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Searching for a cure to cancer a part of the American Dream for Yemeni-American
In honor of July 4th, we asked immigrants across Michigan what America means to them. Abdo Najy shared his story.
Abdo Najy has just recently completed his PhD and hopes to run his own lab soon. He's friendly, smiles a lot, and is animated when he talks about his research on breast and prostate cancer.
Najy is modest and measured, but he knows he has a role in the search for a cure to cancer. He views his work as a scientist as his way to repay this country for educational opportunities he would not have had in his native Yemen.
Born in Yemen in the 1980’s in the midst of a polio outbreak, Najy contracted the disease when he was just six months old.
Although Najy says that in Yemen there was a taboo against immigrating to the United States – mostly because it was believed to be a bad place to raise children – his father decided to move the whole family so Najy could receive better medical treatment.
Had he stayed in Yemen, he would’ve had to hike through rough terrain and over mountains just to attend school, something his polio rendered impossible.
In the United States, however, Najy explains that individuals with physical and mental challenges do not face such limitations and have greater access to higher education.
Najy is grateful for the educational opportunities available to him in America, believes his contribution now "is towards the curing of cancer"
Now Najy believes he was “fortunate enough to contract polio” because otherwise he would not have become interested in science and medicine.
Najy also works towards bridging the lack of understanding between the Muslim community and the non-Muslim community. He believes there is a lack of information on both sides, which leads to a mentality of “that which is not familiar to me, is my enemy.”
For Najy, the American Dream means so much more than traditional conceptions of home ownership. It means greater access to educational opportunities, religious freedom and tolerance, and the chance to contribute to lifesaving cancer research.
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The Lost Art of Oz is dedicated to finding and preserving the original illustrative art created for The Wizard of Oz book series. Most of this art has been missing since the early 20th century.
Uniting Oz enthusiasts with institutions, libraries and private collectors, The Lost Art of Oz celebrates the genius behind the beloved story, and encourages the continued valuing and preservation of children's literature illustration. Help find the art!
Imagine Oz is a program of The Arts of Imagination Foundation that inspires and educates people everywhere by celebrating The Wizard of Oz as one of the foremost American fairy tales.
Imagine Oz introduces or reintroduces people of all ages to the universal themes, fascinating history, and enduring legacy of The Wizard of Oz.
The story’s themes of hope, diversity, friendship, discovery, and community are as important today as they were in the early 1900s, when the book was written.
The program includes the study, collection, and exhibition of artwork and historic materials related to The Wizard of Oz, community outreach for all ages and backgrounds, and scholarships dedicated to supporting the art of storytelling.
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Sample Essay Labor laws in Nigeria are contained in the Bureau of International labor laws…
In both Nigeria and in England, the cost of labor varies based on a number of factors. One such factor is the skills that the labor market offers and those that are actually available in the employees. Casual laborers normally get paid fewer amounts than the highly skilled employees who may be the head of department or the key marketing managers in the hotel industry. Some employees also generally attract more salaries than others even though they may be working at the same level. This depends on the actual contribution that they give to the company in which they work for. Certain skills are also scarce in the market. They are therefore very costly to hire on permanent basis.
The hotel industry in Nigeria offers considerably low pay. Most employees in the hotel sector in the country prefer hiring employees on temporal basis. This can be attributed to the considerably low cost of labor that is highly available in the market and the uncertainty in the market Kellner 1995). The ambiguity in the market related laws gives the hotel management an advantage over their employees. The laws which are not very clear in Nigeria on employee-employer relationship guidelines leads to underpayment of the employees who are mainly left to work in very unfriendly and insecure working conditions. However, in the four and five star hotels in Nigeria, payment of employees, both casual and the skilled, is much better than that of the low level hotels in the country. Corruption also greatly dominates the entire country thus making is very complicated for the country’s hotel industry to fully practice transparency and equity in the employment market (Krugman 1991).
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Arborescent Thinking...These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “ Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking.(PID:47542282441) Source
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High potential? Parents want to know Psychological examinations are increasingly common to identify gifted children. It’s a trend that hides a complex reality, as gifted children can also be prone to failure. Enéa gets good marks. But she disturbs the class, talks a lot and complains often. This situation surprises her mother, Stéphanie Laurent. At home, this seven-year old schoolgirl from Lausanne is quiet, responsible and not the type to bother others. What’s wrong? School. Enéa is bored. A teacher friend advised Stéphanie Laurent to enter her daughter for tests to determine whether she was “high potential”. And the result came back positive. High potential (HP) children are referred to as gifted or precocious. They are sometimes compared with child prodigies, which is one reason for the increase in requests for psychological examinations. “Interest in these tests is growing,” states Pierre Fumeaux, a child psychiatrist at Lausanne University Hospital who is currently conducting a study on the subject. “A few years ago when parents or teachers had to deal with a difficult student, they would ask the doctor if the child was hyperactive. Now the term ‘high potential’ has taken centre stage in the media.” Contrary to popular belief, gifted is not always synonymous with success. High potential children can also be prone to failure. A different brain To be diagnosed as “HP”, an individual has to obtain a score of at least 130 on IQ tests. “But the score isn’t enough,” explains Claudia Jankech, a psychotherapist in Lausanne specialised in child and teenager psychology. “We also need to understand their family and social context and their personality.” Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking. However, the thought process in HP children is like fireworks exploding with ideas and impressive intuition. They can solve complex equations but will have difficulty explaining how they came up with the answer,” explains Pierre Fumeaux. Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” Studies suggest that HP children’s brains function differently. Information moves better between the two cerebral hemispheres. “We assume that they use both their left and right brains easily and have excellent abilities in both logic and creativity,” says the child psychiatrist. “Other work has shown that HP children can more easily juggle with concepts and think in the abstract, such as performing mental calculations. “In a functional MRI, a dye is injected to highlight the areas of the brain with the highest blood flow. Using a scanner, we can then see which areas are activated,” Pierre Fumeaux explains. “A stimulus or given task will activate certain areas of the brain in normal individuals. In HP children, sometimes several larger areas are activated at the same time,” he adds. These indicators help doctors understand how an HP mind works. “But our knowledge in neuroscience remains limited,” the researcher admits. “Being high potential is not an illness, but a special cognitive ability. And that’s not a priority for researchers.” INTERVIEW: “The methods of diagnosis are debatable” In a survey conducted on gifted children, the French sociologist Wilfried Lignier noted that specialists do not agree about the tests designed to diagnose giftedness. In Vivo You observe that most gifted children don’t have difficulty in school or psychological problems. Why then do parents have them take tests? Wilfried Lignier These parents are very concerned that their children will face difficulties, whereas they actually have every chance of success. They think that the school’s assessment is not enough. Psychology offers greater legitimacy for their concerns. IV You approach giftedness as a “debated and debatable” issue. Why? WL Many psychologists don’t recognise giftedness mainly because they doubt the credibility of IQ tests. These tests are meant to assess something other than academic skills, but in form they are quite similar to the exercises performed in school. Furthermore, children also have this impression. After the test is over, some say that they did well in the “maths” section, referring to the logical reasoning, or the “language” section, referring to the vocabulary. Being so similar to exercises done in school, these tests contradict the idea that intelligence isn’t the same as academic performance. Yet most of the social repercussions expected from test results are based on the idea that they tell a truth that school does not. IV You show that the diagnosis swings in favour of one gender. How do you explain that high potential is more often diagnosed in boys? WL Parents tend to express greater concern about their future, as it more readily carries their hopes of upward social mobility. The fact that boys have greater chances of having “symptoms”, such as openly expressing their boredom or not being able to stay still, also plays a role. Hyper-sensitivity HP children also typically have emotional characteristics featuring high sensitivity or a high level of empathy. Stéphanie Laurent’s two other children, boys, have also been diagnosed as high potential. “Nathael, age six, cries at Christmas because poor people are cold and have nothing to eat.” His hyper-sensitivity distresses him. “It can take on huge proportions. At one point, Mathys, age eight, felt unreasonable fear because he knew that there was a core on fire at the centre of the earth.” Myriam Bickle Graz, a developmental paediatrician at Lausanne University Hospital who wrote a thesis on the subject, says, “The children seen at consultations were often overwhelmed by their emotions. For some, it was incredibly difficult; they have no filter,” she explains. “The fear of death, for example, comes very early.” They develop symptoms such as anxiety, sleep disorders, strained relationships with other children and aggression. THE HAPPIEST HP CHILDREN ARE THOSE WHO ARE NOT IDENTIFIED AS SUCH AND MANAGE TO ADAPT. As in the Laurent family, there are often several gifted siblings. “Not all siblings are necessarily going to be HP, but there is a certain degree of genetic heritage. However, that hasn’t been proven scientifically,” explains Myriam Bickle Graz. “It remains a clinical observation.” Although some high potential children suffer, the majority of them lead normal lives. As summed up by Pierre Fumeaux, “the happiest HP children are those who are not identified as such and manage to adapt.” Arborescent thinking deploying in several directions, simultaneously, extremely fast and without boundaries. While it is a important source of creativity, it also implies: Difficulties to identify relevant information; all these thoughts in all directions may be confusing when the child is faced with a question, a problem or a task at school, An absolute need to organise these thoughts within a sturdy frame so that the child feels affectively, emotionally and socially secure. A “global” information processing system, with analogic and intuitive thinking. While it enables a very rich and deep understanding, with photographic memory, it also implies: Serious difficulties to adapt to the traditional schooling systems which treat information in details and sequentially (one thing after the other), An inability to develop arguments or justify their reasoning. Gifted children usually can’t explain their results, they consider the answers obvious, they know intuitively. The necessity to use in parallel the traditional school learning methods and their own knowledge aquisition systems; they do not want to feel useless, rejected or stupid. A thinking mode that needs meaning to function and complexity to develop and bloom. While it is an endless source of information data stored in an exceptional memory, it also implies: Difficulties or even refusal to acquire skills or information which they consider useless, too simple or not exciting enough to justify their attention and efforts, Constant challenges of established rules and norms, to satisfy their needs for meaning, To “learn how to learn” while taming their impatience through inventive and stimulating methodologies, with deep enrichment on all subjects. A way of thinking constantly integrating affective aspects of its environment. While it is a rich incentive to learning, it also implies: Frustration, even rejection of some teachers whom they see as incompetent in their teaching methods or behaviours, Excessive, even pathological reactions if these children, who try to master their environment and their variations, cannot find reassurance. They are scared by what they do not understand and they know, from a very young age, many things that they cannot put in perspective due to their short life experience. A need for constant reassurance on their learning progress, with a learning methodology adapted to their needs and offering a long-term continuity and homogeneity, thus reducing affective disruptions as much as possible. anhugar.wifeo.com/arborescent-way-of-thinking.php A difficulty encountered by many gifed children is the fact that they think in an arborescent way instead of a linear one. The usual teaching methods are linear - when forced to learn in that mode, gifted children need to make a lot of efforts to voluntarily slow-down their “processing” thinking pace. Arborescent thinking is very adequate for gifted people; it allows them to use all their mental capacities and their knowledge simultaneously. However, it needs to be guided and framed otherwise their thinking takes them far away from the subject of that day. Here is an example from Jeanne Siaud-Fachin: The teacher gives a spelling test. He dictates “the boat sails on the sea”. The gifted child will initially visualize an image of a boat on the sea before seeing the sentence made of 6 words. Following the image, her thoughts will go in all directions: well, it is not a good idea to sail today because there is a lot of wind are there any people on that boat? my friend Frank owns a boat, he’s lucky but his parents are divorced, that is not fun I hope my parents will never get divorced yet, Frank has twice as many presents for Christmas now that he has 2 homes which reminds me, I have not yet prepared a wish-list for Christmas etc. While the other children have finished writing the initial sentance, the gifted child does not remember it at all and if she’s pressed, she may write the last sentence that went through her head “ I have not yet prepared a wish-list for Christmas ”. Also www.talentdifferent.com/la-pensee-en-arborescence-901.htm... www.asep-suisse.org/joomla/index.php?option=com_docman&am... (pdf) How to help such children overcome their ‘handicap’ From the main link in the title (translated from the French by Google Chrome, I think): Surprisingly, a high number of high potential children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” These difficulties are partly due to what specialists call arborescent thinking. “Normal people develop logical reasoning through linear, sequential thinking. However, the thought process in HP children is like fireworks exploding with ideas and impressive intuition. They can solve complex equations but will have difficulty explaining how they came up with the answer,” explains Pierre Fumeaux. Surprisingly, a high number of HP children have trouble in school. “When it’s too easy for them, they get used to being on autopilot,” says the psychologist. “They’ve never learnt how to learn.” Studies suggest that HP children’s brains function differently. Information moves better between the two cerebral hemispheres. “We assume that they use both their left and right brains easily and have excellent abilities in both logic and creativity,” says the child psychiatrist. “Other work has shown that HP children can more easily juggle with concepts and think in the abstract, such as performing mental calculations. “In a functional MRI, a dye is injected to highlight the areas of the brain with the highest blood flow.
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4 Clues About Why You're Losing Muscle, Not Fat
Losing pounds in all the wrong places?
You see the numbers dropping on the scale, inching closer towards achieving your weight loss goal with each passing day. That’s good news, right?
But you can’t help noticing your average MPH on the treadmill is also getting slower, or you’re burning out faster with each set on the weights. What gives?!
There’s a good chance the majority of that weight you’re losing is not actually fat, but possibly water; or even worse… Muscle.
While we can all agree there’s little more frustrating than realizing you’ve been duped, there are luckily some solid methods for making sure you’re losing the right kind of weight.
Check out these 4 clues to why you’re not losing the weight or building the muscle you’ve been grinding so hard for, plus some pointers for turning your transformation around:
CLUE #4: You Need More Strength Training
A key component to achieving that healthy weight goal is exercise, but not just any old exercise will do if you want to really maximize your gains - muscle gains, that is. To ensure you’re building muscle while simultaneously losing fat, you need to incorporate strength training like resistance exercises and high-intensity cardio into your fitness regimen.
With all of the conflicting and overflowing information out there around the subject, it can be intimidating to know how to get the results you want. Luckily, there are resources to help you assemble your workout routine for maximum effectiveness.
Step-by-step, full-body workout programs like MME’s Warrior Shred Program cuts out the guesswork for you so you can get to cutting fat and shredding muscle ASAP.
CLUE #3: You Need to Up Your Protein Intake
When maintaining a health regimen with the main goal of losing weight, it can be easy to be led astray in terms of nutrition. High protein foods often have a high caloric value, which can scare off those who are counting calories. Fad diets often forgo the protein for this very reason, instead opting for less nutritional fluff to make the portion sizes larger and deceive your body into feeling satisfied.
This is a tragic yet all too common rookie mistake, as protein is necessary for building and maintaining muscle. The Dietary Reference Intake is 0.36 grams of protein per pound, or up to 35% of your calories, depending on your activity level. While protein shakes can certainly be an easy way to get your daily dose, the best natural sources of protein include fish, lean meat, eggs, tofu, and low-fat dairy.
CLUE #2: You Need a Recovery Day to Rebuild Muscle
You’re three days into your new workout regimen, feeling better than ever and rarin’ to go. Now your plan is calling for a rest day, but you’re on a roll! Why stop now? Nevermind that your calves are a little sore - nothing an ibuprofen can’t fix so you can get back into the gym, right?
Not so fast. Not only can overdoing it lead to injury, but those rest days are key for all sorts of important bodily processes that help you build muscle and lose fat: Synthesis of protein; rebuilding of muscle fiber; fluid restoration; and the removal of metabolic waste products like lactic acid (the very substance that makes you feel sore) are all thanks to that recovery day.
CLUE #1: You Need to Catch More Zzz's
While we’re on the subject of recovery, let’s dive into the importance of getting that much needed shut-eye. That’s right- you can add muscle retainment and fat loss to the long list of benefits of a proper sleep schedule.
Not getting enough sleep wreaks havoc in your body’s hormone levels, causing a surplus of cortisol. This hormonal imbalance increases the amount of carbs converted to fat, and also slows muscle growth. Basically, it’s a lose-lose situation and the opposite of what we’re going for. Not to mention, exercising after a bad night’s sleep is no fun, and can really impact the effectiveness of your workout.
Just when you thought measurable muscle gains and weight loss were out of reach, here’s 4 clues that help you get to the bottom of your struggles and unlock the muscle mass and definition you’ve been grinding for.
Take action on these 4 common culprits of muscle loss so you can finally start building the body you intended to!
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After everything Napoleon had said to him, after those furious outbursts-------Baleshev felt certain that from now on not only would Napoleon not want to see him again, he would go out of his way to avoid seeing him, an envoy who had been so badly treated, and more to the point, someone who had witnessed such degrading and intemperate behavior on his part.-----
Napoleon welcomed Balashev with a display of good humor and friendliness. Far from showing any signs of embarrassment of self reproach for his tantrum that morning, he did all he could to put Balashev at ease. It was clear that Napoleon had convinced himself long before this that he was incapable of error and that everything he did was good, not because it conformed with any general concept of right or wrong, but simply because he was the one who did it.
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Do you remember childhood mealtimes where tomatoes and strawberries were only things that you
experienced in the summer months? When you couldn’t find raspberries in December, or asparagus
in February? Seasonality. It is when vegetables and fruit are at their best, without having to ship
them in from 1,000 miles away.
Does familiarity breed contempt in eating terms? Having the same dishes week in week out may suit
some people, but who doesn’t like variety? By taking a seasonal approach, different foods appear
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knowing that a favourite vegetable will be returning in a few weeks.
Our chef patron Jean says: “I must admit to real excitement in April, when I know that British
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The Dining Room is certainly at the more extreme end of the seasonal spectrum, with our menu
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When choosing a dog to adopt, there are many things to consider. What kind of dog should I adopt that suits my family? What dog breed? Male or female? When you are going to potty train your puppy by yourself, you must ask what dog breeds are easy to potty train? Are male dogs harder to potty train?
Many things need to be considered.
Let us answer one of these questions here.
Are male dogs harder to potty train? Male dogs are typically harder to potty train as compared to female dogs. This is because of their short temperament, late maturity, less connection with the owner, and more sense of “urine marking” (as compared to females). You can make them easier by neutering them on time, obedience training, and consistently potty training male dogs.
Are Male Dogs Harder To Potty Train?
Most dog owners who own both genders and have experience potty training both genders claim that potty training female dogs is easier than for male dogs.
It doesn’t mean that this is always true in all cases, but mostly, this happens that male dogs give a hard time.
Besides being a male dog, many other factors make a dog harder to potty train.
5 Reasons Male Dogs Are Harder To Potty Train?
There are several reasons behind this
1- Urine Marking:
Urine marking is when a dog pees on something to mark it as his ownership or territory. It is a natural behavior of all dogs of all breeds and genders, but it is more common in male dogs, especially intact male dogs.
When a dog will a urine mark inside the house, there will be some urine smell. Puppy is more likely to go there again because of his natural instinct to peeing where they smell pee.
So, the more a dog will urine mark, the harder it will be to potty train him.
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Female dogs tend to be more obedient when it comes to their training. According to Insider, female dogs are easier to train as compared to male dogs.
Insider says that female dogs tend to be more attentive toward their owner. They are more connected with their primary caretaker, so female dogs are easier to potty train than male dogs.
“Female dogs tend to reach maturity faster than their male counterparts, which can be a training advantage.” Source: Pedigree
Male dogs are more distracted, and they are a little more short-tempered as compared to female dogs.
“It is true that male dogs do a posture, threaten and challenge each other more than females.” Source: Psychologytoday.
How To Make A Male Dog Easier To Potty Train?
Here are a few tips that will make it easier for you to potty train a male dog.
1- Neutering (At The Right Age):
Neutered dogs tend to behave well as compared to intact dogs. Neutering can really help with making a dog calmer and thus helps with potty training.
Neutering is a great help in reducing urine marking behavior, and as we stated earlier, urine marking can really mess up with potty training.
So reducing urine marking and a calmer attitude of a dog will make him easier to potty train.
But make sure to choose the right age for neutering. The best age is around 6-9 months. You can do it a little earlier but not so early.
Related article: How to deal with housebreaking regression after neutering or spaying?
2- Obedience Training:
Basic obedience training is crucial for dogs. Train them to understand and follow basic commands.
Before potty training, a dog should at least be able to follow simple commands like sit, stand, come, and go.
Then it will be easier to make him understand when you will say “go potty.”
When the dog understands the command, potty training him will be easier.
3- Get A Dog Breed That Is Easier To Potty Train:
Some dog breeds are naturally easier to potty train. Many factors determine if the dog breed is easier or not, such as the size of the dog, obedience, adaptability, intelligence, and cleanliness.
4- Keep Working:
Potty training requires a lot of work, consistency, and patience.
Learn the right method of potty training and keep working on it.
No dog in the world cannot be potty trained; these are the trainers who succeed or fail.
5- Use Their Sense Of “Urine Marking”:
Dogs mark with urine and like to pee where they smell pee. Mix these facts and make them urine mark there where you want him to go pee.
Either place a new thing on the potty spot and expect your dog to mark it with urine, or bring a new dog around that spot and bring your dog on his potty spot. Your dog is most likely to urine mark his territory.
6- Have A Potty-Trained Dog At Home?
If you have a potty-trained dog at home, he can really help you. Puppies follow adult dogs.
Keep both of them together, and let your new puppy learn from him.
An important point to note: Besides being a male dog, many other factors make a dog harder or easier to potty train. With the use of the proper housetraining technique, consistency, and patience, male dogs also should not be very hard to potty train.
It is crucial that the trainer knows what he is supposed to do. Wrong training can actually make things worse.
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Are Female Dogs Easier To Potty Train?
People often ask this question (are male dogs harder to potty train?) in another way!
Are female dogs easier to potty train? Female dogs tend to mature earlier; they are more obedient and more connected with the owner. These factors make them easy to potty train.
How Can I Potty Train My Male Dog Fast?
To potty train your male dog faster, you need to understand your dog’s breed traits and his personal traits. Make sure your dog knows how to follow basic commands and then use the right method of potty training.
Keep up with the training with consistency, patience, and schedule.
Why are male dogs harder to potty train? Male dogs are typically harder to potty train as compared to female dogs. This is because of their short temperament, late maturity, less connection with the owner, and more sense of “urine marking” (as compared to females). You can make them easier by neutering them on time, obedience training, and consistently potty training male dogs.
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What is the anatomy of the lower back?
To recognize numerous reasons for lower neck and back pain, it is necessary to appreciate the normal design (composition) of the tissues of this area of the body. Crucial frameworks of the lower back that can be associated with symptoms in this region consist of the bony lumbar spine (vertebrae, singular = vertebra), discs in between the vertebrae, tendons around the spinal column and also discs, spine and nerves, muscular tissues of the lower back, inner body organs of the hips and abdominal area, and also the skin covering the lumbar location. Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
The bony lumbar back is designed so that vertebrae “stacked” with each other can provide a movable support structure while also securing the spinal cord from injury. The spinal cord is composed of worried cells that prolongs down the spine from the brain.
Each vertebra has a spinous process, a bony importance behind the spinal cord, which shields the cable’s worried cells from effect injury. Backbone additionally have a strong bony “body” (vertebral body) in front of the spinal cord to give a system appropriate for weight bearing of all tissues over the buttocks. The back vertebrae stack instantly atop the sacrum bone that is positioned in between the buttocks.
On each side, the sacrum satisfies the iliac bone of the pelvis to form the sacroiliac joints of the butts.
What prevail causes of lower pain in the back?
Typical reasons for low pain in the back ( lumbar backache) include lumbar pressure, nerve irritation, lumbar radiculopathy, bony advancement, as well as conditions of the bone and joints. Each of these is assessed listed below.
Lumbar stress (severe, chronic): A back strain is a stretch injury to the ligaments, tendons, and/or muscles of the lower back. The stretching case cause microscopic tears of varying degrees in these tissues. Back stress is considered among one of the most common reasons for lower back pain. Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
The injury can happen due to overuse, improper use, or injury. Soft-tissue injury is generally categorized as “acute” if it has actually been present for days to weeks. If the strain lasts longer than three months, it is described as “persistent.” Back stress most often happens in people in their 40s, however it can take place at any age. The problem is characterized by local pain in the lower back area with start after an occasion that mechanically emphasized the back tissues. The severity of the injury ranges from light to severe, depending upon the level of stress and also resulting convulsion of the muscle mass of the lower back.
The diagnosis of lumbar pressure is based upon the history of injury, the place of the pain, and also exemption of nerve system injury. Usually, X-ray testing is only helpful to leave out bone problems.
The treatment of lumbar stress consists of resting the back (to prevent reinjury), medicines to relieve pain and muscle spasm, neighborhood warm applications, massage, and also eventual (after the acute episode solves) replacing workouts to reinforce the lower back and stomach muscles. Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
First treatment at home might consist of heat application and also staying clear of reinjury and hefty training. Prescription medicines that are often utilized for severe lower back pain consist of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines, by injection or by mouth, muscle mass depressants,
Extended periods of lack of exercise in bed are no more advised, as this treatment may in fact slow recuperation. Spine manipulation for periods of approximately one month has been found to be useful in some patients that do not have signs of nerve inflammation.
Future injury is prevented by using back-protection methods throughout tasks and support gadgets as required in your home or job.
Muscle Mass Pressure as well as Tendon Sprain
A lower back sprain or stress can take place all of a sudden, or can establish slowly in time from repeated motions. Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
Stress occur when a muscle is extended as well far as well as splits, harming the muscular tissue itself.
Sprains take place when over-stretching and also tearing impacts tendons, which connect the bones with each other.
For useful objectives, it does not matter whether the muscular tissue or tendon is damaged, as the symptoms and treatment are the same.
Common sources of sprain as well as pressure consist of:
- Raising a heavy things, or turning the back while training
- Sudden movements that position too much stress on the lower back, such as a fall
- Poor stance over time
- Sports injuries, specifically in sports that include turning or large pressures of influence Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
While sprains as well as pressures do not appear serious as well as do not usually cause resilient pain, the sharp pain can be rather serious.
Sources Of Persistent Lower Neck And Back Pain
Pain is taken into consideration chronic as soon as it lasts for greater than 3 months and also exceeds the body’s natural recovery procedure. Persistent pain in the low back frequently involves a disc problem, a joint trouble, and/or an aggravated nerve origin. Common causes include:
Lumbar herniated disc. The jelly-like center of a back disc can appear the challenging outer layer and irritate a close-by nerve root. The herniated section of the disc has plenty of proteins that create swelling when they reach a nerve origin, as well as inflammation, as well as nerve compression, create nerve root pain. The disc wall surface is additionally richly supplied by nerve fibers, and also a tear via the wall surface can trigger severe pain.
Degenerative disc disease. At birth, intervertebral discs teem with water and also at their healthiest. As people age with time, discs lose hydration and also wear down. As the disc loses hydration, it can not withstand pressures as well, and also transfers force to the disc wall surface that might establish splits as well as trigger pain or weakening that can cause a herniation. The disc can likewise fall down and also add to constriction. Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
Ways to Take Care Of Lower Pain In The Back at Home
Cool it Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
Ice is best in the very first 24 to 2 days after an injury due to the fact that it lowers inflammation. Despite the fact that the warmth feels great since it aids cover up the pain and it does help unwind the muscles, the heat actually irritates the inflammatory processes. After two days, you can change to warmth if you favor. Whether you make use of heat or ice– take it off after about 20 minutes to offer your skin a rest. If pain lingers, talk with a doctor.
Maintain doing your everyday tasks. Make the beds, most likely to work, walk the pet. When you’re really feeling better, normal cardiovascular exercises like swimming, cycling, and also strolling can maintain you– as well as your back– even more mobile. Simply don’t overdo it. There’s no requirement to run a marathon when your back aches.
When your lower neck and back pain has declined, you can assist avert future episodes of neck and back pain by functioning the muscular tissues that sustain your lower back, including the back extensor muscular tissues. They aid you preserve the proper position and positioning of your spinal column. Having strong hip, pelvic, and also abdominal muscles also offers you more back support. Avoid abdominal crunches, due to the fact that they can really put even more pressure on your back.
Stretch Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
Don’t rest dropped in your desk chair throughout the day. Rise every 20 minutes or so and also extend the other way. Because the majority of us invest a lot of time flexing ahead in our tasks, it is very important to stand up as well as stretch backwards throughout the day. Don’t neglect to likewise extend your legs. Some individuals locate remedy for their neck and back pain by doing a regular extending routine, like yoga exercise. Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
Just how To Enhance Your Lower Back
1. Vacuuming Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
When it pertains to reinforcing the lower back, focusing on your transverse abdominals which are wrapped around the midline of your body is among the most effective ways to do it. These muscular tissues are truly type in sustaining your back and also lower back. While individuals frequently in the direction of crises for their transverse abdominals, individuals can unintentionally throw out their lower back if their core isn’t solid sufficient.
Just how to do it: In a standing placement, take a deep breath and attract your belly switch in towards your back, having and also engaging your abdominal muscle muscle mass as you do so. Picture if somebody was going to show up and punch you in the belly and also you want your gut to be hard and also able to take it; that’s what it must seem like. Hold it, and also launch slowly. Repeat a couple of even more times.
2. Bridge present
Functioning your glutes pulls double-duty for back toughness, as well. The gluteus maximus is among 3 muscles that cover right into the glutes and is truly the toughest and biggest muscle in the whole body. They are accountable for all our movement, which is why strengthening them truly aids your lower back.
3. Donkey kicks Lower Back Pain Left Side After Exercise
This is another glutes exercise step that functions as a lower-back helper.
Exactly how to do it: Get down on your hands as well as knees, with your hands straight over your shoulders. Raise up your best leg, maintaining your knee at a 90-degree angle, up until your leg is alongside the ground. Slowly lower it pull back to the ground. Repeat for 90 seconds, after that switch over legs.
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Atmospheric deposition of semivolatile aromatic hydrocarbons accounts for an important input of organic matter to the surface ocean. Nevertheless, the biogeochemical cycling and sinks of semivolatile aromatic hydrocarbons in the ocean remain largely uncharacterized. Here we present measurements of 64 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in plankton and seawater from the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans, as well an assessment of their microbial degradation genes. Concentrations of the more hydrophobic compounds decreased when the plankton biomass was higher, consistent with the relevance of the biological pump. The mass balance for the global oceans showed that the settling fluxes of aromatic hydrocarbons in the water column were two orders of magnitude lower than the atmospheric deposition fluxes. This imbalance was high for low molecular weight hydrocarbons, such as phenanthrene and methylphenanthrenes, highly abundant in the dissolved phase. Parent polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were depleted to a higher degree than alkylated polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and the degradation genes for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons were found to be ubiquitous in oceanic metagenomes. These observations point to a key role of biodegradation in depleting the bioavailable dissolved hydrocarbons and to the microbial degradation of atmospheric inputs of organic matter as a relevant process for the marine carbon cycle.
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As George Henry Wood was discharged from debt which considering that he had died three years previously was a bit academic, perhaps someone who was thinking of using the Wood name as part of a name for a company rather than just a trade mark could have made sure everything was above board, maybe a solicitor say.
So with both George Henry Wood and John Milnes now dead it’s time to return to the story of the Roberts and the Revolving Heel Company and to see what they have been up to since we left them forming the company around 1897.
So where was Mr Wood well as I said previously he did not travel very far and yes he was still around Burnley though he was now married to Emile and living at 21 Victoria Road, Padiham which was not as grand a property as Mr Milnes.
So what had he done with his money, the answer lies in the 1901 census with his occupation, Colliery Owner and employer.
The second was slightly unusual as in the London Gazette of 28th July 1905 there appeared the following.
Though John Milnes hadn’t finished with Patents, at his new home, they kept coming
6th April 1898 No 8189 Improvements in and connected with Shells and War Rockets.
6th July 1899 No 13,939 Improvements in and connected with Sectional Conductor Street or Road Electric Railways, a further refinement of this can be found under 21st August 1900 No 14,906.
3rd July 1900 No 11,970 improvements in lubricating the chains of cycles, motor cars and other chain driven machines.
All these can be viewed on the Espacenet patent search website
This would be the last we will see of John as he died in 1905, his widow Harriet and the daughters still living there by the 1911 census, Harriet died in 1927 and the last daughter Louisa died in 1965 still living in Southport.
Wood Milne -
More than just a Trade Mark.
30th November 1901 – Burnley Gazette
100,000 Tons of Coal Lost; Misfortunes of Colliery Agents.
The first examination took place of George Wood, 21 Victoria Road, Padiham, late colliery agent, lately residing at 358 Padiham Road, Burnley, John William Wood and Francis Joseph Wood both of 5 Poets Road, Habergham, Burnley, colliery agents and lately carrying on business at the Knotts Colliery, Hapton and Shakespeare Street, Padiham in partnership under the style or firm of George Wood and Brothers.
The joint statement of affairs showed gross liabilities amounting to £3, 321 13s 11d, all of which was expected to rank for dividend and there was a deficiency of £3, 311 13s 11d, debtors alleged as the cause of failure.
According to the Bank of England inflation calculator that is equal to £417,435.00 in 2020 figures.
“The colliery which was leased becoming flooded on two occasions” - In answer to the Assistant Official Receiver, the debtor George Wood said he and his brothers started the business in April 1898 leasing the colliery for seven years, with leave to extend that period if so desired. Their capital was £200.00 borrowed from their mother.
£25,139 in 2020 money - Now we know this last bit of information is very probably not true but why was George lying about where the money came from? Read on.
Previously, debtor had worked for six years at this colliery as surveyor and manager. Under this lease the rent was £780.00 a year (£98,042 in 2020 money) payable monthly. After two months of their tenancy however a flood occurred in the colliery which did them great injury. They continued working however, there was a great amount of coal ready to get, and by getting that very cheaply they somewhat recovered themselves.
After the flood they made a tunnel into a new district and went on very handy until 18 months had elapsed when another flood occurred. This was in May 1900 and after about two months struggling they had to abandon the working, all their plant was ruined. The Knotts Colliery Company had since taken back the colliery.
At the time of the second flood it became apparent they could not pay their debts in full but they contracted further liabilities hoping to pull round. He and his brothers took the colliery purely as a business concern and not as a speculation. There were 100,000 tons of coal in sight when they took the colliery over but most of it was lost by the floods. To the floods and the heavy cost of tunnelling witnesses attributed the failure entirely.
John William Wood and Francis Joseph Wood corroborated the evidence of their brother. The examination was adjourned, Mr A Riley (Messrs Roberts & Rodgers) appeared for the debtors.
Now perhaps it’s a coincidence that Tom Hartley Roberts was a solicitor in Burnley but maybe the price of the legal representation was keeping Mr Roberts senior and his Revolving Heel Company out of the proceedings. The case was closed on 21st December and George Henry Wood was now a bankrupt so what could he do.
So what happened to John Milnes and George Henry Wood ?
Before we continue with the Revolving Heel Company I feel I should continue with the life stories of George Henry Wood & John Milnes, so what were they up to, well the Milnes family had certainly gone upmarket and moved to 85 Tithebarn Road, Southport and living on his own means at the age of 51 according to the 1901 census.
As the Patent letters had stated earlier he was a Mining Engineer he had probably been on the lookout to invest in and it seems he was already working at this one in the East Lancashire coalfield, one of many pits dotted around Burnley and Padiham, it was called Knotts Colliery, just on the Padiham Loop of the East Lancashire Railway which left the main line between Hapton and Rose Grove.
According to the mine records I have found the pit was opened in 1890 by John Cottier, then between 1895 and 1897 it was run as the Knotts Colliery Limited until 1898 when George Wood and Brothers took over.
After the 1901 census George Henry Wood is not to be found on any official documents again so that led me to the Newspaper Archive which told an increasingly sad story in two articles a year apart.
19th November 1902 – Burnley Gazette
Death of a Burnley Man in Johannesburg
Many Burnley people will regret to hear of the death of Mr George Henry Wood, second son of the late Mr James Wood, hat manufacturer of Burnley, which occurred at Johannesburg on October 20th. Mr Wood who formerly lived in Padiham Road, Burnley was well known owing to his connection with Knotts Colliery, Hapton and after severing his connection with the colliery he decided to go to the mines in South Africa.
