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|At one time, the concept of “cyberbullying” seemed like a vague and melodramatic reaction to the ages-old problem of bullying. But then parents and teachers began seeing that accessible social media websites had become the chosen platforms for bullies — and being largely unregulated, these websites allowed bullying to reach an all-time dangerous level.
Far too many teens become the victims of relentless cyberbullying, and too many teen victims feel so burdened that they end up taking their own lives. It’s common for these deaths to make waves within their respective communities, but it’s rare that one victim’s struggle will make national — or even international — news.
In 2012, 15-year-old Canadian Amanda Todd took her own life after managing to fend off her bullies for two years. This past spring — the spring of 2014, and two years after her death– one of her primary cyberbullies was finally identified, and Todd’s story came back into the news.
It isn’t surprising that many anti-bullying advocates took advantage of the media’s concern with cyberbullying. It’s expected that parents and teachers would be the main advocates in these anti-bullying campaigns; after all, the kids are the ones instigating and allowing the bullying to happen, right?
But it may be surprising that almost 70% of teens believe that cyberbullying is a huge problem among their peers, and consequently, many of the loudest anti-bullying advocates are teenagers themselves.
In light of Canada’s Bullying Awareness Week 2014, which ran from November 16 – 22, several student-driven campaigns grabbed the attention of news outlets.
#Cyberlove is a new campaign created in memory of Todd, and social media users are encouraged to send a message of love to someone via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, etc. with the accompanying tag #cyberlove.
Similarly, a group founded in 2011 called ‘Fearlessly Girl’ released a new campaign as well, which is called FearlesslyKindand focuses on “girl-on-girl bullying” by uniting teens through discussions on Facebook.
The Canadian government even got involved in the online anti-bullying trend at the beginning of 2014, launching the Stop Hating Online campaign to spread awareness of how cyberbullying is closely linked to criminal activity (particularly the distribution of inappropriate images of underage girls).
It’s almost stunning how long it took for cyberbullying movements to take their campaigns online, considering that online forums are where the most dangerous bullying actually occurs. Parents and teachers may not be able to comprehend the magnitude of a simple “hashtag” on Twitter, but it’s clear that the traditional anti-bullying lessons — received by parents when “they were teens too, you know, once upon a time” — are largely ineffective in the internet-driven world.
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The Kingdom HandbookRelated Media
This sermon is the summary (part 7) of a 26 week series on the Sermon on the Mount. The rest of these weeks are posted below.
|1. Kingdom Character (Mt 5:1-16)||2. Kingdom Code (Mt 5:17-48)||3. Kingdom Worship (Mt 6:1-18)|
|4. Kingdom Economy (Mt 6:19-34)||5. Kingdom Relationships (Mt 7:1-12)||6. Kingdom Choices (Mt 7:13-29)|
December 19, 2004 1
For Christmas this year, we seem to be hanging our stockings by the chimney with particular care. Have you noticed that there seems to be a greater number of controversies lately about what can be done to celebrate the holidays in a religiously-neutral way? I heard about one school where the students where asked to bring M&M’s to a holiday party. But they were told not to bring red or green M&M’s because one of the teachers might be offended if there was any hint that the celebration was about a religious holiday.
For two thousand years we have celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ, God, who came to earth cloaked in human flesh. Throughout those years, many things have come along to obliterate the simplicity of that celebration. We have developed various customs, traditions, holiday mythology, and heart-warming values. In the minds of many, that’s what the real meaning of Christmas is all about. But here we unapologetically proclaim that Christmas is about Christ. It’s not about shopping or decorations or generosity. It’s not about red and green M&M’s. It’s not even about family. It’s about Jesus.
As we enter the final week before Christmas, we must take care not to allow the trimmings to obliterate the person of Jesus Christ. He is the reason we celebrate.
If Jesus could be here today, what would he want to say? When Jesus came to earth, the Bible says that he came proclaiming the good news that the kingdom of God was near. That was his message: the kingdom.
All this year, we’ve been studying Matthew 5-7, a passage that we’ve been calling The Kingdom Handbook because basically it contains instructions that Jesus gave us about his kingdom.
This week I’d like to do something a little different.
We’ve finished examining at the Sermon on the Mount verse by verse. But now I’d like to go back and try to tie all the pieces together. So this morning we’re going to take another look at the Sermon on the Mount. It’s kind of a speed reader’s version of the Kingdom Handbook. Hopefully, at least some of these things will be familiar to you.
Matthew 5 Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside and sat down. His disciples came to him, and he began to teach them, saying:
For just a few minutes I’d like you to imagine that you were there that day that Jesus taught his followers about the kingdom. These are the words he’s speaking to you. “The kingdom” is shorthand for heaven. It represents all that God would like to do in human history and all the perfection that one day he will restore to his creation.
Series: Kingdom Character
Jesus begins by describing the kind of people who belong to God’s kingdom. The answer might surprise you. You might heaven to be filled with the best and the brightest, the most worthy, the most spiritual. But here’s what Jesus says.
He begins with one word, “Blessed”. Basically, it means, “Congratulations! You’re the lucky winner.”
"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Those who are Spiritually bankrupt
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Those who are Deeply dismayed
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
Those who are Completely inadequate
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Those who are Crying for justice
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
Those who are Unexpectedly forgiving
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Those who are Absolutely innocent
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
Those who are Promoting harmony
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Those who are Mistreated for doing right
"Blessed are you when people insult you… because of me. …great is your reward in heaven…
Those who are Mistreated for Jesus
God’s kingdom is not for the strongest or wisest or most deserving. Instead He’s opened his kingdom to the spiritually bankrupt, the deeply dismayed and the completely inadequate.
God’s kingdom is place where our cries for justice will be satisfied at the same time that we are forgiven. But knowing that we will be declared absolutely innocent, we ourselves can be unexpectedly forgiving.
While we wait for God’s kingdom, we go about promoting harmony, but we ourselves can expect to be mistreated for doing right and for Jesus.
If you can relate to any of these characteristics, then “congratulations”, because the kingdom of God is for you.
As we await the final installment God’s kingdom in heaven, we live here on earth. Jesus uses two metaphors to describe our task:
"You are the salt of the earth. … "You are the light of the world. …
Salt represents our basic goodness. We are a moral influence on the world. We make it a better place because of our own good behavior.
Light represents our visibility. As people are able to see us and the way we behave, they will notice that God has made a difference in our lives.
let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.
Series: Kingdom Code
What does that goodness look like? Jesus calls it righteousness. It means doing the right thing. He says,
"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. …
Jesus taught that we enter God’s kingdom through grace. It doesn’t depend on what we do. But that doesn’t mean that we can do anything we want. Jesus doesn’t abolish God’s law, he embodies it. And he says to us…
…unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees…, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
Entrance into the kingdom requires perfection. Our perfection comes from what Jesus did. But as those who belong to the kingdom, we still live out the principles of God’s law. We still make it our goal to live out God’s law—not just conformity in our outward behavior, but willingly, internally, in our attitudes and our motives. It’s easier to conform our external behavior to a set of standards. That’s what the Pharisees did. But Jesus wants more from us.
He lays out six examples:
"You have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not murder…
Murder is wrong.
But I tell you that anyone who is angry with his brother will be subject to judgment. … …go and be reconciled to your brother…
But unresolved anger is also wrong.
"You have heard that it was said, 'Do not commit adultery.'
Adultery is wrong. God set the limits of sex within marriage.
But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her in his heart. …
But unrestrained sexual desire is also wrong.
"It has been said, 'Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.'
God permits divorce.
But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for marital unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adulteress…
But it is not permitted for any old reason, just for the sake of convenience.
"Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, 'Do not break your oath…
Oaths should be honest.
But I tell you, Do not swear at all: … Simply let your 'Yes' be 'Yes,' and your 'No,' 'No'; …
But people should be able to trust all our words, not just those we say under oath.
"You have heard that it was said, 'Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth.' But I tell you, Do not resist an evil person. …
Retribution is legal. But taking personal revenge is wrong.
"You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.'
It is quite natural to love your neighbor, the likeable guy next door.
But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you…
But God wants us to love those who hate us.
Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.
All these behaviors, attitudes and motivations are characteristic of God. He wants us to be like him, because we are his children.
What kind of righteousness should we have? Our righteousness must be genuine, not just external actions, but internal attitudes.
That changes our focus on the kind of wrong behavior we need to remove from our lives:
not just murder
but unresolved anger
not just adultery
but unrestrained desire
not just abandoning spouse
but capricious divorce
not just breaking an oath
but being untruthful
not just excessive payback
not just hating a neighbor
but hating an enemy
Series: Kingdom Worship
While we’re on the subject of being honest—having our internal heart match our external actions—let’s talk about worship.
Matthew 6 (NIV) "Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
Acts of worship are supposed to be done for God, not for people.
Jesus gives us three examples: giving, prayer and fasting.
"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do …to be honored by men. …
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. …
When you give, give so that God will notice, not so that people will notice.
"And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray … to be seen by men. …
But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. …
When you pray, pray so that God will notice, not so that people will notice. In fact, Jesus even gives us a model prayer:
"This, then, is how you should pray:
Our Father in heaven,
may your name be honored,
may your kingdom come,
may your will be done
one earth as it is in heaven.
Our prayer is focused on God’s purpose being accomplished.
Give us today our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts,
as we ourselves have forgiven our debtors.
And do not lead us into temptation,
but deliver us from the evil one.
Our prayer includes the things we want him to do in our lives.
Here’s the third example:
… "When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do…to show men they are fasting. …
But when you fast, put oil on your head and wash your face, so that it will not be obvious to men that you are fasting, but only to your Father, who is unseen;
When you fast, fast so that God will notice, not so that people will notice.
If that’s the way you worship—truly directing your actions towards God and not towards men,
[then] your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
That leads us to this general principle: If you perform religious acts to impress other people then you’ll miss God’s reward.
Series: Kingdom Economy
One of the things that most quickly captivate our allegiance is money.
So if we’re to be citizens of God’s kingdom, we need to pay special attention to how we deal with wealth.
First, we need to make sure we choose the right bank.
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
The deposits we store here on earth will disappear.
But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.
The deposits we send on ahead of us to heaven will last forever.
For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Second, we need to stick with our long-term investments. That is, we need to make sure our loyalty lies in heaven, not here on earth.
"No one can serve two masters. …You cannot serve both God and Money.
We have a choice everyday to serve God instead of money. But what about the things we need?
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. …
Third, we should count on social security, that is, not on the government, but on God’s ability to take care of us. Jesus gives two examples:
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. …
God takes care of the birds.
…See how the lilies of the field grow. … If that is how God clothes the grass of the field… will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith?
God takes care of the flowers. He can certainly take care of us.
So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?'…
Since God will take care of us, we don’t have to worry about stockpiling to meet any possible future physical needs. That means we can concentrate on saving up treasures in heaven.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. …
We can throw our time, our talents and our treasure into things that will last forever—building up God’s kingdom here on earth.
1. choose the right bank
2. stick with long-term investments
3. count on social security
4. make saving a priority
Series: Kingdom Relationships
Turning from money to relationships, Jesus tells us that belonging to God’s kingdom also effects the way we live with each other.
Matthew 7 (NIV) "Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
First, I need to be careful to guard my thoughts about other people.
Making quick, unfair judgments of other people only leads to an unfair judgmental environment where we too will be judged.
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? …
Hasty judgment is often distorted. So when we do make judgments, we need to be careful and we especially need to examine our own shortcomings.
Second, when it comes to fulfilling my desires, instead of fighting about what I want, I should ask God for what I want.
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you…
If you, . though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!
God may not give us everything we want, but we know that he will always give us what is best for us.
So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets.
Finally, I should plan my actions to treat others the way I would like to be treated.
1. guarding my thoughts
2. fulfilling my desires
3. planning my actions
Series: Kingdom Choices
At the close of his lesson, Jesus presents us with three choices.
Each of us must decide: where are we going? who will guide us? and what will we change?
Where are you going? Jesus says:
"Enter through the narrow gate.
We all face two paths. The path to death:
For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
Easy, broad, many travelers, but leads to destruction.
And the path to life:
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
difficult, narrow, only a few travelers, but it is the only path that leads to life. You choose.
Who are your guides? There are two teachers.
"Watch out for false prophets. They come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ferocious wolves.
There are many voices out there claiming to tell the truth. but not all of them speak the truth. How can you tell them apart?
You can tell by comparing what they say to God’s word. Also,
By their fruit you will recognize them. … every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. …
Study the long-term effect of their teaching and their leadership.
And remember that not everyone who names God knows God.
"Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. …
Lastly comes the biggest choice of all. What will you change?
There are two foundations:
"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
One who puts God’s word into practice has a solid foundation.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.
Nobody ever promised life would be easy. But the one who puts God’s word into practice will be able to survive the storms of life when they hit.
By contrast, there’s another way you can respond to God’s word:
But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.
One who hears the word, but doesn’t do anything about it, who won’t allow God’s word to change them, that person has an unreliable foundation.
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash."
When the storms of life hit them, their house will be destroyed.
What Will You Change?
What is your response to God’s word? You have heard it. Will you do it?
When Jesus had finished saying these things, the crowds were amazed at his teaching, because he taught as one who had authority…
That’s the Sermon on the Mount. Amazing words that are still as fresh, challenging, insightful, penetrating and true as they were 2000 years ago.
God offers us his kingdom by grace. How fortunate we are to be part of it. In order to let others discover his kingdom, He calls us to live by a higher standard of right behavior—to a harmony between our external actions and our internal attitudes. And our worship should have the same integrity—truly directed toward God. Jesus promises to provide for our physical needs so that we can concentrate on developing the kingdom. He calls us to treat others as we would want to be treated. And finally he gives us a choice: will you put these words into practice or will you simply walk away informed and possibly amazed.
A disciple is one who follows Jesus. Who are you following today?
1 Copyright ? 2004 by Lewis B. Bell III (Chip Bell). This is the edited manuscript of Lesson 27 in the The Kingdom Handbook series deliverd by Chip Bell at Fellowship Bible Church Arapaho on December 19, 2004. Anyone is at liberty to use this lesson for educational purposes only, with credit.
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HCV2018 – ICORN Public Outreach Session
A novel component to the 2018 international Symposium was the ICORN Public Outreach Session, led by Professor Cliona O’Farrelly, a new initiative of HCV2018 which provided Irish healthcare providers and patients the opportunity to hear about and discuss developments in HCV research.
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IZA DP No. 13055: The Impact of BMI on Mental Health: Further Evidence from Genetic Markers
forthcoming in: Economics and Human Biology, 2020
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In addition, high demand for mono energetic x-ray generators
for cardiovascular imaging, owing to its appropriate and safe intensity of energy projections, is presumed to provide growth potential to the Medical X-ray Generator
The operator console will control all the system's functions, including the X-ray generator
, detector array adjustment, and patient data through connectivity with the hospital information system (HIS) and the radiology information system (RIS).
The cost of an X-ray generator
in a sterilization facility is comparable to the initial cobalt-60 loading of a gamma facility, according to industry data.
This referenced component is the X-ray generator
, an electrical component with no moving parts or software.
The advantage of concentrating inspection only on the base of a container is that the x-ray generator
can be moved much closer to the product, reducing the distance the x-ray beam must travel to the detector.
Working with existing portable x-ray generators
such as INSPECTOR or SCANMAX, it is available in a portable notebook format with separate camera box and x-ray generator
For instance, a well-collimated beam from an X-ray generator
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The evolution of CHO cells’ role in cell line development
- April 19, 2021
- Cathy Olsen
Since the first approval of recombinant insulin and human growth hormone in the early 1980s, a multitude of recombinant protein therapeutics have been approved by regulatory agencies, notably the FDA in the US and EMA in Europe. Given this significant increase in successful introduction of biological therapeutic agents, there is a crucial need in the drug discovery space to support more efficient manufacturing processes that require highly productive cell lines.
The Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are an epithelial-like cell line that are highly amenable to transfection and have emerged as the gold standard for the manufacturing of approved therapeutic proteins.
Why are CHO cells used?
Several key properties of CHO cells have driven their establishment as the preferred host cell line for regulatory approvals of recombinant therapeutic products:
Adaptable to growing in suspension culture, which is ideal for large scale production in bioreactors
Adaptable to growth in serum-free and chemically defined (animal-free) media supplements, which ensures reproducibility between different batches of cell culture
Allow posttranslational modifications (e.g. glycosylations) to recombinant proteins which are compatible and bioactive in humans
Several chemical selection and gene amplification systems have been developed for CHO cells, optimized for higher yield of recombinant protein per cell.
History of CHO Cells
1956 - CHO-ori cells
CHO cell line is established in the laboratory of Theodore Puck at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research. CHO-ori cells actively divide and do not exhibit the limitations on doubling times (Hayflick Limit) observed in primary cells.
1968 - CHO-K1 cells
Kao, Puck and co-workers cloned the CHO-ori cells and distributed to collaborators. Mutational analysis of CHO-K1 suggests that this cell line is missing a chromosome which carries a gene necessary for glycine biosynthesis, paving the way for selection methods utilizing chemicals CHO-S components in media.
1971 - CHO-S cells
Adapted for growth in suspension liquid culture, this cell line is ideal for scale up and growth in large-scale bioreactors.
1980 - CHO-DXB11 cells
Urlaub and Chasin at Columbia University generated CHO lacking DHFR activity in one locus and a missence mutation in the other. DHFR-deficient strains cannot grow unless transfected with a functional copy of DHFR or in media supplemented with thymidine. Thus, transfecting DXB11 cells with a functional DHFR gene attached to a gene of interest (GOI) enable selection of cells only carrying their GOI by growing them in thymidine-free media.
1981 - MTX-Induced Gene Amplification
An approach was proposed to amplify genes with the help of an antagonist of DHFR, the chemical component methotrexate (MTX). Selection of recombinant cell lines using stepwise increases in the MTX concentration in the culture medium resulted in amplified copies of the transfected DHFR gene together with the GOI. Such induced gene amplification usually increased the productivity of the GOI.
1983 - CHO-DG44 cells
Urlaub and Chasin constructed a CHO line containing full deletion of the two DHFR loci. DXB11 cells were limited in their usefulness because they could spontaneously revert back to a functional DHFR enzyme, making selection impossible. CHO-DG44 eliminated this problem by completely deleting the DHFR locus, making selection for the GOI always possible. Due to this, CHO-DG44 are amongst the most widely used CHO cells for industrial protein production.
1986 - Activase® is approved by FDA
Human tissue plasminogen activator, marketed as Activase® (Genentech) becomes the first therapeutic protein from recombinant mammalian cells to obtain market approval.
1989 - CHO-K1SV cells
Vectors for the Glutamine Synthetase (GS) system, first reported in 1987, were adapted to the CHO cell line.
2000 - Today…
More than 100 new recombinant protein therapeutics have been approved by the US FDA or the EMA.
With the increased interest in viral diagnostics and treatments, CHO cells are again demonstrating their versatility. They are being engineered to express coronavirus antigens in the quest to develop new vaccines, and they are being used to produce monoclonal antibody therapeutics that may provide new treatments for COVID-19.
Generate recombinant CHO cells
Discover an effective and rapid process for generating recombinant CHO cell lines
The selection of high-producing mammalian CHO cell lines continues to represent a major bottleneck in process development for the production of biopharmaceuticals. Therefore, it is increasingly important to develop new high-throughput methods for the selection of high-expressing CHO cell lines in an efficient and cost-effective manner.
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Every regular printer user will have encountered the error “another computer uses the printer” at least once in their life. Even if they have never experienced the problem, they will be able to tell you about it.
This is one of the most common printer problems that can prevent you from connecting your printer to your computer, printing documents or photos. There are many solutions to this problem.
Before we get to the solutions, let’s first take a moment to understand the printer not responding mac problem. The two main reasons for “another computer is printing” errors are: First, your printer may be connected to another computer system that is using it. It could be a technical problem that prevents you from using your printer.
You can prevent this problem using a variety of techniques. They are also so easy to use that another computer may have trouble with your printer.
Problems with Computer is using the Printer
You have come to the right place if you are looking for “how to fix another computer that has printing errors”. Let’s go straight to the methods without wasting time.
Resetting the Print Queue
- To open the Run program, press Windows key + R together.
- Enter “services” in the dialogue box. Enter MSC in the dialogue box and press the Enter key.
- Your computer screen will display a large number of services.
- Double-click Print Spooler to search the list.
- Now, press the stop button under the system status.
- To apply all changes, click the OK button
- You should also delete all printer files after you have stopped the print queue.
- You can remove them using Windows key + E on your keyboard.
- This will open File Explorer.
- You should now navigate to the folder called This PC.
- To find the spool folder, search for “C: WindowsSystem32spoolPRINTERS”.
- Once you’ve got there, find the PRINTERS folder.
- Close the window and exit the file explorer.
Power Cycle your Printer, Computer, and Router
This error can be temporary and can be easily fixed by shutting down your devices. A power cycle is a way to restart your device if it is new to the power cycle. In this example, we will turn off all connected devices and then restart them. Make sure to turn off all main power supplies and supplies.
This can help prevent another computer from using the printer error. When you turn the printer off and on, it automatically reboots all the settings that were previously set and thus recovers the device from being unresponsive.
This will allow you to turn off your printer, computer, and WiFi router. You must disconnect all power cables from your devices. Wait about 5 minutes and then reconnect all power cables. Finally, restart your devices. To check if the problem has been solved, do a test print.
You Need to Verify the Printer Name
Sometimes you may see two printers on your computer with the same name. One of these printers is your printer and the other is a web service. These printer names can end with WS, XPS, or both. If your computer is connected to WS or XPS printers, it is not uncommon to encounter such problems.
You can simply change the connection to your normal printer for such situations. You can find it listed by its name and model number. If this is not enough, you can cancel all print jobs and start the print queue. Then select the printer name once more. To verify, make a test print.
How to Install the Latest Printer Drivers
If you have tried all the other options, the chances of printer driver problems are very high. You need to make sure your printer drivers are compatible with your printing APP. Damaged or outdated printer drivers can also cause this error.
Check for available driver updates. You can remove your current printer drivers and install the ones that are compatible with your printer. To do this visit the official website of the printer manufacturer and enter the name and model number.
These steps will help you update your printer drivers.
- To open the launcher, press the Windows + R keys together on your keyboard.
- Enter devmgmt. msc in the dialogue
- To open the device manager, press the Enter key.
- Right-click the printer hardware option in the print queue.
- Click the Update Driver option.
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The world’s population will hit 6.9 billion by January 1, reported GMANews.tv citing the German Foundation for World Population, a group that promotes birth control and supplies free contraception.
According to GMANews.tv, the German group’s population meter will read 6,934,196,000 at the stroke of midnight on Friday. The trend suggests 2.6 people are born every second, higher than the estimate of the World Population Global Report of the United States Census. Factoring 4.17 total births and 1.8 total deaths per second, the US Global Report estimates a net growth of 2.37 per second.
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Theatre of Progress: Mind the Gap’s ZARA, an eye opening performance
We recently interviewed Julia Skelton, Executive Director of ground breaking learning disability theatre company Mind the Gap. From Julia we learned how social change can be stimulated using theatre as a powerful creative tool to inspire co-production and facilitate discussions about social issues. Last Friday, members of our team had the incredible experience of witnessing this in action when they attended a performance of Mind the Gap’s largest ever production called ‘ZARA’, performed outdoors in the gardens of the Imperial War Museum in London. We laughed, cried, danced and learnt about the experiences of many parents with learning disabilities.
Daughters of Fortune explores learning disability and parenthood for a mainstream audience. It began with a forum theatre piece called ‘Anna’ which was used for research workshops and was followed by ‘Mia’, a production that gained critical acclaim and featured at 2017’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival as well as touring 24 theatres across the UK.
This year’s Staging Change project focuses on getting people with learning disabilities employed in the arts. Mind the Gap are partnering with five venues including Leeds Playhouse and Square Chapel Arts Centre in Halifax. ZARA has provided the opportunity for Mind the Gap to work on best practice for this project by employing four interns, each with a learning disability, to work on the production.
ZARA is an outdoor performance of considerable scale, capturing the essential vision of Mind the Gap and their approach to theatre as impacting life ‘off-stage’. The production features a spectacular 22 feet high, moving baby art installation which was made by outdoor art specialists Walk the Plank especially for the performance.
ZARA tells the story of a mother and child against the world, with a cast of 100 actors, an army tank, cherry pickers and 4x4s as well as 3D projection mapping and an original music score. Whilst the core cast of professional actors with and without learning disabilities stays the same over the venues they’ve performed at, Mind the Gap recruited the bulk of the remaining cast from local communities for each venue. It’s this final touch that captures the focus and commitment of this stalwart of theatrical co-production.
The most striking aspect of ZARA is the ways in which the issue of learning disability and parenthood is scaled-up to emphasise some of the current issues they face as one of a national crisis. The stage was set in the lead up to the performance with the showing of satirical news reports and advertisements of popular TV shows with a cast of learning disabled actors. The news reports and adverts brought home the overall message, one which was repeated throughout the evening: “I’m not a case, I’m a human being”. The films were educational tools that brought the audience into the performance through a series of informative and creative accounts that left many of us shocked by how little we knew about this issue: 65% of children whose parents have a learning disability are taken into care against the will of their parents.
The news reports quickly moved from a historical account of learning disability and parenthood from the 17th century to the 1960s by sending a ‘live reporter’ to Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park who interviewed members of the public (i.e. us: the audience) and a dancers collective who raise awareness around disability rights.
Then the show began! The stage is set: ZARA is a mother-to-be who has a learning disability, she’s in hospital about to give birth, social services are moving in to take the baby into care, protesters have gathered outside the hospital to campaign for her rights to stay with her child.
After the birth of the baby (whose name is revealed as EVA at the end of the production), the ‘multi-disciplinary team representative’ makes the case for taking the baby into care. ZARA, frustrated by this stance maintains that ‘if you help me you help my baby’. When the multi-disciplinary team attempt to take the baby, protesters clash with them and the army is called in due to its size. During the attempts to remove giant baby Eva from her mother there’s a wonderfully down-to-earth obstacle: the Poo-mageddon! A moment of levity, comedy and dance in the form of choreographed hazmat suits coming to help clean up the scene.
But this cleansing process is a metaphor for something far bigger than the changing of a diaper. It’s about healing the community, bringing together opposing parties in support of a mother and child. Giant baby Eva’s increasing distress as a result of the tensions around her at the moment of her birth prompt a collective effort to help calm her and nourish her. This is where the army and the state, the protesters and ZARA set aside their differences to bring a selection of large props in the shapes of a dummy, a bottle of milk, a blanket. It took a collective effort to provide for the baby’s wellbeing. It took a little village to raise the child in its first moments.
The story concludes with ZARA’s foster mother, Diane, coming to the scene and promising to help, a gesture of reconciliation, intergenerational healing and community building.
But to only see ZARA in terms of its narrative would be to miss out on perhaps the most quietly touching moment in the performance. The lights go down and the huge baby installation becomes a projector for videos that contain the real-life testimonies of many learning disabled parents whose voices formed the discursive edge that brought ZARA’s story home. This beautiful gesture of solidarity with parents from our communities who have struggled to keep their children and who described how much they loved their children and how their wellbeing was dramatically improved when they were able to see their children really captured how differently parents with learning disabilities are treated compared to other parents. Their brave testimonies told the story of a systemic issue that sets parents up to fail but also challenged that system and promoted a system change.
Mind the Gap are seasoned veterans of this visionary theatrical practice and we hope to attend more of their performances in the future. As we went home after ZARA all of us were really touched by the issue, filled with solidarity, compassion and a new understanding. It’s those feelings that form the foundation for most social change. The performance itself was really like a work of magic, it enchanted the crowd with its nuance and courage as well as its grand scale. To keep an eye out for videos and photos do check out Mind the Gap’s website and Twitter. | <urn:uuid:0f3f3d11-42c8-4df5-ab65-0a5a6fd78340> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ideas-alliance.org.uk/hub/2019/05/16/theatre-of-progress-mind-the-gaps-zara-an-eye-opening-performance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.969734 | 1,375 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Does a loss in excess of a sublimit have any impact on the amount owed on an insurance claim? The Big I Virtual University is a tremendous information resource about insurance coverage for insurance agents. Insurance claims executives should learn from those underwriting and selling the polices before making wrong claims denials.
Here is a 2009 discussion from the Virtual University on this topic of sublimits and deductibles:
It’s clear in the policy that the deductible is applied to the insured’s LOSS, not the sublimit (see faculty comments below). I don’t recall ever seeing any standard HO or auto policy with sublimits where the sublimit is applied to the loss before the deductible.
Consider an HO policy with a $200 sublimit for money and a $250 deductible. Let’s say the insured keeps $500 in petty cash on hand and it’s destroyed in a fire. The proper way to adjust this loss is to appy the deductible to the loss so that, in the absence of a sublimit, the insured loss is $250 ($500 loss minus $250 deductible). THEN the sublimit is applied so that the insured receives the full $200 sublimit and must pay the $50 uninsured portion out of pocket.
Following the logic of the adjuster and his supervisor in your auto loss, in the HO loss cited above, the insured receives nothing. The adjuster would claim that the $200 sublimit is applied to the $500 loss to get an insured loss of $200…applying the $250 deductible at that stage results in a payment of nothing to the insured. Since $250 is the minimum deductible under most HO programs, it makes no sense at all to have a sublimit in the policy of $200, knowing that the insured can never collect a penny on loss to that type of property. It’s just common sense.
The same approach is commonly applied to unscheduled jewelry losses under an HO policy. Let’s say a ring is stolen valued at $2,500. The sublimit is $1,500 and the deductible is $250. The insured would receive $1,500…a $2,500 loss minus the $250 deductible is $2,250, so applying the sublimit gives the insured a $1,500 recovery.
The policy clearly and unambiguously states that the deductible applies to the insured’s loss, not the special limit. I’ve NEVER seen a homeowners or auto policy of any carrier where the deductible is applied to a special sublimit. This is basic licensing school stuff…do you by any chance live in a state where there are no educational requirements for adjuster licensing or CE? Let us know if the company continues to take this position.
The FC&S warns that it is important to read the policy form carefully to determine how the deductible applies to sublimits:
Another problem arises in determining from what amount the deductible should be subtracted. The following question came from a subscriber who wasn’t sure where the deductible fit, if at all:
Our insured had a leaky shower stall — the liner under the shower pan was installed incorrectly. The cost to remediate the resulting mold damage was $14,000, and water caused $1,700 in damage.
Under the HO 00 03 10 00, with mold endorsement HO 04 05 12 02, I believe the mold coverage would extend up to $10,000 and absorb the deductible in the uninsured portion of the mold loss. Would the $1,700 be covered and would the $500 deductible apply to that part of the loss?
Traditionally, adjusters apply the deductible to the actual amount of loss, which worked to the insured’s advantage. In this instance, the total amount of the loss is $15,700. Using the traditional method, $500 would be subtracted from the total amount of $15,700. Then the $10,000 limit for the mold damage would apply, and the water damage would be covered in full.
However, the HO 00 03 10 00 contains a provision that does not follow the traditional method. The form says, “Subject to the policy limits that apply, we will pay only that part of the total of all loss payable under Section I that exceeds the deductible amount shown in the declarations.” Thus, the deductible would come off the amount actually payable, not the total amount of loss.”1
Under most first party property forms, the amount of the total loss of covered property is generally subject to a deductible. The company will pay the total loss of covered property less the deductible amount subject to a policy limit. If the policy limit is less that the total loss less the deductible, the insurance company pays the policy limit, and many adjusters call this scenario “absorbing the deductible.”
