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Fishers are being warned to avoid parts of Lake Rotorua after a potentially toxic algae bloom was found in the lake.
Warmer temperatures and out-of-action water treatment plants are possible reasons behind the cyanobacteria blooms sighted near Holden's Bay, the Ohau channel, and Awahou River.
Bay of Plenty Regional Council Rotorua catchments manager Helen Creagh said people fishing for trout should avoid those areas, and be cautious in nearby locations.
Swimmers should also follow advice from Toi Te Ora Public Health on those areas, Creagh said.
Cyanobacteria (also known as blue-green algae) occur naturally, but can form blooms due to warmer temperatures and excess available nutrients.
Some species produce toxins as they die, which may cause illness in humans and pets who drink or swim in affected water. Symptoms range from nausea and diarrhoea, to more serious conditions such as liver damage.
One of the methods used by the council under the Rotorua Te Arawa Lakes Programme to help prevent this is called alum dosing, which is a treatment used in incoming streams to control excess phosphorus in the water and stop algae from feeding off it.
The dosing plants have already improved water quality in the lake, according to the council.
It manages two such plants, located near the Utuhina and Puarenga streams. Maintenance work is taking place on the Puarenga plant.
Creagh said the plant would be operational before Christmas and dosing would be increased, however, until then more blooms were likely.
It was likely that with warmer temperatures due to climate change, this type of bloom could occur regularly, she said.
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By Edward Nawotka
In today’s lead story about the bottleneck in Icelandic translation Amanda DeMarco writes:
Though it’s customary to speak of English as a gateway language for translation, in the case of Icelandic, Germany has clearly supplanted it. “As there are only a handful of titles being translated from Icelandic into English every year, the gateway language for Iceland is indeed German,” commented Agla Magnúsdóttir, Director of the Icelandic Literature Fund (ILF).
The German-as-gateway-language concept has its weaknesses; English functions (or functioned, or was supposed to have functioned) as a gateway language (in large part) because so much of the world learns English as a foreign language. A better model might be the viral spread of literature among related countries and languages, with important ‘carriers.’
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Good morning from Augusta.
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “I could work today if I wanted to,” said Alphena Babineau, 96, of Portland, who worked as a welder during WWII, as women stepped up to fill a range of jobs. “But I don’t want to.” Here’s your soundtrack.
What we’re watching today
Maine’s final COVID-19 vaccine requirement for health care workers is narrower than initially proposed in late summer. The final rule, released by the Maine Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday, no longer includes employees at dental practices or emergency medical service workers, though the latter group will still be covered by a rule from a different state agency. The Maine Dental Association was one of the few industry organizations to protest the requirement, telling Gov. Janet Mills in an August letter that an extended deadline for the mandate would be needed to avoid losing a third of dental offices’ staff.
Maine DHHS Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew said during a Wednesday press conference that the change was in response to a lack of documented outbreaks at dental offices. The change also aligns the COVID-19 vaccine mandate with other immunization requirements for Maine health care workers. Workers at nursing homes, residential care facilities and home health agencies were already required to get vaccinated against a range of other diseases, such as measles. But those mandates had never applied to dental practices, which fall under a different state board.
Nearly all Maine health care workers are now vaccinated at facilities where it is required. Nearly 98 percent of staff were vaccinated as of the end of October, according to state data released Wednesday. That is up significantly from the spring, when just 68 percent of nursing home employees and 73 percent of hospital workers had gotten the vaccine.
The changes will likely have more of an effect on incoming staff than current employees. It is not clearly exactly how many dental practice employees are vaccinated in Maine, as the state was not tracking them along with the other required employees. About 89 percent of dentists in the country had at least one shot in June, with dental hygienists at 72 percent, according to the American Dental Association. The progression of vaccinations in the state shows that the requirement motivated many employees to get the shot — it is unlikely dental offices were any different.
Vaccination rates among Maine adults have picked up noticeably in the past few weeks, with the number of daily first doses administered more than doubling compared with earlier this fall. Employer mandates could be one factor driving that, as additional health care workers who do not fall under the state’s mandate could fall under a Medicare vaccination requirement, and workers at companies with 100 or more employees could fall under a mandate from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that a federal court has put on hold.
The Maine politics top 3
— “Top Maine Democrat faces 2022 fight with GOP trying to expand battlegrounds,” Caitlin Andrews, Bangor Daily News: “The races will happen against the backdrop of the race between Democratic Gov. Janet Mills and former Republican Gov. Paul LePage. It could test Democrats’ trifecta control of both the Senate and House of Representatives. Last year’s election was a mixed one, with Democrats gaining one seat in the upper chamber but losing seven House seats. Republicans may see a better environment next year in a midterm election for President Joe Biden.”
— “More than 3,000 Maine kids get COVID-19 vaccine in week after approval,” Jessica Piper, BDN: “Kids in Cumberland County were getting vaccinated at the highest rate over the last week, with nearly 1,400 children receiving the vaccine, accounting for about 6.6 percent of those in the 5-11 age group, according to data from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention. By contrast, only a handful of kids in Franklin and Piscataquis counties had received the shot.”
— “What the US pledge to reduce methane emissions could mean for Maine,” Sam Schipani, BDN: “Adam Daigneault, associate professor of forest policy and economics at the University of Maine, said since most of the United States’s implementation strategy to reach the 2030 methane reduction targets involves oil and gas production rather than consumption, the pledges are unlikely to tip the scales when it comes to shifting Maine’s dependence on these fossil fuels — for example, by electrifying the grid and developing infrastructure for electric vehicles.”
Today’s Daily Brief was written by Caitlin Andrews and Jessica Piper. If you’re reading this on the BDN’s website or were forwarded it, you can sign up to have it delivered to your inbox every weekday morning here.
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Southwire Type RHH or RHW-2 or USE-2 conductors are used with conduit as specified in the National Electrical Code. When used as Type USE-2, conductors are suitable for use as underground service entrance conductors for direct burial at conductor temperatures not to exceed 90°C. When used as RHW-2 or USE-2, conductor temperatures shall not exceed 90°C in wet or dry locations. Voltage rating for RHW-2 or RHH or USE-2 conductors is 600 volts.
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Southwire Type RHH or RHW-2 or USE-2 conductors comply with the following:
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Following Ian Spero’s address to the All-Parliamentary Group (AAPG) on Housing For Older People and two high octane days at NatWest HQ, with over 400 passionate AAA activists, we enter our 6th year of shaking things up for our ageing society, filled with hope.
Hope that we can capitalise on all the hard work being done across the board to reimagine housing and care for older adults. To share the learnings of councils and universities across the country already making progress, and encourage further private sector engagement such as Regent Regeneration who spoke enthusiastically about establishing the UK’s first Neighbourhood of the Future in time for Coventry's tenure as the UK City of Culture in 2022. Or Legal & General who continue to rethink the way an institution can support the needs of an ageing population.
Before you do, take a moment to catch up with this month’s best news stories from the world of ageing, including why we should slow down, the forgotten middle and the importance of intergenerational friendships.
Sometimes, it seems that people talk about older adults as if they exist in a parallel universe to everyone else. Perhaps they do, which is part of the problem.
So, this piece from the Conversation was of interest as it argued that instead of trying to speed everything up when building ‘smart cities’, planners should be working to slow things down. Not just to benefit older members of the community, but everyone.
Like the slow food and slow reading movements, designed to promote the benefits of properly engaging with what you're doing, 'slow cities’ would do the same, according to author Lakshmi Priya Rajendran. They would “focus on providing green space, accessible infrastructure and internet connectivity, promoting renewable energy and sustainable transport, and being welcoming and friendly to all”.
They would use technology available to us now to “create platforms for citizens to immerse themselves and engage meaningfully in different experiences within the urban environment”.
For example, technology-based installations could give us the history of wherever we are to increase understanding of time and place, while AI and machine learning can tell planners more about how humans interact with the city to feed into future developments.
This kind of thinking really resonates with us because it's about planners taking the need for proper community interaction and information sharing to increase awareness of our surroundings. The more we know about where we live and the people we share it with the more we care about it. We live in a mobile and connected age, so if we don't legislate for community then isolation and alienation will only increase. Let's be smart, let’s slow down.
Live Long, Stay Young
Once you have slowed down, you can properly enjoy long reads, the perfect antidote to quick fix news. This great article in the New York Times is worth considered attention as it looks at the ways different researchers are trying to fathom a response to the extra 30 years’ we've created for ourselves.
Author Adam Gopnik speaks to people like Joseph Coughlin, whose work at AgeLab, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology revealed that making products for older people was a “good way to go out of business”.
Writes Adam, “Old people will not buy anything that reminds them that they are old. The AgeLab has rediscovered the eternal truth that identity matters to us far more than utility. The most effective way of comforting the aged, the researchers there find, is through a kind of comical convergence of products designed by and supposedly for impatient millennials, which secretly better suit the needs of irascible boomers. The best hearing aids look the most like earbuds. The most effective personal emergency response device is an iPhone or an Apple Watch app”.
The article’s well worth a read as he also speaks to researchers trying to help animals live longer and better as they age, in the hope it will do the same for us, and others seeking solutions to address dementia through in-depth brain analysis.
But as the results of this research are some years off, then AgeLab's work offers us the most useful research today.
Joseph Coughlin on housing: “We have a belief that we send out our elderly to institutions. The fact of the matter is that less than ten per cent of the elderly go into nursing homes or assisted living. The senior-housing industry is building inventory meant for seniors, but eighty-seven per cent of retirement-age people want to stay in the same home where they have the three ‘M’s: marriage, mortgage, and memories. The problem is that they can’t. Not when the model is a two-story house with a bedroom and the bathroom upstairs. If we can solve the stairs problem, we won’t need new housing”.
If you’ve already read Ian’s summaries of our latest Congress, you’ll know such practicalities were high on the agenda, much like how older adults pay for them. Which leads us onto our next piece…
The Forgotten Middle
Funding your later life was the subject of this article from US research foundation HealthAffairs, which studied the effect of income on accessing suitable care for 'tomorrow's seniors'.
Arguing for more options for middle income boomers in the US – the forgotten middle ad they call it – the research asks; “how will future middle-income seniors, who do not qualify for Medicaid and may have fewer family caregivers, access housing and care services?”
As the ‘first study to project housing and functional health care needs of seniors by income group’ it states that; "With the aging baby-boom generation, the US will experience a significant increase in the number of middle-income seniors ages seventy-five and older by 2029. This group will face a very different set of challenges relative to today’s middle-income seniors”.
Solutions, the report suggests, are cheaper ways to access housing and care – made possible by reduced expectations from the private-sector on expected returns – potentially more basic provisions, better use of technology, tax incentives to operators and developers, and better sharing of initiatives such as qualified on-site health providers.
This report echoes themes we are seeing globally. Ageing population, increasing pressure on family care givers, desire to age at home rather than institutions and increasing age related health conditions placing strain on government run health services. Governments can’t avoid these issues forever…
With so much covered so far, we now take a quick look at the other great stories from this month, starting with this piece in Forbes introducing a new app which uses eye tracking technology to detect Alzheimer’s, before the onset of symptoms.
According Elli Kaplan Co-Founder and CEO of Neurotrack, “…we’re not treating Alzheimer’s post-diagnosis. With our technology, we’re aiming for vascular health today to protect tomorrow’s brains from the mixed pathologies that are so often the hallmark of Alzheimer’s”.
She likens it to cyclists wearing a helmet – rather than treating the issue after it’s too late, why not work to reduce the risk early? We look forward to seeing more tech like this.
Then we have another piece of tech looking to help older adults, this time through the art of storytelling. This article in Design Week introduced a new AI tool from Accenture that “asks lonely, older people to recall memories from their lives, which are then transformed into a written and audio biography they can pass on to their children”.
With research suggesting around 1.5 million people over 50 in the UK feeling lonely on a regular basis, Accenture hopes to give users a way to hold as natural a conversation as possible based on questions and learning from answers to create a story for humans to use or the tool can do itself. Obviously, this doesn’t solve loneliness itself, but voice technology is clearly here to stay.
And finally, we look at this piece in the Irish Times about intergenerational friendships. It talks about Irish research published in the Journal of Ageing Studies that looked to “better understand their role in how older people experience old age and friendship at that time of life”… to “support a broader, more diverse, conversation around the experience of old age and friendship in older age”. A lovely, uplifting piece to end this month’s AAA news.
That’s all for this month, until next month be sure to follow us on Twitter, look out for further outcomes from our Congress, and #StayAgile!
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Select Academic Speaker: Containing a Large Number of New and Appropriate Pieces, for Prose Declamation, Poetical Recitation, and Dramatic Readings. Carefully Selected from the Best Authors, American, English, and Continental ...
E.H. Butler & Company, 1867 - 546 strani
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A whopping 93 per cent of office workers engage in some form of unsafe online habits that could jeopardize their employer or their customers, a new report has shown.
The report, entitled 2015 Insider Risk Report, was done by Intermedia and it exposes the online security habits of more than 2,000 office workers in both the U.K. and the U.S.
There’s a sense of irony in the report, which says that IT experts, those who know the most and those who are tasked with keeping the company secure – they are much more likely to engage in risky behaviours than your average company Joe.
The report says that 32 per cent of IT professionals have given out their login / password credentials to other employees (compared to 19 per cent across all respondents), while 28 per cent of IT pros said they have accessed systems belonging to previous employers after they left the job (compared to only 13 per cent among all respondents)
Furthermore, 31 per cent of IT pros said they would take data from their company if it would positively benefit them – nearly three times the rate of general business professionals
“These kinds of practices create risks that include lost data, regulatory compliance failures, data breaches, eDiscovery complications, ex-employee access, and even out-and-out sabotage by a disgruntled current or former employee,” Intermedia says in a follow-up press release.
Intermedia’s report also includes data across a range of industries, such as healthcare, finance and legal services, as well as across job functions. Additionally, it examines security habits across age group, company size and job tenure.
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An orthopedic surgeon explains why swelling of the surgical leg (total knee replacement) goes down overnight and then seemingly balloons up after awakening.
Following a total knee replacement, the patient may notice that the initial swelling subsides as the hours after the surgery pass.
But then, come next morning, the leg looks bigger than ever, all puffed up.
The patient may then be alarmed over the possibility of a blood clot (deep vein thrombosis).
A DVT is an alarming problem because at any moment, a piece of the blood clot (or the whole thing) could dislodge and in seconds get into the lungs and cause a life threatening pulmonary embolus.
Swelling after a Total Knee Replacement
“Swelling is a function of circulation and fluid pressure,” begins Marc W. Hungerford, MD, Chief of Orthopedics at Mercy Medical Center and Director of Joint Replacement and Reconstruction at Mercy.
“After a total knee replacement the circulation to the knee is increased because of the body’s healing response.
“When you are standing or sitting during the day, the leg is in a dependent position and the pressure in the blood vessels is increased.
“When sleeping at night, the leg is at the same level relative to the rest of the body and the pressure decreases. This allows the pressure and swelling to go down.”
But then once you’re awake — and up and about — you may see that the leg appears to be swelling more.
Following TKR, the patient is urged to get up and about as soon as possible, not only to help prevent a blood clot, but to hastily get the joint acquainted with its new device. The sooner the better.
Nurses will check both legs of the patient throughout the day to make sure that the swelling is par for the course rather than suspicious for a DVT.
Over 600,000 total knee replacements are performed in the United States every year!
Dr. Hungerford was the first orthopedic surgeon in Maryland to perform MAKOplasty, a minimally invasive partial knee procedure powered by the RIO® Robotic Arm Technology.
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Transition To Twins: Your First Multi-Engine Rating
by David Robson
One of the most concise and well-illustrated books on flying twins, Transition to Twins thoroughly covers all facets of multiengine operations. Includes a syllabus with lesson objectives, suggested lectures and exercises, as well as checkride questions that apply to any airplane.
Soft cover, illustrated, indexed.
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Grant Due: FY 2022 Battlefield Restoration Grants
WHAT DOES IT FUND? The purpose of this program is to support the restoration of day-of-battle conditions of American Revolution, Civil War, and War of 1812 properties that have been acquired and protected with assistance from the the funding agency's Battlefield Land Acquisition Grant (BLAG) Program and are located outside the external boundaries of a unit of the National Park System. Click here for more information.
WHO'S ELIGIBLE? State, county, city or township governments, institutions of higher education, Native American tribal governments, and nonprofits.
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: Xiuhcoatl (Zee-ooh-co-aught-el)
Type of Mount
: Cut land travel time by 1/4. Can't travel over large bodies of water.
: 3 feet tall from belly to back/680(Really skinny) - 800(Really fat) pounds/40 feet from tip of tail to tip of snoot, spends most of its time not in flight coiled into a ball 10 feet in diameter. Wing span is 40 feet, but wings fold against the body when not in use. 2 feet wide.
: Specifics very depending on the region, but usually feeds on larger predators or prey.
: Varies. If raised from infancy, easy. Caught in the wild, difficult. The Sacred Forest in the Eternal Empire will occasionally give one as a gift, in which case they are pre-trained. A trained one can be purchased for 3000 GN/3 ON, but finding one for sale is rare and will require notable IC work.
: Can carry up to 250 pounds without inhibiting its flight abilities, in addition to 2 riders of up to 180 pounds each.
: Sacred Forest, Southern Region forests, Eastern Region mountains.
: Most commonly seen in the Sacred Forest, but can be found in the forests of the Southern Region and in the Eastern Regions mountains, albeit more rarely.
: The majority of the body is a truly massive serpent, solid muscle and scales. However, it has a coat of feathers running down its back that serve to help keep it warm during its flights. The most noteworthy features are, of course, the great wings rising from the Xiuhcoatl's back, gifting it the power of flight. The Xiuhcoatl has a form of natural armor on the top of it's head, as well as several spikes jutting from its back. These spikes are primarily believed to be used as a defense against predators. However, as the Xiuhcoalt lacks any known predators, this considered a theory formed due to a lack of any solid evidence of the spikes use.
: Xiuhcoatl prefer heavily forested environments, nesting in the strongest trees and preying on the forests most dominant predators. They have been known to make their home in the mountains, however, though this is rare and the reason behind them doing so is unknown, though it is believed to have to do with population control. Like all reptiles, the Xiuhcoatl don't care for the cold, though they handle it better than most due to the feathery coat on its back. Like all serpents, the Xiuhcoalt eats less than one unfamiliar with serpents might assume. If one is able to feed a Xiuhcoatl 300 pounds of food every seven trials, or roughly two deer, then the great serpent will be well content. If given the opportunity, the Xiuhcoatl will overfeed so as to avoid having to hunt again so soon, though this makes them sluggish and is not recommended for any wishing to use these great serpents as a mount.
Lifespan and Development
: Xiuhcoatl are born from softshell eggs, with reproduction taking place in the same fashion as a normal serpent. The infants are roughly 50 pounds and 5 feet long. Their mothers feed them small bits of meat, usually 5-15 pounds every seven Trials. The infants will stay with their mother for two years, during which their size and appetite will steadily increase. After two years, they will be able to fly on their own and will seek their own nest. At this point, a Xiuhcoatl will be fully grown. They can live for up to 80 Arcs, though their ability to fly and hunt is greatly diminished in the last 2 or 3 Arcs of their life.
: As a flying mount, the Xiuhcoatl excels at traveling over land that would otherwise be impassable, making travel both easier and more convenient. However, they are not the fastest of fliers, owing to their great size, and can be outstripped by the faster fliers of Idalos with regularity. That being said, owing to the noodle-esque shape of their body, they can maneuver in ways other flying mounts simply cannot, and there are tales of people flying these great serpents through buildings.
: Like most serpents, the Xiuhcoatl is a calm creature, difficult to anger and relatively quick to calm itself. That being said, they are also stubborn unless trained, frequently doing the exact opposite of what their trainers tell them to do, apparently out of sheer stubborn desire not to be trained. They are, however, loyal to their riders once properly trained and there are stories of Xiuhcoatl who have belonged to a rider since birth refusing to leave their side even after their die. They also have an odd playful streak, though this usually does not serve the rider. Xiuhcoatl saddles and saddle bags have to specially designed to account for the creatures love of doing corkscrews through the air while in flight. There is also a tale regarding a Xiuhcoalt belonging to an Imperial Marshal that regurgitated a dead Barghest onto the floor of the Imperial Throne Room in front of its riders feet as a show of affection, though this has yet to be confirmed.
However, should one manage to anger a Xiuhcoatl, they would be well advised to flee for their life. In addition to the very real possibility of being consumed whole, there is a well documented event where one of the great serpent crushed a guard tower between its coils to attack a hunter that had killed its children. And of course, they are also venomous. One should take great care to never anger a Xiuhcoatl if they can possibly avoid it.
: The Xiuhcoatl possess three main combat abilities. The first is their venom, a lethal toxin capable of slaying even the most resilient of beasts, with rumors abounding that a bite from one was able to fell a dragon, though no proof of this was ever discovered. The second is the strength of their coils, as they are able to crush stone structures in their coils if provoked enough. Finally, their relatively slow speed of flight does not translate to slow movement on the land. A grounded Xiuhcoatl can move and strike as fast as any cobra.
However, between their temperament and the fact that Xiuhcoatl scales aren't any harder than those of any other serpent, they are not recommended primarily as a battle mount.
: Like most serpents, Xiuhcoatl love to sleep and bask in the warm sun, and are generally fairly lazy creatures as far as exercise goes.
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Tiny, confident and utterly adorable, the Pekingese is a companion toy dog in every sense of the word. With its distinctive squashed muzzle and lion-like mane, this breed is about looking proud and graceful, with a personality far, far bigger than its minute size.
The Pekingese is an ancient breed dating back 2000 years, originating in China and favoured by the Chinese Imperial Court. Only Chinese royalty were allowed to own them and they were treated with the greatest respect. According to an old Chinese legend, a lion fell in love with a marmoset monkey. To able to wed his love, the lion begged Buddha to make him smaller, but let him keep his lion heart and pride. Buddha obliged, and from the union of the two, the ‘Lion Dog’ or Pekingese was born!
Looking at the Pekingese, it’s easy to imagine this characterful breed as a cross between a monkey and a lion. How the Pekingese ended up in the West, is another fascinating story.
During the Great Opium War of 1860, the British invaded the Old Summer Palace in the Forbidden City in Peking (today, Beijing). The emperor and his entourage fled, but an elderly aunt of the emperor remained and committed suicide. She was found with five Pekingese, which were taken back to England as war loot. One of them, named ‘Looty’, was presented to Queen Victoria. Some sources claim that all modern Pekingese descended from these five dogs.
The Pekingese is compact, stocky and is longer than it is tall, with a long, mane-like coat in gold, red, sable or black (yes, it sheds — a lot). Its characteristic extreme flat muzzle and nose are always black and it stands at a height of 30–45 cm at its shoulder. It’s quite heavy for its size — around 4 kg or so, although so-called Sleeve or Miniature Pekingese weigh 2.6 kg or less.
With its abundance of attitude and aloof dignity, it’s almost like the Pekingese knows that it once lived only in the most luxurious palaces. They’re intelligent but can be notoriously stubborn, even going on hunger strikes to prove a point to their owners. The Peke, as it’s known for short, is an indoor dog and doesn’t need a big garden, but like all stocky dogs will need daily exercise to avoid obesity, while consistent socialising and training from an early age will prevent your small lion from becoming too bossy or overly shy.
They do make excellent watchdogs and are sure to alert you with a loud bark if anything or anyone strange is approaching. Above all, the Peke is a companion dog, so it will need to be at his owner’s side or on her lap for as much time as possible.
Changes in recent years to the breed standard now allow for a slightly longer muzzle and nose, but, unfortunately, it’s flat, squashed face does result in several health issues that include breathing problems, snoring, ingrown eyelashes and the risk of eyes ‘popping’ out during rough play. Daily brushing of the long, double coat is essential as is proper cleaning of the hindquarters as these tend to become soiled easily.
Is the Pekingese for me?
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To make energy sunlight may be used and is a excellent source of energy. When persons think of solar power, they typically consider solar systems attached to the top of a home. While this is really the largest software with this technology, solar battery chargers can be useful for more moderate jobs and conduct very well. These solar battery chargers are easy to set up and may run for years without problems and can be utilized for a wide selection of applications. They frequently will undoubtedly be manufactured in an equipment with a solar screen, the transformation technology expected, possibly a battery pack, and any wiring that is needed.
Solar chargers are frequently used for outdoor lighting. Lights on pathways and lights for lighting signs are two kinds of employs for such lights. These solar battery chargers are actually all-in-one energy products that use solar cells and batteries that’ll boost during the daytime. This permits the batteries to operate the lights throughout evening and the battery will soon be charged during daylight hours.
If you were to energy these lights by common indicates it would mean that you would need to have operating power from some range away and that will make the light quite a bit more expensive. To be able to use these solar chargers makes this lighting possible. In the event of the smaller light employed by homeowners to light a route or garage, exactly the same benefits apply.
Still another place where solar battery chargers are employed is in remote tracking equipment. There are numerous environmental and climate programs all around the globe that use solar chargers to power their electrical equipment. These checking stations provide plenty of critical information to agencies of all kinds and have to have a dependable power source to operate. Solar chargers produce that power for them and have now been achieving this for years.
A solar battery charger can be utilized in other distant parts and offer the energy for lots of the buoys used for maritime navigation. To alert ships with their roles in several key waterways around the globe these buoys are used and have a sign beacon lit on top of them through the night. Many of these have now been enhanced to use a Lithium Solar Batteries and now operate totally independently. The batteries may be charged all day long when the gentle isn’t required and then the light may be used in the evenings when the solar cell can not demand since sunlight has set.
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Solar battery charger use on RVs such as for instance generator properties is yet another software of this engineering that’s improved dramatically. They’re an ideal position to place the cells since they will be facing sunlight all day long long while the RV is travelling. This enables the systems to cost the batteries in the automobile in addition to provide capacity to the devices in the RV while driving.
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Governmental restrictions on religious freedoms and social hostilities related to religious differences have increased globally since the Arab Spring, according to a recent Pew Research Center study.
Despite hope expressed by people all over the world that the revolutionary political movement would bring increased personal freedom and regional peace, the Pew Center reports that this has not been the case.
Before Arab Spring protests swept the Middle East and North Africa in 2010, religious freedom restrictions and social hostilities were already higher in those regions than any other in the world, and they remained high throughout 2011.
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Sep 8, 2021, 3:10 PM
The clock is ticking fast. Gambians will head to polls on December 4th to elect a new president. This election is very crucial and important as it is the first-ever in the post-Jammeh era.
Statistics revealed that the world today hosts a massive population of 1.2 billion young people between the ages of 15 and 24 — and that number continues to rise.
In The Gambia, the movement of people mainly youth towards the kombos in search of skills and employment and other social amenities is seriously hampering farming in rural Gambia. The situation is even compounded by irregular migration these past years, where numbers leave their settlements with the quest of starting new lives in the West. Many suffered along the journey, which normally takes through the hot weather in the Sahara Desert and through the Mediterranean high seas.
Even though most farms in rural Gambia are cultivated by manpower, the presence of people helps a great deal in the overall production. Let's bear in mind that youths are the most energetic and active portion in any society.
It is true that most of these youth made it along the way, but many others continue to suffer in isolation and stress and in most cases become a burden to the society.
Not everybody would wear a suit and tie and sit in an office. Even in the most developed countries, there are people whose work is to produce food for the public.
Despite the prevalence of agriculture — the World Bank states 80% of the world’s rural poor earn a living through farming, and the sector employs half the rural population of the entire continent of Africa — most smallholder farmers live in poverty, operating crop and livestock farms that aren’t as productive as they could be and missing out on critical opportunities to contribute to their larger food systems.
According to the FAO 2021 report, the unemployment rate for youth is currently three times that of adults in all regions of the world. It further states that in Africa especially, which boasts the globe’s youngest population, two-thirds of youth are unemployed or working in vulnerable, low-paying positions.
Agriculture is the backbone of the economy in many places, totaling 25% or more of GDP in several developing countries.
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Shares may be held in joint names. If you hold shares jointly with another person, such as your spouse, it is assumed that ownership of the shares is divided equally. Shares can also be owned in unequal proportions.
Theoretically, a company may register a share transfer or allotment of shares into the joint names of any number of joint holders. For practical reasons, however, many companies limit the maximum number of joint shareholders via the Articles of Association – it’s common to set an upper limit of 4 or 10 joint holders.
Can two people buy stocks together?
Joint investment accounts allow two or more people to invest together. You can invest in just about anything with a partner, including stocks, bonds and funds; property (such as vehicles); or real estate. Combined ownership in financial assets is referred to as joint tenancy.
Joint brokerage accounts have two or more accountholders listed on them. These accounts allow multiple people to have control of an investment account, enabling them to do trades, make deposits and withdrawals, and take other actions related to their investments.
Death of a Joint Shareholder
For a company to register a legal heir of any deceased member, the company will require a share transfer instrument to be submitted, where the surviving holder will be the transferor and the legal heir of the deceased holder will be the transferee.
Minors can’t personally buy and sell shares, so to avoid the need for a formal trust the most common (and easiest) approach is to create an account in the name of an adult (e.g. parent) with the shares held in trust for the child. … Place the starting capital into the bank account and then you are ready to invest.
