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Russia and Turkey: Power, Individuals, and Identities in the Syrian Conflict
Nuray Ibryamova and Mehtap Kara
The relationship between Russia and Turkey went through dramatic changes during 2015-2016 and continued to evolve in the face of tumultuous domestic and regional developments. The downing of Russian plane Su-24 in November 2015 by Turkey was a pivotal moment in the relationship, as it marked the reversal of largely positive relations, and had wide- ranging implications for the region and beyond. For over a decade, Turkey and Russia had been able to prevent their deep differences on regional politics from spoiling their bilateral relationship. Their economic, commercial, and energy collaboration advanced despite Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 and its unwavering support for Syria’s Assad regime. This remarkable trend came to an end when the plane was shot down, only for relations to be restored seven months later. The rapprochement that began in the summer of 2016 was further solidified after Russia’s support for Erdogan’s government in the aftermath of the attempted coup d’etat in Turkey in July 2016.
This chapter looks at the developments in the Russo-Turkish relationship in 2015-2016, especially with respect to the Syrian conflict. It argues that factors such as relative power, individuals in leadership positions and their perceptions, and identities contributed to the collapse of the
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relationship and the subsequent reconciliation. The next section of the chapter discusses the suitability of neoclassical realism as well as ideational concepts for explaining the Russo-Turkish relationship. The following sections look at the power differential between the two states, the role of individuals as well as state-society relations, and identities in the Russo- Turkish conflict. Finally, the chapter discusses the implications of recent developments for relations of both states with the European Union (EU) and the US. | <urn:uuid:fe3cb716-4b60-4fee-a35b-db4b5fe8bb89> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ebrary.net/84951/political_science/russia_turkey_power_individuals_identities_syrian_conflict | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951751 | 487 | 1.828125 | 2 |
“The best part of building software is the job is never done. Since starting Box, I don’t think I’ve ever left a customer conversation where this [sic] isn’t something new left to go do. Build the future, listen to your customers, repeat.” Those words come from Aaron Levie, the CEO of Box (via Twitter).
Levie’s words resonate strongly with me. For some years now, I’ve posited that every company must think like a software company. It’s what I have described as Leading with Code. Over that time, it has become increasingly clear that for all firms, more and more value creating opportunities derive from own-account software, or the software that a company builds for itself. Executives at firms that lead with code–both incumbents and startups—view software as a source of economic value creation and the differentiating asset that it is. Many others, even those that have recognized the strategic importance of software, still have a very different mindset.
What hasn’t been totally clear is what it really means to think like a software business. I recently conducted research with executives at both established companies and younger tech firms operating in physical world businesses—so as to maintain a level of equivalence—in order to learn more. These companies were in a wide range of industry sectors, including consumer packaged goods, financial services, insurance, manufacturing, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, restaurants, retail, technology services, and transportation and travel.
Here’s the key takeaways for companies who want to make the leap to truly thinking like software businesses:
1. Assemble and develop in-house talent
Companies that lead with code, whether startups or long-established businesses, all rely on in-house and highly capable talent to build distinctive software. They don’t routinely consider hiring external services firms to build key software. They see software developers as creators and problem solvers, not just coders. Their developers engage in important open-source communities, learning continually about the latest developments in software products and practices.
2. Implement a modular architecture
Leading companies feature software stacks that are modular, facilitating rapid innovation. Their developers frequently build in-house software products or platforms by leveraging free, but valuable, open-source software, as well as licensed components for routine functionality. This allows them to create applications faster. One executive stressed the importance of designing components with change in mind, because reconfiguring is always better than rewriting code. Another executive told me that every line of code within this decentralized architecture has a clear owner so that there is specific responsibility for each and every software component. To be clear, commercial solutions have an important role to play and should be a part of the software stack. But it’s the own-account software that matters most.
3. Embrace experimental innovation
Once you have plenty of in-house talent, new pathways to superior software products become available. A popular traditional approach is to license commercial packages with wide scope, and then to configure or customize them for your company. In contrast, firms that lead with code typically begin by aiming to solve a focused business problem. They build and iterate on new features and products. Executives at these firms told me that until you try something out and see how your customers, suppliers, or employees react, and whether your business improves as a result, you can’t be sure of what to build. The learning must influence what you choose to do next.
4. Start small, then build scope and scale
One consequence of experimental innovation is a willingness to build systems that aren’t initially always highly accurate or resilient. One leader I spoke with shared how they are observing the rollout of a new machine learning-based system and quickly reverting back to a default and tested algorithm if the new predictions seem unreliable. They build for scalability and resilience only after they have figured out the algorithmic logic and the functionality. As machine learning applications account for a growing share of software applications, with knowhow from the learning systems incorporated into run-time systems, this is even more relevant. While this tenet is important, a caveat is also in order. There are many environments in which reliability and resilience are paramount and approaches will differ in these.
5. Balance the risk of error against its benefits
CIOs, for obvious reasons, are generally risk averse when it comes to software development. But a greater willingness to accept initial errors can reap significant dividends in terms of increased efficiencies. For example, one of the companies I interviewed had a leased strategic application that was not only expensive, but unsuited to its business model, often recommending inefficient solutions. The company assigned a couple of talented developers to build an “adequate” working replacement quickly.
Executives recognized that the system would make mistakes and they would have to reimburse customers when things went wrong. However, they were willing to take the risk because the savings in license fees gave them a margin for error. In time, they iterated and continually enhanced the system, ultimately getting them to a solution that was distinctive.
In a digital world, distinctiveness often results from codifying unique knowhow, something a firm knows how to do better than its competitors, in software and applying it at scale. Fundamentally, it’s about continually offering a superior value proposition and doing so more productively than before.
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In a spark of artistic and placemaking brilliance, a new nine+ (9.5) mile long cultural trail is taking shape in Chicago. To be bookended by newly created Native American Mounds, the Northwest Portage Walking Museum (now also known as 4000N) will link cultures, nature, and communities from Horner Park on the Chicago River to Schiller Woods on the Des Plaines River.
Indigenous futurist Santiago X has designed two (2) impressive mounds that will serve as anchor gateways to the linear museum – a Serpent Mound on the west end and a Coil Mound on the east. As Mr. X noted about past of his inspiration for the project:
“I don’t see the presence of the indigenous point of view, the indigenous architect. I don’t see the presence of indigenous place makers in any of these cities, so I would like to return to that or at least catalyze the movement to create indigenous spaces again.” SOURCE: nps.gov
The Serpent Mound has been installed and represents the first effigy mound to have been constructed by Native Americans in approximately 500 years! It was constructed using ancestral soils and Indigenous plantings from tribal lands across the United States.
Partners in this inspiring project include the American Indian Center of Chicago, the Portage Park Neighborhood Association, and the Chicago Public Art Group, with assistance from the National Park Service, Forest Preserves of Cook County, and the Metropolitan Planning Council. If you are interested in contributing to this exciting project, here is a weblink to the gofundme page that is dedicated to funding Coil Mound.
If you are interested in learning more about the Moundbuilders and their mound structures, here are a few resources available on Amazon.com*.
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Previously I discussed the defect risks when you acquire the property.
Today I will discuss the risks while you are owning the property.
In fact, there are several challenges while you own and manage the property.
Vacancy is one of them.
Vacant rooms obviously do not generate any income so it is very important
to fill your property (whether it is a rental house or a small multiunit rental property) with good, rent-paying tenants.
However in practice, you will see vacant rooms for certain time period over the years and there are tenants who don’t honor the leasing contract.
Let’s look at the ‘vacancy risk’ and how to mitigate such risk.
The beauty of real estate investment in Japan is that your can expect very
stable income every month. Rents are usually paid monthly.
Therefore finding stable trustworthy tenants is a key for success.
However, due to certain reasons such as inconvenient location of the property,
Investors may face the situation where the property being vacant.
If your occupancy rate is very poor, you may have the problems to pay back
the loan. That is the ‘vacancy risk’.
What kind of property is likely to be vacant?
First of all, let’s know about properties that are likely to be vacant.
In general it is said that the following properties are likely to be vacant.
-Location is not good, such as being far from the nearest station
(Remember unlike other world-class mega cities, majority of people who live in big cities in Japan usually commute by train or subway)
– It is not being maintained regularly and “The building is stale”
– The layout and facility of the room are not updated and doesn’t meet
the current needs of targeting tenants.
-There are no supermarkets and convenience stores nearby
-Living environment is not good.
What property is more likely to be resistant against vacancy ?
In general, the following properties are unlikely to be vacant.
-Property with good convenience
-Property in the place where the rental demand is existing.
-Property that can be differentiated from competing properties
-Properly managed and maintained well
Let’s take a closer look.
1. Property with good convenience
It’s a good idea to pay attention to routes that pass through the area where many large companies are lining, such as within 10 minutes walk from the terminal station.
In addition, it is expected that the aging society will advance in Tokyo.
The number of aged people living alone will also increase.
They usually wish to live in a convenient place in the city center close to hospitals and commercial facilities.
The demand for city center is ever-increasing.
2. Property in the place where the rental demand is strong.
Rental needs are evident where people live or work.
I know it sounds too obvious but please be reminded that recently in big cities such as Tokyo or Osaka, people have a tendency to live close to
their office. Young couples in 30s and 40s hate long commuting these days.
In that sense , in Tokyo special 23 wards would be the prime local for the investment. There are many commercial facilities and amusement facilities, and the number of headquarters of the large companies are located.
It is fair to say risk of vacancy in Tokyo 23 wards is limited.
In addition, we are seeing increasing number of foreign students in Tokyo that should contribute to the low vacancy rate.
3. Properly cleaned and managed property
The property that is cleaned up and properly managed keeps good-looking
and stands. It naturally looks better than comparable properties.
The Reason making a difference is often depending on the quality of management company. The property management company can be responsible for all operations including marketing (leasing), tenants selection,
rent collection and maintenance of the property.
Therefore Hiring a good management company is a key for success.
In the meantime, let’s see how to mitigate the ‘vacancy risk’.
– Vacancy guarantee service (in other words, sub-leasing contract)
There is the vacancy guarantee service widely available called
“vacancy guarantee service” often offered by the rental management companies and or private guarantee companies.
a. What is vacancy guarantee service ?
The vacancy guarantee service is a system whereby the rental management company guarantees fixed rent regardless of occupancy of the rooms. It is also called subleasing. If you do not want to see any vacant room,
you can earn stable rent income every month.
b. How much is the cost to guarantee the rent ?
The vacancy guaranteed rent is often about 80% to 90% of the full rent (the actual rent with the tenants).
For example, if the full rent is 70,000 yen, due to the vacancy guarantee, the monthly rent which is guaranteed shall be 56,000 yen to 63,000 yen.
For those who cannot take any vacancy risk, hiring a vacancy guarantee company can secure the peace of mind
while paying 10-20% cost.
However the counter part risk (solvency risk of the guarantee company) must be taken by the owner.
So you need to check the credibility of the guarantee company before you entering into the contract.
Real estate investing consultant and author.
Toshihiko is currently writing a book about the real estate investing in Japan
for foreign investors.
Founder of Yamamoto Property Advisory in Tokyo.
International property Investment consultant and licensed
real estate broker (Japan).
He serves the foreign companies and individuals to buy and sell
the real estates in Japan as well as own homes.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from
Osaka Prefecture University in Japan
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“I know this place where civilisation
Runs along torn asphalts…”
These three-month gone, I have observed that poetry can invert itself to be an emotional hallucinogen; that it can sometimes betray its very own bard as to transpose the weight of its intended meaning, and after a varied moment, create a sound, a scene or something that was not; possibly, a beatification or the signature of an expressive insurance (for the poet).
Only when the social creature begins to display an evidence of sensitivity, an image of fear and agony, only then does the instance for consolation seriously begin to surface. To that ritual is poetry sometimes inspired. The gift can make the dejection of the composer ever-timely, not seeming too proud or too irrelevant.
The contemporary Nigerian poet, full of the burden of a messy tradition, appears to have bored himself with unresolved battles. Even so, he still contests the impulses of dubbing his tempered vision to the background. In this, is the solemn action taken to secure a moral standpoint and build an artistic consciousness around it. In such cases only are lamentations amply justified.
Encountering Carl Terver’s “Till the Swallows Come Home,” one comes to term with a fervent irreverence, a kind of foreknowing tumult which grows into an omen of regret, of suspicion, which works through the dominant act of dialogue. The long poem says so much about the Nigerian darkness, about the “notes that sound like stridulations to our eardrums.” Halfway down the missive that sounds like Wole Soyinka’s Elegy for a Nation, the critic will ask, why has this poet not written a conventional facile tragedy? That a monologue could be so single-mindedly drawn into a realism discourse is applause for the poet. It is easy enough to spot the grime on the wall but Terver expresses strong views about himself and the country in a critical period in Nigerian history and the Nigerian present.
Halcyon days were my thoughts
But the heights are now devolved
The dividend of an upright democracy constitutes perhaps the most restless hope of his race, but like the illustrious Frantz Fanon rightly believed, “the artist who has decided to illustrate the truths of the nation turns paradoxically towards the past and away from actual events… the native intellectual who wishes to create an authentic work of art must realize that the truths of the nation are in the first place its realities.” In the course of dramatizing the condition of pain and nostalgia, the poet indicts the sadistic worldviews against the establishments of memory, which were “those days when patriarchs composed notes,” days which are or were, of course, responsible for his erstwhile joys: “On her fifty-third, the country was stolid / With no music of culture / My hubris receded to salty waters.” It is his first ritual that defines the very depth to which his nation has sunk, “wander aimlessly in the mire.”
Two kinds of voices can be heard in this poem: the questioning and the aloof. It is questioning when the poet inquires into the legacy of compromised followership. It is aloof when he denounces the central leadership as absentminded, hypocritical and insensate. In both, there is a nervous passion partly because of a vigorous individual attachment to a political resolution as shown in “Is the world not in dire need of extremist?” and the stealth row about the “cactus-infected land.”
I hate to tell the tales of the end of the world
But until trees walk on naked limbs, I shall
Dream not of heysomeness.
Spoken like someone who has witnessed the landscape of death and, yet, refuse to be soiled by submission, by acceptance of the status-quo; Terver aims not only at socio-political criticism but also at the imminent – a rhetoric, as a driver of that worry, to determine what seems to be the lot of the constant deprivations of self and society. The poet’s cross-questioning should not be seen as the rigidity of a mourner; rather it is a tactic through which he inspires other hidden questions vital to the future of his particular experience, and that of his generation.
The clause “till the swallows come home” is an embodiment of the finite doubt, the poet’s positive disposition, displayed pessimistically. As privy to the realizations of the identity of the swallows are and where home is, it appears that some portions of the poem might have been inspired by conversations of the poet with comrades, some of whom he briefly addressed in scattered parts. “Dairo, the days are yellow,” “Oladele / May you…Become associate professor of creative writing / Or African Studies…Ha! Viking? / Break free from tradition,” “Was there ever a path, Oyin?” Some of it draws from the concerns of “a rumpled culture” and history being a “sonorous fable knitted by clichés”. All of these are emblematic of the extinction of civilization to mass illiteracy, religious fanaticism, intellectual absolutism, a bungling educational system, irresolution of the government in power, and most troubling, the relegation of history, of 1966, “the harbingers’ days.” It’s livid like how the pensive Teju Cole writes in his memoir, Every Day Is For The Thief: why is history uncontested here? The consequence thereof is what Terver describes as “rehearsed folly.”
However, before the poet brings the swallows to bear, he does not ignore the intense primacy of the “story [he] never wanted to tell.” His clamour reveals home. His “clamour is: where is the nation?”
The nation is not the white-faced chieftains…
Crafting another Bill of Mockery, not a putrid carcass…
The nation is the wailing dream whose ribs
Are poked by the ineptitude of pharaohs…
The nation is the [pedlars] who eke from
Hold-ups, the Nafisats who hawk kuka
At ten pms; The nation is the dream that
Has no wings while time flies;
The broken calabash and all that inspires
Wisdom, scattered and desecrated at the
Crossroads; the crawling casement that
Breeds educated puppets…
The poet uses many poetic devices to his advantage, a fusion of self-dramatizing metaphors and interesting intertextuality which prove the presence of maturity and self-control. It is cathartic to find Bulawayo in “We might continue / To bear new names,” Achebe in “We are mothers, refugee camps, and tiny graves,” Yeats in “The falcon did hear the falconer,” Soyinka in “Our day twisted like a shuttle in the / Crypt,” and Langston in “a dream that / Has no wings while time flies.”
While it is apparent, the acute pessimism of its message, the latter part of the poem draws attention to the earlier “Last sentinels of Salvations / Battered by weeds.” Activists? The brave literati? Our last resolve for national re-affirmation? Though it is the poet who says “The harmattan has cracked his soles for too long,” the poignant question hangs, obdurate in the head: when will the country be revived, or perchance, born again? And though we die in the attempt (as Soyinka testifies), will the patriot remain a subject of gamble to that promise?
As a note to its pathos, I say Terver’s work is grim and harsh and well-written.
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Consider a scenario where a select query is executed to retrieve data from a typical BLOB column which is defined in a DB table that exists in an external schema (on a separate DB server).
It is known that JVM allocates a large chunk of memory in order to read the data stream transmitted from the BLOB column. However, in the case of above scenario, it is not clear whether the JVM utilized is of DB server or Pega Application Server?
Kindly clarify whether having JVM installed on an external DB server is mandatory to retrieve the BLOB data?
PRPC reads BLOBs from mapped database tables via JAVA User Defined Functions (PR_READ_FROM_STREAM). The UDFs and Java classes reside and are loaded and executed by the JVM built-in within the third-party enterprise Database server (e.g - Oracle, IBM DB2 etc.). So, the answer to your question on whether you need to have a JVM installed on an external DB server is mandatory would be "No".
In PROD,we currently have two independent databases. One DB server is part of Pega installation and in another external DB (Hitachi) some third party data is stored. We currently have Java running on both database servers. Now, we plan to migrate the third party data to AWS, and use RDS database which do not have Java. The question is - "Would it be still possible to access/read the data stored in BLOB without java running on the DB server?"
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Backup is a very-very important thing in IT. The loss of code-snippets, patch-sets, configurations or documents is very painful for programmers, system administrators and secrataries.
There are many options for this, among others hand (manually) copying. There are many applications responsible for backup on Linux, Mac or Windows. Many people use rsync as lacyc3 wrote a good post about it (in Hungarian).
What happens if the target is a remote machine?
Of course, it’s a good idea because when your local machine fails you can restore all data. For example I use git.Read More... | <urn:uuid:ad42406d-c633-459b-9158-9299cfe393ac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://code-infection.com/tags/backup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.915972 | 135 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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Numerous newbie essay writers wondering how to write essay for me need a bit of help when they move from school level essays to extra developed college essays. The college essays take on whimsical and progressed topics; these essays are not just restricted to subjects of the English language however are given to students in various fields and subjects, such as Philosophy, Sciences, History, Politics, etc
Numerous students going into college education, who haven't spent a great deal of time improving their essay writing basics, face numerous problems adjusting to the college essays. 'Help compose essay for me, ' you may hear numerous students ask their peers and essay writers in their failure to create progressed essays.
The college academic essays rely on scholarly sources; the information got from academic papers and research articles. These scholarly sources are known for their genuineness and the constant checks that are imposed upon them. The papers and articles are peer-inspected by other scholars as well as editors, such that the information and the writing are great and secure.
Here are some tips that may help you smooth your transition to college-level essays.
Sticking to Scholarly Sources
In the essays that are passed on in school education, the use of mainstream sources such as Wikipedia entries, blog entries, and other articles is sufficient and not punished. However, in college, academic writing well realized sources should be relinquished totally: their content and writing are not checked for its validness and passed on by individuals who are not experts in the field they write in.
Writers in writing firms wondering how to start an essay are created by experts in their field or by the help of experts and are checked by other scholars for their believability. The information in scholarly sources is trustworthy thus, can offer strong help to your ideas and arguments.
Breaking free of the 5 paragraph essay
Another habit that is created into the students in their school education is their steadfastness on a firm structure. Numerous newcomers can't shake off the classic 5-paragraph essay structure and end up writing most of the essays in their college education along the same line. This ends up securing them horrendous grades.
What they don't get is that the 5-essay paragraph was there to assist the students in their essay by letting them not stress over the structure of the essay and instead spend their time to sharpen their critical and analytical thinking skills.
With all the work done going before the writing, it may seem wrong at first to work on an essay draft that scarcely holds together. Nevertheless, the harsh essay draft really gives you greater occasion to re-attempt, change, develop, and fashion your essay, considering an end. It is through the revision and editing phase that you come to realize the numerous errors in your thinking and arguments that you presumably won't have gotten otherwise.
Spending extra time rewriting than writing
Another thing that you will discover distinctive in college-level essay writing is the essay process. The negative standards of lead of finishing the cycle the writing as you compose your essay just hold you and your ideas down in higher academic essays. Such habits channel your energy with insignificant beneficial output.
Progressed essay writing involves more re-writing than writing. The usual essay process involves brainstorming for ideas, collecting information through research, constructing the essay outline, finishing the essay draft regardless of how improvise is—as fast as possible, and moving on to the revision and editing.
Students thinking about how to write my essay in college should structure their essays according to their benefit in their argumentation and writing. This allows them to investigate the subject issue comprehensively instead of sticking to the salient or the important looking points.
Essay Tips for Newbie College Essay Writers
Useful Guide for Newbie Writers to Improve Essay Writing
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On March 28, an internet edition Georgia and World published a news article titled “United States’ coalition cares about the ‘Islamic State’ leaders.” The material mentions that, close to Qamishli, three coalition helicopters evacuated four Iraqi leaders of the “Islamic State”.
A governmental information agency “SANA” is indicated as the primary source. The material is accompanied with a photo, showing a soldier with a helicopter on the background.
The disseminated information is based solely on “civil sources” and is not backed by independent sources. The Syrian governmental media outlet SANA, which disseminated the news in the first place, cannot be considered such an unbiased source. The photo, used by Georgia and World as the illustration to the material, is misleading, as it shows a different event and, thus, cannot be used as an evidence to prove that such development actually took place. Georgia and World uses a propaganda method, aiming to portray an event as real without any facts and evidences.
1. Instead of Syria, the photo shows a base of the international coalition located near Mosul
The article by Georgia and World is accompanied by a photo, showing a soldier with a helicopter on the background. This photo does not describe the event, which Geworld.ge refers to in the article. Actually, the photo was not taken in Syria, but rather in Iraq, at the base of the international coalition near Mosul, on October 19, 2016. The photo belongs to the Associated Press.
2. The disinformation is nine months old
The material by Georgia and World comes with a disinformation disseminated by Ria Novosti in summer 2017, according to which the latter, based on their military-diplomatic sources, claimed that American military helicopters evacuated more than 20 military commanders from Deir ez-Zor to the north of Syria.
The information about the evacuation of ISIS leaders by the Americans first appeared in August 2017. According to DFR LAB, the information was disseminated by a Syrian edition Deirezzor 24. The edition claimed that the United States was evacuating those individuals that were working as spies for the USA. Various sources disseminated this information with manipulative forms. This is where the disinformation about the United States allegedly evacuating ISIS leaders originates. According to DFR LAB, initially, the disinformation had been shared at least 14,000 times.
3. Sources of the disinformation
The primary source of the information is the Syrian governmental edition SANA, which published the information based on “civil sources”. The article does not present other evidences. Pro-Kremlin, as well as tabloids and outlets associated with the Government of Syria, disseminated the information based on SANA. These sources do not mention, why would the United States evacuate those forces that the coalition fights against and they publish it without evidences, based solely on one source.
Prepared by Eleonora Tchania
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“Why Coming Out is a Creative Endeavour” is sponsored by She/He/They/Me by Robyn Ryle.
Open your eyes to what it means to be a boy or a girl – and above and beyond! Within these pages, you get to choose which path to forge. Explore over one hundred different scenarios that embrace nearly every definition across the world, over history, and in the ever-widening realms of our imagination! Jump headfirst into this refreshingly creative exploration of the ways gender colors every shade and shape of our world.
Hypothesis: the acts of reading, writing and coming out all reflect a belief in the power of words to constitute, not merely describe, one’s reality.
At 14, I came out to mum. I’ve no memory of it, it was that easy. I can’t even picture where it happened. (Mum says the kitchen.)
Both of us had long known. I can’t recall why I choose that exact moment. I wasn’t afraid, I wasn’t experimenting, and I never expected less than her total acceptance. The only explanation that makes sense to me now is that I was testing out the word.
Seeing how it sounded. How I sounded.
And I sounded kind of gay.
Soon after, I told my mum’s boyfriend. We were on holiday in Spain. The night before, I got drunk for the first time and passed out. On the night in question, in the interests of science, I drank a bottle and a half of wine to see what would happen.
Hypothesis: something amazing.
Then they got back and I tried to stand up and talk.
“I might be ‘G-uh’…or maybe ‘B-uh’…but I’m not ’S-uh’.”
It was messy but sweet. And he was very sweet about it.
Leaving aside my alcohol content, I kept wondering why I found “G-uh” a hard word to say.
At 29, the word still doesn’t feel comfortable in my mouth. It’s fine as a prefix. Gay-march or gay-rights or gay-anything, really. But if I don’t say anything immediately after it, I feel uneasy. Why?
Your mouth stays open, lips parted, when you say it. So there is a physical exposure to mirror its declarative content. The word itself disappears: a single syllable, barely a word. Depending on the listener, it might be the sound of an anticlimax or the sound of a bubble bursting.
When I say it, I always feel like I’ve not said enough. I say “I’m gay”, and a burden of unanswered questions presses at my back. I’m afraid I’ll never have time to address them all.
At least ‘homosexual’ gives you four syllables’ worth of breathing space. That’s something.
At 26, I told a friend. We taught at the same school. By this point, we’d known each other 18 months, six of them under the same roof.
I hadn’t told her because we had radically different world views. I was afraid to look at the difference too closely. I mentioned Darwin once — that was enough.
But I was heartbroken, full-fat adolescent, and she asked why I was always tired.
“I thought you were sick or something.”
“I thought you’d think I was sick or something.”
“What?” She laughs, full-throated. “Look at your head!”
This is affectionate mockery; she isn’t suggesting that I’ve got horns there.
“But sir”, says Sharif, “all I’m saying is, they should all have rights and everything yeah, but if one of my friends was like that, I’d be messed up. I wouldn’t know how to be around them. I’d be questioning myself all the time.”
It’s near the end of a day near the end of the school year. There are five of us in the classroom: me, two boys, two girls. The rump of my lower-sixth tutor group. I’m at my desk by the whiteboard, boys to my left, girls to my right.
“Sharif, you know that I’m gay?” The girls visibly react. The boys, not so much. “I have straight friends. Being around gay people doesn’t make you gay.”
Sharif respects my honesty. All the same, he doesn’t choose to stick around, and we never discuss it again.
“What do gay people do?” one of the girls asks.
“Lots of things,” I say, adding, guiltlessly for once, “Google it.”
ANALYSIS OF FINDINGS
I’ve never had difficulty coming out to those close to me. What bothers me is how anxious I feel about telling casual acquaintances. To people at my weekly badminton club, for example.
It’s the fear of being defined by one thing about yourself. This is why I think many gay people put it off. They hope to reach a point where they are ready with answers to all the likely questions. And while they may reach that point of preparedness, they can’t have answers to all of the questions that remain unsaid. Not all of them.
Coming out involves accepting that other people may have thoughts or ideas about you as a result, which you will never have access to but may, regrettably, still spend time worrying about.
Here lies a parallel with book publishing: a person coming out and an author both cede some control over their stories.
An author accepts that readers will draw their own meaning from their words. Anyone who comes out accepts that part of their story is now also subject to interpretation. A writer trusts that her loss of control is outweighed by the discovery of what she shares with her readers. A person comes out to better understand their self, what it is that one is ‘coming out’ as, and, through the reactions of others, what it means to be ‘gay’ in the circumstances of one’s life.
All too often, I think I stay closeted because I don’t want to know something about myself. It’s not really about how others will react. It’s just that…I’d prefer not to know that it still bothers me what total strangers think of me.
Here’s the thing though: it wasn’t until I sat down and wrote this that I realised it bothers me.
You put something into words and words bring other things to the surface.
I’m still a man though.
I’m still the same.
I’m not like the other gays.
What’s wrong with the other gays?
Nothing, but this is my story, not theirs.
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- Mad Girl’s Love Song: On Finding Queerness Through Sylvia Plath
- More Than Just Representation: 5 Queer Reads
- I Was a ’90s Teenage Lesbian: Lesbian Book Recommendations
- Existing in the Sunlight: A Story of Coming Out
- Creating an Inclusive Library: LGBTQ+ Teens Share Their Recommendations
- Reading Queer Characters Of Colour and Understanding Queer Identity
- The ABCs of LGBTQ: An Alphabet Guide to Queer Superheroes and Supervillains
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Heating and cooling in response to extreme weather combined with the growing electrical demands of human activities resulted in an all-time high in building-related emissions in 2018. The EU’s Energy Performance of Buildings Directive targets NZEBs. While country guidelines vary, NZEBs focus on enhancing energy efficiency and increasing the use of renewables. Leading national research institutes in the field of high-performance buildings joined forces with innovative housing organisations to lower the investment cost associated with planning and construction of NZEBs. Their EU-funded CoNZEBs project identified multiple solution sets tailored to four countries to enhance each one’s market uptake of energy-efficient technologies for buildings.
Four countries and a focus on energy, time and money
CoNZEBs began by conducting research in the partner countries of Denmark, Germany, Italy and Slovenia to compare the investment costs of multifamily housing for conventional buildings, NZEBs and buildings exceeding the NZEB requirements. NZEBs cost more than conventional buildings by EUR 45/m2 in Germany and up to EUR 229/m2 in Italy due to factors including each country’s energy performance requirements, NZEB definitions and technology costs. Project coordinator Heike Erhorn-Kluttig of the Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics explains: “We then analysed statistical cost information and a survey of planners and construction companies to find technologies or methods that reduce costs through a reduction in the design or construction time. These include large-sized building blocks or pre-fabrication and project management solutions like Building Information Modelling (BIM), a digital tool for central integrated design, asset planning and cooperation throughout a building’s life cycle.”
Individualised solutions with some common ground
CoNZEBs developed at least four technical solution sets for each country that lowered the investment costs associated with NZEBs. Although they are country-dependent, some similarities were found. Insulation material with lower thermal conductivity enables thinner walls and more rentable – and profitable – living areas. Heating and domestic hot water systems with higher efficiencies requiring less insulation in the building envelope are other important areas enabling cost reduction. Erhorn-Kluttig continues: “Our goal was to find solution sets that reduce the investment cost gap between conventional buildings and NZEBs by about 60 %. In some countries, we closed the gap completely and even identified NZEB solution sets that have lower investment costs than conventional buildings.” The life cycle assessment showed that some solutions also result in lower global warming potential including the embodied energy.
Looking to the future
Extrapolating to 2030 revealed that some countries had not yet studied the future of impact factors such as primary energy factors, energy tariffs and technology costs. Thanks to its close relationship with policymakers through its national advisory groups, CoNZEBs initiated discussions and first studies in these countries. Final analyses showed that electrical-driven NZEB concepts and beyond-NZEB concepts will become more attractive in the future. In conclusion, Erhorn-Kluttig states: “CoNZEBs has demonstrated that NZEBs can be built with only slightly higher investment costs than conventional buildings. Further, there are interesting technology solution sets available that are more environmentally friendly and lead to even lower costs than conventional buildings.” CoNZEBs outcomes should support more widespread uptake of new NZEBs, contributing to EU goals for energy-efficient buildings.
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The final element of NASA’s first heavy-lift Space Launch System rocket has arrived at the Kennedy Space Center for final integration ahead of its debut later this year… hopefully.
The first SLS core stage rolled off NASA’s Pegasus barge on April 29 for the short trip from the water’s edge to the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). At 68 meters long, the stage dwarfed everything around it except for its colossal building destination.
The VAB was the final stop before the launchpad for every Apollo and Space Shuttle mission ever launched. Standing at 160 meters tall, the building is steeped in history and after a decade of its high bays sitting idle since the retirement of the shuttle, a flurry of activity has returned.
As the SLS core underwent over a year of testing at NASA’s Stennis Space Center in Mississippi, teams at the Kennedy Space Center began stacking the rocket’s solid-fuel booster in one of the two VAB high bays in November 2020 atop the mobile launch platform.
The rocket’s two solid-fuel boosters will produce 6,5 million pounds of thrust burning for 120 seconds before separation. Derived from the four-segment Space Shuttle solid rocket boosters, each SLS booster is made up of five segments and a nose cone.
The stacking of the two SLS boosters was successfully completed in March in preparation for the arrival of the core stage.
The SLS core stage is the largest and most powerful rocket stage ever produced. Powered by four RS-25 engines Aerojet Rocketdyne engines, the stage is designed to produce 1,6 million pounds of thrust and burn for eight minutes and 19 seconds. It also houses the rocket’s flight computers and much of the avionics need to control the rocket’s flight.
In addition to the boosters and core stage, the Artemis I mission hardware includes the Orion spacecraft and Interim Cryogenic Propulsion Stage.
