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The Who’s Pete Townshend is a creative mastermind, the brains behind the operation of one of the most loved bands in British history. However, his most genius idea was bizarrely influenced by ‘the voice of God’, which provided him with a spark to create the project and begin one of the most artistically driven moments of his career.
The album in question is 1969’s rock opera Tommy which tells the story of Tommy Walker who is a “deaf, dumb and blind” child. The album follows Walker’s experiences in life as well as his relationship with his family and shows Townshend’s innate ability for storytelling in whatever form he chooses. Tommy was immediately acclaimed upon its release by critics, many hailing it as The Who’s breakthrough moment and how the album.
Following the release of The Who Sell’s Out in 1967, Townshend found himself in the middle of somewhat of a creative lull. He wanted to get his creative juices in full flow and, in doing so, wanted to create something unique to pull him out of the slumber and redefine rock and roll. The guitarist had been looking at ways of progressing beyond the standard three-minute pop single format since 1966, a format which he felt was holding him back from achieving his goals. However, the idea of Tommy wouldn’t come to him for another couple of years.
This frustration increased as it got to 1968, and Townshend remained unsure about how the Who should progress musically. He believed that the group were at a crossroads of sorts, but he wanted their music to remain relevant, and, in his own mind, he thought the best way of doing this would be to think outside of the box rather than copying the mould he had created so well. His friend, International Times art director Mike McInnerney, told him about the Indian spiritual mentor Meher Baba which led to an obsession as Townshend became fascinated with Baba, a factor which made him more introspective as ever and unlocked a level of compassion within which bled into Tommy without even realising.
The album would end up being one that Townshend would later describe as the one record that he is most proud of: “Tommy because it is so successful and so far-reaching and is probably deeper in meaning than most critics allow,” he later told JamBase in 2007. This artistic fulfilment that Tommy gave him was something that he had longed for and made him truly proud of his work. “I felt like the messenger from Mars in Robert Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land,” Townshend wrote in his autobiography Who I Am, “who promises that the secret of all existence is simply to learn to wait.”
The epiphany came to Townshend in what he described as being “in a most unlikely place”—and he wasn’t wrong, later referencing a Holiday Inn in Rolling Meadows, Illinois, as the birthplace of Tommy. He describes the scene in vivid detail, recalling the “vibrating bed far too big, a TV with a fuzzy screen, sheets and towels that smelled slightly of something warm, but not quite alive… I heard the voice of God,” he writes.
Townshend strangely decided not to elaborate further on what God told him, but the guitarist is thankful for this “singular, momentous epiphany,” which he labelled as a “call to the heart” which made him create the iconic rock opera, Tommy. The record would go on to change the course of Townshend’s career and put The Who on the trajectory to become a stadium filling outfit all across the globe. | <urn:uuid:fc73bac8-1f98-4003-b42e-4c97f675432f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/god-inspire-pete-townshend-to-write-the-who-tommy-album/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.984245 | 777 | 2 | 2 |
An average of about 124,000 children of illegal aliens, commonly referred to as “anchor babies,” have been born in the United States this year thus far, analysis of Census Bureau data concludes.
In the first five months of 2019, about 124,000 children of illegal aliens were born on U.S. soil, thus solidifying their permanent American citizenship due to the nation’s birthright citizenship policy. The total derives from a Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) analysis of Census Bureau data, which reveals that, on average, about 300,000 anchor babies are born in the country every year, with nearly 25,000 anchor babies born every month.
The children of illegal aliens, after being granted birthright citizenship, are able to anchor their illegal alien and non-citizen parents in the U.S. and eventually are allowed to bring an unlimited number of foreign relatives to the country through the legal immigration process known as “chain migration.”
Today, there are at least 4.5 million anchor babies in the U.S., exceeding the annual roughly four million American babies born every year and costing American taxpayers about $2.4 billion every year to subsidize hospital costs.
The annual number of anchor babies born in the U.S. exceeds the number of births in 16 states plus the District of Colombia, combined. For example, there are more than 30 times as many anchor babies born every year than the total number of children born to native-born Americans in the state of Delaware.
Similarly, there are more than 22 times as many anchor babies born every year in the country than there are children born to native-born Americans in the state of South Dakota. The anchor baby population in the U.S. is almost twice the amount of residents living in the U.S. territory of Guam and more than double the population of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where a projected 107,000 residents live.
In total, there are now an unprecedented nearly 62 million immigrants and their U.S.-born children living across the country, as Breitbart News has previously reported. As of 2017, there were 17.1 million U.S.-born minor children of immigrants in the country.
The U.S. is nearly alone in granting birthright citizenship to the children of foreign nationals and, specifically, illegal aliens. For example, the U.S. and Canada are the only two developed nations with birthright citizenship. On the other hand, countries such as France, the United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Australia, Italy, and Germany all have either outlawed birthright citizenship or never had such a policy to begin with.
While foreign nationals and illegal aliens continue to take advantage of the country’s birthright citizenship policy, the foreign-born population has boomed to a 108-year record high. In 1970, the total foreign-born population in the U.S. was 9.5 million.
Today, foreign-born residents account for nearly 14 percent of the total U.S. population, and by 2060, the Census Bureau projects that about one-in-six residents in the U.S. will be foreign-born if the country’s legal immigration policy continues.
The country’s legal immigration policy is already having widespread electoral implications. In the 2020 presidential election, Pew Research Center projects that about one-in-ten U.S. voters will have been born outside the country, and Hispanic Americans are set to outpaceblack Americans as the largest voting minority in the election for the first time in American history.
In the next two decades, should the country’s legal immigration policy go unchanged, the U.S. is set to import about 15 million new foreign-born voters. About eight million of these new foreign-born voters will have arrived through chain migration.
Foreign-born voters, as research by Axios, the New York Times, University of Maryland, College Park researcher James Gimpel, and Ronald Brownstein has confirmed, are more likely than native-born Americans to vote for Democrats.
Brownstein’s research concludes that Democrats win about 90 percent of congressional districts that have foreign-born populations above the national average. This suggests that any district with a foreign-born population larger than 14 percent has a 90 percent chance of electing a Democrat over a Republican.
The 2016 presidential election between then-candidate Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton revealed a similar trend.
For example, among native-born Americans, Trump won 49 percent to Clinton’s 45 percent, according to exit polling data. Among foreign-born residents, Clinton dominated against Trump, garnering 64 percent of the immigrant population’s vote compared to Trump’s mere 31 percent.
Every year, the U.S. admits about 1.2 million mostly low-skilled legal immigrants, who compete directly against at least 12 million working- and middle-class Americans that continue to be sidelined out of the labor market but who want a good-paying, full-time job.
Due to legal immigration driving most of the U.S. population growth, the country is on track to add nearly 80 million new residents to the population by 2060. This would tick the total resident population up from the current level of about 326 million to an unprecedented 404 million total residents.
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A SOCAP Guest Post by Joel Solomon
My first book, The Clean Money Revolution, is coming out in May. So, you may be asking, what is clean money?
Clean Money is money aligned with purpose: money that is about more than self-interest; money that prioritizes the commons; money that makes the world better. Clean money regenerates ecosystems, builds fairness and equity for people, and helps achieve a healthy balance between people and planet.
Clean Money is revolutionary, and it’s also evolutionary. It expands our view of finance from a bank balance, or net worth calculation, or the name of a company you own stock in.
Clean Money builds true security and real prosperity, based on long-term thinking, and a safe, fair resilient future.
Clean Money considers where materials came from, who assembled them, and whether that process was just, regenerative, or destructive. From there, choices can be made. Choices that factor in the future of civilization.
We are in the midst of a great economic shift. It is a time of big challenges but also huge potential. The clean money revolution is the biggest opportunity for making money in history. Reinventing how we steward resources, feed, house, educate, transport, keep healthy, and employ humanity, while protecting natural systems, and the biosphere, are the prosperity drivers that can give us 500 more years of generative civilization.
This revolution can be peaceful, joyous, and smart. You will make it real.
5 Clean Money Practices
1. Invest as if lives depend on you.
Because they do. Be proactive. Research options. Socially Responsible Investing (SRI): screening global stocks and bonds for “less bad”, is a basic first step. Clean money thinks through where materials came from, who assembled them, and whether that process was just, or unjust, regenerative or destructive.
2. Ask annoying questions.
Wealth managers are seeing the trend. More insistent questions will lead to new products in mutual funds, retirement plans, bank accounts, insurance, and wealth management. Cleaner consumer goods, sourcing policies, environmental regulations, fair pay, and reduced discrimination, will follow.
3. Spend + invest locally.
Strengthen community. Recirculate dollars. Make better jobs. You can choose where you shop. Make choices that align with YOUR values.
4. Agitate, agitate, agitate.
Stand for what you believe in. Research. Get informed. Insist. Model it. Tell your friends. Be courageous. Use your influence. Take risks. Then go further. A movement is well underway, gaining momentum. It’s early. You are a leader.
5. Remember your ancestral responsibilities.
We are all ancestors, bloodline procreators or not. The people of many tomorrows are watching us. They want us to be smart and own responsibility for how we live our lives, what we consume, who we disadvantage, how we participate as citizens, and how our actions contribute to a safer, more loving, more just future.
Transitioning to clean money is no dutiful, painful exercise in morality. It is inspiring, invigorating, satisfying, life-enhancing. It gives meaning, purpose, and personal agency.
That’s what I mean by the Clean Money Revolution.
See you there.
Joel Solomon will be hosting the SOCAP 365 event “Capital Shifts for a Regenerative Economy: A Holistic Approach to Trends & Opportunities” at Impact Hub Berkeley on Thursday, March 2, 2017 from 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM. Join Joel and a panel of leading thinkers and practitioners to discuss coming shifts in capital and how a “clean money revolution” might help us build a regenerative economic system that works for all. Learn more and get your tickets here.
Joel Solomon is Co-Founder and Chair of Renewal Funds, Canada’s largest mission venture capital firm, with $98MM under management. Renewal Funds invests in Organics and Envirotech.
With Founder + Funder Carol Newell, Joel implemented a “whole portfolio activation to mission” strategy as leader of her “activist family office”. As ED of the Endswell Foundation they spent down a $20M endowment, leaving Tides Canada Foundation and Hollyhock as legacy charities while supporting BC’s renowned environmental community. As CEO of Renewal Partners’ seed capital fund over $10M was placed into dozens of green companies.
The full and original article can be viewed on TheNextSystem.org
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Tree Preservation Orders protect trees which bring significant benefits to an area. They might offer shade to a public path, be a key part of a particular view or landscape, or have specific historic or rare value. TPOs are a legal order and it is illegal to fail to comply with one so be sure you know what you can and can’t do.
What is prohibited?
Tree Preservation Orders prohibit a variety of activities. These include:
- Cutting down
- Wilful damage
- Wilful destruction
If you are the tree owner, you are legally required not to carry out any of these activities, or cause or permit them to occur.
What work can I carry out?
Trees with TPOs can have tree surgery work done on them. To do this, you must submit an application to the local authority. Additionally, you should consult an arboricultural specialist to help you with this application as the council will expect work on TPO protected trees to meet the requirements of sound arboriculture. Your application may also need supporting evidence to prove why your local authority should allow you to carry out the work.
Are there any exceptions to Tree Preservation Orders?
You can carry out some work on TPO protected trees without an application to the local authority. These exceptions include:
- When the work is on dead or dangerous trees and branches
- If the work is to prevent or abate a nuisance
- When the work is necessary to implement building work that has been granted full planning permission
- If the work is required to comply with an Act of Parliament, for example if the Forestry Commission has granted a separate Felling License
You can remove dead branches without informing the local authority. Also, you can cut down dead trees, but you must give five days written notice to the council before carrying this out.
When there is an immediate risk of serious harm, for example if there is risk of injury to a passing pedestrian or damage to property, you can start work immediately. Then, you must notify the local authority as soon as possible after you carry out this work. A tree surgeon can only carry out the work to remove the risk of serious harm.
If the council intends on applying a Tree Preservation Order to a tree that you own, they will inform you in writing that they have submitted a TPO. You have 28 days to lodge an objection to this order. There is no requirement that your objection be on any specific grounds. Any person can either object or support a TPO.
If you would like to protect a tree, you may seek a TPO on a tree by writing to your local authority. This letter must clearly identify the tree or group of trees and include your reasons.
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What does Fratelli Tutti, Pope Francis’s new encyclical on human fraternity and social friendship, tell us about the liturgy?
On the surface, not much. Francis does not talk about liturgical issues or questions. There is no section on the liturgical dimension of fraternity, nor is there an appeal to the liturgy as a remedy for the social ills Francis so vividly describes. This is understandable, of course, because the encyclical is addressed to all people of good will and Francis is attempting to reach hearers from all backgrounds, including those who stand outside the visible boundaries of the church. Yet I would contend that liturgists, informed by the pope’s teaching on human fraternity, have both a duty and an opportunity to bring this teaching to bear on liturgical questions and challenges.
Let’s be clear. Our challenge today is similar to the one that Virgil Michel, OSB, faced in the first half of the twentieth century. It is the challenge of grasping how the liturgy is connected to social regeneration. Michel taught indefatigably that the two can be strongly linked. He drew his inspiration from papal teachings and the scriptures, as well as the witness of the early church. Consider these challenging words:
What the early Christians thus did at the altar of God, in the central act of Christian worship, they also lived out in their daily lives. They understood fully that the common action of worship was to be the inspiration of all their actions. They knew well that their common giving of themselves to God and to the brethren of Christ was in fact a solemn promise made to God that they would live their lives in this same love of God and of God’s children, their brethren in Christ, throughout all the day. Unless they did that, their action before God would be at best lip-service, a lie before God. (“The Cooperative Movement and the Liturgical Movement,” Orate Fratres Vol. XIV, Feb. 1940, p. 156)
Virgil Michel was right. The fact of the matter is that issues concerning social friendship are deeply enmeshed in our fundamental liturgical structures. We cannot go about our liturgical lives as if human fraternity does not matter. What does it say if we claim that the Eucharist, a sharing in one loaf and one cup, is the center of our life, yet we lose sight of the imperative to commit ourselves to the common good? If we fail to connect social friendship with liturgy it means our liturgy and our life will become incoherent. When our commitment to the human family falters, our liturgical practice may sadly become what Virgil Michel called “lip-service, a lie before God.”
In light of Pope Francis’s encyclical, perhaps we can also ask ourselves some very concrete questions about our liturgical praxis. For example, Francis discusses the problem of individualism. We might ask ourselves today: how does our liturgy cater to this distortion of individualism? For instance, does our persistent pattern of using separate hosts in the Eucharist, rather than having a significant liturgical experience of the breaking of the bread, obscure the Eucharistic symbolism of sharing in one loaf—a social symbolism?
This is not a new question, but is a question that does not go away. Liturgical theologian Goffredo Boselli, in his book The Spiritual Meaning of the Liturgy, pointed out that we find in the Didache that Eucharist is referred to simply as klásma, “broken.” He goes on to explain that this expression, along with assertions about the Eucharist in the writings of St. Paul, makes it clear that
The sharing of the one bread is the central reality of the Eucharist. It is not only as bread (substance) but as bread broken and shared (relation) that the Eucharistic bread fully realizes its essence and the truth of the Eucharist. (Boselli, The Spiritual Meaning of the Liturgy, 186)
The question of the one loaf is critical, but there are other aspects of this problem too. What attitudes of individualism do we bring into liturgy? At some level we all know that we are supposed to be in this together, yet it remains all too easy to ignore the social dimension of the liturgical action, and to see other people as irrelevant or even as a distraction.
Here is another liturgical issue relevant to our central symbols: Before the pandemic caused us to suspend Communion under both forms, many people declined to receive from the common cup and some parishes don’t even offer it. When the pandemic is over, we may wish to revisit this practice in light of Francis’s vision of human fraternity. The common cup, after all, is an outstanding sign of social solidarity. What does it say when we abandon or downplay it under normal circumstances (I am not talking about exceptional cases)?
The doctrine of concomitance does not answer every question. Our bedrock liturgical theology claims that Christ’s blood was spilled so that we could become one, restoring the unity of the human family with God and with one another. This is human fraternity writ large. And we are intended to ritualize it in the liturgy: The Precious Blood, which Jesus poured out on the cross, is shared in a common cup. Yet, for many, the response has been: no, it’s not important. Or: what does it matter? It’s a liturgical option, a detail.
For those who reflect mystagogically on the liturgy, however, it is so much more. One of my favorite quotes from the Synod on the Eucharist (2005) is from Father Barry Fischer, CPPS, moderator of the Missionaries of the Most Precious Blood:
The communion achieved in the reconciling Blood of Christ empowers us to be bridge-builders, truth-tellers, and the healers of wounds. Our ‘amen’ when receiving communion affirms not only the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; it invites us to be bread broken and blood poured out, life given, for the life of the world. We become, as it were, ‘living chalices’ carrying the Precious Blood of Christ, that sacred balm, to those who are in need of healing in their brokenness, to those wounded by poverty, to those left half-dead by the wayside, scorned and scarred by prejudice, racism, and war.
Preachers and catechists certainly have a role in making connections between the message of Fratelli Tutti and the shape of our liturgical rites. But the way we celebrate liturgy gives them something concrete to reflect upon. Pope Francis uses the parable of the Good Samaritan as the lynchpin of his exposition of the challenges we face in responding as brothers and sisters to those we encounter on the road of life. How better to return constantly to this mystery of our bond with all those who suffer, than by sharing the common cup?
Another avenue of exploration that Fratelli Tutti opens up, I believe, is the question of penance and reconciliation. It is time to question our serious lack of an adequate penitential discipline in the church today. Sin is real. We fall short on many measures of human solidarity, over and over again. We need to bring this reality to communal prayer in order to receive God’s forgiveness, and to derive the strength, and accept the grace, to do better. But here is the challenge: It is inadequate to rely solely upon individual confession as the vehicle for awakening repentance and fostering reconciliation. Individual confession and absolution will always have its place, but the neglect of communal penance services and the practical lack of penitential practices that go beyond the opening rites of Mass is a serious shortcoming. Our tradition is rich in this regard, but we are living on crumbs. We don’t really like to think about the fact that we are sinners!
The Lenten Scrutinies – which are meant to benefit not only the elect but the whole assembly — offer a fresh start; we need to take them more seriously now, in light of Fratelli Tutti. We also need to revisit traditions of penitential asceticism, such as fasting, and use prayer forms such as litanies to awaken the conscience and lend communal support to our efforts for social change. Pope Francis has a vigorous appreciation of the cult of the saints as an inspiration to repentance and reform. We can access this resource liturgically too.
The one loaf, the common cup, our penitential discipline – these are but a few examples of how liturgy intersects with Fratelli Tutti. A multitude of other challenges concerning how we conduct our liturgical life likewise lie within the scope of this encyclical. Here are some other suggestions (you may want to add your own):
- It is worthwhile to reflect on how we respond to living in a “throwaway world.” This is a malady Francis has decried before, and which appears again in Fratelli Tutti. It should prompt us to ask ourselves some questions about those throwaway worship resources!
- Thinking about human fraternity might also prompt us to ask what provisions we make for persons with disabilities in worship. Integral human development includes opportunities for everyone to worship with whatever assistance they need.
- How do we include those who because of language or culture, ethnic origin or age group, find it difficult to participate in our liturgies? If we don’t find ways to accommodate them, and therefore they don’t come, does it become a self-fulfilling prophecy: out of sight, out of mind?
- Are we serious about mentoring newcomers into our communities and welcoming migrants and foreigners? Is the “other” perceived only as a threat, or is there a genuine openness to the other as gift? Parishes can be clannish; we might as well admit it. Even within the smallest groups, turf wars and insider-outsider dynamics can flourish. There are limitless ways to undermine charity, and faith communities are surprisingly good at it! We need to break the cycle.
Love and social friendship must find expression in the liturgy. They can and must become significant aspects of how we gather and how we are sent out. By modeling fraternal attitudes in our liturgical life, we have the potential to change the outlook of a whole local community—and this can ultimately change the world.
At the end of the day, what matters most is how our liturgical practice lives, breathes, and proclaims the good news of Jesus. This imperative is expressed by Francis in Fratelli Tutti most beautifully by using the metaphor of music:
… Christians are very much aware that “if the music of the Gospel ceases to resonate in our very being, we will lose the joy born of compassion, the tender love born of trust, the capacity for reconciliation that has its source in our knowledge that we have been forgiven and sent forth. If the music of the Gospel ceases to sound in our homes, our public squares, our workplaces, our political and financial life, then we will no longer hear the strains that challenge us to defend the dignity of every man and woman.” (FT 277)
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What are the different types of weaving?
What are some of the most common weaves?
- Plain Weave. Plain weave is the simplest weave. …
- Basket Weave. A basketweave fabric is an alternative form of the plain weave. …
- Twill Weave. Twill weave is among the most commonly used weaves in textile processing. …
- Satin Weave.
What are the famous weaves of India?
Karnataka. Karnataka is the home of mulberry silk. The Mysore silk sarees with pure zari borders are famous among Indian women. The printed silk sarees with Kasuti embroidery and Belgaum sarees are among other famous varieties.
What are four different types of weaves?
Black women have many different textures of hair; luckily there’s a variety of different textures and types of weave that can suit just about any texture. The most sought after types of weave are Brazilian, Peruvian, Indian, Malaysian and Eurasian hair.
What are the three ways by which weaving is done in India?
the three ways by which weaving is done in India are knitting, felting and braiding.
What are the 5 different types of textiles?
Enter your search terms: Textiles are classified according to their component fibers into silk, wool, linen, cotton, such synthetic fibers as rayon, nylon, and polyesters, and some inorganic fibers, such as cloth of gold, glass fiber, and asbestos cloth.
Where is Indian handloom famous?
Surat: This city in the state of Gujarat is one of the greatest textile industries in India. It is famous for its handloom and diamond market. It is also known as the Textile City of Gujarat. The skills performed here includes production of yarn, weaving, processing and embroidery.
Who invented handloom in India?
Indian floral prints, dating back to the 18th century A.D were discovered by Sir Aurel Stein in the icy waters of Central Asia. The evidence shows that of all the arts and crafts of India, traditional handloom textiles are probably the oldest.
Which basic weave is wrinkles the most?
Complex Weaves are more Wrinkle-Resistant
More pronounced weaves like royal oxfords, imperial twills, and jacquards will tend to wrinkle less, whereas broadcloth (or poplin) and plain weave fabrics with a very smooth, flat appearance will tend to wrinkle more.
What does weaves mean in English?
1a : to form (cloth) by interlacing strands (as of yarn) specifically : to make (cloth) on a loom by interlacing warp and filling threads. b : to interlace (threads) into cloth. c : to make (something, such as a basket) by intertwining. 2 : spin sense 2 —used of spiders and insects. | <urn:uuid:83235d7e-5f23-4b15-88d9-21e1e57c8403> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://melgeecrafts.com/needlework/what-are-the-different-styles-of-weaving-in-india.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95311 | 610 | 3 | 3 |
This afternoon I took a moment to read The Rendezvous in Nature’s Messages of Peace and ran across this thought.
While I am aware of the tremendous value of reasoning in the world, I think that it is often colored with selfishness, greed, and egotism, which render it not true reasoning at all. It seems to me that the more important things are always those which are whispered to us from within, and the constructive function of reasoning is to make these things a part of consciousness through definite acceptance of them.
There are those grand instincts in the consciousness of man which are glorious in their promise, yet which the world would crucify and destroy with its shallow reasoning if it could. Perhaps the greatest sermon preached by solitude in the Green Cathedrals is, “listen to the still small voice within, and fear not to accept the wonders of divine instinct and intuition.” | <urn:uuid:1616823e-b8f8-4472-977d-000b7258d492> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://philosopheroftheforest.com/2012/02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.967734 | 184 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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• A great book, in this way (fays Dr. Horne), is indeed a great evil, if the point can be settled in a small one. The superfluity of naughtiness should be cut off ; all Aourish and declamation, self-adulation and personal altercation, rhetorical amplification and digrefion, every sentence not immediately ad rem, as useless and noxious excrescences, pared away; that point discovered on which the dispute turns, and the opponent closely confined to it. Terms should be defined, to prevent ambiguity and evafion; arguments and obje&ions carefully colle&ted, and mechodically arranged; stated and answered with all possible conciseness and perspicuity; leaving as little room, as may be, for replies and rejoinders; the fad consequence of which is, not only loss of time and temper to the writers, but disgust to the readers, who grow weary, and, despairing of being able to fix their opinions, resolve to give themselves no farther trouble about religion.' 右. III. Delivered, July 9, 1986, in the Surry Chapel, Blackfriars
Bridge, by the Rev. Mr. Venn, and published, with some Variations and Additions. By an attentive Auditor, and humble Ad. mirer, in hopes it may please and edify many others, as it edified and pleased the Editor. 8vo. Is. Bew.
From the title of this sermon, The good and righteous King, the reader might conclude it was somewhat of a merely civil and political nature : but he will find it very different. The text is Isaiah, xxxii. 1-4. It bears some marks of Methodism; without being deftitute of learning. It also manifests an earnest zeal for morality and good works, together with some reflections on ministers, on the service of the church of England, and on those who diffent from it. But, we find that Mr. Venn has disclaimed this Discourse by a public advertisement.-We have therefore nothing farther to add, -except the just and severe cenfure which falls on those who have temesity and presumption enough to publish, under the name of anotber person, without permiffion or authority, a composition furreptitiously obtained : and given to the world, as hath sometimes been the case, in such a form, and with such imperfections, as may serve only to render it disgraceful to the reputed author.-But we do not think that these lait mentioned, disreputable circumstances, are chargeable on the present publication.
To the MONTHLY REVIEWERS. GENTLEMEN, AUDI alteram partem, -is a motto you would ever wish to support,
in the little unavoidable controversies of your page of Correspondence. When you have indulged me with a hearing, the subject will of course be dismissed, as it ought. Your Correspondent, G. B. has not kept ftri&tly within the bounds of truth, in saying that my Explanatory Appeal, which you reviewed, was written in consequence of my being disowned; when in faét my disown ment, idle as it was, was rather in consequence of my having written the Appeal; that publication, which contained a disownment of church authority in some points, being one principal charge of offence against me. When G. B. hall have learned more caution, and added more knowledge to his zeal, he may know that a person born
and educated in the community of Quakers, and professing and practising the worship peculiar to that Society, is both legally and virtually a Quaker, however he may be treated, or however unfolicitous he may be to avail himself of any Society sanction, for pubfications which have no connection with it.
Yours very sincerely, Bath, March 22, 1787.
*.* We are obliged to An old Friend, for pointing out to us a mistake in page 351 of ous Review for November last, respecting the capacity of the Swedish kanne, or the English measure corresponding to 100 Swedish cubic inches.
Prof. Celsius, in the Stockholm Ads for 1739, has given an accurate comparison of the itandard Swedish foot with those of several other nations, and, among the rest, with the English foot copied by Graham from the Royal Society's standard. He finds the Swedish foot to be less than the English, in the proportion of 1000 to 1027 ; and the Reviewer of the Article alluded to, calculating on a supposition that the inch was less in the same proportion, made 100 Swedish cubic inches equal to 92 and a fraction of ours; not aware, that the Swedish foot is divided and subdivided decimally ; for though he had often met with the expresiion decimal, or geometric inches in the Swedish writers, he imagined, from this very circumstance of its being mentioned only in particalar cases, that this division was used in those cases only, for facility of computation. The fact however is, that the Swedish foot is conftantly fo divided; and therefore though the foot itself be less, the inch, or tenth part of that foot, is greater than the twelfth part of ours : according to the proportions above stated, the Swedih'inch is equal to 1,168 English, and the kanne contains nearly 159; English cubic inches. Our ingenious Correspondent bas deduced from a different source (the weight of a kanne of water given by Bergman) almost the same conclufion, that the kanne is equal to nearly 160 of our cubic inches. We must therefore request to readers to correct the error in page 351, and read i kanne equals 5 wine pints English nearly.
This gentleman thinks we are mistaken also with regard to Mr. Scheele's weights, and indeed it appears likely, considering his profession, that he used most commonly the medicul weights; which, in Sweden, are divided exactly in the same manner as with us, though there is a little difference in their absolute weights; the Swedish being less than the corresponding denominations of ours, in the proportion of 23 to 24. Wherever grains are mentioned, they belong unquestionably to this species of weight, for the Swedes have no such denominacion in any other.
Be the case as it may with Scheele, it is plain that Bergman used very frequently, and, we believe, in every initánce where grains are not specified, the common or civil weight; in which the pound is divided into 32 half-ounces, called lods or loths (semunciæ, lorbones) ; the lod into 4 quintlins or drams; and the dram into 276į aces. In bis original differtation on mineral waters, published in the Stockholm Ăs, he gives the contents of each of the waters he examines, in lods and decimals of the lod, and mentions no other weight
throughout the whole. As this denomination of half ounce appears
The weight of a kanne of distilled snow water is given by Bergman,
We are favoured with W. N's friendly communication. Had
$*$ The two pamphlets, concerning which, inquiry is made, in a Jetter bearing the post-mark of the Isle of Wight, will doubtless be noticed ; but they must wait their turn, with a multitude of other publications, which, though neceffarily delayed, are not overlooked. We should be happy if the limits of our Journal were more adequate to the extent of our plan : the patience of authors, and the friends of authors,' would not, then, be so frequently exercised.
+++ In answer to Ignotus, who enquires concerning the character of a book entitled, “ The Rational Dame,"-we have no such article in our list.
Ist We are sorry that it is not in our power to aflift L. E. in procuring foreign books mentioned in our Appendixes, &c. We always recommend enquirers to Mr. Elmsley in the Strand.
Mr. Woodhouse must excuse our not publishing the intelligence his letter conveys. We are obliged to him for it, but
De mortuis nil nisi bonum.
p. 292. 1.g.fr-bot. for 'rnjection, 'n
r. injections 293. kar 37.2, puk a čemma after just, 29h 1.20. read, where the whole system was in a properties
1.17. read, who says he was on the Tjust.
For M A Y, 1787.
Art. I. The Life of Dr. S. Johnson, concluded: See our last
Month's Review, Art. I. N March 1752, Dr. Johnson felt a severe stroke of affli&ion,
in the death of his wife. Under the care of Mr. Hawkelworth, she was buried at Bromley, and her disconsolate husband wrote a Latin inscription for her tomb, in which he celebrated her beauty. With the fingularity of his prayers for Tetty, from that time to the end of his life, the world is sufficiently acquainted. By her first husband, Mrs. Johnson left a daughter, near as old as Johnson. Of her second marriage, there was no issue. With Mrs. Ann Williams, a person of extraordinary endowments, and, though blind, of an active and cheerful disposition, Mrs. Johnson had contracted a close intimacy. This friend the recommended to her husband's protection. Mrs. Williams was the daughter of Zachariab Williams, a physician in South Wales. To relieve himself from solitude and melancholy reflections, Johnson took her home to his house in Gough-square. In 1755, Mr. Garrick gave her a benefit, which produced 200l. ; in 1766, the published a quarto volume of miscellanies *, and thereby increased her little stock to 300l. This and Johnson's protection supported her through the rest of her life.
We are told that Kitty Fisher left her card at Johnson's house. Those who knew him, will hardly believe this story: for what purpose Tould he see a woman, whose person was venal? His Biographer, however, acquits him of all amorous passions. He says that Johnson was myops, or near-sighted, and doubts whether he ever had a perception of beauty. If he ever felt the impression, it was from Molly Afton, who is represented as a republican, and a declaimer for public liberty. Upon this lady, Johnson made the two following verses :
Liber ut effe velim fuafifti, pulchra Maria :
Ut maneam liber, pulchra Maria, vale.
Man's born for freedom, Tyrant, we agree :
See Rev., vol. xxxiv. p. 355.
