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Overview of the development of the Anthroposophical medical movement in Australia
Being in the Southern Hemisphere, a large continent of light, dryness, and spirituality, a small population and along way from Europe, the development of the Anthroposophical medical movement reflects the uniqueness of this country. Many threads formed by the continuous effort of numerous people from different countries have given a rich and unique colour to the tapestry of the Australian Anthroposophical medical movement.
European occupation and influence has a short history here but it is moving quickly to establish its unique Australian identity. The history of the Anthroposophical medical movement really began post World War 2 with the arrival of Dr Joachim Pohl and Kyra Pohl.
Dr Joachim Pohl gained his Australian Medical registration and worked as a medical practitioner and supported Kyras’ initiative to start a day school for intellectually disadvantaged children by training the co-workers and others attracted to his work. Thus both anthroposophical medical and the curative work were born in Australia.
As part of his medical work Joachim spent hours in the Australian bush acquainting himself with a whole new world of plant and animal forms, convinced that the forces in the Southern Hemisphere would create quite new remedies more suited to this country. He brought together a unique dimension of sensitivity and research that enabled him to make new remedies to replace many of the European ones and also provided treatment that he felt was more suited to the very different nature of his new homeland. The inspiration of this work was carried on in the biodynamic agriculture of Robert Williams
In 1958 INALA, the first Curative Education Residential School, was opened.
After the death of Kyra Pohl, Lesley Evans, a class teacher at Inala took over the task of Principal of Inala at the request of Kyra, shortly before she died. Lesley Evans remained in that role ‘till she retired in 1984.
Other curative homes were established attracting government funding and recognition:
In 1966 Susan Harris left Inala to found Miroma, a Day School for severely disabled children in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
In 1969 Karl and Hannelore Kaltenbach co-founded Warrah, a residential Curative Home in a semi-rural setting at Dural.
The Curative Education Association in Australia was founded by Lesley Evans, Karl and Hannelore Kaltenbach and Susan Harris.
With the founding of Curative education in Australia came training programmes, conferences and a nurturing of the therapies. Despite having few Anthroposophically trained doctors the therapies continued to develop. A number of doctors came from Europe for lecture tours and to support ongoing study. During the 1980’s Dr Wolfgang Shoene, a Psychiatrist from Europe who had immigrated to Adelaide S.A. played a valuable role in training.
In the late 1970s Erwin Berney took on the agency for importing the WALA medicines and the Dr. Hauschka Skin Care Products and established Helios. He has been the pioneer in this area of the Medical Movement and has been involved in research and development under the name of the Goethean Research Institute. His deep understanding of human nutrition led to practical work with the founding of the Demeter Bakery.
In 1983 ‘Helios’ went into the manufacturing of some of the WALA medicines under license. Erwin has been a pioneer in this area of the Medical Movement. Countless young people have been inspired by his Anthroposophical medical research, lectures and seminars. He went on to develop Educaredo, a Self-awakening Study course in Anthroposophy available by distance education and providing a foundation for other courses.
In 1999 Helios was taken over by Lars and Fay Brander who continue the work of making Wala remedies available in Australia.
Anthroposophic pharmacist John Reed purchased a pharmacy in Sydney in 1991. He now produces an impressive range of medicines, oils and ointments and stocks medicines manufactured by WALA and WELEDA. His work has greatly facilitated the clinical practice of medicine here, allowing medicines to be distributed nationally.
In 1979 Ulrike Faeste, who had worked with Dr Pohl at Inala as an Anthroposophical nurse, and who had trained in Nursing and Rhythmical Massage with Dr Hilma Walter and others in Germany and Switzerland during the 1950s, began teaching the first of several courses in Rhythmical Massage adapted for the southern hemisphere. Most participants of that first course were drawn from individuals who attended the early workshops of the Anthroposophical Activities Group, formed by Erwin and Ann Berney, Susan Haris, Mechtild Harkness, Doug and Marj Waugh, Leslie Evans and others, then active in Sydney. Ulrike continued teaching until 1998.
In Melbourne in 1975 Joan Salter (29.8.12 – 21.5.04), an Australian nurse, established the Gabriel Baby Centre and commenced public training courses in Anthroposophy and the care of ‘the incarnating child’ – the title of her published book. She was the first President of the Melbourne Therapy Centre Board when it began (1986) with the initiative of Maxene Hewitt and Anne Hapke. Both Maxene and Anne experienced cancer themselves, and were able to be treated in the Lukas Clinic in Switzerland. This experience so inspired them that they worked to develop a similar opportunity in Melbourne, and built a connection to Dr Rita Leroi in Switzerland. The initial doctors were Dr Shirley May, sadly herself lost to cancer in the intervening years and Dr Michael Glasby, now practicing on the Mornington Peninsular near the surf. The centre continues to this day with a small team of doctors, holistic medical practitioners, therapists, nurses and supporting staff which regulates the individually designed therapeutic programmes. A Brazilian trained doctor, Paulo Moraes, obtained his registration to practice in Victoria and has been the carrying doctor for this anthroposophic medical centre since 1993.
Since the early 1980’s Dr David Ritchie, Christchurch, New Zealand, has visited Sydney and other parts of Australia to consult with individual clients. David has also been a consultant at Inala and instituted clinics which were invaluable training sessions. He has been guest lecturer at many conferences and has played a major educative role for the medical movement here.
In 1995 The Australian Anthroposophic Medicine Association (AAMA) was formally constituted, through the initiative of Antony Underwood, Paulo Moraes and Sue Scott, and was initially represented by Dr Antony Underwood at the International Federation of Anthroposophical Medical associations. The intention was to represent the interest of Anthroposophical doctors, therapists and those involved in the manufacture of medicines at a national and international level. Full membership includes; doctors, therapists and allied health professionals actively involved in Anthroposophical healing methods. The name of the association was changed to Australian Anthroposophical Medicine Association. There were 72 Members in 2008, consisting of 4 Life, 6 Professional, 49 Members, 3 Student, and 10 Mail members.
The particular challenge of distance and isolation for Australia has influenced the AAMA to hold as an objective the organization of conferences and meetings to provide educational opportunities and collegial support.
Dr Michaela Gloeckler visits on a regular basis for conferences, in particular for 1995, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. In 2008, the IPMT was in it’s fourth year, and reflects the particularly Australian flavour where the attendance of complementary therapists considerably outweighs that of medical doctors. The AAMA has arranged popular national conferences for members plus educators and the general public for the last 6 years.
The Joachim Pohl Medical Therapeutic Trust was established in 1993 in Sydney to further Anthroposophical Medical and Therapeutic work in Australia.
