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EMERY SCHOOL BLACK 1882-1958 was on the west side of Emery Road which is to the west of Lascassas Road, between Osborne and Compton Roads. The school was in the Emery community and next to the Emery Methodist Church which still holds services as of 1986.
On November 11, 1882, Trustees of Emery Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, William Rucker and Robert Black, deeded to School Directors M. Pitts, J. C. Sanders, and Joseph Bowling one-half acre of land. On May 1, 1923, Charlie Nelson and wife Carrie deeded to the County Board of Education one acre.
The original one-room school building was replaced by another one-room school. The second was frame with front and back doors and pained glass windows at the back.
Another room with no outside door but with two windows was later added to the front north side of the building to make it L-shaped. After 1956 an old house with one window and a tin roof was moved behind the original room and was connected to it by a breezeway. It served as a kitchen.
This second school became a Rosenwald school.
Teachers known to have taught in the first one-room school were Ben Woods, Al Black, and Nannie Watkins. Some of those who taught in the second school were Lillian Jordan, Professor Willie Lyons, Lillie Belle Sanders Whitaker, and Mrs. J. R. Patterson. Nannie George Flowers Rucker and Susie Avent were the first to teach in the two-teacher school. Others were Mrs. Roberts from Georgia, Helena Alexander, Annie Rucker Zachary, and Cora North.
Students were from the families of the community.
Outside of the regular curricula, the pupils enrolled in the Blue Ribbon Program through which they received inoculation shots, learned to bathe and brush their teeth regularly, and even wrote to Dr. Salk who answered their letter. They made favors for the hospital through the Red Cross and participated in a hot lunch program. Georgia Anna Rucker, who had no children in the school and who received no salary for her work, walked five
miles each day to cook potatoes on a pot-bellied stove. Parents furnished the butter.
Upon the recommendation of County School Superintendent Bealer Smotherman to the Southern Association, Nannie Rucker was chosen to appear before a committee in Washington on April 21, 1947. On April 22, The Knoxville News Sentinel reported:
“Top educators and teachers from one-room county schoolhouses . . . appeared before a Subcommittee of the Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee to endorse a bill by four Republican and four Democratic
Senators to furnish up to $250,000 in Federal grants annually for three years to help the states improve educational facilities. One of the sponsors is Committee Chairman Robert A. Taft.”
The three teacher experts who testified a need of such a grant were Mrs. Flora Harriman of Hampden, Maine, Authelia Gumm of Summerville, Kentucky, and Nannie Rucker of Rutherford County, Tennessee.
In addition to press notices carried in newspapers nation-wide by both the United Press and the Associated Press, Nannie Rucker received letters of congratulation from R. B. Marston, Director of Legislative-Federal Relations
Division, NEA; T. D. Martin, Director of Membership, NEA; A. D. Holt, Secretary-Treasurer of TEA; R. E. Clay, State Developer of Negro Education, Tenn. Department of Education; W. S. Davis, President of A and I College, Nashville; and W. E. Turner, Division of Negro Education of the State
Department of Education.
Nannie Rucker also received personal letters from Mrs. Flora Harriman and Mrs. Anne J. Brown of Dylestown, Pennsylvania, who sent one dollar in contribution via The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin in which paper she suggested a drive to solicit dollars for Nannie Rucker.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ely, who owned a clothing store and later furnished new clothing for the students, organized a “Nannie Rucker Day’ in Doylestown. In 1983 Nannie Rucker received a large plaque with her picture on it from the World Who’s Who of Women, International Biographical Center, Cambridge, England, for “Distinguished Achievement.”
On January 27, 1958 EMERY SCHOOL along with GLADEVIEW BLACK and SHILOH BLACK were consolidated in the new SHILOH SCHOOL BLACK.
On August 28, 1958, the Rutherford County School Commission sold to Johnny Matthews and Della S. Brown two tracts of land containing one acre and 42/100 acre, the EMERY SCHOOL property. Johnny Matthews converted the school into a house which later burned.
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Pay after Taxes is $886; Thinks of Becoming a Maid,” The Knoxville News Sentinel, April 22, 1947. “‘One Room’ Teachers Testify on Senate School Aid Bill,” The Washington Post, date unknown. Clipping. *R. T. Butler, d. April 5, *Nannie George Flowers Smith Rucker. | <urn:uuid:a28edd89-dd22-4481-ba6d-bcb781e63c29> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rutherfordtnhistory.org/emery-school-black-1882-1958/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961773 | 1,170 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Part – 3 – MS Excel tutorial Case Study
Transcript For The Video – MS Excel Tutorial Case Study
Video on “MS Excel tutorial” – Hello Friends in order to learn the basic excel functionalities we will use the situational case study let us start by assuming that u have been hired by this company xyz in the human resource department and the basic first task that has been given to you is to analyze the over all salary structure or the list of employees males female etc. and come up with some kind of insights now these insights may be clearly defined or may not be clearly defined some of the insights which probably we can think of right now could be how many male employees are there in xyz company how many female employees are in xyz company what is the maximum salary of an employee other question can be what is the minimum salary of an employee how many number of employees are there in the firm how many IT support employees what is the average salary let say among males what is the average salary among females these are some of the basic questions that u may ask yourself while you analyze this list of employees now the idea of doing such kind of analysis is that all this analysis can be done by looking at this table it self however if u have to really make an efficient use of your time you have to really master excel. Mastering excel would mean that first and foremost, the first step would be to take this data which we have to an excel sheet, and there we can do as many analysis as we want by using excel functionalities, so the first step would be to master data entry in excel, and that is what we are going to learn in our next video.
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Apex Predator of the Morrison Formation
Little is known about Saurophaganax maximus, the Theropod dinosaur that bullied the Allosaurus fragilis out of a meal of Camptosaurus in one of the episodes of the BBC television series “Planet Dinosaur”. The very few fossils ascribed to this genus were dug up in the 1930s but they were not properly studied and assessed until sixty years later.
An Illustration of Saurophaganax
Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur
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Notre Dame Sigma Beta
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Charter Date March 24, 1963
Chapter No. 75
Advisor Dr. Svetlana Neretina
During the fall of 1962, interest in Pi Tau Sigma was aroused among the highly ranked junior and senior mechanical engineering students by Dr. Edward Jerger, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. This group then petitioned the National Council of Pi Tau Sigma for a chapter to be installed at the University of Notre Dame. When word was received that a chapter would be installed, officers were elected for the forthcoming semester.
The petition was approved. and the Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter was officially installed on March 24, 1963 by National Officers E. Kent Springer, President, Erwin C. Hoelscher, Vice-President and James W. Bayne, Secretary-Treasurer.
In order to promote the high ideals of Pi Tau Sigma, the Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter plans future projects which will help advance the engineering profession.
ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORTS
2021-2022 Ashley Newbold, President
Twenty-five new members were inducted into the Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter of Pi Tau Sigma this year. For the past few years, the Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter has been involved in a program called MathCounts. MathCounts is a national mathematics competition for middle school students. The event was held in the Hesburgh library on Notre Dame’s campus and 4 middle schools in the surrounding area participated. 12 chapter members volunteered at the event. Pi Tau Sigma members participated by grading math exams throughout the day and entering the scores into the MathCounts site online. Pi Tau Sigma members were also involved in tutoring for sophomore level mechanical engineering courses throughout the year. Members tutored in both thermodynamics and mechanics II/dynamics regularly.
2020-2021 Miranda Roberson, President
The Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter held several events during the 2020-2021 academic year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The first event of the year was our Fall Initiation which was held virtually. During this ceremony, 18 students who demonstrated academic excellence were inducted into the chapter. Four additional students were inducted in a make-up ceremony as well. Also, the chapter implemented a new voluntary tutoring program for mechanical engineering students. Several chapter members participated, helping underclassmen with mechanical engineering classes such as Differential Equations, Dynamics, Solid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics. Students were able to meet virtually, and tutors were able to provide insightful guidance for students despite not meeting in person. The plan is to communicate with the Notre Dame Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department to make this program a long-term resource for mechanical engineering students. Additionally, every year, the Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter participates in a local middle school math competition, MathCounts, volunteering as graders. This event allows for our chapter to get involved with students in the South Bend community and encourage younger students to be excited about math. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this competition was unable to be held in person, but the entire chapter looks forward to continuing this rewarding tradition next year.
2019-2020 Amanda Bono, President
The Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma hosted various events during the 2019-2020 academic year. Our Fall Initiation was the first event of the year, where we inducted 23 new members who demonstrated academic excellence in the mechanical engineering major. The Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter volunteers every year for a middle school mathematics competition called MathCounts to give back to the South Bend community. During this event, members of the chapter acted as graders for the various rounds of competition in which challenging math problems were presented to students. This is a favorite event among members since it serves our local schools and promotes enthusiasm for mathematics among younger students in the surrounding community. Additionally, our chapter holds an annual guest speaker event in which a popular mechanical engineering professor is invited to come and speak to members about a specific area of research, their experiences in industry, or about what it means to be a mechanical engineer in today’s society in general. We have always had very positive responses to this event in the past and planned to hold it in the spring semester, but unfortunately it was not able to be held this year due to the sudden end of the in-person school year. We were able to remotely hold elections for our new officers and look forward to them continuing with the organization next year!
2018-2019 Bianca Jurewicz, President
The Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma hosted several events this academic year, 2018-2019. The first event was our annual Fall Initiation, which saw the organization induct 35new members. For our service to the community, Pi Tau Sigma served as volunteer graders for a local middle school mathematics contest called MathCounts. The members graded 5 different rounds of mathematics problems challenging the young people of South Bend as the local grade schools competed against each other. Some members also volunteered an extra day to allow more schools to participate in the competition and promote excitement of math among the younger generation. In our efforts to help the professional development of our members, the Sigma Beta chapter hosted a guest speaker event with Professor Michael Stanisic. He shared about his experience in undergraduate education, his doctoral work, his experiences applying for various jobs as a professor. For an element of fun, he also spoke about his fascination of automobiles from the 50’s and 60’s. This was a great chance for Pi Tau Sigma members considering further education to learn about their options and post-grad work entails as well as allowing the professor to give a lecture on a subject he finds fascinating. Another meeting was held in the first week of April for the junior members to speak with the seniors about advice on which classes to take and mentor one another. | <urn:uuid:0050eb0a-7522-46c7-8dd9-8858924aa9e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pitausigma.org/index.php/%CE%A0T%CE%A3%20CHAPTERS/Notre%20Dame%20Sigma%20Beta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974257 | 1,206 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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RAD gene family analysis in cotton provides some key genes for flowering and stress tolerance in upland cotton G. hirsutum
BMC Genomics volume 23, Article number: 40 (2022)
RADIALIS (RAD), belongs to the MYB gene family and regulates a variety of functions including floral dorsoventral asymmetry in Antirrhinum majus and development of fruit proteins in Solanum lycopersicum. RAD genes contain an SNF2_N superfamily domain. Here, we comprehensively identified 68 RAD genes from six different species including Arabidopsis and five species of cotton.
Phylogenetic analysis classified RAD genes into five groups. Gene structure, protein motifs and conserved amino acid residues indicated that GhRAD genes were highly conserved during the evolutionary process. Chromosomal location information showed that GhRAD genes were distributed unevenly on different chromosomes. Collinearity and selection pressure analysis indicated RAD gene family expansion in G. hirsutum and G. barbadense with purifying selection pressure. Further, various growth and stress related promotor cis-acting elements were observed. Tissue specific expression level indicated that most GhRAD genes were highly expressed in roots and flowers (GhRAD2, GhRAD3, GhRAD4 and GhRAD11). Next, GhRAD genes were regulated by phytohormonal stresses (JA, BL and IAA). Moreover, Ghi-miRN1496, Ghi-miR1440, Ghi-miR2111b, Ghi-miR2950a, Ghi-miR390a, Ghi-miR390b and Ghi-miR7495 were the miRNAs targeting most of GhRAD genes.
Our study revealed that RAD genes are evolutionary conserved and might be involved in different developmental processes and hormonal stress response. Data presented in our study could be used as the basis for future studies of RAD genes in cotton.
MYB gene family members mainly regulate apoptosis, cell differentiation and proliferation. A- MYB, B- MYB and C-MYB are three groups of MYB gene family . These three groups are largely present in vertebrates, fungi, slime molds and insects [2, 3]. For the very first time, MYB gene C1 was isolated from maize and found to regulate biosynthesis of anthocyanin . MYB proteins play a key role in different developmental processes including trichome differentiation, biosynthesis of anthocyanin and flavonoids, floral symmetry, cell proliferation and control of cell cycles [5, 6]. In Antirrhinum majus, two dorsal petals of zygomorphic flowers were larger than ventral and lateral ones with single aborted stamen . RADIALIS (RAD) belongs to MYB gene family. RAD is involved in creating the dorsal identity and regulating the domain activity of DIVIRICATA (DIV) (another transcription factors of MYB gene family) by restricting it to ventral regions of the flower . RAD and DIV, interact with each other and control dorsoventral asymmetry of flowers .
In Arabidopsis, RAD and DIV gene families have 198 paralogs and they largely contribute in determining orthology across taxa. MYB genes contained three alpha helices. RAD and DIV have 64 members in Arabidopsis and are further classified into five subgroups. Among five subgroups, RAD falls in the I-box-like subgroup while R-R-type subgroups include DIV. RAD was the result of loss of the second MYB domain of DIV . First two helices of RAD share more similarity with the N terminal MYB domain of DIV as compared to third helix and third helix include DNA binding domain of both RAD and DIV .
RAD5, is a member of Snf2 helicase family, encodes two domains including RING-finger domain and HIRAN domain. In yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), RAD5 is the key component in the RAD5-dependent error free branch of postreplication repair. AtRAD5a and AtRAD5b share significant identity to RAD5 of yeast. AtRAD5a and AtRAD5b encodes same domain and these two genes have significant similarities with each other as compared to RAD5 of yeast. However, both AtRAD5a and AtRAD5b differ in their function . On the basis of epistatic analysis, yeast DNA repair genes can be classified into three different groups, including RAD3, RAD52 and RAD6 groups. RAD3 group control nucleotide excision repair and also eliminate DNA damages caused by ultraviolet radiation . However, the RAD52 group mainly functions in the repair of double-strand breaks induced by ionizing radiation and RAD6 group overcomes damages of DNA replication and also arrest replication forks . These DNA repair groups encodes members of the DNA helicase-like-SNF2-gene family . SNF2 family members undergo three main functions including binding of specific proteins to chromatin, destabilization of nucleosome structure and alteration of contact points between DNA and proteins [16, 17].
Cotton is an economic crop of the world and provides raw materials for the textile industry and edible oils . G. hirsutum and G. barbadense are the two allotetraploid species of cotton and provide fiber, seed oil and protein meal to the industry . G. hirsutum is famous for its high yield and moderate fiber qualities, while G. barbadense is important for superior quality fibers and accounts for 3% of the world’s cotton production . Although some RAD genes have been previously reported in model organisms Arabidopsis and yeast, the function of RAD gene family in cotton has not been reported. In the present research, we systematically identified RAD genes in six different species and analyze their phylogenetic relationship, exon and intron structure, conserved protein motifs, biophysical properties, cis-acting elements of promoter regions, sequence logos, chromosomal localization, collinearity and miRNA target sites. Present study will increase our understanding about RAD gene family and provide insight into the molecular mechanisms of RADs in different Gossypium species.
Identification of RAD genes in Gossypium species
In this study we used different bioinformatic analysis to identify RAD genes in various plant species. We identified 17 RAD genes in G. hirsutum, 16 genes in G. barbadense, eight genes each in G. herbaceum and G. arboreum and nine genes in G. raimondii. Furthermore, we also identified 10 RAD genes in Arabidopsis. SMART (http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/), PROSITE (http://prosite.expasy.org/) and InterProscan 63.0 (http: //www.ebi.ac.uk/interpro/) were used for confirmation of RAD genes in different species. We found that among all the selected plant species, G. hirsutum had the highest number of RAD genes (Table S1) elucidating that during hybridization, GhRAD genes underwent polyploidization and experienced significant dupli- cation events. The biophysical properties of the GhRAD genes including number of amino acids, chromosomal position, isoelectric point, molecular weight, grand average of hydropathicity and protein localization were observed (Table S2). The number of amino acids of GhRAD proteins range from 885 (GhRAD1) to 1374 (GhRAD13). The isoelectric point (pI) of GhRAD genes range from 5.26 (GhRAD14) to (9.04) (GhRAD8). Molecular weight ranges from 76561.78 Da (GhRAD11) to 151381.67 Da (GhRAD13). Moreover, predicted subcellular localization indicated that out of 17 GhRAD genes 16 genes were located in the nucleus while only one gene was located in the cytoplasm.
Phylogenetic analysis, structural features, conserved domain and motifs analysis of GhRAD genes
To study the phylogenetic relationships of RAD gene family, 68 genes from six plant species were used to create a phylogenetic tree (Fig. 1). RAD genes were classified into five clades with 24 members in RAD-a clade, nine members in RAD-b, 14 members in RAD-c while RAD-d and RAD-e contained 18 and two members respectively. RAD-a with maximum number of genes contained RAD proteins from all six plant species while RAD-e, the smallest clade contained two genes from G. hirsutum and G. raimondii. All five clades contained genes from six species except RAD-e and one gene of Arabidopsis (AtRAD6) did not fall in any clade. Moreover, we created another phylogenetic tree to explore the evolutionary relationship between G. hirsutum and Arabidopsis (Fig. S1). Phylogenetic tree divided 17 G. hirsutum and 10 Arabidopsis RAD genes into three clades. Rad-c was the largest clade with 12 members, while Rad-b was the smallest one with four members. GhRAD9 did not fall in any clade, demonstrating that this genes was dissimilar from each other and it has some special function in species evolution.
Next to study the structural features of GhRADs, we analyzed the exon and intron structure, conserved domain and motifs using the GSDS program and MEME tool respectively. Multiple numbers of exons in GhRAD genes ranging from 3 to 24 were observed (Fig. S2). Maximum number of exons were present in GhRAD9 while GhRAD8 had minimum number of exons. Similarly, GhRAD9 contained the highest number of introns while GhRAD16 contained two introns. Number of introns ranged from 2 to 23 for GhRAD genes. GhRAD11 had the longest genomic sequence of more than 8 kb while GhRAD16 had the shortest genomic sequence of 4 kb. Next, we analyzed the conserved domain of GhRAD proteins. Results of conserved domain analysis showed that all GhRAD proteins contain SNF2_N superfamily domain (Fig. S3). Furthermore, we analyzed the motif distribution pattern of GhRADs and found that ten conserved motifs were identified in GhRAD proteins (Fig. S4). Results indicated that GhRAD genes had conserved gene structure and protein motif distribution pattern although the process of gene duplication took place a long time ago during evolution.
Chromosomal position information and synteny analysis
Chromosomal position of GhRADs exhibited that 17 GhRADs were distributed unevenly to 11 chromosomes. Out of 17 genes, six genes were mapped on At sub-genome, while nine GhRAD genes were mapped on Dt subgenome and two genes were present in the form of scaffolds (Fig. S5). This uneven distribution pattern of GhRAD genes on chromosomes illustrated the presence of genetic variability during the evolutionary process. More deeper insights showed that the maximum number of genes were mapped on chromosome D02. Most chromosomes contained a single GhRAD gene and no gene was located on chromosome A02 and A04 of At sub-genome as well as chromosome D03 of Dt sub-genome.
Collinearity analysis between orthologs of At and Dt sub genomes revealed that the different GhRAD and GbRAD loci showed significantly conserved pattern among At and Dt sub-genomes (Fig. 2 A and B and Table S3, S4). Our results indicated that At and Dt sub-genomes are orthologous in the A genome (G. arboreum) or D genome (G. raimondii). Upland cotton (G. hirsutum) was produced after hybridization between G. arboreum and G. raimondii. In our study, 112 and 15 orthologous/paralogous gene pairs were identified in G. hirsutum and G. barbadense respectively.
Ka/Ks ratios of GhRAD and GbRAD genes were calculated by Ka/Ks calculator 2.0 (Table S3, S4). In the course of evolution, duplicated gene pairs underwent non-functionalization, neofunctionalization and sub-functionalization . In G. hirsutum 74 gene pairs exhibited Ka/Ks values below 0.5, illustrating that GhRAD genes bear purifying selection pressure while 15 genes showed Ka/Ks ratio above 0.5 and only three genes have Ka/Ks ratio of less than 0.1. While in G. barbadense 15 genes exhibited Ka/Ks ratio of less than 0.5. Taken together, our results indicated that purification selection pressure has a great contribution in maintaining the functional divergence of GhRAD and GbRAD genes.
Sequence logos and cis-acting elements
We created the protein sequence logos of Arabidopsis, G. hirsutum and G. raimondii to reveal the conservation of RAD genes during the process of evolution. Sequence logos provide valuable information about sequence similarities of selected plant species. Results indicated that protein sequence logos were conserved among all observed plant species at most sites within and between species across the N and C terminals (Fig. 3).
Next, we identified different cis-acting elements of GhRAD genes. Process of gene expression and transcription can be well studied by analyzing the promotor cis-acting elements present in specific gene. The 17 putative GhRAD promoter regions possessed typical core cis-acting elements that were related to different phytohormones like MeJA, gibberellin, auxin, salicylic acid and abscisic acid (Fig. 4). Most of the GhRAD genes promoter shared numerous elements for plant growth and development such as seed specific regulation, meristem and endosperm expression and cell cycle regulation. Additionally, we found that many drought responsive elements, flavonoid biosynthesis, stress responsive elements, light and low temperature responsive elements, anaerobic induction, anoxic specific inducibility and wound responsive elements were also present in GhRADs promotor regions.
Expression profile of GhRAD genes in different tissues and hormonal stresses
Analysis of gene expression patterns is helpful to predict the biological functions of genes. We downloaded the RNA-seq data from NCBI. We investigated the gene expression pattern of GhRADs in various tissue samples and a heatmap was generated (Fig. S6). As shown in figure, GhRAD1 and GhRAD10 showed high transcript level in almost all selected tissues demonstrating that these two genes have multiple biological functions and they have some special functions related to fiber development while GhRAD6 and GhRAD15 were poorly expressed in some tissues showing that these two genes might be pseudo genes and have limited role in cotton growth and development. Next to validate the results of RNA-seq data, we performed qRT-PCR analysis in eight different tissues including root, leaf, stem, flower and 0, 5, 10 and 20 DPA fiber (Fig. 5). Results indicated that most of the GhRAD genes showed preferential expression in root except GhRAD11 whose expression was preferentially high in 20 DPA fiber, indicating its potential role in fiber elongation and biosynthesis of secondary cell wall. GhRAD2, GhRAD3, GhRAD4 and GhRAD11 showed high expression in flower tissues demonstrating that these RAD genes might function in reproductive development.
Next, we inspected the transcript level of GhRADs under three phytohormonal treatments (BL, JA and IAA) at 1, 3, 6 and 12 h of treatment (Fig. 6). Results revealed that most of the GhRAD genes showed up and downregulated expression patterns in different hormones with different time points. GhRAD1, GhRAD2 and GhRAD9 showed upregulated expression in all three selected phytohormonal stresses, illustrating that these genes might respond to various hormone signaling pathways. GhRAD1 showed significantly upregulated expression at 1, 3, 6 and 12 h of GA treatment, indicating its potential role in GA signaling pathway. Moreover, transcript level of GhRAD12 was preferentially high at 1, 3 and 6 h of IAA treatment, suggesting that GhRAD12 might respond positively to IAA signal. Taken together our results illustrated that GhRAD genes were important in several phytohormone signaling pathways.
Prediction of miRNA target sites
In plants, microRNAs (miRNAs) help in regulation of gene expression by activating mRNA translational repression . To explore miRNA mediated post-transcriptional regulation of GhRAD genes, coding sequences of 17 GhRAD genes for putative target sites were searched with the help of psRNATarget server. Results indicated that GhRAD1 was targeted by Ghi-miRN1438 with a site in SNF2_N superfamily domain (Fig. 7 and Table S5). Similarly, GhRAD2, GhRAD3 and GhRAD4 were targeted by Ghi-miRN1496, Ghi-miR1440 and Ghi-miR2111b respectively. Further, Ghi-miR2950a, Ghi-miR390a, Ghi-miR390b and Ghi-miR7495 regulated GhRAD9, GhRAD10, GhRAD11 and GhRAD12 respectively, with SNF2_N superfamily domain. These results suggested that GhRAD genes can be regulated by different miRNAs.
Cotton is an important economic crop of the world and contributes largely to the textile industry. Different gene families such as GGPPS , LOG , BES1 , GH3 , GSK , GATL , GhPHD and GhAA1 have been identified in cotton, but there is no published research about RAD gene family in cotton. Previous studies reported that RAD51 participate in DNA repair, homologous recombination and genome stability. Members of the recA_RAD51 family perform functions that have differentiated during evolution . Human RAD51 is a homologue of the Escherichia coli RecA protein and function in recombinational repair of double-stranded DNA breaks. Mutations of RAD51 reduce repair of double-stranded DNA breaks. Loss of RAD51 function result in an elevated mutation rate and accumulation of DNA damage therefore increase risk of cancer in human . In Antirrhinum, RADIALIS gene is associated with regulation of floral asymmetry . Induction of recessive mutation in RADIALIS gene produce symmetrical floral morphology. The Arabidopsis RAD gene family contains four members, including RSM1, RSM2, RSM3 and RSM4, RADIALIS-LIKE SANT/MYB 1–4). Arabidopsis RAD-like (RSM) genes might function in developmental process that is not necessarily relevant to the floral architecture .
Gossypium genus contain 45 diploid and six tetraploid species [36, 37]. Two allotetraploid species including, G. hirsutum and G. barbadense arisen through interspecific hybridization of A and D genome progenitors . Polyploidy occurred around 1–2 million years ago and produced allotetraploid species . G. hirsutum and G. barbadense are the two oldest allotetraploid species of cotton . Here, we comprehensively identified RAD genes in different plant species to identify the diverse functions of RAD gene family during the process of plant growth and development. Our study will provide basic information about biological and functional mechanisms and could be helpful for further research of RAD gene family in different cotton species.
GhRAD genes show evolutionary conservation
In this study, we identified RAD genes from Arabidopsis and five Gossypium species. Interestingly, the number of GhRAD genes was higher as compared to GaRAD and GrRAD genes, possibly because G. hirsutum is an allotetraploid crop resulting from hybridization of A and D genome progenitors. In upland cotton, both At and Dt sub-genome donors are orthologous relatives, leading to the GhRAD gene duplication . Because of duplication and doubling of GhRAD genes, the numbers of GhRAD genes were equal to the total number of GaRAD and GrRAD genes. Phylogenetic analysis naturally classified RAD genes into five clades from RAD-a to RAD-e with 24 genes in RAD-a clade and two genes in RAD-e clade. Most of the RAD genes from diploids and allotetraploids were distributed closely in the phylogenetic tree, indicating that tetraploid cotton was produced after the hybridization of A and D genomes progenitors. From the phylogenetic tree we observed that RAD-a, RAD-b and RAD-d clades were ancient groups containing RAD genes from all selected plant species. Whereas, RAD-e clade might be more advanced containing RAD genes from only two selected plant species including G. hirsutum and G. raimondii, however, RAD-c clade lacks the genes from Arabidopsis.
Analysis of sequence logos of G. hirsutum, G. raimondii and Arabidopsis also supported these findings as the results of sequence logos showed significantly conserved pattern of amino acid across N and C terminals. Each conserved amino acid showed similar positions in three different species.
Interaction between transcription factors and promoter binding sites is important for gene regulation at the transcriptional level and transcriptional regulation is mainly responsible for regulation of gene expression. Different external signals activated inducible promoters and cis-acting elements in promoter regions are specific and consistent, for example, cis-acting elements of AuxRE were generally present in auxin-induced promoters regions , similarly AT-rich cis-acting elements, I-box, G-box, and GT1-motif were generally present in the light-induced promoters [43,44,45]. Likewise, CACG and CATGTG cis-acting elements were found in drought-induced promoters . In our study, we extracted the upstream promoter fragments of candidate genes. Phytohormone (IAA, SA, ABA, GA and MeJA) responsive cis-acting elements were present in GhRAD genes promotors. Previous studies have shown that phytohormones maintain the integrity of plant cell walls. MeJA mediates gene expression in responses to plant injury . Auxin regulates cell walls by induction of cell wall looseness . In strawberry, ethylene promotes fruit softening and ripening by regulating the synthesis of pectin . Stress responsive cis-acting elements help plants to respond quickly to stress and improve plant resistance to environmental stresses by activating different stress related genes. GhRAD promoter regions contain different cis-acting elements related to phyto- hormones, plant growth and development, seed specific regulation, meristem and endosperm expression and cell cycle regulation. In the present study, we found the uneven distribution of GhRADs on the chromosomes of At and Dt sub-genome. Uneven distribution of GhRAD genes indicated that during evolution and hybridization, these genes might have experienced gene duplication.
Gene structure is important to predict gene evolution . Here, we found that the number of exons ranged from 3 to 24 while the number of introns ranged from 2 to 23. We observed that length of intron is significantly different, suggesting that during functional diversification of GhRADs intron length might play major roles. It has been reported that gene structure is associated with the evolution of different plant species . The evolutionary analysis within the RAD genes showed that most of the RAD genes were greatly conserved during evolution. As RAD genes introns were not lost during evolution and at the early expansion stages of evolution, these genes diverged, whereas, over evolutionary time, other genes lost their introns , indicating that group specific genes may have similar functions. Insertion/deletion events might be the reason for structural differences of exon/intron and may help to identify different evolutionary mechanisms . Gene families with fewer number of introns are considered to be advanced gene families while gene families showing more introns have acquired some novel functions during the evolutionary process. Furthermore, motif distribution pattern of GhRAD genes was conserved indicating that the proteins with similar kind of motif distribution pattern might have some specific functions in cotton growth and development.
Diverse expression patterns of GhRADs, prediction of their miRNA target sites and selection pressure
In the recent years, different researches have been done to identify the function of RAD genes in different plant species but no research has been conducted to find the functional mechanisms of RAD genes in cotton. As our results indicated that promotor of GhRADs contain elements related to phytohormones, plant growth and development, seed specific regulation, meristem and endosperm expression and cell cycle regulation, so to check the potential regulatory functions of GhRADs during cotton growth and development, we evaluated the transcript patterns of 17 GhRAD genes using qRT-PCR. Results indicated that many GhRAD genes showed high expression in roots. However, GhRAD2, GhRAD3, GhRAD4 and GhRAD11 showed significantly high expression in flower tissues. Results indicated that GhRAD genes might be playing a positive role in root and flower development. All GhRAD genes showed poor expression in fiber development stages except GhRAD11 had relatively high expression at 20 DPA fiber.
Different research studies indicated that phytohormones respond positively to abiotic stress response . Auxin response factors (ARFs) activate auxin responsive genes and ARFs are the potential mediators that help the plants to respond to adverse environmental conditions . Ethylene response factors of AP2/ARF transcription factor family play a positive function in plant growth, disease resistance and phytohormone response . In this study, analysis of GhRADs for three different phytohormones indicated that GhRAD genes can be regulated by the exposure of phytohormones such as BL, IAA and JA. GhRAD1 and GhRAD2 showed upregulated expression for observed phytohormones, suggesting that these genes may have a positive role in phytohormones signaling.
Previous studies reported that miRNAs have significant functions in plant growth and development, regulation of cell growth and different metabolism associated with cotton fiber development and also respond to different environmental stresses including cold, heat and drought . In the past few years, different miRNAs have been identified in cotton and they are preferentially expressed in different vegetative tissues as well as during abiotic stresses [59, 60]. For instance, 32 families of miRNA were found to be differentially expressed in cotton ovules and leaves. With the help of RNA-seq data of cotton leaf and ovule, a total of 65 families of cotton miRNA have been identified . In our study we identified different GhRAD genes targeted by various miRNA. Precisely, Ghi-miRN1496, Ghi-miR1440, Ghi-miR2111b, Ghi-miR2950a, Ghi-miR390a, Ghi-miR390b and Ghi-miR7495 were the miRNAs targeting most of GhRAD genes. Our results will lay the foundation for future research about biological functions of GhRAD miRNAs and also their target sites in G. hirsutum.
Next we calculated the Ka/Ks ratios of GhRADs and GbRADs. Genes with Ka/Ks = 1.0 are considered as pseudogenes as a result of neutral selection, Ka/Ks less than1.0 demonstrates the tendency of duplicated genes for purifying selection, while Ka/Ks ratios greater than 1.0 exhibits positive selection of accelerated evolution. Ka/Ks values of most GhRAD and GbRAD were less than 1 indicating that during the long-term evolutionary process, RAD gene family experienced purifying selection pressure.
In the present study, we conducted a comprehensive genome wide analysis to identify phylogenetic relationship, sequence conservation and biological functions of RAD genes. Phylogenetic analysis divided RAD genes into five clades on the basis of sequence homology. Sequence logos, exon-intron structure, protein motifs and conserved domain analysis indicated that GhRAD genes were highly conserved during evolution with the uneven distribution on the chromosomes. Collinearity and selection pressure analysis indicated the expansion of RAD gene family in G. hirsutum and G. barbadense with purifying selection pressure. Promoter cis-acting elements analysis indicated the presence of several plant growth and stress related regulatory elements. Tissue specific expression pattern analysis of GhRAD genes indicated that some GhRAD genes showed significantly high expression in roots and flowers, except GhRAD11 had maximum expression at 20 DPA fiber. Further, GhRADs showed regulatory response under three phytohormonal stresses indicating candidate genetic material for cotton breeding against different stresses.
Identification of RAD gene family
The database of cotton species including (G. hirsutum, G. raimondii, G. arboreum, G. barbadense and G. herbaceum) were acquired from the Cotton FGD (https://cottonfgd.org/) . The Arabidopsis protein sequences of RAD genes were acquired from Arabidopsis Information Resource, version 10 (TAIR 10) (http://www.arabidopsis.org). The AtRAD genes were used as queries to identify the RAD genes in other plant species. SMART (http://smart.embl-heidelberg.de/) and Interproscan 63.0 (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/InterProScan/) were used to confirm RAD protein sequences [63, 64]. Furthermore, Pfam: (http://pfam.janelia.org/) and hidden Markov model (HMM) was used to identify the conserved domain of RADs . Moreover, to predict the biophysical properties of RAD genes, ExPASy-ProtParam tool (http://us.expasy.org/tools/protparam.html) was used. Subcellular localization was predicted by CELLO v2.5 server .
Phylogenetic analysis and sequence logos
For phylogenetic analysis of RAD gene family, Clustal W was used for multiple sequence alignment with the default settings and the phylogenetic tree was generated by iTOL with 1000 bootstrap replicates. For sequence logos, RAD proteins of Arabidopsis, G. hirsutum and G. raimondii were aligned with Clustal W and protein sequence logos were created using online software WEBLOG with default parameters .
Chromosomal location, gene structure and analysis of protein motif
Chromosomal position of GhRADs was determined by cotton genome annotation data (ftp://ftp.bioinfo.wsu.edu/species/Gossypium hirsutum/NAU-NBI_G) and extracted gff3-files was used in MapInspect software (https://mapinspect.software.informer.com/) to map genes to their corresponding chromosomes. For gene structure analysis of GhRADs, Gene Structure Display Server 2.0 (GSDS) was used (http://gsds.cbi.pku.edu.cn/index.php) . Online program MEME (http://meme-suite.org) was used to determined conserved motifs of GhRAD gene family and finally motifs were displayed by TBtools .
Promoter cis-acting elements, synteny, Ka/Ks ratio and transcriptome data analysis
For analysis of promotor cis-acting element, 2-kb upstream promotor regions were downloaded from Cotton FGD website and subjected to Plant CARE Database . During collinearity, analysis orthologous/paralogous data were obtained by the previously described methods [75, 76] and circos was used to generate the figure . Non-synonymous (Ka) and synonymous (Ks) divergence level ratios were calculated by aligning duplicated gene pair protein sequences in Clustal X 2.0, after which they were translated into complementary DNA (cDNA) sequences using the PAL2NAL program (http://www.bork.embl.de/pal2nal/). Finally, Ka and Ks values were calculated with the help of the CODEML program using the PAML package. For expression pattern analysis of GhRADs, RNA seq data (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482290/) was used and heatmap was generated by using TBtools .
Prediction of miRNA target sites of GhRAD genes
Plant MicroRNA database (http://bioinformatics.cau.edu.cn/PMRD/) , miRBase (http:// www.mirbase.org/) and the Cotton EST database (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/nucest) were used to obtain MicroRNA sequences of G. hirsutum. Predictions of miRNA target sites were done with the help of psRNATarget server (http://plantgrn.noble.org/psRNATarget/home) as described previously .
RNA extraction and RT-qPCR analysis
In this research, the CRI24 variety was used for gene expression analysis. Total RNA was extracted by collecting cotton samples from the field. For tissue specific expression pattern analysis, plant samples such as root, stem, leaf, flower and 0, 5, 1 and 20 DPA fiber were used. Similarly, for hormonal stresses, cotton seedlings were subjected to JA, BL and IAA treatment for 1, 3, 6 and 12 h. RNA extraction was done with the help of RNAprep Pure Plant Kit (Tiangen, Beijing, China), after that cDNA was synthesized by using the Prime-Script®RT reagent kit (Takara, Dalian, China). Green qPCR SuperMix was used to conduct qRT-PCR assay and GhHis3 (GenBank accession no. AF024716) was used as internal control. PCR reaction was done in three replications. Results of qRT-PCR were calculated as described previously . Primers used for RT-qPCR analysis were presented in (Table S6).
Availability of data and materials
All data used in this study are included in this article and additional files. Transcriptome data used for gene expression analysis could be downloaded from (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4482290/). The Genome sequence and annotation datasets that supported our findings are available in: A. thaliana: (http://www.arabidopsis.org), COTTON: (https://www.cottongen.org/) and Other species: (https://jgi.doe.gov/data-and-tools/phytozome/). All the genes used in this study for phylogeny and subsequent analysis are mentioned in additional file 13, table S7 and can be downloaded from Cotton FGD (https://cottonfgd.org/).
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We thank Huo Peng (Zhengzhou Research Center, Institute of Cotton Research of CAAS, Zhengzhou) for technical assistance.
This research was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31621005, 31701476).
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: Figure S1. Phylogenetic relationship between G. hirsutum and Arabidopsis. Phylogenetic tree was constructed using RAD protein sequences by iTOL software.
: Figure S2. Gene structure of GhRAD genes. Yellow boxes represent exons while black lines indicate introns.
: Figure S3. Conserved domain analysis of GhRAD proteins. Each domain was represented in different colors and their names were mentioned with color boxes.
Protein motif analysis of GhRAD proteins. Each motif was indicated with different color and phylogenetic analysis grouped GhRAD proteins according to the protein motif distribution pattern.
: Figure S5. Chromosomal distribution of GhRAD genes. MapInspect software (https://mapinspect.software.Informer.com/) was used to map genes to their corresponding chromosomes.
: Figure S6. RNA-seq data analysis of 17 GhRAD genes in root, stem, leaf, torus, petal, stamen, pistil, calycle, − 3, − 1, 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 25 and 35 DPA ovules and 5, 10, 20 and 25 DPA fiber.
: Table S1. RAD5/RAD16-like Gene Family members.
: Table S2. Biophysical properties of the GhRAD genes.
: Table S3. Orthologous.paralogous gene pairs and Ks/Ks values of GhRAD gene family members.
: Table S4. Orthologous.paralogous gene pairs and Ks/Ks values of GbRAD gene family members.
: Table S5. MicroRNA (miRNA) target sites of GhRAD genes.
: Table S6. GhRAD genes primers for qRT-PCR.
: Table S7. Proposed name of RAD gene family members.
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If you are one of those kids that loves to solve puzzles or finding your way through mazes, Pittsburgh artist Joe Wos is looking for you. That's because while he is almost done sketching what is most likely the world's largest hand-drawn maze, he cannot get into the record books until he finds someone willing to put in the 30-40 hours it will take to solve it - That is, if it is solvable at all, something the artist is only 99% certain about.
Joe, a cartoonist at ToonSeum in downtown Pittsburgh says that as a child his doodles, spread over large pieces of paper, often turned to mazes that he would proudly display on his room wall. Therefore when he recently decided that one of his life-long goals was to get into the Guinness World Records, it was the one thing he knew he could do well.
