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The missing Malaysia Airline flight MH370 could have flown for an extra FOUR hours after it lost contact with air traffic controllers, according to reports.
In another dramatic twist, aviation experts believe the plane flew for a total of five hours under radar.
It is based on data automatically downloaded and sent to the ground from the aircraft's Rolls Royce engines as part of a standard monitoring programme.
The possibility means the plane could have travelled for another 2,200 miles to Pakistan or Mongolia, according to the Wall Street Journal.
It sparks fear it could have been hijacked and taken to an unknown location - one of many theories as to what may have happened to the disappearing plane.
The Wall Street Journal said it isn't clear whether investigators have evidence of a hijacking - but they haven't ruled the possibility out.
US investigators are looking into the prospect and counter terrorism officials are investigating the idea that the plane's transponders were turned off intentionally and the aircraft was diverted.
The Boeing 777 jetliner vanished six days ago with 239 people on board.
The flight left Kuala Lumpur at 4.41pm GMT bound for Beijing, but less than 50 minutes later it lost communication with air traffic control.
But a senior Malaysia Airlines official told Reuters that no such data relating to the potential extra flight time existed, while a second official said he was unaware of it too.
A spokesperson for engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce had no immediate comment.
Malaysia Airlines said previously the engines stopped transmitting monitoring signals when contact with the plane was lost.
The engines should transmit live data to the ground every 30 minutes.
Hopes were raised when a Chinese state agency released satellite images of three pieces of large debris floating near the plane's last recorded position in the South China sea.
Vietnamese Aircraft repeatedly circled the area shown by the image - but were unable to detect anything, said a journalist on board one of the planes.
Earlier China's president said his country will not stop searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines plane as long as there is a "glimmer of hope."
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IRPLAST S.p.A., a prominent global producer of simultaneously bi-oriented BOPP film, for manufacturing of printed adhesive tapes, wraparound labels for the food, beverage dairy, personal & home care markets and also for multi-pack solutions, has selected certified circular and certified renewable SABIC® PP polymers from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio for its new S-BOPP film solutions. This portfolio offers brand owners and packaging suppliers the ability to achieve more sustainable packaging material solutions, which are immediately implementable, without having to change packaging appearance or packaging machinery, eliminating any need for investment in machinery or processes.
Naomi Lunadei, Sustainability Manager at IRPLAST, said: “We firmly believe that sustainable growth must become a priority for businesses producing and converting plastic packaging materials. As a packaging producer, we are well aware of our responsibilities in making the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals a reality and we are very committed to the challenge. We have undertaken a gradual but determined path, consistent with the development of new materials according to the guidelines of the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Directives. Therefore, we have brought out two new innovative product lines in collaboration with SABIC, one to reduce the carbon footprint of BOPP flexible packaging, while the other introduces the possibility of entering the circular economy, being progressively mandated by legislators worldwide.”
IRPLAST, known for its advanced LISIM stretching technology applied to BOPP that is done in one step compared to the standard two-step process, has always focused on sustainability with important investments to reduce thickness and to save raw materials and energy. The innovative and sustainable S-BOPP film portfolio from the company received ISCC certification at the end of 2019, guarantees the solidity of the chain of custody right through the life cycle, from raw material production to packaging supplies. These new generation products are made from materials from SABIC’s TRUCIRCLE portfolio. The renewable BOPP film called NOPP (Natural BOPP) is made from certified renewable SABIC PP material from bio-based feedstock. The circular BOPP film branded as LOOPP is made from certified circular SABIC PP material that uses feedstock made from chemical recycling of mixed post-consumer plastics to deliver virgin-quality resins.
The resulting S-BOPP films comply with rigorous food contact regulations, and are 100% recyclable in normal polyolefin waste separation streams.
Mark Vester, Circular Economy Leader at SABIC, said: “The materials from our TRUCIRCLE portfolio offer drop-in solutions and we are very happy to collaborate with IRPLAST and support them to deliver sustainable solutions to the packaging industry. With our certified circular and renewable polymers, we are aiming to create a value chain, where SABIC and key downstream customers like IRPLAST, collaborate to recycle mixed post- consumer plastic back to the original polymer for packaging or other applications, thereby enabling the circular reuse of the planet’s natural resources.”
SABIC’s certified renewable polymers are high-quality virgin polymers, based on second-generation, bio-based feedstock. Like SABIC’s certified circular polymers, its certified renewable polymers have been accredited through the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC PLUS). SABIC uses feedstock which is not in competition with the food chain and are not of animal origin, such as the waste vegetable oils, currently available as a recovered by-product of the responsibly managed forest industry. All the films in IRPLAST’s S-BOPP portfolio are ISCC certified and offer identical technical properties equivalent to standard versions, offering brand owners and packaging suppliers truly sustainable packaging solutions.
According to LCA data from IRPLAST, compared to an equivalent BOPP film manufactured using traditional fossilfuel resources, every Kg of bio-based renewable source NOPP takes over 2 kg of CO2 emissions out of the environment.
The other sustainable option being developed by IRPLAST involves the manufacture of LOOPP films made from SABIC’s certified circular polymers that are made from recycling of low quality, mixed plastic waste otherwise destined for incineration or landfill. The resultant certified circular polymers are of equal quality to virgin polymers with outstanding mechanical, processing properties and purity.
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Authors: Eli Horowitz, Matthew Derby, and Kevin Moffett
Publisher: HarperCollins Canada
Publication Date: July 2014 (originally 2012)
Synopsis from Goodreads:
Sometime right around now, doctors, nurses and-most of all-parents begin to notice an epidemic spreading among newborn children, children who are physically normal in every way except that they do not speak and do not respond to speech. They don’t learn to read, don’t learn to write. Theories abound-maybe a popular antidepressant is the cause. Maybe these children, lacking the ability to use or comprehend language, have special skills of their own.
I’ve rated this story 4 stars out of 5 on Goodreads, but really I think I’d give it 3.5 stars out of 5. This synopsis captured my attention right away. I love these stories about mysterious illnesses or epidemics, seemingly insolvable and without any apparent cause. I love the exploration of the way humanity copes with sudden and rapid change. The Silent History is told in the form of testimonials of those who have experiences and interaction with those born without speech, or the “Silents.” These testimonials weave together and carry through the book and through each story, inextricable entwined. It’s fascinating and fast paced and provides a broad scope of understanding and discovery of the Silence.
The plot starts of really strong. I was so invested in the story for the first 200 pages or so. This eerie silences pops up in the new generation of children. They’re quite from birth and appear incapable of communication of any kind. This causes a crisis among the speaking population who are unable to communication and connect with the Silents and who begin to question their own sense of selves and their own way of communication. The whole world becomes involved in the struggle as the Silence is of epidemic proportions.
I also love how this story was originally released serially as an ebook. It’s the perfect story to be released in instalments. The story then is revealed bit by bit as the trauma unfolds. I would have loved to participate in the reading of this book in this original publication, rather than as a full novel.
The book is too long for what it is though. I got bored after a while and I soon found myself wishing that I’d rather be done. It could have easily been 150-200 pages less than what it is. I wanted it to be continually quick and intense, but it really just began to drag after a while. It’s such a drastic and dramatic story, it really lends itself to being a shorter, edge-of-your-seat kind of story. It was too long for that kind of suspense. It acted as a major roadblock for me. It slowed me down and dragged out my reading.
Overall, The Silent History didn’t wow me the way I was hoping it would, but it was still a decent read. I wouldn’t dissuade you from reading it at all. It’s a fascinating look at the way humanity functions when our basic way of relaying information to one another collapses and we are left in the dark. | <urn:uuid:e938bc85-6e1d-45d1-99c3-d7a955172a9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wornpagesandink.ca/2014/09/21/review-the-silent-history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959155 | 677 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Students find their love of learning during preschool. Teachers must foster this love through collaborative lessons, exploration, engaging play, and authentic conversation. School is a place where children prepare to navigate the world around them.
We believe in the value of primary education and embrace the Montessori philosophy throughout our program. We understand that the world is constantly evolving and we mindfully present our curriculum to reflect these changes. To build a solid understanding of their environment, teachers must encourage a child's need to absorb knowledge from their surroundings. | <urn:uuid:cd913fae-0f24-4513-8aa7-850f722715dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acquamontessori.com/our-vision | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944581 | 107 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The proposed article, Differentiating writing instruction: Meeting the diverse needs of authors in a classroom, begins with an explanation of the concept of differentiated instruction as a basis and another term for responsive teaching. This involves writing instruction that is sensitive to the diversity of students’ individual strengths and needs and reacts to these factors in a timely manner with targeted instruction. The practice of responsive teaching — teaching differentially — is also the foundation of RTI (response to intervention) structures, currently developing in schools across the U.S. as a result of the national mandate. However, responsive teaching is understood universally as pedagogical best practice in all curricular areas.
For responsive, differentiated writing instruction to be effective, the teacher must have accurate, useful, and timely data on the learner’s current level of performance. After thoughtful analysis of multidimensional writing traits in children’s daily writing, teachers make tentative determinations for the next instructional step with an individual writer.
The articles explores research-based rationale and practices for responsive, differentiated instruction that targets students’ identified needs with respect to aspects of the writing process.
Implementation of any logical, reasoned instructional approach will only be effective when the tenets are understood. This article outlines a rational for responsive, differentiated writing instruction — a cycle that requires ongoing assessment, instructional decision making, responsive, differentiated instruction, guided practice, and assessment. Responsive teaching holds great promise. Teachers’ mindful implementation of interventions will determine the success of this principle.
Shea, M. (2015). Differentiating writing instruction: Meeting the diverse needs of authors in a classroom. Journal of Inquiry and Action in Education, 6 (2). Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.buffalostate.edu/jiae/vol6/iss2/4
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It’s a well-known fact that life will not be a series of joyful events and celebrations. Yes, life isn’t a bed of roses. Hard as the realization may be, a time will come in every one of our lives when we’ll lose a loved one.
Death is a subject that has been investigated, debated, and discussed by virtually every human culture. Despite our collective knowledge, it remains a mind-boggling mystery. This is one of the many reasons we humans celebrate the death of a loved one the way we do – profoundly. In Mexican communities, death is as important a stage in life as any other rite of passage we celebrate. This feeling goes as far back as to the Mayan and Aztec worlds. The casual and accepting attitude toward death is a part of being Mexican.
With the introduction of Catholicism, the old rituals combined with the church’s beliefs to form a deeply spiritual attitude toward death. One of the holidays that is celebrated by Mexicans and Mexican Americans alike is the Day of the Dead.
Westerners sometimes do not understand this day of remembrance and mistake it for an irreverent celebration. This is far from what it is meant to be, which is a day to honor those who are deceased. The celebration includes decorated and doll-like skeletons that play instruments, dance, and sing. This celebration is an affirmation of an afterlife and a way to ease the grief that they have experienced.
Most Mexican Americans are Catholic, and a funeral is a sacred part of life. Many friends and family members attend and honor the deceased, assisted through the mass by the priest. If the family lives in a rural location, the funeral might take place in the home of a family member.
Again, numbers of friends and family members come to pay their respects and strengthen their connection to all who attend. In such a setting, the casket might be placed on a table or might be placed beneath burning candles and herbs. If the family lives in town, the wake can take place at a mortuary. Either way, the ceremony ends with a church mass.
During the church mass, a mariachi band may play. This is a way to show respect and comfort to the family of the deceased. Mariachi Alegre de Tucson follows this tradition and is proud to offer this service to the family. It is with great care and much sympathy that they participate in this celebration of the beloved family member who has died. This has been a Mexican tradition for over 100 years.
The music of the mariachi band is one way to take away some of the pain and sorrow being experienced by the family. Mariachi Alegre de Tucson believes that their music also enables a connection between the older and younger generations. Many of the deceased are of the age to have been raised to the sounds of Mexican music. Mariachi Alegre hopes that their music is a demonstration to the young people attending the service that the life of the music, the spirit of the mariachi is a way in which the deceased can remain connected to his loved ones.
Other cultures, take for instance Italy celebrate the demise of a loved one in a similar manner. An excellent example of this custom can be seen in the iconic movie ‘The Godfather’. If you’ve seen this movie, you have virtually witnessed the Italian funeral customs. This tradition is still in practice.
If Tucson Arizona to help join you in celebrating the life of your loved one the way we do best, don’t hesitate to call us. Make your bookings early and you can your final goodbyes to your relative in a grand way. | <urn:uuid:b5ac7ea2-e6d2-4b16-82c1-83ab6495856c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mariachialegredetucsonaz.com/funeral-processions-with-mariachi-band-playing-the-music/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966424 | 750 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Files DC, Matthay MA, Calfee CS, Aggarwal NR, Asare AL, Beitler JR, Berger PA, Burnham EL, Cimino G, Coleman MH, Crippa A, Discacciati A, Gandotra S, Gibbs KW, Henderson PT, Ittner CAG, Jauregui A, Khan KT, Koff JL, Lang J, LaRose M, Levitt J, Lu R, McKeehan JD, Meyer NJ, Russell DW, Thomas KW, Eklund M, Esserman LJ, Liu KD, ISPY COVID Adaptive Platform Trial Network , undefined
BMJ Open 12 (6) e060664 [2022-06-06; online 2022-06-06]
The COVID-19 pandemic brought an urgent need to discover novel effective therapeutics for patients hospitalised with severe COVID-19. The Investigation of Serial studies to Predict Your Therapeutic Response with Imaging And moLecular Analysis (ISPY COVID-19 trial) was designed and implemented in early 2020 to evaluate investigational agents rapidly and simultaneously on a phase 2 adaptive platform. This manuscript outlines the design, rationale, implementation and challenges of the ISPY COVID-19 trial during the first phase of trial activity from April 2020 until December 2021. The ISPY COVID-19 Trial is a multicentre open-label phase 2 platform trial in the USA designed to evaluate therapeutics that may have a large effect on improving outcomes from severe COVID-19. The ISPY COVID-19 Trial network includes academic and community hospitals with significant geographical diversity across the country. Enrolled patients are randomised to receive one of up to four investigational agents or a control and are evaluated for a family of two primary outcomes-time to recovery and mortality. The statistical design uses a Bayesian model with 'stopping' and 'graduation' criteria designed to efficiently discard ineffective therapies and graduate promising agents for definitive efficacy trials. Each investigational agent arm enrols to a maximum of 125 patients per arm and is compared with concurrent controls. As of December 2021, 11 investigational agent arms had been activated, and 8 arms were complete. Enrolment and adaptation of the trial design are ongoing. ISPY COVID-19 operates under a central institutional review board via Wake Forest School of Medicine IRB00066805. Data generated from this trial will be reported in peer-reviewed medical journals. NCT04488081. | <urn:uuid:9e276ccf-17bf-4a26-9617-0e94ce76073e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publications-covid19.scilifelab.se/publication/a01b9a875b2a471eb4148059febe5472 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.886619 | 583 | 1.570313 | 2 |
‘It’s a million times nicer to be Anne of Green Gables than Anne of nowhere in particular, isn’t it?’ (Montgomery, 1915, p.84).
In my spare time this week I have been following the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s nine-day Canadian tour. I was particularly excited to hear that the Royal Couple had asked to visit Prince Edward Island, as Anne of Green Gables was a childhood favourite of Kate’s. She was quoted saying that her visit was therefore ‘somewhat sentimental’. Whilst her royal duties kept her away from touring Green Gables, she was presented with a limited edition copy of the novel, and was photographed alongside an actress dressed as Anne.
All of this prompts me to reflect on the hazy boundary between fact and fiction. Although Anne is fictional, her presence on the island seems so real. Margaret Atwood (1992) writes, “readers of my generation, and of several before and since, do not think of Anne as ‘written’. It has simply always been there.” I vividly recall visiting the island as a young girl and feeling the same way—I stood in front of Green Gables and it was exactly how I had imagined it when I visited it in reading.
In a recent article published in the Globe and Mail about Kate’s impending island visit, Sean Hennessy (from the University of PEI) is quoted saying that visitors are often “surprised how little there is about Anne […] For a cultural icon, there aren’t a lot of real things there.” And yet, according to a PEI Government website, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to the island every year to visit the place that inspired Montgomery to write the Anne series. They boast that it was through the voice of Lucy Maud that the island was put on the map of Canada in the first place. Whilst visiting the island, you can stroll through the Haunted Woods, tour the interior of Green Gables, go on a carriage ride led by ‘Matthew,’ have tea at the ‘Anne of Green Gables store’—just a few potential activities. For the past forty-six years a live performance of Anne has taken place, twice daily, on a Charlottetown stage. They advise Anne-loving visitors that three whole days are necessary for a proper tour. What does Hennessy mean by real? Yes, these activities are fictional. The Rachel Lynde that greets guests for tea is not the Rachel Lynde. But does this matter? Does it make the experience any less ‘real?’
By visiting the place that inspired the text, readers can step inside of Anne’s world, and the story is brought alive. It is through place that the border between fact and fiction is crossed. In the same article, it is presumed that Kate “kn[ew] the red cliffs, green pastures and tree-shaded lanes” before she even stepped off the plane. I choose to believe this. | <urn:uuid:5a71ab5b-6490-4c8d-8adc-a6a920b988b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cambridgechildrenslit.co.uk/2011/07/10/a-royal-visit-to-annes-island/?like_comment=36&_wpnonce=8865522337 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97125 | 643 | 2.46875 | 2 |
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As I described in a previous article on dietary guidelines, science is a process of continuous improvement1. This month, I am describing an exciting example of this. In a recent study, researchers tried to regenerate and reactivate the thymus gland in healthy aging men2. The thymus gland produces immune cells (T-cells) that protect us from diseases, including cancer and heart disease. However, it decreases in size as we age, resulting in a weakened immune system. The researchers were successful in regenerating and reactivating the thymus gland, but at the same time they made a startling observation. Several biomarkers of aging indicated that the aging process had been reversed2. So, the goals of my article this month are to tell how scientists try to measure aging and give an example of how careful observation during one experiment led to an unexpected discovery that subsequently can be tested clinically. That is, a combination of recombinant human growth hormone (rHGH), the dietary supplement dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and the prescription drug metformin was apparently able to reverse aging and the development of senescence in the neuroendocrine immune systems in people who participated in the clinical trial2.
Intelligence is one of our greatest strengths and weaknesses. It enables us to recognize our mortality, while fooling us into thinking that we can live healthy lives forever. People have been looking for ways to reverse aging for thousands of years. The ancient Greek historian Herodotus wrote about a Fountain of Youth in the 5th century BCE. The Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León was searching for the Fountain of Youth when he claimed Florida for the Spanish empire.
The search for ways to reverse aging continues today. Some say it can’t be done, while others claim that they are already doing it. There are dietary supplements, human growth hormone (HGH) and even a prescription drug (metformin) that some claim can slow down or even reverse aging. At the same time, experts are continuously improving our understanding of what causes aging. Systems thinkers are using all their resources to help improve public health and save lives. They use both observation and hypothesis-driven research to come up with solutions. Some of the most important medical discoveries in history were based on careful observations of phenomena that were not expected. In modern medicine, many prescription drugs were developed by identifying a therapeutic target and testing a hypothesis. The hypothesis is often that a new chemical entity (NCE) or natural product will bind to a therapeutic target, such as an enzyme or a protein receptor. For example, there are several genes that can become mutated and produce proteins that can cause cancer (oncogenes and oncoproteins). If these genes and proteins are essential for cancer cells to survive, then the NCE or dietary supplement would be expected to be effective and kill the cancer cells. Once the basic scientific principal is proven, clinical trials can begin. However, the objective or endpoint of the clinical trials is not how effective the NCE or dietary supplement is at inhibiting an enzyme or antagonizing a receptor. Instead, the goal of these studies is to extend the lifespan of the subjects or eliminate a risk factor (like disappearance of a biomarker in the blood).
How scientists try to measure biological age
Before we can find out if something reverses aging, we should develop the best method possible for measuring one’s biological age, which is different than chronological age. That is, two people who were born on the same day and have the same chronological age could have very different biological ages and therefore different lifespans. Obesity, chronic inflammation, stress and diseases can make one person have fewer healthy years of life (healthspan) and die sooner (shorter lifespan, increased mortality). To help estimate healthspan and lifespan, it’s important to try to understand how we age and then to propose testable hypotheses on the mechanisms of aging. Historically, one way to do this was to do studies on animals. As described in my previous article on how dietary antioxidants really work, the results of studies on animals gave very misleading results3. That is, caloric restriction without starvation has extended the lifespans of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster), mice, rats and dogs. This idea was based on the assumption that restricting the consumption of total calories would lower the total metabolic rate and the production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (RONS) as well as free radicals. This led to the free radical theory of aging, in which it was proposed that the accumulation of damage caused by free radicals causes aging and eventually death. That is, the oxidative metabolism of proteins, fats and carbohydrates in the mitochondria in cells produces RONS and free radicals, which can oxidize and damage DNA, lipids and proteins. This can lead to autoimmune diseases and cancer as well as cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. However, as scientists and physicians learned more about human nutrition, they realized that the caloric restriction that worked for other organisms did not work for humans3. So, the free radical theory of aging has been largely discredited.
Some scientists have suggested that the transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome can be used to predict biological age4. The transcriptome, proteome and/or metabolome are the collection of all the DNA transcripts, proteins and metabolites that are produced by cells in a person. That is, much of our DNA (genes) is transcribed into RNA. The parts that are transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) are then translated into proteins. Some of the proteins that are produced are enzymes. They catalyze the biochemical reactions that occur during metabolism. The products of these reactions are metabolites.
There are two sets of gene expression profiles in the blood that have been used to predict age based on the transcriptome4. The first used five transcripts to predict age. This included lower amounts of the proinflammatory biochemicals interleukin-6 (IL-6) and urea (a metabolite that decreases with age) and increased amounts of serum albumin and decreased muscle strength. The second transcriptome predictor was the levels of 1497 different transcripts. The proteome predictor was based on the attachment of sugars to proteins (protein glycosylation). The amount of glycation on the IgG class of antibodies had some predictive value. The metabolome predictor found some lipids and amino acids that were associated with age. However, the lengths of telomeres in white blood cells and the pattern of methylated DNA are better predictors of biological age4.
Telomeres are complexes of repetitive DNA base sequences, RNA and proteins on each end of chromosomes4,5. They protect the DNA that is at the ends of chromosomes from degradation, fusion with neighboring chromosomes, and inadvertent activation of DNA damage responses. They are also able to generate signals that tell the cell that some of its DNA is damaged, so enzymes can repair it5. When the DNA damage is too severe, telomeres can initiate cell senescence or death5. Telomeres shorten every time a cell divides5. Many studies have shown that a short telomere length is a risk factor for cardiovascular diseases, such as heart attacks and stroke4,5.
However, the pattern of methylation in DNA has been shown to be an even better predictor of not just biological age, but also lifespan and healthspan2,6,7.
The aging immune system
As most people age, their immune system tends to weaken8-10. It does not respond to invading antigens as well, is more susceptible to autoimmune diseases and suffers from chronic, low-grade inflammation that is called inflamm-aging10. The declining function of the immune system is called immunosenescence8. It leads to more frequent infections, as well as a higher susceptibility to cancer and autoimmune diseases8. This is partly due to fewer immune cells being produced by the thymus gland10. That is, hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) in the bone marrow produce cells that migrate to the thymus gland, where they mature into T-cells10. At the same time, the body produces over 100 million T-cell receptors that can bind to the huge variety of invading pathogens (like bacteria and viruses) that people will encounter throughout their lives10. However, as we age, the size of our thymus gland tends to become smaller in a process called thymic involution or atrophy2,11. Critical populations of immune cells become depleted as the T-cell repertoire tends to collapse after the age of 63. This leads to a higher risk of cancer, infectious diseases, autoimmune conditions, chronic, low-grade inflammation, atherosclerosis and death (all-cause mortality). In contrast, people who live 100 years (centenarians) maintain their immune functions2. The changes in the function of immune cells does not happen because of the genes are mutated. Instead, there is a layer of control on top of (or above) genetics. This is called epigenetics. That is, the transcription of genes into messenger RNA (mRNA) can be turned on or off by attaching a methyl group (-CH3) to a cytosine (C) that is next to a guanosine (G). So, the pattern of methylation of DNA may be an important measure of biological age.
Using recombinant HGH (rHGH) to reverse signs of immunosenescence
HGH (also known as somatotropin) stimulates overall growth while increasing the reproduction and regeneration of human cells. The concentration or level of HGH decreases in the elderly. Children who have don’t make enough HGH have abnormally short stature with normal body proportions. Fortunately, HGH can be manufactured using recombinant DNA technology in which DNA from one organism (such as humans) is transferred into another organism (such as bacteria). The bacteria can make relatively large quantities of HGH that can be sold as an FDA-approved drug. This form of rHGH is expensive and available only in limited quantities. However, many physicians do prescribe it for their elderly patients to improve their strength and stamina. Some competitive athletes also like to use it to improve performance. However, the long-term effects of rHGH have not been tested. Unfortunately, rHGH can increase the level of insulin in the blood to dangerously high levels2. So, it’s not advisable to take rHGH without a prescription or without having regular physicals that include measuring blood glucose. However, there is a dietary supplement, DHEA, that limits the diabetogenic effects of rHGH2.
DHEA - the mother of all hormones
DHEA and its sulfated metabolite, DHEA sulfate (DHEAS) are hormones that are produced in the adrenal glands (located on top of the kidneys), the brain, gonads, adipose tissue and skin12. It has been marketed as the ‘Mother of All Hormones’ due to its ability to be converted into estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone13. The concentration of DHEAS in the blood is about 250 times that of DHEA12. DHEAS is a precursor for about 50% of androgens in adult men, 75% of active estrogens in premenopausal women and almost 100% of active estrogens after menopause14. The concentration of DHEA decreases steadily as most people age. This decrease may be one major reason why many diseases of aging occur. As a result, DHEA and DHEAS have a reputation as anti-aging and able to prevent neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease14. Moreover, taking DHEA has been shown to improve the effects of insulin in elderly people15. So, its ability to help prevent diabetes is why it was chosen to be included in the clinical trial that appeared to reverse aging2. It should be noted that the DHEA, HGH and metformin used in that study were genuine and pure. The study was done under the auspices of the FDA’s Investigational New Drug (IND) Program (IND 125851) 2, which requires that both current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and Good Laboratory Practices are followed16. However, the DHEA that is sold as a dietary supplement often is of low quality or produced with poor quality control16. The amount of DHEA can range from 0 – 150% of the dose that is written on the label16.
It should also be noted that both DHEA and HGH are natural substances that can not be patented. Since DHEA can be made cost effectively in the laboratory from a similar substance that is in wild yams, there’s not enough profit in it for major pharmaceutical companies to make it. However, HGH is made through the expensive process of genetic engineering using recombinant DNA. Even though it can’t be patented, the potential for huge growth in demand has made it attractive to several pharmaceutical companies17. That is, the rHGH market was estimated to reach USD 7.1 billion by 202517 even before the recent study showing how it might be able to reverse aging (when taken with DHEA and metformin). Should further clinical trials show that this combination is safe and effective in extending lifespan (reducing mortality), this new drug combination will be made safely and with good quality control (cGMP), as required by law.