Allied Health and Complementary therapies
Various individuals have trained in and practiced curative eurythmy, art therapy, speech and drama therapy. Where Anthroposophical doctors are in short supply they often work in isolation in institutions, schools and in private practice responding to the needs of the local environment.
In 1991 The Mercury Healing Group Incorporated was formally constituted. They run a training course in what is now called Etheric massage. This has arisen from the work of Ulrike Faeste as mentioned above.
The School of Rhythmical Massage was established in Australia by Elke Liedvogel, who asked Sue Scott to continue the school when Elke left to live in Austria in 1993. Sue is on the Board of the AAMA and has been an inaugural and ongoing force in the formation of this Association since its incorporation.
Barbara Baldwin, carries the pioneering work of Chirophonetics in Australia which was introduced by Dr. Alfred Bauer during his two visits in the 1980’s.
Psychotherapy and counselling out of Anthroposophy is a developing field with one course recognised by the Australian Association of Counselling (ACA): Metavision Institute in New South Wales by Christina Nielsen.
A training course is being developed by Joanna Jaaniste in Sydney.
In the late l970’s KNIGHT’S HILL was founded by Christo and Patricia Bret as a rehabilitation farm for young people suffering abuse or seeking freedom from drug addiction. Eventually Knight’s Hill was sold to the Wesley Mission and a trust established to support further similar initiatives. One such initiative was Regenesis, which is currently changing its form.
Extra lesson and educational therapy.
Since the early 1980’s Extra Lesson has been one of the continuous and growing streams of work which has had the medical support from Dr. David Ritchie. Lalage Craig and her colleagues have run an accredited training course throughout Australia and in N.Z.
Through the devotion of all those mentioned and not mentioned in this account, a continuous development of the Anthroposophical Medical Movement has taken place. Now the visible manifestations of the work, together with the invisible substance created, provides the foundation for the further development of the Anthroposophical Medical / Therapeutic impulse in Australia. | <urn:uuid:3e5b5e62-e0db-4b11-81a4-dedba67e9aea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aamaanthro.com/anthroposophic-medicine/history-of-anthroposophic-medicine-in-australia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96311 | 2,097 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Multi-speed COVID-19 vaccine rollouts likely to drive greater divergence in eurozone economic activity
Many factors may influence a vaccination programs success. Across the Eurozone roll-out plans will lead to a greater divergence in economic performance. Let's take a look at what we are seeing acros the region.
- Despite having its credibility on the line, the European Commission's handling of COVID-19 vaccine procurement has drifted from crisis to crisis and shows no signs of having a firm hand at the tiller.
- The European Commission's vaccination targets are achievable, but the stop-start nature of some national vaccination strategies injects substantial risks.
- Diverging vaccination rates may lead to a two-speed Europe developing, one in which some countries are able to reopen their economies and ease COVID-19 containment measures gradually during the late second and third quarters, while others stay mired in healthcare crisis and lockdown.
- The relative success in vaccine rollouts among countries could also result in a higher divergence in eurozone countries' economic performance, particularly during the second half of 2021.
The challenges faced are illustrated by uneven daily vaccination rates across the EU bloc, with some countries having more supplies that they can use effectively and others forced by logistical bottlenecks to limit the number of new first dose administrations given in favour of prioritising second doses. A defence for the slow rollout which seeks to claim that EU vaccination campaigns are not "a race for the largest numbers at the quickest speed" is flimsy. The deployment of COVID-19 vaccine programs in the region has always been about a numbers game.
The short-term objective set by European Commission of vaccinating 80% of national populations over the age of 80 years and 80% of healthcare workers by March 2021 is deliverable. However, the stop-start nature of some national vaccination strategies - characterised by uncertainty about the volumes of vaccine that will be available next week or next month because of ongoing disruption to manufacturing delivery schedules - mean that the EU vaccination programme appears to the most observers to be at risk.
Realistically, the eight-month mission objective appears to already be in jeopardy in some countries. There is therefore a real risk this could lead to a two-speed Europe developing, one in which some countries are able to reopen their economies and ease COVID-19 containment measures gradually during the late second and third quarters, while others stay mired in healthcare crisis and lockdown.
The implication is that large-scale vaccination is probably unlikely to result in a rapid return to "normal" for the EU. While vaccination should gradually lead to decreases in deaths, probably observable by in the second quarter, pressure on healthcare systems is likely to remain intense until larger swathes of the population can be immunised. As a result, some EU countries are bracing for the prospect of maintaining longer phases of COVID-19 containment measures and more months vaccinating.
Broadly speaking, the criteria for relaxing lockdown restrictions will require continued falls in the average number of secondary infections caused by a single infected COVID-19 case, analysis showing declining death and hospitalisation rates from COVID-19, and also no new major virus mutation in circulation, evidence that vaccine rollout is beginning up speed and reduced pressure on health systems.
The course that the COVID-19 pandemic takes in the EU is at this point highly uncertain. The implementation risks for national vaccination strategies are elevated and the prospects that the European Commission can quickly restore confidence in its failing vaccine procurement programme poor. Political infighting within the EU and disputes with non-EU partners, such as the UK, are a worrying signal of mounting criticism of the European Commission's handling of the situation. If unchecked, this could also give an opening to populist political parties to exploit in national elections due in 2021.
Diverging vaccination rollouts likely to have an impact on the pace of the economic recovery
The underwhelming start of the vaccination campaigns in most eurozone countries, alongside the risks related to the vaccine rollouts outlined above, also injects some uncertainty regarding the expected economic rebound, particularly during the second half of 2021. The relative success of vaccine rollouts among countries could also result in a higher divergence in eurozone member states' economic performance. The failure to successfully roll out vaccinations may also have major implications for the sectors that are being particularly hit by the pandemic, such as hospitality, transport, and tourism. These sectors are also likely to be the ones suffering more damage if restrictions will have to be reintroduced at a later stage this year. On the other hand, they are also the ones that are poised to gain the most once restrictions are lifted, as long as the recovery does not occur too late to avoid a large number of business failures in these sectors.
Indeed, fiscal policy's effectiveness in limiting the negative structural economic impact of the recession is likely to diminish the longer the pandemic lasts. Although most eurozone governments have pledged to keep supporting the economy for 'as long as it takes', the strong fiscal support is unlikely to prevent a large number of business failures, especially in the most affected sectors. This effect has been delayed owing to several factors, including tax deferrals, fiscal handouts, and insolvency filing suspensions, but business failures are likely to pick up steam during the second quarter of 2021.
It is also possible that the success or failure of vaccination programs may have an impact on sentiment levels. A strong acceleration in the number of vaccinations may lead to a substantial improvement in sentiment. In turn, this could help unleash some of the large build-up in savings that has been accumulated during the pandemic. This would very likely drive a strong pick-up in consumer spending and, at a lesser degree, capital investment during the second half of 2021.
