, and carted away. For some reason, last year our time clearing overburden happened to be on the absolute hottest, sunniest days of the season. Sometimes the wheelbarrow broke; sometimes human error dumped a particularly heavy load 5 feet from where it began and you could hear a collective groan.
Although fun you can bet it was always hard work.
However, while in the field I got to do something I’d never done, despite my large rock collection: I finally learned about rocks. What is shale made of? Where did it come from? What minerals do we find in our shale? How old is it, does it all look the same, what does it taste like? Now I know, and am proud to report that our shale is made of silt from the bottom of the Western Interior Seaway, often with a fair amount of a mineral called gypsum. Here in Manitoba the shale is 80 million years old, and it’s not all the same: some is very clumpy, while others flat and layered. Some is well known for preserving fossils, while others almost never will. Oh, and of course, it tastes exactly how you would expect shale to taste: like mud and dust.
Allow me to explain why I know this. Part of identifying certain shales comes down to the exact texture: is it gritty or silty? At some point a long time ago a very intelligent geologist decided the proper way to test this is to rub a piece, fresh from the ground, against one’s teeth: Does it feel like sandpaper on your teeth? It’s gritty. Does it feel like soap on your teeth? It’s silty. Unfortunately, as every field technician discovers, the taste stays with you for a long time no matter how many times you brush your teeth!
Days after one particular day in the field I asked friends and family if they knew that about shale. I asked them to guess how I came to learn it. They all responded with a mix of pity and what I’d like to believe was respect: “You licked a rock, didn’t you?”
I had not, in fact, licked a rock. I had, of course, scraped it against my teeth.
While undergoing such adventures as shoveling shale and putting it in my mouth, I felt extremely lucky to be experiencing the province and area I’ve lived all my life in such a new, unique way. While my peers got summer jobs where they were trapped inside all day mine had me outside all day! I got to hike to outcrops, uncover fossils that had laid untouched for millions of years, and to learn some of the most fascinating Manitoba history.
So often as a student I’ve memorized things simply because I was told they would be on the test, not because I was truly excited about the information. Summer is the perfect time to remember how fun it is to learn about the things that are truly interesting. While this year may have been pretty rocky so far, my challenge to everyone is to investigate something they may have overlooked until now. Bonus points if it can be done with a trip to a museum.
And remember! Don’t lick rocks unless you absolutely must.
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Performance Testing and Criteria for Snowmobile Seat Cushions
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
Published February 01, 1973 by SAE International in United States
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A reliable and practical test method has been developed to measure the dynamic cushioning properties of snowmobile seats. These cushioning properties are related to probability of spinal injury to man impacting such cushions and minimum performance levels are recommended. A review of the dynamic cushioning properties and performance of many snowmobile seat cushions demonstrates the effects of cushion construction on performance. This test method and relation of data to injury probability provides the engineer the tool with which to design safety scientifically into snowmobile seat cushions.
|Technical Paper||A Hybrid Computer Simulation of the Recreational Snowmobile|
|Technical Paper||Snowmobile Suspension System Design Under University-Industry Collaboration|
|Ground Vehicle Standard||Dynamic Cushioning Performance Criteria for Snowmobile Seats|
CitationSchanhals, L. and Pershing, R., "Performance Testing and Criteria for Snowmobile Seat Cushions," SAE Technical Paper 730770, 1973, https://doi.org/10.4271/730770.
- Chism S. E. Soule A. B. “Snowmobile Injuries.” JAMA 29 1969 1692 1694
- McLay R. W. Chism S. E. “A Snowmobile Accident Study.” International Snowmobile Conference Albany, New York May 1969
- McLay R. W. “A Survey of Snowmobile Injuries and Hazards.” Medicine and Science in Sports 3 2 Summer 1971 97 99
- Karleen C. J. “Snowmobiling with Associated Maxillofacial Injuries.” Paper 720258 SAE Automotive Engineering Congress Detroit January 1972
- Brinkley J. W. “Application of a Biodynamic Model to Predict Spinal Injuries From Use of Aircraft Ejection Seats.” AFSC Science and Engineering Symposium October 1971 Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio
- Stech E. L. et al “Dynamic Models of the Human Body.” Joint NASA/USAF Study AMRL-TR-66-157 November 1969 Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson AFB Ohio
- Standard Method of Test for Shock Absorbing Characteristics of Package Cushioning Materials
- SAE Recommended Practice Instrument Panel Laboratory Impact Test Procedure-Head Area SAE J921b, SAE Handbook
- Schanhals L. R. SAE Occupant Protection Subcommittee of the Snowmobile and AllTerrain Vehicle Committee 1971 The Dow Chemical Company Midland, Mich.
- SAE Recommended Practice Male Physical Dimensions for Construction and Industrial Equipment Design-SAE J833 SAE Handbook
- Swearingen J. J. Wheelwright C. D. Garner J. D. “An Analysis of Sitting Areas and Pressures of Man.” Civil Aero Medical Research Institute paper 62-1 FAA, Aeronautical Center Oklahoma City January 1962
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Mission and Vision
Tulsa Changemakers builds capacity in youth, adults, and systems to support youth in driving positive impact in Tulsa right now and into the future.
Our vision is a future where Tulsa is a model city for youth-driven impact. The youth are core catalysts for impact in their communities, and communities are actively engaged in identifying, developing, and empowering youth as leaders. Tulsa is consistently cultivating highly effective community leaders eager to empower successive generations.
What We Do
Our afterschool program is a semester long, 25-session youth leadership development and action program that empowers elementary, middle, and high school students to make meaningful change in their schools and communities.
Alumni of our afterschool program can remain involved with Tulsa Changemakers through our Advisory Committee, Power of Youth Alumni Program, and various other alumni opportunities.
Training, Consulting, and Partnerships
Tulsa Changemakers staff have a series of workshops available to schools, communities, and partners. All workshops are customizable to the specifications of your group.
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|Zeocin® (solution)||Unit size||Cat. code||Docs||Qty||Price|
Selective antibiotic for the Sh ble gene
500 mg (5 x 1ml)
1g (10 x 1 ml)
5g (50 x 1 ml)
5 g (50 ml bottle)
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Selective antibiotic for the Sh ble gene
1 g (powder)
5 g (powder)
Zeocin® | Selection antibiotic: endotoxin tested, sterile reagent
InvivoGen is the sole worldwide producer of Zeocin®.
Zeocin® is a formulation of phleomycin D1, a copper-chelated glycopeptide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces CL990. Zeocin® causes cell death by intercalating into DNA and cleaving it.
The action of Zeocin® is effective on most aerobic cells. Therefore, Zeocin® is a popular and effective antibiotic for the selection of vectors bearing the Sh ble gene in a variety of cells types (bacteria, eukaryotic microorganisms, plant and animal cells).
Resistance to Zeocin® is conferred by the Sh ble gene product from Streptoalloteichus hindustanus, which inactivates Zeocin® upon binding to the antibiotic [1-3].
Sh ble is a small 370bp-sized gene and is carried in a number of InvivoGen’s vectors.
Typically, mammalian cells are sensitive to Zeocin® concentrations of 50-400 µg/ml, and bacteria to 25 µg/ml.
For research use only
1. Drocourt D. et al., 1990. Cassettes of the Streptoalloteichus hindustanus ble gene for transformation of lower and higher eukaryotes to phleomycin resistance. Nucl. Acids. Res. 18: 4009.
2. Gatignol A. et al., 1988. FEBS Letters. 230: 171-5.
3. Dumas P. et al., 1994. Embo J. 242 (5) 595-601.
Product concentration: 100 mg/ml in solution
CAS number: 11006-33-0
Quality Control: Each lot is thoroughly tested to ensure the absence of lot-to-lot variation.
Endotoxin level: < 1 EU/mg
Physicochemical characterization: HPLC, pH, appearance
Cell-culture tested: potency validated in Zeocin®-sensitive and Zeocin®-resistant mammalian cell lines
Non-cytotoxicity of trace contaminants: absence of long-term effects confirmed in Zeocin®-resistant cellsBack to the top
Zeocin® is supplied as a sterile filtered blue solution at 100 mg/ml in HEPES buffer.
This product is available in three pack sizes:
- ant-zn-1: 10 x 1 ml (1 g)
- ant-zn-5: 50 x 1 ml (5 g)
- ant-zn-5b: 1 x 50 ml (5 g)
Zeocin® is also supplied as a blue powder:
- ant-zn-1p: 1 x 1 g
- ant-zn-5p: 1 x 5 g
Zeocin® is shipped at room temperature.
Upon receipt it should be stored at 4°C or -20°C.
Zeocin® is a harmful compound. Refer to safety data sheet for handling instructions.Back to the top
Zeocin® is normally used at a concentration of 100 μg/ml, a 1000-fold dilution from the stock solution. However, the optimal concentration needs to be determined for your cells.
Suggested concentrations of Zeocin® for selection in some examples of mammalian cells are listed below:
B16 (Mouse melanocytes)
CHO (Chinese hamster ovarian cells)
1, 4, 5
COS (Monkey kidney cells)
|HEK293 (Human embryonic kidney cells)||DMEM||100-400 μg/ml||8, 9|
|HeLa (Human uterine cells)||DMEM||50-100 μg/ml||10, 11|
|J558L (Mouse melanocytes)||RPMI||400 μg/ml||12|
|MCF-7 (Human breast adenocarcinoma cells)||DMEM||100-400 μg/ml||13, 14|
|MEFs (Mouse embryonic fibroblasts)||DMEM||200-400 μg/ml||15, 16|
|THP-1 (Human monocytes)||RPMI||200 μg/ml||17|
1. Bouayadi K. et al., 1997. Overexpression of DNA polymerase beta sensitizes mammalian cells to 2’,3’ deoxycytidine and 3’-azido-3’-deoxythymidine. Cancer Res. 57: 110-116.
2 Hirose Y. et al., 2012. Inhibition of Stabilin-2 elevates circulating hyaluronic acid levels and prevents tumor metastasis. PNAS, 109: 4263 - 4268.
3. Fan H. et al., 2012. Intracerebral CpG immunotherapy with carbon nanotubes abrogates growth of subcutaneous melanomas in mice. Clin Cancer Res.18(20):5628-38.
4. Li F. et al., 1996. Post-translational modifications of recombinant P-selection glycoprotein ligand-1 required for binding to P- and E- selection. J. Biol. Chem. 271: 3255-3264.
5. Ogura T. et al., 2004. Resistance of B16 melanoma cells to CD47-induced negative regulation of motility as a result of aberrant N-glycosylation of SHPS-1. J Biol Chem. 279(14):13711-20.
6. Saxena A. et al., 2002. H2, the minor subunit of the human asialoglycoprotein receptor, trafficks intracellularly and forms homo-oligomers, but does not bind asialo-orosomucoid. J Biol Chem. 277(38):35297-304.
7. Kanamori A. et al., 2002. Distinct sulfation requirements of selectins disclosed using cells that support rolling mediated by all three selectins under shear flow. L-selectin prefers carbohydrate 6-sulfation totyrosine sulfation, whereas p-selectin does not. J Biol Chem. 277(36):32578-86.
8. Ahmed et al., 2013. TRIF-mediated TLR3 and TLR4 signaling is negatively regulated by ADAM15. J Immunol. 190(5):2217-28.
9. Büllesbach EE. & Schwabe C., 2006. The mode of interaction of the relaxin-like factor (RLF) with the leucine-rich repeat G protein-activated receptor 8. J Biol Chem. 281(36):26136-43.
10. Mesnil M. et al., 1996. Bystander killing of cancer cells by herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene is mediated by connexins. PNAS 93(5):1831-5.
11. Maszczak-Seneczko D. et al., 2013. UDP-N-acetylglucosamine transporter (SLC35A3) regulates biosynthesis of highly branched N-glycans and keratan sulfate. J Biol Chem. 288(30):21850-60.
12. Cedeno-Laurent F. et al., 2010. Development of a nascent galectin-1 chimeric molecule for studying the role of leukocyte galectin-1 ligands and immune disease modulation. J Immunol. 185(8):4659-72.
13. Kim HS. et al., 2004. Insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3 induces caspase-dependent apoptosis through a death receptor-mediated pathway in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells. Cancer Res. 64(6):2229-37.
14. List HJ. et al., 2001. Ribozyme targeting demonstrates that the nuclear receptor coactivator AIB1 is a rate-limiting factor for estrogen-dependent growth of human MCF-7 breast cancer cells. J Biol Chem. 276(26):23763-8.
15. Waak J. et al., 2009. Oxidizable residues mediating protein stability and cytoprotective interaction of DJ-1 with apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1. J Biol Chem. 284(21):14245-57.
16. Maue A. et al., 2013. The polysaccharide capsule of Campylobacter jejuni modulates the host immune response. Infect Immun. 81(3):665-72
Is the Zeocin® you provide hydrochloric or sulfate?
We supply hydrochloric Zeocin®.
Is Zeocin® photosensitive?
No, Zeocin® is not photosensitive.
Is Zeocin® pH sensitive?
Zeocin® will undergo irreversible denaturation at a low and high pH (<6 and >8) or in the presence of a weak oxidant.
What buffer can be used to dilute Zeocin® to make intermediate working solutions?
Further dilutions should be performed in sterile water to create an intermediate working solution.
What is the concentration of HEPES buffer used to reconstitute Zeocin®?
The concentration of HEPES buffer used to reconstitute Zeocin® is 5 g/L.
What is the preferred storage method for Zeocin®?
Zeocin® is shipped at room temperature. Upon receipt, it should be stored at 4°C for short term storage or -20°C for long term storage.
Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.
The expiry date is specified on the product label.
For Zeocin® powder, once resuspended at 100 mg/ml, it can be stored at 4°C for 12 months or -20 °C for 18 months.
For Zeocin® solution, once opened it remains stable for 1 year at -20°C providing you avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles, and it can be kept at 4°C for 3 months provided it is kept in sterile conditions.
What is the selection concentration of Zeocin® in mammalian cells?
The working concentration of Zeocin® in mammalian cell lines varies between 50 - 400 μg/ml, with a few reported cases of its use at lower (i.e. 20 μg/ml) and higher (i.e. 1000 μg/ml) concentrations. In an initial experiment we recommend to determine the optimal concentration of Zeocin® required to kill your host cell line. For more detailed information, please refer to the technical data sheet for this product.
What is the selection concentration of Zeocin® in E. coli?
Zeocin-resistant transformants are selected in low salt LB agar supplemented with 25 μg/ml of Zeocin®.