He was even more encouraged when he realized that while there were six maze records in the book, none of them were for hand-drawn ones. So, he contacted the folks at the company to see if they would consider his idea. While they agreed, they had a few conditions - The maze would have to be completely drawn by hand and at least 10 square meters (107 Square Feet). Also, to ensure that he created the entire maze solo, it had to be witnessed by least five people at regular intervals. And last but not least, the maze puzzle had to be solved by somebody.
Not envisioning any problems with the conditions, Joe began drawing his masterpiece on July 27th. Instead of using a pencil so that he could erase mistakes, he decided to challenge himself, by using a thin black sharpie and being creative with the mistakes by adding fun illustrations. Along the way, he also decided he wanted to take his giant maze on an international tour to showcase it to children and adults all over the world. So, he started to seek out sponsors - In return for the money, he incorporated their company logo or icon into his masterpiece.
The result? An intricate giant puzzle that embodies his fund-raising efforts, moods, hunger and mistakes flawlessly. Among the 100 illustrations is the famous Starkist Tuna fish ($500), some fun cartoons (just because), pancakes and steak (he was hungry) a packed car (he was impatient and wanted to leave) and a factory with an 'out of order' sign (covering up a mistake).
There is only one roadblock left to Joe's path to the record books - A solver. And for a while things looked pretty bleak. The 42-year old's rejections began at home when all three of his kids declined to even give the maze a try. His plea on Facebook yielded a similar response. He then began approaching his colleagues - While they all initially declined, he managed to convince the founder of ToonSeum to give it a shot, by pointing out that her name too would appear in the record books. Things did improve after his plight became known to the general public. There are now 20 people from all across the country that have volunteered to help out, if necassary.
If all goes well, Joe believes he will be able to cross 'Get Into the Guinness World Records' off his bucket list, by the end of the year. While that gets him excited, what would make him even more so, is if a kid took up the challenge and managed to complete the maze. That's because not only are they better at solving puzzles but also because he wants 50-year-old dad's to stop hitting their kids' shoulders and saying 'Hey look, that's a-maz-ing', and then waiting to hear them laugh at the corny joke. So, if you have 30-40 hours to spare and are up to the challenge of solving the world's largest maze puzzle, be sure to let him know, by adding your comments below!
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One of the most misunderstood and confused concept is difference between Bonding, Grounding and Earthing. Bonding is more clear word compare to Grounding and Earthing, but there is a micro difference between Grounding and Earhing. Earthing and Grounding are actually different terms for expressing the same concept.
- Introduction to ground or earth
- Micro Difference between Earthing and Grounding
- Illegal Practice of interchange Purpose of Grounding and earthing wire
Ground or earth in a mains electrical wiring system is a conductor that provides a low impedance path to the earth to prevent hazardous voltages from appearing on equipment. Earthing is more commonly used in Britain, European and most of the commonwealth countries standards (IEC, IS), while Grounding is the word used in North American standards (NEC, IEEE, ANSI, UL).
We understand that Earthing and Grounding are necessary and have an idea how to do it but we don’t have crystal clear concept for that. We need to understand that there are really two separate things we are doing for same purpose that we call Grounding or Earthing.
The grounded circuits of machines need to have an effective return path from the machines to the power source in order to function properly (Here by Neutral Circuit).
In addition, non-current-carrying metallic components in a System, such as equipment cabinets, enclosures, and structural steel, need to be electrically interconnected and earthed properly so voltage potential cannot exist between them. However, troubles can arise when terms like “bonding”, “grounding”, and “earthing” are interchanged or confused in certain situations.
In TN Type Power Distribution System, in US NEC (and possibly other) usage: Equipment is earthed to pass fault Current and to trip the protective device without electrifying the device enclosure. Neutral is the current return path for phase. These Earthing conductor and Neutral conductor are connected together and earthed at the distribution panel and also at the street, but the intent is that no current flow on earthed ground, except during momentary fault conditions.
Here we may say that Earthing and grounding are nearly same by practice.
But In the TT Type Power Distribution System (in India) Neutral is only earthed (here it is actually called Grounding) at distribution source (at distribution transformer) and Four wires (Neutral and Three Phase) are distributed to consumer. While at consumer side all electrical equipment body are connected and earthed at consumer premises (here it is called Earthing).
Consumer has no any permission to mix Neutral with earth at his premises here earthing and grounding is the different by practice.
Bonding is simply the act of joining two electrical conductors together. These may be two wires, a wire and a pipe, or these may be two Equipments. Bonding has to be done by connecting of all the metal parts that are not supposed to be carrying current during normal operations to bringing them to the same electrical potential.
Bonding ensures that these two things which are bonded will be at the same electrical potential. That means we would not get electricity building up in one equipment or between two different equipment. No current flow can take place between two bonded bodies because they have the same potential.
It protects equipment and person by reducing current flow between pieces of equipment at different potentials.
The primary reason for bonding is personnel safety, so someone touching two pieces of equipment at the same time does not receive a shock by becoming the path of equalization if they happen to be at different potentials. The Second reason has to do with what happens if Phase conductor may be touched an external metal part.
The bonding helps to create a low impedance path back to the source. This will force a large current to flow, which in turn will cause the breaker to trip.
In other words, bonding is there to allow a breaker to trip and thereby to terminate a fault.
Bonding to electrical earth is used extensively to ensure that all conductors (person, surface and product) are at the same electrical potential. When all conductors are at the same potential no discharge can occur.
Earthing means connecting the dead part (it means the part which does not carries current under normal condition) to the earth for example electrical equipment’s frames, enclosures, supports etc.
Under fault conditions the non-current carrying metal parts of an electrical installation such as frames, enclosures, supports, fencing etc. may attain high potential with respect to ground so that any person or stray animal touching these or approaching these will be subjected to potential difference which may result in the flow of a current through the body of the person or the animal of such a value as may prove fatal.
To avoid this non-current carrying metal parts of the electrical system are connected to the general mass of earth by means of an earthing system comprising of earth conductors to conduct the fault currents safely to the ground.
Earthing has been accomplished through bonding of a metallic system to earth. It is normally achieved by inserting ground rods or other electrodes deep inside earth.
Earthing is to ensure safety or Protection of electrical equipment and Human by discharging the electrical energy to the earth.
Grounding means connecting the live part (it means the part which carries current under normal condition) to the earth for example neutral of power transformer. It is done for the protections of power system equipment and to provide an effective return path from the machine to the power source.
For example grounding of neutral point of a star connected transformer.
Because of lightening, line surges or unintentional contact with other high voltage lines, dangerously high voltages can develop in the electrical distribution system wires. Grounding provides a safe, alternate path around the electrical system of your house thus minimizing damage from such occurrences.
Generally Black wire is used for this as a nomenclature.
All electrical/electronic circuits (AC & DC) need a reference potential (zero volts) which is called ground in order to make possible the current flow from generator to load. Ground is May or May not be earthed. In Electrical Power distribution it is either earthed at distribution Point or at Consumer end but it is not earthed in Automobile( for instance all vehicles’ electrical circuits have ground connected to the chassis and metallic body that are insulated from earth through tires).
There may exist a neutral to ground voltage due to voltage drop in the wiring, thus neutral does not necessarily have to be at ground potential.
In a properly balanced system, the phase currents balance each other, so that the total neutral current is also zero. For individual systems, this is not completely possible, but we strive to come close in aggregate.
This balancing allows maximum efficiency of the distribution transformer’s secondary winding.
There is no major difference between earthing and Grounding, both means “Connecting an electrical circuit or device to the Earth”. This serves various purposes like to drain away unwanted currents, to provide a reference voltage for circuits needing one, to lead lightning away from delicate equipment.
Even though there is a micro difference between grounding and earthing:
1. Difference in Terminology
In USA term Grounding is used but in UK term Earthing is used.
2. Balancing the Load Vs Safety
Ground is a source for unwanted currents and also as a return path for main current some times. While earthing is done not for return path but only for protection of delicate equipments. It is an alternate low resistance path for current.
When we take out the neutral for a three phase unbalanced connection and send it to ground, it is called grounding. Grounding is done to balance unbalanced load. While earthing is used between the equipment and earth pit so as to avoid electrical shock and equipment damage.
3. Equipment Protection Vs Human Safety
Earthing is to protect the circuit elements whenever high voltage is passed by thunders or by any other sources while Grounding is the common point in the circuit to maintain the voltage levels.
The ground conductor provides a return path for fault current when a phase conductor accidentally comes in contact with a grounded object. This is a safety feature of the wiring system and we would never expect to see grounding conductor current flow during normal operation.
IMPORTANT: Do not Ground the neutral second time when It is grounded either at Distribution Transformer or at Main service panel of Consumer end. Grounding act as neutral. But neutral cannot act as ground.
4. System Zero Potential Vs Circuit Zero Potential
Earthing and Grounding both is refer to zero potential, but the system connected to zero potential is differ than Equipment connected to zero potential .If a neutral point of a generator or transformer is connected to zero potential then it is known as grounding.
At the same time if the body of the transformer or generator is connected to zero potential then it is known as earthing.
The term “Earthing means that the circuit is physically connected to the ground and it is Zero Volt Potential to the Ground (Earth) but in case of “Grounding” the circuit is not physically connected to ground, but its potential is zero(where the currents are algebraically zero) with respect to other point, which is also known as “Virtual Grounding”.
Earth having zero potential whereas neutral may have some potential. That means neutral does not always have zero potential with respect to ground. In earthing we have Zero Volt potential references to the earth while in grounding we have local Zero Volt potential reference to circuit. When we connect two different Power circuits in power distribution system, we want to have the same Zero Volt reference so we connect them and grounds together.
This common reference might be different from the earth potential.
Neutral wire in grid connections is mandatory for safety. Imagine a person from 4th floor in a building uses Earth wire (which is earthed in the basement at Basement) as neutral to power his lights. Another Person from 2nd floor has a normal setup and uses neutral for the same purpose. Neutral wire is also earthed at the ground level (as per USA practice Neutral is Grounded (earthed) at Building and as per Indian Practice it is Grounded (earthed) at Distribution Transformer).
However, ground wire (Neutral wire) has a much lower electrical resistance than Earth Wire (Earthing) which results in a difference of electrical potential (i.e. voltage) between them. This voltage is quite a hazard for anyone touching a Earth wire (Metal Body of Equipment) as it may have several tens of volts.
The second issue is legality. Using ground wire instead of neutral makes you an energy thief as the meter uses only the Phase and neutral for recording your energy consumption. Many Consumers make energy theft by using Earthing wire as a Neutral wire in an Energy meter.
Ground is a source for unwanted currents and also as a return path for main current. While earthing is done not for return path but only for protection of delicate equipments. It is an alternate low resistance path for current.
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Yesterday we looked at the importance of character for those waiting for the Second Coming. Today we will look more specifically at the importance of character for those who are alive at the second coming of Jesus.
Read Daniel 12:1-10. What is the context? What time in earth’s history is being referred to? Most important, what can we tell from these verses about the character of God’s people during these times? What characteristics are given them, in contrast to the wicked? See also Revelation 22:11.
Daniel is told that just before Jesus comes, there will be a time of distress unequaled at any other time of history. In Daniel 12:3, Daniel 12:10, we’re given a depiction of the righteous and the wicked during this time. Notice how the wicked “shall do wickedly” (Daniel 12:10, NKJV) in contrast to the righteous, who in verse 3 shine brightly, perhaps because they have been “purified, made spotless and refined” (Daniel 12:10, NIV) during this “time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation, even to that time” (Daniel 12:1, NKJV). In contrast, too, the wicked do not understand, but the righteous are “wise” and do understand.
Understand what? Math, science, higher criticism? Proverbs says that “the fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge” (Proverbs 1:7, NKJV). Perhaps, in this context, the “wise” are wise because they have an understanding of these final events, the time of trouble, as it unfolds. They are not taken by surprise; from their study of the Word, they know it’s coming. And most important, they know enough to allow this time of trouble to purify and refine them; the wicked, on the other hand, are just made more obstinate in their rebellion and thus continue in their wickedness.
The crucial point is that here we are given a depiction of a people who have been through a refining and purifying process.
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Nairobi National Park is unique in that nowhere else in the world exists a wildlife reserve with such a variety of animals and birds so close to a major city. The Nairobi National Park is located literally within earshot of downtown traffic. It is a small, superb park that contains most of the animals to be seen on an extended safari – Rhino, Buffalo, Cheetah, Zebra, Giraffe and plenty of Antelope and Gazelle. The park also possesses a diversity of environs.
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At the foot of the Ngong Hills lies the home of Karen Blixen, the famous author whose memoirs were immortalized in the popular film “Out of Africa”. It is now preserved as a museum where visitors can travel back in time and gain an insight into the life of this remarkable woman. Furniture, artifacts, and photographs from her days as a pioneer coffee farmer are on display.
Afterward continue to top the Giraffe Manor- a rare opportunity of literary coming face to face with Africa’s tallest animal, the giraffe. Feed Daisy, the famous Rothschild giraffe and her family and learn about the success story of the once-endangered Rothschild Giraffe. The entrance fee contributes to other conservation projects in Kenya.
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Breakdown: Why a warming ocean is harmful to coral reefs
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (WMC) - Coral reefs harbor the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally and directly support over 500 million people worldwide, but they’re also among the most threatened ecosystems on Earth.
One of the most important threats facing coral reefs on a global scale is a big one: climate change.
Scientific evidence now clearly indicates that the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean are warming, and that these changes are primarily due to greenhouse gases derived from human activities, says National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
As temperatures rise, reefs around the world have suffered from mass coral bleaching events. Bleaching is when corals expel the microscopic algae that live in their tissues. Without these algae, corals’ tissues become transparent, exposing their white skeleton. This is called coral bleaching.
While a bleached coral is not dead, and corals can survive bleaching events, they are under greater stress, are less resistant to other threats such as disease, and are thus subject to mortality.
Some scientists predict that 90% of global reefs will experience severe bleaching annually by 2055.
Data from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that the average global sea surface temperature has increased by approximately 32°F per decade over the past 100 years.
Additionally, the ocean absorbs approximately one-third of the atmosphere’s excess carbon dioxide, resulting in a more acidic ocean. This causes a reduction in pH levels which decreases coral growth and structural integrity.
Climate change will affect coral reef ecosystems, through sea level rise, changes to the frequency and intensity of tropical storms, and altered ocean circulation patterns.
Millions of people depend on coral reefs to protect them from storm surges and waves. As sea surface temperatures rise, hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons that damage coral reefs become stronger. Heavy rainfall from the storms can also erode coastal lands and bring more polluted runoff into the ocean.
When combined, all of these impacts dramatically alter ecosystem function, as well as the goods and services coral reef ecosystems provide to people around the globe.
Beyond their intrinsic value and the roles they play in supporting vast numbers of marine species, coral reefs also provide a plethora of functions that benefit humans.
There are also many things you can do to ensure that you are environmentally conscious when you visit coral reefs or coastal areas. These include things such as hiring local guides to support the economy, removing all trash from an area, never touching or harassing wildlife in reef areas, and avoiding dropping your boat anchor or chain nearby a coral reef.
Finally, stay informed and spread the word! Educate yourself about why healthy coral reefs are valuable to the people, fish, plants, and animals that depend on them. Your excitement will help others get involved.
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Because the Industrial Revolution, higher-volume fabrication has been a defining aspect of substantial-ability generation environments, but indicates of fabrication have altered significantly more than the past century. Nowadays, producers of house items, food items and drinks, clothes, and other bulk merchandise use laptop-controlled machines that automate generation. When compared to mirror vs acrylic -automated fabrication services, automatic ones supply companies the subsequent benefits:
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Select and Spot Technique
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Thread Pitch Measurement
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Stress Test Station
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Intel could soon bring to market a faster version of its Thunderbolt connector technology with a throughput of 50Gbps, but the company is biding its time until there is a need for faster connectors.
Thunderbolt technology connects computers to peripherals like external hard drives at much faster speeds than USB 3.0. Thunderbolt ports are found in Macs and select Windows PCs, but are more expensive than USB technology, which is found in most PCs that ship today.
The latest iteration, Thunderbolt 2, transfers data at 20Gbps (bits per second). Intel is researching how to speed up Thunderbolt, but the company could potentially develop and deploy a faster connector for PCs based on silicon photonics technology, which combines silicon components with optical networking, said Mario Paniccia, Intel fellow and general manager of silicon photonics operations.
The thin connector could move data at speeds of 25Gbps for each fiber in the cable and scale up to 50Gbps with two fibers, which Paniccia said is sufficient for consumer devices. But he also said the throughput provided by the current Thunderbolt 2 is enough and there is no need for a drastic upgrade any time soon.
“When the need is there for higher speed—25Gbps or above—we will aggressively go after that market,” Paniccia said.
Instead of consumer devices, Intel is introducing silicon photonics into data centers through optical cables called MXC. The cables, which could have up to 64 fibers, can transfer data at net speeds of up to 1.6Tbps, and stretch up to 300 meters between servers or other data-center equipment. Technology from those cables could be scaled down and adapted for a Thunderbolt successor, Paniccia said.
Intel will need to talk to companies making cables to bring Thunderbolt successor cables to market, Paniccia said, but cautioned that such cables could be “years away.”
Intel had previously said it would bring a 50Gbps Thunderbolt replacement to market by 2015. Thunderbolt, originally named “Light Peak,” was envisioned as an optical technology, but the first cables introduced in the Mac in 2011 were based on copper. Optical cables were later added, but copper cables remain dominant.
Adoption of the interconnect technology has been slow as the cables and connectors are expensive, said Nathan Brookwood, principal analyst at Insight 64.
“People have already been complaining since it first appeared,” Brookwood said.
Connectors based on silicon photonics are more relevant to data centers because of the economics, Brookwood said. With the fast throughput, one MXC cable can replace many copper connectors.
Thunderbolt was believed by many to be likely to put a dent in the adoption of the slower USB 3.0, but that has not happened, with most PCs still shipping with USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 ports. USB 3.0 provides data transfer rates of up to 5Gbps, but the latest USB 3.1 specification, announced last year, is 10Gbps.
Intel is also working on low-power Thunderbolt technology for mobile phones and tablets, which largely still use slower micro-USB 2.0 ports. But Intel has said mobile Thunderbolt adoption could be blunted by WiGig, which can transfer data wirelessly at a rate of up to 7Gbps (bits per second).
Intel has researched silicon photonics technology for more than a decade. The first MXC optical cables are thinner than competitive copper cables used in data centers, Intel has said. The cables can support a range of protocols including ethernet and PCI-Express 3.0.
Copper cables are slowly being replaced and will ultimately give way to optical fibers, Paniccia said. But from a product perspective, the company is currently focusing silicon photonics on the data-center market, Paniccia said.
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Target Temps By Insulin Brand
Do different insulins have different recommended temperatures for safe storage? Starting with Novo Nordisk, the company that makes more kinds of insulin than anyone else, heres the official word on product storage:
Long-acting insulin Levemir, should be kept in a refrigerator at that sweet spot between 36° and 46° Fahrenheit.
Well, the problem may be that Novo Nordisk is a Danish company, and its cooler in Denmark than in Phoenix, Arizona, or lots of other places. Their official safe room temp for insulin no hotter than 86° F. Meanwhile, open in-use pens and vials, must NOT be stored in a refrigerator , and have the same 42-day life that unopened room temp Levemir has.
Fast-acting insulin Novolog has the same temperature ranges, for both unopened or in use, but a shorter room temperature lifespan: 28 days. It also has an additional interesting note: Six-days max life in an insulin pump reservoir, unless exposed to temperatures in excess of 98.6° F, in which case it needs to be pitched out.
Pumpers: Dont snuggle up with someone running a mild fever.
OK, and what about the newest insulin formulations from Novo? Are they more robust than our old standbys? Nope. Ultra fasting-acting Fiasp has the exact same recommendations as Novolog. Ultra long-acting basal insulin Tresiba has the same temps and rules as Levemir, except it apparently lasts a full 56 days at Danish room temps.
Still, just for fun, lets look at old-school insulin. Was pioneer insulin tougher?
There Are Some Very Simple Products To Help Protect Your Insulin
The Frio Pack is one of the simplest and most affordable storage products to keep your insulin cool in hot environments. The basic model costs $22.99, and requires zero refrigeration. Instead, its a unique technology that is activated by immersing the pack in water for a few minutes. Give it a quick towel-dry, put your insulin inside, and off you go. You can reactivate it as often as you need to.
Does Novolog Insulin Need To Be Refrigerated When And Why The Guide
Its easy to get confused when storing medications. Given the different kinds of insulin available, it can make it confusing on whether or not each type can be refrigerated or has to be refrigerated after an amount of time.
With so many different insulins on the market, weve written this article to focus on whether or not needs to be refrigerated. First, heres a quick summary answer for you to take away, then well get into more detail.
Does Novolog need to be refrigerated? Its not compulsory for Novolog to be refrigerated until 28 days have passed. Using Novolog that is not refrigerated doesnt adversely affect a patient, but after 28 days, its recommended to refrigerate it to maintain the effectiveness. Bacterial growth can make Novolog less effective when it has not been refrigerated.
Now that weve seen the quick answer lets get into some more of the details about refrigerating Novolog.
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What Happens If Insulin Isnt Refrigerated
Storing insulin appropriately is important to make sure its able to do its job in the body.
Insulin keeps your blood sugar levels from getting too high. So, having enough insulin is important to avoid hyperglycemia . Early hyperglycemia symptoms can include feeling thirsty, urinating frequently, and blurry vision. More serious symptoms can include confusion, weakness, and shortness of breath.
If insulin isnt stored correctly, it can spoil and become less effective. If your insulin isnt effective, you could experience hyperglycemia.
People Will Now Be Able To Inject Themselves With Insulin At Home
The study was co-conducted with the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières .
“For far too long, we were unable to send people with diabetes back to their homes with insulin due to its cold storage requirements. Some of these people were traveling long distances daily, and some even relocated to get their insulin injections at the clinic,” MSF noted in a statement.
“With this new finding of no refrigeration requirement in a climate of up to nearly 99° F and with a well-developed patient education and support program people with diabetes in resource-limited and humanitarian settings will now be able to inject themselves in their homes,” the organization said.
“This greatly improves the significant disruption to their lives…. The ability to self-inject insulin is a fundamental aspect of diabetes self-management and the ability of people with diabetes to be empowered,” the statement continued.
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All Unopened Insulin Should Be Kept In The Refrigerator
It typically has an expiration date of 1 year from the date of purchase. But dont store your insulin in the back of the fridge , and be sure your fridge is at a normal setting of 35°F to 40°F. And double-check the setting when you store insulin temporarily in a friends fridge or at a hotel.
When Insulin Spoils From Too Hot Or Too Cold Temperatures
The tricky thing about insulin that has been quickly destroyed by hot or cold temperatures is that you cant tell its spoiled until you suddenly see your blood sugar levels spiking.
Spoiled insulin doesnt smell, it doesnt change color, it doesnt offer any telltale signs that its ruined except for its lack of impact on your blood sugar.
For people with Type 1 diabetes, this can mean a rapid spike in your blood sugar and life-threatening DKA.
For people with Type 2 diabetes, it can mean a rapid spike in your blood sugar and ongoing difficulty managing your blood sugar depending on how long you continue to use that spoiled insulin.
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Insulin Up To 12 Weeks Freezing It Does Most Damage
However, they did find that insulin remained stable for longer than 28 days in fact, for up to 12 weeks. Those data will be reported in a subsequent article.
This finding may also be relevant in both the developing and developed worlds, such as in a situation in which a person is traveling with backup insulin vials without refrigeration capability.
Thus far, the data seem to suggest that “if you use one vial every 28 days, you can have three vials with you without any problem. If you have five vials and stay 12 weeks, then most likely the unused insulin can’t be used anymore…but you can see it ,” Scapozza said.
Ideally, some key questions should be answered before these data can be incorporated into the insulin labeling, he noted.
“What about 23° to 40° C? What about 25° to 27° C, but night being shorter, so 18 hours day and only 6 hours night? These are questions we’ve been asking, and results are encouraging,” he said.
Scapozza mentioned something else to Medscape Medical News that wasn’t in the article.
“What is the worst thing for insulin? Freezing. If you freeze insulin, the activity is gone within 1 day. Insulin is much more sensitive to freezing than heat. When you freeze, ice crystals form from water. They’re very sharp and really destroy the structure of proteins.”
The research was funded by MSF Switzerland. The authors have disclosed no relevant financial relationships.
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Risky Places To Leave Your Insulin Or Diabetes Kit Include:
- In your pocket during outdoor winter activity
- Sitting in direct sunlight during outdoor summer activity
- Letting your insulin pump rest directly on your skin in hot weather or during exercise
- Near a heater or heating vent
- In a suitcase during air travel do not let your insulin get stored on the plane, keep it with you!)
Remember even if your insulin is in a diabetes kit or pouch, its still vulnerable to extreme temperatures.
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How Refrigerating Conditions Differ For Different Insulin Types
Its important to remember that these refrigerating temperatures will vary depending on different factors like brand, type, and even whether or not insulin is in use or not.
As a good example, an unopened disposable insulin pen can be kept outside at room temperature below 86 degrees Fahrenheit for a maximum of 4 weeks. And when refrigerating, it has to be kept between 35.6 and 46.4 degrees Fahrenheit until expiry.
An opened disposable insulin pen will last for only four weeks maximum regardless of the temperature it is stored in. So, its important to remember that merely refrigerating will not make insulin more effective or last longer.
When it comes to types, its said that rapid-acting insulins spoil faster than the regular insulins. For example, rapid-acting insulin, like Humalog and spoil more quickly than regular and NPH insulins. Its always recommended to keep these insulins under refrigeration from the start or as early as possible. As always, if in any doubt, consult your doctor.
What Is The Right Storage Temperature For Unopened Insulin
The ideal temperature for a vial or pen of insulin is between 36 to 46 degrees Fahrenheit when its being stored in your refrigerator. Some parts of your fridge might be colder than others, so be sure to check the temperature setting.
You might want to avoid keeping your insulin in the back of the fridge, too, because things can get a little too cold back there. Instead, consider keeping your box of insulin pens or vials in the butter compartment, the door shelving, or one of the produce drawers.
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Be Careful When Traveling By Plane
Never, never, never put your insulin in a suitcase that is going to be checked and stored in the luggage section of the airplane. It can be really hot or really cold in that part of the plane, and youll arrive at your destination with a batch of useless insulin. Always keep all the insulin youre traveling with in your carry-on.
Do Different Forms Of Insulin Have Unique Storage Instructions
Different forms of insulin, and even different brands, may have different storage instructions. Below, well discuss how different forms of insulin are stored. Always read the instructions on your insulin box and ask your pharmacist for specific storage directions.
For reference, refrigerated temperature is 36°F to 46°F and room temperature is 59°F to 77°F or 86°F .
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Storing & Handling Insulin
Keep any vials or cartridges of insulin you are not using in the fridge until they reach their expiry date. Keep them away from the freezer and freezer coils, at a temperature of 2 to 4º C.
Keep any vials or cartridges you are using at room temperature. Cold insulin may sting when you inject it and take longer to work. Four weeks after you have opened a vial or cartridge, throw away any left over insulin.
When travelling, keep your insulin in as cool a place as possible, and keep it in your hand luggage when flying. You should store your insulin in an insulated container to protect it from extreme temperatures.
- keep insulin in a very hot or very cold place, as this could stop it from working properly
- keep insulin in the glove box of a car
- freeze your insulin
- expose your insulin to strong light or heat.
Handling your insulin
Before you use cloudy insulin, you need to mix it well. If you are using a vial, gently roll it between the palms of your hands or move the vial up and down 20 times.
If you are using an insulin pen, turn the pen up and down 20 times before you use it, to mix the insulin well.
If you are using a syringe and draw up more insulin than you need, throw away the leftover amount. Don’t squirt it back into the vial, as this could contaminate all the insulin in the vial.
Always check the expiry date on the insulin vial or cartridge before you use it.
How To Safely Store Insulin
Insulin is a medication that needs to be kept at the proper temperature. If it freezes or gets too hot, it can break down and no longer help you control your blood sugar level. This could hurt not only your health but your wallet, since the cost of insulin has risen dramatically in recent years.
Read on to learn why proper storage is essential and get tips for preventing your insulin from becoming damaged.
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At What Temperature Should Insulin Have To Be Kept At
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Storage Of Unopened Insulin:
Insulin is very sensitive to sunlight, indoor lights, and to extremely hot or cold temperatures.
Insulin is not OK to use if exposed to very hot or cold weather. The three drug manufacturers of insulin in the United States say UNOPENED insulin is best stored inside the fridge . UNOPENED insulin stored in the refrigerator is good until the expiration date printed on the insulin box. The expiration date will usually be 1 year from the date of purchase but you have to check the box to find ou
Cartridges for an insulin pump as seen above are also best stored inside the fridge and will last until the expiration date.
Storage of OPENED insulin:
Once open there are different storage needs for insulin. What does OPEN mean? This does NOT mean removed from the box. OPEN means the insulin cap is removed and the rubber stopper was punctured.
Vials and pens have different needs for storage. These differences can lead to confusion. Therefore, it is very important for you to become familiar with the recommendations for the insulin product that you use.
What is an OPEN vial?
Vial: Once the vial is punctured, it is OPEN. Once you stick a needle in the vial, it is OPEN. OPEN vials can be stored in the fridge or at CONTROLLED room temperature. Regardless of where it is stored, OPEN insulin will only last 28 days before it must be thrown away. Insulin kept in the fridge should be removed and allowed to reach room temperature before injection.
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Why Is Insulin Stored In The Fridge
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. Similarly, you may ask, why does insulin have to be refrigerated?
Why Insulin Should Be RefrigeratedSo, like any other protein, insulin can spoil. This is why it needs to be refrigerated to keep it from spoiling. Think of insulin as a form of meal. If you keep it out for long it’s going to get spoiled.
Likewise, how long can insulin be left unrefrigerated? 28 days
In this way, where should insulin be stored in the refrigerator?
Keep unused bottles, cartridges, and pens of insulin in the refrigerator . If stored properly, these will be good until the expiration date listed on the insulin. Keep insulin cartridges and pens that you’re currently using at room temperature
Is it OK to inject cold insulin?
Most insulin makers recommend storing it in the refrigerator, but injecting cold insulin can be uncomfortable. Make sure it’s at room temperature before injecting. Ask your doctor whether to store your insulin in the fridge or at room temperature.
Do Not Inject Cold Insulin
Injecting cold insulin may sting and take longer to work. You can warm up insulin as follows:
- Vial: If you are using a vial, gently roll it between the palms of your hands or move the vial up and down 20 times.
- Pen: If you are using an insulin pen, turn the pen up and down 20 times before you use it, to mix the insulin well.
Do not microwave insulin to warm it, as this could stop it from working properly.
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Being Mindful Insulin Temperature In Day
Leaving your insulin in a hot car during July heat for 15 minutes while youre getting groceries probably wont destroy your insulin, but much longer definitely could. This is why its extremely important to be mindful about when and where you keep your opened insulin.
If insulin is exposed to very hot or very cold temperatures for too long even just 60 minutes it can break down very quickly, to the point of not having any real impact on your blood sugar.
Remember, 65 degrees outside can mean its 80 degrees in your car.
And on the flip-side, a cold winters day could mean the inside of your car or your jacket packet on the ski slope is 10 degrees, easily cold enough to destroy your insulin.
Even During The Winter Be Wary Of Heat
If you visit a friends house and accidentally put your bag down right in front of a heating vent, your insulin might get cooked and destroyed during your visit. The same goes for when youre in a car, or even leaving your kit on top of the stove when the oven is preheating. Just be aware, always, that your insulin is in a safe spot.
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Standard Temperature For Refrigerating Insulin
As mentioned, insulin can be kept at room temperature for a maximum approximation of 28 to 30 days. The standard recommendation from all insulin manufacturers says a vial of insulin in use can be kept at room temperature for 28 days.
Room temperature for insulin in use specifies a temperature range between 59 degrees and 86 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature for insulin not in use should be kept at a temperature between 36 degrees and 46 degrees Fahrenheit.
If the temperature gets colder or warmer than that, itll either freeze or start to break down as a result of being too warm. The term break down again refers to when the bacteria starts growing, making the insulin ineffective or lose its strength.
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Technology solutions promise to transform business risk assessments. However, companies cannot simply implement a new technology solution and think that this is the end of their risk concerns.
So what factors should you consider when incorporating new technologies into the risk assessment process?
Understand the technology
Risk assessment technology should be treated for what it is: a tool that supports an established and effective risk assessment process, helping professionals identify and mitigate the risks their organization faces. Technology is not a panacea for problems faced by the business, nor is it a one-and-done solution.
To get the most out of any technology, it is important first and foremost to understand what it is, what it does and how it does it. Ensure that all team members who will be using the software are properly trained in its use and are able to spot problems if and when they arise. A company could spend significant time and money implementing a solution only to have its potential wasted when users struggle to understand it and resort to simpler but less effective workarounds.
know the limits
Part of that is understanding what the technology can do and, importantly,can not do. Each system will have its own strengths and limitations.
In addition, the adage “garbage in, garbage out” applies: the effectiveness of a system depends on the quality of the data fed into it. It is important to ensure that your information is accurate and up to date.
Industry expert and ICA tutor, Tyrone Griffiths, explained that even with great tech solutions, if you feed them information from legacy software, chances are your time-saving tech still needs the human hand to make sure it’s the Data processed correctly You need smooth controls.
“Some systems don’t communicate with other systems, so you might have to update two or three systems, which requires human intervention. There’s a chance you’re missing one of those systems,” he said.
This can mean that taking the time to review and change current ways of working can be an absolute necessity, which can be time-consuming in the short-term but will make your tech solution far more effective in the long-term.
The human factor
Finally, technology should be viewed as a complement, not a substitute, for human expertise. Businesses need to combine technical solutions with active risk mitigation by their professionals.
It’s hard to overstate the role of horizon scanning in quality risk management. Risk assessments are often viewed with the hindsight: looking at what challenges impacted the business over the past year and making sure those gaps are closed for the future. But Griffiths stressed that companies that become complacent — for example, assuming the threat is low as long as they only work with supposedly low-risk entities — can run into serious problems if they’re proven wrong, as has been shown in the aftermath the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) scandal.
“We can’t always look back. We need to start thinking from a horizon-scanning perspective and predicting potential risks,” he added.
In fact, crime does not stand still. Covid-19 made for an excellent case study of how quickly criminals can take advantage of a changing situation and how quickly companies need to react by predicting what can go wrong rather than waiting for regulators to tell them what to do , after the threat has already been detected. As Griffiths put it, “Companies need to start thinking like they’re criminals — start really questioning their systems and thinking, ‘Okay, we’re going to offer this product. … How could a potential criminal exploit this product?’ It may not have happened yet. But it will probably happen in the future.”
Technology can help organizations overcome such challenges, but leveraging the best of software solutions requires a thoughtful approach.
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Monitoring Community Law and the Infringement Procedure
Summary of procedures and rules:
The Commission's role in monitoring the implementation of Community law is based on Article 211 of the EC Treaty, which says that "the Commission shall ensure that the provisions of this (EC) Treaty and the measures taken by the institutions pursuant thereto (= secondary legislation such as directives and regulations) are applied. The basic procedure, through which the Commission exercises its role, is called infringement proceedings.
Infringement proceedings are based on Articles 226 and 228 of the EC Treaty. These articles give the Commission the right to bring Member States before the European Court of Justice if the Commission considers that they have failed to implement Community law, that is, the treaties and secondary legislation.
Thus, Articles 226 and 228 play a major role in the 'system' for ensuring that EC law is actually respected and implemented by the Member States. The Commission is required to ensure the uniform application of Community law, inform the Member States of suspected infringements, negotiate with them with a view to reaching an out-of-court settlement, and, if these measures fail, ultimately bring the matter before the Court, whose decision is final. Infringement procedures fall into four categories depending on their purpose:
Infringements of the Treaties, regulations and decisions, which the Member States have to apply directly, as such ;
Failure to notify national measures transposing a directive. Through notifying the measures they have taken to transpose (integrate into) directives the Member States show that they have done this - and how they have done it;
Non-conformity with Community law of national legislation transposing a directive. Member States are obliged to transpose a directive in such a way that the objectives of the directive will be achieved - if the national law transposing the directive is applied correctly;
Incorrect application of a directive in a Member State. Even when the law on paper is conform with EU law it is not always applied correctly by authorities in Member States (be it the Government, regional or municipal authorities, etc.).
An infringement proceeding on the basis of Article 226 normally involves the following stages:
It starts with a pre-litigation (before going to court) stage. Opening of this first, informal stage can be the result of a petition, or a complaint to the Commission, or it can follow from questions by members of the European Parliament, or on the European Commission's own initiative, etc.
- Usually a letter is first send a letter of formal notice to the Member State concerned, which gives the Member State a certain time to comment on the allegations or suspicions of an infringement of EU law:
- It is worth noting that, despite the fact that this letter is called "formal notice", it is not mentioned in the EC Treaty, but belongs to the procedures developed by the European Commission itself;
- If the European Commission is not satisfied with the reply from the Member State to the letter of formal notice, it issues a reasoned opinion, and again sets a dead line for reply from the Member State;
During this stage it is still possible for the European Commission to stop its action on an alleged, or even o a confirmed infringement, and close the case - which often happens.
If the case is not closed, the European Commission may bring it before the Court of Justice;
It is still possible, even after that the case has been brought before the European Court of Justice for the European Commission to drop the case and withdraw it from the Court;
If the case is not withdrawn, the Court will deliver a ruling which the Member State is obliged to follow and implement and which brings the infringement proceedings based on Article 226 to a close in the case concerned;
- No penalty or sanction is imposed at this stage. However, the Commission can request, and the Court can order, if it considers it required "that application of the contested measure be suspended" (Article 242 EC Treaty), and in any case before it order "any necessary interim measures" (Article 243 EC Treaty).
Nevertheless, if a Member State does not comply with the judgment of the Court of Justice the Commission can bring the member state once more before the Court, this time on the basis of Article 228 of the EC Treaty, and request that the member state is fined.
- The procedure is, basically similar to the procedure when applying Article 226, with the Commission sending the member state at least a letter of formal notice with a dead line for the member state to reply, before bringing the matter before the Court of Justice.
- The Commission must define the daily fine or one-time lump sum (or both), which it considers that the Member State should e ordered to pay.
- The daily fine must be paid as long as the infringement goes on and is, basically, aimed a changing the behaviour of the Member State in question, whereas the lump sum is more like a punishment for what the Member State has done.
- The Court of Justice is not bound by the Commission's request and can decide to impose a different amount of penalty than the one requested by the Commission.
- Earlier the Commission always asked for - and the Court ordered - either a daily fine or a lump sum. However, in an important ruling against France for a persistent failure to correctly apply EU law on conservation of fish stocks, France was ordered both to pay a daily fine until the infringement ended and a lump sum because of the long time the infringement had been going on.
Comments, views and positions:
The Greens and European Free Alliance group and its members have long called for - and worked for - a reform of the infringement proceedings. Monica Frassoni, as "rapporteur" for the European Parliament' on behalf of the Legal Affairs Committee, report on how EU law has been applied by the Member States has presented several critical remarks and constructive proposals concerning the infringement proceedings, which also have received the support of the Parliament as a whole.
As can be seen already from the description above of the procedures, these are complex, involve many stages, and easily can take quite a long time, even if the Member State concerned would comply with dead lines and provide the European Commission with the information requested. Unfortunately, this is often not the case. On the contrary, Member States quite often seem to play time - and .the European Commission too often appears to allow this. As a result the already long procedures drag out even more - with the danger that, for instance, the threat of environmental destruction that a petition has denounced is a completed fact while the proceedings are still running.
However, the length of the procedures is not, in the view of the Greens/EFA Group the only problem with the current rules and practices in infringement proceedings. While it is true that the Treaties given the European Commission discretion (the right to decide) about whether or not to take a Member State to the Court of Justice over an infringement we, nevertheless, consider that the Commission is obliged to respect basic principles of EU law and good administration when using this power of discretion.
This means, as has been stated by the European Ombudsman, that "even if the Commission enjoys discretionary powers in respect to the opening of infringement procedures, these are nevertheless "subject to legal limits as established by the case law of the Court of Justice which requires, for example, that administrative authorities should act consistently and in good faith, avoid discrimination, comply with the principles of proportionality, equality and legitimate expectations and respect human rights and fundamental freedoms".
