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CHICAGO, July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- A promising new research study published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open demonstrates that two newly developed computerized adaptive post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) assessment tools can be used among military Veterans to rapidly and validly diagnose PTSD and measure symptom severity.
Developed by researchers at The Veterans Administration, The University of Colorado, The University of Pittsburgh, The University of Chicago, and Adaptive Testing Technologies, the Computerized Adaptive Diagnostic (CAD-PTSD) and the Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT-PTSD) assessment tools outperformed traditional and longer PTSD measures. Specifically,:
The CAD-PTSD is a diagnostic screener that can reproduce the clinician administered CAPS-5 PTSD diagnosis, currently the gold standard for diagnosing PTSD, with "outstanding" diagnostic accuracy, without the need for a trained clinician to administer the assessment tool. Using adaptive administration, a reduction in veteran and clinician burden was noted.
The CAT-PTSD measures the severity of PTSD symptoms and was found to outperform a commonly used measure (PCL-5) in half the time.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, PTSD is a psychiatric disorder that may occur in people who have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event.1 PTSD is common among Veterans and recognized as one of the signature injuries of the recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, with a prevalence of 23 percent among those who served in Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF).2
"These findings suggest that the CAD- and CAT-PTSD could be used to facilitate assessment procedures necessary to encourage evidence-based treatment," said Lisa Brenner, Ph.D., Director, Veterans Affairs Rocky Mountain MIRECC, Rocky Mountain Regional Medical Center Aurora, CO, Vice Chair of Research, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R), Professor of PM&R, Psychiatry, & Neurology, University of Colorado, and lead author of the study.
Adaptive Testing Technologies' Computerized Adaptive Diagnostic (CAD) and Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT-MH™) assessment tools, including the CAD-PTSD and CAT-PTSD tools, were developed by Robert Gibbons, Ph.D., Blum-Riese Professor at the University of Chicago. They are validated for use with a variety of mental health conditions, including PTSD, depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis, substance use disorder, suicidality, ADHD, and also assess Social Determinants of Health. They use a unique algorithm based on multidimensional item response theory and machine learning to adaptively select an optimal set of questions for each person, tailored to that person's level of severity at that point in time, thereby increasing the precision of measurement and accuracy of diagnosis. The tests are cloud-based, HIPAA compliant, administered remotely or on-site, self-guided, and can easily be integrated into electronic health records for immediate review by health care providers.
"The CAT-MH™, which includes adaptive diagnostic screeners (CADs) and adaptive severity measures (CATs) for numerous mental health conditions, substance use disorders, and suicide risk, represents a paradigm shift in mental health screening and measurement. Adding PTSD to this list is enormously important for our nation's public health and the health of our Veterans and active military," said Professor Gibbons. "We believe the future of mental health measurement will be based on adaptive screening and measurement since they provide more rapid, less burdensome, and more accurate diagnoses and severity measurements that benefit patients, their providers, and the overall health care system."
About the Study
Conducted at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the study included 713 military Veteran participants who completed the PTSD Checklist for DSM-5 (PCL-5), a standard PTSD-symptom assessment. Further, a sub-sample of 304 Veterans were interviewed using the gold standard for PTSD diagnosis, the Clinician Administered Scale for PTSD for DSM-5 (CAPS-5). After the researchers created CAD-PTSD and CAT-PTSD, they cross validated them with the PCL-5 and CAPS-5.
About Adaptive Testing Technologies
Adaptive Testing Technologies (ATT) is the leader in the design, testing, and implementation of large-scale, cloud-based mental health assessment tools based on Computerized Adaptive Testing (CAT) and Computerized Adaptive Diagnostic (CAD) technologies. These tools are utilized by health professionals to assess a variety of mental health conditions – including depression, anxiety, mania, psychosis, PTSD, substance use disorder, suicide risk, ADHD, and assess Social Determinants of Health. The CAT-MH™ and K-CAT® represent the first and only validated, comprehensive, multidimensional item-response-theory-based adaptive screening and measurement systems in the world. They provide levels of precision and accuracy that is far beyond what can be achieved using traditional fixed-length mental health assessment scales and can be administered anywhere at any frequency, in or out of the clinic, to any sized population. ATT's tools are currently being utilized in emergency departments, psychiatric and primary care clinics, telemedicine, student health clinics, perinatal medicine clinics, child welfare settings, substance use disorder programs, federal and state mental health programs, employee assistance programs, and the judicial system. The tools are available worldwide and are currently being used in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, India, and Chile.
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Join thousands of Catholics nationwide in the annual pro-life novena, 9 Days for Life, beginning January 19, to pray for an end to abortion.
A novena is a period of prayer and action over the course of nine successive days. The 9 Days for Life novena is an opportunity to pray, reflect and help build a culture of life in observation of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
Recent figures from the National Right to Life Committee indicate that nearly 63.5 million babies have been killed by abortion since Roe v. Wade.
The nationwide 9 Days for Life novena, January 19-27, will pray for an end to abortion. The novena is an effort of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities. Daily intentions highlight a different topic – such as an end to the practice of abortion, healing for those who have had an abortion, support for expectant mothers, and the protection of human life at every stage. The intentions are accompanied by a reflection, educational information, and suggested daily actions.
The novena encompasses the annual Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children on January 22.
Lend your prayers and voices to the pro-life movement by joining in the 9 Days for Life novena at www.9daysforlife.com. You can download the entire novena, or sign up to receive the daily intentions, reflections and suggested actions to promote a culture of life. Participants are encouraged to share their pro-life witness on social media with the hashtag #9DaysforLife. | <urn:uuid:4fa1c30c-083c-4b6c-b647-8dc01a1c911b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.catholicwitness.org/join-in-the-nationwide-novena-to-pray-for-the-protection-of-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.941159 | 340 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Online marketplaces are making a difference to farmers in the states they are active in like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra but have not been able to make headway in Punjab and Haryana due to the proliferation of regulated mandis, Mark Kahn, Managing Partner, Omnivore, a venture capital (VC) fund, said. He was speaking to Vivian Fernandes in a Zoom interview on the theme: ‘Are digital technologies changing Indian agriculture.’
Omnivore is focussed on agritech and has been investing in Indian start-ups since 2012. It has a portfolio of 33 entities in which it has invested about $90 million. These start-ups span six themes: financial technology (fintech), business-to-business marketplaces, consumer brands that address the farming community, post-harvest technologies and agricultural life sciences.
Private equity investors have taken quite a shine to online agricultural marketplaces. In financial year 2021, they invested $318 million in them, about the same as in the previous financial year, according to a report by AgFunder, a VC firm. Kahn said online marketplaces are of two kinds: those like Bijak (invoice in Hindi) which provide a platform for retailers, traders and arhatiyas or commission agents to trade among themselves. It uses algorithms and rankings to incentivise good behaviour: traders who consistently abide by the terms of the contract get higher rankings – and customer preference. Start-ups like DeHaat provide full-stack services to farmers including agronomic advice, input supplies and access to finance. DeHaat helps institutional buyers to source fresh produce directly from farmers bringing transparency in pricing. To these institutional buyers, it also provides services like grading, sorting, fumigation and ripening.
These online marketplaces are not a replacement for regulated mandis but are complementary to them. They operate in niche areas like fresh produce. They do not provide an alternative to e-NAM or the electronic national agricultural market which was launched in April 2016. E-NAM was supposed to help farmers sell beyond their localities so that they could fetch better prices. But remote buying and selling requires grading and assaying facilities at the mandis, contract enforcement and efficient dispute settlement.
Some of the start-ups in Omnivore’s portfolio take the drudgery out of farming and strive to make it efficient. Stellapps Technologies tries to improve milk productivity, quality and safety with devices on cows and cans and at collection centres, bulk chilling points and processing centres. CEO Ranjit Mukundan says readings thrown up by these devices helps in inseminating bovines at peak ovulation to minimise failed attempts. Sitting and standing patterns of crows throw up information for feed management. Other prompts alert the managers about infections and the use of antibiotics. Instant fat analysers enable prompt and accurate payments to milk suppliers. Kahn says Stellapps has moved from being a supplier of equipment to dairies to being an aggregator of dairies. It has become a milk supplier,
Vijayawada-based Eruvaka, however continues to provide equipment for remote management of shrimp farms. Kahn says it has not gone the way of Stellapps. Its focus remains IoT (internet of things) in aquaculture. Its main markets are outside India — in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
Among the more successful fintech companies is Arya Collateral Warehousing Services which helps farmers get working capital against warehouse receipts. In August 2020, it launched a portal called A2ZGodaam.com which makes warehouses across the country discoverable (like Zomato, which apart from being a food delivery service is also a directory of restaurants).
According to Prasanna Rao, Managing Director and CEO, the warehouses are verified and certified by Arya. They are searchable across parameters like lease rental, insurance status, WDRA (Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority) -accreditation, distance from regulated market yards or railway sidings, the availability of fumigation services and so on. The company has tied up with banks to provide financing against commodities stored in the warehouses.
Kahn says digital technologies are being adopted by horticultural farmers and those in the dairy, poultry and aquaculture sectors who have profitable operations and money to invest. Farmers engaged in broadacre crops like cereals, pulses and oilseeds are touched indirectly. He says the demand for precision agricultural equipment like soil moisture sensors is limited to horticultural farmers who use micro irrigation and are interested in conserving water. A start-up called Fasal has installed them on 40,000 acres, he said.
One area where there is frenetic VC activity in the United States, United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Singapore and Israel is in agri-food life sciences. Start-ups engaged in developing innovative food and alternative proteins, novel farming systems or using transgenic and genome-editing technologies to develop plants with novel traits get a lot of funding. Kahn says India’s contribution is negligible in this area. He said there was a dearth of talent. The doctorates in these disciplines go west like IT engineers used to at one time. To create an ecosystem for such enterprises, it was important for India to retain talent and make it attractive for non-resident agricultural life sciences scientists to return.
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Moles, rats, mice, pigeons, magpies, deer and foxes – many gardeners devote a lot of time to keeping out wild animals. But there is a £200m a year industry built around attracting small birds, the likes of robins, tits, finches and songbirds: in other words, photogenic birds that look cute on the bird table but won't damage the garden.
Manufacturers have made the market a year-round one by convincing gardeners that birds need food when they are nesting, as well as in winter. But do you need to buy bird food? If you do, what is the best? And are there homemade or home-grown alternatives?
The bird food market used to be simple: bags of peanuts, mixed seeds and the occasional fat ball in colder months to keep birds happy. Now it is enhanced with vitamin supplements, and seed mixes are aimed at particular birds. One brand claims to repel squirrels and rodents.
But is bird food really worth the money? You can attract more birds without spending a penny on shop-bought food. In fact, RSPB wildlife inquiries head Valerie Osborne says a wildlife-friendly garden with berry plants is a better long-term solution than putting out food, although in winter bought food is a godsend. Make a wildlife haven with (pesticide-free) food plants, incorporate log piles, compost heaps, mown and unmown grass, fruit trees, berry-rich hedges and ponds. Finches like teasel, honesty, dandelion, lavender, evening primrose and thistles. Greater plantain, fat hen, golden rod, groundsel and cornflower will attract other small birds. Beech, hawthorn, apple (including crab), mulberry, wild cherry, common firethorn and hornbeam are the best trees for small birds.
Offer porridge, soaked dried fruit and apple instead of proprietary bird mixes. Fat balls are the cheap loss leader in the wild bird food market and are a great high-energy winter food, but it's easy to make your own: mix one-third melted suet, seeds and chopped dried fruit, and pour into a plastic cup or coconut half. (For an easier option, buy Wildlife World's Tweetie Treats kit, £16.99.) Clean water is essential, too, in a pond or bath.
Nutritional supplements such as Calvita, which contains vitamins and calcium, in the Peckish brand and Gardman/BTO's Nutrivian (gardmanwildbirdcare.co.uk), containing honey, grit and ground insects, will fill in nutritional gaps. But do garden birds need a vitamin boost? Former BTO development director Dr Nick Carter says there's no evidence that wild birds are malnourished – but also little evidence that they are at optimum vitamin levels either. "The jury's out on the vitamin supplements – a bit like for humans. Supplements won't cause any problems, such as overdosing, and they may help, but people shouldn't feel guilty about feeding birds if they can't afford mixes with supplements."
Bird-specific food From Wiggly Wigglers' Finch Energy mix to Gardman's Songbird Blend, there is a food for every bird species. Hanging a range of feeders containing different foods will attract maximum numbers of birds, but if you can afford only one, go for a good-quality general mix. Osborne says cheap bird food samples sent to her by consumers contained unsuitable foods such as dried dog food, peas and lentils.
"It's worth shopping around," Osborne says. "Be careful with cheaper mixes." Greenfinches, nuthatches, tits, siskins and woodpeckers particularly like peanuts, but buy good-quality nuts and hang in a feeder, because whole ones could choke a bird. Robins and dunnocks like peanut granules; nuthatches like shelled hazelnuts; linnets and chaffinches like hemp seed, of the non-narcotic strain, and nyger seed is popular with goldfinches. Don't use flimsy net bags, because birds can get tangled up while they feed.
Squirrel-proof food is designed to stop the unwanted attentions of other animals. Squirrel Ban contains chilli extracts, which squirrels hate but birds can't detect. There are also squirrel-proof feeders and "baffle" barriers for bird table legs.
Ethical food Should we be using peanuts from the other side of the world? Heather Gorringe, managing director of Wiggly Wigglers, says that if UK farmers produce food for birds, everyone wins. "The birds win, because they get two feeds – the food in the garden and the food in the field. They had a lovely go at our sunflowers in the field this year."
Live food High-protein mealworms and wax worms are sold dry and alive, and are loved by blue tits and robins. Place live food in a shallow dish and top up little and often.They can be fed all year round and are useful in the breeding season for young birds.
DIY feeding Don't forget hygiene: dirty feeders and bird tables can harbour the "trike" (Trichomonas vaginalis) parasite, which makes birds ill, and aflatoxins caused by mould on peanuts can kill birds. Disinfect feeders regularly, discard old food and keep it dry: the BTO's Feedsafe range of feeders comes with an antibacterial coating.
Bird feeders A bird feeder can set you back anything from 99p to £50 or more. Here's a pick of the best:
Flock-Follies bird feeder (£20, );
Gardman ornate window feeder (£14.99);
Gardman guaranteed squirrel-proof feeder (£15.99);
Wiggly Wigglers hanging mealworm feeder (£21.25);
Droll Yankees Ring-Pull easy-clean seed feeder (from £16.25); and
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by Gordy Slack
Water is California’s most precious resource. Where it flows, agriculture, natural habitats, culture, and industries all thrive; beyond water’s reach, things dry up and die.
The 400-mile-long mountain range on California’s eastern border is by far the state’s largest water-storage facility. More than half of California’s water comes from snow in the Sierra Nevada. But unlike manmade reservoirs, frozen mountain water is difficult to measure and track through the year. Harsh winter conditions make survey missions to remote parts of the range expensive and treacherous. And convoluted topography and complex snowfall, thaw, absorption, and runoff regimens make calculating the amount of water stored there an exercise in extreme approximation, according to Roger Bales, professor of engineering at UC Merced and director of the Sierra Nevada Research Institute.
Even as the mountains start releasing their melting water in the spring, there is currently no way to know how much water they hold. This information gap has long posed a major challenge for state water managers: how to allocate a super-valuable resource when they are uncertain about how much they have or how far it will last into the dry summer months.
There are many stakeholders—municipal water district managers, farmers, hydro-power generators, wildlife resource managers, and industrial planners. Without reliable estimates, they have to assume worst-case scenarios, which often means being overly conservative. The opportunity costs can be profound. Farmers, for instance, could, in some years, plant a second crop round, but they seldom do; relying on water that may not be available could be disastrous.
Accelerating global warming and a growing population’s demand for water across the west intensifies the problems and raises the stakes. As the probability of bad droughts and floods increases, the value of accurate prediction—and the cost and danger of ignorance—grow, too.
To fill this information gap, a CITRIS-supported collaboration between Bales at UC Merced and Steven Glaser, a Berkeley professor in the department of civil and environmental engineering, deployed networks of wireless sensors in a prototype project at the National Science Foundation’s Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory (CZO), located in Providence Creek, south of Shaver Lake and about an hour west of Fresno. The sensors measure snow depth and other environmental factors that, once known, will allow much better measurement and prediction.
Before Bales recruited Glaser’s help, he lacked a reliable wireless system and was planning to hardwire sensors into networks connected by cable. But “it’s hard to go several hundred meters with shielded cable,” says Glaser. “In the summer, bears like to tear it up, and rodents love to chew on it.” It is also a lot more expensive to scale up and to repair when a connection is lost.
When Bales heard about Glaser’s work with wireless networks back in 2007, he paid a visit to his Berkeley office. Glaser is known for pushing the cutting edge of wireless sensor networks and seeking new applications that can make a difference to society. And for Bales, integrating inexpensive sensors into remote wireless sensor networks (WSN) opened up a whole world of possibilities.
The CZO prototype project, which covers more than a square kilometer, is now logging data from 300 sensors—more soil-moisture, matric potential and snow-depth sensors than were located across the 400-mile-long mountain range 5 years ago. The CZO network also measures temperature, humidity, wind, and solar radiation. The match-book-sized sensors are paired with tiny, super-efficient, wireless communicating micro-processors known as motes— up to 100 motes in each WSN. The motes communicate with each other, aggregating data that are then delivered to computers at UC Merced and UC Berkeley.
The tiny wireless technology that forms the foundation of this system (much of which was first developed by Kristofer Pister and David Culler at UC Berkeley, with the first applications of the technology by Glaser in 2000) is ultra-efficient and runs either on locally available power sources, such as solar, or on long-lasting and inexpensive batteries. The wireless network is self-repairing (if one node goes out, the others form a patch around it) and relatively inexpensive, says Branko Kerkez, an engineering graduate student of Glaser’s and Bales’s.
The network of sensors installed at the CZO allowed hydrologists on the project to experiment, along with the engineers, in deploying and adjusting the sensors as efficiently as possible. “We’re trying to figure out how to optimally place sensors on a square kilometer area,” says Kerkez. “It’s a recursive process. You place the sensors, collect the data, and then see if you need more or fewer sensors as you go.” (Glaser and Kerkez are preparing a paper on sensor placement algorithms that will help others doing this kind of work in similar terrain.)
The next phase of the project involves instrumenting the American River basin, which covers about 4,500 square kilometers above Folsom Dam and is the source of a significant fraction of the state’s water. “We’re trying to establish about 25 instrument clusters. We have three built or in progress,” says Bales. “We’ll have a network of local networks strategically placed to capture the geographical variability in the basin. Then we’ll extrapolate all these water-cycle measurements for the whole basin.”
For snow estimation, the data will be combined with satellite data, which reveal the fraction of snow at 500-m spatial resolution. Says Bales, “The ground data tell you how deep the snow is, and the satellite data tell you where it is in the Sierra Nevada. You need to blend them.”
“Not only will the project provide high-resolution pictures of remote and icy watersheds, but will also allow water managers to build data-driven quantitative models that will have real predictive accuracy,” says Glaser.
“Today, water managers do statistical estimates of total seasonal runoff based on correlations with snow depth at a few index sites in each watershed. But this simple analysis of a very complex system yields results that are, in some years, just not very helpful in terms of prediction,” says Bales.
“You start with learning how much snow is there,” says Bales. “Then you measure rainfall, and estimate the timing of snowmelt, and measure how much water is used by trees and exits the system elsewhere.”
According to California Department of Food and Agriculture reports, farming here is a 35-billion dollar industry. “The benefits of better modeling could contribute to that total in several ways,” says Bales.
“Today, the water managers need to give conservative estimates on water availability,” says Bales. “They have to, given what they don’t know. If we reduce the uncertainty in their estimates in a way that people can use, we could pretty easily imagine adding a couple of hundred million dollars to the state’s economy.” | <urn:uuid:50b42e33-e35b-429d-be6b-bbe81e0e056b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://citris-uc.org/water-sense-citris-motes-and-wireless-networks-deployed-to-help-monitor-and-manage-californias-water-supply/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941694 | 1,527 | 3.890625 | 4 |
March 4, 2015
Vince Lombardi, born June 11, 1913, was the first-born child of Italian immigrants Enrico “Harry” and Matilda “Mattie” Lombardi of Brooklyn New, York.
A devout Catholic, Vince had planned and studied to become a priest after High School, but eventually left seminary and become a High School football coach, got married and started a family.
His early success at the High School and Collegiate levels eventually landed him an assistant coaching job for the New York Giants. As an Italian immigrant, Vince was convinced that landing a head coach position at the highest levels would not be possible, but after the Green Bay Packers abysmal season in 1958, consisting of a 1-10-1 record, their worst in history, Vince Lombardi was given the opportunity as the new head coach. The turnaround in Green Bay was nothing short of remarkable. They went 7-5 in Lombardi’s rookie season. The next year, Packers fans showed their support by selling out every game, a feat, which continues to this day. The Packers conference championship victory in his second season, combined with his deep religious convictions earned him the name “The Pope.”
In his NFL career, Lombardi amassed a career record of 105-35-6 an incredible .740 winning percentage, and never suffered a losing season. He led the packers to Five Championships in seven years, making him one of the most successful coaches in professional football. The NFL Super Bowl Trophy is named the “Vince Lombardi” in his honour.
Lombardi’s quotes are legendary, but one of his greatest moments gets retold over and over again. On one occasion, the Packers lost to an inferior squad. It was bad enough to lose… but to lose to that team was absolutely inexcusable. Coach Lombardi called a practice the very next morning. The men sat silently, looking more like whipped puppies than a team of champions. They had no idea what to expect from the man they feared the most.
Gritting his teeth and staring holes through one athlete after another, Lombardi began:
“Okay, we go back to the basics this morning. . . .” Holding a football high enough for all to see, he continued to yell: “Gentlemen, this is a football!”
Ephesians 4:12 reminds us, as five fold ministers of the Gospel, of our primary objective, “the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ.” In 2015, taking that commission of the Apostle Paul, and combining with the approach of Vince Lombardi, we are getting “back to the basics.” In football, this practice produced championship seasons; in the Kingdom, it will produce victorious life.
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The C-Kore Subsea TDR is a compact automated tool for testing subsea electrical assets. It can be configured in advance by C-Kore System Ltd or set up in the field easily by the end-user. It is simple to use, automating the previously complex work of driving a TDR.
The TDR is normally used in tandem with the Cable Monitor for fault-finding. Once the Cable Monitor has narrowed the location of a fault to a single component (for example an in-field umbilical) the TDR is used to precisely identify where in the cable the fault resides. This knowledge can be used to inform repair versus replacement strategies. By measuring directly subsea, the problems of deck-based downline testing are eliminated, including impedance mismatches, offset errors, faulty downlines and the difficulty of driving the TDR correctly.
For new asset installation the TDR can be used to characterise cables for future reference and find discontinuities in impedance that have not effected the insulation resistance. As this testing is automated, vessel time and personnel requirements can be reduced to achieve cost savings. The unit can be deployed subsea to take TDR readings directly once installation is complete.
The unit is powered by a high-capacity rechargeable battery for stand-alone operation. Simple user configuration is possible with a plug-and-play USB connection to choose what the unit will test and when. Every result is data-logged and the unit has built-in software for result analysis. | <urn:uuid:5b8991a7-864d-4714-8d3f-cc944b13eb38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://c-kore.com/cable-tdr/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.911898 | 308 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Ways to increase agricultural production while lowering costs will highlight the topics presented at the 10th annual National Conservation Systems Cotton and Rice Conference Jan. 29-30.
The event, held at the Omni Houston Hotel Westside in Houston, Texas, is sponsored by Cotton Incorporated and US Rice Producers Association. The conference is a production of MidAmerica Farm Publications.
The conference is co-sponsored by the University of Arkansas, Louisiana State University, Mississippi State University, University of Missouri, University of Tennessee, Auburn University, Texas A&M University, USDA-NRCS, and USDA-ARS centers in the Southern states.
The conference also has four corporate co-sponsors: Delta and Pine Land Co., Helena Chemical Co., Horizon Ag, and RiceTec.
Ag-Media co-sponsors are Delta Farm Press and Southwest Farm Press.
“This conference is unique with its 100-plus breakout sessions presented by 59 university and industry researchers and 43 full-time farmers from the Southern states,” says John LaRose, chairman of the conference steering committee.
“The farmers bring something to this conference that cannot be found at any other conference in the United States. The breakout sessions presented by growers will showcase the production systems used on their farms to profitably produce cotton, rice, corn, sorghum, and soybeans.
“These producers are innovators — some are even ahead of the researchers. Their techniques have been proven on large-scale operations as well as small acreage fields. They have taken ideas that researchers have developed and added innovative ideas of their own, integrating them into successful money-making farming operations.”
All this expertise will be available to those who attend the conference.
In addition to the breakout sessions, attendees can participate in one of the eight specially-focused roundtable sessions, where in-depth discussions by attendees wanting to talk about the same concerns will be addressed.
For those who have an interest in the latest precision agriculture technology and applications, attendees can take part in any or all of the breakout sessions on that topic, presented by leading researchers and producers.
“A must-attend event for honing production methods, this conference offers farmers ways to trim inputs while boosting yields,” LaRose says. “In recent years, farmers and their landlords have found that, beyond tillage, there are many other farming resources that can be conserved through a properly designed conservation systems program.
“The importance of conserving soil moisture and reducing fuel, labor, seed, chemical, and other input costs has been a key to economic survival for many producers. The main emphasis of the conference is reducing production costs and increasing yields in cotton, rice, corn, sorghum and soybeans through precision agriculture in its many forms.”
Addressing the conference during the opening session will be Bob Stallman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation. The keynote speaker for the noon luncheon will be Elsa A. Murano, vice chancellor and dean of agriculture and life sciences and director, Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Texas A&M University.
“Don't pass up this perfect opportunity to get out and communicate with the presenters and others attending the conference,” said LaRose.
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But then seek answers to the questions.
“The only religiously unacceptable response is to reject religion entirely and close your mind to further speculation,” says Kushner, 80, and rabbi laureate of Temple Israel in Natick, Mass.
“To be a religiously serious person need not mean banishing all doubt,” he says in his delightful, insightful 13th book. What it means is “a readiness to live with doubt” and giving God the benefit of the doubt, “as we would for any person we cared about.”
Doubts about God don’t necessarily mean a lapse of faith but “can be seen as manifestations of faith, concerns born of caring enough to be troubled by life’s unevenness,” he says.
Kushner sometimes surprises people by telling them “that there is no commandment in Judaism to believe in God.” The first of the Ten Commandments “is not a commandment at all,” he says, but an explanation of “why the assembled people should obey the subsequent precepts.”
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How to warm up your bathroom
Drill holes in the corners of the square you're cutting out for the sump to fit into. This'll make it easier for you to cut out. Put on your safety glasses, gloves and ear muffs and use the angle grinder to cut out the square in the fibre cement board. If you need to, use a hammer and chisel to help you remove the fibre cement board. With your battery powered saw, cut the next layer of flooring. You may need to use a handsaw to complete the cuts to the corners. Lift this piece of flooring out. You may also need to use the handsaw to cut any under-floor insulation that might be there.
Lay the shower base on the floor and outline its height on all of the wood that it leans up against. Remove the shower base. The pencil mark on the wood is the top of the recess that the shower base will fit snugly into. Use a hammer and chisel or a handsaw to cut away the wood to make 10mm recesses for the shower base. You'll also need to make a 10mm recess in the timbers running across the length and width of the shower base. Do this by marking out 10mm in from the edge and use a hammer and chisel to cut the wood. Wear gloves when you mark this wood to protect against splinters.
To make your cement, mix three parts of brickies sand with one part mortar in a wheelbarrow. Slowly add water to the mixture and combine them using your shovel, so that it's not too thick and not too runny. Continue mixing until the concrete has a uniform consistency and texture and there are no pockets of dry material.
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The worst part about starting, or owning, a business is dealing with your accounts. But if you own a limited company, they’re something you need to get used to pretty quickly.
If any of your accounts are late, or inaccurate, there are big fines to face. And yet, no matter how many times businesses are warned, there are thousands that fail to deliver. In fact, it was reported that businesses in London and Birmingham have been some of the top offenders for filing late, with over 200,000 UK companies facing hefty fines for missing the Companies House deadline in 2019.
Your year end accounts are a pretty big one to get under control. Whether you chose to do it alone, or work with a trusted accountant, we’ve put everything you’ll need into this handy year end accounting checklist.
Let’s get down to business, shall we?
What are end of year accounts?
Year end is the end of your company’s accounting period. Also called the accounting reference date, the period at the end of which the financial records of your company are closed and the statutory accounts are filed with HMRC and Companies House.
It will normally include information such as:
This is a document written by the company directors, summarising the business’ performance over the year with their views of its current position and how they think it will perform in the future.
This gives details of the company’s assets and liabilities at the end of the accounting period.
Profit & Loss
This gives a summary of income and expenses and gives the total amount of profit or loss over the period.
This is a commentary and explanation on the details of the profit and loss account and balance sheet.
If you have a limited company, you are legally required to file your end of year accounts with both HMRC and Companies House.
If you’re not happy with having that as a requirement of a limited company, you can opt to register as a sole trader instead. As a sole trader, you’ll have fewer legal obligations and won’t have to complete end of year accounts. You will, however, have to submit a self-assessment tax return.
Not sure what’s the right choice for you? Take a look at our guide highlighting the pros and cons of being a sole trader vs a limited company.
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Your year end accounting checklist
Ready to tackle this task? Let’s get started with your year end accounting checklist.
1. Get your financial statements
First up, you need to take a look at your current financial information. This means collecting your financial statements, including your:
- Income, or profit and loss statement. This summarises your revenue and expenses and lists all of the money you’ve gained and spent throughout the year. It will include expenses such as tax, operating expenses, depreciation, revenue and the cost of goods sold.
- Cash flow statement. This shows the businesses ingoing and outgoing cash, excluding your credit. This statement focuses exclusively on your cash flow, which may highlight if you are spending more than you’re bringing in.
- Balance sheet. This shows your assets, liabilities, and equity and tracks your company’s financial progress. Your liabilities and equality should always be the same amount as your assets, so it doesn’t add up you’ll need to rebalance your books.
If you use bookkeeping software, this step should be a breeze for you to complete.
These statements are also essential for checking over your performance and forecasting your financial future.
2. Collect due invoices
Your year end accounts act as a reflection of your businesses financial performance over the past year. In order to wrap the year up properly, you should try and collect all outstanding invoices to square all of your accounts.
If you’re having trouble collecting overdue invoices, you may want to contact the client to work out an alternative payment plan or enlist the help of debt collection agencies. However, bringing in a 3rd party will mean that a portion of this invoice will go to them.
3. Sort your paperwork
All of your records, receipts and documentation need to be properly stored and backed up. Before you submit your year end accounts, spend time making sure that every receipt is recorded and in its right place.
This can be an incredibly difficult and time-consuming task if you’re doing everything by hand and on paper. To speed up this process, you may want to invest in bookkeeping software to help store all of these records for you.
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What do accountants need for year end?
If you don’t want to do your year end accounts by yourself, you can save yourself a lot of time and effort by getting an accountant on board to take care of this process for you.
In order to file your year-end, your accountant will need access to all of your financial records and information. So, do you remember everything mentioned in that list before? Yep, that’s what they’ll need.
But once they have this information, they’ll be able to connect the dots, spot any errors and organise all of your papers to make sure everything is in order and submitted correctly and on time. That saves you a lot of hassle and ensures that you’ll never get fined for late submissions.
The only thing your accountant can’t do is chase up your late invoices. After all, they’re not mafia ‘heavies’ armed with hammers to threaten and force your clients to pay up!
How much will an accountant charge to complete my year end return?
An accountant can help you complete your year end return, as well as any other booking services that you might need. They’ll be there to take away the stress and worry of having to complete this yourself, but better still, they’ll be able to ensure that any report is 100% accurate and on time.
But how much will this cost you?
In our guide to the average accountancy costs for limited company, we gave a rubbish answer that costs will vary. And that’s true. Generally speaking, the more you want your accountants to do, and the worst state your books are in, the more you’ll be paying for them.
If you do a lot of bookkeeping by yourself and use good bookkeeping software, then your accountancy prices are going to be cheaper.
On average, you can get packages that start at around £80-100 a month for accountants. This would include basic services such as:
- Completing your company’s year end accounts;
- Processing payroll for you and any other staff members;
- Submitting quarterly VAT returns (if you are VAT registered);
- Managing any correspondence from Companies House;
- Corporation tax return;
- Advice on business structuring or company set up;
- Registering your business with HMRC;
- Access to apps.
Considering that missing the deadline for your year end accounts can leave you with fines over £100 alone, we’d say that accountants are worth every single penny. That’s not even to mention how much time you’ll spend not having to manually do these returns yourself.
Can I submit abbreviated year end accounts?
Yes, you can submit abbreviated year end accounts to Companies house if your business fulfils any two of the following criteria:
- You have less than 50 employees;
- Your turnover is less than £10.2 million;
- You have less than £5.1 million on your balance sheets.
Abbreviated year end accounts are basically shorter documentation that’s designed to give a summary. For this, you just need to submit a balance sheet that’s signed by one name director.
However, bear in mind you still need to send your full year end accounts to HMRC. And no matter what, it’s always a good idea to keep a detailed record of your financial information on your files for future years.
For example, if you are ever investigated by HMCR, they will want access to your records from the past 4 years. If there’s evidence of intent to mislead or submit errors, the HMRC can go up to 6 years back. For serious fraud cases, up to 20 years of records can be investigated.
If you’re ever unsure, ask an accountant who will be able to provide the right documentation and information to the relevant party.
What happens if I miss the deadlines?
If you miss your deadline for your year end accounts, both the HMRC and Companies House can issue fines. The longer you leave it, the worse fines you’ll see.
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|1 day||£100||Up to a month||£150|
|3 months||Another £100||1-3 months||£375|
|6 months||Estimated Corporation Tax bill amount and an additional penalty of 10% of the unpaid tax||3-6 months||£750|
|12 months||Additional 10% of any unpaid tax||Over 6 months||£1,500|
If that’s not rough enough:
- The £100 HMRC late penalties are increased to £500 each when your return is late three consecutive times.
- If you file late two years consecutively, Companies House penalties double.
If you never want to worry about missing a deadline, it’s always best to leave these matters to your accountant. They’ll be able to prepare and ensure that all your information is submitted on time and accurately, saving you a lot of time, stress and potential fines.
Not got an accountant for your business yet?
Take a look at our guide of 5 essential questions you need to ask your accountant to make sure that you find the right fit for your business.
Can software help me submit my year end accounts?
Accounting and bookkeeping software can be an incredible time-saving feature for businesses all year round, not just when it comes to your year end. This software is a good place to store and calculate, all of your expenses, keep track of your financial records and provide a secure digital copy of your records.
No matter how experienced, or inexperienced you are, there are plenty of software options for you to choose from.
Find one that will be the right match for you by taking a look at our reviews of the best accounting software for UK businesses.
Your year end accounting checklist
To maker things simple, we’ve boiled down your year end accounting checklist into 3 easy steps:
- Get your financial statements;
- Collect due invoices;
- Sort your paperwork.
Or, if you decide to work with an accountant, this checklist becomes even simpler.
- Hand your records over;
- Let them file everything;
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In response to the urgent needs created by COVID-19, Albion College partnered with1977 alumnus James Wilson, M.D. Ph.D., a renowned medical scientist, to launch a Comprehensive Public Health Initiative. This ambitious program aimed to advance community conversation and understanding of the social, political, economic and public health dimensions of the pandemic and address the ongoing toll of COVID-19.
Albion’s multifaceted Comprehensive Public Health Initiative included an online seminar series developed and led by Dr. Wilson that ran throughout the fall 2020 semester and featured world-recognized experts in public health and policy. Recordings of all events are available on Albion's YouTube channel.
Congresswoman Debbie Dingell represents Michigan’s 12th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, where she has made it a priority to be a voice for the Midwest on issues that matter most to working families.
A member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Debbie is a leader on efforts to grow manufacturing, improve access to quality affordable health care, support seniors and veterans and protect the Great Lakes. Recognized as one of the 25 hardest-working Members of Congress, Debbie is focused on forging bipartisan solutions that support Michigan’s families and economy, including improving long-term care and ushering in the future of the American auto industry.
Former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich is one of the foremost economic, social, political, and security-focused conservative thinkers today.
Today, Newt is Chairman of Gingrich 360, a full-service American consulting, education, and media production group that connects the past, present, and future to inspire audiences, solve challenges, and develop opportunities. As Chairman, Newt continues to promote American values as he works toward thinking through and helping to solve our nation’s greatest challenges in healthcare, education, national security and many other areas.
*Please note this session will be pre-recorded. An email with the recording will be sent to registrants at the scheduled time.
Ezekiel J. Emanuel is the Vice Provost for Global Initiatives, the Diane v.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor, and Co-Director of the Healthcare Transformation Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. From January 2009 to January 2011, Dr. Emanuel served as a Special Advisor on Health Policy to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget and National Economic Council.
Dr. Emanuel was the founding chair of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health from 1997 to August of 2011. He has published over 300 articles and has authored or edited 15 books, including his most recent, “Which Country Has the World’s Best Health Care?”
Fritz François, M.D., serves as Chief Medical Officer at NYU Langone Health. In this role, he is responsible for the day-to-day coordination of medical care, clinical quality, risk assessment, system improvement, utilization management, patient experience and infection surveillance across all medical and surgical services within the health system. Additionally, he helped lead efforts to open NYU Langone’s state-of-the-art Kimmel Pavilion and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital, and improve results around quality, safety, efficiency and patient satisfaction.
Prior to his appointment in 2015, Dr. François served as Chief of Medicine at NYU Langone’s Tisch Hospital, leading transformative efforts around Value-Based Management and leadership development at NYU Langone.
Anjelica Dunlap is an intensive care unit nurse in the medical ICU at Ascension St. John Hospital and Medical Center, Detroit. She has three years of experience in the ICU and has been been a registered nurse for over four years.
During this time, she has obtained her Critical Care Registered Nurse (CCRN) certification and has been accepted into Nurse Anesthesia school.
Kaitlyn Simmons, RN, BSN, PCCN is Clinical Nurse III at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania on a Vascular Surgery/COVID progressive care unit. She serves as the Core Charge Nurse where she coordinates staffing and patient-flow and assists with patient care on a high-acuity surgical unit. In the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, her unit was the first to be converted to provide care for patients with COVID-19. During that time, Kaitlyn acted as the charge nurse, responsible for coordinating nurses from multiple units to work together to provide care for COVID patients.
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Stéphane Bancel has served as Moderna, Inc.'s Chief Executive Officer since October 2011 and as a member of Moderna’s Board of Directors since March 2011. Moderna is currently in late-stage trials for its coronavirus vaccine, co-developed with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The vaccine is one of nine coronavirus vaccines worldwide that have reached phase three clinical trials.
Mr. Bancel currently serves on the board of directors of Qiagen N.V. and previously served on the board of directors of BG Medicine, Inc. and Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYRS).
Andrew W. Lo is the Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, director of the MIT Laboratory for Financial Engineering, a principal investigator at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and an affiliated faculty member of the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is also an external faculty member of the Santa Fe Institute and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Lo’s current research spans five areas: evolutionary models of investor behavior and adaptive markets, systemic risk and financial regulation, quantitative models of financial markets, financial applications of machine-learning techniques and secure multi-party computation, and healthcare finance.
Troyen A. Brennan, M.D., M.P.H., is Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of CVS Health. In this role, Brennan provides oversight for the development of CVS Health’s clinical and medical affairs and health care strategy.
Previously, Brennan was Chief Medical Officer of Aetna Inc. Prior to that, Brennan served as president of Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization. In his academic work, he was Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Law and Public Health at Harvard School of Public Health.
Dr. Debra Joy Pérez is Senior Vice President of Organizational Culture, Inclusion and Equity at Simmons University. As SVP, Dr. Pérez is responsible for advancing diversity and inclusive practices across the University including working with faculty, staff and students to create an inclusive and welcoming campus. Reporting to the President, Dr. Pérez works in partnership across Simmons Leadership Team to advance organizational culture, inclusion and equity. Among her responsibilities, she develops policies and practices to promote inclusion in the pedagogy and in the social life at Simmons.
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Last week, we wrote a letter informing residents that on May 10, the Culver City Council voted 3-2 to put on the agenda a discussion to eliminate R1/single-family home zoning (also known as “upzoning”). This discussion has now been tentatively scheduled for the joint meeting of the Planning Commission and City Council on Wednesday, June 23 at 7:00 p.m.
The discussion was initiated in response to an organized group that incorrectly believes eliminating single-family zoning will create affordable housing and help alleviate racial inequity in Culver City. Instead, their plan would allow developers and land speculators to build up to 4 units (or possibly more) on almost any single-family home lot. Housing experts, tenant unions and community-based activists express concern that this pro-developer scenario would eliminate our current affordable housing stock (older R1 homes and ADUs) but does not guarantee affordable or low-income housing.
City Council should take no action to change R1 zoning. There are many effective and creative solutions to our affordable housing crisis already available to us, including promoting the allowed building of ADUs on single-family lots, building multi-use housing/retail/office/restaurant space along commercial corridors, etc. There is no need to make hurried, substantial, and irreversible changes affecting all single-family neighborhoods.
It remains clear that many residents still do not know that these discussions are taking place. In order to facilitate proper transparency and accountability, the city must provide all of the following:
Adequate and direct notice to all residents, including a postcard campaign;
Scheduled meetings (community centers etc) in R1 neighborhoods to provide clear explanations and the ramifications of changes;
Fact-based proof that such proposals have achieved stated goals (e.g. increased affordable housing), including clear evidence from other localities that have implemented such changes;
Verifiable calculations of the impact on city infrastructure of any suggested zoning changes including sewer, water, electricity, parking, schools, and traffic.
It is important to express your opinions on and prior to the June 23 meeting. Here’s how:
Write a letter/email: [email protected] and Planning Commission. Copy the city clerk at [email protected]g.
Attend the June 23 joint meeting of the Planning Commission and City Council on Wednesday, June 23 at 7:00 p.m. Tell them personally/virtually your position on eliminating R1/Single-family zoning. Sign up here: (https://culver-city.legistar.com);
Complete the land-use survey and use the space at the end to type in your thoughts about abolishing single-family zoning. (Pictureculvercity.com/alternatives).
Visit CulverCityNeighborsUnited.org, sign our petition, and get involved.
We need true community collaboration to determine the best way to add the state-mandated Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA) housing in Culver City, including affordable housing, for all who work and live here. In addition, we can help create pathways for diverse community members to own homes and create generational wealth. We can do this and maintain R1/Single-family zoning.
Jeannine Wisnosky Stehlin
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We all want lustrous, healthy-looking hair, no matter if you prefer curly, wavy, or straight locks. But when your hair looks and feels like straw even though you’ve taken good care of it, what gives?
There are multiple factors that can cause dry hair beyond the usual suspects – like environmental, genetic, or health issues. Let’s cut to the chase and go over the various reasons you might have drier hair than you’d like.
Weather and Environment
Let’s start with one of the most common reasons that can cause dry hair.
We all know how tropical, hot, humid, soupy conditions can make hair frizz. But did you know that winter’s cold temperatures and even your air conditioner can all dry your hair out?
Cold air and air-conditioned environments naturally hold less moisture than warm air, which dehydrates hair.
As a result, hair can start to lose its natural sheen and be susceptible to snapping and breakage.
High winds are also hazardous to long hair, even without extreme temperatures. Windy days strip the natural moisture away from your scalp and can worsen split ends, especially if strands have been whipped around in the wind.
Don’t forget that summer days soaking in the rays or splashing around in the ocean or pool is also quite drying to both your skin and hair.
Chlorine – a chemical used to disinfect and kill bacteria – strips skin and hair of moisture, as does salt water if you’re not careful. This is because salt water leaches water out of hair and skin the way pickling a cucumber dehydrates the cucumber.
Even UV rays are damaging to your hair if you spend long days out in the sun.
To protect hair, wear a hat or scarf around your head when you’ll be exposed to the sun for long hours, and be sure to rinse hair with fresh water after being submerged in the ocean or pool.
Too Much Heat Styling
However, it’s also one of the quickest ways to dry out and damage your hair if you’re doing so excessively.
Here are some signs that you might be overdoing the heat:
- A noticeably rough texture when running your fingers through your hair
- Highly fragile split ends that break off with minor pressure
- Sections that are thinner midstrand
- Noticeable tangling and knots
If you do use a curling or flat iron to style your hair, be mindful of the plate or barrel material used. Metals such as chrome, stainless steel and even titanium can strip hair of moisture because of the high heat these materials conduct.
Ceramic is generally safer and less damaging to all hair types as it generates uniform, even heat at lower intensities.
Tuning down the frequency of heat styling – including using a hair dryer on high – will lower the amount of heat your strands are exposed to on a daily basis.
Lastly, always be sure to use a heat protectant to coat and protect your hair from high temperatures.
Chemical Treatments (Dyes, Perms, Bleaching, or Relaxing)
If there’s one surefire way to dry your hair out, it’s by applying chemical treatments to change the natural texture or color of your tresses.
Coloring, relaxing or perming treatments all use harsh chemicals to break down the bonds in the cuticle layer in order to access the cortex layer.
Since these chemicals are required to penetrate deep into the hair shaft, an open cuticle layer leaves the inner cortex exposed and vulnerable.
This is why top hair professionals around the world recommend rehydrating hair immediately after treating your hair chemically. Natural moisturizing oils, such as argan and jojoba oils are often used to reconstitute extra dry hair.