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The biotechnology sector is a booming sector of the economy that has seen tremendous success in the stock markets around the world over the years. Even though there have been a few downturns in recent times, it is an ever important sector of the economy, as the health of individuals depend squarely on it.
The pharmaceutical subsector is not left out of this success story. Many of the big players in the pharmaceutical world such as Pfizer, Roche, Gilead, Astra Zeneca and so on, all grew from mere start ups to multinational companies and established themselves as major brands world over, with lucrative stock market shares.
While the big players continue to dominate, the field is large enough to accommodate the entrepreneur market and pharmaceutical start ups considering the huge market the sector tends to. As at 2011, the World Health Organization (WHO) listed 12,420 different disease conditions and health problems which all require one form of drug treatment or product or the other. Aside from the huge market, patents are continually expiring on many drug brands, creating a new market for start ups and entrepreneurs to explore their production at cheaper rates.
Entrepreneur Market – Setting Up Your Pharmaceutical Start Up
Pharmaceutical startups are springing up by the day to explore the opportunities provided by the sector. As with most start ups, the failure rate is usually high. To ensure a successful launch it is important that the first steps taken are right. Here are some important tips on launching a pharmaceutical start up:
Funding is the lifeline of a start up. Most start up failures can be linked to their failure to secure the right funding and investments. The team should draw up a financing plan and explore all modalities towards securing funding for the projects. Sources of funding could be by contributions from shareholders, crowdfunding, loans, and grants.
You can also apply for small business funding options from top, reliable financial experts which provides access to different loan products for businesses. They do this by matching loan seekers with available lenders.
Assemble a Team
The first step is perhaps the most important step in the success of the pharmaceutical start up. Identifying the right team members will go a long way in dictating the success and the pace of the start up. Identify motivated business colleagues, pharmacists, medical representatives, technicians, marketers, business advisers, who are all interested in the success of the project and have a lot of wealth of experience, skills to bring to bear. They should also be able to work properly in a team and identify with the visions of the company.
Identify a Niche
It is important to identify a niche. Niche in this instance would mean the group of drugs the company would be interested in producing or the line of research to tow. This choice can be guided by the available expertise of the team, available patents, demand, arrears of research paucity, disease conditions in the local environment.
Most major pharmaceutical companies were able to cut their edge through successful branding. It is important to position your startup towards a successful brand. Choose brand names for the lines of drugs to be produced that will be attractive to doctors, pharmacists, other prescribers, and patients. The brand names should be closely linked to the name of the disease condition and the company name. It’s also important you get the company name and domain name right. You need your umbrella brand to be powerful and compelling.
Ensure all your products are licensed by the drug authorities. FDA registration and licensing form the basis of legality for your pharmaceutical company. It also establishes trust and reputation for your products. Monitoring and evaluation:
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**200 copies, tip!** The idea of Dead Piano was born from the intention of using the sound of the piano in a different context, compared to what we are used to listen. Can this instrument become a different 'sound generator'? Beyond what has been done in the past, when many composers used a 'prepared piano', where they placed microphones near the strings, or pieces of metal that generated particular sounds resonating with the strings, the most recent technology offers many tools to manipulate that same sound, so well-known and unmistakable, and transform it into something quite different. Therefore it is possible for the piano to become a generator of percussive sounds, pads and drones, creating a sound palette that is reconciled with other sound sources becoming a cohesive and intriguing whole. The piano sounds manipulated by Andrea Bellucci, are perfectly integrated with the atmospheres generated by Cristiano Deison's machines, creating 'sonic landscapes' which complement each other. Not only melody then, where the piano can be considered 'the instrument' par excellence, but also the search for atmospheres and environments that can involve the listener, perhaps giving unexpected emotions. Dead Piano is a project by Andrea Bellucci and Deison. | <urn:uuid:36f966cc-fe65-47d9-9e3e-413e4bb8592e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.soundohm.com/product/dead-piano | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932865 | 247 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Star Wars might be the most unoriginal, best story ever told.
Everything from the plot to the setting to the main character’s name comes from somewhere else. And, as a result, the world George Lucas imagined instantly became a modern myth that remains as timeless today as it was 50 years ago. But above everything else he copied and stole, the best idea Lucas ever borrowed was the Hero’s Journey, a theory of storytelling laid out by mythologist and author Joseph Campbell.
George Lucas has never been shy about the influence that Joseph Campbell had on his work. The Power of Myth, a 1988 documentary featuring conversations between Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers, was largely filmed on Skywalker Ranch and features clips from Star Wars to illustrate its ideas. But the hero’s journey is also evident in the story of Star Wars itself.
Star Wars has used Campbell’s 17-step template from the beginning. Luke Skywalker had his hero’s journey, and Rey’s story in the sequel trilogy was arguably more faithful to the formula than the original films. (The prequels are the exception, depicting Anakin’s “Villain’s Journey” and fall from grace)
Over the course of their stories, Rey and Luke start off with a very mundane status quo – Luke’s a moisture farmer’s nephew, Rey’s a scavenger. Then, out of nowhere, they’re thrust into a strange new world, one only they have the power to save. Through a supernatural gift (the Force, lightsabers, etc) they’re able to realize the true extent of their abilities, even when all seems lost.
But in the world of Star Wars streaming television, the format is very different. The Mandalorian’s “space western” inspiration led the charge, and The Book of Boba Fett was unable to break free from that pattern. However, Obi-Wan Kenobi has already broken Mando’s mold with a plot that could very well become the new gold standard for the Hero’s Journey in Star Wars.
Obi-Wan Kenobi’s Hero’s Journey
Though we’ve only seen the first third of the series, Obi-Wan Kenobi already matches up perfectly with the Hero’s Journey.
The process starts with a call to adventure, which happens for Obi-Wan Kenobi twice: once, when Jedi-in-hiding Nari asks him for protection from the evil Inquisitors, and again when Bail Organa calls on Obi-Wan to rescue a kidnapped Leia. Why were there two calls to adventure? That’s due to the second step in the Hero’s Journey – the refusal of the call.
Obi-Wan doesn’t help Nari, and he sees the result of his actions later when the Inquisitors murder the younger Jedi. It’s this emotional moment that makes Kenobi reconsider his mission and realize staying quiet is doing the world more harm than good.
So he accepts the call, which brings us to the third step. As soon as Obi-Wan begins his mission, he mounts his eopie and rides into the Dune Sea and digs up his lightsaber. This is the Supernatural Aid step, which usually involves the gift of a magical object. While his lightsaber isn’t new, it’s a gift he’s allowing himself to wield. (As a bonus, Obi-Wan also digs up the saber that will serve as Luke’s supernatural aid years later.)
