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Operating a successful home business is an amazing way to build wealth without leaving the house. Having a home business takes hard work and dedication, but mostly you really need the right tools and advice to be successful. Continue reading to learn great information about running your own home business.
Always research anyone you hire to do work for you. Poor employees can turn a successful fledgling business into a flop, so be sure that you hire reliable people with the skills needed to help your company grow.
When your product is out of stock, be sure to say so. Customers find it especially frustrating when orders they’ve placed will not be fulfilled for several days, let alone weeks. Avoid selling products that are out of stock; if they are, inform your customers so that they are not left waiting while you restock.
To better track your business-related spending, open a specific checking account for your business. Use your business checking account for all your business purchases. By doing this, you will keep track of your company’s finances easier. It also helps to have a credit card that you use solely for business expenses.
Make sure that you follow any zoning laws or local ordinances. You might end up with fines and embarrassing situations if you don’t do this. Follow the laws carefully, and maintain a low profile. Install any signs that are mandated, but don’t go overboard. Stay invisible.
The support and even assistance of any relatives who live with you is critical to a successful home based business. It can be stressful and time consuming to run a home business. Without the help of your family and household members, maintaining your home business can be hard.
The only way you’re going to have a successful home business is by learning how to promote yourself. As a home business operator, you must continue to promote your enterprise at all times. You don’t want your clients to feel that they are receiving an inferior service or product. Successful self-promotion is critical to earning big profits.
Look online for the supplies that you can use for your home-based business at wholesale costs. Many wholesale companies are available online and can offer you discounts on the supplies your business needs at a fraction of the cost of retail. A business license gives you the opportunity to purchase the products at the lesser price.
It is important to always look to the future. You can celebrate previous successes, but always keep in mind that they are now history. What is coming tomorrow or next week is what you need to focus on. Keeping your mind on the future will make it easier for you to know what you need to capitalize on, and what obstacles may be coming. In this way, you will not find yourself surprised.
You should always save some of the money that you make in a year so that you can your taxes. Your taxes are going to be roughly 20 percent of profits, and if you set aside when it is earned, you will not have problems when it comes time to pay.
Select a home-based business objective. It does not have to be long; just a sentence or two about the goal or intent of your business. If someone is curious about your business, repeat these objectives to them. It will allows you to impress your customers by being confident and succinct about the purpose of your business.
Always deposit the earnings immediately after they are received. Try to deposit on a daily or weekly basis. If you don’t deposit a check right away, it could get lost. When you do deposit it, go to a teller rather than using a ATM. This helps to ensure that the check gets safely deposited into your account.
It is important for you to be completely upfront and reasonable about your specific expectations and goals for your home business. Are you offering a good or service that is in demand? Does your business operate honestly and ethically?
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Electromagnetic waves carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have been used for mode division multiplexing in free-space communication systems to increase both the capacity and the spectral efficiency. In the case of conventional wireless communication links using non-OAM beams, multipath effects caused by beam spreading and reflection from the surrounding objects affect the system performance. This paper presents the results of analysis, simulations, and measurements of multipath effects in a millimetre-wave communication link using OAM multiplexing at 28 GHz. Multipath-induced intra- and inter-channel crosstalk, which are caused by specular reflection from a plane parallel to the propagation path, are analysed and measured. Both the simulation and the experimental results show that an OAM channel with a high OAM number ," tends to suffer from both strong intra-channel crosstalk and strong inter-channel crosstalk with other OAM channels. Results of the analysis show that this observation can be explained on the basis of both the properties of OAM beam divergence and the filtering effect at the receiver, which is associated with the spiral wavefront of OAM beams. | <urn:uuid:51c60978-151c-42e1-9ea2-e96f6b497ac4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/multipath-effects-in-millimetre-wave-wireless-communication-using | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925704 | 236 | 2.25 | 2 |
SCAMPER - Creativity Tools from MindTools.com. It can often be difficult to come up with new ideas when you're trying to develop or improve a product or service.
This is where creative brainstorming techniques like SCAMPER can help. This tool helps you generate ideas for new products and services by encouraging you to think about how you could improve existing ones. We'll look at SCAMPER in this article and infographic. Are you making the most of the products already at your disposal? About the Tool SCAMPER is a mnemonic that stands for: Substitute. You use the tool by asking questions about existing products, using each of the seven prompts above. Glitch. SCAMPER - Creativity Tools from MindTools.com. Teaching the Design Process in Makerspaces. Stewart Middle Magnet is a STEM magnet school, and part of our curriculum comes from Project Lead the Way, including classes in engineering, robotics and aerospace.
The Design Process is an important part of that curriculum. It also ties in beautifully with what we do in our makerspace. So it made sense for me to partner up with one of our Project Lead the Way classes to teach our students about the basics of the design process. While this was a lesson with a specific class, it could easily work with small groups, after-school clubs, or any group that you bring into your makerspace.
Activating Prior Knowledge I started out by surveying my students to see who had already heard of the design process. Design Process vs. While many students will have never seen the design process, most have been exposed to the scientific method. Rapid Prototyping Session (Note: I realize that there are multiple versions and multiple vocabularies for teaching the design process. Practicing the Pitch Related. Exploring Project Based Learning Through Makerspaces. Post 1: Meaningful Making Through Project Based Learning Hello, world!
Welcome to the first in a series of posts designed to explore the impact of Project Based Learning through the lens of Makerspaces. This is possible thanks to a grant from CTN and through a partnership with Detroit Public Television, The Nerdy Teacher, the University Liggett School. Over the coming months, these posts will explore the different ways students, teachers, administrators and parents can support project based learning in the school environment and at home. I have been in education for the past 16 years. Over the past 10 years, I have become a Google Certified Educator, Raspberry Pi Certified Education, TEDEd Innovative Educator, was recognized as an Emerging Leader by ASCD and earned my Masters in Educational Technology through Central Michigan University (Go Chips!)
You can follow me on Social Media on Twitter @TheNerdyTeacher and Instangram @TheNerdyTeacher. Design Thinking for Libraries. Constructionism - Digital Pedagogy - A Guide for Librarians, Faculty, and Students - Research guides at University of Toronto. Piaget’s Constructivism versus Papert’s Constructionism: What’s the difference and Why is it Important?
In her article, Edith Ackermann discusses between Constructivism (developed by Piaget) and Constructionism (developed by Papert). She argues that integrating both views helps educators to understand how people learn and grow cognitively. Ananse Group. Constructivism vs. Constructivism vs. Constructionism. March 19, 2018 at 9:00 am I wrote the below in 1997.
I’m surprised that I still find references to it from time-to-time. That website may be going away soon, so I thought I’d put it here (only very slightly edited) in case others may find it useful. I’d like to offer my take on the meaning of these words. I hear them used in so many ways that I often get confused what others mean by them. Constructivism, the cognitive theory, was invented by Jean Piaget. I don’t know who invented the notion of Constructivism, the educational philosophy, but it says that each students constructs their own, unique meaning for everything that is learned. From my perspective, the assumption of constructivists is currently an untestable hypothesis. Constructionism is more of an educational method which is based on the constructivist learning theory. The confusion that I and others have about these terms stems from (a) similar looking words and (b) meaning at different levels of the word construct.
Constructionism - Digital Pedagogy - A Guide for Librarians, Faculty, and Students - Research guides at University of Toronto. A Brief History of Makerspaces. A Brief History & Rationale Makerspaces of all types are growing at an exponential rate.
As Davee, Regalla and Chang (2015) report, “Google Trends shows the search term “makerspace” has quadrupled in the past two years and is currently in its highest rate of growth in search frequency” (p. 2). In fact, according to the New Media Consortium’s Horizon Report: 2015 K-12 Edition, “makerspaces are expected to be increasingly adopted by schools in one year’s time or less to make use of mobile learning and cultivate environments where students take ownership of their education by doing and creating” (p. 1).
Therefore, with makerspaces emerging as a worldwide phenomenon, the following questions surface: Where did this growing maker movement originate? Makerspaces: the Beginning “The surge of interest in creating physical items with digital tools and Internet-shared plans and techniques is known as the maker movement” (Burke, 2014, p. 11). The Maker Movement. Defining Makerspaces: What the Research Says. Worlds of Learning - The World is Your Platform. | <urn:uuid:ef7f7e0f-641e-48c7-89b1-2570bd602ab9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.pearltrees.com/teacherknox/makerspaces/id32905091 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946061 | 1,189 | 3.03125 | 3 |
No time dough. Place Group 1 in machine bowl and develop thoroughly. Add Group 2 on slow speed a fine dusting of flour may be required to assist the apple in combining with developed dough. Dough temperature 30-31¡C. Allow dough to recover for 5 minutes. Scale and mould as desired. Prove then bake at 230¡C.
If using Compressed Yeast use 200g in the above recipe.
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The Air Force’s high-altitude, all-weather reconnaissance aircraft, the U-2 Dragon Lady, recently flew its last optical strip camera mission at Bill Air Force Base.
As 2nd explained.Lieutenant Hailey M. Toledo, 9th Reconnaissance Wing Public Affairs, in the article “End of an Era: U-2s on Last OBC Mission,” the OBC mission will take high-altitude photos in daylight and will transition to the front of support The combat location was provided by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.This move allows the processor to integrate the film closer to the reconnaissance collection required for the mission.
Adam Marigliani, Collins Aerospace Engineering Support Specialist, said: “This event closes a decades-long chapter in Bill Air Force Base and film processing and opens a new chapter in the digital world.”
Collins Aerospace worked with the 9th Intelligence Squadron at Beale Air Force Base to download OBC imagery from U-2 missions around the world in support of Air Force objectives.
The OBC mission operated at Bill AFB for nearly 52 years, with the first U-2 OBC deployed from Beale AFB in 1974.Taken from the SR-71, OBC was modified and flight tested to support the U-2 platform, replacing the long-standing IRIS sensor.While the IRIS’s 24-inch focal length provides wide coverage, the OBC’s 30-inch focal length allows for a significant increase in resolution.
“The U-2 retains the ability to perform OBC missions on a global scale and with dynamic force deployment capabilities when required,” said Lt. Col. James Gayser, commander of the 99th Reconnaissance Squadron.
OBC is deployed to support a variety of missions, including Hurricane Katrina relief, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant incident, and Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and Joint Task Force Horn of Africa operations.
While operating over Afghanistan, the U-2 imaged the entire country every 90 days, and units throughout the Department of Defense used the OBC’s imagery to plan operations.
“All U-2 pilots will retain the knowledge and skills to use sensors across a variety of mission sets and operational locations to meet the geographic combatant commander’s priority intelligence gathering needs,” Geiser said.”As the need for more diverse collection requirements continues to grow, the U-2 program will evolve to maintain combat relevance to the various C5ISR-T capabilities and combat Air Force integration roles.”
Closing of the OBC at Bill AFB allows mission units and partners to focus greater energy on emergency capabilities, tactics, techniques and procedures, and employment concepts that directly support the pacing threat problem set to advance the entire mission 9th Reconnaissance Wing .
The U-2 provides high-altitude, all-weather surveillance and reconnaissance, day or night, in direct support of U.S. and allied forces.It provides critical imagery and signals intelligence to decision makers during all phases of conflict, including peacetime indications and warnings, low-intensity conflict and large-scale hostilities.
The U-2 is capable of collecting a variety of imagery, including multispectral electro-optical, infrared and synthetic aperture radar products that can be stored or sent to ground development centers.In addition, it supports the high-resolution, wide-area weather coverage provided by optical strip cameras that produce traditional film products, developed and analyzed after they land.
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Sultan Muhammad V's decision marks the first time a king has stepped aside during his five-year term in the Muslim-majority country.
The national palace confirmed the resignation with immediate effect of the 49-year-old, who had been on the throne for two years and was known for his fondness for four-wheel driving and other extreme sports.
"His majesty tells the people of Malaysia to continue to be united to maintain unity, tolerance, and work together," said a statement from the Comptroller of the Royal Household, Wan Ahmad Dahlan Abdul Aziz.
Malaysia's Islamic rulers will now meet to decide on the next king.
Malaysia is a constitutional monarchy, with a unique arrangement where the throne changes hands every five years between rulers of the nine Malaysian states headed by centuries-old Islamic royalty.
The system has been in place since independence from Britain in 1957.
Royal officials gave no reason for Sultan Muhammad V's move but there had been a question mark over the king's reign since he went on leave for medical treatment in November.
Reports in British and Russian media then surfaced saying that he had married the former Miss Moscow in the Russian capital in a lavish ceremony.
Royal officials in Malaysia have so far not commented on the rumoured marriage, or given any details about the state of the king's health.
Speculation intensified about the king's future after his medical leave officially finished at the end of December, and the country's Islamic royals reportedly held a special meeting last week.
- Command great respect -
While their role is ceremonial, Malaysia's Islamic royalty command great respect, especially from Muslim Malays, and criticising them is strictly forbidden.
Sultan Muhammad V studied at St Cross College at Oxford and the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, according to official media.
He is known for a relaxed public persona, taking part in walkathons to promote health, and has been photographed wearing a baseball cap backwards.
According to a report from official news agency Bernama at the time of his enthronement, he "fills his free time by reading and has an interest in extreme sports such as four-wheel drive expeditions and endurance challenges and shooting".
He is also the ceremonial ruler of the conservative Islamic northern state of Kelantan.
The palace statement said he was "ready to return home to the state of Kelantan to be together with the state government and... the Kelantanese people".
The palace did not indicate when the Islamic rulers would meet to pick the next king. During his leave of absence, the ruler of western Perak state had been carrying out his duties.
Portraits of the king and queen adorn government buildings throughout the country. The king is also the symbolic head of Islam in the nation, as well as the nominal chief of the military.
Malaysia's sultans trace a lineage back to Malay sultanates of the 15th century. The king is referred to as Yang di-Pertuan Agong, or "He Who Is Made Lord".
Meanwhile the Star quoted Comptroller of the Royal Household Datuk Wan Ahmad Dahlan Ab. Aziz as saying the King has resigned from his post in line with Article 32(3) of the Federal Constitution.
“His Majesty has informed this matter officially to the Malay Rulers through a letter issued to the secretary of the Conference of Rulers,” said Wan Ahmad in a statement on Sunday (Jan 6).
Wan Ahmad said the King, through his time in office has tried to fulfill his responsibilities as the Head of State, and played a part as an anchor of stability, source of justice, basis of unity and uniting factor among the rakyat.
The King has offered his thanks to the other Malay Rulers who had chosen him as the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong from Dec 13, 2016.
He has also expressed his highest appreciation to the Prime Minister and the Federal government for their cooperation.
“As the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, His Majesty is very proud with the sacrifices and loyalty that has been shown to His Majesty and the country all this while,” said Wan Ahmad.
Wan Ahmad said His Majesty has decreed that Malaysians continue to remain united, practice compromise and work together in shouldering the responsibilities towards this sovereign nation so Malaysia will continue to be in peace and harmony.
The King has prepared to return to his home state of Kelantan to be with the State government and the people of Kelantan to help uplift the state further.
Published : Aug 13, 2022
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(MintPress) – Lost in the whirlwind that is Election Day in the United States is the impact of the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 that would have required most foods made with genetically engineered ingredients to be labeled. The measure failed, disappointing those who say food with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have unclear long-term health impacts.
But what is seen as a loss for many voters is a decisive victory for global food magnets, such as Monsanto, that use GMOs in their food. The passage of recreational marijuana use laws in Colorado and Washington could also play a role in Monsanto’s expansion, as speculation has mounted as to whether the mogul has stockpiled varying strains of cannabis seed patents to ready themselves for a launch in legalization.
Monsanto is the leading producer in GMO seeds intended for agricultural use and a leading lobbying arm in Washington D.C., having spent a total of more than $4.7 million in 2012. Had Prop 37 passed, Monsanto would have been required to put proper notifications of GMO use on its products in California.
Others speculate that it may have been the start of the death of Monsanto’s ubiquitous seeds. But the money trail points to a concerted effort to see that the measure failed, as food and beverage giants teamed up to contribute funding to purchase advertising and spread their message.
According to Common Dreams, financial contributions to pass Prop 37 between consumers, organic farmers and other businesses totaled $8.2 million. But with a nearly unlimited financial prowess, corporations such as Monsanto, PepsiCo and DuPont spent more than $48.7 million. Grant Lundberg, CEO of Lundberg Family Farms, said the money alone bought votes and doomed what was largely a grassroots effort.
“We have been shut down by biotech on this issue,” Lundberg said. “They have had a big impact. They have gotten their lies out and confused people. We have limited resources.”
Purchasing a manipulation platform
On the surface, it seems counterintuitive for California voters to shut down a measure that prevents GMOs, particularly since recent studies indicate a potential health risk with GMO consumption. A study from France that was published in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology saw rats that were fed corn sprayed with Monsanto’s common herbicide Roundup develop health problems that included tumors and kidney and liver damage.
But there is a level of awareness not known by many consumers, says Melinda Suelflow, an activist with the Organic Consumers Association. In an interview with MintPress, Suelflow noted that only 25 percent of Americans are aware of whether or not their foods contain any GMOs. However, at least 70 percent of processed foods in the U.S. contain genetically modified ingredients, according to the Food and Drug Administration. That disconnect, she noted, may have played a role in the vote’s conclusion.
However, a bigger impact on the vote, Suelflow said, was the level of advertising that food and chemical companies put toward the efforts to defeat the measure. In order for Monsanto to earn a victory and operate with its current status quo, it had to spin the narrative of the vote in a way that made it seem like voters were protecting their economic safety rather than food safety, she said.
“They didn’t defeat the measure because they had a message that labeling genetically modified foods is not good – we know that the people want their food labeled. Basically what happened was they came out about a month before the election with a massive advertising campaign … with confusing messages that stoked fear,” Suelflow said. “The messages said the exemptions to the measure were confusing; it’s going to cost consumers more because companies are going to supposedly pass on to consumers the cost of labeling. So what they did with that level of advertising was to perpetuate confusion not about the measure itself, but that it was a poorly written initiative.”
The misconceptions within the advertisements created such a stir that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is looking into charges of a wrongful use of authority, as opponents to Prop 37 put the logo to the FDA under a quote that the FDA claims it never said. The official complaint from the California Right to Know offices say that “the use of the FDA’s seal and authority for political purposes appears to be in clear violation of criminal statutes.”
Megan Westgate, executive director of the Non-GMO Project, said California voters were subjected to a bankroll of misleading and falsified statements that should be investigated for their criminal nature.
“The opposition spent $46 million on a misinformation campaign that was full of lies and unethical (illegal?) tactics,” Westgate wrote on the organization’s Facebook page. “And in spite of that, 4.6 million Californians (47 percent) still voted yes. This vote has brought the GMO issue into the national spotlight, and it’s not going away.”
And that seems to be the general consensus of those who supported Prop 37: It fulfilled its role in raising awareness on the GMO issue. Suelflow noted that there are already campaign efforts underway in Washington and Florida to have the GMO issue put on state ballots in the future elections.
“We’re not entirely defeated. … It was a David versus Goliath fight. We were up against over $46 million from biochemical companies. … We’re already looking ahead as to how to keep the movement going forward and what we can do with this amazing breath of energy that we have come into,” Suelflow said. “We’re not going away. You will see up popping up more and more on the ballot.”
A loss is Monsanto’s gain
With claims of fraudulent advertising and spending disparities, the actually meaning behind the denial of Prop 37 remains unclear. But Monsanto was fair to have its business practices at the forefront of its worries. Market response to a potential GMO labeling law could have been catastrophic for bio-agriculture firm. In the European Union, GMO labeling has been in the law books since 1997. As a result, consumers have essentially written off GMO foods, destroying the market.
In a move earlier in the year, BASF, a German-based chemical group, said it was abandoning all efforts to sell GMO foods in Europe. Stefan Marcinowski, a BASF board member, told the New York Times that the GMO market is cornered in the U.S. because of its lack of acceptance in Europe.
“There is still a lack of acceptance for this technology in many parts of Europe — from the majority of consumers, farmers and politicians,” Marcinowski said. “Therefore, it does not make business sense to continue investing in products exclusively for cultivation in this market.”
But in America, genetically engineered crop consumption is by far the world’s largest. Studies suggest that two-thirds of global GMO seed sales come from the U.S. market, accounting for $13.3 billion. Had California’s Prop 37 gone against Monsanto, it could have snowballed state-to-state and buried the GMO practice.
The passage of recreational marijuana use laws in Colorado and Washington could also open the door for Monsanto to patent cannabis strains in states that begin regulating recreational marijuana use. Past attempts at marijuana legalization on the state level, such as Proposition 19 in California, revealed close ties to business moguls and Monsanto. George Soros, a billionaire investor, donated $1 million to the Prop 19 cause in 2010 to help push for the legalization of marijuana in California.
Despite its ultimate defeat, Soros was demonstrating a business-savvy approach, as he is a top investor in Monsanto. Soros’ investment in the proposition came after author and writer Dragonfly de la Luz claimed that Monsanto was formulating patents to use for the growing of cannabis after state legalizations. With the American marijuana market being estimated as high as $120 billion, it makes sense that Soros would invest in one of the ultimate beneficiaries of legalization.
In Canada, worries of companies seizing control of cannabis seed patents go as far back as 2000 when Reverend Damuzi of Cannabis Culture wrote that legalization laws with state or federal regulations could open the door for Monsanto to facilitate the growing process and seeds needed. At a debate at the 2010 International Hemp Expo, de la Luz said Monsanto could hoard different strains of cannabis and sue anyone growing those strains without Monsanto permission.
“Cannabis seeds from Monsanto are almost definitely genetically engineered. Genetically engineered plants can be patented, and it is in Monsanto’s best interest to hold a patent on any seed they sell,” Damuzi wrote. “Seed patents ensure that companies like Monsanto can continue to profit from seeds from year to year, as farmers are legally bound to buy patented seeds from the patent holder rather than simply store them from the last year’s crop.” | <urn:uuid:df1e8d33-6d6f-4f04-83a4-f62b5b7b8b20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mintpressnews.com/failure-of-prop-37-in-calif-leaves-monsanto-operating-as-normal-for-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969522 | 1,841 | 2.09375 | 2 |
The centre-right UMP party and its allies won control of the French senate in elections held yesterday (28 September). Together they have 187 seats, twelve more than needed for a 175 majority, compared to 155 for the centre-left parties. The far-right Front National won its first two Senate seats.
Marine le Pen, Front National’s leader, spoke about a “historic victory”. “These results are better than we hoped for”, she said. The seats will be taken up by Stéphane Ravier from Marseille and David Rachline from Fréjus, both from Southern France. Rachline, 26, is the youngest member of the Senate ever elected. Ravier commented on Twitter by saying: “We were told that this was impossible and that’s why we did it.”
The outcome is a another electoral defeat to France’s centre-left president François Hollande, who took office in May 2012. The socialists performed badly in municipal elections in March and European Parliament elections in May. His governing Socialist party still controls the country’s lower house, the National Assembly, which is the main legislative body. The senate can delay legislation but cannot block it entirely in most cases. Hollande’s government has gone through two cabinet reshuffles in an attempt to respond to the increasing unemployment and lack of economic growth.
In a statement, the Socialist Party said that “there is no blue wave”, referring to two seats of the Front National. They also said that there is no “Sarkozy effect” and that the UMP party would have to find allies among other parties to find a stable majority. France’s previous president Nicolas Sarkozy announced his political comeback on 19 September and said to be available to be UMP’s candidate for the 2017 presidential elections.
Senators are chosen by 78,000 electors across the country, mostly local officials. Half of the 348-member Senate is elected every three years, for a six-year term. The newly elected members will take office on Wednesday (1 October).
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By Nathan Gomori
As an organization our mission has always been to #HelpFarmersToGrow and in pursuit of that we have created several platforms dedicated to farmers of all levels. It is a place where many of our followers have become a part of a community that is dedicated to farming and agriculture. We love to see that so many of you are sharing ideas and/or seeking council from other farmers as well as our resident vaMudhumeni’s. In celebration of that spirit, we have tasked some of our vaMudhumeni’s to answer some of your questions that you may have asked in our groups or pages that may have gone unanswered, like the one below.
“Nhai varimi ndokumbirawo kubvunza kuti domasi rangu radyiwawo nei apo. Domasi zvese nemashizha acho they are developing those white spots. What can I do to get rid of it. Thank you”?
While it is easy to suspect that this may have been done by a sucking pest, there is also a wide range of possibilities. Such as a plant disease like bacterial canker or chemical burn.I will describe some of the factors that can contribute to white spots on tomato fruits and leaves below.
Sucking pests : These pests are known to suck the juice from the fruit and leaves of a plant. Cells from the sucked area will die and turn to white spots
1) Stink bug damage
The stink bug is a sucking pest that uses its mouth parts, which are needle like to suck the juice in the tomato fruits. They can be spotted with naked eyes on the plant. Some white spots are noticed as an indication of the damage and in ripening red fruits it may show up as a yellowish color. Use of Dimethoate can help to control these sucking pests.
Are also sucking pests that cause white spots on the tomato plants and fruits. Use of Abamectin can help to control these pests.
Bacteria canker : Is a disease that can cause white spots on tomato plants and fruit. This is a dangerous disease and can be devastating to tomato plants. It can destroy the plant and it may spread to the other plants as well. The best way is to control the disease is by using clean materials which are being disinfected before use on the next plant. Use bio-security measures to control the spread or transmission of infectious disease which can help. Be sure to remove affected plants and burn them.
Chemical effect : This can be the result of previous chemicals like pesticides and fertilizers used on the same area, When applying chemical the farmer should make sure to read and understand the label of the chemical or seek help and observe required chemical measuring.