I have previously written about the concept of the deductible being absorbed because the total loss is greater than the policy limit in, When Calculating Insurance Payments, Take The Deductible From The Repair Value And Not The Policy Limits, and Subtract Deductibles From Repair Or Replacement Values—Not From Policy Limits.
When faced with sublimits, subject to the language in a form, it is helpful to generally think of a sublimit as a specialized amount of coverage for a particular loss that is within the amount of the total loss.
Deductibles are often overlooked until a loss happens. Always remember how sublimits of loss should be measured in total because they can often be used in a measure which will “absorb” part or all of the deductible.
Thought For The Day
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
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A version of this article first appeared at Townhall.com.
The two most important takeaways from the final presidential debate are these: First, no Republican presidential nominee should agree ever again to a debate organized by the Commission on Presidential Debates—at least without major reforms. Second, no such nominee should ever consent to a “mainstream media” moderator because it is clear the media have no clue as to what the president’s job really is.
In the last presidential debate of the season the bias of Kristen Welker (NBC, MSNBC) was palpable: She repeatedly interrupted and quibbled with President Donald Trump, while presenting a much more respectful demeanor toward former Vice President Joe Biden.
But far worse was her selection of topics. These seem to have been drawn almost exclusively from the “progressive” agenda and from Democratic Party talking points. Notably, most were irrelevant to the president’s constitutional job description.
That job description is laid out in the U.S. Constitution, primarily in Sections 2 and 3 of Article II. The Constitution tells us that the president’s most important tasks are enforcing federal laws, nominating and appointing federal officers and judges, signing and vetoing bills, recommending measures to Congress, commanding the military, and (with some input from the Senate) conducting foreign affairs.
There is nothing in the president’s job description about health care or pandemics, ending pollution, or fighting institutional racism. With marginal exceptions, the Constitution assigns those duties to state officials. (That’s a major reason we have state officials!) Yet Welker treated these issues as if they were all determined by the Emperor—er, President.
It is clear, moreover, that the choice of questions was not just the result of constitutional ignorance. Consciously or not, her questions were crafted to put Trump at a disadvantage and Biden at an advantage.
Originally, this was to be a debate about foreign policy—one of the president’s core constitutional responsibilities. In that area, Trump has much to boast about: the rapid defeat of Isis; brokering a deal whereby two more Arab states recognized Israel; transfer of our embassy to Jerusalem; the correction of our previously pro-China foreign policy; successful insistence that our allies contribute more to NATO, and successful re-negotiation of NAFTA.
As well as the honor of being the first administration in a very long time to keep us out of war.
Perversely, therefore, the Debate Commission decided there would be no debate dedicated to foreign policy. Instead, the questions were all about COVID-19, “institutional racism,” climate change, Russian election interference, minimum wage, Trump’s businesses—and yet more “institutional racism.”
By contrast, Welker was entirely incurious about issues that are, objectively speaking, of more long-term importance to the country. She also was incurious about the explosive scandal now surrounding Biden and his family.
Here are some questions that should have been asked, but weren’t:
* For both candidates: Communist China is increasingly becoming a military rather than merely an economic threat. How do you plan to address this problem?
* For Biden: Do you disagree with any of the president’s Middle Eastern policies, and if so how would you do things differently?
* For Biden: Would you renew the Obama administration’s agreement with Iran?
* For Biden: Do you disagree with any of the president’s European or NATO policies, and if so how would you do things differently?
Fiscal Issues and Regulation:
* For both candidates: Due to massive deficit spending by both parties over the past 50 years, the national debt is now at an alarming level, and is still growing fast. Federal entitlement programs are headed toward bankruptcy. Do you have any plan to address the fiscal situation?
* For President Trump: Although Republicans often proclaim their fiscal responsibility, during your administration, deficits and debt have gotten much worse—even before COVID hit. Explain why your administration has not been more fiscally responsible.
* For Trump: You have placed a priority on de-regulation. But regulations can be re-imposed as long as the agencies issuing them continue to survive. Why have you not recommended termination of more federal agencies, particularly those that merely duplicate state-level activities?
* For both candidates: Since the 1960s, federal involvement in health care has triggered an explosion in costs, pricing most Americans out of the health care market and thereby limiting access. Thus far, most of the solutions offered have involved additional federal programs, such as Obamacare, that have made the cost situation worse. What plans, if any, do you have for reducing the federal role in healthcare?
The Constitution and Judiciary:
* For both candidates: The Constitution clearly limits the federal government to certain functions, but it is widely ignoring constitutional limits. Many Americans distrust the federal government and believe it has become abusive. Do you agree, and if so how will you try to correct the situation?
* For both candidates: What is your stance on increasing the number of Supreme Court justices?
* For Biden: You claimed that the president’s nomination of Amy Coney Barrett is “unconstitutional,” but legal experts say that’s false. Why did you say it?
* For both candidates: What will be the criteria by which you appoint federal judges?
* For both candidates: Do you recommend any constitutional amendments? If so, which ones and why?
The Biden Scandal:
* For Biden: Was the recently-discovered laptop computer said to belong to Hunter Biden actually his property, and are its recorded emails accurate? | <urn:uuid:2ffe1630-27d6-4e9c-a4d3-099a41d52290> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://i2i.org/presidential-debate-the-medias-ignorance-of-the-constitution-questions-that-should-have-been-asked/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963595 | 1,180 | 1.703125 | 2 |
The spa Korytnica is situated in the protected area of the Low Tatras National Park (NAPANT) at the northern slope of the Prašivá peak, 24 km in the east from Ružomberok. You can find here mineral springs of plaster, ferric and carbonic water that were known already in the 16-th century. The spa settlement was founded in the 19-th century. Gastric, casing, liver diseases are still healed here.
By the end of the 18-th century some attempts were made to mine gold in the surroundings. Swamped old mines can still be found. Water that was needed for mining industry was taken from the village Pusté to the village Špania Dolina through an elevated duct.
The spa building Hygia was transformed into a military hospital after the liberation of the Ružomberok city during the World War II. The spa was modernised after the war.
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It is regretful if lie would be elected
I wish if some one could collect these days' short messages. After determining debates especially after those Mr. Ahmadi Nejad participated in them, all of short messages were related to obvious lying by some one who wants to be Iran's president for next 4 years. His lies about statistics and persons are too many to mention in webnevesht. Approaching to the election controversies grow so that any voice is not possible to hear. But in this election voice of lie are so loud that every body heard it. Again the only voice which had been heard among controversies was the voice of debates, especially attractive and serene debate between Mr. Mosavi and Mr. Karobi which mentioned most of statistics and statements of president are deceit. When people believe some one is lying, his re-election will be end of ethical values. Although in practice most of the values had been destroyed but such event can be institutionalized in country. Formal lying causes ruling downfall in all over the world. If in our honorable country lying causes to win the election, what will be the judgment of future generations about us. People have decided to make a change but how oppress to Iran and Iranian nation who try to replace decision of people by ways they know it very well. | <urn:uuid:1f000264-c4b5-4654-8271-ede4d727a7be> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.webneveshteha.com/en/weblog/?id=2146310123 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982741 | 268 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The Culture of Sex in Ancient China
The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that informed the classical Chinese conception of social and political relationships. This sophisticated and long-standing tradition, however, has been all but neglected by modern historians. In The Culture of Sex in Ancient China, Paul Rakita Goldin addresses central issues in the history of Chinese attitudes toward sex and gender from 500 B.C. to A.D. 400.
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In this story , however , the mourning of Ch'i Liang's widow is not taken as a sign that her husband was excessively fond of domestic pleasures . On the contrary , this is a story of a woman whose skillful and pointed demonstrations of ...
Where is her husband ? Why should a “ good wife ” be entertaining a cohort of inebriated “ guests ” inside her home — and all alone ? The final line , sheng i ta chang - fu - *** ( " exceeds [ the value of ] one husband ” ) , while ...
Another article in the same text mandates the punishment of a certain woman who leaves her hus band , takes another lover , and does not inform her husband for two years . This passage is also tantalizing , because the text does not say ...
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Imagery of Copulation
Women and Sex Roles
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Background How body organ and tissues sizes are specified is one
November 26, 2017
Background How body organ and tissues sizes are specified is one of the great unsolved mysteries in biology. can circumvent all such restrictions, enabling effective attenuation of a wide range of perturbations. The type of responses that achieves CC-401 such efficiency – which we term destiny control – requires advertising of family tree branching at the expenditure of both restoration and (major) difference. We discuss the proof that responses of this type takes place [8 simply,18,19]. Despite the charm of the restoration control technique, there are factors to anticipate that it comes at the expenditure of efficiency Rabbit Polyclonal to IKK-alpha/beta (phospho-Ser176/177) tradeoffs , that can be, the price of producing tissues development even more solid to specific types of perturbations (for example, a subset of those illustrated in Shape?1) might end up being to produce it more fragile to others. Right here we present that this can be the case certainly, irrespective of whether reviving or fully differentiated tissues are being produced continually. In particular, we present that the high-gain responses required for fast response and being rejected of specific classes of disruptions inevitably makes such systems much less solid (or also volatile) in the encounter of various other disruptions. Using CC-401 equipment from solid control theory, we display that the great factors for this constraint are structural, that can be, they bring up to the character of the responses technique, not really options of variables utilized to put into action it. Shape 1 Disruptions and their influence on the aspect of a two-stage cell family tree. Control or dedicated progenitor (CP) cells can self-renew or differentiate to terminally differentiated (TD) cells. The procedures of cell department, differentiation or renewal, and … Intriguingly, these tradeoffs are discovered by us can end up being reduced through an alternative technique that we pertain to as destiny control, whereby lineages part – that can be, control or progenitor cells make even more than one type of differentiated item – and the branching decision turns into the focus on of responses control. Extremely, such behavior was lately referred to in the olfactory epithelium simply, where two TGF- family members people, gDF11 and activin, that mediate responses control of neuron amount had been discovered to regulate the development of sensory control cell progeny down a non-neuronal, supporting-cell family tree part . Certainly, family tree branching can be a common feature of many tissue, both during regeneration and advancement [21-25]. We present right here that such difference strategies resolve an essential, universal control issue in the responses control of development. Outcomes Responses control of control cell restoration robustly stabilizes family tree paths We start by taking into consideration the simplest example of restoration control, in which responses works upon a control cell (type 1) whose progeny either stay control cells or differentiate into port, post-mitotic (type 2) cells (Shape?2A). We allow stand for the price of cell department (that can be, the cell doubling period can be ln 2/for the possibility, at each department, that girl cells differentiate; for the possibility, at each department, that girl cells stay control cells (therefore =1- for the possibility, per device period, that port cells perish. If we allow and stand for the concentrations (or amounts) of control and port cells, respectively, for huge more than enough cell amounts after that, the aspect of the program may end up being referred to by a set of common differential equations: and are used to end up being features of The type of each formula derives from the reality that the CC-401 price of creation of each cell type takes place at the price of the control cell routine increased by two (because two girl cells are created with each department) moments the possibility that a control cell girl turns into either a control cell (can be changed and by 1-can be the preferred (unperturbed) port … For continuous beliefs of and around the worth of at which and and (as alluded to in .) For some regular condition properties of CC-401 program 1, the exact form of the responses function can be unimportant, but to understand powerful replies or manners to exterior perturbations, the information are essential, the steepness particularly, or aggressiveness with which adjustments with can end up being created as can end up being idea of as a monotonic function of the proportion between root propensities to differentiate.
History: We examined a molecular technique having a single-PCR for amplification
May 12, 2017
History: We examined a molecular technique having a single-PCR for amplification of an integral part of CP5 gene enabling us to differentiate the pathogenic varieties as well as the PCR items were after that sequenced. and by amplifying a particular PCR fragment rapidly. is still stated among the major health issues in tropical and subtropical areas (1). It’s the cause of different infectious diseases which range from dysentery to abscess of liver organ or additional organs. It’s estimated that amebiasis is in charge of up to 110 0 fatalities each year (2-4). This disease is normally predominant in low socioeconomic position and poor hygienic circumstances that favour the indirect fecal-oral transmitting of the disease (5). Previously two morphologically similar varieties of have been discovered and was demonstrated that only 1 CC-401 of these can cause disease in kittens or human being volunteers (6). Has been re-described while two distinct varieties Nevertheless; the pathogenic varieties and the non-pathogenic varieties rather than in (10 11 In today’s research we have analyzed a molecular method with a single-PCR for amplification of a part of CP5 gene enabling us to differentiate the pathogenic species trophozoite or cyst respectively and 148 positive specimens were cultured immediately or stored in refrigerator without any CC-401 preservative before culturing. Culture and preservation Coagulated horse serum media (Hrs+s) was used to transform cysts to trophozoites then Robinson’s culture media were used for mass culture and the adaptation of CC-401 trophozoites. Preparation molecular study After 3-4 subcultures the upper layer of 43 Robinson’s media was removed and the deposit was kept in centrifuge tube then 10 ml of PBS answer with pH:7.2 added to tube and mixed adequately twice with velocity of 1600g for 5 min using centrifuge. The upper layer was removed and deposit was mixed with 10ml of PBS suspension and centrifuged again. The sediment was then suspended in 1 ml PBS finally divided equally in 1.5 ml ependorf tube and kept at ?80° C until DNA extraction. Method of DNA Extraction from trophozoites For DNA extraction from trophozoites a slightly modified procedure that has been previously described (12) using Phenol-Chloroform-Isoamylacohol (PCI) was utilized. Briefly the harvested amoeba cells were suspended in DNA extraction buffer made up of: 50 mM Tris-HCl (pH 8.0) 50 mM EDTA 3 SDS and 50 μl of proteinase-K (20 mg/ml). The suspension was then incubated at 65° C for 1 h and the cellular debris was removed by centrifugation at 2500 g for 15 min. After addition of 25 μl RNase-H (10 mg/ml) the suspension was incubated at 37° C for 30 min extracted once with phenol-chloroform-isoamyl alcohol (25:24:1) and once with chloroform-isoamyl alcohol (24:1). The DNA was precipitated by addition of an equal volume of isopropanol followed by centrifugation at 15000 x g for 30 min. The DNA pellet was rinsed with 70% ethanol and resuspended in distilled water. DNA Extraction from the cyst DNA extraction from the cyst was carried out by using the QIAamp stool Mini Kit. Primer designing Oligonucleotide primers were designed based on GenBank investigation from CP5 gene sequences (accession numbers: “type”:”entrez-nucleotide” attrs :”text”:”X91654″ term_id :”1514626″ term_text :”X91654″X91654 “type”:”entrez-nucleotide” attrs :”text”:”M64721″ term_id :”158929″ term_text :”M64721″M64721 “type”:”entrez-nucleotide” attrs :”text”:”M94163″ Rabbit Polyclonal to AL2S7. term_id :”158927″ term_text :”M94163″M94163 and “type”:”entrez-nucleotide” attrs :”text”:”M64712″ term_id :”158931″ term_text :”M64712″M64712). One pair of primers was designed for amplification of approximately 950 base pair of the CP5 gene and synthesized as follows: 5′ GTT CACTGTCTCGTTATTAG 3′ as forward and 5′ CATCAGCAACCCCAACTG 3′ as reverse. DNA amplification by PCR In the first step a part of collagen binding protein (cbp-30) gene was amplified by PCR for confirming the presence of DNA and also for substantiation of absence of other amoeba in the 43 positive isolates that has been previously described (13). Around the other step all 43 positive and confirmed samples were used for analysis of the CP5 gene using a single PCR with the specific designed primers. Two standard strains used in this study were HM-1 AS16IR.These were used as a positive control in the present study. First the primers were tested by two regular strains DNA amplification from the CP5 gene CC-401 was performed after that.
Structural analogs of the antimalarial Endochin were synthesized and screened for
May 9, 2017
Structural analogs of the antimalarial Endochin were synthesized and screened for antiplasmodial activity against drug delicate and multidrug resistant strains of in vitro looked after exhibits improved metabolic stability. endochin exerted gametocidal actions against male gametocytes going through exflagellation in finches contaminated with and efficiency against strains D6 and Dd2 had been extracted from the MR4 (ATCC Manassas VA USA). D6 is certainly delicate to chloroquine but mildly resistant to mefloquine (Oduola et al. 1987 while Dd2 is certainly resistant to multiple quinoline and antifolate antimalarial agencies as summarized by Singh (Singh and Rosenthal 2001 Tm90.C2B (supplied by Dr. Dennis Kyle WRAIR Sterling silver Springtime MD USA) is certainly resistant to atovaquone chloroquine mefloquine and quinine (Suswam et al. 2001 Parasite lifestyle and medication awareness Three different lab strains of had been cultured in individual erythrocytes by regular methods under a minimal air atmosphere (5% O2 5 CO2 90 N2) within an environmental chamber (Trager and Jensen 1976 The lifestyle moderate was RPMI-1640 supplemented with 25 mM HEPES buffer 25 mg/L gentamicin sulfate 45 mg/L hypoxanthine 10 mM blood sugar 2 mM glutamine and 0.5% Albumax II (complete medium). The parasites had been maintained in refreshing individual erythrocytes suspended at a 2% hematocrit in full moderate at 37°C. Share cultures had been sub-passaged every three to four 4 times by transfer of contaminated reddish colored cells to a flask formulated with complete moderate and uninfected erythrocytes. antimalarial activity of the ELQ derivatives was evaluated with the CD3E SYBR Green I fluorescence-based technique (the “MSF assay”) referred to previously by us (Smilkstein et al. 2004 with minimal modifications (Wintertime et al. 2006 Tests had been create in triplicate in 96 well plates (Costar Corning) with two-fold dilutions of every drug across the plate in a total volume of 100 microliters and at a final red blood cell concentration of 2% (v/v). Stock solutions of each drug were prepared by dissolving in ethanol or dimethylsulfoxide (as appropriate) at 10mM. The dilution series was initiated at a concentration of 1μM and the experiment was repeated beginning with a lower initial concentration for those compounds in which the IC50 value was below 10nM. Automated pipeting and dilution was carried out with the aid of a programmable Precision 2000 robotic station (BioTek Winooski VT). An initial parasitemia of 0.2% was attained by addition of normal uninfected red cells to a stock culture of asynchronous parasite infected red cells (PRBC). The plates were incubated for 72 hrs at 37°C in an atmosphere of 5% CO2 5 O2 and 90% N2. After this period the SYBR Green I dye-detergent mixture (100μl) was added and the plates were incubated at room temperature for an hour in the dark and then placed in a 96-well fluorescence plate reader (Spectramax Gemini-EM Molecular Diagnostics) for analysis with excitation and emission wavelength bands centered at 497 and 520 nm respectively. The fluorescence readings were plotted against the logarithm of the drug concentration and curve fitting by nonlinear regression analysis (GraphPad Prism software) yielded the drug concentration that produced 50% of the observed decline relative to the maximum readings in drug-free control wells (IC50). CC-401 In vivo efficacy in a murine malaria model of patent contamination with P. yoelii The activity of the prototype ester ELQ-125 against the blood stages was assessed using a altered Thompson procedure (Ager 1984 Mice (female CF1 Charles River Labs) were infected intravenously with about 500 0 parasitized erythrocytes from a donor animal. Drug administration was initiated once the parasitemia had increased CC-401 to between 3 to 5% as motivated microscopically by study of Giemsa-stained bloodstream smears. The check substance ELQ-125 was used into NeoBee? M-5 (an assortment of glycerol esters of caprylic and capric essential fatty acids produced from coconut essential CC-401 oil Stephan Firm Northfield Illinois USA) and utilised without dilution. The drug was administered by oral gavage once for 3 times daily. In the 4th time bloodstream films had been prepared as well as the level of parasitemia was motivated microscopically. ED50 and ED90 beliefs (mg/kg/time) had been produced from the dosage required to decrease CC-401 the parasite burden by 50% and 90% respectively in accordance with. | <urn:uuid:173c1b65-80d7-4919-8f21-a81ac3e0135d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sprentland.com/tag/cc-401/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.949413 | 3,202 | 2.125 | 2 |
The Empire of Bud Prussia
“Gott mit uns”
|Category: Capitalist Paradise|
Location: The North Pacific
Regional Influence: Shoeshiner
The Empire of Bud Prussia is a huge, cultured nation, ruled by Harald I with an even hand, and remarkable for its smutty television, irreverence towards religion, and absence of drug laws. The hard-nosed, hard-working population of 944 million Bud Prussians are either ruled by a sleek, efficient government or a conglomerate of multinational corporations; it's difficult to tell which.
The medium-sized, corrupt, pro-business government juggles the competing demands of Industry, Defense, and Administration. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Bud Berlin. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 63.4%.
The frighteningly efficient Bud Prussian economy, worth 147 trillion Marks a year, is broadly diversified and led by the Information Technology industry, with major contributions from Arms Manufacturing, Retail, and Tourism. Black market activity is notable. Average income is an impressive 156,034 Marks, but there is a vast disparity between incomes, with the richest 10% of citizens earning 1,127,288 per year while the poor average 6,883, a ratio of 163 to 1.
Every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded, the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools, and prison visits increase substantially during election years. Crime, especially youth-related, is totally unknown, thanks to a capable police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Bud Prussia's national animal is the Reichsadler.
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Bud Prussia was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Most Scientifically Advanced.
- : Following new legislation in Bud Prussia, prison visits increase substantially during election years.
- : Bud Prussia endorsed The Incorporated States of Nuclear Matter.
- : Bud Prussia was endorsed by The Incorporated States of Nuclear Matter.
- : Bud Prussia endorsed The Windy Skies of Neptunian Military Administration.
- : Bud Prussia was endorsed by The Windy Skies of Neptunian Military Administration.
- : Following new legislation in Bud Prussia, the realistic depiction of tentacles is on the core syllabus of most art schools.
- : Bud Prussia was endorsed by The Federation of Stud Hoy.
- : Following new legislation in Bud Prussia, the amount welfare recipients spend on fertilizer has exploded.
- : Following new legislation in Bud Prussia, every citizen must submit to DNA testing to be eliminated from police inquiries.
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One more call instruction and the benchmarks turn around
I am writing a simple C program that finds (sort of) the minimum weight cycle in a graph.
What the program does I think is not very relevant but some context will be helpful.
At the code I have the main algorithm functions, two test functions and two benchmark functions.
So, now, the benchmark functions create graphs and then run the algorithm, measuring only the running time of the algorithm. benchmark_sparse() creates a graph with 2*V edges. bench_dense() creates a graph with V*(V-1) edges.
First I run the two tests, then the benchmarks for a set of V sizes.
Now, normally, I would expect that in the benchmarks, the sparse graphs run faster than the dense graphs.
But with GCC and -O1 they run the same. With -O2 the sparse is slower. With -O3 dense is faster as expected.
This behavior with -O2 happens on my AMD Ryzen 7 1700. I tested on an Intel i5 and it doesn't happen.
What is even more weird is that this only happens if I run both test1() and test2(). If I run say only test1(), the behavior is normal (note that the tests are different from the benchmarks and normally they should not influence at all their running time).
I took the asm and literally you can just remove one single call instruction to test2 and you can see the behavior changing.
Lastly, that happens when e.g. I test for two sizes, say 1000 and 2200, where in 2200 is more apparent. Now,
if I only run the 2200, the behavior again does not happen.
I've attached the C source code and the asm I used. Both haven only one line commented, the call to test2() that you can put back or remove to see the behavior changing. In the asm it is even clearer. Run with --bench. Compile the C with -O2.
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A few days ago the thought struck me that humans are the most connected species on the planet. And by far the most sophisticated communicators. This is a rather large claim when you consider the incredible communication skills animals have so allow me to explain.
Lions are intensely territorial animals. As such they have specially shaped vocal chords which allow them to roar and thereby advertise their position and boundaries. Despite this they are limited to hearing and being heard by other lions up to 10km away. Elephants have specialised cells packed into their feet and trunks that allow them to pick up vibrations made by the low rumbling of other elephants relatively far from their position. This is incredible and yet it still limits them to a radius of 15km. Essentially they’re only really aware of what is happening in their immediate vicinity.
You may argue that birds can fly and communicate with other birds across the globe. This is true but the migratory visitors currently inhabiting Londolozi will only learn what’s been happening in Europe or north Africa when they reach there in the next month or so and by that time the news will be six months old.
Humans on the other hand live in a significantly ‘smaller’ world. When something happens on Wall Street, Alaska (literally the furthest point from us in South Africa) or the moon, we can know in a matter of seconds. Despite time zones and the physical size of planet earth, we live in a virtual global realtime news feed.
The internet has literally changed our reality.
In 1993 there were only 623 websites on the internet. Today more than 100 000 domain names are registered every single day. A few decades ago, we relied on the postal service. Today we send emails. 204 million of them every minute to be exact.
My question is, has it stolen our peace or has it given us the opportunity to become more connected?
Researchers say that this new rate of communication has weakened our attention spans and increased our stress levels. We tend to panic about events happening in far flung places unlikely to actually impact us and that every day we spend more time glued to our devices. In China, there are even camps now where people can check themselves in for internet addiction.
I like to think of the rise of the internet as a huge positive though. Rather as something we can use to our advantage and for good. Despite the above impacts all being true, it has also created communities where none could exist before. Friends and family can stay in touch despite vast geological distances and people can learn about and rally around issues that they believe strongly in. Information and experience can be shared and virtually lived. We can now learn from each other faster, make shifts at a global level quicker and ultimately make new decisions about how we choose to live and relate as a species.
Thirty years ago you would have either had to learn about Londolozi by word of mouth or read about it in a magazine. If you wanted to know what was happening with the Sparta Pride, you would have had to visit. Londolozi could have landed on a conservation philosophy with great potential for other game reserves and yet it would slipped by unnoticed. Now, people from all over the world can be connected to and have an experience of this wilderness from their very own homes at any moment they choose. If you live in the middle of a bustling metropolis with limited or no access to wilderness, you’re still able to tap into the energy of a place like Londolozi in just a couple of clicks on a device.
It allows you to get a taste of the Londolozi experience before you get here and savour it long after you’re gone. Our understandings of time and space have broadened; connection now has possibility that extends beyond a face to face meeting with someone at a specific time and place.
Essentially what the technology has allowed us is to create a global family connected to nature through a series of invisible threads.
The importance has become so apparent that organisations such as the Good Work Foundation are setting up Digital Learning Centers in rural communities allowing the people living there to access the internet and technology and engage in this new world. Imagine the children that maybe can’t travel the world but can now experience the Amazon or Mount Everest or the Antarctic. In amongst them may be the next great conservationist. It opens up a world of possibilities for those with less power to have greater influence. Possibilities that I think we haven’t even begun to wrap our heads around yet.
The speed at which we now operate, volume of information we’re hit with daily and diversity of news we have to digest may be making our lives more difficult in some ways. Our hope though is that via whatever medium you choose, the internet is now giving you a portal to the wilderness. And that from the comfort of your bed you can access a bit of this peace and beauty. There’s no doubt that the world we’re living in is changing rapidly, the question is how can we make the best of it? | <urn:uuid:35fb95be-d2ed-4600-9084-24fa1be10662> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.londolozi.com/2017/04/05/connection-at-our-fingertips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961263 | 1,048 | 2.796875 | 3 |
The oral cavity is home to vast populations of commensal microbial organisms which constitute the ‘healthy oral microbiome.’ Periodontitis is a destructive, infectious, inflammatory condition affecting the gums. Initially, a biofilm structure develops, causing localized inflammation. This biofilm is then colonized by certain anaerobic bacteria, including the ‘red complex’ organisms. There is an increasing interest in the communication between these organisms and host immune surveillance, a dialog which may plays an important role in the development of autoimmune diseases. Studies have shown an association between periodontitis and other inflammatory conditions including rheumatoid arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and systemic lupus. The advent of accessible 16S ribosomal sequencing has led to exciting developments in the characterization of the human microbiome and the ability to study this interaction in more detail. The transmucosal communication between periodontitis and host immunity may provide avenues of discovery regarding the etiology and progression of rheumatic diseases.
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The early music English vocal ensemble Gothic Voices was founded in 1981 and has since recorded 25 CDs. This Continuum program presents excerpts from four of their recordings, featuring early music from Germany, France, Spain and England. Included are excerpts from their first recording of the music of Hildegard of Bingen, A Feather on the Breath of God - Hyperion GAW21039. Other recordings are: The Service of Venus & Mars - Hyperion GAW21238, The Medieval Romantics - Hyperion CDA66463 and, The Voice in the Garden - Hyperion CDA66653. | <urn:uuid:eb6ab0a8-2955-424c-98b5-830edfea403c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wwno.org/show/musica-da-cameras-continuum/2021-02-14/continuum-gothic-voices | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.930946 | 130 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Will artificial intelligence make the role of the salesperson obsolete in the next decade?
We’ve had public warnings from some of the most revered minds in the world, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, who have both said that automation will disrupt world economies and leave many jobless in its wake. Technologists and economists agree that the automation revolution is already underway and really has been since the invention of the personal computer, but how far will it go? What impact A.I. will have on employment remains to be seen, but all signs point toward it having a significant impact in the very near future.
When you think of A.I. and automation, you might think of sci-fi movies where robots are responsible for most of our manual labor. That future may not be all that far off, either. One study found that by 2030, as many as 800 million jobs could be lost worldwide to automation. Will sales AI automation be one of those heavily affected industries?
The attention that this subject has drawn, combined with the near-apocalyptic predictions from studies and famous thinkers have increased the fear among workers in many industries. At first, the biggest worries were of A.I. taking over jobs that included repetitive menial tasks, but as artificial intelligence continues to grow in power in versatility, it’s left many white collar workers wondering if their own jobs are at risk too.
It wasn’t long ago that sales jobs were thought to be relatively safe when it came to the re-shaping of the economy with A.I. After all, sales agents need to have real conversations with their prospects. They have to build personal connections. These are tasks that A.I. has historically struggled with and doesn’t appear to be an easy solution to solve.
However, sales jobs have become increasingly intertwined with technology over the course of the last decade. We have seen more aspects of the work improved through software and A.I. to the benefit of all salespeople who use it. In-depth CRM software provides sales reps with the ability to juggle more connections with prospects than ever before. But is there a breaking point where so much of the job can be automated that real, live salespeople are no longer required? Some studies have looked at this exact issue.
What Have Studies Shown about the Future of A.I. on Sales Positions?
As the subject of automation replacing jobs has become more of a mainstream topic in recent years, there have been numerous studies that have attempted to identify the types of tasks that A.I. would be best suited. Those studies then match those findings with jobs in order to determine which jobs are most likely to be outsourced to A.I. and automated.
A recent study by McKinsey looked at the tasks and work activities of more than 750 different occupations in the United States. They analyzed which of those tasks could be automated simply by adapting technology that already exists to the job. The study found that more than 50% of the day-to-day tasks performed in sales positions could be automated using already-existing technology.
The study also only looked at technology that already exists and didn’t attempt to account for future advances in artificial intelligence and automation. Seeing something like this, it’s easy to worry about the future of your career and wonder if you should start to take steps to shield yourself from potentially being replaced.
Ability to Automate Depends On the Sales Position
Before you call your boss to quit your job or start signing up for programming classes, you might want to pump the brakes a bit. While there does seem to be a lot of opportunity for sales AI automation within the industry, it does depend heavily on your specific position and what your daily activities actually look like.
Some sales jobs are more easily automated than others. Telemarketers, for instance, should probably be pretty worried about their future in the industry. NPR’s Planet Money created a tool that estimates the likelihood that certain positions with be automated. Their system analyzes jobs on a number of factors including:
- Need to come up with clever solutions
- Need to personally help others
- Ability to squeeze into small spaces
- Need for negotiation
Using these factors to evaluate positions, NPR found that telemarketing has a 99% chance of one day being automated:
Compare that to Advertising Sales Agents, who have about a 54% chance of seeing their position become automated:
Advertising Sales Agents are required to come up with clever solutions to problems and negotiate deals with clients — something that A.I. in its current implementations would struggle with.