One of the most overlooked factors that can cause dry hair is hard water. Hard water is found in various regions, and refers to water with high mineral content.
Although this doesn’t sound like a bad thing since hard water can generally be safe to drink, it can cause some serious damage to your hair.
According to a 2016 study analyzing the effects of hard water on hair samples, dry scalp and hair follicles are directly associated with an increased level of minerals in the water when compared to distilled or deionized water.
The study involved various hair samples from 15 healthy women that washed in hard water and distilled water for 30 days to study the impacts.
By the end of the study, the strands that were washed in hard hair showed a noticeable level of dryness as well as thinning and breaking of the hair filaments, dullness, frizz, and tangles.
In fact, another study that involved using hard water on a real scalp and not just hair samples also showed signs of overly stressed hair and dry scalp, which bring along a whole slew of issues like hair loss and dandruff.
So how can you avoid washing your hair in hard water if you live in a hard water region? One way is by installing a water softening shower head to remove chlorine, fluoride, and other minerals from your tap water.
Harsh Ingredients in Your Shampoo
Regular shampoos often contain a variety of ingredients that can strip the moisture out of your hair and leave it brittle, dull, and dry.
You see, that foamy lather you generate when shampooing is great for removing dirt and oil, but it’s also very drying to your strands and scalp.
Lather is generated by sulfates like sodium lauryl sulfate or sodium laureth sulfate, which separate water molecules from oil to degrease and clean your strands.
It’s so drying that there are several sulfate-free shampoos available, which is generally recommended if you have dry hair.
You can also end up with overly dry hair if you use a clarifying shampoo, which should only be used occasionally when you’ve got extra build up or residue from hair product or hard water. So be sure to use one sparingly and not as your regular shampoo.
A good hydrating shampoo like the Moroccan Argan Oil Shampoo and Conditioner is excellent for dry hair.
Also, don’t wash your hair too often if it’s very dry and always make sure to condition well after shampooing.
Medications You’re Taking or Hormonal Imbalance
Hair quality isn’t only affected by external factors. It’s also affected by your hormones, either naturally occurring or as a side effect from medications or drugs.
Menopause and stress, for example, are often associated with hair loss while pregnancy is known to increase the growth of unwanted hair on other regions of the body.
Conversely, if you suffer from an overactive thyroid, medications used to decrease the activity of the thyroid gland can also make hair dry as a side effect.
Medications used to treat depression, blood pressure, cholesterol, and oral contraceptives have all been known to thin out hair or cause brittleness. Aside from that, prescription drugs can also affect how well hair takes to styling too, making it more difficult to color, straighten, or curl.
Additionally, your diet and overall health greatly affects the health of your hair. If you don’t get enough nutrients or suffer from an eating disorder like anorexia, your hair can be thin, dry, and fragile.
A balanced and healthy diet with plenty of protein (whether animal or plant-based) is necessary for hair growth and health.
Dry scalp equals dry hair, no matter how healthy the hair shaft is. Since sebum, or skin’s natural oil, keeps both skin and hair hydrated and moisturized, your scalp provides the oil necessary for shine and pliability of each strand.
If you have dry skin in general, you’ll likely have dry scalp too. You can use a moisturizing shampoo or apply essential oils like tea tree oil or jojoba oil to help hydrate your scalp.
Some skin conditions, medications, and environmental problems will cause dryness on your head, contributing to dry hair.
If you experience eczema, redness or excessive itching of your scalp, be sure to consult with a dermatologist or a trichologist to see what the underlying issue might be.
One of the first signs of aging is the presence of gray hair by the age of 30 or 40. However, grays are not the only sign of aging that your hair will show.
It might also look and feel drier and brittler than before.
You see, sebaceous glands in our skin produce sebum, a waxy substance that moisturizes and protects your skin. This is your skin’s natural oil, which travels from your scalp down the length of your strands when you brush or comb your hair, coating it from root to tip.
As we get older, these oil glands start to shrink gradually, leaving both skin and hair less moisturized and more prone to breakage.
It’s also best to use milder shampoos and conditioners that won’t aggressively strip hair of its natural oils. Washing your hair less often is also helpful.
Dry Hair, Be Gone!
Now that you know some of the reasons why you might not have the shiny, healthy hair you’re dreaming of, keep in mind that it can also be a combination of factors.
If you stop coloring your hair but still use harsh shampoos or live in a hard water area, you may not get the soft, luxurious locks you want. Likewise, only using mild shampoos and regularly slathering on deep conditioners won’t do much if your diet is missing important nutrients for nourishing your scalp and growing healthy hair.
Taking steps to help keep your locks moisturized doesn’t have to be hard though, and many solutions are within your control. Try to adjust one thing at a time to see which culprit is the main factor for you. With time and consistent care, you should start to see and feel healthier, shinier hair. | <urn:uuid:edcf8911-4fb3-4bd4-aa62-15874cfaaa8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://haircareology.com/why-is-my-hair-so-dry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.936968 | 2,123 | 2.5 | 2 |
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White Mustard Plant
Scientific name of Mustard: Sinapis alba/Brassica alba
Name of Mustard in different languages:
English: American Yellow Mustard
Hindi: Rayi राई, Sarson
Malayalam: Vella kaduku-വെള്ളകടുക്
White mustard is an annual, grow up to 70 cm tall, an erect, leaves are pinnately arranged, pale green, leaves are comparatively bigger than mustard, flowers are yellow in color, thick, and born in branch end as clusters, and it is very attractive, seeds contain in a pod 1 to 1.5 inch in length, and it is green, it becomes pale yellow when it is ripe.
Useful plant parts:
To treat coughing and colds, bronchitis, chest congestion, rheumatism, osteoarthritis, swollen joints and back pain.
Selenium, volatile oils
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A registered nurse for more than forty years, Edna Zawacki has seen and done it all. After working as a volunteer at a clinic near the Height-Ashbury district in San Francisco during the 1960s for a short period, she moved to Grosse Ile, Michigan and spent the better part of the last four decades at Seaway Hospital.
Now 73 years of age, Zawacki is on a mission to help young nurses avoid an injustice she experienced, one she fears may continue to harm thousands of nurses in the future.
Since the early 1960s, Zawacki has created designs and prototypes for a variety of medical products, including a disposable bed pan, a urinary output container, and open window suture packaging, all of which were submitted to major health care corporations and are now on the market. Yet because she didn’t fully understand patenting procedures, she wasn’t properly compensated for her work.
“I don’t want this to happen to anyone ever again,” says Zawacki. “I’m afraid that nurses who make important innovations to medical technologies are still being taken advantage of.”
Growing up in a small town in rural Quebec gave Zawacki a naturally trusting disposition. “When you’re a young girl in a village of only 300 people, you think that a person’s word is sacred. You just automatically trust everyone.”
The first time Zawacki was in a hospital was at the age of nine, when having an appendectomy. It was then she became interested in medicine and nursing. She eventually made her way through school and graduated from Providence Hospital School of Nursing in 1955, later adding a Bachelor of Applied Science from Siena Heights College in Adrian, Michigan in 1986.
She was also an active union organizer with the Michigan Nurses Economic Security Organization, a division of the Michigan Nurses Association, at the Metropolitan Hospital in Detroit during the late 1960s and early 1970s, helping to establish one of the most advanced labor contracts for nurses at that time in the entire state.
A Young Woman’s Journey into Intellectual Property
Zawacki began submitting designs to medical corporations when she was in her late twenties. She originally trusted the private sector and believed they would pay her royalties for the innovations she developed, as they promised. Instead, they took her ideas and ran, making untold profit from her work. “I was so young and naive,” she says. “Written contracts rarely entered the discussion. I just believed what they told me.”
In 1963, Zawacki designed an intake and output plastic container that she submitted to the American Hospital Supply Corporation in Evanston, Illinois. They told her it was impractical and refused to market it. She regrets failing to patent the innovation herself, especially since another nurse patented almost the same design in Texas a few years later.
In 1966, while working at Notre Dame Hospital in San Francisco as a head nurse on a surgical unit, Zawacki designed a type of stackable bedpan that was again submitted to the American Hospital Supply Corporation. She worked with Tom J. Cowley, Assistant Director of New Product Planning and Marketing Research, and signed a disclosure agreement that stated she could not offer the idea to another corporation. After much deliberation, the product ended up on the market by the late 1960s. Yet while the stackable bedpan has become a staple of the hospital environment, Zawacki never received a penny for her work, and when she sought redress, she was ignored. “At that time, I didn’t have the finances to hire an attorney,” she says.
While her naiveté explains why she was so vulnerable to being deceived, it doesn’t explain the consistent deception on the part of corporate representatives. Clearly greed was involved, but Zawacki posits a second factor: sexism. “I actually thought that a petite, twenty-something blonde with dimples could be taken seriously by middle-aged, male professionals in the world of business. Did I ever learn a lesson,” she says.
Zawacki faced similar problems in 1985 when she spoke to Frank Ryan and Robert P. Hickey of Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson, about the development of a specialized suture package. Her new design was simple, but included one added feature: eight plastic, see-through windows that allowed nurses to count how many needles there were before dropping them onto the surgical field. Hickey told her she was creative and saw something unique about the innovation, yet stated that the package was “unworkable” because the windows would destroy the sutures. A year later, however, two Ethicon employees came forward and notified Zawacki that the company was marketing her innovation.
When her lawyer, Doug Springle, wrote to them to ask them about the product, they received a letter back from a Johnson & Johnson lawyer, James Riesenfeld, stating that Ryan and Hickey had no recollection of utilizing any of the work they received from her. “I couldn’t believe it. They acted as if I didn’t even exist,” she says. “And again, I didn’t have the finances to take it to court. The lawyer’s fees alone would have bankrupted me.”
Zawacki today still has many of the original drawings of her innovations. Yet at this point in her life, she has very little trust in medical corporations, which she says “too often exploit the work of decent, creative people who are only trying to help those in need.”
“These companies descend on nurses’ conventions every year, handing out questioners to learn from nurses how to improve their medical products. And what do the nurses get in return? A stuffed toy to give to their children or grandchildren. How many medical corporations would do this if nurses were predominately male?” Zawacki asks.
What Innovators Should Do
“Nurses are the true innovators in the health field since they work with the products on a daily basis. It is they who fully understand the best ways to improve on existing medical technologies,” she says. “I just want young nurses to understand their rights.”
Another danger nurses should be aware of are patent scammers, who will ask for an innovator’s intellectual property and a fee so they can supposedly “register” his or her patent. Complete with “official-looking” correspondence containing fancy-sounding prose, they convince unsuspecting innovators to blindly hand over their ideas. Both the American Intellectual Property Law Association and the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization have published warnings on their websites about these frauds.
The first and best place to go to with any innovation is the United States Patent and Trademark Office, a federal agency under the Department of Commerce that is ultimately responsible for issuing patents and registering trademarks. All the information one needs about registering intellectual property is located on its website at www.uspto.gov.
Finally, nurses should always use a “nondisclosure” or confidentiality agreement when disclosing any innovative idea to a corporation. Most companies will want to use their own agreements, so nurses should always have a lawyer read the agreement first before signing it to ensure they maintain ownership rights to the innovation. This is not a substitute for a patent or patent pending, but an important additional protection.
“Today, creative nurses can’t just be innovators. They have to be smart and savvy businesspeople, too,” warns Zawacki. “There’s nothing wrong per se about working with a corporation to develop a new innovation. But remember to be your own boss, keep your ideas close to you, make a prototype, and then have it patented directly with the government with your name on it. Don’t do as I did, or you may end up with regrets.” | <urn:uuid:e77f29ac-11ae-4535-9a62-798b66f59b1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freelancewrite.org/promises-not-kept-a-warning-to-young-nurses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.976873 | 1,675 | 2.328125 | 2 |
The ultimate pop-culture convention, San Diego Comic-Con, took an unprecedented gamble in July 2020 with Comic-Con at Home, the virtual attempt to capture geek culture in a bottle (and funnel it to the streaming masses).
While virtually connecting an international “community of fans” proved to be a challenge, the annual event known for bringing together outsiders and celebrating inclusion still managed to bring some core issues to the surface.
Whether it’s highlighting the social importance of shared experiences or celebrating a sense of belonging through collective fandom, Comic-Con@Home can serve as a learning experience for future conventions — pushing organizers to rethink what events like these are really about, who they’re for, and who they should represent in the future.
In this episode of The Abstract, we discuss the future of fan communities and what’s in store for LGBTQ superheroes.
Our first story is about Comic-Con at Home, San Diego Comic-Con’s virtual attempt at recreating one of the nation’s biggest annual fan conventions in the face of Covid-19. As mixed reactions from fans highlight the need for truly interactive experiences, could Comic-Con at Home set the stage for the future of conventions?
Our second story takes a closer look at the future of LGBTQ superheroes. Recent Comic-Con panels have allowed artists to stress the need for more LGBTQ roles in movies and on TV — hoping that increased representation in fantasy and action movies in particular can create better, more inclusive stories on screen.
Read the original Inverse stories:
- Comic-Con@Home is missing the best part of Comic-Con: the "third space"
- At Comic-Con, LGBTQ+ actors reveal one way the industry needs to change
- Marvel Studios has a major diversity problem. That needs to change.
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What Is A Yeast Infection?
A physician can advise a remedy for a yeast infection, and this will rely on the severity in the symptoms. Therapy for easy yeast infections will involve making use of an antifungal medication, either prescribed or OTC, for a period of a single to six days. Symptoms will normally disappear inside two months of treatment, but you should see your doctor if your situation recurs. For some women, simple remedy can contain utilizing antifungal drugs or OTC items. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Buy Guru Advise Or Otherwise Read On >>>
Several folks expertise a array of symptoms related with a yeast infection, however the most common symptom is inflammation in the tip from the penis. Treatment for a yeast infection can also be crucial for males, as untreated infections might be transmitted to a companion. Remedies for this condition are obtainable at most drug stores. However, women with weakened immune systems might need a doctor’s assist. For this reason, it is vital to confirm the cause from the symptoms prior to using a treatment.
In the event you can not stand the smell of garlic, you’ll be able to try taking an allicin tablet. These tablets contain antifungal properties and can be applied directly for the vagina. For all those who can not tolerate raw garlic, you can also attempt taking a placebo or a vaginal cream containing allicin. Garlic is a organic antibiotic, antifungal, and antimicrobial. Garlic extracts have shown equivalent outcomes to clotrimazole in treating a yeast infection.
Once you pay a visit to a health care provider, you must have a thorough examination. Your loved ones physician, gynecologist, or sexual wellness clinic medical doctor will execute an exam and gather medical history. A healthcare provider might also take a sample of vaginal secretion from you for analysis. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Take Advantage Of Specialist Assist Or Continue Reading >>> In some circumstances, the symptoms could appear comparable to other conditions. Your healthcare provider may need to conduct a physical exam to confirm the diagnosis.
How Do You Get Yeast Infection – How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away
Symptoms of a yeast infection consist of red, itchy, and painful vaginal tissues. Based on the location, this situation could also have an effect on mucous membranes, just like the labia. To determine regardless of whether you’ve a yeast infection, see a physician. Antifungal medications are often prescribed for the symptoms, as are anti-yeast preparations. Treatments might be either oral or topical, and also the duration of remedy is determined by the severity from the situation.
Symptoms of a yeast infection are distinct for each and every person, but many females expertise them on a typical basis. The main trigger of a vaginal yeast infection may be the fungus Candida albicans. Other causes consist of a disease that weakens the immune system, anxiety, and wearing non-breathable sanitary pads. Another approach to contract a yeast infection is through sex with a man who has glans.
Another typical result in of a vaginal yeast infection is definitely an antibiotic. Antibiotics can kill bacteria that trigger a yeast infection and stop the yeast from developing. Probiotics will help balance bacteria inside the vagina, and some ladies also encounter fewer yeast infections right after taking them. As usually, the very best cure for a yeast infection is always to seek advice from a doctor. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Purchase Experienced Aid Or Otherwise Continue Reading >>> If you’re taking antibiotics, you need to also take probiotics, that are supplements for the body’s immune system. Also, it really is essential to put on cotton underwear and put on loose clothes whenever feasible.
How Long Does A Yeast Infection Last – How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away
If you have ever wondered how long a yeast infection lasts, you happen to be not alone. Yeast infections are a typical vaginal infection that accounts for 1.four million medical doctor visits a year. Whilst yeast overgrowth is a natural procedure that occurs when bacteria and yeast overgrow in the vagina, sexual intercourse with an infected companion can contribute for the overgrowth of yeast. For these factors, treating the infection as soon as possible is essential to minimizing your danger of transmission.
Most yeast infections are mild and go away on their own following a couple of days. However, if the infection persists for much more than a week or two, it may indicate a serious underlying condition. Should you suspect a recurring yeast infection, you should see your medical doctor. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Obtain Specialized Guidance Or Otherwise Please Read On >>> Over-the-counter remedies might be successful for a single infection, but in the event you have recurrent infections, you’ll need a a lot more substantial course of treatment and a maintenance regimen. In some cases, a yeast infection can clear itself in as small as 3 days, while moderate to serious infections can take a week or two.
In the event you notice any of those symptoms, you most likely have a yeast infection. Some women have mild cases that clear up in a few days. Others have moderate to serious infections that will take up to two weeks. Although some ladies are capable to heal the infection on their own, it is important to see a physician as soon as you notice symptoms. Should you fail to treat your infection, you might aggravate the condition and danger developing other STDs.
What Exactly Does A Yeast Infection Really Feel Like
A yeast infection can be embarrassing. It may be accompanied by itching, discomfort, or swelling. You will find a number of treatment choices for BV, such as over-the-counter medications, antibiotics, or creams. For the very best therapy choice, you ought to seek the advice of a health care provider as quickly as you notice symptoms. In most instances, over-the-counter treatment options are not as effective as prescription medications, so make sure to speak to your doctor before starting any therapy.
Symptoms of a yeast infection can variety from mild to severe, based on its location. In extreme circumstances, it can outcome in swelling, pain, and fissures that feel like paper cuts. In any case, it can make you miserable. While over-the-counter medicines for yeast infections are obtainable over-the-counter, you need to see a health-related skilled in the event you suspect which you have this situation. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Secure Expert Service Or Otherwise Read On >>> There are several other conditions that might possess the same symptoms, so it is essential to make sure that the symptoms are really attributable to yeast.
Symptoms of a vaginal yeast infection can range from mild to extreme, but most women encounter recurring episodes of it. Some women even encounter chronic symptoms. Yeast infections typically happen in women that are menstruating, but girls with out this situation don’t encounter this condition. Though a sexually transmitted disease, a yeast infection may cause irritation and discomfort within the vagina. A physician can prescribe an antibiotic if you expertise these symptoms.
Symptoms of a yeast infection consist of vaginal irritation and a white discharge. This discharge can be cottage cheese-like or watery and may also be accompanied by a white discharge. Some females are naturally more vaginal fluid than others, so if yours is different, you need to see a medical doctor. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Consider Specialised Aid Or Otherwise Please Read On >>> Antifungals aren’t successful for a false yeast infection and may prolong the infection.
In spite of the numerous various treatments and remedies for yeast infections, you will find some frequent queries that should be answered to diagnose the infection. It’s essential to determine a medical doctor to rule out other health issues very first, as a yeast infection can mimic numerous other infections. A yeast infection test will determine whether it is a sexually transmitted illness or a different condition. If you suspect that you have a yeast infection, self-treating with OTC medicines could be an choice, but you need to see a physician when the situation becomes serious.
A test that identifies a little amount of yeast in the urine is useful in some circumstances, but isn’t as correct as a biopsy. Because yeast is present inside the physique each of the time, a urine test will not often provide a definitive diagnosis. A vaginal swab can be taken by a medical doctor or by a patient at home. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Take Advantage Of Specialized Advice Or Read On >>> Generally, a doctor will use a microscope to look in the sample.
Yeast infections are quite typical, and 3 out of 4 women will encounter it sooner or later in their lifetime. Many females can successfully treat their infection at home, nevertheless it is still recommended that you see a doctor when the situation becomes chronic. It’s important to note that over-the-counter medicines usually are not suitable for pregnant women or children. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Receive Qualified Assist Or Continue Reading >>> Should you suspect you’ve a yeast infection, you need to seek the advice of your doctor instantly.
In the event you endure from mild symptoms of a yeast infection, you are able to use over-the-counter drugs to eliminate the excess yeast. You will find also many all-natural remedies you can try. You need to note that home remedies aren’t suitable for diabetics, pregnant women, or people with a history of fungal infections. A healthcare provider ought to be consulted if your symptoms persist or if your infection is extreme. For much more information about home remedies, please pay a visit to the Yeast Infection – Remedies
Should you aren’t positive whether or not you have a yeast infection or not, you need to see your physician. The most effective approach to make sure is always to be cautious – antibiotics and home remedies could make the issue worse. A physician can execute gynecological tests, along with prescribe appropriate medications. Home remedies are protected and effective, but you ought to only use them in case your symptoms persist or in the event you have an infection which has been going on for more than 3 weeks. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Obtain Guru Assist Or Please Read On >>> In addition, you ought to only try home treatments in the event you happen to be told by your medical doctor which you have a yeast infection.
Coconut oil is yet another all-natural remedy for a yeast infection. This fatty oil from the coconut has a wide range of rewards, and it has antifungal properties that function against Candida albicans. This oil is one of the handful of home remedies backed by strong evidence. Moreover, you are able to mix it with yogurt or apple cider vinegar to treat your infection. Another home remedy for a yeast infection is tea tree oil, which can be extracted from tea trees. However, it really is suggested that you seek advice from a gynecologist prior to consuming tea tree oil or applying it straight to your vagina.
Does yeast infection trigger burning when peeing? This question could be confusing, but it really is crucial to recognize the variations in between the two circumstances. Yeast infections are brought on by an overgrowth from the fungus Candida albicans. The outcome is inflammation in the vagina and painful urination. Thankfully, you’ll be able to diagnose a yeast infection by oneself. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Look For Qualified Professional Assist Or Please Read On >>>
The symptoms of a yeast infection are similar to these of a urinary tract infection (UTI). A person struggling with a yeast infection may have burning while peeing, itchy and irritated vagina, and a white, clumpy discharge. Additionally, a woman suffering from a yeast infection will also experience pain in the course of sex and low-grade fever. Should you are suffering from a vaginal yeast infection, the symptoms are similar to those of a UTI, nevertheless it is a lot more significant. It could also result in painful vaginal discharge and a swollen, watery vulva.
How Is Yeast Infection Transmitted – How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away
Yeast infection is a sexually transmitted disease. If 1 individual has a yeast infection, it’s likely that the other will get it, as well. In most instances, it goes away on its personal inside two to four days. The duration of remedy depends on the severity in the infection. If the infection is serious, it might need systemic therapy, which could last from 14 to 21 days. In severe instances, a consultation with an infectious illness specialist might be required.
It really is crucial to note that sex can worsen the symptoms of a yeast infection. Friction in the course of sex could make the impacted location much more painful and irritated. It can also slow down the healing procedure. In addition, some topical options for yeast infections can cause condoms to break, growing the danger of pregnancy. So, if you are concerned about obtaining a yeast infection, it really is important to seek health-related interest. >>> How Long Does It Take For A Male Yeast Infection To Go Away – Benefit From Specialised Guidance. | <urn:uuid:df84cfd8-f67b-4ce0-9b79-cf69d84c186d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yeastinfectionreviews.com/faq-01/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-male-yeast-infection-to-go-away-yeast-infection-f-a-qs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.943726 | 2,845 | 1.640625 | 2 |
According to a Nielsen survey, some 73% of global consumers are willing to change their spending habits in order to reduce their environmental impact, and are demanding healthier food for themselves and the planet.
SANA will be shining the spotlight on numerous compelling issues and actions that can be taken in every field (from farming to manufacturing, and from distribution to waste disposal) to safeguard the environment. Agriculture is one of the foremost areas where opting for organic is becoming a game changer.
Organic farming using organic fertilisers and banning the use of pesticides and synthetic fertilisers can increase the biodiversity of the soil and raise the concentration of microorganisms. This, along with other eco-friendly choices such as crop rotation and protecting local plant varieties, can generate much greater environmental benefits than obtaining the same agricultural output using conventional farming methods.
The conference "Environmental sustainability: best practices in support of organic farming" seeks to highlight the many initiatives (some well-known, others less so) and best practices that, together with the decision to adopt organic farming practices, are contributing towards safeguarding the environment and significantly reducing CO2 emissions.
- Giampiero Calzolari (President, BolognaFiere)
- Simona Caselli (Emilia Romagna Councillor for Agriculture, Hunting and Fishing)
- Gianni Castelli (ARERA Component – Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment)
Evidence and concrete actions to reduce environmental impacts:
1) in the large-scale retail trade:
- Chiara Faenza – Head of Sustainability and Innovation values – Department of Quality-Coop Italia - (Coop : Let's give the environment a new footprint)
- Fabio Brescacin – President - NaturaSi
2) in agriculture (agreement between Assobioplatiche and FederBio):
- Paolo Carnemolla – President, FederBio Servizi
- Marco Versari – President, Assobioplastiche
3) in packaging:
- Guido Amato – Director, Owens Illinois - (Facility in Asti for producing glass bottles from recycled glass in the Lombardy region) 4) in the foodservice sector
- Simone Gozzi – Head of Integrated Systems and Nutrition, CAMST (SANA “plastic-free “project at BolognaFiere)
Environmental and social performance: B-Corporation certification
- Nicolas Schilder - Nativa S.r.l. Benefit Company
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Self-esteem is elaborated as subjective emotional evaluation, one’s attitude toward one self and the evaluation of themselves in relation to self-worth. Furthermore it can also be expressed as the confidence and satisfaction associated with the life of a person. Hence researches explored that individual with high self esteem may effectively deal with psychosocial stressors in order to maintain peace and harmony in one’s life. Hence low self esteem can be associated with dissonance (state of mental restlessness, inconsistency of thoughts, attitudes or beliefs) in one’s mind.
Muhammad Saghir has done Msc in applied psychology. Currently he is doing M.phil in clinical psychology from international Islamic University Islamabad. He has keen interest in research hence he has conducted a research on depression and subsyndromal depression.
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This mental or cognitive dissonance propels a person to confront problems. At this stage, if someone has effective abilities to evaluate one’s self and maintain emotional stability may help him/her to utilize effective coping skills. Moreover enhanced confidence and self satisfaction can increase self-efficacy (a belief to execute behavior or do something) that can handle threats effectively. Self esteem and self efficacy are important because the way individual evaluates oneself has an impact on the mechanism of one’s behavior. On the other hand, low self esteem has destructive impact on one’s life such as individuals with low self esteem always struggle to get success, happiness and joyfulness in their lives. They usually have negative evaluation of self they don’t feel themselves worthy of enjoying life.
They also have cognitive errors such as tendency to exaggerate negativity or failure to enhance hopelessness and helplessness. They have maladaptive strategies to overcome helplessness through substance abuse as an escaping mechanism. Consequently they get affected relations and distorted interpersonal, intrapersonal relationships. Additionally individuals who have addictive personality they are likely to have a very common trait of low self-esteem which is a common deficit of their addictive personality. They are more likely to abuse alcohol or other addictive drugs. When people start using substance, they feel that it will increase their self-confidence, because substance abuse helps them to become less aware or concerned with what people think about them. Eventually individuals with low self esteem confide themselves to substance in order to cope with life or psychosocial stressors. The misconception of this positive outcome expectancy may result in vicious cycle of substance abuse disorder and as a result low self esteem can reinforce addiction and keep them trapped into it.
Here are some causes of low self esteem:
- Physical, emotional and sexual child abuse.
- Lack of positive rewards from their immediate environment and harshly criticized.
- Victim of racial prejudice, bullying, lack of connectedness, and physical disability or any source of perceived inferiority.
- Absolute thinking about one’s experiences such as being expected to be perfect all the time. Individuals with low self-esteem were often given messages from parents, teachers, peers, or others that failed experiences were failures of their whole self.
- Exaggeration of negative outcomes. People with low self esteem tend to focus on negative aspects only and always avoid or minimize the positive one.
Effect of low self-esteem develops a sense of learned helplessness because a sense of failure to value one’s self leads a failure to take care of one self. It is also a sign of decrease self-efficacy which limits one’s potential. Low self-esteem may also result in broken or insecurities in relationships, lack of trust, and distorted self image. | <urn:uuid:1fda5379-639d-4cb2-92c0-d7a1ae32bcc0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://willingwaystoday.willingways.org/helplessness-of-low-self-esteem/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945994 | 740 | 2.984375 | 3 |
Not a great deal is known about the life of Swithun. He was educated in Winchester, the capital of Wessex. King Egbert of Wessex appointed Swithun as his chaplain, and part of his responsibilities included the education of the king’s son, Ethelwulf. The Viking attacks on Britain were mounting in intensity during the early years of the 9th century, and the kingdom was frequently at war.
When Ethelwulf succeeded to the throne of Wessex in 839, he consolidated the importance of Wessex as the major kingdom in England. He was, however, more interested in religion than military life. In 852 he chose Swithun as bishop of Winchester. In that position Swithun became famous for his acts of charity and for his encouragement of the building of churches. He played an important role as an adviser of the king, who relied heavily on him. Although a friend of the king, he didn’t put on airs. Swithin made his diocesan journeys on foot; when he gave a banquet, he invited the poor and not the rich.
Swithun at his own request was buried, not in the cathedral, as would have been normal for a bishop, but in the grounds of the cathedral, to reinforce his identity with ordinary people. His tomb was just outside the west door of the cathedral.
A century later, when extensive alterations were made to the cathedral, Swithun’s tomb was relocated and encompassed within the new building. He was moved from his grave to the indoor shrine in the Old Minster at Winchester on 15 July 971. This was accompanied by heavy rain and reports of miraculous cures, giving rise to Swithun’s association with healing and stories about 40 days of rain if rain fell on St Swithun’s Day.
Swithun’s remains came to be regarded as valuable relics and were eventually divided between several small shines in varies places. His main shrine was demolished during the Reformation, but restored in 1962.
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The Biblical definition of the Love of God is found in:
1 John 5:3 – “This is the love of God, that we keep His Commandments, and His Commandments are not burdensome.”
People wrongly assume that keeping God’s Law applied only to the Old Testament believers and today, in the New Testament and under the Covenant of mercy and grace, we are not required to obey the Commandments of God.
The deception that today we don’t need to do anything to be saved, except accepting Christ, and that God will save us even though we don’t deserve it is common among church-going Christians, but it is a destructive lie! In church Christians are told that God’s Grace means “the unmerited favor that God grants people even though they don’t deserve it”. But this contrary to the Word of God itself, which states all the way to Revelation (see the warnings to the 7 churches) that people need to repent and turn away from sin in order to receive God’s forgiveness and be granted the gift of eternal life with Christ.
The word Grace means the knowledge that gives us the power to change (see our teaching on Grace), and change, of course, means, to conform to Jesus in righteousness.
God never said that we don’t need to keep His Commandments and that those who do are being too “legalistic”!
Jesus Himself said in John 14:15 – “If you love Me, keep My Commandments.”
Furthermore, Jesus said in Matthew 5:17 – “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”
What is done away with under the New Covenant are the old requirements, as stated in Colossians 2:14 – “Having wiped out the handwriting of requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us. And He (= Jesus) has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross.”
In other words: the rituals (such as circumcision, animal sacrifices for atonement of sin, etc.), the keeping of the feast days (Sabbath, Passover, Tabernacles, etc.), and the dietary laws of the Old Testament.
Keeping God’s Law is still for today!
And if we love God, we do keep His Commandments! And we are happy about it because keeping His Commandments means to live in righteousness and respect towards ourselves, others, and God. Sin is not Love, sin creates a breach in relationships and separates us from ourselves, others and God, because sin always hurts someone, as plainly stated in:
Romans 13:8-10 – “Owe no one anything except to love one another, because he who loves another has fulfilled the Law. The Commandments: “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not bear false witness, You shall not covet”, and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this statement: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no harm to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the Law.”
God, by teaching us a righteous way of living through His Commandments, which are the Principles of His Kingdom, helps us avoid all the troubles and torment that come from sin and iniquity.
The consequences of sin and iniquity are always heavy and God wants a life filled with blessings for His children, He does not want them under a curse.
When we keep God’s Law, God loves us back and grants us His blessings; and when we make this a way of life and walk according to God’s Commandments daily, we live in peace and joy, and rest in Him.
Jesus confirms this in John 15:9-11 – “As the Father loved Me (= Jesus), I also have loved you; abide in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and abide in His love. These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.”
These are the benefits of the Love of God towards His Children: Blessings of Full Joy for those who keep His Commandments and conform to Christ!
What does it mean to keep God’s Commandments? What does it mean to keep God’s Law? Bible study on keeping God’s Commandments.
Meaning of Keeping God’s Law:
– Sin is not Love, because it always hurts someone
– Keeping God’s Commandments means to live according to God’s righteousness
– Keeping God’s Commandments means to Love
This does not happen in one day; it is a learning process that lasts a lifetime:
1. We learn the Principles of God’s Kingdom (= God’s Commandments/God’s Law) by studying His Word (correctly translated and carefully interpreted in its context);
2. We apply those principles to our life in the sincerity of heart;
3. We conform to the sinless nature of God little by little, day by day;
4. We reap the reward of God’s blessings by seeing ourselves changed and receiving eternal life with Christ.
Having said this, we will also say that God’s Commandments are not burdensome or heavy, as the Scripture says, but if you have a Broken Heart you will find them hard to keep until your heart is healed. So, it is important that you allow God to heal your heart and remove the oppression that keeps you from your full Joy.
As we walk in God’s Law, go through a soul refining process and conform to Christ, love is perfected in us, and in the Day of Judgment, we are confident that we are saved because as God is, so are we in our lifetime.
1 John 4:17 – “Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have fearless confidence in the Day of Judgment, because as He is, so are we in this world.”
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NCERT Solutions Class 11 Chemistry Chapter 8
NCERT Solutions for Class 11 Chemistry Chapter 8 Redox Reaction - PDF Download
Learn from the teachers all across the country with Vidyakul’s NCERT Solutions For Class 11 Chemistry Chapter 8 Redox Reaction Free PDFs Download sitting in the comfort of your homes.
The main topics covered in Chapter 8 Redox Reaction are as follows:
Classical idea of redox reactions – oxidation and reduction reactions
Redox reactions in terms of electron transfer reactions
- Competitive Electron Transfer Reactions
- OXIDATION NUMBER
- Types of Redox Reactions
- Balancing of Redox Reactions
- Redox Reactions as the Basis for Titrations
- Limitations of Concept of Oxidation Number
- REDOX REACTIONS AND ELECTRODE PROCESSES
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Among the first bills submitted this legislative session is a proposal from a trio of Republicans to create a drug-testing program for people seeking unemployment insurance.
Perhaps the most important part of the legislation from Representatives Phil Lovas and David Livingston and Senator Judy Burges is that it wouldn't apply to everyone seeking benefits.
This bill is a result of a federal battle in 2012, when members of Congress argued over extensions of the payroll tax cut. The deal included a number of things, including giving states the ability to drug-test applicants for unemployment assistance if they're pursuing work in an industry that typically demands drug testing.
There's been an argument about how extensive the list of jobs that require drug tests would be. The federal Department of Labor is tasked with making the rule about that, and it appears that it hasn't done so.
A law similar to the one proposed here was passed in Texas last year, and according to a University of Houston Law Center analysis, a total of nine states have adopted a similar law.
Here's an interesting caveat to Arizona's bill, House Bill 2030. If someone applies for unemployment benefits, he or she would have to take a "drug-screening assessment" before being forced to provide a urine sample.
According to the text of the legislation, "The drug-screening assessment must consist of a written questionnaire to be completed by the individual and must be designed to accurately determine the reasonable likelihood that the individual is using a drug."
If someone passes the written test, then he or she wouldn't have to take the drug test. This apparently leaves open the possibility to fill out this application with a crack pipe in your left hand, while writing, "Drugs? Never heard of 'em!" with your right hand, and your check will be in the mail shortly.
Those who failed the written test and the drug test would have to wait four weeks before testing again. The bill also would provide several other caveats, so someone who fails a test for a prescribed medication or is actively attending a treatment program would remain eligible for unemployment benefits.
Click here for the complete text of the bill.
In 2009, Arizona became the first state to pass a bill calling for drug-testing welfare recipients, and it was reported a few years later that a grand total of one person had failed the drug test. The convenient argument was that the drug-testing discouraged drug users from applying for welfare.
In 2012, Republican Steve Smith, then in the Senate, proposed mandatory testing of all people seeking to collect unemployment benefits, plus random drug testing for those who continued to receive benefits. That bill passed the Senate, but was held in the House.
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OYIS has around 250 students across our two campuses. Both campuses are centered in the heart of Osaka with easy access to public transportation.
Our students from ages 3-14 spend some or all of their time at our original home in Nakatsu, just northwest of Osaka’s largest transportation hub, Umeda. Repurposed from a traditional Japanese elementary school, the Nakatsu Campus is now the thriving heart of OYIS.
The modern and purpose-built Tosabori campus opened its doors in August 2020. Located in the Osaka YMCA’s headquarters building in the business district, the Tosabori Campus is an entire floor dedicated to supporting and fostering our secondary students as they pursue their studies.
A passion project of one of our Early Childhood educators, the organic garden has developed on the Nakatsu campus as a place for our younger students to learn about growth, life cycles, caring for living things, and getting good and dirty!
Gardening is educational and develops new skills including:
The Nakatsu campus swimming pool is the source of endless hours of learning and fun. When available, students swim during PE class, and compete against other schools in swimming races. In addition, swimming is an extremely important life skill. The most important reason is that swimming is the only sport which can save your child’s life.
But it is not just fun! Swimming also provides loads of health benefits which can help to keep your children healthy and happy at the same time. For example, swimming keeps your child’s heart and lungs healthy, improves strength and flexibility, increases stamina, and even improves balance and posture.
Another great thing about swimming is that children of any age or ability can take part and it is more accessible for children with additional needs than almost any other sport.
Finally, swimming provides challenges and rewards accomplishments, which helps children to become self-confident and believe in their abilities.
OYIS employs a licensed nurse (看護師) at the Nakatsu campus and has a specialized health center (保健室). We believe that healthy children learn better; educated children grow to raise healthier families. Our school nurse works to assure that children have access to educational opportunities regardless of their state of health.
One of the facilities that we share with the Osaka YMCA is their Tosabori Auditorium, located on the second floor of the Osaka YMCA building. This is a great space for ceremonies, performances, and other large-scale group activities.
One of the great benefits of being connected with the Osaka YMCA is our relationship with the health and wellness aspects of the Y. The Tosabori building is equipped with a full-size gymnasium in the basement, as well as a small workout space and a dance studio. Students can schedule a time to use these spaces or can use time during lunch to stretch their legs and play a little basketball. Even older students like to be active during the day!
The Tosabori building is equipped with a small recording studio – the perfect space for our IBDP Music students to compose and produce their creations. The studio is a small one, but has a mixing board and sound-muffling features. We are looking forward to hearing all the amazing music that comes out of that little space! | <urn:uuid:7c75b568-1e3f-42fc-8ac9-6c4a4c3f8f41> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oyis.org/explore/our-campuses/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970221 | 691 | 1.859375 | 2 |
The Strange World of the People's Mujahedin
The People's Mujahedin of Iran - terrorists, victims or Iranian government-in-waiting? **Please note this programme is subject to a correction, click 'More Programme Information' for further detail**
***Please note this programme is subject to a correction: It is stated in the documentary that the UN has responsibility for Camp Liberty – in fact, this responsibility lies with the Iraqi government***
The People's Mujahedin of Iran - a group of dissident Iranians who have been fighting to topple the Mullahs since the 1980s - say they fear they are about to be massacred.
Over 3,000 PMOI members – designated terrorists by the US and a cult by some former members - live in Iraq at Camp Ashraf, 40 miles north of Baghdad and 70 miles from Iran itself.
The camp residents say they are vulnerable because with the US now having left Iraq, they are at the mercy of the pro-Iranian, Iraqi government, which is demanding the camp be closed down.
Whether they leave voluntarily, or by force, leave they must.
The PMOI has a history of killing Americans and mounting attacks within Iran.
But it now says it has renounced violence and should be removed from America's list of designated foreign terrorist organisations.
Its high profile PR campaign involves paying senior retired US officials who then speak on its behalf.
We report on the way in which a former pariah group accused of killing Americans has won over intelligence experts, generals, and congressmen from both sides of the political divide.
As the deadline for the closing of Camp Ashraf draws near we ask just who are the People's Mujahedin of Iran - terrorists or freedom fighters?
A cult or a deeply committed army who could be used by the US to fight for change in Iran?
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Animal testing is a grave concern for me. It is an inhumane process. I believe we should make ingredients more transparent and test each one of them like EU registration process.
Ihad the pleasure of interviewing a Renowned cosmetic researcher Young Lin. He founded Derm Institute in 2009 after successfully treating his father’s post-chemo skin issues. Young’s father was fortunate to overcome liver cancer, but the illness left his skin badly scarred and sensitive to most products. At the time, Young had a prestigious career in skincare and was working at various hospitals in Taiwan as an eastern therapeutic researcher specializing in Chinese herbs. When Young was invited to attend a plant stem cell seminar in Miami he jumped at the opportunity, eager to find more information that would allow him to rehabilitate his father’s skin.
At the Miami workshop, Young was able to test new ingredients and discovered herbal antioxidants which he used to create a topical ointment. By utilizing an Eastern therapeutic antioxidant complex, Young was able to reverse his father’s skin damage and restore it back to its original health. The results were astounding, which inspired Young to share his revolutionary skincare regime and include his unique Eastern therapeutic antioxidant complex and use the highest medical-grade ingredients to dramatically improve even the most challenging skin conditions in every product of the Derm Institute collection.
Through the use of microarray, a high-tech device from the pharmaceutical industry that allows scientists to test ingredients and examine gene activity, Derm Institute has discovered powerful new compounds that affect the aging process. This innovative approach to skincare allows the body to reactivate specific gene functions, trigger signals that reverse signs of aging, and increase an overall youthful appearance.
Derm Institute values an eco-friendly approach to sourcing and extracting all ingredients. All formulations are free from parabens, sulfates, petrochemicals, synthetic dyes, animal products, and cruelty-free. All products are made in the United States with ingredients derived from the stems and seeds of plants, which are the most durable and least affected by pollution. Through a potent combination of antioxidants, groundbreaking peptides, and advanced delivery systems, Derm Institute products are able to achieve instant and cumulative results. Derm Institute is an innovator in the luxury skincare industry and continues to receive awards and accolades for its exceptional products.
Thank you so much for doing this with us! Before we dive in, our readers would love to learn a bit more about you. Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?
When my father went through chemotherapy for his cancer back in 2002, his body weakened and his skin had also become dry and irritated. It seemed like nothing on the market could reverse the effects chemotherapy had on his skin. On top of using lotion and body oil, I tried to use Eastern therapeutic herbal-based ointment to help alleviate inflammation, combat allergies, and strengthen skin barrier abilities. After a few weeks his skin’s dry itchiness and peeling got better. After just 2 months, his skin condition stabilized. That prompted my interest in researching further into Eastern therapeutic herbs. At the First International Stem Cell Workshop in 2008, I met a few stem cells and genetics scientists. They helped me understand DNA genetic testing technology. I found that we are able to properly discover which type of plant ingredients can have a positive influence on skin cell genes, thereby improving skin condition. That’s how Derm Institute products were born.
Are you able to identify a “tipping point” in your career when you started to see success? Did you start doing anything different? Are there takeaways or lessons that others can learn from that?
There was a famous celebrity that really liked our eye cream! She wanted to “look into” our formula in hopes of formulating her own skincare line. Eventually she gave up because she couldn’t obtain our exclusive formulation. She ended up wanting to become an investor in our company instead. It was in that moment I knew we reached more success than I’d previously realized.
None of us are able to achieve success without some help along the way. Is there a particular person to whom you are grateful who helped get you to where you are? Can you share a story about that?
I want to thank Dr. Brandt and his former CEO, Al Roman. Because of their trust in me, I became Dr. Brandt skincare’s exclusive distributor in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China from 2004–2009. This has allowed me to accumulate my experience in setting up and expanding a brand. In 2008, through Al Roman’s recommendation, I participated in the First Internation Stem Cell Workshop. This allowed me to understand developing skincare products with Eastern herbs and how to utilize DNA gene testing technology to achieve hi-tech and effective formulas.
Ok super. Let’s now shift to the main part of our discussion. The beauty industry today has access to technology that was inconceivable only a short time ago. Can you tell us about the “cutting edge” (pardon the pun) technologies that you are working with or introducing? How do you think that will help people?
We’re going to introduce skin microbiome technology in our upgraded Cellular Brightening Essence. Like the gut, the skin has its own unique ecosystem consisting of millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses which make up the skin microbiota. The new ingredient helps to minimize Corynebacterium Kroppenstedtii which is a target for the control of skin redness to prevent facial redness and to revive dull-looking skin. This technology can identify key bacteria and able to regulate them to prevent inflammation and balance skin’s PH level. Other skin care products have never had similar technology to target bacteria imbalance and protect skin health.
I have not seen this show personally. But there is always some fear associated with technological advancements in our world. We eventually adapt. I am in support of our progression
Can you share 3 things that most excite you about the “beauty-tech” industry?
- Some brands have used artificial intelligence to personalize skincare analysis and user recommendations, such as personalized skincare regimens based on machine learning algorithms, which incorporate many unique skin types, lifestyle, and environmental factors.
