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As a registered nurse and a mom to a 12-year-old son, Zoe Lipman, 50, was used to taking care of others. Then, the roles reversed and she found herself in need of assistance.
One day, she woke up and just didn’t feel right. She kept telling her family that something was off. Then, Zoe went downhill quickly and was taken to the emergency department at St. Tammany Parish Hospital. It turned out she had an infection in her spine. She was admitted and remained there for a week before being transferred to Ochsner Medical Center for surgery.
The surgery left Zoe unable to walk or even go to the bathroom on her own. She also had weakness in her left arm leaving her unable to hold things and perform daily living and self-care tasks. That’s when her medical team recommended transferring to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital for extended recovery. Zoe chose Ochsner Rehabilitation Hospital.
When she first arrived, Zoe’s care team discussed her rehabilitation plan, including making her house wheelchair-accessible. Zoe was not fully onboard. Her goal was to return home fully independent and without the use of any equipment. To get there, Zoe knew it would be tough, but she was determined and so were her occupational and physical therapists.
Zoe’s occupational therapy team worked on helping her improve independence with daily living activities such as going to the bathroom, dressing and transferring from a bed to chair/toilet/shower bench. They repeatedly practiced these activities along with supplemental education and safety training. The team also focused on improving Zoe’s grip in both hands using therapy putty. Initially, Zoe was unable to squeeze the hand gripper, but over time and with enough practice, she was able to do it with ease. Finally, therapists helped Zoe increase the range of motion in her left shoulder through exercise and coordination activities.
In physical therapy, Zoe’s team focused on getting her up and walking as well as navigating stairs. Her primary challenges were coordination and sensory deficits making her a high fall risk. She required a physical assist for all mobility. Initially the team honed in on improving gross motor skills with targeted stepping, quadruped positioning (both hands and knees are on the ground) and step ups. Then, Zoe was presented with a two-pound weight which she couldn’t even lift. However, over time, she progressed to a three pound weight with minimal effort.
Before her illness, Zoe participated in CrossFit and boxing so once her balance improved, therapists started incorporating those elements into her sessions. They started with modified deadlifts and squats. As Zoe's mobility continued to improve, she progressed to modified CrossFit work outs including box jumps, deadlifts and squats, floor transfers and modified push-ups. These workouts provided tremendous motivation for Zoe to keep working hard so she could return to her prior level of function.
The key turning point in Zoe’s recovery was when she started taking steps on her own. It took time, but it gave her the confidence to do it all on her own. Before that moment, Zoe wasn’t sure if she would ever be able to walk again. She said that early on, the sit-to-stand workout was so challenging that it felt like a CrossFit workout, but she pushed through and got it done.
Zoe’s sisters were also a huge help, especially her sister, Paige, who would drive back and forth from Mississippi to visit Zoe, and provide that extra needed support. Zoe shared,” Paige was such a blessing. I don’t know what I would have done without her.” She also said her whole family was very supportive every step of the way, even if only virtually.
After four weeks at Ochsner Rehabilitation Hospital, Zoe was ready to return home and able to do so independently. Proudly, she could get in and out of the car, walk up and down stairs, pick up objects off the floor and walk independently without an assistive device. She was thrilled to have achieved her ultimate goal.
But she was even more excited to see her son again. Zoe shared, “COVID-19 has made it hard to live a normal life, as it has for many, but just being able to get back home was a great feeling.”
Zoe offered these words of encouragement for others recovering from the virus, “Never give up. There’s always hope, and while in rehab if you push yourself and do the things you have to do, then you have the best chance of getting better.” | <urn:uuid:9fb5ab42-46a3-4285-b622-2cee6442b8af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ochsner-rehab.com/patients-and-caregivers/success-stories/zoe-lipman-story/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985975 | 961 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Bruno Mancinelle's series elegantly examines the shifting demographics in Brazil. Mancinelle’s portraits are touching, and explore a demographic that is the fastest growing but often overlooked in the popular image of Brazil as a botoxed, ageless, beach-going country. The images were accompanied by some startling facts:
According to the World Health and Aging Report, the number of people older than 60 in the country is expected to grow much faster than the international average: While the number of elderly will double worldwide by the year 2050, it will almost triple in Brazil.
While the life expectancy of Brazilians is increasing, the country's birth rate has been declining. For more than 15 years, births in Brazil are below the "replacement rate" — that is, couples on average are having less than two children. Meanwhile, people are living longer. The result of this equation is a very rapid shift in the proportion of elderly people in the country.
While countries such as France took over a century to become aged countries, in Brazil this process is happening in the span of a few decades. | <urn:uuid:27cdd18a-2d45-457d-a5a6-ae0f06c540d9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katebubacz/15-stunning-portraits-of-brazils-fastest-growing-demographic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970715 | 228 | 2.21875 | 2 |
In today’s world, the effects of alcohol and drug addiction on the individual are usually great as well as the total effects on our culture happen to be staggering. It has also been estimated that each yr almost about half a new , 000, 000 people in america die through illness, injury, or exécution related to alcoholic beverage or even drug addiction.
Alcoholic beverage together with drug addiction may be relieved through counseling and medication, and even by combining these two strategies with sustained treatments a person can often get better recovery results. At the moment there are many alcoholic beverages and drug addiction therapy applications available, but this is important that zero single treatment approach is appropriate for everyone. If rehabs in new jersey for drugs is dependent about medicines or liquor and wishes dependancy therapy, it’s important to be able to expend time to discover the best treatment software for that patient.
Not most treatment plans are this same. There are quite a few aspects that need for you to be considered. Alcohol plus drug rehab programs may vary significantly in alternatives, philosophies, staff skills and skills, and cost. Listed below a few questions you should consult as soon as selecting a remedy program:
1. Training course: Is usually this program run by simply licensed, state-accredited professionals? What exactly is their success rate?
two. Cure details: What different alcohol and drug addiction treatment programs are accessible? What’s their own philosophy on liquor and even drug addiction? How long can it acquire to complete the therapy program? Does this system give medication as element of the treatment? Do these cards offer ongoing review on the patient’s treatment method plan? Do these cards present ongoing monitoring associated with possible relapse? Do they will offer long-term aftercare assist? As to the degree is the patient’s family involved within the treatment process?
several. Facilities: Is their therapy facility well-run, organized plus clean?
4. Costs: How much will their addiction cure cost? Do they acknowledge the particular patient’s insurance plan? In case not, could there be any monthly payment plan or perhaps different stands for to support the client?
Though selecting a therapy program can be time-consuming and relatively intimidating, yet it’s essential to recognize of which picking out the best appropriate alcohol in addition to pill addiction rehab method can easily greatly increase the odds of prosperous recovery. | <urn:uuid:275dec35-1097-4ff6-a893-07d909444702> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://firesaler.com/the-way-to-help-decide-on-alcoholic-beverages-and-even-pill-addiction-remedy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948348 | 490 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Beginning a private venture is an extraordinary method to get ready for what is to come. It is not about the monetary part of it, yet additionally the sort of expectation and soundness that it is ready to give to the individual or family who does as such. Obviously, the projection for each business that is begun is that it would at last get effective, in each perspective that is possible. Despite the fact that each private company that has been begun will bring about progress, it does not generally end up being so. Or possibly, the way to inevitable achievement is definitely not a simple one. That is the reason having protection is an absolute necessity, in any event, for the littlest of organizations. It is the sort of hazard insurance that everybody and each foundation requires, so any misfortune that might actually happen would be limited.
Notwithstanding, picking the correct protection could likewise be something of a test. This is on the grounds that there are a few alternatives accessible out there, which could make things a smidgen really overwhelming. What is more, as a result of the various choices that you might actually experience, it would be useful for you to begin contrasting different business protection alternatives at this moment, or when you could do it.
There are a couple of essential things that you need to find out about private company protection – and one of the top things that you need to know is that there are various Insurance for African American Owned Businesses that rely upon the particular sort of business that would get the protection inclusion. There are likenesses on the sort of business protection that entrepreneurs require. It is typically a mix of any of the accompanying: Property Insurance, Commercial Auto Insurance, Liability Insurance, Business Owner’s Package Policy BOP, and Worker’s Compensation Insurance.
Of those that have been recorded down, the most widely recognized inclusion for private venture protection are Liability and Property Insurance, and there is very some valid ification for that. In the event that we guess that the actual resources of your private venture turns out to be harmed or even annihilated, for reasons unknown, at that point the independent company protection that got for it would deal with the costs expected to get it fixed or on the off chance that anything must be supplanted by any means.
Also, every business – be it large or little – is at risk to being sued or possibly has that danger looming throughout it constantly, so it is strongly suggested that each independent company gets obligation protection as a significant piece of the private venture protection strategy that each entrepreneur might want to have for the business he possesses.
Getting an independent company protection strategy does not imply that each entrepreneur needs to go through a huge load of cash for it. There are ways that would help an entrepreneur save costs on the protection strategy, and it would be useful for each proprietor to think about it. Alternatives, for example, glancing around and looking at business protection cite from various insurance agencies and furthermore considering a bundle business protection strategy, for example a Business Owner’s Policy BOP is accessible for entrepreneurs. | <urn:uuid:b64b7278-9ab9-4ba1-8335-a6420b4ea560> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://birdandtreeblog.com/2021/03/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966365 | 624 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Farmers are being asked to check for middens – tennis ball-sized plugs constructed by earthworms – when monitoring their soils.
New research, led by Scotland’s Rural University College (SRUC), has found these plugs made of straw, plant debris and stones, cover up to 42% of the soil surface in regenerative agriculture fields.
Importantly, these ‘middened’ patches – the area underlying the middens – are biological hotspots with high earthworm densities and very biologically active and porous soil.
Middens, which are built by lumbricus terrestris earthworms to plug their vertical burrows, are more common in areas where conservation agriculture and regenerative practices such as no-tillage soil management are used.
Lead researcher Jackie Stroud, a research fellow and senior lecturer in farming systems at SRUC, said:
“We would recommend that during soil monitoring, farmers check for the presence of middens to avoid underestimating biodiversity and misunderstanding soil health.”
Further research has found that these earthworms choose pathogen-infected straw to construct their middens, which has implications for reducing pesticide use and improving crop disease management.
Additional work carried out by SRUC scientists compared the biophysical properties of middened soil to general soil across an experimental field trial recently converted to no-tillage soil management practices.
They measured water-stable aggregation, soil porosity at scales relevant to water storage and gas diffusion and invertebrate feeding activity.
It was found that middened areas covered up to 13% of the field trial and were associated with significantly improved aggregate stability and porosity compared to the general soil.
Benefits of earthworms
The latest trial work carried out by SRUC builds on the bank of knowledge already amassed, regarding the benefits that earthworms deliver, where soil health and quality are concerned.
They till, separate and fertilise the soil, breaking down organic manures into plant available forms, improving the soil structure as well as the nutrient and water holding qualities of soil.
Earthworms eat organic manures and waste such as slurry and farmyard manure providing healthy soil and organic fertiliser in return.
As worms move through soil and decaying organic matter, they ingest and aerate depositing castings as they go. These castings are rich in nutrients and beneficial soil organisms.
A worm’s gut contains enzymes and masses of bacteria and microbes and everything that passes through the gut of an earthworm is coated with these beneficial microbes and bacteria. It is these microbes which play a major role in determining soil fertility.
The worm cast restores microbial richness and diversity to soil that has been exposed to chemicals in sprays and chemical fertilisers. Soil structure is hugely influenced by earthworm aeration and drainage channels.
Compacted soils will show a distinct lack of earthworms which in turn will lead to increased drainage problems.
Soil compaction caused by livestock and machinery, along with prolonged wet weather conditions, will make soils difficult for earthworms to work and collapse existing channels formed by earthworms. | <urn:uuid:8c8ee13a-6ab4-4901-a09b-b5eacebea207> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.agriland.co.uk/farming-news/soil-monitoring-middens-and-earthworms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952282 | 645 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Nearly 800,000 cancers worldwide caused by obesity & diabetes – study
Obesity and diabetes were to blame for hundreds of thousands of cancer cases worldwide in 2012, according to the results published in a new study.
The combined effect of diabetes and high body mass index (BMI) above the indicator of 25 caused some 792,600 cancers globally five years ago, showed the study, led by Dr Jonathan Pearson-Stuttard from the Imperial College London’s Faculty of Medicine.
"While obesity has been associated with cancer for some time, the link between diabetes and cancer has only been established quite recently," Pearson-Stuttard said, as quoted by AFP.
"Our study shows that diabetes - either on its own or combined with being overweight - is responsible for hundreds of thousands of cancer cases each year across the world," he added. Although, if taken separately, being overweight led to twice as many cancer cases as diabetes, the study showed.
Meantime, the number of women who suffered from joint effect of the two risk factors was nearly twice as bigger than that of men. The majority of all cases in women were of breast cancer, amounting to roughly 30 percent. While men mostly suffered from liver cancer in 42.8 percent of the instances.
Most of the cancers occurred in wealthy Western countries, with East and southeast Asia coming in second.
The increases of diabetes from 1980 to 2002 led to a quarter of all 2012 cases, whereas excessive weight is responsible for another 30 percent. Given the surge of these triggers, “clinical and public health efforts should focus on identifying preventive and screening measures for populations and for individual patients,” the researcher said.
“It is important that effective food policies are implemented to tackle the rising prevalence of diabetes, high BMI and the diseases related to these risk factors.”
The number of diabetes patients has soared rapidly from 108 million in 1980 to more than 400 million in 2014, according to the World Health Organization. At the same time, a staggering 1.9 billion people were overweight in 2016, including 650 million being obese, the WHO says. | <urn:uuid:629b0951-41a9-43e8-92ff-627c261ed75a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rt.com/news/411232-diabetes-obesity-cause-cancer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968035 | 431 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Hong Kong universities will soon reopen for the September 2020 semester as the country grapples with a new wave of coronavirus cases.
Once a model on managing the pandemic, with life and education pretty much undisturbed, the city is on edge as it had another record number of COVID-19 infections yesterday. Last Friday, the Hong Kong government said kindergarten, primary and secondary schools will be closed until further notice.
How will this new development affect its universities? Here’s what we know so far:
1. Hong Kong universities will still teach online
All eight publicly funded Hong Kong universities have suspended face-to-face classes since February, shifting learning online.
Come September, these Hong Kong universities will “gradually or partially return” to in-person classes for the 2020/21 academic year, according to the South China Morning Post:
- University of Hong Kong (HKU)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Chinese University (CUHK)
- City University (CityU)
- Lingnan University
At HKU, international students who are unable to return to Hong Kong due to visa, quarantine or travel arrangement issues will be able to access materials online for the first three weeks of the semester.
CityU will deliver lessons “primarily online” this semester. Lingnan University is adopting a blended approach of face-to-face and online classes — if “all goes well,” it would reopen campus fully.
2. Smaller classes may be able to resume
Whether face-to-face classes will resume in your university will depend on the number of pupils in a specific class and the ability of lecture halls to accommodate physical distancing.
HKU, for example, will allow in-person sessions for classes no more than 25 pupils. Lectures with more than 90 students will proceed online this term.
3. Flexible deadlines for application
Applicants to HKU have until noon of Aug. 20, 2020 (Hong Kong time) to submit their applications. Documents, updates to academic evidence and reference letters can be submitted after the application.
CUHK is similarly allowing and considering late applications after the deadline. Its website states: “The University is prepared to take into consideration, in the event of disruption or cancellation of exams (e.g. IB, GCE A Levels), results/grading/certification (or other relevant arrangements) issued by the relevant examination authorities or schools. In selection for admission, these will be accepted as evidence of their academic potentials, which will be holistically considered together with all relevant academic and non-academic achievements and experiences, and performance at interview (where applicable). | <urn:uuid:5ac9a881-c808-4413-b804-f589af1d6260> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studyinternational.com/news/hong-kong-universities-what-the-september-semester-will-look-like/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.921372 | 553 | 1.6875 | 2 |
A 9-week old Beagle puppy from Oklahoma near the Texas border was presented with syncope, labored breathing, and ascites. Electrocardiogram revealed prominent conduction abnormalities. The pup was euthanitized due to cardiac decompensation. A Giemsa stained blood smear was prepared prior to euthanasia. The organisms below were observed by microscopy (100X objective).
These are trypomastigotes of Trypanosoma cruzi, causative agent of Chagas Disease, or American Canine Trypanosomiasis. Trypanosoma cruzi is endemic in parts of Texas, and is transmitted by triatomine bugs (commonly called "kissing" or "assassin bugs") via the stercorarian route. Metacyclic trypomastigotes deposited by infected triatomines invade cells near the bite site or of intact mucosa and rapidly transform into amastigotes, which undergo repeated rounds of asexual reproduction. Trans-placental transmission of the parasite is also documented. Trypanosoma cruzi disseminates in the vertebrate host, and damage is particularly pronounced in cardiac tissue in acute and chronic canine Chagas infections.
Have feedback on the cases or a special case you would like to share? Please email us. We will appropriately credit all submittors for any cases and photos provided. | <urn:uuid:f2989e18-acf5-4a2b-8811-e0ab5a4f7543> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ncvetp.org/case-of-the-month/archives/10-2015 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.930523 | 301 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Exclusive Q&A on Energy & Natural Resources with Mr. Venkatesh Raman Prasad
Can you outline the current energy & natural resources landscape in your jurisdiction?
India is the third largest energy consumer in the world, and its energy requirements are met through both renewable and non-renewable sources. As per the Energy Statistics, 2018 issued by Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation, Government of India (GoI), 87% of the energy requirement for the year 2016-17 was met through conventional sources such as coal (43%), crude oil (35%), natural gas (7%) and lignite (2%), and 13% was met through hydro, nuclear and other renewable sources. The conventional fuel requirement is met through imports as well as domestic production where about 30% of coal, 86% of crude oil and 38% of natural gas are imported.
Pursuant to India’s underlying commitment under the Paris agreement to reduce carbon emissions and to achieve its ~40% cumulative power installed capacity from non-fossil fuel-based energy resources by 2030, the GoI has taken various initiatives to give impetus to energy production and consumption from renewable sources and natural gas.
Have there been any recent regulatory changes or interesting developments?
In the recent years, there have been a number of regulatory and policy changes that have been introduced in India’s energy sector. In the Oil and Gas sector, the GoI has revamped the existing policies to enhance domestic production. Some of these policies include, (i) introduction of a new licensing regime for award of oil and gas blocks- Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy (HELP) with features including open acreage licensing policy, revenue sharing model (as against the previous production sharing model) and pricing freedom (as against the previous pricing formula based regime); (ii) the marginal field/ discovered small fields (DSF) policy to bring the existing marginal fields of the National Oil Companies to production; and (iii) policy to promote and incentivise enhanced recovery methods for oil and gas in the existing and new blocks. The first licensing rounds under the HELP and DSF have been successfully completed and the second rounds for these are in play.
Further, specifically to promote accessibility to natural gas, the GoI in 2018 has issued 84 authorizations pursuant to the 9th round of bidding for City Gas Distribution (CGD) system. These are almost double the authorizations granted in the previous rounds. Additionally, various projects such as the Pradhan Mantri Urja Ganga Project have been initiated by the GoI to enhance the gas pipeline connectivity in the country. Currently, about 11,000 km of gas pipeline network is under construction.
The GoI has taken various initiatives in the power and renewable sector as well. These include better enforcement mechanisms for fulfilling renewable purchase obligations, tariff based competitive bidding, setting up of exclusive solar parks, granting exemptions from payment of transmission charges and losses, commitment to achieve 175 GW of renewable energy by 2022, and revision of the National Tariff Policy to provide for increasing renewable purchase obligations to reach 8% by 2022.
In addition to the above, the GoI in 2015, also introduced FAME India Scheme (Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India) to support hybrid/electric vehicles market in India. This seeks to give impetus to use of electric vehicles and is likely to reduce dependence on conventional fuels such as petrol, diesel etc. in the transportation segment.
Are there any barriers or restrictions to foreign investment for energy and natural resources in your jurisdiction?
Foreign Investment in India is governed by the Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy read with the Foreign Exchange Management (Transfer or Issue of Security by Persons Resident Outside India) Regulations, 2018. Generally, in the energy sector, FDI up to 100% is permitted under the automatic route (i.e., without seeking specific approval of GoI), barring a few exceptions. For instance, FDI is prohibited in atomic energy sector; in the petroleum refining space, where petroleum refining is carried out by the public-sector undertakings (without any disinvestment or dilution of domestic equity in the existing PSUs), FDI up to 49% is permitted under automatic route. Further, in relation to sale of coal, the GoI is actively considering to permit 100% FDI in coal mining activities including associated processing infrastructure. Additionally, there are certain restrictions on investments by citizens/ entities of specified nations, i.e., Bangladesh and Pakistan where investment is permissible pursuant to the GoI approval.
How has the domestic landscape impacted, positively or negatively, the ability to conduct cross-border business?
In recent years, there have been a number of legislative and policy developments and its impact on cross-border business has been largely positive.
In the last one year, India’s rank in the World Bank’s ease of doing business has moved up to 77 from Rank 100, with high leap in the indicator for ‘trading across borders’. As per the World Bank report, the notable factors for this leap are the improvement in time and costs for import-export compliances, new and robust systems for electronic documents filing and robust risk management systems.
In order to give significant impetus to the investments being made to India, as mentioned above, 100% FDI is permitted in most activities related to the energy sector. Further, a number of concessions are made through competitive bidding where no special preference is given to Indian parties. For instance, award of blocks for the exploration and production activities in the oil and gas sector, authorisations for city gas distribution systems etc.
In the electricity sector, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries had signed a SAARC Framework Agreement for Energy Cooperation (electricity) in 2014. In December 2016, the GoI issued guidelines for cross-border trade of electricity (CBTE). Under the said guidelines, import of electricity is subject to approval from the designated authority (i.e. Central Electricity Authority (CEA)) on a case to case basis. However, one-time approval from designated authority is required in certain conditions for participating in CBTE, such as import of electricity from generation projects that are owned or funded by the GoI/ Indian Public Sector Units or a private companies with 51% or more Indian entity (entities) ownerships.
Can you outline the current merger & acquisition landscape?
In recent years, the energy sector has witnessed an increase in the Merger & Acquisitions (M & A) activities on account of various factors, some of which are discussed below:
Consolidation of domestic businesses: In the renewable energy sector, businesses have consolidated due to factors such as tariff pressure and low number of projects being bided out. In the Union Budget for 2017-18, the GoI proposed consolidation of public sector oil companies into an ‘oil major’ to compete with the performance of large international and domestic private companies.Pursuant to the proposal and due to volatility of crude oil prices and low refining margins, large public-sector undertakings in oil and gas sector are undergoing consolidations. Some of the major transactions of the year 2018, include Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited’s acquisition of a controlling stake in Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited and ReNew Power’s take-over of Ostro Energy.
New Insolvency Code: Enforcement of the new Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (IBC) has given a boost to M&A and restructuring activity across different energy sectors, particularly power. Since, power sector is capital intensive, and projects have a long gestation period, over the years, the sector has been plagued with number of stressed assets. The IBC prescribes an institutional, time bound framework for resolution of insolvency cases and inter alia provides for auction sale of businesses facing insolvency. Therefore, as a consequence of the enforcement of IBC, a number of stressed assets have become available for acquisitions and are generating interest amongst players.
Policy Initiatives:To boost investment and unlock the sectoral potential, GoI has introduced various sector specific policies. For instance, in the renewables sector, incentives offered by the GoI and the state governments (which include generation-based incentives, capital and interest subsidies, viability gap funding, and concessional financing options) make the companies operating in this sector an attractive target for acquisitions.
Are there any barriers to renewable energy and if so how can companies overcome these challenges?
Below are some of the barriers faced by the players in the renewable energy sector:
Moves by regulators to make regulated tariffs commensurate with competitively bid out tariffs.
Pressure on bidders to quote low tariffs and proposed cap on competitive procured tariffs to put more pressure on developers.
In light of lower competitively procured tariffs, there is reluctance of distribution companies to agree on earlier negotiated power purchase agreements with higher tariffs, as well as distribution licensees demand for revision of concluded tariffs.
The distribution companies have poor financial health and are forced to seek power at the low costs to cover their losses. This makes renewable energy a lesser viable option as it is costlier to other sources such as coal.
Non-compliance with renewable purchase obligations (and no or low penalties imposed in this regard), and non-sale of renewable energy certificates.
Expansion of transmission infrastructure is critical to large-scale renewable energy deployment, as there is an absence of long-term planning to address evacuation needs. In particular, grid integration is a demand side barrier in case of solar energy as states accounting for solar generation represent less demand that leads to localised power surpluses and such power cannot be easily transmitted to external locations.
Duty on import of solar modules from China and Malaysia has led to an increase in the cost of development of projects.
Delays relating to conversion of land usage or land ceilings.
However, the GoI is putting in place a number of policies to boost the sector which include incentives and capital subsidies for the companies undertaking business in the renewable energy sector.
Venkatesh Raman Prasad is part of the leadership team of JSA in the Infrastructure, Transportation & Energy space.
Venkatesh practices Corporate and Civil laws with a focus on advising/representing clients on Domestic and Cross Border Investments, Mergers & Acquisitions, Entry strategies, Transaction structuring, Joint Venture, Technology transfer and Private Equity funding especially in the Transportation(including Railways, MRTS, Dedicated Freight Corridors), Energy (including RE, Oil & Gas value chain LNG), Infrastructure (including Construction and Engineering), Automotive (including HEV and EV) & Make in India related initiatives. Venkatesh’s role in these transactions has included negotiations, drafting, complex structuring, rendering strategic advice and interacting with foreign law firms, investment banks and financial advisors.
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A Book on Apparitions
of the Virgin Mary
by The M+G+R
The Response of the Roman Catholic
Church to Certain Marian Apparitions
In this document the reader will find a brief analysis of certain
Apparitions, including details such us the complaints and requests from
Heaven, as well as the consequences to the world as the result of lack
of appropriate response by the Controlling Church Hierarchy.
Please Note: The numbering of references ("Ref. 1",
etc.) refers to the Bibliography.
Guadalupe, Miraculous Medal, Lourdes, Beauraing and Banneux
1 & 10]
In the case of the Our Lady of Guadalupe
Apparitions, we may surmise that She was intervening to achieve the
massive conversion and consolation that was not being accomplished by
those who were charged with Evangelizing the Americas. Aware of the
emotional and cultural background of the natives and their childlike
trust in the supernatural, God knew that an apparition of His Mother
would be believed immediately and, without a set of instructions,
massive conversions would take place. It happened!
In the Apparition called of the Miraculous
, the Blessed Virgin introduced the concept that we could
appeal to Her through the virtue of Her Immaculate Conception. Around
the border of the medal, that She requested be struck, reads: "Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us
who have recourse to thee."
On December 8, 1854, Pope Pius IX, obedient to Divine inspiration,
proclaimed the Dogma of Her Immaculate Conception.
, on March 25, 1858,
our Lady announced to Bernadette that She was "The Immaculate
Conception" . This was the confirmation from Heaven of the earlier
message of the Miraculous Medal ("...conceived without sin...").
Thus through the apparitions of the Miraculous Medal, the proclamation
of the Dogma of Her Immaculate Conception and Her confirmation of it in
1858 through Her Lourdes podium, Heaven set the stage for the promotion
of the devotion to Her Immaculate Heart.
In subsequent Apparitions of Our Lord and of Our Lady, Her Immaculate
Heart has been compared to Noah's Ark. That is, the only safe refuge
during the great tribulations and chastisements that would follow from
the mid 19th Century to the end of These Times, was to be Her
In Beauraing and Banneux
was nothing She could add to what was said in Fátima. The
Controlling Church Hierarchy was not doing what She had asked and the
world was about to plunge into WW II. This writer surmises that She was
hoping that by Her mere public reappearance the faithful would remember
the events at Fátima and, at last, take the action requested.
- [Ref. 2]
The prophecies of La Salette are extensive and detailed and very
important to our times.
With the illumination from the Holy Spirit one may discern that in La
Salette She spoke of events up to, and including, the end of These
Times. More than half of the prophecies deal with apocalyptic events
that are already at our doors. As expected, they agree very well with
the urgent messages from Heaven being delivered since the early sixties
as well as with the Holy Scriptures.
For the purposes of this work, this writer has selected some of the
very key prophecies and warnings that clearly corroborate their
Prophecies and Warnings
priests, ministers of my son, ..., by their wicked lives, by their
irreverence and impiety in the celebration of the holy mysteries, ...
have become cesspools of impurity. Yes, the priests are asking for
vengeance, and vengeance is hanging over their heads".
"The chiefs, the leaders of the
people of God have neglected prayer and penance, and the devil has
bedimmed their intelligence."
"May he (Pope Pius IX) be on his
guard against Napoleon; he is two-faced, and when he wishes to make
himself Pope as well as Emperor, soon God will draw back from him."
"In the year 1864, Lucifer together
with a large number of demons will be unloosed from hell; they will put
an end to faith little by little, even in those dedicated to God. They
will blind them in such way, that, unless they are blessed with a
special grace, these people will take on the spirit of these angels
from hell; several religious institutions will lose all faith and will
lose many souls."
"Evil books will be abundant on
earth, and the spirits of darkness will spread everywhere a universal
slackening in all that concerns the service of God. They will have
great power over Nature; there will be churches built to serve these
"All the civil governments
one and the same plan, which will be to abolish and do away with every
religious principle, to make way for materialism, atheism, spiritualism
and vice of all kinds".
"France, Italy, Spain and England
will be at war... Frenchman will fight Frenchman, Italian will fight
Italian. A general war will follow which will be appalling."
note: When the secret of La Salette is read in its entirety few
factors must be considered:
1. Melanie did
not take shorthand nor could record it. She wrote it down from memory.
2. Some of the events were so far in advance, as much
as 130 years, that she was writing about events that she could not even
comprehend. (Imagine, if she had been told about communication
satellites; how would she had written down the information logically?)
3. Some of the events are out of chronology. Were
Melanie's thoughts a little confused as to the order Our Lady revealed
the secrets, or were they to be like the book of Revelations, which,
unless the sequence is decoded by the Holy Spirit, it does not make
4. The time span in between events, especially in the
end of These Times portion of the secret, may have been changed. We
must remember that Our Lady has asked us, for decades, to pray much to
shorten the period of the tribulations. This shortening of the period
of tribulations was also predicted by Our Lord in the Gospels.
With a quick look at the events in Europe from the second half of that
century (19th) plus the events in Europe and the Americas in the first
half of the 20th century, it is easy to see how accurate She predicted
all the horrors that were going to befall the world.
From the decaying clergy that resulted in brutal church persecution in
many European countries, to the birth of Marxism (the seed of the
scourge of humanity, atheistic materialism), to World War II, to the
subtle ways governments have separated God and the state, which has
yielded atheistic societies that still call themselves Christians, to
the onslaught of pornography in every aspect of social communications
which is now called 'adult entertainment', to the atrocities of the
French Communes of the 19th century, to Arian supremacy with its
father, Hitler, all have been fulfilled.
This writer does not believe that there is another Apparition of Our
Lady that has prophesied so much and that already has occurred.
What is simply overwhelming is that She talks about these Ends Times,
NOW, with great detail, and in perfect harmony with Scriptural
forecasts of the events of the End Times, which in turn are in harmony
with the apocalyptic revelations through Fátima, Garabandal, San
Nicolas and Medjugorje.
This writer strongly encourages all to study and meditate on what was
relayed to us so many years ago. This may be critical for the
understanding of today's world. One may even see in Her prophecy "...the Apostles of the Last Days... who
lived in scorn... in chastity and in union with God... to... come out
fill the world with light"
, the many fine priests, religious and
members of the laity who today are serenely faithful to the Gospel and
the Faith they profess regardless of the mockery by the Christian right
and left and deviations of the Controlling Roman Catholic Hierarchy.
- [Ref. 3A, 3B & 4]
Complaints, Requests and
Note explaining the
comments in brackets "[ ]"
This writer, while comparing the officially published English version
and the original Portuguese version and the handwritten text of Sister
Lucia, found some discrepancies in translation and punctuation that can
change the meaning dramatically. The words or punctuation in "" are
believed by this author to be the correct ones. Following are the
replaced words, phrases and punctuation. (a) "there will be peace" (b)
"about" (c) "famine" (d) "there will be peace" (e) "causing" (f) "."(g)
We must also remember that S. Lucia wrote what the Virgin Mary said.
Therefore, it must be read and intellectually processed as if being
heard. Scans of the sections in question in Sister Lucia's own
handwriting may be accessed. (1)
have seen hell where the souls of poor sinners go. To save them, God
wishes to establish in the world devotion to my Immaculate Heart. If
what I say to you is done, many souls will be saved [you will have
peace (a)]. The war (referring to WW I) is going to end; but if people
do not cease offending God, a worse one will break out (referring to WW
II) during the Pontificate of Pius XI. When you see a night illuminated
by an unknown light, know that this is the great sign given you by God
that He is [going (b)] to punish the world for its crimes, by means of
war, [hunger (c)], and persecutions of the Church and of the Holy
"To prevent this, I shall come to ask
for the consecration of Russia to my Immaculate Heart, and the
Communion of Reparation on the First Saturdays. If my requests are
heeded, Russia will be converted, and [you will have peace (d)]; if
not, she will spread her errors throughout the world, [promoting (e)]
wars and persecutions of the Church. The good will be martyred; the
Holy Father will have much to suffer; various nations will be
annihilated[; (f)] [in (g)] the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph.
The Holy Father will consecrate Russia to me, and she will be
converted, and a period of peace will be granted to the world. In
Portugal the dogma of the Faith will be preserved, etc." (here
commences the undisclosed portion of the original secret)
The above should be assimilated in conjunction with what Our Lady said
to Sister Lucia in June 13, 1929...
moment has come in which God asks the Holy Father, in union with all
the Bishops of the world, to make the consecration of Russia to my
Immaculate Heart, promising to save it by this means. There are so many
souls whom the Justice of God condemns for sins committed against me,
that I have come to ask reparation: sacrifice yourself for this
intention and pray." Later, in an intimate communication, Our
complained to Sister Lucia, saying:
Our Response and the
"They did not wish to heed my
request. Like the King of France, they will repent and do it, but it
will be too late. Russia will have already spread her errors throughout
the world, provoking wars, and persecutions of the Church; the Holy
Father will have much to suffer."
Nothing was done and on January 24, 1938, Sister Lucia, the only then
living Fátima visionary, and the world, saw the sky of Northern
Europe crimson red from 9 P.M. to 2 A.M.. Lucia knew that that was the
sign from God that it was too late. Hitler started his invasions that
summer and the war was officially declared on September 1, 1939. It was
after this, on September 13, 1939, that the Bishop of Leiria started
promoting the request of the acts of reparation on the First Saturdays.
In the same "spirit of delayed urgency", Russia, by name or implied,
was consecrated to the Immaculate Heart of Mary in 1942, 1952, 1964,
1982 and 1984. The last four ones were done after Russia had completely
overrun the world with "its errors".
As Sister Lucia stated in a rare interview granted to El Sol de
Fátima [Ref. 4]
when asked about correctness of the 1982
Consecration, she answered: "Yes. But late." This, of course is in
perfect agreement with the, above quoted, intimate communication Our
Lord had with Sister Lucia after June 13, 1929
Our Lord seems to have granted the temporary collapse of the Soviet
Union as a show of His immense power. However, Russia did spread her
errors from 1929 until now. Those errors have brought the world to the
verge of a major world conflagration which may soon commence.
The very architect of the apparent collapse of the Soviet Union and
Communism, Mikhail Gorbachev, declared in an interview published in
Portugal on December 30, 1992, [Ref.
that: "U.S.S.R. STILL EXISTS!"
We all are familiar with the folklore maxim: Where there is smoke,
there is a fire. It is then plausible that Communism, better called
"atheistic materialism", still exists and is awaiting the right
opportunity for its comeback.
- [Ref. 5 & 5A]
"...the religious who, for a long
now, have become indifferent thus betraying their vocation, and, as a
result of their offenses, have brought about the punishments and
persecutions which are raging against the Church at the present time
(1947) - will stop to offend Our Lord". [p.8 of Ref. 5]
"I am the Mother of Jesus and the
Mother of all of you. Our Lord send me to bring a new Marian Devotion
to all religious orders and institutes, male and female, and to the
priests of this world. I promise to protect those religious orders and
institutes who will venerate me in this special way, increase their
vocations, and achieve a greater striving for saintliness among the
servants of God". [p.8
of Ref. 5]
"I have placed myself as the
mediatrix between my Divine Son and mankind, especially for the souls
consecrated to God. Tired of the continued offenses, He already wanted
to dispense His Justice." [p.9 of Ref. 5]
Action and Consequences
Individuals of the Church Hierarchy and clergy have done very little to
promote the messages, thus, no real change.
