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What is a Multilateral Development Bank?
31 July 2015
Supranational institutions that are set up by sovereign states (their shareholders) are known as Multilateral Development Banks or MDBs for short.
Their areas of responsibility and authority reflect the development aid and cooperation policies that are set up by these states.
By financing projects, generating capital and supporting investment, MDBs have the common task of nurturing economic and social progress in developing countries.
Additionally, MDBs undertake a significant role in the international capital markets by raising the large volume of funds required to finance their loans each year.
Both the PRA and FCA handbook lists the following as MDBs:
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The Washington Post‘s Rachel Weiner had a nice story on Sunday about liberal and progressive candidates losing to more moderate and conservative candidates in Democratic primaries. “Three of the seven candidates endorsed by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, a leading liberal campaign organization, have lost their primaries,” she notes. Jonathan Bernstein, a political scientist/blogger, argues that “there seems to be a difference” between Republicans and the Democrats on this score, with moderates more likely to win Democratic primaries than Republican ones. He wonders why this is.
There’s an answer! As Bernstein no doubt knows, the GOP is more ideologically unified than the Democratic party. Self-identified conservatives make up a much larger portion (71 percent, as of 2011) of the Republican party than self-identified liberals make up of the Democratic coalition (39 percent as of 2011—up from just 29 percent in 2000). Here are two charts from Gallup that make this clear:
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Your attitude is more valuable than skill
Skill is something you can teach and master quite quickly through repetition. Attitude on the other hand stems from values, belief systems and personal rules. It's not so easily taught and is really about a persons concrete way of thinking or feeling, typically reflected in their behavior. You may already know the importance of this, but is it part of your character? Most of the time it's a simple case of having an open mind, taking a step back and seeing the bigger picture. A small shift in perspective like this will not only have employers drawn to you, but you will begin to love challenges and have more energy in your approaches. Below are list of characteristics which will empower you to be more employable.
1. AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE:
If you've ever been to a third world country, you'll know what I mean. Someone once told me that "you're absolute worst nightmare is someone else's greatest dream". No matter how bad you've got it, a whole lot of people out there have it much much worse. Having an attitude of gratitude has helped me re-focus and re-frame many situations in my career, and my life.
Early last year, I went to the Philippines on a holiday and paid an equivalent of $5 AUD for a 1 hour back massage. It was the first thing I did when I arrived in a 5-star Hotel in Makati. The Therapist gave me my change and so I tipped about $2 AUD. She then gave it back to me, thinking I didn't know it was my change. I clarified with her that it was for her because she did a great job. She began to cry and said "thank you" repeatedly about 7 times. She couldn't believe it. And neither could I.
There are many ways to feel grateful, it's all around us. You wake up and look in the mirror and are alive for one. You have arms, legs, ears, eyes, fingers, toes, a heart, a brain and all the necessary functions to perform extraordinary things for yourself and others.
So when you do feel a little burdened, on top of life's obstacles you might not be getting those call backs or finding it difficult to deal with people's responses. Take a moment to pause and think of the abundance of wealth you already have. I bet you could name ten great things in under 30 seconds.
2. A HUNGER FOR CONTINUOUS LEARNING:
There's nothing more appealing for an employer than someone who is willing to learn. Too often I find people being technically competent yet aren't sociable. Or worse, over confident and cocky causing huge communication barriers.
Having a hunger for continuous learning works both ways. You become more valuable and in turn are delivering higher standards of work. You'll also be more approachable and will add to the dynamic culture and morale of the institution you're in.
If you're starting your first design job, you will find yourself crossing over to receptionist or personal assistant roles. This might even be how you get your foot in the door to your design job. This is all part of your learning.
If you need to get coffees, do it. If you need to change light bulbs, do it. If you need to order and stock paper, do it. If you need to start in the mail room, do it. I did, and made 350 friends in the office of the worlds largest advertising networks (Ogilvy). Boy did that pay off in the long term.
DESIGN-BASED LEARNING TIPS:
- Analyse and dissect artefacts of what makes good design effective visual communication VS poor design. Once you find these patterns, you can apply these principles to any touchpoint when approaching any brief
- Observe what the most innovative, strategic, creative, passionate and successful people in the world are doing and have them as your career mentors/role models
- Sign up/subscribe via email for design blogs to ensure you are receiving a constant flow of inspiration
3. TAKE INITIATIVE:
If you don't know what to do or find yourself stuck (which will be often when you're starting off in any work place) then find a way. Ask the question to someone who can give you the right answer, google your queries, post on forums, read relevant books, watch tutorials on YouTube and search on twitter. There is an abundance of free information out there, all you have to do is look.
"Asking quality questions will always give you quality answers"
4. BE PASSIONATE:
It's easy to be passionate about design if you have a deep emotional connection with it. Be passionate but have a plan. It's not enough to be passionate, Anthony Robbins once said "you can't travel east looking for a sunset, no matter how hard you try, it's never going to happen so have a strategy".
This is where following through comes into play. If you say your "interested" then show interest, if you say you want to know "how" then find out, if you say you'll "get in touch" then send that email or dial that number. It's that simple. Actions really do speak louder than words.
Think of it this way, everything you have in you're life at this very moment, all began with nothing but a thought. Then you took massive action and the necessary steps to reach those goals.
This entertaining typographic video below (By Jacob Gilbreath, LA, California) was a project based on the farewell address of Conan O'Brien's final episode. It has a great message at the end and definitely worth watching:
WHAT OTHER CHARACTERISTICS WOULD YOU SAY ARE ATTRACTIVE FOR EMPLOYERS?
For more, pick up a copy of Ram Castillo's internationally and industry-acclaimed book 'How to Get a Job as a Designer, Guaranteed'
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The BIC Metric or “Best In Class” Metric is how we develop the best possible bike. We believe in delivering the best price/specification/quality ratio in the industry. BIC means that Silverback customers get the most desirable technology at an affordable price. These metrics include: frame design, weight, bike finish & aesthetics and specifications all at the right price. These decisions are based in the science of design and careful calculations. This leads us, bike for bike, model for model, to offer better value proposition than any other brand in the world.
WE HAVE A “ONE MAN - ONE BIKE - ONE MASTERPIECE”, ASSEMBLY LINE. OUR FOCUS, ONE MECHANICAL ARTISAN WORKS AND COMPLETES A BIKE WITH ATTENTION TO DETAIL.
We pride ourselves as being a future forward, cutting edge company. Therefore we use engineering and suspension design software such as SolidWorks and Linkage. This assists our designers in developing world-class frame designs.
SOLIDWORKS Dassault Systèmes SOLIDWORKS Corp. is the foremost supplier of computer modeling software in the world and develops the 3D software tools that we use to create, simulate, publish, and manage our bike development data. All Silverback bikes are developed using this tool and it allows us to push the design envelope to create the strongest, lightest frames possible.
LINKAGE Linkage is a powerful and rich-featured 2D bike suspension analysis software package focusing on mountain bikes but also simulating other suspension linkages - motorbikes, city bikes, etc. The software allows us to analyze our suspension set-up in a virtual environment without going to costly prototype development. The suspension design is tested and refined before manufacturing begins. This means saving on developmental and manufacturing costs, which in turn means Silverback can develop the best bikes at a great price.
SILVERBACK 3D PRINTING To enhance the capabilities of the product design team. Silverback has invested in a Rapid Prototyping Programme. This first purchase of this programme was a state-of-the-art 3D printer. This allows the product team to print our design components to test out aesthetics and functionality. Again, this rapid prototyping allows is to speed up the design and development process, and to develop the best possible bikes.
Through the experience we have gained, we have come to understand that absolute lightweight is not everything, neither is stiff-as-stone the Holy Grail for bicycle frames either. Both extremes result in a lack of either comfort or durability and often both. Rather, wisdom shows us that an optimum blend of stiffness and lightweight result in the perfect riding experience: a frame that is sufficiently stiff under pedaling load to move all your effort into forward motion while at the same time neither hampered by gravity or by the painful experience of a body too fatigued, from an overly rigid chassis, to pedal anymore. A good balance of weight to stiffness is apparent when a bike performs equally well on ascents as descents, a compromise in either weight or stiffness will result in the rider focusing on the bike and not on the overall riding experience. | <urn:uuid:ea995e62-d943-46c5-a68a-a75d29b8da7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://silverbackbikes.de/pages/best-in-class | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.915007 | 657 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Five Reasons to Hold the Line on the Urban Boundary
Too often health, environmental, economic, and social equity goals are pitched against each other, as though we can never have one without the other. However, sometimes we can have our cake and eat it too. This is the case for Ottawa’s pending decision on urban expansion. A Greenspace Alliance assessment, using City data on population growth, housing needs and land available within the current urban boundary and within rural villages, shows a viable path without expanding the current urban footprint.
The reasons to hold the lines are numerous, and touch on what people truly care about.
We know that residents care about keeping municipal taxes down. Expanding the urban boundary would cost taxpayers for decades to come, for new roads, new water and waste water infrastructure and other municipal services. A 2009 City of Calgary report show that it costs about 30% more to provide city services to new neighbourhoods that are built on the edge of the city, compared to homes built within the existing city limits. A new study by the Ryerson City Building Institute called “Density Done Right” also documents the high costs of urban sprawl. Given the growing fiscal crisis facing many cities in Canada, it is irresponsible to expand the urban boundary and extend services we can’t afford to offer.
Expansion of the urban boundary weakens the development of 15-minute neighbourhoods, which are the kind of neighbourhood almost everyone wants to live in. A limit on expansion and attention to the details of high-quality urban design can get density right, without creating conditions of over-crowding. Walkable neighbourhoods are also better spaces for an aging population that needs to access services and amenities without relying on a driver’s licenses. This is something people can’t do as they age in conventional suburbs. Villagers, young renters and low-income families want these kinds of neighbourhoods too.
The recent declaration of a Housing and Homelessness Emergency tells us that people (and Councillors) also care about housing affordability and inclusion in Ottawa. New single family homes on the outskirts of Ottawa are less affordable than homes in low-rise, multi-unit sustainable buildings that can be built or redeveloped in many neighbourhoods throughout the city, especially near transit lines and bus routes critical to lower-income families and young people. Deep energy refits, that also add a basement suite, a tiny house, or a second unit to our homes, also offer a better option for public and private investment in housing that is affordable for all.
Village residents and others have also told us they care about protecting Ottawa's farmland and rural areas for future generations of young farmers. Ottawa could produce a lot more of its own food than we do currently, and these lands are vital to that future. The current health emergency has shown too that people care about having access to a safe outdoor space in which to grow their own food. Greater food self-reliance comes from protecting the land from endless pavement.
Holding the Line(s) also matters because it supports action on the climate emergency. Urban sprawl would increase carbon emissions and human stress through thousands of additional kilometers driven by new residents dispersed in the farthest reaches of the urban area, when we should be reducing GHG emissions from transportation. Furthermore, it would undermine the City’s Climate Change Master Plan by locking in a carbon emission future much higher than it needs to be.
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January 28, 2013 – the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
How appropriate that we just finished a Jane Austen weekend here. The house was built in 1893, making it 120 years old now. I sometimes wonder about the people who lived here long ago. I picture the senator and his wife where I know they used to sit on the back portico looking across the lawn at the Sterling Mountain range. And when I’m building a wood fire in the old Glenwood kitchen range in the kitchen, I wonder about the cook who did the same thing so long ago. But today I am wondering about Miss Page, the senator’s daughter, who had the large bedroom with the delicate detail on the fireplace that we call the pink room in her honor. I wonder – did she read Pride and Prejudice? What would she have thought of it. How did she picture Darcy so long before Colin Firth? As a spinster herself, what did she make of Jane Austen? And what about the family of five girls who lived here briefly years later? Did they read about that most famous family of five daughters and try to see which Bennet sister was most like each of them? I’ll never know, but I do hope that in another 120 years, the house will still be standing here and perhaps another girl not yet born will find Pride and Prejudice on the shelf and discover that some stories, the best ones, are quite timeless. | <urn:uuid:d408e18c-5fe5-44c2-9fc5-1a96a4c5f6fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onehundredmain.com/178/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.976498 | 310 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Assessing and Managing Risk
You were successful in getting the Operations Manager position approved by Mr. Chip, and you have initiated the recruitment and selection process to find the right fit for the position.
Aside from recruiting new employees, another responsibility of the human resource manager is to assess risk. The people that work for the organization are a source of risk. At the same time, people play an important role in managing risk and problem solving. It will be important in your role to proactively assess risks such as economic risks. What steps would you take to assess risks and ensure these risks are being addressed proactively? Be sure to consider journals and organizations an HR professional should subscribe to and become a member of.
To complete this assignment, use at least two credible sources to prepare a 4-5-page risk assessment plan that you will present to the CEO. In your plan, you will present a case for the need to proactively evaluate risk and respond to unforeseen risk. Please include the following in your plan:
- Explain how an HR department benefits from proactively assessing risk. In your explanation, provide information regarding current trends in the HR industry for assessing risk. Cite your sources of information.
- Summarize the process by which HR departments proactively evaluate risk.
- Describe at least one potentially unforeseen risk, such as economic changes, and analyze how the HR department would strategically respond.
- Once the risk to the company is identified and the HR department has a strategic response, the new operations manager will need to create a policy and process to ensure the risk is mitigated. Provide three points the operations manager must include in the policy and process.
Include in-text citations and a title and reference page formatted according to APA standards.
In the current industries, risk has become part of the organizations. In most cases, organizational risks are mostly presented by human resources. This is through their actions and decisions. Additionally, it is hard for the company to avoid risks. The only way to go about it is by establishing various measures in order to mitigate them. The common risks that confront organizations include economic risks, operational risks, compliance risks, competitive risks, and others. The financial risks allude to the probability that economic factors will reduce sales or increase the cost of the production. Competitive threats allude to the dangers depicted by the competitors in the industry. They may affect different operations in the organization………….
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“I didn’t need to be physically harmed to feel violated”
This student was apparently appalled that Ben Shapiro was allowed to speak on campus.
Campus Reform reports:
Student op-ed blasts Berkeley for protecting free speech
A member of the Black Student Union at the University of California-Berkeley recently penned an op-ed complaining that she felt “violated” by Ben Shapiro’s appearance on campus.
“If your perceived definition of violence is limited to the confines of physical contact, that’s probably because you’ve never had to experience the psychological trauma that comes along with being a Black person in America,” declares Shelby Mayes, who serves as Membership Development Director for the BSU, in an op-ed for The Daily Californian. “I didn’t need to be physically harmed to feel violated by my school [on September 14].”
She then notes that she is “not alone in my feelings of betrayal, disappointment, and embarrassment” over the way that UC-Berkeley has handled both the Shapiro lecture and the subsequent “Free Speech Week” featuring Milo Yiannopoulos.
Mayes then points out that black students “are a severely underrepresented minority on campus,” and that “African American/Black students are also one of the main targets of the harmful rhetoric spewed out by various ‘alt-right’ hate speakers who have made appearances on campus under the protection and defense of the campus administration.”
Specifically, she says the BSU “has demanded a Task Force sector of UC Berkeley’s administration be devoted to the recruitment and retention of Black students on campus to combat this crushing and shameful under-representation [sic] of the Black community,” but instead saw the university spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on security for the Shapiro event.
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UW Center for Humanities, Caroline Randall Williams, Virtual McKay Lecture
The Body Is the Text: One Woman’s American Narrative
Thursday, April 28, 2022
When Caroline Randall Williams wrote that her body was a monument, that was only the beginning of the thought. The body does so much work past the work. So much telling past the shape of the thing. From what we feed ourselves, to how we tell the truth of where our bodies have been, what they’ve done, so much can be read on the body, of the body’s story. This talk will explore Professor William’s unique take on American identity through this fresh, embodied lens. | <urn:uuid:d7508dc6-6fbe-4e12-98a7-2c3b48201b42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://today.wisc.edu/events/view/167707 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937463 | 164 | 1.78125 | 2 |
The simplest definition of the term web hosting would be accommodation of a particular website on the global network. Accordingly, the term web host would be defined as the host of a particular web site on the Internet.
In practice, web hosting is sold by companies specialized in web hosting where customers can rent a certain space on the Internet server or, in accordance with their needs, the entire Internet server. Also, there are numerous web hosting packages on the market that are adapted to the needs of clients, that is, the services they need to use a particular website.
Term Internet or web server is defined as a computer that has a continuous connection to the global Internet network (World Wide Web).
Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that specializes in providing services to connect user’s websites to the Internet and providing them with all the necessary additional services. Today, it is possible to access the Internet in many ways (via modems, ADSL or cable), and Internet Service Providers provide users with a number of additional services, such as domain registration, email service, website hosting and many others. | <urn:uuid:618db230-b8f6-497f-a3c3-23dd6f663ff7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kamalaminfo.com/product/hosting-plans/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945183 | 226 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Perhaps you have found that the local squirrel society has overrun your backyard and you are tired of it. If you are finally ready to do something about the squirrel menace infesting your property, then it is time to catch the squirrels and relocate them to a nearby nature preserve or unused woodlands. Although these animals are smart and clever too, they are not smarter than you once you are properly armed with the knowledge of how to effectively catch these little devils. This article goes through the step by step directions for how to trap and remove unwanted squirrels.
Materials and Items Necessary:
– Live Animal Trapping License, as necessary
– A Squirrel Trap
– Squirrel Bait
Observation and Prep Work
Although this is a moderately challenging project, most anyone with some patience and an ability to follow instructions can do it. The first thing that you will have to learn is where the squirrels spend their time. If you possess a bird feeder, then you can be sure that the squirrel is already helping himself to your bird food on a more frequent basis than are the birds. Since this is the food source for the pest, then this is where you will place your trap.
Buy a good trap for live animals, such as rabbits, squirrels, and other tiny creatures. All that you need is a one door trap for squirrels. These are great and can generally be obtained at the local feed and supply store.
Placing the Squirrel Trap
Take your trap and put it wherever it is that you see your squirrel spends much of his time while trespassing on your property. This might be the bird feeder. Secure it in its place by placing either bricks or a heavier rock atop it.
Setting the Squirrel Trap
Place squirrel food inside of the trap. Do not set it just yet. The goal is to attract the squirrel to the trap itself. You want for him to become curious about the trap, and then trusting of it, while he is attempting to reach the food inside of the trap, for several days.
To do this, you will need to take out the bird feeder and any other supply of food on offer in your backyard. Once this has been accomplished, and the squirrel has had the necessary time to understand that this trap is now his only source of food on your property, you are ready to set the trap. Follow the instructions with which the trap came from the feed and supply store.
Catching the Squirrel
Keep a close watch on your trap. It is very likely that you will find that you have caught the squirrel rather swiftly once you have actually set the trap. Be humane once the vermin is your prisoner. Take him to a woodlands or park, not to close to your property so that he is able to find his way easily back, then release him. Once you have managed to do this a single time, it will be easy to repeat the success. Go through all of the directions as many times as is necessary to eradicate the squirrel plague from your backyard. When you have successfully accomplished this, you can put back your bird feeder and sleep in peace, knowing that only the birds are once again enjoying its contents.
Suggestions and Cautions
Effective squirrel bait is not hard to find. They love sunflower seeds, corn, suet cakes, and peanuts. Remember to take the squirrel minimally five miles away from your house so that he does not return within the week. Do not leave the squirrel for a long period, such as overnight, in the trap. It will die like that. | <urn:uuid:f0a56df8-98dc-4055-aa9c-4b3b361d632f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thehousingforum.com/how-to-trap-a-squirrel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97065 | 724 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The most common eyelid surgery is the blepharoplasty. This procedure, done on the upper, lower, or both upper and lower eyelids, involves removing excess skin and small pockets of fat from the eyelid. This drooping, saggy skin can cause irritation and negatively impact your vision. This procedure may be considered cosmetic, but in some case may be considered medically necessary and could potentially be covered through health insurance. Many patients who choose this procedure have noticed drooping eyelid skin has increased with aging, or have hereditary factors that have contributed to this issue.
If excess eyelid skin is bothering you, you should consider a blepharoplasty to restore a smoother, more youthful looking contour to your upper or lower eyelid. You may be a good candidate for a blepharoplasty if you are a relatively healthy adult who is looking to change the appearance or functionality of their eyelids. It is vital that you have realistic expectations and a positive outlook. Achieving a blepharoplasty is impossible without a scar. Patients typically have an incision along the crease in their eyelid or below the lower lash line, but most patients feel the scar is not noticeable and well worth the benefits of surgery.
BENEFITS OF SURGERY
- Eliminates excess eyelid skin
- Removes pockets of fat to decrease puffy appearance
- Gives a tighter, smoother contour to the eyelid
- Reduces irritation
- Restores fuller field of vision
WHAT TO EXPECT
Once the decision is made to move forward with surgery, our team will schedule a pre-procedure visit and select your surgery date. A blepharoplasty may be performed under local anesthesia, meaning the area is numbed, or general anesthesia, meaning you will be asleep for the operation. Dr. Szymanski will discuss the pros and cons of these options. Surgery typically takes about two hours to complete. You will have a scar along the crease of your upper eyelid or below the lash line of your lower eyelid where the excess skin was removed, but patients most often find the benefits outweigh the scar. You will go home the same day as surgery to recover. We recommend you plan for extra help around the house for the days following your procedure as you adjust and recover. Recovery for each patient varies and depends on your lifestyle.
YOUR CONSULTATION FOR BLEPHAROPLASTY
If you are considering an upper or lower blepharoplasty or wondering if it may be the right procedure for you, we encourage you to schedule a consultation with Dr. Szymanski to review your goals and desired results. It is important that you understand and have realistic expectations for the procedure before moving forward. During your appointment, Dr. Szymanski may have you undress to more fully evaluate the area and talk through you concerns.
Deciding if a plastic surgery procedure is the right choice for you is your individual decision. We want you to feel comfortable and confident throughout the process. Before your first consultation with our office, we recommend you write down any questions you have and bring your list with you. It can also be beneficial to bring someone with you who is supportive and a good listener. If you find you have a lot of questions after your consultation, a second appointment to address your questions with Dr. Szymanski is always an option. | <urn:uuid:67335123-31a1-4e56-9ce1-1ab0b977f9f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.kdsaesthetics.com/face/eyelid-procedures/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940618 | 703 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Dangerous Goods by Sea (IMDG) - Training Courses
eLearning - Virtual - Classroom
Every shipment of dangerous goods that moves over water is considered the transport of dangerous goods by Sea. There are two types of vessels that are covered in an International Maritime Dangerous Goods (IMDG) course.
- Ferries: As the United Kingdom is an island, any goods that we deliver in a truck to Europe or Northern Ireland are moving across water and must comply with IMDG.
- Cargo Ships: These are used for moving goods on the ocean all over the world in a multi modal freight container or a bulk container ship.
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Senior deputy collector aur Sdm me kya difference hai?? aur State me sirf Deputy collector hota hai lekin bihar me senior deputy collector kyu?? senior deputy collector kaise sdm banta hai?? kya senior deputy collector ak sub-division kaa head hota hai?? plz Ans in detail
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SDM is Sub-divisional magistrate while Senior deputy collector that id ADM i.e. Additional District Magistrate who is just after the DM i.e. District Magistrate or collector.
Now, here SDM is responsible only for a Revenue division or Sub-division or Sub-district. And, he is below ADM as he is responsible for whole district. In bigger cities like Patna we also have a post between collector and ADM that is Senior deputy collector of which you are talking. The work of three of these personalities is almost the same but in larger city one or two people are not sufficient for all the handling and management. Obviously, by promotion SDM becomes ADM and above.
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The New Israel Fund (NIF) is the leading organization advancing democracy and equality for all Israelis. NIF believes that Israel can live up to its founders’ vision of a state that ensures complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants, without regard to religion, race, gender or national identity.
WHAT THEY DO
Widely credited with building Israel’s progressive civil society from scratch, NIF has provided over $200 million to more than 800 cutting-edge organizations since its inception. And they are more than a funder; NIF is at philanthropy’s cutting edge thanks in large part to Shatil, the New Israel Fund Initiative for Social Change. Shatil provides NIF grantees and other social change organizations with hands-on assistance, including training, resources and workshops on various aspects of nonprofit management. Today, NIF/ Shatil is a leading advocate for democratic values, builds coalitions, empowers activists and often takes the initiative in setting the public agenda.
NIF fights inequality, injustice and extremism because of an understanding that justice is the precondition for a successful democracy — and the only lasting road to peace. The New Israel Fund’s founders wanted to connect with Israel in a way that reflected their progressive values, and thousands of Israelis and Diaspora Jews have joined with us for that reason.
Israeli Government Forced to Reconsider Anti-Gay Adoption Policy (New Israel Fund / July 27, 2017)
Mickey Gitzin is the New Executive Director of New Israel Fund (Haaretz / May 17, 2017)
A False Dichotomy on Israel (The New York Jewish Week / February 2, 2016)
Statement on Cancellation of a “Wider Bridge” Event by LGBTQ Task Force (NIF / January 18, 2016)
Celebrate Israel with a Big Tent (A Wider Bridge / June 2, 2014)
A Young Israeli’s Fight for Equality (A Wider Bridge / April 15, 2014)
Funny Girls (The Times of Israel / July 23, 2013)
Bedouins Fight Israel’s Resettlement Plan — and Bid for American Jews’ Support (The Jewish Daily Forward / July 13, 2013)
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A team of academics from Liverpool Hope University will analyse how a child’s learning and emotional development is impacted by the wearing of face masks.
July 2020 saw the UK Government making the wearing of face coverings mandatory in public spaces, such as shops and on transport, in the face of the rapidly-escalating Covid-19 crisis.
The enforcement saw UK youngsters having to make sense of a world where they were conversing with others whose mouths were covered. They may have also been wearing masks of their own.
And now Hope’s ‘ChildLab’ - an acclaimed inter-disciplinary research centre between the Departments of Psychology and Early Childhood at the University - is studying precisely what effect the wearing of masks might have had in terms of a child’s language and communication skills.
The research team - lead by Dr Belen Lopez-Perez, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Dr Jamie Lingwood, Lecturer in Psychology, Dr Tom Gallagher-Mitchell, Lecturer in Psychology and Dr Lorna Bourke, Psychology Undergraduate Programme Lead - will focus on youngsters aged between 4 and 8 years old.
The group is also looking for new volunteers to enter the study and become little research assistants.
Dr Bourke says: “We are inviting families to the ChildLab at Hope to take part in a study looking at the effect of face masks on children’s language and communication skills.
“Children will complete two computerised tasks, looking at language and emotion, and two non-computerised language tasks. The participating parent will also complete a questionnaire.
“And as a small thank you for participating, families will receive a £10 Amazon e-voucher - while every child will also receive a ‘Young Scientist’ certificate.”
Any families interested in taking part, or for more information, should email Dr Belen Lopez-Perez or Dr Jamie Lingwood at firstname.lastname@example.org using the reference ‘Face Mask Study’.
It’s not the only coronavirus-related piece of research to emerge from Hope’s ChildLab.
Further, ongoing research will also examine the psychological impact on children, young people and their families as they experience changes to their educational experiences, as well as the effects of home-schooling on teachers and parents during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Volume 454, Number 2, August I 2006
APEX Special Booklet
|Page(s)||517 - 526|
|Section||Interstellar and circumstellar matter|
|Published online||11 July 2006|
1051 erg less: the Galactic H II region OA 184
National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Dominion Radio Astrophysical Observatory, PO Box 248, Penticton, BC, V2A 6J9, Canada e-mail: email@example.com
2 Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, Canada
3 National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
4 Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
Accepted: 13 March 2006
Aims.The identification of the object OA 184 as a Galactic Supernova Remnant (SNR) is re-examined, and evidence to the contrary is presented. The aim is to show definitively that OA 184 is actually a Galactic H II region, and to estimate some physical parameters for the nebula (e.g. temperature, density, and magnetic field in the ionized shell).
Methods.To determine the broad spectral properties of OA 184 a multiwavelength approach is used, with historical and new radio data, and existing X-ray and IR data on OA 184 considered. Radio continuum 408 and 1420 MHz Canadian Galactic Plane Survey (CGPS) data, Effelsberg 2695 MHz data, and new Urumqi 5 GHz radio observations in Stokes I, Q, and U are presented. As well, we present CGPS H I line data, and eight radio recombination lines (RRL, H103-110α) observed for this study with the Green Bank Telescope.
Results.An integrated radio spectrum of index 0.14 to -0.2 () is determined from four radio frequencies. RRL emission appears at km s-1 and at the intensity predicted for free-free thermal emission. Q and U maps at 6 cm show OA 184 as a depolarizing source, affecting a background filament of polarized non-thermal Galactic emission. An H II shell of thickness less than 0.2° is indicated by this depolarization. CGPS ~1-arcminute resolution H I line maps are presented, and the systemic velocity of the ISM immediately surrounding OA 184 is -26.8 km s-1. The distance of OA 184 is kpc, obtained from a new distance method based on a Galactic H I modelling procedure. A simple model as a shell of ionized hydrogen 4 pc thick is considered, and the RRL observations are used to estimate (under conditions of non-thermodynamic equilibrium) the electron temperature K and density cm-3. The line of sight magnetic field in the ionized shell is found to be G (directed away from the Sun).
Conclusions.We conclude that OA 184 is a Galactic H II region energized by the lone O7.5V star BD+41°1144.
Key words: polarization / ISM: supernova remnants / H II regions
© ESO, 2006
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- August 12, 2022
Texas Cosmology Center Established at UT Austin
AUSTIN, Texas — A new interdisciplinary center for the study of the frontiers of the universe, from the tiniest subatomic particle to largest chain of galaxies, has been formed at The University of Texas at Austin.
The Texas Cosmology Center will be a way for the university’s departments of astronomy and physics to collaborate on research that concerns them both. “This center will bring the two departments together in an area where they overlap — in the physics of the very early universe,” said Dr. Neal Evans, astronomy department chair.
Astronomical observations have revealed the presence of dark matter and dark energy, discoveries that challenge our knowledge of fundamental physics. And today’s leading theories in physics involve energies so high that no earth-bound particle accelerator can test them — they need the universe as their laboratory.
Dr. Steven Weinberg, Nobel laureate and professor of physics at the university, called the Center’s advent “a very exciting development” for that department. “Many of us have felt that cosmology, because of the wonderful progress on the observational side, has the kind of excitement we used to find in elementary particle physics,” he said. “Many of us have shifted our work toward cosmology. We intend to participate fully in the Texas Cosmology Center.”
The Center will study the nature of dark matter and dark energy, the origin of cosmic inflation, the origin of matter in the universe, and emergence and evolution of the structures in the universe.
Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu, associate professor of astronomy and member of NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe science team, will be the Center’s director. He explained that the Center will include faculty from both departments, and the initial funding allocated to the Center will be able to support four post-doctoral researchers, two for each department. He said he intends to seek external funding for more support.
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LEGALISING GAY MARRIAGES The question on whether gay couple’s marriages should be legalized has attracted public debates and drawn conflicting opinions. The civil rights of an individual should not be subjected to voting if our laws have to be democratic (Ojalvo, 2009). With the growing number of gay couples, the question that we should ask ourselves is when gay marriages will be legalized and not whether gay couples should be permitted to marry. In a democracy, the majority decisions should not be a tyranny on the minority’s right. The two third majority thresholds to amend the constitution becomes the uphill task in legalizing gay marriages in most states in America. There are several reasons why gay couples should marry. First, marriage is a fundamental constitutional right which every citizen enjoys. It is therefore a right to choose of a marriage partner whether from same sex or opposite. What if the heterosexual couples were denied a right to marry? Double standard in law is retrogressive and intolerable in a democracy. It is therefore within ones province to choose a marriage partner and not to be determined through voting (Merin, 2002). Will people have to vote for one to select an opposite sex partner? Secondly, gay couples are also American citizens and should not be compelled to migrate to the foreign countries to exercise their marriage rights. It hurts for a parent to have his/ her child depart to other countries because of having a choice parallel to that of the majority. Moreover, an action that does not infringe on the enjoyment of other people’s rights is acceptable and must not be penalized. According to Merin (2002), gay couples in enjoyment of their freedom in no way curtail the enjoyment of the heterosexual couples right. There is therefore no reason as to why gay marriages should be unconstitutional. Besides, the opponents of gay marriages lack an understanding of gays. They have failed to recognize that it is as natural as heterosexual marriages (Ojalvo, 2009). In conclusion, the dynamic society calls for flexibility, cultural diversity, and equality. The people in the society must understand the need to remain open minded and to learn to respect the rights of others if they expect their interests to be acknowledged too. With the growing increase in youth population who are fervent supporters of homosexual marriages and declining numbers of aging population, the gay marriages will see its day.
List of References
Merin, Y. (2002). Equality for Same-sex Couples: The Legal Recognition of Gay Partnerships in Europe and the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Ojalvo, H. E. (2009). Should Gay Couples Be Allowed to Marry? New York Times. Retrieved from http://learning. blogs. nytimes. com/2009/11/05/should-gay-couples-be-allowed-to-marry/
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What is Endometriosis?
Endometriosis is a condition that results in endometrial tissue, which is normally only found inside the uterus, growing in other parts of the body.
This tissue typically appears in the pelvic area, such as the ovaries or fallopian tubes. In some cases, it can also grow in other distant regions of the body. (1)
Endometriosis impacts upon the lives of 11 percent of women, which equates to approximately six and a half million aged between 15 to 44. It’s also a condition which can make falling pregnant much tougher. (2)
Apart from during pregnancy, illness or menopause, the average woman has a menstrual period every month.
Blood and tissue from the uterus sheds and expels through the vagina. This cycle occurs roughly every 28 days. (3)
With endometriosis, the tissue growing outside of the uterus behaves in the same manner. Endometrial cells build up, break down and bleed on a monthly basis.
Unlike a regular period, the blood from this process cannot leave the body. This means the affected areas become inflamed and over time it leads to scarring. (4)
There are various theories as to why this disorder happens, for example, genetic predisposition. However, the definitive cause of endometriosis still remains unknown. (5)
Symptoms of endometriosis can include one or more of the following: (6)
Pelvic pain is a key symptom of endometriosis. It describes discomfort which occurs in your lower abdomen, lower back, or both. Pain can range from mild to extreme.
Severe Menstrual Cramps
Menstrual cramps can be painful and uncomfortable. However, cramping which is severe enough to prevent you from going about your day to day activities could be a sign of endometriosis.
Endometriosis can result in very heavy bleeding during your period. This type of bleeding can require frequent changes of sanitaryware.
Occasionally you may also bleed through your clothing. Heavy menstrual bleeding can be debilitating, lead to embarrassing situations and interfere with your quality of life.
Painful Sexual Intercourse
Pain that manifests during sex can be a symptom of endometriosis. You may also experience pain after sex.
Bleeding Between Periods
If you are bleeding in between your menstrual periods, you might have endometriosis. Bleeding can be light (spotting) or heavy, depending on the individual. (7)
Endometriosis is staged according to the extent endometrial tissue has spread beyond the uterus. These are referred to as endometrial implants.
Other variables for staging include size, depth and amount of implants. The stages of endometriosis do not necessarily correlate to pain level or risk of infertility.
Similarly, symptoms of the condition can manifest differently depending on the woman. The stages of endometriosis progress as follows: (8)
No endometrial tissue is growing outside your uterus.
Endometriosis at this stage is minimal. You likely have no more than a few endometrial implants.
Existing implants are shallow rather than deep.
The condition is now classed as mild. Endometrial implants are beginning to multiply, and are slightly deeper.
Moderate endometriosis is identified by the presence of numerous implants that are deep.