Now it’s either don’t speak ill of the dead or he was a popular man as a further article will show or perhaps someone who didn’t check the previous filed copies of the same paper.
He had three good situations offered to him there, and was one of the selected candidates for the position of Inspector of Buildings for the city of Johannesburg which position he was in strong hopes of obtaining had he lived. He was thoroughly qualified for mining work and took with him a full set of surveying apparatus.
He left Burnley at the beginning of August and arrived in Africa three weeks later. Capetown was at that time in a state of confusion and the young man, he was but 29 years of age, proceeded up country to Johannesburg obtaining his permit after about two days.
The journey was accomplished without any untoward event, but on getting off the station platform which was about 18 inches deep, he slipped and was injured internally, which induced paralysis of the legs. He was taken to his apartments, and after being there about ten days he was removed to the hospital where he remained a month and died on the 20th October.
Only one or two days before his death news was sent to his relatives in Burnley that he was improving, and the news of his death, which was received in Burnley this week caused the greatest sorrow. The deceased man leaves a widow and three children who live in Nelson.
So ends the life of George Henry Wood though there are two interesting postscripts the first appeared in the Burnley Gazette, ten days after the above notice and tells the story of how George Henry Wood had saved many from Padiham from a terrible railway disaster a few years previously, perhaps this is why they didn’t like to mention his previous problems.
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Jeff Bowlsby CCS, CCCA
Exterior Wall and Stucco Consultant
Licensed California Architect
Architectural Aesthetics and Stucco Technology
Stucco is one of the few building exterior cladding materials with the innate capability of expressing the full range of architectural geometries and form. From linear and planar, to articulated and faceted, to dynamic, curvilinear, fluid building forms, and from visual solidity to visual segmentation. Stucco cannot be all things to all projects though, from a technical perspective, and attempts to do so are usually futile or at least less that completely successful. Use stucco in technologically appropriate ways, respecting stucco’s functional requirements to most effectively achieve aesthetic purposes.
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Masonry and concrete buildings throughout the world and throughout time into the present, have received exterior plaster cladding in part, as a functional means of weather protection. Stucco is most commonly directly-applied and continuously-bonded to masonry and concrete substrates creating a barrier wall, which eliminates the need for most joints, and creates a visual aesthetic of mass and solidity.
El Presidio de Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California, 1782
Ludwigsburg, Germany, 2005-2008.
Architect: Juergen Mayer H.
Framed building structures of wood and steel are preferred contemporary building structural systems in many parts of the world today, especially in the USA. Framed building structures are inherently more resilient than solid mass building structures. Greater flexibility from various loading conditions imposed result in more substrate support movement from a stucco cladding perspective, which obviously means more movement for stucco wall cladding systems which means more stucco movement joint subassemblies. Framed or framed and sheathed buildings must be protected with a concealed water resistive barrier, and then stucco as the outermost wall covering is applied over a mechanically-fastened lath as an exterior wall cladding, which provides a weather-exposed wall cladding assembly to protect the wall system. Stucco wall cladding systems installed over a water resistive barrier create a drainage wall system and are installed in panels defined by expressed joints to address the substrate support system and stucco membrane movements which creates a visual aesthetic with a panelized delineation. Stucco wall cladding system movement joints are a natural expression of the functional substrate support system and stucco membranes’ response to movement.
Whether wall substrate support systems are solid concrete or masonry barrier walls, or framed or framed and sheathed drainage walls, or a combination of both, sometimes architectural expressions requires curved, warped and fluid wall assemblies, and exterior stucco wall claddings are appropriate for those applications, as a result of the fluid nature of the portland cement-based plaster as it is applied.
Krzywy Domek (aka “Crooked Little House”)
Sopot, Poland, 2004.
Architects: Szotyńscy & Zaleski
A comparatively thin coating of stucco wall cladding is effective in protecting wall system substrate supports of masonry and concrete, or framing and sheathing. Stucco wall cladding is maintainable and renewable, and results in a desirable architectural aesthetic.
The characteristics of the aesthetic expression, primarily the inclusion or omission of stucco movement joints, are a function of the stucco substrate support characteristics which define the wall type as either a barrier wall or drainage wall system.
Concrete and masonry stucco buildings express a desirable aesthetic that is most often a continuous, seamless stucco surface that adheres to the solid substrate and conveys a sense of visual massiveness as a barrier wall. If the substrate support surface is irregular such as with rough masonry, the stucco can reflect that irregularity in the substrate support with integrity of expression.
Wall systems of framed, and framed and sheathed substrate supports and a water resistive barrier, create a drainage wall system, require an aesthetic expression that is most often segmented into an array of adjacent panels, defined by expressed joints, a desirable, but different aesthetic than when stucco is direct-applied to concrete or masonry. The joints accommodate substrate support movement, or movement in the stucco cladding itself. As a drainage wall, linear drainage flashing terminations are also expressed at the stucco cladding surface, as a drainage function of the concealed water resistive barrier system.
Because stucco is applied while in its plastic state, it easily conforms to whatever its substrate support geometry requires. Curves, spheres and distorted planarity are not significant challenges as they are with most prefabricated panelized claddings. Fantasy-themes, whimsy and irrational geometries can be realized for aesthetic effect.
Exposed concrete and mass masonry buildings of stone, adobe, brick are directly subject to the weather and due to their robust thickness and mass, water and air infiltration is of relative minor concern. The small dimensional size of masonry and stone units and the fluid nature of cast in place concrete, easily accommodate the full range of architectural geometries – from linear and planar, to curvilinear, even spherical. However, buildings constructed of these materials can develop cracking which can allow water intrusion, and because of direct weather exposure are subject to surface deterioration over time. Stucco cladding can resolve these potential issues.
Stucco cladding can be constructed without joints, but it needs to be direct-applied to a mass masonry or solid concrete building substrate supports as a barrier wall. No WRB is used in this assembly; the mass of the wall is the weather protection. Stucco applied in this manner is continuously bonded to its substrate support. Depending on the circumstances, this can be a durable method for applying stucco on a building. Not many buildings are constructed with mass masonry or solid concrete walls in the USA but they are common in other parts of the world.
Stucco on buildings of framed or framed and sheathed substrate support however is an entirely different circumstance. Stucco cracking at wall openings such as window and door corners has been problematic for stucco on framed buildings since the earliest use of stucco. At the time, stucco on wood lath and later metal lath, was applied continuously over all building substrate support surfaces without interruptions as if it were emulating stucco directly applied to masonry barrier wall buildings. The earliest causes of stucco cracking at wall opening corners on framed buildings were commonly regarded to be building movement and expansion of wood windows due to water absorption.
Framing components are linear and more easily used to produce linear and planar forms. Stucco on framed drainage wall buildings has behavioral characteristics profoundly different than stucco adhered to masonry and concrete barrier wall support substrates. For this reason expressed movement joints in the stucco cladding for minimizing the effects of movement in the substrate support and from shrinkage and thermal effects on the cladding, as well as expressing drainage flashings, are essential for stucco on framed and sheathed buildings to function properly, to minimize cracking and accommodate drainage from weather exposure.
Why is there such an aversion to expressed movement jointing in stucco? Virtually every other building cladding and surfacing material requires joints as an integral component of the system. Joints provide human scale, accommodate thermal movement, provide modularity, facilitate installation, provide locations for drainage, and more – all the same characteristics that benefit stucco cladding. Stone, tile, metal panels, wood siding, brick, CMU, precast concrete, GFRC, glass curtain walls…all have expressed jointing. By holding stucco cladding on framed drainage walls to the same aesthetic and performance expectations as stucco on concrete or masonry barrier wall buildings disregards what stucco needs and wants to be on frame buildings. We need a paradigm shift which requires expressing stucco movement joints as they need to be, and it is appropriate and beneficial that stucco movement joints be used for creative purposes and celebrated.
Attempts to intermix a panelized stucco application on a concrete or masonry barrier wall substrate support, or continuous stucco on a framed/sheathed drainage wall substrate support presents technical challenges and are best avoided. Stucco application to the same building with both concrete or masonry barrier wall substrate supports and framed/sheathed drainage wall substrate supports can be quite successful and the stucco cladding, although applied differently because of the different substrate supports, can provide a homogenous aesthetic if that is a desirable architectural intention. The two following images illustrate singular buildings with stucco both direct applied to a monolithic concrete barrier wall substrate support and onto framed/sheathed drainage wall substrate supports, resulting in a monolithic, homogenous aesthetic but each stucco wall cladding type functions differently and independently.
Marin County Civic Center
Marin County, CA 1959
Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright
450 South St. Parking Garage
San Francisco, CA, 2009.
Architect: WRNS Studio
(Photo used by permission of WRNS Studio)
Of critical importance, certain stucco finishes and jointing configurations demand special evaluation when stucco is used in non-vertical, non-planar or otherwise distorted geometries, and at weather-exposed low-slope conditions. Overlooking these limitations can reduce durability and increase maintenance. Stucco is best suited for vertical and near vertical exterior wall surfaces greater than 60 degrees from horizontal. Where stucco transitions into low slope, sky-facing surfaces…the functional equivalent of roofs…this stucco application should be avoided, or at the very least special considerations need to be made for waterproofing these conditions and integration with adjacent materials.
Stucco lath accessories and flashings are typically linear and rigid and may require special design and fabrication to accommodate curvilinear forms.
The essential stucco aesthetic question: Is the stucco cladding for your building intended to express a visually solid single mass or a system of discrete, adjacent panels with joints? The answer depends on and is determined by the wall system type based on how it functions, either as a barrier wall or drainage wall, onto which the stucco will be installed. Solid substrate support bases – concrete and masonry – are water-barrier (surface barrier or just ‘barrier’) walls to which stucco is preferably directly-applied, thereby eliminating stucco movement joints that are not in the solid substrate support base. Framed substrate support bases – studs and sheathing – are water-management (concealed drainage or just ‘drainage’) walls requiring lath over a water-resistive barrier, a stucco wall cladding system that requires expressed stucco movement joints at the stucco surface for drainage flashings, and joints to minimize the effects of substrate support movement, and stucco cladding shrinkage and thermal movements.
Stucco Best Practices:
· Stucco cladding materials should not determine or limit building form
· Understand, respect and address the technical considerations and challenges for using stucco cladding in every configuration
· For stucco direct-applied onto concrete or masonry barrier walls:
ü No concealed water-resistive barrier is required or suggested
ü No stucco movement joints are required except at structural substrate support movement joint locations (BMJS subassemblies)
ü Stucco is continuously bonded to concrete/masonry, minimizing the risk of cracks
ü Stucco can be installed onto any surface, vertical or low-slope, although slope is always important for drainage
ü Direct-applied stucco without high performance finish coats are best used at non-occupied spaces such as parking garages that can tolerate limited water intrusion
· For stucco applied to lath over a WRB on framed substrate support drainage walls, provide expressed stucco movement joints to accommodate:
ü For substrate support movement: BMJS and PMJS subassemblies (“expansion joints”)
ü For shrinkage/thermal stucco cladding movement: SMJS subassemblies (“control joints”)
ü For concealed water-resistive barrier drainage: Exposed drainage screed flashing terminations or drip edges
ü Although technically possible with special detailing, stucco on low-sloped sky facing, weather-exposed surfaces such as recessed windows, stucco wall caps should be avoided for performance and durability reasons.
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There are many robotic pool cleaners on the market that are designed to clean pool…
When it comes to Vacuuming A Pool, the Best Method to Use depends on the particular Pool Set Up You are Doing. However, The Best Method to Use for Vacuuming A Pool can be further breakdowned into Four Hemisphericalreements Syndrome setting, technology, space and time.
When it comes to Vacuuming A Pool, the best way to use while doing pool set up is the four wheeled vehicle setting. The reason for this setting is because this is the only setting that will vacuum all 4 sides of the pool at the same time. Another setting that can be used is the housekeeping setting, because this is the only setting that can be controlled from the homeowner’s cockpit. The last setting to use while vacuumating a pool is the technology setting, because this is the only setting that can be controlled from the device that is used to superpower the pool. Lastly, the time setting, because this is the only setting that can be controlled from the device that is used to power the pool. All of these settings can be used while Vacuuming A Pool, because they all Suit the Objective of Vacuuming A Pool.
Can vodka clean a swimming pool
Yes, vodka can clean a swimming pool – just like it can clean surfaces and floors in other ways. Unfortunately, however, vodka can also cause problems for the environment. This reason is why you should be careful with vodka when it comes to cleaning a swimming pool.
should pool skimmer be on all the time?
There is no one answer to this question, as the question depends on a variety of factors, including the skimmer’s specific needs and how often it should be used. However, general consensus is that a pool skimmer should not be used lightly, as it can add water consumption or water waste to the system. Furthermore, new skimmer models often offer are in development, so it’s important to stay aware of them and keep an eye on water waste levels. | <urn:uuid:f3ea79e7-7b73-461c-a14b-22a215fabe08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://grandprixcharlotte.com/what-setting-to-use-while-vacuuming-pool/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96228 | 421 | 1.757813 | 2 |
According to experts, being able to understand people in so many different ways showcases social intelligence. Not a lot of people are actually aware that they could improve their social intelligence. In fact, most people are not even aware that there is such a thing. If you are looking into how you can improve yours, you can always rely on a few things.
Keep in mind that your social intelligence increases as you grow older, it is not something that you are born with. However, your ability to socialize is something that you have always had. Communicate well and you will be able to have the necessary amount of social intelligence you need. Here is a simple guide that will surely help you out.
Social Intelligence: Be Open-Minded
When it comes to socializing, you might want to keep your mind open. This is something that not a lot of people are doing nowadays. Being able to have an open mind when you are communicating with others is absolutely necessary. That is because it will prevent you to make certain judgments when it comes to other people’s statements and actions.
Keep in mind that it is ideal to not judge people based on anything. Socializing will give you an opportunity to get to know different types of personalities and learn to adjust and accept them. People who have impressive social intelligence never judge a book by its cover.
Social Intelligence: Learn To Listen Effectively
It is also necessary to be able to listen effectively at all times. A good conversation can only work if you and the person you are talking to knows how to listen. Some people might simply hear what you say, but they hear it and immediately think of a reply. This is something that is so usual yet so ineffective.
Your point of view may be necessary but you got to learn how to listen to others as well. Listening means you are paying attention to their words as well as the entire content of their statement. You have to understand it fully to be able to give a suitable reply.
It is a face that everyone is simply different. You have different views and beliefs and that is perfectly understandable. Just be sure that you know how to respect other people’s views and beliefs as well. This is very common when it comes to meeting people from different cultural backgrounds.
One of the biggest reasons why there are misunderstandings between nations nowadays is that they do not respect each other. You have to have social intelligence in order for you to practice this kind of respect towards people.
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When a person dies, a process recognized as "estate administration" must be carried out. This refers to all the procedures which must be followed in distributing a person's estate to their heirs or devisees.
If the decedent has made a will in Port Jefferson, New York, the process will play out according to the instructions mentioned in the will.
Commonly, the will appoints an executor whose job it is to oversee the administration of the will.
The executor is normally whoever stands to obtain the most money or property if the will is given effect, since that is the person who likely has the most incentive to do their part in seeing that the probate process plays out to completion.
What if The Will Does Not Name an Executor?
If a Port Jefferson, New York will does not appoint anyone to serve as executor, or there is no will, the court has to choose someone to fill that role.
This is most commonly the person who stands to gain the most from the will, or who would inherit the most under New York's intestacy laws. Intestacy is the system that every state has in order to deal with the property of people who die without a will. It normally distributes the property to the closest living relatives of the decedent, assuming they can be located.
If no executor is named in the will, anyone with a stake in the will can apply to the court in Port Jefferson, New York to be the executor of the estate, if they wish.
Once an executor is appointed (whether by being named in the will, or on the application of another person), they "step into the shoes" of the estate, and are expected to protect its interests to the fullest extent possible. They also are required to accurately inventory the estate's debts and assets, as well as notify potential beneficiaries.
Can a Port Jefferson, New York Estate Administration Attorney Help?
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The Federal Office for Statistics has reported that 2,000 new cases of skin melanoma are recorded each year in Switzerland, making it the fourth most common cancer in the country, newspaper Tribune de Genève reported.
According to the European Institute of Cancer Research, the number of new cases per year is so high that Switzerland has now topped the European rankings.
The number of cases reported has risen from 13 per 100,000 women during 1984-1988 to 21 per 100,000 from 2004-2008. For men, that number has risen even more from 13.7 to 23.5 per 100,000.
It is worthy of note that the number of cases reported represents those diagnosed at an early stage of development, before the cancer has really been able to spread.
The number of cases diagnosed at a later stage of development remained stable, at 7 percent of cases for women and 10 per cent of cases for men.
There are two potential explanations for the increase, Dr. Gürkan Kaya, head of the Dermatopathology Unit at the University Hospital of Geneva, told the newspaper. First, it is possible that the number of instances has in fact risen, he said.
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It was a normal day for Noah and his family. Him and his 3 sons were farming and making crops.
Noah and his sons had finished and came inside for dinner where he thanked God for their food. They were also greeted with two dogs at their window.
Do not fear, My Lord, I will follow all orders given by you.
Noah watched the stars and suddenly a voice spoke. It was God, telling Noah to build a giant boat, an ark. God was planning a massive flood to get rid of all the bad people on Earth. He specifically told Noah to build a boat 137m long, 23m wide and 14m high. Noah did as told and prepared for building the next day.
Noah and his sons had begun building the ark upon the soon arrival of the Great Flood.
I'm doing well, thank you!
All good up there brother?
The locals though that the family was crazy. Noah claimed that they should be all building boats as well but they did not listen to him.
You must be crazy!
A flood? HAHAHA!
It would be wise to listen.
God speaks the truth! The Great Flood is coming!
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Friday 21st May 2021 to
Saturday 12th June 2021
Artist Emily Whitebread has created a new audio-visual work for Ebbsfleet International Station, through research into the Ebbsfleet Elephant, discovered during the construction of Ebbsfleet International Station. The Elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus, straight-tusked elephant) lived in what is now Britain during the Lower Palaeolithic period - the prehistoric period during which stone tools were made by humans. The challenge lay in the fact that the information surrounding this interglacial period is provisional and fluid - it encompasses many different fields, which makes it fascinating but also difficult to grasp. Which species of human ancestor lived in Britain at the time is also unknown, as few contemporary hominin fossil remains have been found. There is no direct evidence as to how the Ebbsfleet Elephant died, but it is suggested that it may have been hunted and killed by the hominins of this period as it was found surrounded by flint tools used for butchery. Emily’s attempt to reconstruct the Ebbsfleet Elephant included work with an archeologist, a geologist, a historian, a paleolithic artist, a biologist and anthropologist. The closest living relative to the Palaeoloxodon antiquus is the African Elephant, and she was donated contemporary audio for the work by sound recordist Chris Watson, and the Elephant Listening Project at Cornell University, USA. The work has been made possible through conversations and with guidance by Dr Francis Wenban-Smith (University of Southampton), Professor Adrian Lister, Natural History Museum); Dr Steven Zhang, University of Bristol; and Curator Roula Pappa, Natural History Museum. Find The Ebbsfleet Elephant on the main concourse at Ebbsfleet International Station, open every day during Estuary 2021. Artwork by Bob Nicholls (Paleocreations.com) 2021 This Must Be the Place - Ebbsfleet Garden City This project is part of This Must Be the Place, a three year programme Cement Fields has recently launched in Ebbsfleet Garden City. Working with artists and a wide range of partners, young people aged 16-25 will co-lead the programme, exploring and shaping Ebbsfleet Garden City as it is built. Together they will consider innovative and radical placemaking ideas with partners including architects, designers, philosophers and policy makers, and share their research on what has worked locally, nationally and internationally. This process will feed into a series of new and experimental art commissions and residencies, embedded in the city and community, connecting the histories and potential futures of the social, political, geographical and civic landscapes they live in. This Must Be the Place is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, and by Ebbsfleet Development Corporation. | <urn:uuid:b1af07c3-3a83-4bb9-b564-02ed484bb624> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.estuaryfestival.com/event/detail/the-ebbsfleet-elephant.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947558 | 588 | 2.296875 | 2 |
I love Social Media. So many of my incredible friends have been met through this venue…including my guest today. I discovered Natasha Blackthorne through a link shared on Twitter by one of the many fabulous people I follow. It led to a blog and a spotlight of one of Natasha’s exciting, erotic romance books, A Measured Risk (Hello, historical erotic romance–something that up until this point had not really piqued my interest). Her excerpt only whetted my appetite for more, so I got the book and began to follow her.
As often happens in the blogoverse, our paths crossed again when we found ourselves on the same Triberr tribe….and we became friendly both through Twitter and Facebook. She was as awesome one on one as her books were! Of course, when I found out she’d just released a new book, I jumped at the chance to introduce this lovely woman to you guys. So, without further ado, I give to you…. The steamy, ever-so-talented, Natasha Blackthorne!
I am very honored to be a guest today on Kitt’s blog. She asked me to talk about my passions and how they affect my writing.
I have always been drawn to observe people and I have wondered why they do the things they do. Where did we all come from? How did we develop? These are questions that drove me at an early age to look through the books in my Dad’s bookshelves. He had so many different interests, psychology, sociology and anthropology. I really enjoy learning what makes people tick. Many times, I develop a story so that I can explore an internal conflict that a person may have and how would that influence the way they interact with life and the people they love and those they hate.
History has always been my biggest passion. I am most interested in the Early Modern era from 1300 to about 1840 AD. I love social history and studying what philosophical ideas were affecting people. I like to study how people lived on a daily basis, what thoughts drove their moment-to-moment actions. I want to understand what it was like to live in the past from the bones outward. Most interesting to me is what would it be like to be a person who had a personality or idealistic drive that put them strongly in opposition to the ideas and expectations of the time. Books on the social and psychological aspects of history provide a wonderful, and often myth busting, view into the past. They can give such a fresh and fascinating second glance at issues and fuel ideas that come at history from a new perspective. I am very grateful to the historians who write these books and they keep me in love with the past.
I have always loved to read. Historical biography fascinates me. It is one way to get under the skin of a person who lived in the past. There are so many stereotypes and misconceptions about how people were in the past. So much modern understanding about people in history comes from their entertainment literature. Such literature can give a view into how people wanted to be seen, what they aspired to be. But I always want to get a deeper view into the juxtaposition between what people wanted to be and what they really were. The best way to get this deeper, more realistic view is to read biographies, especially those that feature many quotes from original sources such as letters and diaries. I am most interested in their emotional, psychological and sexual lives. I want to gain an intimate understanding of historical people.
My Wild, Wicked and Wanton series is an example of how my writing is fueled by these interests. Beth McConnell is a young woman who wants the acceptance of her loved ones. Yet she’s also a very assertive personality and possessed of an exceptionally strong sexuality. The era in which she lives doesn’t value these traits in a woman, especially not in a respectable young woman. And Beth wants to be good. But her inner passions and desires drive her to take chances counter to that longing to be respectable. So how would she cope with this conflict? That is what propelled me to write my first erotic historical romance submission, Grey’s Lady.
I am very excited to mention that I have a new release, Trust Me. It is book two in the Regency Risks series.
Trust Me is the sequel to A Measured Risk, Regency Risks, Book One
Erotic Romance, Regency Historical, Light BDSM, Rubenesque, Novel Length: approximately 100,000 words.
Anne and Jon’s story continues.
Is she insane?
All of Mayfair is whispering the question.
Anne Lloyd, the new Countess of Ruel, thought she’d finally begun to heal from having witnessed the terrible death of her first husband. But, from her new husband’s grandmother to his ex-mistresses, it is all that is on everyone’s lips. What scares her more than the potential social ruin is that even she isn’t sure they aren’t right.
Jonathon Lloyd, the Earl of Ruel, has commanded men on the battlefield and women in the ballrooms and bedchambers with his dominant personality. It tears him apart that he can’t command his wife’s terrors to go away. To top it off, he has to battle his grandmother for Anne’s acceptance as the new Countess. There are times when it seems that the bloody battlefields of Europe were easier to navigate than the so-called civilized graces of Society.
There are those who will stop at nothing to tear apart the fragile bond between the newlyweds. Can Lady and Lord Ruel learn to trust each enough to keep their love, and her sanity, intact?
Thank you very much to Kitt, for inviting me here today. I enjoyed talking about how some of my passions inspire my writing. Readers who would like to contact me are invited to either friend me or subscribe to my public feed on Facebook, where I am most socially active. Or stop by and visit my blog. You’re also welcome to follow me on Twitter!
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Ubirajara jubatus – One Very Flashy Dinosaur
News about the discovery of a species of feathered dinosaur has now become relatively commonplace. Yet, it is worth remembering that it was just twenty-four years ago, back in 1996, that the first, non-avian dinosaur species with evidence of fuzzy feathers was described. Named Sinosauropteryx this lithe meat-eater literally “rocked” scientists as the long-awaited proof of feathered dinosaurs was revealed to the world. Sinosauropteryx was a compsognathid, a team of researchers, including scientists from the University of Portsmouth have described another feathered dinosaur, this new feathered theropod is a compsognathid too, but with a more elaborate and spectacular integumentary covering. The newly described Ubirajara jubatus is the first Gondwanan non-avian theropod with preserved filamentous integumentary structures. It is also the first non-maniraptoran possessing elaborate integumentary structures that were most likely used for display.
A Life Reconstruction of the Newly Described Brazilian Compsognathid Ubirajara jubatus
Picture Credit: Bob Nicholls/Paleocreations
Dressed to Impress
Described as the most elaborately dressed-to-impress dinosaur described to date, the research team co-led by Professor David Martill and researcher Robert Smyth (University of Portsmouth), propose that U. jubatus will shed new light on how birds evolved elaborate display structures.
This chicken-sized dinosaur possessed a mane of long bristles running down its back and stiff ribbons projecting out and back from its shoulders, a combination of features never seen before in the fossil record.
The scientific paper has been published in the journal of Cretaceous research and involved a collaboration between the University of Portsmouth and the appropriately named Professor Dino Frey at the State Museum of Natural History, Karlsruhe, Germany, who discovered the new species while examining fossils in Karlsruhe´s collection and Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva of the Departamento de Paleontología, Museo del Desierto in Saltillo, Mexico. The fossil was authorised by the Brazilian authorities for export some time ago, but was only recently studied.
The bizarre integumentary structures must have had a purpose, whilst the body covering may have originally evolved to provide insulation, the stiff ribbons on either side of the shoulders were probably used for display, perhaps to attract a mate, deter a rival or to frighten a potential predator.
Professor Martill commented:
“We cannot prove that the specimen is a male, but given the disparity between male and female birds, it appears likely the specimen was a male, and young, too, which is surprising given most complex display abilities are reserved for mature adult males. Given its flamboyance, we can imagine that the dinosaur may have indulged in elaborate dancing to show off its display structures.”
Not Scales or Fur
The ribbons are not fur or scales, they are not feathers in the modern sense, as seen on an extant bird. They appear to be structures unique to this animal.
Mr Smyth added:
“These are such extravagant features for such a small animal and not at all what we would predict if we only had the skeleton preserved. Why adorn yourself in a way that makes you more obvious to both your prey and to potential predators? The truth is that for many animals, evolutionary success is about more than just surviving, you also have to look good if you want to pass your genes on to the next generation.”
The Holotype of Ubirajara jubatus Preserved as a Slab and Counter Slab
Picture Credit: Smyth et al /Cretaceous Research
From the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of North-eastern Brazil
Fossil discoveries starting with the ground-breaking Sinosauropteryx specimen that was described in 1996 have fundamentally changed our understanding of the phylogenetic relationships between birds and dinosaurs as well as the origin and evolution of feathers. A variety of elaborate integumentary coverings and structures are now known from the Theropoda and from ornithischian dinosaurs too. They have been linked to behaviours including egg incubation, mating displays and thermoregulation.
The Colourful PNSO Model of the Chinese Compsognathid Sinosauropteryx
Picture Credit: Everything Dinosaur
Within the Theropoda, such features have only been previously recorded within the Maniraptoriformes, a theropod clade which includes birds and is defined as “the most recent common ancestor of the ostrich mimic Ornithomimus and Aves (birds) and all descendants of that common ancestor.”
The majority of theropods preserving integumental structures come from the Upper Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous of China or the Upper Jurassic of southern Germany and all are of Laurasian origin. Ubirajara jubatus from the Lower Cretaceous (Aptian) Crato Formation of north-eastern Brazil, is the first non-maniraptoran possessing elaborate integumentary structures that were most likely used for display.
It is also the first non-avian theropod with preserved filamentous integumentary structures to have been described from the southern hemisphere landmass of Gondwana.
The researchers compare Ubirajara to living birds stating that many modern Aves are famed for their exotic and colourful plumage along with their complex displays that are used to win mates. Male peacocks with their stunning tails and male birds of paradise are examples of this.
A Goldie’s Bird of Paradise Male Bird Displays to Attract a Mate
Picture Credit: Tim Laman/National Geographic Image Collection
Ubirajara jubatus (pronounce You-bi-rah-jar-rah jew-bay-tus), lived approximately 110 million years ago (Aptian faunal stage of the Early Cretaceous). The genus name is derived from the local Tupi dialect and translates as “lord of the spear”, whilst the trivial or specific name is from the Latin for “mane” a reference to the integumentary covering on its back.
Able to Raise its Hackles Like a Dog?
The mane running down its back is thought to have been controlled by muscles allowing it to be raised, in a similar way a dog raises its hackles or a porcupine raises its spines when facing a threat. Once the danger had passed, Ubirajara could lower its mane close to the skin allowing this little dinosaur to move quickly through the undergrowth without getting tangled up.
Professor Martill explained:
“Any creature with movable hair or feathers as a body coverage has a great advantage in streamlining the body contour for faster hunts or escapes but also to capture or release heat.”
The unique body plan of Ubirajara with its long, flat, stiff shoulder ribbons of keratin, each with a small sharp ridge running along the middle, described by the authors as “enigmatic” might have looked cumbersome, but in reality they were located on the body in such a way as not to impede movement allowing Ubirajara to preen, hunt, move around and display unencumbered.
The scientific paper: The scientific paper: “A maned theropod dinosaur from Gondwana with elaborate integumentary structures” by Robert S. H. Smyth, David M. Martill, Eberhard Frey, Héctor E. Rivera-Sylva and Norbert Lenz published in Cretaceous Research. This paper was withdrawn in July 2022. | <urn:uuid:c503261e-5702-46c9-8824-55ef4d92bd68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.everythingdinosaur.com/blog/_archives/2020/12/15/one-very-flashy-new-dinosaur-ubirajara-jubatus.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94978 | 1,632 | 3.171875 | 3 |
In today’s world, both domestic and foreign companies began to use cloud computing in its operations. The benefits of such calculations are obvious, and their correct application allows for a fresh look at the use of advanced technologies and their invaluable benefit. The most obvious strategic advantages can be seen by considering aspects such organizations as the finance and operations.
The Financial Benefits Of Cloud Computing
The undeniable advantages of cloud computing is to significantly reduce capital investment. Organization in the process of implementing its activities virtualization technology that uses in-house cloud computing, saving investments by eliminating the additional server hardware and increasing computing power. When a company uses the computing power of external providers of cloud computing , the cost of capital is minimized, the cost focus almost exclusively on operating costs. From this, we can understand that any company can effectively manage costs.
Operational Advantages Of Cloud Computing
Each company introduced the technology cloud computing, is able to simplify the management of the technical structure, abandoning the use of complex and expensive hardware, which leads to cost savings. When using cloud platforms outside vendors, the timing of IT-projects repeatedly reduced, and technical support with cloud solutions can be reduced to a minimum. Providers of cloud solutions offer specially designed tools, including specialized platforms and ready-designed solutions for the major lines of business. In addition, tools are provided to optimize capacity utilization and the ability of vertical and horizontal scaling of applications. Scaling the business of the companies using cloud computing in India allows you to quickly ramp up computing power based on customer requirements. Upon completion of work, when they are not absolutely necessary, power down, which allows efficient use of the company’s budget.
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Northern Michigan Living: Building a fort shouldn’t seem like a nostalgic nod to simpler times gone by, yet in this age of technology takeover, it may appear to be. Perhaps that’s what makes the story of Kevin 11, Ryan 14, Maddie 12, and Josh 10, so meaningful. The industrious group enjoys every minute of their time spent in the Northern Michigan woods, just being kids.
To say that they are examples of kids doing what they are supposed to be doing—playing outside, getting dirty and having fun—is not to say that they take their work lightly or that it’s all just fun and games. The elaborate fort compound that they have been planning and constructing since 2007 (due to liability concerns from the town, they had to rebuild this year) is nothing short of brilliant.
The kids built their original fort in the forest, behind the development in which the neighbors and close friends all live, with a Lake Michigan view to be envied. Using only materials, which they have found, not bought (mostly boards, which they believe to have floated over from an old shipping dock or Lake Michigan shipwrecks), the kids use kayaks to collect the wood from the water. With the exception of the brand new hinge used on the door, the structure was built entirely without cost.
Aside from being cost effective, their work ethic in creating their masterpiece is outstanding and rigorous—often leading them to set alarms to rise at 6:30 a.m., hop in their golf carts loaded with tools and supplies and begin building. This determination is what allowed them to overcome the legal setback this spring, which forced them to tear down the original fort they had worked so hard to construct, when the Parks and Recreation board of the Grand Traverse Community decided that the fort could be a liability in that it was on public land and ordered them to abandon it.
Despite the hundreds of hours they had spent on the fort, the kids tore it down salvaging the boards and supplies and moved on to another site, building a bigger and better version on private lands. The new fort now sits just a few meters from the old one, where a memorial now stands.
The kids have grand plans for the expansion of their new lakeside lodge and plan to continue working on it all summer long. The new fort will boast a rooftop deck from which there is a view of the lake, a new and improved foyer and several new rooms. When they’re not busy building, the crew transforms the fort into a store, selling various goods from the window such as muffins, beach glass and Petoskey stones to passers by. One member of the community was very appreciative of their hard work after she sought refuge from a sudden storm in the fort, while walking along the beach.
Today the fort stands strong on a foundation of friendship, youthful spirit and a sense of community—a testament to the importance of childhood. And judging by the sturdiness of its façade, it will long stand as a reminder for its builders and perhaps to our Up North community, to always take the time to simply go out and play.
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A new and insightful paper from Positive Technologies reveals that about 50 percent of Android apps are vulnerable to malware. Furthermore, as the paper states, the hacker doesn’t need to be in proximity to the device nor be around the device. Differences in security between iOS and Android appear to be negligible.
Should I stop downloading apps from the store until the problem’s fixed?
I wouldn’t hold my breath until this issue gets fixed. Now, according to the above-mentioned paper, 43 percent of all Android apps found in Google’s Play Store are wormable and, thus, vulnerable to cyber attacks.
For those of you who still think that iOS is much more secure compared to Android, well, I’m sorry to say that 38 percent of Apple’s apps are also vulnerable, per the same paper.
The issue has been tracked down to data storages which are now sufficiently guarded against backdoor attacks.
In their paper, Positive Technologies explained that developers are more into streamlining their apps (i.e., improved control, better UI, gorgeous design) than patching security gaps. Of course, nobody would download and use a buggy app, no matter how many layers of security it boasts.
Back to the issue at hand – very vulnerable and hackable applications. As far as these exploitable points are concerned, Positive Technologies’ report labels them as high-risk, since in 76 percent of cases attackers can steal passwords, accounts, financial data, IM history, and personal data.
What’s even worse is that they don’t need to be in contact with the device or use hacking methods to circumvent admin privileges such as rooting or jailbreaking.
So, where does that leave us? Well, if we were to take this report without the proverbial grain of salt, downloading apps from the Play Store or Apple’s e-store would be like playing a game of Russian roulette: you never know which one could blow off in your face.