Derived from the Delta Cryogenic Second Stage utilised by the United Launch Alliance Delta IV rockets, the ICPS is powered by an Aerojet Rocketdyne RL10B-2. The stage is only slated to be utilised for Artemis I, II and III. The more powerful Exploration Upper Stage being developed by Boeing will be utilised for Artemis IV onwards.
The Artemis 1 ICPS was the first element of the mission’s hardware to be delivered in November 2017. The stage was handed over to teams at the Kennedy Space Center during a ceremony in the Space Station Processing Facility.
The ICPS will be stacked atop the core stage with the Orion spacecraft completing the 111-meter rocket stack.
Orion is made up of a crew capsule and the European Service Module (ESM). The EMS is produced by Airbus under contract from the European Space Agency as a part of the agency’s involvement in NASA’s Artemis program.
Acting as the Orion spacecraft’s power plant, the ESM provides propulsion, electrical power, thermal control and consumables like oxygen and water. The Artemis 1 ESM was fully assembled at Airbus Defence and Space’s factory in Bremen, Germany in October 2018 and delivered to the Kennedy Space Center a month later.
The Orion crew capsule is developed and built by Lockheed Martin. The capsule has a diameter of 5.03 meters, seats four and is capable of operating for just over 21 days.
Derived from a spacecraft destined for the cancelled Constellation program, work on Orion began in May 2011. The first uncrewed test flight of the capsule, Exploration Flight Test-1, was launched atop a Delta IV Heavy in 2014 without its service module.
Assembly of the Orion crew capsule for Artemis I, which included integration with the ESM, was completed in the Neil Armstrong Operations & Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in January 2021.
Although it was cleared for launch, in November 2020 a malfunction with one of the crew capsule’s eight power and data units was discovered. Replacing the component would have required disassembling much of the spacecraft and would have delayed the launch by several months at least. However, as Artemis I will not carry a crew, NASA made the decision to utilise the spacecraft as is.
Following the completion of assembly and integration, the Artemis 1 Orion stack was moved to the Multi-Payload Processing Facility where it is currently being fueled. Once complete, the stack will be moved to the Launch Abort System Facility to be integrated with its launch abort tower, which will pull spacecraft away from the rocket in the event of a failure.
The AA-2 Launch Abort System is designed and produced by Lockheed Martin under its Orion contract. The system is made up of a three-motor stack consisting of the abort and attitude control motors supplied by Northrop Grumman, and the jettison motor supplied by Aerojet Rocketdyne.
Each element of the AA-2 Launch Abort System has undergone several tests including aboard the Exploration Flight Test-1 in 2014 which was only equipped with the jettison motor.
A race to the launchpad
Despite delays and cost overruns that have mired both the development of the SLS rocket and the Orion spacecraft, NASA has remained optimistic that a late 2021 debut is possible.
During a Space Transportation Association webinar on April 27, then-Acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk stated that a 2021 launch of Artemis I was challenging but nonetheless possible.
“If things go really, really well on integration of SLS and integrating Orion on the mobile launch platform and rolling out, we have a chance to launch by the end of the calendar year,” said Jurczyk.
President Biden’s recently confirmed NASA Administrator Bill Nelson also stated that a 2021 launch was possible however, he also suggested it may not.
“At the end of the year, perhaps early next year, you’re going to see the largest rocket ever launched,” Nelson said during his confirmation hearing in April.
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Multiple choice: Check your answers by clicking on them.
Fill in the gap: Toggle down to check your results.
1. Sort the stationary phases by hydrophobicity (1 = highest hydrophobicity):
2. Match the numbers in the boxes with the words below.
a) biological interaction, b) hydrophobicity, c) size, d) charge
1a, 2b, 3d, 4c
3. Name the stationary phases shown below.
4. Label the HPLC parts.
5. Match the numbers in the boxes with the words below.
a) inhomogeneous packing material, b) movement alongside the column, c) small stationary phase particles, d) particles with narrow size distribution, e) high mobile flow rates, f) short and narrow tubings, g) entering of analyte into pores, h) low mobile flow rates, i) increased temperature
1a, 2cd, 3b, 4ef, 5g, 6hi
6. Find the correct names for the different terms of the Van Deemter equation.
7. Match the numbers in the brackets with the words below.
In reversed phase chromatography the mobile phase is (1) the stationary phase. (2) in reversed phase chromatography usually consist of water or (3) and an (4). (5) is based on the hydrophobicity of an analyte molecule, which can be expressed as (6). The retention time is (amongst others) influenced by (7) strength of the organic modifier and (8).
a) buffer, b) the retention time, c) mobile phase, d) organic modifier, e) logP, f) the temperature, g) more polar than, h) the solvent
1g, 2c, 3a, 4d, 5b, 6e, 7h, 8f
7. Rank the following compounds according to their adsorption ability in a decreasing order.
Amides, saturated hyrocabons, olefins, aldehydes, aromatics, nitro compounds, carboxylic acids, ketones, alcohols, amines, esters
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Tomatoes are very popularly used as a salad. They help quick digestion of heavy foods and also enhance the circulation blood throughout the body. Tomato is a red fruit, which has a smooth skin covering the reddish juicy translucent flesh inside. This flesh is used as tomato extracts for treating many beauty problems. Tomatoes are very rich source of nutrients, hence the juice derived from this particular fruit is considered to be greatly beneficial for the skin. In this article, we would find out how tomato juice can be helpful for our skin and hair.
Let’s focus on the benefits of tomato juice before focusing on its impact on the hair.
Consuming tomato juice prevents sun burn
The juice derived from tomato has quite a remarkable amount of antioxidants. These antioxidants help the skin to protect themselves from the UV Rays. Therefore, tanning of the skin can be prevented.
Prevents and treats several skin diseases
The high vitamin C content of the tomato juice provides maximum security to the skin’s immunity as it helps to prevent any infection or skin diseases. If your skin is suffering from any skin disease, then tomato juice can prove to be extremely helpful in curing them.
Treats open pores
Many of us face the problem of open pores. This often leads to irritation, which may also result in an infection. Tomato juice can treat such problems. It is high in vitamins and antioxidants. Therefore, these problems are cured with ease.
Regulates skin oil
People with oily skin often face various skin related problems. Consumption of tomato juice makes sure that the oil content in our skin is well regulated. Extra amounts of oil are removed from our skin efficiently.
Once we know about the benefits that our skin can be gifted by the tomato juice, we would look out for the benefits it has to offer our hair.
Growth in hair density
The high amounts of iron present in tomatoes help hairs to grow fast and healthy.
Brings life to dull hair
The vitamin content in tomato juice helps your hair to be shinier as it provides life to dull hair. Damaged hairs are restored, and your hair would look great.
Gets rid of scalp itch
Many of us face the problem of itchy scalps. Consumption of tomato juice helps us to get healthy scalp tissues and remove its roughness. Tomato juice is the solution for getting rid of scalp itches.
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by Captain Joe Greco
As adults, looking back, some of our fondest childhood memories involve going fishing with a friend or a relative. Fishing remains a terrific platform to connect with a youngster. In our fast-paced world, distractions such as cell phones, computers and television are part of every child’s daily routine. Fishing is a wonderful means to escape such distractions, opening the door for “quality time” that we are all in desperate need of.
The Lake George region is home to several lakes, ponds and streams that offer anglers of all ability levels spectacular fishing opportunities. Our area also happens to be a great place to introduce a child to the wonderful sport of fishing.
I always recommend keeping it simple when fishing with a child, remembering that action is almost always more important than size, to most kids. Therefore, try to find an area to fish where there will be a high likelihood of success. During the summer months, there are usually good numbers of small bass, bluegills and sunfish near shore, especially in the vicinity of docks and piers. Once located, these species of fish are generally not too difficult to catch, resulting in great action for young anglers.
Live worms are one of the deadliest of all baits when targeting smaller fish and work great when fished in conjunction with a bobber. If you are a complete novice, one of our local tackle shops will be happy to get you started with some basic equipment. These folks can also point you in the right direction regarding where to fish. If you do not wish to purchase your own equipment, another option is going on a fishing charter. In addition to targeting lake trout and salmon, most local guides also offer a shorter, evening bass fishing excursion, which is perfect for beginner anglers.
Regardless of whether you choose to fish with a guide or venture off on your own, it is almost a sure bet that you will have a great time. Once you begin catching a few fish, you will be amazed at how quickly the excitement level will escalate. If you have been contemplating taking up the sport, this is an opportune time and place to get started. More importantly, by taking a child fishing, you will be introducing them to an awesome sport that they can enjoy for the rest of their lives. | <urn:uuid:630b9a20-fb03-4573-ad74-d40a170eab07> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.lakegeorgeguide.com/take-a-kid-fishing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.950336 | 478 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Buying a car is a big-ticket expense. As such, it’s composed of valuable materials to keep it safe, durable, and impact resistant. When used and maintained correctly, owners can use a car for several years, but it’s not invincible.
Damaged and end-of-life cars rarely end up directly in landfills. Instead, 80% of its car parts can be recycled and repurposed. Even the metal is being sold back to auto manufacturers to make new steel.
Car wreckers are at the forefront of the vehicle recycling process. And everywhere globally, repurposing vehicles is often done in the same way. So, whether from Hamilton, New Zealand, or elsewhere, here’s how car wreckers help make this planet safer for everyone.
What Is Car Wrecking?
Car wrecking is the act of responsibly and efficiently repurposing damaged or decommissioned vehicles, reducing waste, and minimizing potential environmental risks. These automobiles may have been declared unrepairable after a severe accident or have reached the end of their lifespan.
It may sound a bit adventurous, but as with other places, the staff from car wreckers Hamilton and other car wrecking services aren’t recycling for fun. Car wrecking or recycling aims to reduce global pollution by properly dismantling damaged vehicles. Instead of leaving the car rotting in a landfill, car wreckers will take out reusable parts and sell them. They follow the same process to ensure damaged vehicles are reused efficiently.
5 Steps Car Wreckers Do In Repurposing Vehicles
Globally, several metric tons of metal and other materials are recovered from damaged vehicles. These recycled spare parts are given new life by recycling and repurposing. Steel, glass, and plastic components, for instance, are sold back to car manufacturers.
Car wreckers Hamilton and other similar companies start by looking at the car thoroughly, taking out the parts that can be reused, having the emptied vehicle crushed, and sold back to automobile makers.
- Thorough Car Checks
Junk vehicles are either sold or handed over to car recyclers. Once they’re with the recyclers, car wreckers begin the process by checking the car. These companies often offer cash in exchange for buying your vehicle, no matter its condition. The firm may decide to refurbish or repair the vehicle on rare occasions. In most instances, though, repurposing it is the best route moving forward.
- Identifying Parts To Sell Or Keep
When checking the vehicle, the recycler takes an inventory of car parts that may be resold to various sectors apart from carmakers. Steel, plastic, and glass are always in-demand for auto manufacturers. Other third parties, such as construction material and jewelry makers, reuse glass from wrecked cars. Recycled tires can be mixed with other materials for road construction and repair.
- Depollution And Parts Removal
The liquids inside cars, including brake fluids, petrol, oil, and antifreeze, must be drained. The process is called depollution. It’s necessary because these liquids may become harmful when improperly handled or left inside the vehicle.
Apart from these potentially hazardous liquids, recyclable parts are removed from the vehicle not for throwing but for selling. Tires, windshields, mirrors, transmission, belts, tail lights, doors, headlights, upholstery, and engine, are the most common car parts salvaged by car wreckers and similar recyclers. Recyclers can use some of these items immediately, while some may need repair. Hence, car mechanics and repair shops may also benefit from car wreckers apart from manufacturers.
Car wreckers don’t exclusively do these things to old and decommissioned cars. Even modern vehicles that can be too costly to repair may be recycled. Car recyclers will have these electronic parts taken out. Some car manufacturers have taken it upon themselves to practice repurposing, such as this recycling technology for electric vehicle motors.
- Crushing The Vehicle’s Metal Frame
After hazardous fluids and resalable and recyclable parts are taken out, some loose metal parts are also taken out using magnets. After the removal, only the vehicle’s skeleton is left for shredding and crushing. The end product will be a small pad of metal comparable to the size of a microwave oven. Reports indicate that globally, around 27 million cars are recovered for recycling yearly.
- Selling To Manufacturers
The recycled metal processed by car wreckers will be mixed with other metal forms like iron and steel before being sold to car manufacturers. Carmakers will then use these scrap metals to create new vehicles are lower costs. Besides being cheaper than newly-manufactured steel, scrap metal helps reduce pollution by minimizing the steel industry’s carbon footprint and resource-intensive practices in creating steel.
The Bottom Line
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Homologous recombination allows incorporation out of a beneficial DNA succession from the a recommended area inside the genome. Its have fun with features transformed our very own ability to mark family genes of interest and you may led to genome-greater libraries enabling higher-throughput analysis out-of secret mobile functions anywhere between localization of necessary protein to different cellular where you should genome-wider assessments from healthy protein profile and you may variability. Even though recombineering, since it is called, is amazingly powerful, sadly it can only be utilized in particular organisms and never others, providing men and women happy bacteria an effective choosy pressure in the labs around the world since attractive model systems. A fantastic advice will be the lasting fungus together with moss physcomitrella patens. The process away from homologous recombination need a series of homology flanking the newest incorporated succession. The duration of this succession may differ with respect to the organism, the fresh gene interesting therefore the particular techniques and you may method functioning. Some trait thinking is ?30-fifty bp for the lasting yeast (BNID 101986) whereas for the mouse it is ?3-5 kbp (BNID 101987). To the lengthened runs including comes a Spokane escort girl much lower abilities away from creating the latest operate of homologous recombination complicating the newest existence regarding molecular biologists, even in the event progressive CRISPR techniques has actually effected a new wave during the genome editing that can largely supersede recombineering measures.
This blogpost discusses the amount of common DNA off endogamy. It will not address the new genealogy and family history out of endogamy, but rather establishes certain terms and reference topic.
First let’s identify endogamy: the fresh new individualized from marrying in the limits off a community society, clan or tribe [Oxford Dictionaries on the web].
It indicates cousins wed both; and the ones a few cousins provides at least one predecessor who’s a similar. In other people words a predecessor is actually our forest over immediately after. A similar personal occupies several (or maybe more) stops (or ranks) within our forest, as well as their respective descendants (cousins) get married each other.
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Classic samples of endogamous populations become Ashkenazi Jews and you can Reduced German Mennonites. During the genealogy, endogamy is additionally used to describe multiple cousin marriage ceremonies within the limited society town such as those utilized in some other part of Colonial America, for-instance [c.f. ISOGG wiki].
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No bake cheesecakes are a delicious and easy dessert to make, but sometimes they can be a little bit tricky.
One common problem that people have is that their cheesecake leaks.
This can be really frustrating, especially if you have put a lot of time and effort into making it.
In this blog post, we will discuss the causes of cheesecake leakage and offer some tips on how to prevent it from happening.
Why is my No Bake Cheesecake leaking?
The most common issue in cheesecakes is that the cream cheese used in the recipe adds excessive moisture to the cake and could cause it to turn thin.
If you don’t include something to counteract the water content of the cream cheese There’s a high possibility that you’ll have issues in the consistency of your cake.
One way to avoid this is to use full-fat cream cheese instead of the lower fat varieties.
The higher fat content helps to firm up the cake and prevents it from becoming too watery.
Another way to prevent your cheesecake from leaking is to cook it in a water bath.
This method helps to keep the cake moist and prevents it from drying out during baking.
Be sure to check that all of the ingredients are correctly measured and that you’re following the instructions carefully.
Why did my cheesecake come out runny?
There are several reasons for your cheesecake to be too thin or sufficient in thickness to satisfy your preferences.
For many , the problem is that the cheesecake was not chilled before serving.
Cheesecakes that are not baked will need gelatin to help keep it firm and dense.
If you are looking for a no-fail cheesecake recipe, I would highly recommend this one.
There are a few reasons your cheesecake might come out runny.
One reason could be that you didn’t chill it before serving. Cheesecakes that aren’t baked will need gelatin to help keep it firm and dense.
Another reason your cheesecake might come out runny is because you overbaked it.
When cheesecake is overcooked, the proteins in the eggs can start to break down, causing the texture to become dense and custardy instead of light and fluffy.
What happens if no-bake cheesecake doesn’t set?
It is obvious that the aim is to make a solid cheesecake filling that is similar to filled baked cheesecake.
After chilling and if the cheesecake isn’t quite firm enough you can put it in the freezer to allow it to set.
Be sure not to keep it frozen for unwrapped, however; it could result in the texture becoming hard and spongy.
If your no-bake cheesecake filling is still too runny after chilling and freezing, then it likely didn’t have enough time to set.
The next time you make no-bake cheesecake, be sure to allow the filling plenty of time to set before serving.
You can also try using a different recipe that results in a firmer filling.
If your no-bake cheesecake filling is too firm, it may have been overchilled or frozen.
To fix this, simply place the cheesecake in the refrigerator to thaw for about an hour.
The texture should become softer and more like traditional baked cheesecake.
Can you over mix a no-bake cheesecake?
The air in the whipping cream. Also, if you mix all the ingredients in a bowl, rather than whipping the heavy cream .
On its own and then cream the sugar and cream cheese in a separate manner and you get a heavy and dense cheesecake.
When you over mix, you incorporate too much air into the whipping cream.
To avoid these mistakes, take your time when mixing and be careful not to overdo it.
To make this mistake when whipping up your next batch of no-bake cheesecake!
Cheesecakes are my all time favorite dessert. I could eat one every day and never get sick of them.
No bake cheesecakes are my favorite because they are so light and airy. I remember the first time I made a no bake cheesecake.
This will make your cheesecake dense instead of light and fluffy. The second mistake was not whipping the heavy cream on its own before adding it to the rest of the ingredients.
Can you put a no-bake cheesecake in the freezer to set?
For a sturdy , no-bake cheesecake with perfectly neat slices, put it in the fridge for at minimum 12 hours.
This is a fantastic recipe to make ahead! Make sure you don’t chill the cheesecake before freezing it to make it.
The filling will not cut and you’ll lose that velvet texture.
The freezer is your friend when it comes to no-bake cheesecakes, Set the entire pan in the freezer for about two hours, or until firm.
Once frozen, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and store in the freezer for up to two months.
Let the cheesecake thaw overnight in the fridge before serving. Slice and serve as usual.
Do note that freezing may cause the filling to separate from the crust slightly, but it will still taste delicious.
If you’re looking for a make-ahead dessert that doesn’t require freezing, try this no-bake pumpkin cheesecake or this chocolate peanut butter no-bake cheesecake instead.
How do you fix a no bake runny cheesecake?
In the majority of cases the most effective way you can modify your recipe to make a no-bake cheesecake.
Assuming that the recipe you’re using is not flawed is to add gelatin in the recipe.
Gelatin is a natural thickener , and is utilized in a variety of recipes to to thicken sauces, custards and many other food items.
When gelatin is combined with water it forms a clear, colorless, flavorless gel.
This ingredient is what gives Jell-O its’ shape and texture.
When gelatin is used in cheesecake recipes, it thickens the mixture and prevents the formation of liquid while the cake sets.
If you’re worried about your no-bake cheesecake being too dense or jiggly adding gelatin will also help to create a lighter consistency throughout the cake.
It’s important to note that too much gelatin can make your cake rubbery, so be sure to follow recipe instructions carefully.
Or experiment with small amounts at a time until you find the perfect balance for your taste.
What do I do if my cheesecake doesn’t set?
It’s possible to save a undercooked cheesecake , if you’ve taken it out of the oven, however.
If you’ve cooked for the entire duration that is specified in the recipe and you’re not sure of what to do if your cheesecake hasn’t completely cooked in the middle put it back in the oven, and bake for another 10 minutes.
If the cheesecake is still not cooked, bake it for another five minutes.
Don’t overcook the cheesecake as this will cause it to crack. If your cheesecake has cracks, you can still salvage it.
If you find that your cheesecake is overcooked and has cracks, there are a few things you can do to try and save it.
One option is to cover the cracks with whipped cream or frosting.
Another option is to slice the cheesecake into individual servings and top each piece with a sauce or fruit.
Cracks in a cheesecake are not ideal, but they do not have to ruin your dessert. With a little creativity, you can still enjoy your creation.
No bake cheesecakes are my favorite kind of cheesecake. They are so easy to make and don’t require any baking.
How do you tell if a no-bake cheesecake is set?
Make sure that the cheesecake should be glossy and firm to the touch once it has been it is set.
It is possible to move the cheesecake into the refrigerator for 30 minutes prior to cutting.
However, freezing it for longer than that will result in an unfrozen cheesecake that doesn’t have the same deliciously creamy texture that you get from the fresh refrigerated version.
If you want to be absolutely sure that your no-bake cheesecake is set, then you can use a cake tester or a toothpick to test it.
Insert the cake tester or toothpick into the center of the cheesecake and if it comes out clean, then it is ready to be served.
If not, then you will need to give it more time to set up in the refrigerator.
Assuming that you have followed all of the instructions correctly, your no-bake cheesecake should be perfectly set and ready.
Which is better baked or no-bake cheesecake?
There are a few things to consider when answering this question. One is the amount of time you have.
Baked cheesecakes usually take about an hour to make, while no-bake cheesecakes can be made in as little as 30 minutes.
Another thing to consider is how you like your cheesecake.
If you like it dense and rich, then you’ll probably want to go for a baked cheesecake.
If you like it light and fluffy, then a no-bake cheesecake is probably better for you.
Finally, think about what kind of topping you want on your cheesecake.
Baked cheesecakes are usually topped with fruit or whipped cream, while no-bake cheesecakes can be topped with just about anything.
It really depends on what you’re looking for in a cheesecake. If you want something quick and easy, go for a no-bake cheesecake.
Is cheesecake batter supposed to be runny?
Although cheesecake must be properly made by hand using a mixer mixing it for too long can result in a very soft cheesecake.
Than what the recipe suggests and avoid equipment such as blenders or food processors which could prevent the cheesecake from setting.
You can also avoid runny cheesecake by using full-fat cream cheese.
Cheesecake made with low-fat or non-fat cream cheese is more likely to be watery and runny.
If your cheesecake batter is runny, Bake the cheesecake as directed and then place it in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight.
This will help the cheesecake to set and become firmer. If all else fails, you can try adding some gelatin to the batter which will also help firm up your cheesecake.
When you mix the cream cheese, eggs, and other ingredients together, be careful not to do it for too long or too aggressively.
No-bake cheesecakes are a delicious and easy dessert to make, but they can be prone to leaking if not assembled correctly.
We’ve outlined some tips for how to avoid a leaky no bake cheesecake.
First, make sure your ingredients are at room temperature before beginning to mix them.
If your cream cheese is too cold, it will be difficult to mix and more likely to leak.
Next, line the bottom of your pan with parchment paper.
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Theodore Catton is co-proprietor of Environmental History Workshop and associate research professor in the History Department at the University of Montana. While scholar-in-residence in 2013, he worked on a chapter in American Indians and National Forests, published by University of Arizona Press in 2016. The book tells the untold story of how the U.S. Forest Service and tribal nations dealt with sweeping changes in forest use, ownership, and management over the last century and a half. This year, the book was awarded the Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Award for best book published on forest and conservation history in 2016.
Catton is the author of numerous books, articles and reports on the national parks and national forests, including Inhabited Wilderness: Indians, Eskimos, and National Parks in Alaska and National Park, City Playground: Mount Rainier in the Twentieth Century. His most recent publication is Rainy Lake House: Twilight of Empire on the Northern Frontier (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017).
Catton resides in Missoula, Montana, with his wife and writing partner, Diane Krahe. His other interests include backpacking in the Northern Rockies and walking vacations in the British Isles.
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Computer simulations are an increasingly popular way to teach anatomy in college, but students learn better with human cadavers, according to new research.
Cary Roseth, associate professor of educational psychology at Michigan State University, says the study suggests cadaver-based instruction should continue in undergraduate human anatomy, a gateway course to medical school, nursing, and other health and medical fields.
In the United States, most anatomy courses still emphasize the use of cadavers, although in many cases digital technologies supplement the instruction. Yet there is a growing debate over whether cadavers are needed at all—some medical schools in Australia and the United Kingdom have stopped using cadavers to teach anatomy altogether.
The research, which appears in the September/October issue of Anatomical Sciences Education, is the only known scientific study to directly compare the effects of cadaver-based and computer-simulation instruction on students’ learning of cadaver-based structures.
“Our findings indicate that educational technology can enhance anatomy instruction but is unlikely to fully replace cadavers,” says Roseth, a coauthor of the study.
A better question, Roseth says, is how to properly balance the use of digital technologies with cadaver instruction in anatomy classrooms. The controversy has intensified in recent years as the increasing costs of cadaver instruction goes up against the decreasing costs and increasing capabilities of modern technologies.
Roseth’s coauthors are Andrew Saltarelli, a former Michigan State doctoral student who’s now an instructional designer at Stanford University, and William Saltarelli, an anatomy professor at Central Michigan University.
The researchers studied a semester-long undergraduate anatomy lecture course with 233 students who were assigned to one of 14 labs. One group of students learned on a cadaver and was tested on a cadaver. Another group of students learned on a multimedia learning system and also was tested on a cadaver.
The students were tested on two things: identifying parts of the body and explaining how they worked.
On identification, the students who learned on a cadaver scored, on average, about 16 percent higher than those who learned on the simulated system.
On explanation, the students who learned on a cadaver scored about 11 percent higher. This finding was particularly surprising, Roseth says, given that one of the benefits of the multimedia program is that it can show how parts of the body work—such as blood flow through carotid arteries—while a cadaver cannot.
The difference in the average scores, Roseth notes, was essentially the difference between one grade.
“When it comes to learning actual—rather than simulated—human anatomy, the digital representations, even with all of their additional affordances, did not work as well as the cadaver,” Roseth says.
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Do we have bugs on our skin?
In the eyes, we have mites that live at the base of our eyelashes and in sebaceous glands on the face. These bugs are beneficial. Any others that appear on our bodies are invaders.
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Journalists and media practitioners have been urged to complement government efforts in transitioning to green economy and meeting the climate change targets by giving prominence to the subject in their coverage
Dubbed: "Media training on coverage of climate change and green economy-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in decentralised development work," the training was organised by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) under the auspices of the United Nation’s Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE).
PAGE is a flagship UN-inter-agency programme to support participating countries to transition to an inclusive green economy, which is about activities that result in improved human well-being and social equity while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities.
Touching on the workshop, Mrs Nyadia said media training on coverage of climate change and green economy "is critical to ensuring we transition to green economy and meeting our climate targets."
She noted that Ghana over the years has taken important steps to implement green economy policies, including the ban on the importation of incandescent lamps, and the energy efficient refrigerator replacement rebate scheme.
She explained, for instance, that the ban on the importation of incandescent lamps and the energy efficient refrigerator replacement rebate scheme have resulted in significant reduction in energy consumption in the country.
The workshop, which brought together journalists and media practitioners from Central, Western, Volta, Eastern, and Greater Accra regions
Similarly, the training was aimed at improving the understanding of the participants of the mainstreaming process of the Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs), effective reporting on climate change and SDGs and how to hold duty bearers accountable.
Similar training will be organised for journalists and media practitioners in Ashanti, Brong Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West regions in July.
The UNDP Programme Coordinator, Mr Kingsley Bekoe, said one of the key ways of creating awareness on climate change and
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BUTUAN CITY (MindaNews/24 March) – At least a hundred a hundred bicycle enthusiasts here commemorated Earth Hour through a fun run traversing the city’s streets in solidarity with the world wide event from 8:30 t 9:30 p.m. Saturday.
Jose Rodriguez, secretary of Butuan All Terrain Riders’ Society said the idea started among friends that expanded into a bigger activity.
“We did not actually plan for the event. It just spread through word of mouth and the internet. This is our way of supporting the call in raising awareness for mother Earth and with pedal power reducing our carbon footprint, contributing to the efforts towards climate change mitigation,” he said.
Rodriguez added that they did not expect bicycle enthusiasts would show up for the planned fun ride.
“After we saw several groups and individual riders showed up even on such a short notice, we are now planning to make the activity an annual event and hopefully with bigger participation from a much wider variety of bicycle owners,” he said.
“This is a fun and worthwhile activity for all of us, even though we are using folding city bikes but we will try to keep up with the rest of the group,” said Jeralyn Mallonga.
Her friend Krispee Arante said she, Mallonga and another friend, Joan Daradar, along with some friends had been doing recreational bicycle riding in the city on their spare time.
“I’m sure this will be fun since it is a bigger group riding together across Butuan City,” said Arante.
Seven-year od Joshua de Vera, was the youngest rider to participate in the event with his father who was excited to take part in the fun ride.
But Earth Hour in Butuan City, which has been having long, daily brownouts, was known only to a few residents. Most Butuanons, including police officers interviewed in the streets, did not know about the world-wide event and its purpose.
Butuan residents experienced an 11-hour brown out last Sunday from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. making people wonder why they should participate in the turning off of electricity for an hour when they had been having long power outages for weeks now. (Erwin Mascarinas/MindaNews) | <urn:uuid:803f88a3-d2da-444c-b02c-4cd73b64892f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2013/03/pedal-power-marks-butuan-earth-hour/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971988 | 485 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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First Line: When Christ was born in Bethlehem
When Christ was born in Bethlehem,
Fair peace on earth to bring,
In lowly state of love He came
To be the children’s King.
And round Him, then, a holy band
Of children blest was born,
Fair guardians of His throne to stand
Attendant night and morn.
And unto them this grace was giv’n
A Savior’s name to own,
And die for Him Who out of Heav’n
Had found on earth a throne.
O blessèd babes of Bethlehem,
Who died to save our King,
Ye share the martyrs’ diadem,
And in their anthem sing!
Your lips, on earth that never spake,
Now sound th’eternal word;
And in the courts of love ye make
Your children’s voices heard.
Lord Jesus Christ, eternal Child,
Make Thou our childhood Thine;
That we with Thee the meek and mild
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“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were” this infamous quote by Khalil Gibran inspires everyone – for some odd reason – to get back together with their loved ones who left them, but the past is the past for a reason, right?
The past is just there so we can live and learn. Most of us get back to our exes fearing loneliness or that the effort we spent in a certain relationship evaporates, leaving us single and heartbroken. Our mind is very playful when it comes to leaving the people we love. It always sends us messages like “I will never be able to love someone like my Ex”, or, “I will never have what we had”. We proceed in relationships that hurt us just because we don’t want to lose our memories in the fire, but we never believe that this fire is too close and hazardous.
“Our mind is very playful when it comes to leaving the people we love”
Going back to an Ex is an unconscious and tricky trip to wounding memories and selfish resolutions. The same problems will take place in this relationship again; by time. Yes, people change, but not everyone necessarily change to the better. The person who changes, usually changes for his or her own benefit and no one really changes for another human being’s prosperity and eternal happiness. Put yourself in your Ex’s position and always ask yourself, if I were as selfish as they are, would I change for the better? Would I want to compromise for someone? Would I want to provide double and triple what I provided before to make this relationship work?
“Exes aren’t Exes because they are monsters or freaks. They are just real people like us with insecurities and opposite beliefs.”
The more our friends hate our Ex, the more we think that we see something in them that people can’t see. We always tell our family and friends that our Ex is a good person and that he or she just needs encouragement and enlightenment to be better. And yes this Ex could be a good person, a marvelous person… but not for us! This we need to understand very well.
Exes aren’t Exes because they are monsters or freaks. They are just real people like us with insecurities and opposite beliefs. You are an Ex and I am an Ex and everyone has been and will be an Ex at a certain time in their lives. We move on and we meet other people who will never be as perfect as our checklist, but they could have the same energy and open-mindedness to make a relationship work.
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Here’s an opinion piece by shareholder Scott Brooksby, published in the June 10 issue of Modern Healthcare:
To curb medical helicopter crashes, focus on pilot haste, experience
A dramatic national conversation erupted recently following a U.S. National Transportation Safety Board finding that smart phone texting was a contributing factor in the crash of a fatal medical-helicopter flight in 2011.
The discussion has concentrated on everything from connecting the event to the dangers of texting while driving to calls for a ban on texting by pilots in air medical operations.
Absent from the discussion, however, is a larger issue that’s well recognized by helicopter industry safety organizations, and what should be of great concern for hospital administration and other organizations that contract emergency helicopter services. The issue has to do with the egregiously high incidence of fatal and critical Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) crashes, and resulting personal injuries.
In comparison to virtually every other type of commercial aviation, there is an inordinate rate of accidents within medical helicopter aviation, with the 2010 NTSB data proof in point.
Essentially, NTSB segregates aviation operations into hundreds of categories, the largest being all U.S. major domestic air carrier flights. In 2010, NTSB reported only 14 accidents among major air carrier aviation, none of which were fatal. By contrast, in 2010 there were 13 HEMS accidents, including seven fatal crashes.
Medical helicopter pilots are heroic and driven individuals who are among the best-trained and highest-skilled pilots in the world and fly what arguably are the most dangerous missions outside of military aviation. HEMS pilots possess the grit and courage to go forth in dangerous conditions any time of night or day, in icy conditions or great heat, in storms, in densely trafficked urban controlled airspace, and remote uncontrolled airspace.