The endometrial tissue may be growing in one or both of your ovaries. This can cause endometriomas (cysts in the ovaries).
Adhesions, which are a type of internal scar tissue, have begun to form. At this stage, it is still thin or translucent rather than dense.
Stage 4 endometriosis is severe. Endometrial implants are multiple and deep rooted.
One or both ovaries may be affected by large endometriomas. Adhesions have also multiplied and grown dense.
These thick adhesions can cause organs to stick to each other. For example, the back of the uterus may merge upon the rectum.
If you suspect you have symptoms of endometriosis, it is important to consult your doctor, preferably a gynecologist.
Your doctor will perform a physical examination and review your symptoms. You may receive a transvaginal ultrasound. This entails inserting a probe into your vagina to examine your reproductive organs.
However, the only definite method to establish the disorder is through a laparoscopy. This is classed as a minor surgical procedure.
Two incisions will be made in your abdomen next to your belly button. An instrument with a camera called a laparoscope is then inserted into the cuts.
If endometrial tissue is spotted growing in an area deemed as unusual, your doctor will collect a tissue sample. This will then be examined in a laboratory to confirm or rule out endometriosis. (9)
There is no cure for this condition, which means treatment is focussed on helping patients control symptoms: (10)
Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs)
NSAIDs are drugs that work to reduce inflammation and pain. Most NSAIDs are available over the counter, with minimal side effects.
These forms of medication can help you manage the pain of endometriosis.
Birth Control Pills
Birth control pills are a type of hormonal contraceptive. They may contain either progestin (progesterone substitute) or estrogen.
These pills can contribute towards regulating periods and reducing lengthy, heavy flows. This contraceptive may also alleviate pain as a result of the condition.
However, if you stop taking birth control pills, your symptoms will return. For this reason, numerous women with endometriosis take oral contraceptives indefinitely.
Gonadotropin Releasing Hormone Agonists (GnRH Agonists)
GnRH agonists are a type of hormonal therapy. They block the production of the hormones responsible for menstruation and ovulation. In turn, this prevents endometrial tissue from growing.
These drugs are taken in the form of an injection or a type of nasal spray.
This treatment is not prescribed for any longer than six months. If treatment is repeated, a break of several months is required.
Essentially, gnRH agonists put your body into a state of menopause. Side effects can include hot flashes, vaginal dryness and weight gain.
Progesterone and Progestin
Injections, intrauterine devices (IUDs), and pills containing progesterone or progestin can relieve symptoms.
Progestin and progesterone serve as a type of contraceptive. They reduce the frequency of menstrual periods or stop them completely.
IUDs containing progestin can help to decrease the size of endometrial implants. Both of these hormones may result in weight gain, depression or irregular bleeding.
Danazol blocks hormones related to your menstrual cycle. This drug significantly reduces the frequency of your period and can stop it entirely.
It has more disruptive side effects than other forms of treatment. These can include weight gain, fatigue, muscle cramps, and hot flashes.
Danazol does not prevent pregnancy, but can cause harm to a fetus in the womb. Therefore, it is recommended to use non-hormonal contraceptives, such as condoms for the duration of treatment.
Laparoscopy can be used as both a diagnostic tool and a treatment for endometriosis. It is typically recommended for women with deep endometrial implants to alleviate pain.
The aim of laparoscopic surgery is to preserve healthy tissue while removing any adhesions or endometrial implants.
A laparoscope is inserted into your abdomen through small incisions. This instrument allows the surgeon to examine endometrial implants in closer detail.
These implants are then removed in one of two possible ways. The first method is excision. Endometrial implants are simply cut out of affected areas.
The second type of removal involves destroying implants with high heat. Blood vessels are instantly cauterized (sealed) as a result of the heat, meaning no stitches are needed.
A laparotomy is a major surgical procedure. It is often a last resort for treating endometriosis when all other methods have failed.
This surgery involves removing endometrial implants that may not be visible with a laparoscope.
Your fallopian tubes and ovaries may be removed if they are severely damaged by endometriosis. Similarly, your uterus might also have to be removed in what is referred to as a hysterectomy.
Despite the severity of this form of treatment, endometrial implants may recur. However, removing uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes causes irreversible infertility.
What is endometriosis? Endometriosis is a disorder in which endometrial tissue grows in areas of the body outside of the uterus.
What are the signs of endometriosis? The signs of endometriosis include pelvic pain, heavy menstruation, severe menstrual cramps and pain during sexual intercourse. You might also bleed between your periods.
How do you develop endometriosis? The cause of endometriosis is not fully understood. Genetics may play a role in your likelihood of developing the condition.
How are you diagnosed for endometriosis? Your doctor will review your symptoms. Endometriosis can only be reliably diagnosed through a laparoscopy.
What is the best treatment for endometriosis? Treatments can include NSAIDs, birth control pills or gonadotropin releasing hormone agonists. Progesterone, progestin and danazol may also be used. Surgery can also be an option for more severe cases.
What are the long term complications of endometriosis? Endometriosis can cause damage to your ovaries or fallopian tubes. This can result in fertility issues. (11)
Is endometriosis considered a disability? If your doctor can provide evidence your symptoms are severe enough to prevent you from working, you may be eligible. (12)
Is there any cure for endometriosis? There is no cure for endometriosis. However, treatments exist to help manage symptoms. (13)
Is endometriosis life threatening? Endometriosis is not classed as a life threatening illness. However, it can increase your risk of certain cancers, such as ovarian cancer. (14)
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Film: Half-Human (1956)
Alias: Master, Yeti
Height/Weight: Slightly larger than the average human.
Summary: Big apes seem to be a thing when it comes to cryptozoological curiosities across the world. America has Bigfoot, Australia has the Yowie, Japan has the Hibagon, and of course, south Asia has the Yeti, or Abominable Snowman. And like all these apes, he doesn't take well to most strangers.
History: There used to be many Yetis in the Himalayas, but that was before they started eating large quantities of amanita muscaria, which poisoned and killed them all. That is, all but a lone Yeti and his young child. Together, they made a living in their race's old cavern, and ended up being worshipped as deities by a group of inbred loonies with nothing better to turn to. However, the Yeti's constant searching for companionship lead to humans coming in to investigate. Unfortunately, one group of men wanted the Yeti and his kid for money and exploitation. Sadly, it led to the kid getting fatally shot, and the Yeti going on an absolute warpath just for that.
Notable Kills: The effect is a little hokey, but the scene of the Yeti picking up and throwing the lead greedster off a cliff was both karmic and fascinating with the man hitting rocks like a ragdoll.
Final Fate: After being confronted in his cave, the Yeti is pushed by one of the village girls into a pit of sulfuric lava, killing them both. It's the story where no one wins! Hooray!
Powers/Abilities: Rather intelligent and strong for a centuries-old ape man.
Weakness: Anything conventional.
Scariness Factor: 2.5-We'd say to stay away from this brute of an ape man, but there's something very human behind that ugly face. A prime example is when he stumbles upon a tied up man. With no regard for who he might be, the monster picks him up, unties him, and just lets him go. Had those greedy idiots not ruined everything, perhaps the Yeti would have been okay with getting guests after all? That or maybe he just helps because he can.
Trivia: -The word, "Yeti" comes from the Tibetan phrase "Yeh-teh", which means "Rock bear".
-Amanita muscaria, or fly amantia, is indeed a real fungus, and can be found all across the southern hemisphere. However, its poisonous properties have resulted in a very small number of human deaths in contrast to the destruction of an entire species of stronger ape men. | <urn:uuid:d6b201f5-9de1-4332-abbe-47dffef25813> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://guidetomonsters.com/html/50s/Abominable%20Snowman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966883 | 590 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Council for Exceptional Children (CEC)
The Council for Exceptional Children (CEC) is the largest international professional organization dedicated to improving the educational success of individuals with disabilities and/or gifts and talents. CEC advocates for appropriate governmental policies, sets professional standards, provides professional development, advocates for individuals with exceptionalities, and helps professionals obtain conditions and resources necessary for effective professional practice.
Visit the Website – Council for Exceptional Children
Council for Exceptional Children Division for Early Childhood
The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) promotes policies and advances evidence-based practices that support families and enhance the optimal development of young children (0-8) who have or are at risk for developmental delays and disabilities.
Visit the DEC website
Delaware County Early Childhood Educators Association, Inc.
As a professional organization, we offer networking opportunities with other professionals as well as workshops to help meet the needs for continuing education requirements of the PA Department of Education (DOE/PDE), the PA Department of Public Welfare (DPW) and the PA Office of Child Development (OCDEL).
Visit www.dcecea.org for more
Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children
DVAEYC is dedicated to ensuring educational opportunity for every child in our community. To accomplish this, we train early childhood professionals in best practice skills and career development. We coach early childhood education programs to meet higher standards of PA Keystone STARS and national accreditation. And we engage policy makers to invest in high quality early childhood education throughout Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Visit www.dvaeyc.org for more information
National Association for the Education of Young Children
NAEYC promotes high-quality early learning for all children, birth through age 8, by connecting practice, policy, and research. We advance a diverse, dynamic early childhood profession and support all who care for, educate, and work on behalf of young children.
Visit the website for more information at www.naeyc.org
PA Promise for Children
Pennsylvania’s Promise for Children is a campaign to raise awareness about the importance of providing Pennsylvania’s young children with access to quality early learning opportunities.
Visit the website for more information at www.papromiseforchildren.com
The mission of the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network is to support the efforts and initiatives of the Bureau of Special Education, and to build the capacity of local educational agencies to serve students who receive special education services.
Visit the website for more at www.pattan.net
PA Department of Education
The mission of the department is to academically prepare children and adults to succeed as productive citizens. The department seeks to ensure that the technical support, resources and opportunities are in place for all students, whether children or adults, to receive a high quality education.
Visit the website for more at www.pde.state.pa.us
Delaware County Department of Human ServicesThe Department of Human Services was established in 1978 under the County of Delaware Home Rule Charter as an umbrella organization responsible for the delivery of coordinated human services and for establishing an administrative structure encompassing services to children, youth, adults, and families with special needs.The Department of Human Services is comprised of the following offices: Office of Behavioral Health (Mental Health, Drug and Alcohol, Adult and Family Services), Office of Intellectual Disabilities, Office of Children and Youth Services, Office of Early Intervention, and Child Care Information Services. The Department of Human Services is located at 20 S. 69th Street, Upper Darby, PA 19082 610-713-2115
Delaware County Family Centers
The mission of the Delaware County Family Center (Delco Family Center) is to help families become strong, self-sufficient members of the community. Since 1994, the Delco Family Center has become the heart of a neighborhood-centered strategy to provide comprehensive, prevention-focused services for at-risk families based on known risk factors in Delaware County.
Visit the website for more at www.dciu.org/page/763
Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning
CSEFEL provides resources for families, teachers, and trainers in early intervention. Although many of their visual support materials are aimed toward children in childcare, they are easily adaptable to the home.
Visit the website for more at csefel.vanderbilt.edu
Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Intervention
Site provides research-based strategies to improve the functioning of children, free presentations, articles, and ideas that can be immediately applied.
Visit the website for more at www.challengingbehavior.org/index.htm
Local Interagency Coordinating Council (LICC)
The Delaware County Local Interagency Coordinating Council (LICC) is a partnership among families, Early Intervention agencies, and community groups that provide quality services and resources to young children, birth through five years, with developmental delays.
Visit the website for more at http://sites.google.com/site/delawarecountylicc/
PA Parent to Parent Network
The Parent to Parent of Pennsylvania program (P2P of PA) links families of children and adults with disabilities or special needs. In Pennsylvania, the P2P model is a one-to-one match between an experienced, mentor parent, called a peer support parent, and a parent seeking individualized support from another parent who has been through the same experience. Parents would have the opportunity to speak with a parent who has been through the evaluation process to determine eligibility. If you are interested in this program, you can visit their website or call 1-888-727-2706 (toll free) for more information.
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As I mentioned last month, I’m teaching a methods seminar this semester on reformers and radicals in US history and will be spending my posts this term talking about how to bring methods discussions into the classroom. Today, let’s talk about footnotes!
So, I may have oversold myself on making footnotes fun in my methods class this fall, but I do think I came close.
One of the texts we use for this class is the Ronald Walters’ wonderful American Reformers. I love this book for the classroom. It’s incredibly approachable and well written, and it covers a lot of material really quickly without being confusing. For our purposes, then, it’s perfect. The chapters I had them read gave them all the information they need to understand the background for antebellum reform movements, freeing me from having to explain millennialism in class. There is one thing, though, that I hate about this book: it has no notes.
Like a few other books designed for the college classroom, the book has a bibliographic essay at the end instead of notes throughout. I’m sure that there are reasons for that, and I am not a publisher, but this always drives me bananas. Sometimes, I want to follow up on a point and I can’t figure out what I should read to do so. More often, though, I am frustrated that the books I want to assign in class are not modeling the kind of academic writing that I want my students to emulate. If one of the best ways to figure out how to write well is to read a lot, then this book frustrates me. For all the wonderful things it does, it doesn’t show students how to cite as they write. It relies on the work of others and beautifully synthesizes the work of many scholars, but unless you already know the material, without the notes, it is unclear what that larger scholarly conversation is.
This bothered me so much, in fact, that I thought about not assigning the book. But then I decided to try something else: to use the book’s lack of notes to talk about the importance of notes. It has become the centerpiece of an in-class exercise on footnotes.
For this activity, I select a short passage from the book (this time, it was 4-5 pages on Brook Farm that the students had not previously read) and asked them to read it to themselves after a very brief discussion in class about why, when, and how to footnote. I talked about footnotes as showing the scholarly conversation that is such an important part of history writing. I compared it to showing their work. And then I had them read.
As they read the note-free text, they had to mark where they thought footnotes ought to go. If they had written this themselves and were going to hand it in for this class, where would they insert their notes? Then, they were to find a partner and compare.
As expected, there was a wide range of numbers when we did the final tally. One student said that he found ten spots where there should be footnotes. Another had over fifty. (I had a little over 30 when I did it along with them.) This prompted a really great discussion about what counts as “common knowledge,” and how you might think about citing different authors within your own paragraphs. It was a good class, and ended up being a very engaging way of thinking about what could easily be a very boring and practical issue that needs to be covered in this sort of class.
I think it might even have made footnotes fun.
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Investigation of Game-Theoretic Mechanisms for the Valuation of Energy Resources
Electricity systems are facing the pressure to change in response to the effects of new technology, particularly the proliferation of renewable technologies (such as solar PV systems and wind generation) leading to the retirement of traditional generation technologies that provide stabilising inertia. These changes create an imperative to consider potential future market structures to facilitate the participation of distributed energy resources (DERs; such as EVs and batteries) in grid...[Show more]
|dc.description.abstract||Electricity systems are facing the pressure to change in response to the effects of new technology, particularly the proliferation of renewable technologies (such as solar PV systems and wind generation) leading to the retirement of traditional generation technologies that provide stabilising inertia. These changes create an imperative to consider potential future market structures to facilitate the participation of distributed energy resources (DERs; such as EVs and batteries) in grid operation. However, this gives rise to general questions surrounding the ethics of market structures and how they could be fairly applied in future electricity systems. Particularly the most basic question "how should electricity be valued and traded" is fundamentally a moral question without any easy answer. We give a survey of philosophical attitudes around such a question, before presenting a series of ways that these intuitions have been cast into mathematics, including: the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism, Locational Marginal Pricing, the Shapley Value, and Nash bargaining solution concepts. We compared these different methods, and attempted a new synthesis that brought together the best features of each of them; called the 'Generalised Neyman and Kohlberg Value' or the GNK-value for short. The GNK value was developed as a novel bargaining solution concept for many player non-cooperative transferable utility generalised games, and thus it was intrinsically flexible in its application to various aspects of powersystems. We demonstrated the features of the GNK-value against the other mathematical solutions in the context of trading the immediate consumption/generation of power on small sized networks under linear-DC approximation, before extending the computation to larger networks. The GNK value proved to be difficult to compute for large networks but was shown to be approximable for larger networks with a series of sampling techniques and a proxy method. The GNK value was ethically compared to other mechanisms with the unfortunate discovery that it allowed for participants to be left worse-off for participating, violating the ethical notion of 'euvoluntary exchange' and 'individual rationality'; but was offered as an interesting innovation in the space of transferable utility generalised games notwithstanding. For sampling the GNK value, there was a range of new and different techniques developed for stratified random sampling which iteratively minimise newly derived concentration inequalities on the error of the sampling. These techniques were developed to assist in the computation of the GNK value to larger networks, and they were evaluated in the context of sampling synthetic data, and in computation of the Shapley Value of cooperative game theory. These new sampling techniques were demonstrated to be comparable to the more orthodox Neyman sampling method despite not having access to stratum variances.|
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People have been making resolutions for thousands of years. Even the ancient Greeks and Romans made promises to their gods at the beginning of a new year.
Setting New Year’s resolutions doesn’t have to be a daunting experience. It’s the perfect opportunity to sit down and set short- and long-term goals. It’s time to decide what things in your life you want to improve and how to go about doing it.
Last year I made the resolution to have functional Georgian by the end of the year. Sadly like most resolutions this wasn’t kept. There were some spurts of interest but not the sustained study and effort necessary to keep this resolution. So, this will be carried on to 2014. I can start with the goal of reading two books in Georgian by the end of January.
1. Be specific – General and vague goals often go by the wayside. In 2014, my fiftieth year, I’d like to make the pilgrimage to Compostela. I will need to walk regularly to get myself prepared for two weeks of walking (I’m thinking of taking the route from Porto to Compostela : 2 weeks, 285 miles or 458km). I walk around an hour each day but I ve never walked for a long distance over several days.
2. Track progress – Using a chart is a great way to keep motivation high. I do have a notebook bought in 1990, where I keep records of the books I’ve read, lengths I’ve swum, model cars purchased etc…
3. Work together – Setting goals with someone else is a great way to motivate each other and be accountable. Never having smoked, I don’t need to give up, but understand it is easier if you give up with someone else.
4. Be realistic – Finally, goals have to be realistic. Someone who has never run a day in her life can’t run a marathon tomorrow.
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Learn how to introduce family and describe people in this highly social language
Learn English, the language of: Queen Elizabeth II, Shakespeare, Dickens, Jane Austin and J.K.Rowling, Adele, Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. From writers to pop stars, from actors to scientists, English is the language of music, the Internet, aviation, science, tourism and diplomacy.
Although it’s the fourth most spoken language (just behind Mandarin, Hindi and Spanish), English is the language you’ll be able to use most widely. It is spoken in more countries than any other language. It’s the official language in 50+ countries, such as the U.K, the U.S, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the second language in many more. One out of five people either speaks or at least understands English!
Move onto the next level of English, and get ready to be able to talk to 1.5 billion people in the world!
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El Museo del Prado en Filipinas, a traveling exhibition by WTA Architecture + Design Studio was made based on the concept of social architecture. The pop-up exhibit featured paintings from the Madrid museum through 54 high-resolution reproductions. Featured painters include Francisco de Goya, Albrecht Dürer, and Juan Luna. Through the implied formations of its arches and vaults, visitors are immediately transported to the galleries of El Museo del Prado.
Visually endearing and highly functional, the masterful design achieves its goals in bringing art and culture to the public. And as institutions such as museums and even libraries intimidate the market that needs it most, it is a welcome statement in the Filipino social agenda.
William Ti Jr., the man behind the idea envisioned this project as a means to engage with people, provide accessible spaces, and create localized networks that serve bigger audiences.
Watch the firm’s Principal Architect William Ti Jr. as he elaborates on social architecture and learn more about the concept behind the design of El Museo del Prado en Filipinas Traveling Exhibition.
The travelling exhibition is currently nominated in Architizer’s A+ Popular Choice Awards under the museum architecture category.
As of 2PM, El Museo del Prado en Filipinas was leading in the category at 37% of the total votes. Other entries include those from international design studios Bjarke Ingels Group, Heatherwick Studio, Steven Holl, and Burner/Cott.
The last day of voting is today, July 20. You can visit their site here to cast your vote.
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Histological structure of salivary glands, Parotids, Sublingual and Submandibular glands
The salivary glands produce saliva through a system of ducts, you have three paired major salivary glands (parotid, submandibular, and sublingual), as well as hundreds of minor salivary glands, In humans, 1200 to 1500 ml of saliva are produced every day, The secretion of saliva (salivation) is mediated by parasympathetic stimulation; acetylcholine is the active neurotransmitter and binds to muscarinic receptors in the glands, leading to increased salivation.
Histological structure of salivary glands
The mouth cavity is continuously lubricated and washed out by saliva. It is the secretory product of a group of salivary glands that open into the oral cavity. Saliva aids in digestion, It keeps your mouth moist, and supports healthy teeth. Salivary glands are generally categorized under two groups:
A. The main (major) salivary glands
These include three pairs of glands; the parotids, the sublingual, and the submandibular glands. They are large compound tubuloalveolar (tubuloacinar) glands, which pour their products via a branched system of ducts. Their secretion is regulated by nervous reflexes.
B. The accessory (minor) salivary glands
These include unpaired glands; the buccal, labial, lingual, and palatine glands, They are small, simple tubuloalveolar glands scattered in the oral mucosa, They secrete continuously to moisten and lubricate the oral cavity.
Histological organization of the main salivary glands
The salivary gland is constructed of stroma and parenchyma.
Connective tissue capsule that covers the gland, separating it from the surrounding structures and conveying its vascular and nervous supply. Connective tissue septa divide the gland into lobes, by interlobar septa and smaller lobules, by interlobular septa. The intralobular connective tissue is formed of a network of reticular fibers that surround the secretory acini and their ducts.
A. The secretory acini: the acinus = group of secretory cells surrounding a lumen and resting on an abasement membrane. The cells are separated from the basement membrane by the myoepithelial cells.
Myoepithelial cells (basket cells)
- They are stellate epithelial cells with many processes which surround the acini, like a basket.
- They are also located along the proximal portions of the ducts.
- They are able to contract, by their actin and myosin to squeeze the secretion from the acini into the lumen of their ducts.
There are three types of acini found in the salivary glands:
1. Mucous acini
They secrete mucus (viscid glycoprotein) secretion. They are present in the sublingual submandibular, buccal, labial, and palatine glands.
Histological features of a mucous acinus
- The mucous acinus appears large, pale, and oval with a wide lumen.
- Each acinus is lined by cuboidal cells with flattened, basal nuclei and pale vacuolated cytoplasm as a result of the dissolution of the mucinogen granules during the processing of the H&E section.
- Each mucous acinus is surrounded by numerous basket cells to help the drainage of the thick mucus into the ducts.
2. Serous acini
They produce watery secretion rich in salts and digestive enzymes. They are present in the parotid, submandibular, and the Von Ebner’s glands.
Histological features of a serous acinus
- The serous acinus appears small, deeply-stained, and rounded with a narrow lumen.
- Each acinus is lined by pyramidal cells with rounded nuclei situated nearer to the base. The serous secretory cells have and basal basophilic cytoplasm (rich in rER) with apical eosinophilic secretory (zymogen) granules.
- The secretory acinus is surrounded by few basket cells as their watery secretion flows easily through the ducts.
Mixed (seromucous) acini
They are present in the submandibular and a few in the sublingual glands. In routine histological preparation, the mixed acinus appears as a mucous with a cap of serous cells (serous demilunes). Recent microscopic studies indicated that each acinus is formed of mucous cells with some serous cells interspersed among them. Both cells pour their secretion into the lumen of the acinus.
B. The duct system:
1. The intralobular ducts formed of 2 parts:
- The intercalated ducts: they drain the secretory acinus and are lined by low cuboidal cells.
- The secretory striated ducts: the intercalated ducts unite together to pour into larger secretory striated ducts. They appear with a wide lumen lined by cuboidal cells with central rounded nuclei and basal eosinophilic striated cytoplasm due to the presence of numerous mitochondria lying in basally-infolded cell membrane The secretory striated ducts modify the composition of saliva by active ion pump making the saliva hypotonic solution.
2. The interlobular ducts: the intralobular ducts unite to form larger interlobular ducts lying in the interlobular connective tissue septa. They are lined by columnar epithelium.
3. The interlobar ducts: larger ducts in the interlobar septa, They are lined by pseudostratified columnar epithelium.
4. The main duct: large duct with a wide lumen. It is lined at its beginning by stratified columnar epithelium which gradually becomes non-keratinized stratified squamous epithelium similar to that lining oral cavity where it opens.
Histological features of the parotid gland
- Capsule & septa: thick, well-defined lobulation.
- Fat cells: large number within the septa and between the acini.
- Secretory acini & myoepithelial cells: in human, 100% serous acini with relatively few myoepithelial cells.
- The intralobular ducts: long, secretory striated ducts form 50% of the length of the intralobular duct.
Histological features of the submandibular gland
- Capsule & septa: moderately thick.
- Fat cells: less numerous.
- Secretory acini & myoepithelial cells: 80% serous acini, 20% mucous acini with frequent myoepithelial cells.
- The intralobular ducts: moderately-long, secretory striated ducts form 80% of the length of the intralobular duct.
Histological features of the sublingual gland
- Capsule & septa: thin capsule, relatively thick septa. Well-defined lobulation
- Fat cells: no fat cells
- Secretory acini & myoepithelial cells: 99% mucous, 1% serous, represented by the serous demilunes surrounded by numerous myoepithelial cells.
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With independence we adopted the British Parliamentary system. Along with it we borrowed the norms evolved by them. But we did not observe them. For example, many British ministers resigned when they differed on matters of principle. In India in the past thirty years only Mr V.V. Giri resigned on the issue of unilateral revision of Bank Awards. Similarly election manifestos are meant for cheating, the people and not an enunciation of policy. In India sticking to- power has become the norm-retention of power primary whereas implementation of policies secondary.
There is floor crossing. Every politician says that defections- are ethically unjustified but encourage defections they say that defector should resign to seek re-election but so far only one M.L.A. from Assam resigned his seat when he wanted to change his party.
Double loyalty has become a cardinal policy of Indian politics. Socialists, backward classes, scheduled castes, scheduled tribes are carefully cultivated to retain power. Everybody agrees privately but cannot grow out of double loyalty. This has prevented growth of loyalty to principles, which should be the be all and end all of political parties. It it of this reason that ministers of all India political parties feel no normal qualms in compromising with regional parties and principles.
Moreover the norm of personal loyalty is a peculiar phenomenon of Indian democracy and can be found only in countries under dictatorship. Caste slogans are preferred because a double loyalty operates. Whereas for economic slogans the parties have to work very hard as no double loyalty operates. By secularism they encourage the minorities, discourage the majority and oppose the principle of equality of Gandhiji.
Similarly we mould democracy to suit the purposes of the parties. Congress (I) wants to regulate human action and behavior by state power and Janta Party by individual whims but both avoid the development of the sense of responsibility and self regulation on which the democratic societies of the west are built. We have evolved a system of political non-accountability. When Mr. Thatcher won with labor votes and formed the conservative government she went ahead to dilute the public sector and reduce tax. This is application of principles. In India Marxist party governs West Bengal but nothing is done for the labor.
As the parties win by taking financial help from capitalists they dare not go against them. Even when pro-labor laws are passed, pro-poor policies are announced they are sabotaged in implementation. How much success have abolition of bonded labor and minimum labor to agricultural labor achieved. Similarly if a minister wants to pass the Industrial Relations Bill some of his colleagues want to sabotage it.
Self seeking without principles is tending to establish the norm of selfishness for the whole country. If self-government, irrespective of moral considerations is justified at the top why should it not be felt justified for all ? The ministers use extra-constitutional authority in the shape of sons, sons-in-law and daughters-in-law to get economic gains. This is new norm of Indian democracy. And succession to it and it becomes monarchy. This norm of self-seeking is- tending to spirit the moral binding of society. That is why man in the street is justified for going in for dacoities and murders, doctors- feel justified in fleecing the patients.
How far Indian democracy will absorb these shocks is a moot question. Current practices tend to become norms by perpetuating themselves. They are more dynamic than principles particularly in the power game. These in-built norms are a destabilizing factor. Des- stabilization is corrected normally authoritarianism. Democracy is a way of life. Norms at the top percolate to the bottom and norms at the bottom influence the top. Our moral base is rocking will, the superstructure remain? | <urn:uuid:e7422642-11b2-4406-b1df-c35059b6cd21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.preservearticles.com/essay/essay-on-future-of-democracy-in-india/4990 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956299 | 769 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Tidsskrift : Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry , vol. 53 , p. 74487457–1 , 2005
Utgiver : American Chemical Society (ACS)
Trykt : 0021-8561
Elektronisk : 1520-5118
Publikasjonstype : Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Dynamic headspace/gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), front-face fluorescence spectroscopy, and a gas-sensor array technique (electronic nose) have previously detected lipid oxidation in pork back fat or mechanically recovered poultry meat earlier than or at the same time as a sensory panel. The present study was focused on measurement of early lipid oxidation in a more complicated product (freeze-stored, smoked sausages with spices). During the storage time, formation of components contributing to rancid odor and flavor (e.g., hexanal and 1-penten-3-ol) could be monitored with dynamic headspace/GC-MS. The GC-MS data also showed a decrease in 2-furancarboxalclehyde, which could indicate loss of Maillard type components often associated with acidic or meat odor and flavor. The fluorescence spectra were difficult to interpret, probably due to the simultaneous influence from increasing levels of lipid oxidation products and loss of fluorescent Maillard or spice components. The gas-sensor array responses were dominated by signals from, e.g., spice and smoke compounds. | <urn:uuid:01ade331-9b69-46e4-8120-9763ecbbe851> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nofima.no/publikasjon/758451/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.76461 | 402 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Do you find yourself using an app for long periods of time? Then we have the perfect automation for you. In this tutorial we will guide you on how to create an automation and make iOS start a timer every time you open a certain application.
After you have created an automation iOS will ask you for how long you want to use this app for. You can enter desired time after which iOS will start running a timer. Once the timer is up you will be notified that you have ran out of time, at which point you can choose to stop using the app.
What makes this method of cutting down on app usage better for some users than iOS’s App Limits feature is that you can choose a different duration every time you launch the app. Another benefit is that the timers are optional, as you can dismiss them by simply flicking the banner notification away.
How to create timer automation for launching an app
Here’s how you can create the Shortcuts automation and use timers to cut down on app usage and addiction.
Step 1: Open Shortcuts app and tap on the Automation tab.
Step 2: Now tap on the ‘+‘ button located at the top right corner of the screen.
Step 3: Tap on Create Personal Automation button and then choose ‘App‘ option.
Step 4: Now tap on the Choose button and select the app you want to add a timer for.
Step 5: Then make sure ‘Is Opened‘ is selected and tap on the Next button.
Step 6: From the next screen tap on Add Action button and search for ‘Timer‘.
Step 7: Under Actions choose ‘Start Timer‘ option.
Step 8: Now enter the duration of the timer by tapping on number ‘30‘.
If you want the Automation to ask you about the duration every time you run it, then you can also tap on ‘Ask Each Time’ variable located right above the keyboard. With this variable you can set a different duration each time you launch the app.
Step 9: Tap on the Next button. Review the details of the automation and make sure ‘Ask Before Running‘ is disabled. Confirm by tapping on Don’t Ask option.
Step 10: Finally tap on the Done button.
Now that the automation has been created, test it by launching the app you chose in step 3. If you entered Ask Each Time, then you will be asked the duration of the timer. After which iOS will start a timer and notify you after that time has passed.
If you don’t want to trigger a timer you can simple dismiss the Duration notification that you get after launching the app.
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The Arthritis Supplement You've Never Heard Of
An over-the-counter supplement may offer fewer side effects than other medications
(Editor's note: This story previously was published by MedShadow.org.)
While you may have never heard of SAMe, it is an over-the-counter supplement that is rapidly growing in popularity as a treatment for various kinds of arthritis. But does it work, and what potential side effects should you know about?
SAMe may be one of the most effective supplements for osteoarthritis that you’ve never heard of. And according to many doctors, it works as well as common pain medications, sans the side effects.
It doesn’t have the same name recognition as glucosamine or turmeric, but the Arthritis Foundation’s website cites SAMe as one of the supplements that scientific studies have found to be effective in treating osteoarthritis. Two studies noted by the organization showed it to be as effective as NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) painkillers.
Osteoarthritis is the most common form of arthritis, affecting more than 30 million adults in the United States. It occurs when a person’s cartilage and bones start to break down, causing pain, swelling and stiffness in the joints, and it often gets worse with time. It’s most likely to affect a person’s hands, back, neck, hips and knees.
“SAMe is one of the handful of natural supplements that does have fair evidence that it helps for the inflammation of osteoarthritis,” says Dr. Richard Saint Cyr, a primary care physician at Swedish Bainbridge Island Primary Care in Bainbridge Island, Wash.
A Compound Found Naturally in the Body
So what is SAMe and what does it do?
SAMe, which is short for S-adenosyl-L-methionine, is a compound found naturally in the body and helps produce and regulate hormones and maintain cell membranes, according to the Mayo Clinic.
SAMe was discovered in the 1950s, and researchers later found that some patients with depression have reduced levels of SAMe. As they were studying whether a SAMe supplement might help treat depression, researchers discovered that some depressed patients who also had osteoarthritis reported joint pain improvements when taking SAMe.
SAMe works as a pain reliever and has anti-inflammatory properties, according to the Arthritis Foundation, and may stimulate cartilage growth and impact serotonin, decreasing the perception of pain.
Typical Drugs for Osteoarthritis and Rheumatoid Arthritis
A 2002 meta-analysis in the Journal of Family Medicine analyzed the findings of almost a dozen randomized controlled trials that tested the efficacy of SAMe. When compared to NSAIDs for the treatment of osteoarthritis, the supplement was found to be just as effective in reducing pain and improving joint function — and without the side effects of NSAIDs. These can include increasing the risk of heart attack or stroke, and can cause stomach problems.
Common NSAIDs include aspirin; ibuprofen, such as Advil and Motrin; and naproxen, such as Aleve. Celebrex (celecoxib), a drug often used to treat arthritis, belongs to a class of NSAIDs known as COX-2 inhibitors, aims to avoid stomach upset.
Other drugs are also used to treat arthritis. Methotrexate, for example, is considered a first-line therapy for rheumatoid arthritis (RA). About 60 percent of RA patients are either on the medication or have been on it in the past. The drug is popular due to its rapid onset of action, efficacy, low cost and favorable toxicity profile.
But like any other drug, methotrexate has side effects. They can cause mouth ulcers in some patients — though they tend to go away in a short period of time — and mild liver irritation in others.
Also, if you are pregnant or plan to become so, you'll want to know this: methotrexate is known to cause birth defects. And if you take the B-vitamin supplement folic acid, you should not take it the same day you take methotrexate, since the supplement can inhibit the activity of the drug.
In 2004, researchers at the University of California, Irvine, conducted a randomized controlled study to compare the effectiveness of 1200 mg of SAMe to 200 mg of Celebrex for 16 weeks in treating osteoarthritis of the knee.
The study, published in BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, examined the results of 56 patients, looking at their pain, joint function, mood, and the side effects they experienced. During the first month, Celebrex was much more effective in reducing pain than SAMe was. During the second month, there was no difference in effectiveness.
The study concluded SAMe was slower to take effect, but was ultimately as effective as Celebrex in treating osteoarthritis. It recommended that further studies be done to examine how well SAMe worked over the long term, and to determine the optimal dosage of the supplement.
The Arthritis Foundation recommends that osteoarthritis sufferers take 600 mg to 1,200 mg each day of SAMe, divided into three doses.