Metformin (Glucophage®) may extend lifespan by itself
As described in my previous article in WSI, the standard first line treatment for type-2 diabetes (metformin or Glucophage®) may be able to help people live longer, healthier lives18. It reduces the incidence of cancer and mortality, while helping people retain proper cognitive function. It also favorably influences metabolic and cellular processes that are closely linked to the development of age-related problems. More importantly, it increases the lifespan of not just people who have diabetes, but also in slowing down the aging process. So, there is a clinical trial underway, called Metformin in Longevity Study (MILES) and another that is being planned called Targeting Aging with Metformin, or TAME. These studies will look at the effects of metformin alone on longevity18. In the meantime, it appears that giving people HGH and DHEA together with metformin may be effective in reversing aging.
Of course, aging can be reversed – the immortal jellyfish
Whether or not aging can ever be reversed in humans is still an unanswered question. However, there are some species of animals in the phylum Cnidaria that can and do reverse aging in themselves19,20. At least two of them have been called immortal jellyfish. Their scientific names are Turritopsis nutricula and Turritopsis dohrnii. They can revert to the sexually immature (polyp) stage after becoming sexually mature21,22. They can make many copies of themselves – as immature polyps. They can all reverse their life cycle and avoid death, unless they are eaten by predators. Species in the genus Turritopsis are being studied in more detail to learn how they reverse the aging process22.
In conclusion, a recent small clinical trial showed that a combination of rHGH, DHEA and metformin may be able to reverse aging2. This study used the best available method to measure aging – the pattern of methylation of cytosines next to a guanosine in DNA. It has been shown to be an even better predictor of not just biological age, but also lifespan and healthspan2,6,7.
In my next article, I will continue the theme that science is a process of continuous improvement. I will describe how this happens in new drug development. Some prescription drugs were approved by the US FDA and other governments’ organizations without knowing how they work. Some were approved for treating one disease, but later found to be effective in treating other diseases. Some were approved and have been safe and effective for many years without knowing how they work. Then, a recent study used CRISPR to show that some cancer drugs currently being tested were designed using false therapeutic targets. Still, if the anti-cancer drugs cure cancer and save lives, does it really matter if they were designed based on a faulty hypothesis?
We are a strange species
We are a strange species indeed23! Intelligence is one of our greatest strengths and weaknesses. It tempts us to try to reverse aging, while we continue to live on the verge of self-inflicted extinction from nuclear war and global climate change24. If we don’t end our addiction to beef, greenhouse gases and violence, there will be no civilization to support or feed the people who may be able to reverse aging.
1 Smith, R.E. Historical Differences in Dietary Guidelines. Continuously Improving Dietary Guidelines. Wall Street International, 24 October 2019.
2 Fahy, G.M. et al. Reversal of Epigenetic Aging and Immunosenescent Trends in Humans. Aging Cell, Article e13028, published online, 2019, doi.org/10/1111/acel.13028
3 Smith, R.E. How Dietary Antioxidants Really Work. Wall Street International, 24 July 2018.
4 Jylӓvӓ, J. et al. Biological Age Predictors. EBioMedicine, Volume 21, pp. 29-36, 2017.
5 Fasching, C.L. Telomere Length Measurement as a Clinical Biomarker of Aging and Disease. Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Volume 55, pp. 443-465, 2018.
6 Horvath, S. and Raj, K. DNA Methylation-Based Biomarkers and the Epigenetic Clock Theory of Aging. Nature Reviews Genetics, Volume 19, pp. 371-384.
7 Lu, A.T. DNA Methylation GrimAge Strongly Predicts Lifespan and Healthspan. Aging, Volume 11, pp. 303-326.
8 Pawelec, G. Age and Immunity: What Is “Immunosenescence”? Experimental Gerontology, Volume 105, pp. 4-9. 2018.
9 Fulop, T. et al. Immunosenescence and Inflamm-Aging as Two Sides of the Same Coin: Friends or Foes? Frontiers in Immunology, Volume 8, Article 1960, 2018.
10 Stahl, E.C. and Brown, B.N. Cell Therapy Strategies to Combat Immunosenescence. Organogenesis, Volume 11, pp. 159-172, 2015.
11 Thomas, R. and Su, D-M. Age-Related Thymic Atrophy: Mechanisms and Outcomes [Online First], IntechOpen, 2019. DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.86412.
12El-Sakka, A.I. Dehydroepiandrosterone and Erectile Function: A Review. The World Journal of Men’s Health, Volume 36, pp. 183-191, 2018.
13 Maturo, M. DHEA – The Mother of All Hormones. Naturo Medical, 2017.
14 Quinn, T.A. et al. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) and DHEA Sulfate: Roles in Brain Function and Disease. Chapter 3 in Sex Hormones in Neurodegenerative Processes and Diseases, Drevensec, G., ed. InTech Open, London, 2018.
15 Weiss, E.P. et al. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) Replacement Decreases Insulin Resistance and Lowers Inflammatory Cytokines in Aging Humans. Aging, Volume 3, pp. 533-542, 2011.
16 Rutkowski, K. et al. Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA): Hypes and Hopes. Drugs, Volume 74, pp. 1195-1207.
17 Ciston PR Newswire. Human Growth Hormone (hGH) market, 2015 – Key Players are Pfizer, Merck & Co. Eli Lilly and Company, Genetech, Novo Nordisk, Sandoz Interntional, Ferring and Ipsen. 2018.
18 Smith, R.E. Metformin (Glucophage) May Extend Lifespan. Wall Street International, 24 August, 2018.
19 Hasegawa, Y. et al. De Novo Assembly of the Transcriptome of Turritopsis, a Jellyfish that Repeatably Rejuvenates. Zoological Science, Volume 33, pp. 366-371.
20 Piraino, S. et al. Reverse Development in Cnidaria. Canadian Journal of Zoology, Volume 82, pp. 1748-1754.
21 Ma, H. and Yang, Y. Turritopsis nutricula. Nature Science, 2010, Volume 8, pp. 15-20.
22 Matsumoto, Y. et al. Transcriptome Characterization of Reverse Development in Turritopsis dohrnii (Hydrozoa, Cnidaria). G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics, Early online October 16, 2019.
23 Kaschak, E. Life and Death. We Are a Strange Species. Wall Street International, 18 June, 2018.
24 Burrowes, R.J. Human Violence. Pervasive, multi-dimensional and extinction-threatening. Wall Street International, 8 November, 2019. | <urn:uuid:6e6574b5-ece7-4f06-bdb5-a3781e7846e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.meer.com/en/59683-can-aging-be-reversed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938197 | 4,513 | 2.875 | 3 |
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“As the twig is bent, so the tree is inclined.” Speaker Pelosi was educated from grades one through 12 at the Institute of Notre Dame, a Catholic school for girls founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame in 1847 in downtown Baltimore. There, she learned the gospel principles of life, and she is still living them.
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Nancy is heir to a great legacy from both her family and her high school, the Institute of Notre Dame.
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- 1 How do you get to the Tower of London?
- 2 What is in the Tower of London today?
- 3 How much does it cost to go in the Tower of London?
- 4 Does anyone live at the Tower of London?
- 5 How long do you need at Tower of London?
- 6 How much time do you need at the Tower of London?
- 7 What is Tower of London famous for?
- 8 Who died at the Tower of London?
- 9 Who was killed at the Tower of London?
- 10 Are the crown jewels in Tower of London real?
- 11 Can you go inside Buckingham Palace?
- 12 Is the Tower of London worth visiting?
- 13 Do Yeoman Warders get paid?
- 14 How much do Beefeaters get paid?
- 15 Are there female Beefeaters?
How do you get to the Tower of London?
The Tower is located within easy walking distance of several mainline stations including:
- 10-15 mins from London Bridge Station.
- 20 min from Liverpool Street Station.
- 25 mins from London Charring Cross Station.
What is in the Tower of London today?
The Tower today The Tower of London is still home to the Yeomen Warders and their families, the Resident Governor, and a garrison of soldiers. There is a doctor and a chaplain. And there is even a pub!
How much does it cost to go in the Tower of London?
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|Adult age 18-64||£25.00|
|Child (age 5-15) Under 5’s go free and do not need a ticket. Children aged 5-15 must be accompanied by an adult.||£12.50|
|Concession Age 65+ or 16-17, full-time student, disabled visitor||£20.00|
|Family saver 1 1 adult & up to 3 children (aged 5-15)||£37.50|
Does anyone live at the Tower of London?
As tradition going back 700 years, all Yeoman Warders and their families live within the Tower walls. Right now about 150 people, including a doctor and a chaplain, claim the Tower of London as their home address.
How long do you need at Tower of London?
How long should you stay at the Tower of London? Plan to spend at least two hours at the Tower of London (or more if it’s busy). There is so much to see and learn about here that you should try and get as much value out of your ticket as you can.
How much time do you need at the Tower of London?
Aim for 3-4 hours so much to see. The beefeaters guided free tour takes over 45 mins but also a must for the info they tell. over a year ago. Suggest you plan for the day though time can be saved by purchasing your tickets online in advance.
What is Tower of London famous for?
The Tower of London is a 900-year-old castle and fortress in central London that is notable for housing the crown jewels and for holding many famous and infamous prisoners.
Who died at the Tower of London?
Among the best known are the mysterious deaths of the two little Princes, Edward V and his younger brother Richard, Duke of York. There was also the tragic story of the execution of Lady Jane Gray, Queen of England, as well as the other queens Catherine Howard and Anne Boleyn.
Who was killed at the Tower of London?
The Tower was reserved for the superstars of their day, including the three queens: Anne Boleyn (1536), Catherine Howard (1542) and Lady Jane Grey (1554), who were all beheaded. As befits their station in life these were private executions, carried out beyond the gaze of the great unwashed.
Are the crown jewels in Tower of London real?
While the Crown Jewels are real, they are not the 11th-century originals. The Civil Wars that began in 1642 effectively ended with the execution of Charles I in 1649.
Can you go inside Buckingham Palace?
During most of the year Buckingham Palace is the office and London residence of The Queen. But since 1993, during the summer months, the palace is open to the public. Visitors can walk around 19 magnificent State Rooms, used during the year for official entertaining and ceremonial functions.
Is the Tower of London worth visiting?
Visiting the Tower of London is a great way to learn a lot about the history of the city. If you are interested in history and you like learning about the places you travel then it is definitely worth it. I highly suggest you give a chance to it, especially if you’ve travelled from a great distance to visit London.
Do Yeoman Warders get paid?
Yeoman Warders now mainly act as tour guides on a day-to-day basis when not performing ceremonial duties – pay starts at around £24,000.
How much do Beefeaters get paid?
Around 37 Yeoman Warders, who are paid around £30,000 a year, live with their families in historic buildings just outside the Tower of London which they guard, many able to see the Tower from their bedroom windows.
Are there female Beefeaters?
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Antarctic Peninsula glacier front positions and ice-flow velocities
datasetposted on 15.10.2019, 15:29 authored by Peter Tuckett, Jeremy ElyJeremy Ely, Andrew SoleAndrew Sole, Stephen LivingstoneStephen Livingstone, ben davison, J. Melchior van Wessem, joshua howard
AntP_speed_geotiffs - geotiffs of ice flow velocity of 5 marine terminating outlet glaciers on the Antarctic Peninsula (Crane, Jorum, Hektoria, Drygalski and Cayley) between October 2016 and April 2018, derived from feature and speckle tracking of Sentinel 1a and 1b images.
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Russian Crew Is The First To Film A Fiction Movie In Space
Oct 17, 2021
Space-related films have come a long way since A Trip to the Moon — a silent movie with no camera movement or close-ups — was released in 1902.
Filmmakers now use the extensive technology at their disposal to immersively transport fans to alien worlds. However, no one has attempted to shoot a feature film in space — until now! On October 5, 2021, astronauts at the International Space Station (ISS) welcomed their first fiction film crew — Russian actress Yulia Peresild and director Klim Shipenko.
The two civilians and veteran cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov arrived at the ISS aboard the Soyuz- 2 rocket. Peresild and Shipenko will spend 12 days filming a 35-to-40 minute segment for a feature film dubbed Vyzov ("The Challenge"). The movie tells the story of a surgeon — played by Peresild — going to space to operate on a sick cosmonaut, whose medical condition prevents him from returning to Earth for treatment. Prior to blasting off into space, Peresild — who beat out more than 3000 candidates for the role — and Shipenko underwent an intense, four-month-long "cosmonaut" training. They were subjected to conditions such as zero gravity suspension and high-speed acceleration inside a centrifuge. "It was difficult psychologically, physically, and emotionally … but I think when we reach our goal, all the challenges won't seem so bad," Peresild said at a pre-flight press conference on October 4, 2021.
In addition to being the first actress to film a movie in orbit, Peresild is also only the fifth Russian woman to travel to space. Shipenko is making his own history as the first director, make-up artist, sound editor, and cinematographer of a feature film shot in space. Meanwhile, Shkaplerov and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, who are currently at the ISS, will make their acting debut in a cameo appearance as the space station's crew. Peresild and Shipenko will return to Earth on October 17, 2021. This time around, they will be accompanied by Novitsky, who will have completed his term at the ISS by then. He will be replaced with Shkaplerov, who will remain there until March 2022.
Though this is the first science-fiction movie filmed in space, it will probably not be the last. American actor Tom Cruise is rumored to be collaborating with SpaceX founder Elon Musk for a yet-to-be-revealed project. William Shatner will also be heading to space. However, the famed actor — best known for his role as Captain Kirk in the Star Trek series — will not be working. He will be enjoying the spectacular views of Earth aboard Blue Origin's second crewed spaceflight scheduled for launch on October 13, 2021. The 90-year-old will also make history as the oldest person to fly in space! | <urn:uuid:b03c00f3-0e5f-40d3-9765-c8714b94ff26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://as.assameseunlimited.com/news-1/russian-crew-is-the-first-to-film-a-fiction-movie-in-space | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968616 | 633 | 2.234375 | 2 |
For any nation, its children are its most valuable resource. For this reason, Russian Life asked Yelena Utenkova, on the occasion of International Children’s Day, to look at the state of children in Russia today. She returns with a picture at once sobering and revealing.
Of the many myths the Soviet propaganda machine spun for its people and the whole world, at least one was hard to argue with: “the Soviet childhood is the most cloudless in the world.” Judge for yourself: free education, free summer vacations, free sports, free health care, free libraries, free everything. The Soviet state did its utmost to prove that its motto — “all the best for children” — was more than just empty words.
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Difficulty Easy – Preparation 20 minutes – Cooking 20 minutes
2 slices of swordfish about a couple of centimeters high | 2 small long eggplants Basil | Type 0 flour just enough | A clove of garlic | Extra virgin olive oil | Salt and Pepper To Taste
1. Wash the eggplants and peel them. If we love the strong flavor, we leave a part of the peel. We cut the aubergines into cubes a couple of centimeters thick, sprinkle them with coarse salt and leave them to drain for an hour in a colander (this operation can be avoided if we appreciate the bitter taste of the aubergines).
2. After the time we wash the cubes thoroughly under running water, squeeze them and wash them again. We take a pan, pour abundant extra virgin olive oil and heat well over medium heat.
3. Combine the aubergines and cook them until they become golden on the outside and soft on the inside. Drain them and arrange them on a tray covered with absorbent paper, in order to eliminate excess oil.
4. Strip the slices of swordfish and remove the central bone. Then cut the slices into cubes about two centimeters thick. We put the flour in a plastic bag, add the pieces of fish, close it and shake it in order to flour them homogeneously.
5. We empty the contents of the bag in a dense sieve or in a sieve and shake it in order to eliminate the excess flour. Pour a couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil into a non-stick pan, place it on medium heat and heat.
6. When the oil becomes hot, add the floured fish cubes and cook by shaking the pan so that the fish cooks quickly on all sides. As soon as the swordfish is almost ready (it takes about five minutes), we add the aubergines, salt and cook for a couple of minutes. We combine the basil and serve. | <urn:uuid:6141cb14-d1b9-40fd-b5f6-79750bbc3db5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cucinareitaly.com/swordfish-with-aubergines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.892843 | 401 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Juneteenth is a time to look back and celebrate the end of slavery in America. But this year in particular, it’s a time to look forward, too, given the long-overdue reckoning that’s been taking place over the past month. Finance app Goalsetter is encouraging Black children and their families to look far, far into the future with hope.
The company has launched a campaign and social media initiative called #SavingOurSelves with the mission of getting 1 million Black young people to sign up for savings accounts with the Goalsetter app. And in case you were cynically wondering, this certainly isn’t a gimmick piggybacking on the current moment.
“As a company led by an African American woman, our mission has always been to do exactly what we’re doing for this Juneteenth,” founder and CEO Tanya Van Court told SheKnows. “Our mission has always been to close the wealth gap. Our mission has always been to ensure that Black kids and Black families have access to savings tools that work for every family, if they are if they are wealthy or wealth seeking — because we certainly have all kinds of people in our community — but also have access to financial literacy content that is culturally relevant.”
Goalsetter allows caregivers to help their children connect their bank accounts to the app and set up different ways for their kids to save, as well as for other family members to contribute to their account. What sets it apart from other savings apps is that culturally relevant content geared toward young Black kids (which also means all kids, for that matter).
“There are actually Black faces and memes and gifs … so these kids are learning from the same people that that they see on Snapchat and on Instagram,” Van Court says of the financial literacy lessons and quizzes featured on the app (which you can preview here). The mother of three also has made sure to consult real kids when creating content.
That’s why Goalsetter is turning to social media to spread the word about #SavingOurSelves now. With the help of influencers like TikTok star Skai Beauty, they want to encourage young people and their parents to open savings accounts, no matter how small their balance might be. That very act might be the key to a successful future.
“Washington University did a study that showed that kids with savings accounts in their name, no matter how much is in those accounts, are six times more likely to go to college and four times more likely to own stocks by the time they’re young adults,” Van Court explained.
The reason may be that savings accounts offer early training in delayed gratification. Even if children are just saving for a toy, they’re learning that they need to forego short-term treats in order to reach their bigger goal. But she also knows that children who are taught more about saving and investing keep those lessons with them for a lifetime, so she’s counting on that content to give them an extra boost.
There are so many other obstacles — from underfunded schools to discriminatory practices by banks and hiring managers — that need to change before Black Americans can have an even financial playing field. But Van Court hopes that she can help with this one proven step. And while she knows some families have a hard time thinking about savings when they’re struggling to put food on the table, she encourages them to open accounts for their children anyway.
“Every kid has a birthday,” she said, explaining that the app makes it easy for grandparents, aunts, and uncles to give “goal cards” contributing to their accounts.
And, by the way, those of us who are not Black can do our part to further this goal, too. For one thing, everyone can use Goalsetter, and by doing so, you’re supporting a Black-run business. If you want to do more, consider contributing to this GoFundMe Goalsetter has set up, in partnership with Eagle Academy, Fund 2 Foundation, NAF.org, Kenan Charitable Trust and other nonprofits, to set up accounts for kids in underserved communities.
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Record keeping such as scanning QR codes or manually signing in at most events and business locations under all levels will be mandatory, Covid-19 Response Minister Chris Hipkins announced today.
It was clarified retail was currently exempt.
"It is clear that when people use the app or manually sign in, rather than relying on memory, contact tracing can happen much more quickly," Hipkins said.
Businesses already needed to display codes at all alert levels.
"We are making it mandatory at the sorts of places where people gather consistently and in large numbers to ensure that people scan or sign in," Hipkins said.
"This means those responsible for businesses and events will need to ensure people keep a record when they visit, either by scanning QR codes with the Covid-19 Tracer App or making a manual record."
He used the example of where "people gather consistently and in large numbers to ensure that people scan or sign in".
"This includes cafes, restaurants, bars, casinos and concerts, aged care, healthcare facilities (excluding patients), barbers, exercise facilities, nightclubs, libraries, courts, local and central government agencies, and social services providers with customer service counters".
The fine could be between $300 to $1000, Hipkins said this was being reviewed.
"The obligation will be on the person responsible for the place or gathering to ensure people can scan or sign in," Hipkins said.
"This will become effective seven days after any change in Alert Level settings that might allow more businesses to open or gatherings to go ahead."
At the start of this month, scanning had slumped to its lowest level before Wellington's Covid scare.
Only 498,723 scans were recorded on the Covid Tracer app which was the lowest number of scans on the app since June 22.
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Not children’s parties, as in the woman who sent some parents an invoice for failure to attend at her child’s party at a dry ski slope resort.
This is the Court of Appeal setting out whether children who are the subjects of an order can appeal that order, or be made a party to the appeal.
RE M (Republic of Ireland) (Child’s objections) (Joinder of children as parties to appeal) 2015
(The Republic of Ireland bit only refers to the country where the children were being ordered to return to – this is a classic Article 13 Hague Convention piece of litigation, and the principles apply across the board)
The Court of Appeal indicate a degree of growing tired of appeals about article 13 and indeed Brussels II, and I have to say that I feel their pain.
- In cases under the1980 Hague Convention, speed is of the essence. The object of the Convention is to return abducted children as soon as possible to their home country, restoring the status quo and enabling the courts there to determine whatever disputes there are about their future upbringing. The longer the time that elapses following a wrongful removal or retention, the more difficult it becomes to return the child. In recognition of this, judgment is expected to be given no later than 6 weeks after the commencement of the proceedings (see Article 11(3) of Brussels IIa (Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003, hereafter simply “Brussels IIa”) and Article 11 of the 1980 Convention. The procedure adopted is summary.
- It may be thought paradoxical that a summary procedure such as this should have generated the quantity of jurisprudence that the 1980 Convention has. Over the years there have been many technical and sophisticated legal arguments about how its terms should be interpreted and a significant number of appeals.
- Technicality of this sort gets in the way of the objectives of the Convention. In Re P-J (Children) EWCA Civ 588 1 WLR 1237, Wilson LJ (as he then was) observed, “Nowadays not all law can be simple law; but the best law remains simple law.” In recent times, it has become increasingly apparent that the law relating to child’s objections under Article 13 of the Convention, as it is presently perceived to be, is far from simple law. To judge by the number of applications to the Court of Appeal for permission to appeal on this point, it is not at all easy to put into practice. Does this have to be the case?
There were two major rows in this appeal. The first was whether a previously decided case, Re T (which indicated that if a child did object to a move, that would probably be determinative of the application) was now wrong, in the light of the principles arising from the Supreme Court that children as young as 6 could voice an objection – and the Court of Appeal decided that Re T doesn’t really stand up any more on that point – the child’s objection is one of the range of factors to be considered but is not determinative of the application.
The second was whether the children, who manifestly were objecting but the original trial judge had held were not, could be parties to the appeal or even bring an appeal.
The Court of Appeal decided that children CAN appeal or be joined and also give some practical guidance.
- There was no dispute that there was binding Court of Appeal authority establishing that the children could in principle be permitted to bring their own appeal, even though they had not been parties in the court below, see for example George Wimpey Ltd v Tewkesbury Borough Council 1 WLR 1649, referred to in Re LC by Lord Wilson at §11. Neither was there any dispute that they could be joined as parties for the first time at the appeal stage of proceedings. However, the procedural framework for their participation is possibly somewhat deficient.
- The FPR 2010 deal comprehensively with the participation of children in proceedings but it was agreed between the parties that when the question of the participation of a child arises for the first time at the Court of Appeal stage, it is not the FPR 2010 which apply but the CPR 1998, which do not cover the ground as thoroughly.
- I have already referred to Rule 16.2 FPR which provides that the court may only make a child a party if it considers that it is in the child’s best interests to do so. There is no equivalent provision in the CPR. Rule 19.1 and 19.2 CPR provide:
“19.1 Any number of claimants or defendants may be joined as parties to a claim.
19.2 (1) This rule applies where a party is to be added or substituted except where the case falls within rule 19.5 (special provisions about changing parties after the end of a relevant limitation period).
(2) The court may order a person to be added as a new party if –
(a) it is desirable to add the new party so that the court can resolve all the matters in dispute in the proceedings; or
(b) there is an issue involving the new party and an existing party which is connected to the matters in dispute in the proceedings, and it is desirable to add the new party so that the court can resolve that issue.
(3) The court may order any person to cease to be a party if it is not desirable for that person to be a party to the proceedings.
(4) The court may order a new party to be substituted for an existing one if –
(a) the existing party’s interest or liability has passed to the new party; and
(b) it is desirable to substitute the new party so that the court can resolve the matters in dispute in the proceedings.”
- Rule 52.1 defines “appellant” and “respondent” for the purposes of part 52 as follows:
“(d) ‘appellant’ means a person who brings or seeks to bring an appeal;
(e) ‘respondent’ means –
(i) a person other than the appellant who was a party to the proceedings in the lower court and who is affected by the appeal; and
(ii) a person who is permitted by the appeal court to be a party to the appeal;”
It includes no guidance at all as to when a person should be permitted by the appeal court to be a party to the appeal, let alone any guidance tailored to the situation of a child who wishes to participate. This does not mean, in my view, that welfare considerations are irrelevant to the decision whether to join the child; they are, as I observed in Re LC, “by no means out of place”. But they are not necessarily determinative and there is no best interests threshold such as there is in the FPR. Although not strictly applicable, I see no reason why regard should not be had to the guidance provided in Practice Direction 16A of the FPR to the extent that it may prove useful in the rather different circumstances of the Court of Appeal and the specialist sphere of Hague Convention proceedings. Lord Wilson referred to it at §§50 et seq of Re LC and I will not rehearse it further here.
- Neither is there any equivalent in the CPR to the provisions of the FPR which require or permit a guardian to be appointed for a child. It may be that the provision in CPR Rule 52.10(1) whereby, in relation to an appeal, the Court of Appeal has all the powers of the lower court, would provide a basis for the appointment of a guardian. But that does not arise for decision in this case. Adequate protection for the child’s interests on an appeal can generally be achieved in any event by means of a litigation friend appointed in accordance with Part 21 CPR.
- Part 21 CPR deals with children and protected parties. A ‘child’ means a person under 18 years of age (Rule 21.1(2)(b)). Rule 21.2(2) provides that a child must have a litigation friend to conduct proceedings on his behalf unless the court makes an order under Rule 21.2(3) permitting the child to conduct the proceedings without. Rule 21.2(4) provides that an application for an order under Rule 21.2(3) can be made by the child. If the child already has a litigation friend, it must be made on notice to the litigation friend but may otherwise be made without notice. The court may appoint a litigation friend by order (Rule 21.6). Alternatively, Rules 21.4 and 21.5 deal with becoming a litigation friend without an order.
