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Computer physician (provider) order entry (CPOE) Dr. Ali M. Hadianfard Faculty member of AJUMS http://www.alihadianfard.info/download.html Further reading • Managing Health Care Information System, Karen A. Wager, Frances Wickham Lee, 2005 (chapter 5). • Healthcare Informatics, C. William Hanson, 2005 (chapter 10). • Healthcare informatics improving efficiency and productivity, Stephan Kudyba, 2010 (chapter 5). Computer physician order entry (CPOE) An electronic means for physicians and other clinical providers to place patient orders. CPOE is not keyboarding orders as free text into a word processor, but rather it is the process of retrieving orders from an electronic order catalogue by matching specific catalogue orders to the desired order intent as conceived. CPOE additionally provides the means to make available defined order sets that support integrated tasks into a common complex clinical action. These orders are communicated over a computer network to the medical staff or to the departments (pharmacy, laboratory, or radiology) responsible for fulfilling the order. A CPOE system is typically an integral part of a comprehensive clinical information system or EMR system and not a stand-alone application. (see also Healthcare Informatics, C. William Hanson, 2005, chapter 10). The benefits of CPOE 1. CPOE has been touted to decrease medical errors by several mechanisms. • Eliminates errors and problems associated with misinterpretation of illegible orders • Makes orders more explicit and less vulnerable to misinterpretation ( e. g., non-standard abbreviations) • provides error-checking for duplicate or incorrect doses (prescribing errors) or tests ( e. g., alerts) 2. Decreases delay in order completion 3. Allows order entry at the point of care or off-site 4. Financial benefits; fewer administrative clinical staff, improve the accuracy and timeliness of billing, and increase transaction processing rates. Other financial benefits include increased procedure volume and reductions in average length of stay. Implement CPOE because it is right for the care of your patients. Barriers to implementation of CPOE Physicians' resistance to change (“You’re asking me to do the work of a secretary.” “It will take me too long to enter my orders.” “I will be spending more time in front of a computer than in front of my patients.”) and the costs (e.g., many workstations) are two serious challenges for implementing COPE. The physicians’ troubles with CPOE 1. Orders may take longer to enter than paper handwritten orders. 2. Orders may be more difficult to locate in a computer order catalogue due to terminology in the catalogue that is foreign to the physician’s thought about how the order might be named. 3. Orders may be accompanied by alerts and pop-up reminders that physicians may find annoying. 4. Some ordering formats may be poorly designed by the software vendor or the hospital staff, making clear order submission difficult. 5. Physicians may find that they are vulnerable to new types of medical errors not present on paper, such as accidentally picking an incorrect, adjacent order from a list. 6. Physicians will face the difficult task of learning a new and foreign method for completing a very familiar task. Useful elements in the build of CPOE • Should be fast, elegant, and easy to use • Must be easy to look up and cover synonyms (must be comprehensive to include nearly any order that may be imagined) • Modification of orders should be easy for physicians to complete and should have the fewest possible required fields for order completion (using pre-populated order sentences). • Should be included a useful array of order sets (a set of related orders required for the management of a series of integrated clinical tasks). Common uses for order sets include the admission process, transfer, and pre- and postoperative processes. • Occasional high-risk medications require the provider to address a list of indications and contraindications prior to use. • Should be featured physician favorites folders Data Display • Flowsheets of Patient Data: similar to a spreadsheet; it organizes patient data according to the time that they were generated e.g., laboratory and nursing measurements • Summaries and Abstracts: e.g., active allergies, active problems, active treatments, and recent observations • Dynamic Displays: search tools help the physician to locate relevant data, and specialized presentation formats Data entry Tools & Methods 1. Fully automated 2. Manually Keyboard: direct entry using text box, drop-down list, combo box, button, radio button and so on Mouse Barcode reader (scanner) Voice recognition systems Electronic handwriting recognition Stylus pen Touch screen (on tablet) 3. Scanning paper reports: using OCR (Optical character recognition) method Electronic form The Electronic form, which may be called the electronic chart, aids medical practitioners to document patient information in the electronic records. It determines ‘which data’, ‘where’, ‘how’, ‘how much’, ‘for what’, and ‘who’ should be documented. A smart form can provide an active guideline to ensure that necessary data has been captured accurately. | <urn:uuid:2447f99c-f5e0-4e93-9395-5fe423bfcef8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studylib.net/doc/5750461/computer-physician--provider--order-entry--cpoe- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.90091 | 1,087 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Syrian who survived kidnap and imprisonment to set up schools for refugees with his own money
Children in conflicts, Days in the childhood development calendar, Education Cannot Wait, Education in emergencies, Refugees and internally displaced people, Right to education
We talk to a remarkable man who, with the help of residents and volunteers, has brought education to children at informal camps in Turkey.
As the sweltering Turkish heat beams down on a makeshift school outside Adana, 30 Syrian children eagerly wait for the start of term.
Thirty-five-year old school founder Tamer Altaiar hands a colourful backpack, filled with books, pencils and notepads to each child.
For many of these children, this is the first present they have received since the conflict began over six years ago. Being unofficially registered and living in an informal camp makes a recipe for limited humanitarian support.
Turkey currently hosts over three million registered Syrian refugees and an estimated one million unregistered. With humanitarian organisations at capacity, demand often outstrips supply.
“The Syrians living in these camps are incredibly vulnerable,” Altaiar said. “As many of them are illegally in the country, they do not qualify for the Turkish government’s support.”
After seeing the desperation of his fellow people, Altaiar – a refugee himself – took on the challenge to provide aid to those in need.
Using his own savings and mustering private donations, the Homs native was able to set up three schools in neighbouring camps.
With the help of residents and local volunteers, the team spent six days building the schools.
Designed with a meagre budget, the structures are formed by a large tarpaulin sheet that drapes on to metal rods, which are cemented into a concrete base. Old desks and benches are neatly lined in rows and an IKEA white board stands at the front.
“Most these children have never had an education,” he said.
“Before this school they were illiterate. But now they are starting to learn how to read and write. To see the transformation in them has been incredible.”
Mohammad, a 28-year-old university graduate from Idlib, provides children aged between five and 13 with daily Arabic, Turkish, English and maths lessons.
Living out of Altaiar’s warehouse and borrowing his motorcycle, the teacher commutes between the three schools and receives a small salary.
“Unfortunately, we can only teach the younger children, because after the age of 13 they go off to the nearby farms to work with their parents,” Altaiar said.
“I would like to do evening lessons for the older children but we just don’t have the funds.”
A former chemical engineer for an oil company in Norway, he fell into the humanitarian world by chance.
He said: “For years I had watched my fellow country men suffer in silence. So when the revolution started, I knew I had to be part of it.”
As the peaceful revolution turned into a civil war and millions became displaced, Altaiar and his wife moved to Turkey.
I couldn’t sit there and do nothing while my people suffered Tamer Altaiar
“But I couldn’t sit there and do nothing while my people suffered,” he said. Forming food kitchens in camps for internally displaced people in the East of Syria, Altaiar commuted between the two countries.
But after refusing to pay bribes to militant groups, the humanitarian was kidnapped and imprisoned for over a year.
Tortured and starved, Altaiar was on the verge of death when the militant faction dropped him at a local hospital to dispose of his body.
“When the doctor saw me, he whispered to me to stay silent and not move,” he said. “He told the militants that I was dead and he would dispose of the body.”
Through the help of the doctor and in conjunction with the Turkish authorities, Altaiar was smuggled out of Syria to safety and spent six weeks in intensive care at a hospital in Antakya.
“When my wife came to see my in hospital – she brought a six-month-baby girl with her. I had become a father and I didn’t even know it,” Altair said.
Two years and two daughters later, Altaiar has fully recovered and has officially registered with the Turkish authorities as a humanitarian organisation.
Along with three schools, Altair has established two women’s centre, an autism clinic and provides weekly food parcels to thousands of Syrian refugees.
“I’m from Homs City – we have a reputation for being crazy,” he said.
“Perhaps that’s why I decided to abandoned the wealth and stability for this life.
“But I wouldn’t go back. I’m able to make a difference to so many peoples lives and to be honest I’m proud of what I do.” | <urn:uuid:cd5f68f5-0204-4df4-89e2-cfe66d91f645> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theirworld.org/news/syrian-survived-kidnap-to-set-up-turkey-refugee-schools-with-own-money/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976258 | 1,056 | 2.671875 | 3 |
Parenting Tips Provided By Child Psychologists. Life Advices From Psychologists. We all know that life is not a bed of roses.
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And kids are not exception from that part too. They are also having different thoughts which they cannot share or express. The first change which they experienced is the entire change of the academic calendar. Though, it may be interesting to enjoy the days at home, but that became boring when it was more than 1 months. The children of age group 4-7 years are the most problems ones. Check out these symptoms As a parent, it is your responsibility that you must keep an eye on these things. Irregular sleep pattern whether more or less sleep, it is not good Increased or decreased food cravings Sudden mood swings More conscious about health and all those that are being instructed these days can be harmful. The final words If you notice these common things and see them exists, then you must immediately consult with the child psychologist in Kolkata. Consequences of being overweight- psychological impact on your health - imhckol2000. 2020-11-19By: imhckol2000Posted in: Health Obesity has been a great health issue which has reached the level of epidemic and we don’t realize this.
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Well, most of you have and it is a serious matter that needs to be discussed and taken care of. The basic problem lies in the fact that most of you do not know what OCD exactly is. In this article, you will read about OCD and its types and symptoms. What Is OCD? OCD or obsessive-compulsive disorder is a mental illness that causes repeated unwanted sensations or thoughts or the urge to do something again and again. An obsessive thought can be calling some particular colors ‘good’ or ‘bad’. People with OCD have thoughts or actions that are similar to these: Take up at least an hour a day Are beyond your control Are not enjoyable Interfere with work, social life, or another part of life Types Of OCD And Its Related Symptoms Checking (clocks, alarm systems, ovens, light switches, etc.) Conclusion. Overcome Loneliness in These 8 Ways - Indira-mind-healing-centre.over-blog.com. During this Covid-19 lockdown phase, most of you must have had a staunch feeling of loneliness.
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The storms, which consist of brightenings and broadenings of the dawn flank of an oval of auroral activity that encircles Jupiter's poles, evolve in a pattern surprisingly reminiscent of familiar surges in the aurora that undulate across Earth's polar skies, called auroral substorms, according to the authors.
The new study is the first to track the storms from their birth on the nightside of the giant planet through their full evolution. It was published today in AGU Advances, AGU's journal for high-impact, short-format reports with immediate implications spanning all Earth and space sciences.
During a dawn storm, Jupiter's quiet and regular auroral arc transforms into a complex and intensely bright auroral feature. It emits hundreds to thousands of Gigawatts of ultraviolet light into space as it rotates from the night side to the dawn side and ultimately to the day side of the planet over the course of 5-10 hours. A Gigawatt is the power produced by a typical modern nuclear reactor. This colossal brightness implies that at least ten times more energy was transferred from the magnetosphere to the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.
Previously, dawn storms had only been observed from ground-based telescopes on Earth or the Hubble Space Telescope, which can only offer side views of the aurora and cannot see the night side of the planet. Juno revolves around Jupiter every 53 days along a highly elongated orbit that brings it right above the poles every orbit.
"This is a real game changer," said Bertrand Bonfond, a researcher from the University of Liège and lead author of the new study. "We finally got to find out what was happening on the night side, where the dawn storms are born."
Familiar auroral sequences, different engines Polar auroras on Earth and on Jupiter are images of processes occurring in the magnetic fields that surround them. Both planets generate magnetic fields that capture charged particles.
Earth's magnetosphere is shaped by charged particles flowing out of the sun called the solar wind. Bursts of solar wind stretch Earth's magnetic field into a long tail on the nightside of the planet. When that tail snaps back, it fires charged particles into the nightside ionosphere, which appear as spectacular auroral light shows.
The new study found the timing of the dawn storms on Jupiter did not correlate with solar wind fluctuations. Jupiter's magnetosphere is mostly populated by particles escaping from its volcanic moon Io, which then get ionized and trapped around the planet by its magnetic field.
The sources of mass and energy fundamentally differ between these two magnetospheres, leading to auroras that usually look quite different. However, the dawn storms, as unraveled by Juno's ultraviolet spectrograph, looked familiar to the researchers.
"When we looked at the whole dawn storm sequence, we couldn't help but notice that the dawn storm auroras at Jupiter are very similar to a type of terrestrial auroras called substorms" said Zhonghua Yao, co-author of the study and scientific collaborator at the University of Liège.
The substorms result from the explosive reconfiguration of the tail of the magnetosphere. On Earth, they are strongly related to the variations of the solar wind and of the orientation of the interplanetary magnetic field. On Jupiter, such explosive reconfigurations are rather related to an overspill of the plasma originating from Io.
These findings demonstrate that, whatever their sources, particles and energy do not always circulate smoothly in planetary magnetospheres. They often accumulate until the magnetospheres collapse and generate substorm-like responses in the planetary aurorae.
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The teen was sitting on his living room couch watching another episode of “The Office” when the email popped up on his cellphone. Isaiah Marquez-Greene skimmed past the opening two paragraphs until, at the third, he paused: “This decision to open campus …”
He was thrilled. Four months into the pandemic, Isaiah, 16, longed to play hockey, to see his friends, to return for his sophomore year to the Connecticut boarding school he had worked so hard to get into. Maybe this news meant all those things would happen, he thought for a moment, before the reality of who he is came back to him.
Millions of parents had begun to worry by that July afternoon about schools reopening in the fall, but many found comfort in what they knew of the novel coronavirus. Most children who got sick would be fine. Seldom would they be hospitalized. Rarely — in only the worst cases — would they die. But Isaiah understood how little solace that knowledge offered his parents. They knew the worst could happen.
On a cold winter morning in 2012, Isaiah had cowered in a third-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., listening to the gunshots that were ending the lives of six staff members and 20 first-graders, including his sister, Ana Grace. He was 8. She was 6.
“I don’t want to be an only child,” he told his mom and dad that December night after they explained to him Ana was gone. But that’s what he had become: their only surviving child.
Now, eight years after the massacre that shattered his family and devastated the country, another threat — the deadliest pandemic in a century — had arrived on America’s campuses. On the living room couch, just down the hall from a collection of his sister’s framed portraits, Isaiah had trouble believing his parents could bear to send him back.
He closed the email and checked Snapchat. “I’m going,” all of his elated classmates were declaring in a group thread, so he messaged his roommate, who told him the same thing.
Am I going to be the only one who doesn’t go? Isaiah wondered at the same time his mom, Nelba Marquez-Greene, was reading the email in her office upstairs.
She was shocked. Nelba had assumed the campus would remain closed and had spent weeks considering how to help her son through virtual classes in the fall. It was so unfair, she thought at the time, but at least he would be safe with them, at home. Now she didn’t know what to think.
Nelba, a marriage and family therapist, had struggled at first with the idea of letting her son leave for boarding school a year earlier, but she and her husband, Jimmy Greene, respected Isaiah and worked hard never to let their trauma or fear dictate the way they raised him. He wanted to go there and earned it, receiving a six-figure scholarship that covered the tuition their middle-class family never could have afforded.
Then came the virus, shutdowns, soaring death tolls and suddenly, amid all of it, a torturous dilemma. She thought about the other parents whose children had also lived through school shootings. There were tens of thousands of those kids, and though most didn’t lose a sibling, they had all learned that danger could reach them anywhere, even in a classroom.
She thought back to the summer of 2012, sitting in an office with Dawn Hochsprung, Sandy Hook’s principal, just before their family moved to Newtown.
“Will my kids be safe here?” her husband had asked, not because he feared that anyone would shoot them but because Jimmy, who is Black, and Nelba, who is Puerto Rican, suspected their children would be among the school’s only students of color. Hochsprung assured them she would do all she could to protect their girl and boy, and the principal died seven months later trying to keep her promise.
Downstairs, Isaiah heard his mom call him.
“Did you read the email?” she asked.
“Of course,” he said.
Had he talked to his friends?
“They’re all going,” he told her, so Nelba forced herself to say it would be his choice. She trusted him, she said, to be smart and weigh the danger of going back, but Isaiah could see the fear in her eyes.
There’s no way she’ll let me go.
That afternoon, Nelba took a long drive, stopping at the cemetery where her daughter was buried. She stood in front of the heart-shaped gravestone.
Nelba called Ana her “caramel princess.” She had round cheeks and dark, curly hair, and she didn’t walk from room to room so much as dance. She liked to wear flowers in her hair and paint her mom’s nails purple, Ana’s favorite color. The two of them were a lot alike: bold but whimsical, headstrong but compassionate. “Don’t let them suck your fun circuits dry, Mom,” she told Nelba after a tough day at work. Her mother posted Ana’s advice on Facebook one week before the shooting.
At the cemetery, Nelba looked down. They always thought of their family as a band, so in front of the gravestone were four tin frogs, each playing an instrument. Ana’s was the smallest. She would have been 14.
“It was enough to lose you,” Nelba told her daughter, as she thought of her son. “I can’t believe I have to do this now.”
Isaiah could sense his mother’s anxiety, but he didn’t bring it up. His school — The Post agreed not to name it or identify their town because of repeated threats against Sandy Hook families — wasn’t scheduled to reopen for two more months. Maybe the virus would recede by then, Isaiah thought. He prayed for everything to work out.
Nelba was praying, too, but couldn’t sleep much that night or the next or the one after, finally messaging a friend who is a school nurse.
“I have one child left,” she wrote at 11:24 p.m. “What should we do about school?”
Just past dawn, Isaiah stepped out onto the rink, alone. Armored in 17 pieces of goalie gear, he glided across the ice in wide circles, warming up as he peered through his weathered white helmet’s wire cage. The teenager had woken up at 6 that summer morning, riding with his dad more than 30 miles for a 45-minute practice to prepare for a season that might never come. The one-on-one sessions with a coach, inside a frigid arena beside a coronavirus testing site, were the only indoor activity away from their house that his parents had allowed. They knew how much he needed it.
He’d learned to play hockey as a second-grader in Winnipeg, Manitoba, where his dad, a world-renowned saxophonist, had taken a teaching job at a university. Ana would watch Isaiah from the bleachers, coloring as he wobbled across the ice.
A year later, because of her death and all the others, Newtown families were inundated with free tickets to theme parks, Yankees games and Broadway shows. Isaiah, who suffered chills for weeks from shock, didn’t want to do any of it, until the Los Angeles Kings asked if a Sandy Hook family of hockey fans would want to help the team raise its championship banner.
In California, Kings players brought the Stanley Cup to the family’s hotel room and surprised Isaiah. At the game, when he looked up and spotted his face on the Jumbotron, Isaiah stuck his tongue out, then grinned.
“Mom, I’ve been planning that,” he told her later, and that’s when she knew at least some piece of her son’s spirit remained.
In the locker room, the Kings goalie, Jonathan Quick, a Connecticut native, sat next to Isaiah, helping him try on three-foot leg pads that came up to the boy’s chest.
“Coooool,” Isaiah said.
He fell hard that night for a sport that, five years later, led him to ask his parents if he could switch to boarding school because it would give him a better chance at playing college hockey. They supported him, but for Nelba, it didn’t feel real until he got the scholarship.
Oh my God. He’s leaving, she thought, recalling how hard it had been to let him go back to school a month after the shooting. Isaiah stopped taking the bus so he wouldn’t have to ride without his sister, and Nelba stopped walking inside at pickup so she wouldn’t have to see the first-grade girls line up to go home.
When the day came last year for her and Jimmy to drop Isaiah off at his new campus, though, what she felt was joy, not agony. As he walked away from them, toward his dorm, they took a photo.
“We put Ana’s body in a coffin in the ground. This is not that day. We already did the hardest day,” she wrote on Facebook. “If we didn’t die at Ana’s burial we won’t die at Isaiah’s rising.”
He appreciated his mom and dad’s effort not to burden him with their anxieties, but he had also accepted that his family would never be like everyone else’s. No one on his floor got more calls from their parents than he did, and Isaiah liked to tease Nelba and Jimmy about that, but he never told them to stop; he knew why they needed to hear his voice. He had friends who drank and took drugs, but Isaiah didn’t, in part, because of his parents. He couldn’t take risks that might cause them more pain.
Isaiah had overheard adults talk about how normal he seemed. He was an A student with a subdued self-confidence and a wry, but never caustic, sense of humor. He seldom panicked, especially on the ice, where he embraced the pressure of protecting his team’s goal. He had a gift for music (drums, piano, saxophone), though he intended to major in sports management in college. As an athlete, he always wanted to win but seldom celebrated with more than fist bumps.
At a lean 6-foot-1, he wore Jordan sneakers and trendy, clear-framed glasses over his dark eyes. He loved Jesus, as did his parents, and when pressed to describe himself, he chose “kind.” He had an Instagram account but didn’t post on it, content to forgo the attention most teenagers craved. He was one of the only students of color at every school he’d attended, though Isaiah said he didn’t mind. He had learned at an early age to navigate worlds that were Whiter and wealthier than his own.
He cherished his memories of Ana — the hugs she insisted on giving him, even when he resisted, and the hymns she belted out as he pecked at the piano — but he refused to exploit her loss, even in personal essays he wrote for his application to a school that accepted just 1 in 10 candidates.
“I didn’t want to be the kid who got into school because of that,” said Isaiah, who at 13 had privately detailed how much her death haunted him.
“If a child doesn’t talk about what happened and seems like they’re ‘fine,’ know that they’re not,” he wrote then. “We are always thinking about what happened.”
LEFT: An evidence photo shows the damage at Sandy Hook Elementary after the December 2012 shooting rampage. (Connecticut State Police via Getty Images) . RIGHT: People gather at a makeshift memorial near the school the day after the shooting. (Mario Tama/Getty Images) .
A few weeks into his freshman year, he was hanging out in a dorm room when a friend asked where he lived.
“I’m from Newtown,” he said.
Another teen asked if he had gone to Sandy Hook.
“Yeah,” Isaiah replied.
“Did you know anyone that died?”
“My sister,” he said, and the room went quiet.
By then, Isaiah had accepted that “12/14,” as survivors call it, would always follow him, even at an affluent private school far from Newtown. During a welcome banquet for parents, a member of the bar staff gasped when he saw Isaiah’s mom.
“Are you okay?” Nelba asked.
He told her he had worked as a caterer at her daughter’s homegoing reception.
“I think of you and your family every day,” he said.
None of them resented those encounters, though. They wanted people to remember Ana. It was why Jimmy dedicated his acclaimed 2014 album, “Beautiful Life,” to his daughter. It was why Nelba created the Ana Grace Project, a foundation to aid traumatized children, and why she became a writer and activist fighting to reform the way America supports grieving families. It was why, four months after the shooting, their son gave President Obama a purple bracelet with his sister’s name on it, just like the one Isaiah has worn nearly every hour of every day since.
He did hope his dorm room admission wouldn’t define him, and it didn’t. He was, instead, the smart, funny kid who was good at Spanish and saxophone and who other kids asked to give them skating lessons the next time the pond froze. He flourished his freshman year, even attending class for the first time on the shooting’s anniversary.
His parents still saw him most weeks, usually for hockey games but sometimes because he needed more deodorant or toothpaste. The visits gave him the chance to celebrate their good news, too: his dad’s upcoming new album, set to debut the day before Ana’s birthday in April 2020, and People magazine naming his mother one of the “Women Changing the World in 2019.” Their family was in such a good place that they had even started making plans to leave the cramped home in Newtown where Ana last lived. They at last felt ready.
“I am thankful for surviving Ana’s execution. That will always be a miracle. Now I’d like to thrive,” Nelba posted in late December. “Let’s thrive in 2020.”
LEFT: A collection of purple bracelets inscribed with Ana's name at her gravesite. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post). RIGHT: The frogs and purple stones at Ana's gravesite. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post).
Isaiah inched up to the stop sign, his hands at 10 and 2 on the steering wheel. He looked both directions once, then twice, then a third time before pulling out and pressing the gas.
“Main-road driving,” Nelba said from the passenger seat. “Do you feel good?”
“Yeah, why are you asking me?” he responded. “You seem really tense.”
“My son is driving,” she said. “I’m trying not to be tense.”
She was anyway, but not just because of the driving. His school was reopening in less than a month, and with each passing day, her worries mounted. She’d read how disproportionately Black and Brown children were being hospitalized, or dying, because of covid-19. What if her son, who was one of them, forgot to wear his mask in the wrong place at the wrong moment? What if he got sick, and he happened to be one of those otherwise healthy kids inexplicably vulnerable to this virus?
The notion of thriving felt fanciful now.
At another stop sign, Isaiah glanced right as a truck to his left popped out from behind a blind curve and sped past.
“Did you see that car?” she asked.
“I did, that’s why I was looking there,” he said, but his mom was unconvinced.
“Because that car really scared me.”
“Yeah, I could tell.”
“That’s why you have to ease out and look 101 times,” she said. “Even when you think you have looked enough.”
Three minutes later, after a long stretch of quiet, she brought it up again.
“A bunch of driving is definitely about you making good choices, but there is an equal amount, if not more, that is kind of compensating for when other people make really poor choices. Like when they’re distracted, or they’ve been drinking, or, you know, somebody makes a foolish decision.”
For months, she and Jimmy, a big man with asthma, had tried to protect their family from the foolish decisions so many people were making. Isaiah had come home for spring break in March, unaware at the time that he would finish his freshman year on a laptop. His first weekend back, local parents organized a football game — “#letthemplay,” they said — and he wanted to go with some friends. Nelba and Jimmy told him they didn’t think he should.
Isaiah was disappointed, and a little irritated, but he didn’t object then, or later when he couldn’t attend an invitational hockey camp in Iowa or, after that, when he had to skip his club season. Missing out on a big sleepover at a friend’s house upset him, and it dismayed his parents just as much when, for his 16th birthday, they had to ask friends and family to wish him well through videos rather than at a party.
“We know what it’s like to suffer through loss,” his dad said later, explaining why they took the virus so seriously.
On 12/14, Jimmy had beaten Nelba to the brick firehouse outside Sandy Hook Elementary, where parents were told to pick up their kids. “Daddy, there were so many gunshots,” Isaiah said when his father found him, before they realized no one had found Ana. Minutes passed, then hours, and at last, a police officer told the remaining parents that there were no more kids to pick up.
When the pandemic began, their family didn’t agonize over whether to quarantine. They would do all they could to stay safe.
The constraints sometimes frustrated Isaiah, who, alone in his room, would scroll through Instagram photos of his buddies hanging out, playing video games and pickup basketball. Some were sneaking out at night, but as much as he wanted to see them, Isaiah never considered trying. He couldn’t do that to his parents.
He could tell how stressed they were, especially his mother, as they slogged through a year that, over and over, evoked the worst one they’d endured.
He saw protesters denounce masks and vaccines with the same vitriol others had spewed at the gun-safety measures his parents fought for in vain in 2013. He heard people contend that the virus was a hoax, just as conspiracy theorists had claimed about Sandy Hook. He was no older than 10 on the day he watched a YouTube video of a speech his mom gave, then started to cry after he read the comments insisting she was an actor and a liar.
One afternoon this summer, well after the U.S. death toll had eclipsed 100,000, Isaiah and his parents drove past a brightly colored bouncy house packed with two dozen kids, none of them wearing masks. Their parents, also maskless, watched nearby. He and Jimmy and Nelba all looked over, and his mom marveled at how liberating it must feel to have never buried a child.
It was in the middle of this cascade of triggers that the family faced what they had once anticipated would be 2020’s greatest difficulty: moving to a new house. They had nearly called it off, but backing out became too complicated.
So Nelba carefully packed up the purple box, unopened since the state police delivered it, that held Ana’s long-sleeved white T-shirt adorned with a sequined purple peace sign, now pocked with bullet holes. Jimmy unscrewed the light switch plate Isaiah had carved his sister’s name into a few days before her funeral.
On the day they left, one of the movers spotted Tinkerbell sheets and a pink Huffy bike. He asked Nelba if they had a daughter, and when she told the man the truth, he began to weep behind his mask.
Tired and sweaty that afternoon, Nelba, who hadn’t eaten all day, took Isaiah with her to pick up a pizza, and after it was brought to their car, she couldn’t find napkins or hand sanitizer. They had food but couldn’t eat it, and all at once, the weight of that day, of everything, crushed her. Nelba almost never let herself cry in front of Isaiah, but there, in the car, she couldn’t help it.
“It’s okay,” Isaiah soothed her. They would find some napkins and hand sanitizer, he said, and then the two of them would pretend they were on a picnic, because things were always a little messy at picnics.
Those were the moments that made her feel most proud, and undeserving, because how could this be who he’d become? Nelba saw it later, too, when he volunteered to help with a children’s program she had created after the lockdowns started. Each night, someone read a picture book on her foundation’s Facebook page. She and Jimmy both took turns, and so did Isaiah, who picked “Llama Llama Mad at Mama,” a book Nelba used to read to him and Ana in their playroom.
“All right, kids,” Isaiah added after the reading, “I just wanted to say that you always should love your mama and your dad, no matter what. … Even if you spend a lot of time with them, and might get a little annoyed, always love your parents.”
They still argued, about the yard he didn’t mow or the bed he didn’t make, but the good moments in their home outnumbered the bad ones. Then the email from Isaiah’s school showed up, and everything changed.
Jimmy made peace with Isaiah’s return, but Nelba struggled, a feeling only made worse by the latest spate of police killings of unarmed Black men. His parents had told him for years about what to do if an officer confronted him, but they’d never seen the nation this inflamed. He would be going to a mostly White school in an overwhelmingly White town, and he no longer looked like a little boy. It was one more concern Nelba didn’t need.
Robin Cogan, the school nurse she’d messaged for guidance, offered encouragement, calling the boarding school’s strategy to manage the virus — testing, distancing, an on-campus bubble — among the most thoughtful she’d seen.
Nelba exhaled. No plan was foolproof, she thought, but maybe she could let her son go. Then in early September, news broke that a staffer at a local elementary school had tested positive — on the first day students returned for classes.
“What would you say if I told you that you had to learn from home?” she asked him later that day.
“I just really want to try,” he told her.
‘Am I crazy?’
Two weeks before Isaiah was scheduled to go back: Nelba learned that if cases in Connecticut continued to increase, she wouldn’t see her son in person again until Thanksgiving.
Six days before: Jimmy reminded her that the chances of their son getting sick were so low, and Nelba thought of those first moments in the firehouse, when, in her mind, there was no chance their daughter could be gone.
Five days before: She read a tweet from the governor’s office, announcing the state’s highest number of reported cases since May.
Four days before: Isaiah caught his mom staring at him. He knew why, but asked her anyway. “Nothing,” she said.
Three days before: Nelba texted his pediatrician. “Am I crazy for allowing him to go?”
Two days before: She and Jimmy signed a form acknowledging that, although the school intended to follow every protocol, they understood that their child could still get infected.
One day before: They got Popeyes for lunch, and Isaiah beat his dad in the summer’s final game of ping-pong. But he put off getting his stuff ready, unaware of how long it would take. Voices were raised. He stayed up past midnight packing his clothes, his Kendrick Lamar poster, his extra purple bracelets. Afterward, as she lay in bed, tears streaked down the side of Nelba’s face.
‘A big risk’
It was a bright, crisp morning, the clearest Connecticut’s sky had been all week. Isaiah’s parents waited for him in the driveway. Nelba rested her head against Jimmy’s chest as he put his arm around her.
Inside the garage, their son zipped up his navy-blue hockey bag and hoisted it over his shoulder. He walked out into the sunlight, past his sister’s pink Huffy bike, still propped near the wall, and under the metal star — a memorial given to victims’ families — that hung on the yellow siding above the garage door.
Isaiah dropped his bag into the back of his mom’s Honda CR-V. His dad’s SUV was already packed full.
“So that’s it. I think we’re all done,” Nelba said, before she remembered one more thing and hurried back inside, quickly returning with a blue plastic shopping bag.
“I know they’re going to give you stuff, but I want you to have your own stuff,” she said. “There are wipes and Lysol and stuff in here.”
“I didn’t even know we had Lysol,” Isaiah told her.
“We’ve been storing it all summer, for this moment,” his mom said.
“Thanks, Mom,” he replied, extending a fist to bump against hers.
In the car, headed into the lush Connecticut countryside, Nelba played her son’s favorite Michael Jackson song, “Baby Be Mine.” Isaiah, who was driving, rode with her because the school would allow only one parent into the dorms, and that was going to be Jimmy, who could carry more bags.
“You need to call every day, at least do a check-in,” Nelba told him.
“You said text every day,” he replied.
“I want to see your face, so FaceTime, even if it’s for three minutes,” she said. “That should not be a big ask.”
“Yes, Mom,” Isaiah said.
Seven years earlier, to the day, she had posted on Facebook about Isaiah’s return to school after the attack at Sandy Hook.
“Imagine the difficulty in sending your surviving child into a classroom when you lost your baby in a school shooting,” she wrote. “We sent him because we didn’t want him to be afraid.”
Now it was Nelba trying not to be afraid, and so, for most of the drive, mother and son joked, as they often did in times of stress, about silly things: the music she felt too old to listen to and his feigned indifference — “none of my beeswax” — about the fancy meal she and his dad were allegedly going out for after they dropped him off.
Nelba understood that this ride, for him, represented something great. He would get to sit in real classrooms and practice hockey, see his friends and flirt with girls. But, for her, it also offered one last chance to make sure he grasped what was at stake.
“Isaiah, we are really, really taking a big risk letting you go to school,” she said.
“Yes, Mom,” he told her. “I appreciate it.”
“I can’t count on a system. I can’t count on other kids. I can’t count on other parents,” she continued. “I have to count on you, like that, if everything else fails, you will still do the right, smart thing, even if you’re the only one.”
They put on their masks and stopped at a welcome tent where Isaiah was given his keys and name tag and asked to sign an agreement committing to follow the safety plan. Driving behind Jimmy, they continued onto the school’s pristine campus, rounding a shaded drive and parking in front of a tall, red-brick building draped in ivy.
As he and Isaiah readied to take up the first load of luggage, Nelba told her son she loved him. This wasn’t goodbye, Jimmy said. Isaiah would have to come back for the rest of his stuff.
“Well, I want a hug anyway, just as an insurance one,” she said, as her son put his right arm around her. “No, uh-uh. If you give me that one-handed hug ...."
Afterward, as she waited for them to return, Nelba felt an anguish, a deep one, but not for the reason she had anticipated when that email arrived in July.
“Ana should be here,” Nelba said, and she imagined her daughter saying goodbye to Isaiah, too, or maybe, instead, going with him. She would have been a high school freshman.
Isaiah and Jimmy came back down, and Nelba gave her son one more bottle of Lysol. He unloaded his sticks, and just as he started to pick up his hockey bag, his dad interrupted.
“Give your mom another hug,” Jimmy said.
“Is this the last one?” Nelba asked.
“Last one,” Jimmy said.
She took a quick breath and a half-step back, extending her hands out wide. This time, Isaiah put both arms around her.
“I want you to squeeze,” she said.
“Okay,” he said, smiling. “Bye”
“Bye,” Nelba said.
She let go.
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Indonesia expects to reach its tax revenue target this year for the first time in over a decade, as business activities recover from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Finance minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati told a media briefing on Thursday.
Indonesia is targeting tax revenues of 1,444.5 trillion rupiah ($101.26 billion) this year and the government had collected 953.6 trillion rupiah, or 78 percent of the target, by the end of October, Sri Mulyani said.
That was a rise of 15.3 percent from the same period last year.
“This reflects an economic recovery where businesses can now pay taxes again as their activities improved,†Sri Mulyani told the virtual briefing, added that higher commodity prices had also helped increase the amount of tax collected.
The higher revenues are a step toward fiscal consolidation by 2023, she said.
The government is aiming to bring down the fiscal deficit to below 3 percent of GDP in 2023 to comply with current law.
The deficit was 3.29 percent of GDP in January to October, Sri Mulyani said. The government is targeting a 5.7 percent of GDP deficit for 2021.
Finance Ministry senior official Luky Alfirman told the same briefing that the revenue collection might mean Indonesia will not have to sell bonds this year to finance the 2022 budget.
“Our budget condition is very good, so we may not do pre-funding, but we are not closing the door to this option,†he said.
Full-year economic growth in 2021 is expected to be between 3.5 percent and 4%, compared to an earlier estimate of 4 percent growth.
Third-quarter growth came in below expectations at 3.51 percent due to COVID-19 curbs in July and August, but Sri Mulyani said consumption was improving as the government eases mobility restrictions.
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Let me preface this post with a disclaimer before we jump into the fun: this lesson requires a lot of preparation and care to create, but after it’s done it works like a well-oiled machine and can easily be adapted for different grade levels by swapping out a few puzzles later on. Also, if it seems like there are a lot of steps here, that’s because this lesson is designed to take up a full 45 minutes of class time. Feel free to use the whole idea or trim it down for a fun warm-up!
Okay, let’s begin!
I love mysteries, and I like to center a lot of my classes on solving a mystery of some sort. I find that presenting some kind of interactive problem that needs an answer keeps students interested, and most importantly, gets them communicating and thinking in English (with a few incentives and/or penalties built in to keep up the good work). I was inspired to create an ESL escape room after thinking back to my own experiences with thrilling escape or puzzle games, and seeing similar ideas for native English classrooms online.
A lot of my students are afraid of making mistakes in English. Because of this, I wanted to create something they could really wrestle with, since struggling and making mistakes actually increases learning! (https://www.youcubed.org/think-it-up/mistakes-grow-brain/)
This was gonna be a challenge for me. How could I simultaneously get all 40 students to work together without finishing early, cheating, or just plain giving up? More importantly, how could I explain how the game even worked without confusing them?
I looked through my desk files in search of inspiration, and found a deck of playing cards, illustrated synonym and antonym cards, and instructions for a few English logic puzzles left over from past ALTs. I also had some white cardboard sheets at my disposal. Of course here, you can use whatever you’d like. It doesn’t affect the concept. I just like to utilize what I have on hand to create something new.