But not all sales jobs have a high chance of being automated. Securities Commodities and Financial Services Sales Agents have only a 1.6% chance of being automated, according to NPR’s tool. This is due to those positions requiring clever solutions, negotiation, and the ability to personally help others.
Higher level sales positions that involve a more in-depth sales process are less likely to be candidates for automation. They simply require too much interaction to be fully automated by the types of A.I. solutions that we have on the market today. Most higher-level sales jobs have a consulting component built into the interaction, which requires a human touch.
However, that doesn’t mean that certain tasks within every position can’t be automated. As automation begins to replace lower level sales jobs, the higher-level positions will become even more competitive. So even if you find yourself in a safe position in your current job, it doesn’t hurt to prepare.
Automation Will Never Completely Replace the Sales Rep
It’s difficult to imagine a future where A.I. solutions are able to completely replace every sales position. There are just some tasks that are requirements in high-level sales jobs that make them unsuitable for automation, but much of the sales workforce could see significant portions of their work tasks automated, greatly reducing the demand for sales agents.
Still, bots can’t be expected to develop relationships with and effectively communicate with prospects in the same way that people can — which is the foundation of sales. Automated solutions may not be able to prospect and analyze complex social situations in the way that a person can.
A huge part of any sales job is listening to your prospect and responding in a way that helps to position your product as a true solution to their biggest problems. That process of listening and responding is precisely what forms that bond between salespeople and their prospects, and is something that an automated solution will always have trouble emulating. Sales positions that are part-consulting are even harder to automate and represent much safer positions when the wave of automation comes crashing into the sales industry.
If you’re worried about the effect that A.I. and automation could have on the future of your sales job — you should be. There is no doubt that the coming changes will affect many in the industry. However, it is important to understand that just because automation is becoming a bigger part of our jobs doesn’t mean that the entire position can be outright replaced. Make yourself and the relationships that you cultivate integral to your company and they’ll never be able to replace you with software. | <urn:uuid:7ab910d0-ac90-40c1-9458-05ca2a11b6ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://leadsift.com/will-sales-ai-automation-replace-salesperson/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966174 | 1,484 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Osteochondrosis is a pathology in which one or more vertebral discs are affected. The disease is associated with a gradual and progressive malnutrition of the intervertebral discs, which leads to their wear and even violation of their integrity. As a result of such a degenerative lesion, the discs change their shape and position, the intervertebral spaces are reduced, as a result of which the nerve roots are infringed, a herniated disc can cause damage to the spinal cord, and the work and functioning of internal organs may also be disrupted.
In recent years, the disease has become very younger, and if earlier people of advanced age suffered from osteochondrosis, now it is not uncommon for young people of 30 years old to suffer from this disease of the musculoskeletal system.
Currently, there are methods of therapy for this disease. One of the most famous and safe, with a minimum of side effects, is considered acupuncture .
The essence of acupuncture
This method has long been used by Chinese traditional healers. Even in ancient times, they said that there is energy in a person that flows through energy channels and it is necessary to restore its normal circulation in order to achieve healing.
Experienced acupuncture doctors are engaged in acupuncture , they use special needles (disposable or reusable) to act on active points that are on the human body and are responsible for one or another organ system. Thus, they help the body to normalize the movement of energy and blood, stimulate sanogenetic (recovery) processes and fight the disease.
During the session, after treatment with an antiseptic, acupuncture needles made of metal are inserted into the patient’s skin, which does not cause allergic reactions and are left for a certain period of time, after which the needles are removed and the site of exposure is treated with an antiseptic.
Depending on the disease, a course of treatment is usually required, which averages 10 sessions. The increase or decrease in procedures depends on the severity of the disease and is left to the discretion of the doctor.
- Age up to three years, and also over 75.
- Oncological diseases. Acupuncture can speed up the process of tumor cell division.
- Violation of blood clotting.
- Acute period of infectious diseases.
- Acute period of mental illness, the effect of psychotropic substances.
Acupuncture for cervical osteochondrosis of the spine
The most common type of this disease. The impact is carried out with needles on special acupuncture points local, segmental (close to the site of pain) and remote (have the most pronounced therapeutic effect). A common approach is when acupuncture points are selected NOT on the side of the problem, but on the opposite side (balance method).
The patient may experience the intended sensations in the form of numbness, burning, tingling, a feeling of cold (general or local). After removing the needles, sensations may persist for some time. The presence of the intended sensations indicates the nature of the violations and is of diagnostic value, as well as a pronounced manifestation of the body’s restorative forces.
Typically, the treatment of this type of osteochondrosis requires 10 to 12 sessions.
Acupuncture for lumbosacral osteochondrosis
Treatment takes place in the following areas:
- The pain syndrome, which is caused by pinched nerves, is stopped.
- Relieve muscle spasm and inflammation.
- Restoration of blood circulation and normal metabolism.
- Consolidation of the result.
Lumbar – sacral osteochondrosis is treated at any stage of the disease and in any phase (remission or exacerbation).
Spasms and pain may decrease (depending on the nature of the pathological processes) after the first sessions. It may take 10-12 sessions to achieve remission.
Acupuncture for osteochondrosis of the thoracic region spine
The rarest of the three types of this disease, but its danger lies in the fact that in advanced cases, the disease can affect the functioning of the heart, as well as the gastrointestinal tract.
For acupuncture exposure, local (local), segmental (points close to the problem site) and remote are selected.
The session lasts 20-40 minutes. The number of procedures averages 10-12.
Prognosis and results of the use of acupuncture
The prognosis when using this method of treatment is always favorable. In the vast majority of cases, acupuncture brings relief to the patient.
The earlier the patient comes to the clinic with the first symptoms of the disease, the less time is spent on his treatment, and also bears less financial costs.
You need to choose an experienced and certified acupuncturist who will relieve you of: pain in the back, movement disorders that have arisen due to pain and muscle spasm.
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Yes, we know, summer time can be just as damaging (hair and skin-wise) as it is fun! But today I have some tips that will hopefully help clear up, slow down, or prevent some of your summer skincare woes, fun a safe, fun, and healthy summer experience! Are you ready for it? Good!
Enjoy Your Summer!
Summertime Tip #1—If you are like me, you do not like the way chlorine affects your hair. Fear poolside BBQ’s and swim sessions no longer, there is a damage-preventing trick. Before jumping into any chlorine pool, soak your hair with tap water! This will prevent your hair from soaking up the chlorine and drying your hair out.
NOTE: This method is not magical – your hair will still, naturally, come into contact with the chlorine. It is simply a means of protecting your hair from the full force damage it would receive without the tap water trick.
Summertime Tip #2--Apply sunscreen 30 minutes before sun exposure! Contrary to popular belief, sunscreen does not begin to work immediately. For true protection, apply your sunscreen 30 minutes before going out in the sun! This gives it time to set in and start effect!
Summertime Tip #3--Keep sunscreen in the cooler… And maybe your cell phone too . Should you be using a natural and organic sun protection, cooler sunscreen helps extend the shelf life, and on a hot day it just plain feels good! Also, remember not to leave your cell phone under direct sunlight (especially in warmer temperatures), as this could cause damage to your battery! If you do happen to get experience overheated cell phone syndrome, DO try putting somewhere cool for a while--just make sure that somewhere cool is also somewhere dry!
Summertime Tip #4—Don’t forget the bug repellant, and apply it BEFORE venturing into mosquito territory. On a recent vacation to Oregon I made the mistake of not applying my repellant beforehand, and was immediately bitten by a number of mosquitoes!
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Bôhten Eyewear strives to improve sustainable living in Africa. To shed light on our African roots, we are introduced meaningful symbols from Ghana that focus on the importance of ethics in the social environment.
The symbol of the month is "Eban" which translates to "fence" reflects symbol of love, safety and security.
The home to the Akan is a special place. A home which has a fence around it is considered to be an ideal residence.The fence symbolically separates and secures the family from the outside. Because of the security and the protection that a fence affords, the symbol is also associated with the security and safety one finds in love.
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Identifying cancer from blood sample DNA using algorithms - Identifying cancer from blood sample DNA using algorithms
Identifying cancer from blood sample DNA using algorithms
Deep learning has revolutionised cancer research. In the future, learning algorithms will be able to identify potential early-stage cancers from a blood sample. Esa Pitkänen and his research group at the Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM) are developing a new generation of deep-learning algorithms.
Pitkänen and his team are developing algorithms that identify short, repetitive snippets of DNA sequences. These algorithms can be used to find DNA sequences that mutate frequently in a particular type of cancer or to which certain proteins involved in gene regulation bind. Analysis of these sequences can be used for various purposes, such as charting the causes of cancer and developing medicines.
Algorithms have been used to identify cells in sectional images of tissue samples. For instance, if tissue cells appear atypical, the algorithm will spot this and determine if the cells are cancerous. DNA sequence data from tumours is now being used along with imaging data to identify cancers.
– We trained the algorithm to try to deduce the type of cancer from these sequence changes. Once the algorithm is given all the mutations of different tumours and their sequences, in the future it will be able to determine the kind of tumour that has been detected. This deduction process is based on the algorithm learning these connections, tells Pitkänen.
New computational methods
– Individualised treatments of the future, among them cancer treatments, will be based on a precise understanding of the patient and their illness. This will result from gathering a large volume of data of different types, such as tumour-related data and imaging data during cancer treatment. Many data collection methods produce a mass of data, and the new computational methods developed for analysing it requires a very large amount of computational resources, says Pitkänen.
For example, the three-year HPC/Exascale Centre of Excellence for Personalised Medicine in Europe (PerMedCoE) project is aimed at making effective use of cancer-related data in healthcare and speeding up the process of diagnosis. CSC – IT Center for Science, is one of the main partners in the project. | <urn:uuid:102f1d69-ba28-41f2-8abe-f9f2cf34d357> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.csc.fi/en/-/identifying-cancer-from-blood-sample-dna-using-algorithms | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936314 | 467 | 2.984375 | 3 |
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an establishment for the preparation, storage, and dispensing of medicines and other medical commodities. There is information that laboratories for the preparation of medicines existed in countries of the ancient world (China, Egypt, and Rome). The pharmacy as a government-regulated institution originated in Baghdad in the eighth century. The pharmacy of that period was characterized by the presence of laboratories where comparatively complex medications were prepared and synthesized. It was only in the 19th and 20th centuries that the development of the pharmaceutical industry caused laboratories in pharmacies to lose their importance.
There is no reliable information concerning the time of the founding of pharmacies in Russia. The first government-regulated tsarist pharmacy dates to 1581. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the highest government organ of medical and pharmaceutical affairs was the Aptekarskii prikaz (pharmaceutical department). In 1701, Peter I issued a decree on the organization of private pharmacies in Moscow. At the end of the 18th century there were about 100 pharmacies in Russia. Their activities were regulated by the Aptekarskii ustav (pharmaceutical charter; 1789). With the development of zemstvo (district assembly) institutions, zemstvo pharmacies began to be established. By 1914 there were 4,791 pharmacies in Russia, including about 200 zemstvo pharmacies. After the Great October Revolution, the Council of People’s Commissars issued a decree (Dec. 28, 1918) on the nationalization of pharmacies; they were transferred to the authority of the People’s Commissariat of Public Health.
General management of pharmacies is carried out by the Pharmaceutical Board of the Ministry of Public Health of the USSR through pharmaceutical boards of the oblasts (krais) and republics. As of Jan. 1, 1970, there were over 20,000 pharmacies in the USSR (including municipal, central, regional in rural areas, and interhospital), existing at government expense. In addition, there were more than 3,000 hospital pharmacies on the government budget, as well as pharmacies of individual departments.
Special premises and equipment are set aside in the pharmacy for the preparation of medicines. All medicines dispensed by the pharmacy are subject to control. The preparation and dispensation of medications, their control, and their storage are performed according to the State Pharmacopoeia of the USSR by persons with specialized pharmaceutical training. In capitalist countries, pharmacies are private-enterprise institutions. In most countries, prices for medications are not regulated.
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Across the nation, medical cannabis has been getting a lot of legal and legislative attention from lawmakers and voters. It’s given thousands of Americans a newfound glimmer of hope that they can find effective ways to treat a number of illnesses, but there are still many patients that struggle to afford to pay for the treatment. Despite medical cannabis often being more affordable than other kinds of pharmaceutical drugs, a number of low-income communities and households haven’t been able to reap the benefits of the newly-passed legislation in their state due to financial hardship. The D.O.P.E. House, Inc., a non-profit organization that aims to bring awareness about cannabis, is looking to change that.
“We advocate social justice and equal treatment for all and that includes access to medical marijuana.” Cerrone Crowder, the founder and chairman of the organization, explained. “Medical marijuana can most definitely enhance a person’s quality of life, and it’s unfair that specifically in Illinois it appears only wealthy communities will have access to it. So every day, we are working hard to reverse that trend.”
The D.O.P.E. House, Inc. is working to create public education seminars, programs to help raise awareness about obstacles patients face accessing their medicine and connecting patients with those who can help to provide the necessary resources they require to help them receive their treatments.
“I didn’t know much about medical marijuana until I read about it on The D.O.P.E. House’s website,” Joe Hart, a U.S. veteran who has benefited from the organization’s efforts, said. “I have numerous ailments, many of them chronic, that I now believe medical marijuana is capable of helping with. It’s about time someone stood up for those of us too often forgotten.”
And this is exactly what The D.O.P.E. House, Inc. is trying to accomplish.
“Our issues are targeted to advancing the health benefits of the cannabis plant and what specific health issues it can help treat for the chronic and terminally ill, elderly and veteran patients of Illinois,” states Crowder.
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Creating a long-term business plan for your company is one of the most critical things you can do to help you combat the high failure rate as a new business. More than 80% of new companies fail in the first five years of operation. The number one reason is for lack of working capital. The number two reason is due to lack of proper planning. If you do your planning properly, you will know how much working capital you will need.
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Just as a home builder would not undertake the building of a house without a blueprint, (even though in Georgia, I really think that some builders do!) a successful business owner will not form or try to run their business without a business plan. The opening sentence in my textbook on Managerial Accounting when I was completing my MBA said that “a business that fails to plan, plans to fail”, and that “Every well-run business has a business plan”.
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- Your mission statement- What can you say in one to three sentences that totally summarizes the purpose of your company? A good mission statement can be a critical element in defining your business and communicating to employees, vendors, customers, and owners, partners, or shareholders.
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- How do you compare to your competitors? What makes you different (and hopefully better than your competition (not just pricing, but also in the actual product or services)?
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No consensus exists regarding the enumeration of North American Amelanchier taxa. In eastern North America, most floras and regional treatments have roughly the corresponding number (although sometimes not the same species) as G. N. Jones (1946); though often substantial differences of opinion exist regarding circumscriptions of individual taxa. Disagreement is deeper for western North America, for which Jones had seven species and P. Landry (1975) had but one.
Identification of individual taxa can be difficult because of the variability within each species. In addition, some species have not diverged much from one another genetically.
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Amelanchier alnifolia Coville
Amelanchier crenata Greene
Amelanchier elliptica A.Nelson
Amelanchier goldmanii Wooton & Standl.
Amelanchier jonesiana C.K.Schneid.
Amelanchier mormonica C.K.Schneid.
Amelanchier oreophila A.Nelson
Amelanchier plurinervis Koehne
Amelanchier prunifolia Greene
Amelanchier purpusii Koehne
Amelanchier rubescens Greene
Amelanchier venulosa Greene
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Amelanchier utahensis is a deciduous shrub or small tree, growing from 0.5 - 5 metres tall. The plant often suckers freely, producing up to 100 much-branched stems and often forming colonies[
The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, and sometimes also as a medicine and source of wood.
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This species is closely related to Amelanchier alnifolia[
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Seed - it is best harvested 'green', when the seed is fully formed but before the seed coat has hardened, and then sown immediately in pots outdoors or in a cold frame. If stored seed is obtained early enough in the autumn, it can be given 4 weeks warm stratification before being left out in the winter and it should then germinate in the spring. Otherwise seed can be very slow to germinate, perhaps taking 18 months or more. When large enough to handle, prick the seedlings out into individual pots and grow them on in a sheltered outdoor position, planting them out once they are 20cm or more tall.
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Children love water, whether it is a pond, puddle, water table, pool or even just the faucet. As we navigate these warmer months, their natural love of water creates opportunities for play and learning while keeping cool and content. Iowa PBS brings you a variety of budget-friendly ideas to make learning a splash!
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Ackee and Saltfish
Chow Down on Jam Down’s National Dish!
Jamaicans and a big plate of Ackee and Saltfish go hand in hand. This is because Ackee and Saltfish is the National Dish of Jamaica and is a beloved breakfast favourite of Jamaicans worldwide.
Jamaicans ‘nuh ramp’ (don’t play around) when it comes to our love for this dish. Some of us have Ackee and Saltfish for breakfast, lunch, dinner and even supper! If you’re a Jamaican by birth, parentage, association, or adoption, you must learn how to prepare this iconic dish.
Below, you’ll find my easy-to-follow recipe, my best cooking tips and step-by-step instructions, to help you cook the most tasty pot of Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish you’ve ever had!
Ackee – Delicious or Dangerous?
Ackee is a tropical fruit that is often in season. The fruit is popular amongst vegans and non-vegans alike because of its smooth buttery flavour. Ackee is healthy and delicious and can be eaten either raw or cooked. However, ackees must be fully ripe before picking and consuming. This is because unripe ackee (ackee that hasn’t opened naturally), is dangerous to eat and can be fatal. In fact, ackee has been listed among the Top 10 Most Dangerous Foods in the world. Surprisingly, however, this risk does not dilute the passion Jamaicans have for their national dish.
How to Cook Saltfish (not too Salty or too Bland)
‘Saltfish’ is a fish preserved by coating it with a substantial amount of salt. The types of fish typically sold as ‘saltfish’, are salted codfish, pollock or any other whitefish.
The main challenge some people face when cooking saltfish, is getting the saltfish to have the right balance of salt. To ensure the saltfish isn’t too salty, you must boil or soak it to remove the excess salt. On the other hand, some people over-boil or over-soak their fish making it bland to eat. So how do you get your saltfish to have the right amount of ‘saltiness’? I recommend soaking or boiling the fish in stages. During the process of boiling or soaking, test a piece of the saltfish near the bone at intervals to determine if the taste suits you.
So, now it’s time to jump right into my Ackee and Saltfish Recipe. Go ahead and follow the recipe step-by-step, and once you’ve tried it, message me and say how it works for you. I hope my tips have made you more confident in regularly cooking this classic Jamaican dish at home.
Ackee and Saltfish goes great with foods like fried dumplings, roasted or fried breadfruit, hard dough bread, boiled ground provision, bammies or Jamaican festivals…or when I think about it – just about everything!
How to Make the Best Jamaican Ackee and Saltfish!
- 540 ml canned ackee (pre-cooked)
- 1 lb de-boned saltfish (salted codfish or pollock)
- 3 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 small onion chopped
- ¼ medium green bell pepper de-seeded & chopped, (optional)
- 1 small tomato diced
- 1 large garlic clove chopped
- 1 sprig fresh thyme chopped, (optional)
- 1 stalk scallion/green onions chopped
- ¼ small scotch bonnet pepper de-seeded & chopped. ADD SCOTCH BONNET PEPPER TO TASTE (*pepper seeds are super hot so removed them prior to cooking!)
- 4-6 pimento seeds
- ½ tsp black pepper
- Boiling method: Rinse the saltfish thoroughly by running tap water over it to remove the excess salt. Add the saltfish to a large pot of water and let boil (uncovered) for 30 - 35 minutes. Pour off the salted water and taste a tiny bit of your saltfish. If the saltfish is too salty, return it to the pot with adequate water to cover the fish, then boil for another 5 -8 minutes. Remove the fish from the pot and place it in a bowl of cool water.
- Soaking method (slow): Rinse the saltfish by running tap water over it to remove excess salt, then place it to soak in a large bowl filled with hot water. Let the saltfish soak overnight for up to 8 hrs. Pour off the salted water and taste a tiny bit of the saltfish to determine if it has the desired amount of salt. If it is still salty, add hot water and let it soak for another 10 minutes.
- Use the serrated edge of a dinner knife to gently scrape the scales and thick silvery skin from the fish. For (bone-in) saltfish, remove the bones and discard.If you are using boneless saltfish, skip ahead to the next step.
- When the saltfish has cooled, use your fingers to 'flake' it into smaller pieces.
- Prep the seasonings and set aside.
- Drain the canned ackee and set aside.
- In a large, wide skillet, heat the cooking oil on medium-high heat for 30 seconds.
- Sauté the chopped seasoning lightly (about 10 seconds), then add the flaked saltfish.
- Using a large wooden spoon, stir-fry the saltfish with the seasonings for 1 minute.
- Cover the pot, and let cook on medium heat for 2 minutes.
- Add the cooked ackee, sprinkle with black pepper, then toss all ingredients together to stir-fry for 2 minutes.
- Cover the pot, reduce heat to low, and let cook for 3 minutes.
- Uncover stir the pot, turn off the heat and let rest for 2 minutes.
- Serve your delicious Ackee and Saltfish with roasted or fried breadfruit, fried dumplings, or boiled ground provisions.
- Bless up and enjoy it!
- Please remember to come back after you've tried this recipe to leave me a 5-Star Rating & Review if you enjoyed it. Thanks in advance 🙂
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Collaboration with other departments
Our Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) community
Studying History or Politics at our Penryn Campus in Cornwall you’ll benefit from accessible staff, and world-leading interdisciplinary research and teaching from internationally excellent departments at a Russell Group university. We offer a unique learning environment of smaller cohorts; close relationships between students and staff across all three subjects; responsibility to place-based teaching and problem-based learning; cutting-edge interdisciplinary work; and a focus on employability. You will have access to a wider community of lecturers and researchers through staff research seminars, guest lectures, and other events. All this is conducive to a real community of learning where students engage with lecturers and other postgraduate students in meaningful and transformative education.
History at Penryn: Our programmes incorporate international, economic, social and cultural history. We focus on using history to understand challenges posed by globalisation, ethnic conflict and scientific and environmental change. We also offer a traditional basis in British, European and world history. Our research and teaching reflects the environmental and ecological approaches to history, as well as more traditional cultural, politics, social and economic aspects. We are leading the way in the development of ‘environmental history’. The environmental and ecological approaches to History; history of mankind’s interaction with the natural world; and how history engages with issues of sustainability and climate change. We also have a strong commitment to public history designed to develop employability skills in the context of project work for museums, archives and ‘people’s history’ projects. Our academic staff have strong relationships with museums, galleries and schools, and out teaching will equip you with real world skills.
Politics at Penryn: We focus on some of the biggest political challenges facing the world today; inequality, climate change, the global financial crisis, conflict, the depletion of natural resources and the changing balance in world power. We teach about political systems and theories, and how you can apply these to current world events and major issues, through interactive lectures, small group seminars, close contact with academics, visiting practitioners, field trips, simulations and game exercises. We also encourage engagement with local issues and communities, by running talks with local veterans about the legacies of war and providing consultancy for local political organisations, for example.
Other departments we collaborate with
Geography at Penryn: Our programmes give you an integrated and all-round understanding of subjects, equipping you with the knowledge and skills to address issues facing humans and our planet. You will be taught by expert staff who are actively engaged in research on a wide range of specialisms, including climate change, remote sensing, landscape evolution, energy policy, environment and sustainability, social innovation and cultural landscapes. Teaching and research activities emphasise the value of interdisciplinary thinking – looking beyond traditional boundaries to the complex interactions between human societies and non-human environments. Field work is an integral part of our programmes, taking learning into the field to explore the incredible landscapes in the region and beyond. Several modules, including day and residential field courses in the UK, and overseas1, will allow you to develop key field skills, enable you to put them into practice and gain new research skills. We also offer outstanding analytical and experimental laboratories for environmental change and process studies, including an IT facility housing high-specification computers with the latest Geographic Information Systems and mapping software, designed to support teaching and learning in cartography, spatial mapping and analysis, remote sensing, statistics, and computer modelling. Our facilities are supported by an expert team of laboratory, research and computing technicians.
Our co-delivered interdisciplinary programmes
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The City of Cape Town is calling for innovative and smart ideas that will help to mitigate the current energy crisis; move the city toward cleaner energy sources and lower carbon development and that will also better enable a growing green economy.
Whether it be powering communities through wave energy; using the City’s stormwater infrastructure to create localised hydro-electric energy schemes; smarter metering; smart street poles; or mini-grids for informal settlements and backyard dwellings, the City wants to hear all potentially workable proposals.
The focus is also on the use of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, and Internet of Things to ensure that Cape Town is future-fit.
“As part of the City’s ongoing efforts to become more sustainable and resilient, it continues to look at an array of innovative energy solutions. This is to ensure that Cape Town moves away from the country’s current sole dependence on Eskom for power and to drive cleaner sources of energy to best perform on the City’s commitment of reducing carbon emissions drastically in the face of climate change.
“To make sure that the City is able to create the environment that would be required for such alternative, sustainable innovations the City wants to get a better idea of what could be realistically possible within the legislative and municipal framework that the City operates in,” said mayor Dan Plato.
Some areas of interest for the City include renewable energy, demand side management and load shifting, energy efficiency, smart metering,micro-grids in un-electrifiable areas and backyard dwellings, alternative mobility and alternative waste management.
Workable proposals must be submitted by no later than close of business on Friday June 14. Participants may submit one or more submissions depending on which areas of interest they are addressing.
Log on to www.capetown.gov.za and click on the trending button labelled “submit a sustainable energy solution”.
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Home is where the heart is, and that is how it should be. If your home doesn’t feel comfortable, it may be time to make some changes. Your home should be where you want to spend most of your time, where you can relax and, of course, where you can feel at home.
Comfort is vital when designing or improving your home. There are many ways to improve your living quality and comfort levels. It may even be as small as fixing that leaky tap or replacing the ugly blinds on the kitchen window.
Whatever makes you comfortable is important when it comes to your home, no matter how small it might be. This article will give you some easy-to-follow tips on where to start and how to improve your living conditions while you do it.
Get Home Insurance
Before you start physically improving your home, ensure that your home is safe and secure. Insuring your house means that if something were to go wrong or someone were to damage your home, you will be paid out for the damages to your property.
Not insuring your home means you have to worry that if something does go wrong, you will have to pay for it out of your pocket. It’s especially important to get home insurance in Winnipeg if you are having renovations or drastic changes made to your house. Make sure to read the fine print and find out exactly what the company covers and how much they pay out. They may also have certain terms and conditions to payouts as well as cancellation fees.
Update Your Heating System
It’s incredibly hard to relax and feel comfortable when you are freezing cold or boiling hot. With the wrong temperature, you can find yourself getting frustrated, anxious, not wanting to do anything, and even feeling ill.
Controlling the temperature inside your home is the best way to create a comfortable and homely environment. Just make sure to trust this task to a professional such as Classic air conditioning & heating. You will also find that you will get more done than if you were too hot or too cold. A balanced temperature also helps give you a deeper, more peaceful sleep and can slow mold growth.
No matter where you live, how much you water or forget to water, or how much light you have in your home, there is a plant ready to share your home and bring some natural greenery into your home.
Plants go with everything, no matter the color, and there are plants for any need you might have. Don’t worry if you don’t have a green thumb; some plants are fine with being forgotten about. If you’re unsure which plants to choose, here’s a quick guide for people who water there is mint. For those who forget to water, there are succulents like aloe vera.
If you want something that needs less light, consider growing ferns like the maidenhair fern. A few other great houseplants are peperomia, spider plant, and sweetheart vine. Plants such as bamboo palm, snake plant, or jade plant have been proven to oxygenate your home better and lessen allergic reactions instead of causing them.
Frame Your Family’s Photos
Every family has pictures lying around their house, in a shoe box, in an album, or on a hard drive. Instead of buying expensive wall art or fancy paintings, save money by framing some of your own family pictures.
This will create more than just a sense of ownership but a feeling of familiarity. You can even get the photos resized and create your own little photo gallery in the room of your choosing. This will do those brilliant pictures more justice than just sitting in the dark where no one can see them.
Repainting is one of the best ways to give an old room a makeover. There are many reasons to repaint a room or just a wall. One of the most common reasons is water damage, where damp proofing is required or weathering and holes from furniture that used to be on or against the walls but no longer is.
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Cities may not seem like hotbeds of evolution. Tropical rain forests, maybe. The Galapagos Islands, certainly. But Central Park?
Yes, even Central Park. Wherever there is life, there is evolution. Organisms reproduce, passing down their genes to their offspring. Some variants of those genes may become more common over the generations thanks to lucky rolls of the genetic dice. But they can also become more common thanks to natural selection–because they make individuals better able to survive and reproduce than others. That advantage depends in large part on their particular environment. If the environment changes dramatically–if, for example, people cut down forests and put up skyscrapers–then a new set of mutations may give organisms an evolutionary advantage.
Urban evolution is probably one of the most common forms of evolution on Earth today. After all, cities are spreading over so much of the terrestrial surface of the planet. Yet the city is still a lonely frontier for evolutionary biologists. They’ve traditionally searched out “natural” habitats in order to document the workings of evolution. Only recently have some evolutionary biologists made the city into a field site.
Jason Munshi-South, a scientist at Baruch College, is doing some of the most interesting research on urban evolution these days, working in the green spaces of New York City. New York has been growing for over three centuries, but twenty percent of it remains wooded today, and it’s still home to a variety of wild animals, plants, and other organisms. New Yorkers may think that their wildlife consists solely of cockroaches, but the streets and parks and rivers of the city are full of other species too. Some, like coyotes in the Bronx, are newcomers, while others never left. New York’s native biodiversity has many surprises left for urban biologists to discover–consider, for example, that a new species of frog turned up in Staten Island just last year. (See this 2011 article I wrote for the New York Times for more on evolution in New York.)
One of the animals Munshi-South studies most closely is the white-footed mouse, Permoyscus leucopus. This is not the house mouse that rummages around in the kitchen cabinets of New York apartments. It’s the white-footed mouse, which was living in the forests of New York before Europeans arrived and which stayed in those forests as they shrank into islands of parkland. While house mice will happily dart across Broadway in search of food, white-footed mice are far less bold. As New York’s forested land has become isolated, so have its populations of mice.
Munshi-South wondered if these rodents have veered off on their own evolutionary trajectory, separate from the white-footed mice that live in the forests outside of New York City. As new mutations arise in a New York population of mice, they may become widespread–but only on their urban island. Compared to their rural counterparts, New York mice may face different challenges for survival. The air they breathe and the soil through which they burrow is more polluted. They may encounter more pathogens because New York is a hub for travelers. New York mice also live in denser populations, which may mean they have to compete more for food or mates. Munshi-South hypothesized that over the past couple centuries, the city mice have adapted to these challenges in ways that their rural cousins have not.
To test his hypothesis, Munshi-South and his students trapped mice in various spots around the city including Central Park. They also headed out of town to grab some mice living in forests where they don’t face the pressures of urban life. They then took a look at the genes of the mice. The genes bear the scars of the isolation in which the city mice live. Mice living in two New York parks may be more genetically distinct than rural mice living in different states.