Consequences: The entire body of the Church is in total disarray. Many
Shepherds have been struck thus the flock has scattered and submerged
in errors leading to the eventual open schism within the Church.
- [Ref. 6]
Complaints and Requests
These are summed up in two critical messages...
October 18, 1961 - Conchita, the principal visionary, relates to us
that Our Lady said that we must make many sacrifices, perform much
penance, and visit Jesus present in the Eucharist frequently. But
first, we must lead good lives. If we do not, a chastisement will
befall us. The cup is already filling up, and if we do not change, a
very great chastisement will come upon us.
On June 18, 1965 Our Lady sends St. Michael with the following message:
my message of October 18 has not been complied with and has not been
made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one.
Before, the cup was filling up. Now it is flowing over. Many Cardinals,
many Bishops and many priests are on the road to perdition and are
taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to
the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of God away from yourselves by
your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will
pardon you. I, your Mother, through the intercession (*) of Saint
Michael the Archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are now
receiving the last warnings. I love you very much and do not want your
condemnation. Pray to us with sincerity and we will grant your
requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the passion of
(*) The visionary wrote down "intercesión" (which
translates to "intercession") due to her not recognizing or knowing the
word "intervención" (which translates to "intervention").
- [Ref. 6A]
For a comprehensive list of the Heavenly Complaints, Requests and
Warnings please the see the source document (2)
. Following, there are
some key excerpts.
August 3, 1973
men in this world afflict the Lord. I desire souls to console Him to
soften the anger of the Heavenly Father. I wish, with My Son, for souls
who will repair by their suffering and their poverty for sinners and
October 13, 1973
"In order that the world might know
His anger, the Heavenly Father is preparing to inflict a great
chastisement on all mankind. With My Son I have intervened so
many times to appease the wrath of the Father. I have prevented the
coming of calamities by offering Him the sufferings of the Son on the
Cross, His Precious Blood, and beloved souls who console Him forming a
cohort of victim souls. Prayer, penance and courageous sacrifices can
soften the Father's anger."
told you, if men do not repent and better themselves, the Father will
inflict a terrible punishment on all humanity. It will be a punishment
greater than the deluge, such as one will never have seen before. Fire
will fall from the sky and will wipe out a great part of humanity, the
good as well as the bad, sparing neither priests nor faithful.
The survivors will find themselves so desolate that they will envy the
dead. The only arms which will remain for you will be the Rosary and
the Sign left by My Son. Each day recite the prayers of the Rosary.
With the Rosary, pray for the Pope (1), the bishops and the priests."
"The work of the devil will
infiltrate even the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals
opposing cardinals, bishops against other bishops. The priests who
venerate Me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres... churches
and altars sacked, the Church will be full of those who accept
compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls
to leave the service of the Lord."
"The demon will be especially
implacable against souls consecrated to God. The thought of the loss of
so many soul is the cause of My sadness. If sins increase in number and
gravity, there will be no longer pardon for them."
"With courage, speak to your
superior. He will know how to encourage each one of you to pray and to
accomplish works of reparation."
- [Ref. 7]
The Complaint and Request may be summed up by three of the messages:
October 13, 1983
Our Lady referred us to Ezekiel 2:4-10
in which, in harsh language, Our Lord vehemently complains about His
rebellious people: "Hard headed
children with an obstinate heart". [p.5 of Ref. 8]
March 27, 1986
Our Lord Jesus stated that: "If this generation does not listen to My
Mother, it will perish. I ask everyone to listen to Her. Man's
conversion is necessary. It is better to look up and to know what He
Who is there says, rather than to move adrift. Think about it."
[p.43 of Ref. 8]
December 30, 1989
Our Lord Jesus stated that: "In the past, the world was saved by the
Ark of Noah. Today My Mother is the Ark. It is through Her, that souls
will be saved, because She will lead them to Me. He who rejects My
Mother, rejects Me. Many are those who allow the grace of God to pass
these days." [p.45 of
- [Ref. 8 & 9]
Father Tomislav Vlasic of the St. James Parish submitted a letter to
His Holiness, Pope John Paul II on December, 1983. This was done at the
urging of one of the visionaries, Marija Pavlovic: "The Madonna says that the Supreme Pontiff
and the Bishop must be advised immediately of the urgency and great
importance of the message of Medjugorje."
The letter, as
published in Reference 8 (pp. 142-144), is accessible (3)
It could be surmised that the "rushed consecration" of the world to the
Immaculate Heart of Mary (with veiled reference to Russia) done by Pope
John Paul II, on March 25, 1984, was as a direct result of this urgent
message through Medjugorje.
At this point we wish to remind our readers about our position about
was from God at the beginning but when it was turned into just another
business to be exploited using the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary
it was no more. That is why we say that we agree with the local
Bishops at the beginning - when it was accepted as being from God - and
also afterwards - when it was denied as a farce.
What was one of the first teachings that Mary imparted at the very
beginning? On July 21, 1982, She is reported to have said (and repeated
fasting and prayer, one can stop wars, one can suspend the laws of
It was in 1987 - six years after the first Marian manifestation - when
the winds of war started to blow in the Federal Republic Of Yugoslavia
Medjugorje was located. Essentially the Milosevic era
started and the rest is history... a bloody war history still being
worked out in the World Tribunal at The Hague.
Then we must ponder upon the following: Either Mary lied or the millions upon millions that
visited Medjugorje prior to the Milosevic era were no more than
religious tourists who took home with them little more than their dirty
laundry and a few souvenirs.
Of course Mary did not lie! What She said is true and we know it (not
believe it, but know it from much personal experience). Obviously, as
we have seen far too many times, once back at home most of the new
"converts" were only converted... to Religious Tourism! Prayer, fasting
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Many Christians have given up believing in miracles.
For them, the age of miracles belongs to the early church, when awe-inspiring events—like Moses parting the red sea, the virgin birth, and Jesus rising from the dead—confirmed the authenticity and divine nature of God and Jesus.
But just because we don’t see phenomena of biblical proportions occurring today does not mean that God has left the business of miracles. From second chances at life to scientifically unexplained mysteries, these real-life stories are powerful reminders that God is at work in modern times, and that we must never give up hope and faith.
A “mysterious voice” led rescuers to find child who survived for 14 hours in submerged car.
In March 2015, Lynn Jennifer Groesbeck, 25, lost control of her car and landed in the icy Spanish Fork River in Utah.
Fourteen hours later, first responders found her 18-month-old daughter, Lily, in her car seat hanging upside down just above frigid river water.
Prior to finding Lily, both police officers and firefighters report that they heard an adult voice yell “Help me!” from inside the car.
They discovered that the voice could not have come from the young mother, who likely died from the impact.
The rescuers still can’t explain the voice or how the girl survived hanging upside-down for 14 hours in freezing temperatures without being dressed for the cold.
A woman who came back to life after having no pulse for 45 minutes.
Ruby Graupera-Cassimiro, 40, fell unconscious from a rare amniotic fluid embolism during a cesarean section in September 2014 at the Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Florida.
Doctors tried to revive Graupera-Cassimiro for three hours. After 45 minutes without a pulse, doctors decided to invite her family into the operating room to say their last goodbyes.
Then what doctors are calling a “miracle” occurred — her heart began beating on its own.
Graupera-Cassimiro has revealed that during the experience, she felt herself floating along a tunnel and seeing spiritual beings, including her father, surrounded in light.
What’s even more incredible is that Graupera-Cassimiro suffered no brain damage and made a full recovery. Her baby girl is also healthy and happy.
A boy who fell into an icy stream was resuscitated after nearly two hours of CPR.
Gardell Martin, 22-months-old, was playing with his siblings outside his parents’ home in Mifflinburg, PN, in March 2015 when he fell into a gushing creek with 34-degree water.
Gardell was found a quarter of a mile away by a neighbor, unconscious and without a pulse. Emergency personnel were called to the scene and immediately began performing CPR, which continued uninterrupted for 101 minutes as they transported him via an ambulance and a helicopter to a hospital.
His body’s temperature upon arrival was 77-degrees, well below the normal temperature of 98.6-degrees. After doctors gradually warmed the boy over 24 hours—he remarkably woke up without any apparent signs of neurological damage.
The power of community prayer sparked a healing miracle that doctors can’t explain.
he end of Grayson Kirby seemed inevitable when he was thrown from a demolition derby car at the Mid-Atlantic Power Festival in Ruckersville, VA, in June 2014.
The accident left him in a coma. His lungs were crushed and nearly every other bone in his body was broken. His brain also suffered multiple strokes and hemorrhages and his kidneys were failing. If he did wake up, he would likely—to put it bluntly—be a vegetable.
But his family refused to give up and turned to prayer. Thousands of people in the community and beyond kept Kirby in their thoughts and prayers and wore red shirts designed to show support for the injured man.
In a final attempt to revive Kirby, doctors hooked him up to a machine typically used for transplant patients, not trauma patients. Whether it was due to a divine intervention or medical intervention (or both), it worked.
Ten days after the accident, Kirby opened his eyes and mouthed the words, “I love you,” to his father.
The doctors couldn’t believe it, and neither could Kirby.
“I’m humble, I’m grateful, just amazed.” Kirby said. “I know that God saved me. I know that prayer and believing saved me.”
Vatican confirms Colorado boy was healed by nun from the beyond the grave.
The Roman Catholic Church has a rigid, formalized vetting process when evaluating miracles, which are defined as divine events that have no natural or scientific explanation. Investigating a single miracle could take years.
After a 14-year process, the Vatican released its verdict on a young boy’s sudden recovery from a debilitating gastrointestinal condition: It was a miracle.
Doctors tried everything: antibiotics, diets, and tests. But it seemed nothing could stop 4-year-old Luke Burgie from literally wasting away in 1998.
The eight to 10 violent bouts of diarrhea he experienced every day for six months forced him to drop out of preschool. After doctors began to suspect cancer, the boy’s mother, a devout Catholic, began looking outside of medicine for a cure. She asked nuns to pray for Luke.
Sister Margaret Mary Preister and the late Sister Evangeline Spenner knew what to do. They asked the founder of their order, Mother Theresia Bonzel, a German nun who lived 100 years ago, to intervene. The nuns prayed a novena, a nine-day vigil, asking Bonzel to heal Luke.
As soon as their novena was complete, Luke woke up and his stomach no longer hurt him. The illness never returned.
“I knew immediately that it was a miracle,” mother Jan Burgie said.
God shows man the power of marriage during life-threatening hold up.
We’ve all heard that married people live longer. But for one man, marriage literally saved his life.
Donnie Register was working the cash register at his store located in the Antique Market in Jackson, Miss., when two men walked in and held him at gunpoint and demanded money.
A shot was fired at Register’s head as he threw up his hands. Remarkably, his wedding ring deflected the bullet. Pieces of the bullet lodged into his neck and fingers, but none of his injuries were fatal.
Register, who has been married for 38 years, doesn’t chalk it up to luck. He believes his marriage saved his life.
“I knew being married was a good thing,” he said. “I just didn’t know it was that good.”
His wife gives God all the credit, and says this story is a good reminder that men should always wear their wedding rings.
These stories are powerful reminders that nothing is impossible when it comes to God.
In the Bible Jesus said, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘move from here to there’ and it will move.” (Matthew 17:20).
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This quadrangle is in the following counties: Island, Snohomish.
The map contains contour lines, roads, rivers, towns, and lakes. Printed on high-quality waterproof paper with UV fade-resistant inks, and shipped rolled.
Contains the following named places: Bay View, Bayview Alternative High School, Bayview Park and Ride, Bells Beach, Bretland, Camp Diana, City of Langley, East Point, Elger Bay, First Baptist Church of South Whidbey, House of Prayer Church, Island Christian Academy, Island County Fire District 1 Camano Island Fire and Rescue Station 5 Mabana, Island County Fire District 3 Langley Fire Hall, Island County Fire Protection District 3 South Whidbey Fire / EMS Langley Station 34, Island County Fire Protection District 3 South Whidbey Fire / EMS Saratoga Station 35, Lake Goss, Langley, Langley Christian and Missionary Alliance Church, Langley Christian and Missionary Alliance Preschool, Langley City Hall, Langley City Small Boat Harbor, Langley Library, Langley Middle School, Langley Police Department, Langley Post Office, Langley Sewage Treatment Plant, Langley United Methodist Church, Langley Woodman Cemetery, Lone Lake, Lowell Point, Mabana, Mabana Chapel, Maple Cove, Pebble Beach, Saint Hubert Catholic Church, Sandy Point, Saratoga, South Whidbey Assembly of God Church, South Whidbey Elementary School, South Whidbey Generating Station, South Whidbey High School, South Whidbey Intermediate School, South Whidbey School District 206 Office, Sunny Shore Acres, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Tillicum Beach, Tyee Beach, Useless Bay Golf and Country Club, Wheel Estates Mobile Home Park, Whidbey Air Park, Whidbey General Emergency Medical Services South, Whidbey Island Academy Shared School, Whidbey Island Center for the Arts, Wood Landing Strip, ZIP Code: 98260 | <urn:uuid:ceb4a806-b984-47bf-8ea6-46de0d8c215f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mapstore.mytopo.com/products/historic_7-5x7-5_langley_washington | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.884166 | 481 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Guttering & Drainage
All our verandas, garden rooms and carports come with integrated guttering and drainpipes. The drainpipes are hidden within the posts, to provide a truly contemporary look. These can be linked to existing rainwater drainage systems by our team of installers or to rainwater buffering solutions such as Hydrorock® infiltration blocks.
You will have the choice of several guttering profiles:
Hydrorock® infiltration blocks buffer and drain surface- and rainwater in an environmentally friendly way with a capacity of as much as 94% of its volume. The blocks are made of a 100% natural material: rock wool. Melted rock that has been spun into fibres and subsequently shaped into a block, wrapped in a membrane of erosion-resistant filter cloth. A Hydrorock® block has a very large net volume for optimal drainage, infiltration and storage capacity. Oneblock with a volume of 360 litre can buffer as much as 340 litre of water for drainage- or infiltration purposes. The blocks can be attached easily. Dependent on the installation direction the blocks are treadable and rideable up to 2000 kg per m2.
When positioned horizontally, the fibre structure of the Hydrorock® blocks provides an excellent drainage. Vertical positioning of the Hydrorock® blocks on the other hand, allows for buffering and gradual release to the surrounding soil. The wrapping of the filter cloth, that functions as a membrane, plays an important role in this process. A top layer of app. 20-30 cm of Hydrosoil®enhances the effectiveness of the infiltration blocks. The infiltration blocks are available in different sizes with buffer capacities varying from 34 up to 340 litre. The load bearing capacity is up to 2.000 kg per m2
Hydrorock® is available in slim blocks of different sizes. For separating rainwater or the prevention of flooding by drainage and infiltration only small trenches need to be dug. This not only reduces the amount of digging activities but also limits the impact on the environment and the costs for the removal of the surplus soil.
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This award-winning blog supplements the articles in Hospital Infection Control & Prevention.
CDC creates toolkit for patient notification and followup after injection safety lapses, exposure incidents
January 12th, 2015
It’s a tragic sign of the times that recurrent injection safety lapses and hepatitis outbreaks have gotten to the point where public health officials have finally created a toolkit to guide notification and follow-up of potentially exposed patients.
That said, it’s better than the continual reinvention of the wheel and should help standardize the process and better inform future incidents. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention toolkit contains resources and templates to facilitate a swift and effective notification process.
“This toolkit is intended to be used after a health department or healthcare facility decides to notify patients of their potential exposure to infectious organisms due to an unsafe practice or infection control breach,” the CDC states. “It offers resources and template materials to facilitate the notification process as well as some essential tips and strategies.”
The toolkit is composed of four sections, not all of which may be necessary for each patient notification. The first section provides sample materials to assist with creating notification letters and reviews risk communication principles. It also includes links to fact sheets with basic information on the diseases that can be transmitted by unsafe injection practices and other basic infection control lapses. The second section covers planning media and communication strategies. The third section describes how to establish communication resources to support patient notification, such as setting up a call center. The final section offers strategies for releasing patient notification letters and describes how to work with the media and partners, the CDC reports. | <urn:uuid:0d679dbd-b387-4007-bc95-7c78d5a92823> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reliasmedia.com/blogs/hicprevent-2/cdc-creates-toolkit-for-patient-notification-and-followup-after-injection-safety-lapses-exposure-incidents | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.911113 | 340 | 2.375 | 2 |
Roll of honour
National Curry Day celebrates the lives and achievements of early ‘curry pioneers’, who came to Britain in the 1960s and ‘70s and created the unique fusion cuisine that is the great British Curry.
Tragically, we are losing many of the country’s first curry restaurateurs, who are now elderly with underlying health issues, to the Covid-19 pandemic.
These people came to a foreign land at the invitation of the British government and through their own endeavours and willingness to work anti-social hours – often in difficult circumstances, catering for the post pub trade – built a special industry, which is now an integral part of British society.
We remember them with pride of fondness. | <urn:uuid:36dbb5e1-5229-48f7-ae64-3947ddb15d8e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britishcurryday.org/curry-pioneers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959171 | 152 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Our women's mental health clinicians provide evaluation, counseling, and treatment for many challenges that affect women, including perinatal mental health concerns, stress related disorders, relationship and sexual concerns, perinatal loss and bereavement.
Our counselors are an integral part of the OHSU Center for Women's Health, working together with their physician colleagues and providing support for patients, their partners and families.
- Mental health assessment and treatment for women of all ages
- Outpatient psychotherapy/counseling with our psychiatrist or counselors
- Medication management (with or without counseling) by our psychiatrist
- Second opinions on perinatal mental health and medication management for primary care doctors and other healthcare providers
- Group cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia
Meet our team
See also perinatal mental health program | <urn:uuid:7cbff8e2-7149-47eb-a7e7-445f2172d61c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ohsu.edu/womens-health/mental-health-and-wellness | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925707 | 167 | 1.53125 | 2 |
15 Jun Call for abstracts: “Future solutions for a food secure world”
More details here
Future solutions for a food secure world
The challenges ahead to feed 9 billion people by 2050 are well articulated (and contested), but innovative solutions remain elusive and time is of the essence. One possible reason that solutions are slow to surface is the generally homogenous pool of ideas from which to draw inspiration: neoliberal and patriarchal ideologies continue to dominate the discourse on global solutions. A platform for diverse perspectives on these problems and for proposals of solutions, can identify potential solution pathways that are key to operationalizing timely strategies for a just and sustainable food future.
In this Special Issue of Solutions, young thinkers (under 40 years of age) from around the globe are invited to propose innovative solutions for a food secure world. The Special Issue will provide a platform for emerging scholars to contribute to solutions from their diverse geo-cultural and disciplinary backgrounds. Papers on any topic relating to food secure futures are welcome, including, but not limited to: agriculture, aquaculture, climate change, consumption, energy and biofuels, fisheries, indigenous food systems, labour and migration, pastoralism, and urban food systems.
The final contributions will take the form of “perspectives”: short essays (1,250-2,000 words) on new points of view from thinkers working on bold solutions. Final selection criteria will be based on a combination of quality, innovation, gender balance, and geo-cultural diversity.
For this initial stage we are seeking proposals for contributions in the form of abstracts that are:
- 250 words
- Written in an engaging style
- Include a clear explanation of the main idea (the proposed solution) and why it is important
Please also include a CV and short motivation letter to allow us to get to know the person behind the ideas. Papers in the Special Issue will be complemented by poems and works of art, and those interested in contributing one of these alternative submissions could also submit them for the 31 July 2015 deadline.
Please note that there is a three-phased review process that will require contributors to peer review at least one other contribution and potentially revise their submission three times. The intention of this is to ensure we develop a space where contributors have the support to enhance and advance their contributions. Please note however that there are tight turn-around times for contributors to revise their papers on the basis of the feedback and to resubmit. Key dates are noted below.
|31 July 2015||Abstract submission closed.|
|15 September 2015||Contributors of accepted abstracts are contacted.|
|15 January 2016||Full paper submission closed: all papers must be submitted firstname.lastname@example.org for review.|
|February 2016||Internal peer review. Contributors are matched by the editors and review each other’s papers with the aim of strengthening the contributions and identifying potential implications and impacts).|
|20 March 2016||Contributors revise and resubmit.|
|April 2016||Mentor peer review. Contributors are matched with a mentor who provides a second round of peer reviews and potentially supports the finalization of the article.|
|May 1- 15 May 2016||Contributors revise and resubmit.|
|15 May 2016||Hard deadline: all contributions must be submitted to the Guest Editors.|
|15 May – 30 June 2016||Solutions editorial team reviews submissions.|
|1 July – 15 July 2016||Final version of contributions submitted.|
Please send questions and abstracts to email@example.com by 31 July 2015
Solutions Journal is an international print and online popular academic journal that showcases innovative fixes to environmental, political, and social issues. Solutionsarticles are smart and innovative, but should be understood by the ‘educated layperson’. Contributors please avoid technical jargon and “academese” in pieces. Think of The New Yorker meets Nature. If it helps, try to imagine explaining your article to the person sitting next to you on a plane – make sure you make your points in a lucid, concise and clear way that someone outside your field can understand.
Founded in 2009 by leading ecologists and thinkers Robert Costanza, along with Paul Hawken, Bill McKibben and others, Solutions currently has a readership of 150,000 with online and bimonthly print editions. Solutions is growing fast, which is evidence that readers want to know about solutions!
To get sense of the types of articles that get published in Solutions seewww.thesolutionsjournal.com
About the Guest Editors
Dr. Jessica Duncan is a rural sociologist at Wageningen University, The Netherlands. She researches the dynamics of global food security governance with a focus on sustainability and civil society engagement.
Dr. Megan Bailey is a fisheries economist who works at the Marine Affairs Program, Dalhousie University, Canada. She focuses on understanding state and market processes that lead to improved global cooperation for fisheries governance.
These two young academics collaborate with scientists, NGOs, industry and small-scale producers throughout the world and are passionate about finding just and sustainable solutions for a food secure world.
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Highlights from 2013 – 2011
This year we prepared five more Hoopoe titles. They are now press-ready in English-Urdu editions: The Silly Chicken, Neem the Half-Boy, Fatima The Spinner and the Tent and The Magic Horse all by Idries Shah and translated by Hafeez Diwan.
To date, we have printed and distributed a total of 25,000 books of the first five titles and will print and distribute more just as soon as we have the funds to do so.
‘When I spoke to the coordinators in Muzaffargarh they told me that the children were completely caught up by the beautiful illustrations and the power of the stories! One child commented:
“I thought I would only find books of this sort in the homes my mother works in! Imagine finding them in my own school. How blessed I am!”’
from our partner is Pakistan,
Mrs. Basarat Kazim Founder and President of
Alif Laila Book Bus Society
Hoopoe Books is delighted to announce a new collaboration with the Alif Laila (Arabian Nights) Book Bus Society. Established in 1978, Alif Laila was one of the first groups in Pakistan to focus primarily on empowerment of civil society and social reform, mainly through education. It has served over one million disadvantaged children through its schools and mobile libraries, and is working with us to distribute Hoopoe Books to these children throughout Pakistan.
Alif Laila uses girls’ education to fight poverty and gender inequality, believing that “by educating girls, we are not only eradicating the secondary place of women in our society, and bringing them up to par with men, but also ensuring the advancement and modernization of our total society. An educated mother has it in her power to change the very culture of the most basic social unit — the family.”
We continue to collaborate with DIL (Developments in Literacy) to donate these beautiful children’s books to the children they serve. DIL runs 150 schools serving approximately 15,000 children, especially girls, in underdeveloped regions in Pakistan.
In June 2012 we donated 2,800 copies each of two more titles: The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal and The Old Woman and The Eagle to DIL and received this report from them.
This year begins a collaboration with DIL (Developments in Literacy) to donate these beautiful children’s books by Idries Shah to the children they serve. DIL runs 150 schools serving approximately 15,000 children, especially girls, in underdeveloped regions in Pakistan.
These are bilingual English and Urdu editions, so that children can read the Urdu translation and the English on the facing page. We have translated three titles that are now ready to print: The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water, The Clever Boy and the Terrible, Dangerous Animal and The Old Woman and The Eagle.
In June 2011 we distributed an initial 2,800 copies of the first Urdu-English bilingual edition of The Lion Who Saw Himself in the Water to DIL. The response was very heart-warming and we hope to be able to do more for these children very soon!
“The Hoopoe Books were distributed in all DIL Orangi Schools last week. The response is absolutely delightful! The children enjoyed the stories immensely, especially the colourful illustrations and characters. The younger children roared along with the lion, providing sound effects for it amidst peals of laughter saying ‘How can the King of the jungle be afraid of his own reflection?’ The older children talked about how ignorance and miscommunication can induce fear and prevent us from understanding each other but how everything worked out in the end when all the animals understood the lion and stopped fearing it.
“Even the pre-readers loved the books; looking at the pictures giggling and interpreting the images, wondering aloud what would happen next and then turning the page over in anticipation.
“The teachers enjoyed the books just as much as the children did, especially the illustrations, they said, and hoped more books of the same kind would be coming.
“One teacher said she had been doing a lesson on reflection with her grade 2 students when these books were given and was delighted to see that she could use it to reinforce her lesson. Even some of the kids who hadn’t taken an interest earlier, now understood and enjoyed the lesson.” —Zeba Shafi, Regional Program Manager South, Developments in Literacy. | <urn:uuid:ebf9f54a-fb62-48f0-a42a-d377b6704f7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://booksforpakistan.org/our-progress-backup/our-progress-2013-2011/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959241 | 945 | 1.929688 | 2 |
A swap in CFD trading means an interest added or withdrawn for holding open position overnight.
Generally, a swap is a type of a financial derivative that is usually used to hedge a certain financial risk (change in interest rates, exchange rates) or to speculate. This is an agreement of two parties on future payments from the underlying asset. A swap is an entity's obligation to a client to buy or sell at a specified time, under specified conditions.
Prior trading CFDs, make sure to understand how CFDs work. Do not underestimate the importance of education. Be aware leverage trading is risky. | <urn:uuid:4d3285d1-d59c-4121-a3a7-82f73a83f38f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gulfbrokers.com/vi/educational-glossary/swap | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940064 | 125 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Colorado Springs Utilities
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Base personnel and visitors will see an increase in construction activities near Peterson AFB and Schriever AFB. A number of these projects are key components of the Southern Delivery System water project being built by Colorado Springs Utilities, which provides water for area military installations within the city of Colorado Springs.
Over the next couple of years, construction vehicles and equipment, including trucks delivering large pipe sections and other materials, will be more prevalent on Highway 24 and Highway 94, as well as nearby roads such as Powers Boulevard, Marksheffel Road, Bradley Road and Drennan Road.
The SDS construction projects in the area include:
Water treatment plant, east of Marksheffel Road, between Highway 94 and Highway 24: The new plant will treat up to 50 million gallons a day of water initially. This treatment plant will join others in serving the Colorado Springs community, including Peterson AFB.
Bradley pump station, located south of Bradley Road, about 1.5 miles east of Marksheffel Road: This pump station is one of three that will deliver water to the new treatment plant.
Pipeline construction: The pipeline currently under construction runs north and south, generally east of Marksheffel Road. The 66-inch-diameter, blue sections of steel pipe are transported by truck, one 50-foot section per load. Crews have already installed more than 37 miles of the 50-mile SDS pipeline.
SDS is a regional project to bring Arkansas River water stored in Pueblo Reservoir to Colorado Springs, Fountain, Security and Pueblo West. The project will deliver water beginning in 2016.
Focus on safety: Colorado Springs Utilities is committed to protecting the safety of the public and its workers. Please follow these safety tips:
• Obey reduced speed limits as marked and be alert for changing traffic patterns.
• Keep a safe distance when driving near construction vehicles.
• Take extra care when traveling near the construction sites.
• Observe signs, fences, barricades and other safety measures around construction sites.
For information about these construction activities, contact the SDS information hotline at (855) 737-4968. For ongoing SDS project updates, go to www.SDSwater.org. | <urn:uuid:aaa895eb-931b-44ed-82a6-8643d6d6e71c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://csmng.com/2013/07/18/use-caution-near-sds-construction-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.924917 | 469 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Updated: Jun 26
Hockey and lacrosse have long been connected. Newsy Lalonde, one of the NHL's first superstars when the league was born in 1917, was also among Canada's top lacrosse players.
Over the years, John Tavares, Brendan Shanahan and Adam Oates were among the NHL stars who were also standouts in box lacrosse.
In fact, if you are hoping that your kid might make it big on the ice, you might want to let them put away their skates for the summer and exchange the hockey stick and puck for a lacrosse stick and ball.
“For me, it was always hockey in the winter, lacrosse in the summer,” Calgary Flames forward Sean Monahan told EliteLevelHockey.com.
Monahan grew up playing lacrosse in Brampton, Ontario. “The two really work together really well," he explained. “I think hockey and lacrosse are two sports that complement each other well."
Certainly, there are skills that cross over between the two sports. Setting screens and engaging in quick ball movement are part and parcel of creating offense on the lacrosse floor. The footwork and dexterity required to play defense are also similar to the demands of lateral movement placed upon a hockey defenseman. And the cardio workout from all the running is beneficial, much like skating all-out during a hockey shift.
“It’s such a great sport,” Monahan said. “I played it growing up and loved it. It’s my favourite sport to watch.
“You don’t realize how much goes into the game to play it. It’s aggressive and skilled – it’s a real treat to watch.”
The multi-sport approach works both ways. USA Lacrosse is emphasizing the pursuit of multi-sport athletes when it comes to the assembly of national team squads.
U.S. college lacrosse features more life-long multi-sport athletes (37%) than any other NCAA sport. Penn State lacrosse coach Jeff Tambroni acknowledged that when recruiting, he's partial to multi-sport athletes.
"I really believe multi-sport participation increases the athletic IQ of players," Tambroni told USA Lacrosse. "Being a member of different teams provides opportunities to develop game instincts that produce more athletic players.
"There are parallels between certain sports, and we'll look at a player's athleticism in another sport and project his potential as a lacrosse player." | <urn:uuid:2f52094f-512f-47df-bf1e-5fee0071cfe6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.giveandgosport.org/post/want-your-kid-to-be-a-hockey-star-then-let-them-play-lacrosse | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969015 | 526 | 2.109375 | 2 |
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. women's agency launched a campaign Monday to bring a young generation of women and men into the campaign for gender equality ahead of next year's 25th anniversary of the conference that adopted the only international platform to achieve women's rights and empowerment.
UN Women announced its new 'Generation Equality: Realizing women's rights for an equal future'' at a news conference where it also made public events planned to mark adoption of the 150-page platform for action to achieve gender equality by 189 governments at the 1995 Beijing women's conference.
'Today, nearly 25 years after the historic Beijing conference, the reality is that not a single country can claim to have achieved gender equality,'' said a statement from UN Women's executive director, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. 'Despite some progress, real change has been too slow for most women and girls in the world, and we see significant pushback in many places.''
'Women continue to be discriminated against and their contributions undervalued,'' she added. 'They work more, earn less and have fewer choices about their bodies, livelihoods and futures than men - and they experience multiple forms of violence at home, at work and in public spaces.''
Mlambo-Ngcuka said the General Equality campaign is aimed at speeding systematic change 'on the laws, policies and outdated mindsets that must no longer curtail women's voice, choice and safety.''
UN Women's deputy executive director, Asa Regner, said at the news conference that there have been positive results since Beijing. She pointed to a record number of girls in school, better access to health care, a decrease in maternal mortality, more women in top positions in the business world and fresh efforts to address violence against women and to put women at peace negotiating tables.
But she said the biggest challenges are to change male-dominated 'power structures'' that leave far more women and girls facing poverty and violence.
Ahead of next year's anniversary events, UN Women has asked all 193 U.N. member nations to submit details and data on what their countries have done to implement the 1995 Beijing platform, Regner said. As of Friday, she said, it had received 22 responses but hopes the entire membership will answer.
The Beijing platform called for bold actions in 12 critical areas for women and girls including combatting poverty and violence, improving human rights and access to reproductive and sexual health care, and ensuring that all girls get an education and that women are at the top levels of business and government, and the top table in peace negotiations.
Events leading up to next year's anniversary include the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women's annual meeting in March 2020 devoted to Beijing's implementation, a high-level meeting when world leaders gather for the annual General Assembly session in September 2020, and a 'Global Gender Equality Forum'' co-hosted by France and Mexico in France bringing civil society representatives and activists of all ages together to look to the future. No date has been announced yet for that event.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said at Monday evening's opening of an exhibition on women who were part of the Soviet Union's military effort in World War II that 'we will not achieve peace'' or any of the U.N.'s development goals for 2030 'without the full and equal participation of women.''
'Yet we all know that there is still a stark imbalance of power around the world, and we are even seeing a backlash in some areas against women's rights,'' he said.
Regner said the majority of countries favor progress on gender equality, but there is 'pushback.'' There are governments and movements, she said, that value 'so-called traditional family values and other ideas around women's and men's roles both in families and in societies which do not correspond to international agreements, and which would not necessarily give women the space and possibility to decide over their own lives, bodies, economic empowerment, etc.''
Regner, a former Swedish minister, said UN Women's task is to spur implementation of Beijing and other agreements - and 'we will never back down.'' | <urn:uuid:3c80c73d-2dc1-4fc4-b979-7eaaad45d37e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.latinamericanews.net/news/260898137/new-un-campaign-to-bring-youth-into-gender-equality-fight | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960258 | 848 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers are investigating a new approach to gene therapy for brain tumors — delivering a cancer-fighting gene to normal brain tissue around the tumor to keep it from spreading. An animal study described in the journal Molecular Therapy, the first study to test the feasibility of such an approach, found that inducing mouse brain cells to secrete human interferon-beta, a protein, suppressed and eliminated growth of human glioblastoma cells implanted nearby.
“We had hypothesized that genetically engineering normal tissue surrounding a tumor could create a zone of resistance — a microenvironment that prevents the growth or spread of the tumor,” says Miguel Sena-Esteves of the MGH Neuroscience Center, the study’s senior author. “This proof of principle study shows that this could be a highly effective approach, although there are many additional questions that need to be investigated.”
Glioblastoma is the most common and deadly form of brain tumor. Human clinical trials of other gene therapies have not significantly reduced tumor progression. One problem has been that patients’ immune systems target the viral vectors used to deliver cancer-eliminating genes. Another issue has been inefficient gene delivery, due in part to the inherent cellular diversity found within an individual patient’s tumor as well as among tumors from different patients. In addition, if tumor cells are successfully induced to express an anticancer protein, production of that protein will drop as the tumor dies, allowing any cells that did not receive the gene to resume growing. In the current study the MGH team examined whether expression of a therapeutic gene in normal brain cells could form a stable and effective anti-tumor reservoir.
The researchers first pretreated immune-deficient mice by delivering a gene for human interferon-beta — a protein being tested against several types of cancer — into the animals’ brains using adeno-associated virus vectors known to effectively deliver genes to neurons in the brain without the immune reaction produced by other vectors. Two weeks later, human glioblastoma cells were injected into the same or adjacent areas of the animal’s brains. After only four days, mice expressing interferon-beta had significantly smaller tumors than did a control group pretreated with gene-free vectors. Two weeks after the glioblastoma cells were introduced, the tumors had completely disappeared from the brains of the gene-therapy-treated mice.
Several additional experiments verified that the anti-tumor effect was produced by expression of interferon-beta in normal tissue. The same tumor growth suppression was seen when the genes were delivered to one side of the brain and tumor cells were injected into the other. Using a specialized vector that allows genes to be expressed only in neuronal cells and not the glial cells from which glioblastomas originate also produced similar results. While other gene therapy studies that have induced tumor regression in mouse models required several vector injections, these experiments were able to suppress growth and eliminate the implanted tumor with a single injection of the interferon-beta-encoding vector, underscoring the approach’s effectiveness.
“These results are particularly important as we build on our understanding of the microenvironments that allow tumors to grow and spread,” explains Sena-Esteves, an assistant professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School. “The therapeutic principle of genetically engineering normal brain tissue could be used to manipulate proteins required for that microenvironment, preventing tumors from migrating within the patient’s brain and escaping other therapies.” The same zone-of-resistance approach could also be applied to the treatment of other solid tumors, he notes.
Given the known side effects of interferon-beta treatment, it will be important to identify any toxicity caused by long-term secretion of the protein in the brain and develop preventive strategies, such as turning off the introduced genes. Next, the MGH team is planning to test this strategy on glioblastomas that occur naturally in dogs, which could not only generate additional data supporting human trials but also develop veterinary treatments for canine patients.