How Do I Transfer Shares to Joint Shareholders? Print
- Go to the Shareholders tab. …
- Find the shareholder who will be transferring shares. …
- First of all the wizard will want to know the date the shares are being transferred. …
- Enter the number of shares being transferred. …
- Enter the price being paid for the shares.
Shares are like any other form of property, they can be transferred between individuals at any time. This can be done because of several reasons: The shareholder has died. … They wish to gift shares to family members.
How are joint investment accounts taxed?
Not only are joint brokerage accounts taxable – meaning any gains incurred in the account must be reported to the IRS, even if you don’t take the proceeds out of the account – but contributions can also trigger gift tax liabilities.
Can I add my wife to my brokerage account?
The transfer of property in joint tenancy to your spouse is generally not a taxable gift. Therefore, you can open a joint tenancy brokerage account with your spouse or transfer your assets in and out of a joint tenancy brokerage account with your spouse without incurring gift tax.
How do you split a joint investment account?
Each plan has its own guidelines that will determine how the assets can be divided. Some plan administrators allow the non-employee spouse to open his own account within the plan, while other plans will require a rollover into an IRA, or for that spouse to take a penalty-free distribution.
What is joint investment?
A joint investment account means two people have control of the investment account. Both parties can view their account and transactions and can make deposits and withdrawals as they wish. Equal access to the account means that both parties should trust each other implicitly.
Can you have 3 names on a joint bank account?
Joint accounts most commonly have two account holders, but it is possible to have more. You can open a joint bank account with three, four or five people, or even more. For current accounts, each account holder will have their own debit card that will let them make purchases and withdraw cash at ATMs.
Who pays tax on joint investment?
According to the CRA, interest earned on a joint account requires proportionate tax reporting, where each owner of a joint account reports their individual portion of the total interest. In other words, taxes are paid on the interest according to how much each co-holder contributed to the account.
How do I open a joint account?
How to open a joint account
- Select the “joint account” option during the application process with your bank.
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The National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for Saturday, December 11 through 8:00 p.m.
The advisory affects much of southeast and mid-Michigan. 20 – 30 mile an hour winds are expected with gusts up to 55 miles an hour. Winds could potentially cause power outages by knocking down tree limbs and blowing unsecured objects around. Peak winds are expected around the early afternoon, according to the weather service.
Consumers Energy says it is prepared for for the winds and warns residents to be on the lookout for downed power lines. People should never approach a downed power line as it may still be live. Stay at least 25 feet away. If you happen to see a downed line, call 911 and Consumers Energy immediately at (800) 477-5050. | <urn:uuid:48d22bb5-3a90-4c4b-8e3e-d55960829f71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wsgw.com/wind-advisory-issued-for-saturday/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966788 | 160 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Guide 2: Sleeping well when you’re stressed
It’s natural to feel stressed. Work, life, love, finances, family woes can keep our minds preoccupied with disruptive thoughts.
This can have a negative impact on our sleeping patterns because when we’re stressed – we just can’t fall asleep. Undeniably, all of us have experienced this at some time or another.
We end up lying in bed, counting sheep or recollecting whatever has happened throughout the day. It’s a vicious cycle – stress prevents sleep and lack of sleep impacts our mental well-being. When we get restless, we get up to have some milk or catch up on our favourite dramas.
We have some recommendations for you! However, you will require some self-discipline to ensure that it works.
Avoid your devices 2 hours before bed time1
The blue light emitted from screens, suppress melatonin, which is the hormone that dictates your sleep pattern. Taking breaks from our screens, particularly before bedtime, can help maintain that important sleep pattern through the night. You might want to avoid coming into contact with your mobile phone or computer screens for about 2 hours before bedtime. This calls for some discipline.
Watch your caffeine intake1
Most of us are quite reliant on caffeine, but it has a disruptive effect on our sleep patterns because it promotes alertness. Avoid drinking caffeinated drinks after 2 pm, this will allow enough time for the caffeine to leave your system before bedtime.
Breakfast is good for you!
Breakfast helps regulate our melatonin production. Pick a breakfast recipe rich with sleep-boosting foods, such as whole grains, seeds, nuts, yogurt and fruits including bananas and oranges in particular. These all contain nutrients that enhance the production of melatonin.
Rest at regular intervals!
It’s important to take a break every 60-90 minutes. That could simply involve leaving your desk for 5 minutes to walk around the office, read a book or fill your water tumbler in the pantry – this can help you take a breather to re-focus and to get a new perspective on matters.
Spend time with people who matter
It’s important, particularly when you’re stressed, to spend time with those who matter the most and who remind you what’s important in life. Ultimately, the burden is not on you alone – we aren’t superheroes in everything. Allocate time on evenings and weekends to spend time with your friends and family to help improve your overall well-being.
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If you have children, you know how important it is to have a snack available at all times. Whether that means goldfish, cheerios, or dried fruit; you need something to store those snacks in. If you use a plastic baggie, they tend to end up crushed. You will not have that problem with this stainless steel lunch box set by MIRA.
I love that this set by MIRA is non-toxic and kid-friendly with their easy-snap secure lids. They are made of unlined 18/8 food-grade stainless steel, lids are made of non-toxic LDPE number 4 plastic. The MIRA set is free of BPA, phthalates, PVC and lead.
Unlike many plastic containers that scratch up and never come clean, you can toss these stainless steel containers in the dishwasher and they’ll continue to look clean and new.
The set I was sent to review had a 5 oz and an 8 oz container. You can buy your own set on Amazon:
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All game animals move about for food, reproduction, from hunting pressure; and many other reasons. Knowing why they move, when they move and where they move to is one of the keys to becoming a successful hunter. You can spend a lifetime in the bush finding out for yourself or you can read this book. This new look at the subject of hunting smarter for big game examines the techniques and knowledge required for the safe and successful hunting of all New Zealand big game species. It looks at their preferred habitats, methods of hunting and how to deal with the animal once successful.
Author of eight previous books on the outdoors, from back country huts to cooking in the bush. Hans Willems has hunted, tramped and fished in Europe, Australia, Papua New Guinea and – of course – New Zealand. He has made his living at different times as a meat hunter, guide, possum trapper and white water rafting. He still spends as much time as he can in the bush and is an honorary ranger for the Department of Conservation.
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JBL CleroPond 500ml (Clears Cloudy Water)
Water clarifier for the elimination of water cloudiness
For water to suit fish and plants: water clarifier for the removal of all types of clouding.
Easy to use: determine the required quantity, mix it with pond water in a watering can, pour it evenly over the pond.
Immediate effect: flocculation of turbidity (collection via filter or pond vacuum cleaner).
Harmless for fish, recognisable effect due to white cloud formation.
Contents: pond water clarifier CleroPond. Dosage: 40 ml per approx. 700 - 800 l pond water.
500ml bottle treat 10000L
Natural balance in the garden pond:
Plant and food remains, metabolic substances and leaves deteriorate the quality of the water in the garden pond.
Good water quality is necessary to ensure the health of fish and plants. Each season makes different demands on the garden pond.
A water test will help recognise deficits in the pond water so that you can take the necessary steps.
How Cleropond works?
With JBL CleroPond the turbidity gets bound into units (flocculation), sinks to the bottom or is swiftly removed by the filter.
The effect can be recognised by a whitish cloud formation which disappears within a few hours.
Turbidity, sunken to the ground, can be collected by a pond vacuum cleaner or a filter.
Easy use of CleroPond:
Calculate the required quantity.
Mix it with pond water in a watering can and spread it evenly over the pond.
Not suitable for use in swimming ponds.
Do not filter with activated carbon and switch off UVC units during use.
40 ml per approx. 700 - 800 l pond water.
Can I use several anti-algae agents together in the pond?
> Each JBL anti-algae agent has a special purpose. It is therefore not necessary to use several AlgoPond products at the same time. Use AlgoPond Green to combat green water. Use AlgoPond forte for thread algae and all other types of algae. If you want to change the product, allow a time interval of 14 days, a water change of at least 50 % and filtering via activated carbon. The products StabiloPond and PhosEx may, of course, be used together with an AlgoPond algae agent according to the 1-2-3 algae-free principle.
Can the pond care products JBL StabiloPond Basis, JBL StabiloPond KH, JBL OxyPond, JBL FilterStart Pond, JBL AlgoPond Direct*, JBL PhosEx Pond Filter, JBL SediEx Pond, JBL AlgoPond Sorb, JBL AgoPond Forte*, JBL AlgoPond Green*, JBL PhosEx Pond Direct and JBL BactoPond be used with an operating UV-C water clarifier without any problems or should the UV-C unit be switched off?
>In simple terms we can say that with the application of the liquid products JBL AlgoPond Sorb, JBL AgoPond Forte*, JBL, AlgoPond Green*, JBL PhosEx Pond Direct, JBL BactoPond the UV-C water clarifier should be temporarily switched off so that the active substances will not be destroyed. Please look up the time periods in the respective operation instructions.
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Experiential Learning is an important component of a Congressional education, and students in Preschool – Grade 8 participate in field trips, and hands-on activities that enhance their learning experience. Last year, students participated in more than 50 off-campus experiential learning activities, visiting educational sites near and far from school.
The Washington, D.C. area is rich with culture and history, and Congressional’s teachers take advantage of our school’s proximity to these resources. For example, to enhance their study of Spanish, students visited the GALA Theater in Washington D.C. to bring the classic work of Miguel de Cervantes to life. Sixth Grade students visited Lincoln’s Cottage and the US Solders’ National Cemetery to explore multiple perspectives on key issues faced by President Lincoln and to understand his decision-making process.
In addition to visiting the many well-known galleries, museums theaters, and parks in the area, students take trips to many of the smaller educational venues, for example; Second Graders gained real-life experiences to enhance their study of habitats during a visit to Hidden Pond Nature Center in Springfield, Virginia. Fourth Graders visited a local grocery store to put their math skills into action, and students in Junior Kindergarten visited a local farmers’ market to culminate a unit of study about farms and agriculture.
BEYOND THE DAY TRIP
Field trips are not limited to local day-trips however. Our Eighth Graders enjoy an annual two-day trip to Williamsburg and Jamestown in the fall, and in the spring they venture to Monticello. Seventh Grade students traveled to the heart of the Chesapeake Bay for a three-day, two-night experiential learning expedition to learn about the 64,000 mile watershed, the issues facing it and the work that is being done to restore and protect it.
In the spring, Congressional Fifth Grade students participate in a two-part overnight field trip in Sharpsburg, Maryland, including a visit to Antietam National Battlefield, complementing their study of the key battle in the Civil War. During the same trip, the students venture to Shepherd’s Spring for an overnight Global Gateway experience led by Heifer International. | <urn:uuid:0124f49d-467f-4ac9-9f47-b5a040e81c3c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.congressionalschool.org/academics/field-trips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946586 | 469 | 2.953125 | 3 |
What is the main idea of deontology?
Deontology is a theory that suggests actions are good or bad according to a clear set of rules. Its name comes from the Greek word deon, meaning duty. Actions that obey these rules are ethical, while actions that do not, are not. This ethical theory is most closely associated with German philosopher, Immanuel Kant.
What is the deontology approach?
Deontology is an ethical theory that uses rules to distinguish right from wrong. This approach tends to fit well with our natural intuition about what is or isn’t ethical. Unlike consequentialism, which judges actions by their results, deontology doesn’t require weighing the costs and benefits of a situation.
What is an example of Deontological theory?
Deontology states that an act that is not good morally can lead to something good, such as shooting the intruder (killing is wrong) to protect your family (protecting them is right). In our example, that means protecting your family is the rational thing to do—even if it is not the morally best thing to do.
What is the supreme rule in Kant’s deontological ethics?
Thus, the supreme categorical imperative is: “Act only on that maxim through which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.” Kant considered that formulation of the categorical imperative to be equivalent to: “So act that you treat humanity in your own person and in the person of everyone …
Why is deontology better than Consequentialism?
The main difference between deontology and consequentialism is that deontology focuses on the rightness or wrongness of actions themselves. Whereas, consequentialism focuses on the consequences of the action. Of these, consequentialism determines the rightness or wrongness of actions by examining its consequences.
What is a good example of deontology?
Deontology is defined as an ethical theory that the morality of an action should be based on whether that action itself is right or wrong under a series of rules, rather than based on the consequences of the action. An example of deontology is the belief that killing someone is wrong, even if it was in self-defense.
What is a good example of utilitarianism?
When individuals are deciding what to do for themselves alone, they consider only their own utility. For example, if you are choosing ice cream for yourself, the utilitarian view is that you should choose the flavor that will give you the most pleasure.
What is the weakness of consequentialism?
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Image Credit: Spotify
Spotify has stepped up to make it easy for artists to help Ukraine, using the Artist Fundraising Pick on your music profile.
The war in Ukraine has shocked the world into action. Major companies have sought ways to sanction Russia and help Ukrainian refugees, whilst allowing their users to easily show their support. Now Spotify, too, has suggested ways that artists can help Ukraine.
Spotify artists can use the Artist Fundraising Pick feature in Spotify for Artists to raise aid money for Ukraine. The Artist Fundraising Pick can be used as an extra source of income for artists, but is also an easy way for your fans to support a charity of your choice.
The fundraising site GoFundMe has pulled together verified charities in a Ukraine Hub. All artists have to do is select a fundraising destination to sit at the top of their Spotify profile, so that listeners can easily donate. Spotify won’t take a cut of the donations.
How is Spotify showing support to Ukraine?
Meanwhile, the Russian Spotify office has been permanently closed. Spotify also said: “Additional steps that the company has taken include providing individual support to our employees in the region as well as our global community of Ukrainian employees… We are deeply concerned about the war in Ukraine and hope that peace will be restored to the region and its people.”
Spotify suggested artists could change their profile images to show support for Ukraine. The company is also aiming to tackle disinformation by putting out a guide to provide trusted news to users, and said it would match employees’ charitable donations two-to-one.
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After a false start in August 2021 (thanks Covid-19), we were pleased to get our Business @ Breakfast series back off the ground this month with Chamber Member House of Science.
We really enjoyed the more intimate form of networking that this event provided in 2021, and our 2022 event was no different.
With a small group of interested, eager attendees, our hosts House of Science put on a great spread of breakfast treats and a great spread of science experiments, to better understand how they’re helping school students every day.
House of Science is a charitable trust with a clear goal: To ensure EVERY child in Aotearoa is scientifically literate. That doesn’t mean every child is a scientist, but it means that every child develops the critical thinking skills that will support them to have a healthy curiosity of the world around them.
The Judea location is House of Science’s national office, where the team manage its 18 branches around New Zealand. At HQ, they design and develop new science resources for our tamarki, and try to keep up with the demand for science kits in schools – they are always developing new and interesting kits to ensure students are getting relevant, engaging education tools.
As the organisation’s chair Kirstin Mead says: “Our country’s future economy depends on innovative advancement, and we are doing our bit to ensure Aotearoa has a scientifically literate workforce with the necessary skills to embrace and support this future.”
What was most fascinating was that the Ministry of Education doesn’t fund science resources like this, and while this is a complex discussion, it certainly provides an ongoing challenge for House of Science to continue to find funders as they grow to support more children.
The adults certainly enjoyed their time on the tools, using digital microscopes to view bugs up close, understanding how important it is for a good hand wash, seeing physics in action and much more. It was a great learning process, as well as lots of fun, so imagine how good this is for our children!
Thank you to House of Science founder Chris Duggan and her team for hosting this wonderful event. If you’d like to know more or want to find out how you can support them, check out the website.
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Inaugurating “Air Statistician” Trials in Dubai Using Drones
Image: Arif Al Mehairi, Executive Director of DSC
Dubai Statistics Center (DSC) has initiated pilot-roll outs of the wholly new "Air Statistician" Project employing UAV technology and integrating it with the latest artificial intelligence technologies, besides renovating the statistical work via expansion and innovation in this field with sights set at achieving paradigm shifts.
Arif Obaid Al Muhairi, DSC Executive Director, stated in an interview with "Al Bayan": "This step is one of the most innovative strategic programs listed in DSC's strategic "Statistical Plan 2021". He underlined: "During the last period, we were scrutinizing the state-of-the-art technologies implemented in this field worldwide. We have already concluded a study on the added value of this project and its impact on developing the statistical work. Indeed, it was found that there are numerous positive aspects of the project that we could count on and invest in to renovate the statistical work via leveraging the efficiency of the field work in terms of: data quality and novelty, reducing costs, significantly reducing the respondents' burdens." He went on to say: "This new project of "Air Statistician" would be used to constantly update GIS maps and provide updated 3-D maps, the matter that would boost the efficiency of field operations while conducting statistical surveys."
Al Muhairi further explained: "The "Air Statistician" Project will be implemented based on a phased plan. The first phase planned to be inaugurated this current year will include conducting field surveys of buildings and housing units, as well as hard to reach areas and statistical units in desert areas. It will also include updating the 3D GIS maps."
"Moreover, the plan of this project includes the provision of quality statistical services to partners in other government bodies. Unquestionably, supporting the Dubai Strategic Plan is always has the priority in all DSC's projects, in addition to supporting this project with artificial intelligence technologies," added he.
Al Muhairi underscored: "DSC has opened partnership channels with the competent government bodies and famed and innovative companies in the private sector to promote investment in this field for the positive and great implications for the development of statistical work. All of this is stemmed from the vision of DSC which entails that statistics should be a supporting source of happiness and sustainable development.
He signed off by announcing that the "Air Statistician" Project will be launched at Dubai International Government Achievements Exhibition stressing that "Visitors could stopover at DSC's platform to be introduced closely on this project and absolutely all suggestions and remarks of partners and community members will be always of a priority for DSC." | <urn:uuid:fc5d906a-fde1-49f9-bd31-1e2b95ef3e62> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dsc.gov.ae/en-us/DSC-News/Pages/Air-Statistician.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.95251 | 579 | 1.5625 | 2 |
By Mimi Nguyen Ly
Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the world welcomed 2022 with largely reduced crowds and fireworks amid the spread of the more contagious, albeit less severe, Omicron variant. In some regions, events were scaled back or canceled outright.
The CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes the disease COVID-19, has claimed upward of five million lives since the start of 2020. Governments across the globe have used the CCP virus and new variants as justification to subject people to rounds of lockdowns and restrictions, as well as mask and vaccine mandates, sparking numerous widespread public protests over the past two years.
Australia celebrated the new year with spectacular fireworks and light shows over Sydney’s Harbor Bridge and Opera House at 9 p.m. and at the stroke of midnight. New Year’s Eve in the years prior to the pandemic would normally attract over one million people. Crowds were far smaller this year, with most viewing areas having capacity limits and requiring tickets to access.
Neighboring New Zealand had no official fireworks display after authorities canceled the event as a precautionary measure amid the CCP virus pandemic, although there has not been any reported community spread of the Omicron variant. Instead, Auckland hosted a light display that projected onto Auckland’s Sky Tower and other landmarks in the city.
Across China, cities canceled NYE celebrations, with authorities citing the measures as efforts to lower the risk of new CCP virus cases. Authorities are also discouraging people from traveling for the Lunar New Year at the start of February.
Local authorities in Wuhan, Hubei province, where the CCP virus first emerged in late 2019, for NYE forbid large scale public events in commercial areas. Despite a lack of festivities, large crowds were still seen in Wuhan in the lead up to New Year’s Day.
The Shanghai government canceled an annual light show along the Huangpu River that usually draws hundreds of thousands of spectators. There were no plans for public festivities in Beijing, where popular temples have been closed or had limited access since mid-December.
Over in Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, authorities have subjected some 13 million people to strict lockdowns for over a week, causing some starving residents to appeal for help.
Hong Kong held a live, open-air concert, although authorities urged people not to attend them. Around 3,000 people attended the concert, which featured local celebrities including Mirror, a local boy band group. It marked the first NYE event since 2018, after events were canceled in 2019 amid political upheaval, and in 2020 due to the pandemic. Fireworks were held over Victoria Harbour, accompanied by a live orchestra.
Taiwan held fireworks amid a virtually COVID-free population. The Taipei 101 skyscraper was the centerpiece of the night. Organizers called the building “the biggest New Year’s Eve countdown clock in the world” because it lighted up floor by floor starting from the bottom as the countdown to the New Year entered the final moments.
Traditional fireworks were canceled in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, at the Petronas Towers.
Thailand celebrated with stunning fireworks in Bangkok over the Chao Phraya River.
South Korea canceled its annual public NYE bell-ringing ceremony for the second year amid rising COVID-19 cases. The country broadcasted a pre-recorded video of the bell-ringing ceremony instead. Authorities closed many beaches and other tourist attractions along the east coast, which usually swarm with people hoping to catch the year’s first sunrise.
North Korea on NYE held fireworks and a concert at Kim Il Sung Square in Pyongyang, near the Taedong River.
In Japan, the annual countdown event at the iconic Shibuya scramble crossing in Tokyo was canceled. Public gatherings at the imperial palace in Tokyo were also canceled; the palace would normally otherwise open at the start of each year to large crowds.
Japanese monarch Naruhito issued a video on New Year’s Day for the second straight year for his New Year’s greetings and offered prayers for those who died during the pandemic.
In India, millions of people celebrated at home amid curfews and other restrictions that prevented large public celebrations. Some places were spared from curfews, including tourist hotspots Goa and Hyderabad. A light show was held in Mumbai at the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
In Russia, Moscow and other big cities marked the New Year with fireworks. Moscow’s Red Square was largely empty because it was closed from 5 p.m. due to COVID-19 restrictions. But shopping malls were brimming with customers on a holiday buying spree.
Russian President Vladimir Putin wished Russians positive changes in the new year, in a televised address broadcast just before midnight in each of Russia’s 11 time zones. “I would like to express words of sincere support to all those who lost their dear ones,” Putin also said.
In Ukraine, crowds celebrated in front of the Saint Sofia Cathedral in Kyiv.
Over in Dubai, tourists and locals were treated to a grand fireworks display at the world’s tallest skyscraper—the Burj Khalifa.
There were no fireworks in Turkey. However, Istanbul’s Taksim Square was crowded with people ahead of New Year’s day, reported Daily Sabah.
Cape Town in South Africa suddenly lifted a longstanding curfew in time for the New Year—shortly after South Africa became the first country to declare its Omicron wave had passed its peak.
In the United States, officials took a mixed approach: nixing the audience at a countdown concert in Los Angeles, scaling it back in New York yet going full speed ahead in Las Vegas, where 300,000 people were expected for a fireworks show on the strip.
In New York, officials limited the crowd to 15,000 people from the usual capacity of 55,000 inside the perimeter around Times Square. Attendees had to be vaccinated and masked. It still marked a notable upgrade from last year’s audience of a few dozen.
Outgoing Mayor Bill de Blasio said people need to see that New York is open for business. Eric Adams was sworn in as the new mayor shortly after the glittering ball drop.
Meanwhile, in Canada, millions faced a 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew in Quebec and had to be home well before midnight on New Year’s Eve. “It’s an extreme action to take because the situation is extreme,” said Premier Francois Legault at a press conference on Dec. 30. He added that indoor dining at restaurants would also be closed, and private gatherings would be banned.
In Brazil, Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana beach welcomed a small crowd of a few thousand for 16 minutes of fireworks. Rio’s New Year’s bash usually brings more than 2 million people to Copacabana beach. In 2020 there was no celebration due to the pandemic. This year there was music on loudspeakers, but no live concerts like in previous editions.
Over in the United Kingdom, London threw a last-minute party on television. BBC images of the fireworks showed very light vehicle traffic and virtually no in-person spectators. A dazzling light show in London featured the River Thames, the Shard, Greenwich Old Royal Naval College, and St Paul’s Cathedral, reported the Daily Mail.
London authorities in October canceled fireworks and a light show for NYE, but announced the spectacle would come to life on the television screen, as Big Ben rang in the New Year for the first time since 2017 following restoration.
Greece celebrated the new year with a fireworks display over Athens’ Acropolis.
In the Netherlands, where outside groupings of more than four people are banned, police dispersed several thousand people who had defiantly gathered at Amsterdam’s central Dam Square, ANP news agency reported.
Officials in Paris, France, canceled the fireworks following the advice of a scientific panel that declared mass gatherings would be too risky. Officials also reintroduced mandatory mask-wearing outdoors. Despite the canceled fireworks, crowds gathered at the Champs-Elysées as the final hours of 2021 ticked away.
In Berlin, Germany, police urged people not to gather near the Brandenburg Gate, where a concert and a light show were staged without a live audience.
Meanwhile, in Madrid, Spain, authorities allowed only 7,000 people into the city’s Puerta del Sol downtown square, a venue traditionally hosting some 20,000 revelers.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrated its 150th anniversary. Since its founding as an academy of art in 1871, its evolution into one of Australia's premier public art museums is testament to the enthusiasm and ingenuity of its staff, trustees, and supporters, and to the artists whose works have drawn in visitors from Sydney and beyond. The Exhibitionists is the story of the people who made the gallery. It peels away the layers of official narratives... | <urn:uuid:78c8d073-2a58-4a19-ad96-1cc3689524f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hfsbooks.com/catalog/titles/?search=E&publisher=art-gallery-new-south-wales | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958764 | 110 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The labor shortage in manufacturing is only set to increase in the coming decades. It’s estimated that 2030 will see a global labor deficit in the manufacturing industry of almost 8 million people, which equals over 600 billion in unrealized output. An aging population and plummeting birth rates are often cited as the underlying causes of this phenomenon, which, it should be noted, isn’t endemic to the West; countries like Hong Kong, Japan, and India are dealing with a workforce crunch as well.
It’s clear that dealing with this issue is an urgent task for manufacturers.
Many try such things as offering higher wages, better benefits, and so on—but to no avail.
In this blog, we’ll explore an unexpected solution to the workforce crunch: Connected Worker Platforms.
- The Two Major Workforce Problems in Manufacturing
- The Connected Worker Platform: Why Less Can be More Sometimes
The Two Major Workforce Problems in Manufacturing
Let’s start off with a quick rundown of the biggest workforce-related difficulties in manufacturing.
1. Attracting and Retaining a Millennial and Generation Z Workforce
The so-called baby boomer generation of manufacturing workers is slowly going into retirement.
That isn’t necessarily a problem in itself. People can’t work forever, and must retire at some point.
The problem is that manufacturers are having difficulty attracting and retaining a new, younger workforce.
There’s already a global shortage of 2 million manufacturing workers, and that number is only set to increase.
So why has shop floor work suddenly become so unattractive to young people?
Well, the simple answer is that the world has rapidly and radically changed over the past decades, while the manufacturing industry—at least in the shop floor area—has stood still.
We now live in a whole new world wherein any information, services, and tools are always present behind the single pane of glass of a smartphone screen.
The Millennial and Z generations are completely immersed in this technology, which is why they’re often called ‘digital natives’.
As 4Industry’s President of Sales Laurens de Koning commented in a recent podcast, they are used to getting anything they want instantly with just a few taps of the finger—whether it’s a movie, a bag of groceries, or a plane ticket.
It’s no surprise then that the paper-heavy and largely manual processes in most factories are extremely off putting to them.
Why spend all day scribbling on audit forms, looking for binders, and printing out work instructions, when you can do something more stimulating elsewhere?
Young people want to use the same technology at work that they use at home.
They crave the easiness and simplicity of digital technology.
Filling out paperwork is a drudge—especially if it’s repetitive. Young people expect computers to do the boring stuff, so that they can do the things they love (like getting their hands dirty on the shop floor).
4Industry makes training new operators a breeze.
2. Training and Upskilling (New) Workers in a Fast-changing Industry (and World)
Supply chain disruptions, shifts in customer demand, the labor shortage, and other industry-shaking phenomena have made it more urgent than ever that factories are flexible in how and what they produce.
Flexible factories, in turn, require frontline workers who are agile, efficient, and multifunctional.
They must be able to continuously learn new skills—and sometimes even do tasks they’re entirely unfamiliar with (e.g. maintenance work).
But with the pool of skilled workers being smaller than ever and experienced operators retiring at a fast pace, manufacturers are in big trouble.
How do they turn young and inexperienced candidates into a group of multi-skilled, flexible workers?
This is certainly a tough nut to crack, especially since it’s evident that old-school education methods aren’t sufficient to train the workers of the factory of the future.
The Learning Pyramid, for instance, clearly shows that classroom education is an extremely ineffective method for stimulating knowledge retention.
And anecdotal evidence supports this claim: Every manufacturer knows that operators don’t like sitting in a classroom or reading thick binders with instructions.
They want to be out on the shop floor, doing what they love doing.
How Connected Worker Platforms Tackle the Labor Shortage in Manufacturing
The labor shortage isn’t going to disappear in the near future, which is why manufacturers have to deal creatively with their circumstances.
Luckily, there’s a solution available that allows them to do more with less: the Connected Worker Platform (CWP).
Let’s return to the two major problems we treated above and explore how a Connected Worker Platform deals with them.
1. A modern solution for a modern generation
A Connected Worker Platform can, first and foremost, completely eliminate paper-based processes in a factory.
4Industry, for example, has several functionalities like:
- A knowledge base with digitized SOPs, work instructions, manuals, etc.
- A module for the execution of audits, inspections, and checklists
- Functionalities that enable paperless shift handovers
What’s great, is that all these things are accessed through a uniform, mobile-enabled application.
And that operators have everything they need for their shop floor duties on their pocket-held device.
Boring, manual work is automated by the platform, so that workers can focus on value-added activities.