In 1750, one Lauder, of infamous memory, published an “ Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns.” The Biographer tells us, that Johnson affitted this man, from motives of enmity to the memory of Milton : but it appears, that while Lauder's work was in the press, the proof sheets were submitted to the inspection of the Ivy-lane club. If Johnson approved of the design, it was no longer than while he believed it founded in fact. With the rest of the club he was in one common error. As soon as Dr. Douglas espoused the cause of truth, and with ability that will ever do him honour, dragged the impostor into open day-light, Johnson made ample reparation to the genius of Milton. He convinced Lauder that it would be more for his intereit to make a full confession of his guilt, than to fand forth the convicted champion of a lie; and, for this purpole, drew up in the strongest terms, a recantation, which Lauder ligned, and published in quarto, addressed to Dr. Douglas, 1751. It is painful to be thus obliged to vindicate Johnson against the insinuations of the man, who has undertaken to be his Editor, and the guardian of his fame.
During the two years in which Johnson entertained the Pube lic with his Rambler, the great work of the Dictionary was ft.! carried on, sometimes by flow degrees, and occasionally with vigour. The morbid inelancholy, of which he complained early in life, and which was probably caused by that disorder thac brought him to the presence of Queen Anne, returned upon him at intervals, and clouded his understanding. In a short time after the Rambler ceased, Mr. Hawkesworth projected the Ado venturer. The fi: A Number was published November 7, 1752, and the Paper continued twice a week, till the gth of March 1754 To this undertaking, Johnson contribuied his affift
All the eflays marked T are of his writing. His price was two guineas for each paper. Dr. Joseph Warton's essays are well known. From another quarter, Hawkesworth had some supplies, but that source soon failed. Sir John Hawkins ima. gines that the person here intended was Dr. Bathurst, one of the Ivy-lane club; but if he will take the trouble to enquire, he will find that the late Bonnell Thornton was, in the beginning of that undertaking, embarked with Dr. Hawkesworth. The connection did not last long, and Thornton set up a new Paper, called the Connoisseur. The proposal for forming the Labours of Hercules into a pantomime, was of Thornton's writing.
When it is considered that Johnson, about the age of 20, drew up the state of his case for an eminent physician in Staffordshire, and received for answer, that the symptoms tended to insanity, who can wonder that he was troubled with melancholy and dejection ? And yet the lion was often roused. He wrote by fiss and starts, but always with vigour, and the power of genius. | <urn:uuid:3a4f1f50-b20f-4508-a5c0-bae3ccff0625> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.co.in/books?id=pI4FAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA367&vq=%22containing+an+hiftorical+and+critical+Account+of+the+Lives+and+Writings+of+the%22&dq=editions:UOM49015003426369&output=html_text | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96684 | 2,994 | 1.617188 | 2 |
646pp., b/w & colour illus., fold-out frieze, map, hardback, Berlin & Cape Town, 2020
An investigation into how and why the Voortrekker Monument in Pretoria was created. The 92-metre frieze is a pictorial narrative of the Boer ‘Great Trek’ into the hinterland of South Africa (1835-52).
Elizabeth Rankin is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of Auckland, and previously Professor of the History of Art and Dean of Arts at the University of the Witwatersrand.
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Everyone hates being wrong. Especially at work; when you've been at it for awhile. We don't consider ourselves amateurs anymore. We might even consider ourselves pros. But mistakes happen. Here's a story about something that happened in a recent consult I had:
I was working with a personal aide in school and she was horrified that she offered the learner she was working with a piece of chocolate while he was engaged in challenging behavior (i.e. calling others stupid, saying, "I hate you" or "You're fired"). Well, here's the backstory: Mom sent in cookies for lunch that the learner did not like. He was really upset about it. When others tried to engage him, with all intentions of helping, it escalated the behavior. The personal aide waited until he was calm (even if it was only a few seconds) and offered him chocolate. The challenging behavior stopped. The learner walked to his next class (engaging in appropriate behavior the whole time). And the aide delivered the chocolate.
Was she all wrong? No. She waited until he calmed. The aide had him engage in appropriate behavior before delivering the reinforcer. Here's where I think she could use some help. Instead of offering chocolate, knowing it is highly motivating to the student, she could have stated, "Thanks for standing quietly. When you have appropriate behavior, then you get chocolate." The contingency management statement changes it from enticing to expectation. She could have also used the contingency management statement at precursor behaviors (i.e. throwing the cookies away and saying he wanted something else).
We all make mistakes. We are all human. The point is that what we do after is most important.
What steps can we take to rectify the mistake? How do we error correct?
1. Apologize and fix it. Sometimes apologies are warranted and when they are, make them-SINCERELY! If you can fix it, own it and fix the problem. If you can't, figure out a way that it won't happen again or how you can do damage control. And share your plan with the people effected by your mistake.
2. Think about what could happen. Plan ahead. You can cut possible mistakes off at the knees if you have a plan for how to address them before they are even an issue.
3. Think on your feet. If you see a situation not going the way you want, how can you course correct? Commit to the redirect and do it.
4. If it doesn't work, abandon ship. Decisions need to be made quickly before issues get even bigger. If it's not working, cut your losses. Try plan B...or C...or D. That's why planning ahead is essential.
Leave a comment below about how one of these 4 Tips could have changed an Oh @#$% moment when you made a mistake.
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Performance improvement is always a hot topic; whether you are addressing your own or your employees.
Feedback is one of the most important consequences in a leader's toolbox. It lets the employee/staff know what they are doing well and what needs improvement. How do staff know what to do more of or less of without ongoing communication? It also solves leaders' problems with ensuring quality staff are hired and maintained.
Here's an example from one of the agencies I consulted with:
When I worked with the largest healthcare company in their field in the region, they were having difficulty maintaining quality staff. Looking at their onboarding process, attendance at orientation was the only requirement for them to move on to next steps. One of the orientation days for clinical staff required new hires to demonstrate the needed skills to succeed at the company. The new hires showed their abilities on current patients. If the supervisor did not feel the new hire demonstrated skills to fluency (fast and accurate over time), the new hire would be placed with a preceptor for additional training. However, there were no criteria for fading of the preceptor. The preceptors did not rate if the new hire now had fluency in all needed skill areas.
As part of the intervention, with input from the preceptors, supervisors and executive management, we developed a behaviorally anchored rating scale (BARS) for providing feedback to new hires/staff and to make decisions about onboarding and continued employment during their skills day, at the end of preceptor training and for ongoing performance reviews. We assessed if the new hires/staff performed duties to fluent mastery, if they needed two or less verbal prompts to perform the skill, if they needed supervisor demonstration of the skill or could not perform the skill at all. This allowed management to determine how long preceptor training was needed or continued, if the staff continued to perform at mastery levels and played a part in performance improvement bonuses.
This was an easy fix to help onboard/maintain quality staff that is still used today within the company.
Using Rating Scales as Part of Staff Feedback to Improve Performance
Feedback without information about performance to back it up is subjective. One of the easiest ways to objectively provide feedback is to use rating scales as part of performance evaluations.
To develop BARS, every key task performed by the staff member needs to be known and defined. Additionally, there needs to be an understanding of all behaviors displayed by individuals that carry out these key tasks. Each behavior is rated and anchored to points on a rating scale, which indicate whether the behavior is extraordinary, fully competent, or unsatisfactory. The result is a rating scale for each task.
For example, in a hypothetical position of housekeeping aide at a hospital, one of the performer's responsibilities is to empty the patient's trash. The BARS for this task could be ranked as follows:
3 — Extraordinary performance: Empties trash in all rooms and offers greetings and small talk to patients.
2 — Fully competent performance: Empties trash in all rooms and greets patients.
1 — Marginal performance: Empties most trash and ignores patients.
0 — Unsatisfactory performance: Does not perform task or performs less than 75%.
BARS are easy to use. The behavioral indicators make managers and employees aware of expectations.
BARS are objective. The evaluation process is defined and the same for every employee.
BARS are individualized. It promotes consistency within a company.
BARS are action-oriented. Standards of care are known, and staff know what they need to do to improve.
Leave a comment about what specific behavior using a BARS with your staff you would target to improve.
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It's not often that I share my personal feelings on the Blog or Social Media. For whatever reason, I feel the need.
I signed up for a business school professional development course. B-School by Marie Forleo to be precise. I've been following her work for about 4 or 5 years...maybe even longer. She's amazing and talented and someone who has created the life she wants to lead (in business and personally). Who doesn't want that?! So, I finally took the plunge and joined B-School.
Well, B-School hasn't even officially started yet. It drops Monday. But, I've been completing the bonus modules. It's amazing and I'm so excited about it but at the same time I have this uncomfortable feeling. I know part of it is fear, but it's more than that. I'm learning, have gotten clarity on a lot of my goals and generated new ideas from the content. So, what's the problem?
Honestly, I think it's what everyone goes through when they start something new. We're beginners and aren't used to being amateurs. After the number of years you spend in your field and becoming really skilled, or even an expert, starting from the beginning again is scary. And exciting! It makes you better in your industry because you now have more knowledge than you previously did. You're able to bring a new set of eyes or a different strategy than you had before.
Being an eternal student, I love learning. And hate it. No, I just love it. But always have the uncomfortable feelings creep in when it goes beyond the context of the field where I've spent more than half my life. Do I believe it? Is it a credible source?
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Kolkata: In a circular to all tea producers’ bodies, the Tea Board India
has notified that leaves which do not conform to the FSSAI
regulations will not be sold in auctions.
Tea Board’s controller of licensing Rajanigandha Seal Naskar
wrote in the circular dated May 25, 2022, that the agro-industry regulator received a letter this month from the chairman of the Federation of All India Tea Traders Associations (FAITTA) highlighting that teas purchased through auctions have failed to meet the parameters of Food Safety and Standards Act and Regulations. “All seller members are advised to ensure compliance level following FSSAI regulations before selling teas through auction,” the Tea Board
FAITTA has informed that they had engaged an agency named Eurofins Analytical Services India to test the teas purchased through auction sales and these tea samples were found to be “unfit for human consumption ”.
FAITTA, in its letter, urged that any tea sample that does not pass the test should be declared unsafe, should not be resold and must be destroyed following the provisions of the law. The traders’ body said its member buyers have sufficient data on samples tested, which reveal significant failure rates against some FSSAI parameters — mainly those relating to chemical maximum residue limits (MRL). “These tests are revealing failure rates ranging between 15-40%, which clearly cannot be used in blends, packaged or retailed,” it added.
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Carcharoth was created as a defence against Huan, and was reared by Morgoth's own hands on living flesh and filled with great power. So Carcharoth, who was also named Anfauglir (IPA: /anˈfaʊglir/), the 'Jaws of Thirst', grew to great size and his strength seemed beyond compare. His eyes burned like red coals and his teeth were poisoned as the spears of the Orcish legions. Carcharoth was the guardian of the gate of Angband and none could pass him by strength of body alone.
He became involved with the Quest for the Silmaril when Beren and Lúthien had to pass him upon their entrance of Angband. He there espied them, and grew suspicious of Beren because he was disguised as Draugluin, who Carcharoth knew to be slain. Before he could take action against the pair, Lúthien enchanted him with her magic, sending him into a deep sleep. Unfortunately, on their way out Carcharoth awoke, and Lúthien was too weary to spell him again. Beren held out the captured Silmaril in an attempt to slay the beast, but Carcharoth was not daunted, and bit off Beren's hand at the wrist, Silmaril and all.
The Silmaril burnt away Carcharoth's insides, and he became crazed with pain, yet filled with great power. A terror to Elves, Men and Orcs alike, he burst from Angband, slaying anything and everything in his path. He continued south through Beleriand, and eventually he arrived in Doriath. With the power of the Silmaril inside him, the Girdle of Melian had no effect on him, and his presence placed the entire kingdom in grave danger. To protect Doriath, Beren Erchamion, Elu Thingol, Beleg Cúthalion, and Mablung joined with Huan the Hound to track down and slay the Wolf.
Carcharoth was killed in single combat by Huan in FA 466, but both Huan and Beren were mortally wounded by the poison in Carcharoth's teeth. When Mablung cut open the wolf's belly, he found there the Silmaril with Beren's hand still closed around it, but when he touched the flesh it was swept away by a wind leaving only the great Jewel.
Behind the scenes
Other versions of the legendarium
Originally Carcharoth's name was Karkaras, meaning the Knife-Fang. Karkaras was considered a father of wolves and initially bore a shape of a huge grey wolf.
Another name for Carcharoth was Borosaith meaning Everhungry which was applied mostly in old songs.
|Foreign Language||Translated name|
|Chinese (Hong Kong)||卡黑洛斯|
|Kazakh||Карцһаротһ (Cyrillic) Karcharth (Latin)|
|Kyrgyz Cyrillic||Карцhаротh ?|
|Serbian||Карцхарот (Cyrillic) Karcharot (Latin)|
|Uzbek||Карчаротҳ (Cyrillic) Karcharoth (Latin)|
- Tolkien, J.R.R.. Beren and Lúthien (Kindle Location 763). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
- The Silmarillion, Quenta Silmarillion, Chapter XIX: "Of Beren and Lúthien"
- The History of Middle-earth, Vol. 2: The Book of Lost Tales Part Two, I: "The Tale of Tinúviel"
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“My household thought I used to be a slipshod child,” mentioned Blocker, 30, who grew up close to Jackson, Miss., the place he nonetheless lives. “I used to be very lively.”
Blocker mentioned that over time, medical doctors broke his bones and handled different orthopedic issues, together with scoliosis, Lateral curvature of the backbone. However none of them urged taking a more in-depth look, even after Blocker had a number of surgical procedures to interchange each hips in his twenties — an operation usually carried out on individuals a long time older.
The early and sudden failure of hip replacements satisfied Blocker that his skeletal issues had an ignored trigger. On the age of 24, whereas a graduate scholar in biomedical analysis, Blocker harnessed his abilities and educated them on himself. He spent a number of weeks digging by his medical data and navigating scientific websites earlier than he bought to the grime: a potential analysis that was later confirmed by genetic testing.
“It was a aid to have a solution,” mentioned Blocker, who works for an insurance coverage dealer. “However I at all times marvel, How did I miss this for therefore lengthy?”
The reply, which was later theorized by one among his medical doctors, might mirror the event of scientific data about his uncommon analysis, in addition to Blocker’s advanced medical historical past.
Blocker’s bones weren’t his solely downside.
“I had a whole lot of issues with my enamel rising up,” he mentioned. His molars, that are normally the biggest and strongest of his enamel, would inexplicably crack. By the point he graduated from highschool, seven enamel had been pulled out. Blocker additionally had a number of cavities, which his dentist attributed to “weakened enamel.” In highschool, two knowledge enamel had been eliminated and therapeutic was unusually gradual; The oral surgeon famous weak point within the jawbone however didn’t advocate additional examinations.
In his center age, Blocker developed recurring issues together with his proper shoulder. The primary time, is ousted whereas throwing the ball. One other dislocation occurred whereas he was asleep, though nobody might clarify how or why it occurred.
Throughout his last yr of highschool, Blocker needed to cope with a extra urgent downside. After a two-week hospitalization culminated in months of stomach ache throughout which his weight dropped to 100 kilos, Blocker, who’s 5-foot-10, was identified. Crohn’s illness. Power inflammatory bowel illness causes extreme diarrhea and weight reduction.
He was prescribed prednisone, an important remedy used to deal with Crohn’s illness. Blocker mentioned he took a comparatively low dose of a corticosteroid, which reduces irritation, for about eight weeks.
A yr later in January 2011 when the illness flared up, Blocker was hospitalized once more and had an stomach CT scan. The examination revealed a disturbing and sudden unintended discovering: osteoporotic hypoglycemia from each hips. The bone density scan additionally discovered that Blocker was extreme Osteoporosis.
Avascular necrosis happens when blood movement to the bone is reduce off, inflicting tissue to break down and die, threatening the integrity of the construction. Causes embrace long-term steroid use particularly at excessive doses, extreme alcohol consumption, fractures and a wide range of medical circumstances. Individuals with IBD might have a low capability To soak up calcium and vitamin D, which can have an effect on bone density and result in osteoporosis, a situation wherein bones develop into weak and brittle.
“My orthopedic physician informed me my thigh bones had been dying, and he mentioned it is likely to be associated to using prednisone,” Blocker recollects. However this sounded uncertain: He took the drug for about eight weeks and never at a excessive dose.
A yr later, after different remedies had failed and her hip joints started to break down, the hips had been changed in operations three months aside.
“I spent 2012 principally indoors,” mentioned Blocker, who was then a 20-year-old faculty scholar who took a yr off medical go away from Mississippi Faculty and got here residence. “It was very troublesome.”
Blocker mentioned that between 2012 and 2016, he broke his nostril and wrist once more in addition to a number of fingers. One evening in February 2016, Blocker was sitting on his mattress when he rotated to take one thing from the bedside desk. He instantly felt a lot ache in his hip that he was unable to maneuver. His spouse, Emily, known as a good friend who fastidiously pulled Blocker off the bed, carried him to the automobile, and drove him to a close-by emergency room.
Medical doctors identified a subluxation of the hip. Blocker was introduced residence on crutches and requested to see an orthopedist, who informed him his new hip had failed lower than 4 years later.
“I knew in my coronary heart that one thing wasn’t proper,” he recollects. “It did not make sense to me that these items would have failed after they had been presupposed to final 15+ years. I assumed, ‘I will attempt to see if nobody else will.'”
Blocker collected his medical data from medical doctors’ places of work and hospitals round Jackson and commenced digging.
Going again, discover that his degree Alkaline phosphatase (ALP), a element of a routine blood chemistry panel, has at all times been very low. ALP is an enzyme discovered primarily within the liver, bones, and gastrointestinal tract. Excessive ranges of ALP can point out most cancers, an issue with the liver or mononucleosis. Low ranges might point out zinc deficiency, malnutrition, or a uncommon genetic illness known as . Phosphate deficiency (HPP), which impacts about 1 in 100,000 individuals and causes bone and dental issues.
“I spotted I match all of the signs,” Blocker mentioned. “I had a second the place I felt clear. I assumed, ‘This might be it.’”
Phosphate deficiency It’s an inherited dysfunction brought on by mutations within the ALPL gene that disrupt mineralization, the first course of by which calcium and phosphorous are deposited in growing enamel and bones, making them sturdy and onerous. There are a number of types of the illness that differ within the age of onset. Essentially the most extreme type happens earlier than delivery, whereas the mildest impacts solely the enamel.
The sickness It’s significantly prevalent amongst Mennonites in Manitoba, a province in Canada, the place about 1 in 2,500 kids are born with extreme HPP, which is inherited in recessive trait METHODOLOGY: Two copies of the mutated gene, normally one from every father or mother, are required to trigger the illness. In such instances, the dad and mom could also be carriers and never present indicators of the illness. much less intense dominant genetic issue HPP varieties consequence from inheriting the faulty gene from a father or mother who might also have the illness.
Blocker took the articles he discovered to his household physician, who had by no means heard of HPP. He referred Blocker to a geneticist on the College of Mississippi, who noticed him in July 2017.
After reviewing Blocker’s medical historical past, together with his bow legs at delivery, a number of fractures, osteoporosis, and a historical past of hip alternative, the specialist ordered a genetic take a look at for HPP.
The outcomes confirmed Blocker’s speculation: he had the illness, inherited in an autosomal dominant sample. Blocker, who was raised by his maternal grandparents, mentioned he didn’t know which father or mother had handed the gene to.
“I used to be relieved,” he mentioned of the information that one thing apart from folly or misfortune was guilty. “It was good to be proper and never really feel such as you’re loopy and have a solution.”
Talk with an professional
It quickly grew to become obvious to Blocker and his medical doctors that he would wish specialised out-of-state care. The closest professional, 400 miles north of Jackson, was an endocrinologist Catherine Daher at Vanderbilt College Faculty of Medication in Nashville. Specializing in metabolic bone issues, Dahir treats sufferers and households affected by HPP from “cradle to grave.”
Blocker noticed Zaheer in early 2018 and spent two days in Vanderbilt present process testing and analysis on the Heart for Bone Biology. He’s amongst a small variety of about 100 HPP sufferers Zaheer has handled who’ve self-diagnosed.
“Aaron is a very sensible man – a very medical curiosity,” she mentioned.
Daher mentioned that one of many the reason why his situation was so troublesome to diagnose is that the much less extreme situation he was in – the start of the occasion – was solely just lately described. “Our understanding of the illness has actually advanced over the previous decade,” she mentioned.
And there could also be a medical cause why medical doctors do not monitor abnormally low ALP ranges from Blocker. Till pretty just lately, low ranges weren’t essentially thought-about clinically vital in distinction to excessive ranges and should not have been recognized. That has modified, she mentioned, and “it is a quantum leap ahead.”
A historical past of Crohn’s illness might also have performed a task. Though there is no such thing as a identified affiliation between HPP and Crohn’s, “it makes the analysis extra advanced,” Daher notes. “It’s actually onerous to have two issues that have an effect on you musculoskeletally. It’s onerous to see why.”
After a duel together with his medical health insurance firm, Blocker is accredited Strincik, The one drug accredited to deal with HPP. Blocker mentioned the drug, which he injects six occasions every week, prices his insurance coverage firm about $1.6 million a yr. The drug is designed to interchange alkaline phosphatase and to enhance bone well being.
“It has been very weak and there’s no different therapy obtainable,” mentioned Daher, who sees Blocker two or 3 times a yr. “He is superb, however he continues to have further surgical procedures.”
Whereas Crohn’s illness has been in remission for 5 years, his issues with HPP haven’t subsided.
To date this yr, he has had 4 surgical procedures on his elbows and enamel and has been informed he wants a knee alternative. After an incision in his elbow did not heal final month, Blocker was identified with MRSA an infection, his second in a yr. He receives highly effective intravenous antibiotics to deal with resistant bacterial infections.
Blocker tries to make sure that his virtually 4-year-old son advantages from his hard-earned data and expertise. “He’s being monitored and is now in good well being,” Blocker mentioned.
He stays skeptical that medical doctors did not counsel investigating the numerous causes of fractures, dental issues, and low ALP ranges, and that he – and never one among them – got here up with the analysis.
“You marvel the place the break is,” Blocker mentioned.
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Nappy Roots Books is so much more than just a bookstore. Owner Camille Landry opened the store about three years ago, and today it is a valuable resource to the community. So, when the store held a virtual silent action last week on Facebook the community rallied.
"We called it ‘A Taste Of Blackness’ and it was successful. We had some really wonderful performers who volunteered their time to help the bookstore,” Landry said. “We had wonderful food from a couple of community chefs including African food and Oklahoma City soul food and we also had a silent auction.”
So, the auction was successful, and the remaining items are available for outright sale on the bookstore's website.
Landry said now that we are on the downside of COVID, there are plenty of events scheduled for the bookstore.
"We’ve got some great stuff planned. We’re planning to break ground fairly soon on a community garden. That’s both going to address the fact that the northeast side is a terrible food desert you got to go miles to find fresh food," she said.
The community garden will serve multiple purposes. It will encourage young people to pursue careers in agriculture, as well as selling food to the local farmer’s market, with hopes of employing people from the community especially those that have been incarcerated.
In addition, they plan to resume the mentoring and tutoring programs and the college prep programs. But none of this would be possible without the community support.
"You can support our auction, you can buy some of the beautiful art, the incredible art and other kinds of gifts like Jabee Williams, one of our local stars, his album, other performers albums,” Landry said. “You can gift yourself and help Nappy Roots Books at the same time."
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When my mini lop had her first seizure, I was absolutely terrified.
It’s the worst feeling to see your rabbit-child suffer like that, so I began researching what rabbit seizures are, what causes them, and what to do about them when your rabbit has a seizure.
My goal was to be able to help my rabbit when she did have a seizure, ensure it wasn’t severe, and help her recover after.
I’ve since helped many other rabbit owners manage their rabbits when they have seizures and learn how to avoid rabbit seizures where possible.
Can Rabbits Have Seizures?
Yes, rabbits can have seizures. Like humans and other animals, a rabbit has a seizure when its brain enters a state of hyper-excitement.
The nerves in the rabbit’s brain fire all at once, causing a nerve overload.
Reasons for a rabbit having a seizure may include brain infection, trauma, genetics, or a brain tumor.
Treatment during and after the seizure will determine the rabbit’s chances of a full recovery.
What Is a Rabbit Seizure?
A rabbit seizure happens when there is an overload or hyper-excitement of the brain’s nerve tissue or neurons.
The brain reacts by sending out conflicting signals to the muscles throughout the body. The longer the seizure continues, the worse the after-effects will be.
Long-term side effects of a seizure (or several seizures) may include brain damage, heart failure, pulmonary complications, and nerve death throughout the body.
Rabbits that survive extreme seizures may have muscle weakness, uncoordinated movement, and be unable to manage basic tasks like eating, doing their business, or self-grooming.
The seriousness of the effects of a seizure may determine the rabbit’s life expectancy, and it may be necessary to have the rabbit euthanized if it is severe enough to affect its quality of life.
Major Causes of Seizures in Rabbits
There are several reasons why rabbits may have a seizure.
Metabolic Causes for Seizure
If your rabbit is on a diet that’s too high in sugars or even one that’s too low on healthy sugars, their blood sugar levels may spike dangerously.
As a result of your rabbit having low or excessively high blood sugar, they may have a seizure.
A diet that’s overloaded with too many pelletized foods, treats, and dense carbohydrates may prompt a sugar spike.
Take care to only feed your rabbit a healthy and balanced diet according to their body weight.
Ingestion of Something Toxic
Rabbits have a fast metabolism.
If they eat something that’s toxic such as mushrooms in your garden or nibbled on lead-based paint in your home, they can easily suffer toxic side effects.
Other food items like moldy food, foods rich in preservatives, and fertilizer or pesticide-contaminated foods may prove toxic to your rabbit and can prompt an allergic reaction.
Your rabbit may experience a sudden drop in blood pressure after eating these foods, leading to fainting and possibly a stroke.
A rabbit in this state of distress can easily have a seizure too.
Heart or Circulation Diseases
An overweight rabbit is likely to suffer heart complications and poor circulation.
The result of this is that the rabbit won’t have a good flow of nutrients, and they may experience a buildup of pressure in their arteries and blood vessels in the brain.
Soon, the rabbit may have a seizure when pressure is applied to the nerve tissue in the brain.
The seizure may turn into a stroke with permanent damage affecting brain function.
Some rabbits are unfortunate to be born with poor genetic makeup.
These rabbits may have a genetic predisposition to narrowed brain passages, poor neural networks, and heart defects, affecting blood circulation.
When combined, the rabbit may easily experience a stroke, seizure, or heart attack.
Trauma or External Factor
Rabbits are known for hopping about, but they may land awkwardly, hurting themselves.
An injury may result in a blood clot that can disrupt brain functioning, causing a seizure.
If the rabbit should fall or bump its head, it may also suffer brain trauma and a resulting seizure.
Illness and Infection
Like humans, rabbits can suffer seizures after a brain infection has occurred as a result of a bacterial infection.
Fever may contribute to this risk when the brain’s core temperature increases to the point of creating pressure on nerve tissue.
Lesions may also prompt seizures if present on the brain, brain stem, or spinal column. Lesions can be confirmed on a rabbit with an x-ray or exploratory surgery.
Signs Your Rabbit Is Having a Seizure
I never knew rabbits even get seizures before my rabbit had her first one. When it happened, I was utterly unprepared and didn’t know what it was I was seeing in her.
My rabbit was still doing mad binkies in the garden when she suddenly toppled over, began shaking, and twitched all over. Her little paws seemed to run in the air, and she looked so distressed.
A few minutes later, she seemed to recover. She managed to sit up, but her head was hanging at a crazy angle, and her face looked strange to me.
There was a little bit of creamy fluid dripping from her ear, and she dragged her feet when she tried to hop toward me.
A trip to the vet confirmed any fur parent’s worst fear: my rabbit had suffered a serious and long-term damaging seizure.
Here are some signs of seizure that many rabbits may exhibit.
Note the severity may differ for each rabbit, and your rabbit doesn’t need to have all of these signs for them to be having a seizure.
If you know your rabbit, you will know something is “off” and that will be your best cue.
Signs of Seizure in Rabbit
- Disorientation and brain fog
- Rushed breathing or gasping
- Loss of sight
- Poor hearing
- Head tilted to one side with an ear hanging limp
- Rolling on the ground
- Paws running in the air
- A discharge of cream-like fluid from the ear canal
- Loss of consciousness
- Over time, muscle weakness results
What to Do When Your Rabbit Is Having a Seizure
When you notice your rabbit is showing signs of a seizure, act quickly by following these steps:
1. Calm Yourself but Act Quickly
Seizures are short, but they can be severe, so you should act quickly.
Take a second to calm yourself as your rabbit won’t be okay with you shaking and weeping while holding them.
I find that a deep breath makes me shift into a “help-focused” mindset, which means I can set aside my emotions.
2. Restrain Your Rabbit
While most rabbit seizures only last a minute or two, you should still help protect your rabbit from external damage by restraining them.
I like to use a towel that I keep handy to burrito roll my bun.
With a nice plush layer wrapped around them, my rabbit feels safe and protected, and she can’t further injure herself.
3. Transport to the Vet
If your rabbit has their first seizure, it is important to get them to the vet as soon as possible for correct diagnosis and treatment.
The vet will take blood samples for tests to check for chemical markers that indicate the nature of the seizure.
Should your rabbit have suffered further complications like edema with the seizure, then the vet can possibly help them.
Work with your vet to determine a treatment plan to help manage your rabbit if they have future seizures.
Rabbit Seizures FAQs
How do I know if my rabbit is having a seizure?
There are several signs to look out for when your rabbit is having a seizure.
It can be scary the first time you see your rabbit having a seizure, and you may not know what is happening. Look for these signs and contact your vet for help.
- Uncontrolled rolling of the body
- Jerky padding of paws and arms (running in place)
- Head or ears hung to one side
- Pus discharged from the ear
- Lack of appetite and confused movements
Are seizures common in bunnies?
Seizures are not very common in rabbits.
Rabbits can suffer seizures following trauma, brain infection, the development of tumors, or because of a compromised immune system such as with dwarf breeds.
Can rabbits survive a seizure?
Most seizures may be light, and while scary, your rabbit will usually survive.
The problem is that your rabbit may have temporary or permanent damage as a result of the seizure.
If there is long-term damage, your rabbit’s quality of life may be reduced.
If the seizure is severe, your rabbit may die because of heart failure, stroke, or exhaustion.
When your rabbit has a seizure, it is important to get medical help for them as soon as possible.
Final Rabbit Seizure Thoughts
My rabbit will always be a high-risk case for seizures due to the damage already done to her brain tissue and the genetic structure that causes a spike in blood pressure when she gets too excited.
Now that I know, I can manage her excitement levels, and I can also help minimize risk factors with a good diet that’s low in sugars and carbohydrates that could further excite her.
Swift action in taking her for treatment when she has a severe seizure has saved her life numerous times.
With care, you can minimize the chances of your bun having a seizure.
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Yes, it’s real. When you hunch over a smartphone for hours at a time, texting, checking Facebook, writing e-mails, etc., you’re placing your body in an unnatural position. You might not notice it at first, but lots of people begin having neck pain and headaches that are the result of hours of looking down at the little screen.
We’re not getting rid of our smart devices anytime soon. They’ve become a regular feature of our lives and most people say they couldn’t live without them. But I take it as a good sign that tablets are losing popularity, with the exception of those that have the new detachable keyboards. This feature can help you spend less time hunching over. If you must use your smartphone for hours, take frequent breaks and straighten up. Raise your head, put your shoulders back and breathe deeply. Use the dictation feature if your phone has it. Long-term damage can come from “texting neck” but if you take some countermeasures this can be avoided. Since you’re probably reading this on a personal device, I’ll wrap it up! | <urn:uuid:46d36d0d-4167-4ae3-b8e5-3838b5229d61> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.chirosb.com/our-blog/category/all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932811 | 246 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Bitcoin hit lows in almost 1 year. In the partial of the month, the cryptocurrency accumulates a fall of about 15% and has already lost more than half of its value since reaching the historic mark of US$ 69 thousand in November last year.