In Episode 2, we mostly see the next step of the Hero’s Journey: the crossing of the threshold. Kenobi leaves his self-exile and is shoved into a seedy underworld. Needless to say, he’s very overwhelmed and a bit rusty at being a Jedi.
In the last moments of Obi-Wan Kenobi, our hero finds himself another crucial step of the Hero’s Journey: the belly of the whale. This step represents the final moments before the hero is immersed in an unknown world. For Obi-Wan, this is when he allows himself to use the Force to save Leia. He’s completely thrown away all his convictions from the start of the series. He’s no longer forbidding himself from meddling in the Empire or using his Force powers.
The future of Star Wars TV?
So what does this mean for the future of Obi-Wan Kenobi? Well, you needn’t look any further than the rest of Joseph Cambell’s hero’s journey. We’ll see him on a road of trials, culminating in a final confrontation with… well, there’s a pretty clear candidate for who that will be.
And we know we’ll have a return to the normal, as that’s where we met Ben Kenobi in the first place. But is this format a new normal for Star Wars? If this series maintains the positive reaction we’ve seen so far, it may just set a new trend in storytelling for the upcoming Disney+ shows. Ahsoka’s already had a semi-complete Hero’s Journey in The Clone Wars animated series, but her search for Ezra Bridger in Ahsoka could be her chance to really delve into the unknown and realize just how powerful she is.
Even future series that may not be tailor-made for Campbell’s archetypes could use it. We know Cassian Andor’s huge sacrifice isn’t until Rogue One, but his new series Andor could reveal how he became so selfless. Skeleton Crew won’t have just one protagonist, but it’s totally possible for a story to have a four-person Hero’s Journey. Even The Acolyte, which follows a young Sith, could show us a warped anti-hero version of the cycle, of someone coming into their full power as a Sith.
Just as there is always room for more heroes in the Star Wars universe, there’s always room for more Hero’s Journeys. Hopefully, Obi-Wan Kenobi (re)establishes the precedent, and future shows will borrow what George Lucas also borrowed.
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Any organisation with a social purpose needs to understand values: both the values that its work promotes, and the contribution it makes to shaping people’s perceptions of others’ values. This guide draws on learning from a year-long collaboration between Manchester Museum and Common Cause Foundation, inspired by the work of the Happy Museum project. Over the course of the project, we developed new approaches to modelling intrinsic values (referred to as ‘compassionate’ values throughout the guide) in interactions with visitors, volunteers and staff; and found new ways to facilitate visitors in exploring one another’s values.
The guide is designed to help arts and cultural practitioners explore such questions as: what is our role in society? How should we be engaging with the world around us, and bringing people together? What is our role in promoting social justice and encouraging action on climate change? How can we ensure we’re places and spaces that reach out to and welcome people from all parts of our communities?
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Prehospital and Disaster Medicine (PDM) is a peer-reviewed health and medical journal that has been published for more than thirty years. PDM the official publication of the World Association of Disaster and Emergency Medicine (WADEM). The journal is published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) on behalf of WADEM.
The principal mission of PDM is the distribution of information relevant to the practice of out-of-hospital and in-hospital emergency medical care, disaster medicine, emergency public health and safety, and disaster mental health and psychosocial support. The journal provides an international forum for the reporting and discussion of scientific studies, both quantitative and qualitative, that have relevance to the above practices. It is one of the few journals that maintain a global perspective in the publication of disaster health and emergency medical information.
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Reporting from Jerusalem on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the political theorist Hannah Arendt famously coined the phrase “the banality of evil.” Roger Berkowitz explains what she really meant:
The insight of “Eichmann in Jerusalem” is not that Eichmann was just following orders, but that Eichmann was a “joiner.” In his own words, Eichmann feared “to live a leaderless and difficult individual life,” in which “I would receive no directives from anybody.” Arendt insisted that Eichmann’s professed fidelity to the Nazi cause “did not mean merely to stress the extent to which he was under orders, and ready to obey them; he meant to show what an ‘idealist’ he had always been.” An “idealist,” as she used the word, is an ideologue, someone who will sacrifice his own moral convictions when they come in conflict with the “idea” of the movement that gives life meaning. Evil was transformed from a Satanic temptation into a test of self-sacrifice, and Eichmann justified the evil he knowingly committed as a heroic burden demanded by his idealism.
“What stuck in the minds” of men like Eichmann, Arendt wrote, was not a rational or coherent ideology. It was “simply the notion of being involved in something historic, grandiose, unique.” Eichmann described how difficult it was for him to participate in the Final Solution, but took pride in having done so. He added: “if I had known then the horrors that would later happen to the Germans, it would have been easier for me to watch the Jewish executions. At heart I am a very sensitive man.” In a terrifying act of self-deception, Eichmann believed his inhuman acts were marks of virtue.
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Heavy Diesel Exhaust Linked to Lung Cancer Deaths in Miners
The findings are from the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study (DEMS). Launched in 1992 by researchers from NCI and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the study was designed to clarify the relationship between exposure to diesel engine exhaust and the risk of death from lung cancer. DEMS includes more than 12,000 miners exposed to different levels of diesel exhaust.
Based on the data, the researchers concluded that underground mine workers exposed to the highest levels of diesel exhaust were more likely to die from lung cancer than their colleagues who worked above ground, as well as those who worked underground and were exposed to lower levels of diesel exhaust.
“The results also show that the risk of death from lung cancer grew with increasing exposure to exhaust,” said one of the lead investigators, Dr. Michael Attfield, formerly of NIOSH. This phenomenon is known as an exposure-response relationship, he explained.
Many Studies, No Consensus
Diesel engine exhaust contains fine particles that enter the body through the nose and mouth and can leave deposits in the lungs. But even after some 35 prior studies investigating lung cancer risk in relation to diesel engine exhaust, the evidence was unclear.
"The results show that the risk of death from lung cancer grew with increasing exposure to exhaust."
—Dr. Michael Attfield
—Dr. Michael Attfield
A majority of the studies suggested a modest, but consistent, increased risk of lung cancer associated with this exposure. Many of these studies, however, had important limitations. In some cases, researchers inferred exposure levels based on a subject’s job title, such as truck driver, rather than quantifying subjects’ actual exposures.
To overcome these limitations, Dr. Debra Silverman of NCI’s Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics (DCEG), Dr. Attfield, and their colleagues designed two studies based on DEMS. The first analysis was carried out in the full cohort of 12,315 miners from eight U.S. nonmetal mines. (The analyses did not include metal mine workers because they are often exposed to radon, which could contribute to lung cancer risk and confound the effect of diesel exhaust.)