They can, in other words, do the things they enjoy and the thing that have an impact—all while assisted by an easy-to-use, comprehensive digital tool.
This satisfies their need for fast-and-simple digital technology and significantly improves their work satisfaction, reducing the chance of them moving on to another career due to boredom or frustration.
2. Learning on the job
Connected Worker Platforms furthermore completely revolutionize the way education works in factories.
Instead of classroom education, CWPs enable operators to learn new skills on the job, which, if we return to the Learning Pyramid, is much more effective than classroom education.
In 4Industry, for example, knowledge articles can be connected to tasks, machines, or work areas, allowing operators to do unfamiliar things with little or no assistance.
Explanatory videos and photos can be embedded into knowledge documents to make learning new skills even easier.
Knowledge comes in bite-sized bits and is only presented to operators when they need it.
All of this together enables manufacturers to quickly and effectively train a young, unexperienced workforce.
And furthermore, a CWPs digital knowledge base allows them to preserve experienced operators’ tribal knowledge and pass it on to future generations.
This knowledge base can be easily updated and filled with new information on recently introduced, unfamiliar procedures.
It’s therefore possible for manufacturers to quickly adapt to changing market circumstances, giving them the flexibility they need in these uncertain times.
As the job shortage in manufacturing intensifies and a fast-changing industry calls for flexible, multi-skilled workers, manufacturers have to get creative with their circumstances. Luckily, there’s a solution available that’s tailor-made for this predicament: the Connected Worker Platform.
This pioneering piece of software not only helps train and upskill workers in an effective and time-efficient way, it also gives millennial and Generation Z workers the ease and simplicity of digital technology they demand to have at their workplace.
Connected Worker Platforms can’t solve the labor shortage. What they can do, is allow manufacturers to do more with less; in other words, they can boost productivity and enable their smaller workforce to execute tasks they’re unfamiliar with.
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What is a consensus standard?
Consensus standards are developed in cooperation with all parties with an interest in participating in the development or use of the standard. To achieve consensus, all views and objections must be considered and a demonstrated effort must be made toward resolution. Standards are developed from many different sources—trade associations, professional societies, standards producers, consortia, companies and government agencies. Collectively, these different entities are referred to as a Standards Developing Organizations (SDO). | <urn:uuid:b1303b01-1237-4a63-86ec-0e80763fbe6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.beckman.com/support/faq/industry-standards/what-is-consensus-standard | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.958783 | 97 | 2.859375 | 3 |
Successful companies and entrepreneurs know how to put good innovation management. Today, it is very important because it is important to find other ways to attract the attention of your target market.
Innovation consultants are very helpful in Innovation management strategy. The superlative and effective innovation consultants reduce the risks and costs associated with innovation efforts. You can browse the web to search for a certified innovation consultant for your business.
Creativity is needed to ensure the success of your business. Utilizing this will help you in the development of services and products.
Innovation management mainly focuses on the research and development of your business services and goods which is why it is important for any entrepreneur and owner of the company.
They will be able to see the weak points and determine how exactly to work on them in order to better their image. It is not just limited to what they provide to their target audience because it also can be applied to their employees.
It allows the idea to turn into a reality which is a big advantage for all entrepreneurs. You can put innovation management properly when you couple it with some of these suggestions.
Keep in mind that it will work to your advantage if you have people of all ages in your team because they will be able to give different opinions and perspectives.
Diversity is key and you should always take this into account. However, you must ensure that they are quite experienced and have the necessary academic requirements to make their suggestions are valid.
Doing this will improve your success rate. Do not forget that creativity and innovation go well together which is why you should not ignore them because they will be able to lead your business to success.
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Gardener and artist Janis Hardiman exhibits paintings of her Vale of Health plot
- Credit: Archant
Gardening correspondent Ruth Pavey visits the Octogenarian painter in the beautiful garden that inspired so much of her work
Now in her 80s, Janis Hardiman has lived in the Vale of Health since 1953 and painted around the Heath for more than four decades.
She works outdoors on big boards or in her small studio which is crammed with paintings that have hitherto only been seen by a few close friends.
It was when Dr Jon Wood of the Henry Moore Foundation visited to research her sculptor father Alfred Hardiman RA (1891-1949) that he upon a treasure trove of work which is on display at Arts Space Gallery in Islington.
Janis' paintings of the Heath, allotment and her garden are displayed alongside a selection of sculptures by her father who created several large-scale, public sculptures including, 'Peace' and the Southwood Memorial at St James' Piccadilly and 'Monument of Earl Haig' near the Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Janis studied at St Martin's from 1959-61 followed by two years at Camberwell School of Art. Brought up in a household full of sculpture, several of her father's works including his bust of Winifred Knights feature in her interior scenes.
Ham&High gardening correspondent Ruth Pavey visited the exhibition and the garden that inspired so much of Janis' work and writes:
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"Pictures of gardens often show them from a slight distance, but in Janis Hardiman's paintings we are parachuted straight in, landing among lush rows of artichokes, beans, nasturtiums, comfrey, cabbages.
Embraced by trees, these abundant plants mainly grew at Fitzroy Park Allotments, Highgate, nor far from the artist's home in the Vale of Health.
There, it seems, it is always late summer, with a soft dusk light giving way to shadow. Janis Hardiman's paintings are well displayed at the Art Space Gallery, Islington. Having heard that her own garden was also good, I met her at the exhibition opening and arranged to see it.
Sure enough, late summer abundance was there in the Vale of Health too, in an outburst of colour beyond the kitchen door. Not vegetables, with their ambient green, but more an impression of gold, orange, red, white, as begonias, dahlias, cosmos, Japanese anemones, white lilies, marigolds, geraniums all jostle together. Wide but not deep, the garden is banked up like a display stand, with a hedge of bay and olive at the top. Janis and her mother and sister moved to the house in the 1950s. The garden then was flat but Janis asked for earth to be brought to make the sloping border.
At that time she could plant directly into it, but tree roots have since filled it up. Much of her planting is now in pots. Janis's father, who died when she was young, was the sculptor, Alfred Hardiman. She says that he loved gardening, and was just as much a perfectionist with his dahlias as with his sculpture.
She, a child brought up for years without the constraints of formal education, used to watch him. From very young she was also thrilled by the way light plays on leaves, which might suggest that she was always heading towards becoming a painter. But instead she went to RADA, only arriving at painting after that.
Janis describes her painting methods as a "funny, labour-intensive way, I'll start and change things as they grow".
This means that the (early summer?) plants disappear under thin layers of paint, and three months may pass before they take up their final form.
It is not so much about drawing, she says, as about shapes, and the way one colour works with another."
The exhibition runs at Art Space Gallery, 84 St Peter's St, N1 until October 4.
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‘Warning: This Drug May Kill You’
A panel of experts discuss how to solve the opioid crisis
How serious is the opioid epidemic in America? On Nov. 16, Dean David Weil of the Heller School of Social Policy and Management and the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative co-hosted a film screening and panel discussion of the film “Warning: This Drug May Kill You” in the Wasserman Cinematheque. The HBO documentary takes a harsh look at the stunning effects of the opioid epidemic in America.
“Warning: This Drug May Kill You” opens with a list of facts about opioid addiction: physical addictions to opioids can occur within five days, more people die from opioid overdoses than from car crashes today, and the United States consumes 80 percent of the world’s oxycodone supply.
The story begins when Stephany Gay is prescribed oxycontin and vicodin for kidney-stone pain. She begins by taking them as prescribed, but when she runs out, she fakes her pain to get a higher quantity prescription. Quickly, she finds herself going through an entire month’s prescription in two days. When she approaches her doctor seeking help, he continues prescribing her even stronger drugs. Finally, suspecting her of abusing the prescription, the doctor cuts Stephany Gay off completely. Desperate, she starts buying oxycontin from her friends, but this proves too expensive. Seeking a cheaper option, she turns to heroin, which can get her ten times as high ten times as quickly.
In an on-camera interview, Gay says that she “felt like superwoman [when she was high on heroin] and it was a lot cheaper than buying 15 narcos a day.” She also admits that it “felt like it [heroin], loved me and I loved it back… It felt like we were in a relationship.” She soon got her younger sister, Ashley Gay, involved in taking prescription pills and shooting heroin. Ashley Gay’s addiction escalated quickly, as most addictions do. She switched from pills to cocaine and eventually to heroin. Both sisters shot up heroin every day for almost a year.
Before becoming addicted to heroine, Stephany Gay had a husband, a beautiful daughter named Audrey, a lovely home and two cars. A year later, she had been through a divorce, lost custody of her daughter, sold her cars and moved in with her mother. Worst of all, Ashley Gay ended up overdosing while alone in a motel room. By the time she was discovered, she could not even be resuscitated. Stephany Gay says that losing her sister was “the worst nightmare anybody can have.” After that, the family never recovered.
Sprinkled throughout the rest of the film are hopeful moments. Stephany Gay tries to pull her life together by entering rehab clinics. But just as it appears that Gay is recovering, her attempts fall short and she relapses. Gay is far from alone in her continuous struggle. As the films shows in the end, the opioid crisis in America has claimed the lives of over 183,000 people between the years of 1999 and 2015.
So what can be done about this crisis? Following the screening, there was a panel discussion with Perri Peltz, director of “Warning: This Drug May Kill You,” Marylou Sudders, the Massachusetts secretary of Health and Human Services, Dr. Andrew Kolodny, the co-director of Opioid Policy Research at the Heller School, the co-director of the Opioid Policy Research Collaborative and medical consultant for “Warning: This Drug May Kill You,” and Myechia Minter-Jordan M.D., president and CEO of the Dimock Center. Senior legal and investigative correspondent for NBC News Cynthia McFadden moderated the discussion.
Peltz began by saying that the primary objective of her movie was to dispel the misunderstanding that only “bad kids are using bad drugs — that’s not how it happens… Addiction is a brain disease.” She said that addiction is a lifelong struggle and going to a 30-day clinic once or twice will not cure a serious addiction.
Kolodny spoke about the physiological effects opioids can have. He explained that this “epidemic is fueled by the overprescribing of drugs, not bad behavior.” He also spoke of the “pill mill” doctor population, referring to the groups of doctors whom he believes are overprescribing opioids. Sudders, who works on the legislative side of opioid addiction, said that she drafted legislation to fund school nurses to screen for recreational prescription drug abuse, requiring that all prescribing schools (e.g. medical school, dental school, etc.) offer a class in the harmful effects of addiction to medication. Since this legislation passed, Massachusetts has seen a 29 percent decrease in opioid prescriptions in the past two years, making the state a leader in the fight against the opioid epidemic.
Soon, the discussion turned toward the role of race in opioid addiction. The film only featured stories of white people because, as Peltz explained, “the vast majority of people we came across during our ‘casting’ were white.” Kolodny added that the “new epidemic is disproportionately white.” He hypothesized that this may be because doctors prescribe narcotics more cautiously to their non-white patients.
In the end, each panelist gave their own ideas for how to solve the crisis. Peltz said that “treatment itself isn’t good enough anymore.” She suggested a full scale, multi-step treatment plan for those affected. Kolodny agreed with Peltz, stating that long-term out patient care has proven to be the most effective treatment method. Sudders’ ideal treatment plan included strict legislative reform paired with making oxycontin illegal in America. Minter-Jordan said that the opioid issue needs to be talked about in schools. Ultimately, everyone on the panel agreed that, as Minter-Jordan put it, “having the conversation [about addiction and how to safely use prescription drugs] early and often” is the key to success. | <urn:uuid:24f2600e-6b2a-4a94-a94b-96301d78e67c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thejustice.org/article/2017/11/warning-this-drug-may-kill-you | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96414 | 1,281 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Call for Confererence Papers
We call for papers able to shed light on how hybrid organizations come to be and on the innovative solutions they produce in order to generate and sustain their hybridity. Possible themes to be explored by the submitted papers are:
What are the environmental factors facilitating the emergence of hybrid organizations? What elements enhance their survival and, possibly, growth?
What is the role of different types of stakeholders in the creation of hybrid organizations, or in the hybridization of originally non-hybrid organizations? And what is their role in sustaining the organization? How do hybrid organizations manage conflicting stakeholders’ demands (Ramus & Vaccaro, 2014)?
Can we elevate the concept of hybridity above organizations and speak about “hybrid collectives”, such as in the case of profit-nonprofit collaborations (Montgomery et al., 2012; Baur & Palazzo, 2011; Maiolini et al., 2015; Austin & Seitanidi, 2014)?
What kinds of stakeholders are more prone to accept hybridity as the nature of the organization they relate to?
How is social impact conveyed to consumers and workers, and what is the impact of such communication?
What kind of actions by incubators, supporting organizations, movements or public authorities favor the birth of hybrid organizations and their growth?
How do hybrid organizations ignite social change at a larger level (Rimac et al., 2012)? What is the institutional impact of hybrid organizations?
What are the characteristics of the integrated practices allowing both economic value creation and social/environmental impact? What novel theoretical lenses can be used to approach the issue of integration (Mongelli et al., 2013)? How do these practices relate to the business model structure of a hybrid organization?
Are practice-integration strategies more effective and feasible than logic-insulation strategies? What boundary conditions can we draw to perimeter their applicability?
How do practices of hybrid organizations relate to business models, strategies and organizational arrangements?
What are the insights other disciplines (from political science to sociology) can offer on hybridity and positive social change (Stephan et al., 2016)?
These questions are just a few examples of the larger research agenda relative to hybrid organizations, an agenda that will be unfolded during the plenary and parallel sessions of the conference.
SUBMISSION OF RESEARCH PAPERS: DEADLINE
December 1st, 2016EXTENDED TO JANUARY 20th, 2017, 12:00 AM (midday) Rome time
Paper must be submitted through the relative form in the submission page. Submitted papers must be in pdf format, unpublished and anonymized. An abstract of about 250 words should be included. The suggested length for papers is about 7,000 words. Please, use the guidelines for authors of the Journal of Business Ethics . Papers will be selected on the basis of academic quality, novelty and the fit with the conference theme. Decision on papers admitted for presentation to the conference will be notified February the 1st, 2017. No comments will be provided to the authors. Please, consider that by submitting your paper you accept to discuss one or more papers in your parallel session and -if needed- to chair one parallel session.
SUBMISSION OF RESEARCH STATEMENTS FOR Ph.D. and EARLY CAREER SYMPOSIUM
(SAME DEADLINE AS SUBMISSION OF RESEARCH PAPERS:
December 1st, 2016) EXTENDED TO JANUARY 20th, 2017, 12:00 AM (midday) Rome time
In order to be admitted to participate in the Ph.D. and Early Career Symposium, Ph.D. students and scholars in their early career have to submit their proposal through the relative form in the submission page. The proposal must be a 3-page document in pdf format composed by 1-page CV and 2-page description of the sumitter's research to be discussed at the Symposium.
Please, note that only a limited number of applications can be accepted for the Ph.D. and Early Career Symposium, while a minimum of Ph.D. students and scholars in their early career must be registered for the Symposium to take place.
Austin, J. E., & M. M. Seitanidi (2014), Creating Value in Nonprofit-Business Collaborations: New Thinking & Practice, Jossey-Bass.
Baur D., & G. Palazzo (2011), “The Moral Legitimacy of NGOs as Partners of Corporations”, Business Ethics Quarterly, 21(4), pp. 579-604.
Maiolini, R., Rullani F., & P. Versari (2015), “Mechanisms and boundaries of collective action in social Entrepreneurship”, Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2014, No. 1, p. 16607.
Mongelli, L., Rullani, F. & P. Versari (2013), “Hybridization of diverging institutional logics through the `common tone´: the case of social entrepreneurship”, Working Paper, Druid Conference 2013.
Montgomery, A. W., Dacin, P. A., & M. T. Dacin (2012), “Collective Social Entrepreneurship: Collaboratively Shaping Social Good”, Journal of Business Ethics, 111(3), pp. 375–388.
Ramus, T., & A. Vaccaro (2014), “Stakeholders Matter: How Social Enterprises Address Mission Drift”, Journal of Business Ethics, pp. 1-16.
Rimac, T., Mair, J. & J. Battilana (2012), “Social Entrepreneurs, Socialization Processes, and Social Change: The Case of SEKEM”, in K. Golden-Biddle & J. E. Dutton, (Eds.), Using a Positive Lens to Explore Social Change and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, Routledge, pp. 71-89.
Stephan, U., Patterson, M., Kelly, C. & Mair, J. (2016). "Organizations driving positive social change: A review and an integrative framework of change processes". Journal of Management, forthcoming. | <urn:uuid:84919506-ab3c-4a78-a5c5-b888786fa03c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://media.iese.edu/web/archive/en/faculty-research/events/iese-luiss-conference-responsability-sustainability-social-entrepreneurship/call-papers/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.882801 | 1,302 | 1.609375 | 2 |
The Republic of Kandarin is a gargantuan, safe nation, renowned for its museums and concert halls, punitive income tax rates, and devotion to social welfare. The hard-nosed, democratic, devout population of 40.915 billion Kandarinians love a good election, and the government gives them plenty of them. Universities tend to be full of students debating the merits of various civil and political rights, while businesses are tightly regulated and the wealthy viewed with suspicion.
The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Welfare, Environment, and Defense. It meets to discuss matters of state in the capital city of Malev. The average income tax rate is 90.3%, and even higher for the wealthy.
The frighteningly efficient Kandarinian economy, worth a remarkable 4,463 trillion Diamond Tokens a year, is extremely specialized and mostly made up of the Automobile Manufacturing industry, with major contributions from Book Publishing. State-owned companies are common. Average income is an impressive 109,092 Diamond Tokens, and distributed extremely evenly, with practically no difference between the richest and poorest citizens.
Artists are pillars of society, schoolchildren have twice-weekly sex education classes, wealthy parents-to-be can select their perfect baby, and all government facilities are built in the subterranean citadel of Malev. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to a well-funded police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Kandarin's national animal is the Jewel Spider, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests.
Most Recent Government Activity:
- : Kandarin was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Smartest Citizens.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Robot of Hoffania.
- : Kandarin lost the endorsement of The Robot of Hoffania.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Nomadic Peoples of Gibralistan.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Empire of Aandruzognivia.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Totalitarian State of Oceaniaaaa.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Teddy Bear Nation of Bethany Kings.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Plutocratic Banana Republic of Zerentopia.
- : Kandarin was endorsed by The Dictatorship of LoboHobo.
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'An expression of dissatisfaction, however made, about the standard of service, actions or lack of action by the organisation, its own staff, or those acting on its behalf, affecting an individual resident or group of residents.'
Complaints are an important part of service review and improvement. Poole Housing Partnership (PHP) is keen to learn from any mistakes.
PHP captures all expressions of dissatisfaction, even if it is felt services are delivered in line with policies. This helps to concentrate on improving the things that are important to customers. | <urn:uuid:05210c4b-1ce9-4428-8006-c74db88cdcb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yourphp.org.uk/complaints/?vAction=customCSS&CSS=Alpha | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.945442 | 109 | 1.507813 | 2 |
G protein-coupled receptors are key signaling molecules and major targets for pharmaceuticals. The concept of ligand-dependent biased signaling raises the possibility of developing drugs with improved efficacy and safety profiles, yet translating this concept to native tissues remains a major challenge. Whether drug activity profiling in recombinant cell-based assays, traditionally used for drug discovery, has any relevance to physiology is unknown. Here we focused on the mu opioid receptor, the unrivalled target for pain treatment and also the key driver for the current opioid crisis. We selected a set of clinical and novel mu agonists, and profiled their activities in transfected cell assays using advanced biosensors and in native neurons from knock-in mice expressing traceable receptors endogenously. Our data identify Gi-biased agonists, including buprenorphine, and further show highly correlated drug activities in the two otherwise very distinct experimental systems, supporting in vivo translatability of biased signaling for mu opioid drugs.
Keywords: Bioengineering; Biological Sciences; Cell Biology; Molecular Biology; Neuroscience; Physiology.
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Kelly on her 110th birthday in 1961
|Birth:||7 June 1851|
Southfield, Michigan, USA
|Death:||30 December 1964|
Long Beach, California, USA
|Age:||113 years, 206 days|
Mary Kelly (née Young; 7 June 1851 – 30 December 1964) was a validated American supercentenarian. She lived to the age of 113 years, 206 days, at the time of her passing. She was the world's oldest validated living person following the death of Marie Olsen until her own death. She was the second-oldest validated person ever, eight days behind Delina Filkins. She also held the title of the oldest person ever from the state of Michigan until Maud Farris-Luse surpassed her age in 2000. She was also the third person to reach the age of 113, after Delina Filkins and Betsy Baker.
Mary Martha Young was born on 7 June 1851 in Southfield, Oakland County, Michigan, United States. Her father was John A. Young. She married Albert Kelly in 1873; they had 3 children. Albert Kelly died at the age of 34, in a windmill accident in Clinton County, Iowa. She remained a widow for the last 84 years of her life. She was an avid reader, and only gave up at the age of 108 due to eyesight problems. At the age of 106, she said "People think I am an old woman. I don't think so, I don't feel old in my way of thinking." Kelly lived independently until the age of 106 when she moved into Long Beach General Hospital. At 110, Kelly was noted to still be cheerful and positive though she spent most of her time sleeping. She was survived by 3 grandchildren. | <urn:uuid:6de255f6-118f-41ef-8793-76e6deb9f4b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gerontology.fandom.com/wiki/Mary_Kelly | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.984105 | 395 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Episode 4: Cullen Wines
In our fourth and final episode of Stories of Sustainability, we meet Vanya Cullen, Managing Director and part owner of Cullen Wines in Wilyabrup, Margaret River, a remote costal town in Western Australia. With similar family values to Miele and an immensely deep connection to the land, we learn about the holistic and sustainable practices the vineyard upholds.
Cover crop salsa with root vegetables
Cullen Wines first introduced cover crops in their vineyard to enrich soil fertility and increase biodiversity. Forever thinking of creative ways to minimise food waste, Matt Stone saw these ingredients as another nutrient dense food source. We invite you to try Matt’s delicious crop salsa recipe below. Photo credit: Earl Carter
Miele’s Gourmet griddle plate for unmatched flexibility in the kitchen
“It’s an awesome, efficient thing to have in the kitchen” Matt relies upon Miele’s Gourmet griddle plate for unmatched flexibility in the kitchen. Whether charring cover crops, grilling vegetables or preparing skewers, the accessory delivers an authentic BBQ experience thanks to the corrugated surface.
Make your next drop an organic one with sustainable agriculture from Margaret River
A wine can only be as good as the grape, with the winemaker acting as caretaker to the fruit. As part of our Stories of Sustainability series, decorated chef Matt Stone travels to Cullen Wines in WA’s picturesque Margaret River region to learn about organic agriculture and cultivating the best drop.
Episode 1: Mathieu Dechamps, MD Knives
Mathieu Dechamps’s passion for woodworking developed at an early age with the Belgium born craftsman originally training as a maker of fine furniture since he was just 13 years old. Spending a number of years travelling the world, he was first introduced to knifemaking in Scotland. Now residing in the Dandenong Ranges in Melbourne, Mathieu hand crafts knives using the sustainably sourced timber from the idyllic ranges which surround him. Witness the profound respect Mathieu and Jo have for one another’s dedication to their craft in this untold story of sustainability.
Episode 2: Flinders Island
Voyage to the idyllic Flinders Island situated off the rugged coastline of Tasmania, Australia in episode 2 of Stories of Sustainability. Home to some inspirational people who have spent their lives living alongside and nurturing the land and the seas. Get swept away in the natural beauty of the untouched landscape and behold how the locals act as a community to respect the land and look after its surroundings.
Episode 3: Northern Territory
Episode 3 of Stories of Sustainability unfolds in the Northern Territory, a place renowned for some of Australia’s most iconic and breathtakingly beautiful landmarks. This fertile land is home to the Larrakia people who sustainably wild harvest native ingredients that showcase their incredible culture. Join Matt on a journey of discovery with proud Larrakia man Daniel Motlop, General Manager of Indigenous beverage company Seven Seasons.
A sustainable production
To us, sustainability is a journey. We understand it as the accelerator to move Miele forward. In all our projects, we continually work towards sustainable innovations that will help make a difference in the world. With our latest content series, we challenged ourselves to make the production a completely sustainable one, working with limited crew and using only battery powered equipment, reducing waste and recycling on set. In an industry first, we are humbled to have been awarded the ‘Green Seal’ certification by the Environmental Media Association (EMA), a body which honours and recognises progress in sustainable production. | <urn:uuid:6be67fd5-09f5-4088-a033-94af91b203b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mieleexperience.co.nz/sustainability/?utm_source=Corporate_site&utm_medium=Homepage_Banner&utm_campaign=Sustainability&utm_id=Sustainability_Banner_Corp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.922102 | 759 | 1.601563 | 2 |
A huge owl named Gladys escaped from the Minnesota Zoo earlier this month, and zoo officials need help tracking her down.
Gladys is a 5-year-old Eurasian eagle owl (Bubo bubo), a predatory species that can reach 0.76 m tall and weigh up to 10 pounds. The owls’ wingspans can be 1.98 m across, and, to the untrained eye, they resemble extra-large great horned owls with dazzling orange eyes. They are one of the largest owl species in the world.
Gladys decided to leave the zoo in early October. During a run-of-the-mill training and exercise session, she simply opted to stay up in the trees. After hanging around the area for several days, she vanished.
“Working in shifts, Zoo staff maintained sight of Gladys in various trees around campus, attempting to encourage her return using food and enrichment objects that Gladys enjoys,” said Zach Nugent, a spokesperson for the Minnesota Zoo, in an email to Gizmodo. “Staff lost consistent sight late last week.”
Now, zoo officials think the owl may be elsewhere in the 196.27 ha zoo or possibly in the larger Apple Valley area, a suburb south of Minneapolis. In a Twitter post yesterday, zoo officials reminded the public that Gladys poses no threat to people. According to The Peregrine Fund, the owls are known to eat small rodents, other birds, amphibians, fish, and even insects.
As to how you would recognise Gladys if you saw her, well, here’s how the zoo’s director of animal collections, Tony Fisher, described her to local news station KARE 11: “She would stand out. If you see her, she’s going to be the largest owl you’ve ever seen.”
A Minnesota Zoo Facebook post requesting information about the lost owl received plenty of replies, with local residents reporting sightings, Ring video footage containing owl calls, and other information.
One person shared a photo taken on October 8 of an owl that resembles Gladys sitting on a rooftop clutching a white-bellied mammal. Some commenters said it looked like a cat; the zoo replied saying the animal was likely a rabbit and that a search team would be investigating the area. (Whether you agree with the zoo’s identification likely comes down to whether or not you see a dark grey tail or an upturned shingle between the white legs.)
The recent escapades of Gladys come on the heels of the escape and subsequent capture of Kodiak, a Steller’s sea eagle kept at a zoo in Pittsburgh. Perhaps there’s something in the air that is tempting these birds of prey to seek freedom. If you’re in the vicinity of the Minnesota Zoo and think you see Gladys, you can call the zoo at 952-431-9200 or contact them through their social media. | <urn:uuid:3251ae73-ed3f-4ea0-96c6-a133b6dcd0f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/10/gladys-the-largest-owl-youve-ever-seen-is-on-the-loose-in-minnesota/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941235 | 618 | 2.453125 | 2 |
The best way to nourish your body is through a healthy, balanced diet rich in vitamins and minerals, but it’s not always possible to get all the nutrients you need through diet alone. IV infusion therapy is one of the restorative treatments Dr. Timothy Blend and Kimberly Blend, ARNP, advanced registered nurse practitioner at The Blend Institute in Bradenton and Sarasota, Florida, offer to help you get your body everything it needs. If you experience an illness, food intolerance, or have trouble fitting a nutrient-complete diet into your everyday life, call to schedule an appointment.
Infusion therapy involves the direct injection of nutrients into your bloodstream. These nutrients help patients manage the symptoms of a variety of chronic conditions. Many conditions impact your body’s ability to absorb nutrients or result in dietary needs that are difficult to meet through food alone.
You may consider infusion therapy if you experience the following conditions and symptoms:
Infusion therapy is also useful in treating hangovers or drug detox, and it can help athletes train for high-endurance events or recover from overexertion.
Regardless of your health status, infusion therapy can boost your energy levels and improve your overall nutrition, and it may be a useful preventive therapy. If you experience regular stress or take certain medications, you may also have depleted nutrient levels without realizing it.
Infusion therapy can involve a wide selection of nutritional combinations depending on your condition. After assessing your health and symptoms, Dr. Blend and Kimberly Blend will help you determine the right infusion. Options available at The Blend Institute include:
Dr. John Myers, a Johns Hopkins University physician, developed this blend of vitamin C, magnesium, and six B vitamins in the 1970s. It treats a wide range of conditions including asthma, chronic fatigue, and fibromyalgia.
Glutathione enhances liver and brain functions, improving memory and lowering the risk of conditions such as dementia, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, neuropathy, and liver disease.
This treatment clears the blood of toxins such as iron, lead, and calcium, reducing the risk of heart attacks, strokes, and certain types of cancer.
In the high-dose concentrations that are possible through IV injection, vitamin C helps fight chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
This antioxidant helps people manage diabetes by improving insulin sensitivity and lowering blood sugar levels.
This compound encourages your body to release separate oxygen molecules into your bloodstream, helping the liver and kidneys remove toxins while killing viruses, bacteria, and cancer cells.