This Tuesday (10), bitcoin fell below $ 30,000, reaching $ 29,764, in its sixth consecutive session low. The value represents a loss of 57% of the value in comparison with its historical record.
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The quotes of digital currencies have by nature a very intense variation of quotes. And other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum, Benence and Solana have also lost value in recent weeks.
But what explains Bitcoin’s sharp drop now?
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Falling riskier assets
The price of cryptocurrencies has followed the fall of riskier assets, such as shares and shares of technology companies.
Riskier and equity investments are being affected by the prospect of persistent inflation in the United Stateswhich puts pressure on the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates more aggressively.
The Federal Reserve (Fed, the US central bank) raised the basic interest rate to the range between 0.75% and 1% – the highest high in 22 years and the expectation is that further increases will be made in the coming months.
Higher interest rates in the US make investments in US treasuries more profitable, which reduces the demand for riskier assets and encourages the migration of capital to assets considered safer.
The dollar itself has gained strength against other currencies. And with the strengthening of the currency, cryptocurrencies also tend to weaken.
The trend also affects the bonds of technology companies, whose performance benefited from low-interest monetary policies during the pandemic. The Nasdaq index, which brings together companies in the sector, fell 1.5% last week and lost 22% year-to-date.
Cryptoassets lose $800 billion in market value in 1 month
According to data site CoinMarketCap, cryptocurrencies lost nearly $800 billion in market value last month. The total cryptocurrency market cap was at $2.2 trillion on April 2. In November last year, it reached a historic peak of US$ 2.9 trillion, highlights the Reuters agency.
“Bitcoin remains highly correlated with broader economic conditions, which suggests that the way forward could unfortunately be difficult, at least for now,” said blockchain data provider Glassnode.
Low liquidity and signs of weakness in stablecoins
In an interview with Reuters, Matt Dibb, chief operating officer of cryptocurrency platform Stack Funds, pointed to other factors for the weekend’s decline:
- low liquidity of the cryptocurrency market
- signs of weakness in stablecoins (digital currencies often backed by traditional money and other assets)
Terra USD (UST), the world’s fourth-largest stablecoin, lost a third of its value on Tuesday as it lost its peg to the dollar.
UST is closely watched by the digital currency community, both because of the new way it maintains its 1:1 peg to the dollar, and because its creators have set plans to build a $10 billion reserve of bitcoins to support the UST. stablecoin. This means that volatility on the UST could potentially spill over into bitcoin markets.
Where can the price go?
With the volatility of crypto-assets, it is difficult to project what will be the evolution of bitcoin. In 2021, the cryptocurrency temporarily hovered below $30,000 in June and July, before picking up steam again and hitting an all-time high in November at $69,000.
An indication of the sector’s importance: in recent years, two countries, El Salvador and the Central African Republic, have adopted this currency as their official currency, despite criticism from international financial organizations. Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced that the country took advantage of the devaluation to buy more cryptocurrencies, adding 500 units to its fund.
Parallel to this, large investors and institutional investors, afraid of being left behind, have also incorporated cryptocurrencies into their portfolios.
Since its inception in 2009, however, bitcoin has developed in a context of very low interest rates. Now, the US Central Bank has warned of future hikes in the basic interest rate to contain inflation.
Why does the price vary so much?
What makes bitcoin so volatile is the search for its fair market value, as there is no backing or regulation by central banks. Transactions are recorded using blockchain technology, which records all amounts transferred, who transferred to whom and how much.
If, on the one hand, there is no authority that dictates rules to the market or another currency that references its price, there is also no protection for equity. Security is based on technology and market acceptance. It therefore falls into the high risk investment category.
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The Answer: Part I
The answer to this question comes in two parts. First, why do we get stuck on a certain square in our life, unable to get going? Inevitably we get stuck because we don't accept where we are in the here and now. Think about it.
If you don't like certain aspects of your life situation very much, what happens when you think about your life? You either get a deep sense of dissatisfaction when you ponder what you don't like or you try to avoid thinking about those unfavorable aspects. Both dislike and avoidance will keep you stuck in the same life situation forever because both are negative emotions that don't possess a high enough vibration to attract what you really want in life.
If you stop to really think about it, when you hate where you stand in life, you are fighting a war with yourself. One part of you understands where you stand. The other part hates where you stand. Until you can bring the two together-that is, until you can stop fighting your internal war-you can't move off your square. So how do you stop the war?
The Answer: Part II
That brings us to the second part of the answer, which is simple. If you want to stop the war and get off your square, simply accept where you are here and now. Look at your life situation, warts and all, and accept that this is where you stand at this moment in time and space. Don't judge it, don't fight it, just accept it.
Now why is this so difficult to do? Acceptance of a less-than-desirable life situation is difficult because we live in a progress-oriented society. We are taught to keep moving forward and always keep our eyes on our dream. But unfortunately we can't ever reach our dreams unless we first acknowledge the starting line, the place where we currently stand. The journey to our dreams is a path from here and now to there and then. To start the journey, we have to accept where we stand today. Until we feel comfortable with our current life situation, we will always be fighting an internal battle with a script that keeps saying something like, "You should be further along in life by now."
Practice Enjoying the Here and Now
So stop the tape and practice accepting your life as it is today. In fact, go even further and practice enjoying your life. Realize that your "responsibility" in life is not to reach your goals today. Today your primary responsibility is to accept where you are.
Note that acceptance is different from tolerance. Tolerance means bearing your life but not liking it. Acceptance means seeing and not disliking any part of your life, even enjoying every part of your life.
Sound too difficult? Then just start with a single aspect of your life that you either avoid or dislike. Try to see it with new eyes. Find something good about it, anything. Tomorrow, find something else good or at least neutral about it. Keep going until that part of your life becomes acceptable. Then find another aspect of your life and start over again. Enjoy the journey and you will find yourself at your destination sooner than you know.
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Genghis Khan died in 1227, but even today no account of Central Asia can ignore him. Ten modern states sprang from his empire. All of them figure in this magisterial and gorgeous book, the fourth and final volume of Christoph Baumer’s The History of Central Asia.
Subtitled ‘The Age of Decline and Revival’, this survey of the last five hundred years begins with the ‘Descendants of the Genghis Khanids’. Genghis’s first-born, Jochi, fathered three dynasties, one of which, the Arabshahids, ruled over parts of what is today Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan until 1804. In Crimea, numerous Genghisid khans lasted until Russia’s conquest of the region in 1783. The family’s spirit lives on. During a recent visit to Uzbekistan, I was assured that mothers still scold their children, ‘Do as you’re told or Jochi will get you.’ In Kazakhstan, I was given a book tracking Genghis’s descendants over thirty-four generations down to the present.
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What are the benefits of family chiropractic care?
Did you know that chiropractic adjustments are performed 1,000,000 times per day? Alternatives to traditional healthcare can include chiropractic. This holistic approach to health and wellness has been used for hundreds of years. Let's look at some of the many benefits of family chiropractic.
Chiropractic can be used by all ages
Chiropractic care is gentle and safe for everyone in the family. This applies to all ages, including infants, children, seniors, and adults. Spine misalignments can affect children and infants just as they can adults. These spinal misalignments can cause many health problems including pain, discomfort, stress, anxiety, death, and even death, for both children and adults. Gentle adjustments can be performed by a licensed chiropractor that is specific for each member of the family. These adjustments can correct any spinal misalignments and help your family reach their full health and well-being potential.
Your Nervous System Can Be Enhanced
Your central nervous system controls all of your body's functions. Your central nervous system gives your body instructions on what to do and when. Your nervous system's health is directly affected by how your spine and brain function. If your nervous system isn't functioning well, it could be affected by issues in brain-to-body communication. This could lead to your body not functioning properly. A licensed chiropractor can correct any misalignments in the spine. A properly aligned spine allows the brain to communicate effectively with it, which will allow it to work as it was designed. The central nervous system can be improved by regular exercise, healthy eating habits and regular adjustments.
Enhance your posture
It is alarming to see how much time we spend sat down in the digital age. While you might be working between 9-5, your children could spend hours on the computer. Sedentary living can put your spine at risk. Bad posture can cause spinal misalignments, which can negatively affect the structure of your spine. Slouching and excessive weight can also cause damage to the spine, shoulders and joints. A chiropractor can help you align your body in a safe and gentle way. This will improve your posture, and reduce pain in your family.
Are you and your family getting enough sleep each night? Negative answers can lead to other health issues such as poor focus, obesity, diabetes and heart attack.
According sleep experts, each age group should get the exact same amount of sleep every night:
Babies require 12 to 15 hours sleep
School-aged children need 9 to 11 hours
Adults require 7 to 9 hours sleep per night
Adults older than 60 need 7 to 8 hours sleep
It can be difficult for your body to function properly if you are experiencing pain, discomfort, or other symptoms. Chiropractic care can help reduce or eliminate your health problems.
Affordable Health Care
It is your family's most important priority when it comes to their health. Chiropractic care is more holistic than traditional healthcare and costs less. Chiropractic uses a holistic approach to treat the root causes of patients’ problems. Chiropractic can alleviate pain and discomfort. Chiropractic can be a long-term investment in your family's health and well-being. This is a different approach to traditional care, which focuses on treating symptoms with expensive drugs and invasive procedures that may or not always work. Chiropractic care can be a wise investment and provide long-lasting wellness and health for you and your family.
Chiropractic care is beneficial for all ages, including the children. This treatment is beneficial for the whole family, so make sure you ask your doctor.
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From another point of view, however, [the power of philosophy to change the world] is not ominous—it can even be regarded as encouraging. For it means that if a good philosopher arises who answers and philosophically destroys [a pernicious philosopher like Kant], that will turn the reign of the evil and save the world. And such a philosopher has arisen in our time—in my judgment, at least, and I am sure in most of yours. I am speaking, of course, of Ayn Rand.
On the basis of the theory of history I have put forth today, therefore, it is proper to have hope for the future. I do think that Objectivism will triumph ultimately and shape the world’s course, and that today’s culture will be remember in the end only for what it is—which I refrain from saying.
So Objectivism will “ultimately” triumph! Here we find the primary raison d’être of Rand’s philosophy of history. “It took decades of collectivist philosophy to bring this country to its present state,” Rand wrote to a correspondent in March of 1962. “And it is only the right philosophy that can save us. Ideas take time to spread, but we will only have to wait decades—because reason and reality are on our side.”
This optimistic prognosis was made over four decades ago, and still Objectivism has made little if any progress towards its “ultimate” triumph. Indeed, if by Objectivism we mean the purest, orthodox brand of that philosophy, we would have to admit that it has regressed since 1962, thanks to two major schisms in the movement, one involving Rand and her leading disciple Nathaniel Branden, the other involving Rand’s intellectual heir Leonard Peikoff and the movements most promising and effective advocate, David Kelley.
Since Rand’s 1962 prognosis has turned out to be so palpably wrong, how much faith should we place in Peikoff’s suggestion of an “ultimate” triumph? Given the intellectual foundation that these Objectivist hopes are based on, no faith should be placed in them. The Objectivist hope for an “ultimate” triumph is on the same level as the Marxist’s hope of for the eventual triumph of the communist paradise or the Christian’s hope for the rapture. It is an extra-empirical hope, without basis in fact, science or even good sense. It completely ignores what actually motivates human beings, substituting instead an entirely baseless schema of motivations based on abstruse metaphysical and epistemological notions that hardly anyone understands or cares for. Worst of all, it is a species of conceit so gross and intense that it boggles the mind: for it suggests that Rand and her disciples, simply by wagging their tongues and jiggling their pens, can “turn the reign of evil and save the world.” Under this notion of history, ideas become a kind of talisman or power. “In the beginning was the Word,” begins the Platonist gospel of John. Rand’s philosophy of history is merely a kind of secularist riff on this mystical theme.
Should this mystical, Platonist detour surprise us? Not at all. For that is the tradition of philsophy that Rand harkens from: the Platonic-Aristotelean tradition of metaphysics and wishful thinking, rather than the tradition of the Greek Naturalists, modern science and the critical empiricism of Hume and Popper. | <urn:uuid:be61b5d0-86f2-4234-97e8-f29a5e96c63b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aynrandcontrahumannature.blogspot.com/2008/10/objectivism-history-part-10.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943347 | 742 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Day 16 - Why should we lift heavy things?
How about so you can be stronger and more resilient?
Or develop greater bone density?
Improve your insulin sensitivity?
Or maybe you just like the way that it makes you feel?
And if none of those really call out to you, how about living longer?
That was the conclusion from a paper published in June 2014 in the American Journal of Medicine. The title of the paper was “Muscle Mass Index as a Predictor of Longevity in Older Adults.”
Let’s go back to Paleo us.
We either stayed in shape or we died or got left behind. I know it sounds harsh but that was the reality.
We didn’t have to worry about going to the gym, everyday life had enough weight-bearing activity to keep us in shape.
For most of us, our day-to-day life doesn’t require a tremendous amount of exertion. So, if we’re going to stay in shape, we’ve got to build weight-bearing activity into our schedules.
The approaches that I’m suggesting are not for someone who wants to be on the cover of Muscle and Fitness Magazine. Nothing wrong with having that as a goal, but my approach to fitness is not geared for that result. My goal is to help you get and stay healthy with a modest amount of time invested.
There are multiple ways to approach this, depending on your starting point and your motivation.
Here are three options:
There’s something called the Primal Essential Movements.
It’s pushups, pullups (or chin-ups), squats, and planks. I’ve included a sheet that shows each movement with adaptations to make them easier or harder depending on your starting point.
And for some additional variety, there’s the 7-minute workout.
It can be found on the smartphone app called 7MWC and it’s great. 7 minutes from beginning to end. It’s a series of body weight exercises with 30 seconds of exercise and 10 seconds of rest.
Jumping jacks, wall sits, pushups, ab crunches, chair triceps dips, high knees running in place, squats, chair step ups, lunges, pushups with rotation, and planks.
It’s a great workout and all within 7 minutes!
A more intense and involved form of exercise can be found in Dr. Doug McGuff and John Little’s book, Body by Science.
Their approach is not for everyone, but it will truly help your body liberate fat to be burned and increase strength and stamina.
They use a protocol that does an orderly recruitment of slow, intermediate and fast twitch muscle fibers and you perform a series of exercises that take those muscles to failure.
Now that doesn’t mean that you drop a barbell on your head.
They recommend using Nautilus, MedX, Hammer Strength or Southern Xercise Inc machines if those are available.
But the goal of taking the muscles to failure is to completely deplete the glycogen that’s stored in those muscles. This helps with the production of hormone-sensitive lipase and with improved insulin sensitivity. Again—you’ll burn body fat and increase strength and stamina.
Just be warned that the authors go into a fair amount of detail about “glycogenolysis” and the “Krebs cycle” and if that floats your boat, great.
I was glad that they had the science to back up their recommendation, but the part that really interested me was that you can get in good shape with a modest amount of time in the gym.
They’re talking as little as 12 minutes 1 day a week. I think that’s a little optimistic, but most of my sessions are only about 20-30 minutes and that includes some additional ab exercises that I do and some post-workout stretches.
Their basic workout is 5 exercises:
You’re going to select a weight that allows you to perform the exercise anywhere from 45-90 seconds with an upper end of 2 minutes.
The reasoning behind this is to make sure that all of the muscle fiber types are recruited in a sequential fashion and fatigued.
You perform the exercise as slowly as possible as long as you’re not stuttering the weight.
This could be a count of 10 to raise the weight and a count of 10 to lower it. The slow movement means that it’s all muscle and that you’re not using momentum to help move the weight.
You’ll want to record your time under load for each exercise.
Now, what happens if you don’t take the muscle to complete failure? You don’t lose your place in line or have to stay after school. It just means that you’re not recruiting your fast twitch muscle fibers that have the largest stores of glycogen. You’re still getting stronger and you’re still moving forward.
I’ve tried to include a variety of options, but in reality, the options are limitless.
The secret is to do something.
Don’t be intimidated and don’t feel like you have to prove anything to anybody.
This is about finding a program that works for you.
That’s why this is called A Balanced You. It’s finding something that fits your goals and your ambitions.
Today is going to be a recharge day and if you’re up for it we’ll try to do some type of sprint tomorrow, either with some stairs, elliptical, rower, etc, so today we’re going to do yoga for 15-20 minutes, meditate for 10 minutes, really dial in your food and make sure that you get your ZZZS. | <urn:uuid:2af2a821-e487-40c2-9f57-ff599c9393a8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abalancedyou.com/21days/day16/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952315 | 1,246 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Women and men who aren't getting results through diet and exercise. The best candidates are normal-weight people with firm, elastic skin who have pockets of excess fat in certain areas.
Liposuction, also known as lipoplasty or suction lipectomy, is a procedure that sculpts the body by removing unwanted fat from specific areas, such as the abdomen, hips, buttocks, thighs, knees, upper arms, chin, and neck. While liposuction can improve contour related to fatty deposits, it does not improve muscle or skin tone. Expectations and goals should be addressed during your consultation. Sometimes abdominoplasty or another procedure may be more effective in achieving your goals.
It is important to have realistic expectations about what the procedure can achieve.
Patients wear compressive garments to minimize swelling, improve comfort, and optimize skin retraction. Prescription medications are used during this time to relieve minor surgical pain. Patients are generally back to work in less than a week. More vigorous activity can be resumed in 2 to 3 weeks.
An improvement in proportions and contour is the usual result following liposuction. Most patients find that clothing fits better and that there is improved self-esteem and self-confidence.
The re-contoured body can still gain weight but usually in more normal proportions.
Liposuction is a very common surgery and most patients are exceptionally happy with the appearance and change in proportions and in how clothing fits. However, no surgery is without potential risks. The majority of these are minor and can be reviewed on the link below.
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For those coming into increasing contact with Washington State’s lakes as they warm up throughout the summer, being aware of harmful algae blooms could save the life of their pet and prevent exposure to themselves. Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, typically grows in lakes, rivers, ponds, estuaries and marine water, according to the Washington State Department of Health, but not all blooms are toxic. Blooms tend to be found on shorelines.
“There have been increases in the number of cyanobacteria blooms and duration, in general. A cool, wet spring should hopefully help this year, but we will see how it goes. After the heat wave last weekend, the number of lakes blooming went up from about four to 16,” Lizbeth Seebacher, Washington Department of Ecology Wetland & Aquatic Ecologist wrote in an email to The Bellingham Herald.
Harmful algae blooms produce toxins that can poison humans, pets and wildlife, according to the Washington State Lake Protection Association. They commonly begin to occur near the start of summer and continue until the autumn. For the most recent toxicity information, the Washington State Toxic Algae website worked with the Washington Department of Ecology to create a live, interactive map of lakes that have been tested for toxic algae and their safety levels.
In Whatcom County, the Washington State Toxic Algae interactive map has no data on algae levels in the past few months, but both Lake Padden and Wiser Lake have had toxins present in past years, according to previous reporting from The Bellingham Herald.
If your pet comes into contact with the toxic algae, the effects could be severe or even fatal, and drinking water that is contaminated has been known to kill pets.
When visiting a lake or other body of water, be on the lookout for any yellow or red warning signs that will inform visitors of toxic algae and closures as well as algae blooms. Blue-green algae typically look like green paint floating on top of the water, but its color can also look blue, brown or reddish-green. Algae can also look like colored scum, foam or streaks along the surface of the water.
How toxic algae affects humans and pets
Toxic algae blooms can be extremely dangerous to both humans and pets by producing nerve and liver toxins.
Nerve toxins, or nerve poisoning can cause people to experience dizziness, tingling in fingers and toes and numbness of lips. A skin rash is also a possible symptom. In animals, nerve toxins cause weakness, difficulty breathing, staggering, convulsions and death. Signs of nerve poisoning typically occur within 15 to 20 minutes after ingesting algae or being in contact.
Liver toxins, also known as hepatotoxin or liver poisoning can cause both people and animals to experience vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea or even kill animals. Signs of liver poisoning take longer to appear than nerve poisoning, taking hours or even days before any side effects begin.
How to know if algae are toxic
There are a few signs that an algae bloom is toxic, according to the Washington State Department of Health:
▪ Dead fish or animals near the algae bloom.
▪ Skin rashes on humans after swimming in the water.
▪ Sudden sickness or death of a dog or cat, especially if algae can be seen on its legs, feet or mouth.
What to do if you see algae
Protecting yourself, your family and your pets from algae is extremely important. If you see algae blooming, here’s what to do:
▪ When you are not sure if an algae bloom is toxic or not, stay away from the bloom and out of the water.
▪ Contact your local health department to report the algae so that the lake can be tested. To find your local health department, visit the Washington State Toxic Algae website for a complete contact list by county. Whatcom County’s Department of Health can be contacted by calling Tom Kunesh at 360-676-6724, or by emailing firstname.lastname@example.org.
If your pet comes into contact with algae
If your dog or other animals swim in contaminated water, drink water or even touch algae, the next steps you take could save their lives, according to the Washington State Department of Health.
If your pet goes into contaminated water, rinse them with clean water immediately, do not let them lick their fur and rinse your own hands and exposed skin.
Citizens are also asked to report animal poisonings to their local health department.
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Objectives Abdominal obesity (AO) has become a public health issue due to its impact on health, society and the economy. The relationship between socioeconomic disparities and the prevalence of AO has yet to be studied in Peru. Thus, our aim was to analyze the socioeconomic inequalities in AO distribution defined using the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) cutoff points in Peruvian adults in 2018-2019. Methods This was a cross-sectional study using data from the 2018-2019 Demographic and Family Health Survey (ENDES) of Peru. We analyzed a representative sample of 62,138 adults over 18 years of age of both sexes from urban and rural areas. Subjects were grouped into quintiles of the wealth to calculate a concentration curve and the Erreygers Concentration Index (ECI) in order to measure the inequality of AO distribution. Finally, we performed a decomposition analysis to evaluate the major determinants of inequalities. Results The prevalence of AO among Peruvian adults was 73.8%, being higher among women than men (85.1% and 61.1% respectively, p < 0.001). Socioeconomic inequality in AO was more prominent among men (ECI = 0.342, standard error (SE) = 0.0065 vs. ECI = 0.082, SE = 0.0043). The factors that contributed most to inequality in the prevalence of AO for both sexes were having the highest wealth index (men 37.2%, women 45.6%, p < 0.001), a higher education (men 34.4%, women 41.4%, p < 0.001) and living in an urban setting (men 22.0%, women 57.5%, p < 0.001). Conclusions In Peru the wealthy concentrate a greater percentage of AO. The inequality gap is greater among men, although AO is more prevalent among women. The variables that most contributed to inequality were the wealth index, educational level and area of residence. There is a need for effective individual and community interventions to reduce these inequalities. | <urn:uuid:2dd7fe56-8046-4915-837f-633ea0eb2488> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cris.cientifica.edu.pe/en/publications/socioeconomic-inequalities-in-abdominal-obesity-among-peruvian-ad | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950063 | 423 | 2.09375 | 2 |
There might be a good reason not to fill that gap!
Some products don’t exist because they have safety issues. They might be constrained by safety standards or even be banned from sale.
Is your business idea at risk?
You’ve been thinking for a while about starting your own business. Selling goods online is something you could do. You’ve become aware of something you’d like to see on the market. And nobody is making it ….. but, beware the gap in the market.
Product safety regulations might be the reason
Do some homework
You just need to do some homework to find out what products are subject to standards and bans. Here’s some examples of products that are not on the market because they’re unsafe, for reasons that may not be apparent:
- Long cotton nighties in children’s sizes 00-14. Why? (too flammable)
- Babies’ cots with ornate corner posts. Why? (strangulation risk)
- Toys and other playthings that have exposed magnets. Why? (severe ingestion hazard)
- Sky lanterns. Why? (fire hazard)
- Bunk beds without guard rails on all sides (even if they’re to go against a wall). Why? (strangulation risk with a child slipping between the wall and the upper bed)
These aren’t necessarily hazards you would think of. Sometimes, it’s only after injuries have occurred that the hazards are discovered. Once a hazard has been identified, suppliers and governments can then address the risks by changing the design. Or sometimes, if the risk is too high, just stopping the supply altogether.
Some crazy ideas
With some other sorts of products the hazards might seem a bit more obvious to you. But somebody thought they were a cute idea and went ahead and sold them. Things like:
- Babies’ dummies and dummy chains with beads attached – an obvious choking hazard
- Cigarette lighters that are designed to look like toys – attractive to young kids, so a fire hazard
- Inflatable shoes for walking on water – known as ‘Jesus Boots’ – seemed like fun but once you fell your feet were buoyant but the rest of you wasn’t – so, a drowning hazard
- ‘Diveman’ underwater breathing equipment. This was designed so air was drawn down from the surface by the diver’s leg motion; all very well until the diver’s foot got stuck on something – another drowning hazard
You won’t find these last two on the current bans list. They used to be there and now, thankfully, after the products’ brief appearance on the market in the 1980s, the bans are no longer needed.
Avoiding the gap
You can avoid these rookie mistakes. See our blog on product safety regulations in Australia.
So, if my product is not on the bans and standards list, it’s OK?
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Otters at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta had signs of a cold - sneezing, coughing, runny noses - and it turns out it was Covid-19. Apparently the Asian small-clawed otters caught the. Its Asian small-clawed otters have tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, the Georgia Aquarium announced. The geriatric otters showed mild symptoms: sneezing, runny noses. The otters at an aquarium in Atlanta have tested positive for COVID-19
Preparing Your Aquarium For Covid 19 Isolation Preparing your aquarium for COVID-19 isolation. a16d68fe-8c50-4b8a-bbbb-d6303f08a200 Editor's Picks. Fishkeeping News Post Fishkeeping gets caught-up in the middle of a 16 year aviation row between the EU and USA 19 November 2020. The Aquarium Air Pump market research report comprises in-depth information of the entire market as well as the industry and its functioning. The report comprises of industry analysis, market size & share, forecast analysis, market drivers, market opportunities market restraints, region analysis, growth analysis, latest trends and covid-19 impact analysis ATLANTA, Ga. - Multiple otters tested positive for COVID-19 at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta after showing symptoms, the aquarium reported Sunday. Officials said the otters started showing.
The Aquarium will reopen at an undecided date, based upon the COVID-19 situation. There is no question that this is a time of great uncertainty. While we don't know exactly what the future may hold, we feel confident that by sticking together and supporting each other, we, as a community, will emerge from this stronger than before masslive.com - A group of otters at the Georgia Aquarium tested positive for coronavirus and are expected to recover, with officials continuing to repeat that the A mix of federal COVID aid, private philanthropy, debt forgiveness, a state loan and the sale of unused property will allow the aquarium to eliminate $14.5 million in debt and save $1.5 million in. As a nonprofit organization, the Oklahoma Aquarium values community support, particularly during uncertain times like the COVID-19 outbreak. If you are able to do so, we ask that you consider making a donation to the Oklahoma Aquarium. We are grateful that our staff, volunteers, and animals are all healthy, but we welcome any assistance for our unexpected emergency costs Two staff members at Toronto's Ripley's Aquarium tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week, prompting the local attraction to close part of its facility for deep cleaning
COVID Procedures:In order to maintain to keep within CDC, DOH, and NYS guidelines, please note the following policies before your next exploration with VIA Aquarium. As this situation continues to evolve, so will our policies and procedures. We are working to do our best to maintain safety guidelines and provide an entertaining and educational experience to our guests Coronavirus: Otters at Georgia aquarium test positive. April 18, 2021 at 3:49 pm EDT By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk. ATLANTA — Asian small-clawed otters at the Georgia Aquarium have tested positive for the coronavirus, aquarium officials said on Sunday
L'Aquarium Barcelona. Para minimizar los riesgos de infección por COVID-19, en L'Aquàrium de Barcelona, hemos establecido una serie de medidas y procedimientos que se irán actualizando en nuestra web según la evolución de la situación y las directrices marcadas por las autoridades Track COVID-19 local and global coronavirus cases with active, recoveries and death rate on the map, with daily news and video The Aquarium is cleaned, and all guest areas sanitized every day with hospital grade disinfectant. Our staff continues to clean high touch areas throughout operating hours as well. High contact areas of the Aquarium, such as railings, elevator buttons, etc., are covered in a copper-infused film that reduces the transmission of viruses
VANCOUVER -- The Vancouver Aquarium has been sold to U.S.-based tourism and entertainment company Herschend Enterprises. The popular local attraction has been shuttered for most of the pandemic. wsbtv.com - The Georgia Aquarium said Sunday that some of their otters have tested positive for the virus that causes COVID-19.The Asian small-clawed otters have Covid-19 guidance for zoos and aquariums. We are making these resources available to all, for the benefit of all zoos and aquariums. Zoos and aquariums can best achieve their goals through cooperation and BIAZA facilitates the bringing together of the best organisations within Britain and Ireland Motels near Aquarium de Biarritz, Biarritz on Tripadvisor: Find traveler reviews, 11,010 candid photos, and prices for motels near Aquarium de Biarritz in Biarritz, France Resorts near Aquarium de Biarritz, Biarritz on Tripadvisor: Find traveler reviews, 10,993 candid photos, and prices for resorts near Aquarium de Biarritz in Biarritz, France
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The United States Supreme Court’s decision in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. (June 21, 2018) freed states to impose a sales tax collection requirement on sellers with no physical presence in the state. It’s had an enormous impact on interstate sellers of everything from books to boats. But how does it affect direct-to-consumer (DTC) shippers of beer, wine, and spirits?
Direct-to-consumer alcohol sales has increased by as much as 27% during the pandemic, according to market data from Nielsen. But are these sellers ready for the sales tax hangover?
What is economic nexus?
Prior to the Wayfair decision, states couldn’t require a business to register with the tax authority then collect and remit sales tax unless the business had a physical presence in the state.
Wayfair overruled that physical presence rule, enabling states to base a sales tax collection obligation entirely on a remote seller’s economic activity in the state, or economic nexus. In the wake of the decision, 43 states and Washington, D.C. adopted economic nexus; and these new laws have created numerous new collection requirements for thousands of businesses.
The burden of compliance starts as soon as a business starts making sales in an economic nexus state, because it’s necessary to determine whether economic nexus has been established. All states except Kansas provide an exception for companies selling beneath a certain sales threshold (the economic nexus threshold), and all states have unique economic nexus thresholds. For example:
- In New York, it’s $500,000 in sales and 100 transactions in the previous four sales tax quarters
- In South Dakota, it’s $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions in the current or previous calendar year
- In Texas, it’s $500,000 in sales in the previous 12 months
- In Washington, it’s $100,000 in sales in the current or previous calendar year
Making matters more complex, each state’s threshold includes different sales: Some include taxable and exempt services, some only taxable services, and some exclude all services. Some include digital goods, some exclude sales for resale, and so on. For online sellers with customers nationwide, sales tax compliance became a great deal more complicated after Wayfair and subsequent economic nexus laws.
Have these laws also created new registration and collection obligations for DTC shippers of beer, wine, and spirits?
The not-so-voluntary voluntary registration
In many states, the Wayfair ruling didn’t significantly affect DTC shippers because most states already obligated out-of-state sellers to register and comply with sales and excise tax requirements.
To be clear, states couldn’t require out-of-state DTC shippers to register. However, they could prevent DTC shippers from selling directly to consumers in the state unless sellers first registered to collect and remit applicable sales and excise taxes. So, that’s what the states did. Nuance.
Americans have a complicated relationship with alcohol. We happily quaffed buckets of it until prohibiting the manufacture, sale, and transport of alcohol in 1919. After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, alcohol sales continued to be heavily regulated in all states. More states than not still ban DTC shipments of beer and spirits, and lots of states banned out-of-state DTC wine shipments until not so long ago.
