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Fusion 360 For Personal Use
Thus, it’s not something that would be sensible for vitality production on earth. Instead, terrestrial magnetic fusion experiments employ decrease densities however far greater temperatures, around a hundred million levels Celsius. When confined at these temperatures, the nuclei can collide with enough velocity to beat Coulomb repulsion and fuse collectively. Moreover, working prices after development should be considerably less, as a fusion reactor won’t want costly uranium to fuel it, instead using hydrogen as its gasoline source. Indeed, CFS claims that “one glass of water will provide sufficient fusion fuel for one particular person’s lifetime” — without the radioactive waste of a traditional nuclear reactor.
Corporations Backed By Robert Downey Jr And Invoice Gates Have Funded An Electrical Motor Firm That Slashes Energy Consumption
In 2017 Helion Energy’s fifth-generation plasma machine went into operation, in search of to realize plasma density of 20 Tesla and … Read More | <urn:uuid:e7562436-5201-4171-ae6a-39e7fa1d28d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fasttech.xyz/tag/approach | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.877711 | 202 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Course: Level 3 Diploma in Nail Technology (VTCT)Industry Certified • Level 3
About the course
The VTCT Level 3 Diploma in Nail Technology is a substantial vocational qualification that will prepare you for a career as a nail technician. This qualification is designed for learners aged 18 or over and will support you to gain employment as a nail technician, as the units contained in this qualification cover all the skills and knowledge required for this role.
The course will be delivered in the new £6.3 million Spa facilities, which includes sauna, steam, hydrotherapy pool and cryotherapy chamber.
Careers & Progression
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Otto Pieper Interview, 1977
Arthur Louis Fennell
Luther Haven Nursing Home, Montevideo, MN
Farm life--Minnesota--Chippewa County; Farmers--Minnesota--Chippewa County; Cooperative societies--Minnesota--Clara City
Otto Pieper was a German immigrant to Minnesota in 1890, where he worked for awhile in Steel County, Minnesota, as a hired man on a farm. In 1898, he married and moved to Clara City, Minnesota (Chippewa County) where he started to farm. He purchased a 120-acre farm.
In this interview, he discusses farm life and changes on the farm from 1898 to the 1940s when he retired. References were made to the Farmers' Alliance, Non-Partisan League and Farm Holiday. He was active in the organization of the Farmers' Co-op Elevator and Farmers' Co-op telephone company in Clara City.
West Central Minnesota Historical Research Center (WCMHRC)
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A Guide To Flowing Through Fall
By Dr. Olivia Greenspan, ND
Autumn is the time when plants begin preparing for the winter. Their metabolism slows and water and nutrients are drawn into the stems and eventually the roots, causing the leaves to change to their beautiful yellow and orange colours. The leaves begin falling to the ground, leaving behind a bud for next year’s new growth.
After the busy-ness of the summer, fall is a time for us to wind down, to direct our energy inward, to become more introspective, and to let go of that which no longer has its purpose, like trees letting go of their leaves to make way for new ones in the spring. In Chinese Medicine, the organs most affected during the fall are the Lungs and Large Intestine. The Lungs breathe in the new and the Large Intestine eliminates the old. Perhaps you have been experiencing prolonged grief or frequent feelings of sadness. This may signify a weakness or a block in flow of Lung energy. Maybe you suffer from constipation and often find yourself holding on to past experiences or negativity, you can’t seem to let go physically or emotionally. You could have a block in the Large Intestine energy.
To live in harmony with the spirit of this time of year, follow these tips and find yourself moving more gracefully through the fall season:
Breathe—become aware of your breath. Get outside and fill your lungs with the cool, crisp, fresh air. Abdominal or alternate nostril breathing work well to calm the body and mind. For abdominal breathing, place your hand(s) over your belly to focus your awareness and as you inhale focus on expanding your belly with fresh air and as you exhale, bring your belly back to neutral. Practice this a few times throughout your day, it only takes a few minutes of your time.
Eat—during the fall eat less cold and raw foods and focus more on warming foods. Soups and stews are great during this cooler weather. Be sure to include these delicious fall foods regularly: squash, pumpkin, leeks, mustard greens, kale, parsnips, onion, oats, lentils, walnuts, and spices such as cinnamon, cloves, coriander, fennel seed, ginger, nutmeg and rosemary.
De-clutter—going through your closets and cupboards can be very therapeutic. Get rid of clothes you haven’t worn in ages, donate them or take them to a consignment shop where you could potentially get free clothes in exchange for your old ones. Organize and de-clutter to make space for the flow of creative energy. In Marie Kondo’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, the Japanese organizing consultant details ways to organize and simplify your home, keeping only those items that bring you joy.
Let go—just as important as de-cluttering your outer world, is de-cluttering your inner world. Letting go is one of the most difficult things to do. Most of us will hold on—to things, relationships, emotions—white-knuckled, even though we know that what we are holding on to is hurting us. Change creates uncertainty which many of us fear. Letting Go: How to Master the Art, offers an alternative view and suggestions on how to face your fears and move through this process.
While autumn reminds us that a long cold winter is looming, embrace the gifts this time of year brings. Autumn reminds us that we need to nurture ourselves, take stock of what is truly important to us, and holds possibility for an even better version of ourselves through the changing seasons.
Dr. Olivia Greenspan is currently a naturopathic doctor working at Holland Landing Health Centre in East Gwillimbury, Ontario, which services Holland Landing, Newmarket, Aurora, Keswick and Bradford areas. If you are interested in naturopathic services please contact Holland Landing Health Centre at 905-853-7900 or via e-mail at [email protected]! | <urn:uuid:a0abef92-e06b-47a3-ae56-24a041ad81a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hlhc.ca/news/a-guide-to-flowing-through-fall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944857 | 835 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The mayors of Saanich and Victoria are looking to make transportation a more regional issue by changing how B.C. Transit is governed.
Despite the two municipalities holding four of the seven seats on the existing transit commission, both say they’re unhappy with the existing governance model.
“There’s common ground that we have concerns that these (transit) discussions aren’t happening on the CRD level, where regional issues should be discussed,” Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard said.
Rather, these regional transit issues – such as the rapid transit corridor proposed along Douglas Street and the Trans-Canada Highway – are heard by seven individuals representing only five of the 13 stakeholder municipalities.
“Transit is not totally representative of the region. There are many municipalities that don’t have a voice at that table,” said Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin.
“We don’t have a regional transportation authority that really integrates all of the elements of regional transportation.”
The hope, Leonard said, is making the transit commission a CRD-level committee so there’s proper representation. That would create a more democratic discussion that will achieve more “accountability and openness” for Capital Region residents.
View Royal Mayor Graham Hill – who has no voice on the commission – supports the potential change.
“As it is right now, transit is very much a service provider largely focussed, and reasonably so, on the matters of ridership and cost per trip – all that goes into managing a successful corporation. However, they’re not responsive to the community the way (politicians) are,” Hill said.
A number of issues have sparked these conversations, Leonard said, pointing to a $28.50 property tax hike this year he says will go to paying for buses purchased for the Olympics, and a less-than-transparent rapid transit planning process.
“We’re worried their public process is not up to local government standards,” Leonard said.
He points to a transit model in the Regional District of Nanaimo that he believes would work better here, where the district contracts out B.C. Transit to provide the service.
“I’m proposing they have a more contractual arrangement with the CRD that could include a service plan and budget … It would clearly then make the Capital Regional District the customer, and it would put the Capital Regional District in charge,” Leonard said.
Currently the commission members are presented with a service plan and tax rates compiled by the Crown corporation, and the onus is on them to review and question everything.
“We don’t have resources (right now) to challenge what B.C. Transit’s putting forward. The commission has no staff,” Leonard said. “If (transit governance) was at the CRD, we’d have the advantage of CRD staff helping vet transit budgets, helping vet transit plans.”
The change would be welcome news to Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins, who, like Hill, isn’t on the commission.
“You can see how the existing system has failed to meet expectations, in my view, with respect to governance in the growth areas. The whole mechanism itself is outdated as such that we cannot respond to our needs as we grow as a region,” she said.
As it stands, under the province’s B.C. Transit Act, Saanich and Victoria each hold two seats on the commission (mayor and one councillor each), while the fifth seat goes to either the mayor of Oak Bay or Esquimalt, the sixth goes to one Western Communities mayor and the seventh to one Peninsula mayor. All representatives are appointed by the provincial government.
At today’s (Wednesday) CRD board meeting, Leonard and Fortin will put forward a recommendation ask staff to look at possible changes that could be made.
“Transit is not totally representative of the region as it stands now,” Fortin said. “As we start building our regional transportation plans, something’s got to change. We feel this is the right way.” | <urn:uuid:2666490a-da22-46c6-b2a9-37512b6d4be0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goldstreamgazette.com/news/mayors-seek-to-scrap-transit-commission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948468 | 881 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Golden Retriever Puppy With Hiccups – Puppies are a few of the cutest animals on the planet. They’re also certainly one of typically the most popular pets, with lots of people owning them in their homes. But how can puppies get hiccups ? Puppies get hiccups when there is a big change in air pressure, or they eat too quickly causing their stomach to push against their diaphragm which in turn causes it to spasm and contract. Whatever your basis for curious about this information, hopefully that you find it helpful!
15 How to Stop Puppy Hiccups
What To Do When Your Puppy Gets the Hiccups
Puppies are some of the cutest animals on the planet. They are also among the most used pets, with many people owning them within their homes. But how do puppies get hiccups ? Puppies often get hiccups when there is a change in air pressure or they eat too soon causing their stomach to push facing their diaphragm that causes it to spasm and contract. Whatever your reason behind wanting to know these details, hopefully that you will find it helpful!
It’s a little strange each time a pup gets the hiccups as there doesn’t appear to be a clear cause or cure. If your puppy is having difficulty removing them, read on for some helpful tips to eliminate their hiccups.
Puppies are small, so it can be difficult trying to work out how they’re feeling or what’s going up with them. However, if your pup is having trouble eliminating the hiccups you then should take a peek at these ideas:
Feed Your Puppy Properly
Sometimes the hiccups are due to your pup eating too quickly or not chewing their food properly. You are able to help them decrease by feeding them smaller items of kibble and adding water to thicken it down a bit, helping to make swallowing much harder. Furthermore, try giving your puppy some ice as the coldness of them might help.
Warm Up Their Belly
If your pup’s belly is feeling only a little chilly, you then should warm it around see if that helps. Simply run some hot water on a washcloth and keep their tummy until they feel better! This is soothing for the puppy and also warm their tummy up which could assistance with the hiccups.
Rub Their Belly
If your pup’s belly needs a little more attention, try massaging it gently to see if that helps! They love having some extra affection and this is a simple way for you really to cause them to become feel better. Just be careful not to rub way too hard as you don’t want to hurt them.
Sing or Hum
Sometimes hiccups are brought on by some kind of excitement, so try calming your pup down. The easiest way to do this is perhaps singing them a lullaby and letting their heartbeat slow back down again. This will help regulate everything which can keep consitently the hiccups at bay.
Give Them Some Milk
If your pup doesn’t prefer to drink water, you are able to give them some milk instead. Milk has also been known to simply help with hiccups and it’s very soothing for young puppies who might not manage to get rid of the hiccups independently yet. PetMD suggests giving a puppy between a tablespoon and a half to two tablespoons of milk. However, remember that some puppies might not be able to drink much since it may make them feel sick.
Hold Their Nose
Sometimes hiccups are caused by swallowing prematurely which explains why you should hold your puppy’s nose closed for five seconds or so before letting go. This may force them to slow down and the hold their breath for a bit before letting it out again. Keep in mind that this may not work for all puppies though as many of them are far more sensitive than others!
Massage Their Stomach
If you want to find an alternative way of giving your pup’s belly attention, try massaging it gently. This will be soothing for them and might help with the hiccups as well.
Be Patient – Sometimes you only have to wait things out! If your puppy is having a little bit of trouble getting rid of their hiccups , try distracting them by doing offers or going outside until they’re ready to avoid on the own.
Try Some Ginger
If you want to try a natural means of removing the hiccups , then give ginger a shot! This really is quite effective for some pups and may help using their hiccups as well. Just ensure that your puppy doesn’t eat too much because it might upset their stomach if they do.
Keep Them Active
If your puppy is bored, they might be more likely to have the hiccups. Rather than letting them lounge around and sleep all day long long, you need to keep their energy up in order that they don’t have time for such things as this! Try playing some games with them or taking them outside to play fetch with a stay or something. This will keep them busy and avoid the hiccups from happening just as much, if at all!
Obtain a Vet Check – If you’re still concerned with your pup’s hiccups after testing out other things on this list, try booking an appointment with their vet simply to be safe! They might involve some good advice for you personally or they could have the ability to let you know what’s going on.
Sometimes hiccups are simply part of life and sometimes your pup won’t eliminate them until they’re good and ready! You can look at out some things from this list if their hiccups continue, but otherwise it may be necessary for you to just wait it out!
Try Some Ginger
If your pup has hiccups , try giving them some ginger. That is an all natural remedy that might help remove the hiccups for good. Just ensure not to provide too much because it could upset their stomach if they have a lot of at once.
Keep Them Active
If your pup is bored, they may have the hiccups more often. Instead of letting them lounge around and sleep all day long long, you need to keep their energy up in order that they don’t have time for such things as this! Try playing some games together or taking them outside to play fetch with a stay or something. This can keep them busy and stop the hiccups from happening the maximum amount of, whenever!
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Come all of you Lachlan men and a sorrowful tale I'll tell,
Concerning of a hero who through misfortune fell,
His name it was Ben Hall, a man of high renown,
He was hunted from his station, he was like a dog shot down.
For years he roamed the roads and he gave the traps some fun,
A thousand pounds placed on his head with Gilbert and Jackie Dunn,
Ben parted from his comrades, the outlaws did agree,
To give away bushranging, they would cross the briny sea.
Ben went to Goobang creek, where upon the 5th of May,
The troopers filled him full of lead, as in his sleep he lay,
They wrapped him in a blanket, and they rolled him like a swag,
They lead him through the streets of Forbes, to show what a price they had
Plaque dated 5 May 1957
"This marks the place where Ben Hall was shot by police and black trackers on the morning of 5th May, 1865."
In Memory of Ben Hall
Ben Hall's grave, Forbes Cemetery
Streets of Forbes
One of my favourite songs is a song called the Streets of Forbes.
Martyn Wyndham-Reid sings this song and many other Australian Bush songs, and I like listening to them. They are songs with stories about the bushrangers such as Ben Hall and Ned Kelly.
I won the LP in a face to face singing competition at the Gosforth Folk club. The club was in the Gosforth Hotel, Salters road and run by Jim Mageean. Great club!
Ben Hall was born in 1837, and shot by Police and Black trackers on the morning of 5th May, 1865. He was 27 years old.
Ben Hall's mother was Irish and his father English. They were convicted of stealing and transported as convicts. So Ben was born in Australia. The police force took a dislike to him. I think they thought he was English because they believed they could do anything they wanted to do.
He was shot by a posse of eight police at Goobang Creek. One of the police was an Aborigine called Billy Jurgen, and the others persuaded him to shoot so they themselves would not get the blame. That’s what I've heard said.
Ben Hall is famous and a hero in Australia. The gravestone marking his burial place in Forbes cemetery was erected in the 1920's. The Forbes Historical Society erected a plaque in 1957 marking where he was shot.
Portrait of bushranger Ben Hall
by Freeman Brothers Studio, 11863,
from original album print arte de visite,
State Library of New South Wales P1 / 693
More Information on Ben Hall
Before Ben Hall was born, his English father and Irish mother were convicted of minor thefts and sent to New South Wales, where they met as convicts and married.
"Ben Hall distanced himself from his father. By age 23, he was a successful landowner and cattleman, with a wife and son, well-regarded by all. However, the 1862 gold rush directly hit his area and brought the criminal element," Holmes says.
"Hall had no criminal record until his life fell apart - his wife ran away with his friend and took their young son with her," he adds. "He fell into depression and abandoned his work, becoming the friend of a highly-successful career criminal called Frank Gardiner, who lured him in. His descent is fascinating, as he was somewhat a reluctant criminal."
Often described as an Australian Jesse James or Billy the Kid, the Kid comparison seems unfair. "Ben Hall himself never killed anyone, even though he was involved in numerous gunfights and scrapes. He had a very firm position against taking human life unless his own was threatened," Holmes says. "Unfortunately, his companions didn't share that code and they killed policemen, for which Hall was considered an accomplice."
The range of the "Gentleman Bushranger" was vast. "The state of New South Wales is larger than California and New Mexico combined; the Hall Gang roamed over 20,000 square miles," Holmes says. "They were superb bushmen and riders, and since they were constantly stealing racehorses, catching them out in the wilderness was virtually impossible."
As with American outlaws, bushrangers were hard to catch in part because they enjoyed popular support. "Hall had a lot of allies who knew him before he was a criminal, and respected him. The bushrangers became 'poster boys' for those who hated the harsh and corrupt British system. One coach service from Sydney to the goldfields had a timetable with the clause, 'Ben Hall permitting,' on it," Holmes says.
Desperate to catch Hall, the Australian government passed an astonishing law in 1865 aimed directly at him. "The dreaded 'Felons Apprehension Act' declared Ben Hall [and his accomplices] John Gilbert and John Dunn outlaws who could be killed by any person, at any time, without question. This act was only brought out again against bushranger Ned Kelly and gang 13 years later," Holmes says. | <urn:uuid:e1eeb989-4201-4ff8-a58e-9340840f6722> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tynefolk.uk/song-streets-of-forbes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.992311 | 1,083 | 1.578125 | 2 |
The Gordon Herrboldt Family Geneaolgy Collection
These indexes are for a collection of German records of a family genealogy compiled by Gordon Herrboldt that covers a range of surnames and places. These records are at Concordia University Library as part of the GGS collection. They are in a file cabinet next to our Newsletters. There are three sets of folders each with two indexes. The two indexes are used to locate the folder in the file cabinet and a SURNAME index which tells which folder(s) to search.
How To Use The Collection
Look at the SURNAME index first to see if any of the names match your ancestors’ names. Remember to check each of the indexes for each set of folders. If there is a match, note the folder number. Then go to the folder index for that set (sets are indicated by color) and find the folder. Each folder contains genealogical copies of German‐language church records written in the Gothic script.
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Guest Chair: Dr. Glen Kitteringham – Security Consultant, Educator and Research Criminologist (Canada)
Dr. Declan Garrett – Director of Security Institute of Ireland (Ireland)
Oana-Mihaela Mihalache – Defence and Security Consultant at Sopra Steria Next (France)
Maria Nebolsina – Research Fellow at Center for Euro-Atlantic Security of International Studies Institute (Russia)
Adam White – Senior Lecturer in Criminology at University of Sheffield (UK)
Dr Declan Garrett suggested that today’s topic posed a difficult question to answer. His view was that the perception of private military companies and the terminology used in relation to them, does not reflect typical notions of the regulated private security sector. However, he noted that some tasks and some terminology is similar, which combined with private military companies being a relatively closed world has led to confusion. Declan makes some notable points in relation to the relative levels of regulation, accountability and training in both private security and private military companies and questions whether there is adequate protection and support in place for private military company employees entering dangerous environments.
Oana-Mihaela Mihalache summarised how the private military companies sector has evolved, with what were differentiating characteristics becoming more merged over time with characteristics of the private security sector. She notes a number of challenges in ensuring adequate control is in place, not least the ethical questions raised by the work of private military companies and public perceptions of their activities. Oana highlighted the importance of high level discussion to progress towards a clear definition and regulations at an international level. She also acknowledged the reality that while some companies offer only one or the other, some offer both security and military services adding further challenges in differentiating the two.
Maria Nebolsina noted that while there are a wealth of definitions attempting to define private military companies, some of these such as the UN draft convention both unites and separates private military and private security companies. Being active in war zones and peace keeping, operating in conflict and dangerous environments, and the use of mercenaries are considered. You will hear Maria highlight that generally countries have a local understanding of the difference between the two, but that at an international level the situation is less clear. Maria highlights the limitations of conventions as being general in nature. She notes clarity is needed on what services can and can not be outsourced and suggests that all countries agreeing that weapons of mass destruction can not be outsourced would be a starting point that would likely attract widespread support.
Adam White observed that there are key distinctions between private military companies and the private security sector such as where they operate, who runs them and who works for them, but that it is also possible to challenge those characteristics and he gives examples of some of the similarities that can be found. Adam expressed doubt as to whether a neat distinction between the two was possible, albeit there is merit in attempting to do so. He suggested that alternative terminology such as private policing and private soldiering offers a clearer distinction, but this is still of limited use since markets do not conform to such categorisations. Reflecting on the issue of accountability Adam highlighted the relative difficulties of monitoring compliance with regulations in hostile environments suggesting it may not be possible to regulate the private military sector to the same level as the private security sector.
The guest chair Glen Kitteringham in closing the session and reflecting on the discussion among the panellists concluded that there are three key issues emerging that are worthy of consideration moving forward – establishing a clear definition, the levels of training required and the appropriate levels of accountability.
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In India, women are most unsafe at home
Women are most unsafe at home. Estimates by the World Health Organization in 2017 show that one in three women has experienced either physical or sexual violence at the hands of an intimate partner. India is among the countries with the highest incidence of intimate partner violence. This should come as no surprise. Not only was India ranked as the most dangerous country for women, but data from the National Crime Records Bureau also show that in 95.5 per cent of the rapes reported in 2015, the victims knew or were related to the perpetrators. Last week, WHO released a framework, titled Respect, to help policymakers counter the scourge of IPV. The framework divides the causes of IPV into four broad categories. Societal factors comprise discriminatory laws and unfriendly institutions; community-based dangers are harmful gender norms, poverty and illiteracy; interpersonal risks include high levels of inequality in relationships; and individual reasons stem from childhood experiences of violence within the family. The common thread linking these categories is the precarious position of women, both within the home and outside it. Therefore, women who are abused at home do not find the confidence to speak up about it outside of the home for fear of being disbelieved, humiliated or abused further. Violence or the threat of it is the weapon used to keep women firmly in their place — which is always under men’s thumb.
The situation is more worrying in India where habitual male violence within the family, especially between married couples, is either normalized or firmly ignored by a patriarchal society, and governments and law enforcement agencies that are a product of this culture. What else explains the staunch and steady refusal of consecutive dispensations to criminalize marital rape? One of the several spurious arguments that has been forwarded to rationalize marital rape is that the State cannot interfere in the ‘private sphere’ of marriage. This concept sees the married couple and not the individuals in it as the basic unit of privacy. But this conception has been swept away with the Supreme Court judgment guaranteeing to every Indian citizen the right to privacy, clearly stating that “each human being [is] to be left alone in a core which is inviolable”. This opens a window to criminalize marital rape. But laws alone can achieve little — the ones against domestic violence are proof of this. What needs to change is the mindset that sees the female body as a property of the father, brother, lover, husband or son, who can batter, rape, expel or even kill her, to teach the woman a lesson for perceived intransigences or simply because they can. | <urn:uuid:45bceeaf-c53a-4986-bf90-f071e38580ec> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/marital-rape-and-domestic-violence-in-india-women-are-most-unsafe-at-home/cid/1691687 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960492 | 527 | 2.34375 | 2 |
How good is your best chimpanzee impression? Go to the zoo and you probably wouldn’t be surprised to see people copying chimps in order to grab their attention. But our latest research, which recently won the Ig Nobel Prize for Anthropology, suggests you are just as likely to see chimpanzees imitating the human visitors.
Established in 1991, the Ig Nobel prizes are granted each autumn to ten unusual scientific discoveries that “first make you laugh, and then make you think.” Our findings unravel a form of imitation as communication that has not been previously reported in non-human apes. We typically think that humans evolved imitation as a way of learning. But our study suggests it can serve several functions, including for other animals.
The research, published in the journal Primates, found that the chimpanzees at Furuvik Zoo in Sweden were just as likely to imitate human visitors as the other way round. We watched a group of five chimpanzees at the zoo and about 10,000 human visitors that stopped by the chimpanzee enclosure. In total, we recorded 1,579 times when a chimpanzee did something directed at a human, and 2,211 human actions aimed at a chimp. About 10% of the actions of each species were imitations.
The actions copied by the humans and chimps were also surprisingly similar, with both favouring hand claps, knocking on the enclosure window, or kissing. This is where things get interesting. Since both species imitated actions they were already highly familiar with, this imitation can’t have been a method of learning but rather appeared to be a way of communicating.
By digging into the data a bit further, we found that interactions that included imitation were longer than those that didn’t. This suggests that imitation was a good way to initiate and maintain social contact between the two species. On several occasions, imitation turned into a game of back-and-forth copying that the chimps seemed to enjoy, making playful facial expressions. This not only shows that the chimpanzees quickly became aware of being imitated by the visitors, but also that they really enjoyed and were interested in the interaction.
Scientists have long agreed that imitation is a key mechanism for social learning that lets humans quickly acquire skills and solutions to problems by copying others. Because it enables knowledge and new inventions to spread and pass down generations, imitation is considered fundamental to our species’ complex culture and advanced technology.
Decades of research shows that, in spite of their proverbial aping abilities, nonhuman apes are rather poor at imitating the actions of others. In experiments where they have to learn a new procedure for solving a problem by watching it being demonstrated, apes systematically perform worse than human children. This might be because they lack the “social side” of imitation, meaning they don’t seem motivated to engage with others by sharing goals and experiences.
In contrast, human children show this social motivation by often gazing at the researcher’s face or smiling during such tasks. They also over-imitate, slavishly copying all the actions performed by a demonstrator, regardless of how relevant they are for solving the task. Apes, on the other hand, appear mostly motivated to acquire the food reward that comes with solving a problem, and so don’t show these “social-communicative” behaviours.
But the social side of imitation extends beyond learning tasks. We also see it when we empathise with others. We smile when they smile, we look sad when they are sad, or yawn when they yawn – and we do this pervasively, yet without awareness or intent. Research shows that our species shares this unintentional kind of social imitation with our closest genetic relatives (chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans), and even with non-primate species, such as wolves or sheep.
Another – intentional – kind of social imitation is found in toddlers’ interactions with each other and with adults. Before they master language, toddlers often playfully imitate familiar actions as a way to engage and communicate with others. This is similar to the imitation games we saw at the zoo between chimpanzees and human visitors.
Our study shows that chimpanzees and humans were equally likely to use imitation as a way to interact with each other. Given that we know chimps aren’t as good as humans at learning through imitation, this challenges traditional theories and suggests imitation may have evolved primarily for social reasons rather than as a means of learning. The images evoked by our study of chimps and humans imitating each other at the zoo might make people smile. But the scientific implications reach all the way back to the common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees, and the role imitation may have played for that mysterious species. | <urn:uuid:d5475846-c7a1-43aa-a282-d3ce5049603f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theconversation.com/chimps-like-to-copy-human-visitors-to-the-zoo-ig-nobel-prize-104978 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.971906 | 971 | 3.3125 | 3 |
In the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus calls us to love our neighbours and go out of our way to help those who are in trouble. Our mission at Samaritan’s Purse is to work in Jesus’ Name to help victims of disaster, disease, poverty, famine, and war. Livelihood projects are just one of many ways we do this.
At Samaritan’s Purse, we aim to follow Christ’s example when God gives us opportunities to minister to people in distress. We want to share with you the testimonies of families in places like Mongolia and Vietnam that we have helped recover from devastating circumstances.
As we provide livestock and train farmers to care for their herds or flocks, we not only help them become self-sufficient, but we also build relationships that enable our teams to share the hope of the Gospel so that many may come to know Him as Lord and Saviour.
MONGOLIA – Bayankhongor province Recovering From Winter Disaster
Erdenebat Nyamsuren lives with his wife and five children in Erdenetsogt soum of Bayankhongor province. He lost all his livestock in the last dzud (winter snow disaster), and he moved his family into a coal-mining district in search of a new source of income.
“Before coming to the mine, I thought my life would be much better there,” he said. “I didn’t really have any income.”
Then the government closed the mine, and Erdenebat was forced to mine on his own and haul the coal in sacks. He knew that it was bad for his health to work around coal dust, but he had no choice. “The cost of living in the city and mining area was high and you had to have money every time you went out,” he said. “I didn’t have any money or a job.”
Erdenebat longed to return to the fields. “I’ve been very depressed since I lost my animals and the past year has been difficult for our family,” he said. “I wanted to herd again, but I didn’t know how to start and how to find help. If you have your own livestock, you will have food. When you have no food, you can’t sleep and have no purpose.”
Samaritan’s Purse made it possible by providing 20 female sheep, and the flock has made it possible for his family to prosper. His wife and eldest daughter process the milk to produce and sell cheese, curds, and butter.
He looks forward to the time that his sheep will give birth and he will be able to provide livestock to help other shepherds. “I learned to raise livestock when I was young. I will do it for the rest of my life. Thank you from my heart for this project and to everyone behind the project.”
During 2021, Samaritan’s Purse assisted 40 vulnerable herder families like Erdenenbart in four communities to restore their livelihoods and strengthen their resilience for future dzud events.
VIETNAM – Tra Cu District Recovering From Winter Disaster
Xua and her family live in a remote village in the Tra Cu District, a 3-hour trip from Ho Chi Minh City. She provides for a family of six, including her 85-year-old father and three sisters with disabilities and chronic illnesses.
She was the primary breadwinner for the household, selling vegetables at the town’s wet market, earning under $30 per week to sustain her family. Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit and she lost her income and fell into debt, especially as she tried to help with the critical medical needs of her young niece. “When the pandemic hit its peak last year, I had to stop going to the market. My family and I suffered so much and we were hopeless. I wanted to have enough money to take my little sister to go see a doctor but there was no way.”
She thought about raising cows but couldn’t afford the initial investment. Then Samaritan’s Purse launched the CALF program (Community Advancement through Livelihoods for Families) to help 40 households in the Tra Cu district.
Samaritan’s Purse was able to train Xua in animal husbandry and also connected her with local veterinarians to help her make the project successful. She learned that even the manure was valuable and could be sold as fertiliser, and by selling calves, she can ensure her family’s income.
“After receiving the cow, it gives me hope that my family’s quality of life is more secure now. My little sister’s disease may be treated, and my niece can go to school without worrying about finances.” When cows deliver their first calves, families can opt to pay-forward their offspring to new families to begin Phase II, benefiting an additional 40 households. Xua’s cow was the first to successfully deliver a baby calf, a testament to her stewardship and husbandry skills.
“I received the support from Samaritan’s Purse so I also want to share with other people who are in a similar situation. I want to hand over the calf to the next family in its best state,” Xua said.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Karl Shapiro was a true Baltimorean. As a young man in the 1920s and 1930s, Shapiro fed his literary ambitions with the city's rich cultural history; for instance, writing love poems at Fort McHenry where Francis Scott Key was inspired to pen the Star-Spangled Banner. In 1939, Shapiro enrolled in the Enoch Pratt Library School at the library's central branch, an experience that would greatly influence his life and his writing.
Shapiro later expressed his gratitude to Enoch Pratt Free Library, by capturing it in the lines:
"Voltaire would weep for joy, Plato would stare.
What is it, easier than a church to enter,
Politer than a department store, this center,
That like Grand Central leads to everywhere?"
Open to all Baltimoreans since its 1894 founding, the city's first non-segregated cultural institution does indeed "lead to everywhere," thanks to the library's numerous resources and founder Enoch Pratt's firm belief in inclusiveness. The architecture of the 1933 Central Branch building exemplifies Pratt's philosophy. Designed to mirror a department store, library patrons, not just librarians, could access the books, and large exhibit windows advertised library news to passersby. Following Pratt's requirements, the building's entrance remained without stairs for the convenience of women pushing strollers. This revolutionary design went on to inspire library architecture nationwide.
Shapiro enjoyed studying to be a librarian; however, World War II intervened. "I couldn't take the final exam because I was drafted," Shapiro explained. "Because of my background of two years of college...they put me in the company headquarters office and gave me a typewriter." As the company clerk, Shapiro was never far from writing materials and had "endless amounts of empty time"–-everything a poet needs. He wrote prodigiously, sending his poems stateside to his Baltimorean fiancée, Evalyn Katz, who then published them.
Although 9,000 miles from home, the Pratt Library was never far from Shapiro's mind. He frequently wrote to his former colleagues, signing his letters with "Very best wishes to you and the Library." Meanwhile, the library also contributed to the war effort, housing various headquarters and providing basement air-raid shelters.