The most dangerous occupation
Operating without the benefit of formal flight plans with takeoffs and landings in uncontrolled locations ranging from roads to ball fields to the tops of buildings, the challenge is incredible. Speed is critical. But it comes with great risk. In fact, according to a University of Chicago report, crewing a medical helicopter is the most dangerous profession in America.
Clearly it takes a special individual to accept the challenge. But according to the International Helicopter Safety Team, the same attributes of risk tolerance, confidence and dogged determinism required of a HEMS pilot commonly are the very factors that, when excessive, lead to helicopter pilot error.
But what complicates the issue of haste to meet critical needs is the fact that the majority of HEMS accidents occur not when pilots are ferrying a patient to emergency treatment, but instead take place when pilots are rushing to the scene to pick up a patient, or the transportation of organs.
NTSB data shows that fully 58 percent of the 31 medical flight accidents occurring from 2007 to 2009 took place when the HEMS aircraft were en route to pick up an injured patient, or involved organ transport organs. Only 42 percent of HEMS accidents occurred with patients on board.
Haste and pilot error under harrowing conditions is exacerbated in the case of less experienced HEMS pilots. Although on the whole HEMS pilots rank among the most experienced and capable pilots in the world, NTSB records indicate that flight hours of HEMS pilots not involved in accidents have logged 19 times as much air time in a particular aircraft as those involved in accidents.
Managing contract helicopter risk
Since 2005, there has been an increasing call for greater safety requirements in HEMS aviation, focusing largely on navigation equipment and flight dispatch and monitoring systems. We expect to see continued progress in that area.
In the meantime, to reduce the incidence of HEMS crashes as well as to exercise prudent risk management, here are some steps for hospital administrators to consider:
– Review your HEMS contractor pilot training program, with a preference for programs that not only meet, but exceed, FAA compliance levels;
– Request documentation of contractor aviation risk assessment programs, and review the specific crew checklist parameters to assess risk level of each flight;
– Stipulate that pilots have a minimal level of flying hours on the specific type of aircraft to be used in life flight operations;
– Stipulate that pilots have a certain level of military flying service, or equivalent civilian training;
– Review pilot histories and encourage condition-specific training that corresponds to local conditions; and
– To limit claims against your hospital or organization, ensure that your HEMS contracts contain solid indemnity provisions.
Although the tragic human consequences of a fatal medical helicopter crash are clear, there’s less recognition of the massive risk of litigation, which while principally focused on the flight service company easily can become a deep, years-long issue for the contracting hospital organization.
HEMS operators are the first line of defense in one of the greatest challenges of emergency care, operating under diligent training execution and best principles of safe flight as established by the FAA and contractor safety policies. However, perfection is an aspiration, and recognizing the record of accidents, hospital organizations should look beyond smart phone bans to limit the occurrence and risk of medical helicopter accidents. | <urn:uuid:2e9a832c-e4e4-4b6f-889e-9b6c93dea68b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://olsonbrooksby.com/blog/2013/06/to-curb-medical-helicopter-crashes-focus-on-pilot-haste-experience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.93719 | 1,039 | 2.09375 | 2 |
|DPRK Chairman Kim Jong Un leaves Melia Hotel at 9.35am on Saturday, heading to Hồ Chí Minh Mausoleum. — VNA/VNS Photo Lâm Khánh|
HÀ NỘI - Chairman of the Workers’ Party and the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un left Hà Nội on March 2 morning, concluding his official friendship visit to Việt Nam and his stay to attend the DPRK-USA Hanoi Summit Việt Nam.
Earlier on the same day, Chairman Kim paid tribute to late Vietnamese President Hồ Chí Minh at his mausoleum and laid a wreath at the Monument to Heroic Martyrs.
He is scheduled to leave Việt Nam on train at Đồng Đăng station in the northern mountainous province of Lạng Sơn to return home.
Kim held the second summit with US President Donald Trump on February 27-28, during which a number of issues were discussed, but no deal was reached.
Tthe Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on March 2 that Chairman of the Workers’ Party and the State Affairs Commission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) Kim Jong Un voiced his hope to intensify cooperation with Việt Nam in all fields and lift bilateral relations to a new height.
KCNA run an article about Kim’s official visit to Việt Namfrom March 1-2 right after his second summit with US President Donald Trump in Hà Nội.
The agency cited Kim as saying that through productive meetings between the two Parties and States, the DPRK and Việt Nam should normalise bilateral collaboration and exchanges in all aspects, from economy, science and technology, defence, sports, culture and arts, to advertisement and communications, and at the same time upgrade the relationship to a new height.
On March 1, the DPRK leader held talks with General Secretary of the Communist Party of Việt Nam Central Committee and President Nguyễn Phú Trọng at the Presidential Palace in the Vietnamese capital city. He also had meetings with Prime Minister Nguyễn Xuân Phúc and National Assembly Chairwoman Nguyễn Thị Kim Ngân.
Kim is the first DPRK leader who has paid an official visit to Việt Nam after 55 years. Earlier, the founder of the DPRK Kim Il Sung visited Việt Nam in 1958 and 1964. — VNS
|Hà Nội People’s Commitee Chairman Nguyễn Đức Chung gives flowers and sees off DPRK Kim Jong Un at Melia Hotel, Hà Nội on Saturday morning. — VNA/VNS Photo Lâm Khánh|
|DPRK Chairman Kim Jong Un and DPRK delegation laid wreaths at the Heroic Martyrs’ Monument on Bắc Sơn Road, Hà Nội’s Ba Đình District on Saturday morning. — VNA/VNS Thành Đạt|
|DPRK Chairman Kim Jong Un and DPRK delegation leave Ba Đình Square at 10.5am after visiting Hồ Chí Mính Mausoleum. They are heading to northern province of Lạng Sơn.— VNA/VNS Văn Điệp|
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Bouvet Island Dec 16, 2000 to Mar 04, 2001told as it happened by pilot Dennis Wells, ZS1AUreprint by PA0ABMChuck Bray, AstronautA visitor, Doctor Charles ( Chuck ) Brady, N4BQW, arrived in Cape Town in November 2000. Using a 2 meter hand held, he came across ZS1DTM, ZS1GPF and ZS1ADP. Chuck was looking for a DXer and my name and callsign came up, after all it has been around for over 50 years. What happened after that is history but what a wonderful 3 months it has been. I had the privilege of being associated with this fellow radio amateur who must be rated as one of the greatest DXer's of all time.Chuck contacted me and asked if I would be prepared to keep in touch with him on Bouvet Island. He had just been issued the callsign 3Y0C and was going as part of a scientific expedition. 3Y0C will only be made known when he sets foot on BOUVET. This was a closely guarded secret. A list of frequencies to be used from 160M to 6M, including the WARC bands RTTY, SSB and CW, was drawn up. The most sophisticated amateur radio and other electronic equipment was being checked by ZS1CM, here in Cape Town prior to departure. This operation was going to be something BIG.BOUVET is a volcanic island and is the loneliest place in the world. It is reputed to be the most inhospitable, and most inaccessable place. It measures 6 kms by 9 kms. This 5 man expedition, consisted of 5 scientists, the Norwegian leader, 3 South African scientists and the Doctor ( Chuck Brady ) who is also the amateur radio operator. Blizzards with high velocity winds of around 120mph are common. For Chuck, a NASA astronaut, who has walked in space, this was like going to Mars, with snow and mountaineering thrown in.N4BQW/MM on the MV Polarstern Chuck left on a ship called the POLARSTERN, and he operated as N4BQW / MM. .When Chuck landed on BOUVET he strung up a 20m dipole. .We decided to launch 3Y0C to the world on the 16 December 2000 and the time 0700z . . I gathered a crowd onto 14340 khz. At the designated time I called N4BQW. THERE WAS NO CHUCK. The minutes went by, AND THEN, after waiting 25 minutes, Chuck came on as N4BQW. We had a COUNT DOWN and a LIFT-OFF of 3Y0C .....from BOUVET. Within half an hour the pile-up had begun.. Websites were set up by Deon Erwin, ZR1DQ, and Bruce Richards WD4NGB, On Christmas Eve, 24 December, Chuck sent a digital photo of himself on the Island. It was loaded into a passing satellite and then e-mailed to SOUTH AFRICA. It was placed on the websites, in colour and in remarkable detail, within hours of it being taken.Then came the flood of e-mails and guest book entries. The whole world was chasing 3Y0C. Although he had other duties to perform on the Island, Chuck knew that there were stations out there that needed 3Y. SUNSAT ( South Africa's own satellite ) was thrown in to give Chuck a first from ZS to BOUVET on the" Parrot "repeater, on board SUNSAT. This Parrot repeater was the brain child of Henry Chamberlain, ZS1AAZ. It was fitting that Henry was the first to contact Chuck, followed by Dr Dave Reece, ZS1DFR.A few weeks later while routine work was being performed on SUNSAT by the Stellenbosch University, it failed to respond and is now out of operation.This" PARROT " QSO was remarkable. It was a repeater in the simplex mode and timing of transmitting and receiving was controlled by bleep tones. Chuck was using a 2m hand held as SUNSAT passed over BOUVET for approximately 12 minutes. We have to thank Pieter ZS1PK, one of the nine engineering students who built SUNSAT. He programmed it to switch on for a pass directly over BOUVET and with the foot print covering CAPE TOWN.After Chuck had put up the HEXBEAM for HF and 6m , the VERTICAL for 160m to 40m, signals improved. I maintained daily skeds with him on 14340 khz. It was expected of me to set up skeds and find the best times and frequencies to work the various sectors of the world. The VK's, ZL's and JA'S found that signals over the poles were not that good. Bill Wells, VK4UA, David, VK3EW, and Keith, ZL2KOT, informed their regions that 3Y0C would be on 14346khz from 0600z to 0800z daily. Just when things were going fine Chuck lost his antenna during the night. Then the vertical snapped , then the dipoles and then the HEXBEAM mast broke.In the new year, more BIG drama.......... the diesel engine gave trouble. It is losing oil at such a rate that they would run out of fuel. This gave cause for concern. There was also a smaller gasoline generator but not sufficient fuel so we consider making a conversion to propane gas. Experts in Cape Town & even in Port Elizabeth where Barry Jackson, ZS2H, an Engineer who had been on MARION ISLAND, were working on methods for making it work with the accent on safety. There were only a few hours of battery left and then, NO MORE 3Y0C. After a lengthy period of hard work they got the diesel engine fixed and there was no need for the conversion. The diesel engine carried on running until they left the island. PHEW !!! The Linear Amplifier failed to function.when it was really needed. The experts were called to solve the problem but to no avail. Chuck reported very good reception as there was a low noise level and no interference. Scandanavians were having a tough time getting over Europe. We tried them going over the north pole and that worked well. Chuck reported that 70% of his contacts were in Europe. Japanese were the most disciplined and polite operators. Chuck fealt they deserved a better chance. The West coast of the USA found it difficult working 3Y0C. A very difficult area was also the middle East and central Asia. After all those months of harsh weather the 160m dipole had 25 joints and the HEXBEAM mast was in six pieces. Let's try the 160m, 80m and 40m bands again. The word spread to the BIG guns on the LF bands. ZS3D, ZS6EZ, ZS6UT and several of the locals like ZS1PDT, ZS1MJJ, ZS1BW, ZS1DUP, ZS1B, ZU1G and 9J2BO, got up at 3am in the morning . TOP BAND was the difficult one and the only contact made was on CW with ZS6EZ. Chuck worked " the early morning gang " on 80m but not many on 40m. The DX qrm was tremendous. Chuck kept going for long stretches and then on to the HF bands. He was awake for ..... thirty six..... hours. !!! At daybreak the VK's, ZL's, JA's and Europe ( long path ) were at him. We could hear Chuck giving stations many chances and repeats, until that contact was, A GOOD ONE.There was other work to be done on the Island and when Chuck did not show up at a specific time, the WORLD wondered if he had been blown away .... AGAIN.....or maybe the batteries were flat. Then.....we heard.....3 Y ZERO CHARLIE.........and we all heaved a sigh of relief.......he's still OK. Chuck now suggests that Bill Dewey, ZS1EK, our 6m expert, get up onto high ground and set up a station on 50,120 mhz Within a day BILL, and Buddy McCallum, ZS1MP, had got organised to set up a station at CAPE POINT, the nearest you will get to BOUVET Island from the African continent. The site is some 800 feet above the sea. Ron Marlow, ZS1RON, had arranged for a permit to enter this restricted wild game park. They borrowed a 3 element beam from Dr Bud Voortman, ZS1B. RON was so keen to join his buddies and was making such a noise around the house that his XYL said , RON, go enjoy yourself. The 3 of them ( all members of THE FALSEBAY RADIO ELECTRONICS and COMPUTER CLUB. ) arrived at Cape Point in a howling, cold and gale force wind. Chuck was experiencing bad weather, except that it was ten times worse. Bill had a 6 element yagi for 6m with 150 watts . As it was impossible to erect the triband beam. A 20m dipole was erected and this worked well with DX. They succeeded in working 3Y0C on 20m, 40m and 80m but were unsuccessful on 6m . Like MARCONI, they deserved success. What came out of this was a bondage of a friendship. It was a tremendous effort on both sides. How keen can a DXer get ? No keener than Hans, OH2EA, from Helsinki. Hans was not in Helsinki, but in Bangkok on holiday to get away from the cold weather in Finland. A friend in Helsinki Ossi, OH3YI, kept sending regular reports about 3Y0C on BOUVET. By January just a handful of OH's had made it and Hans was getting worried about missing 3Y again. Getting a flow of information regards Chuck and his troubles , his heart went out to Chuck.Hans got a message from OH3YI on 7 February. " QSO's are starting to flow into Finland. Now is the time." Well to any diehard DXer, needing the last one, the decision was to get home fast.On 15 February 2001, Hans is at the Bangkok airport at midnight. Hans arrived back in Helsinki at noon on 16 February and immediately called Ossi, OH3YI, who updated Hans. I had been told via e-mail about Hans travelling half way around the world. I mentioned to Chuck about this flying Finn and we agreed that this was something special. Suffering from jetlag Hans had an afternoon nap and then went into his shack. He tuned the 15M band and he found Chuck. Hans stayed on one frequency. Hans called twice and like music to his ears he heard..........OH2EA...59..59...FROM 3Y0 CHARLIE. Chuck says " Aren't you the guy that flew from Bangkok to Finland, just for a QSO ? !!!!!! Hans asked Chuck if he can try CW. Chuck says stay on your split frequency and I will call you. It is a rock solid qso. WOW !!!! Hans blessed all the GODS in Ham DX heaven.....and Chuck too. !!! GOD BLESS and thank you Chuck. de Hans OH2EA.Peter Jelgersma, PA8AA, told me the story about his predicament with 3Y5X in 1989 / 90. Peter was in hospital undergoing surgery to replace his heartvalve with the first human heart valve, in Europe. This wrecked his chance of working 3Y5X. He said " If I don't get 3Y this time, I will not make it next time. " I made a sked with Peter and one evening while I was on 14195 khz, Chuck came up and heard PA8AA. Peter worked his final country to complete a full house. The next morning , my phone rang and it was an excited Peter. Dennis !! I was so excited I almost forgot to enter the contact in the log. Peter has phoned me several times and has made an offer of a very substantial amount of US$ towards the printing of the QSL cards which must be worthy of this great, one man operation. So, when you receive your QSL from 3Y0C, remember how much joy , satisfaction, dedication & sacrifice went into making it possible. Thank you Peter.Just spare a thought for Mac, WA4FFW, the QSL manager who will need plenty of H E L P with the hand written log. (40 thousand + contacts )Then there was Nob Yamashita, JE2QYZ, a school teacher in JAPAN who sent a beautiful colour picture, of himself surrounded by his scholars who are also members of an amateur radio club. They are proudly holding several certificates which had been awarded to them. The children were so interested in this Island which Nob was so desperately trying to contact, for weeks on end. They also learnt so much and were facinated by this lonely Island of BOUVET. Nob was alerted to try the long path over South America around 0600z on 14336, he made it and the whole class was ecstatic. The one who tried the hardest and appeared to be the most frustrated was Jussi, OH5CH.His e-mails arrived almost everyday trying to find the best way to find Chuck and then try and make a contact, through that terrible southern europe QRM. I was very pleased when Jussi sent me his last e-mail and said " I thank everybody. I got Chuck with only a few days left."Our webmaster, Deon, ZR1DQ, had been listening and kept daily reports about 3Y0C. As his ZR callsign precludes him from speaking to Chuck on HF, Deon decides to work Chuck on CW. With a day or two to go before 3Y0C goes QRT, Deon, with the assistance of Peter Breytenbach, ZS1ADP, took the key and rattled out 3Y0C de ZR1DQ. 3Y0C came back and they exchanged reports and....IT WAS A GOOD ONE . !!!!! This was the first for a ZR to BOUVET and Deon is in the records book. Chuck tried to please as many as possible Harry, KH6FKG, and myself were in trouble because Chuck said he does not break a promise. Both Harry and I and later Bill, VK4UA, also came under fire. The " promises " gave us grey hairs and thanks to e-mails we tried our best to get these squared away. Suggestions or "help information " was sent to the pilots to pass on to Chuck. This eventually helped in trying to get into every area. Some areas were just impossible because of location and also time differences. Where would you find a man working nonstop under such freezing weather and having to concentrate with exchange of callsigns and reports...........which went on everyday and night for 3 months ? Who gave his best shot ? B r r r r r r.Joe, N4OL, loyal to the end, was the mainstay of keeping things together. This operation had to be first on our priority list and we had to see it through to the end. This operation was continually on the go and stations did not dry up . There were more and more ......... they just kept coming. They needed 3Y0C for the last one, to make the Honour Roll etc etc etc. There were those who told the truth.Chuck was due to come off the Island on 2 March 2001. A week before the time he had everything packed except for the rig and a few dipoles and he was still giving it stick at the closing stages. THE LANCE was encountering bad weather and packice on the way to pick them up. When the ship arrived they could not get off the Island because of the heavy sea and wind. The university in the USA had been supplying weather predictions for some time and it looked as though the WX was going to get worse. Chuck still had some battery power , but, not much , so it was a question of conserving power. On 5 March at daybreak I was making what I thought was the last QSO before another lift -off and then silence.........this was it.About 6 hours later Chuck called to say they were still on BOUVET. He wanted me to e-mail Joe, N4OL,and GET THE VERY VERY VERY LATEST WX FORECAST FOR NOW NOW NOW. !!!!!!!!! Skip was catching us down here in Cape Town BUT thanks to Terry, ZS6TMG, Donovan, ZS6DGG, and Mal, ZS6MAL, they were in a position to put a LL call through to Joe, N4OL, in NORTH CAROLINA, who gathered the very latest expert forecasting and this was passed back to Chuck.At daybreak 6th March, Ken, KH6CQH and myself were on 14336khz. .It looked possible to lift off and with a YES, Chuck signed and we did not hear him again until the following day ......there he was N4BQW / MM. Asked about the LOG, Chuck said it was safe. On his way to Cape Town, Chuck came on one morning and we were greeted with ALOHA from Ken, in Hawaii. The ZS's weren't finished with Chuck yet. Can you go 6 meters ? or , How about trying to get into our local 2 meter repeaters, from the ship, some hundreds of miles out. For the first time in months Chuck is relaxing and enjoying the warmer weather and the calm sea.11th March , Sunday morning at 0745z N4BQW / MM gives a brief call. His handy batteries are flat but he tells us on our Tygerberg repeater that the pilot is coming aboard. It was a BIG day for CAPE TOWN and thousands of people streamed into the city. Chuck must have thought they were all hams but they were not. Chuck's arrival co-incided with the Cape Cycle Tour race. Close on 40 thousand cyclists were taking part. It is the BIGGEST bicycle race in the world. When I had told him about this race, some months ago, about entering, he was quite keen, but we were only kidding. Some of the locals were down at the dockside to see THE LANCE come into Table Bay. It was a perfect morning and the view of TABLE MOUNTAIN from the ship must have impressed everyone on board.In the evening of monday 12th March we held thumbs that Chuck would appear at the OAKDALE RADIO CLUB, where a large crowd was expected to welcome him.His personal "taxi driver ", Gerald Meneses, ZS1GRM, and Bernie Crockford, ZS1BW, went down to the ship on monday morning. In the afternoon Chuck gave a talk at the TWO OCEANS AQUARIUM, where Peter Sauls, ZR1FS, and his XYL, YVONNE, were responsible for organising this visit.Later in the afternoon Chuck attended a farewell party for the various SCIENTIFIC group's who had come back together on the ship. Later, Gerald, ZS1GRM/mobile, brought Chuck to the OAKDALE CLUB HALL where a crowd had begun gathering 2 hours earlier. Amongst the crowd were a number of fellow amateurs who had travelled thousands of miles to be present. They were, ZS6TMG, ZS6DGG, ZS6MAL, ZS6UC, and son, ZR6RDU, ZU1G, and Hartmut, DM5TI, who came out to South Africa, from GERMANY to shake Chuck by the hand. Hartmut had worked 3Y0C a few weeks ago. Also in the crowd but not making himself conspicuous was David Clark, KB6TAM / MM. David another American, is attempting a circumnavigation of the world, single handed, to become the oldest man to achieve this remarkable feat. Unfortunately his yacht sprang a leak and sank, 200 miles out from Cape Town.Chuck appeared at the entrance to our CLUB HALL and received a tumultuous ovation. He was welcomed by the MC for the evening, Dr Dave Reece, ZS1DFR. Several short opening speeches of welcome and presentations were made and then AN APPRECIATION AWARD was presented to Chuck on behalf of the VK, ZL and WESTERN PACIFIC RADIO AMATEURS and LISTENERS and then it was over to Chuck.. He expressed his appreciation and thanks to everyone in turn and then held the entire crowd in the palm of his hand for over 2 hours. It was then questions and answers time, which was most informative and interesting. The photographers had a field "day " and Lyle Engelbrecht , ZS1UOK, captured all on video. A surprise parcel, about 3 meters long was carried into the hall. This was something special and the story is worth telling.............While Chuck/ MM was on his way to Cape Town, I spoke to him on 20 m and Peter, ZS1ADP, joined us. Chuck had difficulty reading Peter who was using a dipole. . CHUCK was telling me that he was going to donate much of his equipment to deserving amateurs in Cape Town instead of taking it all the way back home. . As Peter was the one who supplied Chuck with the very first contact information to get the DXpedition off to a flying start, it was a spontaneous gesture that the Hex beam be given to Peter, ZS1ADP. When Peter heard that the Hexbeam was his, he said, THANK YOU !!! And THEN, suddenly disappeared off the air. A little while later he reappeared.What had happened was that the gift of " THAT " Hex beam , " THE " Hex beam , was such an unexpected present, that Peter was speechless at the other end & overcome with emotion. Who wouldn't be, after all , this is the most famous beam in the world, and it now belonged to Peter.While on the Island some flags were flown and The Stars and Stripes of America, was proudly flown on BOUVET for the very first time. This very respected flag was presented to me, neatly folded, to symbolise the true bond of friendship which had developed through AMATEUR RADIO, and also a piece of BOUVET rock ( 5kgs)Around midnight Chuck was still engulfed by curious and excited fellow amateurs who had just witnessed one of the most interesting and fascinating talks, ever heard. Some of it was out of this world and some down on the " ground " of BOUVET, supported by scores of digital pictures on a TV screen. On Wednesday 14th March a few of the support group and their XYL's gathered at a restaurant and had a very relaxed and informal get together, with Chuck as our honoured guest. Once again Chuck entertained us with some remarkable and most fascinating stories about his space experiences. It was the opinion of everyone present that we were indeed a priviliged group to be in the company of a very courageous and brilliant man. A parcel of souvenirs received from Dominik, DL5EBE on behalf of the German radio amateurs was presented to ChuckHe also addressed children at a local school, where he might have been facing the future South African Astronaut ? Chuck was also interviewed on a local Talk Radio show.Chuck spent days and nights packing equipment which had to be returned to various countries, prior to his departure for LONDON at 2050 z on 16th March. 2001. Matt Greyvensteyn , ZS1MJJ, travelled hundreds of kilometers with his truck to get Chuck's large consignment of packages safely to CAPE TOWN INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. We believe that Chuck was summoned to OSLO. We sincerely hope that the ARRL and the various DXpedition Associations and IOTA, will recognise this 3Y0C, ONE MAN DXpedition, as exceptional. Chuck gave his very best to his fellow amateurs..........WORLD WIDE, enduring the worst living conditions on this planet, to keep 3Y0C alive, for the longest period of time a human being has lived and survived on BOUVET.There were times when it looked as though 3Y0C was going to go QRT long before his stay was over. Harry, KH6FKG, the stalwart pilot in HAWAII, summed up the operator of 3Y0C as THE SPIDER MAN. We imagined Chuck climbing up and down the hillside, in the terrible WX conditions, repairing antennae every day and night to keep 3Y0C on the air. Chuck said " IT WAS FUN. !!!! " It was an experience, I personally, will never forget. Thanks to you Chuck and all you DXers. IT WAS THE GREATEST. HE IS THE GREATEST. Dennis Wells ZS1AU, 8 The Paddocks, Bowlers Avenue, Durbanville, SOUTH AFRICA 7550A man should keep his friendship in constant repair (Samuel Johnson (1755).
Chuck Brady on Bouvet, 3Y0C
Pilot StationDennis Wells ZS1AU, in Cape Town is appointed as the pilot station for the expedition. He operates a DX-class station with a 4 element 14 MHz monoband yagi on a 70 foot tower, Kenwood TS-440 and TS-430 tranceivers and a Collins 30L linear amplifier. Dennis is in daily contact with 3Y0C to pass traffic to and from the island.Visit the website of ZS1AU | <urn:uuid:b612019f-649f-465d-987f-20ee17e186ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dxcc.info/dxing/04/3y0c.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.982991 | 5,409 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Uniting small-scale fishers to achieve fair fisheries, healthy seas and vibrant communities.
We are the united voice of the Low Impact Fishers of Europe
Small-Scale fishers as part of the solution for sustainability The potential of small-scale fishers to contribute to environmental, social and economic sustainability in European coastal fisheries is an opportunity missed. If given the attention they deserve by policy makers, and given greater opportunities in European seas, the small-scale fishing fleet could be a game changer.
The Low Impact Fishers of Europe (LIFE) is a response to the overfished, stock depleted, and unfair situation in European seas.
Low impact fishers of Europe
There is strength in unity, and the strength of LIFE is that it can unite its members to develop common solutions to common problems, calling on the generational skills, talent and experience of thousands of fishers to contribute to the sustainable development of the sector.
LIFE works at EU level, at regional sea-basin level (Baltic and North Sea, North and South Atlantic and Mediterranean and Black Sea), and at the water-face by supporting our members on the ground. LIFE engages directly with EU institutions, regional fisheries management bodies (GFCM, ICCAT), Regional Advisory Committees and national governments.
LIFE aims to transform the system by supporting small-scale fishers to become actors of change in their own right – to strengthen their capabilities to participate in the management of their fishing areas, to secure fair access to fishery resources and to obtain a fair price for their catch.
Become a member
By joining LIFE you can become part of our community, sharing our common values, contributing to our goals, and cooperating to meet the challenges of ensuring a better future for the sector.
LIFE’s work depends on grants and on philanthropic donations from foundations and individuals.
There are many ways in which you too can support small-scale low impact fishing and help us to make a difference.
“We met LIFE platform in 2016 and appreciated how our partnership started. We came from the nature conservation sector and LIFE from the fisheries sector. We have quickly foreseen that a collaboration between our both organisations would drive a new direction for the conservation of marine life. With its membership and knowledge of the small-scale fisheries sector, LIFE platform now plays a meaningful role in the group of conservation NGOs which we support, as the organisation ensures that marine conservation projects are also addressing the challenges met by fishers.”
‘LIFE provides that vital link between the 80% of the EU fleet that is small scale and decision makers at every level. Providing representation, support and guidance to the most sustainable and socio economically important fleet segment becomes ever more important in the face of climate change, the industrial fishing lobby and political inertia.’
‘In this International Year of Small-scale Fisheries and Aquaculture, IYAFA 2022, LIFE’s role in making the voice of small-scale European fishermen heard becomes even more important. LIFE’s close relationships with the European institutions and links with grassroots fishers, supporting fishers in their work and in their fights are vital to ensuring their ability to continue to make a living and to be able to offer people healthy, quality products.’ | <urn:uuid:a15b0c38-59c6-4abf-871a-239c3864b7f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lifeplatform.eu/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941599 | 683 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Ideally, women who are planning to become pregnant should see a physician before conception; then they can learn about pregnancy risks and ways to reduce risks. As part of preconception care, primary care clinicians should advise all women of reproductive age to take a vitamin that contains folic acid 400 to 800 mcg (0.4 to 0. 8 mg) once a day. Folate reduces risk of neural tube defects. If women have had a fetus or infant with a neural tube defect, the recommended daily dose is 4000 mcg (4 mg). Taking folate before and after conception may also reduce the risk of other birth defects ( 1 General reference Ideally, women who are planning to become pregnant should see a physician before conception; then they can learn about pregnancy risks and ways to reduce risks. As part of preconception care... read more ).
Once pregnant, women require routine prenatal care to help safeguard their health and the health of the fetus. Also, evaluation is often required for symptoms and signs of illness. Common symptoms that are often pregnancy-related include
Specific obstetric disorders and nonobstetric disorders in pregnant woman are discussed elsewhere.
The initial routine prenatal visit should occur between 6 and 8 weeks gestation.
Follow-up visits should occur at
About 4-week intervals until 28 weeks
2-week intervals from 28 to 36 weeks
Weekly thereafter until delivery
Prenatal visits may be scheduled more frequently if risk of a poor pregnancy outcome is high or less frequently if risk is very low.
Prenatal care includes
Screening for disorders
Taking measures to reduce fetal and maternal risks
1. Shaw GM, O'Malley CD, Wasserman CR, et al: Maternal periconceptional use of multivitamins and reduced risk for conotruncal heart defects and limb deficiencies among offspring. Am J Med Genet 59:536–545, 1995. doi:10.1002/ajmg.1320590428
During the initial visit, clinicians should obtain a full medical history, including
Previous and current disorders
Drug use (therapeutic, social, and illicit)
Risk factors for complications of pregnancy (see table Pregnancy Risk Assessment Risk Factors for Complications During Pregnancy Risk factors for complications during pregnancy include Preexisting maternal disorders Physical and social characteristics (eg, age) Problems in previous pregnancies (eg, spontaneous abortions)... read more )
Obstetric history, with the outcome of all previous pregnancies, including maternal and fetal complications (eg, gestational diabetes, preeclampsia, congenital malformations, stillbirth)
Family history should include all chronic disorders in family members to identify possible hereditary disorders ( genetic evaluation Genetic Evaluation Genetic evaluation is part of routine prenatal care and is ideally done before conception. The extent of genetic evaluation a woman chooses is related to how the woman weighs factors such as... read more ).
During subsequent visits, queries focus on interim developments, particularly vaginal bleeding or fluid discharge, headache, changes in vision, edema of face or fingers, and changes in frequency or intensity of fetal movement.
Gravidity and parity
Gravidity is the number of confirmed pregnancies; a pregnant woman is a gravida. Parity is the number of deliveries after 20 weeks. Multifetal pregnancy is counted as one in terms of gravidity and parity. Abortus is the number of pregnancy losses (abortions) before 20 weeks regardless of cause (eg, spontaneous, therapeutic, or elective abortion; ectopic pregnancy). Sum of parity and abortus equals gravidity.
Parity is often recorded as 4 numbers:
Number of term deliveries (after 37 weeks)
Number of premature deliveries (> 20 and < 37 weeks)
Number of abortions
Number of living children
Thus, a woman who is pregnant and has had one term delivery, one set of twins born at 32 weeks, and 2 abortions is gravida 5, para 1-1-2-3.
A full general examination, including blood pressure (BP), height, and weight, is done first. Body mass index (BMI) should be calculated and recorded. BP and weight should be measured at each prenatal visit.
In the initial obstetric examination, speculum and bimanual pelvic examination is done for the following reasons:
To check for lesions or discharge
To note the color and consistency of the cervix
To obtain cervical samples for testing
Pelvic capacity can be estimated clinically by evaluating various measurements with the middle finger during bimanual examination. If the distance from the underside of the pubic symphysis to the sacral promontory is > 11.5 cm, the pelvic inlet is almost certainly adequate. Normally, distance between the ischial spines is ≥ 9 cm, length of the sacrospinous ligaments is 4 to ≥ 5 cm, and the subpubic arch is ≥ 90°.
During subsequent visits, BP and weight assessment is important. Obstetric examination focuses on uterine size, fundal height (in cm above the symphysis pubis), fetal heart rate and activity, and maternal diet, weight gain, and overall well-being. Speculum and bimanual examination is usually not needed unless vaginal discharge or bleeding, leakage of fluid, or pain is present.
Prenatal evaluation Diagnosis The earliest sign of pregnancy and the reason most pregnant women initially see a physician is missing a menstrual period. For sexually active women who are of reproductive age and have regular... read more involves urine tests and blood tests. Initial laboratory evaluation is thorough; some components are repeated during follow-up visits (see table Components of Routine Prenatal Evaluation).