In May 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled states could not prevent DTC shipments by out-of-state wine producers if they allowed DTC shipments from in-state wine producers (Granholm v. Heald). The decision was a catalyst for sweeping change. Today, out-of-state DTC wine shipments are fully prohibited in only Alabama, Mississippi, and Utah — and even these holdouts are slowly moving toward more lenient policies.
But entry into the market came with a cost: States required out-of-state DTC wine shippers to register with the state tax department and comply with applicable sales and excise tax laws. In fact, Alcohol Beverage Control (ABC) boards in many states will issue a license to out-of-state DTC shippers only if it can provide proof of registration with the tax department.
For the most part, states with these registration requirements for DTC shippers aren’t also enforcing economic nexus. They don’t have to. Yet there are exceptions. For example:
- Louisiana is enforcing economic nexus for local sales tax
- Wyoming changed sales tax rules for remote sellers in the wake of Wayfair
4+ states where economic nexus affects DTC shippers
Economic nexus laws also impact DTC shippers in the handful of states that have economic nexus but no registration requirement for out-of-state DTC shippers: Colorado, Iowa, Minnesota, Washington, D.C.*, and Wyoming.
DTC shippers are required to register then collect and remit applicable sales taxes in these states if they cross the economic nexus threshold. State-specific threshold information can be found in this state-by-state guide to economic nexus laws.
Need help with DTC compliance challenges in Colorado, D.C., Iowa, Minnesota, Wyoming, or any other state? Avalara for Beverage Alcohol can help with licensing, product registrations, returns, and tax calculation. Contact us for more information.
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If you’re using the place tracking feature to keep an eye on your kid ‘s or spouse’s activities, it is a good idea to combine it with data from other sources. For your Android users, there’s a "Locate my Device" by Google’s ADM that is has been activated on new mobile phones. By way of example, if you’re afraid that your spouse may be having an event, it is also possible to check their messages and social networking accounts through Spyic. If your Android cellphone is outdated, you may just visit Google Play Store to download ADM.
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All you need to do is sign in with all the credentials and there’ll be a dashboard that shows you in which the telephone is along with other choices to help the process as well. Tracking someone’s phone is not a challenging thing to do. You can either disable or lock apparatus or even play audio. But, it is necessary to do it so that the other person shouldn’t ever know that you’re tracking them. Select the choice that is suitable for you. If they discover, it can lead to distrust in their minds and also strain your relationship with them.
You may also just search Google with your Google account information and kind "Locate my phone" and you will be able to discover your mobile phone’s location. Therefore, taking precautions is always vital. You can also utilize MxSpy to track someone’s telephone without them knowing. That is why I use Spyic. You may use it to track your phone’s location. It’s so secretive that the user never finds out that you have been monitoring them all the while.
The good news is that software is well-matched with Android devices. It will allow you to track text messages, manage calls, read mails, track browsing history, track GPS location, and the internet use as well as control programs and apps. Locate any telephone number on the planet. You’ll also be able to browse instant messages from applications like Telegram, Facebook, and WhatsApp. We don’t collect telephone numbers you input. All you need to do is register the program and choose the correct program for your existing need. This can be free beta testing phase.
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The NYT has a story on what look to be ‘ruthless’ bankruptcies in store for companies who sought or were forced to take too much leveraged debt:
American companies currently have more than $1.7 trillion in S.&P.-rated bonds and loans maturing from 2011 to 2014. The total debt load coming due will climb steadily over the next four years, with the proportion of debt in the speculative category growing, the credit rating agency said.
In 2011, there will be about $300 billion in debt due, of which 41 percent is considered speculative. But by 2014, the amount of debt due climbs to about $550 billion, 72 percent of which is speculative.
“We believe that many borrowers at the low end of the ratings scale will encounter serious hurdles to their refinancing needs in 2013 and 2014,” John Bilardello, a managing director at Standard & Poor’s, said in the report. “Unlike investment-grade entities, for which the main issue is the rising cost of capital, speculative-grade borrowers may find that financial institutions and investors are wary of lending to them.”
Much of this debt currently owed by American companies was a result of heavy borrowing during the leveraged-buyout boom, which lasted from 2005 to 2007.
Private equity firms borrowed enormous sums of money from banks to finance the buyout of companies and then loaded the target companies up with debt.
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The hassle regarding Wordsworth and Coleridge during these “lyrical ballads” so you’re able to dramatize brand new uncertainties regarding translation opens up an area off rhetorical interest inside English Romanticism where the enjoy out of interpretive actions is offered given that an initial subject-an excellent “principle out of step” in itself
That poem dramatizes the fresh new movements regarding interpretation as much as they displays the material out of translation comprises exactly what Geoffrey Hartman have, called brand new “twice plot” of one’s Thorn, in which “the experience narrated and that of one’s narrator’s mind work at parallel.” Issue into the presenter try “why?”: what is the union within “tale” and you may “the location”? However for the person, you to real question is combined with some other, concerning broker of this 2nd emotional order regarding action: “Exactly what a style of mind is it?” we could possibly ask. Wordsworth himself occupies it last question in his own adaptation of your Coleridgean Disagreement and you may Shine: the brand new enough time Mention the guy appends toward poem about next edition off Lyrical Ballads. Handled so you’re able to “Website subscribers who are not familiar with sympathize with men feeling for the one fashion or playing with such as words,” brand new Mention provides sort of second text-one to “Basic Poem” Wordsworth thought the guy “ought” to possess adducced towards the Thorn “provide that it Poem their full effect.” But as opposed to Coleridge’s Gloss, Wordsworth’s Notice isn’t worried about clarifying an idea into the “action narrated”; he means rather so you can explain their intention showing what happens into the words of discourse from the lack of eg an effective principle-especially in your situation from a great “credulous and you can talkative” discourser with an imagination “likely to superstition.” Wordsworth argues the speaker’s brand of “fashion,” specifically their “repetition regarding terms and conditions” (a leader grievance among poem’s earliest customers), is intended to dramatize an endeavor “to communicate impassioned emotions”-an attempt spurred by the “one thing from an accompanying awareness of inadequateness out of [his] vitality, or the deficiencies from code” to do so.
With the implicit repetition of Mariner’s “Rime,” plus the genuine reps about Thorn you to definitely play throughout the sounds from each other Martha Beam as well as the ballad’s audio speaker, all determine actions out-of head involved with what is not too explicit: repetition gets lso are-petition, re-inquiring
The fresh speaker’s anger from spot and his awesome larger struggle with the language away from cause-and-effect therefore become an over-all have trouble with every modes off articulation-but the fresh new repetition out of spoken fragments “and that appear effortlessly to speak” a sense, and you may “the eye” and thus “that the mind links so you can conditions, not just just like the symbols of one’s passions, but while the something, productive and productive, which are off by themselves area of the interests.” “During the for example perform,” Wordsworth explains, “you will find a need regarding the notice” hence, towards the total amount it remains “unhappy,” may cause the fresh new presenter in order to “stick for the exact same words.” Regardless if Coleridge deplored which perception, the fresh new facts regarding his personal ount from empathy for its desire. As such a keen interrogative take to, repetition emerges since the several other variety of all the questions that trigger the new telling each and every story, one to “craving regarding attention” getting a certainty it cannot to find. Which sound never ever quarrels towards the narrator but merely echoes his tentative discourse for the interrogative hues. The echoing locution regarding the voice, and its own indeterminate provider, suggest that Wordsworth may even be shading brand new poetics out of talk for the monologue, since if to help you depict a beneficial colloquy in one intelligence, between a voice seeking to facts and you can cause (“But why. . .?”), and you can a compose helplessly burdened which have mystery (“I really don’t understand”). The play of these sounds, like that ranging from Coleridge’s “Rime” along with his framing apparatus, will get a lengthy figure towards the mind’s wedding which have suspicion. There is a positive change, although not, for inside the Wordsworth’s poem the two produces we pay attention to was hardly distinguishable, and you will neither presumes interpretive power.
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Halo Wars 2 is a recreation that very visibly straddles the divide between console and COMPUTER. It’s a real-time strategy recreation , a style that — together with the MOBA and the MMO — has historically confined itself to the house laptop. Nonetheless, most RTS video games are designed across the multiplayer element. They emerged progressively out of experiments to combine the joy and velocity of motion games with the deliberateness and depth of technique. A few of the earliest pc video games have been text adventures, where gamers navigated strange environments using only typed instructions.
Gamers race to collect resources, construct new constructions and train new units to combat one another. Your complete game came about on a single display, with players beginning at either finish of what looked rather like a soccer area—besides instead of goalposts you had command facilities.
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Jeff Wayne’s The Warfare of the Worlds was notable for being one of the few completely non-linear RTS video games ever. The unique sport revolutionized the style by tremendously differentiating the three out there factions — human, Zerg, and Protoss — with unique models and techniques.
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Regardless of Fred's Path, Flooding is a Likely Hazard This Weekend in Florida
Update as of 11 am Thursday:
Hurricane hunter aircraft continues to report that Tropical Depression Fred is disorganized. This was an expected trend given the storm's center moved over the mountainous island of Hispaniola Wednesday. However, there were no significant changes to the track or intensity forecasts for Fred. The primary hazard that will affect most Floridians is still likely to be heavy rain and flooding, and it is still too soon to determine specifics on any wind or surge impacts for coastal areas along the Gulf Coast.
As of 1100 am EDT Thursday, Tropical Depression Fred was located 80 miles W of Great Inagua Island and moving WNW at 14 mph. Maximum sustained winds were up to 35 mph, and the storm's minimum central pressure was 1013 mb.
Original story posted earlier Thursday:
Forecast data is suggesting one of two possible scenarios might unfold once Fred moves away from the Greater Antilles and toward Florida Friday and Saturday. Wind and surge impacts could vary greatly in some places depending on which one comes to pass, but the greatest hazard to most Floridians will be heavy rain and potential flooding.
Fred weakened to a Tropical Depression Wednesday evening as it moved across the mountainous island of Hispaniola. The National Hurricane Center expects it to regain tropical storm strength again Friday as it parallels the northern coast of Cuba. The storm's proximity to land and influences from upper-level steering winds will be key to its eventual path and intensity as it moves through the Straits of Florida Saturday.
The National Hurricane Center has repeatedly stated that confidence is "lower than normal" in the intensity and track forecasts for Tropical Depression Fred. References to the diverging models were made by Senior Hurricane Specialist Jack Bevin in his forecast discussion at 5 pm EDT Wednesday, stating the NHC's forecast track is "between these extremes". As a result, forecasters and emergency managers urge all Floridians to monitor Fred's progress and stay informed of future updates until the magnitude, location and timing of potential impacts become clearer.
One possible scenario takes Fred on a more westerly route through the Florida Keys and several hundred miles into the eastern Gulf of Mexico. Several reliable forecast model simulations have begun to shift in this direction, which would allow Fred to spend more time over water and potentially in a slightly more favorable atmospheric environment for intensification. On this journey, Fred would most likely make a turn to the north late Sunday or Monday and have a greater chance of directly affecting portions of the Florida Panhandle with tropical storm conditions.
An alternative scenario to Tropical Depression Fred - which based on current model interpretations has about an equal chance of coming to pass - is that the storm's center moves more north than west and spends more time near or over the Florida Peninsula. On this path, upper-level winds and the interactions with land would likely prevent Fred from intensifying as much, thereby mitigating overall surge and wind impacts to most Floridians. However, if this outcome manifests, heavy rainfall would be more widespread and potentially affect areas along the west coast that are more vulnerable to flooding due to recent heavy rainfall events.
Regardless of which path Fred takes into the Gulf of Mexico, and even irrespective of the storm's intensity at the time, tropical storm force wind gusts, heavy rain, and localized flooding are all probable in the Florida Keys as early as Friday night. These hazards are also possible in portions of south and southwest Florida from Naples to Miami Saturday. Early forecast data suggests 4 to 6 inches of rain would be possible in these areas through Sunday.
Meteorologists at the Florida Public Radio Emergency Network will continue to provide updates on Tropical Depression Fred to your local NPR affiliate, in the mobile app Florida Storms, and on the @FloridaStorms social media accounts through the duration of the event.
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There was no shortage of smiles for those in attendance at the opening of the Ben Carson Reading Room at Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine in Detroit, Michigan. On Wednesday, February 21, 2014 with support from students, staff, community members and IKEA Canton, the school that shares Dr. Carson’s name became the 101st school to establish a Ben Carson Reading Room.
The ceremony began with a warm welcome from Mistress of Ceremonies, Cerise Rustin Tounsel. Ben Carson High School students were integral in creating the reading room, therefore, it was only fitting that they played a major role in this joyous occasion. Members of the Ben Carson NJROTC Color Guard had the honor of presenting the colors. Student Kiera Johnson marked the occasion by singing the inspirational hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Students also performed poetry and shared Dr. Carson’s THINK BIG acronym.
In addition to the students, this project was enthusiastically embraced by the community. IKEA Canton volunteers provided assistance with the design and labor of the reading room. Representing IKEA Canton was Marketing Manager Amanda Preston. Also celebrating this monumental occasion were BCHS Board Member Dr. Reginald Eadie and Detroit Public Schools Superintendent Karen Ridgeway. With the opening of the Ben Carson Reading Room students can truly follow in Dr. Carson’s footsteps both in reading and in their professional endeavors.
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This tool enables users to visualise the best UK cities for running and outdoor exercise, throughout
lockdown and beyond. The interactive table allows users to select a city within the UK and see how
each compares and ranks against others, based on a range of data sources and factors.
Overall: Each value was given a ranking for each different data point,
which were then totalled up to reveal the overall ranking score.
Green Space: This is the total number of public parks and gardens in
each city, based on Catchment Based Approach data.
Traffic: This is the average traffic build up in miles, according to
official government data.
Pollution: This refers to UK local and regional estimates of carbon
dioxide emissions in the atmosphere of each area, using data from The Department for Business,
Energy, and Industrial Strategy.
Running Events: This refers to the total number of running and outdoor
exercise events listed on eventbrite.com, analysed on 25th November 2020.
Crime Rate: The official crime rate data was taken from all relevant
UK government bodies. The number refers to all crime, excluding fraud, in each city.
Runners Need have analysed a variety of data sources in the study to power the tool, these include:
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Thesis Talk Thursday
Thesis Talk Thursday is a wonderful opportunity to share stories about the amazing research being done by graduate students at the University of Calgary. Every Thursday graduate students from different faculties and departments will be highlighted across all GSA social media channels. The students will be highlighted through videos, podcasts, or photos with a description of their research.
Email Alex Paquette, GSA VP Academic, at email@example.com or fill out the form below to sign up for Thesis Talk Thursday.
April 14, 2022
GSA Thesis Talk Thursday Features
Research Thesis Title: Central and peripheral cardiovascular adaptations to domain-specific exercise training
What inspired you to do your research?
As a life-long participant in various sports/activities, I know the importance of exercise. This led me to complete my BSc-Kin. During my BSc-Kin, I really enjoyed my exercise physiology courses, however, I thought that research wasn’t for me because I thought it was “too far removed from the real world”. Then, during my MKin, I volunteered with the exercise physiology lab and I realized that research could be fun and interactive, and most importantly that I could establish meaningful connections with participants and help them improve their fitness. All of this while continuing learning about exercise physiology and producing research.
What is your research about?
The focus of my research is to investigate the central and peripheral cardiovascular adaptations to domain-specific exercise training. Specifically, I am looking at quantifying changes in several parameters of cardiovascular health such as maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max), vascular reactivity, etc. in response to work-matched exercise training sustained at discrete exercise intensities. It has been shown that, in both research and applied settings, current exercise prescription methods are not individualized to the person and this could be one reason why some individuals demonstrate a lack of response to training. In my study, I am challenging current methods by adopting an extremely accurate approach to individualize exercise intensity prescription such that I will be able to elucidate the role of exertional intensity in determining the magnitude and the quality of the cardiovascular adaptations.
How do you do your research?
In my study the participants come to the lab to perform testing and training sessions. The training is performed on a cycle ergometer where I can ensure each participant is exercising at the prescribed intensity. Testing consists of both exercising and resting measures. One exercise test we often perform is the maximal oxygen consumption test (i.e. VO2max test) which helps us gauge how “fit” someone is. During this test, participants cycle while wearing a mask that collects their expired air so that we can determine how much oxygen they are using. The test starts off with very light exercise and then progressively increases in difficulty. The participants are asked to cycle until they have reached their maximal effort and cannot continue. Typically, this test only lasts 10-12 minutes and only starts to feel “hard” in the last 3-4 minutes and “very hard” in the last minute or so.
What is the implication of your research?
There will be several implications from the outcomes of my research. In simple terms, we will be able to determine which intensities are best for improving specific aspects of cardiovascular health and performance. My research will give a critical contribution to the building of the dose-response relationship of exercise training. Furthermore, the findings of this study will provide insight on the importance of individualized exercise prescription and on how we can tailor exercise prescription to target specific health outcomes with the goal to eventually translate these findings to other populations. | <urn:uuid:788d51d6-9bb5-4da2-a7a0-4ea7cadede19> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsa.ucalgary.ca/thesis-talk/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946201 | 745 | 1.507813 | 2 |
GENEVA, July 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ --
Tamoikin Art Fund is organizing an international presentation of the only known painting by Benvenuto Cellini
In 2005 the artworld buzzed with the news of a monumental discovery. The only known painting by Benvenuto Cellini, a 16th century Italian Renaissance man who equaled Leonardo da Vinci, was found in a private collection.
Since then, the owner undertook a colossal task to secure, research and evaluate this artwork. A process, that took several years and over €200 thousand of his own money. It involved many experts and organizations, such as the Tamoikin Art Fund (TAF), which has now been appointed as a custodian of Cellini's self-portrait.
After completing a thorough investigation, the fund was able to determine the value of this rare historic artwork. Cellini's self-portrait is worth €107 million. Now TAF is preparing an international campaign to present this world heritage artifact.
Who is Cellini? To understand this great man, we must look at his life and work. Benvenuto Cellini (1500 - 1571) was born in Florence, Italy. Over the course of his life he became a renowned and highly paid writer, painter, sculptor, musician, goldsmith, inventor and soldier. His magnificent bronze sculptures decorate prominent streets of Italy.
- Rolex has a line of watches named after Cellini
- Ian Fleming often mentioned Cellini in his James Bond novels
- Salvador Dalí was also highly influenced by the life of Cellini
Undoubtedly Benvenuto Cellini was a polymath with extraordinary abilities and a great visionary that changed the course of history. The discovery and public presentation of the only known painting by Cellini is an international cultural phenomenon.
What is known about the portrait? It is a medium size artwork (61 x 48 cm), painted in the 16th century with oil on a unique silk-wool paper that is glued on a canvas. It is the most accurate depiction of Cellini to date. The portrait is privately owned by an art collector. Despite hundreds of years, this painting has survived in exceptionally good condition and with virtually no restoration. In contrast, the recently sold Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" painting, for $450 million, received 'extensive restoration' after it was 'aggressively cleaned and over-painted'. Finding an artwork of such significance in good condition is extremely rare.
Tamoikin Art Fund, known for record-breaking art sales is committing significant resources to present this culturally important artifact to the entire world.
For more information, please visit http://www.tamoikin.com/cellini
Tamoikin Art Fund, 782-234-7775, firstname.lastname@example.org
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London-Two men were arrested in London on Thursday on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities, the British capital’s Metropolitan Police said in a statement. It later announced that they have been bailed.
The men, who were not named, were arrested at an address in west London as part of a pre-planned, intelligence-led investigation by the force’s Counter Terrorism Command.
One of the men, aged 19, was arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts.
The other, aged 20, was arrested on suspicion of funding terrorism and failure to disclose information regarding a terrorist act. He was also arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts under a separate investigation by the South East Counter Terrorism Unit.
Officers were searching addresses and vehicles in west and southeast London and in the Thames Valley area. Both men are from London.
The current terrorist threat level in Britain is considered severe, meaning that an attack is highly likely.
Metropolitan Police chief Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe has recently warned that despite the measures taken by security forces, he could not guarantee that terrorist attacks would not take place.
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Big Picture Learning Australia (BPLA) is a non-profit company whose core business is the transformation of education in response to a rapidly-changing world.
Globally the explosion of technology is transforming the way we work, think, communicate and live. Yet the way we do education has not caught up with these changes.
At Big Picture Learning we are implementing an innovative design for learning and schools in a range of urban, regional and remote settings around Australia.
At the heart of the design is a departure from traditional ‘appointment learning’ where everyone learns the same things according to a fixed timetable inside the four walls of a school.
We believe that personalised, passion-based learning is the key to modernising education and preparing young people uncommonly well for successful futures. We nurture creativity, curiosity and independence.
We work with schools, education departments and curriculum authorities to transform outcomes for young Australians.
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*Big Picture Learning is a trading name of Big Picture Education
We invite interested Year 12 Advisory Teachers to join us for a day of getting ready for making final judgements for the IBPLC.Read more...
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In BPLA the role of the School Coach is vital for ensuring fidelity to the BPL design while nurturing each school’s unique interpretation of the design in their context.Read more...
Each student has a personalised learning plan designed around their passions and interests, with links to the curriculum.
Students learn in small groups of 17 known as an ‘advisory’ where there is a culture of belonging, support and respect.
Students work on a variety of projects in areas of personal interest that they design and manage. They also do certificate courses from further education providers.
Students do community service or complete an internship with an expert mentor to gain insight into a field of interest.
Students collect evidence of their learning in a portfolio and regularly present their work at a public exhibition. This is the basis of their assessment throughout school.
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By Daniel Schultz
Digby passes on an intriguing observation from Amanda Marcotte, connecting the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas with "Drill, Baby, Drill!" Amanda thinks some people like destroying things that remind them of their creatureliness, essentially. (She doesn't take the metaphor of smallness in, ahem, other directions, but she could with some justification.)
It's not a bad idea, but I think there's a better explanation, one that takes into account the religious character of fundamentalists. One of the signature characteristics of fundamentalism, whether Christian or Islamic, is its investment in the supposedly unchanging God who gives dependable bulwarks against the chaos of human existence. The fundamentalists would also have you believe that God is not only unchanging, but also in the long run triumphant. Because the fundamentals are The Truth, they are destined to win out over and against sin, error, and women dressed up all sexy-time and stuff.
That framework inevitably supports the powers-that-be. In his book The Prophetic Imagination, Walter Brueggemann draws a connection between what he calls "the religion of static triumphalism" and "the politics of oppression and exploitation." He gives Exodus an analysis of power:
Karl Marx had discerned the connection [mentioned above] when he observed that the criticism of religion is the ultimate criticism and must lead to the criticism of law, economics and politics. The gods of Egypt are the immovable lords of order. They call for, sanction, and legitimate a society of order, which is precisely what Egypt had. In Egypt, as Frankfort has shown, there were no revolutions, no breaks for freedom. There only the necessary political and economic arrangements to provide order, "naturally," the order of Pharaoh. Thus the religion of static gods is not and could never be disinterested, but inevitably it served the people in charge, presiding over the order and benefitting from the order. And the functioning of that society testified to the rightness of the religion because kings did prosper and bricks did get made.
This suggests to me that the connection between dynamited Buddhas and drilled nature preserves isn't so much the threat posed to fundamentalist egos as the one posed to their notion of a stable, ordered universe. If pre-Islamic religious statues or undefiled ocean floors are allowed to persist, people might get the idea that the world is not subject to the social order. Hence the priority of "those in charge" might not be God-given, and that cannot possibly be the case. Better then to blow those unnatural aberrations to kingdom come and get back to the safe, tidy structures of unchanging eternity.
Neither digby nor Amanda have much use for theology, which is fine. But I do. Brueggemann's understanding of Exodus' response to the "religion of static triumphalism" is not only brilliant, but I believe it is the best possible:
It is the marvel of prophetic faith that both imperial religion and imperial politics could be broken. Religiously, the gods were declared no-gods. Politically, the oppressiveness of the brickyard was shown to be ineffective and not necessary to human community. Moses introduced not just the new free God and not just a message of social liberation. Rather, his work came precisely at the engagement of the religion of God's freedom with the politics of human justice. Derivative from Marx, we can learn from these traditions that finally we will not have a politics of justice and compassion unless we have a religion of God's freedom. We are indeed made in the image of some God. And perhaps we have no more important theological investigation than to discern in whose image we have been made. | <urn:uuid:e5a2af8d-d43d-49ad-b075-69fc8be3f164> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.patheos.com/resources/additional-resources/2010/06/destruction-why-fundamentalists-seem-to-enjoy-blowing-things-up | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958417 | 766 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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Effect of training using high-versus low-fidelity simulator mannequins on neonatal intubation skills of pediatric residents: a randomized controlled trial
BMC Medical Education volume 22, Article number: 497 (2022)
Mounting evidence supports the effective acquisition of skills through simulation-based training including intubation skills of neonates. Our aim is to compare the effect of using high- versus low-fidelity mannequin simulation-based training on the acquisition and retention of neonatal intubation skills by junior pediatric residents.
Randomized controlled trial involving first- and second-year pediatric residents from two centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Twenty-eight junior pediatric residents (12 low- and 16 high-fidelity mannequins) completed the study. A significantly greater number of residents achieved and retained the required skills after completing the training course in both arms. There was no significant difference in the achieved skills between residents trained on high- versus low-fidelity mannequins at the baseline, immediately after training, and at 6–9 months after training.
Simulation-based training resulted in improving pediatric residents’ intubation skills regardless of the level of fidelity.
Approximately 10% of newborns require some assistance to begin breathing at birth, and approximately 1% need extensive resuscitative measures to survive . Optimal care provided during the first few minutes of life plays a significant role in reducing neonatal morbidity and mortality [2, 3]. Therefore, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) currently mandates the completion of formal training via the neonatal resuscitation program (NRP) by all pediatric residents . Neonatal resuscitation is defined as the set of interventions at the time of birth to support the establishment of breathing and circulation .
Neonatal endotracheal intubation is an essential skill that every pediatrician must be trained to perform. Neonates are often exposed to more than one intubation attempt before the endotracheal tube is successfully placed and that is not without adverse effects . Moreover, residents’ opportunities to intubate a neonate have been shown to decline and therefore simulation-based training was suggested [7,8,9].
Fidelity in simulation-based training is classified into low-, medium-, and high-fidelity simulators [10,11,12]. The term ‘fidelity’ is used to refer to the degree of realism of a simulation. Low-fidelity simulator (LFS) mannequins allow practitioners to demonstrate basic knowledge and technical and behavioral skills with verbal prompts from instructors. A LFS mannequin may or may not include the ability for intubation, chest rise, or electrocardiographic tracings. Medium-fidelity simulators (MFSs) produce physiological responses on a computer screen but lack various cues essential for participants to engage in the simulated scenario. For example, a medium-fidelity mannequin can produce breath sounds but no corresponding chest rise. High-fidelity simulators (HFSs) provide the trainee with the cues necessary to interact with the patient as they would in a real clinical environment. High-fidelity simulators can demonstrate physiologic signals (e.g., heart sounds, breath sounds, pulses, oxygen saturation and blood pressure) for the trainee to act upon. In response to the changing physiologic feedback received from the mannequin, the trainee is challenged to apply the correct interventions such as the administration of oxygen, endotracheal intubation or chest drain insertion to improve the condition of the simulated mannequin.
High-fidelity simulation is a rapidly developing technology that has been in use for years in a variety of medical fields. A growing body of evidence supports the effective acquisition and retention of technical skills through HFS [13,14,15]. However, there are few studies describing the use of HFS in teaching neonatal resuscitation.
Our research question was the following: Among junior (first year) pediatric residents, would HFS training result in better neonatal intubation technical skills compared to LFS training? Answering this question can inform the supporting and financing bodies to whether selecting a training method that is more costly (HFS) is justified by a better outcome of improving pediatric trainees’ neonatal intubation skills and the retention of these skills towards enhanced patient care.
This is a randomized controlled trial that was approved by the King Abdulaziz University Hospital (KAUH) Hospital’s Ethical Review Board (Reference No 471-lE) and registered in the ISCRTN registry (ISRCTN16251230) 21/03/2018. The study was carried out in accordance with the CONSORT 2010 statement guidelines for reporting parallel group randomized trials . Our primary objective was to determine the effectiveness of using HFSs compared to LFSs in improving the technical skills to successfully intubate a neonate, defined as the passage of the endotracheal tube (ET) beyond the vocal cords. The secondary objectives included determining whether using HFSs will result in a shorter time taken to intubate a neonate and better retention of technical neonatal intubation skills compared to LFSs.
The study participants were all pediatric residents in their first year of postgraduate training in pediatrics recruited from two hospitals in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), and agreed to participate in the study. A total of 28 pediatric residents from KAUH and Maternity and Children Hospital (MCH) were included in the study after signing an informed consent form. The pediatric residency program in Saudi Arabia is a 4-year National Training Program during which pediatric residents rotate through the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) for 2 months in the first year and one month in the second, third and fourth years of their program. NRP training is not a requirement for pediatric residency programs in the two participating hospitals. Junior residents acquire skills to intubate a neonate through rotating in NICU in which a neonatal specialist or fellow will be present for all neonatal intubation attempts. There was no didactic intubation training or structured intubation apprenticeship in NICU in either hospital.
After recruitment, residents were randomly assigned to training on either a high-fidelity or low-fidelity mannequin. The assignment was achieved using a computer-generated random number that was placed in sequentially numbered concealed opaque envelopes by one of the simulation center organizers. The participating residents were first assessed at the baseline on their allocated mannequin, where they were asked to manage a standardized simulated scenario of a neonate requiring intubation. A training course was designed to improve the intubation skills of pediatric residents using the assigned mannequins and delivered by two NRP providers with more than ten-year experience in neonatology. The high-fidelity mannequin (SimBaby, Laerdal Medical Corporation, USA) is an advanced infant patient simulator with realistic airway anatomy and clinical functionality. It features airway opening by appropriate maneuvers, suctioning motion, anatomical landmarks of oropharyngeal and nasopharyngeal airways, and chest rise and oxygen saturation changes in response to intervention. The mannequin utilizes software-based medical model that was programmed to display changes in physical findings in response to progressing medical circumstances. The resident will have to continually evaluate the mannequin’s condition rather than relying on cues provided by an instructor [17, 18]. The low-fidelity mannequin is a standard plastic mannequin (ALS Baby, Laerdal Medical Corporation, USA) that allows passing ET tube and demonstrates chest rises in response to successful intubation. It does not, however, feature anatomical landmarks of the neonatal airway or give physiological cues such as oxygen saturation, heart rate and changes in CO2 detector color . A one-hour introductory lecture outlining the indications for intubations, anatomical landmarks and steps taken to prepare for, perform and confirm successful intubation was given to both groups by one of the physicians assigned for training. The residents then had the chance to practice the steps of successful intubation on the assigned mannequin 2–3 times in the presence of the other residents in the group. Constructive feedback was provided to trainees in both groups after a successful intubation attempt. Each participant was re-evaluated using a standardized simulated scenario of intubating a neonate after training using a high-fidelity mannequin.
Two trained assessors who were certified NRP instructors independently evaluated the technical neonatal intubation skills of pediatric residents using a checklist of appropriate and inappropriate actions derived from the published literature at the baseline and both at the end of the training course and 6–9 months after completion of the course. The evaluators were blinded to the training intervention and different from the physicians who trained the residents. The technical skills were evaluated using a 13-item binary intubation checklist that was used in a previous study evaluating the skills needed to intubate a neonate, including preparing for the intubation, technical skills for positioning and inserting the endotracheal tube and confirming successful intubation . The checklist scores in the study had an interrater reliability of 0.88 and correlated positively with the global rating scores (Spearman’s coefficient 0.68). The authors of the study gave permission to use their checklist. The time taken to intubate and ensure correct placement was documented (using a stopwatch) from the start of the intubation attempt until the trainee presented evidence of correct placement. A 5-point Likert global rating score (1 being the lowest and 5 being the highest score) was utilized by the evaluators to provide an overall assessment of resident’s capability to perform a neonatal intubation.