- The functions of a guardian are well understood by family practitioners and are set out in the FPR. CAFCASS guardians (often with a social work background) are the most familiar guardians but they are not the only type. Lord Wilson observed in Re LC that, had Cobb J made T a party to the first instance proceedings in that case, she would have been required to act by a guardian but that such a status might have been conferred on her solicitor. He also observed (§55) that the grant of party status to a child leaves the court with a wide discretion to determine the extent of the role which he or she should play in the proceedings. He explained the sort of involvement he would have contemplated had T been a party and said that it would have been for her guardian to decide which of the documents filed in the proceedings should be shown to T.
- The functions of a litigation friend are no doubt fully understood in the usual civil context in which the system operates although the researches of counsel did not produce any authorities to enlighten us further about how they actually carry out their functions or as to the principles that the court should apply when deciding whether to order that a litigation friend is not necessary. How a litigation friend is to function in the very different environment of an appeal in a Hague Convention case is rather more opaque. No guidance is to be found about that.
- Fortunately, this area of work is well served by very experienced solicitors who are familiar with these sorts of proceedings and extremely capable of looking after the interests of the children affected by them. In this case, the solicitor for J and D was appointed as their litigation friend and appears to have been able to discharge that role efficiently and without encountering any difficulties in practice. This sort of arrangement may often commend itself where the question of joining children at the appeal stage arises.
- Children need to know that their views are being listened to and that their particular concerns are not being lost in the argument between their parents but it must be recognised that direct participation in proceedings can be harmful for children. As Lord Wilson said in §48 of Re LC, “[t]he intrusion of the children into the forensic arena….can prove very damaging to family relationships even in the long term and definitely affects their interests”. I therefore contemplate that it may be necessary for a litigation friend to guide and regulate the child’s own participation in the proceedings, just as a guardian would. He or she will no doubt determine which documents filed in the proceedings should be shown to the child and take decisions, in consultation with the child, about whether the child should attend the court hearing. In the very unlikely event that an intractable issue arises between the litigation friend and the child, there may be no alternative but to ask the court to give directions, but I would expect such a situation to be extremely rare. What I do not think a litigation friend can do is provide a welfare assessment for the court in relation to the child as a guardian would do. However, where the litigation friend is the child’s solicitor, as I anticipate will be so in the vast majority of cases, he or she will no doubt assess the case and guide and support the child in their approach to the litigation, as any solicitor would do for an adult client.
Just in case you were thinking that a door has been opened here, the Court of Appeal try to close it, just like you might if you open your door on a Sunday just as Sky Super Sunday is about to begin only to find two well-dressed people wanting to talk to you about Jesus. The door might still be technically open, but there’s no way that anyone is feeling like there is a welcome invitation to come in and break Jammy Dodgers with you.
I end this section of my judgment with a cautionary note. It should not be expected that an application for children to be involved in proceedings, either as appellants or as respondents, for the first time in the Court of Appeal will be received sympathetically. By the time the matter reaches the Court of Appeal, it is usually far too late in the day to address this sort of issue. I have said several times already, and make no apology for saying again, that this needs to be thought of at the very outset of the proceedings. As to how an application made at that stage may fare, nothing that I have said in this judgment is intended to affect the existing jurisprudence on the subject. | <urn:uuid:ab2cd0ec-d926-473e-b731-6f9923556f98> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://suesspiciousminds.com/tag/can-a-child-appeal-an-order/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968524 | 2,724 | 1.804688 | 2 |
ONLINE WEBINAR SERIES
The international Demand-Led Breeding (DLB) working group with UKZN’s African Centre for Crop Improvement (ACCI) hosted a series of webinars for the research and development community in Southern Africa. The aim is to create dialogues to strengthen plant breeding and to make the case for investing in demand-led plant breeding in Southern Africa.
New research boosts work to combat Striga
The ACCI’s contribution to combating Striga, a virulent pest affecting millions of African smallholder farmers, has been boosted by the completion of another doctoral thesis about this problem.
Dr John Lobulu, who obtained his PhD in May, focused on developing maize genotypes for Striga resistance and compatibility with the fungal biocontrol agent, Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. strigae (FOS).
Building crops to feed 2.5 billion Africans by 2050
A business approach to plant breeding could be the answer to Africa’s anticipated food shortages in the future. That was the view presented by Professor Hussein Shimelis at the 2nd Plant Breeders Association of Nigeria (PNAB) Webinar Series, held on Wednesday, 25 May 2022.
PhD Student breeding dual-purpose tef
Professor Hussein Shimelis (right) visited Cedara Agricultural College recently to see the research progress made by PhD student, Patrick Rakau, who is breeding dual-purpose tef for South African conditions.
Patrick, who works for the Agricultural Research Council (ARC), is a grassland scientist with a background in Crop Science. University of the Free State (UFS) is also involved in the project.
The tef varieties he’s breeding will provide straw for animal fodder and grain for human consumption. Tef is a gluten-free free super food.
Using a mutation breeding technique, he has created genetic variation from seeds from three South African varieties, and is expecting wider variation that will hopefully produce the desired dual-purpose varieties.
Malawi gets 3 improved pigeonpea varieties
Seeing the release of their improved varieties is the pinnacle of achievement for plant breeders, so we are always thrilled when our graduates manage to do this.
We are very proud of Dr Esnart Nirenda Yohane, who has released three new varieties of pigeonpea in Malawi.”
Series: ACCI food heroes
As a group, ACCI graduates and staff members have made a significant contribution to African agriculture. Apart from developing and releasing new, improved varieties of food-security crops, occupying key leadership positions in African agriculture and teaching and mentoring up-and-coming plant breeders, they also form a body of independent thinkers making a contribution to agricultural science on the continent.
The “Climate Crisis” – Adjusting to a New Future
Prof Mark Laing (director of the ACCI) is a Plant Pathologist, Plant Breeder and inventor. In this lecture on the Climate Crisis topic, he paints a picture of the new world that is most likely to develop in the next 30 to 120 years, and will have an impact on all of us, and future generations.
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An Iranian General has called for the adoption of cryptocurrency to evade Sanctions imposed on the country.
The commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, General Saeed Muhammad, called for the country’s government to use Cryptocurrency in order to evade economic sanctions imposed on the country.
This he said while addressing a crowd in Farsi. The Telegram news channel coinit.ir, an Iran-based news organization, reported this on their Instant-messaging platform.
The General addressed the new economic sanctions imposed by America.
“The government of America with stones to It seeks to impede the livelihoods of the people by blocking the development of our country,” he said.
He added, “But in a futuristic vision of economic recovery, they have gone out of their way and have said that the only way to save the country is to have a strong economy, and in the last few years all the slogans have been economic.”
He then specifically asked that the country adopts Cypto as the basic mechanism for commodity exchange internationally, and for transactions in the country:
“We are demanding the creation of a more sophisticated mechanism (a commodity exchange) to circumvent sanctions, and we are calling for activation of the use of codecs, and we want bilateral or multilateral monetary agreements.”
Earlier in January, following the assassination of a top Iranian General, Qasim Soleimani by the United States, Pres. Trump imposed new sanctions that affect the construction, manufacturing, textiles and mining industries in Iran. Another sanction round of sanctions were earlier introduced in June 2019 after Iran shot down an American drone.
The United States have been ramping up economic sanctions on the Middle Eastern Country to put it under economic pressure since it exited the Nuclear Deal in May 2018. The new Sanctions were in response to the alleged attack of Saudi Arabia oil facilities by the Iranian authorities.
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Virtual sports betting is a sector of the online gaming industry enjoying rapid growth in many markets. In fact, some believe it heralds a major shift in how players will bet online going forward.
It’s certainly going to be useful during the Covid-19 pandemic. With so many real sporting contests cancelled or delayed in the name of public safety, many punters will be turning to computer-generated versions of the favourite sports when they want to place a bet.
Virtual Sports Vs eSports
It’s important to define virtual sports, because they are often confused with eSports, which are also attracting growing numbers of online betting enthusiasts. eSports are the digital evolution of multiplayer role-playing games like Dungeons and Dragons.
In modern franchises like StarCraft or Dota, these computer-game tournaments involve teams of players using different characters, skills and weapons to overcome their equally varied opponents. They attract massive live crowds of fantasy fans following the action, and plenty of online betting on the outcome.
However, although they run on a computer, eSports are skills-based. The outcome depends on the skills, strategy and teamwork of individual players controlling their avatars. Virtual sports deals in real sports, not fantasy quests, offering punters a computer simulation of sporting contest instead.
RNG Decides Winners
Virtual sports betting can offer a straight bet on a winner, in games like virtual football, tennis, baseball or hockey. In contests like virtual horseracing, greyhound racing, cycling, motor racing or speedway, there are several betting options related to the first three past the post, just like a real racetrack.
The major deviation from real sports is the way winners are decided. Instead of relying on a mixture of strength, skill, fitness and strategy, not to mention working out your opponent’s weaknesses, virtual sports outcomes are decided by a random number generator.
It’s this element of pure chance that makes them less attractive to dedicated sport fans, who like to subject contenders to personal scrutiny before betting on them. Knowledge of form or inside information is no good here.
However, fans of random-luck casino games like Roulette or mobile pokies games in NZ are equally at home with virtual sports betting. The fact that virtual sports contests usually play quickly, with some sites offering a new event every 90 seconds and games that last three or four minutes, also makes them popular with betting enthusiasts.
Future Holds More Innovation
While not offering players quite the same experience as live, real-life sports, virtual sports betting is exciting enough to attract new punters every day. The graphics are impressive, creating digital replicas of real sporting arenas, and developers constantly find new ways to make the online betting experience more immersive.
eSports provides an example here: modern multiplayer games, with a variety of moves and events in detailed digital environments, are a far cry from the single-player Pong of decades ago. Similar innovations in virtual sports could well see 11-player football teams in the future, each avatar controlled by human players.
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Spurred on by another speech by another leading Republican politician (in this case Speaker John Boehner) suggesting that historically high and persistent unemployment rates are the fault of the unemployed themselves, Paul Krugman provides a timely reminder of an issue that has all but been forgotten in this election year.
I don’t know how many people realize just how successful the campaign against any kind of relief for those who can’t find jobs has been. But it’s a striking picture. The job market has improved lately, but there are still almost three million Americans who have been out of work for more than six months, the usual maximum duration of unemployment insurance. That’s nearly three times the pre-recession total. Yet extended benefits for the long-term unemployed have been eliminated — and in some states the duration of benefits has been slashed even further.
The result is that most of the unemployed have been cut off. Only 26 percent of jobless Americans are receiving any kind of unemployment benefit, the lowest level in many decades. The total value of unemployment benefits is less than 0.25 percent of G.D.P., half what it was in 2003, when the unemployment rate was roughly the same as it is now. It’s not hyperbole to say that America has abandoned its out-of-work citizens.
Now Krugman is right in drawing attention to the “animus against the unemployed” so regularly expressed by conservatives, when they aren’t shedding crocodile tears for the terrible injustice being done to all recipients of government assistance via demoralizing food, initiative-sapping shelter, and spiritually damaging health coverage. But this ought to be a subject at least occasionally mentioned by Democratic politicians, too. A higher minimum wage isn’t of much use to people who cannot find work. Abandoning the long-term unemployed is a sin even if it is not compounded by scorn. | <urn:uuid:e703dc3f-6105-4657-a2bc-e8b5b5f12af8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://washingtonmonthly.com/2014/09/22/the-abandoned-and-scorned/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968185 | 388 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Aust announces new coronavirus travel ban on Iran |
Aust announces new coronavirus travel ban on Iran
Australia is escalating its response to the coronavirus, announcing a new travel ban on foreigners arriving from Iran after a Queensland woman who travelled to Iran contracted the disease.
The 63 year old beautician is believed to have exposed up to 40 people at a salon and Qld Health is urging anyone who visited Hair Plus in Australia Fair Shopping Centre to come forward.
The global risk of the virus is now at the highest possible level and the World Health Organisation announced it has spread to more than 50 countries, infecting more than 80,000 people and killed 2,800.
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Forex trading robots automatically carry out forex trades using preprogrammed entries. Each robot uses different methods to execute trades according to market indicators. Without forex robots, traders can be tempted to make quick decisions and execute trades based on emotions instead of accurate information.
Robots help take away stress emanating from the inability to study complex data and indicators when predicting market behavior. For some traders, the idea of forex robots might look far-fetched and the main question would be if robots really work. The truth is, many free forex robots really work.
Why use Forex trading robots?
The main question that most forex traders ask is why one should consider robots for trading yet humans can make good decisions. In reality, a forex trader can achieve far-reaching benefits when they choose to use free Forex EA that really works. Some of the benefits are as follows:
Forex robots use computer programs and can therefore execute a large volume of trades compared to any human abilities. More trades mean more chances for making profits. If a trader is envisioning long-term trading possibilities, robots are the best choice because they help the trader develop a disciplined and consistent approach to forex trading.
Some forex traders are prone to making decisions triggered by emotions and thus often fall into losses. With help from a robot, they can control their emotions by letting it do the work. Robots use AI which depends on algorithms to make trading decisions and thus minimize the need for a trader to stay glued to their computer screen watching for statistics. Traders are also freed from the need for stressful technical analysis.
Can a forex trader make profits using robots?
Initially, forex robots must be programmed by a human to configure them to be in line with trading rules and strategies. Once they are configured, they can start using AI to accurately predict trades with very minimal biases or chances for failures. To answer the question if forex robots really work, let us look at the robots in another dimension.
One of the best ways to know if an individual can perform a certain task excellently is to test them. If they pass the test by exceeding the set threshold, they can be classified as qualifying. To be certain if a robot will really work, put it to the test and observe the results.
Go to the MetaTrader 4 platform and click strategy tester on the menu or press Ctrl+R on your keyboard. The tester bar will open and you can select the unique EA you want to test. Fill out the details you want to be included like spreads, model, period, and currency, then click start.
The MetaTrader 4 platform uses moving average algorithms to make a trading decision. This is the platform that moving average EA operates on. You can set your test at one hour then generate data on all the trades the robot has executed within that given period. Study the report and you will confirm for sure that the robot did execute several trades and made a gain.
Are there any risks associated with forex robots?
Many technicalities take place during forex trading and this makes trading produce varying results. If you set your test time to about two or three months, that’s when you can see what the reality might be on real trading. The robot creator and the person who programs it into your trading systems have a lot to do with the obtainable results.
Some robots will do very well with a certain set of paired currencies and produce excellent results. However, the same robot might do terribly on another paired set of currencies over the same period. That means you can make excellent profits with one pair and losses with another.
You might ask yourself why the robot will do well in one area but fail in another. The answer to this is that EAs work based on particular economic indicators. Although creators are continually working to improve on the robots, the fact remains that humans can never make super excellent robots. Despite these shortcomings, robots perform with an exceedingly greater level of accuracy compared to human beings.
There are many versions of free forex trading robots and traders are free to test them before they decide which one will work perfectly for them. They help maximize performance during live trades. A trader just needs to click the auto-trade button to let AI take over and do the trading. Auto trading gives a trader an edge because even without their presence, the robot will continue to execute trades and increase chances for profits. | <urn:uuid:c2ff6eeb-a18c-45ef-8778-9cf54019fce9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.blockchain-council.org/info/explain-about-free-forex-robots-that-really-works/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.935356 | 904 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Do You Have What It Takes?
Lesson three it's called do you have what it takes? Do you have what it takes to be self employed is how I think about it and this is actually a quiz and in the workbook I have twelve uh qualities and skills that I consider are important for being a sex successful self employed person and I want to just go briefly over each of them and then have you score rate yourself one to five what youth where you think you are in relation to each of those and then you add up your score to see how well you did all right? And so people should be doing this also in the chat room, so let me just talk briefly about each of these qualities. Now the first one is the most important one, but I actually say that about all of them and that is curiosity you don't think about this very often you don't hear about this very often, but curiosity is essential and a lot of creative people are curious about things as it relates to their work, but not necessarily as it relates to their business. And when it comes to ...
curiosity from the business side, I think of it as curiosity about the new needs of your prospects and clients and then of course what you could do to satisfy those needs right? But you have to be a curious person I think a lot of smiles in here why's that justin why you smiling just to get this list okay, right the second one so rate yourself on curiosity and be honest right? We're not trying to impress no one's going to look at your score I'm not grading these papers um the second one to self discipline which I mentioned a few minutes ago right self discipline is essential if you're going to be a success at this so you have to be disciplined in terms of especially the things that you don't like to do the things that don't come naturally you have to give yourself deadlines you have to stick to those deadlines you really have to be your own parents in that situation number three is professionalism and I think this is also the most important one because freelancers and creative professionals have a bad rap essentially you know there is ah preconceived notion that creatives are flaky and it is up to you to disabused the public about the idea that you are a professional in your business and so that is a very important quality so that means being punctual meeting deadlines doing things that you say you're going to do following up this all builds trust and helps people understand that you are exactly the right person to help them number four is organizational skills so this comes from my days as a professional organizer right but you do have to be organized about who you followed up with and what they said and what they suggested you do next and if you don't keep track of that then you're not going teo be ableto keep in touch with those people so that's a really important marketing tool actually organizational skills uh commitment as I was talking about before you have to be committed to your business and to the fact that you're going to do this keep rating yourself on all of these as we get to number six will take a little break and see what's happening in the chat room but number six is self awareness this is really important you have to know for example I'll give you an example from me at the end of the day when people email me asking me for things I tend to say no just because it's the end of the day not because I don't want to do it and I know that I should not answer questions at the end of the day because I'll usually say no right? And if you know these things about yourself then you can adjust your behavior for your profit if I said no just because I'm tired I'm hungry then I'd be doing myself a disservice so you really owe it to yourself to understand yourself better in the context of your business so honestly how good is your self awareness jotted down okay going on self confidence I want to know j k oh how many people in the tack room I feel that they lack self confidence? This is one of the things I hear a lot right self confidence there's so many myths about it like I don't feel confident so I can't do x but the thing is confidence doesn't come before x it is the result of doing x over and over and over because that's what builds competence and incompetence builds confidence right? So rate yourself on self confidence number eight patients again in this world we live in instant gratification is what everybody expects but good things come to those who wait as they say so you have to be really patient especially when it comes to marketing and going after the projects and the prospects that you really want because sometimes the sale cycle is long and you really want it but you may make assumptions oh, they haven't responded yet so they may not be interested but if you're patient it will pay off so great yourself in terms of patients, flexibility is the most important one because everything is constantly changing everything is constantly changing. I can't say that enough so the more flexible you are with deadlines with responses to things with your own mind what you can do, the better it will be for your business perseverance again the most important one because if you give up too easily and you don't persevere you're definitely not going to succeed communication skills number eleven also very important so that includes speaking up, articulating clearly and also communicating mohr than you perhaps normally would I think actually there was an article in the new york times over the weekend that talked about how teams work together and which what qualities make the most successful teams on one of the quality was mohr communication right and it's really easy in this virtual a world that we live in tow under communicate to assume someone knows what we meant, right? But I always try toe over communicate even if it's um too much I'm not worried about too much because it doesn't hurt and I think also as a freelancer as a creative professional you support your reputation as someone who communicates well that isn't also not something that is expected in general and besides in this culture we're just really degrading our communication skills with the technology so it's up to us to compensate for that and finally dealing with change. This is the most important one right? Because as I said, things are constantly changing and how you deal with it this means reinventing yourself if necessary, right? Because what you started out with or what your initial idea wass may have been fine in two thousand two, but here we are several years later and it may not work anymore right, the technology may have changed and there's no need for those services anymore. What are you going to dio? You have to be able to deal with change constantly, so that is different from flexibility. All right, so let's, definitely the one that hit a nerve there. That was the one that everybody reacted to, and somebody called it the imposter syndrome. They feel that they're that they're lacking self constantly, feeling they're an imposter of faking what they're actually doing. I think a lot of people feel that sometimes yeah, a lot of people are dead worried I'm gonna get found out one day this really? I'm not any good at this at all, right? And I think a lot of people feel that yes, and I guess in a way that's related back to what someone else said in the chat room about worrying what other people think of you, right? Might my advice is stop worrying about what other people think of you and just do the best job you possibly can, and the rest will take care of itself. Absolutely. Okay, so, um, let's see how people scored? Did you have time, tio? Score yourself and rate yourself let's see, justin, how didyou d'oh ome I scored myself I'm very highly other than in self discipline and patients there's the two things that I think that I don't know a lot of patients I want things done fast quick keep moving on in self discipline it's easy for me to go like hit that snooze button again and again when I'm a freelancer and be like I need more sleep teo do a good job today you know like so we fooled ourselves don't weigh uh huh okay my advice to you justin not that you asked for it but it is get rid of the snooze button really I think um I think that's an evil thing actually the snooze button I think we have to set our alarms and just get up when the alarm goes off and the metaphor of the snooze button is also very important okay, great. What about you rain how'd you d'oh um I thought I was doing pretty well when I first looked at all of us almost in the four and five everywhere but I really tried to be very honest and think of situations with clients in the past and everything and I had to scale it back a little bit good andi gave myself to areas where I really feel like I need a work on it and uh when its organizational skills you know I am generally an organized person I think especially when it comes to things like marketing and follow up um I could do a lot better on the other one is patients also I think we can all work on patients definitely ok zane, what about you? Yes so I feel that I can work on definitely self confidence I definitely feel the whole imposter syndrome at times so that's one area that I would like to work on and also self awareness I feel that I could, uh definitely go more deeper that that area and um here's what I would say about working on self awareness that what it takes is quiet time to be quiet and reflect and observe ourselves and then think what else could I do differently about that? Right? Because it doesn't come easily and also have someone too basically tell you what you're doing in the way that I said we need you to speak up right that that is done with love if you will help you grow so you need people who can help you grow all right, how did people do in the tack room? Well, people rating themselves now perhaps the least you could just explain people now giving they've added it all up and got total number is that but that was the goal because they're all coming out with very high numbers yes particular fifties or a lot of people came up with forty to which my mom went elsewhere as it isn't that the answer to life, the universe and everything turned out to be full I don't know forty two is a very common name that came up but people very high some of them in the fifties so again you know it's about being honest with yourself ah and it's really not about the number the number is really just a conceit um and to know I think you know the way the in studio audience has handled it I think is the right way, which is of all of these twelve here are the few I'm gonna work on now these are the ones that are the weakest right? Because really what we're trying to do here is strengthen your foundation so that you can build on it all right? So just figure out and actually maybe we can ask in the chat room what are the one or two areas that are the weakest right? We can applaud them for their high scores isn't that already? I just understand I scored much lower on organization and much higher on perseverance on dh so yeah let's definitely here one of the others that were there was an imbalance for you where did you school? Oh, beautiful at the end of each segment I'll talk about what's in the extra goodies bundle because I couldn't put everything in the workbook, so I have a bundle which is a download which is available at that uh web address bit lee flash command fees. And if you put in your email address, you will get a list of links, which will allow you to download that extra goodies bundle, as well as lots of other things that I offer. And what we have for the first segment is an article I wrote called the freedom of freelancing. 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The first orbital flight of SpaceX’s Starship rocket remains suspended for authorization from the US Federal Aciation Administration (FAA). And the agency just announced this week that it needed more time to conduct its environmental investigation around the Boca Chica site in Texas, due to nearly 20,000 public comments from citizens.
Many of these comments simply defend SpaceX’s approach, but there are also many critics of the company. Many respondents point, among other things, to the direct, indirect and cumulative impact of the location of the SpaceX launch site in the Boca Chica area, which before SpaceX’s arrival was relatively untouched by human activities.
FAA needs two more months to rule on Starship launch in Boca Chica
The area is said to be the preferred habitat of dozens of endangered animal species. In the event of a negative review, SpaceX could be forced to completely revise its activities on the site, which could cause new delays and problems for the company. “SpaceX, under FAA supervision, is currently drafting responses to more than 18,000 public comments […]”explains the FAA.
SpaceX is preparing its final report which will have to be validated by the agency. The FAA says it is conducting regulatory consultations under various transportation and environmental laws. The FAA is also continuing its collaboration with the Texas Historical Commission (THC) and the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) as again required by law.
Initially the FAA was to communicate its final decision on the Boca Chica launch site on December 31, 2021. But given the number of comments and its regulatory obligations, the FAA finally announced that it would need an additional two months to pronounce. The precious sesame that SpaceX needs to launch Starship from the Boca Chica site cannot be delivered before February 28, 2022.
We note in passing that SpaceX seems to anticipate both a positive and a negative decision. History, one imagines, not to be caught off guard, SpaceX is building a launch pad for Starship in parallel on the Cape Canaveral site. Two ex-oil platforms called Phobos and Deimos are also being converted into floating launch pads. | <urn:uuid:f03b39f1-c1c1-4421-b49c-1ae1da2300fb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://eatthebabies.com/starships-first-orbital-flight-pushed-back-a-few-months/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968824 | 438 | 2.203125 | 2 |
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Reclining chairs reduce pain from gurneys in older emergency department patients: a randomized controlled trial.
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Interactive Relationship Between Parent and Child Event Appraisals and Child PTSD Symptoms After an Injury.
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The project to discover and celebrate Brecks swimming heritage, Tales from the River, is getting going! Volunteers were trained in 2021 and oral history interviewing and research is beginning in 2022. See Project Update.
Tales of the Riverbank Summer Club: Monday, 22 August 2022 – Sat 27 Aug 10:00-16:00
The project is working with Ancient House to offer a week long summer club where young people can learn new skills and make new friends. Young people (11 years and over) will work with oral history, archival documents, images, film and artefacts (including stories gathered in the project so far) to create an exhibition and a short film on how the river has been used for fun in the past. The Summer Club is completely free and includes all refreshments. Advanced booking essential, https://norfolk-museums.arttickets.org.uk/ancient-house/2022-08-22-tales-of-the-riverbank-summer-club. More info on booking link page and Facebook event, https://www.facebook.com/events/1165073601014605/1165073604347938/
Oral History and story collecting
Project volunteers are now beginning to talk to local people and gather their memories of swimming, playing and otherwise enjoying the rivers.
We are looking for people who might like to tell us their stories and memories about swimming and other recreation or activities, or would like to send us information – Outdoor Swimming maps, info, photos or stories to share. You can read the Info Sheet about the Oral History part of the Tales from the River project, too.
If you would like to sign up to get involved in the project – Contact me and say you would like to be involved and to get updates – and to hear about future events in this or other projects sign up for BFER updates and newsletter here.
The project is part of The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme (BFER), supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund. It will train and involve volunteers in gathering history, stories and folklore about recreation in/on/by the Brecks rivers and other waters.
Summary of the project
Tales from the River will involve people in gathering and celebrating past and present stories and folklore about swimming and other recreation in, on or by the Breckland rivers and other waters.
The project is part of The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme (BFER), supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
The project will provide training in archive research and oral history interviewing, and we hope that those trained will volunteer to do research and interviewing and will discover photographs and cine films. (Training is free, and those who volunteer in the project can claim travel expenses.)