Still, the situation’s not that dire; according to Leigh-Anne Galloway, Positive Technology’s lead of Cybersecurity Resilience, most of these hacking attempts can be avoided by us, the users. How? That’s easy – paying more attention to the apps’ demands. As most of these backdoor infiltration attempts play on access privileges, you only need to read the security prompt before running the app on your phone or tablet.
Here’s a quick example – a couple of weeks ago, I installed a Klondike Solitaire game on my phone. Nothing special about installing games on your phone. However, this one requested access to my phone’s camera, mic, contacts, and storage.
I mean, why would an app that is solely designed for entertainment and has no online feature like scoreboards or multiplayer want that level of access? This is one of many examples of how malware can sneak into your device. And yes, the worst part is that you’re the one who let it in.
The only takeaway from Positive Technologies’ report is this – careful what you download because you may end up with an empty bank account or worse.
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We’re venturing tentatively into the border region between chemistry & physics today, with a look at some of the different types of nuclear radiation. These types vary in their composition, characteristics, and uses, but here’s an attempt to sum up the most common in one succinct graphic.
One thing that the different types of radiation featured here have in common is their ability to ionise. Ionising radiation is radiation that has enough energy to remove electrons from atoms and molecules, and cause them to form ions (charged particles); in some cases, it can also lead to the breaking of chemical bonds. This ionisation can cause damage to living cells, and is the main danger that radiation can pose. Very high levels of radiation can have very serious health effects, and death can occur in hours if a person is exposed to a large enough amount.
Alpha particles have the highest ionisation ability of the three types of radiation we’ll examine here. Each alpha particle is essentially a helium atom which has had its electrons stripped away: they’re composed of two protons, and two neutrons. This gives them a rather large mass, and helps explain their high ionisation ability, as they move more slowly and can collide with more atoms. Additionally, the two protons in each particle give them a strong positive charge.
Whilst the bulk of alpha particles might lend them a high ionisation ability, it also limits their ability to penetrate materials. Even just a thin piece of paper will stop alpha particles in their tracks, and human skin is also thick enough to bar their passage. As such, alpha radiation is very easy to shield against externally; the only case in which is can cause problems for human health is when it is ingested.
This is a point that has been fairly recently illustrated, through the death of Alexander Litvinenko in the UK back in 2006. Litvinenko was a former Russian Secret Service agent who had fled Russia for the UK in 2000 to escape charges relating to his implicating of the Russian government in several assassinations and terrorist acts. In November of 2006, he became rapidly ill, and was hospitalised. Initially, the cause of his illness was unclear; however, it was eventually established that he had met with two ex-KGB agents on the day he fell ill.
Tests revealed a high level of polonium-210, an isotope that decays releasing alpha radiation, in his body. From there, a radioactive breadcrumb trail could be followed to trace the poison’s origin. The residual radiation left behind by the Russian agents’ transport of the radioactive element could be picked up in the planes they had travelled in, the hotels they had stayed in, and even at the table at which they’d met with Litvinenko. Some objects, such as the bath tub in one of the hotel rooms, were so contaminated they had to be disposed of as radioactive waste.
Andrei Lugovoy, a Russian politician and also a former KGB agent, was heavily implicated in Litvinenko’s death by the radiation trail. However, Russia has refused UK requests for his extradition, as their constitution does not allow for the extradition of its citizens to foreign countries, so it seems unlikely that he will ever face charges.
As we’ve mentioned, alpha radiation is benign unless ingested, and there’s probably some being emitted inside your home. Many smoke detectors use americium-241, an alpha particle emitter, to detect smoke. The particles cannot escape the plastic casing of the smoke detector, but inside they ionise the air particles present, and in doing so produce a detectable current. If smoke is present, alpha particles hit these instead, reducing the ionisation of air particles, and causing a drop in current. This can be detected by the detector, and causes the alarm to sound.
In a select number of heart pacemakers, alpha emitters are also used. They have the advantage of being able to run for many years longer than more conventionally powered pacemakers. However, they obviously pose more of a risk, as they also use polonium to produce the alpha radiation. Similar powering devices have also been used to power some space probes, including the Mars Curiosity rover.
Beta particles are composed of single, high energy electrons. Their smaller size explains their higher penetration ability compared to alpha particles, and it takes a thin sheet of aluminium to bring them to a halt. Their ionisation ability is, however, lower compared to that of alpha particles.
One of the most common uses of beta particles is in the field of medicine. They can be used as ‘tracers’; these are chemical compounds which have had one or more atoms replaced by radioactive isotopes of the same element. They can be used to track the spread of substances in the body, and are a very useful medical diagnostic tool. This concept also has industrial applications, and can be used to image underground pipes in order to detect leaks or blockages.
Because beta radiation can penetrate human skin, another of its applications is in the treatment of cancers. It’s also the reason that people in the area surrounded the Fukushima reactor in Japan were supplied with iodine tablets immediately after the meltdown that occurred there during the disastrous tsunami of 2011. Radioactive iodine produced during radiation leaks can be taken up by the thyroid gland, which can cause subsequent health issues. If normal iodine, in the form of potassium iodide pills, is given shortly prior to exposure to radioactive iodine, it can prevent radioactive iodine’s uptake – the thyroid is essentially already full.
Another industrial application of beta particles is in the materials industry. It can be used in the production of paper, aluminium, and plastics to help control their thickness. The amount of beta radiation that is able to pass through the material gives a gauge as to its thickness, and allows adjustments to be made during production.
Gamma radiation differs from alpha and beta radiation in that it is in the form of electromagnetic waves. Because of this, it’s also the most penetrating of the three types featured here, and a few centimetres of lead are required in order to halt its progress. However, as they have no mass, they are less ionising than alpha or beta particles.
Caesium-137 is one gamma-emitting isotope which has been used in radiation therapy for cancer, and has also been involved in several radiation exposure incidents over the years. Probably the most well-known was all the way back in 1987, when a caesium source from a radiation therapy system was scavenged from an abandoned hospital in Goiânia in Brazil. The glowing source was handled by a number of people after its theft; four people died, and a staggering 249 people were also had significant levels of radioactive materials detected on them.
Cobalt-60 is another gamma-emitting isotope which is used to sterilise medical equipment and foodstuffs. Irradiated food does not become radioactive itself, but it helps reduce the levels of pathogens in food, and mostly eliminate the risk of food-borne illnesses. It can also be used to help slow ripening of fruits and vegetables, and remove insects.
Finally, gamma radiation can also be used in astronomy. Several telescopes are equipped to observe astronomical gamma rays, and observing them can help us learn more about the universe. These gamma rays can come from a number of sources, such as pulsars, stars which also emit radio waves.
Other Types of Radiation
Another type of radiation that isn’t featured here is X-ray radiation. As this post has been examining nuclear radiation, X-rays have been omitted, although they’re very similar to gamma rays. The difference between them was formerly defined in terms of energy, but now, electromagnetic radiation of nuclear origin is referred to as gamma radiation, whereas X-rays are defined as being emitted by electrons. These aren’t definitions that are always stuck to in all fields, however.
Neutron radiation is the other type of radiation we haven’t mentioned. This is the release of neutrons from atoms, and is a consequence of nuclear fusion or nuclear fission. Nuclear power is something we’ll take a look at in a future post, so we’ll examine neutron radiation more closely then!
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References & Further Reading
- Understanding radiation – United States Environmental Protection Agency
- How radioactive poison became the assassin’s weapon of choice – W Storr
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When the initial disclosure of the Urgent / 11 vulnerabilities took place this summer, Armis said devices from manufacturers such as GE Healthcare, Philips and Drager. Manufacturers have issued notices, but fixes are not possible for many devices because they do not have an update mechanism. After this initial disclosure, an Armis customer called the company regarding an alert identifying a vulnerable device in its network. The device turned out to be an Alaris infusion pump made by Becton Dickinson, a major manufacturer of devices. But the device did not use the VxWorks operating system, which confused the researchers and the manufacturer. A few weeks later, Armis researchers were able to test one of the BD infusion pumps during DEF CON and found that it was indeed vulnerable, thanks to the presence of the IPnet stack.
“In about half an hour, with the kind assistance of BD Product Safety Representatives, we successfully exploited one of the URGENT / 11 vulnerabilities on the BD Alaris Infusion Pump, causing it to crash. . Specifically, the network stack crashed displaying an error message and the infuser beeped loudly, the user interface becoming unresponsive. Our experience has shown that this device, among others that do not run VxWorks but have implemented the IPnet TCP / IP stack, can still be affected by URGENT / 11 vulnerabilities, ”Seri said.
As it turned out, several other RTOS had implemented the IPnet stack, opening them up to Urgent / 11 vulnerabilities. Armis researchers have identified six other operating systems that implement the IPnet library and are therefore vulnerable: OSE, INTEGRITY, Microsoft ThreadX, ITRON, Mentor Nucleus and ZebOS. Although the IPnet stack itself is quite old, billions of devices still run it in one form or another.
“Devices using versions of these operating systems may contain the IPnet stack and therefore be vulnerable to URGENT / 11. While it may seem like such devices are already out of order, there are still plenty of them. Most devices that use RTOS are mission-critical devices, which undergo a much longer development and approval period than consumer devices, and have much longer lifecycles when in use, ”Seri said.
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The word hangry is a colloquial term referring to the notion that people become angry when hungry. In a study published in PLOS ONE, the thought that people have greater feelings of anger and irritability when hungry was proven to be true, somewhat. The results of the study provide evidence that everyday levels of hunger are indeed associated with negative emotionality and support the notion of “hangry!”
I, for one, tend to become irritable when I’m hungry, so I was somewhat relieved that the study didn’t find women to be more prone to “hanger,” but rather found that the association between hunger and negative feelings were stable across many demographics including participant age, sex, BMI, dietary behavior, and trait anger. Yep, this means that each and every one of us can experience hanger, it isn’t isolated to a specific group, gender, etc. During the study, participants answered a survey five times a day for 21 days that included questions like “how hungry are you”, “how irritable do you feel”, etc. Sure, self-reported data is just that, self-reported, however the validation phase of the study based on the results of the surveys, supported that “hanger” is real!
At the end of the day, many of us experience drops in blood glucose levels when we go too long without food. When this happens, we can experience anxiety, irritability, anger, shakiness, etc. Could these be signs of “hanger” looming? Absolutely! Maybe the true meaning of “hanger” is something we have all known about for centuries, no food, no glucose = hanger! Okay, I am not a scientist, but it makes sense to me, how about you? Now go eat your 3 squares a day (and not Hershey squares) and see if you have fewer episodes of “hanger” and let me know! Stay the course, stay well, and stay informed! | <urn:uuid:0b15a7de-e02b-4931-b5d4-b21f4ff535dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthcapusa.com/blog/hangry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959192 | 424 | 2.546875 | 3 |
Precious Robinson, chief technical specialist for prevention, care and treatment at health NGO, Right to Care, is calling on South Africans to, “Use condoms to reduce your risk of getting HIV and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), which include the human papillomavirus (HPV). Go to your closest clinic or health facility to get help and prevent HIV and STIs, as well as pregnancy.”
STIs often do not cause symptoms for a long time and can be transmitted during sexual intercourse or during pregnancy. When left untreated, STIs can lead to long-term, irreversible outcomes and even death.
Robinson’s plea forms part of Right to Care’s efforts during STI and Condom Awareness Week (10 -16 February 2022), to raise awareness about the consequences of unprotected sex and avoiding healthcare services.
Consequences can include chronic pelvic pain, cancers, ectopic pregnancies, infertility, adverse pregnancy outcomes, neonatal death and congenital abnormalities. A congenital abnormality is an inherited medical condition that occurs during or before birth. Some STIs increase chances of getting HIV
“It is a serious concern that in South Africa 7.9 million people were living with HIV in 2020 with a high volume of STIs. The high numbers of STI cases have partly been due to inadequate prevention. South Africans, and young people especially, need to protect themselves.
“Most global health targets to end and prevent HIV and STIs for 2020 were missed because the focus was on Covid-19, and South Africa is no exception.
It is time to go back to ABC,” she says. “Abstain from sex, be faithful to one partner and use a condom if you do want to have sex. Young South Africans have their whole lives ahead of them, but if they do not use condoms, protect themselves and seek out health services, their futures will be more difficult.
“By going to the clinic, your healthcare worker will help you prevent these diseases. If you’ve been having unprotected sex, your healthcare worker will screen you for STIs and HIV and if necessary, start you on treatment immediately to prevent the devastating effects of untreated STIs and HIV,” says Robinson.
Robinson explains, “Many people are especially vulnerable because they are unable to avoid infection or pregnancy. This can be due to a lack of knowledge, social and cultural pressures, as well as gender-based violence.
“Women and girls are disproportionately affected by STIs,” she says.
“Unprotected sex without a condom increases your risk of getting HIV or an STI, especially if your partner’s HIV status is unknown. Having more than one partner also increases your risk. People who inject drugs risk getting infected from contaminated needles and syringes.
“Using condoms decreases your risk and also helps prevent pregnancy. Girls and young women need to delay pregnancy until they are older when their bodies are ready and when they are financially and emotionally ready to raise a child.
“Sexual and reproductive health education and services are as important for men as they are for women,” says Robinson. “Information and services are available from parents, teachers, non-governmental organisations, churches, youth groups and healthcare providers in family planning, STI and HIV clinics.”
Robinson also underscores the importance of medical male circumcision. “Circumcision has been core to South Africa’s HIV prevention strategy since 2010, preventing new HIV infections and saving lives. Circumcision also plays a key role in preventing STIs, especially HPV which causes cervical cancer in women.”
Globally, STIs and HIV cause 2.3-million deaths and 1.2 million cases of cancer each year and impose a major burden on health systems. | <urn:uuid:2a888f49-213b-4492-b784-5c5c0b33be68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.righttocare.org/consequences-of-unprotected-sex-on-valentines-day-are-not-romantic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957236 | 788 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Nowadays we are all used to seeing maps overlaid upon satellite imagery but the idea isn't so new. Way back in 1947 London was mapped in a very similar style.
Just as in their modern day digital equivalents, places of interest were marked with little labels, over 1200 of them, showing everything from statues to blue plaques, and from museums to clubs.
These maps all come from this slim, hard-copy, volume:
I wish I had the others in the set. You can pick up copies from time to time on Amazon et al, for £8.00 - £10.00.
Of course the technology being used to produce these maps was not satellite but light aircraft. However one advantage of this was that the photographers got some great aerial shots of London landmarks and published many of these in the Atlas.
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Rajasthan Board RBSE Class 9 Science Notes Chapter 6 Structure of Living Organisms
Basis of life – Cell:
- Cell is the smallest structural and functional unit of all the organisms. All living organisms are made up of numerous co-ordinate compartments called cells. Cell was first observed by Robert Hook, in a piece of cork in 1665. Cell word was derived from the Latin word ceila means, very small compartment. Antony Van Leeuwenhoek saw minute green particles in plant cell, chloroplasts. He discovered free red blood cells and observed their inner organisation.
- Cell is the unit of life. Cell theory was propounded by Schleiden and Schwann in 1838-39. Cells originate from the pre-existing cells.
- Purkinje used the word protoplasm for the ground substance of cell. Robert Brown discovered nucleus, in the orchid root cells.
- Cell shape may be fixed or variable. It depends upon the external and internal pressures, as well as function performed by the cell.
- The size of a cell also varies. It mostly depends on the size and number of chromosomes. The smallest cell are found in bacteria, about (0.1 m) and largest cell is the egg of Ostrich (18 cm). The longest cell is nerve cell of human-being, about a metre long. In an organism, the cell number also varies.
Unicellular and Multicellular organism:
- A unicellular organism have a single cell carrying out all the life processes. This is unable to exhibit wide range of different functions and easily susceptible to damage, that can lead to death of the organism.
- A multicellular organism have different cells carrying out different functions. They are more efficient and performs no. of activities. They have greater capacity of survival and are continuously replaced.
The cells present in the living organisms are of two types:
- Prokaryotic cells: Cells of bacteria and blue green algae, in which nuclear envelope is absent and chromosome is a single circular molecule are prokaryotic cells.
- Eukaryotic cells: Cells of higher plants and animals containing nuclear envelope, with more than one chromosome are eukaryotic cells.
Two biologists J.M. Schleiden and T. Schwann proposed that All living organism are composed of one or more cells and (b) the cell is the basic unit of life. All the cells arise from pre-existing cells. This is known as cell theory.
Structure of cell:
Cells contains following compounds:
1. Cell membrane
- Cell membrane: A cell is bound by selectively permeable membrane, the plasma membrane and contains a nucleus and cytoplasm. Cell membrane is selectively permeable and composed of double layer of lipids and proteins. In a plant cell, cell wall lies outside the plasma membrane. It is composed of cellulose. In an animal cell, cell wall is not found. Protoplasm, the living substance which is translucent, homogeneous and jelly-like colloidal material is found in all the cells. Protoplasm is differentiated into cytoplasm and nucleus.
- Cytoplasm: The cytoplasm of the cell lies outside the nucleus and bound inside the plasma-membrane. It is made up of dense, viscous and colloidal mass. It is a solution of organic compounds, like carbohydrates, proteins, lipids, vitamins and minerals. In cytoplasm, cytoplasmic vacuolar system is formed by the membrane bound spaces and consists of endoplasmic reticulum. In the cell cytoplasm, numerous living and non-living structures are present, which are collectively called cytoplasmic inclusion. Cytoplasmic matrix is the homogeneous liquid in which cell organelles and inorganic substances are found. It is granular in structure. Cytoplasm stores a number of vital chemicals. In a cell certain metabolic activities can occur. It always remains in a state of movement.
Cytoplasm contains a number of cellular organelles, such as:
Mitochondria, which are spherical or rod like structure found in all cells of animals and plants, except prokaryotic cells and matured RBCs. It is like a bag whose wall is made up of two membranes. The outer membrane is smooth and the inner is thrown into many folds, called cristae. The interior space is called matrix.
Matrix is filled with a semi-liquid substance. It contains many enzymes which release and control energy. Stalked particles, called oxysomes are found on the surface of cristae.
The main functions of mitochondria are:
- It is the site for cellular respiration.
- Energy is stored in the form of ATP, in mitochondria.
Plastids are of three types:
- Chloroplast: Plastids that contain green pigment, are called chloroplast. The color of leaves is green, due to the presence of chloroplast.
- Chromoplast: These plastids are of different colors such as red, yellow or orange. Tomato is red and flowers are of different colors, due to plastids-chromoplast.
- Leucoplast: They are colorless. They are found in underground stems and roots. They help in food storage. Each plastid is bound by double plasmic membrane like nucleus and mitochondria
The main functions of Plastids are:
- Carbohydrate is synthesized by photosynthesis, in presence of light due to chloroplasts.
- Leucoplast store sugar, oil-drops and proteins.
Lysosomes are spherical shaped bodies surrounded by a single thin membrane. It is filled with a dense liquid. The liquid contains enzymes, which help in digestion of food molecules.
The main functions of Lysosomes are:
- They digest the remains of already digested bacteria.
- They secrete the hydrolytic enzymes in the cell.
- They help in the digestion of dead cells.
- If lysosomes burst and release their enzymes, the entire cell is digested. This is called autolysis of cells and due to this, they are known as suicidal Bags.
Endoplasmic reticulum is a branching tubular system, found in cytoploasm and connected with nuclear envelope and plasma membrane.
It is of two types:
- Smooth endoplasmic reticulum
- Rough endoplasmic reticulum.
The main functions of endoplasmic reticulum are:
- They transport different soluble materials inside the cell.
- They are helpful in the synthesis of proteins and steroid hormones.
- They manufacture the nuclear membrane and Golgi bodies.
- Ribosomes were discovered by Clad and Palade reported these organelles, in animal cell. Ribosomes are small, granular particles, made up of RNAand protein, and remain attached with the membranes of rough endoplasmic reticulum.
- Ribosomes are categorised into two main groups (a) 70 S type (B) 80 S type
- 70 S types are found in Prokaryotes and 80 S types are found in Eukaryotes.
- The main function of ribosomes is synthesis of proteins.
Golgi body was discovered by an Italian biologist, Camilo Golgi. They appear like flat tubes, close to the nucleus. They contain enzymes.
The main functions of golgi body is to:
- Manufacture the membranes which surround the nucleus, the vacuoles, acrosome and cellular plate.
- It also plays a role in secretion. It is helpful in synthesis of proteins, mucous, polysaccharides and pectin.
It is also involved in the formation of:
- Cell plate, during cytokinesis in plant cells.
Centro some was discovered by Von Benden Boveri named it as centro some. It is found in all the animal cells. It is situated near the nucleus. Jelly like substance, centro sphere is found in it. Before cell division, centriole divides into two daughter centrioles. During the division of cell, spindle is formed between these two centrioles.
The main functions of centrosome are:
- It forms two daughter centrioles, which make poles on reaching the sides of the nucleus.
- centrosomes manufacture the axial fibers of the tail of sperms.
- centrosomes manufacture cilia and flagella.
Plant cell can easily be distinguished from the animal cell by the presence of cell wall and large vacuoles.
Vacuoles are storage sacs for solid liquid contents. Vacuoles are small sized, in animal cells, while plants cells have large vacuoles. In plant cells, vacuoles are full of cell sap and provide turgidity and rigidity to the cell.
- Nucleus was first of all, discovered by Robert Brown in 1831. It is the largest and most important organelle of the cell.
- Nucleus is a denser and spherical body, found in cytoplasm. It is bounded by a double layered nuclear membrane. Nuclear membrane is semipermeable and helps in exchange of dissolved matter between protoplasm and the nucleus. It is the nuclear membrane which encloses thick jelly like semi-fluid, called nucleoplasm.
- The nucleoplasm shows fine thread like structures called nuclear reticulum, made up of a special substance called chromatin. Before cell division, chromatin takes the form of thread like structures called chromosomes. The number of chromosomes is fixed for all the species of animals and plants. Man has 23 pairs of chromosomes. Within the nucleus, there is a more dense spherical body called nucleolus.
- The main function of nuclear reticulum is participation in cell division. Nuclear reticulum plays an important role in the inheritance of heriditary characters. It is the controlling center of a cell.
- Formation of ribosomes takes place in nucleolus.
Plant and Animal Cell:
The basic structure of plant and animal cell is same, however, there are many vital differences between them, plant cell is comparatively larger in size, cell wall is present. Plastids are present, lysosomes are absent, centrosomes and centrioles are also absent when compared with animal cells.
Division is a characteristic feature of cell. New cells are always produced by the division of pre-existing cells. Dividing cells repeat same events that constitute the cell cycle. Cell cycle consists of preparatory phase called interphase and a dividing phase called mitotic phase.
Cell division is of three types Amitosis, Mitosis and Meiosis (reduction division).
- It is also called simple or direct division. Protozoans, bacteria and some species of algae and fungi divide by amitosis.
- In amitosis, first the nucleus elongates. Then, contraction takes place in the mid portion of the nucleus. The parent nucleus divides into two equal parts. The cytoplasm also divides, due to contraction. In this way, two daughter cells are formed. Budding is another form of simple nucleus division. Budding is found in plants like yeast and animals like hydra.
Mitosis is a kind of cell division in which mother cell forms two daughter cells by replication (duplication), and the number of chromosomes is the same as that in the mother cell. Cell division is a cyclic action. It is called cell cycle.
It is divided into three main phases:
- Division phase
- It is the resting, phase but no division starts in this phase.Nucleus and cell are at their peak of growth . It is divided into three periods on the basis of synthetic activities.
- Growth period: Necessary substances and enzymes are synthesized, for the synthesis of DNA .
- Synthetic period: In this period, DNA is synthesized.
- Growth period: In this period, central RNA, ribosomal RNA and messenger RNA are synthesized.
- In this phase, first nucleus and afterwards, cytoplasm are divided. Division of nucleus (Karyokinesis) is divided into four phases: (a) Prophase (b) Metaphase (c) Anaphase and (d) Telophase.
- Prophase: The chromosomes shorten and thicken and become distinctly visible. Nuclear membrane dissolve. Chromosomes split longitudinally into two parts, called chromatids which are attached through the centromere. Centrosome divides into two tiny bodies, called centrioles. One centriole remains on the same place and other centriole moves to opposite spot and makes the second pole. Many astral rays come out from each centriole.
- Metaphase: The spindle formation is completed. All chromosomes arrange themselves on equatorial plate, and make metaphase plate.
- Anaphase: The centromeres duplicate and split. One centromere is attached to each chromatid. Separated chromatids are now called daughter chromosomes. Daughter chromosomes move to the opposite poles, by contraction of split fibres and finally the two sets reach their respective poles.
- Telophase: All the chromosomes after reaching the poles, uncoil and elongate, Nuclear membrane is formed around them. The spindle fibres disappear. In this way, two nuclei are formed.
The division of cytoplasm is known as cytokinesis. The cytoplasm divides, after the division of the nucleus. In an animal cell, the cell constructs by cleavage and ultimately divides into two daughter cells. In plant cell, a plate is formed by arranging the particles. The plate divides the cytoplasm into two daughter cells.
Significance of Mitosis:
- Mitosis increases the number of cells in an organism.
- Mitosis brings about growth and development
- Mitosis helps in asexual reproduction.
- Mitosis is helpful in repair and regeneration
- Mitosis keeps the size and volume of a cell definite.
The main function of meiosis is to maintain a definite and constant number of chromosomes in species, generation after generation. In this type of division, the number of chromosomes in the daughter cells is reduced to half of the number of chromosomes in the parent cell. The process of meiosis takes place into two nuclear division – (A) Meiosis I and (B) Meiosis II. Meiosis I results in reduction of chromosomes to half, i.e., from 2n to n. So, this division is also called reductional division or heterotypic division.
In this division, two daughter cells are formed. Each daughter cell has half the number of chromosomes than the parent cell.
Meiosis takes place in five stages:
- Interphase: It is similar to that in mitosis. Synthetic reactions take place, as in interphase of mitosis.
- Prophase I: It is of longer duration and more complex. The chromatin substance transforms into chromosomes. Chromosomes are in the form of fine threads. Homologous chromosomes arrange in pairs, and this is known as synapsis. There is a crossover at the broken ends of chromatids of the paired homologous chromosomes.
- The paired homologous chromosomes begin to move apart, except at chaismata. Chaismata are the points where crossing over occurred.
- Spindle formation occurs, and chromosomes arrange themselves on equatorial plane. The centromeres lie towards the poles.
- Anaphase I: The two partners of homologous chromosomes completely separate from each other and move to the opposite poles. The number of chromosomes in each set is haploid.
- Telophase I: Nuclear membrane is formed at each pole, surrounding the chromosomes. Nucleolus again appears. In this way, a daughter nucleus is formed at each pole. Cytokinesis occurs by cleavage or invagination, and two haploid daughter cells are formed.
- Interphase II: The interphase that follows Meiosis-I, is of different duration in different species. This phase is not found in many living-beings. Nuclear membrane and nucleolus are not formed. This occurs in both the daughter cells formed, in Meiosis I. The Meiosis-ll is similar to that of Mitosis.
- Prophase II: Nuclear membrane and nucleolus disappear, in both the daughter cells. Both the chromatids of each chromosome begin to separate from one another and spindle formation takes place.
- Metaphase II: The chromosomes arrange themselves on metaphase plate (equatorial plate). The centromere divides with one chromatid.
- Anaphase II: Two chromatids separate and move to opposite poles.
- Telophase III: Chromosomes uncoil and form chromatin network. Nuclear membrane is formed at the pole, surrounding the centrosomes and other nuclear inclusions. As a result of two successive divisions, four daughter cells are formed, each having haploid number of chromosomes.
Significance of Meiosis.
- Due to this division, the gametes formed are haploid. Hence, meiosis is an important and essential part of the life history of living beings.
- During fertilization, the gametes on fusion form diploid zygote. Thus, original number of chromosomes in somatic cells is restored.
- New characters are introduced in the new generation, due to crossing over of the genes.
- Due to changes in parental characters, variations occur which are necessary for the evolution process.
A cellular organism-Virus:
Viruses have a structure, which reflects the structure of primordial organisms. There is a protein coat, which encloses a small nucleic acid molecule consisting of few nucleotides. They are simplest in their structure and can remain in the form of crystals. They prove the point that the earliest cells contained the gene forming nucleic acids, which were suspended freely within the cell. The freely floating nucleotide chains happened to enter a cell or alternatively, synthesised their own protein coat to assume a structure called virus.
As we know today, viruses are neither cells, nor they are organisms. They are in between the living and non¬living world. The only point that does not go in the favour of viruses as the first cells, not is the fact that they cannot replicate themselves. It is because, they do not posses a replicating machinery and that their nucleic acid cannot replicate by itself.
It is for this reason, that they have to insert their genetic material into another host cell, where they can use the replication enzymes of the host cell, to produce multiple copies of their own nucleic acid molecule and a protein coat, around each such molecule. While doing so, they also destroys the cell. Being parasitic, they lose their claim of being the first organisms, because parasitism is of later origin in evolution than the free living forms.
On the basis of nutrition, virus is differentiated into three categories:
- Animal Virus
- Plant virus
Structure of multi cellular organism:
- All living organisms are made up of cells. Some are unicellular, while other consists of large number of cells.
- In unicellular plants and animals, vital activities (like movement, intake of food, respiratory gases, respiration and excretion) are performed by a single cell.
- In multi cellular plants and animals, cells of different types, perform different functions.
A group of cells that are similar in structure or work together to achieve a particular function forms a tissue.
Major types of Animal and Plant Tissues:
- Plants are stationary or fixed, they do not move. Most of their tissues are supportive, which provide them with structural strength. Most of these tissues are dead. They require less maintenance, but can provide mechanical strength as easily as the living ones. On the other hand, animals move around in search of food, mates and shelter. Most of the tissues they contain, are living.
- The growth in plants is limited to certain regions. There are some tissues in plants that divide throughout their life. These tissues are localised in certain regions. Various plant tissues can be classified as growing or meristematic tissue and permanent tissue.
- Cell growth in animals is more uniform. So, there is no such demarcation of dividing and non-dividing regions, in animals.
Plant tissues are of two types: Meristematic and Permanent:
Meristematic tissue are present in growing regions of plants. Its cells continuously multiply so that the region grows in length and breadth.
This tissue is of three types:
- Apical meristem, found at the apex of shoots and roots. Root tip is covered by root cap.
- Lateral meristem, found on lateral sides of stem and root, e.g. cork cambium and cambium of vascular bundles.
- Intercallary meristem, a part of apical meristem, which separates off laterally from the apical meristem.
Permanent tissue arise from meristematic tissue and its cells after maturity, forms permanent tissue. It is of two types: simple tissues and complex tissues.
Simple tissue are of three types:
- Parenchyma cells: They are living and cytoplasm is vacuolated and possess intercellular spaces, with thin cell wall.
- Collenchyma cells: They are living and contain chloroplasts. Hence are capable of synthesising starch and sugar. Being elastic, they give tensile strength to the stem. No intercellular spaces are present.
- Sclerenchyma fibres or cells: They are long, narrow and pointed. On maturity, protoplasm dries off. Sclereids or stone cells or grit cells are of irregular shape. Cells lumen is narrow. They gives strong support to the stem.
- Protective tissues are epidermis of leaves, possessing stomata for exchange of gases. Cork is found on the outermost side of stem. Its cells are dead.
- Complex tissues are xylem and phloem. Xylem forms the woody part of the stem. Xylem and phloem forms the vascular bundle. Xylem is constituted by four types of cells (e.g. sclereids, tracheae and xylem fibre or sclerenchyma, dead cells and xylem parenchyma, living cells. It conducts water and nutrients from soil through roots to the leaves. Phloem is also formed of four types of cells: Sieve tubes, Companion cells, Phloem fibres and Phloem parenchyma. Sieve tubes and companion cells transport manufactured food from leaves to other parts of plants. Phloem fibres and sieve tubes are dead.
- Animal tissues include epithelial, connective, muscularine and nervous tissues.
- Epithelial tissue is found on the surface of organs and in the cavities of organs. Its cells are of various shapes and are held together with a small amount of inter cellular substance, matrix. Epithelium is of two types: Simple epithelium, formed of a single layer of cells and Stratified epithelium formed of a number of cell layers.
- Simple epithelial is squamous, cuboidal, columnar, glandular and ciliated.
- Stratified epithelium cells are arranged in layers, like epidermis of skin.
- Muscular tissue includes striped, unstriped and cardiac muscles. Their cells or fibers are long and nucleated.
- Striped muscle fibers or cells are multi nucleated and show alternate dark and light bands, due to which they are called striped. Muscles of legs and hands are of striped type. Each muscle fibre contains a number of thin and thick micro filaments within the sarcoplasm.
- Non-striped or visceral muscle fibres are also long, cylindrical and uninucleated. Each fiber also contains numerous, lengthwise arranged micro filaments in sarcoplasm. These muscles are found in the walls of internal organs of the body.
- Cardiac muscle fibers or cells are branched and uninucleated. The sarcoplasm of these cells also contains micro filaments, showing faint cross striation’s. Branch of a cell joins the branch of the adjoining cell. At the junction of adjacent cell, is present a transverse intercalated disc. In between adjacent cells, are present inter cellular spaces, having loose connective tissue. It is found in heart, due to which it contracts rhythmically.
- Connective tissue connects and anchors various organs of the body and gives support to the organs. It contains abundant jelly-like intra cellular medium (matrix), fibers (white and yellow) and various types of cells, eg. fibroblasts, macrophages, mast cells, adipose cells and immunocytes.
- Connective tissues are areolar (loose), dense and adipose tissues.
- Tendons join muscles to bones and ligaments join bone to bone. Both are dense connective tissues.
- Adipose tissue stores fat globules. Blood and lymph are fluid connective tissue. Cartilage and bones are skeletal connective tissue. Lymph is colorless and has plasma minus red blood corpuscles and certain proteins.
- Nervous tissue is formed of neurons. A neuron has a cell body, the cyton, a few small branches of cyton, the dendrons or dendrites and a single long branch called axon.
- Axon carries away impulses from cyton and transmits them to another neuron whereas, dendrons receive impulses and transmit them to cyton.
Structure of organs and system:
- Tissue system: A combination of one or more types of tissues, performing a common function, regardless of their position and continuity in the plant body, constitutes a tissue system. Three tissue system have been recognised in plants- epidermal tissue system, ground or fundamental tissue system and vascular tissue system.
- Epidermal tissue system includes epidermis and various types of epidermal appendages. Epidermis is usually single layered, but some leaves have multiseriate epidermis.
- In the aerial roots of some epiphytes, multiple epidermis forms a special tissue known as velamen.
- Stomata are abundant in the epidermis of the aerial parts, especially leaves. Each stoma has two bean shaped guard cells. These are surrounded by accessory or subsidiary cells, which are different from epidermal cells.
- Ground or fundamental tissue system, includes cortex, pericycle and pith. Cortex is further differentiated into hypodermis, general cortex and endodermis.
- Pith is the central parenchymatous region, which is quite distinct in dicot stems and monocot roots.
- Vascular tissue system includes vascular bundles which are made of xylem and phloem.
- In stems, the vascular bundles are conjoint and collateral, while in roots they are radial.
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As of December 2012 Son of Beast is no more. After not operating for three seasons Kings Island decided to tear down the roller coaster to make room for future attractions.
Son of Beast was a record breaking wooden roller coaster that was designed to elevate the "classic" wood coaster experience to a new level. Son of Beast was the tallest, fastest wooden coaster in the world while it operated and the only one at the time to feature a evolutionary concept, a 118-foot tall vertical loop. Unfortunately, the loop was removed for the 2007 season. Son of Beast was appropriately named after its legendary predecessor, The Beast, which was built in 1979 and to this day is listed in the Guiness Book of Records as the world's longest wooden coaster. Thanks to this $40-million investment in building a sibling, Kings Island laid claim to all of the world records for wooden roller coasters for nearly a decade.
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October 2012 – Kings Islands begins to demolish this coaster and completes the demolition in December.
2009-2012 – Standing-but-not-operating (SBNO)
June 2009 – Son of Beast closed until further notice.
2007 – Trains replaced. Vertical loop removed after problems with the roller coaster.