IPM SPSS 22.0 (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL) was used for the data analyses. Normally distributed data are presented as the mean ± SD and were compared between two groups using Student’s t-test. Repeated measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was applied when the three periods of assessment were compared. Categorical parameters are presented as frequencies and percentages and were compared by applying the chi-squared test. The level of significance was specified at p < 0.05.
Thirty residents were invited to participate in the study (Fig. 1). Twenty-eight residents participated and completed the study. Twelve residents were allocated to the low-fidelity arm and sixteen to the high-fidelity arm (Fig. 2). There was no difference between participants in either arm regarding age, sex, training center, NRP certification and whether they intubated a neonate before the training course (Table 1). A significantly greater number of residents achieved the required skills immediately after the training course in both arms (Table 2). In addition, the achieved skills were retained when the residents were tested at 6–9 months after training (Table 2). There was no significant difference between the achieved skills between residents trained on high-fidelity mannequins compared to those trained on low-fidelity mannequins at the baseline, immediately after training, and at 6–9 months after training (Table 3).
We found no difference in the effect of high- versus low-fidelity mannequins on the acquisition and retention of technical skills necessary to intubate a neonate by junior pediatric residents from the two academic centers. However, we concluded that training junior pediatric residents using either simulator mannequins resulted in improved intubation skills both immediately and 6–9 months after training.
Experiential learning methods, as the case in simulation-based training, were shown to result in deeper learning and better retention [13, 14]. Experiential learning theory proposes that knowledge is generated through the transformation of experience . In his work on experiential learning, Kolbe described how the learner moves through four stages of adaptive learning modes: more concrete experience, reflective observation, abstract conceptualization, and active experimentation. Dewey was the first to introduce the concept of experience plus reflection equals learning that was considered to be the foundation of simulation-based learning . The quality and amount of active experimentation is judged by the degree to which it reproduces reality. Experiential learning helps individuals understand their strengths and weaknesses; gives the opportunity to apply skills for assessment, examination and evaluation and encourages critical thinking and the development of proficiency in an environment where errors do not have dire consequences. In theory, through experiential learning, trainees retain not only knowledge but also its practical application and how to use it when needed. As a result, novice trainees will move towards becoming experts.
Evidence supporting the use of HFS in neonatal resuscitation and the associated acquisition of technical skills does not agree with the evidence from other medical fields. Similar to our results, Campbell et al. reported that although pediatric residents randomly assigned to the HFS gave better satisfaction scores than those assigned to the LFS, they did not have improved written scores or intubation times . In a small randomized controlled trial of ten second- and third-year pediatric residents, HFS training did not result in a better intubation technique or actual procedural success . More recently, Finan et al. compared the effects of HFS versus LFS in a randomized trial of sixteen neonatal fellows and found no difference in stress measures between the two modalities . Regarding the retention of the learned skills in simulation-based training, studies have shown degradation of the technical skills acquired in certification courses by health professionals over time, which can have significant effects on patient outcomes [19, 22,23,24,25].
We would like to acknowledge some of the limitations of this study. The small sample size limits the significance and generalizability of our study as it was a convenience sample of all junior pediatric residents from the two centers which agreed to participate. The high-fidelity mannequin was used both to train and to assess; therefore, additional training exposure might have introduced additional benefits, but that was not statistically evident. Moreover, the residents were allowed to practice 2–3 times on the simulator which might not be enough for robust skill acquisition. We did not record the number of practice repetitions residents did before their evaluation session which may have impacted the results of this study. Furthermore, residents’ experience during the lag time between the training course and assessment of the retention of learned intubation skills might differ as they do not all rotate through the NICU at a fixed time, which might expose some of them to more intubation trials than others. We recorded the intubation trials before the training course but not before the assessment of the retention of skills. We minimized the bias by structuring the training course in a way that only the type of mannequin was the changing variable and blinded the assessors to the intervention applied to strengthen the internal validity of the study. Additionally, the effect on improving noncognitive skills such as attentiveness, perseverance, and teamwork was not part of the current study. Although simulation teaching has been demonstrated to lead to improved educational outcomes, transfer of these skills from simulation to the real clinical world, and to the benefits of clinical patient outcomes will need to be studied.
In conclusion, simulation-based training resulted in improving pediatric residents’ intubation skills regardless of the level of fidelity. The benefit of training on a high-fidelity mannequin will need to be further assessed in real-life intubations to determine its effect on the management and clinical outcome of neonatal intubation.
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The authors would like to thank the residents who participated and completed the study and the Clinical Skills and Simulation Centre staff at King Abdulaziz University (KAU-CSSC) who helped conduct the study.
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Three years after the country went without an endemic case of the disease; the World Health Organization (WHO) has officially certified India, world’s second most-populous country, as free of polio.
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San Diego-“Finding inexpensive, safe strategies to prevent AMD is paramount,” said Steve Ferrucci, OD, FAAO, in his lecture yesterday at the American Optometric Association meeting. Dr. Ferrucci is chief optometrist at the Sepulveda VA in Los Angeles, and is associate professor at Southern California College of Optometry. The course, Nutritional Options for AMD, highlighted how AREDS 2 is changing current thinking about nutritional supplements in ways many eyecare practitioners had not anticipated.
As Dr. Ferrucci noted, we will see increase in the prevalence of AMD as the population ages. That means patients will be using supplements for many years, making safety and price big issues. Long-term strategies are therefore essential, said Dr. Ferrucci. “Optometry needs to be at the forefront,” he said.
“By the time you are at the retinal specialist, it’s too late. Retinal specialists treat. We prevent.” But, he explained, clinicians’ prevention techniques may need to change now that the AREDS 2 results have been released.
The AREDS 2 study sought answers to a number of important questions including:
Much to many clinicians’ surprise, the addition of lutein and zeaxanthin to the original AREDS 1 formula did not further reduce the risk of progression to advanced AMD. However, the report does conclude that, to improve the safety of the formula, lutein and zeaxanthin are appropriate substitutions for the beta-carotene in the current AREDS 1 regimen. In this way, lutein and zeaxanthin provide an additional 10% reduced risk over current supplements. In patients with the lowest dietary intake of lutein and zeaxanthin, there was an additional 26% reduced risk. In patients with the highest dietary intake, lutein and zeaxanthin supplements provide no reduced risk of progression.
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History undergoes serious change thanks in particular to slow events that fly below the media’s radar. Focusing on dramatic, immediate events, the media tends to neglect the major shifts that unfold over time. Paradoxically, slowly developing events that often go unreported tell the true story of history. Most often, the exciting, explosive events that dominate the news merely serve to accelerate longer-term trends.
There is a simple scientific reason for this. Systems react immediately to dramatic events that occur quickly and unexpectedly. They typically mobilize their defenses to improvise a rapid reply. Rather than signaling change, such actions serve to protect and reinforce the status quo.
The 9/11 attacks, clearly the most dramatic event of the past two decades, provoked a massive response from the US government. The effort to oppose the emergence of the new shape of terrorism appeared to mark a decisive shift in contemporary political history. The response consisted of a global military alliance intent on defending the prevailing “rule of law” and the elaboration of a powerful security state.
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The effort piloted by George W. Bush and Tony Blair ended up simply reinforcing the focus of Western nuclear powers on the idea that sophisticated military technology provided the key for governing the world. It confirmed and consolidated the long-term trend of building the entire Western economy and culture around the American military-industrial complex.
Distracted by a relatively meaningless transfer of power in the US following Joe Biden’s election and other colorful events such as the comic melodrama of relations within British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s chaotic Brexit team, today’s media have paid scant attention to one event of monumental importance that took place on Sunday. The event itself was unremarkable, but it is a powerful indicator of historical change. The signing on Sunday of the act that brought’s (RCEP) into existence marked a crucial moment in a slowly evolving shift that began nearly a decade ago and will have a profound impact on history in the coming years.
In its article on the event, Al Jazeera quotes one American expert, Jeffrey Wilson, who sees RCEP as “a much-needed platform for the Indo-Pacific’s post-COVID recovery.”
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The New York Times notes that RCEP has been in the plans for eight years and describes it as “designed by Beijing partly as a counterweight to American influence in the region.” In other words, this is a chapter of a story that lives within the context of a massive and continual decades-long shift of momentum in the . The center of gravity of the has been silently but steadily migrating from the North Atlantic following World War II on a south-eastward course toward .
Back in 2015, Reuters market analyst John Kemp pointed to the West’s failure to sense this movement, stating that “Most western policymakers and journalists view the through a framework that is 10-15 years out of date.” He further points out that “India’s economy has also started to become a major source of global growth, which will ensure the centre of gravity continues to move more deeply into over the next 50 years.” Analysts who have even attempted to assess the speed of the shift appear to agree on a “rate of about 100 kilometres or more per year.” It may have accelerated since 2015, and even intensified as a consequence of the implicit isolationism of Trump’s “America First” philosophy.
Fearful of the threat to US hegemony posed by the RCEP, the Obama administration launched the Trans-Pacific Partnership ( ), designed to eclipse the RCEP and protect some of the key historical advantages that underpinned US economic hegemony. Once Trump decided to leave the , the US could no longer take advantage of its provisions to protect industrial property rights or oblige other nations to respect unified labor standards.
The US has literally been left behind in the race to define and enforce the rules that will govern commerce and economic development throughout thezone over the next 50 years. Most commentators suspect that once president-elect Joe Biden is in office, he will not in the short term make an effort to catch up. In the midst of a complex health and economic crisis, there are other priorities. But Jeffrey Wilson’s comment about “Indo-Pacific’s post-COVID recovery” reveals that , under ’s leadership, today has a clear head start and can set the tone for what a post-coronavirus world will look like. This is a question every nation is grappling with. There are no obvious answers. But there can be little doubt that the world that emerges once COVID-19 is completely under control or eradicated will be very different from what preceded the pandemic.
The Times signals the fact that “to some trade experts, the signing of the R.C.E.P. shows that the rest of the world will not wait around for the United States.” Many commentators have noted that four years of Donald Trump have convinced European leaders that depending on the ideological and geopolitical framework provided by the US is too risky an engagement. It may even transpire that, despite the intensified military cooperation between India and the US directed against the Chinese threat, as reported in this column by Vikram Sood, Atul Singh and Manu Sharma, India could eventually be attracted to the RCEP. Security is one thing. A humming economy is another.
India could, for example, be positioned to profit from a key feature of RCEP. The Times quotes Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington, who notes that “R.C.E.P. gives foreign companies enhanced flexibility in navigating between the two giants. Lower tariffs within the region increase the value of operating within the Asian region, while the uniform rules of origin make it easier to pull production away from the Chinese mainland while retaining that access.” Narendra Modi’s India has not yet managed to fulfill its promises to expand manufacturing in India. Could RCEP be the key to providing conditions favorable to that evolution?
In short, the world is faced with a formidable number of variables that combine in a variety of different ways. As Brexit demonstrated, today’s political alignments can be nullified in a trice as the perception of economic opportunities and the pressure of uncontrollable crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic lead to new geopolitical configurations. Those trends are far more powerful than bilateral agreements.
’s Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will only begin to produce practical effects two or three years down the line. But it already opens channels of communication and coordination between fifteen countries. This will not only confirm the shift of the global economy’s center of gravity but also accelerate the shift toward a new power relationship between the US and China. As the recent presidential campaign highlighted, Americans tend to see this as a binary relationship. Yet all the indicators point toward a multipolar reordering.
The Times article reminds readers of the historical situation when RCEP was first proposed: “The prospect of China’s forging closer economic ties with its neighbors has prompted concern in Washington. President Barack Obama’s response was the T.P.P.” Trump’s action upon taking office of killing the TPP before it could be signed opened the door to the eventual 15 nation agreement, with the roles of the US and China inverted. Obama designed the TPP to allow China in through the back door. RCEP is designed to allow the US in through the back door.
The world awaits the evolution and hoped-for denouement of a series of crises nested each within the other. However painful and disruptive, these crises have the merit of signaling the existence of a common interest for all of humanity in stark contrast with the traditional model of geopolitical reasoning based on national rivalries. It is in everyone’s interest to keep our eyes fixed on the slow but deep movements of history as well as the superficial ones that the media throw in our faces every day.
*[In the age of Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain, another American wit, the journalist Ambrose Bierce, produced a series of satirical definitions of commonly used terms, throwing light on their hidden meanings in real discourse. Bierce eventually collected and published them as a book, The Devil’s Dictionary, in 1911. We have shamelessly appropriated his title in the interest of continuing his wholesome pedagogical effort to enlighten generations of readers of the news. Read more of The Daily Devil’s Dictionary on Fair Observer.]
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It was an interesting day in Lake Wobegon. I spent a fair chunk of the afternoon with a tester who was having a problem. She was working on writing tests that others would execute – except that the others never followed her scripts. The really missed the gist of most of the steps. She kept saying “Why can’t they just follow instructions?”
My response was not very nice. “Why are you writing tests that make sense to you, but others have a hard time executing? What if you simplified what it was that each test was doing?”
“ALL THEY HAVE TO DO IS READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY THEN FOLLOW THEM!”
Sure. And if they are confusing? What if they don’t know they are doing the wrong thing? How could they tell?
Here’s the gist of my suggestions from this conversation, and I suspect it may help others in “scripted testing land”:
1. Simply, simplify and then simplify. If you are writing tests you will not be executing, don’t make them mathematical problems to solve – and then follow the equation to get the answer. Give the people executing the tests the information they need to do what you need them to do. Don’t make them solve puzzles just to start the work.
2. State what the goal of the test is. Explain it briefly and what the purpose is. Explain they why of what they are doing and they may understand better. They may also think of things of value which you had not considered.
3. Be open to suggestions. I don’t know everything. I bet most folks don’t either – no matter how much they want us to think they do. Other people may make suggestions. They make me a better tester.
4. Be open-handed. When folks (like lower level testers) make a good (or great) suggestion – let them know you appreciate it. When it pays out in rewards – make sure the greater portion of the credit goes to those who made the suggestion.
5. Be honest with yourself. Delusions are deadly.
6. Keep calm.
I sometimes upset people without intending to. Sometimes, well usually, I feel bad about upsetting them. Unlike some folks I don’t say things to intentionally cause pain.
If you are working in a shop where I am working, and where I have been tasked with helping people test better – remember that I will never do anything to hurt you out of cruelty or malice. If you think I am – say so – then be ready for some more.
My role is to help you improve, just as I turn to other folks to learn. Usually that pain, speaking from personal experience, is a sign of growth.Your old ideas are passing away. They are making way for new ways of thinking and that can hurt. A LOT!
When the grandkids were living with us and something happened, they were always afraid we would be mad. No – not usually. Upset maybe. Sometimes were got frustrated. But we were not mad – or angry. They’d look at us in amazement – “You’re not mad at me? Really?” No. Sometimes we were a little hurt, but not mad.
“Honey, you have only been on this Earth 12 years. I can’t expect you to know everything. Sometimes things happen when you don’t intend them to. I’m not mad. Let’s talk about what happened and see if we can find another idea in case this comes up again.”
My wife gave me that tremendous gift. It works with granddaughters, grandsons and (ready?) Junior Testers.
We can’t expect you to know everything someone who has been doing this for many, many years knows. And when we help you it is because we want you to grow and blossom. We’re not mad at you.
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A research team led by investigators from Brigham and Women’s Hospital has evaluated real-world evidence related to outcomes for COVID-19 patients who were treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine analogues (with or without a macrolide). Investigators found no evidence that either drug regimen reduced the death rate among patients. Patients treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine regimens were far more likely to experience abnormal, rapid heart rhythms (known as ventricular arrhythmias) than their counterparts who had not received the drugs. The team’s findings are published in The Lancet.
“No matter which way you examine the data, use of these drug regimens did not help,” said corresponding author Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, executive director of the Brigham’s Center for Advanced Heart Disease. “If anything, patients had a higher likelihood of death. We also saw a quadrupling in the rate of significant ventricular arrhythmias in patients with COVID-19 who had been treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine regimens.”
Mehra and colleagues conducted their study using the Surgical Outcomes Collaborative database, an international registry comprised of de-identified data from 671 hospitals across six continents. The analysis included data on more than 96,000 patients hospitalized with COVID-19. This included almost 15,000 patients who had received the anti-malarial drug chloroquine or its analog hydroxyquinone with or without an antibiotic (macrolides such as azithromycin and clarithromycin) early after COVID-19 diagnosis. The study’s primary endpoint was death or discharge from the hospital.
Mehra and colleagues found that 10,698 patients taking one of these drug regimens died in the hospital (11.1 percent) and 85,334 survived to discharge. The team compared this death rate to that of a control group, after accounting for confounding variables, such as age, sex and underlying risk factors. The death rate among the control group was 9.3 percent. Each of the drug regimens of chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine alone, or in combination with a macrolide, was associated with an increased risk of in-hospital death with COVID-19.
In addition, each of the drug regimens was associated with an increase in the risk of ventricular arrhythmia. Among the treatment groups, between 4 and 8 percent of patients experienced a new ventricular arrhythmia, compared to 0.3 percent of patients in the control group.
Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have been known to cause cardiovascular toxicity and previous studies have shown that macrolides can increase the risk of sudden cardiac death. A preliminary analysis of patients in Brazil treated with chloroquine and an antibiotic has suggested a high dose of chloroquine may be a safety hazard. Results from randomized, controlled clinical trials are not expected until the summer.
The authors caution that the current study is observational in nature — this means that it cannot absolutely answer the question of whether the drug regimens were solely responsible for the changes in survival. Randomized clinical trials will be required before any conclusion can be reached regarding harm.
“These findings suggest that these drug regimens should not be used outside of the realm of clinical trials and urgent confirmation from randomized clinical trials is needed,” the authors conclude.
The development and maintenance of the Surgical Outcomes Collaborative database was funded by the Surgisphere Corporation. The present analysis was supported by the William Harvey Distinguished Chair in Advanced Cardiovascular Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston. Mehra reports no direct conflicts pertinent to the development of this paper. Other general conflicts include consulting relationships with Abbott, Medtronic, Janssen, Mesoblast, Portola, Bayer, NupulseCV, FineHeart, Leviticus, Roivant and Triple Gene. Dr. Desai is the founder of Surgisphere Corporation, Chicago. The other authors have no pertinent conflicts to report.
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When Groupon stormed onto the e-commerce scene in 2008 it sought to bring group buying to the U.S. But unlike in China, it never quite panned out as the company envisioned forcing it to pivot to coupons. Now, new research from Maryland Smith is examining why that happened and how companies can best implement the strategy.
Group buying – where a product or service discounts from a base price are made available during a predetermined sign-up window based on whether a certain number of consumers meet a sign-up threshold – has helped China’s top e-commerce platforms like Taobao, owned by the Alibaba Group, and JD generate millions of dollars of revenue. Pinduoduo, a platform that started in 2015 and focuses on group buying, has reached more than $60 Billion value with an annual revenue of $14.74 Billion in 2021.
Maryland Smith’s Tunay Tunca and 2017 PhD graduate Liu Ming, now an assistant professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Shenzhen, examined the conditions that helped make group buying so successful in China and developed a model that can help companies to design group buying events to implement them profitably.
One reason for group buying’s success disparity between the U.S. and China, Tunca notes, has to do with cultural consumer behavior differences. In the U.S., consumers are accustomed to paying sticker prices for goods and services, while active deal-seeking and bargaining are often reserved for larger purchases like houses and cars.
But group buying, Tunca says, is much better suited in countries with strong bargaining cultures, like China.
“People in the U.S. are more individualistic when it comes to their purchases. They don't necessarily want to advertise what they are buying or coordinate their shopping with other people,” says Tunca, Dean’s Professor of Management Science and Operations Management at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business. “In other cultures it's different. Spending the effort to get a discount or a better price is a normal part of everyday life.”
Taking those cultural issues into consideration is just the first step toward successfully implementing group buying, Tunca says. The next is designing the group buying process correctly to make it profitable.
Companies have to find a ‘sweet spot’ where the threshold for a deal materializing is not too high and they feel their efforts to get others to join in on the deal will not be a complete waste, he says, but not low enough so the customers will still have incentives to spend the effort to convince friends and family or in some cases online acquaintances to join the purchase, effectively acting as volunteer sales agents for the company.
The predominant way that is being manifested in China today, Tunca says, is through low thresholds and short time windows. For businesses like Pinduoduo in particular, that formula works especially well for small items with high purchase frequency, like groceries, and has been the main driver toward its current active user base of 850 million customers.
The model developed in this research, Tunca says, enables businesses to apply data from previous group buying sales, such as the number and patterns of customer sign-up rates, as well as purchasing behavior for comparable products that were sold through traditional methods, to help determine parameters such as base prices and deal discounts for future deals and improve profits.
“This is the first paper to demonstrate based on data that companies can employ group buying profitably by effectively incentivizing customers to help boost demand,” says Tunca. “Further, our analysis shows that by applying our model to help better design a group buying event, sellers could see their profits improve by more than 30% in some cases, which is substantial.”
Read More: “Consumer Equilibrium, Demand Effects, and Efficiency in Group Buying,” forthcoming in Manufacturing and Service Operations Management.
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“With little margin, lenders become more risk-averse, so indicators of credit tightness like the average fico score have ticked up as rates have gone down.” The Mortgage Bankers Association says.
A mortgage pre-qualification is not a pre-approval. Sometimes lenders offer pre-qualification to quickly estimate what you can afford however. Myth 2: “Without an excellent credit score, I won’t.
Shopping mortgage. rate will be higher. Your rate may vary Lenders also publish rates that have very specific prerequisites. "Those assumptions could be a specific loan-to-value – so a specific.
Ballon Mortgage Rates . to take thousands of American home buyers and refinancers for a balloon ride in June. The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.’s rollout here last week of a new short-term, discount-rate mortgage.Home Loans Low Interest Rates while mortgage rates are still historically low. The average interest rate on a conventional 30-year fixed-rate home loan is 3.95%. Remember, that’s the average cost of financing a home. Savvy.
Is your credit score good? If you’re in better financial. Bankrate’s mortgage rate tables are a good place to start looking at rates in your area. Calculate when you’ll break even on the new.
Mortgage Rates Are Based on Your Credit Score. Notice that the interest rate is a full 0.75% higher for a borrower with a 620 fico score versus a borrower with a 740+ FICO score. That can equate to a lot of money over time. One thing that determines what mortgage rate you’ll ultimately receive is credit scoring,
How Credit Score Affects Your Mortgage Rate – NerdWallet – A higher credit score earns you a lower mortgage rate, which means you’ll save by paying less in interest. Scores of 720 and up earn the best rates on conventional mortgages.. calculate your.
Mortgage rates for credit score 720 on Lender411 for 30-year fixed-rate mortgages are at 3.76%. That dropped from 3.78% to 3.76%. The 15-year fixed rates are now at 3.38%.
A high credit score is an essential financial tool that can help you in a lot of different ways, particularly when it comes to securing a mortgage. Since a high credit score will not only get you approved for the mortgage money you need, as well as a low-interest rate for your regular mortgage payments, it’s best to keep it in good shape.
15 Year Adjustable Rate Mortgage A fixed-rate mortgage is secure but may cost more at the beginning than an adjustable-rate mortgage. On the other hand, if rates go up, you’ll eventually be paying more for that adjustable-rate loan.
After determining the loan to value and the coverage amount, you have to find the pmi percentage that intersects with the credit score along the top of the chart. Using the above example, a loan to value of 95% with 30% coverage and a credit score of 720 to 759.
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A new unpublished history !
The main stages of the creation of the property
Michel Rouilhe, a master tailor, purchased the first vineyard in the « Pierre Plantade » district which gave the name to the property and around which the estate was to develop. He continued buying land for nearly 30 years, building walls to protect his crops and storing the wine in his house on Rue Droite in Aix-en-Provence.
First building & continuation of constructions
His first house, built in 1604, was modelled on the residence of his neighbour Jean Sala, Controller of the Chamber. Although it was designed as a country home, the house was ornamental in style and boasted a genoise overhang.
The grain threshing floor was built shortly afterward, to serve the prosperous farm.
But the family’s money ran out and they sold the house to the Dupont family, members of the Aix parliament, who in turn sold it in 1640 to two craftsmen: Honoré Vigne, a barrel-maker, and his son-in-law Noël Martin, a master shoemaker.
The building was in poor condition. It was not until 1696, when Noël’s grandson François, the first parliamentarian of the family, was grown up, that major works were carried out.
The present house and farm were built at that time, and almond trees, an apiary and a kitchen garden were added to the farm.
The name of Romegas
In 1724, after the marriage of François’ daughter Anne-Rose to Nicolas de Romégas, the estate passed to the family from which it takes its name. The gardens were enlarged and enhanced: mulberry trees were grown, and a silkworm nursery, a chapel, a wheel-operated well and a fishpond were built.
The kitchen garden provided garlic, marrows, melons, onions and water-melons.
Nicolas’ death was followed by a dark period which culminated in the Revolution, and the estate was confiscated as State property after the emigration of Joseph-François de Romégas, who died in Venice a few years later.
In 1795 it was bought by Jean-Alexis Mignet, a master-locksmith. All the plantings had to be renewed.
The renovation was spectacular
1820 - 1884
Evolution of the domain
The estate grew from two hectares to more than sixteen in 1820 at Mignet’s death, when he left it to his son-in-law, Etienne Michel. This was when the tèse* was created and the tall Aleppo pines planted.
The last major restoration of the buildings began in 1870, under the attentive management from Paris of François-Auguste Mignet, son of Alexis, a famous historian and a member of the Académie Française who took a keen interest in the history of the property.
The building adjoining the owner’s house, which until then had been the farmer’s lodging, now became the writer’s study. where he regularly came to work in the family home until his death in 1884.
* tèse : a place where women and children used to catch birds.
1960 - 2011
From post-war to today
The present parterre was laid out in front of the new façade. And then the property was largely abandoned with the two wars. From 1960 onwards new trees, such as cedars, were planted as part of an energetic restoration programme, and the property became a main residence in around 1985.
It is a listed historical monument, and since 2000 its present owner, a direct descendant of the Mignet family, has opened the gardens to the public.
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Capping director salary to no more than 10 times the lowest paid employee
Corresponding Charter Article
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Who can kill Deadpool
thanosDeadpool is immortal.
the only way to kill him would be through thanos removing the curse, then striking his healing factor with carbonadium OR complete atomization.
Although, marvel revealed they will be killing him..
Can Superman use Thor’s hammer
So, there you have it: yes, Superman is capable of wielding Mjolnir, although he was only seen to have done so on an emergency basis — and, in fact, it appears that Wonder Woman is more unconditionally worthy of the weapon than he.
Is Superman stronger than Hulk
Superman’s power source is also superior to the Hulk’s. While the Hulk has shown he can absorb ambient gamma radiation to boost his strength, Superman simply has more power sources to choose from.
Is Kryptonite The only way to kill Superman
Yes, in fact Superman has been defeated without Kryptonite plenty of times. Aside from kryptonite, Superman’s main weakness is red sun radiation.
Can Superman touch the sun
Superman P1M’s speed should be around 26,800,000,000,000,000,000 miles per hour (26.8 Quintillion mph) long story short, he is potential one of the fastest beings in DC. Superman’s heat vision can reach the heat of the core of the sun.
Can Goku kill Superman
while goku is extremely powerful, he would not be able to even hurt superman whose only weakness is magic and kryptonite. goku cannot use magic and if anything, the ki blasts are a form of uv light which would help superman. the only way he could defeat superman would be with the powerpole.
Why is Superman so weak in Man of Steel
Superman seems relatively weak while lifting an oil rig, perhaps because he has not done so before, so its his first time and he is not yet fully aware of his strength…, and perhaps he might be slightly out of shape, meaning that like any regular athlete, he needs to train himself so as to achieve his upper-body …
How is Superman immortal
There are strong indicators that Superman may also be immortal. Theoretically, so long as he has access to a constant source of yellow solar radiation, he will not age or die. In the continuity of the Smallville television series, it has been established that Clark Kent may live (seemingly) forever.
Can Thor beat Goku
In a fight against Goku, though, Thor wouldn’t come out on top. He’d have his electricity and his super strength, but when compared to a Super Saiyan, he just doesn’t measure up. He’d put up a decent fight (and that includes the lightning powers we saw in Thor: Ragnarok), but in the end, Goku is just more powerful.
What is the weakness of Superman
Green kryptonite 1951). Green kryptonite weakens Superman and other Kryptonians. It can and will kill them with long-term exposure. Kryptonians under green kryptonite’s effects experience severe muscular weakness, usually to the point of collapse, and excruciating pain, with both conditions progressively intensifying.
What can kill Superman Besides kryptonite
Here are 15 Things That Could Kill Superman.15 Doomsday.14 Red Sun Radiation.13 Mind Control.12 Batman.11 A Lois Lane Breakup.10 Magic.9 Kryptonite.8 A Neck-Snap.More items…•Jan 9, 2017
Which superhero can kill Superman
Captain Atom’s strength and durability are out of this world. So much so that Superman would have to try very hard in order to hurt him as his skin is almost invulnerable. Moreover, Captain Atom’s other strengths mean he can take down Superman without Kryptonite but it wouldn’t be that easy.
Can stormbreaker kill Superman
Stormbreaker isn’t easily cutting through any of them, but I’d say that it could definitely injure all of them. Comics Stormbreaker is harder to gauge, but I’d bet it could make the Hulk and Superman bleed.
Can Flash kill Superman
Not a literal God in the sense, but he basically is, because DC keeps making their characters OP. Anyway, Flash could kill Superman in a number of ways: Infinite mass punch. He could IMP Superman over and over again.
Can Thor beat Superman
1 Winner: Superman Yes, Thor has magic on his side and can hurt Superman. However, Superman has defeated magical foes in the past because he doesn’t just stand there and let them hit him with magic. … Superman is much faster than Thor and that’s going to help a lot in this fight.
Is Superman stronger than Thanos
Superman didn’t need to wear an Infinity Gauntlet to show he could move planets as Thanos did in Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War. Superman, on the other hand, has proven time and time again he can move planets with nothing more than his super-strength. …
Is Thor stronger than Superman
In terms of the power to lift and move large objects, Superman has a stronger edge against Thor. Thor may have been able to move objects that weigh as much as planets, but the Silver Age Superman not only pushed actual planets out of orbit all the time, but even went so far as to move entire galaxies on a whim.
What weapons can harm Superman
17 KRYPTONITE WEAPONS Superman’s trademark weakness is Kryptonite. A material made from ground back on Krypton, its effects now counteract how Earth’s atmosphere and the Sun’s rays changed Superman into a powerful hero. Just about any weapon that uses Kryptonite is an immediate threat to the Man of Steel.
Can Deadpool kill Superman
Deadpool cannot beat Superman in a one to one fight. Superman’s abilities are too vast and incredibly overpowered.
Can Cyborg beat Superman
There’s nothing inherently wrong about Cyborg being able to kill Superman a very specific way by using New God technology. It’s like Batman (or anyone) saying that they can kill Superman with Kryptonite: Technically true, but easier said than done. It takes five seconds for Cyborg to kill Superman with his sonics.
Is Superman weak to Chi
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Hiking on your period? It’s not only possible but we highly recommend it! We believe that having a period shouldn’t stop anyone from exploring the world and embarking on their next adventure. That’s why we’ve partnered with Peak Performance to make cleaning and caring for your menstrual cup in the wild, even easier.
Why you should enjoy the outdoors on your period
There is a stereotype that when we get our periods we need to snuggle up on the couch with a bucket of ice cream and wait for it to pass. If that’s your vibe, that’s ok! But there can be lots of benefits to getting your body moving during this phase of your menstrual cycle.
Research has shown that exercising during your period can actually help reduce period cramps - one of the most common symptoms people with periods face. Consistent, low intensity exercise seems to be best for keeping period pain at bay - which makes hiking the perfect activity! Exercise during your period can also help fight bloating and fatigue - two other symptoms that can really get you down at this time in your cycle.