Randi Raaen, a CPA from Tampa, Fla., has been using SAMe for 30 years to treat arthritis in her hands, after hearing it discussed on a local radio program. “It changed my life,” she says. “I find if I don’t take SAMe on a regular basis, I’ll start getting pain in both my hands.”
Side Effects of the SAMe Arthritis Supplement
Along with helping those with osteoarthritis, SAMe also has been found to help some people who have been diagnosed with depression. A 2016 meta-analysis, published in the American Journal of Psychiatry found SAMe to be among several supplements that can be effective when combined with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) for patients who don’t respond to conventional treatments.
While SAMe has gotten good results in scientific studies for osteoarthritis treatment, that doesn’t mean doctors are rushing out to recommend it.
Saint Cyr says he tends to recommend turmeric and boswellia supplements for osteoarthritis, “which are generally cheaper and also easier to find and to take."
"SAMe as a later option if those two don’t seem to work," says Sant Cyr.
Because SAMe is recommended to be taken three times a day, the cost can top $100 a month. Possible side effects (which are reportedly rare) include upset stomach, nausea, irritability and anxiety.
Despite the 2016 meta-analysis involving depression, the use of SAMe and a prescription antidepressant is typically not recommended. Combined, the two could cause serotonin syndrome — in which high levels of serotonin accumulate in a patient’s body. Combining St. John’s wort and SAMe also could cause serotonin syndrome.
It also should be avoided for people with bipolar disorder or Parkinson’s disease.
Osteoarthritis typically develops as people age, and it tends to be more common in women. It also is more likely to develop in people who are obese, because the extra weight causes pressure on the joints.
Your occupation also can influence osteoarthritis, as repetitive motion can put wear and tear on certain joints.
People who think they might have osteoarthritis should contact their primary care physician, who will do a check-up and ask about family history, says Dr. Tanya Gold, a holistic family medicine practitioner in Tampa.
Physical activity and physical therapy can help counter the effects of osteoarthritis, along with the use of supplements.
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The Enduring Cultural Impact Of Blade Runner, From 1982 To November 2019
November 2019: A time where cars fly, off-worlds trips are possible and complex Artificial Intelligence beings walk the streets.
Los Angeles: November, 2019 -- a time where cars fly, off-world trips are possible and complex artificial intelligence beings walk the streets.
At least, so it is in Ridley Scott’s 1982 film “Blade Runner.” Based on the book “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick, the film follows bounty hunter Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), hired to track down and destroy rogue bioengineered “replicants” whose quest for self-possession threatens human society. Through Scott’s lens, the iconic L.A. of palm trees and beaches becomes a dark, rain-drenched dystopia, with such classic landmarks as the Bradbury Building, Grand Central Market, the 2nd Street Tunnel and Union Station playing host to Scott’s melancholic world. Despite an initial flop at the box office,“Blade Runner” has gone on to become a classic in science fiction, as well as a pioneer in the futurist-noir genre that has influenced countless other films and television shows since.
In honor of the film’s cultural impact and that fated November 2019 date, FilmWeek hosted a screening of “Blade Runner” at the Ace Hotel on November 2nd, followed by a Q&A with our host, Larry Mantle, actress Joanna Cassidy and FilmWeek critic Wade Major.
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Abolishing the sacred cow of negative gearing - where losses can be used as a deduction against other income - is considered by governments of all persuasions as electorally unpalatable.
But this part of the income tax system is one of the few areas left which confers this highly favourable treatment. In many other important areas of our public finance and income tax system, negative gearing is effectively abolished in favour of quarantining of losses.
Negative gearing is allowed on passive rental property and share investments and for “large” businesses. Both the pros and cons of negative gearing are well-known. Its most immediate advantage is allowing taxpayers to use a loss on one investment as a deduction against a profitable investment, or other source of income. But it is accepted that it undermines the progressive nature of the income tax, does little to increase housing supply stock and is a significant cost to government revenue.
In contrast to negative gearing, quarantining is where the loss on an investment cannot be used in the year it is made, but can be used in future years, against profits from the same investment from which the loss arose. Usually, but not always, if the investment is sold while there are quarantined losses, these can be used to reduce the taxable profit on exiting the investment.
In our tax system, quarantining is used when determining whether a taxpayer is liable to pay the Medicare levy surcharge; for loan repayments under the higher education loan program (HELP); and assessment of income under the child support regime, particularly Family Tax Benefit Part A and B.
Quarantining also applies when the tax office is assessing means-tested concessions such as the dependent (invalid and carer) tax offset, or senior and pensioner tax offsets.
Small businesses that make a tax loss in a non-corporate form are not permitted to use that loss against other profits (so-called non-commercial loss rules). While these measures are in part a response to the ridiculous hobby tax loss claims of the past, these rules apply quarantining to genuine small businesses, including those in the start-up phase. Quarantining also applies to certain boating activities.
In the social security system, quarantining applies where a particular benefit is means tested, such as Seniors Health Care Card, or the parental income test for dependant youth allowance. Like the income tax though, quarantining is not universally applied under this legislation (for example, it does not apply to the income test for aged pensioners). Also, the current paid parental leave scheme also uses quarantining in its relevant income measurement.
So one can see that quarantining applies in numerous areas of our public finance system. The starting point for debate should focus on economic capacity. By allowing negative gearing, the loss is being treated as a genuine signification of reduced economic capacity to either contribute income tax (or other contribution), or to receive welfare assistance. On the other hand, if quarantining applies, the loss is not regarded as signification of reduced economic capacity to either contribute tax or to receive welfare assistance.
Unfortunately, there are credible arguments both ways. And the fact that countries around the world do not take a uniform approach to the issue under their respective income tax systems supports this.
However, our public finance framework ought to be internally consistent so that similar things are treated in a similar manner, unless there is a sound explanation for differential treatment. This should be the case within the social security and income tax system, as well as across both, as the social security system is the mirror of the income tax system, or a negative income tax.
Both systems have economic capacity at their foundation. Those with sufficient economic capacity make an income tax contribution, and those who lack it receive payments (and other non-money benefits) for economic support. Given the shared foundation of the income tax and social security systems, or that they are really one system, it is hard to see why a different measure of economic capacity should be used within each system or across systems.
Another lesser dimension is that tolerating negative gearing in parts of the income tax and social security systems, but not tolerating it in others parts of those systems, adds complexity. Differential treatment of the same thing necessarily adds to administration and compliance costs.
In the end, there is a real argument that negative gearing should either be restored in the areas where it is currently prohibited, or should be scrapped across the board.
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Joke with blokes: how to ask male patients about urinary symptoms
Asking men over 50 if they are responsible for the urinal queue at the footy could help GPs improve the diagnosis of benign prostatic hyperplasia, according to a leading urologist.
The condition is under-diagnosed, even though it affects half of men over the age of 50 and impacts their quality of life, says Associate Professor of Urology Bill Lynch, from Macquarie University in Sydney.
Teasing out symptoms such as poor stream, nocturia and incomplete emptying by incorporating a light-hearted question into an annual health review could improve diagnosis rates, he says.
For example, a half-joke about whether they are the bloke causing the urinal queue at the football can prompt symptom recall and ease any concerns their symptoms may indicate cancer.
“That’s the kind of thing I try to relate it to — something practical that all men know,” Professor Lynch | <urn:uuid:cedc71eb-aafe-49df-ad60-2ace243278fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ausdoc.com.au/news/joke-blokes-how-ask-male-patients-about-urinary-symptoms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940506 | 205 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Love Call Me Home
Artist & Tune
About the Song
History of the song: "Christine was one of the cultural catalysts in Asheville for over a decade. She wrote documentary scripts, plays, poems and performed in the innovative Playback Theatre. Early in 2000 she was diagnosed at age 49 with a brain tumour and given four months to live. Her friends rallied around her as she made her decision to reject chemotherapy, radiation and invasive medical techniques. The fact that she had no medical insurance played no part in her decision. The song was first sung at UNCA on May 27, 2000 when a benefit was raised to help with her medical costs. Christine was there, with 150, glowing in her red velvet dress. She said she'd extended her time because of her friends, who had surrounded her with love and support during her final year. Many times she said, "I don't want you to forget me." She died peacefully, with dignity, on February 13, 2001. Christine: Your friends will always remember you." - Peggy
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Additional Departmental Affiliation
A major influence upon many parts of society is that of Greek and Roman mythology. While there are several interpretations of what myths are, this study will define them as stories from Greek or Roman origins that seek to explain some natural or social phenomena or to provide moral lessons. Myths were especially influential during the Southern Renaissance, a period of literary reinvention in America during the 1920s and 1930s. Authors used myths to give deeper meanings to their works as they struggled with issues of race, religion, and social changes. Myths appeared in plot lines, as major symbols, and even in the names of characters. This paper focuses upon mythological influences in short stories from Flannery O’Connor and Caroline Gordon, poems from Robert Penn Warren and John Crowe Ransom, a play from Tennessee Williams, and a novel from William Faulkner. It will explore the specific influence each myth has on its work and the way in which each work is shaped by that influence.
Advisor(s) or Committee Chair
Professor Walker Rutledge
English Language and Literature | History | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority
Hayden, Natalie L., "Mythological Influences on Southern American Authors" (2015). Mahurin Honors College Capstone Experience/Thesis Projects. Paper 582. | <urn:uuid:0bcd3e5a-963e-40ce-ab73-f49119c2690a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/stu_hon_theses/582/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928846 | 314 | 3.078125 | 3 |
An eight-year-old boy has moved home after a family court judge in England was told he was picking up his mother's "hateful feelings" about his father.
Judge Lloyd North decided the youngster should leave his mother and live with his father.
The judge concluded that the boy would be exposed to "significant emotional harm" if left with his mother.
A psychologist said the boy's mother "persistently portrayed" his father negatively and said he identified with the "hateful feelings" she expressed.
The judge decided the boy would enjoy a "positive relationship" with both parents if he lived with his father but continued to see his mother.
Judge North analysed the case at a private family court hearing in Norwich.
Details emerged after the boy's mother challenged Judge North's findings at a public appeal hearing in the Family Division of the High Court in London.
A High Court judge dismissed the appeal and published a ruling.
Mr Justice Williams said the family involved could not be identified, but he added that social services staff at Essex County Council had responsibility for the boy's welfare.
The parents separated some years ago, judges heard, and had been fighting over their son's care for much of his life. | <urn:uuid:d6524210-0208-4283-9de0-f1bc318e6528> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-30919284.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.993293 | 249 | 1.65625 | 2 |
GMP Game Engine Downloads
Code is available in uncompressed and compressed formats. Use the uncompressed version for development, and the compressed (min.js) version for use in production.
The uncompressed code file is written to be readable, but doesn't contain in-line documentation. Use the API Documentation as a companion to the code, as it contains a complete description and explanation of all GMP objects, variables and functions.
Version: 1.7.4 (Current) Released: 2010.10.31
This release is minor. Several missing variable declarations have been added, fixing the scope of those variables. As well, G.makeGob() has been changed, and a new variable G.medialURL has been added.
G.makeGob() behaviour has been changed to destroy and replace any existing Gob with the same ID. Previously, G.makeGob() did nothing if the ID was already in use (the function simply returned if it detected the id). This change allows developers to replace Gobs without the need to run deleteGob() first.
The new variable G.mediaURL provides a standard way to provide the URL path to media files like images. See the updated G documentation for details on how to use it. G.mediaURL is not required for use in games, and is for convenience only.
Version: 1.7.3 Released: 2009.07.28
This release adds the G.deleteGob(id) method. This function will safely delete 'simple' Gobs, so that the id can be reused. Simple Gobs are those which:
- Have no events attached to the Gob tag (you would have added them manually, GMP never adds events to Gobs directly). If you added events (eg, onclick, onmousedown, etc.) to the Gob's tag, then you must set them to NULL before calling G.deleteGob(id).
- Have no child Gobs. If you want to delete a Gob with child Gobs (eg, a viewport, layer or composite sprite), then delete the child Gobs first (go ahead and use G.deleteGob(id) to delete the children). The reason G.deleteGob(id) doesn't to this automatically, is that there are many ways for Gobs to be interconnected by the developer, many more ways than the function could reasonably anticipate!
- Have only standard references. All Gob references must be deleted for the browser to perform garbage collection. G.deleteGob(id) deletes references to Gobs inside G.O, G.CO, G.B.O, G.O.CO (empty parentheses means the entire set is searched for references). If you have other references to the Gob, it is highly recommended that you delete them as well after/before you run G.deleteGob(id).
Thanks to Ray for noticing this method was missing!
Version 1.7.2 Released: 2009.05.09
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Sometimes you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. I still learn that over and over again.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
Trust but verify.
Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Not everyone can be trusted. I think we all have to be very selective about the people we trust.
In the end, you have to choose whether or not to trust someone.
Only trust someone who can see these three things in you: the sorrow behind your smile, the love behind your anger, and the reason behind your silence.
It’s hard to trust when all you have from the past is evidence of why you shouldn’t.
I don’t trust words, I trust actions.
Trust is hard to come by. That’s why my circle is small and tight. I’m kind of funny about making new friends.
It’s good to trust others but, not to do so is much better.
Never trust anyone completely but God. Love people, but put your full trust only in God.
We are all selfish and I no more trust myself than others with a good motive.
Never trust anyone, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
You can’t trust a promise someone makes while they’re drunk, in love, hungry, or running for office.
I got trust issues because people got lying issues.
Don’t trust what you see, even salt looks like sugar.
Trust is earned when actions meet words.
Act like you trust people, but do not.
Be careful who you trust. If someone will discuss others with you, they will certainly discuss you with others.
I’m a good enough person to forgive you, but not stupid enough to trust you again.
When you start to wonder whether you can trust someone or not, that is when you already know you don’t..
The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.
I don’t trust what this life has given me.
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
Trust and belief are two prime considerations. You must not allow yourself to be opinionated.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.
I learned you can’t trust the judgment of good friends.
Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Robert E. Lee
It is important not to trust people too much.
V. S. Naipaul
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The holidays are often thought of as the season for giving. But in the retail industry, it is also a season of cyberattacks, fraud, and identity theft. In the world of cybercrime, the spirit of giving is replaced by the spirit of scheming, and threat actors are hard at work.
Retailers must be extra diligent in protecting the precious personally identified information (PII) of customers that they collect and store.
Prevalence of cyberattacks in retail
According to Threatmetrix’s Q4 2017 Cybercrime Report, the retail industry experienced an increase in attacks during the final three months of the year. During the quarter, attacks on their ecommerce customers spiked with nearly 193 million rejected transactions – a 92% increase over the previous quarter, and a 173% increase over the previous year.
While organizations should not wait until the holidays to focus on security, the rise in attacker activity at the end of the year spotlights the pressure retailers are under to protect customer data.
In the 2018 Thales Data Threat Report, Retail Edition, researchers reported that among U.S. retail respondents, 75% had experienced a breach in the past, and 50% said they had been breached in the past year. U.S. retailers were also found to be more likely to store sensitive data in the cloud, but only 26% reported implementing encryption. Failing to properly protect data and securely configure workloads in the cloud can lead to both data breaches and unintentional leaks.
During this time of year, attackers will often try to cast as wide a net as they can, and consumers can expect to be hit with phishing attacks designed to steal their credentials for sites as well as emails using holiday-shopping themed lures to entice them to download malware. Less wary shoppers may be tempted to browse sites they don’t know and should not trust. For businesses, cross-site scripting attacks that allow a cybercriminal to insert malicious code onto their website not only threaten customer data but also their reputation. With the average dwell time of attacks standing at 100 days, the groundwork for these kinds of attacks may already have been laid by the time the holidays arrive. By staying quiet, sophisticated and financially-motivated attackers can put themselves in position to reap the benefits of eager shoppers spiking the web traffic of retailers.
More than anything else, the holidays are a test of how strong a retailer’s security posture truly is. Knowing what potential weak spots exist is critical for retailers this time of year. That process includes having an understanding of baseline behavior and web traffic. Is there an unexpected rise in requests to a particular server? Should this particular system be communicating with point-of-sale devices (PoS)? This information can help security teams identify malicious behavior.
Strong application monitoring and access controls will go a long way. Once you have those controls in place, any abnormal or unauthorized activity will generate a red flag. Without those controls, activity that should trigger alerts will be missed, and data will probably already be stolen by the time businesses notice the threat. This includes being vigilant about access by contractors and third-party partners who may interact with the network.
In addition — and this cannot be stressed enough — basic security and compliance hygiene still apply. That includes ensuring that all systems are up-to-date with the latest security patches, and that customer-facing websites are checked for vulnerabilities. Any new widgets or applications being rolled out during the holiday season should be subjected to rigorous code review.
In some of the recent injection attacks Armor has seen, attackers have loaded malicious code that targets the victim’s web browser as opposed to the web server. This could happen any number of ways, from a cross-site scripting attack to a vulnerable third-party library component getting compromised to files getting changed after a server was hacked. Monitoring the content of their web pages as well as implementing proactive controls, such as Content Security Policy, can ensure businesses are alerted when an unauthorized change occurs and help prevent or even eliminate XSS vectors.
PoS systems remain a critical target for attackers, as they interact with credit card data. While PoS security is covered by compliance mandates, here are a few items to keep in mind:
- Use encryption to protect data on PoS systems
- Test for vulnerabilities and monitor for unauthorized activity
- Segment all networks that use PoS systems
- Protect access with complex passwords
The end of the year may be an optimal time for attackers, but organizations that have focused on security all year long will be best-equipped in protecting themselves and customers’ PII. | <urn:uuid:21c6cf5f-2c81-4130-85dd-7432200271db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://res.armor.com/resources/blog/retailers-customer-data/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952521 | 941 | 2.078125 | 2 |
There are many things out there that go into helping a business succeed. Great employees, cutting edge technology, good customer service and marketing can all take businesses to the next level.
However, something that might be even more important to companies than any of those is data.
Data plays a very large role in a variety of companies for a variety of reasons. It helps make decisions, identify trends and many other things beneficial to a business. [Read more…] about Data and RPA – How Robotics is Changing Data Analytics | <urn:uuid:4b4dc839-314d-48d6-9650-44fc1de957f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2019/10/17/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.967474 | 104 | 1.601563 | 2 |
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Feminism: the theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. While sometimes perceived as a word women do not want to be associated with, the simple fact is that feminism is a movement for equality and freedom. The equality that women have been fighting to gain for hundreds of years.
The Suffrage March was the first suffragist parade in Washington, D.C., organized by the suffragist Alice Paul for the National American Woman Suffrage Association. One day before the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson, more than 5,000 women descended on Washington to fight for the vote.
Thousands of suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. According to the Smithsonian, there were about half-a-million spectators lined the streets. Despite being heckled and harassed by the crowd, the march was enormously memorable; six years later Congress passed the 19th Amendment, extending the franchise to women nationwide.
Feminism in the US has led to widespread female education, female health services, equal opportunity in the workplace, and both body and voice liberation. In 1948 the United Nations created the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, stating that everyone had the opportunity and the need to be treated equally, regardless of race, religion, or gender. This was official documentation that women were people, and in addition, people deserving of basic human rights. While not all nations adhere to the UN’s standards, it was a huge milestone for the fighting feminists.
In 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique identifying “the problem that has no name.” According to USHistory.org, Friedan had the courage to say the problem was that many women did not like the traditional role society prescribed for them. Friedan’s book struck a nerve, and in 1966, Friedan, and others formed an activist group called the National Organization for Women.
In the 21st century, there is a global uprising of women. They are leading global campaigns against the key issues that are particular to women – sexual violence, pregnancy discrimination and gender-based wage inequities. When NOW organized a March for Women’s Lives in 1992, Casey v. Planned Parenthood, the Supreme Court case that most observers believed would lead to a “5-4 majority striking down Roe,” according to ThoughtCo, Justice Anthony Kennedy later defected from the expected 5-4 majority and saved Roe.
When a second March for Women’s Lives was organized, it was led by a broader coalition that included LGBT rights groups and groups specifically focusing on the needs of immigrant women, indigenous women and women of color. The turnout of 1.4 million set a D.C. protest record at that time and showed the power of the new, more comprehensive women’s movement. But women standing up for themselves did not end at the turn of the century.
On January 21, 2017, more than 200,000 people rallied in Washington, D.C. to protest what they feared would be a Trump presidency that would endanger women’s, civil and human rights. Other rallies were held across the nation and around the world. The #MeToo Movement began to pick up a following later in the year as a response to sexual assault allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. It focused on sexual assault and harassment in the workplace and elsewhere.
These women believed their politics were feminist because, as NACLA reports, “feminism proposes a personal and collective way of life that rejects unequal power relations not only among the sexes but also in society as a whole.” They are a large constituency that seeks to build a kind of feminism that is rooted in basic rights and conditions of life and from which they “seek to develop proposals for overall change.”
Feminist superheroes have flown over the house of the patriarchy and raised the female flag, creating safe passage for those behind them. They claim independence and power for women and create a safe place for those who feel that they do not have any. | <urn:uuid:ff5fd40c-770e-4e7b-a725-53e06ba0fa51> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blogs.shu.edu/thediplomaticenvoy/2019/11/26/focus-on-feminism-the-united-states/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972562 | 834 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Single elastic weft polyester net, with blocked meshes of the light type
seasoning of ground products
Seasoning products such as salami, not requiring a particular elasticity, the net must only follow the product and ensure its support.
low temperature cooking
Cooking products such as cooked ham mortadella or others, in water or steam, at a maximum temperature of 120°c.
Yarn of pure latex rubber used to give the desired elasticity to the net. This is covered with various combinations of cotton yarns or polyester.
Synthetic yarn with excellent mechanical resistance and high resistance to high temperatures. in addition to the white it can be dyed in a different colour such as red, twine colour or other.
light - from 40 to 70
It is expressed as the comparison with the value 100, representing the elastic power of a net (ALS) traditionally considered as “standard”. | <urn:uuid:334f7504-281e-4f81-a639-14fb0741c075> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.viscoretelastic.it/en/nbpl/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.915951 | 213 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Empty Password Users Reporting Tool
User accounts with empty password are more susceptible to attacks. Domain accounts with the PASSWD_NOTREQD property flag set have the potential to login to the domain without a password, regardless of domain-wide policies that enforce minimum password length and password complexity. The "Empty Password Users Report Tool" can be used to find the user accounts with password fields set to null, thereby helping administrators to avoid any security related issues.
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Why should one consider this Empty password reporting tool?
- The provides a single view of all user accounts that have empty / null password.
- It is easy and convenient when compared to command line tools and scripts.
To generate the Empty Password Users Report:
Before you begin with the report generation, it is essential to set the following attribute values in the Password Policy.
- Set the password minimum length value to '0'.
- Set the Account Lockout threshold value to '0 invalid lockout attempts'.
- Disable Password must meet complexity requirements.
- Click the "Empty Password Users Report Tool" from the Launcher to start the tool.
- Enter details in the Domain Name, User Name and Password text fields.
- Select the container from the Container Name list.
- Click on Generate button to get the details of users with empty password.
You can use the Empty Password Checker tool to check for empty password in a particular OU or in your entire domain.
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To view more details about the users with null passwords,
- Follow steps 1 to 3 as mentioned above.
- Click on the Advanced button. This opens the "Attributes" dialog.
- Select from All/Naming/security options and click on "Get Attributes" button to view the entire list.
- Select the appropriate checkboxes based on your requirements and click OK.
- Click on Generate button to view the user details.
This will give you all the details of users having null passwords.
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Software to pick basketball champs
Can an algorithm predict winners more accurately than a person? With the US National Collegiate Athletic Association’s basketball tournament starting this week, contestants in the second annual March Madness Predictive Analytics Challenge aim to find out. The contest, organised by PhD student Danny Tarlow of the University of Toronto, Canada, invites people to build algorithms to predict the outcome of the 64-team tournament. Some entrants analyse results from preceding seasons and find equations that match game outcomes. They then use these equations to predict results. A simpler method boils down a team’s strengths and weaknesses …
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Chemical Composition of Cement:
The relative proportion of three oxide compositions is responsible for influencing the various properties of cement, like lime, silica and alumina.
An increase in lime content beyond a certain value makes it difficult to combine completely with other compounds.
Consequently, free time will exist in the clinker and will result in unsound cement. An increase in silica content at the expense of alumina and ferric oxide makes the cement difficult to fuse and form clinker.
|Iron oxide, Fe2O3||0.5-6||3|
|Sode/or potash (Na2O + K2O)||0.5-1||1|
1. Lime (CaO):
If lime is provided in excess then the cement becomes unsound and if it is in deficiency then the strength is reduced therefore chances of quick setting will be enhanced.
2. Silica (SiO2):
It imparts strength to the cement due to the formation of di-calcium and tri-calcium silicates. If it is in excess then the strength of the cement would be enhanced therefore setting time gets prolonged, hence it prevents quick setting.
3. Alumina (Al2O3):
It imparts the quick setting property of cement. If it is in excess then the strength of cement is reduced and the chances of rapid hardening would be increased. It acts as a flux and it lower’s the clinker temperature
4. Calcium Sulphate (CaSO4):
It is a retarder (admixture). If it is in excess then it slows down the quick setting which dominates to increase the strength. It is a gypsum form.
5. Iron Oxide (Fe2SO4):
It imparts colour, hardness, and strength to the cement. If it is in excess, then it imparts more coloured to the cement (grey).
6. Magnesia (Mgo):
It imparts hardness and colour (yellow) to the cement, if it is in small quantity, and if it is in excess then it imparts unsoundness to the cement.
7. Sulphur (S):
If it is in reference quantity then it imparts strength to the cement and if it is in excess then the unsoundness is increased.
8. Alkalies (Soda and Potash) (Na2O + K20):
Most of the alkalies present in raw materials are carried away by the flue gases heating and the cement contents only a small amount of alkalies.
If they are in excess in cement then they cause a number of troubles such as alkali-aggregate reaction,
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Photography Classes Online – Icon Photography School › Forums › Photography Lessons › Lesson 5 › Color & Color Theory › Re: Re: Color & Color Theory
Great assignment, this is exactly what we were looking for.
You’ve managed to limit your color palette to gradients of only two colors: Green and red.
Your image is very symmetrical in nature, which is great because your object lends itself well to this type of composition. Symmetry works well as a compositional tool when you’re photographic things which inherent balance like architecture or flowers. However, don’t be afraid to break way from making your composition complement the inherent shapes of your objects. What you’ve done is wonderful, I just want you to be aware of tendency to capture objects such as flowers in an exclusively balanced manner.
You’ve also chosen to set your strongest focal point to your middle ground. This means both your foreground and background are in soft focus. This works out well because you have some strong textures in your middle ground but again, don’t be afraid to experiment with your focal point. Generally the strongest texture will make your most interesting focal point. In this case it might be your foreground? I can’t tell because it’s slightly out of focus, but I just want you to be aware of this so you can experiment with it.
One final note I would like to discuss. Don’t feel that a photograph with color simplicity will mean a maco-photograph. Your wider natural environment will surprise you with many opportunities to capture images with strong color palettes.
Look at the following images of wider landscapes for example
Overall, great work! | <urn:uuid:28b49a74-b5c1-4d03-91af-d259a2b838a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://photographyicon.com/forums/reply/re-color-color-theory/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.931527 | 350 | 2.453125 | 2 |
by Rena Xiao
Rena Xiao is a rising junior from New York City who has spent the majority of her life living abroad in Beijing, China. She is a Double Major in Geography and Global Studies with a Concentration in World Politics and Diplomacy, and a minor in WGSS.
Driving down the gravel path it is easy to see how one can be seduced by the idyllic, tranquil settings of Westover Plantation. The grounds are surrounded by farmland and greenery right on the banks of the James River. The place is quiet except for the occasional breeze or bird chirp. Looking around, one could see how the red brick mansion and expansive green lawn could be the backdrop of a wedding or birthday party. Westover Plantation is inviting and alluring, without even a mention of its nefarious past of slavery.
When people visit the site Westover Plantation they walk around the land aided only by a brochure available at the entrance. The brochure makes no mention of black people but goes into extensive detail on the architecture and landscaping of the grounds. The Mansion is identified for its elegance and simplicity, and the visitor will be enthralled to discover Westover as one of the “premier examples of Georgian Architecture”.
The historic mansion and surrounding farmlands were once home to William Byrd II but nowadays serves as a popular wedding venue. Biographic detail is given on the Byrd family, the previous owners of the estate. William Byrd II is known for the founding of the City of Richmond and the brochure briefly goes into his personal affairs. A visitor walking around the grounds without extensive knowledge on Virginia history would most likely ignore the past ills of the place. It is easy to without any mention of the Plantation’s history put into words or written down for visitors. Enslaved people once lived and worked on Westover Plantation, though this information seems to have been “forgotten.” The Byrd family made its fortune cultivating tobacco, forcing hundreds of enslaved Africans to grow the labour intensive crop. In addition, black people acted as the domestic help and other household roles. In an entry within William Byrd II’s personal diary he considers whipping his “maid” for laziness but decided to forgive her instead. (National Humanities Center) “Excess slaves” were sold into the domestic slave trade. For centuries, the number of black people would’ve far outnumbered the white residents of Westover mansion. However, their history has been erased off of the grounds. Visitors, if they choose to, will have to seek and fill in the ugly history themselves.
The house tour of the mansion which offers a glimpse of the indoor quarters of the building is only offered at specific times of the year and through prior registration. This is not to count the hundreds of people who come onto the land for private events. Mirroring a popular trend among other historical homes, Westover Plantation is a popular site to hold a “Plantation Wedding.” A clientele of mostly young, heterosexual white couples hold weddings at venues where the history of slavery is often not mentioned. In “Disturbing Wedding Trend: Getting Married at a Plantation” (Beck, Salon 2014), Koa Beck comes to find that many plantations within the South bank on the “grandeur” and “formality” of these estates to paint an illusion of Southern wealth built on the back of nonexistent black bodies. Tuckahoe Plantation, another privately owned Virginia plantation that was once the childhood home of Thomas Jefferson also offers wedding packages. In its general tours it “covers the history of everything” however, in its wedding tour the location “does not bring up the S word” (Beck).
Westover Plantation’s website describes itself as a “Perfect Location for a Southern Wedding” though does not mention the past existence of enslaved people or the views and treatment of William Byrd III towards African Americans. Koa Beck in Salon describes this practice: “The developing virtual trough for young and eager brides looking to pin their way to the perfect day reduces plantations to mere backdrops, stages for white and privileged love and commitment.” The reality of enslaved people being forced to work in fields and households is a blemish on an otherwise aesthetically pleasing location. Visitors are blind to the atrocities and dehumanization of slavery as they snack on canapés and toss sparklers, and plantation wedding venues are eager not to remind them. History is scrubbed down to its cleanest version, packaged and marketed for a crowd who has the privilege of turning the other cheek.
Westover Plantation and plantation wedding venues at its core hit on a touchy and tricky subject the modern American South faces. Images of the Confederacy and figures such as Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis play into a version of history that honours “Southern Pride” while deflating the role of slavery through using less explicit language. Sometimes, such as in Westover Plantation, the role of slavery is not mentioned at all.
This ties into larger themes of how people choose to revise history: washing or leaving out the uglier narratives of the past. This is not limited to plantations but also how countries reconfigure histories, how corporations cover lies, and how institutions write out more unsavoury practices of its past. “Reading against the grain” in this case is a more fair and equitable retelling of history, a more accurate version that uncovers blatant gaps and gives voice to those who have been wiped from memory. | <urn:uuid:33fee3c2-e5cd-410e-9cbf-fa0480f6adcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.richmond.edu/memory/2018/07/26/a-history-of-slavery-wont-look-nice-on-your-wedding-pinterest-board/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.949539 | 1,153 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Article originally published on the Heath Ceramics blog.
Bringing the inside out (and the outside in) is a big part of Heath’s design DNA. Coming of age as we did in California, the outdoors was an inherent part of who we were. In fact, you could say that we and our tile were instrumental in helping bring down that barrier between the indoors and outdoors, and turning outdoor spaces into integral living—and even working— spaces.
Over the years, we’ve worked with some of the best landscape designers to bring the creative possibilities of Heath tile to outdoor spaces. These designers are geniuses at telling stories, creating moods, and beguiling even the most indoor-worshipping hermit to venture—or at least look—outdoors.
One of our favorite practitioners of this art is Judy Kameon of Elysian Landscapes. Her painterly, lifestyle oriented approach to landscape design is a direct result of her background, which includes stints as a painter and a boutique/gallery owner. Originally self-taught, she’s been in the business for over 20 years and last year published a book entitled Gardens Are for Living: Design Inspiration for Outdoor Spaces.
She also owns (with her husband photographer Erik Otsea) Plain Air, a collection of outdoor furniture inspired by mid-century modern design.
Judy’s philosophy drives the design, materials and plants she chooses. “I believe that gardens are for living. Rather than create something that is only pretty to look at, gardens can be spaces that we use for inviting people in, for gathering, for entertaining, cooking and growing our own food, whether it’s a flat backyard, a steep hillside or a small terrace.”
For Judy, the intriguing—and challenging—thing about landscape design is that unlike architecture and interior design, gardens need time. “It takes time for plants to grow in and it is best to embrace and take pleasure in watching your garden develop, change and evolve.” That drives her to choose timeless materials—like Heath tile—that have the warmth, adaptability and sense of life to adapt to the landscape’s evolution.
We love working with people like Judy who keep us on our toes, persist in pushing boundaries and keep doing such inspiring things with the tile we create. | <urn:uuid:045484ae-976e-496a-b1ac-9badd8a3772b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sfdesignweek.org/inside-out-judy-kameon-of-elysian-landscapes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9587 | 487 | 1.609375 | 2 |
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The Catholic School Parents’ Association (CSPA) is a volunteer group representing all Ottawa Catholic School Board parents. They are a resource for school councils and the parent community for information on local and provincial education issues. Through their website, Twitter feed, and email newsletters, they we provide updates on education in Ottawa & Ontario, as well as tips, resources and information to help parents support their children in school. All parents are welcome and encouraged to join CSPA's e-mail list, follow CSPA on Twitter, or attend CSPA monthly meetings.
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The OCSB’s Special Education and Advisory Committee (SEAC) makes recommendations to the Board in respect of any matter affecting the establishment, development, and delivery of special education programs and services for exceptional pupils.
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The Ottawa Catholic School Board Parent Involvement Committee (PIC) is a provincially mandated committee made up of parents, a trustee, a principal and the Director of Education. The purpose of PIC is to support, encourage and enhance parent engagement at the school board level in order to improve student achievement and well-being. The parent members of the OCSB PIC are appointed by CSPA. | <urn:uuid:4a61df19-c100-468f-a6c7-a55ce6f14429> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://joh.ocsb.ca/parents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936624 | 661 | 1.570313 | 2 |
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No one could have thought that a cricketer’s party would become the largest party to govern Pakistan. It was October 2011 when PTI showcased its popularity in Lahore Jalsa at Minar-e-Pakistan. PTI became popular in Lahore after Imran Khan’s robust stance on Raymond Davis which proved to be a turning point. The party used social media to spread its message across the country as young people started to join it. Dr. Farid A. Malik who was part of PTI’s shadow cabinet guides us through its journey as the party seems more divided today than at any other point of its history.
My journey of political activism started a bit early. At the age of five years, in October 1958, I stood with my father, a worker of the Pakistan Movement, to receive the long march led by Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan. We stood near Kim’s Gun on the Mall, in Lahore.