Munshi-South and his colleagues then searched for genetic differences between city mice and country mice that might be the result of natural selection. Like other organisms, white-footed mice make copies of their genes out of a molecule called RNA, which they then use as a guide to building proteins. The scientists pulled out all the RNA from liver and brain tissue from their mice, a couple hundred animals all told. They then sequenced the RNA fragments and used a computer to reconstruct the sequence of the mouse genes.
Once they could look at the sequence of the mouse genes, they then hunted for mutations that showed signs of having spread thanks to natural selection. They found a handful of genes in the city mice that appear to have evolved due to natural selection. The functions of these genes are, in many cases, exactly the sort that you’d expect to evolve in a city mouse. Some of them are known to be involved in recognizing pathogens, and others help launch an immune system attack against them. Others help to detoxify pollutants. These genes not only evolved relatively quickly–in just the past couple centuries at most–but also repeatedly. In park after park, the same adaptations were favored by natural selection.
For now, these genes are only promising candidates for targets of natural selection. Researchers will have to examine them more closely and see if their mutations do indeed alter the biology of the city mice in important ways. It will be fascinating to see them investigate this grand experiment in evolution that is New York. Urban evolution may turn out to transform species in unexpected ways. Among the genes that show hints of natural selection in the white-footed mice of New York are genes involved in sperm, for example. In the crowded populations of mice in New York’s parks, males may be competing more intensely to father the next generation. Perhaps there’s a sexual revolution underway in the big city.
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Environmental Monitoring and Management -- Geodata and Geoinformatics -- Fundamentals of surveying and geodesy -- Modernization of GNSS -- The Global Positioning System -- Environmental Surveying and Surveillance -- Fundamentals of Remote Sensing -- Optical Remote Sensing -- Microwave Remote Sensing -- Image Interpretation and Analysis -- Fundamentals of Photogrammetry -- Digital Photogrammetry. There is no doubt that today, perhaps more than ever before, humanity faces a myriad of complex and demanding challenges. These include natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, food and water insecurity, energy shortages, diminishing biodiversity, increasing losses from natural disasters, and climate change with its associated potentially devastating consequences, such as rising sea levels. These human-induced and natural impacts on the environment need to be well understood in order to develop informed policies, decisions, and remedial measures to mitigate current and future negative impacts. To achieve this, continuous monitoring and management of the environment to acquire data that can be soundly and rigorously analyzed to provide information about its current state and changing patterns, and thereby allow predictions of possible future impacts, are essential. Developing pragmatic and sustainable solutions to address these and many other similar challenges requires the use of geodata and the application of geoinformatics. This book presents the concepts and applications of geoinformatics, a multidisciplinary field that has at its core different technologies that support the acquisition, analysis and visualization of geodata for environmental monitoring and management. We depart from the 4D to the 5D data paradigm, which defines geodata accurately, consistently, rapidly and completely, in order to be useful without any restrictions in space, time or scale to represent a truly global dimension of the digital Earth. The book also features the state-of-the-art discussion of Web-GIS. The concepts and applications of geoinformatics presented in this book will be of benefit to decision-makers across a wide range of fields, including those at environmental agencies, in the emergency services, public health and epidemiology, crime mapping, environmental management agencies, tourist industry, market analysis and e-commerce, or mineral exploration, among many others. The title and subtitle of this textbook convey a distinct message. Monitoring -the passive part in the subtitle - refers to observation and data acquisition, whereas management - the active component - stands for operation and performance. The topic is our environment, which is intimately related to geoinformatics. The overall message is: all the mentioned elements do interact and must not be separated. Hans-Peter B ahr, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c., Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. | <urn:uuid:48f06e8a-2fa7-49d9-83cc-19b8ddc4b0dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cfpub.epa.gov/ols/catalog/advanced_brief_record.cfm?&FIELD1=AUTHOR&INPUT1=JOSEPH%20AND%20L.%20AND%20B.&TYPE1=ALL&LOGIC1=AND&COLL=&SORT_TYPE=MTIC&item_count=4&item_accn=491417 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.893925 | 556 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Gaining the Tools To Make a Difference
Aparna Datta’s path to becoming a lawyer began thousands of miles away, on trips to visit family in India. By the time she was 9, she started to notice the profound poverty in her parents’ native country. But she soon realized inequity and need weren’t limited to her journeys abroad — she found it even in her hometown of College Station, Texas.
“You do notice all these other systemic, big issues and inequalities,” said the third-year University of Virginia School of Law student. “There are still so many problems and so many people in need.”
That’s when the idea to go to law school — to make a difference — started to percolate, the decision sealed by a high school government class in which she learned how activists have helped change laws and minds. Later, in her final semester at the University of Texas, where she majored in government and economics, she interned at the Center for American Progress. There, she heard the refrain that a J.D. can open doors, reaffirming her decision to pursue law.
“I just thought that going to law school would give me the tools necessary to one day advocate on behalf of people who need it,” she said.
Datta is set to graduate May 19 with those tools in her belt. After that, she will clerk for a year with Judge Carlton Reeves ’89 of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, then work for Williams & Connolly in Washington, D.C.
“I could honestly not have asked for a better law school experience,” she said. “Overall it’s been such a blessing and privilege to attend this law school, and I think that’s a real testament to the student body and faculty and staff here.”
At UVA, Datta embraced a number of roles, serving as managing editor of the Virginia Law Review, a member of the Extramural Moot Court team, and a senator and Diversity Committee chair for the Student Bar Association. She also became a member of the Raven Society and a recipient of the Mary Claiborne and Roy H. Ritter Prize, given to students who best exemplify the qualities of honor, character and integrity envisioned by Thomas Jefferson when he founded the University of Virginia.
During her first-year summer she returned to Texas to work on domestic violence and family violence cases in Brazos County’s District Attorney’s Office.
“I was helping with things they needed help with to make sure they could properly prosecute a child molester,” she said. “I felt like we were doing something that was good for the community.”
The next summer she interned for Williams & Connolly, where she assisted the pro bono defense of a Blackwater Security Consulting employee in a murder trial.
“I was lucky to be assigned to the case because they were going to trial in two weeks,” she said. She spent the summer working on the high-profile case.
The firm’s dedication to pro bono work attracted her to work there full time.
“They have a lot of opportunities for people to do pro bono work, so even though I’ll be working at a firm, I’ll be able to help indigent clients as well,” she said. She has been dedicated since before law school to civil rights, racial justice and voting rights issues.
Datta praised the value of going to school in the kind of place where a professor knows your name by the second day of school. Female faculty members in particular helped her succeed. She recalled debating whether to get further involved in an activity when her interest was lacking, and Professor Molly Brady advised her, “‘You have to learn to be comfortable saying ‘no’ sometimes.’”
“She’s been a really great mentor throughout law school,” Datta said.
Along the way, courses in regulating the political process, religious liberty, state and local government, and asylum law, and the Immigration Law Clinic influenced her development as a lawyer and a thinker.
On top of the rigorous academic environment, Datta said, she has enjoyed experiencing a true bond with her peers.
“That sense of collegiality is really evident here,” she said. “It’s not some recruiting tactic, it’s actually genuine.”
She met Reeves at an American Constitution Society convention, and soon decided — if it worked out — to clerk before joining the firm.
“His jurisprudence is exactly what I agree with,” she said. “He just has a really strong moral compass, but he also understands even if the outcome isn’t what you want it to be, you have to follow what the Constitution says and what the law says.”
When she graduates, she will be the first lawyer in a family of engineers. Her father, an electrical engineering professor at Texas A&M University, once dreamed of being an attorney, inspired by a years-long property dispute involving his family that reached the Supreme Court of India, which still remains in limbo.
Datta said if the case continues, she won’t be the one to advocate for it. She will have plenty to do stateside.
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In what has to be the perfect side note to the GulfQuest debacle, the folks from the Ripley’s Believe It or Not museums were in town last week going through the soon-to-be-shuttered maritime museum.
Upon hearing this I thought they must have come to add the GulfQuest National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico as an exhibit in one of their odd museums. I mean, a maritime museum that was 20 years in the making, and took five years just to build, closing (at least temporarily) about two minutes after celebrating its first year in business is pretty — as the late, great Jack Palance would say — “Believe it or not!!”
Instead it seems they were here talking with city and museum leaders about some ways to possibly paddle out of the financial whirlpool known as GulfQuest. As things currently stand, GQ is Mobile’s answer to the Titanic and Hindenburg simultaneously smashing into a Ford Pinto filled with Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones.
And because previous mayors and GQ’s benefactors were so convinced it would instead be a smashing success, tens of millions in taxpayer money and federal grants were poured into its concrete walls, leaving the museum a financial albatross of epic proportions if it can’t be salvaged. The current mayor and council are left with few options other than to keep the museum moderately operational as they search for ways to “repurpose” the building.
It’s hard to imagine a slower motion, more obvious failure than GulfQuest. When media first started reporting on a big maritime museum being built along the riverfront, the general man-on-the-street reaction was, “Nobody wants to see that.”
Of course the consultants came in and told us otherwise, and GQ management bandied about seemingly ridiculous attendance goals that were only achievable if people could be gathered on the streets of downtown by teams of machine gun-toting GulfQuest employees and forced through the museum’s doors to learn more about containerized shipping. But any questioning of the 300,000 annual visitors projection was met with scorn and anger.
Somewhere the consultants are off having a big laugh. They’re probably in some smallish city in the Midwest convincing them a freight train museum will be the answer to their tourism dreams. Can we once and for all agree that projections from consultants ALWAYS tell people what they want to hear?
Certainly GQ’s cause was not helped by its five-year construction time. The billion-dollar AT&T Stadium — home of my white-hot 7-1 Dallas Cowboys — took less time to build. The Jones administration made things worse by releasing one wrong opening date after another, and by the time GQ’s doors opened a large part of the citizenry was already over it.
The sad part is GulfQuest is actually a really nice museum. It has a great restaurant and is the only place in town where you can have something to eat and watch the big ships go by on the river. But even if its funding wasn’t dried up it has little chance. As Mayor Sandy Stimpson has pointed out, GQ is educational, but not much fun. And it cost too much, which was another factor in it seeing only 80,000 people wander through its doors in the first year.
But GulfQuest was built too big to fail.
Somewhere along the line this idea of having a maritime museum in Mobile grew out of proportion to what might actually work. Former Mayor Mike Dow’s P.T. Barnum-like enthusiasm no doubt became mixed with the GulfQuest board’s desires for a truly spectacular homage to their industry. Visions of tourists streaming off cruise ships into GulfQuest as high-speed ferries packed with commuters whisked across the bay danced in their heads. A grand vision indeed.
Even the name sounds too grandiose. It’s hard to imagine being at the table when someone came up with GulfQuest: National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico. It trips off the tongue like the 63-letter German word for the law delegating the monitoring of beef labeling.
So millions of federal transportation funds got mixed up in this thing — you know, for the high-speed ferries and all — and now we’re stuck like a barge in bay mud. Shut GQ down and the city has to pay the feds back tens of millions in grant money and also risks losing more grant money coming down the pike. It can’t just be bulldozed into the river or magically turned into a casino.
The city has taken over GQ, cut staff to the bone and dictated that for the time being it will only be open for special occasions, private parties and days when the cruise ship is loading or unloading. In the meantime, GulfQuest is going to cost the taxpayers more than $2.8 million a year to sit there while someone figures out a way to keep the maritime museum component and bring something in with it that will make this all financially feasible. Thank God Carnival is coming back or we’d have two giant buildings right there on the landing to debt service each month.
Stimpson already made one smart decision when he rejected the GQ board of directors’ request for $1.8 million from the city to keep the doors open. He rightfully saw throwing that kind of money at the museum wouldn’t do anything to change its fortunes and that they’d be asking for more money next year.
This is no doubt a colossal embarrassment to many of those involved, former mayors and the city as a whole, and the finger pointing has already started. As the old saying goes, “Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan.” But the citizens shouldn’t be nailed financially for this museum’s failure for years and years to come.
Maybe squeezing a casino into the building alongside the maritime museum will ultimately be the answer. Or a J.C. Penney or nautically themed disco. Perhaps some of the shipping companies that pushed for GQ to be built can rent it as office space.
When you read the names of GulfQuest’s board of trustees you’ll see some of the biggest business success stories Mobile has produced. If they still believe in their museum, maybe it’s time to dig deep again and put more of their own money into fixing this problem. Creating a massive financial drain on the city just as its financial fortunes have started to improve is hardly a legacy any of them wants.
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There was good news when it came to job growth in December – despite the disappointing headline figure from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Home prices also continued to appreciate in November, but it was the minutes from the Fed’s December meeting that really added some fireworks to the markets last week.
More to the Jobs Report Than Meets the Eye
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that there were only 199,000 jobs created in December, which was half the job gains that were expected. However, there were positive revisions to the figures for October and November adding 141,000 new jobs in those months combined, which makes up for some of the miss on the headline figure.
Yet this was a tale of two reports, as there are two surveys within the Jobs Report and there is a fundamental difference between them. The Business Survey is where the headline job number comes from and it's based predominately on modeling.
The Household Survey, where the Unemployment Rate comes from, is done by actual phone calls to 60,000 homes. The Household Survey also has a job loss or creation component, and it showed there were 651,000 job creations, while the labor force increased by almost 168,000. The number of unemployed people decreased by 483,000, causing the Unemployment Rate to fall from 4.2% to 3.9%.
Why was there a big disconnect between the two reports?
The Household Survey includes self-employed workers whose businesses are unincorporated, unpaid family workers, agricultural workers and private household workers who are excluded by the Business Survey. And with the big surge we’ve seen in self-employment, this could account for some of the disconnect.
The U-6 all-in Unemployment Rate improved from 7.7% to 7.3% and is more indicative of the true Unemployment Rate.
Average hourly and weekly earnings were both up roughly 4.7% year over year. Wage growth is running even hotter if you annualized the pace over the last six months at 6%. You have to look back to the 1990s to see wages growing at 6% year over year, which shows how tight the labor market is.
December Private Payrolls Nearly Double Expectations
The ADP Employment Report, which measures private sector payrolls, showed that there were 807,000 jobs created in December – almost double what economists had forecasted. While November’s figures were revised lower from 534,000 to 505,000 new jobs in that month, this was certainly a solid report.
Both goods-producing and service-providing sector companies showed gains, with services contributing the majority share at 669,000 jobs. Leisure and hospitality had the biggest gains with 246,000 jobs, followed by trade, transportation, and utilities at 138,000, and professional and business at 130,000. On the goods-producing side, construction also showed strong gains at 62,000.
Job gains were reported across all sizes of businesses, with the majority of those reported at large businesses. Small businesses (1-49 employees) gained 204,000 jobs, mid-sized businesses (50-499 employees) gained 214,000 jobs, and large businesses (500 or more employees) gained 389,000 jobs.
ADP’s Chief Economist, Nela Richardson, noted, “December’s job market strengthened as the fallout from the Delta variant faded and Omicron’s impact had yet to be seen.”
We will see if this means we will have a lower job growth figure for January when that data is released on February 2.
The bottom line is that of the 19.6 million private sector jobs lost in March and April 2020, we’ve since recovered about 15.6 million of them.
Initial Jobless Claims Remain Near 52-Year Low
The number of people filing for unemployment benefits for the first time ticked higher by 7,000 in the latest week, as Initial Jobless Claims were reported at 207,000. Note that this is still a low level of claims and not far off 52-year lows.
Remember that since this reading shows the pace of firings and people filing for benefits, the lower the number the better.
Continuing Claims, which measures individuals who continue to receive benefits, rose 36,000 to 1.754 million, just off the previous week’s pandemic-era low.
There are now 1.722 million people in total receiving benefits, which is a healthy number and in stark contrast to the 20 million plus seen last year. It also reflects that the labor market remains tight. Employers are having a hard time finding new workers and are reducing their pace of firings.
Fed Minutes Move Markets
The Fed released the minutes from their December 15 meeting, which showed that they discussed reducing their balance sheet and that they are serious about removing accommodation more aggressively.
The Fed also discussed hiking their benchmark Fed Funds Rate faster and the market estimate is now showing a 76% chance of the first hike in March. Note that the Fed Funds Rate is the interest rate for overnight borrowing for banks and it is not the same as mortgage rates.
So, what does this mean?
Remember that back in 2020 during the heart of the pandemic, the Fed began buying $40 billion in Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) and $80 billion in Treasuries each month to inject liquidity into the markets and keep long-term rates lower. These ongoing purchases were meant to stabilize the markets and aid in our recovery.
As our recovery proceeded, the Fed came under pressure last year to start tapering, or reducing, these purchases. In their meeting last November, the Fed initially announced that they would begin tapering their purchases of MBS and Treasuries by $15 billion per month. However, in December the Fed decided to accelerate the reduction of their purchases of MBS and Treasuries from $15 billion per month to $30 billion.
But what was unclear was how the Fed would handle their $8.8 trillion balance sheet, of which MBS and Treasuries make up roughly $8.3 trillion. The Fed receives money from the Bonds that they hold each month, which they have been reinvesting back into MBS. This has totaled roughly $70 billion per month, which has prevented their balance sheet from running off or reducing over time.
In the minutes from December’s meeting, almost all participants said they want to reduce their balance sheet shortly after the Fed Funds Rate hike, which likely means sometime between April and June. They also discussed letting MBS run off faster than Treasuries. The last time the Fed went through a tightening cycle, they waited two years to reduce their balance sheet, which is something they addressed and said they don’t want to do this time around.
What are the Fed’s options?
They could sell MBS and Treasuries, stop reinvestments altogether, or allow some fixed amount to fall off each month. With their intention to not spook the markets too much, they will likely choose the latter. Their comments showed many supported having monthly caps on the reduction, which is what we would expect.
The Fed addressing their balance sheet is what really impacted the equity and Bond markets last week. The timing of when the Fed hikes its benchmark Fed Funds Rate and when it reduces its balance sheet will certainly impact both Mortgage Bonds and mortgage rates this year – and will be something to closely monitor in the months ahead.
Home Price Appreciation Continues
CoreLogic released their Home Price Index report for November, showing that home prices rose by 1.3% from October and 18.1% year over year. Detached homes appreciated at an even higher pace of 19.4% year over year.
Within the report, the hottest markets were Phoenix (+31%), Las Vegas (+24%), and San Diego (+22%).
CoreLogic forecasts that home prices will remain flat in December and appreciate 2.8% in the year going forward. Yet, they remain conservative in their forecasting and continue to miss on the low side. For example, CoreLogic had forecasted prices for November would rise by 0.2% from October and they actually increased by 1.3%.
Even though CoreLogic only forecasts a 2.8% gain in home prices over the next year, they are certainly the outlier compared to other forecasts. Goldman Sachs expects 16% gains, Zillow anticipates 14%, and Fannie Mae sees prices rising by roughly 7.5%. Mid to high single digit appreciation is definitely attainable and is still very meaningful for wealth creation. For example, a $400,000 home that appreciated by 8% would result in $32,000 in appreciation gain in just one year.
And of note, Apartment List released its National Rent Report for December, which showed that rents were up a record almost 18% year over year. To put this in context, annual rent growth averaged just 2.3% in the pre-pandemic years from 2017-2019. However, the national index did fall by 0.2% in December, marking the only time rents declined month over month last year. While December’s monthly reading could include some seasonality, it will be important to see if there are any more signs of slower pricing pressures. | <urn:uuid:b7f3ad31-e61c-490b-b135-0b74dc7c3180> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.mbshighway.com/january-10-2022-mortgage-market-news | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97768 | 1,919 | 1.921875 | 2 |
By Robert Little member of the Northern California/Lake Tahoe chapter
Aquarius is a 1962 Besotes. Besotes boats were built in Stockton CA primarily in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Nearly 200 boats were produced,and 44 boats are currently known to exist. Materials used were plywood and fiberglass over Mahogany framing and topped off with mahogany plywood decks. During restoration in 2015, an examination of Aquarius by Sierra Boat Company was conducted for any hull numbering or ID marks with no positive results. Aquarius is best described as a Tahoe Utility measuring 17’ 9” in length and 80” at her beam. She is powered by a 327 Chevy small block engine.
My family lived and worked in Stockton and around 1966 my dad George Little bought the boat from the original owner, John Wolf for about $2500.00. I was born in 1968 and grew up with the boat being a common fixture in the Stockton Delta and at the docks of the Stockton Water-ski Club through the 1970’s and 1980’s. The boat has always been used about 20 to 30 times yearly including annual trips to the Stockton Water-ski Club to Lake Shasta. On her trips to Lake Shasta she would be packed full with everything from ice-chests to Honda-50 mini-bikes, a true utility boat!
In the early 1980’s Aquarius had a close call with the bottom of the delta near Paradise Marina when my dad struck submerged concrete from a bridge construction site. The boat sustained a 3’ X 4’ hole in the starboard side near the motor-box. The prop strut was bent over as well, but my dad managed to power her back to Village West Marina and get her trailered before she sank. This event marked the first notable restoration of a section the bottom, and sides of the boat. At this time the dark brown upholstery was replaced with light blue “tuck and roll” vinyl interior with small buttons. In the late 1980’s the decks and stern were sanded and varnished. I painted the white lines on the deck during this maintenance.
In late 1998 I stored the boat at my house for a while. One day my dad said it was time to sell Aquarius to a new owner. He told me I had the first “dibs” on the boat, and I could purchase it for the amount he bought it for. In no time I paid $2500.00 dollars and started the second generation of Little Family ownership of Aquarius.
In the 2000’s we used the boat 5 or 6 times each year at Sly Park Reservoir, Union Valley Reservoir, and Lake Tahoe. Some minor repairs were done to the engine and over time the decks showed some wear and clouding of the varnish. In 2011 my dad passed away and I promised my-self that I would get her restored to her original construction. This endeavor ended up being a two-stage project; first being deck, sides, stern, and fuel tank, and second being upholstery, carpet, and motor-box rebuild.
In the winter of 2015 Aquarius was restored at Sierra Boat Company. The varnish was removed all the way down to wood, the sides and bottom were painted, and the stern was repaired and finished off with new gold-leaf lettering. At this time a new fuel tank, bilge-pump, and prop shaft was installed. In the winter of 2017, the interior upholstery and motor-box was replaced. I redesigned and built the motor-box, and then Rod Souza of Rods Stitched Interiors completed the upholstery covering everything in an era appropriate blue and white color scheme. “Orange Crate”, another Besotes that I reviewed in storage at Sierra Boat Company, inspired the upholstery design. Aquarius is now restored to a condition that is as close to the day she came out of the Besotes shop in 1962. | <urn:uuid:f20c68cb-4701-4291-8a0d-89818f743d75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://acbs.org/aquarius/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974682 | 840 | 1.507813 | 2 |
In Māori, New Zealand’s native language, Kia Kaha means “be strong.” For the past few months this has been one of the things we say to Moira as she goes to bed. “When you have a bad dream or feel scared at night, Kia Kaha. Be strong because God is with you.”
As we continue to adjust to our life and ministry in New Zealand, this been an encouragement to our family as a whole. While we have seen some similarities to America and from our year of living in the UK, every day is still an opportunity to discover new ways of doing life, relating to others, and being culturally relevant. God continues to remind us that, while we may face humbling challenges and frequent times of learning new ways to live life, He is at work around us and is with us. Kia Kaha!
Local Ministry Highlight: Informal Bible Studies
The Leavers Bible Study Team (L to R: Zane, Caleb, and Wendy)
As soon as we arrived in NZ, I (Wendy) had the opportunity to be a part of leading a new Bible study. There had already been some discussion about a group of friends getting together to talk about the Bible and Christian perspectives on different topics. In NZ, people who have graduated from high school are called “Leavers” and high school is called “college” … just in case you weren’t confused already. Our group is 17-20 year olds who are working and studying.
We have been meeting for the last six months, going through the book of Luke and addressing various other topics of interest. We have a couple of Christians who take turns being facilitators, but everyone else is a mixture of atheists, agnostics, and those just interested in the Christian faith. The diversity of the group has led to an array of topics and interests. Some questions that have been raised are:
- If God wants us to go to heaven, why did he make it impossible to live without sin?
- Do people need God to make the right choices in life?
Other topics we’ve discussed are free will, homosexuality, gender, the definition of sin, the kingdom of God, heaven, hell, and evolution. The most amazing thing about these topics and questions is that they are coming from sincere curiosity and a profound seeking. The labels and agenda people have given themselves for the sake of identity and explaining their ideologies are not a big enough wall for the power of the Holy Spirit to disassemble.
We are seeing something happen in small and significant ways. Sometimes it’s a comment or moment of vulnerability. Many of the people in the group have never read the Bible, but over time truth is sinking in. When we were studying the Christmas story in Luke 2 our facilitator asked, “Why was the birth of Jesus first announced to the shepherds?” An atheist in our group replied, “It’s because of the upside-down kingdom! The birth of Jesus as King should be told to the lowest of society first and not the richest and most powerful!”
Please pray for those coming to the Bible study. Pray that God would speak to them, and they would surrender their lives to Jesus. Pray for our facilitators – that they would grow in boldness and truth as they share with honesty and authenticity.
We have once again been invited to attend the annual Steiger Gathering in Germany. This is a time set aside for missionary training, fellowship, and vision casting for the next year. While we were living and working with Steiger in Krögis this was an incredibly important time for our development as missionaries and staying connected with the greater work that is happening around the world.
This October will mark two years since we moved away from Germany. In addition to the value of connecting with other Steiger workers from around the world, this will also be an opportunity to reconnect with the local church that has supported us in ministry, the wonderful friends we made, and Moira’s friends from when she was a toddler. Please prayerfully consider supporting us with your prayers and finances as we begin to raise the extra support needed for this trip! We need to raise $6000 USD for this trip.
Never Stop Never Stopping!
Not a day goes by when we are not encouraged and blessed by Moira’s passion for life, sense of humor, and incredible love for people. It seems that whenever we turn around she is either running off for a new adventure outside, singing a Maori song she learned at preschool, or talking about which friends she wants to invite over next for a sleep over. There’s never a dull moment with Moira!
One specific topic of conversation that has been coming up frequently is her upcoming birthday. Moira will be turning 4 on June 25th! This is the first year when she not only knows what a birthday is, but is also counting down the days till its arrival. So far, the theme for the her party will settle somewhere in the realm of butterflies, princesses, dancers, and rock & roll.
Moira and her fellow preschoolers singing for the elderly in a local retirement community.
We hope that this update has found you well. As always, to find out more of what we are doing with our life and ministry in New Zealand please check out our social media links at the bottom of this newsletter.
Thank you for all of your love, encouragement, and support. God is good!
Kia Kaha, Kia Māia, Kia Manawanui
Be Strong, Be Steadfast, Be Willing
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Many organizations spread and integrate the practices of the Information Technology Governance, Risk and Compliance (IT GRC). The problem that arises is how to choose the best practice to satisfy a precise need. This chapter concerns the study and the conception of decision-making architecture with the multi-agent system (MAS). So, the objective of this research is to build a decision-making model to satisfy a precise IT need. The proposed approach rests on four main stages to set up the decision-making model, which takes as input the strategic needs. The realized work has as objective to minimize the incoherence between the decisions taken by the stakeholders of an organization compared with the defined strategic objectives. The decision-making would contribute to legitimize the taken decision. This work is based on modeling a MAS, which rests on the idea that it is possible to represent directly the behavior and the interactions of a set of autonomous individuals evolving in a common environment. Finally, the proposed solution is part of a global platform for IT Governance, Risk and IT Compliance (EAS-IT GRC) (“EAS is the name of our team”).
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THE Constitution of the United States declares that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
This being so, the millions who are in the bondage of “Sunday slavery,” about which so much is now said by the advocates of Sunday laws, have a plain remedy for their situation in an appeal to the fundamental law of the land.
Why, then, is not the Constitution invoked by somebody for this purpose? For that it never has been appealed to as a remedy for “Sunday slavery” is an evident fact, although the agitators for Sunday laws are not in ignorance of its provisions.
The plain reason is that these agitators know very well that the Sunday work about which they are talking is not slavery at all. They know that there is not a court in the land that would for a moment sustain the idea that the anti-slavery provision of the Constitution had any application to such labor.
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George Daniels' Space Traveller I to lead Sotheby's 'Masterworks of Time' auction
June 26, 2019: Chronicling the history of watchmaking from the Renaissance through to the present day and embracing each of the European epicentres of the watchmaking industry over time, an extraordinary collection of over 800 long-unseen pieces – unparalleled in its scope and comprehensiveness - will be offered in four dedicated sales by Sotheby’s at various locations (London, Geneva, New York and Hong Kong between July 2019 and October 2020).
‘Masterworks of Time’ encompasses all the ground-breaking technological and artistic innovations of the last 500 years: from early watches with German ‘stackfreeds’, to double dialled astronomical timepieces, superb enamels, form watches, musical and automata pieces, tourbillons, and complicated timepieces. The watchmakers represented read as a ‘Who’s Who’ of international horological giants, including A. Lange & Söhne, Abraham Louis Breguet, Ferdinand Berthoud, Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, and Frères Rochat, through to the 20th century horological legend, George Daniels.
Speaking of which, the sale is headlined by the legendary George Daniels Space Traveller I. Mr. Daniels, the pre-eminent horologist of the 20th century, completed the Space Traveller I in 1982 to commemorate the 1969 American moon landing. The watch was described by Daniels as “the kind of watch you would need on your package tour to Mars”.
Widely regarded as the greatest watchmaker of the 20th century, Mr. Daniels is internationally recognised for his many contributions to the horological world, working entirely alone to create his exceptional watches. He made a mere 23 pocket watches during his life time, and of them all, it is the Space Traveller that is the most revered. Space Traveller I is not only one of the most technically accomplished watches of all time, it is was also of enormous personal significance to Mr. Daniels, who treasured it and often wore it as a showpiece.
The Space Traveller was built with both solar and sidereal time, equation of time, and phases of the moon, as well as utilising Mr. Daniels’ famous independent double wheel escapement, which has captivated collectors since its inception in 1974. With this piece, the watchmaker created an extremely precise watch without the high number of wheels and trains normally necessary for precision timepieces. The pocket watch is estimated at $900,000 to 1.2 million. Where this watch finally goes remains to be seen! | <urn:uuid:ed23add3-8ef1-41d0-91ac-f78a59f49072> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.luxuryfacts.com/index.php/sections/article/George-Daniels-Space-Traveller-I-to-lead-Sothebys | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953703 | 553 | 1.5 | 2 |
NBA owed 3 ABA Pacers $35K a year. Two lived to see it happen. One died fighting for it
INDIANAPOLIS -- A point guard, center and power forward played with a red-white-and-blue basketball. They blazed a trail on a shiny hardwood court in a fast-paced league with flashy moves, halftime shenanigans and players made of true grit.
The point guard was Freddie Lewis. The center was Mel Daniels. And the power forward/center was Bob Netolicky.
All three men gave their might, their talent and their careers to the American Basketball Association, most of their seasons with the Indiana Pacers. The ABA lasted nine years. The three gave nearly 27 combined years to the ABA.
When it was over, Lewis became a coach and school teacher in Washington, D.C. Netolicky worked 25 years in the auto auction industry. And Daniels was a coach and NBA front office advisor.
None of the three made millions in basketball. Not even hundreds of thousands. But all three were promised pensions when the NBA merged with the ABA in 1976, absorbing four of its teams.
The pensions didn't come right away. Years passed. Then decades. The clock kept ticking and all three men, as they waited for the money, were vocal advocates, pushing the NBA for the pensions.
When the NBA voted in June to give recognition payments to 115 former ABA players -- nearly 50 years after the leagues merged -- Lewis and Netolicky were there to see it. Daniels, the fiercest ABA player advocate for the pensions, died in 2015, still doing everything he could to get his "brothers of the ABA" money.