- Genomics is also playing a bigger role in personalizing beauty recommendations. Companies are offering beauty-focused DNA testing kits, which can curate product recommendations or branded and personalized products based on users’ specific genomic skincare traits.
- Gene editing technology could play a bigger role in beauty ingredient production in the future. For example, it may help farmers grow pathogen-resistant crops or create new species of plants. It could eventually translate to cosmetics ingredient production.
Can you share 3 things that most concern you about the industry? If you had the ability to implement 3 ways to reform or improve the industry, what would you suggest?
- Animal testing is a grave concern for me. It is an inhumane process. I believe we should make ingredients more transparent and test each one of them like EU registration process.
- Globalized regulations for skincare is a another concern for me. Every country has different standards which confuses consumers when they’re determining which country’s standard is correct. Also, it is very time consuming and expensive to run multiple trials and tests. I’m hoping we come up with a global standardized registration in the future.
- Eco-friendly packaging demand is a big one. We use eco-friendly ink and material for package. This is important to us, but sometimes consumers complain peel paint from bottles. We want to protect the environment better quality eco-friendly ink rather than non-ecofriendly ink while maintaining quality. We want to make it a point to educate consumers about eco-friendly packaging and let them know we are willing to spend more money to protect our environment. We share many of the same values they do.
You are an expert about beauty. Can you share 5 ideas that anyone can use “to feel beautiful”? (Please share a story or example for each.)
For me, wellness is a huge part of feeling my best. I think when we are healthy and in the best frame of mind we emanate beauty. Here’s what I do to feel great.
- Every morning when I wake up, I drink 8 oz water with a few slices of lemon to help my digestive system.
- I walk briskly for 30 mins to make myself sweat 3 times a week
- I take supplements like Curcumin daily to boost antioxidants, reduce inflammation and maintain heart health
- I make sure I take at least 2 vacations a year to relax and stay creative.
- I read a book once a week to make sure I’m constantly challenging my mind to keep learning new knowledge. It’s also a great way to stay away from blue light devices in order to maintain eye and skin health.
You are a person of great influence. If you could inspire a movement that would bring the most amount of good to the most amount of people, what would that be? You never know what your idea can trigger. 🙂
Education and skills training are endlessly beneficial disadvantaged children. I donate 10% of my monthly income to related charity organizations for that reason. I wish more people who are able and with the means would donate some of their income to these organizations that provide education to these struggling and disadvantaged kids. They are our future.
Can you please give us your favorite “Life Lesson Quote”? Can you share how that was relevant to you in your life?
The quote that comes to mind is “Go your way and let people speak!” It comes from Dante Alighieri. When I hear this it reminds me of my beginnings. When I started Derm Institute, even when no one believes in this, I still decided to continue my dream. Because of my own determination and all the help I’ve received from many people along the way, I am where I am today.
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Strawberry Crisp is a dessert with two crispy layers of an oatmeal crust filled in and baked with a fresh strawberry mixture in the middle. If you love strawberry desserts, be sure to try my Skillet Strawberry Crumble!
Ever since I made my Apple Crisp with double the crisp, I knew I had to try it with other fruit! I have a Blueberry Crisp, Pumpkin Crisp, and a Rhubarb Crisp. So, it made total sense to use some fresh strawberries in the recipe for this Strawberry Crisp.
Strawberry Crisp Recipe
Like I stated above, one secret that sets this recipe apart from other strawberry crisp recipes is the double crisp. The crisp and the strawberry mixture are the two parts that come together to make this yummy dessert!
Strawberry Mixture Ingredients (full recipe below)
- Fresh strawberries
- Brown sugar
- All-purpose flour
- Vanilla extract
- Quick-cooking oats
- All-purpose flour
- Brown sugar
- Baking powder
- Baking soda
How to Make the Strawberry Mixture
First, prepare the strawberries by washing and quartering them. After you have washed the strawberries, remove the leafy green parts of the berries (‘hulling the strawberries). Instead of simply cutting off the tops straight across, insert a sharp knife at an angle and rotate the strawberry in a circle until the stem pulls out. Cut the smaller strawberries in half and quarter the larger berries.
Place the quartered strawberries in a bowl. Add the brown sugar, flour, and the vanilla, stirring gently. Cover all the strawberries with the sugar mixture. Set that aside as you make the oat crisp.
How to Make the Crisp
Before mixing together the crisp ingredients, get the cold butter cubed. Then, combine the rest of the ingredients in a large bowl. Add in the cubed butter, using your hands to combine it all together. The butter pieces should be pea-sized and completely coated. This will make about six cups.
Spread half (about 3 cups) of the mixture over the bottom of the prepared pan and press flat. Pour the strawberry mixture over top and press down with a rubber spatula. Pour the remaining crisp mixture over the top of the strawberries and bake uncovered for 35-45 minutes.
One thing that makes this recipe unique is that the oat mixture is used on the top AND the bottom. The amazing thing about this layer is that it changes depending on how long you bake the crisp.
If you bake at 375°F for 35 minutes, the bottom oat mixture will be slightly caramelized and gooey while the top will be perfect crispy deliciousness. If you bake at 375°F for 45 minutes, the bottom oat mixture will be crispy throughout. The top will be darker, but if you prefer a less dark crispy top you can add a foil tent to the crisp after 35 minutes.
How to Serve Strawberry Crisp
The jury is still out on whether to serve Strawberry Crisp warm or cold. Some liked it better warm, but others preferred it cold. I liked it both ways, actually, and it wasn’t because I was trying to make everyone happy. I simply loved it both ways! It was wonderful plain, but it is also wonderful with ice cream or homemade whipped cream on top.
Store at room temperature, covered, for about a day. It will last up to a week if stored in the refrigerator.
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- 6 cups fresh strawberries, hulled and quartered
- ¼ cup (50g) brown sugar
- 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups (180g) quick-cooking oats
- 2 cups (250g) all-purpose flour
- 2 cups (400g) packed brown sugar
- ½ teaspoon baking powder
- ½ teaspoon baking soda
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1 cup (2 sticks, 226g) butter, cubed while cold
- Preheat oven to 375°F. Prepare a 9x13 pan with baking spray or coating with butter.
- Place quartered strawberries in a bowl. Add brown sugar, flour, and vanilla. Stir gently and make sure every piece of fruit is covered in the sugar mixture. Set aside.
- Combine the oats, flour, brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and cinnamon together. Add in the cubed butter and use your hands to combine. You want the butter to be pea-sized and coated entirely. You should have 6 cups.
- Spread 3 cups over the bottom of your prepared pan and press flat. Pour the strawberry mixture over top and press down with rubber spatula. Pour remaining crisp mixture over top of the strawberries and bake uncovered at 375°F for 35-45 minutes.
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By Leigh Eric Schmidt
HarperSanFrancisco, 352 pages, $26.95
Where two or three Americans are gathered, they will sooner or later discuss religion. In blue states and cities, the tone of the conversation normally resembles that of worried Londoners in 1665 mulling the public-health situation, and at least one of the party will draw a very familiar distinction: I’m not religious, but I’m spiritual. Though the phrase is clichéd, you know pretty exactly what is meant. Spiritual in this context means a general interest in the metaphysical, a free-floating mysticism that abhors creeds, orthodoxies or rituals. It aims at spiritual enlightenment and progress, in harmony with all other races and cultures. The term implies a quest for the Higher Truths taught by all world religions but without the snares and diversions that fallible human beings have over the centuries introduced into those systems. Commonly, the spiritual person will graze across the broad pastures of the world’s scriptures and devotional works, sampling a Christian scripture here, a poem of Rumi there, perhaps with doses of Black Elk and Thich Nhat Hanh, the Gospel of Thomas and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Internet has vastly enhanced the resources available for modern seekers.
Americans commonly assume that such a mix-and-match cultural package is a recent development, a product of the mystical enthusiasm that succeeded the political obsessions of the late 1960s. And, indeed, New Age thought, as we know it today, congealed around 1980. Yet as Leigh Schmidt reminds us in his readable and highly informative recent book Restless Souls , the roots of this sort of spirituality go back much further in American history, at least to Emerson and the Transcendentalists”and perhaps all the way back to the Rosicrucians and alchemists who were in America decades before the Great Revival of the 1730s.Nearly every remark Schmidt quotes sounds as though it could come from the modern spiritual but not religious crowd. As early as 1871, for instance, Thomas Wentworth Higginson declared that I do not wish to belong to a religion only but to the religion; it must not include less than the piety of the world. In 1905, George Santayana wrote that this aspiring side of religion may be called spirituality, making this the higher side of religion. Ralph Waldo Trine assured his listeners that There is no separation between your soul and the soul of the universe. In the deepest sense, you are the great universal soul . . . . Man is God incarnate. Schmidt is interesting on the history of the word seeker, another Emersonian contribution, though one with roots in seventeenth-century England. Time and time again, we see that the New Age is anything but.
Restless Souls is a genuinely likeable and unfailingly sympathetic study of a series of movements and thinkers in the American spiritual tradition. The book disappoints slightly in its chronological coverage. Though promising a survey from Emerson to Oprah, most of the material ranges from around 1840 to the 1930s, with not so many recent studies. (Schmidt is very good though on the evolving myth of the allegedly colonial-era meditation found in Desiderata , actually the twentieth-century work of Max Ehrmann).
Still, Schmidt’s Restless Souls demonstrates the importance of his subjects and their impact on critical social developments. The religious movements he discusses attracted the efforts of a great many women in these years, and throughout the story, we see the intimate alliance between the metaphysical group and social progressives or sexual reformers. The metaphysical groups also served as important conduits for foreign or innovative ideas into mainstream American culture. As the nineteenth century progressed, they were major vehicles for the growing influence of Asian religions, and they drew heavily on Hindu and Buddhist insights.
Also persistent were links with healing movements: Mesmerism, Christian Science, New Thought, and the trend commonly described as Mind Cure, which denied the existence of objective reality. Among the sources of Mind Cure, William James offered a catalogue that serves equally well to describe the roots of the spiritual ideology. James specifically listed: the four Gospels; another is Emersonianism or New England Transcendentalism; another is Berkeleyan idealism; another is spiritism, with its messages of law’ and progress’ and development’; another the optimistic popular science evolutionism . . . and finally, Hinduism has contributed a strain . . . . With its constant thought of prosperity, its opulent-consciousness, its belief in the limitless possibilities of the individual, [it] is simply American psychology on dress parade.
Naturally enough, these ideas meshed easily enough with later psychologies and therapy movements. Restless Souls demonstrates yet again the thoroughly religious character of American culture, and reminds us that occult, mystical, and metaphysical doctrines are so strongly represented in our tradition that they can scarcely be labeled fringe beliefs. Rather, we should see them as a third tradition, as much part of the inheritance as evangelical Protestantism and Catholicism.
Schmidt sees the spiritual tradition in highly positive terms, and argues strongly for its contemporary relevance. Following writers such as Jim Wallis, he argues that liberal and radical Americans should not fear to use religious thought and rhetoric, but should proudly claim their basic American inheritance. For Wallis, this means the prophetic and radical voices of evangelicalism, while for Schmidt, it means mystical or spiritual religion. Restless Souls is thus a call to recover the spiritual resources of the liberal tradition. The new spirituality, he writes, is old and not other. The Spiritual Left goes deep into the grain of American culture; it is here for the long haul. For all its failings and errors, it contributes mightily to the incomplete labor of democratic freedom and cosmopolitan progressivism. Modern heirs of the spiritual include affiliated and unaffiliated seekers, mainline Protestants, Reform Jews, liberal Catholics, Quakers, Unitarians, Vedantists, Bahai’is, spiritually minded feminists, members of meditation centers, social activists, tamed cynics and intractable progressives.
Unfortunately, the political impact of such a mobilization would be limited, given that few of these constituencies can really be described as non-aligned, or as anything other than true-blue Democrats. And I fear that Schmidt’s characterization of the Spiritual Left is also excessively rosy, largely due to the limits of his study. He is focusing on thinkers rather than mass audiences”and on these writers and activists only as they contributed to the metaphysical and spiritual movement. He does not therefore explore the many groups that drew on the same traditions but mingled them with far less palatable occult ideas. When seeking the roots of spirituality, we could just as easily look to someone like Charles Fillmore, whose popularizing magazine Modern Thought in the 1880s offered articles on spiritualism, Unitarianism, Rosicrucianism, transcendentalism, Christian Science and New Thought. At least from the mid-nineteenth century on, spirituality was the stock in trade of countless cults and groups claiming to offer the essence of spirituality to gullible mass publics, commonly with their particular leader or guru as supreme prophet, seer, and revelator.
In practice, it is nearly impossible to draw a clear line between the austere thought-world of Schmidt’s Spiritual Left and the freewheeling esoteric subculture of lost continents, telepathy, numerology, Rosicrucianism, and the Great Pyramid, not to mention cult communes and compounds. These, I submit, are lineal heirs of the Emersonians, quite as evidently as the ethical splendors of a Howard Thurman. From Schmidt’s exalted account of the elegant world of Progressive-era spiritual thinkers, we would scarcely imagine the mass industry in esoteric and metaphysical ideas from about 1915 on. This marketing boom reached its height in the interwar years with such charter members of the spiritual-industrial complex as Psychiana, MIGHTY I AM, the Silver Shirts of William Dudley Pelley, and a dozen mail-order cults dispensing the wisdom of the ages. As Charles W. Ferguson wearily remarked in the 1920s, It should be obvious to any man who is not one himself that the land is overrun with messiahs. When one decides to embark on a voyage of spiritual seeking, the journey has no clear destination.
Equally, I wonder about the progressive and democratic implications of the term Spiritual Left. America’s esoteric and metaphysical movements have often demonstrated strongly authoritarian currents, which have been further reinforced by the Asian notion of the guru and the teacher-pupil relationship. By the 1930s, many of the American esoteric and occult movements were rampantly pro-fascist. We see a worrying parallel to this in the European Traditionalist movements recently described in Mark Sedgwick’s brilliant 2004 book Against the Modern World . For these Europeans, religious liberalism began with an enlightened and Europeanized version of Sufi Islam, that served much the same role that Hinduism did for the Transcendentalists. But Traditionalists, too, often ended up flirting with fascism. Personally, if I was looking for the religious roots of America’s liberal tradition, I would look more to the Protestant Biblical and prophetic tradition and to Catholic theories of social justice.
Another less-than-desirable feature of the Spiritual Left is its endemic elitism and contempt for the ordinary religion of the masses. If spirituality is the higher side of religion, what then is the lower side? Presumably, anything that involves faith, dogma, ritual, and more or less what the common folk in the pews do. A current of elitism can also be traced to the exaltation of wilderness, and the consequent loathing of cities, modernity, and mass civilization”in short, of people. When reading the section of Restless Souls on hermitism, I inevitably thought of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire , an environmentalist bible but also an alarming plea for the reduction of human population by whatever means might be necessary.
In short, Leigh Eric Schmidt’s Restless Souls does a valuable service in placing the metaphysical tradition firmly where it belongs in the story of American religious thought. Ideas like those presented in the book are indeed old and not other, and they reflect the mental worlds of many Americans. Churches need an apologetic to counter the spiritual arguments, to show just exactly why religion is not an inferior or tainted form of human behavior. Above all, they need to show seekers that virtually everything they are seeking can in fact be found within the cultural resources of Christianity”and that includes such heady concepts as union with the divine. As the phrase should read, I’m religious, and that includes spiritual.
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Peoria County emergency radio system making switch to digital
A massive overhaul of the radio system used by emergency responders in Peoria County to a digital interface that promises improved coverage and more comprehensive communication abilities is underway.
The switch has been years in the making and will allow for the first time members of different agencies — city police and volunteer firefighters in rural areas of the county — to communicate directly with their regular equipment in instances like large-scale disasters.
“It’s going to be up to us to use the system in a cooperative mode during large events so we know what to do during a disaster,” said Peoria City/County 911 Dispatch Director David Tuttle. “We want to make sure that we’re not reliant on cellphones. We’ve tried to build in as much backup as we can … so we don’t have to rely on the public network.”
Big changes are in store for civilians who listen to radio traffic, as well. Only scanners able to decipher P-25 digital signals similar to those broadcast on the Starcom system by Illinois State Police will be able to pick up radio traffic when the new countywide system goes live in the coming months. Those devices tend to be the most expensive models, costing hundreds of dollars each.
Dispatch communication will continue to be broadcast without encryption, though Tuttle said there has not yet been discussion about whether to continue streaming the audio online as it does now. He cautioned that there is no indication the practice will be discontinued, just that it has not yet been broached.
The new radio system is in the middle of its first major test, with crews driving every road in the county with equipment to test signal strength. The geographic area has been broken down into about 2,700 grids to cover approximately 630 square miles of jurisdiction.
“This is just the first step of the testing process,” said Dan Voiland, a consultant who has been brought in by the Emergency Telephone System Board to oversee installation of the new system. “That normally will take two weeks, but the big test that follows that is the audio test. … That’s really where the rubber hits the road.”
Part of that audio test includes using the system in various buildings around the county to determine proper penetration of radio signals and whether bidirectional amplifiers are necessary to boost the signals.
Some squad cars and fire department vehicles have been equipped with mobile boosters along with new radios that will work with the system. Many of those new units throughout the county were purchased with federal grant money procured through interagency cooperation.
New dispatch consoles and other equipment will be installed at the main dispatch center in the first two weeks of February, when staff work out of backup locations as part of an annual test of the county’s backup systems.
Radio traffic is expected to switch over to the new system in May, though permission for a delay beyond the end of June has been sought from the Federal Communication Commission as a precautionary measure. The Peoria dispatch center was one of the few facilities in the nation to receive an extension for narrowband requirements that took effect at the beginning of 2013 because of the extensive overhaul of the system it already had planned.
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Powerful Explanation Why You Should Be Operating
Running mitigates the negative influence that persistent stress has on brain, based on a rodent study by Brigham Young University. Contrary to what you might assume, cardio exercise – such as running – truly does promote skeletal muscle progress, a research published within the journal Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews discovered.
The Benefits Of Operating
This ensures you do your exercise during your tight schedule. When you start working, you will develop a relationship with different runners. The runners’ community principally has very supportive people. Doctors emphasize on the significance of jogging or operating for adults.
Mellow workouts like this are essential for all runners, novices and veterans alike, and are often carried out the day after a extra bodily demanding run . “You should be able to have full conversations with individuals on these runs, and never really feel any burn within … Read More | <urn:uuid:51cd458f-b927-4c99-bece-869cf9074004> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marontherun.com/tag/superb | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944006 | 182 | 1.671875 | 2 |
O’Bryan, S. J. et al. Progressive Resistance Training for Concomitant Increases in Muscle Strength and Bone Mineral Density in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. Sports Medicine 52, 1939–1960 (2022).
Background Older adults experience considerable muscle and bone loss that are closely interconnected. The efficacy of progressive resistance training programs to concurrently reverse/slow the age-related decline in muscle strength and bone mineral density (BMD) in older adults remains unclear.
We aimed to quantify concomitant changes in lower-body muscle strength and BMD in older adults following a progressive resistance training program and to determine how these changes are influenced by mode (resistance only vs. combined resistance and weight-bearing exercises), frequency, volume, load, and program length.
MEDLINE/PubMed and Embase databases were searched for articles published in English before 1 June, 2021. Randomized controlled trials reporting changes in leg press or knee extension one repetition maximum and femur/hip or lumbar spine BMD following progressive resistance training in men and/or women ≥ 65 years of age were included. A random-effects meta-analysis and meta-regression determined the effects of resistance training and the individual training characteristics on the percent change (∆%) in muscle strength (standardized mean difference) and BMD (mean difference). The quality of the evidence was assessed using the Cochrane risk-of-bias tool (version 2.0) and Grading of Recommendation, Assessment, Development, and Evaluation (GRADE) criteria.
Seven hundred and eighty studies were identified and 14 were included. Progressive resistance training increased muscle strength (∆ standardized mean difference = 1.1%; 95% confidence interval 0.73, 1.47; p ≤ 0.001) and femur/hip BMD (∆ mean difference = 2.77%; 95% confidence interval 0.44, 5.10; p = 0.02), but not BMD of the lumbar spine (∆ mean difference = 1.60%; 95% confidence interval − 1.44, 4.63; p = 0.30). The certainty for improvement was greater for muscle strength compared with BMD, evidenced by less heterogeneity (I2 = 78.1% vs 98.6%) and a higher overall quality of evidence. No training characteristic significantly affected both outcomes (p > 0.05), although concomitant increases in strength and BMD were favored by higher training frequencies, increases in strength were favored by resistance only and higher volumes, and increases in BMD were favored by combined resistance plus weight-bearing exercises, lower volumes, and higher loads.
Progressive resistance training programs concomitantly increase lower-limb muscle strength and femur/hip bone mineral density in older adults, with greater certainty for strength improvement. Thus, to maximize the efficacy of progressive resistance training programs to concurrently prevent muscle and bone loss in older adults, it is recommended to incorporate training characteristics more likely to improve BMD. | <urn:uuid:50e83e61-5e98-4058-8d78-11d4fc51b577> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sasma.org.za/articles/progressive-resistance-training-for-concomitant-increases-in-muscle-strength-and-bone-mineral-density-in-older-adults-a-systematic-review-and-meta-analysis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.92889 | 632 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Most people call it pond scum; but to David Sinton and his research team at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering, it’s the future.
Pond scum—the greenish slime that forms on the surface of ponds and lakes—is made of green algae and cyanobacteria (once called blue-green algae). These photosynthetic microorganisms use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide into chemical products like sugar, giving off oxygen as a byproduct.
Most microscopic algae are usually barely visible in the water they inhabit; but during warm weather the algae can rapidly grow to form a large mass called an algal bloom that tends to concentrate on the water’s surface. Blooms usually occur during the summer and early fall, when temperature and light conspire to generate optimal conditions for massive growth. Dense blue-green algae blooms can make the water look like a bluish-green pea soup, or a shiny paint slick.
Green algae blooms are often bright green to yellow-green, forming a bubbling soup of growing and dying algae. In enriched streams and lakes, Cladophora or Spirogyra (known sat string algae) may form long skeins of green “hair” draped over rocks and waving with the current, like in the opposite image.
Fresh blue-green algae blooms often smell like fresh cut grass; older blooms often smell like rotten garbage. Most algae blooms are short-lived and will break down in a few days or weeks. Blue-green algae (cyanobacteria) are generally harmless; however, under certain circumstances some may produce toxins that can be harmful to humans and animals.
It’s generally thought that cyanobacteria oxidized the early reducing atmosphere, precipitating the “rusting of the Earth” (the Great Oxygenation Event) some 2.3 billion years ago. This would have dramatically changed the composition of life forms on Earth as increased oxygen stimulated biodiversity and complexity while negatively impacting anaerobic life that had previously flourished. Chloroplasts evolved from cyanobacterial ancestors via endosymbiosis in more complex eukaryotic cells and multicellular organisms.
Fast forward to the present day and why David Sinton is interested in pond scum.
Sinton’s research is focusing on optimizing the growth of these photosynthetic organisms, whose high levels of fat and oil could be refined into biofuels, and sugars fermented into ethanol (see two previous articles on this topic: growing fuel from algae and flying algal ships).
Researchers are still figuring out what the optimal conditions for growth and production are. Variables include light intensity and duration, light spectrum, nutrient and CO2 levels, temperature and many more. To best address the range of variables, Sinton’s team used microfluidics and optofluidics (two fields that look at how fluids and light can be conducted through very small channels or optical conductors) to design what they call a “lab on a chip”: an array of hundreds of individual chambers in which the microorganisms can grow.
“Each chamber sits on top of a single pixel from an LCD screen, allowing the researchers to control the light conditions with precision,” writes Tyler Irving of UofT Engineering News, February 16, 2016 issue. “The chamber acts as a self-contained greenhouse where the organisms can be grown on blue light, red light, bright light, pulsing light and a host of other possible conditions.” The next stage, says Tyler, is to expand the device and allow researchers to vary CO2, O2, and nutrient levels across all chambers. The platform could be expanded to thousands of chambers, allowing for simultaneous testing of many combinations of factors to find the best conditions for fast growth, oil accumulation or any targeted outcome for a given species of algae or cyanobacteria. The results will help researchers design large-scale facilities for microbial energy production.
Graham, Percival J., Jason Riordan and David Sinton. 2015. “Microalgae on display: a microfluidic pixel-based irradiance assay for photosynthetic growth.” Lab on a Chip 15: 3116-3124.
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Vehicle surveillance advantagesPublished 15.05.2018
GPS system for satellite tracking and monitoring system for vehicles consists of a GPS navigation unit that is embedded in a vehicle, work machine or a ship, a central server and a software module that serves for access to users’ information that is collected. The user can access all the data collected through GPS navigation units in vehicles through the software interface. Data can be viewed on a map and in text form, ie in HTML, CSV, Pdf, Xls, or other formats. All collected data is kept on the server, and the system user can easily restore back time and view everything that happened from the moment the GPS satellite tracking and surveillance system was installed.
Why invest money into installation of a vehicle surveillance system? Who is using this type of tracking? Which businesses can benefit from using GPS technology?
Today’s business is full of challenges, and if they want to be successful, companies must learn to control their costs better than ever before. Some costs are very difficult to control or even perceive if they cannot be measured – this is precisely the task of the GPS satellite vehicle, boat and work machine surveillance and monitoring system. Since the prices of products and services in the free market are constantly decreasing due to competition, being successful in the business depends precisely on the quality control of expenditures, and consequently on the increase of competitiveness on the market as well because the company that controls the expenditures can gain an advantage over its competition.
If you are engaged in activities such as:
- distribution and logistics,
- transport of goods and people,
- lease and sale of all types of vehicles (car rental, leasing),
- public service,
- healthcare centers,
- local and regional authority bodies,
- utility companies,
and you own a large number of vehicles, these are some of the features of the system that contribute to reducing the cost of doing business:
- fast and optimal arrival of the driver to the destination, and consequently lower fuel consumption and savings in working hours,
- optimal use of vehicles by employees, and consequently lower fuel consumption costs, lower maintenance costs (service, tires, etc.) and increased driver safety,
- automatic reminders for regular and preventive vehicle maintenance (the system automatically warns you about tire changes, service, equipment maintenance, etc.),
- many insurance companies offer a discount of up to 20% for vehicles protected with GPS satellite surveillance and monitoring systems,
- increase productivity,
- document long lunch breaks,
- document unauthorized breaks,
- document overtime justification,
- document personal use of the vehicle on weekends or outside of working hours.
- by using the vehicle GPS satellite surveillance and monitoring system you can improve the quality of your service towards clients so that you can send you the nearest available vehicle, or calculate exactly when the arrival time will be based on the actual location of the vehicle,
- vehicle GPS satellite surveillance and monitoring system can help you monitor whether your employee has visited your customers, how long he stayed with each customer and which customers he visited,
- with the GPS satellite surveillance and monitoring system you can easily identify which employee is doing his job better, and you can also easily determine when is the time for a new hire, when you need to add a new vehicle in the system, or when the number of vehicles needs to be reduced,
- reduction of the phone costs, particularly abroad, as the GPS satellite surveillance and monitoring system allows unlimited communication with employees in the field,
- it simplifies the management of your movable property and greatly simplifies the dispatcher’s job,
- automatize the creation of travel orders and calculation of daily allowance (in just two clicks),
- eliminate the possibility of fuel theft.
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FINANCE is the study of the channeling of money from savers to economic entities. Money is channeled to users through financial intermediaries, such as commercial banks, savings and loan associations, credit unions, and insurance companies. These institutions lend money to individuals and companies for a variety of purposes. Some financial institutions have a specialized interest in one area or another, while others focus on a specific geographic area. In addition to banks, other institutions involved in finance include pension funds, investment companies, and insurance companies.
Finance is a broad discipline that encompasses the creation and management of a variety of financial systems. Investments, borrowing, and budgeting are all part of finance. There are three major categories of finance: personal, corporate, and government. Learn more about what makes a financial analyst. You can also earn a certification in financial analysis online. To learn more about finance, contact Corporate Finance Institute. Their online financial analyst certification program is designed to teach you how to become a financial analyst.
The finance industry is an essential part of the economy, providing many services that facilitate money transactions. Personal finance involves the planning and management of a person’s finances. Finance is important to individual and family life, including earning and spending money, saving for retirement, borrowing, and investing. It’s a dynamic field that has many facets. There are many different ways to manage your money, so understanding your own finances can help you plan your future and meet your goals.
Financing involves providing funds for business activities, making purchases, and investing. It’s a crucial part of any economy, as it enables people and companies to purchase goods and services. There are two basic types of finance: debt and equity. In debt financing, the money you receive is a loan with a repayment obligation, while equity financing involves a loan with no obligation to repay. To understand the relationship between these two types of finance, it’s important to understand how the two work.
A career in finance is competitive, and requires good mathematical skills and knowledge. In addition to strong financial literacy, finance majors can pursue careers in banking, insurance, and real estate. Some majors even choose to become bankers or finance managers. The field of finance has many options, and the right choice is an excellent choice for anyone looking to make a difference in the world. So, consider getting a degree in finance. You’ll never regret it.
While many majors in finance concentrate on math and statistics, they’re closely related. A finance major will develop a solid understanding of the human psychology behind business decisions. It’s important to consider the business model and the company’s revenue generation plan to determine whether the business will be profitable. A finance major will also gain valuable people skills, including analytical, quantitative, and decision-making skills. There are numerous ways to get a job in finance, from working in a bank to becoming an investment banking analyst. | <urn:uuid:8ef1f611-9491-4bfd-972b-0423d33c1917> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxplanningideas.com/getting-into-the-field-of-finance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952347 | 598 | 3.515625 | 4 |
The steps for adding questions to a recipe are described below. Follow the description below or watch the instruction video to add questions to a recipe.
1. Add rule: Before you can add questions to a recipe, you have to add a ‘rule’
Rules are used in the assigning of correction work. Each rule can be assigned to a different examiner.
Tip: For formative tests, without open questions, it is possible to set up a 'recipe' with only one 'rule'.
2. Add selection: Click to add questions to the ‘recipe’.
Tip: With the filter or search (at the left) you can search for specific questions.
3. Select all questions:
- All questions: all questions of this ‘rule’ would be asked within this test
- A maximum number of questions: a maximum number of randomly selected questions from this ‘rule’ would be asked within this test (please fill in the maximum number of questions).
4. Order of questions:
- Pin questions in given order: questions will be asked to students in the order, you can see here within the ‘rule’.
- Randomly order questions within ‘rule’
- Spread questions randomly across the test (also over ‘rules’): this setting is available when there are two or more ‘rules’ used within the test.
5. Save recipe: First save the changes, before ‘approving the recipe’
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Himachal Pradesh is a stunningly beautiful and popular tourist destination. It is one of India’s most beautiful northern states, beautifully nestled in the Himalayas. It is unquestionably proud of its picturesque and magnificent mountain villages. Trekking, climbing, and skiing are just a few available activities. And, if you look closely at what it has to offer, you’ll discover wildlife sanctuaries in Himachal Pradesh that are just waiting to be discovered and experienced.
1. Great Himalayan National Park
The Great Himalayan National Park is one of India’s most unusual and well-known national parks. It is situated in the Kullu district and is estimated to cover an area of 754 square kilometres. True, it’s a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and there are various reasons why this magnificent park deserves to be.
2. Bandli Sanctuary
Bandli Refuge is a stunning and well-known wildlife sanctuary in the heart of Himachal Pradesh. It is well-known for being the home of snow leopards, which can be seen and photographed in their natural habitat. Aside from the gorgeous snow leopards, there are a variety of other wildlife species to be seen here, making this incredible wildlife sanctuary the perfect place to visit with friends and family. The most commonly sighted wildlife species are Himalayan black bear, common palm civet, barking deer, Goral, Indian hare, and Rhesus macaque.
3. Daranghati Wildlife Sanctuary
Daranghati Wildlife Refuge is a stunningly beautiful and well-known wildlife sanctuary in Kangra, Himachal Pradesh’s heartland. It is situated on both the northern and southern flanks of the massive Dhauladhar mountain ranges. When it comes to size, it is well known to span an area of approximately 167.40 square kilometres. You can find your own paradise amidst the dense yet unique forest that houses the lovely Daranghati Wildlife Sanctuary.
4. Kalatop Wildlife Sanctuary
The Kalatop Wildlife Sanctuary is a well-known wildlife refuge conveniently located between Dalhousie and Khajijar. The astonishing variety of flora and animals, as well as the incredibly scenic and attractive views that can be seen all around, justify the appeal and beauty of the stated wildlife sanctuary. Visitors can witness Himalayan serows, deer, leopards, jackals, black bears, langurs, Himalayan black martens, and various other wildlife species.
5. Kanwar Wildlife Sanctuary
The Kalatop Wildlife Sanctuary is a well-known wildlife refuge conveniently located between Dalhousie and Khajjiar. The astonishing variety of flora and animals, as well as the incredibly scenic and attractive views that can be seen all around, justify the appeal and beauty of the stated wildlife sanctuary. Visitors can witness Himalayan serows, deer, leopards, jackals, black bears, langurs, Himalayan black martens, and various other wildlife species.
6. Khokhan Wildlife Sanctuary
Khokhan Wildlife Refuge, located just a few kilometres from Kullu, is an incredible wildlife sanctuary. This Sanctuary, which was established in 1954 and covers 14.2 square kilometres, is frequently visited by people staying in Kullu or travelling through on their way to Himachal Pradesh. The Himalayan Black Bear, currently classified as an endangered species, is the focal point of this wildlife refuge. This Sanctuary is home to a diverse range of mammals and reptiles.
7. Chail Wildlife Sanctuary
Chail Wildlife Sanctuary is a treasure in Himachal Pradesh, regarded as one of the top wildlife sanctuaries in the state. This Wildlife Sanctuary first opened its doors in 1976. Sambar Deers, Cheer Pheasants, Crested Porcupine, Leopards, Himalayan Black Bears, and Wild Boars are some of the usual sights for visitors to this Sanctuary is great for individuals who want to get closer to nature and the wild.
8. Dhauladhar Wildlife Sanctuary
The Dhauladhar Wildlife Sanctuary, popularly known as the Gopalpur Zoo, is located in the Kangra district and is bordered by the Dhauladhar mountain ranges. Maple, Chestnut, and Chil trees abound throughout the zoo. Asiatic lions, Himalayan black bears, cheetahs, sambar, ghoral, pheasants, peacocks, and many other animals can be seen. Visit this fantastic place while staying at our luxury resort in Himachal Pradesh.
9. Manali Wildlife Sanctuary
Manali Wildlife Sanctuary is surrounded by lush foliage and is home to various wild mountain species. The Sanctuary, which is only 2 kilometres from the main town, covers 3,180 hectares. The park is home to different unusual creatures, including the Flying Fox, Indian Hare, Musk Deer, Himalayan Tahr, and others. Deodar, Kail, Horse Chestnut, and Maple trees can be found throughout the Sanctuary.
10. Kais Wildlife Sanctuary
The Kais Wildlife Sanctuary is located amid Kullu’s tranquil valleys. A visit to this refuge is the ideal method to encourage people to vacation in nature. The enchanting and lush green surroundings provide a peaceful haven. You can see gorals, cheer pheasants, sambars, barking deer, leopards, and other unusual creatures. | <urn:uuid:b3692190-fffe-4e1c-a9fb-4c15a064142c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rakkh.com/patrika/2022/06/27/rang-mahal-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938598 | 1,120 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Farmhouse Architecture Transcends Time
Side gables. Variations on roof configuration in American vernacular are many. Most are simpler, as this is the nature of the style. This house is side gabled. Gabled dormerspenetrate the eave line for the second floor, and a shed roof creates the porch, but the main gabled roof dominates. In this example the primary structure is rectangular, but appendages extend to the sides, making a contemporary plan.
Notice the simplified details. The porch posts and balusters of the railing are unadorned square supports. A simple molding wraps the top of the posts to imply a capital. The rafter tails are left exposed, which adds rhythm to the theme and echoes the repetition of the porch railing. Shutters and a classically referenced entrance door contribute to the more traditional feeling of this house.
Gables atop hip roofs. Less common but quite distinguishable is the gable on a hip roof, like this example. Though the two roof forms can have the same pitch, the gable is steeper than the hip here. As well, the gable portion gets pierced with a shed dormer. Double-hung windows refer to historical precedent. The dance between contemporary and traditional, as this house demonstrates, defines more sophisticated examples of American vernacular.
Farmhouses with unifying materials. You will notice that with the exception of the last example below, these houses are clad almost entirely in one material each. This unifying technique adds to the simplicity that is important to the theme of the American vernacular style. The Central California coastal design here has board and batten siding, reminiscent of the ranch house, as exterior sheathing.
Almost all of these houses have wood or simulated wood siding. Roof shingles of wood or asphalt are used on some, but the standing-seam metal panel is a good fit for this style, as seen on this house and the first and fourth examples. | <urn:uuid:279e168c-b479-4a15-9264-f8f59e0a5f9a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://marthawolford.wordpress.com/2016/06/13/farmhouse-architecture-transcends-time/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925715 | 406 | 2.546875 | 3 |
I believe in reason.
The simplicity of reason runs dry in my eyes. To think that reason is a petty thing, to underestimate it, to deny it, this is madness. The belief that there is reason within purpose, that all things contribute to something in some way, this is my belief. I believe in reason. There is reason behind everything, no matter how unusual or spontaneous, everything happens for a reason.
The actions of others intrigues me, and I often find myself bewildered on why people do the things they do. I live to shade purpose and to bring out reason. For example, the reason for life, what is it? An answer to this escapes all, no one can arrive to it, but one can still wonder. Logically, there is reason in shadow of everything, even in shadow of life. Perhaps life is here for its pleasures, its joys, but why hate, why sorrow? Is it possible there are many reasons for everything? I believe so.
I live to find reason. The actions I perform everyday have a very important purpose, everything I do has reason. My actions, sly or perfect, are thought out to carry a purpose for one ultimate goal, or many. If I want something to be done, I do not simply do it or command someone to carry out my task, I sooth my way into an easier alternative, for one can only enjoy the pleasures of the easy way out. This is being clever, but I used my cleverness to get something done. The reason behind it, I needed something done, I used cleverness because it would help me find an easy way out, and I wanted an easy way out because perhaps I am feeling lazy. There are many reasons within this one thing; actions cannot be preformed without reason.
What doesn’t have reason? If you were to say the belief of god was useless, would you actually believe that there was no purpose for it? Religion has bin a driving force emotionally and physically for mankind for thousands of years. An atheist may state that religion is only fantasy and those who partake in its belief are delusional. This is untrue; religion brings hope to those who need a shoulder to cry on. Religion brigs retribution and ease to those who are suffering. The belief of a higher being is a contributor to the history of mankind. Religion thus has a reason. To better or to worsen the sake of the world, one will never know, but one does know, is that there is reason for it.
To deny reason is madness. There is no possible way to describe how reason is pointless. Many believe that there is reason for everything, but those who do not, are psychotic in their own way. Spontaneous actions have reason, this is proved. I do believe that anything and everything with a purpose has a reason, that all actions are preformed for a higher goal, and that nothing can escape reason. | <urn:uuid:e13e1e6b-22b6-421e-91ce-34e5e4b02f24> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thisibelieve.org/essay/59607/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.973872 | 600 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Every now and then, a reader suggests a topic for these posts and when it is a good idea and makes sense, I try to comply. You can thank Amy Durfey Vander Vorste for the suggestion for this week’s post, which, as it sounds, list some ways that I use Skitch with Evernote1.
For those who don’t know, Skitch is an Evernote product that allows you to capture and annotate images. These images are then synced to a notebook in Evernote so you can access them anywhere. Skitch is available for most platforms. I typically use it on my iMac, my Windows laptop, and my iPad, but there are other versions available. Here are some ways that I use Skitch in my effort to go paperless.
1. Digitizing my house for easy reference
When I first started using Skitch, it occurred to me that, in conjunction with Evernote, it had some really useful possibilities. At the time, I was in the process of digitizing my house. I found that in addition to putting together floor plans of my house, I could take pictures of rooms and then use Skitch to annotate those pictures with various measurements. These images, with their annotations, are stored in Evernote so that they are available anywhere. Here is one example:
When I am at the hardware store (or some other store) and need to know the size of something I need to buy–or whether it will fit through a certain space in the house–I can easily call up one of these annotated images and instantly have the measurements I need.
2. Capturing how quickly my kids grow up (literally!)
More recently, I’ve taken to creating a digital version of pencil marks indicating how much my little boy has grown. Rather than marking up the wall, I do the following:
- Take a picture of my little boy standing by a door threshold.
- Measure how tall he is.
- Import the image into Skitch
- Add an annotation indicating how tall he is.
I add these images to my timeline notebook on the day they are taken so I have a complete history of his growth. This history is good no matter where we live or where the picture is taken. It’s a cool way of using Skitch to capture moments in my little boys life that might otherwise be lost in various moves.
3. Managing images on my blog
Skitch has become an invaluable tool for editing and managing images that I post here on the blog. There are four things that I find incredibly useful in this respect:
First, it is incredibly easy to capture images and have them wherever I need them. Because I move from machine to machine and device to device, once I’ve captured the image in Skitch, I have it anywhere I go.
Second, it is very easy to make annotations to those images, if annotations are required.
Third, I can easily crop or resize images as needed from inside Skitch.
Fourth, and particularly useful, I love the “pixelating” feature which allows you to blur out aspects of an image. I use this quite a bit, for instance, when I posted the picture of my new license plate holder that my folks got me for the holidays:
4. Capturing and annotating screenshots everywhere
I use Skitch in my day job quite a bit. In that capacity, I am an application developer and much of what I do involves design work, capturing screenshots, story-boarding, etc. and that often involves quite a bit of annotation. I’ve used Skitch for putting together entire storyboards for application interfaces. I also use it for capturing screenshots when things go wrong so I have a good visual record of errors that I’ve encountered.
5. Annotating maps!
I’ve used Skitch to capture and annotate all kinds of maps. For instance, I have a map that I can send to friends and family visiting our house that is completed annotated so that they can find our place with a minimum of difficulty. I also use it to capture maps of trips we take and making notes on the route along the way. For instance, we drove down to Florida last week, and took 3 days to make the drive. I captured some Google Maps in Skitch and then added some annotations about the hotels we planned to stay. Here is the annotated map from the first day of our trip:
Those are some of the ways that I use Skitch on a daily basis. It has quickly become my favorite tool for capturing and annotating images and it is hard to imagine working as I do without it. How about everyone else? What creative uses have you found for Skitch? I’d be interested to learn these, and I’m sure Amy Durfey Vander Vorste would be interested as well. Happy holidays everyone!
- Apologies for the delay on getting this post out this week. I’m on vacation and forgot to pre-schedule this post. Remember also that next week, I won’t be doing a new post I’m taking the week off. I’ll likely post a rerun. But I’ll be back with a new Going Paperless post on January 1st. ↩ | <urn:uuid:df9321c3-29ea-406a-9e24-2a5653e02325> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jamierubin.net/2012/12/20/going-paperless-5-ways-i-use-skitch-with-evernote-to-make-my-life-easier/?replytocom=32312 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955481 | 1,109 | 1.585938 | 2 |
The Breastfeeding Registry Study is a multi-site study that examines the documentation of RDNs who are providing breastfeeding or lactation support to their clients. The project will investigate the nutrition terminology currently being used in this area of care and the quality of the documentation, as well as the impact of nutrition care on problem resolution and nutrition-related outcomes in this population. The Academy Data Science Center (DSC) is collaborating with the University of North Florida (UNF) to lead this project. This project is also being conducted with the help of the Academy Foundation and funding from the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group (PNPG) and Women's Health Dietetic Practice Group (WH).
Download the recruitment flyer.
Breastfeeding Study Registry Informational Webinar
This project is ongoing. Stay tuned for updates.
Who Can Participate and What Does This Involve?
Dietitians providing breastfeeding and lactation support to either infants or individuals providing human milk to infants from a variety of settings can participate in this project. This includes dietitians in inpatient, outpatient, community programs, or private practice.
- Licensed RDN in good standing (in states where applicable)
- Currently provides nutrition care to individuals providing human milk to infants or infants receiving human milk in an inpatient or outpatient setting
- Access to a computer with internet
- Agree to complete trainings and enter patients into the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Health Informatics Infrastructure (ANDHII)
Required tasks for study participation:
- Completion of onboarding and training modules
- Providing your typical nutrition care to clients and then documenting care into ANDHII. A time commitment of approximately 3 to 6 months of documentation, including 5 hours for training completion and 1 hour once per week to enter patient data into ANDHII.
Patients who are eligible to enter into ANDHII:
- Individuals who provide human milk to an infant at least once per day
- Infants who are offered human milk at least once per day and are up to 1 year of age
- Individuals must be newly identified as needing nutrition care for breastfeeding/lactation support
- This project is one of the first to investigate nutrition care provided to infants receiving human milk and individuals providing human milk to infants. The results of this project will help us better understand the care dietitians provide to this population and the documentation of nutrition care in breastfeeding and lactation support, including the terminology being used to document this type of care. It will also examine the impact of the nutrition care provided by dietitians on resolution of nutrition problems resolution rate and on health outcomes, including breastfeeding duration and infant weight. Help us fill this gap in research and demonstrate the value of providing medical nutrition therapy to this population and the dietitian's role in doing so!
- If you enter a baseline and at least one follow-up visit for ≥10 patients, you will receive a $25 Amazon gift card from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
- You will receive CPEU credits (a potential of 3.5 credits) for completing trainings prior to starting data collection
- You will gain experience in registry research, learn about or receive a refresh on the Nutrition Care Process and its terminology, and acquire knowledge on use of ANDHII, a data collection tool used to propel outcomes research.