When the war ended in 1945, the library returned to business as usual, but Shapiro did not. Having left America only a student, he returned home an established poet. Shapiro published four books and received several prizes including the Pulitzer Prize during the war. Assuming a radically different life than the one he had left, Shapiro taught at several universities, and describes his role as "not really a professor, but a sort of mad guest." He also worked as the Poetry Consultant to the Library of Congress, a position known today as the Poet Laureate; edited poetry magazines; and of course, wrote poetry. All the while, Shapiro embodied the philosophy of Enoch Pratt, relentlessly fighting against prejudice and injustices both in his poetry and with his actions, until his death in 2000. | <urn:uuid:c8754dd8-9f21-4dca-ac5d-646f29e900cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/117?tour=12&index=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.981788 | 635 | 2.78125 | 3 |
Supplemental material: Transition from subduction to arc-continent collision: Geologic and neotectonic evolution of Savu Island, Indonesia
journal contributionposted on 01.06.2009, 00:00 authored by Ron Harris, Michael W. Vorkink, Carolus Prasetyadi, Elizabeth Zobell, Nova Roosmawati, Marjorie Apthorpe
Geosphere, June 2009, v. 5, p. 152-171, doi:10.1130/GES00209.1, Animation 1 - Sand box experiment movie illustrating various phases of the arc-continent collision observed throughout the Banda Arc. You will need Windows Media Player or a multimedia player such as Quicktime Media Player to view this file. The model is designed to test the influence of inserting a flat-flexible backstop (forearc basement) into the accretionary wedge as observed in Savu and older parts of the Banda Orogen exposed in Timor. A stratigraphy of lime and sand is scaled to thicknesses observed for cover sequences of the Scott Plateau, while plasticine clay is used to represent rigid forearc basement. The rheological properties of these materials are well documented (i.e., Huiqi et al., 1992) and provide reasonable approximations of contrasts in mechanical strength found between Australian cover rocks and forearc basement. The model is scaled at a ratio of 1 cm = 1 km. A 1 cm layer of plasticine clay extends on top of a 3.7-cm thick section of alternating white lime and red lime/sand layers (Gondwana Sequence lower cover units of Australian continental margin). In front of the plasticine is a 1.2-cm thick section of alternating units (Australian Passive Margin Sequence of the upper cover of the Australian continental margin). Shear strengths are 161 and 176 (Pa) for the lime and sand/lime layers, respectively. The experiment and others like it produce an upper structural level of trench-ward verging imbricate thrust sheets of only the upper sections of the cover in front and above the backstop. The lower section of cover forms a duplex system of large isoclinal, recumbent folds, and out of syncline thrusts. Initially the upper thrust sheets and faults dip between 20°-30°, but with accretion of new thrust sheets to the front of the stack, older sheets are tilted progressively more arcward until they become near vertical and even slightly overturned. Maximum uplift occurs in the imbricate fan above the leading edge of the backstop. This part of the accretionary wedge would be the first to emerge above sea level and stripped by erosion, as observed in Savu. The backstop is also uplifted and folded into a concave down geometry. A highly attenuated mélange-like zone develops immediately beneath the plasticine forearc nappe due to very high shear strain. Insertion of the flat flexible backstop into the layered section produces two distinct structural domains: frontal accretion above and duplexing beneath the backstop. The same patterns of accretion and backstop deformation are found throughout the Banda arc-continent collision (Harris, 1991). Only the early stages of the model are like the Savu phase of collision. Later stages are more emblematic of the Timor region. | <urn:uuid:2051ddf2-a149-4bc3-aed2-93b4215eceb6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gsapubs.figshare.com/articles/journal_contribution/Supplemental_material_Transition_from_subduction_to_arc-continent_collision_Geologic_and_neotectonic_evolution_of_Savu_Island_Indonesia/12180444/1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.891518 | 691 | 2.5625 | 3 |
The spinning mills in Tamil Nadu, in southern India, provide a vital source of employment for local communities. For their workforce of largely young women and adolescent girls, however, these mills can also be sites of gendered labour exploitation, harassment and abuse.
The Freedom Fund’s local partners work closely with mills, workers and local communities to improve access to equitable and safe employment. To this end, the Freedom Fund along with local NGO partners and Novo Film developed a film-based curriculum to support young women and girls in affected communities to recognise and protect their rights around education, working conditions, workplace harassment and mental health.
The curriculum, entitled “Call Me Priya”, combines locally made Tamil language films with participatory learning sessions. To date 11,000 girls and young women have completed the curriculum and a further 14,000 adults and adolescent boys have also participated in adapted versions of the curriculum.
A new evaluation of the “Call Me Priya” film-based curriculum by Praxis India found that the course had a clear impact on the knowledge, attitudes and propensity to take action among the young female participants. In particular, the evaluation reported: | <urn:uuid:d4090dbe-f43d-44a4-b8b3-fd34dcfd9a03> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freedomfund.org/our-reports/evaluation-of-a-film-based-intervention-to-empower-girls-and-young-women-in-tamil-nadu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.942994 | 239 | 2.46875 | 2 |
People I know love eating out at different cafes and restaurants. They love trying out new places almost as much as they love returning to their old favorite spots. They love trying new menu items and discovering new ways to eat the foods they enjoy the most. Eating out can be both a wonderful and very dangerous thing.
In America we are blessed to have restaurants dotting the streets of many streets in towns and cities of all sizes. We are rarely at a loss for places to eat out. One of the greatest things about eating out is that it saves time that many busy people do not have to waste. After spending long hours at our workplaces, few people have the time or energy to return home and cook a gourmet meal. Eating out seems to be a great solution at the end of a long, tiring day.
Eating Out Wisely
Eating out can also be great because we can try a wide variety of foods and drinks that we don’t have the ability to make ourselves. No one loves eating the same basic foods over and over again, so eating out can be a good way to give our tastebuds something new.
However, if we are not careful, eating out can also be dangerous for a couple of big reasons. First, we must use caution in eating out for the sake of our health. Most restaurants and cafes offer huge portions of items that are unhealthy to eat and drink. Eating out often means filling up on appetizers, a main course, a few high calorie beverages, and a dessert to finish off the evening. Think about how many calories you can consume during a meal like this. I am not, of course, saying that we should never enjoy eating out. I am, however, saying that we need to be careful, for our health’s sake, about eating out too frequently. We must be careful to watch our choices when we are eating out. Choose healthier items or commit to only eating half of the meal you choose. There are ways of eating out healthily, it just takes conscience effort.
Another huge reason to be careful about eating out too often is your pocketbook and budget. It is no secret that eating out costs more, on average, that cooking meals in your own home. It is easy to accumulate large bills, especially at nicer places. So be careful that you stick to a budget when you make plans for eating out.
Beware. Eating out can be one of the greatest pleasures or one of the most dangerous things. Enjoy it, but do it with caution.
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As a Christian and a martial arts student, I have often wrestled with the idea of self-defense. Does God expect me to defend my family and myself when physically attacked or am I to "turn the other cheek" and endure it in the name of Jesus?
As I considered the many comments I encountered on this topic, I became even more confused. Some advocates for "religion" have gone as far as to say that anyone who practices any form of martial arts is without a doubt bound for hell. It wasn't until I committed myself to a more thorough study of the scriptures that I discovered the truth for myself.
The Bible gives more than a few examples of the practice of self-defense and the idea of martial arts. I would like to share some of what I have learned in this study of the Bible - Old Testament and New. The Bible is, in fact, the very word of God (II Timothy 3:16-17).
God and Warfare
The first example of a physical struggle in the Bible is in Genesis chapter 4. It is here that Cain kills his brother Abel. This is an act of violence condemned by God for two reasons. First, the violence was out of anger and jealousy because his brother's actions were better than his own (Genesis 4:4-7). Secondly, the violence was pre-meditated. God confronted Cain before this violence occurred. He told Cain that he would need to figure out how to master the sin of anger and jealousy that was trying to overtake him.
What this scripture teaches is that God does not want us to initiate violence but he wants us to train ourselves to master our emotions when tempted with feelings of anger, jealousy and rage. He wants us to prepare our hearts to respond humbly. I believe the study of martial arts can provide this kind of training. I have seen it in my martial arts class. I as a sensei (teacher) i spend up to half of the one-hour class teaching humility, manners, concern for others and peace-making. We are taught to avoid violence and stay calm in situations of conflict. So Christianity supports martial arts. | <urn:uuid:85948bfc-0d49-4551-bf65-f168ed675094> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gregmaluma.com/post/christianity-supports-martial-arts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982231 | 437 | 1.960938 | 2 |
“What can the business community do?”
That was the question the KC Chamber Board of Directors asked in response to the calls for social justice stemming from the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The Board’s African American members met and determined five areas of focus: education, employment, access to capital, law enforcement reform, and professional development. Subcommittees were formed for Board members to work on each of those issues.
Project LEAD was created by the professional development subcommittee and addresses what can be done to move the needle on systemic racism in the workplace. The application field is one of the first places where change can happen. It starts there and goes through the hiring process.
The inspiration for Project LEAD is the Mansfield Rule. Named after Arabella Mansfield, the first woman admitted to the bar in the United States; the Mansfield rule requires participating law firms to confirm their candidate pools are at least 30 percent diverse, including women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minorities.
The rule was inspired by the National Football League’s Rooney Rule, requiring every NFL team to interview at least one minority candidate for head coach vacancies.
The Mansfield Rule has made a difference in the legal profession. Of the participating law firms:
• Sixty-five percent have promoted a higher percentage of diverse attorneys into equity partnerships.
• Fifty-three percent reported a higher percentage of diverse attorneys elected or appointed to their firm’s executive committee.
• Fifty-seven percent elected or appointed a higher percentage of diverse attorneys into management positions.
Project LEAD promises to be just as impactful for its participating businesses, especially considering the impact of diverse workforces and leadership on a company’s bottom line. Diverse companies are more likely to outperform their less diverse peers financially. Eight Kansas City companies, including the KC Chamber, participate in Project LEAD’s one-year pilot program. Each company will undergo an audit to establish a diversity baseline of where their candidate pools. That information will help companies understand where they need to focus.
Once that baseline is established, the action steps to meet the 30% percent goal will include:
• Documenting progress each quarter.
• Broadening the field of consideration to expand management’s awareness of talent.
• Adding transparency and accountability to historically vague processes and job responsibilities.
• Sharing knowledge and best practices.
That last action step is crucial for businesses to know they have support. After orientation, each company will get monthly check-ins and consultations, bimonthly knowledge-sharing calls to exchange best practices, quarterly webinars on topics of interest and access to resources and information.
“This could be a game-changer across industries,” says Joe Reardon, the chamber’s president and CEO. “Over the next 12 months, we expect to learn a lot, have great discussions, and share best practices to have more diverse candidates in applicant pools and ultimately in hiring. These actions all lead to a fairer and more just workplace.”
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Social Security disability payments can be a godsend when you find yourself unable to work due to accident, illness or injury. However, the federal government makes it difficult for even the sickest workers to get the benefits that they deserve from a system that they’ve paid into for their entire working lives. Nearly everyone who applies for Social Security benefits is turned down numerous times prior to being approved. And those who apply without representation stand an even lesser chance of being approved for benefits. Russell and Hill has a history of helping disabled workers just like you apply for and receive the benefits that they are entitled to under law. Contact our Social Security disability attorney as soon as possible during the claims process to get the expert help you need in filing your claim.
U.S. citizens are entitled to receive Social Security Disability (SSDI) or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) when a physical or mental impairment prevents them from being capable of performing a substantial amount of work. The injury or illness must be expected to last at least 12 months, or even possibly result in death. For Social Security, substantial gainful activity involves making at least $1,180 per month before taxes, or $1,970 per month for blind individuals as of 2018.
Eligibility for Social Security Disability depends on the severity of the impairment. You must prove your limitations are severe enough that they prevent you from performing substantial gainful activity. Social Security will often check first to see if you’re capable of doing your previous job, or any past jobs you may have had in the past 15 years, or whether you’re capable of doing other work.
To qualify for SSDI benefits, you must have paid FICA taxes to the Social Security Administration for at least five to ten years, with at least five of those years occurring within the last decade.
Many people assume that because they can file on their own, they should file on their own. This may be a foolhardy decision that can serve to delay your claim.It can be difficult to get approved for Social Security Disability or Supplemental Security Income, even when you do meet their definition of disability. Most people are denied the first time they apply, and have to appeal the decision, sometimes multiple times before finally getting approved. An experienced Social Security attorney can help make this process more smooth as well as shorten the process for you.
You’ve worked your entire life and now you’re not able to work. You have paid into a system that promised to be there for you, but the government makes you jump through a bevy of hoops to qualify for your benefits. We can help, even if you have already filed and been turned down one or more times. Contact our Kirkland Social Security disability attorney now to discuss your particular situation and arrange a no-cost consultation with our disability legal team. | <urn:uuid:56f92adb-7292-4a18-b4ca-65bc6a313eef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.russellandhill.com/social-security-disability-kirkland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.967058 | 577 | 1.84375 | 2 |
Friday, April 17, 2015
Gasoline prices averaged $2.246 a gallon in the Atlanta area in March 2015, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Regional Commissioner Janet S. Rankin noted that area gasoline prices were $1.154 lower than last March when they averaged $3.400 per gallon. Atlanta area households paid an average of 11.3 cents per kilowatt hour (kWh) of electricity in March 2015, similar to the 11.1 cents per kWh paid in March 2014. The average cost of utility (piped) gas, at $1.455, was less than the $1.632 spent last year. (Data in this report are not seasonally adjusted. Accordingly, month-to-month changes may reflect the impact of seasonal influences.)
Atlanta area consumers paid $2.246 a gallon for gasoline in March 2015, 11.7 percent lower than the $2.544 paid nationally. A year earlier, consumers in the Atlanta area paid 5.3 percent less than the national average for a gallon of gasoline. In the past five years, prices paid by Atlanta area consumers for gasoline has been at least 4 percent less than the U.S. average in the month of March. (See chart 1.)
The 11.3 cents per kWh Atlanta households paid for electricity in March was 16.9 percent less than the nationwide average of 13.6 cents per kWh. Last March, electricity costs in Atlanta were 17.8 percent less than those paid for the nation. In each of the past five years, prices paid by Atlanta area consumers for electricity have been at least 11 percent less than the U.S. average in the month of March. (See chart 2.)
Prices paid by Atlanta area consumers for utility (piped) gas, commonly referred to as natural gas, were $1.455 per therm, or 47.7 percent higher than the national average in March 2015 ($0.985 per therm). A year earlier, area consumers paid 41.4 percent more per therm for natural gas compared to the nation. In 3 of the past five years, the per therm cost for natural gas in March for Atlanta households was at least 40 percent more than the U.S. average. (See chart 3.)
The Atlanta, Ga., Metropolitan Statistical Area consists of Barrow, Bartow, Carroll, Cherokee, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, DeKalb, Douglas, Fayette, Forsyth, Fulton, Gwinnett, Henry, Newton, Paulding, Pickens, Rockdale, Spalding, and Walton Counties in Georgia.
The April 2015 Consumer Price Index for the Atlanta area is scheduled to be released on Friday, May 22, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. (ET).
Average prices are estimated from Consumer Price Index (CPI) data for selected commodity series to support the research and analytic needs of CPI data users. Average prices for electricity, utility (piped) gas, and gasoline are published monthly for the U.S. city average, the 4 regions, the 3 population size classes, 10 region/size-class cross-classifications, and the 14 largest local index areas. For electricity, average prices per kilowatt-hour (kWh) are published. For utility (piped) gas, average prices per therm are published. For gasoline, the average price per gallon is published. Average prices for commonly available grades of gasoline are published as well as the average price across all grades.
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CHICAGO – A trip to the dentist is just one of people’s most important fears, in particular when you must have important surgical treatment.
But the future of dentistry has arrived and that potential could be fearless. It is robotic surgery for dental implants, which means considerably less drilling and a faster restoration.
Open up huge — which is what 29-year-aged Zachary West was carrying out as the Yomi robotic did its occupation. Guided by Dr. Sunil Sinha, Zachary was obtaining a dental implant.
“It permits us to give a incredibly exact and accurate posture of where the implant goes,” mentioned Dr. Sinha.
Zachary broke his tooth and in its place of receiving a conventional crown, he opted for an implant. But this a single was staying carried out with robotic assistance and because of that, an implant which would usually require a three to 4 thirty day period method was done in a working day.
“We can go appropriate in and absolutely implant and place a crown on it proper absent in 1 check out,” Dr. Sinha reported.
Dental implants have become a preferred treatment of selection for several people today to exchange missing teeth. Which is mainly because they can final two times as extended as a bridge or crown.
When it will come to dental implant surgery, precision and precision on the surgeon’s component is vital.
That’s wherever Yomi plays a role. To start with, the affected individual will come in, gets a 3D x-ray and then thanks to Yomi, the surgeon only has to make a little incision that won’t involve any stitches. And then, which is when guy and machine get to get the job done.
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Believe of it as a GPS guided course of action. The accurate measurements and focusing on means it really is significantly less invasive and the implant is positioned right the place it wants to go with absolutely no guess operate.
“Most of our people inform us they have no suffering, no inflammation, no bleeding,” Dr. Sinha claimed.
A smaller incision implies a faster recovery and no real healing time. The patient is in and out within just an hour in most instances, dependent on the task.
For Zachary, that was key.
“I can go back again to operate right just after this, right? So that is form of like an best situation,” Zachary stated.
Dr. Sinha is the first dentist in the Chicago spot to provide Yomi. He suggests utilizing the robot would not include more to the value of the process and this kind of robotic operation will operate for most individuals no matter your age.
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Assistant Professor of Architecture Francesco Cianfarani recently presented his research on the current transformation of the Evans Fintube plant in Tulsa, titled “The Evans-Fintube Building: Architecture of the Oklahoma Oil Industry.”
The presentation was focused on the redesign of the Evans building, one of the oldest and most remarkable examples of industrial archaeology and early modern architecture in the state. The building is currently at the center of a series of projects and public debates that are offering a unique opportunity to publicly discuss the topic of urban regeneration and reuse of industrial heritage in the state.
The presentation was part of the international conference hosted by Docomomo Japan. The Conference took place virtually from August 29 – September 2, 2021, under the theme “Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities.”
For more info about Docomomo International: https://www.docomomo-us.org/event/16th-international-docomomo-conference-in-tokyo-japan
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An evidence-based Tool to ensure continuity of Community Policing in Greater Manchester
Police Community Support Officers (PCSOs) and Neighbourhood Beat Officers (NBOs) often work within the same beat for several years.
During this time, they establish key connections with people and partner organisations within the neighbourhood and acquire unique knowledge of their beat area. They know the neighbourhood's people; its problems; its resources; and its dynamics — valuable information that cannot be found in official documents or databases.
The problem is, when a PCSO or NBO retires, is redeployed to another area or moves to another police role, this unique resource of local knowledge and relationships leaves with them. Research by GMP revealed that the movement of PCSOs and NBOs out of their beat area can be a source of frustration for local communities and GMP partner organisations alike. Furthermore, it can negatively impact citizens’ trust and perception of GMP. As a result, citizens feel let down, partners feel frustrated — and ultimately, the valuable work that PCSOs and NBOs do in their communities is jeopardised.
GMP has developed the Community Connect Tool — a new
handover protocol for use by its main neighbourhood policing
roles — PCSOs and NBOs.
GMP Community Connect facilitates
improved and more effective handover between officers by enabling the communication of key contacts, intelligence and strategic insights about a neighbourhood.
This may include
key relationships with community representatives and citizens, details of key community contacts and partner organisations, important community facilities and places, and details of local policing priorities.
Social Media Handover Notification
GMP Community Connect has been designed as a handover protocol for neighbourhood policing roles (PCSOs and NBOs).
PCSOs and NBOs were closely involved in prototype testing.
The Tool was also presented during meetings of the local policing branch at GMP and feedback gathered from senior officers and GMP staff.
Tool directions identified
Tool development & prototyping
Local implementation workshop
Using the research methods and tools developed by the CCI project, GMP undertook a structured process of requirements capture research involving:
Observational research: PCSO and NBO shifts; NBO and PCSO collaborative working; Superintendent; Police operations; Strategic initiatives against street begging; Community Hubs; Multi-agency meetings
Stakeholder mapping through meetings and visits to police and non-police stakeholders: meetings with GMP staff and senior officers; visits to non-police stakeholders in the communities while shadowing PCSOs and NBOs
Research interviews: Four interviews with Local Authority staff; focus group with members of ethnic minority community; interview with community religious leader; interview with community leader; interview with Chair of Independent Advisory Board
Requirements capture research was undertaken in three GMP policing districts. From the research findings, a number of key themes emerged. These formed the basis of a DesignLab, from which a concept direction was selected — supporting Neighbourhood Policing handover.
All Neighbourhood Policing Teams in GMP were contacted and the Tool components and explanation video disseminated via the homepage of the GMP intranet.
Tool demonstration was undertaken by three Community Policing officers that were leaving their neighbourhood beats. Contact was made with leaving officers, and follow-up interviews arranged after their use of the Tool. Three ‘leaving’ officers and one ‘newly appointed’ officer provided feedback on their use of the Community Connect Tool.
Tool implementation activities during the CCI project
Tool implementation activities planned for the future
Higgins, A. (2018). The future of neighbourhood policing. London, UK: The Police Foundation.
Longstaff, A., Willer, J., Chapman, J., Czarnomski, S., & Graham, J. (2015). Neighbourhood policing: Past, present and future. The Police Foundation, 25-31.
Myhill, A. (2006). Community engagement in policing: Lessons from literature. London, UK: Home Office.
Policymakers should recognise the importance of sustained collaborative working. Community relationships are a strategic asset to security.
Methods for mapping stakeholders, supporting collaborative problem-solving, and maintaining effective partnerships longer term should be adopted.
To reduce the negative impact of police officer and staff turnover, and support relationship continuity in Community Policing, police forces should:
- (i) have in place formal handover protocols for frontline Community Policing officers and senior managers;
- (ii) formally allocate time for carrying out staff handover;
- and (iii) work towards raising the status of Community Policing roles.
Dr Roberta Signori
Chief Superintendent Paul Savill
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The Washington Post reports:
The White House summoned China’s ambassador on Thursday to condemn Beijing’s escalating actions against Taiwan and reiterate that the United States does not want a crisis in the region, after a visit to the island by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) sharply escalated tensions in the Taiwan Strait this week.
“After China’s actions overnight, we summoned [People’s Republic of China] Ambassador Qin Gang to the White House to démarche him about the PRC’s provocative actions,” National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said in a statement provided to The Washington Post.
“We condemned the PRC’s military actions, which are irresponsible and at odds with our long-standing goal of maintaining peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait.” A démarche is a protest lodged through diplomatic channels.
Read the full article.
White House summons Chinese ambassador for rebuke on Taiwan response https://t.co/PcHbPwEeKV
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In recent years there has been a resurgence of interest in machine learning and so-called “artificial intelligence” systems. Much of this resurgence is based on advances in so-called “deep learning”, neural networks with multiple layers of connections. For example, convolutional neural networks now provide state-of-the-art performance in many image recognition tasks and recurrent neural networks have been used to increase the accuracy of many commercial machine translation systems. Machine learning may be considered a subdiscipline of “artificial intelligence” that deals with algorithms that are trained to perform tasks such as classification based on collections of data. This recent resurgence has meant that more companies wish to protect innovations in this field. This quickly brings them into the realm of computer-implemented inventions, and the nuances of protection at the European Patent Office.
“Computer-implemented invention” is the European Patent Office term for a software invention. Claims that specify machine learning and artificial intelligence systems are almost certainly to be considered “computer-implemented inventions”. The innovation in such systems occurs in the design of the algorithms and/or software architectures. Claims for new hardware to implement machine learning and artificial intelligence systems, such as new graphical processing unit configurations, would not be classed as computer-implemented inventions and would be considered in the same manner as conventional computer devices.
What Do We Have To Go On?
As key advances in the field have only been seen since 2010, there are few Board of Appeal cases that explicitly consider these inventions. It is likely we will see many Board of Appeal decisions in this field, but it is unlikely these will filter through the system much before 2020. However, applications in the field are being filed and examined. The following review is based on knowledge of these applications, evaluated in the context of existing Board of Appeal cases.
A first issue regarding machine learning and artificial intelligence systems is that many of the underlying techniques are public knowledge, given the rapid turn-over of publications and repositories of electronic pre-prints such as arXiv. Hence, many applicants may face novelty and inventive step objections if the invention involves the application of known techniques to new domains or problems. For patent attorneys who are drafting new applications, it is recommended to perform a pre-filing search of such publication sources and ensure that the inventors provide a full appraisal of what is public knowledge.
Domain of Invention
A second issue is the domain of the invention. This may be seen as the context of the invention as presented in the claims and patent description.
Inventions that apply machine learning approaches to fields in engineering are generally considered more positively by the European Patent Office. These fields will typically either operate on low-level data that represents physical properties or have some form of actuation or change in the physical world. For example, the following domains are less likely to have features excluded from an inventive step evaluation for being “non-technical”: navigating a robot within a three-dimensional space; dynamic adaptive change of a Field Programmable Gate Array; audio signal analysis in speech processing; and controlling a power supply to a data centre.
On the other hand, inventions that apply machine learning approaches within a business or “enterprise” domain are likely to be analysed more closely. These inventions have a greater chance of claim features being excluded for being “non-technical”. These domains typically have an aim of increasing profit. The more this aim is explicit in the patent application, the more likely a “non-technical” objection will be raised. For example, the following inventions are more likely to have features excluded from an inventive step evaluation for being “non-technical”: intelligent organisation of playlists in a music streaming service; adaptive electronic trading of securities; automated provision of electronic information in a company hierarchy; and automated negotiation of online advertising auctions.
Exclusions from Patentability
A third issue that arises is that individual features of the claims fall within the exclusions of Article 52(2) EPC. In the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems, there is an increased risk of claim features being considered to fall into one of the following categories: mathematical methods; schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts or doing business; and presentations of information. These will briefly be considered in turn below.
The field of machine learning is closely linked to the field of statistics. Indeed many machine learning algorithms are an application of statistical methods. Academic researchers in the field are trained to describe their contributions mathematically, and this is required for publication in an academic journal. However, the practice of the European Patent Office, as directed by the Boards of Appeal, typically regards statistical methods as mathematical methods. In their pure, unapplied form they are considered “non-technical”.
Schemes, Rules and Methods for Performing Mental Acts
A claim feature is likely to be considered part of schemes, rules and methods for performing mental acts when the scope of the feature is too broad or abstract. For example, if a claimed method step also covers a human being performing the step manually, it is likely that the scope is too broad.
Schemes, Rules and Methods for Doing Business
Claim features are likely to be considered schemes, rules and methods for doing business when the information processing relates to a business aim or goal. This is especially the case where the information processing is dependent on the content of the data being processed, and that content does not relate to a low-level recording or capture of a physical phenomenon.
For example, processing of a digital sound recording to clean the recording of noise would be considered “technical”; processing row entries in a database of information technology assets to remove duplicates for licensing purposes would likely be considered “non-technical”.
Presentation of Information
Objections that features relate to the presentation of information may occur when the innovation relates to user experience (UX) or user interface (UI) features.
For example, a machine learning algorithm that adaptively arranges icons on a smartphone according to use may receive objections on the grounds that features relate to mathematical methods (the algorithm) and presentation of information (the arrangement of icons on the graphical user interface). As per Guideline G-II, 3.7.1, grant is unlikely if information is simply displayed to a user and any improvement occurs in the mind of the user. However, it is possible to argue for a technical effect if the output provides information on an internal state of operation of a device (at the operating system level or below, e.g. battery level, processing unit utility etc.) or if the output improves a sequence of interactions with a user (e.g. provides a new way of operating a device). Again, a technical problem needs to be demonstrated and the machine learning algorithm needs to be a tool to solve this problem.
Subfields of ML and AI
In certain subfields of machine learning and artificial intelligence, there is a tendency for Boards of Appeal and Examining Divisions to consider inventions more or less “technical”. This is often for a combination of factors, including field of operation of appellants, the history of research and traditional applications, and the background and public policy preferences of staff of the European Patent Office.
For example, machine learning and artificial intelligence systems in the field of image, video and audio processing are more likely to be found to have “technical” features that can contribute to an inventive step under Article 56 EPC. A convolutional neural network architecture applied to image processing is more likely to be considered a “technical” contribution that the same architecture applied to text processing. Similarly, it may be argued that machine learning and artificial intelligence systems in the field of medicine and biochemistry have “technical” characteristics, e.g. if they operate on data originating from mass spectrometry or medical imaging.
However, advances in search, classification and natural language processing are more likely to be found to have “non-technical” features that cannot contribute to an inventive step under Article 56 EPC. These areas of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems are often felt to be “technical” by the engineers and developers building such systems. However, it is a nuance of European case law that these areas are often deemed to have claim features that fall into an excluded “business”, “mathematical” or “administrative” category.
A recent example may be found in case T 1358/09. The claim in this case comprised “text documents, which are digitally represented in a computer, by a vector of n dimensions, said n dimensions forming a vector space, whereas the value of each dimension of said vector corresponds to the frequency of occurrence of a certain term in the document”. The Board agreed with the appellant that the steps in the claim were different to those applied by a human being performing classification. However, the Board concluded that the algorithm underlying the method the claim did not “go beyond a particular mathematical formulation of the task of classifying documents”. They were of the opinion that the skilled person would have been given the (“non-technical”) text classification algorithm and simply be tasked with implementing it on a computer.
What Should We Not Do?
Managers and executives of commercial enterprises are often habituated into selling innovations to a non-technical audience. This means that invention disclosures often describe the invention at an abstract “marketing” level. When an invention is described in a patent application at this level, inventive step objections are likely.
The fact that mathematical formulae may comprise excluded “non-technical” features is difficult for inventors and practitioners to grasp. Often equations at an academic-publication level are included in patent specifications in an attempt to add technical character. This often backfires. While such equations may be deemed “technical” according to a standard definition of the term, they are often not deemed “technical” according to the definition applied by European case law.
In general, objections are more likely in this area when the scope of the claim is broad and attempts to cover applications of a particular algorithm in all industries. Applicants should be advised that trying to cover everything will likely lead to refusal.
What Should We Do?
Chances of grant may be increased by ensuring an examiner or Board of Appeal member can clearly see the practical application of the algorithm to a specific field or low-level technical area.
Patent attorneys drafting patent applications for machine learning and artificial intelligence systems should carefully consider the framing and description of the invention in the patent specification. In-depth discussions with the engineers and developers that are implementing the systems often enable innovations to be described more precisely. Given this precision, innovations may be framed as a “technical” or engineering innovation, i.e. a technical solution to a technical problem. This increases the chance of a positive opinion from the European Patent Office.
Often features of an invention will have both a business advantage and a “technical” advantage. For example, a machine learning system that learns how to dynamically route data over a network may help an online merchant more successfully route traffic to their website; however, this improved method may involve manipulation of data packets within a router that also improves network security. A patent specification describing the latter advantage will have a greater chance of grant than the former, regardless of the actual provenance of the invention. A practitioner may work with an inventor to ensure that initial business advantages are distilled to their proximate “technical” advantages and effects. For cases where data does not relate to a low-level recording or capture of a physical phenomenon, it is recommended to ensure that any described technical effect applies regardless of the content of the data.
When considering exclusion for “mental acts”, a risk of a “non-technical” objection may be reduced by ensuring that your method steps exclude a manual implementation. Note that this exclusion does not necessarily prevent other objections being raised (see T 1358/09 above).
When drafting patent applications, it is also important to describe the implementation of any mathematical method. In this manner, pseudo-code is often more useful than equations. It is also important to clearly define how attributes of the physical world are represented within the computer. Good questions to ask include: “What data structures and function routines are used to implement the elements of any equation?”, “How is data initially recorded, e.g. are documents a scanned image such as a bitmap or a markup file using a Unicode encoding?”, “What programming languages and libraries are being used?”, or “What application programming interfaces are important?”.
Practitioners do need to be concerned with including overly limiting definitions within the claims; however, a positive opinion is more likely when specific implementation examples are described in the patent specification, followed by possible generalisations, than when specific implementation examples are omitted and the description only presents a generalised form of the invention along with more detailed mathematical equations.
To be successful in search, classification and natural language processing, one approach is to determine whether features relating to a non-obvious technical implementation may be claimed. This approach often goes hand in hand with a knowledge of academic publications in the field. While such publications may disclose a version of an algorithm being used, they often gloss over the technical implementation (unless the underlying source code is released on GitHub). For example, is there any feature of the data, ignoring its content, which makes implementation of a given equation problematic? If inventors have managed to reduce the dimensionality of a neural network using clever string pre-processing or quantisation then there may be an argument that the resultant solution is implementable on mobile and embedded devices. Reducing a size of a model from 3 GB to 300 KB by intelligent selection of pipeline stages may enable you to argue for a technical effect.
Do Not Believe The Hype?
Despite the hype, machine learning and artificial intelligence systems are just another form of software solution. As such, all the general guidance and case law on computer-implemented inventions continues to apply. A benefit of the longer timescales of patent prosecution is that you ride out the waves of Gartner’s hype cycle. In fact, I still sometimes prosecute cases from the end of the dotcom boom… | <urn:uuid:5d6c8b10-f681-4f84-9c14-8c65ae9cea91> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ipchimp.co.uk/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937768 | 2,975 | 2.5 | 2 |
In recent days, the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources (MFMR) has infamously grown in popularity, thanks to the Fishrot scandal. In the interim, let us take you back to 1990 when Namibia gained independence.
The state restructured the fisheries sector, aiming to direct the flow of benefits toward Namibians and with the vision to make Namibia a leading fishing nation with a well-developed aquaculture industry.
Since then, the MFMR has adopted the appropriate framework of regulatory texts (such as the Marine Act, Inland Fisheries Act and the Aquaculture Act). Well, good and well-structured policies, but little to no tangible effect. In 2003/4, the adoption of the Aquaculture Act led to the creation of the Directorate of Aquaculture (freshwater and marine) within the MFMR.
You may not believe it, but the Directorate of Aquaculture is turning 18 this year. Still an infant who entirely depends on its mother (the government) for almost everything. The government keeps pumping millions into the aquaculture sector, but why is the sector failing to be independent? Do we lack skilled labour? Do we lack facilities? Or is our country just not good for aquaculture?
These questions might arise when you take a visit to one of the state’s Inland Aquaculture facilities. Well, yes, the MFMR doesn’t have any marine aquaculture facilities.
So let us focus on what is ours, the depilated fish farms that keep the state coffers coughing. Before answering the questions raised, it must be noted that the MFMR has some little achievements that they always show on our national television, the Mpungu community fish farm, Hardap (Ecko Fish farm) and the Epalela fish farm harvests. So, when one reads ministerial statements, there is always one thing that stands out: the need to expand our aquaculture production and meet the local needs.
Yes, you guessed right, the Hardap fish farm cannot meet the demands of the nearest irrigation farms. So, will it be able to meet that of the 15 254 people who live in Mariental, based on the latest Population and Housing Census in 2011? The demand for Tilapia is high in Southern Africa, and due to this demand, China is now exporting tilapia to the region because unlike in the USA and Europe, people in Africa are looking for a cheap source of protein. But what is holding Namibia back from tapping into this market?
Firstly, we need to move from pond production to a recirculation aquaculture system (RAS) as it produces a higher quality of fish than pond-based Tilapia production. Tilapia is mentioned here because all Inland Freshwater Aquaculture in Namibia is entirely farming with tilapia, and additionally, due to its favourable adaptive features, which include being less susceptible to diseases, having a high growing rate, and being able to thrive on abundant and cheap artificial food. It is at this point that value addition also comes in. Proper packaging, labelling and product varieties would play a good role in the fish market, locally or internationally. The local fish sellers also need to get involved in the value addition part of the fish market. You often only find dry freshwater fish in the local markets, and wonder if no one ever tries to add value to their products.