Custom IV infusion treatments are also available depending on your needs. In addition to these nutritional therapies, Dr. Blend and Kimberly Blend offer ketamine IV treatment for mental health conditions including PTSD, drug-resistant depression, anxiety, and other mood disorders.
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Fitness Quiz With Answers – Only Experts Can get above 10
This is part 2 of the fitness quiz as I think that it’s an excellent way to test your knowledge and improve them if it’s possible as the answers are given after each question. It’s very important to know how much you know even though sticking to the basics is enough to get good fitness results for anyone.
explanations for the questions if needed:
1 – The movement is the pushup where triceps and delts are secondary muscles.
2 – https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17119361/
3 – the lower one is for strength, and the higher one is for endurance ( of course this is not 100 percent accurate, but it’s the standard one for all people).
4 – The anterior pituitary gland also produces testosterone.
5 – Fact
6 – https://youtu.be/tR9nhu0TyBk
7 – oils are pure fats, each gram of fats is 9 calories.
8 – The normal squats will mainly train the quads with the glutes as the secondary muscle.
9 – fact
10 – You will have to eat so much broccoli to reach 100 cal…
11 – fact
12 – An intuitive guess would be that it depends on the individual, but for most people training neck will increase a few inches in the first year and then only a bit. The second muscle is the one that depends on the individual.
13 – fact
14 – fact
15 – Fact, if you watched the previous video and didn’t bother to learn it, something should be fixed
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Most people can hum a variety of melodies, from tunes learned in childhood, such as “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” to Christmas songs to famous classical melodies, such as Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, to the melody of the current hot songs on the Top 40. Women and men often sing these melodies at different pitches. Well, it turns out that to change a melody from one octave to the next you have to double all of the frequencies of the tone. Thus, since changing from one octave to the next means doubling frequencies the distance between any two notes in the higher octave is twice as far in frequency than the lower frequency, even though the pitch change is the same in each case.
Go to the next tab. You can place either the melody from Beethoven's Ode to Joy or Mary had a little lamb. You can play both tunes at a moderate octave or shift the melody up an octave, with the 'Ratio: Double' button or shift all the notes up a the same amount in frequency ('Add 246.94' button). This latter shift doubles the frequency of the first tone, but adds just the same frequency change to all other tones. Which change preserves the melody? | <urn:uuid:6ecf1543-4c55-4d64-b41e-fcf2952bf034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://isle.hanover.edu/Ch13Music/Ch13MelodyChange.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938765 | 255 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Jesus’ ministry has been described in terms of a comparison of two temples. One temple, a physical building in Jerusalem, was supposed to be a visible example of God’s purity and forgiveness. But at the time of Jesus’ ministry, that temple was not a clear picture of these attributes. In fact… it was exactly the opposite. People were visiting the temple and often leaving with a distorted picture of God and how He works.
In contrast to the Jerusalem temple, Jesus was a clearer example of God’s purity… and His forgiveness. Jesus’ ministry began a transition away from the temple in Jerusalem… to a new temple. The temple of Jesus and those connected to Him through faith. It is a temple of believers.
It was this new temple that Jesus came to inaugurate… and that old temple, the one in Jerusalem, that he put on notice that its time was done.
This factors greatly into Matthew 21:12-22. In those verses Jesus makes his way to the temple in Jerusalem and drives out those who were buying and selling. The forgiveness of God had become a profit making business, but forgiveness from God is available to everyone. It’s not a money making transaction.
No matter who you are… no matter how much money you have… God’s forgiveness is available to you. That picture wasn’t being truly represented in the temple in Jerusalem. Sometimes I think we forget that simple truth.
The cleaning of the Jerusalem temple is followed by this strange and cryptic “cursing of a fig tree”. There’s a fig tree… it has leaves on it… but no fruit. Jesus says, “no longer shall there ever be any fruit from you” and at once the fig tree withers and dies. Without a broader context… this certainly seems like a strange event to include in the narrative of Jesus’ week leading up to the cross.
Would it help to mention that the fig tree is a symbol of the Jerusalem temple? Let me explain, that temple had become something that was beautiful to look at (like a fig tree full of leaves)… but it wasn’t producing any spiritual fruit. It wasn’t leading people to the God it was supposed to reflect. It was barren.
The gospel of Mark helps illustrate this symbolism by splitting the cursing of the fig tree and the withering of the fig tree around the cleansing of the temple. It’s a literary device sometimes referred to as a “Markian Sandwich”.
Mark 11:12-14 – He curses the fig tree (the first piece of bread)
Mark 11:15-18 – Cleansing the temple (the meat of the sandwich)
Mark 11:19-21 – The fig tree is withered. (the second piece of bread)
While Jesus was cleansing and proclaiming the end of the Jerusalem temple… His ministry was preparing the next temple… a collective temple of people of faith.
One of the disciples, Peter, (1 Peter 2:5) describes this in a beautiful metaphor. He calls believers “living stones” who are being built together into “a spiritual house for a holy priesthood”.
Paul also expands on this picture in 1 Corinthians 3:16-23. He begins by saying,
Do you not know that you are a temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?
Then goes on to explain,
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own? For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.
All of the bold “you” and “your” statements are plural describing a group of people. They are not singular. Paul is describing a group that collectively make up Jesus’ new temple.
Americans do a good job of thinking individualistically and it is often incorrectly taught from this passage that each of us becomes an individual “temple of God”… but that’s not what Paul is saying here. The temple that Jesus is building is a collective group of people in relationship. It’s not something that an individual can create.
We would do well to remember that there is a “collective” aspect to the temple ministry that we are tempted to ignore. We cannot do temple worship on our own. There is a part of the cleansing ministry of Jesus only done in the collective. Believers must find ways to connect with each other.
The tale of two temples is just one of the items I cover in The Matthew Study video lessons for chapter 21. This chapter is presented in two separate Sunday morning sermon videos. You can watch both videos below… or preview the other videos and download chapter lessons from The Matthew Study by visiting: THE MATTHEW STUDY VIDEOS page.
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How businesses can unlock more value from their innovations
Drawing a close on 2020, businesses across Canada will be counting the cost of the pandemic and all the obstacles it has thrown in their path.
Many companies will have put hiring on hold, laid off staff, postponed new products and put innovation on ice.
Others will have done the opposite, and used the pandemic as an opportunity to innovate more than usual.
Whatever the case, as the world emerges from the crisis next year, many business leaders won’t realise they can make faster progress than they think by taking advantage of an often overlooked government incentive for research & development to generate more value from work they have already done.
In Canada, one of the most important tax incentives is the Scientific Research & Experimental Development (SR&ED) program. We’ve seen claims for this type of incentive more than double in the past year as firms redouble efforts to ensure they’re claiming all the tax benefits owed to them. That is typical in times of economic stress.
In the past SR&ED has been widely misunderstood and businesses continue to underclaim. The tragedy for companies across Canada is that, in the wake of the pandemic, many will go out of business without realizing they were owed tens, maybe hundreds, of thousands of dollars.
How can businesses in Canada benefit from this boost in income?
SR&ED tax credits allow companies to claim back 35% of qualifying R&D expenditures, up to a maximum of $3 million in each tax year, and 15 percent for expenses above that amount. They will receive a cash payment or the claim will be offset against outstanding taxes.
SR&ED claims are usually split in two because there’s a federal and a provincial component. The 35% rate applies to the federal investment tax credit (ITC) and the local rate varies between provinces. Generally speaking though, SR&ED will typically return about 41.5% of a qualifying project’s R&D costs to a business, so it can be extremely beneficial.
Seasoned tax advisers with experience of SR&ED claims will know what qualifies. Essentially though, there are three simple tests that must be met for innovation to qualify for these incentives.
The work must:
● further technical knowledge or create advancement in their industry;
● overcome scientific or technological uncertainties; and
● follow a methodical approach consistent with systematic investigation.
Contractor costs qualify too, so companies using outside firms within Canada to carry out eligible work can still claim.
Examples of qualifying projects include:
- improving thermal capabilities or airtightness in the construction industry
- creating new navigation tools in the avionics sector
- and writing new automation software for the manufacturing industry
How can Canadian businesses make a claim?
Businesses can claim SR&ED up to eighteen months after the tax year in which the work took place and it costs firms nothing to establish whether they can claim as most consultancies charge contingent fees. This is where businesses pay a percentage of the value of the claim once successful. The SR&ED regime for SMEs in Canada has actually improved recently, so it’s just become even more generous.
Whatever the economic challenges still to come during this pandemic, making the most of the SR&ED incentive could make all the difference.
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In the world of engineering interaction is becoming simpler than ever. The world has now reduced from a large filled area to a network of communicating individuals residing in an international village. People from all over the globe attended deeper together and distances have lowered to the level an individual is merely a press away.
In this ever-growing system of individuals a brand new principle has emerged, the idea of 6 quantities of separation. The theory behind that is that between you and any someone else in the world is a chain no longer than six people. That stresses the significance of online interaction and just how it has produced the entire world a lot smaller.
This is actually the power of social media and the developments in on line communication. A happening in a single the main earth reaches to the second part in a subject of seconds. Imagine if that news or happening was about you. The significance with this technology is the simplicity it provides. Using this instrument to your benefit can give you a large amount of benefits.
Social Media Advertising provides worldwide reputation to your name.
That is your ticket to international level fame. Your organization or your title could possibly be known through the globe with an incredible number of followers and fans. Thousands of people may entry these websites wherever persons come to talk on line and show their views. When you stage in to the world of the social media marketing all of these people become your potential prospects. Your companies are only a simple research away.
Promote your business or solution as a significant product.
That technology provides you access to essentially depends upon and all its inhabitants. They are there to see and reveal anything that you’ve to say. This really is your chance to determine a graphic yourself that “Hey! I am here to complete organization” and “I’m serious about the merchandise or solutions that I give “.
Delivers you closer to tens and thousands of people without much effort.
Social media marketing is virtually free. If you had been to attempt to touch base to huge numbers of people through physical suggests you would need to make lots of investments. This engineering is the way to many effortlessly reach out to your potential customers, not only with regards to finances but when it comes to time as well.
Gives you feedback on the type of person you have.
A fascinating thing about marketing on these Jasa Digital Marketing is the level of feedback as possible expect. Using social media advertising may in reality teach you about the folks who are or may be interested in your solution or service. This provides you a much better possibility of transforming your campaigns to get increased results. You could learn about the number of individuals who visit you page, or the ages of people who review or reveal your threads, or even their ethnicities, localities, faith, interests and preferences. You inform the world about your item and social media advertising trains you about the folks who took curiosity about it. You can know them personally through the system of social media.
Recognized an effective communication station between you and your client.
Your customer may possibly involve some problem or he may require support or want to enquire more about your product. Your presence on social media lets you respond to him on a personal level. As a result promises the customer that you will be responsible and instills a feeling of trust.
Your organization is observed as a person.
Typically persons might not choose to accomplish company with a company or a organization and prefer to work with individuals. The reason being a person is true; he includes a true presence these days, he is some one you are able to relate genuinely to, he has feelings, thoughts, and emotions. Having your business on the social media gives it a human personification. It seems to be more of someone than the usual organization; someone persons may communicate with; someone people can touch base to. That produces a comfort zone involving the clients and your organization and provides benefits for both.
Allows you to more accessible.
Social media web sites ensure your presence 24 hours each day, 7 times a week. You customer can certainly fall off an email and you can elect to reply as soon as you wish. This strengthens the connect between you and your customer and encourages a sense of respect for your brand. This constant supply can not be found when coping with a physical company as a result of company opening and shutting times. This convenience for the customers to touch base to you inside their time of need can only be ensured by social media.
Social media levels the playing field.
Whether you are a multinational organization or a simple individual start-up, on the planet of social media you’re all on a single level. Your finances and resources may not produce a lot of a difference as it pertains to social media. What does make a difference is the ability to communicate and attract persons and the caliber of the product or solutions that you provide. In the bodily world, new start-ups might experience immense economic difficulties in trying to promote themselves, while the marketing of giant enterprises could continue steadily to dominate. Social media system provides you with a good enjoying area showing your true heart and skill.
You might find new potential clients or customers.
While reviewing your feedback of people you may commence to see obvious styles in your business response. Individuals from a particular location that you might not have thought of are featuring plenty of interest in your solution are your very best clients. These patterns will even allow you to see a specific untapped areas that you can exploit. You are able to swiftly transfer and take advantage of the opportunity.
Marketing campaign is easier to manage and cost-effective.
Setting up a social media advertising campaign requires not as work than really setting out to physically implement you marketing strategy for instance putting up banners or advertisements etc. to be able to allow you to get message across. Social media advertising is relatively easy to manage and often updated.
Your network develops exponentially.
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Benefits of Myofascial Release
In addition to muscles, tendons, and ligaments, your body contains a type of connective tissue known as fascia. The fascia covers these other tissues and weaves their way through them like a membranous web. This arrangement means that when fascia develops problems, the underlying tissues often suffer the effects.
Myofascial pain syndrome may stem from issues such as poor posture or uncorrect spinal alignment errors that place your tissue under constant, unnatural stress. The fascia may tighten up, limiting muscle motion painfully. Your tissues may also develop painful knots called trigger points. These knots of tight tissue can pinch nerves, sending referred pain to remote areas such as the extremities.
Myofascial release offers a drug-free, non-invasive technique for relaxing these areas of tightness. In this form of massage, your practitioner feels for knots or hard spots that need breaking up. Targeted manipulation of these areas can force the tissue to unclench, freeing your body to work as it should and easing referred pain symptoms.
Combining Chiropractic Care With Myofascial Release
Chiropractic care and myofascial release work hand in hand to provide lasting relief. Dr. Thorburn makes adjustments and corrects any alignment problems that make you more vulnerable to myofascial tightness and pain. Between chiropractic adjustment sessions, myofascial release sessions can keep your tissues from tightening up again.
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If you installed your Deskpro on-premise server using the VM Applicance (OVA), then you would not have had the option to configure the virtual hardware during installation. By standard, the OVA requires a 64GB disk, which will be adequate for the majority of users. However, if you have a larger helpdesk, or have been using the VM Appliance for a long time, you may find you are running out of disk space.
One of the options to resolve this issue is to increase the size of the disk on your Deskpro server. However, as it is running Linux, it is not as straight forward as increasing the size of the disk on your hypervisor. We would need to tell the server that the disk has increased and how to use it.
The guide below will walk you through the process of increasing the disk size on the Deskpro OVA.
Before you start:
This guide is specifically for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and above. Older versions of the Deskpro OVA installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS instead. At the time of writing, this version is past the End of Standard Support, and is coming up to End of Life, so we highly recommend you update to a newer version. In this case, we recommend performing a fresh OVA install, then increase the disk space on the new OVA following this guide. You can then migrate your old helpdesk over to your new helpdesk using the dputils tool.
To find out what version of Ubuntu your OVA is using, login to the server via SSH, and run the following command:
We would also recommend disabling the helpdesk, by going to Admin > Setup > Settings, and checking the box marked Disable the helpdesk, before clicking Save. This should stop any changes being made or new tickets being processed during the procedure.
Once that's done, in your hypervisor, clone the existing VM, so you have a backup in case things go wrong, and then increase the size of the disk on the original VM.
Resizing the disk
On the VM, probe the hardware to see if it picks up the larger disk by running
to see if the disk has grown. You should be able to see that /dev/sda has increased, i.e, if you increase the disk to 100GB:
Disk /dev/sda: 100 GiB, 107374182400 bytes, 209715200 sectors
If this is still displaying the original size of 64GB, you will need to reboot the VM.
Once the server has booted back up, log back in and check fdisk.
This should now display the new size of the disk /dev/sda at the top line.
However, the partition /dev/sda1 should still be set to 64GB
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 134215679 134213632 64G 8e Linux LVM
Resizing the partitions
As the OVA uses a swap partition, you'll need to turn that off
Then, we'll need to go into parted to modify the partitions. First, open the parted prompt with
Don't forget to set your units to sectors to make it easier to track.
(parted) u s
Then print the partition table so you have it available for reference:
(parted) p Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 134217728s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 2048s 134215679s 134213632s primary boot, lvm
If your VM Appliance is running Ubuntu 16.04 or newer, then the default version of parted installed should support
resizepart, which allows you to resize partitions. This option is unavailable for Ubuntu 14.04 and below, and requires you to delete and re-create the partition, which if done incorrectly, can destroy your server's disks beyond recovery. If you are using Ubuntu 14.04, or the command below does not work, do NOT continue, and create a new OVA then migrate to that instead.
(parted) resizepart Partition number? 1 End? [134215679s]? 100%
You're specifying the first partition on the partition table, and extending the partition to use 100% of the disk.
Now, when you print the partition table again, the output should be different:
(parted) p Model: VMware Virtual disk (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 209715200s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags: Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 2048s 209715199s 209713152s primary boot, lvm
If this works, you should see the start sector is the same, but the end sector is much larger.
Once you're happy everything is correct, quit out of parted
Then notify your kernel of the change
You can confirm this is working by checking fdisk
This should now show that the size of the partition now matches the size of the disk:
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sda1 * 2048 209715199 209713152 100G 8e Linux LVM
If not, you may need to reboot your server
If the server does not boot back up correctly, then an error was made when repartitioning the disk. This is extremely difficult to recover from, and may result in data loss. If this has happened to you, I recommend removing this VM and booting up the cloned VM which was made as a backup, then start again from the beginning, including a fresh cloned VM to ensure you have the ability to fallback in the event of another error.
Resizing the Physical Volume
At this point, you should have extended your disk, and your partition should match. Now we need to extend the physical volume and logical volume for LVM, and finally the filesystem so the OS can use the additional space.
First, the physical volume.
This should show the size of the physical volume defined in LVM, and should return something like this:
--- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda1 VG Name deskpro-vg PV Size <64.00 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 16383 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 16383 PV UUID SfqUax-akDv-3ucP-noxH-DUNZ-tJbq-7Cb0GE
This now needs to be resized with the following command:
Then to confirm it works, re-run the command again
And you should now see that the PV size has increased:
--- Physical volume --- PV Name /dev/sda1 VG Name deskpro-vg PV Size <100.00 GiB / not usable 2.00 MiB Allocatable yes (but full) PE Size 4.00 MiB Total PE 25599 Free PE 0 Allocated PE 25599 PV UUID SfqUax-akDv-3ucP-noxH-DUNZ-tJbq-7Cb0GE
Extending the Logical Volume
Now, the logical volume. For this, we will need to find the mapper address for the logical volume. First, you need to confirm which logical volume is mounted as root.
This should give an output similar to this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 972M 0 972M 0% /dev tmpfs 199M 9.4M 190M 5% /run /dev/mapper/deskpro--vg-root 62G 4.9G 54G 9% / tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 199M 0 199M 0% /run/user/0
What you need to do is look at the last column first for root (/), then check the first column to see what filesystem is mounted. For this example, it is
/dev/mapper/deskpro--vg-root (note the double hyphen between deskpro and vg).
This is the logical volume that needs to be extended. You can do that with the following command:
lvextend -l +100%FREE /dev/mapper/deskpro--vg-root
This should extend the logical volume to use up the remaining space on the partition. You can confirm this has worked by checking fdisk
It should now display that logical volume with the new volume size:
Disk /dev/mapper/deskpro--vg-root: 99 GiB, 106342383616 bytes, 207699968 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Resizing the File System
Now, we can increase the filesystem to make this extra space usable with the following command:
Once this has completed, your VM should now be able to use the additional space. You can confirm this with the following command:
This should now show that the size of the /dev/mapper/deskpro--vg-root filesystem mounted on / has a larger size, and is no longer 100% used.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 972M 0 972M 0% /dev tmpfs 199M 9.4M 190M 5% /run /dev/mapper/deskpro--vg-root 98G 4.9G 88G 6% / tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 199M 0 199M 0% /run/user/0
Reopening your Helpdesk
The disk upgrade should now be finished. Don't forget to turn swap back on
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CloakCoin was one of the first digital currency concepts in the crypto market to address privacy inadequacy, and was introduced in 2014 with the aim of enabling people to use a coin that would provide total privacy, in a world that is more and more encroaching on the freedom of its population, stating real and perceived threats to national security as a reason to “protect” its citizens.
The Development Team of CloakCoin proudly announced the revised CloakCoin-ENIGMA White Paper, which explain how CloakCoin-ENIGMA technology works. The white paper details the evolution of CloakCoin and the untraceable transaction system called ENIGMA.
CloakCoin is based on the revolutionary Blockchain concept but has added some very simple and clever layers of communication and a sophisticated off-blockchain coin mixing system making it impossible for 3rd parties to trace transactions between CloakCoin wallets. Today CloakCoin is one of the best systems available providing private, secure, decentralized and untraceable digital monetary transactions.
The technology is thoroughly explained in the whitepaper that means that CloakCoin is prepared to become one of the true innovators in the crypto world. Don’t be afraid to read the white paper. White papers are great tools for everyone to be exposed to higher level crypto knowledge!
- CloakCoin Whitepaper: https://www.cloakcoin.com/resources/CloakCoin_Whitepaper_v2.1.pdf
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This section is still under construction. I'm around for the summer doing other things, but I'm still anxious to polish this documentation off. If you are involved with the development of this project, please update this section.
Why Extend Treehouse Studio?
I very much want this project to grow and branch based on input from many different designers. For now, I want designer/programmers to add their own painting tools and in so doing feel nostalgia for the tools we once knew and have now outgrown. Furthermore, this process could help reground designers into the basics and reveal that sometimes the restriction of the MacPaint simplism is effective in creating some powerful designs. The following material describes how you can add your own tool or menu item that adds functionality to the applet.
On a grander note, I'd also like the Studio to expand with more applets added. Right now, I have a simple painting applet, but the possibility of having a vector based applet, an animation applet, even a video editing applet, etc. could be a reality. I've designed the code keeping in mind that this sort of expansion is charted for the future. Therefore, I am also planning to add documentation about the generic framework that the paint canvas lies within.
How to Extend Treehouse Studio
First of all, you'll need the code.
Secondly, you'll need to first make sure you can compile the darn thing. I work with Project Builder of Mac OS X (my preferred developing machine), so I've included the project file. I keep away from packages, so you shouldn't have to deal with that mess. The main applet file is Treehousestudio.java. I'm still in the process of commenting and cleaning up the code, so be patient. The following tutorials will guide you through how to add to this applet as well as create your own applet using the framework provided. Refer to one of the following sections if you have a specific question:
The code has a naming convention to help explain the code on first glance. All classes with the prefix THS are classes I recommend you don't replace or drastically modify. These classes implement the framework of the applet while the other classes handle all action that occurs within the painting canvas. These classes are also contained in the treehouse package. So if you are using any of the original framework, make sure to add the line:
The Treehouse Studio applet is essentially a layout of panels that interact by sending messages between each other. One interacts with the panels by mouse and key input. A panel, therefore, implements the resulting action of all possible inputs the user can make. What happens when the mouse is pressed? What happens when it's dragged? What happens when a key is held? The applet works by taking in any given input and relays the message to the panel if the input falls within it's region (for mouse input only). As for key inputs, every panel receives the message and performs its respective action. Furthermore, panels can also contain imbedded panels, and therefore, can relay an input through itself to one of its children.
The main applet class is called THSApplet. This class holds all panels in the applet and tells all applets to paint every time the applet is refreshed. If you are planning to make your own Applet, make your main applet class an extension of this one. In the paint applet, PaintApplet is the main class that extends to THSApplet. It is within this extension class that you can modify and add menus and menu items. If you are planning to make a new application with the given framework, follow the comments in the code and make sure to replace the doSetup() method with the specific methods that will initialize your canvas area. See PaintApplet for an example of how to setup.
A THSPanel is an abstract class representing a generic panel. It contains functionality for determining if a given coordinate falls within itself, for handling and adding children panels. It also defines abstract methods that must be implemented by its subclasses, including:
The first methods handle all mouse interaction when the mouse is within that panel and the keyDown method handles any key input. The paint method must be implemented so the applet knows how to paint that particular panel when the applet's paint method is called. The message method is used so that other panels inside the applet can relay information to each other. For example, if the icon palette panel wants to tell the paint canvas panel if a new tool has been selected, it calls the paint canvas panel's message method passing it information that it is the one doing the messaging as well as the object data it is passing through. A message method should be able to discern who is sending the message and then do something with the given object. Furthermore, the icon palette is able to message the paint canvas because the instantiation of the canvas is set as the target of the icon palette (using the setTarget method).
The THSIconPanel class is a subclass of a THSPanel provided to act as essentially a toolbox. A user can access any of the tools within the icon panel and the class is actually responsible for passing the paint canvas the tool with which the user can create. Once the selected tool is determined, the paint canvas then passes all input to the tool (asking what how to paint). A tool object is an extension of the THSGeneralTool class, which describes the generic methods of a tool:
The first two sets of methods describe how the paint canvas will respond to any of the given inputs. The last three methods are used to identify the name, icon image, and cursor image for the tool. The icon image is just a string describing the name of the GIF file. An icon image and a name are required. Right now, the cursor image is not implemented, but will be in the future. For now, just return an empty string. Refer to examples of tool implementation in the source code. To add a tool to the icon panel, refer to the section below.
The menu bar of the applet is implemented by a group of classes. The menu bar itself is an extension of a THSPanel called THSMenuBar. A THSMenuBar class then has a set of menus which are instances of the THSMenu class, which is also an extension of THSPanel. The menus, therefore, are children panels of the menu bar. The menu bar, therefore, relays inputs through itself to it's children and then handles any menu item selection and messages the paint canvas. Each menu object has a set of menu item instances that are NOT extensions of panels (this is important to note). A menu item is essentially an extension of the THSGeneralMenuItem class which defines an abstract framework for a menu item. A menu item simply has the name that would be displayed in the menu bar and then an actuate method. The actuate method determines how the menu item will act on certain objects. The menu item classes themselves are in the THSMenuItems class, which is a factory class that produces menu items with the static method makeMenuItem(). All menu item classes specific to the applet are placed in an extension of the THSMenuItems class. In the paint applet, PaintMenuItems is the extended class. Take a look at the source for THSMenuItems and PaintMenuItems to get an idea of what I'm talking about.
The paint canvas itself is a subclass of a THSCanvas which is a subclass of a THSPanel. The PaintCanvas class handles all painting to the actual image being created by the user, it also parses byte data when saving and opening. It asks the selected tool how to behave when painting by relaying the input it receives from the applet. It also receives any messages from the menu bar, icon palette, and color palette, and then interprets the object data sent to it.
The THSWriteCanvas class is an abstract class that defines the method framework for converting a canvas to bytes and then for converting bytes to a canvas. Extend this class to implement your own particular byte encoder/decoder. The paint applet uses PaintImageRasterizer as the implementation. Take a look at the class for an idea of protocol.
THSIOPortal is a straightforward class that interacts with the database. It can be used to save and load canvases from the database. Take a look at the comments along with the code to get an idea for its use. It's important to note that doOpen() and doSave() should be overridden with a call to the super class function. This feature allows any one to add to the functionality of saving and loading without touching the core code that interacts with the DB. In other words, any subclass of THSIOPortal should be a true subtype according to the two functions described above.
The ColorPalette class provided in the source is specific to the paint application and is also an extension of the THSPanel class. It simply relays whether or not to change the paint canvas' foreground or background color. You can take a look at the source to better understand what is going on, or even use the panel in your own application.
To implement a new applet, all you'd really have to do is make a new extension of the THSCanvas class and the THSApplet class and then make new tools for that particular applet. You can also make other panels to help your user in his or her creation process (see below for details-- UNDER CONSTRUCTION).
To add a menu item, you'll need to first start with an idea of what functionality you'd like to add. Most of the tools I've been working on mimic the old MacPaint functionality, but I encourage you to think of new tools to make the applet more enjoyable. Keep in mind that the focus of the applet is to let students explore painting on computers with a very pixel by pixel state of mind. Don't make things too complicated.
< UNDER CONSTRUCTION >
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Things are not dependably what they show up and for any of us that affection chocolate, the way that we can eat specific sorts and appreciate those due to their medical advantages make this a superb shock. I’m discussing dark chocolate something that has been known for a long time to be gainful to our wellbeing however there are two explicit dark chocolate advantages that I might want to examine in this article. Something that we all are likely to is the climate around us and it is truly challenging for us to not be impacted adversely by it. Due to contamination and different issues in the climate, our body is continually expecting to eliminate poisons from it. Alongside that, we have an interior issue of oxidation that is continually continuing and is delivering free extremists into our framework that is sole design is to obliterate us from the back to front on a phone level. The main way for us to really battle this is through cancer prevention agents.
Dark chocolate is very high in cell reinforcements and this is one of the fundamental advantages that stick out most to individuals. Since it is smart as far as we are concerned to eat these cell reinforcements routinely, remembering a smidgen of dark chocolate for your eating regimen can truly have an effect in your general wellbeing. Obviously, the darker the chocolate is the better so ensure that you decide on chocolate which is at least 70%. Another advantage of eating this specific food is that it has been displayed to lessen hypertension. Hypertension is an issue that unreasonably large numbers of us need to manage routinely and fixing can be incredibly troublesome. In examinations in any case, the dark chocolate advantages of lessening hypertension were plainly perceived. As a general rule, it was not simply the chocolate that was getting it done yet rather, the plant phenol, explicitly cocoa phenol that was liable for the drop in hypertension.