How Do I Participate?
Please contact email@example.com to inquire about next steps to participate. This includes:
- Site Agreement execution
- Local Institutional Review Board (IRB) process, if applicable
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From time to time I speak to young professionals trying to make their mark on the world in politics, academia, or journalism.
The question I encounter the most is this: “What’s the best career advice you give to young people trying to make it.”
My answer often touches on the importance of perseverance, because it’s easy to get discouraged by setbacks and rejection. Landing your dream job isn’t easy when you don’t have a lot of work experience, and sometimes keeping it is even harder, at least if you approach your work with the wrong mindset. And many people seem vaguely aware of this.
A stunning percentage of Americans live in fear of being fired, data show, and this is particularly true for younger workers. According to one recent Harris Poll, 61 percent of American workers between 18-34 suffer from anxiety over fear of losing their job, compared to 41 percent of workers over 35.
‘We Look for Integrity’
One of the keys to a long and successful career is having the skills and mindset employers desire. While different employers desire different qualities, the financial wizard Warren Buffet has offered one of the better insights on what employers often look for in workers.
“We look for three things when we hire people. We look for intelligence, we look for initiative or energy, and we look for integrity,” the Sage of Omaha has said. “And if they don't have the latter, the first two will kill you, because if you're going to get someone without integrity, you want them lazy and dumb.”
What Buffett is saying, essentially, is that intelligence and initiative are important, but integrity is what matters most. But what is integrity?
The word is defined as “the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles; moral uprightness.” This definition is helpful but it’s also a bit limited, and it doesn’t quite tell us what Buffett is getting at.
What Buffett is saying, I think, is that he wants employees he can trust to get things done.
In about 30 years of working jobs high and low, the one thing I’ve noticed above all else is there are people who know how to show up on time, meet deadlines, and complete the tasks they say they'll complete, and there are people who know how to make excuses and avoid taking responsibility.
I once had a writer who begged to write a story. I gave him the assignment, and the first thing he did was say he couldn’t meet the deadline he had proposed. I don’t remember the excuse he gave, but I do remember telling myself I’d never use that writer again.
Leaning Into Responsibility
When Warren Buffett says he wants workers with integrity, I think he’s saying he wants workers he can trust to complete the tasks they say they’ll complete, and people who take responsibility.
This last part is key, because there will be times when we don’t get the job done; we come up short. When this happens, many people will be tempted to point fingers at people or externalities that frustrated completion of the task.
This is the wrong approach.
A worker with integrity will look at the situation and instead of blaming others ask, What could I have done differently? How could I have helped us achieve a better outcome?
This might sound simple, but the reality is it’s hard for humans to do this. We want to blame others. We want to find excuses. We want to pass the buck. It’s a trait we see in the powerful and the weak; in our children and politicians; in our families, co-workers, and (yes) even ourselves.
“There is a logic to the desire to avoid punishment, and since so many people grow up in similar circumstances, the habit runs deep,” Ryan Ferguson, co-host of The World Wanderers Podcast has noted. “But as you make the transition from childhood to adulthood, it is a habit you have to learn to leave behind.”
In her classic work Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand uses the villain James Taggart to show how corrosive and ugly this tendency is. Taggart, the president of Taggart Transcontinental and older brother to heroine Dagny Taggart, can’t take responsibility for anything. He can make no decisions, just excuses; and his indecision and weakness have paralyzed the company.
Dagny is a stark contrast. She is responsible for making sure the railroad operates, and assumes responsibility at every turn. Consider this exchange early in the novel, when Dagny tells her brother she intends to rebuild the struggling Rio Norte Line with new metal produced by industrialist Hank Rearden.
“The consensus of the best metallurgical authorities,” [James Taggart] said, “seems to be highly skeptical about Rearden Metal, contending-”
“Drop it, Jim,” [his sister replied].
“Well, whose opinion did you take?”
“I don’t ask for opinions.”
“What do you go by?”
“Well, whose judgment did you take?”
“But whom did you consult about it?”
“Then what on earth do you know about Rearden Metal?”
“That it’s the greatest thing ever put on the market.”
“Because it’s tougher than steel, cheaper than steel and will outlast any hunk of metal in existence.”
“But who says so?”
“Jim, I studied engineering in college. When I see things, I see them.”
“What did you see?”
“Rearden’s formula and the tests he showed me.”
“Well, if it were any good, somebody would have used it, and nobody has.”
He saw the flash of anger, and went on nervously: “How can you know it’s good? How can you be sure? How can you decide?”
“Somebody decides such things, Jim. Who?”
James Taggart eventually gives way to his sister, but he makes it very clear he is not responsible for the decision.
“Are you taking the responsibility for it?”
“Go ahead,” he said, and added, “but at your own risk. I won’t cancel it, but I won’t commit myself as to what I’ll say to the Board.”
“Say anything you wish.”
How to Build Trust With Others
Now, I have no idea if Warren Buffett has read Atlas Shrugged. I’m not implying he did or that he’s a fan of her work or Objectivism.
What I am saying is that an employee with integrity is one who accepts responsibility. She’s the employee you can rely on to get the job done when she says she’s going to, not the employee who’s already making excuses or passing the task on to someone else. This is a quality employers desire.
“Taking responsibility when things go wrong is crucially important to building trust with others and learning from your mistakes,” writes Ferguson. “It is one of the most important parts of creating a satisfying life, but a lot of people learn the opposite growing up.”
James Taggart is one of the people who learned the opposite lesson growing up.
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Augmented reality (AR) in education is not a new subject, but it is an area that is being increasingly discussed and explored, and for good reason. New developments have made AR more accessible than ever before, blurring the lines between the physical and digital world. These new advancements are opening up realms of opportunity, but the applications of these to educational settings are still mainly experimental.
Augmented reality combines the physical world with the virtual by superimposing computer-generated images or animations into a real-world environment. Using augmented reality provides new opportunities for learning, predominantly because it allows pupils to see things that are not possible in the real-world. Dinosaurs can be brought into the classroom, working parts of the human body can appear from the page of a book and learners can explore new 3D worlds from the comfort of their own.
What makes an AR game different from other computer games?
Augmented reality games are designed to provide a ‘hands-on’ and immersive experience, as people interact with their real and virtual environment simultaneously. The 3D world that is presented can be explored in different scales and learners can navigate around the space through their own physical movements to explore different details and vantage points. This suits a visual style of learning and those who learn from first-hand experience.
The immersive experience reduces the need to give lots of instructions and so AR games are not bound by language. Movement and sound allow children to discover things the app can do and how they can advance through the game. This encourages independent learning skills and makes AR an ideal platform to create games suitable for children of all ages and abilities.
Augmented reality offers a huge scope for education as a tool for all subjects or curriculums. Any object or landscape can be made into a digital model, which can then be brought to life through AR.
AR games, in general, are less expensive than alternative options, including computer games. Unlike some consoles, applications are cheaper to purchase or in a lot of cases free. Applications can be upgraded through app stores directly, making it easy and cost-effective to keep up with the latest version.
Because augmented reality only requires an application and a tablet or phone it works well for schools.
Because augmented reality only requires an application and a tablet or phone it works well for schools. In most cases, this equipment is already available and for the majority of teachers is familiar, meaning that they don’t have to rely on a technical expert to set up the environment.
Google and Apple are both making AR technology free as part of their browser functionality. This is making it easier to access and view 3D and AR models in a wide variety of locations inside and outside the school and home.
What can we expect to see in the future?
As the technology develops, we expect AR to be more widely used throughout schools and education.
At the moment, some AR technology is restricted to certain upgrades of phones or tablets, but we expect that in the future AR will become platform agnostic, meaning it can be used on any device or tablet.
You also won’t need to have Wifi access for many apps, making movement and outside teaching more accessible and appealing with AR content.
Currently, AR offers 2-4 multiplayer games, but future games will offer the ability for more players to work together. It may also be possible for different types of devices to be used to play and interact together. Hopefully in the future whole class groups could be involved in the same activity. One day, even, different classes and schools could connect through the same AR landscape.
In the future elements of the games created with AR will also advance. Digital models will be able to interact with environments and detect real-world objects. For example, at present, a digital model can walk across a table using AR, but would not detect a cup placed on that table. In the future, the model will register the item and walk around it, a concept that has multiple potential applications for the classroom.
Audio and facial recognition is also likely to advance, opening up game-play without the need to touch the screen and personalising the experience.
As any subject will be able to take advantage of new AR technology to support learning, it could potentially be adopted across the whole curriculum.
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City Welcomes Mobile Stations to Boost Road Safety Efforts
The Road Traffic Management Corporation has donated two mobile testing trucks to the Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Police Department during the launch of 365-Days Arrive Alive Campaign held in Polokwane on Thursday, 3 December.
These trucks will test the roadworthiness of vehicles on the road and contribute towards improving road safety by motorists.
“In order to clamp down on lawlessness on the road, we have taken measures to strengthen law enforcement capacity by procuring 135 vehicles. These include 95 high performance vehicles, 25 bakkies and 15 mobile vehicle testing stations to improve monitoring of moving violations and excessive speeding on the roads. The mobile vehicle testing stations will be used to test the roadworthiness of vehicles on our roads,” said Minister of Transport Fikile Mbalula.
“The prevalence of unroadworthy vehicles poses a serious hazard as these contributed 7% to fatal crashes in the last year. However, it must not be forgotten that the attitude and behaviour of our drivers remains the biggest problem on the roads.
“Motorists must make a commitment to travel during the day. Statistical analysis shows that 50% of road deaths occur after dark. A high number of crashes happen between 19h00 and 23h00. Therefore, this is the most dangerous time to drive during the festive season,” said minister Mbalula.
Member of Mayoral Committee for Community Safety Cllr Frans Mmoko said, “As the Metro we welcome the contribution by RTMC; these tools of trade will allow us to conduct our work efficiently. Road safety remains our top priority throughout the year. These mobile testing stations will boost our effort in ensuring that our roads remain safe for all road users.” | <urn:uuid:0f1b162e-8861-450e-886a-d55fde9d5544> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ekurhuleni.gov.za/press-releases/community-safety/city-welcomes-mobile-stations-to-boost-road-safety-efforts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946405 | 364 | 1.804688 | 2 |
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Video courtesy of WUFT 5 News Gainesville with contribution from sports reporter and Race Chaser Online Open Wheel correspondent Joel Sebastianelli — WUFT 5 photo — While the summer heat reaches its peak in August, many students get away from Gainesville to unwind from a stressful semester before returning to campus for the fall semester.
However, a group of engineering students at the University of Florida is staying at school this summer, but in the shop instead of the classroom.
Founded in 1991 with the intention of providing a unique hands-on experience, Gator Motorsports continues to grow and compete. Each spring, a crew of approximately twenty members enters an open wheel race car in the prestigious Formula SAE competition at Michigan International Speedway.
At the 2014 event in May, the Honda powered entry placed ninth, ahead of other schools from around the world in North America, South America, Europe and Asia. The other eleven months of the year are spent hard at work designing, and manufacturing, and marketing the machine.
“We’re just passionate about engineering, and being passionate about engineering is what drives us to continue. That’s why we come here every day,” said UF junior David Kanner, the president of Gator Motorsports.
The final product last season was capable of accelerating from 0-60 miles per hour in just over four seconds and cornering at 1.5 times the force of gravity, but each year brings the challenge of starting all over again and designing a new machine from scratch.
The 2014 model sits in the center of the garage floor now, but the upcoming car has not been finalized. By September, the team hopes to finish converting a litany of computerized and hand drawn designs into a new and improved entry.
Gator Motorsports has been successful in recent years based on Formula SAE scoring that grades acceleration, business presentation, and efficiency, but the results haven’t come without hard work. Most crew members are asked to spend an average of twenty hours each week in the garage.
“There is a little bit of impatience to just want to get it done, get it finished, and get it driving. But, it is one day at a time,” said crew member Peter Cooper.
Although the students’ extensive volunteer labor is cheap, the process of constructing and perfecting the new race car is not. Gator Motorsports is funded partly by alumni and donations, but most of the budget in excess of $50,000 comes from sponsorship. Among the recognizable names helping in part to fund the operation are Fortune 500 companies Boeing and Procter & Gamble.
Porsche and Gulf have contributed as well, with the 2014 car actually paying homage to a famous Gulf-sponsored Porsche sports car livery raced in the 1970s by Steve McQueen, among others.
Gator Motorsports rarely breaks from building, working most days throughout the year including weekends and some holidays. Once the checkered flags waves in Michigan, the result are worth the wait.
“Over the past five years, we’ve done remarkably well at improving our results from the previous year. We’ve gone from 43rd to 27th, to 19th, to 10th, and now we’re at 9th place,” said Kanner. “We’d love to continue that momentum.”
Next year’s Formula SAE event is over nine months away, but Gator Motorsports is already pushing ahead at full throttle. | <urn:uuid:b561ad45-627a-4525-8f03-b93c478b45d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.racechaseronline.com/featured/video/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950089 | 733 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Crafts Code Workshop: Ideas for craft renewal with innovative tools and approaches
An event for craftspeople, craft entrepreneurs and organisations!
The event aims to present good European practices for craftspeople, craft entrepreneurs and organisations in renewing handicrafts with innovative methods, and to discuss those practices that can be learned and transferred to your own activities. As part of the programme, participants will join a guided museum tour, immerse yourself in the 20th-century Ostrobothnia rural life, and observe crafters’ fascinating skills in the context of Artisans´ Day (Hantverkardag | Käsityöläispäivä) organised by Stundars.
The event is held in English and is free of charge, including the museum tour. Each participant will additionally receive two coffee tickets for coffee and pastries (syltgris | hillopossu).
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Terracotta tiles are one of the oldest types of tiles that have been around. They are an underclay ceramic tiles subcategory which gives you more information about their nature. Terracotta is an Italian word which translates to “baked earth”. These tiles are well known for their instant availability and ease of installation. Because of their method of manufacturing, they are less expensive than most of their counterparts. These popular red tiles are also trendy for their attractive color which stems from the earth and looks very attractive.
Terracotta Kitchen Tiles have many variations and among those, there are also high-density terracotta tiles. These tiles are very resistant to damage, deterioration and cracking, and also are easy to clean, hence a safe choice to have them installed as your kitchen wall covering or flooring.
Terracotta Kitchen Tiles have an ancient-world attraction when used on the floor. They can instantly give your kitchen a deep character, and could add instant elegance and class to your space. They are a great addition to your kitchen, if you want to go with any rustic or natural setting. You can order these beautiful tiles in a vast variety of sizes, shapes and formats to make your meals extra enjoyable in your dream kitchen! | <urn:uuid:494a342a-8143-49e4-be4a-068f01c4625a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qtiles.co.uk/kitchen-tiles/terracotta-kitchen-tiles | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97398 | 259 | 1.789063 | 2 |
We had previously looked at the Orchestra, and we saw the various factors at play and the interplay between them all. We established that we- the created man, on account of our being created by Him, became part of his orchestra and that God stands before us all as the great conductor, making sense of our contributions even as we are guided by the musical script before us. We concluded by asking a question: What is the music of God? This is the subject before us at this time.
Maybe a disclaimer before I continue, this is not a philosophical construct, neither am I a philosopher of sorts.
In answering the question at hand, let’s consider two identical verses of Scripture.
But as truly as I live, all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the LORD.
For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
In looking at these verses, I find it quite intriguing that in the Numbers reference that God added an oath to what He was saying, it must have so critical that he wanted to give a double assurance to avoid all forms of doubt about the matter.
It seems quite clear to my mind that God has one (permit me to use the word) obsession and it is this: that the knowledge of His glory will fill the earth.
This I believe is the music of God. And everything he has ever done, is doing and intends to do as it were is to achieve this end of His. And he intends for this to be the sole aim of that which we find ourselves doing either individually and as a collective in any sphere or domain. To lose sight of this, or to have any other output is surely a sign and a product of the reality that we are out of sync with Him and with each other. We were meant to showcase the glory of God. That was why we were designed and configured the way we are, we were meant for glory, his glory– in abounding measures in every place, space, and time – For He desired for his glory to fill the whole earth just as the waters cover the sea.
There is a problem. But that’s for later. Next up, now that we have seen the desire of the great composer, we would attempt to examine the musical sheet placed before each and every one of us.
Right then. I trust you were blessed. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Tabitha Dee will be here with you tomorrow. It would be a blessing in the name of the Lord.
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It’s difficult to imagine that travel is considered a “Process of time”, because what immediately comes to mind is a specific destination. If we give careful thought to the actual process of every nuance of the term, we discover that travel actually isolates the path that is more significant to the point of destination itself.
Another word for travel is journey. It is within this term which seems to reinforce each segment in life as a necessary component that gives value to our lives with each waking moment of the day. Depending on our perspective, journey and destination are two separate entities whereby we must identify and understand, navigating this concept uncovers our potential.
Without all the twists and turns we experience, our true selves may never be revealed. The strengths and weaknesses that are within, formulate our talents and gifts which ultimately serve the world.
Destiny began it’s calling when we were in the mind of The Creator even before we appeared on the earth. Potential was positioned awaiting development from birth to now. If you have reached your golden years, it is imperative to embrace the passion of truly accepting how each pursuit will add depth and meaning to the world. Your stage in life may be just beginning. Maybe you are a high school/college student, young or advanced entrepreneur, government official, garbage collector, mail person, etc., there is an extreme capability that is lying dormant with a great expectancy of being released at the appointed time.
In his book, “Understanding Potential”, Dr. Myles Munroe points out, “What you have done is no longer potential. Potential is what you can do, but have not done yet.”
Let this journey unfold the untapped potential in us as we carefully review where we are right now and make the decision to follow the path that leads to realizing not only who you are, but who you are meant to be. | <urn:uuid:af3729c1-1233-4ae4-a8f4-33958d03d2cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sensationallyseasoned.com/category/potential/understanding-potential/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.960659 | 389 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Reporters working on national security or with sensitive government sources obviously need to keep hackers out of their online accounts. But in reality, all journalists, including sports, tech, fashion, climate and any other beat should take their digital security seriously. Hackers often don't care who you are, only what you may have access to or whether you're vulnerable.
Using his direct relationship with sources in the criminal underworld, Joseph will provide insight on what motivates different types of hackers, how they choose targets, and what that means for all journalists. Opportunists, targeted attackers, and those looking to tarnish a media outlet's reputation all operate in different ways.
The session will include live demos of how hackers often carry out their attacks, from digging up your old, exposed password, to stealing your current one. The good news is that there are several simple things journalists can do to lock down their online accounts, while not massively impacting their work flow. This session will also include those concrete tips. | <urn:uuid:862a20bb-1bed-4faa-9e09-e4ec7fbd9825> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.journalismfestival.com/programme/2019/inside-the-mind-of-a-hacker-why-all-journalists-need-to-care-about-digital-security | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.970481 | 200 | 1.773438 | 2 |
How Does Climate Change Affect Animals. Out of all the human activities that cause climate change, agriculture is one of the biggest contributors. The effects of climate change are being felt by biodiversity in every region on earth, as is evident through the disruption of animal seasonal migrations, feeding and breeding events, alterations of habitat ranges, decreases in ecosystem functionality, interruptions of food chains, and increases in the incidence of animal parasites and diseases.
Impact of climate change on animals. With these changes, species have to adapt to new climate patterns (variations in rainfall; The best known example of this is the carboniferous rainforest collapse, which occurred 305 million years ago.this event decimated amphibian populations and spurred on the evolution of reptiles.
In This Blog I Will Talk About The Affects…
Global warming resulting from human emissions of greenhouse gases. So, weather is always changing. Let’s pick out a few examples:
The Effects Of Climate Change Are Being Felt By Biodiversity In Every Region On Earth, As Is Evident Through The Disruption Of Animal Seasonal Migrations, Feeding And Breeding Events, Alterations Of Habitat Ranges, Decreases In Ecosystem Functionality, Interruptions Of Food Chains, And Increases In The Incidence Of Animal Parasites And Diseases.
This appears to be the reason as to why the matter is not. Climate change is also expected to bring more combined heat waves and droughts, which would likely offset any benefits from the carbon fertilization effect. Impact of animal agriculture on climate change.
Many, Many Species Of Plants And Animals Are Likely To Be Affected By Climate Change.
When their habitats change irrevocably — when the rain forest dries up or cool mountains in tropical zones heat up — animals may simply go extinct. Out of all the human activities that cause climate change, agriculture is one of the biggest contributors. Evolution would have to occur 10,000 times faster than it typically does in order for most species to adapt and avoid extinction.
Glaciers Have Shrunk, Ice On Rivers And Lakes Is Breaking Up Earlier, Plant And Animal Ranges Have Shifted And Trees Are Flowering Sooner.
The intergovernmental panel on climate change estimates that 20 to 30 percent of assessed plants and animals could be at risk of extinction if average global temperatures reach the projected levels by 2100. Climate change leads to a loss of species. It is their habitat and they are specifically.
Read The Data And See If You Can Answer The Questions To Determine How The
Earth’s climate is warming due to human activities. While the impact of climate change on human populations is likely to be dire, we're pretty good at adapting to change overall. The best known example of this is the carboniferous rainforest collapse, which occurred 305 million years ago.this event decimated amphibian populations and spurred on the evolution of reptiles. | <urn:uuid:b6e44cdb-bfcf-4d6e-927f-fbd8b73e4ab7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wordpress-gr.org/how-does-climate-change-affect-animals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.902618 | 596 | 3.71875 | 4 |
Renewable Energy Sculpture - The sculpture that optically disappears
This sculpture for Le Chéile, Dublin, refers to the architecture of the school building.
At the same time, it creates awareness for the strong future potential of natural energies.
The stronger the wind blows the more it becomes invisible through rotation.
The generation of wind energy is usually connected with large scale three winged wind power generators. Some reject them because of aesthetic considerations. We propose and research alternative shapes for wind turbines, that will optically disappear once they rotate fast enough.
Spinning Angel, 2020-21
prototype for invisible energy at
Le Chéile Secondary School
Hollystown Road, Tyrrelstown, Dublin 15
The blades, spokes and torque tube are made of advanced composite materials including aluminum for weight, reduction, stiffness and longevity.
The sculpture will be made with military grade marine rating material for aggressive environments and recognized as iconic design with strong aerodynamic performance.
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By all accounts, Eastern Idaho is seeing its first real runoff of the year, and most of the feeder creeks and tributaries to the Henry’s Fork, South Fork and the Teton River are dirty and high. After recent snow and rain storms in February and March, snow pack levels for Eastern Idaho are all over or near 100% for this time of the year. This above-average precipitation is leading to a positive outlook for the water levels during our upcoming fishing season.
Back–to-back months of above average precipitation across most of Idaho boosted the water supply outlook according to the April report released by the Idaho Natural Resources Conservation Service, which means Idaho farmers and fishermen may shake hands once again! The Upper Snake River basin as a whole should see early and continuing runoff if this weather trend continues with warmer days and more wet precipitation, and by all accounts, the Upper Snake’s water supply is in great shape to handle whatever weather this summer may bring.
This wonderful amount of early-season water may tease us and help deliver not only a fantastic mayfly season, but we may also finally see a hot hopper season to boot! This higher than average water supply, as well as the heavy snow melt forecasts, will also be extremely helpful in extending the longevity of our fishing season and aiding in keeping water temperatures down in the dog-day heat of August.
Many people think that runoff situations equal poor fishing, but I tend to disagree. Our fish are coming out of their 7-month icebox, during which, food availability is scarce and metabolisms are at their all-season lows. With weather such as what we have seen in our part of the country, fish are waking up to more food and slightly higher water temps, which will usually spark a feeding uptick. I can give you a great example – the Teton River. This is the time to catch the big fish off guard and usually the largest fish of the entire season come out of the early off-color water. Slow-twitching flashy streamers, nymphing larger presentations and making more casts should bring the average angler some decent success during a runoff situation.
Get out there and shake the dust off the fly rods and waders! Please contact any of our locations for the latest info and patterns, and to update your necessary gear as we have a wonderful selection of new waders, boots, rods and reels, and thanks from the Crew at Three Rivers Ranch! | <urn:uuid:5590812b-a340-4a94-b28e-0c09cd30fb9d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trroutfitters.com/east-idaho-runoff-2016/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955381 | 505 | 1.53125 | 2 |
When independent senator David Pocock delivered his first speech in parliament, the former rugby champion was vocal about inclusivity and climate change but silently championed new style rules for menswear.
Pocock’s significantly sized neck was unburdened by a tie, with the budding politician wearing a bright blue suit and crisp white shirt.
In the House of Representatives, incoming Greens MP Max Chandler-Mather took a similar approach, prompting a complaint from Nationals MP Pat Conaghan on his “state of undress”.
The speaker acts as the fashion police in Parliament House, with members expected to express “neatness, cleanliness and decency”. In 1977 permission was given for men to wear tailored safari suits without a tie, which was revived by former attorney-general Phillip Ruddock in 2015 for charity.
Chandler-Mather’s tie-less approach was declared by the speaker as not violating standing orders, which follows an international trend.
Tie-free world leaders include US President Joe Biden, French President Emmanuel Macron and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who abandoned silk straps for official portraits at the G7 summit in Germany.
Even Ermenegildo Zegna, chief executive of Zegna, the label favoured by former PM Paul Keating, has given up on ties. “Let me be clear – the suit is not dead,” Zegna said at a luxury conference in May. “But the tie is!”
To look smart without a tie, or resorting to a safari suit, Melbourne menswear designer Brian Huynh and co-founder of the label Mndatory recommends focusing on your shirt.
“So it looks like a deliberate choice you want to look at the collar height and shape,” Huynh says. “A taller collar can sit more proudly and will make not wearing a tie look intentional.”
To achieve this formal shirt look, even with two buttons undone (three might be too provocative) Huynh uses strong interfacing, which adds stability to shirt collars.
“A strong interfacing will help you achieve more structure, especially when sitting beneath a jacket, while a shirt with no interfacing will look more nonchalant and relaxed.”
Former National Designer Award winner Christian Kimber doesn’t sell ties but has simple tricks for looking formal without them, starting with an iron.
“If your collar is properly ironed there is less chance of people thinking that you took your tie off before the event,” Kimber says. “I love looking at pictures of Barack Obama giving speeches now, and he nails looking respectful without a tie.”
“We also have a secret button under our short collars, which keeps them in place and stops them from curling up at the end of the day.”
These buttons can’t be seen when the collar is turned down, unlike a button-down Oxford shirt.
“That would be considered too casual,” Kimber says. “You can also wear a pocket square. Long gone are the days when you had to match your pocket square to your tie. Silk is still considered more formal than cotton.”
For Kimber, suit jacket lapels can make a subtle difference to eagle-eyed observers.
“Perhaps I’m being too specific, but I prefer a notch lapel over a peak lapel on your jacket if you’re not wearing a tie. It just looks better.”
Stylist Mel Boyle who has worked at GQ and Vogue, suggests that male politicians pay closer attention to the fit of their suits.
“If you’re not wearing a tie, you want to get the other details right. Ill-fitting suits where sleeves are too long, shoulders too wide or too small will draw unwelcome attention. Choose your suit fabrics wisely as they fall differently depending on the weight and some can look unkept and messy.”
“James Bond is the perfect point of reference where suits have been tailored to fit and when sans tie you will still look extremely polished.”
Ties may be falling out of favour but Huynh says that they can still be used to make a fashion statement, rather than as a symbol of following the flock.
“Politicians should understand that ties are no longer mandatory but a fashion choice,” Huynh says.
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1.1. Dimensions and Shipping
Dimensions: 50-plant model stands 44″ tall, 26″ wide
Weight: 36lbs “packaged weight” for shipping, 185-205lb loaded with 6+ cubic feet potting soil (well-watered)
Capacity: Holds 5-6 cubic feet of potting soil
Shipping: 23”x23”x25 octagonal box, freight class 200
In most regions the tower can be planted in the spring with vegetables, flowers, and herbs, and again in the late summer for the fall season. Temperate climates allow for three or even four complete crop cycles per year with proper planning.
The Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system is 100% made in the USA
Made from 100% food-grade materials
High-impact HDPE (high-density polyethylene) body 100% is recyclable
Food grade UV-inhibitor
Food grade terracotta colorant
Ruggedly overbuilt, lab quality consistency
Five year warranty on manufacturing defects
1.3. Parts Description
Base: The bottom of the unit to which the feet are attached and the bottom ring is joined. It is also where the drawer slides in.
Bottom Ring: Attaches to the base and seals in the bearings. The first section of the compost column attaches to the base with subsequent sections stacked on top of it.
Bearings: There are 43-54 nylon bearings. The Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system can function fine on 13 bearings. We use more bearings than necessary to assure smooth and trouble-free functioning. Using more bearings creates a friction drag that makes rotating the unit difficult. The bearing track is formed by the joining of the base and bottom ring.
Compost Column: Each compost column consists of five perforated sections, one top solid compost column piece, and a cap. The compost column attaches to the center section of the bottom ring.
Grow Ring(s): These are the five sectional rings of the tower that create the pockets and comprise the body of the unit.
Drawer: This is the receptacle that slides into the base to catch the excess nutrient-rich runoff.
1.4. General Definitions
Vermicompost(ing): Vermicomposting is the process of maintaining a worm habitat by providing the right balance of moisture, bedding, and veggie scraps to decompose and sustain the worms.
Compost Column: The central column of the tower, intended for use in vermicomposting.
Soil Column: The growing area of the tower located inside the grow rings which surround the
Organic Soil Amendment: A natural fertilizer. It can be commercially prepared or made from a DIY mix of organic nutrients from various natural origins.
Compost Tea: The leachate or runoff that is collected in the drawer. When hydrating the tower, the water collects many of the nutrients provided by the worm manure. Any water not immediately absorbed by the soil will drain into the drawer at the bottom of the tower. Reapply this water quickly. Compost tea is significantly different from what is often known as worm tea, though the terms are often used interchangeably. The compost tea leachate from the tower can be directly reintroduced into the tower or used for gardens and houseplants without dilution since it is PH neutral. Traditional worm wea is concentrated and highly acidic. It can burn plants if used undiluted.
2. Basic Setup
2.1. Setup Tips
Zip ties should be installed as shown in the instructions PDF on page 6, step 13.
Location is important. A number of “failures” occur due to either lack of light or poor watering. Choose a place that provides the most sun possible throughout the day. The location should also be stable and easily accessible. In desert conditions or extreme heat, you may want to shade your Garden Tower® 2 system for a couple of hours during the hottest part of the day. It’s best to place it on a hard flat surface to prevent it from sinking into the ground.
The Garden Tower® 2 planting system works on an aerobic composting principal. Most issues that occur are a result of over-compaction, either in the soil column or directly in the compost column. Straw, grass, leaves, and coir — fiber from the outer husk of the coconut — serve as great bedding for worms. These items should occasionally be added to the compost column to avoid compaction.
Too many greens and fresh scraps will quickly become anaerobic and may start to stink. This is a sign the column is being overfed. The biggest mistake new worm ranchers make is overfeeding. This also causes a major attractor of pests, both large and small. A balanced compost column will not stink or attract too many bugs. If you see leftover scraps of recognizable undigested or unprocessed vegetable matter, it is not yet time to feed the worms.
A good potting soil or mix is critical for success with the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system. It is essential to use high-quality organic, professional potting soil or mix meant for use in containers. A good commercial organic potting soil, or “grower’s mix, will optimize drainage, water retention, and aeration for both plants and the compost. We recommend you ask your nursery for a lightweight, fluffy grower’s mix or potting soil. Organic types are best, but not required. Many grower’s mixes are completely free of fertilizers and we do recommend a quality granular amendment.
Tip: Spend some time at a local garden center or talk to local gardeners about potting mixes and what types of plants would do well in your area. Mention the amount of shade you have, your area’s overall temperature, and other details.
We recommend giving your plants an initial organic soil amendment boost while the compost column starts working. As the central compost column begins to produce its own fertilizer, this will no longer be necessary.
Soil amendment can either be commercially prepared or made from a DIY mix of organic nutrients from various natural origins. You can also purchase a plant food to fortify your soil mix, mix with your soil, or kick start the movement of nutrients through the tower.
Here are some general tips and information about using commercially-prepared products:
- Use an organic plant food that is not manure-based. Adding this to the soil makes nutrients immediately available in the system. OMRI Certified is best.
- Liquid organic plant food mixtures will provide a lot of nutrition to young plants, but have to be periodically reapplied.
- Granular types of amendment are time-release and will provide nutrients for about three months.
- Make sure to purchase a naturally-derived plant food.
- We recommend staying away from animal manure products as they have an overabundance of salts.
- Your amendments should not contain DPW (Dehydrated Poultry Waste), municipal sludge (typically labeled as bio-solids), or petrochemical-derived fertilizers (salts).
- The application rate for a general purpose organic 4-4-4 is up to 1 cup per cubic foot of soil.
3. Tower and Compost Setup
3.1. Tower Setup
This setup method helps prevent the soil mixture from settling too far below the edge of the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system over time, and gives you a sense of how much water it takes to achieve full hydration without overflowing the drawer.
- Use a light, organic professional potting mix. You may plant seeds from cool weather crops or even transplants before or at the last frost date.
- Mix in a small bag of high quality soil amendment with the initial potting soil to give the seeds and transplants a good start until the compost column begins working.
- Build and fill the tower approximately 1/3 at a time. Start with the bottom ring and the 2 grow rings. Place 3 compost column pieces and the cap on the compost column to keep dirt from pouring in. Fill this with potting mix.
- Add soil amendment in a ring around the column and mix it into the soil.
- Evenly pour 2-3 gallons of water from the top slowly on the soil until it starts dripping into the drawer. Count the containers of water or use a water meter to keep track of how much water you use for each level. The number of gallons the tower holds before dripping into the drawer tells you the water-holding capacity of your soil.
- Add a couple of grow rings and compost column pieces. Replace the cap. Add more soil mixture until the next row or two of rings are filled. Add another handful of soil amendment and water. Continue to layer like a cake, sprinkling the organic soil amendment above the root zone of the levels and watering each, until the tower is full and water is dripping into the drawer.
- Finish filling the last ring until it is filled about one inch from the top of the top ring. Reuse water from drawer as necessary. Evenly pour 3-4 more gallons of water from the top of the soil.
- On setup, water the tower as above, hydrating each level until it is dripping into the drawer.
- You should cover or protect the tower at night when the temperature drops significantly.
3.2. Column Setup
Wait until after the last frost date to introduce worms into a new, recently emptied, or restarted tower. Composting worms can live outside of their comfort zone, although keeping temperatures between 55-65°F is optimal.
Acclimate worms in a cooler area for 24-48 hours before moving them into 50°F or colder temperatures to avoid shocking them. Temperatures fluctuate less in a working compost column, even when they dip to freezing at night. A partially full column is slightly more sensitive to temperature.
Use 250-500 red wiggler worms to start, or 25-50+ earthworms. Red wigglers go in the compost tube, and earthworms go in the soil column. You may release them anywhere on the Garden Tower® 2 planting system and they will eventually make it to where they will do their best work.
3.3. Composting Glossary
Vermicompost: The contents of the compost column consisting of unprocessed food scraps, shredded paper, leaves, and the worm colony.
Castings: The finished product of vermicomposting. These are worm castings otherwise known as “Black Gold.” Black Gold is prized by gardeners around the globe. Castings may be used as a soil amendment. Worm castings should only be 10-20% of the overall soil mix.
Browns: Browns include well-dried leaves, grasses, and finely shredded brown cardboard and paper. This serves as bedding for the worms, but also becomes a food source, since it gradually breaks down over time. Bedding is just another name for browns.
Greens: Greens are fresh veggie scraps suitable for composting. Greens = worm food.
The leading cause of death to worms by beginners is overfeeding, which is often caused by excess moisture, lack of oxygen, excessive temperature and acidity. The worms can’t keep up with the food supply. This causes their food to turn sour, acquire a nasty smell, and blocks oxygen from penetrating the compost. Do not stuff the compost column, as good air circulation is important to the worms’ well-being. Overfeeding invites unwanted pests into your worm bin and your yard.
Generally, the worm bin will receive enough moisture from the food you put in. There is no need to ever water directly into the compost column.
Feed the worms a generous handful or two of food every couple of days and provide plenty of browns for bedding. If you can still see undigested food scraps, then it is not time to feed them yet.
The dampness or dryness of the tower can vary from day to day. This is okay. You may not see worms. This is fine, as worms are good at hiding. They will move out of the compost column if they do not like the conditions, but they will move back in as soon as a balance is restored.
3.5. Composting Tips
Compost performance will vary with the temperature. Worms will love your indoor Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system habitat. Their activity, however, is directly related to temperature. Only add kitchen scraps when more space is generated within the composting column.
Certain items are difficult for the worms to eat and should be avoided. These include avocado pits, corn cobs, and other hard, dense objects. The smaller the scraps that you use, the faster the worms can make vermicompost.
Do not put any meats, fats, dairy products, string, or hair into the compost column.
3.6. Worm Types
Red Wigglers (eisenia fetida) are the workhorses of the compost column and the entire system overall. Earthworms, on the other hand, act as a supplemental soil conditioners. They clean up debris in the tower, spread nutrients, and aerate the soil column. Red wigglers are voracious composters and live primarily in the compost column. The Red Wigglers sold in bait shops and Walmart are not the same as the Wigglers sold for vermicomposting. They are misnamed.
Nightcrawlers are beneficial to add into the soil column in limited numbers as they are burrowers, earth movers, and vertical dwellers. They eat materials in the soil, such as old root bits and other organic matter, and continually aerate it. They also help distribute nutrients throughout the system. Nightcrawlers can be harvested locally by looking under leaves or by leaving a wet carpet outside. After a few days, worms will collect on the carpet. Don’t add too many or they will break down the soil structure of the potting mix much faster than normal. Ten to twenty-five earthworms is a good amount to start with. Otherwise you may find your soil draining poorly and retaining too much moisture.
4.1. Planting Tips
Use these planting tips to reap a bountiful harvest from your Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system!
- Four to five larger plants may be planted in the top.
- Large plants such as tomatoes are a great choice for the top of the tower and can be trellised or staked many feet in the air. Plant tomatoes very deeply in the soil for steady access to water.
- Trailing vines such as squash and zucchini do best on the bottom row. They require more floor space to accommodate their growth, but be aware that they will make your tower difficult to rotate.
- If you have limited space, or wish to have the option of being able to rotate your tower, these types of plants may not be your best choice. Look for “bush” varieties of these vining or trailing veggies as they are more compact and much easier to grow in small spaces.
- Pay attention to the space requirements of the plants you’re planning to grow and consider placing plants that require less space between plants that require more space.
- Planting identical plants in diagonal columns or in small clusters of three to five generally performs well and looks beautiful.
- You can begin with seed or small starts, available at garden centers and farmers markets. Start your seeds in soil in a compact flat or tray where they will grow into small starts for easy transplanting. Water your seeds with a misting sprayer.
- When planting side pockets, start at the bottom row with your bushiest mature plants. Working up the rows, choose your next plants according to size as you plant. Choose plants of decreasing mature size as you plant from bottom to top. Check our companion planting guide to learn more about what plants grow well together.
4.2. Seed Selection
4.3. When to Plant
Planting times will be location dependent. Search online for “Last Frost Date” for the location name, or consult our hardiness zone library.
4.4. Plant Selection
Here are a few general guidelines for planting in the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system.
- Plant 4-5 large, bushy plants in the top.
- Study the Companion Planting Guide since space in the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system is compact. The root zones are very close together, and companion planting can have a positive impact on your planting.
- Determinate (bush variety) tomatoes, basil, eggplants, peppers, and beans do well in the top of the tower.
- Cabbages, broccoli, cauliflower, radishes, and kohlrabi all do well in the lower and middle side pockets. Lettuce and spinach can be planted anywhere it will fit.
- Herbs such as cilantro and parsley can be interspersed with similar companions.
- Flowers can be planted throughout and act as a beacon to beneficial insects. Marigolds are reported to be good for certain pest controls and Nasturtiums are delicate, beautiful, and the flowers are edible!
- Vining plants, such as indeterminate tomatoes, squash, cucumber, and melons, should go in the bottom two rows of the tower. They should be trellised away from the tower to a railing, stool, chair, or other garden art. This prevents them from blocking sun from their neighbors, but also makes it hard to rotate the tower in the later part of the season.
- If you are having issues growing a particular plant or variety, try looking for a container or bush variety of whatever type of plant that hasn’t grown well for you.
- We advise against planting strawberries and other woody-stemmed, vining (and potentially invasive) plants in the tower. Mints, for example, have a high nutrient density which makes it possible for them to take over other crops. In the following year or two you will have a big woody mess to cut out of the tower. The Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system makes this chore a bit easier due to its sectional design.
- Plants that prefer well drained soil do best planted closer to the top (spinach, peas, peppers, beans, etc.). Plants that prefer lots of water and nutrient do well on the bottom (vining or indeterminate tomatoes, cucumber, melons, etc.).
4.5. Plant Suggestions
- Vegetables: Amaranth (vegetable type), Arugula, Beans(Lima, bush, pole, shell, fava), Broccoli, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Chinese Cabbage, Cauliflower, Chard, Chicory, Collards, Cucumbers, Dandelion, Eggplant, Endive, Escarole, Gourds, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Melons, Mesclun, Mustard Greens, Dwarf Okra, Peas, Peppers, Radicchio, Sorrel, Spinach, Squash, Strawberries, Tomatoes.
Note that vines such as squash and melons grow nicely from the bottom holes, trailing on the ground.
- Herbs: Angelica, Anise Hyssop, Basil, Calendula, Catmint, Catnip, Chamomile, Chervil, Chives, Cilantro (Coriander), Dandelion, Dill, Echinacea (Coneflower), Feverfew, Flax, Garlic Chives, Goldenseal Hyssop, Lavender, Fennel, Lemon Balm, Marjoram, Milk Thistle, Mint, Nettle, Oregano, Parsley, Passion Flower, Pleurisy Root, Rosemary, Sage, Salad Burnet, Saltwort, Savory, Shiso, Stevia, Thyme, Valerian, Wormwood.
- Edible Flowers: Calendula, Carthamus, Dianthus, Marigolds, Nasturtiums, Pansies, Salvia, Violas.
- Ornamental Flowers: Ageratum, Amaranth, Ammi, Aster, Bells of Ireland, Bupleurum, Morning Glory, Nigella, Petunia, Phlox, Polygonum, Poppy, Ptilotus, Rudbeckia, Safflower, Salpiglossis, Sanvitalia, Scabiosa, Snapdragon, Stock, Strawflower, Sweet Peas, Verbena, Yarrow, Zinnia.
5.1. Watering Tips
Maintain a regular watering schedule. Morning is best, afternoon is okay, evening is the least desirable.
Do not water your tower with a hose because it is difficult to discern how much water your tower actually requires with one. Once you have more experience and know how much water your tower needs, you can get away with using a hose.
By watering with a container such as a 1-2 gallon sprinkling can or 5 gallon bucket, you will learn how much water is ideal for your tower.
Do not water plants during the hottest part of the day, as this can damage them.
During the active growing season, a good rule of thumb is to use 4-6 gallons of water every 2-3 days.
Test the soil for dryness by placing your finger in a pocket in the lowest row. If the soil feels dry, a heavier watering is required (5-7 gallons). If the soil feels slightly moist, maintenance watering is all that is required (2-4 gallons).
If water drains into the drawer more often than twice per week, you’re watering too frequently.
A layer of mulch on the top surface of the tower will help maintain constant moisture. Soak hardwood mulch or small woodchips in water for 24-48 hours and use it to regulate moisture loss in dry environments.
Tend to your garden as you would with a regular garden. Remove dead or damaged leaves, cut back on unruly growth, and replace harvested plants.
As a self-contained, self-fertilizing system, the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system requires relatively little care.
6. Extended Growing Season
6.1. Extended Growing Season Tips
You can get 2-3 weeks of extended growing on each side of the season! Because of the large thermal mass created by the volume of the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system body and soil, the seeds, starts, and plants are protected both in the spring and at harvest. In the spring, the tower heats up faster than the ground around it. This allows you to plant 2-3 weeks ahead of when you would normally plant in the ground. In the fall, you will be able to harvest 2-3 weeks later than similar plants in the ground.
If the temperature dips below 32°F, we suggest putting a piece of clear plastic over the tower, with stakes positioned to protect the plants. The plastic must be removed as soon as the sun comes out if it’s going to be above 32°F or your plants might get damaged. Garden fleece material or bags may be used to extend your season even further.
Here are a couple of products to try for light extended season or overwinter use:
- Frost Cold Garden Greenhouse Fleecing 31″x47″
- Tierra Garden 50-8000 2-Pack Haxnicks Easy Fleece Jacket, Large
- For heavier cover and snow protection, try using NuVue Winter Wrap.
Put stakes in the tower to keep the cover off of the plants, and gather it around the bottom to secure it from the wind. If you are protecting worms during a severe cold snap, then darker plastic will absorb more warmth and provide more protection to the compost column.
6.2. Indoor Use
The Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system is being used around the world in greenhouses, hoop-houses, sun-rooms, and regular rooms. The best placement indoors in the winter months is in front of a south-facing window. Depending on the amount of available light, supplemental lighting should be used.
Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system setup is similar both indoors and out. Lighting is the biggest consideration. Setting up your tower one level at a time is especially important for indoor gardeners. As you hydrate each level, count the number of gallons you use to water the entire tower. Water each level as you fill it until it drips. This will tell you the capacity of your soil column, so that you can fully water it without overflowing the reservoir drawer.