2006 – Original Premier Rides designed trains shortened from six cars to five cars
July 10, 2006-July 3, 2007 – Closed as a result of an accident.
Son of Beast opened with the first loop on a wooden roller coaster.
Elements: Second Drop: 164 feet at 43.4 degrees; Third Drop: 150 feet at 37.3 degrees; Two 540-degree helicies
Opening date: May 26, 2000
Estimated cost: $40 million
Train has five cars with two rows each, seating two abreast per row.
Height requirement: Riders must be at least 48 inches tall
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At DREAM, the meaning of summer has always been core to our foundation. That’s why we operate on an extended-day, extended-year basis—we believe that model is key to student success.
The DREAM Summer
Summer programming is an essential part of DREAM’s Grow the Whole Child education model, and our expectation is that every DREAM scholar signs up for summer programming of some sort. Choosing the DREAM option helps ensure your child has continuity between the support they’re receiving during the school year and the summer months—including social-emotional, academic, and physical wellness development.
Here’s some of what DREAM’s summer programming offers for you and your child:
- Studies demonstrate that, on average, students in the United States lose 39% of their school year gains during the summer months. That’s why preventing learning loss is a critical part of our summer programming, and for 95% or more of participants in recent years, it’s worked to keep them at or above grade level in between semesters.
- But our strongest emphasis is on relationship building and social-emotional health. That’s the kind of support that children need year-round, not just during the school year.
- We offer programming for scholars at all grade levels—and all of our programming is free.
Sign up for Summer 2022 at DREAM.
DREAM offers the following programming for Grades PreK-7, focusing on academic support, social-emotional learning programming, sports-based programming, and enrichment activities like field trips. We also offer Rookies, a weekend co-ed t-ball league for rising 1st-2nd graders.
- REAL Kids for Pre K-Grade 4
- DREAM University for Grades 5-7
Registration for Summer 2022 is now open, and all DREAM scholars (including incoming K-12 scholars) are guaranteed a spot. Non-DREAM students in Grades K-5 are also welcome to register for REAL Kids, as space allows.
“It gave me my first set of friends. It was a guiding force. Without [DREAM’s summer programming], I would have been lost.”
- Alex Ruiz Jr., DREAM Legend and Skidmore College student
A Part of Something Bigger
When a little kid from the East River Houses was signed up for a program then known as Harlem RBI by his dad 23 years ago, it was his first time playing an organized sport of any kind. He received his first uniform. And he became part of something bigger than himself.
That kid stayed with RBI all through adolescence, including some of the tough parts. One day during programming, following two separate ejections from games, a suspension from his team, and a community service assignment, he became so upset that he started throwing things out the window, including a computer. He had to meet with the executive director, his parents, and his coach to discuss how – if at all – he could remain on his team.
But that wasn’t the end of his story. In fact, he says, it was the moment his perspective began to shift. And today, 23 years later, he’s the one who is present at pivotal moments like these for our current DREAM scholars. Because that “kid” from the East River Houses is Rob Saltares – recently promoted to DREAM’s Senior Manager of Athletics, Health, & Wellness.
At a glance
On average, students in the United States lose 39% of their school year gains during the summer months
of DREAM summer program participants in recent years have maintained or increased their reading level by the first day of school
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HANOVER, Germany — Rubber industry supplier Cabot Corp. has developed an engineered elastomer composite that it claims can extend the life of OTR/earthmover tires "significantly" while cutting processing costs for tire manufacturers.
The newly developed materials, dubbed E²C solutions, are pre-mixed composite solutions of elastomers and reinforcing agents that require fewer mixing stages, lower mixing temperatures and shorter mixing cycles than conventional products, Cabot said, and which can be integrated into existing production methods without additional capital investment.
"Through our collaborations with existing customers, we have shown the power to enable growth by expanding the performance triangle, shortening development cycles, and reducing operational barriers to new product commercialization," David Reynolds, vice president and general manager, Cabot Elastomer Composites, said.
"We are excited to have these solutions for tire manufacturers who are seeking ways to drive innovation in their businesses."
Cabot disclosed the development of the technology and launch of an E2C Durability product line at the Tire Technology Expo in Hanover.
E²C solutions have been shown to break critical trade-offs in (OTR)/earthmover tire design by both lowering operating temperatures and extending tire life, Cabot said.
Using tires made with the new materials can enable an average mine to increase haulage capacity, boost output and reduce annual downtime for tire changes, Cabot said, leading to a potential benefit of tens of millions of dollars a year.
The E2C series of solutions offers balanced performance, increased durability and improved energy efficiency, and can be formulated for specific OTR/earthmover applications to deliver maximum performance benefit, Cabot said.
Cabot is pitching the new material as a way for tire makers to address the global demand for sustainable mobility and meet regulatory pressures, market competition and performance-conscious consumers.
The first E2C solution, DX9730, is part of a new Durability series of products designed to reduce in-field failures and maximize operational uptime. DX9730 offers "breakthrough" improvements in cut, chip and chunk resistance, reduces the risk of catastrophic tire failures and unplanned vehicle service and increases fleet utilization.
Cabot has established a processing site for the elastomer composites at its carbon-black plant in Port Dickson, Malaysia, where three years ago it committed to making a "strategic investment" to expand capacities there.
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As the term goes, “If you might not have your health, you are lacking anything”. This next pillar of insurance planning, health insurance, seems to elude lots of us. In 2008, had been nearly 47 million Americans or approximately 20% from the population under age 65 without insurance coverage. Furthermore, thanks in no small part on the 2008-2009 recession and the resulting job losses that accompanied it, unemployment been recently hovering around 10%. This high amount of unemployment radically, and nearly 60 million men and women be without health insurance coverage! This of course can be detrimental to financial rush of freedom.
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Genetic interests, life histories, and *attitudes towards abortion
This paper presents a behavioral ecology view of contemporary American attitudes towards the morality and legality of abortion. It is hypothesized that divergent interests in and views on the availability of abortion services are driven by zero sum competitions both between more-promiscuous and less-promiscuous reproductive strategies and between strategies that are more or less likely to limit family size in order to increase resources for children. Exploratory regression analyses are presented showing that demographic and life-history predictors that are consistent with an interest-based perspective account for a meaningful percentage of the variance in abortion attitudes in two adult samples and a large percentage of the variance in abortion attitudes in an undergraduate sample. While these analyses cannot answer difficult questions of causation, they undermine frequent claims in social science that interest-based predictors tend to work well only in limited economic domains. Additional analyses are reported calling into question views that abortion attitudes are derived from more-basic views on fetal personhood and views that political and moral attitudes generally are derived in part from more-basic positions along a single liberal-conservative ideological dimension.
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Environmental Research at CMU
The Steinbrenner Institute offers direct support for research through doctoral fellowships and small grants for research at the undergraduate level.
The institute also helps promote environment-related research across the university. Below is a collection of research centers at CMU.
Center for Atmospheric Particle Studies
Members of CAPS are recognized internationally as leaders in the study of air quality and atmospheric chemistry. Members research the behavior of particulate matter in the atmosphere, including emissions, formation, transformation and deposition of particles as well as their climatological and health effects. The Center's goal is to substantially advance the state of knowledge across this spectrum, and to provide both policy-relevant research and to participate directly and actively in the evolution of environmental policy related to particulate matter.
CAPS is conducting a major air quality study in and around the City of Pittsburgh. The study offers a detailed characterization and monitoring of the particulate matter and will quantify the impact of the various sources (transportation, power plants, natural, etc.) of pollution.
Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics
The first center in the nation to focus on the building industry, the Center for Building Performance and Diagnostics (CBPD) is engaged in ground breaking work that investigates the impact of advanced technology on the physical, environmental, and social settings in office buildings and identifies international developments in new high-performance commercial building design.
Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making
How much will global temperatures rise in the next 50 years? What about sea level? Will there be more tropical storms and habitat loss? At the Center for Climate and Energy Decision Making, researchers are studying the limits in our understanding of climate change and its impacts. They are developing and demonstrating methods to characterize these irreducible uncertainties and creating decision strategies and tools that incorporate such uncertainties. The center's research focuses on the real-world problems confronted by insurance managers who face financial risks from climate change and low-carbon technologies; forest, fisheries and ecosystem managers in the Pacific Northwest and Canada; Arctic-region decision makers trying to balance cultural lifestyles with modern economic development; and electric utility managers facing large capital-investment decisions in the face of climate risks.
Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEINT)
CEINT's vision is to elucidate the relationship between the vast array of nanomaterials and properties to their environmental and human health risks. Graduate students and faculty from seven departments within the Carnegie Institute of Technology and the Mellon College of Science study the occurrences, transport, transformations, fate, and toxicity of engineered nanomaterials in the environment, aiming to understand the potential environmental exposure, biological effects, and ecological consequences.
Center for Ethics and Policy
The Center for Ethics and Policy is an interdisciplinary program dedicated to applying ethics and political philosophy in real world settings. Its areas of intellectual activity now include political philosophy and social choice theory, moral theory and methodology as well as the theoretical foundations of Bio-ethics and Research ethics.
Center for Risk Perception and Communication
The main goals of the Center for Risk Perception and Communication are 1) to bring together researchers interested in studying risk perception and risk communication; 2) to establish a common framework within which these researchers can communicate and collaborate, and 3) to bring our collective expertise to a diverse set of risk-related projects. A common approach shared by much of the research done at this center is the mental models methodology, which facilitates the integration of relevant information into a coherent "expert" model, and provides a robust procedure for the measurement of lay perceptions and the development and evaluation of communications.
Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure (CenSCIR)
The Center for Sensed Critical Infrastructure Research (CenSCIR) brings together a multi-disciplinary team of experts committed to creating a fast, reliable monitoring system to collect and process data about a myriad of complex network systems critical to both the nation's security and daily commerce. These monitoring systems may be used for a broad range of critical infrastructure applications, including monitoring systems for decaying bridges, oil and gas pipelines, unstable electric power grids, leading water distribution systems and campus security.
Center for Shared Prosperity
The Center for Shared Prosperity is born from efforts to reduce barriers to equitable prosperity in the Pittsburgh region while working to build healthier relationships between institutions and the communities of which they are a part. The initiative works to build long lasting community engaged projects that aim to get rid of the systemic barriers that prevent equity and true shared prosperity in the Pittsburgh region.
Design Decisions Laboratory
The Design Decisions Laboratory develops theories and tools to understand and assist decision-making in design and product development. The group is interested in the preferences and economics that drive design tradeoff decisions as well as the impact of those decisions on public and private stakeholders. Current thrust areas of research include design optimization of complex systems, modeling and coordination of stakeholder preferences, and environmental policy.
Electricity Industry Center
The electricity industry in the United States accounts for $250 billion in sales, and demand for electricity is increasing. The industry faces issues which make meeting that demand difficult. These issues include slow rates of technology adoption, a transmission system designed for an earlier era, a hybrid of regulated and deregulated jurisdictions, and incomplete markets. The problems of the electricity industry are inherently interdisciplinary, and the Carnegie Mellon University Electricity Industry Center (CEIC) has merged engineering, economics, risk analysis, decision science to study these challenges.
Green Design Institute
The Green Design Institute is a major interdisciplinary research effort to make an impact on environmental quality through green design. The central idea of the institute is to form partnerships with companies, government agencies and foundations to develop pioneering design, management, manufacturing, and regulatory processes that can improve environmental quality and product quality while enhancing economic development. Our research partners will have access to policy and management tools for environmentally conscious manufacturing and product and process design, as well as opportunities to explore comprehensive solutions to problems such as hazardous emissions, use of toxic materials and inefficient energy usage.
Institute for Green Science
The Institute for Green Science is a research, education, and development center creating a holistic approach to sustainability science. The center approaches three problem areas in which green chemists can make major contributions to sustainability. The Institute studies how to make the conversion of solar energy into chemical energy economically feasible, considers how chemical feed stocks may be obtained from renewable sources to reduce our dependence upon fossilized carbon, and finally The Institute focuses on pollution reduction.
Living Environments Lab
The Living Environments Lab is focused on critical, disruptive, and creative research and prototyping of our future technologies with an emphasis on their impact on both human life (HCI, interface design, usability, experience, empowerment, emotion, etc) and environmental life (sustainability, environmental awareness, alternative energies, new materials and methods for making and re-making).
Remaking Cities Institute
The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI) is an urban design research center in the School of Architecture that was created to promote an improved quality of life through place-making and carefully planned economic and community redevelopment. The ability to capture and evaluate the conditions of neighborhoods and regions as well as their ability to deliver the basic tenets of a shared quality of life, and to envision futures that regenerate neighborhoods and regions, is a primary goal of the RCI.
Studio for Creative Inquiry
The STUDIO is a center for experimental and interdisciplinary arts in the College of Fine Arts. Founded in 1989, the STUDIO connects artistic enterprises to academic disciplines across the campus, to the community of Pittsburgh and beyond. Work carried out over the years by the STUDIO has included projects incorporating disciplines from cell biology to robotics to neuroscience to imaging technology.
Carnegie Mellon University's Sustainability Initiative is building upon two decades of an engaged effort in support of the broader definition of sustainability afforded by the world's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), also known as the Global Goals.
Transition Design Institute
The Transition Design Institute takes a transdisciplinary approach aimed at addressing the many ‘wicked’ problems confronting 21st century societies: climate change, forced migration, political and social polarization, global pandemics, lack of access to affordable housing/healthcare/education and many others. These problems are interconnected, interdependent and always manifest in place and culture-specific ways. Transition Design argues that new knowledge and skill-sets are required to address these problems, and that their resolution is a strategy for igniting positive, systems-level change and societal transitions toward more sustainable, equitable and desirable long-term futures.
Water QUEST researches pathogens and toxicants in urban water. The center focuses on the environmental sources, fate and treatment of contaminants in urban systems. Water QUEST also develops technology and integrated modeling for application of cyberinfrastructure in environmental systems research and decision-making. These efforts are intended to cultivate a citizenry ready for the challenges of managing urban water systems.
Western Pennsylvania Brownfields Center
Western Pennsylvania Brownfields Center at Carnegie Mellon University is a resource for local communities and small business and property owners. It serves as a vehicle to enhance the growth of brownfields remediation and redevelopment in western Pennsylvania. The Western Pennsylvania Brownfields Center provides access to information and research on previous development efforts, site-specific workshops that bring together national experts and local stakeholders to strategize comprehensive development initiatives for municipalities and small business owners, and education programs for professional practitioners and academics in the field.
Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation
The Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation at Carnegie Mellon University is focused on:
- Using and delivering the energy we already have far more efficiently
- Expanding the mix of energy sources in a way that is clean, reliable, affordable and sustainable
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Education & Training
Building knowledge to support health and exercise in young people – training for the community + health professionals.
100% profits from education courses support exercise programs for young people .
Physical literacy & therapeutic exercise in young people
These courses aim to extend participants understanding of the role and impact of different types of exercise in young people (5-18yrs), and how to apply this knowledge to specific presentations and/or conditions. Designed for allied health and exercise professionals currently working, or wanting to work, with children and young people across exercise programs and/or rehabilitation.
Course 1: Exercise Adaptations & Physical Literacy in Young People (3 hours)
> 3hrs online self-paced learning, including lectures. reading and quizzes
Course 2: Physical Literacy & Therapeutic Exercise in Young People (15 hours)
> Includes Course 1 online content + additional self-paced online learning, and 2 x live online workshops
Mental Health First Aid
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) courses teach people simple, practical first aid skills for helping a family member, friend, co-worker or other person who is experiencing mental health problems. MHFA courses will teach you how to listen and respond to someone with a mental health problem, even if they are experiencing a crisis.
Course options range from 4 hour workshops through to 2-day comprehensive training, with various delivery modes available (face-to-face, online, blended).
Exercise in Severe Mental Illness
Designed for practitioners seeking to improve their knowledge of physical activity/exercise in mental illness/es. It includes evidence-based practice, exercise and health assessments, and exercise management from mental distress through to severe mental illness, in various settings.
2 Part Course: Exercise in Severe Mental Illness (15 hours)
Part A: Online, self-paced lectures cover topics from aetiology and pathophysiology, through to evidence based exercise practice for various diagnostic classifications including: Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorders, Substance Use Disorders, Feeding & Eating Disorders, Schizophrenia & Psychotic Disorders, and Personality Disorders.
Part B: 2 x 3 hour live workshops (online or face-to-face) focus on applications of clinical knowledge related to exercise and SMI across various settings (e.g.., acute treatment, hospital, community health).
Our team is comprised of Accredited Exercise Physiologists, allied health practitioners, and researchers with expertise and experience in various areas of practice. Additionally, they have extensive expertise in teaching and curriculum development to enhance learning.
We pride ourselves on a team that is clinically active and therefore able to translate the evidence and research into real-world application and community impact.
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Child Passenger Safety Week is September 19-25. Make Sure Your Child is in the Right Seat
Mobile, Alabama — Tobias & Comer Law, LLC announced today that it is working alongside the U.S. Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency (ALEA) for Child Passenger Safety Week, September 19-25, 2021. The week is dedicated to educating parents and caregivers about the importance of correctly choosing, installing, and using car seats, booster seats, and seat belts.
“We know parents and caregivers have a lot on their plates, so we hope that Child Passenger Safety Week will provide an opportunity for parents and caregivers to take a little time to ensure their child is as safe as possible when in a car, truck, or SUV” said Bryan Comer with Tobias & Comer Law, LLC Law Firm. “Sadly, two children under 13 were killed every day in 2019 while riding in vehicles. No parent ever wants to get it wrong when it comes to a child’s safety. Parents: Don’t think you know, know you know that your kids are secured correctly in their car seats.”
Here are key takeaways for making sure your child passenger is safe:
- Make sure you have the right seat for your child’s age and size.
- Follow the manufacturers installation guidelines as well the vehicle owner’s manual for proper installation.
- Always ensure that if other people use car seats in their vehicles (grandparents, babysitters, etc.) that they know how to properly install in their vehicles.
- Register the seat with the manufacturer for potential recall notification
- Children under the age of 13 should ride buckled and in the back seat.
- Forward-facing car seats should always use tethers.
Trooper Anna Peoples with ALEA agrees that proper installation is key. “Motor vehicle crashes are a leading killer of children, and the latest research from NHTSA shows that nearly half (46%) of car seats are misused. Trooper Peoples added that using age- and size-appropriate car seats and installing them correctly are the best ways to reduce these deaths. “More than one-third of children 12 and younger who died in crashes in 2019 while riding in cars, pickups, vans, and SUVs were unbuckled. Many of those kids could have survived if they had been buckled up.”
As soon as COVID-19 protocols will allow, Tobias & Comer Law, LLC plans to host a seat check event in the area. Stay tuned for details! For now, see these other resources for finding a certified technician in your area.Learn About Car Seat Safety
You can find out if a Technician is available in your community by virtual appointment by visiting here.
Tobias & Comer Law, LLC and NHTSA hope to empower parents and caregivers with helpful resources to make life easier. You can access the many free, online resources available at NHTSA Website. Other resources on this site include the following:
- Car Seat Types: Determine whether your child fits best in a rear-facing car seat, forward-facing car seat, booster seat, or seat belt.
- Car Seat Recommendations: Review NHTSA’s recommendations for the best car seat for your child’s age and size.
- Find and Compare: Find and compare car seats with NHTSA’s handy car seat finder, which also searches specific brands.
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It took me quite a while to figure out what I wanted to write my first Editorial Board piece on. I now have a little post-it note on my desk of “Things I Have Opinions On.” But, there’s one point that stood out amongst all else, one thing that I truly believe is a problem at Fairfield University and has intensified due to the pandemic. Let’s talk about the “Flipped Classroom Model.”
For those who aren’t aware of the latest teaching trends, the flipped classroom model’s intention is to “flip” the classroom. Meaning, that students are to spend time outside of the classroom learning the material, and then attend class to put it in practice. Its intention is to not waste classroom time through instructional material, but to allow the students more time to work through it and test their knowledge of the subject. This model’s use has increased slightly, as many probably see the significant benefits it provides. According to one study, the researchers discovered, “the average benefit of learning in a flipped classroom was similar to getting a 586 on a standardized math test when the average score is 550.” They state that it’s this additional active learning opportunity that gives students the leg up on their traditional classroom.
It’s probably the support for the model, and the ease at which the flipped classroom is applied, that pushed many of my Fairfield professors to apply it to their own class. In college, this usually means, pages of reading and additional lectures in preparation for a class discussion on the material. I suppose my professors do it because they don’t want to waste classroom time on lectures, but I feel as though I came to college to attend lectures. I have these professors with Masters Degrees and Doctorates who now act as moderators in a discussion instead of providing their insight into a discussion. I spend hours and hours preparing for class just to listen to sit and have everyone go around the circle and say their favorite part of the reading. Is this what’s truly going to be beneficial to me? To cause me the confidence to say I learned something after college? I truly don’t think so, I do not believe I learn anything from a flipped classroom model, nor do I think it’s an inclusive model for students from all backgrounds.
Though a flipped classroom model might work in a high school or elementary school, university professors have to understand that we as students signed up for a specific amount of hours of classes. I personally am taking 15 credit hours this semester. Though, of course, I penciled in time for homework or studying after class, I filled the rest of my free time with activities and jobs. I know of Fairfield students working two jobs while attending school just to afford the tuition or help their parents pay the bills. And like me, they of course set aside extra time for homework and assignments for classes, that’s just part of the deal. But, the flipped classroom model doubles or nearly triples the workload of a normal semester. I find myself spending hours at my desk, reading hundreds of pages of reading or watching hours of additional content, just to sit in class for an hour and 15 minutes of no further application. The consensus around my peers is that it feels as though the flipped classroom model is taking the workload away from the professors and dumping it on the already stressed and overwhelmed student.
Part of the issue here is though my professors like to throw out the word “flipped classroom” they often are not using it the way it’s intended to be used. David C.D. van Alten, a researcher on flipped classrooms states that using long, pre-recorded lectures is a “bad flip.” Which is how, nearly all professors I’ve heard using the flipped classroom model, flip their classes. Alten says that a true flipped classroom needs interactive, multimedia materials and additional quizzes to truly make it worth it. He goes on to say that this is an expensive and timely model, and thus would recommend only teams of teachers attempting it. Even further research shows that though on the surface, this model has shown to have benefits, there just hasn’t been as much research into the negative effects. The research into flipped classroom’s disadvantages has shown that there’s a possibility that the model does what I was worried about it doing. A 2019 study into how West Point students benefited from the flipped classroom model found that not only was there “no long term average effects on student learning” but the model only “broadened the achievement gap” with the white, male and higher achieving students at the top.
Though I do respect my professors for attempting to find a classroom setup that seeks to increase our learning, and allow us to interact with the material in a different way, I truly do not see the benefits in the flipped classroom instruction. I think that we need to work to find something that though increases our understanding of the material, doesn’t overburden students with material and is accessible for all students in the classroom. | <urn:uuid:16401b48-8488-4f63-870c-a97c3725c839> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fairfieldmirror.com/opinion/flipped-classroom-model-no-thanks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966003 | 1,062 | 2.15625 | 2 |
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons – it’s time to Shop for Good
28 July 2020
This week CEWA are raising awareness of modern slavery, culminating in recognition of United Nations World Day Against Trafficking in Persons on 30 July.
Yesterday we shared a link to the Slavery Footprint survey, providing information on slavery in the supply chains of products we buy, and today we invite you to learn more about ethics and consumption via the Shop for Good Facebook page.
The Shop for Good page is full of content to help us learn about how our personal, professional, school and parish purchases can be ethically responsible. Take a look, and please share the resources with family, friends, and from your school Facebook page.
Some businesses claim to follow ethical standards but cannot articulate a system or process for how they do this, other than visiting a supplier factory or organisation once a year.
While the intention may be good, this is inadequate to ensure ethical conduct by producers and their agents.
Ethical production must be transparent, evidence-based and demonstrate an ongoing standard of human rights due diligence, such as Fairtrade certification.
Shop For Good has loads of informative posts to help us use our purchasing power for the common good, and to support businesses that take their ethics seriously. | <urn:uuid:9e2a716a-1d71-43ad-bd7f-3c18d3fee25e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stories.cewa.edu.au/world-day-against-trafficking-in-persons-its-time-to-shop-for-good/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.927691 | 263 | 2.5625 | 3 |
How to become hacker and things to know to be an ethical hacker. Hacking is a no simple undertaking that you could learn in a day or a month. It requires some huge time and knowledge unless you will never have the capacity to hack anything as the security mass of systems has additionally grown enormously. The professional hackers were also like the fresher’s as you could be in the field of hacking but they never give up and learned the most that they could before starting with their profession so that they cannot get confused about things. Here in this article you will know the things that you ought to be familiar with before you can start up with hacking.
It is the operating system of the internet which needs to learn if you need to be an internet hacker as you cannot do it without knowing this system. The hackers today are the masters of UNIX and they know its incentive in their calling of hacking.
Learning it implies that you can now learn the programming languages and you will likewise have the capacity to compose them. This could be the base writing skill that could be required further for fundamental hacking processes.
These are the structural commands that process up some kind of task. These programing languages are best suited to define up any system.Lerning these languge means that you can easily do tricks will the commands and can hack the systems easily. Some of the best programing languages that you could prefer is Python and C++.
The books can cover the exact information that can be used to learn something. There are tons of books available that are made to learn hacking only and these books can have some great lessons that a beginner could find up very useful. Some of the books that are available today can make you learn the most of hacking skills.
Today, Maximum of the hacking tricks are done by using some kind of applications or software’s and keeping this in mind one should gain the full knowledge of hacking software’s before starting to become a hacker. Knowledge of these software’s will make you more confined to your tasks and you will also understand and do up the hacking process more easily.
Upstairs are the most important things that you should not forget to learn before you become a hacker
as these things will give you a sharp and bright start and will also help you to understand the hacking methods more simply. At all if you are clear with the basics then only you could understand the tough tasks simply later on. | <urn:uuid:ede9d52f-8b65-4662-8c3f-4776532242e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wikitechy.com/technology/things-know-become-hacker/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965695 | 524 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Though popular tv dramas would have us believe that the strength of a courtroom circumstance is predicated practically totally on an attorney’s ability to interpret the information surrounding a situation, the energy of a scenario is usually produced lengthy just before it reaches the courtroom. Much more exclusively, successful court circumstances typically relaxation on the capability of the prosecution or the protection to elicit key information from witnesses in the sort of movie tape depositions. Even though not all depositions are recorded on online video, those that are provide attorneys with a persuasive visual document to current to the jury as they interpret the details contained therein. Nevertheless, merely videotaping a deposition does not automatically indicate that it will have the wanted result on a jury. For video clip tape depositions to accomplish their best influence, they must be carried out by a court docket reporter that possesses the correct technological abilities for the occupation.
In terms of technology, skillful court reporting is based on three factors: the timeliness of the movie, the visible top quality of the video and the sound high quality of the video. The timeliness of a online video deposition bargains in component with regardless of whether or not a court docket reporter is qualified in interactive genuine-time reporting. Since not all of an organization’s officers that offer with a scenario will be in a position to show up at depositions, it truly is crucial for non-present parties be ready to create responses to depositions as speedily as these who attend them. Without having the assist of interactive genuine-time reporting, an organization’s meetings to talk about depositions usually outcome in many queries that should be content by viewing a deposition in its entirety. But with the aid of interactive genuine-time reporting, the parties to a case can satisfy to talk about depositions with educated responses and queries in hand.
From an interior standpoint, the online video and audio high quality of a deposition are normally not crucial variables. If the visual good quality is mediocre, it rarely matters due to their expertise of a case, circumstance officials will not want to be compelled by a “visual account” of a witness’s responses. Likewise, if www.tapestodigital.co.uk/8mm-film-to-digital-transfer-service is poor, officials can constantly refer to the deposition’s typed transcript, where the courtroom reporter will have cleared up a witness’s inaudible responses. Nevertheless, when movie tape depositions reach the courtroom space, their visual and audio top quality can drastically affect a jury’s notion of the evidence contained therein. A very good court docket reporting organization will present you with the choice of making use of a qualified deposition videographer who can report the deposition in Entire Hd. In addition, a good courting reporting business will supply you with the alternative of video/text synchronization, in which a witness’s phrases seem in textual content at the bottom of the monitor as they converse. Just as important as a court reporter’s technological abilities at conducting depositions are his or her expert skills. However, even the most distinct, concise, revealing depositions are drastically compromised when they have bad visible good quality and very poor sound top quality.
Storage models are fantastic for numerous kinds of people and households, providing a straightforward answer for an in excess of-cluttered house or to maintain your possessions secured both briefly or lengthy-term even though in the middle of a shift. With the growth in reputation of exhibits like Storage Wars and Auction Hunters, more and more folks are currently being released to the globe of saved products and the treasures in. Individuals love the concept of locating one thing useful amongst the possessions of somebody else’s still left-overs. Storage units are wonderful for this form of thing, but not so significantly when it arrives to storing treasured recorded memories on media like VHS tapes and movie.
The main hazard that storage models pose to your media will come in the type of heat and dampness develop-up. Frequently occasions, storage units are not insulated the very same as you’d locate in an workplace or residence, so they can get quite hot, especially in the course of the summer months of the calendar year. Small leaks in the roofing can lead to moisture buildup inside of the device, which can result in mildew and other pollutants to prosper, which can spell the dying of magnetic tape, movie, and images. Seeking out an indoor device will support to mitigate this issue, but usually occasions, even these facilities can lead to troubles of their own.
An additional possible threat of storage units is the reality that if, for some reason, you happen to be not able to spend your storage rental fee, the next issue you know, your products are becoming auctioned off to the maximum bidder on some Tv set show, like your crucial loved ones media! Pointless to say, if this takes place, it can be hard, if not extremely hard, to track down your assortment of priceless video tapes, photographs and movie. | <urn:uuid:cf373777-5e9d-4c84-a290-84b31760d0f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.momstressrelief.com/selecting-the-best-company-to-document-your-video-tape-depositions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941258 | 1,028 | 1.648438 | 2 |
What is DSIP (Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide) ?
Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide (DSIP) is a short peptide of natural origin. It gains its name from its ability to cause sleep in rabbits and from the fact that it was first isolated in 1977 from the brains of rats during slow-wave sleep. The peptide, however, has a number of physiologic and endocrine roles that are slowly being uncovered as it gains interest among researchers. Right now, it is known that DSIP can alter corticotropin levels, inhibit somatostation secreption. It may also have future applications in cancer treatment, depression, and the prevention of free radical damage.
Molecular formula: C35H48N10O15
Molecular Weight: 848.824g/mol
CAS number: 62568-57-4
PubChem CID: 68816
Synonyms: Emideltide, DSIP nonapeptide, Deltaran
More Description about DSIP Peptide:
DSIP stands for Delta Sleep Inducing Peptide and it is a peptide that helps you to reach a deep sleep phase acting on the relevant parts of the brain. Some studies also confirmed the fact that within this deep sleep the human body experiences anabolic processes that are responsible for post-workout muscle recovery and growth hormone levels during this time greatly increases.
It’s is a neuropeptide (small protein-like peptides that are used by neurons in communicating with each other) that induces sleep. DSIP induces the spindle plus delta EEG activity, and it reduces motor activities. The gene of Delta Sleep-Inducing Peptide is unknown, making it the only peptide with that characteristic. It’s categorised as an amphiphilic peptide, representing a chemical compound that possesses both lipophilic and hydrophilic properties. The substance has typically been found in the pituitary, limbic system, hypothalamus and in other organs like body and tissue fluid. The peptide is normally found in your pancreas and gut secretory cells.
It is believed that this sleep stage is crucial for many processes in the human body, and directly affects the recovery of energy reserves of the body. DSIP is by nature much friendlier product in comparison with pharmaceutical sleeping pills, which are derived from alien substances to our body. DSIP by its structure is most like natural sleep regulator, which exists in the human body. DSIP helps to cope with the stress in the body as it ensures the normal functioning of serotonin synthesis, maintain a normal level of blood glucose and control NMDA receptors. And this is very important because it has long been known that stress is the most negative pathogenic condition of the nervous system, which leads to various diseases and complications.
The Benefits of DSIP Peptide:
– eliminates alcohol dependence, helps to reduce the craving for alcohol;
– helps to sleep, helps to normalize sleep;
– significantly reduces the production of the hormone corticotropin, which is a catabolic;
– protects the body from stress;
– it has a powerful antioxidant effect;
– accelerates the secretion of growth hormone and somatoliberina;
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The house at 2 Crescent Hill in Springfield, around 1938-1939. Image courtesy of the Springfield Preservation Trust.
The house in 2017:
This house was built in 1859, at the corner of Crescent Hill and Pine Street, and was originally the home of Isaac Mills. He was about 33 years old at the time, and was the son of John Mills, a prominent lawyer and politician who lived across the street in an elegant Italianate villa. John Mills held a number of political offices, including President of the Massachusetts Senate, U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts, and Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts.
However, Isaac did not follow his father into law or politics, and instead became a local businessman. In the late 1840s, he was a partner in the Springfield-based railroad car manufacturing company of Dean, Packard & Mills. This company proved short-lived, though, and by 1853 he was working for the coal company of his father-in-law, Edmund Palmer. During the 1855 census, he and his wife Ann were living in his father’s house on Crescent Hill, but by the end of the decade they had moved into this newly-built house across the street.
Isaac eventually took over his father-in-law’s coal company and ran it until his death in 1892. Ann died the following year, but their two daughters, Emily and Elizabeth, inherited this house and lived here for the rest of their lives. Neither of them ever married, and early 20th century census records show them living here alone except for a servant. Emily died in 1934, but Elizabeth was still living here when the first photo was taken, some 80 years after she moved here with her parents as an infant.
Elizabeth Mills died in 1944, but the exterior of the house has remained well-preserved since then. Most of the shutters are now gone, but otherwise the house looks essentially the same as it did almost 80 years ago. Along with the other 19th and early 20th century homes in the area, the house is now part of the Ames Hill/Crescent Hill Historic District, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. | <urn:uuid:102231ee-4250-49d1-bf0a-b781d7d719ca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lostnewengland.com/2018/08/isaac-mills-house-springfield-mass/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.990678 | 454 | 2.296875 | 2 |
For several years, through 2012, Americans paid income tax at six rates, ranging from 10% to 35%....
Trim Steep New Taxes with a Charitable Trust
High-income taxpayers face escalated effective tax rates as a result of new tax laws. Moreover, the higher rates are not limited to athletes, entertainers, and corporate CEOs who regularly collect substantial paychecks and bonuses. Taxpayers who ordinarily are in moderate tax brackets may trigger the new premium rates, surtaxes, and deduction phaseouts in any year when they sell a business, sell investment property, or take portfolio profits. One strategy can defer these extraordinary gains for years or even decades. This tactic allows you to spread the gains over many years, so you may be able to keep your annual income down and, thus, avoid the extra taxes aimed at the top earners. If you might face such a situation in the future, consider setting up a charitable remainder trust (CRT) for the asset sales.
Convert gains into income
With a CRT, you transfer assets you own into an irrevocable trust. Often, you’d transfer appreciated assets that you plan to sell. For a CRT, you name an income beneficiary or beneficiaries, who will receive cash flow for a specified time period. The beneficiaries could be yourself and your spouse, for example. You also name one or more charities to receive the remainder interest in the trust—the assets left in the CRT after the income payout period. Example 1: Matt Reese is about to sell investment property he has owned for many years. He expects to sell the property for $1 million and owe around $350,000 in various federal and state taxes, leaving him $650,000 to invest in securities for his retirement. Instead, Matt transfers the property to a CRT he has created, and the CRT sells the property for $1 million. As a charitable trust, the CRT will owe no tax on the sale. Thus, the CRT has the full $1 million to reinvest in securities.