We will share what we find with other projects and will present it in various ways, including exhibition, video, on the website, and to enrich the archives. Heritage information will inform the Healing Waters river survey and map, and will appear together with safety advice at key swimming spots.
More detail on the projects on this website and find documents about all the BFER projects on The Brecks Fen Edge & Rivers Landscape Partnership Scheme website, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Oral history interviewing underway
Project volunteers are beginning to talk to local people and gather their memories of swimming, playing and otherwise enjoying the rivers.
Our first interview was with Mary, interviewed by volunteer researcher Helaine, and is a delightful story of growing up at Oxburgh Hall and playing in the rivers around the village, catching fish and having lots of fun. You can listen to a 40 second extract.
Transcript: “We didn’t actually swim. We played. We played in the ferry river. We played in what we call the ‘second bridges’ which was down the Foulden road and we played in there because it was a sandy bank and it was clear and you could see the bottom and we paddled, we caught tiddlers and had lots and lots of fun. And lots of the children used to. There used to be a watermill there and where the watermill was, there was a (big) tree cut down and people used to actually jump off the tree trunk into this. It’s a wonder they didn’t break their necks. There was no health & safety by the riverside then.”
Do contact me if you’d like to tell your story, see Outdoor Swimming maps, info, photos or stories to share and the project Info Sheet.
Thetford Library & Tales from the River Drop in event, Tuesday 3 May Local people came and shared their photos and stories about earlier days in Thetford, about the river and how they played and swam in places like the Bridge Tavern, the swimming baths, Barnham common, and about fishing and messing about in belly tank boats or paddling in the vegetable-coloured and scented warm waters below the cannery. We had a display about the project and old photos of Thetford kindly shared by Ancient House Museum. Volunteers Imogen, Rosie and John, along with BFER staff Tom, Nick, Nicole, and library staff Kaleigh and others chatted to visitors and recorded some of their wonderful stories, photos and documents.
Extracts from some oral history interviews done at Thetford, and listen to 40 seconds of extracts from the interview with George Angus.
Transcripts: “My first memories are in the Bridge Tavern, and because we lived in Castle Street that was just up the road. My father was away, during the war, and my mother used to take me and my sister up there, swimming or paddling in the Bridge Tavern” [aged about 3-4 ] “… I loved it, always loved the water.…Where the bypass is now, that was a railway line, the Bury to Thetford line, and just past that the river was much deeper, and I can remember being down there and her trying to teach me to swim.” Barnham common “During the school holidays that’s where everybody went, whole families would take their picnics and spend the whole day up there.” Thetford bathing pool. “That was lovely. That was very deep in those days. There was the shallow end. 50 yards long, though I’m not certain of the length. Going upstream towards Bury St Edmunds it got deeper and deeper and deeper, and at the far end there was the three stage diving boards and a springboard. But the bottom was very muddy, and if you were the first one the water was lovely and clear, but if you had to follow that there was mud everywhere, but we just accepted that.” George Angus
Going to the bathing pool with the school. “That was in the summer, but that was still cold. Once you got in the water it was alright. You used to let someone else go in first to let you know what it was like.” And outside of school times “… on a Sunday afternoon especially, or when the weather was nice.… Because we used to go and listen to Top of the Pops on the radio on the other side of the river.” Adrian Bibby
Monday 28 March, 3-6, Oxborough Village Hall Drop in session where visitors could enjoy the refreshments, look at historic documents & photos from the village and local area, and share memories of swimming, fishing, boating or playing in the rivers. Volunteers chatted to visitors and recorded some oral history interviews. See more photos and report of the event, and the display panels here.
Talk to Brandon and District Local History Society 6 April. I showed images collected in the project – most of which appear in the display panels, and talked about the project, what information we want to collect and how, the sort of places people used to (and still do) swim or fish or boat or enjoy the Brecks rivers and waters and how this often ties in with buildings and places connected with navigation and industry. We also looked at Brandon maps and discussed popular places in the area. You can download my talk (Word.doc, 4 pages). Several people had stories to tell. I’m happy to talk to similar meetings – do contact me.
Training sessions completed
Tour of Norfolk Record Office, Monday 8 November, Norwich. Tour by Karen Gaffney, Norfolk Record Office including how to access the archives and a look at the areas behind the scenes including a fascinating talk by Nick Sellwood about conservation and preservation of important records, and a chance to look at some fascinating and beautiful photos, drawings, diaries, maps and other documents relevant to the project.
Doing research and using the Suffolk Archives, Monday 1 November, Suffolk Record Office, Bury St Edmunds. The trainer, Hannah from Suffolk Archives, gave an introduction to the archives and the sort of records and work they do, did a tour of the strongroom and reading rooms, and showed us some very interesting and relevant documents, maps and photos from the collection. There were plenty of opportunities to ask questions and search the catalogue, and some discussion on following up and doing research at the Suffolk Archives, online and elsewhere.
Introduction to Oral History Collecting, Tuesday 7 September 2021, Brandon Engine House, Brandon Country Park, IP27 0SU.
The trainers, Mandy and Hannah from Suffolk Archives, gave an introduction to oral history, issues and legalities to consider, how to plan, prepare and conduct an interview, using the equipment and a chance to practice. We also discussed project planning and how to organise gathering stories and oral history recordings on swimming and other river recreation. More photos of the training.
Doing research and discovering the archives at Norfolk Record Office, Wednesday 7 July at Santon Downham Community Centre. The trainer, Victoria from Norfolk Record Office, outlined how to access the archives and do your own research, and illustrated this with examples of relevant documents/maps/material from the collection. We followed the training with a discussion on how volunteers can take the project forward and how we can organise doing some research and gather materials and stories on swimming and other river recreation. (The training reported in the BFER Newsletter 3. See some more photos of the sessions)
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The traditional construction delivery method of design-bid-build is a dying trend. Growing in its place are alternative contracting methods with design-build leading the way.
The Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA) says the method delivers nearly half of all U.S. projects. A 2016 survey found that design-build had grown faster in transportation than any other market sector, with 87% of respondents saying they would use it again in the future.
Why is design-build in high demand? According to the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), it accelerates project delivery — often reducing project durations by at least 1-2 years — lowers project costs and improves project quality.
On the contractor side, the DBIA says design-build can bring higher profit margins, decreased administration burdens, and less litigation. But it’s not risk-free — the design-build partners incur most of the costs related to developing a design-build submission. This prevents many small and mid-size firms from pursuing such projects because of the time and expense that goes into creating a proposal they may not win.
But with the growing popularity among state DOTs, market demand for design-build civil contracting teams is increasing. FMI Corp. predicts that design-build construction will be a $324 billion industry this year, 18% higher than 2018.
What is the Design-Build Process?
The main difference between the traditional delivery method and design-build is in the contracts, says DBIA. Instead of the owner having two separate contracts — one with the designer/engineer and one with the contractor — the engineer and contractor work together under one contract.
This combination is where projects see significant time-savings, as it also allows design and construction development to happen concurrently. The DBIA says design-build delivers projects 102% and 61% faster than traditional design-bid-build and construction manager at risk (CMR), respectively.
The I-35W bridge is one example of this. FMI reports that by using design-build, the Minnesota DOT replaced the roadway in 13 months and avoided around $400,000 in daily lost revenues.
The state of New York saw similar results with the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge. It was one of the largest infrastructure projects to employ design-build and saved an estimated $1 billion, according to the DBIA.
But with design and construction phases overlapping, it changes the construction proposal process. Often state DOTs use a process known as Alternative Technical Concepts (ATCs) to find contractors who can introduce innovative, cost-effective solutions. Once the DOT approves an ATC, design-build teams can use it in their proposals, but finding a winning solution always involves multiple rounds.
BIM Collaboration Software Keeps Development Moving
Because design-build is a collaborative process, it’s critical that engineers and contractors are on the same page and kept up-to-date on all changes.
The challenge is there’s typically a disconnect between the different design-build roles, primarily due to incompatible software. It’s not unusual for contractors to have to take the data from the as-designed model and put it in their own program to make it constructible, then provide feedback on what’s possible to the engineers.
Design-build teams can eliminate these additional steps with the use of BIM collaboration software.
An acronym for “Building Information Modeling” or “Building Information Management,” this type of construction software allows all individuals involved in a design-build project to plan, design, and construct a structure within one intelligent 3D model. This means the model reflects any changes made and contains all information gathered throughout the construction process.
When BIM is collaborative, it requires a common data environment (CDE) that allows for the continuous sharing of models between all stakeholders. Engineers can continue designing in their preferred tool, but the CDE delivers the data in a format that integrates into the contractor’s software.
This speeds up alignment between the engineers and contractors, allowing them to deliver ATCs much faster and receive feedback from the DOT. Once DOT agrees on an approach, it will award the design-build team the contract and move forward with construction.
With construction beginning, now the software serves the vital role of ensuring all stakeholders receive the latest updates and changes, especially as design and construction continue to evolve together. Additional value is the built-in tracking of who did what and when within the model, which mitigates risk for all parties.
The Future of Civil Construction
A decade ago, the FHWA launched the Every Day Counts (EDC) initiative to identify and rapidly deploy “proven, yet underutilized innovations ... to ensure roads and bridges are built better, faster, and smarter.” Design-build was added to the list in its second round and is now used by the majority of state highway agencies, says the FHWA.
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Originally published in the Journal Inquirer November 6, 2012. This is the second article in a two-part series about traumatic brain injuries. The first in the series was Marriage and traumatic brain injuries.
By Kristen J. Tsetsi
If there’s anything that can be said with certainty about traumatic brain injuries, or TBIs, it’s that their different outcomes and issues make them nearly impossible to categorize.
There can be no list of uniform effects printed in a pamphlet titled “What to expect from your TBI,” because unlike diseases that have fairly predictable systems of attack, brain injuries–their severity and their lasting impact–vary according to the injury site, the healing ability of the individual brain, and the person who receives the injury. As the saying goes in TBI circles, “If you’ve seen one person with a brain injury, you’ve seen one person with a brain injury.”
The Centers for Disease control estimates 1.7 million Americans suffer a traumatic brain injury every year. Or as Julie Peters, certified brain injury specialist and executive director for the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut, puts it, six times more people will sustain a brain injury every year than will be diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, a spinal cord injury, HIV/AIDS, and breast cancer combined.
And according to the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center, 30 percent of soldiers admitted to Walter Reed Army Medical Center since 2003 suffered traumatic brain injuries, called the “signature wound” of the wars in the Middle East.
A traumatic brain injury is a particular kind of acquired brain injury, one not present at birth and that is caused by any blow to the body that jars the brain. This includes concussions, which account for about 75 percent of traumatic brain injuries, the CDC says.
As brain injuries go, concussions are often considered “mild,” a word Peters discourages.
“There’s no way to determine from the severity of the injury what the long term consequences will be,” she says. “They may have very different outcomes and issues, so to categorize it as ‘mild’ is something we try to avoid.”
Concussions usually resolve themselves within a week or two, says Carrie Kramer, brain injury services director for the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut, but they can be of particular concern when they occur in young children whose brains are still growing.
“If they don’t get treatment for a concussive injury and they sustain a second injury, it can be devastating,” Kramer says, referring to what’s called “second impact syndrome,” a potentially fatal condition caused by a second injury to an adolescent brain that hasn’t properly healed. While rare, Kramer says, it can create “a cascade of problems in the brain and can lead to permanent disability or death.”
More severe TBIs, those that require acute care followed by rehabilitation, often have lasting effects, which has prompted the Brain Injury Association of America to promote the classification of TBI as a chronic disease. The association’s 2009 paper “Conceptualizing Brain Injury as a Chronic Disease” explains that traumatic brain injuries have long been viewed as the equivalent of a broken bone, an isolated injury that, once fixed, requires no further treatment and has no impact on other parts of the body.
“But,” Kramer says, “there is supporting evidence that those who suffer a significant brain injury experience sustained changes over a lifetime.”
The effects of severe traumatic brain injuries, and even some concussive brain injuries, fall along a vast spectrum, ranging from mild to severe and in any number of combinations. In many cases, a more severe brain injury will change who a person is, even if the change is subtle. There may be memory issues, mood swings, problems with concentration, and even changes in personality.
“My father became much more emotional, and he was never an emotional person,” says Kramer, whose father acquired a brain injury 15 years ago as a result of a stroke. “It was strange to experience him in a different way.”
She says the change in her father elicited remarkably different reactions from family members, depending on each person’s relationship with him. This is not unusual. Kramer, who has worked in the brain injury community for many years, explains that once the injured party has recovered from any physical effects of a trauma and there is no visible sign of a disability, sometimes “the person you knew is still the person you knew, but entirely different, and it’s really hard to adjust to that.”
It can be equally difficult for the person with the injury to adjust to their own changes. Kramer’s father, who before his stroke had always identified himself one way—an intellectual, a stockbroker, athletic, capable, community-focused—lost his identity for a time after the stroke.
“For a lot of people, there’s a mourning period,” says Peters. “It’s almost like a death, because you’re no longer the person you were. It can be very common for people to have to deal with that loss of who they were and then get okay with who they are now.”
Loved ones of those with brain injuries are encouraged, after mourning the loss, to get to know who the person has become post-injury and to recognize that they are “not less, just different,” Peters says.
Patricia Hall, whose husband, Eric, sustained a brain injury last year when cutting down tree branches after Hurricane Irene, has been adjusting to changes in her husband that include mood swings and short term memory issues.
To help her deal with the changes, she has seen a therapist and regularly attends support groups with her husband. Additionally, she says, they have a wonderful support system that she credits with aiding in her husband’s recovery.
Outcomes are always better when there is a good support system, says Kramer.
What’s needed will be unique to the individual with the injury and may involve anything from arranging transportation to helping navigate daily life.
Peters urges brain injury survivors and/or their loved ones to contact the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut, which provides connections to resources, brain injury (and injury prevention) training and education, and support for the injured and their loved ones. This includes how to communicate with someone with a brain injury.
Hall says that when people first learned of her husband’s TBI, they would look at him differently, as if he might suddenly drool or do something else unexpected. For that reason, he was reluctant to let people know about his injury.
Kramer advises treating, and speaking to, someone with a TBI the same way anyone else would be treated or spoken to. If they need help, she says, they’ll ask, “and if they can’t ask, you’ll find a way to ask.”
Finally, the injured and their friends and family are advised to hold onto hope.
“Hope does make a difference,” Kramer says. “The families and survivors need to feel they’re moving toward something. It makes a difference in recovery.”
And there’s plenty of reason to be hopeful. It once was believed that little to no healing would occur beyond the first year following a brain injury, but new research indicates the brain remains capable of making new connections and pathways, and experiences positive growth, well past that first year, Peters says.
However, a brain injury cannot be reversed. The only cure, Kramer says, is prevention. Peters and Kramer say risk of traumatic brain injury can be significantly reduced by wearing helmets that are properly fitted and activity-appropriate, and by eliminating distractions while driving. They also recommend seeking medical attention for any injury that could potentially have impacted the brain so that appropriate healing can take place.
“It doesn’t matter what your ethnicity is or how old you are,” says Kramer. “A traumatic brain injury can impact anyone at any time.”
For support or for more information, call the Brain Injury Alliance of Connecticut at 860-219-0291, or contact the help line at 800-278-8242 Mon. – Thurs., 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Fri. 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Or visit:
Brain injury specialist Julie Peters says one or more of the following signs occurring within several hours of a jolt to the body may point to a concussion:
– A headache that gets worse
– Confusion or disorientation
– Slurred speech
– Nausea or vomiting
– Feeling “foggy”
– No memory of being hit, or of the moments immediately preceding or following the hit
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|Series Details||Vol.7, No.21, 24.5.01, p2|
THE European Commission will today (Wednesday 23 May) propose news laws designed to clamp down on fraud by plugging the most serious hole in the EU's leaking budget.
The rules, aimed at tackling the fraudulent spending of Union money in member states, would force governments to introduce prison sentences for people who steal large sums and also oblige them to make sure that companies caught with their fingers in the till can be prosecuted.
Fighting fraud in member states is seen as vital to improving the efficiency of EU spending. Most Union money is spent by national governments and it is at this level that most corruption occurs, according to the Commission.
The proposals are its second attempt to harmonise national laws to make it easier to coordinate the fight against improper spending. The first try, the Convention on the Protection of Financial Interests, was agreed in 1995 but governments were slow ratifying it and the rules are still not fully in force.
Now Budget Commissioner Michaele Schreyer and justice chief António Vitorino say the Union cannot afford to wait any longer. Under the latest proposals, courts would have to have the option of custodial sentences for those who steal more than €50,000.
The European Commission will propose new laws designed to clamp down on fraud by plugging the most serious hole in the EU's leaking budget, 23.5.01.
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Australians consume 17 million eggs every day, which are laid by the Australian egg industry's nearly 22 million chickens.
Lately, those chickens have been the focus of much attention.
Recently revealed documents show NSW's Agriculture Minister going against his own department to oppose a draft national plan to phase out battery hens in Australia by 2036.
The independent panel that drafted the plan had to balance the needs of the food industry against the rights of hens to a happy life.
But not everyone agrees on what constitutes a good life for a hen.
The elements of a good life
In the past, a set of five "freedoms" were used to assess whether animals were being well cared for.
Kate Hartcher, senior scientist for animal welfare consultancy Global Food Partners, says these freedoms "set out the basic negative experiences that animals should be free from", namely things like hunger, pain and distress.
More recently, Dr Hartcher says, there has been a move in animal welfare science "to focus more on the experience of positive states, not just the freedom from negative ones".
One example of this for hen farmers, she says, is providing birds with places to perch on.
This allows the hens to perform their natural behaviour of perching while also contributing to their muscle and bone health.
Dr Hartcher says another example is giving hens boxes to nest in.
"There's been so much research on nesting and the motivation to nest and, you know, it's something that lay hens are really motivated to do," Dr Hartcher says.
Animals Australia CEO Glenys Oodjes says hens can't perform these sorts of behaviours in a battery cage.
But she says simply moving away from battery cages isn't necessarily enough.
"We must strive to ensure that both health and welfare is properly provided for in the freer systems — that is aviaries, barns and, particularly, free range," she says.
Disease a concern, says poultry vet
Many Australians have already moved away from cage-produced eggs.
More than half the eggs sold at Australian grocery stores are free-range (although commercial operators such as bakeries and restaurants often buy cage-produced eggs because they're cheaper).
Rod Jenner, a poultry vet who has worked with industry body Egg Farmers of Australia, says the public perception of layer hens' lives is very different to what he's experienced while working in the industry.
"I've seen many, many birds in cages that are quite content, quite happy," he says.
Caged birds are less prone than free-range hens to infectious diseases, he says, some of which have no effective treatment.
Of particular concern, he says, is avian influenza, which can be carried by wild water birds.
Ranging chickens can contract bird flu when they come into contact with these wild birds.
"It's just a matter of time before it happens again," Mr Jenner says.
"Do we accept that risk? Perhaps, but the consequences are horrendous."
Smothering, feather pecking, cannibalism
Other risks facing ranging hens include smothering, feather pecking and cannibalism.
Hens die from smothering when a large number of chickens crowd together, often piling on top of each other, suffocating the birds at the bottom.
Feather pecking is when chickens peck and pull out other hens' feathers.
This can lead to cannibalism, where chickens eat the wounded flesh of the injured hen.
These three factors kill a lot of free-range hens. One Australian study found cannibalism was a major cause of death in free-range hens, second-only to being eaten by predators.
Dr Hartcher, who researched feather pecking for her PhD, says death by cannibalism is an "awful way to go".
"We understand more about it than we did a few decades ago but we still don't fully understand how to control the problem," she says.
Currently, the most common control method is beak trimming, where the tips of hens' beaks are clipped to minimise the hurt they can cause each other.
Dr Hartcher says there are many factors that contribute to feather pecking, including genetics, but the farm environment is a major consideration.
"It's crucial to provide a good environment for the hens," she says.
Such an environment, Dr Hartcher says, includes perches, nest boxes and litter to dust bathe and forage in.
It's also important that the hens are fed a nutritious diet, she says, and that farm workers are trained to spot the warnings signs.
Dr Hartcher says more research needs to be done "to get to a point where we can farm hens and all other animals in environments that are not so high risk for their welfare, and we don't need to rely on things like beak trimming".
Rod Jenner would like to see the industry consider furnished cages as a middle-ground between caged and free-range systems.
The draft national plan allows for furnished cages, which are larger than conventional poultry cages and contain an area for nesting, a perch and perhaps a litter.
"Furnished cages are able to provide all of those requirements for the good life of the hen," he says.
But Glenys Oodjes disagrees. She says, while they may avoid the most negative aspects of battery cages, furnished cages can't provide hens with positive experiences.
"Furnished cages could provide a nest, for example, but they couldn't provide proper foraging and full exercise and certainly not dust bathing in the sun," she says.
In any case, Ms Oodjes says, consumers are unlikely to accept eggs from cages, furnished or otherwise.
"What the supermarkets say to me as well [is] 'a cage is a cage is a cage', which is why I say that I don't actually think, in this context, that eggs from furnished cages will be acceptable to most consumers," she says.
She says the plant-based alternatives on the market may see many people choosing to stop eating eggs altogether.
"Certainly, I think [there's] no future at all for caged eggs."
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Welcome To Your New Life in Canada: 10 Tips For First Week, Month and Year
If you are new in Canada, you might find it difficult traveling or seeking employment within your first few weeks. Despite many lucrative opportunities, the country’s employment requirements are overwhelming. You will be moving from one unfamiliar office to another to fill forms and make appointments to acquire crucial employment documents. The following ten essential things can help you settle, establish yourself, and enhance your stay in Canada as soon as possible.
Apply for Social Insurance Number (SIN)
A Social Insurance Number (SIN) is a crucial employment document in Canada. You cannot open a saving account, get a job, or even access the essential government programs and benefits without the SIN. Carry your permanent resident card for a permanent resident or your confirmation or residence and your visa attached to the travel document and visit your nearest Service Canada Centre and fill out an application form.
Acquire a Medical Care Cover
If you are a permanent citizen, the government will provide you with public health insurance that covers you and your family members. If you are a settled refugee you must apply for a private insurance plan to access private medical care.
Set up your financesYou must choose an accessible bank that is near you, open a bank account, and keep your money safe. You can also consider a bank that operates an extensive network of automated bank machines (ABMs), and avails products that meet your needs. If you have valuable documents and personal items, consider renting a safety deposit box.
Learn way around
Visit the public library and access various community and government resources, as well as free internet to familiarize yourself with the country’s culture. You can also make friends and learn about people’s culture through community centers and ethnic associations.
Explore job opportunities
As a newcomer, you should begin by checking the government services for newcomers. You can also look for job listings on the internet or visit the federal Job Bank website and Canadian Information Centre for International Credentials web page to familiarize yourself with the Canadian industry. You can also contact a settlement agency or employment counselor to help you get your credentials recognized, upgrade your skills, or become familiar with your industry in Canada if you are a foreign-trained professional.
Register your children for school and/or childcare
You must register your children in an elementary and high school. Carry your permanent resident card, a record of landing or confirmation of permanent residence, and your child’s birth certificate and vaccination certificate and enroll your child in a local school. Consult the newcomer service organization regarding the best childcare in your area.
Find a doctor and dentist
You can ask your neighbors or friends to recommend a good doctor or dentists within your territory. You can, in the meantime, access medical care in the walk-in clinics and hospitals in your local neighborhood.
Find a permanent home
You should find your apartment and transition from your friend’s, or relative’s, hotel. Keep checking the local newspaper and internet for listings of apartments and houses. You can also consult a real estate agency.
Get a driver’s license
You should acquire a valid driver’s license and car insurance to move from home to work. Consult a licensing agency near you and get the information you need to pass a practical test on the road and a written test of your knowledge of Canadian driving rules to stay licensed.
Enhance your language skills
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Lately, I’ve been reading compilations of stories to my kids. I was reading long novels but for some reason I’ve switched.
I picked up Fire and Wings: Dragon Tales from East and West. My oldest loves fantasy and dragons and so does Mommy. Two tales stuck out:
Called Dragon’s Coo by Patricia MacLachlan, a dragon wishes for a name of its own and a family. He was a dragon ‘left-over’ from the days of knights. The dragon finds a human child and raises it as its own. It takes care of it and names the baby Coo because that’s all the baby could say. Until one day the dragon became too old to take care of itself so Coo began to provide for the dragon.
One day Coo touches the dragon and says, “Papa.” Finally, the dragon had a name–a name out of love– and a family.
My kids LOVED this story! It is touching. How a family can be what you make of it and love can grow in the oddest of circumstances. I loved the giving part: how the dragon gives to the baby and then the baby gives to the dragon. Just like life today. You raise a a baby and most likely one day the baby will be helping you in your old age.
Poignant story that really gets to the heart of what matters most.
The other story I really liked is called The Fourth Question: A Chinese Legend retold by Vida Chu. Here, a farmer named KaiWei sets out to ask the Budda a question: Why even though I work hard am I still poor?
Along the way, he meets 2 people and a dragon who ask him to ask the Buddha questions for themselves, which he agrees to do, since they all gave him a place to stay and food on his journey.
When he arrives, the Buddha informs him he can only ask 3 questions even though he has 4. So instead of asking his own question, KaiWei asks the questions of his friends he met along his journey.
KaiWei journeys back and gives his friends the answers. In so doing, KaiWei is given riches (a pearl, sacks of gold and silver, and one of the men’s daughter for a bride whom he loves) from these friends.
Thus, KaiWei gets the answer to his question through helping others. He is blessed beyond comparison through putting his needs aside.
Later, KaiWei’s grandkids favorite story is “their grandfather’s journey to see Buddha and the fourth question he never asked.”
I LOVE this one! I wish all the stories I read to my kids had such a powerful message. When we do put others first and our needs aside, powerful things begin to happen in our lives, questions get answered, and God moves in ways hitherto unforeseen.
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Whole books have been written on pastoral ministry so, even an attempt at summarizing it in a short blog article will fall short of the mark. But I would suggest that several principles rise to a high level of importance when considering the subject of pastoral ministry.
Much of what passes for pastoral ministry today is nothing other than the philosophies and methods of corporate America pressed down upon the church. Too many pastors think of themselves as “doing their jobs,” and they don’t think of themselves as God’s men who are called to a whole-life pastoral ministry among God’s beloved people.
Consider the following five aspects of biblical pastoral ministry.
1. A faithful pastor watches himself.
True pastoring always begins with personal holiness. In 1 Timothy 4:16, Paul tells Timothy “Keep a close watch on yourself.” The word “watch” means “to be vigilant” or “to pay close attention.” A pastor needs to give careful attention to his own soul because he is called to be a holy man. He’s a student of the streams of sin as they run inside of his own heart. And he learns to apply the gospel of grace for the mortification of his sin. He must be a man who knows the great love of Christ for him, whose heart is conquered by a crucified and risen Savior, and whose hope is everlasting life in him.