**Please visit and join our discussion forum on our website to interact with our experts as well as visit us on put all our social media platforms and ask us your questions and other farmers within our community. Be sure to keep track of chemicals used in the past and adjust measurements appropriately. Proper use of chemicals should be done because so as not to burn your crops which can result in white spots if not used properly. | <urn:uuid:c50fdb6b-901f-45ff-9627-ac7e03bd2181> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.vamudhumeni.org/the-cause-of-white-spots-on-tomato-fruit-and-leaves/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955963 | 665 | 2.578125 | 3 |
World Distance Learning Day on August 31 is a day to embrace the learning that takes place outside of the physical classroom. Whether it is a remote learning program that is delivered entirely at a distance, or a hybrid blend of in-classroom and at-home learning, the added flexibility and often more cost-effective option of distance learning is benefiting more students around the world than ever before. In recent times, the internet and the resulting surge of high-quality online curriculum and courses have completely transformed traditional education methods and given birth to the popular distance learning movement. With that in mind, today is a day to be thankful for the distance learning opportunities we have and the countless resources that are available to use.
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PENNEY FARMS, Fla. — It's a basic human function that many of us take for granted, but across the world, nearly 20 million people deal with serious mobility issues. From paralysis to polio and even the loss of limbs from stepping on landmines in war torn countries, walking isn't an option for many people.
From the road, it looks like your average retirement community along route 16 west of Green Cove Springs. But inside of Penney Farms is a shop that is changing lives around the world.
"Do as much as you can for as many as you can for as long as you can," said Penney Farms PET Florida volunteer, Dave Quirk, "...that's what this whole place is about, is helping others."
Comprised entirely of volunteers, these retirees spend hours a day cutting, sanding and building Personal Energy Transportation carts (PET carts), that when completed, can be powered by a seated person with no electricity. It's the work of volunteers in Florida that give the gift of mobility to people all across the world.
PETs were first produced in Missouri by a man named Larry Hills, but when Hills moved to Florida in 2001 he started working on carts in Clay County. Ninety-five-year-old Sid Rooy has been a volunteer with Penney Farms group since day 1.
"It's a blessing to be able to provide a new lease on life for people who are immobile," said Rooy.
PETs have been delivered to 106 countries over the past two decades and the group is closing in on completing their 13,000th cart.
"It doesn't just help 13,000 people," said Rooy, "it helps probably 100,000, maybe more because it affects a family, it affects a people."
"When you get a PET it's not only life changing for the person, but the whole family," says Quirk, "it gives them dignity, it gives them purpose."
Often times people in developing countries with mobility issues wear sandals on their hands because they crawl on the ground so frequently. Life changes when they get their pet cart. And the PET carts themselves have also changed over time.
"We thought people would just ride from point A to B," said Quirk, "but then we found out that they build it as a workplace and they're sitting there 8 hours a day, it's just lifechanging, that's what it's all about."
And for 21 years that's been what Sid Rooy's life has been about -- service to others around the world.
"When you see the difference it makes in people's lives, not just 1 person, the 13,000, but in the family, the neighborhood, that's such an invigorating an inspiring thought," said Rooy, who at 95 years old isn't slowing down. "It's how you live and what you're doing for each other that counts, and so that's what drives me."
That same feeling drives the roughly 70 committed volunteers at Penney Farms. Retirees hard at work to make the world a better place.
PET Florida at Penney Farms hopes to ship out their next order of carts within a month and have them delivered in Kenya by July. It costs roughly $350 for materials to build each PET cart and the organization is a non-profit run by volunteers. | <urn:uuid:61fac4e0-e247-48e7-b1d1-d216d60be3a0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/local/retirees-build-carts-for-people-who-cant-walk/77-ee12c7e4-5f86-40c5-a37d-f4238ad6e9f3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982298 | 691 | 2.015625 | 2 |
I called my book The Given (Oxford University Press, 2016) because I set out to answer the question, What is given in experience? What does one have to do in order to give an adequate characterization of how the world is given to us, an adequate characterization of how we sense, feel, and think about—live in—the world?
In providing such a characterization I focus on four fundamental notions: consciousness, phenomenology, intentionality, and content. I propose that one way to give an adequate general theory of the given—of what is given in experience—is to specify the nature of these four things and to give a correct account of their relationship. In what follows, I’ll give a broad overview of this approach.
My concern is with conscious experience, and I begin with the claim that consciousness is an essentially phenomenological phenomenon. All conscious states are conscious in virtue of having a phenomenology. Phenomenology can be characterized in a familiar way as the phenomenon of there being ‘something it is like’ experientially, to be in a mental state, something it is like, experientially, for the creature who is in the state. For example, there is something it is like to taste marmite, or feel sleepy, or faintly uneasy, or suddenly remember a missed appointment, or find something funny.
It follows that there is no such thing as non-phenomenological consciousness. So too there aren’t different fundamental kinds of consciousness: phenomenological and non-phenomenological. This is not to say that the word ‘consciousness’ has not been used to designate non-phenomenological phenomena. It has, but when it is used in this way it is not designating consciousness in the sense in which I am interested, in the sense that makes us eat another piece of chocolate because we like the way it tastes.
Sometimes philosophers have taken Ned Block’s (1995) distinction between ‘phenomenal’ consciousness and ‘access’ consciousness to be the basis of a distinction between phenomenological and non-phenomenological kinds of consciousness. I am not sure that Block meant any such thing by this distinction. In any case, the term ‘access-consciousness’ does not designate a kind of consciousness, by my lights, but rather a functional property certain conscious states have.
Our conscious experience is rich and various: our stream of consciousness involves an ever-changing flow of thoughts, perceptions, emotions, moods, and bodily sensations. I argue that capturing this variety requires at least three distinct, sui generis kinds of phenomenology. First, there is sensory phenomenology, construed to include various kinds of interoceptive bodily phenomenology as well as the phenomenology we typically associate with the five sensory modalities, e.g. what it is like to see red, to hear a piercing scream, to feel silk and so on. Second, there is cognitive phenomenology, a kind of phenomenology that is essentially over and above sensory phenomenology and is paradigmatically associated with conscious thought (although it is also present in cases of conscious perception and emotion.) On this view, there is something it is like to consciously think that the weather is depressing or to consciously think that humans are puzzling, something that is irreducible to any sensory phenomenology that may be associated with these thoughts. Finally, there is what I call ‘evaluative phenomenology’—a distinctive kind of phenomenology emotional experiences have in virtue of being experiences of value or what we take to be of value.
The liberal view I advocate stands in contrast to the dominant view in analytic philosophy according to which sensory phenomenology is the only kind of phenomenology. If we take this restrictive view of phenomenology and combine it with the claim that all conscious phenomena are phenomenological phenomena and the claim that our conscious lives consist of conscious thoughts, perceptions, and emotions, we finish up with the implausible view that reference to sensory phenomenology is sufficient to account for that in virtue of which all mental states are conscious. How boring life would be!
The two final notions required for providing a theory of the given are intentionality and content. I propose a very minimal conception of intentionality. It can be simply characterized as the phenomenon of something’s being about something or of something in the sense of ‘of’ given which a picture can be said to be of something such as a battle or a landscape. I am concerned only with mental intentional phenomena and more specifically with conscious mental intentional phenomena.
Much of the detailed discussion of intentionality has been conducted in terms of the notion of content—in terms of the notion of intentional or representational content. Traditionally philosophers have had a very narrow conception of content in mind, taking the content of a mental state to be the truth conditions or the accuracy conditions of that state.
I develop an alternative notion of content. I call it the ‘Brentanian theory of content’ because it’s inspired by Franz Brentano’s work on intentionality and consciousness. It begins with notion of experience, and with the idea that the best way to characterize the content of experience is to say that the total content of an experience is absolutely everything that one experiences in having the experience: the content of an experience is everything that is given to one, experientially, in the having of the experience, everything that one is aware of, experientially, in the having of the experience.
One important feature of this understanding of content is that it includes phenomenological features as given in experience, and thus as part of the content of experience, in addition to whatever else may given in experience, such as physical objects and their properties. | <urn:uuid:05ee3a0c-b14c-401e-9f8b-7d78e828c808> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://philosophyofbrains.com/2017/01/30/what-is-given-in-experience.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953004 | 1,175 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Tropical Dermatology Update
Recorded Wednesday, September 12, 2018
European Academy of Dermatology & Venereology Annual Meeting
This ISD Education Committee, Community Dermatology Committee and the editors of the International Journal of Dermatology (IJD) organized a subspecialty group meeting during the 2018 EADV meeting in Paris, France with a focus on Tropical Dermatology. The chairs of the session were Dr. Jacek Szepietowski, Dr. Claire Fuller, and Dr. Rokea el-Azhary.
Dr. Frederica Dassoni (Italy)
Dr. Olivier Chosidow (France)
Dr. Colette van Hees (Netherlands)
Dr. Roderick Hay (United Kingdom)
Drs. Lawrence Gibson (USA) and Mark Davis (USA) of the Mayo Clinic have selected articles from the International Journal of Dermatology to discuss.
Dr. Gibson presents key articles on tropical dermatology
Dr. Davis discusses articles on Climate Change and Skin Health | <urn:uuid:c6e04a6f-9f1e-4487-a7e0-1d2f4d373ece> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.intsocderm.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3528 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.79152 | 239 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The Research group for Welfare Technology is dedicated to explore phenomena where notions of welfare and digital technology are interwoven. We explore welfare technology as both socio-material objects and discursive figures emergent in policies and in practices such as design processes, care practices and every day life. Welfare technology has sometimes been celebrated as solution to crises in public welfare provision, and other times been criticised as ‘cold’ alternative to otherwise ‘warm’ care and welfare. This research group seeks to go beyond such narratives and develop detailed accounts of how articulations of welfare technologies in policy material, and concrete practices involving welfare technologies and their users transform our imaginaries, expectations, norms, values and views on welfare. With this approach the group engages with themes such as digital marginalisation, ageing, care and loneliness. | <urn:uuid:abd55819-1cdf-4795-9da6-cc2f953a4874> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://welfaretech.itu.dk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938359 | 162 | 1.585938 | 2 |
‘Make better choices’: Researchers beg endangered seals to not stick eels up nose
Monk seal researchers in Hawaii are stumped after finding multiple seals with eels stuck up their nostrils.
Officials with the Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program posted to Facebook about the odd occurrences stating they aren’t sure why it’s happening, but it hasn’t stopped.
The post, which has been shared more than 1,200 times, reads: “Mondays...it might not have been a good one for you, but it had to have been better than an eel in your nose. We have reported on this phenomenon before which was first noted a few years back.
“We have now found juvenile seals with eels stuck in their noses on multiple occasions. In all cases the eel was successfully removed, and the seals were fine. The eels, however, did not make it. PC B. Dolan.”
The comments poked fun at the situation as well.
One person wrote, “This is a gateway drug. For eel.”
Another said, “Glad to know the seal is now healthy and no longer eel!”
“It’s just so shocking,” Claire Simeone, a veterinarian and monk seal expert based in Hawaii, told The Washington Post on Thursday. “It’s an animal that has another animal stuck up its nose.”
The Washington Post reported Charles Littnan, one of the scientists, has been dealing with this issue for a couple of years, at least. He said one day he awoke to find an email with the subject, “Eel in nose.”
After pitching a couple of ideas, Littnan and the team decided to simply pull the eels out of the seal's nose, and it worked.
“We have no idea why this is suddenly happening,” Littnan said. “You see some very strange things if you watch nature long enough, and this could end up being one of these little oddities and mysteries of our careers that 40 years from now, we’ll be retired and still questioning quite how this happened.”
But Littan told the Washington Post they are hoping the seals “make better choices.” | <urn:uuid:cb3945e4-354c-42c7-93cf-b79622167fdc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wpbf.com/article/make-better-choices-researchers-beg-endangered-seals-to-not-stick-eels-up-nose/25439301 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972683 | 488 | 2.078125 | 2 |
In a recently announced Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with music and film industry associations, U.S. Internet service providers (ISPs) have agreed to take voluntary action against online piracy. In essence, the MoU establishes a multi-stage model (“graduated response”) that begins with email alerts, and which may end up with bandwidth reductions or limitations in web accessibility. The model does not, however, include a possibility to shut down an internet connection. The model includes safeguards for the holder of the internet connection that is claimed to be used in carrying out the unlawful activities. According to the MoU, the parties jointly establish an organization, Center for Copyright information, which will focus on educating the public about the importance of copyright protection and lawful ways to obtain movies, television shows and music online. The Center will also help to develop and confirm “best-practices” for the new multi-stage model.
The MoU is announced at a time when the call for increased accountability and transparency in the activities of internet users as regards online piracy is brought to attention at the highest international level in the G8, the World Intellectual Propety Organization and the Internet Governance Forum. It is also contemporary with political and legislative trends in some of the EU member states, such as France, the UK and Denmark. At EU level, the European Commission has recently stated that it intends to identify ways to combat infringements of IPR via the internet more effectively. According to the Commission, such activities could include amendments to the IPR Enforcement Directive 2004/48/EC. The Commission holds that such measures should have as their objective “tackling the infringements at their source” and, to that end, “foster cooperation of intermediaries”, such as internet service providers, while being “compatible with the goals of broadband policies and without prejudicing the interests of endconsumers.” Recents efforts by the Commission to reach agreement between right holders and ISPs – similar to the US MoU – has, however, stranded due to “fundamental differences of opinion” between the parties.
A review of the said directive is expected in spring 2012. Considering the stranded discussion between ISPs and right holders, it will be very interesting to see whether Commission deems it necessary to move forward with legislative action. Such legislative action could aim at giving the ISPs enough incentive to cooperate in measures against online piracy and to give legal certainty to the design of such measures. | <urn:uuid:e28f832f-8205-4ad8-8995-eb4df74598a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://copyrightblog.kluweriplaw.com/2011/08/22/us-memorandum-of-understanding-on-fight-against-online-piracy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961727 | 507 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Post Weld Heat Treatment (PWHT), also referred to as stress relieving, is an application of uniform heat applied after welding to a structure, or portion thereof, at a sufficient temperature – below the transformation temperature range and with the intention of retaining the material’s strength/quality and ductility.
The primary benefits of PWHT are recognized as relaxation of residual stress, tempering, and hydrogen removal. If performed incorrectly, or neglected altogether, it can lead to reduced tensile strength, creep strength, notch toughness of the component, as well as the increased susceptibility to corrosion. An important aspect of PWHT is to prevent brittle trans-granular cracking that can potentially result in catastrophic failures, such as the collapse of a pressure vessel or major piping component.
For that reason, PWHT applications must be executed within strict uniform temperature ranges and follow code specifications which are dependent on the material’s composition, thickness and prior thermal or mechanical process applications. | <urn:uuid:ee1becfd-8b53-4861-bc7d-0b7871735a0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.superheat.com/applications/pwht/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.924775 | 195 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The National Commission for Protection of Child Rights has reported 2404, 3281, 3340 and 2270 cases of violation of child rights in 2012-13, 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 (till 30.06.2015) respectively. The National Commission for Women has registered ..
As per the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005, all the States/UTs Government are required to notify the voluntary organisation as Service Providers and there is no scheme being administered by Ministry of Women and Child Development ..
The Ministry of External Affairs and Ministry of Women and Child Development have reported that UN Committee on Elimination of Discrimination against Women has recommended to India interalia, to criminalise marital rape. The Law Commission of India, ..
The Ministry of Social Justice & Empowerment has been making efforts by persuading the States/ UTs from time to time to effectively implement the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 Act in letter and spirit so that t ..
The Government is working on finalizing Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Bill which also covers surrogacy. During the inter-ministerial consultation some Ministries /Departments submitted their comments which were considered by the Depa ..
The Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Maneka Sanjay Gandhi has said that the adoption agencies have been given a target of 15,000 adoptions in the current year. Speaking at the Annual National Meet on Adoption in New Delhi today, t ..
The Central Government has been emphasising upon the need to impart training to First Class Judicial Magistrates/Metropolitan Magistrates to deal with cases under Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA), 2005 through National/State Ju ..
Smt Maneka Gandhi asks stakeholders to put in place a comprehensive time-bound action plan on nutrition by 1st November this year The Ministry of Women and Child Development has fast tracked the formulation of the National Mission to tackle mal-n ..
Concerned with the instances of neglect of old age parents by their children, the Government had enacted the Maintenance and Welfare of Parents and Senior Citizens Act, 2007 in December, 2007 which, inter-alia, makes maintenance of parents/senior ci ..
Union Minister of Women & Child Development, Smt Maneka Sanjay Gandhi has written nearly 700 letters to Chief Justices of High Courts and District Judges all across the country, requesting them to expedite the adoption cases pending with them or .. | <urn:uuid:bd5607e7-a81c-43ff-af86-b387cd7032fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawyersclubindia.com/news/default.asp?cat_id=8&offset=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943213 | 508 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Michigan Cancer HealthLink is a statewide network created to build research capacity in diverse communities. HealthLink brings together community members and cancer researchers to develop research ideas as well as educational and service-based programs. If community members and researchers work together, targeted research and programming can be developed to improve a wide range of cancer outcomes in our area.
At the heart of Michigan Cancer HealthLink are the Cancer Action Councils (CACs): groups of community members and leaders who use their local knowledge to improve the lives of cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers in their communities.
What do CACs do?
- Learn more about the ways in which cancer affects communities In Michigan.
- Participate in conversations with cancer researchers about research that can benefit communities.
- Gain skills in partnering with cancer researchers to develop and fund projects and programs.
- Address cancer-related health needs in their communities.
- Set priorities for future cancer care research and funding
- Improve access to cancer care.
Michigan Cancer HealthLink currently has 8 active CACs in partnership with community-based organzations.
- Conner Creek [Detroit, Wayne County
- Western Wayne [Inkster, Wayne County]
- ACCESS (Arab American/MENA communities) [Dearborn, Wayne County]
- LGBT Detroit (Sexual & Gender Minorities) [Detroit, Wayne County]
- American Cancer Society [Southfield, Oakland County]
- Macomb County Health Department [Mt. Clemens, Macomb County]
- Ebenezer Ministries [Burton/Flint, Genesee County]
- Black Men’s Cancer Action Council – Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church [Detroit, Wayne County]
Download an application form here. Cancer-Action-Council-Application-2.13.2020.pdf (208 downloads)
For more information call Knoll Larkin at 313-576-9691 or email at firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:99b553fa-9a7e-4581-9b8a-3a83a25c7028> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://karmanoscancerhealthequity.org/cancer-action-councils-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.898704 | 409 | 1.945313 | 2 |
For the first time, the price of renewable energy in the U.K. from offshore wind is expected to come online below market price, thanks to new contracts announced Friday by the government. The falling price is a part of a growing trend worldwide that could increase the accessibility of renewable energy and decrease global dependence on coal and oil.
The expansion of the country’s already-successful offshore wind operations is said to be able to power over seven million more homes in the country and at zero extra cost to consumers.
“The support we’re announcing today will mean that over seven million more homes will be powered by renewable energy as we decarbonize our energy system — crucial as we continue on the road to net zero emissions by 2050,” energy and clean growth minister Kwasi Kwarteng said in a press release. The release claims that “for the first time renewables are expected to come online below market prices and without additional subsidy on bills.”
More than just a good deal for those living in the U.K., the increasing prevalence and lower prices of renewable energy is a growing trend worldwide as countries begin to take concerns over climate change more seriously. Driving down the prices of these forms of energy will make it easier for companies to build these projects and for consumers to use them, in turn working to make traditional forms of energy like coal and oil less and less necessary.
To reach these goals, the U.K. announced the green-lighting of 10 new wind energy projects as part of its Contracts for Difference scheme, which offers subsidized contracts to renewable projects. In a bidding process among wind companies, most were able to secure £39.65 ($49.74) for every megawatt-hour of electricity they would produce, with some more expensive projects awarded £41.61 ($52.20) per megawatt-hour.
These price reductions mean that for the first time the agreed price of wind-generated electricity has fallen below the price of wholesale electricity, meaning there would be no extra cost for homeowners who choose to switch over. Additionally, this third round of contracts is also estimated to bring up to 8,000 jobs to the country.
But, at least for the wind companies, payments received or required by the contract may be subject to change. As part of their contracts, these companies are only paid a “top up” payment if the average market price of electricity is below the price agreed to in the contract (the roughly £40/MWh). If the ratio is reversed, as is the case for these projects whose price is “expected to come online below market prices,” then the renewable energy companies will end up paying the government a “top-up” instead, or pay back the difference between the prices. This fine print means the deal could potentially cost the taxpayer if the market price drops to below the agreed price.
These new strides toward more affordable renewable energy options are representative of a trend we’re seeing worldwide. The price of solar technology has continued to fall and countries like China and the U.S. have both made moves in the past year to increase their use of renewable energy as well. China, once the world’s greatest polluter, is now set to lead the world in the creation of wind energy.
Is the race toward net-zero emissions and widespread renewable energy a result of the world’s growing conscience, as we approach global 2050 goals of decarbonization? Maybe. Or maybe, as Michael Milken, chairman of think tank Milken Institute, told CNBC Thursday about renewable energy, “it isn’t just an argument of environment, it’s now just pure economics.” | <urn:uuid:a1eaa71b-e7f3-4fb7-8932-a9e033732fd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inverse.com/article/59448-wind-energy-is-getting-cheap | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956165 | 761 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Science experiments are my favorite activity to do with my kids, especially when you already have the supplies on hand. This is one of my favorites:
What you’ll need:
2 percent milk or half & half (do not use nonfat milk)
Food coloring (at least two colors)
Clear dish soap
Fill a white bowl with milk or half & half. If you don’t have a white bowl, make sure you pour enough milk into the bowl so you can’t see the bottom. Add a few drops of food coloring. Now add a drop of dish soap and watch what happens!
Make sure you use at least 2% milk or half & half since the fat in the milk helps to cause the reaction. The milk’s fat and protein are very sensitive to chemical changes. The chemicals in the soap cause the chemical bonds that hold the protein together in the milk to weaken. The dish soap also reacts with the fat in the milk, which is why we see these colorful swirls. | <urn:uuid:3f32e6a0-20ae-4c75-8815-699c35a9c430> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bostonparentspaper.com/science-experiment-milk-food-coloring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943465 | 211 | 3 | 3 |
Using product profitability or bottom line value creation to help determine the appropriate marketing mix is one of the more difficult metrics for management teams to accurately measure. Many businesses struggle to meaningfully measure profitability of individual products in their portfolio, and too often they are stymied by the belief that they do not have the resources available to accumulate the data and sufficiently track their products’ profitability. However, there are ways that all businesses, even small businesses, can improve the ways they measure and manage product profitability to drive bottom line growth.
We were recently helping a client evaluate ways to grow their product offerings in one line of business. Assessing their product portfolio, we encountered two products that ran at a loss. When we shared this information with the management team, they responded that the products were in fact profitable, but the true product costs allocated to the products were inaccurate, which skewed the metric and made them seem unprofitable.
This was certainly not a sustainable model for making value-creating business decisions. Further investigation unveiled that the company’s customer service representatives were spending a disproportionate amount of time enrolling customers in these two products, driving even greater losses than were originally represented by the true product cost.
The takeaway: Accurately determining true product costs allows the team to trust the metric and make accurate decisions on product profitability.
Adopting a Product Profitability Mindset
A friend of ours who runs a chain of retail stores recently confided that she struggled determining which of her product lines was most successful and where she should be investing to grow her business. She asked for advice on how to avoid the feeling that her decisions were based on gut feelings.
This business owner does not have the means to evaluate the profitability of thousands of different SKUs, but what she can do is determine the gross profit generated per square foot (one of her other largest operating costs) at a brand level. This isn’t a perfect measure for product profitability, but it gets close enough to make meaningful business decisions.
The takeaway: Even in a small business, using product profitability to make business decisions can be powerful in driving bottom line growth.
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Recent efforts to put a brand on Nigeria to attract tourists remind me of how easy it is slap a label on something and hope that its uglier characteristics will go away. Long before the phrase “lipstick on a pig” became an election issue, I had warned of the dangers of putting “lipstick on a bulldog” – that is, making superficial cosmetic change in organizations rather than looking at the real underlying problems. The problem with putting lipstick on a bulldog is that it is hard to wrestle the bulldog to the ground long enough to do it and then doesn’t change the nature of the beast.
(Just so that no one accuses me of being unfair to Nigeria and its new tourism brand image, let me say that crime-ridden, corrupt, oil-rich, poverty-ridden sub-Saharan nations – and I’m not saying Nigeria is one — can be charming spots for calm, peaceful vacations.)
Brands are wonderful assets when they capture the essence of a product, service, or event succinctly, meaningfully, and with endurance over time. Consumer product companies have brand guardians to protect those conceptual assets. But when branding becomes a fad, it can reduce communication.
Political labels often resemble lipstick on a bulldog – cheery phrases trying to put a face full of makeup on something that requires deeper scrutiny and deeper change. Politicians float laws called defense of marriage intended to keep people from marrying, or use income security slogans for anti-tax bills when people would have less security without certain government programs. Enormous sums are sunk into branding campaigns for countries (“Cool Britannia”), states, and cities (Providence, Rhode Island, paid Midwestern marketers to come up with its “brand” as a creativity center).
(And just so that no one accuses me of being unfair to chief marketing officers, advertising agencies, or public information officials, let me say that sloganeering is an art, and inventing product jingles is one of my favorite games for long car rides with kids.)
George Orwell, the renowned British author of anti-fascist works, warned of the evils of lipstick-clad bulldogs that co-opt words and distort their meaning. In his book 1984, the war department was called “The Ministry of Peace,” the watchdogs called “Big Brother,” to make them sound protective rather than oppressive. Orwell was particularly outraged by euphemisms promoting mindless acceptance of atrocities. In his essay, “Politics and the English Language,” he warned that since the label democracy is felt to be positive, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy and prefer not to have the term pinned down to any one meaning. He wrote: “Words of this kind are often used in a consciously dishonest way. That is, the person who uses them has his own private definition, but allows his hearer to think he means something quite different… The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.”