Casey Maguire, research fellow in neurology, MGH Neuroscience Center, is the lead author of the Molecular Therapy report. Other co-authors are Dimphna Meijer; Stanley LeRoy; Laryssa Tierney; Fabricio Costa; Xandra Breakefield, professor of neurology, MGH Neuroscience Center; Marike Broekman, University Medical Center, Utrecht, the Netherlands; and Anat Stemmer-Rachamimov, MGH Pathology. The study was supported by grants from the Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy and the National Institutes of Health.
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The relationship between language and society; the study of how language reflects, structures and dominates social life. Some areas of sociolinguistic study are: language varieties; stylistic variation; language ideologies, attitudes and stereotypes; interaction; language and culture; societal and individual bi/multilingualism, language change.
Our ability to draw on a range of resources, i.e. different named languages, language varieties, genres, styles, registers etc. to communicate in different contexts.
Repertoires are biographical and reflect where we have lived, worked and spent time and who we have mixed with. Migration can create an unpredictable mix of linguistic capacities and practices, especially in ‘superdiverse’ environments.
Seeing an individual as having a ‘repertoire’ challenges the idea that language competence can only be counted as mastery of discrete and well-formed named languages (‘French’ ‘Urdu’ ‘Arabic’) and the myth that languages are finished products spoken by a native speaker.
What people actually do with language in day to day life in different settings, contexts and domains. Language practices describe how we routinely use the linguistic resources we have in different situations in our lives. This can include our choice of sounds, words, grammar, formality, politeness, variety, style etc. Often we are unaware of the choices we are making.
When members of a speech community (any group of people who share a set of language practices and beliefs) hear a piece of discourse they can identify not just the meaning, but also evidence of specific choices which characterise the age, gender, social class, probable place of birth and education, level of education and other facts about the speaker and his or her attitude, and provide clues to the situation and context. These choices are governed by conventional rules, not unlike grammatical rules, which are learned by members of the speech community as they grow up.
The basic notion that different spheres of life i.e. the home, work, education, the street, public transport, places of worship and so on are characterised by the use of different languages and literacies.
This can have repercussions: for example, the language or language variety of the home may be very different from the school; this can create an unfair advantage for children whose home language practices align closely to the school and problems for children whose resources are not recognised.
Some researchers view bilingualism as the ability to use two languages and multilingualism as the ability to use three or more. However, it is more common nowadays to use the terms multilingualism and bilingualism to refer to the same phenomenon, i.e. the ability to function, at some level, in more than one language. Perfect mastery and perfect balance of two or more languages is not required for a person to be regarded as bi/multilingual.
Multilingualism can be studied from an individual and a societal perspective. The multilingualism of individuals is sometimes referred to as polylingualism. Multilingualism in society is characterised by the presence in a geographical area of more than one language – these languages may or may not be recognised officially in law and language policy.
The process whereby bilingual (or bidialectal) speakers switch back and forth between one language or dialect and another within the same conversation; code-switching is common in conversations where participants share a knowledge of two or more languages.
Research has shown that there are multiple reasons why interactants might code-switch:
- reflecting a change in the social situation
- reflecting a change of topic
- quoting somebody
- signalling group membership/ethnic or political identity
- expressing solidarity/social distance
- signalling attitudes to the listener
- adding emphasis/authority
How a speaker might potentially draw on a wide repertoire of linguistic and other semiotic (meaning making) resources to communicate and get things done. These resources might include translation, mime, gesture, strategically simplified English, emojis and so on as well as ‘named’ languages and varieties. Translanguaging is defined by García & Li Wei (2014) as ‘the fluid multilingualism characteristic of interaction in the world’s superdiverse urban areas’.
Ways in which language uses and beliefs are linked to relations of power and political arrangements in societies. Language ideologies can help give an insight into the workings of power and how language is appropriated by powerful elites, for example in education or language polices, to maintain dominance.
Examples of language ideologies are:
- ‘ESOL students learn more English if they don’t speak other languages in class…’
- ‘Parents who want their kids to learn their heritage language shouldn’t allow mixing at home – children will only get confused…’
- ‘Social cohesion depends on people speaking English’
Discrimination on the basis of language, in the same way that ‘racism’ is discrimination on the basis of race/skin colour or ‘sexism’ is discrimination on the grounds of sex.
Linguicism can be institutionalised, i.e. when some languages are not recognised and thus the speakers of that language do not have the same affordances and opportunities as the rest of the population, or it can operate on a personal level, i.e. when someone is insulted for speaking another language in public, for example.
The term ‘heritage language’ generally refers to a language with which a speaker feels a personal affiliation, either because it was the language of their parents or grandparents, their ethnic group or their ancestral home. In the UK other terms are ‘community languages’ and ‘home languages’
Family language policy
Family language policy is a term used to describe explicit decisions families make regarding language use. This can often relate to the ‘rules’ families establish about how and when different languages can be used in the home. Research in this field explores how languages are managed, learned, and negotiated within families.
Ways of teaching and learning that include the language practices of all students, particularly in settings where classrooms are highly linguistically heterogeneous. There is not one method or approach but a set of principles drawing on insights from research on multilingualism, i.e. that languages are not stored separately in the brain and are connected to each other in multiple ways. The focus should be not on the individual languages spoken by students but on what students do with languages in multilingual spaces. Activities and methods in a multilingual pedagogy might include: translation; creative multilingual storytelling; ‘translanguaging’, i.e. the planned use of students’ strong languages to help them access the curriculum or to develop their linguistic skills across their repertoire.
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Bryers, D., Winstanley, B., and Cooke, M. (2013) Whose integration? Paper 106, Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies, Kings College London.
Bryers, D., Winstanley, B., and Cooke, M. (2014) ‘The Power of Discussion’. In Mallows, D. (ed.) (2014) Language issues in migration and integration: perspectives from teachers and learners. London: British Council.
Cooke, M. and Simpson, J. (2012) ‘Discourses about linguistic diversity’. In Martin-Jones, M., Blackledge A., and Creese, A. (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Multilingualism. London: Routledge.
Cooke, M., Winstanley, B and Bryers, D. (2014) ‘Participatory ESOL in the UK’. In Simpson, J. and Whiteside, A. Adult Language Education and Migration: Challenging Agendas in Policy and Practice. London: Routledge
Cooke, M., Bryers, D., and Winstanley, B. (2018). ‘“Our Languages”: Sociolinguistics in multilingual participatory ESOL’. Paper 234 Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies. King’s College, London.
Cooke, M and Peutrell, R. (2019) Brokering Britain, Educating Citizens: exploring ESOL and citizenship. Multilingual Matters
Creese A. & Blackledge, A. (2010) Translanguaging in the bilingual classroom: A pedagogy for learning and teaching. Modern Language Journal, 94, 103–115.
García, O. & Li, W. (2014) Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education. New York & Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
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Holmes, S. (2015) Promoting multilingual creativity: Key principals from successful projects. Paper 182, Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies, Kings College London.
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Rampton, B., Cooke, M., and Holmes, S. (2018) Promoting Linguistic Citizenship: Issues, problems and possibilities. Paper 233, Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies, King’s College, London.
Rampton, B. (2019) What do we mean by ‘multilingual?’ Linguistic repertoires. Paper 260, Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies, King’s College, London.
Rampton, B. and Holmes, S. (2019) How we feel and think about language: Language ideologies and the ‘total linguistic fact’. Paper 261, Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies, King’s College, London.
Sankaran, L. (2019) Homeland’ and ‘host-land’ identifications in the Sri Lankan diaspora. Paper 253, Working Papers in Urban Language & Literacies, King’s College, London.
Simpson, J. et al (2017). Translanguaging, superdiversity and ESOL: A summary of the 2017 TLang e-seminar (WP32). (http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/generic/tlang/index.aspx)
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T-Lang – A collaboration between academic researchers, non-academic partners, and community stakeholders. The interdisciplinary research programme developed new understandings of multilingual interaction in cities in the UK, and communicated these to policy-makers and communities locally, nationally, and internationally.
ACT ESOL – Combining theatre of the oppressed and language learning. ACT ESOL has produced materials and training for ESOL teachers.
Multilingual Cities Movement – Researchers and organisations representing various university projects and community initiatives have reached out to academics, students, professionals, local government and community activists to join forces to celebrate and harness multilingualism and language diversity.
NALDIC – The National Association for Language Development in the Curriculum is the UK’s national subject association for EAL (English as an Additional Language). NALDIC provides a professional forum for the teaching and learning of English as an additional language, supporting bilingualism, raising the achievement of ethnic minority learners, and promoting the development of research, policy and practice.
Learning Unlimited – Learning Unlimited is a not for profit social enterprise that specialises in adult and family learning (including heritage language transmission), ESOL and integration, literacy, numeracy and teacher education. They lead local, national and international projects, develop and publish books and resources, and do a wide variety of consultancy work. | <urn:uuid:aa65cdcc-8157-4f2a-88f8-45691a0795db> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ourlanguages.co.uk/sociolinguistics-and-esol/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.865465 | 2,887 | 4.1875 | 4 |
Director, Hong Kong Institute of Education, 1994–97. Former Editor, Asian Geographer. Author of China: Railway Patterns and National Goals.
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As some very smart people have written before, our present social era is about so much more than social media–rather, the social era is about the relationships that form between brands and users.
Interestingly, you could argue that a person actually does form a relationship with a brand in the same way that she does a human being–it’s the sum of the interaction you have.
In the language of business-ese, these interactions between brands and people are called touchpoints, those places where folks get acquainted with the brand.
As value-chain enthusiast Brian Klapper writes for the Harvard Business Review, a lot of innovation happens not just in making the most amazing product, but in improving on those touchpoints, re-evaluating those interactions, continually improving on the customer courtship.
Touchpoint innovation comes in a variety of flavors:
Like when customers participate in product launches. Vitaminwater, for instance, asked its Facebook fans to select their next flavor.
Some sectors are suited to more in-depth co-creation. Like with apparel, in the way Burberry’s Bespoke service lets you tailor a trench coat to your specifications. Prefer a yarmouth cut, a throat-latch collar, and gabardine cuff straps? Burberry’s got you.
On the opposite end, you can differentiate yourself by making the buy-and-return process super easy: as Klapper says, “they reinvented the shoe-buying experience by offering multiple reviews of each product, great multidimensional views, free overnight delivery, and free returns.” After you do that, you can buy an entire downtown.
Alternatively receiving a physical product can become super amazing, to the point that people call the opening-up-the-package process unboxing. It can get a little weird: As Dezeen’s Sam Jacob writes, the things we unbox are our deepest desires–tech and fashion:
Our fascination with them is deep and unreasonable, verging on the fetishistic. Shiny gadgets and new outfits are the sites onto which we project our fullest consumer psyche, the things that we imagine can extend us, transform us and improve us.
When unboxing happens, then, you get a touchpoint innovation that borders on ritual.
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The Back to Sleep campaign, which began in 1992, has greatly impacted the rates of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome in the U.S. Since the Back to Sleep recommendation was made, the rates of SIDS have dropped from over 5,000 to less than 2,500 infant deaths per year. Despite this success, the SIDS rates and the rate of stomach sleeping within the African American population remains 2 to 4 times that of white infants.
To address this disparity, a new component of the Back to Sleep campaign, specifically aimed at reducing the incidence of SIDS among African Americans has been implemented. The goal of this initiative is to encourage the development of a community-based approach to the elimination of this disparity. This outreach initiative is being led by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) of the National Institute of Health, the National Black Child Development Institute, the Health Resources and Services Administration, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), and National SIDS/ID Program Support Center.
The National SIDS/ID Program Support Center is partnering with the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority - Stork's Nest to take the SIDS risk reduction and education programs to African American communities throughout the nation. You can learn more about this partnerships here.
The Program Support Center has employed the Train the Trainer Outreach Model for this initiative, providing detailed training sessions at the regional conferences of the represented organization. From these trainings it is expected that the participants will be equipped with the necessary information and skills to not only provide training on the risk reduction message, but also develop outreach activities within their community. In order to better reach the African American community, the NICHD along with several partner organizations developed a Resource Kit for Reducing the Risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) in African American Communities. The kit contains culturally appropriate materials such as fact sheets, brochures, magnets, a video, and a leaderís guide to lead discussion groups in various community settings on ways to reduce the risk of SIDS. By partnering with local SIDS Alliance affiliates, and other health related organizations the expectation is that outreach activities will be developed.
Throughout the country there are several organizations that are doing wonderful work getting the Back to Sleep message to minority communities as well as some underserved populations. The following link consists of a database of programs categorized according to location, cost, and sponsoring organization type and target population.
Outreach Activities Database 2/1/02
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Sound It Out! Learn How to Blend Words and Make Words! Twice-A-Week
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Discussions via classroom forum and private messages with the teacher
Great for engaging projects and interacting with diverse classmates from other states and countries
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In this course students will learn how to sound out the letters, blend sounds, spell and read the words in English. In this group course we are focused on learning how to sound out each letter of the alphabet, spell and eventually read simple CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) words, sight words and high-frequency words. This course covers: - writing the letters - segmenting (separating letters) - blending (putting the letters together) - digraphs, trigraphs... (continuous sounds) - sight...
This class is taught in English.
Speaking English accurately and fluently with proper error correction through repetition and games. The goal is to encourage speaking and boost students' confidence so that they can eventually speak independently. TPR, props, error correction are used throughout the lessons.
Bachelor's Degree in General Linguistics ESL Certificate (120 Hour Certificate in TEFL with TEYL accredited by Awarding Language Acquisition for Professionals) 10 years teaching experience (offline and online)
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A photography project by students at Clarendon Sixth Form College has been unveiled at Ashton-under-Lyne station by local Labour MP, Angela Rayner, as part of a makeover by train operator, Northern.
The work, which features iconic locations throughout the town and scenes of nature in the surrounding countryside, takes centre stage on the passenger route up to the platform.
Other improvements to the station include: new signage, additional platform seating and better access to the disabled toilet facilities as well as a secure storage rack for bicycles.
Improved LED lighting creates a brighter environment for customers, while tactile paving at the top and bottom of the subway ramp up to the island platform is an added safety feature.
Chris Jackson, regional director for Northern, said: “The improvements to Ashton-under-Lyne station are part of an on-going programme of work to enhance facilities for customers across our network.
“Alongside the new infrastructure put in place, the artwork by students from the local college – whose campus overlooks the station – has really made a difference. I’d like to thank them on behalf of our customers who will get to enjoy it each time they use the station.”
Angela Rayner, MP for Ashton-under-Lyne, said: “It’s great to see improvements being made that will make such a big difference to commuters at Ashton Train Station. The fresh paint has really brightened up the walkway and made the station approach feel much lighter and safer and the new seating areas will make waiting for a train a much more comfortable experience for passengers.
“The photographs from students at Clarendon Sixth Form College are absolutely fantastic and I could not be more proud of their efforts. It’s great that they have chosen iconic local landmarks like Hartshead Pike and the war memorial for such an important project.”
Jackie Moores, principal and CEO at Clarendon Sixth Form College, said: “I am very proud that our students have taken part in such a high profile project within the local community. The work they have completed looks fantastic and it has really made a difference to the train station, which many of our students use themselves on a daily basis. Well done to them for taking part and I hope that they can be involved in more projects like this in the future.”
Simon Elliott, head of rail programmes at TfGM, said: “Ensuring rail stations are accessible, inclusive, and appealing to use is incredibly important for encouraging people to use public transport over cars, and for achieving Greater Manchester’s ambitious Bee Network vision of a London-style integrated public transport system.
“Projects such as the wonderful artwork created by Clarendon Sixth Form College here, allow the community to be actively involved in bringing that vision to life, and we are pleased to have been able to provide funding for this.
“The improvements made, primarily tackling accessibility issues, will allow more people to use the station and are just a part of a wider schedule of works to improve rail stations across the borough.”
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The effects of aromatic substituents which are not conjugated with the carbonyl on the photochemical behavior of deoxybenzoin have been investigated. Photochemical α cleavage is the exclusive primary photoprocess observed in benzene solution. Room temperature phosphorescence is observed for several deoxybenzoins and provides a convenient method of measuring triplet lifetimes. Substituents affect the rate constant for α cleavage without altering the triplet energy or radiative lifetime. The rate constants for α cleavage fit the Hammett equation with the use of σ+ (ρ = -1.1). It is concluded that the transition state for α cleavage lies early on the reaction coordinate and has moderate ionic character.
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Requirements of Ghusl (Ritual Bath)
What are the requirements of ghusl (ritual bath)? How could we perform it?
Ghusl simply means to wash the entire body with water. Almighty Allah says:
O you who have believed, do not approach prayer while you are intoxicated until you know what you are saying or in a state of janabah, except those passing through [a place of prayer], until you have washed [your whole body]. (An-Nisaa’ 4:43)
There are some cases in which ghusl is required as follows:
1- If there is a discharge of semen due to sexual intercourse, stimulation or because of erotic dream for both men and women. Abu Sa`id Al-Khudri (may Allah be pleased with him) narrated that the Prophet (peace be upon him) said: “The water (of the ghusl) is due to the water (of sexual emission)”. (Muslim)
2- At the end of the menstrual period for women.
3- At the end of the post-childbirth bleeding for women also.
After that Dr. Muhammad Salah explains the authentic method of performing ghusl (ritual bath).
Maimunah narrated: “I placed water for the bath of Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) and he poured water over his hands and washed them twice or thrice; then he poured water with his right hand over his left and washed his private parts (with his left hand). He rubbed his hand over the earth and rinsed his mouth and washed his nose by putting water in it and blowing it out. After that he washed his face, both fore arms and head thrice and then poured water over his body. He withdrew from that place and washed his feet.” (Al-Bukhari)
Enjoy watching this interesting talk to know the cases that necessitate ghusl and how to perform it in the correct manner.
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Assaults by way of scams and cyber attacks don’t just come from outside your business!
Today’s cautionary tale is brought to us from the East Coast, where the office operations manager at a big law firm pled guilty to embezzling $425,000 from the firm.
A corrupt manager
The manager apparently used a fake social security number and false paperwork to apply for the job because at the time he started to work at the law firm, he was still on parole from a previous conviction for embezzling $700,000 from his prior employer (the confidence is endearing). According to the affidavit prepared by the Secret Service in support of his arrest, the manager used his corporate credit card to make thousands of unauthorized purchases. Examples include almost $90,000 worth of purchases from Amazon, over $12,000 in home décor from Crate & Barrel, over $45,000 on personal storage units, and over $6,000 in groceries. In addition, the manager transferred almost $275,000 to his own personal PayPal account.
To hide his actions, the manager then created and submitted fraudulent invoices and accounting classifications to the billing department to make it seem that the purchases were for a legitimate law firm purchase (because every client needs a Cartier watch). At times he would create fake receipts which listed the office, as opposed to his personal address, and modified the descriptions to make it appear as though he was purchasing office supplies. To cover up the PayPal transfers, he generated false invoices to suggest the transfers were for catering expenses and he changed the account information on his PayPal to mimic that of the catering company.
How’d he get caught?
The fraudulent conduct was finally discovered during an internal audit. The manager was placed on administrative leave and ultimately terminated. The firm then reported the matter to law enforcement, and he was sentenced to 41 months in prison, and ordered to repay the $425,000 to the firm.
What we can learn It is scary to see how much damage could go undetected, particularly at a large law firm with significant resources. As professionals, we see more and more businesses falling victim to scams and cyber attacks. But it is important to keep in place appropriate “checks and balances” on all governance matters and to monitor for internal attacks as well as external. While we all like to think that “it could never happen to me,” this case is a great reminder to reflect on the internal security measures we have in place. Law firms are just like every other business. They too are susceptible to attacks and should protect themselves accordingly. | <urn:uuid:45202df0-4ef9-4de6-a725-0695b5755921> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://echelonbizdev.com/echelon-blog/internal-attacks-watch-your-back/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.979868 | 538 | 1.773438 | 2 |
R Praveen1, Sophia Thakur2, M Kirthiga3, S Shankar1, Veena S Nair1, Priya Manghani1
1Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, M.R. Ambedkar Dental College and Hospital, Davangere, Karnataka, India.
2Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, Bapuji Dental College and Hospital, Davangere, Karnataka, India.
3Department of Pedodontic and Preventive Dentistry, Dr. Shamala Reddy Dental College Hospital and Research Centre, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.
Successful root canal therapy requires an accurate diagnosis and management of complex root canal morphology. Although the occurrence of three root canals in maxillary and mandibular premolars is very rare, the clinician must be able to identify it clinically and radiographically to make the necessary changes in his shaping and obturation techniques. We present the endodontic management of a maxillary first premolar with three separate roots and canals, which was diagnosed with the aberrant anatomy only after the access preparation. Then, a mandibular premolar with three root canals and fused roots, which were diagnosed radiographically, is presented. The necessary modifications of the routine clinical steps and the application of dental operating microscope for successful management of the complex anatomy, with emphasis on access modifications and radiographic interpretations are also explained. Teeth with extra roots and/or canals pose a challenge in clinical management. Identifying them early is necessary to facilitate appropriate modifications in treatment protocol, armamentarium to be used and plan optimal number of treatment sittings.
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Its position on the lake is extraordinary and particularly spectacular, at the foot of a formidable rock cliff on Lake Maggiore. You can reach it descending 268 steps.
According to legend the hermitage was founded around 1170 by Alberto Besozzi, a local business man, to thank Santa Catterina d'Alessandria after that he survived a shipwreck while crossing the Lake Maggiore during a storm. He decided to go into retreat on this part of the lake side and to conduct the life of a heremit .
Here Alberto ordered the construction od the Chapel dedicated to Santa Caterina of Alessandria and which is now visible in the lower part of the Church.
You can see the cave where Alberto lived in seclusion for 35 years.
The structure of the current Church is the fusion of four Chapels, originally built separately in different periods: the Chapel of Santa Caterina of Alessandria, the Chapel of the Rocks, the Chapel of Santa Maria and the Chapel of San Nicola.
Inside the Church you can also see the urn holding the remains of Alberto Besozzi. It's only a wooden copy of the skeleton, while the bones are hidden in the cashion.
The first historical mentions however date back to 1230 when a community of Dominicans was installed there, then the Romiti Ambrosiani monks taking over in the 14th century and the Carmelites in 1660. After a long period of crisis it was purchased in 1970 by the Province of Varese which took care of its restoration. After having hosted a community of Dominicans from 1986 to 1996, the hermitage is now maneged by the Benedectine Oblates with their classic program "Ora et Labora" (in English: Pray and Work).
The position of Hermitage of Santa Caterina (it lies in Leggiuno, near Laveno) is extraordinary and particularly spectacular, at the foot of a formidable rock cliff. The hermitage cannot be reach by tourists by car or bike, only on foot by descending 268 steps, or by boat.
You can see a well-preserved wooden press. It was used to press grapes and olives in order to make wine, liqueurs and oil.
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Modern media: Creating and inspiring the world with better content
Modern media is a weapon in this current world. Our culture is reflected in the media, and we must adjust to the changes that have occurred over the last few decades.
As a researcher, you want to share your thoughts and scientific breakthroughs with as many colleagues and other people as possible so that they can read your breakthrough insights.
Researchers promote their new work through conferences and publications, but the amount of attention they receive will be determined by the significance of their study.
Today, we have various social media platforms like LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook, where we may publish our research findings by making short films, writing blogs, and contacting press agencies.
ResearchGate is a site that enables scientists to share and discuss their research as well as connect with potential collaborators and it helps to interact with different research groups across the globe and make your work to reach broader.
Researchers can readily track the challenges and aims of the industries via the use of modern media. As a result, a communication gap has been created between researchers and industry.
Journalism and research have a lot in common
We can’t differentiate research and traditional journalism in terms of authenticity, accuracy, and verification prior to publish the content to world. Journalism and research both follow the same path right from collecting data, crafting compelling stories based on that data, and then publishing it to the world.
Researchers follow similar way right from deciding on a problem statement, collecting data through experiments, and then reporting the results. There are so many qualities that a researcher can acquire from journalists such as way of presentation, making stories effectively, and attracting the public.
Journalists must adhere to certain ethical standards, such as not releasing false information and misleading the public, and researchers should not mislead the scientific community by reporting false results.
Modern media should inspire and impact society by offering better content, yet when it comes to publishing news, it sometimes lacks transparency and authenticity.
When sharing your opinions with the public, you should be very cautious and knowledgeable so that you do not have a negative impact on society.
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Would you like to see some of the world’s largest creatures inches above your head, and then later in the day see some of the world’s smallest creatures go through an elaborate mating ritual? If you said, “Yes,” then you need to get yourself to Yap.
Yap lies in the western Pacific, a little over an hour (by plane) south of Guam. It’s truly an “undiscovered” gem. I’ve been going there since 2002 and I give you the disclaimer that it’s one of my favorite places in the world to dive because it’s got so much to offer.
Yap’s a place where you have a morning dive where Giant Pacific Manta Rays glide over your head to be cleaned while you watch from a few feet away, and then you be mesmerized that evening by parking yourself on a shallow reef and watching the intricate dance and nightly mating rituals of the usually elusive Mandarinfish.
But Yap’s got a lot more to offer beyond Mantas and Mandarinfish. There are some really nice reef dives, with the southern reefs of Gilman Wall, Lionfish Wall, and Yap Caverns rivaling the best sites in Palau. In fact, the last time I was there, our dive guide– John Pekailug–said he could find SIX Frogfish just outside of Yap Caverns and sure enough . . . he did.
If macro diving is your thing, there are two excellent macro/muck sites known as “1 to 2” and “Slow & Easy.” Here you’ll find nudibranchs of all colors and hues, mantis shrimp, lionfish, various juvies, and all sorts of elusive creatures. And because the dive is fairly shallow, bottom times of 90 minutes are not uncommon.
Of course, if you want something to get your heart racing, Yap’s got that too. How about a dozen to 50 sharks hitting frozen bait to get your heart pumping? (And I forgot to mention . . . it’s a cageless dive and you can get, if you’d like, close enough to the sharks to almost touch them.)
While Yap is getting better known as a diving haven, it’s also known for Stone Money, which was the legal currency of Yap hundreds of years ago. Its value is still so great that it’s used for major purchases like houses or even dowries. Stone Money is too big and heavy to be transported so it’s generally displayed in Stone Money “banks” that you’ll find at various villages around the island.
There are six dive operations on Yap, but my choice has always been Manta Ray Bay, also the home of Yap Divers, the oldest (and best IMHO) diving operation available. MRB has recently undergone a massive renovation and is hands-down the nicest dive resort you’ll ever stay in. Each room is individually decorated (and named after a local marine denizen), doors are hand-carved out of local wood, and each bed has a unique hand-crafted quilt that matches the name of the room.
The resort has Wi-Fi, a pool, a spa, their own micro-brewery (The Stone Money Brewing Co.), and the Mnuw, a huge wooden Indonesian sailing vessel which houses the restaurant, the bar, and serves as a social hub. There’s even a large (8 x 16 feet) screen hanging on the Mnuw to facilitate movies or slide shows for everyone.
The whole place is owned and run by a gregarious Texan transplant, Bill Acker. Bill first came to Yap in 1976 as a Peace Corps volunteer, fell in love with the place, and stayed (and married a local woman as well).
Bill’s well known as “The Manta Man” and probably knows more about the Yap Mantas than any other single person. In fact, a project of his for 2012 (and I’ll be leading a trip to participate in this) is trying to catalogue and photo-document all the mantas that visit Yap during the year. What Bill’s hoping to do is get photos of the unique belly markings at any given sighting and then, by tracking the time-of-day and dive site in a database, get a better idea of how many mantas there are, where (and when) they tend to appear, and to determine whether they’re resident, nomadic, or a little of both. The more data, the better, so Bill will be encouraging all visitors to log their mantas.
Many people visit Yap for only a few days, frequently on their way to either Truk or Palau. But I’ve lately found that spending a full week on Yap is the best way to get all that Yap has to offer (and you can still head off to Truk or Palau once your week is up). But regardless for how long you visit, Yap is a place that will get into your blood and once you’ve been, you’ll want to come back again. | <urn:uuid:49679abf-7cdb-4b49-bba8-fc47e798372e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cadivingnews.com/dive-spots/yap-more-than-just-mantas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95098 | 1,104 | 1.625 | 2 |
Have you ever wondered where it is believed that wine as we know it today first originated? Most average wine drinks will typically at least know that wine is aged in barrels, but it would probably come as a surprise to many of them that barrels and cooperage hasn’t always been the primary means of wine storage and aging. There was a time centuries ago that terracotta containers (also known as amphoras) were the standard method of wine fermentation and aging.
Think back to any Greek or Roman mythology artwork you’ve ever seen and you’ve probably seen amphoras in their imagery. Wine as we know it today has gone through several shifts and growing pains over the years on what ingredients were included and how exactly was it made. Technically speaking, any fruit smashed up and fermented into alcohol is considered a wine by Western standards. In China and the Far East, their term wine represents a much wider range of alcoholic drinks both like Western wines as well as distilled liquors.
So then, who is it believed actually created more or less what we now consider wine? The subject is often up for debate but most in the Western world seem to believe that wine was first created using grapes in the country of Georgia some 8,000 years ago. While there are also those who believe China was the first, due to a discovery of an alcoholic beverage that contained fermented liquid that contained several ingredients, but not all of it were fruits. To me it is more of a technicality one way or the other and I don’t want to dwell on it too much for this article.
At one time, long before wooden barrels were a standard, wine was mostly fermented and aged in terracotta amphoras and left unfiltered. Today, only a small amount of wineries around the world still hold to these methods. As someone interested in the past and certainly interested in wine, I had been wanting to experience wines in a way as similar as possible to these original methods. So for this tasting, I selected 3 wines that I believed would be great representations of this experience.
My first wine (2018 “Creta” Pinot Noir) comes from A.D. Beckham located in Sherwood, Oregon. Beckham Estate Vineyard (their primary name) is an interesting example for this tasting. They make their own terracotta aging vessels as well as their 100% amphora fermented and aged wines. So all of it is done on the same estate using native yeasts. This came to be due to their original intention to be clay ceramic creators who had the genius idea to also make wine. Its coloring was a pale red with medium tannins and acids. Notes include darker cherries and plenty of raspberries. This was an overall solid wine and am glad I have a few more to enjoy over the coming years. On a side note, they list their vintage year using Roman numerals and during my video review I failed to spot it. I wrongly mentioned during the video that they didn’t have the vintage on the front of the bottle. I guess that is what I get for being in a hurry.
My second wine (2019 Amphora) is from Herdade do Rocim located in Portugal’s Vinho de Talha region known for only making amphora wines. One description said this wine was half Tempranillo, but another description listed it as half Moreto. It has a darker puple tint and I found it to be very fruity with light to medium tannins and acids. Overall it seemed a little too young and I’m guessing another year or two would make this wine hit its stride.
My final wine was the most unique of the three. Navis Mysterium Amphora 2013 by Edivo Vina located in Croatia is made from Plavac mali the top grape used in most Croatian wines. The wine is placed in a bottle which in turn is placed inside an amphora and sealed with some rubber, it is then aged underwater in the Adriatic Sea for about 2 years. The amphora itself is covered in shells and looks amazing but technically I can’t claim that is in an amphora wine since the wine itself is inside a bottle. Its color was light red and a bit less transparent than the A.D. Beckham Pinot Noir. Notes included darker red fruits (mostly cherries) and black pepper. What blew me away the most about this wine was the tannic sensation on my tongue. It almost felt fizzy when it hit my tongue and then there was a “tannic rush” like I’ve never experienced. With each drink, I would experience this rush along with a burst of dark cherry goodness at the same time with a long finish afterward.
If it wasn’t obvious enough, I found the Edivo Vina wine to be my favorite of these three. Out of the actual two amphora wines though, I enjoyed the A.D. Beckham the best. Interesting though that I did not notice anything that gave a clear signal that these wines were made in an amphora versus a barrel. That to me is a positive for the winemakers themselves and how well they know their craft.
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The Financial Corporation of Arizona requested a picture of the Great Seal of Greenlee County. After further study the Board of Supervisors found that a seal had never been adopted as far as could be determined.
The Board members suggested designs for the seal. Chairman of the Board, G.M. Callicotte, members C.C. Martin and Leslie A. Billingsley, felt the residents of the county should know the early history from where "Coronado" originated from. Many businesses, a mountain, a canyon, and a highway were named after Coronado.
The seal depicts a picture of the Spanish explorer Coronado. They felt the selection of the head of a Spanish Conquistador was most fitting due to the early history of this area. Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's was chosen to command the expedition to search for the Seven Cities of Cibola, which reportedly existed somewhere in what today is Arizona and New Mexico. They were so rich that gold there was used like mud. These rumors tantalized all of New Spain. On February 23, 1540, he set out from Culican, deep in Mexico with 100 Spanish soldiers, 4 priests and a small Indian force. Weary, hungry, and weak the small force finally reached Cibola in July. Instead of golden cities and street lined with gold they saw small pueblos filled with Indians who were ready to fight. His troops beat the warriors and took over the villages along with their well-stock food supply. After they had proven themselves both unconquerable in war and insufferable in victory, the natives took to humoring their requests for gold by indicating that, yes, there was a huge civilization with lots of yellow metal, but that it was far away. Coronado pursued the fantasy all the way into the wide plains of Kansas. In 1541, disillusioned at last, he executed his chief guide for confessing (under duress) to having misled him. Coronado was bitterly disappointed when he returned to Mexico City his dreams of fame and fortune were shattered. The Spanish included Greenlee County in their lands, and claimed it in the name of their King and called it New Spain. New Spain lasted for 281 years until 1821 when a revolt far to the south led to an independent Mexico.
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Rich County History
A Brief History of Rich County
Rich County in the northeast corner of Utah occupies a long, narrow area approximately 18 miles wide and 56 miles in length, extending north of Echo Canyon. It is bordered on the east by Wyoming and on the north by Idaho with the southern half of Bear Lake extending into the county. Rich is noted for a so-called buffalo jump kill site where game was slaughtered by Early Man.
Fur trappers visited the Bear River Valley as early as Donald Mackenzie's first Snake River expedition of 1818-19 when Michel Bourdon gave the Bear River its name. The area around the Bear River became a favorite spot for trappers, and trappers' rendezvous were held on the south shore of Bear Lake in 1827 and 1828. The Oregon Trail over which thousands of immigrants to the Northwest traveled cut through a corner of the county. Dr. Marcus Whitman and his wife, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the famous Oregon pioneers, traveled on this trail in 1836. The first white settler in the area, Thomas L. "Peg Leg" Smith, operated a cattle business, trading post, and horse exchange on the Bear River near present Dingle, Idaho. Brigham Young unsuccessfully attempted to purchase his business in 1848, but Smith remained in the area until 1863 then he became discouraged and left.
When Congress passed the Homestead Act of 1862, Brigham Young became anxious to obtain control of the land before non-Mormons did. In August 1863 he called Charles C. Rich to lead an exploring party into the Bear Lake Valley to select a site for settlement. The fist settlement, known as North Twin Creek and later Paris Creek, was made near present Paris, Idaho. Since Bannock and Shoshone lndians also used the valley, Rich obtained their permission to settle there in order to minimize conflicts. Other settlements were founded, including Round Valley in 1863; Kennedyville (Garden City) and Laketown, 1864; Woodruff, 1865; Randolph, 1870; and Argyle, 1875.
Originally part of Green River County, which was formed in 1852, it became Richland County in 1864; the name was shortened to Rich in 1868, and a final alteration occurred in 1872 when part of Cache County was added to it by the territorial legislature.
Harsh winters affected the settlement of the Bear Lake Valley. Woodruff averages only 57 frost-free days a year and holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded in the state (-50 F. degrees on February 6, 1899).
Even though much of Rich County is highland, it also has fertile lowlands that support productive farms and livestock, and three fourths of the county's land is used for agriculture, primarily grazing. livestock and livestock products account for the greater part of the county's income.
The development of Bear Lake as a popular recreation area with resorts, public beaches, and summer homes has helped to diversify Rich County's economy.
*Used by permission. Beehive History 14: Utah Counties. 1988. Utah State Historical Society, 300 Rio Grande, Salt Lake City, UT 84101-1182.
“A History of Rich County” books by Robert E. Parson are available for purchase from the Clerk’s Office for $15.00. Shipping will be an additional $3.00.
This book is part of the “Utah Centennial County History Series”. The Utah Centennial County History Series was funded by the Utah State Legislature under the administration of the Utah State Historical Society in cooperation with Utah’s twenty-nine county governments.