Our wait was stretched till the Zamima (supplement)— the then printed form of breaking news came out. We learnt: the country had come under martial law; Khan sahib had been arrested at the Ravi bridge and taken to the dungeons of Lahore Fort.
After a few days, a compromise was announced. Khan sahib was released and allowed to go home on the condition that he would retire from politics. We went to see him; my father wanted him to fight back.
Words of praise were showered over him; “you have been a soldier of the Quaid, prominent Muslim League leader, the force behind the NWFP referendum victory, the most effective Chief Minister”. His reply was surprising: “the era of decent politics is over, there is a great difference between the jails of the British and the locals”.
The New Politics
Ayub Khan thus single-handedly dismantled the Muslim League, and all prominent leaders were sent home. He then launched his own political outfit called Muslim League (Convention), and the era of pseudo, fabricated political leadership started. The Chaudhry’s of Gujrat, Wattoos of Okara, Khwajas of Sialkot, etc. were introduced with great fanfare.
Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a member of the Iskander Mirza cabinet and continued in the Ayub Khan government as a very popular Foreign Minister. When the dictator fell from popularity after the 1965 war debacle and the Tashkent Accord, Bhutto revolted. In November 1967, he launched the first real political party of the country, which he named the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP).
Incidentally, I was there, at the YMCA, that day. The launch was an unforgettable experience. Clad in a white, double-breasted suit, Bhutto asked the charged crowd if they wanted “awami” or “sarkari”. The unanimous response was “awami”, and the concept of “awami hakumat” (government of people) emerged.
Emergence of a fledgling PTI
In 1996, two more ‘real’ national political parties were launched, one led by the captain of the cricket World Cup-winning team, Imran Khan, and the other, the Millat Party, by former President Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari. The Millat Party didn’t last long, and after the 2002 elections merged with the Musharraf-created Muslim League (Quaid).
Today I want to remember our founding members who are not with us anymore – Naeemul Haq, Ahsan Rasheed and Saloni Bokhari.
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) April 25, 2020
Though Imran Khan started with high hopes, his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) remained in the wilderness for many years, mainly because of a lack of grass-roots party organization. PTI was unable to secure a single seat in the elections that followed in 1997. In the 2002 elections, Imran Khan managed to win his home constituency seat in Mianwali, where the Niazi clan commands respect and support.
His father Ikramullah Khan Niazi, a foreign-qualified civil engineer, had stood up to the pressure of the Nawab of Kalabagh, arguably the most powerful figure in West Pakistan during Ayub’s regime. Niazi had eventually retired as a superintending engineer and began a consultancy in Lahore.
In the year 2006, Imran Khan requested Comrade Ahsan Rashid, a founding member of the party to return to his motherland and build the party at the grass-root level. Becoming the President of PTI Punjab— Ahsan sahib played a key role in building the party that he had initially founded with Imran Khan. He was indeed the ‘Chou En-Lai’ of the party, while Imran Khan became the leadership equivalent of ‘Mao Tse Tung’.
Read more: Imran Khan: Facing the World at UNGA
PTI played a key role in the Lawyers’ Movement of 2007. Comrade Ahsan led the party from the front., Zaman Park, where comrade Aitzaz Ahsan was held under house arrest. The nucleus of protest-organization was not too far from Imran Khan’s family house.
Last Supper: Goodbye to the old guard?
The PTI boycotted the elections in 2008. Sensing an opportunity for change, several activists—including myself—actively joined the movement against the fourth khaki dictator. Even amidst the 2010 floods, the party played an effective role in aiding the victims— whilst the two mainstream political parties, PML-N and PPP, were nowhere to be seen.
On May 1, 2010, PTI announced a sixteen-member shadow cabinet, which included six experts with Ph.D. degrees. I was given the portfolio of Science and Technology and the task of coordinating four think-tanks—Lahore, Karachi, Islamabad, and Overseas—under the guidance of Comrade Ahsan Rashid. Dr. Arif Alvi, as secretary-general, monitored the work of this shadow cabinet.
Ahsan sahib had later arranged a dinner at the Sheraton for the ‘old guard’ and newcomers to break bread. It was the proverbial ‘last supper’
Policy papers were prepared by the think-tanks and presentations were arranged for the Chairman. A first 100 Days plan was also prepared and approved after a day-long marathon session on July 8, 2011. Contrary to popular belief, the party was well-prepared to take on the mantle of leadership.
Unfortunately, it was not meant to be. The mammoth gathering at Minar-e-Pakistan on October 20, 2011, derailed the momentum and planning that preceded it. Exactly fifty-six days later, on December 25, 2011, ideologues were replaced by the electable at the Mazar-e-Quaid jalsa in Karachi. Ahsan sahib had later arranged a dinner at the Sheraton for the ‘old guard’ and newcomers to break bread. It was the proverbial ‘last supper’.
The shadow cabinet, think-tanks, 100 Day Plan—all those years of hard work and effort, all became obsolete. Even the welfare state framework that had been discussed and defined was re-opened. Three areas of state responsibility had been identified: education, health, and employment.
Everyone in the age group of five-to-fifteen years was to be provided with the necessary skills and education needed for employability. Major agriculture and water management reforms had also been proposed.
The PPP had been established as a genuine political party, whereas PML-N was contrived. The difference between the two is that instead of an ideology, the latter is built around personal interests. Instead of political activists, it consists of bounty-hoarders whose assets continue to multiply with their political careers. The lethal menace of the PML-N was underestimated by PTI election planners.
In the elections of 2013, PTI was robbed of a victory at the national level. The protests that erupted, on the eve of the 2013 elections, were spontaneous- voters felt disenfranchised and cheated, and blocked ‘Lalik Chowk’ in Lahore. Ahsan Sahib was quick to arrive on the scene after I phoned him, and in spite of his poor health, he spent the night sleeping on the road with the protesters.
Backstage of ‘Dharna 2014’
Imran Khan was incapacitated and hospitalized. Ahsan sahib desired to initiate a protest movement as he too felt cheated; of an election victory by the PML-N, that stole the elections with its old tricks. The tricks were euphemized as ‘irregularities’, even though all four winners of the disputed constituencies were subsequently un-seated by the Election Commission. The planned Dharna in August 2014 was too late and with limited impact.
As a seasoned activist, I arrived at Zaman Park at the noon of the fourteenth, to find a considerable lack of preparation. I decided to venture forth on my own outside of the procession. All entry points leading to Islamabad were blocked for the first time in the history of the country—even G.T Road was cordoned off outside Ayub Park.
I reached the gathering point on Kashmir Highway with great difficulty. However, there were no arrangements for a jalsa, not even a prepared stage. It clearly showed that the organizers were first-time marchers. The caravan finally departed from Lahore for Islamabad at 4 p.m. A little further, near Gujranwala, the convoy came under attack from PML-N goons.
Imran Khan can also deliver ‘Naya Pakistan’ with untainted new leadership, leaving the old political vultures behind in the pavilion. Those who have played for themselves, should not be allowed to bat again, thus bringing back the era of decent politics
Only the interceding influence of Javed Hashmi, who recognized his old party members, saved the day. Imran Khan’s container finally arrived early in the morning of the 15th Aug. By then, the marchers were half-dead with exhaustion, and only Imran Khan could rally them.
After short speeches, the stage party left, leaving marchers to spend the night out in the open. A light drizzle further contributed to the dismay. Albeit, the protestors from KP stayed, braving all these difficulties. When compared to the Lawyers’ Long March of 2007, this dharna clearly did not have a clear strategy or objectives – it only relied upon Imran Khan’s grit, and determination.
Year of Victory
In the 2018 elections, the army was called in to neutralize the PML-N electoral manipulation – conveniently termed election-day dynamics. The police were kept out of the voting areas, as were the patwaris. Imran Khan prevailed over Khwaja Saad Rafique for the Lahore seat—finally, Takht-e-Lahore was claimed. Gujranwala and Faisalabad were also championed by the PTI. Although some tickets were wasted on the precious electable— PTI managed to form governments in Punjab, the Centre, and KPK.
The leadership capacity of Imran Khan is not in question. He has charisma, character, honesty of purpose and strength, but the party without its Chou-en Lai cannot manage change. In his inaugural address, Imran Khan mentioned the contribution of two-party leaders subsequently lost—Ahsan Rashid and Ms. Saloni Bukhari.
The recent passing of Naeem-ul-Haq has made the PTI lose another stalwart. As President, Dr. Arif Alvi is performing well. Some youngsters continue to show promise, but without mentorship, there will be nobody who can reach Imran Khan’s stature. Ahsan Sahib and other senior comrades in the party provided guidance by spending quality time with the members of Insaf Students Wing, organized by Hassan Niazi.
Hassan, a nephew of Imran Khan, is a barrister by profession and has the Niazi spark. If able to complete his term, Imran Khan will at least cleanse the political arena of the corrupt and fabricated leadership. The next challenge for the party will be an in-house cleansing.
The so-called electables have not proven their worth; as a vast majority of them lost their seats. Internal rivalries are also not helpful. As of now, there is no one within the party to assume the leadership role Imran Khan occupies, but there is ample room for good managers who can deliver by serving the people.
The post-July 1977 era has to be brought to a close. Like the People’s Party, the Tehreek-e-Insaf was also not created to take, but to give. Bhutto succeeded in building the ‘awami hakumat’ – he had promised in 1967. Imran Khan can also deliver ‘Naya Pakistan’ with untainted new leadership, leaving the old political vultures behind in the pavilion. Those who have played for themselves, should not be allowed to bat again, thus bringing back the era of decent politics.
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From the decision: Across a diverse array of commercial and industrial endeavors, from paving roads to building the Internet of Things, private organizations have developed written standards to resolve technical problems, ensure compatibility across products, and promote public safety. These technical works, which authoring organizations copyright upon publication, are typically distributed as voluntary guidelines for self-regulation. Federal, state, and local governments, however, have incorporated by reference thousands of these standards into law. The question in this case is whether private organizations whose standards have been incorporated by reference can invoke copyright and trademark law to prevent the unauthorized copying and distribution of their works. Answering yes, the district court granted partial summary judgment in favor of the private organizations that brought this suit and issued injunctions prohibiting all unauthorized reproduction of their works. In doing so, the court held that, notwithstanding serious constitutional concerns, copyright persists in incorporated standards and that the Copyright Act’s “fair use” defense does not permit wholesale copying in such situations. The court also concluded that the use of the private organizations’ trademarks ran afoul of the Lanham Act and did not satisfy the judicial “nominative fair use” exception. Because the district court erred in its application of both fair use doctrines, we reverse and remand, leaving for another day the far thornier question of whether standards retain their copyright after they are incorporated by reference into law. | <urn:uuid:4ec24950-74b2-4871-b4b5-7909c1bbb42f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.schwimmerlegal.com/2018/07/text-of-astm-v-public-resource-dc-circ-decision-re-fair-use-of-standards-incorporated-into-laws.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938127 | 330 | 1.90625 | 2 |
When Connie Jones arrives home from her job as an information technology manager in Chandler, Arizona, she parks her car in her garage and fills it up with natural gas. It is a convenience that relatively few Americans can enjoy.
“We hook it up, turn it on, and it fills up overnight,” said Connie’s husband Travis, who bought a natural gas home refueling unit in January 2012.
With natural gas at $1.40 per equivalent gallon, it costs the Joneses $30 to drive their Honda Civic GX 1,200 miles each month, about $130 less than an average gasoline car covering the same distance.
Home refueling units, which tap into a house natural gas main and compress the fuel so it can fill a vehicle tank overnight, have been available for years.
But even though the fuel is cheap and units have to meet safety standards like other household appliances, home refilling is uncommon in the United States, held back by the upfront expense of buying and installing new units, and a lack of natural gas cars. The cars themselves generally cost about $10,000 more than comparable conventional vehicles.
“Affordable home refueling is the missing link to public adoption of natural gas vehicles in far greater numbers,” said Curtis Martin, program director of the government-funded Clean Cities Coalition in Antelope Valley, California.
That may soon change. As the U.S. natural gas drilling boom pushes output to record highs and promises sustained lower prices, General Electric Co, Whirlpool Corp, Eaton Corp and others are developing more affordable home refueling systems. For about a tenth of the price of current models, plus installation, they aim to sell the new units to the millions of homes across America already hooked up to natural gas supplies.
At the same time, energy providers in Georgia, California and Utah are in talks about distributing new refueling units when they become available in the next two years, according to interviews with industry executives, aiming to stimulate natural gas demand. Honda Motor Co Ltd, which makes one of the only natural gas passenger cars sold in the United States, has also expressed interest in the new technology.
At present, an Italian company called BRC Fuelmaker is the only major manufacturer of such units, which cost about $4,500 and can be installed for around $1,500, depending on the work needed. Its smallest, called the Phill, is about the size of a vacuum cleaner, suitable for mounting on a garage wall.
For the Joneses, who last year paid $6,000 for purchasing and installing their home fueling unit, it will take about four years to pay off the initial outlay, experts say.
Still, BRC has only sold about 13,000 home units through 25 distributors across the country, according to Francesco Donalisio, director of sales in North America. Sales of the BRC units have not risen in the last five years.
“The high initial investment stops people switching to compressed natural gas,” said Donalisio, who expressed doubts about whether the new technologies would reduce the cost substantially.
AGL Resources, a natural gas provider in Atlanta, began a program in 2012 to lease the Phill model to customers for $60 a month. The venture has disappointed so far, with fewer than ten units installed.
“Home refueling has not grown as much as people would have hoped because there aren’t many cars to choose from,” said Kevin McCrackin, vice president of business development at AGL Resources in Atlanta.
FEW PLACES TO FILL UP
The new units, if successful, could make natural gas a more viable alternative to gasoline, driving up sales of the vehicles.
There are now only about 66,000 light-duty natural gas-powered cars on U.S. roads, according to the Department of Energy, which tracks vehicles fired by alternative fuels. That is a tiny fraction of the nearly 200 million light-duty vehicles on U.S. roads, according to the Transportation Department.
One of the reasons the number is so low is a sparse refueling infrastructure for ordinary drivers. Drivers can fill up at only 605 public compressed natural gas (CNG) stations in the United States, versus more than 120,000 gasoline stations.
While few experts are expecting a quick shift in the overall U.S. fleet, natural gas cars could soon complement electric vehicles in denting U.S. reliance on gasoline if it becomes easier to fill up.
While the number of small consumer natural gas cars on the road is far smaller than electric vehicles, their 200-mile (322- km) range is twice as large as most electric cars – and they fill up faster.
With strong backing from the likes of billionaire T. Boone Pickens, the focus until now has been on converting fleet vehicles to natural gas. Buses, garbage trucks and other heavy duty vehicles can fill up at a central location for between $1 and $1.40 a gallon, $2 cheaper than a gallon of gasoline.
Electric vehicle sales have risen considerably in recent years, partly because of the home refueling options.
More than 90 percent of the 150,000 electric vehicle owners in the United States use home plug-ins, retailing for about $1,000, not including varying installation costs. Some electric vehicle appliances require a new 220-volt electrical system, which can cost a few hundred dollars.
“There is probably enough room in the market for both types of vehicles,” said Jay Friedland, legislative director at Plug In America, an electric vehicle advocacy group. “I think they are both displacing gasoline vehicles.”
REDUCE THE PRICE
From a small warehouse in North Salt Lake City, Utah, a little-known company called Go Natural CNG is about to release a new home refueling system after more than two years of research.
The system, backed by technology giant Parker Hannifin Corp, will fill up quicker than some models – about one gallon an hour – and last up to 20 years, according to Go Natural CNG Chief Executive Lucas Kjar. The unit, expected by the end of the year, will use hydraulic technology to compress the gas for vehicle use, he said. He did not say how much the unit would cost.
But Go Natural may have a lot of competition. General Electric, Whirlpool and Eaton are all working on home refueling technologies expected to be launched in the next couple of years. Their work is attracting interest from utilities with millions of customers, including Questar Corp in Utah and AGL Resources Inc in Georgia.
GE, which received a $1.8 million government grant to develop its system, aims to release a unit that will cool natural gas to minus 50 degrees Celsius to extract water and other contaminates before refueling. The process will eliminate the need for gas compression, or maintenance of the unit, it says. GE aims to sell the unit at $500 retail, about a tenth of the cost of current models.
Honda, which makes the natural gas-fired Honda Civic GX, has contacted GE and Whirlpool to discuss their plans, according to Elmer Hardy, Honda’s senior manager of alternative fuel vehicles.
GE said it was in the development phase and declined to comment on the program’s progress. Whirlpool declined comment.
Eaton Corp, which received a $3.4 million government grant to develop the technology, is working on a unit at its labs in Southfield, Michigan, that would use liquids to compress the gas instead of the traditional metal pistons. It aims to make a unit available for $500 by 2015.
“We are seeing if we can do it in a way that reduces the price point,” said Clark Fortune, who leads the program at Eaton. “The adoption will improve if the costs come down.”
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Mountain Forest Landscapes for Resilient Societies in Africa, Asia and Latin America
The Andean Forests Program together with the ASEAN Social Forestry Network, African Forest Forum and the Global Program on Climate Change of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation organized a joint session during the COP 21 at the Peru Pavilion December 8th 2015.
The session consisted of four presentations from Asia, Africa and Latin America followed by a participants dialogue.
From Latin America presentations were given that highlighted the need and importance for sustainable management of mountain forest landscapes for resilience of ecosystem services that benefit people both at local and national level. Key to this is good knowledge management on filling existing knowledge gaps but also to make accessible current scientific information and validated knowledge of existing local and sub national practices that are promising to bring them to scale together with adequate policies.
Also an excellent experience from Vietnam on a mechanism already put to practice for payment of environmental services (in particular water for hydropower) that has proven an opportunity for increasing income of mountain forest communities and sustainable forest development.
From Africa the findings of a study were shared on an assessment of climate change related to challenges on mountain forests and response mechanisms that could enhance livelihood and provision of ecosystem services in Sub-Saharan Africa.
The presentations can be downloaded from www.bosquesandinos.org (as from next week)
The participants dialogue resulted in the expressed need to join forces across the continents iwith the aim to bolster a solid and clear voice at the international table to position mountain forest landscapes in the international Climate Change and Sustainable Development policies and scientific debates. Therefor it has been suggested that the African Forest Forum, the ASEAN Social Forestry Network and the Andean Forests Program develop a specific action plan for 2016 for both research findings as well as proposals that will foster sustainable and resilient Mountain Forest Landscape management across Africa, Asia and Latin America. The findings should be presented in international forums like the UNFCCC COP22 (Marrakesh, Morocco) and or the Mountain Conference (Mbale, Uganda) | <urn:uuid:c35ec252-bc73-4359-a6b0-fa424428ab54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://infoandina.org/infoandina/content/mountain-forest-landscapes-resilient-societies-africa-asia-and-latin-america | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.914581 | 417 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Motorola Labs, the applied research arm of Motorola, Inc., today unveiled a working 5-inch color video display prototype based on proprietary Carbon Nanotube (CNT) technology - a breakthrough technique that could create large, flat panel displays with superior quality, longer lifetimes and lower costs than current offerings.
Motorola's industry-first working prototype demonstrates:
- Operational full color 5" video section of a 1280 x 720, 16:9, 42-inch HDTV
- High quality brightness
- Bright, vivid colors using standard Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) TV phosphors
- Display panel thickness of 3.3 millimeters (about 1/8th of an inch)
- Low cost display drive electronics (similar to LCD, much lower than Plasma)
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What is visitor management and why is it so important?
by Paul Kazlauskas
What is Visitor Management?
Visitor Management is the processing, tracking, and monitoring of guests that enter a building or campus. Hospitals, schools, and business of all kinds use visitor management to protect their people and property. Visitor management systems (VMS) comprise tools that range from the simple and inexpensive, like handwritten sign-in books, to more advanced software systems. The latter can be integrated with surveillance cameras, thermal temperature stations, and biometric scanners, as well as the ability to flag guests who have misbehaved in the past.
Why is Visitor Management important?
It’s all about security and safety. Creating a workplace environment where your employees feel safe is critical for productivity and success. Your employees will feel more comfortable knowing that any people they see wearing a visitor badge have been processed by your front desk and screened accordingly. A VMS also helps to protect our most vulnerable members of society, such as students in schools, patients in hospitals, and seniors in assisted living facilities.
In addition to protecting people, visitor management systems also protect property. An organization’s assets, like equipment, supplies, and trade secrets, are all safer when visitors, vendors, and contractors know you have a record of their being there. Likewise for your employee’s personal belongings.
Why have an electronic visitor management system?
There are numerous benefits to having an electronic visitor management system over a manual visitor sign-in book, such as:
- Accuracy. Visitor information is recorded more uniformly and correctly than with a visitor log book. Since a receptionist is either typing in the information or a driver’s license/business card is being scanned, the data will be entered in the same accurate way for every visitor.
- Print professional-looking visitor badges that include critical information. A crisp, clean visitor badge shows your facility is serious about security. The badge should never be wrinkled or unreadable. A visitor badge imprinted with your facility’s logo/mascot deters forgery and promotes your facility’s identity.
- Reporting. Visitor information is stored in a computer database, with the ability to search, sort, analyze, and retrieve visitor data for any given time frame. Visitor activity reports can be generated. These reports can be used to tell how many times a visitor signed in, signed out, who they were there to see, etc. (critical information for a security investigation).
- Speed of sign-in. A driver’s license reader will shorten the time it takes to sign a visitor in. A quick scan of either card is all it takes to collect the necessary information to record their visit to the facility.
- Add a photo. If a camera is in use, a photo can be added to the visitor badge for further identification while your visitor is in the facility or onsite.
- Returning visitors are recognized immediately by the VMS. All visitor information is saved in the electronic visitor management system. This allows returning visitors to be signed in with very little time or effort because the system remembers them. If a returning visitor caused a problem in the past, your Security Department can be alerted instantly.
What other benefits are there to implementing an electronic visitor management system? Please join the conversation and add your thoughts below in the “Comments” section.
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For most healthcare leaders, the pandemic required focusing only on the challenges at hand and many programs considered non-essential were paused. The California Association of Healthcare Leaders recognizes the ongoing need to develop our leaders and continues to provide support through its mentoring program.
What Does The CAHL Mentor Program Do?
The CAHL Mentor Program provides a structure for healthcare professional development where mentees are matched with seasoned professionals to enhance skills, knowledge, and education of less experienced professionals. It is a relationship based on trust and mutual respect. Both parties benefit from the relationship, the mentees learning from their mentors and mentors gain new skills while giving back.
Committed to Diversity and Inclusion
For 2021, I served as chairperson of the program. Our committee of five trained, matched, and supported 37 pairs of mentors and mentees in the formal, three-month program. We also worked with 20 mentees outside the formal program. Over half of the mentees taking part were female, or leaders of color.
These demographics reflect CAHL’s commitment to diversity and inclusion within healthcare ranks. The commitment is part of the American College of Healthcare Executive’s mission to promote diversity among leaders, members, and staff. ACHE is the parent organization of CAHL. ACHE “works to foster an inclusive environment that recognizes the contributions and supports the advancement of all, regardless of race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, religion, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability.”
Working with this committee and all the mentors and mentees stands as one of my most rewarding volunteer experiences, especially knowing that I was able to help female and minority leaders in healthcare gain skills to boost their leadership. The CAHL board recognized my contributions with the 2021 Volunteer of the Year Award.
Why Is Mentoring So Important?
As an organization dedicated to supporting healthcare workers, CAHL is familiar with the impact mentoring can have. Unfortunately, for many healthcare providers and organizations, mentoring is unchartered territory. Only 56 percent of organizations have a formal program for mentoring. Of those who do have mentoring programs, training is rare and typically ineffective.
Mentoring so important because it provides:
- an easier way for women and people of color to find mentors, which is key to the diversity needed in healthcare to reflect the patients served.
- an opportunity for mentor and mentee to navigate through generational, diversity, and professional training differences.
- a critical component to career success. Mentoring provides opportunities for protégés to gain a broader perspective and learn more about their business, as well as to network and build social capital.
- an opportunity especially for women’s career success because they often have difficulty building social capital at work, particularly in settings where there are fewer women (Chrisler & McCreary, 2010).
Use Mentorship to Give Back and Grow
For those who volunteer to mentor, the rewards extend beyond the satisfaction in helping others succeed. Mentoring sharpens leadership by honing listening skills, broadening your perspective, and improving your story telling skills. For me, it was an honor to work alongside all the volunteers dedicated to making sure the CAHL Mentor Program serves the healthcare workers in Northern and Central California who are dedicated to being effective leaders.
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Some minds made up in Senate: Your say in News-Press Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2019
Some minds made up in Senate
Prior to an impeachment trial in the Senate, each senator must take an oath to be a fair and impartial juror and decide based on evidence presented and witness testimony.
Sens. Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and other senators have publicly stated their decisions have been made and they do not need to see evidence of the president's wrongdoing or hear from witnesses (which they could call in support of the president) and they will vote to acquit.
Does this mean they will: refuse to take the oath, take the oath in bad faith and violate it or recuse themselves (the ethical decision)?
If their upcoming oath has no meaning to them, how can we believe their other decisions will be based on facts and what is in the best interests of the United States and not what primarily benefits themselves personally.
Wilburn Reed, Fort Myers
Our democracy is atrisk?
I care very deeply about the future of our fragile democracy.
John Adams wisely said, "It's a republic, if you can keep it."
Some folks don't seem to realize or appreciate what a monumental event occurred in 1776 and 1787. Previously, the governing of the world's regions and countries was handed down by kings, queens and other monarchs to the nobility and finally to the people. Our founding fathers turned that order upside down by establishing government of the people, by the people and for the people.
They also established checks and balances among the three branches — administrative, judicial and legislative — so that no branch would overpower the others or abuse its powers, and so that the president could not become a king or an autocrat.
As Americans, we jolly well better care about preserving our democracy. If the rule of law no longer prevails, if Congress cannot perform its duty of checking abuse of power by our president, and if we can no longer expect integrity and human decency from our president and his cronies, then we are well on our way to being no better off than when King George III called the shots for the colonies. The republic will have been "just an experiment."
Gloria Kauls, Estero
Civics class for Congress too?
Kudos to our Gov. Ron DeSantis and his recommendation that high school students must be able to pass a civics test.
Now if we could have a similar obligation for new members of Congress, specifically to have a week of lectures by various law professors focusing on the separation of powers established in our Constitution.
In fact, even returning representatives and senators could do with a one-day refresher course at the beginning of each term.
Bob Ford, Fort Myers
Thanks for holiday event
"White Christmas" — what a great afternoon experienced by all the veterans and their spouses, provided by Debbie and Shawn Lux, founders and sponsors of the Collier-Lee Honor Flight.
They, along with Wynn's Market, The Arlington, Dunkin' Donuts and the Sugden Theatre in Naples presented the movie "White Christmas." It has become an annual event for all of us. The volunteers who helped are too numerous to mention, but they are not forgotten.
Thank you to veterans for the freedom we have and enjoy.
Anthony Lombardi, Bonita Springs
Impeachment charges are 'small'?
That's all they've got? After all the hoopla and money spent on impeachment hearings, the House came up with "abuse of power" for President Trump trying to get Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden and his son and "obstruction of Congress" for refusing to cooperate with Congress in trying to impeach him.
Pretty small potatoes. The first article is so nebulous as to be laughable. For one thing, we have a treaty with Ukraine that says we agree to mutually assist in countering criminal activities in each other's countries.
Secondly, if the Bidens are squeaky clean on Ukraine and Burisma, why are reporters continuing to ask Joe on the campaign trail about the issue?
Thirdly, running for office does not shield you from investigation.
The second article has been ruled on by the courts many times. Their basic answer has been the legislative and executive branches are equal. If they're equal, how is it impeachable for the executive to claim privilege over certain documents and associates? If he didn't have that authority, that would mean the Legislature is supreme.
We fought a revolution against this type of system. The courts are the referee in such matters, but the Democrats didn't want to take that route.
I'm afraid this whole sordid affair will be a stain on our country that will long endure.
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CANBERRA, Australia -- The United States is expected to have resettled more than 1,100 refugees by early next year under a deal President Donald Trump reluctantly honored with Australia, an Australian official said Monday.
President Barack Obama's administration struck a deal in 2016 to accept up to 1,250 refugees from Iran, Bangladesh, Somalia and Burma whom Australia had banished to Pacific island camps.
Trump condemned the deal as "dumb" but agreed to honor the commitment, subject to "extreme vetting" of the refugees.
The U.S. has resettled 870 refugees since October 2017 and about 250 more have received provisional approval, Home Affairs Department Deputy Secretary Marc Ablong told an Australian Senate committee.
While resettlement had been disrupted in recent months by the pandemic, Ablong said Australia expected the last of the refugees accepted by the U.S. to be resettled by March or April.
The deal "is operating very effectively to date," Ablong said.
The end of the U.S. agreement was expected to leave about 80 asylum-seekers on the poor island nations of Papua New Guinea and Nauru.
Australia deterred asylum-seekers from coming by boat in 2013 by banning those who arrive by sea from ever being allowed to settle on the mainland.
Australia pays Papua New Guinea and Nauru to house such people under deals that have been condemned by human rights groups.
Ian Rintoul, spokesman for the Australian advocacy group Refugee Action Coalition, said the fate of asylum-seekers left on Nauru and in the Papua New Guinea capital Port Moresby was unclear.
"The government's got no solution for the people that will be left behind," Rintoul said.
New Zealand's offer to take 150 refugees a year has been refused while the U.S. continues to accept them.
The government's policy of denying resettlement to those who arrive by boat includes those who received medical treatment in Australia and then got court injunctions preventing their return to Nauru and Papua New Guinea. There are currently 1,226 such asylum-seekers in Australia, Ablong said. | <urn:uuid:556baebc-3391-4f7c-9453-d72df6b5b5dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2020/oct/20/australia-most-of-refugees-resettled/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974117 | 435 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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October 23, 2015
Investigators at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Toronto, Canada, have been working on a potential correlation for aggressiveness and/or disease-free survival in thyroid cancer patients.
Researchers have posited that well-differentiated thyroid cancers harbor distinct molecular pathological profiles that may be useful as prognostic indicators of future aggressiveness.
October 22, 2015
While medullary thyroid cancer is not common as other thyroid cancers, it does have a poorer prognosis than these more common forms of metastatic thyroid cancer.
BRAF V600E is essential to the survival of many tumors and has been the focus of targeted therapeutics like a new BRAF V600E-selective inhibitor, which has been used for papillary thyroid carcinomas.
October 21, 2015
Keith Bible, MD, PhD, Mayo Clinic professor of oncology goes into detail about the current status of using VEGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors to treat thyroid cancer.
October 20, 2015
Dr. Nicole O. Vietor presented a report assessing practice discordances related to previously published guidelines published from the American Thyroid Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists. | <urn:uuid:6919f4d0-7194-4036-a2d0-ce3bfd2aefac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.targetedonc.com/authors/w-todd-penberthy-phd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.922646 | 306 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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|Moderate|| 87* US AQI||PM2.5|
PM2.5 concentration in Multan is currently 5.8 times the WHO annual air quality guideline value
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|Sensitive groups should reduce outdoor exercise|
|Saturday, Aug 13|
Moderate 87 US AQI
Moderate 87 US AQI
|Monday, Aug 15|
Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups 110 US AQI
|Tuesday, Aug 16|
Moderate 99 US AQI
|Wednesday, Aug 17|
Moderate 95 US AQI
|Thursday, Aug 18|
Moderate 82 US AQI
|Friday, Aug 19|
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Multan is a city located in the Punjab region of Pakistan, being one of the 7th largest cities in the country as well as being a prominent cultural and economic hub of southern Punjab. It has a well developed infrastructure of public transport, and is well connected to many other countries in Asia and the middle east. It is subject to some fair extremes of weather conditions, which can affect the subsequent levels of air quality, due to the effect that meteorological conditions can have on pollution accumulation.
In the early days of 2021 as well as the very tail end of 2020, Multan was coming in consistently with some elevated readings of PM2.5, indicating that it does indeed have a problem with pollution, a problem that is unfortunately shared by many other cities in Pakistan. In late December of 2020, PM2.5 readings varying from as low as 40.3 μg/m³ were recorded, going all the way up to readings as high as 136.3 μg/m³.
Multan's highest readings would put it into the ‘unhealthy’ group rating, one that requires a PM2.5 reading of anywhere between 55.5 to 150.4 μg/m³ to be classified as such. Thus, its readings put it at the higher end of this bracket, making the air quality on such days bracket of significant danger to its citizens, with young children, the elderly, the sick or immunocompromised as well as expectant mothers being particularly at risk.
As with many cities across Pakistan, Multan has problems with its pollution levels arising from similar sources. With over 1.8 million people living within the cities limits, subsequently there would be many anthropogenic (manmade) causes of pollution occurring, such as the mass movement of people in and out of the city, as well as within the city in daily commutes to work.
As such, vehicles would be one of the largest contributors to air pollution in Multan, with numerous cars and motorbikes inhabiting the roads, many of which would be using old and outdated engines that would fall well below international standards, due to their higher pollutive output. Further compounding this is the fuels that they run on, with many lower quality fuels being available locally as well as diesel fuels still being widely used. These put out far larger amounts of pollution in their fumes than cleaner counterparts would, and as such can have a very detrimental effect on the health of Multan's citizens during peak hours of traffic.
Other causes of pollution would be emissions from factories and industrial sites, the burning of poor quality fuel or biomass for the firing of brick kilns, open burn sites to dispose of garbage (sometimes including synthetic materials such as rubber or plastics) as well as particulate matter coming from poorly maintained construction sites and road repairs.
With much of its pollution arising from the combustion of both fossil fuels and other materials, most of the pollution in Multan would find itself associated with the aforementioned processes. High usage of cars, motorbikes and even heavy duty vehicles such as lorries, trucks and buses can lead to the air being permeated with chemical compounds such as nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2), with sulfur dioxide leading to acidification of rainclouds and the subsequent damage to the environment that arises from that, as well as nitrogen dioxide being the most prominent compound released here, often correlating directly with high vehicle usage, as in areas that see high volumes of traffic often have an associated high level of nitrogen dioxide in the atmosphere and on ground level.
Other pollutants would include ones such as black carbon, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds (VOC's), some of which would include benzene, toluene, xylene and formaldehyde, all of which are highly hazardous to breathe, as well as extremely easy to respire due to their volatile nature rendering them into a gaseous form even at lower temperatures.
Besides black carbon, other fine particulate matters would include finely ground dust and gravel, as well as minute particles of silica, which alongside black carbon is known to have carcinogenic effects when inhaled.
With readings as high as 136.3 μg/m³ being recorded at the end of 2020, and with averages of 80 μg/m³ coming in during the early portion of January 2021, as one would imagine, with these numbers being labelled in the ‘unhealthy’ group rating, there would be a subsequent high amount of health issues related to breathing this air.
Some of them would include rapid aging of the lungs, as well as scarring of the lung tissue and damage or irritation to the lining of the respiratory tract. All of these can reduce overall lung function, as well as make one more susceptible to further pulmonary diseases down the line. Some of these would include instances of aggravated asthma attacks, pneumonia, bronchitis as well as emphysema.
Other issues would include considerably higher rates of cancer, mainly regarding the lungs and throat, but also possible in many other areas of the body due to PM2.5’s ability to break through the blood barrier in the lungs and enter the circulatory system. Once in the bloodstream, PM2.5 can wreak havoc on the blood vessels, causing damage to them as well as instances of ischemic heart disease, increased chances of heart attacks as well as damage to the hepatic and renal systems (liver and kidneys).