This is their story, one of big dreams and superstars left behind. This is their story of fighting for the money they say they deserved.
"I'll take it with a grain of salt," Lewis, 79, told IndyStar of the money promised from the NBA. "They could have done a whole lot more for the guys, but they chose to do it this way. You know, we as players coming from the old league, we never made that kind of money that they're making today, so anything helps us.
"We are just in a position where there is nothing we can do about it, but accept it."
'It doesn't set well'
Lewis was one of the greatest to play in the ABA, a lightning quick point guard who could read the court, arguably, as well as any pro player before him.
In a buzzer-beating second, he could pull back from 18 feet, with two or three opponents in his face and drain the shot for a playoff win. He paved the way for legendary NBA point guards who came after him.
But Lewis came first.
He was so highly sought after that he is the only player to start his career in the NBA, play all nine seasons in the ABA and sign back with the NBA when the two leagues merged in 1976.
He won three ABA championships with the Pacers. He was a four-time ABA All-Star, with the Pacers, and also played with the Spirits of St. Louis and the NBA's Cincinnati Royals. He averaged 16.6 points, 4.1 assists and 4.0 rebounds in seven seasons.
And yet, after playing 11 years in two professional basketball leagues, Lewis lives just like most people live.
His 94-year-old mother, Thelma, had a stroke a few years back that left her unable to walk. Lewis is her only child. He moved from his home in Pennsylvania to Washington, D.C., to care for her.
"She needs 24-hour, 24-7 attention," Lewis said. "We don't know how much time. I try to take her where she needs to be and try to keep her comfortable."
Basketball seems a lifetime ago for Lewis. His days now are spent as caregiver, chauffeur, financial planner and son. But sometimes, when his mom brings it up or when a memory flashes through his mind, Lewis remembers those days.
"He was our steadiest performer and leader in the playoffs," Pacers coach Bobby "Slick" Leonard once said of Lewis. "He plays good defense. He does almost everything well. You can't let him shoot. And he'll drive on you. There's really no way to stop him."
Lewis was a player at a time when athletic greatness in the pro ranks didn't equal big money, not the multimillion-dollar contracts of today. And that was OK with Lewis at the time, because he just loved to play. But now, it isn't OK with Lewis and it hasn't been for decades.
Looking back on his basketball career, Lewis has felt financially slighted. He always thought, at the very least, he should have been given a pension from the NBA for his years of service to a league that is now a multi-billion-dollar enterprise.
The NBA board of governors voted in June to give $25 million to former ABA players, still living, as recognition payments for their years of service in the league. Players eligible either spent three or more years in the ABA or played at least three combined years in the ABA and NBA and never received a vested pension from the NBA.
The agreement pays players an average $3,828 annually for each year they were in the league. For example, a player with the minimum three seasons will receive $11,484 a year. A player with the most years of service, such as Lewis, will get $35,452 a year.
Lewis came out on top, but it's still not enough, at least in his calculations.
"It's just time. They should have did this thing years ago. The NBA, I just can’t imagine why they wouldn’t give the ABA a pension. They're calling this 'recognition' to keep from giving us a pension," he said. "I have 11 years in and they're only giving me (money) for nine so they are taking two away with this type of plan.
"It doesn't set well, but, everything helps. And we are thanking the Lord every day for the time we have here."
And that the NBA agreed to pay something to former ABA players while he was still alive to see it.
'This is like a godsend to us'
Netolicky turned 80 on Tuesday. He lives in Texas, is a grandfather and is poised to get the highest payment possible from the NBA, $35,000 a year.
"It's better than nothing," Netolicky told IndyStar from Texas this week. "They gave that one kid at Minnesota $62 million, but they're giving us a couple grand. They should just give us a million for each year we played. That would be just fine."
The kid at Minnesota is Karl-Anthony Towns who last month agreed to a four-year, $224 million supermax extension with the Timberwolves, his agent, Jessica Holtz of CAA Basketball told ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski.
Four years. $224 million. Netolicky shakes his head at that and laughs. He played in the ABA nine years, with Indiana, Dallas, San Antonio, then back to Indiana. He retired with the Pacers at the start of his ninth season.
An All-American at Drake University, Netolicky was on the 1967-68 ABA All-Rookie Team, a member of the 1969-70 ABA All-Pro Team, a 4-time ABA All-Star and played on two Pacers ABA championship teams.
Netolicky was the "smoothest shooting big man in the ABA" with a "quick release (and) excellent eye," Jim O'Brien wrote in his "1972-73 Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball. His "best move (was) juke toward baseline and cut for the foul line for a fine, floating jump shot. ... Unstoppable hook shot going to his right . . . Looks like choirboy, but hits offensive boards like a demon."
Netolicky retired from the ABA in 1976 with career averages of 16.0 points, 8.9 rebounds and 1.4 assists. He averaged nearly 50% shooting in 618 games.
In 1978, Netolicky joined the Baltimore Metros/Mohawk Valley Thunderbirds of the Continental Basketball Association and played eight games, averaging 15.0 points and 7.0 rebounds. The team was coached by Lewis. Netolicky then had a chance to play in the NBA with Cleveland and coach Bill Fitch.
"But I had just got engaged, had a house in Indianapolis," Netolicky said. "And back then, you're not talking about these millions of dollars. You're talking about enough to buy a car."
When he returned to Indy, Netolicky worked a stint in real estate, then went to Florida to coach for a year with the CBA's Sarasota Stingers at the same time Phil Jackson was coaching at Albany. Netolicky said it's crazy to think he coached against Jackson and what different paths their lives took after that.
Netolicky worked for 25 years in the auto auction business. "Then I kind of got old and just kind of semi-retired," he said. "You're semi-retired as long as you're walking, right?"
The money. That recognition payment he will get from the NBA "is like a godsend to us," he said.
"I'll put it this way. I didn't make a fortune, you know. Fortunately, I've saved a few bucks and I'm not worrying about my meal everyday, but I'm basically breaking even," he said. "This will give me what's called a little security about taxes going up. I don't have to worry about extra expenses and things like that."
Netolicky knows plenty of former teammates who do have to worry about their next meal. When the ABA disbanded in 1976, merging with the NBA, four of its 11 teams were absorbed by the NBA — the Pacers, Nuggets, New York Nets and San Antonio Spurs. Many players were left with no pension, salaries shut off and health insurance gone.
"Every one of the guys, we were promised a pension. We were promised things and it fell through the cracks," Netolicky said. "I'm not going to mention names, but I know some guys living on social security, just making ends meet and this is going to let you go to sleep at night and you're not going to have to worry."
While Netolicky, like Lewis, believes the NBA should be paying former ABA players more, he knows that is out of his control.
"It was 50 years ago and it wouldn't do any good to scream and yell about it now," he said. "And they're, the NBA is doing the right thing for everybody. There are going to be guys this is really going to help."
Beyond the money, Netolicky said is the recognition finally for what he and his former teammates did on the court. Until now, he felt like a superstar left behind.
"The money is wonderful, but it means that they are recognizing what we did, that we actually were pioneers," he said. "Instead of just somebody out there that nobody knows."
'Such a big voice in all of this'
Daniels had this crazy idea nearly 10 years ago. Really it wasn't so crazy, he said, when the billion-dollar dynasty called the NBA was his target. Daniels wanted the NBA to help his former teammates of the ABA.
He had visited New Orleans and found former ABA players living under bridges. He saw players all over the country struggling financially, unable to pay medical bills, pay rent and even buy groceries.
Daniels and Indianapolis attorney Scott Tarter, along with eye doctor John Abrams and filmmaker Ted Green got together and started the Dropping Dimes Foundation, a non-profit to help struggling former ABA players and their families. The foundation's No. 1 goal was to get the NBA to pay pensions to living ABA players.
Months before Daniels died in 2015, he helped former player Charlie Jordan pick out a new suit with Dropping Dimes, and he told IndyStar how sad it was to see his league- and teammates suffer.
"They don't have anything," Daniels said. "People don't know how bad off they are."
Daniels was an outspoken advocate as Dropping Dimes fought for pensions. He died never getting to see the NBA acknowledge what the league's players had done for the modern game.
"I think of Mel and how much this meant to him," said Abrams, who is the Pacers' team eye doctor. "He was such a big voice in all of this."
Daniels didn't need the money, at least not like many of the 115 players.
His career in the ABA was illustrious, playing for the Minnesota Muskies, Pacers and Memphis Sounds and with the NBA's New York Nets. Daniels was a two-time ABA Most Valuable Player, three-time ABA champion and a seven-time ABA All-Star. He was the all-time ABA rebounding leader, and in 1997 was a unanimous selection to the ABA All-Time Team. Daniels was enshrined into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2012.
He averaged 19.4 points and 16.0 rebounds during his six years in a Pacers uniform. At his first practice with the team, Daniels was shooting jump shots from 15 feet. Coach Leonard walked up and issued a warning. “Next time you shoot from that far out,’ Leonard said, “I’m gonna punch you in the nose.”
“And that was that,” Daniels said in 2014.
After retiring from basketball, Daniels remained a fixture with the Pacers, even when the team moved to the NBA. In 1984, Daniels was an assistant coach and later became an executive on the basketball side as the team’s director of personnel.
At Daniels' funeral, ABA legends talked about his remarkable talent on the court, but most talked about his loyalty to the ABA off the court, including his fight for money from the NBA.
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Network functions virtualization (NFV) has been a fairly popular buzzword over the last few years. The promise of enabling network services to run on standard “commodity” hardware as opposed to expensive propriety hardware was quite enticing. After all, standardization has driven so many innovations in tech over the years, the potential benefit of NFV seemed clear: lower costs and vendor lock-in while increasing agility and scalability for end users. Unfortunately, NFV has been unable to deliver on its promises for a number of reasons, including unnecessary complexity, high costs, and less than stellar performance.
On the other hand, over the same period of time, SD-WAN has seen tremendous growth and enterprises across the globe are adopting it at rapid rates. SDWaaS (SD-WAN as a Service) in particular is succeeding in many areas NFV has thus far failed. While many are familiar with the concept that SD-WAN is the modern replacement for MPLS (Multiprotocol Label Switching), the idea that SDWaaS can succeed where NFV has failed is often overlooked.
In this piece, we’ll dive into what NFV was supposed to do, where it has gone wrong, and how SDWaaS is succeeding in its place.
The four layers of NFV
NFV was supposed to abstract the complexity and proprietary hardware that is common on enterprise networks. NFV is a framework that includes four layers:
- OBSS- The Operational and Billing Support System layer is used to facilitate billing by and support by service providers. It captures data from the MANO layer.
- VNF- Virtual Network Functions are capable of running as virtual machines and providing network functions that were normally performed by proprietary hardware (e.g. routers, firewalls, WAN appliances, etc.). VNFs sit atop the NFVI layer.
- NFVI-Network Functions Virtualization Infrastructure layer is somewhat analogous to a bare metal hypervisor and the underlying hardware. NFVI provides the virtualized compute, storage, and network resources used by VNFs.
- MANO- Management and Orchestration layer communicates with all three other layers and enables provisioning, configuration, etc.
By enabling network functions to run on commodity hardware, NFV was supposed to bring the flexibility of virtualization to the enterprise network. Doing so would in turn lead to reduced capex and opex, less vendor lock-in, and more scalable, economical, and agile IT operations.
Where has NFV gone wrong so far?
While all this sounds like a great idea, the execution to date has been lacking. As opposed to an ecosystem of standards-based, interoperable, flexible solutions that reduce vendor lock-in and drive down prices, enterprises have gotten full stack solutions from a handful of vendors. As opposed to more choice, enterprises are simply being locked in to specific providers due to lack of information and interoperability in the world of NFV.
Further, to date, NFV hasn’t been delivering as well as it should on the promise to reduce capex. The hardware required to virtualize all network functions and still deliver comparable performance often ends up being similar to the cost of the proprietary appliances they are supposed to replace.
Additionally, network service providers have often struggled to identify a compelling business reason to make the shift to NFV. There is often simply too much complexity in transitioning to NFV and this complexity in and of itself outweighs any potential benefits given what NFV is able to deliver today.
That last point about complexity as a barrier for service providers is an excellent microcosm for what may be the biggest problem with NFV: while it was supposed to abstract away complexity and make IT ops more flexible, in its current form it often adds complexity. This paradigm likely won’t change unless there is a significant shift in the world of NFV. As is, the providers of VNFs are not incentivized to make it easy to change vendors or grant another tool the ability to control and configure their solutions at a granular level. This means NFV appliances may be able to manage multiple VNFs to an extent, but multiple proprietary VNF management solutions from VNF vendors are still needed in many cases, which in turn reintroduces complexity.
How does SDWaaS get it right?
There may still be some hope for the NFV market to begin delivering compelling solutions in the years to come. However, enterprises looking for a robust, economical, and scalable way to get the most out of their WAN optimization efforts today should look no further than SDWaaS.
One of the biggest problems in the world of NFV is that multiple parties have varying incentives that conflict with one another and result in users getting suboptimal results. SDWaaS offers enterprises an integrated, feature-rich, and secure platform of microservices. SDWaaS enables WAN traffic shaping (e.g. using QoS), Policy-based Routing (PbR), Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) and many more WAN optimization and security features in one holistic solution.
This means organizations that adopt SDWaaS will be able to improve the performance, security, and reliability of their WAN while abstracting away the complexity of multiple hardware and software appliances today. No waiting for an industry to deliver on potential, SDWaaS is capable of doing what NFV one day hopes to.
SDWaaS executes where NFV has failed
As we have seen, NFV is still not capable of delivering on its initial promise. On the other hand, SDWaaS is delivering WAN optimization results today and has surpassed both NFV and MPLS as “the way of the future” for the vast majority of enterprise WAN use cases.
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FNB is the oldest bank in South Africa, and can be traced back to the Eastern Province Bank formed in Grahamstown in 1838. Today, FNB trades as a division of FirstRand Bank Limited. When looking at FNB’s history, two things in particular stand out. The first is a story of survival – different circumstances in South Africa have posed many great challenges in our history, all of which FNB has successfully met. This track record provides a strong foundation for our future challenges. The second is a story of people – our history has always been firmly influenced by the needs of the people we serve.
The Acacia tree in our brand logo is a suitable representation of our history. Our roots run deep in South Africa, and we have grown thanks to our commitment to serving the needs of our clients and communities.
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Christopher Lane was murdered in cold blood. It was cruel, senseless, and empty. It drew the curtain back on the human capacity for evil.
But what it generated among the talking heads was an angst-ridden, bewildered search for an explanation and a fix. With the help of sociologists and psychologists in short order the press completed a raw sort of the explanations for Christopher's death: video game violence, a lack of strong parenting, the limited cognitive ability of adolescent males, and "the American culture of death" were among the explanations offered by the reporters and their expert witnesses.
By the end of the morning it was clear that there was a rational explanation available and that such behavior could be fixed with the right social choices. The only question that remained was which of the factors identified were really to blame and which social program would forever erase tragedies of this kind—until, of course, it happens again.
This is the bewildered place that we will find ourselves—again and again—until we own the spiritual dimension of life and with it, our potential for darkness. Imagine a world where everyone's family is supportive and healthy; every community is stable; opportunity is plentiful; no one owns weapon or a violent video game; movies are entirely free of violence—and, thanks to who we are, someone will die at the hands of someone else.
The scriptural message that we are sinners and that we need to be saved from ourselves is an unwelcome message. "God is just trying to make us feel badly about ourselves," we complain. That is not, in fact, the reason for describing us as sinners. The purpose of that admonition is to remind us that when we are left to our own devices in a world in which we are our own god, this is the kind of thing that happens.
This is not to suggest that we should not work for healthier families and a healthier society. But it is to suggest that we stop talking about violent crimes as if they can be erased with a bit of good therapy.
Psychiatrist Karl Menninger observed, "In all of the laments and reproaches made by our seers and prophets, one misses any mention of 'sin,' a word which used to be a veritable watchword of prophets." He wrote his book Whatever Became of Sin? so long ago (1973) that there are collectible first editions of it available on-line and Menninger himself died almost twenty-five years ago. But the question he asked remains unaddressed and as long as it remains unanswered we will continue to be bewildered, society will evolve without a moral compass, and parents will mourn the loss of their children.
To coin a phrase used by another therapist in challenging a society that mistakenly defines everything as a therapeutic problem with a therapeutic fix, "How's that working for us?"
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Haplotype DNA evidence
A Y-chromosome or a mitochondria has genetic information that is useful for identification or
for kinship problems such as paternity attribution, but has to be treated somewhat differently
from the more typical nuclear (=autosomal) DNA profile for many reasons:
- The genetic rules are simpler the trait is either known to be passed or known
not to be passed (depending on the sexes involved) to each offspring; there are no
choices or 50% probabilities of transmission as with nuclear DNA.
May2018, note added 5-10 years after initially writing this web
page: This page discusses only how to handle the complication of
relatives and possible mutation. It doesn't deal with the difficult
questions of evaluating what I loosely call "Pr(haplotype)" below, or
we'd have many further reasons to list:
- Several markers are linked, i.e. physically chained and inherited together, so they
must be considered as a unit. No recombination. The product rule doesn't apply at all.
- Autosomal STR alleles matching probabilities or frequencies can reasonably be
estimated as sample frequencies; for Y haplotypes that is far from true.
- When using population data to estimate the significance of an autosomal STR
allele match, it's close to adequate to consider only the allele in question.
For Y by contrast, it's important to look at the entire database.
- Putting confidence intervals on a matching probability is mathematically
ignorant. However, while it's a fairly harmless error in the autosomal domain,
it's a crippling mistake when dealing with Y haplotype matching
- Obviously all men are related. Forgetting that when dealing with Y misses the
fundamental point that nearly all Y matching is from identity by
descent. That's not so with a single STR locus as in the autosomal
- "Theta" — the chance of two alleles or haplotypes being IBD —
in autosomal practice is a minor adjustment to the matching chance.
With Y haplotypes it's the main thing; it's a good approximation to the matching
chance and anything else is a minor adjustment.
- Explicit models — a careful mathematical approach laying out premises
and deriving results from them — can be overlooked in autosomal practice
without tragedy. In Y haplotype practice they are vital, and their persistent
absence from all early papers many recent ones results in nonsensical
recommendations and practice.
- Geographical clustering is a vital concern with Y haplotypes; in autosomal
work not so much.
- Y-haplotype in identification and paternity
I discuss here basic principles in using Y-haplotype information for identity or paternity.
Suppose suspect and crime stain have the same Y-chromosome haplotype. That result is normal
and expected (i.e. 100%) if the suspect is the donor; it is the probably of seeing the haplotype
among random men if the suspect is a random man.
The strength of the evidence is therefore simply expressed as matching odds (or equivalently
as a likelihood ratio) of
matching odds = 1 / Pr(haplotype).
- Paternity ordinary case
Typically father and son share a Y-haplotype just as if the son were a crime scene. Therefore
in the typical case the equation above also gives the paternity index:
PI = 1 / Pr(haplotype).
- Paternity mutation
Of course that's not 100% true; there are mutations. Available data supports that the
mutation rates and behavior for STR loci on the Y-chromosome are typical for the genome; so around
μ=1/400 per locus per generation for single step mutations, but with a lot of variation
depending on the locus.
Suppose a man M has Y-haplotype which we call YM and a boy C has the type
YC which differs from YM by a single step
at just one locus.
Obviously, mutation cannot be ignored in this case. Since μ
is the probability of any mutation, but nearly all (90-95%) STR mutations are one-step
and expansion and contraction are about equally common, to a reasonable approximation
the probability to mutate in either direction between YC
and YM is μ/2.
There are several possible approaches. We use the notation PI for the
paternity index, and
PI = X/Y, where
X = Prob(observed haplotypes | F father of C) and
Y = Prob(observed haplotypes | F unrelated to C).
To evaluate Y, we can write
Y = mc where
X is a little more problematic.
- child-centric approach
The child has YC, inherited from his
father. A mutation between
YC and YM may
have occurred, with probability μ/2.
Therefore, given that a child is type c the probability is
approximately μ/2 that his father is type
X = cμ/2 and
LR = X/Y = X/cu = 3μ/2u.
It remains to estimate u.
- father-centric approach
In a symmetrical way we could begin with the alleged father, and
obtain instead the formula
LR = 3μ/2c.
- Which approach is right? How to estimate c and/or u?
Deep questions. What is right depends on such things as what you think
the population database represents grandfather's generation?
the child's? If the population were in drift and mutation equilibrium,
then I suppose all methods would give the same answer.
- Pragmatic estimate of the Y-haplotype evidence
Note that all formulas are equivalent if c = u.
Therefore to be conservative let's take the uncle-centric view and
Hence LR = 30.009/2(2/171) = 1.15.
The meaning of this neutral result is that the chance to see so
rare a haplotype by mutation is about the same as the chance to see it
at random in an unrelated individual.
- Approach to "frequencies"
Frequencies of an unobserved trait is impossible to know. Fortunately frequency isn't the question.
My papers on rare haplotypes offer several approaches.
Bottom line: simple counting (but add 1) is very conservative.
A pretty accurate method that is not complicated is also given. June 2009
- Mitochondrial ID of a sister
Body B and reference sister S have mitotypes mTB
and mTS which differ only by one base, perhaps a mutation.
What is the LR supporting the hypothesis that B is the lost sister of S?
- Formulate mitochondria LR for identification
LR = X/Y where
X = Pr(sisters have types mTB and mTS),
Y = Pr(randomly chosen people have types mTB and mTS).
The difficulty in evaluating X is that we don't know which sister mitochondria represents a mutation.
We can take a mother-centric approach, considering that their common mother had one type or the other and assuming
that one of the sister mitochondria is a mutation. Then there are two possibilities for the mother type, so
X = Pr(mother=mTB and S is a product of mutation)
+Pr(mother=mTS and B is a product of mutation)
= Pr(mTB)μ + Pr(mTS)μ
= μ[Pr(mTB) + Pr(mTS)].
- Probability of type mTB
As part of the answer we will need mitochondrial random matching probabilities.
As an example evaluate
b=Pr(random person = mTB | mTB observed in body
Let's say mTB occurs x times in our reference database of N
mitotypes. Per AlleleProbability.htm,
b < (x+1)/(N+1)
(where the occurrences of +1 represent conditioning on the casework observation
We can improve on that by accepting the logic of the "κ method" according to
which b = λ(x+1)/(N+1).
Here λ is a factor less than one and independent of x.
(Specifically λ = 1 – κ, i.e. λ is the proportion of the N database mitotypes
observations that are not singletons.)
- Solving the LR expression
What Y is
Evaluating Y is easy. Under the assumption that B and S
are just unconnected random observations,
Y = Pr( ... )
ugh! Can NOT condition on the B & S types!
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President Mustafa Akıncı stated that the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) should take steps towards lifting the conditions which limit the Turkish Cypriot side’s interaction with the world.
Speaking at the 13th Islamic Summit Conference of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Akıncı underlined the importance of solidarity in the region. Akıncı also added that as the Turkish Cypriot side, they wish to reach a solution in the island in 2016 and a solution to be reached will bring peace and stability to the region.
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Risk Factors for AIDS
by Amy Scholten, MPH
A risk factor is something that raises a person's chances of getting a disease or health problem. A person can have HIV with or without any of those listed below. But the more risks they have, the higher the chances of getting HIV.
Certain lifestyle factors are linked to HIV infection. By avoiding or changing certain behaviors, a person can lower their risk. The most common risks are:
Having Unprotected Sex
Most people get HIV by having sex. During sex, the virus can enter the body through the genitals, rectum, and mouth. A person can lower this risk by using a condom during sex every time. Keep in mind that sex is any act that involves exchanging bodily fluids.
The risk of HIV is also higher for those who:
Using needles to inject drugs raises the risk of HIV. This is mainly true if they are dirty or shared needles. Even a small amount of blood with HIV can be passed to someone else.
Having Certain Health Problems
Having a sexually transmitted infection (STI) makes a person's risk of HIV higher. The most common ones are:
The risk is higher for a person with a vaginal infection or STI who has sex with someone with HIV.
Blood banks did not test for HIV until 1985. There was no way of knowing if the blood had HIV in it. The infection was passed through blood transfusions. There is still some degree of risk. This is because tests cannot find HIV in a blood donor who just got it.
Other procedures can raise the risk of HIV, but it is rare. This includes tissue or organ transplantation and artificial insemination.
Having Certain Jobs
Working in certain jobs raises the risk of HIV. This is due to exposure to bodily fluids. These jobs may be in:
Sexually transmitted infections treatment guidelines 2021. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/std/treatment-guidelines/. Accessed November 10, 2021.
Acute HIV infection. EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at: https://www.dynamed.com/condition/acute-hiv-infection. Accessed November 10, 2021.
.HIV/AIDS clinical guidelines. Clinical Info.gov website. Available at: https://clinicalinfo.hiv.gov/en/guidelines. Accessed November 10, 2021.
HIV transmission. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website. Available at: https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/basics/transmission.html. Accessed November 10, 2021.
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You practice your part diligently. You study the score and mark in all the other instrumental cues. You listen to several recordings. Yet your chamber music still feels…off.
Simple fix? Maintain good eye contact and give good cues.
This is an often-overlooked aspect of performing with other musicians. Many musicians are so used to performing under conductors that they are unfamiliar or uncomfortable leading others in smaller conductor-less ensembles. Accompanists and chamber musicians are not mind-readers (although wouldn’t that be amazing if they were?), so it is important to let others know your musical intentions. Practice giving good cues and nonverbal gestures to let your fellow musicians know where you want to speed up, slow down, play louder, etc. Good nonverbal communication is what separates average ensembles from outstanding ensembles.
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One of the first major challenges to New Jersey’s new bail system hinges on an unlikely argument: that defendants should be able to pay cash bail if they want to.
In June Brittan Holland, of Sicklerville, sued New Jersey Attorney General Christopher Porrino and other state officials in federal court, claiming he was entitled to but denied the chance to pay bail before trial on an aggravated assault charge stemming from a bar fight on April 6.
Under the state’s criminal justice overhaul, which virtually eliminated monetary bail, Holland was brought before a judge to decide whether he should be let go or kept in jail before trial.
The computer algorithm tasked with determining whether Holland might skip a court date or commit another crime while out on release recommended detaining him until trial, but a judge let Holland go with the caveats that he remain confined to his home and wear a GPS bracelet. Judges only issue cash bail in rare circumstances now.
Holland’s attorneys say their client could have avoided the restrictive conditions placed upon him had he been offered the option to pay cash bail, which they say he would have fulfilled with a bail bond. “It’s a price that some people are willing to pay,” said Paul Clement, one of Holland’s attorneys, in federal court Tuesday. “Why take away the option to pay it?”
Clement argued that the new state law requires judges to consider other options, such as home detention or GPS monitoring, before they can weigh issuing cash bail. That, he said, makes it more likely that defendants willing to pay to ensure their appearance in court will instead have a physical restriction imposed on them to achieve the same goal. “New Jersey is the only jurisdiction that has put monetary bail definitively behind this emergency glass,” he said.
The state’s criminal justice system overhaul, which took effect on January 1, aimed to help poor defendants who were stuck in jail on bails they couldn’t afford by virtually eliminating cash bail altogether. It also allowed judges to detain defendants deemed a flight risk or a danger to the public, something that had not been allowed under the law before.
Assistant Attorney General Stuart Feinblatt acknowledged in federal court Tuesday that “monetary bail has been de-prioritized” under the state’s new criminal justice system, noting that the old scheme was “unfair and discriminatory” to those who couldn’t pay.
Feinblatt also said that cash bail is still appropriate for certain nonviolent defendants, but Holland is not one of them. Holland was charged with a violent felony, Feinblatt argued, and was previously convicted of simple assault.
Holland is joined in the lawsuit by co-defendant Lexington National Insurance Corporation, a Maryland-based bail bond agency that claims it has been financially harmed by the criminal justice overhaul.
Holland’s attorneys were seeking a preliminary injunction that would allow their client to pay bail and rid himself of the other conditions of his pretrial release.
U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle said he would rule on the matter within three weeks.
Another major challenge to the bail reform efforts in New Jersey is an ongoing federal lawsuit filed by June Rodgers, whose son, Christian, was shot 22 times and killed in Vineland on April 9th. Jules Black, who was arrested with a gun and released several days earlier, is being charged with Rodgers’ murder.
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This site presents and discusses progress of the four GeoERA groundwater projects: HOVER, RESOURCE, TACTIC and VOGERA and the common GeoERA Information Platform (EGDI), providing data, information and decision-support tools for the long-term protection, sustainable management and improvement of groundwater resources across Europe, within the framework of societal challenges and EU policies.
The latest Newsletter of the HOVER project in the @GeoERA program is now available on-line: HOVER Newsletter – In the newsletter you will find a map of arsenic concentrations in European aquifers. Arsenic is a trace element in groundwater and drinking water of health concern and responsible for the largest mass poisoning in history according to Mori et al. 2018. See the map and read more about other exciting and relevant results of the HOVER project in the newsletter.
The map is an example of what will later this year be accessible at the HOVER project website on the GeoERA webpage and via metadata searches and map viewers on the EGDI (European Geological Data Infrastructure) subsurface information platform of the @EuroGeoSurveys. For more information please contact the HOVER project lead: Laurence Gourcy, firstname.lastname@example.org
Just one week left to the GeoERA groundwater webinar presenting the four #GeoERA groundwater projects on groundwater quantity and quality in a changing climate, and discussing #groundwater research needs and web services e.g. with the new Horizon Europe partnership candidate “Water4All – water security for the planet” – register here: https://geoera.eu/blog/event/geoera-webinar-series/ and contribute with your views on groundwater and #water resources research needs for the next decade – your views count.
Tomorrow is the big day for the projects of the GeoERA program at EGU2020. All 15 GeoERA projects: are presented in more than 20 abstracts, powerpoints and posters in session ERE1.2: GeoERA: Towards integrated European Geoscience services for today’s and future generations. You can download the presentations and ask questions in an online chat for each presentation here: https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/displays/34714 – please join us
This week we planned to have our midterm meeting in the #GeoERA HOVER project: https://geoera.eu/projects/hover8/ in Madrid – unfortunately, we had to cancel because of COVID-19 – instead we had videomeetings for all our eight work packages. Here Hans Peter Broers of the Dutch Geological survey, TNO, explains about the use of groundwater dating in contaminant trend assessment using nitrate and veterinary antibiotics as examples in HOVER WP6 on the use of groundwater dating and travel time distributions. These examples, which are also very relevant for HOVER WP5 and 8 on nitrate & pesticides and emerging contaminants, respectively, will be included in the map viewer on the HOVER project website and in the GeoERA information platform / the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI) with access to peer reviewed papers, reports and other relevant information on these important groundwater studies. READ MORE ABOUT THE HOVER PROJECT HERE: https://geoera.eu/projects/hover8/
About 600 geologists from 20 countries currently meets in Oslo, Norway at NGWM2020 – https://www.geologi.no/ngwm2020 – I’ve just presented the GeoERA program – https://geoera.eu/ focusing on the four GeoERA groundwater projects and #sustainable use of subsurface #resources including water and carbon in its many forms. The meeting is held at the University of Oslo / #OiU – here it is Prof. Dag Olav Hessen, Head of the OiU “Centre for biogeochemistry in the Anthropocene” in his Keynote on the importance of carbonate and carbonate cycling not only for humanity but for all life on Earth. Water and carbon are essential for all life on our planet.
About 30 European partners of the #GeoERA RESOURCE project just completed three days of discussions focusing on the development of the first Pan-European groundwater resources map estimating the quantity, quality, depth and age of groundwater resources in Europe.