Branding should start with an authenticity test. This is especially important in our overloaded digital world, which rewards breezy slogans. One-minute elevator pitches convey the essence of a business plan, people tweet in 140 characters, and PowerPoint-speak is a new language (all headlines, no verbs). These can be excellent tools to capture attention. But if labeling becomes a way to hide the truth rather than invite dialogue, then we could slide into Alice in Wonderland’s topsy-turvy world where no words mean what them seem to. Consider this wisdom from Tweedledee and Tweedeldum. “‘I know what you’re thinking about,’ said Tweedledum; ‘but it isn’t so, nohow.’ ‘Contrariwise,’ continued Tweedledee, ‘if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it ain’t. That’s logic.'”
Did you get that? I didn’t. Lewis Carroll, like Orwell, was parodying politicians and other crafters of empty euphemisms. He wasn’t intending to make sense.
Whether country branding or personal branding, the search for slogans is a trendy quest. I am simply making a plea for authenticity. Before reaching for the lipstick or using the catchphrase, first make sure that the underlying reality can sustain the claims.
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Many factors contribute to alcohol and substance abuse. You might think that it happens overnight because that’s how people who are addicted to them believe that’s the case.
There are many factors involved in addiction; it may be some existing mental health concern, maybe genetics, someone’s socioeconomic status, environmental influence, and many more.
There are four main stages of addiction:
- Regular Use
- High-Risk Use
- Addiction or Dependency
People in the first and second stages might not develop an addiction, but the ones in the third stage will. Understanding these steps are as necessary as the different types of treatment available.
After recognizing the problem, the question remains: Are you willing to get some help? But before answering that question, let us explain one type of treatment available to you -acute care.
What is Acute Care For Addiction?
AC or Acute Care model is an addiction treatment program that encompasses service interventions that interfere at the late stage of problem development through services focused on terse biopsychosocial stabilization that lack sustainable support across the stages of long-term personal and family recovery.
What Are The Treatments Employed In Acute Care For Addiction?
Addictive disorders can cause physical and psychological damage, and receiving treatment is essential for breaking the cycle of addiction.
The first step toward recovery is accepting that substance use has become a problem in your personal life, thus disrupting your quality of life. This can result from impairment in your day-to-day function as an individual -in school, at work, at social, recreational gatherings, or just something meaningful.
When you recognize the negative impact of a substance on their life, treatment options are available. Below are a variety of treatments:
- Counseling and Behavioral Therapies
- Rehab Programs
- Self-Help Groups
Substance-related disorders are chronic, complex diseases that require prolonged, intensive treatment. Depending on the type of substance and the severity of your addiction will dictate the course of treatment.
Treatment often begins with detox using medication to reduce the chances of withdrawal symptoms while a substance leaves your system.
Multiple types of counseling and behavioral therapy will also be included in the treatment you will go through. These therapies allow you to alter some behaviors or ticks because of drug use.
People in these programs usually go through 6 months to a year of rehab, depending on the facility and the individual’s case. After that, you can live in supervised housing while adjusting your finances and finding employment.
Certain medications can also manage prolonged withdrawal symptoms and support sobriety in some people.
What Are The Benefits of Acute Care?
American Hospital Association said, “The pandemic has highlighted the uneven patient care abilities across the four PAC settings, with regard to physician leadership and oversight, the contributions of other specialists and clinicians, infection control reliability, and patient outcomes.” Each setting has value but is designed for specific and different patient types. This delta has the greatest consequence for medically complex patients and those recovering from COVID-19.
Additionally, “Early rehabilitation of COVID-19 patients can enhance pulmonary, respiratory function, reduce complications, improve function, cognitive impairments and quality of life,” according to a recent Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine study.
Inpatient rehabilitation offers a variety of resources and programs that help hospitals deliver quality care, reduce readmissions and improve overall facility operations. These include:
• Employing specially-trained registered nurses who are fully equipped to treat patients with various care needs.
• Hospital-level infection control measures.
• Daily physician oversight and a multidisciplinary therapy team providing daily therapy tailored to each patient.
By increasing patient access to inpatient rehabilitation, hospitals are better able to deliver high-quality outcomes in a safe environment.
This focus on quality is evident in that acute inpatient rehabilitation units treat sicker patients yet produce better outcomes than other post-acute care settings. Recent studies found that while treating a more complex patient population, inpatient rehabilitation operations maintain a higher discharge to the community rate of 70%, which is 37% higher than SNFs on average. The care provided in the inpatient rehabilitation setting continues to benefit patients even after discharge as they experience a lower rate of potentially avoidable hospital readmissions of 4.3% compared to 22% of SNF patients who were re-hospitalized after admission.
Key Benefits of Acute Inpatient Rehabilitation and What Sets It Apart From Other Care Settings
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities and acute rehabilitation units offer a variety of benefits to the ever-growing patient population – many qualities other care settings do not provide. These include:
• Certification as acute care addiction hospitals and licensed as freestanding inpatient rehabilitation hospitals or distinct rehabilitation units within a host hospital.
• Daily physician visits.
• Specialized training in rehab nursing; provide 24-hour nursing care; intervention, assessment, monitoring of VS, IFVs/antibiotics, ostomy, catheter, trach, NG care; routine labs, and diagnostics and respiratory equipment.
• PT/OT/ST available with a patient willing and able to participate in therapy three hours a day, five days a week, or 15 hours over seven days. Requires the services of at least two therapy disciplines. The level of rehab services provided in acute rehab is more intense than in other levels of post-acute care.
• Interdisciplinary approach between physician, therapy team, and nursing to facilitate recovery. Physician-led weekly team conferences are required.
• Services on site: pharmacy, lab, radiology.
• Continuous patient check-ups to ensure a patient’s functional prognosis is aligned with the goal that they will return to home or a community-based setting.
What Are The Common Costs For Acute Care?
Below are graphs of the average costs and lengths of time a person stays in an acute care addiction hospital as of 2013. For the most part, LTCH or long-term care hospital is the most costly —inpatient care is the most expensive among the choices that a person can have for their acute care addiction treatment.
Average costs and length of acute care addiction hospital stays by discharge disposition, 2013.
Abbreviations: HHA, home health agency; IRF, inpatient rehabilitation facility; LOS, length of stay; LTCH, long-term care hospital; PAC, post-acute care; SNF, skilled nursing facility. Source: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Center for Delivery, Organization, and Markets, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP), National Inpatient Sample (NIS), 2013.
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A person’s way to his heart is way through his stomach.
From the 1st century B. C. E Indians started off with the agricultural practices and they not only produced vegetables, but were also engaged in the production of herbs, spices and all kinds of cereals and pulses. At the same time, a lot of food, vegetables, cereals, meat, and other type of food was brought into the Indian subcontinent with each and every dynasty that ruled over this foodie country for hundreds of years. And India came to be known for it’s enormous variety of food – whether it is of the Indian origin or a mixture of Indi-foreign tastes – the country made it it’s own and presented it with a tinch of selfness. Centuries have passed away and the very essence of the Indianness of the Indian street and nobel cuisines.
It’s been years now, since we have been eating and experiencing a continuous change in a lot of local as well as foreign cuisines. The changing trend in this field has delighted both the restaurant chains as well as the connoisseur of food and new type of food. Not only, but Rajasthani, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, or South Indian food has gained love in every Indian plate but, cuisines such as Chinese, Italian, Thai and Mexican have made their way out and is loved all over the Indian subcontinent. Street food has taken over all of the towns and cities and people eat them with great pleasure;be it Indian or Chinese or any other type of meal, everyone tend to get more and more of dishes onto their plates.
The history –
Around 700 BCE, agriculture spread from the Fertile Crescent to the Indus Valley, a wheat and barely began to be grown. Sesame, and humped cattle were domesticated in the local farming communities. By 3000 BCE, turmeric, cardamom, black, pepper and mustard were harvested in India. The ancient Hindu text Mahabharata mentions rice and meat cooked together, and the word “pulao” is used to refer to the dish in ancient Sanskrit works, such as Yājñavalkya Smrti. These evidences are far enough to provide a great example of the historicity of India and the Indian food.
The mingling of cultures –
The coming of various dynasties and rulers over the Indian land has marked a great change in the way Indians looked at their food. The Mughals, the Persians, the Turks, Dutchess, Afghans and a large number of rules that ruled over this vast country brought with them new and delicious food that mingled with the flavours of Indianness. Travellers traveling to India during the 16th century or middle ages introduced new cooking methods and products to the region. These fusioned cuisines tend to adapt India cooking and seasoning techniques and made dishes well integrated.
Change in the eating habits –
Indian texts such as The Mahabharata, Bhagvad Gita and Buddhist texts focuses primarily on their eating of Saatvic, raajsic, or taamsic food, as consumption of beef was considered taboo, due to cows being considered sacred in Hinduism. It was only after the coming up of Afghans, Mughals and Turks that eating beef or meat became an integral part of every Indian kitchen.
Today, street food have gained a lot of popularity among the youngsters as well as enthusiasts of food. Every Indian and foreign meal has taken over the Indian streets and made people fall for them. Apart from the restaurants, every dish is made available at the small shops and street vendors’ stalls, that has made the food cheaper and everyone can taste the food available at every part of the world
Indians have always been known for their food and eating habits that makes them shine on the world level. It is it’s historicity and the use of spices that has helped the Indian cuisine to be one of the favorites in the world that according to a report on Food Tourism issued by the UN World Tourism Organization states that
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Even the Journey from infancy to mature years of life, also a human being has to traverse through many different peaks and slopes to cultivate, mature and experience. This is completed to cross the path of succeeding and listen peacefully in older era. Likewise that a business is a segment of individual life, which creates riches, economic stability, and societal position. You can find two keystones for a successful business — expansion and . It’s vital to get a company to grow, which is the reason why every business person should enlarge its firm at a certain position. Although to generate leads, one has to get several info, which, in turn, will open the roadways to acquire new customers.
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Conquering Amblyopia With a New App on Apple Store
DiagnosticGame App addresses Children's Health
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., July 26, 2017 (Newswire.com) - Lazy Eye, medically known as Amblyopia, is prevalent in about 100,000 children in the USA and is the #1 cause of permanent vision loss in children and young adults and can lead to legal blindness in the affected eye. Inadequate vision screening is the main cause for Amblyopia and the subsequent vision loss. This will change with the newly released DiagnosticGame® App that is an essential tool to discover and diagnose Amblyopia.
The DiagnosticGame® App is downloaded on an iPad or other device for vision screening of children three years of age and older and is easily accessible; be they privileged, impoverished or rurally located. Children usually are unaware of a vision problem in one eye since it can't be seen, it can't be felt and it can't be known because vision favors the other eye. There is, however, a well-defined window of opportunity for Amblyopia treatment and when treated early in life, is generally successfully corrected.
What is the problem with current vision screening? The usual screening method only measures the loss of visual acuity and does not measure the loss of brightness occurring in the Amblyopic eye. Additionally, visual acuity screening does not reach all children; it requires a facility; a standardized visual acuity chart; and a nonbiased, trained examiner who understands the pitfalls of chart memorization and peeking with the good eye that results in missing poor vision in the affected eye. Referral for a comprehensive eye examination is recommended when vision is 20/40 or worse for those younger than five years of age and the eye care specialist diagnoses Amblyopia when the vision cannot be fully corrected with glasses in a normal appearing eye. It is important to note that loss of brightness perception occurs early in amblyopia, even before the referral level of 20/40. Earlier diagnosis would lead to earlier treatment and possibly better outcomes. Loss of brightness and loss of visual acuity should both be determining factors for screening for Amblyopia and both are measured with the DiagnosticGame® App.
Vision screening with the DiagnosticGame® App is entirely new. It can be used in school, at camp and in the pediatrician or family doctor's office. The testing process is different as it is completely automated and nonbiased; the interplay is between the child and iPad; there is no need for an ophthalmic trained examiner and the results are digitally stored. The visual acuity test uses shape-matching technology for automation and to eliminate the need for literacy. The tests for Amblyopia measure for both brightness and visual acuity loss. Brightness loss is a compelling clue that Amblyopia is present and this is the first program to address this factor.
The DiagnosticGame® App screening process identifies (1) a brightness loss which signals Amblyopia and (2) the presence of vision loss due to a need for glasses. Both results warrant referral to an eye care specialist. In addition, the App contains programs to test color vision, stereopsis and potential vision. A study beginning three years ago is underway with screening children in schools.
The DiagnosticGame® App is a product of AMA Optics, Inc. and is available on the Apple Store.
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IVHQ’s Teach and Volunteer Abroad Scholarship recipient, Taylor Franks, will be documenting her journey as a volunteer Teacher in Bali. This week she shares how volunteering in Madagascar inspired her and why she thinks volunteering is such an important experience.
Last August, I found myself dismally watching the Malagasy island of Nosy Komba disappear into the horizon as I set forth on my long journey back home. It was on this island that I spent over four weeks researching various reptile, lemur and bird species while learning and living the Malagasy life. Prior to this experience, I had yet to live in a community that was far different than my own. Surrounded by natural beauty and tasked with a unique research job, I often found myself asking the question: How did I get myself here?
Our lives are made up of a series of choices. As if roads on a map, we are constantly forced to make decisions for ourselves, whether big or small, that ultimately lead us in another direction or down a different road. Although we may have our sights set in a particular direction, or a goal in mind, we will always come to intersections that require us to make a choice in which way to turn next. I see these choices, these possible detours - as opportunities, and believe that it is not the direction we choose to go but the choices we make in these moments that ultimately define our lives.
Traveling is a way in which I’ve found numerous outlets to test and learn about myself. It sometimes takes a breath of bravery to make the decision to leave a comfort zone; however, the knowledge that you will derive from these detours will be beyond anything you can imagine. Volunteering gave me, and continues to give me, a possibility to share connections with people and places around the world. It is a way to integrate into a community far different from your own, and to share and learn skills from those around you. It is a thirst for understanding, a desire to explore, and an ability to see through others eyes that make our footsteps just a little more meaningful.
My time as an IVHQ volunteer in Madagascar reinforced the importance of this lesson within me. I was able to connect and live with other volunteers from around the world whom shared a similar outlook, and learned the skills and qualities they brought. I’ve come to find the unique opportunities that arise in situations where there is collaboration and understanding, and I’ve learned to continue to share my own experiences with those I meet along my way. I feel very lucky to have found another enlightening opportunity to travel and volunteer, and eagerly await the experiences that follow.
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Attaching Screen to Doors
Advice on screen door fabrication techniques. June 11, 2010
What is everyone's favorite way to affix fiberglass screen to a custom screen door? If you can provide sketches that would be appreciated.
(Architectural Woodworking Forum)
From contributor D:
We do it pretty much like the majors. Select your aluminum frame material width and height to match profile (sticking) size, and color specified. Then miter the corners and fit in the plastic corner connectors or screw them together. Then stretch the screen over the frame. Then push in same color vinyl bulb into the groove around the perimeter on top of the screen, like stepping on it all the way around. Use scissors to trim off the excess. Large screens we cut first to size and double over around the edges, just to get a tighter fit, and you'll need to use a block of wood instead of your fingers to press in the bulb. Then just put your framed screen into your opening and shoot stops to hold it in.
From the original questioner:
Thanks contributor D. I definitely like to consider myself in the minor leagues when it comes to windows and doors. I wonder if anyone out there has had success letting the screen into the wooden door frame itself. Or is this a bad idea? If you have done this, is there any one method that is better than another?
From contributor Z:
I would make sure that the screen will be easily removable/repairable.
From contributor R:
I'm doing six in the shop currently. I'm no expert, but here is how we got the best results. These doors have a large rabbeted area, basically full height, with stop material cut to cover the outside edges and three muntin bars. We tried working it with two people keeping tension and a third nailing down the stop strips (not nailing the screen itself). This worked pretty well, but is obviously labor intensive.
Next was to cut the screen as big as the door frame, and use hand clamps to hold it while the stop strips are added. This worked really well. The clamps are released in sequence as the stops are applied. Laying the stops into the rabbet with the screen being held by the clamps added the right amount of stretch. This method also only needs one person, but you do need to lift the door off the bench. Do not use the larger spring clamps! There is too much pressure, so you risk leaving marks. I used the type of clamp that ratchets closed with only hand pressure.
From contributor B:
At our shop we often install screen in a wood screen door. We use spline to hold the screen in. The stiles and rails are rabbeted on the inside edge 5/8" wide by 1/4" deep. You have to stop the rabbets on the stiles and then square them up after assembly. We use a 1/8" router bit to groove the bottom of the rabbet. We use a large collar on the router base to hold that groove about 3/8" from the edge. We cut a piece of screen about 3" too large in both dimensions and lay it over the door opening. Then you force that spline through the screen into the grooves using a spline tool which is basically a thin roller. Do the top and bottom first, then the sides. If your stiles are flimsy put a spacer stick between the stiles before you install the spline. When you are done, trim the screen and tack screen mold into the rabbet. Try this on a sample first.
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- Birth Certificate (Certified Copy):
Child's name as it appears on birth certificate shall be used unless legal document is provided that states otherwise. Parents must provide a photo ID at time of student registration; name must match birth certificate
- A copy of the child’s record from the last school attended
- Immunization Record:
Students are required to be fully immunized against disease as required by the Texas Education Code (TEC) Section 38.001, subject to the exceptions in Section 38.001(c). However, a student may be provisionally admitted if the student has begun the required immunizations and continues to receive the necessary immunizations are rapidly as medically feasible (TEC Section 38.001(e)). A homeless student may be admitted for 30 days pending initiation of vaccinations or receipt of vaccination documentation (25 T.A.C. §97.66(b)). A student who is a military dependent or any student transferring from another Texas school district may be enrolled for 30 days pending transfer of immunization records (25 T.A.C. §97.69). Except as provided by Section 38.001(c) or rule of the Health and Human Services Commissioner, a student who is not fully immunized and has not begun the required immunizations may not attend school. For further information regarding immunization requirements, immunization exemptions, and immunization documentation, please contact the Department of State Health Services.
- Proof of Residence:
Proof is valid for current year only; gas, water, or electric bill (no telephone bill or earnest money loan contracts). There is no exception or time given for proof of residence. A person must provide proof that they are residents of the district prior to the completion of any registration documents.
- Alternative Proof of Residency Form
If a Notarized Proof of Residence letter is required, a student shall not be accepted until the form is in hand (to be used when a family is residing in another family’s home or on rental property). Reminder: A recent utility bill with the name and address of the owner or resident of the property must be included.
- GPAC Grandparent Afterschool Care Form
May be used for non-resident students who will be under the grandparent’s care five (5) days a week for at least four (4) hours a day.
*Proof of Residence is required for both parent(s) and grandparent(s)
**Parents who reside outside SISD WILL NOT be required to pay tuition. An Out of District Transfer Application must be submitted together with the Grandparents(s) After School Care form.
- General Afterschool Care Provider Form (For Elementary School Use Only)May be used for non-resident students who will be under general after school care due to a full-time work schedule of two working parents, or whose sole parent works (single parent home).
- Legal Guardianship or Power of Attorney:
The absence of a parent, guardian, or other person with legal control of a child under a court order is not grounds for refusing admission to which a child is entitled under §25.001. Acceptable Forms of Documentation are:
- Legal Guardianship: A Legal Guardianship is a court document signed by a judge issued by a US Court from within the United States. Guardianship may be used when a child is living apart from the parent(s).
- Power of Attorney: A Power of Attorney is a notarized document that will be accepted for a child who is living apart from the parent(s). May be used for students under age 18 NOT living with parents. Form valid until school notified of change of status.
- Social Security Number (optional); if a SSN is not available, a TEA# will be assigned.
NOTE: Students shall not be denied enrollment or be removed solely because they fail to provide documents 1 and 2. Students will not be allowed to enroll or will be removed if they fail to comply with items 3 through 5 or falsification of records.
Accept closing contract for:
- Military families coming from overseas
- Closing documents at the end of the month
Schools and school districts cannot require proof of residency (rent receipt, lease agreements, utility receipts, property tax receipts, etc.) that prevents or delays the enrollment of children or youth experiencing homelessness due to Section 722(g)(3)(C)(i) of McKinney-Vento. Additionally, Section 721(1) of McKinney-Vento requires that children in homeless situations be provided equal access to the same free, appropriate public education as provided other children and youth.
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Royal Society supports QUASAR Research
Particle accelerators are essential tools for many disciplines in science, namely: high energy physics, medical imaging, cancer treatment, material science, etc. In all cases the accelerator must deliver the critical particle beams with ideally 100% up-time. Commissioning and operating accelerators is a discipline in its own right and can be thought of as an enabling new science, such as the discovery of the Higgs boson. Beam instrumentation in particular can be seen as the eyes of the accelerator and provides the only way to characterize beam properties and quality, thereby allowing the beam to be tuned for the needs of the users.
Absorbed prompt dose due to destructive loss at a CLIC drive beam at a beam energy of 2.4 GeV (S Mallows)
Beam losses are particles that deviate from the ideal trajectory of the accelerator and hit the vacuum chamber producing cascades of high energy particles. This ionizing radiation is potentially dangerous for the equipment of the machine and creates unwanted noise in measurements, but can be detected with particle detectors located near the accelerator. A Beam Loss Monitoring (BLM) system is responsible for detecting the location and intensity of beam losses and triggering a protection sequence if the observed radiation levels exceed a predefined threshold. The choice of the particle detectors for a BLM system depends on the amount and type of expected radiation, cost and the ability to test them remotely. The use of optical fibers is an interesting possibility. Charged particles crossing such fiber will produce Cherenkov radiation which will partially propagate to the end of the fiber. The light pulse generated by beam losses is transformed into an electrical signal via photo-detection and an amplification chain. The photo-detector choice needs to be based on time response, sensitivity, spatial and time resolution and dynamic range.
The Royal Society has just announced that it will support QUASAR research into novel optical fiber-based loss monitors over the next two years, in particular measurements that shall be carried out at the Australian Synchrotron near Melbourne. This will allow studying both, the physical behavior of the beam and the particle shower developments and thus to identify beam loss locations and expected energy deposition in the radiation detectors. | <urn:uuid:1b0d8ae4-3c49-4814-aa26-d8f1bf9561a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/quasar/news/stories/title,518593,en.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.929244 | 449 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Headache is a common symptom that most of us have experienced at some time in our lives. Fortunately for doctors, only a minority of people with headache seek a medical opinion, but even so, headache is a common presenting symptom in primary care, and perhaps the most common single symptom general neurologists expect to see in their clinics. Most of these patients present in a non-urgent setting, and are dealt with as outpatients. However, some present as an emergency; indeed, headache accounts for 1–2% of patients presenting to an emergency department (Barton 1994; Morgenstern et al. 2001; Ward et al. 2001).
When asked to see a patient in the emergency department with a headache, the goals for the physician are straightforward:
Make a (correct) diagnosis.
Investigate appropriately and at the appropriate time.
This does not mean expose every one to a brain scan
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Do You Need a Window Replacement?
Tom Silva provides a practical home window service, in which he shows Emily, a homeowner, how to install energy-efficient replacement windows. In the video titled ‘How to Replace Your Windows | Ask The Old House’, Tom takes Emily through the step-by-step process involved in replacing her old window.
The process of changing a window starts with taking precise measurements. These measurements are required to order the new window.
The replacement window has protective features such as weather stripping and double glass panes with argon gas in-between.
The old window is lifted out carefully after removing the stop, parting beads, and staples. The storm windows are also removed.
The new window is lifted into the window space. The new energy-efficient window should fit snugly into the space left by the old one. Tom says the space on each side of the window should be checked at this point to ensure that the window is properly balanced. The window is screwed into place with shims placed at appropriate spots.
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Common bad analysis of battery protection board
1. No display, low output voltage, no load:
For such defects, first eliminate the bad battery (the battery has no voltage or the voltage is low). If the battery is bad, the self-consumption of the battery management system should be tested to see if the self-consumption of the protection board is too large and the battery voltage is low. If the cell voltage is normal, it is because the entire circuit of the protection board is blocked (components are soldered, false soldered, FUSE is poor, the internal circuit of the battery protection board is blocked, the via is blocked, MOS, IC is damaged, etc.). The specific analysis steps are as follows:
(1) Connect the black test lead of a multimeter to the negative pole of the battery cell, and connect the red test lead to the FUSE, R1 resistor terminals, the Vdd, Dout, and Cout terminals of the IC, and the P+ terminal (assuming the battery cell voltage is 3.8V), and analyze it section by section. These test points should all be 3.8V. If not, there is a problem with this section of the circuit.
1. There is a change in the voltage across the FUSE: test whether the FUSE is turned on, if it is turned on, the internal circuit of the PCB board is not turned on; if it is not turned on, there is a problem with the FUSE (poor incoming material, overcurrent damage (MOS or IC control failure), There is a problem with the material (the FUSE is burned out before the MOS or IC is activated), then use a wire to short the FUSE, and continue to analyze later.
2. There is a change in the voltage across the R1 resistor: test the resistance value of R1. If the resistance value is abnormal, it may be a virtual weld and the resistor itself is broken. If the resistance value is not abnormal, there may be a problem with the internal resistance of the IC.
3. There is a change in the voltage of the IC test terminal: the Vdd terminal is connected to the R1 resistor. Dout, Cout end abnormal, it is due to the IC weak welding or damage.
4. If there is no change in the previous voltage and the voltage between test B- and P+ is abnormal, it is because the positive via of the protection plate is blocked.
(2) Connect the red test lead of the multimeter to the positive electrode of the battery. After activating the MOS tube, the black test lead is connected to the MOS tube 2, 3, 6, 7 and P- terminal in turn.