These are but a few of the highly negative side effects of being exposed to polluted air in Multan, with many more available depending on how long an individual is exposed, the intensity of exposure along with physical predispositions and sensitivities towards certain chemicals and pollutants.
Some initiatives that the city of Multan could do to reduce its pollution levels in the long run, would be to crack down and introduce more stringent road rules, particularly regarding outdated vehicles that put out far more pollution than is considered safe. Others would be to monitor factories and hold them responsible by the introduction of charges and fines if they also exceed safe pollution level output.
Others would be to better maintain construction sites to reduce fine particle matter spilling off, as well as putting forth more initiatives to get people to make the switch over to public transport or ‘greener’ forms of transport such as cycling or walking instead of taking their cars or motorbikes. These are all small steps that if added together would go a long way in assisting to clean up the polluted atmosphere of Multan. | <urn:uuid:501746b4-dbc1-44cb-9b1d-9c823a92338f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iqair.com/us/pakistan/punjab/multan | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964834 | 1,881 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Soccer is the most popular sport in the world and while volleyball may not be as popular, most people seem to be familiar with it. Even though both sports are different from each other, they also share certain similarities. This is not unique to soccer and volleyball since there are other sports, too that share similarities as well as differences though the degree of similarities and differences may vary.
One of the similarities between soccer and volleyball is that they are both team sports. In other words, one has to work closely with team members to compete with the other team. This is in contrast to individual sports such as boxing, tennis, and ping pong where the player has to rely on his/her own skills only. Another similarity between soccer and volleyball is that they both can be played indoor and outdoor. The playfields for both soccer and volleyball are rectangular in shape. Even though the common objective of teams in both soccer and volleyball may be different, they do share some tasks such as passing the ball to their teammates. Soccer and volleyball are also similar in the sense that both sports involve a ball as the only equipment. In other sports, there may be multiple equipments. For example, baseball has ball, bat, and gloves among other things. While there are numerous similarities, the differences between two sports are greater in number as the next section demonstrates.
One of the differences between soccer and volleyball is the number of players in each team. In soccer, there are eleven players in each team while there are only six players in each team in volleyball. This is also due to the fact that volleyball is played on a smaller field than soccer. Another difference between soccer and volleyball is that soccer players cannot touch the ball by hand with the exception of goalkeepers while volleyball players rely on their hands to play the game. The ball in soccer can touch the ground but in volleyball, both teams try to prevent the ball from touching the ground within their zone as it results in other team scoring the point. The objective in soccer is to put the ball in the goal post of the other team while the objective in volleyball is to make the ball hit the ground on the other side of the net. While the game balls in both soccer and volleyball look quite similar, soccer ball is heavier. In soccer, players from two opposite teams do come in physical contact with each other but this doesn’t usually happen in volleyball where two teams are on the opposite side of the net. Soccer and volleyball also differ in the level of stamina required from players. Soccer players often run a long distance during the game. On the other hand, volleyball players may not run long distance but they have to move around often. While any sport requires one to do lot of practice to become good at it, basic skills in soccer are easier to acquire as compared to volleyball. This is because soccer is basically about kicking the ball which comes naturally to us. On the other hand, playing volleyball requires one to at least properly handle the incoming ball.
While volleyball is quite popular around the world, it cannot compete with soccer which is the most popular sport in the world. Both sports share certain similarities though the differences are greater in number. Some of the similarities between soccer and volleyball are that both are team sports, require team players to pass around the ball to make a play, and both can be player either indoor or outdoor. Some of the differences between soccer and volleyball are the number of players in each team, size of the playfield, the main objective of the teams, i.e. putting ball in a goal past vs. putting ball on the floor in the opposite zone, and basic skills required to play the sport which in this case are simpler in soccer as compared to volleyball. | <urn:uuid:4526bd4d-dacf-4a90-b6b4-0651c4030a59> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mypaperwriter.com/samples/soccer-and-volleyball/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.983924 | 749 | 3.078125 | 3 |
410 Peristaltic Pump
Designed for field use, the reversible flow Peristaltic Pump from Solinst is ideal for vapor sampling or water sampling from shallow wells and surface water. It can be used for vacuum pumping and for pressure delivery of liquids or gases.
The mechanical peristaltic operation uses rotating rollers to depress the silicone tubing, creating a vacuum, which displaces any fluid or gas in the chosen direction. It is effective to depths up to the suction lift limit, which varies with elevation, and can be as much as 33 ft. or 10 m at sea level.
Peristaltic Pump Design
The Solinst Peristaltic Pump features a clear pump head that allows quick, convenient inspection of the pump head tubing before and during operation. The pump head cover is easy to remove for cleaning or replacing the tubing. The pump head tubing guides are designed to keep the tubing in place during sampling, no extra tubing clamps required.
The Peristaltic Pump is compact and lightweight. A handle and one convenient control on the top of the pump make it perfect for fieldwork.
The Solinst Peristaltic Pump has no vents, grates or openings. The metal case is extremely robust and water resistant. This makes the Peristaltic Pump simple to maintain and repair.
|Model 410 Peristaltic Pump Specifications|
|Sampling Depth:||As much as 33 ft (10 m) at sea level|
|5/8" Tubing Sampling Rate:||120 ml/min to 3.5 L/min|
|3/8" Tubing Sampling Rate:||40 ml/min to 900 ml/min|
|Pump Size:||13" x 5" x 6-1/2" (33 cm x 13 cm x 17 cm)|
|Pump Weight:||7.2 lbs (3.3 kg)|
|Power Source:||12 volt DC|
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I’m going to wander away slightly from the Durham library this week and look at a wonderful set of records from London’s National Archives. Despite the distance to London (it could take a week or more on horseback), Durham’s bishop Cuthbert Tunstall spent quite a lot of the 1530s and 1540s travelling back and forth to attend council meetings or other important events in the south, such as the arrival in England of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves in December 1539. The travel must have been pretty tiring. Fortunately for him when he arrived in London though, the councillors had quite a few perks, including their own team of cooks headed by John Lawrence. Lawrence and his servants cooked for the council for over twenty years.
A couple of weeks ago, for #ediblearchives on Twitter, Dr Sean Cunningham of the National Archives shared some pictures of the bills for the lavish meals the councillors enjoyed.
For example, Lawrence bought and presumably cooked seventeen types of meat and birds on 5 December 1542 alone. The annual bill for the council’s food in 1538-9 clocked in at just over £248, which Tunstall and other councillors signed off on. They were less frugal in 1542-44, when the total bill for two years came to just over £577. In contrast the head cook received just 2 shillings and fourpence a day. That’s a lot of expensive food and wine!
These accounts are a lovely reminder that the council, ‘the kynges most honorable Councell’, did not just meet to argue about all of the business of the day from problematic court cases to petitions as well as border defences and Reformation policy, they also dined together. You have Thomas Cromwell, agressively anti-Catholic, signing accounts alongside the extremely conservative Stephen Gardiner, bishop of Winchester and Tunstall himself. Henry’s council was often carefully balanced between conservatives and ardent reformers with very different ideas about what should be done. I do wonder if the lavish meals in part helped to keep the peace between them. It’s quite hard to have a shouting match while you’re all trying to eat lunch! | <urn:uuid:eec65c6c-9d82-420f-b806-f9859bdcfb09> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.durhampriory.ac.uk/feeding-the-reformation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972401 | 466 | 2 | 2 |
One of the most unique aspects of pediatrics is growth and development… and how these impact your evaluation. Even in the emergency department these must be considered. For instance, when determining if that 6 month old was able to crawl into the bathtub and get burned on his/her own it is good to know basic developmental milestones (we’ll discuss in the future). Additionally, having a working knowledge of basics about growth may prove to be useful to you when assess for complaints like vomiting (is this 4 month old who is 9 kgs failing to thrive or being overfeed?). Here are some gross growth estimates that I find helpful.
Failure to Thrive?
An infant with failure to thrive will first demonstrate poor weight gain.
With continued insult, there will be reduced height/length growth and then, finally, reduced head circumference growth.
After birth, infants will normally loose weight initially (particularly breastfed infants).
Infants should regain their birth weight by 2 weeks of life.
For the first 3 months, infants should gain ~30 grams a day (~1 oz / day).
By 6 months, they should have doubled their weight.
By 12 months, they should have tripled their weight.
By 24 months, they should have quadrupled their weight.
Other useful numbers:
At 1 year of age, your average child will be ~10kg.
At 3 years of age, your average child will be ~ 15kg.
At 6 years of age, your average child will be ~ 20kg.
Unfortunately, at least in the USA, our children are greater than average with respect to their weight; but, these are good starting points when you need to estimate weight in a pinch. | <urn:uuid:d7941d70-d3ec-4770-b92e-eca01966f93a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tomwademd.net/pediatric-growth-estimates-from-dr-fox-of-pediatric-em-morsels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942589 | 354 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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With all of the possibilities you will find your printer can do, you be astonished at why purchasing used your printer for document printing only. When you search the world wide web you will discover great articles that will give you you innovative uses for the different printers available your market suitable. These people have used it on personal printer a person can safely say going without shoes can be accomplished on your printer pretty. | <urn:uuid:42b3280f-3390-4c9e-bb8a-130d4db78cb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.alizaringroup.com/the-best-heat-pump-for-you-22.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936353 | 644 | 1.867188 | 2 |
A deep freeze that hit Texas over the weekend wrought more havoc on the U.S. energy sector on Tuesday, curbing output in the largest U.S. oil field, knocking out a fifth of the nation’s refining capacity, and shutting a key shipping channel in Houston.
Historic cold has knocked out roughly 4 million barrels per day of refining capacity, more than one-fifth of national capacity, according to Reuters calculations. About 500,000 to 1.2 million bpd of crude production has also been affected, and it could be weeks before it is fully restored, industry analysts said.
Around 5.3 million customers were without power nationwide due to winter storms. Texas was hardest hit with around 4.4 million customers affected, according to local power companies, as the state’s electrical grid operates largely independent of other states and therefore cannot draw power from nearby operators.
“The entire Texas system from the wellhead to the electric meter on a home is more designed to deal with multiple 100 degree days than multiple single-digit days,” said Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil & Gas Association.
Many refiners, including the biggest in the United States, have shut down due to the freeze. Around 4 mln bpd, or 21 per cent of U.S. refining capacity, is shut, the biggest weather-related hit since Hurricane Harvey rumbled through the Gulf in 2017.
“We’re talking about a major portion of the U.S. Gulf Coast refining capacity currently being offline, in all likelihood, above 4,000,000 barrels a day,” said Marc Amons, senior research analyst with Wood Mackenzie.
The cold snap sent U.S. oil prices to near 13-month highs, while front-month gas futures jumped to an over three-month high.
In the spot market, next-day power at the ERCOT North hub jumped to a record high of $1,489.75 per megawatt hour (MWh).
The largest U.S. refinery, Motiva Enterprises’ 600,000 bpd facility at Port Arthur, was shut. Elsewhere, freezing temperatures shut other refineries and chemical plants in the state owned by Royal Dutch Shell Valero Energy Corp, Exxon Mobil Corp and Total SE .
Cold weather primarily impacts instrumentation that monitors and operates refinery units. The cold has shut natural gas production and pipelines, which refineries use in power generation. Widespread power outages or instability of external power supply can force shutdowns.
“The vast majority of their equipment will be inoperable once the weather warms up, so while we don’t feel that we’re looking at a hurricane-like scenario,” it would probably take about a couple weeks for the refineries to return to pre-storm operations, Amons said.
The Houston Ship Channel, a 85 km waterway crucial to oil and fuel exports, had opened for some vessel traffic during Tuesday but was expected to shut again due to an impending cold blast in the evening.
J.J. Plunkett, port agent for Houston Pilots, said ship pilots were moving at least five vessels along the Houston Ship Channel on Tuesday.
Whether they will be able to do so through the night will depend on the weather, Plunkett said. Freezing rain expected with another Arctic front may prevent ground transportation within ports and along docks.
“The biggest obstacle is moving people around as most of the highways and bridges are closed... There are a lot of electricity outages in the area, the whole of Galveston is under a blackout. Even we do not have power, but have backup.”
In the oil patch, access to wells has been cut off by icy roads, while power and cellular services have been lost, Staples said.
Artem Abramov, partner at Rystad Energy, estimated the effect on the Permian, the biggest U.S. oil field in west Texas, at anywhere between 500,000 to 1.2 million bpd over the course of five days, though he said most volumes should be restored very quickly.
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With a spike in local cases of COVID-19, the health unit is encouraging employers to put measures in place to help prevent further spread of the virus.
On Friday, December 17, 2021, the province announced a number of new capacity limits, including limiting indoor gatherings to 10 people (from previous 25), outdoor gathering limits lowered to 25 people (from 100), and capacity limits at most indoor settings across province (including restaurants, bars, personal care services, retailers, shopping malls) are set at 50 per cent. This does not apply to a business or space that is used for a wedding/funeral/religious service. These limits come into effect at 12:01 am on December 19, 2021.
To supplement the provincial announcement, the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit today sent a letter to local employers asking them to take additional steps within their businesses. In the past 14 days, there have been 126 cases confirmed within the Health Unit’s region.
“I am worried that we are already seeing a surge of cases in advance of the holiday season” says Dr. Natalie Bocking, Medical Officer of Health for the HKPR District Health Unit. “Our goal is to reduce the number of people working in close proximity to help halt any further spread. Broad measures are required as there is no one sector that is causing this sharp increase in local cases.”
In her letter to employers, Dr. Bocking recommends that all employers:
• Move all employees to work remotely, unless their work requires them to be on-site at the workplace.
• Limit all onsite interactions. This includes conducting meetings virtually, when feasible to do so.
• If staff must work onsite, the employer should:
a. Actively screen employees for symptoms of COVID-19 and refer for testing any employee that screens positive.
b. Ensure that workers are physically distanced by at least 2 metres when at their workstations or separated by physical barriers.
c. Wear tightly fitting masks if they cannot be physically distanced while working or when moving throughout the workplace.
d. Stagger lunches and breaks to maximize distance and minimize interactions.
e. Ensure that lunchrooms and break areas are arranged and posted with a maximum occupancy to maintain physical distance between employees using the spaces while eating and drinking.
“While these measures will not stop an upcoming omicron surge, the goal is to interrupt and slow down transmission of the virus as much as possible,” Dr. Bocking says. “We need to work together to prevent severe illness from COVID and protect our health care system from further strain.” | <urn:uuid:683882ec-f806-41ad-ae39-c82d46b1d9d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://todaysnorthumberland.ca/2021/12/17/hkpr-district-health-unit-asks-employers-help-to-address-surge-in-cases/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953854 | 549 | 1.960938 | 2 |
- Press Release
- August 12, 2022
Mysterious, New Type Of Wave In The Sun Whose Speed Defies Explanation
Researchers from NYU Abu Dhabi’s (NYUAD) Center for Space Science have discovered a new set of waves in the Sun that, unexpectedly, appear to travel much faster than predicted by theory.
In the study, Discovery of high-frequency-retrograde vorticity waves in the Sun, published in the journal Nature Astronomy, the researchers – led by Research Associate Chris S. Hanson — detailed how they analyzed 25 years of space and ground-based data to detect these waves. The high-frequency retrograde (HFR) waves – which move in the opposite direction of the Sun’s rotation – appear as a pattern of vortices (swirling motions) on the surface of the Sun and move at three times the speed established by current theory.
The interior of the Sun and stars cannot be imaged by conventional astronomy (e.g. optical, x-ray etc.), and scientists rely on interpreting the surface signatures of a variety of waves to image the interiors. These new HFR waves may yet be an important puzzle piece in our understanding of stars.
Complex interactions between other well known waves and magnetism, gravity or convection could drive the HFR waves at this speed. “If the HFR waves could be attributed to any of these three processes, then the finding would have answered some open questions we still have about the Sun,” said Hanson. “However, these new waves don’t appear to be a result of these processes, and that’s exciting because it leads to a whole new set of questions.”
This research was conducted within NYUAD’s Center for Space Science in collaboration with the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR) and New York University, using NYUAD and TIFR’s computational resources. By studying the Sun’s interior dynamics – through the use of waves – scientists can better appreciate the Sun’s potential impact on the Earth and other planets in our solar system.
“The very existence of HFR modes and their origin is a true mystery and may allude to exciting physics at play,” said Shravan Hanasoge, a co-author of the paper. “It has the potential to shed insight on the otherwise unobservable interior of the Sun.”
Image caption: An artistic impression of the high-frequency retrograde (HFR) vorticity waves. These waves appear as swirling motions near the equator of the Sun. The rotation in the north is always anti-symmetric to the rotation in the southern hemisphere. These mysterious waves move in the opposite direction to the sun’s rotation, which is to the right, three times faster then what is allowed by hydrodynamics alone. | <urn:uuid:ec5a98e5-a0cc-4a24-937c-94a12b55ff5a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spaceref.com/science-and-exploration/mysterious-new-type-of-wave-in-the-sun-whose-speed-defies-explanation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932557 | 601 | 3.21875 | 3 |
URDU: فلسفہ سیرت رسولﷺ قرآن کی روشنی میں
The Philosophy of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) seerah in the light of Quran
The Philosophy of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) seerah in the light of Quran can be classified in to two broad categories. First category is called hikamat e imani that revolves around the Quranic beliefs system of Prophet Muhammad as a universal Prophet who is also seal of Prophet hood as last messenger of Allah. His mercy is not limited to Muslims or even human beings rather his mercy is on all creation of the worlds. And the completion of iman resides in the condition if one loves Prophet Muhammad more than one’s own life and follow all teaching of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) without any objection etc. The second category is called Hikmat e usoole that revolves around the Quranic concept of duty of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H) as teacher and preacher of last revealed religion, Islam to all human beings. As, every rule of the Islam is written in the Quran but for the explanation and spiritual guidance of each rule one must be dependent on the Ahadith and sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (P.B.U.H.) either in Islamic belief system, ibabdah, fiqh or mauamalaat. | <urn:uuid:69d598a6-58f2-422b-a8bd-76ba4b9eee1d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rahatulquloob.com/index.php/rahat/article/view/433 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.889396 | 326 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Saudi Arabia enjoys a privileged position both in geopolitical and economic terms. It will have a powerful hand to play if tensions with the US and the west escalate and it follows through with Sunday’s warning of retaliation.
Its vast oil reserves – it claims to have about 260bn barrels still to extract – afford the most obvious advantage. The kingdom is the world’s largest oil exporter, pumping or shipping about 7m barrels a day, and giving Riyadh huge clout in the global economy because it wields power to push up prices.
An editorial in Arab News by Turki Aldhakhil, the general manager of the official Saudi news channel, Al Arabiya, offers a hint of what could be in the offing.
He said Riyadh was weighing up 30 measures designed to put pressure on the US if it were to impose sanctions over the disappearance and presumed murder of Jamal Khashoggi inside the country’s Istanbul consulate. These would include an oil production cut that could drive prices from around $80 (£60) a barrel to more than $400, more than double the all-time high of $147.27 reached in 2008.
This would have profound consequences globally, not just because motorists would pay more at the petrol pump, but because it would force up the cost of all goods that travel by road.
Saudi Arabia also supports thousands of US jobs via its arms purchases. It is the world’s second-largest arms importer after India and 61% of those imports come from the US.
It was the US’s biggest arms customer last year, signing $17.5bn worth of deals, a trend that looks set to continue after Donald Trump signed a $110bn defence agreement in Riyadh last year.
The alliance stands to benefit US employers such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Electric and ExxonMobil. Some of the firms are reported to have expressed concern to Trump already about the impact that a freeze in Saudi-US relations might have. Riyadh could, for example, simply switch its purchases to other major arms exporters such as Russia and China.
Trump’s trip to the Arabian peninsula last year also yielded an agreement that the kingdom’s Public Investment Fund, which manages its vast oil wealth, would invest in US infrastructure programmes. The PIF is to stump up $20bn of a $40bn pot overseen by the global asset manager Blackstone. The fund, however, has yet to gather any serious momentum.
Saudi Arabia has shown in the past that it is not afraid to leverage its unique political and economic position to get its own way. An investigation into allegations of bribery involving the British defence firm BAE Systems in the country was dropped under Tony Blair’s government in 2006. Blair said Riyadh had threatened to stop cooperating on intelligence matters, putting Britain at greater risk of a terrorist attack.
Seth Frantzman, the executive director of the US-based Middle East Center for Reporting and Analysis, said the kingdom’s importance to US strategy in the Gulf, particularly as a bulwark against Iran, gave it great influence.
“They’re part of an American-Saudi-UAE alliance, and the current US administration is tough on Iran, so in some ways the US is more beholden to Saudi Arabia than in previous years,” he said.
“They don’t want to be humiliated in this exchange. The US press says Trump will punish Saudi Arabia, and they don’t want to come out of this looking like the child being punished.
“Saudi probably feels it’s on a winning streak economically and if it has to take a hit, which it already is in terms of its image, it will be made up for by the fact they’ll find markets somewhere else.”
Saudi Arabia does have something to lose though, given that foreign money is a key plank of its plans to diversify its economy away from oil and address a high unemployment rate of nearly 13%. The Saudi stock market plunged by as much as 7%, or around $33bn, over fears about the ramifications of the country’s threat of retaliation against the US.
International investors are already turning their backs, and a number of high-profile names have pulled out of an investment conference later this month dubbed “Davos in the Desert”.
They include Uber’s chief executive, Dara Khosrowshahi , and the US media giant Viacom’s boss Bob Bakish. Sir Richard Branson has suspended discussions with the Saudi government that might have led to it investing in his space tourism project Virgin Galactic. | <urn:uuid:87eb2c65-1c5f-4c36-9844-c112f01e6665> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://debriefer.net/en/news-4090.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963276 | 956 | 1.757813 | 2 |
If we are to address some of the major crises of our time: climate change, the ageing population, economic disruption, then we need more of us to be living in cities, not fewer.
This may sound counter-intuitive but you are likely to have a much lower carbon footprint living in Central London than you would living in the middle of the countryside.
Why? For a start, your home is likely to be newer and better insulated – not least because there are likely to be other homes above and below it. The infrastructure and the tarmac around you stores heat, keeping temperatures in cities 1-3° warmer than the countryside, further reducing your investment in heating.
Cities are also the cheapest place to serve citizens with utilities. The closer together people are, the more cost effective it is to provide water, waste services, electricity and connectivity. This is why many rural parts of the country still run on oil deliveries and septic tanks and have crap broadband.
Future city logistics
When you travel in a city, the amenities are much closer by and you have a much greater chance of being able to travel by public transport. Getting to work, the shops, the pub, or a museum, you will expend a lot less energy.
There has been much talk about how self-driving and electric cars might reshape our cities, removing the need for parking, for example — at least in prime areas. They can drop off their passengers and then drive themselves to an out of town garage, or return home, or continue to serve other passengers across the city until they need charging.
But there is also a very reasonable challenge that asks whether we should let cars shape our cities again. After all, the last time we allowed a single form of personal transport to shape our cities, it wasn’t all positive. Self-driving, electric cars propose to reduce congestion and pollution, but we already have other ways to do those things.
A city shaped by cycling, walking and mass transit is potentially very different to one shaped by smart cars. Even the smartest of cars will present barriers to pedestrians, breaking down streets into two sides. Mass transit implies hubs around which services and people congregate.
Housing for the future
I once had the pleasure of interviewing some of the leading lights in the property sector, both residential and commercial. Some of the results went into a report for Hyperoptic on the future of residential broadband.
The CEO of a large developer told me that one of the biggest challenges when building something new is knowing what the user’s needs will be in five, ten, or twenty years. How can you construct something today that will have longevity when technology, culture, and working practices are changing so fast?
The future of planning
The answer comes in three parts: design, engineering, and information. Each is influenced by a principle for better strategy that is being adopted across business and I think has a strong role to play in government as well. This principle is simply that adaptation trumps optimisation as a predictor of sustainable success:
- Developers may be able to employ foresight tools to inform their decisions and enhance their arguments for particular developments.
- We have to consider when we are thinking about the future of planning that the future building may itself be much more adaptable than those in the past.
- What feeds foresight processes is good data, and there is a huge opportunity in the future for developers and local authorities to better inform their decisions with good data.
So, what will cities be like in the future? The design process is informed by rich data that combines geospatial, demographic, economic, and emotional data that assembles a business case and a design brief in a semi-automated fashion. The design itself is created with flexibility in mind, aware of imminent trends but also adaptable to those beyond the range of reasonable foresight. | <urn:uuid:b915535e-6df0-4d13-920f-959be5d673c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tomcheesewright.com/what-will-cities-be-like-in-the-future/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.965551 | 791 | 2.53125 | 3 |
What could be more fun than Confetti Cannons? Having a fantastic book tie in with a great STEM activity! In this case Magnolia Mudd and the Super Jumptastic Launcher Deluxe, by Katey Howes. This amazingly fun STEM Challenge has two levels of difficulty. A simple version that can be built quickly by kids of all ages and abilities (perfect for groups or a classroom), and a STEM Challenge version that uses engineering, science and imagination to create a confetti cannon machine that kids will want to power up over and over again. This is an incredible Celebration STEM Challenge.
Build a Confetti Cannon STEM Project
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Confetti Cannon STEM Challenge
Somewhere along the line, my children’s favorite part of any celebrations became confetti. And then, confetti became more ubiquitous. Why couldn’t we have it at birthday parties? Band concerts? Rainy Tuesday mornings? And I had to admit, I couldn’t find a good reason why not!
I discovered that confetti play allowed for practice of lots of developmentally appropriate skills. Kids build scissor skills while making their own confetti by cutting up used paper, holiday cards, foil, candy wrappers, straws, etc. Or try using a hole punch to make confetti AND strengthen little hands! Once they’ve thrown it everywhere, kids can practice using a broom or whisk broom and dust pan to sweep it up and reuse it. Confetti play can incorporate identifying colors, counting backwards, and taking turns.
Today, we’re taking confetti play to a whole new level and exploring STEAM concepts with two different Confetti Launcher projects.
For those that do not want confetti everywhere, replace the confetti with bird seed or flower seeds and spread the love outdoors!
TUBE CONFETTI CANNON LAUNCHER
Lead off this project by talking about elasticity, potential energy and kinetic energy. Think about a compressed spring or a stretched rubber band. Deforming the material requires energy from the user – and puts it in a state where it has high POTENTIAL ENERGY. It wants to return to its standard shape. When it does so, with a spring or a snap, that’s KINETIC (movement) energy in action. Can your kids think of machines and tools that use springs, bands, or other elastic properties to get work done?
Cardboard tube (the tube from a toilet paper roll works perfectly)
Step 1: Tie a knot in your balloon.
Step 2: Cut about 1/3 off the top of the balloon. Use scissors and don’t worry about being exact.
Step 3: Put the balloon on the cardboard tube, kind of like putting on a shower cap. Center the knot as well as you can.
Step 4: Tape the balloon in place. If you like, wrap tape around the remainder of the tube to reinforce it. Get creative and use different color tapes to create cool patterns and make the confetti cannon look amazing!
Step 5: Put confetti in the tube.
Time to launch! Hold the tube with one hand. Pull the knot back with the other hand. Let go of the knot and watch it fly!
Kids can experiment with the angle they hold the tube, how far they pull back, and other factors to get their best launch. Or brainstorm practical uses for a launcher like this – could you use it to distribute wildflower seeds in the garden? Feed the birds? Decorate cupcakes? Throw rice at a wedding?
AIR POWERED CONFETTI CANNON MACHINE
Even though we can’t see the air, we can see the effect it has on objects around it. Think about how air moves objects like leaves, windmills, and so much more. Can your kids think of machines and tools that use moving air to get work done?
Large syringe and tubing (100 mL syringes used for automotive repair work great! Or try bigger with a 300mL syringe!)
Construction paper cut to 3.5” x 3.5” square
Step 1: Cut your construction paper to 3.5″ square. Fold the square paper on a diagonal to make a triangle.
Step 2: Curve the triangle into a funnel shape, leaving an opening large enough for your tubing at the narrow end. Tape the edge of the paper to hold the shape.
Step 3: Insert the end of the tubing into the funnel and tape it into place. Make sure it is airtight.
Step 4: Pull back the plunger in the syringe. Attach the tubing to the syringe.
Step 5: Put confetti in the funnel. Hold the funnel or tape it to the surface so it stays upright.
Time for launch! Depress the plunger and watch the confetti fly!
Kids can experiment with the syringe – how much air do they use? How fast should they depress the plunger? They can try different gauge tubing and different types of confetti materials, too. You can also supply them with other household materials – like a turkey baster, plastic straws, small plastic bottles – anything you can squeeze – and see what type of air-powered tools they can make.
Imagine and Engineer To Power Up Your STEM Challenge
Another great creative challenge to combine with this launcher is to build a support structure. Rather than holding the funnel upright, can your kids build an armature to hold it? We used LEGO bricks to make ours – but you could use popsicle sticks, plastic straws, or any building toy – kids could even make a support structure with a 3D pen or printer. Get creative and let those imaginations go crazy!
I hope you and your kids or students enjoy building these fun confetti launchers and exploring the design and science behind them. If you also enjoy reading about inventive kids, check out the picture book, Magnolia Mudd and the Super Jumptastic Launcher Deluxe. It teaches that you don’t have to do things “the way they’ve always been done.” Magnolia Mudd wants kids to know they have the ingenuity and creativity to invent their own solution to any problem.
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Médecins du Monde Switzerland is an International and independent Medical Organization founded in 1980, that provides humanitarian and development aid to those most in need. The organization observes the principles of medical ethics and humanitarian aid and is currently active in more than 65 countries. Médecins du monde Switzerland, created in 1993, has been working in the Palestinian Territory since 1994 prioritizing the provision of quality mental health care to people in need.
Under the responsibility of the General Coordinator the Project Manager is responsible for MdM-CH Project Design, Activities Implementation, Monitoring & Evaluation and Reporting. He/she engages in a constant monitoring of the context of intervention, population needs & other actors’ responses provision, he/she ensures a close supervision of MdM-CH activities implementation, activates and maintains a strong network of local and International partners (Ministry of Health, NGOs, Scholars & Academics), and emphasizes positive cooperation attitudes among all so that MdM-CH actions are coherent with people needs, the organization strategy and in lines with developmental best practices.
جميع الحقوق محفوظة لموقع جوبس.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE NEEDED
➢ A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in Social Science, project management or any other related field.
➢ Fluent English & Arabic, French an asset
➢ Essential working experience in community empowerment projects and at minimum five years in a relevant position.
➢ Excellent knowledge of development aid best practices and community engagement
➢ Experience in working with local authorities and partners
➢ Strong capacities of evaluation, analysis, synthesis and communication
➢ Experience in reporting and proposals writing. Experience in fundraising and donor management an asset.
➢ Essential computer literacy (Word, Excel)
➢ Experience with distance learning tools and methodologies, use of platform with integrated LMS will be an asset.
Under the direct managerial line of the OPT General Coordinator, the project manager will supervise the implementation and further development of MDM Switzerland’s interventions in the West Bank.
Main responsibilities and tasks:
Project management & development
➢ Ensures a daily monitoring of the global situation of the West Bank and its population (context, question of access, humanitarian & development needs, presence and actions of local & international actors, etc.) as well as the situation of the Hospitals and CMHCs partners of the project
➢ Identify relevant local and international actors and/or partners (local Authorities, Universities, NGOs, development organizations, people with disability organizations, etc.).
➢ According to General Coordinator’s instructions, initiates and activates contacts with relevant actors and/or partners, maintaining a high quality network.
➢ Facilitates the communication and coordination with local partners & institutions, specifically the Ministry of Health (International Cooperation Department, the Mental Health Unit, the General Directorate of Hospitals, etc.) and Universities.
➢ Follows up with Hospitals and CMHCs directors.
➢ Liaises, when necessary, with other MdM-CH colleagues in the Gaza Strip.
➢ Gives relevant briefings and directions to MdM-CH field workers, in line with MdM-CH strategic plan & projects proposals, as well as with MdM-CH contingency plan
➢ Actively participates to the Strategic Planning of the organization in the West bank. Contributes to needs assessments, project design, implementation and monitoring & evaluation.
➢ Ensures all logistics and administrative needs for project implementation are known and planned within budget and chronogram of activities.
➢ Together with the Administrative coordinator, ensures a close supervision of the use of financial resources, participates to the Financial Report and potential grant requests.
➢ Suggest, organize, and assist the project team in the organization of online trainings. Computer literacy linked to the use of platform with integrated LMS in order to deliver various courses will be highly appreciated.
Monitoring and evaluation
➢ Develop plan of action and regularly evaluates the projects progress in line with the defined project objectives.
➢ Together with the General Coordinator, Senior Medical Consultant and the Mental Health Advisor, ensures the quality monitoring of MdM-CH interventions.
➢ Ensure the setup of monitoring tools for the partners.
➢ Organize relevant needs assessments and exploratory missions in order to enable attend a less biased analysis in terms of determining the actual need of the affected population.
➢ Develop Monitoring Systems in collaboration with the General Coordinator.
➢ Monitors the respect of MdM-CH Policies at all level of MdM-CH activities
➢ Write project’s reports for the different donors in accordance with their guidelines and in a timely manner.
➢ Report on a regular basis to the General Coordinator (monthly reports).
➢ Identify and support the needs of the MHPSS staff on the field.
➢ Develop monitoring tools for the team in order to assist the implementation of the designed activities.
➢ Organize and conduct regular team meetings according to the needs.
➢ Represent MDM Switzerland in coordination meetings, participate to the different meetings especially on Protection and Mental Health Cluster meetings, and proactively support the General Coordinator on external coordination with other health actors, UN agencies at the relevant level, and implemented partners of the projects.
➢ Lead on liaison with the MoH authorities where MdM is presently working and collaborating to ensure an excellent working relationship.
➢ Support field teams to coordinate on the ground with all stakeholders and ensure that information passes both up and down the chain of command in a timely manner.
➢ Monitor the security situation in the areas of intervention.
➢ Handle incident management efficiently.
➢ Abide with the organization security rules and be able to efficiently adopt measures in case of a volatile security environment.
➢ Monitor the safety & security of MdM-CH field workers (monitors security threats and risks, plans and implements security measures, provides emergency responses if needed, reviews contingency planning), ensures incident reporting
➢ Ability to work under pressure in an unstable and changing environment and willingness to accept and abide with the organization security protocols.
➢ Ability to manage priorities effectively
➢ Excellent writing skills
➢ Reactivity, anticipation, adaptability, capacity to take initiatives
➢ Excellent communication skills are essential to ensure cohesion with other programme and partner staff skills are primordial.
➢ Excellent skills in organization, co-ordination and the transfer of knowledge are essential. The person must be able to work independently and without constant supervision.
➢ The position is based in West Bank with frequent trips to Jerusalem.
➢ Contract Duration: Full time - 12 months.
➢ Working Hours: Standard office working hours from Sunday to Thursday.
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Futura Font Download [Latest]
What is Futura Font?
Futura is actually a geometric sans-serif typeface made by Paul Renner and produced in 1927. It absolutely was made like a contribution to the new Frankfurt project. It can be based mostly on geometric styles, especially the circle, equivalent in spirit for Bauhaus style on the time period. Read more about Futura Font Download.
Futura to same, the devil’s font. But only because Futura is seen everywhere from public safety signs to advertisements. Heck, it even went to space. Futura is a crisp geometric sans-serif typeface that is great for headlines. Like many great fonts, it isn’t free, but there are some great free web font alternatives to Futura that just might work for your next web design.