For an inexpensive lighting setup, use full-spectrum 40 watt CFL bulbs with standard reflective bulb fixtures. Better yet, use 40″ full spectrum fixtures. These can be mounted vertically using 2×4’s. Using Mylar or foil film (a readily available source is emergency blankets) around the tower and lights will help increase the efficiency of the lighting. Pricier setups use High-Pressure Sodium/Mercury (HPS/HPM) lights. These have have heat and ventilation requirements and can be expensive to replace.
People often notice a mild odor for a few weeks after startup, but this fades as the compost matures and comes into balance. With proper composting practices, we have not had a single tower exhibit any sharp odors indicative of high acidity brought on by lack of oxygen.
You may wish to invest in casters (wheels) to make moving your tower easier.
7. Seasonal Maintenance
7.1. Emptying the Compost Column
We recommend emptying a portion of the compost column on a regular basis every 30 – 45 days or before it is totally full of vermicompost. This prevents a buildup of a “root mat” that becomes more difficult to remove.
This is how you empty the column:
- Make sure the worms have fully consumed all of the kitchen scraps.
- Make sure there is no water in the drawer.
- Pull the screen out half way to allow vermicompost to exit the bottom of the compost column and fall into the drawer.
- Depending on the degree to which the plants have rooted into the compost, it may be necessary to push the contents of the compost column out with a wooden broomstick or other handle.
- Clear the track if necessary and push the screen back in.
7.2.Reconditioning the Soil
After emptying part of the contents of the compost tube, remove the drawer and place vermicompost on top of the soil at the top of the tower. Your soil will have had time to settle a bit at this point, so it is recommended that you place a 1-3″ thick (or more) layer of vermicompost on top of the soil. Be careful not to exceed the height of the top ring section. Any excess vermicompost can be used on your house plants, garden flowers, given to a friend, or saved to rejuvenate the soil in your tower at a later date.
7.3. Overwintering the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system
When winter arrives, you can either move your tower to a heated location or leave it outdoors and replant in the spring. Flip the drawer over to prevent ice buildup and cover your tower when not in use.
The biggest factor affecting the longevity of the plastic body is degradation from ultraviolet radiation. The body is only exposed during the growing season for the first few weeks until foliage grows enough to shield the tower. During the winter the Garden Tower® 2 body is not protected by foliage.
A dark, breathable, semi-permeable cover, especially in colder climates, will help the tower gather warmth throughout the day providing protection and insulation for the worms during cold and even sub-zero nights.
A cover can prevent the soil from drying out. Dry soil collapses and may lead to increased compaction when you start to use the tower again when the growing season starts. Proper rehydration of dry soil is critical for success. A couple of drops of organic dish soap in each gallon of the first watering will help break the surface tension of the water, act as a wetting agent, and promote moisture uptake by the soil.
7.4. Overwintering Worms
In middle and northern regions, overwintering worms is possible during mild winters. The Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system can absorb enough heat during the day to carry it through nights in the low 20’s without the worm habitat dropping to dangerous temperatures. It takes at least several days and often up to a week or more of freezing and sub-zero days and nights to significantly affect the worm population.
The Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system is a flexible and forgiving system, but every natural system has its limits. When overwintering the worms, we recommend that you cover the tower with dark, semi-permeable material, such as a grill cover or landscape cloth. The dark material will help the tower absorb heat during the day, even if it is only slightly above freezing. We have covered one with a light plastic sheet while we were harvesting chives, cilantro, and parsley well into December, despite several snowfalls with over 8″ of accumulation. The worms were still alive in the tower, but because there were ice crystals forming in the compost, we knew another cold snap would do them in. Fearing a harsh winter, we removed some worms from the tower to overwinter in a bin in a semi-heated garage. It made composting in sub-zero temperatures easy because we didn’t have to trek out to the towers, or to the compost pile.
During very cold winters, the compost in the central tube should be removed, worms and all, and placed in a 1 foot (or more) deep hole in the ground outside. Fresh kitchen scraps can be added and an 8″ layer of straw will ensure the worms don’t freeze. If you live in an apartment, you can overwinter the worms inside in a small bin. All of this may be unnecessary if the Garden Tower® 2 vertical planting system is near a building, on a patio, porch, or near a wall, as it is unlikely to actually freeze because of the substantial thermal mass of soil. | <urn:uuid:c4ddbf84-05e4-4acc-800d-b5e4e673f072> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gardentowerproject.com/blogs/learning-center/assembly-and-instructions?_pos=1&_sid=250fca602&_ss=r | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.920075 | 6,389 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Blockchain - The Technology that's changing the World
Block by Block - Part 2
Dais Feature | 17/02/2021 05:03 PM
Blockchain is not a household fuzzword and whenever it's mentioned, more difficult names like Cryptocurrency... Bitcoin... Ethereum.. are thrown around. Sometimes understood. Mostly misunderstood. From the last time we touched upon the tip of the colossal iceberg that's Blockchain – much has changed around the world...
From a ‘Dark Web’ concept, Blockchain and crypto is out there legitimizing its presence every growing day. From governments perceiving the technology and its resultant outcomes (read: Bitcoin) as a threat to its traditional methods of working and fiat currencies – there is fast-moving acceptance and even innovation coming through from the powers that be for this blitzing soon-to-become-mainstay of the future. As we speak, the Government of India drafts a proposal to ban cryptocurrencies again and Elon Musk announces to accept Tesla payments in Cryptocurrencies!! Funny world ain't it?
Can we afford to ignore it anymore – that question was well answered the last time when we covered the Basics of Blockchain in our Block by Block Part 1 Feature. But if we were to adapt it, learn it, imbibe it and make it a close part of our ecosystem. . .
What are the implications we are looking at?
What are the advantages of embracing this technology? And of course, what are the threats?
We have renowned Blockchain expert Raj A. Kapoor with us, who piqued our curiosity with his lucid insights on the larger outline of Blockchain in our First Part of Block by Block. He also gave us a primer of what’s coming up in the next part of his feature – what are the uses of Blockchain, where is it being applied, how are the corporate giants embracing it and what is the adoption of this technology looking like, in the future for India.
Let's dive into the second part of Block by Block with an endeavour to seek these answers…
The Instantaneous Blockchain - Blink and You MISS!
Here’s a thing about blockchain—it can be really fast! Blockchains, built for speed can process and verify transactions more quickly than the alternative systems. When we explained the functioning of Blockchain in our First Part through a real-life use case of a laptop purchase chronology, it seemed to be a tedious and labour-intense process. The first thought that comes to mind then is - if everyone has to copy everything that happens to the chain, it is definitely more time, cost and manpower absorbing than normal ‘siloed’ record-keeping. But in fact, these transactions get processed by computers in milliseconds.
The reason why blockchain can be much faster than the alternative is because it’s decentralized (and therefore, "lighter”), so let’s talk about that to achieve the definition.
Blockchain Is Decentralized
A lot of Blockchains operate with no central authority. The technology is built in a way that it can let people or companies add and verify their transactions—without a single governing body intervening at any point in the process flow. We explain this with an example:
Amit pays rent to his landlord Baburam. What would be the sequence of events followed here:
1. Amit prepares a cheque - Writes the name of the recipient, the amount of the cheque, the date of the payment and signs the cheque.
2. He gives it to Baburam.
3. Baburam deposits the cheque in his ABCD bank.
4. ABCD bank processes the cheque, taking a few days to verify that all the information is correct, there are sufficient funds in Amit’s account to honour the cheque, and that the cheque isn’t counterfeit.
5. Finally, Baburam receives the rent money.
Meanwhile, if Amit were paying with a blockchain-based currency, the transaction would have been just one step -
- Amit deposits the money to Baburam… and … that’s it.
- None !!
The transaction gets recorded on the blockchain, Baburam’s blockchain verifies the transaction, and everything is set. Decentralized blockchains essentially cut out the middleman.
Here’s what a blockchain looks like with more than just you and your landlord participating:-
When one copy of the blockchain ledger gets changed, they all verify that transaction before adding it to their own ledgers. And blockchain is faster than the alternative, because everybody involved doesn’t have to wait on a single, slow-moving source for verification. It all happens simultaneously.
The Blockchain is Democratic - A New World Order?
So far, we’ve got that a blockchain is a digital ledger shared between a network of people. Each participant can manipulate that ledger, recording new blocks of data onto the chain, but with each transaction, the entire chain gets analyzed by everyone to make sure it’s still accurate. In other words, everyone has their own copy of the ledger, but nobody can make a change without everyone agreeing to it.
It is a democratic system with its Three Main Constituents functioning as its basic framework:-
- A network of computers/participants
- A network Protocol
- A consensus mechanism
Depending on the permissions of the blockchain, it can be public, and open to anyone with a computer, or private, accessible only by specific members. Each computer is called a node, and it makes up one part of the network of participants in the blockchain.
A network protocol is, in simple English, a rulebook that determines how those nodes can talk to each other. Typically, each node has its own copy of the general ledger (the blockchain) so there’s protection against mistakes or fraud.
That redundancy, called “fault tolerance,” is what makes blockchain unique.
Finally, the consensus mechanism is the process by which a blockchain network verifies transactions and comes to an agreement on what the current, accurate blockchain is.
Do you remember the laptop example in the previous part? How people in town knew that Rishi wasn’t allowed to sell laptops and that the amount mentioned was way too expensive for a simple no-frills laptop? Those sorts of rules were agreed upon beforehand by every node in the network—they’re a defining feature of the network. If they didn’t exist, then anyone could sell laptops like those for however much they wanted.
Public blockchain networks tend to have pretty high standards for security, while private networks might be a little more trusting. But either way, the rules that form the consensus mechanism are what gives blockchain technology its flexibility and power. Anyone, individually, can check the validity of each transaction and come to a conclusion on whether it’s good or not.
The 3 PILLARS of the BLOCKCHAIN DEMOCRACY
1. People or companies dealing with each other
2. A relationship between those people or companies
3. A rulebook they all agree on that explains which transactions are okay and which are not.
The Key Advantages of Blockchain
Blockchain technology has 4 big advantages:
Since everyone in a blockchain network has access to the ledger and the rulebook, nobody involved gets left behind. You can see who owned or paid or gave or did what, at various points in time, whenever you want or need. It’s a totally transparent system. Furthermore, to ensure there are no nefarious nodes added to the blockchain, blockchain networks require new computers to participate in a “consensus test” (more on this later) to ensure they are trustworthy. If a computer passes the consensus test, they become eligible to add blocks to the blockchain. Something like clearing an entrance exam! This process is what those in the cryptocurrency world call “mining.”
Since everyone has a copy of the ledger that they use to validate the newest version, it’s a democratically secured system, too. There’s no single company or agency with extra power. Everyone is in charge. Furthermore, new blocks on the blockchain are always stored linearly and chronologically. After a block is added to the chain and receives its own hash, it is virtually impossible for a hacker to alter that block without having to then go back and alter every preceding block in the chain (which would require an immense amount of computing power).
Blockchain transactions can take way less time than transactions that involve some sort of middleman, simply because they are self-validating.
No Central Authority
This one might sound a bit abstract—who cares if some sort of authority is watching over your transactions?
But here’s the deal: When there’s a middleman, that middleman tends to slow things down and skim off the top, taking transaction fees and charging late penalties and all that business. In Blockchain, there is no central authority.
The Double-Spend Problem is Solved
Because digital money is just a computer file, it’s easy to counterfeit with a simple “copy and paste.”
Without blockchain, banks keep track of everyone’s money in their accounts, so that no one “double-spends”—or spend the same money twice. Blockchain solves this problem differently and more efficiently than banks: it makes all transactions and accounts public so it’s blatantly obvious when money is being counted or used twice.
Gist of the story…
Using blockchain can potentially speed up transactions while cutting costs associated with third-party banks and lowering the risk of fraud. That means more speed, affordability, and security for everyone.
A Few Disadvantages of Blockchain
Surely there are a few challenges towards implementing Blockchain:
For Blockchain to Work, Everyone Needs to Co-operate
In order to belong to a blockchain network, each company needs to be upfront and forthcoming about their own security protocols. Transactions added to the blockchain need to be transparent to everyone else, so they can verify the blockchain—that’s the point.
Which means that, while a blockchain can be encrypted to protect itself against hackers, the data in each block can’t be. Companies might be understandably hesitant about removing some of their safety features in order to accommodate blockchain technologies, and for good reason.
Getting everyone on a blockchain network to “agree” to certain kinds and levels could be difficult—and implementing those additional security layers is another hurdle altogether.
The government isn’t quite sure how to handle it—and neither are many companies. It’ll take some time before regulations and laws governing the use of blockchain get written, especially in the financial sector, but they’re bound to come up sooner or later. And that’s an uncertainty that not everyone is comfortable with.
Blockchain Could be Hacked, Raising Security Issues
Blockchain as an idea is pretty secure. Everyone double-checks their records to make sure there’s no fraud going on. But what about hacking? If a bank gets robbed, it just loses its own cash—but if a blockchain gets hacked into and 40 banks are on that network, then a lot more damage could be done.
The potential dangers here haven’t been fleshed out completely, but it’s something to keep an eye on. However, with the ever-involving technology, this issue is being quickly addressed and mitigated.
As you can tell by now, a simple explanation of blockchain technology isn’t easy. To really understand blockchain, it pretty much requires adopting an entirely new vocabulary with words like “hash,” “nodes,” and “mining.” Because of this, it has taken quite a while for blockchain to finally get the mainstream appeal.
And … Who Uses Blockchain? Or Who Shall Use Blockchain?
Banks and financial services are already using blockchain to cut out the middlemen—and a lot of time, money, and risk—when dealing with monetary transactions.
Industries that are at high risk for fraud are starting to use blockchain to verify their wares. Supply Chain Management, Inventory Management are some of the quick adapting industries to blockchain technology. A few companies are implementing blockchain to prevent the false certification or sale of blood diamonds and stolen art, for example.
Digital content like music, movies, and online ads could use blockchain to prevent piracy. By using new file formats that can play the media and encode blockchain data that reflects intellectual property and payment history, musicians and filmmakers wouldn’t be losing out on millions.
In healthcare, blockchain technology can be used to prevent the theft of pills through the supply chain and give medical history ownership back to patients (who can distribute it to their doctors, for certain amounts of time, as they want or need).
In the food and beverage industry, farmers could use blockchain to monitor their crops—and trace where and when food recalls occur. As we say nowadays, from farm to fork!
Insurance could be dramatically changed. Imagine a world where you can get insurance that lasts for a few hours, like when you’re doing some extreme sport. Or where taxi drivers can bypass insurance companies by combining their money together on a blockchain and creating a safety net for themselves.
Blockchain could help in politics by minimizing Election fraud and increasing voter turnout. Each vote could be stored on the blockchain, making it impossible to alter. The blockchain could also increase transparency, while lowering the manpower needed to administer an election.
While it seems like a dream come true for a country of our size and diversity, it also must provide some food for thought to the powers-that-be!
Supply chains can use blockchain to record product status at each stage of production. Because blockchain is permanent and unchangeable, it makes it possible to trace each product to its source.
Manufacturing, even Charities and Crowdfunding are getting on to blockchain.
Blockchain is a development that lends itself to creativity and it is only growing exponentially. But it still has a limited reach – it remains restricted to large organizations – the big corporates and in some ways, the government. Who misses out in this big-boys game then? We, the people.
The small business owners, the retail investor, the common man who has only been exposed to one aspect of the Blockchain Technology – Cryptocurrency or even granularly, Bitcoin. It is to this large majority, that we wanted to explain the Blockchain concept in simple parlance, demystifying the jargon associated with it and prompting ideas to learn more and possibly invoke the adaptation of this ecosystem that now surrounds us, our awareness and acceptability of it, notwithstanding.
The third part of our Feature will bring the discussion down to brass tacks- actual uses and probable applications for us – the future-gazing next generation. Stay tuned, as the chances are many.
R A J A. K A P O O R is an Advisory Board Member at several Blockchain companies and is the Founder and Chairman of the Indian Blockchain Alliance - the largest Indian emerging technology think tank. Raj is an accomplished Tech innovation professional, Drupal Web Application Developer, Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Educator, Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP), Blockchain Solution Architect, Community organizer and a friend of disruptive ideas, protem Chairman for Organization of Blockchain Technology Users (OBTU).
His thoughts can further be accessed Here.
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Placenta research could help doctors treat premature babies with chronic lung conditions
First published by ABC News
- Over 50 per cent of babies born 15 weeks premature develop chronic lung condition
- Up to 40 per cent of babies with chronic lung condition also have high blood pressure in lungs
- Professor Arvind Sehgal’s study enables doctors to treat the condition
Almost a third of babies born extremely premature develop a chronic lung condition that can cause death and years of suffering.
But a study from Monash University and the Monash Children’s Hospital has found a way to detect the condition at birth, which can help doctors better manage and treat the illness.
Mothers of babies with this debilitating condition say it offers hope and could transform the quality of life for the sick baby and family.
Sonya Georgievski’s twin boys were born about 13 weeks premature because of complications.
“Your world sort of turns around and you’re like, ‘What?’ You just basically, go into a dark place and wonder what on Earth is going to happen,” she said.
And it got worse. The boys developed bronchopulmonary dysplasia, or BPD — a chronic lung condition which affects about 55 per cent of babies born 15 weeks premature.
It causes breathing problems and can mean hospitalisations, vulnerability to infections and the need for home oxygen.
Ms Georgievski’s boys are now almost three years old but one, Xavier, was at risk of being hospitalised for simply catching a cold, while Oliver may develop asthma.
Pulmonary hypertension can leave babies at risk of death
Up to 40 per cent of babies with BPD also get what is known as PH — chronic pulmonary hypertension or high blood pressure in the lungs.
This complication greatly increases the risk of death and the need for intensive care treatment.
Michelle Matar’s daughter Shifra — born at just 23 weeks — had the complication and was close to dying.
“I think I was called up to four times to bid her farewell, but she was lucky to keep going,” she said.
“I can’t even explain how I used to feel. Days I would walk, I didn’t feel my legs.
“[It’s] just a feeling of helplessness when you’re a mother and can’t do anything more.”
Ms Martar said Shifra spent 13 months on oxygen support in hospital and two months with it at home.
‘We want to reduce risk of dying’
Professor Arvind Sehgal, a neonatal consultant at Monash Children’s Hospital, treated Shifra and has also led a study into the condition, which found ways to dramatically improve the baby’s chances and quality of life.
It involved testing the placentas of 56 pre-term babies.
“The study gives clues from the placenta,” he said.
“As soon as the baby is born, we get clues among this high-risk babies, which ones might develop this complication later on.”
Professor Sehgal said it had transformed doctors’ ability to treat the condition.
“So, [we] use information to change management strategy to reduce the risk, include different ways of supporting ventilation and there are some special medications that can be given and more effective early on,” he said.
“What we want to achieve is to reduce risk of dying and if we can reduce the length of stay in hospital. Then we improve quality of life for family and also save money in terms of health care resources.”
The study is being presented internationally next month.
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parshat balak – numbers 22-23
Join Geoffrey Stern and Rabbi Adam Mintz recorded on clubhouse on Thursday July 14th 2022. We read the story of Balaam and note the selective use of the generic “God-Elohim” and the particular name of the God of Israel – “YHVH”. We wonder if it is simply stylic variation or does it have significance. In the process we compare traditional Rabbinic solutions to the so-called Documentary Hypothesis and consider whether the Torah is comprised of different literary voices edited together.
Welcome to Madlik. My name is Geoffrey Stern and at Madlik we light a spark or shed some light on a Jewish Text or Tradition. Along with Rabbi Adam Mintz, we host Madlik Disruptive Torah on clubhouse every Thursday and share it as the Madlik podcast on your favorite platform. Today we discuss parshat Balak which has a great story about a talking donkey and contains a curse turned into an iconic blessing of the People of Israel. But our focus will be on how God is referred to, both here and elsewhere in the Torah and what that teaches us about who wrote and how the Bible was written. So Baruch Hashem you are here and let’s begin God – What’s in a Name
Adam Mintz 00:58
Bararuch Hashem Nice to see you, nice to be part of this with you and we’re ready to roll. Let’s hear about God.
Geoffrey Stern 01:04
So as I said in the intro, the parsha is called Balak, who was a motorbike king who sees the people of Israel starting to make their way into the promised land. And guess what he’s in the way. So he hires a prophet for hire, named Bilaam. And the idea is that Bilaam will curse the Jewish people, the people of Israel. And during that, we’ll see there’s a there’s a story about a donkey. So we have a Disney moment, if you will, a talking donkey. But I want to focus on the words that are used specifically how God is referred to in the text itself, and see if there are any lessons to be learned. So we’re in Numbers 28. And I’m starting because I gave you the context, right from verse 8, which is after the messengers from King Balak come to higher Bilaam and ask him to Chris, the Jewish people. In verse 8, he said to them, spend the night here, and I shall reply to you, as Hashem may instruct me. So whenever God is referred to by Yud Hey Vav Hey which the witnesses referred to as Jehovah, and we are Jews referred to as simply the name I will say Hashem. So, he says, Stay the night, and I will reply to you, as Hashem may instruct me. So the Moabite dignitaries stayed with Balaam. God, the Lord, now it does not use the word Hashem. It uses Elohim, which is a generic name for the Godhead, God came to Balaam and said, what do these men want of you? Balaam said to God, Balak son of Tzipur king of Moab sent me this message. Here is a people that came out from Egypt and hides the Earth from view, come now and curse them for me. Perhaps I can engage them in battle and drive them off. But God said to Balaam do not go with them. You must not curse that people for they are blessed. Balaam arose in the morning and said to Balak’s dignitaries, go back to your country for Hashem will not let me go with you. The Moabite dignitaries left and they came back to Balak and said Balaam refused to come with us. Then the king sent more dignitaries to convince him to come. And again, Balaam replies in verse 18. Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything big or little contrary to the command of Hashem. So stay here overnight, and let me find out what else Hashem may say to me. That night, God came to Barlaam and said to him, if these agents have come with you, you may go with them. And then we segue into the whole story of Balaam being on the donkey, on the ass going to see the King, and this donkey appears in front of him. But let us stop right here. Rabbi, do you think it’s strange that whenever Bilaam is talking to the people, he wants to influence, the people he wants to impress, That he refers to God as Hashem, the Jewish God. And when he talks to God, the text and you assume him refers to God by the generic name. Is there a lesson there?
Adam Mintz 05:05
Well, you know, let’s take a step back and let’s try to evaluate what it means to be a prophet in the Torah, who’s not part of the Jewish people. It’s a unique situation. The prophets we know were all Jews, the prophets we know in the Torah, the prophets, we know in the later books of the Bible, they’re all Jews. What build on doing being a prophet? How can he be a prophet? Why does God choose to speak to Bilaam? And it seems to be and it’s hard to know, but it seems to be that the point of the tow HR is that God chooses people from the many nations of the world to spread God’s message to different people. And if that’s true, it’s not surprising that when Bilaam, speaks about God, he refers to God as the Jewish God, because his role is to spread the Jewish God’s word to other people. That’s a very, very interesting idea, just kind of theologically, that there is such a person to spread God’s message to the world.
Geoffrey Stern 06:22
In my mind, you give you give Balaam too much credit. In other words, he might have ended up as a prophet, and I refer to the beautiful blessing, the curse that became a blessing that he preached the famous מַה־טֹּ֥בוּ אֹהָלֶ֖יךָ יַעֲקֹ֑ב, how goodly are the tents of Jacob, that you find in pretty much every sanctuary. So he ended up being a Jewish prophet, or a prophet that spoke well of the Jews and delivered. And I guess if that’s the point, if he’s a prophet, he delivered God’s message. But I don’t think he did that intentionally. And so I think I take your question to be really, whether he was a prophet of the non-Jews. And of course, I think sometimes we confuse prophecy with someone who predicts the future, from the true prophet, which is the Jeremiah, that we’ll be hearing in a few weeks, in Lamentations, the conscience of God, the nagging guilt deliverer who puts you on the straight path, and can bless you. But I think that the first question you asked, and I took it to be, can a non-Jew be a prophet for his own people? For others, I do think that we do have examples of, for instance, a Job. We have an instance of a Jethro, where, in Jefro’s case, he’s presented as a very good guy who gives good advice to Moses. So my answer to the first part of your question is, yes, clearly there are non-Jews who are given accelerated access to the Divine and can provide insight. I mean, would you agree to me on at that level?
Adam Mintz 08:24
Absolutely. would agree with you about that. Yes.
Geoffrey Stern 08:27
So then I think the next question is: was he a prophet of God? Or another way of saying that is, how does the Bible use these non-Jewish prophets? And I think, if we exclude Job for a second, I think if you look at Jethro and you look at Bilaam, it’s kind of like we Jews today, when a Jew does well wins a Nobel Prize, or when there’s a character in a book, a tale, who’s Jewish, because we’re a minority, somehow it validates us. And I think a large function of the non-Jews, certainly in the typos of Jethro and Bilaam is ultimately to validate the Jewish people. There’s a there’s a commentator, actually a translator of the Bible called Everett Fox. And he says that one of the functions of this story of a curse turning into a blessing right here is because in Numbers in the in the stories that we’ve been reading of Korach, and of the water, the Jews have just been punished; of the spies. They’ve just been one punishment after another, one curse after another. If you take: you will not go into the Promised Land as a curse. And this is to give us a little respite. This is according to Fox to show that curses can change into blessings. But whether that’s the case or not, I think certainly that the non-Jewish figurehead or prophet who does good things for the Jewish people, validates us. And that’s why it’s worthwhile putting them into a sacred text.
Adam Mintz 10:19
I would agree that 100% Actually, I want to talk about both those things, you know, the idea that that those who you bless will be blessed, and those who you curse will be cursed, is actually a phrase that used twice in the Torah. It’s used concerning Bilaam. In this week, parish shot, and it’s used continuing Abraham at the beginning of the Torah, right, God says to Abraham, those who you bless will be blessed, and those who you curse will be cursed. That’s so interesting that the Jewish puppet and the non-Jewish prophet have the same power, that is that those who you bless will be blessed, and those who curse will be cursed. That’s a unique thing to this prophet. We don’t find that anyplace else. You talk about Job. You talk about Jethro, but we don’t have that idea, the idea that it flips, what they say, flips is an amazing idea, isn’t it?
Geoffrey Stern 11:19
Yeah, absolutely. And the idea of it flipping giving it power, giving it more power than had it not flipped. Because it was supposed to be a curse, and it became a blessing that makes it that much more effective. No question, no question about it. And it’s like, when you preach to the choir, that’s not necessarily such a great sermon. But when you preach to people who aren’t in the choir, and they listen, that’s a little bit, I think of what we have here. So, I want to get back a little bit to the choice of names of God. And when I first read it, my first impulse was, you know, it’s like, if you want to get access to the president, let’s use our present president as an example. And you say, Do you know the President, you go, Joe, Joe, and I go way back. When you go into the room, it’s Mr. President. And so I think there’s a little bit of that, it’s clear to me that Elokim is and we can, we’re going to talk a little bit about what we Jews do to these words, we say Elokim, we don’t say Elohim. But Elohim is God. It’s a generic word. We can refer to other gods as Elohim Aherim, other gods and it ultimately comes from the word power, El and some people make a case that the word Allah in Arabic, is similar. It comes from the same shoresh, if you will, and it means the Godhead, but Yud Hey vav Hey, those four letters put together that our tradition says no one, but the Cohen Gadol pronounces on the highest holy day of the year in the Holy of Holies. That’s clearly a reference to the particular god of the Jewish people. And I think at the most basic level, that’s what’s happening here. And it’s kind of fun from a literary perspective, because it’s giving you insight through the word choice of what Bilaam is trying to do. He’s trying to make himself like, yeah, I talked to a Hashem all the time, you know, and let me go in there, and you sleep on it tonight, and I’m going to talk to my buddy, Hashem. Do you think there’s part of that here?
Adam Mintz 13:45
There’s no question. As part of that. Let me just go back to the beginning of what you said. So first of all, the word Elohim, you’re right. It’s not a special word. You know, Elohim Acherim more than that. The Torah in Parshat Misppatim uses the word Elohim to refer to judges. Also people of power, judges are called Elohim. You know, what’s interesting about the yud hay vav hey name is that it’s not pronounced the way it’s spelled. It’s a mysterious name. You know, it’s that you’re not allowed to refer to them by their names. You know, that’s exactly what you said about Mr. President. I always think of that in terms of the queen. The queen doesn’t have a name. If I asked you what’s the family name of the royal family? Nobody knows the family name of the royal family because they don’t have a name. They’re just no known as royalty, Queen and Prince, all those kinds of things. Right. So the idea of having mystery in a name gives the name a certain amazing power to it, doesn’t it?
Geoffrey Stern 14:59
It does So on one level, it’s an amazing power. And on the other hand, it really has a sense of intimate friendship. And you know, I once heard and I didn’t have a chance to, to find this out if anyone in the audience knows for sure. The answer to this, I’d love to hear it. But I once heard that in Islam. The preference is when you speak a language other than Arabic, that you refer to who they refer to as Allah, you refer to as God, because they don’t want you to think that the word Allah is like a name they too believe that God has no name. But what that does in a sense, is it illuminates a strange fact that because we use the word Hashem, which, you know, and I know means the name, and is literally continuing on this tradition of he has no name. When we say Hashem, or when a kitd in cheder says Hashem is going to help me with my homework tonight. It’s our best friend. And in a sense, that is kind of defeated. The, the meaning and the purpose of God not having a name, …. now he has a nickname. Now he’s your closest buddy. But it’s an insight into what bilaam did. Bilaam used the ability to say the Hebrew word for the God as a way of trying to show his intimacy when the curtain closed. We know God knew, Bilaam them knew there was no intimacy there, we went back to God. Elohim
Adam Mintz 16:47
You’re really playing on a very interesting idea. And that is the tension between intimacy with God. And the fact that God is mysterious and scary, and far away. Isn’t that an interesting kind of tension. And maybe that’s the tension that we have with God. You know, when we when we make a bracha (blessing), we say Baruch atah hashem…. We don’t usually think about this, but actually the tense changes, Baruch, bless be Atah is you…. were talking directly to God, we refer to God as you, that’s personal. And then we go back to a HaShem, which is in the third person. So we talk to God both personally. And in the third person, we ourselves every single time we make a Bracha, we have that tension.
Geoffrey Stern 17:49
Absolutely. And I think the word I was looking for is the word you chose personal. It’s a personal name. So let’s move on a little bit. For anyone who has ever studied the Bible at academic levels. They all know that there was this theory called the Documentary Hypothesis, and that was in broad strokes that the Bible was edited at the time of Ezra probably, and combined multiple manuscripts. And the names for those manuscripts. One is E for Elohim, and the other is the P , the priestly code. And the they make a distinction between texts that use the word Elohim. And J is the other another text that is Jehovah is Hashem. And we’re gonna get to them in a second. But for those of you who have listened to the podcast before, you know that I believe heartily, that modern scholarship has never discovered anything that the rabbi’s didn’t already recognize. So if I would normally say to you, Rabbi, when the Torah speaks, in and uses the term Elohim. And when it uses the word Hashem, is it referring to something different? Or are they synonyms? What would your typical response be?
Adam Mintz 19:21
My typical response is that they’re synonyms.
Geoffrey Stern 19:23
(laughs) So you didn’t fall for my trap.
Adam Mintz 19:31
We can discuss it on, you know, on a deeper level. But you asked me what my first instinct is, my first instinct is that God has different names, Shadai is the name of God, HaShem is the name of God. Elohim is the name of God. Sometime it’s Hashem Elohim. There are different ways to refer to God. It’s all the same name. Okay, so I actually I think I ended up in your place, but I want to go through the rabbinic traditions and One of the rabbinic traditions and it’s all over, but I’m going to quote Sifrei Devarim כל מקום שנאמר ה’ זו מדת רחמים, and כל מקום שנא’ אלקים זו מדת הדין whenever the word God is used as Hashem the personal name of the Jewish God, it is the attribute of mercy. And whenever it is used as Elohim, just God, it is the attribute of strict justice. And that segues a little bit into what we were saying before that even Bilaam was aware of when he wanted to show that he had an inside track to the Godhead, He would use Hashem, which is the Midat HaRachamum, because you come from the rechem, because you come from the womb, because you have a relationship. And when he was in the room, and the facade came off, he knew he had to speak with God, and God was going to tell him the straight truth, Din, and you know, if you look at the first chapters of Bereshit and this is why the biblical critics that are documentarists will say that there are different accounts of creation, that were coming from different texts from different collections, the beginning of creation is Elohim. Midat HaDin or the E document, and then it moves into Yud Hey Vav Hey. And so in Bereshit Rabbah, it says as follows. So to the Holy One of blessing said, If I create the world with the attribute of compassion alone, no one be concerned with the consequences with the attribute of justice alone, how would the world stand rather Behold, I created with both the attribute of judgment and compassion. So if you remember in our segment on Challah, first Gods creates it with the Midat ha’din, strict justice, and then Man is created, and we mix the two together. So it seems to me that the rabbi’s 100% was sensitive to ways in which the representation of God and I’ll agree to you, Rabbi that they might be synonyms. But I think you’ll agree with me that Say what you will, the Yud Hey Vav hey is personal to the Jews, it would never be used to describe other gods, it would never be used to describe gods of other nations. So that you’ll give me. Yes, I’ll give you that.
Geoffrey Stern 22:30
And so there we do have contiguity here, and to answer the biblical critics will say, yes, it’s conscious. You can learn lessons from it, you don’t have to ignore it. Whether that means that there are different documents or the texts are written in slightly different voices, from a different perspective, which the same author could obviously do, that you can discuss amongst yourselves.
Adam Mintz 23:23
I will accept that. I think that that is probably right. You know, it’s interesting that we’re having this conversation regarding Bilaam. You know, you talk about how he refers to God, it’s Bilaam. You know, how does Moshe refer to God, when he talks to God? You know, the Torah tells us that Moshe had a unique relationship with God, Pe el Pe b’mareh v’lo bechidot says that Moshe talked to God. Like we talk to one another. We look at each other in the eye, we look at each other, mouth to mouth Moshe spoke to God. Now Bilaam didn’t have that relationship with God, I don’t think and therefore, it was a whole different kind of experience, wasn’t it?
Geoffrey Stern 24:16
Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. And again, I think that that comes through when he has to change the way he talks when he’s in the inner sanctum so to speak. He might make it sound like he can speak to God like a Moses or an Aaron. But when we get privy to the private conversation, it’s a one way conversation. And when he addresses it’s Elokim. It’s God. So I think it’s there and I think it helps us understand the text. I looked up some of the great scholars who addressed things like the documentary theory, and they say, there are those who then come to a portion like ours, and they Try to figure it out, they actually try to make the case that all verses that I talked about the inside and the outside ones are different texts combined. And I think if anything, our story here shows the fallacy of that, it does confirm that you can make a distinction based on how God is referred to about the situation. I mean, I must say in the source sheet, you will find Shadal, Shmuel David lezzato and he takes this historically to Rome. And he says many nations when they conquer another nation, they not only take their God, but they bring it back to Rome, and they set up a temple for that god. So he puts it into the context of, of a Bilaam, trying to colonize to hijack to, engage in cultural imperialism…. without permission, the Hashem, the Jehovah so to speak, and I think that’s a fascinating insight as well, but at least Shadal was focused on the question that I had. Not a lot of other traditional commentaries comment on this back and forth ping pong between the use of the two names of God, which I, I must say surprised me. I think, you know, in terms of what you said that your sense is that they were used interchangeably. If you look at Psalms 47, 6 it says, עָלָ֣ה אֱ֭לֹקִים בִּתְרוּעָ֑ה ה’ בְּק֣וֹל שׁוֹפָֽר God ascends amidst acclamation the Lord to the blasts of the Horn. That is your position. They are you they are synonymous, they are used interchangeably. And even in our own portion, when Bilaam, finally gets around to a blessing the Jewish people he, he does the following. He says in 23, No harm is in sight for Jacob, No woe in view for Israel. Their God ה’ is with them,. So he interchanges Yaakov with Yisrael, we would totally get that. And then he says Hashem Elokav, he puts them together. So I think you’re absolutely right. That’s why I say at the end of the day, I agree with you that ultimately they are synonyms. But there are nuances involved with being synonymous one with the other. And I think that is kind of fascinating. The really fascinating thing that I’d like to discuss is that the Talmud believes that all Parsha, especially the part that deals with a Bilaam is a book in of itself. In the Talmud in Baba Batra, it says The baraita now considers the authors of the biblical books: And who wrote the books of the Bible? Moses wrote his own book, i.e., the Torah, and the portion of Balaam in the Torah, and the book of Job. It says מֹשֶׁה כָּתַב סִפְרוֹ וּפָרָשַׁת בִּלְעָם And the book of Job. So we’ve discussed this before, we always think of a parsha, as what you read in the Torah that week. But the Parsha here is not parshat Balak It’s parshat Bilaam. It’s a literary segment. And the rabbi’s for whatever reason, and that’s one of the reasons I chose this story, to talk about documentary theory and the belief that the Torah is a combination of different documents, is for whatever reason, maybe because, as you started by saying, What’s a non-Jewish prophet doing in a book like this, they made this into a separate book. What do you make of that? What did they accomplish? What did they achieve? And does it relate at all to our wider discussion?
Adam Mintz 24:16
It might, because I think that the rabbi’s who said that the book of Bilaam is a separate book are bothered by how you can have a non-Jewish prophet. You see, you talked about Job, and you talked about Jethro, Job and Jethro, are not portrayed as prophets. They may have spoken to God. Here Bilaam is a prophet. He is called on by the king to curse the Jewish people. He is plugged into God, we would say the following we would say that he somehow has God’s cell phone number, right? That he knows how to access God and Balaam knew that and because Balak knew that he wanted to take advantage of Bilaam. Isn’t that right? Yeah. Isn’t that what it’s all about? It’s about having someone’s cell phone number. If you have God’s cell phone number, then you’re really in good shape.
Geoffrey Stern 30:03
I think so. And the manifestation that we see it in the text is this use of God. And I want to get back as we finish up to to that kind of concept when we Jews use the word Hashem, which really just means we don’t know his name, he’s not my best friend, I don’t have his cell phone number, I call him the name. But what it means in reality is he is my best friend, he’s my, I call HaShem. And we do G-D, as something that is specifically what Jews do. Again, the G-D should be removing us from saying that this word means more than it is. And in a sense, we make it into something that is very personal. And I think that is a kind of a fascinating takeaway into the use of God’s name in real life. And in reality, where do you stand with the G-D?
Adam Mintz 31:06
I don’t think that’s necessary. I mean, plenty of people do it. But you know, the idea is that it’s only Yud Hey Vav Hey that’s not allowed to be written. That’s the special name of God, the translation of God’s name doesn’t really have sanctity in the same way. Yeah, means I got it. I understand why they do it. But I think that that’s an unnecessary stringency.
Geoffrey Stern 31:27
And I think possibly to a degree when the other monotheistic religions were born, and they were basically talking about the same God, we had to find out or make a way of keeping that distinctiveness nonetheless, and maybe that had something to do with it. I couldn’t find it. But I’ve got to believe in the last year, I actually saw an article written by evangelical Christian and it used G-D. I don’t know whether that’s a thing or not. But it is kind of fascinating how we try to parlay the way we use God’s name to translate into a representation of our relationship to God. And I think that’s kind of a fascinating takeaway of our story. I think the other fascinating takeaway from the story is all their different voices in the Torah, I think the answer is yes. You can say whatever you want about why the rabbi said that, our Pasha, or parts of our Pasha, were a book by themselves. It’s fascinating that Moses wrote them anyway. Moses, it says, wrote his book, Moses wrote, The Balaam and he wrote the book of Job, and then Joshua wrote his book. But I do think that we can all agree there are different voices. And it doesn’t matter if it’s from the same author or multiple authors, whether it was written at one time or over time, whether part of that is reflection on our voice and our hearing. But as I always say, the most academic reading of the of the Bible and the rabbinic reading of the Bible in traditional reading the Bible don’t need to be at odds.
Adam Mintz 33:26
I think that’s right. This is a great topic. And I think it really you know, adds a lot of different levels to our understanding of the parsha. So enjoy the parish everybody we look forward to next week, joining you again as we start the three weeks and we start with Parshat Pinchas be well everybody Shabbat Shalom, enjoy
Geoffrey Stern 33:45
Shabbat shalom. B’ezrat Hashem, we’ll see you all next week. Looking forward
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Life and Debt
Jamaica, land of sand, sea and sun… and a prime example of the complexities of economic globalisation on the world’s developing countries.
With twenty-five years of “help” from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank intended to bring Third World nations such as Jamaica into the fold of free market economies, these restructuring policies have crippled Jamaica’s efforts toward self-reliant development while enriching the lenders.
This scathing film is an unapologetic look at the new world order from the point of view of Jamaican workers and farmers, as well as government and policy officials. Featuring interviews with former Jamaican Prime Minister Michael Manley and former President of Haiti Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Life and Debt portrays the relationship between Jamaican poverty and the practices of international lending agencies while driving home the devastating consequences of globalisation.
The film was made a decade ago and re-released in August 2010 by Axiom Films – but it remains as relevant today as when it was first released.
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First solid foods
Your baby’s first solid foods
When to start introducing solid foods
Introducing your baby to solid foods – sometimes called weaning or complementary feeding – should start when your baby is around six months old.
It’s a really important step in their development, and it can be great fun to explore new flavours and textures together.
To begin with, how much your baby takes is less important than getting them used to the idea of eating. They will still be getting most of their nutrition from breast milk or infant formula.
Babies don’t need three meals a day to start with, so you can begin by offering foods at a time that suits you both.
Gradually, you’ll be able to increase the amount and variety of food your baby eats, until they can eventually eat the same as the rest of the family, in smaller portions.
Why it pays to wait until they’re ready
Research shows babies can get all the nutrients they need from breast milk or infant formula until they are around six months old. Waiting till then gives their digestive system time to develop fully so it can cope with solid foods. This includes solid foods made into purées and cereals added to milk.
If you are breastfeeding, having breast milk alone up to the age of six months will protect your baby against infections. Breast milk will carry on protecting them from infections for as long as you carry on feeding.
Whether your baby has breast milk or infant formula, waiting until they are ready for food will save a lot of time, too. They’ll quickly be able to feed themselves and with less mess, as they will be able to swallow properly.
Three signs your baby is ready for their first food
Every baby is an individual, but there are three clear signs that, together, show your baby is ready for solid foods alongside breast milk or formula. It’s very rare for these signs to appear together before your baby is six months old.
- They can stay in a sitting position and hold their head steady.
- They can co-ordinate their eyes, hands and mouth so they can look at the food, pick it up and put it in their mouth, all by themselves.
- They can swallow food. Babies who are not ready will push their food back out with their tongue, so they get more round their face than they do in their mouths.
Some signs that can be mistaken for a baby being ready for solid foods:
- Chewing fists
- Waking in the night when they have previously slept through
- Wanting extra milk feeds
These are normal behaviours and not necessarily a sign of hunger or being ready to start solid food. Starting solid foods won’t make them any more likely to sleep through the night.
Extra milk feeds are enough until they’re ready for solid food.
Getting started with solid foods
- Always stay with your baby when they are eating in case they start to choke. Find out how to help a choking child.
- Let your baby enjoy touching and holding the food.
- Allow your baby to feed themselves, using their fingers, as soon as they show an interest.
- Don’t force your baby to eat – wait until the next time if they’re not interested this time.
- If you’re using a spoon, wait for your baby to open their mouth before you offer the food. Your baby may like to hold a spoon, too.
- Start by offering just a few pieces or teaspoons of food, once a day.
- Cool hot food and test it before giving it to your baby.
- Don’t add salt, sugar or stock cubes to your baby’s food or cooking water. See what other foods to avoid giving your baby.
What foods to give your baby as they grow
Feeding your baby from 0-6 months
Your baby only needs breast milk or first infant formula. Check with your health visitor or GP first if you want to introduce solid foods before six months.
Babies and food allergies
While variety in your baby’s diet is really important, there is a chance they may be allergic to certain foods. That’s why it’s important to introduce cows’ milk, eggs, wheat, gluten, nuts, peanuts, peanut products, seeds, fish and shellfish one at a time and not before six months.
There is no evidence that waiting until your child is older will prevent them developing a food allergy. Once your baby is ready for solids, give them these foods in very small amounts and watch carefully for any symptoms of an allergic reaction.
If your baby already has a known allergy, such as a diagnosed food allergy or eczema, or you have a family history of food allergies, eczema, asthma or hay fever, you may need to be particularly careful when introducing peanuts and peanut products. Talk to your GP or health visitor first. Remember, peanuts, like all nuts, should be crushed or ground.
See more about food allergies in babies and toddlers.
Baby food from 6 months
Your baby’s first foods can include mashed or soft cooked fruit and vegetables like parsnip, potato, yam, sweet potato, carrot, apple or pear, all cooled before eating. Soft fruits like peach or melon, or baby rice or baby cereal mixed with your baby’s usual milk, are good as well.
Keep feeding your baby breast milk or infant formula, too, but don’t give them whole cows’ milk as a drink until they are one year old.
Finger food is food that is cut up into pieces big enough for your baby to hold in their fist with a bit sticking out. Pieces about the size of your own finger work well. Your baby learns to chew this way. Try grabbable bits of soft, ripe banana or avocado.
Once your baby is used to the foods above, they can have soft cooked meat such as chicken, mashed fish (check very carefully for any bones), pasta, noodles, toast, pieces of chapatti, lentils, rice and mashed hard-boiled eggs. They can also have full-fat dairy products such as yoghurt, fromage frais or custard. Choose products with no added sugar or less sugar.