Our members in the Committee on Petitions have also persistently worked for improving the procedures and for a stronger role of the European Parliament in ensuring that the procedures are applied correctly and infringements efficiently dealt with. One of the most importantl tools used for this purpose is represented by the amendments tabled to resolutions. It happens so often that our members can agree with most of the content of a certain document but nevertheless be against particular proposals contained on it. Tabling amendments they try to get the most complete result in favour. Sometimes they succed, sometimes not.
Recently also the Committee of Inquiry into the crisis of the Equitable Life assurance society made critical comments on, and proposals for improving the procedures, which we consider go in the right direction.
Note that also the Member States have this right (Article 227 EC). However, while member states might use this option in order to protect their specific national interests, they would not be inclined to bring another member state before the ECJ in order to protect a common public interest, such as the environment - in fear of being targeted in their turn, etc.
In case C-304/02, the Court of Justice has ordered France to pay the Commission a lump sum of EUR 20.000.000 and a penalty payment of EUR 57.761.250 for each period of six months from the delivery of this judgment at the end of which the judgment in Case C-64/88 Commission v. France has not yet been fully complied with.
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I do not endorse all the theology expressed in this piece, however, Lewis’s prophetic warnings are powerful. In light of our current political swirl, his clear-headed evaluation and admonitions are worth hearing again. He answers the old question: “If I were the devil, what would I do?” -RB
A Satirical Epistolary Short Story
In the form of an after dinner address given by the veteran demon Screwtape at a graduation of the Tempters Training College.
SCREWTAPE PROPOSES A TOAST
By C. S. Lewis
Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, Oxford University, 1925–1954. Professor of Mediaeval and Renaissance Literature at Cambridge University (Magdalene College), 1954–1963.
Based on a character appearing in the Screwtape Letters. Screwtape Proposes a Toast was first published in The Saturday Evening Post on December 19, 1959. It has since appeared in the collection of essays, The World’s Last Night.
(The scene is in Hell at the annual dinner of the Tempters’ Training College for young devils. The principal, Dr. Slubgob, has just proposed the health of the guests. Screwtape, a very experienced Devil, who is the guest of honour, rises to reply:)
Mr. Principal, your Immincence, your Disgraces, my Thorns, Shadies, and Gentledevils:
It is customary on these occasions for the speaker to address himself chiefly to those among you who have just graduated and who will very soon be posted to official Tempterships on Earth. It is a custom I willingly obey. I well remember with what trepidation I awaited my own first appointment. I hope, and believe, that each one of you has the same uneasiness tonight. Your career is before you. Hell expects and demands that it should be — as mine was — one of unbroken success. If it is not, you know what awaits you.
I have no wish to reduce the wholesome and realistic element of terror, the unremitting anxiety, which must act as the lash and spur to your endeavours. How often you will envy the humans their faculty of sleep! Yet at the same time I would wish to put before you a moderately encouraging view of the strategical situation as a whole.
Your dreaded Principal has included in a speech full of points something like an apology for the banquet which he has set before us. Well, gentledevils, no one blames him. But it would be in vain to deny that the human souls on whose anguish we have been feasting tonight were of pretty poor quality. Not all the most skillful cookery of our tormentors could make them better than insipid.
Oh, to get one’s teeth again into a Farinata, a Henry VIII, or even a Hitler! There was real crackling there; something to crunch; a rage, an egotism, a cruelty only just less robust than our own. It put up a delicious resistance to being devoured. It warmed your inwards when you’d got it down.
Instead of this, what have we had tonight? There was a municipal authority with Graft sauce. But personally I could not detect in him the flavour of a really passionate and brutal avarice such as delighted one in the great tycoons of the last century. Was he not unmistakably a Little Man — a creature of the petty rake-off pocketed with a petty joke in private and denied with the stalest platitudes in his public utterances — a grubby little nonentity who had drifted into corruption, only just realizing that he was corrupt, and chiefly because everyone else did it? Then there was the lukewarm Casserole of Adulterers. Could you find in it any trace of a fully inflamed, defiant, rebellious, insatiable lust? I couldn’t. They all tasted to me like undersexed morons who had blundered or trickled into the wrong beds in automatic response to sexy advertisements, or to make themselves feel modern and emancipated, or to reassure themselves about their virility or their “normalcy,” or even because they had nothing else to do. Frankly, to me who have tasted Messalina and Cassanova, they were nauseating. The Trade Unionist stuffed with sedition was perhaps a shade better. He had done some real harm. He had, not quite unknowingly, worked for bloodshed, famine, and the extinction of liberty. Yes, in a way. But what a way! He thought of those ultimate objectives so little. Toeing the party line, self-importance, and above all mere routine, were what really dominated his life.
But now comes the point. Gastronomically, all this is deplorable. But I hope none of us puts gastronomy first. Is it not, in another and far more serious way, full of hope and promise?
Consider, first, the mere quantity. The quality may be wretched; but we never had souls (of a sort) in more abundance.
And then the triumph. We are tempted to say that such souls — or such residual puddles of what once was soul — are hardly worth damning. Yes, but the Enemy (for whatever inscrutable and perverse reason) thought them worth trying to save. Believe me, He did. You youngsters who have not yet been on active duty have no idea with what labour, with what delicate skill, each of these miserable creatures was finally captured.
The difficulty lay in their very smallness and flabbiness. Here were vermin so muddled in mind, so passively responsive to environment, that it was very hard to raise them to that level of clarity and deliberateness at which mortal sin becomes possible. To raise them just enough; but not that fatal millimetre of “too much.” For then, of course, all would possibly have been lost. They might have seen; they might have repented. On the other hand, if they had been raised too little, they would very possibly have qualified for Limbo, as creatures suitable neither for Heaven nor for Hell; things that, having failed to make the grade, are allowed to sink into a more or less contented subhumanity forever.
In each individual choice of what the Enemy would call the “wrong” turning, such creatures are at first hardly, if at all, in a state of full spiritual responsibility. They do not understand either the source or the real character of the prohibitions they are breaking. Their consciousness hardly exists apart from the social atmosphere that surrounds them. And of course we have contrived that their very language should be all smudge and blur; what would be a bribe in someone else’s profession is a tip or a present in theirs. The job of their Tempters was first, or course, to harden these choices of the Hellward roads into a habit by steady repetition. But then (and this was all-important) to turn the habit into a principle — a principle the creature is prepared to defend. After that, all will go well. Conformity to the social environment, at first merely instinctive or even mechanical — how should a jelly not conform? — now becomes an unacknowledged creed or ideal of Togetherness or Being Like Folks. Mere ignorance of the law they break now turns into a vague theory about it — remember, they know no history — a theory expressed by calling it conventional or Puritan or bourgeois “morality.” Thus gradually there comes to exist at the center of the creature a hard, tight, settled core of resolution to go on being what it is, and even to resist moods that might tend to alter it. It is a very small core; not at all reflective (they are too ignorant) nor defiant (their emotional and imaginative poverty excludes that); almost, in its own way, prim and demure; like a pebble, or a very young cancer. But it will serve our turn. Here at last is a real and deliberate, though not fully articulate, rejection of what the Enemy calls Grace.
These, then, are two welcome phenomena. First, the abundance of our captures: however tasteless our fare, we are in no danger of famine. And secondly, the triumph: the skill of our Tempters has never stood higher. But the third moral, which I have not yet drawn, is the most important of all.
The sort of souls on whose despair and ruin we have — well, I won’t say feasted, but at any rate subsisted — tonight are increasing in numbers and will continue to increase. Our advices from Lower Command assure us that this is so; our directives warn us to orient all our tactics in view of this situation. The “great” sinners, those in whom vivid and genial passions have been pushed beyond the bounds and in whom an immense concentration of will has been devoted to objects which the Enemy abhors, will not disappear. But they will grow rarer. Our catches will be ever more numerous; but they will consist increasingly of trash — trash which we should once have thrown to Cerberus and the hellhounds as unfit for diabolical consumption. And there are two things I want you to understand about this: First, that however depressing it might seem, it is really a change for the better. And secondly, I would draw your attention to the means by which it has been brought about.
It is a change for the better. The great (and toothsome) sinners are made out of the very same material as those horrible phenomena the great Saints. The virtual disappearance of such material may mean insipid meals for us. But is it not utter frustration and famine for the Enemy? He did not create the humans — He did not become one of them and die among them by torture — in order to produce candidates for Limbo, “failed” humans. He wanted to make them Saints; gods; things like Himself. Is the dullness of your present fare not a very small price to pay for the delicious knowledge that His whole great experiment is petering out? But not only that. As the great sinners grow fewer, and the majority lose all individuality, the great sinners become far more effective agents for us. Every dictator or even demagogue — almost every film star or [rock star] — can now draw tens of thousands of the human sheep with him. They give themselves (what there is of them) to him; in him, to us. There may come a time when we shall have no need to bother about individual temptation at all, except for the few. Catch the bellwether, and his whole flock comes after him.
But do you realize how we have succeeded in reducing so many of the human race to the level of ciphers? This has not come about by accident. It has been our answer — and a magnificent answer it is — to one of the most serious challenges we ever had to face.
Let me recall to your minds what the human situation was in the latter half of the nineteenth century — the period at which I ceased to be a practising Tempter and was rewarded with an administrative post. The great movement toward liberty and equality among men had by then borne solid fruits and grown mature. Slavery had been abolished. The American War of Independence had been won. The French Revolution had succeeded. In that movement there had originally been many elements which were in our favour. Much Atheism, much Anticlericalism, much envy and thirst for revenge, even some (rather absurd) attempts to revive Paganism, were mixed in it. It was not easy to determine what our own attitude should be. On the one hand it was a bitter blow to us — it still is — that any sort of men who had been hungry should be fed or any who had long worn chains should have them struck off. But on the other hand, there was in the movement so much rejection of faith, so much materialism, secularism, and hatred, that we felt we were bound to encourage it.
But by the latter part of the century the situation was much simpler, and also much more ominous. In the English sector (where I saw most of my front-line service) a horrible thing had happened. The Enemy, with His usual sleight of hand, had largely appropriated this progressive or liberalizing movement and perverted it to His own ends. Very little of its old anti-Christianity remained. The dangerous phenomenon called Christian Socialism was rampant. Factory owners of the good old type who grew rich on sweated labor, instead of being assassinated by their workpeople — we could have used that — were being frowned upon by their own class. The rich were increasingly giving up their powers, not in the face of revolution and compulsion, but in obedience to their own consciences. As for the poor who benefited by this, they were behaving in a most disappointing fashion. Instead of using their new liberties — as we reasonably hoped and expected — for massacre, rape, and looting, or even for perpetual intoxication, they were perversely engaged in becoming cleaner, more orderly, more thrifty, better educated, and even more virtuous. Believe me, gentledevils, the threat of something like a really healthy state of society seemed then perfectly serious.
Thanks to Our Father Below, the threat was averted. Our counterattack was on two levels. On the deepest level our leaders contrived to call into full life an element which had been implicit in the movement from its earliest days. Hidden in the heart of this striving for Liberty there was also a deep hatred of personal freedom. That invaluable man Rousseau first revealed it. In his perfect democracy, only the state religion is permitted, slavery is restored, and the individual is told that he has really willed (though he didn’t know it) whatever the Government tells him to do. From that starting point, via Hegel (another indispensable propagandist on our side), we easily contrived both the Nazi and the Communist state. Even in England we were pretty successful. I heard the other day that in that country a man could not, without a permit, cut down his own tree with his own axe, make it into planks with his own saw, and use the planks to build a toolshed in his own garden.
Such was our counterattack on one level. You, who are mere beginners, will not be entrusted with work of that kind. You will be attached as Tempters to private persons. Against them, or through them, our counterattack takes a different form.
Democracy is the word with which you must lead them by the nose. The good work which our philological experts have already done in the corruption of human language makes it unnecessary to warn you that they should never be allowed to give this word a clear and definable meaning. They won’t. It will never occur to them that democracy is properly the name of a political system, even a system of voting, and that this has only the most remote and tenuous connection with what you are trying to sell them. Nor of course must they ever be allowed to raise Aristotle’s question: whether “democratic behaviour” means the behaviour that democracies like or the behaviour that will preserve a democracy. For if they did, it could hardly fail to occur to them that these need not be the same.
You are to use the word purely as an incantation; if you like, purely for its selling power. It is a name they venerate. And of course it is connected with the political ideal that men should be equally treated. You then make a stealthy transition in their minds from this political ideal to a factual belief that all men are equal. Especially the man you are working on. As a result you can use the word democracy to sanction in his thought the most degrading (and also the least enjoyable) of human feelings. You can get him to practise, not only without shame but with a positive glow of self-approval, conduct which, if undefended by the magic word, would be universally derided.
The feeling I mean is of course that which prompts a man to say I’m as good as you.
The first and most obvious advantage is that you thus induce him to enthrone at the centre of his life a good, solid, resounding lie. I don’t mean merely that his statement is false in fact, that he is no more equal to everyone he meets in kindness, honesty, and good sense than in height or waist measurement. I mean that he does not believe it himself. No man who says I’m as good as you believes it. He would not say it if he did. The St. Bernard never says it to the toy dog, nor the scholar to the dunce, nor the employable to the bum, nor the pretty woman to the plain. The claim to equality, outside the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior. What it expresses is precisely the itching, smarting, writhing awareness of an inferiority which the patient refuses to accept.
And therefore resents. Yes, and therefore resents every kind of superiority in others; denigrates it; wishes its annihilation. Presently he suspects every mere difference of being a claim to superiority. No one must be different from himself in voice, clothes, manners, recreations, choice of food: “Here is someone who speaks English rather more clearly and euphoniously than I — it must be a vile, upstage, la-di-da affectation. Here’s a fellow who says he doesn’t like hot dogs — thinks himself too good for them, no doubt. Here’s a man who hasn’t turned on the jukebox — he’s one of those goddamn highbrows and is doing it to show off. If they were honest-to-God all-right Joes they’d be like me. They’ve no business to be different. It’s undemocratic.”
Now, this useful phenomenon is in itself by no means new. Under the name of Envy it has been known to humans for thousands of years. But hitherto they always regarded it as the most odious, and also the most comical, of vices. Those who were aware of feeling it felt it with shame; those who were not gave it no quarter in others. The delightful novelty of the present situation is that you can sanction it — make it respectable and even laudable — by the incantatory use of the word democratic.
Under the influence of this incantation those who are in any or every way inferior can labour more wholeheartedly and successfully than ever before to pull down everyone else to their own level. But that is not all. Under the same influence, those who come, or could come, nearer to a full humanity, actually draw back from fear of being undemocratic. I am credibly informed that young humans now sometimes suppress an incipient taste for classical music or good literature because it might prevent their Being Like Folks; that people who would really wish to be — and are offered the Grace which would enable them to be — honest, chaste, or temperate refuse it. To accept might make them Different, might offend against the Way of Life, take them out of Togetherness, impair their Integration with the Group. They might (horror of horrors!) become individuals.
All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: “O God, make me a normal twentieth century girl!” Thanks to our labours, this will mean increasingly: “Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.”
Meanwhile, as a delightful by-product, the few (fewer every day) who will not be made Normal or Regular and Like Folks and Integrated increasingly become in reality the prigs and cranks which the rabble would in any case have believed them to be. For suspicion often creates what it expects. (“Since, whatever I do, the neighbors are going to think me a witch, or a Communist agent, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, and become one in reality.”) As a result we now have an intelligentsia which, though very small, is very useful to the cause of Hell.
But that is a mere by-product. What I want to fix your attention on is the vast, overall movement towards the discrediting, and finally the elimination, of every kind of human excellence – moral, cultural, social, or intellectual. And is it not pretty to notice how “democracy” (in the incantatory sense) is now doing for us the work that was once done by the most ancient Dictatorships, and by the same methods? You remember how one of the Greek Dictators (they called them “tyrants” then) sent an envoy to another Dictator to ask his advice about the principles of government. The second Dictator led the envoy into a field of grain, and there he snicked off with his cane the top of every stalk that rose an inch or so above the general level. The moral was plain. Allow no preeminence among your subjects. Let no man live who is wiser or better or more famous or even handsomer than the mass. Cut them all down to a level: all slaves, all ciphers, all nobodies. All equals. Thus Tyrants could practise, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own. No one need now go through the field with a cane. The little stalks will now of themselves bite the tops off the big ones. The big ones are beginning to bite off their own in their desire to Be Like Stalks.
I have said that to secure the damnation of these little souls, these creatures that have almost ceased to be individual, is a laborious and tricky work. But if proper pains and skill are expended, you can be fairly confident of the result. The great sinners seem easier to catch. But then they are incalculable. After you have played them for seventy years, the Enemy may snatch them from your claws in the seventy-first. They are capable, you see, of real repentance. They are conscious of real guilt. They are, if things take the wrong turn, as ready to defy the social pressures around them for the Enemy’s sake as they were to defy them for ours. It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.
My own experience, as I have said, was mainly on the English sector, and I still get more news from it than from any other. It may be said that what I am now going to say will not apply so fully to the sectors in which some of you may be operating. But you can make the necessary adjustments when you get there. Some application it will almost certainly have. If it has too little, you must labor to make the country you are dealing with more like what England already is.
In that promising land the spirit of I’m as good as you has already begun something more than a generally social influence. It begins to work itself into their educational system. How far its operations there have gone at the present moment, I should not like to say with certainty. Nor does it matter. Once you have grasped the tendency, you can easily predict its future developments; especially as we ourselves will play our part in the developing. The basic principle of the new education is to be that dunces and idlers must not be made to feel inferior to intelligent and industrious pupils. That would be “undemocratic.” These differences between pupils – for they are obviously and nakedly individual differences – must be disguised. This can be done at various levels. At universities, examinations must be framed so that nearly all the students get good marks. Entrance examinations must be framed so that all, or nearly all, citizens can go to universities, whether they have any power (or wish) to profit by higher education or not. At schools, the children who are too stupid or lazy to learn languages and mathematics and elementary science can be set to doing things that children used to do in their spare time. Let, them, for example, make mud pies and call it modelling. But all the time there must be no faintest hint that they are inferior to the children who are at work. Whatever nonsense they are engaged in must have – I believe the English already use the phrase – “parity of esteem.” An even more drastic scheme is not possible. Children who are fit to proceed to a higher class may be artificially kept back, because the others would get a trauma — Beelzebub, what a useful word! – by being left behind. The bright pupil thus remains democratically fettered to his own age group throughout his school career, and a boy who would be capable of tackling Aeschylus or Dante sits listening to his coeval’s attempts to spell out A CAT SAT ON A MAT.
In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I’m as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers – or should I say, nurses? – will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturbable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us.
Of course, this would not follow unless all education became state education. But it will. That is part of the same movement. Penal taxes, designed for that purpose, are liquidating the Middle Class, the class who were prepared to save and spend and make sacrifices in order to have their children privately educated. The removal of this class, besides linking up with the abolition of education, is, fortunately, an inevitable effect of the spirit that says I’m as good as you. This was, after all, the social group which gave to the humans the overwhelming majority of their scientists, physicians, philosophers, theologians, poets, artists, composers, architects, jurists, and administrators. If ever there were a bunch of stalks that needed their tops knocked off, it was surely they. As an English politician remarked not long ago, “A democracy does not want great men.”
It would be idle to ask of such a creature whether by want it meant “need” or “like.” But you had better be clear. For here Aristotle’s question comes up again.
We, in Hell, would welcome the disappearance of democracy in the strict sense of that word, the political arrangement so called. Like all forms of government, it often works to our advantage, but on the whole less often than other forms. And what we must realize is that “democracy” in the diabolical sense (I’m as good as you, Being Like Folks, Togetherness) is the fittest instrument we could possibly have for extirpating political democracies from the face of the earth.
For “democracy” or the “democratic spirit” (diabolical sense) leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full of the cocksureness which flattery breeds on ignorance, and quick to snarl or whimper at the first sign of criticism. And that is what Hell wishes every democratic people to be. For when such a nation meets in conflict a nation where children have been made to work at school, where talent is placed in high posts, and where the ignorant mass are allowed no say at all in public affairs, only one result is possible.
The democracies were surprised lately when they found that Russia had got ahead of them in science. What a delicious specimen of human blindness! If the whole tendency of their society is opposed to every sort of excellence, why did they expect their scientists to excel?
It is our function to encourage the behaviour, the manners, the whole attitude of mind, which democracies naturally like and enjoy, because these are the very things which, if unchecked, will destroy democracy. You would almost wonder that even humans don’t see it themselves. Even if they don’t read Aristotle (that would be undemocratic) you would have thought the French Revolution would have taught them that the behaviour aristocrats naturally like is not the behaviour that preserves aristocracy. They might then have applied the same principle to all forms of government.
But I would not end on that note. I would not – Hell forbid! Encourage in your own minds that delusion which you must carefully foster in the minds of your human victims. I mean the delusion that the fate of nations is in itself more important than that of individual souls. The overthrow of free peoples and the multiplication of slave states are for us a means (besides, of course, being fun); but the real end is the destruction of individuals. For only individuals can be saved or damned, can become sons of the Enemy or food for us. The ultimate value, for us, of any revolution, war, or famine lies in the individual anguish, treachery, hatred, rage, and despair which it may produce. I’m as good as you is a useful means for the destruction of democratic societies. But it has a far deeper value as an end in itself, as a state of mind which, necessarily excluding humility, charity, contentment, and all the pleasures of gratitude or admiration, turns a human being away from almost every road which might finally lead him to Heaven.
But now for the pleasantest part of my duty. It falls to my lot to propose on behalf of the guests the health of Principal Slubgob and the Tempters’ Training College. Fill your glasses. What is this I see? What is this delicious bouquet I inhale? Can it be? Mr. Principal, I unsay all my hard words about the dinner. I see, and smell, that even under wartime conditions the College cellar still has a few dozen of sound old vintage Well, well, well. This is like old times. Hold it beneath your noses for a moment, gentledevils. Hold it up to the light. Look at those fiery streaks that writhe and tangle in its dark heart, as if they were contending. And so they are. You know how this wine is blended? Different types of Pharisee have been harvested, trodden, and fermented together to produce its subtle flavour. Types that were most antagonistic to one another on Earth. Some were all rules and relics and rosaries; others were all drab clothes, long faces, and petty traditional abstinences from wine or cards or the theatre. Both had in common their self-righteousness and an almost infinite distance between their actual outlook and anything the Enemy really is or commands. The wickedness of other religions was the really live doctrine in the religion of each; slander was its gospel and denigration its litany. How they hated each other up where the sun shone! How much more they hate each other now that they are forever conjoined but not reconciled. Their astonishment, their resentment, at the combination, the festering of their eternally impenitent spite, passing into our spiritual digestion, will work like fire. Dark fire. All said and done, my friends, it will be an ill day for us if what most humans mean by “Religion” ever vanishes from the Earth. It can still send us the truly delicious sins. Nowhere do we tempt so successfully as on the very steps of the altar.
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Code of Ethics
"Life Underwriter" shall mean a person who is a member of the Life Underwriters Association of Hong Kong.
"Life Insurance" shall mean all individual life policies, policy riders and annuity contracts and group insurance policies issued by a life insurance company, whether or not such policies contain provisions for cash surrender or paid up values, and any contract under which the reserve, or part thereof, varies in amount depending on the market value of a specified group of assets.
"Group Insurance" shall mean all policies whereby the lives of a number of persons are insured severally under a single contract between an insurer and an employer or other person.
"Client" shall mean a policyholder or prospective policyholder or any other person whom the life underwriter serves in a professional capacity.
1. Priority of Client's Interests
A life underwriter shall place the interests of his clients before his own and shall advise them to the best of his ability without bias and without regard for his own personal advantage.
2. Confidential Information
A life underwriter shall respect the confidentiality of his clients and carefully safeguard any information which becomes known to him regarding their personal and business affairs.
3. Suitability of Insurance
A life underwriter shall ensure as far as possible that any policy recommendations are suitable to the needs and not beyond the resources of his clients.
4. Explanation of the Policy
A life underwriter shall explain all the essential provisions of the policy being recommended and ensure as far as possible that the client understands what he is committing himself to and in particular draw attention to the long term nature of the policy and to the consequent effects of early discontinuance.
A life underwriter shall also ensure that material information passed to him by, or on behalf of, the insured are reforwarded to the insurer before the issuance of a life policy.
A life underwriter shall uphold the institution of life insurance and refrain from making statements of a misleading or defamatory nature which might cause members of the public to lose confidence in any life insurance company, its policies or its agents.
A life underwriter shall not, directly or indirectly, rebate or attempt to rebate all or any part of premium for life insurance.
A life underwriter shall not, where it could be detrimental to the interests of the client, directly or indirectly, induce or attempt to induce a client to lapse, forfeit, or surrender for cash or for paid up or extended insurance, or for other valuable consideration, any existing contract of individual life insurance in order to replace it with another contract for individual life insurance.
9. Transfer of Group Insurance or Retirement Benefit Business
A life underwriter in placing new group insurance or retirement benefit business shall, to the best of his ability, endeavour to protect the interest of the client and the rights of existing participants with regard to any existing arrangements.
10. Fees and Premium
A life underwriter shall not overcharge, or attempt to overcharge, any fees or premium other than those officially laid down by the insurer. All fees or premium collected by a life underwriter from the insured must be forwarded to the insurer without delay.
Recruitment Prohibition Policy Guideline
1. The purpose of all functions organized by the LUAHK is to provide exchange of ideas, experiences and knowledge among members of the Association in an atmosphere that encourages an attitude of caring and sharing.
2. The LUAHK believes that such purpose would be seriously undermined should our functions be used as opportunities for the recruitment of life underwriters.It is a policy of the LUAHK, therefore, to condemn any unethical practice of recruiting among participants during the course of any functions/courses organized by the Association.
3. Membership of the Association and admission to the courses organized by LUAHK may be denied to persons who are found to be violators of this policy or the Law of Hong Kong. No refund will be made under this circumstances.
Best Practice Guidelines
1. Know your client and recommend suitable products
The intermediary should inquire about the clients’ backgrounds, their motives and objectives of purchasing insurance plans, and the stability of their income sources in order to provide appropriate investment recommendations from professional point of view. In addition, the recommendations on insurance products should base on clients’ needs to help them to accomplish their goals in protection and financial planning at different stages of life.
2. Deliver the policy within the cooling off period
It is necessary to hand-in the issued policy to the client within the cooling off period in order to secure customer’s right during cooling off period.
3. Provide clear explanation on policy's details
It is necessary to clearly explain to clients on the scope of coverage of their insurance plans, and to remind them about the important provisions and rules stated in the policy, such as the waiting period, the premium grace period, and the suicide clause etc.
4. Elaborate the potential returns and risks of the product
The intermediary should clearly explain the contents of Investment-Linked Assurance Scheme (ILAS) and investment plan, as well as the values of relevant investments to the clients. The intermediary should never exaggerate the expected rate of return or cover up the risks that may involve, and should let the clients understand the investment return may go up and down and they must make their own insurance decision based on the risk taking abilities.
5. Handle policy replacement prudently and declare the relevant benefit and loss clearly (Handle policy replacement prudently and declare the relevant benefit and loss clearly)
It is necessary to elaborate the pros and cons to the client when he/ she has decided to replace an existing insurance policy. Also the intermediary is required to complete the Customer Protection Declaration Form (“CPDF”) and explain the contents and actual impact on policy replacement to the clients. For example, the insurer may have to reassess the insured’s health condition, and the calculation of waiting period and suicide clause of the new policy will be restarted.
6. Support claims follow ups
Insurance intermediaries have to do their utmost in assisting and explaining to clients about the procedures and documents required for insurance claims in order to help clients to receive payment promptly, signifying the value of insurance services.
7. Handle client's information properly to protect personal privacy
It is necessary to keep clients’ information, contents of insurance policies, claims documents and relevant information in high confidentiality. To safeguard clients’ privacy, it is prohibited to use their information arbitrarily and the intermediaries must handle, store and dispose the documents in a proper manner.
8. Handle clients’ premium properly
There must be a clear differentiation over client’s premium from the intermediary’s own money. If the intermediary received money from the clients as insurance premium, he / she is required to hand over the money to the insurer within the designated period set by the industry regulation, and arbitrary usage of client’s premium is strictly prohibited.
9. Maintain close tie and provide updated information to clients
Clients have different needs over time. Thus intermediary has to maintain close tie with clients and provide updated information in order to provide professional insurance and financial recommendations to clients.
10. Knowledgeable and comply with applicable industry guidelines and regulations
Insurance intermediaries have to understand, implement and comply with the industry guidelines and regulations issued by regulators, insurers and LUAHK. In the meantime, they have to keep abreast of the updates and modifications of industry regulations. In case of any doubts, they should take the initiative to seek clarifications from the related regulator or the compliance department of the affiliated insurers. | <urn:uuid:69447d37-5007-4df1-aed7-4c070a356c44> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.luahk.org/en/nsi/21/CodeofEthics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926166 | 1,580 | 1.5625 | 2 |
The Sibelius Academy (Finnish: Taideyliopiston Sibelius-Akatemia, Swedish: Sibelius-Akademin vid Konstuniversitetet) is part of the University of the Arts Helsinki and a university-level music school which operates in Helsinki and Kuopio, Finland. It also has an adult education centre in Järvenpää and a training centre in Seinäjoki. The Academy is the only music university in Finland. It is among the biggest European music universities with roughly 1,400 enrolled students.
|University of the Arts Helsinki|
|126 full-time academic staff; 48 part-time academic staff; 434 hourly paid teachers|
|100 students at the Sibelius Junior Academy|
|Campus||In the heart of Helsinki|
The Sibelius Academy is the organizer of the International Maj Lind Piano Competition and one of the organizers of the International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition held every five years in Helsinki.
The academy was founded in 1882 by Martin Wegelius as Helsingfors musikinstitut ("Helsinki Music Institute") and renamed Sibelius-Akatemia in 1939 to honour its own former student and Finland's most celebrated composer Jean Sibelius. In 2013, the academy merged with two formerly independent universities, Helsinki Theatre Academy and Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, to form the University of the Arts Helsinki.
The primary degree at the Sibelius Academy is the Master of Music (MMus) degree. The school also offers postgraduate degrees with artistic and research options. The postgraduate degrees are the Licentiate of Arts in Music Lic.A. (Mus.) and the doctoral degree of Doctor of Arts in Music D.A. (Mus.)
The Academy offers the following degree programmes:
- Degree Programme in Church Music
- Degree Programme in Composition and Music Theory
- Degree Programme in Folk Music
- Degree Programme in Jazz Music
- Degree Programme in Orchestral and Choral Conducting
- Degree Programme in Music Education
- Degree Programme in Music Technology
- Degree Programme in Music Performance
- Degree Programme in Vocal Music
- Degree Programme in Arts Management
Notable students and faculty (past and present)Edit
- Greta Dahlström, music teacher and composer
- Kalevi Aho
- Erik Bergman
- Paavo Heininen, former professor of composition
- Tuomas Kantelinen
- Pekka Kostiainen, composer and choral conductor
- Magnus Lindberg
- Jaakko Mäntyjärvi
- Erkki Melartin, student/composer/professor/Director Helsinki Conservatory
- Veli-Matti Puumala, professor of composition
- Einojuhani Rautavaara
- Kaija Saariaho
- Aulis Sallinen
- Jean Sibelius
- Leo Funtek (1885–1965), violinist, conductor, arranger and music professor
- Paavo Berglund, conductor
- Pietari Inkinen, violinist, and conductor
- Sasha Mäkilä, assistant conductor of The Cleveland Orchestra
- Eva Ollikainen, conductor of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra
- Sakari Oramo, conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra
- Jorma Panula, conductor, composer and teacher
- Atso Almila, conductor, composer and teacher
- Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor of the Philharmonia Orchestra, former conductor of the LA Philharmonic, composer
- Jukka-Pekka Saraste, former conductor of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra
- David Searle, orchestral conductor of The Catholic University of America Symphony Orchestra
- Leif Segerstam, conductor of the Turku Philharmonic Orchestra
- Ulf Söderblom, Principal Conductor of the Finnish National Opera (1973–1993), taught at the Sibelius Academy and conducted its orchestras from 1965 to 1968
- Heidi Sundblad-Halme, founder and conductor of the Helsinki Women’s Orchestra; composer
- Okko Kamu, conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra
- Osmo Vänskä, music director of the Minnesota Orchestra
- Mikko Franck, conductor of the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France
- Susanna Mälkki, conductor of the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
- Hannu Lintu, conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra
- Klaus Mäkelä, conductor of the Orchestre de Paris
- Dima Slobodeniouk, conductor of the Orquesta Sinfonica de Galicia
- Santtu-Matias Rouvali, conductor of the Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, and the Philharmonia Orchestra
- Dalia Stasevska, conductor of the Lahti Symphony Orchestra
- Astrid Riska, organist
- Juhani Aaltonen, Finnish jazz saxophonist and flautist
- Linda Brava, violinist
- France Ellegaard (1913–1999), pianist and faculty member
- Gerard Le Feuvre, cellist and founder of the Kings Chamber Orchestra
- Simon Ghraichy (1985), pianist
- Tuija Hakkila (1959), pianist
- Anja Ignatius (1911–1995), violinist and professor
- Kalevi Kiviniemi, organist
- Kari Kriikku, clarinetist
- Matias Kupiainen, lead guitarist of the band Stratovarius
- Pekka Kuusisto, violinist
- Risto Lauriala, pianist
- Max Lilja, cellist in the band Hevein and founding member of Apocalyptica
- Hui-Ying Liu-Tawaststjerna, pianist
- Paavo Lötjönen, cellist in the band Apocalyptica
- Antero Manninen, former cellist in the band Apocalyptica and cellist in the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
- Olli Mustonen, pianist and composer
- Arto Noras, cellist, student of Paul Tortelier
- Mikko Paananen, known as Mige, bassist of the band HIM
- Martti Pokela, founder of the folk music department and former professor of the kantele
- Aku Raski aka Huoratron, electro house and chiptune musician
- Martti Rousi, cello teacher
- Kaija Saarikettu, Professor of solo strings and chamber music
- Antti Siirala, winner of the Dublin, Leeds, and Beethoven international piano competitions
- Agnes Tschetschulin, violinist, composer, one of the first four graduates
- Eicca Toppinen, cellist in the band Apocalyptica
- Perttu Kivilaakso, cellist in the band Apocalyptica, former Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
- Anneli Aarika-Szrok, contralto
- Kim Borg, bass
- Monica Groop, mezzo-soprano
- Tommi Hakala, baritone, winner of the 2003 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition
- Jorma Hynninen, baritone
- Soile Isokoski, soprano
- Topi Lehtipuu, tenor
- Peter Lindroos, tenor (was both a student and teacher at the academy)
- Karita Mattila, soprano, winner of the 1983 Cardiff Singer of the World Competition
- Jyrki Niskanen, tenor
- Arja Saijonmaa, singer
- Petteri Salomaa, bass-baritone
- Tuuli Takala, soprano
- Tarja Turunen, soprano, former singer of the symphonic metal band Nightwish
- Soila Sariola, singer of the double platinum awarded and multiple gold winning vocal ensemble Rajaton
- Matti Salminen, bass
- Paula Vesala, singer of PMMP
- Martti Wallén, opera singer
Junior Academy is for highly skilled young musicians to study with top level professionals before entering a university.
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The Apollo "J" missions were designed to allow the crews to stay and work longer on the Moon's surface and included a Lunar Rover so they could explore several kilometers away from the Lunar Module. Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains provided a dramatic backdrop for the first Apollo "J" mission. This landing site presented Apollo 15 Commander Dave Scott and Lunar Module Pilot Jim Irwin not only a spectacular view, but access to two key geologic features: a "young" volcanic sinuous rille and "older" highland massifs. These geologic features afforded a chance to sample different events from the Moon's geologic history: early crust formation and late stage volcanism. Over the course of 3 EVAs (Extra-vehicular Activities), Scott and Irwin covered a total distance of ~28 km (17.4 miles), collected ~77 kg (~170 lbs) of rock and soil samples, and spent 18.5 hours exploring the Moon's surface.
The LROC Narrow Angle Cameras (NAC) have provided 50 cm/pixel resolution images of the Apollo 15 landing site. In previous posts, we have shown the Lunar Module descent stage, Lunar Rover, ALSEP instruments, and darkened paths of regolith disturbed by the crew and the rover. Here, we focus what the crew did at two locations away from the landing site accompanied by excerpts from their voice transmission about their discoveries and observations.
EVA 2: Station 7 – Collecting the Genesis Rock
Station 7 was at Spur crater, a 90 m diameter impact crater on the slope of the massif to the south known as Mount Hadley Delta. The crew parked along the northeast part of the crater rim (on the downslope side) where they could sample the ejecta blanket. This station is famous for the collection of the Genesis Rock, a 4 billion year old sample of anorthosite representative of the original lunar crust. Their excitement of the discovery is evident in the transmission.
145:42:41 Irwin: Oh, man!
145:42:41 Scott: Oh, boy!
145:42:42 Irwin: I got...
145:42:42 Scott: Look at that.
145:42:44 Irwin: Look at the glint!
145:42:45 Scott: Aaah.
145:42:46 Irwin: Almost see twinning in there!
145:42:47 Scott: Guess what we just found. (Jim laughs with pleasure) Guess what we just found! I think we found what we came for.
145:42:53 Irwin: Crystalline rock, huh?
145:42:55 Scott: Yes, sir. You better believe it.
EVA 3: Station 9A - Observations of Hadley Rille
The last EVA allowed the crew to explore the edge of Hadley Rille. Pans at Stations 9 and 10 show two different craters the crew visited; one of which is a fresh crater with a blocky texture. Station 9A was a terrace that allowed Scott and Irwin a chance to peer down into the rille, which is approximately 1.3 km wide and 400 m deep along most of its length. The crew was able to observe and photograph bedrock along the upper part of the western rille wall. Test pilots by profession, the crew went through extensive geology training so that they could communicate their observations effectively and efficiently to the Science Backroom in Houston, Texas. Most of us are familiar with different historic phrases from various Apollo missions. What is sometimes forgotten is that there was also a great deal of science being accomplished and discussed. Field geologists normally have a field notebook to write down and draw their observations in, but on the Moon everything has to be described verbally. Here is an example from Commander Scott's geologic description of the rille wall at this location and one of the images that corresponds with it. Compare his description with the photograph and this panorama.
165:22:50 Scott: I can see from up at the top of the rille down, there's debris all the way. And, it looks like some outcrops directly at about 11 o'clock to the Sun line. It looks like a layer. About 5 percent of the rille wall (height), with a vertical face on it. And, within the vertical face, I can see other small lineations, horizontal about maybe 10 percent of that unit.
165:23:26 Scott: And that unit outcrops (at various places) along the rille. It's about 10 percent from the top, and it's somewhat irregular; but it looks to be a continuous layer. It may be portions of (mare basalt) flows, but they're generally at about the 10-percent level. I can see another one at about 12 o'clock to the Sun line, which is somewhat thinner, maybe 5 percent of the total depth of the rille. However, it has a more-well-defined internal layering of about 10 percent of its thickness. I can see maybe 10 very well-defined layers within that unit.
The high resolution imagery from LROC allows us to retrace the steps of previous Apollo missions. Compare the Apollo 15 surface panoramas at the different stations with the LROC images to see if you can locate some of the individual rocks and outcrops seen in both perspectives.
Future crews that explore Hadley Rille and the Apennine Mountains could continue where Apollo 15 left off. Combining our previous exploration experience at the site with new remote sensing data sets, a new mission could explore the massifs to the north, additional sites along Hadley Rille, as well as revisit any of the Apollo 15 stations.
Explore the entire LROC NAC frame here and decide the spots you would like to explore on a future mission.
Read more about the Apollo 15 landing site in previous ASU posts:
LROC's First Look at the Apollo Landing Sites (July 17, 2009)
Lunar Highs and Lows (July 22, 2008)
The Mighty Apennine Mountain Range (Sept. 30, 2008)
Hadley-Apennine: the Apollo 15 Landing Site (Nov. 14, 2007)
Text from the corrected Apollo 15 transcript and links to panoramas are from the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal. Used with permission. Copyright Eric M. Jones (1996).
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101-year-old Concentration Camp Guard Sentenced to Prison in Germany
Former Nazi guard at Sachsenhausen concentration camp sentenced to five years in prison.
By Shiryn Ghermezian, The Algemeiner
A 101-year-old man was sentenced to five years in prison by a German court on Tuesday for serving as a Nazi guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during World War II.