1. There is a change in the voltage of MOS tube 2, 3, 6 and 7 pins, which indicates that the MOS tube is abnormal.
2. If there is no change in the voltage of the MOS tube and the voltage at the P- terminal is abnormal, it is because the negative through hole of the protection plate is blocked.
2. No short circuit protection:
1. There is a problem with the resistance of the VM terminal: use a multimeter to connect one test pen to the IC2 pin, and one test pen to the MOS pin connected to the VM terminal resistor to confirm the resistance value. Check whether the resistance and IC, MOS pins are soldered.
2. IC and MOS abnormality: Since the over-discharge protection and over-current and short-circuit protection share the same MOS tube, if the short-circuit abnormality is due to a MOS problem, the board should have no over-discharge protection function.
3. The above are defects under normal conditions, and short-circuit abnormalities caused by poor IC and MOS configurations may also occur. For example, in the BK-901 that appeared in the previous period, the delay time in the IC with the model of ‘312D’ was too long, which caused the MOS or other components to be damaged before the IC took the corresponding action control. Note: The easiest and direct way to determine whether an IC or MOS is abnormal is to replace the suspected components.
3. Short-circuit protection without self-recovery:
1. The IC used in the design has no self-recovery function, such as G2J, G2Z, etc.
2. The short-circuit recovery time of the instrument is too short, or the load is not removed during the short-circuit test. For example, the test leads are not removed from the test end after the short-circuit test leads are short-circuited with the multimeter voltage file (the multimeter is equivalent to a load of several megabytes).
3. Leakage between P+ and P-, such as impurity rosin between the pads, impurity yellow glue or P+, P- capacitance breakdown, IC Vdd to Vss breakdown. (The resistance value is only a few K to several hundred K).
4. If none of the above is a problem, the IC may be broken down, and the resistance between the pins of the IC can be tested.
4. Large internal resistance:
1. Since the internal resistance of MOS is relatively stable and large internal resistance appears, the first thing to suspect should be the components that are relatively easy to change such as FUSE or PTC.
2. If the resistance of FUSE or PTC is normal, check the resistance of the via hole between the P+ and P- pads and the component surface depending on the structure of the protection board. The via may have micro-breaks and the resistance is relatively large.
3. If there are no problems with the above, it is necessary to suspect whether the MOS is abnormal: first determine whether there is a problem with the welding; secondly, the thickness of the billboard (whether it is easy to bend), because the bending may cause abnormal soldering of the pins; then the MOS tube Put it under a microscope to observe whether it is broken; finally, use a multimeter to test the resistance of the MOS pin to see if it is broken down.
Fifth, the ID is abnormal:
1. The ID resistance itself is abnormal due to virtual welding, breakage or failure of the resistance material: both ends of the resistance can be re-welded. If the ID is normal after re-welding, the resistance is virtual welding. If it is broken, the resistance will be split after re-welding. open.
2. The ID via is not conductive: use a multimeter to test both ends of the via.
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Chester was not your average goat. No. He was far more stubborn. In fact, he was said to be more stubborn than four donkeys and three mules. Now that is stubborn. Anyway, Chester lived in a mountainous area as goats often do. He enjoyed climbing up and down the mountains, getting exercise while developing different perspectives of what he saw below.
Depending on where he was in the mountains, the town in the valley below looked somewhat different. Chester took this as a metaphor for life itself. He believed that how we perceive reality is predicated on what our vantage point is. And as he often explained, that vantage point could be physical, yet it could be emotional as well – based on the unique experiences and interactions we have had in our lives.
Anyway, the weather was getting cold. It was December. The holidays were fast approaching. While many of the other goats began to do less climbing, owing to the cold, Chester persisted. However, the cold was taking its toll on him. Specifically, his head was getting quite cold as he climbed.
His fellow goats, seeing how cold he was, suggested he put on a goose down vest and a wool knit cap. Chester demurred. He did not think it was fair to the geese and the sheep. He had friends who were geese and sheep. He liked geese and sheep. Yet, he did feel it made sense to find some way to make himself warmer.
One day, while in town, Chester came upon a store selling hats. In the window was a sign that said, “Synthetic Beanies 50% off.” Now, like many, he found a good beanie to be quite stylish. Additionally, he was a frugal goat and enjoyed the idea of being able to buy some quality headwear at half price.
After trying on a variety of colors and patterns, Chester selected a tartan plaid beanie. He was thrilled with his purchase. And he went back to climbing mountains with newfound vigor. And his head was no longer cold. And his fellow goats remarked on how stylish he looked. And he resolved to stop beginning so many of his sentences with the word “and.”
Perhaps Chester was not so stubborn after all.
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Transillumination image becomes blurred significantly by the strong scattering of biological tissue. Analyzing the beam wave propagation inside the scattering medium, we have shown possibility to improve the transillumination image in the beam-incident case. However, uniformity of the background was still insufficient. In a plane-wave incident case, the original image is effectively restored by inverting the transillumination image before the PSF deconvolution. In this paper, we newly introduced this principle to the case with inhomogeneous light beam illumination. We combined the background homogenization and the scattering suppression processes into a simple equation. The effectiveness of this technique was confirmed in experiments.
|Journal||Transactions of Japanese Society for Medical and Biological Engineering|
|Publication status||Published - 2014 Aug 17|
- Beam-wave propagation
- Point spread function (PSF)
- Transillumination imaging
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A few years ago, a man with cystinosis received an experimental treatment. However, the researchers behind this treatment came up with some pretty unlikely side effects. Indeed, the patient’s hair has undergone a profound genetic modification.
An excess of cystine in the organs
The term “serendipity” refers to a unexpected discovery. For example, in 2017, Japanese researchers obtained a new polymer capable of “repairing” itself by initially exploring a completely different solution to prevent screen breakage on smartphones and other tablets. Serendipity is not just about technology, however, but about many fields, including medicine.
A recent article published in The Atlantic tells the story of Jordan Janz, a 20-year-old Canadian. In 2019, he was affected by a genetic disease which gradually got the better of him: cystinosis. It induces a excess cystine, an amino acid, in the cells of organs such as the kidneys (mainly), but also the eyes, the brain, the liver, the pancreas and the muscles. On average, the life expectancy of patients does not exceed thirty years.
Jordan Janz received an experimental treatment based on modified stem cells that had several side effects. In particular, it was a question of painful sores in the mouth altering his ability to eat, but also the fall of his pale blond hair.
Very changeable hair color
Over the months, the patient began to get better and his hair grew back. However, their color was no longer the same. Indeed, her new hair was very dark, almost black. Since then, the color of her hair has changed again, now pulling on dark blond. Researchers from the University of California, San Diego (USA) behind the treatment reacted to these changes in hair color. According to them, the darkening of the patient’s hair was probably a a sign that the therapy was working well.
Jordan Janz is not the only patient who has seen his hair darken. Out of five individuals who received the same treatment, four are in the same situation. In the fifth patient, the change affects the regrowth of his hair. The fact is that all of these patients are Caucasian. In addition, people with cystinosis are often paler than other members of their family.
However, previous research has made it possible to understand that the gene responsible for the disease also plays a role in the production of certain types of melanin, the pigment that influences the color of skin and hair. The phenomenon therefore does not concern non-Caucasians, so that there is perhaps no correlation between the severity of the disease and pigmentation. | <urn:uuid:43ff933f-e95f-4126-8e38-90b32e0f98e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.archynewsy.com/when-an-experimental-treatment-causes-a-profound-change-in-hair-color/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.980718 | 552 | 2.8125 | 3 |
We present a patient who collapsed with chest pain and dyspnoea on a transatlantic flight. She was found to have Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) and human immunodeficiency virus infection. Platypnoea and orthodeoxia, which have not been previously reported in association with PCP, were major features of her illness. The PCP predominantly affected her lung bases and it is likely that gravity increased intrapulmonary blood flow through poorly ventilated lung bases with failure of pulmonary vasoconstriction to increase upper zone perfusion, exacerbating desaturation on sitting up. The partial DNA sequence of the infecting P carinii was identical to previously described isolates.
- Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
- human immunodeficiency virus
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A 45 year old white housewife collapsed on a transatlantic flight with sudden onset retrosternal pleuritic chest pain, severe dyspnoea, and a cough which was unproductive apart from one haemoptysis. She had never smoked and had spent the proceeding 6 months visiting relatives in northeastern USA where, over the previous 4 months, she had developed wheeze, mild dyspnoea, and worsening intermittent pleuritic retrosternal chest pain aggravated by sitting forward.
On arrival in hospital she was apyrexial but in respiratory distress when sitting up, partially relieved by lying flat. She was normotensive but tachycardic. Her jugular venous pressure was not visible, the heart sounds were normal with bibasal lung crepitations. A chest radiograph showed poor expansion but no focal abnormality. An electrocardiogram demonstrated sinus rhythm with a normal axis but the S1Q3T3 pattern. Arterial blood gas measurements when supine on 24% oxygen by face mask yielded pH 7.45, pco2 4.2 kPa, po2 6.2 kPa, with an oxygen saturation of 85%.
A clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism was made and she was treated with intravenous heparin and oxygen. A supine radionucleotide scan did not show any perfusion defects. However, 12 hours after admission she underwent supine pulmonary angiography because of worsening hypoxaemia which showed no evidence for acute pulmonary thromboembolic disease. There were, however, widespread minor fine filling defects with occasional distal occlusions in the right lower zone and similar changes in the left upper zone suggestive of old pulmonary emboli. The transthoracic echocardiogram was normal. Computed tomographic scanning showed a very coarse ground glass appearance at the lung bases with linear elements extending to the pleura.
The diagnosis was therefore revised to viral or atypical pneumonia, including Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, or a rapidly progressive alveolitis. On further questioning she had no history of blood transfusions or intravenous drug use but one of her sexual partners had been bisexual. Examination revealed no stigmata of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. She was treated with high dose intravenous co-trimoxazole, prednisolone 60 mg once a day, and low molecular weight heparin.
An HIV ELISA was positive with a total lymphocyte count of 0.67 × 109/l (CD4 cells 0.16 × 109/l). Investigations gave no evidence for bacterial or viral co-infection. As she was too unwell to withstand a bronchoscopy but no aetiological diagnosis had been made, sputum was induced uneventfully using hypertonic saline on days 7 and 15. The samples were negative for acid-fast bacilli and inadequate for silver staining. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for Pneumocystis carinii using the oligonucleotide primers pAZ102-H and pAZ102-E designed to a portion of the gene encoding the mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA)1 was strongly positive for both samples.
Sitting up was associated with great respiratory distress (platypnoea) and was consistently coupled with a fall in her oxygen saturation (orthodeoxia). On day 11 she deteriorated with fever and hypoxia and died on day 31 despite treatment with clindamycin, methylprednisolone, atovaquone and empirical ganciclovir, Mycobacterium tuberculosis therapy, foscarnet, itraconazole, and ventilation.
At necroscopy large numbers of P carinii cysts were identified throughout the alveoli of both lungs by methanamine silver staining. There was mild chronic inflammation of the pleura but no organisms were identified in the pleura or other organs. No evidence for pulmonary emboli, ARDS, or deep venous thrombosis was found. The DNA extracted from the induced sputum sample was amplified using primers designed to the internal transcribed spacer regions of the P carinii nuclear rRNA operon.2 The DNA sequence was identical to one of the previously described sequences (B1d).
The PCR technique allowed the diagnosis of P carinii pneumonia in a situation difficult for conventional methods. The P carinii DNA detected might have been derived from the oropharynx rather than from the lungs, and throat samples instead of induced sputum might have sufficed.3 Dyspnoea and oxygen desaturation exacerbated by sitting upright—platypnoea and orthodeoxia, respectively—were the patient’s most striking clinical features. They have not been previously reported in association with PCP. Investigations gave no evidence that previously reported causes of this syndrome—particularly intracardiac or intrapulmonary anatomical shunts, pericardial effusions, or constriction or emphysema—were responsible.4–7
The initial diagnosis of acute pulmonary emboli was suggested by the history of sudden collapse with dyspnoea, chest pain, and haemoptysis on a flight with arterial hypoxia and electrocardiographic S1Q3T3 without any evidence for sepsis. The S1Q3T3 pattern is a well known associate of pulmonary emboli with very low sensitivity (16%) but high specificity (93%).8 Pulmonary angiography suggested that she had had pulmonary emboli, probably before the presenting illness. The absence of significant large emboli on pulmonary angiography some 16 hours after collapse, with continuation of her symptoms and signs for 31 days, argues against emboli being the main cause of the patient’s pleurisy and platypnoea.
Platypnoea and orthodexia probably arose as gravity increased intrapulmonary blood flow shunting through poorly ventilated damaged lung bases, with failure of pulmonary vasoconstriction to increase upper zone perfusion exacerbating dyspnoea and desaturation while sitting up.4–7 Indeed, the computed tomographic scan suggested that the lung bases were predominantly affected by the PCP. The analysis of two different genetic loci suggested that the isolate of P carinii infecting this patient was not substantially different from previously described isolates, despite the atypical clinical presentation.
We thank A G Tsolaki for help with the P carinii genetic analysis; C Ilsley, J Coghlan, and J Partridge for pulmonary angiography; and S Waldron, Chris Conlon, Ajit Lalvani, S J Bourke, and J Short for advice and comments on the manuscript. | <urn:uuid:fc1eee9d-d44e-4a1e-a37e-8657ef76ab99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thorax.bmj.com/content/58/2/185 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940413 | 1,688 | 1.890625 | 2 |
St. Catharines’ Chris Lamb Explains How COVID-19 has Impacted the Real Estate Industry
With COVID-19 taking a toll on just about every aspect of our daily lives, some industries have struggled more in its shadow than others. The real estate industry is definitely facing a mixed impact. Whether you’re a renter, a property developer, a realtor, or are purchasing a home, you are affected by the pandemic in some way.
Chris Lamb of St. Catharines, Ontario, is a property developer and investor. He is a first-generation builder that’s enthusiastic and excited about new opportunities. He is interested in building affordable housing communities and investment properties in the Niagara Region. He shares how different real estate properties have been affected by the pandemic.
Commercial Real Estate Impact
To get a clear idea of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the real estate industry one has to look at all the retailers who had to close shop at the height of the lockdown a few months back. With no customers and sales plummeting, many business owners had to let workers go. Others wondered how long their savings would last or whether they could afford to keep their place of business. Even the usually bustling tourist spots look deserted. And months after the economy has opened, the signs of recovery have been less than encouraging. This has put a dent in the real estate market as property values have plummeted.
Beyond that, the demand for commercial real estate everywhere has faced challenges, notes Chris Lamb of St. Catharines. Globally, in the first six months of 2020, direct commercial real estate investment fell by 29% year over year. The average vacancy of commercial real estate across Canada has definitely taken a hit.
According to a recent report, the average vacancy of offices across Canada was 10.8% at the end of June, a rise of 50 bps. Experts say that although the recovery of the commercial real estate market will be uneven, it is expected to recover within the next two years.
Chris Lamb on Residential Real Estate
While the COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly caused a lot of uncertainty and the future is unpredictable, the impact on residential real estate is somewhat mixed. While the housing market faced a slow Spring as open houses were cancelled and people adapted to lockdowns, it has definitely picked up. Over the past 10 years, condo living has grown in popularity with new buildings going up and units being in high demand. The pandemic however, has caused many to reconsider moving into a smaller unit as many families have shifted to working from home, says Chris Lamb. In fact, the shift has caused many to wonder if an “exodus” from major cities like Toronto and Vancouver would occur and if more people would move to suburbs (like St. Catharines) as they don’t expect to return to offices anytime soon.
In a sense, the residential real estate market when it comes to homes is booming in Canada and despite the recession, bidding wars are driving home prices up. In September, the average price of a home sold on the Canadian Real Estate Association’s MLS service was $604,000, setting an all-time record high and representing an increase of over 17% in the past year. In addition, according to realtors, it was the busiest September on record when it comes to the volume of homes sold.
The talk about rent relief has also sent ripples of hope in the housing market. Many renters both in the residential and commercial sectors are trying to negotiate rent relief from the property owners to keep things afloat. Other measures such as flexible rent payments are intended to help both renters and small business owners cope with the economic impact of the pandemic, says Chris Lamb. | <urn:uuid:b9ad1588-82f7-42d8-b71c-755e5483daef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chris-lamb.medium.com/st-catharines-chris-lamb-explains-how-covid-19-has-impacted-the-real-estate-industry-be3bd4b149c6?source=post_page-----be3bd4b149c6-------------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973318 | 772 | 1.515625 | 2 |
I always wanted to try making jams at home and during the summer of 2020 when we were all at home I started experimenting with a different kinds of fruits. I even tried on how to make kiwi jam at home.
It was so easy and simple to make that I started enjoying the process and loving it.
I have tried variety of fruits and today I’m going to explain you how to make kiwi jam at home. It’s simple, easy to make and you can make it with your own children at home.
6 pieces of Kiwi fruit
One cup of white sugar
Juice of two lemon
Wash and Peel off the kiwi with a peeler.
You can now cut small pieces of it and put it in a blender and make a juice out of it or just mash it with your hands.
I personally like the hand mashed version because then u have a pulpy consistency and at times u even can feel chunks of the fruit which taste delicious.
Now take a pan and add sugar to the pan and start heating it up. You can now add the kiwi pulp/juice and mix it with it. Also add the lemon juice on top and stir it to mix all the three mixture. I love it how adding lemon adds a tangy flavor to the jam and makes it delicious
Keep stirring the mixture and make sure it doesn’t stick to the bottom of the pan. There might be a little bit of froth in the beginning which will slowly go away.
The mixture will slowly take a translucent jelly like consistency as water evaporates.
Keep cooking the mixture for 10-12 minutes after which it should take a gelatinous consistency.
Use a spoon to pick up a few drops and drop it on a flat plate. Rotate the plate to make sure the jam is not runny and hence not very fluid.
Once u have reached the consistency, pour it in a glass jar and let it cool down.
Make sure your donot over cook the mixture else it can become hard and turns into a candy.
You can store this in a refrigerator and consume this jam for the next 2-3 months.
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Kristina Cyra Bartl
Media and news have always played a big role in my life – from social circles, my educational path and to my work. One topic that was omnipresent in my life, in newsrooms as well as in lunch breaks, was the question of how traditional news providers can reach the young members of the public. When it was time to find a problem that I want to explore throughout my thesis project it was clear to me that I want to dig deeper into this issue.
Social media platforms have become a popular news source amongst young millennials. This can lead to problems within society. Filter bubbles and their suspected connection to biased beliefs are one example for phenomena that are caused by a news reception through social media platforms. At the same time, traditional news providers struggle to reach the younger audience, which can cause an unstable financial for them. Hence, finding a way to present online news to millennials is not only a matter of public interest, but also an important matter for the media industry.
Existing literature claimed that this problem is not caused by a lack of interest in news amongst young people, but on a growing divergence between the way news are presented online and how young people want online news to be presented to them. This problem is called the news gap. To prevent this gap from growing I explored how young millennials want the news to be presented to them.
I decided to collect my data through a qualitative approach. More precisely I chose a service design research method called generative sessions and semi-structured interviews. This made it possible for me to find out what media form my participants prefer in online news, what factors motivate them to receive news from traditional news providers and which features or functions they want to be offered to them within online news pieces.
The participants stated that they take three factors into account, when it comes to online news, which are trust, balanced opinions, and time-efficiency. Further, they prefer to have choice between different media forms, such as text, audio and visuals. The news providers should offer them a multimedia service and give them a chance to chose which parts of a story they want to explore further. One solution for this can be personalized news presentation and collaborations between different media providers.
Since the aim of the study was to find a way to prevent the news gap from growing, it was necessary for me to find a way how to present it to the ones, who are responsible for news presentation. For this reason, I prototyped a mock-up of an application that is addressed to news providers, journalists and media managers and aims to communicate how my participants want online news to be presented to them. Therefore, the mock-up presents my findings and provides examples of how they can be implemented in online news presentation.
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The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) identifies 23 minerals that will be critical to the development and deployment of solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and energy storage technologies. IISD notes that significant reserves of these minerals are found in states perceived to be both fragile and corrupt.
A picture emerges, say the authors, of potential hotspots for increased fragility, conflict and violence resulting from growing mineral extraction. These hotspots are concentrated in South America, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.
There are real risks of grievances, tensions and conflicts emerging or continuing around the extraction of these minerals, says IISD. In order to meet global goals around sustainable development and climate change mitigation, while contributing to lasting peace, the supply chains of these strategic minerals must be governed in a way that is responsible, accountable and transparent. Achieving this vision will require concerted action from civil society, the private sector and governments. | <urn:uuid:92002bee-ea3c-41b3-ade6-6a40cf8ee57d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mineral-choices.com/content/green-conflict-minerals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.904415 | 189 | 3.0625 | 3 |
Issues surrounding Kayelekera Mine in Karonga have for a long time been a bone of contention as some quarters feel that Malawi government was hoodwinked in signing a deal that does not bring direct benefits to the citizens.
Lately, Kamuzu Chibambo who is President of Peoples Transformation Party (PETRA) and civil rights activist, Collins Magalasi, have added calls upon government to review the agreement so as to make it viable with the common man in mind.
The recent calls also come on the heels of another expression of dissatisfaction from some Karonga residents who questioned the mining firm on why it is failing to develop the area contrary to what it promised when it started operations at the mine three years ago.
Why on earth should Malawi Government only have a 15% stake in such an investment on top of giving Paladin breathing space on taxes for a period of ten years?
Blame has mostly been heaped at the Bingu wa Mutharika’s administration with many observers wondering whether money exchanged hands in view of such a one sided deal.
As Africans we are faced with a common problem among our leaders. Foreign investors know that our politicians do what they do mainly for survival and they take advantage of that.
Most of the deals that are sealed at Capital Hill come with scant details because those who know the truth are palm oiled. This is where as a country we need to get serious when it comes to declaration of assets by our Presidents, cabinet ministers and other top government officials.
Paladin should not treat Malawians as naïve by saying that investors will be scared if we review the current agreement.
That line of thinking brings Zambia into my mind. There was a period in the mid 90s when their mines were being abandoned by investors (mainly Westerners) who deemed them unviable at that particular time. This move created room for Chinese and other Eastern investors to move in and luckily years later demand for copper rose again and the markets responded favorably.
It is a big lie to say that Kayerekera will become unattractive to investors if Paladin moves out. The day after they close operations, a thousand companies will line up to bid for such a big opportunity. Whether they will bring their own share of bribes, we cannot speculate here.
Need we a reminder of how Zimbabwe stamped their foot and made their voices heard? When President Robert Mugabe introduced a law giving indigenous business people 51% stake in any investment by foreign stakeholders, people thought he was adding salt to the injury of the already faulting economy.
That wasn’t to be the case, Mugabe told foreign investors point blank that if they did not agree with the law, they were free to pack and go. Do your counting if you follow these things, how many left? Very few if not none. Many who grumbled in the first place abided by the law and gave away their strongholds. To cut the long story short, their economy is picking up despite sanctions from the West.
Back here, let us not be scared by the Paladin bargaining card of “you mistreat us, you lose investors”. They are just using the same script rather in a wrong cast. We will not ask for 51 %, we might ask for more or less, that is for us to know and for them to anticipate.
My take is that if what we are asking for is too much for Paladin to take then they can go. They must remember that Kayerekera Mine is located within our borders and it belongs to the people of Malawi. If they got the current deal through bribes then let them prepare trillions of bribes for each and every Malawian.
This mine is our asset and we must see the benefits now and generations to come.Follow and Subscribe Nyasa TV : | <urn:uuid:3787ef41-f2f5-4557-8013-7534966e749d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nyasatimes.com/paladin-can-pack-up-and-go-malawi-needs-win-win-deals-with-investors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970435 | 783 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Journey to Full Citizenship: Indiana’s Disability History
This video is an overview of 200 years of change in the lives of Hoosiers with disabilities, produced by the Indiana Disability History Project. A very broad survey starting in the 19th century, the short video highlights the role of advocacy in pressing for the legislation and policy changes needed to secure the civil rights of Indiana's citizens with disabilities.
Part One: Hidden Away
By the end of the 19th century, Hoosiers with disabilities were considered to be a burden to society by the state. Indiana created institutions, placing people behind walls and locked doors.
Part Two: "Unfit" to Reproduce
In the early 20th century, experts promoted eugenics. They believed society could be improved by using biology and genetics to determine who was fit or unfit to live. In 1907, Indiana became the first state in the nation to legislate mandatory sterilization of some of its citizens.
Part Three: Living in the Community
Abuses in institutions came to light. Disability advocates pressed for closures. The establishment of group homes, community mental health centers, and sheltered workshops reflected a shift of funding into community services.
Part Four: The Struggle for Civil Rights
People with disabilities and their allies have fought for equal opportunities in employment, education, and housing, for equal access to public buildings and transportation. Because of these efforts, key U.S. civil rights legislation was enacted in the 20th century.
Part Five: Hoosiers with Disabilities
Today Hoosiers with disabilities are leading independent lives and contributing to their communities. But despite hard-won successes, inequalities persist in education, employment, economic status, and access to health care. The journey to full citizenship continues.
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Preeclampsia is a dangerous pregnancy-related condition that causes high blood pressure and protein in the urine. Women can also experience preeclampsia after birth.
Preeclampsia remains a
Although pregnancy-related preeclampsia typically occurs after 20 weeks of gestation, symptoms can continue even after a woman has given birth. It is also possible for preeclampsia to appear for the first time
In this article, we look at the symptoms and warning signs of preeclampsia, as well as when to seek help and more.