Whole cows’ milk can be used in cooking or mixed with food from six months.
Introduce a cup from around six months and offer sips of water with meals. Using an open cup or a free-flow cup without a valve will help your baby learn to sip and is better for their teeth.
See more about cups for babies and toddlers.
The Department of Health recommends that all under-fives are given vitamin supplements containing vitamins A, C and D every day.
Babies who are having more than 500ml (about a pint) of infant formula a day shouldn’t be given vitamin supplements because formula is already fortified with nutrients.
Read more about vitamins for babies and toddlers.
Feeding your baby from 8-9 months
Your baby will gradually move towards eating three meals a day. It will be a mixture of soft finger foods, and mashed or chopped foods.
Your baby’s diet should consist of a variety of the following: fruit and vegetables; bread, rice, pasta, potatoes and other starchy foods; meat, fish, eggs, beans and other non-dairy sources of protein; and milk and dairy products.
See advice on portion size (PDF, 3.6Mb) from First Steps Nutrition.
Your baby’s food from 12 months
Your baby will now be eating three meals a day, chopped if necessary, plus breast milk or whole cows’ milk and healthier snacks like fruit, vegetable sticks, toast and rice cakes.
They can now drink whole cows’ milk. Choose full-fat dairy products as children under two need the extra fat and vitamins found in them. From two years old, if they are a good eater and growing well, they can have semi-skimmed milk. From five years old, 1% fat and skimmed milk is OK.
You can give your baby:
- Three to four servings a day of starchy food such as potatoes, bread and rice
- Three to four servings a day of fruit and vegetables
- Two servings a day of meat, fish, eggs, dhal or other pulses (beans and lentils)
Read more about what to feed young children.
What milk, when?
For the first six months you should feed your baby only breast milk or first infant formula. First infant formula made from cows’ or goats’ milk is the only suitable alternative to breast milk in the first 12 months of your baby’s life. Only use soya-based infant formula if your GP has advised you to.
Infant formula, follow-on formula or growing-up milks are absolutely NOT NEEDED at any time. Your baby’s food diet will provide all the nutrients baby needs. Research shows breastmilk continues to provide other benefits until 2 years and beyond, such as immune help and growth hormones, and you may continue to breastfeed once your baby is eating solids as long as you and your baby wish. The World Health Organisation and Unicef recommends breastfeeding for 2 years and beyond.
You may mix breastmilk or infant formula (prepared milk not just the powder) or whole cows milk in your child's meals from 6 months onwards.
Whole cows’ milk can be given as a drink from one year. Semi-skimmed milk can be introduced once your child is two years old, as long as they’re a good eater and they have a varied diet. Skimmed and 1% milk aren’t suitable for children under five, as they don’t contain enough calories. Goats’ and sheep’s milk are not suitable as a drink for babies under one year.
You can give your child unsweetened calcium-fortified milk alternatives, such as soya, almond and oat drinks, as part of a healthy, balanced diet from the age of one. Children under the age of five should not be given rice drinks because of the levels of arsenic they contain.
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Official guidance on PPE
COVID-19 infection prevention and control guidance is published by Public Health England.
This sets out the minimum level of PPE you should expect to be provided with, and the BMA has called for wider use of respiratory protective equipment due to concerns about aerosol transmission outside of those procedures designated as aerosol generating. See our recommendations for reducing infection risk to staff in healthcare settings.
Public Health England has also produced guidance on putting on and taking off PPE, including videos on how to follow best practice. This includes putting on and taking off coveralls.
Government produced guidance on undertaking risk assessments if exposed to COVID-19 while not wearing PPE, or having had a breach of PPE while providing care to a patient.
We are aware of concerns that chest compressions as part of CPR is not classified as an AGP (aerosol generating procedure) in Public Health England guidance.
Members of the BMA remain concerned that they are being asked to resuscitate patients without adequate protection due to a lack of national consensus on this issue.
The guidance from Resuscitation Council UK provides a clear process for both protecting patients and healthcare workers – treating chest compressions as a procedure requiring full PPE.
This involves one staff member shocking the patient up to three times with a defibrillator, whilst wearing fluid resistant surgical mask, disposable apron, disposable gloves and disposable eye protection, giving others – if they are not already wearing it – time to put on full protective PPE; namely FFP3 respirator, disposable gown, disposable gloves and disposable eye protection.
Our position is that chest compressions as part of CPR should be reinstated to the list of aerosol generating procedures by PHE.
Using your own PPE
Your employer must provide you with a safe working environment and with appropriate PPE for the area in which you are working.
For the level of PPE you need in different clinical settings, please see the response above.
You should not have to purchase your own PPE. However, if there is no alternative, you may decide to buy and wear the correct level of PPE for the area you are working in. You should not face criticism or more serious action if you do this.
The BMA is continuing to press the government to ensure that you can work safely and can protect yourself, your colleagues, your patients and your family.
Please contact us on [email protected] for further clarification and support. You may also find it helpful to contact our wellbeing support services on 0330 123 1245 which are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Note: If you are a doctor in a supervisory or managerial role, you may be in breach of GMC guidance if you take steps to prevent or discourage the use of appropriate and necessary PPE. Employers and/or individual employees may also be in breach of health and safety legislation if such steps are taken.
Using respiratory protective equipment including face masks
The Health and Safety Executive has produced guidance outlining the correct use of respiratory masks, including fit-testing:
"Tight-fitting respirators (such as disposable FFP3 masks and reusable half masks) rely on having a good seal with the wearer’s face. A face fit test should be carried out to ensure the respiratory protective equipment (RPE) can protect the wearer.
To ensure you put on tight-fitting RPE correctly, use a mirror or ask a colleague. Fit-testers should follow government advice on social distancing, as they can make observations from this distance and deliver any instructions verbally.
The user should then carry out a pre-use seal check or fit check."
Steps for maintaining good hand hygiene
The WHO advises healthcare workers to perform hand hygiene at five key moments.
This evidence-based, field-tested, user-centred approach is designed to be easy to learn, logical, and applicable in a wide range of settings.
This approach recommends healthcare workers clean their hands:
- before touching a patient
- before clean/aseptic procedures
- after body fluid exposure/risk
- after touching a patient
- after touching patient surroundings.
What is being done nationally to ensure stocks of PPE are replenished?
The Government has extended the provision of free COVID-19 PPE for all health, social care and public sector workers until at least the end of June 2021. Orders should be placed via the dedicated PPE portal.
It is vital for both staff and the patients they care for that they are provided with adequate protection from infection. Employers and commissioners have both a legal and ethical responsibility to protect their staff. They must ensure that adequate protective equipment is available and that staff are trained in its use.
The Government released a PPE strategy that sets out commitments to supply and distribute PPE to those on the frontline. This includes a plan for DHSC to build a strategic stockpile equivalent to approximately four months' stock of each product category. This will be in place and stored in warehouses from November 2020.
The BMA continues to raise concerns with Government to ensure that lessons are learnt from the first wave and that the NHS does not experience a repeat of widespread PPE shortages. We also continue to support individual members where they do not have the right PPE for the setting in which they’re working.
I wear a beard for religious reasons - am I required to remove it?
FFP3 masks are recommended to protect staff who may be exposed to COVID-19 from aerosolised pathogens. These require the removal of beards to fit effectively.
A policy requiring beard removal will have more of an impact on doctors who have a religious obligation to wear a beard. Under the Equality Act 2010, a policy that may have a negative impact on a certain group is justifiable if it is a proportionate way of meeting a legitimate organisational need (eg health and safety).
In deciding if a requirement to shave is proportionate, your employer must consider the impact shaving would have upon you (eg the psychological impact of abandoning a religious practice) and balance this against the needs to protect the health and safety of others. In our view any requirement to remove a beard is likely to be highly exceptional. If there is an alternative way to meet those needs then it is unlikely to be proportionate.
You should ask if alternative PPE can be made available for you, such as a PAPR (powered air purifying respirator) hood that provides the same protection as FFP3. Be aware it may difficult for your employer to access them at this time. You will also need to be trained on how to use, clean and re-use it effectively.
Or, you could also ask whether, because of your religious obligations, you can be exempted from tasks that require the highest level PPE.
If you need employment advice on your particular circumstances contact the BMA.
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4 ways to improve your cybersecurity posture
Cybersecurity threats presents a growing and dynamic challenge for companies of all sizes. Unfortunately, this are normal occurencies, since Forbes points out that 60% of the surveyed organizations have suffered a security breach in the last two years and that the 31% have suffered more than once.
The threats than organizations fase can vary from data leak that takes the front pages to malware, inactivity time or operative efficience los. In this blog, we will analyze 4 ways to help improving an organization cybersecurity posture.
Cybersecurity practices implementation often presents different organizational and resources challenges. These challenges grow with the changing size and complexity of the business. The following steps can help companies to improve their cybersecurity pratcices and reach a new level of security preparation.
Establish a training policy
Although it tends to be the less popular, providing information / training based on knowledge is not the only element to verify an annual list.
Periodic training of all employees about threats and cybersecurity practices in an essential step for security preparation, and this step may require the establishment and difusión of a reference level of cybersecurity knowledge inside your organization. The fact that training content is relevant and updated can only help the employees until a certain point.
Establishing clear steps for every employee when it comes to an extremely important security incident response, although even with the adecuate training, an inevitable security incident can happen. Depending on the nature of your business, the training can cover procedures in case of a security incident. Regardless if these steps are directly covered, every employee must know who to contact and the information that must provide.
Cyber-hygiene is an increasing set of better practices for mantaining your organization cybersecurity general health. Training the employees on cybersecurity is a need, but better practices automation makes even easier to experience better results.
Third party tracking
Unwanted changes prevention through real-time monitoring is the real final goa lof cybersecurity practices and cyber-hygiene. Risk management of providers often skips and must include within those practices. The use of a File integrity and next-gen System software assures the availability and integrity of your critical IT asstes. These are done by detecting instantly every changes in your apps and infrastructure.
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So, you've moved into a new home and you just got your first utility bill. Is it higher than you expected? If so, your HVAC system may be the cause.
According to the Department of Energy (DOE), heating and cooling account for close to 50 percent of your home energy costs. If you are struggling with higher than expected energy bills, here are some easy ways to increase your HVAC system's efficiency and lower your utility bills:
1. Purchase a programmable thermostat.
One of the easiest ways to save money on your utility bills is to purchase a programmable thermostat and use it correctly. The DOE estimates that by dropping the temperature of your home in the winter and increasing it in the summer by 10 to 15 degrees for eight hours, you could save between five and 15 percent annually on heating and cooling costs. In other words, just by allowing your house to be warmer (or cooler) while you are at work, you can save big money.
Instead of trying to remember everyday to change your thermostat's settings, programmable thermostats allow you to schedule automatic temperature changes based on your schedule. Just remember to update and adjust when necessary.
2. Change your air filter regularly.
Dirty air filters block the airflow through your system making it less efficient. Once a month, take out your air filter and inspect it for debris. If you cannot see light passing through your filter, it may be time for a change. Typically, good air filters can last 60 to 90 days, and some last up to a full year, but inspecting them each month and changing them sooner when necessary will make your HVAC system more efficient and save you money.
3. Clean the coils on your air conditioning unit.
Keeping the AC coils on your outdoor unit clean is another easy way to keep your system from running inefficiently. The fan in your outdoor unit pulls warm air in and over the coils, but it also pulls in dirt and debris.
Keep the coils clean by clearing any debris from the outside of your unit. Walk around your unit once a week in the warmer months and pick up any leaves, sticks or other debris that is trapped on the outside of your unit. Try to keep any trees, plants, or other foliage at least two feet away from your system for optimal performance. Next, shut off the power to your system and vacuum the outside "fins" on the unit with your vacuum's soft bristle attachment, or rinse them with a hose.
If you think your coils need a more intensive cleaning, you can try cleaning them on your own or calling an HVAC professional to service your unit.
4. Check your home's ducts and registers.
These are the pathways that air travels throughout your home. In order to keep the airflow in your home at maximum capacity, vacuum your registers whenever you see dust accumulating on the register. Check any ducts you have access to for debris and ensure there are no obstructions to air flow. Keeping your ducts and registers free of dust and debris will allow your system to push air through your house more efficiently, saving you money in the long run.
When checking your visible ductwork, look for holes in the ducts and gaps between duct connections that create airflow leakages. Where possible, plug any holes and seal duct connections to keep your system from working harder than necessary.
5. Replace your HVAC equipment with newer, high-efficiency equipment.
If your system is 10 to 15 years old, it may need to be replaced. Consider replacing your unit with a high-efficiency unit that maximizes energy savings. This may be costly up front, but if you can afford to make the investment, it pays off big time in energy savings over time.
For example, replacing just your old AC unit with a more efficient, ENERGY STAR-rated unit can save you hundreds of dollars per year.
Start lowering your bills today by considering how you can implement these five energy-saving tips into your home maintenance routine. Increasing the efficiency of your HVAC system can be the best way to reduce your new home's utility costs.
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We increasingly depend on reliable and affordable supply of energy, water, transport, telecommunication and information services to improve livability and facilitate economic development. However, today's infrastructure systems are drastically changing. They are becoming more and more web-based, interconnected and transnational, with increasingly fragmented public and private ownership, while new technologies are on their way. Sustainability, climate change, cybersecurity and resilience pose huge challenges. The capital need for investment in new infrastructures and upgrading of ageing infrastructures is tremendous.
During this infrastructure course you will learn the need to examine these challenges from a new, combined engineering and social sciences perspective. Subsequently we will focus on the challenges that ‘complex adaptive infrastructure systems’ pose for governance, management and decision-making in a world full of uncertainties. We will discuss resilience, ethical considerations and cybersecurity. We will introduce a selection of topics and analytical tools which will help you to analyze the adequacy of infrastructure systems and services, while dealing with the risks and vulnerabilities of infrastructure interdependencies.
In our case studies, we will focus on topical developments and policies, such as sustainable energy transition, resilience, urbanization and its impact on infrastructures, the challenges of climate change, the nexus between energy, food and water scarcity, and the phenomenon of inverse infrastructure development (self-organization).
If you are interested or involved in the functioning of today's and tomorrow's infrastructures, this course is an exceptional learning opportunity, whether you are a student or a professional. The course includes a lot of bonus materials, like problem solving skills and modelling.
The course is based on the results of an extensive and renowned international research programme titled 'Next Generation Infrastructures' (NGInfra). | <urn:uuid:c0406afa-1465-4650-b690-ba44b2fe24b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mooc.es/course/the-next-generation-of-infrastructure/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.934508 | 359 | 2.828125 | 3 |
What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
E. M. Forster
You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors
The purpose of the painter is simply to reproduce in other minds the impression which a scene has made upon him.
A work of art does not appeal to the intellect. It does not appeal to the moral sense.
Its aim is not to instruct, not to edify, but to awaken an emotion.
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“If he drops sarin on his own people, what’s that got to do with us?”
This was a comment attributed to “an anonymous Obama aide” by the Weekly Standard. Full Article here.
OK… first off we don’t know exactly who said it. But for my point I don’t care, because it’s an interesting question. However I would LOVE to know…
Secondly, we need a few definitions here so all of us understand what is being said.
I will handle this with a couple of links:
Now let’s explore this…
drops sarin gases on his own people in showers, what’s that got to do with us?” (Hmmm…. seems like we don’t like that sort of thing.)
he Obama drops sarin on his own people, what’s that got to do with us up here in Canada?” (Do you think we might want some help?)
he Yugoslavians drop sarin kill their on his own people, what’s that got to do with us?” (Apparently a lot.)
he the Prime Minister of Britain drops sarin on his own people, what’s that got to do with us?” (Would we have anything to say about it?)
“If he drops
sarin a nuke on his own people, what’s that got to do with us?” (I wonder if this policy position has more to do with bunker buster bombs than anything else… we want to use them, they are nukes, we would need to “loosen” the definition of “weapons of mass destruction” in the minds of the people. Just a very small thought.)
Aside from the embarrassingly stupid meaning of such a sentence, no matter the context, as using such weapons always “means something to us” it is illustrative of the current administrations foreign policy. In other words, there really isn’t one. We are all lucky our Presidents have terms limits of two terms. If they didn’t, who knows how much damage one could do? | <urn:uuid:5dddab34-75a1-4187-866e-1861ae41ef1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://makeaneffort.wordpress.com/tag/whats-it-got-to-do-with-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976957 | 477 | 1.5625 | 2 |
There goes the neighbourhood. St Agnes Place, the longest continually squatted street in London, was cleared of its last residents on Wednesday, as 200 police in riot gear moved in to evict the diehards. To think I could have been among them.
I lived at number 79 from 1995 to 2003, a rent-free house on Kennington Park, a short walk from Oval tube. My friends couldn't believe my luck. Nor could I. A sturdy four-storey Victorian with a heavy red door and a stone gargoyle looking down on anyone who entered, it was one of a row of 22 terrace houses built in the 19th century for the families of servants of Buckingham Palace. Legend had it the street was declared uninhabitable back in 1936.
When Lambeth moved in to evict its tenants in 1974, squatters jumped the wrecking balls and stopped the demolition. It had been occupied by a series of musicians, artists, writers and out-of-work hippies ever since. A freelance writer fresh off the boat from Zimbabwe, with no hope of affording London rents, I was invited to move in by a photographer friend. There were four of us in the house over the years: Tara, the photographer, now a TV producer; Helen, a former social worker, now a successful public artist; and Fred, a dashing German, handy about the home but who insisted on flying a Soviet flag from his motorbike.
The place was a mess at first. There was a hole in the roof, leaking 1950s gas heaters on each floor and a draughty bathroom jutting into the back yard. Winters weren't pleasant. The scrapyard across the street served as some kind of warning. A friend from Copenhagen once came to stay. "Hard to know where the house ends and the scrapyard begins," he said.
We loved the place, though, and over the years fixed it up. We installed safe gas heaters, fixed the roof, evicted the pigeons and heated the bathroom. By the end we had a bedroom and a study each, a darkroom and a painting studio. I felt I had conquered London. Friends wondered how the system worked but it was more a semi-legal home than a squat. Lambeth knew we were there, we paid council tax and utility bills and there was never any fear that if we went away for a weekend it would be reoccupied.
True, I was embarrassed to show my parents where I lived, but we held fantastic late-night house parties. But while there is much talk of what a wonderful community it was - like on stagnesplace.net, set up to stop the evictions - much of that is nonsense. The street was a fortress, and if you didn't live on it was a threatening place to be. There was graffiti plastered over the walls, rubbish was often not cleared away and gangs of drug dealers hovered around. By the time I left at least one house had become a crack den.
The most famous building on the street was the Rastafarian temple at the north end where Bob Marley stayed in 1977 while recording an album. In summer you could buy red beans and stew from Jamaican ladies who parked their mobile canteen outside, but even the temple eventually lost the communal feel, many of the genuine old-school Rastas marginalised by new arrivals. Instead, dealers parked their cars outside every day, police frequently raided and there were at least two shootings.
True, in eight years we were never robbed, but the street never felt part of the wider community. By 2003 Lambeth had given ample warning that the game was up. Still, one resident hung a banner across the street: "We refuse to be ethnically cleansed from this neighbourhood." Lambeth plan to turn the street into 60 social housing properties and a sports centre. Good luck to them. I just hope they save the gargoyles. | <urn:uuid:a22dc21e-e803-459f-b839-25cd9c56a3c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/society/2005/dec/01/g2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.985542 | 808 | 1.523438 | 2 |
FREEZE! Images are still. Sometimes they have the power to pause us, to make us still. Fixed to our place, we are reduced to the act of looking, we become petrified. One could say that in this moment we become an image. The story of fear, freezing, and petrification is a fertile visual motif is associated with the mythical Medusa, the beautiful, or very ugly monster decapitated by Perseus. This story puts together the gaze, decapitation, frontality, averting of the gaze, invisibility. It is also a motif of production of images as a result of intense fear. Medusa’s gaze maintains its power to petrify even after her death. Her face is persistently depicted as frontal, and frontality is a mode a direct address of the viewer. A daring address, she dares us to look and freeze, or we have to avert our gaze, avoid hers, and stay alive. It is a story of the gaze of images and of our emotional entanglement with them, of the deadly spell of looking. It is also a story of carrying the head around as a weapon that simultaneously kills and makes images. Sounds familiar? This is a story of something that belongs to photography – the image produced in the interiority of an apparatus whose blank gaze freezes living things into still images. Medusa’s head, or the gorgoneion appears on armour, architecture, jewellery, clothing, pottery. This motif and its transformation into an object that can be worn, marks simultaneously our desire for protection, and acknowledges our fear. It is also a motif of iconopoiesis, a special moment of instantaneous creation of images that does need a hand to shape, mould or form. The two contemporary protagonists that will be discussed in the talk are the photographic act, and our desire to wear objects on the body, which among other things, is still our archaic desire for protection.
ALENA ALEXANDROVA (Amsterdam) is a cultural theorist and an independent curator based in Amsterdam. She lectures at the Fine Arts and Photography departments, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. She holds a PhD from the University of Amsterdam. Currently she is writing a book Anarchic Infrastructures: Re-Casting the Archive, Displacing Chronologies. She is the author of Breaking Resemblance. The Role of Religious Motifs in Contemporary Art. (Fordham University Press, 2017) and has published internationally in the fields of aesthetics, performance and visual studies, and regularly contributes to art publications and catalogues. She has curated exhibitions around the conceptual figure of anarcheology. Previously she taught at the Master of Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen, Norway and the Dutch Art Institute, Arnhem. She was a visiting researcher at the Humanities Centre, Johns Hopkins University, Atelier Holsboer, Cité des Arts, Paris, and a guest lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg. | <urn:uuid:362452dc-e02a-4acf-9661-b747a62b3a84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jewellerybiennale.pin.pt/en/colloquium-fear | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947322 | 624 | 1.976563 | 2 |
MODIS to VIIRS: Building a time series
By Laura Naranjo
In 1999, NASA launched one of its Earth-observing workhorses, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument, aboard the Terra satellite. A second MODIS instrument followed in 2002 on the NASA Aqua satellite. Together, the two MODIS instruments revealed stunning vistas of the planet, imaging Earth’s entire surface anew every one to two days. MODIS data gave researchers insight into everything from aerosols in the atmosphere to zooplankton in the seas.
The new instruments proved a boon for cryospheric sciences as well, and the NSIDC Distributed Active Archive Center (DAAC) currently distributes twenty MODIS data sets that track snow cover and sea ice extent, which builds on a variety of cryospheric satellite records in NSIDC DAAC holdings that date back to 1978. Researchers now use MODIS data to map snow cover, track glaciers, and monitor calving icebergs—often in near-real time.
Although the designed life span for each MODIS instrument was six years, both continue to beam down data and are expected to last beyond 2020. Still, to guarantee a continuing time series, NASA joined with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to deliver data from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (NPP) spacecraft. Launched in 2011, NPP carries the replacement for MODIS: the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS).
VIIRS observes the same phenomena that MODIS tracks, acquiring visible and infrared imagery and radiometric measurements of Earth’s atmosphere, land, and oceans. VIIRS not only lengthens the MODIS time series, it improves resolution. The VIIRS mission observes sea ice at 750 meter resolution, compared with 1 kilometer for MODIS, and observes snow cover at 375 meters, compared with 500 meters for MODIS. NSIDC currently distributes two cryospheric VIIRS products alongside the MODIS products. As more VIIRS data are validated and processed, the NSIDC DAAC will archive and distribute a range of VIIRS products that echo the current strategy applied to MODIS.
Extending the mission
To ensure continuity, VIIRS snow cover and sea ice algorithms are compatible with the most recently processed MODIS data, Collection 6. VIIRS product names also replicate MODIS data set names. For instance, MODIS gridded snow cover data from the instruments on Terra and Aqua are labeled MOD10A1 and MYD10A1, respectively; the snow cover product from VIIRS on Suomi NPP will be labeled VNP10A1. Using the same algorithms facilitates an uninterrupted climate data record that builds on the MODIS time series, and duplicating product and file naming conventions simplifies the transition for researchers using data from both MODIS and VIIRS missions.
Developing a longer record allow researchers to track change, particularly in Earth’s cryosphere. Components of the cryosphere exist at all of Earth’s latitudes, ranging from tropical glaciers to icy polar reaches, and millions of people are affected by what happens to snow cover, sea ice, ice sheets, and glaciers. Because the cryosphere is one of the leading indicators of climate change, the global coverage and cost-free availability of both MODIS and VIIRS data are invaluable for the research community. In fact, MODIS offered researchers an unprecedented glimpse into how quickly change can occur, capturing stunning images of Antarctica’s Larsen B Ice Shelf as it shattered apart in 2002. More recently, MODIS and VIIRS images helped researchers spot the massive Antarctic iceberg A-68 breaking off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf.
The missions provide more detail than ever about Earth and help expand our scientific understanding of various snow and ice processes. The NSIDC DAAC will continue to archive and distribute cryospheric MODIS and VIIRS products throughout the life span of the missions, ensuring availability to the research community and the public.
For more information
Key, J. R., R. Mahoney, Y. Liu, P. Romanov, M. Tschudi, I. Appel, J. Maslanik, D. Baldwin, X. Wang, and P. Meade. 2013. Snow and ice products from Suomi NPP VIIRS. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres 118: 12,816-12,830. doi:10.1002/2013JD020459.
Riggs, G. A., D. K. Hall, and M. O. Román. 2017. Overview of NASA’s MODIS and VIIRS snow-cover Earth System Data Records. Earth System Science Data Discussions. doi:10.5194/essd-2017-25. | <urn:uuid:4ef5ac12-fd08-4f88-8f02-0d946331d107> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nsidc.org/news-analyses/news-stories/modis-viirs-building-time-series | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.847529 | 1,006 | 2.765625 | 3 |
First of all, I give thanks to all who have served to draft this social statement. This work is both important and urgent. I won’t comment at length about its importance. That should be obvious to all who take the time to read it. Its urgency is apparent to me because I have, in the last four years or so, been a visitor at about half of the campuses of our ELCA colleges and universities. I can, therefore, attest to the fact that the issues which the task force raises in the document are issues which are being energetically discussed and debated on those campuses. The faculties and staff of these institutions are seriously asking, “What does it mean for us to be a Lutheran college or university?” “Is this only a feature of our past and not an essential feature of our present or future?” And, “Does anybody (including the ELCA and the churches in our region) care?”
Our Calling in Education
From the first publication of the study document I have applauded the title of your work, “Our Calling in Education.” I believe that we can say even more than that the church has a calling to educate. One way to think about the church is to say that the church is a living manifestation of the Spirit of God in Christ, i.e. a living manifestation of the loving embrace of God for the world, an embrace that takes the form of the cross. This is the Gospel of the reign of God, a gospel that has the power to question every worldly claim to ultimacy, that gathers in all whom the world considers outsiders, that empowers the lives of those in whom Christ lives. If someone were to ask, “Well, does such a church have a calling to educate?” the only appropriate response would be to say, “You’ve got to be kidding!’ I believe that we can say that the church is a calling in education.
Yet we have, unfortunately often, not seen ourselves that way. This statement that we see here in its first draft has the potentiality to address and inform those of us who are engaged in education. But more important, much more important in fact, is its potential to inspire we who are the church. So that’s the question I would ask the drafting committee. Not “Is this a theologically adequate document?” nor “Is this an appropriately balanced document?” but “Is this a document that will turn somebody’s crank? Will it make the church excited to be the church, and the schools of the church excited to be so called?”
Called to Be Stewards of Creation
The section of this draft that focuses on creation [pp. 5 – 7] pays a good deal of attention to what it means to be whole persons and creatures created in the image of God. I do not fault that focus. But the document focuses very little on another aspect of the creation story, namely that we are called to be stewards of the creation. This aspect of our calling is something Christians have traditionally paid little attention to. This is probably due to the fact that until recently we could assume a kind of permanence to the creation and its richness. The steward had little to do except harvest the richness of creation for his / her own pleasure and profit. We have, I think, a dawning awareness that this assumption has been mistaken. We are belatedly coming to take seriously the question, “Are we, the greediest species, sustainable?” We have to ask ourselves, therefore, what it means to take this call to be stewards seriously and what it means for the way we educate ourselves and our students. I believe that we need to pose the question for educators at all levels, “What do we need to know about the world to be good stewards of it?” “What are the implications of this learning-serving-stewardship for the way we learn and teach the sciences, history, economics?” What reason can we possibly give for not taking this call seriously?
The Secularist Temptation
Compared to many, if not most, treatments of Christian higher education, this document does not make a big deal of what is commonly seen as “the threat of secularism.” In fact this document mentions secularization only twice (p. 34, lines 4 & 7). In a short document I know one can’t explain everything, but I think it’s important to explain why we, as Lutherans, do not want to make this the focus of our thinking about higher education.
Many voices writing about Christian higher education (some of them Lutheran) see American colleges and universities as having slid into the great slough of secularism and that they are in process of being sucked under. Some are almost completely gone, others half submerged, maybe one or two are still afloat. I think it is appropriate that we question that assumption, that secularism is the great enemy, and that the future of Lutheran higher education should be seen primarily as a struggle against it. This is certainly a way in which to look at the situation of ELCA colleges and universities. I will argue that it is not the best way.
The main reason for my questioning that assumption, that the secular and secularists are the great enemy, is the Lutheran understanding of vocation as a call to the world, not away from it. In other words, there are some very good Lutheran reasons for not demonizing the secular.
Vocation, as understood in the medieval church, was widely understood as a call away from the world, a call to the religious life, a call to worship and contemplate a God above the world mediated to the world by means of the church. Luther’s rethinking of vocation, by contrast, locates the love and service of God in the world, the presence of God in, with and under the world. If the paradigm of calling and the religious life in the medieval model is the contemplative monk, the paradigm in Luther’s model is the shoemaker, the mayor, or the parent changing the baby’s messy diaper. Luther went so far as to question whether the religious life of monk or nun was vocation at all. It was far from being the paradigm. From reading Luther’s sermons one can see the difficulty his parishioners were having making this paradigm shift. They kept thinking that they ought to be doing something more than the tasks of their station, that they should be doing something uniquely religious. Luther keeps reminding them that they need look no further than their perfectly ordinary work done in service of the genuine needs of the world to find it. The service of God is the work at hand.
How are Lutherans, then, related to the world? It seems to me that we needn’t begin with the assumption that the world is a place to avoid, nor that it need be transcended, nor even that it must be transformed before we can serve in it. We may work in perfectly ordinary (i.e. non-unique) ways in perfectly secular jobs and institutions in service of the neighbor and to the greater glory of God. Like Luther’s parishioners we find ourselves habitually compelled to ask, “But shouldn’t we be doing something religious?” “Shouldn’t we be doing something that marks our work as uniquely religious or uniquely Lutheran?” I think the uniquely Lutheran thing to do would be to get beyond asking such questions, but we obviously haven’t gotten there yet.
What do Lutherans bring, then, to the work of higher education? It is not, I would argue, that we do our task religiously. We have good Lutheran reasons to be suspicious of that answer. It is that we do this work seeing it as vocation, i.e. as a way to serve the deep needs of the world and the real needs of our students to the greater glory of God. The work of education in Lutheran colleges and universities should, therefore, be informed by the constant and serious re-asking of these vocational questions: “What are the deep needs of the world?” “What are the real needs of our students?” “How does our work serve those needs?” “How has the gospel freed us to do this?” “What gifts do we have to bring to this task?”
I would argue that the pervasive and perennial asking of these questions is transformative. It has the power to transform who we educate, toward what we educate, and how we educate. That is to say it has implications for mission, admissions, for hiring, for curriculum and for pedagogy. It also has implications for how we explain to ourselves and others what we are about. If someone asks the question, “Why do we need Lutheran schools?” or “Why do we need Lutheran colleges and universities?” we now have a very good answer. We need such institutions because the world has deep needs, because people have real needs, and because we have been uniquely gifted to address those needs, and because we have a calling, through God’s world embracing love in Christ, to do so. | <urn:uuid:1b5e7f13-d52d-4de4-8355-264fa7f1ab54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://learn.elca.org/jle/brief-comments-on-our-calling-in-education-a-first-draft-of-a-social-statement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97177 | 1,956 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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While there is absolutely no way to intrude, if, in theory a hacker manages to tap onto your AES connection, all they’ll see is gibberish information that’s passing through the network. Hence, your AES encrypted online communications and other activities are entirely secured.
Encryption is a Necessity
In today’s modern times, cyberattacks and data breaches have become common. With massive data hacks and private details out in the open, AES encryption is your best friend. Encryption using AES will keep your emails private, medical records secure, banking transactions protected, and social security number masked away from identity thieves, and so much more.
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Responsive web design is an approach to web design that changes a webpage’s layout in response to the width of the screen. This enables users of smartphones, tablets, laptop, and desktops to all get optimal viewing and interactions on your website.
Why Responsive Web Design?
Without responsive web design, larger screens may present pages narrowly with lots of extra space around the content, or column width may increase so much that your text becomes very hard to read. Mobile devices will shrink the whole webpage down to fit on the smaller screens. The user will have to zoom in to read your content and zoom out to find other places on the page, like navigation. This makes for a more time-consuming and often frustrating experience for your site’s users.
With responsive web design, a single website serves the needs of each screen width, because the design changes based on the width of the screen. No more creating a website plus a mobile site, or creating a website plus an iPhone app, plus an Android app, plus a… One set of code makes your site easier to maintain.
Responsive web design also means that when new devices with different screen widths come out in the future, your website will be ready.
Last, but certainly not least, Google now gives preference to responsive sites when ranking their search results, because the experience for mobile users is so much better than a traditional non-responsive site.
How Does it Work?
With responsive web design, standard desktop and laptop screens will have the familiar two- or three-column page design. Larger screens and Internet-connected TVs, with their wider screens, may have four or more columns for content. Tablets will have one or columns, and smartphones will have one. This way, columns are not too wide or two narrow. Text, images, and spacing is adjusted for that “just right” experience on all devices.
While columns are arranged in side-by-side columns on larger screens, they set in a vertical line, one after another, or “linearized,” on as screens go narrower. With this site, for example, the header displays first, followed by the main content area, the sidebar and the footers. This way, users of mobile devices can read and navigate your site quickly and more easily.
Another change that happens on smaller screens, navigation is given a small footprint. Commonly, a three-line icon, or “hamburger menu,” appears at the top instead of the page instead of the full menu of larger screens.
Responsive images and videos are part of responsive web design. Scaling images and videos enables them work within the responsive web page as a whole without exceeding the boundaries of the page design on smaller screens.
See Responsive Web Design in Action!
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1When all this had ended, the Israelites who were there went out to the towns of Judah, smashed the sacred stones and cut down the Asherah poles. They destroyed the high places and the altars throughout Judah and Benjamin and in Ephraim and Manasseh. After they had destroyed all of them, the Israelites returned to their own towns and to their own property.
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2Hezekiah assigned the priests and Levites to divisions—each of them according to their duties as priests or Levites—to offer burnt offerings and fellowship offerings, to minister, to give thanks and to sing praises at the gates of the Lord’s dwelling. 3The king contributed from his own possessions for the morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, at the New Moons and at the appointed festivals as written in the Law of the Lord. 4He ordered the people living in Jerusalem to give the portion due the priests and Levites so they could devote themselves to the Law of the Lord. 5As soon as the order went out, the Israelites generously gave the firstfruits of their grain, new wine, olive oil and honey and all that the fields produced. They brought a great amount, a tithe of everything. 6The people of Israel and Judah who lived in the towns of Judah also brought a tithe of their herds and flocks and a tithe of the holy things dedicated to the Lord their God, and they piled them in heaps. 7They began doing this in the third month and finished in the seventh month. 8When Hezekiah and his officials came and saw the heaps, they praised the Lord and blessed his people Israel. 9Hezekiah asked the priests and Levites about the heaps; 10and Azariah the chief priest, from the family of Zadok, answered, “Since the people began to bring their contributions to the temple of the Lord, we have had enough to eat and plenty to spare, because the Lord has blessed his people, and this great amount is left over.” 11Hezekiah gave orders to prepare storerooms in the temple of the Lord, and this was done. 12Then they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes and dedicated gifts. Konaniah, a Levite, was the overseer in charge of these things, and his brother Shimei was next in rank. 13Jehiel, Azaziah, Nahath, Asahel, Jerimoth, Jozabad, Eliel, Ismakiah, Mahath and Benaiah were assistants of Konaniah and Shimei his brother. All these served by appointment of King Hezekiah and Azariah the official in charge of the temple of God. 14Kore son of Imnah the Levite, keeper of the East Gate, was in charge of the freewill offerings given to God, distributing the contributions made to the Lord and also the consecrated gifts. 15Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah and Shekaniah assisted him faithfully in the towns of the priests, distributing to their fellow priests according to their divisions, old and young alike. 16In addition, they distributed to the males three years old or more whose names were in the genealogical records—all who would enter the temple of the Lord to perform the daily duties of their various tasks, according to their responsibilities and their divisions. 17And they distributed to the priests enrolled by their families in the genealogical records and likewise to the Levites twenty years old or more, according to their responsibilities and their divisions. 18They included all the little ones, the wives, and the sons and daughters of the whole community listed in these genealogical records. For they were faithful in consecrating themselves. 19As for the priests, the descendants of Aaron, who lived on the farm lands around their towns or in any other towns, men were designated by name to distribute portions to every male among them and to all who were recorded in the genealogies of the Levites. 20This is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah, doing what was good and right and faithful before the Lord his God. 21In everything that he undertook in the service of God’s temple and in obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly. And so he prospered. | <urn:uuid:35a2ef4b-122d-411b-8867-688718b14e8a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kinhthanh.httlvn.org/doc-kinh-thanh/2su/31?v=NIV | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.983787 | 908 | 2.546875 | 3 |
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If you live in the United States, call 1-800-799-SAFE (7233) or 1-888-373-7888 to report domestic violence or human trafficking.
Similarly, Is forced marriage a crime in India?
Forced marriages are prohibited in India by Article 15 of the Indian Contract Act of 1872, as well as the criminal code. It is a human rights violation. If you are a woman, you should inform your local police station.
Also, it is asked, How do you stop someone from getting married?
How to Put an End to a Wedding Consider why you want to interrupt the wedding. Make an effort to cope with your worries in solitude. Make certain that you honestly believe that canceling the wedding is your only alternative. Approach the bride or groom a few days, if not weeks, before to the wedding. Clearly organize your ideas. Make a list of your reasons.
Secondly, Is forced marriage legal in Canada?
The United Nations has declared forced marriage to be a violation of human rights. Forcing someone to marry, whether a kid or an adult, is illegal in Canada. Taking someone under the age of 18 out of Canada to compel them to marry in another country is also illegal.
Also, What is an illegal marriage?
Illegal marriage is just a marriage that does not follow the legal marriage regulations in a certain jurisdiction. If a person marries in an area that permits a certain form of marriage, but then moves to or visits an area where that type of marriage is prohibited, that person’s rights may be violated.
People also ask, How can I get out of a forced marriage in India?
Contact the closest police station’s women’s cell: If you are a woman who is being threatened with a forced marriage, you should contact the Women’s Cell at your local police station. You have the option of filing a complaint against your parents.
Related Questions and Answers
What should I do if my parents are against love marriage?
What Should You Do If Your Parents Oppose Love Marriage? Make sure you know exactly what you want out of your relationship. Make your parents aware that you have a significant other. Discuss your feelings about marriage with your parents. Demonstrate to your parents that you are grown and responsible. Pay attention to your parents’ viewpoints as well.
Is forced marriage Haram?
In Islam, forced marriage is prohibited. The marriage must be approved by both the groom and the bride. Any marriage that is forced is termed batil or invalid, and the woman’s agreement is vital and must be gained.
Why is everyone pressuring me to get married?
Many people link happiness with marriage and family. Friends, relatives, and occasionally even coworkers and casual strangers inquire about your plans to marry or have children because they believe it is vital for happiness.
How do you get out of an arranged marriage?
40 Ingenious Strategies for Getting Out of an Arranged Marriage Make an unappealing tea for the first family gathering. Show them your roti’s amoeba-like form. Tell them you don’t have an MBA. In front of his parents, say you’d “murder for a cigarette.” Wait until you’re dark enough to be rejected by his family by standing out in the sun.
Is arranged marriage illegal in Canada?
In Canada, arranged weddings are totally legal as long as both parties agree. Forced marriages are prohibited by law. If you were coerced into a marriage, you have the right to ask the court to annul it.
Can you force someone to marry you?
Forced marriage is illegal in certain areas, and in all states, persons who compel someone to marry may be prosecuted with breaking state laws such as domestic violence, child abuse, rape, assault, abduction, threats of violence, stalking, or coercion.
How common is forced marriage?
In the United States, Forced Early Marriage is Pervasive. A sample prevalence rate of forced marriage in the United States was assessed at 11% in an online poll of 7,791 people. 7 percent of respondents were in a forced marriage, 3% had faced or experienced forced marriage but were no longer married to that individual, and 1% had been threatened with forced marriage.
Can a married woman live with another man legally?
The Court ruled that a live-in relationship falls inside the scope of Article 21 of the Indian Constitution’s right to life. The Court went on to say that live-in relationships are legal and that the act of two adults living together cannot be regarded illegal or criminal in any situation.
Can marry without divorce?
No. You are unable to marry without first obtaining a divorce decree from the court. The Indian criminal law makes it illegal to marry when one’s spouse is still alive.
What happens if you get married to an illegal?
By J.D. Ilona Bray Nothing prevents you from marrying a U.S. citizen or almost anybody else if you are an undocumented immigrant in the United States (sometimes known as a “illegal alien”). Illegal aliens marry American citizens on a frequent basis.
What is the punishment for second marriage without divorce?
Bigamy is punishable by imprisonment for up to seven years, a fine, or both. If the individual accused with bigamy has conducted the second marriage while concealing the fact of the prior marriage, he may be sentenced to up to ten years in jail or a fine, or both.
How do I divorce a forced marriage?
The divorce process should begin with the filing of a divorce petition in the court with jurisdiction over the case. If a partner in a forced marriage is unwilling to receive a divorce by mutual agreement, a contestable divorce may be filed.
How do I stop marriage pressure from my parents?
What to do if you’re under a lot of strain. Make your own strategy: To begin, choose what is best for you. Communicate: It’s important to keep in touch with your family on a regular basis. Have faith in yourself: Whatever you choose to do, be confident in your decision and stick to it. Avoid avoiding relatives and friends: Under no circumstances should you give in to peer or family pressure.
How do I deal with emotional blackmail from parents for marriage?
What can you do about it? To begin, figure out what isn’t emotional blackmail. You may desire to resist when a loved one’s requirements or limits cause you annoyance or discomfort. Maintain your composure and stall. Start a discussion. Recognize your own triggers. Enlist their help in reaching a compromise.
Can parents force a girl for marriage in Islam?
Marriage is a private matter for a person, and it is illegal for parents to compel their daughter to marry someone she does not want to marry, since this would be tyranny and a violation of others’ rights. In Islam, women have entire choice to accept or reject anybody who approaches them with a proposal.
Is Arranged marriage legal in Islam?
Marriages in Islam are often aided or planned (by the bride and groom’s families), although they may only take place with both sides’ permission. The marriage would be invalid if someone was compelled to marry.
How do you ruin a wedding?
7 Ways to Make a Wedding Go Wrong You’re not dressed appropriately for the event. You deliver an obscene best man speech. You show up with a date who wasn’t invited. You overindulge at the open bar. You make a request for a music that isn’t allowed to be played. You bring a present that was not on the guest list. You haven’t RSVP’d.
Should you go to a wedding you don’t support?
Even if they’re aware of their thoughts, the bride or groom chooses to go ahead, and families and close friends should “zip it and be supportive” at that point, according to Post. If a visitor still does not want to come, a simple “I’m sorry, I’m unable to attend” would work.
Is it OK to get married at 32?
According to a recent research, those who don’t want to be divorced should marry between the ages of 28 and 32, at least for the first five years.
Why one should not get married?
4. Marriage may bring with it a host of financial issues. Due to financial constraints, more elderly individuals are opting to live together rather than marry. In certain areas, rules make spouses accountable for their spouse’s debt, which might include a range of pricey medical expenditures for the elderly.
How do you handle engagement pressure?
Here are some expert-approved suggestions for dealing with both internal and external proposal pressure. Make sure you’re in touch with yourself. Make Your Partner Aware of Your Emotions. As a couple, evaluate your expectations. Keep your wits about you and stick to your guns.
How can I judge a girl in arranged marriage?
What to Ask a Girl at the First Meeting If You’re Getting Married Arranged Questions to break the ice. Demonstrate an interest in your career and educational aspirations. Her aspirations for her marriage. Inquire about her responsibilities to her parents. Inquire about her way of life. Inquire about her fashion choices.
Is it legal to marry your daughter in Canada?
Canada is a leader in international efforts to stop child marriage. Despite this, the practice is legal and widespread throughout the nation.
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The us government keeps delivered vast amounts of bucks directly to People in the us to enable them to manage the commercial fallout of this pandemic, but now that tax period is approaching, some people can find they owe a few of the cash back.
It all depends about sort of profit. Both rounds of immediate stimulus payments that have been delivered to many Us americans tend to be tax-free. Although special pandemic unemployment pros is addressed like income and might boost your 2020 goverment tax bill if funds enjoysn't been withheld for fees.
Many anyone could actually get most stimulus revenue when they lodge their unique 2020 tax returns. Because stimulus checks happened to be determined utilizing 2018 or 2019 money, those people that destroyed their job in 2020 or otherwise saw her money trip from year prior to might be because of extra cash — which they can state to their return.