I chose a Secret Agent theme with the playing card symbols tying it all together. Then I created the other facets of the game during my free time at work (if I recall, this was during a break so I didn’t have a lot to do in the office otherwise, and I have a strict “don’t bring work home” policy for myself. However, I broke that rule just a lil’ bit later on when I asked my husband for help. It was completely unnecessary but super cool and worth it- you’ll see why later on haha.).
I got permission from my JTEs to use the Active Learning room at our school, which is a bit more spacious and has rounded tables. Of course a regular classroom is fine, but this was perfect because I divided the students into 8 different groups for this lesson, and needed a bit of space to lay out the puzzle materials and my laptop.
This is what they see when they enter the room:
The best way to describe how the lesson works is to explain it from the students’ perspective. So here we go!
First, students enter the room and see all the stuff laid out. I have a little bit of quiet background music playing (I really recommend the “Winter Soul” chillstep mix on Youtube. There are no words and it gradually alternates between low and high tempo, which created a cool atmosphere for the Escape Room). I don’t explain anything yet, but each group gets a piece of scratch paper with some helpful English phrases on it.
I start the timer as soon as the bell rings. I explain that the students will need these worksheets in order to survive and pause dramatically (they get a little curious at this point). They can write any notes at the bottom and if they need help, they must ask in English (otherwise no hints). Then we jump right in. I make a big show of the lock (which is quite large already), then attach it to the door with a “chain” ribbon and magnets.
If you didn’t already know this, I’m dramatic. At this point I let out one of those fake villain cackles and explain my evil plan to make them study English forever in this locked classroom. “You’ll never escape unless you can solve my English puzzles! Ahaha!”
Okay, so after we are done laughing, I explain that there are three levels. Level three holds the keys, and you need four keys to unlock the door (as you might guess, that means 2 teams end up working together at the end to get 1 key. Each team progresses through the levels at their own pace. Some teams are inevitably faster to solve puzzles than others, so when that happens they are assigned to help another team. This is good because the more experienced kids can teach the others what they know, and everyone stays busy throughout the class.).
Then I announce that each team will start at Level 1 by taking a small packet from the marked “CLASSIFIED” envelopes. I don’t give them any further instructions besides that to begin. As seen above, there are 4 CLASSIFIED envelopes marked with the 4 playing card symbols. Each folder contains 2 packets, so there are 8 packets total (1 for each team). Each team can freely pick whichever packet they like, and the corresponding symbol will now be their team symbol (heart, spade, club/clover, and diamond). Each packet contains important instructions for progressing to the next level (this lesson doubles as an activity for reading and following instructions correctly).
Each packet in level 1 contains a scrambled sentence that utilizes some grammar they have learned recently. These should be a challenge so that the teams don’t solve them right off the bat. I made each sentence about 12-13 words long. Each word has a random number or letter written behind it. If the sentence is correct, the correct secret code will be unveiled! If students are completely lost I get them on the right track (if they ask in English first, of course), but for the most part I want them to make a lot of mistakes. Notice that the instructions call for typing the secret code in a computer. This is the fun part I mentioned at the beginning. If you don’t have a computer available for your classes, you can just manually check their “code”, but this allows students to check themselves multiple times (and learn from their mistakes) in a cool way. It also doesn’t require the internet and anyone can use or share it!
“Hacking” into the Computer
I was telling Josh about my escape room plan one evening and how it would be cool to have some kind of system for students to automatically check themselves and get a real sense of accomplishment when they got it right. I envisioned a simple interface that gave the impression of hacking into a secret file on someone’s computer. To my surprise Josh said “why not?” and whipped up a sweet lil’ program with his coding skills. Despite his claims that something like this was ridiculously simple to code, I was over the moon! Lemme show you how it works!
Once they pass Level 1, I give them the corresponding file for Level 2.
Level 2 consists of 8 assorted English puzzles. 4 of them are pretty difficult, 4 of them are regular difficulty. If a team finishes level 1 really fast I give them a “difficult” one to even out the speed of the class, and to make sure everyone is equally challenged. These can be any kind of puzzles you like. I’ll show you a few of the ones I used.
Each puzzle results in a four digit code- if students don’t read the instructions carefully, they will try to type that code into the computer again to no avail. This time the team must search for the matching number code and symbol in a glass jar on the table. There’s only one correct answer for each puzzle, and lots of incorrect answers are stuffed into the jar to throw them off. If they can find the correct number slip in the glass jar, then it’s on to level three!
Once a team passes level 2 and has their number slip in hand, I direct them to the level 3 station and let them read the instructions. Notice the labels on the box “vaults” that contain the keys (for example “Heart”+”Diamond”=?). Here they realize that they will need another team with them to unlock the vault- if the required team is still stuck on a puzzle, they will help them. Once two teams have a number slip, they add them together with the calculator and show me the result. I am the vault guard, so I have all the correct sums written down under the index cards. If their sum matches my number, the vault is unlocked and they get the key (usually to a bit of cheering)! If it doesn’t match it, one of the teams got the wrong answer and should check their puzzle again!
This continues until all four keys are found. I announce to the class that my plans are foiled and they have successfully escaped the classroom! Everyone usually finishes with about 1-3 minutes left to spare (one time we finished with 5 seconds to spare- that was by far the most thrilling class haha), so use that time for classroom cleanup and have students return all of their puzzles (you don’t want to have anything come up missing in the next class!). If you have more time than that, you can start up a quick free talk activity or invite students to try out different puzzles. I was happy to see some of the teams eager to try another puzzle!
Sometimes, despite your help, students will run out of time and miss the last key. That’s okay too- but you should definitely laugh maniacally and tell them they will have to learn English forever now.
I hope you enjoyed hearing about my convoluted lesson plan! Like I said earlier, it’s a lot of work upfront but it’s self-sufficient in class! If you were inspired by this at all, I’d love to hear what you come up with! Oh, and if you’d like a copy of Josh’s nifty little “hacking” program, let me know! | <urn:uuid:23a2bcd8-067b-4a31-805a-7a82462f8279> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://meganekko.theabstract.me/2017/01/30/escape-the-classroom-lesson-plan/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.961509 | 2,191 | 3.046875 | 3 |
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After being put down numerous times by the school bully, Chris Snider seeks vengeance, and plans to put a stop to the bullies hurtful actions.
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Planting under trees poses the problem of trying to avoid big
roots. It's confounding because they are usually hidden below the
This tree has had its roots exposed so we can see the major
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the flares at the base of the trunk. They are a tree's most
important roots, for water collection and for stability. It's also
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impossible, since each tree has just 4 to 11 flare roots.
A tree like this is a great thing to study so you can picture
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JPEG image compression; Region-based variable quantization
In many useful applications, such as in the simulations industry and the biomedical field, certain regions and/or objects in an image are of greater interest to the user than others such as the terrain or the background information. This paper presents, for these types of applications, a region-based variable quantization scheme where the quantization granularity in different preselected regions of the image is varied at the discretion of the user. The techniques developed in this work are compatible with the popular JPEG Still Image Standard for compression of continuous-tone grey-scale and color images. Further, region selection techniques and algorithms that complement variable quantization techniques are presented. We introduce three masks: step, linear interpolated, and raised cosine interpolated, that control the transition in the quantization granularity between regions of different compression ratios in an image. The paper also includes a detailed discussion of simulation results using the proposed approach. When the techniques suggested here are used, the subjective visual quality considerably improves for comparable compression ratios of standard JPEG implementation, or equivalently, a higher compression ratio is achieved for the same subjective visual quality.
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Golner, Mitchell A.; Mikhael, Wasfy B.; and Krishnang, Venkatesh, "Modified Jpeg Image Compression With Region-Dependent Quantization" (2002). Scopus Export 2000s. 2622. | <urn:uuid:42a9e54e-aba2-45df-a790-f83f236a8f6f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stars.library.ucf.edu/scopus2000/2622/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.817312 | 453 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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WHEN: 10 September 2022, for around 2 weeks
WHERE: Starting in London and then spreading across the country – see more details below!
Life on earth is dying. Our rights are being eroded. Our homes and food are becoming unaffordable. The crisis is everywhere, and it’s happening now.
Join Christian Climate Action as we stand up for creation alongside our brothers and sisters in Extinction Rebellion this September.
SO WHAT IS THE PLAN? In a nutshell, the plan will centre people power and mass mobilisation at the heart, and be made up of the following 4 phases:
PHASE 1: During the week leading up to September 10th, there will be big, audacious actions focusing on Citizens Assemblies and our failing democracy. These will NOT be mass participation actions where everyone can take part. However, there will be a country-wide Paint the Streets campaign that everyone can take part in to promote September 10th. Link to get involved coming soon!
PHASE 2: From the 10th-12th September we invite everyone to join us in London for a 3 day festival of resistance. On the morning of Saturday 10th we will occupy a site and build it together from the ground up, filling the space with music, art, direct democracy and the tools and ideas of resistance and regenerative culture. From there there will be trainings in community mobilisation, and how to speak to people about Citizens Assemblies.
PHASE 3: After 3 days together in London, the Rebellion goes on the move for a period of regional mobilisation. Together we will launch our fleet of rebellion buses(!) which will travel the length and breadth of the country, visiting local groups to celebrate their work, offering tools and resources in mobilisation and CAs, and building a narrative across the movement and the country – that we’re all in this together and together we can get ourselves out of it. More coming soon!
PHASE 4: The final piece of the puzzle is still coming together. With an autumn of direct action from multiple groups on the cards, there’s plenty of ways to go out with a bang and work with other movements, setting us up for a period of growth and regeneration until the Spring. Watch this space!
More details to follow soon.
For more information visit the Extinction Rebellion website HERE.
This September we will reignite the urgent need to recognise the scale of this crisis, this is a moment of truth. We will hold out a torch for stopping the harm, it’s time to stop the flow of fossil fuels and start restoring biodiversity. We will stand up for the urgent need to shift to a better way of solving it, a shared dialogue that celebrates difference and upholds democracy. | <urn:uuid:047eec42-e13e-4403-a2b2-45fefc887594> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://christianclimateaction.org/2022/07/09/join-the-september-rebellion/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918905 | 565 | 1.59375 | 2 |
by Shirley Berlin Wilhjelm
Mary Elizabeth Lance was born in Scranton in 1902, one of six children of William and Elizabeth (Jones) Lance. She graduated from Hahnemann School of Nursing in Scranton in 1921 and began working as a surgical nurse at Hahnemann Hospital. She had wanted to become a doctor but gave up those plans when her sister-in-law became ill and money got thin. Katherine Lance was divorced from Mary’s brother William, and she and her five children lived with the Lance family on Green Ridge Street. When Katherine became ill Mary helped take care of her and her young cousins, the littlest of whom she called “my baby.”
On the Berlin side of the family, my great-grandmother was a Kresge and a sister of Sebastian Spering Kresge, founder of the S.S. Kresge five-and-ten-cent stores. The Kresge family had settled in Monroe County back in the 1740s, and that’s where my father, Allen Airly Berlin, was born in 1889. When he was a young man he went to his Uncle Sebastian and asked him for a job. He was told, “No, go and get an education first,” which he did, and he ended up becoming a doctor. He graduated from Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia in 1912 and came to Newfoundland to join Dr. Fletcher Gilpin’s practice. It was a good opportunity, and he eventually took over the practice.
When my father moved to Newfoundland his family came with him—mother, grandmother, aunt and uncle, and his young cousin Miriam Beers—and they all lived together in what everyone in town called the “big house.” He met my mother in the operating room at Hahnemann Hospital. She had a surgical mask on, of course, but he noticed her eyes and that started the big romance. They were married in 1925, and I was born two years later. Uncle Sebastian came to see me when I was born and brought me a book on the history of the Kresge family.
When Katherine Lance died in 1930 her three older children stayed with their grandmother in Scranton, and the two youngest, Almeda and Betty, came to live with my parents in Newfoundland. Almeda and Betty were like my big sisters when I was growing up. My mother was a very caring person. She would have to be to take two teenage girls!
My father didn’t drive a car. He hired different men to drive him on his rounds or when he was called out to see a patient. Being an RN, my mother worked alongside my father and helped with the patients. When Doc was out on a call she would get up in the middle of the night and go out to care for people. One time she was called out at twelve o’clock at night to help a little girl who had stomach pains. Mom traipsed up through snow that was up to her hips—nothing stopped her if you were sick. It took her two hours to get up to the house, take care of the little girl, and bring her down to the office. She saved that little girl’s life because she had an attack of appendicitis. She had to get Frey’s to take her to the hospital in the hearse—that was the “ambulance” in those days. Another time a little boy was working on a farm, and he was up on top of a wagon in a hay mow. Somebody pushed him and he came down on a pitchfork and it went through his mouth. He bled so much, but she saved him. She could have been a doctor!
My father died in 1932 when I was only five years old. He had gone out to see a patient in the wintertime and caught a cold, which quickly turned into pneumonia. There was no penicillin at the time, and within three days he had died. He left my mother a young widow.
After my father died my mother rented the house and office to Doctor Summers, and we lived in the apartment over the garage behind the house. Later, another doctor, Frank Uridel, came in to practice, and she rented the house and office to him until he built a new home and office farther up on Main Street. Mom decided to sell some of Doc’s medical equipment. Pharmaceutical salesmen always used to stop at the office, and one of these salesmen told my mother that Dr. Robert Christman in Lehighton would buy the X-ray machine. So she went down to Lehighton to find him and try to sell him the X-ray machine. He wasn’t interested in the X-ray machine, but he married my mother. They were married in 1934, and that’s how I got to Lehighton—Pennsylvania Dutch country. I was in the second grade.
It took them a long time to get everything moved down there. They moved a little bit at a time. My little brother Lewis came along about a year and a half after they were married. We lived in one of the nicest homes in Lehighton and had three cars in the garage. My mother wanted to send me to a private school, but I said no, Lehighton High School was good enough for my friends and it was good enough for me. I think I got a good education. I used to come back to spend summers with my cousin Miriam and her husband Charlie Ehrhardt.
My stepfather loved animals. We had chickens and roosters, and one time he brought a Billy goat home. This Billy goat would get out and wander around the neighborhood, and they would call my mom to come and get him. One time she was baking pies and the goat had gotten out and had my little brother pressed up against the garage door. He was hollering, and my mother went out with the pie dough all over her hands, and she just stood out there and laughed.
There were many times when I came home from school for lunch and I’d find a note on the table that she was out delivering a baby. Oh, yes, one day she delivered three—one in the morning, one in the afternoon, and one at night—because Doc was out making other calls and wasn’t available. The patients used to call our house to find out if she was going to be in the office that night, and if she wasn’t they wouldn’t come in.
She had gone to school in Philadelphia for a while to learn how to develop and read X-rays, so she did that for Doc Christman too. I remember when I was in high school, boys would get hurt during football games, some with broken bones, and the next thing you know they would be sitting in our backyard and she would be putting a cast on a leg or an arm. Another example occurred when a young child was brought in critical condition to the office. My mother discovered he had been playing with coins and immediately placed him on the X-ray machine, with his parents exclaiming, “But this was done at the hospital!” My mother put him in every conceivable position while Doc looked on, until he finally said, “There it is! We found a dime!” When my nephew broke his arm, she immobilized it so efficiently the doctors at the hospital asked, “Who did this?!”
She was also quite into real estate and that’s how she put me through college. She didn’t sell the house in Newfoundland, and around 1950 my stepfather decided to come up to Newfoundland to practice. They remodeled the house and by the time they were finished it had 28 rooms. Not long after they moved back to Newfoundland, Mother embarked on a new venture. She thought a nursing home was something that was needed in that area of the Poconos. She got bids from local contractors but thought they were too high, so she decided to be her own general contractor. She had acquired some experience in new construction when she lived in Lehighton. She drew up the plans for the building and submitted them to the state for approval. No changes were required.
She got a little Ford pickup truck and hired all the people who were going to be working there. I remember she had several big containers on the back of the pickup that she filled up with water every morning and took up for the men to drink when they were working. She and her friend Hilda Frey used to go to Philadelphia and bring back bricks and doors and windows and whatever else they needed. They’d always get all dolled up in their finery, their mink coats, and go out to lunch first, and then they’d bring back what they needed for the builders.
Holiday Hill Nursing and Convalescent Home opened in January 1962. It opened with two patients, but it wasn’t long before the place was full. She had a number of friends who were registered nurses, and she hired them to work there. One of the first was her childhood friend Hilda Frey, widow of Russell Frey. She and Hilda had grown up together as neighbors in Scranton and became lifelong friends. Emma Osborn was the first full-time cook, and there were many more to follow. My mother was proud to have established something worthwhile for the community and was pleased to be able to provide employment to many local people. She managed the home for several years before she retired in 1969. At one time there was a plaque in the lobby dedicated to her.
I remember my mother as being able to do just about anything. She could take a lamp apart, fix it and put it back together, or any electrical appliance. She made a coat for me on the sewing machine, and once she made slipcovers for a sofa bed in our sunroom and put up matching curtains. She loved to bake and was very good at pies. She could do whatever she put her hand to. And, of course, her nursing skills were legendary!
The only thing she couldn’t do was make a doctor out of me. She made a big mistake by promising my father when he was dying that she would make a doctor out of me. I told her later that if he had lived, he would want me to do what I would be happy doing. I took three and a half years of premed and hated every minute of it, but I loved my English courses. I finally convinced my mother to let me go ahead with my English degree, but I had to promise to go on to get my master’s degree. I graduated from Hiram College in Ohio in 1949, and have a graduate degree in English and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. I taught high school English in Ohio and New York for more than twenty-five years. I was the Junior Class advisor and put on the prom and raised the money to pay for it. You can’t imagine what those teenagers put me through, but I loved it! I retired in 1982 and still keep in touch with many of my former students.
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As the world emerges from the global pandemic, key markets across Africa are becoming increasingly attractive destinations for FDI and savvy investors stand to benefit – if only they could connect, write Kevin Nolan and Lambert Akwa of New York-based strategic communications firm KARV Communications.
Amidst a turbulent 2020 it has become even more clear – Africa needs investment and investors need Africa. For Europeans looking towards Africa, FDI has largely followed colonial ties, while China’s massive influx across the continent over the last decade was fuelled by the dual geopolitical objectives of securing raw materials and increasing its sphere of influence.
More recently, in an effort to further their own diversification measures, Gulf states have invested heavily and predominantly across energy and infrastructure megaprojects. Americans have become increasingly engaged as well, but their involvement is often perceived as both ad hoc and inconsistent.
Generally, there’s a need for those who seek to play a more active investment role to better understand the nature and range of opportunities on the African continent. This is especially pertinent in today’s global climate where the ongoing impact of COVID-19 has become a major impediment to investment priorities. The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) predicted that FDI inflows to Africa would rise in 2020, on track with trends from 2018 and 2019 when Africa’s FDI inflows increased by 11 per cent to US$46 billion. However, due to the spread of the coronavirus, the continent’s overall FDI inflows are expected to shrink by 15 per cent, with investments in energy, travel and tourism expected to be most hard-hit due to travel cancellations and bans.
This expected decline is of course a major concern. Yet given that the overall investment landscape across the continent is maturing rapidly, and in ways that are inherently unique to Africa, an appreciation for its nuances is crucial in order to keep up with growing opportunities.
Other challenges remain, to be sure. For example, potential investors and stakeholders across the continent have expressed frustration with seemingly incoherent and often contradictory policies by the likes of America’s current leadership on doing business in Africa. Enthusiasm for the Prosper Africa initiative, which aims to “unlock opportunities to do business in Africa” has been tempered by a travel ban impacting roughly a quarter of the population of Africa and disparaging remarks by President Trump.
Investments on the continent in the era of COVID-19 will surely require a more sophisticated understanding of each African nation – knowing the difference between Niger and Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Republic of Congo, is a good start. Yet as a number of key indicators suggest, investors that are willing to learn more about the dynamic and rapidly evolving continent will quickly be able to move beyond misconceptions, decipher real from perceived risks and identify lucrative opportunities blossoming across the continent.
New markets = new opportunities
While more traditional recipients of foreign direct investment on the continent, namely Egypt, South Africa and Morocco, continue to boast attractive returns across automotive, manufacturing and mineral extraction industries, closer examination of the continent will reveal that a number of ‘newer’ markets – and sectors – are proving to be attractive to global investors. Indeed, advancements in political, economic and legal reform have increased prospects for economic growth and the mitigation of risk often associated with investing in emerging African markets.
Notably, as a landlocked country with considerably less resources than some of its neighbours, Rwanda is looking to position itself as “the Singapore of Africa” through the creation of its Kigali Special Economic Zone and a sophisticated telecommunications sector that has gained the interest of Amazon, Facebook and Google. Togo has made great strides in ease of doing business, with the World Bank citing it as a top 10 reformer in the world, underscored by calls for additional investment across agribusiness in such industries as cashew and bamboo production. Similarly, Namibia, often dubbed “Africa’s optimist”, attracts foreign investors with a liberal investment framework and a commitment to becoming a global logistics hub, both of which have contributed to increased interest in its high-quality meat production and fishing industries.
Perhaps even more encouraging is the establishment of the groundbreaking African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), poised to be the world’s largest free trade agreement in terms of participating countries. As an inter-African single market for goods and services it will effectively stimulate production, streamline trade, liberalise tariffs and promote a breadth of promising investment opportunities.
Commitment to diversification
While scholars continue to debate whether the discovery of abundant extractable resources is ultimately a blessing or a curse on the long-term health of an emerging market, one fact remains irrefutable: governments across the African continent must prioritize economic diversification measures to decrease overdependence on commodities and mitigate their vulnerability to macroeconomic swings.
Among those who have made strides in incorporating more inclusive and durable growth are Angola, whose overdependence on oil – which accounts for roughly 95 per cent of its exports – has made it particularly susceptible to shifts in global commodity prices. New President João Lourenço has prioritised new fiscal thinking, including privatisation, structural reforms and investment incentives being put in place to attract interest in sectors with massive potential such as agriculture and real estate.
Similarly, recognising the need for a shift towards sustainability – and, crucially, job creation – a number of other markets across the continent, including Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal, have cited a need for early-stage capital for small-and medium-sized projects focusing on renewable energies.
While governments across the continent enact measures to foster entrepreneurial ecosystems conducive to small and medium size business growth, the private sector itself is playing an active role in driving diversification as well. Uprise Africa, an equity crowdfunding platform based in South Africa, has established a game-changing tool to raise capital for local businesses by connecting them with investors abroad.
Uprise Africa’s head of post-investment management Mmangaliso Nxumalo noted: “With a well-regulated platform, global investors are not only made aware of unique business opportunities on the continent, but can invest with greater confidence knowing that they can access the structure of the company, financial modelling, forecasts and social impact – all critical factors when determining whether an opportunity is right.”
Rise of the African megacity
As a result of organic growth, an ever-expanding youth bulge, rural to urban and inter-Africa migration, estimates suggest that by 2050 Africa will be home to fourteen megacities – those with a population of more than 10 million. Yet while city planners (and daily commuters) may cringe at the prospects of such rapid urbanisation, savvy global investors see opportunity, underscored by the World Economic Forum suggesting that the continent needs to spend between US$130 billion and US$170 billion annually to satisfy basic infrastructure needs.
From Lagos to Kinshasa, Dar es Salaam to Addis Ababa, swelling populations are a driving factor for the need for massive upfront investment to address decaying infrastructure, wheezing power grids and outdated waste management systems. Some argue that smart cities such as Cantonments City in Accra and Vision City in Kigali may be the way forward, in that they incorporate the latest innovations green architecture and engineering to address these critical issues.
Additionally, a number of governments with more sophisticated legal frameworks have recognised the value of combining public and private sector financing and expertise via large-scale public-private partnerships to implement forward thinking and sustainable megaprojects, such as Kenya’s Lake Turkana Wind Power project – Africa’s largest wind energy programme – or Tanger Med, now hailed as the pre-eminent public-private partnership that addressed port infrastructure deficiencies in the North African Kingdom.
Thinking beyond the safari
Perhaps no prospect is more encouraging for the future of FDI in Africa then the fact that foreign nationals and members of the African diaspora are increasingly travelling to the continent, largely driven by easing of visa processes, increased travel options and a desire for adventure. While for some Africa remains exotic, unsafe or unknown, those that have spent time on the continent will have seen potential beyond the safari and taken note of its business-friendly environment, vibrant city skylines bustling with cranes and construction, tech parks and incubators, world-class restaurants, shopping and buzzing nightlife, all powered by robust service industries. And, of course, opportunity for growth. In short, global investors are witnessing first hand that perceived risk is greater than actual risk.
Feeling connected to the continent is also critical for investors. Ghana’s successful “Year of Return” national showcase campaign in 2019, marking the 400th anniversary of the arrival of African slaves in America, saw the country welcome hundreds of thousands of visitors, including some big-name celebrities, top tier global media coverage and roughly US$2 billion added to the local economy.
Echoing this sentiment, Eche Emole, founder and CEO of Afropolitan Group, a San Francisco-based organisation dedicated to establishing meaningful connections between African American diaspora and Africa through music, events and organised trips to the continent, notes: “A number of investment-minded individuals have travelled with us and found that Africa welcomed them with open arms. These interactions can often lead to investments in key sectors such as real estate, healthcare and education. Our ultimate goal is for African Americans to serve as an informal VC fund for Africa, ideally where the investments are mutually beneficial.”
Bridging the gap
As argued before, companies and investors need to be well informed before navigating post-pandemic, sometimes uncharted investment territories, no matter how alluring, as culture and geopolitics – not to mention regulatory matters – vary significantly between countries in Africa. As such, communications consultancies are playing an increasingly strategic role helping investors connect with the right stakeholders across the continent. Whether looking to participate in a Series A round of funding of a Zambian startup or when formulating a market entry strategy to sell FMCG in Senegal, well-informed counsel and deep local knowledge is essential.
These consultancies are also helping African organisations across the public and private sector shape their brand and messaging to create compelling narratives and position themselves as attractive prospects – crucial when looking to connect with the right investors. Yet both investors and those who are looking for capital on the continent should feel confident knowing that the complexity of investing in Africa, even in the wake of COVID-19, is clearly outweighed by available opportunities. | <urn:uuid:8fcd0950-52b2-407a-a5db-af3587f6c9b3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://disrupt-africa.com/2020/07/22/opportunities-continue-to-outweigh-investment-in-africa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942901 | 2,186 | 1.835938 | 2 |
A new review article, “Plastic Pollution in the Arctic“, contends that high levels of plastic pollution (including microplastics) have infiltrated the Arctic and intensified climate change’s effects. Plastics from agriculture, hydrocarbon exploration, landfills, illegal dumping, industry, households, fisheries, offshore industry and other such sources are routinely carried to and within the Arctic by atmospheric and aquatic circulation systems. As plastics move through the Arctic, they gradually break down and release greenhouses gases, including methane and ethylene.
Is There Plastic In the Arctic?
Transported plastics from local and distant sources are broadly distributed throughout the Arctic. The United Nations estimates that approximately 150 million tons plastic debris may be scattered across the Arctic. Plastics are found on Arctic shores, in the water column, in sea ice and in the bodies of marine biota.
How Does Plastic Pollution Affect Marine Life?
Arctic wildlife are known to ingest, become entangled in or smothered by plastic debris. “Plastic Pollution in the Arctic” reports that Arctic species such as sculpin (Triglops nybelini), the northern fulmar (Fulmarus glacialis) and belugas (Delphinapterus leucas) have been found with plastic inside them. Plastic ingestion may even affect marine invertebrates like zooplankton in the east Canadian Arctic and the Fram Strait (a sea channel between Greenland and Svalbard). The review further reports that the organismal impacts of plastic infiltration to many endemic species remain largely unknown.
The Fundamental Links Between Climate Change and Marine Plastic Pollution In The Artic
Plastics drive climate change, in return, climate influences distribution of plastics. Also, both climate change and plastics have oil and gas origins. Plastics are derived from greenhouse gases (GHGs) and continue to release GHGs throughout their life cycles as they degrade. Plastics and microplastics are thus expected to increase ocean heat content (OHC). According to “Plastic pollution in the Arctic”, plastics could also promote glacial thawing by affecting their light absorbance, structure and rheological properties.
Circulation systems, including wind, ocean currents and freshwater river flows, continue to move plastics through Arctic ecosystems long after they are originally introduced. Physical impacts associated with climate change effect the concentrations and distribution of plastic in the Arctic. Sea level rise or higher poleward wind speeds from global warming could transport greater levels of plastic debris to Arctic ecosystems.
These interactions suggest that climate change and plastic pollution are mutually reinforcing. The Arctic may be more sensitive to the effects of ocean warming and plastic pollution than most environments because of its permafrost, snow and ice. Climate change strategies aimed at mitigating ocean warming, will have to account for the emissions from plastic sources as well. | <urn:uuid:d9f9d525-c051-4928-90ce-312ac12d9ef3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://climatechangeis.org/tag/ocean/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931517 | 583 | 3.703125 | 4 |
In case you’re thinking about structure an augmentation or another home, you’ll need to consider employing an architect. There are numerous points of interest to utilizing an architect for building thoughts, building plans and arranging consent. They don’t just think of your structure, a great architect can walk you through each phase of the structure procedure including administering the development and ensuring the contractual worker follows his arrangements. Obviously, your architect should be adaptable enough to address your issues whether it is just for building plans for a home expansion or the undertaking the executives of another home.
The Benefits Of An Architect
• An architect will work with you all through the plan procedure, to make an outcome that contains just the highlights you support.
• The architect will work with the spending you set up, and assist you with picking suitable materials and workmanship at reasonable costs that mirror your financial limit. That can incorporate helping you get offers for development and other provisional labor.
• Your architect will keep an eye out for your inclinations and ensure the undertaking is worked as it was planned. • An architect will plan your home or office space to exploit the nature condition, limit vitality utilize and join contemporary “green structure” standards.
• The architect will assist you with picking quality materials and completions that are both strong and suitable, giving a wide scope of decisions as opposed to restricting you to a few decisions or a bundle bargain.
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According to the latest data from the Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, incidents of backyard burglaries from sheds and garages is increasing. The issue is also highlighted in the ADT Security Secure Homes Report, which reveals nearly a quarter (24.3%) of those surveyed at some point had goods stolen from their home’s outdoor areas including sheds and garages.
While it can be easy to overlook these external areas when assessing your home’s security, the reality is thieves are often looking for the easiest way to gain access to your house and because sheds and garages often house items, such as tools or ladders, which they can use to break into your home, they can become a prime target.
Many new homes also have access doors that lead from the garage directly into the home, which perhaps aren’t as vigilantly locked as the traditional front door.
Take a look around your external storage areas. You may also be surprised at the number of valuable items they house. Sporting and camping equipment, power tools and irreplaceable collectibles are just some of the things that get moved outside to make extra space inside the home. The garage may even be set up as an entertainment zone with instruments, TV screens and popular gaming technology.
With summer almost upon us, we encourage you to review your external sheds and garages to ensure you don’t inadvertently invite a burglar into your home. Have the appropriate security in place to keep your outdoor storage items safe.
Here are some tips to keep in mind for outdoor storage:
Check the locks
- Make sure that your shed and garage are fitted with secure locks, preferably one that is unable to be cut with bolt cutters.
- Choose the best quality locks you can afford, such as sturdy padlocks or bolts.
- Check that shed doors and door hinges aren’t loose. Consider fitting them with coach bolts or non-returnable screws.
- Ensure that the shed doors are in good condition and strong enough to withstand attempted forced entry.
- If you have a garage that provides direct access into your home, consider an automated door that can also be locked remotely using a smart device.
Rethink the storage of valuable items
- Don’t leave items such as sharp tools, ladders or gardening equipment lying around as these can be used to gain access to your property.
- If possible, keep expensive items such as power tools and golf clubs inside the home. Alternatively store them in a locked cupboard or a bolted toolkit so they are out of sight.
- Extend your alarm system sensors to include detached areas such as sheds and garages.
Other practical tips
- Chain items such as bikes to each other or a strong anchor point.
- Label and record serial numbers of expensive property, such as gardening equipment or power tools, to make them less attractive to burglars, and allowing for easy identification if stolen.
- Make sure your household insurance covers your shed and garage contents.
If you have a home alarm system, consider extending it to include the shed and garage. Many people don’t think to protect these outdoor areas with an alarm system but if you’re one of those people who stores valuable items outside, the decision may prove to be a valuable investment.
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There are countless reasons why owning a dog is a great idea. They are truly special animals, and dogs can provide many health benefits. From reducing stress to promoting physical activity, owning a dog can positively impact your health. This post will explore some of the different health benefits you can get from owning a dog and what makes dogs so special. So if you are on the fence about getting a furry friend, read on to learn more about how a dog can improve your health.
Why Dogs Are So Special
Dogs have been loyal companions to humans for thousands of years, and there are many reasons why they are so special. For one, dogs are incredibly social creatures that form strong bonds with their owners. They are also very intelligent and can be trained to perform all sorts of tasks. But perhaps the most remarkable thing about dogs is their sense of smell. Dogs have up to 300 million olfactory receptors in their noses, which is about 40 times more than humans.
This allows them to detect odors at much lower concentrations than we can. As a result, dogs have been used for centuries to track down missing persons and illegal substances. In short, there are many reasons why dogs are so special. They are loyal friends, intelligent creatures, and have an incredible sense of smell. It is no wonder that they have been such a popular companion for so many years.
As special as dogs are, owning one has many health benefits. Let’s take a look at some of the different ways in which owning a dog can improve your health:
As any dog owner knows, there is nothing like coming home with a wagging tail and a warm welcome. Dogs are not only loyal companions, but they can also help to reduce stress levels. Numerous studies have shown that interacting with dogs can decrease the production of cortisol, the body’s primary stress hormone. In addition, dogs can help increase levels of oxytocin, a hormone known to promote feelings of happiness and relaxation.
Furthermore, dogs can provide much-needed companionship and assistance for those dealing with anxiety or depression. Many therapy programs now use dogs as part of their treatment plan. From providing comfort during difficult times to reducing stress levels daily, it is clear that dogs can profoundly impact your mental health.
Another one of the health benefits of owning a dog is that they can help combat loneliness. Dogs are social creatures by nature and thrive on companionship. When you adopt a dog, you are not only providing them with a loving home, but you are also gaining a loyal friend. Dogs have an uncanny ability to sense when their owner is feeling down and will go out of their way to provide comfort.
Studies have shown that people who own dogs are happier and feel less isolated than those who do not. In addition, dog owners are also more likely to interact with their neighbors and are more likely to get out and about, which can help to combat loneliness.
Promote Physical Activity
Owning a dog can have many health benefits, both physical and mental. One of the most obvious benefits is encouraging you to be more active. Dogs need to be walked, giving you a chance to get some fresh air and exercise. Even if you don’t have time for a long walk, playing with your dog in the park or backyard can be a great way to get moving.
And research has shown that people who own dogs are more likely to meet their recommended daily amount of physical activity than those who don’t. Furthermore, dog owners are also less likely to suffer from obesity. So if you want to be more active, owning a dog could be the perfect solution.
Improve Heart Health
According to the American Heart Association, owning a dog can have significant cardiovascular benefits. Walking a dog regularly can lower blood pressure and help to improve cholesterol levels. In addition, owning a dog has been linked to reduced stress levels and increased levels of physical activity. All of these factors can lead to improved heart health.
Studies have shown that dog owners are less likely to die from heart disease than those who do not own dogs. So, if you’re looking for a way to improve your heart health, consider getting a furry friend. Not only will you be getting some great exercise, but you’ll also be gaining a loyal companion.
Enhance Cognitive Function In Seniors
As people age, it’s not uncommon for them to experience some decline in their cognitive function. This can manifest in memory loss, difficulty concentrating, and even confusion. Fortunately, there are ways to help slow down or even reverse this cognitive decline. One of them is by owning a dog.
This is likely because taking care of a dog requires seniors to engage in activities that help keep their minds active and sharp, such as learning new commands, going for walks, and playing games. In addition, spending time with a dog can also help reduce stress and improve mood, both of which can contribute to better cognitive function. So if you’re concerned about your cognitive health as you age, consider getting a furry friend.
Helps Children Develop Emotionally
Pets have been shown to provide several health benefits for their owners, from reducing stress to promoting physical activity. However, they can also play an important role in the emotional development of children. Dogs, in particular, can teach children responsibility, empathy, and other important life skills. Numerous studies have shown that children who grow up with dogs are more likely to be well-adjusted and successful later in life.
In addition to providing companionship and unconditional love, dogs can help children learn how to care for others and develop a sense of compassion. As such, owning a dog can be an invaluable experience for both children and adults.
Start Reaping The Health Benefits Of Owning A Dog!
There are many different health benefits of owning a dog. From combating loneliness to improving heart health, there are numerous ways in which dogs can improve your health. So if you’re looking for a way to improve your health, consider getting a furry friend. You might be surprised at how much of a difference they can make.
Just keep in mind that if you decide to get a pup, be sure to do your research to find the perfect fit for you and your family. And try to consider adoption first – millions of dogs in shelters across the country would love to have a home. So why not give one of them a chance? You may just end up with a loyal friend for life. | <urn:uuid:b0665625-2261-4c4e-bd5f-5cc590ac0e42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://healthtipsnow.net/health-benefits-of-owning-a-dog/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.96632 | 1,329 | 2.78125 | 3 |
While software development methods, technologies, and perspectives have changed over the years, the actions and responsibilities of developing scalable and high-performance software have not. Any software development project must follow the strict steps of the Software Development Life Cycle or SDLC. In this post, we shall discuss the different stages of software development to help you understand the entire process.
But first, what is Software Development Life Cycle?
Software development is the process of creating and maintaining software applications. It encompasses various activities, including requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, and documentation. The software development life cycle (SDLC) is a framework organizations can use to manage the software development process.