If a woman has Rh-negative blood, she may be at risk of developing Rh(D) antibodies, and if the father has Rh-positive blood, the fetus may be at risk of developing erythroblastosis fetalis Erythroblastosis Fetalis Erythroblastosis fetalis is hemolytic anemia in the fetus (or neonate, as erythroblastosis neonatorum) caused by transplacental transmission of maternal antibodies to fetal red blood cells.... read more . Rh(D) antibody levels should be measured in pregnant women at the initial prenatal visit and again at about 26 to 28 weeks. At that time, women who have Rh-negative blood are given a prophylactic dose of Rh(D) immune globulin. Additional measures may be necessary to prevent development of maternal Rh antibodies.
Urine is also tested for protein. Proteinuria before 20 weeks gestation suggests kidney disease. Proteinuria after 20 weeks gestation may indicate preeclampsia Preeclampsia and Eclampsia Preeclampsia is new-onset or worsening of existing hypertension with proteinuria after 20 weeks gestation. Eclampsia is unexplained generalized seizures in patients with preeclampsia. Diagnosis... read more .
Generally, women are routinely screened for gestational diabetes between 24 and 28 weeks using a 50-g, 1-hour glucose tolerance test Diabetes . However, if women have significant risk factors for gestational diabetes, they are screened during the 1st trimester. These risk factors include
Gestational diabetes Diabetes Mellitus in Pregnancy Pregnancy aggravates preexisting type 1 (insulin-dependent) and type 2 (non–insulin-dependent) diabetes but does not appear to exacerbate diabetic retinopathy, nephropathy, or neuropathy ( 1)... read more or a macrosomic neonate (weight > 4500 g at birth) in a previous pregnancy
Unexplained fetal losses
A strong family history of diabetes in 1st-degree relatives
A history of persistent glucosuria
Body mass index (BMI) > 30 kg/m2
If the 1st-trimester test is normal, the 50-g test should repeated at 24 to 28 weeks, followed, if abnormal, by a 3-hour test. Abnormal results on both tests confirms the diagnosis of gestational diabetes.
Women at high risk of aneuploidy (eg, those > 35 years, those who have had a child with Down syndrome) should be offered screening with maternal serum cell-free DNA Diagnosis Trisomy 13 is caused by an extra chromosome 13 and causes abnormal forebrain, midface, and eye development; severe intellectual disability; heart defects; and small birth size. Diagnosis is... read more .
In some pregnant women, blood tests to screen for thyroid disorders (measurement of thyroid-stimulating hormone [TSH]) are done. These women may include those who
Come from an area where moderate to severe iodine insufficiency occurs
Have a family or personal history of thyroid disorders
Have type 1 diabetes
Have a history of infertility, preterm delivery, or miscarriage
Have had head or neck radiation therapy
Are morbidly obese (BMI > 40 kg/m2)
Are > 30 years
Most obstetricians recommend at least one ultrasound examination during each pregnancy, ideally between 16 and 20 weeks, when estimated delivery date (EDD) can still be confirmed fairly accurately and when placental location and fetal anatomy can be evaluated. Estimates of gestational age are based on measurements of fetal head circumference, biparietal diameter, abdominal circumference, and femur length. Measurement of fetal crown-rump length during the 1st trimester is particularly accurate in predicting EDD: to within about 5 days when measurements are made at < 12 weeks gestation and to within about 7 days at 12 to 15 weeks. Ultrasonography during the 3rd trimester is accurate for predicting EDD to within about 2 to 3 weeks.
Specific indications for ultrasonography Prenatal Ultrasonography Genetic evaluation is part of routine prenatal care and is ideally done before conception. The extent of genetic evaluation a woman chooses is related to how the woman weighs factors such as... read more include
Investigation of abnormalities during the 1st trimester (eg, indicated by abnormal results of noninvasive maternal screening tests)
Risk assessment for chromosomal abnormalities (eg, Down syndrome) including nuchal translucency measurement
Need for detailed assessment of fetal anatomy (usually at about 16 to 20 weeks), possibly including fetal echocardiography at 20 weeks if risk of congenital heart defects is high (eg, in women who have type 1 diabetes or have had a child with a congenital heart defect)
Detection of multifetal pregnancy, hydatidiform mole, polyhydramnios, placenta previa, or ectopic pregnancy
Determination of placental location, fetal position and size, and size of the uterus in relation to given gestational dates (too small or too large)
Ultrasonography is also used for needle guidance during chorionic villus sampling Chorionic Villus Sampling Genetic evaluation is part of routine prenatal care and is ideally done before conception. The extent of genetic evaluation a woman chooses is related to how the woman weighs factors such as... read more , amniocentesis Amniocentesis Genetic evaluation is part of routine prenatal care and is ideally done before conception. The extent of genetic evaluation a woman chooses is related to how the woman weighs factors such as... read more , and fetal transfusion. High-resolution ultrasonography includes techniques that maximize sensitivity for detecting fetal malformations.
If ultrasonography is needed during the 1st trimester (eg, to evaluate pain, bleeding, or viability of pregnancy), use of an endovaginal transducer maximizes diagnostic accuracy; evidence of an intrauterine pregnancy (gestational sac or fetal pole) can be seen as early as 4 to 5 weeks and is seen at 7 to 8 weeks in > 95% of cases. With real-time ultrasonography, fetal movements and heart motion can be directly observed as early as 5 to 6 weeks.
Conventional x-rays can induce spontaneous abortion or congenital malformations, particularly during early pregnancy. Risk is remote (up to about 1/million) with each x-ray of an extremity or of the neck, head, or chest if the uterus is shielded. Risk is higher with abdominal, pelvic, and lower back x-rays. Thus, for all women of childbearing age, an imaging test with less ionizing radiation (eg, ultrasonography) should be substituted when possible, or if x-rays are needed, the uterus should be shielded (because pregnancy is possible).
Medically necessary x-rays or other imaging should not be postponed because of pregnancy. However, elective x-rays are postponed until after pregnancy.
Problems identified during evaluation are managed.
Women are counseled about exercise and diet and advised to follow the Institute of Medicine guidelines for weight gain, which are based on prepregnancy body mass index (BMI—see table Guidelines for Weight Gain During Pregnancy Guidelines for Weight Gain During Pregnancy* ). Nutritional supplements are prescribed.
What to avoid, what to expect, and when to obtain further evaluation are explained. Couples are encouraged to attend childbirth classes.
Diet and supplements
To provide nutrition for the fetus, most women require about 250 kcal extra daily; most calories should come from protein. If maternal weight gain is excessive (> 1.4 kg/month during the early months) or inadequate (< 0.9 kg/month), diet must be modified further. Weight-loss dieting during pregnancy is not recommended, even for morbidly obese women.
Most pregnant women need a daily oral iron supplement of ferrous sulfate 300 mg or ferrous gluconate 450 mg, which may be better tolerated. Woman with anemia should take the supplements twice a day.
All women should be given oral prenatal vitamins that contain folate 400 mcg (0.4 mg), taken once a day; folate reduces risk of neural tube defects. For women who have had a fetus or infant with a neural tube defect, the recommended daily dose is 4000 mcg (4 mg).
Exercise during pregnancy has minimal risks and has demonstrated benefits for most pregnant women, including maintenance or improvement of physical fitness, control of gestational weight gain, reduction in low back pain, and possibly a reduction in risk of developing gestational diabetes or preeclampsia. Moderate exercise is not a direct cause of any adverse pregnancy outcome; however, pregnant women may be at greater risk of injuries to joints, falling, and abdominal trauma. Abdominal trauma can result in abruptio placentae, which can lead to fetal morbidity or death.
Most experts agree that exercise during pregnancy is safe and can improve pregnancy outcomes (eg, reduced excessive gestational weight gain, gestational diabetes [ 1 Treatment reference Ideally, women who are planning to become pregnant should see a physician before conception; then they can learn about pregnancy risks and ways to reduce risks. As part of preconception care... read more ]).
Sexual intercourse can be continued throughout pregnancy unless vaginal bleeding, pain, leakage of amniotic fluid, or uterine contractions occur.
The safest time to travel during pregnancy is between 14 and 28 weeks, but there is no absolute contraindication to travel at any time during pregnancy. Pregnant women should wear seat belts regardless of gestational age and type of vehicle.
Travel on airplanes is safe until 36 weeks gestation. The primary reason for this restriction is the risk of labor and delivery in an unfamiliar environment.
During any kind of travel, pregnant women should stretch and straighten their legs and ankles periodically to prevent venous stasis and the possibility of thrombosis. For example, on long flights, they should walk or stretch every 2 to 3 hours. In some cases, the clinician may recommend thromboprophylaxis for prolonged travel.
Vaccines Vaccines During Pregnancy Drugs are used in over half of all pregnancies, and prevalence of use is increasing. The most commonly used drugs include antiemetics, antacids, antihistamines, analgesics, antimicrobials, diuretics... read more for measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella should not be used during pregnancy.
The hepatitis B vaccine can be safely used if indicated, and the influenza vaccine is strongly recommended for women who are pregnant or postpartum during influenza season. Booster immunization for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis (Tdap) between 27 and 36 weeks gestation or postpartum is recommended, even if women have been fully vaccinated.
Although the COVID 19 vaccine COVID-19 vaccination COVID-19 is an acute, sometimes severe, respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. COVID-19 was first reported in late 2019 in Wuhan, China and has since spread extensively... read more has not been specifically evaluated in pregnant women, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends that COVID-19 vaccines not be withheld from pregnant women who meet the criteria for vaccination based on the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended priority groups. Various COVID 19 vaccines have received authorization for emergency use from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the World Health Organization (WHO) as listed on its Emergency Use Listing. (See also the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: COVID-19 vaccination.)
Because pregnant women with Rh-negative blood are at risk of developing Rh(D) antibodies, they are given Rh(D) immune globulin 300 mcg IM in any of the following situations:
After any significant vaginal bleeding or other sign of placental hemorrhage or separation (abruptio placentae)
After a spontaneous or therapeutic abortion
After amniocentesis or chorionic villus sampling
Prophylactically at 28 weeks
If the neonate has Rh(D)-positive blood, after delivery
Modifiable risk factors
Pregnant women should not use alcohol and tobacco and should avoid exposure to secondhand smoke.
They should also avoid the following:
Exposure to chemicals or paint fumes
Direct handling of cat litter (due to risk of toxoplasmosis)
Prolonged temperature elevation (eg, in a hot tub or sauna)
Exposure to people with active viral infections (eg, rubella, parvovirus infection [fifth disease], varicella)
Women with substance abuse problems should be monitored by a specialist in high-risk pregnancy Overview of High-Risk Pregnancy In a high-risk (at-risk) pregnancy, the mother, fetus, or neonate is at increased risk of morbidity or mortality before, during, or after delivery. In 2017, overall maternal mortality rate in... read more . Screening for domestic violence History and depression Diagnosis Depressive disorders are characterized by sadness severe enough or persistent enough to interfere with function and often by decreased interest or pleasure in activities. Exact cause is unknown... read more should be done.
Drugs and vitamins that are not medically indicated should be discouraged (see Drugs in Pregnancy Drugs in Pregnancy Drugs are used in over half of all pregnancies, and prevalence of use is increasing. The most commonly used drugs include antiemetics, antacids, antihistamines, analgesics, antimicrobials, diuretics... read more ).
Symptoms requiring evaluation
Women should be advised to seek evaluation for unusual headaches, visual disturbances, pelvic pain or cramping, vaginal bleeding, rupture of membranes, extreme swelling of the hands or face, diminished urine volume, any prolonged illness or infection, or persistent symptoms of labor.
Multiparous women with a history of rapid labor should notify the physician at the first symptom of labor.
1. Syed H, Slayman T, Thoma KD: ACOG [American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists] Committee Opinion No. 804: Physical activity and exercise during pregnancy and the postpartum period. 2020. PMID: 33481513. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0000000000004266
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Forest fires have broken out once again due to heatwaves in southern Europe. Hundreds of firefighters are on duty. Many of them are already injured. The heat wave continues.
France and Portugal have again seen several forest fires. According to the fire department, four emergency services were injured, one of them seriously, in a fire in southeast French Cordon on Sunday. The firefighter was taken to hospital with burns. In Portugal, around 400 firefighters were involved in a blaze north of Lisbon.
Around 350 hectares of land have been destroyed by a fire in south-eastern France. “We hope to have the fire under control by tomorrow,” fire department spokesman William Borelli said Sunday evening. South of Nîmes, the A9 motorway leading to Spain was partially closed due to heavy smoke. According to the Vinci Motorway Company, the route was again passable on Sunday evening.
The heat wave continues
According to the authorities, another fire, which spread over an area of about 35 hectares, was brought under control near Marseille in the evening. France faces another heat wave next week. The south of the country will record temperatures of 35 to 39 degrees on Monday.
A heat wave of up to 40 degrees is expected to peak on Wednesday in the southwest. In mid-July, two large wildfires on the Atlantic coast in southwestern France destroyed tens of thousands of hectares of land.
The fire brigade was also on duty in Portugal due to several forest fires. A large fire broke out on Sunday near the small town of Mafra, north of Lisbon, according to the civil protection authority. There, 400 firemen fought and extinguished the fire. A nursing home with 30 residents has been evacuated as a precaution, Civil Protection Commission spokesman Paulo Santos told Renaissance Radio.
According to Mafras Mayor Helder Souza Silva, the fire is largely under control. A total of 300 hectares were destroyed. According to media reports, eight forest fires are still active across Portugal.
1000 firemen are on duty
More than a thousand firefighters were deployed to tackle other fires in the north and central parts of the country. Temperatures have risen sharply in these areas over the weekend. A warning has been issued for parts of northern and central Portugal due to temperatures exceeding 40 degrees.
According to Portuguese media reports, the fire near the town of Urém, about 130 kilometers northeast of Lisbon, was brought under control in the morning.
According to the Portuguese Meteorological Center, the heat will last until at least Tuesday. According to preliminary data from the nature conservation organization ICNF, 58,000 hectares of land have already burned in Portugal since the beginning of the year.
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A few weeks ago, I started studying for my doctorate, and the first course was called, “Christian Formation of Children and Adolescents.” One of the topics of discussion was whether children should attend the worship service, sitting with their parents, or if the church should provide age segmented programming for them. This topic obviously interests me because I have three elementary aged children.
I think both have their pros and cons. I’m not arguing either way. I just want to put this out here as I think through the topic.
Pros of Children in Worship:
- Participate in the overall life of the church.
- They get to see elements of worship such as baptism and the Lord’s Supper.
- They get to watch their parents worship God.
- The congregation learns to respect children and not see them as a distraction.
Cons of Children in Worship:
- Children may not learn as much in worship as in age-targeted classes. Often times, they are merely told to sit there and not make too much noise.
- They do not get to interact with other children.
- They could learn that worshipping God must be done in a certain manner according to how their church tradition teaches them.
Again, I don’t think I have an answer. I know what my preference is, but I can see both sides of the argument.
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Structural, optical, and mechanical properties of Al2O3/TiO2 nanolaminates fabricated by atomic layer deposition (ALD) were investigated. We performed transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray reflectivity (XRR), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), ellipsometry, UV–vis spectroscopy, photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy, and nanointendation to characterize the Al2O3/TiO2 nanolaminates. The main structural, optical, and mechanical parameters of Al2O3/TiO2 nanolaminates (thickness, grain size, refractive index, extinction coefficient, band gap, hardness, and Young’s module) were calculated. It was established that with decreasing of the layer thickness, the value of band gap energy increases due to the quantum size effect related to the reduction of the nanograins size. On the other hand, the decreasing of nanograins size leads to generation of interface defects and, as a consequence, to the increasing of Urbach energy. It was also shown that there is an interdiffusion layer at the Al2O3–TiO2 interface, which plays a crucial role in explaining mechanical and optical properties of Al2O3/TiO2 nanolaminates. The correlation between structural, optical, and mechanical parameters was discussed. | <urn:uuid:027d7118-17b6-4e27-9e81-63023c07cbdd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cnbm.amu.edu.pl/en/publication/study-structural-mechanical-and-optical-properties-al2o3-tio2-nanolaminates-prepared | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.885401 | 300 | 1.96875 | 2 |
The BDS movement, launched in 2005 as a non-violent campaign to press Israel to obey international law and end its illegal occupation of Palestinian territory, has gathered momentum in recent years.
BDS supporters object to Israel’s continued building of illegal settlements on Palestinian land.
They also accuse Israeli forces of killing and mistreating Palestinians under the pretext of maintaining security. They say neither US universities nor businesses should have any links to their Israeli counterparts.
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley told attendees that the BDS mission was misguided.
“How tragic is it, that of all countries in the world to condemn for human rights violations, these voices choose to single out Israel? We should boycott North Korea. We should sanction Iran. We should divest from Syria, not Israel,” she said.
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, watched the summit and told Al Jazeera the anti-BDS campaign would not succeed.
“Why do you bring your supporters and followers to the UN to abuse the facilities and to threaten injecting this issue on the agenda of the UN … If you want to go and combat BDS, go to campuses and universities and conduct your business there,” Mansour said.
Hundreds of university students were invited to the summit at the UN to learn how to counter BDS’s campaign.
“The anti-BDS summit was a call to arms in a very visible location,” Al Jazeera’s Rosiland Jordan, reporting from UN headquarters in New York, said. “But there is no way to predict whether it will ultimately succeed.”
Israel also announced on Wednesday it was cutting its already reduced required annual payment to the UN by $2m to protest against resolutions taken against it in various UN forums.
The General Assembly requires all 193 UN member states to pay a percentage of its regular budget, based on their GDP. According to the UN Secretariat, Israel is expected to pay about $11m this year, or 0.43 percent of the regular budget.
Israel’s refusal to pay $2m of its dues will put the country in arrears, but it won’t immediately lose its vote.
Under Article 19 of the UN Charter, any country in arrears of its dues payments in an amount that equals or exceeds the contributions due for two preceding years can lose its vote in the General Assembly.
Nahshon said the money it was holding back would be used for development projects in countries that support Israel in international organisations.
A UN report this month accused Israel of practising apartheid in the occupied West Bank. That report was withdrawn and Rima Khalaf, the senior UN official with responsibility for it, resigned in protest.
“A few weeks ago … together with our American friends, we made clear that Rima Khalaf, an anti-Semite, a promoter of BDS, will not be tolerated in the halls of the UN,” Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, told attendees at the BDS summit.
Khalaf has dismissed previous Israeli allegations of anti-Semitism and has stood by the report.
Separately, David Friedman was sworn in as the US Ambassador to Israel on Wednesday.
Friedman has no diplomatic experience but is a longtime friend of US President Donald Trump and worked for him as an lawyer. Friedman is a supporter of the expansion of Israeli settlements on land belonging to Palestinians.
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31 Jan New industrial strategy welcomed with open arms
In May 2017, the IET and Engineering Professors’ Council will be hosting a high-profile global conference to discuss new approaches to engineering education. This is in response to the ever-increasing engineering skills gap and couldn’t come at a more important time.
The UK has a huge role to play in overcoming this challenge, and the conference in May is an opportunity for the UK to share its opinions and expertise. It’s also an excellent stage to discuss the key elements of the Government’s new industrial strategy.
The strategy includes a range of potential actions designed to provide more young people with the skills they need to thrive in engineering. Importantly, it will also provide the funding required. For example, there is a pledge of £170m to create new institutes of technology which will focus on teaching skills that are appropriate for the industries in their location. There is also a new Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund – part of £4.7bn in funding for R&D announced in November – that will help support technologies where Britain has a strong position in research and development.
The new strategy sits on 10 pillars, which are identified as:
[ul type=”circle” indent=”true” separator=”|”]Investing in science, research and innovation|Developing skills|Upgrading infrastructure|Supporting businesses to start and grow|Improving procurement|Encouraging trade and inward investment policy|Delivering affordable energy and clean growth|Cultivating world leading sectors|Driving growth across the whole country|Creating the right institutions to bring together sectors and places[/ul]
These 10 pillars represent an important first step in creating a long-term industrial strategy that enables the UK – and the world – to meet the growing demand for engineers. At present, however, they are just top level pillars. The global conference in May has the potential to inspire the lower level ideas, method and activities that can turn this strategy into a fruitful ongoing programme. It is this nitty gritty detail that will be the difference between success and failure.
We’re looking forward to seeing the outcome of the conference and working together with the relevant groups and authorities to ensure the engineering sector gets the candidates it needs and young people get the education they deserve. | <urn:uuid:3ae1cc1c-e527-4606-81d4-24af8c664f4f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dawson-shanahan.co.uk/industrial-strategy-welcomed-open-arms/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933919 | 481 | 1.507813 | 2 |
AERONAUTICAL research has until recently been conducted by men trained in other and varied branches of science and engineering. Mathematicians and physicists, civil and mechanical engineers, have all taken part from time to time, and their work has naturally borne the imprint of their several outlooks. Structural research, which has hitherto been largely overshadowed by aerodynamic and engine work, has suffered particularly from a continual changing of personalities and a confusion of interest. As a result it has in many respects failed either to adopt the traditions of the general body of structural engineers or to build up a fully ordered tradition of its own. And so we may sometimes see on the one hand, for example, the anomaly of an approach to the local buckling problems of monocoque construction as though Stephenson had never built and experimented upon his Britannia Tubular Bridge; and, on the other hand, a growth of stressing methods inadequately linked by generally accepted basic principles.
Pugsley, A.G. (1939), "Structural Research in Aeronautics: A Discussion of some General Principles and Basic Ideas for Those Working in This Field", Aircraft Engineering and Aerospace Technology, Vol. 11 No. 6, pp. 225-227. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb030494
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- Step 1: Seek counseling to explore why you are hurting yourself. Dialectical behavioral therapy – an intense individual as well as group course involving talk therapy and journaling – has proven especially effective in treating self-injurers.
- Step 2: See a doctor who can determine whether you might benefit from medication. Anti-depressants are sometimes effective in treating self-injurers.
- TIP: Cutting is common in people with borderline personality disorder.
- Step 3: If you're one of the approximately 50 percent of self-injurers who have been sexually or physically abused and the situation is ongoing, report it to your parents or the authorities.
- Step 4: Realize that self-injury is an attempt to self-soothe. Cope with your stress levels by taking up a relaxation technique like yoga or meditation to calm yourself.
- Step 5: Find substitutes to use when the urge to cut strikes, like snapping a rubber band against your skin, rubbing your arms and legs with an ice cube, or doodling on them.
- Step 6: Find healthy physical outlets for your anger, like going for a run or putting on loud music and dancing.
- Step 7: For more information, contact Self Abuse Finally Ends at "selfinjury.com":http://selfinjury.com or 800-DONT-CUT.
- FACT: Most self-injurers are girls and women between the ages of 11 and 26.
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- A psychiatrist
- Relaxation techniques
- Substitutes for self-injury
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Do you find yourself sitting at home thinking, what am I going to do after high school? Are you unsure of majors or what to study, what university to attend, or even a career path? A gap year (a year between high school and college where you take a break from school) might be the right decision for you. While many might picture a gap year as the time for relaxation and aimless wanderlust, it can be used as a period of internal exploration, volunteering, uncovering future possibilities, and so much more.
Of course, there are pros and cons to consider with any big decision, and gap years are no exception. To shed some light, we've detailed a few factors that can potentially come when taking a break from school.
Pro: save money for university
College life can be expensive, so spending time working and saving money to assist with future living costs while at university is an excellent use of your gap year. When you're on your own for the first time, removing anything that adds pressure on your shoulders is a great idea, and finances are among them!
Con: risk losing your academic momentum
The best-case scenario from taking a break from school is returning to your studies with vigor and motivation. The worst-case scenario is losing academic momentum completely. Before deciding on a gap year, take time to reflect on your personality and consider if taking such a long break will work for you.
Pro: submit a more impressive application
For example, are you interested in art history, architecture, theater programs, etc.? Spend your gap year exploring things like architectural cultures, various theater programs, volunteering at museums, etc., and use your college application essay to emphasize how your experience influenced you.
Con: you might feel like you're falling behind
If you decide on a gap year, your friends might be established in their university life by the time you arrive. So from a personal standpoint, you can feel off-pace. From a professional perspective, taking a year out can add an extended period to an already lengthy educational process, resulting in missing out on an early start in your career.
Pro: gain professional experience before heading to university
If you decide to make your gap year about work experience, either through a job, an internship, or a volunteer program, you can gain meaningful professional exposure. An added benefit is you'll make connections and understand the profession's daily tasks. You may even get a better idea of what careers you want or do not want to pursue.
Con: missed opportunities with friends
You could miss the excitement and bonding of starting university together, trips during spring break, and graduation. On the flip side, there are possibilities to meet new people during your gap year as well.
Pro: make a difference
If you design your gap year around community service or volunteering, this provides you with transferable skills, empathy, and a sense of understanding a world outside of your own. These insights are priceless when you decide to study in a host country with a culture that might differ from your life experiences thus far.
Con: requires extra planning
With so much flexibility and various ways to personalize your gap year, you'll have to consider the amount of planning this will take. It may be a break from university decisions, but it will not be a break from making many other choices. After your gap year, you don't want to look back and realize that the most productive thing you did was binge-watch Netflix. So if a gap year is the route you're headed, get ready to plan the next 12 months!
Pro: build life skills
You probably filled your time in high school with routine, but a gap year will likely come with more flexibility and responsibility — the increase of both forces you to mature quickly. During this time, you may find yourself setting and maintaining a budget, grocery shopping, doing laundry, creating a schedule for your responsibilities, etc. This will help you adjust more quickly when you're away at university without the support of friends or family nearby.
Con: people might not understand your decision
You may find that not everyone will support your gap year decision. Parents might worry that you'll never get to college, and friends might fear they'll lose touch. A great way to combat your opposition is to prove that you've done your research and you're not making this choice lightly.
Like most major life decisions, there are advantages and disadvantages, and just because something works for one person doesn't guarantee it will work for you. Think carefully, do your research, and go into it with your eyes wide open. This shouldn't be a decision you jump into because you're tired of studying for tests or indecisive about your future. Think long and hard about what you're going to do so that when you look back, you've used your time productively. | <urn:uuid:8d21c557-4652-4dba-8943-309581e075a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.webifairs.com/post/pros-and-cons-of-gap-years-is-it-worth-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.955644 | 985 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Recycling clay can be such a nightmare. No-one likes doing it. Popular methods include gradually building a huge stack of bags of hard clay against the shed until they are covered in slime, bugs and budleas and then moving house. Or the dreaded dust-bin filled to the brim with clay scraps and left for years, then you end up being the sucker who gets clay caked on top of their head as they lean in to scoop out the endless goo, until they reach the bottom that has weirdly gone rock hard dreaming all the while of the fantasy pug-mill that never needs cleaning out as opposed to real ones that always do.
Serious Potters using the Wheel need to treat their clays in certain ways. Everyone else, like Hand-builders, Sculptors, schools and community studios can use this less harrowing method.
– 1/2 fill clay-bags with scrap clay, no matter how wet/dry (pref small pieces), close firmly w/ twisty, cover w/ water( so bags fill up ) in Bin outside. Leave ’till lumps have broken down. A clay plenty of grog (gritty bits) may only take a few days. In Japan they let their clay soak for a generation but here a week should do it.
– Have separate bin for white/ red clays.(I don’t, TBH)
– Lift bags out and stack facing open end down to drain. Frost is your ally here. Avoid raw ground so worms are less likely to crawl in the bags, die(tragic) and stink (also upsetting)…..I once found a Newt alive in a wet bag that had not been closed, true story.
Drag drained (firmer-feeling) bag off pile to ground and step back/close eyes while spiders run away. Pick/hose off Slugs etc
– Stack bags in warm ( only so it’s not cold on your poor hands), unavoidable spot and turn small quantities at a time onto plaster blocks* (or wood up on bricks), turn regularly through the day(s), return to bag and close tightly w/ a twisty. If it gets too hard return to step 1.
! Whole bag gone rock-hard; remove from bag, dry completely, drop on hard floor to break into bits, recycle.
! Whole bag too hard to use; remove from bag, knock holes all over w/ screw-driver and hammer (oddly satisfying), return to bag, recycle.
* make your own plaster blocks; line a cardboard box w/ new garbage bag + pour in Plaster of Paris. Leave top set. Trim off edges w/ a sur-form blade (looks like a small cheese-grater). If chips of plaster get in your clay they will turn to lime in the firing and cause ‘lime-spots’; they absorb atmospheric water, expand and spit off a chip of ceramic, invariably from the most noticeable place like the end of a nose, sometimes months after a firing, usually after you have delivered a piece to a Gallery you are desperately trying to impress. | <urn:uuid:59d508a0-44ad-40c5-9927-e3a3878d3a74> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ospreystudios.org/tag/using-clay-in-schools/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936172 | 649 | 2.265625 | 2 |
This study examines the specificity of the contribution of the right hemisphere to the processing of metaphoric meaning of words. Ten right- and 10 left-hemisphere-damaged subjects, and 20 normal control subjects were submitted to: (1) a word-triad task where they had to associate alternative metaphoric and non-metaphoric words to a target word, and to (2) a word-dyad task where they had to decide whether or not there was a semantic relationship between two words. The two tasks aimed at differentiating between the subjects' preference for a given semantic meaning versus a genuine semantic deficit for a particular meaning. Results revealed that both right- and left-hemisphere-damaged groups presented a genuine semantic deficit for the processing of metaphoric meaning. The absence of a double dissociation between the two brain-damaged groups does not support the hypothesis of a specific contribution of the right-hemisphere to the processing of metaphoric meaning of words. | <urn:uuid:78ae16e2-bae4-4ca3-8cac-9bc65c1af5a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14585291/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955224 | 197 | 2.46875 | 2 |
Let’s Go! partnered with 1,630 sites reaching over 235,000 children and 180,000 adults in 2020-2021.
Let’s Go! uses evidence-based strategies to promote policies and environmental changes that make it easier for people to live healthy, active lives. We track strategy implementation through annual surveys with our enrolled sites, and monitor obesity rates and behavior data through the Maine Integrated Youth Health Survey, a state survey given to school children every other year. In addition, we monitor awareness and knowledge of the program through an annual family member survey.
2020-2021 Site Impact Survey
Overall, 72% of enrolled sites responded to the survey in 2021. Let’s Go! partner sites create healthy environments for children and youth by implementing our strategies which are evidence-based and align with national recommendations to increase healthy eating and active living.
Percentage of community sites implementing each strategy:
ECE = Early Care and Education
Percentage of health care sites implementing each strategy:
Implementing 5-2-1-0 in a Pandemic
Implementation in 2021 looked different with new restrictions due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Some sites had to shift their focus or find new, innovative ways to continue to support the 5-2-1-0 messages and Let’s Go! strategies. Changing how sites implemented strategies was a challenge, but they rose to the occasion. Due to the pandemic, our surveys included additional questions about how sites continued to integrate 5-2-1-0 and Let’s Go! strategies in their school or program.
Survey Question: Please share examples of strategies staff at your program are using to encourage daily physical activity.
Top three physical activities mentioned by early care and education programs were:
"Children have learned to be healthier and how to keep friends healthy by following 5210 principles. This has been a helpful tool to have during the pandemic, as it’s relatable to young children.”
- Early Care and Education Program Director, Let’s Go! York (Saco)
"We get outside every day, rarely does the weather keep us in. We also incorporate plenty of gross motor activities inside whether through games, exercises, yoga, etc. or with mini trampolines, balls that you sit on and can bounce around on, tunnels, boats, etc. Gross motor activities happen multiple times a day in many different ways.”
- Early Care and Education Program Director, Let’s Go! Cumberland (Scarborough)
Survey Question: Please share examples of alternatives to screen time that staff have supported during at-home schooling or homework time.
Top three alternatives to screen time mentioned by schools were:
“Let's Go program gave me something to lean on and gather support from in order to have 'healthy' conversations with students and staff.”
- School Nurse, Let's Go! Southern Kennebec (Gardiner)
“Hands on experiments, using paperback books rather than online reading, writing on paper rather than Chromebooks, walking, playing outside, playing in the snow, board games, card games.”
- School Classroom Teacher, Let’s Go! Oxford (Oxford)
Survey Question: What silver linings have you observed with any Let's Go! related work?
Top silver linings mentioned by out-of-school programs were:
HEAL = Healthy Eating and Active Living
“Our parents were interested in learning more about nutrition and home activities for students, so having the resources provided by Let's Go! to send home was a huge asset! The partnership has also increased our staff awareness and incorporation of healthy nutrition and activities that they could incorporate in their own lives. The partnership also influenced our decision to change our weekly afternoon activity rotation to ensure health and wellness lessons were taught weekly, as well as encouraging all of our brain breaks to incorporate exercise.”
- Out-of-School Program Director, Let’s Go! Cumberland (South Portland)
The way that students received school meals during the 2020-2021 school year was different due to the pandemic. As a result, school nutrition was most challenged by additional workload, limited variety and capacity limits.
“Having all meals free for all children has increased our participation. We feel we are now reaching students that were not taking advantage of school lunch.”
- School Kitchen Manager, Let’s Go! Aroostook (Easton)
Thanks to Our 2021 Funders
We are appreciative of those who provide partnership and support to Let’s Go! This support enables us to continue our focus on community engagement to support environmental and policy change efforts facilitating healthy eating and active living throughout Maine and Carroll County, New Hampshire. Be sure to check out our 2021-2025 Strategic Plan. | <urn:uuid:d053d3af-2140-4ed8-a5c8-5a866e9d7ee1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mainehealth.org/lets-go/impact | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957866 | 1,011 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Melanie Hester might see her fifth graders have been confused.