Various studies suggest that
Postpartum preeclampsia, which occurs after the birth, can be life threatening. It may lead to eclampsia, a complication that can involve seizures, stroke, organ damage, and even death.
However, with proper management, preeclampsia does not have to endanger a person’s life or well-being. For this reason, it is very important to monitor symptoms and seek prompt medical care.
High blood pressure sometimes causes
As a result, the healthcare team will monitor the woman’s blood pressure in the hospital following delivery.
Blood pressure higher than 140/90 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) can signal preeclampsia. Other symptoms may include:
- changes in vision, such as seeing spots
- a severe headache that does not go away with massage, exercise, water, or other headache management strategies
- swollen face, hands, or feet
- nausea or stomach pain
- shortness of breath
In some women, preeclampsia is mild, but in others, it can be life threatening. Women often cannot tell how severe their case is based on the symptoms alone, so it is important to seek prompt medical care.
If the following symptoms occur, go to the emergency room or call 911:
- blood pressure higher than 160/110 mm Hg
- seeing spots
- trouble breathing
- shortness of breath
Call a healthcare provider right away for:
- a severe headache
- changes in vision, such as blurry vision or seeing flashing lights
- abdominal pain
- swelling of the hands and face
If the doctor does not answer or does not take the symptoms seriously, go to the emergency room or call 911. Ensure that the emergency department knows that the woman seeking care recently gave birth.
Anyone can develop preeclampsia during or after pregnancy. However, some women have a higher risk than others.
While doctors have established a clear list of risk factors for preeclampsia during pregnancy, research has
Some risk factors for preeclampsia during pregnancy include:
- kidney disease before or during pregnancy
- a history of high blood pressure
- preeclampsia in a previous pregnancy
- having overweight or obesity
- being over the age of
- a family history of preeclampsia
- having had more than one pregnancy
One of the most dangerous complications of postpartum preeclampsia is HELLP syndrome.
HELLP stands for:
- hemolysis, which is the destruction of red blood cells
- elevated liver enzymes, which may cause liver failure and other complications
- low platelet count, which can lead to bleeding and hemorrhage
High blood pressure can also damage the heart and blood vessels,
Doctors diagnose preeclampsia by taking blood pressure measurements and a urine sample.
If a woman has high blood pressure and protein in her urine, she may have preeclampsia.
However, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ guidelines, issues with the kidneys and liver may occur without levels of protein passing through the urine.
They note that doctors should diagnose preeclampsia if there is persistent high blood pressure and other associated symptoms, including protein in the urine, decreased blood platelets, or fluid in the lungs. If seizures occur, the diagnosis becomes eclampsia.
Doctors treat preeclampsia with medication to lower blood pressure. They may also prescribe medication to
For example, they might advise a woman to take magnesium sulfate before delivery. This drug can help reduce the chance of seizures. The woman should continue to take magnesium sulfate for 24 hours after delivery.
If a woman is experiencing severe hypertension, a doctor may prescribe:
- Beta-blockers: These can help reduce the heart rate.
- Vasodilators: These can help open blood vessels.
- Diuretics: These can help get rid of excess fluid.
If the symptoms are very severe, the woman might need to stay in the hospital for monitoring.
Women who are breastfeeding should ask about continuing to do so while taking preeclampsia drugs.
It is usually safe to continue breastfeeding. However, the stress of a life threatening diagnosis and the disruptions in breastfeeding that treatment may require can make it difficult.
Most women recover from preeclampsia if they get early treatment. However, high blood pressure can damage blood vessels and even the heart, so it is important to ask a doctor about follow-up care. It may sometimes be necessary for women to consult with a cardiologist.
Preeclampsia increases the risk of having preeclampsia again with the next pregnancy, so a woman should tell her healthcare team about any previous pregnancy complications.
Preeclampsia is a serious but treatable condition.
With prompt medical care and a supportive treatment team, recovery is possible.
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Brazil wants improved cooperation with China
Updated: 2014-04-07 05:47
By Zhang Fan in Beijing (China Daily Latin America)
Brazil hopes that it and China can improve their cooperation and develop bilateral relations to a new level, Brazilian Ambassador to China Valdemar Carneiro Leao said recently.
"I think China and Brazil will make a qualitative leap in the next few years in cooperation on innovation, space, energy and infrastructure," Leao said at a get-together of ambassadors from China and Latin American countries in Beijing last Friday.
Brazilian Ambassador to China Valdemar Carneiro Leao says the two countries will make leaps in cooperation on space, infrastructure and energy in the next few years. Bruno Maestrini / China Daily
He said Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to visit Brazil later this year and participate in the Sixth BRICS summit.
"For Brazil, Xi's visit will involve multiple tasks including the China-Brazil relations, regional development and the development of the multilateral relationship in this area," Leao said.
He said the great distance between China and Latin America is no longer a problem in the modern world.
Brazil wants to maintain its close partnership with China in the 21st century and develop that relationship in a broader area, Leao said.
This year marks the 40th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Brazil and China.
During those 40 years, bilateral trade between the two experienced rapid growth from only $17.4 million in 1974 to more than $90 billion in 2013, and China surpassed the United States to become Brazil's largest trade partner in 2009.
"Brazil values China's role in its economic development, especially the large amount of Chinese investment in Brazil's energy and infrastructure," said Sun Hongbo, a researcher on China-Latin American relations at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
Brazil's economy increased by 2.4 percent in 2013, 1.4 percentage points higher than the previous year. Observers think this development is mainly due to Brazil's large amount of infrastructure projects and foreign investment in the country.
"Brazil needs more investment to develop its electricity and energy industry because the high cost of energy has already became a major obstacle for its economic growth. Only China is able to help Brazil," Sun said.
In 2013, two Chinese state-owned oil companies, China National Offshore Oil Corp and China National Petroleum Corp, won a 35-year production-sharing contract with three other international oil companies to develop Brazil's Libra oilfield.
China's State Grid also participated in the construction of projects that support Brazil's Belo Monte dam, including building a 2,092-kilometer-long transmission line.
Many Chinese companies have entered the Brazilian market and are currently involved in various industries including infrastructure, electricity, oil and automotives.
"Brazil is very strong in high-tech industry, especially bio-energy and space technologies, so I think the two countries will focus more on scientific cooperation," Sun said.
Xi's visit to Brazil is also viewed as a chance to enhance communications between companies from the two countries.
"The companies on both sides need to better understand each other. Brazil also wants its companies to get into China's market, so it is very important for them to learn more about the regulations of the other's market," Sun said.
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Family law is an incredibly complex matter, especially so when children are involved. With so many television shows and movies training our understanding of separation and divorce, the existence of numerous myths regarding law is no surprise. On top of dealing with the many emotions one may experience during a separation, parents also have to make important decisions regarding their children during this trying time. As such, it is vital to separate fact from fiction in order to ensure an outcome that is in the best interest of the child(ren).
Today, we have a look at 5 family law fallacies that all separated parents should know.
When it comes to the Family Law Act, it's important to keep in mind that your children have rights, not the parents. To fully understand these concepts, it would be recommended to consult a family law firm such as Oxford Partners family lawyers. As, although this can indeed be the case in some situations, it is important to understand that there is no "set answer" when it comes to how much time a child will spend with either parent. Equal shared parental responsibility was a concept introduced into the Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) to encourage and acknowledge the many benefits children stand to gain through shared parenting.
Many people have the misconception that equal shared parenting is the "default" position in every family law case. While the Courts indeed prioritise children spending significant time with each parent, it is not a 'given' that both parents will share this responsibility on a 50/50 basis. The Courts will consider factors such as work commitments, income, family dynamics and more when making a decision that is in the best interest of the child.
It is important to understand that a divorce application is just that - a divorce. It does not formalise any binding agreements or consent orders relating to children. Similar to how you will need to enter a property settlement to divide your assets (a divorce does not deal with financial matters), you will also be required to come up with an informal parenting plan or apply to the Courts for parental consent orders if you cannot come to a mutual agreement with your ex-spouse.
You can find out more about parenting plans here.
Although this can indeed be the case if you don't have children, it is unrealistic for parents to assume that you won't have to communicate with each other once a divorce is finalised. While your romantic relationship may have ended, your co-parenting relationship has only just begun.
Sharing a child is a huge (and incredibly challenging) responsibility that will require healthy and clear communication between you and your former spouse. You will need to work together to make major decisions for your child in the best interest of their physical, mental and emotional needs. Some of these decisions include where your child goes to school, religious tutelage and healthcare they may receive. Additionally, both parents will inevitably have to attend events such as birthdays, graduations, weddings and parent-teacher conferences.
You and your former spouse are going to continue to interact, so it is important to overcome animosity and work on healthy communication for the sake of your child.
Although many people believe this, it's simply not true. There is absolutely no legal presumption that a child is better off living with the Mother over the Father. The Courts will decide who the children should live with, not based on gender, but based on the best interests of the child. There are also plenty of fathers (and mothers) who have been granted a higher care percentage of children, and it all depends on the facts of each individual case.
Although the Courts will always take your child's wants into consideration, there is no set age at which a child can choose who they live with. When considering a child's wishes, the Courts will take certain factors such as their age, understanding of their decision and maturity into account. The Court's main role is to determine an outcome that is in the best interest of a child and a child's wishes are just one of the many factors that are considered when finalising parenting arrangements. The Courts will favour a child's needs over their wants.
To put it simply, the Courts will not base their decision solely on the wishes of a child. Instead, they will take an objective stand on what is determined to be in a child's best interest.
The above are just 5 of the many family law fallacies that all separated parents should know. Do note that the above information is not intended to be a substitute for legal advice. If you have any questions or concerns regarding family law, we urge you to get in touch with an experienced attorney who will be able to expertly navigate you through your separation or divorce.
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Four Times The Mayo Clinic Was Featured In ‘The Simpsons’
If there's ONE thing that makes Rochester, Minnesota famous all around the world, it's obviously our incredibly beloved Corn Cob Tower. But if I had to name TWO things, I suppose I'd have to go with the fact that we're the birthplace of the globally-renowned Mayo Clinic.
In fact, the Mayo Clinic isn't just famous in the real world; it's also been given a few shout-outs from the fictional town of Springfield! Here are four times that Mayo has been referenced in The Simpsons:
2. Not Gonna Lie, I Would Watch This Show
3. Wait, Did Mr. Burns Really Visit Rochester?
4. Mmmmm....Mayo Part II
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Project: Latinx Twitter
Faculty: Elena Machado
Students: Tucker Leighty-Phillips
DP&S Liaison: Emily Sherwood
Date: Fall 2017
In the summer and fall of 2017, DP&S worked with Professor Elena Machado and Tucker Leighty-Phillips (English ’18) on a project that compared the social media use of 43 Latinx writers and artists. In the late spring, Machado and Leighty-Phillips used TAGS–a free Twitter archiving tool–to generateTwitter archives for the identified writers. In mid-June they opted to focus their analysis on the top 18 Twitter users. Later, the archives were downloaded, cleaned, and brought into Voyant as a corpus for analysis. Leighty-Phillips focused his analysis on the use of the word Love across 6 writers. Machado focused her work on a comparison of Lin Manuel Miranda’s use of Twitter as a space for affective labor and connecting with his followers as compared to the activism of other writers. | <urn:uuid:b8f1f5ee-5303-4cc8-bb4d-96c9e8c41cb8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dps.bucknell.edu/2017/12/12/latinx-twitter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934485 | 212 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Movetia had looked at these good practices in its factsheet «Greener Mobility best practices: Let’s get inspired!». Today, other initiatives have been added to the list.
Examples to keep following
- ETH Zürich: "Stay grounded, keep connected" – a comprehensive project with a clear objective to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. A large number of documents and links are available on the web page.
- EPF Lausanne: "Travel Less, Without Loss" is a complete project with recommendations, studies, documents and useful materials.
- Universität Basel: "Less for more" air travel project – useful documents on the web page.
- Université de Neuchâtel: CO2 taxes reinvested in sustainable projects, individual commitments signed and publicly displayed by university staff and students. Video from the rectorate.
- Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK: Strategy development and comprehensive reporting on mobility.
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Learning about people's skills is critical, especially for those who handle others. In short, your competence or lack thereof may sink with your boat along with your career. So if you are currently a manager or you are looking to take care, be careful. Social skills are multidimensional and can not afford to take them. This article contains six competences.
Impact of Human Skills:
The effects of communication skills and the quality of the relationship affect the organization's success or failure. At one or another point everyone has suffered from a defective manager who dealt with poor people's abilities. You ran into your presence and can not wait to escape. For example, former staffs would walk on six steps to avoid the manager and wait for the elevator; we get used to the sound of the walk
When leaders are cold and unfriendly, others refuse. Think of the managers you know who leads the people. Somehow they talk, think in some ways, and behave in a certain way. Unfortunately, the negative surpasses the positive. Their presence is like a dark cloud that floats and shakes energy out of its way. As a result, people are running on board and resisting any form of connection. When contact is inevitable (such as annual reviews, meetings, etc.), you are scared like plague. To say that these moments are tough, an underestimation. Communication, however, is one of the roots of any connection.
Inflexibility has the potential to affect the performance of the leader and his subordinates. Leaders should be able to do the best in others. A manager who can adapt easily makes others the best and knows how the teams mix. The second nature is to pull the fingers and reach the goal.
Great leaders are developing their human relationships. Simply put, this contributes to their upward mobility. How Much Can You Go Without This Capability?
One dimension of good interpersonal skills encourages and encourages others. Even the best talent requires encouragement from time to time. Success is a journey – not a one-off event. You're just as good as your last performance. However, managers with good people's ability to find the way to bring the results to the next level.
Finally, if you are less or less satisfied in this area, your image suffers. Whether you know it or not, people are unfavorable to you. Finally, the staff wants to avoid you; consequently the jokes become the most serious. Do not let your professional image get damaged. We commit ourselves to developing this vital fitness.
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By R. A. Nadesan
“The unexamined life is not worth living,” was a key Socratic principle. It’s important that we critique, analyze and improve the quality of our thinking which will naturally boost the quality of our decisions. There are different types of thinking; however, what we are going to examine is critical thinking.
So what is critical thinking?
It’s a type of reasonable, reflective thinking that is aimed at deciding what to believe or what to do. A way of deciding whether a claim is always true, partly true, or false.
To become a critical thinker, you must develop these skills.
Recognize assumptions you carry with you – Have you ever wondered why you believe the things that you believe? Do you believe things because you’ve been told to believe them? Step outside your own beliefs to observe from a neutral viewpoint. Be aware of assumptions and learn to self-reflect. We all have our filters through which we view the world, so challenge biases and prejudices, ask questions, look for evidence, before coming to conclusions.
Process information honestly – People sometimes pass along information that is not really true. Thanks to a few applications, we have been freely circulating posts that make funny or outrageous claims without checking its veracity. It has reached a stage where we don’t know what is true and what is not.
Recognize a generalization – “All success is brought about by good luck”, “The customer is always right”, “Old people are wise”. These are all generalizations; are they always true? Not necessarily. One can always confront these statements and reinvent it based on new evidence.
Evaluate old information and new ideas – There was a time when doctors thought leeches could cure us. The belief was that the infection was in the blood, so take out the infected blood and the person gets cured. This was the accepted paradigm at that time and everyone believed it. However, thankfully, this methodology was disputed and challenged by some a doctor and after that there was a huge paradigm shift in the field of medicine.
Analyze a problem and recognize the complex parts. A mechanic must understand how an entire engine works before he can diagnose a problem. Sometimes it is necessary to deconstruct an engine to figure out the parts that are not working. This is how you approach big problems, break them down into smaller parts and carefully deliberate over them.
Use precise vocabulary and communicate with clarity – The truth can be blurred by fuzzy language. Develop your vocabulary so you can communicate precisely and accurately.
Manage emotions in response to a situation or problem – Don’t be fooled by rabble rousing emotional speeches. Stay rational and keep your emotions in check as you encounter new information.
Judge your sources – Learn to recognize hidden agendas and bias when you collect information.
Finally, question, every bit of information that you receive. Employ the four W’s and one H principle, ask why, when, where, which and how before you come to a conclusion.
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As a consequence of increasing reports of an unusual and novel presentation of a multisystem inflammatory disease in the UK, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health published a case definition on May 1, 2020, of pediatric inflammatory multisystem syndrome temporally associated with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) (PIMS-TS).1 They defined PIMS-TS as persistent fever, inflammation, and evidence of single or multiorgan dysfunction, with exclusion of any other microbial cause and with positive or negative severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) polymerase chain reaction test results. In the US, this condition has been defined by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, with a more specific case definition.2
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Accepted for Publication: December 20, 2020.
Published Online: February 25, 2021. doi:10.1001/jamaoto.2020.5698
Corresponding Author: Ryan C. T. Cheong, BSc(Hons), MBBS, Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Great Ormond Street, London WC1N 3JH, United Kingdom (firstname.lastname@example.org).
Author Contributions: Mr Cheong had full access to all of the data in the study and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Concept and design: Cheong, Frauenfelder, Moshal, Butler, Wyatt.
Acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data: Cheong, Jephson, Frauenfelder, Cavalli, Butler, Wyatt.
Drafting of the manuscript: Cheong, Frauenfelder, Wyatt.
Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: All authors.
Statistical analysis: Cheong.
Administrative, technical, or material support: Cheong, Frauenfelder, Moshal, Wyatt.
Supervision: Cheong, Jephson, Cavalli, Moshal, Butler, Wyatt.
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
Additional Contributions: Delane Shingadia, MBChB, DCH, DTM&H, MPH, provided editing assistance; Justin Penner, MD, MSc, DTM&H, assisted in data collection and analysis; and Karlie Grant, BN, assisted in data collection; all with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust.
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Millions of Syrians face the risk of being deprived of vital humanitarian aid if Russia, in its heated negotiations with the United Nations, does not back down on its resistance to renewing the mandate allowing cross-border aid operations into northwest Syria.
Since the pact for cross-border aid ends on July 10, the U.N. Security Council (U.N.S.C.) is debating whether operations should continue and for how long. Rights groups are concerned Russia will veto the mandate.
“The cross-border mechanism allows U.N. agencies to deliver aid without the permission of the (Bashar) Assad government, which is critical because the regime consistently blocks aid from reaching opposition-held areas,” the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) underlined in a written statement on Monday, adding that U.N. agencies currently reach nearly 3 million civilians in northwest Syria from Turkey each month, many of whom have been displaced by fighting.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) similarly described the situation as “worrying news.” Louis Charbonneau, the United Nations director at HRW wrote on Twitter, “Relying on Assad's government for aid to northeast or northwest Syria isn’t realistic.”
In January, Russia scored a victory for its close ally Assad in Syria, using its veto threat to force the Security Council to adopt a resolution reducing the number of crossing points for aid deliveries, from Turkey to the country's northwest, from four to just two. It also cut in half the yearlong mandate that had been in place since cross-border deliveries began in 2014 to six months, as Russia insisted.
Russia has advocated ending all cross-border aid to Syria, arguing it undermines Syria’s sovereignty and that the situation on the ground has changed since the original resolution passed in 2014. U.N. operations being dependent on the regime, however, would aid accelerating Russia’s push for the normalization of the Assad regime and undercut international efforts to foster a lasting settlement to the Syrian conflict.
Indicating that Russia’s position is increasingly clear, the U.N. stressed that the upcoming vote is a test case for China and for new Security Council members like Tunisia and Vietnam.
“Russia will likely attempt to block one of the northwest border crossings and offer another to remain open for just six months. Russia has stated that it intends to dismantle the cross-border mechanism completely by the end of 2020,” it added.
Amid rising malnutrition and food insecurity, and the World Food Programme’s (WFP) warnings of a possible famine in Syria, humanitarian aid is essential as the U.N.'s presence also provides legal cover for many international nongovernmental organizations (NGO) operating in the northwest.
Syria's war has devastated the country's economy since 2011, plunging 80% of its people into poverty, according to the United Nations. For years, many stakeholders have said Assad has ignored the needs and safety of the Syrian people, only eyeing further gains of territory and crushing his opposition. With this aim, the regime has for years bombed vital facilities such as schools, hospitals and residential areas, causing the displacement of half the country’s population. The situation is especially critical in opposition-controlled areas in the northwestern provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, regions the Assad regime has vowed to take back. With almost 50% of the nation's health facilities out of service, the Syrian people are also extremely vulnerable to the coronavirus pandemic.
HRW had previously documented how restrictions on aid from Damascus and Iraq are preventing medical supplies and personnel needed to contain COVID-19’s spread among the millions of people in northern Syria.
“The U.N.S.C. should stand up to Russia and demand inclusion of border crossing from Iraq to Syria in cross-border aid resolution. Should not give in to threats. Syria needs both northwest crossings reauthorized for 12 months plus al-Yarubiyah for the northeast,” Charbonneau continued, once again highlighting that the idea of cross-border aid coming from Damascus would compensate for the other crossings is “wishful thinking.”
Germany and Belgium submitted a draft resolution extending the use of the two crossings in northwest Syria for a period of 12 months and for the reauthorization of the Yarubiyah crossing for six months.
According to the U.N., the impact of Yarubiyah’s closure has been far greater than expected because of the COVID-19 pandemic. The crossing was primarily used by medical agencies to deliver health supplies to the area. Yet between January and May, cross-line operations from Damascus only reached 31% of medical facilities, leaving the region more vulnerable to the spread of the virus.
The risk of an outbreak is especially high and most alarming in Syria's northwest, where overcrowded settlements are teeming with fresh arrivals and many of the displaced are forced to sleep in freezing temperatures in open spaces.
Moreover, the overcrowded camps are unfit for humans during the global pandemic as they are often plagued by poor hygienic conditions and fires that erupt frequently, spreading easily to other tents nearby.
Turkey and Russia had reached a cease-fire agreement in March after the Assad regime launched an offensive on Idlib, vowing to take back the area with Russian support. The attacks displaced nearly 1 million civilians who sought refuge in safe areas near the Turkish border, an incident described by the U.N. as the biggest one-time displacement in the war-torn country since the conflict erupted in 2011.
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Persons and corporations innocent of misconduct claims frequently settle to avoid the costs of trial, and demand a non-disclosure clause to avoid the humiliation, embarrassment and often adverse economic and sometimes political consequences of a public trial. Persons and corporations guilty of misconduct frequently settle claims and demand non-disclosure clauses for the very same reasons. That is why I previously argued that it was wrong to draw inferences one way or the other from the settlement of a claim of sexual harassment against Herman Cain. Numerous claims and settlements may allow for such an inference, but a single one should not.
What I find problematic is the practice of insisting upon non-disclosure. A person who is truly innocent of charges of sexual harassment might want to settle to avoid the public airing of false and humiliating charges, but wants to assure that the charges are not made public nonetheless -- thus, the demand for a non-disclosure agreement. The public is not harmed by such a withholding of information. But if the person is guilty of the charges aren't other and future employees or similar victims entitled to know? Cases are settled daily in which molesting by priests, malpractice by doctors, the existence of dangerous and defective products are concealed from the public. The claimant is frequently given a choice between accepting compensation and keeping the matter secret or going to trial. Victims, particularly those of sexual harassment or assault, prefer to have the incidents charged remain private. So they likewise are content to keep the charges and settlement confidential.
In some instances where there is litigation in progress, the court is called upon to seal the record as a condition of the settlement. Usually the judge has no knowledge as to whether or not the claims or charges have merit and will succeed. If the court believes that a settlement should not be sealed because there may be some public interest involved, can it refuse the request, and in effect, require the parties to go to trial when both have agreed to settle. Of course, they have the option of proceeding without the court's imprimatur, but confidentiality will be lost if the record remains public.
In court cases, the court can require that the parties satisfy it that secrecy does not adversely affect the public. But many of these settlements with their secrecy requirement are reached without court involvement. Some ethical standard might be implemented (if one does not already exist) to prohibit lawyers from demanding or including non-disclosure if to do so is adverse to the public interest. In respect to the Herman Cain matter, I have no doubt that his statements have waived the prohibition on his alleged victims. It would be the ultimate chutzpah (not Michele Bachmann's pronunciation) for the National Restaurant Association to seek a return of any moneys paid to the alleged victims merely for countering the claims of Mr. Cain regarding their truthfulness and integrity.
But no matter how these claims play out on the political stage, the practice of hiding wrongdoing through the avenue of non-disclosure settlements agreements is worthy of further consideration and possibly a change in what apparently has become acceptable and routine. Secret settlements may protect the innocent, but I suspect they serve much more often to protect the guilty. | <urn:uuid:4f1f0e40-68fd-4049-b81d-48a79ef7e3b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herman-cain-sexual-harassment-settlement_b_1084737 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957086 | 635 | 1.601563 | 2 |
ICCVAM Communities of Practice Webinar 2020
Use of Animal-free Affinity Reagents
January 21, 2020
ICCVAM promotes the development and validation of toxicity testing methods that protect human health and the environment while replacing reducing, or refining animal use. ICCVAM also provides guidance to test method developers and facilitates collaborations that promote the development of new test methods. This webinar, organized on behalf of ICCVAM by NICEATM, presented a review of the usefulness and limitations of nonanimal-derived affinity reagents and their potential to replace animal-derived reagents.
Affinity reagents such as antibodies are used in a range of research, diagnostic, and regulatory applications. However, traditional methods for producing such reagents require immunization of laboratory animals. Therefore, even when applied to nonanimal test methods, their use is inconsistent with the spirit of replacing, reducing, or refining animal use. Use of animal-based affinity reagents also introduces variability into the methods that use them.
In this webinar, Alejandra Solache of Abcam presented an overview of production, use, and characteristics of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies. Rebecca Clewell of 21st Century Tox Consulting summarized a recent review by a working group of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the European Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing on the scientific validity and benefits of animal-free technologies to produce affinity reagents.