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I was seriously disappointed today to learn that Cranston is moving their fabric printing plants out of the United States. For many years, I have promoted their fabrics because they were made domestically. It’s always a good thing to provide employment locally. Their fabric has been inexpensive and of a reliable quality. Primarily, however, I endorsed the company because they were extraordinary supporters of their military employees. Reservists are protected by federal law, but Cranston exceeded those minimum requirements. As a military wife and mother, that blesses me even when it’s not my own family.
I am working on an article about fabric selection, and I called their customer service number today to ask some questions. The man on the phone didn’t speak English very clearly, he didn’t know anything about their military reservist support program, and when I got to my questions about the specific “Made in the USA” issues, I was shocked to learn that after June 30, Cranston/VIP/Quilting Treasures fabrics will no longer be printed in the Unted States. They have been printing fabrics in the Unites States since 1824.
From their website: Cranston Print Works Company is a large, diversified corporation with operations in textile consumer goods, transportation, and specialty chemicals. The textile operation began in 1824, at the very beginning of America’s Industrial Revolution, and is distinguished as the oldest textile printing operation in the United States, as well as the largest supplier of printed fabric to the home sewing market. The company’s outstanding reputation for quality, service, versatility, and manufacturing expertise is a direct credit to the employees that work here. We continue to believe that our employees are our strength, and remain committed to employee development. Cranston Print Works is an employee-owned company, wherein the ownership philosophy coupled with the company’s excellence in manufacturing, product design, sales, and marketing, create a culture which encourages achievement and innovation.
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In photography, planning and taking the shot are only half the story. The best tools to express your vision as a photographer are Lightroom and Photoshop. That is why it is essential to master the processing so they don’t limit you in your creativity.
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The logic behind the Amateur Draft is based on the draft settings each franchise has selected as well as the draft board those settings have generated.
The amount a franchise spends in High School Scouting and/or College Scouting impacts the number of players scouted from that sector. The more you spend, the more players you'll scout and the more accurate your projections will be. However, a franchise with a smaller budget can scout a player that a franchise with a higher budget doesn't. The ratio of college/high school scouting budgets will also impact the number of players chosen from that sector. For instance, if you have $14M allotted to college scouting and only $7M to high school scouting, your draft results should result in more college players taken than high school players since you'll have scouted more players from that sector. But, you'll still take a high school prospect if he's clearly better than his college counterpart. What you see on your draft board is what you should expect to draft.
The positions listed with each player is what your scouting department (HS or college) projects him to play at the big league level. For example, a better scouting department will project a SS coming out of high school to be more likely to play 3B at the big league level.
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The historical site of a vanished castle stimulates the imagination and evokes childhood memories. Sham castles have been constructed for centuries: free exercises hovering between utility and fantasy. Nothing could have excited us more than building a school in this location, a contemporary ‘castle of learning’. The design combines the site’s history with a unique spatiality, the latter of which is achieved via an unconventional and layered form. A large polymorphic atrium sits at the heart of the school, both aiding circulation and serving as a morning assembly point. Different activities can run concurrently in the hall, which is also an ideal venue for the annual school party. The polygonal classes support different learning methods: independent and group work or traditional lessons. The redbrick school is surmounted by a decorative pattern. A subtle relief terminates in a saw-tooth roofline.
The pond and the school next to the orangerie.
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The present invention relates to a work support mechanism for an apparatus for rolling paper. A conventional type of the apparatus for rolling paper, as shown in FIG. 3, comprises a frame body 1 with a rectangular support plate 2 mounted on its surface. The support plate 2 has four V-shaped grooves 3 formed thereon on a face 3a thereof. A working tool plate 4 is mounted on a support portion 1a of the frame body 1 and has a rectangular portion 4a with a plurality of teeth 5 formed thereon on a face 4a thereof. The working tool plate 4 is threadedly coupled to a head portion 1b of the frame body 1. In the above-mentioned conventional apparatus, in rolling the cylindrical rolling paper 6, an operator can feed the paper 6 from a paper feeding portion 7 to the groove 3 formed on the support plate 2, and then rotate the paper 6. However, the teeth 5 form a relatively large angle, thus limiting the arc of movement. Also, the operator tends to be strained.Q: How to make a QGraphicsTextItem go in a pattern in QGraphicsScene I want to write a text in a special way. How can I do this? I want to do something like this image: But I can’t do it with the default QGraphicsTextItem. I want to do it using QGraphicsTextItem, because I want to write a special, high-level language for the software. A: I don’t know anything about your specific needs but another way to do this is to create a layout that can be applied to a viewport and control the position of the text using a single call to setTextLayout. This makes it much easier than designing a custom shape. To create the layout, the QLayout class is very easy to use with a QGridLayout (which will take a parent widget as it’s argument) being the most common choice. You can create a custom layout as well by having the QLayout class construct a layout from QFrame elements. This example shows how you can create a custom layout that places text elements using a rectangle in a grid pattern. widget = QtGui.QWidget() layout = QtGui.QGridLayout() layout.addWidget(QtGui.QLabel(‘Hello’), 0, 0, 5, 2) layout.addWidget(QtGui.QLabel(‘World’),
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The state House in Mississippi on Wednesday passed legislation that would protect female athletes by banning biological males from competing in women’s sports.
An overwhelming vote of 81-28 allowed for the passage of the ‘Mississippi Fairness Act.’
The Senate last month passed the bill in a similar landslide fashion, with a vote count of 34-9.
The act requires that any public school or institution of higher learning designate their sports teams according to biological sex.
You know. Science.
How we got here as a society that makes such legislation necessary is remarkable.
“The legislation would make sure athletic teams designated for females would not be open to male students,” Secretary of State Michael Watson said in a Facebook post following the Senate vote.
In a follow-up celebrating the House passage of the bill Watson described it as “a significant piece of legislation for Mississippi and all of our daughters.”
Mississippi moved one step closer to banning transgender athletes from participating in women's sports after the state House approved a bill that could make the state the first in the country to add anti-transgender legislation to its books this year https://t.co/qf4p6DLzhG
— CNN (@CNN) March 3, 2021
Mississippi May Ban Biological Males From Competing in Women’s Sports
Former President Donald Trump, during his speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) this past weekend, hammered Democrats for refusing to protect the integrity of women’s sports.
“[President] Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women’s sports,” Trump lamented. “Now, young girls and women are incensed that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males.”
“It’s not good for women,” he added. “It’s not good for women’s sports, which worked so long and so hard to get to where they are.”
— Steven Cheung (@CaliforniaPanda) February 28, 2021
The Mississippi bill protecting female sports from being invaded by biological males now moves onto the desk of Republican Governor Tate Reeves for approval.
“If we do not move to protect female sports from biological males who have an unfair physiological advantage, we will eventually no longer have female sports,” Republican state Sen. Angela Hill, the bill’s author said.
Hopefully, more Republican run states across our republic will advance this kind of legislation to protect women's sports from being demolished.
Mississippi Senate advances bill banning biological males from competing in women's sports https://t.co/cio3Ydnloz
— Conservative Thinker ?? (@buckyboymike) February 14, 2021
One of the biggest proponents of protecting women’s sports – as Mississippi has – is a former presidential candidate and former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI).
Gabbard introduced a bill late last year that would force Title IX protections to be applied based on whether a person is assigned female at birth.
Her legislation, she explained, “was created out of this recognition that there is a biological distinction between men and women and boys and girls and … because of that there needs to be a level playing field for girls and women to be able to compete and play in sports.”
Title IX is a historic law that positively changed everything for women & girls. This video explains how, and why I introduced the Protect Women’s Sports Act – to clarify, uphold & strengthen the original intent of Title IX, ensuring a level playing field for girls & women. pic.twitter.com/B0647yCGmW
— Tulsi Gabbard ? (@TulsiGabbard) December 13, 2020
The bill currently only has five Republican co-sponsors.
Gabbard has been slammed as transphobic and bigoted for her pro-women’s legislation but hasn’t wavered.
“My ‘Protect Women’s Sports Act’ is based on science,” Gabbard responded to the criticism.
“It is a scientifically established fact that there is such a thing as a man and a woman. It’s also common sense,” she added.
“So, it is the height of hypocrisy for those who claim to be advocates for women’s rights to deny that there is even such a thing as a woman, biologically speaking, to deny the very biological distinction that makes women women, and not men.”
Cross-posted with Mental Recession
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Let’s have a look at the method to disable the fluent design effects in your windows 10 settings just by exploring the color editing feature in your SO and then turning this feature on/off. So have a look at complete guide discussed below to proceed.
[dropcap]W[/dropcap]indows 10 is an operating system that is always upgrading day by day and adding all new features that make it easier for the users to use this operating system in both personal and commercial work. And till now you must had read our lots of guides related to Windows 10 as there are lots of things that exist in this OS but the user doesn’t know that and being a team of technical I keep on updating my visitors with the latest features that they can use. So again I’m here with one cool feature that you will surely like to explore in your Windows 10. In windows 10 you have one feature that is fluent design effects that appears when you put the mouse on some option as that area gets highlighted with light colors/ You can enable or disable that option in your Windo3ws and that too using some simple setting that will allow you to simply toggle it on or off according to your wish as sometimes you want to revert it back so I’m discussing both ways to implement. And you can implement this in 2 minutes. So have a look at complete guide discussed below to proceed.
How to Disable Fluent Design Effects in Windows 10
The method is simple and straight and you just need to access this feature from your settings so that you can turn it on or off according to your wish. So follow the below steps to proceed.
Steps to Disable Fluent Design Effects in Windows 10:
#1 First of you need to access windows settings that you can access either by clicking settings options or by pressing Windows button and then typing settings there.
#2 Once settings opens you need to click on the option that is”personalization” as all the setting of this type is listed under that.
#3 Now there you need to select the option “color” as the fluent design works with the color functionality of Windows 10 and you need to edit t the same.
#4 Once you are in next screen you will see lots of options listed there and you need to select the option that is” Transparency effects” as that fluent effect is the transparency effects that windows add when you navigate mouse over the option.
#5 Now simply turn it off if you want to disable this.
#6 You can again enable this anytime by just navigating through the same setting and then turning it on.
#7 That’s is you done, now you have learned the method that you can use to turn it or off on your Windows 10 PC.
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The American-French Genealogical Society (AFGS) is a Family History Center affiliate library. The designation means Society members and the public will have greater and more convenient access to the wealth of genealogical resources available through Family History Library.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints [LDS] is the world’s largest repository of genealogical records and manages the famous Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. It has amassed billions of birth, marriage, death, census, land, and court records of genealogical significance from over 130 countries.
As a Family History Affiliate, AFGS members now have the capability of viewing records that were previously not available at our library on familysearch.org. This means researchers are able to view more records on familysearch.org at the AFGS library than are available on home computers. Individuals visiting AFGS to research, can access these records on personal devices using our Wi-Fi connections.
The LDS has over 200 camera teams archiving historic records in 45 countries on any given day. These records are now available electronically at the American-French Genealogical Society.
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Zayd, the caravan guide, already riding swift as the wind, strained and goaded his steed for every last ounce of effort. The safety of the annual Mecca-to-Damascus caravan, worth nearly a million dollars, was at stake.
Assigned to scout the territory along the highway, Zayd had just found unmistakable evidence that a band of desert brigands was planning to halt and plunder the rich cargoes as the caravan neared the el-Dakar oasis in the late afternoon. Within minutes he reached a rise in the road where he could see the advance guard riding two miles in front of the plodding caravan, which stretched along the vulnerable trail for over three miles.
Who were these desert travelers Zayd sought to warn, and why was it so urgent that he not fail in his mission?
Since the introduction of the camel to Arabia about 1000 B.C., the Arab economy had increasingly emphasized commerce with distant nations and cities. Located at the crossroads of routes between Syria and Yemen, Abyssinia and Mesopotamia, Mecca became the most important Arab city as the demands of the Hellenistic and Roman world expanded. In spite of the rise and fall of many empires, Mecca's overland caravan trade continued to thrive with few exceptions until modern times.
Trade between Mecca and Europe entered one of its most prosperous periods after Emperor Justinian restored order to the Byzantine Empire with his famous legal code of 534 A.D. So eagerly, in fact, did the European traders seek the gold, silver, ivory, spices, perfumes, dates, and Chinese silk offered by the Arab merchants that by 600 A.D. the annual caravan to Byzantine Damascus was Mecca's biggest business. The economic well-being of the entire Meccan community hinged directly on the accuracy and timeliness of Zayd's warning.
Everyone in Mecca, rich and poor alike, invested in the lucrative caravan trade. All the merchants formed themselves into an association, pooled their capital to equip the caravans, and then shared proportionately in the returns. A 50 per cent return was guaranteed on all investments, since the caravan profits normally ranged between that figure and 100 per cent.
A single prominent family acted as bankers for the association, receiving deposits from interested parties, and then administering the funds as economically as possible. Even the poorest families from the small-tenant and shop-keeping classes saved every available dinar in order to have a share in the venture.
These ancient desert caravans were not small affairs with forty or fifty, or even a hundred camels. Major caravans from Mecca generally required from 2,000 to 3,000 camels, and called for a capital investment in the neighborhood of $450,000. Accompanied by several hundred armed guards, a caravan of this great size afforded maximum security and minimized the individual expenses of each merchant.
Two of these large caravans were launched each year: one went to Abyssinia during the summer, and the other carried goods from Mecca to Damascus during the winter, when rainfall was more frequent in the Syrian interior.
In spite of the guards and the size of the convoy, how could a merchant be sure his goods would not be stolen or destroyed by brigands operating in the remote desert? An ingenious insurance system placed a single leader from a well-to-do and highly respected family in charge of the shipment. This family was required to repay merchants for any property lost, damaged, or stolen en route.
For this reason, the caravan leader had absolute control over the conduct of the voyage and sole responsibility for its safety. He was usually a man of great personal integrity who was feared and respected by everyone. Naturally, he delegated many responsibilities to lesser officials.
Next to the leader in importance was the caravan's official guide (the daleel, a word still used today). Zayd's intense watch for robbers illustrates the guide's principal concern. But he also acted as interpreter and arranged the details of the itinerary, including the length of each day's march and the nightly encampments. It was particularly important to keep the caravan within three or four days' travel of a sizable watering place. During periods of political or military unrest, the guides acted as spies.
Such intimate knowledge of desert landmarks was required that the position of guide took on the status of a highly regarded profession. As soon as he was old enough, the guide's son began making the trip from Mecca with his father as an apprentice so that the information could be passed on directly from generation to generation.
The couriers were called basheers when they carried good news, nadeers when the news was bad. The nadeer raced to the nearest town for aid when the caravan was in danger. He could be recognized from afar by his reversed saddle and torn garments.
The basheer, on the other hand, heralded the safe arrival of the caravan in the few towns along the route. Greeting the caravan was a public event which generated holiday excitement as large crowds gathered in the market place.
Many of the camel drivers owned their own camels (like some American truck drivers), and contracted directly with the merchants.