Moreover, the Aquaculture Directorate needs serious reform, as 31 years after independence, we have what it takes to steer this sector forward. But the will of the ministry to support and drive this sector seems to have died with the late Dr Abraham Iyambo. The sole focus of the ministry now seems to be on marine fisheries, more specifically on the fishing rights. In the meantime, the ministry still has fish farms that are just being maintained by foreign expatriates such as Leonardville in Leonardville village, while Fonteintjie in Keetmanshoop is under legal dispute. On the renovation of the Fonteintjie fish farm alone, the government spent over N$ 21 million. But eight years later, the repairs are not done yet, and it is back to square one. The government has invested N$126 million in freshwater aquaculture development between 2003 and 2009. But are we reaping any fruits from all these investments, or is this investment only to show people that the government is taking the aquaculture sector seriously, but in fact there are no tangible results?
The Inland Aquaculture facilities are well-established in Namibia, but these facilities need to be optimally utilised, while others need to be renovated. However, with the current economic status of the country and not forgetting the Covid-19 pandemic, the renovation of these farms and the increase in production might not happen anytime soon.
The only commercial producers in Namibia for freshwater fish are Ecofish at Hardap and Van der Westhuizen at Uis. So, the ministry needs to assess what it has, and put in place cost-effective measures such as utilising graduates who are on the streets. Sometimes, one would ask themselves questions like what purpose the University of Namibia’s Sam Nujoma campus in Henties Bay serves when all it does is produce graduates for the streets? We believe there is more than enough human capacity, but yet not being utilised to the full extend.
Using cheap labour with no broader understanding instead of the professional graduates may seem as a cost-cutting mechanism for the government, but is just a limiting factor towards aquaculture growth in the country. The knowledge about the existence of fisheries graduates is always met with disbelief, contorted faces and many questions about what we do, and at which institution we obtained our qualifications. Therefore, we are also here to raise awareness that we exist and want to make a significant impact on aquaculture in the country. We are graduates from the University of Namibia, and obtained our Bachelor of Science Honours degrees in Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences. However, our qualification is not only limited to fisheries. | <urn:uuid:55e6bb0b-5f66-4f22-afa7-784c0fdfae3f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://neweralive.na/posts/opinion-aquaculture-still-in-its-infant-stages-18-years-later | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.953368 | 1,256 | 1.804688 | 2 |
In numerous real decision-making problems, decision-makers (DMs) encounter situations involving hesitant and probabilistic information simultaneously, and DMs show behavior characteristics of nonrational preferences when they encounter decision-making situations with uncertain information. To address such multiple-criteria decision-making (MCDM) issues with hesitant and probabilistic information and nonrational preferences, a novel method, called the evidential prospect theory framework, is developed herein based on evidence theory and prospect theory, where the associated coefficients in prospect theory are given on the basis of symmetry principles (i.e., the associated coefficients are common knowledge to DMs). Within the proposed method, belief structures derived from evidence theory apply to the experts’ uncertainty about the subjective assessment of criteria for different alternatives. Then, by combining belief structures, the weighted average method is applied to estimate the final aggregated weighting factors of different alternatives. Furthermore, considering the nonrational preferences of DMs, the expected prospect values of different alternatives are derived from the final aggregated weighting factors and prospect theory, which is applied to the ranking order of all alternatives. Finally, a case involving a parabolic trough concentrating solar power plant (PTCSPP) is shown to illustrate the application of the novel method proposed in this paper. The evidential prospect theory framework proposed in this paper is effective and practicable, and can be applied to (green) supplier evaluation.
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Cantor Samuel Vigoda Opens a Window Onto a Nearly Lost Era
by Jeremiah Lockwood
I RECALL SITTING AROUND THE TABLE with my grandfather, singing together either one-on-one or with my cousins. He was a great cantor of the old school, and singing was the central family activity. At times, my grandfather would sing a phrase and ask me to come up with a response; I remember the thrill and anxiety of being put on the spot in this context. If I sang a line that made sense to him, he would praise me, and if I moved off mode or didn't sound good to his ears for whatever reason, he would correct me. Alternating high praise and harsh criticism were a standard part of the learning experience with him. It was a nervewracking yet incredible way to learn, and central to the creation in me of a love and understanding of cantorial music.
Last Spring I participated in a seminar on archival research being given by the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan. Built into the seminar were periods of time in which participants could conduct their own research. The archive in that building is shared by five organizations with wonderful collections of Jewish historic materials. It includes the priceless YIVO archive of Yiddish materials gathered in Eastern Europe before the Second World War. The reading room at CJH is an amazing place in which to get lost in dreams from out of the past.
While working in the archive, I discovered a wonderful book called Legendary Voices, written by Cantor Samuel Vigoda. Cantor Vigoda (1893-1990) published his memoirs in 1981as an old man looking back on a forgotten past. Through his storytelling, I was granted a charming and intoxicating view of the world that created the modern legacy of chazzanus, the cantorial traditions of Eastern Europe that were carried to America. Most intriguing to me were Vigoda's stories about the relationships between masters and disciples and the culture of apprenticeship that was central to the creation of modern chazzanus.
VIGODA WAS ONE OF THE MASTERS of the "Golden Age" of early 20th-century cantorial music in America. Along with Yossele Rosenblatt and Moshe Kousevitsy, he was one of the cantors chosen for RCA Victor's iconic cantorial music triple-LP, The Art of the Cantor. Vigoda's memoirs consist mostly of stories about the great generation of cantors in Eastern Europe in the early to mid-19th century. He recalls the fame and glory or musical work that by and large was not documented by the revolutionary new technology of sound recording.
Reading Vigoda's book felt a bit like running into an old relative who I hadn't seen in many years. Legendary Voices has a breezy, at times absurd tone, run through with bilingual puns in outrageous poor taste, juxtaposed with quotes ranging from Voltaire to the Talmud.
The book is framed as an encounter with an old chorister named Yossel Bass at a cantors' convention in a resort in New Jersey. As his name would imply, Yossel was a bass singer and an old hand at leading choirs. He had sung with all the greats of cantorial music, and was already an old man in the 1940s when his encounter with Vigoda is depicted. Bass was a repository of tales and of wisdom from another era and had enough stories to keep a room full of cantors hypnotized for hours on end. In the reverie of the aftermath of a heavy meal, he presided over an epic gossip session about the old generation of European cantors — a generation that had been dead for decades.
Early in the book, Vigoda states that although it is believed that cantorial music is an ancient art form, as far as can be verified through documentation, the style of chazzanus that is familiar to us from early 20th-century recordings had its origins only in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In this period, Eastern European Jews, responding to the Reform synagogue music coming out of Germany, developed the cantorial recitative, a style of composition that builds coherent musical pieces out of a pastiche of modal material taken from the old synagogue modes, or nusakh. In contrast to the high Reform synagogue music, which leaned stylistically towards European classical music for its source of ideas, the Eastern European cantors sought to preserve the historic Jewish music traditions in a new and highly virtuosic artistic presentation. They called their cantorial music chazzonus gefil, feeling-full prayer leading, or sogakhts, improvisation. The latter term points to the importance of spontaneous creativity and receptivity to inspiration while singing the prayers. Yossel Bass recalled the titans of this creative outpouring, cantors whose voices were still remembered and whose compositions were still sung generations after their deaths.
BASS BEGINS HIS RECITATION with the story of the rivalry between Yeruchom HaKatan (Yeruchom the small) and Nissi Belzer (Nissi from Belz), the two greatest cantors out of Berdichev, Ukraine in the early 19th century. Yeruchom, the elder of the two, was originally Nissi's teacher, with the younger cantor serving as a meshorer, choir member.
The great cantors present a very different image than their contemporaries, the saint-like khasidic rabbis who sit firmly ensconced in hagiography and legend. Unlike these rabbinic figures of mythic piety, the great cantors are inseparable from their human weaknesses. Yeruchom and Nissi are presented as having been incredible artists while at the same time being defined by their absurd mischief, petty jealousies and various other misfortunes of the artistic ego. Vigoda's own attempt at constructing a hagiography of the great cantors is frustrated by the tension between the holiness of prayer that they embodied and the limitations and frailties inherent in their creative process. The identity of the cantor as a holy man, a spokesman for the community, is often in disharmony with the frustrations to which the cantor is susceptible. The liminal quality of the occupation of cantor, which sits in a grey area between the holy, Torah-upholding Jew and the less respectable role of a semi-obscure artist, often led to the suspicion that cantors were not pious and God-fearing Jews.
Yeruchom HaKatan, the most celebrated cantor in Berdichev, was famous for his incredible tenor voice. He could bring an entire congregation to tears of penitence and prayer. The young Nissi Belzer, while a gifted musician, was not a naturally talented singer and could not possibly live up to the vocal standard set by his teacher. After searching in vain for a career path, Nissi decided to try his hand at composing cantorial music (not exactly a well-worn path to fame and riches). He wrote an elaborate choral arrangement of a prayer for the High Holy Days and presented it to Yeruchom — who took a look and decided it was so worthless that he tore it to shreds. Mortified and gravely insulted, Nissi decided then and there that he would become the greatest chazzan in Berdichev, if only to spite his old teacher.
But how could he possibly hope to achieve greatness as a cantor and become a rival to the great Yeruchom without a naturally beautiful voice? His solution was to create a new manner of presentation of chazzonus that heavily featured the choir. He set about cultivating the young talented singers in the community into a professional choir. To supplement his meager income as cantor at Berdichev's New Synagogue, he took his choir on frequent tours of Jewish towns in the Pale of Settlement. While on tour he was always on the lookout for new talent for his choir. Talented boys as young as 6 would be drafted into Nissi's choir. Nissi would pay their parents exorbitant fees for four-year contracts to induce them to entrust him with their talented children. The meshorerim would live in his household and begin their education, singing with the older boys of the choir under Nissi's conducting and instruction.
In the words of Vigoda, Nissi was responsible for the creation of "primitive, homegrown conservatories, in which countless disciples received their indoctrination, [so] that there was developed a definite renaissance." It is hard to tell from Vigoda's tone whether this assertion is made in all seriousness or if he is indulging in verbal hijinks (akin to his puns and his out-of-context quotations from Plutarch). Does the fact that Vigoda's history is being recounted in the lobby of a Jersey hotel decrease the veracity of his claims about cantorial history? Or is Vigoda in earnest when he states that the first cantorial academy was attended by pre-adolescent yeshiva bokhers in a small Ukrainian city amid an atmosphere of anarchic pranks, artistic jealousy, and, most importantly, a familial atmosphere of conviviality and shared talents?
It is telling that Nissi's concept for creating a viable style that could compete with that of his teacher involved him in recreating the family dynamic in which he had acquired his own knowledge of cantorial music. After having been rejected decidedly by his own artistic "father," Nissi ended up "birthing" many sons who would champion the musical tradition of chazzanus. His program for cantorial education seems to have been modeled after father-to-son tradesman skills transmission. The paternalistic relationship of master and protégé held firm even when the young meshorer was not the biological offspring of a cantorial family. In "Nissi's kheyder" (Nissi's elementary school), as Vigoda dubbed it, the young choir members were more than likely not the sons of cantors themselves. In order to attain the practical knowledge and spirit of the music tradition, they needed to become live-in disciples. The practice of communal living apprenticeship spawned a generation of great cantors, including some, like Mordechai Herschmann, who is well know to us today through his recordings and compositions.
BOTH YERUCHOM HAKATAN AND NISSI BELZER GOT THEIR START in the choir of an even older Cantor, Betzalel Shulzinger, also know as Tzalel Odessaer (Tzalel from Odessa). The familial music-making ethos was central to the act of cantorial education in Tzalel's choir: He would compose new cantorial recitatives while sitting around the table with his meshorerim. He would sing a phrase, and then the choirboys would devise a chordal accompaniment or a melodic response. Tzalel would continue with his composition, inspired by the input from his choir members. The confluence of collaboration and pedagogy that this kind of group music-making experience allowed must have powerfully shaped the skills and the artistic imagination of the young cantorial novices.
This "table music" culture of cantorial music was very much alive in my family when I was growing up. Reading about the choir-cantor interactions in the old world suddenly threw a light on my childhood memories of singing with my grandfather around the dining room table. This kind of apprenticeship model, whether in the family or in a professional environment, represents an essential means of replicating both the skills and the psychological understanding needed for the preservation of traditional art forms. The atmosphere of pedagogy and emotional need for approval creates a heavily structured and controlled atmosphere. At the same time the structure of the language of the art form and the conviviality of the familial setting made me feel free to create and to play within the confines of the idiom. The intergenerational dynamic of this "education" planted an essential seed that has blossomed in me ever since.
Jeremiah Lockwood's newest album, Songs of Zebulon, from Blue Thread Music and Books, is a creative reworking (with Frank London) of the cantorial music of Zebulon Kwartin. Lockwood is the leader of The Sway Machinery, a blues/world beat/cantorial music ensemble. His own storied musical education included singing in the choir of his grandfather, Cantor Jacob Konigsberg, and over a decade of playing in the subways of New York City with Piedmont Blues legend Carolina Slim. You can see Lockwood playing blues guitar and more all over the Internet. | <urn:uuid:0868f4ea-03cd-4102-96aa-f11fd4930682> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jewishcurrents.org/legendary-voices-the-education-of-the-great-cantors | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973128 | 2,662 | 2.203125 | 2 |
European Credit Transfer System – Wikipedia
Access requirement(s) example, Grade Point Average (GPA) and other ranking systems are not used in Sweden. 5. av J Rasmus · 2016 — Grade point average and amount of credit are common measures of lower amount of credit (58 ECTS) than other students did (62 ECTS) DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE (120 CREDITS). Master's programme: Computer One credit corresponds to 1 ECTS credit. 3.3 Access Vad ska jag göra om min högskola inte vill skriva ut ett GPA-intyg?
Depending on the track, courses are worth 80-90 ECTS, agronomie magisterexamen*. Master of Agricultural Science (60 credits) agronomie grade point average betygsnämnd examining ECTS credit efteransökan. registreras det och sänker ens GPA (Grade Point Average). Tentamen i att Linköping följer European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).
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European Credit Transfer System – Wikipedia
19 May 2021 This simple calculator can be used to calculate the equivalent ECTS credits from the number of lecture hours and self study hours spent on a Credit System & Grading. The student's academic workload is based on ECTS credits. The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a UK so that 7.5 ECTS credits correspond to one module credit at Brookes. If the results are reported as ECTS grades (A, B, C, D, E) then a mark should also be Academic Calendar.
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ECTS-points to American credits - Unofficial grade comparison and overview. 19 May 2016 Grade Point Average ( GPA) – 4.0 or 5.0 scale credits per course and grade awarded for each course, and ECTS – European Credit.
This sum is then divided by the sum of the ECTS credits to give the GPA as shown in the formula: The GPA for a student can range from 1.00 - 5.00, with 5.00 being the highest. CALCULATION OF GPA BASED ON DIPLOMAS WITH ALPHABETICAL GRADES ON THE ECTS SCALE Each alphabetical grade is substituted by numerical equivalent, A=5.0, B=4.0, C=3.0, D=2.0 and E=1.
GPA Calculator. This international GPA calculator is intended to help you calculate the United States Grade Point Average (GPA) based on grades or points from almost any country in the world. The U.S. GPA is calculated on a 4.0 scale.
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The assessment must be given as the letter of the US system. How to express a given grading scale by US standards you can see above. After filling in the table, click Calculate. ECTS: 0.5: 2 ECTS = 1 UofSC Credit : Netherlands: Tilburg University: ECTS: 0.5: 2 ECTS = 1 UofSC Credit : Netherlands: University of Groningen: ECTS: 0.5: 2 ECTS = 1 UofSC Credit : New Zealand : Auckland University of Technology : Credit Points : 0.25 : 15 Points = 3.75 UofSC Credits : New Zealand: The University of Auckland: Points: 0.25: 15 Points = 3.75 UofSC credits : New Zealand You can calculate ECTS credit points for all the subjects of a module in a similar way and then make a sum of all points.
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How Grades are Calculated. Grade Point Average (GPA). 19 May 2021 This simple calculator can be used to calculate the equivalent ECTS credits from the number of lecture hours and self study hours spent on a Credit System & Grading. The student's academic workload is based on ECTS credits. The European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS) is a UK so that 7.5 ECTS credits correspond to one module credit at Brookes. If the results are reported as ECTS grades (A, B, C, D, E) then a mark should also be Academic Calendar. The University follows the semester system and the European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System (ECTS).
The Graduate Schools of Health and Medical Sciences at Aarhus University, the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southern Denmark have agreed on a common practice of calculating ECTS credits. C’est à cette occasion qu’a été mis en place le système de crédits ECTS (European Credits Transfer System, ou système européen de transfert et d’accumulation de crédits). Ils permettent en effet de valider des temps de formation réalisés dans les établissements supérieurs. ETH Zurich’s Grading System and ECTS Grades The credit system of ETH Zurich is based on the European Credit Transfer Systems (ECTS). Credits are assigned to each learning unit according to the expected student workload. One Credit Point requires an average workload of 30 hours’ of student work. ETH Zurich does not use the ECTS Grading Scheme. | <urn:uuid:6f989217-93c0-462f-9ad1-1209e8f33e4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://affarerzwek.web.app/96113/38487.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.713475 | 1,418 | 1.882813 | 2 |
BERLIN (Reuters) – Strains in the semiconductor supply chain have worsened in some areas as trends such as remote working combine with an industrial recovery from last year’s pandemic slump to drive chip demand, the head of Germany’s Infineon said.
The ability of chipmakers to add capacity is limited, while some in Asia face further production constraints as they seek to contain COVID-19 outbreaks in their workforces, CEO Reinhard Ploss told Reuters.
“The situation is still difficult – in some areas it’s even more than difficult,” Ploss, 65, said in an interview.
Pandemic trends such as remote working and home schooling have powered demand for high-end consumer electronics, straining supplies of lower-margin chips to manufacturers and forcing many car makers to idle production in the first half of 2021.
Infineon, the leading supplier of power semiconductors to the automotive industry, relies heavily on contract chip manufacturers such as TSMC with which it is in a “deep dialogue” on meeting customer needs, said Ploss.
He had chided the contractors in May for failing to invest enough in new capacity, with Infineon particularly hit by scarcity in the older 20- to 90-nanometer chips used across its product range.
Infineon was better able to meet demand for the specialist products it makes in-house, with its new plant in Villach, Austria, due to launch production soon while its facility in Dresden, Germany, still has spare capacity.
“We have two sites to ramp, which is advantageous (compared) to the majority of our competitors who are short on everything,” said Ploss.
Still, the overall level of product stocks Infineon has on hand is depleted, said Ploss. Bringing supply into balance with demand would require chipmakers to run a temporarily overloaded supply chain, he added.
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The chip supply crunch has provoked debate in Europe about whether to invest in new production capacity to reduce its dependence on imports from the Asian manufacturers that dominate the industry.
Ploss, however, questioned the goal set by Brussels of building a state-of-the-art 2 nanometer plant.
“If the decision was made for a 2 nanometer factory in Europe, I would question who the customers should be,” he said.
“Mobile phone companies? There aren’t that many of those around in Europe anymore. Computer manufacturers? We may use computers here but we do not build them.”
Industrial policy should focus on playing to Europe’s traditional strengths in manufacturing, said Ploss.
“Once it comes to taking the next step, I definitely think that Europe has to think in domains of strength,” said Ploss. “But, as always, before moving into new fields, we should strengthen our strengths and push the envelope from there.”
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Today is World Drowning Prevention Day and in an effort to reduce drownings globally, The World Health Organisation (WHO) is asking people worldwide to Do One Thing to Save Lives.
The one thing you can do today, and share with your friends, is download the SLSA Beachsafe app. Find a patrolled beach, check live conditions, read our coastal safety briefs, and learn about being safe at the beach.
And while we note this very important day, a huge thank you to all the Surf Lifesavers around Australia, for your time, effort, skills and commitment in keeping our beaches safe.
So can you spot a rip current and do you know what to do if you get caught in one?
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When Hyrum Steven Richman was born on 5 January 1851, in Moulton, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom, his father, John Tagg Richman, was 22 and his mother, Sarah Ann Stephenson, was 24. He married Rhoda Ann Smith on 20 December 1875, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 1 daughter. He immigrated to United States in 1860 and lived in Haden, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1900 and Teton, Fremont, Idaho, United States in 1910. He died on 21 January 1923, in St. Anthony, Bingham, Idaho, United States, at the age of 72, and was buried in Teton-Newdale Cemetery, Madison, Idaho, United States.
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To summarise the evidence about the effect and safety of macrolide antibiotics for diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB).
DPB, characterised by progressive airflow limitation and recurrent respiratory tract infection (RTI), is a chronic airways disease that mainly affects people in east Asia. The prevalence of DPB in Japan is about 11 cases per 100,000 people; the prevalence outside Japan is still unknown.
Macrolides are antibiotics that are used against a wide range of disease-causing bacteria and various infectious diseases. They have been the first choice for DPB since the 1980s, based on several observational studies, which found that they could significantly improve the outcome of DPB. However, high-quality evidence to support their use is unclear.
We conducted a systematic review of key medical databases, searching for high-quality trials on the use of macrolides in the management of DPB. We retrieved only one randomised controlled trial (RCT) involving 19 participants, which was of poor methodological quality.
All primary outcomes and most secondary outcomes specified (e.g. five-year survival rate, lung function or clinical response) in our review were not reported in the included trial. The included trial found that the computerised tomography (CT) images of all participants treated with long-term, low-dose erythromycin improved from baseline, while the images of 71.4% of participants with no treatment worsened and 28.6% remained unchanged. Adverse effects were not reported. The evidence is current to July 2014 and we have identified no new trials for inclusion or exclusion.
We conclude that the use of macrolides for DPB is based on non-RCTs or retrospective studies and there is little evidence from RCTs. We are unable to make any new recommendations based on the findings of this review. However, while awaiting evidence from new, high-quality, well-designed studies, it is reasonable to use low-dose macrolides soon after diagnosis is made and to continue for at least six months, according to current guidelines.
Quality of the evidence
We downgraded the quality of the evidence due to limitations in study design, which indicated high risk of potential bias and too small a sample size.
There is little evidence for macrolides in the treatment of DPB. We are therefore unable to make any new recommendations. It may be reasonable to use low-dose macrolides soon after diagnosis is made and to continue this treatment for at least six months, according to current guidelines.
Diffuse panbronchiolitis (DPB) is a chronic airways disease predominantly affecting East Asians. Macrolides, a class of antibiotics, have been used as the main treatment for DPB, based on evidence from retrospective and non-randomised studies.
To assess the efficacy and safety of macrolides for DPB.
We searched CENTRAL (2014, Issue 6), MEDLINE (1966 to July week 1, 2014), EMBASE (1974 to July 2014), Chinese Biomedical Literature Database (CBM) (1978 to July 2014), China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI) (1974 to July 2014), KoreaMed (1997 to July 2014) and Database of Japana Centra Revuo Medicina (1983 to July 2014).
Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-RCTs assessing the effect of macrolides for DPB.
Two review authors independently assessed study quality and subsequent risk of bias according to The Cochrane Collaboration's tool for assessing risk of bias. The primary outcomes were five-year survival rate, lung function and clinical response. We used risk ratios (RR) for individual trial results in the data analysis and measured all outcomes with 95% confidence intervals (CI).
Only one RCT (19 participants) with significant methodological limitations was included in this review. It found that the computerised tomography images of all participants treated with a long-term, low-dose macrolide (erythromycin) improved from baseline, while the images of 71.4% of participants in the control group (with no treatment) worsened and 28.6% remained unchanged. Adverse effects were not reported. This review was previously published in 2010 and 2013. For this 2014 update, we identified no new trials for inclusion or exclusion. | <urn:uuid:67825c65-7481-4d82-8b00-62de99ed6325> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cochrane.org/CD007716/ARI_macrolides-for-diffuse-panbronchiolitis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.951289 | 900 | 2.1875 | 2 |
These resources are free of charge and designed to introduce Cromford Mills to your pupils in an immersive, visual way. They can also be used as pre-visit activities.
Watch our videos to meet our mill workers Mrs Froggott and Mrs Henstock, and find out about their lives in eighteenth-century Cromford. Then use the craft resources and the source packs at the bottom of the page to learn more about textiles and the history of the site.
Meet the Mill Workers: Life at Cromford Mills https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1tSdedwmeE
You can watch Meet the Mill Workers: Life in Cromford Village here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwfMTBwdMDE
These source packs are designed for young historians to explore the past through sources relating to Cromford Mills, its workers, and its owner, Sir Richard Arkwright.
Use as standalone activities, or combine with a visit to the mill to fully immerse your students in the Industrial Revolution.
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Opinion: Iowa's shoddy new voting laws did not pass muster
A few weeks ago, we voted in local city/school elections.
In a few weeks more, Iowa’s legislators reconvene for the second half of the 89th legislative session. Last year, they made extensive changes to state voting laws through Senate Files 413 and 568. This was on top of the substantial changes made in 2017’s House File 516.
Iowa’s legislators are, of course, state employees — the employees of the voters. Now that we’ve tried all of these changes out for one election, let’s see how well they’ve served us.
What did these laws do? A lot. They modified everything from candidates’ signature requirements to absentee ballot processes.
In general, the changes fall within two categories. One set of changes affected the voting process. Examples include shrinking the early voting period from 40 days to 29, then to 20 days; prohibiting your friends from returning your ballot for you; and closing the polls earlier.
The other set of changes affected how elections are run. Examples include giving political parties (not just candidates) standing to challenge election results; restricting county auditors’ local control of elections; and adding serious penalties for auditors’ errors.
Why make these changes? There’s controversy here, with many nonpartisan groups asserting that these laws are baldly voter suppression. But Rep. Bobby Kaufmann, one of the bills’ proponents, claims that these laws were designed to “[protect] Iowans’ right to vote and … [add] certainty and security to it.”
“Election security” could mean many things. Legislators said they were focused on preventing voter fraud, that is, stopping someone from stealing another’s ballot or identity.
Voter fraud is extraordinarily rare. In Iowa specifically, there were 12 cases of election misconduct in 2019 and 2020, out of more than 2 million ballots cast during that period. Similarly, 2012-2016 included only 15 felony charges.
We’ll allow our charity to border on naivete by assuming that voter fraud, which occurs in at most 0.0025% of votes, is serious enough to merit action. If so, would these laws address it?
Sadly, they would not. Closing the polls earlier adds no additional security. A mail delay does not make a ballot any less legitimate. And if anything, shortening the absentee ballot process seems likely to make the process less secure, giving auditors less time to follow up on ballot irregularities.
These new restrictions also fail their goal of protecting Iowans’ right to vote. The shorter time frame for early voting and ballot requests, combined with longer mail delivery times, directly caused more than 500 citizens’ absentee ballot requests to be refused in just three of our 99 counties. More than 200 of those citizens didn’t vote, perhaps because they were snowbirds or military personnel and could not come to vote in person. At least 200 Iowans were disenfranchised in a single, off-year election through laws meant to prevent 12 cases of fraud over a two-year period.
Embarrassingly, the 2021 laws were passed while real problems in our state election laws were on national display. The Second Congressional District’s near-draw election was before the House of Representatives.
A bill meant to “[add] certainty” to elections should have addressed the inconsistent recount procedures and limited recount resources that were at issue. Nothing in either 2021 law affects either issue.
These changes impose serious costs on Iowans, allegedly in order to fix a rare problem, but through mechanisms unconnected to that problem. And they ignore more pressing issues.
We’d be deeply embarrassed to present such shoddy proposals to our bosses, and our lawmakers should be as well. Legislators need to step up, admit their error, and reverse course.
You can encourage them to do so by signing the League of Women Voters of Iowa’s petition to repeal these changes (https://www.lwvia.org/petitions). To head off future problems, we should encourage U.S. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst to prevent ill-conceived election meddling by passing the Freedom to Vote Act.
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Nestled among 5,000 pristine acres of protected gamelands, Eagles’ Watch is one of Virginia’s few surviving 17th century brick dwellings. On a bluff overlooking the unadulterated Chickahominy River, guests will experience unmatched tranquility and unexpected luxuries.
Welcome to the Inn at Eagles' Watch
Listed on both State and National Historic Registries, the original structure dates to approximately 1685. It was meticulously rehabilitated in the early 1980s under the guidance of Colonial Williamsburg’s architectural research team. Now open to the public for the first time as a Bed & Breakfast.
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Only 13 percent of Kenyans are using e-commerce platforms such as Jumia and Kilimall to sell and buy products, underpinning the use of social media networks by marketers and shoppers.
A report on Kenya’s Digital Economy by a global advisory firm, Dalberg has shown retailers and shoppers prefer the social sites that support direct marketing, engagement between businesses and buyers, and goods are paid upon delivery.
The rate of adoption of online market places in Kenya remains slow due to high delivery costs, highly fragmented markets and lack of clear named streets and buildings leading to supply chain barriers.
“This figure (13 percent) underestimates the real extent of e-commerce, as respondents largely reported the use of marketplace platforms like Jumia and Kilimall, while the full breadth of e-commerce also encompasses digital trade through informal platforms,” the report stated.
The survey targeted 2,456 households across the country who are users of digital economy.
There are over 100 online retail marketplaces and individual stores in the country.
High delivery costs, importing charges, lack of a national addressing system and concerns over arrangements for returns by customers associated with the e-commerce platforms remain a hindrance to adoption, according to a report by Communication Authority of Kenya.
Customers are also opting to shop on video-supported sites such as Tiktok, Instagram and Facebook creating a shift in the industry.
The increasing demand for thess platforms amid high mobile penetration risks the closure for some of the sites.
Last year, Safaricom-backed e-commerce platform, Masoko left the scene citing need to concentrate on key product lines such as M-Pesa.
Dalberg said businesses did not use advanced digital services with about 44 percent of self-employed people and business owners using to support their sales.
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Who Was Biggie Smalls?
Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G., lived a short life. He was 24 years old when he was gunned down in 1997 in Los Angeles, a murder that has never been solved. Smalls was from New York and had almost single-handedly reinvented East Coast hip hop — overtaken in the early 1990s by the West Coast "g-funk" sound of Dr. Dre and Death Row Records. With his clear, powerful baritone, effortless flow on the mic and willingness to address the vulnerability, as well as the harshness, of the hustler lifestyle, Smalls swung the spotlight back towards New York and his label home, Bad Boy Records. He styled himself as a gangster and although he was no angel, in reality he was more of a performer than a hardened criminal. In this regard, he was similar to Tupac Shakur, his one-time friend turned bitter rival — a contest that spiraled horrifyingly out of control leaving neither man alive to tell the tale.
Christopher George Latore Wallace was born on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York. His parents both hailed from the Caribbean island of Jamaica — his mom, Voletta taught preschool; his pop, Selwyn, was a welder and local Jamaican politician. Selwyn left the family when Biggie was two, but Voletta worked two jobs in order to send her son to a private school — the Roman Catholic Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School; alumni include Rudy Giuliani and former Primark CEO Arthur Ryan. But Biggie subsequently transferred to the George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School; alumni include the rappers DMX, Jay-Z and Busta Rhymes. Biggie had excelled at English, but often played truant at Westinghouse and dropped out altogether in 1989 at age 17.
Acquiring the childhood nickname "Big" because of his plus-sized girth, he began selling drugs at 12, according to an interview he gave to the New York Times in 1994, working the streets near his mom's apartment on St. James Place. Voletta worked long hours and had no inkling of her son's activities. Biggie stepped up the drug dealing after quitting school and was soon in trouble with the law. He received a five-year probationary sentence in 1989 after being arrested on weapons possession charges. The following year he was arrested for violating that probation. The year after that, he was charged with dealing cocaine in North Carolina and reportedly spent nine months in jail while waiting to make bail.
Bad Boy Records
Biggie began rapping as a teenager to entertain people in his neighborhood. After he got out of jail, he made a demo tape as Biggie Smalls — named after a gang leader from the 1975 movie Let's Do It Again; also a nod to his childhood nickname. He had no serious plans to pursue a career in music — "It was fun just hearing myself on tape over beats," he later said in an Arista Records biography — but the tape found its way to The Source magazine, who were so impressed that they profiled Biggie in their Unsigned Hype column in March 1992; from there, Biggie was invited to record with other unsigned rappers. This recording came to the attention of Sean "Puffy" Combs, an A&R executive and producer who worked for the leading urban label Uptown Records — he started there as an intern in 1990. Combs arranged a record deal for Biggie, but left the label soon after, having fallen out with his boss, Andre Harrell. Combs went on to set up his own imprint, Bad Boy Records, and by mid-1992 Biggie had joined him.
Before he had the chance to put anything out on Bad Boy, Uptown released music that Biggie recorded during his brief stint at the label, including a remix of Mary J. Blige's "Real Love" in August 1992 that featured a guest verse from The Notorious B.I.G. (He had been forced to change his recording name after a lawsuit; though he continued to be widely known as Biggie). In June 1993, the label released The Notorious BIG's first single as a solo artist, "Party and Bullshit."
Friendship With Tupac
That same year, as he worked on music for his debut album, Biggie Smalls met Tupac for the first time. Their encounter, detailed in Ben Westhoff's book, Original Gangstas, took place at a party held by an L.A. drug dealer. They ate, drank and smoked together, and Tupac, already a successful recording artist, gifted Biggie, then unknown outside New York, a bottle of Hennessy. After that, Tupac mentored Biggie whenever the two met up — at one point Biggie even asked if Tupac would become his manager. "Nah, stay with Puff," Tupac apparently said. "He will make you a star." Biggie was particularly concerned about money around that time because he became a father in August to T'yanna, his daughter, with high-school sweetheart, Jan. It has been reported that Biggie went back to drug dealing at this point, until Combs learned what he was up to and made him stop.
'Ready to Die'
The Notorious B.I.G.'s debut album came out on Bad Boy in September 1994, a month after "Juicy," his first single for the label. The album, Ready to Die, was certified gold within two months, double-platinum the following year, and eventually quadruple-platinum. "Big Poppa," the second of the album's four singles, was nominated for a Grammy for best rap solo performance. Ready to Die marked a resurgence in East Coast hip hop, and Biggie was widely acclaimed for the narrative ability he displayed on the album's semi-autobiographical tales from his wayward youth. Away from the more playful radio-friendly singles — "Birthdays was the worst days/Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay" he chortled on "Juicy" — Biggie did not sugar-coat the drug-dealer lifestyle; the album's final track, "Suicidal Thoughts," sounded like a cry for help. "In street life you're not allowed to show if you care about something," Sean Combs told the New York Times. "You've got to keep that straight face. The flip side of that is this album. He's giving up all his vulnerability."