A historical past lesson she was educating about Native People requested the scholars to consider how they may honor the cultural historical past of the land the place the US now stands. “The place are the Native People now?” her college students wished to know.
Prior to now, the Iowa Metropolis trainer would inform her class extra about why Indian reservations have been established, focus on the time period genocide, and speak about what Native tradition seems to be like right now. This time, she held again. On her thoughts was a brand new Iowa regulation that restricts how colleges can educate about subjects like systemic racism and white privilege.
“That’s the place I’m like, nicely, I’m not likely certain find out how to reply that,” Hester stated. “I form of caught to the lesson and in the event that they didn’t perceive, I simply saved transferring ahead — which isn’t greatest follow.”
Throughout the nation, new legal guidelines focusing on crucial race principle are influencing the small however pivotal selections educators like Hester make daily: find out how to reply a scholar’s query, what articles to learn as a category, find out how to put together for a lesson.
Loads of academics say they haven’t modified their method, and there’s little proof that these legal guidelines have led to wholesale curriculum overhauls. However in a number of states with new laws, academics say the anomaly of the legal guidelines, plus new scrutiny from dad and mom and directors, are collectively chipping away at discussions of racism and inequality.
“Plenty of that chilling gained’t occur as overtly as cancelled programs,” stated Luke Amphlett, a highschool social research trainer in San Antonio. “The true chilling impact is one thing that’s a lot more durable to measure as a result of it’s these each day selections made by educators within the classroom.”
Eight states now have legal guidelines proscribing how colleges can educate about racism and sexism, although they differ broadly. All have been handed within the wake of the protests for racial justice that outlined 2020 — a 12 months that additionally noticed a variety of establishments acknowledge the methods they’ve been formed by racism.
Backlash arrived within the months that adopted. Critics contend that many colleges have been overstating the significance of race and racism in classes, distorting American historical past, requiring unproven or divisive coaching periods, and making white college students really feel uncomfortable. “Vital race principle” grew to become their catch-all time period, and the brand new legal guidelines goal the idea in numerous methods.
Iowa’s regulation says academics can’t describe the U.S. or the state as “systemically racist or sexist,” although colleges can educate about racist or sexist insurance policies. In Texas, academics who focus on a “broadly debated and at present controversial problem” should achieve this “objectively and in a way free from political bias.” And in Tennessee, the regulation bans 14 ideas, together with the concept people ought to really feel “discomfort, guilt, or anguish” due to their race. The stakes are excessive: Tennessee academics who cross the road might lose their educating licenses, and college programs that look the opposite approach danger shedding some state funding.
Precisely find out how to keep away from operating afoul of the legal guidelines stays fuzzy to many educators, although, partially as a result of they’ve been supplied with little to no info from states about how the legal guidelines apply to particular educating conditions.
Tennessee officers have issued no written steerage about what’s and isn’t allowed in school past the regulation’s record of banned ideas. Iowa officers did problem steerage, but it surely left educators with sufficient questions that the state’s largest academics union has hosted a number of packed trainings to fill within the gaps.
In Texas, emails obtained by Chalkbeat present that the state is offering little in response to questions from educators, at the same time as districts face native challenges to curriculum supplies. (The Texas Training Company didn’t reply to requests for remark.)
That uncertainty has left academics and others who work in colleges to freelance in a fraught local weather.
Joanna Estrada, a library assistant in Donna, Texas confronted a split-second choice lately whereas tutoring three elementary faculty college students. They have been studying a guide concerning the girls’s suffrage motion, and the 2 ladies have been perturbed to study that girls weren’t at all times allowed to vote. The boy within the group, who’s Hispanic, remarked that he would have been allowed to vote. Estrada, although, identified that at one time the vote was solely granted to white males. The scholars wished to know extra particulars.
“That’s the place I used to be like — I didn’t wish to go an excessive amount of into it,” she stated.
Then they turned to the subsequent story, which was about inserting Harriet Tubman on the $20 invoice. The scholars wished to know extra about slavery and the Underground Railroad.
“I used to be hesitant to say one thing,” Estrada stated. “I didn’t wish to get in bother.”
Speaking about slavery just isn’t prohibited by the Texas regulation, and its architects have insisted that the brand new legal guidelines wouldn’t restrict such discussions. “I defy anybody to search out one phrase of this invoice that claims we don’t educate the ugly elements of our historical past,” Texas Sen. Bryan Hughes stated in August.
However the invoice does ban the educating that “slavery and racism are something apart from deviations from, betrayals of, or failures to dwell as much as the genuine founding ideas of the US.” That, alongside the obscure requirement for objectivity, has steered academics away from frank discussions of the previous in ways in which lawmakers claimed wouldn’t occur.
“The payments’ obscure and sweeping language implies that they are going to be utilized broadly and arbitrarily,” warned a latest report from PEN America, a free speech advocacy group, and will forged a “chilling impact over how educators and academic establishments discharge their main obligations.”
Estrada’s expertise just isn’t remoted. In Des Moines, Iowa, Stacy Schmidt lately discovered herself attempting to keep away from the phrases “systemic racism” or “systemic sexism” whereas educating a lesson concerning the Gilded Age. When college students requested why the financiers of the time interval have been all white males, Schmidt redirected a query again to them — “Let’s speak about that, why do you suppose?”
Different occasions, Schmidt has described a regulation’s discriminatory impact, or opted for phrases like “structural inequality.” However there’s something misplaced with these workarounds.
“If we don’t name the factor what it’s, we lose the influence of having the ability to straight pinpoint — after which consequently, problem — the buildings that reinforce systemic racism and systemic sexism,” Schmidt stated.
In some instances, the passage of those legal guidelines has inspired dad and mom to complain to high school boards about conversations occurring of their little one’s classroom. Faculty libraries are seeing an increase in guide challenges this 12 months, particularly round texts written by authors of colour or that take care of themes of race and identification.
This tense local weather has left some academics of colour feeling particularly susceptible. That’s as a result of they regularly get tapped to steer conversations about race and racism, and so they typically check with their very own lived experiences to assist college students make connections.
Hester, for instance, fielded questions on her race from college students in Iowa Metropolis every time she wore her lengthy hair down. Hester would flip that right into a teachable second by telling them about her background — she has Black and white dad and mom and identifies as Black — and the way the one-drop rule was used to categorise enslaved individuals. Now, she worries that form of dialogue might make her a goal for mum or dad complaints.
“These pure conversations that usually happen in my class stuffed with various college students, they’re very surface-level now,” she stated.
In some instances, the bounds on academics have put college students of colour on the spot.
In Iowa, Ames Excessive Faculty junior Theo Muhammad has a trainer who calls on him to clarify ideas when dialogue turns to racial inequity, or elaborate when she appears like she will be able to’t go into extra element.
“I’ve talked about white privilege,” stated Muhammad, who’s a pacesetter in the highschool’s College students Advocating for Civil Rights in Training membership. “She’ll not say it, after which I can say it.”
College students say that may really feel like a burden, particularly when the requests are directed at college students of colour.
“It places a lot extra strain on college students to speak about it,” stated Kenaiya James, an Ames Excessive senior who can also be a pacesetter within the membership. The hesitation she’s seen from her academics this 12 months has prompted her to vary up her plans for the Black historical past month occasion she’s coordinating in February. She’s going to rely extra on college students, as an alternative. “However then that additionally places extra strain on college students having to coach their academics,” James stated.
Nonetheless, various different educators have determined to not make any adjustments in response to the brand new legal guidelines. Skikila Smith, who teaches literature at a highschool in Knoxville, Tennessee, says she will be able to’t educate the story of racial injustice in “To Kill a Mockingbird” with out addressing her college students’ questions on George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and different Black People killed by police or vigilantes lately.
“If a scholar asks, I’m not going to draw back from answering,” stated Smith, who’s Black, like most of her college students. “I’m not going to lie after they begin making connections and asking why individuals don’t consider a Black particular person over the lies of somebody who doesn’t appear to be them. My college students usually are not dumb.”
This summer time, Smith wrote Gov. Invoice Lee to ask how she’s alleged to comply with out abdicating her duty to her college students. Smith stated she by no means heard again, nor has she obtained a listing of prohibited subjects from her district. (After publication, a spokesperson for the governor stated his workplace listens to constituents and the state schooling division is in contact with colleges and educators.)
For now, Smith has determined to show her college students the identical approach she did earlier than the regulation was enacted.
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Ford’s handsome little Model A was one of the most successful and popular automobiles of all time. It had the right look, was the perfect size, and priced so the majority of American could afford one.
Although the Model A was only in production for a little more than four short years starting in late 1927 and ending in 1932, nearly five million had been built. What’s more amazing is the amount of different body styles it was available in, including two- and four-door sedans, coupes, phaetons, roadsters and cabriolets, most of which could be had in either standard or deluxe trim. Then there were the trucks. | <urn:uuid:7ee95ced-26e4-45ec-8b74-76dc75c25566> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://automotiveamerican.com/2022/06/10/matchless-model-aas-ford-built-model-aa-trucks-in-a-variety-of-configurations-richard-lentinello-hemmings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.986004 | 140 | 1.960938 | 2 |
Accounting is the usage of a system of terms, formulation, and other file-conserving devices that allows companies to calculate, monitor, and evaluate their financial development, or recession in some instances. In the event that they occur to gather they majority of their receivables and do not pay their excellent payments, it looks like they’re much extra worthwhile than they are surely. Within the following period, once they finally pay off their expense account, it should look like the company took a huge loss, especially if they don’t accumulate sufficient cash to steadiness out what they have paid. Based on these examples it is very simple to see how the money basis can distort a profit and loss statement and could simply confuse investors or other stakeholders.
The primary objective of any business is to earn maximum possible income with minimal expense. In view of this, a commercial organization always tries to develop its enterprise, enhance its sales and reduce operating expenses. The progress made on this regard, is all the time indicated only by the correctly maintained financial information.
It has been mentioned that the one factor that is constant is change, and in case you’ve been in enterprise for any size of time, you know how true this is. If there’s one factor that sets firms that have been profitable over the lengthy haul-suppose IBM, General Electric, Wal-Mart or Microsoft, for instance-other than all the others, it’s their positive response to change. With a purpose to shave costs and provide better worth to prospects, restaurant managers have been relying heavily on their accounting software. These managers with an excellent system in place have been able to make higher decisions because they’d a good deal with on which products had been worthwhile.
In Peachtree advanced possibility and responsible for to keep correct data perfectly. Bookkeeping Accounting Software can simply produce reporting and introduce enter and output knowledge. An Accountant can synchronize all knowledge with setup this bookkeeping software with out and difficulty. It’s favorable among bookkeepers.
Banking across the clock is no longer a remote chance. Liberalization brought a number of adjustments to Indian service business. Most likely Indian banking industry learnt a tremendous lesson. Pre-liberalization, all we did at a financial institution was deposit and withdraw money. Service requirements had been pathetic, but all we might do was grin and bear it. Submit-liberalization, the tables have turned. It is a consumer oriented market there.
After all, entrusting your money to a dependable and trusted financial institution is one of the most trusted ways to keep your money secure. Of course to do that, it’s a must to open a savings account first earlier than you are allowed to deposit your money with a bank.
The core features of accounting are bookkeeping and financial reporting to managers and traders. An agreement between the Financial Accounting Requirements Board (“FASB”) and the Worldwide Accounting Standards Board (“IASB”), referred to as the Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) pledges to enhance both US GAAP and IFRSin 11 main topical areas corresponding to revenue recognition, leasing, consolidation, financial instruments, debt and equity. The consequences of these accounting changes reach far past simply financial reporting.
Stock Management – This module is relatively self-explanatory – it allows customers to manage the stock of merchandise by means of the software. It’s usually built-in with sales and purchase order processing modules and is able to generating reviews about stock provide, gross sales, customers, accounts, stock value, and so forth.
Everyone seems to have one! Equally essential is the magnetic stripe on the back and it tells quite a narrative. For simplicity, let’s just say the stripe accommodates the account quantity, cardholder title, country code, expiration date and other validating information that is distinctive to the credit card issuer and the banking business.
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Most of the fires in Brazil were likely set by farmers preparing the land for next year’s planting. This is common farming method said the scientists from the University of Maryland. The fires are burning on agricultural land where the forest had already been cleared. Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research calculated that there were 35 percent more fires so far this year than in the average of the last eight years. There were far fewer fires than the average in 2003-2010.
Three are satellite grid of maps that show the month-by-month pattern of fires across the Amazon rain forest in Brazil each year since 2001. There is an increase in fires every August to October when farmers begin planting soybean and corn.
SOURCES- NASA, NY Times, Earth Observatory NASA Written by Broan Wang, Nextbigfuture.com
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The standing armbar is one of the more challenging and tricky Brazilian jiu-jitsu and MMA submissions to learn. Furthermore, everything must be completed smoothly and fast to be a practical move.
Aside from that, the armbar is one of the most fundamental techniques. It’s used extensively by many fighters to win matches at the highest levels of jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts competitions worldwide.
Since the armbar is one of the primary submissions taught to beginning grapplers and martial artists alike, it is a popular choice for beginners.
So, you’re probably wondering!
How to Do an Armbar from Standing?
In the video embedded below, you’ll learn how to make the standing armbar submission in detail.
Aside from that, the setting up of the armbar for the standing position begins during a Gi or No-Gi match and a Judo or MMA UFC fight.
Thus you can also perform an armbar from a standing position if you follow the instructions below.
- While you are in the standing position, make sure you manage the hands fighting and distance.
- Make confident that you have the necessary grips. One arm should be wrapped around your opponent’s head, and the other hand should be wrapped around his arm.
- Use of the action-reaction principle to elicit a violent response from an explosive opponent. For example, in this case, you will snap down your opponent’s neck to elicit a response.
- Bring one foot on the opponent’s hips which will give you good leverage. Meanwhile, jump with the free foot over the controlled arm. Make sure that these moves are made while the opponent attempts to regain his or her balance or posture.
- Maintain a close physical distance with your opponent by making close chest contact while keeping the opponent’s wrist under control.
- Finish the standing armbar by driving your hips up to hyper-extend your opponent’s elbow and locking in the position.
Wait! Listed below are some more fascinating facts about the standing armbar and other arm bar variations. Then, we’ll discuss setups, effectiveness, and further details.
What Does Armbar Mean?
The armbar is one of the most fundamental armlock submissions that you should try. Any BJJ or MMA practitioner would love to perform this fashionable move again and again since his or her early days on the mats.
Aside from that, it’s referred to as the cross armlock in the Judo martial art (also spelled cross armlock in other languages).
How Does Armbar Work?
An armbar is an elbow hyperextension that places a significant amount of pressure on the elbow joints. In any other case, precise control of the opponent’s arm is required to apply this technique correctly.
Nonetheless, if this submission is performed incorrectly, it has the potential to cause injury to the opponent’s elbow.
When Should You Opt for the Armbar?
In any situation in which your opponent extends his or her arm, the armbar can be applied. It would be best if you attempted to control your opponent’s wrist/arm as a first step toward obtaining an armbar whenever this occurs.
In the meantime, you must first raise your hips to apply pressure to the opponent’s elbow joint. And with that, the armbar is complete; congratulations.
Are There Other Armbar Variations Available Other Than the Standing Armbar?
Various armbar variations can be performed from multiple positions in BJJ martial arts.
Here are some fantastic armbars techniques that you should give a shot in your subsequent jiu-jitsu training sessions.
Closed Guard Armbar
The armbar from the guard position is one of the most fundamental and well-known submissions in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.
It’s one of the essential submissions you should learn from your early days on the jiu-jitsu mat.
The armbar from mount is one of the most fundamental and frequently used techniques when it comes to grappling.
It is one of the most effective techniques available out there that every practitioner should be aware of.
In addition, the mounted armbar is a high-percentage attack in both gi and no-gi jiu-jitsu, and it is commonly used in mixed martial arts competitions (MMA).
Side Control Armbar
In jiu-jitsu, one of the most fundamental and well-known submissions is the armbar obtained from side control. It is considered to be one of the most effective armbar variations.
You must learn and master this technique from the beginning of your time on the mats as a student.
Rubber Guard Armbar
Many grapplers believe that the rubber guard is one of the most technically advanced positions available to them.
As a result, many of them have encountered numerous difficulties while playing or defending this guard type.
So, the rubber guard armbar is another impressive armlock submission that you should try out for yourself!
It is one of the most dangerous submissions in both BJJ grappling and mixed martial arts.
The helicopter armbar is yet another excellent armbar variation that you should give a shot at.
It’s a popular submission introduced to the public by Gracie Barra’s black belt Braulio Estima.
If you’re interested! There are several other variations of the armbar submission that you can learn about in this fantastic article: 10 Effective Armbar Variations You Should Be Aware Of.
Are There Any Other Submissions That Can Be Performed from Standing Position Despite the Armbar?
There’s no doubt about it. In Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and mixed martial arts, you can catch a variety of submissions from a standing position. For example, the standing wrist lock, kimura, armlocks, and flying triangle are all effective techniques from a standing position.
However, in a variety of situations, these fashionable moves can be hazardous. As a result, when performing these techniques, make sure that you and your partner remain safe.
The standing armbar, along with the other armbars, is one of the most effective BJJ and MMA submissions that you should learn and practice.
However, to achieve this goal, you must first learn the fundamentals and guidelines of this beautiful combat sport.
Furthermore, the standing armbar has demonstrated its efficacy and effectiveness in a variety of situations.
As a result, many fighters have resorted to it to submit many opponents in many tough competitions. So, you too can give it a shot; there’s no reason not to!
You should, in the meantime, diversify your standing game by learning other techniques and submissions such as takedowns, wristlocks, armlocks, and other similar techniques.
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Contributed Articles: “Modern Debugging: The Art of Finding a Needle in a Haystack”
Communications of the ACM, November 2018, Vol. 61 No. 11, Pages 124-134
By Diomidis Spinellis
The computing pioneer Maurice Wilkes famously described his 1949 encounter with debugging like this: “As soon as we started programming, […] we found to our surprise that it wasn’t as easy to get programs right as we had thought it would be. […] Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant […] when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.”
Seven decades later, modern computers are approximately one million times faster and also have one million times more memory than Wilkes’s Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, or EDSAC, an early stored-program computer using mercury delay lines. However, in terms of bugs and debugging not much has changed. As developers, we still regularly make mistakes in our programs and spend a large part of our development effort trying to fix them.
Moreover, nowadays, failures can occur nondeterministically in nanosecond time spans within computer systems consisting of thousands of processors spanning the entire planet running software code where size is measured in millions of lines. Failures can also be frighteningly expensive, costing human lives, bringing down entire industries, and destroying valuable property.22 Thankfully, debugging technology has advanced over the years, allowing software developers to pinpoint and fix faults in ever more complex systems.
On the Shoulders of Colleagues
The productivity boost I get as a developer by using the Web is such that I now rarely write code when I lack Internet access. In debugging, the most useful sources of help are Web search, specialized Q&A sites, and source-code repositories. Keep in mind that the terms of a programmer’s work contract might prohibit some of these help options.
Tuning the Software-Development Process
Some elements of a team’s software-development process can be instrumental in preventing and pinpointing bugs. Those I find particularly effective include implementing unit tests, adopting static and dynamic analysis, and setting up continuous integration to tie all these aspects of software development together. Strictly speaking, these techniques aim for bug detection rather than debugging or preventing bugs before they occur, rather than the location of a failure’s root cause. However, in many difficult cases (such as nondeterministic failures and memory corruption), a programmer can apply them as an aid for locating a specific bug. Even if an organization’s software development process does not follow these guidelines, they can be adopted progressively as the programmer hunts bugs.
Making the Software Easier to Debug
Some simple software design and programming practices can make software easier to debug, by providing or configuring debugging functionality, logging and receiving debug data, and using high(er)-level languages. Again, a programmer can selectively adopt these practices during challenging bug-hunting expeditions.
Insights from Data Analytics
Data is the lifeblood of debugging. The more data that is associated with a failure, the easier it is to find the corresponding fault. Fortunately, nowadays, practically limitless secondary storage, ample main memory, fast processors, and broadband end-to-end network connections make it easy to collect and process large volumes of debugging data. The data can come from the development process (such as from revision-control systems and integrated development environments, or IDEs), as well as from program profiling. The data can be analyzed with specialized tools, an editor, command-line tools, or small scripts.
Getting More from a Debugger
Given the propensity of software to attract and generate bugs, it is hardly surprising that the capabilities of debuggers are constantly evolving.
Debugging Distributed Systems
Modern computing rarely involves an isolated process running on a system that matches a programmer’s particular development environment. In many cases, the programmer is dealing with tens to thousands of processes, often distributed around the world and with diverse hardware ranging from resource-constrained Internet of Things (IoT) devices, to smartphones, to experimental and specialized platforms. While these systems are the fuel powering the modern economy, they also present programmers with special challenges. According to the insightful analysis by Ivan Beschastnikh and colleagues at the University of British Columbia, these are heterogeneity, concurrency, distributing state, and partial failures.4 Moreover, following my own experience, add the likely occurrence of events that would be very rare on an isolated machine, the difficulty of correlating logs across several hosts,2 and replicating failures in the programmer’s development environment. | <urn:uuid:e9d9d164-c023-4356-82e8-506936b2fcf0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://internet-salmagundi.com/2019/05/modern-debugging-the-art-of-finding-a-needle-in-a-haystack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932367 | 979 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Practice Pool Safety This Summer
Memorial Day weekend is almost here, marking the unofficial start of summer. For many water lovers, however, it also symbolizes the beginning of swimming season. There’s no better place to be on a hot sunny day than sitting by the pool, unless of course you’re in the pool. But whether you’re practicing your strokes or just soaking up the sun, the fun begins when property pool safety procedures are followed. Try these tips to keep you and yours protected while at the pool.
Pool Safety Install a Fence
Pool safety begins with a sturdy and solid pool fence. Without this barrier, children, pets, and wildlife can fall into a pool and potentially drown. To be truly effective, pool fences should be at least four feet high and have a self-closing and self-latching fence gate, with latches placed high enough to be out of a child’s reach. Many materials can be employed in pool fencing, with some homeowners even opting for a thick hedge barrier. While landscaping elements offer a beautiful and natural setting, it also invites insects closer to the pool, so Excel Fencing & Decking recommends more traditional solutions. Homeowners looking for a classic design may employ aluminum pool fencing, which is noted for its durability and anti-rusting properties. Many individuals prefer to surround a pool with a privacy fence, making vinyl a strong choice. Vinyl fences are water-resistant, long-lasting, easily customizable, and come with limited upkeep.
Children love playing in pools, but they don’t always fully understand or embrace pool safety. Before using the pool, kids should have swimming lessons and be trained in basic safety procedures. Never let them swim or play unattended, and be aware that just having an adult in the vicinity isn’t enough. Put away the smartphone and actually look after them. It’s the best way to keep them safe, and besides, watching little loved ones have fun is more rewarding than any other task you might be doing.
Prepare for Emergencies
It is said an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so make sure your pool area is weighted down with safety equipment. Every pool should be stocked with a life ring, shepherd’s crook, life vests, and first aid kit. Use a rope and float line to separate shallow and deep ends, and use an alarm system to notify you of any unauthorized access to the pool area or entry into the water. Additionally, have family members go through CPR training, and have CPR instructions and emergency contact numbers posted by the pool.
Lock It Up
Apply a cover when the pool is not in use, and make sure it is securely fastened so children and animals can’t get in. The fence gate should be latched at all times, and pool cleaners and other chemicals also need to be locked up where only adults can access them. Keep pool toys and inflatables out of the pool when not being used to prevent children from reaching for them and falling into the water.
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Although humans and animals are different in many ways, some advances in human medicine are also very useful for veterinary patients. One of these advances, diagnostic ultrasound, has proven to be a powerful tool in veterinary medicine. As a practice, one of our goals is to offer state-of-the-art medicine and diagnostic testing. Ultrasound serves as a means of providing a higher level of quality care to our patients at North Deering Veterinary Hospital.
Ultrasonography is a type of diagnostic technique that uses ultrasound waves to produce an imaging study. This means that when we perform ultrasonography, we can see internal images of the patient’s body. Unlike some other imaging studies, like x-rays, ultrasonography does not use radiation. Instead, ultrasonography uses high-frequency sound (ultrasound) waves to create a picture of what is inside your pet’s body. Ultrasonography is a completely non-invasive, painless way to diagnose and evaluate many common diseases.
The machine generates ultrasound waves. The machine is connected to a small probe that is held gently against your pet’s skin. The probe sends out painless ultrasound waves. They bounce off of structures (for example, organs) in your pet’s body. The waves then return to a sensor inside the machine. The ultrasound equipment collects these reflected “echoes” and uses them to generate images that are viewable on a screen. Ultrasound waves can generate excellent images of abdominal organs, including the liver, spleen, gallbladder, and kidneys. It is useful for assessing fetal health. We can monitor pregnancy in breeding animals. It can also help us diagnose and stage (determine the severity of) some forms of cancer.
Because ultrasound images are produced in real-time, this technology can be of use to evaluate the heart as it beats. This can help us detect abnormalities in the motion of heart valves, blood flow through the heart, and contractions of the heart muscle. It can also be used to assess the heart for defects. We strive to provide our patients with the highest quality medicine and diagnostic testing. We are pleased to offer ultrasound as one of our diagnostic capabilities.
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On Thursday, February 28th, 2019, the governments of Norway and Jordan convened a technical meeting at the United Nations on Advancing a Holistic and Gendered Approach to Return, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration from Violent Extremism. ICAN’s Founder and Executive Director, Sanam Naraghi Anderlini moderated a conversation among members of the Women’s Alliance for Security Leadership (WASL): Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh from Trinidad and Tobago, Mira Kusumarini from Indonesia, and Halima Mohamed from Kenya, along with UNDP’s Nika Saeedi.
This event marked the publication of the new report Invisible Women: Gendered Dimensions of Return, Rehabilitation, and Reintegration, jointly produced by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the International Civil Society Action Network (ICAN). Ms. Naraghi Anderlini highlighted the relevance of gender to violent extremist movements whose ideology is based on the subservience of women. Such groups co-opt women, understanding the importance of their contributions, and coerce women. It is precisely because women are targeted that they become first responders who provide a vision of society which is locally rooted, authentic yet opposed to extremist movements. The report, divided into sector specific analysis, case studies of good practice, and practical guidance, captures the complexity of women’s experiences and what they mean for return and reintegration.
Mira Kusumarini, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Civil Society Against Violent Extremism (C-SAVE), seized the opportunity to work with women and children—who are 75% of returnees in Indonesia—local communities and different ministries to develop standard operating procedures for rehabilitation and reintegration processes. “It’s important to have a balanced perspective” and work with communities who often discriminate against those returning from violent extremist groups.
Sabrina Mowlah-Baksh, a women’s rights activist in Trinidad and Tobago, discussed the strong correlation between gang activity and violent extremism. She advocates for a strong gender analysis because violent extremism affects men, women, boys, and girls differently and “women know who the recruiters are” but are fearful to discuss their concerns.
Ms. Kusumarini and Ms. Mowlah-Baksh both expressed the challenge of their work as connectors between communities. “We don’t want to be identified with anyone because one side thinks you’re sympathetic to the other,” said Ms. Mowlah-Baksh, who also described how the government of Trinidad & Tobago is more focused now on aiding refugees from Venezuela as opposed to returnees. She continues to build trust with families on a local level but acknowledged that the roles of the state and community are crucial. Ms. Kusumarini described the risk of recruitment and of being caught by the police for those providing support to radical groups. She advocated for peacebuilders like herself to be protected in this work with strong policy frameworks and security and safety protocol. She also recommends that governments develop a robust policy framework to ensure collaboration among ministries and civil society.
Halima Mohamed, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Coast Education Centre (COEC), who attended the meeting, offers psychosocial and livelihood support to women who have lost their husbands and sons to Al Shabaab. She concurred that while women sharing their experiences helps to prevent recruitment, the work is risky for peacebuilders who must protect themselves from their governments and extremist groups.
Nika Saeedi from UNDP also spoke on the panel, advocating for the accountability of member states and all of the United Nations to fully fund, monitor, and implement the recommendations of the report.
Ms. Mowlah-Baksh concluded that “coming from the civil society perspective, we are only seen as informers; people only want to consult with us. We do national, regional, and international work but our work is invisible.” Therefore, hearing the voices of women and adopting an intersectional approach is critical. Recognizing the civil society work of active citizens and peacebuilders enables them to not only prevent violent extremism but promote an alternative, peaceful vision.
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The Karma of Aries is found in the lessons of independence, drive, individuality and power. Aries has to remember how to let go of the need to be right all the time, and use their independent, driven nature to assert their strong will with humility.
One of a series of 12 videos that will describe the lessons and the Karma involved in the fire sign of Aries. Karma is defined as an esoteric principle of what goes out energetically, always makes it's way back around, and each astrological sign has its own unique teachings in the cycle of life. | <urn:uuid:0ec28b64-df82-4e18-becd-2c9618621bff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.yogagirl.com/practice/video/the-karma-of-aries | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964523 | 127 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Sustainability in the Operating room
Ophthalmic Instrument Cleaning & Sterilization (OICS) Task Force
The OICS Task Force is responsible for developing ophthalmology-specific guidelines for surgical instrumentation processing and sterilization, and focuses on reducing unnecessary waste in ophthalmic surgery.
Reducing Unnecessary Waste in Ophthalmic Surgery
The Ophthalmic Instrument Cleaning & Sterilization (OICS) Task Force comprises of representatives from ASCRS, AAO, AGS, and OOSS, and previously developed ophthalmology-specific guidelines for surgical instrument processing and sterilization. Co-chaired by David F. Chang, MD, and Cathleen M. McCabe, MD, the task force is also focused on reducing unnecessary waste in ophthalmic surgery. Key guidelines and publications from the OICS Task Force can be found below!
OICS TF Survey of Cataract Surgeons’ and Nurses’ Attitudes toward Operating Room Waste
This first ever ophthalmology survey on OR waste was conducted in 2020 and was completed by more than 1300 members of ASCRS, AAO, and OOSS members. Besides a strong consensus regarding the need to reduce needless waste, the majority were willing to consider reusing multiple surgical supplies and pharmaceuticals.
OICS TF Position Statement on Reducing Topical Drug Waste in Ophthalmic Surgery
With the endorsement of ASCRS, AAO, AGS, and OOSS, the OICS TF released a position statement in 2022 with three recommendations for reducing topical drug waste with ophthalmic surgery.
OICS TF Guidelines for the Cleaning and Sterilization of Intraocular Surgical Instruments
In 2018 the OICS TF published specialty-specific guidelines for the sterile processing of ophthalmic surgical instruments. This document makes evidence-based recommendations regarding issues that may be unique to the cleaning and sterilization of intraocular instrumentation. These ophthalmology-specific recommendations may help our eye surgical facilities to better understand, adopt, or defend certain well-established sterile processing practices.
Study of Short - Cycle Sterilization for Sequential Same - Day Use
This study, sponsored and funded by the OICS Task Force, supports the safety of short-cycle sterilization of unwrapped instruments for sequential same-day cataract surgeries. A full wrapped cycle with complete drying time is still recommended for instruments that are stored overnight; however, this is not necessary for instruments to be immediately used on a sequential case.
Comparing Ultrastructural Changes from Single vs Multiple Use of Phaco Tips
This in vitro SEM study supports the safety of reusing phaco tips, including those labeled “single use.”
TASS and DLK Risk from Autoclave Reservoir Biofilms
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COVID-19 surge may be flattening but not yet falling in Ventura County, official says
Ventura County's alarming COVID-19 surge is showing signs of hitting a plateau after climbing for much of July, the county's public health director said Friday.
But a case rate that appears to have flattened after increasing 20-fold since mid-June is not yet definitively going downhill, Rigoberto Vargas said.
"It's one thing to flatten out. The other thing is to decrease it," Vargas said. "I would be more confident if I would see a downward trend.”
The surge driven by the delta variant has targeted unvaccinated people though "breakthrough" cases involving the fully vaccinated have risen, too. COVID-19 hospitalizations have climbed to five-month highs in the county with ICU numbers also ascending.
The surge pushed the county's COVID cases from an average of 1.1 case a day per 100,000 people in June to a rate of more than 20 infections a day. The numbers have hovered at that level, ticking up slightly to 20.6 cases per 100,000 people in data released Friday.
The rate is calculated on a seven-day delay. Real-time numbers have flattened since July 28, Vargas said. The positivity rate has also leveled off with nearly 7% of the people tested for the coronavirus coming out positive.
"Good news, bad news," Vargas said. "At least the increasing trend has seemed to stabilize. Better news would be if we saw an apparent decrease."
Some numbers are still climbing. Public health officials reported 289 new cases on Friday compared to 166 a day earlier. Vargas said the daily data isn't always a good measure of trends because it includes older cases that are just now reported.
The flattening trend has emerged elsewhere in California and the nation. It could indicate the variant is beginning to run out of people to infect, said Dr. Davey Smith, infectious disease specialist and virologist at UC San Diego.
The variant could be impacted by the state's relatively high vaccination levels and the natural antibodies created in people who have survived infection.