Since there are these two advantages to eating crema de cacao dark chocolate, nonetheless, does not be guaranteed to imply that you ought to permit yourself to gain out of influence while eating it. Despite the fact that this kind of chocolate might have a lower level of sugar when contrasted with milk chocolate, it actually has sugar in it, regardless. The extra calories that you eat whatever devouring this food can undoubtedly offset the advantages that you get it is surely an instance of close to nothing and frequently, a lot of this food type and you will begin to truly ingest a bigger number of calories than you really want to. The idea is like that of drinking red wine, a glass a day can provide you with a ton of medical advantages however obviously drinking a jug a day will totally obliterate the benefits of polishing off modest quantities. | <urn:uuid:c1492a42-905e-4079-a497-6077a0f89be0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.strana360.net/shopping/health-advantages-of-eating-dark-chocolate-you-should-consider/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973054 | 536 | 2.140625 | 2 |
By: Jacqueline Gomes, RDN, MBA
Blueberries are known for their robust nutritional profile. As an excellent source of Vitamin C they contribute to the development of tissues and promote wound healing as well as collagen production. Blueberries are high in Manganese, which helps the body process cholesterol and nutrients such as carbohydrates and protein.
As an excellent source of fiber, fruits like blueberries may reduce the risk of heart disease and adds bulk to your diet, which may help keep you fuller, faster and longer!
Blueberry Bliss doesn’t have to be limited to cakes, pies, breads and muffins.
- Add blueberries to shakes, yogurt, hot or cold cereal!
- Add some crunch with Finn Crisp Crispbread baked with 100% wholegrain and a blend of four different grains: rye, wheat, oat and barley.
- Top crispbread with low-fat yogurt, cream cheese or ricotta and fresh blueberries for a delicious summer treat.
- Add dried blueberries to trail mix. Use dried or fresh blueberries in salads or prepare a compote or salsa to serve with fish and meats.
Ricotta Blueberry Crisps
Prep: 5 minutes
Makes: 2 Servings
- 4 Whole Grain Finn Crisp Crispbreads
- ½ cup low-fat Ricotta cheese
- 1 teaspoon lemon zest
- ½ cup blueberries, rinsed
- Mint leaves (optional)
- In a small bowl combine ricotta cheese and lemon zest, set aside.
- Spread ricotta cheese mixture over each crispbread
- Top with blueberries & mint. Enjoy!
Recipe: Jacqueline Gomes, RDN, MBA
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Homeobox genes specify cell fate and positional identity in embryos throughout the animal kingdom. Paradoxically, although each has a specific function in vivo, the in vitro DNA-binding specificities of homeodomain proteins are overlapping and relatively weak. A current model is that homeodomain proteins interact with cofactors that increase specificity in vivo. Here we use a native binding site for the homeodomain protein Fushi tarazu (Ftz) to isolate Ftz-F1, a protein of the nuclear hormone-receptor superfamily and a new Ftz cofactor. Ftz and Ftz-F1 are present in a complex in Drosophila embryos. Ftz-F1 facilitates the binding of Ftz to DNA, allowing interactions with weak-affinity sites at concentrations of Ftz that alone bind only high-affinity sites. Embryos lacking Ftz-F1 display ftz-like pair- rule cuticular defects. This phenotype is a result of abnormal ftz function because it is expressed but fails to activate downstream target genes. Cooperative interaction between homeodomain proteins and cofactors of different classes may serve as a general mechanism to increase HOX protein specificity and to broaden the range of target sites they regulate.
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Medical marijuana can be used to treat a variety of ailments and diseases. It’s essentially the same substance as recreational marijuana, however, it’s taken for medical purposes and has distinct impacts on your body using both, which can assist with specific things such as pain management or nausea from cancer treatments among other ailments. The cannabis plant is the most extensively examined natural product because of its ability to cause positive effects on humans. Three of the over 100 components that marijuana contains have been studied and isolated. They comprise THC (a psychoactive component) Cannabidiol (a psychoactive component), THC, and CBD. These compounds don’t cause altered state effects such as effects like highs. They instead help relieve pain symptoms and encourage tranquility without anxiety.
What can medical marijuana be utilized to treat?
Researchers are studying whether medical marijuana could be used to treat a vast spectrum of illnesses.
– Anxiety Disorder
– Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
– Treatment for cancer, such as the remission treatment
– Crohn’s disease
– The intractable spasticity as well as other neuropathies may be caused by injury to the nerve tissue in the central nervous system (brain–spinal cord).
– Dyskinetic or spastic disorders
– HIV / AIDS
– Huntington’s Disease
It can be helpful.
Medical marijuana is made up of dozens , if not hundreds or thousands of different chemical components. Cannabinoids are just one of the many chemical substances that are found in medical marijuana have many benefits for people. They have numerous benefits for our bodies. They can reduce inflammation, anxiety and pain. They also aid to reduce nausea caused by cancer chemotherapy treatments. The research continues on the effects of medical cannabis.
Can medical marijuana be used to treat seizure disorders?
There are increasing reports of people who have been able to manage seizures successfully using an specialized form of medicinal marijuana, FDA approved Epidiolex -an extract made of CBDused to treat patients suffering from difficult or hard to treat ailments. In a number of studies on this drug’s effects alone some individuals experienced dramatic reductions in their frequency that translated into vast improvements across other metrics like alertness and overall high-quality of life. There are some risks with medical marijuana, however there could be some relief for patients who aren’t able or willing to explore alternative treatments.
FDA has approved medical marijuana
Medical marijuana has been a source of controversy for several years. Many people believe it can be used for medicinal purposes but others are worried about the risk of misuse. Medical marijuana is supported by increasing evidence. FDA has also approved two man-made cannabinoid medications, Drobinol (Marinol Syndros, and Nesamet) These are prescribed to treat nausea following chemotherapy. Additionally, the FDA recently approved a drug that is a purified version of CBD, a substance that is found in cannabis plants. The drug is used to treat seizures associated with two rare and severe types of epilepsy. Although more research is required in order to fully comprehend the medical benefits of cannabis, these developments suggest that medical cannabis could someday be able treat a wide range of diseases. While medical marijuana is controversial, medical marijuana holds the potential to become an option for treating serious medical issues.
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Lectures and Workshops
Check back to find upcoming events soon!
Events Available for Future Booking
Thanks for your interest in my educational events! If you are an organization, please contact me directly for pricing and scheduling an event at: ErikaSews(at)gmail(dot)com. As of July 2022, I am only scheduling events in and around the greater Chicagoland area (approximately 100 miles from the city of Chicago).
What is a Color Wheel, anyway?
Most educators who teach quilters to use color work with a color wheel to find combinations or color schemes. These tools have been promoted as "faultless" ways to make color palettes, or a way to find "perfect" color schemes each and every time. Why is this tool so magical, how does it work, and where did it come from? Find the answers to these questions and more as you explore the origin of the modern color wheel with Erika.
Event Time: 45-60 minute lecture plus time for Q&A.
Trunk Show: Diary of a Color Nerd
Follow Erika's creative journey through this lecture and trunk show that includes dozens of examples of Erika's artwork over the last 30+ years. This event is a great opportunity to get to know Erika and learn about her creative process.
Event Time: 45-60 minutes plus time for Q&A
Please note, this event requires a few volunteers to help hold up quilts through the event.
The American Apron; Icon of Domesticity
Aprons are forever an icon of another time and a different way of life. Learn about the history of early 20th Century America aprons worn in the home, the fashion trends they followed, and how apron styles mirrored women's roles in society. Accompanying the lecture are over 100 vintage and antique historic aprons spanning the turn of the 20th Century through the 1960's along with other bits of apron ephemera!
Event Time: 50-60 minute lecture plus time for Q&A
Please note, this event requires extra time, equipment, and volunteers to set up displays, and time to break it all down after the event.
Building Color Confidence
Quilting is all about color! But sometimes selecting that perfect fabric palette can be the most frustrating part of the process. Learn how to build your color palette confidence in this 2-hour class through simple hands-on exercises, and how to apply color combinations to your quilting practice. Build on your own sense of color as we explore harmonious combinations, learn the science behind color interactions, and let loose with some fun color games.
Class time: 2 hours
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The culminating written assignment for Module 3 will be relatively informal. You should continue to strive for clear writing and thorough explanations, but you do not have to provide as much context as you did in previous reports. You can assume a reader highly familiar with your field of study.
Our purpose in asking you to write this mini-report is three-fold:
- to include some accountability for understanding the M3 material
- to keep a concise record of results for future classes
- to give you one more shot at practicing your construction and communication of a scientific argument
You will complete this assignment with your partner.
Method of submission
Plese submit your completed mini-report on Stellar, with filename Names_TeamColor_LabSection_Mod3.doc (for example, Lyell_Rainbow_TR_Mod3.doc).
Date of submission: Dec 3rd / 4th
Your Biomaterials engineering mini-report is due by 10 pm on Thursday, Dec 3rd or Friday, Dec 4th, depending on your lab section.
Content and length guidelines
The entire report text should be about 2 pages, or perhaps 3 pages at the most, not counting figures. The figures/captions may be submitted separately.
You should introduce your investigation in 1-2 paragraphs. You can assume familiarity with phage display in general on the part of the reader, and thus immediately "zoom in" on the type of phage that you used and the question(s) you were trying to address. Be sure to cite relevant publications.
For the remainder of the paper, summarize and interpret the class-wide findings and briefly suggest future work. What we usually call Results and Discussion should be combined. The Methods section may be omitted; however, the figure captions and/or main text should include any methodological details unique to your experiment. Finally, you do not need to write an abstract, but should include a concise and informative title.
Suggestions for your figure(s):
- Please note: Figures and text associated with the TEM experiment are not required because these data were collected on the due date for this assignment. You can choose to incorporate the information, but the final grade will not be affected by the inclusion or exclusion of TEM data.
Guiding questions for your discussion:
- What comparative statements can you confidently make about different conditions? (How much variation is there between conditions versus between same-condition devices? Do you have enough data to make any statistical comparisons?)
- By what mechanisms might these differences arise?
- What technical changes would you want to make to sample preparation and/or assays that could improve data quality (troubleshooting ideas) or simply be more informative?
- What bigger picture changes or additions would you want to make to this investigation, if you could continue it?
|Background and Approach
- Is your strategy for enhancing solar cell efficiency clearly described?
- Is it clear what specific comparisons will be made?
|Results and Interpretation of Data
- Is the description of results complete (including necessary methods details)?
- Do the figures clearly convey the data?
- Are interpretations of each piece of data reasonable?
|Contextualizing Results and Suggestions for Future Work
- Are minor suggestions for future experimental changes likely to address any problems encountered?
- Are high-level suggestions for future work interesting and relevant?
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In response to the monkeypox outbreak, which has infected more than 7,100 Americans, the federal government declared a public health emergency Thursday. In addition to freeing up money and other resources, the announcement should also help reduce the spread of the virus, which can cause fevers, body aches, chills, fatigue, and pimple-like bumps on many body parts.
United States federal government declared a public health emergency over the monkeypox outbreak that infected over seventy-one hundred Americans. After the announcement, the government will free up money and other resources to combat the virus. #monkeypox #publichealthemergency pic.twitter.com/5mFBqyMPbr
— Live News Now (@LiveNewsNow6) August 5, 2022
Xavier Becerra, head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, said, “We are prepared to take our responsibility to the next level against monkeypox.” The announcement comes as the Biden administration comes under criticism over the availability of monkeypox vaccines. The number of two-shot vaccines available in major cities like New York and San Francisco has not been enough to meet demand, and some clinics have had to stop offering second doses for supply purposes.
Who is susceptible to the monkeypox infection?
In addition to making 1.1 million doses available, the White House has increased the number of tests conducted at the domestic level to 80,000 per week. As well as shared bedding, towels, and clothes, the monkeypox virus can spread through prolonged skin-to-skin contact, such as hugging, cuddling, and kissing. Until now, most people who have fallen ill have been men who have sex with men. Nevertheless, health officials reiterate that anyone is susceptible to infection.
Until now, no one in the United States has died of monkeypox. However, other countries have reported a few deaths as well. To combat monkeypox, the Biden government appointed top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) so that they could coordinate White House efforts.
In response to the declaration, HHS can draw on emergency funds, hire or reassign staff, and take other measures to combat the outbreak. In addition, according to the announcement, state and local health officials should be asked to provide more information about who is becoming infected and who is being vaccinated so that the federal government can seek more information. That information can give a better understanding of the outbreak and the vaccine’s effectiveness.
Rather than being conservative, Gostin believes the government should have declared a national emergency earlier. Recent years have seen increasing legal challenges to public health measures to control outbreaks, but Gostin didn’t expect that to happen with monkeypox.
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A carbon footprint is a gauge of the measured output units of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) for a particular individual, product, practice or organization as it applies to environmental impact. Carbon footprint is most commonly expressed in metric tons per year. Historically, carbon footprint was an intended measure of all emissions but in its expression, it is converted to CO2.
A carbon footprint is an important measure of the environmental impact of carbon dioxide and methane’s contributing factors to man-made climate change in the form of greenhouse gases, also known as global warming.
A carbon footprint is composed of two parts, a primary and secondary footprint. The primary footprint is the sum of the direct carbon dioxide emissions of burning of fossil fuels, such as the domestic energy consumption by furnaces and waters heaters, and transportation, such as automobiles and airplane travel. The secondary footprint is the sum of indirect emissions associated with the manufacture and breakdown of all products, services and food an individual or business consumes.
Carbon footprint can be reduced through the use of Carbon-neutral or carbon negative alternatives in materials or fuels. Some methods of building, lifestyle or power generation might end up locking away as much carbon as is produced in its processes, effectively making them carbon neutral. Going further, when more carbon is locked away into a material or in a process than is emitted, then it is carbon negative. Another option to reduce carbon footprint is the buying of carbon offsets, a credit purchased to negate a carbon footprint. Often, the funds from purchased offsets are used to invest in green energy projects, such as green computing technologies.
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Semi-colonic anguish sounds awful, like a disease … how apt. Does it affect authors?
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. All they do is show you’ve been to college.” Kurt Vonnegut Jr
A while back, with much excitement, I discovered the semicolon unaware of the adventure ahead. Thus, with a new thingy, I began my journey towards semi-colonic anguish.
Boy, I was going to strut my grammatical stuff, and impress the writing world. Semicolons erupted in my fiction. Imagine, 200,000+ words of prose, punctuated with my newfound favourite.
Semi-colonic anguish and the borders of despair
Picture the emperor’s face when he discovered his new clothes for what they were. Talk about a life changing moment. Of course, it isn’t always something your best friends tell you. Such was the case for me … in the midst of a compliment.
An excellent author and journalist read one of my books. He told me I write well and, as my ego began to howl with delight, added these words:
Lose the semi-colons. Every single one of them. Don’t believe me? Pick up books by guys like Lee Child, Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, John Sandford, John Harvey, Martin Cruz Smith. Read a whole chapter. Count how many semi-colons you encounter. Every single one can be removed and its sentence re-written with little effort, to make sentences that flow better and make a LOT more sense.
Watery eyed, I stared at another revision … like a novice mountaineer standing below the North Face of the Eiger and looking upwards
What did I do?
I took the advice. My Lord, how it hurt, and how worthwhile the pain of sorting my foolishness out. My editor injected a gentle modicum of sanity … my reduction was huge. Removing semicolons was, mostly, a good idea. I recovered from my semi-colonic anguish.
Many writers will be familiar with the joys(?) of revising a book. Of course, semicolons have a place and, doubtless, other writers and readers may have different views. Mine remains more-or-less anti. I don’t regret the work and believe my fiction is the better for it.
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According to the U.N., we are in the midst of a longevity revolution. More than 700 million people in the world are over the age of 65. I hate to admit it, but my wife and I are both in this category. The U.N. report on aging population is fascinating, explaining all the implications to society and the economy.
The Building Code has also looked at the aging population and the impact it has on plumbing fixtures. When the 2021 ICC International Building Code gets adopted, there will be new optional requirements to address assisted use plumbing fixtures. We typically think of assisted use being in a nursing home; however, it can be other facilities used by the elderly.
Assisted use versus accessible fixtures
Assisted use plumbing fixtures expand on accessible plumbing fixtures, also called handicapped plumbing fixtures. However, there are distinct differences between assisted use and accessible fixtures.
Some of the original accessible fixture requirements date back to veterans returning from the Vietnam War as paraplegics. They were vocal, as they should have been, demanding access to all building facilities. The location of fixtures and grab bars were all based on studies of these paraplegics. The majority of the paraplegics studied still had very good upper body strength. It was relatively easy for them to use grab bars to maneuver onto a water closet.
As the accessible fixture requirements matured, we saw a change in both the design and location of fixtures. The force required to activate fixtures was also modified.
The next evolution of fixture placement and design is for the aging population. The “assisted use” for mobility comes in many forms. It can be a wheelchair, a walker or a cane. All three devices assist a person in gaining access to a building and the building elements. In certain building applications, a caregiver provides assistance.
New code requirements
Section 1110 of the 2021 ICC International Building Code identifies optional requirements for water closets and roll-in showers. For a water closet, the grab bars are not your side and rear wall grab bars. Rather, the grab bars must swing down on either side of the water closet. The new requirements specify a longer swing down grab bar, with a minimum length of 36 inches. The toilet paper holder must be on the swing down grab bar.
Since the grab bars swing down, there is no minimum or maximum distance to the side wall. However, you could say there is a minimum distance, since the swing down grab bars must be located 14 to 16 inches from the centerline of the water closet. The clear floor space around the water closet must be 66 by 78 inches. This additional space allows a caregiver to assist a user in lowering themself onto the water closet.
For the roll-in shower, the grab bar arrangement is different. Furthermore, a shower seat is never required. For many assisted users, they can stand while showering. However, they need grab bars for balance, and to lift themselves in and lower themselves out of the shower. The roll-in shower also allows the user to take a wheelchair into the shower enclosure. One of the missing components in the new building code is a requirement for a vertical grab bar in the shower. Many elderly rely on a vertical grab bar, as opposed to the horizontal grab bar, for balance. There is an assumption that plumbing engineers and architects will determine the ideal location of a vertical grab bar and simply add it to their design.
There was also a significant change to the IAPMO Uniform Plumbing Code to address bathrooms with roll-in showers. The new requirements in Section 408.5 of 2021 Uniform Plumbing Code requires the entire floor to be considered a wet location where there is no threshold. This makes sense because there are no distinctions in the area of the shower. By including the entire room, a level of safety is provided.
With the addition of assisted use plumbing fixtures in the Building Code, the ICC A117.1 Committee has created three new subgroups to examine plumbing related fixtures in the Accessibility standard. Included in that group is an assisted use committee. This committee is working on expanded text to add to ICC A1171.1 to further regulate these fixtures.
The other two subgroups are for accessible bathing fixtures and adult changing tables. The latter committee is addressing an issue that has long been ignored — adults that have to wear diapers. While baby changing stations have become the norm, there are very limited facilities for adult changing stations.
The adult changing stations address both the elderly and the physically or mentally challenged population. Some of these adult changing stations have lifts for moving the user. Others have a water supply for cleaning. Still others have tables that adjust by raising or lowering.
There are a number of states currently evaluating proposed laws to mandate adult changing stations in certain buildings. The typical buildings selected are: Highway rest stops, schools and airports to name a few. One elected official had an interesting response, which I will paraphrase, “How many people do we have in our state that require these adult changing stations? Why would we implement a law for such a small percentage of the population?”
The real question should be, “Are we violating an individual’s civil rights by not providing an adult changing station when they need one?” That is also what we need to consider in the design of buildings. Should this building have an adult changing station? This is also something we should bring to the client’s attention. Many building owners don’t even know adult changing stations exist.
As we head into our first Covid-19 holiday season, please remember the aged population. Remember the civil rights needs of everyone. While our family gathering may be smaller or non-existent, I hope that you still have a glorious Christmas, wonderful Hanukah and safe and prosperous New Year.
I’m certainly glad that 2020 is coming to an end. Let’s hope 2021 lifts our spirits and brings us to a better level of normalcy.
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Like the rest of the world, Africa is facing the combined challenge of a global economic crisis exacerbated by the multiple impacts of a global ecological crisis. However, unlike all the other continents, Africa is confronting these challenges without the benefit of an adequately developed knowledge infrastructure to drive the kinds of innovations that are required to both withstand the global ecological-economic crisis and take advantage of the crisis to position itself more advantageously within the global economy. More seriously, compared to other leading governments on all the other continents (China, India, Germany, USA, Brazil, Japan and Australia to cite some examples), African Governments have totally ignored the ecological dimensions of the global crisis. This will have devastating effects for future generations and prevent Africa from effectively exploiting the crisis to its own advantage.
Africa and the global community face a ‘polycrisis’ that consists of a multiple set of nested crises that tend to reinforce one another. The key dimensions of this ‘polycrisis’ are being recognised as global discussion of a “Green New Deal” gathers momentum, with Barack Obama leading the way. Attention is increasingly on the intersections between global warming, eco-system breakdown, resource depletion, the global economic crisis, poverty and urbanisation. Global warming by a minimum of 2 degrees, exacerbated by the 70% increase in GHG emissions between 1970 and 2004, is both an outcome of an unsustainable economy and the most significant catalyst for change. As the Stern Report made clear, poorer countries (especially in Africa) will suffer “first and most” from the consequences of global warming even though they have “contributed least” to global warming. The global economic crisis will exacerbate this suffering as the global economy shrinks and up to 90% of the value of listed companies is lost over the 24 month period starting in October 2008. According to the ILO, the number of unemployed in developing countries could rise by end of 2009 by between 18 and 51 million people over 2007 levels. When food prices rose by almost 60% during the first half of 2008, the number of people living in poverty increased by between 130 and 155 million. The International Energy Association predicts that global demand for oil will increase by 45% by 2030 without any evidence that it will be possible to find this amount of oil as peak oil sets in across the world’s oil fields, thus further undermining traditional drivers of economic recovery. This may be good news for Africa’s oil producers, but the bonanza will not last longer than a decade. The United Nations Millenium Ecosystem Assessment that reported in 2005 found that 15 out of the 24 key eco-system services that we humans depend on are degraded or used unsustainably, often with negative consequences for the poor – 1.3 billion people live in ecologically fragile environments located mainly in developing countries, half of whom are the rural poor and a large bulk live in Africa. At the same time, as the world’s population grows from the current 6 billion to 8 billion by 2030, a massive urbanisation wave is underway that has already pushed the world population across the 50% urbanised mark in 2007. The inevitable result is the unprecedented expansion and creation of new cities across the developing world. African and Asian cities will absorb the additional two billion people expected on the planet even though they are the least equipped to handle this challenge.
It has been estimated that the combined value of the fiscal stimulus packages assembled by the G20 is US$2 trillion, or 3% of global GDP. If these stimulus packages focus exclusively on economic recovery and ignore global warming, eco-system breakdown, oil peak and global poverty, the outcomes will contradict the original recovery intentions. The big hitters in the G20 may win, but the losers will bring us all down. But there are signs of hope. Of the US$827 billion to be spent by the US Government, US$100 billion has been allocated to investments aimed at dealing with the consequences of the ecological crisis – reducing oil consumption and CO2 emissions, waste recycling and making more efficient use of resources (in particular in the way buildings and cities are designed). South Korea, building on four decades of successful reforestation that has rebuilt its capacity to grow food, has the most ambitious developing country Green New Deal investment package worth US$56 billion. These are examples of responses that seem to recognize that the causes of the current crisis are far more complex than merely short-term economic factors. These investments will also drive unprecedented rates of innovation as governments and private sector players strive to convert these investments into competitive advantages within the global economy. Is Africa positioning itself in this new technological drive to build a more sustainable global civilization?
The Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) received the Nobel Prize for its 2006 report on Climate Change. What most African Governments have failed to recognise is that this report makes it very clear that Africa is most likely going to feel the greatest impacts of global warming even though it has contributed least to the problem. The daily lives of millions of Africans will be affected. By as early as 2020 (and the IPCC estimates are all regarded as highly conservative), between 75 and 250 million people are projected to be exposed to increased water stress; in some countries yields from rain-fed agriculture could be reduced by up to 50% thus severely compromising what is already a food insecure continent; towards the end of the c.21st projected sea level rise will affect low-lying coastal areas many of which are the locations of large and growing cities – just adapting to these changes is projected to cost between 5-10% of GDP; and by 2080 the amount of arid and semi-arid land is project to increase by 5-8%.
It is widely recognised that the growth rates of key agro-food products are either declining or negative in Africa. A largely unrecognised underlying driver is the fact that this is caused by rapidly deteriorating soils. The Washington-Based International Food Policy Research Institute estimates that 65% of all agricultural land in Africa is degraded. This means that it is producing less and less food as the effects of nutrient mining take their toll. This explains why millions of hectares of land in Africa is being abandoned and why millions get pushed into Africa’s cities that depend on charcoal for energy that further exacerbates soil degradation as the trees disappear. But the world’s biggest foundations (Rockerfeller and Gates) allied with the biggest agricultural institutions think the problem is inadequate fertilizer and poor seeds (which Africans must now buy form Western multinationals). The United Nations Environment Programme disagrees, advocating modern organic farming methods that focus on the rebuilding of soils and not expensive technical solutions.
As a result Africa’s cities are growing fast – 27 of the 100 fastest growing cities in the world are in Africa. And yet no African Government has an urban development strategy – not even South Africa. The potential of Africa’s cities as innovation-driven growth centres are being squandered.
In 2001 Time magazine ran an article entitled Looting Africa. This signalled a realisation that Africa’s economic fortunes were once again changing. Growth rates in the 1980s averaged below 2%, but by the end of the 1990s were getting close to 3%. By 2005, growth rates were reaching 5% as the prices for primary resources rose as global growth drove up demand. Africa had become strategically important again to the world, especially China. However, the resource curse has not gone away. In 2000, the export of primary natural resources accounted for nearly 80% of all exports from Africa. This is much higher than the rest of the world – the export of primary natural resources accounted for only 31% of all exports from all developing countries in 2000 and 16% of the exports from advanced industrial countries in the same year. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development, in 2003 many African countries were dependent on the export of a single resource – for example, crude oil (Angola, Congo, Gabon, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea), copper (Zambia), coffee (Burundi, Ethiopia, Uganda), tobacco (Malawi) and uranium (Niger). Many more were dependent on the export of just two or three primary products.
In a remarkable 2005 report entitled Where is the Wealth of Nations?, the World Bank estimated the “real wealth” of African countries by adjusting the national income and savings accounts by deducting both real economic and environmental costs. Because most African countries are exporters of primary resources, the result of this study was that most African countries had a net negative rate of national savings to Gross National Income. The countries with the highest resource dependence and lowest capital accumulation included some of the largest resource exporters, namely Nigeria, Zambia, Mauritania, Gabon, Congo and South Africa. Below is the Table from the report that lists all the countries that were studied. The results are clear: resource extraction and export at prevailing global prices (which are effectively ‘fixed’ by the major importers) is a bad business deal for African economies and undermines development.
The above cited World Bank report comes after more than 20 years of trade liberalisation. Contrary to the development strategies pursued by the successful Asian tigers over the same period, African Governments indiscriminately lifted protective tariffs thus killing off local industries that were unable to compete with prices of imported goods. In the name of increasing trade, the opposite was achieved. According to Christain Aid, “[t]rade liberalization has cost sub-Saharan Africa $272 billion over the past 20 years. Overall, local producers are selling less than they were before trade was liberalized.”
If Africa continues to get poorer as it increases exports of primary resources at discounted prices, it will never build up the financial resources required to invest in the kind of human capital and physical infrastructures that are required for poverty-eradicating development strategies funded from the proceeds of endogenous growth engines that are less dependent on resource exports. An obvious question is what African Governments can do to ensure better prices for their exported materials. In response to global recessionary conditions the European Union has concluded that “[d]espite recent price falls, raw material prices are still very high from a historical perspective”. In late 2008 it urged its members to use international fora to prevent Africans from increasing the prices of primary resources. No noticeable response from African Governments to this threat is evident.
If Africa wants to become part of the sustainability revolution underway in the rest of the world, and if African Governments want to create post-commodity dependent economies, then a major new focus is required on human capital development via investments in the rapidly expanding transdisciplinary field now called ‘sustainability science’. If economists, urban planners, engineers, agriculturalists, industrialists, development workers, political leaders and development agencies find ways to factor into their knowledge sets and world views an understanding of the intimate connections between economic development and natural resources, then Africa may have a chance of correctly interpreting the problems it faces and responding accordingly. If this does not happen, then global warming, oil peak, resource depletion, soil degradation, water scarcities and food shortages will obliterate the grandest visions of economic modernization. Africa has advantages for leap-frogging into a more sustainable world that no-one else has: large primary resources, relatively small populations, extensive available land, extra-ordinary human capacity for survival and cooperation, and the absence of the kinds of massive urban infrastructures that other countries have invested in for more than a century that will now have to be dismantled to prepare for a new low carbon non-oil dependent more equitable world. Instead of copying outdated modernist techno-infrastructures developed elsewhere for an unsustainable era, Africa could lead by exploiting the current global ecological-economic crisis to put in place a new way that builds on Africa’s innate capacity to innovate under the most trying circumstances. | <urn:uuid:93c8f0b1-5c6f-47f0-b836-054db152ac89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sustainabilityinstitute.net/5056-what-africa-s-leaders-are-ignoring/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948015 | 2,448 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The COVID-19 pandemic did not just change the world and how we work and live, but it forced women to become even more agile, adept and resilient in balancing work and family.