In the run-up to Ready to Die's release, Biggie married the R&B singer Faith Evans, his label-mate on Bad Boy, on August 4, 1994. They wed just days after meeting at a photoshoot. Evans went on to be featured on "One More Chance," the fourth single from Ready to Die, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and was certified platinum. She gave birth to their son, Christopher "CJ" Wallace Jr. on October 29, 1996.
Feud With Tupac
But perhaps the most significant date in Biggie's rollercoaster year was November 30, 1994. This was the day Tupac was shot five times during a robbery in a recording-studio lobby in New York. Tupac urvived, but believed Biggie and his label boss Combs had orchestrated the attack. It didn't help that the B-side to Biggie's single "Big Poppa," released a little more than two months after the incident, featured the song "Who Shot Ya?" Tupac interpreted this as Biggie taunting him, and released an explosive diss track, "Hit 'Em Up," the following year, on which he claimed to have slept with Biggie's wife. (Evans would speak about this many years later in 2014, when she told MTV that Tupac once hit on her after a recording session, "but that ain't how I do business," she said.)
Biggie and Michael Jackson, More Legal Problems
Biggie's next album release came on August 29, 1995, as part of the group Junior MAFIA (an acronym for Masters at Finding Intelligent Attitudes). He had formed the group to mentor young rappers including Lil' Kim, with whom he would have an affair. That year he also became one of the only hip hop artists to collaborate with Michael Jackson on the song "This Time Around." (The story goes that Biggie was with another of his Junior MAFIA protégés, Lil Cease, who was then 16, when he was summoned to the studio to record with Jackson. But according to Cease, Biggie would not allow him to meet the King of Pop because he didn't "trust him with kids.") Biggie also guested on R. Kelly's eponymous album on the track "(You to Be) Be Happy." By the end of 1995, the Notorious B.I.G. was the biggest-selling solo male artist on the Billboard charts — not only in hip hop, but in pop and R&B, too.
Biggie began working on his second studio album in September 1995 and continued into the following year. But there would be more trouble. In March 1996, he was arrested after chasing two autograph hunters with a baseball bat in Manhattan, threatening to kill them; he was sentenced to 100 hours of community service. Months later police raided his house in New Jersey and found 50 grams of marijuana and four automatic weapons. That same summer, he was charged with beating and robbing a friend of a concert promoter at a New Jersey nightclub. And then in the fall, he was arrested again, this time for smoking marijuana in his car in Brooklyn.
Death of Tupac
On September 7, 1996, his former friend Tupac was shot dead in Las Vegas. Nobody has ever been charged for the murder, but as a consequence of the ongoing East Coast/West Coast rap beef that Biggie and Tupac's rivalry had come to embody, and also of Tupac publicly blaming Biggie and Puffy for his non-fatal shooting in 1994, there were plenty who believed that the East Coast rap kingpins were behind Tupac's murder. (Both Biggie and Puffy strenuously denied their involvement and other key suspects have since emerged.)
"It's a funny thing, I kind of realized how powerful Tupac and I was," reflected Biggie to the interviewer Jim Bean after his great rival's death. "We two individual people, we waged a coastal beef. You know what i'm saying? One man against one man made a whole West coast hate a whole East Coast. And vice versa. And that really bugged me out . . .Like yo, dude don't like me, so his whole coast don't like me. I don't like him, so my whole coast don't like him. It let me know how much strength I have. So what I'm trying to do now, I've got to be the one to try to flip it. And take my power and flip it, like, yo, because Pac can't be the one to try to squash it because he's gone. So I gotta take the weight on both sides."
Sadly, Biggie did not live long enough to see the peace he wished for. He himself was murdered the early hours of March 9, 1997. It happened shortly after he left a Vibe magazine party at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. As Biggie's SUV — in which he was riding with a bodyguard and Lil' Cease — waited at a red light, a vehicle pulled up alongside it, and a gunman opened fire. His bodyguard rushed Biggie to the hospital, but it was already too late.
Like that of Tupac, the killing of Biggie Smalls would never be solved. There would be no closure. Also like Tupac, Biggie would release a double album posthumously, in Biggie's case a mere fortnight after his demise. On March 25, 1997, Bad Boy released the spookily titled Life After Death. It had collaborations with artists including Puff Daddy, Jay-Z, 112, Lil' Kim, Mase, R Kelly, Darryl "DMC" McDaniels and Angela Winbush, and would be nominated for three Grammy awards — for best rap album, best solo rap performance for the lead single "Hypnotize," and best performance by a duo or group for its second single, "Mo Money Mo Problems," which featured Puff Daddy and Mase. The album was certified diamond in 2000 after selling more than 10 million copies.
With his murder seen by many hip hop fans as a tit-for-tat killing, Biggie appeared to continue the beef from beyond the grave on the album track "Long Kiss Goodnight." The lyrics seemed to refer to the time Tupac got shot, and survived, in New York ("When my men bust, you just move with such stamina / Slugs missed you, I ain't mad atcha"). But according to the hip hop magazine XXL, the song was likely to have been recorded before Tupac's actual murder. Whatever the case may be, Biggie's shocking fate spelled the end of the East Coast/West Coast rap feud. Things had gotten way out of hand. Two of the greatest rappers to ever pick up a microphone were dead and gone. Hip hop's reputation had been dragged through the gutter. Nobody had any appetite for more.
On March 18, 1997 Biggie's memorial service was held at the the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in Manhattan among 350 guests, which included Lil Kim, Mary J. Blige, Queen Latifah, Run DMC, Busta Rhymes, Foxy Brown and other high profile artists. Biggie lay in an open mahogany casket dressed in a white suit. After the service, his remains were cremated.
But this wasn't the last that the world had heard from Biggie Smalls. He was featured on no fewer than five songs on Puff Daddy's 1997 album, No Way Out. A single from that album, "I'll Be Missing You," dedicated to Biggie's memory, won the Grammy for best rap performance by a duo or group in 1998 — ironically beating Biggie himself, whose "Mo Money Mo Problems" was nominated in the same category. There were two more posthumous albums using previously unreleased material: Born Again in 1999 and Duets: the Final Chapter in 2005 — featuring a host of guests including Eminem, Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige and, bizarrely, Bob Marley — also from beyond the grave — and the metal band Korn.
The actor, rapper and comedian Jamal Woolard played Biggie Smalls in a biopic in 2009, which grossed $44 million worldwide. It sparked a war of words between Faith Evans and Lil' Kim, who was upset at her portrayal in the movie. But they have since reconciled, and Kim appeared on a 2017 album of duets between Evans and Smalls, titled The King and I.
"At the end of the day we're family, whether we like it or not," Kim said in 2016, shortly before she and Evans went on tour. "I'm part of the estate. She's part of the estate. We're a part of Big, and we both share a lot in common. We all realized how strong we could be together."
The iconic artist was the subject of a 2017 A&E documentary, Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. Underscoring how his influence went beyond hip hip, he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 2020.
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Kala namak salt is a highly unusual salt that is produced by an old ayurvedic method. Natural salt crystals are crushed, then placed in heavy clay jars along with some haritaki and amla (fruits often used in Indian traditional medicine) and cooked for several hours. This special method of preparation causes the nutritious components of the fruit to bind with the salt to form reddish-black crystals with a characteristic sulphurous smell.
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Me Too Series
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaking on the House of Representatives Floor July 2020 responding to Rep. Ted Yoho's shocking criticism of her.
A Poem by Maya Angelou accompanies this painting: " I've learned that people will forget what you said. people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
Book Woman Series
The Book Woman was part of FDR's New Deal. It was established by Eleanor Roosevelt. Women, who worked for the local library, rode up the Kentucky Mountains to bring newspapers, magazines and books to poor, coal mining families.
This painting depics two young boys carrying reading materials for return to the Book Woman.
The "Restaurant Series" reflects the hard work restaurant workers provide. They are essential and are in the low-wage category.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Change Management in Industry 4.0
1.1. Disruption of Industry 4.0
1.2. What is Change Management
1.3. Organizational Change: Approaches and Practices
Chapter 2. Big Data Transformations
2.1. Big Data in Industry 4.0
2.2. Challenges in Big Data Implementations
2.3. Big Data Transformations
Chapter 3. Culture change
3.1. Culture change management
3.2. Data-driven culture
The world is transforming every day: customer needs are changing, technology is advancing and the economy is evolving. Businesses who fail to embrace change can easily wind up as dinosaurs. We will analyze decisive change drivers coming with Industry 4.0, particularly, Big Data through our research. The core to effectively proceeding Industry 4.0 is to move from a traditional waterfall concept to an agile manner. So effective change management is crucial.
Big data transformations increasingly require an innovative way of thinking about how change impacts people, culture, organizations, processes, and more. While resistance is the normal human reaction in times of change, culture change is critically essential to transformation and can mitigate much of this resistance. Digital transformation is not mainly about technology, it’s about agility – organizations’ culture plays a decisive role in the digital transformation of every business.
While we study Change management to transform business models, it is vital to identify how we can deal with the resistance; how culture change is significant in big data transformations is our main research question in this whitepaper. To sum up, we will analyze the needs for change in Industry 4.0, principally, Big Data, and define strategies and methods to survive in today’s world through Change management practices. The critical point to demonstrate during the research is how Culture Change may affect change management for data-driven enterprises.
Keywords: Change Management, Industry 4.0, Digital Transformation, Culture Change, Big Data, Fourth Industrial Revolution
I would like to express my deeptest gratitude to Prof. Corrado Cerruti for his invaluable and constructive instructions during the planning and development of this thesis. His remarks and engagement have been very much appreciated.
I would also acknowledge the support and help by the staff of the University of Tor Vergata throughout the entire process.
Finally, I would also like to thank my family and deliver my gratitude for their care and love during my journey.
The leading technologies of The Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0) enhance further connectivity and customization. These technologies generate, use, and store a huge quantity of data. Technology may impose threats for businesses as it enables companies to provide higher personalization and relevant experiences. It leads to more choices for customers, and as a consequence, it may diminish customer loyalty. Although the fourth industrial revolution enjoys the growing popularity, there is still a lack of systematic review elaborating on the state of this wave of digital transformation.
In today’s fierce competition, companies need to both adapt to such technological advances and also maintain profoundly personalized market demands. Companies pursue new channels for value creation, and in this matter, they stay alerted for further changes in the market to remain competitive and conform with them as fast as possible. In such circumstances, businesses would be required to display a great deal of agility – the ability to coordinate diverse activities and competences and promptly become insiders of particular strings and networks with team members equipped with a new set of critical skills. It is a matter of survival to execute change applications due to tremendous pressure from the turbulent business environment.
1. Literature review. The pace of today’s technological development evolves exponentially; hence, it constitutes new opportunities as well as threats for firms. Managers and businesses tackle more complex and fierce market environments ever. The obscurity of future advancement and the means of adaptation can be the substantive hurdle to upgrade capabilities and enhance productivity for corporates. Nonetheless, a structural approach linking Industry 4.0 with clusters has been gradually developing in the academic literature, and our research promises a unique experience in this regard.
Companies are striving to change to stay flexible and to adapt to market changes accordingly. Change Management is delineated as “directing and enforcing change successfully in an enterprise or corporate toward a specific objective.”1 In the literature, scholars define various change management theories according to the type, duration, and phases of Change. Theories of Change Management evolved in the aspect of uncertain, volatile, and ever-changing environments too. The agile method would be preferable over “planned” approach or culture change can be applicable in comparison to structure changes according to the source of the change.
One of such change initiatives is Big Data transformations. A recent study has been conducted targeting dominant corporates in the USA. It reveals that “84% of enterprises have launched advanced analytics and Big Data initiatives to bring greater accuracy and accelerate their decision-making”, over a third of these companies indicated the sphere is their top priority for advanced analytics and BD investment2. As Big Data promises higher market value, businesses are willing to implement such technologies and applications. McKinsey’s (2016)3 recent survey inferred that the organizational culture deficiencies are the main hindrance in the success of transformations. The literature review provides relevant findings regarding the significance of Culture Change concerning successful Big Data transformations4.
2. Problem Statement. Whereas whitepapers touch primarily upon the technical outlooks, there is still little realization of market evolution and, the necessity and prosperity of change management practices in the Industrial Revolution period. The findings of a recent study revealed that “most companies in Germany do not have a clear understanding of what Industrie 4.0 is and what it will look like”5. That was the primary rationale driving the research to draw a framework comprising the overview of the industrial revolution and the arrangement of businesses.
Nowadays, many companies undergo change management practices due to increasing technological advancements, production techniques, new customer trends, and business world changes. Even though data is a valuable resource to stay competitive in the market and produce and upgrade innovative products and services, around 80% of big data applications did not succeed6.
Due to relatively fewer studies focusing on the Change Management practices related to Big Data initiatives, we are proud to conduct this research to provide a solid background for academic grounds. Taking aforementioned conclusions into account, we set off to explore the following questions throughout our research:
Q1. What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution’s enabling technology that companies need to concentrate on extracting value in the phase of volatility and uncertainty?
Q2. How can companies use change management theories and practices to stay competitive and agile?
Q. How to deal with the resistance to change? What is the role of Culture Change?
3. Thesis outline. The thesis consists of several chapters for the course of exploration and analysis of the research questions. Throughout our research, we examine the Industry 4.0 as the background and central statue behind the study. Change Management and Big Data are explored broadly in primary academic sources. However, the combination of them is relatively less explored in academic literature. We start conducting the relevant review of literature in Change Management and Big Data. This research contributes to the literature by providing a comprehensive picture of the essential determinants of successful change management that connects the gap between the different aspects raised in the literature.
In Chapter 1, we broadly analyze the profound technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its effect on future business environments. In addition to that, we study the current practices and main domains of Change Management theories to define major literature reviews for businesses.
In Chapter 2, we present and discuss the Change Management studies for Big Data Transformations. We research the structure, process, people, and technology changes for data-driven enterprises. Furthermore, this part investigates a non-technical stance to big data, instructs the approach of executives, and illustrates how their competent management ends up with a relevant and positive correlation with co-innovation and therefore in a competitive advantage for the company.
In Chapter 3, the two main elements of Change will be explored: resistance to change and Culture change. Our primary objective is to define certain advantages of Culture Change to minimize resistance. We argue that Culture Change may enable organizations to take one step ahead in the implementation of Big Data initiatives.
4. Research method. Our thesis project serves as a conceptual background for future empirical studies. We present a structural framework for Big Data Change Management based on a comprehensive literature review. Our main research question is “How can novel Change Management initiatives be applied in the context of Big Data transformations”. Our objective is to allow both academicians and practical workers to exploit particular aspects of Big Data initiatives and to provide them with the understanding of profound challenges, certain focus areas and relevant theoretical solutions.
Our research is mainly qualitative rather than quantitative, as it is a comprehensive review of relevant literature. This thesis has a qualitative approach where we define a conceptual background from existing studies and theory. It leads to an exhaustive assessment and critical interpretations which provide a platform for our contributions. We used purposive sampling, where we choose the most recent and relevant literature and academic sources.
Chapter 1. Change Management in Industry 4.0
1.1. Disruption of Industry 4.0
Revolutionary change is on the way to capture our lives. Our lives, work environment, and even our perception about us as humans will be altered notably by The Fourth Industrial Revolution. This is spreading across the world at an incredible pace without boundaries. A research conducted by Dóra Horváth and others (2019)7 unveils profound facts related to Industry 4.0, its components and critical features that significant companies in today’s market are not fully aware of the coming technological revolution. Companies need a proper outline of the concept to define future objectives and goals within digitization. Therefore, it is critical to better understand the future revolution, and then explore how to prepare plan of actions to survive.
1.1.1. Overview of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Germany was the first country to introduce “Industrie 4.0” to enhance the German industry for the role of an innovative global leader under the national policy, and referring to the term Industry 4.0. “The initiative was launched in 2011 and included in the German government’s High Tech 2020 Strategy.”8 Nowadays, the 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) is becoming phenomenal globally therefore in Europe; Germany (Industrie 4.0), Spain (Industria Conectada 4.0), France (the Nouvelle France Industrielle), Italy (Fabbrica Intelligente), Belgium/Holland (Made Different), Sweden (Produktion 2030) and Austria (Produktion der Zukunft) are all actively shaping a political stance about it. Chinese production industry and the United States (namely, Industry Connected 4.0) are also making themselves ready for this change, driven by various policies and tactical objectives.
It does not affect only the industry and manufacturing, but also all aspects of our lives. The processes are getting developed not in a linear, rather exponential pace. Researches concluded that Moore’s law, which states that the capacity of microchips and computers doubles every 18 months, explaining exponential growth – also applies to other emerging technological developments9. It is a marriage of innovation in technologies, although the invention of some of these technologies dates 20 or 30 years ago. Due to the increasing computing power – that Moore’s law explains, and the cost reduction in production they are leaving their linear growth track and will grow rampantly in upcoming years, which will shape the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Industry 4.0 generally attributes the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It is a disruptive technological development that will bring a novel generation of production systems entirely different from the previous ones. However, we need to examine carefully as the Fourth Industrial Revolution is the one for the first time was disclosed in advance, and not when it was already entirely in place. Understanding today’s particular evolution and studying the upshot of Industry 4.0 might require us to look at the predecessors.
The First Industrial Revolution: In Britain, the Industrial Revolution resulted from the advent of mechanization and mechanical power and machinery applied in manufacturing since the end of the 18th century (1760-1840). Manual production was replaced with the steam-powered engines, and the source of power was water. It was first implemented by the textile industry and benefitted a lot, and it led people to become increasingly urbanized.
The Second Industrial Revolution: It dates between 1870 and 1914 (although some of its elements predate to 1850). Electrification was the main element of this part, and mass production became prominent during this phase. Nevertheless, World War I halted the revolution.
The Third Industrial Revolution: We are more familiar with technological advances as the third industrial revolution is a more recent one - it dates back between 1950 and 1970 and generally mentioned as Digital Revolution. Computers and the digital environment and resulted from the blossomings in information technologies concluded in a new revolution.
1.1.2. The Fourth Industrial Revolution: technologies and design principles.
Today’s technological advances are first described as a new industrial revolution by Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum in his book titled “The Fourth Industrial Revolution”10. Although “Industry 4.0” is the prevailing term specifying the Fourth Industrial Revolution, in academic sources, it is scuffling to define main components of it. We can conclude that to carry out a higher level of operational effectiveness, productivity, customization and a higher level of automation are the main objectives in Industry 4.0 for enterprises. Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, Smart Factory, and Internet of Services are the most prevalent four terms pointed out in research publications related to the revolution11. We will dive into examining other concepts related to it.
Cyber-physical systems: It means computers and networks can observe and regulate the physical processes at exact points through real-time communication.
Internet of Things (IoT): In the next few years, 50 billion things or objects will be connected12. It means things will be a part of the internet – shaping the Internet of Things. The internet of things connects devices globally. Now researchers are considering how bacteria can join the network creating Bio Internet of Things13. The Internet of Bodies (IoB) is another extension of the IoT and connects the human body to a network through devices that are ingested, implanted, or connected to the body in some way14.
Internet of Services (IoS): Service providers benefit from the Internet of Services (IoS) as they can offer their services via the internet. The combination of the Internet of Things (IoT) and the Internet of Services (IoS) in the manufacturing process form the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Smart factories: it is the crucial feature of Industry 4.0 and refers to manufacturing with automatic and autonomous bodies.
Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies can complete mental tasks like humans — understanding compound patterns, processing information, coming into a conclusion, and recommending. Increasing computing power allows us to apply machine learning techniques with growing big data, and it is changing how we live and connect with technology.
Blockchain is a more reliable, decentralized, and explicit way of recording and sharing data, with no need to rely on intermediary organizations.
Cloud computing and Quantum computing: Cloud-based computing enabled businesses to store data and use it securely. Quantum computer is quicker and million times powerful than today’s computers.
Virtual reality (VR) amplify digital experiences via simulating the real world, while augmented reality (AR) integrates the real objects with the digital environment.
Biotechnology and innovative materials will be broadly used for cleaner and renewable energy purposes in sustainable and environmental manufacturing.
- is the mass production, utilization, and design of robots for various purposes, including daily life and business aims with the help of highly-developed microprocessors and AI methodologies.
- : Surprisingly, academic literature did not include 5G or 6G technologies as core technological advances of Industry 4.0. However, we consider that 6G will enable Industry 4.0 to fully realize the revolution started with 5G.
3D printing is the manufacturing technique helping businesses to print their parts or even entire products, with lower costs and faster than traditional processes.
Companies need to foresee and plan the future to prepare, and by understanding profound trends in future business environments, we can draw guiding postulates. Concluding from above-mentioned technological developments, it is possible to take out design principles of Industry 4.0 as followings15:
- Interoperability - machines, objects, sensors, and people can connect and collaborate with each other.
- Virtualization - the physical world through sensors to contextualize information can be created in a digital environment for systematic mass production.
- Technical assistance - includes the capability of the systems to support humans in decision-making, dealing with problems, and customer-orientation. The Internet of Services becomes vital at this point.
- Decentralized decision-making - the cyber-physical systems are able to decide on their own and become as autonomous as possible.
- Real-time capability - to gather real-time data, store or analyze it, and make decisions according to new observations. Smart objects can diagnose the flaw and re-delegate tasks to other operating machines.
- Modularity –Smart Factory is highly-flexible to adapt to the market changes.
One of the main features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution is data16. During production processes, a massive amount of data is obtained. By processing this data, enterprises can gain great competitiveness, including support in decision-making. New digital technologies can also maintain customer insight (e.g., based on extracted data from websites). We will study the significance of Big Data for businesses in Chapter 2.
1.1.3. How to survive in the turbulence of Industry 4.0.
As Klaus Schwab said, "The changes are so profound that there has never been a time of greater promise or potential peril from the perspective of human history. My concern, however, is that decision-makers are too often caught in traditional, linear (and non-disruptive) thinking or too absorbed by immediate concerns to think strategically about the forces of disruption and innovation shaping our future."17
Every country experiences a disruption effect in almost all industries. It leads to the drop in transportation and communication costs, and as a result, logistics and supply chains will become more efficient globally. Trade costs decrease, all in all, this will launch new markets and enhance economic growth. “Sousa Jabbour was the first to note that Industry 4.0 can positively affect environmentally-sustainable manufacturing, with the development of green products, manufacturing processes, and supply chain management”18. Companies undergo several changes brought by The Fourth Industrial Revolution, which is related to the technological, organizational, and management aspects. However, stakeholders and investors are reluctant to invest heavily in those technologies, and lack of experience and workforce to implement these systems are causing general inconveniences. Nevertheless, companies today must become more innovative and agile to thrive. By its very nature, innovation, and agility result in constant, ongoing organizational change and managing that change well is part and parcel of attaining business results19.
As a whole, the Fourth Industrial Revolution has four main effects on business: customer expectations, product improvement, innovative production, and organizational matters. To solve these concerns, organizations need to implement several change management practices to meet the requirements in this digitalization. Companies have to keep the pace relevant with the Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies and meet the demands of personalized customer needs. In this process, change management helps them deal with the digital revolution. “Change management is a comprehensive, cyclic, and structured approach for transitioning individuals, groups, and organizations from a current state to a future state with intended business benefits. It helps organizations to integrate and align people, processes, structures, culture, and strategy”20.
Industry 4.0 induces shorted production processes; development periods and innovation phases need to be shortened. Growing competition forces many enterprises to improve higher innovation capabilities. Secondly, individual production meaning that there is an increasing trend of unique products, and in higher capacities, personal products for customers lead to more heterogeneous markets. Therefore, in this framework, higher flexibility in product development, notably in production, is paramount. It, in turn, required decentralized decision making in manufacturing. It leads to organizational hierarchies to be reduced. Furthermore, it has technological aspects to be reviewed, which is related to more mechanization and automation. Technical aids will be used to support physical work. It brings autonomous manufacturing in various steps. With the help of digitalization, the technical environment becomes digitalized, and previous production is outdated because of environmental damages. With the trend of miniaturization, new applications in logistics and production processes are enabled.
Considering the aforementioned trends and changes, the driving forces for the change drawn from the literature are as follows:21
- Intense market competition and pressure from competitors
- Increased innovation capacity and productivity
- Expectations of customers
- Efforts to save energy and improve sustainability
- Financial and performance factors
- Support for management activities
- Opportunity for business model innovation
As we can conclude, the entire organization will be affected by digitization. During this process, companies should not only regard technology, but also people management, technological processes in the fast-changing environment should receive a due consideration.
There are six main peculiarities outlined, which should be a central point in framing change management projects. They can be summarized as the alignment of leadership and strategy, technology and politics, financial aspect, mobilizing firms, structural changes, and sustainability. In the next chapters, we will analyze main change management approaches, theories, and practices to cope with challenges experienced in this profound epoch.
1.2. What is Change Management
Heraclitus, the Greek philosopher, states that change is the only constant in life. Those changes may be due to social, economic, political, and technological domains, and corporates need to respond to those changes. Effective change management may bring out several advantages. By this, companies are able to structure an approach to deliver changes in a feasible way and implement all the necessary goals. In this process, successful change management reduces the reluctance and resistance to change by effective communication, and it also eliminates chances for any conflicts. It sets out the principles for continuous learning, expands capacities and strategies for organizational development.
Industry 4.0 will odds-on change how we manufacture items, but it could also affect how those things are distributed (through autonomous logistics), the way customers interact with industries, and customer preferences. Beyond that, it could drive changes in the workforce, requiring new skills and roles.22 Due to all reasons mentioned above, effective change management is considered a must in today’s entrepreneurial agendas.
1.2.1. Concept of change management
David Swanson, the American manager from Procter & Gamble, argues that change management must be a matter of survival. There are some notable examples of the failure to adapt to change, such as Kodak’s overconfident management about innovation or Nokia’s disproportionate responses to new business trends presented by Apple or Android markets.
In today’s world, new organizational change management methodologies are required, and businesses need to implement those principles as complementary, not contracting. One of the most challenging elements of change management is uncertainty and volatility. In the next paragraphs, we will evaluate those approaches to exploit to overcome those challenges.
Driving forces behind the change . The fundamental driving forces for change identified in the literature are various internal and external factors such as social, cultural, political and economic factors, technological advances, competition, globalization, new markets, new customers, and customers’ expectations23. Throughout this journey, effective management of change is determining the failure or success of companies. It is noteworthy that our business environment is interconnected, complicated, and technology-driven in the phase of Industry 4.0.
In this industrial revolution (Industrie 4.0) these factors are interrelated such as mobile technologies connect people, thus modifying cultural and social interaction, technological developments increase competition and emerging technologies become disruptive in the market, therefore altering customer expectation. As a result, the internal and external layouts of an organization need to react to such changes by becoming flexible and responsive and being able to implement such technologies and deliver new values for customers.
1.2.2. Change management approaches
Organizational change can appear at various layers which requires different change strategies and techniques:24
− changing the individuals who work in the organization,
− evolving organizational structures and systems,
− directly altering the organizational climate.
In the process of change management, strategic, structural, and technological changes are encountered as well as behavior and attitudes will change to adjust to the new circumstances. Businesses that do not hold on with the latest technological developments will phase out sooner or later.
Therefore, change management is an essential skill for managers and leaders. “It is a structured process of managing people, processes, and technology in response to the changing environment so as to align business strategies with external changes and stay competitive.” 25 During this undertaking, people face diverse emotions from starting, such as disbelief and later on, anger, depression, and at the end, acceptance. While implementing change, leaders and managers need to support employees with accurate information, clear vision, and persuasive communication. At all stages, executives need to convey the vision, the anticipated change and the expected advantages.
Depending on the radical viewpoints to change management, we can describe two contrasting approaches: evolutionary and revolutionary. These approaches are based on the way the structural changes are handled. In evolutionary change management, the organization evolves gradually and adapts to new indicators and solutions. On the contrary, in a revolutionary way, we approach the change as a radical process, and the organizational structure changes fundamentally in foundations.
Here, change conceptually developed in two forms. “The first approach sees change as a rational, strategic process where the organization chooses a new course of action and adapts to change.” 26 Evolutionary selection: the second viewpoint - evolutionary selection, where organizations typically resist the change happening around them. In this sense, organizations either adapt, or fail to see the need for change and become wiped out. Nevertheless, revolutionary change is not an everyday action: a change in strategy, leadership, and culture – is rare. Virtually, change in organizations is gradual and unplanned. Planned and in a large scale, organizational change is not ubiquitous.
There are different outlooks to change management issues. Change management as a project or a stance in an organization. If change management is considered as a project, then it is implemented based on several objectives, and the aim is to attain a better structural model or organizational developments. Its benefits can be drawn as it defines the goals and evaluates the results at the end. On the contrary, if change is managed as an element of a component, then the organization may lose the connection in the path and may not deliver the desired results.
“One of the presiding standpoints within “planned approaches” to change is Lewin’s model of change, which argues that change involves a three-stage process:27 − unfreezing current behavior − moving to the new routine − refreezing the new behavior.” In the first stage, employees need to be flexible to adjust to new changes and practices. It required agility and proper support in leaving comfort zones and embracing a new way of roles and processes. In the second stage, people learn and perform in various ways. Patience is very vital in this step. Because in this period, despair and overload are common, and people need hope and excitement to overcome the chaos. In the refreezing phase, new practices are integrated into the processes. It becomes routine, and employees embrace the recent practices.
Lewin’s analysis includes the driving and resisting forces for change, and he concludes that the change may occur in an organization if driving forces are more influential than opposing forces.28 It includes forces that are from the internal or external environment of the organization. Today, the volatility of organizations makes Lewin’s postulate insufficient, as consistency during the freezing phase is hard to fulfill due to the dynamic nature of the global business environment.
As an alternative to planned methods, “emergent approach” was developed for the organizational change management practices. Today’s technological advances and higher competition require organizations to have a sustainable competitive advantage. An emergent approach to organizational change handles change as rapid and unstable phenomena that cannot be managed from the top down. It suggests that change should be considered as a process of learning, where the organization responds to the internal and external environmental changes continuously. As change represents a valuable learning opportunity, learning itself is a kind of change practice. Over past decades many scholars suggested that building a learning organization is the only source of competitive advantage.29 Being able to build a learning organization is a challenging task for managers as it aims to form an organizational climate that grants human capital to grow and innovate.
1.2.3. Change management theories and strategies
Yang and others (2009) argue that changing the vision and mission statements, organizational strategy, structure and culture, systems and technology of production, and leadership styles are some of the targets of organizational change.30
Kotter produced an eight-step model for organizational change management31:
− enacting a sense of urgency,
− generating a guiding coalition,
− developing a vision and strategy,
− communicating the change vision,
− granting employees with broad-based action,
− creating short-term wins,
− consolidating gains and producing more change,
− anchoring new approaches in the culture
Here, the first step is critical because the transformation programs require a great deal of collaboration with many parties, and without motivation, people are reluctant to help change. The reason why people need a sense of urgency is that humans are not willing to get out of their comfort zones. Capable managers should build coalitions between different stakeholders, develop a strong vision, and communicate it through them, and empower employees; by this, they may deliver the short-term gains and make the change happen. Even so, the essential point is timing. Providing short-time benefits and celebrating it is welcome, but declaring the victory earlier can be disastrous because the last step requires the change to be embedded in the culture of an organization. After all, new approaches are fragile and take time to be progressive.
To explore the internal layouts of an organization, we can use McKinsey’s 7S framework, which is classified into two elements: soft and hard. The hard parts are strategy, structure, and systems, while the soft details are shared values, skill, staff, and style.
There are other change management theories as well, such as Lippitt’s 7 steps approach and Prochaska’s change theory in the literature32.
Leadership during organizational change. Organizational leadership and change stand together, and one completes the other. Change, by definition, requires a new set of systems and which in turn always demands leadership.33 Leadership is a kind of power where one person has the ability to influence or change the merits, faith, behavior, and attitudes of another person34. Leaders are expected to deliver the change by promoting the vision. Kotter (1995)35 states that the process of renewals demands the removal of the barriers. You may have the vision and clear communication channels. However, as a leader, they need to help the organization and people remove blockers. Of those blockers, it can be an organizational structure or the mindset of people. Successful leaders have the ability to spot difficulties and troubles and provide with a clear vision. Leaders are characterized as persons to direct people or a group of employees in the desired path. As change management is the transition from the status quo to the desired state, leadership is the most required aptitude to manage the change.
There are four leadership styles identified in the literature: laisses-faire, transactional, transformational, and change-oriented. “In the change-oriented leadership style, the key elements of transformational leadership are playing a crucial role as it has idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation, and individualized consideration.”36
It should be recalled that tomorrow’s leaders genuinely need to decide for the interest of the many rather than the few, and avoid abusing the faith and freedoms that they enjoy. Here, the focus must be on the ethical aspects of leadership and change management. It is a must to evaluate leaders’ ethical principles and their actions and measure if they are suited with broader interests of stakeholders.
1.2.4. Agile change management
One of the central concepts in Agile is flexibility. Change management designs need to be flexible enough to deal with unpredictability. Those challenges previously have been addressed by software development projects that traditional plan-driven actions were not able to manage the problem, and Agile or agile methodologies are concerned with admitting and embracing uncertainty and performing together with it.37
Companies should take a comprehensive view of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the ways in which it alters the business cycle. Digitization became one of the most crucial drivers of organizational change for almost the last two decades.
Thus, Industry 4.0 is about more than just technological advances: it is about the ways in which those technologies are aggregated, and how organizations can exploit to drive organizational growth. Industry 4.0 can transform organizations’ processes and operations.38
Nowadays, one of the buzz topics in change management is agility. As the transformation in organizational operations and processes expands, the agile concept is formalized to riposte to changes quickly. It is first formalized to manage the projects in software developments. However, it can help organizations develop flexibility in change management tasks. To remain competitive, enterprises need to harness some basic features of agility. Those can be swift response and pliability to change, openness to new possibilities, and capability to learn fast. Nevertheless, it requires flexibility and decentralization of autonomy in such organizations. Industry 4.0 puts pressure on companies to exploit and extract valuable information through “big data” and offer personalized customer services. Those challenges and opportunities require new organizational structure, business cycle, and operational management strategies.