"It can go one of two ways," Smith said of the flattened curve. "It will go down, which is most likely what will happen, or it will find a new pocket and spur another wave."
Smith said infection levels could also stay on a plateau and not fall for a "long time."
At least 123 COVID-19 patients in Ventura County were receiving hospital care on Friday, up from 92 a week earlier. At least 30 people need intensive care treatment.
Statistical projections posted on a state website suggest hospitalizations in the county could rise alarmingly high and more than double in the next month. The calculations are derived from multiple forecasting systems.
Vargas said that if the flattened curve leads to declining case numbers, hospitalizations could start to slow about 10 days later. He said vaccinations make him believe care needs won't reach the levels of a surge that peaked in January and nearly overwhelmed hospitals.
More than 66% of Ventura county residents 12 and older are vaccinated. Vargas said higher rates would slow down transmission and push down the surge.
“I feel optimistic about the future because we’ve flattened it," he said. "I would feel more optimistic if we had more people getting vaccinated and wearing masks indoors.”
Dr. Jim Hornstein, a Ventura family practice physicians, pushes hard for vaccinations too. Like other doctors, he desperately wants the surge to be flattened and sent downhill across the world.
But he doesn't see that happening, at least not until more people get their shots.
"There are huge reservoirs of unvaccinated people," he said. "Until we reach true herd immunity, everything we’re going to see is just temporary blips."
Tom Kisken covers health care and other news for the Ventura County Star. Reach him at firstname.lastname@example.org or 805-437-0255.
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Last weekend’s Iso Lele 50th anniversary celebration in Bresso brought out a good number of Isos (translation) to the company’s former headquarters, only a handful of them Leles. Iso enthusiasts hope the celebration will help persuade Bresso to finally build the long-planned Iso museum there.
* The New York Times this week took a look at what UAW strikes have netted auto workers over the years.
For a century, labor unions have used halted production as a means of securing the rights and benefits that they believe their workers are entitled to. Early U.A.W.-backed walkouts led to the unionization of workers at G.M. in 1937 and Ford in 1941, shaping the way factory floors operated and working conditions were established.
* There’s not much Hudson left in this 1951 Wasp now that it sits on a tube frame with a Viper V-10 under the hood. As Engine Swap Depot wrote this week:
Kenny Welch and his company Kenny’s Rod Shop in Boise, Idaho, built this 1951 Hudson Wasp for Mike Dennison. The hot rod rides on a custom tube chassis with an Art Morrison front suspension, custom four-link rear suspension, RideTech shocks, and Wilwood disc brakes. Under the hood sits a 8.3 L Viper V10 with custom intake and headers mated to a six-speed manual transmission and Ford 9-inch rear end.
* The salesman who sold Captain Stanley Tucker one of the first Ford Mustangs to be released (if inadvertently) to the public hasn’t seen the car since he sold it. That changed this week when he traveled to The Henry Ford, where the car lives today.
Capt. Tucker’s role in the story is well known, but Harry Phillips’ part was largely forgotten until the Newfoundland and Labrador Mustang Club made him guest of honor at a fundraiser for a children’s charity.
His granddaughter Stephanie Mealey, who’s an academic in St. John’s, knew nothing about the story. When she learned it, she began a social media campaign, “Send Harry to the Henry.” Phillips, Mealey and Mealey’s mother, Heather, will get a VIP tour of the museum and Rouge plant where Ford built Mustang Serial No. 1
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Let me just say this: I take being your friend very seriously. And because of that fact, I take the things that I say to you very seriously. So I think this talk is very important. I want to talk with you today about the person you marry.
I wish that when you were reading this, I were across the table from you with a cup of coffee listening to your heart and your story before I got to share what I need to say today with you...but for now, this note from me to you will have to suffice.
When it comes to the person you marry, I need you to know this: it's not going to matter what their body looks like, what their job title is, or how they dress. All that is going to matt is this: character, kindness, and friendship.
You want to marry someone who is KIND.
A simple practice that I started doing when I was dating and considering who I would want to marry, was this. I would take this verse and see if it applies to them:
"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres." (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)
The way that I would measure this is by taking out the word "love" and replacing it with that person's name to see if it still rung true. Like this:
"_____ is patient, _____ is kind. _____ does not envy, _____ does not boast, _____ is not proud. ______ does not dishonor others, ______ is not self-seeking, ______ is not easily angered, ______ keeps no record of wrongs. _____ does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. _____ always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres."
This essentially will show you whether or not they love selflessly and truly.
Are they your best friend?
You are going to be with the person you marry CONSTANTLY. You are going to share everything with them. When it comes to being with someone 24/7, you want to make sure that that person is your friend as well as your partner.
When you're with someone who is your best friend, you feel safe to feel. You can talk to them, no matter what you're going through, and they will accept you. They should be the first person you want to call when you're faced with disappointment. You should be able to turn to them with whatever you're going through, and feel comfortable to share everything with them.
When you're with someone who is your best friend, life is filled with joy. It's not always easy, but joy comes to the little moments. You want to be with someone who makes you laugh until your stomach hurts, who makes trips to the grocery store enjoyable, and someone who you have FUN being with.
When you're with your best friend, you don't have to pretend to be anyone your not. You are fully known and fully love. They know everything about you, all of your quirks, faults, and struggles--and at the end of the day they still look at you and choose you. Just for who you are. Nothing is more powerful than an acceptance like that.
Everything else will fade...except for character.
Marry someone with character.
There is a difference between personality and character. Anyone can "sweep you off your feet." Anyone can buy you roses, remember your birthday, and "charm" you.
What you need in a lifelong partner isn't charm, it's integrity.
You want to be with someone who has nobel character. Who does the right thing when no one is looking. Who serves others without thinking twice.
When you're grieving a loss too great to bear, suffering financial hardship, or faced with a diagnosis you don't want to hear....in those moments, it's not going to matter whether or not they have a six-pack. All that's going to matter is character.
Someone with character is someone who stays. Someone who chooses you always. Someone who even on their worst day, will treat you with kindness and respect.
Someone with nobel character will serve you when you're sick, treat your family like their own, and make you feel cherished no matter what you're going through. THAT is the type of person you marry.
Become the type of person you want to be with.
Sometimes we get so wrapped up in looking for what type of person we want to be with, that we forget to cultivate those characteristics within ourselves.
Are you looking for someone who is selfless? Take time every day to think of the people around you and how you can serve them today.
Are you looking for someone driven? Find our what your own dreams and goals are, and start working to make them a reality.
Are you looking for someone kind? Pour into the relationships and friendships you have.
If you're contemplating whether or not someone is the person you want to marry, ask yourself these questions:
Do I feel safe with them?
If we were to have kids, and those kids were just like _____ ...would I be okay with that?
How would ____ treat me on their worst day?
How do I see _____ treat others? (Their family? Their friends?)
How does ______ speak to me in my worst moments?
Do not let fear of walking away from the wrong relationship keep you from the type of love that you truly deserve.
At the end of the day, it is far better to be alone than to be with the wrong person. You are deserving of an amazing, all-consuming, once-in-a-lifetime type of love, friend. It's out there for you.
At the end of the day, I am so thankful for every single circumstance that led me to where I am today--and every door that had to close to open the door to being with Zack. Failed relationships taught me what I was looking for, the treatment I was willing to accept, and gave me the strength to never settle. Seasons of singleness taught me to become the type of person that my future husband would be proud to be with. And dating a man who cherished me, respected me, and believed in me taught me that I had found the person I wanted to marry. | <urn:uuid:43d10806-c287-4b0f-a2af-b3d561c290e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jenniferbillingham.com/post/when-it-comes-to-the-person-you-marry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.980071 | 1,371 | 1.726563 | 2 |
teddy quinlivan speaks out for transgender rights
"I knew I was a girl, and I knew that from a very young age, and through fashion I was able to transform into the woman I always felt I was inside.”
This article originally appeared in The Radical Issue, no. 350, Spring 2018.
What does it mean to be a model? i-D has always believed in the power of speaking out. Today, the voices of models are more vital than ever. Here, Cameron Russell, Adwoa Aboah, Dara Allen, Christy Turlington, Anja Rubik, Hanne Gaby Odiele, Teddy Quinlivan, Paloma Elsesser, Liya Kebede and Doutzen Kroes champion their passions, causes, fights and beliefs.
“When I was growing up, it’s not necessarily that I felt uncomfortable in my own skin, because I liked the way I looked and I had this amazing upbringing, a family that was great. It wasn’t until I started getting older that I began to realize that there were boundaries around gender. I wanted to wear princess dresses, and I wanted to play with barbies, and I wanted to play with girls. I was attracted to femininity. Growing up and being told my whole life that I had to be masculine to fit into this body that was completely based off of one organ that I never chose, was really challenging. I started to suppress it, but I would come home every day after school and go into my mom’s closet and put on her high heels. When she came home I would put everything back in its place and pretend like nothing was happening.
I knew I was a girl, and I knew that from a very young age, and through fashion I was able to transform into the woman I always felt I was inside. I transitioned when I was 16 years old. I couldn’t hide it anymore. It was killing me and I wanted to live. Then after I’d walked enough shows, and shot enough editorials and done some advertising, and had kind of created a name for myself — a little bit at least — I felt like I was able to come out and have an impact.
A big piece of what I wanted to say was, “You can be transgender... the person sitting next to you could be transgender. Your doctor could be transgender. That model on the cover of that magazine could be transgender. That girl walking that show could be transgender, and you had no idea, and it shouldn’t matter.
I think feminism has always been a dirty word to the general public. There's this negativity associated with women asking for equality. And that negativity has been associated with feminism because women have been told their whole lives that we don't deserve to be equal. Inequality in any way, shape, or form should be unacceptable because we're all human.
So for me, feminism has been an extremely powerful tool. I like the fact that people don't like it. I'm very proud of the fact that it's a dirty word. I'm proud of the fact that it makes people uncomfortable because it should be making people uncomfortable. Change is not comfortable. Change is not easy. Change is something that is hard and we have to fight for it. And we have to prove to people that our change is worthy and deserving. And that's a very difficult thing to do. And it's not about women asking politely to be equal anymore. It's not about transgender people asking to be equal anymore. We're done asking politely for these things. We are starting to demand respect now.”
Photography Inez & Vinoodh
Fashion director Alastair McKimm
Hair Christiaan. Makeup Kabuki at Kabuki Magic using M.A.C Cosmetics. Nail technician Daria Hardeman at Starworks using Deborah Lippmann. Lighting director Jodokus Driessen. Digital technician Brian Anderson. Photography assistance Joe Hume. Studio manager Marc Kroop. Styling assistance Maggie Foster, Desiree Adejde and Umi Jiang. Hair assistance Taku. Make-up assistance Yumi Kaizuka, Michael Chua and Satsuki Soma. Nail assistance Gladys Castillo. Production Tucker Bibilis at VLM Productions. Executive production Stephanie Bargas at VLM Productions. Production co-ordination Eva Harte at VLM Productions. Production assistance John Nadnazi and Michelle Murray. Casting director Samuel Ellis Scheinman for DMCASTING. Models Christy Turlington at BMC. Liya Kebede at IMG. Cameron Russell at The Lions. Doutzen Kroes, Anja Rubik and Adwoa Aboah at DNA. Teddy Quinlivan and Hanne Gaby at Women. Paloma Elsesser at Muse. Dara Allen at Heroes. These interviews have been condensed and edited. | <urn:uuid:9ddeca66-686e-4416-bcde-8734f9b30066> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/wj4g8y/teddy-quinlivan-models-speak-out | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974209 | 1,022 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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OUTTA Raqqa, or Rosafamily, is an innovative tool that address common time wasting issues with work. The program enables you to control windows processes running in the background or hide windows temporarily. The program automatically hides multiple windows running simultaneously, so you can take advantage of their idle time. The program also enables the hiding of cookies and search history. By hiding windows and cookies, the computer's performance can be significantly improved. This program is relatively easy to install and works well with all versions of Windows.
The two main features of the program are its auto hide feature and its tool to control multiple windows. The auto hide feature hides a selected number of windows on the screen for a pre-determined duration, such as a specified time period or waiting for a specified action. This makes it easy to switch between programs without being interrupted. You can also specify a taskbar icon to be displayed when one of the windows is hidden, which can save space.
The second feature of OuttaSight, called the taskbar hotkey allows you to launch a specific application from a shortcut on the desktop. The hotkey can be customized to hide the windows of any application. Another useful feature of OuttaSight is its "taskbar invisible" feature which displays the active application from the taskbar but hides the windows. The "taskbar visible" hotkey displays the active window in a separate window, allowing you to switch between applications without switching to the taskbar. | <urn:uuid:1ecc9736-e944-4301-b6a3-79aeea338346> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://filehippo.com/download_outtasight/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.897476 | 298 | 1.671875 | 2 |
When ordering dessert at a restaurant, is a plain piece of apple pie enough, or is the whipped cream on top an important added bonus? Are the substantial energy and cost savings that come with installing a Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) enough, or is there whipped cream on top – the whipped cream, of course, being the non-energy benefits that add even more value to that VFD installation?
Depending on the application, using a VFD can deliver one or more of the following whipped cream benefits:
- Less motor and belt wear
- Fewer start-stop cycles
- Less noise
- More accurate capacity control than throttling devices like dampers and control valves
- Soft start capability
- Lower cooling loads when the motor is in an air-conditioned space
VFDs can be used to continuously adjust supply of fresh air and exhaust to minimize ventilation and fan energy requirements. It may also reduce wear on the fan belts, bearings, and motors and increase filter life. Controlling building pressure can make door operation easier and may even increase occupant comfort!
Pumps are another example where a VFD offers energy and non-energy benefits. Many pumps are used in ‘tank-filling’ applications, such as a pump that might be used to fill an elevated reservoir. This is commonly done with a single-speed pump where the pump is cycled on and off to maintain tank levels within a desired range. Installing a VFD for this type of application will result in modest energy and demand kW savings when compared to cases where capacity would otherwise be controlled by cycling. However, the non-energy benefits may be as important as the energy savings. The VFD will provide tighter control of the target level and replacing the start-stop controls will reduce the number of motor start/stop cycles. The VFD will also provide soft starting (and stopping) that may eliminate water hammer in systems that are susceptible to it.
When deciding whether a VFD is worth the investment, don’t forget to account for the non-energy benefits as well. If the energy savings (and energy efficiency program rebates that go with them) aren’t enough incentive to install a VFD, maybe the non-energy benefits should also be considered. If the conditions are right, there might be whipped cream on the pie and maybe even some nutmeg. | <urn:uuid:4480760b-ae74-4f11-b965-55097a6152f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://michaelsenergy.com/finer-points-of-vfd-savings/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.935855 | 483 | 1.976563 | 2 |
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Wait Uncle Scrooge, you need a suit out there!
One of the most frequently cited followers to No Problem With Licensed Games and one of the most widely-beloved platformers on the NES, DuckTales was released in 1989 and developed by Capcom, the same team responsible for the Mega Man franchise, as another product of their licensing deal with Disney. As such, it's no coincidence that DuckTales shares many of the defining features of the Mega Man games: Unique gameplay mechanics, nonlinear level selection and incredibly catchy music.
The story is barely even there: Scrooge wants to gather even more treasure to further solidify his status as the richest duck in the world, while also seeking out the Five Lost Treasures scattered all over the world. Scrooge's adventures lead him from the Amazon rainforest and a Transylvanian castle, to the Himalayan mountains and all the way to the Moon.
A sequel, DuckTales 2, followed four years later in 1993, featuring Scrooge on another treasure hunt, this time to find the pieces to a map leading to an even bigger treasure. For all intents and purposes, the game made many significant improvements to the previous game's formula (such as upgrade skills hidden in certain levels, and plenty of clever optional puzzles), but was not as popular as its predecessor due to its late release, being widely overshadowed by 16-bit games on the Super NES and Sega Genesis. The two games were also ported to the Game Boy.
Both of these games give examples of:
- Bottomless Pits: Often found.
- Cane Fu: Mostly you attack others by jumping with it and it also doubles as a pogo stick. Sometimes, it can be used to hit and pull objects.
- Collision Damage
- Death Throws
- Duck-Eating Plant: They're located in the Amazon in the first game and Niagara in the second game.
- Everything Fades
- Everything Trying to Kill You: Giant crabs, bees, monkeys animated armor, dragonflies, birds and the bees etc.
- Fake Platform: A few traps in the first game. The second game has them in Egypt levels.
- Floating Platforms
- Glowing Eyes of Doom: Amazon level boss in the first game. Hopping statues in the Egypt level of the second game.
- Goomba Springboard: Scrooge's pogo attack lets him bounce off of enemies, though he doesn't bounce any higher than if he had bounced off of a platform.
- Haunted Castle: Transylvania in the first game, Scotland in the second game.
- Heart Container: Two per game. In the first game, you'll find them within stages. In the second game, you'll have to buy them.
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Ice creams and cakes heal instantly. Strangely, cakes are missing in the levels of the second game and can only be bought at hefty price (at least for a cake).
- Inexplicable Treasure Chests: They're everywhere and no one has opened them for some strange reason. Often they are even hanging in the air.
- Malevolent Architecture
- Money Spider: Enemies will often drop diamonds or ice creams when defeated.
- Multiple Endings: Both games change their respective endings depending on how much money the player collected and whether or not they found the secret treasures. The first game in particular has unique endings depending on whether the player finished with over $10,000,000, no money at all, or anywhere in between.
- One Up: One of the items you can find.
- Rewarding Vandalism: You don't open treasure chests, you destroy them.
- Sidetrack Bonus: Secret treasures can be found that way. Alcoves are also prone to contain treasure.
- Spikes of Doom: They often take form of natural hazard. Your pogo-cane jump provides protection against them.
- The Spiny: Those aforementioned plants.
- Super Drowning Skills: Being an anthropomorphic duck won't save you.
- Temporary Platform
- Treasure Is Bigger in Fiction: Just look at all those diamonds.
- Yellow Lightning, Blue Lightning: Yellow in these games.
The first NES game provides examples of:
- Bedsheet Ghost: In Transylvania.
- Big Boo's Haunt: Transylvania.
- Everything's Worse with Bees: In the Amazon, there are large bees...or wasps.
- Frictionless Ice: In the Himalayas. It even speeds you up when walking on it.
- Giant Spider: In the Himalayas and Amazon.
- Ground Pound: The Amazon level boss does this.
- Indy Escape: A few sequences will have you outrun or outbounce a giant boulder.
- Invincibility Power-Up: The magic coin.
- Jungle Japes: The Amazon.
- Minecart Madness: Minecarts are found in the African Mines.
- Rodents of Unusual Size: Moon boss.
- Rolling Attack: African Mines boss.
- Slippy-Slidey Ice World: Himalayas has this.
- Space Zone: The Moon
- Stalactite Spite: Icicles in the Himalayas.
- Timed Mission: Although usually with plenty of time when not exploring.
The second NES game provides examples of:
- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: The bonus level, the Under Ground, takes place in the sewers.
- All That Glitters: In the end, all your treasures sink to the bottom of the sea and Scrooge says that it's good to still have friends. However, the treasure was saved in time.
- Animated Armor: One of the enemies in Scotland.
- Attack Its Weak Point: Glowing part of the Mu boss.
- Build Like an Egyptian: Egypt.
- Commonplace Rare: Cakes can be bought with a hefty price and are much more expensive than safes (which are also slightly more expensive than ones in real life).
- Crate Expectations: Niagara Falls. Justified in Bermuda since it takes place on a cargo ship.
- Gang Plank Galleon: Bermuda.
- Gotta Catch Them All: Map pieces.
- Helping Hands: In Scotland, holding lanterns, though unless you're using them as Goomba Springboards, they're anything but helpful.
- Mineral MacGuffin: The secret treasure. Strangely, it's worth the same amount as the other end of the level and secret treasures.
- Quicksand Sucks: In Egypt.
- Tempting Fate: "We'll never get by the mast. Look at it!"...and lightning strike destroys the block.
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Our results support a prior publication (Gouma et al. the portable Oxford Nanopore Technology to series the extracted strains. Our pipeline discovered the genotype from the Arkansas mumps strains as genotype G and provided a genome-based phylogenetic tree with excellent resolution to a typical little hydrophobic (SH) gene-based tree. We phylogenetically compared the Arkansas whole-genome sequences to all or any obtainable mumps strains publicly. While these analyses present which the Arkansas mumps strains are distinctive in the vaccine strains evolutionarily, we noticed no relationship between vaccination background and phylogenetic grouping. Furthermore, we forecasted potential B-cell epitopes encoded with the Arkansas mumps strains utilizing a arbitrary Rabbit Polyclonal to IRX3 forest prediction model educated on antibody-antigen proteins structures. Over fifty percent of the forecasted epitopes IDE1 from the Jeryl-Lynn vaccine strains in the Hemagglutinin-Neuraminidase (HN) surface area glycoprotein (a significant focus on of neutralizing antibodies) area are lacking in the Arkansas mumps strains. In-silico analyses of potential epitopes might suggest which the Arkansas mumps strains screen antigens with minimal immunogenicity, which may donate to decreased vaccine effectiveness. Nevertheless, our in-silico results ought to be evaluated by robust tests such as combination neutralization assays. Metadata evaluation demonstrated that vaccination background had no influence on the progression from the Arkansas mumps strains in this outbreak. We conclude which the driving drive behind the spread from the mumps trojan in the 2016 Arkansas outbreak continues to be undetermined. when portrayed as a build in addition to the entire proteins (Herrera et al. 2010). This region is 176 proteins in spans and length across positions 255 to 431. Our data demonstrated IDE1 that forecasted epitopes in this area can be found in Arkansas strains whereas these are absent in IDE1 the main element of the vaccine strains (JL-5) (Amount 4, positions 261C425). As the need for this observation is normally unclear, discrepancies in antigen display within this experimentally-verified immunogenic area may bring about attenuated activation from the humoral immune system response upon contact with the Arkansas MuV strains. Certainly, Dilcher at al. conclude that immune system escape is a chance predicated on structural distinctions of forecasted epitopes between your JL-5 main element of the vaccine stress as well as the genotype G wild-type stress (Dilcher et al. 2018). We noticed a deviation in forecasted epitopes over the 513 placement also, which is next to the key 512 placement that is area of the energetic site of HN binding towards the sialic acidity of the web host cell (Amount 4) (Kubota et al. 2016). Because the amino acidity at placement 513 is normally conserved among vaccine and Arkansas strains, we speculate IDE1 that modifications in the residues encircling the 513 site resulted in discrepancies in forecasted epitope probability. We noticed no distinctions in forecasted antigens in defined neutralization sites over the F proteins previously, residues 221 namely, 323 and 373 (Amount 5) (Santak, Orvell, and Gulija 2015). Homan et al. survey distinctions in forecasted B cell linear epitopes and potential T-cell epitopes between specific MuV strains as well as the JL-5 vaccine (Homan and Bremel 2014). Especially, they found distinctions over the 275 amino acidity residue that falls inside the essential B-cell neutralizing epitope area: 265C288 (Kulkarni-Kale et al. 2007). Likewise, we report distinctions in forecasted B-cell epitopes in the same area on placement 274 between your Arkansas strains as well as the JL-5 main element strains. Collectively, these observations hint which the Arkansas strains may have escaped immunity engendered with the vaccine. Our results support a prior publication (Gouma et al. 2018) that compares genotype G strains with genotype A strains, that have the Jeryl-Lynn vaccine. They survey distinctions in amino acidity sequences of useful locations in the F and HN proteins, this may decrease the immunogenicity from the vaccine strains. Furthermore, poor cross-neutralization from the vaccine and wild-type stress, JL-5, was reported (Vermeire et al. 2018). It ought to be stressed our conclusions derive from computational predictions and should be experimentally confirmed prior to making conclusions about if the Arkansas outbreak was powered by IDE1 immune system escape. To be able to assess if the genomic signatures of epitopes possess any bearing on immune system evasion, robust lab experiments should be carried out. 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Check Out Hunger hopes to raise $40,000 for meals
Cashiers at 80 grocery stores across the Ozarks are asking shoppers to add a donation to their bill to help provide meals for those in need in 2015.
Check Out Hunger gives people the opportunity to add a $1, $3 or $5 tax-free donation to their grocery bill when checking out at area retailers, including Akin's, Bistro Market, Cash Saver, Country Mart, Dillons, Harter House, Hy-Vee, Murfin's Market, Pennington's, Price Cutter, Price Cutter Plus, Ramey, Rhodes Family Price Chopper, Richards Supermarket, Smitty's, Summer Fresh, Town & Country and Woods Supermarket.
The grocers teamed up to help Ozarks Food Harvest check out hunger in southwest Missouri during the 16th annual retail fundraiser, which goes through Dec. 31.
Donations will be sent to Ozarks Food Harvest in early 2015 to help The Food Bank feed the more than 260,000 persons its network of 200 partner pantries and programs serves annually across 28 counties. According to food bank officials, that's one in four Ozarks residents who access food from OFH.
The goal is to collect $40,000. Last year, the fundraiser collected $36,515 — the equivalent of 182,500 meals. Since 1998, the holiday campaign has collected $271,000 in donations—the equivalent of nearly 1.4 million meals.
Business group donates to Toys for Tots
Toys for Tots accepted over $10,000 in Toys from the Masterminds of Biz (MOB). Toys are donated by over 750 MOB members through our 36 chapters. This year's event is expected to provide over $10,000 worth of toys to the Marines who in turn will provide them to children throughout the area.
"As business owners, each member knows the importance of giving back to the community that they live in," said Elizabeth Gaddis, Masterminds of Biz Co founder. "For our members, this is a wonderful way to support our communities and touch the lives of children and families during the Christmas season."
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A domain name is used to identify a website or as part of an e-mail address. It means people can find your website and that e-mails addressed to you can be delivered.
A domain name has to be registered with one of the various Top Level Domain (TLD) Name Registries around the world. You would not normally deal direct with one of these, but through an agent. A Domain Name registration needs to be renewed at regular intervals.
You really do not need to know all the technicalities of how the internet uses domain names.
A domain name consists usually of two parts separated by a "." (full stop) - e.g. lyntonwebdesign.co.uk. The first part can be made up of any number of letters or numbers but it's a good idea to use a combination that is easily remembered and relates to the content of the site. The suffix indicates the TLD. This will be something like ".co.uk", ".org.uk", ".gov.uk", ".com", ".net", etc. The use of some of these is subject to restrictions. A UK based trader would probably opt for .co.uk.
Domain names are registered on a first-come basis. So your choice of domain name may have already been registered by someone else.
The cost of registration and renewal varies significantly from one agent to another. Sometimes it can even be shown as "free" but watch out for hidden charges in such cases e,g. DNS management - an essential for both website and email hosting.
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(HealthDay News) — Men and women with type 2 diabetes (T2D) have an increased risk for overall cancer and some site-specific cancers, according to a study published online May 9 in the Journal of Diabetes.
Jiying Qi, from the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, and colleagues examined the risk for 23 common types of cancer among patients with T2D. A total of 410,191 patients with T2D were identified from July 2013 to December 2016 based on the Shanghai Hospital Link database; the patients were followed until December 2017 for cancer incidence.
The researchers identified 8,485 cases of newly diagnosed cancer. Among men and women, the standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) for total cancer were 1.34 and 1.62, respectively. The risk for prostate cancer had the highest SIR (1.86) and cancers of the blood (leukemia and lymphoma), skin, thyroid, kidney, liver, pancreas, lung, colorectum, and stomach were also increased significantly among men with T2D. Significantly greater risks were seen for cancer of the nasopharynx (highest SIR, 2.33), liver, esophagus, thyroid, lung, pancreas, blood (lymphoma and leukemia), uterus, colorectum, breast, cervix, and stomach for women with T2D. The risk for gallbladder cancer was significantly reduced for women with T2D.
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A collection of faithful retellings of the classic stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, from the sword in the stone to the last battle. Clearly written in a modern, approachable style to introduce young readers to much-loved classic stories. Includes informative notes on both the author and the original text. Ideal for encouraging young readers to pursue an interest in literature.
July 28th, 2006
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As a woman, you know that your health needs are unique, including your oral health needs. And because your needs are unique, you need to take extra care of yourself. While women tend to take better care of their oral health than men do, women’s oral health is not significantly better than men’s. This is because hormonal fluctuations throughout a woman’s life can affect many tissues, including gum tissue. These fluctuations occur when you mature and change, as you do during puberty or menopause, or other times when you have special health needs, such as menstruation and particularly during pregnancy.
According to the Journal of Periodontology at least 23 percent of women between the ages 30 to 54 have periodontitis. And, 44 percent of women ages 55 to 90 who still have their teeth have periodontitis. Yet many women do not realize they have it until it reaches an advanced state, which is why regular hygiene check-ups are so important.
Stages of your life – steps to protect your oral health.
Puberty – an increased level of sex hormones, such as progesterone and possibly estrogen, causes increased blood circulation to the gums. This may cause an increase in the gum’s sensitivity and lead to a greater reaction to any irritation, including food particles and plaque. Signs to look for in your teenage daughter are swollen, red and/or tender gums.
It is particularly important during this time in your daughter’s life to make sure she follows a good at-home oral hygiene regimen, including regular brushing and flossing, and regular dental care. In some cases, a dental professional may recommend periodontal therapy to help prevent damage to the tissues and bone surrounding the teeth.
Menstruation – can result in menstruation gingivitis. Women with this condition may experience bleeding gums, bright red and swollen gums and sores on the inside of the cheek. Menstruation gingivitis typically occurs right before a woman’s period and clears up once her period has started. Sometimes it occurs concurrent with stressful situations and menstruation.
Pregnancy – increase gingivitis or pregnancy gingivitis beginning in the second or third month of pregnancy that increases in severity throughout the eighth month. During this time, some women may notice swelling, bleeding, redness or tenderness in the gum tissue. As a result of varying hormone levels, between 50%-70% of women will develop gingivitis sometime during their pregnancy – a condition called pregnancy gingivitis. In some cases, gums swollen by pregnancy gingivitis can react strongly to irritants and form large lumps. These growths, called pregnancy tumors, are not cancerous and generally painless.
Studies have shown a possible relationship between periodontal disease and pre-term, low-birth-weight babies. Any infection, including periodontal infection, is cause for concern during pregnancy. In fact, pregnant women who have periodontal disease may be more likely to have a baby that is born too early and too small!
To prevent pregnancy gingivitis it’s especially important to practice good oral hygiene habits, which include brushing at least twice a day, flossing once a day, and using an antimicrobial mouth rinse. If you are due for a professional cleaning, don’t skip it simply because you are pregnant. Now more than ever, professional dental cleanings are particularly important.
Oral contraceptives – while women are taking drugs to help treat periodontal disease, such as antibiotics, may lessen the effect of an oral contraceptive. So be sure and consult your dentist about all the medications you are taking.
Menopause and Post-Menopause – not surprising given all the changes happening within your body, but you may experience changes in your mouth as well. You may notice discomfort such as dry mouth, pain and burning sensations in the gum tissue and altered taste, particularly to salt and pepper.
In addition, menopausal gingivostomatitis affects a small percentage of women. Gums that look dry or shiny or bleed easily and range from abnormally pale to deep red may indicate this condition. Most women find that estrogen supplements help to relieve these symptoms.
Bone loss is potentially associated with both periodontal disease and osteoporosis. Women considering Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) to help fight osteoporosis should note that this may help protect their teeth and your jawbone as well as other parts of the body.
What Should You Do?
See a dental professional for cleaning at least twice a year – you need to monitor your oral health.
If referred, see a periodontist in your area. Problems may include: Bleeding gums during brushing, red, swollen or tender gums. Other issues such as persistent bad breath or pus between the teeth and gums. If you’re a denture wearer a change in the fit of your dentures may occur.
Keep your dentist informed about any medications you are taking and any changes in your health history.
Brush and floss properly every day. Review your techniques with a dental professional.
If there any questions that you might have, please call us to discuss them.
Novy Scheinfeld, DDS, PC
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Atlanta (Sandy Springs), GA 30328
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- Dentist East Cobb: Top 4 Reasons Not to play hooky from Your Dental Cleanings (therightsmile.wordpress.com)
- Dentist Dunwoody: How Often Should I See the Dentist? (therightsmile.wordpress.com)
- Dentist Roswell: Brush and Floss if you want to keep ’em. (therightsmile.wordpress.com)
- Dentist Sandy Springs: Healthy smile, healthy you! (therightsmile.wordpress.com)
January 1999 issue of the Journal of Periodontology
Periodontitis is an advanced state of periodontal disease in which there is active destruction of the periodontal supporting tissues.
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Christopher Columbus in the Book of Mormon
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Book of Mormon describes Christopher Columbus in terms not known in Joseph's day
Daniel C. Peterson,
One of the best-known prophecies in the Book of Mormon has generally been understood to predict the career of Christopher Columbus, who is usually reckoned the effective European "discoverer" of the New World. Accordingly, Columbus emerges from the very pages of scripture itself as an important and foreordained actor in the divine plan:
- And I looked and beheld a man among the Gentiles, who was separated from the seed of my brethren by the many waters; and I beheld the Spirit of God, that it came down and wrought upon the man; and he went forth upon the many waters, even unto the seed of my brethren, who were in the promised land.