The SDLC provides a structured approach to software development, with each stage flowing smoothly into the next. The six main stages of the SDLC are planning and requirements gathering, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance. By following the SDLC, organizations can ensure that their software development projects are completed on time and within budget. Additionally, the SDLC can help to reduce risks associated with software development, such as scope creep and poor quality code. With that said, let’s look into the different stages of software development in detail.
Planning and Requirements Gathering
The first stage of the SDLC is planning and requirements gathering. In this stage, the project team works to define the goals and objectives of the project. They also identify the stakeholders who will be involved in the project and any risks that could potentially impact the success of the project. Additionally, the team will develop a high-level project plan that outlines the project’s major milestones.
After the project goals and objectives have been defined, the team will begin to gather requirements. Requirements gathering is a process by which the team collects information about what the software must do. This can be done through interviews, surveys, workshops, and other methods. It is important to note that requirements gathering is an ongoing process that should continue throughout the project.
Once the requirements have been gathered, they need to be documented. The requirements document will serve as a roadmap for the project and will be used to guide the team through the remainder of the SDLC.
The second stage of the SDLC is design. In this stage, the team will create a detailed plan for how the software will be developed. This plan will include information such as the architecture of the software, the database schema, and the user interface. Additionally, the team will develop prototypes of the software during this stage.
The Dallas software development experts, Entrance, say that it is important to note that the design stage is not only about the technical aspects of the project. The team will also need to consider the non-functional requirements of the project, such as performance, security, and scalability. Additionally, the team will need to create a plan for how the software will be tested.
This is the third stage of software development. In this stage, the team will begin to write the code for the software. The code will be written following the design document from the previous stage.
It is important to note that coding is not just about writing code. The team will also need to consider code quality and maintainability issues. Additionally, the team will need to create unit tests for the code. Unit tests are small pieces of code that test the functionality of individual units of code. Once the team has completed the coding stage, they will move to the testing stage.
Testing is the fourth stage of software development. In this stage, the team will put the software through a series of tests to meet the requirements. These tests can be divided into two categories: functional testing and non-functional testing.
Functional testing is used to test the functionality of the software. This can be done using manual testing or automated testing. Manual testing is where a human tester will execute the test cases. Automated testing is where a piece of software will execute the test cases.
Non-functional testing is used to test the non-functional requirements of the software. This can include performance testing, security testing, and scalability testing. Once the Dallas software development companies have completed the testing stage, they will move on to the deployment stage.
The fifth and final stage of the software development process is deployment. At this stage, the software is ready to be released to production. The team will first need to create a deployment plan. This plan will outline the steps to be taken to deploy the software. Additionally, the team will need to create a testing plan. This plan will be used to test the software in production.
Once the software has been deployed, the team will need to monitor it. This can be done by logging errors and monitoring performance metrics. Additionally, the team will need to provide support for users. This can be done through a help desk or online forum.
Maintenance is the process of keeping the software up-to-date. This can include adding new features, fixing bugs, and improving performance. Maintenance can also make the software compatible with new hardware or software.
It is important to note that maintenance is an ongoing process. The team will need to continuously monitor the software for new issues. Additionally, the team will need to provide support for users. This can be done through a help desk or online forum.
The software development process is a series of steps used to create and maintain software. These steps can be divided into six stages: planning, design, coding, testing, deployment, and maintenance.
It is important to note that the software development process is iterative. This means that the team will go through all stages multiple times. Each time they go through the process, they will change and improve the software. The end goal is to create a high-quality piece of software that meets the users’ needs. | <urn:uuid:77c7f378-dfbf-4729-a36e-f4df7b2732bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://w-se.com/the-different-stages-of-software-development/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.937332 | 1,196 | 3.140625 | 3 |
Iodine is essential for thyroid hormone synthesis. Individuals adhering to vegan and vegetarian diets have been found to be vulnerable to iodine deficiency. Yet, iodine has not been monitored in these groups across time. This study aims to investigate iodine status, intake and knowledge in vegans, vegetarians, and omnivores and determine changes between 2016-17 and 2019.
Dietary intake (µg day−1) was estimated by three-day food diaries (FD), and iodine food frequency questionnaires (FFQ). Urinary iodine concentration (UIC), analysed by ICP-MS, assessed iodine status according to World Health Organisation (WHO) criteria. Iodine knowledge was scored by an adapted questionnaire. IBM SPSS was used for statistical analysis.
Ninety-six adults (18-60 y) were recruited in October 2016-17 (vegans; 12, vegetarians; 5, omnivores; 43) and June 2019 (vegans; 7, vegetarians; 10, omnivores; 19). Median dietary iodine was below the Reference Nutrient Intake (RNI) for all groups. Vegans and vegetarians had the lowest iodine intake. Vegans had significantly lower iodine intake than omnivores (2016-17; P = 0.032, 2019; P = 0.001). Omnivores had the highest iodine status (2016-17; 79.4 µg L−1, 2019; 72.4 µg L−1), and vegans the lowest (2016-17; 31.2 µg L−1, 2019; 12.2 µg L−1). Iodine knowledge was poor, but did not differ between dietary groups (2016-17; P = 0.219, 2019; P = 0.532).
Vegans and vegetarians continue to be at risk of iodine deficiency. Further, iodine intake in the UK is poor independent of dietary choice. Iodine education is needed along with, research into improving iodine nutrition at national level. | <urn:uuid:6fa67361-3906-4d98-8d8d-eaa367a5b8eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://core-cms.prod.aop.cambridge.org/core/search?filters%5Bkeywords%5D=vegetarian | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954632 | 418 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Legal jargon and terms can appear complex and confusing to most people and businesses. One such cause of confusion is the lack of understanding of intellectual property and trademark legal terms. It's not uncommon for a business to misunderstand or confuse one with another, resulting in losing rights to the property they thought they still owned.
Key Facts to Know About Intellectual Property
Trademarks, industrial designs, trade secrets, patents and copyrights are all included under the umbrella of intellectual property rights. It is essential to understand that each of these provide protection for different things and protection is granted in different ways.
Your invention is at risk of being used by someone else unless you have a patent. The look of your product can be protected by an industrial design. For these types of protection, filing appropriate applications is the only way to protect your assets.
Basic trademark rights are available after you start using a trademark or have filed a trademark application. While a trademark registration is not a requirement for protection, it is highly recommended as it provides greater protection than simply using the trademark does.
As soon as an artistic work is created, copyright protection comes into existence.
Trade secrets can only provide protection as long as they remain secret.
A registered patent and trademark agent can help you develop a strategy to protect the different types of intellectual property you may have.
Key Facts to Know About Trademarks
Trademarks are divided into two kinds - registered trademarks and unregistered trademarks. Registered trademarks provide protection across the country and requires the owner to successfully meet all of the requirements of the trademark registration process. In contrast, an unregistered trademark is created by simply using the trademark in commerce. Unregistered trademarks can only provide protection in the geographic area in which the brand has become known. This means that people in other areas in which you are not known can also use the same trademark on similar goods and services. If you own an unregistered trademark, you cannot sue a third party for trademark infringement, you are limited to an action of passing off. Only the owners of registered trademarks can sue a third party for trademark infringement. The legal tests associated with passing off and infringement are different, a registered trademark gives you more options if you need to stop a third party from using your trademarks.
How Different Types of Intellectual Property Overlap
A single piece of intellectual property can be protected by more than one type of intellectual property. For instance, a unique artwork that is protected by copyright may become a trademark. Or, a unique design of a patented invention may be protected by an industrial design. There can very well be other overlaps that can happen.
Businesses are known to miss opportunities to protect some of their intellectual property. Get in touch with our team for guidance in protecting your intellectual property.
Consulting a trademark lawyer or agent and getting advice on these complex issues can help prevent loss of rights or avoidable legal problems. | <urn:uuid:8c056d36-27b5-4ad2-b285-2bcbce1cef97> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.trademarkspatentslawyer.com/blog/difference-between-trademark-intellectual-property | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.931007 | 586 | 2.609375 | 3 |
When it comes to using expert witnesses, there is much to be said for working together.
According to the Hon Justice Peter McClellan, Chief Judge at Common Law Supreme Court, concurrent evidence is “a discussion chaired by the judge in which the various experts, the parties, the advocates and the judge engage in a co-operative endeavour to identify the issues and arrive where possible at a common resolution of them. Where resolution of issues is not possible, a structured discussion, with the judge as chairperson, allows the experts to give their opinions without the constraints of the adversarial process and in a forum which enables them to respond directly to each other. The judge is not confined to the opinion of one adviser but has the benefit of multiple advisers who are rigorously examined in public.”
The role of an expert witness in litigation is to assist the decision-maker in fact-finding by applying specialised knowledge to the evidence and proffering an opinion on the issues in dispute. The complexity of this task is often exacerbated by the fact it is a retrospective inquiry, and the evidence presented often is inconsistent or critical facts are disputed. It is not surprising, therefore, that differences of opinion are likely to arise.
Where this happens, a joint report of experts arising from a private meeting, or conclave (usually a precursor to concurrent evidence if the matter proceeds to hearing), is able to provide short reasons for matters of disagreement by excluding lengthy discussion on the applicability of agreed literature, for example. Short reasons for matters of disagreement established in the expert conclave have the potential to streamline the evidence adduced from experts in court as well as aiding settlement negotiations. Those efficiencies can be furthered by the concurrent evidence process in the courtroom.
From an expert’s perspective, under the traditional procedure, cross-examination provides limited opportunities for an expert to provide detailed explanations outside the confines of the questions. The questions may concentrate on points regarded as peripheral or irrelevant by the expert at the time of questioning. The point of a particular line of questioning may not be immediately apparent to the expert until it is too late, by which time the opportunity to recover lost ground may not present itself.
Another disadvantage is that each expert presents their evidence sequentially, and it could be days or even weeks between examinations. Expert evidence should deal with all relevant matters and should be presented in a well-considered manner, with appropriate weight given to each component of the opinion. There is no doubt that the cross-examination process leaves experts dissatisfied with the manner in which their opinions have been distorted or unbalanced as a result of emphasis on trivial or minor points of interpretation.
Concurrent evidence has the potential to allow expert evidence to be more useful to the court by enabling the experts to question the evidence of the other experts as it unfolds during cross-examination or commentary.
A further benefit of concurrent evidence is that the dynamics in court tend to reinforce the precept that an expert’s role is to assist the court. This is partly a matter of atmospherics and partly a result of the weakening of the traditional adversarial feeling engendered by cross-examination in which the expert may be influenced to defend the opinions rather than concede points that should be conceded.
The success or otherwise of concurrent evidence depends on the judge’s approach and court management. The mechanics of the concurrent evidence vary, depending on the differing approaches of judges. In some cases, the two or three experts will be asked to sit at the bar table, with counsel moving to the side. In other cases, the judge may leave the bench to sit at the bar table, next to the experts. In some cases the experts sit together at the witness stand. If numerous experts are involved, they may sit together behind the bar table or to the side, depending upon the available space and furniture arrangements.
Depending upon the system established by the judge, elements of traditional cross-examination by counsel may be retained within the concurrent evidence process. In some cases, the judge invites experts to comment on answers given by other experts during cross-examination.
From an expert’s point of view, an advantage of concurrent evidence is that the expert is able to provide an immediate critique of the other expert’s evidence. No matter how skilled and well prepared counsel may be, it is unlikely they will be as well-equipped as an expert to test all technical aspects of the evidence on the run. In traditional cross-examination, an expert may be able to pass notes to counsel or make sotto voce comments to counsel with explanations or suggestions for further questions, but that process has its limits. In concurrent evidence, there is the possibility of experts directly commenting on and questioning the evidence of other experts.
In summary, the potential advantages of a conclave followed by concurrent evidence are:
- Refinement of areas of difference, with streamlined reasons for the differences in the joint conclave report stripped of the detailed explanations common in individual reports.
- In court, concurrent evidence provides the opportunity for that exchange of opinions to be continued under the surveillance of the judge, with the assistance of modified cross-examination segments in which experts are able to intersperse their comments and questions.
- In time, apart from potential efficiencies in the hearing itself (partly or wholly offset by costs incurred in preparation for and conduct of the conclave), a significant benefit in the processes of conclave and concurrent evidence may be reinforcement in the minds of experts of the precept that their purpose is to assist the court. | <urn:uuid:9dd43e4d-a30e-4cec-86eb-901e80bef07d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lsj.com.au/articles/the-case-for-concurrent-evidence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.957902 | 1,123 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Environment Minister encourages businesses to recycle more
Environment Minister Edwin Poots has met with senior management at McKinstry Skip Hire Limited in Crumlin to see at first hand the company’s investment and development work with regards to recycling.
McKinstry specialises in waste management, recycling of household, business and commercial waste, skip hire, bio-waste and metals recycling.
The company continually investigates all global recycling markets to identify alternative outlets for their customer’s waste products, such as paper and cardboard, metals, plastics and biomass.
Renewable energy is a crucial facet of the business and in recent years the company has invested heavily in new ways to recycle. A decade ago, McKinstry was taking 90% of all the waste collected to landfill, currently over 90% of waste is now being recycled and reused and the company’s ambition is to move towards being a true ‘zero waste’ business.
Welcoming this, Minister Poots said, “Recycling benefits our environment, our businesses and our local economy and I congratulate McKinstry on their investment and efforts to become a 'zero-waste' company.
“Minimising waste and maximising the value of that waste boosts our local economy and I’d like to see more and more businesses in Northern Ireland being innovative and proactive to grasp the momentum behind recycling.
“I recently consulted on what the future of recycling might look like in Northern Ireland and I thank everyone who contributed. I will be publishing a summary of responses in due course and considering how to further increase the good work that has been done on recycling here.” | <urn:uuid:da8c93ee-4e34-4fec-a47c-b5b8cc7af4f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.loveballymena.online/post/environment-minister-encourages-businesses-to-recycle-more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948614 | 342 | 1.632813 | 2 |
I was just thinking about this problem the other day. The solution that I allowed myself to accept was based on the idea of experience. These heroes are interacting with characters and challenges that make them more experienced over time, allowing them to overcome greater challenges in the future. I will give two possible solutions, the latter of which is actually a very old solution.
One is that you treat every encounter and challenge as a single instance of experience. While you might gain say, social acumen, by growing up with your family. There is only so much you can get by overcoming the same 'encounter' over and over again. If you left the nest thinking yourself to be a social expert because you've won the argument with your sister over how to divide the tv schedule for 100th time, you will quickly find that it didn't prepare you for the outside world. An encounter, once it has entered into some form of completion where the obstacle that encounter represented is no longer there, can give experience once (whether you want the experience to be awarded after the first instance, or at the end of the process is up to you, note that if players are tallying their EXP after every combat, they may suspect that the NPC's they scared away might come back if you don't award them the experience for that combat).
Based on this interpretation, I would consider the listed EXP on a monster to be all the experience they can provide to an individual over a lifetime, whether it is awarded all at once or not, whether it is awarded for combat or not.
A second possible measure is using some sort of gauge as to the success of the players as adventurers. Did the players get something out of finishing the combat or solving the puzzle? Sometimes that reward is not dying, at other times it is getting some favor or a sum of gold. Like the previous example, I can provide an irl justification for this method. If someone is very determined in their job to get more customers, and tries 30 solutions to do so, it is very likely that this person's understanding of the issue was fundamentally wrong. If experience is in fact practical wisdom applied to achieve a goal, then the achievement of goals itself is a direct measure of a character's experience.
For adventurers, a metric to consider would be the acquisition of gold - whether or not the character decides to take it or not. This is the method of gaining experience in Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, 1st Edition. If the players scared the goblins away, but aren't able to save the prisoner or find the treasure chest because the threat of the goblins are still there, and they've blocked up the passage - have the characters really learned something from the experience? (plenty of people would say yes, no worries, you wont offend me by disagreeing).
The solution I would propose is not a direct gold to EXP as was present, but rather awarding EXP for the encounter when the 'dungeon' or 'area' is finished and the players have their reward. The value of the 'area' would be equal to the total exp of the monsters and challenges within, perhaps with some bonus from miscellaneous goals or treasure. If they can talk their way through the goblins and stealth the goals and gold away from the hideout, then I would award the full exp value of the dungeon. However, if they are missing something, I would decrease proportionally.
Having tried this in the past, I settled on making a list of things present in the dungeon (treasure, plot hooks, macguffins, favors, information and other rewards), and giving players a letter grade based on how many they found - then rewarding that percentage of the dungeon experience (Complete=100% A=90%, B=80%, C=70%, D=60%, F=50%, E=30%, Abandoned=0%).
On a personal note, I am currently running a combination of Lost Mines of Phandelver and Keep on the Borderlands (where the Cave of the Unknown = the Cragmaw Hideout), I have been very simply awarding 1 experience point for each gold piece and experience points for each monster they kill or 'resolve'. Resolve meaning that that monster is no longer relevant in any way to the game, and wont come back, appear, or even be present if the players choose to come back to an old dungeon. In all 3 cases, I would award EXP for those goblins only once.
I hope that helps! | <urn:uuid:9ebab26a-1e22-4d5b-87c6-c06e108116e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/133483/how-should-xp-be-awarded-for-an-encounter-when-enemies-flee-get-intimidated-or | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972473 | 910 | 1.5 | 2 |
Professor Mitchell Owen
Design Studio 4
This project was to design multi-family housing based on a precedent study. The precedent I analyzed was the Shindler House designed by Rudolph Schindler. This Los Angeles home was designed to house multiple families and change with a system of sliding walls to create more private spaces if necessary.
Based on an experience that I had as a teenager, I wanted to design a multi-family home that could be used for home-stays. A home-stay is when a traveler stays with a local family in a new environment to fully experience the culture, rather than staying in a commercial setting.
To accomplish this, I wanted to create three homes within one house, maximizing communal spaces. Shared spaces include a large kitchen and multiple lounges. These spaces occur when two separate family areas come together. This home was designed for two permanent families and one visting family. This way, if one permanent family is not present, there is another local family to host the visitors. | <urn:uuid:520ba659-fc17-4ea0-8eb9-834699c2ac8c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://b.parsons.edu/~lesna397/project/villa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.967038 | 213 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The UK would be first in line for a coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University if it was proven to be effective, Downing Street has said.
It comes after reports Donald Trump is considering granting emergency authorisation for it to be deployed in the US.
The vaccine is being developed by Oxford scientists and pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca.
A Number 10 spokesman said: “We have been clear that we will only roll out a vaccine once it is deemed safe and effective by our regulators.”
The UK Government has struck a deal with AstraZeneca to get “first access” to it once approved, the spokesman said.
“AstraZeneca have entered into a number of agreements with other countries, they have the global licensing agreement with Oxford, but we have been clear: once it has been found to be effective, we have signed a deal for 100 million doses which means that once it is effective the UK will get first access,” the spokesman added.
Commenting on the prospect of the vaccine being fast-tracked in the US, England’s deputy chief medical officer Dr Jenny Harries said that everyone around the globe should have “fair and safe access to vaccine development”.
Dr Harries told Sky News: “We have a global crisis… It is really important that everyone around the world has fair and safe access to vaccine development.
“Obviously those countries which are more developed have the facilities to develop the vaccine and get it safely out to their populations. But I think all public health colleagues would be wanting fair distribution.”
Commenting on the reports of the White House plan to fast-track the vaccine ahead of the US election, Danny Altmann, professor of immunology at Imperial College London, said: “It should be incredibly disturbing to the global medical community to see any potential attempts by any politicians, whether in Russia, the USA or elsewhere, to seek to manipulate, short-circuit or exert influence in any way over the agreed scientific protocols that are in place to carefully evaluate comparative safety, immunogenicity and efficacy of vaccines.
“In decades to come, we won’t remember which politician polled a few more or less votes, but we really won’t forget any failed opportunities to put in place the safest most effective possible global programmes to eradicate this pandemic.”
Meanwhile, Mr Trump also announced the emergency authorisation of convalescent plasma for Covid-19 patients in the US.
But NHS officials said that the plasma studies which have emerged from America are “not conclusive”.
The study, led by the Mayo Clinic, indicated that patients treated early – within three days of diagnosis – with convalescent plasma which has high levels of antibodies had an improved chance of survival.
NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT), which is supporting the British convalescent plasma research, said that randomised controlled trials are the “gold standard” and the ones published in the US are observational studies.
Research in the UK is assessing whether convalescent plasma donations can be transfused into patients who are struggling to develop their own immune response.
If you've recovered from #COVID19, please consider donating blood plasma to support clinical trials in the fight against the virus.
Your antibody-rich plasma could help other #coronavirus patients.
— NHS Blood+Transplant (@NHSBT) August 6, 2020
The plasma from former patients is hoped to be rich in the antibodies that develop as a person recovers from an illness.
It is transfused into people who are seriously ill with Covid-19 and struggling to develop their own antibodies.
If the trial is successful, being treated with convalescent plasma could become a widespread practice in hospitals.
Commenting on the US convalescent plasma news, an NHSBT spokesman said: “NHS Blood and Transplant is already collaborating with the wider NHS on world-leading treatment trials of convalescent plasma.
“The observational studies coming from America are promising and support the need for people to continue to donate convalescent plasma in England. However, they are not conclusive.
“Randomised control trials are the gold standard for determining the effectiveness of a new treatment. The UK is leading the world in setting up randomised controlled trials for Covid-19 convalescent plasma.
“We need people who have recovered from Covid-19 to offer to convalescent donate at nhsbt.nhs.uk.”
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The main different characteristics of life.
The differences between elements and compounds.
Different steps in the Calvin Cycle.
The different steps in the Krebs Cycle.
The different steps in mitosis.
The different steps in meiosis.
The different scales of evolution.
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Welcome to the Morrison Lab!
Caption: Morrison Lab Circa October 2021 in Manhattan, KS.
We are a group of researchers investigating the behavioral and chemical ecology of insects after harvest. After harvest, producers lose 10-30% of their commodities to damage by post-harvest insects through the storage, transportation, processing, and marketing of products before they reach the hands of consumers. The post-harvest commodity chain represents hundreds of billions of US dollars in value (think of everything from on-farm storage of bulk commodities to finished products in retail stores). We are focused on developing economical and sustainable tactics for diversifying management of stored product insects that will provide safe and healthy products. Our research explores how we can develop robust integrated pest management programs from farm to fork.
Caption: Lesser grain borer damaging a rice kernel
If you are interested in working in the Morrison Lab, please contact the head of the lab (Dr. Rob Morrison) by sending an email with your research interests and current CV to william.morrison “at” usda [.] gov.
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Dawn Starin reports on the state of colobus civilization in a small Gambian forest.
No matter how deep I am in the forest the sounds of humanity seep through, constantly reminding me that the Abuko Nature Reserve – a mosaic of habitats, a home for the endangered red colobus monkeys and various other species – is simply a tiny forest, smaller than Central Park in New York or Hyde Park or Hampstead Heath in London.
Dogs barking, cocks crowing, donkeys braying, grain being pounded, axes being wielded: the sounds of the bordering villages come wafting across the savannah and deep into the riverine forest. On Sunday mornings I hear church bells ringing and choirs singing. On Fridays at two in the afternoon I hear Muslim prayers being recited over a loudspeaker. And on most holidays and weekend afternoons I hear radios and cassettes; and drums, whistles and cheering when football matches are held.
This is merely a forest blip in a small, finger-shaped country on the coast of West Africa. It’s also where I straddle two worlds. Every day I have one foot in one world, one foot in another – one foot in the people world, one foot in the monkey world. Most of the time both worlds collide and confuse me.
People here, especially women, rarely enter the forest. I was, and still am, considered slightly mad for spending so much time in the “not safe bush” on my own. I am frequently asked “Don’t you get scared in Abuko?” “Shouldn’t someone come with you?” “Wouldn’t it be better if you took a guard with you?” “You could be attacked. Do you have special powers to protect you from the snakes?” “The forest is full of djinns. Do you have special jujus to protect you from the djinns?” A local wood-carver, tells me that “only white people can go into the bush alone. Black people see things and hear things there that make them go crazy in the head.”
According to one of the forest rangers, ‘Toubobs’ (whites) and African people are different: “Our skin and our blood is stronger than you, and we are better at smelling and hearing and feeling, and that is why we know there are djinns and you don’t know. If you have the right kind of ears and the right kind of nose you can hear and smell the djinns. Black man kind, not Toubob kind. I don’t know how you can be in the forest so long and never see or hear or feel djinn. Do you sometimes have the hair move on your head and stand up and the heart goes thump’cause you meet something different than you?” When I tell him, “The only time my hair stands up and my heart goes thump is when I’m surprised by a snake,” the ranger takes his finger, puts it on my eyelid and says, “I don’t think you really see anything with these. I don’t know how you can say you know Abuko and the monkeys and the pythons if you don’t know how to use these. It is not what you look at; it is what you see that is important. You do not understand that what you think you see is sometimes not what is there. You have to learn to see. You are too much inside your books and papers and not inside the forest.”
But in spite of all the warnings I feel safe in the forest. It is my haven, my shelter. For me there is nothing to fear. There are no large predators in the forest. They were killed off decades ago. The only possible animal danger comes from snakes. I’m cautious, I look before I leap – sometimes I even stomp and hum outloud to warn any pythons, cobras, mambas, or puff adders of my approach. Yet I actually relish my snake sightings. In fact, I never really feel as though my day has been completely satisfying unless I have a slightly scary serpentine encounter. Potentially the most frightening thing in the forest is that nothing will happen and that I could get bored. I have an almost pathological terror of being bored. So far that hasn’t happened.
Sitting under a tallo tree, swatting away the mosquitoes and the tsetse flies, squashing ticks between my thumbnails, a red colobus soap opera is unfolding in 3-D Technicolor above my head. The members of two opposing troops – mostly the males – are chasing each other back and forth through the branches and down to the ground. While the subadults and adults call, threaten, display at and chase each other, squealing infant males follow closely behind, forming a cheerleading squad. The infant males follow so closely behind that the older males trip over them during the chase. A young oestrous female [sexually receptive] is attempting to switch troops, and both sides are vying for her uterus, the future home of the next generation. If a high percentage of females transfer on the same day things can get a bit chaotic, but in the long run transfers have little effect on troop size and composition, since females who have left are gradually replaced by females from other troops. However, this does mean that the genetic composition of the troop changes continually.
When different red colobus troops engage in hostilities, the winning troop does not permanently take over the loser’s territory: the winners simply move in for a while – maybe only an hour – use some of the resources, then leap off. The winners do not capture mates. Young females are not kidnapped or dragged off screaming and yelling. Neither are they evicted from their birth troop. They simply move between troops at will. Then another day dawns and another encounter occurs. Winners become losers and losers become winners.
Such small-scale hostility works well. Resources are occasionally shared and potential breeding females are swapped. There is definitely competition, but the combatants do not wage war. There is no pillage, no hoarding of resources. There is no rape. Instead, alliances are created and dissolved, friends are made and lost, altruism is promoted, selfishness is encouraged, wealth is redistributed, rivals are vanquished, self-esteem is lost and self-esteem is gained: a typical intertroop encounter is similar to many human encounters. All of our so-called virtues and our so-called evils, our strengths and weaknesses, our warts and foibles and joys and sorrows – many of the very key factors behind our – humanity’s – evolutionary success – are also part of what makes a colobus a colobus.
Sometimes when I watch the colobus I’m swamped with intellectual dread and confusion. I know that we share a very, very distant family history, and I know that what makes us human is not uniquely human. Murder, compassion and morality stem from our common past. But – and there’s always at least one but – the colobus’ behaviour and their raison d’etre is often beyond me.
There are so many times when I have no idea what they think or feel. My imagination is bankrupt. I have spent years associating with these thumbless, pot-bellied, clumsy acrobats, yet the simplest questions often panic me. Why do they sometimes walk right up to me, and other times I can’t get within 150 feet of them? Why don’t they have opposable thumbs? All other monkeys do. What is it about termite runways that they love? Why do they sit cramming fistfuls of this grainy substance into their mouths as fast as they can, shoving each other out of the way to get more and more and more? Does it provide much-needed antacids, nutrients, fungicides, antibiotics, none of the above, all of the above? Why do the young ones close their eyes whenever they play on the ground? Isn’t that dangerous? Why is it that one old female always lies in the same position on the same branch in a certain mampato tree, and none of the others seem to have favourite branches? Why do the males engage in tug-of-war stick fights, and the females don’t? Why don’t they drink more often? Water is available. The green monkeys drink everyday. Why do the colobus always look like they’re suffering from eczema during the dry season? The green monkeys and the patas never look like this.
It isn’t just the colobus who confuse me. Why do adult patas monkeys eat everything but the guts when they kill an agama lizard, and the infants eat only the guts? Why do female green monkeys have nipples so close together that their infants frequently suckle two teats at the same time?
Even the trees have secrets I can’t understand. Why is it that for decades the colobus never ate anything from the many fast-growing gmelina trees, and now their yellow flowers appear to be the number one food item? Why is it that no one – no monkeys, no rodents, no birds, no insects – eat the hard green fruit of the fafo-jambo tree? Do absolutely all animals find it impossible to digest this possibly toxic fruit?
These questions may seem silly and insignificant, but they haunt my days and sometimes even my dreams, because I believe the full picture of who these creatures are can only be understood by comprehending the trivia and minutia of their daily lives. It is the layering, the addition and subtraction of the commonplace, the ordinary, the so-called unimportant and inconsequential details, the behavioural flotsam and jetsam, which constitute the big picture and can provide answers. Quite simply, it seems to me that the usually unconsidered is deeply considerable. There is so much I do not understand. As my friend the forest ranger says, I have to learn to see. Yet I wonder, if I found the answers, would I be satisfied? Would I know what to do with the knowledge? Would I know where to place such ‘silly little facts’ in the grand scheme of things?
Entering Abuko this morning I find a five-inch-wide trail exactly like a bald tire tread winding along a dirt road. It can only be a python imprint. Why can’t the colobus, the green monkeys and the patas recognize that this is obviously a clean, fresh python track, and that there could be a problem if they don’t move away? They pay no attention to it. They don’t seem to have made the connection that this track was made by a python. Yet I have watched them watching pythons make tracks.
To me it’s so obvious. I see the track, I know a python might be nearby. I am alert. Laughing, their eyes shut, the young colobus roll around on the ground next to and over the track. The adults sit on the track eating fallen fruit. The greens chase each other back and forth over the track. All of them are taking chances, none of them are cautious, alert to possible danger. None of them are making the connection.
Whenever I observe a situation like this I’m totally mystified. It’s hard for me to accept that I’ll never know for certain what goes on – or doesn’t go on – in the mind of a monkey. It’s hard for me to accept that there’s such a huge gulf between us, and that I will probably never develop the ability to enter into the thoughts and feelings of another species. As a human I can easily take a visual cue (this is a python track, and it was just made) add it to an assumption (the python is probably nearby) and react accordingly (I should be careful). The monkeys don’t – or can’t – do this. Humans look for patterns, causes and relationships, and do so all the time. I don’t think the monkeys do – at least not in an obvious, regular way that I can comprehend. They are so very different from us: just a bunch of monkeys. And then I see two colobus hugging and kissing, reassuring each other, using gestures humans use everyday, displaying emotions we display everyday, and I remember that our very, very distant cousins are so much like us. And so I go from thinking the colobus are nothing like us because they don’t understand the meaning of a fresh python track, to thinking that they are like us because they kiss and hug and reassure each other, and that maybe someday I’ll be able to climb inside their heads and understand what’s really going on.
One of the problems with studying primates is that this constant to-ing and fro-ing of the ‘are-they/aren’t-they like us?’ dilemma and ‘will I/won’t I ever understand them?’ quandary occurs on a daily basis. It probably occurs with many primatologists. We are geared to searching out the similarities and when we’re hit head on with the so-very-obvious and, yes, I admit it, so-very-frequent dissimilarities, it turns our sense of self and others upside down. I have a feeling that biologists who work with worms and slugs and fruit flies don’t suffer this constant onslaught of schizophrenic confusion. Their fieldwork is probably much less personal, more subdued, probably much saner.
A green monkey with no left hand runs across the undergrowth. A colobus mother, clutching her dead infant with one arm, leaps from one palm tree to another. Three young colobus roll around on the ground, laughing, tugging and pulling at each other and rolling fist-sized pieces of termite mound along the ground. Are these creatures oblivious to the speckled light and the fallen logs in the shape of crocodiles, and the lianas climbing up, falling down, lying sideways like so many electric cords? Do they see the amazing beauty surrounding them? What do the colobus and the greens think when they sit in their forest perches? These are the things that really bother me. Oh sure, I know what they eat and who they like and who they want to chase away, and I am positive that they can feel fear and rage and lust, and probably even love: but I have no idea what they think, how they really feel, deep down to the little bones of their feet. Does the green monkey resent the fact that she has lost her hand? Does she replay the incident over and over again in her head? Does she experience the pain, pressure and itching of phantom limb syndrome?
Does the mother know that her dead infant will soon be so laden down with maggots that she will no longer be able to carry it – that she will have to dump it? Does she despise her infant’s killer? Does she want revenge? Is she in mourning? Does she replay her previous actions and go through all the various combinations of ‘if onlys’ and ‘what ifs’? Will she remember this offspring until the day she dies? I believe the mothers do feel a loss when their infant dies, but I don’t know whether they feel this loss until the end of their days. I don’t think they really understand death. Certainly they scream when they come across a dead colobus in the forest. However, this does not mean they understand death. These ‘death screams’ could simply signify ‘something isn’t right here’.
When the young ones are playing and laughing, do they ‘feel good’, and in what way? What do the older ones do to feel good once they have outgrown the play period, and how is that feeling different? In humans, laughter seems to be a releaser of endorphins, the natural feel-happy drug. It floods the brain with endorphins and makes you feel positively disposed towards the other person. Is this true for the colobus?
There are so many words we take for granted when we discuss the human condition – ‘lamenting’, ‘anguished’, ‘broken-hearted’, ‘exalting’, ‘rejoicing’. Such words seem to define us. Can these words ever be used in conjunction with monkeys? Are there simian equivalents? And in what way would their meanings differ, without the presence of complex language?
For me there are always more questions than answers. Although this is painfully frustrating, it’s probably the way it should be, for humans. I suppose I imagine that questions are the peaks of mental mountains, and that observing the world around us, asking questions, and then seeking solutions, is probably what drove our evolution. Is there a colobus equivalent of asking questions? Do they scale their own ‘mental mountains’?
As an anthropologist doing field work, I am alert to the dangers of the over-interpretation of the unobservable thoughts swarming around in monkey minds. I’ve often been warned that one must avoid the pitfalls of anthropomorphism. But, also as a field-working anthropologist, I have no problem accepting the possibility that there are a vast number of intricate mental gymnastics taking place inside these physically clumsy acrobats feasting and fighting above my head.
As an anthropologist and an evolutionist, I want to know who we humans are and where we came from, how we got here, and where we’re going. Thus I want to know what other species can tell us about our behaviour. More importantly, as a fieldworker and a conservationist, I want to know what can be done to save these forest creatures from their downward spiral of disappearing from this part of the world. But when the lights are out at night and I’m falling asleep and trying to understand what it all means, I tend to switch gears and questions. Are the colobus – sprawled out along thick mampato branches high up in the forest or curled around each other – dreaming?
© Dawn Starin 2009
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After hearing and studying the October 2020 general conference addresses of our Prophet, General Authorities, and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, we should look forward to partaking the sacrament on the upcoming Sabbath Day. One of the “Ideas for Personal Scripture Study” in the September 28-October 11 Book of Mormon 2020 Come, Follow Me—For Individuals and Families emphasizes the following: “I can be spiritually filled as I partake of the sacrament. As you read 3 Nephi 18:1–12, ponder how taking the sacrament can help you be spiritually “filled” (3 Nephi 18:3–5, 9; see also 3 Nephi 20:1–9).” These comments and scriptures suggest that we can receive spiritual guidance as we partake of the sacramental emblems.
Remembering the Body of Jesus Christ
When Jesus first administered the sacrament to the Nephites, He gave these instructions about partaking of the bread: “This shall ye do in remembrance of my body, which I have shown unto you. And it shall be a testimony unto the Father that ye do always remember me” (3 Nephi 18:7). It is not insignificant that Jesus asked the people to think of His resurrected body. The previous day a multitude of approximately 2500 “men, women, and children” (3 Nephi 17:25) were invited to come “and thrust their hands into his side, and did feel the prints of the nails in his hands and his feet; and this they did do, going forth one by one until they had all gone forth” (3 Nephi 11:15). They were privileged to learn and testify that Jesus had risen from the grave and that all mankind will be resurrected. Like the Nephites, we need to remember that Jesus is the Living Christ.
Remembering the Blood of Jesus Christ
When drinking from the sacramental cup, Jesus teaches, “ye shall do it in remembrance of my blood, which I have shed for you” (3 Nephi 18:11). This should focus our thoughts on two key final events in Christ’s mortal ministry: His sufferings in the Garden of Gethsemane that were concluded with His agonies and death upon the cross at Calvary.
Concerning Christ’s sufferings in Gethsemane, Luke records, “And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44).
To the Prophet Joseph Smith, Jesus revealed: “Which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit—and would that I might not drink the bitter cup, and shrink—Nevertheless, glory be to the Father, and I partook and finished my preparations unto the children of men” (Doctrine and Covenants 19:18-19).
In 2018 while in Jerusalem, President Russell M. Nelson’s bore this testimony: “I am standing on the Mount of Olives. Here at the base of the mount, Jesus came to the Garden of Gethsemane. He came to submit to the will of His Father and offer Himself as the sacrifice for the sins and weaknesses, the pains and burdens of all who had ever lived. In that garden, olives had been pressed under great weight to squeeze precious oil from the olives. In like manner, Jesus was literally pressed under the weight of the sins of the world. There He sweat great drops of blood, His life’s ‘oil,’ which issued from every pore” (Special Witnesses of Christ—President Nelson, ChurchofJesusChrist.org video series).