The 5% Solutions
When creating the CRT, Matt names himself and his wife, Janice, as income beneficiaries; he instructs the attorney drawing up the trust to have the CRT pay out income as long as either of them is alive. Matt can choose between two modes of payments:
• Matt can select an annuity trust, which will pay out a fixed amount each year. That amount must be at least 5% of the initial trust fund. If Matt sets up the CRT with $1 million of real estate, the trust can pay out at least $50,000 a year to Matt and Janice or to the surviving spouse. When they both die, the assets still in the trust will pass to charities Matt has named.
• Alternatively, Matt can structure his CRT as a unitrust, which will pay out a fixed percentage of the net fair market value of the trust’s assets, valued annually, each year. Again, the minimum is 5%.
Example 2: Suppose Matt decides on a unitrust with a 6% payout rate. The first year, Matt and Janice will receive $60,000: 6% of $1 million. In future years, the CRT payout will be more or less than $60,000, depending on whether the trust’s assets have appreciated or lost value. Thus, the unitrust structure offers the potential for more income, over time, but also the risk of reduced income if the CRT value falls.
Deducting the donation
Besides future cash flow, the creator of a CRT also will receive an upfront tax deduction. The deduction will be the present value of the remainder interest in the trust donated to charity after all the payouts to the income beneficiaries. This calculation is based on several factors, including the ages of the income beneficiaries and the CRT payout rate. Under federal law, for a CRT to be treated as a charitable trust, the value of the expected donation must be at least 10%. If Matt Reese funds a CRT with a $1 million asset transfer, his deduction (the present value of the remainder interest in the trust) must be $100,000. This provision effectively caps a CRT’s income payout—Matt might be able to stipulate a 6% or 7% unitrust lifelong payout for himself and Janet but not a 12% lifelong payout, if the larger payout leads to a projected remainder interest under $100,000.
If Matt and Janice Reese receive $50,000 a year from their CRT, that’s the amount of income they will report. Such a relatively modest payout may keep this couple below the annual thresholds for higher taxes, whereas selling the investment property for $1 million in their own names might trigger a much more painful tax bite on the sale. How will the CRT payout be taxed? That depends on how the money is invested inside the trust. If the trustee buys corporate bonds, for example, the taxable interest income will pass through to the trustee, taxed at high rates. On the other hand, if the trustee invests in growth stocks that generate no income for the trust, the taxable payout will retain the favorable capital gains tax treatment of the investment property sale. | <urn:uuid:7dcda22e-3a09-413d-a944-29f804c529bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tjtpa.com/blog/trim-steep-new-taxes-with-a-charitable-trust | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947983 | 1,080 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Congress is trying to pass new rules on 401(k)s. There are some good reforms in the current legislation, but one glaring red alert is the increased role of annuities planned for 401(k) accounts in the bill.
Annuities can be fee-sucking, performance killing traps enriching the companies that sell them, rather than the customers who buy them.
Anne Tergesen reports on some of the drawbacks of annuities:
Annuities aren’t often used in 401(k) plans, in part because employers worry that if they pick an insurance company that ends up going bust, the 401(k) participants will sue the employer.
Annuities have some drawbacks. For example, they offer less potential for outsize gains than stocks or funds. And once you hand over your money to an insurer, you may not be able to leave it to heirs or get it back without paying surrender charges or sacrificing at least some of the guarantee you have paid for.
Read more here. A portfolio of stocks and bonds focused on generating income and avoiding risk will serve you and your family far better in retirement than any annuity ever could. Beware.
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Greece intends to tap the global money markets for 3 to 7 billion euros next year, according to the Financing Strategy for 2019 published on Monday by the country’s Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA).
The plan also refers to the so-called cash buffer, which stood at 26.5 billion euros in September 2018; this is to be used as a safety cushion in case market conditions do not favor the country’s financing.
It further states that the stock of treasury bills will remain at approximately 15 billion euros through the rollovers scheduled for next year.
The agency’s 2019 financing plan offers significant flexibility as it contains three scenarios, depending on the cash reserves to be utilized next year and the amount obtained from state asset utilization.
The first scenario – which the PDMA appears not to favor as it states its preference for the other two – provides for drawing 3 billion euros from the markets, along with the use of 5 billion from the cash buffer and zero receipts from privatizations.
The second includes raising 5 billion euros through bond issues, the reduction of the T-bill stock by 800 million euros, using 2.4 billion euros of the cash reserves, and the collection of 1.4 billion euros from state asset utilization.
The last scenario anticipates the sale of 7 billion euros’ worth of bonds, decreasing the T-bill sum by 1.5 billion euros, using 1.1 billion euros in cash reserves and collecting 1.4 billion euros from privatizations.
Greece was shut out of international markets in 2010 and entered three bailout programs to ease its return to global market credit.
Its latest bond issue was a seven-year note in February 2018, worth 3 billion euros at a yield of 3.50 percent. The secondary-market interest rate of the country’s benchmark 10-year bond stood at 4.39 percent over Christmas. [Xinhua] | <urn:uuid:6a0a4399-b8c1-4870-9a17-5a10967bd447> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekathimerini.com/economy/236027/greece-eyes-bond-issues-up-to-7-bln-euros-in-2019/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937096 | 392 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The #1 Cause of Weight Gain, Says Dietitian
Compared to 60 or even just 50 years ago, Americans burn fewer calories every day through movement and consume more calories. The result? Over 42% of Americans were obese in 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). That's 12% more than it was just 18 years earlier.
"That calorie imbalance is the greatest problem, the number one cause of weight gain," says registered dietitian nutritionist Grace A. Derocha, RD, a national spokesperson with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. "Genetics play a role, but at the end of the day if you eat more calories than you burn off, you will gain weight."
And that has become increasingly easy to do because we eat more calorie-dense processed foods and fewer whole foods than ever before. And we sit a lot. By siting more—teens about 8.2 hours a day and adults 6.4 hours, which is a full hour more than these age groups did just 15 years earlier, according to a JAMA study—we burn fewer calories and experience an increased risk of obesity, multiple other diseases, and even mortality.
If you think about the ancient hunter-gatherers and farmers, they were lean because they were active all day searching for food and working on the farm, says Derocha. Even half a century ago (over ten thousand years after hunter-gatherer cultures), kids and adults were still moving more than we do today. "When I was a kid, food wasn't scarce, but we were outside all day long, running, playing, burning off those calories we ate," she says. "There were very few overweight kids in my neighborhood."
Weight gain happens when you consume more calories than your body needs. As a result, your body will store these extra calories as fat. "You have x amount of fat cells in your body," explains Derocha. "A surplus of calories can increase the number of fat cells and their size. In addition, eating processed foods puts more chemicals into our system that confuses our body. The more toxins, the potential for things to go wrong."
Read on to learn more about how excess calories are the number one reason behind weight gain and what you can do about it. For more on how to eat healthy, don't miss Simple Ways to Start Losing Weight Immediately, According to Science.
The Simple Math Solution
You can see the way out of this common conundrum: Avoid calorie-dense processed foods, consume fewer calories overall, and try to burn off more calories all day through movement, including exercise. In short, create a calorie deficit: ending the day with fewer calories than you consumed results in weight loss.
Easier said than done? But it can be done. And it starts by understanding the simple math of weight gain.
Researchers have calculated that 1 pound of body fat stores about 3,500 calories of energy. So, let's say you cut 500 calories from your intake every day for a week. That's 500 x 7 = 3,500 calories. You would lose 1 pound of fat in seven days.
There's another way to lose that pound that doesn't require you to cut as many calories per day: move more. Theoretically, if you burned off 200 extra calories per day through exercise and sliced just 300 calories from your daily diet, you would still end up with a calorie deficit of 3,500 at the end of the week—a pound of fat gone.
So, you see, to achieve that 3,500-calorie deficit you can either cut 500 calories a day through diet, or burn an extra 500 calories per day through exercise, or do a combination of both.
Simple, right? But there's something else to take into consideration: the calories your body uses daily just to power your life—to breathe, pump blood, digest food, grow muscle, do crossword puzzles, and more. That amount of energy you need to exist is called your Basal Metabolic Rate (BMR) or Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR), your total daily energy expenditure in a resting state. That number is unique to you, determined by your genetics, sex, age, body size, and the amount of muscle you have. Knowing your BMR can make it easier to create the right calorie deficit through calorie restriction, exercise, or a combo of the two. To learn how to calculate your BMR, read our article You Should Burn This Many Calories Per Day, Say Experts.
The Reality Check
While the concept of creating a calorie deficit is the simple math of losing pounds, we all know that keeping the weight we lose off long-term is challenging. That's because as we lose weight, our body's energy needs to change. The pounds that came off so easily when we started become more difficult to shed as we continue our weight-loss journey. The slow-down in weight loss, often described as a plateau, is disappointing. It can take the wind out of your sails and make it more difficult to keep up your focus on the changing math as your body and BMR change.
That's why most dietitians and nutritionists counsel their patients to work on establishing broad healthy eating habits rather than emphasizing the daily number crunch of calories in, calories out.
"I never want my clients to feel like they are depriving themselves," says Derocha. "Food is so much more than calories; it's tied up in family, friends, memories, culture. That's why fad diets don't work. You want real change that doesn't feel so uncomfortable."
Try 'Habit Stacking'
Focus on nourishing your body rather than depriving it. "Ask yourself 'what is something I can add that I'm currently not enjoying?'" says Derocha. She calls it 'habit stacking,' for example: cutting out doughnuts and replacing them with something naturally sweet like watermelon chunks. "Habit stacking feels like you're adding something good for your body and not always taking things away."
Replace the Calorie Bombs
Derocha's two easiest pieces of weight-loss advice are… to (1) drink more water and (2) eat less processed foods.
Making those two lifestyle changes will automatically significantly reduce your daily calorie intake if you drink soda and other sweet beverages and eat a lot of cakes, cookies, salty snacks, and fast food.
"I wish I drank pop so I could stop and lose 10 pounds!" laughs Derocha. Soda, juice, energy drinks, and what she calls "coffee milkshakes" are loaded with sugar and empty calories.
"Focus on enjoying as many whole foods as possible and you'll consume far less processed stuff," she says.
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A trust in Plymouth, New Hampshire is an arrangement under which property is possessed by one person, but used entirely for the benefit of, and legally owned by, another.
A trust can be set up for just about any reason. One of the most common reasons is to ensure that a person always has enough money to avoid going broke, but not enough that they can avoid getting a job, or spend all of the money on things they don't need. This can be accomplished by drafting a trust agreement so that only allows the beneficiary to access a limited portion of the money per week, or per month.
Regardless of the purpose for which you're establishing a trust, you can be sure that the beneficiary will only be able to spend the trust fund in ways you approve of. This is because a trust document, at the time of drafting, can place any restrictions or allowances you want on the beneficiary's use of the money. So, if you want them to only be able to spend it on education, for example, you can do that.
The trust can also be set up to allow the beneficiary to spend as much of the money in it on anything they like. Of course, few people do this, because the trust isn't likely to last very long under such an arrangement, especially if the beneficiary is a teenager or young adult.
What to Include in Any Plymouth, NH Trust
There are 4 distinct elements that must be present for any trust to be valid in Plymouth, New Hampshire. The first element is the purpose - in drafting a trust document, the purpose that the trust is serving must be articulated.
The second required element is a trustee. The trustee's job is to supervise and manage the money that makes up the trust. They are also required to take reasonable efforts to ensure that the money is only used for the purpose of the original trust agreement.
Third, there must be a named beneficiary. This is the person, persons, or entity who is actually benefiting from the trust. This person or entity must be clearly identified, or must be identifiable at some point in the future that can be objectively defined.
Lastly, the trust needs to actually be composed of something. A trust document must name the money or property which is actually being held in trust, which is known as the "corpus" or "body" of the trust.
Can A Plymouth, New Hampshire Trust Drafting Attorney Help?
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Home health care provides multiple in-home services such as nursing, home health aides, physical therapy, occupational therapy, medical social worker, registered dietitian and case management in the Watertown NY area and throughout Jefferson County.
24 hour on-call nurse to address patient issues, take referrals and provide guidance.
Accepted from all sources. Jefferson County Public Health Service's Home Care Referral form may be obtained here . If the client being referred has Medicare, then a Face to Face Encounter form is required. This form may be obtained here. A sample Face to Face Encounter form can be found here . Guidance on completion of the Face to Face Encounter form is available here .
Jefferson County residents.
We have Expert Teams that offer quality care in your home:
ELDER CARE - Professional staff can provide direction and education regarding available services within the community as well as provide coordinated home-based services such as nursing and therapy services and home health aides. The services help people live independently in their own home. Our services can also prevent hospitalizations and prevent nursing home placement while the patient remains in the comfort of their own relaxed setting.
MOM AND BABY CARE - healthcare for women while they are pregnant, after birth and for the baby. Whether you are a first time parent or need extra help we have a team of registered nurses and other providers to assist you and your family in your own home.
BREATHING DISORDERS (COPD, Pneumonia, Asthma) - shortness of breath or uncomfortable breathing impacts your activities of daily living and can be the result of many different diseases. The nurses and therapists can help you or your loved one take control and live an active, productive life. The services will enhance the understanding of the overall condition and progress.
HEART DISEASES (Congestive Heart Failure) - the nurses can evaluate you within your home and develop a personalized plan of care with your physician to help you manage your heart disease and prevent complications. Nurses will provide education on your disease process to prevent complications and teach you about signs/symptoms that require contact with medical providers.
SURGICAL CARE - recovery after a surgical procedure (for example on a hip or knee) can be facilitated by having professional staff and certified home health aides work together as a team to provide services. Services may include wound care, assessment and education on how to prevent post-surgical complications.
DIABETES (SUGAR) - professional staff can help to overcome the challenges of being a diabetic and enhance the management of diabetes with home visits. Patients learn how to test their sugar, administer insulin, and manage their glucose levels.
STROKE - professional therapists within the home can help restore physical, emotional and mental function and promote recovery from a stroke or “mini stroke”.
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The Universalist's Book of Reference: Containing All the Principal Facts and Arguments, and Scripture Texts, Pro and Con, on the Great Controversy Between Limitarians and Universalists
New England Universalist Publishing House, 1853 - 381 pagina's
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Pagina 232 - And the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich men, and the chief captains, and the mighty men, and every bondman, and every free man, hid themselves in the dens and in the rocks of the mountains...
Pagina 61 - And in the synagogue there was a man, which had a spirit of an unclean devil, and cried out with a loud voice, saying, " Let us alone : what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth ? art thou come to destroy us ? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.
Pagina 189 - And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
Pagina 226 - The Son of man shall send forth his angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity; and shall cast them into a furnace of fire; there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Pagina 109 - And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee, and to thy seed after thee. And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land wherein thou art a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Pagina 164 - And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image ; these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
Pagina 317 - And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.
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Meeting COVID-19 Test Reporting Obligations
The Kentucky Health Information Exchange (KHIE) has been working steadfastly to keep pace with the evolving requirements set forth by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH) regarding the lab reporting requirements for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). We acted quickly to implement solutions to ensure that electronic lab reporting (ELR) feeds through KHIE would meet those requirements AND, alternately, we quickly developed a platform for manually reporting results.
Latest Reporting Requirements from KDPH 3-28-2022
The Kentucky Department for Public Health is aware of changes to the CARES Act reporting requirements for SARS-CoV-2 laboratory results that will be in effect on April 4th discontinuing the reporting requirement for negative results from non-NAATs. However, this does not impact SARS-CoV-2 reporting for the state of Kentucky. According to 902 KAR 2:020, the reporting of both positive and negative SARS-CoV-2 antigen test results is still required for all Kentucky residents. KDPH ask that all facilities continue to report in the manner that is consistent with state regulation.
Meeting COVID-19 Test Reporting Obligations of the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH)
If you are a healthcare organization resulting any type of COVID-19 test, you are required to report both positive and negative results to the Kentucky Department for Public Health (KDPH). KHIE is designated to facilitate this reporting.
If you are resulting labs at your facility, KDPH requires you to report results through KHIE, either electronically through an interface connection or by manually entering results. If you are not currently electronically connected to KHIE, you must manually report these results through KHIE's Direct Data Entry (Lab) feature located in the ePartnerViewer. (Ideally, this type of reporting is achieved through true interoperability but because of the time constraints associated with the rampant spread of the virus, KHIE quickly developed a platform for manually reporting results.)
KDPH requires adherence to the following guidelines for all reporting:
You are required
to report all positive results within 24 hours of resulting.
You are required to report all negative results within 7 days of resulting.
- You are required to report positive cases to the local health department where the patient resides.
- This must be reported on the PUI case report form.
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- submit a PUI within 24 hours to the local health department in the county where the patient resides
- send daily flat files to KDPH at firstname.lastname@example.org until KHIE onboarding is complete whether it is by electronic connection (lab feed) or by manual entry in the Direct Data Entry (Lab) system.
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Being on a textile adventure in one of the most desirable weaving spots of the world, there’s simply no time to waste in seeking out handwoven, artisan-made silk scarves and other accessories. I didn’t have far to go from the hotel either, just wandered a bit until I saw the sign, a simple but elegant one, inscribed with Lao Textiles, Carol Cassidy.
Behind the entrance gate sat a refurbished French colonial mansion, three blocks from the Mekong River in downtown Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and home to one of the first commercial weaving workshops.
About Carol Cassidy and Lao Textiles
Laos Textiles is owned and operated by American-born Carol Cassidy. In this beauty of a building and property is her workshop, studio, and gallery. Working here is about fifty staff doing the spinning, dyeing, weaving and finishing of the all-silk, contemporary woven art for which she specializes.
Carol has been weaving since she was seventeen years old, having trained in Finland and Sweden. She’s worked as a textile expert in almost every continent from America to Africa, and arrived in Laos in 1989. Just a year later, Lao Textiles opened in the present location. The former living and dining areas were converted into showrooms with beautifully appointed, finely woven panels, pillows, runners, and more—many decorated with stylized animist motifs. I soon learned that animal and mythical-creature motifs are frequently used in Cassidy’s designs–a particular favorite being the Naga, the river serpent, a mythological water serpent with unparalleled benevolent powers.
An Inspired Story of Silken Stripes
Perhaps the Naga’s benevolence was at work as I was quickly enticed by each silken piece. Then, out of the corner of my eye, I saw vivid colors with patterns that were a far cry from Lao symbolism. Tucked away in an alcove room were stacks of striped silk scarves. At first glance, it appeared they were repetitious in coloring and sequencing, but I was wrong. Most of the scarves were unique in their striping pattern—some had narrow banding against a solid background, others were wider striped throughout containing twenty to thirty colors. Each one was a jewel in itself.
Carol peaked into the room and saw my pile starting to form. Her story unraveled about her visit to Cambodia in 1998, and meeting women who were land mine survivors, disabled, or had lost their husbands from the exploding land mines. They all needed a livelihood. So what seemed a natural outgrowth of Lao Textiles was to establish a weaving center in Preah Vihear– she now employs over fifty spinners, dyers, weavers and finishers. This project contributes to sustainable income for the artisans. It’s generated income for the community to build homes, add clean water, and for children to go through school.
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London has raised its flag as a hub for Islamic finance. A clear signal of intent was outlined at the 9th World Islamic Economic Forum (WIEF), held in London towards the end of 2013, by David Cameron, Baroness Warsi, and Boris Johnson. Notably, this was the first time that WIEF had ventured outside of the Muslim world.
This year, WIEF is being hosted in Dubai – another player looking to hold the reigns of a lucrative and blossoming field of Muslim economics, attempting to galvanise Muslim majority and minority geographies. What is now being termed an Islamic economy, can be broken down into seven core sectors, following the 2013 report by Thomson Reuters and DinarStandard: Food, Finance, Clothing, Tourism, Media/Recreation, Pharmaceuticals, and Cosmetics.
It makes perfect sense that Islamic banking and finance should underpin the full range of Islamic sectors. This year, I along with other thought leaders such as Rushdi Siddiqui, and Abdalhamid Evans, have been championing the idea that there needs to be a convergence between the practices of Islamic finance and Halal. The Islamic Finance Industry is massive, with more than USD$1.3 trillion of financial assets recorded in 2012; which included Banking, Takaful, Sukuk, and funds. The Islamic Banking industry alone is estimated to reach about 4 trillion dollars by 2018. The global halal industry is valued currently at USD $2.3 trillion.
However, despite their successes, Islamic Finance and Halal currently are demonstrating tendencies towards a reliance on being product driven. Here, product quality and compliance first and foremost means atomising and judging ingredients and processes. However, I raise the question whether Islamic and Halal markets should be more people-driven and people-centric?
It could be argued that in the initial stages of development of Islamic finance and Halal, the reasons for their inception were that they were a reaction in Muslim minority or narrow majority populations for a need to provide assurances that ‘meat and money’, for want of a better term, were fit for Muslim consumption. Also we should not overlook the fact that they presented opportunities for Muslim economic and business growth.
Furthermore, Islamic finance could alternatively be viewed as Halal finance, as Halal means permissibility according to the teachings of Islam. Halal commodities, such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, which are branded with a Halal logo, have to be 100 per cent Halal, otherwise they are not Halal. However, whilst Islamic Finance is Halal, in many instances it falls short of being 100 per cent Halal according to the same benchmarked rules applied to Halal labelled commodities. And within this paradigm lies a paradox.
Muslims continue to grab headlines, with regards their religious beliefs, practices, political views, role in society, and of course geopolitical events. On the other hand, whilst globalisation and transnationalism appears to be steering mainstream business thought and practice on a path towards apoliticism, Muslim majorities and minorities are raising the flag for the importance and role of guiding principles derived from religion, which as a result of the current landscape has also rendered it infused with politics and ideological struggle.
In postmodern, capitalist, and secular societies overtly discussing and celebrating religion in business, and especially Islam, is considered to be taboo in many ways. However, Muslims continue to signal strongly that their Islamic code of ethics have to permeate business practice in such a way that business is a collective and societal obligation and that wider stakeholders outside of organisations are empowered to hold businesses to account, according to legal principles, which encompass the wider facets of human existence.
If we bring discussions back to the UK experience, we have witnessed the arrival of sukuks and shari’ah student loans, and there are discussions about whether Islamic finance would be better served by being referred to as Alternative finance, or Ethical finance. Many businesses choose Islamic banks based upon size, fit, and customer service, not necessarily on shari’ah compliance. And it is apparent that Islamic finance is ill-equipped in being able to serve high-street consumers, regardless of their faith, amongst concerns that this is more about a middle-class lifestyle offering.
Mortgages have been difficult to obtain, especially damning when some customers have been turned down looking to fund mosque projects with sizeable deposits. The reasons for Baroness Warsi’s resignation from the foreign office has opened up debates and the departure of HSBC Amanah finance, and the recent closure of HSBC accounts of a number of Muslim groups have also left a bad taste, reigniting the suspicions of shari’ah opponents and Muslim purists, claiming self-fulfilling prophecies of doom.
The Prime Minister has proposed that the UK should be a centre of excellence for Islamic finance, sentiment I would extend to Halal, other business and management issues. However, universities have been slow on the uptake for a number of reasons and job creation on home soil in these fields appears to be slower than the interest and demand, especially from British Muslims and students from the Muslim world looking for a UK experience and approach.
So what can be done?
Following recent global events in the financial world, I think that this is about more than simply cheerleading and chanting a mantra calling for a new code of ethics. It’s about more than quoting big numbers, growing population figures and, whilst of course important, attempts to co-opt the movement to address geopolitical and societal challenges. Because while there remain big society debates, which speculate on issues such as cities like Marseilles (already one-third Muslim and predicted to be the first Muslim majority city in Western Europe), the current top-down approach to Islamic finance will not address these matters. They will remain rhetorical tropes.
My suggestion is that the focus should shift towards Islamic finance being spearheaded by Halal. The UK is off the pace compared to New Zealand and Australia, who have increased their food exports to Muslim markets significantly. Furthermore, as the reports have suggested the Halal industry has expanded into Pharmaceuticals, Cosmetics, Fashion, and Media – these are all areas that the UK is strong in.
Secondly, ethics should be enacted through supporting local businesses and entrepreneurs. If Islamic finance could present an alternative approach to banking, where businesses were given access to further services, which help them export to emerging Muslim world markets, then this would make it more attractive and embody the concept of profit and risk-sharing espoused by Islamic finance. Banks could forge ties with universities and a pool of consultants in areas such as marketing, IT, and logistics. This way, codes of ethics become collaborative and aligned with the hearts and minds of local communities.
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Balfour Beatty Living Places sign HGV Code of Conduct for all commercial vehicles travelling through Cambridgeshire.
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Balfour Beatty Living Places has signed the Heavy Goods Vehicle (HGV) Code of Conduct for all commercial vehicles travelling through Cambridgeshire.
The code ensures that all of the company’s HGV vehicles will avoid passing through villages wherever possible and will reduce the number of heavy HGVs on Cambridgeshire’s roads. The company’s supply chain partners will also adhere to the code.
The commitment also sets out a series of measures, such as observing weight and speed limits, that will help mitigate the negative effects of large trucks passing through the area. In practice, trucks will take longer routes where necessary, to avoid vehicles travelling along narrow roads.
Joe Goldie, Balfour Beatty Living Places contract manager, revealed that in addition to signing the HGV Safer Roads Covenant, the company is utilising Masternaut technology that will allow monitoring of driver behaviour:
He said: “Signing this code of conduct further supports our commitment to the local communities in which we operate and to create great places to live, work and play.
“Environment and safety improvements are always at the forefront of our minds, along every stage of a project. That’s why we use telematics and vehicle tracking in nearly 8,000 vehicles travelling across the country.
“We want to ensure that we are using our vehicles efficiently and this technology enables us to choose the right type of vehicle for the job. It also helps us to identify drivers who may need further training.”
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The code of conduct is an initiative that Cambridgeshire County Council created. Councillor Mac McGuire, chairman of the highways and community infrastructure committee, said: “We welcome this new pledge from Balfour Beatty Living Places. It shows a serious commitment to reduce the number of large trucks and other commercial vehicle entering our villages and rural communities.
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Last Updated on Apr 6, 2021 by Manonmayi
There’s a thin line between owning a stake in a company and having the influential power over its management. And when the foreign entity owning a stake in a company belongs to a foreign country, the entire affair calls for scrutiny. That is why, we have a foreign direct investment policy in place, to govern and monitor investments flowing from foreign countries in India.
You may be familiar that the government made certain revisions to the FDI policy. Well, this announcement made on Saturday has received both appreciation and criticism from within and outside the country (China). Let us take a look at the revisions:
- Foreign direct investment policy, investments from countries that share borders with India can only flow into domestic companies after the government’s approval
- Approval from the government is also required when entities based out of China make changes in the existing or future ownership of their investments in Indian companies
Well, these only sound fair. But why has this simple piece of news created a massive fuss? We’ll tell you why and more around FDI in this article. Before understanding why China has raised a concern about the revision in FDI policy, let us understand what is FDI and the role it plays in an economy.
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FDI is investment flowing from foreign countries (individuals and companies) into domestic companies. But there’s a limit to the foreign investment to qualify as an FDI. That is, an investment is considered as an FDI only is the foreign company owns a stake equal to or greater than 10% in a domestic company. Conversely, if the investor holds less than 10% stake in a domestic company, it is not an FDI, but just an investment forming a part of their portfolio.
Now that you have understood the FDI meaning, learn about how foreign companies can invest in our country. In India, foreign direct investment is allowed in two ways:
- Automatic mode, where the foreign company doesn’t require government’s approval
- Government mode, where the foreign company has to get the government’s nod
The role of foreign direct investment in the Indian economy
India, being a developing economy could use some foreign investments in India to fuel its growth. Not only does the FDI boost the business receiving funds, but it also fuels the economy. Here’s how:
- FDI opens doors to many possibilities. Apart from funds, the domestic company can also benefit from technological, legal, and other expertise that the MNC has to offer
- Economy-wise, FDIs boost business in various sectors, which, in turn, generate employment opportunities and improves the standard of living in the domestic country
You can read more about FDI here.
What was the FDI policy before the revision?
Previously, only companies belonging to Pakistan and Bangladesh were required to seek the government’s approval before investing in Indian companies. Others foreign investors were allowed to invest in the country via the automatic route. However, such FDIs were not free from conditions. The government required them to conform to sectoral rules and caps before investing.
Now let us delve into the matter.
Why did the government revise the FDI policy for neighbouring countries?
As per the government, the revision in the FDI policy was crucial to protect domestic companies from opportunistic takeovers and acquisitions due to coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. It’s not like our economy is all well. It is hit by the coronavirus, which has stressed businesses, small and big, alike. Unable to run the business seamlessly, these cash-strapped entities would but naturally look for financial resources including investments.
So, what’s the harm if they get an investment proposal from a foreign company? They would heartily accept it and run their operations rather easily. But this whole thing has a catch to it. Now, as per the FDI policy, an investment qualifies to be an FDI if a foreign company holds 10% or higher stake in a domestic entity. This 10% will obviously not give the foreign company major ownership rights in the domestic entity’s affairs but, being a minority stakeholder it can still influence the management of the Indian company.
On observing closely, you’ll find that China has been investing a lot more in India lately. People’s Bank of China’s (PBOC) stake purchase in HDFC is just one instance. Recently, PBOC increased its stake in the home-grown HDFC bank from 0.8% to 1.01%. Even so, PBOC’s stake in HDFC (India’s largest non-banking mortgage) is lesser than 10%, meaning it does not qualify for an FDI. So, why did the government revise the policy and why did the Chinese Embassy react so harshly on the revision, accusing India of discriminatory FDI rules?
Given that the entire world is combating with the COVID-19 impact, the stake purchase by Chinese entities received a lot of doubts. Now, imagine not one, but several foreign companies owning a stake in Indian companies. Yes, look at the bigger picture and you’ll know why the government promptly introduced a new FDI policy for the neighbouring countries. That is, if China or any other neighbouring country for that matter—Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, and Afghanistan—has to seek the coronavirus, government’s approval before increasing or buying a fresh stake in Indian companies.
Understanding the impact of the new FDI rules on Indian economy
Now that the government has increased the scrutiny on FDIs from neighbouring companies, let us understand what the new FDI policy means to the economy and domestic companies:
- Companies belonging to neighbouring countries have to pass the test of government before investing in Indian companies. Should the policymakers find something dicey in the investor’s agenda, any damage intended can be controlled or dodged
- Foreign investors will have to abide by lengthy FDI norms and undergo thorough scrutiny, which is time-consuming. This may discourage them from investing in Indian companies. Moreover, this revision will delay investments, which may force companies to look for funding elsewhere
- Since the revised FDI norms subject neighbouring countries to additional scrutiny compared to other economies, the commercial relationship between the investing country and India may bear damage to an extent
- The revision in the foreign direct investment policy may also pose a threat to the existing business relationships. Notably, China is an investor in 18 of 30 Indian unicorns
China’s accusation on India regarding the revised FDI policy
Seems like the revised FDI norms didn’t bode well with China. Here’s what the Chinese embassy had to say:
- The new FDI rules were discriminatory
- The new FDI policy violates WTO and G20’s global trading norms
- The revised FDI policy challenges liberalisation
To add to this, Ji Rong, the Spokesperson of the Chinese Embassy in India tweeted that they hoped India would revise the new norms and make way for a fair and equitable business environment. Notably, India had received a cumulative investment of over $8 billion alone from China as of Dec 2019.
India’s answer to China’s criticism
India retorted to Chinese accusation saying that its new FDI policy didn’t violate the WTO norms. The government clarified by saying that the new FDI rules simply required its approval. The norms didn’t ban neighbouring countries from investing in India.
India is not alone in this; other countries such as Germany and Australia have also revised their FDI policies to protect their distressed companies. Should we applaud the government for the timely move? Let us know what you think in the comments below. | <urn:uuid:8f2a313e-d03f-496a-b177-fd3222e0189a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tickertape.in/blog/impact-of-the-revised-fdi-policy-on-indian-economy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959578 | 1,615 | 2.125 | 2 |
Congress has extended for an additional year an exemption of budget rules governing the federal E-rate program, which supports telecommunications services in schools and libraries. A one-year exemption passed in 2004 was scheduled to expire at the end of the year.
The exemption allows the $2.25 billion program to commit federally collected money to school telecommunications services based on future revenue, instead of the cash-and-carry rules the Federal Communications Commission imposed last year.
Without the exemption, the FCC would have had to collect a larger slice of the telephone revenues garnered by the nation’s telecommunications companies—currently 10 percent—to fund the E-rate and other programs to subsidize phone services for low-income and rural communities. The companies typically pass along that tax to consumers’ phone bills. Or the FCC might have slowed down the awarding of E-rate discounts, which would have delayed reimbursements of phone and Internet bills to schools and libraries and resulted in delays or cancellations of classroom networking projects.
House and Senate negotiators added the exemption to the fiscal 2006 commerce, justice, and science appropriations bill, which won final passage last month and was signed by President Bush Nov. 22. | <urn:uuid:e264d905-8487-4f8c-965c-427c7b387af3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/measure-to-keep-e-rate-funds-on-track/2005/12 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962288 | 238 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Towering at a staggering 91 feet, (beating Oceania Mall’s company world record by 12 feet), The Aquatic Mall once completed will feature the world's tallest cylindrical aquarium.
The ground-breaking project was launched in 2018, and this 39 Kanal complex is scheduled to be completed within the next few years. The tank, approximately 50 ft in diameter, will be home to nearly 3500 exotic marine species. Whereas the exterior shell is made out of acrylic, provided by ‘Polin Aquariums’. Viewable from all levels of the shopping mall and a world-class capsule lift built in the heart of the aquarium. The Aquatic Mall takes the word “massive” to a whole new level. Marvel at one of the tallest suspended aquariums in the world, which holds up to 1.2 million gallons of saltwater. As you watch our certified scuba divers navigate their way to feed our aquatic animals.
In 2019, Turkish pioneers Polin Aquariums signed on to complete this large scale project - which included everything from designing, sourcing, to the reef installation. As well as providing a functional environment for the cohabiting fish and overseeing all the operations and maintenance of the aquarium. Polin Aquariums is best known for its outstanding portfolio, including the completion of more than 11 aquarium projects spanning over UAE, Turkey, and the USA.
Take a stroll through our underwater tunnels as you breathe in 360-degree jaw-dropping sights. Or indulge in unsurpassed luxury with our more than 300 retail stores including international fashion brands, spacious green apartments, and a plethora of food and entertainment. Built with an intent to enhance the shopper’s experience, the aquarium will be the main focal point.
Get excited, because we are. The Aquatic mall will forever change the landscape of Pakistan. Offering a world of incredible experiences attracting visitors from around the globe. And let’s not forget the thousands of beautiful fish it will showcase. | <urn:uuid:1439be9c-1b2c-45be-8ac5-c4ad0a5984ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theaquaticmall.com/world-tallest-cylindrical-aquarium---the-aquatic-mall | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925424 | 411 | 1.617188 | 2 |
What is Mold?
It’s unsightly, it’s unhealthy and it’s like a ticking time bomb. Mold can be a silent killer. It may seem simple, but the best way to deal with mold is to prevent it from happening in the first place. In the aftermath of flooding or storm damage, that might be easier said than done.
Mold can spread in as little as 48 hours whenever excessive moisture is present indoors. It could be the result of a slow leak, broken plumbing or just high humidity. Indoor mold contamination can contribute to allergies, poor indoor air quality and sometimes it can even be deadly. That’s why mold remediation and restoration in a timely fashion is vital to maintaining a healthy environment.
How Does Mold Spread?
Many homeowners were forced to deal with flooding conditions during Superstorm Sandy, but it doesn’t take a storm of that magnitude to do a lot of damage. Any pipe or water leak can lead to excess moisture in your home. If the drying of wet building materials begins within 24 hours, the chance of preventing mold growth is good. If the materials remain saturated, mold will inevitably start to grow. So eliminating moisture as quickly as possible is an important first step, because the clock is always ticking.
Our Mold Removal Services Can Save Your House
Once mold is present, drying alone won’t be a sufficient plan of attack. That’s when “Mold Remediation” is necessary. ServiceMaster By American Restoration is the specialist in providing mold removal services in Long Island, New York. Moldy materials must be either removed or decontaminated. The process is called remediation, which literally means “to remedy” or “to cure.” The size, extent and nature of the mold contamination will determine which procedures will be required for remediation.