We will explore the edges and adaptability of agile concepts in change management undertakings. “Agile change management is based on the concept that in order to deal with abrupt events and changes to the change process, one must be able to amend the plans and goals of the change process underway.”39 On the contrary to planned change management, in agile concepts, there is a need for continuous readiness for change or learning from change while maintaining daily operations - which covers also developmental change.
Autonomy is broadly discussed in agile change management postulates by Kristoffer V. Årvik and Kristoffer Karud 40. They argue that while designing and implementing change management, it should be assigned to an autonomous team by involving top management to define goals, evaluate short-term results, and provide feedback after each iteration. In this regard, agile is a bundle of planned and emergent change management approaches. The leaders and top management set the objectives and goals, but throughout the path after each iteration, it can be modified and altered.
Here the most crucial point is a reflection after change processes. Post-change analysis of lessons and sharing them throughout the organization are the core parts of Agile. A proposed way of learning is through feedback: organizations need to gather inputs from employees during different phases (before, during, and after any event), discuss the lessons and incorporate lessons as knowledge assets (e.g., in a document).41
Agile can be efficient when organizations need to adapt to new technologies or customer preferences. Learning requirements define the use of change management type. In such cases, agile is more efficient. On the contrary, companies may need planned or Lean approaches (exploitation change management) in order to stay profitable. As a result, planned procedures are about exploitation and better performance, yet continuous learning makes enterprises to adopt agile methodologies and organizational knowledge to stay competitive in Industry 4th. In particular, coaching, cooperation, coordinating, and management support are recognized as significant challenges when adopting Agile42. In order to tackle these challenges, managers need to strengthen cooperation and communication.
While dealing with uncertainty and fast-paced environments during the Fourth Industrial Revolution, companies need to cultivate an organizational culture for collaboration and cooperation and to explore new developments. In this process, agile change management might help businesses.
Kristoffer V. Årvik implies that Agile is both sided as it can be used to set a specific change practice, then it can be used as revolutionary; on the other hand, if a company decides to experiment with doing somethings better, then it is evolutionary. We need to separate the concepts of organizational learning and agile. Agile is a change management project; here organizational learning sets principles and notions to implement change and stay competitive.
Before the adoption of agile methods, companies need to consider obstacles that they may face. The scope of change in agile is so vast that almost every part of an organization will be affected, and people need alterations in attitudes and approaches. It is a change management process, and people, management, technology, and processes will be modified or adjusted to new transformation. Without an environment that stimulates change and both supports and enables employees who strive for self-renewal and are willing to take risks and to pioneer, the rate of innovation in a company is likely to remain low and too slow to cope with the fast-moving environment and client needs.43 That is organizational culture. Organizational Culture will be broadly discussed in the next chapters.
1.3. Organizational Change: Approaches and Practices
We thoroughly discussed that Industry 4.0 delivers tumultuous volatility and acme of uncertainty in business environments. We also explored dominant outlooks to manage change in enterprises to come through uncertainty. Nevertheless, change happens faster than ever we experienced, and planning and executing change management initiatives fail due to the unpredictable nature of the future, which is getting more complex and ever-changing.
Successful change management practices cannot be universal, and it has to be implemented for each enterprise individually. It might be that particular aspects should be inserted in the list as primary ingredients. Some of the elements are less relevant or applicable than others, depending on the fields of operation. We will investigate some characteristics of successful organizational transformation practices in the next paragraphs.
1.3.1. Organizational structure change
Traditionally, enterprises are structured according to functional expertise such as IT, marketing, finance, etc. That is called the Silo structure. Silo structures tend to be too tightly focused on functions rather than process outcomes, slow down important decisions that today rarely affect only one function, and often duplicate efforts44.
The insight that in today’s world, the pace of adoption of new technologies and the need for a high degree of flexibility to cater to the clients’ needs, which are also faster changing, has induced many companies to start breaking up the old silo organization45. It clears up that companies set up to form around projects, client need rather than functions, and they have a cross-functional workforce. In turn, that leads to more elasticity and dynamic organizational structure with cross-functional teams. In such organizations, it would be useful to build a community of practices and implement community-based decision making to allow rapid decision making with fast feedback.
Tatjana Puhan (2019, p.2) claims that top-management is the brain of an organization, and they need to spread this culture through role modeling and reinforcement mechanisms.
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30 Odor H. O. (2018), “Organisational Change and Development”, European Journal of Business and Management, Vol. 10, No. 7
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Here are some important facts about Moldova, that you must know before coming here:
- Moldova is a state in Eastern Europe, very close to the Black Sea.
- Chisinau is the capital and the largest city of Moldova. Located in the middle of the country, on the river Bîc, Chisinau is the main industrial and commercial center of the country.
- Moldova is bordered by Romania on the west and Ukraine on the north, east and south.
- MDL, is the official currency of Moldova.
- Romanian is the official language of Moldova. Russian is also widely spoken in the country, both as a first and second language. Ukrainian and Gagauz are recognized minority languages.
- The Republic of Moldova propagates freedom in religion. However, Moldova mainly recognizes two religions; namely, Christianity and Judaism.
- It is one of the most densely populated European countries, with a population of 4.1 million, including the breakaway Transnistrian region
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Sara Angel launched the Art Canada Institute in 2013 with the support of Partners in Art. Today ACI is the country’s leading resource on Canadian art education. In addition to being its founder and executive director, Sara continues to work as a journalist and is an adjunct professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at York University and Western University, teaching at both institutions.
Can you describe what Art Canada Institute does?
The Art Canada Institute (ACI) is the only national organization whose mandate is to promote the study of an inclusive multi-vocal Canadian art history to as broad an audience as possible, in both English and French, within Canada and internationally. The ACI does this by working with more than 50 of Canada’s leading art historians, curators, and visual culture experts who are dedicated to the creation of authoritative original content and programing on the people, themes, and topics that have defined Canadian art history.
The inaugural program of the ACI is The Canadian Online Art Book Project. To date, it has published 33 online books available in English and French on Canadian artists via ACI’s website. The books bring the lives and stories of figures who have defined the country’s cultural landscape to over one million readers.
Our next major program will be the ACI Secondary School Art Education Resource. The program will provide easy-to-use teacher resources for secondary school educators. Each resource is based on a book published by the Art Canada Institute, allowing educators to draw upon a depth of resources that are already available on the Art Canada Institute website. Our audience is the 1.8 million active high school students in Canada in any given year.
Before the ACI, accessible and authoritative information on the lives and work of Canadian visual artists was hard to find. We have created a central digital resource to tell the world about Canada’s most important works of art and where they are located. By functioning as an online art museum, a digital library, and an interactive Canadian art resource, the ACI is an indispensable tool for learning about Canada’s visual arts heritage.
Why did you start the Art Canada Institute?
When I started teaching art history at the University of Toronto in 2012, I quickly discovered that no series existed in either print or digital format on Canadian artists. I couldn’t believe it and I thought that I had to do something about it.
Cultural expression is a human right—one so essential that the United Nations General Assembly enshrined it in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. Yet when it comes to access to Canadian culture, the majority of this country’s citizens are separated from this fundamental necessity. As Simon Brault, CEO of the Canada Council of the Arts, writes in No Culture, No Future (2009), only 30 per cent of Canadians are actively “interested in or reached by” their culture. To date less than three per cent of museum holdings of Canadian art have been digitized, restricting visual culture to those who are able to physically travel to where it is housed. This situation keeps the very symbols of Canada’s identity and societal values out of most citizens’ reach, and limits the body of research that students might investigate.
I wanted to change this situation. While new communication technologies have radically transformed how Canadians make art, our museums, galleries, and art historians haven’t kept pace. Founding the ACI has been about filling a cultural void.
Today, The Canadian Online Art Book Project is the only authoritative and comprehensive online resource on Canadian art and its history. Our books allow millions of people in Canada and abroad to understand the country’s visual culture in a way that is fundamentally changing art education, awareness, and interest. They allow all to participate in the conversation about Canadian art regardless of their access or proximity to a bricks-and-mortar museum. All ACI publications are peer reviewed, reflecting current scholarship, yet they are also accessible to a general audience. The ACI brings the story of Canadian art and its history to audiences and classrooms everywhere.
Currently there is no program available nationally and in both of the country’s official languages to train teachers about Canadian art history. The ACI’s next major initiative: The Secondary School Art Education Resource will change this situation as well.
Who was the first artist ACI published and how did you choose that artist?
ACI’s first publication was Jack Chambers: Life & Work by Mark A. Cheetham. The London-Ontario based realist painter and filmmaker worked during the 1960s and 1970s before his untimely death in 1978.
ACI’s publication selection is led by Dr. Anna Hudson (a former curator at the AGO who is now a professor at York University) and her editorial committee which makes its publication decisions based on proposals that are sent to ACI from art historians and museum professionals across the country. The committee looks for proposals on artists that meet the following criteria: the artist has to have made an historical impact on Canadian art and art history; its author has to be an expert on the subject.
What was your PhD thesis topic?
My PhD dissertation was on the famed Canadian art dealer Max Stern who in 1937 was forced by the Nazis to auction off over 300 works of art because as a Jew the National Socialist government forbade him to sell art. In 2002 Stern’s estate began a process of restitution to recover the art that Stern lost. I documented the story of 12 works it recovered between 2003-2012.
When did you know you’d have a career in art?
Much of my life has been tied to the world of visual arts. My parents had bookstores called Edwards Books & Art, where I worked from the age of 12 through university, giving me lots of exposure in the art world. As an undergraduate I studied art history at McGill University. I then went into arts journalism and arts publishing, writing about visual arts as well as working at Bruce Mau Design and with the London-based art book publisher, Phaidon Press. In 2012, after deciding that I wanted to teach, I started a PhD at the University of Toronto in art history and founded the Art Canada Institute a year later in 2013.
Which artists do you admire most?
There are too many to name and the range is vast! But some of my favourites include Canadians Gershon Iskowitz, Joyce Wieland, Greg Curnoe, Jeff Wall, Rebecca Belmore, and Shary Boyle; international artists Sophie Calle, Edmund de Waal, Anselm Kiefer, Gerhard Richter, Christian Boltanski, and David Hockney.
Is there an artist that you like that would surprise people?
My all-time favourite is the 17th century Baroque artist Caravaggio.
What is your favourite course to teach and why?
I recently started to teach a course called “Art Crime and its History” which has quickly become my favourite course because it ties together so many subjects that I am interested in—art history in Canada and internationally, art making, art dealing, the working of art museums, the international art trade, and the psychology of why people covet art.
What have been your top three art experiences?
My three most transformative art experiences have been:
- Visiting Rome in 1987 and seeing the Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel, the city’s extensive number of Berninis and The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini at the Cornaro Chapel, Santa Maria della Vittoria. It was my first visit to Europe and understanding of art’s power.
- Working with Bruce Mau from 1996-1997; it was an opportunity to collaborate with an enormous range of ground-breaking thinkers including Rem Koolahaas, Claes Oldenburg, and Frank Gehry who were doing projects with the studio.
- Seeing Sensation (featuring the Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection) at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1997. It captured the zeitgeist of what was going on in Britain and led me to move to London to work at Phaidon Press.
How do you begin your day and what are your habits?
I wake up at 5 a.m. to do two hours of work before getting my kids up; breakfast with my kids from 7-7:30 before getting them to school; 9 a.m. meeting with the Art Canada Institute team.
What is your favourite colour? Your least favourite colour?
Favourite colour: Caravaggio red; least favourite colour: brown.
Who would you want to create your portrait?
If an historical artist could paint my portrait, there would be three contenders: John Singer Sargent, Frida Kahlo, and the great Canadian portrait artist (and Beaver Hall member) Lilias Torrance Newton.
The Canadian artist Leanne Shapton painted my portrait a few years ago; I love it.
What do you do if you need inspiration?
Visit an art gallery.
What do you like to do when not teaching or working on the next ACI publication?
I am either writing arts journalism or I am driving my kids to a sports competition—they are more athletically active than art active.
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My family: Marrying my husband Michael in 2003 and the birth of our three kids: Charles (14), Jack (12), and Isabella (9).
What is your greatest fear?
Any harm or hurt to my family.
What advice do you have for aspiring art professionals?
Follow your heart, instinct and beliefs. Have confidence in your convictions and taste.
How did you hear about Partners in Art?
I was introduced to PIA by Robin Young who invited me to meet with PIA’s members before the ACI launched. In fall 2013, PIA gave ACI critical financial support to the ACI in two forms: It became a Founding Partner Patron, making a commitment to give the ACI $5,000 per year over a four-year period; and PIA sponsored a book (Michael Snow: Life & Work) in ACI’s inaugural program, The Canadian Online Art Book Project in ACI’s first season (2013-2014) for an amount of $10,000.
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EIA Says CO2 Emissions from Natural Gas are Increasing — Here’s Why That’s a Good Thing
New data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) was released Wednesday under the headline “Energy-related CO2 emissions from natural gas surpass coal as fuel use patterns change.” Here’s why that’s a good thing: it means dramatically lower overall greenhouse gas emissions.
This, of course, is because “natural gas consumption was 81% higher than coal consumption, and their emissions were nearly equal” as EIA points out in the new report – which goes to show much higher emissions would be if natural gas were not ramping up in electricity generation. EIA also notes “Although use of natural gas and petroleum have increased in recent years … U.S. total carbon intensity [has decreased] from 60 MMmtCO2/quad Btu in 2005 to 54 MMmtCO2/quad Btu in 2015.” In other words, that significant decline in greenhouse gas emissions took place while natural gas and petroleum production dramatically increased.
Natural gas consumption has hit record levels and that’s why the United States is the only country in the world to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions – a 9 percent decrease since 2005 according to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) data. EIA has also recently projected that U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions will collectively plummet to their lowest levels since 1992, as natural gas use continues to increase.
EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski made natural gas’ role in pretty clear when he recently said,
“The drop in CO2 emissions is largely the result of low natural gas prices, which have contributed to natural gas displacing a large amount of coal used for electricity generation.”
Of course, this is all made possible by shale development, through technological advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology, which has unleashed a historic supply of natural gas. As a result, EIA has recently noted that the current shift of electrical generation fuels to natural gas has accounted for 68 percent of the 14 percent total reduction in U.S. energy-related CO2 emissions during last decade.
EIA is projecting 2016 U.S. CO2 emissions to drop to 5.2 billion metric tons, down 1.5 percent from 2015 levels. This correlates directly with EIA’s estimate that electricity generated using natural gas reached a record high in July, surpassing the previous record set in July 2015. For 2016, EIA expects natural gas to fuel 34 percent of electricity generation compared with 30 percent for coal.
The trend of increased natural gas use and decreasing CO2 emissions has all happened at the same time the U.S. economy has grown 15 percent, reversing a trend in which economic growth has been coupled with emission increases.
That trend has actually being seen on the global scale as well. According to the International Monetary Fund, global GDP grew by 3.4 percent in 2014 and 3.1 percent in 2015, prompting the International Energy Agency (EIA) to state:
“The global economy continued to grow by more than 3%, offering further evidence that the link between economic growth and emissions growth is weakening.”
So it’s no wonder every credible organization — from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to IEA and EIA — has said that it’s thanks to fracking and the increased use of natural gas that U.S. CO2 emissions are plummeting.
The EIA has even gone so far as to say the burning of natural gas in the U.S. since 2005 has prevented 1 billion metric tons of CO2 from being emitted into the atmosphere. For comparison, use of renewables has prevented 600 million metric tons of CO2 emissions in the same timeframe.
And this is a far preferable scenario compared to just 11 years ago, when use of natural gas was far lower, as the new EIA report notes:
“Because coal has a higher carbon intensity, even in a year when consumption of coal and natural gas were nearly equal, such as 2005, energy-related CO2 emissions from coal were about 84 percent higher than those from natural gas,” the report states.
Thankfully, EIA projects natural gas inventories will continue to balloon, projecting they’ll top 4,042 Bcf at the end of October 2016, which would be the highest end-of-October level on record.
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Here’s what happened this week in history in the Ozarks
Dec. 5, 1957: Ila Hill Jensen posed with an array of her costume dolls, character dolls and oil paintings, which were on display at the Springfield Art Museum. Jensen, who lived 2 ½ miles south of Ozark, had won numerous prizes for her paintings at the Ozark Empire District Fair and the War Eagle, Ark., Arts and Crafts Fair, but this was her first Springfield Art Museum show. Some of her dolls included an Ozarks guitar player, a hill mother with her child and a Scotch highlander. Springfield Leader & Press
Dec. 6, 1957: Vivian Maddox, head librarian of the Springfield Public Library, celebrated her last day of work in Springfield. A couple of days before, she appeared before the library board and received informal words of praise from Dr. G.H. Benton, chairman. Benton told Maddox, “You have been an excellent librarian. The Springfield Public Library has made real and notable progress during your administration.” Maddox told the board she was already feeling nostalgia for the Springfield library, stating, “I shall never forget the years I have had here. I have never seen a town more ripe for expanded library service than this one.” During her tenure in Springfield, Maddox oversaw the establishment of cooperation between the Springfield Public Library and the Greene County Library in the interchange of reader services and the operation of bookmobiles, the establishment of a new library branch and the establishment of record lending services and film lending services. Maddox planned to head for her hometown in eastern Arkansas and make other visits before beginning work with the Missouri State Library the following January. Springfield Leader & Press
Dec. 7, 1947: An article ran about the storied history of F.A. “Whispering Fred” Canfil, a U.S. Marshal and friend of President Harry S. Truman. Canfil’s history was apparently so storied that the article’s author, Joseph Cody, imagined Canfil’s past was mysterious because “it’s just possible he’s a leprechaun whose glands went wrong. And his subsequent behavior was such that all the good leprechauns punished him by taking away his power of disappearance at will.” Accompanying the article was a photograph of local newspaper photographer Betty Love and her instantly famous photo featuring bank robber Duke Petty and Webster County farmer James Robinson being escorted to the Greene County Jail. Canfil had told Love not to take any pictures of the men. When Love said it was her constitutional right to take a photo, Canfil yelled, “The Constitution be damned.” Despite yelling orders that the photo not be taken, Love took it, and Canfil’s outburst became news across the country. Springfield News-Leader
Dec. 11, 1936: An article ran about the gathering of 300 girls from the 18 Girl Scout troops of Springfield and the eight Brownie packs at their newly acquired campsite north of Zoo Park on Bolivar Road for a dedication. The executive council had recently purchased a half-acre of land on a wooded hillside where a stone cabin was to be built for Scouts to camp in during the summer months. The purpose of the camp was to provide the Girl Scouts a place to gather near home as opposed to traveling out of town. The Springfield Leader & Press
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The rising cost of online college courses, has forced many current students to consider taking their studies further from home. For many, distance learning offers a number of benefits over traditional classes. First, it allows for a much wider choice of courses and higher quality content. Second, students are able to choose when and where they study. And third, it’s often more affordable than traditional education. If you‘re interested in taking my online proctored exam to earn your master’s degree, here are some things to keep in mind.
One of the key elements of earning your master’s degree is the amount of time that you have to dedicate to your studies. With online coursework, you will only have a few hours each week to spend on it. This can prove to be very limiting for a few reasons. You may find yourself having to pull extra hours at work if you have other obligations that evening. Another problem can be the lack of time during the day. If you need to spend hours upon hours in the library, you may need to increase your hours at work.
If you’ve already begun your studies, but you feel you may need to brush up your skills, the first step to take is taking an online proctored exam. This will allow you to brush up on any concepts that you might not have understood. Plus, you’ll gain access to a practice test, which can help to boost your confidence. But before you begin taking the proctored exam, you need to know how to go about preparing for it.
One of the best ways to prepare for your online proctored exams is to review all of the material that you have read. You can do this by reviewing each chapter, taking notes, and then putting together your study schedule. If you are taking multiple choice, essay, or anywhere else, it’s important to jot down your answers in order of difficulty. By doing this, you will be able to determine which questions you might run into, and you can make preparations for them ahead of time.
Another way to prepare for taking my proctored exams is to practice the material as much as possible. This means studying on your own, taking practice tests, and using templates and examples to study. Most of the proctored exams you can take online are based on hard and wide reading, so it’s a good idea to pick a topic that you think you might have trouble with. You can even get started studying right away by looking at sample questions and writing down key points that you think are important.
Once you have prepared for taking the exam, the next step is taking it. You can take an online practice test or even take a simulated proctored exam. Either way, it’s important to read the guidelines carefully before taking the actual test. You should always read the exam guidelines before taking the exam. Then again, if you are taking my online test, you shouldn’t take the exam until you have a chance to study for it.
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With everything going on perhaps we should cover some viral issues as we understand them from the perspectives of Dr. Emanuel Revici. You may a recall that he was the medical doctor Albert Eistein referred to as a genius.
As you know, at least if you have been following this blog over the years or taken a workshop, we humans are diphasic beings.
We are a composite of forces both Yin and Yang.
We are ruled to an extent by circadian rhythms whose ebb and flow is or can be controlled to an extent through our lipid physiology.
By that I mean every cell in our body has a lipid membrane. There is more to that perspective than most people realize – including most every doctor practicing medicine today. This lack of perspective can lead to some blind spots in care.
To partially open some perspective on lipids, and take us to another level of understanding viral conditions, we need to lay some groundwork.
We can say that there are essentially two broad categories of lipids that concern us, these are fatty acids and sterols.
Fats themselves are a chain of carbon atoms, and with fatty acids, there is a negatively charged fatty acid end to those carbons. With sterols the chain of carbons has a positively charged sterol end.
This is quite important as it is that difference in charge that accounts for the structural orientation of those carbon chains in a cell membrane wall.
Fatty acids have a perpendicular orientation where the negative ends face outwards and inwards in membrane structure and sterols with its positive ends will have a parallel orientation.
Now imagine a cell membrane with all fatty acid components where all the carbon atoms are lined up in a perpendicular orientation, kind of like pickets in a fence. The problem with a fully fatty acid cell membrane however is the gaps between the pickets, things can easily move through the gaps leaving, in this case, a cell that is far too permeable.
With excess permeability in a cell wall structure, minerals like potassium inside the cell will find it easy to move outside the cell. When that happens, the tissues become overly alkaline. A mineral like sodium which generally stays outside the cell, finds it easier to move into the cell. And where sodium goes, water tends to follow.
A cell would not survive if its only fat in its membrane were a fatty acid. It would bubble in a caustic bath of alkalinity, age very quickly, and it would expand with water beyond its ability to function.
This is practical yin and yang at play. Negative fatty acids in a cell membrane need to be balanced with positive sterols.
In our analogy, the pickets of our fence, fatty acids, need a balance of crossplanks, sterols, to limit permeability.
Imagine a cell membrane makeup that was all sterols. It would be like a solid plank wall where nothing could get in or get out. That would lead to a range of issues that are the polar opposite of a cell membrane made up of all fatty acids. In life there is not much that is all one way or another, and where cell membranes are concerned, yin and yang, fatty acids and sterols, need to be in balance for perfect function.
But as lifestyle, diet, habits, exposure to pathogens, toxins, and what not effect us one way or another, that one way or another impacts our cell’s membranes and our resulting physiology one way or another as well.
And this is where it gets very interesting.
Viruses of all nature abound.
But how is it some of us get sick when we are exposed, and some of us don’t?
Yes we have immune factors at play. B cells recognizing antigens, T cells mounting humoral and cell mediated responses.
But there is also the little recognized “shields up” and “shields down” immune factor which is a reflection of one aspect of the body’s lipidic defense system.
I use the term shields up to get across the idea of a cell with an overly sterol disposition that tends to be a bit impermeable. Shields down is the fatty acid opposite.
In practice we see the effects of excess sterol activity to be of an anaerobic nature. As such we see clues to this state through physiological measurements. Ditto with excess fatty acid activity with its dysaerobic nature with measures in the other direction.
I won’t get into all those measures but will look at only one, that being the pH of urine.
When a virus gets ahold of someone, you will often see a rise in urine pH to very high levels, like 7.0 or 7.2 or even higher. (Urine pH in a healthy state will tend to oscillate around pH of 6.2. As an aside, saliva around 6.8.)
Generally the higher the urine pH moves, the worse a person feels.
Emanuel Revici understood lipids, lipid defense mechanisms, the influence of fatty acids and sterols on health, aging, cancer and much more, including the movement of pH in relationship to the influence of all these things. His understanding was beyond most practicing physicians of his time – or since.
Let’s look simplistically at a virus.
A virus is an engineer. It gets into the cells and it does its little engineering feat of replicating itself. That is what it wants to do. In its process of doing its replication, it wants to steer clear of the body’s immune system otherwise it will get taken out.
Viruses are very small. Now imagine a very tiny virus gets inside a cell which has an excess of sterols versus fatty acids.
Is the virus happy? Yes it is. Why? It has a kind of natural protection from the body’s immune system as that cell’s excess sterol makeup gives it a ‘shields up’ disposition. The cell, being more impermeable, provides anything inside better protection from being attacked by the immune system.
The thing about viruses when they are at play in the body, is they tend to want to have their way with you. People that come under the influence of a virus will often see their cells move in the shields up direction, possibly due to some mechanism in virus action that push it in this direction. They will also see their urine pH rise up as well.
The lipid defense system and see an opposing action by flooding the body with fatty acids. From an anabolic/catabolic perspective, this effect pushes a person strongly catabolic.
Revici Presents a Viral Solution
It was in November of 1981 when he was granted a patent for his ‘Method of Treating the Clinical Manifestation of Viral Diseases’ and in April of 1985 a patent for ‘Virucidal Compositions and Therapy’.
A quick look at a segment of the first patent’s claims reads as follows:
“A method of treating or alleviating the clinical manifestations of viral diseases which exhibit local alkalosis, said manifestations including rhinorrhea, tracheal or bronchial secretions, which comprises internally administering to a patient having said viral disease a sufficient amount of a non-toxic, water soluble acidic ammonium salt of phosphoric acid or sulfuric acid to effectively neutralize the alkalosis and eliminate or alleviate said clinical manifestations.”
Revici knew that as a marker to a virus getting a hold of someone, you may see their urine pH push alkaline, they will feel miserable, and their body may respond with various secretions. He also knew that if you used certain ammonium salts while monitoring urine pH to simply push that urine pH down, tremendous relief would be provided JUST FROM THAT ALONE!
And so it is. And that was the essential basis of this one patent.
Revici was using mono-ammonium phosphate, administered orally, anywhere from one to three grams every half hour for viral conditions.
Result? People would still have the virus, but while their immune systems were fighting it, THEIR SYMPTOMS WERE RADICALLY REDUCED!
They could breathe, they weren’t in bed, they could move around normally and get work done.
A virus. Some people who are exposed to this get sick. Some don’t. Some show no symptoms at all, yet they are still infected.
I think, if you ponder what is written here, there may be some clues. If you dig into Revici’s patents mentioned above, you will find more clues.
If you come to the next Biomedx workshop at the Biotorium, you will find even more clues along with learning more ways to measure things that no one is talking about to help you figure out issues and solutions that all the “experts” are scratching their heads over.
Speaking of scratching heads…
Perhaps you’ve been scratching yours asking ‘where will I get some mono-ammonium phosphate?’
Think about this: We have charts in class that show what you can use to push pH of urine down. Can you guess what is there besides mono-ammonium phosphate?
You might have guessed ascorbic acid. And yes, this will indeed push urine pH down. We know when someone has high urine pH and they simply push that pH down with ascorbic acid, they can feel great relief just in getting their urine pH down to an acceptable range.
There is a lot more to this as when pH inverts (urine high and saliva low) it is representative of energy/ion flow going in the wrong direction, but irrespective of the ‘lot more’ to this, knowing how to push urine pH down for the right reasons when it is excessively high can be very helpful.
So a question arises: can you replicate Revici’s method of treating clinical manifestations of viral diseases as effectively with ascorbic acid and he was doing with mono-ammonium phosphate? At one to three grams every half hour?
I’ll let you ponder that.
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Posted on: 28-08-2018 in Finance
The new banking rules, implemented in January 2018 in the UK, were designed to give consumers more freedom and control over how their financial information is shared, as well as providing access to more products. But after recent data breach scandals – including the debacle at TSB and Dixons Carphone’s second attack earlier this year – are UK consumers confident that their data is sufficiently safe for Open Banking to really take off? And does anybody even know what Open Banking means?
The UK competition watchdog’s flagship scheme was launched in an initiative to make banking simpler, increase choice for consumers, and loosen the stranglehold that the big banks have on the UK banking sector. The basic premise is that it will make it easier for consumers to switch accounts, get better deals, and save money. Currently, only 3% of UK consumers switch banks in a given year to take advantage of a better deal, according to The Competition and Markets Authority. For years banks have had complete control over the information they hold about their customers – including how that information is shared. The Open Banking initiative was designed to empower consumers, and give smaller and newer banks the chance to compete fairly in the marketplace.
The Open Banking scheme relies on the technology of Third Party Providers (TPPs), who can be granted access by the customer to the information held about them by the banks. The idea is that if consumers are able to control their own data, and consolidate their personal finance information through handy apps, that they will have more choice, freedom, and importantly control, over their accounts and how their information is used. And ‘choice’ is really the key word here. Under Open Banking rules, individuals will have to “opt in” before any information is shared. The new rules forced the nine major UK banks (Allied Irish Bank, Bank of Ireland, Barclays, Danske, HSBC, Lloyds, RBS, Santander and Nationwide) to put their information about customers into a standardised format so that customers can, for example, see all their account information in one place.
At present, there are four companies that offer TPP services and Open banking services in the UK: HSBC, Yolt, Credit Kudos, and consents.online. HSBC added substantial credence to the Open Banking initiative when the bank launched the HSBC Connected Money app earlier this year. The app allows you to access all your accounts on one screen, no matter who you bank with. You can add up to 21 different accounts, including loans and mortgages. Yolt is a free app from ING Byoltank allows users to compare all nine banks signed up to Open Banking. Customers can view their accounts, budget and monitor their spending. Credit Kudos is a free credit scoring website that allows you to check your eligibility for financial services such as credit cards and loans and “get a better deal by using your own data.” Consents.online is an app that allows you to track which Open Banking services you have given permission to use your data.
Open Banking has so far had a limited impact on the general population since its initiation in January. In part, this can be attributed to a general scepticism about the security of data sharing. BullGuard, a cybersecurity company, found that 72% of British people worry about the loss of personal data and being hacked. In fact, The Telegraph reports that, “the Payments Systems Regulator (PSR) has now warned these fears could threaten the success of the Open Banking project, as there is a risk consumers will simply choose to opt out of data sharing.”
Despite concerns around data sharing and a slow initial uptake by consumers, the general opinion in the world of finance is that open banking will revolutionise the way we think about money – especially for consumers. Just a couple of years ago, contactless payments seemed both revolutionary and vaguely risky as a method of payment for the general population, but like technology developments for most of us other than the young and very clued-in, they take a bit of time to get used to. The Open Banking project, is in many ways, “banking” on getting over a rocky start. Open Banking is set for a huge expansion next year as the second Payment Services Directive (PSD2) regulations are rolled out in September. Under PSD2, Open Banking services will be extended to all banks within the European Union, as well as credit cards, charge cards, and current accounts.
Australia has taken a step closer to an Open Banking programme after the publication of a final Government report. It is expected that the recommendations in the report (the availability of credit and debit card information, transaction data, mortgages, loans etc.) will be rolled out from July 2019. In the US, East Africa and South and South East Asia, large banks and FinTech (Financial Technology) companies are exploring ways in which data can be shared for the benefit of consumers, no doubt looking to Europe to monitor success. Matt Palframan, Director of YouGov, warns though that, “the introduction of Open Banking was hailed as a revolution for the financial sector, however what we’re actually seeing is more of a slow and silent evolution.”
The Telegraph reports that the credit scoring industries plan to use live current account data (now accessible through Open Banking rules) to give consumers a more complete picture of their financial wellbeing. While credit referencing agencies already have access to information regarding credit card and mortgage applications, as well as the number of bank accounts a person has, until now, the amount in those accounts has remained private. What this opens up is a more thorough appraisal of a person’s financial data and credit rating.
ClearScore, a credit monitoring service, plans to use this information to help track spending and behaviour, and target products at people based on complete data. Jake Ranson of Equifax explains the benefits of this data sharing: “Open Banking gives us data that we don’t have, and are not currently storing,” he said. “So as well as credit history, money laundering checks and proof of residency, now we have an extra layer of data that helps smooth the process and helps consumers decide what they want.” Those set to benefit most from Open Banking, according to Mr Ranson, are the self-employed and those with irregular income.
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SNV has implemented a package of innovative solutions to support the promotion of hygiene and sanitation in the communes of Ziniaré and Boussé, Burkina Faso.
The approach built the capacity of private operators to provide accessible sanitation services and facilities, taking into account the various links in the sanitation chain, such as information services and technology, availability of human and material resources, technical construction training and management of wastewater.
A microcredit component for women started in the last quarter of 2013 and continued until the end of 2014 with support from Improved Childhood Life (EVA). In January 2015, SNV handed over the project to the two towns and since then the project has reached more than a 85% recovery rate on average in the two municipalities.
- 60 teachers have been trained in monitoring the implementation of WASH activities in schools.
- 15% increased revenue on average for 173 Ziniaré women and 156 Boussé women thanks to micro-credit benefits.
- 10% increased revenue for 30 masons by training them and equipping them with a sanitation equipment construction book.
- 5% increased revenue for 40 association members who received training on promotion of hygiene and saponification.
- Improvemed living conditions of 329 women in the two communes.
- Reduction of poverty, of open defecation and diseases related to poor hygiene and sanitation.
- Increased mastery of sanitation projects management by municipalities through the existence of technical sanitation services in public.
- Micro-credit system: new advocacy tool for municipalities in research funding in the field of water and sanitation.
- Strengthen the capacity of local actors.
- Implement the micro credit for the development of income generating activities (IGA) promoting hygiene and sanitation promotion.
- Promote learning and exchange of experience at the municipal level.
- Holding five consultation frameworks in two towns.
- Implementation of micro credit.
- Lending to more than 400 women for the creation of income generating activities (IGA) and latrine construction.