The meeting was held at the geological survey of Croatia (HGI, see group photo below). The project probably develops the currently most advanced multinational groundwater resources map at large scale, globally.
The data and information collected in the map and ultimately visualized in the European Geological Data Infrastructure / EGDI will provide valuable information on the quantity and quality of European groundwater resources for assessment of #climate change impacts on European water resources and the ecological status of groundwater dependent terrestrial and associated aquatic #ecosystems. In addition, the data and maps will support implementation of the Water Framework Directive and its daughter directive the Groundwater Directive of the #European Commission.
The new quasi 3D map is partly based on classifications defined by the International Hydrogeological map of Europe IHME1500 developed under the auspices of the International Association of Hydrogeologists / #IAH and financially supported by #UNESCO and Germany / the German Geological Survey / #BGR.
The status and main deliverables of RESOURCE and the other GeoERA projects will be presented at the #EGU (European Geosciences Union) General Assembly 2020 in Vienna, 3-8.5.2020.
The new Pan European groundwater resources map is of interest to and relevant for the groundwater and water resources community, globally, including the #IAH, #IAHS, #IGRAC, #EFG as well as environment agencies, regional authorities, the European Environment Agency, #EEA, the Joint Research Centre of the #European Commission and #EU Science, Research and Innovation.
The General Assembly of the GeoERA RESOURCE project just opened by the Director of the Croatian Geological Survey Slobodan Miko and the coordinator of the RESOURCE project Hans Peter Broers from the Dutch Geological Survey, TNO. The first map of European groundwater / subsurface water resources is the flagship product from the RESOURCE project to be developed for the European Geological Data Infrastructure (EGDI)
The European #GeoERA program on sustainable use of the subsurface resources groundwater, raw materials and geoenergy and development of a subsurface information platform: the #European Geological Data Infrastructure / EGDI was presented twice this week.
The GeoERA information platform, the three themes groundwater, raw materials and geoenergy and their 14 projects within GeoERA were briefly presented at the national Danish “Hydrology Day” / #Hydrologidag 2019 and the Swedish “Groundwater Days” / #Grundvattendagarna. Climate change impacts on groundwater and the hydrological cycle in general were a key topic at both meetings discussing e.g. new tools for assessment of climate change impacts on groundwater and development of mitigation and adaptation strategies e.g. against floods and droughts.
The European Geological Surveys / #EuroGeoSurveys combined forces to continue / initiate the development of a globally leading subsurface information platform within the GeoERA program. The subsurface information platform is initiated by the geological surveys of Europe, but continuous development and success of the platform will only be possible in close collaboration with all stakeholders in efficient #Public Private Partnerships and with continuous support from public as well as private research funds.
This will ensure the development of innovative add-ons to EGDI for efficient upload and use of data together with similar information from e.g. #climate / #global circulation models. GeoERA received funding primarily from ministries funding the European Geological Surveys, the #H2020 / EU Horizon 2020 programme and the Grand Solutions program of #Innovation Fund Denmark.
The use of subsurface resources are often not sustainable, but our modern society is build on subsurface resources and the subsurface offers important solutions and possibilities for climate change mitigation and adaptation and for building a #resilient and sustainable society. Our society needs an advanced subsurface information platform to manage the subsurface resources in a sustainable way and properly manage competing and conflicting interests in subsurface resources.
Partners of the TACTIC project (Tools for assessment of climate change impact on groundwater and adaptation strategies) of the GeoERA EU research and innovation program currently has the annual general assembly discussing project progress and webservice products visualizing climate change impacts on European groundwater resources with the GeoERA Information Platform Project (GIP-P) as well as members of the advisory board – Alberto Pistocchi of the JRC, Ispra and Roland Barthel of University of Gothenburg in Ispra, Italy. | <urn:uuid:46efa504-6777-49c9-953d-e0a0bb8e4ee6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://geoera-groundwater.com/category/uncategorized/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.872987 | 1,819 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Work to develop the knowledge and skills utilized in the health sciences field with the online Master of Science in Health Sciences (MSHS) program at Trident. In our 100% online program, you will:
- Become efficient in discerning, implementing, and evaluating new developments and advances in health sciences.
- Learn to balance the needs of health practice within sociopolitical and economic environments.
- Improve your ability to critically evaluate research findings.
- Engage in meaningful online discussion, experiences, and relationships.
- Collaborate with a highly qualified, respected, and diverse health sciences faculty.
The online Master of Science in Health Sciences (MSHS) degree program promotes educational opportunities for education advancement and lifelong learning. Our online health sciences students have a passion for thinking about ways to make health sciences systems work better and improve outcomes for patients in different environments.
The goal of the program is to provide students with the knowledge and skills needed for effective managerial and leadership careers in various health fields. Students will learn to discern, implement, and evaluate new developments and advances in fields of health sciences. Individuals will learn to balance the needs of health practice within various sociopolitical and economic environments. The program is also designed to provide students with the ability to critically evaluate research findings in applicable fields of practice.
By immersing yourself in in-depth research projects, engaging with other students and world-respected faculty, and completing rigorous masters-level coursework, your studies will help you pursue a fulfilling career in health sciences.
See the Trident Catalog for full descriptions of all online health sciences masters courses.
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Upon successful completion of their respective program option, graduates should be able to:
- Apply theories, concepts, or models within the health sciences field.
- Communicate proficiently within multidisciplinary health-related contexts to general and specialized audiences.
- Assess and use quantitative and qualitative data to address problems in the field of health sciences.
- Critically examine and integrate health-related literature into practice.
- Evaluate data and information to reach a conclusion appropriate to health science practice.
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You must complete 40 semester credits of core courses and electives. See the Trident Catalog for full descriptions of all program course offerings.
- Environmental and Occupational Health and Safety – This concentration prepares professionals for management and director-level positions in the environmental health sciences and occupational health and safety fields.
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See the Trident University Catalog for full descriptions of all graduate certificate course offerings.
- Bachelors degree from an accredited college or university.
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- Trident may accept for transfer to the masters degree up to 30% of graduate level credits from other accredited colleges or universities. All transferred course credits must have a GPA of 3.0 or better.
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``I didn't just want to retire and sit at home, I wanted to continue to make an impact in the world.`` Meet Idongesit Ebuete, MS in Health Sciences alumna.
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The dehumidification of the air consists in the reduction of the quantity of steam present in it through a suitable method.Moisture can be removed from the air directly by lowering the temperature below the dew point with which the water condenses. This method is therefore called condensation. This phenomenon can be observed, when we remove a bottle of a cooled beverage from the refrigerator, it is quickly covered with drops of water. This is related to the drop in air temperature around the bottle below the dew point. This method is applied in dehumidifiers equipped with the cooling system.
Dehumidification with hygroscopic substances is carried out with an absorption method. It is commonly used in the form of containers filled with crystals or absorbent beads, such as, for example, in computer bodies and in packaging for products sensitive to humidity. For avfuktning stockholm you can have the best support.
in practice the following methods are used:
Heating and ventilation
- It is the most common method, but it is not very effective and not cheap.
- Condensation dehumidificationcauses the vapor to be condensed in the air. This method is more effective and cheaperthan that by means of heating and ventilation.
Absorption dehumidification (absorption)
- Removes moisture from the air by absorbing it. This method is the most effective.
Depending on the method of operation, two types of dehumidification are highlighted:
- closed circuit dehumidification
- there is no exchange of the dehumidified air with the outside air,
- for example, the dehumidification of rooms with the condensation dehumidifier.
Open circuit dehumidification
- there is the partial or total exchange of the dehumidified air with the outside air,
- usually used in air conditioning systems.
Dew point:Tshe temperature at which the vapor in the air condenses. If the air is 100% saturated, it is not able to absorb a greater quantity of humidity, therefore lowering the temperature will lead to the condensation of water on the surfaces, of which the temperature is similar to that which leads to saturation by 100%.
Steam condensation:The process of passing the vapor present in the air from the gaseous to the liquid (condensation) or solid (freezing, sublimation) state.
- Hygroscopic substance can be a solution of calcium chloride and magnesium chloride, lithium chloride, silica, potassium chloride, aluminum, calcium chloride, lithium chloride salts and bromide.
- When there is water on the walls, the plaster begins to degrade, condensation, mold and various stains are formed, the presence of salts and many other phenomena to be remedied in a very short period of time, to limit the damage to the building composition and to the health of those who live there, so the question often arises of how to remove moisture from the walls.
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Brick, New Jersey
Brick Township is in Ocean County, New Jersey. The township has a population of 75,000. While the majority of Brick Township is located on the mainland, Ocean Beaches I, II and III are situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, a long, narrow barrier peninsula that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean. The major county routes that pass through are CR 528, and CR 549. Two state routes pass through: Route 70 and Route 88. The Garden State Parkway passes through the western part of the municipality with three interchanges: Exits 91,90, and 89.
The Brick Public Schools serve students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. Seven elementary schools, Drum Point, Emma Havens, Herbertsville, Lanes Mill, Midstreams, Osborneville and Veterans Memorial Elementary School. Lake Riviera Middle School for grades 6-8. Brick Memorial High School and Brick Township High School for grades 9-12. St. Dominic Elementary school is a Roman Catholic private school overseen by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trenton, and St. Paul’s Christian School, a Methodist private school, serve students in nursery school through eighth grade. | <urn:uuid:f8ba1695-f54b-47fb-9e74-c014a9d9b568> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://casseserealtors.com/brick/?doing_wp_cron=1659815289.3727169036865234375000 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.935083 | 255 | 1.875 | 2 |
Internships: An Essential Part of Your College Education
Even with a degree in hand, glowing recommendation letters and a killer resume, without an internship, it can be challenging to land a job after graduation. Why is an internship so important? Because it demonstrates that you’re able to apply your academic knowledge to real-world experiences. More often than not, companies seek out candidates with prior experience in their field.
How to start your internship search
Most internship opportunities are available after sophomore or junior year. The idea is that the more academic experience you have, the more you’ll be able to contribute. Spend time deciding on the career path that you want to pursue, and then do some self-evaluation on the types of companies and corporate cultures that suit you best. Don’t focus only on whether the internship is paid. Only about a third of internships are paid, and paid positions get about four times as many applicants as unpaid. Remember, just because it’s a “hot” internship, doesn’t mean it’s the right fit for you. Your college’s career development office is a great place to start, and don’t be afraid to tap alumni connections either. There are several websites to help your search, too. http://www.internships.com is a comprehensive database, and if you’re looking for a nonprofit internship, http://www.idealist.org is an excellent resource.
Write a winning application
Write a resume and cover letter for the internship, even if it’s not required. It’s good practice and shows them that you’re ready to join the ranks of professionals. It’s fine if you don’t have much job experience; in your resume highlight your leadership roles—whether in volunteer positions, college organizations or summer jobs. Explain in your cover letter why you’re the ideal candidate for the internship and what relevant experience and skills you can bring to the organization. After you send your resume and cover letter, if you don’t hear from them, it’s okay to reach out once more and underscore why you’re such a great fit for the internship.
What you’ll do and what you’ll gain
Ultimately, an internship is about gaining hands-on experience within one’s field of interest. Sure, you’ll probably also be called upon to do administrative tasks, but you’ll also have the opportunity to make real contributions to the company or organization—through research, projects, creating support materials and other activities. You’ll learn what a typical day on the job might look like, find out about the workload and the responsibility that is expected of employees. And, beyond the first-hand glimpse into your chosen profession, internships are invaluable for several reasons. You’ll make industry connections, forge mentor relationships, gain new skills, and get the chance to “test-drive” your career. Are you a good fit for the corporate culture? Do you love working in a lab, or would you rather be on the business-side of science? You may finish your internship and decide that this is right career for you, or you may decide that your passions are elsewhere. Either way, your internship will be an invaluable experience to help you shape your future career path. | <urn:uuid:53a84fce-e6fb-4a02-924a-624305b908d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collegesofdistinction.com/advice/internships-an-essential-part-of-your-college-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936479 | 697 | 2.296875 | 2 |
In April of 2022, Reckon and partners including Essential Partners, Cortico, and Bridge Alliance, hosted conversations with Alabamians under 40 about the future of their state for a project called Bridge Alabama. This guide focuses on an issue raised in those conversations.
Here is one of the comments that inspired this reporting. From Amanda, in our April 12 session:
“One of my specific hopes is for equity for immigrants in Alabama. And I work with a lot of Latinx clients, and have a lot of friends who are undocumented, and they face a lot of challenges across the country. But Alabama, especially, it’s like you can’t get a driver’s license if you’re undocumented, or there’s this stigma of seeing someone who speaks Spanish in the grocery store or racism involved as well. And I have big dreams about no ICE in Birmingham or in Alabama. I could go on and on.
But, yeah, just that people could live in safety and security with their families, and live a fruitful life no matter where you’re from, no matter who you are. So I think that applies to everyone, but especially ... not especially, but I’m just highlighting the hope I have for immigrant rights.
And, oh, I think I was supposed tell a story. So I was just going to mention that, in 2011, when Alabama passed HB 56, the anti-immigrant law, that’s kind of when I first really got involved in organizing or activism, and met a lot of people that I’m still friends with today, and people that I work with today, now on the other side as an organizer. I just think that the thing that still gives me hope is that we can come together as a community, and we can fight for justice together. And, yeah, even if it’s really hard to get that justice, at least we’re building beautiful relationships.”
Over 100 years ago, Alabama’s foreign-born population was made up primarily of white Europeans and represented less than 1% of the overall population.
Some came out of necessity, escaping famine, poverty, and unemployment in a then disjointed Europe. They were brought by the promise of opportunity in an increasingly industrialized United States.
Compared to the large immigrant populations on the coasts, Alabama is home to a small immigrant population. About 3% of the state’s 4.89 million people are foreign-born, according to a 2018 analysis by the Washington DC-based American Immigration Council.
That works out to about 150,000 and 175,000 people.
Around 25% come from Mexico, while the rest are made up of people from Guatemala, China and India to name a few. More than half of those people are concentrated around Birmingham and the three other large cities. Less than half live in rural areas.
Approximately a third are undocumented and are largely excluded from society. They aren’t supposed to work or drive. Their children are allowed to attend local schools.
What are the challenges?
Alabama hasn’t always been kind to immigrants, especially those who are undocumented.
For example, in a recent election campaign video, Governor Kay Ivey joked that if President Joe Biden continued to allow illegal immigrants into Alabama “we all gonna have to learn Spanish” before saying “no way Jose.”
But the Alabama GOP’s anti-immigrant agenda was established long before Gov. Ivey came to power, and before Donald Trump launched his now infamous attack on Mexican migrants, calling them criminals, drug dealers and rapists.
In 2011, state legislators passed HB56, one of the most aggressive anti-immigrant laws in the country at the time.
It allowed law enforcement greater scope to question someone they reasonably suspected may be an undocumented immigrant. It also prevented undocumented immigrants from receiving public benefits, attending publicly funded colleges or universities, from renting property, and punished employers for hiring undocumented immigrants.
“After it passed the lives of non-white immigrants changed permanently in Alabama,” said Juan Torres, founder of Belong, a small Mobile-based grassroots organization that helps all types of immigrants living in Alabama. “People began leaving the state immediately. They were scared about what was coming and what would happen to themselves and their children. And that fear hasn’t gone away.”
HB56 was later gutted in a series of legal challenges at the state and federal level, with one state judge saying the law was “laced with derogatory comments about Hispanics.”
While many of HB56′s provisions were struck from the law, it continues to have a lasting effect for immigrants of color.
“Many of us face racial profiling every day and are disenfranchised by the words and action that have come since then,” added Torres. “And there’s no reason why this will change in the future.”
Who is working on the issue?
The Southern Poverty Law Center has long advocated for immigrants and helped block many of the worst provisions in HB56.
The Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice has led the way in building grassroots groups, helping give immigrants a voice and fighting against the xenophobic and anti-immigrant narratives used by elected officials.
The Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama offers a range of programs that assist immigrants and communities navigate the complexities of the immigration system, as well as helping with economic development, education, and family.
But not all conservatives in Alabama are vehemently anti-immigrant. Alan Cross, a conservative Baptist minister from Montgomery, has long preached to his congregation that they people should be led by faith and not fear. He believes that Alabama’s evangelicals are slowly changing their opinions on immigration.
“Time and again during my work as a pastor, I have encountered people with strong anti-immigrant policy positions, who nevertheless open their homes, churches, wallets and arms to immigrants in their communities,” he wrote in a 2019 opinion piece for the New York Times. “Alabama can be a difficult place to understand, but the role of faith is clear. On policy, people may take their cues from anywhere — their party, their president, Fox News. But in their daily lives, their religious beliefs are their guide.”
What are the solutions?
Solutions to the country’s immigration conundrum are plentiful, but not always feasible in a divided Congress. Current laws don’t allow an easy pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants or for those enrolled in the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals program, also known as Dreamers. President Trump also made life difficult for those legally trying to come or stay in the United States. While President Biden has restored many of the pathways to legal immigration, practical solutions to the issues faced by the country’s 10-12 million undocumented immigrants have been harder to implement.
One popular solution is an amnesty that offers a pathway to citizenship. Advocates see it as one of the most efficient ways to help, but it has not yet gained traction in Washington D.C.
At the state level, solutions are harder to come by because Republicans currently have a firm grip on the levers of power in Montgomery.
“The best solutions in Alabama are mostly how to support one another,” said Torres. “There isn’t much political popularity in making life easier for immigrants of color, so the best way to help is by being understanding and supportive of what immigrants face everyday here.”
How can I get involved?
Write to members of Alabama’s legislature or members in the U.S. Congress, although in the current political climate around immigration, don’t be discouraged if you don’t get a response right away.
Supporting groups like the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Alabama Coalition for Immigrant Justice and the Hispanic Interest Coalition of Alabama, which provide regular updates to their members, could be a good way to keep up with developments and ensure you’re making a difference to the lives of immigrants in the state.
What are Alabama’s U.S. Senate candidates saying about immigration?
If historical trends continue, the seat now held by Sen. Richard Shelby’s seat has a strong likelihood of remaining in the hands of the GOP.
Leading the GOP pack is Katie Britt, 40. While generally in step with the Republican party’s immigration agenda, Britt has taken a pro-business approach, calling for an overhaul of the immigration system in a way that would put American and Alabamian workers first.” Alabamians are disproportionately hurt by the immigration system right now,” she said in an interview with Brietbart. “First, continual driving down of wages. Second, the coastal elites are able to fill their workforce needs [with immigrants] and we lose the opportunity to allow our workers to compete for those jobs.”
Challenging Britt is U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks. He’s well known for being outspoken on immigration, calling for the Southern border wall to be reinforced and completed inline with President Donald Trump’s campaign promise.
Former Army pilot Mike Durant, who was the frontrunner at one point, has called for the completion of the U.S.-Mexico border wall and said that illegal immigration is a threat to public safety, but he also recently favored issuing more green cards, which he said will fill vacant jobs and left the increasing wage burden on businesses.
Immigration isn’t exactly a main concern for Democrats in Alabama. In 2022, the party will focus its resources on ending the sales tax on groceries, expanding Medicaid, redressing the state’s prison crisis and civil rights. In a recent questionnaire on the election website Votesmart, Will Boyd, the leading Democratic contender for Sen. Shelby’s U.S. Senate seat, said he didn’t think undocumented immigrants should have to leave the country before acquiring U.S. citizenship. He also said he believed in a pathway to citizenship. | <urn:uuid:d392113a-8e5a-45bf-b1d4-3373150e452c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reckon.news/news/2022/05/immigration-in-alabama-an-issue-guide-for-voters.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96839 | 2,077 | 2.125 | 2 |
When we hear the word RESTORATION, what comes to mind is recovery. Recovery of things lost.
This is correct, but where we make the mistake is in waiting for God to “restore” us.
Just because God has promised restoration doesn’t mean we are to sit back, fold our arms, cross our legs and let God get to work. We have a role to play in our journey of restoration. Yes, restoration is a journey not something that is achieved within an hour.
We are going to learn from the life of a man who lost it all and was restored. He is a man after God’s heart, the one and only King David.
Bible reference 1Samuel 30:1-8
- And it came to pass, when David and his men were come to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had invaded the south, and Ziklag, and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire; 2. And had taken the women captives, that were therein: they slew not any, either great or small, but carried them away, and went on their way. 3. So David and his men came to the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their wives, and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives. 4. Then David and the people that were with him lifted up their voice and wept, until they had no more power to weep. 5. And David’s two wives were taken captives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite. 6. And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God. 7. And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech’s son, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David. 8. And David inquired at the LORD, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all. – Bible Offline
So when David got to Ziklag, he saw that his home had been destroyed, his wives and children taken captive. The Bible says that David and his men wept until they had no more power to weep. Its very okay to cry when you lose something, but the question is for how long are you going to cry? David knew crying wouldn’t change the situation, but didn’t realize it until his men began to talk of stoning him.
As a leader, people would blame you for their loss.
What do you do when you’ve lost everything and the people you expect encouragement from also begin to blame you for their own problems or losses? In other words what do u do when you don’t know what to do?
Encourage your self in the LORD. This was exactly what David did. After encouraging himself, he sought the face of God. He sais to priest Abiathar “bring me the Ephod”. The Ephod was used to know the mind of God in those days.
When the Ephod was brought, David enquired of the LORD. Please note that David asked two questions but got three answers.
He asked shall I pursue after this troop? Shall I overtake? This means David wasn’t expecting his family to survive the attack he had probably concluded they were dead. This is the answer David got.
Pursue, for thou shall surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.
If we read the whole of 1Sam 30, we would see that David recovered all. Infact, he recovered more than he lost.
I didnt intend on making this a series but the Holy Spirit is so amazing. In the next series we would be looking at some virtues David exhibited which helped him in recovering all.
Remember God wouldn’t come down and pursue for you. Figure out what you have lost, seek the face of God and pursue after that which you want to recover.
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Larry Eichel has been the head of the Philadelphia Research Initiative at the Pew Charitable Trust for nine years. The nonprofit seeks to inform the conversation and highlight key issues to provide context for changes happening in Philadelphia. In his time there, Eichel has worked researching the city’s issues and demographics for the benefit of policy makers and the public.
What kind of trends have you seen in your research? Is income moving? Are lower socioeconomic areas getting pushed out? Is that actually happening to the extent that people believe it is?
I’ll answer that in a couple ways. We did a report last year on neighborhood change and gentrification. What we found there was that in some ways, the big story, the most interesting thing about that… the median household income from a period of 2000-2014 declined in 164 of the 372 [residential census tracts]. We classified only 15 out of 372 as gentrifying over that period. For a lot of the city, the story is either no change in income or a slight decline. This is income controlled over time with inflation brought in.
There clearly has been change in some of the areas adjacent to Center City. And the best way I can show that to you, and it’s not perfect, is if you compare our 2017 State of the City to our 2013 State of the City. There hasn’t been tremendous change, but in some areas just north and south of Center City, you see the higher income areas sort of moving out away from Center City to some degree. I would invite you to look at those two maps, they would give you some idea of what’s going on.
Is gentrification necessarily a bad thing? It’s generally perceived as a negative term, but are there positive angles to take with it?
We poll, and in 2015 we asked people two questions that to our mind were about gentrification. I should tell you we did not use the word “gentrification” in either of the questions because we wanted to try to get people’s views on it and not the sense of the word.
One of the questions we asked was, “I’m going to read you two statements, tell me which comes closest to your view.” The first statement was, “The city should do more to attract middle and upper income people to struggling neighborhoods.” The second was, “The city should do more to help long time residents stay in their neighborhoods when housing costs rise.” Twenty-six percent chose the first option, the city should do more to attract people with higher incomes. Sixty-seven percent said the city should do more to keep people in their homes in those neighborhoods. So that is one way to ask it.
Another way of asking the question: “In some parts of Philadelphia, higher income people are moving into what had been lower income neighborhoods. Is this more of a good thing or a bad thing in your view?” Sixty-three percent said good thing. Twenty-eight percent said bad thing. Eight percent said both or they couldn’t choose. Six percent didn’t know. If you take that as sort of two of the pieces of it, you see. If you want to call that ambivalence you could, but obviously people think it’s a good thing for higher income people to move in, but they also care about what happens to the people who have been living in those neighborhoods.
What is the most startling change you’ve seen in your time researching here?
I’m not sure I would call it startling, but the population of Philadelphia declined pretty steadily at varying rates, basically from 1950 to 2006. There were a couple years in the 1980s where maybe it gained a person or two. Now we’ve had 10 years of population increase. I came here in the 1970s in a period when Philadelphia lost 261,000 people in one decade. For me to see a ten-year period of constant population growth, that’s a big deal. It’s not gigantic population growth, it seems to be slowing a little bit, but in the historical context that’s a very big deal.
In that growth, have you seen a rise in average income?
The city is still, on the basis of median income and you can see this in our State of the City report and our census data, is still a relatively poor city. It has the highest poverty rate of the 10 largest cities in the country. It’s not the highest poverty rate, but of the 10 largest cities it’s the highest.
In the last census data, and there’s going to be new census data out in a month, but in the most recent census data the median household income of the city was $41,233. Over the last two years, Philadelphia’s median household income has grown faster in percentage terms than those of all the comparison cities, with the exception of Washington. A year or two of income data from the census may or may not mean a tremendous amount. We’ll get another data point in September, but if we see that continuing maybe that tells us something, that we are seeing income move into the city. We need probably one more data point to know.
Have you done other work in examining the changes in Philadelphia neighborhoods?
I urge you to look at our gentrification report. Not everyone would agree with our definition of gentrification, but it was a pretty carefully thought out one and a precise one where we wanted to be able to get something that we could measure and not just say, “Well that looks like it’s gentrified.” The point it made was very right on the money, which is that gentrification has been limited to specific parts of the city. It’s different in different places.
We classify the gentrifying neighborhoods based on what they had been before gentrification came. We had Center City and adjacent, mixed-income white, old industrial and working class African-American. We found that gentrification looks very different in all of those places. Obviously if it’s old industrial, there aren’t a lot of people being displaced. In the mixed-income white areas, which are mainly in South Philadelphia, there hasn’t been a tremendous amount of new construction. There’s infill construction. That looks very different than a working class African-American district where gentrification happens.
Your biggest qualifying factor is income. Do you look at any buying or selling of properties or new development?
In the definition we used, and we did this based on the original definition, the original definition of gentrification, the term was coined in the 1960s by a British sociologist, and the underlying meaning is basically a shift in a neighborhood’s population from predominantly low-income or working class to predominantly middle or upper class. We decided that to us that meant income.
We thought about this a long time. We did a lot of work on it, we consulted with a lot of experts. Part of the reason why we like the income definition was there’s no really good data on rents in Philadelphia. There’s no government agency that tracks it. There’s good information on housing prices, but there isn’t good information on rents. We thought income is what this is about. It’s the cause.
The reason housing prices go up is because higher income people want to move in. Somebody is willing to pay the price. There are other people who look at it differently. We chose to look at it that way because of the original definition and because of the data was more robust on the income side, you can slice it down to a tract level. Ultimately, it’s about the change in population. It’s about the change in population of who lives in the area. That’s what gentrification is about. Certainly we’ve seen that in some areas.
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Theprocess of getting a scholarship is stressful because you have tocompete with lots of other applicants. And why wouldn’t it be?After high school, students plan to continue their education, andgetting a scholarship is a pleasant and sometimes necessary bonus onehas to fight for.
Whenit comes to applying for a scholarship, the competition is reallyfierce. Nearlyall students qualify for federal aid, and 85% are getting somekind of scholarship. But it’s also known that 20% of the studentsapplying for a scholarship, fail to submit their applications or dropout of the competition for some other reason.
Sohow can you stand out and boost your scholarship chances?
Hereare 7 quick wins that work all the time.
Winningtip #1: Thorough planning and time management
Whenapplying for a scholarship, following the guidelines is crucial,especially when it comes to time limits. So before you start anypreparations for submitting necessary documents, you should work outthe time limits you have for each milestone.
Thetrick is toset self-imposed deadlines and keep them urgent. Here are sometips how to make this work every time:
Takeit seriously. Makethe deadlines you’ve set your routine until you’re finished witheach milestone and ready to submit everything and apply for ascholarship.
Workwith colors. Ifyou’re trying too hard to keep up with self-imposed deadlines, andstill can’t make yourself stick to them, highlight the deadlineswith different colors. Red, for example, makes us perceive somethingas urgent, and green implies that we still have some time.
Makesure that you use every single day.If the final deadline hasn’t come yet, and you’ve alreadyfinished everything, use the free time to check and re-check all theapplications and essays.
Winningtip #2: Patience is a lost art
Somethingmay always go not the way you expected. You may make a mistake inyour application or miss the deadline. The process of applying for ascholarship is very stressful, but try not to flip out.
Onyour way to applying for a scholarship, coping with stress is asimportant, as submitting everything in time. Here are some of thetips howto cope with stress and help yourself relax faster:
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listento a relaxing music;
gofor a walk;
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Winningtip #4: Answer all the questions
Whenreading the requirements for scholarship essays, you’ve probablystumbled across multilayered essay questions, and answering themrequires a lot of time. But here’s why you should take your timeand give full answers to these questions:
byanswering these questions you express yourself and show who youreally are.
Inyour answers, you give the real reason why you need and deserve thescholarship.
Whenanswering these questions, you tell about your experience.
Sothese are not just some annoying and time-consuming questions.Answering them is crucial to your success.
Winningtip #5: Know your audience
Inbusiness communication and in everyday life – knowingyour audience is the key to success both at work and in school.When it comes to applying for a scholarship, knowing your audience isvery important.
Meetingthe needs of your target audience, when applying for a scholarship,is crucial, and you can do it by following all the requirements. Donot overwhelm the admission commission with a massive scholarshipessay and too many details about yourself. By saying less you’retelling more.
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Admissioncommission members may decide to go through your online profiles tomake sure that you really meet all the requirements. They might alsodo it to make sure that you’re the right person they will be proudto give a scholarship to. So before submitting everything, make surethat your online profiles are flawless.
Winningtip #7: Be yourself
Tryingto fake something in your admission essay or application will onlyget you to drop out faster. The scholarship committee is interestedin listening to your story, not some made-up bluff to make you lookgood.
Beingyourself is important, but make sure that you’rethe best version of yourself. Being yourself in a scholarshipessay means admitting your flaws when you’re asked about it, butalso expressing your desire to turn your flaws into your advantages.This will create a great image of you and show that you’re anhonest person.
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As food waste continues to be an issue for many households in the United States and the food industry at large, researchers investigated which solutions consumers are most likely to adopt. Based on studies done in 2021, the average American household wastes 32% of purchased food. Last year the EPA and USDA set the first national food waste reduction goal of cutting food waste by 50% by 2030. Researchers at Penn State, Purdue, and Duke universities conducted an online survey to help understand what food waste solutions might be adopted by consumers. The survey proposed nine solutions including changes in portion size, standardization of use by and sell by dates, taxing food waste, implementing composting, and making food donation easier. Survey results showed that most respondents preferred to have food donation made easier along with standardization of date labels and more education as to what they mean. Taxing food waste had the least support.
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Open up a new terminal window
sudo nano /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/pc
Enter your admin password if asked.
- This will bring up a page where you can edit and change many keybindings for Linux. The keys are on the left and the actions are on the right. Switch as many as you want. When you switch them, be sure there are not duplicates as it may cause an error.
To switch Page Down to End, or
<PGDN> | END
For Page Up to Home it is
<PGUP> | HOME
Let the old end button now act as PgDn and the old Home button be page up. To do this
<HOME> | Prior
<END> | Next
Note, just replace the text here.