Because of Christ’s love, a pastor is faithfully committed to prayerful personal communion with him, and he prays for his family, the church, his community, and the world. He learns to repent quickly of sin, and he’s deeply devoted to studying Scripture and to keeping God’s good commandments as an expression of his love for Christ.
A pastor also watches himself by being a faithful husband to his wife and father to his children, loving them and serving them just as Christ has served him. He loves and teaches his wife and children the Word of God. And he’s involved in his family life, sharing life with his wife, enjoying his children and taking sincere interest in them. Faithful pastors watch themselves.
Only when a pastor faithfully watches himself is he able to watch others faithfully.
2. A faithful pastor watches his teaching.
In 1 Timothy 4:16, Paul tells Timothy, “keep a close watch… on the teaching.” There is a heresy made for every one of us. Heresy is a form of false teaching that undermines the gospel. Sadly, there is a heresy made for every pastor. Heresies tell us that we can have our idols, and we can have Jesus too. Some heresies puff us up in self-righteous religious pride, while other heresies promote sensual worldliness.
Pastors can be tempted to adopt forms of false teaching that serve themselves rather than Christ and his people. Even when a pastor begins with good doctrine, he can drift into error over time, if he is not very careful to watch his teaching.
A pastor must be very careful to teach what the Bible says is true, not what he wants the Bible to say is true. He is responsible to repeat what God says in his Word. A pastor simply delivers what he has received, adding nothing, subtracting nothing. That means a pastor studies the Bible carefully and holds fast the word of life for his own soul and for the souls of others by faith. God’s beloved people are only fed when pastors proclaim sound doctrine clearly and consistently, even though it will cost them their idols, and it may cost them their very lives.
3. A faithful pastor preaches Jesus Christ.
In 1 Corinthians 2:2. Paul says, “I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.” Like Paul, pastors must never tire of preaching Jesus. Pastors do not preach the words of men. They do not preach themselves. They do not preach their own wisdom or man-made techniques. They preach Christ and Him crucified. Jesus himself is the very heart of our message. All the promises of God are yes and amen in Jesus. Christ is all.
Some teachers insist that it’s impossible to preach Christ from every passage of the Scriptures. They say, “Not every passage is about Jesus. We should only preach Christ when he is explicitly mentioned in the text, or when there is somehow a clear connection to Christ from a particular passage.” But I want to respond briefly to that error in three ways.
First, Jesus preached himself in all the Scriptures. Luke 24:27 says, “And beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.” If Christ preached himself from all the Scriptures, then so should we.
Second, the Bible’s covenant theology is centered on Jesus. Scripture teaches that there is only one covenant, or promise of grace, running through the Bible from Genesis to Revelation (Heb. 9:15-16). Therefore, the only way to faithfully interpret any particular passage of the Bible is in light of the overarching promise of redemption for sinners in Jesus Christ.
Third, the goal of preaching is worship. If a pastor merely explains a text and doesn’t hold forth Christ, then the church cannot worship, or if it does worship, it does so in spite of the sermon. It’s impossible for the church to worship, unless it is set upon Jesus, who is the chief revelation of God to men. We need to see God in the face of Jesus by the Spirit speaking in his Word if we are to worship. Unless the preacher shows how Christ is at the center of every text, then he will fail to lead the congregation to worship.
What happens when Christ is faithfully preached week in and week out? Jesus himself encourages the fainthearted, admonishes the obstinate, and gives strength of faith and obedience to all who belong to him. Jesus begins to form his people after his image, more and more, and they begin to bear the fruit of the Spirit and keep the Ten Commandments as the very definition of what it means to love God and love men.
And when Christ is preached every week, Jesus prepares his people for sufferings and trials in their lives. The whole church’s eyes are set upon the things above, where Christ is, and they don’t love this world too much. And more and more, the church is able to say with Paul, “To live is Christ, but to die is gain.”
4. A faithful pastor does personal work.
Pastors are to love God’s people personally. Personal work includes conversations with people at church, pastoral counseling, visiting hospitals, performing funerals, officiating weddings, living among people in the community, and being generally available.
Some popular preachers and teachers today say that pastors shouldn’t waste their time doing personal work. They say a pastor’s job is to pray, study, preach the Word, and nothing else. A pastor’s work is public, not private, they say. But this is a very serious error.
Consider the many places in Scripture that show examples of personal work in pastoral ministry. Jesus ministered personally. He ministered personally to Nicodemus, to the woman at the well, to Zaccheus, to the Roman Centurion, to Mary and Martha, and to many others. He ministered at funerals, weddings, visited the sick, and He counseled people individually. Jesus also ate with His disciples, fished with them, slept with them, and lived life with them. Acts 20:27 tells us that Paul ministered the Word publicly but also house to house at Ephesus. Paul wrote a very personal letter to Philemon on behalf of Onesimus. Paul told Timothy in 1 Timothy 1:3 to “instruct certain men.” Personal pastoral work is found all throughout the New Testament.
Personal work is important because much of a pastor’s power in public teaching and preaching depends on the good will and the relationships he has with the people. People are willing to listen to a man when they know he cares for their souls. His preaching will become more and more useful to the people the more he learns who they are so that he can apply the Word to them wisely. Some parts of pastoral ministry absolutely require personal work.
When people lose loved ones, or are going though severe trial, they need a pastor to help them think clearly and to set their minds on the Lord Jesus. When people are struggling with personal sin or temptation, or marriage difficulties, they need pastoral counsel about how to handle their sin wisely. When people have specific questions about the Bible or doctrine, or personal decisions that they are making in their lives, they need to feel free to approach their pastor to ask him personally.
Much of the power of true pastoral ministry depends greatly on a pastor’s faithfulness to do personal work.
5. A faithful pastor ministers to the community.
A faithful pastor is not merely concerned with his own church. He thinks of the lost people in the community as in Adam, under the condemnation of the covenant of works. They need the mercy of Christ in the covenant of grace. He’s not cold to unbelievers in the community, but thinks of them as souls in need of a Savior. He also thinks of the other believers in the community as part of the one covenant of grace, and he sees himself and his church as joined together with them in Christ in the kingdom of God. Consider that Jesus ministered to the community throughout His life. The book of Acts shows how the Apostles and the church ministered to the community. And in 1 Timothy 3:7, Paul says that one qualification of a pastor is that he is to have a “good reputation with outsiders.” How can he have a good reputation with outsiders, if no outsiders know him?
Practically, what does ministry to the community look like? It looks like participating in community events. It means being available for funerals and counseling for people in the community when asked. Getting to know people through regular business dealings with them. And getting to know other pastors and working with other churches where ever that is possible.
Pastoral ministry is both public and private. It’s based on sound doctrine, rooted in personal holiness, and centered on the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastoral work is both formal and informal, involving a whole man who seeks to minister to whole men. Pastors who are faithful and called of God have the most joyful and sanctifying calling in this world. May God give the church more faithful pastors for his great glory.
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This study explores interactional corrective feedback in adult beginners’ classrooms of Greek as a Second Language. More specifically, the study aims to investigate the frequency with which teachers of Greek as a Second Language implement corrective feedback in their teaching, as well as the factors that teachers take into consideration when making decisions on the implementation of their corrective techniques. The sample consists of five beginners’ classes (67 adult learners) and five teachers of the Modern Greek Language Teaching Center of the University of Athens. Three three-hour classes from each teacher were observed. Instances of learners’ errors and corrective feedback in oral interaction were transcribed, quantified, and statistically analyzed. The analysis focused on the frequency and distribution of oral corrective feedback types following learners’ errors. Results showed that teachers were inclined to correct a significant number of learners’ errors, while the communicative value of the error seemed to be a highly significant factor that affected the implementation of their teaching practices. As far as the type of corrective feedback teachers favoured, the findings indicated an overwhelming tendency for teachers to use recasts in response to learners’ errors. The paper concludes with a discussion of the centrality of the role of feedback and the importance of teacher education and training in the area.
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Diodora graeca has an oval-shaped, conical shell that is up to 4 cm in length. The tip of the shell bears a characteristic rounded hole, used for respiration, which is tipped forward and positioned towards the front of the shell. The surface of the shell is marked with 20-30 ridges that radiate outwards from the apex and give a convoluted appearance to the edge of the shell. In the grooves between these ridges are smaller ridges. The colour of the shell is usually white or grey but may be yellow, orange or red, and is marked with bands of brown or green radiating from the apex. The body comprises a large head, oval-shaped foot and a thick mantle. The base of the head bears two tentacles each with a lateral eye-stalk. The foot is surrounded by a ring of 30-35 well-developed tentacles that alternate between being long and short. The mantle is large enough to fall below the edge of the shell and covers the sides of the foot and bears wart-like papillae on its surface. An extension of the mantle protrudes from the apical hole forming a short, inhalant siphon. The body is coloured red, yellow, orange or white with darker spots.
Diodora graeca feeds on sponges, particularly Hymeniacidon and Halichondria, by the scraping action of its radula. This species is gonochoristic and reproduces through December to May by external fertilization. The young develop in egg capsules and hatch as juveniles, hence there is no free larval stage.
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Surrealist artist known for such works as his painting The Persistence of Memory, which depicts a melting clock and other dreamlike images. His eccentric and flamboyant appearance included a mustache that was inspired by Diego Velázquez, the 17th century Spanish painter.
He was a student at the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando after moving to Madrid in 1922. He was expelled in 1926, the same year he painted The Basket of Bread, which was remarkable for its stark realism.
He was known primarily as a visual artist, but he also delved into the film world, co-creating a short, surrealist cinematic work called Un Chien Andalou with Luis Bunuel in 1929.
He was told by his parents when he was five years old that he was the reincarnation of his deceased older brother, and he retained this belief throughout his life. He married the Russian-born Elena Ivanovna Diakonova, also known as Gala, in 1934. She was the muse for, and subject of, his sculpture Gala in the Window, from 1933.
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In 2014, Todd and Jody Herbert had a conversation with their youngest daughter’s best friend about a club she was helping start at her high school. The club was for girls who shared an interest in math and science with the idea of being able to interact with successful women in math or science. Finding professionals was proving difficult. Todd, who had worked in the corporate world for nearly 30 years, offered to help. However, he found he was coming up short as well. Concerned that his network was lacking in STEM professional women he said, “if my daughter and her friends were going to have a chance to succeed, they needed a network.” Thus began Todd and Jody’s effort to create the Engaging Girls in STEM (EgGS) Initiative, a local nonprofit aimed at helping high school girls succeed in pursuing STEM careers.
Five or six high school girls sit quietly at a table, their eyes nervously darting around the room or staring downwards at their hands. Also at the table, a wildlife biologist prods the girls with questions of her own. “What kind of career are you interested in pursuing?” or “Have you thought about the challenges you might face as a woman in STEM?” The girls slowly warm to the questions, and soon begin to ask several of their own. This is the scene at one of the EgGS Prep-Pro (Preparing to be a Professional) workshops, where several such tables of high school girls learn from professional women in STEM careers how they might approach their own trajectory towards their own career in a STEM field.
There is no denying that women are historically underrepresented in STEM professions, despite evidence to suggest that girls have a healthy interest in STEM subjects in school. The EgGS initiative takes aim at this issue by introducing high school girls to successful role models and professional women in STEM, giving these high schoolers an opportunity to network, ask questions, and learn about what it might be like to pursue a STEM career. The philosophy underlying the EgGS Initiative is straightforward: if you are considering a career in STEM, it will be an easier decision if you have the chance to sit across the table from someone who is succeeding as a STEM professional, and who is willing to share insights on how to ensure your own success.
The EgGS Initiative’s initial workshop hosted nearly 50 girls from six area high schools. Today it offers two workshops a year, with over one hundred girls attending each session. Girls and their teachers travel from all over southeastern Wisconsin to take part. Workshops are held at corporate settings to help encourage the girls to begin thinking like a professional.
Arranging a workshop is no small task. High schools must be contacted, teachers must be encouraged to involve their students, professionals must be recruited, workbooks must be created, and tables must be thoughtfully arranged so that the girls must interact with other girls they haven’t met before. The concept is to have them practice networking, which will prove to be a valuable and necessary skill throughout their careers.
Another key component to the success of the workshops is the volunteer participation of role models, professional women who have demonstrable success in their STEM careers. The group of volunteers is diverse, giving the girls an opportunity to interact with engineers, neuroscientists, geologists, computer scientists, and more. Several role models have been with EgGS since the very first workshop, which is a true testament to the value of the work this organization is doing.
At first the Herberts just wanted to see if their idea would be of interest to both students and professionals. Could they put together a useful workshop for girls interested in STEM careers and encourage busy professionals to take time to share professional experiences? As the years have progressed, it has become clear that the EgGS Initiative is filling a critical need in the community. There’s no doubt that girls benefit from interacting with role models who show them that they can indeed achieve their career goals – and the positive feedback that Todd and Jody have received from girls who have participated is gratifying.
Every year since its beginning, the EgGS Initiative has succeeded in encouraging young women to follow their dreams. Now they’re thinking about what lies ahead. Todd says that he would like to develop more follow up content for the girls, and provide them with resources to move forward with their professional development after the workshop. In addition, given encouragement from many teachers, there may be the possibility of including younger girls. Right now, the workshop is designed for high school girls, but there is clear value in engaging girls at the middle school level. Helping girls appreciate that they can succeed in a STEM profession is a message that the Herberts know should be heard by all girls throughout their educational experience.
To learn more about the EgGS Initiative, visit the program’s website here or check out their Facebook page.
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COM+ is an extension to the Component Object Model (COM), which is one of the world's most widely adopted frameworks for creating interoperable code. This book shows how to apply the COM+ model creatively and effectively to solve everyday programming problems. Emphasis is on programming advanced COM+ applications using the Microsoft DNA framework. Part I examines the Component Object Model and its relationship with the Microsoft DNA framework and gives design principles for multi-threaded architectures. Section II covers advanced COM+ programming techniques and Section III looks at the Microsoft Transaction Server and COM+ Services. Section IV covers asynchronous component programming.
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San Francisco Public Library received a Library Services and Technology grant to finance the digital scanning and microfilming of the Library's print collection of voter information pamphlets and handbooks for San Francisco municipal elections. Although not complete, the collection dates back to 1907. List of S.F. Elections for which the Library does not have voter pamphlets. The original pamphlets were printed on newsprint-quality paper and are extremely fragile. To extend the availability of the materials, a major goal of the project was to preserve the pamphlets in alternative formats and create an Internet-accessible version. A microfilm copy was deposited with the California State Library. Approximately 59,000 voter pamphlet pages, including 1,500 propositions, were digitized into PDF files.
Some of the files are very large and may cause prolonged downloads. For some elections, separate pamphlets were created for each voting district or a combination of each voting district and political party, and there is no singular representative pamphlet which includes all of the candidates for that election. As a result, the hard copies of the various pamphlets were bound together to represent that particular election, and this resulted in extra-large digitized versions.
Because the PDF files of the voter pamphlets are images instead of text, they cannot be searched electronically. San Francisco Public Library staff developed the San Francisco Ballot Propositions Database to provide keyword access to San Francisco propositions. Although the database searches a separate, in-house-created index of propositions, results provide links to the full-text PDF pamphlet which contains the relevant proposition, as well as pass/fail outcomes and other information.
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State wildlife managers are revising Minnesota's wolf plan — and they need to hear that there’s strong public support for continuing wolf recovery and promoting coexistence with these magnificent animals.
Under pressure from anti-wolf interests, Wisconsin managers plan to cut their wolf population in half by hiring "predator controllers" to shoot and trap the animals. Unless we speak up, such aggressive measures could also be in store for Minnesota's wolves.
Any day now the federal government is preparing to remove Endangered Species Act protection from wolves across the lower 48 — so Minnesota urgently needs a science-based wolf plan.
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Spiritual Leadership on the Battlefield
Chaplains in the armed forces are "representatives of the holy," spiritual leaders often called upon to serve in some of the most dangerous places on earth, especially in times of war. They go wherever soldiers are called to duty to provide religious services and perform all tasks related to ministry at the battalion level. Although they are trained as non-combatants, chaplains are valiant and respected individuals who care for the soldiersí spiritual well-being as pastor, mentor and friend. For many Army chaplains, their religious calling is deeply connected to a desire to serve their country.
In 1943, after the formation of the all-Nisei combat unit, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, the Army assigned three Protestant ministers to accompany them. Chaplain Israel Yost joined the 100th Infantry in Salerno. Two Nisei ministers, Chaplain Hiro Higuchi of the Second Battalion and Chaplain Masao Yamada of the Third Battalion, joined the Japanese American soldiers at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and were deployed to Europe with their respective units. The following year, Chaplain George Aki was the last Nisei minister to join the 442nd RCT. He stayed behind at Camp Shelby and eventually met up with the regiment in Italy during the final phases of the war in Europe. The chaplains faced severe adversity as they worked with the Medical Detachment on the front lines to support the soldiers in combat, comfort the wounded and administer last rites.
The Army upheld their commitment to provide spiritual support for all soldiers during World War II even though they included only Western religions. Buddhism was not recognized, even though most of the Nisei men were presumably raised in Buddhist households. Only 13 percent of those surveyed at Camp Shelby declared Buddhism as their religious preference and nearly half of the men declared no religion at all. But many of those soldiers converted to Christianity, declaring their faith in a higher power and participating in the fellowship that the organized religion provided. In part, it may have also been the personal charisma and profound caring nature of the chaplains assigned to the 442nd that drew the men toward God. As the horrors of war progressed, however, worship became nondenominational and the heartfelt ministry provided by these men of God overrode any religious differences.
Chaplain Israel Yost
The Reverend Israel Yost was a Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania when he decided to join the war effort. Yost requested to serve in an infantry division so he could be in direct contact with the troops on the battlefield. He was the first chaplain to be assigned to the 100th Battalion of the 442nd RCT, and he joined them in Salerno just after their first battle. Although Yost had no familiarity with Japanese culture or the Buddhist faith, the difficulties they faced as a unit brought them together. As a haole in the midst of the Japanese American soldiers from Hawaii, Yost eventually learned to eat rice without milk and sugar and became a beloved and accepted member of the regiment.
Often in the face of danger, Chaplain Yost could be found with the most forward aid station tending to the wounded and those near death. He once led a party into the no-manís land at Anzio under the Red Cross flag to negotiate the recovery of the dead Americans lying on the ground. Twice wounded himself, Yost earned the Purple Heart with the Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit and the Italian Cross for Military Valor.
Later in his life, Reverend Yost and his family moved to Hawaii where he taught high school, started a new church and reestablished the friendships he had made during the war. Reverend Yost continued his work in education and the ministry until he was hospitalized with Parkinsonís disease. He died on June 25, 2000.
The stories of other chaplains will be continued in the months that follow...
Courage of Heart
The chaplains of the 442nd, while humble in acknowledging their own contributions, had courage to match those of the soldiers they served. These tireless men, whose helmets bore a white cross, faced death and destruction of historic proportions, yet they were committed to uplifting the spirits of the young men in combat, whether Christian, Buddhist or other. They provided pastoral comfort to the wounded and peace for the dying. It was the clergymen who tended to the affairs of those who died, sending personal belongings and condolences to the families of the fallen. And for all the excruciatingly painful situations they endured, the chaplains always found room in their own hearts to praise God and honor the men who defended Americaís freedom.
Crost, Lyn. Honor by Fire: Japanese Americans at War in Europe and the Pacific, Novato, California: Presidio Press, 1994.
Duus, Masayo and Duus, Peter. Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.
Matsuo, Dorothy. Boyhood to War: History and Anecdotes of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Honolulu: Mutual Publishing Co., 1992.
Matsuo, Dorothy. Silent Valor: Story of the 442 Medics,
Fire For Effect: A Unit History of the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion
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Study of lake ice phenology using SARAL AltiKA data
Event: 2014 SARAL/AltiKa workshop
Session: Inland Waters (contributions involving specifically SARAL/AltiKa)
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Baikal Lake of Siberia is the World's deepest and largest lake containing 20 percent of World's unfrozen fresh water. Recent studies have shown the sign of warming in past few decades. These climatic and local changes affect the lake ice phenology, which is represented by the timing of freeze-up and break-up and the duration of the ice cover. We have utilized the Saral-AltiKa Sigma-0 data to assess the phenology of the ice cover in the study region. The growth and decay pattern of lake ice cover is very well peaked by the variations in Sigma-0. Early stage of thin ice cover has been identified by using the MODIS surface reflectance product. Thin sea ice thickness has been derived using the MODIS thermal data for thin ice cover and for thicker layer AltiKa data was used to get the estimate of ice thickness. Data available since the launch of AltiKa were utilized to investigate the inter-annual changes observed in the ice phenology. Results demonstrate the capability of AltiKa data in studying the lake ice phenology to assess the impact of changing climate. | <urn:uuid:437da837-bd3f-4f28-bec7-5dfb5672b104> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ostst.aviso.altimetry.fr/programs/abstracts-details.html?tx_ausyclsseminar_pi2%5BobjAbstracte%5D=227&tx_felogin_pi1%5Bforgot%5D=1&cHash=e5dcacf26ffcbdf98b033ea60c813817 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932472 | 285 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Letter to editor: Love your neighbor and wear a mask
Published 9:21 am Thursday, October 15, 2020
To the editor:
I do my best to practice the teaching of Jesus who commanded us to love one another as Jesus loves us all. I continue to be distressed to see people in public refuse to do the simple loving action of wearing a face mask in public. In times of public health emergencies, we must come together as one to work together to prevent widespread illness, death and economic destruction.
We know for a fact that the COVID-19 virus can infect us and yet we can have no symptoms, but still be contagious We know for a fact that in the early days of infection, we are most contagious. We know for a fact that other countries have successfully slowed the spread of COVID-19 and restored their economics much more effectively than America has done because they were willing to do the three simple things that save lives. We know for a fact that this virus can cause permanent brain, heart and lung damage.
America has 5% of the world’s population, but more than 20 percent of the deaths from COVID-19 in the world. We have lost more innocent American lives to this disease than any other country. Since we are facing a national public health crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we know that wearing a mask, frequent washing or sanitizing our hands, and staying at least six feet away from other people does slow down the infection rate that can overwhelm our health care providers and facilities. If the ICUs fill up with COVID-19 patients, there is no bed available for your grandfather who had a heart attack or your grandmother who had a stroke, or your child who was badly injured in a car wreck. Love your neighbor and please wear a mask in public.
Some people have tried to compare the current pandemic to a hurricane over which we have no control, and I need to point out the false narrative here. The ways they are similar are that we can see both of them coming and we can prepare. We can evacuate ourselves from the path of danger by wearing a mask, staying home as much as possible, sanitizing frequently, and not going into public if we are sick. We can know that we are all in this together and it is going to be difficult, deadly and expensive.
What is the most disturbing is that our federal government did know, and failed to notify all Americans of the Category 5 hurricane coming right at us in time for us to prepare. Sen. Richard Burr did tell his wealthiest donors, but not all North Carolinians. Our federal government has downplayed the Category 5 hurricane coming right at us so many of us felt no need to evacuate or follow common sense public health recommendations. Our federal government has been hosting hurricane parties, aka campaign rallies, and spreading the damage around the country. We need a federal government that will unify all the people in America, and that will put common sense and compassion front and center and above the noise of those who feel like what they do in public is not a threat to all Americans and our economy.
Vote as if your life depends upon it because it does.
Love your neighbor and please wear a mask in public.
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Almost 26 years to the day after its first flight, one of India’s biggest airlines has thrown in the towel.
Jet Airways announced late Wednesday that it was indefinitely suspending all flights after it ran out of cash, marking a swift downfall for an airline that dominated India’s fast-growing aviation industry for years.
The airline was founded by Naresh Goyal, who began his career as a sales agent for Lebanese Airlines in 1967. Goyal worked for several other airlines for nearly a decade before founding his own company called Jetair in 1974 to provide sales and marketing services to foreign carriers in India.
When India liberalized its economy in 1991 and opened up its aviation sector to private players, Goyal seized his chance and Jet Airways began operating in May 1993. Over the next two decades, he grew it into one of India’s top airlines, adding overseas destinations like Singapore, London and Amsterdam.
“Naresh Goyal founded the company with big ambitions and good ideals in terms of developing that airline, and it established itself with a great reputation for service quality at its peak,” said John Strickland, director at aviation consultancy JLS Consulting.
But as millions more Indians started taking to the skies, newer players like SpiceJet and IndiGo burst onto the scene in the early 2000s. The no-frills model of the newer airlines allowed them to cut costs and drive down ticket prices, providing India’s price-conscious first-time flyers with far cheaper alternatives than Jet Airways could offer with its premium service.
In the years that followed, the challenges grew. India’s airports became increasingly congested, foreign carriers offered stiff competition on international routes, and government taxes on fuel added to costs.
“In many respects, Jet’s situation reflects the challenges of the Indian aviation market altogether,” Strickland said.
Despite posting mounting losses and racking up debt reportedly worth $1.2 billion, Jet Airways clung on. Abu Dhabi’s national carrier, Etihad Airways, bought a 24% stake in 2013, and Jet ordered hundreds of new planes to try to keep pace with growing demand.
As recently as last year, it still accounted for nearly 20% passengers flown by Indian airlines.
But an increasingly volatile economy — India’s currency plunged to record lows in 2018, driving the rising cost of oil even higher — proved too big a hurdle, and Jet began to miss payments to staff and creditors.
Things went from bad to worse this year, when the airline was forced to start grounding its planes because of an inability to pay aircraft leasing companies.
“Once aircraft get grounded, and you start to go into that spiral, that’s really hard to get out of,” said Rob Watts, CEO of aviation consulting firm Aerotask. “You have a proportion of your fleet that’s not generating revenue but is still costing you money, so the more aircraft you lose, your revenue falls but your cost doesn’t fall in the same manner,” he added.
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Last month, Goyal was finally forced to exit the airline he built over two decades as a consortium of lenders led by the government-run State Bank of India took control.
But a planned bailout by the banks didn’t materialize reportedly because of concerns about the airline’s long term viability, and Jet’s wings were finally clipped. The banks say they’re still hopeful of finding a rescue buyer for 75% of the company before May 10 but the longer the wait, the less chance Jet Airways has of surviving.
“Jet has no aircraft operating and every day it keeps building and building liabilities,” said Watts. “It would need a gigantic injection of capital to restore it, probably to the extent that at this point it’s better starting over.”
Investors appear to share that view. Shares in Jet Airways plunged 30% on Thursday to trade at just 164 rupees ($2.40). When the company went public in 2005, they were worth 1,100 rupees ($15.80) apiece.
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Artist development in the music industry has evolved over time, leaving most of the early progress to the artist themselves. For the most part, the days are gone when a record label developed up and coming talent. The question continuously arises for those young artists, “where do I start”? With the advent of the Internet, the possibilities are mind boggling. Stick with the concept boards working on your art project, it is one of the best tool for creating a story.
Many artists put in their mission statement, simply that they want a record deal, thinking that is all they need to succeed for career in music. Most don’t have a clue what it takes to get that deal, let alone maintain that career.