Once beyond the friendly regions surrounding Mecca, the caravan settled into a time-honored routine. The leader and his immediate staff rode ahead of the convoy as a sort, of advance guard. A large banner carried in front indicated all was well as long as it remained furled.
After a normal day's journey of 30 to 40 miles, a carefully arranged encampment was made for the night. The camp was grouped in a circle or square around the tents of the leader and his staff. The boxes of merchandise were unloaded and stacked around the edge to make a low wall in case of attack. After supper, the leader held a court session, if necessary, to deal with matters of justice that had arisen during the day. Since the safety of all depended on strict discipline, the orders of the caravan court were carried out with dispatch.
To help insure the safety of the Meccan cargo in each part of the trip, the leader negotiated protection contracts with local Bedouin tribes. Large subsidies were paid for guarantees of immunity from all kinds of disturbance and attack. Not only were transit tolls collected at many points, but the use of a fine well or pasture carried a worthy price.
The nomads, in return, desired to spend part of their income on the caravan's goods. Each year some of the camels were laden in Mecca with goods to be sold along the route. These goods were opened and displayed wherever the caravan stopped to encourage safe and legitimate business with the nomads.
But Zayd's caravan faces armed nomads intent on plundering. How can the three-mile-long convoy defend itself on the open desert?
Zayd's warning to the caravan leader causes immediate mobilization for the pitched battle which is only an hour or two away. The caravan shifts into a close march and increases its normal rate of 2.5 miles per hour in hopes of reaching the oasis before stopping.
When the battle becomes inevitable, the caravan quickly turns itself into a formidable, armed fortress. The camels crouch down behind a stout rampart four to five feet high, formed from the bales of cargo. Not only the armed guards but everyone in the caravan fights valiantly for the common defense. Whatever their individual differences, the men of a desert caravan stand united in a fierce loyalty and brotherhood that is binding unto death. When the attackers are repulsed and sent reeling back into the desert, the caravan marches on.
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Report ‘Insect Breeding’
Tuesday 7 January 2020
TheBioBoost partnership has published a report about the lab scale and pilot scale experiments with mealworm and black soldier fly. The report focusses on insects as a promising way of converting horticultural residues into valuable protein, oil and derived products. Three project partners established dedicated insect facilities to find out how to rear one of these species on an industrial scale, their nutritional needs or how to process residues with them. All the research within BioBoost confirms the feasibility of (partial) implementation of horticultural residues as feedstock for the insect industry. Thereby contributing to a circular economy.
Most promising insect species
Two insect species were selected with the presumed highest economic potential and ability to process residues, the yellow mealworm (Tenebrio molitor) and the black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens). At the start of the project little (public) knowledge was available on how to rear one of these species on an industrial scale, their nutritional needs or how to process residues with them. To fill this knowledge gap, three project partners established dedicated insect facilities to conduct research about the topics mentioned.
Testing protocol plant residues
In Belgium, Vives developed a protocol to test plant residues in the lab, paying not only attention to the performance and composition of the larvae, but also to the nutritional composition of the residues. Using this protocol multiple residues were assessed. In order to select interesting residues and mixtures, experiments assessing the nutritional requirements of the larvae were conducted. Artificial diets were used in order to facilitate a baseline for diet formulations based on horticultural residues. The research showed that a diet with 30 % dry matter of which 15 % protein, 40 % non-fibre carbohydrates and 2 % fats, should be sufficient.
Pilot scale rearing
Meanwhile also in Belgium, Inagro developed a way to rear mealworm and black soldier fly on a pilot scale. Their experiments show the potential of residues as a source of moisture for mealworm. In addition, the nutritional composition of various horticultural residues was determined at Vives. Based on Vives’ recommendations for black soldier fly larvae, Inagro formulated multiple diets combining horticultural residues with by-products common in pig production.
From research to market
In the UK, NIAB chose the option of working on its site directly with new start-up companies that were keen to try this system of waste valorisation. Initially, Entomics Ltd was working closely with NIAB to design and build a working facility and to identify waste feedstock’s. An early decision was to source a range of waste fresh produce from the local supermarket Sainsbury. This enabled the group to trial a very broad range of feedstock’s and the material was provided free. By mid-2018, Entomics ltd had grown and matured and split into two companies; the original parent decided to concentrate on high-end products. A new company was born; AgriGrub, that focused on the original plan to use waste food and co-products.
Apart from feedstocks some initial trails were performed on the use of insect manure (frass). Inagro analysed the nitrogen and phosphorous content of different frass samples, while AgriGrub performed bio repellent trials with frass of black soldier fly larvae as a bio control agent for aphids in cabbage.
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These are just some examples UNESCO is highlighting in a new online publication series on mobile learning.
The number of mobile phone accounts worldwide is approaching six billion. For every individual who goes online from a computer, two more do so from a mobile device. Even where schools and computers are scarce, people still have mobile phones. Africa alone will account for some 735 million subscriptions by late 2012. A majority of Africans have individual access to an interactive information and communication technology for the first time in history.
Because mobile phones are everywhere and have so many functions, UNESCO is committed to better understanding how they can support learners, teachers, and entire education systems, particularly where educational opportunities are scarce. Around the world, the evidence for mobile learning is mounting, as described in a new UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning.
The papers, published online, provide concrete examples of the way mobile technologies are providing professional development opportunities for teachers in rural Mozambique; extending the reach of learning management systems in Mongolia; helping young people read and comment on short stories in South Africa; and enabling high school students in North America to better understand the ecosystems surrounding lakes.
Along with providing concrete examples, the series shows how mobile technologies can respond to educational challenges in different contexts; supplement and enrich formal schooling; and make learning more accessible, equitable, and personalized.
ICT in Education
UNESCO Working Paper Series on Mobile Learning
The digital divide: a tale of two schools
New UNESCO Papers on Mobile Learning in Europe
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It's Time to Get Your Summertime Snack On!May 29, 2020
We are a household of snackers!! That’s right. Those yummy treats that tide us over between meals. And well, with it being summertime that means more snacking is going down in this house!! The kids are home, we’re home, the weather is great so we’re more active and often on the go (making us more hungry), so we want our snacks to be quick and easy, and of course delicious and healthy!
Are you a snacker? Our country is full of them. As a population we are big snackers with over 25% of individuals being serial snackers (that’s eating multiple snacks per day), which isn’t a bad thing depending on what you choose to snack on. If you let it though, that snacking habit can become a real problem. Snacks can be sneaky.
#1 remember those calories do count! So if you’re trying to eat healthy or to lose weight, it’s important that you track your snack calories as well. Since snacks tend to be smaller portions than meals (or at least they should be) they are easily consumed without any thought. But those little snacks may be impacting your diet a lot more than you think.
#2 Try to avoid Mindless snacking! So often we consume snacks in a totally mindless way while doing other things like driving, working, watching TV, or scrolling social media. And since lots of snacks are calorically dense, that mindless snacking may be making a big impact on your waistline.
When it comes to eating healthy, our goal is to eat food. Real food! Unfortunately for some of us, the kind of food we eat when we snack plays a big part of our daily calories consumed. Because snack foods can vary in nutritional value it’s important that we try to eat healthier options when we can.
When it comes to snack foods we have to change our definition of what qualifies as a snack. For most, “snack foods” tend to be sweet, salty, or both - candy bars, cookies, donuts, sugary carbonated beverages, and syrupy caffeinated beverages. However, something simple like mandarin oranges are great on a garden salad and in a fruit salad, but can also be a great on-the go healthy snack option by itself.
Like I said, I’m a big snacker, so here are a few of my favorite healthier summertime snack options:
FRUIT: a great source of vitamins and minerals as well as dietary fiber, antioxidants, and other nutrients. They are good for your arteries, and they can improve digestion and help fight cancer, obesity, and (despite their higher sugar content) even type 2 diabetes. And since they can be very sweet, you can satisfy that sweet tooth of yours with a few frozen grapes or tart cherries. Opt for real fruit. Fruit juice is just not the same thing!!
My favorite to-go fruits . . . Berries! I love me a bowl of mixed berries.
NUTS: My kids love nuts, plus they are an easy travel snack and loaded with high-quality protein, fiber, minerals, vitamin E, vitamin B6, folate, and so much more. Great for reducing heart disease, gallstones, obesity, as well as hypertension, inflammation, and type 2 diabetes.
Another great one that’s easy and kiddos love - SEEDS: sunflower to pumpkin - they’re delicious and come packed with a ton of health benefits same as nuts. And don’t forget about chia and flax seeds, versatile and great of combating peri/menopausal symptom.
VEGGIES: Cut up raw carrots, bell peppers, cauliflower, and broccoli florets and dip them in hummus or another plant-based spread for a filling snack loaded with nutrients. If you’re feeling fancy, add some jicama and radishes to your plate. An old favorite from childhood - celery filled with peanut or other nut butter. If you want mindless snacking - raw veggies are your BFF.
I'm not a complete lunatic. And no, my kids don't just go to the frig and snack on raw veggies on their own, sometimes I have to bribe them with a little dip. Chickpea hummus is a great option to add with those veggies, or a side of avocado or fresh guac, or even a little seasoned plain Greek yogurt .
And don't forget a few of my other favorite kid-friendly healthy snacks, like:
raw fruit and nut bars
Dried, unsulfured fruit
Smoothies & shakes (keep an eye on the sugar with these)
Chopped frozen fruit (grapes are a great evening treat in this Texas summer heat)
Some fun easy summer snacks to make at home with the kids or grandkids:
Apple Nachos Supreme: The apple slices lightly drizzled with your choice of healthy caramel sauce or a nut butter, and topped with pretty much anything you like: popcorn, shredded coconut, non-dairy chocolate chips, nuts, raisins . . . make it fun!!
Nut Balls: A great on-the-go, little bite-sized balls of trail mix yumminess. The base consists of rolled oats, peanut butter, and maple syrup. The add-ins are up to you and your imagination: sunflower, sesame, and pumpkin seeds; dried and fresh fruits; and other yummies like carob or cacao powder and shredded coconut flakes.
A yummy snack by it’s self or a great combination for summertime cookouts - Spicy Sweet Potato Bakes. Take some long, thin sweet potatoes. Cut ‘em, and coat ‘em with just enough olive oil to make spices stick. Use spices like paprika, cayenne, onion powder, garlic powder, and more. Bake ‘em until you’ve got some fries you can resist.
So tell me, do you eat snacks? Do you have any favorite, go-to healthy snack ideas?
Do you have any snacking indulgences you’d like to stop?
I'd love to try your favorite summertime snack!
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An Application Lecturing Events Unit Based On Web Services
AbstractWeb service technology is a technology that allows devices with different platforms can communicate with each other using JSON format (Java Script Object Notation). This technology can be applied to various fields, one of them in the academic field. Students sometimes do not know about what topics will be discussed at the next meeting, and also sometimes they do not know whether there are tasks or exam given by their lecturer. The purpose of this study was to implement PHP JSON Web services technology in android devices so that students can find out in detail about what will be discussed at each meeting and learning, and also be able to know what the task given by the lecturers and when the test will be conducted. This study was prepared by the method of prototyping. This research has been done and has resulted in an application that has been tested. Applications are made to assist students in obtaining detailed information about what to do at each meeting and learning, and also provide benefits for faculty where they can assign tasks to students online.
How to Cite
Pungus, S. R., Michael, D., & Erick, P. (2016). An Application Lecturing Events Unit Based On Web Services. Journal of International Scholars Conference - SCIENCE & ENGINEERING, 1(4). Retrieved from https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/jiscse/article/view/349 | <urn:uuid:2405c3ca-ed1b-47a9-a9f4-081fcf7c05db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jurnal.unai.edu/index.php/jiscse/article/view/349 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938367 | 312 | 2.5 | 2 |
The 6 Stages Of Gentrification Exposed
Certainly, when investing in property you must understand the “technical” side of things (e.g. property values, vacancy rate, interest rate, insurances – the list doesn’t actually end) but I believe that understanding human nature is arguably the most important attribute a property investor will need to achieve success.
When you understand human nature – which is what drives the real estate market – you can begin to see patterns of behaviour and the subsequent results of those behaviours. Understanding these patterns will allow you to time the market well and as every savvy property investor knows: investing in property is all about the timing!
Gentrification is, put simply, a change in the fortunes of a particular suburb, including changes of the demographic that reside there. These changes are a direct result of middle class (or upper class) individuals moving into an area and investing their time and money into creating changes to that area for the better.
As the area continues to change in terms of its demographic, infrastructure, amenities, and employment opportunities, property values tend to grow as the area loses its stigma and more individuals at higher wage levels move in, putting upward pressure on values.
There are six stages of gentrification, which are expanded over a period of about fifteen years. Take a close look and see if you can spot your suburb among these stages.
As with all things real estate, change begins with people. Working at a grassroots level, individuals meet together to discuss changes needed in a particular area.
Look for (and attend) chamber of commerce meetings and council meetings to get a heads up before changes have even begun. This allows you to buy in as soon as possible, if all other factors look favourable, maximising the return on your investment.
This is the planning stage. Typically, developers, government entities and the local community become involved at this point. Plans are drawn up, objections heard and any changes to the plans are considered at this time.
Look for examples of pioneering development such as a new residential project, a new rail line, schools, shops, hospital, etc. Developments like these change the face of the area because they significantly impact the area demographic in terms of lifestyle, employment opportunities, etc.
As a by-product of pioneering development, the area will experience intensive development. For example, consider the new hospital. Intensive development would be something such as new labs or scientific infrastructure, or perhaps the construction of a medical educational facility as an offshoot of the hospital.
All of these changes bring skilled workers to the area, who earn higher incomes and subsequently spend those incomes, which fuels gentrification efforts.
At this point you’ll see the population shift. Socio-economic classes change; lower class become middle class, middle becomes upper class. Once higher wages are part of the economic landscape, property values grow as well.
This is where it gets really fun! The Turbo Gentrification phase is depicted by an influx of wealthy individuals who choose to move into a suburb and spend a great deal of their resources continuing the gentrification trend. It’s supercharged because they are spending A LOT of their money in the area.
If you’re serious about investing in property spend some of your time studying human nature in terms of the impact it can have on changes to the market. If you can spot the next hotspot by looking for signs that gentrification is in the works you’ll be well positioned to get the best possible return for your efforts.
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Real estate is the perfect asset structure for wealth building, but it has to be done right – and that means having solid money management skills to back you as you make these major financial decisions. Some of these skills may seem obvious – like having a budget – but you’d be surprised how many young investors didn’t get to build this foundation of knowledge through their school or home life.