Josef Schuetz was convicted of 3,518 counts of accessory to murder, and is the oldest person to be charged with complicity in war crimes during the Holocaust.
During the trial, which opened in October, he denied working at the camp and claimed that he was a farm laborer in northeastern Germany during the Holocaust, according to an Associated Press account. He pleaded innocent, telling the court that he did “absolutely nothing” at the Nazi camp and had no knowledge about the crimes that took place there, Germany’s Deutsche Welle reported.
However, Neuruppin Regional Court ruled that there was sufficient evidence proving that he worked at Sachsenhausen, located north of Berlin. Prosecutors had documents relating to an SS guard with the accused man’s name and date and place of birth who had worked at the camp between 1942 and 1945 as an enlisted member of the Nazi Party’s paramilitary wing, along with other documents.
The prosecution also argued that the former Nazi guard “knowingly and willingly” participated in murder while working at Sachsenhausen. He was accused of participating in the “execution by firing squad of Soviet prisoners of war in 1942” and dispensing the “poisonous gas Zyklon B” in the camp’s gas chambers, among other allegations.
The prosecution was seeking a five-year prison term.
“The court has come to the conclusion that, contrary to what you claim, you worked in the concentration camp as a guard for about three years,” presiding Judge Udo Lechtermann said, according to German dpa news agency. “You willingly supported this mass extermination with your activity.”
The trial took place in a gymnasium in Brandenburg/Havel, where the 101-year-old lives. He was capable of participating in the trial for about two and a half hours each day, and the proceedings were interrupted several times due to his health and hospital stays, the AP reported.
More than 200,000 people were imprisoned at Sachsenhausen between 1936 and 1945, and tens of thousands of inmates died at the concentration camp.
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Linda Cliatt-Wayman is a successful leader in education and is powered by her belief in the potential of all children. Her love, passion and unwavering focus on improving the future of children living in poverty is admirable and inspiring. I am not sure how I missed her acclaimed Ted Talk in 2015, but I am glad that I came across it this year. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe2nlti47kA.
She invoked powerful methods to transform a Philadelphia school and there were no tasks too big or too trivial on her watch. First and foremost, she made the school a safer place. Everyone knows children cannot learn while they are scared, uncared for and unloved. In addition, she upgraded the aesthetics of the school by recycling or discarding unused furniture and materials. The school went from chaotic and filthy to organized, orderly and colorful.
Doesn’t everyone deserve an environment that is safe and pleasing? How wise to recognize the importance of the physical environment in showing students – or anyone- that they are worthy human beings.
I want to pivot back to the kitchen today and express my love for a clean and organized refrigerator. I know it may sound trivial to some, but if it is true that “how we do one thing is how we do everything”, then I declare our kitchen habits are important.
A simple way to stay on top of refrigerator hygiene is to get in the habit of checking it before every grocery day. The thought of adding more food to a fridge that may have expired items, sticky shelves, or condiment chaos, is unappealing. On the other hand, emptying groceries into a clean and well organized fridge is a pleasure.
If we have tidy fridge habits, we will likely also have tidy pantry habits and organized shopping lists, and sensible meal planning patterns. One small area can have ripple effects in other areas, on peace of mind, time, energy, and health.
I invite you to try on this belief: Your best, most authentic life and Self are lurking just beneath the clutter and baggage.
If that is true, what is one thing you could do today to excavate what is buried? It could be something big or small; give something away, delegate a task, clear out a closet, throw out the junk food, face the old wound, have the conversation.
What would you do tomorrow and the next day to keep the momentum going? It’s okay if you don’t know what you might find. Sometimes we have to get through some sludge before we feel lighter. Just stay curious and allow the treasure to reveal itself.
My husband and I are helping to move our youngest daughter out of one apartment and into another. Due to the nature of medical school, and now residency, this will be her fourth move in four years. Moving is a lot of work and the more stuff there is to move, the harder it is. She has learned how to make do with the essentials and not accumulate – and therefore move- more than is necessary.
It got me thinking, doesn’t it behoove us all to live like we are moving? I don’t mean that we should never get attached to a place, or that we ought to deprive ourselves of things we really enjoy. I just mean that if we thought about what we’d really want and need to bring with us if we moved, what would we choose to leave behind? Can we let go of those things now?
It’s a lot of work to move. Packing and unpacking forces us to face every single thing we’ve accumulated. How much freer would we be with less?
I think that as humans we are more willing to change something when it becomes too uncomfortable not to. This could be a habit, a relationship, an occupation; anything we have accepted as ‘good enough’ in the past.
Signs will have been there, perhaps for a long time, that something is amiss, inauthentic, or just plain not right for us. But it seems to me that it will often require reaching a painful threshold before we take action, speak up, change, set new goals or let go.
Life is so much simpler if we pay attention to the signs. We act sooner, waste less time and feel more in alignment to our true selves. Yet is takes courage too.
I have been very fortunate in motherhood with three wonderful, grown daughters whom I adore. Mother’s Day is a happy, celebratory occasion for me.
But last night as I was going to bed, I was thinking of all the moms who have been alienated from their children after a contentious divorce, as my mother had been when I was just four years old (the topic of my memoir-in-progress). I personally know a few of these mothers, and occasionally hear from others whom I’ve never met. They are loving, kind, deeply saddened mothers who desperately want to reconnect with the stolen hearts of their children.
I will not go into detail about ‘attachment-based parental-alienation’ because it is beyond the scope of this blog post (*It happens to dads too). But what I do want to tell you is that last night, without overthinking it or even pre-planning it, I reached out to a large number of these parents on a private online group, and shared my heartfelt thoughts with them. I just couldn’t let Mother’s Day go by without offering my understanding, empathy, and love. And they deeply, sincerely appreciated it.
What does this have to do with decluttering or minimalism? When we are doing our best to get rid of all that does not serve our best lives, including old beliefs, fear, and overthinking our heart’s desires and impulses, often what comes through are the most natural, aligned and effortless words and deeds.
As of yesterday, I added some much-needed structure around finishing up my memoir. I am in the editing stages of my memoir, but have gotten stuck there for so long, I had to do something different.
I suspect the only one to take longer than me to finish writing a book is Joy Imboden Overstreet. I learned through the #amwriting podcast that she ended forty years of procrastination when she finally published her book, The Cherry Pie Paradox last year. Yes, you read that right; forty years! Joy is in her eighties and described the great sense of relief she felt once she did it. Can you imagine? I can.
So to try and end my own procrastination, I joined a May Day Facebook group in which we authors will check in with each other every Monday for the month of May. It won’t be as motivating as hiring a book coach like Joy did, but it will help.
So, with the loose but added structure of my May Day accountability group, my task at hand for the month of May is to make progress every single weekday, whether I feel like it or not. Clear and simple, day by day, I am committed to moving forward. I just know I meant to have my memoir out into the world before I am eighty.
Recently, I had the opportunity to be interviewed for a podcast about healing. This particular episode was about the ways in which decluttering can be a tool for healing. I can easily talk about simplifying as a means to free up your space, mind, calendar and creativity. I am a fervent proponent of the many benefits; the freedom, the momentum, the lightness….
But when asked to speak of decluttering as a practice for healing, I have to take a deep breath. The topic goes straight to my heart and conjures up the experience of navigating my own core wound. Indeed, I do believe that decluttering is a tool for allowing and uncovering what needs our attention. Freed from distractions and clutter, we are left to face ourselves, to come home to ourselves.
The conversation took that deeper dive, and if I had to summarize it in one passage, it would be this:
My book, The Uncluttered Mother: Free Up Your Space, Mind & Heart has been nominated for this year’s COVR (Coalition of Visionary Resources) awards. My vision for this book is to inspire mothers to simplify in ways that uncover their magnificent, divine selves.
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The Rauracian Republic was a short-lived state that included parts of modern France and Switzerland around the Jura mountains. It was created from the northern portion of the Prince-Bishopric of Basel, which was part of the Holy Roman Empire.
The Rauracian Republic existed for just a few months. It was inaugurated on 17 December 1792, and absorbed into France on 23 March 1793. Twenty-two years later, in 1815, Basel and Bern divided the territory of the former republic between them.
The name of the Republic was taken from the Latin name of an ancient Celtic tribe, the Raurici, who settled the southern part of the Upper Rhine. The Raurici were related to the Helvetii, whose name was later bestowed on another French client state, the Helvetic Republic.
Following the proclamation in September 1792 of the French First Republic, unrest quickly spread in the lands of the Prince-Bishop of Basel, leading to the creation of "revolutionary committees". On 17 December 1792 the Rauracian Republic was proclaimed as the first "daughter republic" of revolutionary France. Following the successive collapses of two national assemblies, a third voted for incorporation into France, backed by a referendum believed to have been supported by French pressure and manipulation. This was achieved on 23 March 1793 with the creation of the French Department of Mont-Terrible which had its capital at Porrentruy.
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Grace To You and Peace
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If we hadn’t seen each other in a while, maybe even a long while, what would we want to say to one another? What would we want to let one another know? If we were facing a lot of questions and a lot of unknowns, if we were worried about things like health and even in some cases if we were ever going to see one another again, what message would we want to send?
And how could we talk about joy in such a situation?
To begin to answer these questions we read the opening of Paul’s letter to the Philippians. I have to tell you I love Paul’s letter to the Philippians maybe more than any other letter of Paul (you know I’m never hesitant to play favourites when it comes to things like having a favourite Gospel or what have you). This was the first town that Paul, Silas, and Timothy went to in what is now Europe. Philippi. It’s still there and you can visit the river and think back to Paul and Silas meeting Lydia there and the group that would pray by the river each Sabbath. You can visit the ruins of Roman cells and think of Paul and Silas praying and singing hymns while all the other prisoners listened in until there was a great earthquake. We can think of the Philippian jailer who accepted the hospitality of God (along with his household) and then showed Paul and Silas some Philippian hospitality of his own (along with his household). You can read all these stories in Acts 16.
Unlike other letters of Paul, this one was not written to address a schism that was going on in the church to whom he was writing. It was not written to correct anything. Sure Paul mentions some things to watch out for. He drops a passing reference to murmuring and arguing and writes of the dispute between Euodia and Syntyche and urges them to be of the same mind. Overall though we can think of this letter as a letter of fellowship. I don’t mean fellowship in a get-together for a bbq way (though I am by no means opposed and in fact very much in favour of that kind of thing). I mean fellowship in a “Fellowship of the Ring” kind of way. A group of people who are united in purpose, who are united by love and care for one another. A group of people who had known one another for a long time. Ten years most likely.
Paul is in prison. Most likely he’s reached Rome, though we can’t know for sure. He faces an uncertain future. He writes to his dear sisters and brothers at Philippi to thank them for the gift they sent with Epaphroditus. Paul writes to let them know that he’s doing ok. Paul writes to let them know that Epaphroditus is doing ok, though he was quite ill there for a while and the people in Philippi had heard this – not only was Epaphroditus ill but he was distressed that the people in Philippi had heard he was ill in an “Oh man they’re going to be so worried” kind of way I’m sure.
If we hadn’t seen each other in a while and weren’t sure we were going to see each other again, what would we say? I have to tell you I’m feeling a bit of Paul’s situation here. I mentioned that you know that I’m not hesitant to name a favourite Gospel or disciple or what have you (and knowing me they probably change too) and if you know that it’s because we know each other. These people knew Paul and Paul knew them. I’m no Apostle Paul, Lord knows, and you’re not the Philippian church, but you are the saints in Christ Jesus in Toronto along with the overseers and the helpers. We’ve known each other for a long time. It was 19 years ago that Nicole and I first walked through the doors. That’s just a fraction of the time some of you have been part of this faith family, my beloved brothers, and sisters.
We’re scattered and it’s been a while since we’ve been able to breathe the same air, as a friend of mine describes being together. Let’s ask for God’s help as we spend a little time looking at the opening of Paul’s letter.
Remember who we are. We are a people of fellowship. This walk with Christ is not something we’re called to do on our own, and Paul reminds us of this in the opening line. Paul and Timothy. Remember him? You know him too. That young guy who came along with me when I first arrived. Timothy was like a son to Paul. Timothy would go on to become the head of the church in Ephesus and at this point, he was still at Paul’s side. Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus. Who came to us in the form of a servant. The one in whom we are called and enabled to look not to our own interests but to the interests of others. All of us. Who are saints?
Of course, the church in the coming centuries would begin to recognize individuals (particularly those who were killed for their faith) as saints, and then start to recognize people as saints based on piety or ability to perform miraculous acts. Paul uses the term to describe all of us. Those who are set apart. Made holy. Not through anything we have done or could do but in the holiness of Christ. In the grace of Christ, you might say.
Grace and Peace
In the unmerited love and mercy of Christ, which is what we need. Last week England lost in the finals of the 2020 European Football Championship to Italy. England lost in a penalty shoot-out and the last act was the shot taken by a young man named Bukayo Saka which was saved by the Italian keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. Utter dejection on Saka’s part. Here’s a picture of him along with England manager Gareth Southgate. Here is how one person described the picture:
If there is any image more beautiful
Than the embrace of the one
Who trains, equips, releases
And when you fail
Still embraces you
And reminds you that your value Comes from you who are
Not what you did
Remember who we are beloved brothers and sisters. We are a people who are called to receive and extend grace.
In a time of uncertainty, in a time of scarce resources for the church, we might talk a lot about what the church needs. What does the church need? The church needs the two things that Paul prays for them at the start of this letter. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
“Lord I Need You” indeed. The only thing the church is needs is the grace and peace of God. Resting confidently in the grace and peace of God no matter what is going on around us or no matter how much is known or not known about a post-pandemic world or any other kind of world for that matter.
In whom there is joy. Often we connect joy to an event, like a celebration. For the follower of Christ joy is a gift from God. It transcends circumstances. Someone has described it as an attitude of the heart determined by confidence in God. It is how our sails are set as followers of Christ. One poet described two ships in the midst of a gale – “One ship drives east and the other drives west/With the self-same winds that blow/’Tis the set of the sails and not the gales/That tells them the way to go.” Paul wants his beloved sisters and brothers in Philippi to know he’s ok. He’s in prison facing a capital sentence potentially. No matter Paul’s circumstance joy is ingrained. “I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now.” Do we give thanks to God for one another in our prayers? “I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you.” Paul looks back – “because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day…” Think of the sharing of the good news of the love and grace and mercy and justice of Christ that has gone in since your first sharing of it with this family of faith or whichever family of faith to whom you might belong…
Think about it. Give thanks for it now and give thanks for the ways we are able to share in it now and will be able to share it in the future, no matter our circumstances. In one of our Bible studies not long ago we talked about looking for rainbows – looking for reminders of the promises and how and where we are seeing them fulfilled and in whom we are seeing them fulfilled. And give thanks with joy. Confident that the one who began a good work among us will bring it to completion by the day of Jesus Christ. That day to which we look forward. That day for which we yearn. That day for which we actively wait, holding on fiercely to hope. Eugene Peterson’s The Message translates verse 6 like this – “There has never been the slightest doubt in my mind that the God who started this great work in you would keep at it and bring it to a flourishing finish on the very day Christ Jesus appears.” Wouldn’t we want to let each other know such a thing? Looking at the past, the present, the future. The day of Jesus Christ.
In Jesus Christ. What does it mean for us to be in Jesus Christ? It means to hold one another in our hearts. Our NRSV bibles note the double meaning of the phrase Paul uses here for “because you hold me in your heart.” It can also be translated as “because I hold you in my heart.” We are all of us sharers in God’s grace. This is the truth of which Paul wants his dear brothers and sisters in Philippi to be reminded. For all of you share in God’s grace with me. This is the truth. Deitrich Bonhoeffer, who literally wrote the book on Life Together, described this truth like this – “Christianity means community through Jesus Christ and in Jesus Christ… Whether it be a brief, single encounter or the daily fellowship of years, Christian community is this. We belong to one another only through and in Jesus Christ.”
Of course, the challenge for us to for our actions to match this truth. The people of Philippi showed their sharing in God’s grace with Paul by sending people like Epaphroditus to see him. They showed it by helping Paul financially. Presence and presents if you like. The challenge that is ever before us as followers of Christ is to narrow the gap between what we believe and how those beliefs are manifested in our words and in our actions. Worshipping together, coming around tables together, is a sign of our sharing in Christ. Sharing money is a sign of our sharing in Christ – it is tangible evidence of a deep truth, not simply an income-tax deduction.
I thank my God every time I remember you, constantly praying with joy in every one of my prayers for all of you, because of your sharing in the gospel from the first day until now.
I long for all of you with the compassion of Christ. Compassion here is that Greek word you’ve heard me speak of, Splanchnon – the guts, the inmost parts, a visceral longing.
And always prayer. Paul begins and ends with prayer here. The prayer of thanks in verse 3. The prayer of asking (we call it intercession – it means asking of God). What is it that Paul prays? I pray that your love may overflow more and more with knowledge and full insight. Love is the message. There’s a new documentary out about the life of Anthony Bourdain, a chef who achieved a very high level of fame – travel, money, food all part of his life, which he took three years ago at the age of 61. In the movie, he’s talking to Iggy Pop, a punk icon (and Bourdain was a bit of a punk rock chef in many ways). They’re sitting in a restaurant and Bourdain asks Iggy Pop about sustained contentment, happiness. “What thrills you?” Bourdain asks. Iggy Pop tells him it’s embarrassing for him to give the answer. This is what he says, “Being loved and actually appreciating the people who are giving that to me.” I watched that and Iggy Pop had absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. He is hitting on a fundamental truth about who God created us to be and what God created us to do. May our love overflow more and more, spill out of us, with knowledge and full insight – not simply sentiment or feeling but a heart knowledge of how God loves us and what God wills for us in Christ and through the power of the Holy Spirit so that God’s love pours out of us in everything we say and everything we do. So that in all the unknowns and all the questions and all the tragedies and all the darkness, the love of God and our love for God and all God has created remains unquestionably our light.
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“You are what you eat!”
Chances are, you’ve heard—or even said—that common phrase. And it’s easy to see the correlation between food and health. Eat nutritious, good-for-you foods and you’ll see and feel the emotional and physical results: glowing skin, increased energy, better sleep, healthy weight, and more.
But the biggest benefits of a healthy diet go much deeper, venturing into disease-fighting territory.
Research has proven that certain foods can help our bodies fight or prevent illnesses and infections. For example, probiotic-friendly foods will boost immune response and combat digestive issues, while a diet rich in antioxidants can reduce the risk of heart disease, Parkinson’s, and more.
And then there’s cancer. With its high mortality rate and skyrocketing number of diagnoses each year, it’s certainly a disease that concerns many. Yet few people realize how their food choices can help ward off (or encourage and compound) this dreaded disease.
But the truth is, the link can’t be denied. Let’s explore how diet and cancer are connected, which foods you should incorporate into your diet to fight or even prevent cancer, and which foods you should avoid.
What Exactly Is Cancer?
“The Big C,” cancer looms large in the minds of many who are affected, or worried they will be.
But while some conditions, such as dementia or heart disease, are easily understood at a glance, the definition of cancer remains somewhat murky for many.
So, before we look at nutrition and cancer, let’s look at exactly what cancer is.
Your body is composed of trillions of cells that live a full life cycle within your body. When you’re healthy, these cells grow and form new cells (through a process known as cell division) as your body needs them. As the cells grow older or become damaged, they die off. Your body then produces new cells to replace them.
Cancer disrupts this simple, orderly process.
When cancer is impacting the body, damaged cells, which should be dying and getting replaced, multiply and create more of the damaged cells. These group together and form lumps of tissue, which we call tumors. Tumors can be benign (not cancerous) or malignant (cancerous).
Cancerous tumors will spread or invade nearby healthy tissues. They can even travel to other parts of the body to create additional cancerous tumors. And, adding to the abnormal behavior of cancer cells, sometimes they don’t form detectable tumors at all. Blood cancer, such as leukemia, never creates a solid tumor, but is no less dangerous.
Can You Fight Cancer with Nutrition?
What you put into your body affects all aspects of your health, including your body’s capacity to fight disease and illness. And as far back as the 1960s, studies showed correlations between nutrition and different types of cancer.
So if you’re wondering whether you can diet to prevent cancer, the answer is a resounding yes!
When it comes to nutrition and cancer prevention, there are two ways to approach it.
- Avoid foods that are known to be cancer-causing .
- Choose healthy foods that have been proven to prevent or fight cancer.
According to Harvard Medical School, less than 30% of the factors that determine your risk of cancer are the result of uncontrollable factors. This means that the vast majority of your cancer potential is controllable, including your dietary choices.
Which Foods Encourage Cancer?
There’s no “magic food” that you can cut out to completely eliminate your risk of cancer. But, if you’re trying to fight cancer with food choices, there are certain foods that you should avoid as much as possible. These foods are known as carcinogens, which means they are capable of causing cancer.
The biggest carcinogenic culprits are undoubtedly found in the meat group. The World Health Organization (WHO) has broken them down even further.
Processed meats are a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning that there’s strong evidence that they cause cancer. Some of the products in this group include ham, bacon, salami, and hot dogs. More specifically, they can increase your risk of bowel and stomach cancer.
Red meat is a Group 2 carcinogen, which means it probably causes cancer. This includes beef, lamb, and pork (“the other white meat” is actually red meat!).
Not convinced? Here are a couple of stunning facts, courtesy of the Cancer Council.
- Eating more than 24 ounces of red meat per week increases your risk of bowel cancer.
- Your risk of developing bowel cancer increases 1.18 times for every 1.7 ounces of processed meat you eat per day.
Suffice to say, there are numerous reasons for controlling your alcohol intake. Cancer is only one of them. If you are optimizing your diet to reduce cancer risk, alcohol needs to be kept to a minimum.
Take breast cancer, for instance—the most common type of cancer. There are numerous factors that increase the risk of breast cancer, including drinking alcohol. In fact, studies show that the risk of breast cancer increases by 10% for every glass of alcohol consumed daily.
There is also strong evidence linking alcohol to other cancers, including those of the mouth, pharynx and larynx, oesophagus, colorectum, liver, and stomach.
To reduce your risk, experts recommend that alcoholic beverages should be limited to no more than 1 drink (women) or 2 drinks (men) per day.
Which Foods Prevent Cancer?
Now that we’ve gone over some of the foods you should avoid, let’s look at which foods can help you fight the good fight. Generally, any whole foods are best as they are unprocessed and have all the right nutrients and phytochemicals for maximum health benefits.
Here are some recommendations from the American Cancer Society (ACS) for the best cancer fighting foods:
- Your diet should be high in fruits and vegetables, with at least 2 1⁄2 cups of fruits and veggies per day being optimal. Servings of cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and kale are especially effective in reducing tumor growth. Broccoli is particularly beneficial for fighting risk of colorectal cancer. Citrus fruits are also helpful as they are shown to reduce risk of esophageal cancer. Fruits and veggies high in carotenoids like lycopene (tomatoes), beta-carotene (carrots), and lutein (spinach) provide cancer-fighting antioxidants that offer a decreased risk of prostate, stomach, and lung cancer.
- Choose omega-3 fatty acids (fish, flaxseed oil, walnuts) over omega-6 fatty acids (corn oil, sunflower oil). Omega-3 fatty acids have been linked to a reduced risk of prostate cancer.
- Try to limit your intake of grains. And, when you do eat grains, choose whole grains such as brown rice or quinoa.
- Certain spices such as curcumin, found in turmeric, can potentially reduce cancerous lesions because of its anti-inflammatory properties. Curcumin is especially effective in lowering the risk of colon cancer. Some studies have shown that cinnamon may also prevent the spread of cancer cells.
- Make healthier meat choices, such as fish, poultry, and eggs. You can still get the protein, iron, and other valuable nutrients you need, but with a much lower risk of cancer.
When we talk about how to fight cancer with food, fiber deserves a special mention. A diet that contains foods high in fiber can significantly cut your risk of bowel cancer.
Fiber is found in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains. Although all of those options are healthy, the fiber found in whole grains is more effective at fighting cancer.
Your body can’t break down fiber easily, so it moves into your bowels. There, it attaches to and helps eliminate waste. This means the bacteria and other harmful chemicals found in waste spend less time in your body.
On top of that, fiber promotes the production of butyrate by the bacteria in your bowels. Butyrate is a fatty acid that helps the bowel’s cells stay healthy, so tumors are less likely to develop.
Rice, oatmeal, legumes, sweet potatoes, ground flax seeds, chia seeds, and even popcorn are all good sources of fiber.
A Plant-Based Diet for Cancer?
Since you should be limiting your meat consumption (based on the foods to avoid, above), you might be moving towards a plant-based diet. But, this doesn’t mean that you won’t eat meat at all.
A diet is considered plant based when two-thirds of what you eat comes from plants. A nutritionally-sound plant-based diet includes a variety of delicious foods:
- Plant-based proteins (such as tofu)
Of course, not all plant foods are nutritious. You should still focus on making healthy choices!
Highly processed and refined foods such as white rice or regular pasta have had much of their nutrients stripped away. Reaching for rice cakes instead of crackers is an easy, nutritious, and tasty snack-time substitution.
Should You Follow a Weight Loss Diet to Prevent Cancer?
When it comes to diets that prevent cancer, it’s not just what you eat, it’s also how much you eat that can make a difference.
In an ideal world, your eating choices are part of an overall healthy lifestyle that includes both nutritious foods and plenty of physical activity. This will not only help you look and feel better, but it will also help you control your weight.
Because believe it or not, how much you weigh will influence your body’s cancer-fighting abilities.
In fact, being overweight or obese can lead to higher risk for certain types of cancer, including those of the:
- Breast (in women past menopause)
- Colon and rectum
How does being overweight increase your risk of cancer? The main culprit is your hormones. Excess weight causes your body to produce more estrogen and insulin. Both of these are hormones that stimulate cell growth, including the growth of cancer cells.
Managing your weight by filling your plate with nutritious choices, such as those we mentioned above, can be one of your biggest allies in the cancer fight.
There is no denying the link between nutrition and cancer prevention. Ideally, a diet that fights cancer effectively will have two focal points.
Eliminate or reduce the consumption of known carcinogens, including processed meats, red meat, and alcohol. Then, up your intake of cancer-preventing foods such as fruits, vegetables, and fiber. And don’t forget to get enough protein (from healthy sources!) to make up for the reduction in red meat.
The statistics surrounding cancer are beyond alarming: 1 in 3 people will be diagnosed with cancer at some point in their lifetime. But by making the best dietary choices, you can give yourself a fighting chance!
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Smiths Detection has confirmed that the Bioflash air sampler can detect Beta, Gamma, Kappa, Delta, and Delta plus variants.
Smiths Detection, a company specializing in threat detection and security screening technologies, announced on Oct. 13th, 2021, that its air sampler, BioFlash, can detect multiple SARS-CoV-2 variants. In addition to the Alpha variant, it can detect the Beta, Gamma, Kappa, Delta, and Delta plus variants. Confirmation of additional emerging variants, including the Lambda variant, is currently ongoing.
The BioFlash Biological Identifier is a bioaerosol collection and identification system. In addition to COVID-19, it can also identify threats such as anthrax, ricin, botulinum toxin, black plague, tularemia, and smallpox.
Last January, Smiths Detection announced that the BioFlash was capable of detecting airborne SARS-CoV-2 following tests done by the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. According to a company press release, it has been used by several universities to stop the spread of COVID-19 following detection of the virus.
“It has been a great asset to have this equipment at UMBC,” said Mike Pound, director of environmental health and safety for University of Maryland, Baltimore Country (UMBC), in the press release. “As everyone knows, you need a layered protection strategy to combat COVID. BioFlash is easy and fast to use which makes it a critical part of our mitigation strategy to help prevent transmission.”
“Emerging variants are a threat to pandemic recovery; however, mitigation strategies that utilize BioFlash will have an advantage,” said Warren Mino, managing director at Smiths Detection, in the press release. “BioFlash works by collecting aerosols and identifies the presence of dangerous pathogens using sensitive, specific and rapid detection in near-real time without laboratory analysis. Not only can BioFlash detect COVID-19 and its variants, it can be used by anyone, giving them immediate results, in minutes not days, which helps stop the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne pathogens.”
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Today marks the start of Home Care Month. This is the first of several blogs post reflecting on the current issues impacting the industry.
Every day in this country, 10,000 baby boomers turns 65. This new generation of “elders” are unlike any other to come before it. Economists suggest that these baby boomers control 70% of all US disposable income, yet a large percentage are not well prepared financially for retirement, with savings far below what they are projected to need to “sustain their quality of life.” Thanks to medical advances, these aging boomers should have a longer life expectancy than even the generation before them. They are more educated. They are accustomed to speaking up about their health care needs and they are technologically savvy. And without a doubt, they will be looking for a long-term care delivery system that meets their needs, allows them to age in place with some degree of financial security and with little dependence on their children (whom many boomers are still supporting!).
In short, they will want a high-quality, cost-effective, technologically-advanced home care delivery system. As we celebrate home health care month in Massachusetts and around the country, let’s look at some of what we need to do to make sure we have that in place.
Starting with Workforce Issues
This chart from a recent report from global health care consulting firm, Mercer, depicts what many have written about: There is a huge gap between the availability of a home health aide/personal care workforce and patient need. Massachusetts is among the states expected to feel it the most, and the graphic speaks to how much has to be done in this area.
Home health agencies – dependent on heavily regulated Medicare and Medicaid funding for most of their services – are increasingly unable to offer wage and benefit packages that allow them to compete within the health-care or service-delivery sectors. Added business costs such as the state’s EMAC assessment and mandated paid sick leave make it harder for private home care companies to keep costs affordable and attract workers. Already, many report more demand than they have the workforce to meet.
To ensure an available, productive, and healthy workforce we support:
- Repealing the onerous EMAC assessment on agencies whose workers access public insurance (Medicaid);
- Providing premium assistance or pooled purchasing of health insurance for direct care workers;
- Adequately adjusting Medicaid reimbursements to cover living wages and benefits; and
- Investing now in the creation of a meaningful, long-term care workforce training, with nurse and aide training funds.
Looking at Technology
There are many who think some of the workforce demand can be offset with the new technologies emerging to support aging at home. These include sensor devices that can detect a multiplicity of conditions and situations including missed meals or medications, a problematic change in weight or blood pressure, or a fall. According to a recent report by the MA state Auditor’s office:
The potential for technological change to impact the labor requirements for home health/direct care workers is considerable. As low cost technologically-based products become available it is likely that these emerging products and services will serve as both substitutes for and complements to home health/direct care occupations.
Most of these technological devices require a receiver to get and act on the collected data. While in some cases this may be a family member, it should also be noted that home care agencies are appropriately poised to be the monitor of remotely transmitted systems, sending a nurse or aide to visit only as indicated. As workforce issues intensify, we would like to see and support:
- More insurance coverage, including Medicare and Medicaid for remote monitoring devices
- More modeling of partnerships between private home care companies and technology vendors to test the market for, and price, care extender technologies as part of a private home care plan of care.
Home Care Month is a time to honor the contributions of home health workers who are the lifeline to health care for some many home-bound elders, for isolated and struggling families and for the disabled. Let’s also use this opportunity to listen to and respond to their needs.
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Don't Bank On The Bomb
Did you know that nuclear weapons are the only weapons of mass destruction not prohibited under international law? We trace Peace Action’s efforts to delegitimize nuclear weapons to the founding of Peace Action in 1957. The Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy, as we were known at the time, has been a part of every major initiative to abolish nuclear weapons since then.
In April, Peace Action teamed up with American Friends Service Committee and the Western States Legal Foundation and a number of our national and international partners to organize the Peace and Planet mobilization during the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference at the United Nations in New York.
In addition to addressing nuclear disarmament issues, the Peace and Planet conference, and subsequent rally and march, also made connections to issues of climate change, civil rights and economic and social justice.
Don’t Bank on the Bomb is an international campaign to push financial institutions to divest from nuclear weapons. Thus far, 53 financial institutions have joined the campaign, led by the Dutch group, PAX. Peace Action has endorsed Don’t Bank On The Bomb and while it has received little attention in the U.S. that will change as more groups get involved in pressing financial institutions here to divest.
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More and more you see backpacks advertised as having a backpack sternum strap, but what exactly is it? If you’re not sure if it is necessary or not, don’t worry as we will explain everything here.
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What is a Sternum Strap on a Backpack?
A backpack with a chest strap provides extra support for backpackers. There are different designs, but basically, it is made up of a belt or strap which you wear while carrying the backpack. You can also use it similarly to a shoulder strap. While some backpacks have these straps, others don’t, but most are designed to accept them.
Why You Must Use a Backpack with Sternum Strap?
The primary reason to wear a chest strap for the backpack is it provides support for the rest of your body. As even long time backpackers will tell you, carrying a full backpack is going to put a lot of strain on your shoulders. By using a chest strap, you will be able to ease the pressure on your shoulders, essential when you’re trekking for long distances.
This claim might be hard to believe if you are new to backpacking: you feel strong and capable of carrying all that weight. However, the constant carrying of the backpack is going to take its toll eventually if you don’t carry it properly. Rather than wait for your body to hurt, it’s better to get a chest strap now and use it.
Most Popular Ones in the Market
If you look for a sternum strap backpack online you’re going to find a lot of options, but the following are most popular and well worth a look.
- The Camelbak sternum strap is compatible with the standard ¾ webbing
- It helps keep your load secure
- Attaches to your shoulder straps for additional security
- Easily adjustable
- There is a quick-release buckle so you can take it on and off easily
- Design makes it a good backpack sternum strap replacement
- Can be used with different types of backpack shoulder straps
- Constructed from super-strong nylon webbing
- The straps can be easily adjusted
- The straps have a snap-on, snap-off feature that makes attaching easy
- Built for heavy-duty use, the straps keep even heavy loads stabilized
- The straps are made from durable materials, as the nylon webbing holds up well
- The straps are comfortable and keep your load balanced
- Easy to adjust
- Once installed correctly, your backpack will be secure
- Compatible with backpack shoulder MOLLE sternum strap
Buying a Third Party Sternum Strap
The importance of a sternum strap adjuster has led to its inclusion in many good backpacks, and in a way that is good because it saves you the trouble of buying one. But there are times when it is better to purchase a third-party adult or kids backpack with sternum strap.
List of top tactical backpacks with pre-built sternum straps.
There are many reasons for this, but basically what it comes down to is some of the pre-built sternum straps are not good enough. So there are third party options you can use instead. And there is also the fact that some of these backpacks don’t even have sternum straps, making it necessary to buy one.
In the next section, we will offer some tips to help you find the best possible chest straps, but in the meantime, we have to stress the importance of the material. These straps will be subjected to a lot of wear and tear.
Last but not least…
Another thing you have to consider is how well you receive the strap. Even though these straps look the same, their design varies and so the performance. This is where reviews will come in because they can help you get the maximum performance from the straps.
How to Install a Sternum Strap?
Tips to Buy the Best Backpack with Chest Strap
There are several things you need to consider, and it is not just the cost. First, make sure a reputable manufacturer makes the strap. The growing popularity of these straps has led to the development of all kinds of straps. Whether it is a Whistle Sternum strap or something else, make sure the brand is a trustworthy one.
Second, look at the features of the strap. These devices have a similar purpose, but their style and makeup vary, both of which affect performance and use. Here are some points to consider.
- How secure is the strap to put on and remove? When you’re carrying a loaded backpack, the last thing you want is to mess around with the straps trying to get it on or removing it.
- Adjustability: How easy are the straps to adjust? During the course of your treks and hikes, you will make adjustments to the straps, and a well-made sternum should not give you any problems. There are a lot of factors that you need to consider, and this is one of them.
- Stability: One of the reasons why you’re using the straps is to provide extra stability, so make sure they work as advertised. If your backpack is only half full it will likely be fine, so test the straps with a full pack. Even if you don’t usually hike with a full backpack, it’s better to make sure the straps can handle it.
- Comfort: The straps usually provide relief, so give the straps a try and if it makes any difference. Of course, people have different comfort levels, and what is comfy for one may not be for you.
A lot of these will require some testing, so make certain the straps you order have a money-back guarantee and a clear refund policy. In case the straps don’t fit you should be able to return them.
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Starting and running a small business comes with its challenges. One of the most significant is credit management. Lack of proper strategies can land you in financial straits.
Credit management is a wide topic. It covers the policies and practices you have to ensure customers pay on time. In the same breath, it looks at how you manage debt in your day-to-day operations.
Related Post: The Realities Of Cash-Flow Management For SMBs
Our article explores corporate credit management for small businesses in 2021. If you are an entrepreneur, you will get some fantastic insights by reading on.
1. Develop and Establish Credit Management Policies
A corporate credit management policy acts as a roadmap to all your financial dealings. So what should you have in the policy document? Do take note of the following.
- Levels of profitability, and credit assessment regimes
- A clear guide on how to deal with customer transactions. It starts right from when they place an order, to invoicing and final payment.
- Payment and customer follow-up procedures. How do you, for instance, communicate with customers who do not make payments on time. What communication channels do you use? Are there penalties for such situations?
- Credit terms applicable to customers and how you decide on the criteria.
- Customer training on credit management
- Debt recovery and risk mitigation measures, amongst others.
Do note, preparing a credit control policy is not a simple job. There are regulatory compliance issues that you must adhere to. It also pays to put in place strategies that will protect the business.
Seek help from the experts when preparing the documents. Such include financial advisors, business lawyers, credit professionals, and so on.
Also Read: The Best Mind Mapping Software
2. Keep an Eye on the Business Credit Reports
Should you have a business credit profile, separate from your personal one? The answer, according to Investopedia, is yes!
A business credit profile allows you to obtain credit, without lenders looking at your personal credit profile to determine risk.
Further, the credit profile allows the company to establish its credit history. A good credit score increases the chances of getting financing from lending institutions.
The reference bureaus look at specific factors when assigning scores. These include the ability of the business to pay its bills. They will also get information from suppliers and vendors.
What happens if you have a poor business credit score? Well, you can still qualify for loans, but at a high interest level. The lenders may also ask for collateral. It protects them in the case where you’re not able to make loan repayments.
But you can fix a poor credit score with the help of a top-rated credit repair company. They will keep a close watch on your credit reports.
The monitoring can highlight any errors that can bring down your credit scores. The credit repair professionals can also remove collection accounts from the credit report.
3. Work On Your Billing Strategies
Invoicing and late payments are constant nightmares that business owners have to deal with. Yet, proper management of such ensures a steady cash flow for healthy operations.
The right strategies in billing can help overcome some of the challenges. You, for example, do not want to have too many unpaid invoices.
Take the time to understand your customers better. That chronic late-paying customer can improve with a little creativity in how you approach them. If repeated invoicing, calls, and emails do not work, think of incentives.
Say, offer a discount for payments within a specific time window. Another option would be the upfront payment as a requirement.
Do take time to research customers before extending credit. You can ask the client to show proof of creditworthiness with their repayment history. But do not depend on self-reporting only.
A simple credit check from the reference agencies like Transunion, Experian, and Equifax can give you all the information you need. Extend your research further by asking for trade references.
4. Practice Financial Responsibility
Financial responsibility means discipline in how you use money. We reiterate our earlier point about separating personal and business finances. Keep up with debt repayments because it impacts your credit score.
Delaying or skipping payments will pile up your debt. Lenders will also share such information with the credit reference bureaus.
Avoid the temptation of living beyond your means when things are going well business-wise. Lifestyle inflation is a very real condition that afflicts many. The more money coming in, the more you spend. In the end, you will start dipping into business coffers.
Keep a close eye on your books and pay your taxes. Create a schedule that the business can accommodate. If it is a challenge to make quarterly payments, opt for monthly. The amount becomes smaller and easier to manage.
Be more watchful of expenditure, if there is no ROI, then avoid it altogether. Purchases that don’t bring in returns are like pouring money down the drain.
And, the learning never stops. The best way to achieve good financial habits is to educate yourself. You get insights on what can land you in financial ruin and how to mitigate or avoid them.
Most importantly, you learn how to plan every aspect of the business. It allows for better allocation of finances to deserving areas.
Proper corporate credit management is the defining factor between business success and failure. Start by developing policies to guide every financial transaction.
Separate your personal and business finances. It also helps to have discipline when handling money. You want to avoid the temptation of dipping into company cash when you need money for personal use.
Keep a close eye on your credit reports, both personal and business. If you notice any anomalies, get the help of credit repair professionals. Remember, a perfect credit score will open doors when you need financing.