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- Recombinant Monoclonal Antibodies: An Indispensable Research Tool
Alejandra Solache, Ph.D., Abcam
- Scientific Validity of Replacements for Animal-Derived Antibodies
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Aim of the study: In selected surgical neonates and infants, the rapidity of induction and intubation may represent an important factor for their safety. Propofol is an anesthetic characterized by a rapid onset and fast recovery time that may reduce time of anesthetic induction and improve post-anesthetic outcome. The aim of this study was to evaluate the safety and efficacy of anesthesia induction in full-term neonates and young infants after propofol bolus administration. Methods: A retrospective case-control study including infants below 6 months of age, undergoing general anesthesia between 2011 and 2013, was carried out. Patients that received intravenous propofol bolus to induce anesthesia were compared to patients who received inhaled sevoflurane. Time to reach successful orotracheal intubation (OTI) was measured in seconds. The quality of OTI was defined as "excellent," "good," and "poor," based on established classification and was reported. Hemodynamic parameters as systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), pulse pressure (PP), heart rate (HR), and oxygen saturation (SaO2) were collected before OTI (t0), at OTI (t1), and at spontaneous breathing recovery (t2). Main adverse effects were recorded for both groups. Results are median (IQ range) or prevalence; p < 0.05 was considered significant. Results: 160 infants were enrolled in the study, 80 received propofol and 80 inhaled sevoflurane. Major surgery (involving organs in the thoracic, abdominal, or pelvic cavities) was performed in 64 and 54% of patients in the propofol and sevoflurane group, respectively (p = 0.07). Patients in the propofol group showed a shorter time for OTI [11.5 (4.0-65) vs. 360.0 (228.0-720.0) seconds, (p < 0.0001)]. No difference was found in the quality of OTI between the two groups. No significant complications were recorded in either group. Conclusions: Propofol is a safe and effective anesthetic in neonates and infants permitting rapid induction of anesthesia and rapid intubation, without negative impact on the quality of intubation and haemodynamic compromise. | <urn:uuid:4728356f-e54d-4177-befd-bbefab09b737> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://moh-it.pure.elsevier.com/en/publications/intravenous-propofol-allows-fast-intubation-in-neonates-and-young | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964674 | 488 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Discover “The Dirty Dozen” Pitfalls Frontline Workers and Enterprises Face
Leading organizations know radios just can’t cut it to stay competitive in today’s digital world. In fact, these organizations are discovering that an intelligent collaboration platform can open more doors than they previously imagined possible.
Deskless workers make up 80 percent of the global workforce. And yet, many of these deskless workers are still using antiquated radio technologies which don’t meet the needs of modern, responsive organizations.
The truth is radios aren’t built to support the digital transformation journey organizations need to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced world. That’s largely because radios are connected to the employees using them, but disconnected from the rest of the organization.
It’s time to discover the future of voice at work.
- 3 “brass tacks” reasons radios are a poor forward-looking investment
- 5 reasons radios hold your deskless workers back
- 4 innovative features and benefits you won’t find with radios
- How a voice-first intelligent collaboration platform increases productivity, keeps workers safer, helps compliance with regulatory requirements, and improves customer engagement
- And so much more
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What do I need to know about paraplegia?
Paraplegia is paralysis of all or part of your trunk, legs, and pelvic organs. Paraplegia is caused by damage to your spinal cord. When the spinal cord is damaged, you lose feeling and movement. Your symptoms may depend on the location and severity of your spinal cord injury.
What treatments might I need?
You will need to stay in the hospital right after your injury. You will then be moved to a rehab center. The goal of rehab is to help you learn to take care of yourself as much as possible. A team of healthcare providers will help you learn to function with paraplegia. Ask for more information on any of the following rehab treatments:
- Skin care helps prevent pressure sores. Specialists will help you learn how to keep your skin healthy.
- A physical therapist teaches you exercises to help improve movement and strength. Physical therapists help you learn ways to stay active. They will teach you how to use a wheelchair and how to move from a bed to a chair or toilet.
- An occupational therapist teaches you skills to help with your daily activities, such as getting dressed or bathing. Occupational therapists also teach you work-related skills.
- Bowel and bladder programs help you manage when you urinate or have a bowel movement.
When should I or someone close to me contact my healthcare provider?
- You have a fever.
- You have trouble urinating or urinate less than usual.
- Your abdomen is swollen and firm.
- You have blood in your urine or bowel movement.
- You have questions or concerns about your condition or care.
When should I seek immediate care or call 911?
- You feel lightheaded, short of breath, and have chest pain.
- You cough up blood.
- Your arm or leg feels warm, tender, and painful. It may look swollen and red.
- You have blurred vision or see spots.
- You have cold, dry skin with goose bumps below your spinal cord injury.
- You have hot, sweaty, red skin above your spinal cord injury.
- You have a sudden throbbing headache.
Care AgreementYou have the right to help plan your care. Learn about your health condition and how it may be treated. Discuss treatment options with your caregivers to decide what care you want to receive. You always have the right to refuse treatment. The above information is an educational aid only. It is not intended as medical advice for individual conditions or treatments. Talk to your doctor, nurse or pharmacist before following any medical regimen to see if it is safe and effective for you.
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About 42,000 years ago, Earth’s magnetic field broke down temporarily, according to a new study. This lead to environmental cataclysms and mass extinctions, including the demise of the Neanderthals. The dramatic period was a turning point in Earth’s history, claim the scientists, full of resplendent auroras, electrical storms, and strong cosmic radiation. These changes were caused by the reversal of the planet’s magnetic poles and variations in solar winds.
Amusingly, the researchers behind the international study (which involved scientists from Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the U.K., Germany, U.S., Argentina, China, and Russia) called this period the “Adams Transitional Geomagnetic Event’ or simply “Adams Event.” The Adams they are referring to is the science fiction writer Douglas Adams, who famously wrote in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” that 42 was the answer to “the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything.”
Chris Turney, a professor at UNSW Sydney and co-leader of the study, remarked that their study was the first “to precisely date the timing and environmental impacts of the last magnetic pole switch.”
Interestingly, their discovery was aided by ancient New Zealand kauri trees, which have been sitting preserved in sediments for more than 40,000 years.
“Using the ancient trees we could measure, and date, the spike in atmospheric radiocarbon levels caused by the collapse of Earth’s magnetic field,” said Turney.
What the trees helped the scientists understand were the effects of the magnetic pole switch, which was already known as “The Laschamps Excursion.” Using radiocarbon dating to analyze the kauri tree rings, they could gauge how the planet’s atmosphere changed.
The study’s co-lead Professor Alan Cooper, Honorary Researcher at the South Australian Museum, highlighted the significance of the ancient trees to their work.
“The kauri trees are like the Rosetta Stone, helping us tie together records of environmental change in caves, ice cores and peat bogs around the world,” explained Cooper.
Using the trees, the researchers were able to create global climate models that showed how the growth of ice sheets and glaciers across North America, differences in wind belts and tropical systems, and even the extinction of Neanderthals could all be linked to the climate changes brought on by the Adams Event.
“Earth’s magnetic field dropped to only 0-6 per cent strength during the Adams Event,” pointed out Professor Turney. “We essentially had no magnetic field at all – our cosmic radiation shield was totally gone.”
According to the researchers, another fascinating consequence of the Adams Event is that early humans would have been both inspired and terrified by the amazing auroras seen in the sky, brought on by the magnetic field fluctuations. “It must have seemed like the end of days,” said Cooper.
He also supposes that the calamities would have forced our ancestors into the caves, leading to the amazing cave art that came about approximately 42,000 years ago.
Could such a magnetic pole reversal happen today? Professor Cooper thinks there are some indications like the weakening of the field by 9 percent over the past 170 years that tells us a reversal may be coming.
“If a similar event happened today, the consequences would be huge for modern society,” shared Cooper. “Incoming cosmic radiation would destroy our electric power grids and satellite networks.”
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On June 29, 2022, the D.C. Policy Center’s article, Proximity to homicide exposure in Washington, D.C., 2021, was cited by WUSA 9:
Data showing how many D.C. kids are impacted by shootings reflects just how important that support is.
The DC Policy Center mapped it out.
“On average, when a homicide happened in DC [in 2021], there were about 2,800 kids that were nearby,” executive director of the center, Yesim Sayin said.
Sayin said in areas that see more violent crime, that number can get up into the hundreds of thousands.
“The trouble with this kind of exposure to violent crimes is it’s an adverse childhood experience,” she said. “Kids carry these experiences with them for their lifetimes. And they can actually become physically ill if they’re exposed to violent crime as children, they can experience mental health problems. So this is ultimately a health disparity.” | <urn:uuid:49b8b9ab-b9a1-4e8a-9509-41e439a4c2d3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/20220629-wusa9/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977544 | 212 | 2.234375 | 2 |
In its bid to enhance access to financial services for low income earners and unbanked Nigerians, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has come out with guidelines and regulations for Payment System Banks (PSBs) in the country.
According to a circular issued to all stakeholders and signed by Director, Financial Policy and Regulatory Department of CBN, Kevin Amugo, the move is part of efforts to complement services provided by other licensed entities.
The CBN stated further that the essence of the regulation was to leverage on technology to promote financial inclusion and enhance access to financial services to the rural poor, low income earners and financially excluded of the society.
The PSBs are expected to leverage on mobile and digital channels to enhance financial inclusion and stimulate economic activities at the grassroots through the provision of financial services.
The apex bank stated that “The key objective of setting up PSBs is to enhance financial inclusion by increasing access to deposit products and payment/remittance services to small businesses, low-income households and other financially excluded entities through high-volume low-value transactions in a secured technology-driven environment.”
Payment Service Banks are expected to operate mostly in the rural areas and unbanked locations targeting financially excluded persons, with not less than 25% financial service touch points in such rural areas as defined by the CBN from time to time; enter into direct partnership with card scheme operators. Such cards shall not be eligible for foreign currency transactions; deploy ATMs in some of these areas; and deploy Point of Sale device
The circulated stated further that the PSBs shall “be at liberty to operate through banking agents (in line with the CBN’s Guidelines for the Regulation of Agent Banking and Agent Banking Relationships in Nigeria); roll out agent networks with the prior approval of the CBN; use other channels including electronic platforms to reach-out to its customers; establish coordinating centres in clusters of outlets to superintend and control the activities of the various financial service touch points and banking agents; amongst others.
According to the CBN, the minimum capital requirements for PSBs are five billion or such other amount that the CBN may prescribe from time to time.
It would be recalled that the apex bank has, over the years, continued to be innovative in deepening the nation’s financial services sector. | <urn:uuid:f6fc3926-ff43-4569-a75d-3e651a78b64f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://businesseye.ng/cbn-rolls-out-guidelines-for-payment-service-banks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959258 | 472 | 1.726563 | 2 |
In AIMS we are studying the evolution of intestinal bacteria from birth up to the age of three years old. By providing small biological samples to us, you will enable us to track your child’s intestinal bacteria. This will give us a closer look at the invisible world on and within your child’s body: little by little, test tube by test tube.
Research shows that family members also have an influence on the development of a child’s intestinal bacteria. This is why we would like to include other family members in the study, including the mother’s partner and (where applicable) a brother or sister of the child. By collecting biological samples from them no more than twice, you will enable us to study the influence of family members on your child’s microbiome.
For the AIMS study we will ask you to collect small biological samples. The details of what to collect, how and how often for each participant can be checked via the links below.
Collecting the biological samples is easy. We have produced instruction videos and written instructions that explain exactly how to collect the samples simply and hygienically. | <urn:uuid:4486cde6-da70-49ff-b140-8438922cbb9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aimsonderzoek.nl/collecting-biological-samples/?lang=en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948489 | 234 | 2.546875 | 3 |
One of the biggest social stigmas attached to a society is that of Child Abuse.
The World Health Organization defines child abuse and child maltreatment as “all forms of physical and/or emotional ill-treatment, sexual abuse, neglect or negligent treatment or commercial or other exploitation, resulting in actual or potential harm to the child’s health, survival, development or dignity in the context of a relationship of responsibility, trust or power.”
Child abuse can take place in homes, schools, orphanages, residential care facilities, on the streets, in the workplace, in prisons and in places of detention.
The effects of child abuse
Child Abuse can lead to long-term and serious damage to a child. For example, it can lead to long-standing physical and mental health difficulties such as depression, eating disorders, substance misuse and self-harm. Children who have been abused may find it hard to trust other people – this could make it difficult for them to form healthy relationships in the future. For all these reasons, it’s very important to take steps to protect children from abuse.
Most criminals have an abusive childhood
- Major abuse reported between the age group of 5 to 11 years
- Boys, as compared to girls are equally at risk of abuse
- Persons in trust and authority are major abusers, mostly parents
- 48.4% girls wished they were boys
- Most children reported the issue to no one
- National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) recorded 33,052 cases in 2011;38,172 cases in 2012 & 58,224 cases in 2013
- The Highest number of Registered FIRs were done in – Rajasthan, followed by Maharashtra, UP, MP and Kerala.
- The Conviction rate was only 166 – a mere 2.4%, while 389 Of the accused were Acquitted.
- Eight cases of Child Sexual are reported every single day.
- 40 Underage Girls are forced into a life of Prostitution Every Single Day.
- Child Prostitution Work In Hazardous Environments and live in Unhygienic Squalor. They’re often beaten & raped.
- India is viewed as a hub for human trafficking It’s been estimated that 12,000-50,000 women and children are trafficked into the country annually from neighbouring states of Nepal & Bangladesh as labour, beggary, organ trafficking and sexual exploitation.
Statutes dealing with the protection of Children
- The Indian Penal Code, 1860
- Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act, 1994
- The Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2000
- The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
- Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, 1986
- The Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006
- The Commissions for the Protection of Child Rights Act, 2005
- Protection of Children Against Sexual Offences Act, 2012.
WHERE TO MAKE A COMPLAINT
- A complaint alleging the commission of any act amounting to abuse of a child can be made to the police. The Police helpline number is 100.
- In case the police fails to register a FIR or does not investigate the case, then the aggrieved party can write an application to the Superintendent of Police under Section 154(3) of CrPC.
- Even if there is failure on the part of the Superintendent of police to take action, or that even after registering it no proper investigation is held, the aggrieved party can file an application under Section 156(3) of CrPC before the learned Magistrate concerned. In such cases the Magistrate can direct the FIR to be registered and also can direct a proper investigation to be made, in a case where, according to the aggrieved person, no proper investigation was made. The Magistrate can also under the same provision monitor the investigation to ensure a proper investigation.
- An online complaint can be made at the website of the National Commission for Protection of Children’s Rights by clicking on the following link: http://ncpcronline.info/OnlineForm/onlineform.aspx
- A complaint can also be addressed to:
National Commission for Protection of Child Rights,
5th Floor, Chanderlok Building, 36, Janpath,
New Delhi – 110 001
Online complaint can also be made at the website of the National Commission of Human Rights by clicking on following link :http://nhrc.nic.in/
Child line provides emergency assistance and outreach services to a child in distress and subsequently, based upon the child’s need, rescues the child and refers him/her to an appropriate organization for long-term rehabilitation, follow up and care.
A call can be made to Child line a 24 hours free telephone helpline service at the number 1098.
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The Ass and the Charger
An Ass congratulated a Horse on being so ungrudgingly and carefully provided for, while he himself had scarcely enough to eat and not even that without hard work. But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy. The Horse was wounded and fell dead on the battlefield. Then the Ass, seeing all these things, changed his mind, and commiserated the Horse. | <urn:uuid:63f18ebb-a168-425c-8c31-8ed8d2574f05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://animaplates.com/fables/the-ass-and-the-charger/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97906 | 101 | 2.21875 | 2 |
The Golden Wedding
Carl Hoff was well known in Germany in the late nineteenth century, as a painter of genre and narrative subjects. He studied at Karlsruhe and Düsseldorf before travelling to France in 1862. In Paris he was strongly influenced by Ernest Meissonier (1815-1891), one of the most popular narrative painters of the century. Like Meissonier, Hoff specialized in historical pieces based on sixteenth-and seventeenth-century subjects. The Frenchman's influence can clearly be seen in a work such as The Golden Wedding, 1883, with its period setting and close attention ot the details of costumes and surfaces.
The Golden Wedding was the centrepiece of the collection of Mr and Mrs Robert Hill Kinnear and hung on the wall of the drawing room in their home, Brookong House, in the Melbourne suburb of Toorak. The Kinnears had strong family ties with Germany and commissioned a number of paintings, including The Golden Wedding, directly from German artists. The narrative in Hoff's painting is set in the seventeenth century and, as the title suggests, the scene represented is the golden anniversary of a prosperous couple. Numerous contemporary accounts of the work tell us that the artist included a portrait of Robert Hill Kinnear and his wife among the guests. | <urn:uuid:c26622d3-7b7c-4f7d-b1ea-6e5a0bbc82ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cv.vic.gov.au/stories/creative-life/selection-from-bendigo-art-gallery/the-golden-wedding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969006 | 267 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Franklin County, PA dated 1845
This pleasing Pennsylvania German sampler was worked by Elizabeth Sellers in 1845. She listed the names of
ten family members and that information leads us to identify her as the daughter of Samual Seller, a wheelwright
from Franklin County in southern Pennsylvania.
Elizabeth carefully worked her large cross stitched alphabet at top with two lovely carnation sprays, some geometric
motifs, a flower pot and her initials fully worked at the base. The border is unusual, with stylized carnations
along the sides.
This sampler is in excellent condition and has been conservation mounted into a cherry corner block frame.
Silk on linen; 20"x 21 ½" framed.
STEPHEN & CAROL HUBER
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This piece is about blame and owning your fuck up, whatever your fuck up is and will be. We are human, so we fuck up a lot. Don’t worry. You’re not alone.
Today’s mad rant was prompted by an insanely idiotic editorial cartoon ran by a newspaper-website out of West Virginia. You’ve already examined it, I’m sure. It’s the one right there at the top leading this piece.
Now, just to be clear, I reached out to the publication – the Bluefield Daily Telegraph – five days ago hoping to get a response from the illustrator (who goes only by T-Bone … ) and/or the editors there who thought such an obviously offensive illustration was okay to publish.
At the time of this publication, I still have not received a response from the Bluefield Daily Telegraph. So, fuck it. I gave them ample time to respond, and maybe they’re hiding because they know there is no excuse for this kind of shit.
The reason the goddamn illustration is wrong and wretched will be apparent to the informed conscientious objector who is typically literate in corrected history. (Note: I say corrected history. I do not say revisionist history. The wrong history is the revisionist history – history revised to serve the purpose of the opulent oligarchs. U.S. History textbooks are CHOCK-FULL of revised history – page after page of lies and bullshit. It’s American history that has already been revised, so what are you going to do? Revise the revised? Shuffle around the bullshit? No. You correct it. Moving on.)
Here’s what you see in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph editorial cartoon:
A Native American woman in tears, looking circa 18th century in buckskin and fringe, bound at the wrists, barefoot, while some white business-cretin in a suit jubilantly leads her against her will from a building reading “Norfolk Southern Pocahontas Division,” pulling at her like an animal on a leash to somewhere off the page.
As you’ve possibly already surmised, this editorial is not only racist – it’s sexist.
At a time when thousands of Native American women (who are 2.5 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than any other demographic) are going missing or found murdered and buried AND BURNED by evil motherfuckers who whimper and cry when caught, this type of assholery is inexcusable. Inexcusable. In-fucking-excusable!
Now, I did a little digging and found out the illustration, published on Facebook on January 17, was a result of Norfolk Southern, a railroad company, relocating its Pocahontas Division about a two-hour drive away – “a move that will impact management and staff positions in Bluefield,” Greg Jordan of the Telegraph reported.
Facebook user Amanda Sloan spears this offensive illustration calling it "disgraceful," while others find humor in it. Image courtesy Facebook.com.
But this column isn’t about the relocation of some railroad division in West Virginia named after an adolescent – Pocahontas – who was molested by one of the first American pedophiles, John Rolfe (know your corrected history, friend). No. This piece is about the flogging responses Native Americans (and allies) are subjected to when we call out such putrid buffoonery like this goddamn illustration.
Native Americans routinely hear the following, among other finger-pointing things, when we call out the degradation of indigenous peoples: “You’re just being too sensitive” and “fucking P.C. liberals.”
You’ve met these assholes, I’m sure.
We started this piece talking about the ubiquity of fuck ups, right? Well here’s the thing, folks: Americans fuck up a lot when it comes to Native Americans, knowingly or unknowningly. And by fuck ups I mean they offend Native Americans with blunder after blunder, redface after redface, headdress after headdress, slur after slur, lie after lie after lie, and so on and so forth.
And these people fuck up SO much that, in their desperation to feel like they are not obtuse, they blame others – namely Native Americans, and not themselves.
Blaming others is a human flaw, not particular to any one race, creed or culture. Commonly, you will find people blaming others for their fuck ups when their fuck ups become routine, and in America, fucking up by offending Native Americans is as routine as drunks falling down on a Friday night.
In fact, do you remember that irresponsible asshat in class who never studied for shit? You had that one in class, I’m sure. We all have: The one who used to ditch a lot to masturbate to the oldies (70s porn) and to douse Fritos with nacho cheese at 7-Eleven. Every goddamn time he failed something in class he blamed the teacher. Now, there are bad, bad, BAD teachers out there, don’t get me wrong, but sometimes you come across a fantastic one who goes above and beyond to help fuckers like these. But no matter what, he would never own his fuck up, would he? He’d just go on blaming everyone and everything, never himself.
And that’s where we are in America right now. American society is like the guy I just painted for you: it fucks up again and again. Cultural appropriation, racist slurs, and offensive images are so omnipresent that by this point, the only conclusion society can come to is, “Wait a minute. I CAN’T be the one with the problem here. It’s got to be those other whiny sonsofbitches.”
This, my friends, is called othering: Not taking ownership of what you have done or who you are, but instead demonizing others to absolve yourself of any wrongdoing.
Don’t other. Just don’t. Own your fuck up. Hell, I fucked up twice already today. But do you know what I didn’t do? I didn’t blame anyone else for my fuck up. I owned both of them and moved on hoping I learned a thing or two about myself, and then I zipped up my fly because it was open (for God knows how long) and we, as a people, haven't quite grasped how to delicately tell someone, “Sir, you were obviously in such a rush to put your penis away you forgot to close the gate.”
Do your fucking homework, America. Quit knocking one out to the oldies and pouring cheese on Fritos. Go to class. It’s YOUR responsibility in this social media, world-wide Web century to listen to the teachers so you won’t keep fucking up and we can move on to other subjects. We’ve covered this chapter already. We’re just waiting on you.
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SEOUL, South Korea – No, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un isn't killing his summit with President Donald Trump. Or at least, he's highly unlikely to.
Pyongyang breaking off a high-level meeting with Seoul and threatening to scrap next month's historic summit with Washington over regular allied military drills is seen as a move by Kim to gain leverage and establish that he's entering the crucial nuclear negotiations from a position of strength.
Washington and Seoul, which have no intentions to overpay for whatever Kim brings to the table, have been saying strengthened international sanctions forced Kim into talks after a flurry of weapons tests. Pyongyang has now countered by saying it won't be unilaterally pressured into abandoning its nukes, analysts say.
Nonetheless, North Korea's surprise declaration on Wednesday was a fresh reminder of many false starts and failures that derailed previous diplomatic attempts to resolve the decades-long standoff. It's also a frustrating development for South Korea, which has been selling last month's inter-Korean summit — where the leaders issued a vague vow for the "complete denuclearization" of their peninsula — as a meaningful breakthrough in peace.
A look at the history of negotiations between Washington, Seoul and Pyongyang:
BAD START WITH WASHINGTON
The United States reached a landmark nuclear agreement with North Korea in 1994 following months of war fears triggered by the North's threat to turn its stockpile of nuclear fuel into bombs.
Under the "Agreed Framework," North Korea halted construction of two reactors the United States believed were for nuclear weapons production in exchange for two alternative nuclear power reactors that could be used to provide electricity but not bomb fuel, and 500,000 metric tons of annual oil supply. Pyongyang constantly complained about delayed oil shipment and the construction of the reactors that were never delivered. Washington criticized the North's pursuit of ballistic missile capability.
The deal collapsed in 2002 after North Korea admitted it had been running a clandestine nuclear program using enriched uranium.
DERAILED SIX-PARTY TALKS
It didn't take long for the United States to be roped back into talks with North Korea, but this time in a six-party forum that also included China, South Korea, Russia, and Japan.
After months of tense negotiations that began in August 2003, the North accepted a deal in September 2005 to end its nuclear weapons program in exchange for security, economic and energy benefits.
However, disagreements between Washington and Pyongyang over financial sanctions imposed on the North temporarily derailed the six-nation talks before North Korea conducted its first nuclear test in October 2006.
The disarmament talks resumed a few weeks later and the six governments in February 2007 reached a deal where North Korea would receive an aid package worth about $400 million in return for disabling its nuclear facilities and allowing international inspectors to verify the process.
But a final attempt to complete an agreement to fully dismantle North Korea's nuclear program fell through in December2008 when the North refused to accept U.S.-proposed verification methods.
The six-nation talks have stalled since then and the North conducted another nuclear test in May 2009.
INTER-KOREAN EBBS AND FLOWS
Since the end of the 1950-53 Korean War, relations between the Koreas have been marked by wild swings, with three historic summits mixed with hostility that often pushed the rivals to the brink of a major military conflict.
The rivals most recently came near a military clash in 2015 following land mine blasts blamed on North Korea that maimed two South Korean soldiers. The Koreas avoided disaster with a last-minute deal in which the North offered a vague regret over the blasts in exchange for the South temporarily stopping anti-Pyongyang broadcasts over the border.