Tax isn’t often one of those conversations that give investors the warm fuzzies, especially when we’re talking about the 10 property investment tax mistakes to avoid! But it’s important that property investors reframe their thoughts around tax. Owning real estate can actually be incredibly tax effective – in fact some might say tax is a secret weapon for property investing.
Ever thought you’d picked an absolute winner of a property only for the bank to come back with a list of valuation risk factors? It’s more common than you think, particularly in a rising market where values fluctuate so much that our ideas of what a property is worth actually start to disconnect from what a valuer sees. | <urn:uuid:9d4fd32d-dd6b-4144-9641-df4094cfddd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://positiverealestate.com.au/the-6-stages-of-gentrification-exposed/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941366 | 1,179 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The promotion of international solidarity is about human rights; it seeks to secure the rights of children to education, the rights of workers to form trade unions, the rights of citizens to vote and for all people to be free of poverty.
Why not become an NEU international solidarity officer?
The NEU has a proud history on the global stage. International solidarity officers play a key role locally in working towards the NEU's global vision to show solidarity, protect teachers’ trade union rights and to support high-quality public education for all.
As an international solidarity officer (ISO) for your NEU districts or branches, you would:
- promote the NEU's international solidarity work;
- act locally on the NEU's urgent international solidarity campaigns;
- support the international initiatives of classroom teachers;
- provide material for international solidarity items at appropriate local meetings;
- liaise with, and organise appropriate support for other NEU districts which have established international links;
- advise the district or branch on appropriate donations and activities as part of the Union’s commitment to allocate one per cent of the association’s or division’s income to international solidarity work; and
- organise local activities and events on international solidarity themes, e.g., on International Women’s Day, 8 March; Malala Day, 12 July; and World Teachers’ Day, 5 October.
Getting started - here are some ideas
- Talk to other NEU members about international solidarity.
- Find out what is happening in your local district by going to a meeting.
- Contact local branches of NGOs to see what campaigns are already going on in your area. Perhaps start with one to which the NEU is affiliated nationally.
- Look out for urgent international solidarity campaigns
- Read the international page in The Teacher. There may be a campaign you can support immediately.
- Be enthusiastic. Spread the word! Most important of all, MAKE A START!
What you can do in school - here are some ideas
- Review current school activities to show how well global learning is embedded in your school.
- For ideas for lessons with a global dimension.
- Get your school involved with Send My Friend to School.
- Initiate discussion with colleagues about ways in which international solidarity issues can be a permanent part of the school’s curriculum and of its ethos.
- Encourage critical engagement with fundraising days held at your school and make sure they are not the only opportunity pupils have to work on international solidarity issues.
- Make sure your school has a strong equality policies and practices.
- Involve the school’s pupil council and school governors.
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Radiofrequency ablation (or RFA) is a procedure used to reduce pain. An electrical current produced by a radio wave is used to heat up a small area of nerve tissue, thereby decreasing pain signals from that specific area.
Which Conditions Are Treated With Radiofrequency Ablation?
RFA can be used to help patients with chronic (long-lasting) low-back and neck pain and pain related to the degeneration of joints from arthritis .
How Long Does Pain Relief From Radiofrequency Ablation Last?
The degree of pain relief varies, depending on the cause and location of the pain. Pain relief from RFA can last from six to 12 months and in some cases, relief can last for years. More than 70% of patients treated with RFA experience pain relief.
Is Radiofrequency Ablation Safe?
RFA has proven to be a safe and effective way to treat some forms of pain. It also is generally well-tolerated, with very few associated complications. There is a slight risk of infection and bleeding at the insertion site. Your doctor can advise you about your particular risk.
What Are the Side Effects of Radiofrequency Ablation?
The main side effect of RFA is some discomfort, including swelling and bruising at the site of the treatment, but this generally goes away after a few days.
Who Should Not Get Radiofrequency Ablation?
As with any medical procedure, RFA is not appropriate for everyone. For example, radiofrequency ablation is not recommended for people who have active infections or bleeding problems. Your doctor can tell you if you should not have RFA.
How Do I Prepare for Radiofrequency Ablation?
To prepare for radiofrequency ablation treatment, you should take a few precautions, including:
What Side Effects May I Have After Radiofrequency Ablation?
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List of activities
Generally, most of these workshops are offered at least once a week on a rotating basis. Check the Lab calendar for up-to-date availability!
These workshops focus on design principles, and are effectively a training in Computer-Aided Design. Upon successful completion of a Tutorial, you will be able to begin digitally design objects.
- Introduction to Vector Drawing
- Introduction to 2D CAD (with Inkscape)
- Introduction to 3D CAD (with Fusion 360)
- Introduction to 3D CAD (with Blender)
- Introduction to Programming (with Python)
- Introduction to Electronics
- Introduction to Circuit Design (with EAGLE)
- Introduction to Version Control
- Introduction to Fabric Design
These workshops focus on fabrication principles, and are effectively a training in Computer-Aided Manufacturing. Upon successful completion of a Certification, you will be authorized to operate the equipment without supervision.
- Introduction to 2D Vector Cutting with the GCC Jaguar VLX Vinyl Cutter
- Introduction to 2D Laser Cutting with the Universal PLS4.75 Laser Cutter
- Introduction to 3D Printing with the Prusa I3 MK3S 3D Printer
- Introduction to Microcontrollers with Arduino
- Introduction to Machine Sewing
- Introduction to Milling with the Bantam Tools PCB Mill
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Opinion articles by the Australia Defence Association: 2011
As actual first or second-hand experience of war has declined, several generations of TV watching since the mid 1950s has conversely resulted in many Australians wrongly believing they know war. Including the pervasive incorrect belief that wars can be easily avoided, easily fought or ended quickly, and with few or no casualties or strategic implications.
Most public debate concerning David Hicks has always floundered in subjectivity and confusion: outwardly because of emotive criticisms or defences of his actions; more deeply, through commonplace misunderstandings about the facts and law actually applying to his original and current legal predicaments. Objective discussion needs to distinguish carefully between Hicks’ internment and his later, separate, trial — and their consequences.
Recent controversy about the poor state of the Royal Australian Navy’s amphibious fleet has again demonstrated three great truths about much public debate in Australia on defence issues.
Reforming the Department of Defence needs to start with a genuine first-principles review of its constitutionality, purpose and structure. | <urn:uuid:dbee7646-639b-4878-86e1-3a16e721a212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ada.asn.au/commentary/opinion-articles/2011.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96441 | 216 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The Common Serjeant of London (full title The Serjeant-at-Law in the Common Hall) is an ancient British legal office, first recorded in 1291, and is the second most senior permanent judge of the Central Criminal Court after the Recorder of London, acting as deputy to that office, and sitting as a judge in the trial of criminal offences.
He is also one of the High Officers of the City of London Corporation, and must undertake certain civic obligations alongside his judicial duties: each Midsummer he presides at the election of Sheriffs in the Guildhall, and each Michaelmas he plays a key role in the ceremonial election of the Lord Mayor. He presents the Sheriffs to the Queen's Remembrancer at the annual Quit Rents ceremony, and is in attendance on most other major ceremonial occasions.
Formerly, the Common Serjeant of London was a legal officer of the City Corporation of London. The Common Serjeant of London attended on the Lord Mayor of London and the Court of Aldermen on court days, and acted with them in council. He also attended the Court of Aldermen and Common Council, and had charge of the Orphans' Estates
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Did you know that February 28 is Rare Disease Day? Probably not, despite the fact that more than 700,000 classified rare disorders affect nearly 30 million Americans. Whether it’s finding specialists who can diagnose us, advocating for our needs, or getting effective medications when blockbuster drugs get much of the funding, rare disease patients live beyond the fray in many senses.
A rare or orphan disease is one that affects fewer than 200,000 people. Nearly 80 percent of rare diseases are genetic; mine is a genetic respiratory condition called primary ciliary dyskinesia, or PCD. My cilia, the tiny structures lining the respiratory tract that clear debris, do not work, leading to infections, decreased oxygenation, and long-term lung damage. Like so many rare diseases, physicians don’t always know to look for PCD, and the diagnostic process is slow and challenging. Only about 400 of the estimated 25,000 Americans thought to have PCD have been correctly identified. I’ve been sick since birth, but I was 23 before I was accurately diagnosed.
Knowing I had PCD didn’t change the symptoms I’d lived with forever, but for once, my label reflected my experiences. Scores of rare disease patients with misdiagnosis stories can attest that this is no small feat. Yet even with a diagnosis, we often remain on the medical periphery. I’ve often had to both spell and define my condition to health care providers when I am hospitalized, even when in the emergency room in respiratory distress, and many times, I represent the only time they will see a PCD patient in their careers. When my doctors wanted information on PCD and pregnancy, available research was so scarce we had to instead extrapolate what we could from other diseases with more robust data.
I’ve been sick since birth, but I was 23 before I was accurately diagnosed.
In a culture that places such a premium on “beating” illness and survivorship, our notion of survival is more subtle and nuanced. It entails ongoing adaptation, and is as fluid as our disease progression and symptoms are. Some days, it means making it out of bed, or getting through the workday, or getting discharged from the hospital. These incremental victories are quiet, and they go largely unnoticed.
Big-name diseases have their own attendant awareness months and marketing campaigns (think pink ribbons for breast cancer). We’ve become similarly accustomed to the direct-to-consumer advertising of big-name drugs: glossy magazine ads for cholesterol medicines and distinctive jingles for sleeping aids. But as the patents run out on these heavily marketed blockbuster drugs, the cheaper generic versions cut into profits. Despite their small size, rare disease populations are suddenly more attractive: rare medications come with an enormous price tag, and treatment for previously unmet medical needs typically receives high reimbursement from insurance companies.
The Orphan Drug Act, which was first enacted in 1983, provides financial incentives for companies to develop drugs for rare diseases. According to NORD, the National Association for Rare Disorders, in the decade prior to the Orphan Drug Act, only 10 drugs total had been developed for rare diseases. In the intervening years, more than 2,700 potential treatments have entered the research pipeline and the FDA has approved more than 400.
According to a recent New York Times analysis, the orphan drug market was worth more than $50 billion in 2011. Biotech companies like Cambridge-based Genzyme, now owned by Sanofi, are known for their work in orphan drug development, and other more traditional pharmaceutical companies like Pfizer are starting to invest in it, too. Now, nearly 2,000 research projects in the pipeline target rare diseases.
Our population is only going to continue to grow. Patients with serious childhood illnesses are living longer into adulthood and having their own children. We are connecting with each other via online groups and social-networking sites, and enrolling in clinical trials.
On Rare Disease Day, many of these patients from more than 60 countries will participate in activities to raise consciousness of rare diseases. However, the real value in awareness is when broader cultural recognition is a complement to research and innovation, not the end goal itself. The recent upswing in pharmaceutical innovation for orphan drugs underscores this, and from refined testing and timely diagnoses to more effective treatments, we need this momentum to translate into ongoing access to appropriate care.
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While there is no single, agreed-upon rubric for ranking research papers, various SEO strategies can increase visibility and improve the chances that your paper will reach its intended audience. The following tips offer some simple strategies to consider when optimizing your paper for search engines.
What Is SEO?
Search engine optimization is the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine’s unpaid results. Although the basic idea of search engine optimization is simple, its application can be complex.
The previous definitions may sound a bit technical, but all you have to do is optimize your content for search engines, then make sure that it shows up in organic search results. Some definitions may also include information architecture and effective use of markup, as well as ensuring that web pages are easy to read and navigate for users.
SEO has become an essential part of digital marketing in recent years due to its proven effectiveness at driving valuable traffic to websites through organic (non-paid) means. It is considered one of the most important aspects of internet marketing because it affects a website’s ability to attract new visitors and grow its business.
What Is the Impact of SEO on the Visibility of Research Papers?
The impact of SEO on the visibility of research and academic papers is significant. Research papers are not necessarily read by a large audience, but their content can be widely shared. This sharing is often done through social media, which has a huge impact on SEO.
When people share your paper, they’re effectively linking back to it. When other people click on those links and visit your site, they’ll see your search engine results page (SERP). If you’ve optimized your site for SEO, there’s a good chance that they’ll click on one of your links and continue reading.
In addition to improving your website’s visibility in organic search results, SEO can also help improve its ranking in Google News. This is especially true when it comes to news outlets that have been around for decades (like the New York Times) or ones that cover niche topics (like The Verge).
SEO Tips to Increase Research Paper Visibility
1. Use Keywords to Convey Key Concepts
To increase the visibility of a research paper, you should use keywords to convey key concepts. You can use keywords in the title, body of text, and abstract to help readers find your work. The conclusion should also contain keywords that relate to your topic. You can also include keywords in references, acknowledgments, and bibliography pages so that people who are looking for more information about your topic will be able to find it.
2. Use Descriptive Keywords
Another tip for increasing research paper visibility is to use descriptive keywords. The best keywords are those which are relevant to the topic and specific to it. For example, if you were writing a paper on dogs, then “dog” would be too general as a keyword because it applies to all kinds of dogs.
Therefore, “puppies” or “Beagle” would be better keywords for this particular topic. You should also make sure that your chosen words are not too general as well because these can lead readers away from your website instead of towards it when they do an internet search for information about dogs!
3. Restrict Your Title to a Minimum Number of Relevant Words
You need to write a title that is relevant, preferably less than 60 characters. Use keywords that are specific to your paper and add value to the meaning of your title. Also, avoid adding words that are too general or don’t add anything to the meaning of your title.
For example, if your research paper is about “social media” then do not use titles such as “Social Media Rules” or “Social Media Success Tips” because it makes no sense for someone searching for ‘social media’ information on Google to click on a link with either one of those titles.
4. Choose Frequently Searched Keywords
These are the keywords that are searched for often by people in your niche, and they will help you get more exposure from search engines like Google. These keywords should be specific, relevant, and descriptive of your topic.
For example, if your research paper is on how to improve website security through encryption techniques, then “encryption” would be a good keyword because it’s related to the topic (security). But, it’s also general enough that people can find it when they’re looking for information on encryption techniques or even just general information about encryption.
That’s why we recommend using short phrases instead of single words as long as possible—this makes them easier for readers to find! Also, remember to not go overboard with keyword stuffing! Just use one or two per paragraph so they’re not too distracting from what matters most.
5. Create Links From Keywords to Various Websites
When creating links, try to include keywords in the anchor text. For example, if you are writing a paper about Plato’s views on the importance of education and have included a link that says “Plato’s Views on Education,” then this is a good way to help search engines understand what your content is about.
Also, make sure that all of your links are relevant to the topic of your research paper. If there is not enough relevance between the two pages or sites (i.e., they won’t be able to establish why they should be connected), it may cause harm to both web pages and result in getting penalized by Google or other search engines due to lack of authenticity and trustworthiness found between pages and sites.