Take the time to know your customers by doing a little research. It will help determine who you can extend lines of credit to. Unpaid invoices will impact the cash flow in your business.
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Our best friends deserve the best
"Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened," Anatole France has said and anyone who even for a short period of time has had a pet will confirm. Pets charge us with positive energy, relieve us from stress, make us laugh and give us the most important thing: unconditional love.
Pets, however, need proper care to be healthy and happy. They are not toys, they are a responsibility asking for constant care.
Just like people, pets need balanced nutrition – both in regard to the ingredients and to the quantity. Food should be fresh, diverse, and in sufficient amounts – obesity is an unpleasant condition with significant health impact in pets, too.
The health of the pet means also sufficient physical activity. Whether it will be a walk in the park, playing with its favourite toy, running or something else, it is up to you and your pet. What is important is to do it, because it not only keeps the animal fit, but also additionally strenghtens your connection with it. Don't do the mistake of some owners of small dog breeds who carry them all the time – even these animals need to run free and need clean air.
The regular visits at the vet are also important. The examination and the vaccinations at an early age are absolutely obligatory, as they will inform you on possible future health problems and will protect your pet from diseases. The regular check-ups every year should not be skipped, and even in the tiniest suspicion that your pet doesn't feel well, don't neglect the symptoms, but go to the doctor.
In the past few years, pet healthcare in Bulgaria has developed and now offers world-level quality. The vets are no more mere general practitioners. A number of clinics appeared that work with the latest equipment and with specialists in the different fields of pet healthcare.
The vets, who are not only excellent professionals, but also love their job and patients, are as important for the health of your pet as you are – and sometimes even more. At Veterinary Clinic Doiran (Sofia, 12-А Doiran St, phone: 0878 817 633, www.doiranvet.com) you will find such specialists. Doiran Clinic has an enviable expertise in treatment of small dog breeds, cats and exotic animals, although size has never mattered for the specialists here. Besides the ordinary consultations and prophylaxis, the clinic offers the latest medical care in fields like orthopedy and dentistry, cardiology and image diagnostics. In the completely equipped surgery there are anaesthesiology machine, artificial breathing ventilator, patient's monitor and more. At Doiran Clinic you will find consultancy, diagnostics and treatment of all types of bone, joint and muscle conditions, and an excellent diagnostics and treatment of internal, infectious, eye and cardiovascular diseases. The clinic has as well an echography unit for examination of internal organs, and its clinical laboratory offers a wide range of tests, including complete blood count. Until 31 August, Doiran Clinic offers free tests for dirofilaria immitis ("heartworm"). Get your voucher for a free test at the pet shop on 12-A Doiran St, or call 0878 817 633. You pay only the blood drawing (10 lv).
Animal health needs as much care as human one, and just like in people it is a function of quality food, but also of the used medicines. The Bulgarian company Farma Vet Ltd (Shumen, 40 Otets Paisiy St, www.farmavet.bg) is of help to everyone who wants not only to not to compromise with the care for his animals – no matter of whether they are pets or farm ones. The company produces a rich portfolio of quality licensed medicines and of registered with the Ministry of Healthcare sanitary hygiene products, complementary fodder and milk substitutes for farm animals, granulated food for pets. Farma Vet offer also products for exotic animals, pigeons and even fish, and also products for protection of your home and garden from pests and rodents. The developed distribution network of Farma Vet is a guarantee that you will receive your ordered products in time, and the responsible attitude of the company shows that for it the health and good condition of our speechless friends always comes first. | <urn:uuid:2efc6803-1b9b-42e5-ad1e-6f1694df83b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://vagabond.bg/love-care-817 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958097 | 897 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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sed we should think it necessary.” Accordingly, Mr B. once more tried the same orifice, but not altogether with the same success; it was much contracted, and the stream grew gradually smaller till it ceased, before the patient either complained of faintness, or was sensible of any relief
. The quantity thus drawn might amount to 14 ounces, but, from the slow manner in which it had flowed, its quality could not be so precisely ascertained, though it had obviously the same general character as before. We then retired for a short time, to consider what ought to be done next. Neither of us felt disposed to advise the making of a fresh orifice at that moment; we determined rather to watch the symptoms very closely, and, in the first place, to try a large blister and a full dose of calomel, with some other purgative.
But while Mr B. was writing the prescription, and I was conversing with the patient, he complained of such an increase of pain, as led both of us to believe that nothing but the farther abstraction of blood could arrest the progress of the mischief, and that it would be fatal loss of time to await the issue of any other expedient. We therefore proposed that a vein should be opened in the other arm, to which Mr D. objected, chiefly, if not altogether, on the ground that the operation was more difficult in the left arm, and he was afraid lest an artery should be wounded; but on being assured by Mr B. that he could bleed in the left arm as easily as in the right, he consented. When about 16 ounces of blood had thus been drawn from a large orifice, the pain ceased ; and we ventured to assure the patient, that at length we had reached the cause ; but, alas ! we were soon to be undeceived, and to discover how far beyond all human reach the fatal cause was seated. Nothing like syncope occurred; neither did the languor appear, for the first half-hour, greater than that from which he had recovered after the bleeding in the morning, or, indeed, than that which very commonly follows such copious bleedings as are found necessary, when any important viscus is inflamed, and without which being induced, it rarely happens that cxtensive inward inflammation can be subdued. In fact, so little was there then to alarm either of us, that Mr B. went to visit another patient in the neighbourhood, it having been previously agreed, that I should stay till he returned, when we were to settle what was to be done farther.
But during his absence I had begun to take the alarm, from observing that the pulse became less and less distinct, and the extremities less and less warm, while there was no deliquium to account for such symptoms, but, on the contrary, the patient was in full possession of his faculties; and from the sound of his voice and cough, it might have been supposed that he was in his ordinary health. Under this impression, I had begun to administer small quantities of wine whey and spt. ammoniæ aromaticus ; yet still the prognostic was so far uncertain, that when Mr B. returned, after an absence of not more than half an hour, and I comniunicated my apprehensions to him, not only did he not immediately enter into them, but, for a moment, I was myself inclined to hope that they were groundless. It was, however, only for a moment. We soon saw too clearly, that cordials of various kinds, and of increased strength, and warmth externally applied with the utmost diligence, produced but mere transient effects on the pulse and temperature. The patient complained more and more of coldness and oppression, and about half past eleven at night he sunk without a struggle.
Examination of the body, performed by Mr Bickersteth, in the presence of Drs Maccartney, Bostock, and myself, about 20 hours after death.
On dividing the skin, the cellular membrane was found very much loaded with fat; near the umbilicus it was fully two inches thick. The omentum was also very fat, and extended low down. The quantity of fat surrounding the kidneys was very great ; and there were besides many distinct masses of fat attached to the different viscera.
The omentum was in a state of high inflammation, more particularly at its edges, and under side. The whole tract of the small intestines was inflamed, but especially the ileum. In some parts the vessels were highly injected, and in others there were marbled spots of considerable size.
On tracing the ileum to its termination in the cæcum, the appendix vermiformis was found enlarged in all its dimensions to at least three times its natural size, and it was nearly black.
Its coats were much thickened, but so tender that it burst at its . extremity on being gently pressed, and a sanious fluid issued
from it. A solid body was felt within it, near its origin, which moved freely backwards and forwards under the finger.
On opening the appendix, its inner surface was gangrenous. The solid body contained in it proved to be a human tooth, the root of which had become soft, and was easily separated into strata, on being scraped with the end of the scalpel
. The enamel was perfect, and, when the tooth was thrown into water, it gave the same smart sound against the basin, that a tooth recently extracted would have done.
The cæcum was very much enlarged.
The liver, stomach, spleen, lungs, and heart, were all natural, except that there was some slight inflammation in that part of the
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liver which is contiguous to the colon, and that there was a large quantity of fat about the diaphragm, mediastinum, and heart.
P.S. Since the above statement was written, my attention has been directed to a case in the London Medical and Physical Journal for this present month (February 1816), where mortification was occasioned by a chocolate-nut, lodged in the entrance of the appendix vermiformis. To this case, as resembling the one just detailed in many important particulars, I would beg leave to refer my readers. If they will be at the trouble to compare the dates, it will probably strike them as singular enough that two such cases should have occurred so nearly at the same time. In the one, no history could be traced as to the length of time that the nut had been swallowed, farther than that the patient “ had experienced a similar affection of his bowels about a year before.” So also in the other, after the cause had been ascertained by dissection, several of Mr D.'s friends could recollect that, at times, for a year or more, he had, when walking, been obliged to stop short by a sudden attack of pain in the right iliac region, which, however, soon went off, and no farther notice was taken of it by himself or others. None of his own family ever heard of his having swallowed a tooth. One gentleman, indeed, who had been his intimate from a very early age, thinks he recollects something of the kind having been told him by Mr D., when they were at school together, but he does not speak positively; and my friend Mr Perry, the dentist, to whom I shewed the tooth, says it must have belonged to the second set, for it is one of the upper bicuspides teeth, which do not exist in the infant set. Mr P. authorizes me to say,
" that he cannot believe it to have been one of Mr D.'s own teeth, but that it must have been swallowed, as any other moderately sized substance is liable to be, in his food.” And, to shew how very possible this is, he states, “ that, the week immediately before Mr D.'s death, a well known individual in Liverpool happened to cut down upon a human tooth, in a hot roll which he was going to eat at breakfast.” He farther says, that “ he had been in the habit of examining Mr D.'s teeth, and that they were more free from decay or disease of any kind, than is general perhaps; that he had lost one or two, which he thinks were molares, but that, to the best of his recollection, the bicuspides were all in their places, and sound; that the tooth in question had more the appearance of having belonged to a female; that it had a covering of what is called tartar, which occupied the natural cavity betwixt the points of the grinding surface, obliterating them as points; that
this extended on one side about two-thirds of the length of the fang, indicating, as he infers, that it was lost by this accumulation, and a gradual retiring of the alveolar process, as is usual in advanced age; but he will not take upon that the tooth may not have acquired its covering while it was lodged in the intestine or appendix.”
Liverpool, February 6, 1816.
him to say,
Fatal Case of Intestinal Disease, with the Appearance on Disa
section. By GEORGE Nesse Hill, Surgeon, Chester.
inserting at your convenience the subsequent -faithful detail of a fatal case of intestinal disease.
Minute histories of the rise, progress, and termination of ambiguous attacks on human health and life, where, when it has come to a close, dissection is permitted, form so many beacons of the most friendly nature to mankind, and highly serviceable to the reflecting and attentive class of medical practitioners.
In the spring of 1813, I was desired to visit the unmarried daughter of a lady in this city, who had been many years suffering from an hemorrhagic affection of the bowels. She appeared about thirty-four years of age, tall, thin, fair complexioned, with a tint of sallowness in the countenance; had from childhood been prone to constipation, and what is called “ delicacy of constitution ;" difficult menstruation, with intense headach, and in the intervals what is fashionably termed “ bilous stomach, with much nervousness."
Nearly seven years ago this great sufferer first observed occasional small discharges of blood pei anum, of a dark colour, clotted, unmingled with feces or mucus, and passing off without pain or tenesmus. She had no hæmorrhoids, nor had ever been accustomed to the use of stronger purgatives than a small aloetic pill, or a little Epsom salts.
The alvine hemorrhage continued much the same for a year and a half, during which period no medical assistance was sought for ; because a very intimate female friend, in secret confidence, assured my patient, that such a state was very common to the
sex, and not to be regarded. Soon after this advice, each sanguine evacuation was preceded by obscure pain in the left hypochondrium, gliding across the abdomen just below the umbilicus, also an occasional sense of throbbing just within the rectum and now when blood was about to be discharged, it came off with a sudden irresistible impulse, without tenesmus, but more frequently than before the accession of pain, generally five or six times in every twenty-four hours, giving the inside of the receiving vessels a sprinkled appearance, evidently form. ed of arterial fluid, whilst the coagula at the bottom were darkcoloured. At the end of two years and a half, the pain had increased, extending now to the inside of the hips down the sacrum, and often very severe in the coccyx.
Coughing, sneezing, bending the body forwards, stooping, or any sudden motion, always induced severe pain, however easy before ; sitting up in bed had a similar effect; change of posture, especially to lying on the left side, generally, though pot always, procured ease. When pain was great, with augmented hemorrhage, pyrexia, with a degree of dyspnoea, came on, and the pain was greatest after the discharge. The sufferer's appetite, spirits, and general appearance, were still good, and for short intervals the recited symptoms would entirely disappear; which vaccillation encouraged the fallacious hope, that all would ultimately be well again.
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human frailty and vulnerabilityClosest related principles - Core Interrelations
Pray that ye enter not into temptation. Lk 22:40 When temptation does come along, ask for help in resisting it, and not entering into it. Also, pray this when things are turning bad, and when you're tired and exhausted. (Click gold Scripture references for Principle Interrelations)
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: Mat 6:13 Lk 11:4
Jesus answered them, Verily, verily [most assuredly], I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant [slave WU] of sin. And the servant abideth [slave remains WU] not in [with WU] the house [family] for ever: but the Son abideth [for]ever. If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed. Jh 8:34-36Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted [oppressed], and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of [by] all nations for my name's sake. And then shall many be offended [turn away from the faith WU], and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. And because iniquity [wickedness WU] shall abound, the love of many shall wax [grow] cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. Mat 24:9-13 Hard-heartedness makes it easy to be deceived and to hate people, and makes it hard to endure persecution for righteousness sake, makes it easy to turn away from the faith.
Wherefore [therefore] I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven [he who is forgiven little WU], the same loveth little. Lk 7:47 Fairly often, someone who has done a lot of sinning (harm to themselves and others) finally gets sick of it, the harm gets to be too much to bear. When they see Jesus, they want to receive the compassionate relief and healing He brings. They are ready to admit they need help, and long for the good way, see Jesus is The Way, and put their faith in Him, no longer in themselves. The proud are blind to it all, plunging forward on their own course.
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The loose gallantry of these troubadours may remind us of the poetry during the reign of our second Charles ; nor were the manners of one court unlike those of the other, unless that those of the court of Poictou were more abandoned of the two.
Be that as it may, we may fairly, I think, conclude, if we compare the two periods, there were men as wicked during the early period, as during the latter; and not only so, but wicked in vices of exactly the same character.
If we seek for vices of another character, we read, at the same era, concerning a neighbouring kingdom to Poictou, that “all the people of rank were so blinded with avarice, that it might be truly said of them, (according to Juvenal,)
Not one regards the method, how he gains,
But, fix'd his resolution, gain he must. “The more they discoursed about right, the greater their injuries. Those who were called the justiciaries, were the head of all injustice. The sheriffs and magistrates, whose duty was justice and judgment, were more atrocious than the very thieves and robbers, and were more cruel than others, even the most cruel. The king himself, when he had leased his domains as dear as was possible, transferred them immediately to another that offered him more, and then again to another, neglecting always his former agreement, and labouring still for bargains that were greater and more profitable.”!
Such were the good old times of good old England (for it is of England we have been reading) during the reign of our conqueror, William.
And yet if we measure greatness (as is too often the case with heroes) by any other measure than that of moral rectitude, we cannot but admit that he must have been great, who could conquer a country so much larger than his own, and transmit the permanent possession of it to his family. The numerous Norman families with which he filled this island, and the very few Saxon ones which he suffered to remain, sufficiently shew us the extent of this revolution.
As to his taste, (for it is taste we investigate, as often as we are able) there is a curious fact related of him by John of Salisbury, a learned writer, who lived as early as the times of Stephen and Henry the Second.
This author informs us, that William, after he was once settled in the peaceable possession of his kingdom, sent ambassadors to foreign nations, that they should collect for him, out of all the celebrated mansions, whatever should appear to them magnificent or admirable.
? See Henrici Huntindoniensis Histor. from Juvenal is, 1. vii. p. 212, inter Scriptores post Bedam, Unde habeat, quærit nemo, sed portet edit. London. 1594, beginning from the habere. words, Principes omnes, &c. The verse
Our author cannot help allowing that this was the laudable project of a great man, desirous of pouring into his own dominions all that was excellent in others."
It does not appear what these rarities were, but it sufficiently shews the Conqueror to have had a genius superior to the barbarity of his age.
One may imagine he was not ignorant of Ovid, and the ancient mythology, by his answer to Philip king of France.
William, as he became old, grew to an unwieldy bulk. The king of France, in a manner not very polite, asked of him, (with reference to this bulk,)“ When, as he had been so long in breeding, he expected to be brought to bed?” “Whenever that happens, replied William, “it will be, as Semele was, in flames and thunder. France soon after that felt his devastations."
His son Rufus seems more nearly to have approached the character of the times.
We have a sample of his manners in the following narrative. Being immensely fond of expense in dress, when one of his attendants brought him new shoes, and was putting them on, he demanded, “How much they cost ?” “Three shillings, sir,” replied his attendant. “Son of a whore,” says Rufus, "at so pitiful a price to provide shoes for a king! Go and purchase me some for a mark of silver." ;
Matthew Paris writes, that he was once told of a formidable dream, relative to his death, which had been dreamed by a certain monk. Rufus, on hearing it, burst into laughter, and said, “The man is a monk, and monk-like has dreamed, to get a little money; give him a hundred shillings, that he may not think he has been dreaming for nothing."k
His historian, Malmesbury, after having related other facts of him, adds, “ that he had neither application enough, nor leisure, ever to attend to letters." I
It was not so with his brother, Henry the First. He (as this historian informs us") spent his youth in the schools of liberal
& Simile aliquid fecisse visus est rex An- Semeles, respondit, cum flammis et fulmine. glorum Vilhelmus Primus, cujus virtuti Nor- Panciroll. Nova Reperta, tit. X. p. 219. mannia et tandem major Britannia cessit. edit. Francofurt. 1631. See this fact someAssumpto namque regni diademate, et pace what differently told by Matthew Paris. composita, legatos misit ad exteras nationes, p. 13. edit. fol. London, 1640. The deut a præclaris omnium domibus, quicquid vastations here mentioned are related in the eis magnificum aut mirificum videretur, afferrent. Defluxit ergo in insulam opulen- William of Malmesbury, p. 69. The tam, et quæ fere sola bonis suis est in orbe words of Rufus were, Fili meretricis, ex contenta, quicquid magnificentiæ, imo luxu- quo habet rex caligas tam exilis pretii! riæ potuit inveniri. Laudabile quidem fuit Vade et affer mihi emptas marca argenti. magni viri propositum, qui virtutes omnium * Matthew Paris, p. 53. Rufus's words orbi suo volebat infundere. Joan. Sarisb. de were, Monachus est, et lucri causa monaNugis Curialium, p. 480. edit. Lugd. 8vo. chiliter somniavit: da ei centum solidos, ne 1595.
videatur inaniter somniasse. h Quærente, sc. Philippo, numquidnam 1 William of Malmesbury, p. 70. tandem pareret Guilielmus, qui tam diu m Ibid. p. 87. geesisset uterum: se pariturum, sed instar
science, and so greedily imbibed the sweets of literature, that in after-times, (as the same writer rather floridly relates,) no tumults of war, no agitation of cares, could ever expel them from his illustrious mind.
Soon after we meet the well-known saying of Plato, that it was then states would be happy, if philosophers were to reign, or kings were to philosophize. Our historian, having given this sentiment, tells us, (to use his own expressions,) that Henry fortified his youth with literature in a view to the kingdom; and ventured even in his father's hearing, to throw out the proverb, Rex illiteratus, asinus coronatus, “ that an illiterate king was but an ass crowned."
That the king his father, from perceiving his son's abilities, had something like a presentiment of his future dignity, may appear from the following story.
When Henry was young, one of his brothers having injured him, he complained of his ill-treatment to his father with tears. “Do not cry, child,” says his father, “for thou, too, shalt be king."
As Henry was a learned prince, we may suppose he was educated by learned men; and perhaps, if we attend to the account given by Ingulphus of his own education in the time of Edward the Confessor, it is probable there may have been among the clergy a succession of learned men from the time of Venerable Bede.
It is certain that, in England at least, during these middle ages, learning never flourished more, than from the time of Henry the First to the reign of his grandson Henry the Second, and some years after.
The learned historian of the life of Henry the Second, (I mean the first lord Lyttleton,) has put this beyond dispute.
Perhaps, too, the times which followed were adverse to the cause of literature. The crusades had made the laity greater barbarians, if possible, than they were before. Their cruelty had been stimulated by acting against Greeks, whom they hated for schismatics, and against Saracens, whom they hated for infidels; although it was from these alone they were likely to learn, had they understood (which few of them did) a syllable of Greek or Arabic.
Add to this, the inquisition being then established in all its terrors, the clergy (from whom only the cause of letters could hope any thing) found their genius insensibly checked by its gloomy terrors.
This depraved period (which lasted for a century or two) did not mend till the invention of printing, and the taking of Constantinople. Then it was that these, and other hidden causes, roused the genius of Italy, and restored to mankind those arts and that literature which to Western Europe had been so long unknown.
n William of Malmesbury, p. 87. B. author in the same page, that is, p. 87. B.
o The words of William were, Ne fleas, P Page 500, 501. fili ; quoniam et tu rex eris. See the same 4 See before, p. 502.
Before I conclude this chapter, I cannot but remark, that, during these inauspicious times, so generally tasteless, there were even Latins as well as Greeks' whom the very ruins of antique arts carried to enthusiastic admiration.
Hildebert, archbishop of Tours, who died in the year 1139, in a fine poem, which he wrote upon the city of Rome, among others has the following verses, in praise of the then remaining statues and antiquities :
Non tamen annorum series, nec flamma, nec ensis,
Ad plenum potuit tale abolere decus.
Et cupiunt fictis vultibus esse pares.
Quo miranda deum signa creavit homo.
Artificum studio, quam deitate sua.' It is worth observing, that the Latinity of these verses is in general pure, and that they are wholly free from the Leonine jingle.
They are thus attempted in English, for the sake of those who do not read the original.
But neither passing years, nor fire, nor sword
SCHOOLMEN-THEIR RISE, AND CHARACTER-THEIR TITLES OF HONOUR
-REMARKS ON SUCH TITLES-ABELARD AND HELOISAJOHN OF SALISBURY-ADMIRABLE QUOTATIONS FROM HIS TWO CELEBRATED WORKS-GIRALDUS CAMBRENSIS-WALTER MAPPS--RICHARD COUR DE LEON—HIS TRANSACTIONS WITH SALADIN-HIS DEATH, AND THE SINGULAR INTERVIEW WHICH IMMEDIATELY PRECEDED IT.
We are now to consider the state of literature with respect to other geniuses, both before the conquest and after it, so low as to the times of our first Richard.
See before, what has been quoted from Nicetas the Choniate, p. 301, &c.
* Forsan Cultus.
• William of Malmesbury, p. 76. Fabricii Bibliotheca med. ct infim, ætat. in voce Hildebert.
It was during this period began the race of schoolmen; a race much admired and followed in their day. Their subtlety was great ; and though that subtlety might sometimes have led them into refinements rather frivolous, yet have they given eminent samples of penetrating ingenuity.
They began in the eleventh century, and lasted to the fourteenth, when new causes leading to new events, they gradually decreased, and were no more.
That they had some merit must be allowed, when we are told that the learned bishop Sanderson used constantly to read the Secunda Secundae of Thomas Aquinas;" and that this treatise, together with Aristotle's Rhetoric, and Cicero's Offices, were three books which he always had with him, and never ceased to peruse.
The scholastic tract must have been no bad one, which was so well associated.
Various epithets at the time were bestowed upon these schoolmen. There was the irrefragable doctor, the subtle, the seraphic, the angelic, &c.
There is certainly something exaggerated in the pomp of these appellations. And yet, if we reflect on our modern titles of honour, on our common superscriptions of epistles, on our common modes of concluding them, and mark how gravely we admit all this; may we not suppose those other epithets appear ridiculous, not so much from their being absurd, as from their being unusual ?
Before we quit these schoolmen, we cannot omit the famous Peter Abelard, who, when he taught at Paris, was followed by thousands, and was considered almost as an oracle in discussing the abstrusest of subjects. At present he is better known for his unfortunate amour with the celebrated Heloisa, his disciple, his mistress, and at length his wife.
Her ingenuity and learning were celebrated also, and their epistolary correspondence, remarkably curious, is still extant. The religion of the times drove them at length to finish their days in two separate convents.
When Abelard died, (which happened about the year 1134,) his body was carried to Heloisa, who buried it in the convent of the Paraclete, where she
My countryman, John of Salisbury, comes next, who lived in the reign of Stephen and Henry the Second. He appears to have been conversant in all the Latin classics, whom he not only quotes, but appears to understand, to relish, and to admire.
u This able and acute man died, aged History, and Cave's Hist. Lit. vol. ii. p. 275. forty-eight years, in the year 1274.
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There is a compelling verse in Hosea chapter 10 verse 12. The prophet Hosea writes God’s chastising response to him.
Hosea 10:12 Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.
Hosea was what we call a minor prophet. There was nothing minor about what he wrote at all. Hosea was a contemporary to other prophets such as Isaiah and Micah in Judah, as well as Amos in Israel during his days.
Each writer has their own writing style. Hosea’s writing style is more abrupt, metaphorical, and figurative. I tell you this because Hosea’s life was much different than most prophets’ lives. Hosea’s life was being lived out exactly how Israel was treating God.
The theme or story of Hosea is about how Israel is Jehovah’s adulterous wife, abandoned, and ultimately purified and restored by God Himself.
At the time, Israel was not bearing any fruit. Their branches were barren. Their vines were not prospering. Israel had nothing to show for the work of the Lord because their hearts were divided unto the Lord.
Israel choosing to turn their backs on God, reminds me of another country choosing to fall away. I won’t take the time to explain how America is heading in a wrong direction. Let’s examine our own lives.
God, one hundred percent, does not desire or wish for death and the complete destruction upon sinners. If that were so, there would be no need for God sending His Son to die on the cross for all of our sins.
“Sow to yourselves in righteousness,” – In the Hebrew the definition for sow is to scatter seed, or produce. The last part of this phrase comes to an understanding of righteous acts. Since God was rebuking them, Israel was not doing any of the previous items.
“Reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground:” – To reap is to be short, impatient, grieved. Break up comes to an understanding of freshly plough or till. Lastly, fallow ground is tillable or untilled. God wants Israel, and all of us, to produce everlasting fruit.
God wants the very best for us. Believe me, when I write this, sin is not the best option for us. Every parent wants the best for their child or children. Children have a tendency, because of sin, to misbehave and break a parent’s heart.
The parent’s job is to discipline the child or children in order to steer them in the right direction. God was doing the same exact thing here with the children of Israel. Hosea was chosen to demonstrate the love and mercy of God; which God bestows upon all of us each and every single day as Lamentations 3:22-23 states.
Seeking the Lord should be every day’s work.
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Voltorb is an Electric type Pokemon introduced in Generation I. It evolves into Electrode starting at level 30. Take a look below for 26 awesome and interesting facts about Voltorb.
1. Voltorb is a spherical Pokemon that resembles a Poke Ball with eyes and minus the button.
2. The top half is red, while the bottom half is white.
3. Because of its resemblance to Poké Balls, it is thought that it was created when one was exposed to an energy pulse.
4. This is supported by the fact that its components do not occur naturally.
5. Voltorb is generally found in power plants and other areas with electric fields.
6. It was first discovered in the plant where modern Poké Balls were invented.
7. It has a volatile temperament and will explode if bumped or agitated.
8. In the English and European versions of Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver, a game called Voltorb Flip is introduced in place of slot machines. The game is similar to Minesweeper, and largely focuses on flipping over cards to multiply the coins currently earned. Some cards, however, have Voltorb on them which will cause the player to lose coins when flipped.
9. Voltorb has the lowest base Attack stat of all Electric-type Pokémon.
10. According to Pokémon HeartGold and SoulSilver: Prima’s Official Strategy Guide, Voltorb is the only Pokémon recommended for the Disc Catch that is not a Flying type.
11. Voltorb seems to be based upon the concept of a living Poké Ball (with its Shiny coloration possibly being based on a Great Ball). The design concept may be inheritance from the time when the franchise was known as Capsule Monsters, as early artworks show Poké Balls without the button in the middle.
12. The idea of them being mistaken for the standard Item Balls is similar to a mimic, a monster archetype commonly found in RPGs.
13. Given its tendency to explode, it could also be based on a bomb. Its unpredictable tendency to explode, as well as its shape and name, may be a reference to ball lightning.
14. Voltorb is a combination of volt and orb.
15. Voltorb debuted in The Ninja Poké-Showdown. Koga kept a bunch of them in his Gym as booby traps. They were later targeted in one of Team Rocket’s schemes.
16. Multiple Voltorb appeared in So Near, Yet So Farfetch’d. Team Rocket received them from Keith, thinking they were Poké Balls with rare Pokémon hidden inside them, as well as their Arbok, Lickitung, and Weezing. When Team Rocket found out they were not, the Voltorb started to explode in their balloon. They dumped most of the Voltorb on the thief, prompting him to quit his crime spree, but a single Voltorb sent them blasting off.
17. A Voltorb lived amongst Electrode in The Underground Round Up. Although Misty was terrified of it, the Electric-type befriended her Togepi, and the baby Pokémon was sad when it had to leave.
18. Three Voltorb appeared in Love, Pokémon Style, where they were rolling down a hill before they were caught by Ash’s Kingler. However, they shocked and injured it in the process.
19. Wattson used a Voltorb in his Gym battle with Ash in Watt’s with Wattson?. It was easily defeated by Pikachu, who had become super-charged during an incident at the Mauville Gym. Multiple wild Voltorb also appeared later on in the episode.
20. Multiple Voltorb appeared in Bucking the Treasure Trend, where they attacked Ash, his friends, and Buck as they searched for Dandelion Island’s treasure.
21. A Voltorb appeared in the Hoopa’s Surprise Ring Adventures short Ball Pickup. It was thrown at Ash as part of a prank by Hoopa, but it then attacks the both of them, as well as Pikachu and Hawlucha, with Self-Destruct.
22. A Voltorb appeared in Duplica’s flashback in Ditto’s Mysterious Mansion, where it came onstage as her Ditto tried to transform into one.
23. A painted Voltorb appeared in Pokémon Fashion Flash as one of the Pokémon seen on Scissor Street.
24. A Voltorb appeared in A Chansey Operation, where it was stuck in a Weepinbell‘s mouth that Misty and Jessie had to pull out from.
25. A Voltorb appeared as an image in the dubbed version of The Ultimate Test.
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As the tech field continues to expand, web developers take advantage of many opportunities for career advancement and growth. These professionals play an essential role in tech by building engaging, functional websites.
Web developers work for major tech companies, startups, and small development companies. Some web developers also pursue freelance opportunities. Web developer careers offer above-average salaries and high demand. The median web developer salary exceeds $77,000 per year.
Becoming a web developer requires several steps. Prospective developers complete a bootcamp, certificate, or degree to build the technical skills required for the career path. This article offers a step-by-step view of how to become a web developer, from the educational requirements to the job market. It also introduces different types of web developers, key considerations before launching a web development career, and related careers.
What type of web developer should I be?
Within the field of web development, professionals focus on front-end, back-end, or full-stack development. Each type of web developer requires a different skill set. When choosing a focus area, learners should consider their strengths, prior experience, and interests.
Good fit for: Professionals with visual or graphic design experience; those who enjoy working closely with digital designers and copywriters; people with strong collaboration and client-facing skills
Back-end developers program the server side of a website. They connect the site with databases and application programming interfaces (APIs) to pull information. Back-end developers also focus on speed and security.
Good fit for: Professionals with database or algorithm experience; those with strong abstract thinking skills; people who enjoy working closely with database administrators and security specialists
Full-stack developers bring both front-end and back-end skills to their roles. They bridge the two specializations by working on the user-facing and server side of sites. As a result, full-stack developers require the broadest array of technical skills.
Good fit for: Professionals with strong programming skills in multiple languages and frameworks; those with previous experience as a front-end or back-end developer; people who enjoy working closely with developers, designers, and other tech professionals.
Things to consider before becoming a web developer
A career in web development offers many rewards, including strong demand and above-average salaries. However, professionals should research the job market and educational requirements before becoming a web developer.
- Web developers benefit from high demand. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projects much faster than average job growth for web developers from 2020-2030.
- A growing number of web development jobs offer remote work opportunities. During the COVID-19 pandemic, many employers switched to remote work, increasing the opportunities for working from home.
- Web developers earn an above-average salary. In 2020, the median web developer salary was $77,200.
- Learners can enter the field with a degree or a certificate. A coding bootcamp can also build web development fundamentals.
- As technology continues to evolve, web developers must stay current in the field through consistent learning and skill development.
- Web developers work with teams, which requires strong collaboration, teamwork, and communication skills.
- The field offers multiple specialization opportunities, including in site design, security, information architecture, and web application design.
How do I become a web developer?
Launching a web developer career can take as little as a few months or as long as several years. Experienced tech professionals can add web development skills through an accelerated bootcamp. Those new to the field may require a certificate or degree, plus internship or freelance experience. This section walks through how to become a web developer.
- Earn degree(s) or complete coding bootcamps to learn web development.
Web developers begin their journey by studying web development. Prospective developers benefit from multiple educational paths. For example, many colleges and private companies offer coding bootcamps focused on web development. Learners can also pursue a certificate or degree in web development.
The main programming languages for web development include:
Web developers may also use SQL, Java, PHP, or Python, depending on their specialization.
According to the BLS, an associate degree represents the typical entry-level educational requirement for web developer careers. Prospective developers with a college degree in another area can quickly build web developer skills through a bootcamp or certificate program. Accelerated coding bootcamps typically take around 12-24 weeks, while a certificate takes 9-12 months to complete.
Students who pursue a degree major in web development, computer programming, and computer science. The Accreditation Board for Engineering Technology (ABET) accredits web development programs.
2. Take on projects and build your portfolio.
Early on in the process of how to become a web developer, prospective developers begin to create a portfolio showcasing their projects. This portfolio demonstrates expertise in different programming languages, web development frameworks, and development skills. During a project-based web development program, learners gradually add to their portfolio.
Web developers can also add to their portfolio with internship projects, side projects, and freelance work. Building a website from scratch or in a content management system like WordPress showcases web development skills, for example. Many web developers build their own professional websites to showcase their portfolios.
3. Pursue internship(s).
An internship helps web developers strengthen their skills, choose a specialization, and build a professional network. During an internship, developers work in a professional environment and learn more about web developer careers. Internships can pay off in a big way––they help web developers stand out on the job market.
Web development students may complete an internship as part of their program. Schools connect learners with internship opportunities and often grant credit for internships. Web developers can also pursue internships outside of school. Many employers list internship opportunities on their websites and job application sites.
4. Determine your web development specialization.
Web developers specialize in three primary areas: front-end development, back-end development, or full-stack development. While front-end developers focus on the user-facing side of a website, back-end developers work on the server side. Full-stack developers cover both.
Each specialization focuses on different skills and programming languages. Developers choose their specialization based on their skills, training, and interests. Developers should also research demand in their local area to help them choose a specialization.
5. Create your resume and apply for jobs.
After gaining technical skills and building a portfolio, web developers create a resume and apply for jobs. A web developer's resume should highlight their tech skills and projects. Web developers focused on front-end development should also include design experience.
Most web developer resumes include a section to list programming languages, frameworks, and software proficiencies. Web developers new to the profession should list any freelance or project-based experience. They should also list professional experience in other fields that demonstrates strong time management, teamwork, and organizational skills.
Web development job interviews often include a skills test. Around 10% of web developers work as freelancers. Freelancers network to find clients and submit applications for contract positions. Many freelancers also find jobs on freelance websites.
6. Continue learning and earn web development certification(s).
Like many other tech jobs, web developer careers require continuing education. As programming languages evolve and new tools become standard, web developers must constantly refresh their technical abilities.
Web development certifications help professionals stay current in the field and demonstrate their strengths to employers. Many organizations offer tech certifications. For example, the International Web Association offers the Certified Web Professional credential with multiple focus areas. Web developers can pursue certification in site design, server administration, e-commerce, or cybersecurity.
Most certifications require a mix of education and experience. Candidates also typically pass an exam to earn their credentials. Certified web developers may need to meet continuing education requirements to maintain the credential.
Web developers work in the growing tech sector. In addition to web development, prospective tech professionals can specialize in areas like software development, cybersecurity, software engineering, and video game development.
Software engineers design, test, and develop software programs. Compared to web developers, software engineers require stronger engineering and computer science skills. Most software engineers hold a degree in computer science or software engineering.
Video game developer
Video game developers write the code for video games. They work with game designers to turn concepts into playable games. Like web developers, video game developers need strong programming skills.
Prospective web developers typically complete a certificate or associate degree in web development. These programs take 1-2 years. Some employers prefer to hire candidates with a bachelor's degree.
The median web developer salary exceeds $77,000 per year, according to May 2020 data from the BLS. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Salaries vary depending on job title, experience, and location.
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In Europe and the western world in general, the monolingual approach has persisted in the guise of the communicative approach—clearly a direct method derivative—until the present day. This paper calls for a drastic revision of a methodology where the learners’ mother tongue is only a stopgap device. It presents different groups of learners whotestify to the effectiveness of a bilingual approach. The evidence is in: For beginners, L1 [first language] support is an immediate solution, not a last resort. Detailed proposals are made to improve courses for immigrants with native languages unrelated to conventional European school languages. At the same time, this paper calls for a bringing together of foreign languages teachers and teacher educators to conduct combined research on what works best for foreign language learners.
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The city of Nampula, in the North of Mozambique, opened its doors to Brazilian and Mozambicans technicians who met for a seminar to exchange experiences and challenges in the areas of urban and territorial planning, cadastre and financial management which took place between 26-28th of August. The event, which is part of the activities of the cooperation project of local authorities in both countries as actors of decentralised cooperation financed by the European Union, Cities Alliance, Government of Norway and Barcelona City Council, brought together more than 40 participants.
This meeting marks the conclusion of the first phase of the ongoing project that has been focused in the definition of priorities and needs of the Mozambican municipalities in order to make the exchange process more effective through the elaboration of participatory diagnoses with the collaboration of technicians. The need to take stock of acquired knowledge through experience and share it with peers, between Mozambican cities as well as cities from Brazil and Mozambique was revealed.
Cooperation between cities is an efficient mechanism for knowledge exchange. Together, 14 Brazilian and Mozambican cities identified areas of cooperation to guide their growth and improve their management. Through the application of reforms or optimization of planning and urban management instruments they will benefit from practical experience of peer cities.
This cooperation is being mobilized by local government associations ANAMM and FNP, with the support of UCLG, as well as technical guidance from Architects Without Borders (ASF) and the universities UdL Lleida - Cátedra UNESCO, Universidade Lurio of Mozambique and UPC Barcelona.
Following the event, Brazilian technicians traveled to different cities in Mozambique to carry out technical assistance visits. As a result of the event and visits, cities will develop a joint work plan to be implemented during the next 18 months that will be supported technically and financially by the project.
The mayors of the cities visited in Mozambique re-affirmed their support and commitment to the project highlighting the relevance that Brazilian experience has to Mozambique. They expressed the need to strengthen an articulated and frequent exchange between technicians of Mozambican cities through the support of the associations.
The Brazilian “prefeitos” from afar expressed their commitment towards decentralised South-South cooperation emphasizing the importance of exchanging experiences between cities to contribute to their development.
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WARNING: Ths post contains graphic descriptions of child abuse, perpetrated by those affiliated with the “child traficking networks” in the USA, operated out of Ohio, by Margaret Cole-Hughes, and their enablers in the FBI, including her own son.
Friends in “high places:” where have we seen that phrase before?
I ask my regular readers–those two readers who read EVERYTHING that I write–to go over to Brassballs.blog and use the search feature, search term “FBI child trafficking,” and read what you find.
Here, I will make it easy for you: https://brassballs.blog/search?q=FBI+child+trafficking
To everyone else, I ask you to look at the absurd situation that exists between an adoption agency which has made hundreds of millions from selling children, and an FBI agent in Milwaukee–which on the surface is probably a common occurence, but one scratch BELOW the surface, and we find actual child trafficking, by the very definition of “child” and “for sale.” Here’s the story:
And that child trafficking operation’s FBI link:
That story is a story about how so-called adoption agencies–all of them affilliated with one or another version of religious groups– get away with crimes, in order that the purportedly “good people” can adopt children from “bad countries/bad people/bad environments,” and so on, and “give those children a chance,” as if being indoctrinated into a religious sect is like winning Willy Wonka’s Golden Ticket or something.Children are luxury itmes for competitive birthers and others wo seek unfettered access to kids.