The agreement led to a high-level meeting between the Koreas at the northern border town of Kaesong in December. But those talks fell apart after the South refused to agree to restart joint tours to the North's scenic Diamond Mountain resort, which were suspended in 2008 following the shooting death of a South Korean tourist.
A month later, North Korea went on to conduct its fourth nuclear test, which marked the start of a torrid run in weapons tests that peaked in 2017, when the country detonated a purported thermonuclear warhead and flight-tested three developmental intercontinental ballistic missiles designed to strike the U.S. mainland.
Wednesday was hardly the first time the North called off an important inter-Korean event at the last minute. In 2013, North Korea abruptly canceled reunions for families separated by the Korean War just days before they were held to protest what it called rising animosities ahead of joint military drills between Seoul and Washington, which the North claim are invasion rehearsals.
WILL KIM GO BACK?
Months after taking power following the death of his father, Kim in 2012 reached a major agreement with the United States to suspend nuclear weapons and missile tests and uranium enrichment in exchange for food aid. But the deal was killed just weeks later after the North launched a long-range rocket in a failed attempt to deliver a satellite, which outside governments saw as a disguised test to advance ballistic missile capability.
Even amid the North's diplomatic outreach of recent weeks, there are lingering doubts on whether Kim would fully relinquish the nukes he likely sees as his only guarantee of survival.
Some analysts believe that Kim would seek a deal where he gives up his ICBMs but retains some of his shorter arsenal, which might potentially satisfy Trump but drive a wedge between Washington and Seoul. Or he might try to drag out the process and wait out the Trump administration, which has provided a credible threat of military force against the North.
Whatever his true intentions are, Kim will almost certainly show up for his talks with Trump in Singapore on June 12, analysts say. The past few months have seen the formerly reclusive leader belly-laughing with South Korean President Moon and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and declaring a halt to nuclear and ICBM tests while inviting foreign journalists to witness the dismantling of his nuclear test site scheduled for next week.
He has simply come too far to go fully back. He also desperately needs sanctions relief to build his economy. In Washington, he sees a president who seems eager to prove his deal-making skills and thinks less of the traditional alliance with Seoul than his predecessors did. In Seoul, he sees a dovish liberal leader who's eager for rapprochement. Kim knows he probably isn't getting a better shot than this.
"North Korea is responding to the Washington-Seoul drills based on internal principles and routines," said Kim Dong-yub, a former South Korean military official who's now an analyst at Seoul's Institute for Far Eastern Studies. "The North is not trying to subvert the table for talks."
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Copper engraving published by Giovanni Pietro Olina (1585-1645) for his scarce treatise: Uccelliera overo discorso della natura e proprieta di diversi uccelli. Rome: Andrea Fei, 1622.
Uccelliera is a discourse on the characteristics of the many birds to be found in Italy, and gives instructions on their care, and identifies their habits and songs. Antonio Tempesta, also called il Tempestino (1555 – 5 August 1630), was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp. Francesco Villamena was an Italian engraver and artist. Villamena was born in Assisi. He studied under Cornelis Cort. Others state he was a follower of Agostino Carracci. Villamena produced primarily works of religious and historical subjects. He died in Rome in 1624.
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Medical Assistant vs CNA, Choosing the Right Career Path for You
People can be drawn to health care professions for a wide variety of reasons. Maybe they are drawn in by a love of helping others, an interest in science, or a passion for working directly with patients. Or perhaps they are looking for stability in a fast-paced and fast-growing industry, as health care occupations are projected to grow 16% between 2020 and 2030, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
While many health care professions can take years of study to enter, training to become a medical assistant or certified nursing assistant can provide some of the benefits and fulfillment of working in health care without advanced degrees. CNAs and medical assistants—sometimes shortened to MAs—are entry-level health care workers that do not need to hold a four-year degree.
Choosing between becoming a medical assistant vs a CNA doesn’t have to be hard. Learn the differences and find the right path for you.
What is a Medical Assistant?
Medical assistants are a critical part of a patient care team, working alongside physicians in a variety of settings. Medical assistants may work in both administrative and clinical capacities, helping patients schedule appointments, prepare for procedures, and generally feel more at ease.
What is a CNA?
A CNA, or certified nursing assistant, works under the supervision of nurses to help patients. They often work in residential care settings like nursing homes or hospitals. CNAs may help patients with basic activities, such as moving, eating, dressing, and hygiene.
Medical Assistant vs CNA Side-by-Side Comparison
It’s natural to still think medical assistants and CNAs do similar jobs. In part, that’s because they do. Both medical assistants and CNAs work to support more advanced medical professionals. Both work directly with patients but also complete supporting work outside of clinical care. When choosing between medical assisting and nurse assisting, it’s important to compare day-by-day activities.
Medical Assistant vs CNA Job Duties
Working as either a medical assistant or a CNA likely means dealing with patients. Below are some common job duties for both fields.
|Medical Assistant||CNA||Taking medical histories||Answering call buttons to address patient requests||Explaining treatment procedures and preparing patients for exams||Keeping patient rooms sanitary||Assisting a physician with examinations||Helping patients eat or drink||Preparing and administering medications (as allowed by the state)||Helping patients move, including in and out of bed||Answering phones, scheduling appointments, and managing records and billing||Assisting with personal hygiene|
Medical Assistant vs CNA Work Settings
As both medical assistants and CNAs work in health care, it’s no surprise that their jobs take them to different medical settings. The main difference is that more medical assistants work in ambulatory settings like physicians offices, whereas CNAs work in residential facilities like nursing care communities or home health services.
The BLS reports that the following are the largest employers of each profession as of May 2020.
|Medical Assistant Employers||CNA Employers|
|Offices of physicians 57%||Nursing care facilities (skilled nursing facilities) 37%|
|Hospitals; state, local, and private 15%||Hospitals; state, local, and private 30%|
|Outpatient care centers 8%||Continuing care retirement communities and assisted living facilities for the elderly 11%|
|Offices of chiropractors 4%||Home healthcare services 6%|
Medical Assistant vs CNA Education and Training
Both medical assistants and nursing assistants can enter the workforce without a four-year degree. According to the BLS, most medical assistants have a postsecondary education award such as a certificate. The BLS continues, reporting that there are no formal education requirements to become a medical assistant, but that “employers may prefer to hire assistants who have completed these programs.” Medical Assisting programs may result in a certificate and take less than a year, depending on program outcomes. These programs typically include classroom and laboratory portions that include lessons in anatomy and medical terminology.
Nursing assistants typically must complete a state-approved education program and pass their state’s competency exam, according to the BLS. Nursing assistants often need a state-issued license or certification. While licensing requirements vary by state, they typically require attending an approved educational program and then passing an exam. Some states have other requirements as well, such as continuing education and a criminal background check. Check with state boards of nursing or health for more information.
Medical Assistant vs CNA Job Growth
Both medical and nursing assistants benefit from the growing health care field, though the job outlook for medical assistants is a bit rosier. According to the BLS, employment of medical assistants is projected to grow 18% from 2020 to 2030, much faster than the average for all occupations. Comparatively, employment of nursing assistants and orderlies is projected to grow 8% in the same period, about as fast as the average for all occupations.
Which Should I Choose, Medical Assisting or Clinical Nursing Assisting?
The choice to become a medical assistant or a clinical nursing assistant is a personal one. Both careers allow you to work with others, but day-to-day activities vary. Additionally, nursing assistants may need more formal training to gain licensure.
If you want to learn more about the path to becoming a medical assistant, read our Career Guide On Medical Assisting in California.
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An Ocala Social Security disability lawyer may discuss the medical-vocational guidelines and how they can affect your case. Having a better understanding of this process can help you with your case.
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#NeotericRacism: Racial Ideologies in Digital Spaces
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Dr. Hector Y. Adames, Psy.D.and Dr, Nayeli Y. Chevez-Duenes, Ph.D., The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, Chicago, IL, present at the Teachers College 2016 Annual Winter Roundtable at Columbia University
Dr. Adames is the editor of "Latino Psychology Today", the bulletin for the National Latino Psychological Association, and co-author of the book "Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino Mental Health". He has earned a number of awards including the 2014 Distinguished Professional Early Career Award from the NLPA.
Dr. Chevez-Duenes is the associate editor of "Latino Psychology Today" and co-author of the book "Cultural Foundations and Interventions in Latino Mental Health". She has earned a number of awards including the 2012 Distinguished Teaching Award for Excellence in Multicultural Pedagogy by TCSPP.
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Fleas are tiny insects that feed on blood from animals. Not only are fleas a nuisance, but they can also cause tremendous anxiety and disease in both cats and dogs.
All pets in the home should be treated, even if fleas are only seen on one pet, since only 5% of the total flea population in a home is made up of adults. Furniture, bedding, and high traffic areas should be cleaned thoroughly, especially in severe cases.
Riversong stocks a number of prevention and treatment options for cats and dogs. We offer a number of pharmaceutical options as well as more “green” products. There is no product that is perfect for every pet and household, so chat with our staff and we can tailor prevention or treatment options to the needs of your pet.
Heartworm disease, caused by the parasite Dirofilaria immitus, is a serious and life-threatening infection. Mosquitoes transmit heartworm larvae during blood feeding. The larvae matures in the subcutaneous tissue and migrates to the blood vessels. Adult heartworms can live in the host for several years and treatment options are not without risk. Monthly prevention and a yearly blood parasite screen are the best defense against heartworm disease. A blood parasite screen can be done in just a few minutes by testing a small sample of your pet’s blood in our lab. For more about heartworm disease, visit the American Heartworm Society’s Website.
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The seas are rising and Sandy-like storm surges are going to be a “new normal,” according to Slate.
Slate’s Bad Astronomy writer Phil Plait highlighted a NASA study that showed a rise in sea levels since 1992 in his Aug. 31 article. Repeated the fears of many climate alarmists, he blamed that rise on global warming and warned, “[w]e’ll see beaches disappear, coastlines changed.”
The NASA study he cited showed an average sea level rise of 2.5 inches since 1992, with some localized rises of more than 9 inches. But in other places, including the northeast coast of the United States, sea levels had actually declined. Much of this localization sea level changes was attributed to ocean currents.
Plait blamed carbon dioxide-induced global warming for the rise in spite of the fact that rising sea levels are not a new phenomenon. In fact, it has been occurring for centuries ever since the last ice age, as land-locked water trapped in glaciers retreated, the seas expanded. Another NASA study showed that sea levels were 120 meters lower at the height of the last ice age.
Rather than acknowledge that, Slate chose hyperbole claiming, “This is the new normal. And the scary thing is not so much that the new normal is bad, it’s that with more warming, rising sea levels, and changing weather patterns, the new normal will continue to get worse. There may not be a normal any more.” He specifically recalled the storm surge that swamped Manhattan and New Jersey when Sandy struck in 2012. By the time it made landfall it was no longer a hurricane, but was a “post-tropical cyclone.”
Along with the long-term trend of rising sea levels, there is another reason for the recent increase. A Washington Post article reported the 2012 findings of Japanese researchers that as much as 40 percent of the recent sea-level rise can be directly attributed to groundwater that has been used by humans and ended up in the oceans.
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An Introduction to People Analytics
An understanding of people analytics is a crucial skill for all HR professionals. No longer limited to employees in data teams or those with analyst in their job titles, people analytics is now an integral part of every HR job. ‘Introduction to People Analytics’ allows all HR professionals to get to grips with analytics, feel confident in their ability to handle employee and organizational data and use analytics to move from opinions to insights. It also shows what can be done data-wise by HR practitioners, and at what stage, expert people analytics specialists need to be utilised to undertake more complex statistical analysis. People analytics doesn’t not mean that every HR practitioner needs to be a data geek – no, but they do need to be more data driven in their approach.
From where to find data in an organization, how to collect it and analyse it through to how to use these findings to add business value, ‘Introduction to People Analytics’ is essential reading for all HR professionals. With case studies and thought leadership insights from companies who have leveraged people analytics to improve culture and employee engagement, increase performance and reduce costs including NHS, Brompton Bikes, British Heart Foundation, King, Experian, AstraZeneca, FIS and Swarovski, this book shows how and where HR analytics can make a tangible difference to organizations. There is also expert guidance and practical advice on how to embed analytics into HR processes and adopt a data-driven approach to all workplace activities.
It’s more than just another people analytics book though as it also covers the context for change across HR, the underlying need for all HR practitioners to be commercial in outlook as a baseline before starting data based projects, what the future HR practitioner will look like and also a ‘playbook’ that outlines how everyone can get started from changing your basic Key Performance Indicators through to working on a project with specialist data experts.
There are no equations in the book – it’s about changing your mindset and understanding that data is not going to go away, so embrace it, learn it and start thinking about how mathematics can help you build your credibility with business leaders.
About the authors
Dave Millner BSc (Hons) Psych, FCIPD, ACIB
HR Futurist and Executive Consulting Partner
Dave is an Occupational Psychologist with nearly 30 years HR and consulting experience working across the world with global clients on their assessment/performance, employee engagement and organizational development based challenges. Dave has a real passion regarding the transformation of HR functions and the need for a more commercially focused response to client demands and the role that analytics and new ways of thinking can help to change the perceptions of HR.
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s granddaughter, Nora Natof, reflects on her famous grandfather in this article by Lacey Sikora.
Nora Natof didn’t meet her famous grandfather, Frank Lloyd Wright, until she was 12 or 13. Her mother, Frances Wright Caroe was one of Wright’s six children from his first marriage to wife Catherine. Caroe was estranged from her father for a period, and Natof remembers being first introduced to Wright in New York City, where he was living at the Plaza Hotel with his third wife, Olgivanna.
For several years when Natof was in her teens in the early 1950s, she was permitted to spend summers at Taliesin. Now 87, Natof says those summers “probably influenced me a lot.”
The community aspect of Taliesin is one she recalls in detail. At that point, she says, the home in Spring Green, Wisconsin was an “almost” sustainable community with vegetable gardens and farm animals. Wright’s apprentices served people during meals.
Most of all, she recalls the arts, which she thinks were Olgivanna’s influence at work. “On weekends, we had theater productions, and everyone dressed very formally,” Natof said. “We had a quartet, a chorus and actors. It was a very self-contained cultural community in that sense.” On Sundays, Wright addressed the 75 to 80 architects who were in residence each summer. Natof recalls that her grandfather was held in high regard.
For Natof, it has been a life with many acts and many satisfactions. She would co-found a Montessori school in New Jersey, worked as a nurse and as an activist, advocating for the environment and civil rights. Two years ago, she moved to Oak Park to be closer to her son, Lloyd.
Oak Park has been a good fit. After a lifetime of civic involvement, including the efforts in the Civil Rights Movement and the Women’s March for Peace, she enjoys the diversity and progressive politics of her new hometown. She goes to Quaker meetings and just joined an organization called Compassion & Choices, which advocates for medical aid in dying. Read more about Nora Natof by clicking here.
Dirt reports about the recent sale of the historic Sowden House.
In early 2018, CBD entrepreneur Dan Goldfarb doled out nearly $4.7 million for a historic Lloyd Wright-designed residence in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles. A former hedge-fund analyst from New York who founded Canna-Pet — a Seattle-based company that sells hemp CBD for pets — he planned to use the space as a hub for social and fund-raising events.
Now, a little over four years later, Goldfarb and his wife Jenny Landers have sold their unique home. The buyer, records indicate, is Nate Daneshgar — a member of a wealthy Beverly Hills family that made their money in commercial real estate and are perhaps best known for owning DTLA’s Grand Central Market. Daneshgar forked over just under $6.2 million for the place in an off-market deal, or almost $1.5 million more than Goldfarb and Landers paid for the property back in April 2018.
Originally designed and built in 1926 by Lloyd Wright (the son of famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright) for painter and photographer John Sowden and his wife Ruth. The dwelling was designated by the city of L.A. in 2003 as a historic-cultural monument. Resting on a 0.3-acre parcel of land dotted with lush foliage, the rectangular-shaped home’s striking exterior boasts hand-casted concrete textile blocks. Four connected wings surround a central courtyard holding a pool and spa nestled alongside an al fresco lounging space marked by a clay fire-pit.
In its current iteration, four bedrooms and five baths are spread across 5,600 square feet of living space adorned throughout with soaring ceilings, oak and tile floors, floor-to-ceiling windows, built-in shelving and myriad ornamental details. Sculpted copper gates open into a cave-like entryway encompassing the entire lower level, with winding stairs leading up to the main living quarters.
From there, highlights include a spacious living room displaying a massive fireplace and bookcases that are said to conceal a “secret room,” as well as a formal dining room and gourmet kitchen outfitted with updated appliances — all of which spill out to the open-air courtyard via French doors separated by columns. Read more and see the photos here.
Connor Keith has the history of Bok Tower Gardens, from its inception as a wildlife sanctuary to its dedication by a president.
Edward W. Bok was born in the Netherlands in 1863 and immigrated to Brooklyn, NY at age six. With a love of education and writing, he worked in advertising + publishing, and was published 12 times in his lifetime. In 1889, he became the editor of the Ladies’ Home Journal — the first magazine in the world with one million subscribers. Edward was very interested in architecture, and was actually one of the first to promote house plans from architect Frank Lloyd Wright in his magazine.
Spending winters in Lake Wales, Edward fell in love with Florida’s natural beauty. He would look out across Polk County and marvel at the peaceful landscape from Iron Mountain, a spot on the Lake Wales Ridge that’s 295-ft above sea level. It was then that he decided to build a sanctuary for birds + wildlife and call it the “Mountain Lake Sanctuary and Singing Tower.”
He reached out to landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. for help designing the 157-acre gardens. Of course, Frederick wasn’t just any architect — his father designed Central Park, and he himself had worked at the White House + the Biltmore Estate.
Over five years, Frederick worked to plant native and exotic plants that would thrive in Florida’s humid climate and welcome migrating birds. You can also see his touch in the Reflection Pool, which mirrors the image of the Bok Singing Tower.
The Bok Singing Tower was designed by another big name, president of the American Institute of Architects, Milton B. Medary. Milton was inspired by art deco and neo-Gothic design for the tower. The structure of the tower was built with steel, then covered by coquina stone from St. Augustine, FL and pink + gray marble from Georgia. Continue reading about this history by clickinghere.
Daniel Villa, a designer who has moved to the US from Wales, suggests that it’s almost impossible to separate Frank Lloyd Wright's own Welsh ancestry and upbringing from the philosophies, ingenuity, and defiance for which he is so renowned.
Known for his radical organic designs that sometimes denied their urban context, often rooted in profound meaning, and always inspired by nature, Frank Lloyd Wright and his five-hundred-plus buildings undeniably shaped a better world for living. Remnants of Wales echo through the walls and names of his buildings today. In fact, his estate on the brow of a hill in Wisconsin – Taliesin – is named after the old Welsh bard whose name translates to “Shining Brow”.
It’s an inescapable reality that Welsh culture had impacted Wright’s flair and values, and during the current zeitgeist of galvanised Welsh identity and the resurgence of the Welsh language, it’s a difficult trait to overlook and understate. Read more here.
Mark Hertzberg recently shared some photos, insights, and history on Frank Lloyd Wright's Penwern—which was recently the site of a benefit evening for the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy. The estate's stewards restored a lost greenhouse (once part of the entrance gatehouse) that was worked on through the Pandemic and finally ready to be enjoyed in person by the benefit event guests. Read and see more at the Wright in Racine blog here. | <urn:uuid:ce29be47-2061-45db-a9e2-ff0c0f88fe05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wrightsociety.com/issues/312 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975744 | 1,673 | 1.625 | 2 |
We are learning about electricity. We did experiments with static electricity........we stuck balloons to the ceiling, picked up pieces of paper with a pen and made our hair stand on end!!!
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We often talk about totalitarianism, that which occurred in the past as well as what's happening now. On today's podcast, we're going to take a break from the news and get into the details of what totalitarianism exactly is. Joining us to chat about that is literature and history teacher Walker Larson (thehazelnut.substack.com). He describes the different stages of totalitarianism, based on what we've seen in history, and shows some pretty shocking similarities to society today. These stages, by the way, mark a vivid resemblance to the different stages of religious persecution. | <urn:uuid:834f186f-f5b7-463e-a037-457850cfd8b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://steelonsteel.com/2022/07/05/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970875 | 120 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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- 1 What were Wagner’s innovations?
- 2 What did Richard Wagner contribute to Theatre?
- 3 What did Richard Wagner invent?
- 4 What new innovations did Wagner bring to the world of opera?
- 5 How did Beethoven inspire Wagner?
- 6 Is Wagner classical?
- 7 Why did Richard Wagner wrote Ride of the Valkyries?
- 8 Where is Richard Wagner from?
- 9 Why is Richard Wagner considered one of the most significant figures in the history of the Romantic era?
- 10 Is Wagner the greatest composer?
- 11 Why are Wagner operas so long?
- 12 Where is Wagner buried?
- 13 What did Wagner call operas?
- 14 Is Bizet French?
What were Wagner’s innovations?
Wagner’s advancements in opera are numerous and include the expansion of the genre’s forms to unprecedented degrees; the development of a complex system of leitmotifs (melodic phrases associated with ideas, people or situations); the use of increasingly complex, chromatic harmonies; and the deployment of immense
What did Richard Wagner contribute to Theatre?
Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is primarily known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, “music dramas”). Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works.
What did Richard Wagner invent?
Richard Wagner is best known for creating several complex operas, including ‘Tristan and Isolde’ and ‘Ring Cycle,’ as well as for his anti-semitic writings.
What new innovations did Wagner bring to the world of opera?
Wagner’s later musical style introduced new ideas in harmony, melodic process (leitmotif) and operatic structure. Notably from Tristan und Isolde onwards, he explored the limits of the traditional tonal system, which gave keys and chords their identity, pointing the way to atonality in the 20th century.
How did Beethoven inspire Wagner?
Wagner was influenced by Beethoven’s bold manipulations of harmony and key, his innovations in form and structure and the sheer dramatic sweep of his music. Wagner studied the Opus 131 Quartet all his life, “the dance of the whole world itself,” as he called it in his 1870 essay.
Is Wagner classical?
Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. His advances in musical language, such as extreme chromaticism and quickly shifting tonal centres, greatly influenced the development of classical music.
Why did Richard Wagner wrote Ride of the Valkyries?
Songfacts®: Wagner’s intention for The Ring was to create a “Gesamtkunstwerk,” a total work of art that fuses elements of music, drama, poetry, and stagecraft into an indivisible whole.
Where is Richard Wagner from?
Richard Wagner, in full Wilhelm Richard Wagner, (born May 22, 1813, Leipzig [Germany] —died February 13, 1883, Venice, Italy), German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music had a revolutionary influence on the course of Western music, either by extension of his discoveries or reaction against them.
Why is Richard Wagner considered one of the most significant figures in the history of the Romantic era?
Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionized opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”), by which he sought to synthesize the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama, and
Is Wagner the greatest composer?
Richard Wagner might just be the greatest composer in opera history. Wagner created modern music and modern opera. He revolutionized the theatrical experience for audience members. He reshaped the understanding of what opera was and could be.
Why are Wagner operas so long?
Cutting Wagner, as was once commonly done, is a risky proposition. His operatic structures are so deliberately conceived that cutting out bits here and there disrupts the flow and can actually make the operas seem longer.
Where is Wagner buried?
The opera is set in Spain, but it is sung in French. The chromatic melody conveys the ambiguous and evasive traits of Carmen’s personality. Many of the famous arias in Carmen are based on the popular songs, folksongs, and flamenco melodies of Spain.)
What did Wagner call operas?
Richard Wagner preferred to call his operas “Dramas” because they were. Wagner wanted to push forward the romantic movement in opera so much, that he went as far as building his own opera house. It was called the Bayreuth Festpielhause located in Bayreuth, Germany. It survived the allied bombings of World War II.
Is Bizet French?
Georges Bizet, original name Alexandre-César-Léopold Bizet, (born October 25, 1838, Paris, France—died June 3, 1875, Bougival, near Paris), French composer best remembered for his opera Carmen (1875). His realistic approach influenced the verismo school of opera at the end of the 19th century. | <urn:uuid:f78b8141-72e1-4b7d-b1ab-aaa2dadc0abd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://happyyummychicken.com/interesting/often-asked-what-were-the-theatrical-innovations-wagner-made.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969176 | 1,161 | 3.421875 | 3 |
Last year Mahathir Mohamad castigated Myanmar civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) meet in Singapore for defending the military's crackdown on the Rohingya.
His direct condemnation of Suu Kyi was a departure from the usually staid meetings of the 10-country regional bloc, whose members normally avoid confrontation.
But the crisis has spun out across the region, with desperate Rohingya taking to boats bound for Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia.
In recent weeks scores of Rohingya have boarded vessels for Malaysia -- a Muslim-majority country believed to be more sympathetic to their plight -- raising fears of a renewed trafficking route.
Mahathir on Friday, the eve of the ASEAN summit, vowed to continue helping the Rohingya attempting to reach his shores.
"They are refugees. As much as we can do for them, we will," the 93-year-old premier told reporters on the sidelines of a business forum in Bangkok.
"We hope something can be done to stop the oppression of the Rohingya," he said when asked by AFP.
A deal for the Rohingya to return to Myanmar has largely stalled as virtually no Rohingya have chosen to return due to security fears.
Still an ASEAN-commissioned report leaked earlier this month to AFP predicted repatriation efforts would be complete in two years.
Mahathir also cast doubts over the timeline.
"If we can do it in two years, we will," he said, though he was "not so sure" about whether conditions on the ground remain favourable for group's repatriation.
More than 740,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since August 2017, flooding into neighbouring Bangladesh with accounts of rape, mass killings and the razing of villages.
Myanmar refuses to grant them citizenship or basic rights, and refers to them as "Bengali", inferring that the Rohingya are illegal immigrants from Bangladesh.