For each participant, the researchers developed a quantitative estimate of occupational exposure to diesel exhaust based on many sources of information, including mining company records and air samples collected in seven of the eight mines. In addition, they reviewed records on inventories of diesel equipment at each mine, including the year a machine came into use, and ventilation data over time.
Smoking and Diesel Exhaust: A Puzzling Interaction
One of the unexpected findings of the case-control analysis was an apparent interaction between smoking and diesel exhaust among the most heavily exposed workers. Each of these factors was attenuated in the presence of the other factor.
"This was very interesting," said Dr. Silverman, noting that the finding is the first report of this interaction and needs to be replicated in other populations.
The researchers offered a number of possible explanations for the tapering off of smokers' risk at high levels of diesel exhaust exposure. "It may be that smokers are more likely to clear diesel exhaust particulate matter from their lungs than nonsmokers," said Dr. Silverman.
In a second analysis , researchers conducted a nested case-control study, in which subjects who died from lung cancer in the full cohort were compared with matched control subjects from the cohort. For the 198 workers in the study who died from this disease, as well as the matched comparison subjects, the researchers collected additional data, including information about workers’ history of smoking, employment in jobs associated with a high risk for lung cancer, and nonmalignant respiratory disease. Information on smoking and other factors often came from interviews with a worker’s next of kin.
The results of the second analysis showed that workers with heavy exposure to diesel exhaust were three times more likely to die from lung cancer than workers with the lowest exposures, after taking smoking and other lung cancer risk factors into account.
DEMS is the first study to show a statistically significant exposure-response of increasing lung cancer risk associated with increasing exposure to diesel exhaust based on quantitative levels of workers’ exposure, after adjusting for confounding factors such as cigarette smoking, the authors noted.
“Diesel exhaust appeared to have a strong effect on nonsmokers, although this is based on small numbers of nonsmoking cases,” Dr. Silverman said. Among nonsmokers in the study, exposure to high levels of diesel exhaust resulted in seven times the risk of death from lung cancer, compared with exposure to low levels. (For information on smokers and diesel exhaust, see the sidebar.)
The new studies are “an important contribution to the body of evidence about diesel engine exhaust,” wrote Dr. Lesley Rushton of Imperial College London in an accompanying editorial . The findings are also timely, because the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) will meet this year to review the evidence linking diesel engine exhaust to cancer. In 1989, the agency classified the exhaust as a “probable” carcinogen.
Environmental Exposures and Urban Areas
The new findings are important not just for miners, but also for the 1.4 million American workers and millions more worldwide who are exposed to diesel exhaust in the workplace and for people who live in cities with high levels of diesel exhaust, the study authors noted.
Based on these reports and other results, “stringent occupational and particularly environmental standards for diesel engine exhaust should be set and compliance ensured to have an impact on health outcomes,” Dr. Rushton wrote.
“Society should endeavor to minimize exposures to diesel exhaust, and diesel engine manufacturers are already working on this,” said Dr. Attfield. Diesel engines tend to last a long time, however, so many people will likely be exposed to exhaust from older engines for years to come.
Newer, cleaner diesel engines have been developed only recently, Dr. Silverman noted. “Our study addresses the health effects of exhaust from diesel engines that are currently in use around the world—predominantly the old technology,” she added.
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I live with a ghost, or rather, I share an address with a man who’s been dead for many years. My house was his before I bought it, and such was the thoroughness with which he embedded himself in Royal Mail’s records that it’s impossible to remove him. Almost every letter I’m sent has his name on it; ‘Dr Dale Beckett?’ says each delivery man. I’ve called Royal Mail repeatedly to explain, but nothing doing. The doctor’s not for moving. And besides, I’m used to him now.
Dr Beckett gets my mail, but he also gets his own — each one a jigsaw piece of his former life. He was a psychiatrist, a gardener, a member of the society of hypnotists. On Saturday there on the doormat was another window into the doctor’s mind: a newsletter from Pipedown, the campaign for the freedom from piped music.
Pipedown has a distinguished set of patrons — Alfred Brendel, Philip Pullman, Tom Conti, Simon Rattle, Stephen Fry — and a pleasingly furtive font, so I took it to the breakfast table to read.
The assumption behind Pipedown is that throughout the 20th century and into the 21st there’s been a rising tide of background noise. Its real enemy is constant music — or Muzak as my parents called it back in the day — but any noise qualifies: sirens, planes, leaf blowers.
And if Pipedown’s to be believed, a really extraordinary amount of people find some form of everyday sound unbearable. At least 50 per cent of people would walk out of a shop with piped music, it claims, and when the train company c2c introduced screens into their carriages, passengers barricaded themselves in the toilet to escape them. Well, I would laugh — I did laugh — until it rang a bell.
Back in my travelling days, in my twenties, the rolling BBC news on the Heathrow Express sent me regularly into a rage. Just when you’d begun to daydream and anticipate escape, there was Evan Davies. And when, for an ill-advised few months, London’s black cabs had flatscreens, I avoided them. The Pipedown logo is a very satisfying drawing of a man at the end of his tether, clutching at his head. Its tagline: ‘You can close your eyes but you can’t close your ears.’ Quite.
On page three of the newsletter is the letters page (‘Positive and pertinent letters always welcome!’) — and there I find two, both written by a Gina Hazell. In the first she complains about constant TV in hospitals, and in the second she mentions that it’s strange that modern life is so noisy given that everybody wears headphones. If people like background music so much, asks Gina, why do they block it out?
And here’s where I had my Pipedown revelation: headphones aren’t incidental to the rising noise, they’re the cause of it. If the 21st century is really noisier than any other, it’s because it’s trying so hard to be heard.
I often pause on my way to work to read articles in a café in Covent Garden, and every time I wonder how other customers can stand the volume of the nonstop Ed Sheeran. I’ve thought: is this just being 40? But when I look around, almost everyone is wearing earphones. Of course train announcements are louder and longer, of course they’re endlessly repeated (dread phrase: ‘Once again…’). It’s all just an attempt to get through.
I read recently that British songbirds have started singing late at night because the daytime traffic drowns them out — and it’s true, I heard a robin at 8.30 in the evening last week. The dawn chorus begins earlier around major airports in the lull before the flights begin; whales sing louder in shipping lanes; and just as nature evolves to cope with noise, so I reckon the noise has evolved to cope with headphones. I’ve seen teens on bikes carrying speakers on top volume in their rucksacks. They don’t just want to listen to music — they want to be heard.
Pipedown regulars will be familiar with its campaign for a red button on the TV remote to mute ‘intrusive and often inappropriate music’. For some reason, says Pipedown, this is particularly bad on wildlife programmes. NB, it adds in bold, all sound including ‘natural noises’ is dubbed in later.