It’s not only your physical health that can benefit from hiking during your period. As our period approaches, our hormones fluctuate which can lead to a dip in mood - aka PMS. Exercise is an amazing way to combat feelings of anxiety or depression, as with every work out endorphins (aka the happy hormones!) are released. The added benefit of hiking is that you not only get the endorphin hit from the exercise, but you are also spending time in the great outdoors. Research has shown that spending time in nature can have a positive impact on our mental health and wellbeing - and it’s true! I mean, what better way to distract yourself from a hormonal mood shift than soaking up the sun and enjoying some of the beautiful views you get whilst hiking?
How to manage your period whilst hiking
If you’re passionate about hiking and exploring nature, there’s a high chance you’ve got comfortable with going to the toilet in a bush occasionally! However, if you know your period is coming, you may be concerned about how to navigate that in the wild.
Traditional period care products aren’t ideal for a hiking adventure that lasts anymore than a few hours. Firstly there’s the space they take up in your backpack - and we all know you’re going to want to keep that as light as possible when trekking!
Then there’s the issue of disposing of them. Regular tampons can take between five hundred and a thousand years to decompose - so leaving them in the bush is not an option if you care about Mother Nature. The alternative? Carrying used tampons or pads around in your backpack until you find a waste bin. Again, not ideal for an avid explorer.
Benefits of menstrual cup
Many hikers favor using a menstrual cup when their period hits at the same time as their next trip - and with good reason!
The beauty of a menstrual cup is that you can reuse it - which gives you only one thing to worry about packing and carrying! You can also wear a menstrual cup for hours without changing it - depending on your flow - so you don’t have to stop too often or worry about leaks. And then of course, there’s the environmental impact. As a sustainable and reusable period care option, menstrual cups are one of the best ways to reduce waste - whether you’re hiking or just chilling at home on the couch.
How to keep a menstrual cup clean whilst hiking
Of course, safety and hygiene have got to come first when it comes to any hiking trip, and that includes your approach to period care - no one wants an infection ruining their adventure. Here's our tips:
- Plan ahead: Use the advantage of any toilet facilities. Even if you know the menstrual cup is not full yet and there is some kind of toilet facility, like a dry toilet, empty your cup in advance.
- Pay extra attention to hand hygiene
- Water quality and preparation
- As a rule of thumb, the quality of the water to be used for rinsing the menstrual cup should be the same as drinking water.
- TIP: have a small bottle for the water to rinse your menstrual cup ready at all times. Boil the water in advance in the Menstrual Cup Case or use filtered water to fill up the period dedicated water bottle.
Emptying the cup in a dry toilet without running water
- Sanitize your hands thoroughly before going to the toilet.
- Squat on the toilet floor or stand with one leg lifted and remove your cup. Avoid removing your cup on top of the toilet hole, if the cup slips from your hand and falls into the toilet, it might be impossible to get it back.
- Empty the menstrual blood into the toilet.
- Rinse your cup with the purified water over the toilet and/or wipe the cup clean with Lunette Cupwipes.
- Insert the Lunette Cup into the vagina again, squatting on the floor or standing with one leg lifted.
- If you are using Lunette Cupwipes, you can first clean your hands with the wipe and use the same wipe for the cup.
Emptying the cup without any facilities
- Dig a small hole to the ground as you would do when pooping without facilities.
- Sanitize your hands thoroughly.
- Squat on the ground or stand with one leg lifted to a rock if nearby and remove your cup.
- Empty the menstrual blood into the hole.
- Rinse your cup with the purified water over the hole and/or wipe the cup clean with Lunette Cupwipes.
- Insert the Lunette Cup into the vagina again, squatting on the ground or standing with one leg lifted.
- Cover the hole.
- If you use Cupwipes, either burn it (carefully, since the wipe contains alcohol) or store it in a plastic bag until you can dispose it.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump wore a mask during a visit to a military hospital on Saturday.
It's the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facial covering recommended by health officials as a precaution against spreading or becoming infected by the novel coronavirus.
Trump flew by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in suburban Washington to meet wounded service members and health care providers caring for COVID-19 patients.
As he left the White House, he told reporters: “When you’re in a hospital, especially ... I think it’s expected to wear a mask.”
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- Press Release
- August 12, 2022
New method speeds planning of space missions
Planning a mission to Jupiter, its moons and other destinations in the solar system has gotten quicker and easier, thanks to a Purdue University engineer.
James Longuski, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has developed a mathematical technique that takes hours or days instead of the usual months or even years to calculate the complex flight paths involved in planetary travel. The method has been applied to an upcoming mission to search for liquid water on the Jupiter moon Europa and will be discussed during a national conference in August. It has also been used to plan an escape route for the first human mission to Mars, in case of an Apollo 13 type of mishap that forces astronauts to abort their landing.
Spacecraft traveling to Jupiter, its moons and other bodies in the solar system can’t simply make a beeline to those places because a direct path would require too much fuel and rocket power. Instead, the craft follow complex, roundabout routes called “tours” that take them past various planets and moons. Those bodies provide “gravity assists,” commonly called “slingshot” trajectories, which enable the spacecraft to achieve the proper speed and heading.
A faster technique for mapping those trajectories is needed because space missions often require a series of several gravity assists from planetary bodies, precisely strung together in just the right way so that the spacecraft arrive properly at their final destinations. Engineers highly skilled in celestial mechanics may take months or even years to plan the complex tours, only to see their methodical calculations discarded because of launch delays that require entirely new tours to be calculated, possibly with little time to spare, Longuski says.
The new technique is different in two ways:
* It provides a graphical representation of the myriad possible paths that a spacecraft could take to a given destination. The graphing method could be likened to a map showing the numerous possible routes one could take to get to the same city.
* To compute details about each potential path, such as the travel time, distance and fuel consumption, Longuski used a software program called STOUR (pronounced Ess Tour), developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he worked in the 1980s. But Longuski and his students have now automated that program, making it work faster.
By looking at the graphs, engineers can quickly identify the routes that appear to be the best paths to a given destination; then STOUR is used to confirm whether those paths are, indeed, practical.
Longuski and his students have used the technique to design trajectories for the Europa Orbiter mission, scheduled tentatively for launch in 2006. Astronomers are excited at the prospect of possibly finding liquid water, and ultimately, perhaps some form of extraterrestrial life below Europa’s frozen crust, Longuski says.
The Purdue engineers will discuss the new graphing method in several talks during the Astrodynamics Specialist Conference and Exhibit, from Aug. 14 to 17 in Denver. The conference is co-sponsored by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Astronomical Society.
Much to Longuski’s surprise, the Purdue engineer has learned that the mathematical method he and his students devised for the graphical software was fundamentally not new at all. In the late 19th century, astronomer Francois Tisserand came up with the same mathematical formula to identify comets whose orbits had been perturbed by Jupiter. It was called Tisserand’s criterion.
Longuski showed his theorem to an engineer colleague who visited Purdue last year.
“He looked at it and said, ‘That’s Tisserand’s criterion,’ ” Longuski says. “We rediscovered it in a totally back-door way.”
When the Europa spacecraft reaches Jupiter, which is about 483 million miles from Earth, a rocket will be fired to prevent it from sailing past the Jovian system and to place it into an orbit around the planet. At that point, the spacecraft will begin a complex series of orbits around Jupiter and three of its moons. Before it can be placed into the proper orbit around Europa, it will have to undergo various slingshot maneuvers that gradually adjust its approach speed to that moon. The trick is to approach Europa at just the right speed and distance to place the spacecraft in orbit around the moon using the least amount of rocket fuel. While the trip from Earth to Jupiter will take about three years, it will take about two additional years before the spacecraft is finally in its proper orbit around Europa. During that time it will be orbiting Jupiter and flying past Europa and the moons Ganymede and Callisto. It will make about a dozen such “flybys,” each time coming close to a particular moon while completing an orbit around Jupiter in such a way that the probe’s speed and position will be strategically adjusted.
“We play this sort of ballistic billiard game of gravity assists with the moons to pump down the energy of the orbit,” Longuski says. “We can go to the computer and piece it together in an hour, doing something that a year ago you couldn’t have done if you had six months.”
STOUR automatically figures out the billions of possible ways the spacecraft could fly past the three moons and Jupiter, displaying graphs that show the orbital configurations that would result in the best final approach to Europa. The Purdue researchers are using the program to find the best combination of trajectories for the Europa spacecraft to follow after it arrives at Jupiter. The flyby tour will reduce the approach speed to Europa enough for engineers at Jet Propulsion Laboratory to begin maneuvers that will take the spacecraft out of orbit around Jupiter and into orbit around Europa.
Writer: Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, email@example.com
Related Web sites:
Conference Web Site: http://www.aiaa.org/calendar/gnc00prog.html
James Longuski’s Web Page: http://AAE.www.ecn.purdue.edu/AAE/Fac_Staff/Faculty/longuski
NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: A copy of papers related to this release are available from Emil Venere, 765-494-4709, firstname.lastname@example.org.
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They tell you that running a business is challenging, but they don’t tell you that vendor payments are one of the most consuming tasks.
As a business owner, you work with multiple clients and vendors, and making on-time payments is essential to keep the business going. It helps to build the trust and credibility of your brand in the market. Especially, international payout is more crucial and should be made in time to avoid any problems. If you are a fresh entrepreneur and not much aware of the payment process, read till the end to understand all tidbits of payments to vendors and suppliers.
What are Supplier Payments?
Being in a business involves money matters in the form of customer sales as well as vendor purchases. The payments between suppliers and companies are either based on credit, transfers or hand-to-hand payments. All of this process is regulated and appropriately managed to ensure none of the parties suffer a loss due to payment misunderstandings. The supplier payments are recorded through invoices usually cleared monthly. These invoices also sometimes carry the terms and conditions of vendor payments if stock is taken on credit. Proper record and management of supplier payment are critical for smooth business and dividend payout.
What are the Main Challenges of Paying Suppliers in Different Countries?
Managing hefty payments is a task in itself, and making payments to vendors in different countries requires more vigilance. While dropshipping and other quick business methods make life easy, they also come with proper payout responsibility. We are sharing a few problems that people usually face while making payments to international clients, if not through a reliable source.
While making a bulk payment in one part of the world from another, currency exchange is crucial. Sometimes the exchange rates might be higher than usual for you, or converting it could be troublesome. To eliminate all such possible issues, you must choose a reliable and trustworthy company that can manage all payments for you.
Forty-four percent of businesses are looking to add automation to their payables processes as a way to capitalize on the efficiency and cost-cutting due to hidden transaction fees and other reasons. If you are making the payments through an intermediate bank without going through the terms in detail, you might be paying extra hidden charges. While it is normal for banks to charge an amount for international transactions, yet some banks go over the board and charge a lot.
International payout Global mass payments carry not only financial but legal risks with them. As we know that the goods are not always bought on credit, and sometimes the advance payments can be quite high for bulk orders. Not being aware of the legal risks these transactions carry and how your goods or money can get stuck in that country might lead to mental and financial stress. While making payments to Latin America, understanding and complying with the laws eases and quickens the process.
Despite the swift American payment systems, payments to foreign suppliers can take more time. From the beginning of the process to the final transaction, manual international payout systems can be highly time-consuming. Moreover, usually, there are no tracking systems for international payments, and it gets difficult to ensure a safe transfer.
Frauds tag along when you mention money as money-related frauds are the most common globally. While all kinds of scams leave you at a loss, you are more susceptible while making international payments or receiving money. The fraud can be by the supplier himself or the intermediate source facilitating the payout.
How Does the Supplier Payments Operation Work?
To understand the need to automate the supplier payments operation for bulk payments, it is very important to know how the process works. Though the business and technology world has progressed immensely in the past few decades, a few systems have not been updated much. One such procedure includes local and international payout systems.
Some businesses have moved to automated systems to send bulk payments, but many use the traditional processes. The conventional supplier payment operation or Procure to Payment (P2P) process involves the following steps:
The initial step of the P2P process is to find out what your business needs from a particular vendor. The need identification is based on the remaining stock and demand of products by your customers. Improper identification of product requirements can lead to a crunch in the business.
Create and Approve Requisitions
Documenting the whole process is utterly vital for both the client and the supplier, and creating a requisition is the first document of the process. You should put down all the items of need in one place and create a requisition. You can either design a separate one for each of the vendors or create it collectively and send it to them individually. Make sure to counter-check the requisition letter before forwarding it to the vendor. If you are a business partner, you might need to show it to the other shareholders before creating a purchase order.
Choose a vendor
We don’t get to hear this much, but the success of e-commerce business is based highly on your vendor. Dropshipping businesses depend significantly on the vendor, and the least carelessness might land you in huge trouble. There are several ways of finding a supplier for your business, but the most common ones are:
– Request for quotation: Asking for quotations allows you to choose a vendor who provides the best market rate and offers a better profit. However, you cannot be sure about the quality of goods until you order and try.
– Word of mouth: You must have realized that the business world runs on word of mouth. Though we keep records of payments and credit items, yet trust matters a lot. If you are looking for a trustworthy vendor, asking a few others in your field can be a good idea. However, we suggest you not take suggestions from the competitors and do the proper research yourself. You can also ask some people about the vendor you choose through RFQ (Request for quotation) to connect with the best one.
The next step after choosing a vendor is making an order. But would you just place the order right away? Ask your vendor to invoice you according to the number of goods you are ordering and check that invoice. Remember that this invoice is not necessarily the final invoice every time. You might think of bargaining later, depending on the quality of goods received.
If you are working on a credit basis, the supplier will provide you the services before making payment. You can decide if it is worth the cost or try to bring the price down on receiving the product or service. Usually, such discussions between the vendor and the client conclude at a middle point with a mutually agreeable payout.
Send Purchase Order
On finalizing the goods and their quality, a product order is sent to the vendor acknowledging that we are making an order and ready to pay for the service/product. The purchase order should be made only when you both agree to the terms mutually regarding delivery and payment.
Go through the invoice properly before paying the vendor to avoid any errors. Check the vendor pay and the payment terms properly beforehand. Once sure, authorize the invoice and release payment to the vendor. Track the process and stay in touch until your supplier receives the compensation. However, you can experience hassle-free international payout systems and pay vendors in Brazil, Mexico and Chile through EBANX Payout.
Keep a Record
As much as trust is vital in business, keeping a record comes into play to preserve it. You cannot succeed if you do not record every penny you spend and every penny you earn. It allows you to calculate the profits and maintain a record of payments done and payments to be made.
How Can You Automate Supplier Payment Operations?
Supplier payments, also known as AP (accounts payable), are crucial for businesses, whether small or multinational. With so many other tasks to manage, organizations are moving towards automated systems for vendor payments. Automation of the whole process involves computerizing it at different steps to shed off the workload.
Data entry is an essential part of business, especially for large-scale firms. But, it is also the most time-consuming and among the boring tasks in the office. Instead of restricting a person to data entry, you can explore their skills while the computer enters the data for you.
Ditching data entry wholly is not the best idea as it helps you keep in touch with the trends and decide your strategies. Usually, the processes end up at payment, but data entry plays a much-extended role. To make the process fast and error-free, automate it using software and get a quicker dividend payout system.
In this fast-paced world, quick assessment and processing are important to keep up with the business world. If you were stuck with invoices most of the time, managing time would not be the easiest for you. Working with various international clients and making vendor payments comes with invoices of all kinds, from PDFs, DOCX, e-mails, or even handwritten ones. Here too, OCR comes in handy and scans the invoices for easy processing.
However, if you think that this complete process is also quite time-taking, you are correct. OCR can help you to some extent, but managing paper invoices still adds more workload. One solution can be contacting your supplier and asking them for electronic invoices instead of paper for International payout systems. The implementation of software for e-invoicing also allows you to bookmark important files and sometimes perform analysis as well.
Approvals and Record
A major con of paper invoices and payment comprises the loss of documents while transferring from one department to another. Converting the accounts payable vendor pay to online systems can prevent the loss of documents and result in safe record keeping where everyone has one copy of the document saved. The automated process follows the same pattern from the initiation of a purchase order to the manager and then to the finance department to release the payment. Any issues in handwritten orders and letters can be avoided resulting in convenient approvals.
As we have mentioned, error-free and fast-paced work management, automated bulk payments contribute to easy verification of invoices. It is not an unknown instance that we sometimes receive invoices that do not match what we order. Though the invoices are checked thoroughly before letting out payments, it is possible to overlook an item and pay for it. When you realize it later, it is too late for any amendments. To avoid such problems, automated International payout Global mass payments play a vital role and are saviors. They pick out the slightest mistakes in order and payment invoice before processing it further.
What are the Benefits of Automating the Entire Supplier Payments Operation with Bulk Payments?
Henry Paulson mentioned, “Payment systems are critically important for overall market stability. On a typical business day, US payment and settlement systems settle transactions valued at over $13 trillion.” A significant number of these transactions are yet not automated and consume more time than they should. Automated supplier payments operation comes with numerous benefits like:
Business is all about finding better ways to make money and reduce costs. According to the Institute of Finance and Management, one invoice can cost up to as much as $21, including shipment, labor, and other factors. While you already know that shifting to e-invoicing and automated AP reduces labor costs, it can help you save up to 85% of the money spent on physical invoices.
A survey in 2019 by AFP Payments Fraud and Control Survey revealed that 81% of people suffered from payment fraud in one way or another. These include duplicate payments and billing, false invoices, and fraud transactions. These kind of frauds can be avoided through automated payout to vendors and suppliers. The software points out duplicate billing attempts, extra charges, or fishy activity in the P2P process, saving you from fraud.
If you wonder that a one-model-fits-all system would not be right for you, the e-invoice software comes with specifications for your business. You can adjust the software as per your needs and add the specs you are looking for. From designing and verifying the invoices to getting them approves, each step is customizable.
Full-view of the Process
When the vendor receipt payments are made through manual processes, you do not have the record at one sight. While every step is documented, yet everyone doesn’t have access to the details every time. To make the record visible and accessible, International payout systems and bulk payment services play a vital role. You get full closure and a record of different stages of the process.
Better Customer Service
With improved and error-free invoicing, your customers would be more satisfied with your payment methods and result in more business. Many clients and suppliers do not prefer working with organizations consistent with paying foreign suppliers without many issues.
Harmony in Workplace
We all have experienced a stressful environment and troubles in the workplace due to the mishandling of invoices. The departments usually consider each other responsible for the carelessness, and a blame-game begins. With reduced chances of errors and an automated supplier payments operation, the employees and heads of departments work in harmony. Improved collaboration among the departments results in better productivity and more business ultimately.
Did you know that many vendors offer early payout discounts? Yes, they do. It is estimated that around 80% of suppliers offer early pay discounts, and you can take the benefit by automating bulk payment for vendor payments.
How long does the automated process take?
While the International payout systems are automated, they still need approval for payout to payment recipient, and the process depends on the approval time. However, if the procedure is smooth and timely, you can automatically make payments as early as two weeks.
Which details must be considered in the invoice?
When you receive an invoice, you must make sure that it contains all the necessary details, including
• Name of supplier
• Name of the payee (if different)
• Vendor code
• Payment remit address
• Purchase order number
What should be the maximum time limit for payments?
Usually, the payment matters, and the least and most amounts of time to be taken are discussed in the agreement. Yet, paying foreign suppliers within one month of invoice generation is a good practice. And remember, you can avail yourself of discounts on early bulk payments if your vendor offers.
With the advancements in technology, paper invoices and manual processing do not seem to be a part of business finances in the+ future. To move at the same pace with others, adapting to the changes should not be overlooked.
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The main aim of Agile Methodology is to get deliverable ready after every sprint which could range from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. For this, the complete project team works together to make sure everything that is being worked on is according to requirements at all times. Delivering a working system after every sprint also enables feedback that much more quickly.
Thus, the agile methodology enables the project team to ascertain that the product is being developed according to client’s requirements after every sprint and leads to a swift resolution of any deviations.
For proper feedback, the clients should be able to correctly review the deliverables and hence, it is essential that they don’t get caught up in minor or major bugs. Such bugs could lead the clients to not trust the quality of development and could hinder their ability to review the application correctly to provide thorough feedback. This is where the testers come in handy.
The advantages of involving testing in agile software development methodology from the start are:
The testers ensure every deliverable meets a certain quality standard.
Clients trust the team for delivering a quality deliverable every single time
Involvement of testers from the start means no confusion regarding the functionality in the end.
No need to wait for big surprises in the form of major bugs until the end of the development cycle.
Early involvement of Testing in software development means a well-reviewed and tested product overall.
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Ethiopia and the World Bank last week signed two financing agreements amounting a combined total of 715 million US dollars, according to the Ministry of Finance.
The first $600 million agreement will finance the implementation of the Food Systems Resilience Program (FSRP) in the country.
The second $115 million agreement in the form of Grant for the implementation of de-risking, inclusion and value enhancement of pastoral economies in the Horn of Africa project or DRIVE.
“The resource from the first Financing Agreement will be used to finance increasing the resilience of food systems and preparedness for food insecurity in project areas in the country,” said the ministry of Finance.
The ministry also said the finance for DRIVE Project will also be used to enhance pastoralists’ access to financial services for drought risk mitigation.
Also read: Global Center on Adaptation to help Ethiopia small farmers adapt to climate and food security
The project will include Ethiopian pastorialists in the value chains, and facilitate the livestock trade in the Horn of Africa, it added.
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This wonderful country called India is known to be the hub of religious and spiritual tourism. It is inhabited by people of several religious faiths. The country, thus houses various places of worship such as temples, mosques, gurudwaras, churches, mosques etc. A visit to these pilgrimage sites of India is truly a divine experience.
Tourism of India has carefully crafted pilgrimage tours in India to Haridwar, Jyotirlinga destinations, Amarnath, Kailash Mansarovar, Mathura, Char Dham destinations, Buddhist destinations, Vaishno Devi, Shirdi, Sikh destinations and several other religious destinations so that you can seek the blessings of your lord and pay homage.
You can pick a site as per your religious faith or can pick a destination related to another religion for getting a sneak-peak into their faiths and beliefs. The options are unending and include Dalai Lama’s home-in-exile- Dharamshala, the revered Sikh City- Amritsar, World’s Yoga Capital- Rishikesh, Hindu’s most revered Char Dham, one of India’s oldest city- Varanasi, the abode of Lord Shiva- Kailash Mansarovar, the stunning temples of Tamil Nadu and many more.
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Have your product or service tested in the field!
Field marketing covers the marketing communication and event activities that are carried out in your points of sale or in the high street. The main aims are to increase brand awareness and to introduce people to a specific product or service.
A few ways to activate your brand:
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- Sales events in and outside points of sale
- Tasting stands
- POS advertising and merchandising
- Guerrilla marketing
- Street marketing
- Roadshows...- And much more
Expansion’s added value
Expansion can set up many different types of high added-value actions for your brand from start to finish.
- Determination of the best strategy to adopt, based on your briefing
- Thought about the best venues for this strategy
- Creation of sales media (stand, flyers, advertising items…)
- Provision of proactive promoters, demonstrators, hostesses, parking stewards, etc., trained in the use of your product/service to serve as genuine ambassadors for your brand out in the field.
- Drafting of detailed reports on meeting your objectives
To highlight your brand, product, or service most effectively!
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Data Center Cooling Market 2022 Share, Size, Growth, Trends and Forecast 2027
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According to the latest report by IMARC Group, titled “Data Center Cooling Market Share: Global Industry Trends Size, Growth, Opportunity and Forecast 2022-2027,” the global data center cooling market reached a value of US$ 11.4 Billion in 2021. Looking forward, IMARC Group expects the market to reach US$ 26.5 Billion by 2027, exhibiting at a CAGR of 14.4% during 2022-2027.
We are regularly tracking the direct effect of COVID-19 on the market, along with the indirect influence of associated industries. These observations will be integrated into the report.
Data center cooling refers to a system of techniques, tools, equipment, and processes that help maintain environmental conditions necessary for the proper and smooth functioning of information technology (IT) equipment. It also assists in minimizing the heat dissipation of equipment by transferring the excess heat into the external atmosphere. It improves the overall efficiency and performance of the system by optimizing the airflow path and reducing downtime caused due to overheating. It is currently widely adopted by data center operators as it is environment-friendly, cost-effective, and energy-efficient.
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Increasing construction of data centers worldwide to store massive amounts of data is one of the key factors creating a positive outlook for the market. Apart from this, the rising demand for high computing performance, artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (IoT), cloud-based services, and other digital technologies is contributing to the market growth. Moreover, governing agencies of various countries are implementing environmental regulations to eliminate hazardous gas emissions and improve the overall power consumption efficiency of data center operations, which is anticipated to drive the market.
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List of Key Companies Covered in this Market Report:
- Airedale International Air Conditioning
- Black Box Corporation
- Climaveneta Climate Technologies
- Emerson Electric
- Fujitsu, Hitachi, Netmagic
- Nortek Air Solutions
- Schneider Electric,
- STULZ GmbH
Breakup by Solution:
- Air Conditioning
- Chilling Units
- Cooling Towers
- Economizer Systems
- Liquid Cooling Systems
- Control Systems
Breakup by Services:
- Installation and Deployment
- Maintenance and Support
Breakup by Type of Cooling:
- Room-Based Cooling
- Row-Based Cooling
- Rack-Based Cooling
Breakup by Cooling Technology:
- Liquid-Based Cooling
- Air-Based Cooling
Breakup by Type of Data Center:
- Mid-Sized Data Centers
- Enterprise Data Centers
- Large Data Centers
Breakup by Vertical:
- IT and Telecom
- Research and Education Institutions
- Government and Defense
Breakup by Geography:
- North America (U.S. & Canada)
- Europe (Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Russia, and Others)
- Asia Pacific (China, India, Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Australia, and Others)
- Latin America (Brazil, Mexico)
- Middle East & Africa
Key highlights of the report:
- Market Performance (2016-2021)
- Market Outlook (2022- 2027)
- Porter’s Five Forces Analysis
- Market Drivers and Success Factors
- SWOT Analysis
- Value Chain
- Comprehensive Mapping of the Competitive Landscape
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The West Bromwich Guardians built a new separate Infirmary in 1884
In 1867, the Metropolitan Poor Law Act provided for separate administration for the Poor Law Infirmaries.
In 1884, the West Bromwich Guardians built a new separate Infirmary and from then on continual improvements were made.
In 1927, a Nurses Home was erected with tennis courts at the front and gardens at the rear.
The Infirmary continued to grow and became later known as Hallam Hospital. It is now the home of Sandwell N.H.S. Trust.
The Local Government Act of 1929 abolished Boards of Guardians and the authority passed to the Local Councils.
West Bromwich Infirmary (Hallam Hospital) passed to the Public Health Committee.
The District School (Wigmore) passed to the Education Committee.
The Workhouse (Hallam House) passed to the Public Assistance Committee and was eventually closed in 1937.
Today the only building surviving of the Workhouse is the Guardians Boardroom, which can be seen as part of the hospital complex.
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ما يقوله الناس - كتابة مراجعة
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الصفحة 320 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
الصفحة 319 - HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night-raven sings ; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
الصفحة 324 - In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
الصفحة 332 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
الصفحة 121 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
الصفحة 330 - And, when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, or monumental oak, Where the rude axe, with heaved stroke, Was never heard the nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallowed haunt.
الصفحة 36 - And straight conjunction with this sex: for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake, Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness ; but shall see her gain'd By a far worse, or, if she love, withheld By parents, or his happiest choice too late Shall meet, already link'd and wedlock-bound To a fell adversary, his hate or shame; Which infinite calamity shall cause To human life, and household peace confound.
الصفحة 302 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung, And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
الصفحة 306 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
الصفحة 305 - The lonely mountains o'er And the resounding shore A voice of weeping heard, and loud lament; From haunted spring and dale Edged with poplar pale The parting Genius is with sighing sent; With flower-inwoven tresses torn The Nymphs in twilight shade of tangled thickets mourn. | <urn:uuid:9d954d37-f763-4bea-b3c2-f2101214c8fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://books.google.com.eg/books?id=kwERAAAAIAAJ&vq=%22Hail+bounteous+May+that+dost+inspire+Mirth+and+youth+and+warm+desire+%3B+Woods+and+groves+are+of+thy+dressing,%22&dq=editions:ISBN0013106716&lr=&hl=ar&output=html_text&source=gbs_navlinks_s | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.814733 | 1,030 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Barbados Youth Leaders Participate In National Consultations On Development Of 2020 CARICOM Strategic Plan
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade of Barbados, on Tuesday, 10 March 2020, hosted youth leaders to provide input for the development of the Results-focused Community Strategic Plan 2020.
The specially convened national consultation brought together youth leaders from the secondary level of the country’s education system; the University of the West Indies; Barbados’ CARICOM Youth Ambassadors, Chad Monerville and Tirshatha Jeffrey; and vulnerable communities, including the differently-abled.
The youths participated with energy and enthusiasm as they expressed their views on CARICOM affairs. The CARICOM Secretariat provided technical guidance and played a coordinating role in facilitating the consultation.
The youths were organised into focus groups to consider and propose issues that should be prioritised in the 2020 Community Strategic Plan. They recommended activities and actions that would assist in addressing the issues they highlighted, such as mainstreaming inclusiveness of all citizens including persons with disabilities, and other marginalised groups in public policy and strategy formulation and implementation, and representation of youth in governance at national and regional levels.
Other strategic issues discussed and highlighted by the young people included the development of harmonized data protection; a privacy and cybersecurity regional model policy; an integrated building code for the Community; improved communication and information sharing on the results of the required integration development agenda; annual publication and Community-wide dissemination of annual reports of the Regional Institutions; and greater democratization of information to enable timely and wide-scale sharing of Community policies, strategies, initiatives and outcomes to all citizens of the Community, utilising social media and other channels.
The interaction followed the national launch of Barbados ‘I AM CARICOM’ Campaign involving the nation’s youths on Wednesday 12 February 2020.
I AM CARICOM Campaign
The ‘I AM CARICOM’ Campaign was recognized as an important vehicle that will enable greater visibility and information sharing, increased understanding and participation in the CARICOM construct, governance, policies, strategies and plans of the Caribbean Community. The Campaign places citizens of the Community at the centre, and thus, has been personalized to not only reflect the lived experience of the people of the Region, but to increase understanding among Caribbean people that CARICOM is about all of us, our successes, challenges and progress.
The Campaign seeks to effectively and efficiently reach and engage all stakeholders, especially the general public, to create awareness and take ownership of the new Results-focused Community Strategic Plan for 2020, as well as to facilitate continuing dialogue between the Implementing partners and citizens of the Community where perspectives and information on the scope, issues, process, expected deliverables, and benefits and implications for citizens can be shared.
It is designed to utilise the channels of print media, television, radio, social media, popular entertainment artists and sports personalities and social media influencers to reach the primary target audiences of the general public throughout the Community. The Campaign also seeks to increase the involvement of citizens in the decision-making processes of the Community by, among other things, encouraging them to participate in the National Consultations now underway to inform the development of the Strategic Plan which identifies the priorities of the Community over the next implementing period. The Campaign will be implemented over the life of the New Community Strategic Plan as part of a sustained thrust to ensure that Community Stakeholders participate fully in efforts aimed at developing and implementing a results-oriented culture across the Caribbean Community. | <urn:uuid:c6bdd56c-49ec-42c0-9460-1f50dd8b6f08> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://today.caricom.org/2020/03/20/barbados-youth-leaders-participate-in-national-consultations-on-development-of-2020-caricom-strategic-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925086 | 716 | 1.648438 | 2 |
The Students Willingness and Learning Attitudes Toward Speaking Skill
The purpose of this research is to find out whether or not there was a correlation between the students’ willingness to communicate, and learning attitudes toward speaking skill. This research used a quantitative correlation to find the relationship between the variables. This study’s population consisted of 147 students. The purposive sampling method was used to obtain the sample for this study, which consisted of 25 students from XI IPS 2 and XI IPS 3 classes. The instruments used to obtain data were questionnaires and online test. The questionnaire utilizes a google form with 10 statements and five answers in each statement to assess students’ willingness to communicate, and learning attitudes. The second, test is to obtain the results of each student’s speaking skill, which are recorded. Normality test, homogeneity test, linearity test, bivariate test, multiple correlation equation, and hypothesis test are used to analyze data. Based on data analysis, the multiple regression equation obtained 1.14, implying that there is a very strong relationship between willingness to communicate, and learning attitudes toward speaking skills. | <urn:uuid:2ff909f9-e383-40cf-a775-116c21c697a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ojs.umrah.ac.id/index.php/juliet/article/view/3686 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936015 | 234 | 2.5 | 2 |
HAIR & BEAUTY
If you are looking for a rewarding and diverse career that can bring you not only creativity, glamour and excitement, but the real rewards of hard work and dedication, then this is the industry for you. 0.87% of the total UK workforce is made up of the hair and beauty industry.