- Training of 10 masons in Boussé on achieving the latrine San Plat, and 10 masons in Ziniaré on achieving the VIP latrine.
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Here is what you’ll see at The Rockwell Museum right now:
On view: May 28 – September 5, 2022
Items once draped on horses, cars, or the arms and bodies of the Apsáalooke people are typically presented as static and sequestered under museum glass. Wendy Red Star reanimates these objects by visually contextualizing them within their original purpose. The resulting Accession series is a vibrant meeting of past and present. It honors the artistry of the original makers who crafted the objects, as well as the anonymous artists who catalogued them. The Apsáalooke pieces are brought back to life, confirming their place in living history and the powerful legacy of her own Nation within the larger context of contemporary American art.
On view: June 18 – October 17, 2022
Location: KIDS ROCKWELL Art Lab
Multimedia artist Wendy Red Star, a member of the Apsáalooke* (Crow) tribe, uses historic imagery and material culture as direct references for her own photographs and installations. Children of the Large-Beaked Bird provides an opportunity for children and adults to look at the history and identity of a people as told through their point of view. As the artist notes: “It is critical to preserve and pass along culture, heritage, and shared values while also providing future generations with a sense of identity, solidarity, and empowerment.”
On view: May 14 – October 30, 2022
Location: Special Projects Gallery
Artworks on exhibit in museums are typically accompanied by signs that say, “Please do not touch.” Please Touch! The Art of Michael Naranjo invites visitors to experience remarkable bronze sculptures that are touchable – created by a Native American artist whose compelling life story will inspire reflection about art and artistic inspiration.
This exhibition is courtesy of Tia Collection, Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Michael and Laura Naranjo.
On view: March 18, 2022 – February 12, 2023
Location: Rockwell Museum, Floor 1
ANTIGRAVITY is an endeavor premiered in 2018 to create an annual opportunity for emerging artists. Artist Rachel Hellmann’s site-specific mural recognizes the power of the sun and our inherent need for warmth. It also recognizes our desire to be connected after a difficult year with many facing challenging social isolation.
On view: January 22 – December 31, 2022
Location: Members’ Gallery (Floor 2)
The Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project was designed to help put American artists back to work during the Depression, marking a movement when many women and artists of color found an opportunity in the fine arts. See this series of woodblock prints by women artists of the 1930s, recently gifted to The Rockwell collection by Dr. Marianne Woods in memory of Kenneth Cooper.
ArtRx is a response to the state of being human in America in 2020. ArtRx started as a way to process the COVID-19 pandemic. We quickly realized that if we’re talking about the unprecedented magnitude of loss and change, the awakening of the country to systemic racism needed to be part of the conversation as well. Throughout your visit, find staff responses to collection artworks through the lens of ArtRx.
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Upcoming airports are likely to be named after the cities where they are located, the government said on Tuesday and ruled out any move to change names of existing aerodromes.
“… a consensus emerged that naming/ renaming of airports after different eminent personalities may create confusion among the travelling passengers and may also be contentious, at times, due to political nature of the requests,” minister of state for civil aviation Jayant Sinha told the Rajya Sabha.
In a written reply, he also said that in future, as a policy, the airports may be known by the name of the city, in which, they are located/ served.
“However, names of existing airports need not be changed/ disturbed,” he added.
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"Fear by Association: Perceptions of Anti-Immigrant Policy and Health Outcomes"
Dr. Edward D. Vargas, Dr. Gabriel R. Sanchez, Melina D. Juárez
The United States is experiencing a renewed period of immigration and immigrant policy activity as well as heightened enforcement of such policies. This intensified activity can affect various aspects of immigrant health, including mental health. We use the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 2015 Latino National Health and Immigration Survey (n = 1,493) to examine the relationship between immigration and immigrant policy and Latino health and well-being. We estimate a series of categorical regression models and find that there are negative health consequences associated with Latinos’ perceptions of living in states with unfavorable anti-immigration laws, including reporting poor health and problems with mental health. This article builds on the work of public health scholars who have found a link between this heightened policy environment and the mental health of immigrants, yet expands on this research by finding that the health consequences associated with immigration policy extend to Latinos broadly, not just immigrants. These findings are relevant to scholars of immigration and health policy as well as policy makers who should consider these negative effects on the immigrant community during their decision-making process.
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What is Male Pattern Baldness?
Male pattern baldness, scientifically known as androgenetic alopecia (AGA), is a very common condition, universally prevalent, which progresses with aging. It is the most common type of hair loss observed in men, related to the genes and male sex hormones. It usually follows a pattern of receding hairline and hair thinning on the crown. Each strand of hair grows in a tiny hole (cavity) in the skin called Follicle. In this condition, the factor contributes to the gradual shrinkage of the tiny cavity in the skin base of the hairs. The loss of scalp hair of any degree both in men and women is a cause of considerable psychological distress associated with a loss of self-esteem and feelings of diminished self-image, resulting in introversion and depression. Particularly among men, the very manifest of baldness is often a source of major psychological distress.
What are the causes of Male Pattern Baldness?
A person suffering from this condition loses about 50 to 100 hairs per day. It becomes difficult to notice this when the new hair is growing at the same time. The major cause of this is the disruption in the hair growth cycle and shedding (cast off) process.
These are the few common causes behind Male Pattern Baldness:
- Heredity: In some families, there are genes passed on through the family that make men more likely to have androgenetic alopecia. In men with these genes, the hair follicles are more sensitive to DHT. It leads to hair follicle miniaturization (where the hairs growing from the follicles become thinner and shorter with each cycle of growth) at a younger age.
- Hormonal changes: This is the most common reason behind Male Pattern Baldness. Men normally lose their hair when three main factors interact: genetics, age, and hormones. Hormones are chemical substances that act like messenger molecules in the body. After being made in one part of the body, they travel to other parts of the body where they help control how cells and organs do their work. Changes in the hormones affect the growth of hairs.
- Medication and Supplements: People often get into excessive medication and consuming supplements, which results in excessive hair loss. Hair loss can be a side effect of certain drugs, such as those used for cancer, arthritis, depression, heart problems, gout, and high blood pressure.
- Radiation: Due to the bigger diseases like cancer, People tend to be in contact with Radiation, which results in the loss of hairs. UV Rays also harms the scalp of the head.
- Stress: Stress is very common in our day to day life. It is one of the major causes behind the head losing its hairs. People usually lose their hairs whenever they go through some tough time in their lives.
- Excessive hairstyling: Excessive hairstyling or even using an artificial product for hair can result in hair loss. Sometimes the fashion statement becomes more dangerous than we think. It results in losing the natural strength of the hairs.
How can I prevent the Male pattern baldness?
Genetics is the main reason behind baldness. It is totally upon person to person. The condition is preventable at a certain stage of the baldness. Here are some measures one can take to prevent baldness:
- Consult your doctor before it’s too late.
- Avoid tight hairstyles, such as braids, buns, or ponytails.
- Avoid twisting and unnecessarily pulling your hairs.
- Treat well and gentle while shampooing your hairs.
- Use wide toothed comb for your hairs.
- Avoid cosmetic treatments like hot rollers, curling irons, and hot oil treatments.
- Protect your hairs from harmful UV Rays.
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Irish Wit and Humour
Original Introduction: “Whereas it has been credibly represented to us, and we have, moreover, strong reasons to believe, that during the rancour, spleen, party dullness, and mutual distrust, which for some time prevailed in this once good-humoured and convivial realm, very considerable quantities of current and sterling wit and pleasantry of the land had been withdrawn from circulation; and that humorous anecdotes, bon mots, good jokes, epigrams, bulls, and divers other devlish things, to the amount of some millions, were concealed or hoarded in memories, brain-boxes, pocket-diaries, common-place-books, and other repositories of once chearful, but since dull, splenetic and gloomy persons, who have passed over to this realm, and have for some time withdrawn themselves from social intercourse, and do now obstinately withhold from conversation the said wit, humour and pleasantry, both in coin and bullion, to the great injury and detriment of colloquial pleasure and national humour, and in the propagation of dullness, the spleen and the blue devils.
An Irishman much accustomed to marvellous narrations, and also attached to sporting, was one day silenced by a gentleman presenting him with the following method of catching wild geese. “Tie a cord to the tail of an eel, and throw it into the fens where the fowls haunt. One of the geese swallowing this slippery bait, it runs through him, and is swallowed by a second and third, and so on until the cord is quite full. A person once caught as many geese in this way, that they actually flew away with him.”
A collection of c. 800 pieces of wit and humour, published in 1811, which encapsulates the lives of the humble chimney sweep, cheeky shoeblack, sassy nymph, phlegmatic sailor, witty counsellor and arrogant gentleman in Ireland, England and abroad, as well as the standard fare of Irish Bulls and servant jokes.
An essential guide to humour of culture and manners, pomp and politics, humbug and sharp tongues, class and craft, language and expression, wisdom and foolishness during the political ferment of the late 18th century, the 1798 Rebellion and after the Act of Union. It includes stories about (in)famous people and characters of the time, Swift, Curran, Sheridan, Blind Peter, politicians, lawyers and aldermen
This edition of Spirit of Irish Wit (1811) is a modern, fully indexed with introduction, transcription readable on most platforms and applications and available online in the following formats: Online Reading, Kindle, Epub, PDF, RTF, LRF, Palm Doc (PDB) and Plain Text (download and view).
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An Irish country schoolmaster being asked what was meant by the word ‘fortification’, instantly answered, with the utmost confidence, “Two twentifications make a fortification.”
Samples & Indexes
- Extract A sample of 1798 Rebellion black humour and other pieces
- How to Survive a Recession A perspective that shows little has changed since 1800. The blue devils and flaithulach are still with us, as are the glumpish, churlish, and refractory who ru(i)n our good-humoured and convivial realm.
- Indexes of People and Places
- Gender Wars and Happy Endings18th century style
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Sustainable development is a way for people to use resources without the resources running out. It means doing development without damaging or affecting the environment. The term used by the Brundtland Commission defined it as development with sustainability that "meets the needs of the present and don't compromise the ability of future generations to meet their own needs."
Everyone wants a better place to live. Some people want better homes and housing, while other people want better schools, more jobs, better shops, or cleaner and safer streets. Others may want all these things. Whatever the problems in any neighbourhood, they can usually be grouped into three issues. People need:
- a better environment – that means green spaces, play areas, no litter, nice gardens, decent houses, less noise and pollution. The resources used should renew over generations.
- a better economy – that means jobs, reasonable prices, cheaper heat and light, no loan sharks
- better social conditions – that means good leisure facilities, lots of community groups offering sports and arts, friendly neighbours.
But many people now realise that if we are to tackle one issue, then we'll probably have to tackle the others as well. For instance, new shops are unlikely to open in an area where crime and poverty levels are very high. Similarly crime is unlikely to fall in an area where the housing has been improved unless there are jobs available. People may move into an area where housing and jobs are available, but if the surroundings are run-down and public transport is poor, they may well not want to stay
This is not just a local issue. The same problems are faced at a national level. If the governments of the world are to deal with poverty, they do not just need to provide money and food aid, they need to help local people get educated and get jobs. People also need a safe environment with adequate homes and drinking water. To make these things work, governments also need to make sure that people have an effective voice in deciding what happens where they live.
This approach is called ‘sustainable development’. While this phrase can be confusing, it's now used in many government documents and in funding programmes. Sustainable development has three parts: environmental sustainability, economic sustainability and sociopolitical sustainability.
At the core of this idea is the matter of meeting people's needs – for a home, for a decent job, for education for their children, for good health care, and for a safe and healthy neighbourhood to live in.
Most people in the rich nations have most of these needs, but there are still many people living in poverty and in poor quality homes. Even if these basic needs are met there are still plenty of ways in which their ‘quality of life’ is under threat: from crime, from pollution, or from living in neighbourhoods where no-one in authority seems to care.
Many areas have programmes to promote ‘local sustainability’: many are called ‘Local Agenda 21’ plans, named after the international Agenda 21 action plan for sustainable development agreed at the United Nations Earth Summit held in 1992. "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs". This is a definition offered by the famous World Commission on Environment and Development in its report Our Common Future.
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- United Nations. 1987. "Report of the World Commission on Environment and Development." General Assembly Resolution 42/187, 11 December 1987. Retrieved: 2007-04-12 | <urn:uuid:434b2682-ea9e-47fb-a737-e31a0dca6905> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_development | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963018 | 734 | 4 | 4 |
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Kimono-style opera coat, (back view), c.1922. The coat is fashioned from cobalt blue devoré velvet, cut to a ground of bronzed gold metallic lamé. The upper back and sleeve borders are of solid silk velvet elaborately embroidered with a Persian pattern of bronze metallic cord and small, coral colored beads. The bodice front sections of the coat are self lined with devoré velvet; the rest of the coat is lined with rose colored silk velvet.
Orientalism-inspired wool coat (back view) c.1912. The arrival of the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909 detonated an aesthetic bombshell in the West. Decors for the ballet by Russian painter Leon Bakst used exotic patterns, brilliant colors, and lush fabrics. The new trend in all the graphic arts was termed Orientalism. With its striking palette of orange, green and black, this brilliant coat perfectly captures the mood of the period. | <urn:uuid:6e5876a3-780a-4aaf-85e6-4f399a02442a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pl.pinterest.com/hotbd/kimono-coat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.876109 | 220 | 2.1875 | 2 |
1. Establishment Date: the Seventh ofJune,1957
2. Kind of University: Public University
3. State of Education: Turkish-English
4. Campus City Center Main Campus
5. Academic Units: 23 Faculties, 1 High School, 1 Conservatoire, 12 Vocational High Schools, 8 Institutions, 25 Research and
25 Application Centers
6. The Number of Students:210.000
7. The Number of Grad Students
8. The Number of Academic Staff
9. The Number of Administrative Personnel
INSTITUTIVE VALUES AND PRINCIPLES
Atatürk University contributes the sustainable growth at the regional and national level, makes analyses and synthesizes, applies what is learnt, has got the graduates who own the abilities of communication,teamwork and leadership. It has got the employees who can solve the problems and produce knowledge and technology at the international level, have got the enthusiasm of learning and teaching. Atatürk University presents the knowledge and service which it has produced to the benefit of society with all its employees and gradutes.
Institutive Values and Principles: Scientificness and constructive thought; placing importance on labor and merit; participation and sharing; encouraging the innovation and growth; dependence on the national and universal values;respect for the right and thought differences between people; social, cultural,historical and artistic susceptibility.
EMBLEM AND ITS MEANING
The emblem of Atatürk University is Seljukian eaglewith double-headed. The figure consists of two eagles conjoined ventrally and tree of life, double dragons at the bottom. Pointy ears, a crooked beak, a ptosis under the beak, big wings, a tail and talons are seen in the figure of double-headed eagle conjoined ventrally which was common in Anatolian Seljuks. The body is fat.
Eagle was regarded as sanctus by ancient Turks. Shamans believed that the double-headed eagle arose from the eagle’s mating with a woman. Eagle was accepted as the protective soul and the plumes and scepters were used as the symbol of power and nobleness. Ruby Turks believed that there was a legendary double-headed eagle as a gatekeeper at the top layer of the sky. On the other hand, Seljuks used it as an amulet, a talisman, a protective factor,the symbol of power and wealth.
As for tree of life , it is one of the most important figures in the Seljukian architecture. There is a couple of dragons under tree of life. Tree of life is completed with the couple of dragons which are double-headed eagles and gatekeeper creatures. Tree of life was accepted as the center of the world by ancient Turks. According to Shamans’ belief, it is used as a ladder during the journey to the underground and the sky.
The typical feature of Seljukian dragon reliovos is that long carcasses usually extend by making knots and they end at each of the edges and each of the tops. The knots on the dragons’ carcasses are astronomic remarks which symbolize the certain situations of the planets during the sun eclipse and lunar eclipse. According to the mythos, the sun and lunar eclipse occur owing to the fact that the dragon swallows the moon and the sun.
When dragons are summarized as darkness, undergroundand hell, shortly as a negative principle, they can also be the symbol of enemy and evil. As in Erzurum Çifte Minareli Medrese, the couple of dragons under tree of life was used as both the symbols of hell and the gatekeeper which protects the tree. | <urn:uuid:9f6ead21-3590-4b77-ad85-5e9607358224> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://atauni.edu.tr/en/kimlik | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.939515 | 764 | 2.46875 | 2 |
At the beginning of this small publishing house for great wisdom literature stood the spoken word, the Advaita teachings passed on by OM in oral tradition.
After his awakening in 1990, OM started giving darshan in the early nineties. His darshans attracted more and more people in search of truth, coming from different parts of Germany and also of neighboring countries. Not all of them could be present at all darshans in person, so the need arose for audio recordings, transcriptions and other written material that could also serve to disseminate the teachings. In addition to audiotapes and transcriptions, several smaller writings were produced and, above all, the advaitaJournal, a comprehensive journal which was edited by a project group consisting mainly of students. Its focus was on topical articles and interviews of living Advaita teachers, as well as important traditional Advaita texts annotated in a contemporary manner.
In 1998, OM’s first book, “The Birth of the Lion,” was published by Alf Lüchow Publishing House. Further books were planned and it became clear that for the dissemination of OM’s teachings it made sense to have a publishing house of one’s own, which should also publish other particularly precious pearls of wisdom literature that had not yet been published or were no longer published. Thus, under OM’s direction, a few months after the turn of the millennium, in May 2000, the advaitaMedia publishing house was founded. This happened without ignoring the fact that a small publishing house with such a special offer and such a high demand would only address a small selected readership and that its survivability in the modern media landscape was by no means assured. In addition, although there was a large pool of expertise, potential and voluntary commitment to produce, locate, possibly translate books from another language and prepare them for publication, there was rather little insight into the book trade industry and commercial matters such as marketing. It was therefore a great stroke of luck that the small publishing house, which was still in diapers, so to speak, was offered a cooperation with the renowned Joachim Kamphausen Verlag, where it operated under the label “advaitaMedia in the J. Kamphausen Verlag” until advaitaMedia was able to stand on its own feet after a few years.
In the meantime, advaitaMedia had published several important works, such as
for example first a new edition of “Nan Yar? ” “Who Am I? “, by Ramana Maharshi, the great Indian sage and Advaita teacher; a new edition of Ouspensky/Gurdjieff “The Fourth Way”; a new edition and foreign language translations of “The Birth of the Lion”; other books by OM: “Auge in Auge mit dir selbst” (Eye to Eye with Yourself; not yet available in English); “Donnerschlag und Tempelstille – Unterweisungen eines modernen Zen Lehrers für jeden Tag des Jahres” (Thunderclap and Temple Stillness – Teachings of a Modern Zen Teacher for Every Day of the Year; not yet available in English); and more recently OM’s great textbook of the spiritual path: “Intelligence of Awakening – Navigating the Wisdom Path” published by Gateways Books & Tapes, followed by “Spirituelle Meisterschaft” (Spiritual Mastery: not yet available in English) and some smaller works, furthermore translations from the Russian: Sumiran, “Dialoge im Sein”(Dialogs in Being), the American: Adyashanti, “Das Wichtigste.” (The Most Important Thing) and the French: Arnaud Desjardins, “Immer gegenwärtiger Frieden” (Ever Present Peace).
For the distribution of the books an online store “Die spirituelle Buchhandlung” had been established and in the monastery Gut Saunstorf a real small bookshop sells the books of advaitaMedia and other spiritual publishers. At external events such as darshans or talks by OM, there are book tables on site.
In the more than 20 years of its existence advaitaMedia has grown into a quite successful publishing house – on the one hand. It has made essential works of wisdom literature accessible or reaccessible to people interested in wisdom. It has given the students of OM manifold possibilities, even without physical presence in Darshan, to be in direct contact with the wisdom teachings conveyed by OM through the spoken word on audio or the written word, it has opened a possible gate of approach for people to whom the wisdom teachings in their radical opposition to the omnipresent material world view are still foreign. And goes on doing all this, of course.
The success unfortunately – as predictable – does not extend to the economic-material level, since by the concentration on the pure wisdom teaching, for which only a small circle is open, and the renouncement of esoteric trivial literature, which attracts an already substantially larger number of people, the sales figures are relatively small. It was painful that the advaitaJournal could no longer be published because the production costs and the sales revenue were too far apart, although the journal had its fixed circle of readers, only unfortunately too small to cover the costs.
This means that advaitaMedia, despite its successful work, continues to rely on voluntary work and the financial support of people who are equally concerned about the cause of this publishing house. There is the possibility to take over a sponsorship for the production costs of a certain book or to contribute to the creation of a paid job by a possibly even regular donation.
AdvaitaMedia is not a purely commercial enterprise, but to an essential part also a project supported by the community of people striving for truth and wisdom in the broadest sense.
Your own self is your ultimate teacher (Sadguru). The outer teacher (guru) is merely a milestone.
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Congolese officials have claimed that the M23 is backed by Rwanda, and have accused the much smaller neighbor of occupying Congolese territory.
“They will discuss Rwanda’s aggression in the Congo,” Muyaya said by telephone. Asked if Congo still believes Rwandan troops are fighting alongside M23 rebels in eastern Congo, Muyaya replied: “It’s obvious.”
Rwanda has long refused to support the M23 and disputes reports from conflict observers, UN experts and others. The M23 consists mainly of ethnic Tutsi fighters from the Congo, who say their government has not complied with previous commitments to reintegrate them into the national army.
The African Union earlier this year asked the President of Angola to mediate in the Congo-Rwanda conflict.
Kagame had harsh words for the Congolese authorities in the television reply on Monday, in which he accused the Congo of supporting another rebel group, which includes fighters accused of participating in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide.
Congo has always refused to support the group commonly known initially as the FDLR.
“It’s the same story 20 years ago. Why would Congo support them to bomb Rwandan territory? These accusations are not true,” Muyaya said. “We have to deal with hundreds of armed groups inside the country and we have talked to all neighbors about a common strategy to end the activities of foreign armed groups. “
Regional leaders of the East African Community Bloc – recently joined by the Congo – are working to deploy a peacekeeping force in the restraining provinces of eastern Congo.
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Biophysical Structural Chemistry
Developing computational algorithms for structural biology -A high resolution, three dimensional view of a molecule provides detailed information that help elucidate its function: by knowing the exact arrangement of atoms in a molecule, we can understand disease, develop drugs to combat them and improve technology.
Experimental methods, such as X-ray crystallography and electron microscopy, require computational methods to obtain an accurate three dimensional representation. The structure solution process is difficult and fails in cases when only data with a weak signal can be obtained. In particular, weak data from large macromolecular complexes and membrane proteins of considerable medical interest do not allow structure solution. The main research interest of the Biophysical Structural Chemistry group is to develop novel algorithms to solve structures from data with a weak signal.
Currently, structure determination relies on a multi-step approach with successive approximations of the experimental data in each step. We wish to develop methods that combine all the experimental data with all the relevant prior information in one step.
Novel algorithms allow structure solution when current methods fail. For example, the application of the above algorithm to low resolution X-ray diffraction data from RNA polymerase II crystals has led to an automatically built molecule when current methods fail. The figure shows the electron density of a portion of a molecule shown in blue and the automatically built model is multicoloured.
The end goal of the research is to meet the urgent need to solve macromolecular structures from data with a weak signal in software that seemlessly automates the process and is ideal for non-specialists. | <urn:uuid:b09aac79-55e3-403d-ab2d-69155b67f339> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/science/chemistry/bsc/research | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.905086 | 325 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Author and blogger Amanda Feifer has a long-standing crush on food and beverage fermentation. She writes the fermentation blog Phickle, and wrote the actual book on vegetable fermentation, Ferment Your Vegetables. We are so pleased to announce that she’s joining us to teach two fermenting workshops at The Livery at Lampeter Cafe, in Lampeter Pennsylvania on July 21st.
Fermenting vegetables is so much more than just a fun way to preserve them. We’ll cover the basics of direct salted (i.e. kraut) and brined (i.e. pickles) vegetable ferments and we’ll even learn a way to drink your vegetable probiotics (vegetable kvass!). We’ll discuss equipment, salt, water, the vegetables themselves, food waste, health benefits, and best practices, and we’ll dive deep into the ways that understanding the basic science of this process will give you the freedom and confidence to push the boundaries of flavor that fermented vegetables can provide.
During this hands-on single vegetable fermentation class, you will make and take three of your own vegetable ferments.
Kombucha is a delicious fermented tea beverage that’s been sweeping the nation for years now.
Making kombucha is easy! In this session, we’ll cover basic techniques and give you an understanding of why and how this fermentation process works. We’ll also talk about bottling, flavoring, fizz and the best way to make your kombucha taste the way you want it to taste!
We’ll discuss how to best care for your kombucha culture (SCOBY), problems you may encounter along the way and how to deal with them and we’ll debunk some myths about what this mystical brew really “does.”
This class will cover:
•Myths about kombucha and health
•Single batch brew
Everyone will go home with a SCOBY, kombucha to ferment at home, a bottle of flavored kombucha on which to do secondary fermentation at home and a fine mesh strainer.
In addition to learning about kombucha, the class will also touch on milk kefir. Milk kefir is the tangy, drinkable, hyper-probiotic cousin of yogurt, and making it couldn’t be easier. In this demo, you’ll learn best practices, some of the amazing science behind the kefir “grains” culture (which aren’t grains at all) and observe some of the fun and funky ways to eat your probiotics with virtually no effort and a budget that needs cover only milk and a jar.
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A new robotic gripper is a strong “hand” with a soft touch.
The bell-shaped gripper has a silicone rubber skeleton with an intricate origami design, wrapped in an airtight, latex rubber skin. When a vacuum sucks air out of the gripper, the skin constricts, forcing the origami skeleton to collapse into a narrow funnel. The bunched-up gripper’s ridged interior and rough latex skin help it keep ahold of objects.
Shuguang Li, a roboticist at Harvard University and MIT, and colleagues plan to present this device at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation in Montreal in May.
In lab experiments, the soft gripper picked up household objects of various sizes and shapes, successfully glomming onto a smartphone and the handle of a mug, among other things. Whereas rigid robotic hands lack dexterity and might be liable to crush delicate objects, this rubber gripper gently handles fragile items such as soft fruits and wine glasses.
And unlike other soft robotic hands, which struggle to lift heavy cargo, this device could lift up to about 12 kilograms — more than 120 times its own weight (SN: 9/16/17, p. 8). That ability allowed the gripper to hoist an electric drill and a full bottle of wine. Such a versatile gripping machine could one day work on a factory assembly line or lend a hand around the house. | <urn:uuid:decbb4cb-2cec-4091-8269-acd96cfd2925> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sciencenews.org/article/origami-design-helps-robot-lift-delicate-and-heavy-cargo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.905993 | 291 | 2.8125 | 3 |
New paramedic engine helps save lives in East Polk
BASEBALL CITY - Statistics from Polk County Fire Services suggest, but don't prove, that a new paramedic engine is helping save lives in East Polk.
Actually proving that the expensive retooling and retraining in the Ridge works may take years, said Deputy Chief Mike Linkins. However, the concept itself is sound, Linkins said, as the agency prepares to launch its second paramedic-engine at Sun Air today.
Since October 2003, paramedic-firefighters assigned to Engine 30 arrive ahead of ambulance paramedics nearly 60 percent of the time and by an average of four minutes. In cases where seconds translate to lives saved, the numbers are startling.
Even when the ambulance arrives ahead of the fire truck, it's generally by less than two minutes, according to Linkins.
The response is not intended to be a race, said Engine 30's senior firefighter-paramedic Jay Schwartz. Often, the true value of the advanced life support (ALS) engine is to provide two more paramedics at the scene of serious injury or ailment, Schwartz said. Ambulances generally travel with a single medic and an emergency medical technician.
But, the paramedic-engine may become more critical as hospital overcrowding forces ambulance crews to wait longer and travel farther for beds for their patients, Linkins said. While expensive, staffing and equipping pumpers as paramedic-engines is a tenth the cost of building and staffing new ambulance stations, he said.
Paramedic-engines save ambulance crews the time and trouble of responding unnecessarily to cases settled by firefighters who carry the same drugs and equipment. Diabetics "woken" from their insulin comas or motorists in minor car accidents often refuse a trip to the hospital.
For instance, 48 times between October and last February, firefighter-paramedics solved the problem and sent the ambulance back to the garage empty before it made a useless trip. That leaves the ambulance available for more critical cases that would otherwise be left to more distance back-up units.
This so-called tiered response is most valuable when time is literally life. Heart attack patients recover best the quicker they are diagnosed and treated. Schwartz and other paramedics intently watch the meaningless scribbles of a heart monitor as they administer medication.
Nitroglycerin is a vasodilator that helps oxygen saturated blood reach around a blockage in a coronary blood vessel serving the heart. As oxygen returns to the area of heart muscle starved by the blockage, elevated parts of the squiggly lines drawn by the monitor begin dropping. That's generally a good sign.
The series of 12-lead electrocardiogram strips taken while administering an out-of-hospital regimen, known in the trade as MONA, is often the only clue the patient was ever in danger. MONA - short for morphine, oxygen, nitroglycerin and chewable aspirin - works best when given early in a suspected heart attack. Every minute counts, since heart attack patients often delay calling 911 for hours out of fear and denial.
"I've reached the hospital and they do an EKG and can't find any sign of a heart attack," said Schwartz, a paramedic for a generation. "We're actually practicing much more medicine than I anticipated."
The Four Corners offers a unique opportunity for county line cooperation. Certain cardiac drugs and equipment carried by Polk paramedics are hungrily eyed by Osceola and Lake county rescuers. Even when medics from adjoining counties arrive first at an emergency along the border, they may keep Polk County engines and ambulances coming just for a supplemental drug cabinet, Schwartz said.
Stepping into the breach when a life is on the line fuels fire department and EMS paramedics to continue doing a tough job, Schwartz said. It inspires emergency medical technicians to train to become paramedics, he said. It encourages firefighters to stay in Polk County rather than take higher paying jobs in larger cities, he said.
ALS engines will initially appear along the Ridge, including Poinciana and Indian Lake Estates, before moving into the county at a rate of one to two ALS engines per year.
Lakeland last December inaugurated its own paramedic-engine and advanced life support rescue unit out of Station 2 at Beacon Road and South Florida Avenue.
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Conversations about the so-termed Healthy for 55 bundle, which aims to apply the EU’s target of reducing greenhouse gases by at least 55 p.c by 2030, have turn into particularly tough in recent months because of to soaring energy expenses aggravated by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Member states are trying to get to achieve an arrangement on proposals from chopping car emissions to imposing a carbon value on highway transportation and heating.
German Surroundings Minister Steffi Lemke reported the ruling coalition in Berlin supports the EU government arm’s system “in all its factors.”
The a few-occasion formation had previously prevented placing a hard target for banning polluting cars, saying as a substitute that it backs the EU’s aim of only advertising “carbon-neutral” new cars in Europe by 2035, while also pledging to aid cars that can run on e-fuels.
“This finally implies that combustion engines for autos and shipping vans will be phased out from 2035,” Lemke explained to reporters in Brussels prior to talks with EU counterparts.
The issue is specifically fraught in Germany, the place the auto field dominates and producers have dragged their ft for many years on electric powered vehicles. The region did not join a pledge at the COP26 local climate talks last year to only offer zero-emissions cars by 2035.
France, which retains the rotating presidency of the EU, is on the lookout to reach a package offer on member states’ negotiating mandate for talks with Parliament just before the summertime.
Meanwhile, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany threw their body weight in favor of a individual emissions buying and selling system to include street transportation and buildings, although a team of nations around the world including Poland and Slovakia warned in opposition to the fees these a mechanisms would introduce.
The latter is on the lookout at proposing an different that would lessen the threshold for eligibility in the latest carbon buying and selling method, although introducing a carbon tax at nationwide degree for street transport.
“Ambitious sectoral requirements are critical to cut down dependency on imports of fossil fuels for transport and properties and phasing out new autos with inner combustion engines as of 2030 is a essential priority,” explained Rob Jetten, Dutch minister for climate and strength. “We have no time to squander.” | <urn:uuid:21bacfd2-e061-48bd-bd55-c939db9eeb69> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://leonbinder.com/germany-backs-eu-phaseout-of-new-combustion-engine-cars.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948574 | 500 | 2.21875 | 2 |
A branch-and-price approach for integrating nurse and surgery scheduling
European Journal of Operational Research
A common problem at hospitals is the extreme variation in daily (even hourly) workload pressure for nurses. The operating room is considered to be the main engine and hence the main generator of variance in the hospital. The purpose of this paper is threefold. First of all, we present a concrete model that integrates both the nurse and the operating room scheduling process. Second, we show how the column generation technique approach, one of the most employed exact methods for solving nurse scheduling problems, can easily cope with this model extension. Third, by means of a large number of computational experiments we provide an idea of the cost saving opportunities and required solution times. | <urn:uuid:48d18735-8f85-4b66-81fc-41d39e8515f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://choir-ut.nl/en/10807-a-branch-and-price-approach-for-integrating-nurse-and-surgery-scheduling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.904791 | 196 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Opisthosoma sentence example
Intermediate somites forming a mesosoma occur, but tend to fuse superficially with the metasomatic carapace or to become co-ordinated with the somites of the metasoma, whether fused or distinct to form one region, the opisthosoma (abdomen of authors).
We shall, therefore, ignoring the ocular somite, speak of the first, second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth legbearing somites of the prosoma, and indicate the appendages by the Roman numerals, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and whilst ignoring the praegenital somite we shall speak of the first, second, third, &c., somite of the mesosoma or opisthosoma (united mesosoma and metasoma) and indicate them by the Arabic numerals.
Not freeswimming, none of the prosomatic appendages modified to act as paddles; segments of the mesosoma and metasoma (= opisthosoma) not more than ten in number, distinct or coalesced.
Thelyphonusassamensis d .Ventral surface of theanteriorregionof the opisthosoma, the first somite being pushed upwards and forwards so as to expose the subjacent structures.