Does Pipedown suspect conspiracy? I suspect that programme editors are all too aware of a viewer’s fractured attention, split between big screen and touchscreen. Were I to write to Pipedown (and I might), I’d point out that the incongruous intensity of some TV music can be funny. You’d think from the Masterchef soundtrack that the contestants who fail a round had been given a terminal diagnosis.
Last Wednesday in the Guardian, there was a strange story about a mysterious ‘hum’ that millions of people in urban areas around the world all claim to hear. Every person who hears it has a different explanation — industrial machinery, high-speed traffic, propellers, aliens — and all strongly resist the idea that the noise is psychosomatic or in any way inside their heads. Well, there’s a home for people persecuted by the worldwide hum. Pipedown is a broad church.
I sat in my kitchen that Saturday, surrounded by hectoring voices. ‘That’ll be three coins — and don’t forget to eat your greens!’ said my three-year-old’s talking till. ‘So many channels, so little time!’ sang his toy remote. I could feel the spectral presence of Dr Beckett smiling.
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Bloemencorso, or “flower parade,” is an annual tradition in many parts of the Netherlands and Belgium in which sculptures and floats are elaborately covered in flowers and displayed in colorful parades. The small Dutch town of Zundert hosts a particularly large and elaborate parade each September. Twenty volunteer groups work throughout the year growing flowers (dahlias only) and building the floats. On the first Sunday in September, the groups compete in the parade for the title of best float (see this video of the 2012 parade). Some the winners from recent parades are pictured here. For more photos check out this photo set of the 2011 parade. | <urn:uuid:7d2bdd3f-5bd4-4fb7-9bde-7584f9386fea> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://laughingsquid.com/massive-flower-sculptures-at-the-bloemencorso-flower-parade-in-zundert-netherlands/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.932691 | 138 | 1.875 | 2 |
My tribute to Mehdi Hasan published here
He was the musical Midas who transcended borders with the same mastery that he transcended genres
Mehdi Hassan is gone. His devastated fans across the globe will mourn the loss of a voice that ruled their hearts for nearly half a century, a voice in which Lata Mangeshkar said she had found bhagwan.
Mehdi Hassan was born in a family of musicians in the town of Luna of district JhunJhunu in Rajasthan around 1927. Rajasthan is famous for its haunting melodies and the expanse of the desert, which celebrates man’s primal relationship with nature. Reshma is also from this region. Hassan’s father Ustad Azeem Khan and Uncle Ustad Ismail Khan were well known classical musicians and it is said that Mehdi Hassan’s first ever concert was at the Maharaja of Baroda’s darbar when he was just eight years old.
With Partition in 1947 this gharana moved to Pakistani Punjab. A young Mehdi Hassan took up the job of an automobile mechanic, something that he was supposed to have been quite adept at. But within a few years, it was his musical talent to which people began paying attention, and by 1952 he was singing at Radio Pakistan.
Mehdi Hassan remained a prized treasure of Radio Pakistan for nearly half a century. I remember growing up listening to his film songs, ghazals and thumris on radio. The launch of television in the 1960s provided an additional platform to Hassan and some of his memorable performances are from those black and white days of television programming.
Hassan proved to be a musical Midas. Whatever he touched turned to gold — from the poetry of famous Urdu poets to romantic film numbers.
The quality of his voice, controlled over the melody and the flawlessness of his musical renditions turned him into a demigod of film music. I have heard Bangladeshis praising Mehdi Hassan; Indians of course love him, and even in places where Urdu may not be widely understood it is difficult not to surrender to the magic of Mehdi Hassan’s mellifluous voice.
By 1960s, a special relationship between Mehdi Hassan and Faiz’s poetry had emerged. For instance the deeply lyrical “Gulon mai rang bhare, baad e nau bahar chale†by Faiz is a well recognized ghazal across South Asia.
Similarly Mehdi Hassan’s two other compositions, Hafeez Hoshiarpuri’s ghazal “Mohabbat karne waale kum na honge†and Razi Tirmizi’s “Bhooli bisri chand umeedein†are legendary for their composition and delivery. During his early career, he also popularised another Urdu Master, Mir Taqi Mir, and gave a new dimension to his simple, soulful verses. The best example of this remains “Pata pata boota boota hal hamara jane hai (Every leaf and every plant knows about my anguishâ€).
Judging by his repertoire, Hassan was the voice that connected the common musical and literary traditions of North India, which had metamorphosed into the bitter political rivals, India and Pakistan.
Noting the widespread appeal that Hassan’s voice garnered, Pakistan’s film industry was immensely enriched by Mehdi Hassan. At least for two decades he was the uncrowned king of the film songs, which were elevated to serious musical pieces simply by the magic of his voice. The two worlds of film music and ghazal rendition reinforced each other and even merged at times. For example two ghazals by Ahmed Faraz — “Ab ke hum bichre toh shayad kabhi khwabon mai milay†and “Ranjish hi sahi dil hi dukhane ke liye aa†— were rendered with extreme sophistication and mastery, akin to a miniaturist, for mainstream Pakistani cinema.
The other area of Mehdi Hassan’s boundless forte was his innate mastery of the folk genre. In particular, Kesaria Balam, the eternal Rajasthani folk song and even the Punjabi Kaafi “Bullah ki jana mai kaun†are two masterpieces that will always remain timeless in their appeal.
He adopted Karachi as his permanent home; and this is where his family lives now. I was fortunate to be part of a first ever book project on Mehdi Hassan published in 2011. In my essay, I stressed how Mehdi Hassan is not a vocalist in the traditional sense but his extraordinary voice and command over music was reminiscent of Tansen’s position in the age of the Mughal Emperor Akbar; and the latter’s various courts in Fatehpur Sikri, Agra and Lahore. Mehdi Hassan perfected the presentation of Raag Darbari (associated with Tansen) and popularised it in ghazals, geet and film songs. His true legacy was the continuation of rich traditions and innovations within the ambit of Hindusthani classical music.
Mehdi Hassan fought death for many years. It was a losing battle. But his immortality is ensured. Tansen must be proud of his New Age prodigy.
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Now’s the time at Ed Driscoll.com when we juxtapose!
- “FDR’s policies prolonged Depression by 7 years, UCLA economists calculate.”
— UCLA Newsroom, August 10th, 2004
- Two Years In, Obama Says Full Recovery Will “Take Us Several Years.”
— Real Clear Politics, May 12, 2011
As Mark Steyn presciently noted, very shortly before the man that Time magazine dubbed the new FDR was elected, other nations had economic Depressions at the start of the 1930s; the US had a Great Depression, earning that added sobriquet due to its needless longevity.