The hair and beauty industry employs more than 245,000 people and has an annual turnover in the region of £6.2 billion.
Many people working in the sector, 42%, are self-employed, so if you like the ideas of working for yourself, a hair and beauty qualification could be the start of your very own enterprise.
This is an incredibly diverse and exciting sector to work within. There are so many different opportunities available, so if you like meeting people and are creative and have a flair for design this could be the sector for you!
Many local training providers offer a wide range of training and qualifications to support you in gaining the job you want – everything from Barber to Hairdresser, to Spa Manager and Beautician, through to Nail Technician and Aromatherapist. Visit our members page where you can access more information on specific providers. | <urn:uuid:29d32e08-033d-44c0-8c2b-62b54aa34622> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://trainingprovider.com/hair-beauty/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957033 | 243 | 1.664063 | 2 |
John M. McLeod arrived in Montreal in March 1816, having signed a six-year contract with the North West Company. He first served as a clerk on the Churchill River and was probably the one who hailed Governor George Simpson* of the Hudson’s Bay Company at Grand Rapids (Man.) in June 1821 with news of their companies’ coalition. Joining the HBC, McLeod was appointed clerk at Île-à-la-Crosse (Sask.). Frequently referred to in company records as John McLeod Jr, to distinguish him from Chief Trader John McLeod, he was transferred in 1822 to the Athabasca district and accompanied Simpson that autumn from York Factory (Man.) to Fort Chipewyan (Alta). The governor appraised him as a “decent young man but not such a sharp fellow as I took him for, he is thoughtless and requires to be kept at a distance which is done.” By the time they had reached Fort Chipewyan in late December, Simpson had to surrender him unexpectedly to the needs of the Mackenzie River district. He then recommended McLeod to Chief Trader Alexander Roderick McLeod in January as a “young Gentleman of much promise . . . and I am much mistaken if he does not turn out a valuable acquisition to your staff.”
McLeod arrived in the district in March 1823 and would remain there for 12 years, excelling in “voyages of discovery.” Simpson had specified that its trade be expanded westward and that Indian tribes be contacted to check the flow of furs to the Russians on the northwest Pacific coast. McLeod spent the summers of 1823 and 1824 exploring nine mountain ranges adjacent to the South Nahanni River (N.W.T.). He encountered the Nahanis, agreed on a rendezvous with them, and was praised for his “indefatigable exertions” in this initiative. McLeod served primarily at Fort Simpson (N.W.T.) until 1832, often as sole manager and with the full confidence of the frequently absent chief factor, Edward Smith. In the summer of 1831 he set out to find the source of the Liard River’s west branch (Dease River, B.C.), note a possible location for a post, and identify the source of any river running to the coast. On this successful journey he covered about 500 miles and met for the first time five Indian tribes.
That summer Simpson decided to transfer McLeod to the king’s posts in the Montreal department because of his “steady habits of business and correct conduct.” Although displeased, McLeod dutifully left with the spring express in 1832. Simpson described him then in his famous “Character book” as an “active well behaved Man of tolerable Education. Speaks Cree, understands a little Chipewyan is an excellent Trader and has of late been employed on Severe exploring Service.” Edward Smith and Alexander Roderick McLeod interceded on his behalf and persuaded Simpson to order him back to “where he can be more useful at present than any where else.”
By the summer of 1833 McLeod had returned to the Mackenzie River district and was assigned to move Fort Halkett to a new location (near Coal River, B.C.), on the west branch of the Liard. From that post in 1834, the year in which he was promoted chief trader, he undertook a more difficult expedition up the west branch, covering 311 miles of “hitherto unknown country” to Dease Lake. From there he travelled to the Stikine River, where he found evidence of trading by coastal Indians. However, Simpson had decided that exploration in this region should cease because it was too expensive and too slow. Furthermore, he instructed the district to reduce its employees. Stationed at Rivière-au-Liard (Fort Liard, N.W.T.) in 1835, McLeod did not expect to be transferred but in June he left for the Columbia district.
John McLoughlin*, the chief factor at Fort Vancouver (Vancouver, Wash.), chose McLeod in 1836 to lead a trading outfit southwest into the Snake River country and to head the delicate operation of meeting American traders there in order to sell them HBC supplies. He was treated “coolly” by them, but achieved “every object” McLoughlin had in mind, particularly the maintenance of the HBC’s control of trade, and was sent back to the American rendezvous, near Green River (Wyo.), in 1837. The following year he boarded the HBC schooner Cadboro to search for the company’s trappers lost near the Sacramento River valley (Calif.); assisted by the Russians at Bodega Bay and Mexican officials, he found them. While at Bodega Bay, he informally discussed with the Russian American Company’s chief manager, Ivan Antonovich Kupreianov, the affairs of their two companies.
McLeod had no permanent position in the Columbia district and he left on furlough in 1840. He took a leave of absence the following year, retired from HBC service in 1842 at 47 years of age, and appears to have returned to Great Britain. McLeod’s 26 years as a fur trader were highlighted by his zeal and success in exploring the territory adjacent to the Liard River and its tributaries. Mount McLeod, west of Dease Lake, was named after him.
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The social advancement of German Jews in the 19th century has often been described by historians as a process of embourgeoisement. Many studies have been devoted to the role of bourgeois institutions for the acculturation of German Jewry. In contrast, the impact of the courts on German Jews in the 19th century has been rather neglected. The article addresses the role of the court theatres with regard to the entry of Jews into the music profession. It is argued that the courts played a pivotal role in this process by hiring Jewish musicians as early as in the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. Special focus is placed on the case of the Darmstadt court theatre. Additional examples suggest that this pattern can also be found outside Germany.
|Translated title of the contribution||How "courtly" was the embourgeoisement of German Jews? A study on the role of court music and court theatres in German-Jewish history|
|Number of pages||32|
|Journal||Geschichte und Gesellschaft|
|State||Published - 2010|
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Psychology continues to be one of the most popular fields of study at colleges and universities the world over, and Introduction to Psychology offers a comprehensive overview of the historical, methodological, and conceptual core of modern psychology. This textbook enables students to gain foundational knowledge of psychological investigation, exploring both the biological basis and mental processes underlying our thoughts and behaviors. Officially endorsed by the British Psychological Society, this book covers topics ranging from biological, cognitive and developmental psychology to the psychology of social interactions, psychopathology and mental health treatments. Each chapter provides detailed examination of essential topics, chapter summaries, real-world case studies, descriptions of research methods, and interactive learning activities to strengthen student comprehension and retention.
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Mike Salway took this picture with his DMK 21AU04.AS astronomy camera on 21.03, and made the animation with 8 frames out of the image sequence afterwards.
Here is the detailed info on this job:
On Sunday morning, I was able to capture my first Jupiter moon transit for the season, with the volcanic moon Io transiting the gas giant. I also took the opportunity to create my first Jupiter animation for the season, hopefully the first of many to come.
It was another busy morning (like Friday morning) with an ISS pass, a lovely crescent Moon and then of course Jupiter. Seeing was quite reasonable, and improved as Jupiter climbed out of the muck, reaching an altitude of about
39° literally 5 minutes before sunrise when I captured my last image. The sky was already blue and by this time I could only just see Jupiter naked eye.
The attached image is the best from the session, taken 10 minutes before sunrise and shows Io just about to leave the disc of Jupiter. Oval BA is rising on the right.
I captured 8 frames to create an animation, and you can see the seeing improves as Jupiter gets higher in the sky over the 1 hour of capture time. The first frame shows Io's shadow just leaving the disc.
To read more and see the animation, click here: Jupiter and Io Transit Animation - 21st March 2009
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KEY SCRIPTURE Joh 6:62 KJV” What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?”
The Lord realised His disciples were murmuring when He talked about, they eating His flesh to have life. The Lord said, if this was offensive to them, then what would they say and do when they saw Him ascend into the heavens? Why would the ascension create a stir for the disciples? The ascension of Jesus is purely a supernatural and inexplainable but an event that explains lots of truths for the Christian to be firmly established in his faith. The following is Luke’s account in his second narrative of the acts of Jesus after His resurrection. Acts 1:9 KJV” And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.”
The following are some of the significance of ascension to the believer and unbeliever as well.
1. The ascension defies the scientific law of gravity and no man has died, resurrected and ascended into the heavens but Jesus.
2.The ascension reveals there is a heaven somewhere. Jesus was seen by about one hundred and twenty disciples, who were ready to testify of what they had seen, to the point of dying for their testimony. It meant, it really occurred. There is a heaven, which is the habitation of God the Father, the Holy angels and the spirits of our departed faithful Christians. Hebrews 6:20 KJV” Whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.” We have a certain hope that makes us stand faithfully for the tenants of our faith, even in very trying moments, for our master and Lord has evidently entered into heaven.
His ascension into heaven also points to the fact that He would come back again. Acts 1:11 KJV” Which also said, Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing up into heaven? this same Jesus, which is taken up from you into heaven, shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven.” After the Lord had ascended into the heavens two men in white apparel stood in the midst of the bewildered disciples who were gazing into the heavens, and made the above statement to them. Jesus will come back and all men shall see him. This event is different from the rapture of the church. During the rapture, the Lord will appear in the skies and the Christians who are dead, will be raised whiles those who are alive will be changed in a moment and join the Lord in the skies.
His ascension tells everyman who has not given his life over to Jesus to be aware that just as there is a heaven for all true believers, there is a hell for anyone who would not accept the Lord Jesus. There is a sure place where the spirits of sinners are tormented, called hell. There would be a final judgement where, hell and all sinners would be cast into the lake of fire.
THOUGHT: THE ASCENSION IS A FACT, AND LEAVES US AN UNDISPUTABLE HOPE FOR OUR FAITH
1Thess 4:16 KJV” For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.”
Rev 21:8 KJV” But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.” | <urn:uuid:84bcd5ab-8ddb-4748-b46f-37317ab9031c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://samuelsomuah.com/2022/05/10/christ-heavenly-ascension/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972677 | 832 | 1.953125 | 2 |
Do you feel like the last three months of the year are a blur? The time between Thanksgiving and Christmas and the dropping of the ball at New Year’s Eve goes by very fast. It’s often party central with friends and family, right? What if one of these parties was to fundraise for a good cause? It would make your gathering extra special AND do some good for the community. The Big Social is that cause to raise money AND awareness to resolve the problem of food insecurity – one dinner party at a time.
What is The Big Social?
The Big Social is a party that you host. It could be brunch, dinner, open house at school or cocktails at work — anything you can dream it to be. You invite your friends to a meal, and instead of bringing a hostess gift or a bottle of wine, you fundraise for a good cause. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Here’s how:
- Pick a date between November 1 and 10.
- Register your event here.
- Set a theme for your party and a fundraising goal.
- Invite your friends to sample your culinary delights (or misadventures – there’s no judging at your party)
- Instead of bringing you a gift, ask them to donate to a good cause.
- Have a fabulous time, take lots of pictures, eat good food and feel good.
What is food insecurity?
Oxford dictionary defines food security as “the state of being without reliable access to a sufficient quantity of affordable, nutritious food.” According to Statistics Canada, food insecurity exists within a household when one or more members do not have access to the variety or quantity of food that they need due to lack of money. In Canada, that’s about 4 million people! Hold on it gets worse! This insecurity exists in a country where about 58 percent of the food produced is either lost or wasted. This paradox in how we grow our food, how we consume it, and the circumstances where we throw away more than half of it, exacerbates the situation for so many families.
People with food insecurity also tend to be in poor health, have physical and/or mental disabilities and may suffer from depression. This, in turn, limits their ability to find or hold on to stable, long-term employment. It becomes a vicious cycle that repeats itself.
What can we do?
Host a party for starters. Or attend your friend’s party and encourage them to donate to a good cause. You would be amazed how far a small amount can go towards feeding people a healthy, nutritious meal. And if you are busy and can’t host an event, you can still make a tax-deductible general donation here.
But let’s not stop there. Food insecurity is a problem that needs to be attacked from both sides. Take a long, hard look at your kitchen and pantry. Have you fallen into the trap of food waste? None of us consciously chooses to throw away good food, but often our work routines and life choices get in the way of good intentions.
Make a commitment to reduce food waste from your kitchen. Check out my public initiative where I share tips on how to reduce food waste. It’s such a huge problem I even addressed it in my recent TV segment here.
They say “a problem shared is a problem solved.” Let’s share this burden too. Throw a party, donate to a good cause, and let’s work together for better food for all. | <urn:uuid:64132753-3f9c-4209-99c4-bb13986a2d75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mapleandmarigold.com/the-big-social-fundraise-for-a-good-cause/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947959 | 740 | 2.21875 | 2 |
This video shows how to start using ApexSQL Unit Test. After installing and integrating with SQL Server Management Studio, a sample database and a Demo Kit options allow the user to try out the add-in on pre-defined databases and with a set of pre-defined unit tests. This will give an overview of the main features including the installation of the tSQLt framework and running unit tests. Once the main features are reviewed, the user can add a database in the Unit test explorer tab, by installing the tSQLt framework as well as adding a set of sample unit tests. New unit tests and test classes can be added and executed at any point, while the execution results can be exported to various output formats and in a database table.
Hello and welcome to this ApexSQL Unit Test general overview video. ApexSQL Unit Test is a SQL Server Management Studio add-in used to manage SQL database unit tests. Besides the set of pre-defined tests and a Demo kit that includes a sample database and a set of sample unit tests, ApexSQL Unit Test can be used to create, maintain and run unit tests against any database, and even run tests on multiple databases on the same SQL Server as well as on multiple SQL Server instances at the same time.
Once ApexSQL Unit Test is installed and integrated into SQL Server Management Studio, let’s initiate the Unit Test explorer tab, which is the main communication channel between the add-in and databases that contain unit tests. We’ll do that either by clicking on the Unit Test explorer command from the add-in toolbar or by using a keyboard shortcut:
By default, the Demo kit dialog appears offering the user to install Sample database and Demo kit:
Let’s check both options and click the Create button:
This will create two databases tSQLt Example and PUBS QA. Both databases will have a tSQLt framework already installed and a set of pre-defined unit tests.
Before moving forward with the Demo kit, let’s explain the structure in the Unit Test explorer tab. It is organized in such a way that each SQL Server instance is a top node. When expanding a SQL Server node, all databases that contain the tSQLt framework will be shown. Expanding any database shows test classes in which SQL unit tests are grouped. And finally, expanding each test class shows all underlying unit tests:
Now, we can easily determine what is what in the Unit Test explorer tab. We can confirm that for the tSQLt Example database there are 11 unit tests, all within a single test class called Accelerator Tests.
To run any unit test, we can simply right click on it, and select the Run option from the context menu:
Note that the unit test name will invert its color on a right click. This indicates that it is selected for execution. In order to run multiple tests from the same class, left click the ones that will be executed and use the right click to initiate the execution process:
The same can be achieved using the Run button above:
Running tests from different classes is not allowed, no matter if it is within the same database or SQL Server instance or not. In the case where at least one test from another class is selected, the add-in displays a message that multiple tests can be executed only if they belong to the same class:
Similar to running one or more tests within a single class, each node in the Unit Test explorer tab has its own Run command. Initiating the Run command on the particular node will execute all underlying tests:
Once a unit test or a group of unit tests are executed, the Results section at the bottom of the Unit Test Explorer tab shows the test summary and messages related to unit tests that did not pass. For instance, if we execute all unit tests for the Pubs QA database, the Results section shows 87% of tests passed, while 13% failed. Since the Pubs QA database has 15 unit tests specified, that would be 13 passed tests and 2 failed. This information will be displayed in the Results section:
Execution results can be exported to an XML document, SQL script, or even in a database.
Above the summary, the appropriate messages will be shown for unit tests that failed. These are the messages that a developer will specify in the unit test itself, to be shown in the case test fails.
As soon as unit tests are executed at least once, each test will have the appropriate icon, so the user can easily verify if it failed or passed:
Similar to the Run command on each node, the Refresh command will reset this status to the initial state for the selected node, by right clicking it and choosing the Refresh command from the context menu:
Besides the set of pre-defined tests, new test classes and tests can be added for any database. In order to create a new test class, we’ll need to right-click a database in the Unit Test explorer tab, and choose the New class option from the context menu:
After specifying a name for a new class, it appears in the Unit Test explorer tab for the selected database:
Now that we have a new class we can add new unit tests. In order to do so, we’ll right-click a newly created class and choose the New test command from the context menu:
This initiates the New test dialog, where the test class will be set to already point to the newly created class. We’ll specify a name for the new test. Note that the ‘test’ prefix is mandatory for all the tests:
Once we click the OK button, a new query opens with a unit test template script:
Since each unit test is a SQL stored procedure, it is important to mention that a unit test must be created using ApexSQL Unit Test and the described workflow. SQL stored procedures created outside ApexSQL Unit Test will not be recognized as unit tests. Let’s see how to add an existing database in the Unit test Explorer tab.
In order for a database to be added in the Unit Test explorer tab, it must have the tSQLt framework installed. We’ll use Adventure Works database, for the purpose of this video. If a database does not have the tSQLt framework installed, the context menu in the Object Explorer pane will have only one option and that is to install the tSQLt framework:
When installing the tSQLt framework, the user can choose to install the integrated version, to browse the file system to determine if the specific version was previously downloaded, or to pick a specific version directly from the web:
Since, in our case, the integrated version is the most recent one, we’ll choose the first option. In addition to this, we don’t want to go into details with writing new unit tests from scratch. For that reason, we’ll check the Install SQLCop tests option. This will install a set of pre-defined tests:
As a result, we’ll have the Adventure Works database added to the Unit Test explorer tab as well as a set of SQLCop unit tests created:
In order to remove a database from the Unit Test explorer tab, right click the specific database and choose the Uninstall tSQLt option:
If a database needs to be temporarily removed from the Unit Test explorer tab and if the existing unit tests will be used again, we can leave the Remove all test classes option unchecked. This will uninstall the tSQLt framework from the selected database and, in turn, remove it from the Unit Test explorer tab. The unit tests will remain in a database though:
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BY WENDY ELLIOTT
Kings County Advertiser/Register
The Annapolis Valley chapter of the Brain Injury Association (BIANS) of Nova Scotia is working to set up support groups throughout the region.
New president Barry Schaffner knows personally how valuable they can be. The Kingsport resident’s wife, Louise Dean, suffered a ruptured brain aneurysm in 2007. After her surgery, the couple left the hospital in Halifax with no idea if there were any resources available.
It wasn’t until six or eight months later at a follow-up appointment they found a BIANS pamphlet at the surgeon’s office. They connected with long-time BIANS volunteer Jake MacDonald of Wolfville: Dean recovered quickly, was back to work part-time in less than a year, then able to increase her hours to full-time.
The already well-established BIANS support group at the Valley Regional Hospital in Kentville meets the third Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. There is a second, newer group at Solders’ Memorial Hospital in Middleton, which meets the third Wednesday of the month at 7 p.m.
A new Valley group is being started for survivors and their families in Annapolis Royal. The first meeting will take place at the Annapolis Community Health Centre’s board room Jan. 13 at 7 p.m. Schaffner hopes it will continue on the second Thursday of the month after that initial meeting.
There are between 2,200 and 3,500 new brain injuries each year in Nova Scotia. Schaffner says that means between six and 10 cases occur a day.
“Many people suffer permanent effects after a brain injury,” he adds, and some of them go undiagnosed.
The skull is as thin as two pennies, the brain as soft as jello. Few members of the general public are aware an acquired brain injury is damage to the brain that could be traumatic, like a sports injury - but it could also be the result of a stroke or aneurysm. Brain injury is the number one killer and disabler of people under 44. Two-thirds of survivors are male. Fully one-third of youth will have a concussion before they finish high school.
“We want to get the word out,” Schaffner notes, so no injury is ignored.
Schaffner has always been active in his community and has served on the board of the regional housing authority. He’s been looking toward taking over the leadership of the chapter for a couple of years.
After 12 years as president of the Valley chapter, MacDonald was ready to step down. In discussions, Schaffner learned the history of BIANS and discovered “that we share a lot of the same vision,” so he took over this past fall.
MacDonald will continue as past-president and will be active in committee work.
“A good portion of what the Valley chapter has been able to accomplish over the past several years is due in no small measure to its president and his leadership,” Schaffner says.
“Jake will tell you he hasn’t done it alone, but every good crew has a good leader - and that is Jake. Jake also is a compassionate, caring individual who will answer the phone at any time of night and go to the aid of a person in crisis, be it survivor or family member.”
Education has long been one of MacDonald’s greatest interests, Schaffner says, and he has done much to enlighten and educate both professionals and the general public.
The BIANS mission is to enhance the quality of life for survivors and their family. Volunteers across Nova Scotia are involved in advocacy, education, support and prevention. The group formed provincially in 1988. For information, contact Schaffner at 582-7443, MacDonald at 542-4289 or Dan Nogler at 765-6760. | <urn:uuid:e286f27e-6d67-40ec-8cf4-aee52415e283> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.saltwire.com/atlantic-canada/federal-election/valley-brain-injury-association-branching-out-70823/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965657 | 830 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Abatement Application: A notice on an approved form to the Board of Assessors that the taxpayer disagrees with the assessment on his/her real or personal property. This must be filed no later than the due date of the 3rd quarter actual bill. This is usually February 1st unless this date falls on a weekend or a holiday.
Abatement Decision: After review of the abatement application, the Board of Assessors makes its decision on whether to grant or deny the application.
Appellate Tax Board: A quasi-judicial board for taxpayer appeal after a Board of Assessors has made a decision regarding an abatement application. Application must be made within 3 months after the date of decision by the Board of Assessors. Filing information is available at: Appellate Tax Board, 399 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02202. Phone number is (617) 727-3100. There is a fee required to file the appeal at this level.
Neighborhood Designation: This refers to the neighborhood or section of the Town in which a property is located. It relates to the land value; and it is the means whereby the assessed value of a property reflects the effect of its location within the Town.
New Growth: This is the term used to describe the additional Proposition 2½ tax revenue raising capacity which is permitted by reason of the new building construction which takes place within the Town.
Quarterly Tax Bill: Property tax bills in the Town of West Bridgewater are issued four times a year. The normal due dates are as follows: the first quarter bill (preliminary) of the fiscal year is due on August 1st; the second (preliminary) on November 1st; the third (actual) is due on February 1st and the fourth (actual) on May 1st. The third quarter tax bill is the first one to be based on the actual assessment and on the actual tax rate for the fiscal year. It is calculated by first deducting from the total tax for the fiscal year the first two preliminary tax payments. Then the remaining tax amount is divided by two to represent the third and fourth quarter tax bill. PLEASE DO NOT MAKE THE COMMON MISTAKE OF CALCULATING YOUR TOTAL TAX BY MULTIPLYING YOUR THIRD QUARTER TAX BILL BY FOUR. | <urn:uuid:74e2216f-3ec1-47e9-b9ee-a21b6d69a394> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.westbridgewaterma.org/government/board_of_assessors/glossary_of_assessing_terms.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953122 | 481 | 1.640625 | 2 |
THE CONCISE GUIDE TO PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22: Ion channels
Alexander SPH., Mathie A., Peters JA., Veale EL., Striessnig J., Kelly E., Armstrong JF., Faccenda E., Harding SD., Pawson AJ., Southan C., Davies JA., Aldrich RW., Attali B., Baggetta AM., Becirovic E., Biel M., Bill RM., Catterall WA., Conner AC., Davies P., Delling M., Virgilio FD., Falzoni S., Fenske S., George C., Goldstein SAN., Grissmer S., Ha K., Hammelmann V., Hanukoglu I., Jarvis M., Jensen AA., Kaczmarek LK., Kellenberger S., Kennedy C., King B., Kitchen P., Lynch JW., Perez-Reyes E., Plant LD., Rash L., Ren D., Salman MM., Sivilotti LG., Smart TG., Snutch TP., Tian J., Trimmer JS., Van den Eynde C., Vriens J., Wei AD., Winn BT., Wulff H., Xu H., Yue L., Zhang X., Zhu M.
The Concise Guide to PHARMACOLOGY 2021/22 is the fifth in this series of biennial publications. The Concise Guide provides concise overviews, mostly in tabular format, of the key properties of nearly 1900 human drug targets with an emphasis on selective pharmacology (where available), plus links to the open access knowledgebase source of drug targets and their ligands (www.guidetopharmacology.org), which provides more detailed views of target and ligand properties. Although the Concise Guide constitutes over 500 pages, the material presented is substantially reduced compared to information and links presented on the website. It provides a permanent, citable, point-in-time record that will survive database updates. The full contents of this section can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/bph.15539. Ion channels are one of the six major pharmacological targets into which the Guide is divided, with the others being: G protein-coupled receptors, nuclear hormone receptors, catalytic receptors, enzymes and transporters. These are presented with nomenclature guidance and summary information on the best available pharmacological tools, alongside key references and suggestions for further reading. The landscape format of the Concise Guide is designed to facilitate comparison of related targets from material contemporary to mid-2021, and supersedes data presented in the 2019/20, 2017/18, 2015/16 and 2013/14 Concise Guides and previous Guides to Receptors and Channels. It is produced in close conjunction with the Nomenclature and Standards Committee of the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (NC-IUPHAR), therefore, providing official IUPHAR classification and nomenclature for human drug targets, where appropriate. | <urn:uuid:3bc9fa80-7549-42b4-8533-d999e46fc2c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/publications/1196093?06579606-1b3d-11ed-930f-06ec9236112e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.74029 | 615 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Many social, biological, and technological networks display substantial non-trivial topological features. One well-known and much studied feature of such networks is the scale-free power-law distribution of nodes' degrees. Several works further suggest models for generating complex networks which comply with one or more of these topological features. For example, the known Barabasi-Albert "preferential attachment" model tells us how to create scale-free networks. Since the main focus of these generative models is in capturing one or more of the static topological features of complex networks, they are very limited in capturing the temporal dynamic properties of the networks' evolvement. Therefore, when studying real-world networks, the following question arises: what is the mechanism that governs changes in the network over time? In order to shed some light on this topic, we study two years of data that we received from eToro: the world's largest social financial trading company. We discover three key findings. First, we demonstrate how the network topology may change significantly along time. More specifically, we illustrate how popular nodes may become extremely less popular, and emerging new nodes may become extremely popular, in a very short time. Then, we show that although the network may change significantly over time, the degrees of its nodes obey the power-law model at any given time. Finally, we observe that the magnitude of change between consecutive states of the network also presents a power-law effect. | <urn:uuid:440524e0-1fbb-44ec-a0b6-209eead096c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/temporal-dynamics-of-scale-free-networks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948998 | 297 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Learn workplace conflict management skills on today’s episode of Team Anywhere featuring Dr. Liane Davey. Known as the Water Cooler Psychologist, Liane is a regular contributor to the Harvard Business Review and frequently called on by media outlets for her experience on leadership, team effectiveness, and productivity.
A conflict-avoider herself, (well she is Canadian,) Liane has dedicated her life to helping individuals and teams master workplace conflict management. Liane is a New York Times Bestselling author of three books, including The Good Fight: Use Productive Conflict to Get Your Team and Your Organization Back on Track.
Workplace Conflict Exercise
Liane shares a family camping story which provided her with a team building solution that we can all use to master conflict remotely. Most team metaphors are about boats. “Being in the same boat” “Rowing in the same direction.” But what if these metaphors are not supporting the right amount of team conflict? What if working on a team was more like pulling a tarp over a tent in the rainstorm when everyone “pulls” against each other?
Liane uses this metaphor to describe her conflict exercise, the Tarp Exercise where members of a team take turns sharing answers to the following questions:
(1) Have each team member ask, “what is the unique value of your role?”
(2) What stakeholders does your role represent?
(3) What is your obligation to disagree?
By sharing each person’s point of view you move from ”Oh, I thought you were just a jerk,” to appreciating what is behind the position for which each person is advocating. You also get to a great point where people on the team expect and ask for each person’s point of view. This also creates Productive Tension, or healthy conflict.
After everyone on the team shares, create 2-3 team norms on how you desire to engage in conflict together.
The Amazon Rule: Disagree & Commit
Jeff Bezos‘ take on conflict is that everybody in the organization has an obligation to disagree to make sure decisions are right. Once you have made that decision you have an obligation to make that decision successful.
Remote Workplace Conflict: Should you wait to have conflict in person?
Once we jump to conclusions, every single interaction you have with that person from here until that in person meeting is going to be through that lens of that resentment and that baggage you already have. Liane recommends leaning into having the conflict online or over the phone using some of the following strategies.
One of the keys to productive conflict in 2020, is to not let anything fester. Don’t wait until we are all back together in a room in 2021. If you do, your conversations will be through the lens of how you feel you have been “wronged.” You then begin to build up “Conflict Debt.” Letting things fester is going to add to your stress, or as Nelson Mandela said, “Resentment is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die.”
How to Manage Workplace Conflict Remotely
(1) FRAME THE CONVERSATION Have the conversation as allies. Help the other person collect their thoughts. Share that you’re feeling uncomfortable if you are.
(2) CREATE NO SURPRISES –Shoot a quick note to the other person to let them know you want to have a conversation about something on your mind. Give them time to prepare for the conversation. “I’m uncomfortable with how we left the conversation last week, I’d love a chance to talk face-to-face virtually.”
(3) GET THEIR TRUTH FIRST – Ask your colleague, what is their impression of the discrepancy at hand. “So, how did you feel about that conversation?”
(4) ACKNOWLEDGE THEIR TRUTH – You earn your right to speak your truth ONLY after they have spoken theirs. “This is what I heard you say. I’m really glad that you shared that with me.”
(5) SHARE YOUR TRUTH – Share your observation of the conversation. Naming the emotion you’re having. “I was thinking differently about what happened.”
(6) ASK FOR A PATH FORWARD – Be curious, and look for a common way forward. “Okay, where do we go from here?”
Explicitly Encourage Workplace Conflict
Ask for it as a favor “What might people say to counter this plan?”
Ask it as a hypothetical “If somebody were to have a problem with this, what might it be?”
One of the advantages we have with distance is that when something happens that we are confused about, we can use that distance to be curious. “You know, we are/were not in the same room, I don’t think I fully understand, let’s kind of figure this out.
One of the reasons why we might be having more conflict these days is that meetings have become joyless. It is time to put joy back in!!! Why not bring a live elephant into your meeting? Why not spend the first 5 minutes just catching up? The greatest way to deflate conflict is to keep spending quality time being human with each other.
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Following our latest blog posts taking a deep dive into Chaga and Lion's Mane, we meet our next wonderful fungi, Reishi (Ganoderma Lucidium).
Reishi is also known as 'Lingzhi' in China and has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine with records dating back to over 2000 years ago. In Chinese Medicine there are three principles known as 'treasures' (much like the Ayurvedic Dosha and Guna principles) within the body which need to be balanced to find harmony and wellbeing. These are known as 'jing', 'qi' and 'shen' in China and Reishi is acclaimed to nourish each of them allowing the body to replenish, detoxify and build strength.