With the shift to remote work from home, women found that they were not only spouse, parent and daughter, but employees supporting business operations, home-school teachers and online learning tutors while workplaces and schools were temporarily shut. Even as the economy recovers, many employers indicate that they will be retaining many aspects of work from home, and this will have an outsized impact on women as the pillars of family and the home.
The MIA Women’s Leadership Conference 2021 examines the unique issues and concerns facing women leaders today, and asks what technologies, skills and support systems can be deployed to help women adapt to the new norms – and excel as leaders – post-COVID-19. Featuring a stellar line-up of exceptional women who will share their insights and stories, this one-day Conference will cover:
- Digital Transformation – how can women leverage on digital technologies and tools to become more effective professionals and leaders? What are the opportunities and challenges facing women in the digital space? And importantly, how can women support the digital transformation agenda to facilitate the development of their families, their organisations and the society and economy as a whole?
- ESG Diversity Strategies – Gender diversity is a key element of ESG (environmental, social and governance) and companies should be actively and authentically working to enhance women’s participation and contribution under their ESG agenda. This session discusses how companies should frame gender diversity and ESG principles and strategies at Board level, along with the inclusion of more women at Board and senior management level for better representation of women’s interests and stronger tone at the top.
- The Rise of Women in Finance – Increasingly complex finance functions and roles requires competent and able leadership. This session features prominent and rising women leaders in finance who will share on their roles and responsibilities, and the opportunities and challenges available for women to shine and grow in this dynamic segment.
- Success Roadmaps – This special interview features a mystery guest who will talk about their journey to success and share tips for becoming high-achieving women leaders.
- Creating An Inclusive Workspace for Sustainable Business –Retaining talent at the workplace, especially women, has become even more daunting due to the effects of the global pandemic. However, companies can remedy this by offering a more inclusive workplace environment for their women talents. This topic highlights key elements in creating an inclusive workspace, covering areas of recruitment, retaining and promoting women leaders for sustainable business and continuous economic recovery
- Striving for Leadership, Writing Your Own Future – End the Conference on a high note as you listen to high performers from sports, science and technology, who will help motivate you to find your own path that is rewarding, balanced and authentic.
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Perhaps the most important vegetable we use at Comptoir, and in Lebanese cooking. When it’s cooked its texture is porous enough to hold the oils, spices and sauces you mix it with, while adding a flavour that softens rather than dominates the dish.
The most famous recipe is perhaps baba ghanuj, made by roasting eggplants, peeling the skin off, mixing the finely chopped flesh with tahini until thick, then adjusting the flavour to taste with lemon juice, mashed raw garlic, chopped parsley and salt.
Firmness is everything; dodge the soft ones and grab the ones that feel hard.
Skin colour varies, so don’t be put off by of white, green or lavender.
To salt or not to salt? Today, most varieties aren’t very bitter so you can skip this step.
Once cooked, spoon out the flesh then salt it and place in a sieve to drain the moisture and help it dry.
Preserve by storing in oil in the fridge with slices of garlic and herbs – mezze on tap.
Just before baking, prick aubergines to stop them exploding in the oven; there’s no need to do this for grilling, however, as the side nearest to the heat bursts of its own accord.
Store in the fridge as the skin will wrinkle and the flesh will become bitter if left at room temperature.
When you’ve got the oven on for something else, why not bake some aubergines until tender, then freeze of store int he fridge for another meal.
If they’re fresh, the skin will be taut and shiny.
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Pet Theft Awareness Day was started in the late 1980s by The Last Chance for Animals campaign to raise awareness about pet theft and ways in which to keep your pet safe from theft. Read our pet calendar: pet theft awareness day with tips for cat and dog owners.
Losing a pet has to be a pet parent’s worst nightmare. Did your pet get stolen or did he run away? Is he safe or injured or ill? Where is she and will you ever see her again? The questions are endless and a pet parent needs to be aware, but not so hyper-vigilant that they can’t sleep at night about keeping their pets safe.
Pet Calendar: Pet Theft Awareness Day
Are there dogs that are at higher risk for theft?
There are some breeds that are at a higher risk for theft and those include purebreed dogs like:
- Yorkies (Yorkshire Terriers) this is the most stolen dog in the United States
- French bulldogs
- Designer breeds
This is not to say that any dog, any breed, couldn’t be stolen.
What steps can a pet parent take to protect his or her pets from theft?
- Make certain your dog has a microchip
- Make certain your dog is wearing a collar with a tag and your contact information
- Make certain your dog has a collar/tag and microchip
- Never leave your dog unattended in your car or in your fenced-in yard
- Keep information about your dog up-to-date.
- Keep your dog on a leash and collar so he doesn’t run off
- Have up-to-date photos
- Have photos of you and your pet together
- Always be aware of your surroundings and for the potential of theft of your pet
What can a pet parent do if his or her pet gets stolen or lost?
- Immediately call the police
- Share photos on social media and ask friends and family to share as well
- Contact the local animal shelter and let them know your pet is missing
- Contact local veterinarian’s offices and let them know your pet has gone missing
- Walk around your neighborhood and call for your pet
- Hang up missing pet posters
- Look online for dogs for sale as your dog may be there
- Search online on “lost pet” sites
- Be aware of scams. People may say they’ve found your pet and ask for money but they don’t really have your pet
- Don’t lose hope and keep searching until you find an answer that puts your mind at rest
Please keep your pets safe and with you on this day, and every day!
Cat theft awareness
Be aware that cats go missing, too. Keep your cats indoors to keep them protected. If your cats go outdoors, make certain they are microchipped and/or wear collars with your contact information.
Follow the steps above if your cat goes missing to get her to come back home.
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Stracciatella in Brodo di Gallina from Leone’s Italian Cookbook, 1967: Here’s a great version of the classic Italian egg drop soup.
Of course we have the cookbook. See it here: https://www.vintagecookbook.com/product/leones-italian-cookbook/
Leone’s Italian Cookbook, by Gene Leone, Foreward by Dwight D. Eisenhower. Published in 1967 by Harper and Row, New York. Hard cover with dust jacket, 244 pages. Book is mint. Dust jacket has a few very minor dings. Over 300 recipes from restaurant started in New York City by Mother Leone in 1906. Mother Leone started her restaurant in her living room. In 1959, the restaurant would serve as many as 6000 clients every evening. Along with the restaurant’s recipes, Leone presents the history of the restaurant and many ancedotes involving some of their devoted clients, including President Truman, President Eisenhower, Enrico Caruso, Victor Herbert, Liberace, and W. C. Fields.
At VintageCookbook.com we try to provide you with your mother’s cookbook! I know lots of current recipe bloggers write proudly that their recipes are “not from your mother’s cookbook.” We think the recipes in your mother’s cookbook provided food that was nutritious and warm and colorful and just plain yummy! We know that just looking at the cover of your mother’s Woman’s Home Companion Cook Book makes you feel good. Holding her Betty Crocker Cookbook, or her Better Homes and Gardens, or Good Housekeeping Cookbook in your hands is better than nostalgic. And cooking some of those dishes for your children will pass on a great tradition. | <urn:uuid:e059ead2-ec8c-4602-9cc6-8081c06f81c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vintagecookbook.com/stracciatella-brodo-di-gallina-leones-italian-cookbook-1967/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951207 | 371 | 1.6875 | 2 |
|Nutrition Facts (per serving)|
|Amount per serving|
|% Daily Value*|
|Total Fat 9g||12%|
|Saturated Fat 5g||27%|
|Total Carbohydrate 41g||15%|
|Dietary Fiber 2g||6%|
|Total Sugars 24g|
|Vitamin C 2mg||8%|
|*The % Daily Value (DV) tells you how much a nutrient in a food serving contributes to a daily diet. 2,000 calories a day is used for general nutrition advice.|
Buttery streusel can transform simple cakes, breads, muffins and pies into decadent dishes with just a few simple ingredients. Butter, flour, sugar and spices to taste are all that it takes to cover other preparations with a delicious, rich crunch. The recipe for our quick pear coffee cake comes thanks to Gale Gand and Christie Matheson (Clarkson Potter/Publisher, 2009). It's a simple, fantastic family recipe adapted from a tasty apple streusel by Gand's grandmother. A spongy and moist cake gets a punch of flavor thanks to ripe pears chunks. Once the streusel tops the batter, you need 35 minutes in the oven. Serve this delicious cake as part of a brunch spread or with a cup of coffee as a tasty breakfast or afternoon pick-me-up.
When adding fresh fruit to batters, most home cooks have noticed that the fruit tends to sink to the bottom of the cake, becoming the first layer once the cake is un-molded. To avoid the fruit clumping together at the bottom, simply coat the pears slightly with a dust of flour. Once it's time to add them to the batter, don't dump them and mix them in, but gently fold them in with slow movements so they get evenly distributed, maintaining their shape, and most importantly, their place in the batter. Check that all the pear pieces have a similar small size to ensure no big chunks are going to sink purely by gravity.
For this recipe, you'll need Bartlett pears, the juicy and buttery pears with the ultimate "pear" flavor, ideal for baking, but also delicious on their own. Bartlett pears are green on the outside, with white flesh inside. To check for ripeness, simply press near the stem and feel if the flesh gives a little—this is a sign of ripeness. If the pears you have are too green to use, simply give them a few days at room temperature, or place the pears in a bowl with bananas to speed up the process. Bananas release ethene, a gas that helps in the ripening process. Serve this delicious pear streusel with a touch of whipped cream, or make it a whole dessert by adding vanilla ice cream on the side, along with a few pieces of dried pear and chopped-up walnuts for crunch. This cake keeps for up to four days, covered at room temperature.
For the Cake:
1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1 large egg, beaten
1/2 cup milk
4 tablespoons (1/4 cup) unsalted butter, melted
2 medium Bartlett pears, ripe, unpeeled, cored, and chopped
For the Streusel Topping:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, cold, cut up
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Make the Cake
Heat oven to 400 F. Butter an 8-inch-square baking pan. In a medium bowl, combine flour, baking powder, sugar, salt, and 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon.
In a separate bowl, mix egg, milk and melted butter until well combined. Pour into dry ingredients and mix well. Add the pears and gently fold them in without overmixing. Pour into prepared pan. Reserve.
Make the Streusel
In a small bowl, mix sugar and flour and cut in butter with your fingers until crumbs form. Sprinkle over top of batter in pan.
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This one goes out to all my high-performing friends!
We all know that an exercise routine can improve cardiovascular health, increase bone density, maintain body weight, improve insulin response and improve balance and strength…but, did you know that movement can also lead to improved cognitive functioning? Yep, regular activity can reduce the risk of depression & anxiety, improve sleep and overall quality of life and can impact cognitive performance.
A recent study showed that cortical oxygenation was most improved after moderate exercise while processing speed was lower after high-intensity exercise, possibly due to fatigue. Researchers have also found that single sessions of mind-body therapies such as yoga have led to memory and processing speed improvement.
While I definitely recommend consistently incorporating a variety of movement modalities, there may be some benefit to the timing of type of exercise as it relates to cognitive demand and performance.
So if you have a big negotiation, presentation or meeting, maybe go for a moderate intensity workout beforehand (strength training, perhaps?) and save the HIIT training for another day or after the big *thing*.
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We all seem to have more problems than we need. We can resolve many of them without any trouble, but once in a while a really difficult situation comes along that just won’t yield to our best efforts to get rid of them.
Our initial reaction is to resist them, put up a protective wall and confront it is an enemy with which we feel we must do battle. Now the struggle begins. This confrontational approach to problem solving is negative and can produce only negative results; we find ourselves producing more frustration, anxiety, stress and fear than solutions.
Is there an alternative? Indeed there is. Let’s take a close analytical view of problem solving and see what’s really going on here. To be successful we must first accept the fact that the “old” ways are less than effective so any new approach must be a departure from accepted traditional methods.
Look at the world around you and recognize that we live in a world of opposites. We have up & down, short & tall, assets & liabilities, abundance & lack, profits & losses, positive & negative, freedom & bondage, etc., etc., etc. I don’t believe you can think of anything that does not have an implied opposite. Webster defines “opposites” as, “elements that are so far apart and diverse as to be totally irreconcilable one to the other”.
If, then, one of these elements is negative, defined by Webster as, “something that is the opposite or negation of something”, its opposite must be positive, which Webster defines as, “that which is real, not speculative, not fictitious and logically affirmative”.
As we think about it, we realize that what this is saying is that anything negative (the problem) cannot exist alone but requires a positive something to be negative about. That positive “something” is the solution to our problem. We cannot have a problem unless its solution is already available. All we need do is learn how to access it.
To solve any problem, then, we must discipline ourselves to see it only as a negation or unawareness of the answer we are seeking and which already exists. How do we access this? By calmly rejecting that which presents itself to us as a problem, (“an intricate, unsettled question without an answer” [Webster]) as not a “something” we give reality to and quietly search our mind with a “listening” positive expectancy and be responsive to the answer that will present itself to you in this positive mental environment.
Consider the procedure you use when confronted with 2 plus 2 = 8. To resolve this error, you do not focus your efforts on trying to understand the “8” but you reject it and draw on the truth that only a “4” belongs at the end of 2 plus 2. The problem is “solved”.
I know how abstract, unrealistic and impractical this approach sounds, but for many years I have proven its viability in my own personal and professional experiences and to the benefit of a widely diverse client base that has included many of the giants of American business. This revolutionary approach to problem solving is predicated on natural laws and principles which Webster defines as, “the creative and controlling forces of the universe”. Such a condition is absolute and irrevocable. It is the law. | <urn:uuid:c97dd75a-cf27-46f8-ad40-1938b45f0450> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.ajaymatharu.com/anatomy-of-problem-solving/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959454 | 710 | 2.3125 | 2 |
We at YUDA have seen how much our simple bracelet project has catapulted to such great heights. What started out as a small idea has helped us realize our dream to help end extreme poverty.
Selling bracelets have taken on a new meaning throughout the years. Nowadays, it’s not just about buying something because it looks good. More people are buying bracelets because they do good.
The better news? We are not alone. A lot of jewelry brands are also going beyond profiting from selling bracelets. In fact, we’ve listed below brands that are doing good in their way and have turned a fad into philanthropic fashion.
Perhaps now that the holiday season is upon, this may just be the best gift idea.
1. Satya Jewelry
Satya Jewelry has committed itself to not only design some of the most elegant-looking bracelets. The brand has also made it its mission to empower women and give back to children through selling their bracelets. So far, they have donated over $1 million to charitable causes including The Manjushree Orphanage and Charity Water.
2. Linhardt Design
Another jewelry brand that is giving back is Linhardt Design. The New York-based company isn’t just conscious about designing with sustainability in mind. It also donates portions of its sales to fund the education of African girls through Kenya Education Fund.
3. Same Sky Jewelry
Same Sky has expanded their mission from helping the victims of genocide in Rwanda to empowering women in New York with jobs after incarceration. The brand is ensuring that opportunity presents itself even to those who have been through tumultuous times as women. They continue to provide jobs and donate to related causes.
4. Jewelry for a Cause
Jewelry for a Cause is a movement first initiated by Jessica Mindich to sell her self-made jewelry to support charitable organizations. Now, the movement has grown, and more brands have joined to donate to charity. Jewelry for a Cause has raised over $300,000 already. All the proceeds went to schools and charities across the globe.
5. Raven + Lily
The Raven +Lily handcrafted jewelry from artisans in Ethiopia and India are more than just wondrous accessories of beauty. They are socially and environmentally-conscious made to provide job opportunities to marginalized women. Beyond jobs, the brand also donates 10% of its proceeds to funding education, microloans as well as healthcare.
6. Purpose Jewelry
The brand designs handcrafted jewelry made by survivors of the modern slavery Mumbai, India. In fact, 100% of its sales go to International Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization that cares for survivors of women trafficking through microloans, education, and healthcare.
Akola goes beyond donating their proceeds to charitable causes. They also empower women in five rural Ugandan villages to help them and their children. Moreover, they’ve made it their mission to transform the infrastructures of the poor land. So far, they have put up wells, roads and even vocational training centers for the locals.
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A defaced copy of Elle Magazine
This magazine appears, on first sight, to be a defaced copy of Elle. A project by the Belgian artist Cleo Totti, models are painted over in wild swirls of pink and red. The very first spread shows a woman wearing a corset that looks like it’s made of a carcass. Some of the source material is actually lifted from Hearst’s Elle — but there are pages from other magazines too. What’s immediately unsettling is that hardly any of the models have visible faces, mostly they’re obscured by pale, round splotches of paint, like hoods, or goldfish bowls.
Called ‘Genetic Transformations’, all of the women here look like they’re morphing into something else. Sometimes they appear to be putting on more flesh, becoming more substantial as they take on thicker legs and hips. On one page, a picture of a woman sitting in a forest is painted over with a dinosaur. The inspiration was a book by Anna Colin, ‘Sorcières, pourchassées, assumées, puissantes, queer’, a feminist critique of Jurassic Park. What’s satisfying about flicking through is that in Totti’s hands the women pictured seem to become more threatening, and more alive. | <urn:uuid:23812393-6fa6-49e9-af28-066ea3bf6dfb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.stackmagazines.com/art-design/a-defaced-copy-of-elle-magazine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.93519 | 287 | 1.789063 | 2 |
A battle is brewing over copyright of the diary of Anne Frank, one of the most famous records of the Holocaust.
Although Anne Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, her diary about hiding from the Nazis in the secret annex of an Amsterdam building survived her. It was first published in a version compiled by her father, Otto Frank, in 1947.
But now the Anne Frank Fonds, a Swiss foundation that owns the copyright to the diaries, is warning off publishers who are preparing to publish it next year on the assumption that the copyright is about to expire.
The foundation argues that Otto Frank and Mirjam Pressler, the editor of a later edition, are “legal co-authors” because they “in effect created readable books from Anne Frank’s original writings”.
Although the young Jewish girl died in 1945, and EU copyright normally expires 70 years after an author dies, the foundation says that nobody is free to publish her diaries without its permission next year. Otto Frank died in 1980, so copyright in his name would exist until 2050.
This co-authorship idea is strongly contested, and has not yet been established in court.
Annemarie Bekker, spokeswoman for the Anne Frank Stichting, which runs the massively popular Anne Frank House and its archives, protested: “Is Otto Frank co-author of the diary of Anne Frank? No, Anne Frank is the sole author of the diary versions A and B [her own, edited version], and the short stories. There is no co-author in these writings, not Otto Frank or any other person.
“Otto Frank is the curator of the commercial edition of the diary published in 1947. For this edition, Otto Frank drew on his daughter’s first and rewritten version, but they are and remain exclusively Anne’s diary entries and short stories.”
Her organisation has spent five years preparing “an elaborate web version of the diary intended for publication once the copyright expires” – adding that this “will always take place within the framework of the law”.
Meanwhile in France, academics, lawyers and a politician are also mounting a challenge, believing that such important historical documents should be openly accessible. French politician Isabel Attard pledges to publish the diary material online on January 1 2016 on her website.
“According to his own account, Otto Frank did not write this book with her daughter,” she wrote. “He was given it when he returned from the camp … Can censoring passages of an existing book be regarded as the creation of a new work? It is up to a judge to decide.”
Olivier Ertzscheid, a lecturer at the University of Nantes, decided to post the diary on his blog to alert the public to the issue this month but withdrew it after a warning letter from a French publisher.
“On January 1, we will publish the original document in Dutch online, and we are also working on a new translation," he said. "I am not against authors’ rights, but the endless extension of these. In my opinion, suppressing passages does not make you a co-author.”
Yves Kugelmann, spokesman for the Anne Frank Fonds, said: “I understand that people in general think that every copy will be in the public domain after 70 years, but you have to check which rights are applicable in each territory.
"Legally speaking, he [Otto Frank] is co-author of his own book, and this will be protected until 2050.”
He added that the father’s edition has, in any case, been superseded by a 1991 edition which the body claims is in copyright for even longer. The foundation says it uses funds raised to support charities such as UNICEF.
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By Dorothy Borowy, Ecologist and Integrated Pest Management Coordinator for the National Capital Area
What is oak decline?
For centuries, oak trees (genus Quercus) have dominated forests of the Eastern United States. They are vital components of deciduous forest ecosystems and are one of North America's most valuable hardwoods. In recent years however, populations of many oak species have dramatically declined. Symptoms include early browning of leaves, thinning of canopy cover, and loss of branches, which can eventually lead to tree mortality. Understanding and preventing this phenomenon has been challenging, given that no single factor is responsible for what is generally defined as Oak Decline.
A host of stressors including climate, tree age, site conditions, and history of disease interact to weaken trees over time, ultimately leading to sudden* death when the tree’s resources are exhausted. This "death by a thousand cuts" makes prevention of oak decline difficult, as stressors can vary both over time and by location.
Invasive pests, drought, fire suppression, and soil compaction from human activities are among the primary factors influencing oak decline in our region in recent years. Although most healthy, mature oaks can contend with one or a few of these stressors, in combination, they weaken the tree and make it more susceptible to secondary factors, such as fungal and bacterial infections. In the National Capital Area, Armillaria root rot fungus, two-lined chestnut borer beetle (Agrilus bilineatus), and bacterial leaf scorch (caused by Xylella fastidiosa) are commonly blamed for killing oaks, even though they typically only attack trees that are already in a state of decline.
What can you do?
Despite these factors, there are ways to prevent oak decline; by maintaining oak trees in a healthy state you can limit the impact of different stressors. This may include,
- Removing invasive vines from trees
- Avoiding damage to tree limbs, trunk, and roots
- Monitoring trees for insect pests and fungal and bacterial infections
- Pruning damaged/diseased limbs
- Mulching around the base of trees to protect roots
- Watering trees during dry spells and limiting pesticide use
- Consulting with local forestry experts and ISA Certified Arborists for advice and assistance on tree-related issues
*Oak decline differs from Sudden Oak Death (SOD), which is caused by Phytophthora ramorum, a tree pathogen that is not present in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Appleton, Bonnie. Virginia Cooperative Extension. Twenty-four Ways to Kill a Tree.
Arlington, VA. 2019. Oak Decline
Chamberlin, Lori. Virginia Department of Forestry Oak Decline in Virginia
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by Sanam Anderlini
This short article was published in “Expansion or Contraction? Women’s Rights in the MENA Region in 2015” (Wilson Center, 8 March 2015). The full publication is available here.
2014 was a tough year in the MENA and Asia region, and 2015 will not be much better. Apart from Tunisia, where women fought successfully against the rising tide of conservatism, women — especially civil society human rights and peace activists — find themselves caught in the crosshairs of both non-state extremists and heavy-handed state authoritarianism. In Libya, many activists have fled after finding themselves on militias’ kill lists. In Iraq, ISIS continues to assert its authority, blatantly and grotesquely abusing women in the areas it controls. Local women’s organizations are overwhelmed with the demands of displaced and fleeing populations. In Egypt, the military regime continues to persecute and jail activists and journalists. In Syria, the war goes on and on, leaving widows in its wake.The irony is that while the international community claims to value women’s rights and respect women’s voices, it is the extremists who understand the power and influence of women. They actively recruit women to spread their ideology, while targeting and seeking to silence those who challenge them and speak out for equality.
The activists are exhausted and overwhelmed. But they recognize this is a critical juncture in their history. They will not let the future be shaped by autocrats, extremists, or international actors pursuing their own interests. So, in 2015, they will continue to pursue a vision of their countries that is rooted in respect for human rights, pluralism, peace, and democracy. As we mark 20 years since the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing and 15 years since the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, the international community should, once and for all, listen to the women. They are leading by example.
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Although accounting systems used in retail vary in complexity and expense, the basic requirements for an effective system remain the same. It may be a simplistic evaluation, but the best retail accounting systems are those that do what the retailer requires in a timely, secure, and user-friendly fashion.
Aligning record keeping systems with business directives
Selecting the appropriate record keeping system can be a challenging process for retailers. For the majority of store managers, the decision will be made for them, and their responsibility is to use the system as effectively as possible to support the achievement of business objectives.
The storage and recording of information on financial record keeping systems needs to be done by overarching business directives while complying with any relevant legislation that may prescribe the protection and privacy of personal information.
This is a fundamental requirement of retail record keeping systems and understanding and adhering to directives around what data is to be stored, how it is to be stored, who has access and how the information can be used to generate business reporting is essential.
Monitor sales, revenue and expenditure data
Early in the budget cycle, the retail managers should create key financial documents for the coming budget period.
The required documents are:
- Balance Sheet
- Profit and Loss
- Cash Flow reports
The key financial target areas are cash flow and profitability, and they need to be tested to evaluate whether targets are likely to be met. If results fail to meet targets, they must either change their plans or revise their targets, or both.
Once it appears that the targets will be met, more detailed budgets can be built with plans for running the business, (such as a category buying plan, a marketing plan, and training plan, etc.). When these three reports are used in this way, they are often called Pro-forma Budget Statements. At the end of the budget period, these statements are again prepared, this time comparing actual performance with the budgeted figures for previous periods.
The use of pro-forma budget statements can assist retail managers in monitoring sales, revenue, and expenditure data throughout the financial period in question. This is important as a frequent comparison of actual performance against budget targets allows managers to have an up to date take on the performance of their store relative to targets and a perspective on business that addresses areas of concern proactively.
One of the biggest problems facing small to medium sized retail businesses is the level of liquidity they have, or in other words, their ability to meet their financial obligations when they fall due. Often these businesses will still be trading and may show a profit on paper but find themselves insolvent.
The Cash Flow Statement tells how a business uses and generates its most important asset – cash. Without cash to pay the bills when they are due, a business cannot continue and must go into liquidation. Consequently, cash management is just as important as being able to generate profit.
Some argue that it is more important because it is possible to be profitable and still not have enough cash to continue to operate. However, being profitable does not by itself pay the bills. If cash is squandered (for example, by building a new store that costs a lot, but does not produce an increase in revenue), then the business will have to close if it has insufficient cash to pay its debts and meet its obligations.
As well as the core operations of a business, the Cash Flow Statement considers all other elements of the cash movement within an organisation. These can be grouped into three separate sub-headings:
- Cash flow from operations (trading or carrying out the core business).
- Cash flow from investing (buying and selling non-current assets).
- Cash Flow from financing activities (raising or retiring equity, or long-term debt).
Maintaining financial, personnel and payroll data
The security of personal data is stipulated by legislation, and internal business policies and procedures generally direct that of financial data.
There is no room for error in maintaining data of such sensitivity and importance.
Often personnel and payroll data will be stored in a human resources information system (HRIS) that may interface with the financial record keeping system of the business. For smaller retailers, this is less likely, and in those cases, it is essential that additional steps be taken to manage data sensitivity, accuracy, and privacy effectively.
If in doubt about the requirements of your business in the handling of personal and payroll data, please refer to your HR team as laws vary state to state and internal practices vary business to business.
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Johann Bessler, also known by his pseudonym, ORFFYREUS, is famous for having claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine - way back in 1712! New evidence suggests we should take his claims seriously. Although he died a pauper, still maintaining that his machine was real, he did say that he would rather die in poverty than just give his secret away. He added that if he could not sell his machiner and achieve the price he required he would trust that he would receive his reward posthumously. In furtherance of this wish he included numerous hints that his many published and unpublished works contain clues through which his machine might one day be rebuilt.
This web site consists of a number of speculations regarding his work. Each button will take you to a description of a different item which I believe is an example of an encoded piece of information. Despite the fact that the opinions expressed here are the result of logical deduction, not all of my deductions rest on the kind of solid proof sought by scientists, but nevertheless they might well stand up in a court of law. They are, rather, based on circumstantial evidence. I am satisfied with the evidence because of my familiarity with Besslerís thought processes, but I understand if some visitors to this site find my conclusions unproven in their current state.
The codes outlined here are only a fraction of the ones I have found so far and I donít think I have found all of them yet - and I certainly havenít decoded all of those I have found.
Bessler claimed that he had invented a perpetual motion machine in 1712 and there has never been any evidence produced that nullifies his claims - none that is, apart from the laws of physics which appear to rule out such devices. Those laws are inviolate so there must be a way achieving a working gravitywheel which does not come into conflict with them - and there is.
Please feel free to use these ideas in public discussion. All I aks is that you attrribute their source to me, John Collins, the author.
For more information about Johann Bessler and to obtain copies of his books with English translations go to www.free-energy.co.uk
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For most people, pre-installed phone software is a minor annoyance rather than a risk. It can be a lot more damaging than that though, and researchers from Kryptowire say they’ve have found 25 Android devices that come with vulnerabilities pre-installed.
Presenting their findings at the DEFCON hacker conference last week, the researchers revealed a surprising 38 different weaknesses right out of the box for phones from major manufacturers including Sony, LG, Essential, Asus and ZTE.
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“All of these are vulnerabilities that are prepositioned,” said Angelos Stavrou, CEO of Kryptowire at the conference earlier this month. “They come as you get the phone out the box. That’s important because consumers think they’re only exposed if they download something that’s bad.”
The most high-profile device highlighted was the LG G6, which, the researchers said, had three vulnerabilities, including one where an owner could be locked out of their phone, even in safe mode forcing a factory reset.