It is impossible for us to know or understand all that Jesus suffered and endured at the Garden of Gethsemane. We know, however, that Christ “suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; But if they would not repent they must suffer even as I” (Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-17). Since all of us have sinned, we can only access the conditional aspects of Christ’s great atoning sacrifice through repentance and obedience.
Following Christ by Taking Up Our Personal Crosses
In one of the last recorded appearances of Jesus in the Book of Mormon, He clearly explained His gospel: “My Father sent me that I might be lifted up upon the cross; and after that I had been lifted up upon the cross, that I might draw all men unto me … that they may be judged according to their works. And it shall come to pass, that whoso repenteth and is baptized in my name shall be filled; and if he endureth to the end, behold, him will I hold guiltless before my Father at that day when I shall stand to judge the world” (3 Nephi 27:14-16). As modern-day Apostles have testified, “Each of us will stand to be judged of Him according to our works and the desires of our hearts” (“The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles,” Ensign, 2017).
With respect to the how Christ’s sufferings on the cross relate to us, Jesus repeatedly taught during His mortal ministry, “He that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me” (Matthew 10:38).
This warning has been re-emphasized for Latter-day Saints, “You must take up your cross, in the which you must pray vocally, before the world as well as in secret, and in your family, and among your friends, and in all places” (Doctrine and Covenants 23:6). When we partake of the sacrament, we need to pray about what we have done and are doing in our daily lives.
In reflecting on how we should take up our individual crosses, President Henry B. Eyring suggests a couple of strategies: “As you examine your life during the ordinance of the sacrament, I hope your thoughts center not only on things you have done wrong but also on things you have done right—moments when you have felt that Heavenly Father and the Savior were pleased with you. You may even take a moment during the sacrament to ask God to help you see these things. … When I have done this, the Spirit has reassured me that while I’m still far from perfect, I’m better today than I was yesterday. And this gives me confidence that, because of the Savior, I can be even better tomorrow” (“Always Remember Him,” Ensign, Feb. 2018, 5).
We should look forward and strive to live worthy to partake of the Lord’s sacrament. As President Dallin H. Oaks has testified, “The administration of the sacrament and the renewal of covenants and cleansing that take place in the partaking of the sacrament are the most important acts in the Sabbath worship of Latter-day Saints” (Special Witnesses of Christ—President Oaks, ChurchofJesusChrist.org video series). | <urn:uuid:10c545d4-f19b-43c8-ab76-7c35b18043ef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ca.churchofjesuschrist.org/filled-with-the-spirit-by-partaking-the-sacrament | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.963932 | 1,522 | 1.726563 | 2 |
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It is a tale of two sides of the pandemic – while a group of construction workers basked in sunshine at Dublin’s Grand Canal, on the opposite bank their peers who lost their jobs sheltered in two tents.
As the three workers chatted and enjoyed the spring weather, across from them five men made attempts to tidy their ramshackle lives, as the human toll of Covid-19 lay bare for all to see.
Some 60,000 construction workers are out of work due to the Level 5 restrictions introduced in January.
Only 40pc of sites remain open as projects deemed essential by the Government.
While they enjoyed a moment of sunshine, the men in hardhats admitted they also worried about losing their jobs.
“I know one of the homeless men on the other side of the canal. I used to work on- site with him,” said one man.
“It’s sad to see him living like this. But I know around 70 construction workers who’ve lost their jobs and some of them are now homeless and others are at risk of homelessness.
“It’s a hard life but Covid-19 has made life in the construction industry cruel.”
Homeless man Philipe Talaj (36) told the Irish Independent he had been laid off and found himself unable to support himself.
“I had a job on a construction site but I lost it and I had to move out from my home,” he said.
“It’s very hard to find another job when you’re living like this and during Covid-19.
“I don’t worry about Covid, I worry about living like this.
“I just hope it ends soon. I hope I will get a job and a home soon. I love Dublin but things are very hard right now. There doesn’t seem an end in sight.”
Another of the homeless men, who did not want to be named, said he worked in construction until the pandemic hit and caused his site to close. He found himself on the streets several months ago.
“I lost my job at the start of Covid. I lost my home then too. I ended up on the streets and met friends here who’d been through the same.
“I was working on a site nearby but the building site was closed with Covid. There was nothing to do, so I started drinking and now I drink every day because there’s just nothing else.
“I’ve looked for somewhere to live but I can’t find anything. I don’t want to go into the hostels because I’ve seen drugs being taken there and violence.
“I was busy before, I had a life and now I feel like I have nothing, so I just drink. I won’t take drugs though, no matter what.
“I want to go back to work, to find a new home, to have a life, something to do. The virus has caused a lot of damage to my life.
“It’s funny looking across the canal. We were like those lads not long ago.”
A construction worker on the other side of the canal sipped a fizzy drink and smoked as he looked across the water at the two tents.
“I know an awful lot of my friends are out of work,” he said.
“I’d say a good 70pc of people I know are out of work. I think Covid-19 is a major problem for the industry but it makes me sad to see guys who were in the industry out on the streets."
He said many construction workers do not have contracts “so they’re easy to let go in the pandemic”.
“We are at work but even our own lives are sad. We’re agency workers and we don’t have holiday pay, we don’t get sick pay. And we could be let go like that and in a very bad position too.”
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US, China and UK dominate e-commerce sales to consumers, with more than 1.4 billion people shopping online in 2018.
E-commerce sales hit $25.6 trillion globally in 2018, up 8% from 2017, according to the latest available estimates released today by the UN’s trade and development body, UNCTAD, at the start of its UNCTAD eWeek event.
The online event will explore digital solutions and policies to help the world recover from the coronavirus crisis. It runs from 27 April to 1 May and features dialogues among ministers, heads of international organizations, business executives and civil society representatives.
According to the UNCTAD analysis, the estimated 2018 e-commerce sales value, which includes business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) sales, was equivalent to 30% of global gross domestic product (GDP) that year.
“The coronavirus crisis has accelerated the uptake of digital solutions, tools and services, but the overall impact on the value of e-commerce in 2020 is still hard to predict,” said Shamika Sirimanne, UNCTAD’s director of technology and logistics.
The 2017 value of global e-commerce was estimated at $23.8 trillion, based on a revised methodology.
Top countries in e-commerce sales
The value of global B2B e-commerce in 2018 was $21 trillion, representing 83% of all e-commerce, comprising both sales on online market platforms and electronic data interchange transactions.
B2C e-commerce was valued at $4.4 trillion, up by 16% from 2017. Cross-border B2C e-commerce sales amounted to $404 billion in 2018, representing an increase of 7% over 2017.
The United States continued to dominate the overall e-commerce market (Table 1). It remained among the top three countries by B2C e-commerce sales, alongside China and the United Kingdom.
Table 1: E-commerce sales: Top ten economies in 2018
Source: UNCTAD, based on national sources.
Note: Figures in italics are UNCTAD estimates.
The leading B2C e-commerce companies are based mostly in China and the United States. The world’s top 10 B2C companies in 2018 generated almost $2 trillion in gross merchandise value (GMV), according to the report.
Alibaba (China) was far ahead with a GMV of $866 billion in 2018, followed by Amazon (United States) with $277 billion. However, in terms of revenue, JD.com (China) and Amazon were ahead of Alibaba.
Developing and transition economies accounted for about half of the top 20 economies by B2C e-commerce sales. In relation to GDP, B2C e-commerce in these economies was the largest in Hong Kong (China), China and the United Kingdom, and smallest in India, Brazil and Russia.
Among the top 20 economies, the extent to which Internet users engage in online purchases varies considerably. For example, in 2018, 87% of Internet users in the United Kingdom shopped online, compared with only 14% in Thailand and 11% in India.
More than 1.4 billion people shopped online and more bought from abroad
UNCTAD estimates that 1.45 billion people, or one quarter of the world’s population aged 15 and older, made purchases online in 2018 (Figure 1). This is 9% higher than in 2017.
China had the largest number of online shoppers at 610 million, according to the report. While the bulk of online shoppers mainly bought from domestic suppliers, some 330 million online shoppers made cross-border purchases in 2018 — a little more than one in five of all online shoppers.
The interest in buying from foreign suppliers continued to expand. The share of cross-border online shoppers to all online shoppers rose from 17% in 2016 to 23% in 2018.
“Still the number of online shoppers, while huge, is an indication of the scale of the digital divide and the future market potential of e-commerce, both of which need to be addressed,” Ms. Sirimanne added.
Today only half of the world’s 7.7 billion people are connected to the internet and its benefits. This limits the ability of many developing countries to use digital solutions to cope with the current health and economic crisis.
Figure 1. Global online shoppers (million), 2016-2018
Source: UNCTAD, based on national data
Measuring the value of e-commerce remains a challenge, as most countries still do not publish official statistics on it, even though more governments are collecting information.
Also, countries that publish data on the value of e-commerce sometimes do not follow international guidelines and often revise their statistics.
To take account of recent developments, UNCTAD has adapted its methodology for estimating global e-commerce.
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Where the Race Stands with Just 8 Weeks to Go; Biden Leads, But it May Be a Nail-Biter
The final lap of the election begins today. The dust has settled from the nominating conventions and there are just eight weeks remaining until election day. The first of three presidential debates will be held in four weeks, on September 29th, and mail-in voting has already begun in North Carolina, with several other states starting shortly. One of the most momentous elections in US history is underway.
Here are four things to know about the race:
1. National Vote: The race has been remarkably stable since Joe Biden won the Democratic nomination in the Spring. Biden's lead nationally is between 7 and 8 points now, just as it was in June. The current polling average is 50.6% for Biden to 43.1% for Trump, and that tracks fairly closely to the President's approval rating which is underwater by about 9 percentage point [Approve-43.3% to Disapprove-52.6%].
Unless something radically changes, Biden will win the popular vote by a much larger margin than Hillary Clinton did in 2016. But, as we have noted before, Trump could still pull out an Electoral College victory as he did four years ago.
2. The Electoral College Battlegrounds: The race for president will be won in seven battleground states: Arizona, Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Trump won Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin by slender margins in 2016, but he is trailing in each today by between 3 to 6 percentage points. Joe Biden also leads in Arizona [5%], Florida [2%] and Minnesota [6%]. The race in North Carolina is essentially tied.
3. Bellwether States: Of the battlegrounds, we have chosen Wisconsin and Arizona as bellwethers. If Biden pulls further ahead in Wisconsin [7+ points] and Arizona [6+ points], expect him to enjoy a relative easy victory. However, if Trump pulls even with Biden in Arizona and Wisconsin, that will be a sign that the President is staging a come-back.
4. Generic Congressional Ballot: The other polling we will watch closely is the generic congressional ballot [GCB] which measures which party's congressional candidate respondents plan to vote for this year. The respondents aren't given candidate names, just parties, Democrat or Republican. It essentially asks likely voters to name the party they most trust to run the country. Democrats currently have a 7.3% advantage in the GCB and that has also been quite stable going all the way back to 2018's "Blue Wave" election which saw Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives.
As we have noted before, the GCB is often a better gauge than head-to-head polling of the presidential race. it's a great indicator of the general political climate at any given moment, and it was amazingly accurate in predicting the outcome of the popular vote in 2016. If President Trump is going to win reelection, the GOP deficit in the GCB would probably have to close to about 2-3 points. However, if Democrats can maintain a GCB advantage of 5-7 points, Joe Biden will be our next president.
The most likely scenario is that the race will tighten over the next 60 days, with Democrats holding a 3-4 point GCB advantage on November 3rd. That will be a nail-biter.
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Terminologically, I think you are interested in the number of "distinct syllables" in a language. "Syllabic phoneme" means, approximately, "vowels", but also syllabic consonant (as exist in some languages), and with the provision that the sound has to be contrastive and not allophonic (for instance, you would not count with [ə] and [ʌ] in English since the distribution is rule-governed).
This is not information generally available for languages, and Barker's underlying paper on English shows you why. For some languages it's a simply matter of computing and "trivial" searching, but even then, non-triviality lurks. Hawaiian has 8 consonants and 5, 10 or 25 vowels, depending on how you treat long vowels and diphthongs. If we take the smallest numbers, syllables are of the type V and CV, therefore there are 5+40 theoretically possible syllables. Then you would just search a dictionary to see if they all exist (there is a gap for [wū] and only 2 examples of [wu]). Taking the largest number, you get 25+200 (possibly minus 1 or 2). The count in English is much higher because we have more phonemes, and the possibilities for combination are greater = (C(C(C)))V(V)((((C)C)C)C). But not every C can appear in every positions: plus, as noted by Barker and every every other linguist, it's non-obvious where the syllable boundaries are in English, so you have to decide if [btʃɪk] is a syllable of English, given "Dabchick" (I would say no but I'm not here to argue with his algorithm). English is rife with syllabification restrictions (syllables can't start with [ŋ] unless you syllabify intervocalic [ŋ] as in the onset).
This person claims that Vietnamese has 17,974 syllables, but this is a product of combinatoric calculations, and it is noted that about half of them don't actually exist. That's a pretty high percentage, suggesting that there are non-accidental gaps. For instance, there is no syllable in English that begins with "bn", which linguists generally consider to be the result of a rules. There are no syllables composed of sCVC where the two consonants are the same and the vowel is short, with a tiny number of counterexamples like "stet", "stat": some linguists (Clements & Keyser, among others) have that as a systematic fact of English. There are no syllables having [bl] as the onset, [ɪ] as the nucleus, and a coronal non-sibilant as the coda (t,d,n,tʃ,dʒ): nobody has previously noticed that gap and proposed a rule. We don't know if that is just a gap in attestation, or an actual rule-governed gap.
In principle if you could get a comprehensive list of all words, including inflectional forms, for a language and could decisively parse words into syllables, you could count the number of actually attested syllables in a language. Most comprehensive word lists don't include inflected forms, and they are usually based on written forms of major national languages. Polish, for example, allows long sequences of consonants, but this extra combinatoric power is concentrated in word beginnings and word ends. In the context VC*V, it's controversial where to put the syllable break (this is the general problem of syllabification algorithms and the question of what to count).
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Friendship Place canvases the street to connect with men and women experiencing homelessness. We reach out to them where they are; be it the street, or places like parks, storefronts, and church parking lots.
Our Specialists provide outreach services throughout the week and focus on the hardest-to-serve i.e. those who have been on the streets for an extended period of time, who have mental health and/or substance abuse issues, and who are disconnected from public health systems (or CoC).
Our aim in outreach is two-fold:
(1) To ensure the immediate safety and comfort of the individuals encountered:
- The Street Outreach staff provide food, water, blankets, warm clothing, toiletries, and information about hypothermia shelters (during the winter), cooling stations (during the summer), soup kitchens, and other places where immediate needs can be met. If needed, they can arrange transportation to shelters.
(2) To encourage the individual to accept additional services that facilitate long-term, lasting change (getting benefits, housing, treatment for medical for addiction, mental health issues, etc.):
- Specialists are equipped with laptops and can function as a mobile drop-in center to help individuals obtain vital documents (such as birth certificates, ID, and Social Security cards) that are needed to access services ranging from Food Stamps to substance abuse treatment programs. Individuals can then pick up these items from our Welcome Center, where we can further engage with them to build a relationship of trust and develop a plan to improve their lives.
In Fiscal Year 2021, Friendship Place served 187 individuals through Street Outreach, meeting their immediate needs and connecting them to services.
Who We Serve
The Street Outreach program focuses on helping individuals experiencing homelessness across the District of Columbia. Our Outreach Specialists spend a majority of their time on the streets actively searching for individuals who need help.
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Fibre Broadband In Water Project
South Yorkshire’s ‘Fibre In Water’ trial
A pilot project is underway in Yorkshire with the aim of delivering gigabit boadband to rural communities by feeding fibre optic cable through the drinking water pipes between Barnsley & Penistone in South Yorkshire.
The traditional method of digging up roads and installing new ducting can make up four fiths of the cost of a gigabit broadband network. Ultimately the Yorshire fibre in water scheme will enable a greener, faster and cost effective way of providing connectivity to 8,500 homes and businesses throughout the area.
The ‘Fibre In Water’ network will be used to connect 5G masts to to rural communities where wired solutions are too expensive to deliver. The digital infrastructure minister Julia Lopez has stated “We’re committed to connecting homes and businesses across the country to high speed relaible broadband and this cutting-edge project is an exciting example of the bold measures this government is leading on to help communities access the very best digital connectivity,”
The trial is the first of its kind in the UK and could be providing connectivity to people’s homes as soon as 2024. If successful, the project will likely be replicated in other parts of the country, according to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DMCS). This could assist the government’s £5bn Project Gigabit, cited as the biggest broadband roll out in British history, which aims to provide gigabit connections to millions of rural homes and businesses.
In addition to providing gigabit broadband, the trial will also explore how fibre can help water utility companies detect leaks, operate more efficiently and lower the carbon cost of drinking water. In the UK, a staggering 20% of water within the public supply systems is wasted due to leaks. With current technology, it can be difficult for water companies to quickly identify the exact location of a leak and carry out a repair, DCMS said. The overall project aims to help UK water providers deliver a 50% reduction in leakage.
The first phase of the project will focus on the legal and safety aspects of the solution as well as ensuring that combining clean water and telecoms services in a single pipeline is safe, secure and commercially viable.
More information can be found on the government website here https://www.gov.uk/guidance/fibre-in-water-improving-access-to-advanced-broadband-and-mobile-services-via-drinking-water-mains
What benefits does fibre over water bring to rural based businesses?
Superfast fibre broadband delivered via traditional methods or via the water drinking pipes enables small businesses to utilise cost effective cloud based services such as VoIP phone services, online storage, hosted email & backup services. This subsequently means businesses can be far more productive no matter their physical location (rural or just far off the grid) and compete with businesses that already have good fibre connectivity.
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When claw toes first appear, the joints typically remain flexible. If you’re at this stage of the condition, your goal should be to keep them that way!
You might think that exercises mainly work your arms or legs, but if you have claw toes, they could benefit from some simple ones, too. Claw toes, unfortunately, are progressive and the joints generally become rigid and more painful in time—but exercising them regularly can help keep the supporting muscles and tendons limber, flexible, and pain-free for as long as possible.
Here are some easy exercises that can help:
- Pick up tissues with your toes. Place 20 clean tissues on the floor and put them into a wastebasket, one at a time, with your right foot. Then repeat with your left foot.
- Crumple a towel. Lay a towel flat on the floor in front of a chair and sit down. Place your heels at the edge of the towel closest to you and use your toes to pull the towel back until all of it is under your feet. Smooth it back out and repeat twice more.
- Use fingers to stretch toes. Gently pull your toes back, one at a time, and hold the position for ten seconds. Then repeat the sequence by pushing them down.
Exercises might be beneficial, but it is also possible that you need professional treatment for this condition. If the deformity has become rigid, for example, make your appointment with our office so we can provide the care you need to prevent pain and complications. | <urn:uuid:06132507-9d29-4533-adbd-b743e39ac58e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.austinfootandankle.com/blog/simple-exercised-for-claw-toes-austin-foot-and-ankle-specialists.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959783 | 316 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Don’t give your boyfriend much say? You just might be sabotaging your relationship.
We all have our own way of managing relationships. But if you’re too controlling, you could be driving your boyfriend away. After all, no one likes being kept on a tight leash.
Not sure what counts as controlling behaviour? Violet Lim, CEO and co-founder of Lunch Actually Group, lists some examples.
- Make all day-to-day decisions, like where to go and what to eat
- Decide what he wears and how he should cut his hair
- Dictate who he can and cannot hang out with, and when he can and cannot go out
- Control his finances
- Sign him up for things without checking with him first, such as holidays or social events
- Assert yourself over his career choices
- Constantly speak on his behalf
If you’re guilty of more than three of the above, you’re probably quite controlling. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing—if he’s told you he doesn’t mind you making decisions on his behalf, there’s probably nothing to worry about.
Silence doesn’t mean it’s OK
But it’s a different story if he has been keeping mum— he could be bottling up his feelings. “Some men let the woman make all the decisions not because they like it or are unable to make them—they do it to avoid quarrels,” says Violet. “However, they may grow to resent their partner.”
This could spell trouble in the long run. “A build-up of resentment can make one become emotionally distant and damage the relationship,” says Jessica Lamb, a psychotherapist at Relationship Matters.
Learn to give and take
A relationship is all about compromise, so both parties should have a say. “It’s much healthier to negotiate power and decide as a couple who does what in the relationship,” says Jessica. “Some things will matter more to one person than the other, so it’s always important to share responsibility.”
“I believe that every relationship requires a give- and-take approach,” adds Violet. “I also believe that men look for loving and nurturing women, so I encourage women to have their men take charge of some decisions.”
SOME MEN LET THE WOMAN MAKE ALL THE DECISIONS NOT BECAUSE THEY LIKE IT OR ARE UNABLE TO MAKE THEM—THEY DO IT TO AVOID QUARRELS.
It’s all about communication
Since every couple is different, there is no one-size-fits-all formula when it comes to who makes the decisions in a relationship. Jessica suggests that it’s all about coming to an agreement on the roles and responsibilities you both should have, and that these are ongoing conversations to engage in throughout the relationship.
“At the end of the day, a successful relationship depends on compatibility and open, honest communication,” adds Violet.
Loosen your grip
So what should you do if you realise you’re too controlling? “As a first step, practise mutual respect by asking this very simple question: ‘What are your thoughts about this decision?’ This is how power play can slowly be eliminated from the relationship,” advises Violet.
She also recommends that you two draw lines when it comes to decisions regarding your respective personal lives. “This way, both parties will know not to cross them when the time comes.”
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Animal hoarding: It’s time we showed compassion to animal and human victims
The issue of companion animal hoarding can be tricky. Compassionate people of course want to end animal suffering, and so seeing neglected animals being removed en masse from hoarders’ dwellings on the news is tough to watch. But on the other hand this country (and others) does not hold a successful record in applying the law to what should be left to the psychiatry or psychology professions.
The American Psychological Association (APA) appears not, as yet, to have directly addressed animal hoarding. For the longest time, I have been unable to find mention of it in their Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR (nor in the DSM V). The DSM simply mentions hoarding as a general symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder. Viewed this way, that is, as a psycho-social disability, animal hoarders do not have the intent to hurt animals; rather, they are helplessly trapped in a compulsion. So should we as a society really be stigmatizing sufferers of this rare phenomenon by criminalizing a disability that its sufferers can’t seem to help?Â
And to be quite frank, I get nervous when the nanny state gets involved in these types of issues and starts legislating the seeming solution. For instance, Illinois currently has a bill pending, HB 11661, that would define companion animal hoarding as, “…a person who…possesses 7 or more companion animals.” This is a ridiculous and arbitrary number. If this law passed, then anyone who owned more than seven hamsters would suddenly be an animal hoarder under Illinois law. Absurd but true. Companion animals are defined as any animal kept as a pet. So, if your hamster or gerbil has babies (and hamsters and gerbils usually give birth to 5-8 babies), you could potentially be an animal hoarder if HB 1166 passes in the state of Illinois.
Existing law in Illinois additionally defines a companion animal hoarder as a person who,
“… displays an inability to recognize or understand the nature of or has a reckless disregard for the conditions under which the companion animals are living and the deleterious impact they have on the companion animals’ and owner’s health and well-being.”
HB 1166, if passed, would also put into law escalating penalties for animal hoarding, from a Class B misdemeanor to a Class 4 felony. Yet, if animal hoarders have “an inability to recognize or understand the nature of…the deleterious impact they have on the companion animals’ and owner’s health and well-being” then how can they potentially be slapped with a misdemeanor or even a felony? In other words, how can you criminalize a behavior that the alleged offender isn’t even aware is harmful or wrong???
We as a society don’t prosecute Alzheimer patients or schizophrenics when they are violent because they are unaware of their behavior and therefore not responsible for it. Would the state of Illinois — and indeed any state that considers similar types of legislation — have us return to the days of Nazism when Hitler had the mentally ill locked away like criminals? (And we know what Hitler did once he locked people away. He “eliminated” the problem by eliminating the person.) We’ve heard too, law enforcement saying they could crack down on animal hoarding if they could get earlier access to alleged hoarders’ homes. But should we just give law enforcement carte blanche access to our homes so that they can rest assured we’re not doing anything illegal?
The nanny state likes to say nowadays that “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about” to defend things like unconstitutional checkpoints. It’s almost like a mantra now for a surveillance state hell-bent on tracking its populace and criminalizing every little thing. So as a Constitutionalist, you bet I have a problem with the nanny state trying to pry itself into people’s homes via nanny-state legislation. So that leaves us to ask, what are some more reasonable solutions to the animal hoarding problem that will satisfy all sides; that will allow both the animal and the human victims to get treatment while still respecting the law and the Constitution?
Well, I may not have the full answer to what to do with those unfortunate enough to suffer from the compulsion of animal hoarding — though a drug and therapy regimen tailored to the specific individual looks promising — but I know what the answer isn’t. The answer isn’t criminalization via legislation that allows law enforcement carte blanche access to our homes. I understand that it is hard to get a warrant to search the premises of a possible hoarder, but that’s because this country values the 4th amendment right to privacy, and rightfully so. But folks like veterinarians, meter readers, mail carriers, concerned neighbors, and especially family members, can be instrumental in helping law enforcement or Animal Control in getting the animals out of a harmful situation and getting the hoarder or hoarders some help. After all, it doesn’t take long for that smell to make it out into the surrounding neighborhood or area. And no, I’m not suggesting we all narc on our neighbors either, but true sufferers of animal hoarding need help just like their animal victims.
And how about a welfare check? How hard is it for a neighbor to knock on another neighbor’s door and check up on them? We do this during hurricanes, blizzards, heat waves, and floods, so why not try to help out a neighbor who may struggle with caring for their pets? And, if it’s obvious that the person can’t care for their pets, well, then yes, there’s a tough decision to make about contacting law enforcement or Animal Control, but hopefully it gets the person on the road to recovery and the animals out of a bad situation.
Perhaps the problem is that we’ve become isolated in our own homes and caught up in our own lives. When our American society was more Christian, it was common for neighbor to help out neighbor. Now, it doesn’t even occur to us to try to offer help to those in need, but maybe it should. Yes, why in our haste to save the animals have we as a society seemingly forgotten that the humans involved in animal hoarding are victims too? The Illinois bill spells it out: animal hoarding is “deleterious,” a fancy word meaning harmful, to both the companion animals and the owner’s health and well-being. Yet while the Illinois bill acknowledges that the hoarders themselves are also victims along with their animals, the bill would make potential felons of the hoarders anyway. Do those proposing such legislation really think someone would choose to live the way some of these animal hoarders’ homes have been found with the stink of feces, urine, and death?
Indeed, trying to legislate the problem away isn’t going to work. If animal hoarders knew what they were doing, they would already be breaking the law by being cruel to animals; since they don’t know what they’re doing, they’re not going to suddenly abide by additional legislation that limits them to only a certain number of animals or requires them to get a permit for more than a certain number of animals. (All that such legislation accomplishes is to punish law-abiding pet owners who were already abiding by the law and to potentially put loved and cared-for companion animals out of their homes.) But neighbors could help other neighbors in trouble, and mail carriers, meter readers, and even veterinarians and family members of possible hoarders could be advised to look out for signs of potential hoarding. In other words, there are opportunities to intervene on behalf of the animal and human victims of animal hoarding well before legislators get involved. We as a society simply need to make a commitment to advocate for and protect our weakest members — the sick, the infirm, or the differently-abled — whether they be humans or animals. We should not tolerate any kind of legislation or even mentality that seeks to punish victims for wrongs they aren’t even aware of committing. | <urn:uuid:4405e447-0f27-4fff-bfe7-402de2afd195> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.nopitbullbans.com/2011/03/03/animal-hoarding-its-time-we-showed-compassion-to-animal-and-human-victims/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.952595 | 1,767 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Getting accurate length measurements is vital for my research as a white shark’s length can effect many aspects of its life, such as how they interact with other sharks, what they are likely to be feeding on and which habitats they may be using.
The official name given to using lasers and a camera to measure an object is laser photogrammetry. This method has been applied to many different kinds of animal, both terrestrial and marine and has been used previously on whale sharks and white sharks. My set-up consists of:
- two waterproof laser pens (http://www.apinex.com)
- a GoPro Hero 3+ camera (gopro.com)
- mounting materials, which, in my case, consist of recycled desks put together by one of the wonderful technicians at my university (http://www.sussex.ac.uk)
Here’s what my basic set-up looks like:
This is attached to a long pole so that I can operate it underwater from the boat
The theory is, if you can get an image of your shark with the two laser points on it, you can use the laser dots as a size reference, or ruler. If you know that they are 30cm apart, you can use them (and for me, some very handy free software (http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/) to tell you how long the shark is in total.
When I say that my lasers are 30cm apart, I mean that they are set EXACTLY 30cm apart, to the millimetre. Before and after each time I use my laser rig, I check that my laser points are still set precisely 30cm apart using a custom made calibration plate – if, at the end of a trip, my lasers have been knocked and aren’t exactly where they should be, I discard all of my data for the trip, which is upsetting but much better than having wonky data!
I tested my lasers in the UK before taking them out to South Africa earlier this year. My lovely and ever patient partner (thank you!) braved the ocean in February to help me in the initial trials and was much relieved when our local swimming pool agreed to let use their significantly warmer facilities for additional tests. Being surfers, we handily had a variety of watercraft of varying size and shape (some examples below) to test out the lasers.
After measuring our objects by hand and comparing these measurements to those obtained using laser photogrammetry, I’m pleased to announce that our laser results were over 99% accurate!
However…here’s an example picture taken by myself in March this year that highlights some of the difficulties of using this method for white sharks in South Africa.
- the underwater visibility is relatively limited due to high plankton levels and wave action on a sandy substrate, so you need the shark to be nice and close so that you can see it and the laser dots
- white sharks are not small – they very easily exceed the width of the camera frame, especially of they are close enough to be able to see
- white sharks are not flat! They are constantly swimming, which means that they are bending their bodies – not helpful for getting an accurate measurement of their length!
I have some cunning plans as to how to overcome these issues but if I told you what they were before publishing the results, I’d have to…well, you know…beg you not to tell anyone else! Have no fear though – all shall be revealed in good time!Back to all News | <urn:uuid:169779ba-4770-417f-bc2e-ffdc414b06f0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sharkstuff.co.uk/news/sharks-and-lasers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.966085 | 733 | 3.15625 | 3 |
Summer with my exotic pet
Summer is here, with sunshine and hot weather!
Do you find heat waves hot or even too hot? So does your rabbit! Even more so, because rabbits don’t sweat: only their ears are able to regulate their temperature a little. So, think of your pet, and offer protection from the sun and heat during summer.
A COOL ENVIRONMENT
Rodents and lagomorphs cannot tolerate heat. In the wild, they live in burrows which keep them cool during the day, but this isn’t the case in our homes. Place the cage in the coolest room of the house, protected from sunlight and draughts. Cellars may be an alternative, but only temporarily, for not more than a few hours, so that your pet does not become bored or suffer from the lack of light. Unless you stay in the cool to keep it company!
If there isn’t a cool place in your home, as is often the case in apartments, you will need to rely on some helpful tips to keep your pet cool: place a towel on top of the cage and cover it with a few ice packs, or place a bottle of water wrapped in a cloth in a corner of the cage. Do not place ice packs directly in the cage as your pet could chew on them and suffer poisoning. If you have a ceramic tile or slate, or a ceramic place mat, you can put them in the cage: these are naturally cool and your small animal will enjoy lying on them. A damp towel will also be appreciated.
As your pet is particularly sensitive to draughts, it is also important to make sure it is not exposed to the breeze when airing your home. Likewise, if you use a fan, make sure it is not aiming towards the cage.
ADAPT FOOD INTAKE AND OFFER PLENTY OF WATER
During hot weather, it is important to make sure your small animal stays well hydrated. It will need constant access to fresh water, but not iced water, which could cause your pet to become ill. Water should be replaced more frequently, as bacteria can proliferate due to the heat.
Your small animal will be less interested in eating if it’s too hot. This is the time to slightly top up its diet with fresh food: cut grass, dandelions, pieces of fresh fruit and vegetables, which are an additional source of fluids. However, be careful: do not change your pet’s diet suddenly, and do not add a new food that it has never eaten before to its ration. Digestive upset would be harmful to your pet as this could lead to dehydration.
GARDEN, YES OR NO?
It Is tempting to let rabbits go outside, especially under the shade of the trees when the weather is nice. However, be careful: do not expose your pet to heat in the hottest part of the day! To make the most of the garden, only allow your small animal to go outside in the coolest parts of the day, in the morning before 10 a.m., at the end of the afternoon or early evening, when the temperature falls below 22°C. Any higher will be too hot, especially if your pet is not used to going outside. Avoid areas where there is a breeze, as rodents are particularly sensitive to draughts, even if these areas seem more appealing in hot weather.
WHAT ABOUT TRAVELLING?
The same recommendations also apply when travelling with your pet. It is important to keep it cool, protected from direct sunlight and to keep fresh water readily available. It is easier for your pet to travel in the cooler hours of the day rather than the middle of the day, and if your pet finds travelling stressful, you can use pheromones or blends containing calming plants.
If your pet is travelling in a small plastic cage or closed carrier, be careful, as the heat may build up inside, even when the air-conditioning is on in the car.
If the cage has a mesh side and is well ventilated, make sure it is kept away from the air vents, to protect your pet from draughts.
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Note to Parents
High school students are learning the ways of life and exploring many different academic subjects throughout the school day. This can be easy for some and challenging for others, but it does not matter were your child is located on the spectrum of learning because they all need to be organized and prepared each day for class. To be organized students need to keep their notes and assessments in a notebook. The notebook can be either spiral bound or a a binder. Students also need to be prepared each day for class. This means they have complete the assignment problems from class and have complete the homework problems before class. I would like to ask that you keep an eye on how much homework your student(s) are completing each night to ensure they are prepared for class.
How to be Successful
1. Taking the class notes each day
2. Completing All classwork problems
3. Completing All homework problems
4. Re-writing class notes each night
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On July 14, 1918 in a Swedish town called Uppsala a man was born to create over 50 movies and direct several dozens of plays that raised the ante in art to an almost inaccessible level. Even today while watching his film created as much as half a century ago you realize that there is nothing they’ve lost – it’s more like they’ve gained.
“Probably the greatest film artist … since the invention of the motion picture camera.”
Against the background of all-consuming fancy for “lightness”, pseudo-humor, visual effects and other attributes of modern films, revelations of the Scandinavian director seem to be a bold look into the depth of human soul. It was hard for Bergman to mould his creations because each movie for him was a fight with own fears and daemons that were spoiling his own life as well as ones of people around him. We decided to concentrate on three most important issues and problems that the director addressed in his artwork.
“I am deeply fixated on my childhood.”
Ingmar Bergman grew up in a family of a priest where strictness, that at times bordered cruelty, reigned. Every violation of rules, even the most negligible one, used to be punished with birch-rods, hair pulling and confinement in a closet. Future director realized early in life that religion was far from being perfect and that one should look for God otherwise. This was why he decided to abandon paternal home and dedicate himself to art at an early age. Emotional turmoil of his childhood laid foundation for many films including Fanny and Alexander. Thank to this series not only did Bergman manage to complete Gestalt but also earn love of his fellow citizens. While being already acknowledged all over the world, in his motherland Bergman was considered “way too unintelligible”. 5-hour long family epic without much of art-house tinge caught fancy of millions of people because all of us one way or another get back to childhood and live lives “depending on it”.
“When I finished the picture (The Seventh Seal), my fear (of death) went away.”
According to Bergman, when he was young he was greatly afraid to die. Although during World War II Ingmar served at a theatre and never had to be at the front, universal post-war despondency pierced him. It must have been panic that made the Swede gain this crazy artistic pace – he produced a movie almost every year without abandoning theatre work. Fear to die without getting things off his chest wouldn’t give him a chance to have some rest and enjoy life. By means of incredibly physical and moral efforts Bergman created Medieval parable The Seventh Seal; in one of its scenes its leading character plays chess with death. This film work made the director comprehend vulnerability of every living thing to falling off the edge of earth and he began treating life in a calmer way.
«Sour Swedish Silence Set In».
Solitude is probably Bergman’s major daemon that he in fact never managed to beat. Having lived a whole life of a loner, the director spent his last years at Fårö Island where he was bothered by no one for months in a row. Lack of understanding, inability to sincerely communicate, no desire to talk to others and fear of being misread – the director used it all in his work over Persona movie. In this chamber work the plot concentrates around a popular actress who instantly ceases communicating with surrounding world. Unsociable demeanor of the character is as autobiographic as can be – it is known that the playwright avoided even those he loved. Once, when Andrei Tarkovsky, whose movies Bergman respected, was in Sweden, a meeting was arranged for them but the Scandinavian canceled it last minute. He later regretted the deed and explained it by saying that director Tarkovsky and his films were iconic and Ingmar was afraid to cast a slur on those by meeting human Tarkovsky.
Icerink instead of heated floor. Bomber hat and a puffer jacket as an alternative to terry robe. Eco-hotels and cafes in Canada, Romania and even hot Dubai offer a possibility to have leisure time a-la North Pole. The exotic hotels are not only those near the ocean and tropic palms.
The closer winter holidays are, the louder all-nation weeping for the lost charms of New Year night is. Rains, fogs, and ordinary tiredness obstructed the way of joy into city, and fairy-tale stands back at the North, in far Lapland. The shivering glow of the polar lights fleshes out the ancient tales and blows off the golden dust from the holiday cards...
Behind the window sad eyes of old man peered at Petrograd engulfed by revolutionary fire. This fire spread on his life's work: a proud four-story building was invaded by noisy commissioners and sailors, whose presence seemed a cruel joke after regular customers. Workshop owner Carl Gustavovich Fabergé, apparently, noticed in this chaos approaching decay of his career. However, he could have a secret gleam of hope for another life of his heritage.