Here's what you need to know:
More than 160 million Us americans was given a stimulus installment worthy of up to $1,200, or increase for couples, a year ago. The next rounded of payments began venturing out in January, really worth to $600 per individual, like children younger than 17.
The amounts become calculated on a sliding scale and begin phasing around for people with modified gross earnings of more than $75,000, heads of house which earn more than $112,500, and married couples filing collectively earning more than $150,000.
The income is actuallyn't taxed, because repayments had been theoretically an advance on a 2020 tax credit.
The 2020 income tax return will allow visitors to claim additional money should they didn't have the complete amount these were due.
The stimulation repayments had been predicated on either 2018 or 2019 income. That means those who experienced a reduction in wages or missing their job during the pandemic are most likely owed more money. (Those whose money enhanced in 2020 will not have to pay for back any money, https://rapidloan.net/payday-loans/instant-payday-loans/ though.)
The inner sales provider is actually adding a data recovery Rebate credit score rating Worksheet to your 2020 income tax return forms to assist taxpayers determine if they truly are eligible for extra money.
Those people who haven't become their unique 2nd check simply because they changed their bank-account or address considering that the very first one was actually sent also can claim the money to their taxation return.
You can find around 8 million those who have overlooked out on the stimulation money altogether since they aren't normally necessary to submit fees while the irs didn’t come with method of attaining all of them. An internet site that let them to enter her bank account information is perhaps not longer offered — however they can file a 2020 go back to get the funds.
Chairman Joe Biden enjoys questioned the Treasury division to need a lot more aggressive motion to reach they.
Biden was calling on Congress to accept another rounded of $1,400 payments, included in a sweeping $1.9 trillion relief plan that would in addition extend unemployment pros, create more funds for smaller businesses, and reinstate disaster paid keep.
There is service for the next game of checks from lawmakers in both parties, however it's not some Biden features the votes he requires. Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of western Virginia states however favor added payments getting much more specific, to make certain the cash visits those hit the toughest and excluding those who might not need the revenue.
Congress might take tips to consider Biden's economic comfort bundle as soon as a few weeks.
Unlike the stimulation repayments, there is income tax on jobless benefits.
Congress has increased once a week repayments by $300 through mid-March, along with county pros. Last year, the unemployed obtained a regular raise of $600 for four period. Lawmakers furthermore expanded unemployment advantages to even more Us citizens, such as the freelance, independent companies, and gig staff members.
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Before investing in any particular asset, it would be wise to check the market and read up on the state of currencies today. Any first-time investor should consider the option that fits their needs best. So it is natural to wonder if you should invest in silver, gold, virtual currencies, or others.
With the dollar continuously decreasing in the last few years, it seems like precious metals make a sure asset that maintain their purchasing power in time. Moreover, silver especially is now a sure candidate to take advantage of industrial demand, despite its volatility in the past. So, in this article we will be looking at potential pros and cons that are meant to answer one question: should I invest in silver?
Should I Invest in Silver Only?
Owning assets of precious metals is a smart move. However, financial advisers stress the fact this it should not be the only move. Silver assets should not be the entire focus of a portfolio but rather an addition to it. They’re a volatile asset mainly because of the fluctuations in production and use. And because silver’s so volatile, it might discourage potential investors or trick them into buying silver when it’s high on the market and selling it when it’s low.
Although silver is considered a safe haven, its great uses make it much more sensitive to the industrial cycle. So, while the dollar might continue to fluctuate or decrease over time, physical metal price will continue to rise and hold value. It’s important to take notice of these issues if you want to invest in silver.
Silver During a Potential Economic Crisis
In the case of a financial collapse, physical metals would be the primary currency used in exchanges. What makes them reliable is their durability, their historical value, and their convenient uses. And because metals are reliable currency, services would occupy the second spot. As such, the holder of physical metals can establish their value in accordance with the type of service or goods they require.
Silver, thus, certainly remains an investment regardless of inflation.
Ending the Debate: Why Should I Invest in Silver?
1. Physical Metal
- Silver is available in both coin and bar form that can be sold in various sizes and formats by the dealers. The bars are made of pure silver almost entirely.
- The coins, however, are valuable only according to the amount of silver they contain. If you wish to invest in silver only, then avoid buying collectible coins.
- Owning the physical metal helps you directly track the price of silver on the market. However, you do have to pay extra when buying the metal from the dealer and sell it at a discount if you want to sell it back to your dealer. Be sure to check recommended dealers beforehand do avoid scams.
- In addition, if you want to store the metal, it might involve some planning and extra costs. At the same time, trading frequently is costly as well so, in the long run, you might want to consider if your current funds allow you to try this option.
- Another option is, of course, buying silver exchange-traded funds, where each share is representative of a certain amount of silver. The prices are tracked accurately through indexes and shareholders charge expenses at a fairly reasonable price. One trusted source is iShares Silver Trust, under the symbol SLV.
- As with owning the physical metal, ETF shares can trade at either a premium or discount price compared to the actual price of silver. But it is a very quick way to participate and observe the movements on the market.
- Moreover, you should consider is buying shares of companies that mine silver. These shares follow the rise and fall of silver on the market. However, if the silver mining company performs poorly, the market will not suffer from drops. It is only the company that will suffer the penalties. This is an unforeseen risk that you need to assume.
- You can also buy shares of companies that stream the silver. Because these companies offer finances to miners, they get back streaming interest. These companies also buy the asset from their partners at a discounted price. So, as with the share of companies that mine silver, the stocks follow the curve of silver on the market.
3. But Which Option Is Best?
It’s been argued that owning the physical metal is a better way of reaping a profit. While shares have a high level of liquidity, the physical metal has historical value.
It had been used as a currency in the past and it has great industrial uses. So, it is a great investment even in an uneven economy. However, silver has been historically volatile so it’s a fairly big disadvantage to consider.
Overall, paper money will always fluctuate according to each government. Taking into account the previous severe financial crises, there is always the possibility of a collapse in the future. At the same time, the historical value of silver and its durability in time, make it an investment that will hold value internationally. Currently, silver is in demand for its industrial uses and for trading purposes.
If you want to keep up to date with the value of silver, look for the spot price on sites such as NASDAQ or COMEX. The spot price shows the price of silver at that exact moment so you can sell, buy or trade accordingly. If you want to invest in silver, the spot price must be verified beforehand. Check the charts and look for a reliable trader.
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Deutsche Welle recently published a comment on Bosnia-Herzegovina written by Stefan Schwarz, a renowned German politician. In this text, the author advocates a revision of the German policy towards Bosnia, proposing a change of the country’s constitution, which needs to be jointly supported by Germany and the US.
According to Schwarz, the current Bosnian constitution, imposed on the Bosnians by the American ‘peacemaker’ Richard Holbrooke in 1995, amputated the country’s territory and destroyed its soul. The Dayton operation formally saved the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina, but has dimantled its vital functions. Moreover, it has rewarded the convicted war criminals with huge parts of its territory, which is now controlled by these corrupt oligarchies as their private property, absolutely guaranteed by the international contract signed in Dayton. Therefore, says Schwarz, the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, commonly considered the most powerful woman in the world, has a great responsibility to use her power to press for a constitutional order that would make Bosnia compatible with other European countries.
A systematic dissolution, from Lisbon to Dayton
It is difficult not to agree with Mr. Schwartz in his diagnosis of the Bosnian problems. It is also difficult not to agree about the need for constitutional changes, although the author does not go into specifics. Simply, there is no doubt that the current constitution must be changed if the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina is ever going to start functioning. For, the Bosnian state institutions are, first and formost, blocked by the existing constitutional structure, and only then by the will of the local ethno-nationalist leaders, who only take advantage of it. Yet, the point at which we, as Bosnians who remember the country’s recent past, have to disagree with Mr. Schwarz is the thesis that Bosnia’s ethnic partition was simply a result of the US-sponsored Dayton Peace Agreement.
For, Dayton was only the concluding part in the process of systematic dissolution of the country’s sovereignty, launched and sponsored by the European Union and the United Nations, and carried out by their nominated representatives, Lord Carrington, Jose Cutileiro, Cyrus Vance, Lord Owen, Thorvald Stoltenberg. This process began at the Lisbon Conference, in February 1992, several months before the outbreak of the war, having resulted with the Carrington-Cutileiro Plan, the first internationally sponsored plan for ethnic partition of Bosnia.
The very existence of this pre-war plan shows that ethnic partition was not proposed as a provisional solution for the ongoing war, as has been repeated many times ever since, including the comment by Mr. Schwarz. Rather, the war itself, with ethnic cleansing as a tool in the creation of ethnically homogenous territories out of the single territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina, served as an instrument in the physical implementation of the concept of ethnic partition.
This concept was first prescribed by Carrington and Cutileiro in 1992, and then adopted in all subsequent ‘peace plans’: Vance-Owen Plan in 1992, Owen-Stoltenberg Plan in 1993, the Washington Agreement in 1994, the Contact Group Plan in 1994, and the Dayton Agreement in 1995. Interestingly, the only concept that has been on the table in all these plans was the concept of Bosnia’s ethnic partition. No EU, UN, American or Contact Group initiatives have ever tried to consider any other option: Bosnia-Herzegovina’s ethnic partition has always been a must.
Even those rare individuals who attempted to challenge the concept itself have even more rarely noticed that it had had a history that did not start in Dayton and that no alternative solution has ever been proposed. Therefore, ethnic partition of Bosnia-Herzegovina was not a clumsy mistake made by Holbrooke and the Americans in Dayton; it has been a strategy adopted by the UN, the EU, and all relevant global powers, a strategy that has not been abandoned to the present day.
A division of non-divisible, a transfer of non-transferable
This prolonged international consensus about the concept of Bosnia’s ethnic partition craves for identification of its authors and explanation of its broad acceptance among the most relevant global powers (which includes not only the EU and the UN, but also all individual members of the Contact Group: United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Russia).
However, let us first take a look at the concept from a theoretical point of view. Political and constitutional theory claims that sovereignty is, above all, non-divisible and non-transferable. What was being proposed as a ‘solution’ for Bosnia-Herzegovina, from Lisbon to Dayton, was exactly the opposite: a division of the state’s sovereignty, with a transfer of sovereignty to its three ethno-religious groups, so as to assign them parts of its territory over which they would gain sovereign control. Under these conditions, these groups have been labelled as ‘constituent peoples’ – a category otherwise non-existent in political and constitutional theory – as if they posses the primary sovereignty and thereby constitute the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina, whose sovereignty is a secondary one, derived from theirs and divided by implication.
According to the Dayton Constitution, even the last remnants of Bosnia’s divided sovereignty have eventually been transferred to the so-called Office of the High Representative, so that the High Representative has remained the only level at which sovereign decisions can be made. At all other levels, including the level of the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina, all decisions can be blocked by leaders of the three ethno-religious groups, which practically makes these leaders sovereign. Yet, the current High Representative has abandoned even these, very limited constitutional powers, so that in reality no sovereign decisions can be made above the level of ethno-religious leaders. In other words, as noticed by Mr. Schwarz, it is not their irrational nationalism that creates their blockages on the level of the state; it is the constitutional structure which deprives the state of its sovereignty.
The British ‘solution’
Yet, who was powerful enough to reverse the universally valid constitutional principles, and why has this reversal been applied to Bosnia-Herzegovina, of all the countries in the world? After all, why this has encountered such approval by the most powerful global structures, such as the EU and the UN, as well as the most relevant individual powers, although the principles applied to Bosnia-Herzegovina are exactly the opposite from the principles upon which they are all built?
Given the presence of British diplomats in all ‘mediating’ combinations before and during the war in Bosnia, and given the fact that the concept of ethno-religious partition is a concept the British diplomacy had previously applied in the process of decolonization of India, with the consequent creation of India and Pakistan (including the secession of Bangladesh), and also in Palestine and Cyprus, one may only speculate why the British Foreign Office put the ethnic partition of Bosnia-Herzegovina among its geopolitical priorities.
In a broader perspective, it is certain that such partitions have never produced any degree of stability, as its advocates tend to claim; quite the contrary, all these parts of the world have become permanently unstable after application of the British ‘solution’ in the form of their ethnic or ethno-religious partition. Whether permanent instability along or around particular geopolitical points is one of the pillars of British geopolitics or not, remains to be more broadly explained by its historians; this is not a proper place for that. However, a more fundamental question is, why such a ‘solution’ applied to Bosnia has been acceptable to so many relevant global players, including the US, Germany and the entire EU? Probably we can never reach a clear and comprehensive answer to this question, either.
However, in this very context, a clear response is required to Chancellor Merkel’s recent claim that “Bosnia needs more empathy”: Bosnia does not need any degree of empathy – empathy is to be offered to the powerless. What Bosnia needs is that the global powers simply cease with application of double standards, and start applying to Bosnia the same principles, concepts and values they apply to themselves. Above all, that these powers give Bosnia back its innate right to sovereignty.
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The municipal Zerbi public beach in Reggio Calabria is a swimming establishment in the Rada dei Giunchi, always frequented by generations of Reggio citizens. It has been an irreplaceable meeting place for a long time, the ideal place to rejuvenate without having to move too much in the summer months.
The pulsating centre of summer social life
The swimming establishment, build around the 1920s, was the first in Southern Italy and was soon appreciated by the citizens of Reggio, becoming a centre of artistic, sporting, and cultural events. Famous people, tourists, and onlookers were attracted to its famous rotunda. Subsequently, during the Second World War and for various other vicissitudes, it was not possible to use the beach until 1962; however, in 1974, it was chosen as the location for the Miss Italy contest of that year, returning it to the centre of attention.
The public beach today
Today the Zerbi Public Beach has rather degraded. The doors of its many cabins are torn down, many rooms have been illegally occupied, and vandalism has made it mostly unusable. However, the municipality has already approved a redevelopment project: soon it will therefore be possible to have a wonderful structure that hosts bars, shops, children’s pools, open-air discos, and numerous beach huts, alternating with fragrant oleander trees. A true wonder! | <urn:uuid:fee20563-b1c9-4888-a326-8b2b1d607ef1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://turismo.reggiocal.it/en/outdoor-activities/sea/lido-comunale | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977816 | 292 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Most units of study have prescribed textbooks and recommended readings. You can find this information in the Unit Description on Moodle.
MIT students can also find links to print and electronic resources for your units in the tool in each Moodle shell.
Use this search box to find your textbooks. Type your full subject or unit code, including all letters and numbers, without spaces, eg. ITECH1001, MN524.
Yes. Aside from attending your lectures, your subject's prescribed textbook is one of the most important resources you need to succeed in your studies. These texts have been carefully chosen by your lecturers and subject coordinators to give you the best possible information for your courses.
You are expected to buy your own copies of each prescribed textbook.
The MIT Library buys one copy of a prescribed text for every 10 students in a class. That means for a class of 50 students, the Library will buy 5 books. These books are a shared resource - they are not your own copies for the study period.
Unfortunately, textbooks can be costly. But so are:
Textbooks are an investment in your education. Having your own copies will help you pass your subjects, and will ultimately save you time and money.
Owning and reading your textbooks = success at MIT.
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The maker culture is a contemporary subculture representing a technology-based extension of DIY culture that intersects with hardware-oriented parts of hacker culture and revels in the creation of new devices as well as tinkering with existing ones. The maker culture, in general, supports open-source hardware. Typical interests enjoyed by the maker culture include engineering-oriented pursuits such as electronics, robotics, 3-D printing, and the use of computer numeric control tools, as well as more traditional activities such as metalworking, woodworking, and, mainly, its predecessor, traditional arts and crafts.
The subculture stresses a cut-and-paste approach to standardized hobbyist technologies and encourages cookbook re-use of designs published on websites and maker-oriented publications. There is a strong focus on using and learning practical skills and applying them to reference designs.
Cultivate Indy Makerspace
The rise of the maker culture is closely associated with the rise of hackerspaces, fablabs and other “makerspaces”, of which there are now many around the world.
- Hackerspaces allow like-minded individuals to share ideas, tools, and skillsets.
- A FabLab is a small-scale workshop offering digital fabrication. MIT defines a FabLab as “a technical prototyping platform for innovation and invention, providing stimulus for local entrepreneurship. It is also a platform for learning and innovation: a place to play, to create, to learn, to mentor, to invent.”
- A makerspace is a collaborative work space inside a school, library or separate public/private facility for making, learning, exploring and sharing that uses high tech to no tech tools. These spaces are open to kids, adults, and entrepreneurs and have a variety of maker equipment including 3D printers, laser cutters, cnc machines, soldering irons and even sewing machines.
As maker culture becomes more popular, hackerspaces and Fab Labs are becoming more common in universities and public libraries. Every space is unique and the projects that are worked on inside of them are also very diverse.
What is the Epilog ZING 24?
A laser cutter and engraver offers a larger work area and features that make this laser a great choice for those needing an entry-level machine to design and prototype. With a large 24″ x 12″ (610 x 305 mm) work area, you’ll be able to easily fit the most common size for engraveable materials, and power choices of up to 60 watts means you’ll be able to cut through thicker materials and engrave at higher speeds. The Epilog Zing 16 laser system is a powerful choice in entry-level laser systems.
Vector Cutting Grid
Create better edge quality when laser cutting. The Vector Cutting Grid on the Epilog Zing laser is used to lift materials being cut above the work surface. This allows the laser beam to pass cleanly through the material you are cutting and dramatically reduces underside reflections. The air space below the vector grid is connected to the exhaust, so smoke is removed not only from the top side of the material, but also from the underside.
Rotary Attachments for Cylindrical Items
The Rotary Attachment allows you to engrave wine bottles, mugs, glasses, flashlights and more. Introducing the Zing 24 Laser Rotary Attachment! Now you can engrave wine bottles, mugs, glasses, flashlights or any other cylindrical item up to 5.25″ (133.4 mm) in diameter on the Epilog Zing Laser. So intuitive and easy to use, you can switch from one glass to the next in seconds – without even removing the attachment from the engraver! In addition, our proprietary design provides accurate image scaling, so there’s no need to input diameter or circumference calculations.
Settings & Materials
Find out the settings for each type of material here.
Complete User Policy and Price Guide Coming Soon for the Elipog Zing 24 Laser Engraver.
What is a Canon imagePROGRAF PRO-4100S
The 8-color 44-inch imagePROGRAF PRO-4100S printer designed for the poster and signage markets exceeds expectations for speed and color consistency in a large format production printer. The use of a 1.28-inch wide 12-channel integrated compact print head, LUCIA PRO ink set , a high-precision mechanical platform and the L-COA PRO high-speed image processing engine achieves a balance between high-speed printing and exceptional print quality.
The imagePROGRAF PRO-4100S has been designed to include intelligent technology for advanced media handling, increased security features, borderless printing and improved operational design.
- Weather Resistant
- Water Resistant Matte Poypropylene
- Water Resistant Adhesive Matte Vinyl
- Water Resistant Matt Banner Vinyl
- Fine Art
- Fine Art Natural
- German Etching by Hahnemuhle
- Fine Art Bright White
- Fine Art Bright White
- Artistic Satin Canvas
- Artistic Matte Canvas
- Water Resistant Matte Canvas
- Fine Art Phot Rag by Hahnemuhle
- Fine Art Enhanced Velvet (14mil, 21mil)
- Photo Paper Pro Premium Matte
- Premium Fine Art Smooth
- Satin Photo Paper (7mil, 8mil, 10mil)
- Glossy Photo Paper (7mil, 8mil, 10mil)
- Premium RC Photo Matte
- Premium RC photo Luster
- Premium Glossy Photographic Paper 2
- Premium Semi-Glossy Photographic Paper 2
- Photo Paper Pro Premium Platinum
- Photo Paper Pro Luster
- Back Print Backlit Film
- Durable Matte Polypropylene Banner
- Durable Backlit Film
- Adhesive Matte Vinyl
- Scrim Banner Vinyl
- Water Resistant Matte Polypropylene
- Water Resisstant Adhesive Matte Vinyl
- Water Resistant Matte Banner Vinyl
- Technical Documents/CAD/GIS
- Economy Bond Papper
- Premium Plain Paper
- High Resolution Coated Bond
- Heavyweight Coated Paper
- Heavyweight Coated Paper HG
- Double Matte Film
- Matte Coated Paper (5mil, 8mil)
- Heavyweight Matte Coated paper
- Recycled Uncoated Bond
- Premium Coated Bond
Not all materials are available. Please check with library staff on what materials are currently available and whether or not a certain type of material can be ordered.
Cost for printing are determined based on material printed on.
Complete User Policy and Price Guide Coming Soon for the Canon 4100-S/44″ Roll Plotter.
Coming Spring of 2022!
The Independence Public Library is excited to offer our new recording studio, for musicians, podcasters, vlogers, and filmographers. This project is made possible by a grant received by the Friends of the Independence Public Library, by the Kansas Creative Arts Industries Commission.
What is 3D printing?
3d printing, or additive manufacturing, is a process in which solid objects are created from various materials based on 3d digital design. Rather than cutting away material, objects are created by printing layers of material that are combined to produce a physical object. Printing fun figurines, jewelry, or prototypes for engineers and architects can all be done on 3d Printers.
One of the biggest misconceptions about 3D printing is the amount of time it takes to produce an object. It’s not a quick process; for example, printing a king or queen chess piece takes nearly one hour. When thinking about 3D printing, it’s important to remember prints are being created one thin layer at a time so height, depth, supports and in-fill all factor in to the final print time.
What can I print?
Your imagination is the only limit when it comes to 3D printing. The print bed is 150 x 150 x 150mm (5.9 x 5.9 x 5.9inches), so anything larger than this would need to be printed in stages/parts. The Independence Public Library’s 3D printer may be used for lawful purposes only. Patrons are not permitted to use the Library’s 3D printers to produce materials that:
- Violate local, state, or federal laws or regulations;
- Look like, function as, or appear to function as weapons or parts thereof;
- Appear unsafe, harmful, dangerous, or that otherwise pose a threat to the health or safety of others, including animals;
- May be construed as obscene or otherwise inappropriate for the Library environment;
- Potentially violate the intellectual property rights of others.
The Library reserves the right to refuse the production of any content at any time at the discretion of Library staff. By submitting objects for printing, the patron assumes all responsibility for, and shall hold the Library harmless in, all matters related to patented, trademarked, or copyrighted materials.
Limitations on Use
The Independence Public Library’s 3D printing service is designed for rapid prototyping and patron’s enjoyment and creativity. This service is not intended for production or manufacturing, and the Library reserves the right to refuse to print large numbers of identical objects. Patrons seeking to print large numbers of identical objects, can speak to a librarian about our Small Business Lab scholarships to the FabLab ICC.
Who Can Print 3D Models at the Independence Public Library?
With our “Quick Print” option, anyone at all is able to observe and receive a pre-programmed printed item at cost (see display for current options).
Conversely, any patron with a library card in good standing may use the Library’s 3D print services for specific files they’d like to submit. Not an Independence Public Library card holder? Sign-up for a free library card, or speak to library staff about alternative options.
Staff members can help with very basic software support, but are unable to design files. Please note IPL cannot scan objects to be printed, as we do not have a 3D scanner.
How can I use the 3D printer to print my model?
Using the 3D printer is easy and we have two ways to try printing. If you’d like to try 3D printing, but don’t have a particular file in mind you can use our “Quick Print” option. This option has several different models to choose from, and are available to print any time (Printing is stopped at 4:45 PM daily). Staff have selected models that print in hour or less so they can be started and collected in a modest length visit to the library. These models will be switched regularly, so be sure to check back on subsequent visits.
For printing your own designs, all you need is a 3D model that can be “sliced” using FlashPoint software. Files must be submitted in print-ready status. The Library is not responsible for files that will not print and staff will not make modifications to the design. To request a specific 3D print, follow the steps below:
Submitting your design for printing:
- Patrons desiring to use the 3D printer shall bring their file in .stl, or .obj. (have a different file format? Check with library staff) on a flash drive, to the circulation desk during regular operating hours, and complete the required form. Patrons can also submit their file digitally on IPL’s website. Staff will review the file and, if acceptable, add the request to the printing queue. IPL staff will contact the patron to let them know whether or not their file has been accepted along with the estimated cost of the print.
- If there is high demand, the Library may choose to schedule only one print per day per person.
- Files will be readied with FlashPrint. The Library will view all files in FlashPrint before printing.
- If an item fails to print, the patron will be notified, and asked if they would like to have another try. Patrons will be charged a flat fee (Mentioned in “Cost of 3D Printing”) plus the additional fee for the second print. If an item fails a second time, the patron will be charged the flat fee for both attempts and Library staff will not attempt to print the file again.
- Items may be retrieved at the Circulation Desk. It is difficult to estimate exact print times. Library staff will provide their best estimate of the length of time of a job upon approval of file. The patron will be notified upon completion by a Library staff member (either by phone or e-mail).
- Hand drawn designs will not be accepted.
Please note that there is NO guarantee of anonymity. Submitted files will be observed by library staff, and due to the location of the printer, items will be seen by patrons utilizing the library when the file is being printed. Items will be stored behind the circulation desk until they are ready to be picked up.
Independence Public Library staff have the sole discretion to determine the order in which 3D models are printed. Patrons are limited to printing one 3d item at a time and may have only one item in the print queue at a time. If a 3D model consists of multiple separate parts, each part will constitute a single item. Because of limited staff and hardware resources, the Independence Public Library cannot guarantee completion times. Library staff will contact patrons when printing is complete and patrons must pick up completed models within two weeks. If models are not picked up within two weeks following completion, then the print becomes the sole possession of the Independence Public Library, and the cost of printing will be applied to your library account, or in a manner deemed appropriate by IPL staff.
Claiming Your Prints
When your print is completed, you will be notified by the library that you have an item “On hold” available for pick up. When you come to claim your hold from the Circulation Desk (first floor desk), you will pay for the item at that time. Questions about this process should be directed to the Coordinating staff.
The Independence Public Library cannot guarantee and is not liable for the final appearance of 3D printed objects. The Library is not liable for any damages, human injury, and /or costs in the event of a failure of a 3D printed object. 3D printed objects may have small bumps, holes, and/or rough edges. These can be cleaned up using fine sand paper or steel wool. Objects are printed from the bottom up. If a design has a large overhang or suspended parts, support material and/or rafts may be used. These are easily removed by the patron. The Library will not be responsible for removing any supports, or assembling pieces from a print.
Cost of 3D Printing
The cost for 3D printing is based on the time it takes to print the object. Each print, starts at $3, and includes a $2 fee to cover the equipment cost, wear and tear, electricity, and staff time. The extra dollar covers the first hour of printing. Anything that prints under an hour will be charged a flat fee of $3. Each additional 15 minutes will cost $0.25 or $1.00 per hour. IPL staff will round down to the nearest 15-minute marker.
All 3D models must be paid for in full before being released to patrons. The cost of 3D models not paid for and collected within two weeks following completion of the print will be charged as a fine against the patron’s library card. The Independence Public Library can accept cash, check, or credit card, but please note there is a 2.5% service fee for all credit card transactions.
Because of inherent limitations with equipment, the Independence Public Library does not guarantee that any 3D model will print successfully. If a print fails due to Library staff error or hardware failure, the Library will attempt to reprint the object, and the patron will not be charged for the failed attempt, except as stated in the next paragraph. The Library may refuse to reprint the object after two unsuccessful attempts.
The Library may refuse to print 3D models that clearly contain errors or that are as determined by Library staff, beyond the capabilities of the Library’s equipment. The cost of failed prints due to errors within the 3D model and 3D models that are beyond the equipment’s capabilities will be charged a flat fee of $3 for jobs less than an hour, and $4 for more than an hour.
Please note that procedures governing the use of the Library’s 3D printers are subject to change at any time.
- Mint Green Cricut Explore 3 ($299)
- Cricut Mug Press ($160)
- Cricut EasyPress 2 Mint 12”x12” Press ($160.99)
- Standard Grip 12”x12” Mat
What is a Cricut?
Cricut is an electronic cutting machine for DIY projects and crafts. It precisely cuts a wide variety of materials from paper to iron-on to adhesive vinyl—even thick materials like leather and burlap. It is a cutting and drawing machine, that takes designs created on a computer and cuts or draws them onto materials such as paper, cardstock, vinyl, fabric, and more. The Cricut can be used to make signs, custom t-shirts, labels, greeting cards, coffee mugs and much more!
Cricut Explore 3
Cricut Explore® 3 works with 100+ materials, bringing incredible speed and precision to every project. And with Cricut Smart Materials™, you can make long, easy cuts up to 12 ft (3.6 m) without using a cutting mat – just load & go! So whether you’re making custom home decor, decals for your car, or heat-transfer logos to outfit the team, you’ll be ready to tackle every creative task that comes your way. Works with free Design Space® app for iOS®, Android™, Windows®, and Mac®.
Cricut Easy Press 2
The Cricut Easy Press 2 is an adjustable (heats up to 400℉) press for your everyday iron-on essentials. Cricut Easy Press 2 gives you professional iron-on results in 60 seconds or less. Combining the speed of a heat press and the convenience of an iron, Easy Press gives you fast and foolproof results that really stick, even after repeated washes. Eliminate guesswork with rigorously tested time and temperature settings for every project; apply gentle pressure, and when the beep sounds, you’re done. Helpful safety features include an insulated resting base and auto-shutoff feature. Easy Press is lightweight, portable, easy to store, and compatible with major brands of heat-transfer material.
Cricut Mug Press
Make a mug masterpiece in minutes with Cricut Mug Press™. Just create your design using Cricut Infusible Ink materials, attach it to your mug, and the press handles the rest! Personalize your Infusible Ink compatible mugs* with unique art, a monogram, or whatever your heart desires. It’s got a patent-pending heat plate for excellent, consistent results and no manual temperature or pressure settings. Thoughtful safety features include auto-off.
*For use with compatible sublimation mug blanks, polymer coated, 11 – 16 oz (350 – 470 ml) straight wall only; 82-86 mm diameter mugs +/- 1 mm (3.2-3.4 in).
Use of the Cricut is at the discretion of library staff. The library reserves the right to deny use of the equipment. The Cricut may only be used by library cardholders.
It is expressly prohibited:
- To print/cut any object that is intended to physically harm, or attempt to harm, a person or animal in any way.
- To print/cut obscene or inappropriate materials.
- To print/cut any object that violates or infringes up on a patent, trademark, or other proprietary right. Use of the Cricut and associated equipment shall follow all legal guidelines. U.S. Copyright Law governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted materials.
The library will not be liable for functional failure of, injuries, or property damage caused by objects or materials made through the use of the Cricut. The library strongly recommends that the Cricut not be used to make things that could prove harmful or that would result in significant cost to the user if they fail. The library does not guarantee a successful cut.
Cost and Fees:
The library charges $0.50 per half-hour for use of the Cricut machine. The fee is used to replace blades, mats, and other accessories, as well as cover the cost of wear and tear on the machine. Users are expected to provide their own materials to cut. The library does not provide any materials for you to use.
Tools can be checked out from the 1st floor desk, and the time begins once tools are checked out. The charges will stop once the tools are returned. Anything less than 1 hour will be charged for the full hour. Anything over an hour will be rounded down to the nearest half hour marker
What do I need?
A design prepared in Cricut Design Space
- Cricut Design Space is a free program for your Windows, Apple, and Android devices.
- Cricut will upload a variety of file types: JPEG, PNG, SVG, DXF, EPS
All materials to create your project (see below).
Transfer tap for applicable projects (see Tips and Additional Info below)
Additional cardstock or butcher paper for heat press projects (see Tips and Additional Info below)
Anywhere from 30 minutes for a small design to several hours for a larger/more detailed design.
The Library currently does not sell or provide materials, including pens and copy paper, to use with the Cricut.
What Materials can I use?
Material must fit within the size of the work area:
- Width: 13 inches’ maximum
- Length: 12 feet maximum
Common materials include:
- Copy Paper (white, patterned, printed, etc.)
- Cardstock (adhesive, chalkboard, glitter, etc.)
- Vinyl (printable, adhesive, matte, glossy, stencil, etc.)
- Heat Transfer (Iron-On) Vinyl
- Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets
- Cricut Pens and Marker (must be Cricut brand to fit in machine)
- Cricut Infusible Ink Pens and Markers (nust be Cricut brand to fit in machine)
- Foil transfer sheets
Cricut has many materials you can purchase for use. Except for Cricut pens, markers, and Infusible Ink products, you can purchase off-brand materials from most craft retailers. The local Walmart also has a large selection of Cricut materials.
You can purchase materials online at the following sites:
- Cricut – cricut.com
- Michaels – michaels.com (Michaels is an official partner with Cricut, and some items are exclusively available at Michaels.)
- Jo-Ann – joann.com
- Amazon – amazon.com
- Paper Source – papersource.com
- Etsy – etsy.com
How to Use the Cricut Explore 3
To begin, go to http://design.cricut.com. Create your own account to save your personal desgins.
Click on “New Project” to create a new project.
You will be directed to a blank canvas. If you have a shape that the design will go on in mind already (e.g. an apron, card, etc.), you can click on “Templates” and choose the shape you desire.
Upload an Image
To cut out an image, you want to upload it to the Cricut account. Go to “Upload,” located on the left menu at the bottom. Select “Upload image.” You will then either be able to drag and drop your file into the selected area or click on “Browse” to pull your image from your computer.
When choosing an image to cut with the Cricut, it is best to find something with either a solid color or transparent background. On a Google image search, this can be done by selecting “Color,” choosing “Transparent” or any solid color. Transparent backgrounds are marked with small white and grey squares. Independence Public Library also recommends that you only choose images that are labeled with “Labeled for reuse” to avoid copyright infringement.
Once the image is saved onto your computer, upload it onto Cricut.
Choosing Image Printing Complexity
The next step asks you to select the complexity of the image. On the left side of the page, you will see the image you have just uploaded. On the right side, there are the three levels of complexity. This example uses “Simple,” as it does not have any small details to cut and has a white background. Once you’ve chosen your level, you’ll be able to see what the cut would look like. Hit “Continue,” located on the bottom right of the screen.
If your image has a transparent background, you will not need to do anything.
Creating a Transparent Background
If your image has a transparent background, you will not need to do anything. If your image has a colored background, then you want to clean it up so that only the silhouette of the image you wish to cut remains. Do this by going to the Erase tools at the top left of the page. “Select and Erase” erases all similar pixels, leaving a transparent background. The “Erase” option allows you more control over what gets erased. You can select the size of your erase and then erase the parts of the image that you do not want. If you do not like what you have done, you can always undo the action with the “Undo” arrow. The “Crop” tool, next to the “Erase,” allows you to cut the image. Left click with the mouse, drag, and select the part of the image that you wish to keep. Release the left click button and it will automatically crop what you have selected. This is especially useful if the image you want to cut is much smaller than the picture.
When your image is prepared for cutting, hit “Continue.”
Preparing to Cut
Since this tutorial is just about how to cut an image, select the option on the right side, “Save as a cut image.” “Save as a Cut Image” will cut out the silhouette of the grey-colored image. Make sure it looks accurate to what you wish to cut.
Importing to Canvas
You will be redirected to your Upload page. Double click on the image you wish to use. This will import the image to your canvas.
Note that the measurements on the canvas will mirror the cutting mat. Therefore, be careful that you do not put images on the canvas that are larger than the cutting mat. Independence Public Library’s cutting mats are all 12” x 12”, so the images you cut need to be smaller than this. You can resize the images or move them until they fit on the mat. It is also possible to duplicate the images by copying and pasting them. Make sure that no parts of the image overlap with another cut; if this happens, it may not cut properly.
Take the paper that you wish to cut the image on. Remove the plastic covering from the Cricut cutting mat. Set it aside. Do not throw the plastic covering away or lose it since it protects the stickiness of the mat. Line up the paper with the measurements on the cutting mat. You want the top left corner to match the top left corner of the cutting mat’s measurement markings. Smooth the paper out so that there are no bubbles. Check that the image you’re cutting will go within the dimensions of the paper.
Clear your cutting space. It’s important to clear both the front and the back, as you do not want the mat to hit an obstruction.
Make Your Print
Return to the Cricut canvas and hit “Make it.” The page will load what the cut will look like. Note that it does not always follow the layout you had on the previous page. Make adjustments as needed. Clicking on Material Size adjusts the size of the material on the Cricut program so that you have a more accurate view of the cut and the paper. Hit “Continue” when ready.
Load the Print
Connect the machine. The Cricut has a USB; connect it to the laptop. Turn on the Cricut. It should pop up as Explore Air 2 when it successfully connects. Hit the “Open” button to open up the Cricut machine. Adjust the material setting to the type you are using for the cut. Make sure you choose the correct setting, or it may not cut through or may cut too hard and damage the mat.
To load the mat, slide it under the guides. Hit the “Load” button.” Make sure the paper lines up with the blade on the Cricut.
Cut Your Print
Press “Go” on the machine. The Cricut will now begin to cut. On the computer screen, you will be able to see how far along the Cricut is in cutting.
To take the paper off, pull on one corner of the paper until it comes off. The pick works for more detailed work, the flat blade can be used for bigger works.
When you are done with cutting, replace the plastic sheet onto your mat to preserve its stickiness.
Tips and Additional Info
Adhesive Vinyl Projects
Adhesive vinyl is great for decorating and customizing everday items like wood signs, cups, picture frames, laptops, and more! This vinyl comes with a layer of adhesive so it is ready to stick on your item, both in permanent or removable options. Avoid tiny or thin lines in your design. You will need transfer tape to move your design onto the item you are decorating.
Materials you will need to complete your project:
- Permanent is recommended for outdoor or washable items
- Removable is recommended for laptop or wall décor
- Transfer tape
Heat Transfer (Iron-On) Vinyl Projects
Heat transfer (iron-on) vinyl is great for customizing t-shirts, bags, or other fabric items! Unlike regular vinyl, it does not have a layer of adhesive and is meant to adhere to fabric using a heat press. The end result will have a layer of vinyl on top of the fabric. Most brands (Cricut, Siser, Silhouette) of heat transfer (iron-on) vinyl have built-in heat resistant transfer tape. The heating process for each brand can vary, so read the accompanying directions carefully.
Materials you will need to complete your project:
- Heat Transfer (Iron-On) Vinyl
- Heat Resistant Transfer Sheet (only if not built-in)
Infusible Ink Projects
Infusible Ink projects are not recommended for beginners as it is an intermediate-to-advanced project. Unlike heat transfer vinyl, Infusible Ink infuses the color from your design into the fabric when heat is applied and does not add a layer on top of the fabric. The design can be created using Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets or Infusible Ink pens and markers. Currently, the Infusible Ink supplies can only be purchased at Michael’s. Infusible Ink will only work with Cricut shirts and bags, or with white or light material made of 85% or more of polyester. Patrons can be denied access to the equipment if patron does not have the appropriate material to protect the heat press from damage. The Infusible Ink can bleed onto the Teflon sheets or heat press, ruining it for future use.
Materials you will need to complete your project:
- Infusible Ink Transfer Sheets (if applicable for your design)
- Infusible Ink Pens or Markers (if applicable for your design)
- Cricut Infusible Ink Blank Materials
- Or material made of 85% or more of polyester
- Cardstock (quantity dependent on project)
- You will need cardstock inside the shirt or bag to protect the bottom layer.
- Cardstock (or butcher paper) is also necessary on top of the design to protect the heat press
- If the ink bleeds onto the cardstock, it cannot be reused in the heat press
- For large quantity projects, please bring butcher paper and heat-resistant tape
- Necessary on top of the design to protect the heat press
- If the ink bleeds onto the butcher paper, it cannot be reused in the heat press.
Resources for Makers
- Hobbies and Crafts Reference Center – This database offers detailed “how-to” instructions and creative ideas to meet the interests of virtually every hobby enthusiast. Full text is provided from leading hobby and craft magazines. (Use the last 5 digits of your IPL Library card)
- Ice House Entrepreneurship Program – Whether you want to build a business, transform your organization or reinvent your career, an entrepreneurial mindset provides a new perspective; one that will expose new opportunities, ignite your ambition, and cultivate confidence and creativity, self-reliance, and the resourcefulness that are essential for anyone to adapt and thrive in today’s rapidly changing world. To access this database you will log in to SEKNFIND.ORG using your IPL library card. Once logged in, click on the green “KOHA” logo in the upper left-hand corner. Then click the orange button under “Click to Access” under the Ice House Entrepreneurship description.
- Mini Makers Space – a collaborative workspace inside the library for making, learning, exploring, and sharing.
- Independence Chamber of Commerce – The Chamber serves as a catalyst to initiate new economic development and community development projects or programs and sees to it that they are carried out either through a committee or another organization.
- Independence Main Street – a community organization that promotes small business growth, entrepreneur development, and shop local events.
- Fab Lab ICC – Located in the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship on the main campus of Independence Community College in Independence, Kansas. The Fab Lab is a creative space providing community members and students access to advanced manufacturing and digital fabrication tools for: making things for fun; learning academic and vocational skills; developing innovations and inventions; creating businesses and items for business promotion; and producing personalized products.
- Kansas State Extension Office Farmers Market – A farmers market is a market with multiple vendors selling goods directly to consumers at a specific location and a scheduled time. Vendors are frequently producers; selling fresh fruits and vegetables, honey, meat, dairy, eggs, grains, prepared foods, or other specialty items.
- Kansas Small Business Development Center – Statewide network of centers whose business consultants provide confidential business assistance at no charge to established firms, growth companies and start-up enterprises. Training courses are also provided for which fees may be charged.
- Kansas Department of Commerce – Kansas’ leading economic development agency. Divisions include Business Development and Community Development.
- Internal Revenue Service – Obtain tax forms and publications including federal identification number application.
- U.S. Patents & Trademarks – Federal agency for granting U.S. patents and registering trademarks. Conduct preliminary patent searches also on this site.
- U.S. Small Business Administration – Provides programs to aid, counsel, assist and protect interests of small businesses. Includes free online training, resources for small business planning and management, and information on SBA loan programs.
- Make – Make is an American magazine published by Make: Community LLC which focuses on Do It Yourself and/or Do It With Others projects involving computers, electronics, metalworking, robotics, woodworking and other disciplines.
- SBDCNET National Information Clearing House – The SBDC’s national information clearing house and small business information center; links to business plan info, industry resources, demographic resources and more.
- SCORE – SCORE is the nation’s largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors.
- Entrepreneur – Contains small business information and links to other sites
- TinkerCAD – Tinkercad is a free-of-charge, online 3D modeling program that runs in a web browser. Since it became available in 2011 it has become a popular platform for creating models for 3D printing as well as an entry-level introduction to constructive solid geometry in schools.
- Thingiverse – Thingiverse is a website dedicated to the sharing of user-created digital design files. Providing primarily free, open-source hardware designs licensed under the GNU General Public License or Creative Commons licenses, the site allows contributors to select a user license type for the designs that they share.
- Cults3D – Find and download the greatest 3D models for your 3D printer.
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Sexually transferred infections (STIs), frequently called sexually transmitted diseases (Sexually Transmitted Infections), are really usual. Athens Clarke County Std Testing
According to the Centers for Disease Control and also Prevention (CDC), 68 million individuals were dealing with STIs in the United States as of 2018. It’s likely that many STIs go unlisted, so that number is likely much higher as of this year.
Several people do not receive swift treatment method for STIs. Lots of STIs have no signs and symptoms or really nonspecific symptoms, which can make them challenging to spot. The stigma around STIs additionally inhibits some people from getting checked.
If left untreated, STIs can cause distressing illness, including cancer cells and inability to conceive. If you have an STD, inspecting is the only method to recognize for sure. In this write-up, we’ll look at that need to obtain assessed, where you can obtain inspected, and also various other frequently asked questions.
Why You Required to Know
Sexually transmitted diseases prevail. There have to do with 20 million new cases of Sexually transmitted diseases in the USA every year. Majority of adults will certainly have one in their lifetime. If you have not been checked, you might pass a STD on to somebody else. Although you do not have symptoms, it can be harmful to your health and wellness and also the wellness of your companion.
Some Sexually transmitted diseases, including chlamydia and also gonorrhea, can inflict inability to conceive. This is particularly real for women. These diseases can lead to pelvic inflammatory disease (PID), an infection of the womb and various other reproductive body organs. PID can elevate a woman’s risk for ectopic maternity, a maternity outside the womb.
Various other Sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis and HIV, can be harmful. Left without treatment for several years, syphilis can also seriously harm your brain, nervous system, as well as heart.
Certain strains of HPV can inflict cervical cancer cells in ladies, cancer of the penis in guys, and cancer cells of the rectum in both men and women.
1. Since Also Virgins Can Have Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Even if your partner has never ever made love, they can have a condition that may be sexually spread.
A variety of Sexually transmitted diseases are spread by skin-to-skin get in touch with without sexual intercourse.
A substantial portion of people with cold sores (cold sore) obtains them throughout youth without sex-related call. And also while it can be gone by casual affection in between member of the family, it can be spread out sexually during foreplay.
2. Your Partner May Be Unfaithful
Since they’re in equally monogamous partnerships, people who are in dedicated connections usually say that they don’t need STD examining.
That is usually real, yet only if every person associated with the connection was STD-free before they got together.
Occasionally individuals with Sexually transmitted diseases have no concept that they are contaminated, which can lead to connection troubles when signs and symptoms appear after a pair has actually been with each other for many years or when a female finds she’s been contaminated with chlamydia just after she has trouble obtaining expecting.
Evaluating prior to a connection starts can let everybody entailed know where they stand and assist stay clear of needless indictments of fooling around.