Futura is based on strokes of near-even weight, which are low in contrast. The lowercase has tall ascenders, which rise above the cap line, and uses a single-story “a” and “g”. Previously more common in handwriting than in printed text. The upper case characters present proportions similar to those of classical Roman capitals.
Supported Operating System:
Not all the systems support the Futura Font, just these below support Futura Font.
Futura simply means efficiency and functionality documented by both its many usages as corporate type as well as in various famous film projects. We are going to introduce you to the Sans-Serif typeface which is the great creation of a German designer, especially for the public housing project, New Frankfurt.
Use of Futura Font:
As the font has an eye-catchy typeface, it is good for almost every section you need. When you decide to make an elegant design and want to add text, Futura is a perfect choice that works. You can use Futura on the platforms below.
As the Futura Font has ten styles, it is good for every section you need. For the geometric shape, it may not cover artistic design areas but has a look of great designs.
For the headline and text, Futura Font is very good to use. You can utilize its couple of formats according to requirements.
Official work or Documentation:
Futura Font has the look to use in the official work and documentation.
You can design your logos with it.
I have seen various websites use this font.
Similar Fonts To Futura:
The following fonts are similar to Futura Font.
- Harmonia Sans
- ITC Avant Garde Gothic
- FF Super Grotesk
How to Download and Install Futura Font?
- Click the given link above to download the Futura Font latest.
- Extract the downloaded link into a folder.
- Zip the file.
- Click the link to install the font in your system.
- Now your installations will start automatically.
- Enjoy your Futura Font now.
This typeface is totally free font for your personal project only but not for commercial projects. If you want to use this for commercial uses then you will have to buy its license from its designer. It can be used free of cost for personal use. However, to use it commercially you need to purchase the license to it legally.
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The price of rice has hit 7-year highs because of the coronavirus pandemic. The reason for this is because the importers have started stockpiling the grain as shipments were curbed by exporters, reports CNBC.
The price of 5% broken white rice, which is the industry benchmark, increased 12% from March 25 to April 1, leading to the highest price since late April 2013, the Thai Rice Exporters Association said quoting Reuters data. Thailand is the world's second-largest exporter of rice after India.
The increase in price is because of the expectations of higher demand for Thai rice after the two top exporters India and Vietnam faced export disruptions due to the outbreak of the the novel coronavirus disease. Asia is the largest producer (90%) of rice in the world and consumes the same amount, the report added.
CNBC said rice traders in India have stopped signing new export contracts because of shortages of labout and logistical disruptions, Reuters reported, citing industry officials.
On the other hand, the Vietnamese government has put in restriction in export of the staple.
Rice prices started climbing in late 2019 due to a severe drought in Thailand and strong demand from Asian and African importers, which was way before the March spike.
Despite expectations of huge production this crop year and carry-over stocks of rice and wheat being at all-time highs, the rice price is the highest now, Samarendu Mohanty, Asia regional director at the Peru-based International Potato Centre said.
The report further said Thai Rice Exporters Association said that rice stock was ample, but acknowledged difficulties of labour shortages amid the pandemic after Cambodian labourers went home due to a nationwide lockdown. The impact would affect seasonal farming activities difficult and future harvests will be affected also, Mohanty in a blog post said. "Unlike other sectors, agriculture is heavily affected because of the lockdown,” he wrote. "If the planting season is missed, there will be no crop for the season or for the entire year,” Mohanty further added.
North America, Europe and China are now facing labour shortages and supply line disruptions for the spring planting, he added. "If the time slot is missed, they are done for the entire year."
The International Grain Council said in a recent report that buying of some commodities accelerated in recent weeks while logistical challenges were being reported as movement constraints and quarantine measures became widespread. It also acknowledged a sharp upturn in near-term demand, especially for rice and wheat-based foods. The Council’s forecasts for global rice supply and demand in 2019/20 are broadly unchanged m/m, with carryovers rising to a peak of 177m t on accumulation in China and India. Led by acreage increases in major exporters, world rice production in 2020/21 is projected to rise by 2% y/y, to a high of 509m t, with population growth supporting record uptake. Further gains in inventories are anticipated, mainly in key exporter and China. Trade is seen growing by 3% on bigger deliveries to Africa, with India the leading exporter. | <urn:uuid:a599288a-d731-4107-b36f-ef66ffd7b5c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://millermagazine.com/blog/world-rice-prices-surge-to-7-year-high-3535 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.9673 | 642 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Get To Know The Island - Norfolk Island .NF
Country: Norfolk Island
Abbreviation: Norfolk Island, Not Funny, Not Found
Norfolk Island is a small island in the Pacific Ocean located between Australia, New Zealand, and New Caledonia. It forms one of the Commonwealth of Australia's external territories. The first settlers in Norfolk Island were East Polynesians. Tourism, the primary economic activity, has steadily increased over the years. Additionally, sale of postage stamps and import customs duties plays a role in its revenue. Domain that represents Norfolk Island is .NF. Besides, 'NF' is the abbreviation for 'Not Funny' and 'Not Found'. | <urn:uuid:fab4211e-03cf-45c8-aa1f-af864a6db233> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wiki.net-chinese.com.tw/eng/%E5%9F%9F%E5%90%8D%E5%B0%8F%E5%B8%B8%E8%AD%98/Get-To-Know-The-Island-Norfolk-Island-NF | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.892813 | 286 | 2.640625 | 3 |
The main activity of livestock farmers who apply grazing consists of collecting solar energy. And convert it into a salable product; milk and meat. Plant density is a very important factor in this!
The goal in pasture management is to have and keep as many hectares covered as possible all year round. With plants in a vegetative state.
The density of herbal herbal leys is a reference to the number of leaves there are per hectare. Plant density is not only an important factor in determining the absorption of solar energy through photosynthesis. But it also has a major influence on the nutrient and water cycle between plant and soil.
The greater the plant density of herb-rich grassland, the better the infiltration of water and the less run-off will take place.
This keeps the soil cool under a blanket of leaves, which prevents evaporation of water from the soil surface.
We can have a very 'dense' monoculture grass, but even if it meets the criteria for high-quality grassland. They lack the characteristics such as mineral richness and palatability. The most ideal solution for the best planting density is a variety of different types of plants, such as polycultures – herb-rich grassland mixtures.
The higher the plant density of herbal leys, the better the dry matter production and the longer the crop remains vegetative. The clovers also have a considerable influence on this, by binding nitrogen. Clovers ensure that the crop remains digestible for longer.
These factors offer the possibility to influence and manage the yield of the crop. They ensure a high yield and will maximize the ETW (Own Added Value) in the product milk or meat.
How do you maintain the plant density of herb-rich grassland:
At the end of the 2nd year, beginning of the 3rd year, see how the composition is on the plot. This determines the amount of seed needed to maintain the width of the composition.
The best time to sow is in the spring and/or autumn, in or just before a period with unpredictable weather.
The most appropriate herb mixtures for overseeding:
- Saladebuffet Overseeding – Overseeding when there is a need for a higher proportion of clovers and herbs.
- Saladebuffet Herb-rich – Overseed when more grasses, clovers and herbs are needed.
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Have you considered a Vitamin D supplement? This vitamin (actually a hormone in disguise) has benefits including;
Whether you don't get enough sun or don't get enough Vitamin D from your diet, a supplement might benefit you. With the current COVID pandemic and restrictions we face it is more important than ever to keep our immune system functioning as well as possible. Many people are noticing increased stress levels. Please speak to your chiro at your next visit about whether you should have your levels checked and supplement vitamin D.
And remember, another great way to boost your innate immune system is chiropractic care. A healthy spine and nervous system creates a healthier body overall which in turn boosts your immunity. As we say ‘Adjust your Spine, Adjust your Life’.
We look forward to seeing you soon
*“Vitamin D influences the production of serotonin, dopamine, and norepinephrine, all of which are key brain substances involved in the symptoms of depression, anxiety, and addiction.” Excerpt From: James Dowd, MD. “The Vitamin D Cure, Revised.”
**Research indicates that vitamin D plays a role in shutting down pro-inflammatory responses in your body as well as up regulating antimicrobial proteins (AMP’s) in immune cells- [the part of the immune system that immediately attacks and kills viruses, bacteria, and fungi – the branch of the immune system responsible for fighting colds and flu].” (Nature Immunology, (Vitamin D controls T cell antigen receptor signaling and activation of human T cells ) 10.1038/ni.1851).
Well in cooking if you don’t use the right ingredients you will not get a good outcome and our body is exactly the same. To put it simply your brain and nervous system control how your body works.
Symptoms are signs that your body isn’t working correctly.
Physical, chemical or emotional stresses produce a defensive body response.
Muscles contract, locking spinal joints. These areas inflame and aggravate the nerves, which in turn creates discomfort
This can be a precursor for ill health and disease
A thorough examination helps your chiropractor find these areas of what we call vertebral subluxations.
They then apply a precise movement to the dysfunctional spinal joints which allows the body correct itself.
Health usually returns as repeated visits restore spinal and nervous system integrity.
Making healthy choices to eat well, be fit and think well build on this just like using the proper ingredients in cooking.
To put it simply that is why chiropractic care helps so many people to get well and stay well through improved function of your spine and nervous system.
Have you booked your next spinal appointment to allow us to help you to care for yourself.
Your muscles are motors and need clean fuel to function efficiently. Your spinal muscles never switch off, mainly functioning without your conscious control and they require a lot of oxygen, glucose and nutrients such as iron and magnesium.
So if your world is chronically demanding and your system is chronically overactive then guess what? You are correct, you run out of fuel and the muscles fatigue, spasm/ cramp and the vertebra they attach to become dysfunctional.
After a period of time, in fact within hours these vertebral joints begin to fail and begin a process of losing function. As chiropractors our emphasis is on restoring function to these joints by very specific techniques. Beyond restoration we inform our patients of their responsibilities with regard to the factors that may have led to the often symptomatic state which can be pain but is often decreased movement along with poor feedback to your brain, which may lead to aches and pains, headache, migraine, various tremors, coordination and balance issues along with altered eye movements and compromised posturing.
Our job here is huge and we do not ‘fix ‘spines we simply assist in the management of your overall functionality as a human by improving the function of your spine. We do this by assessment of your lifestyle, correction of misaligned and poorly functioning spinal segments and offering you advice with regard to helping yourself.
Just like a dentist deals with a mouthful of teeth that occasionally fail, we are doing the same with your spine. The world is increasingly more demanding and our lifestyles are generally less than adequate for even reasonable health let alone optimum health. We score each of the following out of 10, sleep, water intake, quality and timing of food, stressors such as work especially the posture of seated work, relationships, time out for exercise, meditation and joyful experiences. By personally keeping an eye on these factors you can make small changes that are sustainable and will improve your overall health, so keep an eye on these lifestyle factors and make sustained efforts to improve them.
Our slogan is ‘adjust your spine....adjust your life.
We invite you to become a better you!
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NIST announces the publication of a Cybersecurity White Paper (CSWP), Planning for a Zero Trust Architecture: A Guide for Federal Administrators, which describes processes for migrating to a zero trust architecture using the NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF).
Zero trust is a set of principles designed to reduce or remove implicit trust in networked systems by addressing network identity, endpoint health, and data flows. This white paper helps system administrators and operators use the RMF when designing and implementing zero trust architecture by describing how the steps in the RMF map to similar steps described in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture. The document also provides an abstract logical architecture on which to map gaps and solutions, as well as additional resources for federal agency administrators, planners, and managers. | <urn:uuid:c0c03cff-e979-4c74-b01a-93121acfd66d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://csrc.nist.rip/News/2022/planning-for-a-zero-trust-architecture-white-paper | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.912809 | 184 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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After your baby has reached the age of one, it is vital for you to make a gradual change in their eating habits. A slow and attentive observance of your child’s needs and growth will help you improvise on your child’s diet accordingly. Keep an eye out for allergies and rashes with every change in their diet plan. The earlier you learn about your child’s allergies, the faster it is for you to curb the ill effects.
Ensure that your child’s diet involves an assortment of food nutrients.
Fruits and Vegetables have numerous nutritious elements that can help boost your child’s growth. They enhance the development of blood cells, bone development, healing skin and stomach ailments. Make sure you add an adequate amount of fresh greens and colourful fruits that will bring out the best in health.
Adding whole wheat in your child’s diet is the best means to get your child the needed fibre in their diet. The fibre helps develop your child’s excretory system. It will prevent your child from the pain of constipation. Whole wheat is known to give your child nutrition for the day to playfully exert energy.
Since your child is growing, you need to ensure that protein and fats are added to their diet. These help in the best development of your child’s brain cells. They are the best elements to add into your child’s energetic schedule. Carbohydrates in the form of rice and potatoes are the best means to supply your child with healthy fat and energising supplements. They act as interesting finger foods too.
Milk, cheese, cottage cheese (paneer), cream, and curd are important nutrients that your child will need as calcium intake for a sturdy skeletal structure.
A few food items that have an abundance of these ingredients are listed below:
1. Whole wheat pancakes with butter and a tinge of honey
2. Purees of all kinds (Beetroot and carrots are the best of their kind). Colour purees can be very intriguing for your child to take a taste of their food.
4. Curd oats
The ways you can get your child to eat the food placed in front of them is by:
1. Making food colourful with the interesting texture that will let you bring out an experimental side to your child. At this age, it best to give your child the space to make decisions about their food. It is a great learning experience for them.
2. Do not force your child to eat anything, and do not insist on a certain nutritious food, which can be easily supplemented with another taste.
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150 - Certainly... err, uhh... if I'm not mistaken.
Most students taking Japanese classes will learn the word 確かに（たしかに //certainly; surely） relatively early on in their studies.
It's a mega-useful word, and it shows up in conversations like this:
べんきょう すれば ごうかく する でしょう。
If you study, you'll pass (the test).
Literally: "studying + if do + passing + do + でしょう."
Note: If this でしょう is confusing, check out Lessons #85, 86, 87, 88, 89, & 90.
That's true. // You're right.
I probably learned that during Year #1 of my studies.
But I didn't learn the following until Year #3 or #4, sadly:
Dropping the に off of たしかに changes the meaning completely...
if I'm not mistaken; if I remember correctly
Nowadays, I use たしか much more often than I use 確かに... maybe because I'm never 100% sure about anything in life *_*.
Oh, by the way, you'll see people write 確かに with kanji or simply with hiragana as たしかに. I'm guessing that the same is true of たしか, but I've never actually seen it written--it's more of a spoken word.
Let's enter example city...
たしかに ここ に おいた はず なのに みあたらない！
I'm certain that I left it right here, but I can't find it!
Literally: "certainly + here + に + placed / left + はず + なのに + not find!"
Note: はず usually gets translated to something like "should" or "must be." It's used to express an expectation that something took place or should be a certain way... and it "should" have its very own lesson. ^_^. （な）のに, in this case, means "but."
おんなのひと の 「たすけて」 って こえ が たしかに きこえた ん です。
I'm certain that I heard a woman's voice saying "Help me."
Literally: "woman + の + 'help me / save me' + って + voice + が + certainly + heard + んです."
Note: This sounds like the speaker is talking to a police officer investigating some sort of crime... or perhaps making a call to the police.
I acknowledge the receipt of this item.
Literally: "certainly + received."
Note: This is basically a set phrase, and it's used in many business situations. You'll find that in formal Japanese, it's quite common to verbally acknowledge actions. For example, at many stores in Japan, if you pay for something with a 10,000 yen bill, they'll say, "I received 10,000 yen..." which is a bit like saying "out of 10,000 yen..." only they use phrases like that in tons of situations. This is one of them, and it can be used for a variety of items. If you look at these example sentences from Weblio, you'll see that Japanese people come up with all kinds of strange English phrases to match up with this Japanese. The nuance is pretty much always lost, unfortunately.
たしかに やすい けど、 それでも もしくない。
Yeah, it's definitely cheap, but I still don't want it.
Literally: "certainly + cheap + but + nevertheless / even so + is not wanted."
この レストラン ねだん の わりに びみょう じゃ ない？
This restaurant doesn't quit live up to its prices, does it?
Literally: "this + restaurant + price + の + comparatively / in proportion + doubtful / questionable + is not?"
Note: 割に and 微妙 are both extremely common words, and I highly recommend memorizing both. Saying that something is 微妙 is never really a good thing. In this case, the restaurant is 微妙（びみょう / doubtful; not quite right） in comparison to （割に《わりに》） the price.
You're right. // That's true.
これ は たしか しぶや で かった と おもう。
If I'm not mistaken, I bought this in Shibuya.
Literally: "this + は + if I'm not mistaken + Shibuya + で + bought + と + think."
Note: "This" is probably a piece of clothing or a bag. The listener probably asked where the speaker got it.
おねえちゃん、 たしか あたらしい パソコン ほしがってた なあ。
If I remember correctly, she [my sister] was saying that she wanted a new computer.
Literally: "older sister + if I'm not mistaken + new + PC + was acting like she wanted + なあ."
Note: The speaker is probably talking to other family members or friends as they discuss what present they should get the speaker's older sister for her birthday or something. Also for another lesson is this use of the suffix ～がる, which means "acting like." It is often attached to 欲しい, "wanting." So use 欲しい（ほしい） when talking about yourself and 欲しがる（ほしがる） when talking about other people.
あの ふたり、 たしか きょねん けっこん した はず だ よ。
If I'm not mistaken, those two got married last year.
Literally: "those + two people, + if I'm not mistaken + last year + marriage / wedding + did + はず + is + よ."
Note: This would also work fine without はず (so, removing はずだ), and the meaning wouldn't change all that much. But with はず, the speaker sounds just slightly less certain of the information. As in, they have not gotten confirmation as to whether these two got married or not... but presumably they did. Nuances like this are tricky, so I wouldn't worry about them too much.
のみかい なんじ から だっけ？
What time does the (drinking) party start, again?
Literally: "drinking party + what time + from + is + っけ？"
Note: Adding っけ？ is a lot like saying "again?" at the end of the sentence. The speaker is indicating that this information has slipped their mind.
たしか ろくじ から。
If I remember correctly, it's at six.
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Automatic answers relieve customer service immensely in times of many enquiries with messengers. Through the use of messengers, customer communication can be personalized. In this way, companies are even closer to their customers and can respond individually to each of their clients. The goal is clear: fast and result-oriented advice as well as informative tips from competent contact persons.
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B95 can feel it: a stirring in his bones and feathers. ItÕs time. Today is the day he will once again cast himself into the air, spiral upward into the clouds, and bank into the wind.
He wears a black band on his lower right leg and an orange flag on his upper left, bearing the laser inscription B95. Scientists call him the Moonbird because, in the course of his astoundingly long lifetime, this gritty, four-ounce marathoner has flown the distance to the moonÑand halfway back!
B95 is a robin-sized shorebird, a red knot of the subspecies rufa. Each February he joins a flock that lifts off from Tierra del Fuego, headed for breeding grounds in the Canadian Arctic, nine thousand miles away. Late in the summer, he begins the return journey.
B95 can fly for days without eating or sleeping, but eventually he must descend to refuel and rest. However, recent changes at ancient refueling stations along his migratory circuitÑchanges caused mostly by human activityÑhave reduced the food available and made it harder for the birds to reach. And so, since 1995, when B95 was first captured and banded, the worldwide rufa population has collapsed by nearly 80 percent. Most perish somewhere along the great hemispheric circuit, but the Moonbird wings on. He has been seen as recently as November 2011, which makes him nearly twenty years old. Shaking their heads, scientists ask themselves: How can this one bird make it year after year when so many others fall?
National Book AwardÐwinning author Phillip Hoose takes us around the hemisphere with the worldÕs most celebrated shorebird, showing the obstacles rufa red knots face, introducing a worldwide team of scientists and conservationists trying to save them, and offering insights about what we can do to help shorebirds before itÕs too late. With inspiring prose, thorough research, and stirring images, Hoose explores the tragedy of extinction through the triumph of a single bird.
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Cosmic Dust: Its Formation and Evolution (III)
- Open Access
Synthesized grain size distribution in the interstellar medium
Earth, Planets and Space volume 65, Article number: 7 (2013)
We examine a synthetic way of constructing the grain size distribution in the interstellar medium (ISM). First, we formulate a synthetic grain size distribution composed of three grain size distributions processed with the following mechanisms that govern the grain size distribution in the Milky Way: (i) grain growth by accretion and coagulation in dense clouds, (ii) supernova shock destruction by sputtering in diffuse ISM, and (iii) shattering driven by turbulence in diffuse ISM. Then, we examine if the observational grain size distribution in the Milky Way (called MRN) is successfully synthesized or not. We find that the three components actually synthesize the MRN grain size distribution in the sense that the deficiency of small grains by (i) and (ii) is compensated by the production of small grains by (iii). The fraction of each contribution to the total grain processing of (i), (ii), and (iii) (i.e., the relative importance of the three contributions to all grain processing mechanisms) is 30–50%, 20–40%, and 10–40%, respectively. We also show that the Milky Way extinction curve is reproduced with the synthetic grain size distributions.
Dust grains are important in some physical processes in the interstellar medium (ISM). For example, they dominate the absorption and scattering of the stellar light, affecting the radiative transfer in the ISM. The extinction (absorption + scattering) by dust in the ISM as a function of wavelength is called the extinction curve (Wickramasinghe, 1967; Hoyle and Wickramasinghe, 1991; Draine, 2003 for review). Extinction curves are important not only in basic radiative processes in the ISM, but also in interpreting observational data: part of stellar light in a galaxy is scattered, or absorbed, by dust grains within the galaxy in a wavelength-dependent way according to the extinction curve. Therefore, to derive the intrinsic stellar spectral energy distribution of a galaxy, we always have to correct for dust extinction by considering the extinction curve (Calzetti, 2001).
Extinction curves generally reflect the grain composition and the grain size distribution. Mathis et al. (1977, hereafter MRN) show that a mixture of silicate and graphite dust, as originally proposed by Hoyle and Wickramasinghe (1969), with a grain size distribution (number of grains per grain radius) proportional to a−3 5, where a is the grain radius (a ~ 0.001–0.25 μm), reproduces the Milky Way extinction curve. Pei (1992) shows that the extinction curves in the Magellanic Clouds are also explained by the same power-law grain size distribution (i.e., ∝ a−3 5) with different abundance ratios between the silicate and graphite. Kim et al. (1994) and Weingartner and Draine (2001) have applied a more detailed fit to the Milky Way extinction curve in order to obtain the grain size distribution. Although their grain size distributions deviate from the MRN size distribution, the overall trend from small to large grain sizes roughly follows a power law with an index near to -3.5. Therefore, the MRN grain size distribution is still valid as a first approximation of the interstellar grain size distribution in the Milky Way.
What regulates or determines the grain size distribution? There are some possible processes that actively and rapidly modify the grain size distribution. Hellyer (1970) shows that the collisional fragmentation of dust grains finally leads to a power law grain size distribution similar to the MRN size distribution (see also Bishop and Searle, 1983). In fact, Hirashita and Yan (2009) show that such a fragmentation and disruption process (or shattering) can be driven efficiently by turbulence in the diffuse ISM. However, they also show that grain velocities are strongly dependent on grain size; as a result, the grain size distribution does not converge to a simple power-law after shattering. Moreover, dust grains are also processed by other mechanisms. Various authors show that the increase of dust mass in the Milky Way ISM is mainly governed by grain growth through the accretion of gas phase metals onto the grains (elements comprised of dust grains are referred to as “metals”) (Dwek, 1998; Inoue, 2003; Zhukovska et al., 2008; Draine, 2009; Inoue, 2011; Asano et al., 2013). In the dense ISM, coagulation also occurs, making the grain sizes larger (e.g., Hirashita and Yan, 2009). In the diffuse ISM phase, interstellar shocks associated with supernova (SN) remnants (simply called SN shocks in this paper) destroy dust grains, especially small ones, by sputtering (e.g., McKee, 1989). Shattering also occurs in SN shocks (Jones et al., 1996).
Modeling the evolution of the grain size distribution in the ISM is a challenging problem because a variety of processes are concerned as mentioned above. Those processes are also related to the multi-phase nature of the ISM. Liffman and Clayton (1989) calculate the evolution of grain size distributions by taking into account grain growth and shock destruction. However, their method could not treat disruptive and coagulative processes (i.e., shattering and coagulation). O’Donnell and Mathis (1997) also model the evolution of grain size distribution in a multi-phase ISM, taking into account shattering and coagulation, in addition to the processes considered in Liffman and Clayton (1989). They use the extinction curve and the depletion of gas-phase metals as quantities to be compared with observations. Although their models are broadly successful, the fit to the ultraviolet extinction curve is poor, which they attribute to the errors caused by their adopted optical constants. They also show that inclusion of molecular clouds in addition to diffuse ISM phases improves the fit to the observed depletion, but they did not explicitly show the effects of molecular clouds on the extinction curve. Yamasawa et al. (2011) have recently calculated the evolution of the grain size distribution in the early stage of galaxy evolution by considering the ejection of dust from SNe and subsequent destruction in SN shocks. Since they focus on the early stage, they did not include other processes such as grain growth and disruption (shattering), which are important in solar-metallicity environments such as in the Milky Way (Hirashita and Yan, 2009).
Comparing theoretical grain size distributions with observations is not a trivial procedure. In a line of sight, we always observe a mixture of grains processed in various ISM phases. Therefore, a “synthetic” grain size distribution, which is made by summing typical grain size distributions in individual ISM phases with certain weights, is to be compared with observations. In this paper, we first formulate a synthetic way of reproducing the grain size distribution. Then, we carry out a fitting of synthetic grain size distributions to the observational grain size distribution, in order to obtain the relative importance of individual grain processing mechanisms. We do not model the multi-phase ISM in detail, but our fitting contains the information on the weights (i.e., relative importance) of different grain processing mechanisms, which depend on the ISM phase.
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we explain our synthetic method to reconstruct the grain size distribution in the ISM. In Section 3, we fit our synthetic models to the observational grain size distribution in the Milky Way, and examine if the fitting is successful or not. In Section 4, after we discuss our results, we calculate the extinction curves to examine if our synthesized grain size distributions are consistent with the observed extinction or not. In Section 5, we give our conclusions.
2. Synthetic Grain Size Distribution
As explained in Introduction, we “synthesize” the observational grain size distribution (here, the MRN size distribution) by summing some representative grain size distributions in various ISM phases. These representative grain size distributions are explained in Subsection 2.1.
First, the ISM is divided into two parts: one is the part where the grain processing is occurring (called the “grain-processing region”), and the other is the area where the grains already processed in the various grain-processing regions are well mixed (called the “mixing region”). The mass fractions of the former and the latter regions are, respectively, fproc and 1 − fproc. It is reasonable to assume that the grain size distribution in the mixing region should be the mean grain size distribution in the ISM (Subsection 2.2).
We assume that all grains are spherical with material density s; thus, the grain mass m is expressed as . Although coagulation may produce porous grains (e.g., Ormel et al., 2009), we neglect the effects of porosity and assume all grains to be compact. Two grain species are treated in this paper; silicate and graphite. To avoid complexity arising from compound species, we treat these two species separately. This separate treatment is also practical in this paper as we (and other authors usually) assume that the observed extinction curve can be fitted with the two species (Subsection 4.4). Before being processed, the grain size distribution is assumed to be MRN: a power-law function with power index −r (r = 3.5), and upper and lower bounds for the grain radii (whose values are determined below) amin and amax, respectively:
for amin ≤ a ≤ amax. If a < amin or a > amax, nMRN(a) = 0. The grain size distribution is defined so that nMRN(a) da is the number of grains whose sizes are between a and a + da per hydrogen nucleus. The dust mass density, ρd, is related to the metallicity Z (the mass fraction of elements heavier than helium in the ISM) and the hydrogen number density nH as (Hirashita and Kuo, 2011)
where mX is the atomic mass of the key element X (X = Si for silicate and C for graphite), fX is the mass fraction of X in the dust, ξ is the fraction of element X in the gas phase (i.e., the fraction 1 − ξ is in the dust phase), and (X/H)⊙ is the solar abundance relative to hydrogen in the number density. The metallicity is assumed to be solar (Z = Z⊙).
We fix the maximum grain radius as amax = 0.25 μm (MRN). Although the lower bound of the grain size is poorly determined from the extinction curve (Weingartner and Draine, 2001), we assume that amin = 0.3 nm, since a large number of very small grains are indeed necessary to explain the mid-infrared excess of the dust emission in the Milky Way (Draine and Li, 2001). For the other parameters, we follow Hirashita (2012). We assume that 0.75 of Si is condensed into silicate (i.e., ξ = 0.25) while 0.85 (i.e., ξ = 0.15) of C is included into graphite. Those values are roughly consistent with the observed depletion (e.g., Savage and Sembach, 1996), and reproduce the Milky Way extinction curve (Subsection 4.4). We adopt the following abundances for Si and C: (Si/H)⊙ = 3.55 × 10−5 and (C/H)⊙ = 3.63 × 10−4. We assume that Si occupies a mass fraction of 0.166 (fX = 0.166) in silicate, while C is the only element composing graphite (fX = 1). We adopt s = 3.3 and 2.26 g cm−3 for silicate and graphite, respectively.
By using the MRN size distribution as the initial condition, we calculate the evolution of grain size distribution by the various processes treated in Subsection 2.1. In the numerical calculation, the grains outside the radius range between amin and amax are removed from the calculation (the removed mass fraction is < 1%). The processes considered are (i) “grain growth”—grain growth by accretion and coagulation in a dense medium, (ii) “shock destruction”—destruction by sputtering in SN shocks, and (iii) “grain disruption”—grain disruption by shattering in interstellar turbulence. Shattering in SN shocks (Jones et al., 1996) could be included as a separate component, but in our framework, it is not possible to separately constrain the contributions from the two shattering mechanisms because both shattering mechanisms (turbulence and SN shocks) selectively destroy grains with a ≳ 0.03 μm and increase smaller grains, predicting similar grain size distributions. Thus, we simply assume that the size distribution of shattered grains, whatever the shattering mechanism may be, is represented by the one adopted in Subsection 2.1.3.
Although our fitting procedures are based on grain size distributions, we should keep in mind that observational constraints on the grain size distribution are mainly obtained by extinction curves. Weingartner and Draine (2001) performed a detailed fit to the Milky Way extinction curve. However, the grain size distributions derived by them broadly follow an MRN-like power law, although there are bumps and dips at some sizes. We will examine the consistency with the extinction curve later in Subsection 4.4.
2.1 Processes considered
2.1.1 Grain growth
Grain growth occurs in the dense ISM, especially in molecular clouds, through the accretion of metals (called accretion) and the sticking of grains (called coagulation). The change of grain size distribution by grain growth has been considered in our previous paper (Hirashita, 2012). The grain size distribution after grain growth is denoted as ngrow(a, tgrow), where tgrow is the duration of grain growth. We adopt tgrow = 10 and 30 Myr based on a typical lifetime of molecular clouds (e.g., Lada et al., 2010). The metallicity in the Milky Way is high enough to allow the complete depletion of grain-composing materials into dust grains in ~10 Myr. Thus, the total masses of silicate and graphite become 1.33 (= 1/0.75) and 1.18 (= 1/0.85) times as large as the initial values, respectively (recall that the dust mass becomes 1/(1 − ξ) times as much if all the dust grains accrete all the gas-phase metals). The difference in the grain size distribution between tgrow = 10 and 30 Myr is predominantly caused by coagulation rather than accretion.
2.1.2 Shock destruction
We calculate the change of grain size distribution by SN shock destruction in a medium swept by an SN shock, following Nozawa et al. (2006). All SN explosions are represented by an explosion of a star which has a mass of 20 M⊙ at the zero-age main sequence, and the SN explosion energy is assumed to be 1051 erg. For the ISM, we adopt a hydrogen number density of 0.3 cm−3 (since the destruction is predominant in the diffuse ISM; McKee, 1989), and solar metallicity. The calculation of grain destruction is performed until the shock velocity is decelerated down to 100 km s−1 (8 × 104 yr after the explosion). We apply the material properties of Mg2SiO4 and carbonaceous dust in Nozawa et al. (2006) for silicate and graphite, respectively. We denote the grain size distribution after shock destruction by nshock(a). The destroyed mass fractions of silicate and graphite are 0.38 and 0.27, respectively.
Grain motions driven by interstellar turbulence lead to grain disruption (shattering) in the diffuse ISM (Yan et al, 2004; Hirashita and Yan, 2009). Among the various ISM phases, dust grains can acquire the largest velocity dispersion in a warm ionized medium (WIM). We recalculated the results of earlier workers based on our assumed initial conditions. We adopt the same grain velocity dispersions and hydrogen number density (nH = 0.1 cm−3) in the WIM as adopted in Hirashita and Yan (2009). The fragments are assumed to follow a power-law size distribution with a power index of −3.3 (Jones et al., 1996; Hirashita and Yan, 2009). We denote the grain size distribution after disruption as ndisr(a, tdisr), where tdisr is the duration of shattering in the WIM. The lifetime of WIM is estimated to be a few Myr from the recombination timescale and the lifetime of ionizing stars (Hirashita and Yan, 2009). Thus, we adopt tdisr = 3 and 10 Myr for our calculation in causing moderate and significant disruption.
2.2 Synthesizing the grain size distribution
At the beginning of this section, we introduced the mass fraction (fproc) of ISM hosting grains which are now being processed (“grain-processing region”). The mean grain size distribution over all the grain-processing region, nsynt(a), can be synthesized with the processed grain size distributions, ngrow(a, tgrow) (grain size distribution after grain growth with a growth duration of tgrow), nshock(a) (grain size distribution after shock destruction), and ndisr( a, tdisr) (grain size distribution after disruption with a shattering duration of tdisr):
where fgrow, fdisr and fshock are the mass fractions of medium hosting, respectively, grain growth, disruption, and grain destruction in the grain-processing region. We call nsynt(a) the “synthetic grain size distribution”. If both species are spatially well mixed, they would have common values for fgrow, fshock, and fdisr.
The mean grain size distribution in the ISM is denoted as nmean(a) and expressed as
since it is assumed that the grain size distribution in the mixing region has already become the mean grain size distribution. By assumption, the mean size distribution is MRN: nmean(a) = nmrn(a). This condition is equivalent to
In the Milky Way ISM, since the grain mass is roughly in equilibrium between the growth in clouds and the destruction by SN shocks (Inoue, 2011), we apply fgrowR1 = fshockR2, where R1 is the fraction of dust mass growth in clouds (0.33 and 0.18 for silicate and graphite, respectively; Subsection 2.1.1), and R2 is the destroyed fraction of dust in a SN blast (0.38 and 0.27 for silicate and graphite, respectively; Subsection 2.1.2). Thus, we put a constraint,
We approximately adopt R1/R2 = 0.8 as a mean value between silicate and graphite. As mentioned above, if the two species (silicate and graphite) are spatially well-mixed, both species would have common values for fgrow, fshock, and fdisr. Thus, we adopt a single value for R1/R2.
Using the above constraints, Eq. (3) is reduced to
where ng,s(a) ≡ ngrow(a, tgrow) + (R1 / R2)nshock(a). Thus, we treat fgrow and fdisr as free parameters. We define the sum of all the fractions as
If the grain size distribution is predominantly modified by the three processes considered in this paper, we expect that ftot = 1. The deviation of ftot from 1 is an indicator of goodness of our assumption that the grain size distribution is modified by the three processes.
2.3 Best fitting parameters
We search for a set of parameters, (fgrow, fdisr), which minimizes the square of the difference:
where a i is the grain size sampled by logarithmic bins (i.e., log ai+1 — log a i is the same for any i), and N is the number of the sampled grain radii (N = 512 in our model, but the results are insensitive to N).