Sweden probably isn’t one of the most popular touristic destinations among Ukrainians. Our fellow countrymen far more willingly go to warm states or to more popular European capitals with easier access. Our today’s company, vocalist of “MYACH” band from Kyiv, Yuriy Rozenko, on the contrary, makes sure he visits the kingdom several times a year.
Independent artist originally from the Philippines, Patrick Cabral conquers the world with his unusual artwork. His creations are an innovation that combines the age-old traditions of calligraphy and cutting-edge 3D technologies. His art is a way to change the world for the better, both through aesthetics and through the fulfillment of a social mission.
It is often compared to San Francisco due to abundance of bridges, water, hills and fish restaurants catering for every taste and pocket. There, even usual tap water is real mineral water, the city is awash with luscious leafy green spaces inhabited by undisturbed rabbits and hares... It may seem that this is a fairy tale abode, but in fact this is city of Gothenburg located in Sweden.
And since winged horses of Valkyries darted away to Valhalla forever, Dalecarlian horse has remained the guardian of Vikings’ traditions – painted folk toy, first mentioned in chronicles of 17th century. Dalecarlian horse serves as an amulet of non-touristic Sweden by saving from oblivion ancient fables and beliefs.
The word is, Guy de Maupassant hated Eiffel Tower. The famous writer believed that it was uglifying the face of Paris without benefiting the city. Nevertheless, he could be often seen in a cozy cafe on the top of the construction. In such cases the author of “Bel Ami” used to say that “it was the only way the damned tower dropped out of his sight…”
Stockholm is one of the most expensive cities in the world. Nevertheless, its residents are satisfied with this status of the capital, and it is no wonder since an average salary in the city reaches USD2800... So, at first glance, it is a difficult task to have a good fun in the Swedish capital if you have just USD10 in your pocket. But this task is not hopeless once you stir your imagination and wind up your brain.
Land-art is not simply the landscape design but also the whole direction in art which in thee 21-st century considered one of the most important when only lazy people do not speak about the ‘green technologies’ and environment. The names of stars of such an activity have sturdily come into the speech of the tutors, critics, and connoisseurs, especially they outline Patrick Dougherti.
Sometimes it happens that you look at a postcard with a picture of a city and instantly realize that this is Kyiv, or Moscow, or Rome or your native village. And it isn’t courtesy of your geography teacher but back-breaking efforts of artisans with whose hands commonly familiar architecture masterpieces were created. Today we recall Italian conqueror of marble Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
Treehouses, dug-outs and secret shelters – all the things we used to build when children. Unfortunately, as we grow older, fantasy fades and most of us now live in uncomfortable grey “boxes”. However, there are people who have created dwellings of their dreams by themselves.
“It’s cool to have four fingers because only God has five of them!” If you instantly get what it means, then we share a special occasion: the most renowned TV-family, the legendary Simpsons, celebrate their 31st anniversary on air this december. Quarter-century ago first episode of the iconic series came out on FOX channel.
Today marks 120 years since the birth of the famous Ukrainian artist - Kateryna Bilokur. Her talent has been recognized in her lifetime, her work has been admired by Pablo Picasso, and nowadays her paintings are exhibited in museums, and Google dedicates its doodle to her. And it all started in totalitarian times...
A few centuries ago sea transport was not just the most popular, but the only way to get from point A to point B. However, as you know, force majeure occur on any roads, even on water routs, and through a long history of mankind many ships did not manage to reach their destination ports and ended underwater. Nevertheless, the relative "reservation" allows wreck vessels to live a second life as a museum.
Can you remember the most unusual dish that you had ever a chance to try? You decide what kind of food it was: something exotic; those insects that we can hardly imagine as an ingredient; strange drink with a bitter taste; an unexpected combination of bitter and sour... Everyone has his or her own unforgettable experience in this regard.
About Picasso as a distinctive artist, graphic artist and sculptor, we know to some extent everything. Meanwhile, his other incarnations are pushed into the background. Ilya Ehrenburgh once very concisely described Pablo Picasso’s relations with his era: “20th century found in him its own dynamite expert, its own philosopher and its own poet”.
In our “Know us” column, we usually talk about outstanding Ukrainians who have achieved significant success in one area or another. However, our today's hero - Eugène Deslaw or Yevgeny Slabchenko is very difficult to fit into some kind of framework. As he reached heights in several areas at once, being not only the most real Renaissance Man of the 20th century, but also a patriot of his Ukraine.
Cinematography is probably the most "technological" art form that mankind has ever come up with – no matter how much talent, imagination and energy creators of a movie have, almost every stage of creation process one way or another comes to technologies; and without them ideas will remain just ideas.
In the childhood a famous Frenchman from Ukraine was a blue-eyed dreamer. Once all his dreams came true. Whatever he wanted, everything was easy, as if luck was following him. HBe was singing in the choir, he made his best at artistic talent - and, finally, he succeeded in ballet. | <urn:uuid:bd94ab03-0ffd-46a9-aba6-2e34497eb9f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.theoutlook.com.ua/article/4701/swedish-loner-ingmar-bergman.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.972073 | 2,410 | 2.234375 | 2 |
What is COP26?
Learn more about this super important climate event…
In November 2021, more than 200 world leaders will meet for an event, known as COP26, to discuss climate change. Read on to learn more about this super important event…
What is COP26?
First things first – what does ‘COP26’ even mean?! Well, ‘COP’ stands for ‘conference of parties’ – a meeting that involves lots of different people working towards the same goal.
COP26 is the 26th meeting of members of the ‘United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change‘ (UNFCCC).
It’s a bit of a mouthful, but all you really need to know is that COP26 is a huge, important meeting all about taking action against climate change.
It began in 1994, when many world leaders became part of the UNFCCC and agreed that their countries would help to combat global warming. Since then, a COP has been held every year so that decision-makers can get together and discuss what to do next.
Where is the meeting?
COP26 will take place at the Scottish Events Campus (SEC) in Glasgow, Scotland, and will be the biggest meeting of world leaders that the UK has ever hosted!
Each year, COP takes place in a different country. COP25 was held in Madrid, Spain, in 2019, during which Greta Thunberg gave a now-famous speech. During this meeting, important targets for cutting carbon dioxide emissions were agreed.
COP26 was supposed to take place in November 2020, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic it was delayed by a year. The conference is now happening on the 1st-12th of November 2021.
Who will be at COP26?
Representatives from nearly every country in the world! This includes world leaders like the U.K.’s Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, and President Joe Biden of the U.S.A., along with a whole host of other important people.
Members of the press will attend, to report about the conference on TV, radio and in newspapers. Plus, representatives from over 2,000 NGOs* are usually present, too.
*NGOs are ‘non-governmental organisations‘, such as Action Against Hunger, Greenpeace, and WWF – all have an interest in the outcome of COP26.
What will they talk about?
At COP meetings, governments from across the globe agree on targets for the future, with the aim of reducing greenhouse gases and protecting the planet. These decisions affect people all over the globe; they help us all work together to become greener and more sustainable.
Five years ago at COP21 in Paris, every member of the UNFCCC signed the Paris Agreement – an international commitment to tackle climate change. At COP26, members will review whether this agreement is working, and highlight any progress.
In the Paris Agreement, nations agreed that they would:
1. Reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, and invest in renewable energy sources, like wind and solar power.
2. Prevent global temperatures from warming by more than 2°C, and try to keep the increase as low as 1.5°C.
3. Help less-developed countries become more environmentally friendly, by supporting them financially.
4. Review progress on the Agreement every five years.
Why is COP26 important?
COP26 is the most important COP since 2015, when the Paris Agreement was created. It is an opportunity for the world to see what has been achieved since these targets were set – and pay attention to what hasn’t.
Hopefully, there will be new decisions on how to cut carbon emissions, and the world will make more progress on combatting climate change.
The after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic will also have an impact on COP26. Many governments are now paying more attention to the environment. As a result, they are hoping to rebuild their economies in a greener and more sustainable way.
Can I get involved?
You might not be able to attend COP26, but you can still make your voice heard! There are tonnes of ways to get involved with the UK’s ‘Year of Climate Action‘.
Simply talking about climate change with family and friends can inspire others to learn more about it and why they should care. Or if you want to take your passion one step further, why not write to your MP? You could tell them what YOU think is important, and let them know how passionate you are about saving our planet! | <urn:uuid:205c59e7-c9ad-4f64-8ca3-09503319c72d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.natgeokids.com/au/discover/science/nature/what-is-cop26-glasgow/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96609 | 951 | 3.078125 | 3 |
There comes a time when your child will sit at the computer for the first time, that is to master unfamiliar to him hitherto a virtual world, the world is not easy, but in today's world simply needed. Of course, you do not impose your child the basics of the profession, "Computer Operator" or dryly explain the principle of the computer. You simply opt for a simple exciting game, which will be the guiding thread for him in the world of computer technology. Kids Games Online - a great opportunity to have fun and just show a child of the computer and the Internet, develop memory and motor skills, intelligence, logic, attention and reaction. And you do not have to force your child to classes - you will have another problem calmly and without shouting to tear your little student from the monitor. Games for kids online - it is the most extensive and diverse range of games. Among them is the universal game that will be interesting and very useful to both boys and girls. There are games for the target audience. Games for girls designed to instill a sense of the future of women of style and action, good artistic taste, to learn to get aesthetic pleasure from the beauty. Games for boys are mostly for little restless, "took off" excess energy. They are faster and more dynamic. This rpg, shooters, puzzle quest - with developing elements of the game for the boys require agility, reaction speed, attention. But most of all games for kids online - is a versatile game, aimed at the development of logic and attention. Among them, quests, puzzles, Tetris and balls, "Battleship", "Tic Tac Toe", mahjong and other logic games. Games increasingly complex, stimulating the child's brain for continuous operation. After all, he has to perform very complex tasks, to develop creative thinking, imagination, a lot to remember and look for the only logically correct decision. All it will take your child on a long spent usefully, the time that you can devote to your business, and no one can distract. It's safe to say that online games for kids - an invention worthy of a Nobel Prize. Play, learning - it is much more useful to the empty seat in front of the TV. Many games for children younger players pose challenges that they will face in the adult world, that is, is a simulator of life, not only to learn and develop, but also to impart specific skills and abilities through adult role models. | <urn:uuid:d8770f1b-cbb7-4a73-81a1-c255f94857ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cx-en.igames7.com/kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.946819 | 500 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Administrative Leaders ’Awareness of Emotional Intelligence and its Role in the Effectiveness of Leadership at King Saud University
وعي القيادات الإدارية والأكاديمية بالذكاء العاطفي ودوره في فاعلية القيادة بجامعة الملك سعود
This study aimed to identify the administrative leaders 'awareness of emotional intelligence and its role in the effectiveness of leadership at King Saud University in Riyadh and to identify the extent of administrative and academic leaders 'familiarity with the concept and elements of emotional intelligence, it also aimed to recognize the role of emotional intelligence in the effective leadership. In this study, the researcher used the descriptive-analytical method, she also used the questionnaire as the study tool, which was distributed to the study community, which consisted of administrative and academic leadership at King Saud University in Riyadh, the number reached (151) questionnaires suitable for analysis, the results showed that the administrative and academic leadership at King Saud University have awareness of the concept and elements of emotional intelligence to an acceptable degree, where social skills and motivation came in a higher degree for leaders, followed by self-awareness after that empathy and in the last emotional management. The results showed the leadership effectiveness has a strongly acceptable degree. The results also showed that there is a strong direct correlation between the awareness of administrative and academic leaders, with the concept and elements of emotional intelligence and leadership effectiveness. The study recommended the need for administrative leadership at King Saud University to pay attention to emotional intelligence in its five elements, to reach a distinguished level of performance and distinguished leadership of the university's administrations, especially after the university's independence. In addition to conducting training courses that help increase the emotional intelligence skills of both managers and employees, especially training them to manage their feelings and recognize the feelings of others, so that emotional intelligence becomes part of the organizational culture of the university. | <urn:uuid:e2fb45c8-fe8e-4214-bf50-67a0e6a63381> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://journals.ajsrp.com/index.php/jeals/article/view/4303 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926208 | 456 | 2.03125 | 2 |
Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children
Every once in a while a book comes along that merits special attention. Shelley Jackson’s Riddance; or, The Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children is one of those books. It’s masterfully written, wildly entertaining, incredibly clever, and a creepily thrilling good read. The first new novel in twelve years from the critically acclaimed author of Half Life, Riddance is many things: it is a spin on nineteenth century spiritualism gone too far, a critique of the way we treat those who are somehow “different” in our society, a gothic-comic thrill-ride rife with spookiness, downright slapstick hilarious in places, and a subtle allegory on language and the act of writing. That Jackson is a master of her craft should come as no news to anyone familiar with her work but what she has done in this new novel is create a premise as original as any in modern fiction and characters as memorable as any of those referenced in the novel (Jane Eyre and Ishmael among others). The novel’s meditations on life after death or death within life, or life as death, will leave you haunted and questioning the very nature of human existence.
The novel is split into various parts and uses a variety of textual elements creating a sort of “found” narrative that enhances its guise as a gothic novel. The language throughout is richly wrought, often with a use of antiquated phrasing that serves to draw the reader in to the fabulous world Jackson creates. Set both in the world of the living and the world of the dead (and various permutations in between), the novel primarily takes place at the Sybil Joines Vocational School for Ghost Speakers and Hearing-Mouth Children. Unfolding in a sometimes circuitous timeline, the story is told through various voices (living and dead). These include dispatches from the land of the dead by the Headmistress Sybil Joines speaking through a technology she designed and transcribed by her secretary and soon-to-be successor Jane Grandison. Grandison types her own biography in the breaks between transmissions from the Headmistress. There is an “editor” of the collection—a sort of academic who becomes obsessed with the school and whose research provides details positioned as historical including a selection of beautifully wrought archival materials that appear as images throughout the novel. There are selections from “A Visitor’s Observations” written by a linguistic anthropologist who visits the school to find a cure for his own stuttering but instead finds “a thesis” based on the idea that “language had its origins in mourning.” There are also “letters to dead authors” written by the Headmistress at first soliciting for funds for her school and later working to show her descent into what might be called madness if the narrative didn’t force the reader to question all assumptions around definitions of sanity and the very nature of life and death.
The School seems at first to be a sort of sanctuary for children who stutter. Ostracized by the wider world and their families, these children come to the school not to be cured but to become a part of Headmistress Joines’s larger plan. Sybil Joines herself suffered under the ministrations of her cruel father’s attempts to “cure” her stutter. What she discovered instead, she tells us, is that those who stutter actually have the capacity to let the dead speak through them. Her school, its lessons, instruments, exercises, and training all are based around aiding the dead in their desire to communicate. Joines is a pioneer in what the novel calls “necrophysics” (practitioners are “necronauts”) and she is singular in her obsession. When students begin to disappear, the board, the trustees, some parents, and a few bureaucrats begin to pay attention. Every major enemy of the school is male: from the doctor who discovers ectoplasm is a drug rivaling opium by testing it on the children, to the School Inspector whose demise frames the novel. Those who do not understand the important work of Sybil Adjudicate Joines are all men, echoing that first terrible man—her father—whose balance of torture and neglect would have broken a lesser being. Instead, Sybil (quite literally) rises from the flames of her childhood and creates her own science and school focused on allowing the dead to speak through children with speech impediments that rival her own.
The novel opens with an image of a partial newspaper clipping describing a murder at a “school for stammerers” quickly followed by an Editor’s Introduction. The editor is an academic writing in our present who discovers the clipping in a book in a random used bookstore, “I owe my discovery of the Sybil Joines Vocational School to a bookstore and a ghost.” We are warned that the book is “often disjointed and equivocal” but that “true eccentrics may find… something—a map, a manual—that they have long been seeking.” It’s a classic opening for a modern gothic novel and the narrative proceeds apace. While there are distinct similarities between the voices of the varied patchwork of sources, this is all a part of the plan: the Editor is an academic obsessed with the school and its Headmistress, the Secretary is a self-effacing assistant to the Headmistress whose goal is to one day become her, and the Headmistress is a woman whose goal for herself and all of her students is to become mouthpieces for the dead: a cacophony of voices that ultimately are filtered through her own singular vision and philosophy.
Throughout the novel there are subtle (and not so subtle) ruminations on language, the written word, and the acts of reading and writing. Before Sybil Joines discovers her ability to allow the dead to speak and founds her school dedicated to necrophysics, she discovers her father’s library. A neglected and abused child whose stutter is so severe she often cannot speak, she learns to love books—initially as an escape from her terrible childhood and then as a source of sustenance (her father starves her), “I took to eating books…I loved books not spiritually but carnally. And although I did not know it, I was practicing to channel the dead, who have always found in the printed page their most reliable medium.” She also learns to write in a journal giving herself an outlet, “I poured into it all the thoughts I could not frame in speech.” Joines soon uses her writing to assume “a false identity” and the Editor argues about questions “regarding the authorship of this text” (particularly the Headmistress’s Final Dispatch) in an amusingly circuitous manner that is a clear reference to larger questions around authorship and identity. While Joines considers herself a scientist, she begins the practice of writing to dead authors (who are frequently actually characters in novels) because “it seems to me that writers have made greater progress than scientists (myself excepted) on a venture of the highest importance to our world today, tomorrow, and yesterday: communication with the dead.”
For Joines, her school is populated with stutterers because she believes that “stuttering, like writing, is an amateur form of necromancy.” In a letter to Melville, Joines writes, “In the book, the author’s voice has become a place. This place is the land of the dead… I consider writers my fellow necronauts.” In the “Final Dispatch”—ostensibly Joines’s voice as dictated to her Secretary, Jackson plays further with ideas of identity and writing, “I exist, at present, only on this page, since I exist, at present, only in these words… I say I, your right middle finger strikes a key, an inked hammer impresses a letter on the void, and—mirabile dictum—I am.”
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In the 100-plus-year history of film, a lot of actors have wound up with tough guy images. Mention tough guys to classic film fans, you’re probably going to hear a lot of James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, and Edward G. Robinson. If you were to talk to someone more into modern movies, you’d probably get Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis, and Vin Diesel. Personally, I’d be hard pressed to call any of them the toughest actors of all time. To me, I think the most unsung tough people in film history have got to be silent film actors. Seriously, you had to be pretty tough and fearless if you were going to make some of the most beloved movies from the silent era. I’m pretty sure if anyone went up to Bruce Willis and told him to do some of the things that a lot of early film actors had to do, he would say, “You have got to be kidding me.” Now, let’s take a moment to appreciate what all these fine actors had to endure.
- • Harold Lloyd lost his thumb and forefinger when a prop bomb he was holding accidentally exploded.
• Dolores Costello liked to refer to 1928′s Noah’s Ark as “Mud, Blood, and Flood.” In the documentary series “Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film,” she recalled going to her dressing room on set one day and finding a very bandaged extra leaning outside of her door. When she asked if she could help, he explained that an ambulance would come back for him since he was in better shape than most of the other extras. A couple of extras were killed while filming the flood scene.
• While filming the finale of Greed in Death Valley, director Erich von Stroheim insisted on actually filming in Death Valley. In August. Jean Hersholt had to be hospitalized after he lost 27 pounds from being in such extreme heat.
• Lillian Gish’s hands really took a beating on sets. While filming The Wind in the Mojave Desert in 1928, Lillian burnt one of her hands when she touched a doorknob in the 120-degree heat. Eight years earlier, when she was filming the famous ice floe scene in Way Down East, her right hand was permanently damaged from being left in the icy water for so long.
• While making 1919′s Male and Female, Thomas Meighan carried a leopard that had recently killed a man at the zoo it was in. Basically, Cecil B. DeMille said, “Hey, don’t put that leopard to sleep! Let’s give it to Thomas Meighan instead!” There is another famous scene in that movie of Gloria Swanson with real, live lions, which she insisted on doing herself.
• And last, but certainly not least, there’s Buster Keaton. I don’t think anyone loved doing stunt work more than Buster. He insisted on doing his own stunts in all of his greatest silent movies. Famously, he broke his neck while filming the water tank scene in Sherlock, Jr. but didn’t even know it until a long time after the fact. The most famous scene of his entire career is probably from Steamboat Bill, Jr., where he stands in front of a house and the entire front side of the house falls down around him, but he happens to be standing where a window is. That stunt involved a lot of precision because if his position was off by just a couple of inches, he would have been killed. When Buster was signed to MGM, one of the things that upset him most was that MGM wouldn’t let him do his own dangerous stunts anymore. And this is why I consider Buster Keaton to be the toughest guy to ever get in front of a movie camera.
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Natural organic materials such as bamboo have a very important and unique role in the effort to alleviate housing and infrastructure problems, particularly in developing countries. Their use is of a special relevance in the context of widespread damage and destruction caused by natural disasters owing to global warming, which in part is attributed to the vast use of polluting and high-energy-demanding materials, such as steel and cement.
However, after almost four decades of systematic research and development into bamboo, there is sufficient scientific information to increase the use of bamboo as a substitute for the industrial and polluting materials in many applications of the construction industry.
Bamboo grows in abundance in many parts of the world, especially in tropical and subtropical regions. Bamboo forests play an important role in controlling water cycles, reducing erosion and sequestering carbon from the atmosphere.
The culms of four to five years of age can be effectively used in construction and other engineering products. An increased use of bamboo does not pose a risk for bamboo forests; on the contrary, it will create economic incentives for farmers to develop bamboo plantations and use the bamboo shoots for their everyday lives.
An increase in the use of bamboo in construction could lead to energy savings, conservation of the world's scarce resources and reduction in environmental pollution. Bamboo forests are the most easily available resources for many communities, which can be used to solve housing problems. This is also a challenge to the science and skills of engineers accustomed to using well developed technologies.
The structural efficiency of bamboo compared to that of other engineering materials such as steel has been shown, which may be attributed to the high strength of the uniaxial reinforcing fibres and the hollow cylindrical shape of the culm. However, these characteristics along with the geometrical irregularities of the raw material pose challenges to develop efficient and cost-effective structural joints.
In addition, the major factors facing the development of durable bamboo constructions are the inherent weaknesses of the material, such as high water absorption and susceptibility to fungal and insect attack. Bamboo contains hemicelluloses, starch, sugar, tannins, certain phenols and lignin, which can be attacked by soluble extractives, preventing it from having a good durability characteristic.
Following years of research and development since the 1970s in South America, there is sufficient scientific information to increment the use of bamboo as a substitute for steel in many applications. Studies using timber test methods have shown that outdoor laminated bamboo has properties comparable to timber and glue-laminated timber.
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Did you know that our best-selling pamphlet is also available in audio format? I know, most people don’t use CDs anymore, but lots of older people still have CD players, can play CDs on their computer, or in their cars. In our busy world, lots of people would rather listen to a description of the Baha’i Faith than read it. Many young people don’t have time to read, and many old people have trouble reading due to poor eyesight.
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Discussion on a payment system to circumvent Western sanctions against Russian banks was initiated during Russian Foreign Minister’s visit in April, say sources
In a move that is likely to give further boost to India-Russia bilateral trade, t
he government is now set to formally work on allowing Russian banks, not under Western sanctions, to open accounts in the country. This follows the RBI’s decision on Monday to allow trade settlement between India and other nations in rupees.
“Now that the mechanism for doing transactions in rupee has been approved, India and Russia can put in place the banking framework required to carry out rupee-denominated trade that will allow it to steer clear of banking sanctions imposed by the West on Moscow.
Moreover, since the transaction will happen only in rupee, there won’t be any foreign exchange loss for India,” an official tracking the development said.
Under the mechanism, non-sanctioned Russian banks, such as Gazprom, could be allowed to open vostro accounts in participating Indian banks, for instance UCO, SBI or Bank of Maharashtra. When Indian importers buys oil or any other item from Russia, they will make payments in rupee while will be credited to these special vostro accounts of the Russian banks.
Indian exporters of goods to Russia will then be paid in rupee from the balances in the vostro accounts.
Although, Russia has a huge trade surplus with India, under the RBI rules, the rupee surplus balance may be used for permissible capital and current account transactions in accordance with mutual agreement. “Trading partners holding surplus rupee balance may use it for investments as per given rules. So, even if Russia cannot import enough from India to have a zero balance, the surplus could be used for investments in the country,” the official explained.
India’s bilateral trade with Russia in 2021-22 was $ 13 billion of which India imported goods worth $9.8 billion and exported items valued at $3.2 billion, according to Indian government data.
Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24,
seven Russian banks were banned from using the SWIFT messaging system that effectively stopped them from participating in international trade. The multiple sanctions targeting Russian oligarchs, a number of major Russian banks and several state entities and their subsidiaries, led to fear amongst Indian companies doing business with both Russia and the West of secondary sanctions that may be aimed at them, the source added.
Although the West’s sanctions against Russia do not include oil at the moment, New Delhi has been facing heavy criticism globally for increasing its oil imports from the country after Moscow waged war on Ukraine. Russian oil imports account for 10 per cent of India’s crude import basket in April 2022, up from 0.2 per cent prior to the Ukraine war, according to industry figures.
“The RBI, by allowing invoicing and payments for international trade in rupees, has now created a framework that will enable India and Russia to carry out rupee-denominated trade and this will take care of all fears associated with exposure to the Western payment system. Once the rupee trading arrangement is in place, India and Russia can continue trading in oil and other products without apprehensions,” the source said.
Both India and Russia have been discussing the rupee-denominated trade mechanism since Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s visit to New Delhi on March 31-April 1 this year and
the proposal had initially been floated by the Russian side to circumvent the sanctions, the source added.
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A PLANET-HUNTING orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system has discovered two distant planets this week, five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, made an early discovery of “super-Earth” and “hot Earth” planets in solar systems at least 49 light-years away, marking the satellite’s first discovery since its April launch.
TESS is on a two-year, $US337 million ($A463 million) mission to expand astronomers’ known catalogue of so-called exoplanets, worlds circling distant stars.
While the two planets are too hot to support life, TESS Deputy Science Director Sara Seager expects many more such discoveries.
“We will have to wait and see what else TESS discovers,” Seager said.
“We do know that planets are out there, littering the night sky, just waiting to be found.”
TESS is designed to build on the work of its predecessor, the Kepler space telescope, which discovered the bulk of some 3700 exoplanets documented during the past 20 years and is running out of fuel.
NASA expects to pinpoint thousands more previously unknown worlds, perhaps hundreds of them Earth-sized or “super-Earth” sized — no larger than twice as big as our home planet.
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Wear a mask!
District guidelines call for everyone—employees, visitors, vendors, parents, tenants, etc.—who is in a district facility wear a mask. Employees are expected to use their personal face masks that cover their nose and mouth, but the district will provide one if needed.
Personal face masks must adhere to the following guidelines:
- Fit snugly over the nose bridge, mouth and chin.
- Be secured to minimize the need to adjust frequently.
- Be work-appropriate, non-offensive, not considered derogatory or otherwise disrespectful to team members or visitors. Logos, graphics, and designs must be professionally appropriate as outlined in the district’s dress code policy. (This includes, but is not limited to, vulgar slogans/designs/graphics, profanity, etc).
- Not be loose material that could get caught in machinery or cause injury.
- Be worn prior to entering the building at all times.
- Masks do not need to be medical grade.
- Masks or respirators with exhalation valves are not recommended, since they are not effective as source control and decrease protection of persons around the wearer.
- Gaiter type neck fleece are not advised as face coverings for COVID-19 prevention, as there is evidence they offer little protection, and may increase transmission and dispersion of small droplets.
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Purdue Polytechnic’s Vetria Byrd and a multidisciplinary research team received a five-year $15 million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish I-GUIDE, a new institute for geospatial data-driven scientific research.
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Students Matthew Fitzgerald and Shiv Patel used the laser engraver at Bechtel Innovation Design Center to inscribe railroad tracks once buried under State Street with Purdue emblems.
The Bechtel Innovation Design Center is a makerspace on the Purdue campus that provides students with training and access to high-end equipment with which to build prototypes of their design ideas. Students from any Purdue major can use the waterjet, computer-aided design software, 3D printers or laser engravers.
Students, faculty and staff have been settling in to the Bechtel Innovation Design Center (BIDC), a state-of-the-art collaborative learning facility which opened in September 2017.
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COVID-19 is not dying down in Los Angelos, CA. Healthcare officials are requesting additional help after the surge of COVID cases post-Thanksgiving gatherings. They healthcare system is finding it difficult to manage the cases given that their system is very over extended.
According to Webmd.com, “A person now dies every 10 minutes in L.A. County from COVID-19 - and since many of these deaths are preventable, our collective focus should be on doing right to save lives,” Barbara Ferrer, LA County director of public health, said in a news release. “I hope we can each find the strength and courage to take responsibility for each other's well-being. Follow the public health directives. These are the only tools that will work right now."
After every holiday, the healthcare system in all states have had a spike in cases but specifically Alaska, Alabama, California, the District of Columbia, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Oklahoma, and New York according webmd.com. Currently, 81 Million cases of COVID-19 have been recorded and 1.8 Million deaths have occurred nationally. In LA County some people have or will pass away every 10 minutes due to COVID-19. Governor Gavin Newsom believes "We could have a surge on top of a surge on top of a surge in January and February in addition to the current cases.
Everyone, please remain safe!
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There are many medical complications associated with bulimia nervosa, many of which are a direct result of both the mode and the frequency of purging behaviors. This course reviews in detail the many complications of the two major modes of purging, namely, self-induced vomiting and laxative abuse.
a). List at least three medical complications associated with bulimia.
b). Discuss the body systems impacted by bulimia.
c). Describe the two major modes of purging.
d). Identify at least two medical complications of laxative abuse.
The target audience for this event includes psychologists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed counselors, MFT’s, and other clinical mental health professionals.
Instructor(s): Jennifer Sweeton, Psy.D, MS, MA
Material Author(s): Philip S. Mehler & Melanie Rylander
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Description: Even before the April 20 explosion on its rig off the Louisiana coast, BP spent millions of dollars lobbying Washington’s power players. BP will now tap that power and influence as it tries to repair its image.
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- Do you believe that the public reaction toward BP is fair?
- Do you believe the government and regulatory agencies have treated BP fairly?
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Symptoms of a tooth infection include severe toothache, fever, swelling of the face or jaw, and drainage of pus from the affected tooth. Treatment for a tooth infection typically involves antibiotics to clear the infection and possibly a root canal to remove the infected tissue. In some cases, the affected tooth may need to be extracted. For this reason, it is important to see the best dentist in Grand Junction as soon as possible if you think you may have a tooth infection.
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A root canal is a common dental procedure that is performed to save a tooth that has become damaged or infected. The dental pulp is the soft tissue that resides in the middle of the tooth. It contains blood vessels, nerves, and connective tissue. When the pulp becomes damaged or infected, it can cause severe pain. During a root canal procedure, we will remove the damaged pulp from the canal to relieve your pain. We will then seal the canal to prevent further damage.
How To Avoid A Tooth Infection
Good oral hygiene is essential for maintaining a healthy mouth, and a fluoride is an important tool in achieving this goal. Fluoridated drinking water helps to prevent tooth decay by strengthening the enamel, and brushing with fluoride toothpaste can further protect against cavities. In addition, it is important to clean between the teeth on a daily basis, using either dental floss or an interdental cleaner. Our friends, Pinellas Park Fl, at Park Boulevard Family Dentistry believe that this helps to remove plaque from areas that are difficult to reach with a toothbrush. Finally, be sure to replace your toothbrush frequently, as the bristles can become frayed over time. By following these simple tips, you can help to keep your mouth healthy and decay-free.
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- Considerations for best form of ownership
- What does an ownership entity do?
- What are my options for an ownership entity?
Real estate investors are faced with many important decisions on how they will own and operate their rental properties, including the legal ownership structure of the property. Should you legally hold the property in your personal name, or should you set up some type of ownership like a corporation or LLC?
The first thing to consider in regards to LLCs is taxes. Generally, you are not taxed differently if you decide to hold the real estate individually or in an LLC. If you own residential rental property, you will likely be taxed at your individual tax rate either way. If there are no tax advantages, the question becomes, "Why go through the trouble to set up an LLC for your investment property?"
The main reason we urge our investor partners to hold their rental property in an LLC is for legal protection. Vendors, tenants, and neighbors can all pose a potential legal liability. By holding your property in an LLC, you are setting up a legal barrier between you personally and your property. To learn more about insuring your rental properties, watch our video here. For example, if your tenant slips and falls on your property, they may decide to sue you. An LLC acts as a safeguard. If you have the legal entity structured properly, the tenant may only "sue" the legal entity of your property, not you personally. This offers a layer of protection from your other assets.
LLCs can also protect your property from you! Let’s say, for instance, you get in a car accident and seriously injure the other person. They can sue you personally but will not be able to pursue action against any of the property you hold in an LLC.
There are a few different types of ownership entities for investors to choose from. We’ve listed some of them below, but we strongly recommend speaking with a legal professional before making any decisions if you have questions.
- LLC – Limited Liability Company: This is the most common and is generally our recommendation to investors looking to set up an outside entity for their assets.
- LLP – Limited Liability Partnership
- LLLP – Limited Liability Limited Partnership is also recognized in the state of Colorado
The cost to set up an LLC is very minimal. You register with the state for $10 and are responsible for filing a separate tax return come tax season. Don’t let these be a deterrent.
Our final recommendations include taking into consideration the length of ownership and the value of the property and portfolio. For short-term investments, an LLC may not be worth the effort. However, for long-term buy and hold investors, we do urge setting up an LLC to hold your rental assets. When deciding how to allocate your assets among LLCs, we recommend maxing out a single LLC for up to $5 million, the typical cap for insurance coverage. It is not necessary to set up an LLC for each of your investment assets, which would become time-consuming and expensive.
Talk to your tax professional and your legal professional before setting up an LLC or the like as you must do it properly to obtain the full benefit.
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Don Johnson is a professional American gambler, Blackjack player and former corporate executive born in Salem. He rose to fame when he beat Atlantic City Casinos and walked away with over $15 million over six months in 2011.
Don Johnson is one of the most famous names in modern advantage playing and not because he was some lucky high roller player. He used his PhD in Mathematicians to help develop a strategy. Furthermore, he gained an insurmountable amount of knowledge running a profitable Horse racing syndicate in Philadelphia Park which evolved into Parx Casino. This alone was enough to make him the success story he has become.
Don Johnsons Gambling Career
In the early 2000s, Johnson founded Heritage Development, a company that uses computer-assisted wagering programmes for horse racing. In 2010 he was invited to play at a high stakes Blackjack game. However, before accepting, he negotiated several changes to the standard game of Blackjack to gain the mathematical edge. Some of the changes included a 20% rebate on his losses, six decks and re-split of aces.
He also beat Tropicana out of close on $6 000 000, Borgata out of $5 000 000 and Caesars out of $4 000 000. His totals winnings were on $15.1 million, and the casinos felt the losses. Tropicana and Borgata didn’t ban him, but they stopped him from playing under specific conditions and limits, while Caesars banned him with immediate effect.
Don Johnson is what is referred to in the casino industry as a whale. Casinos earn 80% of their profits from these high rolling gamblers. However, Johnson did buck the loser’s trend and never cheated. Instead, he used mathematical elements and strategy. However, he has been penalized by many casinos due to his profitable strategy. | <urn:uuid:2953867c-084e-4b16-ad78-b57d8848b459> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://trippycasino.com/page/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976694 | 382 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Tardive dyskinesia is an involuntary neurological movement disorder. The condition is where your face and sometimes your body make sudden, jerky, repetitive movements that you cannot control. It can develop as a serious side effect of certain medication, most commonly antipsychotic drugs often used to treat certain mental health conditions, for example schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. The longer the medication is used, the more the risk of developing tardive dyskinesia increases.
Long-term use of these drugs may produce biochemical abnormalities in some people which causes them to develop tardive dyskinesia. People who are taking older versions of these drugs, known as first generation antipsychotics, are thought to be more likely to develop tardive dyskinesia than people using newer medications. The reason that some people develop the condition after using these drugs and some people do not is unknown.
Tardive dystonia is a more severe form of tardive dyskinesia in which slower twisting movements of the neck and trunk muscles are prominent.
What causes tardive dyskinesia?
Tardive dyskinesia is caused by long-term use of a class of drugs known as neuroleptics. These are also known as antipsychotic drugs. These drugs block dopamine receptors in the brain. Dopamine is a chemical that helps control emotions and the pleasure centre of your brain and also helps your motor functions.
Too little dopamine may interfere with your muscles and cause the signs and symptoms of tardive dyskinesia. Patients taking long-term antipsychotics should be closely monitored by their doctor. The doctor can perform tests to see if there are any signs of tardive dyskinesia, or if they already have symptoms, to see if these are improving.
Is tardive dyskinesia fatal?
The effects of tardive dyskinesia on an individual should not be underestimated. It impacts on quality of life and there is an increase in the risk of significant negative health impacts in some patients. Tardive dyskinesia is not usually fatal in itself. Some studies have suggested increased mortality rates in patients with tardive dyskinesia, however, there is no evidence to show a specific association with any specific cause of death and tardive dyskinesia.
The long-term prognosis for people with tardive dyskinesia varies. When diagnosed early, stopping the medication that is triggering symptoms can resolve the problem, though in some cases, the symptoms may persist indefinitely or even worsen over time. While the majority of tardive dyskinesia symptoms are mild, some can be severe and can cause difficulty swallowing, problems with speech, and trouble breathing.
Who is most likely to get it?
Research suggests that you are most likely to get tardive dyskinesia if you have been taking antipsychotic drugs for more than three months, you are a woman who has gone through the menopause, are aged over 55 and regularly use alcohol or drugs. Some research suggests that the risks might also be greater if you are of African descent.