And this idea of “good v. bad” is a subjective opinion–what is good and bad? In terms of the USA and its cults, sects, and religions, bad and good are an interesting conversation–and that conversation depends upon whether or not the “good people” have connections in “high places,” while the “bad people” often depend upon law and due process, civil liberty, and so on. The latter of course, is ALWAYS a decision doomed to fail, because the US power structure is NOT democratic in the least sense.
Related Story: Britain operates child selling and profiteering rackets in a similar fashion, though it is slightly ahead (behind?) America in Hegelian Materialism’s effect on so-called free societies–look! The murderer of little Arthur (his step mother) gets locked up!
Equality! Women get locked up in jail!! Hell yeah!!–Meanwhile, in the USA, the medical mafia is yet to be prosecuted to any meaningful extent, because police and state worker pension funds are tied to criminality AND Big Pharma, like the kind of criminality that allowed little Christopher Bowen to be slaughtered–repeatedly– by his mother, Kaylene Bowen and her friends in the medical “community.”. Child sacrifice indeed–and it’s nearly always the boys who get sacrificed, Why is that?
But what is certain is that subversive, anti-democratic power is at work here–that the main subject in that story was the mother of an FBI agent, who is using her connections–and her son’s status as an FBI agent, to manipulate the system, and cover up actual crimes, that include “trafficking” children. Bribery, various forms of fraud, violating financial codes and breaking laws–and then, having her FBI agent son appointed to sweep all of that under the rug.
Yup–child trafficking is very real, the FBI is very involved in it, and yet it barely makes main stream news, until….
I ask my readers to look into the case of Richard Moore in Mississippi, because he is a registered sex offender who has been “gang stalked” for many years by various police, sheriffs departments, and their gangs of “community policing” assets.I have read his case from charge to appeal and guess what? It is quite likely he was framed by local political forces.
He has never rammed a Barbie doll into a five year old boy or girl like this associate of the FBI, he has never sold any children ever, and he has no “friends in high places,” like the FBI to cover over such crimes had he done such things–which he hasn’t. Ever.
Texas Mom remains free without bond after buying her 50 year old son a four-year-old “adopted” girl from Poland, who he nearly murdered by ramming a Barbie Doll into her vagina.
Child trafficking indeed–Richard Moore has never laid a hand on a child with malice, nor used any child as a commodity in any way, ever. Yet he is in fact, a scapegoat–an easy target of those who DO those things, and who DO have friends in high places to cover their tracks when they do such things.
For clarity and veracity, take a look at this post, where two goats showed up on his front porch one day, totally out of the blue, within days of me writing that he is a scapegoat. In gang stalking, you really cannot make such stuff up–because gang stalkers are well connected, extremely wealthy, and require that they have scapegoats to deflect atention away from what they are actually doing.
Here is the shorthand version, but I recommend my new readers use my search feature, keyword “Richard Moore”–the short version: “Richard Moore Gets Goats On his Front Porch, Courtesy of the KKK in Mississippi.” Then read up on the clever types of people that are stalking him here, here, and here.
Well, about power, and FBI connections: they use children as a shield to hide their other unconstitutional activity behid, like all police in the US. As they say–they are never there when you need them, but always there when you discuss that online (I have two “followers” who never ever comment here, but who read every single word that i write, as soon as I write it, according to my WordPress statistics. I hit send, their phones ping, and my posts get read–immediately.)
Well, as the story goes, the five year old adopted child will never bear children, never fully heal, and never be able to use her vagina the way that nature intended it to be used, because FBI affiliated child traffickers sold a little girl, and because she was raped by 50 year old son of a woman who is now indicted, she will likely have to live with a re-routed peehole.
SO, to recap, the son of a child trafficker in Texas shoved a Barbie doll into a little girls vagina, and caused her great and irreparable harm, which will last to the very end of her days–the poor child was nearly raped to death by those who harken to “higher powers.”
But you will have to read through Brass Balls analysis of that, including court files from Pacer, and other non-MSM sources, to find the truth of the matter–I myself won’t spend my time that way–I know wih certainty, that FBI enables both religious, and other cults to do such things, for “the greater good,” much as we saw with this other court case, where an FBI trained “gang stalker” named James Baugh attempted to reveal as much about FBI tactics, and subversion of democracy. | <urn:uuid:2104fa36-db73-4b49-add2-7cef46a02d9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gangstalkingresearch.wordpress.com/2022/01/27/pssst-child-for-sale-the-curious-links-between-an-fbi-agent-and-adoptive-services-meet-brass-balls-who-writes-about-that-stuff/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.966147 | 1,598 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints. — Colossians 1:4
We all hear things about people around us from time to time. For example, there are times that I will get a call and hear someone ask if I know someone and did I hear what they had done. Sometimes it’s pretty amazing, like they accomplished a great goal. Other times, it can be disappointing, like being caught up in a bad situation.
No matter the case, the things we do in life get back to others around us. Some people will call it the rumor mill, while others will simply call it reputation. In either case, someone somewhere is hearing about what you are doing. Such was the case here in Colossians as the letter was being written.
Paul and Timothy shared that they heard about the faith of the people in Jesus. They had heard about the love that was being shown around the town from the people. It was great news about the people. Even when Paul was not around to watch, they were steadfast in their faith and showing Christian love to those around them.
This was a big sign of their character. These people loved God, were steadfast in faith and showed love. It is a challenge to those of us living today in what are others hearing about us. Our character is being shown in everything we do. Is that a message of faith and love, or something else?
Our desire should be that others would see our faith and love in everything that we do. Those around us are hearing a story and witnessing our lives. They see our character each day as we go about our day. What are they hearing about you?
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In accordance with the American Diabetes Affiliation, diabetes impacts 30.3 million Individuals. Of these people, solely about 23.1 million had been identified. Moreover, it is estimated that about 1.5 million new instances of diabetes are identified yearly.
This debilitating illness has a big impact on those that stay with it. Kind 2 diabetes may cause elevated thirst and starvation, frequent urination and complications. It will possibly additionally result in extra extreme well being problems, resembling coronary heart illness and blurred imaginative and prescient, which is known as diabetic blindness or retinopathy.
What’s Diabetic Blindness?
In accordance with the Nationwide Eye Institute, diabetic retinopathy is the most typical kind of eye illness within the U.S. It is brought on by excessive blood sugar ranges resulting in the swelling of the blood vessels of the retina, which regularly results in leaking fluid. It could additionally trigger the blood vessels to shut, which might cease blood from passing by. This finally shuts down the retina and may end up in blindness.
“NPDR happens when tiny blood vessels leak.”
In accordance with the American Academy of Ophthalmology, there are two levels of diabetic eye illness: non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy and proliferative diabetic retinopathy. NPDR happens when the tiny blood vessels leak, inflicting the retina to swell or shut off. Mostly, this results in blurriness in imaginative and prescient.
PDR is extra extreme. The retina goes by neovascularization, which causes the retina to develop new blood vessels. The issue is these vessels are very fragile, they usually usually bleed into the vitreous. This may trigger darkish spots in imaginative and prescient however may result in blindness. The brand new blood vessels might also make scar tissue to kind, which might trigger the retina to detach.
What are the Indicators and Signs?
In accordance with the NEI, signs are minimal or non-existent within the early levels of diabetic retinopathy, making the illness to progress and influence imaginative and prescient earlier than figuring out when to take motion. However there are methods knowledgeable can detect the illness. A complete eye examination that measures one’s capacity to learn and see objects from a distance can decide if you happen to’re coping with one thing that is impacting your imaginative and prescient.
Defend Your self
Early detection and therapy are the most secure methods to guard your self from diabetic blindness. Nonetheless, we advocate taking good care of your physique to keep away from diabetes within the first place. A wholesome, healthful plant-based consuming routine just like the Hallelujah Eating regimen may help you preserve a wholesome weight and regulate your blood sugar ranges to keep away from a debilitating illness like diabetes. Finally, this can make it easier to keep away from the necessity for insulin and different medicines. God created the pure sustenance of the Earth because the gasoline for our our bodies, but additionally because the pure drugs to show our our bodies methods to self-heal. Once you eat natural meals and cease treating your physique like a rubbish bin, it’ll reward you and make it easier to stay a protracted, fulfilling life.
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Australia’s highest court ruled that media outlets are “publishers” liable for defamatory comments posted by Facebook users on their social network pages.
The landmark ruling came after many mainstream outlets argued in vain that they could only be considered publishers if they were aware of defamatory messages, and meant to spread them.
Judges shot down that argument and ruled that outlets were responsible for offending comments by facilitating and encouraging discussions online.
The ruling paved the way for a lawsuit by Dylan Voller, a former juvenile detainee who wants to sue publishers and broadcasters.
The possible suit will target comments posted on the Facebook pages of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Centralian Advocate, Sky News Australia and The Bolt Report. His case has been on hold since 2017 while the courts sorted out the legality of the issue.
Australian courts had previously ruled that people could be held liable for defamatory statements on their platforms if they allowed them to continue after being made aware of them.
In Washington last year, former President Trump signed an executive order that limited a 1996 law that was designed to prevent internet companies from being treated as publishers.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act contributed to the rapid rise of the internet by protecting companies from lawsuits. But Trump argued the law also allowed tech giants to restrict free speech.
The order demanded “transparency and accountability from online platforms,” and encouraged “standards and tools to protect and preserve the integrity and openness of American discourse and freedom of expression.”
In December, Trump vetoed a defense spending bill because it did not repeal Section 230. The veto was overridden by Congress, although Democrats, including President Biden, have also called for the law to be tightened or revoked over concerns of social networks spreading misinformation.
Former Federal Communications Commission Ajit Pai announced plans to “clarify the meaning” of the provision last year after Facebook and Twitter censored The Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden‘s foreign business dealings, but later backed off that stance before leaving office.
Current Acting Chair Jessica Rosenworcel has publicly indicated she does not want the FCC to be involved in retooling Section 230.
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Serj Tankian Thanks President Biden for Recognizing Armenian Genocide -
Serj Tankian Thanks President Biden for Recognizing Armenian Genocide
“This is extremely important but only a milestone towards the long road of justice ahead with Turkey,” System of a Down singer writes
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Serj Tankian thanked President Joe Biden Saturday after the president declared April 24th as “Armenian Remembrance Day,” which coincides with the United States recognizing the 1915 Armenian genocide for the first time.
“Thank you to President Joe Biden for properly recognizing the #ArmenianGenocide today,” the System of the Down singer wrote on Instagram.
“This is extremely important but only a milestone towards the long road of justice ahead with Turkey and its imminent need to do the same and make amends towards the descendants of 1.5 Million Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians systematically slaughtered by its Ottoman Turkish ancestors.”
The son of Armenian immigrants, the Beirut-born singer’s grandparents were survivors of the Armenian genocide. Tankian has frequently used his platform to bring attention to the Armenian genocide, which — despite a reported 1.5 million Armenians killed and millions more displaced — previous presidents were reluctant to acknowledge in deference to NATO ally Turkey.
“Today, I will say thank you to the US and all those who have fought hard for this statement over the years,” Tankian wrote.
In Biden’s Armenian Remembrance Day statement Saturday, the president wrote, “Each year on this day, we remember the lives of all those who died in the Ottoman-era Armenian genocide and recommit ourselves to preventing such an atrocity from ever again occurring. Beginning on April 24, 1915, with the arrest of Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople by Ottoman authorities, one and a half million Armenians were deported, massacred, or marched to their deaths in a campaign of extermination. We honor the victims of the Meds Yeghern so that the horrors of what happened are never lost to history. And we remember so that we remain ever-vigilant against the corrosive influence of hate in all its forms.”
Biden continued, “Today, as we mourn what was lost, let us also turn our eyes to the future—toward the world that we wish to build for our children. A world unstained by the daily evils of bigotry and intolerance, where human rights are respected, and where all people are able to pursue their lives in dignity and security.”
Tankian recently released his documentary Truth to Power, which focuses on his activism during the 2018 Armenian revolution.
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Will we ever be able to kill the work ethic? More than a century after Max Weber published The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, you can post photos of yourself smoking blunts on Instagram and celebrate drag party culture, but still, “You Better Work.” Both RuPaul’s “Supermodel” and Rihanna’s “Work” are incantations of Weber’s Beruf—vocation—gussied up as pop dance tunes. In both tracks the singers—usually symbols of freewheeling, raunchy sexuality, but when it comes to work, like the rest of us, downright puritanical—repeat “work” as a kind of devotional chant. Rihanna, the more Calvinist of the two when it comes to work, is somber whereas RuPaul is joyful: two distinct attitudes of prayerfulness.
They are hardly the only individuals casting the impetus to work as our vital life force, what animates us and brings us together. Corporate team-building leaders and food bloggers are in the same business, answering to our bizarre desires to manifest fun and leisure through work, or to consume visions of work in our free time. And it pays: last year, a study into what makes a bestselling book in America found that “As to escapism, Americans’ idea of that means inhabiting somebody else’s job.” Movies also attract large audiences with titles invoking the mystique or comic possibilities of a profession, see The Accountant, Anchorman, The Bodyguard, The Pianist, Secretary, Taxi Driver, and, more broadly evocative, The Boss (or, lately, Boss Baby). Even in our precious free time, we love watching other people work and ogling their workspaces and tools.
We dream of pretty work, adventurous work, hard work, important work, lucrative work, inspiring work, stable work, productive work.
The workplace TV show is so established by now as to have spawned profuse subgenres; the female-lead professional drama is a perennial programming staple, from The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Murphy Brown through to Ally McBeal and The Good Wife. Reality TV, in turn, has sub-subgenres like the workplace-injury thriller (Ice Road Truckers, Deadliest Catch) and the task-based game show (Top Chef, Project Runway). In work TV, there seems to be no specialism too niche: 20 percent of Norway’s population has tuned into National Firewood Night, a show about chopping, stacking, and burning firewood, at least once. To the dismay of antiwork or postwork partisans like James Livingston, many of us don’t seem that capable or even interested in dreaming of a life after work. We dream instead of pretty work, adventurous work, hard work, important work, lucrative work, inspiring work, stable work, productive work.
Why is it so hard for us to create a work-free space, even in our own heads? Are our imaginations so limited when it comes to how to pass the hours as we choose?
Cynics might suggest that these tastes are molded by the options our capitalist overlords allow us. They own the media, after all. But I wonder whether work’s hold on our imaginations comes from a more idealistic tradition.
Perhaps we owe our inability to separate work from life to the most optimistic proponents of their unification: the standard-bearers of nineteenth- and twentieth-century avant-gardism. As curator and art critic Helen Molesworth notes in an essay, “Work Ethic” accompanying a 2003–2004 exhibition of postwar artworks, it was precisely through laborious production that utopian avant-garde movements such as Arts and Crafts and Bauhaus strove to meld art and life. By integrating beautiful utilitarian objects like carpets and teapots into it, participants in these movements sought to create a better world, and, in the process, to celebrate the artisanal and technical labor that went into making these objects. Emerging from this legacy were generations of artists who blurred the distinctions not only between work and leisure but also between work and entertainment, sometimes ironically, sometimes not. Artists staged performances in which beholders watched them at work digging ditches (Chris Burden) or hanging laundry (Martha Rosler). National Firewood Night, with its Nordic inflection of nationalist nostalgia, celebratory materialism, and focus on ritual, is another branch off the trunk of this avant-garde family tree.
The avant-garde attempt to unite art and life through productive labor has been too successful for our own good.
Shows like our president’s own The Apprentice that make a spectacle out of work aren’t merely lowbrow, derivative versions of esoteric performance art, but are in fact the remnants of this very same modernist tradition, testimony to the power and durability of the old dream of uniting art and life through socially useful labor. This dream has been too successful for our own good: even as the material rewards of work—hourly wages, financial stability—diminish for all but the very rich, it takes up ever more space in our lives, and in our heads. Many of us must actively fight the impulse to check our work email on weekends. Even when we’re done with the work day, we kick up our heels only to gaze at reality show participants doing things that look more like productive work than perhaps our own desk- or sales floor-bound jobs do: sweating over sauté pans or risking their lives on crab fishing boats. Or we gaze at beautiful cooking blogs. Or we attend talks and conferences to hear from and simply to be near people with cool, glamorous, high-profile, and ostensibly high-paying jobs.
Back down on earth, even the mundane indignities of work, only slightly exaggerated in Mike Judge’s Office Space, can make for great entertainment. Originally released in 1999, Office Space has unfortunately aged exceedingly well—its dark humor about the expendability of workers and the near-worthlessness of professional white-collar skills is all the more devastating after the global financial crisis and precaritization across the workforce. Like Burden, shunning “skilled” artistic work by shoveling his ditch, the software engineers in Office Space know they’re not producing anything meaningful, but unlike the famous artist, they are not paid to be ironic about it. If we’re not longing after productive work, at least we can chuckle at our own absurd condition. | <urn:uuid:de2f21c4-3602-4131-a9d4-2f7d1e3bf1c6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thebaffler.com/latest/work-work-work-work-work-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940327 | 1,389 | 1.640625 | 2 |
HUMANITY IS US spreads awareness of crimes against humankind and provides reliable resources for the protection of humanity. We are responsible for ending genocide, violence against men and women, child abuse and human trafficking. Together, our actions matter.
Until we hold the perpetrators accountable for their actions, crimes against humanity and individuals will continue and another generation of perpetrators will dictate our lives. One atrocity usually includes other atrocities. For example, genocide is global bullying, promotes violence against women and men, requires child abuse, forces children to become soldiers (human trafficking) and violates our basic human rights.
We should not be forced to fight one atrocity as they are all inter-related, as we as human beings are inter-related.
Violence against women, child abuse, rape, human trafficking, bullying, and genocide are all violations against human rights. It is an international crisis and must be addressed. When we fail to protest and ignore crimes, "otherness" begins and the criminal finds more victims.
Atrocities will not end until we end impunity.
Humanity is Defined by Our Actions and Our Lack of Actions
Where to start?
Humanity Is Us (HIU) is basically a portal. With so much information available on the internet, it's difficult for someone new to a cause to play "catch-up" and it's overwhelming to figure out how to help. At times, it's too much.
Most people want to be an activist, but it's hard when their personal lives are demanding: the economy is suffering, children need help with their homework, paychecks are being reduced, storms are more frequent, homes are being repossessed, less jobs are available, and we just don't have the time to give.
For some people, searching for information on some of these websites is a lot like reading directions for putting together a new toy or piece of furniture. Most people don't like reading directions and wonder why companies can't make simple directions.
So, what can your do? You do what you can. HIU has spent hundreds of hours reviewing websites, attending conferences, meeting long-time activists and doing the research. You can be informed and take actions that matter. If you only have two (2) minutes to give, it's enough. You'll do more when you can.
The reality is atrocities continue while we deal with our own lives.
How did Humanity Is Us start? Why now? Here's the published article that explains the story:
Conflict of Ethics: What Does Genocide Have To Do With Business?
"Genocide. Are you cringing yet? How about rape camps? Whenever I start a discussion about either atrocity, it’s usually the immediate physical reaction that I observe from the person sitting before me." If you want to understand why HUMANITY IS US exists, please read the below PDF. | <urn:uuid:6172551a-2ca3-4501-bc6c-67be97871c2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.humanityisus.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953766 | 593 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Panorama Stitching is also known as image stitching or photo stitching. Panorama Stitching is a process of stitching images by a combination of multiple images with help of overlapping fields of image view in order to produce a segmented panorama or high – resolution images of photography.
The panoramic view is an unhampered or a wide view of a broad area in each and every direction. It is a wide pictorial representation or a cyclorama for a landscape or any other scene, the Panoramic view has often executed an interval of a time and it is passed well before the spectators.
How to take a Panorama Image with the help of iPhone or iPad
- Switch to camera on your iPhone or iPad
- Swipe twice to the left just to change the mode of Pano
- Tap on the arrow button which appears in order to change the direction if you are desired.
- Tap on the shutter button to start taking panoramic images or photographic
- Turn around your iPhone or iPad to capture as your surrounding as much as required
- Finally, tap on shutter button at the end in order to end the panorama.
A virtual tour is a reproduction of an existing location, which is usually composed of many numbers of sequences of videos and many still images. This virtual tour service also uses many other multimedia elements like sound effects, music, narration and some textual contents. Virtual Tour is a greater distinguished from the use of live TV to affective tele – tourism.
There are two types of Panorama Stitching for Architectural Photographers they are,
There are many Panorama Services some of them are,
- Image Stitching Services
- Panorama Image Enhancement Services
- 360° Virtual Tour Services
- 360° Virtual Video Services
Process of Image Stitching Service for Architectural Photographers
- Collection of architectural photography and arranging them in an order
- Finding the exact control points
- Purifying the photographs
- Matching the photographs accurately
Panorama Stitching and Virtual Tour Creation for Architectural Photographers Service Provider
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1942 Doolittle raid of Japan.... official report...
Item # 685962
April 21, 1943
THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 21, 1943
* The famous Doolittle raid of Japan official report
* U.S. Army Air Force B-25B Mitchell bombers
* USS Hornet aircraft carrier
The front page has two column headings that read: "Hornet Was 'Shangri-la' For Doolittle Tokyo Raid" "War Department Reveals That All but One of 16 Bombers Crashed, but 64 of 80 Men Returned--8 Believed Captured" This was the official report on the Jimmy Doolittle raid on Japan in which he led about one year earlier.
Other news, sports and advertisements of the day with much more on World War II. Complete in 52 pages, rag edition in great condition.
wikipedia notes: The Doolittle Raid, on 18 April 1942, was the first air raid by the United States to strike the Japanese Home Islands (specifically Honshu) during World War II. By demonstrating that Japan itself was vulnerable to American air attack, it provided a vital morale boost and opportunity for U.S. retaliation after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941. The raid was planned and led by then-Lieutenant Colonel James "Jimmy" Doolittle, USAAF. Doolittle would later recount in his autobiography that the raid was intended to bolster American morale and to cause the Japanese to begin doubting their leadership.
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Nearly 12 years ago, China, intent on joining aerospace industry stalwarts Boeing and Airbus, established a new state-owned entity known as the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China — or COMAC, for short.
The company set a goal of a maiden flight for its debut passenger jet, the C919, in 2014, with production and delivery to follow in subsequent years.
After a series of delays, the C919 did take to the skies for the first time in 2017, and Chinese officials reportedly hoped to finish testing, start production and begin making deliveries by the end of this year.
Instead, Reuters reported that the company has completed less than one-fifth of the flight hours needed for approval by China’s civil aviation regulator, and that the corporation is now looking at deliveries in 2021 or 2022, at best.
Sources told Reuters that the latest problem surfaced after COMAC engineers sent incorrect calculations about engine loads to manufacturer CFM International, which may require the engine and housing to be reinforced.
Previous issues included cracks in the test jets’ horizontal stabilizers and gearboxes, and the report noted that federal prosecutors in 2018 uncovered a scheme by Chinese officials to spy on 13 global aerospace manufacturers.
Analysts said the issues underscore COMAC’s inexperience in commercial aviation, but some also noted the continued delay isn’t necessarily a problem for the company — even if it misses out on orders during the current market upswing. After all, they said, China’s government can simply direct its own airlines to buy COMAC’s jets ... whenever they’re ready. | <urn:uuid:3d31388a-3fba-4d46-9a63-46b594dbb93c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.designdevelopmenttoday.com/industries/aerospace/video/21109985/engineering-problems-plague-chinas-first-passenger-jet | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948068 | 328 | 2.28125 | 2 |
A Florida woman was arrested Friday after police said her father drove her to a bank thinking it was for a job interview, but it turned out to be a robbery.
When Chelsea Wilson’s father took the 24-year-old to a Fort Lauderdale-area bank Thursday around 4 p.m., she entered the building with a red wig, hat, and sunglasses on, the Sun Sentinel reports.
Once inside, she handed the teller a note that read, “You have exactly one minute to give me all your $50 & $100 bills from both drawers or I will shoot you! No dye packs, no alarms follow these instructions and no one will get hurt, act normal.”
Wilson made off with $300, but she was identified by someone who recognized her in a news report, authorities said.
FBI agents found the getaway car, which was registered in her father’s name, at her house Thursday. She said she committed four other robberies and used the money to buy groceries.
According to authorities, her father told them he thought he was taking Wilson to a job interview. He said he assumed the money was “an advance payment at her new job.”
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The study and analysis of light according to its component wavelengths is called
The study and analysis of light according to its component wavelengths is called:
The correct answer is e) Spectroscopy.
Electromagnetic radiation comes with an array of radiation frequencies. The term Spectroscopy is used when it comes to exploring the electromagnetic spectrum of light. Each wave comes with a different length. Besides, it is able to recreate a variety of colors. A human’s eye can recognize only some of those colors. A visible spectrum includes colors and wavelengths seen by humans. For instance, we are capable of recognizing red color (a 700-635 nm-long wave) or green color (560-520 nm-long wave). On the other hand, we are unable to identify the level of light visibility as well as its dispersion within a prism. Spectroscopy helps to indicate spectrum component wavelength.
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Days after one of Greece’s top national parks narrowly escaped massive destruction from a fire that raged for more than a week, the country’s environment ministry congratulated itself.
Among Greece’s underfunded and understocked habitats, Dadia National Park is – on paper – one of Greece’s best protected areas as one of Europe’s most important breeding grounds for vultures and other birds of prey.
“Respect and protection of the environment has been and remains a fundamental promise of our government,” Environment Minister Costas Skrekas said in a statement on Tuesday.
But many Greek environmental groups disagree.
Spyros Psaroudas, director of wildlife group Callisto, says there is a “chronic failure” in Greece’s conservation policy, adding that the current government is trying to create a business-friendly environment at the expense of wildlife.
“There is a lack of coordination between ministries and a lack of clear assignment of responsibilities… all this leads to illegal activities that are never punished,” adds Nadia Andreanidou, policy officer of the Mediterranean Association for the Rescue of Sea Turtles (Medasset).
“It’s a vicious circle and leads to poor management of protected areas,” she told AFP.
Forest engineer Dimitris Vasilakis, who helped draft Dadia’s operational plan, says only four rangers patrol the park’s 800 square kilometers (308 sq mi).
The local forest service in Soufli, which oversees Dadia, receives less than €50,000 a year from the state, a fifth of what it should receive, Vasilakis said.
Over 300 firefighters fought for eight days last month to keep the blaze away from the Dadia nesting sites in the heart of the park.
On Tuesday, the Environment Ministry said the July 21 fire destroyed just over 2,200 hectares of forest in Dadia.
Early estimates suggest that nest sites remained largely untouched by predators.
The incident has thrown a spotlight on Greece’s long and troubled history of environmental protection.
Even as the park burned two weeks ago, the government was trying to push through parliament new laws that nearly a dozen NGOs say further weaken protection restrictions in Greece’s national parks.
On the seventh day of the fire, the law was unexpectedly withdrawn by the government for “further consultation”.
The proposed bill would have allowed additional activities in protected areas, including roads, tourism areas, and power and telecommunications storage.
– right vacuum –
Greece has been repeatedly sued in the European Court of Justice for failing to protect its natural habitats.
The court slammed Athens on the matter in December 2020, finding the country said it had put in place protections for less than 20 percent of over 240 protected areas.
A key omission, environmental groups say, is the lack of legal safeguards and regulations governing Greece’s participation in the Natura 2000 network – key European breeding and resting places for rare and threatened species protected under EU law.
Charikleia Minotou, director of the Zakynthos Loggerhead Turtle Conservation Program run by the Greek section of the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), says there are “hundreds” of complaints and fines against illegal development that the authorities are failing to address pursue.
And when a presidential decree was issued in 2018 to protect the Gulf of Kyparissia on the Ionian Sea — an important habitat for loggerhead turtles and deep-sea whales — it was challenged by three city councillors, two tourism companies and scores of local residents.
– focus on energy –
The focus of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ conservative government is on hydrocarbon exploration, says Minotou.
Even before Russia’s attack on Ukraine in February sparked fears of energy shortages across Europe, Greece had earmarked exploration areas in the Ionian Sea.
Several Cuvier’s beaked whales washed ashore during seismic surveys in the Ionian Sea in February. The State Hydrocarbon Management Agency denied that this was caused by its activities.
In the few cases where new laws are introduced, the results often pose a threat to conservation, Greek environmental groups say.
In 2020 Greece established a new national body to manage its parks, the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency (Necca). 36 park administrations were merged into a new group of 24.
However, environmental groups note that the new body has been instrumental in barring NGOs, local authorities and civic groups from the parks’ governing boards.
“We need national parks where local society participates and is democratically represented,” says Psaroudas of the wildlife group Callisto.
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Weighted blankets Melbourne are increasingly common, as studies show, “Weighted blankets may promote sleep by reducing stress and reducing the duration of naps,” adds Rutter. When people are less stressed, their bodies are more relaxed, resulting in better overall health. And since a warm, comforting blanket can help ease the symptoms of insomnia, it could be particularly beneficial to patients who have chronic fatigue syndrome.
In clinical studies, individuals with sleep disorders have reported significant improvements in sleep quality when wearing a weighted blanket. “If the patient sleeps in the same bed with the weighted blanket on throughout the day, they may feel less disoriented during the day than if they had not worn it,” says Rutter. In addition, she says, the blanket may prevent pain in the legs, hips, or abdomen during the night, a common problem for those who have chronic fatigue syndrome. It may also ease neck or shoulder aches associated with stress and anxiety and may even reduce the effects of depression, which affects sleep quality.
“Sweaty blankets provide excellent insulation from the heat of the body and the coldness of the outside environment,” notes Rutter. “A well-chosen blanket can help regulate body temperature, while also providing additional protection from outside elements.” Some blankets are specifically designed to provide added comfort for individuals who are overweight or obese. For example, weighted blankets Melbourne can provide additional warmth and extra softness and body cushion. In contrast, a lightweight polyester wool blanket will help keep a person cool in hot weather.
Weighted blankets Melbourne are often used in conjunction with pillows to help support the neck and head, providing additional support. As Rutter points out, “when your head rolls back, your head will sink into your neck; on the other hand, if your head is supported, it will provide additional comfort and support to your head.” Furthermore, if a person sleeps on their side, they may find that their hips and lower back become less sensitive. “Being able to sleep without bending over can reduce pressure on the lower back muscles, which can lead to pain and fatigue.”
The best choice of weight-bearing blanket is one that provides a customized fit. “You may be surprised at how different your body shape is when wearing a different size of the blanket,” notes Rutter. A well-fitted blanket can be a great way to provide additional support for the shoulders, hips, and spine and avoid tossing and turning in bed while sleeping. | <urn:uuid:71af39eb-23ec-4f72-9795-5f82af71bc35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://nswdrivertrainers.com.au/weighted-blankets-melbourne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947433 | 518 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Usually I do this song quite early on in the school year. It sets a good basis for the learning environment and offers a new perspective on learning.
Ask students if they like learning. I have only had rare students answer yes to this question so it is only natural to ask them also why they feel so negative about learning, how do they learn, where and when. Ask also how often they learn. If you have a very big group, you might want them to do this in smaller groups. Depending on the class, I sometimes tell them that by the end of this lesson, they will feel completely different about learning. This often triggers their attention, because they (as teenagers do) want to prove me wrong.
Tell students to listen to the song very carefully and write down any words they catch and understand. I warn them beforehand that the first 2 lines are the most difficult and that they shouldn’t get discouraged by them. This task is good from more points of view:
- Students need to practice their listening skills and keep listening even if it is hard. Very often, my students just stop trying if they judge the text too difficult.
- Very often, they understand words but do not know how to write them. They sometimes get quite creative at this point. Fortunately, it is mistakes like this that we learn most from.
- Students see how an accent can lead them astray into thinking they hear something completely different from the actual lyrics. They hear words that are not in the text at all or misinterpret them. (they think they hear “hi” instead of “I” and similar)
Do not forget to praise them at this point for sustaining their concentration despite the difficulty of the task.
Ask students if they managed (even if that was not the task) to understand what the song is about. Then go through the lyrics together, starting with the chorus, but after each line, you ask them specifically about their experiences. For example:
You cry, you learn – “Have you ever cried in your life? If not – Have you seen other people cry? Why? Did you learn anything from it?”
You love you learn – “Have you been in love? What did you learn from it?”
I usually give a lot of emphasis on the last line (You ask you learn) and point it out that they only rarely ask questions and that school has somehow managed to teach them that asking is not ok. I stress the fact that it is their duty to ask when they do not understand something.
Go back to the beginning of the lyrics. Ask them why they think she recommends all those things. The answer is always “because you learn something from it”. If they ask or don’t know what exactly you learn, set it as homework to try and report in the next class.
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Only education can eradicate poverty: CM Jagan
Kurnool, July 5: Education can alone eradicate poverty, said Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy on Tuesday while addressing a public meeting in Adoni after launching the distribution of Jagananna Vidya Kanuka (JVK) kits for the academic year 2022-23. The JVK kits will be distributed to 47,40,421 students studying from first standard to tenth in government and aided schools. The YSRCP government spent Rs 931.02 crore towards JVK.
The CM stated that each JVK kit is worth Rs 2,000. “In the last three years, our government had spent Rs 2,368 crore towards JVK scheme,” he mentioned and added that his government is spending another Rs 500 crore for providing tabs to students from eighth standard with content provided by BYJU’s.
Earlier, MLA Y. Sai Prasad Reddy requested the CM to open government degree college to Adoni. On his request, the CM sanctioned government degree college. Jagan Reddy also released 2022-23 academic calendar for schools in the state. | <urn:uuid:9c30dbfd-bdc7-457e-b18b-eb17bf321e62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ap7am.com/english-news-56907/only-education-can-eradicate-poverty-cm-jagan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959218 | 238 | 1.5 | 2 |
A Book Review and Giveaway of Two “Yarn Whirled” Books Published by Dover Publications.
1.) Yarn Whirled – The Royal Family by Pat Olski
2.) Yarn Whirled – Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore by Pat Olski
Disclaimer: I received a free copy of these books for me to do an honest review. All views in this post are my own.
This giveaway is open to U.S. and CAN residents who are 18 years of age or older. Giveaway runs through Dec. 29th 2017. Two winners will each receive a free copy of both books.
In addition to the giveaway, you can also get a 25% discount on your purchase at Dover Publications with coupon code: WRBM
The yarn whirled dolls look hard to make, especially with all the facial and costume details. However, each book comes with step-by-step instructions on how to make the basic doll from which the rest of the characters are based on. Thus, both books are full of easy-to-master patterns that you’ll enjoy creating and gifting to family and friends.
To make these dolls you will need the following materials:
Rulers and Tape Measures
Marker Pens and Powder Blush
The Royal Family
This book contains a genealogy chart from Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip down to the latest additions to the Royal family. You’ll find a handy picture reference of all the Royal families. Projects are included for all the family members including Prince George and Princess Charlotte.
In addition to the characters themselves, you’ll also find crochet patterns for accessories such as a few hats and tiaras.
The book is complete with lots of step-by-step photos and lots of tips that will help you make your creations as beautiful as possible.
Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore
This book states that it’s suitable for the absolute beginner. You don’t need to have any experience in any kind of yarn craft whatsoever.
Among the 30 patterns you’ll find characters such as Snow White, Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, The Nutcracker, Thumbelina, Robin Hood, King Arthur, The Little Mermaid and more.
Get Your Copy
Or, enter below for your chance to win a free set of the books. 2 Winners will receive a copy of each book. Entrants must be 18 years of age, and be a resident in the U.S. or Canada. Giveaway runs through Dec. 29th, 2017. | <urn:uuid:3eba1976-2449-456b-9276-b758595be35a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://crochetncrafts.com/yarn-whirled-book-review-giveaway-sponsored-dover-publications/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.93741 | 547 | 1.5 | 2 |
In any discussion about creating a schedule, there are always reminders to re-evaluate the schedule regularly just to make sure it’s still working and relevant. But, sometimes we revisit the schedule only to find that, no matter what we do, it just doesn’t work. That’s when we need to change our focus and instead look at evaluating interruptions to the schedule.
In other words, are we handing control of our schedule over to random interruptions, or are we keeping our boundaries firm so that we are the ones in control?
When creating a schedule or a plan in the first place, we have to learn how to plan for interruptions by setting boundaries and restricting the presence of things that we know will cause unnecessary interruptions if we let them.
But, there are always things we can’t anticipate, and even the best laid plans and the best formed boundaries have some gaps.
This is when evaluating interruptions is the key. So what does that mean? Let’s take a look.
Evaluating Interruptions by Writing it All Down
The first step in evaluating interruptions is to see what the interruptions actually are.
If you’re getting to the end of the day and realizing that you couldn’t stick to your schedule or get even half of the to-do list accomplished, but you have no idea what actually happened to your day, chances are you don’t have a good grasp on what’s interrupting you.
Acknowledging the “what” of your interruptions can often make it very clear where the changes need to be made! It can also help you see if you’re just in a stage where there aren’t any changes possible.
Sometimes it’s just that you need to be aware of the fact that you had unavoidable interruptions so that you can give yourself grace. This is so important! Go ahead and recognize that it was one of those days (or weeks), and move forward from there.
Other times you’ll find that you’ve allowed interruptions instead of maintaining your boundaries. Again, don’t beat yourself up. Instead, give yourself grace to reassert your boundaries and start fresh tomorrow. The key to this activity is not to give yourself a guilt trip. It’s to give you awareness.
Evaluating Interruptions by Adjusting Your Rhythm
Sometimes when you write down your interruptions, you clearly see where your time is going, what you need to tighten up, and whether or not you need to make some schedule adjustments to get it all straightened out.
Other times, though, evaluating interruptions shows you that you can’t really change those activities right now. The interruptions are your life.
For instance, maybe you’re in a season where feeding an infant and changing countless diapers every day is taking up far more time than you expected. Or potty training. Or dealing with the time it takes to make it to speech therapy multiple times a week. Or dealing with needing to keep the grocery costs down, leading to meals needing to be extra creative and more cost-effective — which means more time-consuming.
The list goes on!
If you’ve written the list down and you see that there are changes you can make, then make them. If not, consider evaluating whether these are truly interruptions or if they should be activities that need to actually be worked into your rhythm. Be realistic about your season of life, give yourself grace, and let your family’s uniqueness be okay.
Evaluating Interruptions by Rethinking the List
When evaluating interruptions, it’s also important to not get so caught up in what didn’t get done that you miss acknowledging what did get done!
It’s true that sometimes interruptions set us behind on things that have to get caught up. We have to get back on track with homeschool progress. We have to sort through that pile of clothes so we’ll know what the kids have and haven’t outgrown. The refrigerator is still overflowing with old leftovers that must be cleaned out. And so on and so forth.
Other times, though, the interruptions are actually part of an unexpected productivity. A spontaneous field trip covered what you were planning to read about in science. Don’t hesitate to mark that assignment done and move on!
A neighbor dropped by for a quick visit about the time you were heading out to the grocery store to get what you needed for the menu plan. She dropped by, though, because she’s going out of town and wanted to know if you could use the perishables that would go to waste while she was gone. A quick change to the menu plan means the grocery “shopping” is done!
Be creative when evaluating interruptions, and make sure that everything on the list still has to be done.
Ultimately, the goal when evaluating interruptions is to see what’s actually causing the interruptions, determine what needs to be done with them, and move forward. Be gracious with yourself and be intentional about retaking control! | <urn:uuid:ec5b1a62-0c07-4220-b8e6-c2ca1ba63b0a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wellplannedgal.com/evaluating-interruptions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951422 | 1,084 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Understanding the CSS Box Model is very important for every web developer because of two things. First, it will help web developers understand how to calculate the dimensions of a particular HTML element and second, it will also help them understand how to position that element on a website.
Dimensions of Block-Level Elements
In order to calculate the dimensions of a particular block-level element, several properties should be taken into account. These properties are width, height, padding, margins and finally the borders that surround that element.
Defining Width and Height
Width and height are determined with well known CSS properties (for example height: 200px;). If these values are not defined within the CSS stylesheet, they will use the default auto value that is dependent on the way a particular block element is positioned. Therefore, if a block element is using floated, absolute or fixed position, a width property will be determined according to the dimensions of content inside that block element. If a block element is using static positioning, width will be determined in the following way: width of the containing block minus borders, padding, horizontal margins and scrollbars.