Mold is a microscopic life form that is part of the natural decay process of organic materials. There are thousands of different types of mold, but they share many traits. They require an organic food source, the most common of which is cellulose, found in building materials such as wood and drywall. Molds require oxygen and moisture, that’s why they grow best in warm, damp and humid conditions. Mold spreads by making microscopic spores that become airborne and can survive harsh environmental conditions. Given the opportunity, mold will feast on the structure of your home.
You must be proactive and keep your indoor relative humidity low, between 30 and 50 percent if you’re using a humidity meter. If you see moisture on windows, walls or pipes, dry the wet surface immediately. During summer months you may want to use a dehumidifier and air conditioner.
The bottom line is where there’s moisture, there’s mold. So if you’ve encountered any sort of flooding or water damage, call the professionals at ServiceMaster By American Restoration. We’re the industry leader in water and mold damage mitigation and restoration services. We’re ready to serve you, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Remember, the clock is ticking. | <urn:uuid:3e9b438a-2d15-4e20-a294-01968d61a6ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://servicemasterbyar.com/services/mold-remediation-restoration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925685 | 650 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Palestro was a highly important place in Roman times, as it was situated on the Via Francigena. Conquered by the Etruscans, the Ostrogoths and the Lombards, its first record dates from 999, when it was assigned to the Bishop of Vercelli, by the will of Otto III. After the dominion of the Viscontis (1335 - 1452), it was owned by the Borromeo family. In 1500, the village fell into Spanish hands and eventually in those of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy. Palestro was the scene of the battle with the same name that took place on 30th and 31st May 1859, during the Second Italian War of Independence, which marked the first victory of the Frankish-Piedmontese army over the Austrian troops. | <urn:uuid:00ee9ea7-a8b9-4478-a994-df650aa08338> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.paviatourism.com/en/palestro | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985002 | 172 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Annie's Cat Is Sad (Hardcover)
A little girl navigates her cat's bad day in this picture book about exploring sadness and how we find comfort.
Annie comes home from school to find her cat, Delilah, has had a terrible day and is quite sad.
What do you do when your friend is sad? Cheer them up with all the things they love! Annie tries TV, warm milk, and even yoga! But at the end of the day, no distraction can really make our bad days simply disappear, as Annie knows all too well. You just have to face them head-on, maybe have a good cry, and find comfort in
those you love.
Heather Smith has written a gentle picture book about how we sometimes have to sit in the sadness of a bad day before we can move beyond it. Paired with Karen Obuhanych's bold, emotive illustrations, readers will feel seen by Annie's Cat Is Sad.
About the Author
Heather Smith has 30 years of experience working in art and history museums and art galleries in Canada. She organized numerous travelling exhibitions such as Quilting for a Cause: Red Cross Quilts for the Great War (2019); Vaughan Grayson an Artist in the Canadian Rockies (2006); Keepsakes of Conflict: Trench Art and Other Canadian War-Related Craft (2006); and Fred Strickland's War Sketches (2002). In 2013, she won the publisher of the year award from the Saskatchewan Book Awards for Hansen Ross Pottery: Pioneering Fine Craft on the Canadian Prairies (2012).
"Sometimes we just have to feel our feelings, even when it’s easier to project them onto someone else. Viewers who struggle to express their emotions in a healthy way may benefit from Annie’s acceptance, or at least from her reliance on a trusty feline to make things better."–Bulletin for the Center of Children's Books | <urn:uuid:639ed534-1770-4192-9a48-ff3ec7fe4ea3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nicolasbooks.com/book/9781250806840 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941254 | 409 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Mahmoud Abbas: Trump's Jerusalem recognition 'slap of the century'
The Palestinian President says Mr Trump should be ashamed of himself for claiming that Palestinians were refusing to negotiate.
Monday 15 January 2018 06:52, UK
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has launched a scathing attack on Donald Trump following the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
In a speech to the Palestinian central council on Sunday, Mr Abbas described the move as the "slap of the century" and said the Palestinians would refuse it.
"We said 'no' to Trump, 'we will not accept your project'," he said, arguing that the actions of the US administration had destroyed its credibility as a broker in talks between Israel and Palestine.
"We can say no to anyone if things are related to our fate and our people, and now we have said no to Mr Trump," he said.
Mr Abbas also took aim at the US President's threat to cut off financial support to the Palestinians, following accusations that they had refused to negotiate.
"Shame on you. When did we reject the talks?" he said. "Where is the negotiation that we rejected?"
Talks between Israelis and Palestinians have been mired in failure in recent years as Israel continues to build settlements in the West Bank, an area viewed as the potential site of a future Palestinian state, and violence continues between the sides.
Israel's behaviour had brought an end to the peace process, Mr Abbas said, branding US ambassadors to the UN and Israel Nikki Haley and David Friedman, a "disgrace".
"I am saying that Oslo, there is no Oslo. Israel ended Oslo," he said, referring to the accords, signed in the 1990s, that set the terms for peace negotiations between Israel and Palestine.
Palestinian decision makers have refused to meet Mr Trump since his decision to move Israel's US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem - a city claimed by both Palestinians and Israelis.
Control of Jerusalem is considered a final status issue to be decided in negotiations between the parties, and Mr Trump's embassy move was widely condemned.
Relations between Washington and the Palestinians have sunk to a new low under Mr Trump, while Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has reportedly welcomed his line while pushing for the building of more settlements.
The Trump administration is also reportedly planning to withhold some $60m of a planned $125m contribution to the UN Relief and Works agency which oversees the welfare of Palestinian refugees. | <urn:uuid:5700458f-40f4-43e7-b989-7b3f41a504bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.sky.com/story/mahmoud-abbas-trumps-jerusalem-recognition-slap-of-the-century-11208582 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97743 | 500 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Business broadband is a high-speed, commercial-grade internet connection with added features and dedicated customer support.
If your company is dependent on almost any cloud-based technology solutions, your online connection is a vital part of your daily operations and reaching your earnings targets. Broadband internet service bundles tailored exclusively for companies can offer the additional features, higher safety, and committed service that companies will need to operate effectively and achieve their objectives.
Based on the positioning of your office, it is possible to discover a company broadband package with a variety of costs and rates from lots of the finest internet providers from the nation. To help you in your hunt to find the most appropriate high-speed online service plan to your business, we will break down whatever you want to know before signing a contract.
Company broadband is a high-speed online link to be used in offices and other offices. Consider it as a commercial-grade online solution with extra features and dedicated customer service that is often backed with a solid service-level agreement (SLA).
Reliability is generally ensured, with uptimes of over 99%. While the word “broadband internet” most often refers to cable net plans owing to the wide accessibility, additional business-grade broadband links such as fiber, dedicated net, and enterprise-grade 5G collapse under precisely the exact same umbrella.
By the current standards, these upload and download speeds are usually considered too slow for small business usage and probably unusable in a business setting. If you are using DSL through a telephone line to get online, you are likely to fight with the current bandwidth requirements.
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The greatest contrast among home and business internet, with a model like a fiber service plan, isn’t really the publicized speed, however the additional highlights, level of client care, simple customization, and more exorbitant cost.
Business plans can offer need to various sorts of traffic or the key applications you rely upon the most. For instance, you can focus on your organization traffic for HD video conferencing and online courses over different applications that you consider less significant, like framework reinforcements.
Your service supplier may likewise have the option to focus on your business traffic over any contending private traffic at busy times to promise you get the data transfer capacity you need. In this way, while speeds among private and business plans may appear to be similar from the outset, they frequently vary extraordinarily once you consider the additional highlights accessible for business customers and the choking that happens to private clients.
Different highlights – including a static IP address and additional layers of safety, for example, firewalls and cloud-based DDoS insurance – are likewise generally accessible from the significant business broadband service providers.
Most business customers will actually want to alter their arrangements substantially more than private customers can, yet it’s the service-level arrangements and client assistance that truly put the two alternatives aside.
These tough SLAs are legally binding commitments for execution that outcome in business customers accepting need for client care via telephone or on location when they need it. Numerous SLAs ensure internet uptimes of more than 99%, with plainly characterized methods for remuneration if the normal service level isn’t met.
Sad to say, the kinds of internet support for company are usually confined by place. If you run in a rural portion of the nation, authentic small business broadband might not be an alternative. If that is true, you might be stuck with DSL or picking from a mobile hotspot and satellite net . But if your company is located in a more populated area, cable or DSL internet, dedicated net, and fiber are viable solutions.
Cable ought to be viewed as the base innovation prerequisite for businesses where it’s open. Outside of provincial regions, cable internet is broadly accessible with high paces and unwavering quality.
For private ventures with no critical dependence on cloud-based services, a cable internet bundle with speeds more than 100 Mbps could be sufficient. Bigger businesses or organizations that depend intensely on cloud-based frameworks should look to higher internet speeds for smooth HD video conferencing and continuous correspondence with their cloud-based programming.
Committed internet is a fixed-transmission capacity association that your business doesn’t impart to some other clients. Since you’re not offering transmission capacity to neighbors or even businesses on isolated floors of a similar structure, personal time and irregularities in speed are far more uncommon.
It’s an ideal broadband association for organizations that focus on security and protection, but at the same time it’s appealing to average size and undertaking level associations that utilization requesting network applications in their everyday activities.
In the event that it’s accessible around there, you should consider fiber for the best download and coordinating transfer speeds. Fiber offers comparative gigabyte download velocities to the best cable internet – and transfer accelerates to multiple times quicker.
While fiber cable foundation is as yet carrying out across the U.S., you’ll see that most significant urban communities and huge business places are prepared for lightning-quick internet access. Yet, with a normal expense of $27,000 per mile to lay fiber cable, its rollout to less thickly populated regions could be exceptionally lethargic.
For businesses that need broadband associations outside the workplace, cell phones running on 5G organizations can be a feasible arrangement in the correct conditions. While severe information covers and lower speeds imply that cell phones and devoted areas of interest can’t rival other broadband arrangements, they can offer HD video conferencing and a lot of capacity for web perusing, email and visit when in scope of an organization tower.
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Figuring out what’s accessible at your business address is the initial step, since providers and rates can shift broadly by area. An area based inquiry online should give you a speedy rundown of the alternatives around there. Service providers like Google Fiber have a location search capacity to tell you about accessibility rapidly.
Additionally decide the best internet speed for your business. Are different individuals at the same time partaking in HD video gatherings? Is it accurate to say that you are transferring huge records to the cloud routinely? Take a gander at how your business utilizes your internet association and the number of individuals use it simultaneously to sort out how much speed you need.
In the event that you have any custom prerequisites, impart them to your possible providers to guarantee your valuing covers all that you need in your arrangement. Do you deal with security in-house, or would you like some assistance from your service supplier?
Do you have to focus on traffic for customers during business hours? Study the SLA to perceive what you might have the option to revise to all the more likely suit your organization’s requirements.
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Verizon, AT&T, Google, Comcast and Spectrum are a portion of the service providers offering broadband plans custom-made to business customers. Contingent upon the area of your organization, cable or significantly quicker alternatives like fiber and devoted internet might be accessible. To pass judgment on these service plans against one another reasonably, we’ll center around the top plans from every supplier as far as accessible rates.
At the point when you contact a potential service supplier to examine valuing, you can ordinarily haggle better terms with packaged bundles or longer service arrangements – so accept their recorded costs as a beginning stage with some squirm space for your particular necessities. Not all plans or paces are accessible in each market, so you should connect with service providers exclusively to figure out what’s open for your accurate business address.
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Pilot flying World War I-style battleships in the upcoming wargame Castles in the Sky.
Designed to support at least a two-player game, Castles in the Sky: A Wargame of Flying Battleships takes place in an alternative 20th Century in which the Great Powers of the modern world – such Britain, USA, Germany and France – discovered the key to flight in warships. The development of the air screw successfully led to the creation of flight-worthy battleships that navies could ‘sail’ across the skies, getting into fights with ships from enemy nations and potentially changing the tide of war for good.
As the captains behind these aerial ironclads, players will be commanding their battleships across the battlefield, determining their movement and attack patterns. Using the rulebook for Castles in the Sky, players will be able to learn how to navigate their ships – represented by miniatures – and engage with enemy forces. Before battle, players will have to assemble their fleets using the various units available to each of the eight national navies.
Once they’ve formed their respective fleets, players can then embark on a series of scenarios included within the book, with every scenario presenting the captains with unique challenges and obstacles for them to overcome alongside their battles against each other. Only the player who is able to command their flying fleet victory will be named the winner of the wargame. | <urn:uuid:1a27a1a8-6d73-4388-9c56-92b4e276c8f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dragonsdengames.com/product/castles-in-the-sky/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962437 | 290 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The end of growth?
Published on June 3, 2020.
Our economic and financial system is made for growth. It is addicted to ever more debt to fuel growth. As demographics turn or already have turned in all Western countries from Japan, Europe to the United States, where will growth come from? – Ever more consumption from less or older people?
It is definitely something to think about right now, as global economic activity came to a halt due to the Corona pandemic. When this crisis is over, will growth in the United States just resume or might the US catch up to Japan and Europe which have experienced no or rather low growth for quite a while? Look at the stock markets in the US, Europe and Japan below, it is remarkable.
In a recent podcast, Adam Robinson convincingly argued that the US may be headed towards the European and Japanese path, at least in the broader economy. For sure they still have the big tech monopolies dominating the internet and benefiting from continued growth. However, investors may may have to select more carefully for the winners and sort out the losers in the future.
Emerging markets as the last frontier?
Emerging markets, which are also among the cheapest markets globally (see for example the Global Value portfolio), still experience both population growth and growth in consumer spending, as they have a growing middle class. But they also face problems, as some markets depend on industrial commodities, not ideal in a deflationary world. Others depend heavily on exports of consumer goods to western economies or have debt denominated in foreign currency, such as US-Dollars. This could cause them trouble should the Dollar strengthen further. However, some countries especially in Southeast Asia, like Vietnam, should have a positive economic outlook at least relative to other countries around the world.
How to position yourself for low to no growth
What has worked in the past can still work in the future. But when we consider the past, most of us think about the last 10 to 20 years and not much further back. For investors, the 1970s with high inflation and low growth (Stagflation) in many parts of the world, seem very distant. Especially as the last 40 years were marked by ever lower interest rates, medium to high growth, rising asset prices and low inflation.
The “Dragon Portfolio” may work well in any environment
Chris Cole from Artemis Capital Management argues that these days most investment managers are just too young to have experienced a different investment environment like the 1970s. So in his interesting paper “The hawk and the serpent” (Link to Artemis PDF Download, you can also watch a great interview with Chris Cole on a Recession proof portfolio) he looked back 100 years with the intention to create a portfolio that will work in any investment environment. A very different approach than the classic 60/40 Equities/Bonds portfolio, which has performed extraordinary well in the last 40 years but not so well in times of high inflation or deflation, like the 1970s or 1930s. The so called Dragon portfolio worked extremely well in any environment, whether inflationary, deflationary, low growth or high growth. George Gammon did a great video on the Dragon portfolio, definitely worth watching. The construction of a Dragon-like portfolio for retail investors will be discussed in a follow-up post on this blog. | <urn:uuid:3704c042-626e-48e6-96fd-5dba239d7264> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://michael.report/end-of-growth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962808 | 679 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Apple finds itself in front of a Senate Subcommittee today, defending its elaborate practice of keeping cash offshore in order to minimize their tax liability.
The thing is, Apple is far from the only company that does this. While they keep the most cash offshore by far, other companies have similar schemes to dodge taxes. For example, we explained Microsoft's elaborate international tax avoidance structure earlier.
The use of international tax havens by corporations was detailed in a Senate report released last September.
Here's a list of companies that keep upwards of $5 billion in cash equivalents offshore, avoiding paying U.S. corporate income taxes: | <urn:uuid:1dea1216-f850-4c3a-9ba5-121a5b770982> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://refreshingnews99.blogspot.com/2013/05/17-great-american-companies-that-keep.html?showComment=1369242244862 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947894 | 124 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Irish President Michael D. Higgins’ decision to decline an invitation to attend an October ecumenical religious service commemorating the centenary of North Ireland–an event Queen Elizabeth II is expected to attend–has set off a firestorm of criticism.
Bobby McDonagh, a former Irish ambassador to London, Brussels, and Rome, weighed the go/no go quandary for The Irish Times:
On the one hand, the president, as someone who has been and remains to the forefront in promoting reconciliation, could have decided to attend the event. He could have noted that the intention was to “mark” rather than to “celebrate” the controversial events of a hundred years ago. He could have attended the religious service in the spirit in which the church leaders who issued the invitation no doubt intended it, as a prayerful ceremony to reflect on past events that have led to a century of much pain and heartache on all sides.
On the other hand, the president will have been aware that partition remains a deeply controversial and contested issue across the island and that many in Northern Ireland regard him as their president. He will have understood that the distinction between “marking” and “celebrating” can be deliberately muddied and would have been, by some, in this instance. He may have considered that the wording of the invitation, even if it refers to acknowledging failures and hurts, did not fully capture the organizers’ intention of marking the full complexity of our history, including radically divergent views on partition. He was also aware of his obligation to avoid political controversy; indeed in 2016 he pulled out of an event in Belfast to mark the Easter Rising because it did not have cross-community support.
Higgins made a state visit to the United Kingdom in 2014, including a stop at Windsor Castle, three years after the monarch visited the Republic of Ireland. Nevertheless, Ulster unionists (who declined to attend the 2018 visit of Pope Francis to the republic) have characterized Higgins’ decision as a snub to the queen. It’s certainly a distraction from their sinking poll numbers and ongoing struggles with Brexit and COVID-19.
Higgins has also faced some criticism at home. He told the Times:
There is no question of any snub intended to anybody. I am not snubbing anyone and I am not part of anyone’s boycott of any other events in Northern Ireland. I wish their service well but they understand that I have the right to exercise a discretion as to what I think is appropriate for my attendance.
Leaders of the Roman Catholic Church, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian Church in Ireland, Methodist Church in Ireland, and the Irish Council of Churches have said they will attend the Oct. 21 event. I expect there will be further developments over the coming month. | <urn:uuid:84f80e61-e3e7-4a43-ac18-a4fe48be29b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.markholan.org/archives/11042?shared=email&msg=fail | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.979662 | 581 | 1.921875 | 2 |
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New Mexico ranks 39th in the U.S. in life insurance premiums paid. New Mexico life insurance premiums accounted for 0.49 percent of all premiums in the nation.
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The death rate of 741.6 (per 100,000 residents) in the state of New Mexico ranks 25th in the nation, and is
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Guest posting monster Dr Frood is not a real doctor, but he is a real boy. He resides in the darkest dungeon of the internet and is prone to exaggeration and lies.
In honour of the latest twists and turns in the soap opera we used to call American politics, it’s worth brushing up on your own powers of argument and persuasion. In the coming weeks, this lecture series will demonstrate the methods for winning or at least ending arguments using science.
This lecture series will avoid jargon like ‘straw man’ or ‘ad hominem logical fallacy’ except where it doesn’t, because such language doesn’t get you laid.
We’ll start things off lightly with some simple techniques appropriate for any occasion, be it pub, children’s party or board meeting.
Understand Your Opponent’s Jargon
Debating jargon like ‘cognitive dissonance’ et al should be avoided at all costs because you have some self-respect. Likewise anything that looks, smells or tastes like Latin, such as ‘et al’. But you need to understand jargon so that you can properly call your opponent a pompous douchebag when they use it.
There are many formal and informal logical fallacies, but here are some of the more common ones:
Ad hominem: if he or she calls you a twat, that’s ad hominem – it’s not about the merits or otherwise of your argument(s), but all about you personally. Example: ‘Obama was born in Kenya.’
Straw man: an argument that is misrepresented by your opponent as superficially similar to the one you actually made, but which crucially is indefensible. Example: “it’s necessary to balance civil rights and the state’s powers of intrusion.” “So what you’re saying is that you want the terrorists to win.”
False dichotomy: an apparent choice between two options, that actually isn’t. A common example would be freedom of the individual vs security of the people, but we’ve already used that one. Example: you have a choice between a burger or a pie. But the menu says that you can have a pie filled with burgers. Or lasagne.
Confirmation bias: we actually all do this so it’s good to be aware of it. Your brain retains things that reinforce your bias and edits out contradictory evidence. Example: I think that people who call themselves ‘spiritual but not religious’ are wankers – every time I meet a wanker who calls him-or-herself spiritual, that impression is reinforced. There are many otherwise lovely people who also describe themselves in such terms, but I can’t recall ever having met a single one, even if I have lived with one or two of them over the years.
That’s enough of all that. Let’s get on with winning.
Use Jargon To Your Advantage
At some point one of you will become even more pretentious than I am. If your opponent reaches this point first, say something like ‘I’ll see your straw man and raise you an ad hominem: you’re a dickhead.’
This is an exception to the ‘no jargon’ rule because technically you’re being funny, which good-natured liars claim makes you attractive.
Use Your Words
At some point in the argument you will experience a sinking feeling, a gut realisation that your opponent is more clued-up on the subject at hand, be it who was a better space captain: Kirk or Picard, or why you should do the washing up more often.
You will find that the tide is turning against you. But at this point it is important to keep your head and use your words. It doesn’t matter that he or she can reel off statistics that prove that actually the Eurozone isn’t the UK’s biggest political and economic concern; or that he or she has taken the bins out every week for the past seven months and it’s your turn.
All you have to do is say the following:
“Ah, well now you’re talking semantics.”
Because no one actually quite knows what that word means or even if it’s a bad thing to do. Crucially, they won’t want you to know that they don’t know that a word you’re pretending to know is not in fact a word that either of you knows. Win.
Use Your Words Part 2
But say that your opponent has deployed the ‘semantics’ argument. You’re not sure how to react. Here’s what you say:
“No I’m not.”
Ball. Back. In. Your. Face. Loser.
Introduce A New Element
Men who’ve been married for a long time will know that this comes instinctively to wives.
You think you’re fighting about whose responsibility it was to buy more fabric softener, and out of nowhere she sucker-punches you with ‘well I still can’t believe that you said what you did to my aunt Sheila, you know how sensitive she is. And while we’re on the subject, would it kill you to put the toilet seat down once in a while?’ And boom, instant fluster.
Your opponent thinks you’re arguing about the merits of expanding the permanent security council of the UN, suddenly BAM! ‘Yeah, well camembert is just shit brie’.
Whoa, I just totally changed your perspective and stuff.
Use Your Fists
Pretty self-explanatory, and afterwards they’ll have quite forgotten whatever rapier-like point they were about to use to pierce through your entire argument and leave you looking like a small-minded bigot. Win.
The caveat here is that if your opponent is bigger than you, or looks like a biter, you’ll probably get beaten to a pulp. On the plus side, this will mean that your opponent has lost his or her temper and therefore you’ve won by default. Win.
The rest of this series will go into a lot more detail about a variety of options, including the invention of fictional experts and studies and the advantage of getting your opponent very, very drunk.
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Islamabad: Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have taken what they describe as “the first step toward a pill that can replace the treadmill” for the control of obesity, though that shift, of course, would not provide all of the many benefits of exercise.
HSCI principal faculty member Chad Cowan and his team members at Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), a Harvard affiliate, say they have created a system using human stem cells to screen for compounds that have the potential to turn white, or “bad,” fat cells into brown, or “good,” fat cells, and have already identified two compounds that can accomplish that in human cells.
The path from these findings to a safe and effective medication may not be easy, and the findings will have to be replicated by other research groups, as well as refined, before they could lead to a clinical treatment.
However, Cowan said that the two compounds discovered so far “target the same molecule, and that molecule plays a role in the inflammatory response. So if you administered them for a long time, the person taking them could become immune-compromised,” which argues against the use of these initial compounds without modifications. One, however, is already on the market, as a treatment approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for rheumatoid arthritis.
White fat cells store energy as lipids and play a role in the development of obesity, type 2 diabetes, and related conditions, including heart disease, while brown fat has been shown in mice to lower triglyceride levels, reduce the insulin resistance associated with type 2 diabetes, and burn white fat.
When the body takes in excess energy, it is stored as lipids in white fat cells. When there are too many calories coming in and not enough burned, adult stem cells in the body produce more white fat cells, adding to a person’s burden of fat.
Cowan’s group has found two small molecules that convert fat stem cells, which normally would produce white fat, into brown-like fat cells. These brown-like fat cells burn excess energy and thereby reduce the size and numbers of white fat cells.
The report by Cowan, an associate professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, and colleagues was released online earlier today by the journal Nature Cell Biology. Annie Moisan, a postdoctoral fellow in Cowan’s lab, is the lead author of the study.
Cowan said that what “we were really impressed by is that there are some compounds that have this same kind of effect when they are administered to animals, but when you remove them, the effect goes away. But what we saw here was a stable conversion” of white fat cells to brown cells.
“You’re constantly replenishing your fat tissue,” Cowan explained, “so if you were on a medication to convert the cells, each new fat cell would be more metabolically active and would convert to brown fat over time,” reducing the likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes or any of the other conditions related to a buildup of fat.
A former postdoctoral fellow in HSCI co-director Doug Melton’s Harvard lab, Cowan began working with fat cells more than seven years ago, when he established his own lab, which originally was in the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine. “I wanted to use stem cell-derived fat for this purpose and to understand aspects of type 2 diabetes and obesity, which my lab still does,” Cowan said.
But the path to this point has been a long one. Cowan said that while there were reports in the literature of research groups producing fat cells from stem cells, “we couldn’t get any of those protocols to work. So we had to spend the first three or four years perfecting the protocols to produce white and brown fat cells.”
The current findings resulted from a sponsored research collaboration with drug giant Roche Pharmaceuticals, Cowan said, but “unfortunately, the collaboration with Roche has ended because the company decided, for unrelated reasons, to end its metabolic disease program.”
“We found these two compounds by screening a library of about 1,000 compounds,” Cowan said, “so we know that if we have access to the typical pharmaceutical company library of 1.5 to 2 million compounds, we will find others.” Cowan is currently in discussion with several pharmaceutical companies about continuing the work. Additionally, a collaborator in Germany has been testing the first two compounds on mice. “We expect to have results fairly soon,” Cowan said, adding that, “The compounds appear to work the same way in mice, but we don’t know what the long-term metabolic or immune system effects are
“This is the kind of thing we expected the formation of HSCI” a decade ago to lead to, Cowan said. “The good news/bad news is that science is slow. Just establishing proof of concept takes an enormous amount of time. We thought that working with stem cells would lead to the discovery of new drugs and therapies, and now it’s really starting to happen. A decade of hard basic scientific work is paying off.” | <urn:uuid:52f227de-3a60-43a3-b620-c288e0edb0e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://covert.com.pk/2020/12/13/obesity-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.967918 | 1,112 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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Family & Social Child Developement
Eating out with kids (without phones and tablets!)
Phones and other electronic devices are a boon with fussy children, particularly when eating. The diversion is sometimes so addictive and so easy to implement that it slowly turns into a default go-to measure especially when dining out. There are many studies showing that the combination of screen time and meal time as a routine prevents a mindful experience and family bonding, but what can you do as a parent to help your kids break out of this addictive and harmful pattern?
Lead by example
Children do what children see. Keep your phones away for the duration of the meal. Make it a challenge. Who can go the longest without a device? Out of sight can also help keep the attraction out of mind. Encourage children to interact face to face, and by setting an example, you are paving the way to a device free family mealtime.
Use the extras
Many restaurants in Singapore have kid friendly play areas or activities. Let your child explore them. It may be a simple puzzle on the placemat, board games, bouncy castles, arts & crafts trampolines or a petting zoo. Plan ahead by choosing child-friendly restaurants, explore and have a peaceful dining experience while your child has a blast.
A well-rested child is a well-behaved child
Late nights and odd sleep patterns make for cranky children. Before you plan a meal outside, make sure the little one has had enough sleep and rest and the mealtime does not interfere with the regular napping schedule. A great time to eat out would be during a weekend brunch, for example. A nap before a restaurant outing is often enough to make sure they are calm and don't need the help of a device to soothe themselves. Toddlers cannot be expected to sit quietly for more than 15 minutes, so do not fret when a child needs constant entertainment.
Sometimes all it takes is crayons and a sheet of paper. It is often fun to create a small and attractive activity bag for kids to carry. Fill it with their favourites things to do. It could be a small box of blocks or puzzles, play dough, flash cards, draw and wipe slates etc. If you forget the activity bag, try sorting the cutlery or condiment sachets into sizes or colours. Let your kids make up a story about Mr Spoon and his neighbour Ms Plate till the food arrives.
Trick or Treat
Sometimes the tantrums may get too much to handle, particularly in a public setting. For younger children, locking the phone and claiming a technical glitch or switching off and saying the battery is dead often does the trick. For older children who can make out these little white lies, try a treat. Either something that they like a favourite dish or a book. If everything else fails, set boundaries. Promise fifteen minutes of screen time in exchange for a fun and together family meal.
Train a foodie
Do you love eating out and trying out different things? Why not share the enthusiasm with your child. Weave a story about the food they are about to eat- how it is cooked or sourced; describe the tastes or textures to make them want to try it. Inculcate an appreciation of food; it is the basis of most cultures in Asia and a wonderful way to show your children its importance.
For older kids, this works as a charm. Include them in the conversations you are having. Ask them for opinions about their day or even a simple, what did you like on your plate? Make sure that the conversations the adults are having is child friendly and can be followed easily.
In our technology saturated world, making mealtimes a device free experience is tough, not just for kids, but for parents too! Although you might face some challenges, keep trying and don't give up. Having dinners where everybody is engaged with each other will create a stronger family bond and will impart important social skills to your children in the long run.
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Foreign believers revive Islam in Guangzhou
By Louise do Rosario
It is midday on Friday outside a modest green building in Guangzhou that houses the body of the first Muslim missionary to China, who arrived in AD 650.
The faithful queue up to pay their respects – Pakistanis, Hui Chinese with small, trim beards, Africans with white prayer caps and Chinese Uighurs in dark suits.
“Saad ibn Abi Waqqas was sent here by the Prophet Mohammed to convert the Chinese,” said Ma Guoxing, a native of Ningxia in northwest China who has lived in Guangzhou for over ten years. “He is famous all over the Islamic world and people come from everywhere to honour him.
“At our mosque here, we get 7–8,000 people every Friday, sometimes up to 10,000. Half of them are non-Chinese. The foreigners have revived Islam in the city. We do not have enough mosques now.”
Close to the tomb is a mosque built by the city government in the 1990s. The crowd is so large that the imam has piled prayer mats on the surrounding steps and paving stones for them to use.
“It is my religious obligation to pray on a Friday,” said Muhammad Lamine, a native of Senegal who lives in Angola and comes to China regularly to buy goods to export. “I feel comfortable in Guangzhou. The imam recites in Arabic, the universal language. In Islam, we are all brothers, whatever language we speak.”
He is one of the thousands of Muslims, from Africa, the Middle East and south Asia, who live in Guangzhou or come here regularly for business. They have rejuvenated the Islamic life of the city.
The Islamic Association of Guangzhou counts 30,000 foreign Muslims and 80,000 Chinese ones, from Guangzhou and other areas, especially the north and west. That means a doubling of the city’s Muslim population since 2008.
It has only four mosques, not enough to meet the demand. The government strictly controls the construction of new religious buildings.
Arab restaurants and Halal meat
The past ten years have seen a large influx of Muslims attracted by the surge in China’s foreign trade since its entry into the World Trade Organisation, in 2001.
Guangdong is the factory of the world and Guangzhou the front shop of this factory. Merchants earn a higher profit by placing orders themselves here, in Shenzhen, Dongguan and other production centres in Guangdong than by buying goods through middlemen.
The merchants either pay regular visits, like Lamine who has been coming to the city for more than ten years. Or they set up home here, with their families.
They mainly buy clothes, shoes, cosmetics and consumer goods, including mobile phones, computers, televisions and other electronic goods.
The influx was accelerated by 9/11, which made it harder for Muslims to obtain visas to the United States and other Western countries amidst the heightened anti-Muslim sentiment. In Guangzhou, such hostility is absent; foreign Muslims feel welcome. “People in Turkey buy Chinese clothes, shoes and other goods, as do people everywhere in the world,” said Ekrem Turkoglu, a Turk who has lived in the city for more than two years with his family.
“It is easy to live here. If you have money, everything is easy. My children speak Chinese at school and Turkish at home. I want them to learn Arabic, to read the Koran. But three languages – that is too much work!” he said.
To cater to this influx, a large number of Arab and Turkish restaurants selling food prepared according to Islamic regulations have been established in Guangzhou. Two are owned by a family from Yemen who has been living here for ten years.
“There are many of these restaurants now in Guangzhou and other Chinese cities,” said Turkoglu. “This is a very important issue for Muslims. I do not dare to eat in a Chinese restaurant. The food there may contain pork or meat that is not killed according to Islamic rules.”
This limits social contact between Muslims and Chinese, for whom pork is a central part of the diet; pig fat may also be used to cook vegetables and other dishes. Many Muslims follow the ban on alcohol, which can be an additional obstacle to social contact.
Guangzhou people welcome the visitors, as long-term residents or regular travellers.
“Guangzhou has a tradition of being an open city,” said Wang Minghong, a taxi driver. “We welcome foreigners to come here as long as they behave properly and respect the law. The Arabs mostly do trade and buy Chinese goods to export to their home countries. That is good for our economy.”
The welcome is more muted for the thousands of Africans who have made their home in Guangzhou. Drivers complain that they sometimes do not pay the fare and jay walk in front of them in a dangerous way and that their way of life is too different to that of Chinese people. “Arabs have a better reputation,” said Wang.
Arrival of Missionary
Even before Abi Waqqas arrived in Guangzhou, Arab merchants had established trading posts in the city.
Abi Waqqas was a maternal uncle of the Prophet and one of his first converts. According to Chinese Muslims, he arrived here in AD 650, 18 years after the death of the Prophet, as the first missionary to China and part of a dramatic expansion of the new religion.
He and his delegation sailed across the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea to reach Guangzhou. Then he travelled overland to Changan, now Xian, capital of the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907).
He brought gifts and was well received by Emperor Gaozong, whose government was watching with intense interest the rapid expansion of Islam around the world.
After making his own investigations, the emperor gave his approval to the new religion, saying that it was compatible with the teachings of Confucius. He allowed Waqqas the freedom to propagate the religion and to remain in China.
This set the tone for the good relations between the Arab world and the Chinese state – Imperial, Nationalist and Communist – for the next 14 centuries.
In Guangzhou, Waqqas built the first mosque in China with a free-standing minaret; it is one of the oldest mosques in the world. At 12 metres high, it became known as the Lighthouse Mosque, serving as a beacon for centuries for ships on the Pearl River. It was the tallest structure in the city and had a weather-vane by which mariners could tell the direction of the wind. Today it is called the Huaisheng Mosque. Waqqas died a wealthy man in AD 664.
Chinese as well as many non-Chinese Muslims say that Waqqas is buried in the tomb in Guangzhou; but some Arab scholars say he was buried in Medina, Arabia. His is one of many tombs of Muslims in a large park full of trees; it is testimony to the Islamic presence in the city over the centuries.
His followers built imposing mosques in many cities in China, including one measuring 130,000 square feet in Changan and in Quanzhou, Hangzhou and Yangzhou. They were most successful in converting the people of the north and west but had little success in the heartland in the centre and south.
Nearly half of the Muslims in China are Hui, Han Chinese people who converted; most live in the north and northwest, especially Qinghai, Gansu, Ningxia and Shaanxi provinces.
Among the faithful that Friday were many Hui, who are racially similar to the Han; many wear a white prayer cap and have a goatee beard. At the entrance were four of them holding out a cloth and inviting people to donate money for the building of a mosque in a county in Qinghai, west China.
The other major group of Chinese Muslims are Uighurs and other Turkic people from Xinjiang. Many live in Guangzhou and come to Friday prayers. Watching over them was a large police presence. In the street leading to the mosque were dozens of stalls selling halal meat, fruit drinks, carpets, prayer mats and Islamic clothes for women. Many beggars asked the faithful for an offering before they made their prayers.