Meanwhile, a pre-installed Essential Phone app had a vulnerability which could allow any other app to wipe all the phone data via a factory reset. The Sony Xperia L1 and Nokia 6 TA-1025, meanwhile, had a weakness that could allow outsiders to take screenshots.
The Asus ZenFone 3 Max was arguably worst affected, according to the researchers. It was vulnerable to an exploit which could have allowed hackers to install any app, gather Wi-Fi passwords, install keyloggers, intercept text messages and make phone calls, they said.
Kryptowire disclosed the vulnerabilities to affected vendors, and patches have either already been deployed or are currently being worked on.
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But it’s important to note that this doesn’t wrap up the story. The real take-home is that these handsets had vulnerabilities pre-installed, and this is very likely just the tip of the iceberg.
With literally thousands of Android devices out there, it’s just not realistic for researchers to analyse every single one on the off-chance that the manufacturers have waved through possible vulnerabilities.
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Take 4 Steps When Dealing with a Tenant Hoarder
As the temperature starts dropping across the country, your site may be undertaking increased pest prevention treatments or inspections as pests, particularly rodents, start moving indoors. Unfortunately, some residents are not always diligent about reporting pest issues for reasons such as concerns about cost or lease violations.
Federal regulations require that HUD housing “must be decent, safe, sanitary and in good repair" [24 CFR §5.703]. And owners must maintain housing in a manner that meets certain physical condition standards [24 CFR §5.701(c)]. To meet these standards, it’s good practice for your site to perform regular pest and housekeeping inspections. Doing so can help identify residents with housekeeping issues that may be lending to a pest problem in the building.
This is especially the case with those residents with a hoarding disorder. A Compulsive Hoarding Disorder is the medical diagnosis for those who have difficulty in disposing of items others may feel are clutter, and excessively save items that many would deem worthless. This disorder can result in living situations that are compromised due to the hoarded items.
Hoarding things, regardless of what they may be, is a huge fire hazard and potential liability for management. HUD requires that all areas and components of housing be free of health and safety hazards. These include garbage and debris, infestation, fire hazards, mold, and other observable deficiencies. With all of those papers, cardboard, clothing, nooks, and crannies pests have an ideal place to live, as well as a possible food source. Clutter also affects the ability of exterminators to properly treat a unit for mice, roaches, or bed bugs.
Mental health experts disagree about the causes of extreme hoarding. Nevertheless, in most cases, a resident engaged in hoarding behavior will qualify as an individual with a disability under fair housing law, triggering your responsibility to try to work out a reasonable accommodation to allow him to continue to live there. There are limits to your obligations toward the tenant, but you’ll have to tread carefully—and document your efforts to work out a resolution—to prevent or defend yourself against a potential fair housing complaint.
We’ll explain how fair housing law may protect tenants engaged in hoarding, as well as the limits to those protections. We’ll also offer four steps you should take when you suspect a tenant is a compulsive hoarder.
Hoarding and Reasonable Accommodations
The underlying causes of clinical hoarding are many and varied—and often poorly understood. Most often, hoarding involves a mental impairment—such as obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety disorder, or chronic depression.
Some cases of compulsive hoarding seem to be related to the aging process: Mental health experts have coined the term “Diogenes Syndrome” to describe the stereotypical reclusive elderly person living in domestic squalor, often amid excessive clutter.
It’s important to remember that the Fair Housing Act’s (FHA) definition of “disability” encompasses a broad array of conditions—both physical and mental—that can account for hoarding behavior. And in some cases, hoarders may qualify under the FHA’s disability provisions simply because they’re regarded as having a disability.
Fair housing law offers an array of protections to an individual with a disability—chief among them is the right to a reasonable accommodation. Under the FHA, owners are required to alter their rules, policies, practices, or services when necessary to afford a person with a disability an equal opportunity to use and enjoy her housing.
In hoarding cases, for example, an owner may be asked to hold off on eviction proceedings to allow enough time for the tenant to clean the place out. Assuming it’s safe to do so, the owner may have to grant the request—made by or on behalf of the tenant—because there’s an identifiable relationship between the requested accommodation and the tenant’s disability.
Even if a tenant qualifies under the disability provisions, an owner isn’t required to grant an accommodation request if it’s unreasonable, which means that it would impose an undue financial and administrative burden on the owner or result in a fundamental alteration of its operations.
Furthermore, the FHA doesn’t protect an individual with a disability whose tenancy poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others or substantial physical damage to the property of others, unless the threat may be eliminated or significantly reduced by a reasonable accommodation. If the hoarder fails or refuses to clean the apartment, despite your best efforts to accommodate his requests for more time, then you have a right to protect the health and safety of other tenants as well as avoid further property damage to the apartment and surrounding areas.
Step #1: Identify and Investigate Potential Hoarding Problems
Because compulsive hoarders are often socially isolated, hoarding can be difficult to detect. Train your staff to be vigilant for any signs of hoarding behavior by your tenants. Hoarders rarely come forward on their own, partly because the nature of the illness prevents them from seeing that their behavior or living conditions are a problem.
Since hoarding problems usually don’t surface until the effects seep outside the hoarders’ apartments—and into hallways or neighboring apartments—the observations of staff members are crucial to detect hoarding problems. During their routine duties, your staff may notice excess clutter or noxious odors in hallways and common areas that seem to be emanating from a particular apartment. Train your staff to report such problems immediately, so that you’ll be able to address the issue at the earliest stage possible.
For the same reason, pay attention to similar complaints from neighbors, particularly when they’re localized next door or on the floors above and below a particular apartment. Hoarding isn’t limited to common possessions, such as clothing, newspapers, or plastic bags; some people hoard garbage and rotting food—even animals or human waste products.
Some managers may be reluctant to get involved with tenants who begin hoarding. While there seems to be a simple solution to remove what appears to be junk, those with clinical hoarding problems experience extreme distress at the prospect of losing their treasured possessions. It can be frustrating and time consuming to work with tenants who don’t see their hoarding as a problem and ignore or resist any attempts to interfere with their behavior or possessions.
Nevertheless, hoarding problems only get worse if left unattended. Your city, county, or state may specify certain minimum standards of cleanliness, access, and safety that must be met or a person can be evicted. For example, in New York City, there are Housing Maintenance Code violations related to blocking doors to public hallways, unsanitary conditions, pest infestations, and storage of combustibles. Abiding by the rules helps reduce the risk of fire, structural damage to the building, and disease, injury, and infestation.
Step #2: Document the Extent of Problem
One of the most important things an owner can initially do is to try to document the complaints and conditions. You should keep a record of housekeeping notices sent to the resident. These notices should highlight the health, safety, and sanitary provisions in the lease. Also, it’s a good idea when issuing housekeeping-related lease violations, you have standards in your policy or house rules, and not just the lease.
Also, have tenants who lodge complaints memorialize those complaints with letters. Building staff should submit written memos to management and photograph the conditions, if possible. Often, security cameras can be used to document the dates and times of the occurrences. Footage may show a steady stream of items being brought into an apartment and nothing leaving. The information collected is necessary both for trial and for the preparation of a fact-specific notice of termination.
Step #3: Promptly Respond to Reasonable Accommodation Requests
Fair housing laws may require you to try to work out a reasonable accommodation to allow the tenant to clean out the apartment in order to preserve her residency. Obvious signs of unsafe and unsanitary hoarding may be bad enough to suggest that the tenant has some type of disability. In hoarding cases, it’s usually a request from the tenant or a family member to delay legal action against the tenant to give her more time to clean out the apartment.
These requests should usually be granted but depending on the health and safety risks involved, you may not have to grant the request. Regardless, you do have to take the accommodation requests seriously by responding formally and promptly.
To keep things on track, an accommodation plan should allow for periodic inspections. When the owner is satisfied upon a scheduled inspection that the premises are cleaned up sufficiently to remove violations and in essence ‘cure’ a nuisance, you can put the tenant on a ‘probationary stipulation’ whereby interval inspections for the probationary period are required of the tenant to establish that the tenant has complied with the terms of the probation by refraining from re-creating any of the conditions as alleged in the petition. Hoarding is notoriously difficult to treat, and recurrences are common, so frequent inspections may help ward off future problems.
An agreement should also spell out consequences for failing to maintain the apartment as agreed—for example, by giving you the right to reinstate eviction proceedings if the tenant fails to maintain the premises.
Step #4: Initiate Subsidy Termination/Holdover Proceeding if Remediation Efforts Fail
If the tenant ignores warnings about lease violations or otherwise fails to abide by any informal efforts to resolve hoarding problems, you can terminate the resident’s subsidy for noncompliance with the decent, safe, and sanitary requirements in the lease. The resident’s rent should go to market rate and, if the resident is unable to pay, then you can initiate proceedings to recover possession of the apartment for nonpayment of rent. Be sure to document your compliance with notice provisions and other legal requirements imposed by state and local law.
It’s also important to have documentation of direct damage to the property; blocking emergency exits; interfering with ventilation or sprinkler systems; storing potentially explosive or other unsafe materials; keeping perishable goods in a manner that could attract mold or rodents; or housing animals in a way that violates the law or lease agreement. The documentation can include pictures, descriptions, and witness testimony.
A court also could ask what you have done to accommodate the resident. You can provide documentation of your accommodation plan to meet the burden of proof that you reasonably accommodated the resident. Or even after legal proceedings have begun, however, you should be prepared for an 11th-hour request to delay eviction proceedings to allow the tenant more time to clean up the apartment. Because hoarders are resistant to parting with their possessions, it often takes official legal proceedings that threaten their continued residency to prompt them to do something to remedy the problem. Nevertheless, there are limits on your obligation to accommodate tenants whose hoarding behavior poses ongoing safety and health hazards to other tenants.
Remember that the FHA doesn’t offer protection to a tenant with a disability whose tenancy amounts to a “direct threat” to the health or safety of other individuals or would result in substantial physical damage to the property of others unless the threat can be eliminated or significantly reduced by reasonable accommodation. To determine whether a tenant with a hoarding problem poses a direct threat, the owner must make an individualized assessment—based on reliable, objective evidence, such as current conduct or recent history of overt acts. HUD says that the assessment must consider:
- The nature, duration, and severity of the risk of injury;
- The probability that injury will occur; and
- Whether there are reasonable accommodations that will eliminate the direct threat.
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Initially, we aimed to promote awareness of the White Ribbon Campaign by preparing a presentation for high school students about women’s issues. This presentation would have included background information about violence against women, including recent news stories in addition to the personal tales of victims. We would then explain how to identify when a woman has suffered abuse and what to do to help them; this situation occurs more frequently than most people expect and it helps greatly when the victim has someone she is able to confide in about her situation.
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Bernd Hoefflinger became an Assistant Professor at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA, after completing his Ph.D. at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. He was a co-founder of the MOS Division of Siemens in Munich, and founded the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Dortmund, Germany, which houses the first Ion-Implanted BiCMOS production line. After serving as Head of the Electrical Engineering Departments at the University of Minnesota and then at Purdue University in Indiana, he established the Institute of Microelectronics Stuttgart, Germany, as the first ISO 9000-certified research and manufacturing facility – a leader in ASICs, HDR vision, and e-beam-driven nanotechnology.
Boris Murmann received his Ph.D. degree from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2003, and serves as a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research interests are in mixed-signal integrated circuit design, with a focus on sensor interfaces, data converters, and custom circuits for embedded machine learning. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, an AdCom member and a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society, as well as the Data Converter Subcommittee Chair and the Technical Program Chair of the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). He is a Fellow of the IEEE. | <urn:uuid:cee9a597-3b2a-4247-b10b-d096660a6170> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-18338-7?error=cookies_not_supported&code=32828e7b-af9e-41a3-bc79-f51960af3eaa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953879 | 292 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Restore and Protect Coasts and Forest Habitats. Link to Regenerative Agriculture. Create Sustainable Ecosystems and Economies.
Belize, located on the Caribbean coast of Central America, has more than 80 ecosystem types and nearly 100 habitats mapped. These range from lowland broad-leaved dry forests to lowland savannas; mangroves, wetlands, and seagrasses; and agriculture, silviculture, and mariculture classes.
Tourism and recreation (e.g., coral reef diving expeditions, relaxing at coasts lined with mangroves, and sports fishing) contributes to nearly a quarter of Belize’s GDP and is critical to trade balance and foreign exchange (FOREX). Agriculture is the second-most important economic sector and employs 18% of the Belizean population. An estimated four percent (4%) of GDP is lost due to the increased frequency and intensity of climate-related effects, such as hurricanes, droughts, and floods, that devastate coastlines and crops.
In 2018, 52% of Belizeans were living in poverty. The COVID-19 pandemic further contributed to poor economic conditions as illness spread and tourism dropped.
- Although Belize has more than 80 unique ecosystems, the land is facing incursions that are destroying diverse habitats. Despite 90% of the nation still forested, habitats are in danger.
- Encountering major challenges (e.g., poverty, high unemployment, hurricane damage, depleted land, climate change impact).
- World’s second-largest reef is threatened by the loss of protective mangroves on the coast and around islands.
The initial project is to create a pattern for the future that goes on a national scale.
- Replant 4,500 hectares of coastal mangrove forests alongside a 50-meter minimum riparian forest buffer on the land (1500 hectares) to minimize storm damage, protect reefs, restore fisheries, preserve the coastline and its islands.
- Develop multispecies forest management system to support sustainable wood stocks, including mahogany. Structure to provide a development buffer to local wild habitats.
- Activate comprehensive monitoring and reporting for 300,000 hectares of private and publicly protected forests of Belize (25%).
- Replant 10,000 hectares of protected forest land.
- Introduce regenerative agriculture, starting with around 1,000 hectares of 200 farmers. Special attention will be given to agroforestry and permaculture, increasing tree cover and reducing soil erosion.
- 4,500 hectares of mangrove forests restored
- 10,000 hectares of habitat restored
- 1,500 hectares of coastal forests restored
- Agroforestry introduced for 200 families covering 1000 ha.
- 300,000 hectares of protected areas (25% of existing areas) receive monitoring and support
- Government agencies and communities receive funding exceeding US $1 million per year for carbon leases based on the reforestation completed in their areas.
- More than 500 jobs created.
This scientist is collecting a sediment core to assess carbon sequestration rates in the sediment of a tidal seagrass bed.
Coastal wetlands of tidal marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests form some of the world’s most productive ecosystems, sequestering carbon at an estimated annual rate ten times greater than mature tropical forests. Studies suggest these wetlands also store three to five times more carbon per equivalent area than tropical forests. The soil stores most of the blue carbon, not the plant material above-ground. When these essential ecosystems are damaged, their carbon sink capacity is diminished or lost and CO2 is released back into the atmosphere.Read More: Terrazone
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Reviving Degraded Lands for Community Resilience
Our projects cover a wide range of environments, from tropical to temperate, coastlines to highlands, mining lands to national parks, and regenerative agriculture to coral reefs, and they range across all economic levels.
Our company is proud to participate in Initiative 20×20. We stand alongside other partners who have created more than 100 land restoration and forest conservation projects in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Our partial list of projects in the pipeline includes:
- Indonesia: Recovery of mining lands and mangroves
- Malawi: Regenerative agriculture and protection of national parks
- Philippines: Recovery of bamboo and mangrove forests
- USA: Restoration of mining lands in a mountainous area
- Zambia: Restoration and protection of parks in multiple nations
We invite you to contact Spades with your large-scale reforestation development project. Let’s discuss how Ecofit biotech, available only at Spades, helps take the guesswork out of tree growing success. Ecofit has been laboratory tested across over 400 species in 30 ecosystems globally – from deserts to tropical rain forests to dry savannahs and highlands.
FMNR Restores River
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Should I choose fixed rates for electricity & gas?
When making a choice for your electricity & gas supply, you can choose either variable rates, or fixed rates. Should you choose fixed rates? Are they the best option?
Fixed rates are offered only by retail energy suppliers (alternate suppliers), and enable customers to postpone the increase in electricity and gas prices, whereas variable rates depend on the market. If you do choose a variable rate, it is better to remain with your utility company. Switching to a retail supplier is also a good idea if you would like to benefit from promotions, or to purchase electricity guaranteed from green sources.
Understanding all types of rates
The main choice you have when it comes to your electricity or gas bill is to either remain with your utility company, or switch to a an alternate supplier (called a retail energy supplier).
Utility companies by default sign you up with a variable rate. In some cases you can also apply for a time-of-use plan. Nevertheless, this may require a change of electricity/gas meter, and is not recommended by utility companies. Otherwise, you can switch to alternate supplier, which will offer you both variable and fixed rates, as well as different promotions, and offers on green electricity.
Utility variable rates
By default, the rate you are signed up to with your utility company is a variable rate. This means that the price you pay per kWh for the supply of electricity or gas is not a fixed price per kWh. It varies with the market. When the value on the wholesale market is high, your electricity/gas supply price will be high, and vice versa. Usually, the prices vary on a seasonal basis. When it is cold, demand is high for heating, so prices go up. When it is hot, demand is high too, but rather for air-conditioning, and prices go up as well. Prices are lower usually during spring and autumn, when the temperatures are mild.
During extreme weather conditions, energy prices will go up.
Seasonal changes affect the electricity prices. Also, there is a regular average increase in the electricity prices on a yearly basis.
Seasonal changes affect the gas prices even more than the electricity prices.
In addition to that, your own consumption will increase, since you must use more energy to heat/cool your home. The combination of higher energy prices and a higher demand will make your bill significantly higher during extreme weather months. This is why a fixed rate may be of interest.
Utility time-of-use rates
Time-of-use plans are described in detail in our dedicated article. They nevertheless are not usually recommended by the utility companies, and neither are they recommended by us, unless you are prepared to substantially change your consumption habits. With a time-of-use plan, energy prices will be a fixed low value during the night, called off-peak rate, and a fixed high value during the day, called peak-rate. This can bring you savings if you consume most of your energy during the night, but even then the peak rate is quite high, so the savings will be minimal.
Time-of-use rates are not frequently recommended by utility companies
Alternate supplier variable rates
Alternate suppliers also offer variable rates. In principle, they are the same as the variable rates offered by the utility company: they follow the price of the market, plus a small fixed charge to pay for the purchasing expenses of the supplier (sometimes called a merchant function charge). Nevertheless in practice, there are cases of retail suppliers increasing the variable rate high above the market value, without justification. Most customer complaints you might have heard concerning retail suppliers come from this unethical practice. You must carefully read the terms & conditions, which we can help you with. Even though most suppliers do not follow this practice, many are not specific in their terms & conditions. In any case, if you do sign up with a genuine retail supplier, your savings compared to a utility company variable rate will be minimal.
Variable rates with retail suppliers is not recommended, they offer more instability and can end up costing you more than remaining with your utility company.
Alternate supplier fixed rates
The main added value of alternate suppliers for your energy expenses is that, unlike utility companies, they offer fixed rates. When signed up with a fixed rate, the price of the kWh will be agreed upon at the signature of the contract, and will not change for the whole duration of the contract. Your usage will still increase and decrease, which will affect your energy bill, but the price of the energy you are purchasing will remain constant.
Fixed rates tend to be slightly more expensive than variable rates on average, but they offer the assurance of stability.
Also, due to the ever increasing prices of natural resources, the price of electricity on the wholesale market increases every year. Variable rates are affected by this change, and in addition to the seasonal variations, the price will on average increase over time. If you are signed up on a fixed rate with a contract length of 1 or 2 years, you will see yourself paying the same price for electricity or gas, whereas other will be paying increasing prices over time.
For more specific information on variable rates, you can check our page: Are Variable Rates a Good Idea?
Electricity fixed rates. Should you choose them?
Yes. Electricity fixed rates are a good idea if you want to make long term savings. They are on average a bit more expensive than variable rates with your utility company, but enable you to avoid seasonal changes in the market prices and the long term increase in electricity prices. Electricity fixed rates are the only rates which can offer you electricity from green sources. Most retail suppliers offer rates where which are slightly more expensive than regular fixed rates, and that guarantee that your electricity comes from renewable sources.
Offers you can choose
- Typical options for fixed electricity rates:
- Choice of the contract length: between 3, 6, 12, 18, 24, or 36 month contracts.
- With or without cancellation fees: when it exists, the cancellation fee can be a fixed amount (usually around 100$, although this will depend on the supplier), or based on the amount of months left till the end of your contract. This can be anything between 5$ and 20$ per month left.
- Goes to variable at the end of the contract period: this is a choice we usually do not recommend, as it may incur unexpected costs, and suppliers who do that do not necessarily notify you of this.
- Green electricity: Green energy rates guarantee that your electricity comes from renewable sources. In reality, it is impossible to say where your electricity comes from, if it has several sources (much like tap water). But part of what you pay with a green electricity rate will go into purchasing carbon credits. A carbon credit is a certificate showing that a government or company has paid to have a certain amount of carbon dioxide removed from the environment (Collins dictionnary). This is why green electricity rates tend to be slightly more expensive than regular rates. Nevertheless, it is a positive contribution to the environment. You can usually choose between different renewable proportions (25%, 50%, or 100% renewable), and sometimes you can choose which energy (wind, solar, or hydro).
- Introductory period: An introductory period 1 month (or more) may exist. During that period, you can resign from your contract without any cancellation fee, or benefit from reduced rates, or be reimbursed a certain amount if you prove that the supplier has cost you more money than your utility company. The advantages of the introductory period are different for each supplier.
Natural gas fixed rates. Should you choose them?
Yes. Natural gas prices on the market tend to vary more than electricity prices. This is because most houses in the US are heated with natural gas: during cold seasons, the heating is turned on, and during warm seasons, it is almost entirely turned off. Electricity on the other hand is needed all year long.
Due to the greater variations in gas prices on the market, it is an intelligent strategy to sign up with an alternate supplier for gas. Your bill will greatly profit from the stability in the gas prices, and you will still have low bills in the summer when your demand is low. Nevertheless, you will not profit from low gas prices in seasons during which gas prices are low on the market.
Offers you can choose
- The typical options for fixed natural gas rates are the same as for electricity, apart from the clean gas rates:
- Clean gas: even though natural gas is a fossil fuel, it is the least polluting fossil fuel (compared to coal, or petroleum based fuels). The small amount of pollution it emits is paid for as the supplier purchases carbon credits to obtain the status "clean gas". This may slightly increase the price of the gas you are paying for, but is a positive contribution to the environment. You can usually choose between different carbon offset percentages: 25%, 50%, or 100%.
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Broadly used within Senior Care Organizations.
Motiview is now being used at numerous locations across Canada with hundreds of others across the UK, the Nordics, Asia and Australia. The benefits have been documented through extensive use and several projects; Improved mobility; Fewer falls; Faster rehabilitation; Increased appetite; Reduced obesity; Reduction in aggressive behaviour and medication; Better sleep; Less pain; Improved physical, mental and social well-being; Inspiring for carers and family.
The Motiview concept is used in a variety of organizations. As of today, seniors living in long term care, residential care, assisted living houses, using adult day activity centres, receiving home care or using their local leisure centre are cycling to the global video library – getting healthier and more empowered each day.
The concept is developed so it can be tailored to each site, both in terms of set up and usage. And supporting the sites in successful implementation and usage is at the core of what we deliver.
Tailored support and training is provided to care home staff to ensure the confidence and capability to support the behaviour change of the residents.
Working closely with the sites that start using Motiview is key for us, meaning that we offer training and support for free for all our user sites. In addition, we have a high focus on sharing learning and inspirational initiatives to foster new ideas and to build stronger alliances within the care sector. Working closely with the sector and the staff are still a core part of our mission, meaning both ensuring support and inspirational training around the use of Motview for the sites, as well as transferring knowledge and insight from the sector when further developing the concept.
We want to build and run a global community for our users, care providers, governmental bodies, and other partners who share in our vision of focusing on abilities instead of disabilities when it comes to aging. We are adamant to give more seniors the ability to partake in initiatives that foster mastery and improve self-efficacy, such as the Road Worlds for Seniors – even though they might live in a long term care home. Since Motiview first was developed based on our collaboration with the Agency of Nursing Homes in the city of Bergen, Norway in 2013, our mission has been to support seniors and care staff to enable more physical activity, mental stimulation and social connectedness.
Easy to use - High impact
The simple, but innovative use of technology gives a sense of fun and increased self-efficacy with high-quality personalized videos, evoking memories, providing an immersive experience and creating a social norm for incorporating physical activity into their everyday lives. This contributes significantly to the enjoyment and social aspects as the Motiview set up becomes the community hub with the senior cyclists sharing stories with each other about the area and music as they cycle through it.
This appears to be providing some of the “social glue” that ensures the cyclists continue physical activity week-after-week and that it’s not just due to the initial “novelty”.
Innovative technology made easy
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Good Courage Farm, located 68 miles from the Twin Cities, is a fully-functional farm in partnership with the Episcopal Church. The farmers use organic and increasingly regenerative methods to grow lots of perennial food crops. The 18-acre farmstead is home to cats, dogs, ducks, goats and a few stray peafowl, as well as a myriad of other creatures – songbirds, frogs, grasshoppers, bats and more!
Located in Hutchinson, a major part of Good Courage Farm’s mission is to share the food that they produce. They donate a large portion of their crops to Minnesota food pantries, including First Nations Kitchen (one of their major food partners).
The farm is looking for some volunteers over the next few weeks to aid in some work directly relating to the crops to be donated to First Nations Kitchen (two of which are apples and potatoes). Volunteers can work partial or full days, lunch and lemonade are provided – and you can spend your breaks petting the goats, watching the peahens trying to get into the barn, or being amused by the team of adolescent tuxedo ducks. This is truly a magical place, and they need our help!
Reach out to St. John’s seminary intern Laura Natta via text or telephone at 417-849-3474 to support the vision and seed the future – and help First Nations Kitchen at the same time.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Grace and peace,
Laura Natta, Ph.D.
Episcopal Diocese of California
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What is Canola Oil?
Learn more about one of the world's healthiest cooking oils in this two minute video.
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Canola oil comes from the seeds of the canola plant. Once harvested, canola seeds are crushed and the oil contained within the seed is extracted. The average canola seed is 45% oil.
Canola oil is heart-healthy. It has the least saturated fat of any common cooking oil. In fact, it has less than half the saturated fat of olive or soybean oil. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized a qualified health claim for canola oil's ability to reduce the risk of heart disease when used in place of saturated fat. Click here for more information about canola oil's health and nutritional characteristics.
Canola oil is ideal for any type of cooking
From salad dressings to sautéing, canola oil's neutral taste and light texture make it a great match for just about everything. Furthermore, its high heat tolerance means you can use canola oil for anything from baking to stir-frying to deep-frying or grilling. Click here for our collection of great recipes and information about cooking with canola oil.
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Canola oil is used around the world
In fact, it is the number one cooking oil in Canada and Japan, while number two in Mexico and the United States. Overall, it is the third most consumed cooking oil in the world.
There is a global need for healthier foods
With worldwide issues like cardiovascular disease and diabetes, a simple change like using a healthier cooking oil can help to make a difference.
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The constitution Of India clearly states that elementary education is a fundamental right of children in the age of 6-14 years. In order to meet the demands of the growing population, India has about 688,000 primary schools and 100,000 secondary schools. If the statistics are taken into account, then two third of the children, of the school-going age, are admitted to schools. But the reality of the situation is that most of them leave school halfway or do not attend regularly. So, even though the government is trying its best to uphold basic education for all, some issues remain unsolved.
The social conditions in India do not encourage education. Poverty clouds the minds of majority of India's population and therefore earning quick money to relief the burden of family life is more important than education. Many children who are enrolled for primary education have to drop out simply to support their families.
Even though the Government has made considerable efforts, girls' education is India is still a concern. India being a patriarchal society, the orthodox families of the rural areas refuse to send their girls to schools. They are married off as soon as they reach a marriageable age or in some cases, child marriage also takes place. Lack of basic education leads to lack of awareness of social and human rights and therefore leads to tolerance of abuse.
One of the primary issues with elementary education in India is the child labour. The Government of India has banned child labour in all forms yet it rears its ugly head time and again. It hampers the basic education of the child. Some of the children enrolled in schools do part time jobs and are unable to concentrate on the lessons taught in school.
Lack Of facilities
India lacks the infrastructure to support the minds of its youth. The rural areas have few schools and sometimes, children have to travel from villages far away to attend school. Most of the guardians refuse to send their children to these schools for the fear of safety. Basic amenities like water, electricity and proper food are missing from these educational centres. There has been many a case where the food or water provided by the school has caused health problems in students.
Lack of good teaching faculties
Good education can only be imparted when good teachers take on the responsibility of teaching the youth. At present, the rural areas lack good quality teachers who want better infrastructure, better working conditions and better pay. Sadly, the authorities fail to provide to their needs and they leave for better positions.
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Discussion Assignment #6 Due Saturday night at 2359
Our discussion question is as follows:
Chapter 20: Inferential Analysis & Chapter 21: Analyzing qualitative data
What type of analysis you are conducting in your research studies? What are the advantages and disadvantages of both inferential analysis and qualitative analysis?
Hi.. attached is phase one of my research so you have an idea what type of research it is.