3. Due To The Fact That Despairing Is Scarier Than Knowing Athens Clarke County Std Testing
There’s no doubt regarding it– being detected with a Sexually Transmitted Infection isn’t any kind of fun. Also much less enjoyable than knowing you have a Sexually Transmitted Disease is being afraid that you may have a STD.
Lots of people who have prevented STD assessments for years find that it’s in fact an alleviation to know for certain what is taking place in their bodies. They can do something regarding it once they understand.
Many Sexually transmitted diseases, consisting of HIV, are easier to deal with when they’re captured early. When HIV therapy is begun early enough, it’s even feasible to achieve an useful remedy.
4. Several STDs/STIs Are Simply Treatable
Some individuals put off getting evaluated because they are afraid of what their outcomes may consist of. Many venereal diseases and also infections are treatable with medication and also monitoring, enabling you to keep your routine life.
If an extra major disease or infection is found, we will certainly be able to suggest professionals and also medicine to handle your signs and symptoms. Nevertheless, not every physical consists of examining.
Visit your local walk-in immediate care for checking and also treatment solution if you think you are at threat.
5. Regard Yourself and also Your Sexual Mates
Still, the very best reason to get checked for STDs is that doing so assists you to have open, straightforward, and also accurate discussions with sex-related partners regarding your STD threat. Athens Clarke County Std Testing
It is very important that you recognize your risk and also STD status as you are choosing which techniques you ought to utilize to have secure sex. Athens Clarke County Std Testing
You can not establish whether somebody has a sexually transmitted infection simply by checking out them or based on what they do. The only way to understand what’s taking place is to seek out screening.
6. Keep You As Well As Your Companion Risk-Free
Without signs and symptoms, you might not realize that you have a STD. This makes it less complicated to unknowingly pass it on to your companion( s), who can remain to pass it on.
When altering partners or having sex with multiple companions, it’s crucial to obtain assessed. As soon as per year is vital to knowing your standing and also the only means you will be able to let past partners understand they ought to obtain assessed, getting assessed at the very least.
Exactly How Does Sexually Transmitted Disease Inspecting Work?
STD assessing can be fast, pain-free, and also fuss-free. STD assessing isn’t typically included in normal medical examinations you have to ask for it.
What Sexually Transmitted Disease Examination Do I Need? Athens Clarke County Std Testing
Your registered nurse or physician will certainly help you figure out which assesses you need. You’ll discuss:
- Any symptoms you’re having
- If you or your companion has ever before had a Sexually Transmitted Disease prior to
- The number of people you’ve made love with
- The type of sexual call you’ve had like dental, rectal, or genital sex, or anything that entails skin-to-skin genital call or passing sexual fluids
- Exactly how commonly you make use of security, like condoms and oral dams
- Other points you do that increase your opportunities of obtaining specific infections (like sharing needles).
What If You Occur To Have STD?
Figuring out that you have a STD can be a downer. You could feel crazy, embarrassed, or disturbed at. But try not to freak out, you’ll be fine as well as you’re not alone.
When you find out you have a STD is to follow your physician’s instructions for treating it, the ideal point to do.
You need to likewise inform any person you’re having sex with, so they can obtain assessed as well as treatment option if they require it. It’s not the simplest discussion, however it’s an important one. Right here are some tips to aid.
Several STDs can be conveniently treated with drug, so you can simply complete your treatment solution and move on with your life. And even though some STDs can’t be cured, there are lots of means to treat your symptoms as well as avoid you from providing your Sexually Transmitted Disease to anybody you have sex with.
People with Sexually transmitted diseases can be in partnerships, have sex, and also live totally regular lives. Many people obtain a STD at the very least when, and also millions are dealing with Sexually transmitted diseases now.
Having a STD is nothing to feel ashamed of, and also it does not indicate you’re “filthy” or an evildoer it simply implies you’re a quite regular human who got an issue.
The truth is that STDs can take place to anyone that’s ever before been sexual with someone, which is almost everyone on earth. And a few STDs can be spread in non-sexual means, as well. Athens Clarke County Std Testing
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William van Kampen, Xoran Chief Technology Officer and principal investigator on the project.
June 24, 2022 — Xoran Technologies announced they have begun work on Phase 2 of their mobile lung grant with the goal to confirm the safety and utility of a future thoracic point-of-care CT system in support of an FDA 510k submission.
“It’s hard to overstate how transformative this technology would be for us in the ICU,” says Robert Dickson, MD, Associate Professor—Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Associate Professor—Microbiology & Immunology, and a clinical collaborator, all at the University of Michigan. “Every day, we make clinical decisions based on chest X-rays, which are limited in what they can tell us about what is going on in the chest or abdomen. Our patients are often too sick to transport down to radiology, or they have a communicable disease like COVID-19 that we don’t want to spread around the hospital. A bedside scanner would have immediate impact in how we manage our sickest patients.”
In 2021, Xoran Technologies was notified of a grant award from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) through the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support the company’s research and development efforts for lung cone beam computed tomography (CT) imaging. Earlier this year, Xoran announced they completed Phase 1 of this grant. Just last month, Xoran submitted its 510k for TRON, an open-bore fluoroscopy CT for full-body point-of-care imaging.
“We greatly appreciate the support from NHLBI as well as a fantastic collaboration with doctors at the University of Michigan,” states William van Kampen, Xoran’s Chief Technology Officer and principal investigator on the project. “This grant enables us to obtain valuable clinical feedback and accelerate our commercialization of this exciting technology and help bring imaging to patients who are in great need.”
This project allows Xoran to optimize a point-of-care solution specifically for lung imaging. The combined Xoran and UofM teams aim to develop a highly deployable CT scanner intended for use in ICU, especially for patients with acute respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation.
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The Informer (1935) was a Drama - Black-and-white Film directed by John Ford and produced by John Ford and Cliff Reid.
The film was based on the novel of the same name written by Liam O'Flaherty published in 1925.
Academy Awards 1935 --- Ceremony Number 8 (source: AMPAS)
|Best Actor||Victor McLaglen||Won|
|Best Director||John Ford||Won|
|Best Film Editing||George Hively||Nominated|
|Best Music - Scoring||RKO Radio Studio Music Department, Max Steiner, head of department (Score by Max Steiner)||Won|
|Best Writing||Dudley Nichols||Won|
|Best Picture||RKO Radio||Nominated|
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Gypo Nolan: Mrs. McPhillip... 'twas I... informed on Frankie.
Katie Madden: Gypo, where did you get that money? Look at it, and not an hour ago you hadn't a penny to warm your pocket. Did someone die and leave you a pot of gold?
Gypo Nolan: Why are you sayin' that for?
Katie Madden: Well, did you rob a church or what?
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Dudley Nichols became the first person to decline an Oscar, turning it down because of Union disagreements. Academy records indicate that Nichols had taken possession of his Oscar by 1949.
Another reason why RKO was reluctant to make the film was because a version of the story had already been filmed in the UK in 1929.
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Top Bee-Friendly Flowering Shrubs at YouGarden
Bees are necessary in gardens. They pollinate and bring life, playing an important role in growing all sorts of crops.
Unfortunately, bees in the UK are under threat so it’s down to us avid gardeners to help them out. There are ways in which we can prepare our gardens to attract bees, encouraging them to pollinate all the year through.
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You’ve been thinking about trying CBD, but don’t quite understand what it is and how it differs from marijuana. Here is my version of CBD 101 for the novice. At the same time, it’s a good review for those who use CBD regularly.
CBD has become a hot commodity, and especially now in these challenging times, people are looking to this product as a supplement and a way to relieve conditions without going out in public.
Here is a beginner’s guide to CBD.
What is CBD?
CBD, short for cannabidiol, is one of many compounds found in the cannabis plant. Unlike THC, also found in cannabis plants, CBD is nonpsychoactive, meaning it won’t get you high. Our products at Lost Remedy are made with hemp-derived CBD. We also use full-spectrum CBD, which contains all the cannabinoids and terpenes. Full-spectrum is important because the cannabinoids and terpenes work together to increase CBD’s efficacy.
CBD and your endocannabinoid system
Our bodies come already equipped with an endocannabinoid system (ECS). What is that? According to the US National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, “The endogenous cannabinoid system—named for the plant that led to its discovery—is one of the most important physiologic systems involved in establishing and maintaining human health.”
Ethan Russo, MD, medical director, PHYTECHS, says, “There is hardly any physiological process that is not affected by it to some degree.”
Despite records going back almost 5,000 years that document medicinal use of cannabis, a generation ago little was known about the system. Physicians were, and many still are, unaware of the ECS and how it regulates our bodies. Russo explains that there are two primary endocannabinoids, arachidonylethanolamine (AEA), nicknamed anandamide from the Sanskrit word for bliss, and 2-arachidonylglycerol (2-AG). More information than you want, right? I’ll call them CB1 and CB2 for easy identification.
CB1 is found mostly in the nervous system and brain. CB2 is found outside the brain and tends to monitor and regulate the immune system. When the ECS is functioning optimally, you’ll have a general sense of well-being and good health. Our bodies create endocannabinoids to stimulate the receptors. When the balance is off, the receptors can’t do their jobs. Illness or imbalance occurs. On the other hand, to kick-start the system, small doses of cannabinoids from cannabis can signal the body to make more endocannabinoids and build more cannabinoid receptors.
In fact, Dustin Sulak, DO, believes that regular small doses of cannabis can help moderate our central healing system, which in turn could prevent or cure disease.
Unlike traditional pharmaceuticals prescribed by medical professionals, CBD and cannabis work in concert to promote health and combat disease rather than isolate a condition, which often brings about significant side effects and additional problems.
What can CBD help treat?
The amount of research on CBD and conditions it might treat is relatively paltry, at best. But, as we become more interested in CBD, and as its status as a schedule one narcotic relaxes, more research is being done and will continue to be done.
Studies that have shown promise are related to mental health issues such as depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders. It has also been found to be effective for sleep disorders that stem from these issues. Chronic pain, joint and muscle pain from overexertion or injury, arthritis pain and nerve pain respond well to CBD because of its anti-inflammatory properties.
Skin conditions such as rash, eczema and psoriasis are also candidates for CBD. Speaking of skin, CBD beauty products are a great way to moisturize and nourish your skin. Lost Remedy uses no toxic substances or chemicals in our topicals, just CBD, essential and carrier oils.
A big plus for using CBD to help treat symptoms is that there have been few if any side effects, unlike most over-the-counter products.
Choose CBD wisely
Not all CBD products are the same, so do your research. Here are four things to look for when you purchase CBD:
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By Ed Dalton
Upholding the Election Boycott Against the Voting Myth
America, specifically the US, has woven into its fabric slavery, colonialism, genocide, and exploitation. These are not aberrations but are as American “as apple pie.” There is no sense in mincing words, America as an entity must be destroyed. It was the domination of the continent of North America which helped the current capitalist ruling class prop up its rule around the world. The US as the world’s foremost imperialist and sole hegemonic superpower came into its dominant position on the back of the working class, and most glaringly the racially oppressed sections of it. The wealth it accumulated is what has allowed it act as the brutal policeman of the entire world. As hundreds of thousands take to the streets of the US to condemn the racist brutality of the police, we can only pause in observance that this country behaves globally as the police do in the ghetto. For the US, the whole of the third world is its ghetto to plunder and brutalize, and the people of the nations oppressed by imperialism have never stopped rising up.
In this context, the loyal agents of the ruling class and those they have tricked into collaboration have been hard at work trying to channel the anger of the people into voting and registering “more Black votes.” Registered voters are most often older white men and this is not mainly a matter of access but one of class interests. Only the wealthy whites have a clear interest in the preservation of this system. Their flag still represents racism and inequality and should rightly be regarded as the world’s most prominent hate symbol. Requests that the people legitimize this by voting within it, or continue to vote for it is a betrayal. All voting in the US is backward nationalism, the nationalism of the oppressors and exploiters. The working class can never vote out their exploitation, cannot vote down the profiteers and insisting that they try this miserable failing strategy is nothing short of carrying out the bosses’ work among the people.
Reforms, if they are to be any value at all, are not brought about by casting ballots, even the politicians with the sense to pander to the people are only compelled to do so by uprisings and violence. One mass demonstration which embraces rebellion is worth a million reformist politicians. Voting is not a call for change, but a call to remain the same.
The electioneering opportunists who put on a ‘left wing’ mask only offer more of the same. The most effective among them have always operated on the basis of seeking concessions from the workers when class struggle arises, and all of their most genuine members are asked to make concessions when joining. As many young people are looking for groups and movements to join, finding life under the capitalist system undesirable and unbearable, it is extremely important they avoid such groups, in order to link up with revolutionaries or forge their own path.
Voting is allowed by this inhumane system precisely because it cannot alter the system, and in fact voting is critical to its preservation, by giving the People the ability “decide.” As Karl Marx said, “’Every few years the oppressed are authorized to decide which members of the oppressor class will represent and crush them in parliament!” Elections just renew the rule of the boss against the worker.
But What Does Revolution Mean and is it Possible?
The people begin to talk about revolution and the ruling class can turn this interest into another purchasable item, even into electoral slogans. Outsider candidates on the right and ‘left’ like Ron Paul and Bernie Sanders respectively, both used “revolution” as part of their campaign strategy, and both inevitably came around to supporting the establishment candidates when they had successfully diverted interest in revolution into electoral dead-ends.
A revolution is not simply gradual change or reforms which make life more bearable under capitalism. It is not simply a radical change in race and gender relations, and it is not a question of openly recognizing exploitation and oppression—it is the most radical transformation, the most thorough and serious. Mao Zedong explained what revolution is: “Revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.” The great revolutionary thinker and Black leader of the US Malcolm X had a similar sentiment, “You don’t have a peaceful revolution. You don’t have a turn-the-other-cheek revolution. There is no such thing as a non-violent revolution.” He was serious and elaborated that, “Revolution is bloody, revolution is hostile, revolution knows no compromise, revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way.”
Those who try to gut the words of great revolutionaries to declare ‘peace’ operate on the basis that revolution is actually impossible, and by ‘peace’ they only mean surrender. These types are called revisionists – they revise the revolutionary content out of history, they are convinced that revolution is impossible. The enemy in power, the enemy in the White House, in the Police Headquarters, and in the Army and National Guard Barracks believe it is possible, they drill and plan for it all the time. The enemy certainly believes that revolution is possible in a place like the US, a place whose very identity signifies the misery of so many. It is time you believe it too, and believe it as fervently as Malcolm X or Mao.
Lenin did it in Russia, Mao did it in China, and countless others around the world did not sit idly by and hope for a bigger and better protest or a new politician to change things for them. They understood that revolution is possible, but it requires certain elements to guarantee success. This is where so many go wrong, they stop paying attention and proceed without these elements and conditions.
What is Needed to Make Revolution?
First, there are conditions which create a revolutionary situation. These exist today all over the world, the current stage of capitalism has reached its limits, it has become bloated and flabby. It scours the earth and accumulates too many enemies, it is rotting. It is forced to reorganize itself constantly in order to survive. This means that it cannot rule in the old way anymore, and furthermore that the working class cannot go on living in the old way, the desire for change starts to brew, and the imperialist will go to fascist extremes to maintain its rule. These are objective conditions making the world today very ripe for revolutions.
Most importantly, the working class needs its own Party. It cannot be led by anything else, and it cannot get very far with spontaneous eruptions, even the most militant, violent, and rebellious ones cannot secure revolution. It needs its own Party to unite all the different struggles of all the workers under its revolutionary program. Spontaneous rebellions can die out, a stable body of the most committed and disciplined of the whole class cannot be so easily faded. This is the Communist Party and it is the most strict and professional revolutionary organization of the working class. This Party existed once in the US, but succumbed to the wounds of revisionism, it turned into its opposite from the working class Party to another ruling class party. This began in the 1930’s and ended up with those who falsely use the title now hopelessly serving the Democratic Party in the electoral farce. They are not Communists, and there is no Communist Party, the workers and people need one! This makes the main task reconstituting the Communist Party in this country as part of the world proletarian revolution, which has gone into the offensive against imperialism.
The second requirement, which is absent today, is the existence of an army which serves the broad masses of the people. An army unlike any other, because it is for and by the working class, an army that does not only fight, but also produces, and carries out aid in its community. This army carries out the majority of the Communist Party’s work among the people, it surrounds and defends the Party, it is commanded strictly by the Party and develops in its main task: fighting. Its soldiers are not mercenaries, it is not a job for them, they are ideologically and politically committed to carrying out the program of the Communist Party. The working class and all who suffer at the hands of US imperialism need such an army. Mao was correct to say “without a people’s army, the people have nothing.” For the US, this means a Red Army, one that can carry out and guarantee the victory of socialist revolution.
The third requirement is that of the broad United Front that must be built around the Party and Red Army, composed mainly of working class organizations and other organizations which support the revolutionary struggle for real change. This Front unites all the struggles which are necessary under capitalism. It is protected by the Red Army and serves to replenish its ranks. The conditions which keep workers and the people oppressed and exploited come in a diverse array, and combating them requires diverse and specialized organizations of the people. As the Party leads and the Army fights, the Front gradually becomes the administrators of all day-to-day struggles and the affairs of the people, it ensures democracy and unity, helping to defeat and drive out the old state and implement the New State. It sets up People’s Committees as the new ruling body, whose commissioners are elected and subject to recall at any time.
These three requirements come together as an integrated whole, led by the Party of the working class, because the working class is the only section of society which can really transform it for everyone.
The only strategy for the revolutionary victory of the proletariat against the exploiters is People’s War, that is a revolutionary war carried out by the broad masses of people, led by the working class, which progresses in stages. First it is small and facing an overwhelming enemy, but it grows in struggle and maintains fluid mobility, through fighting the battles it is sure to win. The People’s War serves to build up and strengthen all of the above elements, and eventually reaches a stage of balance against the enemy forces of the Old State. When it has this parity with the enemy forces, the tactics in the war change and the intensity increases, the enemy and people cannot indefinitely co-exist, and one must overcome the other. Through serving the people and exposing the old state in the People’s War, the forces of the people can overcome the enemy politically and militarily. This signifies a shift in the balance, and the people go on the offensive for the final conquest of power over the enemy’s whole territory. With the people mobilized against the small handful of elites, the enemy and their army, courts, and police will not stand a chance. The enemy is strategically weak because it rules the many with the few, but it is tactically strong, it has superior weapons and financing. This means the war will not be quick, it must be patiently fought for as long as it takes to overcome the enemy’s tactical strength.
The revolutionary strategy of the proletariat was developed by Mao Zedong, who proved its merits in the Chinese revolution and it has been studied and taken up by revolutionaries all over the world. The strategy is universal for both the third world and the first alike. The key to its success is the creative application of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM), mainly Maoism, because today it is the third and highest stage of all revolutionary science.
Those who ask the people to step backward into the electoral farce, lack faith in the people to grasp science and make revolution. The revolutionary instead places faith in the masses of people to do just that.
But What Now?
Even though US imperialism is rocked by waves of unrest and uprisings, it is clear that without the three requirements, a revolution is not attainable. This only means that the subjective forces of revolution lag behind the objective conditions for it. This can and must be overcome. First, by grasping MLM and applying it creatively at the present juncture.
The boycott of the ruling class elections is part of this struggle, to insist upon revolution as the solution and draw more people into the struggle for making it a reality. This converts voter abstinence, which is already the highest of any developed country, into an active and conscious boycott that promotes revolutionary solutions.
The struggle needs leadership, spontaneous uprisings end spontaneously and get washed out by the active service of the revisionists and opportunists. The first thing revolutionaries must do is “sweep away the colossal pile of garbage,” that is the influence and presence of revisionism and opportunism, mainly of the electoral variety. Then the revolutionaries must go among the “deepest and most profound masses,” that is to say the core of the people who face the harshest exploitation and receive the most oppression to maintain that level of inhuman exploitation. These are the very people most prone to inevitable rebellion, when they stand the whole country shakes.
It is these people who must be educated in what revolution is, and how to wage it successfully. The capitalist school system offers no lessons in this, but the class struggle does. Stable bodies of mass organizations must be developed in all these struggles. The revolutionaries must join up with Maoist leadership which alone can provide comprehensive leadership over the struggles. The few converge to reconstitute the Party and this is how leadership emerges. There has never been a successful revolution without such leadership.
War is inevitable, capitalism makes it so, social peace cannot exist in the company of inequality. It would be foolish to rush the gate of the enemy unprepared, and suicidal idealism can serve the enemy as well as capitulation and electoralism, as both serve to liquidate revolutionary struggle in their own respective ways. Instead of propping up another ‘left’ party or organization to continue losing in elections, or worse, winning them only to continue serving the elite, demand that the only genuine party of the working class be reconstituted, promote and defend the reconstitution efforts already taking place across the US.
Link up with the existing revolutionary mass organizations, or if you have the experience and ability, initiate them among the struggle with the guidance and support of those who have been doing this work. Tribune of the People is committed to supporting and covering the work of such mass organizations in the People’s struggles. Anyone who supports the paper and is willing to put in the work can form a Support Committee as a way to learn and teach revolution today. This serves to unite revolutionaries and fellow travelers all across the US, it cultivates the struggle.
Contact Tribune of the People for information on starting a Support Committee, share our articles with your co-workers, friends, and neighbors, discuss politics and the real requirements for moving forward beyond the electoral farce and beyond protests. Begin challenging unscientific approaches to changing this rotten system and convince comrades to outgrow amateurish ideas and to defect from revisionism, win them to revolution and Communism. This is the only hope for world, and it is inevitable, we must all take our place in history, and assume our posts in the world proletarian revolution. Make this generation the last one that the capitalists will torment in this country!
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Adult sheep typically have reasonable levels of immunity to most types of round worm with their greatest struggle often being immunity against Barber’s Pole worm. A reasonable level of immunity will mean that no more than 5% of infective larvae are able to establish as adult worms in the sheep. For the lambing ewe, this situation starts to change as early as three weeks before lambing when ewes start to lose immunity. Loss of immunity gets continually worse over the next 8-12 weeks (till lamb marking or a little after) which makes lambing ewes highly susceptible to worm infection. Ewes that rear twin lambs suffer an even greater loss of immunity. During this time 30-40% of infective larvae can establish as adult worms causing high worm egg counts in the ewes, lower milk production and higher worm challenge for lambs.
Over the years a number of reasons have been put forward to account for the loss of immunity in the lambing ewe. Research has demonstrated that rather than hormonal changes associated with lambing and lactation it is the supply of protein and energy that is most important for maintaining immunity. The energy and protein requirement of the lambing ewes increases two and threefold respectively in the 4 week period between lambing and peak milk production. It is common for increased requirements to outstrip the supply of energy and protein from pasture and the gap contributes to a loss of immunity. The larger the gap the bigger the loss of immunity and this explains why twin-rearing ewes are much more susceptible to worm infection.
The most effective ways to manage worm infection in lambing ewes are to ensure ewes have the following:
- low worm egg count (by conducting a worm test) prior to lambing or receive an effective drench;
- access to low worm-risk paddocks which have not been contaminated with infected faeces for 2-5 months (shorter for warmer months and longer for colder months) prior to lambing;
- increased genetic worm resistance by using worm resistant sires in a breeding program;
- achieved target condition score 3 for lambing.
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The aluminium extrusions we supply meet tolerances outlined by BS EN 755-9:2001. However, many of the tolerances we supply improve on this standard. If you have specific or increased tolerance requirements, a member of our technical engineering team will be happy to discuss how we can help you. The tolerances we can achieve on cut to length aluminium extrusion are profile dependent, ranging from +/- 0.2mm to +/- 0.5mm as standard but, again, subject to enhancement if needed.
The main standard for aluminium extrusion tolerances is European Standard BS EN 755. However, where tighter tolerances are needed, we may be able work to the standards set out in BS EN 12020. There are some circumstances (usually depending on the size and intricacy of the profile being extruded) where we may not be able to improve on the aluminium extrusion general tolerances outlined in BS EN 755. The best way to check the tolerances we can achieve on your project is to ask: we can carry out a review of your proposed profile using dimensioned drawings, and let you know what’s achievable.
How much aluminium extrusion costs per kilo is governed by the London Metal Exchange (LME), taking into account the global market and fluctuations in supply and demand. What this means is that the cost per kilo of aluminium extrusion is never the same. In addition, aluminium is traded in US dollars, which means that we have to take the exchange rate into account.
In order to protect our customers from price fluctuations, we offer prices that are fixed for a month after a quote is first produced. So if the cost per kg of aluminium extrusion increases a day after we’ve quoted you, we’ll absorb that cost.
If you wish to secure a fixed cost per kg for a period of up to 12 months, we can arrange to forward purchase metal as a means of securing this price. Having a fixed aluminium extrusion cost per kg for a year can give you a valuable period of price security that proves particularly helpful in the early days of your business, or in lean times. It also makes good business sense!
Aluminium extrusion weight per metre is calculated from the surface area of the extruded profile. Extruded aluminium profiles come in an infinite range of shapes and sizes, so the aluminium extrusion weight per metre is used to calculate the £/kg cost.
To simplify matters at Edmo, we typically use the aluminium extrusion weight per metre to calculate a cost per piece, so you know exactly what you’ll be paying for each production run. If needed, we can also apply cost units of £/kg and £/metre.
If you have any particular cost requirements, or you’d like to know more about how we calculate our aluminium extrusion weight per metre, please let us know and we’ll be happy to talk you through any questions.
Aluminium extrusion is a metal forming process used to transform lengths of aluminium alloy into objects with a particular cross-section. The aluminium lengths, called billets, are pushed through an extrusion die with a smaller cross sectional area than the billets themselves. The billets take on the shape of the cross section on the die, so they can be used in various applications. The aluminium extrusion process is a relatively quick, simple and cost-effective one, and aluminium is particularly suited to this kind of forming.
Aluminium extrusion profiles - or extruded aluminium profiles - are the lengths that are created through the extrusion process. So the unworked length of aluminium that flows through the extrusion die is called a billet, and the formed lengths that emerge are profiles. Aluminium extrusion profiles come in an infinite range of solid and hollow shapes, such as L-shaped channels, square tubes and t-slot lengths.
We supply a wide range of extruded aluminium profiles to our customers, including products up to nine metres in length. In some cases, we can deliver extruded lengths of up to 12 metres, although this depends on the design of the profile needed. If your project needs any outsize extruded aluminium profiles, please let us know: we’ll either find a way to supply you with what you need, or we’ll recommend a supplier who can.
Rather than being aluminium extrusion manufacturers, we’re aluminium extrusion suppliers and fabricators. What this means is that we source premium quality aluminium extrusions from our global network of trusted partners. On the vast majority of occasions, these extrusions are custom-made to our customers’ unique specifications. Once the bespoke extrusion has been prepared, we can offer you a range of extrusion fabrication and finishing solutions, ranging from CNC machining to assembly and delivery.
Yes, our technical team is made up of engineers who are experts in aluminium extrusions. If you have any questions about the right aluminium extrusion alloys for your particular project, one of our team members will be happy to advise. The choice of aluminium extrusion alloys depends on a range of factors, including the product application (how the product will be used), the design, and the surface treatments needed.
Engineering design is part of the complete extrusion solution we offer, and helping our customers identify the perfect aluminium extrusion alloys for the job is just one part of that.
It really does depend on the nature of your project. Wherever possible, we use 6000 series aluminium extrusion alloys, as they are widely available and suited to commercial use. Of the available aluminium extrusion grades, we primarily use:
There are other available aluminium extrusion grades, however, there would rarely be a case in which we would need to use these. If you are unsure of whether the available aluminium extrusion grades are suited to your intended application, or would like to know which grade we would recommend, please feel free to contact us.
6000 series aluminium extrusion alloys are widely available and suited to most commercial applications, making them a good choice of alloy for much of the work we undertake for our customers.
This range of aluminium extrusion alloys contain aluminium (of course!), manganese and silicon. These additional elements allow the alloys to undergo heat treatment to improve strength. 6000 series aluminium extrusion alloys are also well suited to fabrication such as welding, are versatile and hard-wearing enough for use in a variety of commercial and industrial applications, and offer good corrosion resistance and formability.
Yes, we can access a full range of standard extruded aluminium profiles on behalf of our customers, in addition to a range of pre-treated profiles such as pre-anodised aluminium sheets. But, standard extruded aluminium profiles are just a small part of what we do: we specialise in bespoke, end-to-end solutions, which means that the vast majority of extruded aluminium components and profiles we supply are made according to our customer's exact specifications.
BS EN 12020 is the European standard that specifies tolerances on the dimensions and form of extruded precision profiles - in our case, extruded aluminium profiles. In many cases, we can produce to this standard. However, some profile shapes and sizes would prevent us from doing so, which is why our technical team carefully reviews all drawings to verify. We’ll always give you an honest answer as to the tolerances we can achieve on your project, and we never over-promise.
Yes: there are plenty of places online where you can buy a variety of cheap aluminium extrusions and extruded aluminium components, and eBay is just one of them. We’ll wish you the best of luck, and we’ll be here to help you out in the likely event your cheap aluminium extrusions fall short of your expectations.
At Edmo, we’ve got decades of experience in aluminium extrusions, a wealth of technical and engineering expertise, and access to a global network of extrusion suppliers. We’re dedicated to getting the best deals for our customers in terms of price and lead-time, while offering premium quality, complete solutions. Our service can take your aluminium extrusion project from design to delivery, all project managed on your behalf.
Or, yes, you could type in “cheap aluminium extrusions” on eBay…
We supply aluminium extrusion solutions to customers in a huge variety of industries, including domestic, commercial and industrial lighting. We can, and do, supply aluminium extrusion for LED strip lighting, so let us know your exact requirements and we’ll be happy to let you know how our versatile, cost effective and fully managed extrusion solutions can help your business.
Being light, strong, cost-effective, and corrosion resistant, extruded aluminium is ideal for the manufacture of windows, both domestic and commercial. We supply a range aluminium extrusion for windows, including custom profiles for frames, and individual extruded aluminium components.
Yes, we can supply aluminium extrusion for greenhouses. Lightweight, hard-wearing, relatively cheap, and resistant to corrosion, even in hardy outdoor applications, extruded aluminium is a good choice for the manufacture of greenhouses. We can supply aluminium extrusion for greenhouses in sub-assembly form, or as customer-ready kits.
Yes, we supply aluminium extrusion to customers in the housing sector. Extruded aluminium is well suited to various aspects of construction and housing, including a vast array of indoor and outdoor applications. Its relatively low cost, high strength, corrosion resistance and receptiveness to various finishing treatments makes aluminium extrusion a versatile choice for both visible and concealed uses in the housing sector.
To find out more about the kinds of aluminium extrusion profiles and components we deliver to customers in the housing sector, contact our team.
“Can you deliver aluminium extrusion near me and/or my customers?” is a pretty common query. Edmo’s primary facility is based in Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire. We’ve always been able to deliver aluminium extrusion to customers across the UK, and it’s quicker, cheaper and easier than ever since we opened our subsidiary branch in Wednesbury in the West Midlands.
While we’re proud of the local communities around our two UK sites, we’re by no means limited to being a regional supplier. Our busy logistics department ensures that we’re able to deliver aluminium extrusion near you and your customers, wherever you and they are in mainland UK.
No, aluminium coil isn’t something we supply. We do, however, supply our customers with extruded aluminium in a variety of profiles, both standard and custom. If you’d like to speak to a member of our team to check whether we stock or supply the extruded aluminium profiles you need, please contact us directly.
Not as a rule, no. We provide our customers with bespoke aluminium extrusions rather than supplying standard profiles. As such, the only standard profiles we keep in stock are those required by our existing customers on an ongoing basis. If you need a one-off profile or small batch of standard extrusions as part of a larger project, this is something we’d be able to help you with.
Yes, if they’re needed. We’re often asked to give customers samples so they can make sure the dimensions are all perfect before going ahead with a bulk extrusion run - this is generally the case when we’re working with new dies.
For customers who’ve already got dies and have moved their production to Edmo, it’s not usually necessary to produce samples as the die design and dimensions are already proven.
If you request a sample, we’ll hold off the bulk extrusion run until the sample’s been created and signed off by you. You can expect the extrusion run to be pushed back by around 1-2 weeks, depending on how quickly you’re able to approve the sample and give us the go-ahead for the bulk run.
Aluminium is cost-effective, lightweight and easy to work. However, it’s also very good at conducting heat, which isn’t ideal when it’s used for things like doors and windows. It offers poor insulation in winter and little protection from heat in summer (admittedly not a huge problem here in the UK).
Thermally broken extruded aluminium profiles solve this problem. A thermally broken profile is effectively an aluminium sandwich, and contains non-conductive material that acts as a thermal ‘break’ or barrier. These thermally broken profiles can conduct up to 1,000 times less heat than aluminium alone.
Yes, we can supply you with thermally broken extruded aluminium profiles to suit your exact requirements. We deal with a lot of customers in the window and door industry, so we’ve got the expertise you need.
Yes, aluminium is infinitely recyclable and has a good scrap value.
When we say “complex profiles” will usually cost more, what does that mean? Well, “complexity” in terms of extrusions usually hinges on what’s known as the shape factor. An extruded profile’s shape factor is the amount of surface area that’s generated per unit mass of extrusion.
And the reason complex profiles cost more is that the shape factor affects the cost of tooling (creating a die) and the rate of production. Extruding a perfectly circular cross section, for example, needs the least force, whereas a more complex shape needs more.
Of course. We prefer a bit of warning - gives us chance to put the kettle on - but otherwise we operate a completely open-door policy. Seeing what we do first-hand is what convinces a lot of our customers we’re the right extrusion and fabrication experts for them - so why wouldn’t we want to show off our skills?
Make an appointment to come and tour Edmo’s facilities.
We work with plenty of customers in the aluminium windows and doors industry. Aluminium sliding doors (doors, frames and mechanisms) are just one of the things we can assist with. If you’d like to talk more about using our services to manufacture aluminium sliding doors, please contact us for a no obligation discussion.
While we do stock a limited range of standard aluminium profiles, we specialise in bespoke aluminium extrusion. When working with repeat customers, we’re happy to stock the required aluminium profiles needed for the job long-term.
Check out our aluminium stock holding service here.
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We’ve all seen that image of a street that looks like it was made from wood. I’m not talking about a street that has a couple of bricks or a few boards that you can see through. I’m talking about a street that was constructed with a lot of wooden cladding on top of each other.
In many ways it’s a good thing that the game is going to go to a new level. If it gets to a level where you start walking in circles, you’ll be able to get the game to a new level.
In that new level, you’ll start to encounter various types of wooden structures that appear random, and have a couple of problems you need to overcome. The first is that the wooden structures are all very close together, which can be difficult to navigate. Also, they are built in a way that makes it very difficult to find the right ones. The second is that there is a lot of variation between each wooden structure.
In the old days, wooden structures were built at a very different place. The first one was a wooden house, the second was a wooden bridge, and the third was a wooden wall, which is the same as a wooden building. These are all different materials. The wooden bridge, like the wooden house, is very thin and it was built with wooden rods about 500 feet long.
Now we have a few options. The wood is a very poor material. I would recommend building from the inside out. You may need to drill some holes in the wall. I would do this in a different way. It is better to make them as close to the floor as possible. If it is not possible, then make some larger holes, and use more wood, and the whole thing is more sturdy.
One option is to construct the bridge from the inside out. The bridge should be hollow in the middle. Inside the bridge, you should have a hole for each of the rods to fit into. You can use something to prevent the rods from falling through the hole. I would use a door.
When I’ve seen the bridge from the inside out, I’ve found that it is not so strong, as you have to be careful about the hole. This is where wooden boards could be placed to strengthen the bridge. If you want to make the bridge from the outside in, you can use the same method as you did for the pier, except for the holes.
I think the bridge is solid, but the boards you can add to it are solid too. But the bridge is supposed to be the strong part of the city, so wood would make it the stronger part. Like I said, I think this is a good idea.
You can also just remove some of the wooden posts that support the bridge, like the ones that support the pier and the ones that support the bridge itself. This would strengthen the bridge a bit too, but it would also make the bridge look a bit less impressive.
I think this would be a good idea. The bridge is supposed to be solid, but the boards you can add to it are solid too. But the bridge is supposed to be the strong part of the city, so wood would make it the stronger part. Like I said, I think this is a good idea. | <urn:uuid:c53523dd-2509-4880-906d-325b2ccae79a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://specialtyretailexpert.com/wooden-street-in-pittsburgh-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.984552 | 682 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Indeed, the hypocrites [think to] deceive Allah, but He is deceiving them. And when they stand for prayer, they stand lazily, showing [themselves to] the people and not remembering Allah except a little,
'Ala bin 'Abd al-Rahman said:
We came upon Anas bin Maalik after the Zuhr prayer. He stood for saying the 'Asr prayer. When he became free from praying, we mentioned to him about observing prayer in its early period or he himself mentioned it. He said: I heard the Messenger of Allah (sallallaahu alayhi wa sallam) say: This is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray, this is how hypocrites pray: He sits (watching the sun), and when it becomes yellow and is between the horns of the devil, or is on the horns of the devil, he rises and prays for rak'ahs quickly, remembering Allah only seldom during them.
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Posts Tagged: margin of error
Illustration of casting a ballot in California. (Image: Niyazz, via Shutterstock)
Democrat Gavin Newsom has surged ahead of Antonio Villaraigosa in the state’s gubernatorial race, and Republican John Cox has made headway among the state’s likely voters. Senator Dianne Feinstein maintains her double-digit lead over fellow Democrat Kevin de León. These are among the key findings of a statewide survey released today by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC).
Image by Tim Foster, Capitol Weekly
One of the state’s most respected polls has begun incorporating online surveys for the first time, underscoring the increasing difficulty of relying on telephone questioning. The Field Poll, which was founded in 1947, started using online surveys to gather voter opinion on nine of the 17 statewide ballot propositions that will appear on the Nov. 8 ballot.
PPIC: Californians have deeply mixed views about the major political parties, with fewer than one in four viewing the GOP favorably and about half giving Democrats a thumbs up, according to the latest survey by the Public Policy Institute of California. About 49 percent of all adults reported a favorable impression of the Democratic party, while only 23 percent have a favorable view of the Republicans, down about 7 points since December.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, pondering a run for the U.S. Senate in 2016, has slightly better name recognition than rival Democrat Kamala Harris and could benefit from an energized Latino electorate, according to a survey released by the Legislative Latino Caucus. The survey also reflected some strength for Fresno Mayor Ashley Swearengin, a Republican. | <urn:uuid:583a59d9-bdac-4e90-9135-22951e8c8437> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://capitolweekly.net/tag/margin-of-error/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.919762 | 349 | 1.757813 | 2 |
The Netherlands mixes some of the most liberal attitudes to be found in Europe today with an orderly, structured society.
Typified for being flat and easy to travel around, if you are seeking English language teaching here you will find towns surrounded by canals and castle walls, and friendly people who often speak excellent English, partly because it is well taught in state schools. While there are many private language schools, the competition for jobs is fairly strong. However, there is an increasing demand for in-company teaching, brought about by the high demand for English in the workplace.
Do bear in mind that a bilingual (Dutch-English) teacher will be in greater demand than an English only teacher. There is also an increasing demand within universities, where teachers are quite often recruited informally through contacts, but you will need considerable experience to take advantage of these positions.
Alternatively, there is a tradition of people attending a kind of community college or folk university, called ‘Volksuniversiteit’, mainly for conversation classes. Post lockdown, these centres throughout the Netherlands may be able to offer some work – try www.Volksuniversiteit.nl.
Tips for teaching English in the Netherlands:
* choose the TESOL Advanced Course 150 hours for Europe
* make sure you take the 30-hour Business TESOL for Netherlands, as Business English is a really good option here.
* why not add the 40-hour Total Grammar course? This will come in especially useful for helping high level students perfect their English grammar.
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By Allison Salonko.
Allison is a Veterinary Technician in the state of Indiana. She graduated from International Business College and Vet Tech Institute of Indianapolis with a degree in Animal Science and Technology in 2011.
Getting into any kind of medical school is a challenge, but the competition for veterinary schools has gotten steep lately. Trying to find reputable and helpful websites and other resources for studying can be difficult and good web pages can be overshadowed by noninformative and spam sites. No worries!
This article is here to save the day and lead you in the right direction for all of your veterinary study needs!
There are so many websites and other resources out there for studying in vet school.
Below, I have compiled a list of the sites that I feel are the most reliable, knowledgeable and easy to read through.
VIN (Veterinary Information Network)
VIN is easily one of the oldest (started in 1991) and most reliable sources for students and doctors throughout their entire careers.
The Veterinary Information Network provides tons of data and information about hundreds of diseases, illnesses and surgical techniques.
Not only does VIN allow for easy communication and discussions, via chat boards among other colleagues and veterinarians, but it also has a Student Center, which provides a large database of resources for studying veterinary students.
One thing some people may view as a downside to VIN is that it does require a membership that has an annual cost. However, a lot of the time you can access it for free if you are a vet student.
International Veterinary Information Service (IVIS)
This is another online option that is similar to VIN.
The Internation Veterinary Information Service provides a plethora of research papers and other free resources such as eBooks, medical notes, journals and minicourses.
IVIS does not have a membership fee that goes along with using their website.
They provide their users with an IVIS calendar that is actually the largest global calendar of veterinary events.
This resource shows tons of online and on-site courses and classes, webinars, videos and other continuing education opportunities.
PetMD is one of those sites that a lot of owners and non-veterinary professionals stumble upon and visit when they have questions about their pet’s health.
While it is a great and reputable source for these owners to find information, it is also helpful for those who are studying in vet school.
There are tons of reference materials and other resources such as a list of animal diseases, care tips and medical and emergency terms plus a library of animal health articles written by actual veterinarians.
Not to mention this is an excellent place to stay up to date on news in the veterinary community.
Veterinary Practice News (VPN)
VPN is another site that is a go-to for many veterinarians and their staff. They provide loads of online resources like articles on issues, trends and events in the veterinary field.
Veterinary Practice News also prides itself on being an open forum used for discussing controversial or new topics in the field.
VPN also likes to highlight veterinary schools for academics and praises them. This positive publicity is a nice way to advertise to potential future veterinary students who are interested in going to their college.
This wonderful resource is similar to VIN, as it does require a monthly membership.
If you are a student or veterinary professional then you can have your VPN price for as low as 5$ a month.
Merck Veterinary Manual
Merck has been a trusted advisor in the veterinary field since 1955 and continues to be a front runner in publications for educational manuals and other informative content.
They have both online and published books that can be a huge help to those who are studying for vet school or just need a quick reference for a drug or medical condition.
The Merck Veterinary Manual has been providing veterinarians and other vet med professionals with authoritative information on diseases in food and companion animals. Not to mention the expanded materials on exotics and laboratory animals.
Merck has all of its resources available online and as a hard copied book.
This wonderful resource has been helping veterinary professionals have the confidence and peace of mind that they are choosing the right drug and dosage for their animal patients for years. This source can be found online and as a book, but the online version can be updated periodically as new innovations and information is discovered.
Plumbs has been a staple in veterinary practices as well as teaching hospitals for over 30 years and strives to continue to their excellent reputation. Their trusted reference books are continually updated in order to provide the most reputable and well-informed care possible.
Today, Plumbs provides the most up-to-date drug information possible, while also utilizing time-saving tools like the drug-interaction checker and built-in conversion calculator.
There are also over 550 sheets of drug information for pet owners and practicing vets alike.
Like most older and reliable sources, there is a yearly membership for veterinarians and other veterinary partners. Student discounts can be applied.
AVMA (American Veterinary Medical Association)
All veterinary professionals are familiar with the AVMA, but did you know that they provide students and practicing veterinarians with access to plenty of studies and materials?
They call it the AVMA Animal Health Studies Database, which connects you with clinical trials and other health studies that include a range of animal health issues.
You can search for trials and studies that have already been performed and learn from these sources.
Or you can actually provide health data for certain cases, potentially helping others learn from what you have seen and used in practice.
FDA (Food and Drug Administration)
The FDA has been around for a long time. In 1848 the US government started testing the safety of agricultural products, which later became the responsibility of the FDA somewhere around 1862. However, the FDA hasn’t been known by its current name until after 1930. That makes them the oldest comprehensive consumer protection agency in the US federal government.
While the FDA’s educational information may not always be that handy for studying and being a student in general, there are surely times where referencing their material was helpful.
Most importantly, the FDA has a lot of information regarding drugs and pet foods and what has been recently recalled with certain products.
This reliable source of thorough information is an important avenue for veterinary professionals as it can be difficult to find decent authoritative documents and studies on recent trends and recalls within the industry.
In 2003, three veterinary students became frustrated with the lack of options for studying for the NAVLE and they decided to create a reliable and excellent way for vet students to feel confident in their knowledge before taking their test.
This was the first online resource available to veterinary students for studying the national exam and continues to be the #1 option for students in their final year.
They have thousands of questions with tons of different online reading materials and powerpoints to engage and help retain the info.
Not to mention, you can access VetPrep from any smart device so you are not tied down to your desktop computer or laptop.
Books: Oldschool But Not Underestimated
Books are crazy expensive, especially ones that you are required to purchase for college classes.
Nothing is more painful than spending several hundred dollars on a book that you feel like you only used a few times throughout school.
I’ll admit though, you will certainly reference your books and other online study resources not only as a student but during your time as a practicing veterinarian as well.
Don’t underestimate your hard copies of information as most of the PDFs that you find online are all just pulled from older book material.
Many colleges actually provide digital copies of several books for free.
Find A Study Guide That Fits Your Study Style
Because the number of study resources and guides continues to expand, it is even more important to find a site or app that fits your style of studying and learning.
This is because you want your time and brain to function efficiently, if you are not able to retain or grow from your study resource it may be a good idea to look into one of these other options.
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