CSS Box Model
If the above explanations are summarized, we will get two formulas that can be used for calculating both total width and height of the block element:
width = left margin + left border + left padding + width + right padding + right border + right margin
height = top margin + top border + top padding + height + bottom padding + bottom border + bottom margin
In practice, the CSS code looks like this:
border: 5px solid #FF3;
Visually, the box model looks like this:
This picture shows where the content will appear, but it also shows how “small” the portion of total dimensions it takes. Therefore, before defining total dimensions of the block element, web developers are encouraged to visualize the box model in order to ensure that there will be an adequate amount of space for content.
As seen in the previous image, there are some “edges.” An edge is a perimeter of each of the areas defined within the box model. The content edge is surrounded by a rectangle given by the width and height of the box, the padding edge surrounds the box padding, the border edge surrounds the box’s border, while the margin edge surrounds the box margin.
Mixing 100%, and Other CSS Properties
If the width property is set to 100%, there shouldn’t be any margins, padding or borders defined. The reason for this is simple; if these values are defined, the block element will not have enough space to fit in. As a result, a layout of the block element would likely be crippled, but it would also push other elements on their non-standard positions. | <urn:uuid:f3cb0d90-5d1b-4151-96db-67fab670e02d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/102517/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.79825 | 636 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Cannabidiol is a cannabinoid found in the cannabis herb. It is credited with several health benefits and is used as a remedy for many health problems.
CBD oil is also getting more attention in skin and hair care. You can also browse www.patchadam.com/collections/cbd-oil-drops to buy the best CBD pure oil drops.
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CBD oil means 100% pure CBD extract obtained from the flowers, leaves, and stems of the cannabis plant.
CBD oils are used in hair shampoos and hair care products, and many people say they can promote hair growth, strengthen and protect it, and promote scalp health.
Let's take a look at how CBD oil can be a great component of your hair care plan:
1 – Strengthens hair
Cannabidiol oil is made up of 21 amino acids that make up protein. This allows them to develop elasticity and collagen. Both are ideal for strengthening because they work to tighten the skin.
2 – Fighting drought
Immediately after a long day at work, you should notice that your hair is getting damaged and looks damaged. This is another area where CBD oil can benefit hair health.
3 – Benefits for the scalp
Pure CBD oil is ideal for the skin. It also has its skin on your scalp. Cannabidiol oil regenerates your skin from the scalp and improves blood circulation in the scalp.
In short, if you want to improve the health of your hair, you must add CBD hair care products. There is plenty available including conditioner, oil, shampoo, and more. | <urn:uuid:fef7bff5-3b4d-44e9-8099-3d12e161e1c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lanzadeldestino.com/tag/best-cbd-lip-balm/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964635 | 336 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Highlights World Bank-financed Morocco solar project linking Europe, N Africa to power of Sahara sun
Washington, DC (June 21) — After completing its historic 2,500-kilometer intercontinental flight to Morocco earlier this month, the Swiss solar-powered plane, Solar Impulse, lifted off from Morocco’s capital Rabat this morning on the second attempt at its most challenging flight yet — to the Sahara desert and Ouarzazate, where Morocco is building the world’s largest solar-thermal plant to harness renewable power from the Sahara sun for North Africa and Europe.
The pioneering solar-powered aircraft faced “difficult meteorological conditions” that last week forced pilot André Borschberg to turn back after experiencing unexpectedly strong headwinds halfway through the flight. Today, Solar Impulse took off from Rabat at 7:05 AM local time and flew over the Atlas Mountains before heading for a landing at Ouarzazate expected around midnight local time (early evening Thursday Eastern Time). Watch it live at www.moroccoonthemove.com/solar.
The solar plane, powered by 12,000 solar cells in its 207-ft wing-span and not a drop of fossil fuel, touched down in Morocco on June 5 after flying from Switzerland via Madrid. After landing, the Solar Impulse team joined events highlighting renewable energy technologies, under the patronage of King Mohammed VI and at the invitation of the Moroccan Agency for Solar Energy, MASEN, which oversees Morocco’s solar energy plans.
MASEN President Mustapha Bakkoury welcomed Solar Impulse pilot Bertrand Piccard at Rabat’s airport, calling the flight important for raising awareness about solar energy’s potential to reduce global dependence on oil, and saying, “we share a common message with Solar Impulse.” He said Morocco will be producing solar energy by 2014, when Solar Impulse plans to fly a round-the-world tour.
The solar flight to Morocco coincides with construction launch of a World Bank-financed solar thermal project in Ouarzazate — the first of five sites — that will produce 2,000 megawatts of renewable energy from the Sahara sun and create many jobs in the area. When it reaches Ouarzazate, Solar Impulse plans to fly over the site and land nearby to show its support for the innovative solar power project.
*For more on Morocco’s initiatives for renewable energy/energy efficiency, visit the Agence Nationale pour le Développement des Energies Renouvelables et de l’Efficacité Energétique (ADEREE): http://www.aderee.ma/.
The Moroccan American Center for Policy (MACP) is a non-profit organization whose principal mission is to inform opinion makers, government officials, and interested publics in the United States about political and social developments in Morocco and the role being played by the Kingdom of Morocco in broader strategic developments in North Africa, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East. For more, please visit www.moroccoonthemove.com | <urn:uuid:2fd3321e-35e1-4d79-b3db-d95df354f8eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moroccoonthemove.com/2012/06/21/solar-plane-flies-to-sahara-sun-in-ouarzazate-morocco-watch-it-live/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.878132 | 650 | 2.1875 | 2 |
What We Did Today:
We read stories: Christmas in the Barn and Mice on Ice
Our Bible Story (verse) was: Luke 2:11
We sang songs: 5 Little Ducks/Monkeys and Jingle Bells
We showed our creativity with: playing with Play-doh
Our letter of the week: J
Our number of the week:
Our shape of the month: star
Our color of the month: yellow
We played outside
For snack time we had: chocolate chip cookies and crackers
Quote of the Day:
We also: colored a Nativity Scene!
We had a great day!!!
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Blackbeard's Cave: What Berkeley is doing to keep it from being replaced by homes
BERKELEY - A self-storage facility will rise from what was the driving range at the now-closed Blackbeard’s Cave Family Entertainment Center.
The center, a prominent attraction in the Bayville section of Berkeley for about 30 years, closed in 2021, hit hard by its limited opening in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and the expiration of its long-term lease.
The driving range has been demolished to make way for a storage facility, township Administrator John Camera said. The business will have 600 self-storage units spread across five one-story buildings.
The plan, made by Marble Arch Homes, was approved in August 2020 by the township Zoning Board of Adjustment.
Township officials are trying to make sure other parts of the Blackbeard’s Cave property are preserved as open space.
For instance, nearly a year ago, the Township Council threw its support to the landowner’s donation of approximately 40 acres located in the back of the driving range to Ocean County’s Natural Land Trust Fund for recreation and preservation purposes.
The council also has asked Ocean County for help in acquiring the remainder of Blackbeard Cave’s property to keep it as open space.
The township is trying to protect against overdevelopment, township Administrator John Camera said.
“The way it is zoned, there could be a ton of residential units there,” he said. “We just don’t want to see overdevelopment anywhere in town.”
Mayor Carmen Amato said officials would like to see it preserved for open space and passive recreation.
The property also is contiguous to other property that has been preserved as open space, Amato said. It includes the old New Jersey Pulverizing Co. site, a 775-acre property off Hickory Lane. It was purchased by Ocean County in 2015.
David P. Willis, an award-winning business writer, has covered business and consumer news at the Asbury Park Press for more than 20 years. He writes APP.com's What's Going There column and can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Join his What's Going There page on Facebook for updates. | <urn:uuid:a54fa512-3d0d-4a82-ab13-4d6dc300d067> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.app.com/story/money/business/main-street/whats-going-there/2022/07/20/berkeley-nj-doesnt-want-blackbeards-cave-replaced-homes/65377434007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972172 | 474 | 1.539063 | 2 |
The Arab Water Works board of directors is reconsidering its action to remove fluoride from Arab’s drinking water supply.
The board said it is reviewing more research on the matter and will make a decision soon.
In a letter to Arab Mayor Bob Joslin, members of the Arab City Council and to The Arab Tribune, board chairman Rodney Hyatt called on everyone to “join us in pursuing this goal with a spirit of working together.”
The board voted in July to stop adding fluoride to the water beginning Aug. 1. The Alabama Department of Health dental director called the board’s action to the attention of Arab dentist Dr. John York, who called on the board to rescind its decision.
York and other medical professionals have said that having fluoride in the drinking water is essential for children and the elderly, especially those who can least afford good dental care.
Joslin directed city attorney Rodney Edmondson to research whether the city can legally do anything about the board’s decision to stop adding fluoride.
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THE immensity of the far-flung creation of the Universal Father is utterly beyond the grasp of finite imagination; the enormousness of the master universe staggers the concept of even my order of being. But the mortal mind can be taught much about the plan and arrangement of the universes; you can know something of their physical organization and marvelous administration; you may learn much about the various groups of intelligent beings who inhabit the seven superuniverses of time and the central universe of eternity.
In principle, that is, in eternal potential, we conceive of material creation as being infinite because the Universal Father is actually infinite, but as we study and observe the total material creation, we know that at any given moment in time it is limited, although to your finite minds it is comparatively limitless, virtually boundless.
We are convinced, from the study of physical law and from the observation of the starry realms, that the infinite Creator is not yet manifest in finality of cosmic expression, that much of the cosmic potential of the Infinite is still self-contained and unrevealed. To created beings the master universe might appear to be almost infinite, but it is far from finished; there are still physical limits to the material creation, and the experiential revelation of the eternal purpose is still in progress. | <urn:uuid:fd5c0d7a-fd37-4221-868f-33431e0dd122> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bigbluebook.org/12/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948187 | 263 | 1.945313 | 2 |
During 2021, we experienced record breaking changes in employment. In fact, 2021 delivered the highest average on record for employees leaving their employer, which equated to an average of 3.9 million resignations each month.
You may be thinking that is old news, or you may be thinking it really isn’t that important. What these staggering numbers do not address is the impact that significant attrition can have on an organization. When organizations lose experience, knowledge and expertise in large numbers, most organizations have a difficult time maintaining or even regaining their momentum, let alone meeting their annual business objectives.
There are numerous steps organizations can take to help reduce this type of impact and support their ongoing momentum. One suggestion that we will focus on today is to create an Enterprise Project Management Office that will provide:
The structure of an EPMO provides visibility, knowledge of the strategic programs across the organization, and a clear set of methods and processes for teams to follow. All of these are key areas that help prevent loss of knowledge when an organization is facing a high attrition rate.
Additionally, an EPMO can provide guidance on how to implement cost reporting in an organization and to build upon that reporting, can help identify and measure areas of cost savings. An EPMO is often the right organization to assist with data-based decision making as well.
These types of consistent processes and knowledge sharing are key to supporting an effective operational structure that will provide the support needed to achieve business objectives.
If you would like to learn more about how to implement a successful Enterprise Project Management Office in your organization, you may want to work with a small team, with deep expertise and real experience, to help you create the desired outcome.
If you have an interest in learning more, give us a call.
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The Mentoring Program
The “Agile Lean Mentoring” program offers on-site and on-line assistance to help organizations introduce Agile Lean Leadership to transform and sustain their operations.
- Assessment of current operation, roles and procedures
- Discussion of Agile-Lean Team-based approach and possible structures
- Advice on implementation and alternative work patterns
- On-going roll-out support
- Optional implementation of software tools (Agemba)
- Organizational design. Using the concepts of Teams and Circles, a structure of internal and external services is designed and described. The broad organization is involved to ensure general acceptance is achieved. Every Team formulates their Team or Circle “Manifest” which describes who they are and what they do. Every relationship and event also has a manifest. Patterns and practices to develop psychological safety in the organization are discussed.
- Team composition. How to create a successful, self-organizing Team with the right competences and personalities.
- The Scrum Master or Agile Coach role. The primary focus for the person holding this role is to develop an organizational structure that focuses on removing impediments, enabling learning and innovation, leveling the road and protecting the Team’s process. The Scrum Master role in all teams it vital for resolving issues, drivingconstant improvement and keep to agreed time-lines.
Contact us via email@example.com for a discussion about how we can assist in your journey beyond efficiency to effectiveness. | <urn:uuid:0c68fca5-1111-437b-9aa4-7f9b694b4dee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scrummaster.dk/en/coaching | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.917118 | 316 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Skip to comments.Oil, Food and a Whole Lot of Questions
Posted on 04/18/2003 3:58:00 AM PDT by wretchard
resident Bush's call to lift economic sanctions against Iraq could mean the end of the United Nations oil-for-food program, which has overseen the country's oil sales since 1996. Not only are France and Russia likely to object, but they may well support efforts by Secretary General Kofi Annan to modify the oil-for-food system, which is due to expire on May 12, and give it a large role in rebuilding the country. Whatever Mr. Annan's reasons for wanting to reincarnate the operation, before he makes his case there's something he needs to do: open the books.
The oil-for-food program is no ordinary relief effort. Not only does it involve astronomical amounts of money, it also operates with alarming secrecy. Intended to ease the human cost of economic sanctions by letting Iraq sell oil and use the profits for staples like milk and medicine, the program has morphed into big business. Since its inception, the program has overseen more than $100 billion in contracts for oil exports and relief imports combined.
It also collects a 2.2 percent commission on every barrel more than $1 billion to date that is supposed to cover its administrative costs. According to staff members, the program's bank accounts over the past year have held balances upward of $12 billion. With all that money pouring straight from Iraq's oil taps thus obviating the need to wring donations from member countries the oil-for-food program has evolved into a bonanza of jobs and commercial clout. Before the war it employed some 1,000 international workers and 3,000 Iraqis. (The Iraqi employees charged with monitoring Saddam Hussein's imports and distribution of relief goods of course all had to be approved by the Baath Party.)
Initially, all contracts were to be approved by the Security Council. Nonetheless, the program facilitated a string of business deals tilted heavily toward Saddam Hussein's preferred trading partners, like Russia, France and, to a lesser extent, Syria. About a year ago, in the name of expediency, Mr. Annan was given direct authority to sign off on all goods not itemized on a special watch list. Yet shipments with Mr. Annan's go-ahead have included so-called relief items such as "boats" and boat "accessories" from France and "sport supplies" from Lebanon (sports in Iraq having been the domain of Saddam's Hussein's sadistic elder son, Uday).
On Feb. 7, with war all but inevitable, Mr. Annan approved a request by the regime for TV broadcasting equipment from Russia. Was this material intended to shore up the propaganda machine Saddam Hussein had built in recent years? After all, the United Nations in 2000 and 2001 approved more than a dozen contracts with Jordan and France for Iraq to import equipment for "educational TV."
It is impossible to find out for certain. The quantities of goods involved in shipments are confidential, and almost all descriptions on the contract lists made public by the United Nations are so generic as to be meaningless. For example, a deal with Russia approved last Nov. 19 was described on the contract papers with the enigmatic notation: "goods for resumption of project." Who are the Russian suppliers? The United Nations won't say. What were they promised in payment? That's secret.
I was at least able to confirm that the shipment of Russian TV equipment approved in February was not delivered before the war started. A press officer told me that batch didn't actually get to Iraq because United Nations processing is so slow that "it usually takes three to four months" before the purchases start to arrive.
Bureaucratic lags notwithstanding, putting a veil of secrecy over tens of billions of dollars in contracts is an invitation to kickbacks, political back-scratching and smuggling done under cover of relief operations. Of course, with so little paperwork made public, it is impossible to say whether there has been any malfeasance so far but I found nothing that would seem to contradict Gen. Tommy Franks's comment that the system should have been named the "oil-for-palace program." Why, for example, are companies in Russia and Syria hardly powerhouses in the automotive industry listed as suppliers of Japanese vehicles? Why are desert countries like Libya, Syria and Saudi Arabia delivering powdered milk?
And then there is this menacing list of countries that supplied "detergent": Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria, Yemen and Sudan. Maybe all that multisourced soap was just a terrific bargain for doing the laundry. But there is no way for any independent parties including the citizens of Iraq, whose money was actually spent on the goods to know.
Mr. Annan's office does share more detailed records with the Security Council members, but none of those countries makes them public. There is no independent, external audit of the program; financial oversight goes to officials from a revolving trio of member states currently South Africa, the Philippines and, yes, France.
As for the program's vast bank accounts, the public is told only that letters of credit are issued by a French bank, BNP Paribas . Kurdish leaders in northern Iraq, entitled to goods funded by 13 percent of the program's revenues, have been trying for some time to find out how much interest they are going to receive on $4 billion in relief they are still owed. The United Nations treasurer told me that that no outside party, not even the Kurds, gets access to those figures.
Then there is the program's compensation commission, which is supposed to dole out 25 percent of all oil-for-food proceeds to people and companies harmed by Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990. It has so far dispensed $17.5 billion and approved a further $26.2 billion. Who decides on compensation claims? Commission members are picked from a "register of experts" supplied by Mr. Annan. One staff member told me that that this register cannot be released because it is "not public." The identities of the individual claimants are, of course, "confidential."
Lifting the sanctions would take away the United Nations' remaining leverage in Iraq. If the oil-for-food operation is extended, however, it will have a tremendous influence on shaping the new Iraq. Before that is allowed to happen, let's see the books.
Claudia Rosett, a former foreign correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, is writing a book on dictatorships and democracy.
Ah ha. Now the truth comes out. You gotta love the Baath Party members overseeing Saddam's imports and distribution of relief goods.
Who cares what the terrorist thinks -- or his old Europe enablers.
Was Baghdad Bob supplied by the UN?....Hmmm....questions remain unanswered.
... which is due to expire on May 12 ...How convenient. Problem solved. We simply allow the program to expire, and veto any attempt to renew it.
What oil they found was confiscated, sold on the open market, with the proceeds going to the UN. To the best of my knowledge, the US and other countries just "donated" the warships and manpower.
NO WONDER THE USELSESS NATIONS & AXIS OF WEASELS ARE SO HOT TO TROT!
Here in NY we're lucky enough to also have the Wall Street Journal (the best conservative newspaper), and the Village Voice (the best investigative newspaper that I know of in America). They are the ones that break almost all of the scandals here in NY and no one is spared because they're so left of the left that they go after left and right with equal glee if there's a scandal.
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PUSH HANDS (Sensing Hands)
Tai Chi Push Hands (also known as Sensing Hands) involves the practice and exchange of the 8 Jins (energies) with a partner. It is a great way to integrate all of the principles you learn in Tai Chi Forms and Healing Medical Qigong classes.
Training with a partner also allows a you to develop Ting Jing (listening power), the sensitivity to feel the strength and direction of a partner’s intention. This provides a format for you to improve your martial arts timing and footwork, along with relaxation, balance, and flexibility. You will especially learn to put into practice the 8 Jins (energies).
What are the 8 energies(Jins) of Tai Chi Chuan?
Rollback or Lu – backward or absorbing, yielding power
Push or An – downward-moving power
Press or Ji – straight ahead, forward power
Elbow, Bump, Split and Pluck – self-explanatory.
These 8 Jins (energies) are the natural way of doing things; in fact, you use these techniques in almost every activity you do in everyday life.
The practice of Push Hands enhances the way you respond under pressure, as you learn to relax and sink under the pressure. Numerous medical studies have shown that stress and pressure can break down your immune system and make you physically and emotionally sick. Yet, stress and pressure are always present, like gravity, and will never go away. Bills will continue to come; you will never have enough time in the day to finish everything you need to accomplish; and your job and family’s needs will always be pressing upon you.
What Push Hands teaches you is how to respond to and deal with the pressures and stresses of life itself, not just the pressure of an opponent pushing on you.
“If you want to conquer the stresses of life, live in the now,
be aware, learn to breathe and relax under pressure.”
– Master Michael Paler
Putnam Valley, NY. (May 28, 2014) – Tai Chi, a traditional Chinese mart...
Be conscientious in Peng (Ward-off), Lu (Rollback), Chi (Press), and An (Pu...
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By Anne-Marie Mickelsen, ’01
THE Poket Doktor, invented by Peter B. Jones, ’02; Eric S. Hall, ’02; David K. Vawdrey, ’02; and Matthew S. Young, ’02, has brought international attention to the four electrical and computer engineering students from BYU. A prototype of a microchip-embedded credit card, the Poket Doktor uses Bluetooth wireless technology to relay medical information to paramedics at the scene of an accident when the victim is unable to communicate.
The project, which began as an assignment for their senior engineering course, eventually earned the students a third-place finish in the world finals of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers’ (IEEE) Computer Society International Design Competition (CSIDC).
Team members split the $6,000 prize and secured an additional $6,000 scholarship fund for BYU‘s Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Winners were chosen based on project creativity, usability, and marketability. The event was sponsored by companies, such as Microsoft, AMD, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and Intel, that are involved in the development of the emerging Bluetooth technology.
“It was exciting to hear our team’s name called,” says Jones, 23, from Providence, Utah. “I think the quality of our presentation and the fact our project could someday have an impact on people helped us a lot in placing where we did.”
The project resulted from a senior engineering class taught by Michael J. Wirthlin, ’92, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering. Wirthlin said he wanted to give students a chance to be involved in something cutting edge while they applied classroom instruction. Their assignment was to design a special-purpose computer device that would benefit society using the much-anticipated Bluetooth technology, which uses a radio link to transfer information wirelessly between digital appliances within 60 feet of each other. “It’s good for them to get real-world experience so that they can get a taste for the industry,” Wirthlin says.
At the end of the semester, Wirthlin held a class contest where the teams presented their ideas to two industry professionals and a computer science professor. Competing against a car diagnostic system and an interactive shopping list system, the Poket Doktor team won the opportunity to represent the university in the CSIDC competition.
According to Jones, learning how to program the Poket Doktor was the group’s biggest challenge. “None of us had ever used the programming language required to create the project before. It was a big learning curve. The first couple of weeks were kind of crazy just trying to learn how to use it,” Jones says.
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S12-like family, 40S ribosomal protein S23 subfamily; S23 is located at the interface of the large and small ribosomal subunits of eukaryotes, adjacent to the decoding center. It interacts with domain III of the eukaryotic elongation factor 2 (eEF2), which catalyzes the translocation of the growing peptidyl-tRNA to the P site to make room for the next aminoacyl-tRNA at the A (acceptor) site. Through its interaction with eEF2, S23 may play an important role in translocation. Also members of this subfamily are the archaeal 30S ribosomal S12 proteins. Prokaryotic S12 is essential for maintenance of a pretranslocation state and, together with S13, functions as control element for the rRNA- and tRNA-driven movements of translocation. S12 and S23 are also implicated in translation accuracy. Antibiotics such as streptomycin bind S12/S23 and cause the ribosome to misread the genetic code. | <urn:uuid:4c7d1958-f20a-48af-92aa-829d36b8ffbc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cddsrv.cgi?ascbin=8&maxaln=10&seltype=2&uid=cd03367 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.915963 | 227 | 2.546875 | 3 |
This dissertation is composed of three essays on the future of money.
Transitioning a National Currency to Bitcoin with Dollarization or a Currency Board.
1 Yermack (2013), Dwyer (2015), Coats (2014), Salmon (2013), Brito and.
use bitcoin as a medium of exchange only, avoiding the erratic exchange rate, not at all as.
Felix Salmon, “The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency,” Medium, April. 3, 2013, https://medium.com/money-banking/2b5ef79482cb. 21. Newcomer.
Make Money With Bitcoin Faucet On Monday evening, the bitcoin Halving will arrive for the third time in bitcoin’s history. Daniel Roberts is an. Another great strategy to make money with bitcoin is by starting
A cultural history of Bitcoin and what happened when the nascent virtual currency began to be covered by the mainstream media. Felix Salmon Medium Apr 2013.
13 Apr 2013.
By Felix Salmon 3 April 2013 (Medium) – A few days ago, the value of all the bitcoins in the.
The Bitcoin Bubble and the Future of Currency.
12 Apr 2013.
The world's “first decentralised digital currency” promises financial salvation, but.
Bitcoin has, however, shown every sign of becoming a speculative bubble.
Felix Salmon at the start of April: “The commodity value of bitcoins is rooted in.
On the other hand, there is a genuinely trans-national medium for.
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Problems with Sebring Brakesby Eli Laurens
The Chrysler Sebring was manufactured with a hydraulic braking system that uses a caliper/pad and drum/shoe setup to stop the vehicle. Later or upgraded models can have four wheel disc brakes. The average backyard mechanic can troubleshoot the Sebring brakes in about 30 minutes.
The Sebring, like most other Chrysler models, had early problems with the anti-lock braking system (ABS) incorporated into the front calipers. The wiring harness connectors and sensors could malfunction and confuse the computer, or cause the calipers not to allow complete braking. The system is designed to prevent wheel lockup during hard braking by preventing the calipers from fully pushing the pads onto the rotor. This can be felt as a "hard pedal", or a lack of stopping power when the brakes are applied. Hard pedal can also be caused by problems with the power booster (in back of the master cylinder), but the ABS system is easier to repair and should be checked first.
Calipers and Pads
As with many other disc brake systems, the inherent design of the rotor/caliper mechanism can lead to several issues: rotor warping, groove damage to the rotor, inexpensive pads causing grinding or squealing, and a loss of pressure due to bad caliper piston seals. All of these problems are alleviated by replacement parts, but could return if the cause is not addressed. Heat buildup from over-braking is the primary cause of braking system failures and damage, and can cause most of the issues listed. Poor manufacturing or obstruction from debris can cause grooves in the rotor (as the pads continue to scratch the friction surface), cutting large gashes that cannot typically be repaired except by total replacement.
Damaged parts and a buildup of heat can break down the hydraulic fluid that is in the caliper, brake lines, and master cylinder. The fluid, DOT-3 for the Sebring, will go from a golden-yellow color to a dark brown or black when the particles are damaged from heat. A complete purge of the braking system is required, to replace all of the fluid. Usually, the caliper pistons are at fault, as the pads heat up they come closest to the fluid at the piston. This "cooks" the fluid, and as it is retracted back into the system (as it cools or the brakes are released), it causes the heat to travel into sensitive areas of the system. The seals in the master cylinder and power booster are prone to damage from heat. The fluid will lose its ability to maintain pressure, as it introduces air into the system and compresses.
Using ceramic pads instead of the semi-metallic types that came on the Sebring from the factory can reduce noise and increase the braking system's lifespan. Semi-metallic pads are usually produced as the cheapest, lowest common denominator of brake pads available. Ceramic pads are about 50% more money to purchase, but they do not wear as quickly, reduce heat buildup, and do not typically squeal.
The Sebring's rotors are the same models used on many other Chrysler products, and while parts are less expensive, they are not ideal brakes for the car. Aftermarket brakes with larger rotors and calipers are manufactured to a higher quality, and will perform much better under stressful conditions. The larger rotor normally has air vents cut into it, and these are designed to reduce heat buildup. Larger rotors require larger calipers and pads, and these usually come as a kit.
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A "cure porch" is a glass-enclosed porch with movable sash designed to facilitate a "fresh-air cure" of a case of tuberculosis, based on the ideas of Dr. E. L. Trudeau. Cure porches are ubiquitous in Saranac Lake; a cure porch "is what makes a cure cottage a cure cottage". 1
There are three basic forms of cure porch: attached, engaged, and inset. An attached cure porch is a structurally separate porch adjoining an exterior wall, covered by its own roof. An inset porch is built into the house itself, under a main roof; in cases where it is not entirely open, it is a porch only by virtue of the number of windows and, usually, by provision for drainage of any rainwater that enters. An engaged porch is an intermediate design— the porch is integrated into the core building, with a roof extending back over the core.
Another distinction is that between sitting out and sleeping porches. The former were smaller, designed for "sitting out" in the fresh air during the day. The latter were typically attached to a bedroom by a door with no sill wide enough to roll a bed through; the ideal sleeping porch was large enough that a bed could be turned around in it.
- Gallos, Philip L., Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, Historic Saranac Lake, 1985. ISBN 0-9615159-0-2
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Part 2: Understanding Environmental Loads
Part one of this series on construction loads covered the basics of dead loads and live loads. Now let’s look at the additional loads old Mother Nature inflicts on structures.
Planning for nature’s violent vicissitudes is tricky. No one knows exactly the strength hurricane-force winds will blow. Who can guess how much snow can accumulate during back-to-back snowstorms? And multiple variables determine the damage inflicted by seismic events.
Building code officials calculate required loads based on historical data gathered for a particular area. Local building entities may increase required loads if they believe recent events warrants stronger codes.
Environmental Loads are Live Loads
Snow, wind, and earthquakes produce transient stresses on a building, sweeping in and out quickly. Consequently, seismic, snow, and earthquake loads are live loads.
Dead loads (permanent weight) and other traditional live loads (movable or transient weight) primarily press downward on a structure, creating vertical stress.
As snow gathers on a roof, it adds weight on the structure, increasing the vertical load.
The weight of the snow depends on several variables. The density of the snow makes a significant difference in the weight; dry snow is far lighter than wet, fluffy snow. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) estimates dry, powdery snow weighs about three pounds per square foot. Wet, heavy snow may weigh as much as twenty-one pounds per square foot.
Snow accumulation also affects weight and therefore the downward force on a building. If the roof has thirty inches of snow on it from last week’s blizzard and another four inches falls, it might be enough to damage a building not engineered for that much strain.
Another consideration is the horizontal load large snowdrifts place on the sides of a structure.
[NOTE: Structural engineers compute snow load one of two different ways: as ground load or as roof load. In snow country, make sure you know which method your steel building company is quoting. The variances between ground snow load and roof snow load produce dramatically different structures and pricing.]
Rain and ice loads, like snow loads, create added vertical weight on a structure.
Ice is particularly stressful because of its density. A one square foot by one-inch thick patch of snow may weigh four to twelve ounces. A square foot of ice one inch thick weighs almost five pounds! For a 2,400 square-foot building roof, one-inch-thick ice adds almost 12,000 pounds of extra weight on the structure.
Strong winds inflict a certain amount of lift, or lateral load, on a structure.
Lift only becomes a factor if the structure has deep eave extensions— or if the building envelope is breached. For example, if an overhead door collapses or a large window blows out during a hurricane, the winds enter the building, creating a lifting pressure against the roof. (That is why it is important to purchase certified wind-rated doors in coastal areas prone to tropical storms.)
The majority of wind force is a horizontal load, thrusting against the sides of a building.
The velocity of the wind and the size of the structure determine the wind’s force. Low-rise structures tend to be less affected by hurricane-force winds than high-rise buildings, because there is simply a larger surface for the wind to push on.
Earthquakes inflict added pressure both horizontally and vertically.
Structural engineers must also consider ground vibration as a factor. They look at the foundation, soil type, building system, the duration, and the power of an earthquake possible in that specific area.
Any state likely to experience seismic events requires more robust seismic loads.
Steel Stands Up to Mother Nature’s Tantrums
No other structural material matches the strength-to-weight ratio of steel. Neither rain, nor snow, nor wind, nor earthquakes deter RHINO steel buildings from conforming to all local building codes. Regardless of your location in North America, RHINO’s pre-engineered metal buildings will meet— or exceed— every current building load requirement in your area— guaranteed.
RHINO has never been refused a building permit anywhere. Our steel buildings will meet all construction loads for the extreme snow codes in Canada, the hurricane-force wind codes of Florida, the stringent seismic loads in California— and everything in between.
Do you have questions about construction loads? Please call RHINO at 940.383.9566.
Our experienced metal building specialists can answer your questions, offer sound construction load advice, and provide you with a free quote on your next building project.
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February 12, 2019, 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM (US Central)
Presenters: Beth McNeil, Rae Reilly
Learn about visual literacy utilizing Grant Wood’s iconic mural (1936-37) Breaking the Prairie Sod, which is located in the lobby of Parks Library. After experiencing visual literacy skills and techniques, attendees will learn how these skills can lead to understanding any work of art, from abstract to realism.
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Legions of art lovers have been crowding into the newly opened Broad Museum in Los Angeles in recent weeks to succumb to the sensory immersion of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room, a mirror-lined room illuminated with an infinitesimal galaxy of LED lights, a 45-second experience simulating the expansion of the cosmos and human perception.
Thousands of miles away in Istanbul, Turkey exists arguably an even more immersive blend of artistic vision and technology, a 12-minute installation by artist Refik Anadol utilizing 3-dimensional projection mapping to form a continually transitioning virtual landscape.
The Infinity Room – part of Artnivo’s ‘40 Meters 4 Walls 8 Cubes‘ exhibition in collaboration with Istanbul Biennial at Zorlu Performing Art Center – the installation attempts to merge across the threshold “between the simulacrum space created by the projection technology, and the physical space where the viewer stands.”
The results are a near boundless experimentation of perception of place and self, an artistic parallel to more consumer-aimed technologies like Oculus and Microsoft’s RoomAlive system looming on the VR horizon.
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There are many different styles of massage, so it’s important to find the type of massage that’s best for you. Franciscan Day Spa offers massage therapy performed by qualified certified massage therapists. Let one of them recommend a massage treatment just for you.
Swedish Massage is a system of long strokes, kneading and friction techniques on the more superficial layers of the muscles, combined with active and passive movements of the joints. This full body massage promotes relaxation, improves circulation, and helps increase joint mobility.
Deep Tissue Body Massage
Stronger pressure is used with this sophisticated massage along with elbows and forearms to achieve a truly effective deep tissue massage. Ideal for those experienced in massage or after a vigorous exercise session.
Sports massage combines traditional massage with a variety of compressions, stretches, and cross friction technique focusing on muscle systems relevant to a particular sport.
Hot Stone Massage
A fusion of massage techniques involving the use of heated river stones. Stone therapy is a Native American Indian practice used since ancient times as a healing therapy. The use of stones aids the therapist to work deeper, giving relief to deep-seated muscle tension. Stones are known generators of energy, creating a sense of balance and calm.
A Prenatal Massage can help reduce some of the discomforts of pregnancy. Lower back pain, sciatic pain, and calf cramping may be reduced.
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How Do Plastic Surgeries Work In Dallas?
Plastic surgery, also known as cosmetic surgery, is the surgical alteration of the external features of the body. Cosmetic surgery may be undertaken for a variety of reasons, such as to improve appearance or to correct the deformity. The most common procedures are breast augmentation, facelift, liposuction, and nose reshaping.
There are a variety of different types of plastic surgery and they all have their own benefits. You can also pop over to this site to know more about plastic surgeries.
Here’s a look at some of the most common procedures of plastic surgeries:
-Facelift: A facelift is a surgical procedure that helps to reduce wrinkles and contours around the face, giving you a more youthful appearance. In many cases, it can also help to improve the symmetry of your facial features.
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-Breast Augmentation: Breast augmentation is a popular procedure that can help to increase your bust size. It can also correct ptosis (droopiness) or ptotic breasts, which may be caused by childbirth, weight gain, or age.
-Eyelid Surgery: Eyelid surgery can help to reduce puffiness or bags under your eyes, give you a more defined eye line, and reduce the appearance of lines around your eyes. It can also help to improve your visibility in daylight.
-Botox Cosmetic: Botox Cosmetic is a treatment that uses botulinum toxin (a protein from the Clostridium botulinum bacterium) to relax muscles and decrease the appearance of wrinkles and lines. It is often used to treat frown lines. Plastic surgery is a popular choice for people who want to improve their appearance. | <urn:uuid:57496177-931d-4e21-a462-fdd405eb19c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://artfer.net/how-do-plastic-surgeries-work-in-dallas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957525 | 357 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Mechanisation plays an integral part in easing labour-intensive farm operations and dependency on migrant labour, much to the relief of growers and ageing farmers, as the younger generations are less keen on farming. Productivity and yield in farms and plantations can be improved through mechanisation which helps to lower production cost, and achieve timely operations, better precision and optimal performance of agro inputs.
At ACM, we have a comprehensive range of quality applicators, personal protective equipment (PPE) and machinery to meet the requirements of agro industries for crop care, rice transplanting, land preparation, fertilisation, soil revitalisation and landscaping; environmental science for vector control; aquaculture and many more. Besides being the distributor for world renowned brands, JACTO and MARUYAMA, we also design our own patented applicators. All our applicators and machinery are field-tested and proven for better efficiency and productivity.
Collaborations, Transfer of Technology and Product Demonstrations
Below are some of our activities held throughout the nation:
BSA (Boom Sprayer Applicator) makes application easy and effective in a pineapple plantation
Maruyama motorised sprayer ensures good coverage of spray solution in a vegetable farm
The multi-purpose BSA (Boom Sprayer Applicator) provides high mobility and stability in a paddy field
Demonstration of Jacto Arbus400 Golden air blast sprayer in a mango orchard
Spray height up to 20 m and good coverage, with Jacto AJ401 for pest and disease control
Malaysia Agriculture, Horticulture & Agrotourism (MAHA) Exhibition
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A trip to Kauai, the Garden Isle, wouldn't be complete without driving through the breathtaking Tunnel of Trees on Highway 520. The picturesque tunnel was formed by 500 eucalyptus trees that line both sides of Maluhia Road, creating a natural canopied gateway to Kauai’s South Shore.
The original 500 trees were planted in 1911 as a gift to the community from Pineapple Baron Walter McBryde. The beautiful trees were leftover from a large landscape project of his estate home, now the grounds of the Kukuiolono Park and Golf Course.
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Long Beach State’s Associated Students, Inc. Senate voted to approve the first reading of a resolution to formally support the Philippine Human Rights Act at its meeting Wednesday.
The Philippine Human Rights Act, introduced to the House of Representatives last month, would require the Filipino government under President Rodrigo Duterte to make substantial human rights reforms or lose military aid from the United States. With this resolution, CSULB would follow in the footsteps of universities like California State University, Northridge and University of California Los Angeles, which have passed similar resolutions.
“We also have a statement of solidarity with the Filipino community in Long Beach to condemn these human rights violations,” said Sumaiyah Hossain, ASI senator at-large.
Duterte has a history of human rights violations and using violence to silence opposition. According to the Associated Press, Duterte’s war on drugs in the Philippines has led to the extrajudicial killings of more than 5,800 people and even more arrests.
One of the most recent examples of these human right violations is the Philippines anti-terror law, which took effect in July. This law expanded the definition of terrorism to include most forms of speech and protests against the Filipino government.
“The anti-terror law can label anyone with critiques on the government as a terrorist, so this affects both people in the Philippines and Filipino Americans,” said Irene Choi, president of the Pilipino American Coalition at CSULB.
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m(a)-kay-la. Origin:Hebrew. Popularity:670. Meaning:who resembles God?
What is the meaning behind the name Makayla?
The name Makayla is a girl’s name of Hebrew origin meaning “who is like God”. Now the best-selling version of this infinitely varied name, Makayla incorporates the also-popular Kayla. Makayla and Mikayla have now left the original Michaela far behind.
What does Makayla mean in the Bible?
In English The meaning of the name Mikayla is: Feminine of Michael, meaning gift from God.
Is Makayla a good name?
Today, Makayla is a Top 50 choice for girls’ names. Another popular variation (Mikayla) popped up the same year and is the second most common spelling. The traditional spelling (Michaela) is in third place. Mckayla and Mikaela are also on the charts.
Who resembles God meaning?
The name Misha is Hebrew and the meaning of Misha is ‘the one who resembles God’. … He was considered a protector, who took over the leadership of God’s armies and defeated Satan and his forces.
Is Makayla a rare name?
1 out of every 1,859 baby girls born in 2020 are named Makayla.
Does Mikayla mean gift from God?
American Baby Names Meaning:
In American Baby Names the meaning of the name Mikayla is: Feminine of Michael, meaning gift from God.
What are nicknames for Makayla?
Baby Name: Makayla
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Where does the name McKayla originate from?
Etymology & Historical Origin of the Baby Name Mckayla
McKayla is a modern Americanized rendition of Michaela which is the German female equivalent of Michael.
Is Makayla an Irish name?
It is of American origin, and the meaning of Mckayla is “fiery”. Blend of the Irish and Scottish surname Mckay with Kayla, resulting in a variant of Michaela.
What are the most unique girl names?
Classically Unique Baby Girl Names
What is the correct spelling for Makayla?
The Americanized spelling of this name, Makayla, is currently the most popular, followed by Mikayla. In third place is the more traditional Michaela. Mikaela with a “k” is the fourth most common spelling variation of this lovely name.
What name means God is with me?
Emanuel. This name shows up in the book of Isaiah. It means “God is with us.” Zuriel.
What does the name Benjamin mean?