Skeptical readers of the Book of Mormon, however, have tended to dismiss this passage as a cheap and easy instance of prophecy after the fact, composed centuries after Columbus's death—but postdated, as it were, in order to create a seemingly impressive and self-validating prediction by an ancient prophetic writer. At the very most, some have observed, a "prophecy" of Columbus hardly constitutes evidence for the antiquity or inspiration of the Book of Mormon.
On a surface level, such critics seem to be right. It would have taken little talent in the late 1820s for someone to prophesy the discovery of America nearly three and a half centuries earlier. But the description of Columbus provided by 1 Nephi 13:12 nonetheless remains a remarkable demonstration of the revelatory accuracy of the Book of Mormon. It is only with the growth of Columbus scholarship in recent years, and particularly with the translation and publication of Columbus's Libro de las profecÃas in 1991, that English-speaking readers have been fully able to see how remarkably the admiral's own self-understanding parallels the portrait of him given in the Book of Mormon. The Columbus revealed in very recent scholarship is quite different from the gold-driven secular adventurer celebrated in the textbooks and holidays most of us grew up with.26We now understand, for example, that the primary motivation for Columbus's explorations was not financial gain but the spread of Christianity. He was zealously committed to the cause of taking the gospel, as he understood it, to all the world. He felt himself guided by the Holy Spirit, and a good case can indeed be made that his first transoceanic voyage, in particular, was miraculously well executed....—(Click here to continue)
Columbus: By Faith or Reason?
First Nephi 13:12 tells how the Spirit of God was to come down upon a man who would go "forth upon the many waters" to discover the posterity of Lehi in the promised land. This verse has long been understood as referring to Columbus. In particular, Orson Pratt's references in the 1879 edition of the Book of Mormon made this identification explicit. Dominant historical opinion, on the other hand, has seen Columbus led by science, reason, restlessness, and conquest. Recently, historian Pauline Watts has taken a new look at this issue and argues persuasively that Columbus was in fact deeply influenced by prophecy and revelation....
But if the Book of Mormon's "Spirit of God" that "wrought upon the man" was not especially shocking to some Americans in 1830, it did stand firmly against the intellectual trend of the times, which focused on Columbus's rational, scientific nature and acknowledged the spiritual roots of his quest only grudgingly, if at all. In 1792, for example, Jeremy Belknap gave a commemorative discourse in Boston filled with scriptural references, but he nevertheless chose to emphasize Columbus's logical reasoning. He carefully reconstructed his motivations for sailing based on (1) natural reason, (2) the authority of ancient writers, and (3) the testimony of sailors (following the account of Columbus's son, Ferdinand Columbus). He does mention in passing that Columbus was "guided by th' Almighty hand," but even here all the emphasis is on "Reason's golden ray."3
Washington Irving's 1828 biography of Columbus is the closest in time and place to the publication of the Book of Mormon, and though he duly notes Columbus's "deep religious sentiment," he discounts it as "a tinge of superstition, but . . . of a sublime and lofty kind."4 He attributes Columbus's discovery to the "strong workings of his vigorous mind."5 Modern attitudes about Columbus and his motivations have been even more heavily influenced by the research of Alexander von Humboldt in the 1830s, who firmly established the image of the scientific Columbus.
Against all of this, the Book of Mormon boldly asserts that whatever else may have been involved, Columbus's primary reasons for sailing were spiritual. Thus it may be of interest to Latter-day Saints that much recent scholarship has come to agree with the Book of Mormon's original assessment of Columbus.
In her article, Watts investigates the spiritual origins of Columbus's voyages. She discusses the influences of scripture, theology, astrology, apocalypticism, and medieval prophecy. She particularly focuses on a book that Columbus himself was writing but never completed, called Book of Prophecies (the fragments were first edited by Cesare De Lollis in 1894). In this book Columbus set forth views on himself as the fulfiller of biblical prophecies! Columbus saw himself as fulfilling the "islands of the sea" passages from Isaiah and another group of verses concerning the conversion of the heathen. Watts reports that Columbus was preoccupied with "the final conversion of all races on the eve of the end of the world," paying particular attention to John 10:16: "And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold" (see also 3 Nephi 16:3). He took his mission of spreading the gospel of Christ seriously. "God made me the messenger of the new heaven and the new earth. . . . He showed me the spot where to find it," Columbus wrote in 1500.7
Watts summarizes her argument by stating that "in the final years of his life, . . . Columbus came increasingly to see himself as a divinely inspired fulfiller of prophecy, the one who inaugurated the age of the unum ovile et unus pastor" ("one fold and one shepherd").8 "He came to believe that he was predestined to fulfill a number of prophecies in preparation for the coming of the Anti-Christ and the end of the world"9 (which also happens to be the context of Nephi's prophecies in 1 Nephi 13-14).Here we have a picture of Columbus as a man who very strongly felt the Spirit of God directing his life and who sought to understand that influence using the best knowledge and resources available to him. Such is not far removed from Nephi's portrait. Columbus was fulfilling inspired words more precisely than even he imagined.—(Click here to continue)
- Daniel C. Peterson, "Not Joseph's, and Not Modern," in Echoes and Evidences of the Book of Mormon, edited by Donald W. Parry, Daniel C. Peterson, and John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 2002), Chapter 2, references silently removed—consult original for citations.
- Grant R. Hardy, "Columbus: By Faith or Reason?," in Reexploring the Book of Mormon, edited by John W. Welch (Provo, Utah: FARMS, 1992), Chapter 9.
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Memory impairment is frequent in schizophrenia and remains difficult to treat. Improved memory function is associated with a better functional outcome. Some clinical trials have used add-on therapy with acetylcholinesterase inhibitors (AChEIs) to test the cognitive enhancement effect of this kind of medication, which is usually prescribed for other indications than schizophrenia.
To perform a systematic review with meta-analysis.
Studies were identified using electronic search engines, hand searches, cross-referencing of studies, and contacts with investigators. Eligible studies were those comparing cognitive performance in patients with schizophrenia before and after AChEI treatment, randomized controlled trials, and crossover and open trials of AChEI in people with schizophrenia, with trial duration of more than 2 weeks. Validated neurocognitive measures and computerized batteries were used to corroborate the effect.
Our findings reveal a small to medium improvement in short-term memory and long-term memory (LTM) performance when patients are compared with the baseline performance, but when compared with controls (placebo treatment) at the end of the trial, they performed worse on both short-term memory and on LTM. However, the effects were nonsignificant. The LTM magnitude estimate demonstrating a treatment effect between the start and end points of the trial consisted of 8 studies (before treatment, n = 209; overall attrition rate, 8%). The effect estimate was significant and close to heterogeneous. Duration of trial increases the effect estimate slightly. The analysis was broken down by AChEI: 5 studies of donepezil (effect size [ES], −0.352), 2 studies of rivastigmine (ES, 0.383), and 1 study of galantamine. There were 6 studies of AChEI added to second-generation antipsychotics (ES, 0.424) and 2 studies of first-generation antipsychotics (ES, 0.207).
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Opera, one of the world’s leading browser developers, together with international non-profit organisation – Worldreader, are keeping young South African minds stimulated during the country’s lockdown, as a result of the coronavirus outbreak, by giving them access to an expanded range of eBooks via the Opera Mini browser. Starting this week, Worldreader will offer a new selection of eBooks to Opera Mini users as well as a brand-new web app designed to offer reading material tailored specifically for young adult readers.
The regular version of the Worldreader app provides eBooks for young readers and features hundreds of books for learning and pleasure, in categories including Learn, Health, and Career. Over 100,000 people make use of the platform each month, with new readers joining every day. The new app – BookSmart – from Worldreader, offers a wide variety of eBooks dedicated to children. Both apps can be accessed from the Opera Mini browser, by tapping on the Worldreader speed dial icon. Once opened, users will be able to access the new children’s version of the BookSmart app. The WorldReader web app is also available at: https://www.booksmart.world/free
“When considering ways to mitigate learning loss in a pandemic, it should be a top priority to address supporting reading skills and engagement with books, bridging the gap until schools are in session again,” said Rebecca Chandler Leege, Worldreader’s Chief Impact Officer. “Through mobile technology, we can support the distribution of eBooks and attend the needs of millions thanks to the massive reach of the Opera Mini browser in Africa.”
According to UNESCO, as of 24 March 2020, 82% of the world’s learners have been shut out of traditional schooling and education programs due to social distancing.
School closures can result in significant learning loss for students. In response to this global health crisis, UNESCO is supporting the implementation of large-scale distance learning programs and recommending open educational applications and platforms that schools and teachers can use to reach learners remotely.
Promoting literacy since 2015
Since 2015, Opera and Worldreader have successfully promoted literacy worldwide, with greater attention in Africa to enable millions of people to read free books. There are, however, several barriers in certain African communities that hinder access to online educational materials, especially when schools are shut down.
High data costs, lack of access to mobile technology, and slow mobile network connectivity are some of the challenges faced by these communities when accessing educational content online.
“Mobile data is still very expensive in most parts of Africa, hence the Opera Mini browser’s popularity in the region. Its ability to reduce web page sizes and save up to 90% of users’ mobile data has enabled even more people to connect to the internet”, said Jørgen Arnesen, Head of Marketing and Distribution at Opera. “We believe that millions of children and students can benefit from our partnership with Worldreader by now being able to access educational online content while the COVID-19 outbreak lasts.”
According to the 2019 edition of the Global Digital Report, there are more than 437 million internet users in Africa, presenting a great opportunity to increase online reading, particularly when one in five internet users in Africa choose Opera browsers every day.
“The low bandwidth required on the Opera Mini browser means that readers use less data when accessing the Worldreader app – which is vital for youth in remote communities with slow networks,” said Chandler Leege.
Digital solutions are key for keeping children and youth reading
For children and youth, reading can support literacy skills, 21st-century skills, work preparedness, self-help, and health education.
The Worldreader app gives readers access to one of the largest catalogues of free eBooks. In 2019, nearly one million out of the 1.6 million people in Africa read free digital books thanks to the availability of the app via the Opera Mini browser. BookSmart offers children and parents books curated especially for them.
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Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Vol.102, No.4, 1809-1822, 2018
Identification of tarsal-less peptides from the silkworm Bombyx mori
The polycistronic and non-canonical gene tarsal-less (tal, known as pri) was reported to be required for embryonic and imaginal development in Drosophila; however, there are few reports of the tal gene in the silkworm Bombyx mori. Here, we cloned a tal-like (Bmtal) gene, and a sequence analysis showed that the Bmtal cDNA (1661 bp) contains five small open reading frames (smORFs) (A1, A2, A3, A4, and B) that encode short peptides of 11-12 (A1-A4) amino acid residues containing an LDPTG(E) L(Q)(V) Y motif that is conserved in Drosophila Tal, as well as a 32-amino-acid B peptide. Reverse transcription-quantitative polymerase chain reaction showed that the expression of the Bmtal gene was highest in the trachea, followed by the silk gland and Malpighian tubule, in day 3 fifth-instar larvae. Subcellular localization showed that BmTal localized in the nucleus. By regulating the expression of the full-length Bmtal gene and the functional smORFs of Bmtal, we showed that the expression levels of the Bmovo gene and genes related to the Notch, transforming growth factor-beta, and Hippo signaling pathways changed with changes in BmTal peptide expression. A co-immunoprecipitation assay showed that BmTal interacts with polyubiquitin, which triggered degradation and/or processing of the 14-3-3 protein zeta. A comparative transcriptome analysis showed that 2843 (2045) genes were up( down)-regulated after Bmtal gene expression was up-regulated. The up-(down)-regulated differentially expressed genes were enriched in 326 (278) gene ontology terms (P <= 0.05) and 54 (59) Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes pathways (P <= 0.05), and the results indicated that the BmTal peptides could function as mediators of hormone levels or the activities of multiple pathways, including the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor, Hedgehog, mitogenactivated protein kinase, adipocytokine, and gonadotropin-releasing hormone signaling pathways, as well as the innate immune response. These results increase our understanding of the function and mechanism of BmTal at the genomewide level. | <urn:uuid:211cd947-7f48-4666-8a62-5287149c0639> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cheric.org/research/tech/periodicals/view.php?seq=1611853 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.914935 | 570 | 1.679688 | 2 |
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3 edition of Chinese Cooking (#06539) found in the catalog.
Chinese Cooking (#06539)
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My other favorite Chinese cookbook, and the one I use most often, is From The Earth: Chinese Vegetarian Cooking by Eileen Yin-Fei Lo. I practically taught myself to cook from that book. Ellen in Yakima Valley, WA Ma pm. About the Book Author Martin Yan hosts the award-winning TV show Yan Can Cook, broadcast on U.S. stations and in 70 countries internationally. His bestselling cookbooks include Martin Yan's Feast and Martin Yan's Invitation to Chinese Cooking.
From Chinese Cooking For Dummies. By Martin Yan. If you’re in the mood for Chinese food, don’t go out — try cooking it yourself! Cooking Chinese food at home can be quick, easy, and fun. To get started, you need to know the basic ingredients, tools, and techniques to make your . A Free Online Chinese Recipe Cookbook. Search for Chinese recipes from + recipes online. Save that special Chinese recipe to your recipe collection. New .
Chinese stir-frying cooking technique at a street food joint in Kerala, India. Chinese cooking techniques (Chinese: 中餐烹調法) are a set of methods and techniques traditionally used in Chinese cuisine. The cooking techniques can either be grouped into ones that use a single cooking method or a combination of wet and dry cooking methods. Belinda Hulin was stirring in gumbo pots before she could walk. The Louisiana native has long written about food for newspapers and magazines, and she is the author of The Everything Fondue Party Book, The Everything Pizza Cookbook, The Everything Soup, Stew and Chili Cookbook, and Knack Chinese currently divides her time between her home in Atlantic Beach, Florida, and her Brand: Globe Pequot Press.
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Discover the best Chinese Cooking, Food & Wine in Best Sellers. Find the top most popular items in Amazon Books Best Sellers. The James Beard-nominated food writer revamps the slow cooker for the modern home cook, providing ingenious ideas and more than delicious recipes for maximizing this favorite time-saving kitchen appliance and making it easier than ever to DiGregorio shares.
Brought the book for my daughter, since she's into Chinese cooking. She's was interested in the soups and dumplings. She got an wok for Christmas last year, and wanted more recipes to cook. I suggest this cookbook cause my mother has the same cookbook and it's better for her to have the cookbook instead of sending her copies of the recipes/5(51).
The book extensively covers all that you will need to prepare great Chinese food at home, from describing cooking utensils, methods, and techniques to planning the perfect menu.
The author is well respected in the San Francisco Bay Area for her restaurants, and her book has stood the test of. Mastering the Art of Chinese Cooking. By Eileen Yin-Fei Lo, Chronicle Books, Hardcover. $50; pages. Szechuan pork has been my go-to Chinese takeout order for years, so imagine my delight when a dish of Pork Sichuan with Chili Sauce from Eileen Yin-Fei Lo's big, dazzling cookbook turned out to be the best version of this dish—and I made it.
THE CHINESE COOK BOOK 3 food, one realizes how delicious it is. It hasbeensaid Chinese Cooking book if the Chinesewere as great in otherwaysas in cookingability theywould notably influence other nations. Thestory is told ofayoungChinese couple newlymarried.
Thebridegroomwasboasting to a friend of his bride's ability in cooking. The friend was invited to visit. The blurb on the book jacket reads, "With its one-of-a-kind hero, Chinese Cooking for Diamond Thieves is perfect for anyone who loves cooking, Chinese culture, bad jokes, and young love." I'm a crappy cook, I don't have feelings one way or the other about Chinese culture, bad jokes are bad, and young love is kind of cliche/5.
Maggie Zhu write about modern chinese cooking - including street food, family recipes, and restaurant dishes. She takes a less labor-intensive approach while maintaining the taste and look of the dish.
She is originally from Beijing, and now cook from her Austin, Texas kitchen. The best books on Chinese Food recommended by Fuchsia Dunlop.
The English chef who studied cooking in Sichuan tells us that there is no one Chinese cuisine, how Western perceptions of Chinese food are changing, and why carrots are called "barbarian radishes" in Mandarin.
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Written by. Rhonda Parkinson. Rhonda Parkinson is a freelance writer who has authored many cookbooks, including two Everything guides to Chinese cooking. Learn Author: Rhonda Parkinson. Four main things to comment on:1) You definitely feel Martin Yan's personality in these pages.
Great broad yet brief background on regional influences on Chinese cooking.2) Equally good broad yet brief explanation of basic ingredients and also the prep and cooking techniques.3) Recipes are pretty easy and you are welcome to buy most of the basic sauces rather than make them from Cited by: 1.
Welcome to my site about modern Chinese cooking, Asian inspired dishes, and classic recipes cooked in my small New York Kitchen. Start browsing recipes right away or you could learn more about me here. Spoonful of Ginger by Nina Simonds is a Chinese cooking book with an emphasis on the health-giving properties of traditional Chinese ingredients.
This food-as-medicine perspective is not unique, but the ease with which Simonds presents it is. This is a highly accessible book for anyone wanting to cook Chinese food and understand what the Chinese understand about how it can help.
Chinese Flavours Get an introduction to Chinese cooking from this Thermomix cookbook. Cook with Olivia – Chinese Flavours is the key to kick-start your culinary adventure in oriental cooking.
In this wonderful book, Ching takes the mystery out of delicious Chinese cooking. You're likely to have many of the ingredients in your kitchen already - garlic, root ginger, oil.
By taking the illusions out of Chinese I've loved Chinese food since the first time I went to a restaurant as a child and ordering from the takeaway was an expensive /5.
Chinese Recipes Skip the takeout and cook up some fresh Chinese cuisine with Food Network. Check out all the tips and Chinese recipes you need for a delicious meal. Cook with Olivia – Chinese Flavours is the key to kick start your culinary adventure in oriental cooking. For the experts, this book is the perfect addition to your collection with delicious recipes and new ideas to spice up your oriental food knowledge.
Be prepared to be. Irene Kuo's "Key to Chinese Cooking" (ISBN: ) is probably still the best introduction. It is available used, and I believe that it has been re-issued.
This is a Cantonese "view" of Chinese cuisine, so you may want to explore other books later. Quick and Easy Chinese Vegetarian Cooking – Trial Download.
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Click HERE to shop for a Steel Wok Ring. Metal Wok Spatula and Hoak. Chinese cooking requires a good metal spatula. For most stir-fries you can use any run-of-the-mill implement you have lying around (made out of wood or metal), but for things like fried rice, glutinous rice cakes, or anything you’re making in large amounts that might stick to your wok, it’s handy to have a sturdy metal.
Deep-frying is done in a heavy pot with a large amount of oil. This oil needs to be kept close to the smoke point throughout the cooking process, and the foods must be dry when submerged in the oil. The foods should also be cooked a little at a time and completely submerged.
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Cardiology patients undergoing diagnostic assessment on the Island will benefit from the generosity of a donation from the Manx Heart Foundation.
The Cardio-respiratory team at Noble’s Hospital has taken delivery of a new GE Vivid E95 Echo machine which will be used to obtain 4D ultrasound images in order to diagnose heart issues. The machine will primarily be used for paediatric patients, but will also be available for use by adult patients.
The Manx Heart Foundation continues to provide assistance to patients under the care of Noble’s Hospital by funding essential equipment to support them. Historic donations have seen the Cardio-respiratory Department, the Emergency Department, the Children’s Ward and even the Covid-19 wards benefitting from its generosity.
Chairman of the charity, John Bourbon, and Vice Chair, Karen Chiarello, recently visited the Cardio-respiratory Department to see the new equipment now that it is in service, and to hear more about the impact it is having on paediatric assessment and care from a small group including Consultant Cardiologist, Mark Hall, and Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologists, Steve Berrisford and Jenny Tonkinson-Hoare.
Clinical Director for Women’s, Children’s and Families Services, Dr. Pradip Thakker, commented:
'We are very appreciative of the Manx Heart Foundation who continue to show their support for the work we do here at Noble’s Hospital by supporting us in practical ways such as this. Their donation of a new GE Vivid E95 Echo machine will really make a difference for our younger patients, as this is such a widely-used piece of equipment for diagnosing complex congenital cardiac conditions. The charity really listens to what will make a difference to the treatment of our patients and then works to provide the funds to support this, for which we are really grateful.'
Close up of the GE Vivid E95 Echo machine: Steve Berrisford (Highly Specialised Clinical Physiologist) explaining to Karen Chiarello (Vice Chair, Manx Heart Foundation) and John Bourbon (Chair, Manx Hart Foundation) how beneficial the GE Vivid E95 Echo machine will be for paediatric patients at Noble's Hospital. | <urn:uuid:8e955a04-897a-4388-9599-37f5e1f346ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gov.im/about-the-government/statutory-boards/manx-care/news/?altTemplate=ViewCategorisedNews&id=141174 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926097 | 473 | 1.523438 | 2 |
The “Keeping up with the Joneses†mentality isn’t exclusive to individuals; it applies to big business as well. Online payments company PayPal announced Tuesday that its app will produce a QR code that any merchant with a scanner or PIN code device can accept, which many believe is an attempt to keep up with competitors like Square.
The new technology, which launched at the Money 2020 trade show in Las Vegas, will roll out globally early next year.
Here’s how Payment Code works: When you check into a store with the PayPal app, the app will generate a QR code that serves as a signature. If the merchant has a bar code or QR code scanner, then users can pay with the QR code. However, if the merchant doesn’t, then users can punch the code into a PIN pad during checkout.
The latest option allows business owners to take mobile payments without having to spend money on pricey hardware; meanwhile, consumers are given more places to shop.
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Concussion Awareness, Response, and Management for the Motion Picture, Film, & Live Performance Industries
The entertainment production community, working with the BC Injury Research and Prevention Unit, is happy to make the Concussion Awareness Training Tool’s (CATT) Concussion Awareness flowchart available for employers, supervisors, and workers in B.C’s arts and entertainment industries.
This flowchart outlines a pathway that should be followed to respond to and manage a suspected concussion to workers specifically in the motion picture, television, performing arts, and live events industries. Especially beneficial for stunt performers, this pathway outlines red flags, concussion signs and symptoms, and treatment suggestions.
For more information on concussions, and to learn more about CATT, please visit www.cattonline.com
This concussion resource package is specifically designed and intended for workers in the Motion Picture, Film, and Live Performance industry, including First Aid Attendants, Supervisors, Department Heads, Production Teams, Stunt Coordinators, Dance Choreographers, Performers, and all other industry workers. This package aims to standard concussion recognition and management in performance based industries to decrease the risk of brain damage and potentially reduce long-term health issues associated with concussions.
This package includes:
Industry specific concussion protocols
What you need to know about concussions
Questions to ask your doctor
Medical Assessment & Clearance Letter templates
Information on how to return to work, activity, sports & school
Managing mental health symptoms
For more information, resources, sport specific protocols and concussion awareness training, please visit the Concussion Awareness Training Tool Website
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Why is my heart rate high after bypass surgery?
The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve that plays a main role in the regulation of the parasympathetic innervations of the heart. That is to say that it functions to decrease the heart rate. Following coronary bypass surgery a high stress environment persists which induces an increase in heart rate (He et al. 2015).
Is tachycardia common after open heart surgery?
Atrial tachycardias are common after open heart surgery. Most commonly these are macro-reentrant including cavotricuspid isthmus dependent atrial flutter, incisional right atrial flutter and left atrial flutter. Focal atrial tachycardias occur less frequently.
Is it normal to have a fast heart rate after heart surgery?
If you’re about to have surgery, anxiety could momentarily give you butterflies and make you feel as though your heart is racing. But the actual surgery can leave some people with a rapid pulse and heart fluttering, known as post-operative atrial fibrillation, or afib.
Does resting heart rate go up after surgery?
Pulse rate: Resting pulse rate was unchanged after surgery. During orthostatic stress, the pulse difference between the standing and lying positions was significantly higher (about 9 per cent) 10 days after operation, but not 20 and 30 days after operation, compared to the preoperative tests (Fig. 3).
When should you go to the hospital for rapid heart rate?
If you’re sitting down and feeling calm, your heart shouldn’t beat more than about 100 times per minute. A heartbeat that’s faster than this, also called tachycardia, is a reason to come to the emergency department and get checked out.
What are the side effects of bypass surgery?
Side effects of surgery
- loss of appetite.
- swelling or pins and needles where the blood vessel graft was removed.
- muscle pain or back pain.
- tiredness and difficulty sleeping.
- feeling upset and having mood swings.
Is it normal to be short of breath after open heart surgery?
Postoperative dyspnea is common after cardiac surgery, even in low-risk patients.
What is considered a dangerously high heart rate?
Tachycardia refers to a heart rate that’s too fast. How that’s defined may depend on your age and physical condition. Generally speaking, for adults, a heart rate of more than 100 beats per minute (BPM) is considered too fast.
How do you calm a racing heart?
If you think you’re having an attack, try these to get your heartbeat back to normal:
- Breathe deeply. It will help you relax until your palpitations pass.
- Splash your face with cold water. It stimulates a nerve that controls your heart rate.
- Don’t panic. Stress and anxiety will make your palpitations worse.
Is 130 resting heart rate bad?
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Future-forward forestry: ARM builds capacity for long-term land management
August 4, 2020 By Maria Church
When forester Gord Chipman talks about what makes Alkali Resource Management (ARM) a unique forest company in B.C., he mentions four priorities: management for health and safety of the land, biomass utilization for fossil fuel displacement, implementing low intensity fire on the land frequently and, perhaps most importantly, community capacity building.
“These four things really differentiate us from other forest companies,” Chipman says.
Chipman is the forest manager for ARM, the arms-length company owned by the Esk’etemc First Nation that manages around 80,000 hectares of land on some of the band’s traditional territory just south of Williams Lake, B.C.
As a forest company owned and staffed by the community, ARM considers a lot more than just the bottom line, Chipman says.
“We’re not one of the big companies managing the resources. It is run by the people and it’s where they’ve lived, and have always lived for thousands of years, and where their future generations will live. So, there is an inherent responsibility to manage the land at a sustainable level and deal with problems we have in the forest,” he says.
ARM was created in 2005 to manage the Esk’etemc’s forest tenures. Today those tenures include a 600-hectare wood lot, a 30,000-hectare community forest, and a First Nation woodland area-based tenure that is around 50,000 hectares.
The company employs more than 100 people, and contracts out harvesting to five regular logging outfits – Deadwood Contracting, Green Gold Logging, Ecolink Forestry Services, L Hinche Enterprises, and D Pope Contracting. ARM will typically log around 150,000 cubic metres a year, which is sold on the open market to regional sawmills.
Trees are harvested full tree in 16- or 20-foot lengths, cut at the landing or roadside with a dangle-head processor. Mainly skidders are used, but one contractor, Daryl Pope, uses a Valmet forwarder. Piece sizes range drastically from 15 to 70 centimetres in diameter.
The forests on the Esk’etemc’s territory are classified as dry belt Douglas fir. Annual rainfall factors in heavily to the forests’ growth, and dry periods commonly cause the trees to go dormant.
“Our forests are too dense and when precipitation is the most limiting factor, what happens is you have these really thick forests and they sit there stagnant until they are thinned out. The natural way to thin out these forests used to be frequent, low-intensity fires,” Chipman says.
But decades of wildfire suppression have allowed the forests to continue to thicken, overtaking former grasslands and building up the fuel load. In 2017 and 2018, the Esk’etemc’s territory was heavily hit by massive, out-of-control wildfires that levelled the forests. Stands that weren’t decimated by the mega fires are battling insect infestations like the spruce budworm, Douglas fir bark beetle, and, most recently, the tussock moth, Chipman says.
“It’s challenging for us because it seems like all we do is salvage dead trees,” he says. That salvage mentality means there is little time or money spent on forest planning for the future.
“We have so much dead timber, most of the planners don’t know where they are going to be five years from now because the trees haven’t died yet. Every year everyone is reacting to salvage and that creates bad decisions from a cumulative-impacts perspective or business-development perspective or sustainability perspective,” Chipman says.
Recently, ARM has begun to take advantage of a silver lining from salvage operations.
While the company has been doing tree thinning for decades, it’s an expensive treatment and the residual slash piles were either left in the bush, or, when feasible, burned. Recognizing the need to clear out that biomass to prevent future high-intensity forest fires, ARM applied and was granted funding from the Forest Enhancement Society of B.C. (FESBC) to support a biomass harvesting project.
The company contracted Celtic and Eldorado Construction to grind the forest residuals from thinning treatments. Celtic and Eldorado gets the job done with a CBI grinder and an older Timberjack loader.
ARM also assisted one of its contracted haulers – JMax Enterprises – to purchase chip trucks with 53-foot walking floor trailers in order to transport the chips out of the bush.
Some of the chips will soon be heading directly into the community for fuel. In 2018, Esk’etemc began a project to install a biomass district energy system to heat community buildings. The project, which was up and running last spring, fulfills the community’s desire to reduce its dependence on fossil fuels.
The district energy system consumes about 500 tonnes of biomass a year, which is a fraction of the volume harvested by ARM. Last year, ARM signed agreements with Pinnacle Renewable Energy – a wood pellet producer with several plants in B.C. – to provide 25,000 tonnes and has agreed to enter into an agreement with Atlantic Power’s biomass generating station in Williams Lake, to supply 10,000 tonnes of biomass.
The on-reserve community of the Esk’etemc First Nation is about 450 people, located 50 kilometres south of Williams Lake, just east of the Fraser River.
“We have a lot of history of forest management in the community. There are a few families here in their third or fourth generation of being involved with forestry,” Chipman says.
Over the past 10 years, nine community members have graduated from university or technical school in resource management and most are now working for ARM in various roles.
Funding through FESBC, the provincial and federal governments over the years has gone a long way to help build up more capacity in the community to keep people employed and actively engaged in forestry, Chipman says.
“That’s the only way we’ve weathered the storm with the bad economy and sawmills not accepting wood or shutting down – we went to the trough and got funding, which is a good and long-overdue investment,” he says.
Over time, as their capacity builds, the company will be able to more proactively manage the entire Esk’etemc territory, which is also long overdue.
“The goal is to increase the value per hectare out of our forest and get rid of the wasteful ways that we manage our forests, but we need to get out of the cycle of salvaging trees. We need to get back to where we are managing the forest instead of just reacting to it. We need to do more density management, whether it’s around the communities for fuel reduction or out in the hinterland because they are over grown,” Chipman says.
For the average Esk’etemc band member, land management means considering water quality, ungulate, bird and fish habitat and preservation of shrubs and berry species, Chipman says.
“There’s a lot of conversations going on right now between the five Secwepemc communities here to establish what the forest should look like. Hopefully that will lead to action and different management,” he says. “That’s going to be the future – people-based, long-term solutions to the health of our forest.”
ARM’s loggers use a variety of equipment to harvest the mainly salvage wood in the Esk’etemc’s tenures.
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Week 3 Activity – Operations Plan Activity 1
Overview Physician Administrators need to understand the many components of a healthcare practice they will lead and manage. Throughout this course, you will learn about the different administrative responsibilities you as a leader will need to understand and manage by developing an operations plan.
InstructionsThis activity will prepare you for the assignments in the course which breaks down the development of the operations plan into four parts. To accomplish this, you will need to research and understand what an operations plan is.
For this activity, you will complete the following in a 1–2 page summary. Include a minimum of two resources.
Define an operations plan.
Identify the key components of an operations plan.
Describe each of the key components.
Summarize the findings in the conclusion and include a minimum of two resources with intext citation, and a reference page.
Note: Include a cover page and reference page as required in the SWS Writing Standards.
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Home of the Hon. James Crooks, West Flamborough, Ontario, ca 1880
The area has a long history of human occupation. There is evidence in the immediate area of Paleo-Indian occupation. Later, the area was inhabited by the aboriginal people known variously as the Neutral or Attawandaron until they were annihilated by the Iroquois nations from what is now New York State. The first recorded visit to the area by Europeans was on September 24, 1669, when the French explorers La Salle and Joliet met near Tinawatawa, now Westover. When New France was conquered by the British in 1763, the territory became part of the British Empire.
After the American Revolution in 1783 and the creation of Upper Canada, land at the western end of Lake Ontario was surveyed and organized into townships, which included East Flamborough, West Flamborough and Beverly. Governor's Road (also known as Queen's Highway 99 and later Regional Roads 399 and 299) was built on the border with neighbouring Ancaster Township in 1794–95, linking York (later Toronto) and London.
The three townships and Village of Waterdown were founding constituents of Wentworth County in 1816. The Village of Waterdown was created in 1879 from that part of East Flamborough above the Niagara Escarpment and within approximately a kilometre of King's Highway No. 5 (Dundas Street). The Town of Dundas was created from parts of West Flamborough and Ancaster Townships.
Lionel Beaumaurice "Leo" Clarke was born near Waterdown in 1892, and his family left for Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1903. During the First World War, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and fought in France. On September 9, 1916, during the Battle of Somme, Corporal L.B. Clarke single-handedly repulsed a German attack. Unfortunately, he was killed in combat on October 19, 1916 before he could receive his Victoria Cross. | <urn:uuid:43d402d2-0706-4f59-9ccb-05db60397f6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://elocalpost.com/fairbank/contents/history-of-flamborough-history | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.981198 | 412 | 2.546875 | 3 |
OHA awards $600K to support Native Hawaiian education and community events
Grant awards totaling more than $600,000 are the first to be announced this year by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The Community Grants – Education and ʻAhahui Grants categories
This is the first of four grant award cycles that OHA will conduct over the course of the year for the ‘Ahahui Grants program, with the first increment focused on community grants and education.