At the end of the day, none of these tips will impact how your paper is received by academic peers. However, increasing the visibility of your research can have a long-lasting impact on how many people have access to it and can help spread knowledge in your field.
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Controlled Chaos: Artist Deborah Zlotsky
February 4, 2019
Deborah Zlotsky’s colorful abstract works speak to the process of understanding the vagaries of everyday life.
Text by Bob Curley
Destruction and reconstruction are intrinsic to the process of creation in the work of Deborah Zlotsky, whose abstract paintings and graphite sketches evolve, layer by partly obscuring layer, until the artist finally declares her vision—born as much from chaos as intent—complete.
It’s an evolutionary endeavor that Zlotsky sees as a reflection of the unplanned, unpredictable, and ever-changing aspects of modern existence. “It’s kind of the life I lead, running around all the time,” says the Rhode Island School of Design professor, who commutes to Providence weekly from her primary home in upstate New York. “I can make sense of it all in a painting. I think of myself as someone who is connecting, but I am also repairing,” she says. She views her work as a discovery of what author Steven Johnson calls the “adjacent possible,” which he describes as “a kind of a shadow future, hovering on the edges of the present state of things, a map of all the ways in which the present can reinvent itself.”
The theory holds that most great ideas don’t spring from a light-bulb moment but rather the accumulation of knowledge over time, which aptly describes Zlotsky’s artistic process. She works on up to a half-dozen paintings at a time, starting, stopping, and resuming work as creativity ebbs and flows. “I stop painting when I think they are done,” she states simply. “It’s a process fueled by contingencies.”
Her work has been compared to that of Paul Klee, although the artist herself cites Thomas Nozkowski and Terry Winters as influences. “I start with a few relationships and go from there,” connecting shapes, planes, colors, and other elements,” she explains.
Early in her career, Zlotsky determined that she would be much more satisfied creating her own artwork than documenting that of others. Still, the skills she garnered while pursuing her bachelor’s degree in art history at Yale and an MFA in painting and drawing from the University of Connecticut also have aided her creative process.
Philosophically, her work is in part an examination of the “blanding out” experience of growing up in a small, traditional New England town as the descendant of Eastern European immigrants. “It’s hard to have a sense of your identity when you don’t exist in the surrounding culture,” says Zlotsky, a member of one of a handful of Jewish families in her town.
The disambiguation she seeks is also rooted in a childhood fascination with taking machines apart and reassembling them. “I’ve always been in this deconstruction mode,” she says.
There’s a pronounced aspect of trompe l’oeil to her work, both in the abstract shapes she paints and draws and the layers of gouache and charcoal that partly—but not fully—obscure older forms and ideas.
“Zlotsky pays attention to color, line, and shape, but more importantly to depth,” writes artist and critic Viktor Witkowski, who sees both monumental and architectural elements in her work. “We can clearly identify geometric shapes, but their outlines take surprising turns that suggest receding and advancing forms.”
Lighter shapes contrast with darker ones in the same color value, providing three-dimensionality and, as Witkowski says, pointing “back to what lies beneath them.”
“Peer closer and the flat surfaces resolve into a textured density of drips, lines, drools . . . and craters,” says Douglas Glover in Numero Cinq magazine. He uses the geological term “accreted terrain” to describe the cumulative nature of Zlotsky’s work. Her lively color choices come from a far less technical place, reflecting a pop sensibility honed by a childhood of reading MAD magazine and DC comics.
Nordstrom, Capital One, Progressive Insurance, the Waldorf Astoria, and Istanbul’s Borusan Contemporary Art Collection are among the corporate holders of her works, along with the many private collectors who display her paintings and drawings in their homes and offices. “If someone wants to live with my work, even if they want to put it in their bathroom, it’s fine with me,” she says with a laugh. | <urn:uuid:4b90dd02-8667-453b-bb43-c37780895a26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nehomemag.com/controlled-chaos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961691 | 1,001 | 1.710938 | 2 |
So you’ve decided to try the low-carb lifestyle to help manage your diabetes. Great choice! It’s been shown to help lessen symptoms and keep blood sugar levels under control.
But the term “low-carb” can be confusing because it’s so vague. What exactly does it mean? What’s the right number of carbohydrates to eat per day when you’re living with diabetes?
Annoyingly, there’s no magic number of carbohydrates that will get rid of your symptoms and make you feel your best. Everyone tolerates carbs differently, and the amount you need can change day to day, depending on factors like your activity level.
Before you make any drastic changes to your diet, talk to your doctor or dietitian to figure out a method that will work for your life in the long term.
But we’re not gonna leave you hanging. There may not be a one-size-fits-all solution, but you can use simple strategies to monitor your carb intake and determine what foods make you feel your best.
As we said, it varies by person, but the average person with diabetes gets 40 to 45 percent of their daily calories from carbohydrates. Some very low-carbohydrate diet plans may contain half this amount per day.
Starting slowly and steadily lowering your carb intake will help you avoid feeling fatigued or overwhelmed by the lifestyle change.
JK — it’s not even close to 50. To get an understanding of what carb restriction looks like, it’s important to know the difference between the two main types of carbohydrates: simple and complex.
Simple carbs have a very basic molecular structure that requires minimal processing by your body before it hits your bloodstream. This category includes raw sugars and even unsweetened 100 percent fruit juices.
Complex carbs have a more intricate molecular makeup, so they take longer for your body to convert into sugar. These include whole grains, starchy vegetables, legumes, and whole fruits. Complex carbs contain essential nutrients such as vitamins and fiber.
In general, eating whole, minimally processed foods will lower your intake of simple and refined carbohydrates, which can help eliminate blood sugar spikes.
When you decide to start eating low-carb, know that while a decrease in carbohydrates can help regulate your blood sugar, you need to do it the right way (it’s all about balance, man).
How you do it is totally up to you. Some studies have shown that the ketogenic diet (20 to 50 grams of carbs per day) is the best way to control diabetes symptoms, but others have favored more moderate carb restriction (90 to 130 grams per day).
It’s important to note that critics of the keto diet say it’s not sustainable in the long term and can increase your risk of heart disease (among other conditions) when not followed appropriately.
The takeaway is that while keto can have lots of great benefits — weight loss, reduced diabetes symptoms, lower blood pressure — it isn’t all bacon strips and cheese sticks.
Whatever approach you choose, the glycemic index can help you put together low-carb meals. And remember, it’s best to consult your doctor or a dietitian to create a customized meal plan that meets your needs and goals.
The easiest way to manage your daily carb intake is to pay attention to the number of carbs you’re eating and when you’re consuming them.
Chat with your doc about your exact number. In general, women will want to stick to 30 to 45 grams per meal and men to 45 to 60 grams per meal.
Apps like MyFitnessPal allow you to input everything you’ve eaten throughout the day and see a full nutrition profile, so you can get an idea of where your carbs, protein, and fat are coming from.
Or you can choose a calculator specifically designed for people with diabetes, like Fooducate or BG Monitor Diabetes. If you’re feeling ambitious, write it all down in a daily food journal.
This will help you know exactly how many carbs you’re eating and give you a better idea of which high-carb foods you’re consuming most often.
Once you’re in the groove of logging and tracking carbs, don’t forget to make time to plan meals ahead so you can avoid high-carb foods and prevent those annoying french fry cravings.
Generally, the foods with the highest carbohydrate counts are grains, starchy vegetables, sugar, and processed foods.
Low-carb foods include leafy vegetables, lean meats, dairy, oils, nuts, and seeds. These foods won’t spike your blood sugar and will help your energy levels feel more even throughout the day, especially when eaten consistently at every meal.
Start by seeing where you can limit your carbohydrate consumption. If you’re regularly eating simple carbs, like sugary cereal, white bread, or other processed foods, try cutting back to see how you feel.
It’s important to remember that limiting carbs doesn’t mean starving yourself — whenever you cut something out, you’ll want to replace it with a high-quality, lower-carb food to keep yourself satisfied.
Unsure where to begin? Here’s what an average day of low-carb eating might look like.
You can keep your daily work sandwich routine by swapping the bread for lettuce leaves. You can also pack veggie sticks, cheese cubes, Greek yogurt, or mixed nuts to snack on.
Craving sweetness without the carb load? Pair a spoonful of nut butter with a low-glycemic fruit like berries or an apple.
Your low-carb cooking options are endless. Make a taco bowl without the shell, using cauliflower rice instead of the grain. Bake spaghetti squash into a casserole or use it as a sub for pasta. You can even use thick slices of sautéed zucchini as buns for a burger.
Whatever you’re craving, you can find a low-carb version that tastes just as delicious.
Here are some of the most common high-carb foods along with easy low-carb substitutions. You’ll barely notice you’ve changed your diet (except that you’ll feel amazing, obviously).
Bread: Substitute lettuce leaves, portobello mushroom slices, or low-carb tortillas.
Rice: Substitute riced cauliflower or broccoli.
Pasta: Substitute spaghetti squash, chickpea pasta, or spiralized zucchini.
Chips: Substitute cucumber slices, carrots, or kale chips.
Pizza: You can make a low-carb crust out of cauliflower. Yes, we’re serious… and yes, it’s life-changing.
Treats: Just because you’re cutting down on processed foods doesn’t mean you have to give up dessert. Make cheesecake mousse, avocado brownies, or sugar-free dark chocolate bark when your sweet tooth hits.
In the best way possible, of course. While the meal plan above makes a great guideline, what you eat will come down to what makes your body feel good.
Every person has slightly different daily carb needs, depending on their body fat, amount of daily exercise, and insulin levels. While experimenting with eating fewer carbs is great, don’t dive headfirst into a diet you won’t be able to sustain.
Living that low-carb life (#LCL) can keep your blood sugar levels more consistent and help you deal with your diabetes naturally.
While there’s no perfect solution for everyone, you can get a better idea of how many carbs you need to cut by tracking your daily food consumption to learn more about where your nutrients are coming from.
Talk to your doctor or dietitian about whether eating lower-carb could help improve your blood sugar levels — and if so, how many carbs you need. They can look at your body composition and lifestyle to determine a meal plan that will make you feel your best.
Once you’ve done this, try making simple swaps in your diet (like eating eggs instead of cereal for breakfast) to lower your carb intake and see how you feel.
Track your blood sugar, keep your main
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Faith program directors from national equal rights groups have joined in protest over the Vatican’s recent decision to oppose an initiative to decriminalize homosexuality.
The faith leaders reacted to Reuters News Service report that Archbishop Celestino Migliore said the Vatican opposed the United Nations resolution because it would “add new categories of those protected from discrimination” and could lead to reverse discrimination against traditional heterosexual marriage.
“If adopted, they would create new and implacable discriminations,” Migliore said. “For example, states which do not recognize same-sex unions as ‘matrimony’ will be pilloried and made an object of pressure,” Migliore said.
The faith leaders issued the following statement on December 10, United Nations Human Rights Day and the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:
“For far too long people around the world have been ostracized, imprisoned, tortured, and denied basic rights to housing, health care, and employment simply because they are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender. In more than 70 countries people can be imprisoned for homosexuality and in several countries same gender love is a crime punishable by death.
“This is why the French government, backed by 27 European Union nations, put forward a proposal, on Human Rights Day, to recognize that LGBT rights are human rights and to decriminalize homosexuality. Such a statement simply affirms the most basic of rights for LGBT people: that they be allowed to live in dignity and safety. . . .
“As faith leaders we were shocked by Vatican opposition to this proposed initiative. By refusing to sign a basic statement opposing inhumane treatment of LGBT people, the Vatican is sending a message that violence and human rights abuses against LGBT people are acceptable. . . . We urge Vatican leaders to speak out against imprisonment or execution of gay people and support this initiative.
“Compounding the Vatican’s opposition is the inaction to date of the government of the United States. As faith leaders and citizens of the United States, we call on the U.S. government to join the 50 countries throughout the world that have officially supported this U.N. proposal. . . .”
Signers of the statement were Harry Knox, director of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s religion and faith program; The Rev. Rebecca Voelkel, director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force’s institute for welcoming resources and faith work; Dr. Sylvia Rhue, director of religious affairs for the National Black Justice Coalition; and Ann Craig, director of The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s religion, faith, and values program.
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Associate of Applied Science
Purpose: This curriculum is designed to provide students with the knowledge and basic skills to be successful in the Baking & Pastry industry.
Program Objectives: Employment opportunities include entry-level and management positions in country clubs, hotels, restaurants and bakeries.
Admission Requirements: Applicants must meet the requirements for admission to credit-level coursework established by the college.
Developmental Requirements: Students who do not place into college-level English will be required to take developmental courses.
Students who do not demonstrate proficiency in MTE 1* , MTE 2* , and MTE 3* will be required to complete developmental courses.
It is strongly recommended that developmental education requirements be completed as soon as possible.
Program Requirements: To successfully complete the laboratory components of the program, the student must be able to perform the essential functions of a culinarian #1-17 as listed under the Associate of Applied Science Degree .
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The report - part-funded by the government - is aimed at informing the government’s forthcoming low-carbon homes strategy, announced in June as part of the draft renewable energy strategy (ENDS Report 402, pp 38-39 ).
The government has a target for all new homes to be zero-carbon by 2016. However, at least 80% of the homes that will be standing in 2050 have already been built.
There are government initiatives to promote energy efficiency such as the Carbon Emission Reduction Target (CERT), which requires energy suppliers to improve the energy efficiency of customers’ homes. But these have not created a mainstream market demand, the UKGBC says, despite the cost-effectiveness of measures such as loft insulation.
The government also has no strategy for funding more expensive measures such as high-efficiency boilers. The market for these is niche and unlikely to change without policy intervention, the UKGBC says. This could include fiscal incentives such as council tax rebates.
The report recommends improving the energy performance certificate programme, which rates the energy performance of a home from A-G, to encourage action by householders. Mandatory minimum grades could be phased in over time.
Work could be funded by long-term loans linked to the property rather than the individual. The cost would be covered by a third party and repaid by a charge on the property, perhaps through council tax. "One stop shops" could offer advice on energy efficiency, building on the existing network of Energy Savings Trust advice centres. The service could include surveys and help with finance. | <urn:uuid:321f3c92-e899-4f19-a8e9-55dcf2551e59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.endsreport.com/article/1570346/call-focus-energy-performance-existing-homes?ArticleRef=404017 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.971569 | 320 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Investments in new weather forecasting technologies and communication products can be costly and serve the ultimate purpose of protecting life and property. The Forecasting a Continuum of Environmental Threats (FACETs) paradigm attempts to improve technology and communication through the provision of probabilistic hazard information (PHI). The research and technology necessary to produce this information requires a substantial resource investment, but the societal value of the information may outweigh the costs. This study provides an initial estimate of this value by exploring public willingness to pay (WTP) for an app that provides continuously updated, geographically situated PHI that could be utilized during a tornado event. Findings indicate that the mean WTP, in a one-time payment, for this precise hazard information product is $7.53 per person. Aggregated to the US population, the estimated value is between $901 million and $1.56 billion. These findings indicate that federal agencies and private companies are likely to generate a substantial surplus by developing these products and will contribute to improving informed decision-making and protecting lives and property.