More History and Information about Rich County
- About Rich County & History (Word Document)
- About Rich County & History (PDF)
- Randolph Tabernacle (Word Document)
- Randolph Tabernacle (PDF)
- Bear Lake Raspberries (Word Document)
- Bear Lake Raspberries (PDF)
- Sarah Brown Woodruff (Word Document)
- Sarah Brown Woodruff (PDF)
- Unique Fish of Bear Lake (Word Document)
- Unique Fish of Bear Lake (PDF)
- Peaks in All Utah Counties (Word Document)
- Peaks in All Utah Counties (PDF)
- Charles C. (Coulsen) Rich (Word Document)
- Charles C. (Coulsen) Rich (PDF)
- Jim Bridger History (Word Document)
- Jim Bridger History (PDF)
- Wilford Woodruff (Word Document)
- Wilford Woodruff (PDF)
Bear Lake, with 110 square miles of surface area and pristine water quality, is a Mecca for water sports. Activities include sail-boating, swimming, skiing, and scuba diving. Resorts in the area provide access to golfing and tennis. Due to Bear Lake's isolation, a fragile lake ecosystem has evolved and resulted in great fishing. Fish-story sized Mackinaw and lake trout are sought by avid fishermen along with white fish. The famous Bonneville Cisco are harvested in mid January by dipping the fish from the lake in nets, often through holes cut through the ice.
The western edge of Rich County contains some 50,000 acres of the Cache National Forest and the eastern edge borders the Crawford Mountains. High mountain recreational opportunities span the seasons. Winter offers cross country skiing and snowmobiling. Spring features high mountain valleys full of wildflowers. Summer and fall hiking, camping and backpacking and horseback riding opportunities abound for the novice or the more experienced. Deep, long canyons show fall colors at their best with aspen, pine, maple combinations. Hunting opportunities include elk and deer, along with moose and antelope. Other small game are hunted as well.
In addition, Rich County's heritage is steeped in agriculture and Mormon pioneer folklore. Large cattle ranches provide a peek at the old west. Cowboys, horses and rodeos spaced throughout the summer are part of the lifestyle. Each small Rich County town provides a unique look at the turn of the century Mormon architecture. | <urn:uuid:0dea77b6-b698-4b6f-aed4-42af4a28adcd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.richcountyut.org/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946085 | 1,260 | 3.046875 | 3 |
If you know me, you know I’m one of those people that likes to keep busy. Whether that be working part time jobs, doing side hustles, writing in my blog, or just making time for volunteering or a social life! People always ask me how I manage to wear so many hats and still find time for things I enjoy.
Here are my productivity tips and tricks that help me stay focused and able to accomplish a variety of things!
Productivity Tip #1: Lists
Yes, I’m a list-er. I make a daily to-do list and when my life feels real chaotic, a weekly one too. For one, it feels good to accomplish things and cross things off of my list as the day goes on. Two, the way I remember all of the things I have to do or things I want to look up is to write them all down in one place. I have a notepad that is just for my lists at work and I use my notes section on my phone to keep track of things I want to look up at some point. My lists look like this
Productivity Tip #2: Set Timers
It’s very easy to get distracted by what’s going on around you -be it social media, social life, your friends and family, etc. When I know I have a lot to do or when I’m trying to focus on a task and get things accomplished, I set a timer on my phone or computer. I’ll set a timer for 20, 30, 45 mins or an hour -depending on exactly how much I have to do- and during that time I don’t use my phone, I don’t surf the web, check Facebook, anything. I laser focus on the task at hand until that timer goes off. Once it goes off, I give myself 10 minutes to do any of those things and then I set another timer. I work in these intervals because they’re realistic. I know I probably won’t sit at the computer for hours without glancing at my phone or browsing the web or whatever. But, it’s much easier to accomplish daunting tasks for me when I work in ‘interval mode’.
Productivity Tip #3: Schedule
Schedule days and times for specific things. I usually work on my blog on Sundays, look up the random stuff on my ‘look up list’ on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and focus on my main goal the other days during my free time. This way, I make sure i’m spreading my time out wisely but still making time for each thing that’s important to me! I find that when I call myself looking up things as I think of them, or reading books when I see them, I get lost in that world and then hours later i’ve got nothing done that NEEDED to be done! Being able to dedicate specific days to these not as important things allows me the time I need to search endlessly and not feel guilty about it!
Productivity Tip #4: Go Somewhere else
I don’t know about you, but it’s nearly impossible for me to complete work, papers, and other daunting tasks while at home. When I’m at home, I get extremely distracted. I’ll call myself writing a proposal, and next thing you know i’ve rearranged my closet, deep cleaned my bathroom and created new ideas/recipes for dinner – and still won’t have the proposal done. It’s something about my house that just screams ‘ DO SOMETHING ELSE’ lol. I’ve become a frequent at my local Starbucks and Whole Foods because 1) Free WiFi and 2) I’m super focused and get SO much accomplished there! If you find yourself getting easily distracted at home or at work, try finding somewhere else to go. The library has worked sometimes for me, but can often get pretty crowded and thus distracting once again. But it’s worth a try!
Productivity Tip #5: Pay attention to your body
I admit, sometimes I do bite off more than I can chew. I recognize that when I do that, I become a bit more irritable, a bit flustered with daily tasks, things start to clutter in my room (and if you know me you know i’m a neat freak!) and I find myself extremely exhausted. I know these things about myself because of trial and error. When I find myself doing these things, I know its a signal that I need to take a step back and reassess the things I’m trying to do. Sometimes that means taking a ‘personal day’ to play catch up on self-care, or finding ways to better juggle what I have going on. (There’s more about how I rearranged my lifestyle while I was in grad school here. )
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Neurocomputing-CIEL 2014 : Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning
Call For Papers
Call for papers for a special issue of
An Elsevier Publication
“Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning "
Neurocomputing is planning a special issue devoted to Computational Intelligence and Ensemble Learning. Ensemble learning attempts to enhance the performance of systems (clustering, classification, prediction, feature selection, search, optimization, rule extraction, etc.) by using multiple models instead of using a single model. This approach is intuitively meaningful as a single model may not always be the best for solving a complex problem while multiple models are more likely to yield results better than each of the constituent models. Although in the past, ensemble methods have been mainly studied in the context of classification and time series prediction, recently they are being used in algorithms in other scenarios such as clustering, fuzzy systems, evolutionary algorithms, dimensionality reduction and so on.
The aim of the issue is to discuss the new theoretical trends and the applications of ensemble learning and related approaches using hybrid and bio-inspired approaches.
Topics are encouraged, but not limited to, the use of ensemble models to design and develop Intelligent Systems:
• Ensemble of evolutionary algorithms
• Parameter and operator ensembles for evolutionary algorithms
• Portfolio of algorithms and multi-method search
• Ensemble of evolutionary algorithms for optimization scenarios such as multi-objective, combinatorial, constrained, etc.
• Hybridization of evolutionary algorithms with other search methods& ensemble methods
• Ensemble clustering
• Ensemble classifiers and fuzzy ensemble predictors
• Ensemble feature selection/dimensionality reduction
• Aggregation operators for fuzzy ensemble methods
• Rough Set based ensemble clustering and classification
• Type-2 Fuzzy ensemble clustering and classification
• Ensemble methods such as boosting, bagging, random forests, multiple classifier systems, mixture of experts, multiple kernels, etc.
• Ensemble methods for regression, classification, clustering, ranking, feature selection, prediction, etc.
• Issues such as selection of constituent models, fusion and diversity of models in an ensemble, etc.
• Hybridization of computational intelligence ensemble systems
• One-class classifier ensembles,
• Diversity measures and ensemble pruning
• Classifier ensemble techniques for data stream classification
• Applications of ensemble of computational intelligence methods in any field.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically online at http://ees.elsevier.com/neucom/
The corresponding author will have to create a user profile if one has not been established before at Elsevier and choose the appropriate special issue acronym during submission.
Prof. Xin Yao - University of Birmingham, email@example.com
Dr. Michal Wozniak – Wroclaw University of Technology, firstname.lastname@example.org
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A recent opinion piece in the FT on the importance for strategic adaptability for long-term company survival drew on research published in Business History:
Death on the stock exchange: The fate of the 1948 population of large UK quoted companies, 1948–2018
The issue of long-term survival is not one often addressed in strategy, and with shorter tenures for top management teams, such long-term considerations are overshadowed by more short-term concerns. Yet the experience of the Pandemic has brought the issue of survival and strategic innovations back to the fore, as the FT cogently argues.
Business History will make this article available open access from next week.
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The United States condemned North Korea's ballistic missile launch on Wednesday, saying it violated multiple UN Security Council resolutions and posed a threat to Pyongyang's neighbors, a State Department spokesperson said.
North Korea fired a suspected ballistic missile off its east coast on Wednesday, just hours before South Korean President Moon Jae-in attended a groundbreaking ceremony for a rail line he hopes will eventually connect the divided Korean peninsula.
North Korea's first launch since October underscored leader Kim Jong Un's New Year's vow to bolster the military to counter an unstable international situation amid stalled talks with South Korea and the United States.
The presumed missile was fired around 8:10 a.m. from an inland location, over the east coast and into the sea, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) said.
Hours later, Moon visited the South Korean east coast city of Goseong, near the border with the North, where he broke ground for a new rail line that he called "a stepping stone for peace and regional balance" on the peninsula.
In remarks at the ceremony, Moon acknowledged the launch raised concerns of tensions and called for North Korea to make sincere efforts for dialog.
"We should not give up the hope for dialog in order to fundamentally overcome this situation," he said. "If both Koreas work together and build trust, peace would be achieved one day."
The apparent missile launch by the nuclear-armed North highlighted the challenges Moon faces in his push to achieve a diplomatic breakthrough before his five-year term ends in May.
Reconnecting the two Koreas by rail was a central issue in meetings between Kim and Moon in 2018, but those efforts went nowhere as talks aimed at convincing North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons in exchange for easing international sanctions faltered in 2019.
Kim's New Year speech made no mention of efforts by South Korea to restart negotiations or offers by the United States to talk, though analysts noted that doesn't mean he has closed the door on diplomacy. | <urn:uuid:51b988df-be1a-4d9f-88f2-682f0ed6ea49> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-691565 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966154 | 404 | 1.867188 | 2 |
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City and state initiatives on climate issues in the United States are not new. But in the wake of President Donald Trump’s announcement that the US would withdraw from the Paris climate agreement a number of nascent coalitions have arisen - or been reinforced - that elevate the role of sub-national climate policy as never before. This phenomenon raises new questions over how global powers - including the European Union - should engage with them.
The US is a federalist system, dividing power between the federal and state governments. On climate and environmental issues, the federal government has authority to sign international treaties and agreements. The Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Interior, Energy, Transportation and State, and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are all influential federal actors. But state and local governments also have certain mandates for climate-related policies, and yet more variance exists between individual states and local governments. Some, such as California and New York, have emissions targets that rival or even exceed those of EU member states.
Trump’s decision has led to intensification of state and local cooperation initiatives. The most heavily publicised effort thus far is ‘America’s Pledge’, organised under the auspices of former New York mayor (and current UN Special Envoy for Cities and Climate Change) Michael Bloomberg and current California Governor Jerry Brown. This builds upon the earlier ‘We Are Still In’ declaration signed by more than 1,200 cities, states, universities and business. Nine states, 227 counties and cities and around 1,650 businesses have so far committed to honouring America’s Paris commitments. Critically, America’s Pledge will attempt to institutionalise and consolidate these efforts by analysing and reporting the aggregate impact of all participating entities’ efforts - a necessary but vexing task.
Separately, the leadership of more than 365 American cities, calling themselves the ‘Climate Mayors’, are intensifying efforts to meet their own emission reduction goals, along with a unified - though still unspecified - push for “new action to meet... [an even more ambitious] 1.5°C target”. The cities comprise at least 66 million inhabitants – a fifth of the population of the US, and equivalent to the number of people living in France.
Finally, a group of twelve states plus Puerto Rico, representing approximately one-third of US GDP and around 20% of total US emissions, swiftly organised itself under the moniker of the ‘U.S. Climate Alliance’ (a thirteenth, Colorado, joined in July). Together, the governors are committing to emissions reductions consistent with the Paris pledge made by the previous administration of President Barack Obama – a 26% to 28% reduction based on 2005 levels – as well as working on harmonisation of standards and regulations, the creation of new markets for green products and services, and the possibly even the expansion of financing mechanisms to accelerate the deployment of low-carbon technologies.
The Alliance represents perhaps the most concrete and durable fora for genuinely new and consequential actions. States, famously labelled as “laboratories of democracy” by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, have both the size and flexibility to chart a novel course on climate with enough economic gravity to garner the attention of other countries, let alone other states.
In the case of California, a single state strives to mimic many of the climate diplomacy functions previously monopolised by the State Department and other federal-level bodies. Shortly after Trump’s announcement, Brown travelled to China for the annual Clean Energy Ministerial, where it was he - not Secretary of Energy Rick Perry - that received an audience with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Further broadcasting California’s desire to be at the centre of the Trump-era climate landscape, Brown announced that the state would host its own climate summit in San Francisco later this year.
California’s carbon market, the centrepiece of its climate efforts, was extended by the state assembly to the year 2030, making it the largest carbon market in North America and the second-largest in the world, after the EU Emissions Trading System. California has already linked its carbon market with that of Quebec so that credits for compliance are tradable across borders, and has engaged in discussions with other jurisdictions in Mexico and Canada, as well as in China and the EU, about expanding these linkages over time.
In contrast with Democratic California, most Republican states are following Trump’s line on climate diplomacy. But they do have an interesting mix of interests when it comes to clean energy. Room for pragmatic engagement on clean energy, particularly when quarantined from the broader politics of climate, is expanding. Around 70% of all US wind power is generated in states that voted for Trump. The Republican governor of Nevada recently reversed course on a previously unfriendly solar policy when faced with its increasingly attractive economics. In politically powerful Iowa, Republican Senator Charles Grassley once pronounced that tax credits for wind would be rolled back “over my dead body.”
With sub-national initiatives on climate on the rise in the United States, it is important that Europe understands these dynamics, and actively explores ways of engaging with them. But balance is paramount: Europe must not create further schisms between themselves and the US federal government on key energy and climate areas where the two parties still need to work together on a pragmatic basis.
Europe has several approaches to consider.
One is to follow leaders such as Justin Trudeau. The Canadian Prime Minister has rushed to embrace and engage a diverse constellation of subnational actors to complement or (in some cases) bypass engagement with Washington in what one Canadian advisor describes as an effort “to work the American system as never before.”
Given the distribution of power between states and the US federal government, much of Europe’s engagement is likely to centre around soft power and symbolism. The EU could, for example, further legitimise efforts such as America’s Pledge by appearing with its leaders at public events, officially recognising its mitigation efforts, and holding high-profile meetings with its representatives at international climate summits.
However, opting for less symbolic measures also offer advantages. Many US state and local climate initiatives are still in their infancy and it behoves Europe to wait and see which will have durability.
Europe should be cautious of embracing sub-national initiatives at the expense of engagement at the federal level, where there is still potential for fruitful cooperation. More subdued practical cooperation efforts might accordingly be more appropriate: opening up more opportunities for US universities and firms to participate in EU-funded energy and climate research projects, matching contributions to the Green Climate Fund made by sub-national actors in an attempt to compensate for the US government’s shortfall, and aligning standards in the rapidly growing ‘green bond’ market.
Europe could also focus on commercially driven engagement with US state and local actors. For instance, Europe could give early priority to cultivating political and commercial relationships with conservative states as a way to engage on climate. This would include sending trade delegations, promoting European strengths in vocational training for sectors such as renewable energy, and possibly even facilitating exchanges for certain workers. Europe might also consider ‘nudging’ less progressive US states through foreign direct investment decisions conditioned based on their willingness to improve climate policies. Initiating a dialogue with states and cities over local tax incentives and public procurement processes that pertain to climate and sustainability priorities should also be a priority for Europe, and would strengthen the trade agenda in the absence of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership.
And given the strong leadership already exhibited by certain US cities and municipal governments, European cities that are leading on climate change should also engage more on a city-to-city level. This includes offering US city governments help with best practices on issues ranging from city planning and transportation to recycling.
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Helena Rubinstein, doughty entrepreneur and pioneer of the modern cosmetics industry, lived a life surrounded by art. Her sumptuous apartment in Paris, as well as her residences in London and New York, were filled with works by celebrated contemporaries such as Picasso, Matisse and Dalí, all of whom were friends of hers.
Rubinstein’s homes were also populated with a great many works of African art, which she began to take an interest in as early as 1908 under the tutelage of another artist friend, the sculptor Jacob Epstein. By the 1930s Rubinstein had amassed more than 250 masks, reliquaries, carved heads and statuettes.
‘I think that, for her, such pieces were like mirrors of beauty,’ says Rémy Magusteiro, a Christie’s specialist in African & Oceanic Art. ‘She saw something of herself, an extension of herself, in her collection as a whole.’
Certainly Rubinstein was proud enough of the collection to have it photographed by two other illustrious acquaintances, Dora Maar and Man Ray. And those commissioned photographs, taken inside her apartment, make it clear that she was happy to display masterpieces by African artists alongside the new-minted creations of the Parisian avant-garde.
So her interiors were a living testament to the fact — universally acknowledged by art historians — that the Cubists and other trailblazers of Modernism found inspiration and validation in the classical art of Africa.
Yet the debt that modern art owes to Africa was less visible at the time, and Rubinstein was one of the first to appreciate that correlation, as well as the independent artistic worth of her African artefacts. She trusted her own aesthetic instincts, and her instincts were on the right side of art history.
‘We can discern her quest for beauty in the business that she built, in her devotion to the avant-garde, and of course in her collection of African art’ — specialist Rémy Magusteiro
‘People were surprised by a certain disparity in what appealed to me most,’ said Rubinstein, ‘because they failed to understand the mysterious link that can exist between an African mask, a romantic piece of furniture and a painting by Matisse.
‘But this link seemed obvious to me. The secret connection between the works that move and inspire me — it is like a lyrical force that has been placed at the service of joy.’
Rubinstein’s collection was dispersed after her death in 1965. But three of her African pieces are about to be re-offered at auction: two Kota reliquary figures and a ceremonial Bobo mask.
‘Kota is the name of a people who live in Gabon,’ says Magusteiro. ‘Each reliquary would be mounted on a basket containing the remains of an ancestor. It is a guardian figure, placed there to oversee the tie between the living and the dead.’
These two reliquary figures, with their sickle-shaped crests and their rhomboid legs, clearly hail from the same culture — but their differences are as intriguing as their similarities. One has much more stylised features, and is a rare Janus figure: it has a face on both sides. ‘That duality, and the sheer elegance of the handiwork, make this piece quite exceptional,’ says Magusteiro.
The Bobo mask, meanwhile, hails from Burkina Faso. ‘The Bobo people had a caste of blacksmiths, who alone were allowed to make such masks,’ says Magusteiro.
‘They were used in funeral rites, as well as in initiation ceremonies and harvest festivals. What I love about this piece is the combination of human and zoomorphic features. And the tall crest, with its angular wings, gives strength to the play of lines on the long face.’
All three pieces — and Rubinstein’s collection generally — are surely a testament to a lifetime spent thinking about the human face, about what elements combine to create a beautiful visage, about whether beauty itself is an abstraction, nothing more than a conventional and convenient idea. Is that the message the African masks whispered to Rubinstein as she drifted from room to room in her fabulous homes?
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‘Jean Cocteau called her “the empress of beauty”, and I think it is true that for her beauty was power,’ says Magusteiro. ‘Perhaps that is what she meant when she spoke of the lyrical force of this art, and the joy it gave her.
‘From our vantage point we can discern her quest for beauty in everything she did — in the business that she built from nothing, in her devotion to the avant-garde, and of course in her collection of African art. The beauty is there to be perceived in every piece, and each one of them contributed to her happiness.’ | <urn:uuid:439a4794-7611-4930-acd4-e0d7057a386f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.christies.com/features/Helena-Rubinstein-with-African-art-11405-1.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.977092 | 1,079 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Leading thousands of people in prayer, Pope Francis said he hoped the upcoming summit between the United States and North Korea would lead to lasting peace.
After praying the Angelus with an estimated 20,000 people in St. Peter's Square 10 June, the pope said he wanted to convey "a special thought to the beloved Korean people," and he asked the crowd to pray the "Hail Mary" so that "Our Lady, Queen of Korea, may accompany these talks."
"May the talks that will take place in the next few days in Singapore contribute to the development of a positive path that assures a future of peace for the Korean peninsula and the whole world," Pope Francis said.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump were to meet on Singapore's Sentosa Island for the historic summit 12 June. It was to be the first meeting between a sitting US president and a North Korean leader.
Before leading the crowds in praying for the summit, the pope reflected on the Sunday Gospel reading in which Jesus confronts "two types of misunderstandings" from the scribes and his relatives.
By accusing Jesus of being possessed and using the power of the "prince of demons" to cast out demons, the scribes fell into a great sin of "denying and blaspheming God's love that is present and works in Jesus," he said.
Blasphemy, the pope said, "is a sin against the Holy Spirit and the only unforgivable sin because it comes from a closure of the heart to God's mercy that acts in Jesus."
Pope Francis told Christians they should go to confession immediately when they are tempted to speak ill of another person because "this attitude destroys families, friendships, the community and even society."
"Here there is a truly mortal poison: the premeditated malice one uses to destroy the good reputation of the other. May God free us from this terrible temptation," he said.
Another misunderstanding described in the Gospel reading, the pope continued, comes from Jesus' family who believed his "new itinerant lifestyle seemed like madness."
In the Gospel, after Jesus was told that his mother and his brothers and sisters were asking for him, he responds, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."
Jesus' response, the pope explained, is not a lack of respect toward his mother but instead it is "the greatest recognition, because she is precisely the perfect disciple who obeyed God's will in everything."
Pope Francis said that Christ's answer also showed that Christians are united not by family bonds but by their "faith in Jesus."
"Welcoming Jesus' words makes us brothers and sisters, it makes us members of Jesus' family," the pope said. "Speaking ill of others, destroying other people's reputations, makes us part of the devil's family." | <urn:uuid:be0f4c31-d735-46a8-9539-ccd91422c756> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thetablet.co.uk/news/9223/pope-leads-prayers-for-us-north-korea-summit-in-singapore | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.975075 | 590 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Peritoneal carcinomatosis is a common form of metastasis occurring in approximately 10% of gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers with life expectancy often less than 6-12 months. Due to the limited options for treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis, there is a significant need for novel therapeutic strategies. We explored the therapeutic potential of CMP-001, a novel virus-like particle composed of the Qβ bacteriophage capsid protein encapsulating an immunostimulatory CpG-A oligodeoxynucleotide (CpG-A ODN) in this cancer. CpG-A ODN is a known activator of toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9), which is expressed by human and murine plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDCs). Initial studies evaluated the effect of CMP-001 in vitro on cells obtained from the ascitic fluid of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis. These studies demonstrated that pDCs are present in the ascitic fluid and produce IFN-α in response to CMP-001 stimulation. A mouse model of peritoneal carcinomatosis was used to further explore the therapeutic potential of CMP-001. C57BL/6 mice were challenged intraperitoneally (i.p.) with Panc02 mouse pancreatic cancer cells. On days 5, 9, and 13 post-tumor challenge mice were treated i.p. with either saline or 100 μg CMP-001. Mice treated with CMP-001 had a median survival of 35 days compared to mice treated with saline alone with a median survival of 28 days (n = 10 per group, p = 0.028). Examination of the immune response demonstrated CMP-001 induced an influx of dendritic cells (CMP- 001 8.99% ± 0.95 vs saline 4.57% ± 0.7, p = 0.0015), NK cells (CMP-001 0.26% ± 0.052 vs saline 0.087% ± 0.0085, p = 0.006), and CD4+ T cells (CMP-001 3.29% ± 0.85 vs saline 0.95% ± 0.097, p = 0.0168) into the ascitic fluid. In addition, CMP-001 induced a significant increase in antigen-experienced, effector and memory, CD11ahiCD44hi CD4+ T cells (CMP-001 54.55% ± 6.52 vs saline 28.12% ± 3.68, p = 0.0028) and CD11ahiCD8αlo CD8+ T cells (CMP-001 58.49% ± 4.47 vs saline 23.04% ± 2.86, p < 0.0001) in the ascites. These data demonstrate that CMP-001 treatment activates pDCs in the peritoneal fluid of patients with carcinomatosis. In addition, CMP-001 stimulates a robust immune response in the peritoneal cavity of mice with peritoneal carcinomatosis. This robust immune response likely contributes to the enhanced survival and decreased disease progression in these mice. Collectively, these promising preclinical results suggest that CMP-001 may have potential as an immunotherapy for the treatment of patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis and is worthy of further evaluation.
Citation Format: Ann M. Miller, Caitlin Lemke-Miltner, Sue Blackwell, Ann Tomanek-Chalkley, Kristen Coleman, George Weiner, Carlos Chan. CMP-001, a virus-like particle containing immunostimulatory CpG-A, for treatment of peritoneal carcinomatosis of gastrointestinal and pancreatic cancers [abstract]. In: Proceedings of the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting 2019; 2019 Mar 29-Apr 3; Atlanta, GA. Philadelphia (PA): AACR; Cancer Res 2019;79(13 Suppl):Abstract nr 3273. | <urn:uuid:93cbc94e-e564-4118-a423-d93c6ea4d250> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aacrjournals.org/cancerres/article-split/79/13_Supplement/3273/635497/Abstract-3273-CMP-001-a-virus-like-particle | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.8674 | 838 | 1.828125 | 2 |
How to submit a Project Outline (PO)
The first stage for a project consortium consists of responding to a Call for “Project Outlines” (PO). The PO must give a short overview of a project, mainly describing the project goals, innovation, targeted business impact and consortium. For the full list of criteria, please visit the selection criteria.
The PO is used for the pre-selection of proposals, preliminary information and budget discussions between the SMART organisation and the respective Public Authorities and for general information exchange within the SMART organisation. It enables an initial selection among the different submitted ideas, while keeping the workload of consortia to a minimum. | <urn:uuid:87619f10-f4ed-423b-bd74-2d96fe271da0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.smarteureka.com/submit-your-proposal/po-stage/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.883043 | 135 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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This document explains how the model parameters IS and N can be modified to set the forward voltage drop of a Schottky diode. Attached test case shows the simulation results of varying these parameters.
This document explains how the model parameters IS and N can be modified to set the forward voltage drop of a Schottky diode. Attached test case shows the simulation results of varying these parameters. The project has three simulation profiles;
1. dc: DC sweep analysis of forward biased schottky diode as shown in Fig. 2.
2. IS_Variation: Nested DC sweep. Shows effect of IS variation.
3. N_Variation: Nested DC sweep. Shows effect of N variation.
With respect to the above diode equation, we can see that the forward voltage drop, V, depends on the current, I, but only weakly. V increases by 60 millivolts for each factor of 10 that I increases. Alternatively, V increases by 60 millivolts for each factor of 10 that IS decreases. So, the forward voltage drop for your circuit’s bias conditions can be set by changing IS parameter. You can change this in the diode’s .MODEL statement. For Schottky diodes, values of IS are larger when compared to diffusion diodes of the same area. The model parameter N can also be used to adjust the forward voltage drop, but changing N will make the I-V curve deviate from the normal slope of a decade per 60 millivolts. We do not recommend changing N in order to model Schottky diodes. The attached test case shows the effect with DC sweep of IS and N parameters.
Fig. 1 and 2 show the circuit and the model being used for this simulation.
Figure 1: Circuit diagram in Allegro Design Entry CIS (Capture CIS)
Figure 2: PSpice Model parameters
Do a DC sweep of above circuit, sweeping V1 linearly from 0.1 to 3.5 with an increment of 0.001. Fig. 3 shows the simulation results. Value of IS is 3e-07 and N is 2.2.
Figure 3: Simulation results - IS=3e-07, N=2.2
DC nested sweep is done to vary the Model parameter 'IS'. Secondary sweep is done for IS values of 3e-04, 3e-06 and 3e-08. Simulate profile ‘IS_variation’ in attached test case.
Figure 4: Simulation setting for DC nested sweep - varying model parameter IS
Fig. 5 shows the effect of varying IS parameter. You can see that as IS decreases, for the same Forward Current (I) we get greater Forward bias Voltage (V).
Figure 5: Effect of varying IS parameter value for a Schottky diode
DC nested sweep is done to vary the Model parameter 'N'. Secondary sweep is done for N values of 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8 and 3. Simulate profile ‘N_variation’ in attached test case.
Figure 4A: Simulation setting for DC nested sweep- varying model parameter N
Fig. 7 shows the effect of varying N parameter. You can see that slope of the forward current changes with changing N.
Figure 7: Effect of varying N parameter value for a Schottky diode
D. A. Hodges and H. G. Jackson, Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits, McGraw-Hill.
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Did you know that alcohol causes 17 million sick days in the UK every year?
Many people use alcohol to relax, reduce stress, and ease pressures, but it’s worth noting that excessive drinking can negatively affect wellbeing, physical health, and work productivity.
More importantly, research shows one in five UK adults risk damaging their health by regularly drinking more than the Chief Medical Officers’ low-risk drinking guidelines.
With this in mind, it’s more vital than ever for your organisation to be aware of alcohol misuse and to signpost your staff to appropriate support.
Because you’re in a strong position to engage your team, now is the time to raise awareness and help your workplace establish healthier routines.
You can support your employees and promote awareness by following these eight top tips.
1. Promote responsible drinking
Public awareness of alcohol consumption is changing. However, many people still are unaware that they are drinking over the limit and that it affects their health. Especially considering almost 31 percent of drinkers in the UK are drinking at increasing or high risk levels.
To combat lack of awareness, offer tools for employees to check how much they drink. For instance, tests like the Drink Aware Alcohol Self-Assessment will show them if their drinking puts them at low risk or harm or if they need to take action to reduce the amount they drink. Additionally, apps like MyDrinkaware can monitor alcohol consumption over time, measuring units, calories and sleep quality. Ultimately, this helps employees moderate their drinking, leading to a better mood and a healthier lifestyle.
Want to find out more? Join our Drinkaware webinar
2. Lay out the facts about alcohol
Do you struggle to explain the facts about alcohol alone? Introduce e-learning courses to your wellbeing initiative so employees can learn about the effects of alcohol and its related harm.
More specifically, e-learning provides employees with the essential facts about alcohol. As a result, they will be able to make good decisions regarding their consumption of alcohol. The knowledge they gain can also help reduce the risk of them endangering themselves or others. In addition, e-learning can be integrated with existing Learning Management Systems or hosted by charities such as Drinkaware, which track course progress and scores.
Better yet, you can incorporate these into your health and wellness programs or health and safety training.
3. Train your managers
Although you may have specific policies, your current training might not be sufficient for managers to deal with workplace alcohol misuse efficiently. It is worth investing in management training and awareness to prevent alcohol-related mishaps in the workplace. After being referred for support, 69 percent of employees continue to work at their organisation.
Some top tips for planning training for line managers include:
- Make clear the crucial role line managers play. Managers are in the best position to spot early warning signs and provide support, but they need the training to feel able to do so effectively.
- Train managers on your alcohol policies. A good start is to remind them of your own alcohol policy and procedures, then provide training that covers: how to avoid developing a drink culture (such as monitoring stress levels and workloads), the problems alcohol can cause, best ways to support individuals with different types of alcohol issues and dealing with disclosure from employees. Managers would not be expected to assume an expert role but raising awareness will play a crucial part in building a supportive culture.
- Cover health and safety considerations. Plan a course of action with managers should an incident occur so that they can contribute to any risk assessments.
- Provide a point of contact. Provide a key HR contact who can offer online resources and support for managers as needed, as well as send them to courses.
- Consider work adjustments. Make line managers aware of how they can provide accommodations for individuals who struggle to get support. For example, flexible working options or role adjustments.
- Review working practices. Assess whether your current practices support staff wellbeing and rethink the nature of work socialising to ensure it is inclusive.
4. Invest in accessible mental health support
Did you know about 1 in 4 people in the UK will experience a mental health problem each year? The relationship between alcohol and mental health is complex.
In fact, alcohol is regarded as ‘the UK’s favourite coping mechanism’, with many drinking to cope with stress, anxiety, depression or other mental health problems.
Some call this ‘self-medicating’ with alcohol. While alcohol can initially relax us and give us a feeling of euphoria, these feelings are short-lived, and the long-term effects of drinking over a prolonged period can be quite harmful:
- Drinking too much alcohol can worsen symptoms of many mental health problems. In particular, it can lead to low mood and anxiety.
- When the immediate calm after drinking fades, some may feel worse than before.
- Post-drinking hangovers can be especially difficult, causing headaches, nausea, and depression.
- Using alcohol in this way can mean that the underlying mental health problems go unaddressed.
Considering this, you should ensure your employee is aware of the top three methods for preventing alcohol problems:
- Employee assistance programme
- Access to occupational health programme
- Access to/signposting to mental health support
If none are available, you may want to refer your employee to a doctor for assessment. An online GP service like HealthHero’s provides fast and convenient access to practising doctors who can provide direct support and advice to your employees. Additionally, we offer online clinically proven counselling and psychological interventions.
5. Don’t encourage a drinking culture
How many of your work social events take place at pubs or bars? 43 percent of working adults agree that there is too much pressure to drink when socialising with colleagues. In fact, those in the private sector are 3.6 times more likely to feel pressured by their managers.
There is no doubt that certain aspects of company culture can influence perceptions about alcohol consumption. So, you should adjust these to reflect the company culture you want to create and that they are evident in your policies.
According to the CIPD, 25 percent of employees say that some people don’t go to social events because of the expectation to drink alcohol. Thus, drinks free events for employees to connect goes beyond being practical. As well as reducing the tendency to meet over a drink, it can align with diversity strategies. For instance, HR could aim to arrange a monthly alcohol free event. Not just for employee wellbeing but also to respect their cultural choices and preferences.
A few suggestions include:
- Moving client meetings away from drinking and ‘happy hour’ to ‘networking’.
- Offering non-alcoholic options and limiting the amount of alcohol your company provides.
- Organising social events without alcohol (this may deter staff from attending, so promote the events to avoid the company culture revolving around alcohol).
6. Make support a priority in your policies
Go beyond simply improving alcohol education in the workplace. Do your policies prioritise workplace support? Employees will appreciate the fact that your company is supportive of them.
To ensure an effective policy, focus on the following key areas to support alcohol misuse:
- Holistic culture: Promote a workplace culture that values holistic employee health and wellbeing through support outlined earlier.
- Preventative services: Ensure that all preventative measures are covered by your health and benefits plan.
- Alcohol Awareness Programme. To reduce the impact of alcohol-related harm, develop a robust alcohol awareness workplace program. This could include:
- Precise written policies and procedures that define employee and employer responsibilities.
- Education and resources for employees and managers.
- Employee benefits such as healthcare coverage, employee assistance and flexible sick time.
- Support to reintegrate employees during recovery.
7. Host a practical workshop
As we’ve established, many people don’t realise the harmful effects of alcohol on their health and wellbeing.
Hosting alcohol aware workshops, such as sessions on everything employees need to know, can:
- Promote alcohol awareness
- Facilitate a responsible culture
- Build healthy coping strategies
On top of this, expert-led workshops can also positively impact your business. Improving the coping strategies of your employees leads to:
- Fewer sick days and reduced staff turnover.
- Increase employee productivity
- A happier and healthier workforce.
As mentioned earlier, there are training sessions available. Which workshops you host will depend on your size and budget.
That said, make sure any workshop you choose acknowledges the importance of the body and mind. After all, it’s not just decreasing alcohol intake and tracking units that can reduce health risks. Exercise, eating well, and getting plenty of sleep are also essential.
8. Signpost to helpful resources
If you are concerned that an employee has a drinking problem, external help is available. They can find some useful phone numbers and links here for free and confidential advice.
Drinkaware is a charity which aims to reduce alcohol-related harm by helping people make better choices.
Helpline: 0300 123 1110
Free online chat service for anyone who is looking for information or advice about their own, or someone else’s, drinking. Drinkaware trained advisors are on hand to give you confidential advice.
UK-wide treatment agency, helping individuals, families and communities to manage the effects of drug and alcohol misuse. If you are over 50 and have concerns about your drinking, call the helpline.
Helpline: 0808 801 0750
AA supports the recovery and continued sobriety of individuals. Meetings are available online and in person.
Helpline: 0800 917 7650
Al-Anon in the UK and Republic of Ireland offers support to families and friends affected by someone else’s drinking.