The OHA Community Grants – Education purpose is to support culture and community-based programming that utilize ʻōlelo Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian language) and nohona Hawaiʻi (Hawaiian way of life) to meet the educational needs of families and communities.
A $220,000 community grant to support the Hoʻokākoʻo Corporation’s “Ke Awa Ho‘omalu (Safe Harbor)” program is one of three education-focused grant awards announced by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
The two-year OHA grant will increase access for school-aged Native Hawaiian children and their families to Hawaiian culture-based educational, behavioral, and mental health services. Ke Awa Hoʻomalu will be implemented at Kualapuʻu Preschool and Elementary on Molokaʻi, and Waimea Middle School on Hawaiʻi Island.
Additional education awards went to the Educational Services Hawaiʻi Foundation, a $180,000 grant to support their ‘Imi ‘Ike Learning Centers on Oʻahu, Hawaiʻi Island, Maui, Molokaʻi and Kauaʻi; and to Laʻiōpua 2020, a $141,000 award for its “Waʻa Project” on Hawaiʻi Island intended to close the educational achievement gap currently experienced by haumāna by improving their knowledge of Native Hawaiian language and culture and traditional learning systems.
The ‘Ahahui Grant program provides funding support to nonprofit organizations hosting a one-time community event that aligns with OHA’s strategic plan framework and provides significant benefits to the Native Hawaiian community.
ʻAhahui awards totaling $72,170 went to 10 organizations in cycle one. They include:
- $10,000 award to Aloha Week Hawaiʻi (Aloha Festivals Parade);
- $10,000 to Laʻiōpua (Kona Mele – A Tribute to Kona);
- $9,900 to ODKF Support (Duke’s Ocean Fest),
- $9,000 to Big Island Substance Abuse Council (Summer Jam);
- $8,200 to Ke Ao Haliʻi (Pule ʻĀina o Mokae a me Makaʻalae);
- $7,500 to Na Mamo O Muʻolea (Hanana No Nā Limu);
- $5,050 to Adult Friends for Youth (PEARL Convention),
- $5,400 to Kaikeha, INC., (Garden Island Boogie Board Classic and Hubb Keiki Fest);
- $4,600 to Hana Arts (Uniting the East Maui Community); and
- $2,520 to Ka Laʻi a ʻEhu (Lā Kūpuna and Lā ʻEhunui).
A total of 13 grant categories will be funded by OHA this year.
OHA awarded some $16 million in grants to community organizations last fiscal year, a record for the agency. OHA’s Grants Program represents the largest chunk of the organization’s yearly budget, and supports Hawaiʻi-based nonprofit organizations that have projects, programs and initiatives that serve the lāhui in alignment with the agency’s Mana i Mauli Ola strategic plan.
“OHA cannot achieve its vision of raising a beloved lāhui alone, and it is our goal to support community organizations and entities that are already successfully serving the lāhui in the areas of education, health, housing and economics. By collaborating in a spirit of lōkahi we can together accomplish so much more,” said OHA Board Chair Carmen “Hulu” Lindsey in a press release announcement. | <urn:uuid:185b7482-d411-4100-bfde-335987f0a92b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.shaneperrymarketing.com/oha-awards-600k-to-support-native-hawaiian-education-and-community-events/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.92938 | 921 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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He later became a shinobi under Zabuza Momochis tutelage whom he later partnered with ultimately becoming a Mercenary Ninja. Conversely the umount 8 command will detach it again. Corrugated iron litters the streets of Lifuka Island Tonga following Cyclone Ian in January 2014.
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An organization describes its objective and goals through a mission and vision statement. At The DAVIS Companies we recently created a focus group program. There are five focus groups each meeting to improve a certain area of our business. This is a voluntary program and involves all of our offices across all different departments. What the teams have first been tasked with is to come up with their mission statements, vision statements and goals for Q1. Many asked the question, “What is the different between the mission statement and the vision statement?” In today’s blog I am going to break down the key differences between a vision and mission statement.
The mission statement concentrates on the present. It typically answers the question, “Why do we exist?” The mission statement defines the goals, ethics and/or culture. It can be so well defined that it feels like a strategy. Mission statements create clarity, and set direction for its employees.
Examples of Mission Statements:
- Google’s mission statement is, “To organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
- Facebook’s mission statement is, “Give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected.”
A vision statement answers the questions, “Where do you want to be? Or, what does the future look like?” The way I assist the vision making process is for everyone to close their eyes and look past the present and envision the future of the team. What does it look like? Your vision statement usually describes a brighter future, instills hope and aligns with the organization’s values and culture. The vision statement, some would say, comes from the heart instead of the mind.
Examples of Vision Statements:
- Special Olympics’ vision statement is, “To transform communities by inspiring people throughout the world to open their minds, accept and include people with intellectual disabilities and thereby anyone who is perceived as different.”
- Goodwill’s vision statement is, “Every person has the opportunity to achieve his/her fullest potential and participate in and contribute to all aspects of life.”
Remember what Simon Sinek said, “People don’t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.” Take that into consideration when creating your mission and vision statement. Really think about your purpose as an organization, and why you, and your employees come to work. You are creating clarity and trust when building these statements. Make sure they are compelling, unique and trusting. | <urn:uuid:a0a7cb70-2005-4f91-9c65-957a7f6d0320> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.daviscos.com/the-difference-between-a-mission-vision-statement/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943166 | 531 | 2.328125 | 2 |
I have always thought this story is an unsettling mix between fact and fiction. Is the crazy beekeeper Albert Taylor for real? Is he serious about feeding his malnourished daughter tons and tons of royal jelly to make her nice and plump?
Eccentric character Albert Tayler refers to beekeeping magazines and scientific research discussing the great benefits of the magical royal substance. He tries to convince his wife with the “scientific facts”. For a long time I have wondered whether these scientific articles were real, or whether the amazing imagination of Roald Dahl had exceeded to the next level. Today, I want to find out.
Read the full article at: The Secrets of Royal Jelly – Roald Dahl’s version. — wiggledanceforme
And if this bit of fiction spurs an interest in science:
Secret of royal jelly’s super-sizing effect on queen bees appears to be special protein royalactin. 27 April 2011, by Bob Yirka. (PhysOrg.com) — In a paper published in Nature,. Japanese researcher Masaki Kamakura describes a process he used to determine that the protein royalactin, is at least one of the components. of fiction spurs an interest in science: [PDF] Secret of royal jelly’s super-sizing effect on queen bees … – Phys.org
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Fearing for their lives, Pantea Motearefi and her family fled Iran in 1993. But 26 years later, Baha’is in Iran are still subjected to fierce religious persecution.
Pantea Motearefi and her family were fast asleep when their house in northern Iran went up in flames.
Awoken by the blaze, the then 14-year-old and her family jolted out of bed and fled the property, hiding in a neighbour’s home until the firefighters arrived.
Firefighters and neighbours who witnessed the 1993 fire told the family they suspected it was an arson attack.
“A neighbour saw a man throw something [into the home] and how they started the fire,” Ms Motearefi told SBS News.
But no action or investigation was undertaken by the Iranian authorities, which the family suspects was due to them being adherents of the Baha’i faith.
It wasn’t the first time Ms Motearefi’s family had been targeted. In 1984, her father’s cousin, Jamshid Pour-Ostadkar, was executed by firing squad alongside five other Baha’is.
Mr Pour-Ostadkar was one of around 200 other Baha’is who were killed in targeted executions following the Iranian revolution, leaving his wife a single mother of an infant son.
Fearing for the family’s safety, Ms Motearefi’s father sent his wife and children to Tehran. From there, the family made the difficult journey across the border into Pakistan – where he later joined them.
At the time, the Iranian government prohibited Baha’is from obtaining passports.
“The whole experience of escaping Iran was absolutely frightening. That took us three or four days,” Ms Motearefi said.
“That was the most difficult thing I’ve ever done in my life.”
Life for Bahai’s in Iran
Bahai’s – the largest non-Muslim minority religion in Iran – have a long history of persecution and discrimination.
Numerous United Nations Special Rapporteurs reports into human rights in Iran have reported Baha’is facing arbitrary arrests, beatings, executions, land confiscations, the denial of employment, restricted access to higher education, and authorities revoking business licenses.
“It’s state-sponsored persecution and it’s impacted the lives of generations from young infants to the frail and elderly,” said Venus Khalessi of the Australian Baha’i community.
“Even the dead are not spared, graves are desecrated, historical and cultural sites have been destroyed.
“And it’s safe to say that no Baha’i in Iran has been unaffected by this persecution.”
Land confiscations affecting Baha’is in Iran
The Australian government granted Ms Motearefi’s family humanitarian visas in 1995. But 26 years on, Baha’is in Iran continue to face discrimination, with a slew of recent property seizures by the authorities.
The Iranian government has recently confiscated land belonging to Baha’is in the village of Ivel. Land in the village of Roshan Kouh has been seized by the government, while the Iranian government has warned property owners in the city of Semnan of imminent seizures.
In the case of Semnan, authorities claim the lands belong to Baha’i institutions – a contravention of article 49 of the Iranian constitution.
Baha’i institutions were banned in 1979 by the Islamic Republic, and formally dissolved in 1983.
“We can see numerous instances where the law is being misused to deprive Baha’is of the rightful ownership of their property,” Ms Khalessi said.
“This is unfounded religious prejudice because Baha’is are peaceful, law-abiding citizens. They pose no threat to the government.
“They’re not aligned with any political ideology or opposition movement. They do not engage in subversive activity or violence.”
In the village of Roshankooh, the #Iran-ian authorities are once again illegally seizing the lands of #Bahai-s and are depriving whole families of their livelihoods. “If what you are doing is not illegal, why don’t you want us to film it?” says one of the women. #itstheirland pic.twitter.com/S6mUbpXdbq
— Diane Alai (@DianeAlai) November 8, 2021
Ms Motearefi’s uncle, a farmer who has won many awards for agriculture, has had 50 hectares of farming land seized in the city of Semnan.
Most recently, his son (Ms Motearefi’s first cousin) – along with five other Baha’is – has been served with a court order for the seizure of his properties in Semnan.
In 2012, the wife of Ms Motearefi’s cousin, Elham Ruzbehi, was sentenced to three years over charges of “collusion and assembly against national security” and “propaganda against the regime” after the family’s house was raided by authorities.
Ms Motearefi said there was “no proof” for the charges and that Ms Ruzbehi was imprisoned with her seven-month-old baby.
The international response
A committee of the United Nations last week passed a resolution calling on Iran to eliminate religious discrimination against Baha’is.
Australia was one of the 79 countries that voted in favour of this resolution, with 30 countries voting against and 71 abstentions.
Federal Liberal MP Ian Goodenough on Monday put forward a motion condemning the systemic persecution of Baha’is in Iran.
“We call upon the Iranian government to allow Baha’is to freely practise their faith, to not be subjected to arrests and imprisonment for their beliefs, to earn a livelihood, to access higher education and to not be subjected to hatred and discrimination as a result of misinformation about their beliefs,” Mr Goodenough said.
The motion was seconded by Labor MPs Peter Khalil and Dr Anne Aly, with support from MPs Jason Falinski (Liberal), Sharon Claydon (Labor), and Helen Haines (Independent).
Leaked minutes of a high-level government commission meeting last October revealed a systematic effort to monitor and suppress Baha’is in Iran.
The official Iranian directive, revealed by The League for the Defence of Human Rights in Iran, instructed local authorities in the city of Sari, in the northern province of Mazandaran, to “conduct strict controls” on Baha’is in the city by “monitoring their operations”, and introduce measures to “identify Baha’i students” in order to “bring them into Islam”.
In a statement to SBS News, the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in Canberra said while Baha’ism was “rejected” as an official religion, “people of Iran, regardless of their ethnicity, enjoy equal rights”.
The statement denied reports of arrests of Baha’is, their business licences being revoked and the denial of education based on faith.
“It is surprising that, out of all matters, you merely posed interest to the claims of Baha’is in the face of all the injustices done against the people of Iran, including unlawful and unilateral sanctions, especially in the time of the fatal pandemic that has murdered many Iranians, including Baha’is,” the statement said.
“It is noteworthy mentioning that the claims of Individuals have been responded duly before.”
Ms Khalessi said she was grateful to the Australian government for its ongoing support to the Baha’i community.
“I’d call on the government to continue to signal to Iran that the world is watching their actions and that they uphold the human rights of Baha’is,” Ms Khalessi said.
“So that Baha’i belief and practice is not criminalised, they can access university… earn a livelihood in the private sector… that their shops aren’t closed or business licenses revoked, that they’re not subjected to attacks.”
On the occasion of students in Iran receiving university entrance exams results, Amnesty International stands in solidarity with the countless students from the Baha’i faith who are denied access to higher education in Iran each year. 1/3 pic.twitter.com/T70sIvUjU1
— Amnesty Iran (@AmnestyIran) September 30, 2021
“Something I’ve always loved about the Baha’i faith is that it’s all about peace, generosity, service to the community and society,” she said.
“We would love the whole world to be united…we believe in the equality of the human race and the oneness of God. And that gives us peace.”
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BY HOVSEP DAGHDIGIAN, VLADIMIR TCHAGHARYAN
A walk up Baghramyan Avenue
Marshal Baghramyan Avenue is one of the major thoroughfares in Yerevan. Starting at Place de France, near Yerevan’s Opera House, it proceeds about 1.4 miles to Paregamoutyoun (friendship) Square and the Metro Station. From 1970-1995 this avenue was named “Paragamoutyoun Avenue”, affirming Armenia’s fraternal relationship with peoples of the other Soviet republics. Along Baghramyan Ave. are a number of embassies, historical buildings, homes once occupied by prominent individuals, and government buildings. Many of these have affixed placards citing their historical importance.
Heading up Baghramyan Ave. on the right is the house-museum of famed composer Aram Khachaturyan. A bit further up is an attractive stone house set back from the street. In front is a 5-6 foot diameter inscribed stone disk memorializing Victor Hambardzumyan, noted astronomer, astrophysicist and founder of the Byurakan Astrophysical Observatory who lived there. A large building with multiple tall arches atop wide steps leads to the entrance of the Armenian National Academy of Sciences (NAS). The surrounding buildings belong to its various divisions.
On the right as well is a large, attractive stone building belonging to the Armenian Evangelical Church. Shortly after Armenia’s independence it housed the U.S. Embassy. Prior to that, this was the home of Artem Alikhanyan, world renowned physicist, founder of the Yerevan Physics Institute (YerPhI) and its Cosmic Ray Division (CRD), as well as the institute’s early laboratory. Affixed to a wall over the sidewalk is a placard commemorating Alikhanyan’s and YerPhI’s accomplishments. The U.S. Embassy has moved elsewhere.
To the left, further up the avenue before Lovers’ Park, on an attractively landscaped plot surrounded by a cast iron fence, is the National Assembly of Armenia. The building was erected from 1948-1950 and initially served as the home of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Armenia. Architect Mark Grigoryan received numerous awards for his design of this building, which is considered one of the ten most attractive national parliament buildings in the world.
Nearby on the right, protected by a masonry wall and gate, is Armenia’s Presidential Residence, more aptly described as the president’s office and reception area. This too was designed by Mark Grigoryan in 1951 for the Council of Ministers of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic. Upon independence in 1991 it became the official residence of the Republic of Armenia’s president, though the president actually lived elsewhere. When Armenia converted to a parliamentary republic in November 2018, the building became the prime minister’s residence, then when the prime minister relocated it became the president’s official residence. Currently this building is used to host foreign dignitaries and conduct state functions.
On the right, opposite Proshyan Avenue, is the equestrian statue of Marshal Ivan Baghramyan (1897-1982) and to its right his home which now is the British Consulate. Baghramyan, a hero of the Soviet Union, led Soviet troops in WWII and was only the second non-Slav to command the Red Army. As a young man he fought at Sarikamish, Sardarapat and other locations against the Turks defending the Independent Republic of Armenia.
Set back from Baghramyan’s statue are the buildings of the American University of Armenia (AUA) – founded shortly after independence in 1991 by the A.G.B.U., the University of California, and the Armenian government. Prior to independence the main building served as the Political Enlightenment House of the Central Committee of the Armenian Communist Party, used for political education. It was constructed in 1978 by architects Mark Grigoryan and Henrik Arakelyan, two of Armenia’s most prominent architects.
Opposite AUA is Proshyan St. Partway down Proshyan, to the left and elevated above the street, is Kond and Soorp Hovhannes church.
Kond, meaning “hill” in Armenian, is situated on a rocky hill and is bordered by the Hraztan river to the west, Proshyan St. to the east and Saryan and Paronyan Streets. Soorp Hovhannes church is one of Kond’s landmarks. The church was built in 1710 by Melik Aghamal on the site of an older church which was destroyed in an earthquake. Though Persians, Byzantines, and Turks fought and variously occupied this area, by 1502 Safavid Persian rule was established over much of Armenia, including Yerevan. Yerevan’s population consisted mainly of Armenians, Persians and some Turks/Tatars. Of Yerevan’s three main quarters, Kond, Shahar, and Demirbulagh – Kond and Shahar were heavily Armenian populated. Kond was governed by Armenian Meliks or local governors. Much of Kond still retains its old structures and narrow streets, though wealthy Armenians are moving in and replacing many buildings with new structures and unfortunately destroying much of Kond’s interesting character and history.
Alexan Hakobyan, of the Institute of Oriental Studies of Armenia’s National Academy of Sciences, states that Kond was likely fortified on a number of occasions though no fortifications remain. It is speculated that the old church which was destroyed in the earthquake of 1679, on the current site of Soorp Hovhannes, served as the church of the fortress and citadel of Kond. In and around Kond were found buried clay irrigation pipes believed to be either from the Urartian era or the subsequent Armenian kingdom. In the 1940s a silver coin of Alexander the Great (356-323 B.C.), coins of Antioch dating to the 2nd c B.C., and coins of the Seljuk Turk era were found in or near Kond. There also survives the remains of the 1687 Tapibashi Persian mosque in which some Armenians now live. When Persians lost Armenia to Russia, they exited the region. Armenians subsequently inhabited the mosque. Representatives of the Iranian Embassy have on occasion visited this site.
It should be noted that in the early 1800s, the actual city of Yerevan occupied about one square mile, much of it being part of Yerevan Fortress. This fortress was occupied by Turkish and Persian conquerors in frequent succession until Russia finally captured much of Armenia in 1828. Yerevan fortress was destroyed during the Soviet era and replaced by the Yerevan Wine Factory. The outskirts of Yerevan consisted of farms, vineyards and orchards, many of which were owned by wealthy individuals and farmed by sharecroppers. Kond was on the north side of Yerevan, north of Yerevan Fortress. Lynch described Yerevan as existing on two layers: the ground layer upon which business is conducted, and the flat roofs to which the population escapes during hot summer evenings.
Hovhannes Kozern and the Kozern Cemetery
Kond is bordered on the north by an extensive 10th or 11th century cemetery which was used until the mid-1930s. The cemetery boundaries are unclear but it extended more or less along Baghramyan Ave.
In the 9-10th century in the Daron region of Western Armenia lived a learned and highly respected clergyman, Vartabed Hovhannes Darontsi. From the time of his youth, he displayed a great deal of devotion, frequently being seen on his knees praying. Resembling a kneeling camel, he acquired the affectionate nickname “Kozern”, meaning “baby camel”.
Hovhannes Kozern was an astute scholar of the Bible as well as an expert on the Armenian calendar and religious holidays. Elements of his life are available in translations of Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, and Book of History, by Arakel of Tabriz. Two episodes are listed below.
In the year 1006, Byzantine Emperor Basil returned from war to great disturbances in his capital, Constantinople. Lamps did not automatically ignite during Easter service in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. Seeing this, the Moslems put the Christians to the sword. This occurrence caused heated debate among the Byzantines. What went wrong? The Byzantine emperor requested that the Armenian king and Catholicos send a group of learned vartabeds, including Hovhannes Kozern, to Constantinople to offer their expert opinions. The Armenians did not make the journey. Instead, they replied by letter with a detailed analysis: the Byzantines had miscalculated the date of Easter. After much debate among the Byzantine scholars, and consulting with additional experts, the Emperor concurred with the Armenian analysis. Subsequently many of the Byzantine clergy lost their jobs.
In October 1022-1023 the sky was described as “torn asunder” with a bright light coming from the north accompanied by earthquakes. The sun darkened and stars appeared. The Armenian King ordered the nobility to gather around Hovhannes Kozern to learn the meaning of these terrible, frightening occurrences. Hovhannes was on his knees, weeping inconsolably, stating disaster has been visited upon mankind. According to scripture, the devil had been bound for 1,000 years due to Christ’s baptism and crucifixion, but 1,000 years had now elapsed. The devil is now free and mankind faces an era of hostility to religion, lack of morality, priests will abandon their vows, scholarship will be abandoned. Mathew of Edessa adds that all these prophesies came true with the invasion of the Turks, the sons of Ham.
Later Hovhannnes Kozern moved to Yerevan. When he died the cemetery received his remains as well as honoring him by adopting his nickname “kozern”. Subsequently, when Catholicos Movses and the esteemed teacher Vartabed Melikset died, they were buried alongside Vartabed Kozern.
Little has remained of the Kozern cemetery after it was abandoned in the mid-1930s. The population in the region was in flux. After the conquest of the region by Russia and the Treaty of Turkmanchai (1828), most Persians and other Moslems left Armenia. Many Armenians relocated back to the relative safety of Yerevan, now under Russian control. In the late 19th and early 20th century more Armenians moved from Western Armenia to Yerevan escaping massacres and genocide. Some settled in Kond, and in Kozern erecting makeshift shelters alongside half-ruined monuments. These ultimately were incorporated into, and hidden within, permanent structures.
When, why as a result of what historical changes did the centre of Yerevan have to be moved from Erebuni-Arinberd, Aleksan Hakopyan, 2 August 2019, Institute of Oriental Studies of the RA NAS, available on-line
Armenia – Travels and Studies, two volumes, H. F. B. Lynch, describes travels between 1893 and 1898. Reprints and free downloads are available on-line
Armenia and the Crusades, 10th – 12th centuries, The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa, translated by Ara Dostourian, 2013, National Association of Armenia Studies and Research, Belmont, MA; an on-line translation by Robert Bedrosian is available at https://archive.org/details/ChronicleMatthewEdessa
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There was a gothic teenager eating with his mother at Denny’s last week. I overheard them ordering and when the waitress got to the boy he responded with “I want to devour the babies”. The waitress looked stunned. The mother leaned over and said “he’ll have some eggs”. That’s when it hit me. I need to build a chicken coop! And now, I need to teach you how to build a chicken coop.
How to Build a Chicken Coop and Johnny Law
I used to have a dozen chickens back years ago when I lived in the country, but today, I live in an area that isn’t the best place for chickens. I couldn’t let them roam and I don’t have a lot of backyard space. I live within city limits so I called up my city officials to verify if live chickens can be kept at a residential area. It turns out you can keep two hens for laying but they have to be cage kept. No Roosters!
Chicken Tip of the Day: Call your local health dept. /building dept. /homeowners association before you build a chicken coop to prevent “empty nest syndrome” when you find out chickens aren’t allowed in your neighborhood after you build the damn thing.
Won’t the Chickens Eat the Termites?
I’m really against putting wood on the ground in Florida. We have some sick termites down here. So when I looked at the chicken coops for sale around my area, I was shocked at how unprotected the bases of the store bought chicken coops were against termites.
It’s often that I use pressure treated yellow pine 5/4 boards for decking. This material proved to be best wood to use for my chicken coop base and is readily available in my area — but it might not be the best choice for your chicken coop design and the area you live in. Other natural materials like redwood, cedar or fir can all work well in many regions if it’s protected before use with a good quality outdoor sealant.
Because yellow pine splits so easily, I had to make a few repairs. I used the new ProBond Advanced glue that Elmer’s recently sent us to repair minor splits in the end grain boards of this project. It’s waterproof, is non-toxic and doesn’t foam up like other wood adhesives often do. Once I removed the clamp, the splits were gone for good.
I also used some metal roof we had laying around. I had a silver metal roof cap that didn’t match the green color so I spray painted it green and attached it to the top of the coop using 1/2-in. grommited metal roofing screws.
Chicken Tip of the Week: Chickens do eat bugs, but they can’t get under the coop to eat the termites. Protect your chicken coop from bugs with the right sealant/paint/materials/fasteners and it will last more than a season or two.
Super-Size Me – Sizing your Chicken Coop
After looking at three billion different chicken coop designs on the internet, I still wasn’t sure if I liked any of them. I kept seeing these designs for two story mega chicken mansions and it just didn’t seem like the chickens should have a better home than me.
Since I wanted to go portable so I could drag the chickens all over my yard, I decided my design couldn’t be bigger than eight feet long and just three or four feet wide/tall or else it would be too heavy to move around. Either way, it’s still heavy and I’m glad I didn’t super-size my chicken coop or I might not have ever got it out of the garage.
I built my coop eight feet long and three feet high. It’s four foot wide at the base and wrapped with a two foot tall piece of chicken wire. I ripped down 5/4 boards for the framing and screwed everything together using treated deck screws.
Chicken Coop Tip of the Month: Kiss your chicken coop. Keep it simple stupid! What are you a chicken farmer or something? The smaller the coop, the smaller the daily upkeep.
Chicken Coop Bling
My chicken coop was going to not only look good, but it was going to work well too. That’s when I started checking out all of the features that the millions of online chicken coop designs sported. I was on the prowl for chicken bling. Chicken latches, doors, hinges, feeders, ladders and bedding boxes all filled my mind for the first few hours of the design process. I surfed the chicken coop part of the internet for hours and I found tons of stuff to dress up my chicken coop.
But in the long run, I found out that all of these things just added weight, took too much money out of my budget and shrunk the overall living space of my feathered friends. So I KISS’ed my chicken coop again and shut the laptop. No chicken bling, sorry chickens.
Chicken Coop Tip of the Year: Reread the chicken coop tip of the month and keep it simple stupid. Why are you decorating for a chicken? Go to a feed store; buy a bit of hay, a metal chicken feeder and a no-tip water container — that’s all you really need besides the chickens. These three materials come in and out of the coop super easy when cleaning and restocking food/water/bedding.
HCA Coop Design: Handi-Chicken Accessibility
No matter how you design your chicken coop, it needs to serve two functions:
- Be accessible for feeding/watering/cleaning the chickens
- Be accessible for nesting/egg collecting/cleaning the coop
That means that little door on the end you’ve designed for access isn’t going to work. It needs to open up pretty wide so you can gain access to the whole cage. I wish I would have added another access on the side of my coop and I may decide to add a door later on down the road.
Chicken Coop Tip of the Decade: Who let the chickens out? Not you because you didn’t build enough doors on the thing. Easy access makes for a good design and you’ll thank yourself in the long run when you’re not crouching on your hands and knees through a door that’s too small for a hobbit.
If you’re looking to get more into the intricacies of how to build a chicken coop, BackYardChickens.com has some great additional rescources.
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We are very sad to say that cashless parking charges have today, 9 July 2018, started at Newlands Corner despite our best efforts to stop them.
These charges are not democratic, economic or efficient. They also discriminate against people on lower incomes and those who cannot pay by card or smart phone.
The document linked below sets out our reasoning against parking charges at Newlands Corner. We believe our case is unarguable. Surrey County Council (SCC) thinks it can make a big profit. Time will show it is wrong.
We are pleased, however, that, to date, we have managed to curb the worst excesses of SCC’s ambitions. We have stopped SCC developing a huge restaurant, shops and coach park across the view and a series of large artificial play structures through “one of the four most important ancient woodlands in Western Europe”. This ancient woodland is home to 3 out of the 12 most threatened mammals in Britain. SCC has not dropped these ambitions.
We will continue to challenge the legal and financial issues. Parking charges have been imposed against the wishes of the vast majority of local people and with a complete lack of common sense.
Our vision remains the same – Newlands Corner should be free to access, with its countryside left unspoilt and in a natural state. We will stay on the case.
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Leadership for self-organisation: complexity theory and communicative action Online publication date: Wed, 22-Oct-2014
by Keith Morrison
International Journal of Complexity in Leadership and Management (IJCLM), Vol. 1, No. 2, 2011
Abstract: Complexity theory suggests that leaders must create the conditions for self-organised emergence and emergent order, both of which value bottom-up development and move an organisation away from excessive or inhibiting bureaucracy and hierarchy. Communication, as a central feature of complexity theory, can facilitate the creation of the conditions for self organised emergence and order. Communication in complexity-theory-based leadership to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and hierarchy and to foster openness to unpredictable futures is argued to be illocutionary rather than perlocutionary. The nature of such communication is found in Habermas's 'ideal speech situation' and his theory of communicative action. Self-organisation, emergence and emergent order have to be considered in terms of desirability, morality and ethics. The illocutionary force of Habermas's 'ideal speech situation' addresses these in relation to communication, reducing unnecessary bureaucracy and hierarchy in an organisation. The paper argues that leaders can embrace the tenets of Habermas's ideal speech situation and theory of communicative action in order to create the conditions for desired, morally and ethically defensible emergent, self-organised, feedback-informed order.
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International trademark applications take a lot of work where the first step is to get a trademark approved once your trademark application has been approved, you’ll need to figure out how to get a trademark issued. Once you have an International trademark, you can then work towards getting a commercial, industrial, or academic use of that trademark.
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When you are looking for someone to apply for a trademark, it’s important to make sure they have the experience and knowledge in an activity that you wish to operate- you should search for international trademark services to ask them what their religious belief requirements are s is because they might not be familiar with your product or service.
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Thermal Energy Make up Work Name___________________ Class______________ Date__________ Determine if the following statements are true or false. _____ 1. Only warm or hot objects have thermal energy. _____ 2. If particles of an object start to move more quickly, the object’s temperature rises. _____ 3. Temperature is the same thing as thermal energy. _____ 4. An object with a higher temperature always has greater thermal energy than an object with a lower temperature. _____ 5. On the Celsius scale, the boiling point of water is 32 °C. _____ 6. Most types of matter expand to some degree when they get warmer. _____ 7. Temperature is a physical property of matter. _____ 8. Thermal energy always moves from an object with a higher temperature to an object with a lower temperature. Critical Reading Read this passage from the text and answer the questions that follow. Heat Heat is the transfer of thermal energy between objects that have different temperatures. Thermal energy always moves from an object with a higher temperature to an object with a lower temperature. When thermal energy is transferred in this way, the warm object becomes cooler and the cool object becomes warmer. Sooner or later, both objects will have the same temperature. Only then does the transfer of thermal energy end. Assume that a cool spoon is placed in a cup of steaming hot coffee. Once in the coffee, the spoon quickly heats up. The fast-moving particles of the coffee transfer some of their energy to the slowermoving particles of the spoon. The spoon particles start moving faster and become warmer, causing the temperature of the spoon to rise. Because the coffee particles lose some of their kinetic energy to the spoon particles, the coffee particles start to move more slowly. This causes the temperature of the coffee to fall. Before long, the coffee and spoon have the same temperature. Questions 1. How is heat defined in physical science? 2. Describe how thermal energy is transferred. 3. When does the transfer of thermal energy end? Fill in the blank with the appropriate term. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. The freezing point of water on the Celsius scale is __________. All substances have thermal energy because their particles are always __________. The specific heat of a substance is measured in the SI unit called the __________. A(n) __________ shows how hot or cold something is relative to two reference temperatures. Substances in the __________ state of matter usually expand the most when heated. Water takes up __________ space as a liquid than it does as a solid. Thermal energy is transferred between objects only when they have different __________. Critical Writing Thoroughly answer the question below. Use appropriate academic vocabulary and clear and complete sentences. Explain how kinetic energy, thermal energy, temperature, and heat are related. | <urn:uuid:5cf17e1a-7cab-4631-a786-d8d01f80d265> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studylib.net/doc/25331593/thermal-energy-make-up-work | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.886529 | 582 | 4.09375 | 4 |
Day-to-day diet planning can be a hassle and fall by the wayside if you get into a time crunch. To keep weight-loss efforts on track, take a few minutes every weekend to get organized for the following week.
One smart way to plan daily menus is to first look at the upcoming seven days of meals and snacks as a whole and then divide up the week’s worth of portions from each of the key food groups. You might get more whole grains on Monday and more fruit on Wednesday, but it should all balance out over the course of the week.
Now commit it to paper or an app. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has a free service called SuperTracker that lets you put all this information online through your computer or laptop. You can use it to plan every aspect of weight loss, including the amount of weight you’d like to lose and how many calories to eat in a day.
Under the “Food Tracker” tab at SuperTracker (https://www.supertracker.usda.gov/foodtracker.aspx), you can enter foods by meal, and the program will tally up the calories for you. The “Daily Food Group Targets” chart lets you know what food groups your menus are lacking or have in excess.
Once you have your weekly plan in place, you can make an exact grocery store list and go food shopping without being distracted. You don’t have to buy all your groceries at once if you like to shop more than once a week, but use your master list every time you go.
Always try to shop at least 1 to 2 days ahead of your needs so you won’t have to resort to fast food because you couldn’t get to the market in time on a particular day.
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