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5 years ago today, I wrote this blog about Canada’s 150th Birthday. It has aged surprisingly well in my opinion, and I can tell you it has been read nearly 1,000 times from humans (and bots) all around the world! I’m revisiting it today and sharing the original on Canada’s 155th birthday! It’s been a crazy 5 years, no? I’m pleased that what I considered Canada’s strengths 5 years ago, still are today! And many of those positive attributes helped get us through the pandemic, better than most other Countries in the world. COVID has taken a terrible toll on all of us and I know fatigue set in long ago, but you have to admit, history will show Canada as a country that took the pandemic seriously and took some difficult steps to fight it and keep us safe and healthy. All of that is debatable and should be. Yes, I know our Canada credit card keeps getting maxed and we keep getting our limit increased but hopefully we can keep up with the payments and even work on the balance as the years go buy. (I know that’s wishful thinking, but I’m being “half full” as usual).
Obviously what I wrote about First Nations 5 years ago is far from resolved and the news only became more grim and shameful with the residential schools mass graves discoveries! I can’t help but shake my head every time I read and hear more information about our darkest chapter. We can and must do better!!
I did not foresee a Freedom convoy in our future back then either, as it was laughable to even consider some citizens would feel their rights have been taken away from them!!!!!! Really??? It’s laughable still. Government mandates??? Don’t get me started. While we are on the topic of shameful, what happened in February in Ottawa and other locations was the low point. It bummed me out to no end the way that group used the pandemic response to try and divide the Country. Was the response handled perfectly? Far from it. Thankfully, educated decision makers, combined with the actual right of law and order eventually prevailed as has the justice system to date.
I know it’s lazy and not necessarily empathetic to use comparisons to help make ourselves feel better about our situation, but comparisons make sense here. To see what’s happening in Ukraine, Russia, the fall out for countries who are literally starving to death and our closest ally the United States, don’t talk to me about “rights”. We’re the luckiest people on earth. I believed it then and believe it today!
I have spent 2 and half years of the past 5 in retirement and at the time I wrote the blog, I didn’t anticipate that either. It’s been wonderful, honestly, and it’s given me a chance to really pursue my passion for photography. I did feel many periods of guilt while I watched my beloved radio industry struggle like never before.
So, here we are, July 1st 2022…..Canada Day, our 155th birthday!!
Celebrate today because you can!!!! Ain’t we lucky?
Original post as follows…... published July 1st 2017!!
I am in Love. Head over heels in love. I get a warm feeling every time I think of the object of my affection. I don’t merely mean I have a “fondness of”, or an “attraction to” or a “proclivity towards”, I mean unadulterated, “jump in front of a bus for” love.
How did I get to be so lucky? Does everyone feel this way when they are in love?
YES………I AM IN LOVE…………….WITH CANADA!!!!!
What’s not to love? While the world is in chaos, our biggest worry usually revolves around the conditions of our weather.
I’m NOT pulling the ‘Three Wise Monkeys” proverb, think about it……..our core Canadian beliefs, values and assets;
-Access to Universal Health Care, Social Assistance, Public Education
-World class researchers, doctors, specialists, scientists and scholars
-An intellectual community of the brightest and best professionals and trades
-World class transportation infrastructure, urban planning and architecture
-World class artists, musicians, actors and athletes
-A balanced and independent Judiciary
-An open and independent election process
-Law, Order & Enforcement
-Freedom of expression
-Multiculturalism and Official Bilingualism
-Clean water, breathtaking geography, scenery and 4 seasons
-Abundant fisheries, forestry and farming
-Rich and plentiful resources
-Rocky Mountains and The Pacific, Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
-A thoughtful and independent public broadcaster in the CBC
-An immigration policy of compassion and opportunity
-A NEXT generation
There’s a song by The Five Man Electrical Band entitled, “I’m a stranger here’.
One of the lyrics reads, “oh you crazy fools, don’t you know you had it made? You were living in paradise”.
So today, July 1st 2017, we will all celebrate 150 years of living in this great Country. We’ll have family and friends and strangers around us in our own homes and communities, at parks, halls, campgrounds, cottages, backyards, on the water and in care facilities. We’ll have Bar-B-Q’s and bands and fireworks and flags, beer and burgers, Maple Leaf T-shirts and removable tattoos on our cheeks.
In our Nations’ Capital, under extremely tight security, we’ll experience the culmination of many months of planning and many millions of dollars of investment as Parliament Hill hosts royalty, the PM, Government officials, entertainment (Canadian and Irish) and what is sure to be the most spectacular fireworks show ever in Canada. And oh ya, 400-500 thousand people throughout the day. It’s going to be insane. How exciting.
So what’s wrong with me then? If I’m so in love with Canada, what’s up?
I’ve been wrestling with my feelings these past few months about Canada 150. When you’re in love with something, as I am, it’s hard to hear it being criticized. I mean, “How dare they”?
Truth is, I am listening to the criticism. You’ve heard it too.
It hurts….. because the truth hurts right?
As such, I am not scoffing at or dismissing or disrespecting the protest messages of many of our indigenous communities. What better time for them, than this Canada Day, to raise the level of awareness surrounding their historically documented authentic grievances. We’ve all seen the bullet points……”150 years of Colonialism is nothing to celebrate”. “Canada is a lot older than 150 years”. “Indigenous land claims”, “Mercury Contaminated Rivers” “Residential School Horrors” “Conditions on Reserves”, “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women”, “Truth and Reconciliation Committee”. It’s a lot to take in!!! I feel ashamed sometimes even though I know I am not personally responsible for the past. However, let those who are free of ever hearing, telling or laughing at a racist joke about First Nations throw the first platitude. Shameful! As a citizen of this Country that I love, I think I do have a responsibility, and have a role to play moving forward. Of all we have accomplished and all we can be proud of to become the envy of the world in the last 150 years, our “Colonized” Nation has a lot to account for with First Nations. Don’t get mad at that, don’t start laying blame at anyone and most importantly, let’s as Canadians, not give up trying to make things better for all of us. The damage is deep and solutions complicated. I only have my opinion, not answers, so I will not preach or point fingers. But I do know of all the nations on earth, we in Canada have the capacity to figure this out. Because that’s what we do. And have done for at least the past century and a half.
In the meantime, God it feels so good to be so in love!!!!!!
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Sometimes companies need to be reminded of their environmental commitments--like HP's 2007 promise to stop putting toxic chemicals in their computer products. That's why Greenpeace activists climbed to the top of HP's global headquarters in Palo Alto California , and William Shatner (yes, Captain James T. Kirk) recorded a special voice message for all the staff in the building.
HP was being called-out for backtracking on its commitments to phase out toxic chemicals from its products by the end of this year. It cost them a penalty point in our Guide to Greener Electronics last month, along with Dell and Lenovo. So to get them back onto the straight and narrow, we're delivering reminders to the company at their buildings, in the press and online.
Today's action follows similar demonstrations at HP offices in China and the Netherlands highlighting the continued presence of toxic chemicals in its products.
Earlier this year, HP postponed its 2007 commitment to phase out dangerous substances such as brominated flame retardants (BFR) and PVC (polyvinyl chloride) plastic from their computer products (excluding their server and printer lines) from 2009 to 2011.
It's shameful that HP is continuing to put hazardous products on the market, despite the promises it made. It should be following the lead of companies like Apple, which has led the sector in phasing out these toxic chemicals.
Others are getting off the toxic stuff
Apple's new computer lines, virtually free of PVC and completely BFR-free, demonstrate the technical feasibility and supply-chain readiness of producing alternatives to these hazardous substances. Dell, Lenovo and Acer have also stayed ahead of HP, putting models on the market that are free of, or at least significantly reduced in their use of, PVC and BFRs.
So it can be done, other companies are moving much faster that the world's number one seller of PCs. If HP wants to remain a market leader and not just another purveyor of harmful products, it needs to get back on track and eliminate BFRs and PVC from its products by the end of this year, as promised.
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Rowohlt’s relationship with Winne the Pooh – “Pu der Bär” in German – began when his mother read the book to him as a child.
Later in life, his name would be printed alongside that of author A.A. Milne on the covers of the German editions of the children’s classic.
“Harry Rowohlt was the first translator who appeared on the cover of a book,” translator Ruth Keen said.
“Because he was so good, so ingenious, he had freedoms that others didn’t.”
Since 1969, Rowohlt had translated a total of around 200 books by the time of his death, earning him a special German Youth Literature Prize for his life’s work in 2005.
Beyond A.A. Milne, he translated literary landmarks like Frank McCourt’s “Angela’s Ashes” (“Die Asche Meiner Mutter” in German) and Flann O’Brien’s “At Swim-two-Birds” (“Auf Schwimmen-zwei-Vögel”).
But his freedom often made for battles with other linguists, with some arguing that he took too many liberties with the original texts.
One cartoon from artists Hauck & Bauer was printed with the caption “You should read the book in Harry Rowohlt’s translation. A lot is lost in the original.”
Rowohlt was born in an air-raid shelter in the final weeks of the Second World War, on March 27th 1945.
His mother, actress Maria Pierenkämper, was married to painter Max Rupp, but he was in a Soviet prisoner-of-war camp at what Rowohlt always called the “time in question” of his conception.
In fact, he was the son of Ernst Rowohlt, a publisher who went through five bankruptcies during his career, and whose name Harry took at the age of ten.
Harry liked to say that “I would have been the first to revive this tradition” if he had followed in his biological father’s footsteps. He and his brother later sold the publishing house to the Holtzbrinck group.
While he didn’t fulfil his childhood ambitions of becoming a forest ranger and comic-book artist, he was a prolific producer of translations and other artistic projects.
For years he wrote a well-loved column in newspaper Die Zeit called “Pooh’s Corner – Opinions from a bear of very little brain”, which editor-in-chief Giovanni di Lorenzo said “brought humour into our culture section”.
Rowohlt’s love of Irish literature and culture extended to a fine appreciation of whiskey, which he was hapy to share with his public – and for which he was dubbed an “Ambassador of Irish Whiskey”.
But a nerve disease diagnosed later in life meant that Harry had to swear off alcohol in his final years.
Shunning the spotlight?
He lived quietly with his wife in the Hamburg district of Eppendorf, where he was often recognized on the street – although he disliked being thought of as a public figure.
For 20 years, though, he played down-and-out character Harry in 193 episodes of the long-running soap “Lindenstraße”, planting his trademark full beard and round glasses firmly in the national consciousness.
“Harry never sought out the spotlight,” said comic and fellow Eppendorfer Karl Dall.
“Harry had his own quirks and blemishes. At home he only had an old Bakelite telephone and stacks and stacks of books.”
Despite his success, Dall said, Rowohlt remained true to himself to the end.
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GREENVILLE – $ 2.9 million state grant generates new electric locomotive for Bessemer & Lake Erie Railroad Co.
Based in Greenville, B&LE is abandoning a nearly 50-year-old diesel locomotive for a newly designed electric model. and there is another local connection.
B&LE purchases the locomotive from Pittsburgh-based Wabtec Corp. The company operates a locomotive engine plant in Grove City that was previously owned by General Electric.
The Grove City plant will remain focused on producing diesel engines, said Tim Bader, spokesperson for Wabtec. But he could produce parts for the new locomotive using his 3D technology.
The grant comes from Pennsylvania’s Driving PA Forward program, which promotes environmentally friendly transportation technologies. The program aims to reduce pollutant emissions by up to 27,700 tonnes.
Funding for the grants comes from the Environmental Mitigation Trust Fund as part of a federal settlement with Volkswagen. The automaker has been accused of creating computer technology to cheat federal emissions tests for engines.
“Exposure to diesel emissions is linked to a higher risk of lung cancer and other diseases, so any steps we can take to reduce this exposure directly benefit workers as well as surrounding residents. “said Mark Longietti, D-7th District. , says the Hermitage.
Wabtec’s electric locomotive, which it calls FLXdrive, was recently developed. He completed a three-month test earlier this year covering more than 13,000 miles of trails in California.
The Canadian National, based in Montreal, owns B&LE. CN has announced its intention to partner with Wabtec to use battery technology for freight locomotives.
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Supporting our community’s youth
The start of the school year signals a new beginning for many of the region’s school children. The long, hot days of summer are left behind as boys and girls of all ages buckle down and focus on education. For some, that focus may not be as clear because of problems beyond their control.
While there is no one solution, there are programs available to help youth get on a path to success. The Women’s Initiative of United Way of Central Massachusetts is one of the organizations that provides funding for such programs, in this case programming directed toward adolescent girls.
Now in its 13th year, the Women’s Initiative has a proven track record. Since 2003, the Women’s Initiative has invested more than $3.5 million in gender-specific programming for girls and continues to help shape the future of thousands of young women in our local community.
Through supporting and developing community based, gender-specific programs; mentoring; offering educational opportunities; and providing financial literacy training, Women’s Initiative members continue to make a difference in the lives of adolescent girls in Central Massachusetts.
The $3.5 million we have invested has yielded phenomenal results. The program is supported by the United Way's annual fundraising campaign in which donors specifically designate that their contribution go to the Women's Initiative. Nearly 9,000 girls have participated in programming with an emphasis on promoting healthy relationships, education, and career development programs that include tools needed to become economically empowered.
Because of the grants provided by the Women’s Initiative to more than 20 local agencies:
- 84% of girls increased their knowledge about what makes a relationship healthy;
- 93% of girls who participated in gender specific programming felt safe and avoided missing school due to conflict;
- 82% of girls improved their conflict resolution skills.
The Women’s Initiative is fortunate to have 1,100 members who have taken up the cause and are passionate about supporting programs for young girls.
However, we know the need is much greater and more resources are necessary. We are always accepting members in joining the Women’s Initiative who would like to commit to bringing about meaningful change by nurturing and cultivating the next generation of young women in our community. Our 13th Annual Stepping Up for Girls fundraising event is at 4:30 p.m. September 24, 2015 at Mechanics Hall.
Supporting gender specific programming helps more of our girls stay on track. By helping girls succeed ALL youth succeed.
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Brave Holly Barker, 19, is fighting a rare liver cancer called Fibrolamellar and was featured in the Chronicle in April when her family were raising funds for an operation in Chicago.
However, they recently received the devastating news that Holly’s cancer is terminal, and as if that wasn’t enough, the courageous teenager has also had to fight off sepsis.