Press CTRL+O then enter to save changes.
Press CTRL+X to exit
setxkbmap usto apply changes
Restart your computer and the key mappings should work
This guide is based on the response here:
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During his years in office as Prime Minister, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed his determination to resolve the Kurdish question at the cost of his political life. Considering the terror group PKK, which has been operating for the past 30 years and is condemned by all the political parties in Turkey, it was still hard to publicly suggest a solution on the subject back then. Firstly, 13 years ago, Erdogan delivered a speech in Diyarbakır province: “It is improper for major countries to condone the past mistakes since the problems are all ours. To be more specific, the Kurdish question is not a problem confronted by a certain part of the nation, but a problem that interests the entire nation, including myself.” In 2009, he said: “Whether you call it the Kurdish question, Southeast question or East question… No matter how we call it, we have initiated working on the question.”
With this, Erdogan embarked on the most venturous peace project in the history of the Turkish Republic, which is widely known as the Reconciliation Process. He kicked off works to negotiate with the outlawed PKK through their imprisoned leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was until then described as a “baby killer” by media outlets, the judiciary and the political parties that were dominated by the secular Kemalist tradition.
The Kurdish question was discussed thoroughly throughout the process, and every single taboo was faced. Introducing amnesty and building a new Turkey was being mentioned. A Committee of Wise People, which encompassed people from all segments and ideologies including nationalists, liberals, religious conservatives and seculars was formed. The Committee strived to explain the west and the east of the country to each other and convince people to the reconciliation process. Even the bases of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) and the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), who have recently formed an alliance ahead of the June 24 elections, listened to the suggestions. As the process went on, people stopped hiding their Kurdish identity and embraced it. Kurdish lessons were introduced in schools, and Kurdish political propaganda was allowed. In Nowruz celebrations that year, Ocalan, previously called a “baby killer,” addressed entire Turkey. All these developments were unimaginable for Turkey until then.
Everyone showed great enthusiasm to the process, but the first signs of the major problems in the process appeared during early 2015. After the general election held on June 7, 2015, PKK attacks abruptly gained speed with the influence of the new developments in Syria. In a short period, the reconciliation process was replaced by the ditches dug in cities and town centers, clashes and curfews. During this period, Turkey was simultaneously confronted with Daesh and PKK attacks. After a year, the military coup attempt organized by the Gulenist Terror Group (FETO) became the last straw for the Turkish nation.
Turkey faced a new fact particularly in the aftermath of the 2015 election: the ditches. Although the ditches were occasionally seen in several places before the election, the PKK systematically began digging ditches in many city and town centers following the election with the support of FETO operatives who infiltrated key state apparatuses and bureaucracy.
During the November 1 election held in the midst of this chaos, the pro-PKK Peoples’ Democratic Party’s (HDP) vote share declined and thus the party lost 21 of its 80 deputies assigned to the Parliament with the June 7 elections. The AK Party again came to power alone and the new government was eventually formed. Instead of the reconciliation process, the new government prioritized enabling public security. Stating that they regarded the ditches as a defense mechanism, HDP co-chairs expressed autonomy discussions in the shadow of terrorism.
In 2016, a bomb attack was organized to a military shuttle in Ankara that carried both military and civilian officers. 29 people were killed in the attack while dozens were injured. The PKK’s break-away faction, namely the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), claimed responsibility for the attack.
During the ditch terror they inflicted, half of the population in Sırnak’s Cizre and Silopi districts, Diyarbakir’s Sur district and Mardin’s Nusaybin district were directly affected by the incidents. The number of people migrating from the four districts reached 93,000. The people were so enraged that Murat Karayilan, a senior PKK figure, had to express that the ditch strategy in the cities was wrong.
Turkey will go to the polls on Sunday. Currently, the counter-terror efforts are ongoing both inside and outside the country. When it comes to how the HDP views the ditches after all the incidents, the party co-chair Pervin Buldan and the party’s presidential candidate Selahattin Demirtas gave the following answers with regard to the ditches that led to hundreds of casualties and displaced thousands of people: Buldan claimed, “People dug ditches in self-defense,” whereas Demirtas stated, “I do not have issued a single remark that shows support to the ditches. We should have been more insistent and courageous in our attempts to get rid of them.” (Demirtas issued a written answer as he is currently under arrest.) | <urn:uuid:8c97cc68-71d5-48aa-868c-61e83715c21e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://politicstoday.org/ditches-against-peace-terror-against-politics/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.978167 | 1,090 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Geo-Injection System Can Turn Carbon Dioxide Into Stone
Much faster than anyone thought possible
Researchers may have figured out a way to solve our carbon emissions problem–turn the gas into rocks.
In a paper published today in Science researchers announced that they had managed to trap carbon emissions in basalt, a common volcanic rock.
As part of a long-running project called CarbFix, researchers injected emissions from an Icelandic power plant deep into rock formations. The gas reacted with the basalt rocks, forming carbonate, a material similar to limestone. Once turned into carbonate, the carbon can’t leak back out into the environment.
“Our results show that between 95 and 98 per cent of the injected CO2 was mineralized over the period of less than two years, which is amazingly fast,” said lead author Juerg Matter.
In fact, it’s vastly faster than researchers ever dreamed. The most optimistic hopes were that the carbon would solidify into stone in eight to twelve years. Instead, 250 tons of carbon generated from a nearby geothermal plant were almost fully turned into carbonate in just two years.
“This means that we can pump down large amounts of CO2 and store it in a very safe way over a very short period of time,” said study co-author Martin Stute “In the future, we could think of using this for power plants in places where there’s a lot of basalt–and there are many such places.”
Humans put approximately 40 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year. Carbon dioxide is a powerful greenhouse gas that is contributing to rising global warming, and is formed in part due to the combustion of fossil fuels. Putting some carbon back into the ground could mean a greener future for our planet.
“The overall scale of our study was relatively small. So, the obvious next step for CarbFix is to upscale CO2 storage in basalt. This is currently happening at Reykjavik Energy’s Hellisheidi geothermal power plant, where up to 5,000 tonnes of CO2 per year are captured and stored in a basaltic reservoir.” Matter said.
5,000 tons is a long way from 40 billion, but it’s a start.
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There are many kinds of gutter guard or gutter cover products out there. From foam inserts to brushes to mesh guards, you can choose from a myriad of DIY and professionally-installed options. Why should you choose a reverse curve gutter guard for your home?
What Is a Reverse Curve Gutter Guard?
What is a reverse curve gutter guard, and how does it work to protect your home? Without a gutter guard system, leaves and other debris build up in your gutters. This can lead to problems with your gutters, such as sagging, leaking, and warped gutters. They can also overflow, leading to problems with your siding, landscaping, and foundation.
A gutter guard stops debris from accumulating in your gutters. Reverse curve gutter guards allow water to move along the top of the gutter guard and then slip into the gutters. Debris falls off the edge of the gutter. The guard is called a reverse curve guard because water slides down one way and then surface tension sends it into the gutter in the opposite direction.
Why Reverse Curve Gutter Guards Work
There are many kinds of gutter guards, so why is a reverse curve gutter guard superior to many?
Unfortunately, many gutter products create a barrier between the gutter and debris, but they actually allow larger debris to accumulate on top of the gutter cover instead. How Stuff Works lists a number of different gutter guards that act in this way:
- A mesh cover won’t let large leaves in, but those leaves may sit on top of the gutter. Over time, you will need to remove them or they will prevent water from moving into the gutters.
- Foam inserts allow water through small pores in the insert, but they also get clogged over time.
- Nylon bottle brush gutter guards have bristles that stick out and capture debris. You need to clean the bristles regularly.
Reverse curve guards work because they don’t capture debris; they simply allow it to move off the gutter and onto the ground. They’re focused on moving water easily into the gutter rather than keeping debris on top of the gutter. While reverse curve gutter guards need to be professionally installed and are therefore more expensive than other guards, they are also more effective. They will keep your gutters clean for years to come.
How Gutter Helmet Works
Gutter Helmet is a reverse curve system. Rainwater that reaches the edge of the gutter guard slides through a small opening that is only 3/8″ wide. Since the opening is so small, leaves cannot fall in, and only water can move into the gutters. Debris falls to the ground. This system can handle over 22 inches of rain per hour, which is twice the amount that has ever been recorded in the United States. No matter what the rain is doing, your gutter guard system will work to capture water and move it along while sending debris to the ground.
At Harry Helmet, we’re proud to sell Gutter Helmet, an exceptional reverse curve gutter guard product. Talk with us today to schedule a free estimate. | <urn:uuid:bce92437-1029-4c8a-879c-113fcf544d2f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.harryhelmet.com/what-is-a-reverse-curve-gutter-guard-and-how-does-it-work/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941975 | 655 | 1.5625 | 2 |
You notice two tiny, white nubs—lower incisors, the bottom front teeth—beginning to emerge from your 5-month-old baby’s lower gums. She has reached another milestone in her physical development: teething.
Your little one is right on schedule. In most babies, teeth begin appearing between 4 and 7 months of age. Incisors erupt first, followed by molars and canines. Some children experience smooth sailing through this rite of passage. For others, however, the journey is rougher, and judging by your baby’s recent occasional crankiness and fitful sleeping, she falls into this category. Not to worry—her symptoms are normal. Here’s how to help:
- Provide an appropriate chewing outlet. The edge of the coffee table, the dog’s toy rings, your finger—you name it, and your baby is trying to chew it to ease sore gums. Provide a safe, hygienic and less painful (for you) alternative, such as a lightly frozen washcloth or a cold, solid rubber teething ring.
- Stem the tide. You may notice your little one drooling much more than normal during teething. If you allow her chin to stay damp constantly, a rash may form, so keep it dry as much as possible.
- Use a gentle touch. Softly massaging your little one’s gums with a clean finger may help relieve discomfort.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends against using over-the-counter pain relievers to ease teething irritation, as they are generally ineffective and may be harmful. Remember, infrequent irritability is to be expected with teething, but nonstop fussiness and misery are not. If your child is having a particularly tough time with teething, consult your pediatrician. Eventually, the trials of teething will pass, and by age 3 years, your child should have a full set of teeth.
Cleaning Little Chompers
Why is it so important to begin caring for baby teeth as soon as they appear? Early dental hygiene sets the stage for a healthy mouth and may prevent oral problems that could affect your child for the rest of his life.
One day, your child will be primarily responsible for his own oral hygiene, but right now, caring for his mouth is on you. If he hasn’t started teething, wipe his gums daily with a washcloth to keep them clean. When the first tooth appears, start brushing with a children’s toothbrush twice daily using a small drop of fluoride toothpaste. Be sure your little one doesn’t swallow the toothpaste. When two teeth appear side by side, gently floss daily. Before your child turns 1 year old, take him to the dentist for his first checkup. | <urn:uuid:f8be55bb-882a-4fbc-b681-8e1911ab96a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://evanstonregionalhospital.nurserynotes.com/issue/campaign/article/45777/8692/teething-survival-guide/maternity | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952226 | 591 | 3.375 | 3 |
Abbaye Notre Dame de Lérins
Isle St. Honorat, France
is stunning! Vineyards sprawl through the interior, and seven chapels, numerous houses and outbuildings, fortresses, forests, the abbey, turquoise water, and magnificent views hug the coastline. It's a natural preserve, with pheasants and sea birds, eucalyptus and pine, palms, vines...and no chemical sprays. Wild blackberries and the ever-present tower of the abbey. The island glistens in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Cannes and the Côte d'Azur. Just a twenty-minute ferry from the mainland, the isle is only about four kilometers around (40 hectares), with a couple of crossroads - an easy walk for day trippers, who come to get their tranquil on, stop at the church for midday mass, pick up a book or a bottle (or other products made by the monks) at the gift shop, enjoy a lovely lunch at La Tonnelle, the restaurant on the north side. Perhaps a swim, before returning to busy lives. The last ferry departs at six pm, leaving behind only twenty monks, forty or so retreatants, nine student volunteers. And silence.
I am staying for a week (E300, including meals) to photograph the natural beauty of the island and interview residents. And to get my tranquil on.
Only four kilometers in circumference, this Lérins isle lies south of St. Marguerite, larger and famous for one of its prisoners, the man with the iron mask. The fort now houses a museum of modern art, and both islands (and two smaller ones, uninhabited) are under the city of Cannes.
is a spiritual resource. Room 12 is spare, tidy, monasterial, with a small bed, desk and chair, sink, and shelves. A French Bible. An arched window looks over the courtyard, through the lemon trees to the vast sky, dotted now with puffs and billows. There are gardens, a private prayer room, library. Toilets and showers are at the end of the hallway, open by arches, looking down to a garden and a private pathway to the church, open day and night for retreatants (nine to six for visitors).
It is quiet except for the cicadas and the sea, which carry on a conversation, competing for my attention. The cicadas remind me of my constant tinnitus, the sea of my various homes on various islands. I shower then sleep, waking to chimes and the horn of the last ferry to the mainland.
Vespers at 6:30.
One by one the monks (respecting the rule of St. Benedict based on prayer and work), dressed in white robes with belted and hooded black tunics, enter, taking their seats in the chancel in the front. One greets us in the nave, eyes sparkling. A tenor begins the chant, his sound traveling up the piers to the vault's apex, filling the space...and me. The other monks and retreatants respond in antiphony. After ten minutes of this, six monks circle in the center and pray in four-part harmony. We respond. It is mesmerizing. I tone. Frère Etienne reads (his voice echoing) for about two or three minutes.
Between the echo and the French, I have no idea what he is saying/praying, but his voice is melodious and kind.
I love that they chant their prayers. The toning heals me, brings me back to some original innocence. More chants and alternating responses, with different monks leading from different parts of the church, the sound dancing through the space, mixing with centuries of song embedded in the stone, then embracing the congregation. Standing and sitting, bowing, listening. A prayer is read as twenty monks file out. Silence fills the space behind them.
A Paradise of prayer and brotherhood
Home for 16 centuries of war and peace to the monks of Lérins Abbey, the island is first occupied by Caprais Honorat and some companions between 400 and 410, who form a community of monks, which grows rapidly in this (then) Roman province. A troubadour sings, and we know the stories of St. Honorat, who becomes the Bishop of Arles later in his life. In the 5th century priests can marry, and the wives are kept on St. Marguerite. Benedictine vows are taken in the 7th century. Over the years Italians and Spanish occupy the island. In 734 all the monks are massacred. The island is later sacked by Genovese pirates. Monks are captured and enslaved in Spain. French royalty occupies for awhile in the 1700s, and it is closed during the revolution. Near the end of the 18th century it is nationalized (and protected) under the French.
Today twenty monks live and work here, ranging in age from 28 to 82, most between 50 and 60. They seem fit and happy and would welcome other brothers. A high of forty occupied the island in the 1980s, following a revival by the young sisters who came during the war, when the orphanage was closed, and lived here from WWII until 1991.
Praying from 4:30 am, the monks work in the fields, with the guests, and oversee all the businesses of the island:
Winemaking (also a distillery for Lerina and five other liquers)La Tonnelle Restaurant and retail shops (physical and online)
Boat company - with a barge and two ferries, bringing 90,000 day trippers and all the goods to the island
Guesthouse (runs at virtually 100% occupancy - 3,000 seekers - with 'high season' Easter to November)
Teen and volunteer programs, conventions, exhibits, special events
...all with no days off. And one week to ten days of vacation a year, usually taken mid November to mid December, when the island is closed to guests and visitors.
It's harvest time, and guests and other volunteers work side by side with the monks, picking grapes. Known for their wine-making, the monks have won numerous awards, and I can testify that their wines are incredible. Pinot Noir, Syrah, Mourvedre, Chardonnay, Clairette, and Viogner grapes excel on coveted terroir. Olives too, from which they press exceptional extra virgin olive oil.
I meet with the winemaker, Frère Marie, for a tour of the winery. He reminds me that for centuries (since the middle ages) wines are grown on only one and a half hectares and for local (monk) consumption only. In 1991 the present day monks celebrate their first commercial bottling, and today they grow (without herbicides) on 8.5 hectares, producing 40,000 bottles of premium wines, 60% reds. Frère Marie, a graduate of the viticulture school at Hyères has been in charge for ten years. Alongside layman Daniel, the main chemist/technologist, they do it all with only four employees. And the Cistercian monks of course...and some of the guests, who help with the picking. They use the services of a laboratory in the Var to supplement and augment the lab work done here. Chardonnay and all the reds are aged in oak.
Marie explains that three things create the conditions for great wine-making: climate (no winter), terroir (protection and isolation), and the water (from an aquifer so no chemicals, chlorine). I think they add a bit of prayer. When I first came to the island back in May, after exploring the island and before heading back, I tasted the St. Honorat 2010. It was the best red I'd had - cherries, earth, silence. I finished with St. Sauveur 2010. Hallelujah, there IS a god. These monks know how to make wine!
An oasis of silence
with no telephones, no internet (ok, for emergencies), no schedules other than those of the laudes, vespers, mass, etc. We drop our personal histories. Here I am not a writer, nor a grand-mother, nor the former 'Queen of the Pacific'. I am just a seeker like everyone else. Introspection. Inspiration. Breathing...breathing. Just to be is holy.
"When I find myself in times of trouble...", and aren't we all in troubled times? War, suffering, crises the world over. Here without the barrage of bad news 24/7, without the locked and loaded open carry of my sad country, without the hustle of a world ruled by banks and capital markets, one can find peace. Pheasants know they will not be hunted. People know they will not be judged. No one is overworked. There is an ease of days, broken only by (voluntary) work or attendance at services and meals. A safe haven.
We break bread communally three times a day, six persons to a table, the meals taken in silence, starting and ending in prayer. Breakfast is self-serve - café, tea, or chocolate, toast and jam. Occasionally grapes are left on the tables from a picking. The main meal is midday - a salad, bread, wine, fish or chicken (cooked as only the French can), dessert, coffee. Cheese of course. A meal to look forward to. The evening meal is salad, croque or maybe a wild mushroom quiche, yogurt or fruit salad.
Silence stretches into the night, with the last service at eight. I amble back to my room as stars load the sky. A jet, bound for Nice, flies through the big dipper. Lucy in the sky... I sleep in peace.
In the early morning, I circumnavigate the isle for two hours in silence - broken only by the sounds of the sea, the trees, birds. I shoot the sunrise, and it takes my breath away! After watching boys camping by the port, I complete my circle tour and sit in silence at the church. And wait for lunch. And I fall in love with yet another island :-) | <urn:uuid:f589cbca-dd14-42c6-bd8a-6b8add090d01> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://travelswithtutu.blogspot.com/2014/09/sanctuary.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943781 | 2,159 | 1.648438 | 2 |
This bestselling textbook is designed to help students understand parametric and nonparametric statistical methods so that they can tackle research problems successfully. By working through this book carefully and systematically, those who may not have a strong background in mathematics will gain a thorough grasp of the most widely used statistical methods in the social sciences.
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12.1 Using the CHI SQUARE ONE-SAMPLE TEST
Table 43 shows the findings of a town planning department looking into the means of transport used by a representative sample of factory workers in a new town.
|Table 43 Workers’ choice of transportation|
|On foot||By bus||By train||By car||By pedal cycle||By motor cycle|
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With a relatively high rainfall and broken, mountainous terrain, New Zealand has many waterfalls. They have long been rated as among its most impressive tourist attractions. Many are in a picturesque setting – waterfalls send out spray as they tumble down, encouraging the growth of water-loving plants such as ferns and mosses.
What is a waterfall?
There is some debate about what a waterfall is. One definition is that a true waterfall has free-falling water. Others include water that flows downhill fast over bedrock – a phenomenon that many would define as a cascade.
New Zealand’s highest waterfall
Because of the different definitions, people disagree over what is New Zealand’s highest waterfall. For years it was believed that the Sutherland Falls near the Milford Track held the title, with a total drop of 580 metres.
However, some argue that the highest are the Browne Falls in Doubtful Sound. Their drop of 836 metres would make them the ninth highest in the world. But many say that the Browne Falls are actually a cascade, since they tumble down a mountainside and have almost no water falling free of rock. Even the Sutherland Falls descend in three steps, broken by patches of rock.
There is also no agreement as to the number of New Zealand waterfalls. Well over 1,500 are marked on topographical maps, but – especially in Fiordland – many falls are intermittent, only appearing after heavy rain.
South versus north
There are more falls in the South Island, but a greater number of well-known ones on the tourist routes are in the north.
South Island and North Island waterfalls differ in several ways.
Numerous South Island waterfalls were formed by glaciers as they moved down mountainsides, cutting into the river valleys. This has created high falls with a relatively small volume of water, often drying up in summer. Many are inaccessible and unnamed, and known only to hardy trampers. Of the well-known falls in the South Island, only the multi-tiered Purakaunui Falls are away from the alpine region.
North Island falls were mostly created by volcanic activity or erosion of softer rock. They are often wider and lower than the southern falls. They are more accessible, and richly endowed with Māori tradition. Many have a picturesque bush setting – waterfalls send out spray as they tumble down, encouraging the growth of water-loving plants such as ferns and mosses. | <urn:uuid:ce649530-a87f-42ab-8d1d-336ede67ebd4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://teara.govt.nz/mi/waterfalls/page-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974134 | 509 | 3.5 | 4 |
In 1981, the immensely talented and popular American singer and songwriter known on stage as Stevie Wonder (born in 1950 as Stevland Hardaway Judkins; he changed his surname to Morris) wrote and released this song in protest against the opposition to having a national holiday in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Its popularity here and abroad helped rally many supporters to the cause, and two years later Congress enacted the necessary legislation.
The song is of interest to us here because of the reasons Stevie Wonder adduces to honor King. Gathering evidence from each stanza, what are the reasons Wonder gives for why there should be a celebration of King’s birthday? What, according to the song, is the special contribution for which King should be so honored? Do you think that these reasons add up to a defense of a specifically American holiday, rather than a universal human one? Do we—and should we—celebrate King as an apostle of peace and love, rather than, say, of freedom and equality? | <urn:uuid:5d0b4eae-63ff-455f-afb7-b93955fe8247> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://whatsoproudlywehail.org/curriculum/the-american-calendar/happy-birthday | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973044 | 208 | 3.359375 | 3 |
After being raped by the apartheid soldiers and getting HIV, all I wanted was support from my husband, but what I got were insults.”
This is according to Nontobeko Mbenzi, 63, from Engcobo, Eastern Cape, whose late husband raped her during their marriage.
Mbenzi got infected after she was gang raped by apartheid soldiers in the 1990s.
With tears streaming down her face, Mbenzi shared her painful story with Sunday World about how her husband forced her to have sex with him. “I would be tired and my body would be in pain, but he would still insist on having sex with me because we were married,” she said.
Mbenzi said she was forced into an arranged marriage “ukuthwala” when she was only 15 years old. “Ukuthwala” is the practice of abducting young girls and forcing them into marriage, often with the consent of their parents.
Mbenzi said she had other plans for her life, and getting married at a young age was not one of them. “I wanted to go to school and continue with my education, but instead I was forced into marriage,” she said.
Mbenzi said after she was brutally raped in 1991 in Thokoza, East Rand, all she wanted was support from her husband, but she never got it.
Instead, he often reminded her how he had paid lobola for her, and that he could do what he wanted with her.
“When I told him I had contracted HIV, he still insisted I sleep with him. He told me he also wanted to get sick.”
“He insulted me, called me all sorts of names for being raped. Every time he wanted to have sex with me and I told him I am not feeling well, he would tell me I refuse to sleep with him because I want to sleep with my boyfriends [meaning the soldiers],” she said.
This happened regularly during their 48-year marriage until her husband died in 2017.
Her situation also negatively affected their first-born child, who witnessed both her rape and the abuse she suffered at the hands of his father.
“He turned out to be a drunkard, he is violent and angry” she said.
Mbenzi is amember of Khulumani Support Group, a nongovernmental organisation that connects victims of abuse to share their experiences with each other.
Members of the support group in the East Rand meet weekly at the home of their convener, Noma-Russia Bos- ane, in Phola Park, Thokoza.
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Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight(In Springfield, Illinois)It is portentous, and a thing of stateThat here at midnight, in our little townA mourning figure walks, and will not rest,Near the old court-house pacing up and down.Or by his homestead, or in shadowed yardsHe lingers where his children used to play,Or through the market, on the well-worn stonesHe stalks until the dawn-stars burn away.A bronzed, lank man! His suit of ancient black,A famous high top-hat and plain worn shawlMake him the quaint great figure that men love,The prairie-lawyer, master of us all.He cannot sleep upon his hillside now.He is among us:—as in times before!And we who toss and lie awake for longBreathe deep, and start, to see him pass the door.His head is bowed. He thinks on men and kings.Yea, when the sick world cries, how can he sleep?Too many peasants fight, they know not why,Too many homesteads in black terror weep.
The sins of all the war-lords burn his heart.
He sees the dreadnaughts scouring every main.
He carries on his shawl-wrapped shoulders now
The bitterness, the folly and the pain.
He cannot rest until a spirit-dawn
Shall come;—the shining hope of Europe free;
The league of sober folk, the Workers’ Earth,
Bringing long peace to Cornland, Alp and Sea.
It breaks his heart that kings must murder still,
That all his hours of travail here for men
Seem yet in vain. And who will bring white peace
That he may sleep upon his hill again?
Just finished my monthly neighborhood book club. My turn to host. My turn to facilitate. My idea what to read – 101 Great American Poems. The La Floresta book club had never traveled down this road before, poetry that is. I took a chance. I made the suggestion as much for my sake as anyone else’s. I have little patience for poetry. I have enough trouble taking time out of my busyness to ponder Scripture let alone pause over verse that makes me scratch my head.
The night went better than I thought it would. Among other things each of us shared a poem with which we connected. I learned a l0t about my neighbors. We laughed. We paused. We felt. We reflected. I think I will try to venture into this genre more often in the future for its various benefits. My choice to read? I learned, by the way, poetry is meant to be read aloud for a proper appreciation. I could have turned in numerous directions. It struck me how many poets, at least in this connection, wrote about death. I connected for obvious reasons.But this work by Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931) won the prize. Perhaps it was because I couldn’t sleep on Saturday night before a busy Sunday of ministry. I just identified. Occupational hazard.
Some days I hardly want even to be a pastor. I can’t imagine what it’s like to be a president. Lord, have mercy on the Commander-in-Chief as well as the preacher. | <urn:uuid:de78a76d-eaf1-45fb-a273-78dc8b17c22a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://curtheffelfinger.com/tag/sleeplessness/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966594 | 697 | 2.03125 | 2 |
The Moken people are an indigenous tribal group that resides in the Mergui (Myeik)archipelago, which is considered to be part of Burma (Myanmar) in the Tanintharyi Region. The archipelago has remained a remote island despite Burma’s“democratic” opening. The Moken have resided on this archipelago for hundreds of years. They are a group that is not well known around the world and are barely discussed within the context of Burma’s ongoing human rights violations and mass atrocities. This is in large part due to the larger groups that reside in the country whoare far more visible to the international community and the grotesque human rights violations perpetrated against them are easier to document compared to those perpetrated against the Moken.
This report examines the history of the Moken people and questions whether Burma and other entities are engaged in behaviour which violates international human rights. This report is divided into five parts. Part I introduces the reader to the Moken people and their history. Part II will discuss the Moken’s cultural practices and religious beliefs. Part III examines the relationship between the Moken and Burma, including the Burmese government. Part IV highlights applicable international human rights. Part V will make recommendations on the protection of the remaining Moken people. | <urn:uuid:46317436-36e3-4740-8f33-ae299c482cea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2020/12/16/the-coming-extinction-the-moken-people-of-burmas-mergui-archipelago/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945897 | 266 | 3.484375 | 3 |
BTEC National Foundation Diploma in Computing Level 3
Computing and Digital Technology
05 September 2022
Minimum of 5 GCSEs grade C or above to include Maths/Numeracy and English/Welsh 1st Language, or appropriate Level 2 Diploma qualification at Merit grade with GCSE Maths/Numeracy and English/Welsh 1st Language at grade C or above.
In a nutshell
This course aims to blend technical skills with the business, interpersonal and project management skills that are needed not only by the computing sector, but by all the sectors using technology in a modern business environment.
This course is for you if...
... You want a combination of computing knowledge and practical skills
... You are enthusiastic about the ever-changing technological demands of industry
... You want to blend technical and business knowledge
What will I be doing?
The programme is designed to develop your technical skills in systems security, software development and computer games design.
You will study core units in the first year, and then progress to the Extended Diploma in the second year. You'll study a very wide range of computing topics, which could include:
- Principles of computer science (exam)
- Fundamentals of computer systems (exam)
- IT systems security and encryption
- Business applications of social media
- Website development
- Digital graphics and animation
- Planning and management of computing projects (assessment)
- Software design and development project (assessment)
- The impact of computing
- Computer games development
- Computer networking
- Relational database development
- Systems analysis and design
You'll be assessed through coursework and exams in the first and second years and you'll achieve:
What is expected of me?
To enrol, you’ll need a minimum of 5 GCSEs grade C or above to include Maths/Numeracy and English/Welsh First Language, or appropriate Level 2 Diploma qualification at Merit grade with GCSE Maths/Numeracy and English/Welsh First Language at grade C or above.
Full commitment to attendance is required. Respect for others, enthusiasm for the subject and self-motivation are the essential qualities we expect to see in all our learners. You will be continually assessed and there is an expectation that you will continue your studies and coursework during your own time.
What comes next?
- HND in Computing or Foundation Degree IT Security at Coleg Gwent or other university level study in subjects such as computing, e-commerce, gaming, management information systems or database management.
- Employment as a junior developer or computer technician etc
- Apprenticeship at a suitable IT or Computing company
University courses in computer science, computer games design and computer forensics
Have any questions or are not sure if this is the right course for you?
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Instagram Jesus Week 5: Devotional Day 4
DAY 4 – Thursday
The disciples left behind many things to follow Jesus – careers, family expectations, possessions, home, family. What is different, changed or been “left behind” because of your commitment to follow Christ? What has been the cost to you?
Pop quiz: What is Newton’s third law of motion? Simply put, Newton’s third law of motion is that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. When a ball hits a wall, for example, the ball is exerting as much force on the wall as the wall is exerting back on the ball.
Why bring in a review of physics to today’s devotion? Look at the nature of the disciples’ response to Jesus’ invitation in Mark 1:17-20. A few days ago I asked you what sort of response it was, whether it was verbal or action based. In looking back at the text, we see it is action based, the disciples are getting up and following Jesus. As they move towards Jesus, they are also leaving something or someone behind.
What are you leaving behind as you seek to follow Jesus? If you became a Christian later in life, you are likely able to name several things and/or relationships that were impacted when you became a Christian. It is not just about relationships or things being left behind when we dedicate our lives to Jesus. We also have to continue to surrender that which is incompatible with following Christ. Is there something which has crept back into your life that keeps you from following Christ whole-heartedly?
Since we had a short review of science today, how about we close with a short review of grammar? An adverb modifies the main verb, but the adverb in itself is not intended to be the key idea of the sentence. The key idea is encapsulated by the main verb. In the Greek of Mark 1:18 and 20, the description of the disciples leaving something behind is an adverb. The main verb (the key idea the author wants you to focus on) is that disciples followed Jesus. Focus on what you are following, not on what you are leaving behind! If you have extra time when you meet with your LifeGroup, talk about how you focus on Jesus in your day-to-day or week-by-week life. | <urn:uuid:df295dd7-06f5-4e65-959c-c87b91b23ef0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chapelhillpc.org/2019/02/instagram-jesus-week-5-devotional-day-4/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974287 | 503 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Stealer — Fork Join Framework
Welcome back guys, this blog is a continuation of the previous blog where we talked about Threads and Executor Framework. If you haven’t visited, here is the link.