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The Hetu 河圖 "Yellow River Chart" and the Luoshu 洛書 (also written 雒書) "Inscription of the River Luo" were two cosmological diagrams used in ancient China. They were employed by both Daoists and Confucians and served to explain the correlation of the hexagrams of the Yijing 易經 "Book of Changes" with the universe and human life. They are also used in geomancy (fengshui 風水).
The two diagrams are first mentioned in the chapter Guming 顧命 of the Confucian Classic Shangshu 尚書 "Book of Documents", where it is said that the three precious jades and the hetu were stored in the Eastern Chamber. It can thus be assumed that the Hetu was a kind of jade stone, the texture of which was interpreted as the eight trigrams (bagua 八卦) of the Yijing.
Source: Zhu Xi 朱熹, Zhouyi benyi 周易本義, Siku quanshu edition.
The Han period 漢 (206 BCE-220 CE) scholar Kong Anguo 孔安國, author of a commentary on the Shangshu, was the first who who mentioned the legend of a dragon horse (longma 龍馬) that emerged out of the Yellow River. Its back was said to be patterned with the shape of the eight trigrams. The diagram on the back of the horse was the so-called "River Chart" that was fixed by the mythological emperor Fu Xi 伏羲 and was preserved in the shape of the eight trigrams.
As an auspicious omen, the horse is reported to have regularly appeared during the reigns of the virtuous rulers Yao 堯, Shun 舜, and Yu 大禹. Confucius 孔子 lamented that during his lifetime, the miraculous horse (often translated as "unicorn") did not appear again, which was a bad portent of unlucky times.
The "Inscription of the River Luo" is first mentioned in the book Guanzi 管子, where it is said that a dragon turtle (longgui 龍龜) left the waters of the River Luo, so that an inscription was seen on its back, actually also a pattern of the shell that could be interpreted as the eight trigrams in a constellation different to that on the Hetu. Similarly to the dragon horse, the turtle appeared during lucky times when virtuous rulers reigned the empire and ceased to be seen when bad and selfish men governed the world.
Both inscriptions are mentioned in the Xici 繫辭 commentary of the Yijing. The sage rulers read and interpreted the "River Chart" and the "Luo Inscription" and modelled their reign according to the evidence provided in the two diagrams. Yet the same text also says that Fu Xi invented the arrangement of the trigrams after observing the starry sky and all things on earth, but it does not refer to the "River Chart".
The story of the two diagrams as omina of a golden age is repeated in the book Baihu tongyi 白虎通義 of the Han period, and the scholar Liu Xin 劉歆 (d. 23 CE) said that the "Inscription of the Luo" was found by Yu the Great when he tamed the floods. He interpreted this inscription and came to conclusions about correlations between various elements in the universe. These are described in the chapter Hongfan 洪範 of the Shangshu. While the Hetu is connected with the eight trigrams, the Luoshu is in this narrative related to the Five Agents 五行.
Archaeological findings from the Yangshao 仰韶 and Dawenkou 大汶口 cultures show that the patterns to be found in the two charts and in the hexagrams date from the Neolithic age. The distribution of the numbers is also identical to that found in the numbers in the so-called "chart on the prognostication dish of the Great Unity of the Nine Palaces" (taiyi jiugong zhanpan 太乙九宮占盤) from the Warring States period 戰國 (5th cent.-221 BCE) that was found in Fuyang 阜陽, Anhui.
Because of their enigmatic character, both charts were used by the apocryphal interpretation of the Confucian Classics that flourished during the Han period. The bibliographic chapter Jingjizhi 經籍志 of the official dynastic history Suishu 隋書 lists nine chapters of text about the Hetu and 6 chapters about the Luoshu. It records a book with the title Hetu 河圖. It had a length of 20 (including the Luoshu 24) juan and was written during the Liang period 梁 (502-557), but was already lost during the early Tang period 唐 (618-907). The bibliography also mentions the books Hetu wei 河圖緯 and Luoshu wei 洛書緯, apocryphal texts with a total length of 45 chapters altogether.
Other books mentioned in that catalogue and parts of which have survived until today, are Hetu longwen 河圖龍文, Hetu kuodi xiang 河圖括地象, Hetu xiyao gou 河圖稽耀鉤, Hetu kaoling yao 河圖考靈曜 or Luoshu lingzhun ting 洛書靈準聼. Today, fragments of 120 Hetu books are preserved, and those of about 20 writings to the Luoshu. Although the compilers of the Suishu purported that these books were compiled during the ages of the mythological rulers of the past, it is for sure that they date from the Han period or somewhat later.
Tang period scholars were not very interested in the two charts. They only regained prominence during the Song period 宋 (960-1279). The Daoist scholar Chen Tuan 陳摶 (872-989) is said to have received a dragon chart (longtu 龍圖) from the Daoist Master Mayi 麻衣道者 and transmitted it to his own disciples Zhong Fang 種放 (955-1015), Li Gai 李溉, Xu Jian 許堅, Fan Echang 范諤昌 and Liu Mu 劉牧. Another group of disciples consisted of Mu Xiu 穆修 (979-1032), Li Zhicai 李之才 (980-1045) and the numerologist Shao Yong 邵雍 (1011-1077), who was one of the early Song period Neo-Confucians.
The great Southern Song period Neo-Confucian Zhu Xi 朱熹 (1130-1200) took over Shao Yong's transmitted shape of the two charts and used them for his interpretation of the Yijing, the Zhouyi benyi 周易本義. His charts can be seen in Fig. 1-2.
Interestingly enough, Liu Mu's two charts just had the opposite configuration of the trigrams as that of Shao Yong, so that Shao Yong's Hetu corresponded to Liu Mu's Luoshu and vice versa.
Apart from Shao Yong's and Zhu Xi's version, there is the Yinyang yutu 陰陽魚圖 "Fish chart of Yin and Yang", a very popular version of the constellation of the eight trigrams, with the trigrams forming the outer frame and a black (Yin) and white (Yang) field the centre. The two fields are shaped in curves (like swimming fishes) and creeping into each other to express the permanent fluctuation between Yin and Yang during the seasons. It is perhaps the most famous of the trigram charts and is widely used in Daoist circles, where it became THE symbol of Daoism.
Numerological speculation was very common among the Neo-Confucians. Zhu Zhen's 朱震 (d. 1138) book Zhouyi guatu 周易挂圖 says that the white circles in the Hetu chart sum up to an odd number (25), the black circles to an even number (20), with a total sum of 45. The white circles in the Luoshu chart are 25, black circles 30, with a total sum of 55. While the Hetu symbolized the theory and substance (ti 體) behind all things, the congenital and innate (xiantian 先天, pre-natal) nature of things, the Luoshu symbolized that practical aspect (yong 用) and the state of things how they were and live (houtian 後天, post-natal).