Helpline: 0800 008 6811
Information, advice and local support services for families affected by alcohol and drugs.
Helpline: 07442 137 421 or 07552 986 887.
Alcohol awareness: it’s time to act now
‘It’s more important than ever for organisations to be aware of alcohol misuse and to signpost their staff to appropriate support. Organisations are in a strong position to engage with their staff about alcohol awareness, and now is the time to prioritise employee health and wellbeing.’ – Drinkaware
You can use alcohol awareness as an opportunity to review your substance misuse policies, evaluate your wellness strategy, and support your employees.
Nonetheless, with workplace pressures contributing to increased alcohol consumption, your business must do more. Without effective preventative measures, your employees’ wellbeing, physical health, and productivity will suffer.
Start small by educating employees on the signs of alcohol dependence through e-learning. Then introduce a comprehensive substance abuse prevention programme to bring about real, tangible change. Alternatively, you might consider investing in a virtual healthcare service that combines physical health with mental health. Whatever action you take, put your workers’ health first.
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- Nigerian nationals living in Cape Town marched to Parliament over police brutality in Nigeria on Friday.
- They are pleading for President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the unrest.
- In 2017 activists in Nigeria sought to abolish a federal police unit called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
- Human rights groups had for years accused the unit of extortion, harassment, torture, and murders.
About 30 Nigerians living in Cape Town marched to Parliament on Friday against police brutality in Nigeria. The group are also pleading with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to intervene in the unrest.
The march follows violent protests earlier this month in Nigeria under the #EndSARS campaign which first surfaced in 2017 as activists in Nigeria sought to abolish a federal police unit called the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS).
Nigerians had been demonstrating nationwide every day for nearly two weeks against the police unit. Human rights groups had for years accused the unit of extortion, harassment, torture, and murders. The unit was disbanded on 11 October, but the protests continued and activists claimed as many as 20 people were killed in one night.
With a Nigerian flag splattered with red paint in hand, some marchers also wore scarves and face masks with the national colours while they were en route to Parliament.
Some placards read: “Injustice in Nigeria does not have another name”, “President Buhari ordered the shooting at Lekki” and “Anti-corruption but Covid-19 food is hoarded”.
Cosmos Echie, president of the Nigerian Community Western Cape, said: “We are here to submit a memorandum of demands to President Ramaphosa, who is also the chairperson of the African Union (AU).
“The youth of Nigeria are tired. We rose against police brutality and bad governance in our country. On 20 October, youths who were in protest were shot at the Lekki toll gate and we expected our president to address the problem, but he was non responsive. When he eventually did respond, he … did not address the core issues.”
Echie said that they have since approached the AU directly for help.
The group’s memorandum was accepted and signed by Victor Ngaleka, the National Assembly Table Procedural Advisor.
It asked the AU to demand that the Nigerian government account for how people at the Lekki Toll Gate were killed. It also called for an international inquiry into the shooting of protesters, for compensation for families of the victims of SARS, and the Lekki Toll Gate killings, as well as compensation to businesses vandalized by “thugs who infiltrated the protests following the actions and inactions of government and politicians”.
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A public Zoom seminar hosted by the Newark Public Library and the Newark LGBTQ Community Center took an awkward, unsettling turn last month, when an anonymous viewer posted a photo of the Confederate flag during the discussion; enflaming many participants on the call. It was a blatant attempt at racism, during a seminar geared toward Black members of the LGBTQ community.
A few minutes later, someone else posted what appeared to be a derogatory meme aimed at the LGBTQ community.
Meeting organizer, Beatrice Simpkins, 60, said she tried to ignore the trolls. After all, it’s something she has dealt with most of her life.
“The climate in this country, unfortunately, is some people have targets on their backs and LGBTQ people, especially Black trans women, are a part of that group,” Simpkins said. “They’re easy for other people who have hate in their hearts, to victimize.”
These incidents highlight the challenges that can come along with being Black or brown and queer. Black and LGBTQ youth are more prone to discrimination, a 2019 Human Rights Campaign study said; Many deal with racism on top of homophobia and transphobia from within their own communities, said Simpkins, who is Director of the Newark LGBTQ Community Center.
It’s why the work of LGBTQ centers in predominately Black cities, like the Newark LGBTQ Community Center, is crucial, advocates like Simpkins said. Despite the heightened risk of mistreatment, Simpkins said today’s LGBTQ youth are brave.
“Young people now will identify as being queer, trans, lesbian, gay, at a very young age,” said Simpkins, who came out as a lesbian 30 years ago. “You didn’t see that a lot 20, 30 years ago, especially in the Black community, especially in communities of color, because we have cultural stigma…we’re homophobic.”
“I was Black. I was female. I was a single mother and I was a lesbian. And so, all of that were things I had to navigate,” Simpkins said about her experience coming out.
Historically, Black Americans have been “lukewarm” or less likely to support gay marriage than white Americans, according to a study by Pew Research Center from 2014. That year, 42% of Black Americans supported gay marriage, compared to 53% of white Americans, the study said. By 2017, that figure grew to 51%, according to another Pew Research study.
Gay marriage was legalized nationwide by a Supreme Court decision in 2015.
Simpkins said she regularly interacts with LGBTQ youth who can’t fully be themselves at home. At the Newark LGBTQ Community Center, members can access several programs and services: community dinner, support groups, game nights, book club meetings, yoga and more. Most importantly, it is a place where many feel most at home, Simpkins said, noting that some transgender members change their clothes before heading back home.
In 2019, 59% of Black LGBTQ youth said their families make them feel bad about their LGBTQ identity, according to the Human Rights Campaign. The trend takes a toll on their mental health, the study said.
The Newark center opened in October 2013 as “a safe space, especially for people of color,” according to its website.
Ten miles away, in New Jersey’s second largest city, and one of its most diverse, The Hudson Pride Center is a resource for LGBTQ people in Jersey City.
Mercy Villa, Youth Program Associate at the Hudson Pride Center, said she focuses on intersectionality — the way multiple forms of discrimination can be combined to impact marginalized groups.
“Even before more awareness and light has been shed to racial injustices and violence against trans communities, especially trans Black indigenous communities of color, youth have been using, not only our safe spaces, but just in general, safe spaces are important for youth of intersecting identities to not only have their LGBTQ identity validated and seen, but also their cultural identities, their racial identity, their class identities,” Villa said.
Villa said discrimination LGBTQ youth of color face is indicative of generations of systemic marginalization.
“As organizations working with youth of color, it is very important to consistently work on being antiracist and naming systems of white supremacy, transphobia, heteronormativity, classism, as the barriers (to fair treatment),” Villa said. “(People’s) intersecting identities (are not) the issue.”
The Hudson Pride Center offers a litany of services as well: access to HIV education and counseling, open mic nights and other fun group activities, support counseling, and an annual LGBTQ+ prom celebration. Villa is involved with the center’s Youth Connect program, for ages 13 to 24. They have called for more LGBTQ education and resources in New Jersey schools.
Both centers have moved many of their services and programs, such as support groups, online due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Intelsat’s lost satellite: What lessons for the future?
April 26, 2019
Last week Intelsat declared its IS-29e as a “total loss”. Analysts at Northern Sky Research (NSR) said that writing off 12 years of near-guaranteed revenue (and adding 6552 kgs of space debris to the crucially important geostationary orbital arc) is an overall bitter pill for Intelsat. The satellite was not insured.
NSR said that while this particular craft might have been a true catastrophic loss and not salvageable, there are plenty of other instances where a satellite has a problem that is curable despite it being in orbit.
“Organisations such as Northrop Grumman and Effective Space work towards making In-Orbit Servicing a reality, incidents like Intelsat 29e demonstrate the need and opportunity for this market. The initial In-Orbit Demonstration (IOD) missions, while focused on life extension, are also a gateway to various other In-Orbit Servicing applications with differing levels of complexity that could curtail losses from similar mishaps in the future,” says NSR.
NSR added that Life Extension is just one type of service likely to emerge from these developments, and worth an estimated 59 per cent of ‘work in orbit’. Other tasks include Satellite Relocation (8 per cent), Salvage (17 per cent), Deorbiting of satellites (5 per cent) and Robotics (11 per cent).
NSR analyst Shagun Sachdeva commented: ‘Salvage’ is a highly opportunistic market with different mission possibilities, and therefore the biggest challenge is to have immediate availability of a servicer. “Based on the mission profile, it can be a challenging business case for both the satellite operator as well as the [rescue tug] provider due to factors such as high delta-V requirements, extremely long idle time and lack of enough useful life to justify needing the service. This makes both – the addressable market as well as the supply for these missions – highly restricted. However, the potential benefits also raise the pricing tolerances and allows the service to be offered at premium prices.”
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Inequities persist for women in tennis
Tomorrow night, HBO is set to premiere Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer, which profiles the trailblazing tennis player who fought for equal pay and opportunity on behalf of female athletes. (I've seen some previews for it; it looks quite good.)
Broadsheet reports on just one of the many effects King had on her legions of fans:
In 1973, King famously played played male tennis star Bobby Riggs in front of 30,000 people in the Astrodome and 90 million on worldwide television, beating Riggs in straight sets. She says that she is still approached by men about that match. She calls them "the first generation of men in the women's movement," and reports that when they talk to her about it, "they have tears in their eyes, they're in their late 40s and 50s. 'I was really young when I watched your match, I have a daughter now. I cannot tell you how that changed my life and how I raise my daughter.'"It's strange to think how recently it was that the thought of a professional female athlete being able to hold her own against, no less beat, a male peer was nothing short of revolutionary. That men to this day tell King that her willingness to put herself out there like that affected the way they raised their daughters speaks to what a big deal it really was. So inspiring.
Which made reading this post at Feministing all the more disheartening:
The prize money at Wimbledon this year will be to $1.17 million for the men’s champion and $1.1 million for the women’s.
Wimbledon is the only grand slam tennis event not to pay men and women equally.Come on, Wimbledon. Get it together. At a time when we're celebrating the legacy of Billie Jean King, such disparity should be ancient history.
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Note: I have added a new category to this list ” Breast cancer and EMFs”. The following is the first listing in that category.
From Microwave News:
How often have you been told that there are no biological effects of weak EMFs that can be replicated in more than one lab?
Like much of what you hear about EMFs, this is propaganda that seeks to cut off further research.
In past commentaries, we have described how WHO and industry officials refuse to acknowledge that EMFs can cause DNA breaks. Here is another example:
German researchers recently reported that a 12mG magnetic field could neutralize the ability of tamoxifen to inhibit the proliferation of breast cancer cells. This is the seventh group to find this particular type of low-level EMF effect.
Take a look at our latest commentary and you will learn what happens to those who dare challenge the orthodoxy. It is not a pretty picture.
The EMF-tamoxifen work has potential implications for women being treated for breast cancer. Please pass this message on to your friends and associates. The only way that EMF research will be allowed to resume in the U.S. and in Japan is if the public demands it.
Check out “When Enough Is Never Enough” at:
Louis Slesin, PhD
Editor, Microwave News
A Report on Non-Ionizing Radiation
Phone: +1 (212) 517-2800; Fax: +1 (212) 734-0316
Mail: 155 East 77th Street, Suite 3D
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BACKGROUND: WHAT IS KOK-BORU?
Kok-Boru (or Kok-Par) is an ancient rugby-like sport played on horseback in Central Asia, dating to the days of Genghis Khan. Steeped in tradition, it's synonmous with the horse culture of a historically nomadic people. However, during Soviet rule the game was suppressed, then subsequently banned by the Taliban in many regions.
With more recent independence, a resurgence has put this widely popular national pasttime back in the spotlight in countries like Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Aghanistan and Russia where it's akin to NFL football in America.
Perhaps not suprisingly, US cowboy culture has much in common with this nomadic horse culture. In 2016, diplomatic opportunity arose when the US embassy in Kyrgyzstan invited a group of cowboys to compete with a first-ever American Kok-Boru team.
Our film tells the story of how the team was formed and what it was like to compete in a foreign land - playing a game they’d never played, in a language they didn’t speak.
Get to know the team - and our filmmaking crew!
THE EXPERIENCE OF A LIFETIME
The 2016 World Nomad Games provided an opportunity for the nomadic people of Central Asia to compete in their cultural games, on a professional scale. Kok boru is the main event and countries from around the world gathered to compete. Seeing an opportunity to push diplomatic relations between Kyrgyzstan and the United States, representatives from the Embassy invited Creed Garnick, our team captain, to rally players to compete as the first American kok boru team.
Creed accepted the challenge as an eager competitor but also with the intention to make the experience into a movie. Brock Harris, Creed’s best friend and filmmaking partner, was the first to accept the crazy proposition. With only two weeks notice they assembled a gang of cowboys and wrangled up just enough money to rent equipment and transport crew. The US Kok Boru team was formed and they set out to compete in a game they’ve never played in a language they don’t speak.
The event was astounding, with 54 countries represented and over 600 athletes competing, the grounds were packed with tens of thousands of spectators. Due to tremendous media coverage, our cowboys quickly became the "belles of the ball," #NomadCowboys! The games were broadcast to over half a billion people around the world. The cowboys were outmatched in gameplay but demonstrated such heart they were invited to compete at the World Kok-Par Championships in Kazakhstan during the 2017 World Expo. (Kok par is Kazakh for kok-boru.)
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students at the HSE Lyceum are winners and runners up at the 'Vyshaya Proba' Olympiad.
Four of the students received awards in three subjects, and 14 of them were awarded in two subjects. In total, students received 28 top-level certificates.
Tenth-grade students received the most certificates in foreign languages, social studies and Russian language. Eleventh-grade students showed the best results in social studies, Russian and economics.
Students in grades 7-11 from Russia and the CIS are eligible to participate in the 'Vyshaya Proba' Olympiad. The list of subjects that are tested is constantly expanding – Asian Studies, design, journalism, foreign languages, computer science, history, history of world civilizations, literature, mathematics, social science, law, psychology, Russian language, physics, economics, and electrical engineering. 40,000 students are currently participating, and winners will receive preferential treatment for admission to institutions of higher education in Russia.
In Moscow, the presentation of awards will be held on May 30. Information on the award dates in other cities will be announced later.
Ulyana Rusetskaya of Belarus is in her first year at the HSE Art and Design School. She entered HSE University by winning the HSE Global Scholarship Competition (GSC) for foreign citizens in the area of design. Ulyana spoke with the HSE News Service about how to prepare a project for the GSC and how the HSE community differs from other university communities. Prepare for the GSC 2021 with the winners of the GSC 2020!
The first student contest in game theory has taken place at HSE. Organized by the HSE Group of Young Academic Professionals, it brought together 150 undergraduate and Master’s students from 17 Russian universities, as well as one high school student from Moscow.
In March and April, an HSE Olympiad competition for students and graduates took place in Russia and other countries, including the USA, Indonesia, Mongolia, and Vietnam. About 9,500 people registered for the competition, an increase of 25% over last year. One-third of all participants were HSE students and graduates. The winners of the Olympiad will be at an advantage when applying for HSE’s Master’s programmes corresponding to the competitions they participated in.
individuals have already registered for the HSE International Olympiad Competitions for students and graduates. Those who take first place and win prizes will have an advantage when applying to HSE MA programmes. The registration deadline is March 6, 2017.
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Larceny is your character’s ability to commit acts of burglary, to disable traps or sabotage equipment, and to perform sleight-of-hand tricks.
With a successful Larceny check, you can open a lock on a door or safe, non-destructively open a window, or perform similar feats. Practically any of these tasks can be accomplished without a Larceny check by destroying the lock or the material around the lock; however, Larceny checks allow you to subvert any failsafes and accomplish your task without leaving a pile of debris. Generally speaking, there should not be more than two or three Larceny checks of this type required for a given "job." If an investigator uses the Perception skill, the DC to detect the forced entry is equal to the result of your Larceny check; exceeding the DC by 5 or more means that the investigator finds a clue that could point to you. A few representative obstacles follow:
- DC 10: A simple, poorly secured window or gate latch.
- DC 15: The lock on an old treasure chest, or a rusty lock on a door.
- DC 20: A well-made mechanical lock, or a simple magitech combination.
- DC 25: A well-made and advanced mechanical lock, such as a real-world 20th Century combination lock, or a magitech lock with basic security countermeasures.
- DC 30: A magitech lock with personal identification capabilities.
- DC 35: A magitech lock keyed to biological parts of a specific individual or group of individuals.
This function is basically identical to the burglary function in terms of DCs, but allows you to jam a device or even cause it to injure the user. It is, of course, possible to destroy devices without using the Larceny skill; however, this skill allows you to subtly alter a device so it stops functioning. If you rig a device to harm the user, the Larceny DC increases by 2, and the modifications can be spotted with a Perception check with a DC equal to the result of your Larceny check. A Perception check exceeding your Larceny check by 5 or more means that a clue is spotted that could point to the person who caused the malfunction. A few representative devices, with appropriate DCs, follow:
- DC 10: The wheel of a wagon.
- DC 15: The firing mechanism of a crossbow.
- DC 20: The steering mechanism of a ship, possibly including magitech parts. Alternatively, the trigger mechanism of a magic wand.
- DC 25: The mechanism of a watch, or the magical components of a scrying device.
- DC 30: A magitech information-storing terminal.
- DC 35: The decision-making cortex of a golem or other magitech automaton.
With a successful Larceny check, you can worm your way out of physical restraints, such as handcuffs or chains, on your character. Escaping restraints normally takes 2 [Rounds] of effort, but you can reduce the DC by 2 by taking 5 [Rounds] to attempt to escape, or you can attempt to escape as a standard action if you increase the DC by 5.
- DC 10: An ad-hoc web of belts.
- DC 15: A cloth straight jacket.
- DC 20: Globs and globs of sticky ectoplasm.
- DC 25: An "inescapable" iron box filled with water.
- DC 30: Web of the Spider Queen.
- DC 35: The mystic seal meant to bar your glorious return.
Sleight of Hand
You use this function to pick someone’s pocket, conceal an object or weapon on your person, or do magic tricks on street corners. It is always evaluated as a check against a character’s Awareness defense (10 + the creature’s level + the creature’s Wisdom modifier). Picking someone’s pocket is a standard action. Your Larceny check takes a -5 penalty to conceal a weapon from a hand search.
When setting a trap (such as the ones made available in the ranger’s Professional Soldier track), you can attempt to conceal the trap with a Larceny check (the DC is the Awareness defense of anyone who approaches within 10 ft of the trap). People who are actively searching for traps may make a Perception check, with the result equal to the DC of your Larceny check. | <urn:uuid:249e8b7b-f33e-4cda-9c2b-faf022c3e9fc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legendwiki.com/index.php/Larceny | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.877589 | 957 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Toddle announces the third edition of TIES 2022 - The Inquiry Educators Summit starting March 5, 2022.
Progressive educators around the world are constantly looking to fill their toolbox with strategies, ideas and inspiration. Created for educators to transform their practice, The Inquiry Educators Summit (TIES) is back with its third and biggest edition yet. In the 2 years since its inception, TIES has inspired over 40,000 educators from 100+ countries to learn, share, and discover new ideas.
Designed to be a festival of learning like no other, TIES 2022 will feature 100+ phenomenal speakers across 10 unique session formats. The event will be divided into 3 distinct clusters and will provide educators with meaningful opportunities to foster lifelong connections, learn new strategies and transfer learnings to their classrooms.
- Connect, the pre-conference (March 5-6, 2022) - Where like-minded inquiry educators from around the world will meet and engage
- Learn, the main conference (March 11-13, 2022) - Where 100+ edu-heroes and fellow classroom practitioners will share bid ideas and actionable strategies
- Transfer, the post-conference (April-July, 2022) - Where participants will turn ideas into action through collaborative reflection and sharing .
Featuring visionary thinkers such as Sugata Mitra, Kath Murdoch, Yaacov Hecht, Ron Ritcchart, Trevor MacKenzie, Sylvia Duckworth amongst others, TIES 2022 promises to be an unparalleled opportunity for progressive educators around the world to get hands-on with inquiry gurus, discover limitless ideas, forge lifelong connections, and most importantly, to energize and have fun!
“As teachers ourselves, we understand the importance of high quality professional learning. With TIES, our aspiration is to host the most memorable and well-rounded conference experience for educators where they not only get exposed to new ideas but also get a chance to connect with like minded folks from around the world.” Deepanshu, CEO at Toddle.
Early bird tickets are available till end of December 2022 for individuals and groups. You can get your All Access Pass here.
The Inquiry Educators Summit (TIES) is hosted by Toddle, an all-in-one teaching-learning platform for IB and other progressive schools. Used by 30,000+ educators around the world, Toddle empowers teaching teams to plan collaboratively, assess authentically, document learning journeys, and engage families - all from one intuitive interface. | <urn:uuid:a1812e8b-9c54-4033-a0f9-af299c8bfa9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.k12dive.com/press-release/20211206-the-inquiry-educators-summit-ties-2022-a-festival-of-learning-like-no/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.92379 | 511 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Steel production units are among the largest, riskiest and most challenging environments in which a facility management company can operate. Raghav Kapur, Vice President, SILA shares how man and machine come together to service such plants.
The client: JSW Steel is among India’s largest private sector steel production companies, and has partnered with SILA at multiple locations. Among them, SILA provides housekeeping and facility management services to its upstream production facility at Dolvi (Maharashtra), where iron ore and other materials are smelted into steel, and three downstream production facilities at Vasind, Tarapur and Kalmeshwar (Maharashtra), where this steel is fashioned into various types of products.
Upstream steel plant: Spread across 5,000 acres, SILA services 30% of the facility and is the largest vendor here. A combination of indoor and outdoor cleaning is required; indoor temperatures can reach thousands of degrees and the height of cleaning required is hundreds of feet. Dust levels may be several feet high. Since the facility has its own power plants, lime calcination plant and operations continue 24×7, cleaning too is required around the clock.
“Very few vendors have the expertise to perform this kind of cleaning”, said Kapur. “We had cleaning machines made-to-order from Europe”. These include truck-mounted super sucker vacuums which can suck up rocks and boulders (a pile of rocks upto six feet high can be sucked in), JCB scoopers for outdoor areas, bobcat machines with front-attached sweepers that can remove 5-10 cm high piles of dust from roads and walkways, tipper trucks and more.
Monsoons cause the dust and dirt to cake up, since much of the facility is exposed to the elements. If the raw materials get wet and become sludgy, plant operations are affected. SILA works closely with the client to ramp up cleaning during this season. Electric breakers are deployed to scrape off the caked material.
Downstream steel plants: These three facilities range from 30-150 acres, and SILA services the entire facility. With a more indoor setup, machines like auto scrubbers and industrial-grade heavy duty vacuums are used. A truck mounted jetting system shoots water at heights to clean the exteriors of buildings.
Cleaning at heights: Mistral vacuums with a huge suction capacity are used to suck up debris up to six feet high. The tanks are constructed to withstand heavy-duty debris.
Safety: Each area of the facility is subdivided into smaller zones, and each zone is categorised as per risk levels (Level 1 to 5). Separate training is provided to staff members who work at each level. For example, Level 5 involves working at heights; such individuals are specifically trained in how to use belts and harnesses.
The PPE mandated for all employees includes safety goggles, denim jackets, jeans, earplugs, helmets, cut-resistant safety gloves and safety boots.
Machine tracking: Machines are fitted with sensors to detect machine usage. GPS data from trucks is tallied with diesel consumption and integrated into an app. The SILA-JSW partnership is an SLA; scores depend upon how much each machine was used and if the schedule was adhered to during each shift.
Zero downtime: “If a machine doesn’t work for two days, cleaning may be set back by as much as two weeks”, said Kapur. SILA has stationed technicians and maintains an inventory of machine spare parts at each location (typically remote) so that cleaning is uninterrupted.
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Somewhere in Sarasota, Florida, there is a man named Edwin. It doesn't really matter how old Edwin is, or what he does for a living. It doesn't matter if he has kids or a chronic back problem or if he's racked up $100,000 in credit card debt. Edwin could be rich or poor, young or old, black or white. Edwin is everyman, with one small exception: He is now $15,000 richer.
Edwin was the winner of the first-ever basic income lottery in the United States on Tuesday, sponsored by a San Francisco–based group called My Basic Income. The group created the sweepstakes to rally interest in a universal basic income—the idea that every person should be given enough money to cover their basic needs, regardless of financial hardship or work ethic or anything else, with no strings attached. In Edwin's case, he'll get $1,250 per month for a year to do with what he likes, in the hopes that it will paint a clearer picture of how individuals in the United States would use a basic income supplement in the future.
The concept of universal basic income was first detailed in Thomas More's Renaissance-era Utopia and has garnered support over the years from Milton Friedman, Martin Luther King Jr., half a dozen US presidents, Noble prize–winning economist Christopher Pissarides, and more than 33,000 Redditors.
But right now, basic income is experiencing what is perhaps its biggest moment ever. Tuesday's basic income lottery event comes on the heels of two major announcements—one from the tech incubator Y Combinator, which will sponsor a five-year basic income experiment in Oakland, California; another from the charity GiveDirectly, which will pilot a decade-long basic income program in Kenya. Later this week, Switzerland will vote on whether or not to guarantee every citizen about $2,500 per month, which would make it the first country to put a basic income program into practice.
"There are a lot of assumptions about what happens when you give people free money. But in reality, we really don't know," said Cameron Ottens, the co-founder of My Basic Income, in an interview with VICE. "We're trying to figure out what real people would actually do with it and how it would impact real peoples' lives, to move beyond academic speculation about peoples' behavior."
Past experiments have made a compelling case for how basic income can improve society at large, but haven't paid much attention to how individuals spend the money they're given. One of the more famous experiments—the minimum income or "Mincome" project in Manitoba, Canada—gave monthly income supplements to the poorest third of residents of a small town called Dauphin. The project began in 1974, but after five years, the government shut it down. An official report of the findings was never released.
Years later, though, an economist at the University of Manitoba used the archived data from the project to compile a review. Her report, published in 2011, showed that during the five years that residents collected basic income, workplace accidents decreased, high school graduation rates increased, and people spent less time at their jobs and more time with their families. Basically, if you no longer have to work to live, your quality of life gets a lot better.
Another experiment among low-income families in North Carolina found that giving families a cash stipend led to a decrease in behavioral and emotional disorders among children. There's also evidence to suggest that this kind of supplemental income lowers stress levels, reduces crime rates, and improves the quality of people's diets, as it did for recipients of basic income experiments in Kenya, Nambia, and India, respectively. Free money is not a panacea, but it's pretty close.
Of course, those studies prove only that having money improves peoples' lives, not that basic income is necessarily the method of doing so. And there are plenty of questions about the feasibility of basic income on a large scale: How would we pay for it? How much money would people need? Would it disincentive people from working, or enable people to spend government money on luxury items? New York Times writer Eduardo Porter argued that it's a "poor tool to fight poverty" in a column published yesterday. And Ezra Klein at Vox pointed out that a basic income would require Americans to completely redefine their relationship to work, something he isn't sure is possible. But for all the valid arguments against a basic income, no one has yet been able to answer the simplest question, which is: What exactly would people do with it?
The My Basic Income lottery, which was modeled after a similar project in Germany, aimed to collect data on this question. Anyone could enter the sweepstakes as long as he or she answered the question: What would you do with the money if you won?Ottens said the group collected roughly 3,000 responses.
"The spread we're seeing so far has a lot to do with people going through transitions," Ottens told VICE. People wrote about using the cash to offset their expenses while getting a degree, quitting a bad job, or starting a business. There were also responses about handling unexpected expenses, like paying off a hospital bill or a car repair—something more than half of Americans said they couldn't afford, according to a recent survey from Bank Rate. "I don't think people realize how often peoples' lives are disrupted by someone who gets in a car accident or gets cancer."
Edwin, who won the sweepstakes, wrote that he would "save the money for a rainy day."
It doesn't really matter what Edwin does with the money, so long as his year of basic income adds to the pool of data about what a basic income could look like for individuals. He could spend all $15,000 on strippers, and, while the people who crowdfunded that money would probably not be pleased, it would at least add another data point about how individuals would use a basic income. "If someone says, 'I'm going to [use the money to] buy a brand new car and never drive it,' that would be good to know too," said Ottens.
Now is the perfect time to work out the kinks of a basic income system, since advances in technology threaten to put more and more people out of work, according to Natalie Foster, a fellow at the Institute for the Future and a co-founder of the Universal Income Project.
"Basic income has had supporters throughout history, from Milton Friedman to Martin Luther King Jr. Even the founding fathers talked about universal basic income. But we haven't seen it move from idea to actual policy," Foster told VICE. "Whether or not you believe that robots are going to come take our jobs, the future is here—it's just unevenly distributed."
Foster said that while the Swiss vote on basic income is "not likely" to pass this week, other governments—including Finland and the cities of Ontario, Canada, and Utrecht in the Netherlands—are considering their own basic income program.
And whether those programs succeed or fail, basic income advocates argue that it's time to start experimenting with them in earnest.
"The idea from the sweepstakes was that you'd get people who were thinking, I could use $15,000, who had nothing to do with the movement, who had nothing to do with the politics, who just thought that amount of money was meaningful," said Ottens. "And then they realize that there are people talking about this: What if everyone could survive without a job? What if you could walk away from an abusive relationship [without worrying about money]? What if you could work less? What if we could try to solve those problems once and for all?"
For more information about My Basic Income's second lottery, visit its website.
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If you hear complaints about your snoring habits, you are not alone. Sleep apnea affects around 22 million Americans, with 80 percent of moderate and severe obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) cases going undiagnosed. This serious condition can affect your sleep partner, family, coworkers and friends. Your energy, health and work productivity can diminish from poor sleep quality.
What is a Mandibular Advancement Device?
Our sleep specialists can improve your sleep quality with a Mandibular Advancement Device (MAD). As a jawbone and mandibular advancement device, a MAD works by advancing or moving your jaw forward so you can sleep without snoring. If you’ve ever seen an athletic mouth guard, you’ll understand how this device looks.
Sleep apnea causes you to experience partial airway obstruction to and from the lungs because of tongue or throat tissue collapse. The MAD device lessens blockages arising in the back of your throat as it moves your jaw and tongue forward to clear the area by making the upper airway bigger.
Your MAD will need to be fitted in your mouth and molded to your teeth. A good MAD advances your jaw forward incrementally until the proper balance between the back of your tongue and soft tissues in your throat is achieved and effectively halts your snoring!
You can get one of three kinds of Mandibular Advancement Devices: Boil and Bite MADs, Semi-Custom Devices and Custom Dental MADs.
- 1. Boil and Bite MADs: You can find these in your local pharmacy or by ordering online. You simply mold it to your mouth by warming it in hot water, letting it cool a bit, then inserting it into your mouth and biting down. It allows the silicone to mold to your mouth.
2. Semi-Custom Devices: You’ll need to get a custom mold of your bite and then send it out for customizing to your mouth.
3. Custom Dental MADs: Our sleep specialists can have your made custom-made to perfectly fit in your mouth and refined for a comfortable fit that can be adjusted incrementally.
However, you won’t be able to use a MAD while wearing dentures. But you can try wearing a Tongue Stabilizing Device (TSD) instead because it doesn’t sit on or attach to your teeth, unlike a MAD. A TSD effectively treats snoring and sleep apnea by holding your tongue forward while wearing dentures. If you have sleep apnea, we can help you find the best solution for your symptoms and snoring.
Maintenance Tips for Your MAD
Caring for your MAD is pretty straightforward; treat it like it is an extension of your teeth. You’ll want to get rid of bacteria and germs like you would when wearing dentures or clear aligners to straighten teeth. Soaking in hot water or with a denture solution can help as you clean it with a toothbrush. While some use mouthwash or toothpaste to disinfect the device, these chemicals can be harsh and abrasive, potentially damaging your device. It can take up to a week to achieve optimal comfort with your jaw as it is pushed forward while wearing your MAD.
If you are afflicted with chronic snoring, our sleep specialists invite you to call us to learn more about sleep apnea and how best to treat it. We have helped many people just like you once again get the quality sleep they need for a healthier and more productive life! | <urn:uuid:7260df22-260f-4a7a-ac50-0404621342fd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tmjsleepdenver.com/do-you-constantly-snore-while-you-sleep-wearing-a-mandibular-advancement-device-can-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.924756 | 726 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Our scientific investigators are focused on understanding the science behind diet, exercise, and metabolic health, and their effect on cancer risk, development, and treatment. Our team is led by Lee Jones, Jessica Scott, and Neil Iyengar.
As an exercise scientist, I am focused on the efficacy and mechanisms of exercise training on cardiovascular toxicities and tumor initiation and progression. My research program aims to take a translational approach to investigation of the efficacy of targeted exercise training to mitigate cancer therapy–associated cardiovascular injury and to inhibit tumor growth and progression. I currently serve on several working groups with the American Society of Clinical Oncology, and my research program has been supported by the National Institutes of Health, AKTIV Against Cancer, the American Cancer Society, and the US Department of Defense Breast Cancer Research Program.
I am an assistant member in the Exercise Oncology Research Laboratory. I joined MSK in February 2017 after five years as a senior scientist in the exercise physiology and countermeasures laboratory at NASA’s Johnson Space Center. My current research is focused on the characterization of multisystem deconditioning using novel exercise testing, imaging, and biomarker techniques and the efficacy of exercise training to prevent or reverse dysfunction.
My research investigates the links between metabolic health and cancer. I work with a highly productive team composed of clinical and laboratory scientists at Memorial Sloan Kettering, Weill Cornell Medicine, and The Rockefeller University, where I hold a joint research position. Our team has established that inflammation in the breast is a key contributor to obesity-related breast cancers. As obesity rates are on the rise in the United States and worldwide, we are seeing an increase in obesity-related cancers. We have shown that inflammation in the fatty tissue of the breast and at other anatomic sites occurs in most obese and overweight individuals and even in some individuals who are normal weight. Therefore, a key component of my research program is the development of clinical trials — including diet, exercise, and medication — that aim to prevent obesity-related cancers as well as improve outcomes in people with fatty-tissue inflammation.
Nilsen TS, Scott JM, Michalski M, Capaci C, Thomas S, Herndon JE, Sasso J, Eves ND, Jones LW. Novel methods for reporting of exercise dose and adherence: an exploratory analysis. Med Sci Sports Exerc. Jun 2018.
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E-LOAN continues to offer very competitive CD rates. As I mentioned in the blog post earlier this month, E-LOAN’s 5-year and 3-year CDs are clear rate leaders for nationally available CDs. For those considering opening an account with E-LOAN, there’s an important thing to know about E-LOAN. Its parent bank is Banco Popular North America which is under the Puerto Rican bank holding company, Popular, Inc. (Popular). With the news about the Puerto Rican government defaulting on its debt, there are concerns about opening an account at a bank with Puerto Rican connections. Here are two basic reasons why I’m not concerned.
First, deposits held at E-LOAN are FDIC insured under Banco Popular North America, which is a New York state chartered bank. Its sister bank is Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, which is an FDIC member based in Puerto Rico. Since Puerto Rico is a U.S. Commonwealth, Puerto Rican banks are FDIC-insured just like banks based in any of the 50 states.
Second, Banco Popular North America is financially strong. It has a Texas ratio of 2.61% which is considered excellent. In addition, its bank holding company, Popular, is considered healthy. According to this 24/7 Wall St article, Popular "did not make the mistake of buying too much government debt like Greek banks did. Its non-performing loans are only 3.2% of its assets, which puts it in very decent shape for being on an otherwise insolvent island."
A large bank that was based in Puerto Rico did fail this year. That bank was Doral Bank which had almost $6 billion in assets. The FDIC arranged for Banco Popular de Puerto Rico to acquire the banking operations, including all the deposits, of Doral Bank. Consequently, no one lost any of their deposits, even deposits that were over the FDIC limits.
Even though your deposits should be safe at E-LOAN, there are other reasons to avoid opening an E-LOAN CD.
First, E-LOAN’s early withdrawal penalties are harsh. As stated in E-LOAN’s Terms and Conditions page, the Early Withdrawal Penalty reads as follows:
Original term of 12 months up to 36 months: 270 days simple interest
Original term of 36 months up to 60 months: 365 days simple interest
Original term of 60 months or Greater: 730 days simple interest
Another downside with E-LOAN is possible complications with closing a CD. Several readers have complained about problems they had closing a CD and transferring the funds back to them. I did not experience any problems when I closed two E-LOAN CDs in 2009 and 2012. Before my CDs matured, I logged in and specified to close the CDs at maturity and have the funds transferred to my linked checking account. That took place without any problems. I was told by an E-LOAN CSR that instructions to close a CD can also be made during the grace period (which is 10 calendar days). | <urn:uuid:66247975-d82a-43bf-a018-e053b5588982> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.depositaccounts.com/blog/2015/08/concerns-eloans-connection-puerto-rico.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968165 | 637 | 1.539063 | 2 |
I have 2 questions on count models
- based on the research question below, what model should I use: poisson, negative binomial regression or zero-inflation? How are they different?