The Thread and The Executor Framework
In this blog, we will discuss about the difference between a thread and a process, executor framework and Java 8’s new…
Hi In the previous blog, I mentioned about a new thread pool in the Executor Framework named newWorkStealingPool, which was introduced in Java 8. If you see its internal implementation, it uses ForkJoinPool. So in this blog, we are going to talk about the Fork Join Framework and of course, the ForkJoinPool. Let us get started…
Basically, the Fork Join Framework uses a recursive divide and conquer strategy where a big problem is divided into smaller units until each unit can be solved directly. For example, let us take a very simplest example where we have 1 lakh integers in an ArrayList and we want to calculate the sum of it. So, what Fork Join Framework can do is divide the task into smaller chunks and then addition can be performed on those smaller chunks, and later on, all those chunks will be added to get the final result.
To implement this divide and conquer strategy, Java provides 3 classes
The ForkJoinTask is the parent class of the RecursiveAction class and RecursiveTask class. Unlike RecursiveAction, the RecursiveTask can return a value for each work unit.
The important thing to note here is that the above classes are used to define how one big task can be broken down into smaller chunks (Example — dividing the ArrayList into sizes of 10) and how individual chunk can be executed (Example — Adding the numbers present in each sub-list). The execution part will be handled by the ForkJoinPool which we will discuss in some moment.
Here is an example of how to implement a divide and conquer strategy.
In the above example, I have used the RecursiveAction class which provides a compute() that can be used to write the implementation of how to divide the task and how to execute the smallest unit. The compute method is the one that will be invoked by the Fork Join Framework. To recursively break down the task, invokeAll() is used, which is the shortcut to fork() all small chunks and then join() them again. Now, let us talk about ForkJoinPool.
A ForkJoinPool differs from other kinds of ExecutorService mainly by virtue of work-stealing, that is, all threads in a pool attempt to find and execute tasks submitted to the pool. This enables efficient processing when most tasks spawn other sub-tasks. If any of the thread finishes its execution, it can then pick up tasks from the other threads which are waiting in the queue. (Each thread has its own queue)
Unlike traditional thread pools that run on a single core but in concurrent mode, the ForkJoinPool runs on multiple cores in parallel mode. Yes, you have read it right!!!!. Finally, we have parallelism. The best practice is to have a number of threads in the ForkJoinPool to be equal to the numbers of processors. If you see the constructor of ForkJoinPool, it accepts an integer that represents the level of parallelism (Number of threads). If you don’t provide any parameter, the level of parallelism will be equal to the number of processors minus one. (No parameter = use of common ForkJoinPool)
The JDK provides a Runtime class that can be used to find out the number of processors (It includes logical processors as well)
The ForkJoinClass has a static commonPool() method which can be used to access common ForkJoinPool anywhere in the entire application. Using the common pool normally reduces resource usage (its threads are slowly reclaimed during periods of non-use, and reinstated upon subsequent use). If you have 2 or more than 2 available CPUs, then your common pool is automatically sized to the number of available CPUs minus 1( For example, if you have 5 available CPUs, the size of common thread pool will be 4). The reason behind being 1 less is that the application shouldn’t go into the blocking state.
The ForkJoinPool class also provides status check methods (For example — getStealCount() — Returns an estimate of the total number of tasks stolen from one thread’s work queue by another) that are intended to aid in developing, tuning and monitoring fork/join applications.
Now, let us deep-dive into common ForkJoinPool and how it can become a headache if you have blocking tasks or time-consuming tasks.
So if you choose common ForkJoinPool for blocking tasks or time-consuming tasks, then you need to consider some consequences. Let us look with the help of an example.
If you see the output, the number of threads in the common ForkJoinPool is one less than the number of available processors. Now, let us look at the main part of the program.
In this implementation, I am calling runAsync method 100 times. For each call, the thread goes on hold for 3 seconds. Let us try to imagine the whole situation. At a time, 11 threads executing 11 calls. Each call is on hold for 3 seconds. Once these calls get over another, another 11 calls go on hold. It goes on and in the end, the overall time was little over 30 seconds. During this whole period, if some other task wants to execute using common ForkJoinPool, it has to wait until one of the threads is free. Thereby increasing unnecessary overall time of that task.
Thre are 3 modes that you can achieve using the common thread pool
- parallelism ≥ 2, JDK creates (# of CPUs minus 1) threads for the common pool.
- parallelism = 1, JDK creates a new thread for every submitted task.
- parallelism = 0, a submitted task is executed on a caller thread.
As you can see above, all occupied CPUs led to a significantly worse result due to highly blocking code. So it is better to create a separate thread pool for blocking tasks or time-consuming tasks.
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The second week of March started out badly for the American Red Cross. 60 Minutes devoted a segment of its Sunday program to searing criticism of the way in which the organization handles the big bucks it collects ostensibly to provide assistance to victims of major disasters.
That was followed the next day by a blast from the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights. It asked over 100 organizations to drop their support for the American Red Cross because its chapter in Orange County, California, had canceled its invitation to a student choir to perform at a large function the previous day because it was planning to sing a medley consisting of “America the Beautiful,” “Prayer of the Children” and “God Bless the U.S.A.”
A spokeswoman for the Orange County Chapter explained the cancellation saying, “We wanted songs representative of all races, all creeds. We are not a religious organization. We have to be neutral and impartial in all situations.” The national headquarters in Washington, D.C., supported the cancellation of the invitation, issuing a news release that said, “The dispute was over the music program and has nothing to do with patriotism…. The dispute centers only on our sensitivity to religious diversity and a preference for a music program that would be inclusive and not offend different populations participating in this particular event.”
Cherilyn Bacon, the director of the group from the Orange County High School of the Arts that had been invited to sing, had arranged the medley, titling it the “Heroes Trilogy.” It was her intention to honor those involved in rescue efforts following the September 11 attacks. A Red Cross representative objected to the medley, saying the lyrics might be offensive to some of the 400 guests at the annual Volunteer Recognition Awards.
Ms. Bacon told the AP, “We have never had a complaint about the medley. People have cried when they heard it. I think the Red Cross is taking the issue too seriously.” They took it so seriously that they disinvited Ms. Bacon’s group and substituted another one from the same school, perhaps a group that promised not to sing any songs that used the words “God” or “prayer.”
In a news release accompanying his letter asking over 100 groups to withhold support from the American Red Cross, Catholic League President William Donohue said, “The American Red Cross has every right to adopt the platform of political correctness by censoring the free speech of young men and women who want to honor God and country. And we have every right to ask our friends to send the Red Cross an unmistakable message by refusing to donate one more dime to the organization. Our request is being sent to our allies in virtually every faith community. The time to put an end to this anti-religious madness is now.”
Apparently the way to get the attention of the American Red Cross is to take an action that threatens its income. With no big stories in the media applying pressure, a lengthy apology was issued by the Orange County Chapter and distributed by national headquarters the same day the Donohue letter went out. It said they “did not intend to hurt or offend anyone,” but that it was clear that the judgment they made to exclude certain songs from the Sunday program was a mistake. It concluded, “We want to apologize to the community and to any people who were hurt or disappointed by our actions.”
The “60 Minutes” program on the handling of the large donations the Red Cross gets to help victims of major disasters will not help the money roll in. It summarized the tardy disbursal of the $930 million given to the Red Cross to help the families of the 9/11 victims. It showed that it had taken 18 months to disburse the $16 million collected to assist the victims of the huge Red River flood in Minnesota in 1997. It finished with the Red Cross response to a fire that destroyed many homes in a canyon near San Diego last year. The Red Cross put a photo on its Web site of a woman who lost her home in the fire. It helped raise nearly $400,000, but that woman and others had received no help.
After six months, a group of them met with the woman who heads the San Diego Red Cross chapter to ask how the money had been used. She was paid $309,000 last year, but she gave them no answers. Both she and the head of the Red Cross national office refused to be interviewed by “60 Minutes.” | <urn:uuid:64b44265-22f5-413e-91da-eb84a08187c8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aim.org/aim-column/bad-week-for-the-red-cross/print/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.976919 | 940 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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Abstract: The physical nature of the astrophysical dark matter (DM) is a fundamental question in cosmology. The clustering structure of DM on sub-galactic scales is key to distinguishing between various viable DM models which all make successful predictions about the large-scale structure and galaxy formation, but empirical tests have been fundamentally hindered by the lack of electromagnetic tracers of sub-galactic structures. In this talk, I aim to introduce novel and practical gravitational-lensing based methods which can be employed to push forward this research frontier. I will first discuss the new phenomenon of extremely magnified cosmological sources as deep imaging of strong lensing clusters has recently started to uncover, and explain how this phenomenon can be exploited as a sensitive probe of compact halo objects, non-luminous DM subhalos smaller than those who host dwarf galaxies, and even (sub-)planetary mass DM minihalos as expected in the axion DM scenario. The full scientific potential of these new ideas will be realized as forthcoming photometric surveys will greatly expand the catalog of highly magnified lensed galaxies and deep follow-up observations with space-borne or ground-based optical/infrared telescopes will enable detailed studies of their lensed appearances. I will also discuss the exciting prospect to exploit lensing of alternative extragalactic sources such as fast radio bursts and gravitational waves from merging black holes to probe small-scale DM lenses. In particular, I will explain how one can extract unique information by observing wave diffraction of gravitational waves, which would be typically infeasible with electromagnetic sources. | <urn:uuid:fa591f06-e574-4d06-993f-bf7e3ec3d0a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.physics.wisc.edu/events/?id=5308 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926284 | 319 | 1.882813 | 2 |
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Shift work is tough on workers' hearts, study shows
(HealthDay)—Millions of Americans work in shifts, and new research suggests it's doing no favors for their cardiovascular health.
Shift work "can earn more profit, but it can also cause harm to the health of employees, so employers should reduce shift work as much as possible," advised study lead author Dr. Weihong Chen. She's a researcher in occupational and environmental health at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan.
In the study, Chen's team analyzed data from 21 prior studies involving hundreds of thousands of people and nearly 20,000 cases of coronary heart disease, which is caused by blocked blood flow in the heart.
The study wasn't designed to prove cause and effect, but the data showed that shift workers were 13 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease than daytime workers.
And for every year spent working on shift work, there was a nearly 1 percent increase in the risk of coronary heart disease, Chen and colleagues reported March 29 in the journal Occupational Medicine.
The reason why shift workers are at increased risk for coronary heart disease isn't known, but disruption of the normal sleep-wake cycle, increased stress, and unhealthy lifestyles often associated with shift work could be factors, the Chinese team reasoned.
Heart disease is a major killer, however, so there are big implications for millions of workers.
"The number of deaths due to ischemic heart disease has continued to rise with 7.6 million deaths in 2005 and 8.9 million people dying due to the condition in 2015," Chen said in a journal news release. "Patients can require surgical interventions and medications, meaning ischemic heart disease is one of the biggest burdens on health care systems."
Dr. Satjit Bhusri, a cardiologist at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, agreed.
Reviewing the new findings, Bhusri said that "physicians and patients should both take this occupational situation as an additional risk factor for heart disease, and initiate prevention and treatment early."
How might that work, exactly? According to Chen, "employers should pay attention to staff members who are experiencing symptoms of heart problems, as well as those with a family history of heart disease. Employers could provide health promotion, such as information on how to prevent and deal with ischemic heart disease."
Finally, she said, "companies could also consider providing health checks to detect early signs of heart problems."
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Acclaimed artist and composer Pan Daijing has created a powerful new performance for the Tanks which brings together aspects of opera, theatre, dance, cinema and poetry.
Driven by the emotional extremes of the human voice and electronic music, Tissues creates an atmosphere of turmoil and melancholia within the subterranean space of the Tanks. It is performed by an ensemble of thirteen opera singers, actors and dancers, who together lead us on a journey into the mind of a single wayward protagonist. Blending the artist's biography with experimental modes of storytelling, Tissues is grounded in the deepest and most basic human desires and fears.
Tissues is presented in tandem with daily performances of Pan Daijing’s The Absent Hour in the Tanks.
‘The piece is ultimately about time and solitude. Tissues as the medical term which forms human physicality. And tissues as the instrument we use to wipe to clean bodily fluids and waste, and eventually memory.’ –Pan Daijing
Pan Daijing (b.1991, China) is a Berlin-based artist and composer who channels sound to tell stories that cross various disciplines and forms. Her cutting-edge approach combines diverse references, raw emotions and striking aesthetic and poetic sensibilities.
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Swimming is for everyone
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Comparative replication and immune activation profiles of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV in human lungs: an ex vivo study with implications for the pathogenesis of COVID-19
clinical diagnostics immunology/immunity inflammation molecular biology
Authors: Chu et al.,
Journal/ Pre-Print: Clinical Infectious Diseases
Tags: Immunology/Immunity, Clinical/ Diagnostics, Inflammation, Molecular Biology
1. SARS-CoV-2 demonstrates more successful infection of ex vivo human lung tissue vs SARS-CoV
2. SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV infect similar cell types in human lungs
3. SARS-CoV-2 infection results in reduced IFN and proinflammatory responses vs SARS-CoV
This study used human lung tissue to compare replication efficiency, cell tropism and immune activation profile during SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection. Immunofluorescence and plaque formation analysis showed that within 48 hours post infection (hpi), SARS-CoV-2 achieved a more profound increase in viral titre in comparison to SARS-CoV. Immunohistochemistry showed there was no difference in the cell types that SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infected. qPCR of infected tissues showed that SARS-CoV-2 induced a markedly dampened IFN response alongside reduced expression of selected pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines 48 hpi. This data suggests that SARS-CoV-2, despite more robustly infecting pulmonary tissue, does not induce inflammation to the extent achieved by SARS-CoV. This may explain the differences seen between SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 infection outcome.
Impact for SARS-CoV2/COVID19 research efforts
Understand the immune response to SARS-CoV2/COVID19
qPCR analysis of ex vivo lung tissues infected with SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 details the differences in the immune response generated to SARS-CoV-2 vs SARS-CoV
Understand the virology and/or cell biology of SARS-CoV2/COVID19
The study details the potential tropism of SARS-CoV-2 vs SARS-CoV in the lung
Clinical symptoms and pathogenesis of SARS-Cov2/COVID19
Differences in viral burden and immune response generation obtained following SARS-CoV-2 vs SARS-CoV may explain the differences in infection outcome between the 2 viruses.
· Ex vivo study (human lung cell culture)
Strengths and limitations of the paper
Novelty: The study is the first to quantitatively compare the ex vivo replication, cell tropism and immune activation profiles of SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV using human lung tissue.
Standing in the field: The genuine low induction of IFN agrees with most of the previous studies; Some previous studies suggest a normal or even high pro-inflammatory cytokine response despite the low IFN activation, which is contradicted by the finding of this study.
Appropriate statistics: n>=4 is used in most experiments. Area under curve (AUC) analysis not preferable, repeated measures ANOVA type analysis more appropriate. In addition, if to conduct statistics on AUC, t test should have been paired as infections done on samples originating from the same donor. In general, use of parametric analysis not appropriate, due to n=4 and thus cannot test for normality distribution. SD bars sporadically missing in fig 2A and authors do not detail where the replication originates from to calculate SD. In figs 4 & 5, authors show pooled technical + biological replicates – without indicating which data point represents which replicate type. This statistical analysis is thus not appropriate, as authors have increased n from 4, which is the number of biological replicates present.
Viral model used:
SARS-CoV-2 HKU-001a (MT230904)
SARS-CoV GZ50 (AY304495)
Translatability: Not very translatable. More about viral pathogenesis and immune activation than any clinical aspect. Could potentially provide insight into infection control and treatment strategies for COVID-19.
- No information regarding sample origin past patient sex and age. This includes when samples were acquired. If this was during SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, this raises problems regarding donor SARS-CoV-2 positivity status
- Mock infection as a control not mentioned anywhere in paper aside from single figure legend + figure plots
- Different antibodies are used in immunofluorescent quantification without including a control to compare the antibody staining efficiency, meaning that the difference in fluorescent level may be due to the difference between antibodies.
- Limited sample size (n = 6 or 4)
- Poor image quality in figures
- Problems with statistical analysis and data presentation
- Infection time course stops at 48h post infection. Doesn’t allow for the establishment of effects after 48 hours. E.g. does this increase in SARS-CoV-2 load at 48 hours lead to the development of an exacerbated response later in infection?
- Did not attempt to explain the drops in virus titre in some samples in Fig 2A. (Donor 2 and Donor 4)
- No supplementary data despite being referred to in the text
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Materials for Quantum Computing: An Interview with Prof. Chris Van de Walle
Quantum computing is heralding a paradigm change in information and simulation technology. Perhaps more than ever before, the practical realization of this fascinating opportunity hinges on the control of materials properties at the atomic level. As a leading expert in this field, Prof. Van de Walle will provide answers to key questions concerning the actual status of this technology, the current materials, the obstacles and challenges, and the perspectives for the discovery and optimization of novel materials.
Prof. Van de Walle has been at the forefront of investigating materials issues for quantum information science. He has particularly focused on the role of defects and impurities, both as functional components for single-spin-centers or single-photon emitters, and as sources of decoherence. He is currently a Thrust Leader in the NSF-funded Quantum Foundry at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a participant in the DOE-funded Co-design Center for Quantum Advantage (C2QA).
Herbert Kroemer Chair and Distinguished Professor, Materials Department
Chris Van de Walle is a Distinguished Professor of Materials and the inaugural recipient of the Herbert Kroemer Endowed Chair in Materials Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Experience as a prelude to disaster: American philosophy and the fear of death
from Mortality by Foust, Mathew A.
By focusing on the thought of Classical American philosophers, this article addresses the existential problem of the fear of death. Drawing on the experiences and philosophies of Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, and Jane Addams as a theoretical framework, a prescriptive claim regarding how to confront human mortality is advanced. It is suggested that embracing the notion of experience as a prelude to the disaster of death can be - despite appearances to the contrary - a useful approach to navigating exigencies connected with mortality and, in particular, fear of death. The essay contributes to a small but growing body of literature on the topic of death in American philosophy scholarship, while addressing a perennial problem receiving treatment in contemporary popular discourse. | <urn:uuid:e20b1c84-cbde-411b-8e31-b68cf00ea96a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://drstevejones.blogspot.com/2013/02/experience-as-prelude-to-disaster.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.925543 | 171 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The director of Oscar-winning film, The Theory of Everything, has given his backing to a Scottish campaign that aims to help people like Stephen Hawking who use different ways of communicating.
In a message specially recorded for a conference in Glasgow today [Tuesday 10 March] James Marsh expressed his support for the www.nowhearme.co.uk campaign that aims to improve awareness of people who use ‘alternative and augmentative communication’ and their needs.
Around 120 health, education and care professionals from across Scotland are attending the event, organised by NHS Education for Scotland, to discuss best practice in supporting users of AAC and how to maintain the progress that has been made in recent years.
In his video, James Marsh addresses delegates saying:
“I wanted to lend my support to what you’re doing to raise awareness for the difficulties of communicating when you lose the natural ways of doing it. It’s something that we encountered so profoundly in Stephen’s case when we were making the film. We all felt on a daily basis so grateful that we didn’t have those kind of issues in our lives but again felt a great deal of sympathy for those that did. And so hopefully, this will help in a very small way to raise awareness, and what you’re doing will do more so than that.”
It is estimated that there are 26,500 people in Scotland who require AAC, and there are many reasons for this. Communication may be impaired due to lifelong conditions such as cerebral palsy or autism or it may be as a result of an acquired condition such as dementia, motor neurone disease, stroke or head injury.
AAC methods range from the simple – such as picture communication books and gestures – to more sophisticated computer-based equipment running specialist software such as text or other input-to-speech programmes.
www.nowhearme.co.uk is a gateway to information and advice, ranging from a basic video introduction through to a set of e-learning modules that will help everybody to better understand AAC. For the first time in Scotland, it provides easy access to essential resources for all those with an interest in AAC, including those who use it. Other elements of the campaign include online advertising and direct communication to a wide range of Scottish public services such as health boards and local authorities.
Helen McFarlane, Programme Director, Allied Health Professions, NES, and a speech and language therapist, said:
“The Theory of Everything is a wonderful film that’s really helped to put these issues into the public domain and we’re delighted with the support James has given us. As the story of Stephen Hawking shows, AAC has incredible potential to improve quality of life, allowing individuals to express themselves, be more independent and, importantly, enabling them to communicate with the people who love them.
“But there are no magic fixes. Different systems will work best for different people. What matters most is the support of the wider community and taking time to listen.” | <urn:uuid:9b21c985-6925-4cd6-8692-844806871445> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://enablemagazine.co.uk/hollywood-director-endorses-scottish-health-campaign/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95933 | 623 | 1.851563 | 2 |
How do you start off a story?
Find out which starter makes your partner most interested in reading your story.
- Start with action or dialogue.
- Ask a question or set of questions.
- Describe the setting so readers can imagine it.
- Give background information that will interest readers.
- Introduce yourself to readers in a surprising way.
What is the darkest book of all time?
|1||1984 by George Orwell 4.19 avg rating — 3,348,667 ratings score: 25,459, and 258 people voted|
|2||American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 3.82 avg rating — 252,190 ratings score: 23,813, and 249 people voted|
|3||A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess 3.99 avg rating — 622,536 ratings score: 22,631, and 240 people voted|
What is the best title for story?
AWESOME Story TITLES:D
- Hi! SO here are some story title I think of from no reason. If they exist then I’m sorry:(
- Unatural Disasters.
- Natural Disasters.
- Unatural Love.
- Venomous Cure.
- Poisoned Love.
- Torn Up.
- Love Me Till The End.
How can you make someone cry?
Make your love cry. Tell that you love someone else. Tell that you never cared about them. Tell that it’s over now….Make a random person cry.
- Bully them a lot.
- Tell them that they are good for nothing.
- Tell bad about their family and love.
What is the saddest poem ever written?
Spring and Fall
What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
What’s The Saddest Book You’ve Ever Read?
- The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter.
- The Remains of the Day.
- Infinite Jest.
- The Road.
- Flowers for Algernon.
- Required Reading: 10 Devastatingly Sad Books [Flavorwire]
- Image via Graeme Dawes/Shutterstock.com.
How do you make a simple book cover?
- Step 1: Materials. Materials: a book, scissors, tape, a piece of paper.
- Step 2: Fold. You don’t need to measure anything, just eyeball it.
- Step 3: Trim the Width. Cut off the extra.
- Step 4: Put the Book On.
- Step 5: Trim the Length.
- Step 6: Cut Off the Space for Book Back.
- Step 7: Fold and Tape.
- Step 8: Then It’s Done!
What kind of paper is used for book covers?
What Type of Paper are Books Printed on? Most printed books, use uncoated paper stocks for the inside pages of the book, and a coated cover stock for the book cover. Uncoated stocks come in different finishes and paper weights. Uncoated paper comes in two different finishes, either a vellum or smooth finish.
How do you start a sad story?
6 Tips for Writing a Sad Story
- Tap into your own emotionality.
- Know the difference between sentimentality and truth.
- Leave room to be surprised by specific detail.
- Pair strong emotions with ordinary ones.
- Use backstories to add weight.
- Use sad moments to further character development.
What is the most tragic love story?
Romeo & Juliet is the quintessential tragic love story, as evidenced by its countless stagings and numerous film adaptations.
What is a good title for a sad story?
Sad love titles
- Pray for the best.
- Walking disaster.
- Point of retreat.
- Pride and Prejudice.
- Gone with the wind.
- Troubled memories.
- Hind sight.
- Tears of sorrow.
How do you make someone cry in writing?
- HOW TO MAKE READERS CRY.
- Create a character we care about, who has struggled with something we can identify with.
- Create primal stakes for that character.
- Plot a difficult journey.
- Surprise us.
- Create a moment.
- Deal authentically with human emotions.
What makes a book attractive?
A captivating story and character development are always key indicators for me, which explains why I would much rather read a book than watch a movie. The author needs to be able to write the story in a way that attracts a reader and keeps the reader’s attention.
How do you make a homemade book?
- Choose material for the cover and cut out two identical pieces.
- Fold six sheets of paper in half.
- Stack several of these six-sheet stacks on top of each other.
- Cut a strip of fabric.
- Coat one side of the fabric with glue.
- Glue the cardboard pieces to the first and last pages.
- Cut one more piece of fabric.
What books make you cry?
20 Books That Are Guaranteed To Make You Cry
- The Kite Runner. This realistic and moving portrayal of life in Afghanistan accounts for the people who were badly affected by the Taliban.
- To Kill a Mockingbird.
- The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
- Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
- The Book Thief.
- The Fault in Our Stars.
- A Child Called “It”
How do you make a creative book cover?
The book design process in 7 steps —
- Understand the elements of a cover.
- Research the market.
- Choose a design direction.
- Figure out what the design needs to emphasize.
- Choose graphics and fonts.
- Collect feedback.
- Know what the printer needs.
Does reading improve IQ?
By adding to that storehouse, reading increases your crystallised intelligence. That explains why some IQ tests include vocabulary words, which generally serve as a reliable proxy of how clever you are. “Fluid intelligence” is that ability to solve problems, understand things and detect meaningful patterns.
How do you cover old books with paper?
Layout out paper under the book, with the book OPEN. Make sure to leave about 3 inches on either side, so they can be folded over the book cover and the book can be closed. Using the Frog Tape, fold paper over front cover and secure. This will help keep the paper straight, as you fold over the paper on the back cover.
What is the best title for a love story?
- Your Love Is Magic.
- Your Love Keeps Lifting Me Higher.
- Your Words Are Poetry To My Heart.
- You’re Always In My Heart.
- You’re My Cup Of Tea.
- You’re My Sweet Heart.
- You’re Someone Special.
- You’re The Sunshine That Greets Me Every Day.
What is the most famous wattpad book?
Famous Wattpad Stories (PUBLISHED)
- GFFH PUBLISHED BOOK. 375K 4.1K 1.
- Hopeless Romantic (PUBLISHED UNDER POP FICTION) 22.7M 325K 64.
- The Bet (Just The Way You Are) 49.8M 486K 72.
- Diary ng Panget (AVAILABLE IN BOOKSTORES NATIONWIDE – WITH MOVIE ADAPTATION) 26.9M 216K 66.
- She’s Dating The Gangster. 6.7M 123K 54.
Which app is banned in India List?
So far the list of prominent apps which are banned in India includes, PUBG Mobile, TikTok, ShareIt, Baidu, CamScanner, UC Browser, Likee, Bigo Live, Shein, Clash of Clans to name a few.
Who is the most followed person in wattpad?
What is the best love story in wattpad?
Top Romance Stories
- Storm and Silence. 103M 4.6M 102.
- Float. 25.8M 578K 33.
- The Chase Begins (Now Published so Sample Only) 11M 132K 31.
- Maid For Him. 11.2M 186K 28.
- Teaching Mia. 13.9M 302K 41.
- The Fairy Tale Bride. 4.9M 87.9K 27.
- Dragonfly. 3.2M 47.5K 27.
- Planning Bliss (Bliss Series Book 1) 3.8M 104K 35.
What does Rated K mean?
Is there a dark mode on Wattpad?
Dark Mode is currently only available on the Android and iOS app, and not on the desktop or mobile web version of Wattpad. You can set the mode of your Reader independently of your app settings.
What is a good fantasy story to write about?
Write a fantasy story about a character who wakes up every day feeling the same thing: that something in their life is just…missing. When they realize their frequent nightmares are actually memories, it all becomes clear. Emotions can be controlled. Thoughts can be stolen.
Is wattpad legal?
Your work is automatically protected under Copyright Law as soon you put it into a fixed format, like writing it down. There are several copyright license options that you can select when posting a story on Wattpad and you can find them in our Copyrights article.
Which China app is banned in India?
On September 2, the government had banned 118 more apps and in November it blocked 43 new Chinese mobile apps in the country, including shopping website AliExpress. The list of banned Chinese apps so far also includes PUBG Mobile, Snack Video, Cam Card, WeWorkChina and WeDate.
Who is the Queen of Wattpad?
Jonahmae Panen Pacala
Is fan fiction legal?
Fanfiction is defined by the use of characters and expression from an original creative work and the creation of derivative works, all of which is illegal under current copyright law (McCardle, 2003). Most fanfiction expands beyond the limited allowances to comment and critique allowed through fair use (Johnson, 2016).
What are some good story topics?
Top 10 Story Ideas
- Tell the story of a scar.
- A group of children discover a dead body.
- A young prodigy becomes orphaned.
- A middle-aged woman discovers a ghost.
- A woman who is deeply in love is crushed when her fiancé breaks up with her.
- A talented young man’s deepest fear is holding his life back.
What is the best stories in wattpad?
So, in no particular order, here are The 60 Best Wattpad Stories of 2019.
- Running with Scissors – Sam_le_fou (Sam Camp)
- Nomvula – authorhlumelo.
- Something New – mandybetha (Amanda Abram)
- The Iron Alchemist – ErichW.
- Necromancy in D Minor – IntoTheTempest.
- The Wavering Hawk – diahsulis.
- Wanderlost – darcheron (Deryn Archer)
Who is the most famous Wattpad writer?
He talks us through six other writers who have moved from the Wattpad platform to sitting in a book shop near you…
- Anna Todd. Hailing from Texas, Anna Todd is perhaps the best known of Wattpad success stories.
- Beth Reekles.
- Abigail Gibbs.
- Lilian Carmine.
- Nikki Kelly.
- Brittany Geragotellis.
Why is wattpad 17+?
Wattpad expects that authors will mark their story as mature if it contains the following themes: explicit sex scenes, self-harm, and graphic violence. Only users over 17 years are able to view stories tagged in this way (however it would be easy to put in a fake birthday when registering).
What is the most read story in wattpad?
Famous Stories *As of Feb 2020*
- The Boy I Admire From Afar by @sweetdreamer33 – 73.1M.
- Scorching Love (Costa Leona Series #1) by @jonaxx – 72.8M.
- Worthless by @jonaxx – 72.7M.
- Until Forever (Book 3 of Until Trilogy) by @jonaxx – 71.7M.
- Seducing Drake Palma by @beeyotch – 69.5M.
How do you write an adventure story?
10 Tips for Writing an Adventure Story
- Read popular novels with an adventure theme.
- Structure your story with the basic adventure framework.
- Create a compelling character.
- Introduce a catalyst.
- Have a supporting character.
- Find a setting that elevates the risk.
- Think about pacing.
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China's "One Belt and Road" initiative is a comprehensive framework for organizing multinational economic development and trade which inspired the creation of China Trade Week (CTW).
Under the background of "One Belt and Road," MIE has already successfully held several high-quality Chinese goods exhibitions in the countries along the route.
Established in 2013, China Trade Week had its first event in the United Arab Emirates which was warmly welcomed by the local business community. After a successful event in the UAE, it was followed by the first African event in Kenya which had an even bigger response.
CTW series of events has always been successful with more than 5000 government institutions and enterprises participating the event. After it was encouraged by the African Union to expand its scope, CTW is now hosted in Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa, Ethiopia and the UAE, with the intention of adding more countries every year along the "One Belt and Road" route.
With every government and industry support, the organisers of China Trade Week spares no effort to make sure that the best industries will be presented at the event. They spent weeks on the road, meeting companies from major provinces in China such as Jiangsu, Sichuan, Guangdong, Zhejiang, Beijing and Shanghai. | <urn:uuid:9610ebf5-4642-4588-9e83-7976892f5754> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://miegroups.com/business/chinatradeweek.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.9785 | 258 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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