Determined to reach out, Sandy Secondary School has launched a campaign called ‘A Smile for Holly’ and is asking the community to send them poems, cards, messages, pictures and gifts to be delivered to Holly.
Assistant principal, Tracey Hinson, said: “Holly is a very special girl and we want to try to give something back and put a smile on her face.
“She is an ex-student who left three years ago. She was really helpful, really positive, really, really wanted to get involved with things, and wanted to be part of the school.
“She was very personable, very kind and interested in others. She was a people person and always smiling.
“She’s such a lovely, lovely person and it’s just not fair.”
Holly, who lives in Tempsford, had already overcome many obstacles in her life before she developed cancer, including vision problems, mild learning difficulties, and an Aspergers and ADHD diagnosis. She also lost her father in 2016.
Speaking earlier this year, Holly’s Mum, Hayley said: “I felt Holly had been dealt her cards, but there were further battles for her to fight.”
Holly received her diagnosis after Christmas, with Fibrolamellar usually occuring in adolescents and young adults who have no history of liver disease.
The family were pinning their hopes on a £250,000 operation in America, led by specialists in the field.
However, with Holly now too poorly, the money raised will be going towards research into Fibrolamellar.
Hayley told the Chronicle: “As a family we are trying to spend as much time with Holly as possible.
“We are incredibly grateful to all the people who donated towards Holly’s treatment, but unfortunately we were not able to raise enough money in time plus we were also up against Covid-19 restrictions.
“I want to thank Sandy Upper School for their campaign ‘A Smile for Holly’.
“She will feel totally lifted by this gesture.
“During Holly’s time at Sandy, the whole team were always extremely sensitive towards Holly’s other needs and I will always be grateful for the time, care and attention they gave her.
“I would also like to thank Sarah Wilmshurst, Lisa Pointing and the Shinns. These guys all organised events to help raise awareness and money for Holly’s treatment.
“Thank you to Claire Parsons for organising gifts for us to make more memories and also to those who bought the gifts. It was devastating news to receive when the oncology doctor told us that the treatment was not successful and that the cancer is too aggressive for further treatment, plus the sepsis rendered her too weak.
“She did almost die from the sepsis but she fought hard with both teams at Bedford Hospital and Addenbrookes.
“Thank you to Lauren and the team on C9 at Addenbrookes and thank you to Jackie and her team on Godber at Bedford, and Caroline, the specialist nurse.”
If you would like to support the ‘A Smile for Holly’ campaign then cards, poems, gifts and pictures can be posted to Sandy Secondary School, Engayne Avenue, Sandy, Bedfordshire, SG19 1BL.
You can also email messages to the school via: parentcon [email protected], or drop items off in its outer foyer.
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The principle of the method is preparing a cyclohexane solution of the sample to be analyzed, measuring the absorbance for the 810 cm^-1 and 782 cm^-1 bands which are characteristic of the 1,2,4- and 1,2,6-positions on the aromatic ring, and calculating the absorbance ratio. Applies to mixtures containing 5 % to 95 % of the 2,4-isomer.
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Delivering vaccine antigens to mucosal surfaces is usually potentially very attractive, especially as protection from mucosal infections may be mediated by local immune responses. investigated the role of R848 as a mucosal adjuvant in macaques using a primary boost regime,10 though it was not compared to antigen alone in the published study. A recently published study investigating the mechanism of R848 action after systemic delivery exhibited that R848 led to the release of TNF by macrophages and neutrophils which in turn led to the maturation of Langerhans cells.17 In the current study we observed limited local inflammation after R848 compared to PBS alone. However, there was a pattern toward increased neutrophil recruitment after intranasal R848 delivery and increased TNF at 96?hours after immunization, which suggests a similar mechanism works at mucosal surfaces. Apart from the delayed TNF signature, R848 administration gave a very comparable cytokine profile to PBS alone, administration of fluid intranasally followed by repeat sampling led to an acute peak of pro-inflammatory cytokines and cells. In the current study, the R848 was given without antigen, a different profile may have been observed in the presence of antigen. These studies suggest that R848 is usually safe and it is currently in use in a number of clinical trials as a vaccine adjuvant and has been shown to have some effect in combination with GMCSF and Poly(I:C) when administered with a tumor antigen intradermally.18 R848 is also a licensed product for use as a topical cream (Resiquimod), which we have also previously shown induces increased TNF responses when administered intranasally to macaques.19 A study looking at oral administration of R848 to control Hepatitis C virus found adverse reactions in patients given 0.02mg/kg twice weekly for 4?weeks,20 in the current study we use a final dose equivalent to half the safe dose (0.5?mg total in the current study, equivalent to 0.005?mg/kg AB1010 in the clinical study), this dose in mg/ kg of the macaque was considerably more than used in the previous human study, but for a single administration. Adverse effects from R848 (and other adjuvants) are most likely associated with inflammation and there is a crucial sense of balance (the goldilocks effect) required in adjuvants between unreactive and hyper inflammatory response. Thus, although R848 did not appear to be toxic in this study we cannot exclude hyper inflammatory responses and associated adverse effects when used at high doses in humans. We only saw responses following nasal immunization, but not sublingual or intrarectal. To our knowledge this is the first study that has explored the use of sublingual vaccination in macaques using protein alone, though it has been used for DNA vaccines21 and an Adenovirus-protein boost regime.22 While sublingual delivery has been shown to be highly effective in small animal models,23 in our study, we saw no response following sublingual delivery of ovalbumin. It is possible that the success of sublingual delivery in the mouse system in some way reflective of the much smaller AB1010 size of the murine mouth, and that the delivered antigen either coats a greater surface area of responsive cells, or Rabbit Polyclonal to ZADH1. is usually swallowed or recirculated to the adenoids or tonsillar lymphoid tissues at the back of the mouth. It is of note that most trials of sublingually delivered antigen are used in the context of immunotherapy with a view to induce tolerance.24 In a clinical trial sublingually delivered human papilloma computer virus vaccine only induced an immune response in 3 out of 12 volunteers.25 Intrarectal immunization of macaques with peptides adjuvanted with heat labile entertoxin has been demonstrated to induce a cellular response,26,27 but AB1010 no responses were seen following intrarectal DNA immunization,28 none of these studies assessed the antibody response. Intrarectal delivery of canarypox computer virus vaccines has been tested in a clinical trial, but failed to induce a response.29 While intrarectal immunization is a conceptually attractive route for the induction of local immune response for sexually transmitted and gastrointestinal infections, the lack of efficacy and possible issues around cultural acceptability could potentially rule this route out. Of the routes tested only intranasal delivered antigen induced an immune response, and the use of this route has been well explored in a range of pre-clinical and clinical studies and it is currently used for the delivery of live attenuated influenza vaccine. 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Urban Insurgency and the Search for a Solution: United States Counterinsurgency Strategy for the Twenty-First Century
Date of Graduation
Master of Science in Defense and Strategic Studies
Defense and Strategic Studies
Given that the United States continues to intervene regularly in various states on humanitarian, peacekeeping, and nation-building missions, as well as in the course of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), the need for an appropriate counterinsurgency (COIN) doctrine is imperative. The urbanization of the Third world and the inability of many of its governments to cope with rapid social change, as well as the advantages that the urban environment provides for the insurgent who employs asymmetric warfare, making designing an urban COIN doctrine particularly important. Despite its significance, little doctrine exists for urban COIN, and the conventional culture of the U.S. military is resistant to the development of such doctrine. Moreover, insurgent strategy of the Cold war, to which the United States is accustomed, has changed. This thesis advocates that the U.S. military look to the relatively successful urban COIN campaign waged in Northern Ireland by Britain. Additionally, U.S. COIN forces must train for military operations on urban terrain (MOUT), include cultural assessments in the intelligence process, and prepare to operate in a law enforcement capacity. This thesis offers recommendations intended to help decision makers craft an effective COIN policy.
counterinsurgency, urbanization, Third World, terrorism, security
Defense and Security Studies
© Andrew C. Katen
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The lotus plant, otherwise known as the water lily, has been a source of inspiration for centuries. But this time, people are mostly interested in the bumps on the surface of its leaves. Researchers at Ohio State University have created computer models of materials that, arrayed with tiny bumps, will repel water or allow microscopic machines to operate with far less friction. In a few years, the development could lead to far cheaper wide-screen televisions, chips that can analyze blood samples or windshields that clean themselves
Lotus Leaf Bumps The Secret To Smooth Surfaces?
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A tire rating which indicates a tire designed to perform well in mud and snow.
Michigan International Speedway. Site of the 1996 US 500, a CART event.
The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. The recommended selling price for a vehicle as set by the manufacturer.
A MacPherson strut is a unit that includes a damper or shock absorber cartridge inside a large, long metal spring. MacPherson struts are used over the front wheels of most front-drive cars. Replacement of MacPherson strut cartridges requires a spring compressor.
The manufacturer of the vehicle (BMW, Chrysler, Honda).
The purposeful damaging of another's property.
Manifold Absolute Pressure Sensor (MAP sensor)
Detects engine load by measuring air pressure or vacuum in the intake manifold.
A transmission that varies the power and torque through a foot pedal controlled clutch and a floor-mounted or steering-shaft-mounted gear selection lever.
Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP)
The suggested selling price of the vehicle. Does not include destination charges, optional equipment, or taxes.
The price for which something would currently sell.
Mass Airflow Sensor
Device that measures the flow of air entering the throttle housing.
A piston-type pump that produces pressure in the brake hydraulic system.
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Optional insurance that pays for medical and/or funeral expenses for the driver and passenger of a vehicle.
A medium size car designed to seat four to six passengers.
The lessee's estimate of how much mileage he will drive during the lease term. If the lessee underestimates how much he drives, he will face an excess mileage charge at lease end.
In a lease transaction, the maximum number of miles the vehicle can be driven by the end of the lease. There is a per-mile penalty for exceeding this limit.
Fees assessed if lessee drives more than the contracted mileage limit.
Miles Per Gallon
Fuel economy measurement. Abbreviated as mpg. Generally, a vehicle sticker may offer mpg ratings for city driving, highway driving, and combined driving.
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The distance between the ground and the lowest point of the vehicle chassis (usually the axle). A vehicle can drive over any object shorter than its minimum ground clearance.
The smallest premium that an insurance company will accept for payment on a policy.
The style of the vehicle produced by the manufacturer (Ford Mustang, Chrysler LeBaron, Honda Civic).
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Monroney Sticker Price
The price which appears on the label showing the base price, installed options, transportation charge, and fuel economy. Required by law, it may not be removed by anyone other than the purchaser.
A window-type opening in the roof of the car that can open or tilt up or down. See Sunroof.
"It's insured; so why worry?" This attitude usually increases the probability of loss or damage.
The exhaust system device in the tailpipe that reduces engine noise. Some vehicles have more than one muffler along the tailpipe.
Independent suspension controlled with several link arms that restrict undesired motion of the suspension for a smoother ride and more precise handling.
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Red Deer Public Library was one of the first four libraries to be established under the Libraries Act of Alberta. On September 1, 1914, the Library was created. Its first home was in the Board of Trade/Firehall Building, pictured below:
Red Deer Public Library's first librarian, Ina Greene, was hired in 1914 at the age of 17. She moved with her family to Medicine Hat in August 1916 after her father was appointed a District Court Judge. Ina worked in law offices in Medicine Hat before spending several years working in Montreal and Toronto. She took art classes from Arthur Lismer, a member of the Group of Seven, and received a painting from him before returning to the West in 1930. Ina married Patrick Scanlan and the couple homesteaded for about 10 years in the Winding Trail School District, about 12 miles from Athabasca. After returning south in 1931 (1941?), and following a short training session on librarianship in Calgary, she eventually became Medicine Hat's first Children's Librarian, a position she held for 12 years until her retirement in 1960. During the 1950's, she read stories on CHAT radio every week. Her live Story Time readings were so popular they outgrew the library and had to be held at the Monarch Theatre before the Saturday matinee. On her retirement from the library, she was honored with the establishment of a scholarship in her name to be awarded to a Medicine Hat resident wanting to study library science anywhere in Canada.
The Library had a number of other homes in the first half of the century, including one in City Hall next to the Jail Cell. Some Red Deer old-timers can remember the purpose-built library on the North Side of Ross Street, where the Parsons Clinic is today. Here's a picture from 1953:
A new Library became an election issue in the mid-1960s, and after some controversy and a successful plebicite, a new one-story library was built to celebrate Canada's Centennial in 1967. That's the main floor of the adult portion of today's Downtown Branch. This new facility was made possible thanks to generosity and vision of long-time trustee Charlie Snell and his wife, Librarian Mabel Snell. The Snells made a significant financial contribution. Their contribution was recognized in the naming of the Snell Auditorium, the Library's main community program room. [picture below: checking out a book in the Centennial Library, 1970]. A second storey was added to the building in 1979, thanks in part to a contribution from the Bower Family.
Meanwhile, on the north side of the Red Deer River, a new branch of Red Deer Public Library was being built in the new GH Dawe Community Centre. The new Dawe Branch is named for one of Red Deer's great contributors to libraries and public life in our community: Harold Dawe. In 1980 the new facility provided public library service to North Red Deer, and school library service to the public and Catholic elementary-junior-high schools in the Centre.
In 1993, planning began for a major expansion and renovation of the Downtown Branch. After 18 months of fund-raising programming in The Firehall Fun Factory, the Children's Library in the basement of the Centennial Library building moved next door into Firehall #1 (which was originally the Armoury, built in 1914). The new Piper Creek Optimist Children's Library was the focus of the expansion, built with $2.6 million raised by the Literacy & Legacy Capital Campaign. The new Kinsmen Link connected the new Children's Library with renovated Adult spaces, the new Snell Auditorium, and the Library's Technical Services (back-office) areas.
A few renovations later, the 2007 Downtown Branch is one of the finest public library facilities in Canada. It has some special spaces: the Kinsmen Link, a gathering place for the whole community; the Kiwanis Gallery, a space for community art displays; Café Noir, one of the first full-service coffee shops in a Canadian Public Library; and many more.
In late 2008, construction began on a major renovation at the Dawe Branch. The completion of the project in 2010 resulted in the addition of self-checkout RFID technology, as well as expanded programming space, a community gathering area with The Friends of the Library fireplace, and a beautiful new children's space, thanks to a generous donation from The Optimist Club of Red Deer.
The newest branch of Red Deer Public Library, the Timberlands Branch, opened in September 2014. The branch was built in partnership with Red Deer Public Schools as part of the new Timberlands school and serves as a combination school and public library much in the same vein as the Dawe Library operates in conjunction with St. Patrick’s Community School.