Older (first generation) antipsychotics are particularly associated with causing tardive dyskinesia. Newer (second generation) antipsychotics were developed with the aim of reducing side effects, but they can still cause tardive dyskinesia. They are thought to be less likely to cause these symptoms but the difference is still unclear, and research around this is ongoing.
What are the signs and symptoms of tardive dyskinesia?
Tardive dyskinesia is characterised by repetitive, involuntary movements.
These can include:
- Tongue movements.
- Repetitive chewing.
- Lip smacking.
- Lip puckering.
- Pursing of the lips.
- Excessive eye blinking.
- Puffing out of cheeks.
- Rapid, involuntary movements of the limbs, torso and fingers.
In some cases an individual’s legs can be affected which can make it difficult for them to walk.
Dyskinesia of the limbs can cause you to:
- Wiggle your fingers.
- Tap your feet.
- Sway from side to side.
- Thrust out your pelvis.
- Flap your arms.
What does tardive dyskinesia feel like?
People with a mild form of tardive dyskinesia may not notice their symptoms or be bothered by them. Other people describe it as being able to constantly feel movements in their tongue, face or body. It can sometimes cause people pain or discomfort. If the movements are continuous this can cause people to ache and feel exhausted from the movements.
If the movements are in the mouth area or tongue, people have described their tongue becoming raw and sore. People have also described feeling embarrassed by their symptoms, leading to social anxiety.
Which drugs can cause tardive dyskinesia?
Tardive dyskinesia can be caused as a result of taking certain medication, most commonly antipsychotic drugs which are dopamine receptor blocking drugs. Long-term use of these drugs may produce biochemical abnormalities in the area of the brain known as the striatum. Sometimes people are not always properly informed about the effects of these drugs before starting to take them, however, awareness of the condition and reasons for it is improving and the symptoms of patients should be monitored.
Antipsychotic medication is a type of medication which is used to treat mental health conditions causing symptoms of psychosis. Psychosis is a change in the normal functioning of the brain. Someone who develops psychosis will have their own unique set of symptoms and experiences according to their circumstances.
The three main symptoms associated with a psychotic episode are:
- Hallucinations – Where someone sees, hears, smells, tastes or feels things that do not exist outside of their mind.
- Delusions – A delusion is where someone has an unshakeable belief in something which is untrue. A person with persecutory delusions may believe that an individual or organisation is making plans to hurt or kill them. A person with grandiose delusions may believe they have power or authority. For example, they may believe they are the prime minister of the country, or they have the power to bring people back from the dead. People who have psychotic episodes are usually unaware that their delusions or hallucinations are not real, which may lead them to feel frightened or distressed.
- Disturbed or confused thoughts – People with psychosis sometimes have disturbed, disrupted or confused patterns of thoughts. Signs of this can include rapid and constant speech, disturbed speech, for example they may switch from one subject to another mid-sentence, or a sudden loss in train of thought, resulting in an abrupt pause in conversation or activity.
You can access further reading about the signs and symptoms of psychosis by visiting our knowledge base.
There are other mental health conditions whose symptoms include having psychotic experiences.
- Some forms of bipolar disorder.
- Severe depression.
- Schizoaffective disorder.
- The psychotic symptoms of personality disorder.
Some antipsychotic drugs are also used to treat other conditions such as nausea, issues with balance or persistent hiccups. They can also be used to treat some dementia patients who are having psychotic experiences; however, this is only usually recommended if they pose a risk to themselves or others. The Alzheimer’s Society provide some helpful information about antipsychotic drug approaches in dementia care.
Examples of antipsychotic medications that can cause tardive dyskinesia include:
- Fluphenazine – Prescribed to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and psychotic symptoms, including hostility and hallucinations.
- Risperidone (Risperdal) – Prescribed to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Olanzapine (Zypreza) – Prescribed to treat symptoms of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
- Haloperidol (Haldol) – Prescribed to treat psychotic disorders, Tourette syndrome and behaviour disorders.
- Perphenazine (Trilafon) – Used to treat psychotic disorders, for example schizophrenia. It can also be used to control severe nausea and vomiting.
- Thioridazine – Prescribed to treat schizophrenia.
- Prochlorperazine (compro) – Prescribed to treat severe nausea and vomiting as well as anxiety and schizophrenia.
- Anti-seizure drugs – These include phenytoin and phenobarbital.
Symptoms usually only develop after you’ve been taking the antipsychotic drugs for a long period of time, usually several months or sometimes years. Some cases may occur with shorter uses of the drugs, and there have been rare cases reported where someone has had symptoms after a single dose of the medication.
Some studies suggest that between 30 to 50 per cent of people taking these medications will develop tardive dyskinesia over the course of their treatment. For some people tardive dyskinesia may continue indefinitely, even after stopping or changing medication. The longer you take these medications, the more are risk you are of developing symptoms of tardive dyskinesia.
You are also thought to be at increased risk of developing symptoms if you take your medication as a depot injection (a slow release, slow acting form given as an injection). You can access further information about mental health and antipsychotic medication by visiting Rethink Mental Illness and antipsychotics.
How to diagnose tardive dyskinesia?
If you are displaying symptoms of tardive dyskinesia, a doctor is likely to make a diagnosis if you have been taking neuroleptic medication for more than three months. Doctors may use a tool called the Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS). During an AIMS your doctor will gauge the involuntary movement throughout your body on a five-point scale, assessing the severity of movements. Testing for other conditions will usually be ruled out first, however, before diagnosing tardive dyskinesia.
Symptoms of the following disorders can be similar to that of tardive dyskinesia:
- Huntington’s disease – This is an inherited neurological illness. Those affected experience involuntary movements, loss of motor control, change of gait, loss of memory, and in some cases dementia.
- Cerebral palsy – Is a disorder characterised by impaired muscle control or coordination resulting from injuries to the brain during early stages of development either before birth or in early childhood.
- Tourette syndrome – Is a neurological movement disorder which begins in childhood between the ages of two and sixteen years. The disorder is characterised by involuntary muscular movements called tics and uncontrollable vocal sounds.
- Dystonia is a group of complex movement disorders with various causes, treatments, progression and symptoms. The neurological conditions are characterised by involuntary muscle contractions which force certain parts of the body into abnormal, sometimes painful movements and positions. Dystonia can be caused by both genetic and non-genetic factors.
How to treat tardive dyskinesia
Treatment for tardive dyskinesia involves discontinuing the neuroleptic drugs as soon as symptoms have been identified, if this is felt to be a safe course of action from a mental health perspective. Use of an ‘atypical’ neuroleptic drug can be used in place of the neuroleptic drug that was being used, if this is felt to be safe and appropriate for the patient.
Unfortunately the ‘atypical’ neuroleptic drugs are also capable of causing these symptoms and therefore if these symptoms continue or become any worse, the original neuroleptic drugs may be used again. To ease symptoms the doctor may lower the dose, add another medication which may act as an antidote or try a different drug in its place.
Stopping and starting antipsychotic medication can also increase the risk of tardive dyskinesia increasing once you have it, and it is also possible to develop the condition after stopping taking medication. If you have found an antipsychotic medication that helps manage your mental health problem, you may not want to stop taking it. This can be a difficult decision. It is vital that you discuss with your doctor before deciding to stop taking your medication.
There are studies which are ongoing in the hope of identifying new drug therapies for the treatment of tardive dyskinesia. There are other drugs that have been used to reduce the symptoms of tardive dyskinesia, however, they carry risks of other side effects which can be unpleasant, for example causing or aggravating depression.
Living with tardive dyskinesia can be very difficult and if you cannot stop the symptoms, there are still things you can do to help manage the symptoms and help you cope day to day.
These could include:
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- Focusing on your emotional wellbeing – This involves taking time for yourself, having a bath, finding a hobby or something you enjoy doing and managing stressful situations as best as you can.
- Building your support network – Examples of this could be connecting with family and friends or connecting with support groups of people who are having similar experiences to you.
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Among the thousands of companies that supply the Chinese communications giant Huawei Technologies is a virtually unknown Japanese company called Taiyo Yuden. When President Donald Trump targeted Huawei on May 16, the company's stock plunged as much as 10%, wiping out the gains from record earnings and a share buyback just days earlier.
Chief Executive Officer Shoichi Tosaka isn't happy about this: He contends investors got it wrong. In an interview in Tokyo, he explained that Taiyo Yuden gets less than 10% of sales from Huawei and his company will be able to replace any lost revenue easily because of chronic shortages. Demand for its capacitors - microscopic components found by the hundreds in electronic devices - outstrips supply by such a margin that it would have no problem finding other buyers.
"Even if we lose Huawei's orders for base stations or smartphones, somebody else will have to make them and we'll get that business," Tosaka said. "The shares seem to be moving with no connection to our earnings."
He's also built a company that he thinks will be able to avoid getting caught in the US-China crossfire. He can sidestep US tariffs on Chinese goods because the company has manufacturing sites in Malaysia, the Philippines, South Korea and Japan, in addition to China.
The capacitors Taiyo Yuden makes are building blocks of the modern world. Tiny components made of metallic plates, they're used in electronic circuits to stabilize voltage and power flow. Invented in the 18th century by German and Dutch scientists, capacitors are now used in everything from smartphones and televisions to refrigerators and automobiles. An electric vehicle with significant autopilot capability like a Tesla uses about 10,000, Tosaka said.
Taiyo Yuden is down about 6% since May 13, when it forecast another year of record revenue and net income, and announced plans to buy back as much as 2% of its stock. The company's ratio of enterprise value to operating profit was 7.82 for the quarter ending March 31, compared with 12.64 for its bigger rival Murata Manufacturing, which missed its own earning targets last fiscal year. Of the 21 analysts tracked by Bloomberg, 16 recommend buying Taiyo Yuden's shares.
"The market's conclusion is that when two of the world's biggest economies go to trade war, all of the electronics industry is going to suffer," said Masahiro Wakasugi, an analyst with Bloomberg Intelligence. "But Huawei alone is not a major risk factor for Taiyo Yuden."
Investors see Taiyo Yuden as a smartphone play with significant exposure to China, Wakasugi said. But over the past three years, the company has succeeded in reducing its reliance on smartphones components, including parts for Apple's iPhone, which helped shield its earnings from the slowing handset demand. Automotive and industrial applications accounted for 39% of its revenue last fiscal year and Tosaka is looking to raise the proportion to 50% within five years.
Taiyo Yuden has been running its factories near full capacity to meet demand for multi-layered ceramic capacitors. Such shortages have stopped GoPro from meeting its production targets and prompted Murata to raise its prices by as much as 30% last year. Taiyo is spending JPY 150 billion ($1.3 billion) over three-year period to March 2021 to boost capacity, but Tosaka expects the tight supply to continue for the foreseeable future.
The company expects revenue to rise 6% this year to JPY 290 billion, a new record. Operating income will probably increase 8% to JPY 38 billion, helped by demand for components in cars, base stations and data centers. It's boosting capital spending 17% to JPY 45 billion to help pay for construction of two new fabs in Niigata prefecture, in northern Japan.
"Their earnings have really improved in the past two to three years, but there isn't a good track record of getting through a downturn," Wakasugi said. "The market may upgrade its perception of this company if they can nail these targets."
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Conversations on Aging & Elderhood
“I will not die an unlived life… I choose to live so that which came to me as seed goes to the next as blossom, and that which came to me as blossom, goes on as fruit.” — Dawna Markova
Join Barbara Catlin for candid and transformative conversations on aging and elderhood.
- What does elderhood mean to you?
- What do you want to create? What gets in the way?
- What stories do you tell yourself about getting older?
- Do you harbor fears? Hold regrets?
- What gifts have you received from your experiences of living and loving?
- What do you say about death?
- What gift do you offer to the world now?
The words we speak affect our body, mind, and spirit. What we think and what we say, creates our world and impacts how we interact with the world-at-large and with our dear ones. What we say about death can positively inform and transform our living.
Three Tuesday evenings starting April 5, 12, 19. 7 – 8:15 pm (max: 8 people)
Barbara Catlin, M.Ac, has worked with hospice patients and their families for more than 20 years. She leads Bigger Conversations’ Caregiver Wellness Circles, served on the faculty of Tai Sophia Institute (MUIH) for 15 years, teaches community classes on conscious living and dying, and maintains a private acupuncture practice in Columbia, MD.
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Burstall's films featured early appearances by many legendary Australian actors including Jack Thompson, Bruce Spence, Jacki Weaver, Alvin star Graeme Blundell, John Waters, and Judy Davis.
Speaking just after Burstall's death, David Williamson said that Burstall "couldn't stomach" Australia's lack of film industry. "He was determined to do something about it and he had the energy and spirit to do it. (He) was a very important cultural figure: highly intelligent, widely read, with a succinct and often highly controversial opinion on everything."
Burstall was born in Stockton-on-Tees, England in 1927. His family came to Australia in 1937 after his father took up a chair as professor of engineering at the University of Melbourne. Attending Geelong Grammar, Burstall was taught by historian Manning Clark. When his parents returned to England after World War II he remained in Australia. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree with Honours in History from the University of Melbourne in 1946, where he resided at Queen's College. He met Betty, whom he married, at the university. They built a mud-brick house at Eltham, Victoria. The family home from 1967-2013 was 148 Nicholson Street, Fitzroy (sold, 2013). He later attended the University of Sydney and the University of California, Los Angeles.
Burstall originally wanted to be a novelist and thought that if he worked in film it might be a way to move into writing. He went to work for the National Film Library with a view to getting a job at the Commonwealth Film Unit as a scriptwriter. He worked on a series of documentaries, editing and writing for the Antarctic Division. He became interested in filmmaking after seeing the 1953 French film White Mane at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
He and Patrick Ryan established Eltham Films in 1959.
In February 2012 sections of Burstall's personal journals from 1953–1955 were published by Melbourne University Press, under the title Memoirs of a Young Bastard.
Burstall's first film was a black-and-white short, The Prize. With photography by Gérard Vandenberg, The Prize won a bronze at the 1960 Venice Film Festival. Burstall's two young sons had acting roles.
Working with David Bilcock, Dusan Marek, Giorgio Mangiamele, Gérard Vandenburg, Allan Harness and composer George Dreyfus, Eltham Films made many short subjects, including acclaimed documentaries on Australian art, and early children's puppet series Sebastian the Fox. The latter first screened on the ABC in 1962-63, and Burstall later described the title character as "one of the first recessive Oz heroes".
From 1965 to 67 Burstall was in the United States on a Harkness Fellowship. He studied scriptwriting with Paddy Chayefsky, directing with Martin Ritt, and acting with Lee Strasberg and the Actors Studio in New York.
One of the results of the trip would be the founding by Tim's wife Betty Burstall of La Mama Theatre back in Carlton, Melbourne. It opened on 30 July 1967, modeled on the "off-off-Broadway" theatre of the same name in New York City.
Burstall wrote and directed the 1969 feature 2000 Weeks. A commercial failure, savaged by the critics, the film's poor reception would lead Burstall to move to more populist works with his next films, Stork and sex comedy Alvin Purple. The film's failure also influenced Bruce Beresford and Phillip Adams to move in a more populist direction when they came to make early Australian hit The Adventures of Barry McKenzie in 1972.
Burstall then formed a new company with Pat Ryan, David Bilcock, and Rob Copping, Bilock and Copping with the view to making commercials to fund features. He looked at making a film called Filth and had money to develop it, but decided to make Stork instead.
Stork appeared in 1971 and proved a moderate commercial success. The title role had been written for him. Stork won multiple Australian Film Institute awards, including best narrative feature, best director and best actor.
After the breakout success of Alvin Purple, Burstall would later return to work with Williamson on three further films: social drama Petersen (1974), which was seen in England and the United States (for which Stanley Kubrick praised Burstall for his direction and Jack Thompson for his acting), big-budget romp Eliza Fraser (1976, the first major Australian period movie) and Duet for Four (1982), the tale of a mid-life crisis. Burstall has argued that Eliza Fraser was made for an increased budget after Roadshow insisted on overseas stars; Susannah York played Eliza, and the cast also included Trevor Howard.
After forming Hexagon Productions, Burstall directed, produced, and co-wrote (with Alan Hopgood) his next feature, sex comedy Alvin Purple (1973). The film was released in some territories as The Sex Therapist. Burstall estimated that he made $120,000 from Alvin Purple. The film spawned a successful sequel which Burstall co-wrote. Later Hexagon films performed less well at the box office. In 1980 Burstall made a film for another company when he took over war movie Attack Force Z after Phillip Noyce had creative disagreements with the producers just before filming was due to begin.
Burstall directed episodes of series including Special Squad, Return to Eden II, The Man from Snowy River and Water Rats. His miniseries Great Expectations: The Untold Story was the first co-production between an independent filmmaker and ABC TV.
Burstall won a number of Australian Film Institute awards for his work, including best director for Stork (which also won the grand prize) and a best director nomination for his 1976 thriller End Play. His final theatrical feature was an adaptation of DH Lawrence novel Kangaroo in 1986. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the Australia Day Honours 1996. His wife Betty had been similarly honored in 1993.
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UU Lalit To Be Next Chief Justice of India
The Union Law Minister has received a formal recommendation for Justice Uday Umesh Lalit to succeed NV Ramana as Chief Justice of India (CJI). On August 26, Justice Ramana is scheduled to retire, and Justice UU Lalit will take over as the 49th Chief Justice of India. Before retiring on November 8 at the age of 65, he would have served in the position for just 74 days.
After replacing SA Bobde in April of last year, Justice Ramana held the position for more than 16 months.
LIC Becomes Top-Ranked Indian Firm On Fortune Global 500 List
The Life Insurance Corporation is ranked first among Indian businesses in Fortune's most recent Global 500 rating of the top 500 corporations for the year 2022. Only one other Indian firm, LIC, is ranked above Reliance Industries Limited. Reliance Industries Limited has been included in Fortune's Global 500 list for 19 years straight, which is a significantly longer period of time than the other Indian private sector businesses.
Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary is now a Ramsar site
An internationally significant wetland, the famed Ranganathittu Bird Sanctuary in Srirangapatna, has been recognised as a Ramsar site. Although India has 64 such sites, this is also the first and only Ramsar site in Karnataka. Bhupendra Yadav, the Union Minister for Environment, Forests, and Climate Change, announced on Twitter that 10 additional Indian sites, including Ranganathittu, have been recognised.
World's largest floating solar power plant to be built in this Indian state
In Khandwa, Madhya Pradesh, a floating solar power plant is set to be constructed. By 2022–2023, it will produce 600 Megawatts of electricity, making it the largest floating solar plant in the world. Over 3000 crores is thought to be the anticipated cost of the project. | <urn:uuid:c1d2c8bb-286c-4081-a30c-ae5359844237> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jagrantv.com/en-show/current-affairs-2022-current-affairs-today-august-5-2022-current-affairs-for-competitive-exams-watch-video-rc1033954 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938797 | 398 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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Negotiated Texts Seminar
Wednesday 28 February 2018, 1.30pm, Harold Lee Room, Pembroke College
Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and Some Problems of Treaty Interpretation
On 28 February, the Negotiated Texts Network gained insight into working with negotiated texts in the context of public international law. As part of the network’s mandate, Matthew Windsor, a Junior Research Fellow at Hertford College, Oxford, was invited to moderate a discussion on some problems of treaty interpretation with particular reference to Article 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (VCLT). Presentations were given by doctoral candidates Talita de Souza Dias and Yulia Ioffe as well as Sebastian Bates, a research assistant at the Quill Project.
Matthew Windsor began with a brief introduction to the Vienna Convention. He explained that Articles 31 through 33 of the Vienna Convention set out the principles governing the interpretation of treaties. Article 31 stipulates that a ‘treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in their context and in the light of its object and purpose’. Article 32 allows recourse to supplementary means of interpretation (including travaux préparatoires, the material that a Quill model would capture) to confirm the meaning resulting from the application of Article 31 or to produce the meaning where it would otherwise be ‘ambiguous’, ‘obscure’, or ‘manifestly absurd’. Article 33 goes on to deal with the interpretation of the treaties authenticated in two or more languages.
Matthew pointed out that one problem with using travaux as an interpretive tool is that proof of common understanding among the parties to a negotiation is difficult to establish. Records of treaty negotiations can be incomplete, inconclusive, and hard to access. It is also not uncommon that obscurity in the final text reflects difficulty in coming to agreement during the negotiations. As a result, travaux may add little and simply serve to undermine legal certainty. Despite these reservations, Matthew noted that the reality is that travaux are invoked by international lawyers and a legal argument without some acknowledgement of these materials would be considered incomplete. There is therefore potential for the Quill Project to develop tools of real value in this field.
In the second presentation, Yulia Ioffe discussed the impact of travaux on the interpretation of the right to family reunification of migrant children under the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). She noted that the CRC is one of the most widely-ratified international human rights treaties in history and covers all aspects of a child’s life. It was drafted in a complex process that lasted for ten years: the travaux are therefore extensive and help us to better understand the provisions of the final text. She argued that Articles 9 and 10 of the CRC are neither ambiguous nor obscure and thus it is unnecessary to have recourse to travaux to understand them; however, she suggested that a number of commentators have relied on a selective reading of the travaux to support a possibly unjustifiable interpretation of these provisions. She suggested that further work on these materials could therefore be illuminating in resolving this issue of utmost humanitarian importance.
The third presentation of the afternoon dealt with the role of travaux in international criminal law. Expanding on Matthew’s introduction, Talita de Souza Dias contrasted the general approach to interpretation adopted under the Vienna Convention with that which should be adopted in the criminal context, where principles such as nullum crimen nulla poena sine lege (no crime or punishment without prior law) and in dubio pro reo (when in doubt, resolve ambiguity in favour of the accused) apply. Talita provided a useful example by demonstrating how this approach can help us understand the scope of the Prosecutor’s discretion to defer a case before the International Criminal Court. Article 53(1)(c) and 2(c) of the Rome Statute (which created the Court) provides that the Prosecutor can defer a case ‘in the interests of justice’. Although the general approach under the Vienna Convention is not sufficient to eliminate the ambiguity of this phrase, international human rights law, the principle of in dubio pro reo, and the travaux all point to a broad interpretation, which would allow the deferral of a case for peace and security reasons. The travaux in particular support such an interpretation, which demonstrates that travaux can be useful, within a narrow compass, to international criminal lawyers.
Of particular interest to the Quill team was Talita’s explanation of the kind of materials that make up travaux and how researchers currently access them. The term can encompass all the documents relevant to a treaty, such as earlier drafts, meeting records, press releases, proposals submitted by individual States or groups of States, studies (especially those making comparisons between different legal systems conducted during the drafting process), and resolutions of law-making bodies. The value of travaux varies greatly; an expression of agreement counts for much more than a statement by an individual State. Talita noted that the main reason for the limited use of travaux is their relative inaccessibility. While the material relating to the International Criminal Court is fairly navigable, documents held by the United Nations are much harder to find as it is generally necessary to search for a particular document reference number. (The University of Virginia has, however, compiled a more useable database of some of these documents.)
The final presentation of the day was a late addition to the programme in recognition of the current industrial action by members of the University and College Union. Sebastian Bates considered the extent to which the Permanent Court of International Justice and its successor, the International Court of Justice, had recourse to travaux in the interpretation of the Treaty of Versailles and the Charter of the United Nations in cases concerning the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which was established in 1919 by Part XIII of the Treaty. The Permanent Court delivered six advisory opinions on the ILO’s work between 1922 and 1932; although the Court made occasional reference to travaux, including material relating to the negotiations at the Paris Peace Conference, this was usually quite brief. On the other hand, the Court seemed willing to refer to travaux in circumstances that would not fall within the scope of Article 32 of the Vienna Convention today. For its part, when the International Court gave advisory opinions on judgments rendered by the ILO’s Administrative Tribunal in 1956 and 2012, it demonstrated an apparent preference for subsequent practice over travaux, which is arguably contemplated by Article 31(2)(b) of the Vienna Convention.
Dr Alfie Abdul-Rahman closed the event by thanking the presenters on behalf of the Quill Project. Matthew expressed his hope that funding will be forthcoming for the developments of tools of value to researchers and practitioners in the field of public international law. Talita noted that, if a Quill model made it easier to compare the various texts of a treaty adopted in several languages, this could make it easier to rely on Article 33 of the Vienna Convention, which is an underused tool of interpretation. | <urn:uuid:15ed419e-36f3-4b13-83b1-39fde3846619> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.quillproject.net/resources/resource_item/13/957 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.94079 | 1,534 | 1.921875 | 2 |
From this time forward, under God,
I pledge my loyalty to Australia and its People,
whose democratic beliefs I share,
whose rights and liberties I respect, and
whose laws I will uphold and obey.
A person may choose to make the Pledge
With or without the words 'under God'.
From Australian Citizenship Act 1948.
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Immunocore Presents Positive IMCgp100 Phase I Data at the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting
(Oxford, UK, 6 June 2016) Immunocore, a world-leading biotechnology company developing novel T cell receptor (TCR) based biological drugs to treat cancer, infectious diseases and autoimmune disease, today announced that positive data from the first in human, Phase I clinical trial of its lead ImmTAC (Immune mobilising monoclonal TCRs Against Cancer), IMCgp100, was presented in a poster discussion session at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting in Chicago on June 5th 2016.
IMCgp100 is a first-in-class bi-specific biologic known as a T cell redirector. This ImmTAC binds, with picomolar affinity, to a melanoma associated target, gp100; once bound IMCgp100 redirects all T cells, including non-cancer specific T cells, to kill the cancer cells.
In a presentation entitled: "Safety, Pharmacokinetics and Efficacy of IMCgp100, a First-in-Class Soluble TCR Anti-CD3 Bispecific T Cell Redirector With Solid Tumour Activity: Results From the FIH Study in Melanoma" Mark Middleton MD, Professor of Experimental Cancer Medicine at the University of Oxford, and Principal Investigator for the Study, presented data from the First-In-Human study of IMCgp100 in metastatic melanoma, treating 84 patients in total.
In the study, IMCgp100 showed a favourable safety profile at the established recommended Phase II dose, with prolonged responses observed in both uveal and cutaneous melanoma. Tumour shrinkages in patients with a particularly poor prognosis and those with checkpoint resistant disease were also reported. Some immune mediated toxicities were observed predominantly in the first few doses and were manageable. Rapid T cell infiltration into tumours coinciding with immune activation occurred within days following the first dose in both cutaneous and uveal melanoma patients.
Mark Middleton, Principal Investigator, commented: "These are promising data, we know how to give the drug safely and we are seeing prolonged responses in both uveal and cutaneous melanoma. It is also really encouraging to see tumours shrink in patients with high LDH and/or liver tumour burden. These exciting data strongly support the further development of IMCgp100, in patients with uveal and cutaneous melanoma." 2
Dr. Christina Coughlin, Chief Medical Officer of Immunocore, added: "We are delighted that the data strongly supports the expansion of the IMCgp100 programme into both cutaneous and uveal melanoma Phase II trials and we look forward to progressing our lead programme through further clinical development."
In January 2016 the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) also granted Orphan Drug Designation to IMCgp100 for the treatment of uveal melanoma. Furthermore, Immunocore has participated in the European Medicines Agency’s (EMA) Adaptive Pathway pilot programme with IMCgp100. Earlier this year, Immunocore initiated a Phase I clinical study of IMCgp100 in patients with uveal melanoma and a combination Phase Ib/II trial with MedImmune’s checkpoint inhibitors durvalumab and tremelimumab.
Please click here to download the IMCgp100 Poster presented at ASCO 2016.
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Using a generic drug to treat hypertension and heart failure, instead of branded medicines from the same class, could save the UK National Health Service (NHS) at least £200 million in 2011 without any real reduction in clinical benefits.
That is the key finding of a systematic review, statistical meta-analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis just published online by International Journal of Clinical Practice (IJCP).
Researchers from University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust looked at 14 hypertension and heart studies published between 1998 and 2009 on 16,179 patients.
Just over two-thirds of the patients were male (68 per cent), with an average age of 60 years.
They set out to compare the clinical benefits and cost-effectiveness of using the market leader candesartan instead of generic losartan, which is now considerably cheaper.
“When drugs are first launched they are protected by patents and relatively expensive as the pharmaceutical companies need to recover their research and development costs” explains lead author Dr Anthony Grosso.
The NHS currently spends more than £250 million a year on angiotensin-II receptor blockers (ARB) for high blood pressure and heart failure, with candesartan – which is still under patent and marketed under a number of brand names – currently dominating the market.
“Our comparative research showed that candesartan reduced blood pressure slightly more than losartan, with diastolic readings averaging 2mmHg lower and systolic readings 3mmHg lower” says Dr Grosso. “However, this difference is unlikely to be cost effective, particularly when it is prescribed in combination with other drugs.
“When we took all the factors into account, based on the evidence we reviewed, it was clear that losartan was likely to be the most cost-effective ARB to treat high blood pressure or heart failure.”
The authors estimate that using generic losartan as the angiotensin-II receptor blocker of choice could save the NHS approximately £200 million in 2011. “This figure is based on 2009 prescribing figures for primary care alone, so the actual savings could be even higher” says Dr Grosso.
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In computer Programming, a Loop is used to execute a group of instructions or a block of code multiple times, without writing it repeatedly. The block of code is executed based on a certain condition. Loops are the control structures of a program. Using Loops in computer programs simplifies rather optimizes the process of coding. Kids may come across the question ‘what is Loop’ when they begin to learn computer Programming languages like C or Java. Well, to understand ‘what is Loop’ they will have to learn about the structure of various Loops in detail.
The structure of a Loop can be virtually divided into two parts, namely the control statement, and the body. The control statement of a Loop comprises the conditions that have to be met for the execution of the body of the Loop. For every iteration of the Loop, the conditions in the control statement have to be true. The body of a Loop comprises the block of code or the sequence of logical statements that are to be executed multiple times. There are two types of Loops in Python, namely, For Loop, and While Loop. When a Loop is written within another Loop, the control structure is termed as a nested Loop.
Therefore, when you use a Loop in your program, you will not have to write the block of code (written in the body of the Loop), over and over again in it. The block of code will be executed as many times as the control statement will hold true and the Loop will be terminated when the conditions in the control statement become false. If the conditions are not clearly defined in the control statement, the Loop will keep on executing. Such Loops are termed as infinite Loops. If no termination condition is provided in the control statement of a Loop, then it automatically becomes an infinite Loop.
Below is a detailed discussion of ‘what is Loop’, and the various types of Loops in Python. Hence, going through the below information will help kids to understand the concepts of Loops in computer Programming.
Types of Loops
The concept of ‘what is Loop’ will be clearly understood when you get an idea of the syntax and function of various types of Loops. There are basically two types of Loops in most computer Programming languages, namely, entry controlled Loops and exit controlled Loops.
Entry Controlled Loop
In an entry controlled Loop, the control statement is written right at the beginning of the Loop. This type of Loop is also called a pre-checking Loop. The conditions in the control statements are checked at first, and only if the conditions are true, the body of the Loop is executed. If the condition turns out to be false, the lines of code in the body of the Loop will not be executed.
Exit Controlled Loop
In an exit controlled Loop, the control statement is written at the end of the Loop structure. The lines of codes in the body of the Loop are executed once before the condition is checked. Hence, this type of Loop is also called a post-checking Loop.
FOR Loop is an entry controlled Loop, that is, the control statements are written at the beginning of the Loop structure, whereas, do-while Loop is an exit controlled Loop, that is, the control statements are written at the end of the Loop structure.
As discussed above, a For Loop is an entry controlled Loop. The general syntax of a For Loop is given below.
for(initialization; condition; incrementation or decrementation)
Body of Loop;
The variables required for the control statements can be initialized in the For Loop itself. This variable initialized in the For Loop is called the counter and is incremented or decremented with every iteration of the Loop. The condition is a boolean statement that compares the value of the counter to a fixed value, at every iteration, and terminates the Loop when the condition is not satisfied. The increment or decrement value is set in the Loop.
An example of For Loop is given below.
for(int i=1; i<10; i++)
The above For Loop will print the natural numbers 1 to 10 when executed. The variable ‘i’ is of integer type, and the condition will check if the value of ‘i’ is less than 10, at each iteration. After executing the body of the Loop, the value of ‘i’ is incremented by 1, before the next iteration. In this way, the natural numbers 1 to 10 are displayed on the screen, on executing this Loop.
A while Loop is an entry controlled Loop. The condition checking is done at the beginning of the Loop structure. The general syntax of the while Loop is given below.
Body of the Loop;
The condition checking is done before the execution of the body of the while Loop. The block of code in the body of the While Loop is executed only if the condition is true. The body of the Loop gets executed as many times as the condition is true. After each iteration of the Loop, the control moves back to the condition checking part at the beginning of the While Loop. If the condition is not met, that is, if the boolean expression in the braces (), turns out to be false, the while Loop is terminated.
An example of the While Loop is given below.
In the above example, the variable ‘n’ is initialized as an integer, and its value is assigned as 10. Every time the condition ‘n>0’ is met the While Loop will be executed, and the value of n will be displayed on the screen. At every iteration, the value of n will be decreased by 1. The Loop will be terminated when the value of ‘n’ becomes less than 1. The above While Loop will display the numbers from 10 to 1.
Do - While Loop
A do-while Loop is an exit controlled Loop. The syntax of the do-while Loop is similar to that of the while Loop, with the exception of the condition checking. The condition is always checked at the end of the do-while Loop. The general syntax of the do-while Loop is given below.
Body of the Loop;
Unlike the entry controlled Loops, the body of the do-while Loop is executed before the condition is checked. Even if the condition is not true, the body of the Loop will be executed for once. If the condition given in the braces () is true, the control is again moved back to the body of the Loop. If the condition is false, the control is moved out of the Loop and the Loop is terminated.
An example of the do-while Loop is given below.
The above do-while Loop will display the numbers 10 to 1 when executed. Now, consider the following example.
The condition ‘n>0’ turns out to be false at the very first iteration of the above-given do-while Loop. Yet, it will be executed once, and 0 will be displayed on the screen. Unlike the other Loops, the do-while Loop ends with the condition checking expression followed by a semicolon ‘;’.
Loops in Python
The commonly used Loops in Python are For and While Loops. The syntax and functions of the For and While Loops in Python are the same as discussed above. When a For Loop or a While Loop is written within another Loop, the structure is called a nested Loop. For example,
for(int i=0; i<7;i++)
for (int j=8; j>4; j--)
The print statements in the above-given nested Loop will be executed only when the conditions in both the Loops are satisfied. Also, if there is only one line of code to be written in the body of a Loop, it is not mandatory to put the brackets for it.
for(int n=5; n<0; n--)
Some of the control statements supported in Python are ‘break’, ‘continue’, and ‘pass’. When a ‘break’ statement is encountered in a Loop, the Loop is terminated immediately, and the control moves to the code followed by the Loop. When a ‘continue’ statement is encountered in a Loop, the control is transferred to the condition checking part and the rest of the code in the body of the Loop is skipped. The ‘pass’ statement in Python is a null statement. It is quite similar to a commented code, however, unlike the commented code, a pass statement is not ignored by the interpreter. For example, if we want to execute a block of code or any function at a later point in time, we can use the ‘pass’ statement for it. The block of code will not be executed when the ‘pass’ statement is executed. The pass statement has a result of no operation when executed.
Since Loops make an important part of Python Programming, kids should learn the concepts of Loops thoroughly, to write advanced programs. Good knowledge of Loops will come in handy when kids will write programs to design fun interactive games in Python as well.
How Do-While Loops are utilized?
Utilize While Loop Statements and Lesson Your Hassle for keeping a check always while performing tasks repetitively.
While Loop statements are used when you have to execute a particular action twice. But here's a point you must ponder on:
Your command won't be executed when the results of the condition which is tested turn out to be false. The Loop of the body will be skipped and the while Loop will only execute the statement after the whole Loop.
When written under a Boolean condition, the while Loop controls the flow statement which permits repetition.
When is the While Loop used? We use a While Loop when We are not sure that why even iteration is Possible?
We use the while Loop until we find a condition that is true. Therefore, take an example of a Buffer Reader which is kept on a reading line from the file. Now, if according to the condition, the file would be really empty, then it will be correct for the while Loop to CHECK FIRST. This is done to avoid the landing of unnecessary exceptions and exception handling.
We hope that this information might have stirred your brain cells and now you might be wanting to learn more about While Loop Statements? If yes, then hit us up and learn the actual usage of While Loop Statements.
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Learn how to draw a rocket with Austin and me! This lesson we focus on primary colors, shapes, cutting and gluing. It’s also a fun exercise to work on drawing stars!
Just because we say this is for “young artists” it doesn’t mean it’s only for them. I have just as much fun doing these activities as I do with the more complicated ones. Come on parents and teachers, if your little artists are doing this activity…remember to do the activity with them! They’ll have even more fun!
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For sub-5nm technology nodes, gate-all-around (GAA) FETs are positioned to replace FinFETs to enable the continued miniaturization of ICs in the future. In this paper, we introduce SkyBridge-3D-CMOS 2.0, a 3D-IC technology featuring integration of stacked vertical GAAFETs and 3D interconnects. It aims to provide an integrated solution to critical technology aspects, especially when scaling to sub-5nm nodes. We address important aspects such as 3D fabric components, CAD tool flow, compact model for the GAAFETs and a scalable manufacturing process.
Conventional 2D CMOS faces severe challenges sub-22nm nodes. The monolithic 3D (M3D) IC technology enables ultra-high density vertical connections and provides a good path for technology node scaling. Transistor-level (TR-L) monolithic 3D IC is the most advanced and fine-grained M3D IC technology. In this paper, for the first time, the detailed design as well as benefits and challenges of a silicon validated 14nm Finfet process design kit (PDK) based TR-L M3D IC technology is explored. TR-L M3D standard cell layout is achieved based on 14nm Finfet design rules and feature sizes.
Parallel and monolithic 3D integration directions offer pathways to realize 3D integrated circuits (ICs) but still lead to layer-by-layer implementations, each functional layer being composed in 2D first. This mindset causes challenging connectivity, routing and layer alignment between layers when connected in 3D, with a routing access that can be even worse than 2D CMOS, which fundamentally limits their potential.