Artist development is a huge area overlooked by far too many artists and bands. Let’s explore the question, “What is artist development”?
A record label A&R rep once “discovered” fresh new faces in clubs, bars or word of mouth and would then support them, cultivate their creativeness, build up their fan base, and guide their direction with the intent of turning them into superstars. All of this of course, was with the intent of selling those 45’s, LPs, cassette’s and CDs. Gradually, many labels moved more into product development, which meant they are focused more on the immediacy of sales of the latest CD (product) released, and not bringing the artist up to that point. And more often than not, naive artists were at the labels mercy.
In this Internet age, it is more the artist or band themselves that must build the quality sound that is ready as a commercially viable product. On top of that, they need to have an already established fan base, basic music business skills, perhaps even the early music sales of a well produced CD. Labels are looking for pre-packaged, very talented musicians that are already showing their value.
A music career is a charted path to follow. Artist development involves all the issues surrounding and arising from that charted path, and crosses into knowledge of product development – the ultimate sale of the music.
Checklist on what artist and product development necessitate:
- Exceptional vocals, musicianship and/or songwriting skills
- Continued education and enhancement of musical skills
- Quality equipment
- Performance ability
- Image creation and maintenance
- Plan of action, goal setting
- Exceptional promotion materials, including photographs, press releases and artwork
- Business management skills
- Marketing, publicity, and promotion knowledge, online and offline
- Professional management
- Basic knowledge of recording, producing, engineering, and mastering
- Basic knowledge of manufacturing, distribution, and sales online, brick and mortar and air-play
- Good choices in members, staff and advisors
- Physical and mental preparedness
- Basic knowledge of finances, accounting
- Law and legal issues: publishing, copyrighting, trademarks, and an attorney
- Alternative career options – even athletes need to have other options!
Tending to all areas of your music career may make the difference between a one hit wonder and longevity in this business. It’s been said, “If you think this is a piece of cake, you better go bake one.” The music business, again, is a business. Businesses need to make money. That’s worth repeating – the music business is a BUSINESS. Take the time to find out all you can about each of these steps in your journey.
That being said, an up and coming artist must begin somewhere…and if a career in the music business is the goal, then any naiveté must be addressed immediately! Knowledge is power. Power gives you leverage. And who knows…that entrepreneurial artist may just find they don’t need that particular record deal after all.
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Researchers report the median time from exposure to symptoms for the COVID-19 virus is 5.1 days. 97.5% of people who develop symptoms of coronavirus will do so within 11.5 days of exposure. For every 10,000 people quarantined for 14 days, an estimated 101 would develop symptoms after release.
A new Lancet study describes the first locally-transmitted case of SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, in the USA from a woman who recently traveled to China and transmitted the infection to her husband.
Study provides first potential targets for effective immune responses against COVID-19. The findings provide essential information for vaccine design against SARS-CoV-2.
A team of Canadian researchers has isolated SARS-CoV-2, the viral agent responsible for COVID-19. Isolating the virus will help researchers worldwide to develop better diagnostic tests, treatments, and vaccines for the pandemic virus. It will also help researchers to better understand the virus biology, evolution, and viral shedding.
MIT researchers are working on a range of projects to help diagnose and slow the transmission of COVID-19. Researchers report they are developing a paper-based COVI-19 test that can deliver results within less than 30 minutes. They are currently submitting to the FDA for emergency use authorization, which would grant temporary approval for using the test on patient samples during public health emergencies. Another research team report they have developed an experimental RNA vaccine that is ready to test.
The time between cases in a chain of transmission of COVID-19 is less than one week, and more than 10% of patients are infected by someone who has the virus but is not yet symptomatic.
Researchers have sequenced their first two genomes of COVID-19 from samples of patients in the UK. The genomes have been published on an international viral sequence database. The sequences will provide critical information to track the spread and evolution of the virus in the UK and worldwide.
Johns Hopkins University researchers propose using antibodies from the plasma or serum of those who have recovered from COVID-19 to help boost the immunity of newly infected patients and for those at risk of contracting the disease. Researchers say the antibodies may bind to and neutralize SARS-CoV-2. The technique has been proven successful in prior outbreaks, including the SARS epidemic and the 1918 flu pandemic.
A phase 1 trial evaluating an investigational vaccine designed to protect against COVID-19 has begun in Seattle. The study will enroll 45 healthy people aged 18 to 55, over approximately 6 weeks. The first participant received the investigational vaccine today. Adults in the Seattle area may join the study.
With the peak of COVID-19 cases occurring between 3.5 to four weeks after controlled interventions were put into place in China, US researchers are urging the public to ramp up social distancing efforts and increase testing immediately.
Researchers are making progress in developing potential vaccines for coronavirus infections. While a vaccine for COVID-19 might be over a year away from market, researchers are looking ahead to attempt to prevent future outbreaks.
Researchers who have been studying the coronavirus since the outbreak say the US had an opportunity to be well ahead of the game when it came to COVID-19. However, problems with testing rollouts, regulatory guidelines, and initial flaws in early CDC tests, has left US citizens in critical danger. Rather than focusing on reacting to the pandemic, researchers say we should have focused on preparedness. | <urn:uuid:bfb62ab8-abba-443c-aec7-5de4a79d632a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neurosciencenews.com/neuroscience-terms/sars-cov-2/?filtered=oldest | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.954786 | 723 | 3.625 | 4 |
How 401(k) Matching Works
How 401(k) Matching Works
Salaried employment comes with a few perks. With some employers, one of those perks is a 401(k) match, which has your company putting money into an investment account for you.
Published January 7th, 2021
Table of Contents
- If your employer offers a 401(k), it’s important to look closely at the account terms.
- Some employers will match the money you put into a 401(k) up to a predetermined limit, which is essentially free money to you, the employee.
- Employer matching contributions are strictly regulated, so the limits are often inflexible.
Salaried employment comes with a few perks. With some employers, one of those perks is a 401(k) match, which has your company putting money into an investment account for you. Your employer will match the amount you deposit, so you’ll need to make a commitment, as well.
Participating in a 401(k) employer match can be a great way to set money aside for the future even if you’re on a tight budget. Since your employer’s contribution is free money, your company’s 401(k) should be the first step you take toward saving for retirement. Here’s what you need to know about how 401(k) matching works.
How 401(k) Matching Works
A 401(k) company match is a popular business perk. For businesses, it serves as a great way to attract top talent. After you’ve evaluated salary, health insurance, and time off, a method to easily prepare for your future is a huge perk.
To understand how a 401(k) match works, it can help to first understand how 401(k) contributions work. Your employer will typically take out a percentage of each paycheck to put toward your 401(k). You’ll be allowed to choose how much you contribute, but there will be a limit.
For example, if your employer matches, there will be a limit to how much that match will be, as well. You may choose to have 5 percent of your weekly pay taken out, which would be $250 of a $5,000 monthly salary. But your employer may only match 4 percent or $200 of that amount, which would mean you’d have $450 per month going toward your 401(k).
401(k) Matching Varies by Employer
But any answer to what is 401(k) matching needs to stipulate that it depends on the employer. Some employers offer a dollar-for-dollar match while others set a fixed percentage of your paycheck. Your own participation requirements can vary, as well.
If you’re considering taking a position with a matching 401(k) contribution, the best thing you can do is iron out those details before accepting the position. Some employers may be willing to negotiate the match, which could make up for a position with a lower salary or less attractive health plan than other employers are offering.
Employer Matching Contribution Formulas
To understand how does employer 401(k) match work, it’s important to take a look at the restraints employers operate under. Any employer offering a 401(k) match must follow IRS regulations regarding contributions.
With the most popular type of 401(k), a safe harbor plan, employers must choose from one of three formulas:
- Basic match – Employer matches 100 percent on the first 3 percent of the compensation plan plus a bonus match of 3 to 5 percent on deferrals to total 4 percent.
- Enhanced match – Employer matches at least as much as it would with a basic match with a cap of 6 percent total of compensation.
- QACA match – Short for Qualified Automatic Contribution Arrangement, this match combines 100 percent of the first 1 percent of compensation with a 50 percent match on deferrals between 1 and 6 percent to total 3.5 percent.
Employers don’t have to go with a safe harbor plan, though. Part of the 401(k) match meaning is flexibility. If your employer opts for a non-safe harbor match, it will need to pass both the Actual Deferral Percentage (ADP) and Actual Contribution Percentage (ACP) tests. Matches will still need to fall below a certain threshold, but the limits are higher.
In addition to matching limits, both employees and employers are bound by IRS-geared 401(k) contribution limits. For 2021, employees can contribute up to $19,500 to a 401(k) plan. If you’re over the age of 49, you can make an additional catch-up contribution of $6,500.
Any employer contribution to 401(k) plans is subject to regulatory limits, as well. That limit is much higher, $58,000 in 2021. For employees ages 50 and up, employers can add a $6,500 catch-up contribution to that limit.
401(k) Vesting Schedules
When you’re looking at how 401(k) matching works, it’s important to note that you won’t just start enjoying your benefits the day you begin employment. Most retirement plans are subject to something called vesting, which means you officially own your retirement account. If your employment terminates before reaching that threshold, you won’t be eligible to receive its benefits when you retire.
Vesting typically works on a schedule. You might earn 20 percent after two years of service, 30 years at three, and so on. Once you reach the 100 percent threshold, no matter what happens with your employment, those funds will be available to you at retirement. If your employment terminates at only two years, in the above scenario, you’d only be entitled to receive 20 percent of the matched funds in the account at retirement.
So what does 401(k) match mean in light of this? If you leave before being fully vested, any money your employer has put into the plan will go back into something called a forfeiture account. Those funds can be used to cover plan administration costs or be put toward other participants in the plan. It is important to note any funds that you've contributed will remain yours and are not subject to any forfeiture.
Although it may seem complicated, 401(k) matching explained is really quite simple. If you can afford to do so, make sure you’re contributing the minimum amount necessary to qualify for your employer’s full match. Once you’ve done that, you can decide what the best option is for your retirement savings. We recommend working with a Certified Financial Planner® as early as possible to ensure you’re making the most of your available options.
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Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are extensively studied for the control of genetic expression since their design in the 1990s. However, the application of PNAs in nanotechnology is much more recent. PNAs share the specific base-pair recognition characteristic of DNA together with material-like properties of polyamides, both proteins and synthetic polymers, such as Kevlar and Nylon. The first application of PNA was in the form of PNA-amphiphiles, resulting in the formation of either lipid integrated structures, hydrogels or fibrillary assemblies. Heteroduplex DNA–PNA assemblies allow the formation of hybrid structures with higher stability as compared with pure DNA. A systematic screen for minimal PNA building blocks resulted in the identification of guanine-containing di-PNA assemblies and protected guanine-PNA monomer spheres showing unique optical properties. Finally, the co-assembly of PNA with thymine-like three-faced cyanuric acid allowed the assembly of poly-adenine PNA into fibers. In summary, we believe that PNAs represent a new and important family of building blocks which converges the advantages of both DNA- and peptide-nanotechnologies. | <urn:uuid:dc8614fa-801d-48d3-bf9a-96a6f36cfa35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cris.tau.ac.il/en/publications/molecular-self-assembly-using-peptide-nucleic-acids-2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926339 | 257 | 3.28125 | 3 |
A condition of noisy excitement and confusion; tumult: "The uproar of the street sounded violently and hideously cacophonous” ( Virginia Woolf). See Synonyms at noise.(noun)
A heated controversy.(noun)
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"However a lot of this uproar is about the Mayor grandstanding, making an example of some dumb celebrity, while gangs and organized crime [and plenty of them] freely roam NYC with illegal handguns."
"I cannot for the life of me understand what all the uproar is about."
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Precise knowledge of the Arctic ionosphere total electron content (TEC) and its variations has scientific relevance due to the unique characteristics of the polar ionosphere. Understanding the Arctic TEC is also important for precise positioning and navigation in the Arctic. This study utilized the spherical cap harmonic analysis (SCHA) method to map the Arctic TEC for the most recent solar cycle from 2000 to 2013 and analyzed the distributions and variations of the Arctic TEC at different temporal and spatial scales. Eve ...
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By Karla Arboleda
Watermelons this season have suffered through the hot weather, and researchers in Jackson County, Florida, have been seeing mixed results with fusarium wilt management.
Josh Freeman, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences associate professor of horticultural sciences, works on how to deal with the watermelon disease.
“It’s really the primary soilborne disease that growers could be aware of,” Freeman says. “(We’ve looked) at different … combinations of fumigant with different types of plastic and fumigation use rate.”
Fusarium wilt has been a recurring issue for watermelon growers. While there is not a cure, Freeman says it can be managed successfully.
“We know we can manage fusarium to 85 percent control (and) 90 percent control in some instances,” Freeman says. “Even (with) the data we have this year that was not as good as previous years, the treatments were significantly better than the non-treated.”
Currently, growers are strongly advised to fumigate for fusarium wilt with at least 225 pounds of Pic-Clor 60 under total impermeable film. Although growers may not want to invest in the film, experts conclude the combination of fumigant and film yield the most success.
“If you want to have a chance of managing this disease in watermelon, it needs the total impermeable film,” Freeman advises. “That’s critical.”
2018 data on fumigation for watermelons gave Freeman confidence in this strategy. However, data for 2019 showed inconsistent results in Jackson County.
“It could be a stress that was induced by the exceptionally hot temperatures this year,” Freeman says. “It could have been (that) we had a greater inoculum density in the field that we were using this year.”
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Financial technology (also known as FinTech) is the use of modern technology to deliver a wide range of monetary services. TBR’s analysis providers are a lens into the continuing business economics driving at this time’s technology firms and markets. The Pc Systems Technology two-yr diploma program has been accredited by the Canadian Data Processing Society (CIPS). Technology encourages risk-taking because of the challenges it presents: Technology is challenging to learn, and it presents students with puzzles to solve.
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BCIT’s Laptop Programs Technology (CST) two-12 months diploma program combines laptop techniques theory with palms-on sensible experience in software program growth. Students develop giant applications with state-of-the-art instruments and software servers, and study to administer Linux and Windows Servers.
Web Mapping Applied sciences: software programs like Google Earth and internet features like Microsoft Virtual Earth are changing the way in which geospatial data is viewed and shared. The emphasis is on internet-enabled or distributed systems similar to corporate web sites, banking programs, order entry and processing techniques, and even distributed video games or cellular shoppers.
Many companies have embraced social networking technology to work together with their prospects. Learn how NYIT school and college students draw on interdisciplinary and entrepreneurial approaches to tackle the world’s largest challenges in technology, drugs, design, management, health care, and a lot extra.
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Why Fuel Management is More Important Than Ever For Businesses
When it comes to saving money for your business, you have to be careful about where you cut the budget. Many companies begin by cutting payroll, but by cutting payroll, you’re putting more stress on other employees. Business owners need to start thinking outside of the box. A great way to save money, for example, is to cut down on fuel costs. In this article, you will learn why fuel management is more important than ever for businesses.
When we talk about fuel management, we’re talking about watching how much fuel your company uses. This can refer to car, truck, multi-modal, or aviation fuel. It all depends on the kind of travel your business engages in. The trick here is to decide which kind of travel is most affordable for your business. If your company can’t operate without large deliveries, then try to focus more attention on trucks. Get your trucks into a fleet program for easier management. If you provide aviation services to your customers, then look at your aviation program and ways to get discounts to save money.
The truth is that the price of fuel is going to remain high, and it might even get higher. If you have trouble believing this, then read the news and watch the markets. You’ll see that fuel is actually a very fickle thing. The price might go down a little now and then, but don’t be fooled. Especially with the geopolitical situation, fuel prices are bound to rise again in the near future. Be smart when it comes to fuel. Only use what you need, and make sure you’re utilizing a fuel card program that gives you discounts.
In a world where reducing cost is essential for any business to prosper, you have to concentrate on waste. If you look at records and receipts, you will no doubt see that fuel is probably used irresponsibly. By joining a fleet program and monitoring the amount of fuel used, you will be able to save money by making more responsible decisions. In today’s tough economic climate, making the right decisions with regard to expenses is more important than ever. | <urn:uuid:14624ed8-3b7b-4898-a4e9-3ed8f251924d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wallscreenhd.com/why-fuel-management-is-more-important-than-ever-for-businesses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951316 | 443 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Dr. Christophe Bobda, Professor at the University of Florida with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
This webinar addresses system-level-design of secured system-on-chips through a tighter integration of user-specified security requirements and objectives in the hardware/software design process. The course will discuss generic models and tools to capture security rules and protocols that automatically generate the hardware/software security infrastructure.
Professor Bobda received the Licence in mathematics from the University of Yaounde, Cameroon, in 1992, the diploma of computer science and the Ph.D. degree (with honors) in computer science from the University of Paderborn in Germany in 1999 and 2003 (In the chair of Prof. Franz J. Rammig) respectively. In June 2003 he joined the department of computer science at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany as Post doc, under the direction of Prof Jürgen Teich. Dr. Bobda received the best dissertation award 2003 from the University of Paderborn for his work on synthesis of reconfigurable systems using temporal partitioning and temporal placement. In 2005 Dr. Bobda was appointed assistant professor at the University of Kaiserslautern. There he set the chair for Self-Organizing Embedded Systems that he led until October 2007. From 2007 to 2010 Dr. Bobda was Professor at the University of Potsdam and leader of The working Group Computer Engineering.
Profesor Bobda is Senior Member of the ACM. He is also in the program committee of several conferences (FPL, FPT, RAW, RSP, ERSA, RECOSOC, DRS), the DATE executive committee as proceedings chair (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010). He served as reviewer of several journals (IEEE TC, IEEE TVLSI, Elsevier Journal of Microprocessor and Microsystems, Integration the VLSI Journal) and conferences (DAC, DATE, FPL, FPT, SBCCI, RAW, RSP, ERSA), as guest editor of the Elsevier Journal of Microprocessor and Microsystems and member of the editorial board of the Hindawi International Journal of Reconfigurable Computing. Dr. Bobda is the author of one of the first most comprehensive books in the rapidly growing field of Reconfigurable Computing.
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If you’re currently among those set of people searching the internet for information relating to the best ways to open a dollar bank account online in Nigeria. This post will explain everything you need to know about opening a dollar bank account online in Nigeria.
We will also explain the meaning of a dollar account and answer any questions online about opening a dollar account online in Nigeria. See some of these questions below.
- How can I open a USD bank account in Nigeria?
- What bank can I open a dollar account in Nigeria?
- Where can I open an online domiciliary account in Nigeria?
- What is the best way to fund my domiciliary bank account?
- What are the advantages of a domiciliary account Information Guide Nigeria
What is a Dollar account?
Officially known as a “Domiciliary Account”, a dollar account can be opened in Nigeria and allows you to receive and draw foreign currencies. This account is not in Nigerian naira but can be operated in foreign currencies. Domiciliary accounts allow you to open a bank account in any one of the three global currencies. You can receive money in Euros, British Pounds or US dollars with a domiciliary bank account.
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Types of Domiciliary accounts You Can easily open in Nigeria
There are two main types of domiciliary accounts. They are:
- Domiciliary Savings Account, and
- Domiciliary Current account.
Is it possible to open a USD bank account in Nigeria?
A USD account can be opened in Nigeria. It is one of the most popular bank accounts.
What bank can I open a dollar account in Nigeria?
A dollar account can be opened in any licensed deposit money bank, also known as a commercial bank in Nigeria. You can open a dollar account at any bank. You can open a domiciliary account with any of these commercial banks: First Bank, Union Bank and Zenith Bank; Fidelity Bank, United Bank of Africa (UBA), Ecobank and First City Monument Bank(FCMB).
To open an online dollar account in Nigeria, you will need to have the following requirements
You will need to meet the same requirements to open an online dollar account in Nigeria as if you were to walk into any bank to open one.
These are the steps to open an online dollar account in Nigeria.
- Government-approved means of identification: driver’s licence, national identity card, voter’s or international passport.
- 2 recent passport photographs/
- Bank Verification Number (BVN)
- CIU Form
- Current Utility Bill Top
HOW TO OPEN A DOMICILIARY ACCOUNT IN NIGERIA
As a matter of fact, nothing should stop you from holding a domiciliary account especially if you’re a Nigerian looking to receive foreign currencies into a bank account that keeps the value of the foreign currencies around the equivalent naira value, based on the current exchange rate.
In simple terms, a domiciliary account is an account type that lets you hold funds in foreign currencies. Broadly, the account makes it convenient for you to make payments in foreign currencies as well as receive funds in foreign currencies.
Top Nigerian Banks That Let You Open a Domiciliary Account
You can open a domiciliary account with many, if not most, of the banks in Nigeria. While considering opening a domiciliary account, one of the important steps to take is ascertaining that your bank offers the domiciliary account option.
Some of the top Nigerian banks that let you open a domiciliary account are as follows: First Bank, United Bank for Africa, Access Bank, Zenith Bank, and Guaranty Trust Bank.
The list we just provided is far from exhaustive. If your Nigerian bank isn’t among the listed banks, you can still check with the bank to know if it offers the domiciliary account option.
Opening a Domiciliary Account in Nigeria
One of the crucial considerations in opening a domiciliary account is the mode of registration for the account creation. While a majority of the Nigerian banks with the domiciliary account option require you to visit one of their closest branches, few others might allow you to attempt the entire registration online.
To open a domiciliary account with your Nigerian bank, you might find the required registration forms online. You might also want to simply download the forms and fill the necessary information into them, but in most cases, it’s advisable that you visit the closest bank branch and physically apply for the domiciliary account.
What Are the Required Documents for Opening a Domiciliary Account in Nigeria?
Each Nigerian bank has its specified document requirements for opening a domiciliary account. It’s best that you find out the list of documents that your bank requires for the account opening. Generally, the documents needed for opening a domiciliary account in Nigeria are as follows:
- A valid means of identity such as a driving licence, national ID, or international passport
- A utility bill or any other specified document that may help verify residential address
- A completed specimen signature card
- A residence permit
- Two copies of recent passport photographs
- An account opening form that has been filled
Is There Any Benefit in Using a Domiciliary Account?
There can be several benefits associated with using a domiciliary account, but the most significant benefit is the ability to receive funds in US dollars, British pounds and various other foreign currencies.
Without doubt, a domiciliary account lets you conveniently access your bank-held funds that are in form of foreign currencies.
FAQs on Opening a Domiciliary Account in Nigeria
Can a Domiciliary Account Be Opened for Business Purpose?
Yes, of course.
All the Nigerian banks with the domiciliary account option permit customers to open domiciliary accounts that are meant for business transactions. Whether it’s for individual uses or for business transactions, a domiciliary account can be created with any of the Nigerian banks mentioned earlier in this post.
How Much Does It Cost to Open a Domiciliary Account in Nigeria?
Most of the Nigerian banks with the domiciliary account option do not charge you any fee for opening a domiciliary account. In a situation where your bank particularly charges a fee, we can’t tell how much it should cost you to open a domiciliary account with the bank.
How Long Does It Take to Activate a Domiciliary Account?
Activation is necessary for your newly opened domiciliary account to begin receiving funds in foreign currencies. After providing all that your bank requires of you for the account creation, you can expect the newly created domiciliary account to get activated between 48 and 72 hours.
While we seem to have discussed how to open a domiciliary account in Nigeria, it’s noteworthy that our discussion –particularly about the required documents for opening a domiciliary account –isn’t restricted to what a particular Nigerian bank requires you to tender for the account creation.
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The Easy Way to Create Your Own IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Disaster recovery is a critical process that can help an organization survive and recover in case of disaster – whether a natural disaster, accidental data loss, or malicious cyberattack. The IT disaster recovery plan allows an organization to focus, prioritize its risks and assets, establish a data protection strategy, and determine the best way to recover normal operations. Learn the typical structure of an IT disaster recovery plan and how you should go about creating one for your organization.
In this article you will learn:
What is a Disaster Recovery Plan?
A disaster recovery (DR) plan is a document that helps an organization react to a disaster and take action to prevent damages, and quickly recover operations. IT disaster recovery is a subset of disaster recovery, which focuses on IT aspects of DR, such as minimizing downtime of servers, databases and employee workstations, and bringing critical systems back online. An IT disaster recovery plan enumerates the tools and procedures to make this happen.
7 Chapters of an IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Here is the typical structure of a DR plan:
- Goals – what the organization aims to achieve in a disaster, including the Recovery Time Object (RTO), the maximum downtime allowed for each critical system, and the Recovery Point Object (RPO), the maximum amount of acceptable data loss.
- Personnel – who is responsible for executing the DR plan.
- IT inventory – list hardware and software assets, their criticality, and whether they are leased, owned or used a service.
- Backup procedures – how and where (exactly on which devices and in which folders) each data resource is backed up, and how to recover from backup .
- Disaster recovery procedures – emergency response to limit damages, last-minute backups, mitigation and eradication (for cybersecurity threats).
- Disaster recovery sites – a robust DR plan includes a hot disaster recovery site – an alternative data center in a remote location that has all critical systems, with data replicated or frequently backed up to them. Operations can be switched over to the hot site when disaster strikes.
- Restoration – procedures for recovering from complete systems loss to full operations.
Basic Steps to Creating Your IT Disaster Recovery Plan
Building a disaster recovery plan is not as simple as writing a document. You need to do careful research to understand the needs of your organization and the risks it faces. You also need to carefully coordinate the plan with all stakeholders, test it to make sure it works, and continuously update it to make sure it stays relevant.
Follow these steps to create a working disaster recovery plan:
- Map out your assets – identify what you need to protect, including network equipment, hardware, software, cloud services, and most important, your critical data. For each item note its physical or virtual location, relation to other assets, vendor and version, networking parameters, etc.
- Identify criticality and context – understand how your assets are used and their importance to the business. Classify assets into high impact, medium impact and low impact, by identifying how likely they are to disrupt business operations.
- Risk assessment – identify which threats are likely to face the business as a whole and specific assets. Interview the staff who work on critical systems and ask them what are the most likely causes of service interruption.
- Define recovery objectives – consult with senior management and operations staff to understand what would be the impact of interruption to each critical system for one minute, one hour, one day, or more. Use this information to define your RTO and RPO.
- Select disaster recovery setup and tooling – using your knowledge of assets to be protected, risks and required RTO/RPO, envision your final disaster recovery setup. Will you have a hot DR site? Where will it be located, and will it be cloud-based or self-hosted? Which backups or replicas will you maintain? Where will they be located? Select the software or hardware, cloud services or partners that can help you achieve the required setup.
- Budgeting – as important as disaster recovery is to your business, you will have a limited budget. Present several options to management, each with a progressively higher price tag but better RTO/RPO and/or support for more critical services. Allow them to decide on the right balance between risk and investment in DR technology.
- Approval – put together an agreed draft of your DR plan based on feedbacks from management and get final sign off on the plan.
- Communicate the plan – circulate your document to the disaster recovery team, to senior management, and to anyone else who will be involved with or affected by DR procedures.