Looking for more? Check out our timeline of 100 Years of History at Red Deer Public Library, opens a new window or read Harold Dawe's History of Red Deer Public Library., opens a new window | <urn:uuid:6b76b307-191a-4a66-b509-e45d16f12926> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rdpl.org/library-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968422 | 1,025 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Europe is the birthplace of Western civilization and the source of most of the trends and bodies of knowledge that define modernity. The average European speaks several languages versus sometimes less than one for Americans. They are, in short, a well-schooled people with vast accumulated wisdom.
So how do we explain this: After World War II most European countries set up generous entitlement systems including government pensions designed to offer dignified retirements to citizens who had worked hard and paid taxes and obeyed the rules for a lifetime. BUT they didn’t bother putting anything aside for the inevitable — and mathematically predictable — retirement of the immense baby boomer generation. Here’s an excerpt from a recent Wall Street Journal article outlining the problem:
Europe’s population of pensioners, already the largest in the world, continues to grow. Looking at Europeans 65 or older who aren’t working, there are 42 for every 100 workers, and this will rise to 65 per 100 by 2060, the European Union’s data agency says. By comparison, the U.S. has 24 nonworking people 65 or over per 100 workers.
“Western European governments are close to bankruptcy because of the pension time bomb,” said Roy Stockell, head of asset management at Ernst & Young. “We have so many baby boomers moving into retirement [with] the expectation that the government will provide.”
The demographic squeeze could be eased by the influx of more than a million migrants in the past year. If many of them eventually join the working population, the result could be increased tax revenue to keep the pension model afloat. Before migrants are even given the right to work, however, they require housing, food, education and medical treatment. Their arrival will have effects on public finances that officials have only started to assess.
A Growing Mismatch
The pension squeeze doesn’t follow the familiar battle lines of the eurozone crisis, which pits Europe’s more prosperous north against a higher-spending, deeply indebted south. Some of the governments facing the toughest demographic challenges, such as Austria and Slovenia, have been among those most critical of Greece.
Germans, meanwhile, “are promoting fiscal rules in Spain and other countries, but we are softening the pension rules” at home, said Christoph Müller, a German academic who advises the EU on pension statistics. He pointed to a recent change allowing some workers to collect benefits two years early, at 63. A German labor ministry spokesman called that “a very limited measure.”
Europe’s state pension plans are rife with special provisions. In Germany, employees of the government make no pension contributions. In the U.K., pensioners get an extra winter payment for heating. In France, manual laborers or those who work night shifts, such as bakers, can start their benefits early without penalty.
Across Europe, the birthrate has fallen 40% since the 1960s to around 1.5 children per woman, according to the United Nations. In that time, life expectancies have risen to roughly 80 from 69.
In 2012, the Polish government launched a series of changes in its main national pension plan to make it more affordable. One was a gradual rise in the age to receive benefits. It will reach 67 by 2040, marking an increase of 12 years for women and seven for men. The changes mean the main pension plan now is financially sustainable, said Jacek Rostowski, a former finance minister and architect of the overhaul.
The party that enacted the changes lost an election in October, however, and a central promise of the winning party is to undo them. Recently, Poland’s president introduced a bill to reverse some of the measures. “You have to take care of people, of their dignity, not finances,” said Krzysztof Jurgiel, agriculture minister in the current Law & Justice Party government.
The implication is that Germany, Italy, Spain, France et al are functionally bankrupt, apparently (amazingly) by choice. They saw the avalanche coming decades ago and instead of getting out of the way or reinforcing their chalets, simply sat there watching the snow roll down the mountain. It will be arriving shortly, and they’re still debating what — if anything — to do about it.
In fact the only thing that can be reasonably described as preparation is the decision to ramp up immigration. This might have worked if Europe had chosen more compatible immigrants, but that’s a subject for a different column. For now let’s focus on insanely stupid choice number one, which is to offer entitlements with no funding mechanism other than future tax revenue. If an insurance company or corporate pension plan did something like that its executives would be led away in handcuffs — rightfully so, since the essence of such deferred-payout entities is an account that starts small and grows to sufficient size as its beneficiaries begin to need it.
So what the Europeans have aren’t actually pensions, but a form of election fraud designed to give an entire generation of politicians the ability to offer free money to voters without consequence.
Soon, a whole continent will be left with no choice but to devalue its currency to hide the magnitude of its mismanagement. The math will work like this: devalue the euro by 50% while raising pension payouts by 20%, thus cutting the real burden significantly — while taking credit for the nominal benefit increase at election time. It might work, based on the level of voter credulity displayed so far.
Now here’s where it gets really interesting. The US “trust funds” that have been created to guarantee Social Security and Medicare are full of Treasury bonds, the interest on which is paid from — you guessed it — taxes levied each year on US citizens. So the only real difference between the European pay-as-you-go and US trust fund models is that the former is more honest.
This is why gold bugs and other sound money people are so certain that precious metals will soon be a lot more valuable. The pension numbers are catastrophic everywhere and the reckoning that was once merely inevitable is now imminent. Europe is a little further along demographically and so might have to devalue its currency first, but $80 trillion in unfunded Medicare liabilities can’t be denied. We’ll be following along shortly. | <urn:uuid:16dd20d2-4868-419c-933a-e2ded652e7bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dollarcollapse.com/how-stupid-do-you-have-to-be-to-let-this-happen/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956258 | 1,317 | 2.703125 | 3 |
What Is a Cash Sheet?
A Cash Sheet is a document that records payments and transactions made in cash. Usually prepared by small businesses, this document allows you to not lose track of your money – unlike credit card payments, cash payments are easily lost or forgotten – and streamline your cash balance.
- Cash Count Sheet;
- Cash Balance Sheet.
A proper Cash Balance Sheet is a crucial document for any company that carries out its transactions in the form of cash. There are several reasons to compose and manage a Cash Sheet:
- Get a financial record of all the cash transactions that the company has entered into during the day.
- Save money – if you prepare a Cash Sheet yourself, you do not have to seek a professional to do it for you for the accounting fee.
- Avoid writing checks for operations that involve small amounts of money – if you maintain documentation of all cash payments, you work faster.
- Find cash discrepancies and what leads to them. For instance, the business may deal with theft or mistakes in calculations. In this case, the owner or manager will be able to analyze the Cash Sheet and figure out the causes of the shortage.
If you’re looking for a sample Cash Sheet template you can browse our library of forms through the links below.
There is a similar document you should compose, especially if you need to review your bills and monitor payments, some of them made in cash – a Bill Tracker. With a Bill Tracker, you will see the whole picture – all the monthly and yearly bills, amounts you owe, and their due dates.
What Is a Daily Cash Sheet?
A Daily Cash Sheet (or Daily Cash Report) is a written statement prepared each day to indicate daily cash totals at the beginning and the end of every business day. It can serve as a reference when comparing two days of business operations – you can see which items bought with cash are in demand, you will be able to control major cash transactions, and monitor the activity of your employees, in particular cashiers.
There are two ways to compose a Daily Cash Sheet to keep a record of your cash transactions:
- Write down the current date on the page of the form. Draft a table of five columns - cash on hand (at the beginning of the day), number of daily sales (plus their short description if you need it), the cash you were paid, the cash you paid, and total cash left at the end of the day.
- Create a more elaborate Cash Count Sheet if you need to count different forms of cash for your records - strapped bills, loose bills, rolled coins, and loose coins. Specify their types (dollars, half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies for coins and hundreds, fifties, twenties, tens, fives, and dollars for bills) and calculate their total amount in separate sections or small tables. Add the amounts and check your register or drawer to make sure the actual cash and its written amount are equal.
Related Templates and Topics:
When operating a business, it is important to use this type of template to understand what money you are expecting to receive in the coming weeks or months and how that money is used.
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Under English law, the position has always been that all documents, correspondence and other materials relevant to a case (both favourable and adverse) are disclosable, unless a narrow exception such as ‘privilege’ applies.
Historically, disclosure in court litigation takes place when legal pleadings are closed. The new rules on disclosure now require disclosure of documents at a much earlier stage.
The Volcafe case is important to the question of “who has the burden of proving what” when damage occurs to cargo during carriage. The Supreme Court analysed the relevance of the English common law of bailment, the burden of proof under the Hague and Hague-Visby Rules (the Hague Rules) and the interplay between a carrier’s duties and the defences/exceptions available to the carrier under the Hague Rules.
Although the rules on disclosure in arbitration proceedings remain unchanged, the Volcafe case could have an impact on how arbitrations are run as the decision brings in a shift in the parties’ burdens of proof.
The content of this article is for general information only. It is not, and should not be taken as, legal advice. If you require any further information in relation to this article please contact the author in the first instance. Law covered as at May 2019. | <urn:uuid:70712621-162b-4021-9bda-1b7ab5c946a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.birketts.co.uk/legal-update/the-new-rules-on-disclosure-and-volcafe/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94108 | 271 | 1.570313 | 2 |
This is a quiz in the language of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos, which was used in four previous Mystery Hunt puzzles:
- The Realm of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
- The Road Signs of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
- Son of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
- Grandson of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
What was known of the language prior to the current puzzle is compiled in the Dictionary and Grammar linked to on the puzzle page.
Each section of the quiz consists of a fill-in-the-blank question, three circles (blue, purple, and red) containing squares into which the answer may be written, and an instruction saying which circle to put the answer into. The quiz includes the following new vocabulary, which must be deduced:
|Part of speech||Word||Translation (exact wording may vary)|
|to||write one's answer in a circle of that color (used in compounds)|
|zefolu||write one's answer in a purple circle|
and reads as follows:
|Part of Quiz||Quiz Text||Translation||Answer||Translation||Circle||Letters and Indices|
|Intro||Ugoky zi molden fufa at, omy na ganmi zo moldan. (Ugokyr zi drel fufa at wy bleg fufa at.) Apugerl zi ganmi zo. (Imy pugal zi gamo ot, bry omylip paidagogos zo fi?)||You will use a green pen, so your answers are green. (You will not use a black pen or a blue pen.) You will not erase your answers. (If you erase an answer, how will your teacher see it?)|
|KASU-ARKHETYPON: Tylorp di kasu-komaza-mosa-kosmos-panta-Douglas-Adams, ky na gamo fo "ram-ram-ram-ram-ram-_".||EXAMPLE QUESTION: I do not know Douglas Adams's ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, but its answer is "8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + _".||AM (supplied in blue circle)||2||A||M|
|Instruction 1||(Oti-blag.)||(Write your answer in the circle that is blue.)||blue||43||15|
|Question 2||Nickelodeonre (lony rusema programma fa), _ Dora; trido onyma-programma fa fi.||On Nickelodeon (before her program died), Dora _; her program's name said it.||FIGOLEDA||explored||F||xi|
|Instruction 2||(Oti-wudo-kibisis-Dora.)||(Write your answer in the circle that is Dora's knapsack's color.)||purple||37||3||35||45||7||26||18||22|
|Question 3||Imy tokarl zi rozu ut, wy pugal zi rozu zu, na papyros zo _ papyros ot (wudore).||If you do not write a text, or you erase your text, your paper is a _ paper (colorwise).||NASTI||white||N||iii|
|Instruction 3||(Oti-wudo-prasu-zoma-Pentekontapolis.)||(Write your answer in the circle that is the US flag's stripe-color.)||red||20||9||42||2||30|
|Question 4||Plaguz "zefolu di" "tokal di gamo do omy wum (moldin) gamo do _ fogu ut".||"I [zefolu]" means "I write my answer so my (green) answer wears a _ ring".||PODOLYG (BLYG and SULDY are too short)||purple||i|
|Instruction 4||(Uzefoly.)||([Imperative of zefolu].)||purple||23||11||8||38||17||34||25|
|Question 5||Tokela Madonna py Mirwais Ahmadzaï "Tylorp _ Di"; gefomena Madonna fi "Mosa-Pentekontapolis"re. (Nar gamo zo "dulo".)||Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï wrote "_ Doesn't Know Me"; Madonna sang it on "American Life". (Your answer is not "body".)||STIR||(not) anybody [used with negative verbs]||S||T||ix|
|Instruction 5||(Oti-wudo-Madonna-Børns.)||(Write your answer in the circle that is Børns's Madonna's color.)||blue||5||49||13||44|
|Question 6||"_"re, na Dullo-ge Trekkie at, py na fi zopa-wudo, py na komazi logos fo (lony rusam fi) "pazo[sto]"; nea komazi papyros fo ainigma-Agra-Mysterion-MIT at.||In "_", Mr. Boddy is a Trekkie, and he is colorblind, and his last word (before he dies) is "shi[rt]"; its last page was an MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle.||TULOLA-GOBU (the puzzle is the 2008 puzzle above, which claimed to be the last page of a story with that title)||blood-enthusiast||T||v|
|Instruction 6||(Oti-"wudo-pozosto"-rhesis-komaza-Dullo-ge.)||(Write your answer in Mr. Boddy's last speech's "shirt color".)||red||12||48||33||16||27||19||39||1||32||24|
|Question 7||Tokela Alex Haley "Rozu-Mosa-Lapa-Malcolm-_" (ky nera "Alex Haley" onyma-fufa at).||Alex Haley wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm _" (but "Alex Haley" wasn't a pen name).||ZUDU||X||vi|
|Instruction 7||(Oti-wudo-zoma-Andrew-Hagios.)||(Write your answer in the circle that is Saint Andrew's flag's color.)||blue||29||6||46||40|
The letters that go into the boxes with Roman numerals (which are placed the same in each circle for a given question) spell out (in order by numeral):
Note that the numeral vii is unused, forming a space between two words; replacing each question mark in the question with one word, we get:
PLAGUZ "BIOI" "_".
"BIOI" means "_".
BIOI is Greek for "lives"; the answer is thus the native Chaotic word for "lives," which would be MONSE (plural of MOSA).
All the letters in boxes, ordered by Arabic numeral (which are placed differently in the circles for a given question) spell out:
Again, some numerals are unused, forming spaces between words; replacing each question mark in the instruction with one word, we get:
OTI-SULDA; OTI-MOLDAN; APUGEL ZI BLYG FOGU-SAROD UT.
Write your answer in the circle that is red; write your answer in the circle that is green; you will erase a blue quarter-circle.
Step by step, this produces the results shown here:
- The word MONSE in green is written in the red circle.
- The word MONSE in green is written in the only green circle present — the O from the MONSE written in 1.
- One quarter of the blue circle is removed, leaving an incomplete circle.
Then reading the innermost symbols across (taking the incomplete blue circle as C and the complete purple circle as O) gives the answer: COMMON SENSE. | <urn:uuid:44f0e471-7ab4-49dd-9752-265461e67dec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://puzzles.mit.edu/2022/puzzle/midterm-of-unspeakable-chaos/solution/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.726919 | 2,243 | 2.15625 | 2 |
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