Book: Publication Manual American Psychological Association (APA) (7th ed.). 2020. ISBN-13:978-1433832161. ISBN-10: 143383216X
Ruth M. Tappen. (2015). Nursing Research. Advanced Nursing Research: From Theory to Practice. (2nd ed.). ISBN-13: 9781284048308. ISBN-10: 1284048306. Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
How to Reduce Heparin Drips Administration Errors
Florida National University
How to Reduce Heparin Drips Administration Errors
Introduction and problem statement
Heparin is an anticoagulant drug used for various uses, including thromboembolic prophylaxis and treatment and the management of central venous access. It comes in different concentrations (1000 units/mL or greater) for therapeutic and prophylactic usage and lower concentrations, that is 100 units/mL or less, used in heparin lock flushing solutions. Heparin administration is greatly associated with medical errors resulting in severe consequences on patients' health (Warnock & Huang, 2019, p. 49). Three high-profile occurrences involving this medicine at three prominent US institutions brought safety concerns about heparin use to the forefront. The Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) 03.05.01, "lower the chances of patient harm due to anticoagulant medication use," emphasizes the safe anticoagulant therapy use and monitoring.
Despite a previous attempt in a large Midwestern hospital to develop standard heparin administration procedures using a computerized system, errors continued to occur at unacceptably high rates. Heparin Error Reduction Workgroup (HERW) was formed in 2002, by pharmacists, staff nurses, and cardiologists. The HERW hired consultants of human factors to conduct an analysis of the human factors process of heparin administration among the nursing staff (Treiber & Jones, 2018, p. 159). Between 1999 and 2003, heparin was the most commonly used medicine in 14,800 ED medication mistakes.
Heparin is a medication that, if used wrongly, can result in serious hemorrhagic complications. Over five years, heparin dosing in large metropolitan hospitals with evolution has become more difficult. Heparin was formerly prescribed and monitored unevenly by physicians (Lee & Riley, 2021, p. 515). Heparin dose regimens were established and applied to ensure standardized dosing, optimized therapy, and reduced hazards. The dosing methods grew in number as heparin administration became more sophisticated and patient-specific. The protocols were originally only available on written paper. The benefits of computerized access in drug administration were exploited to improve protocol delivery and boost upgrade efficiency. Interactive computer software was developed to make protocol usage easier.
Three premature newborns died due to drug errors in an Indiana hospital that drew national attention. The Heparin overdoses were accidentally given to newborns because the incorrect strength was utilized to prepare umbilical line flushing solutions. The mistake occurred when 1 mL vials were accidentally put in a unit-based automated dispensing cabinet (ADC) where heparin 10,000 units/ml, 1 ml vials were commonly kept (Lee & Riley, 2021, p. 519). Nothing can take away the families' pain in the aftermath of this unfortunate tragedy, and this keeps reminding us of the necessity to take precautions and closer examination of heparin use in our institutions.
The use of heparin includes;
· Prevention of enlargement of existing clots.
· Treatment and prevention of pulmonary emboli and deep venous thrombosis (Warnock & Huang, 2019, p. 49).
· Decreasing the risk of the development of blood clots.
· Maintaining patency of indwelling venous catheters.
The significance of Heparin administration errors administration to nursing.
Medicine errors can happen during any stage of the process of medication administration, including prescribing, transcription, dispense, and administration. However, previous researches have shown that pharmaceutical errors are more frequent during the phase of drug administration. This is because nurses administer the majority of the drugs. Heparin, for instance, is commonly administered and monitored by nurses (Warnock & Huang, 2019, p. 49). The nurses receive the clients’ medication upon prescription and dispatch and administer. Nurses can ensure improved patient safety through interruption of medication errors before reaching the client through adhering with six drug delivery rights and reporting of the problem.
Nurses confront problems in many facets of their work, particularly when safely providing and monitoring medications. General drug information and knowledge, formal nursing education, continuous education needs, clinical area experience, and nursing shortage nationwide are all recognized to impact client drug administration (Santomauro et al., 2021, p. 449). Other causes include technological advancements and quality-improvement programs. Patient safety is becoming more important, especially regarding medication therapies and high-alert drugs like unfractionated heparin (UFH). Specific UFH administration treatments can improve patient care management. Nurses are generally in a good position to spot pharmaceutical errors because they are on the front lines of patient care. On the other hand, nurses must work closely with other healthcare providers to achieve their goals.
The nurses should countercheck the medication dosage and administer them in the correct dosage. The nurses may prepare the heparin with different strengths wrongly, thus resulting in various errors. In addition, the preparation and administration of heparin differ in different types of heparin strengths. The errors also occur due to storage of heparin with different strengths in one place, poor documentation of the prescribed heparin in the ED, lack of individual/ independent double-checking of the heparin administration dosage, and incorrect programming of the infusion pumps (Gray, 2018, p. 369). These errors often occur among the nursing staff. Therefore, nurses should consistently check and document the heparin before administering it to the client. They should also independently double-check the heparin to prevent medication dose calculation errors. They should also ensure that the infusion pumps are correctly programmed to prevent over coagulation of the client’s blood.
The purpose of this research is to evaluate the causes of heparin drip administration errors and the ways through which these errors can be reduced. The heparin drips administration errors are very common and result in serious complications, at times, death of the clients. Despite the improvement in the majority of the errors that occur with heparin administration, such as the wrong client, several other errors have occurred with the administration of the heparin medication. 2.01 errors occur in 1000 heparin doses charged. The errors occur due to the incorrect handling of the heparin medication by different hospital personnel, such as pharmacists and physicians; however, most of the errors often occur from the nursing staff (Litman, 2018, p. 439). Therefore, the research paper aims to determine the causes of these errors and how to prevent them from occurring.
The research purposes to answer the following research questions;
1. What is the prevalence of heparin drips administration errors?
2. What are the factors associated with heparin drip administration errors?
3. How can heparin drip administration errors be prevented?
Intravenous heparin is used in the prevention of thrombosis in various clinical settings. It is considered a high-risk medication used in inpatient settings, commonly critical care units. The variation in the heparin administration protocols contributes to the majority of the drug errors associated with serious complications and mortalities. Some of these causes include drug dose calculation and preparation errors. Some of the prevention of heparin drip infusion errors include independent double-checking of the medication dose and preparation, correct programming of the infusion pumps, and clear documentation of the administered heparin dosage. However, there is a need to find out more about errors associated with heparin administration, their causes, and prevention to reduce the complications that occur with the errors.
Gray, G. (2018). Commentary: Improving Care through Innovations in Infusion Systems. Biomedical Instrumentation & Technology, 52(5), 366-371.
Lee, M. H., & Riley, W. (2021). Factors associated with errors in the heparin dose-response test: recommendations to improve individualized heparin management in cardiopulmonary bypass. Perfusion, 36(5), 513-523.https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32909506/
Litman, R. S. (2018). How do we prevent medication errors in the operating room? Take away the human factor. British Journal of Anaesthesia, 120(3), 438-440. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29452799/
Santomauro, C., Powell, M., Davis, C., Liu, D., Aitken, L. M., & Sanderson, P. (2021). Interruptions to intensive care nurses and clinical errors and procedural failures: A controlled study of causal connection. Journal of Patient Safety, 17(8), e1433-e1440. 441-461. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30113425/
Treiber, L. A., & Jones, J. H. (2018). Making an infusion error. Journal of Infusion Nursing, 41(3), 156-163. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29659462/
Warnock, L. B., & Huang, D. (2019). Heparin. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30855835/
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CodeMeter 6 introduced the new type of Firm Code for different CmContainers, which can be stored either in CodeMeter hardware (CmDongle) or in a soft license (CmActLicense). The new Universal Firm Code allows licenses to be transferred, temporarily or permanently, without having to involve the original software vendor in the process. Licenses can also be nested within each other to make it easier to move or borrow multiple licenses in a single step.
Universal Firm Code
In order to transfer licenses between CodeMeter hardware and software license containers, both sides need the same cryptographic capabilities. This is why a new type of Firm Code was developed: The licenses of the Universal Firm Code (Firm Code from 6.000.000 and higher) are produced as certificates modeled after the X.509 standard. All keys are stored with asymmetrical cryptographic keys in the certificate so that they can only be decrypted by the right CmContainer. Usually, licenses are not transferrable. The software vendor has to allow the transfer explicitly. In order to be able to transfer a license from one CmContainer to another, the option has to be approved in the license by the original vendor. The vendor determines which types of CmContainers can receive the license and whether the key for further transfers down the line is also passed onto the new CmContainer.
Moving and Borrowing
Currently, two types of license transfers are supported: moving and borrowing. When a license is borrowed, it is transferred by a sender to a receiver for a defined period of time. When that time has elapsed, the license automatically becomes invalid for the receiver and reverts back to the original sender. When moving licenses, they remain permanently with the receiver. If the software vendor allows the option, this can be done several times. The licenses can also be returned back to the sender.
Certificates are also used when transferring licenses. If the transfer is legitimate, the CmContainer with the original license (associated with the sender) will have a private key that confirms to the new recipient of the license (the receiver) that he has transferred the correct license. All keys contained in this process are encrypted for this specific receiver and cannot be read or used by any other CmContainer.
In order to transfer all licenses required for an application in one step, Nested Product Items are defined for the Universal Firm Code. Any license (Product Item) can now have several other licenses allocated to it, forming a permanent unit that can only be borrowed or transferred together. The receiver automatically gets all the licenses he needs. Nested licenses inherit the attributes of their parent licenses. If a time limit is set for the parent license, it applies to all licenses nested in it. The license counter also behaves according to the new system: If a nested license is not given a dedicated license quantity, using it will mark one license from the pool of the parent license as used. | <urn:uuid:591ad383-1668-4a41-8329-daf09e9883f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wibu.com/uk/resources/magazine/keynote-articles/article/detail/codemeter-610-1.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.921947 | 608 | 1.5 | 2 |
I thought I’d write a few words about the apostrophe-s construction. I observe a range of editorial views on the issue, and I’m not entirely clear why some of them are held. So here’s my take.
Consider the following extract, perhaps from sone pulp thriller:
“He’s got a gun! He’s going to shoot!”
“Let’s run for it! That gun’s accuracy is only good over short distances”
[Yes, that was a shot you heard during that last long sentence. C’mon – it’s fake pulp.]
There are four examples of “‘s” in those two lines, which I presume were negotiated seamlessly.
“He HAS got a gun! He IS going to shoot!”
“Let US run for it! That gun HAS AN accuracy THAT is only good over short distances”
The usual use of apostrophe-s is to blur the distinction between HAS and IS, often as a link-word. The structure of the clue would be:
[Definition] HAS [wordplay]
(naturally, the puzzle I have to hand has not a single example in it, dammit)
with the surface reading of the clue inclining towards the IS (or, less often, the possessive). Given the seamlessness above, this sort of misdirection seems fine to me.
The US interpretation remains underused. It always catches me out when it does occur, and I never remember it when I’m writing clues myself! Nevertheless apostrophe-s strikes me as an example of everyday usage that people are surprised by when required to look at it more closely. As such, it should be in the armoury of the clue-writer. | <urn:uuid:e40fe7fb-bfd0-49ab-8102-714a0a7dad7c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://phionline.net.nz/56-2/apostrophe-s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957517 | 383 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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Manna, an Irish drone startup that -- as its name suggests -- sends food down from the heavens, has inked a deal with a Qualcomm-backed networking company to help its aircraft navigate the skies. The three-year deal with fellow Irish company Cubic Telecom will connect the drones with a 5G network connection so Manna can track and control its fleet, the companies plan to announce Thursday at CES.
Cubic offers a service spanning 180 countries to link cars and internet-of-things devices to mobile networks. The Manna deal will mean diners and restaurants can figure out where in the skies that spaghetti Bolognese is located and how long it'll take before Manna's autonomously piloted drone drops it at a customer's house.
Startups and established giants like Amazon and Google hope drones will fill our skies to deliver packages, dinners and travelers, and some to let it happen. There are plenty of obstacles to social acceptance -- noise, privacy, and safety, for example -- but drones could speed up some deliveries and that today happen with delivery cars, scooters and trucks.
"The risk is going to be hearts and minds. What does society think of what we're doing with the airspace?" said Manna Chief Executive Bobby Healy in an exclusive interview. "I have no doubt they're going to love it."
It's mostly a dream, but Manna has a foothold with test operations at Pontypool, Wales. It plans an expansion to three sites in Ireland and another in the UK by the third quarter of this year, Healy said. It also plans to extend to the United States this year "to show what we can do," but for now Europe's more accommodating regulations make it a higher priority.
Urban environments pack in lots of potential customers for deliveries and passenger flights, but Manna is focusing on suburban areas where landing zones are easier to come by.
Its custom-built drones, with an aviation industry approach emphasizing redundant components for safety, fly 200 to 300 feet above the ground at a speed of about 50mph, dropping off deliveries in a patch about 6 feet by 6 feet. Manna surveys a delivery area ahead of time to plan operations, and uses computer vision to verify delivery zones. If there's a problem, the drone returns to the restaurant.
Drones 'not obtrusive'
"It's really not going to be obtrusive," Healy said. "You'll hardly even notice what we're doing.
The drones travel directly from restaurants to homes up to 4 miles away with packages weighing up to about 4 pounds. Packages are delivered as the drone hovers about 30 to 50 feet up.
With three battery cassettes per drone -- one in flight and the other two charging -- a restaurant can keep a drone fully occupied with five deliveries per hour, he said. A 3-minute delivery time will handily outpace most vehicles, Healy said.
For now, a two-person Manna crew operates the drones at a restaurant base station that has eight to 12 landing pads. Eventually, restaurants will be able to do it themselves.
One much bigger name in drone food delivery is Uber Eats, a business that's growing faster than Uber's original ride-hailing business, according to Eric Allison, leader of the Uber Elevate effort for delivering meals and passengers by air.
Healy believes Manna's business is actually complementary, though. It focuses on delivery, leaving menus and ordering to others, like its partner Flipdish. That means Manna could even be a behind-the-scenes Uber Eats delivery partner, at least in principle. The company's goal is to deliver meals at a cost to restaurants of about $1 per delivery.
It may not be more efficient than cooking for yourself, but compared to putting vehicles on the road, it's an improvement, Healy said. "What we're doing is an order of magnitude more efficient." | <urn:uuid:1470626b-6957-4c3b-8a4a-24ec9a78881c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/manna-5g-drone-delivery-deal-will-help-you-track-your-airborne-pizza/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956941 | 828 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Addis Ababa – The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday that the number of people requiring food aid in war-torn northern Ethiopia had surged to more than nine million.
International alarm is mounting about the escalating conflict in Africa’s second most populous country, with fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group advancing towards the capital as foreign governments urge their citizens to leave.
The year-long war has left hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine as aid workers struggle to deliver urgently-needed supplies to desperate populations in the regions of Tigray, Amhara and Afar.
On Friday, the WFP said the situation had sharply deteriorated in recent months, with an estimated 9.4 million people facing hunger “as a direct result of ongoing conflict”, compared with around seven million in September.
“Amhara region – the frontlines of the conflict in Ethiopia – has seen the largest jump in numbers with 3.7 million people now in urgent need of humanitarian aid,” WFP said.
“Of the people across northern Ethiopia in need of assistance, more than 80 percent (7.8 million) of them are behind battle lines.”
Health facilities damaged
This week, aid workers were able to distribute food in the Amhara towns of Dessie and Kombolcha for the first time since they were captured by the TPLF nearly a month ago, the WFP said, adding that it was only granted access to its warehouses last week.
The risk of malnutrition has also increased across the three regions, with screening data showing rates between 16 and 28 percent for children, it said.
“Even more alarmingly, up to 50% of pregnant and breastfeeding women screened in Amhara and Tigray were also found to be malnourished.”
Fighting has also damaged more than 500 health facilities in Amhara, the UN’s humanitarian agency OCHA said late Thursday.
As the rebels report major territorial gains, claiming this week to have seized a town just 220km (135 miles) from Addis Ababa, the government has stepped up its use of air power against the TPLF.
On Friday the TPLF and a hospital official reported two air strikes in Tigray’s capital Mekele.
Dr Hayelom Kebede, research director at Mekele’s Ayder Referral Hospital, told AFP the bombings occurred at 9 am and 12:30 pm, with the first one destroying two homes.
“Still waiting for the casualty report,” he said.
Sources told AFP the first strike struck close to the house of a rebel commander and near a hill with an anti-aircraft machine gun.
But Abiy’s spokesperson Billene Seyoum said she had “no information” about any drone strikes in Mekele, which was recaptured by the rebels in June before they expanded into Amhara and Afar.
The government declared a nationwide state of emergency earlier this month, announcing new rules Thursday against sharing information on battlefield outcomes, a move that could bring sanctions against journalists.
The latest decree said it was “forbidden to distribute in any communication systems any military movements, battlefield outcomes” that were not officially published by the government.
“Security forces will take necessary measures on those who have been found to violate” the order, it said in a possible warning to news outlets and social media accounts that have reported on rebel claims of territorial gains.
The government also barred residents from “using various types of media platforms to support directly or indirectly the terrorist group” – a reference to the TPLF – and warned of unspecified consequences for anyone who ignored the decree.
The state of emergency imposed on November 2 allows the authorities to conscript citizens who own weapons or suspend any media outlets believed to be “giving moral support directly or indirectly” to the TPLF.
The war erupted in early November 2020 when Abiy, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, sent troops into Tigray to topple its ruling party, the TPLF.
He said the move was in response to TPLF attacks on federal army camps and promised a swift victory but fighting has dragged on for over a year.
On Wednesday state media reported that Abiy, a former lieutenant-colonel in the military, had arrived at the front line to lead a counter-offensive, handing over regular duties to his deputy.
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How El Niño Will Affect the West this Winter
The much-hyped weather phenomenon is upon us, but whether or not it will quench the drought in the West and bring much-desired snowpack is complicated
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It’s the middle of October, and the world is already witnessing the strongest El Niño since the record-setting 1997-1998 event, which brought huge shifts in global weather patterns and wrought havoc all around the Pacific.
A consensus of ocean and climate models suggests that El Niño will continue to strengthen over the next couple of months before peaking sometime this winter. In fact, the present event is already among the top three ever recorded in terms of its warming effect on ocean temperatures (the most direct indicator of El Niño's power), and it’s even possible that this one could steal the all-time title from the ‘97-‘98 event, becoming the most powerful in modern history.
Last year’s hotly hyped non-event has come to be known as the “Great El Niño Fizzle,” since early excitement surrounding the development of strong warming in the Pacific quickly faded away in the summer of 2014 when the ocean and atmosphere didn’t cooperate. In early 2015, when real-world observations and climate models once again started to suggest a high likelihood of a substantial El Niño event, excitement was muted at first by the previous El Niño’s failure to thrive.
But this year, the atmosphere and ocean are in synch. Trade winds have slackened, a nearly continuous parade of tropical cyclones has marched westward across the Pacific, and rapid warming is ongoing in the eastern tropics—telltale signs that El Niño is already exerting a heavy influence upon Pacific climate.
El Niño is an oceanic phenomenon characterized by warming of the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This unusual ocean warming, which happens every two-to-seven years on average, disrupts the typical “warm west/cool east” temperature differential across the tropical Pacific. These perturbed ocean patterns weaken prevailing east-to-west trade winds, and eventually affect weather patterns all around the world. While El Niño (and its sister, La Niña, which is characterized by tropical ocean cooling) tends to be associated with specific weather impacts in certain regions, no two El Niños are alike—and neither are their effects on weather.
That said, there are some historic big-picture patterns emerging that may give us some insights into what kind of weather we’ll see this winter up and down the drought-stricken West.
1. California: Wet, But Not Snowy
Many Californians may be wondering: What does a massive El Niño event mean in the midst of a record drought? The answer is a bit of a mixed bag.
This year’s powerful El Niño will probably bring above average precipitation during the core rainy season months of January, February, and March. This prediction is supported by both historical records and by today’s forecasting models, which suggest a persistently stormy pattern will develop by January. But it’s important to remember that even a very wet winter won’t end California’s drought. Heavy precipitation would bring an increased risk of flooding and mudslides (like we saw earlier this month near Los Angeles)—especially in areas scorched by this summer’s ferocious wildfires. But it does appear that at least some drought relief—however modest—is on the way.
The bad news: record warm ocean temperatures off the coast will probably keep things much warmer than average for most of the coming winter. This means that the elevations at which water freezes in the Sierra Nevada will once again most likely be well above average, and prospects for a substantial snowpack are not great, despite all the extra water. (That’s not good news for California’s long-term reservoir storage, which is heavily dependent on snowmelt.) At the highest elevations, though, it’s plausible that conditions will still be cold enough for snow, and given an increased likelihood of heavy precipitation, that could mean some fairly prodigious snow totals for those few ski resorts lucky enough to have slopes above 8,000 feet or 9,000 feet.
2. The Pacific Northwest: Warm and Dry
Oregon and Washington are also enduring a severe drought—mostly due to warm temperatures. Despite near average precipitation last winter, snowpack in the Cascades was at record-low levels due to the vast majority of precipitation falling as rain rather than snow. Unfortunately, it appears that drought conditions in the Northwest will probably worsen this winter, as it’s increasingly likely that below-average precipitation and above-average temperatures will prevail.
What does this mean for snow? Well, the good news is that the coming winter will probably bring more snow than last year even if the overall totals are underwhelming. But that’s more of a testament to just how little snow accumulated last year than an expectation of favorable snow conditions this year. The overall prognosis up north is similar to California’s: higher-elevation snow lines may leave the lower mountains snow-free, but accumulations at the highest elevations may be larger than last year’s abysmal amount. Here again, alpine skiers may fare better than water managers hoping for substantial spring and summer snowmelt next year.
3. Rocky Mountain States: Snowy in the South
Further inland, Rocky Mountain states may see conditions comparable to those in the Northwest and California—and, similarly, the conditions will vary from region to region.
In the north, fewer surges of cold air from the Arctic may keep temperatures warmer than average. The Northern Rockies may see similar conditions to those in the Pacific Northwest: due to a southward-shifted storm track, rain and snow may be below average.
The Southern Rockies, however, will see very different weather. With an enhanced storm track, precipitation will most likely be above average. Due to increased cloudiness and storminess, temperatures in the south will probably not be as far above average as they will be elsewhere in the West. In fact, during the core winter months, conditions may even bit a bit on the cool side. This may open the door for some substantial accumulations of snow, which would be good news both for skiers and the tens of millions of people who depend on the drought-stricken Colorado River watershed, which has been in the grips of a protracted drought for even longer than California. | <urn:uuid:2f742fee-f7c6-4562-b1e5-3a369de79c9f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.outsideonline.com/outdoor-adventure/environment/how-el-nino-will-affect-west-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942758 | 1,377 | 2.984375 | 3 |
The controversial Universal Credit reform will be rolled out across Bristol this year and the dates have been released.
Universal Credit will combine six benefits for working-age people into a single monthly payout, bringing together job seeker’s allowance.
But the new system has proved controversial as the Office for Budget Responsibility recently said that the project could be a “significant risk” to government spending.
The rollout is already five years late but will be rolled out across Bristol by the end of the year.
Here are the dates Universal Credit will be implemented in each part of Bristol, according to Bristol City Council:
- June 2018 in Bedminster, Bishopsworth and Temple Street Job Centre Plus areas
- September 2018 in Horfield and Shirehampton Job Centre Plus areas
- October 2018 in Kingswood Jobcentre Plus area
What is the Universal Credit?
The Universal Credit is a monthly payment to help with your living costs.
You may be able to get it if you’re on a low income or out of work.
Universal Credit will encompass all of the following benefits:
- Child Tax Credit
- Housing Benefit
- Income Support
- income-based Jobseeker’s Allowance (JSA)
- income-related Employment and Support Allowance (ESA)
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Detmold city in Germany. Geo-Coordinates
Detmold are around 51° 52' North Latitude and 8° 52' East Longitude.
The city is one of the city in North Rhine-Westphalia region.
Presently the clock shows Wednesday, August 17, 2022 4:40:14 PM which is having an offset of about UTC/GMT +1:00:00 hour(s) with respect to Universal Coordinated Time / Greenwich Mean Time. | <urn:uuid:7adc35a2-98ff-4d7f-8bfb-edd51ebd3036> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tejji.com/time-date/current-time/germany/north-rhine-westphalia/detmold | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.882798 | 102 | 1.625 | 2 |
The EU water framework directive (WFD) provides a template for sustainable water management across Europe. The WFD requires the development of procedures to ensure appropriate mitigation of anthropogenic impacts on river ecosystems resulting from water abstraction and impoundments. It is widely acknowledged that alterations to flow regime impact on riverine ecosystems. As a result, hydromorphology, which includes the hydrological regime, is embedded within the WFD as a supporting element to achieve good ecological status (GES). Environmental flow releases from impoundments such as reservoir dams will need to be implemented to mitigate impacts from their construction and operation. This paper outlines the process involved in the analysis of available scientific information and the development of guidance criteria for the setting of environmental flow release regimes for UK rivers. The paper describes two methods-developed by round-table expert knowledge and discussions and supported by available data-for implementation of the WFD for rivers subject to impoundments. The first is a method for preliminary assessment of a water body to determine if it is likely to fail to achieve GES because of changes to the flow regime (indexed by simple flow regime statistics) in systems where appropriate biological assessment methods are limited or currently unavailable. The second is a method for defining an environmental flow regime release based on the requirements of riverine ecological communities and indicator organisms for basic elements (building blocks) of the natural flow regime.
|Number of pages||10|
|Journal||Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers-Engineering Sustainability|
|Publication status||Published - 2009|
- dams, barrages & reservoirs
- hydrology & water resources
- water supply
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ScienceDaily (Aug. 14, 2012) — David Montgomery is a geomorphologist, a geologist who studies changes to topography over time and how geological processes shape landscapes. He has seen firsthand evidence of how the forces that have shaped Earth run counter to some significant religious beliefs.
But the idea that scientific reason and religious faith are somehow at odds with each other, he said, “is, in my view, a false dichotomy.”
In a new book, “The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood” (Aug. 27, 2012, W.W. Norton), Montgomery explores the long history of religious thinking — particularly among Christians — on matters of geological discovery, from the writings of St. Augustine 1,700 years ago to the rise in the mid-20th century of the most recent rendering of creationism.
“The purpose is not to tweak people of faith but to remind everyone about the long history in the faith community of respecting what we can learn from observing the world,” he said.
Many of the earliest geologists were clergy, he said. Nicolas Steno, considered the founder of modern geology, was a 17th century Roman Catholic priest who has achieved three of the four steps to being declared a saint in the church.
“Though there are notable conflicts between religion and science — the famous case of Galileo Galilei, for example — there also is a church tradition of working to reconcile biblical stories with known scientific fact,” Montgomery said.
“What we hear today as the ‘Christian’ positions are really just one slice of a really rich pie,” he said.
For nearly two centuries there has been overwhelming geological evidence that a global flood, as depicted in the story of Noah in the biblical book of Genesis, could not have happened. Not only is there not enough water in the Earth system to account for water levels above the highest mountaintop, but uniformly rising levels would not allow the water to have the erosive capabilities attributed to Noah’s Flood, Montgomery said.
Some rock formations millions of years old show no evidence of such large-scale water erosion. Montgomery is convinced any such flood must have been, at best, a regional event, perhaps a catastrophic deluge in Mesopotamia. There are, in fact, Mesopotamian stories with details very similar, but predating, the biblical story of Noah’s Flood.
“If your world is small enough, all floods are global,” he said.
Perhaps the greatest influence in prompting him to write “The Rocks Don’t Lie” was a 2002 expedition to the Tsangpo River on the Tibetan Plateau. In the fertile river valley he found evidence in sediment layers that a great lake had formed in the valley many centuries ago, not once but numerous times. Downstream he found evidence that a glacier on several occasions advanced far enough to block the river, creating the huge lake.
But ice makes an unstable dam, and over time the ice thinned and finally give way, unleashing a tremendous torrent of water down the deepest gorge in the world. It was only after piecing the story together from geological evidence that Montgomery learned that local oral traditions told of exactly this kind of great flood.
“To learn that the locals knew about it and talked about it for the last thousand years really jolted my thinking. Here was evidence that a folk tale might be reality based,” he said.
He has seen evidence of huge regional floods in the scablands of Eastern Washington, carved by torrents when glacial Lake Missoula breached its ice dam in Montana and raced across the landscape, and he found Native American stories that seem to tell of this catastrophic flood.
Other flood stories dating back to the early inhabitants of the Pacific Northwest and from various islands in the Pacific Ocean, for example, likely tell of inundation by tsunamis after large earthquakes.
But he noted that in some regions of the world — in Africa, for example — there are no flood stories in the oral traditions because there the annual floods help sustain life rather than bring destruction.
Floods are not always responsible for major geological features. Hiking a trail from the floor of the Grand Canyon to its rim, Montgomery saw unmistakable evidence of the canyon being carved over millions of years by the flow of the Colorado River, not by a global flood several thousand years ago as some people still believe.
He describes that hike in detail in “The Rocks Don’t Lie.” He also explores changes in the understanding of where fossils came from, how geologists read Earth history in layers of rock, and the writings of geologists and religious authorities through the centuries.
Montgomery hopes the book might increase science literacy. He noted that a 2001 National Science Foundation survey found that more than half of American adults didn’t realize that dinosaurs were extinct long before humans came along.
But he also would like to coax readers to make sense of the world through both what they believe and through what they can see for themselves, and to keep an open mind to new ideas.
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