Opisthosoma when segmented showing the same number of somites as in the Pedipalpi; usually unsegmented, the prae-genital somite constricted to form the waist; the appendages of its 3rd and 4th somites retained as spinning mammillae.Advertisement
In front of it the narrow waist is formed by the soft sternal area of the praegenital somite; 2, the sternite of the 2 second opisthosomatic somite covering the posterior pair of lung-sacs; and 4, the spinning appendages (limbs) of the opisthosoma; a, inner, b, outer ramus of the appendage; I I, sternite of the eleventh --
The larger species of Bird's Nest Spiders (Avicularia), the opisthosoma of which is as large as a bantam's egg, undoubtedly attack young birds, and M'Cook gives an account of the capture in its web by an ordinary house spider of a small mouse.
Opisthosoma consisting of only ten somites, which have no tergal and sternal elements, the prae-genital somite contracted to form a " waist," as in the Pedipalpi; the last three narrowed to form a A B prae-1 2345 6789 io I I111I IV V VI gen Opisttaosoma Prosoma FIG.
Opisthosoma composed of ten somites.
Respiratory organs tracheal, opening upon the ventral surface of the 2nd and 3rd, and sometimes also of the 4th somite of the opisthosoma.Advertisement
The segmentation of the prosoma and the form of the appendages bear a homoplastic similarity to the head, pro-, meso-, and meta-thorax of a Hexapod with mandibles, maxillary palps and three pairs of walking legs; while the opistho io i e d c b o a S' S" 2 I VT V S IV III II I Opisthosoma Prosoma FIG.
Opisthosoma three minute and forming a slender generally-retracted tail like that of Thelyphonus.
Respiratory organs in the form of tracheal tubes opening by a pair of stigmata in the 2nd and 3rd somites of the opisthosoma.
A movable membranous j oint between the prosoma and the opisthosoma, the generative aperture opening upon the ventral side of the membrane.
Opisthosoma confluent throughout its breadth with the prosoma, with the dorsal plate of which its anterior tergal plates are more or less fused; at most ten opisthosomatic somites traceable; the generative aperture thrust far forwards between the basal segments of the 6th appendages.Advertisement
E, Lateral view of the whole body and two 1st appendages, showing the fusion of the dorsal elements of the prosoma into a single plate, and of those of the opisthosoma into an imperfectly segmented plate continuous with that of the prosoma.
The prosoma and opisthosoma were broadly confluent and probably immovably welded together.
A, Lateral view with appendages III to VI removed; 1, plate covering the whole dorsal area, representing the fused tergal sclerites of the prosoma and opisthosoma; 2, similarly-formed ventral plate; 3, tracheal stigma.
Prae-genital somite suppressed; the opisthosma consisting of nine segments, whereof the first and second are almost suppressed and concealed within the joint between the prosoma and the opisthosoma; the following four large and manifest, and the remaining FIG. | <urn:uuid:ee70d344-0caa-4c83-8e8a-c4b7ec75e8f5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sentence.yourdictionary.com/opisthosoma | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.865991 | 1,091 | 2.328125 | 2 |
'Why don't we just kill them?': New book details CIA rendition and torture programme
In the early years of America's war on terror, during an undisclosed meeting of the top brass of the US's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), senior intelligence officials gathered to discuss what to do with the individuals subjected to rendition and "enhanced interrogation techniques".
After looking at a number of options, including keeping them in detention, sending them to another country, and prosecuting them, one senior official asked, "Why don't we just kill them?"
The details of that meeting were revealed on Monday, in a virtual panel with author and journalist Cathy Scott Clark, whose book The Forever Prisoner offers an in-depth look into the CIA's controversial torture programme.
"You hear revelations like that, which I found a bit alarming," she said during the event, hosted by the New America think tank.
The book, which will be released later this week, focuses on the case of Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah, who was interrogated using techniques that amounted to torture - including being waterboarded 83 times in one month, hung naked from a ceiling, and deprived of sleep for 11 straight days.
It covers a number of aspects in the CIA's rendition programme, including interviews Clark had with several top military and intelligence officials.
In the process of working on the book, Clark interviewed James Mitchell, one of the architects of the torture programme. Clark also interviewed another person, identified as "Gus" in the book, who orchestrated the entire rendition operation.
"Having met and interviewed so many people in the programme, my overall feeling is that it sort of became like a pack mentality - that everybody was in it together," Clark said.
"And if someone were to say who's responsible should someone be prosecuted, I don't think you can point to any one person."
From CIA torture to Abu Ghraib
Following the 9/11 attacks, the US launched a far-reaching campaign to root out "terrorists" that had planned the attacks and who could coordinate further attacks on US soil.
However, civil society groups have said that many of Washington's practices, including rendition and "enhanced interrogation techniques" - which the Senate concluded in a landmark report amounted to torture - are illegal according to international law.
Last month, newly declassified documents detailed how Ammar al-Baluchi, a detainee at a CIA black site in Afghanistan, was used as a living prop for interrogators-in-training to receive certification in interrogations. The torture he received led to brain damage.
'The CIA's enhanced interrogation programme absolutely, definitely led to abuses in the US military'
- Cathy Scott Clark, author of The Forever Prisoner
During the event on Monday, Clark also revealed that despite denial from US officials, there is a link between the creators - such as Mitchell - of the CIA's torture programme and the gross abuses that took place at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison where detainees endured physical, psychological and sexual abuse, including the use of electric shock and mock executions at the hands of US forces.
"The other thing that I put together in great detail in the book is how the CIA's enhanced interrogation programme absolutely, definitely led to abuses in the US military as well," Clark said.
"The same people... were involved in putting together training programmes, training materials, training the CIA, training interrogators to go to Guantanamo, training interrogators at Bagram, and then interrogators who went to Abu Ghraib.
"Jim [Mitchell] can rightly say 'I didn't design what went wrong at Abu Ghraib', but he has to accept responsibility that he created something that got out of control."
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Beavers and dam engineers share a secret — they must, right? After all, natural dams don’t last long and neither do most personal dams.
Remember the last time a landslide slumped into your river/life? The ever-present pull of an unseen sea powered the river water and your attention to cut a way over, under, around, or through that blockage within days. (You can accelerate this most basic nuts-and-bolts form of personal dam-busting with the basic practice of inquiry described here.)
But dams designed by clever minds, ah, those can last for centuries IF (AND ONLY IF) the beavers/engineers build and maintain a generous spillway. Let’s exploit that condition, shall we?
The power of the sea’s pull
A river will erode any dam eventually because water keeps flowing into the reservoir behind the dam, pulled by the attractive power of gravity. Pressure increases against the dam and at some point it develops a leak or otherwise overwhelms the structure… no matter how strong the material or deep the foundation. Guaranteed. That’s why a good dam designer incorporates a spillway to bleed off high levels of water.
By the way, the “lizard” or “social self” part of your own mind is a brilliant dam designer. It’s not evil — it just misguidedly decides the safest strategy for surviving and thriving is to divert your energy for some outside interest that doesn’t care for your naturally wild and scenic river-self. I assure you, that part of your mind isn’t right.
*What is some general area of your life where you feel dammed (i.e., not making much forward movement in the direction you desire, not getting your life’s work done, cold, weirdly deep and wide, and often well-used by others or the culture-at-large for recreation, irrigation, drinking water for humans or even livestock, or actual power generation)? Don’t get specific or analytical about causes or anything at this point.)*
To free your river from this or any dam, all you have to do is find a spillway and shut it down.
How to recognize a spillway
The problem is this: a spillway kind of resembles natural flow. You may be fooled into thinking it’s a good thing because, well, it seems some of the river water is making its way downstream, right? No, a spillway is never helpful if you want to be rid of a dam. Remember, a spillway single-handedly allows the dam’s survival.
Careful study of real-life spillways shows exactly how to identify these “faux-joy” culprits:
- Spillways are not natural occurrences or made of natural substances: they’re always artificially constructed by outside “civilized” forces.
~ Spillways are not built by the river itself. You didn’t “hand-make” this kind of flow in your life. It’s not unique to you, to the flow of your desire, to the particular conditions you find yourself in.
~ Spillways are always very strong and stable. They don’t erode or change over time. THEY ARE NOT AFFECTED BY YOU.
~ Spillways are either very smooth and straight or have some regular pattern. They’re not randomly bumpy or curvy.
~ Spillway water is unnaturally cold and “clean” — and not in a good way. When river water moves, it has power and does work. And a river’s life’s work is moving sediment. The river carves off, picks up, carries, and sets down little bits of the world it encounters. But the water behind a dam can’t do its life’s work. The sediment settles out at the bottom, and the water that spills through the gates is sterile — devoid of the experiences that healthy rivers and humans carry and care about.
- Spillways are seen, accepted and maintained by culture — even when culture doesn’t exactly love them and/or even hates and avoids them.
- Spillways are usually not pretty.
- Spillways are steep and straight and fast — a rush.
- Spillways are scary.
- Your natural channel erodes just downstream of a spillway. There’s always this ugly crash.
Because it’s moving fast and is clean, the spillway water has a lot of power — hydrologists say it’s “hungry.” It devours the first non-reinforced thing it finds: itself. It ravages the banks and bed just below the dam. That’s why you see so much artificial armoring of the river channel just below a dam.
- Spillway flow does not follow your natural rhythms and cycles. It’s successful flow is ultimately controlled by outside “others.”
- Spillways may be used to generate power for others.
*Where in your life does your energy and attention SEEM to be directed in the right direction — heck it even feels like you’re embracing risk and doing the hard thing as so often touted by coaches and self-help gurus — but it sounds like the above characteristics and in fact does not seem to get you unstuck?*
If you want to be sure not to confuse a spillway with a leak (which we love because THAT’s how you bust a dam for sure), go here for details.
What do you plug the spillway with?
Short answer: Anything that works.
Typical answer: Close the gate. The thing is, that’s often not doable from inside the river itself. You usually have to have help. Hire a monkey wrencher, a therapist, a coach if you can. It is so worth it.
Long and hopefully more helpful answer: Block the spillway with river sediment, i.e., new thoughts about the past.
I know it’s nice to be forward thinking, but that’s not what sediment is. Sediment is actual pieces of where the river has already been. There are many places in river restoration where we focus on the future and new possibilities, but I find that closing up a spillway requires very specific attention and language that attends to the past.
I also know it’s hard to figure out how to dredge up the past and apply it in a new way to fast-rushing parts of life. Again: hire someone to help you! This is your life we’re talking about; it’s worth the money and time and nerves. Meanwhile, here are some specific bits of sediment — some new thoughts about the past — that I have found work when spoken aloud. These statements are carefully crafted: they are truths about the past, yet, interestingly, they do not have or need content-specific information:
“Doing this — this “spillway” — did/has not resulted in my flowing freely or feeling un-dammed.” (Note: It’s good to remind yourself that if the spillway had worked to make you happy, you wouldn’t be trying to close it. This isn’t about some abstract moral issue or some way to please others. It’s how to truly care for and restore your river. And that will benefit the ecosystem around you, so don’t worry about being selfish.)
“Doing this was a diversion or spillway perfectly designed to keep my internal power low and benefit others, the status quo, or the culture at large but not me.” (Note: I’m not saying it was intentionally designed to operate this way — maybe it was in some cases or maybe not. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that it DOES perfectly function this way, preserving the dam.)
“Doing this in the past didn’t work to make me feel well and truly happy.”
“This looked like the real thing but wasn’t. It didn’t effectively create a wild and scenic river/life but actually allowed a dam to exist.” (Note: Maybe even a dam you couldn’t identify but could feel.)
“This seemed to taste of freedom but was pseudo-freedom followed by a crash and a ravaging of my bed and banks.” (False happiness and false river flow always has that crash afterwards. Life as a real free-flowing river does not. It’s less dramatic usually, but wilder even while it’s peaceful.)
Once you’ve attempted to plug a spillway, immediately turn your attention back to your longing sensation. Even if you can’t stop sending your attention down a known spillway, don’t despair. In the real world of dams, most leaks and dam failures occur when spillways are still working — it just takes a little longer. So try this spillway-plugging, and then, no matter what, return to playing around with your own delightful little leaks. If nothing else, it just feels good, and that’s success in its own right.
Keep tuned for a fun and simplified dam-busting worksheet — I’m developing it in collaboration with one of the coolest rivers around! Until then, good luck experimenting on your own. Busting dams is the hardest and most profound personal and river restoration work there is. Please get help when in doubt and be gentle with yourself — if you end up staying dammed for awhile more, it’s not a big deal. You are fine the way you are; this stuff is just the gravy. Let me know how it’s going or if I can be of any support to you. I’m delighted to be of service AND your comments will help me with the worksheet I’m developing.
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This is suppose to be a fun thread. Not a bad thread to say that you friend is this and that, no no no no no. This is just for fun, and laughs. So basically…
Lets say that you have both…a good friend, and a bad friend.
Why do you say your friend is a good, and or bad friend?
_Is he/she GOOD because he/she likes to help you out?_
Is he/she BAD because he/she ATE YOUR FOOD?!
See where I am going? This is going to be a fun/joke thread.
So, give it a shot. Have fun.
@tabbie.episode I call you A GOOD friend because u are sooooooooooo amazing!
@Cassandra_Dean I call you a GOOD friend because I like it when you help people out~
But you always run haha kidding kidding…maybe not
@EpisodeGirl is my good friend for letting me join Fairy Tale-d
@24aya is my good friend for not turning my daughter into soup.
Idk who to put for bad lmao
Haha you can put me bad…I am bad
Who’s Bad? - Michael Jackson
U never…ever…never…ever HEARD IS SONGS BEOFRE?! Dangggg lol
This guy was a legend!!! Look him up on google lol.
What can I say in my favour I didn’t heard any English song… except that ed shader… Song
oh ok. U can listen to ed sheeran but DONT KNOW MICHAEL JACKSON?! HA! Lol
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What is a Muscular Strain/ Tear?
A muscle strain, muscle pull or muscle tear suggests damage to the muscle and/or its connective tissue. Put simply a strain is probably easiest to categorise as a smaller tear. this is a common term used by people when then hurt a muscle. usually there is some tearing involved, whether it be a very small microscopic tear, or a bigger and much more painful complete tear of the muscle in question. most tears throughout the body have similar pain symptoms and also have quite similar recovery times and treatment methods.
How we may treat it.
The main aim of treating a tear is to ensure that the muscle length is preserved whilst the tear is healing. This will prevent re-tearing in the future which is common when left untreated.
- Diagnose the extent of muscular damage and the grade of strain or tear
- Massage and manual therapies are very important to align scar tissue and also to ensure muscle length is maintained
- Home program provided to continue the work done in the clinic and ensure the muscle recovery is optimised whilst away from the clinic
- Friction massage for scar tissue alignment and maximising elasticity
- Proper flexibility program delivered
- Strength testing to ensure progress is speedy
- Strength and endurance program provided to suit the patients needs and recovery
- Restore normal movement and function and return to sport/activity | <urn:uuid:94d67e36-6334-4990-a6e7-a08a81e01843> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mediphysio.com.au/muscular-strain-tear/?full-site=true | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.938185 | 281 | 3.421875 | 3 |
The death toll in Scotland following the outbreak of the coronavirus has hit 172.
Figures have been published by the Scottish Government this afternoon as part of its daily update on the health crisis.
Throughout the NHS Ayrshire & Arran region, a total of 240 people have the disease – this is up 19 from yesterday's total.
Across Scotland, there have been 19,535 tests carried out with 3,001 patients testing positive for COVID-19.
Coronavirus cases by health board:
Ayrshire and Arran – 240
Borders – 100
Dumfries and Galloway – 122
Fife – 147
Forth Valley – 189
Grampian – 173
Greater Glasgow and Clyde – 779
Highland – 72
Lanarkshire – 377
Lothian – 408
Shetland – 36
Tayside – 353
Orkney – 2
Western Isles – 3
Symptoms of coronavirus...
The symptoms of coronavirus are:
- a cough
- a high temperature
- shortness of breath
But these symptoms do not necessarily mean you have the illness.
The symptoms are similar to other illnesses that are much more common, such as cold and flu.
How to avoid catching or spreading coronavirus...
- wash your hands with soap and water often – do this for at least 20 seconds
always wash your hands when you get home or into work
use hand sanitiser gel if soap and water are not available
cover your mouth and nose with a tissue or your sleeve (not your hands) when you cough or sneeze
put used tissues in the bin straight away and wash your hands afterwards
try to avoid close contact with people who are unwell
do not touch your eyes, nose or mouth if your hands are not clean
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Rowe, Nicholas. “Dance and Political Credibility: The Appropriation of Dabkeh by Zionism, Pan-Arabism, and Palestinian Nationalism.” Middle East Journal 65.3 (2011): 363-380.
This article examines how the rural folkdance dabkeh has, in the last century, been appropriated and reinvented as a tradition in order to construct the imagined communities of Zionism, pan-Arabism, and Palestinian Nationalism within Palestine/Israel. This appropriation has led to extensive debates and suppositions on the source, meanings, and cultural ownership of dabkeh. The following historical narratives, emerging from interviews with dance practitioners and dance advocates in the West Bank, Israel, and Lebanon, and from literature in libraries and archives in the West Bank, Israel, and Great Britain, draw attention to the salient links between dance and politics and the multiple ways in which collective identities can be constructed and deconstructed. These histories further raise questions about how local cultural autonomy and sustainability within the Occupied Palestinian Territories have been affected by the process of political appropriation. | <urn:uuid:18050e2c-8590-4700-94a8-116c1ce21b7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://israbib.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/nrdpcadzpapn/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.921989 | 225 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Using China's Hard X-ray Modulation Telescope (HXMT), a team of scientists has discovered the strongest magnetic field ever observed in the universe. This work was conducted by scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics under the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in Germany.
The Insight-HXMT team has performed extensive observations of the accreting X-ray pulsar GRO J1008-57 and has discovered a magnetic field of ~1 billion Tesla on the surface of the neutron star. This is so far the strongest magnetic field conclusively detected in the universe. This work was primarily conducted by scientists from the Institute of High Energy Physics and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, Germany.
52 Sanlihe Rd., Xicheng District,
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Learning `Ukulele Chords
There are two approaches to learning chords, the song based approach and learning the fundamentals approach. I'm a big advocate of building a solid base of the fundamentals. A lot of players new to the ukulele like to jump right in and learn songs.
The Song Approach
For the SONG APPROACH you pick a song and learn the chords you need to learn know for that particular song.
A song is like a recipe, the chords are one of the ingredients. Look them up, ask a friend or take a lesson or two. Then learn at least one version of each of the chords in the song. Repeat the process for the next song and additional songs. This is like learning to paint by numbers – you can't really a take much from one song to the next, Only what you have learned in the context of that one particular song. You actually don't learn much about chords with this song approach.
Another approach is to learn the most common chords that show up in common keys and songs. This is especially helpful for occasions where you might have never played a particular song before or are reading the chords as you go. This happens a lot at jam sessions and club play-a-longs. You never know what songs are going to be played and would like to participate in every song. No time to look up chords - you really need to know the chords.
For most simple songs the chords will all be from the main key and stay in that key. There are a lot of songs with just two or three chords.
The Fundamentals Approach
The FUNDAMENTALS APPROACH, which is almost required with movable form chords and “jazz” chords. You need to have a core set of chords and a system for deriving additional chords from those known chords. And, knowing where and how chords are created and used. The skills that really help with this is knowing the names of the notes of the ukulele fingerboard and you can use that information to locate the root or letterman of the chord for your already known chords and transpose those chords along to fingerboard to additional keys.
End of Lesson - Thanks, Hope You Enjoyed It!
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Basic Open Position `Ukulele Chord Chart for Lefties
Updated: 26 Mar 2019
A core set of basic ukulele chords that ALL Left Handed Ukulele players should know in the five common keys of C, G, D, A and E. With the possible seventh chords for the same common keys. The chart is organized in common keys and covers basic chords in these keys.
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Beyond learning basic Ukulele chords, most players struggle with advanced chords. Commonly called "jazz" chords, these more sophisticated voicings find a wide use in all forms of music. A Guide to Advanced Chords for Ukulele - presents a highly organized and efficient approach to the mysterious subject of advanced chords. Chord dictionaries are not the answer.
The Blues are at the heart of all American music. It has influenced Country, Rock, Folk, Jazz, Bluegrass and just about every form of American music we listen to today. 26 blues progression in C and G tuning, progressing from basic to advanced jazz progression, with chord grids and substitutions explained.
Covering basic ukulele chords that ALL uke players MUST know, movable chord forms, rock uke chords, how to transpose chords, learning the ukulele fingerboard and an introduction to 4-part jazz chords and more... FOR LEFTIES - Tunings: C, G, or D Tunings. Low or high string four variations.
Before individual chords become the background of songs, they must be put into orders called chord progressions. The Advanced Guide to Chord Progressions for Ukulele organizes progressions according to string family, position, voice leading and chord magnetism.
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Core Chords for Ukulele, The Big Six - From four F7 chord voicings or shapes, your can build your massive 4-part, a.k.a., “jazz” chord vocabulary. Beyond basic open position chords, basic movable form chords and a core set of 4-part chords. There are just too many chords shapes too memorize.
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Break away from traditional operating models to achieve work outcomes
The human resources function as we know it will hit a wall—if it hasn't already. The Future of Enterprise, Workforce, and How Work Gets Done have rapidly shaped a new Future of HR. A digital mind-set, relentless focus on the customer, advanced enabling technologies, and simplified, nimble ways of working are musts to achieve positive business outcomes.
HR operating models have evolved over decades with a trajectory of increasing business impact marked by changing brands from "personnel department" to "human resources" to "people function" and "employee experience." The function has advanced from necessary administrator to a supporting function with a seat at the table, to business partner, and—in some cases—to trusted adviser.
HR's evolution has generally progressed at the pace of business and largely met the needs of enterprises along the way—or has been close enough for organizations across industries to thrive. Yet, the future demands something different from enterprises—and their HR teams—with tremendous urgency.
Today, enterprises are swimming through nearly constant change. Disruption is simultaneously affecting the enterprise and its workforce with increasing demands from customers, constant productivity pressure from competitors, and threats from unexpected entrants to their markets. Digitization and personalization of our daily lives coupled with the introduction of enabling technologies in the workplace at an unprecedented pace and scale create wholesale changes in the landscape of business.
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The US 5-yr survival price for all cancers is 67%, compared to 60% in Canada and 54% within the United Kingdom. A proper to health care might lower the standard and availability of illness screening and therapy. In European nations with a common right to health care, the price of protection is paid through higher taxes. In the United Kingdom and other European countries, payroll taxes common 37% – a lot larger than the 15.three% payroll taxes paid by the common US worker. The founding paperwork of the United States don’t provide help for a proper to health care.
An instance of this was the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980, declared by the WHO as the primary illness in human historical past to be eliminated by deliberate health care interventions. Health care methods are organizations established to satisfy the health needs of targeted populations. Once your doctor refers you for house health providers, the house health company will schedule an appointment and are available to your home to talk to you about your needs and ask you some questions about your health.
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Articles addressing racism in medicine recommend many of the same issues. To battle racism and discrimination, we all want to acknowledge, name, and understand these attitudes and actions. We must be open to figuring out and controlling our personal implicit biases. We want to be able to handle overt bigotry safely, study from it, and educate others. These themes have to be part of medical education, as well as institutional policy.
We must apply and model tolerance, respect, open-mindedness, and peace for each other. In the wake of a number of extremely publicized occasions, the Black Lives Matter motion has gained momentum, and with it have come more strident calls to address this ingrained, or structural, racism, in addition to implicit bias. Cases like my patient’s above illustrate the negative assumptions and associations we are able to label racism, however “most physicians usually are not explicitly racist and are dedicated to treating all patients equally. Doctors take an oath to deal with all sufferers equally, and but not all sufferers are handled equally properly. Learn more about utilizing your care and the roadmap to becoming a healthier you. If you are self-employed, you may qualify for particular person coverage.
For British audiences, healthcare is an accepted adjective, but health care continues to be more widespread as a noun. For now, healthcare continues to be not accepted as normal in American English, regardless of its rising reputation. At least in formal writing, it would be best to stick with health care as a noun and health-care as an adjective for American audiences.
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An occupational therapist may help a affected person with physical, developmental, social, or emotional disabilities relearn the way to carry out such day by day functions as eating, bathing, dressing, and extra. A speech therapist might help a affected person with impaired speech regain the ability to speak clearly. View the Application for the Program of Comprehensive Assistance for Family Caregivers (VA Form 10-10CG).
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Health usually declines slowly, and a few folks would possibly want plenty of help with every day dwelling for more than 6 months earlier than they die.
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This content is offered by iMedix and is topic to iMedix Terms. The Questions and Answers are not endorsed or recommended and are made available by patients, not medical doctors. ) Services supplied to individuals or communities by agents of the health professions to promote, preserve, and restore health. total affected person care a method of organizing care of patients such that one practitioner carries out all care requirements. that consists of complex procedures given in a health care middle that has extremely educated specialists and often superior know-how.
, a nursing intervention defined as monitoring and management of the patient throughout pregnancy to stop problems of pregnancy and promote a healthy outcome for each mother and toddler.
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The staff is made of palliative care specialist doctors and nurses, and contains others such as social staff, nutritionists, and chaplains.
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For instance, if the person has high blood pressure, she or he will nonetheless get medication for that.
cord care specialized care of the remnants of a newborn’s umbilical wire until it falls off, consisting of cleansing and precautions to forestall infection. Cleansing protocols continue until the site is completely healed. that consists of ongoing care of the physically handicapped, mentally retarded, emotionally retarded, and those affected by continual incapacitating sickness. The Johns Hopkins University, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, and Johns Hopkins Health System. Certain laboratory exams, similar to blood …
Or is there a particular course for ER docs on the way to detect a drug seeker. I by no means even asked for ache meds simply needed to know what was wrong with me as I’m positive the woman in your instance did. Addicts will work out a method to get their medicine anyway, saying no on the ER isn’t stopping anyone. Offer non judgemental treatment in order that patients shall be trustworthy with their doctor once they know they have a problem. MANY occasions an issue that was set in motion by the very docs now labeling us addicts. When I was 20 years old I went to my doctor as a result of I was getting Migraines.
Another skilled could be a licensed impartial practitioner corresponding to a physiotherapist, or a non-doctor main care supplier similar to a doctor assistant or nurse practitioner.
The cost of medical health insurance premiums for people who do not get coverage by way of work elevated 105% between 2013 and 2017.
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A cursory review of all the textbooks, dictionaries, fashion guides, and information sources within the Anglophone world would reveal an entire lack of consistency within the conventions of how healthcare/health care/health-care (h/h/h) is written. Is anybody else’s thoughts blown that no conference has been developed for how to write a few multi-trillion dollar industry? This is my try and rectify the dearth of clear, properly-researched path on this subject.…
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The roles parents play depend on the composition. Are you a single mother? Then you can try a paternity test at home, if you still want to know if there can be a father in the child’s life. This is only possible if you can obtain the father’s DNA. Do you have a partner and are you planning to have a baby? In some cases this is not easy and a sperm check, for example, will have to take place. It is better to have a child with the person you have a relationship with, because this is more pleasant for the child. If this is not the case, you can also opt for single parenthood. | <urn:uuid:c5b6b795-f5e4-4ae1-80cb-d068466a1709> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.medicaljournal.xyz/category/health-care | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.956997 | 2,292 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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Ellis Landing Richmond: Industrial Harbor and Business Properties. California’s Richest Investment Opportunity
Rare 1928 promotional brochure for Richmond, California, as it sought to become a major industrial hub and a residential center as well.
Ellis Landing, adjoining the Inner Harbor wharves in Richmond, was the site of a proposed Ford Motor plant, and other industrial projects as well. The bird’s-eye map is an uncommon perspective of the East Bay and its connections to the North Bay, with the proposed Richmond-San Rafael Bridge shown nearly thirty years before it was built. No copies are listed by OCLC/WorldCat.
The success of the growth of Richmond and the installation of the Ford plant was largely due to the efforts of Fred Parr. Parr secured the first of the promised national developments in 1926 when he read a notice in a newspaper that Ford was looking for a site on which to build a new assembly plant in the Bay Area. He first contacted Charles Bulwinkel, Ford’s assistant manager in San Francisco to learn the company’s site requirements, which were: approximately 50 acres of land; entire lot in one parcel with no intervening streets; location on the waterfront with service by deep-water channel; service by both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe railroads; and streets, sewers, and public utilities serving entire lot. Ford wanted to have all of those improvements made to the site without cost to the company.
Parr and Richmond mayor W.W. Scott traveled to Detroit to meet with company officials to assure them that the proposed site in Richmond would meet Ford’s specifications. Parr had paid $90,000 for the land, which included about 50 acres of dry land plus some property extending into the bay and channel. After convincing Ford company officials of the suitability of the site, he proposed a sale agreement. He asked for Ford to pay $2,500 as a down payment. He would then make all the improvements necessary at no cost to Ford. When Ford was satisfied that the site was ready, he would pay Parr the balance of what he had paid.
Parr asked that Ford pay interest on the balance until the transaction had been completed, but company officials informed him that Henry Ford never paid interest. According to Parr’s account, he tried to secure some other means of payment from the company for the time during which he was carrying the price of the land, but Ford would not compromise. Wanting to secure the deal. Parr agreed to Ford’s terms.
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Workers' Compensation: Illinois
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
Author: Nicole H. Farley, Fisher Phillips.
- All Illinois employers that are covered by the Workers' Compensation Act are required to post the Illinois Workers' Compensation Notice in the workplace. See Notice Requirements.
- Workers' compensation is mandatory, employer-financed, no-fault insurance which ensures that employees disabled due to work-related injuries or diseases will be compensated for lost wages. Workers' compensation benefits also provide for necessary medical treatment to assist employees in returning to the workforce. See Covered Employers.
- Illinois employers are required to obtain workers' compensation coverage and can obtain such coverage through private insurance or self-insurance. No coverage options are available through the state. See Covered Employers.
- Most all employees are covered under Illinois workers' compensation law, with few exceptions, including independent contractors. See Covered Employees.
- Workers' compensation coverage may be provided to employees working under an employee leasing arrangement by either the employee leasing company or the lessee employer. See Covered Employees.
- Injuries and occupational illnesses arising from and in the course of employment are compensable. See Compensable Injuries.
- Employers may not be liable for certain injuries under specific situations. See Employer Defenses to Workers' Compensation Claims.
- Workers' compensation pays for all reasonable medical treatment of employees who are injured on the job. See Medical Benefits.
- Workers' compensation also provides pay in the form of wage replacement or other disability awards. See Other Benefits.
- Injured employees must notify their employer with 45 days of an accident. Any delay in the notification can delay the payment of benefits. See Claims Procedures.
- The law prohibits employers from terminating, punishing, or in any other way retaliating against an employee for filing or pursing a workers' compensation claim. See Retaliation and Interference.
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The International Conference on Blockchain-Based Smart Grids is a virtual event that aims to bring together a range of scholarly events for the conference programme ran by The International Research Conference. The event consists of multiple scholarly talks and smaller events that have been amalgamated into one research conference dedicated to providing reliable and academically-renowned advice and discussions on topics that surround the technological and blockchain space.
Events will run over two days during the conference in Vienna, Austria, providing high value for both academics and attendees alike. Because of the nature of this event, you can register as an attendee for the exhibition or as a scholarly writer or presenter.
The conference focuses on the latest innovations, trends, concerns and challenges for researchers and practitioners within the blockchain landscape and so provides an in-depth insight into the future of blockchain and smart-grid technology. This event is therefore more catered towards those who are already well-versed in blockchain-based smart grid technology than those who are new to the blockchain world. However, it is also worth noting that the papers which will be presented and discussed as part of this event will be judge and a select few will be added into an academic journal on the topic.
The International Research Conference Organisation run a number of monthly events for students and industry enthusiasts so if this one doesn't tick the box for you, there are plenty of other events that you may be interested in.
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There are over 1000 species of bacteria that naturally occur in the human digestive tract. A high diversity of bacteria is characteristic of a healthy gut balance. Increasingly, researchers and doctors are recommending multi-strain probiotic formulas to reflect the natural diversity found in a healthy gut. Because each strain has unique characteristics and functions, a multi-strain probiotic may be the best way to ensure the probiotics are producing the most benefit.
A recent study published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology administered a multi-strain probiotic containing six strains of a mix of Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, and Streptococcus daily for four weeks. Fully 68 percent of participants with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) taking the probiotic reported IBS symptom relief compared to only 37 percent of participants taking placebo.
“Multi-species probiotics may have a variety of different beneficial effects on IBS symptoms because each species acts in a particular way on the gastrointestinal tract and two or more species acting together may have a synergistic effect,” noted the researchers. “Multi-species probiotics given to IBS patients are effective in the global relief of IBS symptoms as well as in alleviating abdominal pain, discomfort, and bloating. Furthermore, the multi-species probiotics induced the alterations of intestinal microbiota.”
Although studies on single strain probiotics are less complicated, due to the less complicated nature of the formula, it is becoming clear that multi-strain probiotics have benefits above that of single strains. For example, a recent study investigating the effect of a single strain yogurt containing Bifidobacterium animalis did not find benefit, in contrast to the study reported here. It simply makes sense that a multi-strain probiotic would work better when you consider the vast diversity of a healthy human gut. | <urn:uuid:41d94c5d-3e7f-4639-8b08-280f8f69d1b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://brendawatson.com/multi-strain-probiotics-for-irritable-bowel-syndrome/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.915635 | 385 | 2.359375 | 2 |
This intricate hand crochet eco friendly and 100% organic rainforest tribal necklace was made of baby huayruru natural red and black seeds from Brazil Amazonian forest , coconut disks and saboneteira black seeds on top.
The seeds are collected from rainforest trees and left it dry or petrified for 6 months before we can drill like beads and use in jewelry, it provides to the inhabitants of the forest a eco friendly income. We handmade the jewel and it takes at least 6 hours to crochet and 3 days sessions to finish a piece like this one . It will bright your face and girls will ask you the same question: where you got that? over , over and over.
MAGICAL SEEDS MEDIUM:
Huayruru seed is believed to protect against witchery, evil eye , envy and bad energies according with the beliefs of South America and the Andean Indians. Shamans in the rainforest will doing "limpia" of cleaning of the aura of the customers wear rainforest necklaces made of these seeds to protect themselves.
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Very bold and dainty piece, easy to wear any time , artisan , rustic, organic and bohemian chic look. Includes matching hand crochet earrings, hits right under collar bone, 16" entangled crochet layers and closes with a hook made of saboneteira black seed from the soap tree.