- Test and review – test the plan by conducting a realistic disaster drill, and seeing if and how staff act according to the plan. Learn from the test and modify the plan and procedures accordingly. You should periodically review the plan – at least every six months – to ensure it is still relevant and reflects the current organizational structure and IT setup.
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Software Components for Junos Space Nodes
The Junos Space Appliance (JA2500) and Junos Space virtual appliance both run the same software stack, as shown in Figure 1.
The Junos Space software architecture is based on a combination of the following mature and proven software components:
CentOS 6.8 distribution is used as the underlying OS of the appliance. CentOS distribution is binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Services that are required for Junos Space are leveraged from this distribution, with all other services removed. Junos Space administrators do not need to directly access the Linux components because all operations, administration, and management (OAM) of the platform is performed from the Junos Space user interface or CLI. At the same time, it is important to note that the underlying operating system is an industry-standard distribution with a strong heritage of reliability and security.
The MySQL Enterprise Edition 5.5 relational database service provides persistent storage for the Junos Space Network Management Platform and all hosted applications. A common database instance stores all persistent data that the Network Management Platform requires. As shown in the preceding illustration, each pluggable application that is installed on the platform has its own unique database instance. All database instances are contained within a single MySQL server, which runs on two nodes in the cluster to form an active-standby cluster. The remaining nodes in the cluster do not run a MySQL server.
JBoss 7.1 Application Server is the container that hosts the presentation layer, business logic layer, and data access layer of Junos Space platform as well as the hosted applications. One JBoss server runs on each node in the cluster and they all work together as a single load-sharing cluster.
Apache HTTP Server (version 2.2.21) is the front-end load balancer for all requests coming from GUI and NBI clients. This server runs on two nodes in the cluster which together form an active-standby cluster.
Network monitoring services are provided using OpenNMS, which is an award winning, enterprise-grade network monitoring platform developed under the open source model. OpenNMS is integrated into the Junos Space Network Management Platform Network Monitoring workspace and provides fault monitoring and performance monitoring features. Junos Space uses PostgreSQL as the relational database server for persisting fault and performance data.
The following software components or services also play a significant role in the overall management of a Junos Space cluster:
Distributed Resource Manager (DRM)—DRM is deployed as a service inside the JBoss application server, just like all other services provided by Network Management Platform and the hosted applications. You can think of DRM as the server-side component that you interact with when you navigate to the Network Management Platform > Administration > Fabric workspace in the Junos Space user interface. DRM works together with the Node Management Agent to fulfill the following responsibilities:
Managing the Junos Space cluster—DRM implements the business logic for adding and removing nodes in the cluster and monitors the overall health of the cluster.
Managing the logical clusters in the cluster—The logical clusters within the physical cluster formed by the Junos Space nodes include the Apache Load Balancer cluster, JBoss cluster, and Database cluster. DRM implements the business logic to add and remove nodes in these logical clusters and monitors their status. The logical clusters are described in detail in Understanding the Logical Clusters Within a Junos Space Cluster.
Node Management Agent (NMA)—NMA runs on each node in the cluster and is deployed as a set of CGI scripts run by an Apache HTTP daemon. NMA has the following responsibilities:
Monitor system resource usage on the node and the health of various services running on the node.
Start and stop services on the node based on requests from DRM.
Manage the configuration files for various services running on the node.
Manage installation, uninstallation, and upgrades of pluggable applications as well as upgrade of the Network Management Platform software on the node.
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Anyone who has seen a middle-aged rock star understands that certain lifestyles take more of a toll than others. Live fast, die young! This rock star mantra is also the premise of life-history theory, one of the central tenants of ecological research. Life-history traits are all of those characteristics related to an individual's lifestyle, such as growth rate, reproduction and lifespan. Life-history theory states that not all life-history traits can be maximized simultaneously, and individuals will need to make trade-offs among competing functions.
Theoretically, one of the key life-history trade-offs may be between growth rate and total lifespan. However, it is difficult to manipulate growth without manipulating other confounding factors, like nutrient availability. Who-Seung Lee, Pat Monaghan and Neil Metcalfe from the University of Glasgow addressed this long-standing question by taking advantage of the biology of juvenile three-spined sticklebacks (Gasterosteus aculeatus). Like all fish, sticklebacks are cold-blooded, and their metabolism and hence growth can be sped up or slowed down by changing water temperature. Furthermore, sticklebacks reproduce in the spring, and as reproductive success is related to body size, they are motivated to attain a large size prior to their first spring.
To examine the effect of growth rate on total lifespan, the scientists used water temperature and photoperiod to manipulate both how much the fish would need to grow and how fast they would have to grow prior to their first spring. The researchers predicted that higher growth rates would come at a cost to overall lifespan. Using juvenile fish captured in November, they experimentally manipulated the period available for growth; half the fish were kept under a normal photoperiod, while the other half were exposed to a delayed photoperiod, so that the fish perceived that they had an extra month before spring. Fish from both groups were then subjected to a ‘cold snap’ (6°C) or a ‘warm spell’ (14°C), or kept at a constant 10°C for 4 weeks. While all fish were fed the same diet, their metabolism, and therefore growth rate, was influenced by temperature. Thus, fish in the cold snap group grew more slowly than those in the other groups. After 4 weeks, all the fish were returned to 10°C for the rest of their lives.
When the fish were returned to 10°C, they faced a resource allocation decision. The fish stunted by the cold snap were much smaller than their counterparts, and to attain reproductive size they would need to grow quickly by directing all of their resources towards growth. Conversely, fish exposed to a warm spell were already larger and could afford to grow at a more leisurely pace. These warm spell fish could use some resources to fuel other processes that are important for overall lifespan, such as the immune system. There was even less pressure on fish that had been subjected to a delayed photoperiod – they had an extra month for growth. But did different growth rates influence overall lifespan?
Excitingly, the results matched the researchers' predictions. All of the fish had similar final sizes, but fish exposed to the cold snap directed more resources towards growth and grew more quickly once returned to 10°C, and consequently had the shortest lives. By replicating the experiment with fish captured in January, with mere weeks before spring, the researchers found that lifespans were shortened still further by the shortened growth time frame. This paper elegantly provides the first experimental evidence that growth rates are directly linked to total lifespan, and this indeed represents a key life-history trade-off. There is now empirical evidence that if you grow fast, you die young. | <urn:uuid:62d6e427-0c31-4d33-9bb4-3fa5f026a02a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cob.silverchair.com/jeb/article-split/216/7/vi/12011/GROW-FAST-DIE-YOUNG | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974624 | 756 | 3.921875 | 4 |
John Thelin, Approaching Retirement, Shares Insight on the Past and Future of Higher EducationHistorians in the News
tags: higher education, education history
John R. Thelin, one of the best-known historians of American higher education, likes to pay attention to the detailed human stories that have happened over decades on college campuses. It’s a way, he says, to not only counter some of the blander official narratives promulgated by college presidents and others, but also to find a connection to major events in American history, reflected in the lives of students and other groups on campus.
Thelin will give his last academic lecture, a Zoom presentation scheduled for Thursday evening. A university research professor in higher education and public policy at the University of Kentucky, Thelin is one of the best-known scholars of colleges and universities. He is the author of Going to College in the Sixties, Essential Documents in the History of American Higher Education and A History of American Higher Education (Johns Hopkins University Press), now in its third edition, a book that shows that colleges have long struggled with the financial and cultural pressures commonly discussed today.
But for Thelin, the most compelling aspects of that history lie in the people on campus, and how campus life interacted with broader historical events off-campus. Thelin promises that his last lecture will be full of such stories: How the University of Chicago, for example, mothballed its football stadium after losing to Harvard, then later used the abandoned locker rooms as a secret location for the Manhattan Project. Or how female professors at the University of California at Berkeley climbed through a bathroom window to get into the all-male faculty club and participate in a faculty meeting. Or how Jesse Owens became a hero for representing the United States at 1936 Olympics in Nazi Germany, but the track star could not live on campus at Ohio State University, where he was a student.
Thelin is calling his last lecture “Academic Procession,” and he says it will combine his interest in college campuses and architecture with accounts of how professors, students, university presidents, and others created liveliness, culture, and lasting traditions at these iconic places, which also influenced society as a whole.
“The American campus is pretty spectacular,” Thelin says, “but it’s really just a stage set. Whatever great buildings and designs you have, until you have a script and cast, it’s inanimate.”
This interview has been edited for length and clarity.
Why did you pursue the history of higher education as a field of study?
I was a European-history major at Brown University, with a strong interest in the late Middle Ages, but I would gravitate toward topics about colleges and universities. I had a really good medieval-history professor who said, “Look, you don’t have the languages to go on to be a professor of medieval history, so for graduate school you should shift toward American history.” At Berkeley, where I got a master’s and doctorate, there was this concentration of higher-education scholars from a variety of fields, including a sociologist, Martin Trow, who was very influential. I got to work at a research center that was down the hall from Clark Kerr and his Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.
Just by chance, this convergence of scholars — economists, sociologists, historians, political scientists that were focusing on higher education — it was like being in a candy store. And what I liked about it is that I could always read in a variety of disciplines, going across boundaries, but always coming back to a historical base.
It’s interesting that you say you were attracted to the study of higher education because it has so many facets to it, when a common criticism of scholarship in higher ed is that it is so siloed.
To me, many of the really important issues in American history, in American society, at some point converge into higher ed. So that if you talk about upward mobility, at some point, it’s going to have some connection or disconnection with higher education.
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Righteous art thou, O LORD, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?
Talk with thee — Not by way of accusing thee, but for my own satisfaction concerning thy judicial dispensations in the government of the world.
Wherefore — I know thy ways are just and righteous, but they are dark; I cannot understand why thou doest this.
Thou hast planted them, yea, they have taken root: they grow, yea, they bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.
Far — Thou art far from their inward parts, they neither fear thee, nor love thee.
How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.
He — They were bold to say, neither the prophet nor any other should see their last end.
If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?
If — If thou art not able to encounter lesser dangers, how wilt thou be able to overcome greater? I have greater dangers for thee to encounter than those at Anathoth; if thou art so disturbed with them, how wilt thou be able to grapple with those at Jerusalem.
Jordan — Anathoth seems to be understood by the land of thy peace, that is, the land of thy friends wherein thou hadst a confidence: if thy enemies there tire thee, what wilt thou do in the swellings of Jordan? In a place in which thou art like to meet with greater troubles, like the swelling of Jordan (which in harvest used to overflow its banks).
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
For even — The men of Anathoth, thine own town and country, and those of thy own family have conspired evil against thee secretly.
A multitude — They have exposed thee to the rage of a multitude.
Though — Tho' therefore they give thee fair words, yet repose no confidence in them.
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.
My house — God by his house here understands the temple.
Heritage — The whole body of the Israelites, whom God threatens to leave with respect to his special providence.
Mine heritage is unto me as a lion in the forest; it crieth out against me: therefore have I hated it.
As a lion — Those that were my sheep, are become like lions.
Mine heritage is unto me as a speckled bird, the birds round about are against her; come ye, assemble all the beasts of the field, come to devour.
The birds round about — It is usual for other birds to flock about a strange coloured bird, such as they have not been used to see.
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.
A wilderness — They have caused God to turn the country which he had chosen for his portion, into a wilderness.
They have made it desolate, and being desolate it mourneth unto me; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
They — Heb. He hath made it desolate: but it cannot be meant of God, for it is God that speaketh, and God is he mentioned in the next words; it must therefore either be understood of Nebuchadnezzar, the instrumental cause; or (one number being put for another) of the people or the rulers as the meritorious cause, and in that rueful state into which their sins had brought it, it cried onto God.
Because — And one great cause of this sore judgment was, the peoples not seriously considering what God had done or was doing against it.
The spoilers are come upon all high places through the wilderness: for the sword of the LORD shall devour from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh shall have peace.
Are come — The prophet, as usual, speaks of a thing as already done, which was very shortly to be done.
No flesh — No rank or order of men.
They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns: they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit: and they shall be ashamed of your revenues because of the fierce anger of the LORD.
Shall not profit — All the works of their hands, all their counsels and deliberations should be of no profit unto them.
Because — The fierce anger of God shall be so shewed, that the returns of their labours or estates, the profits of their trades, shall be so small, that they shall be ashamed of them.
Thus saith the LORD against all mine evil neighbours, that touch the inheritance which I have caused my people Israel to inherit; Behold, I will pluck them out of their land, and pluck out the house of Judah from among them.
Behold — I will bring the sword upon them also, and they shall be led into captivity; and tho' they may have made inroads upon my people, and carried away some of them, yet I will fetch them out of their captivity.
And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways of my people, to swear by my name, The LORD liveth; as they taught my people to swear by Baal; then shall they be built in the midst of my people.
If — If they will leave their idolatries, and learn to worship me, and swear by my name the Lord liveth, that is, pay that homage which they owe to the Divine being to me, the living and true God.
Then — They shall have a portion among my people, which was eminently fulfilled in the conversion of the Gentiles.
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Assessing Flood Damage with UAS
In this feature guest post, Geospatial Engineering Magazine discusses how fixed-wing drones helped a Canadian town identify and prevent flood damage. This mission was performed by Chris Healy, owner and operator of IN•FLIGHT Data.
Flooding in Canada is an ongoing concern, especially since the Alberta Floods in 2013, which cost an estimated $5bn. So, when rain raised river levels in Okotoks by 300% in just six hours, what was intended to be a typical mapping project quickly turned into a disaster management effort.
The project was being carried out in collaboration with senseFly, a fixed wing UAV manufacturer, to assess the success of recent upgrades at a wastewater treatment plant on Sheep River, Okotoks, Alberta. One of the indicators of the effectiveness of the upgrades was the temperature of the effluent. To help environmental scientists and evaluators collect samples at locations where there was a variant in the temperature, rather than taking random samples, we wanted to identify areas downstream of the wastewater plant where effluent was pooling.
As the length of the river running through the town was 8km, some of the mission was to be flown beyond visual line of sight (BVLOS) and so the senseFly eBee X fixed wing UAV was used. One of three senseFly UAVs on Transport Canada’s list of those eligible for advanced operations, the eBee X was employed alongside senseFly’s Duet T thermal mapping camera to provide a complete unmanned aerial system (UAS) that could meet all project requirements. Because the Duet T includes both a high-resolution thermal infrared camera and a senseFly sensor optimised for UAS applications [S.O.D.A.] RGB camera with a one-inch sensor, it was selected for a project looking to map both the land and temperature variants.
The planned mission involved a full RTK survey of the river valley. With eight ground control points, the set up included a pilot station on a ridge that overlooked the entire area, ensuring a continuous radio line of sight even though it was flying BVLOS. At its greatest distance the aircraft was 4km from the pilot and at that distance it would be landing blind.
The changing scope
24 hours before the flight was planned, a major rain event raised the water level of the river from 30m3 3/s to 90m3 3/s, meaning the temperature of the effluent could no longer be measured. Instead, the town now wanted to know how the rapid increase in water flow was affecting the river and parks, as well as its critical infrastructure.
As such, the mission was very quickly retooled to carry out a high streamflow surveillance of the river to assess the condition of the river itself, as well as the shore, and make sure there weren’t any issues that needed to be addressed by other departments. Working directly with the town of Okotoks, its engineering department, emergency services and the municipal police force, we coordinated a new mission to identify where high watermarks were as a result of the increased stream flow across an 8km stretch of river.
The eBee X flew for over 100km, capturing over 5,000 images in HD RGB and thermal IR in just two hours. The RGB function of the Duet T identified areas where the water was causing overland flooding within the river valley and showed where the new high-water marks were, at a resolution of 2.7cm/px. Using the orthomosaics that were captured, the team also created a full 3D model of the entire river valley. This was particularly valuable to the town as it could be used to update the municipality’s raster files within its GIS systems to show how the river had changed as a result of the high stream flow.
The town also wanted to pinpoint areas where there were temperature anomalies that may have been caused as a result of the flood, using the Duet T’s thermal camera. It was from these results that a new hot spring was discovered, which had been feeding the Sheep River. A team of experts examined whether the effluent was a result of anything else, but was unable to identify any other possible causes and concluded that the hot spring was more than likely caused by additional pressure on the hydrologic system as a result of the rain event, which was forcing underground hot water to the surface.
Although the flight unveiled critical information, many municipalities are budget-strapped and simply don’t have the finances to be able to carry out projects like this, especially in the timescales involved. If the original mission hadn’t been planned, then the disaster management assessments wouldn’t have happened. In this project, although being able to update the GIS and raster systems is important, the main benefit is that there is now an established baseline against which streamflow changes can be measured in the future.
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An Inertial Compensator is gravitic technology device capable of counteracting the affects of inertia.
- It is also known as the Inertial Damper, Deceleration Compensator, Inertial Equalizer, Acceleration Compensator, or Drive Compensator.
- It is a kind of Ship Equipment.
It allows pilots to overcome physiological limits when controlling very high performance craft.
The system operates by providing an acceleration to things inside the hull of a craft via an artificial gravity field that exactly offsets that generated by the drive of the vessel. This has two side-effects:
- Where the information regarding the ships drive output is unavailable, the compensator cannot perfectly compensate
- Unexpected accelerations (e.g. crashes or other impacts) cannot be perfectly compensated for
Failure of the compensator is a serious event in any ship even under small accelerations.
It is a step towards developing the Inertialess drive.
- Inclined seats.
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Ubuntu works with a single network configuration file. You can find the file at /etc/network/interfaces. Now we will edit the configuration file, we recommend to use ‘nano’ to edit the file:
Copy the text at eth0:1 and edit the bold text that fits your situation:
|# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
# The primary network interface
When you exit the text editor you can apply the changes by using the following command:
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Athiri is a white-wine grape variety of ancient origin grown exclusively in Greece. It is best known for its use in blends, particularly as a foil for the steely Assyrtico grape variety in the PDO Santorini wines. Athiri's softness and low alcohol makes it well suited to this purpose, and it is rarely found as a varietal wine.Despite Athiri's relative obscurity, it is one of Greece's most widely planted grape varieties, covering vineyards in the Aegean Islands as well as on the mainland. It has been said that Athiri is a modern name for Theriaki, an ancient grape variety appearing in many historical wine-related documents.
Location: The hilly countryside in central Makedonia.
Soil: Bright sandy loam, rich in minerals.
Climate: Continental, with sufficient humidity.
Varietal composition: The noble Greek indigenous grape variety Athiri.
Classification: Protected Geographical Indication Makedonikos
Viticultural techniques: An integrated farming system is applied.
Harvest: Late August.
Vinification techniques: The vinification is made in temperature-controlled stainless steel tanks with cooling jackets, where the alcoholic fermentation takes place at a low and constant temperature to preserve the aromas of the grape.
Character: Clear yellow with hints of green; a youthful wine, flowery, pleasantly aromatic with a crisp finish.
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Minister Brophy announces Irish Aid support for COVID-19 vaccines in developing countries
Press release19 February 2021
Colm Brophy, T.D., Minister of State for Overseas Development Aid and the Diaspora, today announced an additional €5 million in Irish Aid funding for the global health response to COVID-19, to enable developing countries access vaccines. Most of this funding will go to the COVAX facility, a global UN-led mechanism for pooling procurement and fair distribution of the vaccines.
Making the announcement, Minister Brophy said:
“In Ireland, we are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel. COVID-19 vaccines are being rolled out to the elderly, and other vulnerable groups. However, as we deliver on protecting our people at home, I am conscious that if we are to be safe we need to help others to be safe too - COVID-19 cannot be defeated one country at a time.
We need to support those countries who are behind us in accessing vaccines to do so. That’s why I’m delighted to allocate €5 million to the UN COVAX system and the WHO, part of at least €50 million in Irish Aid support to global public health this year. This will support developing countries that need vaccines and can least afford them to secure their share of global supply.
The Government, through Irish Aid, continues to support our partner countries in fighting the pandemic, by ensuring they have other necessary equipment and drugs, trained personnel, and strong logistics for vaccine rollout. This is a strong demonstration of our solidarity with others during this most challenging time.”
19 February 2021
Notes for Editors
- Irish Aid has allocated €5 million to vaccine response. €4 million of this will go to COVAX, which is the vaccine arm of the ACT-A, the global mechanism for ensuring fair access to therapeutics, diagnostics and vaccines. €1 million will go to the World Health Organisation to support their oversight of the mechanism, ensuring fairness and transparency.
- This is part of at least €50 million allocated to Global Health in 2021. This funding will go to a range of critical health partners supporting the response to COVID and other global health threats in the poorest countries. These include the World Health Organisation, Global Fund to end AIDS, TB and Malaria, Gavi (the Vaccine Alliance), UNICEF, and UNAIDS.
- Ireland is also contributing to the vaccine effort through the European Union, which to date has allocated over €850m to the COVAX facility, or enough to finance at least 1.3 billion doses of vaccination for 92 low and middle-income countries, including fragile and conflict ridden countries, by the end of the year.
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It may be tempting to work on electrical problems yourself but this is not a good idea. Electricians are well-trained and understand your electrical system. This allows them to make things look easy when the truth is that electrical work is not only difficult but dangerous, too. Why risk spending the night in the hospital (or worse) when a professional is one call away?
The Risk of DIY Electrical Repairs: Avoid at All Costs
Attempting to work on electrical services yourself can result in a lot more damage than you started with. That certainly is not the experience that you are going for. Even worse, people can be injured when attempting to work on problems alone. A DIY electrical job can cause a lot of unnecessary trouble when all you need is a professional.
Versatile List of Services
Electricians handle any problem that occurs at your home, whether the circuit is overloaded or outdated, you need new electricity installed, or need new wiring or have other concerns. The cost for work varies but it is a small price to pay in exchange for the satisfaction that you are safe and the work is done correctly. He has all the tools and equipment to do things the right way, which is another concern DIYers encounter. Don’t put yourself in that situation.
Call the Right Electrician for Service
You will need an electrician many times during your life. There are tons of choices out there, all experts who can take care of the problems that threaten the day, no matter how small or large. When you need electrical service in Lexington, KY make sure you call the pros and leave the work to those who know a thing or two about electrical work. | <urn:uuid:69043040-f010-4ccf-9181-b4489aefe7cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.chesalka.com/diy-electrical-work-is-never-a-good-idea/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958911 | 337 | 1.773438 | 2 |
- Describe the purpose of filegroups and examine the key ways it helps with minimizing administration to backups or with multiple databases within an organization. Suppose you managed a server with 200 terabytes of data, determine whether you would use full backup, transaction or file groups. Provide a rationale for your response.
- Suppose you are a DBA of a 5,000-person organization. Your boss wants to know the advantages of using a partitioned table and the ways it will affect performance of the server, specifically during peak hours. Decide whether or not a vertical partitioned table is more effective than a horizontal table. Justify your response.
- Create an retail store order table with no less than seven fields
- Create an retail online order form to match with the table
- write a php script that will take the data from the form and
- insert it directly into the php table within the database.
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Assignment: Minimum of 1300 words in APA format with at least three scholarly sources.
- Describe the roles of the CIO and the CISO.
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The Days of Our Years
Life is celebrated by birthdays, but it is lived every day. While we can count the number of days that we have lived, no one can count the number of days they have left. Only God, the giver of life, can teach us how to make the days of our years count both for this world and for eternity. This message given by Evangelist Scott Pauley is a wonderful tool to put into the hands of those who do not know the Lord to help them consider the brevity of life and the need to come to know the Lord.
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Gone are those days, when internet usage was limited with data limit and its price. Today, since the concept of unlimited internet has spread across the globe, the world has come closer with this blessing of communication irrespective of where you are placed, and what activity you are pursuing using the internet connectivity.
In all these what is more interesting is how the life of every individual has evolved whoever has an access to this unlimited internet connection. As and when the internet technology is taking a step further in the route of advancement, so are the lives of individuals, who are able to avail this opportunity.
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In this article, we will depict what a user of Bravo Telecom unlimited internet connection shared with us, about his experience on optimizing its usage.
Educate Your Family
Are you still buying expensive books to appear for the competitive exams, reference books for higher studies and even just to upgrade your general knowledge database, while paying for an unlimited internet connection? Well, you can save on your money, while expanding the horizon of your knowledge, without buying any hard copies of those expensive books. You can simply gather the same information online, either directly from Google, or can subscribe to online libraries to access to all those information, without having to visit them in person every time.
Save on Theatres
We agree that visiting a theatre to watch the latest released blockbuster with your family and friends is great fun. But in case you’ve missed the movie or can’t take out enough time to visit the theatre, or simply can’t gather your pals together when you are free, you can watch the movies online by streaming them on Netflix or other movie apps, paying a negligible amount for its subscription.
Pursue your Hobbies
Do you like to repair the electronic items, but haven’t gathered much training till now? Make good use of your unlimited internet connection, by watching the DIY videos as many times you want to learn them by heart without having to attend any professional course and try it at the comfort of your home.
Noting can be more important than choosing the right career path, be it for yourself or for your kids. With the blessings of unlimited internet, you can take the best possible career guidance, without having to pay anyone anything. You can engage yourself or your children in all the career related quizzes to know more about their aptitude and hence guide them the right way towards a career that will suit them the best.
Work from Home
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This paper studies the psychoanalytic process in the treatment of Little Hans, using Samuel Abrams's 1988 paper in which he defines the psychoanalytic process as the sequence of steps which appears within the mind of the patient as the treatment proceeds. As with the adult, the child can affectively recall or reenact the past in the transference, but the child also tries to promote whatever developmental phase is being clocked in. In January 1908 Max Graf Hans's father and a member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society who was a musicologist, wrote Freud that his son had developed a fear that a horse would bite him in the street. Freud first suggested that the father give his son some enlightenment in the matter of sexual knowledge, such as his mother and other females have no "widdlers." The enlightenments only increased Hans's anxiety, prompting Freud to meet with Hans and his father and interpret the fear of the horse as fear of the father. While Max Graf was able to help Hans understand some dreams and fantasies, he exhibited a punitive attitude toward Hans's masturbation, which was reinforced by Freud's attitude that it was harmful. The father did not promote his son's development when he withheld knowledge of how babies are born, neither did Freud when he withheld any contrary suggestions from the father.
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by Karl Richard Ganzer is translated from the Third Reich original Der Hitlerprozeß, which appeared in the September 1939 issue of Der Schulungsbrief. It provides a brief, but fascinating, look at that event from a National Socialist perspective.