- Is this count model or multivariate model?
My research question is what factors determine the location of a nonprofit organization. There are two categories of factors: industrial features determining the type of organizations, and government spending determining the number of organizations. the outcome might be:
county 1: 3 schools + 20 museums + 5 research centers + 1 church = 29 org
county 2: 2 schools + 0 museum + 0 research centers + 0 church + 1 hospital = 3 org
county 3: 0 schools + 0 museum + 0 research centers + 0 church + 0 hospital + 1 food pantry + 2 thrift stores = 2 org
Essentially, I am interested in both the type of organization and the number of organizations.
Please also provide the following information in addition to your question:
- Operating System: Microsoft Windows
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Many people go about their lives not knowing what they want to do with themselves. Most psychiatrists will agree that most people who are unhappy and suffering from psychiatric disorders have no idea what they want to do with their lives.
Failure is part and parcel of life. But that doesn’t mean that you can’t succeed in your dreams.
Many are taking the phrase “living one day at a time” a little too literally. Successful people always have a plan for their future.
Living without concern for the future may be beneficial to your health, but establishing preparations will ensure that you have a better future.
Success looks different for everyone, but you may have got it all wrong.
Adam says “Success is a habit, sure. But to pick up this habit, you have to have the right mindset.”
Success isn’t a habit that you pick up overnight. As a result, changing your thinking is required to make success a learned habit. Even if you adopt healthy practices, you will not succeed unless you let go of your old mindset of success.
Changing your perspective can help you transform your perceptions of success. As you progress on your path to success, you will gain more confidence.
Anyone can be successful; nevertheless, the only thing stopping those who don’t accomplish their goals is the enemy within us.
The Phoenix is a digital handbook that can assist you in reprogramming your mind and adopting a more optimistic attitude in life.
Reading positive books has a positive effect on your journey.
This Phoenix Mind review is designed to educate you on how to take control of your life and start understanding success the right way.
What is The Phoenix Mind?
The Phoenix Mind is a success manual. The guide encourages people to develop the habits that will lead them to success in the future. The author of the book, Adam Smith, advocates that reprogramming yourself for success makes it is easier to maintain the appropriate mindset.
The PDF guide will teach you about the eight mindsets that will put you on the path to consistent success, altering your vision and changing your life in ways you never imagined.
It lets you build your life by critically assessing what is going on around you and adjusting your priorities, values, and life course. Phoenix’s mind helps you shift from the limiting thoughts that keep you from achieving your goals.
Individuals can overcome mental obstacles by following Adam’s eye-opening techniques, including increased confidence, finding control over your thoughts, learning to avoid pessimism, and breaking free from the beliefs that society has ingrained in us about success
How Does The Phoenix Mind Work?
Phoenix Mind is designed to give you some great suggestions and step-by-step instructions for living a happy and successful life.
The guide lays out several life lessons that you should follow described in detail. It’s specifically made to guide people who may not know what they want to do with their lives or don’t have any long-term goals.
The book will give you clarity and refresh your thoughts on success and how it could look like for you.
The Phoenix Mind will help you identify the things around you that affect your success. It will also shape your emotional response to these events by giving you a positive outlook on life.
You will notice significant changes as soon as you begin following the guide.
About The Author
Adam Smith is the creator of Phoenix Mind. He is a psychologist fascinated by human behavior and how people respond to various situations.
He used the concepts of psychology to retrain people’s thoughts through a guide that teaches them how to think in a way that leads to success.
According to Adam, some restrictive ideas might corrupt one’s thinking, preventing them from reaching the success they deserve.
Adam Smith has been described as a “psychological healer” who employs words that can be put into practice to achieve a healthy mindset.
Adam works for a research organization that collects human data and discovers solutions to the findings. The Phoenix Mind is one of the solutions.
This guide will assist you in evaluating adverse effects that happen during life and implement the eight mindsets presented to acquire an entirely different perspective on life.
What Are The Features Included in The Phoenix Mind Guide?
The purpose of Phoenix Mind is to emphasize abandoning old habits and mindsets rather than forcing people to do a specific activity continuously.
The Phoenix Mind covers nine significant points. In each of these points, you will learn how to answer several questions that will guide you to having a Phoenix Mindset.
- Understanding Your Brain
- What Do You Really Want?
- Create Plans To Achieve Your Goals
- Winning Mindset Traits
- Winning Mindset Best Practice
- The Power of Your Mind
- WHY Statements and Goals
- Control Your Thoughts For A Winning Mindset
- Winning Mindset Daily Routine
Phoenix Mind Bonuses
When you purchase the Phoenix Mind guide, you also get access to some great bonuses. These include:
- Fast Action Bonus #1: Checklist
This cheat sheet can be used as a checklist to assist you when starting with the Phoenix Mind.
It divides the entire book into simple phrases to help you ensure you have all of the fundamentals of everything presented inside the guide at your fingertips. This makes keeping track of progress and staying motivated on the journey much more manageable.
- Fast Action Bonus #2: Resource Guide
The Resource Guide provides rapid access to all materials listed throughout the Phoenix Mind guide.
This makes it easy to start and stay focused on your goals.
Another method to remain on track is to get a synopsis of the resource guide’s resources. You can quickly recognize what you want and follow the instructions to achieve it.
- Fast Action Bonus #3: Software
Subliminal software is an NLP software that shows subliminal text messages on your computer screen while you use it normally for your activities. It reprograms your mind subconsciously while you use your conscious activities like browsing, working, watching videos, and others.
It’s fairly simple to make subliminal recordings. Sure, there’s some mysticism around their production. Still, you can safely ignore that kind of superstition and make your messages to help change things in your life for the better. You wouldn’t do this for anything less than honorable reasons, right?
Benefits of The Phoenix Mind Guide
People that follow the Phoenix Mind have a lot of opportunities and ways to win.
Anyone who reads this book is likely to experience significant changes in their mentality and outlook on life. The following are some of the benefits of the Phoenix Mind book:
- Learn How to Do a Mental Detox
The brain is meant to facilitate recollection and appraisal. When you hold unnecessary thoughts on your mind, you harm your brain and spirit.
Using the Phoenix Mind handbook, you can tell what kind of person you are and which direction your life leads your mind by following the eight mindsets.
You will learn how to declutter your mind and make room for happy and healthy thoughts.
The mental detox will give you relief from most psychological disorders caused by anxiety, excessive anxieties, and panic attacks.
- Learn Important of Setting Goals
Setting short-term and long-term goals is vital to achieving anything in life and making significant progress. These are the goals you must achieve within a specific time frame and the steps you must take to achieve them. The Phoenix Mind teaches you to achieve success by setting realistic goals and analyzing your progress.
- Develop a Healthy Mindset
The best way to stay healthy and psychologically fit in life is to maintain a positive attitude toward a goal. A negative mindset automatically attracts failure. You can’t successfully run a business when you have convinced yourself that you can’t.
Adam emphasizes self-confidence in his guide, defined as the ability to believe in oneself. When applied correctly, it may propel you to achieve exceptional outcomes.
- Learn To Prepare For Failure
Failure is an inevitable part of any success story. Being ready for failure does not attract bad vibes. But instead, it helps you find a way of dealing with it.
When Phoenix Mind walks you through typical business and life risks and how to manage them properly, it is believed that most risk-takers have better results when taking risks than planning ahead of time.
- Learn How To Take Action and Stick To Your Goals
Setting objectives is the first step, but taking action is the most critical stage in achieving success in life. Implementing the measures suggested in the guide is a great predictor of whether you will follow through on any goals you set for yourself. According to Adam Smith, it’s not enough to set goals and achieve them, but instead, you should yearn to do more and become a better version of yourself.
Who Can Benefit from The Phoenix Mind?
If you think the Phoenix Mind is the book for you, you are in the right section. This guide is for everyone, whether you want to strategize in your personal lives, businesses, or as a student.
The Phoenix Mind is for you if:
- You want to be well-informed about your views on success and life.
- You are aware that ideas that hold you back will prohibit you from achieving success in your life.
- You want to rise to a higher level in your life to be more successful.
- You seek advice on being emotionally prepared to deal with various situations in your life.
This program’s best feature is that it forces you to step outside of your comfort zone. You want to cultivate a good mindset, in other words.
Because most people fail as a result of negative emotional reactions, the guide explains how to deal with them.
How Much Is The Phoenix Mind?
Owing to high demand, the price has been cut to $39.77. To get started with the guide, you’ll have access to the pdf version as well as connections to bonuses.
The Phoenix Mind is an excellent bargain for reshaping one’s life and accumulating wealth.
This book is only accessible on the official website to protect clients from fraud. Those selling fake copies on the Internet, so we urge you to only get on from the official website.
If you buy it elsewhere, you will not be refunded by the Phoenix Mind officials if the book does not work for you. However, if you purchase the book from the product’s official website, you will be eligible for a refund.
The website accepts various payment methods, including Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Stripe.
Once you buy the book, you have a whole 30-day window to decide whether it’s for you or not. If you are not satisfied, please send an email to the owner, and you will be eligible for a full refund.
Does The Phoenix Mind Work Or Not?
Phoenix Mind is a self-help book that offers advice on living a happy and prosperous life.
The author guarantees that you will start seeing changes in your life almost instantly when using it.
According to the Phoenix Mind reviews, you’ll see better results if you make the guide a part of your daily routine. Because it is written in a narrative style, the book proves to be effective.
The price is also quite fair, and the Phoenix Mind book comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee. As a result, if you are dissatisfied with the book, you will receive a full refund.
These data points prove that the Phoenix Mind guide is genuine and worth trying.
Phoenix Mind is a book that focuses on cultivating a positive mindset. The right attitude is subjective, but it generally means the right path to success.
Phoenix Mind book is what you need in your life if you want to unleash your constructive ideas and get on the path to success.
In the event of failure, having the appropriate mindset allows you to overcome obstacles. Additionally, it promotes mindfulness and ensures that you maintain control over your life in both happy and sad times.
Since its release in the market, it has had a lot of positive reviews from consumers, and the overwhelming response from customers is something you should take advantage of.
According to the Phoenix Mind reviews, users started noticing changes when applying the techniques mentioned in the book in real life.
Because the Phoenix Mind book has enticing features, it is easy for users to comprehend the content and put it into practice.
You might be eager to get started and see the benefits right away. What’s more important, though, is getting started and sticking to a healthy approach, which we believe the Phoenix Mind guide can help with.
Purchasing the Phoenix Mind guide book is a fantastic deal that comes with a money-back guarantee. As a result, it’s a risk-free transaction. It gives you immediate access to the guide’s pdf version, as well as three bonuses that make using the book a breeze.
We believe that the Phoenix Mind is a great investment following all these.
Frequently Asked Questions About “Phoenix Mind”:
What is Phoenix Mind all about?
This book will show you how to create the groundwork for the success habits you'll need to develop in order to attain constant success in all aspects of your life.
Who is Phoenix Mind for?
This book is for individuals who wish to have the correct mindset and get rid of limiting thoughts that are holding them back and preventing them from achieving the success they deserve.
How long do I need to wait until I see the results?
If you start using the book as part of your daily routine, you can see results right away.
How do I buy the Phoenix Mind?
You can buy the book by making a payment via the company website. They accept multiple payment methods, including Visa, MasterCard, Stripe, and Amex.
How much does the Phoenix Mind cost?
The guide goes for $39.77 only. This is a limited-time offer so you should hurry and grab yours now.
Is the Phoenix Mind for everyone?
Anyone can use the Phoenix Mind. We all want to feel some level of success in life, and this book is your ticket there.
Is the Phoenix Mind under a money-back guarantee program?
Absolutely. You have 30 days after purchase to go through it and see whether you can see results. If you decide it isn't for you, you can email the company for a full refund.
• When you begin reading the Phoenix Mind book, you will be introduced to your positive side. It shifts your perspective to a more positive perspective on the world.
• It directs you down the correct route that leads to success.
• It helps to calm your mind and soul, allowing your mind to heal and encouraging you to do the right thing.
• It will ensure that you are on the path to tremendous success and the achievement of the goals you have set for yourself in life.
• 30-day money-back guarantee.
• Available on soft and hard copy.
• The guide can reset your thoughts, but if you aren’t aware of how to deal with them, it may lead you to negative ones.
• Phoenix Mind employs scientific knowledge and changing someone’s perspective on life takes time. If you stay trapped in negative thinking, you may wind up accumulating a lot of bad energy within yourself.
• The guide is only available on the official company website
Summary: The Phoenix Mind is a guidebook to having the right mindset for success. The book will teach you how to let go of the societal teaching and limiting thoughts that hold us back.
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The coast of Spain hides many treasures – and the Iron Age settlement is definitely among them. What initially seems to be a portion of tangled fences, used to be a well placed fort during Roman times.
The construction remained the same ever since the 1st century A.D. During that time, the peninsula became more populated as war ended and people started building establishments and stores for crafts manufacturing. As the settlements emerged from the previous fort structure, the entire area got an unique appearance.
Firs of all, visitors must cross a moat, which is over 12 ft deep. It used to represent the first line of defense during the Roman times. Also, it separates the fort from the town, where over 20 small establishments were built starting the 1st century B.C. It is assumed that, in the past, the main wall used to surround the entire fort, so that intruders who might have come from the sea couldn’t get through. In case the enemy managed to do so, there were several other walls designed to surprise the attackers.
Next, there is another section which can be reached by climbing stairs. Of all the Galician forts, this section is the most well preserved. Since a considerable part of the walls fell and changed their shape in time, now they give an unique appearance to the entire peninsula.
Even though, the area did suffer many man-made modifications, it managed to maintain its charm and today it can be visited anytime.
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How Could CCPA Impact Chargebacks?
- November 6, 2019
- 6 minutes
New legislation is changing the way businesses handle consumers’ personal information. While the policy’s intentions are good, certain features of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) could negatively affect your chargeback management strategy.
A High-Level Overview of CCPA
WHAT is CCPA? CCPA stands for California Consumer Privacy Act. The legislation grants Californians new rights, and it regulates how businesses handle personal information.
Some of the law’s features that will most likely impact chargebacks include the following:
- The business has to tell its consumers what personal information will be collected and how that information will be used.
- When asked, a business has to be able to tell the consumer what information it has on file.
- If the customer asks the business to delete the information that’s been collected and stored, the business must comply.
WHEN does CCPA go into effect? CCPA is expected to take effect on January 1, 2020.
WHO needs to comply with CCPA? Businesses that sell to Californians and have at least one of the following characteristics will need to follow new CCPA rules:
- Gross annual revenue is $25 million or higher
- Personal information is collected from 50,000 or more consumers, households, or devices
- The sale of personal information accounts for 50% or more of the business’s annual revenue
What Impact Could CCPA Have on Chargeback Management?
Unfortunately, some issues won’t be fully understood until after CCPA takes effect. However, there are a few observations that have been made already. The four biggest concerns are:
One of the requirements of CCPA relates to “requests to know.” CCPA grants consumers the right to know what information businesses have collected and stored. If a verified customer asks, the business has to expose the data that’s on file.
Fraudsters could use this rule to unlawfully gain access to other people’s information.
For example, a security expert conducted an experiment to test a similar requirement in Europe’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). He reached out to several businesses and tested how they would handle a “right to access” request made in someone else’s name.
One in four businesses handed over personal information without verifying the request.
Through the experiment, the security expert was able to obtain the following information about his fiancée: her high school grades, her mother’s maiden name, her credit card information, several year’s worth of travel details, her account logins and passwords, her past shopping history, her social security number, and much more — a total of 60 distinct pieces of personal information.
Even if your business has a stringent verification process and rigidly follows it, other business won’t necessarily do the same.
If inattentive merchants make it easy for fraudsters to access personal information, you could receive more unauthorized purchases — and the resulting chargebacks.
CCPA also includes a “right to delete” requirement. When verified consumers ask, you must delete all personal information you have on file.
California law defines personal information as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”
That includes, but is not limited to, the following pieces of information:
- IP address
- Telephone number
- Email address
- Bank account number
- Credit or debit card number
- Records of products and services purchased or considered
- Usage logs
- Browsing history
- Social security number
- Driver’s license number
- Passport number
- Biometric information
- Physical characteristics
- Medical or health information
- Geolocation data
- Education information
- Employment-related information
- Any inferences drawn about preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, or aptitudes
To fight a chargeback, you need compelling evidence. Compelling evidence is information you can use to prove the validity of the original transaction or contradict the chargeback. But most forms of compelling evidence are also personal information.
Consider a hypothetical scenario:
Jon Jones signed up for a subscription to your online music streaming service. He enjoyed the tunes for months before deciding it was a luxury he couldn’t afford. He planned to cancel before his card was charged again, but he forgot. Regretting the extra expense, Jon decides to commit friendly fraud — but he takes it to the next level.
First, he calls and exercises his rights under CCPA. He wants you to delete all his personal information that you have on file. This includes his name, credit card information, streaming history, and much more.
Then, he calls the bank and disputes the latest bill. Jon falsely claims he cancelled his subscription, but you charged him anyway.
You receive the chargeback and suspect friendly fraud. Under normal circumstances, you’d fight back. But when you try to look up the order in your system, there is nothing there. You can’t even match the chargeback to a purchase, let alone gather any compelling evidence.
You have to simply accept the chargeback as a loss.
Chargeback prevention alerts help merchants and banks communicate in various ways to resolve payment disputes. This collaboration can help prevent chargebacks from happening.
However, CCPA could reduce the effectiveness of these tools. If consumers ask to have personal information deleted, you probably won’t have the insight you need to resolve their potential problems.
Consider a hypothetical scenario:
When it comes to online safety, Mary Manning is hyper vigilant. She has fully embraced CCPA because she thinks it is a surefire way to protect her personal information.
After every online purchase, Mary calls the business and asks to have her personal information deleted. She thinks the less information businesses have, the better.
One day, Mary buys a pair of shoes from your store — the heels are a gift for her daughter. After placing the order online, Mary demands you delete all her information. A month later, Mary inspects her credit card bill and finds a purchase she doesn’t recognize. Because the shoes she bought from you were a gift for someone else, she has forgotten about them. Panicked, Mary calls the bank and claims she was a victim of fraud.
Mary’s bank is part of a prevention alert network. When the dispute comes in, the bank sends off an alert. Under normal circumstances, you’d easily be able to resolve the issue without a chargeback. But since all of Mary’s order information is gone, you can’t explain what she bought. You can’t even offer her a refund!
The most successful fraud and chargeback management strategies are data-driven.
For example, many fraud detection tools gather massive amounts of data from every transaction processed and analyze the information. The goal is to identify characteristics that are common in cases of fraud. Then, if future transactions follow those same patterns, they are flagged as high risk.
However, these strategies are only effective if they are based on complete data sets. If information is missing, conclusions won’t be accurate.
Consider a hypothetical scenario:
Paul Peterson really likes the name-brand purses you sell. A few months ago, he bought some stolen credit card numbers and used them to buy a bunch of your purses. He enjoyed how easy it was to turn around and sell them for cash.
But after fooling you once, Paul has had a really hard time fooling you again — your fraud detection tool is just too good!
But now, Paul thinks he can use CCPA to his advantage. He can get around your fraud filters without nearly as much effort. All he has to do is ask you to delete his personal information after each fraudulent purchase. Then you won’t recognize things like his IP address or shipping address because there will be no past activity to compare them to. There will be no way to connect his new fraud to his old, red-flagged purchases.
The more holes you have in your data, the less reliable your data-driven decisions will be.
What Does This All Mean?
Does this mean CCPA will cause you to lose hundreds of thousands of dollars to chargebacks? No. Are chargeback management tools worthless? No. Should you just give up and accept chargebacks as a loss? No.
Any policy change could potentially impact your business—whether the new expectations come from the Federal Trade Commission, card brands, or a state law. But the results won’t necessarily be negative or impossible to manage.
There are ways to minimize the effect CCPA has on your business. If you’ve read this article, you’ve already completed the first two phases:
- Understand what has been proposed.
- Recognize what could change.
Now, be sure to complete the last two steps:
- Comply with what you are being asked to do.
- Adapt and optimize.
At Midigator®, we believe the challenges of running a business should be delivering great products or services, not managing payment risk.
You shouldn’t have to worry about how CCPA may or may not impact your business. Let Midigator remove all those complexities so you can get back to doing what you do best — growing your business.
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If you need to finish a pine molding or furniture and are trying to stain the wood dark, you may have trouble getting the rich, dark tone that you would like.
And even if you get the deep, dark tint color you wanted, why are your results looking so “blotchy”?
To stain pine wood dark, always follow these steps.
Start by sanding
First things first, with any staining task, sand the wood well. You are going to want to do this by hand. Pine wood is a soft wood, and if you use an electric sander you will often end up with some noticeable scratches once you apply the stain to the wood. There is no easy way out of this, a hand sanding job is required.
To ensure a dark finish, use a medium grit sanding sponge or the equivalent sandpaper, which is approximately 100 grit. Sanding sponge is best for trim molding that has fine curves and cracks. It is the best option to adapt to the curves and to get into the nooks and crannies. If you have a strictly flat surface, wrap a small square piece of sandpaper around a sanding block (a simple block of wood will do) and sand with the grain, but at a slight angle.
Why at a slight angle? The grain of pine wood is characterized by the lighter, smoother “early wood” and the darker, harder “late wood.” By not cutting the grain a bit, you will sand more early than late wood and end up with a relatively wavy surface, rather than the totally flat surface you are looking to achieve.
If you are looking for a darker finish, don’t sand with a grit finer than medium or 100 grit. Sanding with this slightly rough grit helps open up the pores in the pine wood, which will accept more stains. What you should not do is use a fine sanding sponge or 180-grit (or higher) sandpaper. This effectively polishes the wood and closes the pores in the wood, making it more difficult to stain the pine dark.
Removes stained finished pineAfter a thorough sand job, vacuum the project up and then use a label cloth to clean up any remaining dust particles.
The finished pine can look stained due to the different growth cycles of the wood (and it also depends on how the final piece was cut). To eliminate this unpleasant problem, purchase a can of wood conditioner before staining at your local center or paint store. Wood Conditioner ensures a more even stain color by closing some of the larger pores and reducing stain absorption in those areas.
However, using the wood conditioner helps make it harder to stain the pine dark. However, as long as you work with an oil-based dark penetrating stain, you can get the dark shade you’d like.
Follow the directions on the can of the wood conditioner. For most types, you will need to wait about 15 minutes before applying the stain. But don’t wait too long. Letting the wood conditioner dry completely will completely block the pores in the wood and it will be difficult to achieve the dark color you are looking for.
How the wood is stained is not important. You can use a foam brush, a regular brush, or a clean cloth. Apply generously. However, try not to drip. To ensure a good dark finish, wait as long as the manufacturer allows before cleaning off excess stain. Make sure you don’t wait too long, however, or else the stain will become sticky and difficult to clean.
If your wood isn’t as dark as you expected, don’t give up hope. Wait at least a day or more for the piece to dry completely. Then follow the steps above to re-stain your project. Your pine wood finish will have taken on a deeper, darker tone.
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Waterfall and Agile are two popular project management approaches; different and both beneficial enough to poise a dilemma for solution delivery. Agile’s key tenet is to provide flexibility while waterfall is based on a sequential approach to solution delivery. Choosing Agile or Waterfall, however, is becoming less of a choice as more organizations discover they require a mix of the two. to edit.
The traditional Waterfall model gives the solution team meticulous upfront planning, resulting in detailed project plans and comprehensive documentation of requirements that enables projects to:
Agile was created in direct response to waterfall’s rigid processes, comprehensive documentation and sluggish response to change and feedback. Agile’s frequent delivery allows the customer to provide constant feedback, flexible response to changes in requirements and continual improvement, resulting in a higher-quality product. A considerable disadvantage for Agile lies in the very reason for its creation; it doesn’t provide a clear roadmap to end-state delivery which can result in scope confusion, longer ramp-up time for new team members and idle time for the development team who often have to wait for requirements documentation to catch up with the sprint cycles.
The Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe®) in particular allows for enterprise-level application of lean-agile practices by providing an implementation roadmap at the Program Increment (PI) level, forecasting deliverables a few months ahead while also allowing for longer-term solution planning that can span multiple years. Project success depends upon teams spending the time to tailor the solution delivery approach, mixing methodologies to formulate the best practices needed to meet the unique needs of the project.
The solution when we play together:
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Carers are one of the top priority groups for getting vaccinated against flu as they look after some of the most vulnerable, at risk groups, for example older people and those with long-term health conditions. If the carer becomes ill, they would not be able to carry on caring as effectively.
Many carers last winter did not take the opportunity to have a free flu jab, despite making arrangements for their loved ones to have theirs.
Mark Major, director of Northamptonshire Carers, said: “As winter approaches, we are advising carers to have their free flu jab to help reduce the risk to their own health — as well as the health of the person they care for.
“Carers tend to put themselves last – it’s all about the person they care for – but it’s vital that when it comes to flu they put themselves first. Many unpaid carers play such a vital role in the care of friends and relatives, but they can put their own health at risk by not taking up the offer of a free flu jab. Some carers dismiss the flu as not serious enough to worry about or often simply feel they do not have enough time and many carers simply do not realise that they are eligible for a free flu jab.”
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Beverley Johnson, carer assessment and support worker at Northamptonshire Carers has recently had her flu jab.
“Five years ago I had flu and I just couldn’t get out of bed for over a week I was so unwell. I couldn’t look after my children, walk the dogs or do anything. I don’t want to carry flu into people’s homes when I see them. So it’s all about protecting vulnerable people from catching the flu.”
Gemma Kaife, who also works for Northamptonshire Carers, added: “Anyone who has a chronic long term condition should definitely have the flu jab and especially our carers so we can support each other and limit our contact with flu.”
Dr Matthew Davies, medical director at NHS Nene Clinical Commissioning Group, said: “Every winter, many unpaid carers miss out on a free flu jab, despite the fact they’re entitled to request one if they’re the main carer for someone elderly, ill or disabled, and whose health would be at risk if they fell ill.
“If a carer gets the flu and becomes too unwell to care, there may be no-one else who can step in and look after the person they care for, and this can have major knock-on effects. Also, if the carer is looking after someone with a lowered immune system, they could pass the virus on to the person they care for, even if the person they look after has had a flu jab.”
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Researchers in Germany have used a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technique called continuous arterial spin labeling (CASL) to map cerebral blood flow patterns in schizophrenic patients quickly and without using radiation or contrast agents. Their findings appear in the online edition and July printed issue of the journalRadiology.
"Arterial spin labeling is a powerful technique that can help reduce the cost and complexity of examinations," said the study’s lead author, Lukas Scheef, M.D., from the Department of Radiology at University of Bonn, Germany. "It can also be more readily repeated than methods that involve the use of contrast agents and radiotracers."
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe brain disorder that affects approximately 2.4 million American adults, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Symptoms can include hallucinations, delusions, disordered thinking, movement disorders, social withdrawal and cognitive deficits.
In the study, conducted at the University Hospital of Bonn in Germany, researchers used CASL MRI to compare cerebral blood flow in 11 non-medicated patients with schizophrenia and 25 healthy controls. The patient group included three women with a mean age of 36 years and eight men with a mean age of 32 years. The control group included 13 women (mean age, 29 years) and 12 men (mean age, 30 years).
The results revealed that compared to the healthy controls, the schizophrenic patients had extensive areas of hypoperfusion, or lower blood flow than normal in the frontal lobes and frontal cortex, anterior and medial cingulate gyri, and parietal lobes. These regions are associated with a number of higher cognitive functions including planning, decision making, judgment and impulse control.
Hyperperfusion, or increased blood flow, was observed in the cerebellum, brainstem and thalamus of the schizophrenic patients.
"Our CASL study revealed patterns of hypo- and hyperperfusion similar to the perfusion patterns observed in positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) studies of schizophrenic patients," Dr. Scheef said.
Unlike PET and SPECT studies, CASL MR images can be quickly acquired without the use of ionizing radiation or contrast agents. In CASL MRI, arterial blood water is magnetically labeled in order to non-invasively measure cerebral blood flow.
"CASL MRI may allow researchers to gain a better understanding of schizophrenia," Dr. Scheef said. "In the long run, it may help to individualize and optimize treatment."
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It is unfortunately common to see veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan who have a difficult time readjusting to civilian life. These brave men and women who fought so fiercely for our country now feel out of place at home. What’s worse, many returning vets are in need of treatment for post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), alcohol addiction, or other mental afflictions.
Because more and more vets are returning to society in need of treatment, their disorders often manifest as criminal behavior. In the last several years, police nationwide have seen more instances of veterans charged with drug crimes, assault and battery, DUI, and other offenses which likely resulted from the traumas of war. While many have been tried in the regular court system, law enforcement realized that this was not attacking the roots of the problem.
Communities around the nation have instead created veterans treatment courts. These courts only hear cases involving defendants who are veterans of war. Instead of juries, the cases are determined by a judge who is also a war veteran.
Unlike the regular court system, veterans treatment courts focus more on rehabilitation than punishment. Defendants still face consequences for their actions, but sentencing also includes enrollment in programs such as anger management and addiction recovery services.
Not every veteran or crime is eligible for veterans treatment court. A case is only heard if the defendant has an identifiable treatment need which can be linked to the crime. For instance, a case of assault and battery might show the need for anger management classes and treatment for PTSD. Once veterans have carried out their sentence and have completed rehabilitation, they are free to return to society as normal citizens.
Rock County has already successfully implemented Wisconsin’s first veterans treatment court. More will be coming to other parts of the state including Milwaukee, La Crosse, Eau Claire, and Waupaca.
Veterans treatment courts are seen as a way to save taxpayers money by rehabilitating veterans instead of incarcerating them. More importantly, these courts offer a way to help the brave men and women who have sacrificed so much for our country.
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Trump’s Huawei threat is nuclear option to halt China’s rise
The Trump administration is pulling out the big guns in its push to slow China’s rise, with potentially devastating consequences for the rest of the world.
The White House on Wednesday initiated a two-pronged assault on China: barring companies deemed a national security threat from selling to the U.S., and threatening to blacklist Huawei Technologies Co. from buying essential components. If it follows through, the move could cripple China’s largest technology company, depress the business of American chip giants from Qualcomm Inc. to Micron Technology Inc., and potentially disrupt the rollout of critical 5G wireless networks around the world.
“The Trump administration action is a grave escalation with China,” Eurasia Group analysts Paul Triolo, Michael Hirson and Jeffrey Wright wrote in a note. If fully implemented, the blacklist would “put at risk both the company itself and the networks of Huawei customers around the world, as the firm would be unable to upgrade software and conduct routine maintenance and hardware replacement.”
The threat is likely to elevate fears in Beijing that President Donald Trump’s broader goal is to contain China, leading to a protracted cold war between the world’s biggest economies. In addition to a trade fight that has rattled global markets for months, the U.S. has pressured both allies and foes to avoid using Huawei for 5G networks that will form the backbone of the modern economy.
“This decision is in no one’s interest,” Huawei said in an emailed response. “It will do significant economic harm to the American companies with which Huawei does business, affect tens of thousands of American jobs, and disrupt the current collaboration and mutual trust that exist on the global supply chain.”
The Chinese company will try to take action to mitigate the impact of the incident and seek remedies’ to resolve the matter, it said.
The U.S. notified the Chinese embassy in Washington about the Huawei action shortly before the announcement Wednesday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told Bloomberg TV Thursday. While Huawei wasn’t part of U.S.-China trade talks, the U.S. hopes that negotiations between the two nations will mitigate the kind of behavior the U.S. is punishing Huawei for, Ross said.
“@Huawei 5G, RIP. Thanks for playing,” U.S. Senator Tom Cotton, a Republican from Arkansas, wrote on Twitter.
“The negative impact on the global 5G market will be significant,” said Charlie Dai, a Beijing-based analyst at Forrester Research, nothing that Huawei is one of the market leaders globally. “Nokia and Cisco could address the gap to some extent, but the overall adoption will be slowed down, which eventually will be harmful to telco carriers and consumers around the world.”
The Commerce Department said Wednesday it will soon put Huawei on an “Entity List” – meaning any U.S. company will need a special license to sell products to the world’s largest networking gear maker. Since American companies dominate semiconductors, that could smother Huawei’s production of everything from 5G base stations to mobile phones. It may not even be able to use Google’s Android, the most popular operating system globally for smartphones. A similar move last year against ZTE Corp. – China’s second-biggest telecom equipment company – nearly forced the company out of business.
"This could potentially lead to Huawei’s destruction,” said Scott Kennedy, a China expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. “You can’t underestimate the significance. It’s their most important company and threatening it in this way will generate a massive public response as well as from the Chinese government. The bilateral trade talks were on thin ice and this could derail them entirely.”
At the heart of Trump’s concerted campaign is suspicion that Huawei aids Beijing in espionage while spearheading China’s ambitions of becoming a technology superpower. The Justice Department also accuses it of willfully violating sanctions on Iran, and last year engineered the arrest of the eldest daughter of Huawei’s billionaire founder.
Huawei, which has denied those allegations, said Thursday it was “ready and willing” to engage with the U.S. to ensure product security. Restricting it from doing business “will only serve to limit the U.S. to inferior yet more expensive alternatives,” it said in a statement.
China’s government said it will take “all necessary measures” to defend its companies.
“We resolutely object to any country, based on their own laws, unilaterally sanctioning Chinese entities,” Ministry of Commerce spokesman Gao Feng said at a regularly scheduled briefing in Beijing Thursday. “We also object to the generalization of the national security concept and abuse of export control methods.”
The lack of alternatives is one reason that it’s far from certain the U.S. will make good on its threat to cut off Huawei. Observers for months had been dismissing the possibility, in part because it would hurt some of America’s largest tech corporations. The Trump administration has also been pressuring allies to bar Huawei equipment from their communications networks for security reasons. But the U.S. effort had largely failed, as even the U.K. declined to join the American call for a boycott.
If the U.S. handicaps Huawei by cutting off suppliers, countries and telecom carriers around the world that are already spending billions to build 5G networks may have to resort to pricier equipment from Nokia Oyj and Ericsson AB. Tying up a chunk of the world’s 5G gear supply would slow the build-out of a technology that underpins future services from self-driving cars to smart homes and advanced medicine.
Huawei appears to have anticipated this possibility. It’s been developing and designing its own chips for years, which it now uses in many of its own smartphones. It’s reportedly even developing its own operating software to run phones and servers.
For now, though, it remains heavily reliant on American technology.
Huawei’s base station, smartphone, server and maritime cable businesses simply cannot run without Qualcomm baseband and processor chips. There are alternatives – but from American peers such as Intel Corp., Micron and Broadcom Corp.
It also depends on smaller American suppliers in key areas: Lumentum Holdings Inc. for optical cable; Amphenol for fiber-optic connectors; Inphi Corp. for analog chips; Qorvo Inc. and Analog Devices Inc. for radio-frequency semiconductors in both 4G and 5G; and Western Digital Corp. for storage. Texas Instruments Inc. supplies it with digital signal processing chips. Huawei even uses Oracle Corp. software in products sold to state-owned companies.
ZTE provides a roadmap for what may happen next. Huawei’s much smaller rival in 2017 ran afoul of the Commerce Department for violating the same Iranian sanctions, and then lying about it. The subsequent ban on American exports pushed the company to the brink of extinction, before Trump intervened as part of trade negotiations with Beijing.
A blanket ban would hurt not just U.S. companies, but also alienate American allies around the world. Many have resisted Washington’s attempts to steer them away from Huawei, for reasons ranging from economics to just the simple fact that the Shenzhen-based company’s 5G technology is for now considered superior.
That’s why some observers, including the Eurasia Group, argue that the White House is unlikely to bring the full force of a blacklist to bear. Instead, it argued, the Trump administration is likely to issue export licenses to all of its American companies while retaining the option in future to pull them if needed.
Roger Sheng at market research firm Gartner Inc. draws parallels with the Chinese fable of the Monkey King, whose powers are constrained by a magic circlet that his handler constricts – painfully – when the deity misbehaves.
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A 9-YEAR-OLD GIRL in good health presented to the ear, nose, and throat clinic with a complaint of swelling, which was limited to the floor of her mouth, causing slight difficulty in chewing and speech. The patient had no complaints of pain and, clinically, there was no inflammation. Her parents had noticed the lesion approximately 6 months earlier, and it had progressed slowly since then.