What Does Benjamin Mean? Benjamin comes from the Old Testament of the Bible, and in Hebrew means “son of the right hand.” The Benjamin of the Bible was the youngest of Jacob’s twelve sons; the expression “the Benjamin of the family” means the youngest child.
What’s the name of the archangels?
Chapter 20 of the Book of Enoch mentions seven holy angels who watch, that often are considered the seven archangels: Michael, Raphael, Gabriel, Uriel, Saraqael, Raguel, and Remiel. The Life of Adam and Eve lists the archangels as well: Michael, Gabriel, Uriel, Raphael and Joel. | <urn:uuid:66fcb85b-3601-4455-8fb9-f3cbbd16d2d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astrologersachinshastri.com/meaning-dreams/what-is-the-meaning-of-the-name-makayla.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.872562 | 852 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The United Kingdom: a role model for inclusive education?
The right of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) to be educated in mainstream schools was determined in 1993. Legislation and provisions have since undergone several changes and reforms, the latest being introduced in 2014 by the Children and Families Act.
Special educational needs and disabilities (SEND)
United Kingdom; England
This website by the British government provides access to documents concerning special educational needs of children and young people with disabilities, e.g. statutes and guidelines, government policy, consultations. The thematic scope covers SEND, inclusive schooling, children with learning difficulties, etc.
UK's Special Educational Needs and Disabilities Reforms
On 1 September a major change to the special educational needs (SEN) system in England came into effect. The Children and Families Act 2014 has been passed by the UK Parliament and this sets out a new framework for SEN provision along with a new SEN and Disability Code of Practice.
The new legislation expands the age-range [...]
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A guide for parents of children with disabilities, information regarding available support and assistance (financial and otherwise) for children with special (educational) needs).
United Kingdom (England): Educational Support and Guidance
The article focuses on the legal background and provisions for children with special educational needs in England, alternative regulations may apply to other parts of the UK. Published for EURYPEDIA, the European network on educational information in Europe. Reference year: 2013/2014.
Support and aspiration: a new approach to special educational needs
The Green Paper consultation was publlished by the Department of Education in 2011. One of the rationales was to make provisions for children and young people with special educational needs more effective, beyond giving parents control and establishing a system harmonises educational needs, health and care provisions. Future [...]
Children and Families Act 2014
The Children and Families Act 2014 brings together legislation concerning children in care, looked after, adoption, and (chapter 3) children with special needs and disabilities (SEND). In the case of SEND, health plans are outlined targeting health, care and education. The targeted age group is 0 to 25.
Equality Act 2010
The 2010 Equality Act marks a reform in the legislation against discrimination in public life in the UK, itcovers race, disability, religious orientation, sex and sexual orientation.
Virtual Issues from British Journal of Special Education: Special Educational Needs and Learning Support
United Kingdom; England; Scotland; international
The Virtual Issue, published online as volume 35 of th eBritish Journal of Special Education, hosts four articles on the topic of "special needs education" and "learning support". P First published in 2008, the articles focus on the topic of "inclusive" versus mainstream education and highlight [...]
Benefits and credits: Disabled Students' Allowances (DSAs)
United Kingdom; England; Northern Ireland; Wales; England
Overview and details regarding the disability allowance for students in higher education with a disability or long-term health condition. Eligibility is subject to a needs assessment and grants are non-refundable.
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From Hannah Grabowski’s freshman year as an undergraduate student at Arizona State University until now as a graduate student, their studies and free time have focused on supporting and advocating for others. .
Grabowski promoted sexual health education and healthy relationships through ASU devils in the bedroom, worked with survivors of sexual and relationship violence through the Sun Devil Support Network and was the first director of sexual health and wellness for the undergraduate student government on the Tempe campus. Today, Grabowski serves as a graduate mentor to three undergraduate students who make up the board of directors of ASU’s New Accessibility Coalition.
Hannah Grabowski received a double bachelor’s degree from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2018 and is now earning a doctorate in gender studies as well as two certificates in disability studies and sexuality studies.
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âI’m open about being disabled, non-binary and queer because I think it’s not only a way to build relationships and bond with students, but also visibility is important,â said Grabowski. âI am also open to the idea of ââbeing a first generation student from a low income background. ”
Grabowski attributes their motivation to stand up for others to the lived experiences and perspectives gained from being raised by a progressive Ohio family.
âMy mother, grandparents and great-grandmother all identified as feminists, and my family members worked in unions. Growing up in a low income household gave me some perspective on classism justice, âthey said. “I attribute it to the fact that my mother gave me the resources to get to know the various communities from an early age⦠it feels natural to me.”
Grabowski graduated with a BA in Justice and Social Inquiry as well as Women and Gender Studies from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in 2018. They are now earning a PhD in Gender Studies as well as two Certificates in Disability Studies. and Sexuality Studies, all from the School of Social Transformation.
âI’m very interested in how stories of love and community – primarily within the transgender community, but also the broader LGBT community – are preserved and archived,â Grabowski said.
Accessible and non-traditional archives are at the center of Grabowski’s research, archives that go beyond typical academic or museum environments and are firmly anchored in the community.
âI think it’s really important for trans people to have access to the story of their own community and how that can be enhanced and improved. I think there is a sort of singular narrative that transgender life is exclusively traumatic and dysphoric. I think it’s important to understand these phenomena, but I think it’s just as important to recognize the love and joy within the trans experience and community.
As Grabowski’s research into material from the 1980s to 2010 in the United States and Canada continues, they prioritize two questions: how does the portrayal and erasure of transgender people in archives impact the sense of being. belonging to the community? And what can trans studies, which consider both material and existential, offer to archival studies?
Grabowski shared more about their experiences at ASU.
Question: What attracted you to ASU initially and what made you want to stay?
Reply: The Women and Gender Studies Program and Justice Studies are being developed. School of Social Transformation, and I haven’t seen a comparable program, school, or community at other colleges. I visited ASU and felt from the start that it was a welcoming place and even though it was so big it would be easy to find a community. By staying at ASU for my graduate program, I already had these relationships and connections with professors that I wanted to deepen. I had a really good support system here so it made sense to continue my journey to a place where I felt at home and supported me and where I could explore new research topics, but with the same people.
Q: Can you tell us more about your role within the Accessibility Coalition and its goals?
A: Part of the Coalition for Accessibility and part of Justice for People with Disabilities is that there is no hierarchy – we are all collaborative – so even though we have a board for undergraduates, we don’t have a president or vice-president; everyone is on the same playing field. As a mentor, I wanted to learn how to be a future undergraduate-friendly faculty member and help teach younger generations of students the resources and lifelong learning. of the process what it means to organize and plan events.
The Accessibility Coalition does more than advocate for accommodations – it’s about the social atmosphere and emotional well-being of the disability community. It is also a question of justice for people with disabilities; we prioritize more than just a rights-based approach. The reason we reached out to the Council of Coalitions is that we want to work with our intersecting communities, such as women with disabilities and black students with disabilities, international students with disabilities, and create a culture of disability. We want visibility, presence and celebration of the disability community – accessibility is more than accessible housing and entrances to a building.
Q: What were your favorite memories at ASU?
A: I would say the Accessibility Coalition is one of them. And one of my biggest accomplishments during my undergrad was organizing free STI tests for hundreds of ASU students through the county health center and health department.
Q: Which professors or mentors had a positive impact on your experience at ASU?
A: In my undergraduate degree, my thesis supervisor at Barrett (Honors College) was Dr Jennifer Brian. I had a really tough time in my last semester, and I went to see her and I was like, âI’m going to retire from Barrett; I want to give up; I can not do that. And she gave me a hug and a piece of chocolate, then basically said, “No, you’re not.” It was that balance of emotional support and comfort and also academic support at the same time to be like, “I’m going to challenge you because I know you can do it.”
And then in my graduate program my advisor and someone who coached me on how to apply to graduate school is Dr Lisa Anderson. Service of Dr Mako Fitts The most taught me how to be a feminist in higher education, in a bureaucratic university setting and how to keep my values ââof liberation, love and justice, even when you are faced with difficult decisions. So what Dr Jessica Solyom, who is like my best friend. She is a very caring and kind person; she will listen to me and not just give me advice. She is very meaningful to me.
Q: Tell us about the online course you are teaching this summer.
A: This is the first time that I teach WST 460: Women and the Body, and I thank Dr. Mako Ward for sharing his previous program with me. We will discuss how the body is rhetorically made and remade, how bodies are monitored and managed in society, and bodily norms. It is also very important for me to present BIPOC, disabled and LGBT writers, artists and content creators.
Q: What do you hope to do after your doctorate?
A: I hope to stay in higher education and become an educator, faculty member or teacher in a school, whether it is a small liberal arts college or a large university. As long as I reach a student, I am happy. So I’m really open to different places in the United States, whether it’s somewhere with a really solid gender curriculum or whether it works in other disciplines, like philosophy or sociology. | <urn:uuid:69381be5-c60a-40cd-944e-b26aac415b78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://namibiahunting.net/phd-student-shares-asu-journey-researching-how-transgender-narratives-are-shared-and-preserved/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973713 | 1,603 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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The Founder and CEO of Canonical, the company behind the popular Linux Distribution Ubuntu, indicated on Thursday that the company will probably have its IPO sometime in 2023.
In this interview, Hohndel opines about the mistakes some proprietary companies make when they attempt to go open, the recent spate of "source available" licenses, how he came to be the one to interview Linus Torvalds at Open Source Summit every year, and more.
With three full time employees and a robust community, Elementary OS went into this year as a Linux project that seemed to be on easy street. Today, it’s down to one employee, it’s funds are dwindling rapidly, but it still has an enthusiastic community and a determined leader with a particularly open source vision.
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“As midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country.”
Zahra Koochizad is the MSF midwife supervisor in the MSF maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. She was working on the maternity ward on 12 May 2020, the day of an attack by unknown assailants who killed 15 mothers and an MSF midwife. Here she explains why midwives in Afghanistan are so important, calling them the country's "silent leaders."
As midwives in Afghanistan, we bring new life into this country under conditions more difficult than in most. Approximately 130 million babies are born worldwide every year. This also means there are millions of women needing assistance to go through their pregnancy and labour. Giving birth, in my opinion, is one of the most glorious and most critical moments in a woman’s life.
My passion to see new life coming into the world and my strong desire to serve my own people made me choose to become a midwife. It also comes from my family’s involvement in this vocation. Some of my aunts and cousins also work as midwives in different hospitals in Kabul. They also chose this profession because of their desire to serve, and because they learned that, in Afghanistan, most women who die in childbirth, died from preventable complications.
New mother Zakia, stands over Abbas, one of her newborn twins, in the maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in western Kabul. © Sandra Calligaro
Despite some improvements over the past years, Afghanistan has one of the highest maternal and newborn mortality rates in the world, and the need for specialised care is vital. In Switzerland, five mothers will die per 100,000 live births. In Afghanistan, this number jumps to 638 who will die; this does not include the 15 mothers and five unborn babies who were systematically shot dead in the maternity ward where I work a month ago.
One of the biggest challenges that every midwife and pregnant woman in Afghanistan faces is insecurity. I’ve painfully experienced this first-hand.
I’m the midwife supervisor in the MSF-run maternity wing of Dasht-e-Barchi hospital in Kabul. The attack there occurred on 12 May. I remember that day; we had very nice weather, the air was fresh, and I felt a sense of peace when entering the hospital. Once I arrived, I saw my colleagues working; they all looked motivated and eager to start a new day of providing services to pregnant women in need. On a daily basis, we are used to tragedy in our communities but nothing could have prepared us for the horror to come.
In Afghanistan, a maternity ward is one of the few spaces where women are the leaders. The terrorists entered an area where no men are ever allowed to go. They stormed the maternity wing armed with guns, killing pregnant women, new mothers and newborns. Their leader must be very proud; celebrating a victory over an army of one-day old babies and women wearing only their hospital robes.
A hospital is supposed to be a protected space. It says this under international humanitarian law and yet the assault on my maternity wing is not an exceptional case—attacks on healthcare happen frequently here. But what is different about this attack than all the others?
Because, as midwives in Afghanistan, we are the silent leaders of our country. We are at the bedside of pregnant women giving birth to the country’s future and we need to be protected. To safeguard a maternity wing like mine is to safeguard our future, along with the midwives working there. Midwives like our beloved Maryam, who was killed in the most incomprehensible way as she assisted soon-to-be mothers giving birth.
Hosnia, 23, and her in-laws gather around two-month-old Ilina. Unlike her mother-in-law Shafika who gave birth to all her children at home, Hosnia delivered her first-born in MSF's maternity hospital in Dasht-e-Barchi, Kabul, Afghanistan. © Sandra Calligaro
On the day of the four-hour assault on Dasht-e-Barchi maternity wing, the terrorists not only attacked pregnant women and newborns, but also the decades of work involved to reduce maternal and newborn mortality in Afghanistan. Because of this attack, the western area of Kabul, with more than one million inhabitants, and women coming from far away provinces, no longer have access to any comprehensive obstetric and newborn care.
Their only option now is a 50-bed hospital close by, but with only seven beds devoted to maternity services, I do not know if the pregnant women who go there, or to other hospitals, are being cared for as they need. Will they receive the help they need? Will they have the means to pay for hospital services? Will they survive their labour if they are not admitted to any hospital?
I am scared to think about what will happen to those women who would have otherwise come to us.
Each month, the MSF-run maternity wing provided quality services to more than 1,200 mothers who delivered their babies there. I know that if the women in the Dasht-e-Barchi area need childbirth assistance, they would go to the 50-bed hospital, but if they have any complications, they will not be admitted there. There is no operating theatre for emergency cases, for example. And with the COVID-19 pandemic, the options for women who have complications or special needs are even fewer, and farther away, than before.
Most patients that come to Dasht-e-Barchi belong to the Hazara community and don’t have the means to pay for their treatment in other places. Some of the women arrive at the hospital in terrible conditions.
I can recall one patient in particular. She came to us for the first time, but she could hardly walk and looked very pale. She came from an area that’s on the outskirts of Kabul. I examined her and realised she had severe anaemia; there was no antenatal care available where she lived. Due to the lack of means to buy food, she was not eating properly, and when I asked her when she had last eaten, her answer was ‘yesterday’. My heart broke when upon hearing that, but I was so happy to see her recover and give birth to a healthy baby.
Her story is just one of the thousands that describes the reality of life for patients in the Dasht-e-Barchi area; some of whom would come to the hospital and not have money to get back home.
All of our patients and the wider community were very happy to count on our maternity wing that provided services for free, especially since government hospitals charge some amount of money. I am saddened to see how poverty, lack of a good health system, lack of resources, insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic are limiting possibilities for people to receive proper healthcare. Healthcare centres in Kabul are already operating at reduced capacity because of some of their staff are infected with COVID-19.
I am hurt, my life has changed, but I am still committed to continue my work. I know my people need us and expect me to get back on my feet again with the support of MSF. I cannot forget all those patients who need a helping hand and a good level of care. I also want to honour all of those patients who have become our friends and have been praying for me. I do not want to disappoint them, especially now, when many are also suffering from COVID-19 pandemic.
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As I poured myself a bowl of granola this morning I smiled in anticipation of how good it would taste and how much I like to eat it. Yet even as I finished pouring I thought to myself, “I shouldn’t eat this today. I should save this granola for a morning when I’m on the run. It’s the weekend and I have enough time to make oatmeal.” Then I caught myself. “Granola can be eaten only during the week and when I’m in a hurry? Says who?!”
Recently my son and I watched The Maze Runner, a movie about boys who have no choice but to make their own society. “Those are the rules,” Thomas, a newcomer, is told by the other boys when he wants to challenge the status quo and do something different. There is no awareness by the boys saying “those are the rules” that they made the rules and they can change the rules. The fear of change, of destabilizing the current set-up, keeps the rules in place, even when a change could help their situation.
I know that I have plenty of rules that run my life, rules made by me or made by others and internalized by me; some helpful (“look both ways before crossing the street”), some not. There are plenty of rules in the Bible, some helpful in our present day (“pray without ceasing”, “love your neighbor as yourself”), some not. Jesus was a big questioner of authority and he upset the status quo by holding people to the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law. Next time I hear myself saying “I should (or should not) do this-or-that” I will try to stop and ask by whose authority the rule was made and whether I need to follow it in this case. Rules of the road? A good idea to follow them! Rules that are habits, put in place because “we always do it this way”? Maybe it will be time to shake things up, toss out those rules, and feel the freedom from judgment that Christ’s example provides.
Lord, help me to focus on the spirit of your law rather than the letter of my rules. Help me to give up the “shoulds” and “should nots” that limit me in artificial ways. Amen.
I love ice cream and I eat it with some regularity. The cool sweet creaminess is refreshing and delicious, and even the image of ice cream speaks to me of relaxation and enjoyment. I don’t hurry my way through ice cream, taking a long time to lick a cone, or savoring a little bit of topping with each bite of a sundae. When I was very young I made a poster with the heading “ice cream is good any way” and I illustrated it with a cone, a sandwich, and a sundae.
I’ll admit, now that I’m older each decision to eat ice cream usually comes with a bit of debate. Should I have some at this time? When was the last time I had some? What else have I eaten today? What else do I plan to eat? What else am I willing to forgo so that I can have some? How much exercise have I done? Of course all these questions are related to my weight and my body image and (in last place) my health. Have my good choices weighed out this potentially bad choice? I have it pretty firmly embedded in my thinking that I must earn my ice cream, that it is a reward for good behavior.
I’ll also admit that my relationship with God is somewhat like my relationship with ice cream. Even though the reformed Presbyterian theology is embedded firmly in the belief that all our transgressions are forgiven – that Christ died to save us from our sins, once and for all – I still fall into old ways of thinking. I catch myself thinking that I have to earn God’s grace, that I have to do enough good things to account for the times when I am selfish or competitive or uncaring.
Thankfully, I sometimes short-circuit my questions about whether to have ice cream or not and I just enjoy it! So too I am learning to stop the calculations and equations about earning God’s grace and instead rest in the assurance, the blessed feeling of acceptance, that comes with putting aside the questions and instead believing in what I say. I am loved by God no matter what, and I don’t have to earn that love. I can chose to relax and accept it, enjoying the feeling of refreshment and joy that comes along with it. Amen!
“There is nothing better for mortals than to eat and drink, and find enjoyment in their toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God; for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?” Ecclesiastes 2:24-25.
God said to Noah: “So make yourself an ark of cypress wood; make rooms in it and coat it with pitch inside and out. This is how you are to build it: The ark is to be 450 feet long, 75 feet wide and 45 feet high. Make a roof for it and finish the ark to within 18 inches of the top. Put a door in the side of the ark and make lower, middle and upper decks.” Genesis 6:14-16
Am I really being instructional or just being picky? This was the question that went through my mind as I hung the laundry on the clothesline, remembering times when I had told my kids to help me, then told them exactly how to hang each garment. The ways that they were hanging the clothes on the line would accomplish the task of drying the clothes (and wasn’t that the point?) but it was not being done according to my methods, which of course had been honed by years of perfectionistic precision.
These musings led me to reflect on how God instructs us. In Noah’s case, our records show that God told Noah to build an ark of specific proportions, and to fill it with his family and specific numbers of every animal on the earth. As far as we know, God didn’t add lots of specifications about how to build the ark, and God didn’t go on to remind Noah to pack all the other items that would have been necessary to equip the ark and its passengers for a long voyage. God laid out the big picture and left the details to the person chosen for the job.
I know that drying laundry doesn’t compare to building an ark, but my lesson for the day is that when I am asking someone to do something, I should choose a person who is capable of doing the job,focus on the bigger picture, and back away from the details. Yes, there is a time and a place for intervening with instructions if things are going awry, but I need to allow other people to do the job in ways that may be different than mine. Their ways may be better or they may not be, but it might not matter in the long run. Do I want dry clothes or do I want to be right about how I like to dry them? Do I want my kids to figure some things out for themselves and feel competent or do I want to do the job myself?
Lord, when I get too caught up in the details, help me to keep the bigger picture in mind. Amen.
Essays about everyday life, with a spiritual twist.
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The impact of EPBD on the building sector
The EPBD impact on the building sector is generating through and will keep generating interesting changes. Especially if we think about the constantly evolving legislative framework around energy efficiency and carbon emissions.
The legislative framework
The EPBD Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (2010/31/EU) is part of a legislative framework including the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU). It aims to boost the energy performance of the European building sector, as it is the single largest energy consumer. In fact, buildings in Europe generate almost 40% of the energy consumption and 36% of CO2 emissions.
Both the directives changed, respectively in in 2018 and 2019, as part of the Clean energy for all Europeans package. The latter applies to the UK despite Brexsit.
These directives aim at helping Europe achieve a highly energy efficient and decarbonised building stock by 2050. But also create a stable environment for investment decisions, allowing consumers and businesses to make better decisions to save energy and money.
Rusults are positive so far. In fact, since the directives’ introduction in national building codes, new buildings now consume only half of what buildings from the 1980s usually consume (*).
New elements introduced in 2018
The EPBD Directive (2018/844/EU) covers a wide range of aspects to help EU governments boost their buildings energy performance. These are the main aspects covered:
- As a result of the last amendment, EU countries must establish stronger long-term renovation strategies, aiming at decarbonising the national building stocks by 2050. That requires the introduction of milestones for 2030, 2040 and 2050. This means that national implementations of the EPBD will have to be regularly updated.
- All the new buildings must be nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB) from 31 December 2020. Since 31 December 2018, all new public buildings already need to be NZEB.
- Energy performance certificates must be issued when a building is sold or rented, and inspection schemes for heating and air conditioning systems must be established. APE in Italy, Réglementation Thermique in France, CEE in Spain and Energieausweis in Germany, are all examples.
- EU countries must set cost-optimal minimum energy performance requirements for new buildings, for the major renovations, and for the replacement or retrofit of building elements such as HVAC.
With the Energy Efficiency Directive (2012/27/EU), EU countries must make energy efficient renovations to at least 3% of the total floor area of buildings owned/occupied by central governments. National governments are also recommended to only purchase buildings which are highly energy efficient.
The impact of EPBD
All these changes are meant to bring benefits to consumers, the environment and from an economic perspective as well. They are also having an impact on real estate and the HVAC sector, though.
As per the directives above mentioned, the building sector will have to decrease its CO2 emissions by 40% by 2030 and will have to be carbon neutral by 2050(**). Then the building sector will have to keep up with these requirements acting on the main consumption sources. In this sense, being space cooling, space heating and water heating usually main consumption sources in most buildings, it is important to reduce the impact of these needs on overall buildings energy consumptions.
HVAC solutions to comply with the regulation
In other words, a highly efficient HVAC systems meeting both the cooling and the heating demands of big spaces is what is really needed to make a whole building energy efficient and compliant with the directives.
The right energy performance of a building doesn’t necessarily implies less comfort. In fact, performance closely relates better living conditions for tenants. It allows tennants to benefit from the wellbeing that comes from living in a space that has a minimized impact on the environment. And then, there is also an aspect related to lower energy bills, which tenants can benefit from.
With all that comes higher profitability for owners. Buildings complying with EPBD, in fact, usually achieve premium prices(***). That is why it is important to be ahead of the regulation when building from scratch, or retrofitting the HVAC system to keep an existing building attractive to the market.
Also, building new considering EPBD most of the times gives constructors access to financial incentives, which is important when investing in a building. Low interest-loans for buildings’ with environmental impact are an example, but, depending on the country, there are also national funds. Fondo Nazionale Efficienza Energetica FNEE for Italy, for instance, which supports the construction or the renovation of buildings complying with EPBD norms.
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Organizing Your Filing System
Out of all the things we have to organize in our lives, paperwork is one area that most people struggle with or just hate to deal with altogether. There are several factors that might contribute to this difficulty. First, you have to create a system for your papers. If you do not have a system in place, you will have papers disorganized and likely all over the place. To create a system, you first need to set up your categories. Think about what types of paper you come across. Then begin to label file folders with these categories. My personal home filing system includes the following categories:
Residence (lease, renters insurance)
Credit cards (agreements, statements)
Work financial (pay stubs, reimbursements)
Medical (insurance, receipts, bills)
Important documents (copy of birth certificate, marriage license)
Previous tax returns
Art and decorating ideas
Interests and activities
These folders can be put in order of importance or alphabetical order when they are in your filing cabinet. You might also have to file some items in places other than a filing cabinet. For example, I have a box where I put more sentimental materials such as cards and letters and a box for photos. I always suggest that people should have a memory box where these items that you may not need immediate access to can be stored together safely. You will also want to have a place on your desk or counter for current “to dos.” Have a designated location for bills that need to be paid or paperwork that needs to be acted on.
Another area to consider is how long paper needs to be kept. If we keep all paper, sooner or later your filing cabinet will be stuffed. This means every 3-4 months you should go through your files and purge what you no longer need. Since so many things are tracked electronically now, we can get rid of a lot of paper once we check for accuracy. This means we can throw away credit card statements and receipts for minor purchases on a regular basis.
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Ceramic Break Sculpture Park on Sunday June 12 continues its tradition of commemorating the Myall Creek Memorial Day with an exhibition of Aboriginal Art. New to showing at the Park is Danny Connors with his powerful exhibition, ‘Sunset Dreaming’. Also on show are the works of three other artists that include traditional paintings, wonderful wood burnings and aesthetic artifacts and woodcarvings.
Danny Connors was born and raised in Newcastle NSW but now lives in Inverell, which is home to the majority of his ancestors. He is a part of the Bigambul tribe whose people spread along the Northern Tablelands and Border Rivers regions of New South Wales and Queensland.
He believes that he inherited his passion for art and culture from his uncle Keith Connors who travelled the world sharing his culture through dance.
Danny feels that his painting is the expression of his culture and helps him feel he is keeping his uncle’s passion alive. His predominantly figurative acrylic paintings are beautifully designed. He explores themes of country, people and Australian animals using traditional colours.
Colin Isaacs has shown at Ceramic Break Sculpture Park several times.
Walking through The Parade of Heroes Kerry Cannon’s bronze sculpture of Isaacs and his spear, which points to Myall Creek, captures the essence of this Aboriginal elder. His paintings and works in other mediums demonstrate a marvellous combination of storytelling and teaching about his culture. In this exhibition we are given a reminder of his incredible artistic talent.
Two other artists who are new to Ceramic Break will be exhibiting, Scott Griffith and Pepe Trewlynn. Scott Griffith is Colin’s apprentice.
He has been studying the techniques of woodcarving, wood burning and painting and he will be showing wood burnings which depict scenes from the Vietnam War.
Pepe Trewlynn is a Manilla based Aboriginal artist who carves wood into fabulous bowls, clap sticks, carved snakes and much more.
The opening runs from 12 noon – 5 pm with refreshments and lunch to raise your spirits. Entry is by gold coin donation. We are continuing our effort to encourage reducing plastic waste and anyone who brings their own recyclable utensils, will go into the draw to win the Green Prize.
For more information call Ceramic Break Sculpture Park on 02 6729 4147
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1967 Pontiac GTO, The Mother Of Old School Muscle Cars
The 1967 Pontiac GTO, one of the most famous muscle cars ever to have been designed, can undoubtedly receive the title of “best old school muscle car” ever. Provided that one performs a brief Google search for the best or the coolest or the most famous muscle cars in the world, there is absolutely no chance of the Pontiac GTO not showing in results.
Muscle Cars, by definition, were American cars that appeared in the 50s and that distinguished themselves by a number of features: 2 doors, a V8 engine (most of the times, added by the car owner later on), formidable speed and a considerable degree of coolness. Among the famous exemplars, the 1955 Chrysler 300 C, the Plymouth GTX40, the Plymouth Road Runner or the Holden Monaro GTS 350.
A brief history of this vehicle
The “Goat”, as it was nicknamed back in the days, is considered to be the first genuine muscle car. Thanks to its trademark, the split grill front-end design, the car is easily recognizable.
Built by a special division of General Motors in the early sixties, this vehicle knew immense appreciation during its first 10 years of production, as well as in the beginning of the 21st century. The Pontiac GTO was manufactured between 1964 and 1974, before being restarted by Australian Holden between 2004 and 2006. It was preceded by the Pontiac Tempest and succeeded by the Pontiac G8, both models being less appreciated.
The car was initially intended for racing (hence the considerable speed it managed to attain), which is why its name was actually inspired from the Italian Ferrari GTO (Gran Turismo Omologato). Nonetheless, the chief marketing manager of the GTO, Jim Wangers, decided on the sudden redesign of the Tempest into a “Super Tempest”, of which speed would be the main feature. If the regular Tempest would own a conventional front engine, front transmission and rear-wheel drive configuration, the appended version would take the V8 engine from the classical Pontiac Catalina (389 cu in – 6.4 L).
This way, the car started to appeal to a younger category of clients, for which looks and performance were of considerable impact. Needless to say, all marketing efforts (movie appearances included) were concentrated towards earning this new category’s consideration.
The actual car performance
It’s not for nothing that the car was situated among the top muscle cars ever designed. The 1967 model came in three different styles: the hardtop (of which 65 000 models were ever produced), the convertible (approximately 9000 items produced) and the sports coupe (7000).
Out of this total of approximately 82 000 GTOs, only 13,872 cars owned the 400 HO, capable to ensure 365 horsepower at 5100 rpm.
Design for the new GTO (for all three versions available) was not massively altered, as the focus for improvement went primarily towards performance. If the 1964 model had a 389 engine, the latter was replaced by a 400 one for the GTO 1967. The new V8 6.4 engine owned a carburetor that could produce approximately 335 horsepower and could reach a top speed of 120 mph.
Engine offering was also threefold. The classic 400 came with two extra options: economy and high output. The first one had a two-barrel carburetor, which limited performance to 265 hp. The high output boasted on a 360 hp performance (in comparison to the 335 of the standard one) and on an open-element air cleaner for the engine.
Transmission was manual, 3-speed and ensured the acceleration from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.9 seconds. This was incredible performance for a car of the sixties. Therefore, the car received tremendous reviews: “They’re housebroken Tigers, but they can revert to the jungle whenever you give the word” (Motor Trend, January 1967 Highlights).
Pontiac GTO ruled the era of muscle cars
It wasn’t only the revolutionary performance that managed to maintain the 1967 GTO among the top muscle vehicles of the era. The modern look, the affordable price (although it was more expensive than the Plymouth) and the impeccable marketing transformed it in an iconic car that is legendary even today, 5 decades after its appearance.
Competition was fierce for the Pontiac, as all other major American car brands were starting to manufacture a model of their own. The Oldsmobile, the Plymouth and the Mustang were among the main competitors, displaying similar performance at even more attractive prices.
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Adults and Children over 12 years of age take one tablet daily
Taking a balanced combination of vitamins and the trace element iodine can serve as an ideal food supplement in many situations, for example in times of stress, at an advanced age, in case of physical activity or in an unbalanced diet situation.
In order to reduce infantile neural tube defects, scientific associations recommend supplementing 400 µg of folic acid per day (at least four weeks before a pregnancy begins).
Since iodine is also essential for the healthy development of a child and if the supply through the regular diet is insufficient, pregnant and lactating women are also recommended to take additional iodine*.
Vitamin D is essential for the normal formation of bones and teeth and for the absorption of calcium and phosphorus from the gastrointestinal tract.
The B vitamins help the process your body uses to get or make energy from the food you eat. This is called metabolism. They also help form red blood cells.
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Smokers take more days off, get sick more often, and incur greater costs as an employee, than people who do not smoke. For these reasons, some employers are reluctant to hire smokers. But these conditions are not the same for all professions, where smoking is more accepted.
Though it is in decline, tobacco use is still commonly seen today– 19.3% of adults smoke in the US. Sometimes it is a bad habit that is mostly performed at home during free time. However, once a person becomes addicted to nicotine, they may begin smoking at work too.
Here is a breakdown of some of the smoking habits of professions discussed in this article:
- 30.3% in food service
- 14.4% of office and administrative workers
- 12.66% in finance
- 17.3% in art, design, and media
- 9.2% working in science and education
- 26.1% of transportation employees
- 12.3% of legal professionals
This article will dive into smoking across different professions. What professions have the highest smoking rates? How come? Are there jobs that can put you at risk of becoming a smoker? Or what about jobs that will make it harder for you to quit? If these are questions you have, then read on to learn the answers.
Smoking and Blue-Collar Workers
Most establishments ban employees from tobacco use on the clock. This keeps people healthy by protecting employees from secondhand and thirdhand smoke. This also saves the company lost time from people smoking on the clock. But there are still some professions where employees can often use tobacco on the clock, and even while working.
- This is very common in mechanics. Corporate mechanic offices can implement rules about smoking. Many mechanic shops, especially auto mechanic shops, are small family businesses. Some are even run by one person as a hobby.
For a company this small, there is usually one person in charge of the shop. If they want to use cigarettes on the job, there is nothing stopping them. They also have the power to say whether or not their employees can. Because mechanics are stereotypically strong, hard-working, middle to lower-class men, smoking is common. This is one of the largest demographics for tobacco use.
- Firefighters is another profession where cigarette use is still common. Like mechanics, the majority of firefighters fall into the primary demographic for tobacco use. They are mature men with middle to low incomes. A lot of them formed the habit when smoking was more popular for young people. They brought it with them to their firefighting jobs.
The major reason smoking is popular amongst firemen is the boredom factor. Every once in a while, firefighters are called to save burning buildings and human lives. The rest of the time though, they are sitting inside waiting for a phone call. During that time, it can be hard to self-entertain. One way firefighters do this is by smoking.
- Middle-class workmen also see high tobacco usage rates. These are people that work in traditional, tiring industrial settings. Workmen are typically not allowed to use cigarettes on the job if they work indoors. However, they do get breaks, and this is where smoking is common.
Many people use smoking as a way to decrease stress and relax. They look forward to going on a cigarette break all day while at work. Many corporations actually have rules that managers are required to let employees out on a smoke break. This encourages workmen to use cigarette because in some cases, it is the reason they get a break. If they quit smoking, they would lose their breaks. Traveling workmen have high tobacco usage for similar reasons. They use tobacco in between jobs to blow of steam.
In all of these jobs, smoking can increase the rate at which accidents occur. This could be from distraction caused by smoking on the job. Accidents can also be caused by the residual effects of cigarettes, such as lethargy and confusion. Not engaging in tobacco use while at work can help prevent these accidents from occurring.
Smoking Amongst Office Workers
Like workmen, many office workers live for their breaks. Especially when they are dissatisfied with their job. Job satisfaction can be a cause of smoking to begin with. It adds stress and decreases positive emotions for the majority of the employee’s day. When a person is feeling like this, they may turn to tobacco to make themselves feel better. Additionally, it is bad news if smoking is the only way for a person to get a break. People working in offices sometimes use tobacco to distract themselves from their jobs.
- For example, practicing lawyers can have very long days of hard, mind-numbing work. They may even be glued to a desk chair all day. Sometimes smoking can be one of the only ways for them to get up and move around.
The brief rush that nicotine causes can add some excitement into their lives. 12.3% of lawyers admitted to using tobacco in a recent study. Additionally, it is a hobby that distracts the body. Lawyers who do not find great joy in their professions may need this.
- Similar problems also occur in the IT and education/STEM fields. A problem that this causes is a decrease in productivity though. On top of taking more breaks to support their new habit, cigarettes also decrease energy levels. Even when someone is not smoking, their use of tobacco can still be affecting them.
People get restless from being staring at a screen or doing the same thing every day. They overlook all of the negative consequences of cigarette smoking. Instead, they focus on the few positives they believe cigarettes can bring.
Unfortunately, the negatives heavily outweigh the positives. Additionally, there are lots of healthy hobbies that could distract a person the way that cigarettes do. Only, they can do it without slowly harming a person’s body.
Tobacco Use in the Service Industry
The service industry includes professions such as delivery workers, catering employees, commercial drivers, textile workers, and more. Many people that work these jobs use tobacco. The problem is that their smoking habits do not just affect their personal health.
They can also negatively affect the health of the company they work for. For example, smoking around textiles can lead to discoloration and odors. Nobody wants to purchase stinky, discolored textiles. Additionally, the smell of tobacco can remain in clothes, or in a person’s breath. If you are providing a service for someone, they will be able to smell this on you.
Commercial and delivery drivers typically use tobacco in between deliveries or while waiting on their clients. This causes their cars and trucks to smell like cigarettes and decreases the value of their vehicle, as no one wants to purchase a car that wreaks.
Additionally, when smoking in or near vehicles, sometimes ash or butts land on the insides of the car. Their burning embers can cause burns and ugly black smudges on the car’s interior. This makes the worker look less professional. If they do not like the smell or do not approve of smoking, you will lose their respect.
When you lose the respect of your clients, you end up losing money if they no longer want your business. Even if they do not fire you, they still may not tip you as much, and tips are an important part of the service industry.
Customers will be less likely to tip people that smell of cigarettes. This is because they believe that their service provider will probably spend some of their tip money on cigarettes. They may believe this to be a waste of money and tip significantly less or not at all. People that use tobacco already lose a lot of money from buying cigarettes. They do not need to lose tip money from their customers too.
In the service industry, there is also the issue of thirdhand smoke. It is the chemicals and other residual elements from cigarettes that settle on surfaces long after a smoker is done smoking and gone. People in the service industry can leave thirdhand smoke on surfaces they are around without knowing it. These can be surfaces that their clients touch either temporarily, or even surfaces in their home, like on a desk.
Adults and children alike can inhale this chemical residual without knowing it. Inhaling these dangerous chemicals can harm their lungs and other parts of their body. The worst part it, thirdhand smoke cannot be avoided if it is not known about. Workers in the service industry frequently expose their innocent clients to dangerous chemicals without even realizing it.
Smoking in the Art World
Picture an artist or creative professional in your head. Though all people are unique, society definitely has a stereotype for these types of jobs. It includes statement clothing, bold personalities, and often, cigarettes.
- The largest example of this is celebrities that use tobacco. Icons like Miley Cyrus, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lady Gaga, Daniel Radcliffe, Zayn Malik, and even Prince Harry have been seen with cigarettes lit between their lips. 24% of young celebrities use tobacco. Smoking is also very popular in the music industry. This puts pressure on famous people use cigarettes when they see others doing it. People in this type of limelight also serve as role models for humans around the world.
Their behavior has large effects on the behavior of others. If a young adult thinks that Miley Cyrus is cool, and sees her smoking, this can make this person want to start the habit too. They may believe that it will help them get closer to achieving as status as important as their role model.
In reality, smoking will not make them rich or famous. It will just decrease their health and actually make them less wealthy. Cigarette costs vary on a state by state, country by country different. Regardless though, the average tobacco user stills spends about $5000 on packs of cigarettes per year. This is enough money to visit the other side of the world or purchase a car.
- Models are another profession with high smoking rights. Take Gemma Ward and Lily Donaldson for example. Some may believe that most models would not use tobacco to protect their bodies. Smoking causes premature aging of the skin and wrinkles. Tobacco use affects all skin on the body, causing wrinkles and discoloration all over.
The chemicals in cigarettes also decrease the elasticity of skin and collagen levels, making skin appear less youthful. Why would models want to engage in a hobby that can ruin their best asset– their body? First, it is important to note that nicotine can serve as an appetite suppressant.
Models who are trying to maintain a thin figure often start smoking just to stay skinny. It takes away their hunger cues, and so they eat less and therefore lose weight. While this seems like a great trick though, it ends up doing more harm than good.
Not eating when your body needs energy decreases energy levels and puts bodies into starvation mode. Eventually, using nicotine to curb your appetite will lead to a decrease in your metabolism. Your metabolism is how much energy your body uses to function. When this falls, you burn fewer calories during day to day activities, and it will become harder to lose weight. If you decide to begin eating normally again, you will also gain weight much easier. This is very hard to reverse.
A Final Look at Correlations Between Smoking and Your Job
No profession is completely void of smoking. Other professions that smoking is popular in are paramedics and medical professionals, volunteers, law enforcement, and the energy industry. If you want to avoid starting cigarette use or quit smoking, you do not have to avoid these industries.
It is just important that you are aware of these problems and why they exist. This is how to best protect yourself from starting a dangerous hobby or being injured by secondhand and thirdhand residual.
If you want to go into one of these professions without starting to use tobacco products, carrying a protective mask may help. If you get tempted to engage, you can use hobbies and exercise to distract yourself. If you are in one of these hobbies, you can use hobbies, or even vaping to help yourself quit in the presence of smokers. | <urn:uuid:a2ec903f-e896-43ab-af8b-622bfe6d6065> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vapingdaily.com/support/professions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965374 | 2,477 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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