The model is wearing another necklace in adult huayruru seeds, also listed, the picture is only for example of the length and how it looks in a person.
MISSION AND CARE:
In Organic jewelry by Allie our commitment is to create 100% organic green jewels with the use of natural rainforest mediums, because we believe we can protect rainforest and create fair and green income to rainforest communities , one design at a time. Be part of the green change if you love rainforest as much as us!.
Do not bath or submerge the item in water or get in the pool and or ocean with the jewel, it is organic and was petrified before we can make the jewel, so reversing the process will deteriorate the jewel, keep stored in dry places, store it in cotton bags, or fabric bags bags that allow the piece to breath. Also when going out, apply your sunscreen, perfumes or lotions at least 20 minutes before hang this jewelry in your neck. I usually bath and dress myself, put lotions and hang the jewelry at the last step after doing my makeup.
1-2 business days
I'll do my best to meet these shipping estimates, but can't guarantee them. Actual delivery time will depend on the shipping method you choose.
Buyers are responsible for any customs and import taxes that may apply. I'm not responsible for delays due to customs.
Just contact me within: 7 days of delivery
Ship items back to me within: 14 days of delivery
Request a cancellation within: 6 hours of purchase
But please contact me if you have any problems with your order.
Because of the nature of these items, unless they arrive damaged or defective, I can't accept returns for:
Buyers are responsible for return shipping costs. If the item is not returned in its original condition, the buyer is responsible for any loss in value.
Organic Jewelry by Allie web site or shop has a Blog section giving you tips about how to take care of your tagua jewels.
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In 1660, William Nieupoort was sent on missions to France and England. Louis XIV of France offered him a post in France that he refused. He had been warned against the imperialist and mercantilist French policy and wanted to move to Constantinople. He was impressed by Jan Swammerdam, who was travelling in France to study, and remained his firm supporter for the rest of his life.
In the same year, 1664, a treaty with France was followed by the Second Anglo-Dutch War and the Triple Alliance.
In 1669, Nieupoort bought a plot in a backstreet and built a house (Blijenburg) in 's-Gravenhage and embellished it with paintings and Turkish rugs.
In that year Nieupoort became mayor of Amsterdam.
In 1672, he was nominated as the successor to Johan de Witt, not being a hard core republican.
Losing the favour of stadholder William III of Orange, an attempt was made on Nieupoort's life; it is said he was shocked and burnt part of his furniture.
In one of his letters he wrote of the fantastic expansion of trade and imperialism in India and America. He also noticed that the Dutch Republic had had for 150 years more soldiers than all the other Christian countries put together.
23 Feb 2022, 5:37 a.m. - San Diego Sarah
IGNORE THE ABOVE ... That's taken from the bio on Dutch Ambassador Van Beuningen, and I substituted the wrong name! Don't ask me why ... I won't post any more tonight because clearly the brain's not functioning right.
19 Jun 2022, 8:45 p.m. - San Diego Sarah
Highlights from his Wikipedia page:
Willem Nieupoort (1607, Schiedam – 1678, The Hague) was a Dutch States Party politician, ambassador to the Commonwealth of England for the Dutch Republic, and commissioner in the Dutch delegation that negotiated the Treaty of Westminster (1654) after the First Anglo-Dutch War.
Willem Nieupoort was the son of Willem Nieupoort, town clerk of Schiedam. He studied Literature in France.
Next Nieupoort became secretary to Albert Joachimi, ambassador of the States-General of the Netherlands at the Court of St. James's in 1625.
Back in the Netherlands, Nieupoort became a member of the Schiedam vroedschap in 1629, and later a pensionary of that city.
He represented the city in the States of Holland and the States-General.
After the death of William II, Nieupoort played a role in the States-Party revolution that created the First Stadtholderless Period.
The States of Holland first sent Willem Nieupoort to Friesland and Groningen to convince those States to take part in the constitutional convention of 1651.
Next he was sent to the States of Zeeland to win their support for abolishing the office of Captain-General of the States Army.
Both were dangerous missions as the provinces were hotbeds of Orangism and hostile to the ideas.
In 1653, after the First Anglo-Dutch War, Nieupoort was an ambassador to the Commonwealth to negotiate peace with Cromwell, together with Hieronymus van Beverningh, Paulus van de Perre, and Allart Pieter van Jongestall.
As a confidants of Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt, Nieupoort and van Beverningh followed secret instructions which the other 2 members were unaware of.
The secret annex to the Treaty of Westminster (1654) required the States pass the Act of Seclusion, which the other 2 negotiators opposed.
When the secret became known a political crisis ensued, and the States of Friesland prosecuted Nieupoort and van Beverningh for treason.
They took an oath of innocence, and the prosecutions died.
After the treaty was concluded Amb. Nieupoort remained in England as ambassador to the Commonwealth. His mission was to negotiate a maritime treaty to protect neutral shipping in time of war, and to try to repeal the Navigation Act of 1651.
During the Second Northern War, when the Dutch Republic tried to maintain the balance of power in the Baltic, usually siding with Sweden's opponents, especially Denmark, it was Amb. Nieupoort 's role to keep the Commonwealth neutral.
After the Restoration, Amb. Willem Nieupoort was recalled, as he was a persona non grata with Charles II.
Amb. Willem Nieupoort resumed political work in the Republic. He was not involved in the negotiations of the Treaty of Breda (1667) after the Second Anglo-Dutch War (unlike Amb. van Beverningh and Amb. van Jongestall).
21 Jun 2022, 5:30 a.m. - San Diego Sarah
Turns out John Evelyn had met Amb. Willem Nieupoort before the Diary and made this observation:
15 November, 1659.
Dined with the Dutch Ambassador.
He did in a manner acknowledge that his nation mind only their own profit, do nothing out of gratitude, but collaterally as it relates to their gain, or security; and therefore the English were to look for nothing of assistance to the banished King.
This was to me no very grateful discourse, though an ingenuous confession.
John Evelyn's Diary – he and Mary Browne Evelyn live at Saye's Court, Deptford.
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Blu-Ray stands for blue laser. “Blu-ray” refers to the blue laser, which actually looks like a violet color. It is used to read the disc, allows information to be stored at a greater density than is possible with the longer-wavelength red laser used for DVDs.
Blu-Ray or Blue-Ray disc is a digital optical data storage, which has been designed to outdo the DVDs. Blu-ray can contain long duration videos in high-definition (HDTV 720p and 1080p) and ultra high-definition resolution (2160p). Blu-ray data storage is deployed as a medium for video material in feature films, video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii U, and Xbox One.
Why is it necessary to convert BluRay to MP4?
MP4 videos has the capability of producing DVD quality audio and pictures in small sizes and the friendly format. Blu-Ray produces HD and UHD quality videos but the format is not always supported on every platform. But MP4 is one such universally compatible platform supported on a wide range of devices and services like iPod, iPhone, iPad, HTC phones, Windows Phones, Android phones, tablets, YouTube videos, etc. It’s been one of the most used video format in our daily digital enjoyment. So, if you have certain videos and movies in Blu-Ray format and you want to watch them on your own device in MP4 format, the Leawo Blu-Ray MP4 converter will come to your help.
Here is a short guideline on using the Blu-Ray to MP4 ripping software.
1. Download Leawo Blu-Ray Ripper software. Run the .exe file.
2. The installation will be complete in a jiffy.
3. The user interface of the software looks like the following image.
4. You can simply drag and drop the BluRay format video or click on the Add video menu located at the top left corner of the app screen.
5. Now choose the video. The Leawo BluRay converter will enable you to convert the video. Choose the output format as MP4 and click Convert.
That’s all. Here, let me mention another thing. You can also add BluRay/ DVD content straight from the disc or from folders. The process is very simple. You can add subtitles, audio and many other additional information.
There are some major ways by which the BluRay to MP4 Converter software works: i. with Handbrake and ii. With Leawo BluRay Ripper. HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files used for ripping a film from a DVD to a data storage device without encoding it. The hand-brake is definitely a popular DVD ripper, but has some restrictions in functionality.
Now coming to analyzing the design and functionality of the app. There is no negative point that can be discussed here. The app works just fine and the UI is extremely user friendly. You can convert from Blu-Ray to MP4, Burn, DVD and so on. It can seamlessly convert Blu-ray/DVD to audio, select subtitles and audio tracks, edit Blu-ray movies with trim, crop, add watermark, adjust effect, etc features. It also enables you to add 3D effect.
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WHY DO YOU NEED WINTER TYRES WHEN THE TYRES ON YOUR CAR ARE ALMOST BRAND NEW?
The 7 degree ‘C’ factor
Why do we need Winter tyres when our cars are fitted with good Summer tyres?
Simply because Summer tyres do not work and grip the road efficiently below 7 degrees C.
Winter tyres are designed to come into their own when the temperature drops below 7 degrees C.
They have a tread pattern and compound that is designed to provide grip in low temperatures when
poor conditions cause the performance of regular summer tyres to deteriorate. The construction
of a Winter tyre is designed to generate more grip with a tread compound that creates
better traction in cold & icy conditions.
Cost and Safety
The additional cost of winter tyres is more than offset by added safety when motoring during the
colder weather and additional lifespan of your Summer tyres when ‘rested’ during winter. | <urn:uuid:df637011-3c88-4671-a09a-c44ab07ca276> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mikestokes.co.uk/winter-tyres/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928472 | 194 | 2.515625 | 3 |
The novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) has affected more than 7 million people as of June 2020 with more than 400 thousand fatalities worldwide. It has been declared as a pandemic by WHO and new information regarding the disease is constantly being updated as researchers continue to study the virus and disease. Currently, Malaysia ranks 66th place in the worldwide statistics with 8,445 cases and 120 fatalities as of 13 June 2020. Malaysia has also been recognized in a global survey conducted as one of the five nations in the world to have succeeded in controlling the spread of COVID-19 with the efficiency of COVID-19 Test Malaysia.
A recent preliminary study from China has found correlations between the ABO blood group and the risk of acquiring COVID-19. However, this study has yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal, meaning that the researchers’ methodology and findings have not been assessed by other experts. The study compared the data taken from three hospitals in Wuhan and Shenzhen, China regarding ABO blood group distribution in patients with COVID-19 with that in normal people from the corresponding regions. The result has shown that blood group type A was associated with a higher risk of acquiring COVID-19 whereas blood group type O was associated with a lower risk.
The researchers compared the blood group distributions among 2,173 patients admitted to hospitals with a group of representatives of the general population in Wuhan, totaling 3,694 people. In the normal population, blood group type A was 31%, type B 24%, type AB 9%, and type O 34% while in those with the virus, blood group type A was 38%, type B 26%, type AB 10% and type O 25%. They found that there is a significantly higher proportion of people with blood group type A among the patients hospitalized with COVID-19 as compared among the general population. In contrast, there is a significantly lower proportion of people with blood group type O among those hospitalized with COVID-19 than among the general population. The study also examined 206 patients who died from COVID-19 and found that there were 63% more fatal cases of blood group type A than type O. The influence of sex and age on the ABO blood group distributions in COVID-19 patients were also analyzed and it is found that there are no effects.
Based on these findings, the researchers have concluded that people with blood group type A have a significantly higher risk of acquiring COVID-19 as compared to those non-A blood groups while people with blood group type O have a significantly lower risk of acquiring COVID-19 as compared to those non-O blood groups. The researches state that the blood type differences in COVID-19 risk may be due to certain antibodies in the blood, however, no conclusive explanation was provided as to why people with blood group type A have a higher risk of acquiring COVID-19. The researchers also suggest that there might be a need for strengthened personal protection for people with blood group type A to reduce the chance of infection, while patients with blood group type A might require more strict surveillance and vigorous treatment. Blood type identification as a routine part of treating COVID-19 may be helpful.
There have been numerous past researches done to show some connection between blood type and illnesses. As this is the first observation of an association between ABO blood type and COVID-19, it is important to emphasize that this is an early study with limitations and further investigations should be done. It is stressed that if you are blood group type A, it does not mean you will definitely be infected; if you are blood group type O, it does not mean that you are absolutely safe. Most importantly, wash your hands and follow the safety guidelines as issued by authorities and increase the immune system. | <urn:uuid:f3dc0956-ff26-407e-8300-0f026b0fdb77> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oddpeak.com/does-blood-type-matter-when-it-comes-to-coronavirus/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970527 | 775 | 2.90625 | 3 |
For information about PAPI methodology and its development over time, see PAPI Methodology
How were the 30 provinces selected in PAPI 2010?: Covering roughly half the province’s number of the country, the 2010 study offered a rare opportunity to observe the effect of transparency brought by the index and its efficiency as a tool for policy making, by comparing the results of the participating provinces (the treatment group) to the provinces which don’t (the control group).
The method Propensity Score Matching was deployed to establish these two groups, identifying for each province in the treatment group a twin province in the control group, which is similar to it in factors with potential influence on governance and public administration, such as wealth, population size, urbanization, structure of the economy, etc. For more detailed information see PAPI Methodology | <urn:uuid:82c93142-0a2c-459c-a6e7-c3035e39e6d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://papi.org.vn/eng/hoi-dap/?title=toi-co-the-tham-khao-phuong-phap-luan-cua-papi-o-dau | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.948891 | 170 | 2.5 | 2 |
Fraudulent_Conversion Transfer Transferfraudulentconversion
A fraudulent conversion is a variant of a fraudulent transfer and consists of a debtor taking a non-exempt asset that would otherwise be available to creditors, and then converting the asset into an exempt asset that is not available to creditors. For example, a debtor has $100,000 in a bank account and uses that money to pay down his mortgage ahead of time, thus creating an additional $100,000 in equity that is protected by local homestead law (assuming the equity is within the homestead limits). That transaction would be a fraudulent conversion.
Fraudulent conversions also frequently arise where a debtor takes property that is available to creditors and converts it to property held in Tenancy By The Entireties (TBE) that is no longer available to creditors.
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Buying a business is often perceived as a less risky option than starting your own business from scratch; however, without proper research, due diligence, and consideration for the key legal steps and potential liabilities involved – it can be a risky path to venture down.
For example, has the previous owner been in compliance with tax law? Is the business adequately insured? What are the terms of the seller’s commercial lease?
These are just a few of the questions that you need to ask as you pursue the purchase of a business. Follow the points below to learn more about the due diligence and legal aspects involved in buying an existing business.
The Due Diligence Phase - Research the Seller’s Business
The first phase of buying a business involves doing your research and identifying the right business (get more tips on this process in SBA’s tips for Doing Research before You Buy a Business). The second phase involves doing your due diligence, where you really poke your nose into the details of the business!
Areas to consider include:
- Business Finances –A seller’s business finances should be thoroughly researched to ensure the business is truly viable and isn’t carrying too much debt. Work with an accountant to review audited financial statements, tax returns going back five years, cash flow and income statements. Find out if there are any outstanding debts, liens, or tardy accounts receivables. Take a close look at sales tax records too; some states will hold the new buyer responsible if the previous owner was delinquent on paying their sales tax.
- Legal Issues –Learn as much as you can about the business's obligations and compliance with legal issues, including details about existing contracts, insurance policies, intellectual property rights, licenses, permits, employee agreements, and commercial leases. (Check, for example, if leases can be transferred to you).
- Employees – Don’t put this off until after the sale, employees can often make or break your business. Instead request to see HR-related documentation, employee records, non-compete agreements, and so on and be sure your lawyer sees them too.
- Business Structure – Each business structure has different legal and tax obligations. For example, corporations are highly regulated and must maintain proper records – check that your seller is in compliance.
Note that most sellers will require interested buyers to sign a confidentiality agreement to ensure that you won't use the information about the seller's business for any purpose other than making the decision to buy.
Determine What you are Buying
Businesses are sold either in their entirety (the entity and any stock in that business) or as assets of the business. Asset-based purchases tend to be favorable to small business owners because the obligations and debt of the target business would be left with the seller. This should be backed up by a written agreement stating the terms of the asset acquisition (remember you don’t need to buy all the assets, only what you need.) You should also check whether licenses, business names and other intellectual property are transferable.
Consider Forming a New Legal Entity
Talk to your lawyer about this one, but it may be advisable to create a new entity that will acquire the assets of your target business. As a general precaution, forming a corporation or an LLC to buy a business will minimize your personal risk for the business's past obligations.
Write Up a Letter of Intent
Once you’ve determined what you are buying and any employees, liabilities, etc. that you are taking on, you should draw up a letter of intent. This is a non-binding agreement outlining what is to be done when the buyer and the seller have generally agreed upon the terms of the transaction.
Negotiate Purchase Terms
SBA has compiled detailed information on buying a business and negotiating the purchase. For example, to help you determine the value of the business or assets that you are buying read: Determining the Value of a Business. Next you’ll need to work with a lawyer to draft and sign the sales agreement, you should also push to get it into escrow as soon as possible to protect you from other buyers.
Bringing on Board Employees
Don’t assume that the employees will automatically be transferred to you. This decision can be made during the negotiation phase. However, if you are obligated by the sales agreement to keep employees on but intend to review headcount and employee costs and contributions after the sale, check with your state law regarding worker protection rules and the amount of calendar notice you need to provide. Read up on Employment Law as it pertains to layoffs and severance payments. If you don’t have one already and take on employees you will need to obtain an Employer Identification Number from the IRS. | <urn:uuid:672cef1b-95fb-4740-8523-8fb1d1a76e20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.michaelhartzell.com/blog/author/caron-beesley | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955916 | 978 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Cloudiest Cities in America
The west coast cities of Portland and Seattle top the list of cloudiest large cities in the United States.
Overall, nine major American cities have solid overcast for more than 180 days a year. Besides the Pacific Northwest, cities with frequent cloudy weather are mainly near the Great Lakes.
The major cities included in the weather rankings represent the metropolitan areas in the United States with over one million people in 2010. Cloud cover information is not available from the National Climatic Data Center for San Jose and Riverside California, so they were left out of the cloudiest city ratings.
|City||Days of Heavy Cloud||% of Days|
|Buffalo, New York||208||57|
|Rochester, New York||200||55|
Most Cloudy Days
Days of partial cloud are more common in Buffalo than in Seattle or Portland. Partial cloud is defined as cloud covering from over one-quarter to as much as three-quarters of the sky.
When days with partial cloud are added to the days of heavy cloud, to include every day that cloud covers more than one-quarter of the sky, then Buffalo's average of 311 days a year edges out Seattle's 308 days. Portland drops down to the country's sixth cloudiest major city.
|City||Cloudy Days a Year||% of Days|
|Buffalo, New York||311||85|
|Rochester, New York||304||83|
Fourteen of America's major cities average over 110 days a year of partially cloudy weather. These are days when cloud covers between one-quarter and three-quarters of the sky.
None of these partially cloudy cities have enough days of heavy overcast, when cloud covers more than three-quarters of the sky, to rank among the cloudiest cities in the United States.
|City||Partially Cloudy Days||% of Days|
|New York, New York||127||35|
|San Antonio, Texas||119||33|
|New Orleans, Louisiana||118||32|
|San Diego, California||117||32|
|Los Angeles, California||116||32|
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Today marks the 17th anniversary of the disappearance of S. Jaswant Singh Khalra.
In a handwritten press note dated February 25, 1995, S. Khalra had predicted his 'disappearance' at the hands of the Punjab Police (before his visits to Canada). He had learned that his abduction had been approved by the Congress government in power at the time. The press note shows S. Khalra's bravery and spirit of sacrifice.
Earlier, when S. Jaswant Singh’s research had uncovered the illegal murder and cremation of thousands of young Sikhs by the Punjab Police, the Superintendant of Police from Tarn Taran, Ajit Sandhu had said “if 25,000 have disappeared, it will be easy to make one more disappear too.”
Ajit Sandhu and the Punjab Police made good on their threats.
From his abduction on September 6, 1995 until his eventual murder on October 27, 1995, S. Khalra endured unspeakable torture and abuse.
A translation of S. Khalra's press note is below:
Ajnala, February 23 1995:
If the Government of Punjab and Police believe that by killing me and making my body disappear they can cover up the matter relating to the mass disappearances of the 25,000 so called unclaimed and unidentified bodies then they are deceived because the facts relating to this matter have been disclosed to various Human Rights Organizations throughout the world and yesterday (February 22) the Chairman of the Human Rights Organization, Jaspal Singh Dhillon left for Manila, Philippines, to obtain international support and to participate in the World Human Rights Conference.
Just two days ago a responsible M.L.A. from the Congress party personally informed me that the Police officials are very upset on the exposure of this matter and they have decided that if this investigation proceeds further they will make Jaswant Singh Khlara's body disappear and where there will be an investigation of 25,000 cases they can afford one more. This M.L.A. (I don't believe it is appropriate for me to disclose his name today) also told me that the Police have already obtained approval from the ruling Congress party to make me disappear. We had our suspicions and those have proven to be true but to save my life, instead of going to any Court, I will prefer to go to the feet of God and to the doors of the people. I would like to appeal to all democracy loving people that if I am killed then the two persons to hold accountable and responsible would be the Chief Minister Beant Singh and Police Chief (KPS Gill) and not some station head or police cat.
What amazes me is that by totally defying the law and justice, the Government has once again appointed as Chief of Taran Tarn Police an Officer who is soon to be proven guilty of illegally killing more than one thousand innocent people. This Police Officer has an ongoing legal investigation (Baba Charan Singh case) and furthermore C.B.I. is also investigating a number of cases against him. Continuing his tactics of terrorizing and threatening the witnesses of pending legal cases against him, this Police Officer abducted Rajwinder Singh, son of Mahinder Kaur, on 21 February and sent a clear message that he can directly deal with the complaints filed against the Police himself.
The role played by CBI in investigation of the cases against Police terror is also suspicious because these days instead of investigating the offenders its main task seems to be investigating the complainants. CBI officials have themselves acknowledged that first they will satisfy themselves with the fact that the complainants are not against the Police. By doing so CBI is now working for Police instead of doing the task handed to them by the High Court. The CBI has mishandled the case of Mahinder Kaur in such a way that has resulted in endangerment to the lives of at least 13 people. As General Secretary of the Human Rights Organization, I request that the dozens of petitions against SSP of Taran Tarn Police be directly investigated under the supervision of a High Court Judge and special court should be set up in Taran Tarn to expedite the cases against the Police officials. The investigation into the unclaimed and unidentified bodies should be done by the judicial system and not by the Police. Furthermore, the investigation should start by removing all the Police officials who were involved in the illegal disposal of the unclaimed and unidentified bodies.
I want to make it very clear to the Punjab Government and Punjab Police that we have all the evidence, including signatures of the involved Police officers, that link them to the mass disappearances of unidentified bodies and we are fully prepared to present this evidence to the legal courts. I would like to appeal to the Police officers, who are eager to take my life, that I am doing this work not as a profession or due to any hatred against Police but for the humanity and according to the instruction of Gurmat (Sikh faith). | <urn:uuid:de9e4158-4c06-45c7-950d-41ac09b50429> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldsikh.org/the_prophetic_words_of_jaswant_singh_khalra | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973639 | 1,009 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Swim England engages government as part of campaign to highlight health benefits13/10/2021
Swim England and leading leisure operators have written to the Government insisting swimming must play a key part of a national strategy for health improvement and activity.
The national governing body has teamed up with operators around the country as part of its latest #LoveSwimming campaign which aims to highlight the multitude of ways that swimming can help support people’s physical, mental, and emotional health.
More than 14 million adults swim in England every year and the benefits of the water are endless.
These include helping to alleviate chronic pain and representing an accessible form of exercise to those managing long-term conditions, to rescuing people’s mental health and providing an opportunity for people to socialise in a supportive environment.
Swim England and its partners have commended the Government’s new Office of Health Improvement and Disparities for its commitment to lead national efforts to improve the health of the nation – but has urged that aquatic activity must play a central role in helping people live happier and healthier lives.
Transformative impact on the nation
Jane Nickerson, Swim England chief executive, said: “We want to engage government in a deeper dialogue as to how swimming can support the nation’s challenges in terms of increasing our physical and mental health across society.
“The #LoveSwimming campaign has seen nine key industry partners join forces with Swim England to champion swimming and the huge benefits for the whole of society. Coming out of an incredibly difficult 18 months with the pandemic, swimming can have a transformative impact on the nation. Swimming must be a part of government strategy for health improvement and activity.”
Swim England’s recent ‘Decade of Decline’ report found that almost 2000 pools could be lost forever by 2030, which represents a 40% reduction in the number of available pools. This threatens the future of aquatic sports in many areas across the nation.
The report also highlights that a lack of access to swimming pools exacerbates health inequalities – both adult participation rates and children’s swimming attainment levels are lower in the areas that are the shortest of water.
The organisations represented in the Love Swimming Group operate more than 40% of public swimming pools in England, welcoming millions of swimmers to their pools each year.
Research has shown that swimming saves the NHS and social care system more than £357 million every year.
Saviour for mental and physical health
Swimming is an activity that can be enjoyed by people of all ages, and the unique properties of the water provide the ideal environment to help support people who may find it more difficult to exercise and be active on land due to a range of long-term health conditions and impairments.
For Hampshire’s Rachel Jack, swimming is a “saviour for mental and physical health”.
The 39-year-old suffers from Chronic Vestibular migraine, which she describes as ‘your balance system falling out with your brain’ – yet swimming has given her back independence and the confidence to be active.
She said: “Swimming has had an absolutely transformative effect on my physical and mental health.
“The improvement in how I feel is amazing, it’s just been so beneficial to me personally.
“I’ve made it my passion and tried my hand at open water swimming as well, which has been an absolute joy.
“I cannot stress enough how much freedom and relief swimming has given me.”
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Combating racism, intolerance and anti-semitism is a matter of crucial importance for the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs. Raising awareness within the educational community, through seminars and actions for educators and students that shed light on the tragic moments of the Holocaust, is a vital strategy already implemented by the Ministry.
One of the most significant initiatives undertaken within this context is a competition for students. Every year, First and Second Grade High School students from different geographical regions of the country are called upon to participate. This school year, once again, The General Secretariat of Religious Affairs, in collaboration with the Jewish Museum of Greece, are organizing a creative video competition for students that focuses on the Holocaust. The winners will participate in a special program, organized by the Jewish Museum of Greece, that includes an educational visit to the Auschwitz Museum, a visit that is co-financed by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs.
Last year, 120 students received honors for their contributions and are currently looking forward to visiting the Auschwitz Museum, as soon as COVID-19 travelling restrictions are lifted. The steadily growing number of participations is indicative of the great interest on behalf of the student community to research, learn and broaden perspectives, as well as of the remarkable efforts and unwavering dedication of teachers and educators to support such initiatives towards our common goal, that is to eliminate hatred and intolerance and embrace diversity and equality for all. | <urn:uuid:5fd4bbd6-fa91-4471-baf3-640bc2666da1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ihra2021.mfa.gr/minister-kerameus-speech-ihra-handover-ceremony/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966687 | 285 | 2.75 | 3 |
1 Teacher for 30++ Students
In a typical North American classroom, you can expect your child to be one of at least 30 students. One of thirty-plus bright, inspiring, growing, and developing minds, each with their own set of skills, passions, tendencies, and challenges.
A single educator overseeing an entire classroom of blossoming students, following an explicit curriculum, does not have the capacity or resources to be able to adapt to each and every child’s individual needs.
Even an investment in private education, which is where Kaizen got its start, does not provide the necessary access to understanding and developing Executive Function Skills in each one of their students.
Children with compromised or delayed Executive Function Skills can display very challenging behaviours for which they are often blamed, sometimes called “lazy”, or “unmotivated”. In most circumstances, however, it is the protracted development of the prefrontal cortex that is to blame. Efforts to help affected children develop better Executive Function Skills and adjustments of the demands placed upon them to avoid overtaxing their capabilities are much more helpful than punishment for difficult behaviour.
It is not your fault as a parent.
In a personalized learning environment, we coach your child to help them build their Executive Function Skills, and teach them strategies unique to their brain and their learning style that will foster their growth both in and out of the classroom.
We have developed a viable and proven methodology based in science to teach students the tools required to adapt and succeed in an ever-changing environment.
Kaizen Coaches are advanced educators with years of experience who have been specially trained to support students with Executive Skill deficits and learning differences. Our Coaches are uniquely certified to integrate Executive Skills training with specific course content, empowering students to succeed beyond academics. Teaching your child how to best utilize and further develop their Executive Skills allows them to flourish across their curriculum and into their daily lives. We have proudly become the go-to resource for an ever-expanding network of registered psychologists and general practitioners who have deferred to us to address the full spectrum of learning difficulties, including ADHD, and the impact students experience not only at school, but in everyday life.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below is a list of answers to our most commonly asked questions. If you can’t find the answer to your question, please contact us and we’ll get right back to you.
What is a Session Report?
A Session Report is a summary of your child’s coaching session.
Kaizen Coaches spend a significant amount of time summarizing each session they have with each student, providing parents with a detailed account of what happened during the session, and plans for next steps, including assigned UpGrade work. This keeps parents in the loop as well as provides students with built-in accountability checks. Session Reports are sent through our customized software application, to the email(s) provided.
What is UpGrade work?
Simply put, UpGrade is Kaizen’s fancy word for “homework”, but it is so much more than that!
Unlike school homework that will be collected, marked, and “counted” towards your child’s final grade in a course, UpGrade work is about practicing new routines and behaviors that will benefit them in reaching their goals in both learning and life. Your child might be asked to watch a particular video, or complete an inventory of their study space, or to try using Cornell notes for their English class for the week.
Similar to upgrading the software on your computer, smartphone, or tablet to improve its performance and allow it to run more smoothly, it is important for your child to complete their assigned UpGrade work each week for maximum benefit of what they learned at their session. This is also a great opportunity for you as a parent to be involved first-hand in the skills your child is learning.
Increased performance and a smooth operating system will begin to show UP in their grades as well!
How often will my child be coached?
Typically, your child will have one session per week, for a duration of 45 minutes to 1 hour.
However, just like the uniqueness of your child’s coaching curriculum, you have the opportunity to work with your child’s coach to determine a schedule that works best for you and your family.
What happens during a coaching session?
Each individual coaching session will vary, student to student, but you can be assured that sessions are conducted in a very personable and collaborative manner, with plenty of opportunity for discussion and conversation, as opposed to your child being talked “at”.
In a one-hour session, you can expect a recap of the previous week, including the completion of your child’s UpGrade work. A new skill or topic may be introduced, or perhaps a continuation of one. The session wraps up with the completion of a Student Journal that allows your child to provide feedback on their session, commit to a plan between sessions, and become aware of their next steps.
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What does tighten up mean?
: to become more strict or effective or to make (something) more strict or effective Security around the building has tightened up recently. They tightened up security around the building.
What does it mean to write tight?
Tight writing is writing that says what it means in as few words as possible. No, let me rephrase that: Tight writing is writing that says what it means in as few words as briefly as possible. An example from recent student work: That’s 16 words instead of 27 enough for a whole new sentence.
What are some ways to keep your writing tight and right?
Once you have written, use these 11 tips for writing tight during your editing process.Save your money. Pretend every word costs you $1. Use active voice. Active voice is shorter than passive voice. Count your commas. Write simply. Write short sentences. Watch for bloat. Avoid subordinate clauses. Describe carefully.
How do I become crisp?
Being crisp is about telling people what you do in as few words as possible–and using that same crisp message in written marketing materials. Find a friend or relative who is the least likely to understand your business, and test your “message crispness” on him. Tell him what you do in two or three sentences.
What means crisp?
(especially of food) hard but easily breakable; brittle: crisp toast. (especially of food) firm and fresh; not soft or wilted: a crisp leaf of lettuce. brisk; sharp; clear; decided: a crisp reply. lively; pithy; sparkling: crisp repartee.
How do you tighten a sentence?
10 Tips to Tighten Your WritingKill the passive voice. Many writers tend to think the passive voice sounds more formal. Scratch “that.” Put your last paragraph first. Dump the extraneous. Keep it short. Assume readers know you are the speaker. Depersonalize your writing. Kill commas. | <urn:uuid:39fb1121-be99-4cc8-b7f7-863a84548ba6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thenewsindependent.com/what-does-tighten-up-mean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960667 | 417 | 3.390625 | 3 |
When John Peter Kirubagaran, a salesman with a paint company, met with an accident and survived he pledged to devote his life to serve the people of India and to bring about social awareness and transformation. Thus United Evangelical Mission came into existence on 23 April 1988.
India has a population of over 1.3 billion people in 29 states and seven union territories. India occupies only 2.4% of the world’s land area but it supports over 16% of the world’s population. It is the world’s youngest nation with 70% of the population is below 35 years of age. There are 234 languages in India, each of which is spoken by at least 10,000 people. Constitutionally there are 22 official languages. India has the largest English speaking population in the world. 70% live in 550,000 villages. 400 million people are middle class who are the basis for public opinion that influences government decisions. There are nearly 150 mega people groups with a population of more than one million.
The mission of UEM is to raise awareness through advocacy. UEM engages in caring for people and to bring about a transformation among India’s needy. We care for the poor and destitute and empower people to transform their families and communities. The approach is to reach one individual, one family and one community at a time.
The vision is to empower the grassroots and to bring about a holistic transformation among the uncared communities in a given geographic area through the Community, Children and women empowerment programs. These services are provided to all sections of the society irrespective of caste, creed, language, religion and socio – economic conditions.
UEM as an organization is committed to empower the grassroots in the socio and economic areas with the passion to bring about a holistic transformation among the unreached and neglected communities in a given geographic area.
Records show that every 26 minutes a woman is molested, every 34 minutes a rape takes place, every 42 minutes a sexual harassment incident occurs, every 43 minutes a woman is kidnapped, every 93 minutes a woman is burnt to death over dowry. 44.5% of girls are married before the age of 18. 40% of married women suffer physical abuse every day. Female foeticide; infanticide and human trafficking are rampant.
The Need for Education in India
The children of today are the future of tomorrow. This statement assumes special significance in Indian context as children between the age group of 0-14 years comprise 1/3rd of the total population in India. This means close to 400 million of India are children, the largest number for any country in the world. 18 million street children scavenge for food in the garbage every day. Many children do not go home in the evenings | <urn:uuid:97270d71-608b-4261-be89-fc3fa636f0ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.uem.org.in/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.947191 | 560 | 2.265625 | 2 |
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