Official figures put the total number of Chinese Muslims at about 22 million.
Most Guangzhou people are little interested in the tomb or the mosque. Many look down on the Hui as a minority with whom they have little in common. Inter-marriage with them is rare, since it involves the non-Muslim converting and adopting the dietary rules of the Islamic community.
Glory of Tang Guangzhou
Abi Waqqas arrived during the Tang dynasty (AD 618–907), when China was the richest and most developed country in the world.
Guangzhou was its major trading port and window to the outside world. It was the start of the ‘maritime silk road’ which carried silk, porcelain, tea and other Chinese products to India, Persia, Iraq, Arabia and Egypt, in exchange for spices, ivory, pearls and other exotic goods. It was one of the largest commercial cities in the world. The imperial government set up a customs office there; this revenue became an important part of the national revenue.
The collapse of the Roman Empire and the frequent dynastic changes in the Eurasian region disrupted the overland Silk Road and gave a great impetus to the maritime route along the southern waters.
Guangzhou attracted tens of thousands of merchants from the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, including Muslims, Jews and Christians. The government gave them land outside the city wall in a southwestern suburb between the city and the Pearl River; they built large houses, mosques, restaurants, schools and community centres. It was a centre of trade and intellectual exchange between East and Middle East – a forerunner of what is happening today.
It may have been the city with the largest population of foreigners in the world. It largely ruled itself; the emperor appointed a general to oversee this foreign quarter, implementing foreign rather than Chinese laws.
But it had a tragic ending. As the Tang dynasty declined, there was increasing resentment among the Chinese population toward the wealth of the foreign merchants.
In AD 878–879, a rebel army led by Huang Chao conquered the city and massacred between 120,000 and 200,000 foreigners, including Jews, Muslim Arabs and Persians, Zoroastrians and Christians.
Their only crime was that they were foreign and wealthy. They were a scapegoat for the troubles which plagued the end of the glorious Tang dynasty.
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First Language: Hausa
Education: Undergrad Health System Management
When I was in college in Nigeria, I would have like two or three pages for my exam, I would have to sit down and memorize it: definition, definition. What is the difference between this and this, the differences according to so and so person and the definition of this is this. The teacher expect you to write the definition. But here, if you write a definition by a Webster dictionary, the teacher is going to say you are copying work, it is not your work.
For me right now, I prefer the American system because I don’t have to cram anything. If I was a good writer then I know my GPA would be 4 because I understand and I know how to apply them but I cannot write. But now I have four daughters, I don’t have the brain to memorize the definitions, I cannot memorize any more. But back home my husband say we have to define every medical word; we have to know what is this definition, but here he say when he ask the doctor what is this, they say give me a second, they go open the textbook, you know, read what it says and come back and explain.
When you are writing an essay back home, you don’t go like following some certain rules or regulations whereby you have to have introduction, thesis, conclusion, body. In Hausa you don’t have to do all that. What is more important is the ideas that you are putting on the paper, that is what is more important.
The academic world is English. We speak in English, we write in English. It is a very well educated country and Nigeria I guess is the largest African country and the population and the economy is the largest; we have the highest number of graduates in the country, but the formal system is British system.
~On attitudes toward plagiarism in Nigeria:
Really, it is not like English. Whereby there is less emphasis on taking somebody’s word, it is not like here, if you write a textbook and if somebody copy your paragraph, you can sue somebody for taking. But back there when you say something and you move to the next word it is not a big problem. Emphasis on citing where it comes from, it is taught, but not enforced. You know somebody’s word is somebody’s word and you can’t use and claim as yourself. But say you are writing some history about Nigeria; you can go and say the first president on his first speech say “so, so, so.” No, you are going to write it like you are the one who say it.
~On definitions of good writing:
Well it depends on the reader. If the reader has an English background, he might say this is not organized. But if it is a Hausa reader, then this is what is expected.
I am taking Business, I am taking History, Geography, Sociology; my courses, all my courses, even back home, the content, everything you teach me I understand; everything you teach me, philosophy, psychology, everything I understand it, because back home education is very important, we study a lot of hours, not like here two hours you finish the course, back home from morning till 4:00 teaching, one class, teaching, teaching, teaching. We have a textbook, like when my husband came here, he says the doctors here they don’t know anything and I say why do you think and he say because those medical terminology you have to cram them in your head you know. For example, I say if I know how to write, American system of education is very easy, and the reason is let’s say for example they ask you about politics; in the British system you have to cram and memorize the definition of politics and you have to say politics is “so, so, so” and it started on this, in “so and so” country, define it and use your source. You have to memorize it. In the American system, the teacher asks you what is politics; you don’t have to say politics is defined by “so, so” person; no, you say, “oh politics is some kind of government, elected government, America we have president, the senate, the past,” and as soon as he understand you have the concept you are fine to go. But back home you have to understand and memorize what is this.
~On how she advises others from Nigeria coming into the U.S. academy:
I tell them they should find a teacher, somebody who major in English. I know it is hard to get, but somebody who major in English, somebody who teach in college or university, to come teach them English, teach them how to write, and that is when they go to take the TOEFL they will do well. Always what I learn from studying in America, to be a good writer, it is not only to write; to be a good writer, reading also helps because you see how others do it. So I tell my sister, now I buy books, I said everybody has to read this book and when you finish you give to your sister, you pass it over; get used to the habit of reading and if you can read it, take a piece of paper, I don’t know how to do it, but I don’t want what happened to me to happen to my sister. I say, when you read, write. Let’s say you read two pages, and you ask yourself what you read; sometimes you read and your mind is somewhere else you don’t understand.
In Nigeria, we have an English teacher. Even though everything is in English, but we do have an English teacher who says “this has to be this way and this has to be this way.” But there is less emphasis to teach us how to do that, because of the Hausa part we don’t need to do that.
Our politicians on TV, they don’t go around the point. They go straight to, they don’t go like, “Nigeria is a rich, we are trying to…” No, they just go straight to the point, “the problem in Nigeria is corruption, people are taking the money, the poor are suffering.
~On participating in class discussions:
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Children on the autism spectrum are unique and wonderful human beings. Along with their many strengths, a diagnosis of autism can mean your child has behavioral challenges that make communicating, socializing, and coping at school and home more difficult. If your child is diagnosed with autism, there are many different behavioral therapies to help learn about and manage your child’s diagnosis. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of behavioral therapy for children with autism.
No two people are the same, especially those on the autism spectrum. So no two therapy plans should be the same either. ABA therapy is a personalized treatment plan for helping children grow their communication, educational, or interpersonal skills. Your child’s therapy team will sit down with you and your child and discuss which areas you’d like to focus on and use their previous experience to develop a customized plan. Part of the process is circling back and checking what’s working and what isn’t. As time progresses, the plan may change to meet new needs and work towards new goals.
Improves Confidence and Self-Esteem
When your child learns to move through what may seem like a complex set of rules and social norms, their confidence level often rises dramatically. ABA programs are designed to work with your child’s level of development and build upon previously learned skills as they progress through therapy.
It is common for children on the autism spectrum to have difficulty with communication. These issues can range from being unable to form words to not making eye contact or engaging with the other person. One of behavioral therapy’s key benefits is improving communication skills.
Because of the structure of therapy sessions, children can do fun activities, repeat behaviors multiple times, and receive praise. This creates a desire to communicate and participate more fully in the therapy sessions.
Creates a Safe Environment
Positive reinforcement and reward system is a key part of behavioral therapy and the main reason it is successful across all ages and diagnoses. Instead of feeling scared and nervous if they get things wrong, the child feels safe and secure to try new things because they receive positive feedback. This technique is proven to work because it encourages desired behaviors instead of focusing on negative ones. It’s also much easier to see progress this way, as it keeps everyone encouraged and hopeful for continued growth in the future.
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Do You Sit On A Bidet
Some bidets do not have jets but instead simply have a faucet that fills the basin as you would fill a sink basin.
Do you sit on a bidet. A bidet is intended to help you wash and clean up after using. There is no seat on traditional bidets so you just have to sit on it with your legs swinging around. Always use the toilet before you use the bidet. Just adjust yourself as necessary.
Note that most bidets don t have seats but are still meant to be sat upon. Gradually open the spray valve until adequate pressure is achieved to flush the remaining feces from the anus. You climb aboard a standard bidet the opposite direction that you would sit on a toilet. Some bidets do not have jets.
You just sit directly on the rim. If your unit is the kind that sprays up from the basin then it s pretty much an auto wash and dry off with a towel. Gradually turn on the tap for hot water first and see if the temperature is right. You sit and poop normally just make sure to face directly forward.
You will see different taps for hot and cold running water. You just sit directly on the rim. Some bidets will need you to keep a continuous hold on the controls so there s no way of telling you how to do one for certain. They simply have a faucet that fills the basin much as you would fill a sink basin.
Many bidets you have to straddle or sit on a cold porcelain rim mine you sit on just like your toilet and it has a heated seat. You ll just have to experiment and move as necessary. Unless the seat is designed terribly you won t get your pants wet. After you re done you turn the bidet on for a few seconds then dry it off.
Sitting on the bidet the most challenging thing you may find to do is aiming it right. Note that most bidets don t have seats but are still meant to be sat upon. These bidets are separate fixtures which usually sit right next to the toilet. Make adjustments to the water temperature and the.
Straddle or sit on the bidet. It is easy to use some of the other bidets are a little time consuming to use as you have to use the toilet then move over to the bidet mine is great because it s attached to the toilet. With bidets that are standalone fixtures you have a choice of either facing.
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While this was an improvement on December 2017, health bosses warned the worst of this winter could still be to come.
There were 16,862 emergency attendances at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in December.
Of those, 4,146 patients waited more than four hours to be admitted, transferred or discharged.
The NHS’s target is for 95% of patients to be dealt with in four hours, but at Leeds Teaching Hospitals trust, it was just 75%.
This was better than December 2017, when 70% of patients were seen within four hours.
Across England, the number of patients waiting more than four hours reduced from 292,860 in December 2017 to 270,171 last December – despite overall attendances increasing.
Dr Nick Scriven, president of the Society for Acute Medicine, said: “There is more demand on the NHS, but that is something those of us on the frontline have been warning of for some time, and it cannot become an acceptable rationale for poor performance.
“My sincere hope is that the so-far mild weather has not lulled our leaders into a false sense of security, and that just because things are better than 12 months ago, this does not make it good, as key targets in preparing for winter were not achieved.”
An NHS spokesman said: “Thanks to the hard work of NHS staff, monthly figures published this morning show the health service performed better for A&E services this December, than December 2017, despite successfully caring for 3.9% more people within the current four-hour target.
“We are now in what can be the most pressured time of year – flu, other winter bugs and adverse weather conditions can all increase, so the situation is being closely monitored.”
Shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth criticised the “staggeringly bad” NHS England figures, saying they were a “shocking indictment of nine years of Tory cuts, failure to recruit staff and a botched NHS reorganisation”.
“Patients are waiting longer in pain and distress, with a real risk that their health could deteriorate further,” he said.
“Patients deserve better.”
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Exploring Southfield MI
Southfield MI rests in Oakland County, Michigan and has a population of more than 73,000 individuals. Southfield shares a border with Detroit, which lays just to the south of the city. Lathrup Village exists within Southfield’s city limits as an autonomous enclave.
A Brief History of Southfield MI
Southfield came to fruition upon its settlement by John Daniels in 1823. The first residents arrived from neighboring areas such as Birmingham and Royal Oak, Michigan, in addition to New York and Vermont. Originally, the area was named Ossewa Township, however the named was changed a few weeks later to Southfield Township. A post office was built in 1833, followed by a town hall in 1873.
Southfield remained part of the Southfield Township until 1958 when it incorporated as a city. This was done in an effort to prevent annexation by the City of Detroit.
Today, you can find the Southfield Town Center complex which is home to five connected office buildings. Of those, 3000 Town Center reaches heights of 402 feet, making it the second-tallest building in Michigan outside of Detroit.
If you live in Southfield MI, happen to be visiting, or are simply passing through the area, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to find ample amenities and activities. Check out these local favorites:
Park West Gallery saw its establishment in 1969 by way of Albert Scaglione. Today it spans more than 63,000 square feet and features historic Renoir paintings in addition to more contemporary artists.
The Carpenter Lake Nature Preserve occupies 42 acres of woodlands, wetlands, and meadows. Carpenter Lake offers a wonderful and serene spot to take in the wildlife.
Inglenook Park provides a great spot for the kids to play at the playground. Stop by to have some fun in the sun and burn off some energy. Inglenook Park can be found on 12 Mile Road.
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Art nerds know that Autodesk’s SketchBook Pro is the go-to animation for illustrators, but what they’ll learn tomorrow morning is that it’s also a powerful tool on the go. SketchBook Mobile is the handheld edition of its popular full-size counterpart, and will be available for iPhone. (Below, a drawing by D. Guertin, which can also be found on the SketchBook Mobile flickr group.)
The app will go head-to-head with Brushes, the famous little app used to pen Jorge Colombo’s recent New Yorker cover.
As Core77 notes, SketchBook Mobile’s principal advantage may be its ability to work with six layers of images, all of which can be re-ordered or turned off as in Photoshop. There is also a pretty astounding array of brushes for such a diminutive drawing program, as well as uber-useful features like multiple undo’s, and sketch symmetry.
If you’re accustomed to working on a tablet, you’ll be pleased to hear that the tools are pressure-sensitive; though the iPhone’s touchscreen doesn’t have that mechanical ability, it’s simulated by the app. SketchBook Mobile costs $2.99 from the App Store, and it may very well come to replace your collection of napkin sketches. | <urn:uuid:d0e9ab12-1f69-49d1-bb7e-fd92e49233fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fastcompany.com/1359603/autodesks-sketchbook-goes-mobile-has-pressure-sensitive-brushes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947244 | 291 | 1.5 | 2 |
As we grow older, and our children have children, there’s a powerful desire to spend time with younger family members. Savvy grandparents know that one way you can make that happen is to have an at-home environment that kids can’t resist.
That’s why in the last five years or so, I’ve been meeting with more and more prospective clients who want to make sure that their home is a fun place to be, where their families look forward to visiting on a regular basis.
Some will even admit with a wink that they want their backyard to be the “better backyard” compared to the other grandparents and family units competing for time with the younger generation.
It’s easy to understand why they feel that way and are investing large sums of money in pursuit of their plan. Most people recognize that our 21st Century world is brimming with distractions designed to keep faces buried in computers, smart phones and binge-watching TV.
Creating an environment that motivates kids to get off the couch and jump in the water is very appealing for many people, especially those who already enjoy an active lifestyle.
|Water slides, which are arguably the greatest “grandkid magnet” available, can be built one of two ways: either you construct them from scratch using masonry materials, such as gunite and plaster, or you buy them pre-made in a factory using fiberglass or other composite materials and then assemble them on site. Design and photos by Scott Cohen for GreensceneLandscape.com.|
Some might say that this is arguably kind of manipulative and most kids should want to be with their grandparents because they love them. While that is certainly true enough, the reality is that kids will be kids and they are drawn to fun like iron shavings to a rare-earth magnet.
From a pure business perspective, this magnetism-based approach to watershape design has some distinct advantages. On one hand, the over-50 demographic is our company’s sweet spot. Members of the aging Boomer crowd have resources, they value the at-home environment, are willing to spend money on creativity, and those who have grandkids are ready to make the decision to go forward with their project.
As for the kids themselves, it’s a safe bet that many who have fond memories of fun and frolic at Granny and Pop’s house may well be inclined to own a pool of their own someday. In fact, it is all those fond pool-side memories that I personally have that got me into the pool business in the first place.
The line-up of potential fun features should be familiar to most watershapers. We know that fire features, waterfeatures of all kinds, outdoor kitchens and dining area, pizza ovens, among other such amenities, are great for satisfying adult needs. That is part of the formula here because getting the grandchildren excited usually starts with the parents. If the grown children enjoy being there, that’s a great start. And in almost all of these projects, the homeowners are also concerned with features they will enjoy themselves.
THE BRAT PACK
The real key here is all about the kids. Those self-centered, wonderful little knuckleheads may think they know everything, as most kids do until they get older, but they can be easily enticed, and incited, with the right set of features.
The list is long and may include: shallow lounging areas (great for small kids), splash pads, caves and grottos, basketball hoops, volleyball nets, and above all, slides (more on slides below).
|Grandparent have an arsenal of outdoor fun option they can use to keep the young ones coming back for more. The menu includes splash pads, grottos, rope swings, giant outdoor games, themed elements (like this charming rowboat spa) – some of those might even appeal to grown-ups, as well.|
Away from the water, things like simple bike/scooter paths give kids places to move through the yard. There are all sorts of yard-sized games you can include in the landscape, everything from checkers and chess, to giant Jenga games. Putting greens with artificial turf, horseshoe pits and sport courts have also increased in popularity amongst fun-minded homeowners.
(Unfortunately, we don’t deal in playground structures or treehouses for liability and insurance reasons.)
Add it all up, and you can offer quite the menu of enticing design features. Everything we do for family fun can be put into the mix.
The discussions start with my initial questionnaire, which includes who’s going to be using the yard? When grandkids come up, I ask if they’re close by, and do they visit frequently? When the answers are yes, I know it’s time to explore what types of features they might like to include.
Each of these features warrant separate detailed discussion. For now, let’s look at slides as one of, if not the, most popular backyard kid magnet features.
GO FOR A RIDE
I know designers who don’t particularly like to use slides because they can be tough to work with aesthetically, they can take up a lot of space and do present a potential risk profile, especially if you’re not experienced choosing and installing them.
When you’re trying to attract kids, however, there’s nothing that works quite as well as a waterslide. The mainstay of waterparks for decades, with small versions popular in backyard pool (we all remember the curved fiberglass playground-style slides of the 1960s and 70s) backyard waterslides have become bigger, faster and more accommodating from a purely aesthetic perspective.
Even small slides can add a major dose of fun and frolic to the scene. We’ve found that a 10-foot slide can be almost as much fun as a 50-foot slide, which means that you can incorporate slides in projects with relatively modest budgets. You don’t have build a waterpark-scale feature for big-time fun.
There are two basic options for adding a slide: pre-manufactured slides, and those built on-site from scratch, typically using gunite and other masonry materials. We’ve done both and have moved toward using composite material slides made in a factory.
Like so many watershaping features, slides may seem simple enough, but there are multiple variables involved. Building a slide on site means working with factors like friction coefficients, rider ergonomics, pitch and radii, and safety factors. The biggest challenge is the surface coating. We’ve found that the slide-coating products on the market don’t hold up very well exposed to sunlight long term. So, you’re recoating them every couple of years.
MADE TO ORDER
When you purchase a pre-manufactured slide that’s delivered with installation instructions and all the flumes, necessary support structures and hardware, the manufacturer has already done all the mathematic calculations and design.
Quality manufacturers provide guidelines for things like how high the slide’s exit should be above the water’s surface. How deep the water should be at the bottom of the slide, the amount of space you should devote to the splash down area, the water flow rate and volume down the slide, and guidelines for the steps and approaches leading up to the slide.
|If it’s not about fun, what’s the point? The big bottom line when it comes to competitive grandparenting is many are ready to invest significant resources to make a splash with the younger generations.|
I’ll give a shout-out to my preferred manufacturers, Paradise Slides and S.R. Smith, both of which make a quality slide and provide solid sales and technical support. The process involves submitting plans with basic information about the slide, which the manufacturer uses to design and price the slide, and then packages and ships when you order it.
The safety aspect is serious business and you need to be aware there are design criteria and safety margins manufacturers carefully observe for liability and insurance reasons. Given that no one wants anyone to ever get hurt on something they’ve built, and given that we live in an aggressively litigious society, I can only applaud the caution and design rigor the manufacturers provide, even if it isn’t always convenient.
Like many other products in today’s market, delivery time can be an issue. If you have a client who is champing at the proverbial bit, or has a specific date in mind, you may need to calibrate their expectations.
Naturally, the longer and more complicated the slide, the more time it can take.
Incorporating a slide into the design always means allocating the necessary space, which can be a challenge in small yards. Even affluent homeowners living in expensive homes face space and sometimes height limitations due to property line setbacks and homeowner association rules.
It’s always less expensive when you can mount the slide on grade on a slope, making the most of hillside lots. On flat ground, you have to create the support structure, which adds to the cost and visual intrusion of the slide. Oftentimes, slides installed on flat lots are incorporated into faux rock structures or different types of architectural elements, as well as plantings, that in effect conceal the supports.
Installing premanufactured slides are not inordinately tricky, but require care and planning. We usually assemble them on the ground and then elevate them into position using a temporary two-by-four structure. We hen we locate our footings exactly where they need to be. That’s much easier than trying to calculate footing locations on paper in three dimensions, which can be surprisingly tricky.
LIKE AN OLD TOY
While slides are fantastic for kids, they do have a shelf life. They’re really meant for ages three or four up to about 16, and then most people are kind of done with it (outside of adults of various ages getting drunk and going down the slide at a party).
Some clients do think in terms of removing slides later on, which tends to favor smaller, more self-contained slides that can easily disappear without a trace. Bigger slides with large support structures, or those incorporated into the landscape or rock structures, are obviously more permanent in nature.
That same consideration applies to most anything you include strictly for kids. Some features are more timeless than others. A splash pad, for example might be seen as a fountain feature later on after it has served its purpose as a play feature.
Obviously, if you’re including themed elements like a pirate ship or a slide that looks like a Flipper or Puff the Magic Dragon, the appeal of those items will fade as children grow.
In the meantime, there does seem to be an entire generation of clients who are ready to take up the battle for the grandkids.
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This a man that I greatly admire. He was brave while he was imprisoned and even braver after he was elected President. Nelson knew that in order for South Africa to move forward, it could not dwell in its past sins and atrocities.
President Mandela celebrated his 95th birthday on July 18th and he was hospitalized for a lung infection back in June. Even though he is showing improvement, his situation remains critical.
Just like everyone else, no leader is perfect. What is important is the legacy that their leadership gives to us. Here’s to you, Mandiba.
Two years ago, the most popular Halloween costume for adult women that I witnessed was the Sarah Palin look. This year, I’m thinking that Guy Fawkes will be popular. We were going to attend a few parties on Saturday dressed in our Guy Fawkes costumes, but the heavy, wet snowfall kept us home instead.
I don’t have much more to say at this moment so I will leave you with a song and vintage clips from the 1921 film, “Haxan Witchcraft Through the Ages”.
This is our Open Thread for today. Speak Up on any topic.
When will the US Government’s abuse of Native Americans end? When they are all dead? Or is it when they all forget their great heritage?
This week, NPR did a mini series on “Indian Child Welfare”. Even though the law states that Native American children are to live with a family member within the tribe, South Dakota places Native American children in foster care outside of the reservation. Fifty percent of the children living in foster care in South Dakota are Native Americans. In case you missed this story, you can learn more about it here, from Native American Netroots.
According to NPR Laura Sullivan is known for her investigative reporting on the plight of the country’s most disadvantaged people. NPR also lists Ms. Sullivan’s 2007 revelation of the widespread rape of Native American women on their reservations, committed largely by non-Native men. This tragic story took place, and continues to take place, on the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in the Dakotas.
The Lakota Peoples Law Project (LPLP) has documented the theft and destruction of Indian children. Native children are being taken at an alarming rate. LPLP investigators and attorneys have found that the South Dakota Department of Social Services in a misguided attempt to help the children removes them from their families and places them in non-Indian households, foster-care settings, and state institutions for years. These children often experience sexual and emotional abuse, medical over-drugging, and inadequate education. According to LPLP lead attorneyDaniel P. Sheehan, the current system is a failure. Mr. Sheehan’s research shows that South Dakota, is one of the worst offenders nationwide. Nearly two-thirds of children in state foster care in South Dakota are Native American. By age twenty, over 60% of these children are dead, homeless, or in prison.
The greedy are not content with all the land that they stole over the past 150 + years. They are now going after more land. So the Dakota Oyate have occupied the Crow Creek Reservation.
The Lakota have struggled for 158 years. Here is their story which will not be found in any school board approved history book.
Today is our 30 year wedding anniversary and we will be spending the day in Philadelphia doing the “freedom tour”.
For most of my life, I have lived in the southeastern part of Pennsylvania. During all these years, I have never seen the Liberty Bell. With the looming shutdown of our government due to its inability to pay the bills or the closing of government buildings due to the cuts, cuts and more cuts, now could be my last chance to get to Independence square and see some of the artifacts that are part of our nation’s beginning. It’s anybody’s guess as to what will happen if the US defaults on its debt. One thing for sure is that government employees would be laid off, seniors would not receive their Social Security checks, veterans would not receive their benefits, and nursing homes could close which would create more job losses. Basically, more people will be out of work and there will be less money to spend and BUSINESSES WILL SUFFER. Default is NOT an option. Our bills must be paid.
This is our open thread. I won’t be around today as I will be searching for freedom. You will need to Speak Up and do all the chatting.
Like many other critters, humans are hoarders. Animals in the wild will hoard food. Humans, will hoard anything. Only the hoarder knows the true value of their “things”. Hoarders will collect and keep anything and everything. Another animal behavior is picking through things. Again, this is usually a search for foods and sometimes tools. There are humans that enjoy picking through things, too. There are the junk collectors and if the items are something of value such as an antique or “collectable”, then the junk collector is given the high title of “picker”. Both the junk collector and the picker are not opposed to dumpster diving which is a topic for another time. Picking has been elevated even further by the History Channel when it created the show “American Pickers”.
As things go, a friend of mine will be featured on “American Pickers”, tonight, July 18, on the History Channel. This dear person is a collector of many different things. The item that I like best that he collects is the mechanical toys such as antique cymbal clapping monkeys. This song is a tribute to my friend.
This is our Open Thread. Speak Up and let us know if there is anything that you hoard collect. I collect glassware.
Former (and current) Neo Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, neo-Confederates, and other representatives of the many wings of the “white nationalist” movement are starting to file paperwork and print campaign literature for offices large and small, pointing to rising unemployment, four years with an African-American president, and rampant illegal immigration as part of a growing mound of evidence that white people need to take a stand.
Yes, indeed. An African-American president is the cause of all of our unhappiness. What our nation needs is to return complete power to white men and then everything will as it should be. This also means that women along with people of color, MUST lose their right to vote. Women better head back to their homes and be subservient to their husbands. As for the blacks, then need to get their dupas (butts) back into the fields. There’s crops that need picking.(sarcasm)
Not all fascists are racists. All racists are fascists.
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Georgia has put tough immigration laws into effect and as a result, many immigrants, both legal and illegal, are refusing to work in the fields picking crops. It is estimated that up to 40% of Georgia’s produce will be left to rot in the fields.
The governor of Georgia created a plan to help with the labor shortage. Probationers are encouraged to work in the fields. Unfortunately, it is not working out so well for the growers as these new workers quit half way through the day. Productivity is low and is not sufficient to complete the harvest.
Mendez put the probationers to the test last Wednesday, assigning them to fill one truck and a Latino crew to a second truck. The Latinos picked six truckloads of cucumbers compared to one truckload and four bins for the probationers.
“It’s not going to work,” Mendez said. “No way. If I’m going to depend on the probation people, I’m never going to get the crops up.”
Conditions in the field are bruising, and the probationers didn’t seem to know what to expect. Cucumber plants hug the ground, forcing the workers to bend over, push aside the large leaves and pull them from the vine. Unlike the Mexican and Guatemalan workers, the probationers didn’t wear gloves to protect their hands from the small but prickly thorns on the vines and sandpaper-rough leaves.
Why does the United States have a boring war song as its national anthem? First of all, most people can’t reach all the notes when singing the song. Secondly, the melody is depressing. And thirdly, it is uninspiring and unexciting and it doesn’t evoke patriotism or the love of one’s nation. Here are some other choices. Just look at the excitement and joy in the crowd.
This is our Open Thread. Do you have a favorite patriotic song or other ideas? Here is a chance to Speak Up! And if you have the time, be sure to scroll down the page or the side bar and look for other new and exciting posts. One more thing… the teabaggers and the Republicans do NOT own the flag. It is our flag, too. So they can go…
Last week, my mother-in-law broke her hip. She had to spend some time in the hospital and after three days, she would be moved to a skilled nursing facility for rehabilitation. When presenting the list of facilities, the case manager asked this question, “Does she have regular government Medicare?” The answer was, “Yes”. We were then informed that all the facilities accepted Medicare and that only a few accepted Medicare Advantage (private insurance) and even then, there needed to be a pre-approval by the insurer before the patient can enter the treatment facility.
Medicare Advantage was created for the benefit of the insurance companies. Sarah Palin was confused when she said that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act would create death panels. These death panels have been in place since 1997 with the creation of Medicare Advantage.
If my mother-in-law wasn’t enrolled in the socialist program known as Medicare, she would not be getting the care that she needs to “get back on her feet” again.
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin. Teach your children that we have taught our children that the earth is our mother. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of earth. If men spit upon the ground, they spit upon themselves.
Was focused on Weiner’s weiner, an important terrorist trial began in Chicago, IL. David Coleman Headley, a confessed American terrorist and Pakistani spy, was testifying in the trial of Tahawwur Rana. Headley is the star witness against Rana, his childhood friend.
Besides admitting to being one of the masterminds of the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Headley also worked for the DEA. So instead of facing the death penalty, Headley is spilling the beans. Then again, Headley is a known manipulator and liar so the outcome of this trial will be dependent upon whether the jury believes Headley or not.
The greedy Republicans want ALL of our money. Last Friday, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX), introduced a bill that would allow workers to immediately stop contributing 6.2% of their pay to Social Security and instead, put this money in a “Savings Account for Every American” (SAFE).
That would take the place of the 6.2 percent the workers now contributed to Social Security.
Another 6.2% is sent to Social Security by employers. Under the Sessions bill, employers would continue to make this matching contribution to Social Security, but after 15 years, employers could also send that amount to the employee’s SAFE account.
Under the bill, employees would be able to make tax free contributions to their SAFE account, and take tax-free distributions at retirement age. The bill would also allow employees to stay with the Social Security program if they wish.
From “the bill”…
‘‘(2) The trustee is a bank (as defined in sec20 tion 408(n)) or such other person who demonstrates 21 to the satisfaction of the Secretary that the manner 22 in which such other person will administer the trust 23 will be consistent with the requirements of this sec24 tion.
A bit more from “the bill”…
‘‘(3) No part of the trust funds will be invested
2 in life insurance contracts.
3 ‘‘(4) The interest of an individual in the bal4
ance in his account is nonforfeitable.
5 ‘‘(5) The assets of the trust will not be commin6
gled with other property except in a common trust
7 fund or common investment fund.
Gar Alperovitz claims that the bombing of Hiroshima was a matter of economics and that the underlying purpose was how to run a global economy that favored American goals while preventing another economic depression.
Alperovitz is Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland. He is one of the founding principals of The Democracy Collaborative. Previously, he was a fellow at King’s College at Cambridge University, a founding fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University, a fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and a guest professor at Notre Dame University. He has also served as a legislative director in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate, and as a special assistant at the Department of State.
In an interview with Keane Bhatt at Truthout, Alperovitz states that he believes in “planned trade” where restrictions are placed on imports so that the US can rebuild its manufacturing base. He also believes that local non-profit “land trusts” will be a model for achieving “meaningful democracy”.
A land trust is simply a nonprofit corporation or a government agency that owns land, so that when development occurs, the profits of that development accrue to the owner, which in this case is public or nonprofit. And that’s very important in the context of gentrification, because if there’s a housing boom and the prices go up, poor people are kicked out because the prices are too high. So, if the land trust owns the land under the housing, it can stabilize housing costs. They already do this in many parts of the country because they are nonprofit corporations committed to low- and moderate-income housing.
Another example: when a city builds a subway system, land prices go up and the land becomes very valuable around every exit, because it’s a high-traffic area and commercial development is possible. So, who should own that land? If the city gives it away or sells it, then profits are made by the real estate developers. Many, many cities don’t do that now. They own the land and lease it so that they can make the profits from that implicit form of land trust, and pour it back, usually, into support for the mass transit system. That’s conventional now. What’s interesting about these various forms of democratizing ownership is that they’ve spread around the country in the last decade and a half and their numbers have gone from just a handful to hundreds. They answer a problem nothing else can. So, land trust development is an interesting example of what happens when there’s great pain. Traditional answers don’t work, and democratizing ownership in one or another way very often becomes a pattern.
You can read the entire interview here. It is well worth the time.
Gar Alperovitz’s views offers hope and in this time of uncertainty, we need positive ideas and not more negative, fear-provoking disinformation from both our government and the media.
Northwest Indian War or Little Turtle’s War or Miami’s Campaign – 1785-1795
Franco-American Half War – 1798-1800
Barbary Coast War or Tripolitan War – 1801-1805
War of 1812 or Second War of Independence – 1812-1815
Second Barbary War or Algerian War – 1815
First Seminole War – 1817-1818
Arikara War – 1823
Winnebago War orLe Fèvre Indian War – 1827
Black Hawk War or Black Hawk Campaign – 1832
First Sumatran Expedition – February 6 – 9, 1832
Second Seminole War or Florida War – 1835 – 1842
Texas War of Independence – 1836
Mexican War or U.S.–Mexican War – April 25, 1846 – February 2, 1848
There are 61 more wars to add to this list. You can view the rest here.
Let us not forget the “TV” war – Vietnam. If George W. Bush actually fought in Vietnam, he would not have been so eager to invade Iraq. Approximately 58,220 American soldiers lost their lives in Vietnam. This doesn’t include the millions of Vietnamese that were killed. War is not the answer. After all, what is war good for?
This is our Open Thread – Speak Up! Our freedom demands it.
The Supreme Court of the United States of America spit on our democracy when they handed over our government to rich corporations, both domestic and foreign, by their decision to support Corporations Citizens United.
This is our Open Thread. Speak up or Sing, which ever works best for you 🙂
Making English the official language and banning the use of other languages in school is nothing new to this nation. Pennsylvania Dutch was spoken freely in the schools in southeastern Pennsylvania until the early 1900’s when the Pennsylvania legislators decided that children should not be speaking both English and German. They wanted to kill the use of languages other than English and by doing so, they hoped to suppress the Swiss/German culture in the state. Despite their efforts, Pennsylvania Dutch can still be heard, spoken by many of the farmers living in southeastern PA. A similar thing happened in Louisiana where the use of French was prohibited. Banning French failed as the language lives on in music.
In the early 1900s, Louisiana authorities tried to suppress Cajun culture, banning the use of French in schools. But in recent decades, the Cajuns have repossessed their heritage and display an obvious pride. One major unifying force is Cajun music and dance, which is something of a family affair.
This past week marked the 75th anniversary of the publishing of Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell. On May 4, “Talk of the Nation” (NPR) interviewed writer Pat Conroy who had this to say:
“When I was 5 years old, my mother read me Gone With The Wind at night, before I went to bed,” Conroy says. “I remember her reading almost all year.”
Listeners were invited to call in or email their comments. Several women called and stated that Gone With The Wind taught them “how to be a lady”. Hum… I wonder, is being a “lady” something to be proud of? How would Mammy really feel about serving Scarlet O’Hara and all the other white ladies and white gentlemen of that time? No one asked and my guess is no one really cared. With all the racism that has appeared in the open in the past 3 years, have things changed at all today?
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House lawmakers roll out bill to invest $500 million in state and local cybersecurity
A group of bipartisan House lawmakers on Wednesday rolled out legislation that would provide state and local governments with $500 million annually to defend against cyberattacks, which have escalated over the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The State and Local Cybersecurity Improvement Act, led by House Homeland Security Committee cybersecurity subcommittee Chairwoman Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.), would create a grant program to provide $500 million annually to state and local governments over the next five years for cybersecurity needs.
The legislation, provided to The Hill to review Wednesday, would also require state and local governments to submit plans for securing their systems against cyber threats in order to obtain the funding, and establish committees to implement the plans.