As technology scales, more sophisticated fabrication processes cause variations in many different parameters in the device. These variations could severely affect the performance of processors by making the latency of circuits less predictable and thus requiring conservative design approaches. In this paper, we use Monte-Carlo simulations in addition to worst-case circuit analysis to establish the overall delay due to process variations in a cache subsystem under both typical and worst-case conditions.
A new hybrid CMOS-nanoscale circuit style has been developed that uses only one type of Field Effect Transistor (FET) in the logic portions of a design. This is enabled by CMOS providing control signals that coordinate the operation of the logic implemented in the nanoscale. In this paper, the new circuit style is explored, examples from a microprocessor design are shown, manufacturing and density implications discussed. | <urn:uuid:ca217146-7769-444c-b5ca-ab051e85f8bf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.umass.edu/nanofabrics/conferencejournalbook/ieee-computer-society-annual-symposium-vlsi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.890118 | 527 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Corona's momentum in the country is unstoppable. Corona (Covid 19 Cases in India) is becoming increasingly common. In the last 24 hours, there have been 21,566 new cases of corona infection reported across the country. According to the Health Ministry, 45 people died as a result of infection during this time period.
According to the ministry's report, 18,294 people have recovered from Corona in the last 24 hours. The number of active corona cases in the country has risen to 1 lakh 48 thousand 881. Simultaneously, the daily positivity rate has risen to 4.25 percent.
Let us remind you that a total of 20,557 people were found infected across the country yesterday, July 20, with 40 people dying. So far, 5 lakh 25 thousand 185 people have died in the country as a result of Kovid. Simultaneously, 4 crore 38 lakh 25 thousand 185 cases have been reported.
The total number of corona vaccinations administered in the country has surpassed 200.92 crores. The country's target of 200 crore vaccinations was met on Sunday. So far, 101.95 crore people have received the first dose, with more than 92.75 crore receiving the second dose. In addition, over 6.20 crore people have been given precautionary doses. | <urn:uuid:a7832e9c-5254-4d9c-ba0a-ee22dcc42368> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jagrantv.com/en-show/corona-virus-update-death-rate-due-to-coronavirus-increased-the-concern-of-the-health-ministry-rc1033522 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957783 | 268 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Inside Grant Cottage State Historic Site, where former President Ulysses S. Grant died of cancer on July 23, 1885 after spending his final weeks penning his memoirs, national grief remains frozen in time in the form of flowers.
Now nearly 140 years old, five different Victorian-era funerary floral displays in the parlor draw different reactions from visitors, ranging from “amazing” to “creepy.” But given that relatively few examples from that era survive today, these displays are also a rare look into the past.
While flowers have long been part of burial rituals, it was the tragic death toll of the American Civil War that ushered in the golden age of arranged floral tributes, when such displays became common for soldiers’ funerals.
Upon Grant’s death, such expressions of mourning for a leader who meant so much to Union victory began arriving at the cottage, which is located on Mount Macgregor in Saratoga County, about an hour by car north of Albany. One tribute still on display in the parlor was in the form of an oversized pillow, provided by Union veterans in Philadelphia from the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) that Grant had commanded two decades earlier.
A reporter noted, “Almost every train which arrived at Mt. McGregor has brought beautiful floral mementos from Grand Army Posts and other organizations, and also from personal friends…” making the modest cottage “fragrant with flowers.”
Perhaps the most impressive piece was the enormous six-foot-high “Gates Ajar” tribute which rested in front of the fireplace. Likely custom-built, it was sent by family friend Leland Stanford of California – a native of Watervliet, Albany County who went on to become California Governor and later a U.S. Senator from that state. Its design depicted the gates of heaven, a popular theme of tributes in that era.
For decades, these displays have remained untouched and undisturbed in the cottage parlor, losing their fragrance and much of their color faded, but otherwise intact, other than being understandably dusty. Last year, these artifacts came to the attention of historical florist expert Robert Treadway (co-author of A Centennial History of the American Florist), who visited in August 2021 to inspect under the supervision of conservators from the New York State Bureau of Historic Sites and site staff.
Treadway immediately cleared up two common misconceptions about the displays _ that they were prepared using fresh flowers which dried over time and had been coated in wax as a preservative, neither of which were the case.
Treadway also found that the most prevalent flowers used were immortelles (Helichrysum), a species in the sunflower family also known as everlastings for their long-lasting nature, which had been dried before use. In the Victorian era, immortelle flowers symbolized remembrance and hope in everlasting life, especially to the families of the deceased.
Everlastings were frequently shipped to the United States from Europe and dyed various colors for use by florists. Bunches would be wired to a small stick and inserted into moss which filled a wire framework to create the tributes. It was a painstaking process that involved numerous assistants. Since the displays for Grant were designed only for short-term use, wax coatings on the flowers were deemed unnecessary and not used, according to Treadway’s inspection.
Given that the delicate nature of these artifacts, Treadway and State Parks staff discussed how to best protect and preserve such historic objects for the years to come. Various options were discussed, including coatings, enclosures, and environmental controls, each method with its benefits and drawbacks.
Representing a nation’s mourning over the loss of a war hero and leader, the arrangements reflect a uniquely Victorian outlook on death and the hereafter, each with its own specific meaning.
The “Gates Ajar” symbolized the gates of Heaven, reassuring the grieving that their lost loved one was destined for a better place that, with the gate left ajar so they could follow and be reunited. The pillow set piece represented peace, relief, and eternal rest from the trials of the physical world.
Two floral pieces feature a cross, commonly used as symbols of Christian tenets of grace, forgiveness, and salvation. Two pieces incorporate an anchor, another favorite Christian symbol representing hope amid trial with God being the “anchor of the soul.” One piece features a heart along with the anchor and cross. The heart symbolized the everlasting love of Christ but also the love of those in mourning for the deceased.
Two pieces – the pillow and one of the crosses – also feature a sword, which reflected General Grant’s military career, as well as the virtues of justice, fortitude, and courage.
Victorian set pieces showcased the artistry and creativity of florists during that period. One of the best-known florists, Adolph Le Moult, operating out of New York City, created one of the largest floral pieces ever made for an event in Grant’s honor during a visit to Philadelphia in 1879. Le Moult also created elaborate floral tributes for Grant’s funeral in New York City in 1885.
The goal of florists in the 19th century was not just making impressive arrangements but also ensuring they would last. Florists boasted in advertisements with statements such as, “I can so perfectly preserve even the most delicate flowers that they will last forever.”
Preserved funeral mementos from the Victorian era can be found in public and private collections throughout the world. For example, wax-coated and encased floral pieces from the 1881 funeral of James Garfield are displayed at his home in Mentor, Ohio.
What truly makes the tributes at Grant Cottage unique is their sheer scale and survival to the present despite never have been coated in wax, encased or otherwise protected from the onset or in the decades since. Treadway indicated that the two largest pieces are larger than any others known to exist.
Flowers continued to be used in tribute to Grant by his widow, Julia. While staying at the family’s Long Branch, New Jersey cottage, she continued remembering her greatest love through this mourning ritual:
“On an antique cabinet… is a bust in plaster of the brave old soldier… Behind it hangs a wreath of white immortelles -a widow’s first tribute to memory- with a circlet of white ribbon still clinging to it, typical of wedded love. A slender glass filled with geraniums… Every morning this tiny bouquet is gathered… by the lonely wife who kisses the blossoms and tenderly places them before the face of her hero. The faded flowers are dried and, mixed with their own fragrance, go to make those memory-bags so highly prized by the friends on whom they are bestowed.”
For now, these treasures at Grant Cottage will continue to transport visitors to a moment when family, friends, and a nation were in mourning for an American icon. They are tributes not only to a man, but to the character and ideals he lived by. These aging blossoms speak to humanity’s enduring need to grieve and desire to memorialize those they love and respect.
Post by Ben Kemp, Friends of Ulysses S. Grant Cottage Operations Manager
These , our Earth’s perennial flowers— The fadeless blooms by Poets sung, Songs, that from Homer’s Age till ours, Down the aisles of Time have rung— In many an emblem do we weave For passionate Remembrance’ sake; And howe’er we joy, howe’er we grieve, Sacred pilgrimages make; For Loss and Grief, the Asphodels On our graves we mourning lay; For Memory, the Immortelles— Our loved ones live for us always. Death in Life, Life in Death—how we This, Love’s Faith, keep reverently. By Laura G. Collins’s from Immortelles and Asphodels (Everlastings) (1898)
More About Grant Cottage
Located immediately below the summit of Mount McGregor in Saratoga County, the cottage and 43-acre site was recently named a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service.
The cottage is kept as it was during the Grant family’s stay. Open to the public seasonally by the Friends of the Ulysses S. Grant Cottage, visitors can tour its first-floor original furnishings, decorations, and personal items belonging to Grant.
Tours are scheduled to resume for the season on April 30, 2022. Other artifacts on display include the bed where he died on July 23, 1885 and the mantel clock stopped by Grant’s son Fred at the moment of his father’s death.
Grant Cottage first opened as a historic site in 1890 when it was supported by funds raised by veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The grounds surrounding the Cottage served as a tuberculosis sanitarium beginning in 1914, which in 1945 was converted into a veteran rest camp, until 1960 when it was repurposed and annexed as the Rome State School for disabled children until 1976. The Friends of Ulysses S. Grant Cottage was formed in the fall of 1989 to provide programming and tours, and partner with New York State Parks on site stewardship.
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Last week the presiding judge in Mozambique’s hidden debt trial made it plain that the country’s current and former presidents and other senior members of the country’s ruling party would not have to answer for their role in the hidden scandal. The massive corruption scheme has cost the impoverished nation billions and ended any hope millions of its citizens could escape a life of abject poverty.
Nineteen middle-level officials and accomplices are on trial in Maputo for accepting bribes to approve $2.1 billion in contracts to the Middle East shipbuilding company Privinvest and then taking more bribes to have the government secretly borrow the money to finance the projects. The economy tanked and poverty rates skyrocketed when the secret loans were revealed.
As he was finishing his testimony last Thursday, the General Director of the State Intelligence and Security Services, the highest ranking official on trial, complained to trial judge Efigénio Baptista, “I am here alone.” He said he was the only member of the Joint Command and the Operation Command, the inter-agency groups that cooked up the scheme, to be prosecuted.
“The former Minister of National Defense, Filipe Nyusi, and the former Minister of the Interior, Alberto Mondlane, should be answering. They were also part of the Joint Command.”
The judge explained that Nyusi, now the country’s president, and Mondlane, governor of an important province, were not charged because the prosecution had no evidence they had taken bribes. He also helpfully went on to add that for the same reason Armando Guebuza, president when the contracts were let and the loans taken out, was not on trial.
The above comes from the Centro para Democracia e Desenvolvimento reports on the trial. This one, recounting the state security director’s testimony, also helpfully reminded readers of the testimony of Jean Boustani at a 2018 trial in New York. There the Privinvest senior executive provided details about the bribes Privinvest paid Nyusi, Guebuza, and other officials not among the 19 on trial in Mozambique. Perhaps Judge Baptista and the Mozambican prosecutor have overlooked something? | <urn:uuid:97755a81-1cc6-494f-b844-f6ba85fa5f3a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://globalanticorruptionblog.com/tag/hidden-assets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.968898 | 464 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Adults of all ages have at one point or another experienced how important it is to maintain good credit. For the majority of adults in the world that can be difficult due to mounting bills coming due. We think we are just stuck, because our debt is too high, and our income insufficient, to survive while also paying off loans. The good news is there’s a solution for almost everyone, simplifying your monthly bill payments and consolidating your debt.
Lines of credit or some type of monetary loans have been around since we as a society have had currency, before credit cards and the entire loan application process we know today, were ever in use. Shop owners would establish lines of credit or tabs, allowing customers who were experiencing a period of financial hardship to still get necessities. When governments began offering credit to areas of agriculture and industry, it became apparent how helpful credit could be to prevent the economy from seizing up in more tumultuous times. Expanding these options to students and businesses, the need only grew, eventually leading financial institutes to offer lines of credit and loans, that were insured by the government but funded by the company itself.
In general, the credit system is a good method of creating a history of your financial decisions and successes, something that can allow other creditors and loan providers to decide your eligibility for their services. You can find a little history of our credit system on this site. Having an established credit history is important for obtaining loans, being approved for credit cards, being considered for housing rentals or purchases, and can even be something reviewed by potential employers. Showing a consistent and timely payment history gives creditors, real estate agents, and future professional positions that you’re responsible and don’t put yourself in situations you can’t handle.
One loan to pay them all
Have you ever heard the term “robbing Peter to pay Paul”? Borrowing money, materials, resources or food has been a system for every culture since we’ve been around, but as we grew more industrious, we had to flesh out a more structured system. Bank notes, checks, and credit cards, all offer similar lines of credit.
Should you find yourself in over your head financially you might think your only option is something like declaring bankruptcy and starting from scratch. You don’t have to go that route, however, all you need to do is take a look at your options for refinancing your loans, or find a loan provider that will work with your specific situation, and discuss how to consolidate your debts into one payment. No matter what type of outstanding balances you have that need attention, you can bring their sums together in one loan to help stagger your monthly bills, or refinance the current rates of your outstanding loans.
Getting a better handle on your expenses and bills, you can focus on making on-time payments, which will build up your credit once again.
When you consolidate several different loans, for example, a loan for your car or a personal loan, you spare yourself the extra time and stress of having to pay multiple different bills. Using one loan to basically buy out the other loans, you can direct your attention to one account only. Refinansiering can also sometimes allow you to lengthen your term, which could help you have smaller monthly payments. Fewer opportunities to miss a payment or get behind on your due dates and less risk of ending up in hot waters financially make both of these options excellent resources.
Loans for every need in any situation
Consumer loans can range from things like mortgages and credit cards, to student, personal and auto loans. These are easier to differentiate between based on whether they are an open-end loan or a closed-end loan. An open-end loan offers revolving credit with a total that must be paid before more is available for use, like a credit card. A closed-end loan is an installment of credit, with monthly payments towards one bottom-line, like a car loan. Both of these loans can be secured or unsecured, which we’ll talk about next.
Secured loans are offered when the applicant has some form of collateral to back their loan amount. This ensures that the loan provider isn’t out their money should the loan holder be unable to pay their balance. Using a vehicle or some other property in their name, the loan holder will turn over ownership of the agreed-upon collateral to cover the remaining amount in their loan. This may sound concerning, but the reality is it’s simply insurance for the loan provider so they can confidently make you an offer.
An unsecured loan does not have any collateral requirements. Typically more easily accessible, these types of loans also are usually smaller or more limited in their total funds. If your needs are more immediate or if you aren’t looking for a large sum then consider looking into unsecured loans. Without the need for collateral, the application process will have fewer steps.
Be it a student loan you started to cover tuition and book expenses, a mortgage for your first or forever home, an auto loan for a new or additional vehicle, or a personal loan for you to finance something important to you, you need only connect with a financial officer to discuss your options. They will get information from you about your current work status as well as your credit history and score and come up with an offer that will suit your needs and fit within your budgetary needs. If you need a bit more clarification on what all qualifies as a consumer loan, you can find an explanation at the link below.
Don’t “D.I.Y” your finances
Navigating the different sites, credit providers, and financial institutes that can assist you with a loan can be confusing, so make sure to start your search by enlisting the help of someone in the business with plenty of experience. Easy instructions available online lead some people to believe they’re capable of accomplishing anything at home without advice or assistance, but the fact of the matter is there are some things that no amount of online searching can educate you for. Choosing a loan with the best interest rates and the most reasonable term length isn’t one of those weekend errands you should tackle by yourself.
Finding help from experts who are knowledgeable as well as friendly and professional is an excellent start to getting your debt consolidated, or your loan rates refinanced into more manageable payments. If you are merely looking for some temporary financial slack, changing the rates might be a good option for you. On the other hand, if you need a more permanent solution, getting a new loan to consolidate or extending your loan term may be the better path for you. You can’t make these decisions without answering a lot of questions, so make sure you get help before you get started.
After you have seen your offers, the next important step is to compare what is being put on the table for you, both the loan itself, and the company you will be signing the loan with. Find out opinions from friends and coworkers, and ask peers or family about the reputations of the companies you’re considering. Everyone has unique experiences but their additional information could give you some insight into possible warning signs and bad patterns from some less than professional companies. Taking into consideration the interest costs, the loan term, any possible hidden fees like early payment fees, and the collective opinion regarding the quality of their customer service, you can choose the best option for your needs and lifestyle. | <urn:uuid:f43681dd-8570-4677-8654-6d17273cecaa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://furyupdate.com/conquering-your-debt-by-refinansiering/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972264 | 1,533 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Volunteer who rescued refugees celebrates after being cleared of human trafficking charges
Salam Aldeen and 4 others from Spain and Denmark charged after rescuing refugees from the Mediterranean
To many, Salam Aldeen was a hero. But in Greece, his work in saving lives constituted a possible crime, for which he faced years in prison.
In 2015, Aldeen left behind his life as an entrepreneur in Denmark to help refugees cross into Europe.
He bought a boat and put together a group of volunteers — called Team Humanity — to rescue refugees making the treacherous trip to Lesbos by sea.
Then, two years ago, he was arrested by Greek authorities — along with another Danish volunteer and three Spanish firefighters. The five volunteers were charged with smuggling and faced up to 10 years in jail.
Earlier this week, all five were cleared of their charges.
Salam Aldeen spoke with As it Happens guest host Helen Mann from Lesbos, Greece. Here is some of their conversation.
Mr. Aldeen, it has been more than two years since you have been arrested. Tell me what you're feeling like now that you have finally been acquitted.
I am relieved. Really relieved. After two years, thinking that I could get a life sentence for saving lives — it has been very hard. Not only for me, but for the people around me, my family.
But I'm still in shock. I can't believe that I [am] free from everything.
Without all these organizations ... a lot of people would have been dead.- Salam Aldeen, Team Humanity
When you're sitting in a court and somebody wants to give you a life sentence, there's a lot of things going on in your head.
But I had faith in Greek law and the Greek authorities. So I'm happy it went this way.
Your case was watched very close by other non-governmental organizations, rescue groups working in that region and elsewhere. Why do you think it got so much attention?
Everybody knew we were rescuing people. Imagine you have a person, 100 metres away from shore, drowning. You can't wait for somebody to come to help. We need to jump into the water and rescue these people. This is how humanity is.
Without all these organizations ... a lot of people would have been dead.
So everybody was afraid of what will happen to us, because if we get convicted for this — [if] we go to jail for saving lives — the humanitarian work will be in danger.
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Can you tell us about the circumstances of your arrest? What happened?
On the 14th of January — between two and three o'clock in the night — we got an S.O.S. message on a WhatsApp group that there was a boat sinking somewhere in front of the airport.
We went into my boat and we went to the sea.
When we came to the sea, we couldn't see anything. It was dark, and there was no boat.
We called the Coast Guard before we went to the sea and told them there was a boat somewhere, but we don't know where it is, but please, if you find the location of the boat, please call us back.
And then we got arrested. After seven minutes.
And did you know the Coast Guard officers who arrested you?
We were cooperating always with the Coast Guard. We were always talking with them.
Only 14 hours before this incident, we saved 51 people with the green light of the authorities.
They knew us. I was there from September, 2015.
Why do you think you were arrested?
We don't know. We don't know what happened.
What brought you there in the first place from your life back in Denmark?
It was a picture of Alan Kurdi, the Syrian boy. I saw it in the news.
Two days after, I was in Lesbos. Three hours after I landed, I was saving lives. I was swimming to the boat taking people out of the water.
I saw all of these refugees, almost drowned. And I wanted to scream and cry at the same time. There was nobody to help. There were some volunteers, and that's it.
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How long had you planned to stay?
One week. I bought a ticket for one week. But I couldn't turn my back on this. I had a dead child in my hands. Many times.
I [dug] a grave for six hours and buried four children, a mother and a father.
It's something that stays with you — it will never go out of your brain.
How is your life different from what it was before you started?
My life changed completely. I don't think I can go and work in a normal job anymore.
This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.
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An electrocardiogram, abbreviated as EKG or ECG, measures the heart’s rhythm and electrical activity. Physicians use this painless process to quickly evaluate how a patient’s heart is functioning and find signs of potential heart-related conditions.
Keep your EKG machine clean to maintain a healthy environment and keep measurements accurate. Read this quick guide to cleaning an EKG or ECG machine so you can take care of your equipment.
Clean the Cables and Leadwires
When it comes to routine maintenance and cleaning your medical equipment, always follow the manufacturer’s instructions. General guidelines for cleaning EKG leads include avoiding products with ammonia as this dries out the leads and makes them hard and inflexible.
Dust off dirt and other dry debris. Then, apply an all-purpose cleaner to a soft towel to clean your EKG’s cables and leadwires. You may have to use another cleaning product, such as a citrus oil-based cleaner, to dissolve the adhesive residue. Do not spray the product directly onto the cable and do not let any fluids seep into the cable.
Tips for Disinfecting
The next point in this quick guide to cleaning an EKG or ECG machine is to disinfect the device. To disinfect cables and leadwires, you should first clean the surfaces. Once again, consult your EKG manufacturer’s instructions to be sure you’re using the right cleaning products for your machine.
Use a disinfectant approved by the manufacturer and your facility. Place the disinfectant solution onto a soft, lint-free rag and wipe the cables. Do not let the solution get onto any metal parts and do not soak the connector ends because this can cause corrosion. Wipe off the product with a dry lint-free cloth, and then let the cables air dry for at least 30 minutes.
Clean the Display
Use a clean, soft cloth to clean the display. Avoid applying or spraying cleaning solutions directly to the display. Excess liquid on the display or cables can damage metal and electronic parts. Read the manufacturer’s instructions to be sure you’re using the right cleaning solutions and concentrations.
Lock the touch screen to disable it. Lightly moisten your soft rag with the approved cleaning solution. Then, gently wipe the solution over the monitor. Wipe the display dry with a clean rag. Do not let the liquid sit on the screen.
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Predefine semantic URLs
You can use the type methods functionality to predefine semantic URLs to handle requests.
EXAMPLE: You may not want to query a service via the following oData query string:
In this case, you could map the URL to the following URL:
This way, you can define URLs that are easier to read and use.
To define a semantic URL, perform the following:
- Navigate to Administration » Settings » Advanced » WebServices » Routes.
- Select the route to your service and click Services.
- Select the service and select the type, where you want to register a new type and click Types.
- Select the type where you want to define a method and click Predefined methods » Create new.
- In Name, enter the semantic URL
- In Querystring, enter the original oData query string for which you want to define a more user-friendly URL
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Fires have so far spared the 133-year-old University of California-run James Lick Observatory atop Mt. Hamilton, the Bay Area’s highest peak.
Timelapse footage captured by cameras stationed close to the 4,265-foot summit show just how close the flames came to the historic structure,
“The extent of the fire around our main telescope domes is especially evident in the nighttime photos,” staff wrote in a Facebook post today. “Cal Fire did excellent work protecting the facility and we give they our wholehearted thanks for their efforts.”
Thankfully, because of stay-home orders in place since March, observatory staff were already safely working offsite and controlling the telescopes remotely.
The danger has yet to pass, however.
“Cal Fire is working hard to clear brush around vulnerable structures and further protect the facility,” observatory staff added in a follow-up post.
The wildfire that ran through Lick Observatory and surrounding areas yesterday and last night was captured by HamCam2. The extent of the fire around our main telescope domes is especially evident in the nighttime photos. CalFire did excellent work protecting the facility and we give them our wholehearted thanks for their efforts. The HamCam2 camera is mounted on the top of the Lick Observatory Main Building and points east. The fire reached the observatory grounds in the early afternoon August 19th and continues to affect the observatory and surrounding areas this morning. Time-lapse assembled by Elinor Gates from the saved camera images.
Posted by Lick Observatory on Thursday, August 20, 2020
The SCU Complex—a cluster of about 20 fires in five counties and abutting the eastern edge of San Jose—still remains wildly out of control. By the latest measure from Cal Fire, the complex has grown to about 140,000 acres, with just 5 percent containment.
Little to no fire history in the past 50 years left the terrain rife “with decadent fuels,” according to Cal Fire, rendering it particularly vulnerable to Sunday’s lightning-sparked flames, which have since engulfed 300,000 acres throughout the region.
In a video posted to Twitter today, Cal Fire captain and fire behavior analyst Stephen Volmer said crews are struggling to rein in the SCU Complex because of its speed, the hot dry weather and gusts of 30mph wind on the upper ridges.
— CAL FIRE SCU (@calfireSCU) August 20, 2020
“Normally during the nighttime, the relative humidity goes up and the fire spread slows down,” he explained. “But in this incident, there’s a little phenomenon that’s happening and the relative humidity is actually dropping drastically at night when there’s very poor humidity recovery, and that’s allowing the fire to burn actively all day and all night long out there. That’s really hampering the control efforts of our resources on the ground.”
East of San Jose, Volmer said, the flames continue to travel at about 120 feet a minute—far too fast for the 21 crews assigned to the complex to lay down fire lines. Meanwhile, he added, embers from freshly burned kindling are floating about three-quarters of a mile through the air—called a “spotting distance”—and sparking still more fires.
“So that’s what’s hampering our control efforts out there, Volmer said in his video broadcast. “That’s what’s aiding in the fire spread.”
Views from the @LickObservatory early this morning 1st looking toward San Jose, 2nd looking toward Pleasanton. The Inversion layer lifted early causing fire activity to pick up. OES 385 & S/T 5806A remain assigned likely through tomorrow due to resource need #SCULightningComplex pic.twitter.com/kPvOj6EsUo
— SLO City Fire (@SLO_City_Fire) August 20, 2020
More than 1,000 firefighters from multiple agencies continue to scout for safe access points to build direct and indirect fire lines along the way.
In its latest status update on the SCU Complex, Cal Fire said the wildfire still needs “critical resources to protect sensitive wildlife and the critical power and communication infrastructure throughout the area.”
Mandatory evacuation orders remain in effect for the Mt. Hamilton foothills, with an advisory issued for San Jose’s East Side. The city made the a map of impacted areas, with the expanse highlighted in red subject to the mandatory order.
Santa Clara County has set up two resource centers—one at the Milpitas Library, another at Ann Sobrato High in Morgan Hill—for evacuees to find help. The centers are not shelters, but are staffed by American Red Cross and can help people find out where to stay until it’s safe to return home.
In Milpitas today, the resource hub appeared to have very little foot traffic. A Red Cross employees declined to say how many people had availed themselves of services there, directing inquiries instead to the county’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC).
A spokesman at the EOC didn’t have info readily available about the number of evacuees affected by the local order nor how many sought help at the resource hubs. San Jose Inside will update this story as more information becomes available.
Meanwhile, follow Cal Fire on Twitter—@calfireSCU—for the latest updates. Click here for their map, which is updated in real time and shows various fire locations and boundaries of current evacuation orders.
Though the SCU Complex poses the most immediate threat to San Jose, the Santa Clara Valley is surrounded by fire. West of Los Gatos and Saratoga, the CZU Complex has been roaring through the Santa Cruz Mountain forests and up along the Peninsula, where additional evacuation orders have been issued as the fires approach Big Basin State Park.
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At one of his recent rallies Trump said “The United States will never be a socialist country.” Well not as long as he is in power anyway. After he leaves things may change. The entire democrat party is now the party of socialism, the entire media is an extension of the democrat party and supports socialism and the current generation of millennials lean towards socialism because they are the sons and daughters of liberal parents from the 60’s and of what they are being taught in high schools and colleges and not about the dangers and ramifications of socialism. Socialism has failed in every country it’s been tried.
All the Dems ever wanted was absolute control, and socialism and globalism and destruction of capitalism is the way they plan on doing it…They are Saul Alinskiites!
The millennials on the left are ACTUAL communists but don’t realize it. Bernie did not get that support because kids do not remember when he was calling himself a communist, he got it because they are his comrades.
Socialism is commonly regarded as an economic system that seeks to achieve equality among members of society. Communism, on the other hand, is both an economic system that seeks equality among members of society and a political ideology that advocates a classless and stateless society and rejects religion. It is regarded as a more extreme form of socialism.
Socialism and communism both adhere to the principle that the resources of the economy should be collectively owned by the public and controlled by a central organization. They differ, however, in the management and control of the economy. In socialism, the people themselves decide through communes or popularly elected councils on how the economy should work. This makes socialism a liberal system because the majority of the people have a say on how the economy should be run. Communism, on the other hand, controls its economy through a single authoritarian party. It is thus characterized as conservative because the economy functions based on the decisions of a few.
Dems ARE Commies, and for millennials, this is also something to be proud of. Commies want to own all of your life and property. They are Stalinist thugs and America is in trouble when they get elected (look at Venezuela)
Washington Times’ columnist Charlie Hurt told FNC’s Tucker Carlson on Wednesday that the Democratic Party is undergoing a “Tea Party-esqe” reckoning with the radical left. Like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseating New York Rep. Joe Crowley, mainstream Democratic leaders are in danger of having their seats swiped by “Democratic Socialists.” Hurt also said that like the Tea Party in 2010, many of these new Democrats are, “a little rough around the edges.”
“You look at some of these Tea Party candidates, they weren’t the best candidates… but at the end of the day, they were Constitutionalists like Mike Lee. They might be annoying, but they loved the country.”
“These people are communists,” Hurt said, about their Democratic counterparts. “And that is a real problem. Democrats are going to have to contend with this, and this is not the last sitting Democrat who is going to be ousted by some socialist who wants free stuff for everybody that comes out of nowhere.”
AOC won because of her race. The district in which she ran is about 50% Hispanic. Race was the key, determinative factor.. The Democratic Part is the party of anti-White hatred and racism, and all Whites in the Democratic Party will eventually be replaced by non-Whites. Now AOC is announcing plans for her Green New Deal with Soviet Style posters.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is hoping some artwork will help sell Americans on her controversial Green New Deal.
The self-described Democratic Socialist lawmaker announced the release of a set of posters celebrating the Green New Deal, which will be given away this weekend in The Bronx and Queens.
“I am thrilled to announce the launch of our #GreenNewDeal art series with custom Bronx & Queens GND posters,” AOC tweeted Friday. “The Bronx edition poster will be given for free as a limited release to the public at our Pelham Bay Nature Day & Backpack Giveaway in the Bronx tomorrow.”
One Twitter poster said: “These Soviet-style posters should totally eliminate popular concern the Green New Deal is some kind of big gov’t takeover. “
After much criticism, Cortez posted: “Our #GreenNewDeal posters are inspired by the original New Deal, updated for our future.
During the New Deal, FDR launched Federal One, a US project that employed 5,300 artists that created & taught art to envision America’s future.”
Green New Deal proponents, including Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), have long claimed that the GND, an expansive, costly, and dramatic change in the American economy (and in American infrastructure), would be worth it if it such extreme measures would, in the long run, lessen our impact on climate.
Now, though, a new study from the American Enterprise Institute questions whether the Green New Deal would have any real impact on climate change at all — leaving it little more than an effort to dismantle industry.
The AEI report breaks down the GND into bite-sized policy proposals, assessing not simply the cost, but the proposed effectiveness of each legislative item to address the core goal of the GND: reducing American carbon emissions to a “net zero” by 2050.
The researchers’ ultimate conclusion? “It is not to be taken seriously.”
“I’ve got a full-time job in Congress and then I moonlight as America’s greatest villain, or as the new hope,” she recently told The New Yorker. “I believe health care is a right and people should be paid enough to live. Those are offensive values to them.”
She is far from alone in holding those views. Indeed, stories of millennials and today’s youth having favorable views of socialism are everywhere. She and her entire ilk believe that the U.S. is ready for socialism.
The annual meeting of the Democratic Socialists of America group has endorsed open borders.
The vote by the DSA — whose members include Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Rashida Tlaib — spotlights the left’s emotional shift from economic solidarity with blue-collar Americans towards a political alliance with migrant foreign graduates and laborers.
The DSA group describes itself as an “internationalist socialist organization,” and it influences staffers and activists in the Democrat Party. The Open Borders resolution says:
Be it resolved that DSA supports the demand for open borders … the uninhibited transnational free movement of people, the demilitarization of the US-Mexico border, the abolition of ICE and CPB without replacement, decriminalization of immigration, full amnesty for all asylum seekers and a pathway to citizenship for all on-citizen residents.
“This Resolution means that our national organization will set up infrastructure and resources for our local chapters to organize around open borders in their communities if they so choose,” DSA press secretary Lawrence Dreyfuss told Breitbart News. “This has been adopted as the overarching strategy of the DSA. It is up to our newly elected political leadership to address specific nuances as they arise.”
Open borders are also needed to change Americans’ politics and culture, the group argues: “Borders and immigration enforcement are tools of white supremacy, capitalism, and imperialism.”
Open borders are also needed to help citizens and immigrants jointly organize against the capitalist system in the United States, the DSA argues: “borders serve to undermine the international working class, by pitting immigrants and citizens workers in American … against each other in a race to the bottom.”
Greedy and evil people gravitate toward positions of power so they can enrich themselves. Socialism is an ideal environment for them to accomplish this. Nobody wins in socialism, except the greedy and evil people. AOC and her squad and the democrat party are perfect examples of this.
We as a nation need to make a decision to change this destructive behavior that the Progressive Democrats have instilled in our culture. Don’t be fooled, Obama has been working behind the scene and has been the engine of this chaos. Kamala Harris is an acolyte and a mouthpiece for his radical ideas. Obama has destroyed the Democratic party and won’t stop until the country is destroyed as well. Wake up everyone and stand up against these Communists. | <urn:uuid:5a0d1227-eea2-4803-8658-5a556adccb95> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.conservativedailynews.com/2019/09/beware-of-socialism-and-communism-making-their-way-into-our-society/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.959707 | 1,810 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Webster 1913 Edition
crime, fr. L.
crimenjudicial decision, that which is subjected to such a decision, charge, fault, crime, fr. the root of
cernereto decide judicially. See
Any violation of law, either divine or human; an omission of a duty commanded, or the commission of an act forbidden by law.
Gross violation of human law, in distinction from a misdemeanor or trespass, or other slight offense. Hence, also, any aggravated offense against morality or the public welfare; any outrage or great wrong.“To part error from crime.”
☞ Crimes, in the English common law, are grave offenses which were originally capitally punished (murder, rape, robbery, arson, burglary, and larceny), as distinguished from misdemeanors, which are offenses of a lighter grade. See
Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
crimewas thine, if ’tis no
That which occasion crime.
The tree of life, the
crimeof our first father's fall.
Syn. – Sin; vice; iniquity; wrong.
Vice. Sin is the generic term, embracing wickedness of every kind, but specifically denoting an offense as committed against God. Crime is strictly a violation of law either human or divine; but in present usage the term is commonly applied to actions contrary to the laws of the State. Vice is more distinctively that which springs from the inordinate indulgence of the natural appetites, which are in themselves innocent. Thus intemperance, unchastity, duplicity, etc., are vices; while murder, forgery, etc., which spring from the indulgence of selfish passions, are crimes.
Webster 1828 Edition
1.An act which violates a law, divine or human; an act which violates a rule of moral duty; an offense against the laws of right, prescribed by God or man, or against any rule of duty plainly implied in those laws. A crime may consist in omission or neglect, as well as in commission, or positive transgression. The commander of a fortress who suffers the enemy to take possession by neglect, is as really criminal, as one who voluntarily opens the gates without resistance.
But in a more common and restricted sense, a crime denotes an offense, or violation of public law, of a deeper and more atrocious nature; a public wrong; or a violation of the commands of God, and the offenses against the laws made to preserve the public rights; as treason, murder, robbery, theft, arson, &c. The minor wrongs committed against individuals or private rights, are denominated trespasses, and the minor wrongs against public rights are called misdemeanors. Crimes and misdemeanors are punishable by indictment, information or public prosecution; trespasses or private injuries, at the suit of the individuals injured. But in many cases an act is considered both as a public offense and a trespass, and is punishable both by the public and the individual injured.
2.Any great wickedness; iniquity; wrong.
No crime was thing, if tis no crime to love.
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About the Landmarks Program
Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmarks are existing artifacts or systems representing a significant mechanical engineering technology. They generally are the oldest extant, last surviving examples typical of a period, or they are machines with some unusual distinction.
Landmarks, sites and collections of historic importance to mechanical engineering are designated by ASME through its History and Heritage Landmarks Program. Landmark status indicates that the artifact, site or collection represents a significant step forward in the evolution of mechanical engineering and is the best known example of its kind. A plaque is presented for display, a commemorative brochure is prepared, and a roster is kept to promote long-term recognition and preservation efforts.
The breadth of our mechanical engineering heritage is evident in the landmarks program. Nearly 250 landmarks have been designated since the program began in 1971.The landmarks program also includes:
- Mechanical Engineering Heritage Sites, or particular locales at which some event or development occurred or which some machine, building, or complex of significance occupied.
- Mechanical Engineering Heritage Collections,which refers to a museum or collection that includes related objects of special significance to, but not necessarily a major evolutionary step in, the historical development of mechanical engineering.
The History and Heritage Landmarks program intends:
- To foster the preservation of the physical remains of historically important engineering works
- To encourage mechanical engineers and others to become aware of their technological heritage
- To inform the public of such contributions
- To provide an annotated roster of landmarks,sites, and collections in mechanical engineering for engineers, students,educators, historians, scholars, and travelers
- To promote these achievements in materials for use by the public
- To call attention to the noteworthy mechanical engineers who were associated with the invention, development, or production of these singular technological achievements.
This section will serve as a guide to the process and protocols of nominating and designating landmarks. Everything you need to nominate a landmark, heritage site or heritage collection can be found online. Move through the landmark guidelines and criteria (located in the links on the left of the page), then preview the nomination form under "nominating a landmark."