UN investigators have called for Myanmar's top generals to be tried for genocide, but Suu Kyi has defended the military's crackdown as necessary to flush out militants in Rakhine state.
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Every job deserves a salary, and every employee must receive a pay slip. It proves that he has done a job. It is his proof of payment, essential for daily life, especially for housing. But the payslip is sometimes difficult to understand: let’s decipher it.
Usually, the number we are most interested in on our paycheck is at the bottom of the page, after the “net pay”. Why is it so different from the gross salary?
Gross salary, net salary: what’s the difference ?
The gross salary is the remuneration fixed in the employment contract. Written at the top of the payslip, it includes all the hours worked, possibly overtime, bonuses…. On this sum, social and fiscal contributions, such as the Contribution Sociale Généralisée (CSG) are deducted. What remains after these contributions is the net salary.
All employees, regardless of their status, management or not, contribute, it is mandatory. Example for a SMIC: the gross salary is 1.681,98 euros (August 2022). It is 1.333€ net. See the URSSAF simulator for the distribution of charges. The law fixes all the mentions appearing on a pay slip.
Gross salary, net salary: where does the difference go ?
Social contributions are used to finance social protection in France. They cover sickness, old age, maternity, unemployment, family allowances, work accidents, and supplementary pension schemes… Employers also contribute to this protection and to other specific contributions by paying employer contributions.
Image : mutualité française
It should be noted that with the employer’s contributions, for an employee to receive 1799 euros net on a gross salary of 2 300 euros, the position will cost the company 2 948 euros. See the calculation here for a median salary.
If you https://www.service-public.fr/particuliers/vosdroits/F1419?lang=enpay taxes, the amount will be deducted from your paycheck each month. You will then have an additional line “net payable before income tax”. Your payment will be spread out over twelve months: this is called deduction at source.
To go further :
Find in this official site of the French administration all the information concerning the remuneration in the private and public sector: payslip, salary, contributions…
You have just started a business and want to know how much your first employee will cost you in charges? The URSSAF simulator is here.
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HEAnet is Ireland’s National Education and Research Network. By delivering high-speed internet connectivity and IT shared services to all levels of the Irish education sector, HEAnet connects Irish researchers to fellow national educational and research networks in Europe, the USA and the rest of the world.
The Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC) provides High Performance Computing (HPC) resources and in-depth technical support to Irish researchers across all HEIs.
A key strategic goal for HEAnet ands ICHEC is to work closely with the research community.
In support of this goal, WIT in collaboration with HEAnet and ICHEC, are hosting a Workshop on HEAnet and ICHEC services and collaboration opportunities.
Presenters: Roberto Sabatino, HEAnet Research Engagement Office. Goar Sanchez, ICHEC
Format: MS Teams
To Join: Click here to join the meeting
Topics covered in the Workshop will include:
- Off-the-shelf services that HEAnet offers.
- Opportunities for collaboration with HEAnet on topics of mutual interest including QCI/QKD, network security, network monitoring, network control, Trust and Identity, Open Science & Research Data Management.
- Support in the preparation of research proposals and their execution, general consultancy.
- Support in the implementation of thematic research infrastructures and testbeds.
- Opportunities in the area of Open Science, both nationally and internationally.
- ICHEC existing and future infrastructure, and how ICHEC and HPC resources may support your research.
Success stories of support for researchers and exciting opportunities to access infrastructure and expertise to support their research will also be showcased. In addition, there are several exciting international opportunities HEAnet can facilitate for researchers in Ireland and we’ll cover these in detail at the workshop. They include:
- OCRE: If your research is in the area of Earth Observation or if you can show that your research will benefit greatly from the use of cloud services, you are eligible to receive vouchers to spend against the IaaS+ framework agreements. See OCRE Cloud Funding for Research | OCRE (ocre-project.eu).
- DICE-EOSC, EGI-ACE: If you are working towards adopting open science principles for your research (in any field) and you need support in terms of expertise, infrastructure and data services you can benefit from the DICE-EOSC an EGI-ACE projects where you will get, for free, the support you need. See:
- Trust and identity (T&I) Incubator: If you are working in the area of T&I and you have a research idea which you’re unable to pursue (maybe because of lack of funding, or access to expertise), you can submit your idea to a panel of GEANT experts who may do the work for you. You can join in the work, and there’s potential for your time being funded. Or you can choose to just monitor and steer the work. Each incubator lasts up to 6 months.
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Max. measuring diameter 1200mm
Adopt with floor-standing structure design, provide safety protection for the operator and instrument.
The detector measuring direction can be changed to perform measurement of inner raceway of outer ring and outer raceway of inner ring.
The support point of the fixture is as close as possible to the measurement point
to reduce the measurement deviation caused by deformation of thin-walled parts.
With special fixture design, the parts can be measured after placed, no need adjustment.
Measuring diameter range：300-1200mm
Contour detector range：0~40mm
Roughness detector range：±620μm
Contour linear accuracy：≤±(0.8+|0.15H|)μm
Roughness linear accuracy：≤±(5nm+2.8%)
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Why is my baby frantic at the breast?
If baby has been crying before she nurses, or is so hungry that she nurses “frantically” or if mom has a fast let-down, baby could be taking in more air and may need to be burped more often. Burping is usually only necessary during the first few months, though it may extend longer.
What is twiddling while breastfeeding?
‘Many babies twiddle the opposite nipple while breastfeeding, and this actually causes a release of the hormone oxytocin, which increases milk supply.’ Professor Lorraine Sherr, clinical psychologist at the Royal Free Hospital, says that as breastfed babies grow up, the role of the breast changes.
Does soft breasts mean low milk supply?
Many of the signs, such as softer breasts or shorter feeds, that are often interpreted as a decrease in milk supply are simply part of your body and baby adjusting to breastfeeding.
How do I know my baby is full when breastfeeding?
Signs of a Full Baby
Once your baby is full, she will look like she’s full! She will appear relaxed, content, and possibly sleeping. She will typically have open palms and floppy arms with a loose/soft body, she may have the hiccups or may be alert and content.
Should I hold my breast while feeding?
When you or your baby are first learning to breastfeed, it can be helpful to hold and guide your breast into your baby’s mouth. Plus, the breasts can become large and heavy once your milk comes in. So, using the V-hold or C-hold lets you support your breast and helps to get the baby latched on correctly.
How do you tell if baby is using you as a pacifier?
When you watch your baby, he will reduce the amount of swallowing and eventually stop swallowing completely. Baby may also start to clamp down on your nipple rather than suck. These are all signs he will give you based upon his suck and latch. His body and arms will also be floppy, and he may be relaxed or sleeping.
Are breastfed babies more attached to their mothers?
According to studies, breastfeeding is the most powerful form of interaction between the mother and the infant. Due to the physical closeness, the baby is more close to the mother than to anyone else in the family. As per a few studies, breastfed mothers are closer to their babies as compared to bottle-fed mothers.
Why do babies move their hands while breastfeeding?
Hand movements, by the infant on the breast, increase maternal oxytocin. It also causes the nipple tissue to become erect, which facilitates latch. Babies are best able to use their hands “against gravity”, lifting them up, when their hands are in their field of vision.
How long should babies be breastfed?
How long should a mother breastfeed? The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that infants be exclusively breastfed for about the first 6 months with continued breastfeeding along with introducing appropriate complementary foods for 1 year or longer.
When should we stop breastfeeding?
The World Health Organization recommends that all babies be exclusively breastfed for 6 months, then gradually introduced to appropriate foods after 6 months while continuing to breastfeed for 2 years or beyond. Stopping breastfeeding is called weaning. It is up to you and your baby to decide when the time is right.
Do breasts need time to refill?
Despite views to the contrary, breasts are never truly empty. Milk is actually produced nonstop—before, during, and after feedings—so there’s no need to wait between feedings for your breasts to refill. In fact, a long gap between feedings actually signals your breasts to make less, not more, milk.
How quickly can a baby drain a breast?
It may only take your baby about 5 to 10 minutes to empty the breast and get all the milk they need.
Is it normal for your breast to feel soft when breastfeeding?
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In this week’s journal, using the your own research (give it some effort, but not hours), draft a research study design based on your research question from the Week 2 Journal.
Define who would make appropriate subjects (would any one work? specific age? specific culture? other attributes). Identify how you would gather the information using the techniques from the text (ask? observe? test? measure?). What potential baises would you need to be on the lookout for?
Consider this article from the American Psychological Association, How to Be a Wise Consumer of Psychological Research in how you structure your study.
This is my research question: discuss how the endocrine and nervous
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If you're using Sequel Pro on a Mac, you might not be aware there is a handy trick to visualise your database. We will be able to achiev this by using Sequel Pros' export feature to a
.dot file. That dot fil can then be converted to a svg, and finally the svg can optionally be converted to a png.
sudo port install graphviz
Next, in Sequel Pro go to export > Dot, choose a location and click "Export".
Go into your terminal, navigate to the folder where the dot file was stored and type the following:
dot -Tsvg database_name.dot > database_name.svg
You can already open that svg file in a browser or other compatible software (like Adobe Illustrator). But, we can go one step further, and convert the svg file to a png using ImageMagick. Make sure you have ImageMagick installed, or install it with brew (
brew install ImageMagick). Run the following command to convert to a png:
convert database_name.svg database_name.png
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As the world continues to progress, the bodily ailments that human beings are suffering from continue to make progress, as well, as the diseases become harder to detect and cure. Thankfully, the advancement in healthcare have given the healthcare professionals to not just acquire more effective medical tools, but also acquire helpful studies that can improve their way in treating their fellow human beings. Today, New Jersey internal medicine help patients to be treated based on their unique health issues.
The professionals who specialize in this field, or some call them internists, can deal with any health issue that a person is suffering from. They can heal the common maladies such cold, flu, and other minor maladies. However, they will see those minor issues as a symptom to a complex disease that is currently building up in the bodies of these individuals.
In order for the internists to be successful in their field, it is important that they are working hand in hand with their patients. They can give an effective care through getting to know the patients and that is not just by allowing people to go through tests. They will build a relationship with their patients enable to know things in precision.
Through the tests, and with their personal knowledge of a patient, the professional is able to diagnose the specific disease or diseases that a patient is dealing with. They will effectively connect the symptoms that a person is experiencing to a malady. For them to come up with the correct diagnose, it is way more than the medical tests and history of a patient, it can also be seen on the mannerisms.
These professionals provide a huge help, as well, in the treatment of chronic diseases. When people pick up a bad habit, it can result in illnesses that can be cured for a short period of time, and will persons can feel the symptoms again after a few years. The internist will help a patient in treating chronic maladies in order for the patient to be fully free from the sickness.
After the success on the treatment, these medical experts will help people in nursing themselves back to health. This can be through providing people with a list of food items that they should eat that will help them in improving the state of their body. Moreover, they will also give a set of instructions on the things that people should do in order to get back their strength.
However, even though people are back in top shape, it cannot be avoided that they will contract another disease. The experts will give recommendations, as well, for individuals to improve their immune system, and protect themselves from any harmful contaminant that can lead to a disease. Today, knowing how to prevent diseases is highly essential.
The great thing about going to an internist is that this healthcare professional is not limited to a single medical issue or a single organ system. They are able to look beyond one organ in order to have precision in their diagnosis. Therefore, patients will be able to heal faster, and therefore, mitigating medical expenses. | <urn:uuid:0a429051-79c6-4c88-85a0-4d98ab6e5eae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.supercheapit.com/tag/internal/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975849 | 596 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Psychological First Aid – A form of non-therapeutic, non-interrogative ‘counselling’/support during traumatic experiences
By Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling
Posted on 11th April 2020: This service could be helpful to individuals who are currently being traumatized by some of the negative effects of the COvid-19 pandemic (including people who have lost close relatives; people who are working with the sick and dying; and people who are sick and coping with the illness. [By contrast, individuals who are anxious out the future threats of Covid-19 should seek counselling for anxiety].)
During the aftermath of the 9/11 bombings of the Twin Towers in New York City -in the later months of 2011 and the early months of 2012 – a lot a volunteer counsellors turned up and offered counselling to the trauma victims – the people who had escaped the buildings, the relatives of those who perished, the bystanders who had witnessed the horror of the collapsing building, with people jumping from windows to their death below.
A couple of years later, the effects of that counselling on the people who were helped was assessed, and compared with the effects of not being helped with counselling at that time. The paradoxical finding was that the people who got relatively immediate counselling help fared worse than those people who were helped to safety, and allowed to digest the trauma slowly over time.
Out of this research came the concept of Psychological First Aid. There are lots of research papers on this subject, but one of the most succinct is that by Dr. Odelya Gertel Kraybill.
Once I heard of this research, I began to change my attitude towards clients who asked me for support with a traumatic experience. I always ask: When did this trauma happen?
If they say it was more than 18 months or two years ago, then I feel safe to offer them counselling and psychotherapy.
If they say ‘the trauma is ongoing’, or it happened less than 18 months ago, then I offer them Psychological First Aid, and I’m careful not to cause them to re-live any aspect of their current or recent trauma, because I believe that will have a negative effect at this early stage.
Here is an illustration of how I used this approach with a recent client who was diagnosed with a life-threatening illness; agree to painful, frightening surgery, and several post-surgical procedures which were also traumatizing. After our first meeting, I sent this email to that client:
Edited highlights of that email to my client
Hi (Name withheld),
I think what we are doing at the moment, in supporting you with this difficult period of your life, is properly called ‘Psychological First Aid (PFA)’. I believe your body-mind will have been significantly stressed by
– the (acute, life-threatening disease) diagnosis (which you have received);
– the medical procedures (to which you have been subjected, including surgeries) thus far; and by:
– your concerns/anxieties for the future (including about your chances of surviving; and some of the post-surgery procedures).
PFA calls for action in five areas of your life:
1. Establishing a sense of safety. I wanted to mention this as early as possible, because it would be good to factor this consideration into your decision-making about whether or not to move to (a city where medical procedures would be better than where you normally live).
My primary questions for you include:
(a) Where would you feel safest?
(b) Is there any objective measure of how safe the two options are?
(c) You could try the (decision making) visualization exercise (which I sent to you) on this issue, and resolve the question for yourself.
You should aim to ensure that you feel as safe as possible as you move ahead. This also applies to the question of whether or not to move closer to the (named hospital).
And you may be able to establish a sense of safety by writing about your situation in your journal, and getting clear about what you can control and what is beyond your control; and learning to accept what cannot be changed!
2. Psychoeducation. This is concerned with my providing you with accurate information about how stress and trauma affect people; and also your seeking such information from me and elsewhere.
(a) The stress response: Stress is not ‘all in the mind’. It is a total body-brain-mind response to a shock or traumatic experience; or pressures that are greater than one’s (perceived) coping resources (at that time). A stress response means that the arousing side of the autonomic (automatic) nervous system has been activated. This arousing side of the autonomic nervous system if called the ‘sympathetic branch’ (but has nothing to do with ‘sympathy’ in the normal sense!) Stress hormones are released in the body, which prepares for fight or flight. The heart speeds up, and blood is sent to the large muscles to aid fight or flight. Digestion is switched off. Once activated, this state of over-arousal remains high, unless and until it is switched off. One way to switch it off is to take action; such as engaging in any kind of physical exercise. (I could also teach you the physical relaxation process that I use to keep myself calm in stressful situations). This has the effect of switching on the rest and digest response.
(b) The rest and digest response: This is the opposite of the stress response. It is also called the relaxation response. So it can be initiated by physical exercise, relaxation exercise, meditation, and in a number of other ways, such as focussing attention upon the fact that the threat has passed, and a safe haven has been found.
(c) A quick review of available coping mechanisms: The mechanisms that people use to cope with stress include the following:
– Physical exercise;
– Breathing techniques (mainly diaphragmatic breathing, also called ‘belly breathing’);
– Positive self-talk (or self-coaching);
– Relaxation (e.g. audio CD’s; plus Progressive Muscle Relaxation, which I can teach to you);
– Journal writing.
– Managing your diet well; avoiding sugary, yeasty and junky foods; avoiding caffeine and alcohol; etc.
3. Identifying vulnerabilities: What do you perceive as your immediate vulnerabilities’?
What might be good ways to address them?
4. Reconnecting to resources: What are your main resources for coping with your medical condition and the effects of that condition upon you and your life?
Some will be internal, and link back to the resilience you can muster in your journal writing. Some may depend upon family members; or friends; communities; or local services. (Is there a group near you that provides support for your medical condition? Are there dedicated [Medical condition] Support Nurses?) In seeking support, it is important to make sure you do not hand over control of your life to anybody. It’s important that you feel you are in the driving seat; and have not ceded power to anybody else.
5. Sustainability: What are your short term strategies and routines for emotional sustenance?
Do you have a weekly plan?
What are the elements of your routines?
Are you able to exercise; and which form of exercise is best for you? Meditation/Relaxation and/or affirmations and/or visualizations?
Seeing friends (if you can get out and about; or being in remote contact otherwise)? Having naps?
I may have overlooked some vital elements that you want to add to this list.
I hope this little review helps. Perhaps it could inform some journal activities?
Best wishes, and take very good care of yourself! 🙂
Dr Jim Byrne, Doctor of Counselling, Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, UK.
Telephone: 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK)
Or: 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK).
Or take a look at my Telephone/Skype/Email services, which are advertised as ‘Counselling’, but can also include ‘Psychological First Aid’.
Kraybill, O.G. (2018) ‘When is Therapy Inappropriate After Trauma?’ Psychology Today, May 14, 2018; online: https://www.psychology today.com/gb/blog/expressive-trauma-integration/201805/ when-is-therapy-inappropriate-after-trauma
Dr Kraybill defined Psychological First Aid (PFA) as follows:
“Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a short term set of support strategies … to support survivors to meet (their) additional needs. PFA has have been found to be effective in mitigating stress responses and assisting survivors to develop skills in coping with the after effects of trauma.
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Anatomy is the area of biology that deals with the structure of plants and animals, usually on the scale of whole organisms and their major systems. Major divisions falling under the umbrella of anatomy include the visible structures and organs, the comparative study of related organisms, and growth and development. Bodily systems and their functions and anatomical disease states are also a part of anatomy. Sometimes included is histology, which is the study of the different types of tissues and their special cells. In animals, the field is also concerned with major systems such as the circulatory, digestive, and nervous systems.
Most commonly, the science of anatomy refers to the study of gross anatomy, which is the study of visible structures without the use of aids such as the microscope. This allows for the examination of the various body structures in terms of their entire size and shape, as well as their relationship to other structures. Less commonly, the term also refer to the anatomical study of smaller units like the cell. The study of various types of tissues often requires microscopic analysis to make meaningful comparisons between them. The more inclusive term morphology covers both macroscopic, or large-scale, as well as microscopic structures.
Anatomy has a number of subdivisions that deal with more specific aspects of bodily structures. One of these is the study of the development of organisms, which in animals can include the embryonic stage through maturity. Functional anatomy is the study of organs, their roles in the body, and their place in the body's major systems. Comparative anatomy deals with the anatomical relationship between animals that share similar structures, such as mammals.
Other subdivisions include pathological anatomy, which is the study of diseased organs and how they are changed in form or function. Sometimes the microscopic structures of the smallest unit of biology, the cell, are also included. Broader divisions having a longer scientific history include the animal, plant, and human branches of the field.
In anatomy, the visible structures of the body are related to their places in larger systems. For instance, the circulatory system includes the heart, blood vessels, and arteries. Male and female reproductive anatomy includes sexual organs such as the testes, penis, and vagina. Other systems are the muscular, skeletal, and respiratory systems. Anatomical studies are often paired with the related field of physiology, which deals more specifically with the function of organisms. Physiology also extends the study of anatomical structures to their biological processes. | <urn:uuid:e167b4ec-ff59-4745-89de-4d7a5380444b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.allthescience.org/what-is-anatomy.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968048 | 492 | 3.53125 | 4 |
After an escalation in the north of the country, the Kosovo government is putting the new entry rules on hold. The US and the EU fear that Serbia’s ally Moscow could pour fuel on the fire.
The scenery was terrifying. Sirens wailed in the north of the city of Mitrovica. Then the reports spilled over: there were reports of exchanges of fire between Kosovan police and armed Serbs. There were even rumors that Serbian troops had already advanced into northern Kosovo. The Ministry of Defense in Belgrade finally made it clear that Serbia’s army had not crossed the border – at least not yet. The latest escalation between Serbia and Kosovo shows how quickly the situation in the region could change. The danger has recently increased – precisely because of the war in Ukraine. | <urn:uuid:92f77969-2eeb-4d17-8bb4-0977c7b5def4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jaunenglish.com/dangerous-power-games-in-kosovo-diepresse-com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.978374 | 159 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Oo-la-la! In my last post, I mentioned some of my favorite springtime things here in Texas. And while I could travel up the road and show you images of Paris, Texas, this particular Paris, the World’s Fair of 1889, was created for the Texas Christian Homeschool Prom. All 1,750 students were treated to an evening on the Champs Elysees, exploring cafe’s, gift shops, the catacombs, and even the Arc de Triomphe.
Along the way, they also were able to meet various famous people who had actually attended the World’s Fair that year. Folks like Buffalo Bill Cody, Annie Oakley, Thomas Edison, and Theodore Roosevelt.
In addition were some other characters from the world of entertainment like Gaston and Belle, the Three Musketeers, the Phantom of the Opera, and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
The students hardly left the dance floor, however. Or should I say, four dance floors, at the base of the Eiffel Tower. Current songs along with oldies like “Rockin’ Robin,” “Shout,” and “Thriller” kept the dance floor hopping. Literally. The chandeliers even bounced!
What an amazing evening! Memories that will last a lifetime! I’m so glad I was able to be part of this event! If you know homeschoolers, encourage them to enjoy amazing nights during their high school years. http://www.TxCHP.org | <urn:uuid:52ef5623-1f3a-44c6-b01a-b27e250c182f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marjilaine.wordpress.com/tag/homeschooling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960507 | 324 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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Problem Description: Historically, peer review has been compelled by regulatory and legislative mandates, such as the Joint Commission Ongoing Professional Practice Evaluation (OPPE) requirement and the Health Care Quality Improvement Act (HCQIA) enacted by Congress in 1986. However, these external mandates were focused on quality assurance, generally carrying punitive connotations and practically translated into rote compliance without the benefit of learning and improvement. In fact, the lack of quality improvement focus prompted the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to release its 2015 report, “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care,” stating that a “critical type of error in health care—diagnostic error—has received relatively little attention.” The IOM report alarmingly reports that 5% of the US population experience diagnostic error annually, most experience diagnostic error in the course of a lifetime and diagnostic error contributes to 10% patient deaths and 6-17% of adverse events in hospitals. The IOM report framed a number of recommendations that potentially informs peer review and learning activities more broadly (Figure 1).
peer review, peer learning, RADPEER
Medicine and Health Sciences | Radiology
Roth, C. G.; Naringrekar, H. V.; and Flanders, A. E., "The Transition to Peer Learning" (2021). Department of Radiology Posters. 11. | <urn:uuid:9cf567b6-23c4-4b53-b655-923964910aae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jdc.jefferson.edu/radiologyposters/11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.897907 | 336 | 2.21875 | 2 |
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Princess is a race in the Force of Will trading card game.
Princess is a race based on hereditary title given to the first female child of a monarch or a king. Princess is the counterpart of the Prince race.
In Force of Will, they are Rulers with unique resonators.
List of Princess Rulers/J-Rulers
List of Princess Resonators
There are currently no Resonators with the Princess race.
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In our everyday life we spend a good deal of time being under influence of weak electromagnetic radiation – it can come from mobile phones or microwave ovens, for instance. Active debates about possible danger of this type of radiation take place all over the world. New facts on the subject arrive from Russian researchers.
In Russia the government has approved sanitation and epidemiology standards, which among other things state maximum allowable mean value for energy flux density for radio frequency exposure. However, researchers from Obninsk (department of biology of Obninsk Institute of Nuclear Power, which is a part of National Research Nuclear University “MEPhI”) found out that impact of radio frequency radiation at frequencies, used for mobile communications, does no good for infusorians at energy flux density, which is two times lower than its maximum allowable mean value, mentioned in the official standards.
Sanitation and epidemiology standards in our country have maximum allowable mean value for energy flux density of 10 microwatt for square centimeter. This standard, the toughest in the world in this field, was set after a series of experiments, performed on several human volunteers, as well as on speechless plants and laboratory animals.
Scientists from Obninsk performed their studies of weak electromagnetic radiation on infusorians Spirostomum ambiguum. These protozoa very often participate in various scientific and medical experiments as biological test-objects. Whether a tested object is dangerous can be seen in motion behavior of these animals – they slow down, when they don’t like something or feel bad. Researchers put infusorians into a special chamber and observe them via a light microscope with a grid lens. The more lines of the grid an infusorium crossed within one minute, the more active it is considered to be.
Poor protozoa were exposed to radiation at frequencies of a cell phone (1 gigahertz) at three various values of energy flux density: maximum allowable value, half of the previous parameter, and energy five times higher than maximum allowable value. When infusorians Spirostomum ambiguum found themselves in electromagnetic field with maximum allowable value of energy flux density, their ability to move became 40% worse in 30-40 minutes, compared to unexposed infusorians. Halving energy flux led to increase of “safe time” up to 8-9 hours, and excessive energy flux cut “safe time” to 10 minutes. Researchers report that in all variants of the experiment infusorians have abruptly become 40% less motile, compared to their lucky unexposed relatives. Time of exposure had no additional effect on motility.
Researchers believe that their valuable study helps estimate quantitatively how low intensity radio frequency radiation affects biological objects. Most interesting fact in this research is that experiments revealed “safe” periods of time for such an impact, which appeared to depend on energy flux density.
Source: Science & Technologies
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