The individual components of the processed grain size distributions [ ngrow (a, tgrow ), nshock (a ), and ndisr (a, tdisr)] as well as ng,s(a) for silicate and graphite are shown in Fig. 1. The MRN size distribution, which should be fitted, is also presented. Our fitting procedure is first applied separately for silicate and graphite, although we discuss a possibility that both species have common values for (fgrow, fdisr) later in Section 4.
In Table 1, we show the best-fitting values of fgrow and fdisr. We examine tgrow = 30 and 10 Myr, and tdisr = 3 and 10 Myr as mentioned in Subsection 2.1. We observe that fgrow = 0.16–0.55 and fdisr = 0.06–0.57 fit the MRN grain size distribution. The sum of all the fractions, ftot (Eq. (8)) is unity with the maximum difference of 15% (see the column of ftot in Table 1).
In order to show how the synthetic grain size distributions reproduce the MRN size distribution, we present Fig. 2, where we only show Models A and D for the smallest and the largest residuals δ2. We observe that the best-fitting results are fairly consistent with the MRN size distribution. In particular, the enhanced and depleted abundances of small grains at a ≲ 0.001 μm in ndisr and ng,s, respectively, cancel out very well, especially in Model A. In Model D, the synthesized size distribution slightly fails to fit the MRN around a ~ 0.001–0.002 μm because both ng,s and ndisr (which are used for the fitting) show an excess around this grain radius range; thus, the excess around these sizes in the synthesized grain size distribution inevitably remains in Model D. However, the Milky Way extinction curve is reproduced even by Model D within a difference of ~10% (see Subsection 4.4).
In order to see the details of the fitting, we show the ratio between the synthesized grain size distribution and the MRN distribution in Fig. 3. There is a general trend of excess around a ~ 0.001–0.003 μm, which is due to grain growth (see Fig. 1). The excess is stronger in Models B and D than in Models A and C, which is why the fit is worse in Models B and D than Models A and C (Table 1). Since the bump comes from grain growth, the fit tends to suppress fgrow in the presence of a strong bump. As a result, ftot is smaller in Models B and D than Models A and C (Table 1). We also observe in Fig. 3 that the bump appears at different grain radii between Models A/C and B/D because of the difference in the duration of grain growth. This bump may disappear if coagulation is more efficient than assumed here: more efficient coagulation may be realized if tgrow ≫ 30 Myr and/or coagulation also occurs in denser regions (Subsection 4.2).
Figure 3 also indicates that the synthetic grain size distributions tend to be deficient at the largest grain sizes (a ≳ 0.1 μm). This is because shattering tends to process large grains into small sizes (see Fig. 1). The deficiency of large grains may be overcome if we include the supply of large grains by stellar sources of efficient coagulation as discussed in Subsection 4.2. Because of significant grain growth in Models A and C, the deficiency of large grains is recovered by grain growth at a ~ 0.01–0.03 μm for silicate. In Models A and C of graphite, shattering causes a dip feature around a ~ 0.03 μm as seen in Fig. 1, which also appears in Fig. 3. In the WIM, where shattering is assumed to occur in this paper, grains with a ≳ a few × 10−2μm are accelerated up to velocities larger than the shattering threshold by turbulence. Shattering efficiently destroys small grains because of their large surface-to-volume ratios. Thus, the shattering efficiency is the largest for the smallest grains that attain a velocity above the shattering threshold. This is the reason why the grains around a ~ 0.03 μm are particularly destroyed by shattering. This dip feature would be smoothed out in reality since the grain velocity driven by turbulence has a dependence on grain charge, gas density, magnetic field, etc., all of which have a wide range within a galaxy.
4.1 Derived parameters
The obtained values of the parameters fgrow and fdisr reflect the fraction of individual grain processing mechanisms. In other words, these two quantities show the relative importance of grain growth and disruption. Note that the efficiency of shock destruction is automatically constrained by the balance with the mass growth by grain growth (Eq. (6)). Table 1 shows that the best-fitting parameters are not very sensitive to tgrow (duration of grain growth) but that they are sensitive to tdisr. For larger tdisr, only a smaller fdisr is necessary because the grain size distribution is more modified. As expected, fdisrtdisr is less sensitive to tdisr; note that fdisrtdisr is the mean duration of disruption per processed grain.
Seeing all the models, we find fgrow ~ 0.2–0.6 and fdisr ~ 0.06–0.6 (or fdisrtdisr ~ 0.6–1.7 Myr). As mentioned in Subsection 2.2, if silicate and graphite are well mixed in the ISM, they are expected to have the common values for fgrow, fshock, and fdisr. In this sense, Models C and D work better than Models A and B. In summary, 20–60% of processing occurs in dense clouds (i.e., grain growth), while a processed dust grain experiences disruption for ~1 Myr on average (or disruption accounts for 6–60% of processing). From the equilibrium constraint of the total dust mass (Eq. (6)), the fraction of shock destruction to all the processing is fshock = 0.8 fgrow ~ 0.1–0.4.
The sum of all the fractions, ftot (Eq. (8)), is unity, with a maximum deviation of 15%. In other words, we cannot reject other processing mechanisms, which could contribute to the grain processing with ≲ 15%.
We have shown that the grain size distributions after (i) grain growth, (ii) shock destruction, and (iii) grain disruption can synthesize the MRN size distribution. It is also likely that we can state the opposite; that is, to realize the MRN size distribution, those three processes are crucial. Without (i), the grain mass just decreases; without (ii), the grain mass just increases; without (iii), there is no mechanism that produces the large abundance of small grains.
4.2 Stellar sources?
In this paper, we have not considered dust supply from stars, because the dust mass in the Milky Way is governed by the equilibrium between grain growth in molecular clouds and grain destruction by SN shocks (e.g. Inoue, 2011). Dust grains supplied from stars may be biased to large sizes. Production of large grains from asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars is indicated observationally (Groenewegen, 1997; Gauger et al., 1998; Hofner, 2008; Mattsson and Hofner, 2011). The dust ejected from SNe is also biased to large grain sizes, because small grains are selectively destroyed by the shocked region within the SNe (Bianchi and Schneider, 2007; Nozawa et al., 2007). Coagulation associated with star formation is also a source of large grains, if coagulated grains in circumstellar environments are somehow ejected into the ISM. For this possibility, Hirashita and Omukai (2009) have shown that dust grains can grow up to micron sizes by coagulation in star formation (see also Ormel et al., 2009). As mentioned in Section 3, efficient coagulation may also solve the bump problem around a ~ 0.001–0.003 μm. These possible sources of large grains may be worth including in dust evolution models in the future.
4.3 Fitting under other constraints
In Subsection 2.2, we adopted the balance between the dust mass growth by accretion and the dust mass loss by shock destruction (Eq. (6)) as a constraint. Although this constraint is reasonable for the dust content in the Milky Way (e.g., Inoue, 2011), it may be useful to apply other constraints without using Eq. (6), to see how the best-fitting parameters have been controlled by Eq. (6).
First we try to fit the MRN size distribution with the three components under the condition that the sum of all the fractions is unity: fgrow +fshock+ fdisr = 1. The results with this fitting are shown in Table 2. The best-fitting values of fdisr vary from those in Table 1 within a difference of 10% except for Model B of silicate (25% less). However, the best-fitting values of fgrow is broadly 1/2-2/3 of those in Table 1. As a result, Eq. (6) is not satisfied, and the total dust mass decreases.
Next, we perform fitting to the MRN size distribution with the parameters fgrow, fshock, and fdisr free. The results are shown in Table 3. Again, the values of fdisr differ by only ≲10% except for Model B of silicate (18% less). However, fgrow is only ~ 1/3–2/3 of the values in Table 1, and fshock is made large to compensate for the decreased fgrow. This means that the fitting is practically dominated by the balance between the decreased small grains in shock destruction and the increased small grains in disruption (shattering). Because of the dominance of fshock, Eq. (6) is not satisfied, and the total dust mass decreases.
4.4 Extinction curve
The MRN grain size distribution is originally derived from the Milky Way extinction curve. Therefore, in order to check if our fitting by synthetic grain size distributions is successful or not, it is useful to calculate extinction curves.
Extinction curves are calculated by using the same optical properties of silicate and graphite as those in Hirashita and Yan (2009). The grain extinction cross-section as a function of wavelength and grain size is derived from the Mie theory, and is weighted for the grain size distribution per hydrogen nucleus to obtain the extinction curve per unit hydrogen nucleus (denoted as Aλ/NH). The abundances of silicate and graphite relative to hydrogen nuclei are already inherent in the models through the abundances of Si and C and ξ (Section 2).
First, we show the extinction curves of the individual components, which are used to fit the MRN size distribution, in Fig. 4. Grain growth does not make the extinction curve flatter in spite of the increase of the mean grain size. The reason is already explained in Hirashita (2012): accretion predominantly occurs at the smallest sizes. Since the extinction at short wavelengths is more sensitive to the increase of the mass of small grains than that at long wavelengths, the extinction curve becomes rather steeper. Although coagulation flattens the extinction curve, the flattening due to coagulation does not overwhelm the steepening due to the above effect of accretion.
Shock destruction makes the extinction curve flatter because small grains are more easily destroyed than large grains. Grain disruption steepens the extinction curve because of the production of a large number of small grains. The 0.22 μm bump created by small graphite grains in this model becomes also prominent by grain disruption. We also show the extinction curve for the grain size distribution ng,s(a) (The component ng,s has a total dust mass 1.8 times as large as the initial value. To see the difference in the extinction curve, it would be helpful to make a comparison under the same dust mass, so ngs/1.8 is compared with the MRN in Fig. 4.)
In Fig. 5, we show the extinction curves calculated for Models A–D. First of all, we confirm that the MRN size distribution reproduces the observed extinction curve (some small deviations can be fitted further if we adopt a more detailed functional form of the grain size distribution, which is beyond the scope of this paper; see Weingartner and Draine, 2001, for a detailed fitting). Comparing the extinction curve for the MRN size distribution and those for Models A–D, we observe that the extinction curve is reproduced within a difference of ~10%. Models A and C are successful, while Models B and D systematically underproduce the MRN extinction curve (although the difference is small). The under-prediction by ~ 10% in Models B and D occurs because ftot is ~0.9.
In the above, we adopted different values for fgrow and fdisr between silicate and graphite. As mentioned in Subsection 2.2, if both species are well mixed in the ISM, they would have common values of these parameters. In Fig. 6, we show the extinction curve by taking the average of the values for silicate and graphite (for example, fgrow = 0.35 and fdisr = 0.35 for Model A). We find that the difference between Figs. 5 and 6 is small. Therefore, the mean values work to reproduce the Milky Way extinction curves. The mean values are in the range of fgrow = 0.3–0.5 and fdisr = 0.1–0.4. We conclude that the synthetic grain size distributions with these parameter ranges reproduce the Milky Way extinction curve.
In our previous papers (Nozawa et al., 2006; Hirashita and Yan, 2009; Hirashita, 2012), we showed that dust grains are quickly processed by shock destruction, disruption, and grain growth. In this paper, we have examined if the MRN grain size distribution, which is believed to represent the grain size distribution in the Milky Way, can be reproduced by the processed grain size distributions. We “synthesized” the grain size distribution by summing the processed grain size distributions under the condition that the decrease of dust mass by shock destruction is compensated by grain growth. We have found that the synthetic grain size distribution can reproduce the MRN grain size distribution in the sense that the deficiency of small grains by grain growth and shock destruction can be compensated by the production of small grains by disruption. The values of the fitting parameters indicate that, among the processed grains, 30–50% are growing in a dense medium, 20–40% are being destroyed by shocks in a diffuse medium, and 10–40% are being shattered in a diffuse medium (the percentage shows the relative importance of each process). The extinction curves calculated by the synthesized grain size distributions reproduce the observed Milky Way extinction curve within a difference of ~10%. This means that our approach of synthesizing the grain size distribution based on major processing mechanisms (i.e., grain growth, shock destruction, and disruption) is promising as a general method to “reconstruct” the extinction curve.
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In this section you will find information regarding:
- Proper Disposal Of Human Waste
- Erosion & Trail Maintenance
- Closures & Regulations - The Basics
- Climbing Practices & New Route Development
- Safety - Climbing At Pinnacles Is Uniquely Dangerous
- Chalk / Tips To Reduce Chalk's Use And Impact
- Use toilets when available. (Toilets are located at both trail heads and at the Scout Peak Junction in the High Peaks).
- Don't leave human waste within 50 meters of any water source or at the base of the cliff.
- Bury feces at least 6" (1/6 meter) below the soil surface.
- Always pack out used toilet paper (do not bury or burn it).
New Disposal Alternatives
With the many long hikes at Pinnacles and the lack of bathroom facilities, waste displosal is a serious concern. We all know that we are supposed to pack out our waste, but how many of us really do that? Restop's new Waste Containment Pouch actually makes packing out waste doable. Not only can you contain the waste, but the smell as well. Inside the bag is a powder, a polymer/enzyme blend, which biodegrades and gels the waste, giving it EPA approval to be simply thrown in the trash after use.
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- Stay on climber access trails where present (designated by a sign showing a locking carabiner).
- Avoid traveling cross-country whenever possible
- Do NOT cut across switchbacks.
- Remember that you may create the worst damage to soil and vegetation on your way to or from a climb. Even when you're eager to get there, or tired and heading home, avoid steep slopes with loose soils, stay on solid rock whenever possible, be aware of your surroundings and respect the wilderness you're passing through.
Park management closes some areas temporarily or seasonally to:
- protect nesting raptors' habitats
- protect hikers passing below trailside routes
- allow overused areas to recover from erosion
Check the climbers' bulletin board at the West or East side trailheads for current information about closures (and reopenings) and the latest climbing management policies.
Check the FOP Closures Page for the latest closure details.
- Do NOT sculpt, chisel, glue holds onto, or otherwise deface the rock.
- Do NOT scrub streaks of lichen. Clean only individual holds as necessary.
- Adopt a minimum impact frame of mind concerning climbing.
- New routes over trails are prohibited.
- Do not stage or belay from park trails unless the trail is a designated climber access trail.
- Use natural colored fixed anchors (i.e. bolt hangers) which blend with the rock.
- If you must leave slings at rappel stations or "back off gear," use camouflaged (rock-colored) webbing.
- There's lots of great climbing at Pinnacles. Before putting up any route think carefully about what it adds to Pinnacles' climbing and the Park. Set aside your own personal gratification. Ask yourself if the route is a significant positive addition? If the climb requires bolting, is it worth permanently altering the rock? Are bolts really necessary or could this route be top-roped?
- Nuts and camming devices can pull out of the comparatively soft Pinnacles rock. On any climb where self-placed protection is required, expert skills are mandatory, regardless of the rating. You cannot place too much protection.
- Many climbs, especially older ones, have significant run-outs. Climb with fanatical caution. You can always tell a long-time Pinnacles climber by the curious way they tap the holds. The sound of that tap can tell everything about the permanence of the hold.
- As you venture onto the less-traveled routes outside popular areas like Bear Gulch, Discovery Wall, or the High Peaks, be prepared for greater risks. The rock is less likely to be trustworthy and the route data less accurate. You may also face bad or no protection bolts and bad anchors.
- Bolt placements on a number of routes can unknowingly put you in danger of a groundfall. Be aware of this potential especially when pulling up the rope to clip your second bolt.
- Don't take bolts for granted. They are not necessarily "bomb proof" protection. Always examine the state of any bolt.
- Wear a HELMET! The rock is LOOSE. Loose gravel on cliff tops and ledges constantly present the danger of rockfall. Always yell "ROCK!" if you dislodge something and be aware of people above you when on the ground.
Chalk creates a visual impact at the Pinnacles that causes many complaints. Chalk marks and bolts can mark the passage of climbers in ways hikers and other visitors can't help but notice. Because the rain is infrequent and may not wash all the chalk off when it does come, it is important to use as little chalk as possible when climbing. Some suggestions:
- Don't use chalk at all. On long easier routes there is enough dust and dirt to do the same job as chalk.
- Try using a "chalk ball" (chalk contained in a mesh bag). You will use less chalk with less spillage.
- Consider chalk substitutes (Metolious Eco-ball, Ghost Grip).
- On harder routes, don't mark the holds with chalk. Use visualization to remember which holds you want to use (work out the sequence in your head).
- Pick up any large piles of spilled chalk and brush away the dust.
Pinnacles is an excellent fall, winter and spring climbing area, often remaining dry when everywhere else is wet. Winter days are often clear, but can be very cold in the shade. Year-round climbing is available, but the summer months can be sweltering; bring extra water. There are NO water facilities on the trails.
If you haven't already checked, see our home page for the latest weather report.
Most climbers support "minimum impact climbing practices." However, over time climbers have made a noticeable impact on many areas at Pinnacles. Current problems associated with climbing and hiking at Pinnacles include:
- soil erosion
- trail degradation
- damage to trees, bushes and rock flora (lichens etc.)
- human waste
- indiscriminate use of fixed anchors
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On October 26, 2005, the New York City Bar Association held a forum on Proposition 1, the state ballot initiative to change the state’s budget process. The following is an edited transcript of the debate. The panel was moderated by Daniel Feldman, executive director of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
“Vote Yes” - Modest, But Important, Reforms” - Megan Quattlebaum, New York Common Cause
- Better Than the Status Quo” - Blair Horner, New York Public Interest Research Group
“Vote No” - A Classic Bait and Switch” - Gerald Benjamin, Professor of Political Science, SUNY New Paltz
- Making a Bad Process Worse” - Charles Brecher, Citizens Budget Commission
Introduction: Daniel Feldman
In New York, the turn of the 20th century was a period of fairly irresponsible spending by the New York State Legislature. It prompted a tremendous public outcry for what’s called an executive budget. That is to say a budget drawn up by the governor with the legislature’s role limited to rejection, deletions, reductions and criticism. In 1927, New York’s new constitution incorporated that reform.
In the 1970’s the State Legislature began to develop staff capability that really allowed it to engage in what I would characterize as increasingly serious budget analysis. While the legislature and the governor continued to joust over budget power, I would say it was generally the legislature, not the governor’s office that imposed substantive conditions on budget items in the context of the budget process. From 1998 through 2004, however, the legislature and the governor engaged in more heated controversy over budget powers and exacted litigation over budget powers. The controversy centered really on the degree to which either could oppose substantive law in the context of budget bills.
When the dust finally settled on the litigation, known as Pataki v Assembly and Silver v. Pataki, just last year in 2004, the Court of Appeals essentially gave the governor, not the legislature, considerable leeway in imposing substantive policy though budget bills. In particular, the court upheld the governor’s right to insert into a budget bill, pages of revisals and conditions.
In 2005, the governor and the legislature responded to public outrage over twenty years of continuously late budgets by passing the budget on time. Nonetheless, the decision of Pataki v Assembly, many would argue, leaves delay by the legislature as the only effective weapon left in attempting to combat the governors now increased leverage in budget negotiations.
I would think that it was largely in response to that “decision” that the legislature has placed Proposal 1 on the ballot.
The most significant element of ballot Proposal 1 would shift much budgeting power to the legislature in the event that the legislature could not or would not agree to the governor’s budget, even after imposing reductions in or elimination of budget items. The only limitations the legislature could make to the governor’s budget proposal.
This ballot proposal is a response by the legislature essentially to retake a very substantial increase in budget power and some would say it would take much more than the power the court has taken away from them.
“Vote Yes on Proposition 1: Modest, But Important, Reforms” Megan Quattlebaum, New York Common Cause
Proposal 1 is part of a larger reform movement that we have been pushing for in Albany for over three decades.
So I want to step back a bit and talk a little about where we are now in the budget process in Albany. Common Cause has long criticized the budget process for being too secretive, too unaccountable and too uncertain.
For example, the Health Care Reform Act, which is approximately $4 billion in spending and revenue, is controlled entirely by the governor with very little oversight by the legislature and comptroller. In the past, Health Care Reform Act funds were used to create pay raises for the workers of the 1199 Service Employees Union. Those were the product of secret meetings between the governor and the head of that union and a few of the legislative leaders. That may have been a good decision or a bad decision, but we believe that it directly resulted in Pataki being endorsed by that union a few months later. We think that’s not a good way for budget decisions to be made.
Issues of secrecy, issues of accountability, issues of uncertainty – these are the things that drive Common Cause to seek reform of the budget process in Albany.
For those problems, we think that Proposal 1 offers a modest, but important, solution. We would never refer to it as a panacea. But we do see it as part of the larger spectrum of reform. But Proposal 1 would take steps to making the budget more open, accountable, and certain.
It will put things like the Health Care Reform Act funds on budget.
It will create an Independent Budget Office to help take some of the spin off of the budget numbers coming out of Albany.
It will create a contingency budget so that if the governor and legislature cannot agree on a budget on time, there is always a budget in place for schools and agencies that rely on state funds.
And it will create two-year school budgets, so schools can plan ahead for the future.
These are some of the smaller, but equally important parts of Proposal 1. It is part of a larger reform movement.
“Vote Yes on Proposition 1: Better Than the Status Quo” Blair Horner, New York Public Interest Research Group
Anyone who is a student of the Albany process knows that you never get what you want, but you may get what you need, in the words of the famous British philosopher Mick Jagger.
The greatest point of debate on Proposal 1 is the contingency budget.
This passed in 2004 and in 2005, and the criticism is that it will create a power grab by the legislature that will lead to runaway spending. One Assemblymember said it was like letting children in a candy store without adult supervision; a pretty strong charge.
So we looked at how the power relationship outlined in this contingency budget stacks up against how budgets are done in the rest of the country.
What we found is that New York is one of four states with extremely powerful executives. The remainder of the country gives the legislature more budgetary authority than New York.
Now, no other state does exactly what this proposal calls for. But if you look at that relationship - where the legislature has a lot of authority subject to the line item veto of the governor – it is a similar relationship in most states around the country.
The contingency budget along with the rest good things in this package are, on balance, better than the status quo.
That is the vote on November 8. There are only two choices. You keep things the way they are, or you change.
We think that the change – the improved openness in the development of the executive budget, the Health Care Security Act funds being subject to scrutiny, the creation of an Independent Budget Office – we think that as a package, Proposition 1 offers something better than what we have.
“Vote No on Proposal 1: A Classic Bait and Switch” Gerald Benjamin, Professor of Political Science, SUNY New Paltz
I regard this as a classic bait and switch. It proposes reform, when it in fact undoes the greatest reform ever made in the 20th century in New York governance – the executive budget system. It undoes the executive budget system, which was adopted to a discredited 19th century legislative budgeting system.
The motivation for Proposition 1 is the legislature’s loss in the litigation of Pataki vs. Assembly, and Silver vs. Pataki, that closed the door on any hope that the legislature could alter its role in the budgeting under the current rules.
The legislature feels it has no other option than to change the State Constitution. The legislature is uniquely situated to change the Constitution without a convention. It can propose the change twice, and bring it to the people without the governor having a role in it.
The legislature is trying to replace the separation of powers - that is the core issue. The other issues are peripheral.
The legislature, in my opinion, is right. It has been unduly marginalized in budgeting by the decisions of the Court of Appeals. But it is overreaching in trying to establish itself as the sole power in budgeting.
Under Proposal 1, if the governor’s budget is not adopted by the beginning of the fiscal year, the contingency budget goes into effect and the legislature has almost entire control.
The best reason to provide a contingency budget is to assure that it is never used. The contingency budget should be so offensive to both houses of the legislature and the governor that they work hard together to avoid it ever happening.
What we have here is a high incentive for the legislature to allow the contingency budget to come into force, and a very low incentive for the legislature to accept the governor’s budget or to negotiate. So we have reversed the dynamic, but we have not remedied it.
We have an executive budget system for good reason. The elective chief executive is accountable to the whole polity. The legislature, as an institution, is distributive in its character; it has to please a lot of people who represent a lot of different interests and places. It is less situated institutionally to do the balancing of revenues and expenditures.
I agree that the legislature is far better situation to deal with budgeting and fiscal issues than it was in the early 20th century. But the fundamental institutional issue remains.
There is an alternative. It is legislation, called Senate 3195/Assembly 4630, which was given first passage this year. It requires the governor to propose changes in permanent law apart from and not within appropriation bills that the legislature may alter. If Proposition 1 fails, the legislature will advance it for second passage next year. And then it will be on the ballot.
The legislature is not going to quit. It is not going to accept the status quo with the governor. If it can’t get its goal by overreaching, then it will accept a lesser goal.
Most New Yorkers think they are being presented with reform. The value of the reforms being advanced is overstated. The core issue being avoided is the undoing of a fundamental reform in New York government. We must resist and vote “no.”
“Vote No on Proposition 1: Making a Bad Process Worse” Charles Brecher, Citizens Budget Commission
All of these arguably “modest improvements” – putting the Health Care Reform Act funds on the budget, the creation of an Independent Budget Office, and the instituting two-year school budgets - are not what you are voting on November 8th.
What you are voting on with Proposition 1 is the creation of a contingency budget if the legislature doesn’t pass a budget on time.
That might be called a good thing, if it really were a tool. A contingency budget ought to be a hammer that you get hit over the head with if you don’t pass a budget on time. That is not what this is.
This is an incentive for the legislature not to pass the budget on time because they get more power under the contingency budget. This is going to make this process that we all agree is bad, even worse. It is going guarantee that the budget is late because that is how to make the legislature more powerful. If the contingency budget kicks in, they will have almost unlimited power to pass supplemental appropriations.
This would create a schizophrenic budget process. Up until May 1, the governor has all of the power. After that, the legislature has all the power. It’s a crazy way to do fiscal business in the state.
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In an open letter to Sens. Kerry, Graham, and Lieberman, Dave Roberts notes that putting a price on carbon has obviously run into a lot of resistance. But carbon pricing is essential to any serious effort to reduce carbon emissions. So how do we thread this needle?
There is a way. It begins by changing the way we think about carbon pricing. For at least the next five to ten years, no politically palatable price on carbon is going to serve as a primary driver of change. Anything that can pass simply won’t be high enough and its effects will be too diffuse. The main goal with your bill should be to establish a framework whereby a carbon price is implemented and steadily raised. The initial price can be low — low enough to avoid the kind of political backlash that has poisoned previous efforts — and phase in over time so affected industries have time to prepare. At least in the short term, we should think of carbon pricing as a funding mechanism for clean energy policies. It’s a form of responsible budgeting, nothing more, nothing less.
….In exchange for reducing the role of carbon pricing, you should push to strengthen and expand the clean energy and efficiency provisions in your bill. Without a substantial price on carbon those policies will have to be that much more robust if they are to meet the goal President Obama promised in Copenhagen: 17 percent from 2005 levels by 2020.
Actually, this isn’t really an “exchange.” It’s more like two pieces of a puzzle fitting neatly together.
The price of carbon created by a cap depends on how much carbon emitters are required to cut. If they have to cut a lot, the price is high. If they only have to cut a little, the price is low. And as many, many people have pointed out already, there’s a lot of low-hanging fruit available on the carbon front. This stuff is mostly within the realm of the efficiency and clean energy provisions that Dave talks about, and it has a lot of potential to reduce carbon considerably all on its own. If these provisions are implemented, a carbon cap would most likely require only a small additional carbon reduction, which means that a cap that moved steadily toward a 17% reduction over the next decade would probably produce a pretty modest price for carbon. It’s only in the decade after that, when the cuts become larger, that the declining cap would start to produce a really significant carbon price.
Of course, this all depends on those other provisions having some teeth, but that’s quite doable: the public generally favors efficiency and clean energy standards, so toughening those up would be relatively popular and would help keep the price of carbon modest. If the revenue generated by the cap is used to fund those efficiency and clean energy programs, and if it’s sold as both a climate measure and a national security measure, it could be a pretty popular piece of legislation.
Now, this might all be pie in the sky. If Republicans keep up their united front of objecting to anything and everything that Democrats propose no matter what, it doesn’t really matter what a hypothetical climate bill looks like. But if they don’t, Dave’s suggestion has a lot of merit. Read the whole thing for more details. | <urn:uuid:99fac663-2ad2-479f-83b5-656483ec7f63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adops.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/03/getting-yes-climate-change/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.962535 | 679 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Quick! Think of some of the most popular open-source programs. Ill bet you thought of at least one of these: Linux, Firefox, Thunderbird and Apache. Now, name some of Microsofts most active open-source projects.
Dead silence, except, perhaps the sound of a cricket in the distance?
Theres a reason why you were able to quickly think of the real open-source programs and you probably havent got a clue as to what Microsoft is doing. Its because while Microsoft is trying to at least pretend to be a friend to open source and the boys from Redmond are even trying to get the Open Source Initiative for review and approve two new open-source licenses—the Microsoft Permissive and Microsoft Community Licenses—they dont produce any significant open-source software.
Dont believe me? Fine, lets look at the list we made from Microsofts oldest open-source site, CodePlex. Brace yourself, heres the 25 Most Active Open Source Projects at Microsofts CodePlex.
Rather than go through the entire list, Im just going to pick on the top five.
At number one, we have what may be the most long-winded software project title ever: Microsofts Office Communications Server 2007.
Now you may never have heard of this project, but I admit it does sound cool. That is until I looked closer at it and see that its based on C#, WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation, formerly Avalon), WCF (Windows Communication Foundation, formerly Indigo), and .Net 3.5. In other words, its an “open-source” program built entirely from Vista-oriented proprietary languages and frameworks. Is a project really open-source when all its parts are proprietary? I dont think so.
Number two is the Microsoft SQL Server Product Samples: Engine. This “program” is simple sample code for SQL Server. It was last updated on, get this, December 9, 2005. The primary example is, get this, how to do “Hello World” in SQL Server.
Excuse me while I close my eyes and shake my head in complete bemusement.
Next up—or should I say down?— at number three, we find the Patterns & Practices: Enterprise Library. This is more sample code “to assist developers with common enterprise development challenges.”
This isnt an open-source program. Its just a collection of semi-useful Microsoft specific blocks of code. For example, it includes some code to externalize routine exception handling tasks.
This kind of stuff is handy, and every programmer worth his or her salt keeps routines like this at hand. It doesnt make it an open-source project though. And, its totally and utterly ordinary. Heck, I had my own collection of code for these situations back in the 1980s that I wrote myself for Unix shell and C programs. Of course, its always been easy to handle patterns in Unix/Linux, so I guess I shouldnt be too hard on Microsoft for taking only 25 years to catch up with me.
Number four is BlogEngine.NET. Guess what? Its a simple blog back-end written in .Net. Wow. Let me see, if I do a search on SourceForge, a real open-source site, on blog and engine, I find 5,633 results. Oh yeah, I see a big demand out there for another blogging platform.
Finally at number five—and let me tell you folks, five is as many of these things as I could stomach—we find, whats this, more sample code! Patterns & Practices—Smart Client Guidance. Again, its not an open-source project, its sample code and some architecture guidance to help customers build Composite Smart Clients using Microsoft proprietary programs such as WinForms, WPF, etc.
OK Microsoft, you want to be taken seriously by open source? I know thats a rhetorical question, I dont believe for one moment that youre ready to really embrace open source. You just want to be able to confuse the market by being able to say that youre “open source friendly.” What a crock. Microsoft is open-source friendly in the same way that a butcher is friendly to a cow.
But, lets assume that Microsoft really wanted to be open-source friendly. How about instead of flapping your lips, you release some code under your b.s. community licenses thats actually not built from Microsoft proprietary parts, trashy example code, or is just a pointless “me too” project.
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Lady of Mercy, Our
Lady Of Mercy, Our.
a Spanish order of knighthood, instituted in 1218 by James I of Aragon, in fulfilment of a vow made to the Virgin, during his captivity in France, for the redemption of Christian captives from among the Moors; and to this end each knight, at his inauguration, was obliged to take the vow that, if necessary for their ransom, he would remain himself a captive in their stead. Within the first six years of the existence of the order no fewer than 400 captives are said to have been ransomed by its efforts. On the expulsion of the Moors from Spain the labors of the knights were transferred to Africa. Their badge is a shield party per fess gules and or, in chief a cross pattee argent, in base four pallets gules for Aragon, the shield crowned with a ducal coronet. The order was extended to ladies in 1261. | <urn:uuid:1e4203f7-987b-46a9-a564-a32423e7f127> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.biblicalcyclopedia.com/L/lady-of-mercy-our.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.980277 | 200 | 2.734375 | 3 |
The Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) has said that: “An act of charity shields seventy dead people from ill fate”.
The Prophet (S) has also said that “The angel of death is told to remove the soul of a person, but if during that time charity is given then the order to remove the soul is cancelled”.
Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) says that: “An act of charity given openly prevents seventy types of mishaps, and a secretly given charity cools the anger of our Lord Allah (S.w.T.)”1.
It has been related in the same book that the Holy Prophet (S) said that: “Allah says that when the angel of death is asked to remove the soul of a person, and if he or she gives Sadaqah, Allah orders the angel of death to stop”.
Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) says that: “An act of charity shields us of seventy evils of this world including an ill fated death. The one who gives charity never dies ill fatedly”.2
According to Islamic beliefs, when we give charity, Allah due to his mercy changes our fate. Allah says in the Holy Qur’an that:
“Allah removes what He wishes and establishes what He wishes, for He has the Mother of Books”. (Sura ar-Ra‘ad, 13: 39)
Here below are few incidences from genuine and reliable sources to prove this.
This is an incident witnessed by the author of this book. Once I was admitted to the hospital, and as I was lying in my ward, I saw a friend of mine bring in his son with a life threatening situation. His son was in acute pain, and when I asked my friend he said that the nurses were taking some tests and soon his son would be taken to the operating theatre.
Well, the nurse took a sample of blood, and we on the other hand started comforting the little boy who was only nine years old. As we were waiting the father of the boy put something small under the pillow of his son.
Shortly after, the doctor arrived and said that they had tested the blood and didn’t think it necessary to operate, and instead some medicine was prescribed for him. The father at once thanked the Imam of our time Al Mahdi (aj) for helping, and then revealed that he had put an amount of money as charity and asked the Imam to help, and this was the result.
Sheikh Ahmed Mujtahidi says that there was a time when many grape gardens in a village in Shahriyaar in Iran were afflicted with disease, which caused extensive damage to the fruit. There was a man who owned a garden in the same village who on hearing the news was sure that his garden was in a good state.
When the man was asked how he could be so sure about this, he answered that he always gave the Zakaat (Islamic Tax) on the property and also gave out a lot of charity, and this was a guarantee for his property to be safe from disasters.
When people who had heard this went to investigate his gardens in Shariyaar, they found it to be the only garden which had not been affected with the disease. 3
The author of the book Najafiyat, Sheikh Ali Dakheel relates that Al Haj Abdul Husayn Abu Reeha related to him that Al Haj Rasheed Roomaani who was a Syrian businessman once became extremely sick. His family had surrounded him with despair, crying for him.
The sick man asked his family whether they wished him to be well. They admitted eagerly that that was their hearts desire. Well he asked them to give all the food and grains stored in the house as charity. Shortly after he recovered and is said to have lived up to the age of 130 years.
Indeed the Holy Prophet Muhammad (S) says: “Cure your sickness with charity”. 4
A man known as Al-Hajj Salim Tarih who died in Iraq in 1293 A.H. was a famous ship merchant who traded with other countries. He once asked his trade partner to contribute some money to give as charity. When asked by his business partners why he had given this charity, he answered that he had received some news that the ship in which they had sent their property had sunk. He was certain that the charity would help in the recovery of their property.