Reishi is a bracket fungus with a red varnished, kidney shaped cap, it's peripherally inserted stem gives it distinct fan-like appearance. Reishi means 'wise sage' in Japanese and it's given name, Ganoderma Lucidium, translates to "shining-skinned divine mushroom". Fresh Reishi is cork-like, soft and flat. Revered for over 2,000 years and known as the "mushroom of immortality" an amount of uncertainty exists about which of the Ganoderma species was most widely utilised in ancient times, but according to researchers, Red Reishi is most likely to be Ganoderma Lucidium because this is the species most widely used by Chinese herbalists still to this day, although Reishi can also be black, white, green or yellow.
Reishi is native to Asia, growing as a parasite on a variety of hardwood trees, mostly indigenous to China, in a humid climate. This adaptogenic, versatile fungi can be used in teas, soups, tinctures and capsules and it's active components include:
An array of B vitamins
Because of it's bitter taste, Reishi is traditionally prepared as a hot water extract for use in folk medicine. This mushroom in Asian folklore was associated with recuperation, longevity, sexual prowess and wisdom.
5 Benefits of Reishi:
1. Enhances Oxygenation of the Blood
Reishi can help to reduce the oxygen consumption by the heart muscle whilst also improving circulation. It has been used to reduce platelet aggregation (blood clots) which can lead to heart attacks. Reishi can also be used to treat altitude sickness and have an anti-histamine effect for allergy sufferers.
2. Fights Cancer Cells
One small study in the Journal of Oncology found that tumours shrunk in 3 patients that were taking Reishi mushrooms, researchers believe that beta-glucans in the mushrooms may prevent new blood vessel growth, which is key as cancer cells need a steady blood supply to grow. The triterpines in the mushrooms may also inhibit the development and metastasis of tumours. Additional research indicates that it could also alleviate chemotherapy induced nausea. Both Chaga and Reishi have these qualities and further research into the use of these mushrooms is being called for by many modern scientists.
3. Improves Liver Function
Reishi mushroom spores were found to promote liver cell regeneration in mice, improving the organs ability to shuttle toxins and heavy metals out of the body. The liver is thought to be the gateway to health as most of the toxicity held in the body is stored here.
Despite the fact it's nickname is the "mushroom of immortality", mushrooms may not make you live forever, but, they do have antioxidant properties that reduce the risk of disease and premature ageing. As mentioned above, Reishi has been used to enhance longevity across Asia for centuries and is highly regarded as a staple ingredient in removing toxicity from the body improving day to day overall health, boosting the immune system. Reishi can play an important role in minimising the effects of ageing by reducing damage from oxidative stress associated with free radicals.
5. Mental Health
Reishi is an adaptogen, which helps the body to handle stress by balancing hormones. Mental fatigue, anxiety and depression have become a battle which many fall victim to, often being treated with pharmaceutical drugs which often cause a variety of side effects whilst never curing the problem or addressing the route causes. Reishi has been shown to reduce the symptoms of depression and fatigue in a study conducted using patients reciovering from cancer treatment. "These patients also reported less anxiety and depression and better quality of life."
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Big Bang 2019: The International Conference on Student-Centered Learning takes conferencing beyond the hotel doors for three days of intergenerational collaboration, where students and educators come together as equals to learn from one another and from the community.
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The Old Person Test
Also known as the old man test or the old woman test.
Over the years, I’ve posted various fitness tests and challenges. Things you can attempt to do while comparing your abilities to the average person. Based on how well you did, those tests could tell you more about your potential for injury, illness or even how long you might live.
Now I’m sharing a challenge that has NO clinical testing behind it. The primary purpose is to see if you can do it. The original video of this challenge was posted by powerlifter Mark Bell and demonstrated by Chris Hinshaw. They called it the “Old Man Test.” But since both men and women can use it, I prefer to call it the “Old Person Test.”
Strength, flexibility and balance are all required for this challenge. If you can complete it, you get bragging rights. If you can’t, figure out how and why you failed. Then use it as a teachable moment to see what you need to work on.
It’s nothing more than seeing if you can put on a pair of socks and shoes. The challenging part is you’ll be doing it while standing up and balancing on just one leg.
Start barefoot on a stable surface. Don’t stand on rugs that could shift or slick floors.
Check the area around you and make sure it’s clear. If you fall, you don’t want to go crashing into a coffee table, through a window or tumble downstairs.
Place your shoes and socks on the floor in front of you. The shoes should have laces, and they need to be untied.
Start by lifting one leg off the ground. Then bend over, pick up the sock and put it on without letting that foot touch the ground.
Once you get the sock on, keep that foot raised. Bend over, pick up the shoe, put it on and tie it. Only after the shoe is tied can you lower that foot.
Now repeat with the other foot. Raise it off the ground, pick up the sock, put it on, pick up the shoe, put it on, tie the shoe, and you’re finished.
There are several things at play here. You’ve got to be mobile enough to bend over and pick items up off the floor. You need balance to do the test while standing on just one leg. You also need the stamina to be able to keep your foot raised while you’re putting things on.
You fail the test if a foot touches the floor when it shouldn’t. You also fail if you have to grab something to steady yourself or lose your balance and fall to the floor.
There are a couple things you can do to make it even more challenging:
Do the whole thing while being timed. You’re good if you can do it in 60 seconds or less; great if you can do it in 30 seconds or less.
Try it while keeping your eyes closed the entire time.
Many people will not be able to do any version of this. Prior injuries, a poor sense of balance or a chronic medical condition can all get in the way. But if you are potentially capable of doing it, the part that tripped you up might tell you what you need to work on.
If you can’t bend all the way down to pick things up, maybe you need to stretch more. If you lose your balance, you might practice exercises like standing on one leg while brushing your teeth. If you aren’t strong enough to keep your foot raised, you might want to do more strength training exercises. If you need more stamina, try adding more cardio.
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Hadestown! The last bastion of humankind in a wasted land, the only place left to shelter from the ravages of a post apocalypse world, the only place left where you can find food, and friends, and a purpose to your life. But Hadestown is also more than you first learn, ruled over by the King and God, Hades and his beautiful, but cold Queen of winter, Persephone. Hadestown is not the sort of place you visit, it’s the sort of place you come to when you have nowhere else, because once your there, you may never leave. And now the Hero of our story, Orpheus must make the journey down to Hadestown to rescue his one true love, Eurydice…
“SUMPTUOUS. GORGEOUS. AS GOOD AS IT GETS. You wish you could live in the glowy moment forever.” – The New York Times
“Good luck trying to get these melodies out of your head.” – The Star-Ledger
“Hadestown feels like something more intuitive, elemental, and finely woven than a traditional musical.” – The Guardian
Act 1 outlines the story of the Greek tragedy of two young lovers. A very talented singer song-writer Orpheus, whose songs have the power to change the world, but he is still writing it and the young and beautiful Eurydice. Orpheus asks Eurydice to marry him, but Eurydice, against a backdrop of increasing hardships, struggling to make ends meet in relentless horrid conditions, will only marry him if he can finish his song and change the world. The story also includes the king of the underworld, Hades, falling in love with a beautiful Persephone. But Persephone lives in our world, and King Hades agrees that if Persephone marries him, she can live half the year with him and half the year in our world. This then becomes the basis for the development of our seasons in our world – of Summer and Winter. But something has gone wrong and winter seems to be stretching into longer and longer portions of the year. Enter the decline of the relationship between King Hades and Persephone. King Hades wanders the upper world seeking and enticing gullible workers for his underworld workforce, with promises of a better life and conditions. Eurydice, in searching for shelter and something to eat, follows King Hades to the promise of a better life.
Act 2 Finds Eurydice now resident in the unbelievable industrial underworld of Hadestown. Heart sick Orpheus follows her through and past the gates of hell and into Hadestown. In negotiating with King Hades to free Eurydice from Hadestown and its infamous work ethic, Orpheus offers to sing his newly completed lovesong, hoping the repair and restore the relationship of the unhappy King Hades and is wife Persephone. In exchange, Orpheus may claim the freedom of Eurydice from Hadestown, and by the way, relieve King Hades of some of his overworked and unhappy employees. King Hades is faced with a dilemma arising from feelings stirred up by Orpheus’s lovesong, and finally accepts Orpheus’s proposal. However, King Hades is not new to the art of negotiation and sets his own conditions for the release of Eurydice. As more often than not, Greek tragedies seldom end happily ever after…
“UTTERLY FABULOUS. RACHEL CHAVKIN is fearlessly innovative. Her wildly inventive production arrives on Broadway with A FURNACE-LIKE BLAST OF CREATIVITY.” -The Hollywood Reporter
“Unforgettable. Simply one of the most exquisite works of musical storytelling I’ve seen in my more than 25 years as a theater critic. In its supple convergence of story and song, Hadestown represents a step forward for the art form.” – Los Angeles Times
Anais Mitchell, originally wrote the music, the Lyrics and book. Hadestown premiered in Barrie, Vermont in 2006. In 2012 Mitchel met director Rachel Chavkin and together they reworked and revamped the stage production, adding in new music, this re-worked version premiered at New York Theatre Workshop in 2016, and at Broadway in 2019 after sell out performances in both London and Edmonton. The Broadway production opened to critical acclaim and received 14 nominations (the most nominations for any show) and won eight of them at the 73rd Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Original Score.
“As far as tales as old as time go, the stories of Greek mythology are pretty high up there, those epic stories of gods and men that have been told for thousands of years and inspired countless adaptations. But there’s little that feels old or stately about the way those stories – those old songs, those sad songs – are told in Hadestown, which made its Broadway bow with a journey to the underworld that feels like it sprung forth as something entirely new.”
– Entertainment Weekly
“This chilling scene remains the centerpiece of Hadestown, a love story and class-struggle parable based on the Orpheus myth that arrives on the same Broadway stage Bruce Springsteen worked for 14 months prior. The cast has changed from Mitchell’s original LP, but the work’s musical integrity and proletariat spirit remains largely intact.”
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Congratulations friend because you have decided to start living a fit life, a fit and active life and you are in the right place for it.
The first thing you have to do to start a fitness life is to take out of your home all those foods that divert you from the healthy lane. We tend to overestimate our willpower and at times when we are most stressed out when we have much more trouble with work, we tend to take refuge in food and the fewer temptations you have at home, the more difficult it is for you to fall into them.
Since you’ve had the courage, the willpower to take out of your home all those foods that divert you from the healthy lane it’s time for you to go to the supermarket to make your first fit purchase my recommendation is that between 80 and 90% of all food you buy be natural products. Avoid therefore to buy processed products, write down your goals and your frustrations, it is super important that you know what you want to achieve and because in the most concrete way possible and that you also write down what it is that stops you from achieving those goals.
In my case, for example, it is very difficult for me to do my training in the afternoon, which is why I do my best to leave my workouts to do them in the morning.
That’s why knowing which are the things that make it difficult for you to be able to carry out your objective, it will be much easier for you to achieve it. Be patient and make small changes day by day, in the long run, give very good results is better to build the habit little by little than trying to change everything at once.
Exercise first because having a fit and active life or starting a fitness life is completely incompatible with not exercising, you have to exercise and also because it will help you to be more strict with yourself.
Keep in mind that if you spend an hour training later when you go out to eat something that is not on the healthy path, you will think twice about it yourself. But above all be patient, leading a fit and active life is something that is achieved with a little time, do not be in a hurry and do it little by little to achieve successful results. | <urn:uuid:612ee1fb-e954-4b25-a7a5-517cbc51185e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ataq.org/how-to-start-a-fitness-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975192 | 457 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The solar concentrator control system is a state-of-the-art tracking system that utilizes “EZ-SunLock” technology. With this technology, the system allows for fast setup and configuration. Thousands of control systems can be deployed in a solar power plant and configured with ease. The tracking system tracks with 0.1 degree accuracy and utilizes celestial tracking algorithm.
The solar concentrator is built to communicate via Ethernet & ModBus protocol and can be interfaced with the plant’s existing monitoring system. Each solar dish controller is daisy chained to each other.
If the pressure in the primary loop drops below 7 PSI, the solar concentrator automatically moves the dish to “safety stow” position.
In an event of a power outage, a UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) moves the dish to the “safety stow” position. When the power resumes, a 1 hour lock-out ensures that the UPS is charged before it resumes auto tracking.
The SolarBeam tracks the sun in winds of up to 55km/hour. For winds that have a consistency above the default wind trigger speed, the solar concentrator tilts to its “safety stow” position.
- Operates in Northern and Southern Hemisphere
- Works in all latitudes
- Horizontal tracking: 360 degrees
- Vertical Tracking: 0 to 115 degrees
- Error monitoring for horizontal & vertical axis
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A rare positive of the pandemic era has been the dramatic reduction in California’s infamous traffic congestion.
That’s what recessions do. Fewer jobs, fewer commutes. Right?
Well, 2020 was an economic oddity for many reasons. The stay-at-home mentality promoted to slowing the spread of coronavirus also impacted how many folks were on the road. And since remote working likely will endure past the pandemic’s end, its ability to cut congestion — and perhaps investments in transportation infrastructure spending — looks intriguing.
My trusty spreadsheet tells me that last year’s traffic improvements in the Bay Area outpaced Southern California. That’s due more to the two region’s varying job types, not job losses.
To calculate commuting rankings, I compared traffic and employment stats using data on traffic jams in 57 big U.S. cities from navigation gear maker TomTom, November unemployment data in those markets, and how they fared in a study of metro-area workforces and their potential to work remotely by Outdoorsy, a recreation vehicle rental app.
Curiously, both had congestion woes 19% of the time in 2020, ranking fifth-highest among the 57 markets tracked. But San Jose’s 2020 traffic was 42% less congested vs. 2019 — the second-largest drop. Riverside congestion was down 27%, the 20th smallest decline.
It probably wasn’t the scale of job losses that explains the difference between these two suburban areas. The San Jose area’s unemployment was 5.1% — up 113% in a year. Riverside was at 7.9%, also up 113%.
So, consider instead the hot industries in the two regions. San Jose is a tech hub and very friendly to remote work. Riverside is all about logistics, which is nearly impossible to do from home. In fact, warehousing and shipping help to power stay-at-home life.
In the San Jose market, it’s estimated 48.5% of jobs can be done remotely — No. 1 among these 57 cities studied for congestion. Riverside? Just 29.6% of folks have work-for-home potential — tied for last with Grand Rapids, Mich., a historic factory town known as “Furniture City.”
A somewhat similar pattern was found in the nearby big cities.
San Francisco traffic was 21% congested in 2020 — with 42% fewer delays in a year, the No. 5 drop. Los Angeles was congested 27% of the time — still No. 1 nationally even after traffic improved 36%. That drop ranked No. 12 out of 57.
The improvement gap between these giant, urban employment hubs can’t be unemployment. Yes, the jumps in rates exceeded their suburban neighbor’s joblessness but they were remarkably similar. San Francisco’s jobless rate was 6.1% — up 154% in a year while L.A.’s rate rose 153% to 9.6%.
Next, look at remote-work potential.
In tech-heavy San Francisco, 43% of jobs are work-from-home ready, the third-highest share of the 57. In Los Angeles — with an economy filled with in-person work such as hospitality, port and factory jobs — 37% of workers can potentially work from home, ranking No. 23 of 57.
No local oddity
This gap is not just some north-south California quirk.
Let’s look at what my spreadsheet told me when I divided the 57 cities into three groupings, ranked by drops in 2020 congestion.
Joblessness didn’t matter.
The 19 cities with the biggest traffic drops — down 39% on average — had an average unemployment jump of 102% to 5.8%. Joblessness in 19 cities with the smallest congestion improvements — averaging 23% — rose 104% to 6.8%.
However, work-from-home differed.
The big traffic declines came in markets averaging 39% of jobs with remote potential. The smallest congestion improvements were in towns in which 34% of jobs had work-from-home possibilities.
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Objective: The aim of the study was to investigate the effect of lung volume changes on end-expiratory lung impedance change (ELIC) in mechanically ventilated patients, since we hypothesized that ELIC may be a suitable parameter to monitor lung volume change at the bedside.
Design: Clinical trial on patients requiring mechanical ventilation.
Settings: Intensive care units of a university hospital.
Patients: Ten mechanically ventilated patients were included in the study.
Intervention: Patients were ventilated in volume-controlled mode with constant flow and respiratory rate. In order to induce changes in the end-expiratory lung volume (EELV), PEEP levels were increased from 0 mbar to 5 mbar, 10 mbar, and 15 mbar. At each PEEP level EELV was measured by an open-circuit nitrogen washout manoeuvre and ELIC was measured simultaneously using Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) with sixteen electrodes placed on the circumference of the thorax and connected with an EIT device. Cross-sectional electro-tomographic measurements of the thorax were performed at each PEEP level, and a modified Sheffield back-projection was used to reconstruct images of the lung impedance. ELIC was calculated as the average of the end-expiratory lung impedance change. RESULTS. Increasing PEEP stepwise from 0 mbar to 15 mbar resulted in an linear increase of EELV and ELIC according to the equation: y =0.98 x -0.68, r(2)=0.95.
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Ahh, toddlers. Or as I like to call them, small dictators. They’re caught midway between being almost old enough for kindergarten and the halcyon days of babyhood.
How on earth I managed to stay sane enough to parent four girls over the years, I’ll never know. Actually, I’m pretty sure I lost my sanity a long time ago.
Here are 7 toddler behaviour questions you might be asking …
Why waste time with actual words to get what you want, when you can just pierce everyone’s eardrums instead?
Even though it isn’t pleasant, screaming, tantrums and shouting is actually totally normal behaviour for a toddler. According to Raising Children Network, toddlers scream because they are still developing their social and emotional skills.
So basically, they have all these feels but don’t quite know how to express them yet.
MORE Behaviour and Discipline
Second to screaming, whining would have to be up there with the most annoying habits toddlers have. According to child psychologist Dr Laura Markham, whining is totally normal behaviour for toddlers. But she advocates looking a little deeper and addressing the issue at the core.
Perhaps the toddler doesn’t have the skills or resources to speak properly, maybe she feels powerless or is seeking a connection. Whatever the reason, it’s a completely developmentally appropriate toddler habit.
3. Why do toddlers insist on doing things by themselves?
You know when your toddler desperately wants to do something herself, but you know it’ll probably take three times as long? Getting into the car seat and putting shoes on are two instances that immediately spring to mind.
As frustrating as it is for us parents, the way toddlers ruthlessly pursue independence is not only normal, it helps them discover their skills and capabilities.
4. Why do toddlers always want what someone else has?
You can sense a toddler a mile off: follow the “That’s mine!” squeals and “I wanted that” yelps and in no time at all, you’ll find them.
Toddlers are renowned for wanting whatever they don’t have. While this is a pretty infuriating experience for everyone else, it’s also a significant developmental milestone which teaches them how to be assertive with their peers.
5. Why do toddlers ‘talk’ non-stop?
The other day I got told off by my toddler for not responding the way she wanted me to during one of her long monologues. Once toddlers work out how to talk properly … they can talk for ages!
As frustrating as it can be, it’s important not to stifle toddlers who enjoy a chat because it’s all part of their learning journey. But a pair of earplugs could come in handy.
6. Why do toddlers climb on everything?
What’s with all the climbing!? I would be lying if I told you that I didn’t remove *all* of the chairs for a period of my daughter’s life. The way she used to scale every item of furniture made me pull my hair out, often.
But of course, climbing is an important gross motor skill that toddlers need to develop, and according to a study, parents should provide opportunities which encourage them to do so. I’m not sure my chairs were the best learning resource, though …
7. Why do toddlers take catnaps?
Let’s finish off with a toddler habit to end all toddler habits – the catnap. You know, when you spend more than an hour desperately trying to wrangle your toddler to sleep? You finally get them down and make your ninja exit, only for them to wake up half an hour later. And they always wake up perky and refreshed – what is with that?!
As annoying as it is, catnaps are common, and research states that any nap of 30 minutes or more is still beneficial to the child. So in a nutshell: any nap is a good nap, no matter how small.
Darling toddlers – although they test us beyond our own perceived capabilities as parents, at the end of the day we love them for it. Because through their sheer determination, we can recognise their fighting spirit – and it doesn’t hurt that they’re pretty adorable, either.
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Last year, Google made some important changes to their Chrome browser in a bid to increase user security.
Among these changes was to default to “HTTPS” in the browser in an attempt to reduce the number of “man in the middle” and similar types of attacks.
Their strategy worked.
Other companies adopted Google’s approach and HTTPS became the new standard on the web, and user security was increased. That’s a very good thing.
Unfortunately, we are now learning, courtesy of data collected by Sophos, that hackers are increasingly taking advantage of TLS (Transport Layer Security) to hide their own activities. Last year, Sophos reported that some 24 percent of malware was using TLS to communicate. This year, that value is up to 46 percent.
Where malware is concerned, there are, broadly speaking, three types of communication: downloading additional malware, exfiltration of data, and command and control. By using TLS when engaging in all three of these, hackers make it significantly more difficult for IT security professionals to detect, and ultimately to stop their malicious activity.
While user security has unquestionably increased over the last year, so too, has the security of hackers, and it’s complicating the lives of IT folks around the world.
Unfortunately, there’s not much that can be done about it. Anything that helps the general public by definition, can also be used by hackers around the world to help themselves, so it shouldn’t come as a great surprise that they’re increasingly embracing TLS. The first rule of hacking is, after all, ‘be at least two steps ahead.’ They are, and that’s unlikely to change in the foreseeable future.
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An antivirus security software software’s detection level is an important element in determining whether it is worth buying. This kind of number identifies how well a software application will discover and remove malware within a controlled test. It cannot prove that it will probably prevent all sorts of spyware and, but it can give you a general notion of how successful a program is normally. If you are unsure about which antivirus to obtain, you can read each of our guide to deciding which system is right for you.
Ant-virus software is essential for your pc’s www.scienceawario.net/how-to-choose-the-right-data-room-due-diligence-optimized-for-fundraising proper protection. It constantly scans your laptop or computer for damaging software, electronic mails, and web browsing to make sure that no hazards are kept undiscovered. This kind of software might either alert you of any possible virus, block the access to a dubious site, or perhaps clean up virtually any threats this finds. Regardless of whether you decide to buy antivirus applications are entirely your decision. But before you purchase one, consider the benefits of the several types of protection that are available.
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Celebrating Black success
Traditionally society has held up role models for success that have been almost exclusively white. As part of Black History Month, I want to try to redress this balance and hold up some role models that have impressed me over my lifetime and who are still alive and active, rather than focusing on the many impressive black entrepreneurs, inventors, statesmen, thinkers, scientists and politicians of the past.
An extremely successful author who published her first book at the age of just 24, Zadie Smith writes books inspired by her experience of issues around race and society that have won many prizes as well as essays and short stories. She also lectures at New York University.
The first women in Europe to compose and conduct a symphony in the last 40 years: “New nation rising: a 21st century symphony”, a piece celebrating London’s history and composed to mark the Queen’s Golden Jubilee in 2002. Professor Thompson has also written pieces to be used in films, on television, by dancers and on stage. Prof Thompson has been repeatedly identified as one of the most influential and inspirational Black British women.
Malorie Blackman – children’s author
Best-selling author of the Noughts & Crosses series, Malorie Blackman was chosen to become the eighth Children’s Laureate, the first black person to take on the role. Malorie says she wanted to “make reading irresistible” for children, by encouraging them to explore a range of literature, from short stories to graphic novels.
Diane Abbott made history in 1987 by becoming the first black woman ever to be elected to Parliament, and one of the first black and Asian people to sit in Parliament for almost a century. She started the London Schools and Black Child programmes that aim to support black children to do well in school.
An extremely influential name in the world of publishing, Margaret Busby became Britain’s youngest and first black female book publisher when in 1967 she co-founded the publishing company Allison & Busby with Clive Alison. Allison & Busby not only published work by black authors but helped promote black authors and make them more widely known. Speaking about writing today, Margaret says, “Technology permits you to be your own publisher and editor, which should encourage a lot of us, especially young people, to write and express themselves.”
Professor Hall was a leading researcher in the multiculturalism movement, encouraging studies into how issues of personal and cultural identity and the way self-perception affected both people and politics. Stuart co-founded the influential New Left Review before co-authoring one of the first books to establish film studies as a serious academic subject and going on eventually to create the first cultural studies course in Britain at the University of Birmingham.
Growing up as the only black child in a white community that regarded being black and being British as separate, Paul Stephenson dedicated his life to stopping racial discrimination and bringing black and white communities together. He became Bristol’s first black social worker, improving the racial harmony in the city. He spent his life leading campaigns changed how black people were treated in Britain. It is said that his work played a part in Britain’s first Race Relations Act in 1965, one of the first laws to pave the way towards equal rights for black people in the UK.
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“Enabled Play is a tool that learns to paintings with you — now not a tool it’s important to learn how to paintings with,” Dunn, who lives in Boston, mentioned by way of Zoom.
Dunn, 26, created Enabled Play in order that everybody — together with his more youthful brother with a incapacity — can interface with generation in a herbal and intuitive approach. In the beginning of the pandemic, the one factor he and his New Hampshire-based brother may do in combination, whilst roughly 70 miles aside, used to be sport.
“And that is the reason once I began to peer firsthand one of the most demanding situations that he had and the restrictions that video games had for other people with in reality any form of incapacity,” he added.
At 17, Dunn dropped out of Worcester Polytechnic Institute to transform a full-time device engineer. He started researching and growing Enabled Play two and a part years in the past, which first of all proved difficult, as maximum speech-recognition systems lagged in reaction time.
“I constructed some prototypes with voice instructions, after which I began speaking to those who have been deaf and had a variety of disabilities, and I discovered that voice instructions didn’t reduce it,” Dunn mentioned.
That’s when he began pondering outdoor the field.
Having already constructed Clever Keys, a voice-powered program for avid gamers with disabilities, Dunn created Snap Keys — an extension that turns a consumer’s Snapchat lens right into a controller when taking part in video games like Name of Responsibility, “Fall Guys,” and “Darkish Souls.” In 2020, he received two awards for his paintings at Snap Inc.’s Snap Equipment Developer Problem, a contest amongst third-party app creators to innovate Snapchat’s developer software package.
With Enabled Play, Dunn takes accessibility to the following stage. With a greater variety of inputs, customers can attach the assistive software — provided with a powerful CPU and eight GB of RAM — to a pc, sport console or different software to play video games in no matter approach works best possible for them.
Dunn additionally frolicked ensuring Enabled Play used to be obtainable to people who find themselves deaf, in addition to individuals who need to use nonverbal audio enter, like “ooh” or “aah,” to accomplish an motion. Enabled Play’s vowel sound detection style is in accordance with “The Vocal Joystick,” which engineers and linguistics mavens on the College of Washington evolved in 2006.
“Necessarily, it seems to be to expect the phrase you’ll say in accordance with what’s within the profile, quite than seeking to suppose it may well be any phrase within the dictionary,” Dunn mentioned. “This is helping reduce thru system studying bias by way of studying extra about how the person speaks and applies it to their desired instructions.”
Dunn’s AI-enabled controller takes into consideration an individual’s animal instincts. If a gamer desires to arrange a bounce command each and every time they open their mouth, Enabled Play would determine that individual’s person resting mouth place and set that because the baseline.
In January, Enabled Play formally introduced in six nations — its consumer base extending from the U.S. to the U.Ok., Ghana and Austria. For Dunn, considered one of his number one targets used to be to fill an opening in accessibility and pricing in comparison to different assistive gaming units.
“There are such things as the Xbox Adaptive Controller. There are such things as the HORI Flex [for Nintendo Switch]. There are such things as Tobii, which does eye-tracking and stuff like that. Nevertheless it nonetheless gave the impression adore it wasn’t sufficient,” he mentioned.
In comparison to a couple units which are most effective suitable with one gaming machine or laptop at a time, Dunn’s AI-enabled controller — priced at $249.99 — helps a mixture of inputs and outputs. Speech therapists say that in comparison to augmentative and selection communique (AAC) units, that are medically very important for some with disabilities, Dunn’s software provides simplicity.
“That is just the beginning,” mentioned Julia Franklin, a speech language pathologist at Group Faculty of Davidson in Davidson, N.C. Franklin presented scholars to Enabled Play this summer time and feels it’s a greater selection to different AAC units in the marketplace which are ceaselessly “dear, cumbersome and restricted” in usability. Many subtle AAC methods can vary from $6,000 to $11,500 for high-tech units, with low-end eye-trackers working within the 1000’s. An individual might also obtain AAC apps on their cellular units, which vary from $49.99 to $299.99 for the app on my own.
“For many of us who’ve bodily and cognitive variations, they ceaselessly exhaust themselves to be informed a fancy AAC machine that has limits,” she mentioned. “The Enabled Play software permits people to leverage their strengths and actions which are already provide.”
Web customers have applauded Dunn for his paintings, noting that soliciting for accessibility will have to now not equate to soliciting for an “simple mode” — a false impression ceaselessly cited by way of critics of constructing video games extra obtainable.
“That is how you’re making gaming obtainable,” one Reddit consumer wrote about Enabled Play. “No longer by way of dumbing it down, however by way of developing mechanical answers that let customers to have the similar enjoy and attain the similar feats as [people without disabilities].” Every other consumer who mentioned they steadily labored with younger sufferers with cerebral palsy speculated that Enabled Play “would fairly actually alternate their lives.”
However the software isn’t restricted to the gaming sphere. It’s additionally being utilized in colleges to make laptop labs extra obtainable. With the upward push in far flung paintings and on-line studying environments attributable to the pandemic, Jaipreet Virdi, a historian, writer and professor on the College of Delaware, mentioned the software might function a style for “inclusive participation” in colleges.
“If disabled scholars can be told and stay alongside of the anticipated instructional fee thru those [assistive] applied sciences, then they may be able to thus graduate with extra alternatives than their disabled ancestors ever had,” Virdi mentioned.
In some remedy systems within the U.S., experts use Enabled Play to trace facial expressions and gamify remedy classes. Alissa McFall, a speech language pathologist and orofacial myologist in Sacramento, mentioned it may be used to investigate how a affected person’s muscle tissue paintings in order that well being pros can then use that comments to expand custom designed remedy plans.
“The largest price we’ve observed to this point the use of the Enabled Play software is that it may be programmed to learn herbal communique actions and fasten each and every sound or facial features to a serve as this is significant to a person,” McFall mentioned.
Since its release in January, Enabled Play has partnered with quite a lot of organizations within the gaming and assistive tech sphere, together with Particular Impact, Makers Making Exchange and — extra just lately — Microsoft with its Designed for Xbox accessibility companions program. Subsequent Dunn hopes to quickly roll out “digital units,” which might permit different builders so as to add Enabled Play’s inputs to their apps. With those additions, an individual may use facial expressions and voice instructions in Microsoft Phrase and Adobe Photoshop with out purchasing a separate software.
As builders search for techniques to make tech extra obtainable, Dunn hopes to assist pressure that fluctuate, encouraging others to assume some distance past the everyday keyboard and mouse inputs.
“It’s an overly non-public undertaking of mine to unravel those issues,” he mentioned. “That’s the variation that I’m after, which is to construct units that fluctuate the human-computer interplay paradigm to 1 that’s simply extra inclusive.”
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It’s right here in the Wikipedia, says Richard Johnson. “The word ‘God’ in English is ultimately derived from the Proto-Indo-European word ‘Ghu’!”
Ghu, of course, is the satirical deity invented by 1930’s science fiction fans.
The ulterior etymology is disputed. Apart from the unlikely hypothesis of adoption from a foreign tongue, the OTeut. “ghuba” implies as its preTeut-type either “*ghodho-m” or “*ghodto-m”. The former does not appear to admit of explanation; but the latter would represent the neut. pple. of a root “gheu-“. There are two Aryan roots of the required form (“*g,heu-” with palatal aspirate) one with meaning ‘to invoke’ (Skr. “hu”) the other ‘to pour, to offer sacrifice’ (Skr “hu”, Gr. ???i;?, OE “geotàn” Yete v).
So that, as clear as is the summer’s sun.
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