On palpation, the well-defined sublingual mass had a soft consistency. It appeared to be cystic in nature. When palpated bimanually, the mass could be compressed inferiorly to the submental area, and when the patient swallowed, the mass did not move in conjunction with the hyoid bone. Salivary flow was normal and clear, and the submandibular and sublingual glands were not tender to palpation. The cranial nerve examination revealed no abnormalities.
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Restoration of Anterior Vertebral Height by Short-Segment Pedicle Screw Fixation with Screwing of Fractured Vertebra for the Treatment of Unstable Thoracolumbar Fractures
(Elsevier Science Inc, 2017)
BACKGROUND: the treatment of unstable thoracolumbar fractures remains controversial. Long-segment pedicle screw constructs may be stiffer and impart greater forces on adjacent segments compared with short-segment constructs. ...
First report of perforation of ligamentum flavum by sequestrated lumbar intervertebral disc
(Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2017)
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Imitating the Example of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Juan Diego
Homily – Archdiocesan Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe
December 9, 2017
Readings: Rev 11:19; 12:1-6. 10; Lk 1:39-48
“Am I not here who am your Mother?” We know these words well: they are the words the Blessed Virgin Mary spoke to St. Juan Diego when he was despairing that the message she had entrusted to him was not being accepted by the authorities. To be complete, this is what she told him:
Listen and let it penetrate your heart…do not be troubled or weighed down with grief. Do not fear any illness or vexation, anxiety or pain. Am I not here who am your Mother? Are you not under my shadow and protection? Am I not your fountain of life? Are you not in the folds of my mantle? In the crossing of my arms? Is there anything else you need?
Assurance of Our Lady
This is the assurance our Lady gives to Juan Diego during his time of distress. And distress is what he felt: he was poor, indigenous, illiterate; he did not feel worthy to bring our Lady’s message to the bishop, and, indeed, no one believed him at first. In fact, the bishop’s assistants even made it unreasonably difficult for Juan Diego to have an audience with him. But he is the one she chose, he was her favored son, and so she gave him assurance that she was with him and that she would take care of him, even in his moments of distress. All would be fine, because she keeps him under her shadow and protection, within the folds of her mantle.
She could give him this assurance because she was speaking from personal experience, for she herself knew distress in her life, which came from being the favored daughter of her heavenly Father in bringing about His plan of salvation. In the first reading for our Mass today we heard about a woman clothed with the sun, and a huge red dragon that was seeking to devour her son. As the reading tells us, “The woman herself fled into the desert where she had a place prepared by God.”
This is indicative of all that she suffered to fulfill God’s will for her and for the entire world, and the special protection that God gave her: at the time of giving birth to her Son, she was a migrant and homeless; shortly after his birth, she had to flee with the child and her husband into Egypt in order to protect her baby from the local governing authority who was seeking to kill him; later in life, he left home to begin his public ministry, when once again the local authorities saw him as a threat and began to devise a plan to get rid of him; she had to bear the incomparable pain of seeing her Son convicted, tortured and executed, standing next to him all the way to the bitter end.
Serving the Other
Yes, she suffered much to be the Mother of God’s Son; and yet, she was always ready to help others. We see a clear example of this in the Gospel reading for our Mass today: as soon as she received the news that she was going to be the Mother of God’s Son, she “set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.” Elizabeth was her cousin, the mother of St. John the Baptist, the precursor to our Lord, whom she was carrying within her womb. That is, Mary went immediately to share this saving good news with her kinswoman, and stayed with her for several months to assist her in her need, as Elizabeth herself was given a miraculous child-bearing, being elderly and now expecting a child. Elizabeth certainly had some very pressing needs in her unique situation, and our Lady was there to help her, even with all that was happening in her own life.
This is an important lesson for us: no matter how great is the distress we might be feeling ourselves, we can always show love toward others. No matter how vulnerable or unimportant we may feel, we can always love God by showing love toward others and serving them. This is what makes one great in God’s sight, and that is all that matters. We learn this lesson from the Blessed Virgin Mary herself, and from her favored son, St. Juan Diego.
To those who are suffering distress at this time because of the current political climate, please remember how great you are in God’s sight when you trust in Him and continue to show your love for Him in your love and service to others. And to those in our Archdiocese who are coming to the assistance of our brothers and sisters experiencing such distress, I want to express a profound word of gratitude. You are recognizing and fulfilling God’s will in your own life, making the assurances our Lady gave to Juan Diego very real and felt in the lives of those who are dearest to her, and to all of us.
Yes, our Lady suffered much to fulfill God’s will. But suffering is only part of the story: that has to do with one set of the mysteries of the rosary, the sorrowful mysteries. In those mysteries we contemplate the sufferings of our Lord and his Mother. But there are also the joyful and glorious mysteries. Joy exists where there is love, where there is caring attention to serving the other, even in the midst of distress.
When Jesus was born, Mary and Joseph were migrants and homeless, nobody took them in. And yet, this is a joyful mystery, because the birth of this child means that God’s saving love has entered into this world. And it entered into this world for the sake of our salvation. The cycle of praying the rosary ends with the glorious mysteries, and, in particular, the mysteries by which our Lady shares in the glory of her Son: her bodily assumption into heaven, and her Queenship over heaven and earth. God’s glory is revealed to us when we recognize God’s will and do it, no matter the cost to us.
Let us all, then, always focus our lives on doing God’s will by sharing His love with others in the concrete circumstances of our lives. Then we can be confident in her who is here, who is our Mother, who keeps us under her shadow and protection, who is our fountain of life, who keeps us in the folds of her mantle and in the crossing of her arms. Truly, there nothing else that we need. | <urn:uuid:a0bf5433-72e0-4352-9275-d86dd6bf3110> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sfarch.org/imitating-the-example-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-and-st-juan-diego/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982305 | 1,383 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Accounting may seem like a science. Put the numbers in the right columns, add them up, and out pops an unbiased result. But how the numbers are organized and counted can be highly political, and can distort public policy. Accounting rules are widely used to hide the true costs of public-private partnerships (P3s) and privatization.
That’s why CUPE has intervened in a review of how governments and public sector organizations report P3s in their financial statements.
Canada’s public-sector accounting standards dictate how governments and public sector organizations present their financial statements. Currently, these rules have strong incentives for governments to privatize public assets and engage in P3s.
Canadian accounting standards allow governments to severely undervalue public assets on the books. With one side of the balance sheet artificially low, it’s tempting to sell physical infrastructure like buildings, roads, airports, ports and bridges. That’s because privatizing, even at below market value, makes a government’s deficit and long-term debt magically appear better.
Asset sales, like the partial sale of Hydro One, always put the government in a worse financial situation over the long term. The asset is gone, forever, along with any revenues that flowed back to the service and the public.
Under Canadian public sector accounting guidelines, there are no standards or rules whatsoever for reporting P3 contracts or obligations. They’re a black hole for transparency and accountability. Governments can report as little or as much as they want, with no consistency.
The guidelines don’t force Canadian governments to account for future P3 payments in their financial reporting, except in the years payments are due. Most P3 contracts are for 20 years or more. So P3s and private contracts appear to cost less in the short term, even though publicly-financed and operated infrastructure costs far less over the long term.
P3s are also creating a growing and off-book debt bomb that will weigh heavily on future generations. When the UK government added up all the liabilities and obligations associated with their P3 projects, known as PFI or private finance initiative, the final tally was over £300 billion. That’s almost C$500 billion, or C$20,000, per UK family.
It could soon be harder for governments to sweep P3s under the fiscal carpet. Canada’s Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) is proposing new disclosure requirements and standards for public entities reporting on P3 liabilities.
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That is a question that has been requested many occasions throughout the centuries and one that could have a number of totally different answers. Some pursue artistic activities as a passion and a few do it for a dwelling, however no matter what road we have taken to unleash our imaginations and wish without cost self-expression, it’s fairly clear that making issues is a component and parcel of being human.
This exhibition pairs Richard Seidel’s vigorous figurative paintings impressed by coastal trips and artist residencies in Venice, Madrid, and the French Riviera with Alison Sigethy’s revolutionary kinetic glass sculptures, Sea Cores, which mix water, light, bubbles and glass to mirror the dazzling visual array of deep sea environments.
In the museum study , we held a lottery with nearly 11,000 students from 123 Arkansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma faculties, roughly half of whom had been assigned to visit Crystal Bridges of American Art in Bentonville, Ark., while the opposite half served as the management group.
See, for instance, I. Gaskell, ‘Tradesmen as students: interdependencies within the study and change of artwork’, in Art Historical past and its Institutions: Foundations of a Discipline, ed. E. Mansfield (London & New York, 2002), pp. 146-sixty two; and C. Steiner, African Artwork in Transit (Cambridge, 1994).
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Lamprophis fuliginosus (Boie, 1827)
Usually a shade of brown or olive-grey above, although occasionally yellow or orange. Usually two pale lines on each side of the head, one passing through the eye, the other across the cheek, these my continue to a variable extent along the body. Underside white, cream or greyish. Length up to 150 cm. | <urn:uuid:46eabebf-6152-429e-85a3-ab936e9eb52d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/lamprophis-fuliginosus-boie-1827-55 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.835699 | 91 | 1.578125 | 2 |
As the end of the year nears, we’d like to share a few Christmas themed activities as well as a tour of Egypt that our Wildcats proudly presents below:
Christmas Tree Decorations in Primary:
Every year as part of the SLAS Christmas tradition, each primary grade class is allotted one tree to decorate. From reindeers to Christmas trees, self portraits to dancers, snowflakes to stars, our Wildcats had a great time making their Christmas Tree ornaments! Some were completely handmade step by step, while some Wildcats used 3-D pens to print their own snowflakes! ACheck out the photos below to see the different trees!
Egypt Tour from our Grade 6 History Students!
On Thursday, December 16, Ms. Marlee’s Grade 6 and PreAP Grade 6 Ancient History classes presented small-scale Ancient Egypt museums. For this unit of study, students delved into Project Based Learning. This student-led style of learning had the students working closely in groups to research Ancient Egypt while focusing on specific areas that interested them within the broader topic. The students’ goal at the end of the Project Based Learning unit was to show and teach their newfound understanding and knowledge by preparing and presenting museums. Students used their creative thinking to display their information in several exhibits. Their museums included invention exhibits, Nile River displays, mummification demonstrations, a café based on food grown in Ancient Egypt, and many more smaller components. Students were then challenged to practice their communication and presentation skills by welcoming guest staff, teachers, and students to their museums. While exploring the museums, some guests were guided through the museums by Ancient Egyptian Gods/Goddesses, some were mummified, some were able to try on Ancient Egyptian wigs, and some were able to interact with displays made using technology. The students’ confidence was obvious as you walked around the classroom and listened to explanations while interacting with the exhibits. The students enjoyed sharing their learning with others and did a fantastic job of simulating a real-life museum experience for their guests!
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From population health to alerts and ticklers, an EHR is a tool that allows pediatricians to track their community’s health and their practice’s efficiency. Charting templates are a common offering in modern EHRs, but do they really do the work pediatricians need them to? Today we explore the top reasons why charting templates “out of the box” just don't work for busy pediatricians, and why pediatric-specific templates make everyone’s lives easier.
If your EHR isn’t built for kids, it can’t perform for their unique health needs. This includes their individual milestones, growth, checks for important medications like those for ADHD, diet changes from breastmilk to solids, and social indicators like how a child copes with school and friendships.
PCC’s EHR is specific to pediatrics, so it includes measurement tools like percentiles of BP, percentiles for growth chart, and percentiles for BMIs so physicians can measure kids’ health efficiently.
No Growth Charts
Having to toggle from a growth chart to a patient’s chart is one more thing keeping you from face-to-face time with the child. Growth charts built into your EHR software are designed to save space and present you with the data easily.
Doesn’t Meet State Requirements for Newborn Screenings
You may need to report a child’s gender as ambiguous. You need to know whether the mother had a difficult pregnancy or is having trouble with latching. Most annoyingly, each state’s reporting requirements for newborns are different, and not all EHR templates will meet those standards straight out of the box. Charting mom and baby together will enable the best possible care for your newest patients and their families.
Doesn’t Document Immunizations Properly
Does your immunization record template work for neonates? For pre-teens? According to a 2015 publication by the AAP, “The ability to connect to immunization forecasting tools with reminders will improve the number of patients who receive immunizations.” Because kids need more series of vaccinations than adults, having this template organized to your practice’s needs will ensure organized, efficient records, and of course -- better care for patients.
Doesn’t Fit Your Practice
A new template system doesn’t know how your practice operates. Your staff will need to jump from place to place to achieve the same workflows and Bright Futures guidelines, wasting time and increasing frustration.
We asked one of PCC’s Client Advocates, Jim Smith, for details on how a template can be fit to each practice. Client Advocates work closely with practices to give them the tools they need to run their practice like they want to. “Templates are built to be very wordy so that all of the options are there at first,” Jim says, “But they’re not customized to your workflow yet. What’s good about our protocol is that we give you full control over the templates to what your practice needs. We guide you through the steps to customize your office’s workflow, from templates to visits.”
Aren’t Configured For Meaningful Use and PCMH
If your EHR can’t measure how you’re improving your processes, it will be difficult for your practice to achieve PCMH status.
Don’t Enable Population Health and Tracking
Jim also reminds pediatric practices that charting templates aren’t only about data entry, but the health of the child: “[Good] charting is getting kids in for visits when they need them and doing well visits when they’re due.” Efficient charting can allow follow up with families who need visits or allow the collection of population data.
Are your CPT codes mapped to your billing? If they aren’t, you could be coding for strep or flu, hearing and vision testing, or lab tests and only realize later that you’re not getting paid for those procedures.
Hard to Manage
When there are many options for templates to choose from, and many different staff needs, charts can quickly become disorganized and contain different information between patients. How can templates be made manageable for pediatricians and their staff? Jim says it’s not only adding the workflows and widgets you know you’ll use, but knowing when to delete the fields you don’t use. “With customization comes cleaning up the templates, knowing when to change and when to take things away. We have to be careful not to add too much fluff.”
You Need More Than Charting Software...
All of these annoyances make it difficult to process information correctly and efficiently, and can cause a lot of headache, frustration, and a whole lot of extra work. How can your templates work for you instead of the other way around? At PCC, we offer both the design and support to help you make the most of every minute.
PCC’s pediatric EHR is more than software -- it comes with the support and guidance to evolve with your practice as it grows, because our templates are fully customizable. “We give you full access to customized templates at will,” Jim explains, “Whenever you want to change them, at no extra cost.” This includes not only customized remote training with PCC in your office, but a relationship between offices, PCC Support, and Client Advocates like Jim, who are always there to answer questions, propose solutions, and remind you when your charts need tidying up!
Jim has a final piece of advice for building an awesome charting template with PCC EHR: “You also have to be mindful as a pediatrician: are you building these templates for you or for other other staff or another pediatrician? Are you getting their input when you build these templates?” He says that when all staff have a say in creating workflows and templates, the templates work at their best.
Simple mistakes like not charting efficiently can cost your practice time and money. Are there other mistakes you could fix to improve your practice’s business?
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Varicose veins can cause significant issues for many people. Normally, blood is returned to the heart through the venous system. As the heart pumps, the blood is drawn back towards the heart, with a series of venous valves preventing it flowing back as the heart relaxes. Over time, these valves can become inefficient and the vein walls can develop damage, reducing the efficiency of the venous system. This leads to blood pooling in the veins, creating the swollen, highly visible varicose veins that are familiar to a large number of people. Although being overweight or pregnant can increase the risk of developing varicose veins, many people develop them even if they haven’t experienced a weight gain. They can occur in both men and women, although women tend to be affected more frequently.
What Problems Can Varicose Veins Bring?
Varicose veins are extremely common in the lower leg. Because they can be rather unsightly, many sufferers feel self-conscious about wearing shorts in warm weather, swimming, or engaging in other activities where the site of the veins may be exposed. In addition, varicose veins can throb and ache, particularly after standing or walking for some time. The skin over and surrounding the vein may become discolored and itchy. Legs may feel hot and uncomfortable, leading to problems with successfully performing everyday activities. The symptoms of varicose veins can also lead to insomnia. For all these reasons and more, a growing number of people want a successful solution to the difficulties varicose veins can bring. A popular option that can significantly relieve symptoms is compression therapy for varicose veins.
What Is Compression Therapy Veins Treatment?
As the name suggests, compression therapy involves the compression of the area affected by the varicose veins. The increased pressure on the vein reduces the blood pooling that takes place in the vein, helping venous return and partially compensating for the valve deterioration that has led to the varicose vein formation. Primarily used to treat varicose veins in the lower limbs (where their formation is most common), individuals are fitted with a customized elasticated stocking that provides the necessary compression effect. The stocking is intended to be put on when patients get up and remain in place until bed time (although obviously it can be removed for showering, swimming and similar activities). Used consistently, a well-fitting stocking can significantly reduce the troublesome symptoms which varicose veins present.
The Advantages of Compression Stockings for Varicose Veins
Although compression therapy is unlikely to completely cure varicose veins, it does have several benefits that result in it being a popular intervention that many patients find helpful. Some of the key advantages are:
- Wearing compression stockings is a conservative treatment that’s widely tolerated. Particularly for patients that have pre-existing conditions that mean surgery or other, more invasive approaches wouldn’t be suitable, compression stockings can work exceptionally well.
- Compared with more invasive procedures, compression stockings are a more economical choice.
- There are very few, if any side-effects associated with compression stockings. Provided they are correctly fitted, the vast majority of people are able to wear them comfortably. If there are any problems, the stockings can be quickly and easily removed – there’s no need to make a hospital visit in order to get the difficulty resolved.
- Compression stockings start working immediately – there’s no recovery time or procedure to undergo. Simply put the stockings on and they will begin to assist with venous function.
- Treatment can be a good first step towards resolving varicose veins symptoms.
- Compression stockings are a flexible treatment that can be easily managed by patients at home. Usually there’s no need for repeated clinic visits or other intervention.
- The stockings can be used in conjunction with other treatments for venous insufficiency. For example, they can be worn over the top of ulcer bandages and are also a standard follow-up measure for venous surgery or scleropathy
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We are an experienced provider of tailored solutions for venous problems, offering every patient a customized package of support and intervention that is intended to give them the outcomes they need. Alongside our range of treatment interventions, we can also offer plenty of helpful advice on lifestyle changes, medication and other options patients may wish to consider in order to manage, or even cure, their venous problems as effectively as possible. If you would like any further information about conservative treatment for varicose veins, including compression therapy, our friendly, professional team will be happy to help. | <urn:uuid:32214a23-c7ce-4325-9936-54518a46eb32> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://laserveincenters.com/es/procedures/compression-therapy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.940821 | 1,008 | 2.125 | 2 |
1/25/21 Weekly Bull
Good Morning SDCFOA!
No news regarding the football season but the San Diego data continues to improve, and vaccinations are begining for the 65 and older group. Tom Ables, Bob Duggan and I have a meeting this Thursday with our CIF Commissioner, Joe Heinz, and will forward any new information. As we predicted, the CIF did announce the cancelation of SD CIF playoffs for football thus giving conferences a chance for a 6-game season ending on April 17th. If our first game is on March 12th then schools will have a 6-game league schedule and a chance to compete for a League Chamionship.
In the meanitime, here is a restatement of the All-But One Principle with language adopted from the NFHS Redding Study Guide. Another simple, but accurate, description of how to handle live-ball penalty enforcement at the high school level. Next Weekly Bull will include examples of plays in each category so you can further practice the basics of Live-Ball Foul Penalty Enforcement! - Steve
All-But-One Principle - The majority of live-ball fouls are enforced under the all-but-one principle.
Every live-ball foul can be classified as:
- Foul by the team in possession.
Foul by the team not in possession
- Foul behind the basic spot
Foul beyond the basic spot
Two teams and two possible locations equal four (4) categories of fouls. Here they are:
These 3 make up the “ALL” which are enforced from the basic spot
- Foul by the team not in possession behind the basic spot.
Foul by the team not in possession beyond the basic spot.
Foul by the team in possession beyond the basic spot.
This is the “ONE”.which is enforced from the spot of the foul
- Foul by the team in possession behind the basic spot.
NOTE: “All” penalties are enforced from the basic spot with the exception of the “one”, a live-ball foul by the team in possession behind the basic spot which is enforced from the spot of the foul.
And where is the Basic Spot?
- Running Play = End of the run
Loose Ball Play (including runs which precede the pass or kick) = Previous Spot
That is why an official, when reporting a foul, must provide the referee with:
- Type of play
Status of the ball (live ball or dead ball) remember all-but-one is for live ball fouls!
Spot of the foul
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Sweet Freedom: Desserts You’ll Love without Wheat, Eggs, Dairy or Refined Sugar proves that you can have your cake, and great health too! With over 100 original, innovative sweet treats using whole, natural, unprocessed ingredients and NO refined sugar, eggs, dairy or wheat, Sweet Freedom offers up foolproof recipes for muffins, scones, and other breakfast baking; cookies and bars; cakes and cupcakes; pies and tarts; puddings and other creamy desserts; and no-bake treats.
You’ll find recipes for classics such as chocolate layer cake with chocolate “buttercream” frosting, chocolate chip cookies, coffeecakes, pecan pie, apple cake, oatbran banana muffins, sugar-free sugar cookies and shortbread, along with some more unusual treats that contain vegetables, avocado, or whole fruits for their health-promoting properties.
Many of the recipes are adapted from best-selling products from Heller’s organic bakery, Bake It Healthy. All recipes are lactose free, casein free and cholesterol free, and about one third are also gluten free. The desserts are great for anyone with food sensitivities, lactose intolerance, or allergies to eggs or dairy–and anyone who simply wants to eat healthier options for their desserts.
With a full chapter on ingredients and substitutions, six full color pages of photographs, icons to indicate allergen-free ingredients (such as soy-free, corn-free, nut-free and gluten-free) on each recipe, a full index by recipe and ingredient, and both Imperial and Metric measurements, Sweet Freedom proves that a healthy lifestyle can be sweet!
The recipes are all wheat-free, but they are not all gluten free. About 1/3 of the recipes in the book are gluten free.
Heller is the voice behind the popular food blog Diet, Dessert and Dogs, which celebrates sugar-free, gluten-free, allergy-friendly whole foods through a low-glycemic, vegan lifestyle. With over 600 foolproof recipes, humorous anecdotes and comments from two chatty canines, the blog illustrates Ricki’s philosophy that “a healthy lifestyle CAN be sweet.” In 2011, Diet, Dessert and Dogs was nominated for the SHAPE Magazine “Best Healthy Eating Blog” and as a “Best Healthy Cooking Blog” by The Kitchn in 2013.
Those who must avoid wheat, eggs, dairy and refined sugars will revel in the glorious array of cookies, pies, cakes, bars and more. Ricki’s recipes are straightforward and easy to accomplish for those of us who aren’t master bakers. This is sure to be my go-to book for delicious, healthy baked goods.
Author: Ricki Heller
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In honor of #letstalk, this week’s post will be about the correlation between exercise and good mental health.
In my own experiences with depression, I’ve found that exercise gives me a space to focus, to care for myself, and to think positively about myself, which is something I don’t often do when I’m in the midst of an episode of mental illness.
It’s important to remember that mental illness can look very different from person to person. If you suspect you may be mentally ill, don’t keep it bottled up – get help! Talk to your doctor, call up a friend, and/or check out this page of mental health resources offered by U of T.
If I’m having a bad day or am stuck in a loop of negative thoughts, exercise always makes me feel better. Exercise provides short-term mood enhancement: it releases endorphins in the brain that make you feel good! As noted by Elle Woods when defending a murder suspect in Legally Blonde: “Exercise gives you endorphins. Endorphins make you happy. Happy people don’t shoot their husbands. They just don’t.” Other studies have shown that regular exercise can be an effective long-term treatment method for depressive or anxiety disorders.
Smaller things, such as positive thinking and mindfulness, often help me to feel better. Exercise is great for both of those things. When I’m running, I let myself fully feel whatever is happening, whether it’s my feet hitting the ground or my muscles burning or the fact that in that moment, I really hate running! Focusing on how I feel when I exercise helps me to break free from the cycle of negative thoughts because it gives my brain something to be fully occupied with, and that feels so good. Positive thinking comes in when I set little goals for myself, such as running 2 more laps or running until I reach the corner of the next block. I end up giving myself little pep talks in my head like You’re doing great! You can do this! Just a little further! When I finish a workout, I feel calm and satisfied, and my brain feels quieter – as if going for a run actually helps me to run away from negative feelings.
Listening to music that makes me feel strong, powerful, and joyful also helps me think positively. Fall Out Boy’s new album Mania is excellent for this purpose: “If I can live through this, I can do anything.” I also repeat to myself a mantra from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: “You can stand anything for ten seconds. Then you just start on a new ten seconds.” If I can make it through a difficult workout, I can make it through depression. I just have to take it one step at a time.
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A nursery has been told to shut down due to “safeguarding concerns” following the tragic death of a child.
Jelly Beans Day Nursery was shut after a young child became unwell and was taken to hospital in a medical emergency.
It came five years after a toddler had been given an overdose of prescription medication at the facility.
Bosses wrote to inform parents about the incident on Thursday last week that the tot’s death occurred due to a “sudden and very unexpected medical need”.
The email to parents said, at present, the cause is unknown.
School watchdog Ofsted confirmed the immediate closure of the daycare in Ashford, Kent.
Ofsted suspended the nursery’s registration, expected to last up to six weeks, and parents have been forced to place their child in alternative care spaces.
Nursery manager Debbie Alcock wrote in an email to parents: “You will be aware that last week on Thursday we needed to ask for emergency services to attend the nursery due to a sudden and very unexpected medical need.
“At present we do not know the cause.
“Myself and some of my staff were directly involved in assisting and due to the need for the parents’ privacy and respect we still cannot give you any further information and in fact we have not been updated ourselves.
“Ofsted have made a decision to suspend our registration.
“This means that we cannot care for any child while the suspension is in place.”
An Ofsted spokesman said: “We have suspended the nursery’s registration due to serious safeguarding concerns. It will remain closed while investigations continue.”
In 2016 the nursery, then run by Ranc Care, came in for scathing criticism from Ofsted after an inspection found a toddler had been given an overdose of prescription medication.
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Some of the basic fundamental concepts were looked at in a previous blog. If you haven’t had the chance, take a look at it.
We will dig even more profound into vSAN and we’ll see how its components internally interact with each other. First of all, there are certain terminologies that need to be taken into account.
CLOM: Cluster Level Object Manager
DOM: Distributed Object Manager
LSOM: Local Log-Structured Object Manager
CMMDS: Cluster Membership, Monitoring, and Directory Services
RDT: Reliable Datagram Transport
This component of vSAN manages and takes care of the overall operations of vSAN cluster and it runs on every host in a cluster. As pointed out earlier in another blogpost, we have objects as a unit of storage that will be stored on vSAN datastore, and storage policies will be applied to these objects. CLOM does the followings:
- It validates whether or not an object should be created to comply with policies.
- It does the creation and migration of objects.
- It load-balances between vSAN nodes.
- It is responsible for proactive and reactive rebalancing.
DOM also runs on every host in a vSAN cluster. I/O requests are serviced initially through DOM.
It also does the replication of objects. On the other hand, DOM interacts with CLOM and DOMs on other hosts. In other words, CLOM will tell what DOM has to do.
The other important thing that DOM will take care of is telling LSOM to create local components of an object:
- DOM services on all hosts interact with each other to create components.
- during recovery, all DOMs will synchronize objects.
In a vSAN cluster, an object has certain characteristics:
- DOM owner
- DOM client
- DOM component manager
DOM Client: Processes the I/O request sent from the VM, therefore, it will run on every node that has running VMs. It also forwards I/O to the DOM owner.
DOM Owner: Receives the forwarded I/O by DOM client and ensures object accessibility. It also replicates I/O based on object RAID levels. It determines in which components the data block resides. It forwards the I/O to DOM component manager.
DOM component Manager: Interacts with the LSOM locally to commit the I/O to the physical disk.
LSOM as its name represents handles operations related to local physical disks including, creating components instructed by DOM and providing read caching and write buffering. It also provides the encryption process.
it interacts with the physical disks and reports unhealthy devices and performs I/O retries on failing devices. When a vSAN node boots up, it automatically tries to perform log recovery and LSOM is taking care of that.
CMMDS records some of the information such as owners of the objects and metadata information. it also defines master, backup and agent cluster roles.
Reliable Datagram Transport is a network protocol that carries vSAN traffic.
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We all need good news these days, and does it get better than seeing Captain Tom Moore completed his challenge to walk 100 laps of his garden.
The Second World War veteran had a surprise Guard of Honour from his former Yorkshire Regiment as he crossed the finishing line. When his daughter started his just giving page for NHS Charities together, Captain Moore had hoped to raise £1000 by walking 100 laps of his garden before he reached his 100th birthday at the end of April.
Capturing the hearts of the nations that tally at the time of writing is £12,713,281.24 and is still increasing by the minute so should break £20 million by the end of the day.
Mr Moore had the idea to raise funds to thank NHS staff after treatment for a broken hip, and is humbled by the support, not just for him but for the National Health Service. There is even calls for Captain Moore to be Knighted which has 20’000 signatures in the few hours it has been set up.
Tom was born and raised in Keighley, Yorkshire, going to the local Keighley Grammar School. He enlisted at the beginning of the war, and in 1940 was selected for Officer training. He was posted to India and fought on the Arakan in Burma (now Myanmar) and Sumatra in Indonesia. After the war, he returned to be Instructor at the Armoured Fighting Vehicle School in Bovington. | <urn:uuid:551be102-c0a6-4d2e-92d6-0964cb519241> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nannymcphee.co.uk/captain-tom-moore-completes-challenge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.988984 | 293 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Amazigh World News July 21, 2015
Sometime at the end of the fourteenth, or it may have been in the early fifteenth century, a ship was wrecked on a spit of sand jutting out from the Moroccan Atlantic coast. The sole survivor scrambled ashore and fell into the hands of the Amazigh “Berbers” whose clan name was the Beni M’Touga, and who inhabited that part of the country. The Berbers spared his life, which was unusual clemency on their part as they had a hatred for all strangers.
The shipwrecked man who was a Scot, and whose name was either MacDougal or MacDowall (most likely the latter), was an expert in metalwork, settled down among the natives and taught them many useful arts, including working in metals. He lived for many years with this tribe, who venerated his superior knowledge to such an extent that on his death they raised a monument over his tomb, which is known and worshipped to this day as the shrine of “Sidi Magdool”.
During the course of the years, a seaport was built on the spit of sand where the shipwreck occurred, and this was named after him, but the name was gradually corrupted by Europeans into “Mogador”.
What was the reason for the unusual friendliness of these wild Berber tribesmen towards a shipwrecked sailor? One of the first steps towards amity between strangers is a knowledge of each other’s languages and that is what most probably saved MacDowall. You may wonder how he knew the Berber tongue! As he was an expert in metalwork, he was most likely a passenger on the shipwrecked vessel and not one of the crew, as his calling was not of very much use for employment in a wooden ship; therefore it was unlikely that he gained a knowledge of their language by previous contact with them as a sailor. Besides, the language of the sea-ports in thatpart of the world was Arabic, which is entirely different to the native Berber tongue known as “Shluh” .
The explanation may lie in the following extraordinary statement which was made by Colonel W.G. Macpherson of the Army Medical Corps. …….. “When I was in Morocco City in 1891. I met a Gaelic-speaking missionary doctor who had come out there and went into the interior, where Shluh is the language spoken in the Sous country, just as it is the language of the Cis-Atlas country. He told me that the words seemed familiar to him, and after listening to the natives speaking among themselves found they were speaking a Gaelic dialect, much of which he could follow. The medical missionary told me he recognized the Shluh language as Celtic.
Although he had no previous knowledge of it, and had no conception of its being allied to Gaelic, he found himself able to understand much of what was being said the first time he went among the tribes, solely on account of the resemblance of they language to his own Gaelic. This confirmed my own observations regarding the names of the Berber tribes, I myself, had come across, namely, the Beni M’Tir, the Beni M’Touga and the Beni M’Ghill is simply the Arabic for ‘children of’ and is tacked on by the Arabs to the M’ of the Berbers which means ‘sons of’, and is exactly the same as the Gaelic Mac or Mc. Hence the M’Tir, M’Touga and M’Ghill become in our country MacTiers, MacDougalls and MacGills.”
At the Pan-Celtic Congress held in Edinburgh in Sept. 1907, Dr. George Mackay read a paper on these remarkable experiences of the missionaries. It caused a sensation in the local press at the time but, as far as I can discover, no further investigations were made.
The shipwrecked man MacDowall was probably a Gaelic speaker. The fact that he and the Berbers understood each other may explain why he was not killed by them, and also that his name has similar to their clan name. This conjecture of mine may be very near the truth.
Apart from the fact that the Berber-Shluh language is a Gaelic dialect, the Berbers are a highly interesting people. The majority of them are a tall, white-skinned, fair haired race with blue or grey eyes, and Professor Hooten of Harvard the famous American Anthropologist did not hesitate to say that there were more “pure Nordics” in Barbary than in Germany.
Alan Houghton Brodick, in his book “North Africa”, p.20, mentions that in the countryside of Northern Morocco, “you are astonished at the number of men (and women for they often go unveiled) who might pass for Scots among a populaton that sometimes looks more northern than southern European”.
There is still another interesting point about these tribes. They live a clan life and are known by their clan names just as the Highlanders of our own country once lived. They have feuds among themselves and unite against a common enemy. They are essentially mountaineers, and that is probably the main reason why their language has been preserved, and why they are so independent.
The ancestors of the Beni M’Ghill furnished the contingents with which the Moors conquered Spain, and the Beni M’Touga was one of the clans who controlled the Atlas passes and levied toll upon all who passed.
The tribes have a high reputation for valour, and at one time were at war with all outsiders; yet it is said, and has been proved, that if you gain their confidence and friendship, they are as kind and hospitable as our own kith and kin.
Many theories have been put forward as to the origin of these peoples, and I should like to add mine to the list, but with a different slant, and with a few historical facts from which the reader may chose his own ideas on the subject.
In “The Races of Man”, A.C. Haddon states – “They are undoubtedly the descendants of the races known to the Greeks and Phoenicians under the generic name of Libyans. The Kabyles of the hills between Algiers and Bougie, and the Shawia of the Aures Mountains are very similar to one another and may be taken as typical Berbers. They are distinctly white-skinned, even when sunburned. Usually they have black hair and brown or hazel eyes, some have yellow hair and blue eyes. In the royal necropolis of Thebes of about 1300 B.C., certain Libyans are depicted as having a white skin, blue eyes and fair beards. Blonds are represented on Egyptian monuments from 1700 B.C. and were noted by the Greeks in the fourth century B.C. In the east the blonds have quite died out, but there are patches of this race in the west of North Africa. This fair race still remain an unsolved problem. Some students bring them from Spain, other authors from Italy, others again from the east. Perhaps they were a sporadic invasions and formed an aristocratic class. One suggestion is that they were Proto-Nordics who formed a part of the various groups of Asiatics who raided Egypt about 1300 B.C. and moved westwards…….”.
Several other authors have written in much the same strain, but none have ever thought to study the Berber language!
W.C. Mackenzie in his book “The Races of Ireland and Scotland” mentions that according to the Irish traditions, the Formorians who invaded Ireland in prehistoric times were African pirates. These pirates exacted an annual tribute, both of children and produce from the Numidians who were progenitors of the Firbolgs and the Tuatha de Danaan. Mackenzie seeks to identify the Fomorians with the Phoenicians, or a race akin to Berbers as it seems certain that the centre of dispersion of the Dolmen people was Northwest Africa.
In “Moroccan Journal”, Rom Landau gives a very interesting item of history. In 1721 John Windus who was the first British traveller to visit Volubilis (a town erected in Morocco in the second century A.D. by the Romans) and to proclaim its existence to the outside world, discovered there inscriptions of 190-192 A.D., the work of one Nectorea, that mentioned a British legion then garrisoning Volubilis. At more or less the same time, a Berber legion was guarding Hadrians wall in Britain. Presumably many of the Berbers stationed there married local women or, at all events, became the fathers of children. So they must surely have left behind a streak of Berber blood, a hundredfold dilution of which might still be flowing through British veins. The corresponding and opposite exchange of stock must have taken place at Volubilis, but this stock is not the progenitors of the present day fair-skinned blue or grey eyed Berbers as they were already in the country many centuries before this period.