Soon afterwards some men came to give Al-Hajj Salim a bag full of dirhams. The men said that all the goods had sunk but this bag which had the money belonging to Al-Hajj Salim was hanging on a nail which was hammered onto a plank of wood that formed part of the ship. This plank together with the bag of money had not sunk.5
Iraq was a nation which in olden times was afflicted just like any other nation with diseases like cholera and typhoid, and the epidemic affected so many people. It is to avert such dangers that the people carried out many religious ceremonies in the name of the great Imam and Martyr Husayn (a.s.).
A man relates that in one such ceremony, the people appealed to Imam Husayn (a.s.) to help them from such diseases. A man after the ceremony had a dream that some armed people came to steal things from them. As they wanted to attempt stealing, the leader of the gang instructed them to stop because he would not like to kill people who had taken part in a ceremony commemorating the martyrdom of Imam Husayn (a.s.).
The gang leader then asked his companions to go to another place.
The next morning the man who had seen this dream heard that, three people had been killed in the neighboring village by thieves.
All this shows that Sadaqah conducted in the name of our Imams is effective in averting problems. 6
Allamah Hilli relates in some of his books that the Holy Prophet (S) once passed by a Jew who was going to chop some wood. On seeing him, the Prophet said that the Jew would be bitten by a poisonous snake and die.
In the evening the companions saw the Jew and found it strange that he was still alive contrary to what the Prophet (S) had predicted. So they questioned the Holy Prophet (S) about his predictions. The Prophet (S) asked for the Jew to be presented to him so that he could be questioned.
When the Jew came, the Prophet asked him to open the bundle of chopped wood, and out popped a snake. The Holy Prophet (S) asked the Jew what act he had done on that day.
In reply the Jew answered that he had not done anything in particular except that as he was eating some food a beggar asked him for some of it, so he gave one of the two cakes he had without any hesitation to the beggar.
The Prophet then said that the Jew had been destined to die but for the charity he had given which removes seventy evils. The Jew accepted Islam.
Indeed charity increases your good deeds and your life. 7
A woman from the Bani Israil tribe was washing some clothes on the sea shore. Her child lay near her. A beggar came begging and she quickly gave him a piece of bread which she had.
Shortly after a wolf came beside the lady and snatched away the little baby in its mouth. Well, Allah sent an angel who removed the baby from the wolf’s mouth and the angel retorted: A Morsel For A Morsel.8
Imam Ja’far Al Sadiq (a.s.) was once travelling with some companions amongst whom were some businessmen who had some goods with them. After some time they became aware that there were gangs of thieves who were waiting ahead planning to loot them. The companions of the Imam wondered what steps to take.
The Imam advised that the best step was to make intention of giving some of the goods in the way of Allah as Sadaqah or charity. This is what the companions did and when they passed the thieves, nothing happened to them. Charity had averted the danger in which they were. 9
It has been related in some books that Nabi Yaqub (a.s.) once was visited by a beggar on a Friday night. Although Nabi Yaqub (a.s.) heard the beggar, he didn’t feed him.
In order to make Nabi Yaqub realize the importance of charity, Allah (S.w.T.) revealed to him that due to this act Allah would soon put Nabi Yaqub to a test, and that he should show patience in face of this test.
After that Nabi Yaqub was tested by the temporary loss of Nabi Yusuf, his son, for quite a long period. Due to this Nabi Yaqub really suffered, until he finally was reunited with his son. 10
It has been related by Imam Ja’far Sadiq (a.s.) that Nabi ‘Isa’ (a.s.) was once told by people that a certain girl was getting married. When they mentioned her name, he said that she was going to die on her wedding night.
The morning after the wedding they found the bride still alive. When they asked Nabi ‘Isa’ (a.s.) as to why his predictions were not correct, the prophet asked to see the bride, and asked whether she had done some good act on the wedding night.
The bride replied that there was a beggar who used to beg every Friday night outside the house. On the wedding night, he came to beg as usual and because nobody bothered with him, she got up and went to give him some charity.
Nabi ‘Isa’ (a.s.) asked her to look at a pile of clothes which lay in her room. When the bride tried to look beneath the pile of clothes she found a scorpion. That’s when Nabi ‘Isa’ (a.s.) remarked that due to the good act, she had been saved from death. 11
- 1. Al Bihar Vol 62 Page 269
- 2. Al Bihar
- 3. Jazaa Al Aamal Page 37
- 4. Najafiat Page 117
- 5. Maadhi An-Najaf Wa Haadhiruha, Page 437/438
- 6. Najafiat page 146
- 7. Al Mustadrak, Al Bihar Vol 4 Page 121
- 8. Jazaa Al Aamal Page 115, Safinatul Bihar vol 2 page 23
- 9. Bihar vol 93 page 120
- 10. Kalimatullah By Shaheed Hassan Shirazi Page 202
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Clockwise from top left: Anton Yelchin, Esther Jungreis, Doris Roberts and Elie Wiesel (Getty Images)
It’s a fact of life: Scores of notable people pass away each year. But for some reason — whether it’s the continued aging of the baby boomer generation, the increasingly loud echo chambers on social media of condolences, or maybe just the expansion of who (or what) constitutes a celebrity in our collective psyche — the past year has been marked with an unusually high number of high-profile deaths, including David Bowie, Prince and Muhammad Ali.
Within the Jewish world, there were striking losses, too. This past year has taken many notable and influential members of the tribe from all walks of life. Here are just a few of those whose passings left a lasting mark on 5776.
Elie Wiesel, 87
Nobel Prize winner, writer of over 50 books, moral conscience — the honors and titles abound for Elie Wiesel. As JTA’s Ben Sales wrote after his passing in July, the “Night” author’s books and activism seared the horrors of the Holocaust into American cultural consciousness and arguably did more to unite American Jews than any other figure. After his death, the House of Representatives approved a resolution honoring his life, which included a proposal to build a memorial statue of him at the Capitol. He was also honored with a photo exhibition in Russia, whose Jewish community he advocated for in his 1966 book “The Jews of Silence.”
Shimon Peres, 93
Few people had as much of an impact on Israeli history as Shimon Peres. In fact, Peres — born Szymon Perski in Wiszniew, Poland — fought for Israel before it was a state, leading divisions of the Haganah, the precursor to the Israel Defense Forces. He would go on to hold numerous Cabinet positions — including minister of defense and of foreign affairs — and served as president from 2007 to 2014. (And while he never won an election to become prime minister, he filled that position three times.)
Over his decades in public service, Peres won a Nobel Prize for negotiating the 1993 Oslo Accords with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and became a symbol of the movement for peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors — something he promoted until his death this week. “A light has gone out, but the hope he gave us will burn forever,” President Barack Obama said in a statement. “Shimon Peres was a soldier for Israel, for the Jewish people, for justice, for peace, and for the belief that we can be true to our best selves — to the very end of our time on Earth.”
Gene Wilder, 83
From Willy Wonka to Dr. Frankenstein to the rabbi in “The Frisco Kid,” Gene Wilder — born Jerome Silberman — played some of the quirkiest, most beloved film characters of the 1970s and ’80s.
After Mel Brooks gave him his first major role as Leopold Bloom in the “The Producers,” the Jewish comedic team went on to collaborate in other classics, such as 1974’s “Blazing Saddles” and “Young Frankenstein.” As a teenager, Wilder spent time at a military school, where he claimed he was beaten up for being the only Jewish student.
In 1984, he married Jewish comedian Gilda Radner, who died of ovarian cancer in 1989. In addition to acting, screenwriting and directing, Wilder went on to publish multiple novels and a short story collection. He died of complications from Alzheimer’s disease in August.
Esther Jungreis, 80
Many try to promote observance among the Jewish masses, but only one was nicknamed the “Jewish Billy Graham.” Jungreis, who as a child in Hungary survived the Holocaust, founded the Hineni organization in 1973 with the aim of bringing young Jews into the Orthodox fold. In addition to holding colorful rallies for the cause that often included elaborate lighting and musical accompaniment, she wrote self-help books and organized classes and singles events.
In 1973, Jungreis held a rally at Madison Square Garden to inspire Jewish awakening; 10,000 people came. “The Rebbetzin,” as she was commonly known, died of complications from pneumonia in August.
Garry Shandling, 66
Before shows like “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Louie” gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the comedy industry, there was “The Larry Sanders Show,” Garry Shandling’s Emmy-winning and somewhat dark take on the life of a late-night talk show host.
And before “Larry Sanders,” Shandling created an even more meta show with an appropriately postmodern name: “It’s Garry Shandling’s Show,” which frequently saw its creator break the fourth wall. But before all of this, Shandling was born to Jewish parents in Chicago. He became a respected standup comedian before getting into TV and eventually mentored other comics, including Sarah Silverman and Judd Apatow.
“Yesterday we lost our most brilliant comic mind,” Silverman wrote after his passing in March from complications due to hyperparathyroidism. “The symptoms are so much like being an older Jewish man, no one noticed!” Shandling said in an episode of Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” filmed not long before his death.
Doris Roberts, 90
She is most widely known as the snappy Italian mother of Ray Romano’s character on the hit sitcom “Everybody Loves Raymond”— a role which earned her four Emmy Awards — but Doris Roberts (née Green) was proud of her Russian Jewish heritage.
Although she primarily played mothers or grandmothers in the late stages of her career, her six decades in theater, television and film also included roles on the detective show “Remington Steele” and films such as “The Honeymoon Killers” and “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three.”
Roberts told the Jewish Virtual Library that one of her favorite roles was in “Hester Street,” a film about a family of Russian-Jewish immigrants living in New York City. (She was born in St. Louis but was raised in the Bronx). She passed away in her sleep in April.
Imre Kertesz, 86
Many novelists who have taken on the Holocaust seek to evoke a sense of empathy from the reader through intense or graphic description. By contrast, the novels of Imre Kertesz — recipient of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Literature — seek to describe life in Nazi concentration camps as faithfully as possible, without indignation. Take the Nobel committee’s description of “Fateless,” his 1975 book: “The novel uses the alienating device of taking the reality of the camp completely for granted, an everyday existence like any other.” The Nobel award was extremely unexpected for Kertesz, who worked in relative obscurity in his native country of Hungary, where he supported himself by translating German works. “What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his 2,000-year-old moral and cultural history,” he said in his acceptance speech.
Meir Dagan, 71
After a decorated 30-year career in the IDF, in which he rose to the rank of major general, Meir Dagan became known as one of Israel’s most brilliant military minds. He went on to head the Mossad, where among his accomplishment he was credited with overseeing the creation of the Stuxnet virus, which wiped out a fifth of Iran’s nuclear centrifuges. Dagan, who headed the Israeli intelligence agency from 2002 to 2011, also wasn’t afraid to blast Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s hawkish posture toward using a military option against Iran.
But when he died of liver cancer in March, even Netanyahu had high praise for him — and referred to a photo of Dagan’s grandfather in a Nazi camp about to be killed. “Meir was determined to ensure that the Jewish people would never be helpless and defenseless again,” Netanyahu said.
Anton Yelchin, 27
It might sound cliché, but the untimely death of Russian-Jewish actor Anton Yelchin can only be described as a freak accident. Friends found Yelchin — a rising Hollywood star who appeared in dozens of films, such as the “Star Trek” reboot series — pinned between his Jeep and a brick pillar in the driveway of his Los Angeles home on June 19. He had apparently left the car, which rolled into him, in neutral. However, soon after the accident, The Associated Press revealed that the model of Jeep Yelchin owned was in the process of being recalled for a problem with its gear shift that made it difficult to tell when it was in park.
Yelchin’s parents, former figure skaters who qualified for the 1972 Olympics (but were not permitted to compete by Soviet authorities, likely because they were Jewish), have sued Fiat Chrysler over the tragic incident.
Goldie Michelson, 113
Who would have thought that two Jewish bubbes named Goldie would be two of the oldest people in the world? After the passing of Goldie Steinberg last year, Michelson likely became the oldest Jewish person in the world. Then, after the passing of Susannah Mushatt-Jones in May, Michelson became the oldest living American.
Michelson, née Corash, migrated with her family from Russia at the age of 2 to Worcester, Massachusetts, where she lived for over a century. She wrote her master’s thesis at Clark University on the Jews of Worcester and volunteered for Hadassah. The secret to her longevity? It’s a simple one: walk every day (although she enjoyed chocolate and lobster, too).
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On Monday, a court ruled that the majority of Minnesota’s abortion restrictions, such as the necessary 24-hour waiting time and the need that both parents be informed prior to a child getting an abortion, are unconstitutional.
The Minnesota laws mandating that only doctors be allowed to conduct abortions and that abortions during the first trimester must be carried out in hospitals were likewise overturned by Ramsey County District Judge Thomas Gilligan. His order went into effect right away, therefore the restrictions can’t be applied.
Just over two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court decision invalidating the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, which legalized abortion throughout the nation, the judgement, according to the abortion rights organizations that brought the complaint, came at a critical moment. Providers have been bracing for an increase in patients from nearby upper Midwest states and even further away, where abortion has either been made illegal or is anticipated to be limited, as well as from other countries.
Erin Maye Quade, advocacy director for Gender Justice, stated that it “underscores the need for Minnesota to act as a pioneer in providing abortion care to millions who will need it throughout the country, especially those in our region.” More individuals will go to Minnesota for abortion treatment if those “onerous impediments” are removed, she noted.
According to a significant 1995 Minnesota Supreme Court decision known as Doe v. Gomez, which declared that the state constitution guarantees abortion rights, Gilligan determined that the state’s limitations were illegal. The judge referred to that case as “important and historic” and declared that the recent US Supreme Court judgment invalidating the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision had no bearing on it.
According to Gilligan, “These abortion rules do not survive close examination and violate the right to privacy because they restrict the basic right to receive abortion treatment guaranteed by the Minnesota Constitution.”
The judge also made a contrast between the Dobbs v. Jackson decision from last month and the Gomez case.
According to Gilligan, “this court must accept the precedent set by the Minnesota Supreme Court in Gomez and that precedent will govern this court’s conclusions in this case, in contrast to the Dobbs Court, which overturned nearly fifty years of precedent.”
The regulations Gilligan overturned required doctors to warn patients of the procedure’s dangers, the fetus’s likely gestational age, the risks of bringing the pregnancy to term, and the possibility of fetal suffering before the 24-hour waiting period even started. The rules also compelled notification of the father’s obligation to pay child support as well as any welfare assistance that could be available for prenatal, postpartum, and neonatal care.
As a result of the decision, Minnesota no longer requires parental permission for minors seeking abortions. In the state, minors have previously been permitted to choose their own reproductive and other health care options without consulting a parent, according to Gilligan.
The judge upheld the state’s data reporting requirements for abortion providers, providing advocates of the restrictions with essentially their lone success. However, he overturned a clause that would have resulted in felony charges for anyone who failed to register their data.
Abortion rights opponents criticized the judgment as judicial meddling. Speaking to reporters, Republican candidate for attorney general Jim Schultz urged Democratic Attorney General Keith Ellison to appeal the decision and charged him of failing to uphold his obligation to vigorously defend the state laws passed by the Legislature.
They only made a half-hearted effort into defending these legislation because Keith Ellison, as usual, disregards Minnesota law in favor of his personal opinions, Schultz said.
Ellison recognized in the past that his office was obligated to defend the limits even though he supports abortion rights and has stated he would have voted against them when he was a lawmaker. He indicated he had not made up his mind about an appeal.
The attorney general issued a statement saying, “My team and I are analyzing the 140-page ruling and are starting to talk with our clients regarding possible future actions.” “It’s obvious that Judge Gilligan, who has had this case for three years, has given this ruling, which he clearly did not take lightly, a great deal of consideration.”
Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life, the state’s largest anti-abortion organization, also decried the decision.
In a statement, MCCL stated that the laws being challenged “are common sense measures that assist and empower pregnant women.” “Today’s decision to strike them down is excessive and unsupported by the Minnesota Constitution. It prevents Minnesotans from passing fair safeguards for unborn kids and their moms.
However, the lawsuit’s supporters asserted that the verdict will help patients from states with restrictive legislation who are now anticipated to go to Minnesota.
Amanda Allen, senior counsel and director at the Lawyering Project, said in a statement: “With abortion prohibitions due to take effect in half of the country in the upcoming weeks and months, it is more critical than ever to leverage provisions in state constitutions like Minnesota’s.” In the midst of the current public health crisis, Minnesota has the potential to provide a safe haven for citizens. | <urn:uuid:6d6075a0-12aa-46ee-a755-04699444ed64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bulletin-news.com/local-news/judge-strikes-down-majority-of-minnesotas-abortion-restrictions/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96697 | 1,081 | 1.765625 | 2 |
China is trying to act as a kind of global central bank through the control it exercises (or believes it exercises) over raw materials. The ‘Asian giant’ was accused of hoarding raw materials during the toughest phase of COVID-19, helping to generate a bullish rally that has been called by many as a new raw materials supercycle. Well, that policy, together with the global recovery of the economy and other factors, has triggered the price of metals, oil, food … generating a wave of inflation that Beijing seeks to deflate by taking part of its reserves to the market.
China is starting to sell large amounts of industrial metals that were part of its state reserves, in an effort to quell the sharp rise in prices at factories, which have reached a 13-year high and are stoking fears of global inflation. , as reported from The Wall Street Journal . However, there are many factors that are giving speed to the price boom, such as the increase in freight rates or the energy transition itself , which is making the price of energy extremely expensive.
Beijing is the world’s largest buyer of a wide variety of industrial products and is therefore an important part of world demand. Now China is using its weight in the market to try to quell the sharp rise in world metal prices over the past 12 months, including the 65% rise in copper, an indicator of macroeconomic health. The economic stimulus measures and the strong recovery in global economic activity from the lows of the pandemic have triggered a wave of purchases in China and elsewhere.
China’s latest measure targets copper, aluminum and zinc, among other metals, and describes a public auction program for domestic metal processors and manufacturers, the National Food and Strategic Reserves Administration explained last Wednesday.
Even so, the Beijing measure comes when some metal prices, including copper, had already begun to fall in recent weeks, given a change in market sentiment, they believe that prices were not justified by the reality that those metals live.
A success not guaranteed
Beijing’s enormous power over metals does not necessarily guarantee its ability to control world prices . Even so, the decision is firm and aims to contribute in one way or another to calm inflation that has reached 5% in the US or 2% in Europe.
However, it is in emerging markets where the rise in prices is most dangerous, since the increase in raw materials is compounded by currencies that are more volatile and economic and demographic structures more prone to inflation. Turkey, Russia, Brazil, India, Argentina or Ukraine are some of these countries that can have problems with too high inflation.
Very high inflation can be detrimental to the global economy, something that does not suit China. The largest ‘factory’ in the world must also ensure the health of its customers if it wants to maintain or increase its sales abroad.
In a brief statement, the National Administration of Food and Strategic Reserves -department of the National Reform and Development Commission, the country’s main economic planning body- pointed out that it will carry out these plans “in the near future”, without specifying specific dates. .
The measure is taken with non-ferruginous metal processing and manufacturing companies in mind, and is in line with the plans of the State Council – the Chinese Executive -, the statement added. The materials will be delivered to companies in the aforementioned sectors after a public auction procedure.
China seeks solutions
In recent weeks, regulators in the Asian country have summoned the companies supplying raw materials to assess the rise in prices, which the authorities also attribute to speculation in the markets.
At the end of May, the State Council announced measures in this regard, pointing out that there will be “zero tolerance” for illegal activities related to the prices of raw materials.
ING Bank’s Warren Patterson and Wenyu Yao explain that “an important factor is the message that the Chinese authorities are sending to the market, with their efforts to curb the rise in commodity prices.” There were times when global copper supplies were feared .
Senior Chinese officials are looking for ways to curb increases in commodity prices. The State Council ruled last month that it would take steps to ensure adequate supply and stable prices for raw materials.
“We need to keep prices basically stable and pay particular attention to trends in commodity prices,” said Chinese Vice Premier Liu He after China’s producer price index rose 6.8% year-on-year. in April. However, that indicator accelerated to 9% in May, beating the consensus forecasts of economists and reaching the fastest pace since September 2008. The increase comes as inflation for consumers and producers increases dramatically in USA and half the world.
“We cannot rule out the possibility of more price control policies being introduced,” a Huatai Futures commodities strategy said in a report. The market is watching Beijing cautiously awaiting further measures or new announcements.
Massive purchases from China have affected markets for other commodities globally. The sharp rise in natural gas last winter, triggered by massive Chinese purchases, put parts of Japan on the brink of blackouts.
The red metal, largely considered a benchmark due to its versatility in industrial applications, has already fallen 9% since hitting its all-time high in early May. The metal’s dizzying rally may have exceeded its supply and demand fundamentals, even before Beijing’s announcement on Wednesday, some analysts say.
It will be enough?
Analysts, ranging from ING to Goldman Sachs, doubt China’s ability to influence the market in a significant way. “It is not clear whether metal sales will sufficiently affect China’s rising producer price inflation,” experts say.
China’s statistics office has also attributed the increase to raw materials not included in these latest metal auctions, such as crude oil and iron, raw materials that China consumes intensively, but whose power to influence the market is less .
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Somerset boasts hundreds of picturesque villages, with more than 600 of them dotted around the county and each boasting their own unique heritage.
Some of these are often forgotten about or even unknown to many because of the larger settlements around them, even though a lot of them date back centuries to before the Domesday Book.
Many of these villages have a fascinating history, and have some of the most beautiful views in the county.
But they are often overlooked by their larger neighbours.
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Here are some of the villages that have been virtually gobbled up by larger towns down the years and are in danger of becoming part of their larger counterparts.
It dominates the surrounding low landscape and is said to have come into being as the Devil excavated Cheddar Gorge and threw his shovels full of soil and earth onto this flat land!
The National Trust hilltop was once an Iron Age hill fort, and then later became a place of safety for the Saxons when the warring Danes fought their last battle in this area in 875.
Over the past two hundred years, the population has trebled to approximately 1200 people.
Brent Knoll has two churches: St Michael's, which held village events since Norman times and has a beautiful ceiling , and the Methodist church which was built 150 years ago.
Crowcombe is nestled under the Quantock Hills, roughly halfway between Taunton and Minehead. The parish can trace its history back to 854, when it was spelt 'Cerawicombe'. It appeared in the 1086 Domesday Book listed as 'Crawcombe'.
It boasts lush, green countryside as far as the eye can see, perfect for a scenic walk or picnic spot.
Records show there has been a manor house in Crowcombe since at least the 13th century. Now the manicured gardens at Crowcombe Court are a popular wedding venue.
The Carew Arms has been at the heart of village life for hundreds of years, with a stellar selection of local ales on offer and a pub garden for when the sun’s out.
The Grade I listed Church of the Holy Ghost has a 14th century tower, while the rest of the building dates back to the 15th century. This is thought to be the only church in the country with the split origin.
Just outside Frome is the aesthetically pleasing village of Mells. Another village that dates back to the Domesday Book, Mells boasts splendid architecture.
The manor house of Raymond Asquith, 3rd Earl of Oxford and Asquith, dates back to the 16th century.
Thousands typically flock to the village on Easter Monday to celebrate its annual Daffodil Day, which has a number of memorable events, including crockery smashing.
Only four mils from Yeovil, this village is often overlooked. Yet the buildings and cottages of Montacute are beautiful: made of a glowing ham that has seen the village appear in several entertainment spots.
Montacute has St. Catherine’s church as well as a village hall and a primary school, and a couple of good pubs.
The poet Thomas Wyatt lived here once upon a time.
Situated a few miles outside Yeovil, Corton Denham has bags of character.
The St. Andrew’s Church dates back to 1869 and has striking stained glass windows designed by Jeanne-Baptiste Capronnier.
The Queens Arms pub has won awards for its food and drink, offering an ideal resting place once you explore the nearby countryside of the village.
Despite only being a 10 minute drive from Bristol Airport, Wrington is a world away from the bustle of international travel. It has a smart Georgian high street, specialist shops, gastropubs and a country market.
Past residents of the village include philosopher John Locke and philanthropist Hannah More.
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About This Project
Our bodies are comprised entirely of protein (skin, bone, muscle nerve, etc.) which must be folded exactly correctly during protein synthesis in order to fit and function properly. With age, our cells gradually lose the ability to fold the body's protein correctly, and for this reason we slowly deteriorate physically and mentally. The goal of this project is to identify an easy, fast, safe and inexpensive formula (“CellSaav") which will restore this protein folding capability.
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What is the context of this research?
The human body contain over a hundred trillion cells, and the primary function of each cell is to produce protein – skin, bone, muscle, neurons, etc. Each protein molecule must be folded into the precise configuration required to integrate with other protein molecules to fit and function properly. To manage this folding, the cells of every life form (human, animal, bird, fish, insect, plant and even bacteria) produce "folding chaperone protein" (HSP40, HSP60, HSP70, HSP90, HSP100).With advancing age, we produce less and less chaperone protein, and our cells gradually become unable to fold much of their protein correctly – age related decline. Today, there is no treatment to remedy this cell insufficiency in chaperone protein for those who need it. With your help, we can change that.
What is the significance of this project?
The up-regulation of "folding chaperone" has been shown to be effective against Alzheimer's Disease, Huntington's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Cerebral Ischemia, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Muscular Dystrophy, Muscular Atrophy, Colorectal Polyps, Colorectal Cancer, Diabetes Mellitus, Glucose Intolerance, Insulin Resistance, Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy, Hyperinsulinemia, Hyperglycemia, Inflammation, Oxidation, Glycation, Stroke, Sepsis, Renal Failure, Myocardial Ischemia, Polyglutamine Diseases, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Endotoxemia, Schizophrenia, Lymphoma, Melanoma, Leukemia, many Tumors and Cancers, Autoimmune Arthritis, aminoglycoside-induced hearing loss, age-related functional decline, etc.
What are the goals of the project?
Misfolded protein within the cell, accumulates in large "aggregates" of aberrant, non-functional, biologically inactive structures, which trigger cell death when they reach a certain size threshold. But the "folding chaperones" are able to untangle the misfolded "aggregates" and refold the protein into its biologically active state, thus preventing cell death, and restoring normal functionality to each cell. The CellSaav project will conduct clinical testing to identify an "optimum" formula for overcoming the aging body's protein folding deficiency. The resulting formula should consist of a medication that is already FDA approved. It will be a very inexpensive (under $1.) single-tablet medication that poses minimum risk of side effects and virtually no risk of toxicity or addiction. This goal is so important to so many people.
The CellSaav project's controlled clinical testing has been approved by a recognized medical research center, however, the project is pending due to funding.
The first CellSaav project goal will be to conduct clinical testing to determine the optimum pharmaceutical formula for invoking a Heat Shock Response (HSR) that will trigger induction of the HSP protein folding chaperones.
Then, with the balance of funding, our objective will be to make this treatment available in Canada and the United States, and in as many other countries as possible, at the lowest feasible price, which could be less than $1 per weekly or monthly treatment.
The CellSaav medication may prove to be the most important medical treatment of the century.
With your help, we can make it happen.
Meet the Team
Team BioWilliam McMillan retired after 20 years as a Senior Information Technology Auditor, Management Board Secretariat, Internal Audit Division, Government of Ontario. His previous employment history includes positions at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario and the University of Toronto.
Dr. Carlos Yu earned his M.D. at the University of Western Ontario, and Bachelor of Math in Applied Mathematics at the University of Waterloo. He has 25 years experience in Medical Practice, and has recently completed construction of a new Medical Clinic and Health Research and Educational Centre.
The testing for the CellSaav project will consist of a one-day clinical test to determine the optimum "CellSaav" formula to induce large scale production of protein folding chaperone. The test will be conducted at a recognized medical facility, and measured using flow Cytometry, a laser-based biophysical technology.
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LINK to VIDEO: Chaperonin-Assisted Protein Folding
LINK to VIDEO: The Protein Folding Problem
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The restoration of "folding chaperone protein" has been shown to be a promising therapy for the prevention and the treatment of Huntington Disease, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Neurodegenerative Diseases, Cerebral Ischemia, Muscular Dystrophy, Diabetes and many other medical disorders, See an expanded list under the "Abstract" tab above.
These are some quotes from 4 of the 50 reports.
1 The Role of Heat Shock Proteins during Neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and Huntington's Disease
Misfolded proteins and protein aggregation are controlled by molecular chaperones such as heat shock proteins (HSPs) that are constitutively and inducibly expressed in the nervous system… There is increasing evidence that HSPs could counteract common pathological mechanisms that take place during Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD)… HSPs provide a first line of defence against misfolded proteins and hence could act on early steps in misfolding disease pathology. Early synaptic and axonal abnormalities in AD, PD and HD may therefore be partially reversed by HSPs. ______________________________
11 HSP72 protects against obesity-induced insulin resistance
Patients with type 2 diabetes have reduced gene expression of heat shock protein (HSP) 72, which correlates with reduced insulin sensitivity. Herein, we show that regardless of the means used to achieve an elevation in HSP72 protein, protection against diet- or obesity-induced hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance was observed… In summary, we have shown that elevating HSP72 protein by heat treatment, muscle-specific transgenic overexpression, or pharmacological means can protect against diet- or obesity-induced hyperglycemia, hyperinsulinemia, glucose intolerance, and insulin resistance. _____________________________
13 Hsp70 and its molecular role in nervous system diseases.
Hsp70 functions as a chaperone and protects neurons from protein aggregation and toxicity (Parkinson disease, Alzheimer disease, polyglutamine diseases, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis), protects cells from apoptosis (Parkinson disease), is a stress marker (temporal lobe epilepsy), protects cells from inflammation (cerebral ischemic injury), has an adjuvant role in antigen presentation and is involved in the immune response in autoimmune disease (multiple sclerosis). Investigators have observed protective effects of HSPs induced by preconditioning, overexpression, or drugs in a variety of models of brain disease. _____________________________
33 Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) membrane expression on head-and-neck cancer biopsy-a target for natural killer (NK) cells.
Heat shock protein 70 (Hsp70) was detected on the cell membrane of human tumor cell lines, but not on normal cells. Here we studied Hsp70 membrane expression as a target for natural killer (NK) cells on tumor material and control tissues of head-and-neck cancer patients… In total, 54 of 74 primary tumors were found to be Hsp70 membrane-positive (73%); tongue/mouth, 21 of 24 (88%); oropharynx, 13 of 20 (65%); hypopharynx, 3 of 6 (50%); larynx, 8 of 11 (73%); trachea 1 of 2 (50%); esophagus, 4 of 5 (80%); lymph node metastases, 4 of 6 (67%). The corresponding control tissue was negative for membrane-bound Hsp70… Hsp70-positive tumor cells are targets for Hsp70-peptide stimulated NK cells. ______________________________
The human body contains up to 120 trillion cells. The primary function of each cell is to produce and maintain protein – skin, bone, muscle, hair, nails, nerves, etc. Each protein molecule is composed of a multitude of elements, and all these elements have to be folded into the exact configuration (or shape) required to integrate with or attach to other protein molecules. Like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle. If a protein is not folded into its precise "native" configuration, it will not fit correctly or function properly. Thus, the cells in our bodies have the daunting task of folding "billions of trillions" of protein molecules into a wide range of exact conformations.
For most types of protein this requires the help of HSP molecular chaperone molecules. Molecular chaperones guide protein molecules from the point of initial synthesis from the ribosomes through proper folding in all the stages of its translocation and functional performance.
There are two integral cell sources for the production of HSP folding chaperone protein – "constitutional" and "inductional". The "constitutional" synthesis of chaperone protein provides the cell's need for this protein under all "normal" conditions.
But with advancing age, our "constitutional" HSP chaperone supply steadily dwindles and our cells gradually become unable to correctly fold new protein. Then in the absence of sufficient chaperone protein, the quality of the protein produced in each cell's protein synthesis process (skin, hair, bone, nerve, muscle, etc.) gradually, but steadily declines, and our cell's protein becomes more and more deficient.
However, under conditions of extreme stress or "cell shock", (hyperthermia, poisoning, radiation, or other cell injury), the resulting "Heat Shock Response" invokes large scale HSP chaperone protein production within the cell.
Folding chaperones were discovered by accident in 1961 when a lab worker inadvertently boosted the incubation temperature of cell cultures. This was the first clinical observation of that cellular protection mechanism called the "Heat Shock Response" which induces the production of a family of "Heat Shock Protein" (HSP) that function as "folding chaperones". (including HSP40, HSP60, HSP90, HSP100 and especially HSP70 with a molecular weight in the range of 65,000 to 78,000 Daltons). However, it took over 20 years for the medical community to begin to recognize and acknowledge the significance of this discovery, and many years more, to discover the crucial importance of HSPs.
Up until very recently, there has been no way to remedy the age-related cell insufficiency in HSP chaperone protein, even though we knew that under very abnormal conditions of cell stress or injury the cell itself through the "Heat Shock Response" would produce large volumes of HSP chaperones, the most abundant of which is HSP70. Under such stress conditions the cell goes into maximum protein production to repair cell damage and restore the injured cell.
Each cell produces all the specific HSP folding chaperone protein that is required for the proper folding of that particular cell's new protein production.
It has recently been found that a "Heat Shock Response" to "induce" the production of HSP chaperone protein can be invoked under "normal" conditions, without the need for cell injury. This process has been demonstrated in vitro in the laboratory and in animal studies with the use of various chemical compositions. The action of "CellSaav" is based on this process of invoking the cell's Heat Shock Response, without the need for cell injury.
While the HSP chaperones can restore the cell itself including neuron cells, they cannot restore the dendrites which connected the various neurons for "memory" and "thought" processes. When brain cells die and dendrites are lost, they cannot be recovered. So it is crucial for seniors to periodically receive medication in advance, to "prevent" memory loss through the gradual death of neurons.
Evidence has accumulated indicating that the presence ofHsp70 on the plasma membrane or in the extracellular fluid is highly immunogenic and exposes tumor or cancer cells to death by immunologic attack. Hsp70 was found selectively in the plasma membrane of tumor cells, but not in normal cells by cell surface biotinylation and immunofluorescence. This finding was confirmed most recently by proteomic profiling of tumor cell membranes. The amount of membrane-bound Hsp70 on tumor cells positively correlates with their sensitivity to death by disintegration, mediated by natural killer (NK) cells. This intrinsic protection provided by each cell, may be significantly reduced with age-related decline in HSP70 protein levels.
The objective of "CellSaav" is not just to prevent the "death of cells", but to also restore the natural functionality of each cell, using the cell's intrinsic, internal capability, so that it can once again efficiently execute the operations it was meant to perform. The formula will be comprised of very low cost pharmaceuticals that are already approved for over the counter (OTC) use.
The first CellSaav project goal will be to determine from clinical testing, the optimum pharmaceutical formula for induction of the HSP folding chaperones.
If funding is available, our further objective will be to make this treatment available in Canada and the United States. Then, budget permitting, in as many other countries as possible.
Today, there is no treatment on the market to increase (or up-regulate) HSP Chaperone production in the billions of aging persons who have a serious deficiency. But there have recently been many medical studies published that show the clear need for such a treatment. (See "Abstract" tab above)The purpose of CellSaav is to make this treatment available at the lowest price possible; hopefully less than $1 per weekly or monthly treatment. At this price, there should still be a margin of significant profit for both the manufacturer and the retailer.
It remains to be seen what the optimum "CellSaav" formula will be for generating a Heat Shock Response, to induce this folding chaperone protein, and what the ideal treatment interval should be – weekly or monthly. But there seems to be no question about the essential need for this treatment in view of its preventive, remedial, restorative and therapeutic power.
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