“The deed of November 8th has not failed. It would have failed, if a mother had come to me and had said: You also have my child on your conscience. But I may assure you: no mother came. Quite the opposite, thousands of others have come and have joined our ranks. That is the visible sign of the success of November 8th, that in its aftermath the youth has arisen like a flood and joins together. That is the greatest gain of November 8th, that it is has not led to depression, rather has contributed to greatly enthusing the folk. I believe that the hour will come when the masses who today stand on the street with our swastika flag will unite with those who on November 9th fired upon us. I believe that the blood will not eternally separate us… The army that we have formed grows faster from day to day, from hour to hour. Precisely in these days I have the proud hope that the hour will one day come when these wild throngs become battalions, the battalions regiments, the regiments divisions, that the old cockades will be pulled out of the dirt, and that the old flags will again flatter up front, that then reconciliation comes at the eternal final judgment of God, to which we are willing to step. Then, from our bones and from our graves, the voice of the court will speak which alone is called on to judge us. For not you, my sirs, pronounce the verdict over us, the eternal court of history pronounces the verdict… That court will judge us, the General Quartermaster of the old army, his officers and soldiers, who as Germans wanted the best for their folk and fatherland, who want to fight and die. You may pronounce us guilty a thousand times, the goddess of the eternal court of history will laughingly tear up the prosecutor’s request and the court’s verdict: for she acquits us!” | <urn:uuid:b33c0cc8-d7dc-40f8-991b-321e856580c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://third-reich-books.com/product/the-hitler-trial/?add-to-cart=114 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968946 | 472 | 2.375 | 2 |
English Revised Version
David Fetches the Ark
1And David consulted with the captains of thousands and of hundreds, even with every leader. 2And David said unto, all the assembly of Israel, If it seem good unto you, and if it be of the LORD our God, let us send abroad every where unto our brethren that are left in all the land of Israel, with whom the priests and Levites are in their cities that have suburbs, that they may gather themselves unto us: 3and let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we sought not unto it in the days of Saul. 4And all the assembly said that they would do so: for the thing was right in the eyes of all the people.
5So David assembled all Israel together, from Shihor the brook of Egypt even unto the entering in of Hamath; to bring the ark of God from Kiriath-jearim. 6And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, the LORD that sitteth upon the cherubim, which is called by the Name. 7And they carried the ark of God upon a new cart, and brought it out of the house of Abinadab: and Uzza and Ahio drave the cart. 8And David and all Israel played before God with all their might: even with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
Uzzah and the Ark
9And when they came unto the threshing-floor of Chidon, Uzza put forth his hand to hold the ark; for the oxen stumbled. 10And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzza, and he smote him, because he put forth his hand to the ark: and there he died before God. 11And David was displeased, because the LORD had broken forth upon Uzza: and he called that place Perez-uzza, unto this day. 12And David was afraid of God that day, saying, How shall I bring the ark of God home to me? 13So David removed not the ark unto him into the city of David, but carried it aside into the house of Obed-edom the Gittite. 14And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months: and the LORD blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had. | <urn:uuid:396778f6-40fd-44e6-89ee-93b967545d4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://da.bibelsite.com/erv/1_chronicles/13.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963231 | 550 | 1.890625 | 2 |
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Description: Weapons are tools used for protection, survival, and defense. There are all sorts of different types of weapons out there but the most common is firearms. But the thing with guns is that they are useless without one main component, ammo. This tutorial will be based on “"how to draw a bullet", step by step. Drawing bullets, is as you may know, a very easy concept to tackle. They are essentially cylinder shaped pieces of metal filled with gunpowder and capped with a lead tip. Inside of a bullet there are four parts, the bullet itself which is the tip of the ammo, the casing which is the shell that the everything sits in, the gunpowder which forces the bullet from the casing, and then you have the primer, which is what ignites the gunpowder to set it all off. Each bullet is made in callipers. A calliper is the exact diameter of a bullet which is made and measured in inches or millimetres. Did you know that a .22 bullet can be used in a handgun and a riffle? It's true, the same .22 calliper bullet can be used in a .22 handgun, and in a .22 riffle. The difference between the two is speed, distance, and of course size. Handguns are worn on the hip, and the riffles are carried over the shoulder using a sling. Commonly, riffle ammo has a pointy shaped bullet tip, and handguns have round tipped bullets. Based on your preference, you can draw bullets that are to your liking, but there are fifteen common style callipers to choose from; 7.65x17, 9x17, 9x18, 9x19, .32, .45, .32 magnum, 7.62x25, .38 special, 7.62x38r, .357, 7.62x39 M39 aka AK-47, 5.56x45 M193, 7.62x54R, and finally the 12ga ¾ 00 Buckshot for the shotgun. I think this is going to be a very simple, and fun lesson that will teach you "how to draw a bullet", in the easiest way possible. My return will bring other cool lessons for you all so stay tuned in to see what they are. Peace peeps, and happy hunting! | <urn:uuid:992f836b-b07b-4ecd-8d6f-86d508f645d0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dragoart.com/tut/how-to-draw-a-bullet-4210 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950471 | 552 | 3.078125 | 3 |
This essay focuses on Personalized marketing. Personalization is the act of tailoring an experience or communication based on information a company has learned about an individual.
Firstly, Personalization is the act of tailoring an experience or communication base on information
a company has learned about an individual.
Secondly, Just like you may tailor a gift for a good friend, companies can tailor experiences or communications base
on information they learn about their prospects and customers.
Thirdly, After looking at the video can you guess how Facebook or Google are making you more addictive to the content they show you.
In addition, The want to sell you more stuff to increase more revenue.
Moreover, How do you think you are getting more addictive?
Please write this in 1500 words to explain how this can get you addictive and how this is bad for society.
You may use the links below for reference.
Personalized marketing uses data to deliver more relevant messages to your target audience.
In other words, businesses collect data on their audience’s interests, demographics, and behavior to create more relevant and valuable content.
This is becoming increasingly important as people have content coming at them from every direction.
If you want any chance to stand out, you’ll have to add some personalization.
BASICALLY, I NEED AN ESSAY WITH 1500 WORDS WITH THE PROMPT COMPLETED ABOVE. THANK YOU!
Personalized marketing is the implementation of a strategy by which companies deliver individualized content to recipients through data collection, analysis, and the use of automation technology.
The goal of personalized marketing is to truly engage customers or prospective customers by communicating with each as an individual.
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TEFL 120-hour Course – Unit 1
Chantelle is taking a 120-hour online TEFL course with tutor support and videos with ITTT. This is the first of her video diary entries outlining her experience taking the course. Chantelle took the online course because it was better for her to study online than to commit to attending an onsite course. In this video she talks about the first unit of the course. Unit 1 deals with teachers and learners discussing what makes good teachers and learners as well as the types of roles teachers perform in class, motivation levels of different types of learners and the different language levels.
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In the middle of October, Chile´s President Sebastián Piñera inaugurated the currently world´s largest solar thermal field with 27.5 MWth (39,300 m² of collector area). The system supplies heat to the Gaby copper mine of state-owned mining company Codelco. It is located in the high central desert, 100 km south of the town of Calama, in a region where it hardly ever rains. The mining installation’s size surpasses the 36,000 m² plant in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which was finished at the end of 2011. “The solar field will replace underground fuel sources which pollute the environment and are expensive compared to a source that is abundant, clean and guaranteed,” Piñera said at the inauguration according to an article in the Latin American Herald Tribune from 15 October 2013. Codelco profited from fixed energy prices, so the company could plan ahead without having to worry about market fluctuations, the president added.
Indeed, Codelco has signed an agreement with the Chilean company Pampa Elvira Solar to deliver solar heat to the mining factory over a 10-year period. “We own 45 % of Pampa Elvira Solar; 55 % are in the hands of local investors from Chile,” Hans Grydehøj, CEO of Sunmark, confirms. Sunmark was the supplier of the field’s 2,300 solar collectors. Pampa Elvira Solar, the owner of the solar field, is responsible for operating the solar system, as well as the existing boiler station. “We have our own staff onsite 24/7, 365 days a year,” Grydehøj says.
Sunmark delivered pre-assembled large-scale collectors consisting of 5 normally sized systems of 15 m2 each. Cranes were used to position the collectors on a field next to the mining factory. The Danish collector manufacturer with a panel factory in Vietnam employed specially developed glass covers, which are said to withstand dust and sand storms. Beyond those specifications, the CEO does not want to disclose any more technical details.
Grydehøj, however, confirms that “we have developed a special machine for dry-cleaning the panels, which can be operated by a single person and runs with a speed of 0.5 to 1 km/hour.” Sunmark plans to clean the entire solar field once a month. The Gaby mine is in one of the driest areas on earth, with rain only pouring down every 50 years.
Introduction on the operation of the solar heating system on inauguration day: Together with a 4,000 m3 heat storage, the solar system is said to cover 85% of the copper mine’s heat demand.
The installation will reach an annual output of 50,000 MWh, according to Sunmark’s website. This output corresponds to a specific yield of 1,272 kWh/m2. Grydehøj is still not sure how the consistently appearing dust in the air will affect the solar yield of the installation. The solar field´s primary side is working at 85 / 55 °C and the secondary side – supplying the mine – at 80 / 60 °C. The main process in the copper mine is electrolytic refining, during which copper is heated up in a bath to between 46 and 51 °C and deposited through electrolysis, another very electricity-demanding process. Codelco has had its first experiences with photovoltaics as well: It additionally runs a 1 MW plant, but this system is not even covering 1 % of the annual electricity demand of the mine, according to a report from CNN. The solar field, however, has already had a dramatic pollution-reducing effect, saving 20,000 litres of oil a day and a total of 250 truckloads of fuel per year.
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CBSE Class 12th Chemistry Examination 2020 is scheduled on March 7, 2020. The students appearing for the upcoming examination will find the below-mentioned article on important questions helpful. These questions and answers are strictly base on the latest syllabus prescribed by the CBSE Board.
Key Points to be mentioned while writing the answers to the below mentioned important questions:
Question 1- Draw the structures:
Answer: a- square planar
c- Square pyramidal
Question 2- Complete these chemical reaction equations :
i) P4 (s) + NaOH (aq) + H2O (l) →
ii) I– (aq) + H2O (l) + O3 (g) →
iii) XeF2 (s) + H2O (l) →
iv) PH3 + HgCl2 →
v) I2 + HNO3(Conc.) →
vi) HgCl2 + PH3 →
Vii) NaOH (Cold & dilute) + Cl2 →
viii) XeF6 (excess) + H2O →
Answer: i) P4 (s) + 3NaOH (aq) + 3H2O (l) → PH3 (g) + 3NaH2PO2 (s)
ii) 2I– (aq) + H2O (l) + O3 (g) → I2 (s) + 2OH- (aq) + O2 (g)
iii) 2XeF2 (s) + 2H2O (l) → 2Xe (g) + 4HF (aq)
iv) PH3 + HgCl2 → Hg3P2 + 6HCl
v) I2 + 10 HNO3(Conc.) → 2HIO3 + 10NO2 + 4H2O
vi) 2PH3+ 3HgCl2 → Hg3P2 + 6HCl
Vii) 2NaOH + Cl2 → NaCl + NaOCl+ H2O
viii) XeF6 + 3H2O(excess) → XeO3 + 6HF
Question 3- Draw the structures of white phosphorus and red phosphorus. Which phosphorus is more reactive and why?
White phosphorus is more reactive as it has discrete tetrahedral structure and angular strain.
Question 4- State the reasons:
(a)The N-O bond in NO2- is shorter than the N-O bond in NO3-.
(b) SF6 is kinetically an inert substance.
(c) All the P-Cl bonds in PCl5 molecules are not equivalent.
(d) Sulphur has a greater tendency for catenation than oxygen.
(a) The N-O bond in NO2- is shorter than the N-O bond in NO3- as in NO2- two bonds are sharing double bond whereas in NO3- three bonds are sharing a double bond.
(b) SF6 is kinetically an inert substance as it shows steric hindrance due to 6 fluorine atoms, hence, it is unable to react further with any other atom.
(c) All the P-Cl bonds in PCl5 molecules are not equivalent as it has sp3d hybridization and trigonal bipyramidal geometry. Therefore, it has 3 equatorial P – Cl bonds and two axial P-Cl bonds. Since two axial P-Cl bonds are repelled by 3 bond pairs while 3 equatorial bonds are repelled by two bond pairs, so axial bonds are longer than equatorial bonds.
(d) Sulphur has a greater tendency for catenation than oxygen as the lone pair of electrons feel more repulsion in O-O Bond than in S-S Bond. Also, when the size of an atom increases down the group from O - PO, the catenation tendency increases due to the increase in the bond strength.
Question 5- Explain:
a) O2 and F2 both stabilize higher oxidation states of metals but O2 exceeds F2 in doing so.
(b) Structures of Xenon fluorides cannot be explained by Valence Bond approach.
(c) NF3 is an exothermic compound whereas NCl3 is not.
(d) Xenon is known to form real chemical compounds out of all noble gases.
(e) NO2 readily forms a dimer.
Answer: (a) O2 and F2 both stabilize higher oxidation states of metals but O2 exceeds F2 in doing so because oxygen can form multiple bonds with metals.
(b) Structures of Xenon fluorides cannot be explained by Valence Bond approach because for the promotion of electrons in Xenon requires very high energy which doesn’t favour Valence Bond approach.
(c) NF3 is an exothermic compound whereas NCl3 is not because F - F bond energy is lower than that of N - F bond. Also, Cl - Cl bond energy is higher than that of the N - Cl bond. Therefore, NCl3 is an endothermic compound and is unstable.
(d) Xenon is known to form real chemical compounds out of all noble gases because Xenon atoms have a large size and lower ionisation potential. The force of nucleus over the electrons is weak and a very small amount of energy can excite the electrons.
(e) NO2 readily forms a dimer as it contains 23 odd electrons. N has seven electrons in the valence shell and is less stable. It dimerizes to form N2O4 in order to acquire stability.
Question 6- Explain.
(a) Which form of sulphur shows paramagnetic behaviour and why?
(b) Fluorine exhibits only -1 oxidation state whereas other halogens exhibit +1, +3, +5 or +7 oxidation states also.
(c) The electron gain enthalpy of sulphur atom has a greater negative value than that of the oxygen atom.
(d) Nitrogen does not form pentahalides.
(e) In aqueous solution, HI is a stronger acid than HCl.
(f) Elements of Group16 generally show the lower value of first ionization enthalpy compared to the corresponding periods of Group 15.
Answer: (a) Sulphur shows paramagnetic behaviour as in vapour state sulphur partly exists as S2 molecule which has two unpaired electrons in the antibonding π* orbitals like O2.
(b) Fluorine exhibits only -1 oxidation state whereas other halogens exhibit +1, +3, +5 or +7 oxidation states also as fluorine does not have d-orbitals and it is the most electronegative element.
(c) The electron gain enthalpy of sulphur atom has a greater negative value than that of oxygen atom as the enthalpy of dissociation of S - S bond is greater than O - O bond. Also, O2- ion has more hydration energy than S2- ion.
(d) Nitrogen does not form pentahalides because it does not have empty d-orbitals.
(e) In aqueous solution, HI is a stronger acid than HCl because of its lower bond dissociation energy and a higher degree of ionization.
(f) Elements of group 16 (oxygen family) have general electronic configuration of ns2np4 while elements of group 15 (nitrogen family) have general electronic configuration of ns2np3 which is a relatively stable half-filled configuration with high exchange energy. Hence, it requires more ionization energy to release electrons from this stable configuration.
Question 7- How is XeO3 obtained? Write the related chemical equations. Draw its structure.
Answer: Hydrolysis of XeF4 and XeF6 with water gives XeO3
6XeF4 + 12H2O → 4Xe + 2XeO3 + 24HF + 3O2
XeF6 + 3H2O → XeO3 + 6HF
Question 8- What happens when:
(i) PCl5 is heated
(ii) H3PO3 is heated
Answer: (i) On heating PCl5 decomposes into PCl3 + Cl2
(ii) Orthophosphorous acid on heating disproportionates to give orthophosphoric acid and phosphine.
Question 9- Arrange the following in the order of property indicated against each set :
(i) HF, HCl, HBr, HI (increasing bond dissociation enthalpy)
(ii) H2O, H2S, H2Se, H2Te ( increasing acidic character)
(iii) H3PO3, H3PO4, H3PO2 (Reducing character)
(iv) NH3, PH3, AsH3, SbH3, BiH3 (Base strength)
Answer: (i) HI < HBr < HCl < HF
(ii) H2O < H2S < H2Se < H2Te
(iii) H3PO3 < H3PO4 < H3PO2
(iv) BiH3 < SbH3 < AsH3 < PH3 < NH3
Question 10- a) Write the formula and describe the structure of a noble gas species which is isostructural with
(i) IBr2 - (ii) BrO3–
(i) HCl is a stronger acid than HF though fluorine is more electronegative than chlorine.
(ii) Decomposition of ozone molecule is a spontaneous process.
(iii) SF6 is inert towards hydrolysis.
(iv) Chlorine water loses its yellow colour on standing.
Answer: a) (i) IBr2 -: It has 2 bond pairs and 3 lone pairs.
Therefore, according to VSEPR theory, it should have a linear structure.
IBr2 - has (7 + 2 × 7 + 1) i.e. 22 valence electrons.
No noble gas has 22 electrons
∴ The isoelectronic species for IBr2 - is XeF2
(ii) BrO3–: It has 3 bond pairs and 1 lone pair of electrons. Therefore, according to VSEPR theory, it has a pyramidal structure.
It has 26 valence electrons i.e. (7 + 3 × 6 + Pyramidal shape 1 = 26).
A noble gas having 26 valence electrons is XeO3 (8 + 3 × 6 = 26).
Thus, XeO3 also has a pyramidal structure.
(b) (i) Because HCl has a large size and less bond strength than HF which makes it an easier liberation of H+.
(ii) Decomposition of ozone molecule is a spontaneous process as O3 is thermodynamically unstable and its decomposition results in the liberation of heat (ΔH is -ve) and increase in entropy (ΔS is +ve) so (ΔG becomes -ve and process becomes spontaneous).
(iii) SF6 is inert towards hydrolysis because S is protected by 6F atoms and does not allow H2O molecules to attach on it.
(iv) Chlorine water loses its yellow colour on standing due to the formation of HCl and HOCl. HOCl is unstable and decomposes to HCl.
Cl2 + H2O → HCl + HOCl
2HOCl → 2HCl + O2 (colorless)
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Heat Category: Nuclear
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on 26 October 20
The IT field is super popular in today’s moment. IT professionals are extremely demanded, and that’s because the digital sphere has grown enormously. Nowadays, smart devices and smart apps are benefitting our lives in various ways.
communicate, we find jobs, we play games, we watch videos…we do all of these things using something that mainly IT professionals can create. That’s the reason why the IT field is so important today.
Considering that you’re an IT professional, I bet that you won’t have many struggles finding a job. However, the difference between a job and the job is huge. The latter option will motivate you, satisfy you, and fulfill you more than any other job. You could call it the dream job or just the perfect job.
BUT. In order to get that, you need to present yourself to the marketplace in the proper manner. What does that mean? Well, you need an amazing IT resume that really stands out. Today’s post is all about that. Keep reading and learn how a great IT CV should be crafted in order to generate impact and results:
Emphasize Your Biggest Traits
T companies aren’t looking for fluffy resumes. Instead, they attribute a lot of importance to skills and traits. There’s a difference between the two. A skill is formed in time. A trait is something more like a natural talent. When you write your resume, be sure to emphasize your traits first, then follow up with your skills.
Show Your Results
Instead of focusing on your experience, I’d suggest you show your biggest results. If there’s something significant that you have accomplished by using your IT expertise, make sure to display it loud and clear. If you have more results, you could even create a subcategory named Career Results or Career Accomplishments and list all of them.
Results are typically taken more seriously than experiences. Explain how you’ve helped your ex-employers solve problems, and you’ll gain a great advantage in the recruiter’s eye.
Be Very Specific About Your Skills Level
Working in more places is great – it’ll help at boosting up your chances of landing the job you want. However, even though you’ve worked as a Windows Vista administrator 10 years ago and you know a bit about that specific operating system, you shouldn’t yell out loud that you’re a Professional Windows Vista operator.
Instead, be very genuine about your skill levels. As the IT industry is a wide enough sphere, you’re more likely to have more than one skill. You can know more coding languages, yet when you’re listing them down in your resume, be very precise about your true capacities.
Only state the important and up-to-date skills. Moreover, if you are applying for a software development company, don’t list your skills with hardware.
Write So That Everyone Can Understand
Most IT professionals tend to commit a big mistake. Considering that most resumes are read by HR professionals and recruitment managers, the resume must be understandable. The people that read your resume might have no clue what you are talking about in case you add specialty language.
Therefore, make sure that you avoid the excessive use of IT-related terms that only advanced professionals can understand. Obviously, that doesn’t mean you can’t take advantage of tech-related terms. Maintain a balance in language, and everything should be alright.
Make Your Resume Impeccable
If you want to win, you must do your best to be impeccable. What does that mean? Well, when you submit your resume, you need to be extremely sure that it contains no mistakes. I’m talking about grammar, spelling, and structure mistakes. I’m talking about wrong contact details and confusing statements.
Every respectable hiring manager will cut you off the list the moment he notices unpleasant mistakes in your resume. The reason is simple: whoever doesn’t take the time to create a professional, mistake-free CV is likely to lack professionalism.
Include Testimonials from Your Ex-Employees
Social proof is essential. Go ahead and ask your previous employers and clients for a favor: ask them to review the work you did for them. If you’re able to collect more testimonials from different respectable sources, you can list them all in your CV.
This way, the employer can get a closer peek at what you’re able to accomplish. If other individuals have high and respectable opinions about your work, you’ll surely improve your trustworthiness in the eyes of the recruiter.
EXTRA: 3 Resources to Improve Your Resume
I’d suggest taking into consideration these 3 specific resources. They’re all specifically designed to help you with the crafting and perfecting your resume.
- Resumes Planet – a great resume service that’ll assist you in case you encounter any struggles while developing your resume.
- Power Verbs for a Resume – use these verbs in order to create a resume with high impact.
- Tech Skills for Resumes – you can take inspiration and list some of these tech skills throughout your resume.
Employees that carefully take care of their resumes are making a great investment for the future. Believe me or not, your resume is your main image in the marketplace. And even if you know your worth and your level is above average, other employees with fewer competencies might steal your spot just because their resume is better.
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Like many of us approaching retirement age, just hearing the word retirement triggers my anxiety, particularly when I hear experts say how much boomers my age should be saving. The fortunate boomers have cushions of 401(k)s, pensions and real estate. Then there are the survivors — like me, living in poverty — who society considers as “others.”
I’m 58, never married, underemployed and been living without the financial means to save for emergencies, let alone retirement. There are plenty of Americans just like me. According to the National Council on Aging, more than 28 million older adults are economically insecure. And 6.1 million Americans age 60 to 64 are either living at, or below, 250% of the federal poverty level ($2,602 a month for one person.)
The ‘loud silence’ living in poverty
Many are in severe financial distress, struggling to find a full-time job and make ends meet. In my case, I’ve applied to countless jobs, receiving countless rejections from recruiters. They’ve told me “You are overqualified” or “This job is too junior for you” or “The salary is too low for someone at your level.” My age and experience have not been welcomed.
Elizabeth White writes eloquently about situations like mine in her new book, “55, Underemployed, and Faking Normal,” saying: “As a country, we are facing a retirement income crisis of mega-proportions. It is America’s big denial issue, what a friend of mine calls the “loud silence.”
I’ll break that “loud silence,” by telling you what it’s like trying to survive on $3 a day and food stamps and the seven life lessons I’ve learned living in poverty.
Struggling for several years to regain a full-time job that would lift me up, I’ve eked out a living from sparse gig income (freelance writing, cat sitting, apartment cleaning and social media management), SNAP (known colloquially as food stamps) and a spending budget of about $3 a day. That daily allowance affords me a tube of toothpaste one day, toilet paper the next or one cup of coffee in a public place where I can bring myself out of social isolation.
My poverty has accompanied depression and anxiety, often bringing me to the painful experience of being the “other” in social settings and relationships. Financial distress, and the way that society views the economically disadvantaged can take a brutal psychological toll, damaging your concept of self-worth and value.
The 7 lessons I’ve learned
These are the seven lessons I’ve learned and how I’ve changed my life based on them:
- Strive for quality friendships. Friends who stick by you and give you the dignity you deserve in times of hardship are blessings. Sadly, there are also fair-weather friends who seem only to want to spend time with you when you have money to spend.
Thanksgiving dinners have taught me a lot about friendships. One Thanksgiving, a single friend wanted to go to an expensive New York City restaurant, even though she knew I couldn’t afford it. I proposed having Thanksgiving dinner together by cooking turkey at my apartment or eating at a diner we enjoyed. She refused and opted to dine alone at the bar of the expensive restaurant, leaving me home alone. No pay, no play. She missed the point that someone with limited resources values having company just as much, if not more, than a pricey restaurant. After experiences like that one, I learned to let go of superficial friends and to strive to elevate the quality of future friendships.
- Remember that nature belongs to us all. I’ve learned to appreciate that the most beautiful things in life are free, particularly nature. During my most intense times of financial despair and depression, I’ve found solace and a sense of belonging by walking through an urban park, along a public beach or on a nature trail. In places like these, your socioeconomic status doesn’t matter. Rich or poor, we have equal access to sunsets, sunrises, the ocean tides, flowers and trees.
- You can find peace through spiritual fulfillment. Faith has carried me through my unemployment, poverty and dark days. I believe God loves us all. I’ve found spiritual fulfillment by listening to church sermons and music as well as by volunteering — making food for the homeless and building homes through Habitat for Humanity.
- You can live just fine with few possessions. I’ve turned to a minimalistic life, though not a monastic one. These days, I have fewer possessions than in the past, fewer clothes, not junk. But I treasure what I have.
The walls and floors are nearly bare in my one-room apartment in Washington, D.C., and I’ve embraced the goal of a capsule wardrobe. I’ve followed designer Justine LeConte’s videos on how to have a French style with only 10 essential pieces. I’ve developed a deep appreciation for the Dress for Success organization’s mission in helping disadvantaged women dress professionally and achieve economic independence.
- Your voice matters. How we express our thoughts and feelings can help others like us, and be our legacy — as beautiful works of art. You can find your own channel through making music, singing, dancing, writing, photography, painting or crafts. I have found my form of expression through writing. Even if I die penniless with no material possessions to leave behind, my voice will be found in my writing.
- Appreciate the powers of creativity and resourcefulness. Many of us had mothers, grandmothers and other relatives who were survivors turned DIY masters during financial hardships like the Great Depression. My mother and aunts sewed clothes and linens; another aunt quilted her bedspreads and canned preserves. When my financial circumstances forced me to sell all my furniture on Craigslist, I became a DIY decorator extraordinaire. What started as a necessity has become a creative outlet that has brought me a touch of self-worth.
- The most important word for survival: Hope. Do we as humans possess innate survival skills? Perhaps. But in my experience, only one word keeps me afloat. Hope. I know that as long as I have opportunities to learn and grow my knowledge, there is hope. I’m working at balancing my hopes for future livelihood with the unfortunate realities of age discrimination, which will likely intensify in my 60s. But becoming an entrepreneur would let me parlay my gig work into an enterprise so I can earn a living without my age becoming a setback. I’m eager to work with the Small Business Administration and get free counseling from the retired business owners in its affiliated resource group around the country.
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