According to history, when the Romans garrisoned southern Scotland, the subjects inhabiting Galloway and Dumfries and known as the Attecotti were far from being submissive and peace-loving. Although under Roman rule they were constantly at war with their neighbours the Brigantes, and in the latter part of the fourth century, joined the Pictish invaders in harassing the legions. The revolt was crushed by Theodosius, and, as a precautionary measure, a large number of the able-bodied men was sent into exile as auxiliary levies of the Roman army in Gaul and Spain, and no doubt some of them found their way to Barbary where they would meet their distant cousins the Berbers: but this still does not explain how the Berbers spoke a Gaelic dialect.
The works by the erudite Professor L.A. Waddell may hold the key to the puzzle. He says in his book ”Phoenician Origin of the Britons, Scots and Anglo-Saxons” that the ascertained traditional British Chronicles state that the Briton colonists began with the arrival of King Brutus-the-Trojan with their wives and families in a great fleet from the Mediterranean about 1103 B.C. and his occupation of Albion. These Phoenicians were Aryan in race, speech and script and were of vast antiquity dating back from their testimony in their own still existing inscribed monuments to about 3100 B.C.
It is quite possible that these peoples travelled overland along the north coast of Africa and settled for a time in Barbary before crossing the Straits of Gibraltar to Spain where they embarked for Britain. Some of them may have preferred to stay in Barbary, and the present day Berbers are their descendants. This would account for their Gaelic which is Aryan in origin, and also for their fair complexion According to the ancient Books of Ballymote and Lecan, the Scots in about 400 B.C. under the leadership of Partolan, arrived from Spain and colonized and civilized Ireland. Their tribal name was “Gioln” which is not far removed from “Ghill”. If we add the Berber prefix it becomes M’Ghill. Spain is next door to Barbery and would shorten the sea voyage to Ireland, and they would have the prevailing western wind to help them on their way to join their kindred who had preceded them so many centuries previously.
A map of Morocco compiled by the Intelligence Department of the War Office in 1889 showed that in the neighbourhood of Fez there were two large districts, the one westwards, and the other almost due south bearing the names of M’Tir and M’Ghill respectively. The name of the tribe in each case had been given to the district. On the same map there are two large districts lying between Morocco City and the Atlantic bearing the name of M’Touga. Morocco has greatly changed during recent years. France has now built roadways far into the Berber country and thus brought these tribes closer to modern civilization, and many of their sons are being educated in France, specialising, like the Scots, in engineering. It has been reported that before World War II, there were about 60,000 Berbers working in French factories where many of then held highly skilled jobs.
Perhaps some day in the future the puzzle of the origin of these Celtic Berbers will be solved, and this may lead to much of our ancient history, most of which is mere conjecture, having to be re-written.
Large sums of money have been spent in tracing the history of ancient Egypt and other countries in the near East, some of which could have been spent in investigating the history of the Berbers and their country. What has so far been discovered about them points to the fact that there appears to be some relationship between them and our ancestors Are they our ancient cousins? | <urn:uuid:8128339e-18c7-4cdc-a688-bbe91ad13651> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thescottishmoroccansociety.com/celtic-amazighberber-connection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985206 | 2,753 | 2.65625 | 3 |
Incense Descending Crown
During much of the First Age, there was a Kingdom known as Tizinhezpia, far to the north. Many have searched for this hidden kingdom, but it is believed that it existed in a part of creation that has been reclaimed by the wyld. The land was controlled by a powerful god-king known to man and heaven only as Incense Descending Crown, though there is much conjecture among savants that he held a different name at the time of his creation.
Though I lack direct evidence, I do believe Incense Descending Crown to be unlike any other creature in Creation -- possibly a behemoth of sorts, not completely unlike ”Hiefozil” or “Xe the Raptor from Below”. He did not seem to be able to slip in to the immaterial world of spirits, though he was just as ageless as the gods themselves. The distinction is important, however, as while he did not seem to be a god, he held a role much like a City-Father would. I believe he was the “City-Father” of the kingdom, land and people of Tizinhezpia. How he achieved this is unknown, although I suspect he was created for that role. In the tome “Ukan’Yuen’Qze” (I translated this as “Counting Expressions of Havoc”) it tells of Incense Descending Crown’s support of the gods and his small role in the great war. This might explain why he was allowed to continue on in his rule.
Another conviction of note that Incense Descending Crown held was his strong stance against the use of sorcery in general. He fervently claimed that such power was granted from the Yozis for dubious proposes. This notion was strongly rejected by the both the Eight Immortalities Fellowship and the Deliberative as a whole.
During his reign over Tizinhezpia, Incense Descending Crown was adamant in his condemnation of the activities of the Eight Immortalities Fellowship. Many savants of the time also condemned the Fellowship, for they did not want the Fellowship looking over the shoulders of occultists, sorcerers or exalted beings in their dealings with the spawn of Malfeas. Many felt that the Eight Immortalities Fellowship was too restrictive in the summoning of demons, but Incense Descending Crown felt that it in fact supported the practice and even encouraged men to call on the implings of Malfeas rather then discouraged. Incense Descending Crown instead supported a complete ban on the practice and would harshly punish anyone for bringing demons in to his realm.
As to Incense Descending Crown’s current location, situation and fate, that is unknown. After releasing Crystal Raven from his prison, it is said that Viperous Orchid descended upon Tizinhezpia, breaking the land and its people. It is unknown if Incense Descending Crown could have survived the destruction of his kingdom, but if he did, he has remained in hiding ever since.
- Eshertzets Chronicles
- Eight Immortalities Fellowship
- Diaries of Justicar Crystal Raven
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Five Day Class News 4/22/22
Class: Blue Stars 5 day am
Recap: April 18 – April 22 Preview: April 25 – April 29
Dramatic Play: Plants
Focus: Pollinators with a focus on bees
This week the Blue Stars continued to learn all about plants with a special focus on pollinators. Our classroom wall continued to get the students excited about gardening. Our classroom tree showed up again on our classroom wall and added a little shade for the garden. A plot of land had carrots and potatoes growing underground. A tomato cage full of tomatoes and a trellis full of green beans shared space with garden tools and a basket overflowing with tasty produce. A sun and a watering can pouring water completed our Spring wall. The garden theme continued with a “garden” growing in the middle of Dramatic Play. Rakes, shovels, spades, hand cultivator, and a wheelbarrow were placed around the room so students could start to plant and harvest the variety of vegetables growing in our “garden”. Lastly, a shelf lined with plush pollinators (bees, bats, a spider and a grasshopper) completed this week’s Dramatic Play area. In the motor room, Sit’ N' Spins were added to spin like the earth travels around the sun to change our seasons from Winter to Spring!
In the manipulative room, students opened and closed 3 jars by using the “righty tighty” and “lefty loosey” rule. Once the jars were opened, students counted garden friends. A variety of flower, butterfly and bee buttons were used this week for counting. They then used dry-erase boards to practice drawing the number symbols they had counted (11,12 & 14). If students could not recall what the number symbol looked like, they used a large number chart as an aid. Students used tongs to place puff balls in circles to make the uppercase “M” and lowercase “m”. After they placed the puff balls on the circles, they scooted them aside and placed Avery dots on the circles to form their “Mm’s”. Students identified the different stages in the life cycle of a bee. Students placed the name of each stage next to the picture to identify which stage of the development the bee was in. Egg, larva, pupa and adult bee were identified as the stages in a bee’s life cycle. Students also used their trusty magnifying glasses to view the parts of a flower up close. Students continued to look at Tiger Lilies to get an up close view of a flower’s parts. The classroom Sensory Table bins included a variety of seeds. Lots of measuring utensils were used to pour, measure and understand the texture of the different seeds.
This week our read alouds were: What is Pollination?, Animal Pollinators, Bee Dance, Are You a Bee?, These Bee’s Count.
Art and Science/Math Activities: In art this week, students “dug” into shaving cream. Shaving cream was squirted onto trays. To this, powdered brown and green paint was sprinkled on the top. Students armed with their digging tools (their hands) dug into the shaving cream as one would dig into a garden! Students had lots of fun squishing and feeling their way through piles of shaving cream. Students painted bubble wrap to make bubble wrap bees! Our week of art ended by students creating bird feeders for our feathered pollinators!
Once again, we had a busy week in science as we started learning all about pollinators with a special emphasis on bees. We started by reviewing our anchor chart of a flower and saw where a flower stores its nectar. We saw how a flower “tricks” a pollinator into moving deep within the petals of a flower to get to this sweet liquid. We then talked about a bee since this is the most prevalent pollinator we know. A new anchor chart was added to show the life cycle of a bee, while another showed the anatomy of a bee. We saw how a bee has 6 legs which reminded us that it is an insect! We also saw that a bee has a straw-like structure that it uses to suck up nectar called a proboscis. We used our prior knowledge to remember that another insect has the same structure – a butterfly! We learned that bees not only take pollen from one flower to another, they also take it back to their hive. We saw how a bee will store pollen on its hind legs in what’s known as a pollen basket. After it gets to the hive, the bees mix the pollen with nectar and honey to make bee bread! This is the main source of food for the worker bees and the baby larvae. We learned that all worker bees are female, and they do almost everything, like clean the hive, take care of the nursery, protect the hive, locate flowers and collect the nectar and pollen. We learned that when a bee stings something it will die and will only sting if it thinks the hive is being threatened. We learned that bees do a bee dance to show other bees in the hive where to find flowers to collect nectar and pollen. We enhanced our learning about bees by observing some bees under a dissecting microscope! Some comments heard by our Blue Star Entomologists were, “I can see its stinger!”, “It has funny stripes.”, “His wings look like a cicada’s wings.”, “His neck is kind of furry.” and, “It looks so much cooler like this!” We also had an opportunity to take a look at our chia seeds that we planted last week. We saw how all of them had grown and were leaning toward the window where the sun shined in. We talked about how the little plants were looking for the sun to start making their own food now that they had sprouted! We also looked at our peas and noticed that most had sprouted and had roots at one end of the pea and a stem with tiny leaves at the other end. We took our baby pea plants and went out to the garden and planted them. We will see how they do in our newly tilled and enriched Acorn Garden! The last day of the week (Earth Day) brought our Blue Star botanists to the San Antonio Botanical Gardens for a fun Field Trip!
* Thanks to all parents, grandparents, chaperones, and guests for helping to make our Blue Star Botanical Garden field trip such a wonderful adventure. Your curious students were able to explore and see firsthand some of the things we have been learning about throughout the year. It was a beautiful day and, Ms. Grace, Ms. Sudie, Ms. Bonnie and I are so glad you were able to join us on this wonderful excursion!
** Mothers, please mark your calendars for a celebration in honor of – you! Our Blue Star Mother’s Day gathering will be on Tuesday, May 3rd at 10:30 am. Please see the Office News for more details as well as Covid protocols. We can’t wait to see you next week!
April 25th – April 29th
The next week we will continue to learn about the exciting habitat ponds!
We hope you explore an exciting weekend,
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Diamond core drilling is a highly popular technique amongst construction businesses. The equipment is versatile and unfailing for a wide range of jobs within the construction industry. If you are new to diamond drilling services, this article will help you learn when you should choose diamond core drilling and when you shouldn’t.
When do you need diamond drilling services?
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The Knock-On Effects to Digitizing Firm Processes
One of the undeniable facts of the past two years is that the world has embraced a new level of technology adoption. The implications of this are that the market for legal services has changed, to the point that lawyers need to fundamentally reconsider the mechanisms in which they deliver legal services to clients.
In just a few years, clients have come to see the immense benefits to using remote forms of communications. According to the 2021 Legal Trends Report, in 2018, less than a quarter of consumers were open to working virtually with a lawyer. Now, 79% look for remote options when hiring a lawyer. The time saved commuting is alone a major advantage for those looking for remote solutions. These benefits provide great advantages to law firms as well, opening new opportunities for added efficiency and improved client service.
In many cases, the technologies that enable remote work—video conferencing, e-signatures, and online intake forms, to name a few—have been around for quite some time. The difference now is that they’ve reached a level of adoption that has made them commonplace within client expectations. The challenge for businesses is to find solutions that allow them to deliver on what clients want, and in a way that works with the many systems and processes already in place.
Many law firms have struggled with billing and collecting payments from clients, which is a common point of friction that bears a heavy burden on firm operations, time, and revenue. At the same time, many of the systems that lawyers have in place are at odds with the fact that consumers have been using debit and credit cards to pay for goods and services electronically and online for years, if not decades. 66% of consumers want the option to pay their legal bills online—yet countless law firms haven’t found the means to incorporate these systems into their businesses, giving clients the benefit of these conveniences.
Traditional payment systems, in particular, draw attention to how modern, cloud-based technologies have the potential to help improve individual interactions while also having compounding benefits to firm efficiency. By adopting an online payment system, firms not only create convenience for their clients, but also open the door to more automated processes that free up time for firm members.
For example, online payments enable passive bill collection. The benefit here is that clients can pay their bills online from anywhere, at any time, without the need for anyone at the firm to collect or process that payment. Another benefit is the automated back-end processes; once a payment has been made, a payment system updates the appropriate billing records at the firm, indicating exactly how much was paid, when it was paid, and if there are any amounts outstanding.
Finally, with digital payment solutions, firms can set up automated payment plans that allow clients to pay installments toward their bill on a regular basis. This last point in particular has the potential to make legal services much more accessible to those who need them most by giving consumers the flexibility to pay over a longer period of time. This can be a competitive advantage for firms acquiring clients in the first place, but also a valuable tool for improving collection rates in the long run.
At Clio, we’ve recently brought online payments into our practice management software, Clio Manage. This means that law firms can now collect credit, debit, and eCheck payments as part of a seamless, end-to-end billing and collections process within Clio, taking advantage of the many organizational and time-saving benefits for law firms. It’s a way for law firms to easily bring advanced payment solutions into the legal technologies that they already use.
As we prepare to kick off the start of 2022, it will be these types of tools and efficiencies that will help bring law firms into the 21st century, enabling them to operate more effectively—and more successfully—for years to come.
Jack Newton is the CEO and Co-founder of Clio and a pioneer of cloud-based legal technology. Jack has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, and privacy issues surrounding cloud computing, and is a nationally recognized writer and speaker on the state of the legal industry. Jack is the author of The Client-Centered Law Firm, the essential book for law firms looking to succeed in the experience-driven age, now available at clientcenteredlawfirm.com. | <urn:uuid:140da9bb-0e6f-454e-a600-2f93d07cf48a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nysba.org/the-knock-on-effects-to-digitizing-firm-processes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963936 | 899 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Wrinkles, a natural part of aging, are most prominent on sun-exposed skin, such as the face, neck, hands and forearms.
Although genetics mainly determine skin structure and texture, sun exposure is a major cause of wrinkles, especially for people with light skin. Pollutants and smoking also contribute to wrinkling.
If your wrinkles bother you, you have more options than ever to help smooth them or make them less visible. Medications, skin-resurfacing techniques, fillers and surgery top the list of effective wrinkle treatments.
Wrinkles are the lines and creases that form in your skin. Some wrinkles can become deep crevices or furrows and may be especially noticeable around your eyes, mouth and neck.
When to see a doctor
If you're concerned about the appearance of your skin, see a dermatologist. He or she can assess your skin and help you create a personalized skin care plan. A dermatologist can also recommend medical wrinkle treatments.
Wrinkles are caused by a combination of factors — some you can control, others you can't:
Age. As you get older, your skin naturally becomes less elastic and more fragile. Decreased production of natural oils dries your skin and makes it appear more wrinkled.
Fat in the deeper layers of your skin diminishes. This causes loose, saggy skin and more-pronounced lines and crevices.
Exposure to ultraviolet (UV) light. Ultraviolet radiation, which speeds the natural aging process, is the primary cause of early wrinkling. Exposure to UV light breaks down your skin's connective tissue — collagen and elastin fibers, which lie in the deeper layer of skin (dermis).
Without the supportive connective tissue, your skin loses strength and flexibility. Skin then begins to sag and wrinkle prematurely.
- Smoking. Smoking can accelerate the normal aging process of your skin, contributing to wrinkles. This may be due to smoking's effect on collagen.
- Repeated facial expressions. Facial movements and expressions, such as squinting or smiling, lead to fine lines and wrinkles. Each time you use a facial muscle, a groove forms beneath the surface of the skin. And as skin ages, it loses its flexibility and is no longer able to spring back in place. These grooves then become permanent features on your face.
Here are some tips for protecting your skin and minimizing the appearance of wrinkles:
Protect your skin from the sun. Limit the time you spend in the sun, especially midday, and always wear protective clothing, such as wide-brimmed hats, long-sleeved shirts and sunglasses. Also, use sunscreen year-round when outdoors.
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- Use products with built-in sunscreen. When selecting skin care products, choose those with a broad-spectrum sunscreen — meaning it blocks both UVA and UVB rays.
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- A recent Lancet survey has found that young people can feel powerless when it comes to taking action on climate change.
- A psychologist and climate scientist explain how our sense of agency is critical to the climate effort and how we might improve it.
- They introduce four psychological drivers - intentionality, forethought, self regulation and self reflection - that can be strengthened with practice.
Our species is in a race with climate change, and a lot of people want to know, "Can I really make a difference?"
The question concerns what’s known as agency. Its meaning is complex, but in a nutshell it means being able to do what you set out to do and believing you can succeed.
How well people exercise their agency will determine the severity of global warming — and its consequences.
The evidence is clear that people are changing the climate dramatically. But human actions can also affect the climate for the better by reducing fossil fuel burning and carbon emissions. It’s not too late to avert the worst effects of climate change, but time is running out.
Despite abundant technical agency, humanity is alarmingly short of psychological agency: belief in one’s personal ability to help. A 10-country survey study in the Lancet, a British medical journal, found that more than half of young people ages 16-25 feel afraid, sad, anxious, angry, powerless and helpless about climate change.
As professors, we bring complementary perspectives to the challenges of taking action on climate change. Tom Bateman studies psychology and leadership, and Michael Mann is a climate scientist and author of the recent book "The New Climate War."
What’s the World Economic Forum doing about climate change?
Climate change poses an urgent threat demanding decisive action. Communities around the world are already experiencing increased climate impacts, from droughts to floods to rising seas. The World Economic Forum's Global Risks Report continues to rank these environmental threats at the top of the list.
To limit global temperature rise to well below 2°C and as close as possible to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels, it is essential that businesses, policy-makers, and civil society advance comprehensive near- and long-term climate actions in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change.
The World Economic Forum's Climate Initiative supports the scaling and acceleration of global climate action through public and private-sector collaboration. The Initiative works across several workstreams to develop and implement inclusive and ambitious solutions.
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Species names in all available languages
|English (United States)||Seaside Sparrow|
|Spanish (Mexico)||Gorrión Costero|
|Spanish (Spain)||Chingolo costero|
Jon Greenlaw and Greg Shriver revised the account. Claire Walter managed the references. Guy Kirwan contributed some of the Systematics content. Arnau Bonan Barfull curated the media.
Ammospiza maritima (Wilson, A, 1811)
- maritima / maritimus
The Key to Scientific Names
Seaside Sparrow Ammospiza maritima Scientific name definitions
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Demography and Populations
Demographic rates vary substantially across the range in relation to migratory status, habitat quality, and environmental factors like the timing of disturbance (e.g., fire, precipitation). Predation and flooding are major causes of nest failure throughout the range and the influence of these two factors varies locally by site and regionally by latitude. The global population based on the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) was estimated to be 200,000 individuals (95% CI: 32,000, 520,000) from 2006–2015 (216); however, the population estimate for the northeastern United States (Virginia to Maine) was 234,000 (112,000, 356,000) from 2011–2012 (217), suggesting that the global estimate could be closer to 500,000.
Measures of Breeding Activity
Age at First Breeding
Both sexes begin breeding spring after hatching year.
Clutch size ranges from 2 to 5 eggs. Modal clutch in northeastern salt marsh populations (A. m. maritima) is 4 eggs. More southerly salt-marsh groups have modal clutch of 3 eggs. Mean clutch size: New York, 3.66 ± 0.59 SD (range 2–5, n = 272); South Atlantic group (North Carolina to Florida), 3.06 ± 0.49 SD (range 2–5, n = 100) (Charleston Museum); northern Florida (A. m. peninsulae), 3.08 ± 0.31 SD (range 2–4, n = 108) (3). East-central Florida (A. m. nigrescens), 3.60 ± 0.53 SD (range 2–4, n = 91) (Clemson University, Western Foundation Vertebrate Zoology); Florida Everglades (A. m. mirabilis) based on initial small sample size, 3.53 ± 0.70 SD (range 2–4, n = 19) (180, 161), but average clutch size based on subsequent large sample sizes (n = 160, 175) were 3.1 ± 0.80 SD and 3.4 ± 0.66 SD (9, 197).
As with other saltmarsh-breeding sparrows, though clutch size varies with latitude, predation pressure may be a more important factor in explaining differences in clutch size among populations—within the former Ammodramus, there is a significant negative relationship between clutch size and predation rates. No relationship to loss due to flooding (134).
Annual and Lifetime Reproductive Success
Period nest survival varies among sites, years, and in response to disturbance ranging from 0.013 to 0.530 (Table 3). Lowest period nest survival estimates were documented in Georgia (201) and Maryland (218). In Georgia, there seems to be a clear tradeoff between the competing risks of nest failure caused by flooding vs. predation and the strength of these risks varies annually (201). In Maryland, extremely high precipitation events occurring in May and June caused nearly catastrophic nest flooding leading to low estimates of nest survival (218). Substantial research has been conducted on the patterns in nest survival for Cape Sable Seaside sparrow indicating variation within the subpopulations as well as in response to fire (8, 135, 219, 198).
Mean number of young fledged per female each year: Massachusetts: 3.97 (range 3.46–4.47, n = 2 yr) (117); New York: 4.43 (range 3.38–5.77, n = 4 yr) (163); New Jersey from 2011–2015: 2.65 (95% CI:2.21–3.09; 220); South Carolina: 2.50; Georgia: 1.90; Florida: 2.47 (67) and 0.58 (range 0.17–0.99, n = 2 yr) (3).
Estimated lifetime reproductive output of average female (productivity discounted by survival = estimated replacement rate): 2.72 in New York, and 1.11 Gulf Hammock, Florida (3).
Life Span and Survivorship
Potential life span of males and females of several populations was reported as 8–9 years (138; M. V. McDonald, personal communication; WP). The oldest known individual was a male banded as an adult in South Carolina in 2005 and recaptured there in 2014 at a minimum of 10 years of age (221).
Survival rates for migratory (maritima) and resident subspecies are provided below; information is limited regarding survival to first year of independence.
A. m. maritima. Minimum annual survival of breeding adults (based on cumulative return rates): 1967–1972 year classes, calculated through 1980: females 60.4% (n = 169); males: 57.0% (n = 214); 1976–1977 year classes, through 1980: females, 41.4% (n = 58); males, 52.8% (n = 269). Survival of juveniles was lower, or dispersal greater, than in nonmigratory groups. Survival from fledging to independence (from departing nest to no longer being brooded by adults): New York, 36% (n = 126) (163). In Massachusetts, none of 35 nestlings banded in 1985 were seen the following year. In Connecticut, apparent adult survival was 72.0–89.6% (110). In New Jersey, apparent adult survival was 61.6% (95% CI: 52.5, 70.0) (5). During five nonbreeding periods (2006–2010) in North Carolina, apparent adult survival was 48.3% (142).
A. m. macgillivraii. Minimum survival rates in South Carolina (lower 95% confidence limit, based on mark-recapture; WP, unpublished data). For nestlings (n = 99, marked 1999–2003): survival to independence, 30%. Juveniles (n = 85, marked in 2000): hatch year (from independence)–year 1, 10.4%; year 1–2, 97.6%; year 2–3, 19.1%; year 3–4, 11.0%; and year 5–6, 8.8%. Adult males (n = 154, marked in 2000): year 1–2, 72%; year 2–3, 58%, year 3–4, 53%; year 4–5, 32%. Adult females (n = 66, marked in 2000): year 1–2, 52%; year 2–3, 18%; year 3–4, 38%; year 4–5, 14%.
A. m. peninsulae. Minimum annual survival of adult males in northern Florida was 85.7% (3).
A. m. mirabilis. Annual adult survival for Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow was estimated as high as 88% in the 1970s (161), 63–69% (19 adults, 1997–1998; 131), 66% (265 adults, 1994–1998; 135) in the 1990’s, and more recently, 60% (93 adults from population E, 2002–2007 (222). Boulton et al. (222) captured 498 juveniles (96% captured as nestlings and 4% captured as fledglings) from 1998–2007 and estimates of juvenile survival rate ranged from 9% in 2000 to 47% in 2002. Sexes of mirabilis have similar return rates: males: 26–52%; females, 25–45%. Return rate for juveniles 13%. No information on first-year survival, as no banded nestlings were recaptured in same year (135).
Disease and Body Parasites
Of 206 adults examined in New York, 60% had feather lice (Mallophaga; Philopterus subflavescens); males were infested more often than females (37). Soft ticks (Argasidae; Haemaphysalis chordeilis) were found on 2 of 206 birds (WP; 223). Avian louse flies (Hippoboscidae) were noted on 1 of about 500 birds examined in New York (WP).
Individuals in North Carolina were often infected with helminths; only 2 of 100 examined were worm-free (224). Infected birds had 9 species of trematodes (42% infection rate), 3 species of cestodes (51%), 2 species of Acanthocephala (83%), and 7 species of nematodes (59%). Only one species of nematode (Microtetrameres cruzi) produced visible pathogenic effects: proventricular walls of 3 hosts were damaged (224).
Fowl pox has rarely been reported; only 2 of about 500 adults examined at Oak Beach, New York (1976–1978) had obvious lesions (WP).
Causes of Mortality
Daily nest mortality rates in northern Florida were 19.4%, versus 3.3% in New York (3). In New York and Massachusetts, the primary known mortality factor for nest contents in some years was storm-related flooding (New York: 24% of lost eggs, 38% of lost young ; Massachusetts: 89% of nests ). The main known cause of nest failure in northern Florida was assumed to be predation by marsh rice rat (Oryzomys palustris) and Fish Crow (Corvus ossifragus) which accounted for 28% and 12% of losses, respectively (119). Predation was also a major source of nest mortality in New York (40.9% of total eggs lost, 63.1% of total young lost) and New Jersey (220, 5). In New York, hatching failure accounted for 11.3% of egg mortality. In Florida Everglades, early season nests were more successful than those initiated later. Seasonal effect due to changes in predator abundance, which was related to increased water levels at onset of wet season (198); 41% of eggs laid from March to early June produced fledglings (30% of mortality due to predation); value dropped to 13% for late-season nests, (67% of nests depredated) (135).
Little information on mortality factors of independent birds. Although nests always vulnerable, fires with multiple ignition points (usually human-caused) may also kill adults and fledglings (7). During an Everglades fire, Werner (161) saw sparrows fly to adjacent unburned areas, and circle in areas of smoke and flames. After a fire in 1975 that burned 850 hectares of A. m. nigrescens habitat on St. Johns River, Florida, only 7 of 36 banded males could be relocated (225)
Storms may have little direct effect on adult survival. Population at Cape Sable, Florida (A. m. mirabilis) survived September 1935 hurricane, which had winds of 220 km/h (226). Between 1871 and 1973, 8 hurricanes passed over Cape Sable, but apparently did not affect sparrows in that area (161). The hurricane of August 1992, however, was estimated by Pimm et al. (227) to have reduced the mirabilis population from 6,000 to 4,000 (but see Curnutt et al. ).
After severe storm in April 1993 over Grande Isle, Louisiana, 3 Seaside Sparrows were found washed up during search of 30 km of shoreline; it was estimated, by extrapolation, that a total of 111 Seaside Sparrows had been killed in the storm (228), but this number seems improbable, as it was based on the assumption that Seaside Sparrow is a trans-Gulf migrant.
Population Spatial Metrics
In breeding period, physical contact occurs between fighting individuals. During mutual displays such as bobbing and wing-raising, neighboring males may approach within 20 cm of each other (169). At distances < 10 cm, fighting usually ensues. Nearest individual distances among captives 3–5 cm. No contact during roosting. In one instance, male attempted 6 times to preen another in head and shoulder region; each attempt was repulsed (WP). During February flood tides in Georgia, 228 Seaside Sparrows and 8 "sharp-tailed sparrows" [Ed: potentially both Saltmarsh Sparrow (Ammospiza caudacuta) and Nelson's Sparrow (Ammospiza nelsoni)] congregated on an 8 m2 grass island. Many birds were in contact, some “practically climbing on each others' shoulders in an attempt to find a perch (192).
Mean territory size: Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts: 3,953 m2 (range 1,290–10,423, n = 17) (117); Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island: 4,545 m2 (range 944–8,837, n = 18) (176); Oak Beach, New York: 1,203 m2 (range 160–6,190, n = 25) (169); Tobay, New York: 8,781 m2 (range 810–17,640, n = 13) (116); Gulf Hammock, Florida: 1,600 m2 (range 200–3,200, n = 37) (3); Taylor Slough, Florida: 15,000 m2 (range 3,000–66,000, n = 43) (161); Ochopee, Florida: 36,000 m2 (range 7,000–8,000, n = 10) (7); St. Johns, Florida: 5,100 m2 (range 1,600–10,060, n = 14) (183).
Home Range Size
Activity space (home range) sizes vary among regions, habitats, and seasons; most differences appear to be attributable to variation in habitat quality (229). Because adults often forage away from nest site, total activity space usually larger than territory (defended space). In an unaltered marsh (New York), mean foraging space was 1,039 m2 (range 170–5,135, n = 21). Area in which singing occurred was 47% size of foraging area; defended area was 38% of foraging area. In ditched marsh (New York), mean foraging space was 8,121 m2 (range 11,520–17,510). Singing area was 58%, and defended area was 40%, of foraging space (116). In Delaware, territory density was over two times greater on marshes with limited Open Marsh Water Management (OMWM; 5.35 ± 0.60 territories/ha) than on marshes with extensive OMWM (2.39 ± 0.56 territories/ha; 4).
Cape Sable Seaside Sparrow (A. m. mirabilis) is relatively sedentary in nonbreeding period; winter home ranges, which often overlapped for adjacent males, averaged 12 ha. The movements of several radio-tagged birds were > 3 km; the longest was 7 km (131). Winter home ranges of mirabilis did not shift with changes in water depth; when water rose, sparrows occupied parts of home range that had fewer openings and higher vegetation such as sawgrass.
Using data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey (BBS), the global Seaside Sparrow population was estimated at 200,000 individuals (95% CI: 32,000, 520,000) from 2006–2015 (216).
Wiest et al. (217) estimated 234,000 individuals (range 112,000–356,000) for subspecies A. m. maritima from Virginia to the northern extent of the breeding range from 2011–2012. The population size of A. m. macgillivraii was estimated at 32,800 individuals occurring along 100 miles of coastline and divided into four breeding populations with three in South Carolina (North Inlet–Bulls Island, Headquarters Island, and ACE Basin) and one population in Georgia–Florida (67). Seaside Sparrow has been extirpated from the Atlantic coast of Florida south of Duval County (northeastern Florida), and other than A. m. peninsulae, most Florida populations are small and disjunct (49). In 1988, the population on northwestern Gulf of Mexico (peninsulae) was estimated to contain 5,000–10,000 birds (24).
A. m. mirabilis occupies much of its historical range. As of 1982, it was widely distributed over 27,800 ha of southern Florida west and east of Shark River Slough, but became rare or absent from Cape Sable and Ochopee areas as the habitat was altered (shrub invasion, hurricane effects). The main population is in or near Taylor Slough, and in 1992 included at least 6,640 birds. Only about 3,700 birds present in 1993 after Hurricane Andrew (J. Curnutt, personal communication); in 2007 the population was estimated at 3,184 birds in 5 separate groups. The largest group, “population B,” had about 2,512 pairs (140).
Historically, A. m. nigrescens had a very limited distribution in east-central Florida (Merritt Island and adjacent St. Johns River marshes). In 1968, an estimated 900 males, and presumably equal number of females, remained (230).
Highest breeding densities reported from Long Island, New York (Oak Beach) and Delmarva Peninsula (Little Creek, Delaware and Elliott's Island, Maryland) (113). Singing male densities in ditched marshes, 0.6–1.0 males/ha (2, 3, 176); densities in unaltered marshes, 0.3–20.0 males/ha (231, 232, 174, 161, 118, 130).
No estimates of winter population densities, although Beaton's (192) observation of 228 birds gathering on an 8 m2 island suggests a large number winter within a circumscribed area.
Survey-wide results from the BBS indicated a mean increase of 1.0% (95% CI: –1.1, 3.7; n = 28 survey routes) per year from 1966 to 2019 (233). Regional BBS trends during the same time period indicated potential declines; e.g., the New England/Mid-Atlantic Coast Bird Conservation Region (BCR 30) had a mean decrease of 0.9% (95% CI: –2.4, 0.4; n = 13 routes) per year (233). However, both survey-wide and regional results must be treated with caution given the limited sample size for BBS routes and the species' generally low abundance on surveys. Using a large point-count data set collected from Maine to Virginia, Correll et al. (234) reported no population trend for Seaside Sparrow between 1994 and 2012.
A. m. macgillivraii populations were recently reported to be declining in the southeastern United States (67).
A. m. mirabilis populations declined 58% between 1992 and 1995 (139). Historical site occupancy trends (surrogate of abundance) showed that this subspecies has experienced two episodes of decline, but recently while two subpopulations continue to decline in occupancy, one exhibits consistent increases (235).
The Seaside Sparrow occupies an intermediate position along moisture gradients (230, 115) and are therefore sensitive to hydrologic changes and the associated vegetation responses. Small changes in marsh relief may have large effects on vegetative structure and thus on sparrow abundance (113). Changes to vegetation structure driven by increased sea levels and the associated altered hydrology are predicted to have substantial impacts on populations (237, 218). Reducing marsh loss and limiting conversion of vegetation dominated marsh to mud flat or open water would have a positive impact on population persistence (218). In Georgia, the species currently use higher elevation areas within the marshes where they occur, a habitat that is predicted to decline by > 80% by the year 2100 (238).
Natural successional changes that convert low (intertidal) into high (supra-tidal) marsh (239) represent potential problems over period of several hundred years (240). Long-term changes in sparrow productivity resulting from succession can be expected even in protected tidal wetlands; e.g., climate change may favor invasion of salt marshes by mangroves (49) in the long term but shorter term time scales.
In low-marsh habitats, areas dominated by Spartina alterniflora and other plant species adapted to daily tidal inundations, some sparrow populations are able to grow or stabilize replacement rates in face of losses from flooding or predation (3). Adults renest quickly after nest loss and recolonize other sites on the same marsh (116, 115, 117). Historic structural alterations to salt marshes like mosquito control ditches dug in the 1920’s and 1930s are extensive throughout marshes along the Atlantic coast (241). The immediate effects of these alterations on sparrow population dynamics are not well documented, but there are clear shifts in vegetation community structure and composition with an increase in shrub cover and a reduction in open water (241). Invertebrate diversity and abundance did not differ between marshes ditched for mosquito control in the 1930s or unditched marsh (242) therefore one could surmise there would be no effect on sparrow food availability. There is a growing body of evidence indicating that historical ditching, installed nearly 100 years ago, does not negatively impact sparrow breeding success (116, 117, 4, 5). Fluctuations in numbers reported from some areas. Between 1974 and 1975, male population at Taylor Slough, Florida, increased 75% (161). Most populations in unaltered salt marshes relatively stable; e.g., at Gulf Hammock, Florida, over 6 years, density varied between 1.6 and 2.6 males/ha (WP; M. V. McDonald, personal communication). Coastal New Jersey populations were stable to 2050 based on a population viability model simulating the effects of sea-level rise on population persistence (6).
Because of the species' narrow coastal distribution, populations in any given area may be displaced by storms, fires, oil spills. Current gaps in distribution may be explained in part by history of such disasters (243). In northern part of range, sizes of overwintering populations determined by severity of weather (244).
Disappearance of birds from local areas after large-scale catastrophes probably due to habitat alteration rather than direct mortality of adults (140). Small-scale fires cause temporary displacement of residents, which quickly move back (183); uncontrolled fires probably destroy even birds capable of flight (183, 161, 138).
In the eastern Florida Everglades, A. m. mirabilis is severely threatened because of drainage, invasion of exotic trees, frequent human-caused fires, and agricultural and urban development (126). Reduction of western Everglades population in Big Cypress, Florida, attributed to water-level manipulations (140). | <urn:uuid:3cea4782-56ff-49de-be2f-bc0c4146c892> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/seaspa/cur/demography | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.908942 | 5,188 | 2.859375 | 3 |
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