Clarke teased the legislation last week during a subcommittee hearing on ransomware threats, noting she would reintroduce it “in the coming days.” It was passed by the House last year, but failed to get a vote in the Senate.
“As the ever-increasing number of ransomware attacks on state and local governments demonstrates, adequate investment in cybersecurity has been lacking, and more resources are needed,” Clarke said at the hearing. “This legislation would ensure funding is available, while insisting state and local governments step up to prioritize cybersecurity in their own budgets.”
The bill is a major bipartisan effort, with House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), ranking member Rep. John Katko (R-N.Y.) and cybersecurity subcommittee ranking member Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.) among the sponsors.
House Foreign Affairs Committee ranking member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Reps. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) and Derek Kilmer (D-Wash.) are also co-sponsors.
Katko testified at the same hearing last week that he was “looking forward” to pushing the legislation, noting that “equipping state and local governments with the resources to bolster their defenses is an important step.”
“While we all can agree more resources for our state and local governments are necessary, we must also ensure these funds are spent responsibly, and effectuate meaningful impacts on risk reduction,” Garbarino testified at the hearing. “This important bill is a tremendous step forward in our fight, but we can’t stop there.”
State and local governments have come under intense pressure from cyber threats over the past few years, and in particular during the COVID-19 pandemic, as more operations moved online and hackers targeted vulnerable and sometimes aging systems.
Schools, hospitals and libraries have been among public institutions targeted by ransomware attacks, among other cyber threats, and the city governments of Baltimore, New Orleans and Atlanta have been forced to spend millions of dollars to recover from ransomware attacks targeting operations in recent years.
The bill also comes as the nation continues to grapple with the fallout of a succession of major cyberattacks.
The SolarWinds attack, first discovered in December, allowed Russian government-backed hackers to compromise nine federal agencies and at least 100 private-sector groups, while new vulnerabilities in Microsoft’s Exchange Server allowed Russian and Chinese hackers to potentially compromise thousands more organizations.
Last week, Colonial Pipeline was forced to shut down operations due to a ransomware attack on its IT systems. The pipeline provides 45 percent of the East Coast’s oil supply. As of Wednesday, the suspension of operations has lead to fuel shortages in some areas of the country.
Clarke, Thompson, Katko and Garbarino joined the bipartisan leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee to send a letter Tuesday night to Jake Sullivan, President Biden’s national security adviser, expressing strong concerns around the Colonial Pipeline incident.
“We are deeply concerned about the security of our nation’s critical infrastructure and the industrial control systems (ICS) that underpin many national critical functions,” the lawmakers wrote. “As we have repeatedly stressed, cybersecurity is no longer just an ‘IT issue’ but instead an economic and national security challenge that can have real-world impacts to our security.”
“It is imperative that the federal response is rapid, clear, and consistent,” they stressed.
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BEACHWOOD, Ohio — City lawmakers recently passed legislation that will require seat belts on all new school buses here, providing up to $250,000 in funding to pay for the equipment.
Beachwood City Council, in cooperation with the Beachwood Board of Education and Mayor Martin S. Horwitz's office, approved Ordinance No. 2018-195 at a city council meeting on Dec. 17.
Rudy Breglia, a citizen advocate with the School Bus Safety Alliance, attended the meeting and told School Bus Fleet that the ordinance, which requires lap-shoulder belts to be installed on all new Beachwood City Schools buses, marks the city as the first in the state to implement such legislation.
Vicki Challenger, a third grade teacher for Hilltop Elementary School, said that the ordinance was initially prompted by classroom discussions among city council members and third grade students during a civics lesson.
“In each of my six classes, the idea to implement [seat belts] came up numerous times,” Challenger, who teaches about 90 third grade students a day, said. “Some of the students kept saying, ‘If we have to wear seat belts in a car, why not wear them on a bus?’”
The idea particularly struck a chord with Beachwood City Council vice president James Pasch, who broke his neck and back in a school bus rollover accident while in high school, according to a news release from the council.
Pasch, along with other city council members, were impressed with the students’ recommendation, and had invited them to attend their city council meeting in December, Challenger said.
Approximately 50 people, including students and their families, attended the meeting as well as the ice cream social held after the event to celebrate the passage of the legislation, Challenger noted.
“It was huge turning point for safety, given the tragedies that have happened in the past year,” Challenger added. “I’m just so proud because this is not an experience I could have taught to the students — to actually see how local law works.”
Breglia added that the legislation is a significant step toward improving school bus safety in Ohio.
“Having seat belts installed in school buses is a big step, and student safety should really be a priority for us,” Breglia said. “In Ohio, only school bus drivers have been required to wear seat belts since 1986.”
Breglia also noted the state's current pending school bus safety initiatives, which include a final vote by the Avon Lake Board of Education to conduct a seat belt installation trial for one to three new buses purchased with lap-shoulder belts. The buses, which the board of education plans to order in spring 2019, would be used as “highway travel buses” for field trips and sporting events, Breglia added.
In May, Ohio state representative John Barnes introduced a bill that would require lap-shoulder belts on all school buses that are either purchased, owned, leased, or rented as well as new replacement and existing school buses. If HB680 becomes law, Ohio would be joining other states, including California, New Jersey, and Nevada that require lap-shoulder belts. | <urn:uuid:a9e12ecd-f201-44ac-887d-7b389456f0bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.schoolbusfleet.com/10040813/ohio-students-help-pass-city-law-for-lap-shoulder-belts-in-school-buses | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974952 | 677 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Vivitrol is the trade name for Naltrexone, which is an opioid receptor antagonist and used for the management of alcohol and drug dependencies as well as opioid dependencies. The generic form of the drug is marketed as a hydrochloride salt named Revia or Depade using the chemical Naltrexone Hydrochloride. The drug also has a second cousin named Relistor, which uses the chemical Methylnaltrexone Bromide to manage and fight constipation caused by opioid use, or opioid abuse.
Most people tend to confuse Naltrexone with Naloxone. These are both used for, basically, the same thing, however, Naloxone is used in cases of, once-off emergency, overdose situations, while Naltrexone is used as a long-term, continual, dependency control. If Naltrexone is mistakenly used in the place of Naloxone, it will not hold any side-effects, but it will not help the person overdosing as there is not enough opioid antagonism released. However, using Naloxone in place of Naltrexone, as a longer term control, will throw the patient into terrible withdrawal symptoms, even worse than if they were withdrawing naturally.
While Vivitrol is used to hinder the effects of drugs and alcohol it is not wise to take any drugs or alcohol when you are using it. In essence, Vivitrol is used to wean addicts off of a substance by blocking the effects of chemicals on the body. Taking any drugs or alcohol while you are taking Vivtrol holds dangerous effects. Taking a large amount of alcohol or other drugs to counter the effects of Vivitrol holds the most danger with reports of patients falling into deep comas or even dying. It is important that you speak to your doctor even if you are given prescription drugs or over the counter medicine for diarrhoea, cold, pain or even a cough, as these medicines may contain narcotics or alcohol.
If you are given Vivitrol it is recommended that you do not operate heavy machinery, drive a car or partake in any activity that requires you to be of sound or stable mind. Also, you may notice redness, swelling, bruising a hard lump or some pain in the area you have received the injection. If this occurs, talk to your doctor, especially if any of the symptoms don't subside in 2 weeks.
Vivitrol is a long term medication, that holds dangerous contraindications if mixed with some substances, which is why you need to wear a medic-alert bracelet stating that you are on Vivitrol in case of an emergency.
Do not take Vivitrol if you are allergic to Naltrexone or if you:
Also, if you are talking to your doctor about taking Vivitrol, be sure to inform them if you have / are:
It is not known if Vivitrol has any ill-effects for unborn babies or if the medication passes to the breast milk of nursing mothers.
If not used in the correct manner, Vivitrol can be very dangerous; it is a drug after all. It is administered once a month as an injection into a main muscle by a doctor or clinic nurse. If you miss an injection appointment, make a new one as soon as possible and report any redness, pain or tenderness to your doctor. If you take too much Vivitrol you may notice nausea, dizziness or stomach pain, report to your doctor straight away.
It is important to stay away from alcohol or narcotics if you are already taking Vivitrol. A dosage lasts for an entire month, which means that taking any substance within a month of taking the drug is very dangerous and hazardous to your health. On the other hand, taking Vivitrol for long periods is contra-indicated to liver damage. If you have a history of liver damage it is important to report this to your doctor before taking Vivitrol. Similarly, you should also let your doctor know if you are a carrier of hepatitis, as you may need to take a smaller dose of the drug if you are, otherwise you may suffer grave effects. | <urn:uuid:46fa63ca-fd97-473e-aca1-980e1e4bf757> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.prescriptiondrugabuse.org/Vivitrol.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948483 | 852 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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If you happen to visit the Penguin Foundation at Australia's Phillip Island Nature Park, you may encounter an unusual sight - Little penguins waddling around in brightly colored turtleneck sweaters. Unfortunately, it is not because the flightless birds are trying to establish a new fashion trend, but because they are victims of oil spills. Confused? Read on!
According to the Foundation that rescues and rehabilitates the birds, the hand-knitted sweaters are crucial in saving the lives of the helpless creatures when they get affected by oil spills. Besides the danger of ingesting some, penguins exposed to large amounts of oil are also more likely to die of starvation and exposure. That's because the oil separates and mats their feathers, allowing water to seep in. This makes the birds cold and heavy, and less efficient at catching prey.
The good news is that if the birds are lucky enough to be rescued and taken to centers like the one run by the Penguin Foundation, they can be cleaned and released back to the wild, in no time at all. However, there is still the danger of them ingesting some of the poisonous substance before the cleaning process has been completed. Given that a patch of oil the size of a thumbnail is enough to kill the little bird, conservationists had to think of an innovative solution.
In 1998, a volunteer came up with the idea of attiring the Little penguins with the sweaters and it worked like a charm. The Foundation officials say that during the last major oil disaster near the area in 2001, the sweaters helped save 96% of the 453 contaminated penguins.
Over the years, the researchers have fine-tuned the knitting pattern to make sure that the wool does not damage the penguin's feathers and that their flippers or beaks do not get entangled. The sweaters are knitted with 100% wool, which has a unique ability to act as a breathable insulator. This helps keep the tiny penguin bodies at the perfect "Goldilocks temperature" - neither too hot, nor too cold! The Penguin Foundation is not the only one using this method to save the birds. The Tasmanian Conservation Project has also been saving their oil affected Little penguins using these adorable "wooly jumpers".
Of course, these flightless birds are not the only victims of careless oil spills. According to the Penguin Foundation, over 100,000 birds of all kinds are contaminated each year. Unfortunately, not all are as lucky as the Little penguins that end up at this sanctuary.
Also known as "blue" or "fairy" penguins, Little penguins are the smallest of the 17 species of the birds that are endemic to the southern hemisphere (Australia, New Zealand, Antarctica, sub-Antarctic islands, South America and Africa). The diminutive animals that measure a mere 33cm (13in) tall and weigh just one kilogram (2.2 lbs), used to waddle around southern Australia and New Zealand in large numbers. However, over the years their numbers have declined drastically, thanks to predators like feral and domestic cats, as well as the spread of human settlement. As a result, there are now only about a million of the cute birds left in the colonies that are scattered around the region's various small islands and some isolated coastal locations.
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In article <5ab70l$sqs at fidoii.cc.lehigh.edu>,
Alan Allegra <inpri at lehigh.edu> wrote:>
>The point is that one's
>theology (and everyone has a set of beliefs about God) colors their entire
>worldview, including science. Hence the queenship.
One's _politics_ colors one's worldview as well. To say, therefore,
that "Marxism is the queen of the sciences" would be patently obsurd,
especially in light of T.D. Lysenko and the harm he did to Soviet genetics
and agriculture over a half-century ago. OTOH, perhaps this is a QED. Both
politics and theology are destructive to science, _real_ science, because
they impose the blinders of bias, superstition and ignorance.
Mark D. Garfinkel (e-mail: mg16 at midway.uchicago.edu. Ask for PGP public key)
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Trunk Nails are traditionally used to fastened trunk hardware. They are driven through the outer shell against a heavy metal object such as an old iron, which is held against the interior wall. This forces the nail to bend over, which creates a very strong hold on even thin trunk walls. The bent over ends are then covered when the paper or fabric is installed on the trunk interior.
Use trunk nails to fasten structural items like hinges, handles, handle caps, etc. Use trunk tacks to fasten decorative items like rosettes & embossed metal.
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I used the nails to attach a replacement lock and also to replace missing fasteners on the leather handle hardware. I wish they came in black - I painted the nail tops black to match the hardware.
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John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court justice and UChicago alum, 1920-2019
John Paul Stevens, a long-serving Supreme Court justice who traced his preparation as a lawyer to the University of Chicago, died Tuesday. He was 99.
A Hyde Park native, Stevens, AB’41, attended the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools from kindergarten through high school, walking just a few blocks from his family’s home near the corner of 57th Street and Kenwood Avenue. He then enrolled in the undergraduate College, studying English literature and graduating Phi Beta Kappa.
Nominated in 1975 by President Gerald Ford and confirmed unanimously, Stevens joined the Supreme Court with a reputation as a moderate conservative. His nomination was recommended to Ford by then-U.S. Attorney General Edward Levi, who had served as president of the University and dean of the University of Chicago Law School.
Stevens served on the Supreme Court for more than 34 years, leaving in 2010 with the third-longest tenure behind his predecessor William O. Douglas and 19th-century justice Stephen Field. At 90, Stevens also retired as the second-oldest justice to serve on the nation’s highest court, behind Oliver Wendell Holmes.
That Stevens became known as a liberal stalwart of the Supreme Court was due more to the appointments that followed him, according to Geoffrey Stone, the Edward Levi Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
A leading legal scholar, Stone said the confirmations of justices such as Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito moved the Court “steadily and aggressively to the right.” Those changes recast Stevens as a liberal voice, one who increasingly disagreed with his more conservative colleagues. His dissenting opinions in Bush v. Gore, District of Columbia v. Heller, and Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission were “brilliant,” Stone said, ranking “among the strongest dissents that any justice has written in the last half-century.”
During a 2011 visit to UChicago, Stevens reflected on the one vote he regretted. In 1976, he had sided with the 7-2 majority in Jurek v. Texas, which upheld Texas’ claim that capital punishment was not cruel and unusual and did not violate the Constitution.
Stevens explained his reversal by referencing the death of Troy Davis, executed in 2011 for the killing of a police officer two decades earlier. Davis always maintained his innocence, and civil rights groups had argued for the commutation of his sentence, citing recantations of witness testimonies.
The execution of Davis, Stevens said, “provides an example of one reason why the death penalty, as a matter of policy, is unwise if there is even a minimum of doubt.”
He announced his retirement from the Supreme Court on April 9, 2010. His vacancy was filled four months later by Elena Kagan, a former professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
How poetry prepared Stevens to study law
While a University of Chicago student, Stevens studied poetry with novelist Norman Maclean, PhD’40, the renowned author of A River Runs Through It and other works. That work prepared him for his legal career, Stevens said in 2002, when he received an Alumni Medal from the University of Chicago Alumni Association.
“He taught me to read every word of a poem,” he recalled in an address at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel. “The study of English literature, especially lyric poetry, is the best preparation for the law… That training helped me later, when trying to decipher law statutes.”
Stevens had considered studying Shakespeare in graduate school, but another professor prompted him to instead take a correspondence course in cryptography offered by the Navy. According to a 2002 article in the University of Chicago Magazine, Stevens was commissioned as a Naval officer on Dec. 6, 1941, a day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Stevens eventually earned a Bronze Star for his work as a codebreaker during World War II.
He then attended Northwestern University Law School, eventually clerking for Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge and becoming an expert in antitrust law. In addition to his private practice, he lectured at the University of Chicago Law School during the 1954-55 school year and in the summer of 1958.
Stevens is survived by his children, Elizabeth Jane Sesemann and Susan Roberta Mullen; nine grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Elizabeth Jane; his second wife, Maryan Mulholland; his son, John Joseph; and his daughter, Kathryn. | <urn:uuid:7da95533-8b75-43f5-a0ac-333a82e3493f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.uchicago.edu/story/john-paul-stevens-supreme-court-justice-and-uchicago-alum-1920-2019 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977795 | 946 | 2.0625 | 2 |
This download contains two quizzes for a unit on Snap Circuits here.
Quiz 1 comes with a circuit image that students must examine and then fill in a statement on whether or not items on the circuit are on or off. Quiz 1 comes with answers.
Quiz 2 includes multiple choice, a circuit image students must analyze and respond to statements using yes or no, and asks users to create their circuit. Quiz 2 comes with answers.
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A few days ago, I came across a curious story in the aquatic news feed regarding fatalities of local swimmers/fishermen in Papua New Guinea. Though the reported fatalities occurred in 2001, the unusual events drew famous monster fish angler Jeremy Wade to Oceania to investigate and nab one of the possible culprits.
There were apparently two fatalities in 2001 during which the two men had their genitalia bitten off as they pursued their aquatic activities. Both bled to death (these were two seperate occasions) after being bitten by a mysterious, human-like predator in a remote area. As it turns out, the culprit was a large Red-bellied Pacu. Read More » | <urn:uuid:9c230e81-4df0-4d29-9ff6-e4665758c163> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blogs.thatpetplace.com/thatfishblog/tag/pacu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.978626 | 140 | 1.515625 | 2 |
The Church of the Resurrection, the Anglican church in the centre of Bucharest (Photograph: Patrick Comerford)
During the Season of Easter this year, I am continuing my theme from Lent, taking some time each morning to reflect in these ways:
1, photographs of a church or place of worship that has been significant in my spiritual life;
2, the day’s Gospel reading;
3, a prayer from the prayer diary of the Anglican mission agency USPG (United Society, Partners in the Gospel).
Easter began on Sunday with Easter Day. This week, I am offering photographs of images of the Resurrection from seven churches, some of which I have already visited during the season of Lent.
My photographs this morning (8 April 2021) are from the Church of the Resurrection in Bucharest. The Anglican church in Gradina Icoanei is an attractive, red-bricked church in the centre of the Romanian capital. The earliest records of the church date from the 1860s, although there was an Anglican presence in Bucharest from 1850.
The cornerstone of the church was laid on 20 October 1913. The external fabric was completed by 1914, but building work was interrupted with the outbreak of World War I. The first service was held in the new church on Easter Day, 4 April 1920; it was soon completed, and was dedicated by the Bishop of Gibraltar on 5 November 1922.
Among the many icons presented to the church is one donated by the Patriarch of Romania to the Bishop of Gibraltar when Archbishop Michael Ramsey visited Romania in 1965. A full-time chaplaincy was established a year later in 1966, and the chaplains included the Revd Dr David Hope, later Archbishop of York.
I have visited the Church of the Resurrection numerous times when the Revd James Ramsay was the chaplain, preached there when the Revd Martin Jacques was chaplain, and I have also spoken at meetings of the Parochial Church Council.
Luke 24: 35-48 (NRSVA):
35 Then they told what had happened on the road, and how he had been made known to them in the breaking of the bread.
36 While they were talking about this, Jesus himself stood among them and said to them, ‘Peace be with you.’ 37 They were startled and terrified, and thought that they were seeing a ghost. 38 He said to them, ‘Why are you frightened, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39 Look at my hands and my feet; see that it is I myself. Touch me and see; for a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.’ 40 And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. 41 While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering, he said to them, ‘Have you anything here to eat?’ 42 They gave him a piece of broiled fish, 43 and he took it and ate in their presence.
44 Then he said to them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you – that everything written about me in the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms must be fulfilled.’ 45 Then he opened their minds to understand the scriptures, 46 and he said to them, ‘Thus it is written, that the Messiah is to suffer and to rise from the dead on the third day, 47 and that repentance and forgiveness of sins is to be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. 48 You are witnesses of these things.’
Prayer in the USPG Prayer Diary:
The Prayer in the USPG Prayer Diary today (8 April 2021) invites us to pray:
Let us pray for women and girls who are refugees, living in camps as a result of war.
Centre for Romanian Studies
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Motown, in full Motown Record Corporation, also called Hitsville, recording company founded by Berry Gordy, Jr., in Detroit, Michigan, U.S., in January 1959 that became one of the most successful Black-owned businesses and one of the most influential independent record companies in American history. The company gave its name to the hugely popular style of soul music that it created.
Moving from Georgia to Detroit, Gordy’s family was part of the massive migration of hundreds of thousands of African Americans from the South during and after World War I, lured largely by the promise of work in Northern manufacturing industries such as Detroit’s auto plants. Gordy’s parents, hardworking entrepreneurs, instilled in their children the gospel of hard work and religious faith. They also played a major role in financing Gordy in his early years in the music business.
Following an attempt at a professional boxing career and a stint in the army during the Korean War, Gordy entered the music business. He briefly owned a jazz record store, but his true love was songwriting. Although he could not read music, he demonstrated an unerring ability to gauge whether a song had the elements of popular appeal. Before forming Motown, Gordy tried to make it as an independent songwriter and record producer, cowriting hit songs for Jackie Wilson, another former boxer and Detroiter, and Marv Johnson. Despite his success, Gordy remained on the fringes of the popular music business, making very little money, until he discovered William (“Smokey”) Robinson, a Detroit high schooler with a soothing falsetto and an ear for sweet lyrics.
In 1959, not long after recording Robinson’s group, the Miracles, for New York-based End Records and establishing Jobete Publishing Company, Gordy began Motown Records (its name derived from Detroit’s nickname, “Motor City”). A number of factors came together to make Motown’s success possible at this time. First, after World War II, big-band swing, the dominant popular dance music in the United States during the Great Depression, became passé. Big musical units were no longer economically feasible. Jazz had been taken over by a new group of Young Turk stylists; calling themselves beboppers, they were inclined to play music for listening rather than dancing.
Second, a new urban dance music, rhythm and blues, was ascendant. Emerging primarily from inner-city ghettos and popularized by such bandleaders as Louis Jordan and Lionel Hampton, rhythm and blues was almost exclusively recorded by small independent labels. Of the three major recording companies—Columbia, Capitol, and Decca—only the last showed any interest in the exciting new music that would spawn rock and roll. During the 1950s it was possible for a young entrepreneur with an ear for this music to start a moderately successful independent company producing a sound that appealed to young people and inner-city African Americans.
Third, by the late 1950s two other Black-owned independent record companies that specialized in rhythm and blues and rock and roll had been enjoying considerable success for nearly a decade—Peacock Records, formed in Houston, Texas, by Don Robey, and Vee Jay Records, formed in Chicago by Vivian Carter Bracken, James Bracken, and Calvin Carter. Therefore, Gordy was not going into completely uncharted territory as a Black music entrepreneur. In 1959, the year Gordy founded Motown, Harry Belafonte became the first African American to produce a Hollywood film, Odds Against Tomorrow, through his own company. The social change promised by the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka school desegregation decision and the new civil rights activism made this a heady time indeed to be an enterprising African American—anything seemed possible. Moreover, Black radio had become a force in the marketing of popular music after World War II. This gave Black listeners great clout as consumers and made it possible for Black record company owners to market their wares directly to this growing audience.
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During the 1960s Motown became one of the reigning presences in American popular music, along with the Beatles. Gordy assembled an array of talented local people (many of whom had benefited from the excellent music education program at Detroit public schools in the 1950s) at 2648 West Grand Boulevard, destined to become the most famous address in Detroit. Serving as both recording studio and administrative headquarters, this two-story house became the home of “Hitsville.” Motown’s roster included several successful solo acts, such as Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder (a star as both a child and an adult), and Mary Wells. In addition to the Miracles, who notched Motown’s first million-selling single, “Shop Around” (1960), there were several young singing groups, including the Temptations, Martha and the Vandellas, and the Marvelettes. There also were a number of somewhat older groups that scored big, such as the Four Tops, the Contours, and Junior Walker and the All-Stars. A number of acts that were not developed by Motown wound up enjoying hit records during a stint with the company, including the Isley Brothers and Gladys Knight and the Pips.
Yet, despite the considerable acclaim these performers garnered, no Motown act of the 1960s matched the success of the Supremes, a girl group that scored number-one hits with “Where Did Our Love Go,”“Baby Love,”“Come See About Me” (all 1964), “Stop! In the Name of Love,” “Back in My Arms Again,” “I Hear a Symphony” (all 1965), and “You Can’t Hurry Love” (1966). Not only were they the second most successful singing group of the decade—surpassed only by the Beatles—but they remain the most successful female singing group of all time. The group’s glamorous lead singer, Diana Ross, went on to a remarkable solo career as a singer and a moderately successful career as an actress.
Not only did Motown’s acts become famous but its songwriters and producers also became household, or at least familiar, names. Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, and Eddie Holland, who wrote and produced most of the Supremes’ mid-1960s hits, were nearly as famous as the Supremes themselves, and their squabble with Gordy over money, which resulted in a nasty lawsuit and their departure from the company, was major industry news. Robinson was an important songwriter at Motown, as were Sylvia Moy, Norman Whitfield, Mickey Stevenson, Ivy Joe Hunter, and Gordy himself. All these songwriters were also producers. Some were assigned by Gordy to work with specific acts. Such fame did some of Motown’s writers achieve and such problems did their fame cause for Gordy that, when the Jackson 5 were signed by the company in 1969, the team that wrote the group’s early hits was credited simply as the Corporation.
Motown had an extraordinary house band (known as the Funk Brothers) made up of some of the best nightclub and bar musicians in Black Detroit, including Earl Van Dyke on keyboards, Benny Benjamin and Uriel Jones on drums, and James Jamerson on bass. They played a huge role in the development of the Motown sound, a branch of soul music that featured more sophisticated arrangements and orchestration than the grittier Southern soul that contemporaneously flourished at as the Memphis Sound. Motown brought together rhythm-and-blues, gospel, and pop influences as it sought to “cross over” (i.e., move beyond single-genre listeners) to reach a wide audience that included white teenagers. Motown records were specifically mixed to sound good on car radios and were characterized by a thumping backbeat that made dancing easy for everyone. Motown sought to be and became the “Sound of Young America.”
Despite its great number of hits, Motown was actually a small company, but it was run with unmatched efficiency. Gordy prided himself on having learned about producing a quality product from a brief stint on the assembly line at an auto plant. He had rigorous quality control meetings, and only records that could pass the harsh criticism of his assembled brain trust were released. As a result of Gordy’s stringent measures, at the height of its popularity (in the mid- to late 1960s), Motown enjoyed the highest hit ratio for its released singles of any record company in history. In truth, Gordy had to employ these extraordinary means if a company as small as his was to survive against bigger companies in the popular music business.
Artist development at Motown was comprehensive. Equal parts finishing school and academy of popular arts, the company provided its acts with elaborate choreography under the tutelage of Cholly Atkins. Young women raised in public housing projects, like the Supremes, were schooled in the social graces, and chaperones accompanied the package-tour bus cavalcades that brought Motown to other parts of the United States during the company’s early years.
Motown enjoyed its greatest success between 1965 and 1968, when it dominated the Billboard charts. Although the company was never quite the force in the 1970s that it was in the ’60s (having lost several key performers), it was still a formidableenterprise with the Jackson 5, the Commodores, Wonder, and Ross. In 1971 Motown released what became, arguably, the most influential soul record ever, Gaye’s What’s Going On. In the late 1960s Detroit was wracked with violent race riots, and in the early ’70s the company relocated to Los Angeles, where its move into filmmaking was generally fruitful. Motown’s most famous film, Lady Sings the Blues (1972), starred Ross and was loosely based on the career of jazz singer Billie Holiday.
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In the 1980s Gordy found it difficult to prosper in a music industry increasingly dominated by multinational conglomerates, and in 1988 he sold Motown to MCA, which later sold the company to Polygram. Motown became part of the Universal Music Group when UMG acquired Polygram in 1998. Motown remained a force in popular music—a vital, near-primal influence with stunning longevity. No one has quite been able to reproduce the classic Motown sound. | <urn:uuid:282063d6-1a68-4383-82b6-041652526f52> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/topic/Motown | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977181 | 2,250 | 3.078125 | 3 |
COLLEGE STATION, TX — Texas A&M University has received a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, to help combat misinformation about rural America and agriculture science.
The wide-reaching program aims to equip students with the skills for effective communications of science-based information across multimedia platforms, including social media networks and via written and video blogs.
Next fall, 30 Aggies will be selected and paired with a mentor from one of the 11 different schools in the A&M University System.
Of those 30 participants, 50% will be selected from traditionally underrepresented minority communities.
Over a four-year period, each participant will be part of a year-long program to increase their applied knowledge and competencies to communicate effectively about STEM- and FANH-related issues.
The program will reportedly also include the following:
- Bi-weekly meetings
- Research, education, and extension experiences regarding REE
- Activities with primary/collaborating mentors
- Science communications coursework
- Professional development workshops covering social media platforms, skills, and analytics
- leadership skills development activities
- Immersive learning experiences, including paid internships and opportunities for research conferences or study abroad experiences
The Science Influencers program builds on current USDA projects and communications curricula.
An REE advisory board will also be formed to serve as mentors, role models, and advocates for undergraduates and to help contribute to programming and networking. The board will also support and guide those entering the FANH sciences workforce after graduation.
Participants who successfully complete the program will receive a Certificate of Science Communications.
Recruitment for the Science Influencers program will officially launch in the fall, with the first group of selected students taking a planned communications course.
Program officials say they added a communication curriculum into practice to help science students become better communicators within their area of interest.
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A positive average annual rate of return
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Audited Financial Statements and the notes with them has been used exactly in two cases for calculating the dependent variables and Pars software of portfolio has been used for annual rate of return
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The average annual rate of return
for funds selected based on short-term alpha was 6.78% -- nearly twice the benchmark average return of 3.59%.
Halifax's fixed-rate Isas promise 4.25%, 4.35% and 4.50% if held respectively for three, four and five years, while AA's new Issue 3 of its Internet Access Isa promises an annual rate of return
The buyer generates a 2% return on that sum over the remaining 20 days, which equates to a 36% annual rate of return
. "We advise our clients to take advantage of these early payment discount programs when feasible," says Michael Stitt, executive director of trade and supply chain sales at J.P.
The City's appraiser multiplied the product of the per-square-foot land value and the area of the TCE times the annual rate of return
on renting the property, and multiplied that product by the number of years of the TCE.
Paul's agent, who is very professionally-dressed, spoken, and mannered, and who was using a computer spreadsheet to present this concept, had explained that the annual rate of return
is calculated by recalling that Paul's $100K had grown into a total of $349K that was paid out, which is a gain of $249K, or in percentages a 249% increase over 35 years.
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While Acie is limited to her employer's 403(b) plan investment options, this portfolio mix should provide an average annual rate of return
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Interest Rate Future Value (end 2006) Stocks 8.31% $12,700,000 Bonds 4.90% 18,235 Treasury Bills 4.25% 5,061 Gold 1.72% 32.84 Inflation 1.39% 16.84 The table in Exhibit 1, a compilation of the annual rate of return
, reveals several things.
An argument could be made that the advantages of not paying tax today outweigh the increased tax savings over the depreciable life of the project, but an annual rate of return
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In 1915, twenty two years after the creation of the parish, the new pastor, Msgr. Charles Kavanaugh, saw the imperative need for a parochial school. An application for five Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, to open a school was accepted.
During his twenty year tenure , the original grade and high schools were built, a convent for the Sisters was purchased, and the Grotto was constructed. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant speakers among the Catholic clergy. To the youngsters of St. Katharine’s School, he was a gentle and kindly soul. To the tired and disheartened, he came with strong faith and optimism, always hopeful, giving to others something of the love and joy which inspired his own life. | <urn:uuid:9e12f536-2ffe-419d-b200-9528c8a0a460> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sksschool.org/mission-and-philosophy/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.984247 | 159 | 2.203125 | 2 |
If at First You Do Not Succeed, Learn
By Jeffrey Baumgartner
Hang around innovation enthusiasts too long and you would be forgiven for thinking all ideas are brilliant, innovative ideas. But the truth is, most ideas are actually not so hot. Some are obviously daft ideas. Others seem great but start having problems when you try to implement them. When this happens, you should not continue pushing an idea that is unlikely ever to succeed. You should not dump the idea and deny it ever existed or that you were involved with it. Rather, you should learn from it.
Example from Coca Cola
Probably the most famous unsuccessful idea in recent business history was implemented by Coca Cola almost 30 years ago. Losing ground to Pepsi and seeing their new diet cola, with a different flavour than the traditional Coca Cola, gaining in popularity, Coca Cola decided to update the taste of their world famous drink. Being a huge multinational, they put their best food scientists on it, experimented thoroughly and conducted market research in a big way. By the rules of modern marketing, they did everything right. Their revised Coca Cola should have been a success.
It was not. It failed miserably. Coke drinkers were more emotionally devoted to the old flavour than anyone had realised and complained bitterly about the new product. Sales of the new coke bombed.
Fortunately, Coca Cola executives of the time were a bright bunch (and presumably still are). They promptly admitted their mistake and relaunched the original Coca Cola, as Coke Classic, alongside the new drink, known as New Coke. Sales of the New Coke fell sharply and sales of the original Coca Cola soon started growing again.
In spite of their failed idea, Coca Cola did two things right, thus minimising their losses. They learned that traditional coke was emotionally important to their customers and they relaunched it quickly. As sales of the new coke fell, the company soon took the product off the market.
Getting Unattached from Ideas
When an idea looks good and you implement it, it is easy to become overly attached to the idea. When it does not work, and analysis shows that it is unlikely to do so, it is hard to drop the idea. It is harder still when you have invested money in the idea. There is the temptation to continue to develop the idea in the hope that you can recoup your investment. Still, when an idea is not working and evidence shows that it is unlikely ever to work, it is best to drop the idea, learn from the mistakes and start something new. Hanging on will only cost more in terms of money, resources and time. Imagine the losses Coca Cola would have experienced had they stubbornly refused to relaunch the original Coke and only sold the new Coke.
Fortunately, for the company, Coca Cola quickly learned from their mistake. They learned how amazingly devoted their customers were to the original Coke. They learned that the flavour of the drink was so sacred, in most people's minds, that they would not change to an alternative – even if the alternative tasted better. Doubtless Coca Cola learned a lot more which they presumably have been implementing in their marketing strategy since.
Indeed, Coca Cola came through their failed idea fiasco so impressively that there have been rumours that it was all a grand marketing campaign. I doubt that is true. But, over the long run, I would not be surprised if Coca Cola gained more from their unsuccessful idea than they lost. But this comes from handling a failed idea very well indeed.
Learning from Our Mistakes
It is a cliché to say that we learn more from our mistakes than from our successes. But it is entirely true. When an idea fails, it is important to learn why. Sometimes it is obvious, as was the case with Coca Cola. Other times it is not so clear. Often, we are too close to an idea to see why it will not work. In that case, it is useful to bring in an outsider to look at the idea and determine what went wrong. With small personal ideas, a spouse, friend or relative can be useful. For big corporate or organisational ideas, a consultant may be necessary.
In an organisation, it is important not to punish the person responsible for the unsuccessful idea. It is human nature to want to lay the blame for mistakes on someone else. And it all too often happens that the person who proposes an idea that fails is reprimanded. Sadly, such a reprimand is likely to make creative employee reluctant to propose new ideas to the organisation in the future. And when this happens regularly, more and more creative thinkers learn to keep their innovative ideas to themselves, rather than risk accumulating blame for failures.
Moreover, in any organisation, acceptance of an idea usually requires a number of people (no one person at Coca Cola simply said, “let's launch a new version of Coke,” and launched it all by herself). Implementation requires even more people. Thus the originator of a failed idea can hardly be held exclusively to blame.
It is better to involve the originator in the evaluation of why the idea failed. Compliment the her for the idea and encourage her to continue to contribute ideas. Chances are, another idea – from the idea originator – in the near future will more than make up for losses from the failed idea.
And the result of all this learning from mistakes? Improve innovation results!
A version of this article first appeared in the 6 June 2004 issue of Report 103
© 2004, 2009, 2016 Bwiti bvba ~ creativejeffrey.com
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