Nominating a Landmark: A nomination form must be submitted to ASME staff.
Ceremony Guide: Once your nomination is submitted and approved, what's next? A ceremony to present the plaque must be carried out by nominators. The History & Heritage Manual 72C is the 30-page Ceremony Guide for Landmark Designations.
The cycle for ASME History and Heritage activities is fairly regular:
To ensure review of Landmark and Engineer-Historian Award nominations at the June Annual Meeting please submit them by April 1. However, a nomination can be submitted at any time of year.
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China's Communist Party has sharply criticised a global democracy summit being hosted by US President Joe Biden next week and extolled the virtues of its own governing system.
Chinese party officials questioned how a polarised country that botched its response to COVID-19 could lecture others, and said that efforts to force others to copy the Western democratic model are "doomed to fail."
Tian Peiyan, the deputy director of the CCP's Policy Research Office, said the pandemic had exposed defects in the US system. He blamed the high COVID-19 death toll in the US on political disputes and a divided government from the highest to the lowest levels.
"Such democracy brings not happiness but disaster to voters," he said at a news conference to release a government report on what the Communist Party calls its form of democracy, which is firmly under party control.
Neither China nor Russia are among about 110 governments that have been invited to Biden's two-day virtual "Summit for Democracy," which starts on Thursday. The participation of Taiwan, a self-governing democracy that China says should be under its rule, has further angered Beijing.
US-China relations remain strained despite a virtual summit between Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping last month. The US president has repeatedly framed differences with China in his broader call for the US and its allies to demonstrate that democracies can offer humanity a better path toward progress than autocracies.
The Communist Party has ruled China single-handedly since 1949. It says that various views are reflected through consultative bodies and residence committees, but silences most public criticism with censorship and sometimes arrest.
The party argues that strong central leadership is needed to maintain stability in a sprawling country that has been riven by division and war over the centuries.
"In such a large country with 56 ethnic groups and more than 1.4 billion people, if there is no party leadership, ... and we uphold the so-called democracy of the West, it will be easy to mess things up and democracy will work the opposite way," Tian said.
The recent difficulties faced by some Western democracies have given Communist Party leaders more confidence in their system as they try to build China into a global power. State media often cite the chaos of the insurrection at the US Capitol after the last presidential election. The report issued on Saturday said "today's world is facing challenges of excessive democracy."
Chinese officials frequently accuse the US and others of using democracy as a cover to try to suppress China's rise, a charge echoed at the news conference by Xu Lin, the vice minister of the party's publicity department.
"The US calls itself a 'leader of democracy' and organises and manipulates the so-called Summit for Democracy," he said. "In fact, it cracks down and hampers countries with different social systems and development models in the name of democracy."
"Is this the democracy they advertised?" Xu said.
Australian Associated Press
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The Fourth of the Four: Caliph Ali b. Abi Talib (d. 40H)
One of the least explained events in history is the conversion of the Middle-east to Islam. At the cost of three earliest heads of state, and around 30,000 lives in 30 years’ time, 30 million people, spread over 6.5 million square kilometers, discarded their ancestral religions (Judaism, Christianity, with all its dozens of sects, Magi, Zoroastrian, Mithraism, Mardukianism, Ashurianism, Coptism, atheism and paganism of all kinds) and embraced a foreign religion, brought by foreigners, speaking a foreign language who came in as hateful conquerors. How did it happen, nobody knows. It was a miracle.The conflicts within the tough 30 years of transformation, were indeed, no more than hiccups, in view of the vast changes brought over a vast area involving a vast number of peoples and their culture. One of the state and stately heads that rolled during the hiccup was that of `Ali ibn abiTalib, the fourth Caliph of Islam.
The story of Ali b. abiTalibis the story of a pauper who rose up to be the head of a vast empire, and the undisputed intellectual and spiritual head of a vaster empire: both positions that he did not aspire for, choosing to remain an unknown pauper to the end. His death at the hands of (an already identified) assassin, who danced before him for days and weeks, was as remarkable as his life. He looked at the coarse, ruffian louts, who enforced their company on him during the last days of his life, and begged God to send death upon him. But, perhaps, little did he realize that these obscene followers of obscene sects will disperse after his head had rolled in the sand, and give birth to, within a generation or two, some of the most remarkable personalities the Middle-east ever produced. No blood flows in the cause of Truth, but coming generations pick fruits from the blood sunk into the fields by the great souls of the past.
He was one of the four sons of the remarkable, but poverty-stricken, Grand Old Man of Makkah: Abu Talib, leader of the BanuHashim, holder of the honored pagan religious positions. A true man of a true character, he stood by the Prophet, without declaring faith in him, but bore, what sworn friends and protectors cannot normally bear. That happened at the extreme end of his life, when the unbelieving Quraysh decided to boycott the entire BanuHashim clan and lay a three-year siege around Abu Talib’s quarters, for not handing his nephew, Muhammad, to them, so that they could kill him and kill the new rising religion. Abu Talib stood firm, stood the starvation, and died soon after the siege was lifted. But his wife, Fatimah, a daughter of Asad, had turned Muslim and migrated to Madinah.
`Ali was Abu Talib’s last son, (born ten years before Muhammad was raised as a Prophet). Talib was the first and the other two were Aqeel and Ja`far. His two daughters were Umm Hani and Jumanah. Pitying his poverty, the future Prophet and his another uncle, `Abbas b. `Abd al-Muttalib, offered to take a son each into their financial care. The Prophet adopted `Ali, while `Abbas took Ja`far who was among the earliest Muslims, although `Ali preceded him in faith. Some would give him the honor of the first male to believe, although, in correct opinion, Abu Bakr has that distinction.
Talib never embraced Islam (at least, not openly) and so was forced into traveling with the Quraysh to Badr to face the Prophet, but where he ran into altercation with one of them remarking that he lacked the zeal of a committed Kafir. He returned to Makkah in a huff without participating in the battle, but disappeared shortly after and was never seen again. No one knows what happened to him. Ja`far embraced Islam, and, having migrated to Abyssinia, was the one who delivered the historical speech that converted the Christian king to Islam. He died a martyr at Mu`ta in 5 H. Aqeel, the second son of Abu Talib, became Muslim in the year Makkah fell. Posthumously, he contributed nine of his twelve sons as martyrs to Hussain’s cause at Karbala.
The first time a historian notices `Ali is when a guest of `Abbas notices him praying with the Prophet at the Makkan Grand Mosque, with the companion-in-faith, the ever faithful companion of life, Khadija behind. Said the man amazed at the sight, “God! This is something great. Who could these be?” “Ah,” answered `Abbas, “That’s my nephew Muhammad who says he is addressed by my Lord and your Lord, his wife Khadijah and `Ali, another nephew of mine.” He added, “Let me tell you. Under the heaven there is none else but these three who follow this religion.”
`Ali is next sighted when the Prophet invited a select group of his clan, served them dinner, and inquired who would be his associate in the spread of his Call. `Ali, big-stomached, thin-legged lad, who had helped in the preparation of the dinner for 30, volunteers with an “I,” while others watch with fallen jaws. `Ali is also on the history-pages as he accompanies the Prophet, in the stillness of night, to the Ka`ba. He tries to support the Prophet on his shoulders so he could climb to the roof. But the lad cannot take the load. So the Prophet offers his shoulders. `Ali climbs and topples down the idols on the roof. The two leave hurriedly before the noise wakes up someone in the neighboring houses. That wasn’t the last time `Ali was breaking the idols. When Makkah fell in 8 H., the Prophet sent him with a contingent of 150 riders to destroy the idols and deities of the Tayy tribe. In Madinah too, once `Ali was sent to a certain tribal dwellings to find not an idol but break it, and not a (raised grave) but level it to the ground.
Thereafter, and but for one or two incidents, Makkan history pages are silent about `Ali until he is encountered by the Quraysh stalwarts as they enter into the Prophet’s house early morning, having stood night-long waiting for him to emerge and their swords to fall. They find `Ali snoring in the Prophet’s bed. The deep sleep was perhaps justified by the Prophet’s instruction to hand over things in his trust, to their owners before he too left Makkah. If he was entrusted to do so, `Ali must have told himself, “Surely, the Quraysh will not be able to kill me.” The Prophet was, at all events, on his way to Madinah. The Quraysh roughed him up a little, detained him in the Grand Mosque for a while, but had to release him for want of any proof of involvement in the Prophet’s escape. A couple of days later, `Ali was trekking the same road on foot, to arrive with swollen feet that brought tears into the Prophet’s eyes.
At the function for organizing brotherhood, `Ali was declared brother unto Suhayl b. Hunayf; an Ansari. In later years, he would become a Governor of Madinah while `Ali was in Iraq as a Caliph. He was with `Ali in the Siffin battle. Both were there almost in every battle after emigration; but `Ali played rather more important roles.
Having not been brought up on stomach-fulls of meals, indeed, on many meals missed,thatdid not, somehow, come in the way of `Ali growing into a man of exemplary courage. At Badr, the Prophet let him loose on the three renowned Quraysh fighters who challenged duals. `Ali – the least inexperienced of war – took on Walid b. `Utbah and beheaded him in no time. After the battle, he received an old camel as his share of the booty. But he lost it as quickly he had gained it. The detail will be here in a moment.
Sometime after the Badr battle, `Ali, then 21, requested the Prophet for Fatimah’s hand. He agreed to a paltry sum as mahr: it was 400 Dirham that `Ali raised by converting his coat of mail into cash. He decided to cut the camel that he had received after Badr, and another that the Prophet had gifted him lately, but the plan was foiled by Hamza. He had parked them in front of the house of an Ansari, wherein a song and drinks party was going on in full swing. Hamza was there too. So, when the singer coaxed him to an act of gallantry, he went out and slaughtered the two camels. `Ali was crest-fallen. He brought down the Prophet, but red-eyed Hamza was too drunk. The Prophet retraced his steps and a verse disapproving wine was revealed. But `Ali had lost his camels and perhaps borrowed money for the marriage feast. However, he seems to have learnt how to read and write. He was the one to write the Treaty at Hudaybiyyah in the 6th H., refusing to erase the words, “Messenger of Allah” from the document, when the Makkans insisted on grounds that if they accepted that, what is it they were fighting for? That was one reason, and the other was the humiliating conditions on which the Treaty was signed that `Ali, along with the rest, refused to terminate his pilgrimage, then and there, and return to Madinah, having achieved, so to say, nothing.
A strict follower of the Prophetic ways, `Ali even tried to imitate `Umar. When suggested that he alight into the “White Palaces” of the former Persian rulers of Iraq, he refused on grounds that earlier to him, `Umar had rejected the suggestion to alight therein. How closely he followed the Prophet’s ways can be judged from a single incident. At Khayber, when one of the forts could not be conqured, the Prophet promised to give the command to someone who will return as a conqueror. Next day, he gave it to `Ali and instructed him (apart from saying other things), “march forward and do not turn you back.” As `Ali took the banner from him and started to leave, the Prophet said, “And listen…” `Ali stopped, with his back to the Prophet. He did not turn back, because the Prophet had said, “March forward and do not turn your back!”
To `Ali, Islam came first, and before anything else. When his sister, Umm Hani, gave refuge to two of the Makkan pagans at the time Makkah fell, he all but beheaded them if not for the Prophet’s intervention upon Umm Hani’s complaint against her brother.
The pair – Ali and Fatimah – negotiated their honeymoon as best as they could. They slept on a goat-skin that was used for spreading cattle-feed during the day. Their hut had little or no furniture, and the pair went hungry quite often. `Ali had no money for trade, nor was he trained in any particular craft. But he knew how to cut grass, to which he resorted whenever hunger became unbearable. As grass was available only sparingly, he sold it as fodder in the markets. The Prophet might as well have seen him selling grass, yet, when hardships turned beyond endurance, husband and wife went to the Prophet seeking a slave or a servant. Fatimah complained that the skin of her hand was torn from running the mill-stone round and round, grindings floor; and `Ali added that he suffered chest-pain from working as a bucket-puller irrigating (Jewish) orchards. But they were shown no mercy because of the no-mercy load that the Makkans had off-loaded upon the budding community of believers in Madinah. Also, they had to be trained as soldiers of Allah who would inherit the Next world.
“By Allah,” the Prophet told them, “I cannot give you anything while the (dozens of) people on the rock (Ahl al-Suffah) fold their legs on their stomachs at night from hunger.” Later, he visited the two a bit late at night, and kneeling besides the two in bed, gave them a ritualistic formula in place of monetary help. He told them, “Sing the praises of your Lord, a hundred times (by this formula), before you go to bed,” and added, (salt to injury in our contemporary times), “This is better than what you have asked for.” Nonetheless, `Ali never gave up saying these words ever in his life. “Not even the night of the Siffin battle?” he was asked. He answered, “Not even that night.”
The Prophet visited the two quite often, and oftener when Fatimah gave birth to Hasan and Hussain. He visited them at pre-dawn hours too, to wake them up for the (non-obligatory) Tahajjud Prayers. At least once did `Ali betray irritation. After waking them the Prophet returned home, did some more Prayers and returned to see why wasn’t there any movement in `Ali’s house. He found them sleeping. He woke them up again. `Ali sat up, rubbed his eyes and said, “We Pray as much as Allah has destined for us. Our souls are in His hands. When He wishes to raise us up (from sleep), He raises us up.” The Prophet returned, slapping his thighs, repeating a Qur’anic revelation (18: 54), “But man is ever contentious in most things.”
A minor skirmish led `Ali to storm out of the house. When the Prophet inquired about his whereabouts, he was told that he was in the mosque. He found him sleeping there, half on a shroud, half on dust which covered his back. He said, in the unbelieving tender words, “Up, O Abu Turab (O, covered in dust)!” That became `Ali’s nick-name.
When `Ali intended to marry the daughter of Abu Jahl, an arch enemy of the Prophet, now dead, the Prophet remarked, “I am not declaring the lawful as unlawful; but the daughter of Allah’s enemy and my daughter will not be brought together under one roof.” So, he never married so long as Fatimah was alive. After her death, six months after the Prophet, he married several women, who altogether gave him over thirty children, of whom Hasan, Husain and Umm Kulthum were from Fatimah. None of the males survived after the massacre at Karbala in 61H, except Zayn al-`Abidin.
At Uhud (3H), the pagan flag was held by Talha b. `Uthman. Several times, the man challenged someone to meet him in duel. Finally, `Ali went down. Talha fell down as `Ali severed his leg. His underpants came off and the man of honor pleaded that he be spared until he could dress himself up. `Ali abandoned him. When fighting broke, he fought so hard as to receive sixteen injuries. But they could not have been severe for we find him answering the challenge of `Amr b. `AbdWudd, during the Battle of the Trench in 5H. `Amr was considered equivalent of a thousand men and initially refused to fight `Ali, since he did not wish to kill him. But it was `Ali who dispatched him to Hell. The man was so valuable to the Quraysh that they offered 10,000 for his corpse. The Prophet said (although his soldiers were starving), that he was in no need of either the odious corpse, or their money; they could have it free.
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For the past few years, we have had the incredible fortune of attracting more STEM professionals who want to be pen pals than we have the capacity to match with student pre-scientists, hence, the waitlist! In fact, during the 2018-19 school year we had as many STEM professionals on our waiting list as we had …
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Based on its national and social responsibility to provide the necessary assistance to the most vulnerable individuals and groups and relying on the principles of humanitarian work and the ethics of the Syriac Church, EPDC continued provide free humanitarian services to those affected by the Syrian war and the most vulnerable households in the Syrian society, through a series of programs and projects.
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When the minimum wage goes up, the robots come for people's jobs. That's the upshot of a paper published today on the National Bureau of Economic Research's website (abstract, full PDF paywalled), which analyzed how changes to the minimum wage from 1980 to 2015 affected low-skill jobs in various sectors of the U.S. economy.
Federal minimum wage is currently $7.25 an hour, the same level it's been at since 2009. But 30 states have laws on the books that mandate a higher wage—it's $11 in Washington State, for example, and Seattle recently voted to phase in a pay hike that would bring it to $15 by 2022. Such measures are designed to ensure that "minimum wage" is the same thing as a "living wage."
Interestingly, a study of Seattle's new law, released in June, suggested that cuts to working hours meant people were actually losing as much as $125 a month.
The new analysis, by Grace Lorden of the London School of Economics and David Neumark at the University of California, Irvine, suggests that there's a similar negative effect among people who work minimum-wage jobs that machines can do. The researchers found that across all industries they measured, raising minimum wage by $1 equates to a decline in "automatable" jobs—things like packing boxes or operating a sewing machine—of 0.43 percent.
That may not sound like much, but we're talking about millions of jobs across the entire U.S. economy. And certain industries were affected far more than others—in manufacturing, an uptick of $1 in minimum wage drove employment in automatable jobs down a full percentage point.
Of course, we know that automation is already gobbling up jobs in the U.S. (see "Who Will Own the Robots?"). This latest study suggests that even wage policies designed to help America's workforce may instead be speeding up that process.
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While many newcomers to the Arkansas River Valley admire the scenic beauty of rolling farmland and the bucolic peace of cattle grazing pastures, the fact is that farming is a business with real economic impact. Surviving as a farmer or rancher requires real knowledge and some risk. The recent Pasture Planning and Soil Health Workshop at Poncha Springs Town Hall featured keynote speaker Greg Judy and was packed with enthusiastic and note-taking members of the local farming community.
Judy, who with his wife Jan runs a grazing operation on 1,660 acres of leased and owned land in Missouri, is known the world over in farming circles. Author of three books on successful farming practices, Judy teaches the benefits of planned grazing, multi-species grazing, custom grazing, agroforestry and wildlife management.
Judy spoke several times during the conference, dispelling misconceptions about grazing, and in particular how mixed grazing of cattle, sheep and goats actually rejuvenates soils and pastures; the combination of hooves and different grazing modes complement each other. The information came in so quickly that many participants said they couldn’t take notes fast enough.
“The workshop was the result of several other projects we have underway as a collaboration between Central Colorado Conservancy and the Upper Arkansas Conservation District. Both organizations are involved in leading the watershed planning project of Upper Arkansas (UAWP),” said Natalie Allio, agricultural projects manager for the Central Colorado Conservancy.
Allio explains that there is an agricultural component to the watershed planning which has included a needs assessment. “As part of this assessment, we asked the farming community what topics they would like to know more about. The workshop program was the result of their preliminary comments.
The workshop was made possible by grants from Common Ground and sponsorships from NCAT-Soil for Water, Colorado Association of Conservation Districts, Chaffee County Cattlemen’s, NRCS, CSU-Extension, and Piñon Vacation Rentals.
“It was a big effort to organize this to focus on grazing and soil health planning,” Allio said. “We had excellent feedback from the participants.”
When asked if the type of planned grazing that works in Missouri could work in Colorado, she added, “It depends on where you do it. Look to the east side of Holman where Brady Everett is grazing. Jeff Williams does strip grazing with a small number of cattle. [Everett] also does so in the fall on his large lot off US 291 when he lowers cattle, using a single electric rope.
“We can’t do it as intensely here as in Missouri, but it works here,” she added. “You can improve forage in the field, but there’s a difference between soil that gets 13 inches of moisture and 40 inches.”
There is a difference between intensively grazing a field and intensively managing it. Letting the fields rest is essential so they can recover is essential. “You have to let him recover,” she added. “Here, we turn too early… this is where we risk the ground. The techniques must be adapted to our dry environment and our dry courses.
It all comes down to education, says Allio. “There are so many things we can learn. We’ve had feedback that it’s great, telling us they want to hear from someone who knows how to do it here. »
Not everything was classroom instruction; Workshop attendees also accompanied Judy on a field walk to Lewis’ ranch.
Josh Tashiro, Range Management Specialist with the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), was also presenter. Tashiro covers the western part of the Arkansas River Valley and South Park. He works with local farmers and ranchers on rangeland ecology and special projects in the western United States.
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Clubhouse: a room against violence against women
On the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Clubhouse gathered the most authoritative Italian creators on this dramatic topical issue to turn on a light and give voice to a very complex and impressive social problem whose knowledge is still very partial.
The social audio platform will host the “Love is not a Killer” room within Anthropology of Mind, the Club founded by Alessandro Bertirotti, anthropologist of the mind and professor at the University of Genoa. The event aims to bring together the Italian Clubhouse community in an open, free and clear dialogue to remove most of the shadows that surround the theme of violence against women. The goal is to create a “new awareness” for a more civilized society based on respect and firm opposition to sexist violence which, as the title of the
room, never has a valid excuse.
LOVE IS NOT A KILLER: on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, Clubhouse hosts a room to break the silence
And just to give more strength to this intent, the room will remain open between 21:30 and 23:30 on November 25: the time slot in which most of the acts of violence against women are perpetrated. We will start with Alessandro Bertirotti who, together with Laura Merli Lavagna, doctor specialized in psychotherapy and Serenella D’Ercole, philosopher, trainer and writer, will provide a first psychoanthropological framework of the topic. We will continue with Ilaria Baldini, a Feminist Resistance activist. With her we will address the issue of prostitution and trafficking in women, followed by the testimony of Elisabetta Aldrovandi, lawyer, Guarantor for the Protection of Crime Victims of the Lombardy Region and President of the National Victim Support Observatory.
We will close with a chat between Gabriele Isman, journalist, and Luca Schifanella, doctor and scientific researcher from Minneapolis for a “living” testimony from the city that has sadly become a symbol of a “new culture of violence” all over the world. An appointment, therefore, not to be missed. Why important. And as such it only happens on Clubhouse. The link for the link is here. | <urn:uuid:148abcd0-f4ea-453a-b349-6e1aa2a03b30> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://zazogame.com/en/clubhouse-a-room-against-violence-against-women/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.928237 | 474 | 1.601563 | 2 |
A lung infection that develops in a patient who is on a ventilator.
VAP is the most common infection acquired in intensive care units and is associated with high mortality. It can be caused by multiple microbes and the need to treat rapidly leads to use of broad-spectrum antibiotics. Treatment is increasingly difficult in many settings due to drug-resistant infections, particularly multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and other ‘ESKAPE’ pathogens.
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The Armenian Cuisine
Chi Kofta - Raw grounded meat with Burghul (cracked wheat)
Armenian cuisine includes the foods and cooking techniques of the Armenian people and the Armenian Diaspora. The cuisine reflects the history and geography where Armenians have lived as well as incorporating outside influences. The cuisine also reflects the traditional crops and animals raised in areas populated by Armenians.
Regional influences include the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, and to a certain extent also influences from the Balkans. Armenian cuisine and traditions in turn have influenced the culinary traditions of nearby countries and cities such as Aleppo. The preparation of meat, fish, and vegetable dishes in an Armenian kitchen requires stuffing, frothing, and pureeing. Lamb, eggplant, yoghurt, and bread (lavash) are basic features of Armenian cuisine. Armenians use cracked wheat (burghul) in preference to the maize and rice popular among its Caucasian neighbors (Georgia and Azerbaijan).
Armenian foods include small appetizers called mezze, grain and herb salads, phyllo pastries called boeregs, grilled meats and skewers, a large variety of soups, stews, flat breads such as lavash, and a thin crust pizza variant called lahmajoun.
Meals in Armenia often start with mezze, a spread of appetizers served for "the table". Lavash, extremely thin leavened wrap bread made from wheat flour, is the usual accompaniment for mezze.
- Hummus - a chickpea based spread.
- Chechil (tel banir) - braided and pickled string cheese, similar to Georgian sulguni.
- Mutabbal - grilled eggplant chopped or mashed with spices and tahini to form a coarse paste, similar to the baba ghanoush of other cuisines.
- Lahmajoun - a thin-crust pizza with a topping of ground meat.
- Boraki - Armenian fried pelmeni, cylinder-shaped with a filling of fried minced meat; served garnished with yoghurt and chopped garlic.
- Chee kufta (khema) - a chilled raw meat dish similar to steak tartar.
- Basturma - a highly seasoned, air-dried raw beef, similar to pastrami.
- Yershig - a spicy beef sausage (called sujuk in Turkey)
- Kiufta - meaning meatball comes in many types, such as Hayastan kiufta, Kharpert kiufta (Porov kiufta), Ishli kiufta, etc.
- Labneh - Strained dense yogurt made from sheep, cow, or goat milk; often served in mezze with olive oil and spices.
- Matsoun - yogurt.
- Tahn (ayran) - a sour milk drink prepared by diluting yogurt with cold water.
- Eetch - bulgur salad, similar to the Middle Eastern tabouleh.
- Tabouleh - wheat and mint salad, found in the Armenian diaspora.
- Fattoush - pita bread salad, found in the Armenian diaspora.
Boeregs are savory pies made with phyllo pastry and stuffed with cheese (banirov boereg, from Armenian: banir for cheese) or spinach (similar to spanakopita in Greek cuisine). They are a popular snack and fast food, often served as appetizer. The Sou boereg (su boeregi, or water burek, in Turkish cuisine) is a lasagna-style dish with sheets of phyllo pastry briefly boiled in a large pan before being spread with fillings. Misov boereg is a bread roll (not phyllo pastry) stuffed with ground meat (similar to Russian pirozhki).
Grilling (barbecue) is very popular in Armenia, and grilled meats are often the main course in restaurants and at family gatherings. Grilled meat is also eaten as fast food.
- Khorovats (or khorovadz) - Armenian word for barbecued or grilled meats (the generic kebab in English), the most representative dish of Armenian cuisine enjoyed in restaurants, family gatherings, and as fast food. A typical khorovats is chunks of meat grilled on a skewer (shashlik), although steaks or chops grilled without skewers may be also included. In Armenia itself, khorovats is often made with the bone still in the meat (as lamb or pork chops). Western Armenians outside Armenia generally cook the meat with bones taken out and call it by the Turkish name shish kebab. On the other hand, the word kebab in Armenia refers to uncased sausage-shaped patties from ground meat grilled on a skewer (called losh kebab or lule kebab by diasporan Armenians and Turks). In Armenia today, the most popular meat for khorovats (including losh kebab) is pork due to Soviet-era economic heritage. Armenians outside Armenia usually prefer lamb or beef depending on their background, and chicken is also popular.
- Gharsi khorovats - slivers of grilled meat rolled up in lavash, similar to the Middle Eastern shawarma and the Turkish doner kebab; this "shashlik Ghars style" takes its name from the city of Kars (Armenian: Ghars) in eastern Turkey, close to the Armenian border.
- Spas, made from yogurt, hulled wheat and herbs (usually cilantro), and aveluk, made from lentils, walnuts, and wild mountain sorrel (which gives the soup its name). Kiufta soup is made with large balls of strained boiled meat (kiufta) and greens.
- Khash, is considered an Armenian institution. Songs and poems have been written about this one dish, which is made from ham hocks and herbs made into a clear broth. Tradition holds that khash can only be cooked by men, who spend the entire night cooking, and can be eaten only in the early morning in the dead of winter, where it served with heaps of fresh garlic and dried lavash.
- T'ghit is a very special and old traditional food, made from t'tu lavash (fruit leather, thin roll-up sheets of sour plum puree), which are cut into small pieces and boiled in water. Fried onions are added and the mixture is cooked into a purée. Pieces of lavash bread are placed on top of the mixture, and it is eaten hot with fresh lavash used to scoop up the mixture by hand.
- Karshm is a local soup made in the town of Vaik in the Shirak province. This is a walnut based soup with red and green beans, chick peas and spices, served garnished with red pepper and fresh garlic. Soups of Russian heritage include borscht, a beet root soup with meat and vegetables (served hot in Armenia, with fresh sour cream) and okroshka, a yogurt or kefir based soup with chopped cucumber, green onion, and garlic.
- Arganak - chicken soup with small meatballs, garnished before serving with beaten egg yolks, lemon juice, and parsley.
- Blghourapour - a sweet soup made of hulled wheat cooked in grape juice; served hot or cold.
- Bozbash - a mutton or lamb soup that exists in several regional varieties with the addition of different vegetables and fruits.
- Brndzapour - rice and potato soup, garnished with coriander.
- Dzavarapour - hulled wheat, potatoes, tomato puree; egg yolks diluted with water are stirred into the soup before serving.
- Flol - beef soup with coarsely chopped spinach leaves and cherry-sized dumplings (Armenian: flol) made from oatmeal or wheat flour.
- Harissa - porridge of coarsely ground wheat with pieces of boned chicken.
- Katnapour - a milk-based rice soup, sweetened with sugar.
- Katnov - a milk-based rice soup with cinnamon and sugar.
- Kololik - soup cooked from mutton bones with ground mutton dumplings, rice, and fresh tarragon garnish; a beaten egg is stirred into the soup before serving.
- Krchik - soup made from sauerkraut, hulled wheat, potatoes, and tomato puree.
- Mantapour - beef soup with manti; the manti are typically served with yogurt or sour cream (ttvaser), accompanied by clear soup.
- Putuk - mutton cut into pieces, dried peas, potatoes, leeks, and tomato puree, cooked and served in individual crocks.
- Sarnapour - pea soup with rice, beets and yogurt.
- Snkapur - a mushroom soup.
- Tarkhana - flour and yogurt soup.
- Vospapour - lentil soup with dried fruits and ground walnuts.
- Ishkhan - Sevan trout (endangered species), served steamed, grilled on a skewer, or stuffed and baked in the oven
- Sig - a whitefish from Lake Sevan, native to northern Russian lakes (endangered species in Armenia)
- Karmrakhayt (alabalagh) - a river trout, also produced in high-altitude artificial lakes (e.g., the Mantash Reservoir in Shirak province).
- Kogak - an indigenous Lake Sevan fish of the carp family, also called Sevan khramulya (overfished)
Other main courses:
- Fasulya (fassoulia) - a stew made with green beans, lamb and tomato broth or other ingredients.
- Ghapama - pumpkin stew.
- Kchuch - a casserole of mixed vegetables with pieces of meat or fish on top, baked and served in a clay pot.
- Moussaka - baked dish consisting of spiced ground meat (usually lamb) between layers of eggplant slices.
- Mujaddara - cooked lentils and rice.
- Tjvjik - a dish of fried liver and kidneys with onions.
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Topics: Trauma, Anxiety
Grounding techniques are powerful tools for managing dissociation and other uncomfortable symptoms of trauma and anxiety. The Grounding Exercise audio tool will guide your clients in a practice session that covers three unique types of grounding: mental, physical, and soothing. Each of these techniques uses a different method to bring attention to the here-and-now, away from thoughts, worries, and anxieties.Note: Once launching the tool, you may download this audio to carry with you on a portable device, or send to clients electronically. Simply click the "Settings" button (gear icon) in the top right corner of the screen. Suggested Uses
Education: Think of this audio tool as training wheels for grounding. After enough guided practice, encourage your clients to try grounding without the audio aid. Losing the training wheels will allow more flexibility in how the skill is used. That being said, it can be nice to return to the guided activity as a refresher, or for ongoing practice.
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A Windows theme is a collection of settings that alters visual and sound aspects of your operating system. When you change the Windows 11 theme, you can modify several elements (background, color, sound, and mouse cursor) simultaneously, so this is an easy and impactful way of customizing the user interface. Windows 11 includes more default themes than its predecessor, and you can switch between them at will. Furthermore, you can get more themes for Windows 11 from the Microsoft Store or use Contrast themes. Read this guide to find out how to change the desktop theme in Windows 11:
The Settings app remains the go-to place to change the Windows theme. The fastest way to get there is by right-clicking or pressing-and-holding on a free space on the desktop and then clicking or tapping on Personalize from the contextual menu.
As an alternative, you can also open Settings and access the Personalization tab from the left pane.
On the right, in the “Select a theme to apply” section, you can see the last six themes used. Hover over them for more details, and then click or tap on the one you want to use.
While this is a fast way to switch between recently used themes, you can access all of them from the Themes section underneath. Click or tap on it.
At the top, you can see the four elements that make up the theme you’re using right now: Background, Sounds, Color, and Mouse cursor.
If you like a theme but want to modify some of its elements, click or tap on any of these options to change it. For instance, click or tap on Background to change the background in Windows 11 for your chosen theme.
Underneath, you can see the Current theme - in our case, Windows (light). The theme you’re currently using is highlighted in this pane, which also shows all the other themes on your Windows 11 computer or device. To apply a new theme, click or tap on it.
When you change the Windows theme, you can immediately see the elements of your interface changing color. The entire process may take a few seconds, especially if you’re switching from a light theme to Dark Mode or the other way around.
If you don’t like any of the available themes or are already bored with them, you can always install and use new ones. First, open Settings and go to Personalization -> Themes, as shown in the previous section. Then, at the bottom of the Current theme pane, click or tap on Browse themes.
This launches the Microsoft Store, showing the most popular themes for Windows 11 available for download. You might remember some of them from Windows 10. Scroll through the themes or use the Filters in the upper-right corner to find what you want.
When you come across a theme you like, click or tap on it to open its Microsoft Store page. We’re feeling cozy, so “A Moment of Hygge” seemed like a good idea. Scroll down to see more details and comments about a theme, including screenshots. Then, when you’ve made up your mind, click or tap on Get.
Wait for the download to finish, and then click or tap Open.
This brings you back to the Settings app, where you can see that the new theme is one of the available options. Click or tap on it to change the Windows 11 theme at once.
TIP: The new Microsoft Store is one of the things we like about Windows 11. If you’re curious about the others, check out our article about the 8 best features in Windows 11.
Microsoft includes four Contrast themes in Windows 11, designed for users with visual impairments. Click or tap on the Contrast themes setting at the bottom of the Themes section.
This takes you to the Contrast themes section in the Accessibility tab. Check out the Theme preview pane at the top, and then click or tap on the box next to Contrast themes.
This opens a dropdown menu, where you can select the theme you want.
Pressing Edit lets you choose the colors to create a custom theme based on the one you selected. Click or tap Apply to change the Windows 11 theme.
Themes are a great way of giving your entire Windows 11 interface a makeover with minimum effort, and we found some exciting ones in the Microsoft Store. What about you? Did you decide to use the default Windows 11 themes or look for something more interesting? Use the comments section below to share your findings with us. | <urn:uuid:9d844431-a32a-46bc-a4a7-98a1fcdeaf5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.digitalcitizen.life/change-windows-11-theme/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.876796 | 939 | 2.171875 | 2 |
The Shire of Harvey has been awarded $91,157 to reduce bushfire risks through the State Government’s 2022-23 Mitigation Activity Fund (MAF) grants program.
This funding will support a range of bushfire mitigation activities, including establishing firebreaks, access tracks and fuel reduction works to minimise the potential risks of fires in the Shire.
Shire of Harvey President Paul Gillett said this program provides vital financial support to local governments to help reduce bushfire risks.
“Reducing the risk of bushfires in the Shire is something we all need to be aware of, and we encourage all property owners to be fire safe all year round,” Cr Gillett said.
Emergency Services Minister Stephen Dawson said the MAF program has proven to be a highly effective tool in boosting the number of bushfire mitigation activities being carried out each year.
"Throughout Western Australia, fire mitigation activities are essential to help prevent the loss of life and property when a catastrophic blaze may break out.", Mr Dawson said.
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So what is a 'Baptist'?
Being 'baptist' is not the most important thing about us, but it does distinguish us from some other churches.
The word ‘baptise’ is found in the Bible. It is the word used to describe something that is recorded as happening in the New Testament.
Originally the New Testament was written in Greek and the Bibles we use are translations into English.
However, the word ‘baptise’ is not strictly a translation; it is a transliteration. English letters have been substituted from Greek letter. In Greek, even today, there is a word called ‘baptizo’. And even today it still means to immerse or submerge – to dip into, just as it did two thousand years ago.
So the way people were ‘baptised’ as the Bible describes it is for them to be temporarily submerged in water. And that is what we do. After all, that is what the word means.
This makes us different from some churches because we ‘baptise’ in the way the Bible describes. Others may sprinkle or pour water, but that is not what the word actually means.
You may be familiar with the idea of ‘baptising’ babies, but this is not described in the Bible. And we don’t do this. What is described in the Bible is that people who become Christians, those who put their faith is Jesus, are then baptised. That is what we do. We call it ‘believer’s baptism’.
So there are two ways in which Baptist churches are different from some others. We baptise by immersion, and we baptise those who have become Christians.
Does this really matter?
Well, it does matter to us because we think we should model all of life in the pattern the Bible gives us, including what is done in church.
But it matters also because of what baptism represents.
Remember, only someone who has become a Christian should be baptised. It is only meant for them.
Why is that? Because baptism is a vivid picture of what happened to someone when they became a Christian.
When you become a Christian, you become ‘joined’ to Jesus Christ. In particular you are united with Him in His death, burial and resurrection. In the Bible, Romans 6:3-8 tell us this.
So as Jesus died, we ‘die’ with Him in baptism. The ‘burial’ under the water symbolises this. And as we receive new life and rise again with Jesus, so the lifting up out of the water pictures this. The whole person has been changed; it is an entirely new life. So the whole person is submerged and brought up out of the water again.
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Omnidirectionally stretchable photodetectors are limited by difficulties in designing material and fabrication processes that enable stretchability in multiaxial directions. Here, we propose a new approach involving an organic-inorganic p-n heterojunction photodetector comprised of free-standing ZnO nanorods grown on a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-polystyrene sulfonate transport layer coated on a three-dimensional micropatterned stretchable substrate containing bumps and valleys. This structure allows for efficient absorption of stretching strain. This approach allows the device to accommodate large tensile strain in all of the directions. The device behaves as a photogated p-n heterojunction photodetector in which current modulation was obtained by sensing the mechanisms that rely on photovoltage and photogating effects. The device exhibits a high photoresponse to UV light and reliable electrical performance under applied stretching in uniaxial and omniaxial directions. Furthermore, the device can be easily and conformally attached to a human wrist. This allowed us to investigate the response of the device to UV light during human activity.
- ZnO nanorods
- omnidirectional stretchability
- organic-inorganic heterojunction
- stretchable optoelectronics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
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