The highest number of the Hetu is 10 (note that the "ten" is distributed over two lined ontop and below the central "five"); 1 and 6 express the ancestral (zong 宗, Celestial) nature, 2 and 7 the Way (dao 道), 3 and 8 friendship (peng 朋), 4 and 9 mutual support (you 友), and 5 and 10 protection and safety (shou 守).
The highest number of the Luoshu in 9; head is 9, feet is 1, left is 3, right is 7, 2 and 4 are the shoulders, 6 and 8 the legs, and 5 is the number of the physical centre.
The Hetu also expressed geographical directions, each of the nine regions of the empire (jiuchou 九疇, jiuzhou 九州) represented by one symbol of the chart. The cipher 9 also stands for the Nine Palaces (jiugong 九宮) of the earth, while the cipher 5 represented in the centre of the Luoshu symbolized the Five Agents.
Qing period 清 (1644-1911) Confucians like Huang Zongxi 黄宗羲 (1610-1695) or Hu Wei 胡渭 (1633-1714) contradicted the cosmological interpretation of the Neo-Confucians. In his inscription Wan Gongze muzhi ming 萬公擇墓志銘 Huang Zongxi assumed that the Hetu and Luoshu were very crude geographical maps of ancient times. Yet it is more probable that the charts served as a theoretical illustration of the universe for the purpose of prognostication. The elements in the chart might also have symbolized the elements of which the cosm or the human body were believed to consist. | <urn:uuid:d6de87be-e37f-437b-beb0-4f737ffbdaff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://chinaknowledge.org/Literature/Daoists/hetuluoshu.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950357 | 2,418 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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Composer - is package app level manager for PHP programming language, that offers tools for managing dependencies in PHP application.
In the version 18.0.5 we started to use composer inside the product in development mode. It will be required, if you would like to use such advantages, as ORM class annotation and generally in CLI command line interface. If you already use composer in your Bitrix24 project, we have prepared a completed integration profile with your dependencies configuration.
First, you need to have an installed composer. The installation manual is available at the official website.
Below description will be based in the tact that composer is installed globally and is called by a simple command:
$ composer -V
Composer version 1.6.5 2018-05-04 11:44:59
1. You are not using composer in the project yet
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Ronald Gene Given thought someone was trying to kill him.
On a Tuesday morning in January 2019, he went into a Tractor Supply Co. store in Shawnee, grabbed a shopping cart and started to ram it against the shop’s windows. He pulled clothes off racks and threw them onto the concrete floor.
He was trying to make a commotion, he told store employees, urging them to call the police. After all, Given said, his life was in danger.
Shawnee police officers took Given, 42, from the store to St. Anthony Hospital Shawnee Hospital for evaluation, where health care workers cleared him medically but deemed him in need of emergency detention at a state behavioral health center, according to an incident report.
But every state mental health center in Oklahoma was full. Given later died after officers restrained him during a struggle at the Pottawatomie County jail.
Given’s death illustrates the challenges and shortcomings that law enforcement and detention facilities grapple with to care for people with mental health or substance use problems, a group that steadily floods county jails.
More than three years after Oklahoma voters approved a measure to fund county-level mental health and substance abuse treatment services, the Legislature has yet to send any of the promised funds. For years, a lack of resources and funds have plagued both the prevention and crisis treatment sides of Oklahoma’s mental health and substance abuse system, experts and advocates say. By default, many who need treatment end up in the state’s jails.
Tossed into a criminal justice system that is neither designed nor equipped to effectively handle the tide of individuals with mental illness or substance abuse issues, and with little oversight from state regulators, the result is sometimes injury or death.
Sheriffs and jail staff are often the first to admit they are ill-equipped to handle these people, who come with a unique set of needs, such as heightened monitoring and specialized medical care.
The issue is especially acute in Oklahoma’s rural counties where there are fewer treatment options and limited — sometimes nil — emergency mental health professionals to aid people in the throes of mental health crises. Law enforcement officers are typically the lone first responders.
Compounding the problem is a lack of effective oversight over county jails. The state’s jail inspection division, which falls under the Oklahoma State Department of Health, surveys jails and investigates deaths, but can do little to penalize jails when it identifies shortcomings.
The outcomes can be deadly.
With no mental health beds available in the state, Given stayed the night at the hospital in Shawnee.
Officers waited with him, taking turns in shifts until they could transport him to a facility.
About 12 hours into the stay, Given stood up from his hospital bed and decided it was time to leave. He stripped off his hospital gown along with one of his socks and started to walk toward the room’s door.
“Get out of the way. I’m leaving,” Given told officers, according to an incident report.
Officers told the man to get back in bed, but instead Given got into a “fighting stance,” balled up his fists and said he was going to make them move. He stepped forward and pushed one of the officers in the shoulder.
Police arrested Given. As an officer started to lead him to a patrol car, the incident report states, he was “passively resisting” by pushing against the officer and rambling indecipherably. Once in the car, he strained his body in an attempt to break free from the cuffs.
Officers returned to the hospital and obtained a form from an ER doctor stating Given was fit for incarceration, the incident report says.
Given was booked into the Pottawatomie County Public Safety Center for assault and battery on a police officer just before 1 a.m., where he stayed for less than 10 hours before he was released on a medical bond, according to a jail release report. He died in an Oklahoma City hospital about a week later.
Since Jan. 1, 2014, nearly 180 people have died in the custody of a jail, or after becoming injured or ill in a jail, according to a Frontier analysis of data from the state’s Medical Examiner.
At least 52 people died by suicide in city or county jails, which was the second most common cause of death only behind natural causes and medical emergencies. In many other deaths — such as Given’s — the medical examiner noted mental health problems.
About two dozen people died from causes stemming from drug use.
“You’re asking sheriffs in rural counties who operate these jails to take care of, essentially, individuals who have untreated mental illness while they’re in their jail with almost no resources,” said Mike Brose, CEO of Mental Health Association Oklahoma.
The County Community Safety Investment Fund was supposed to offer county jails some relief.
Oklahoma voters passed State Questions 780 and 781 in 2016. While SQ 780 lessened penalties for simple drug possession and theft, SQ 781 directed that the money saved from lessening those penalties go into a fund for counties to provide community-based mental health and substance abuse services.
The Oklahoma Legislature has yet to appropriate any money into the County Community Safety Investment Fund promised by SQ 781.
Though Gov. Kevin Stitt initially called for $10 million to go into the fund, he later signed a budget that instead sent the money to the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services’ Smart on Crime Initiative, which aims to divert nonviolent offenders living with mental illness and addiction away from the criminal justice system, and into intervention and treatment programs. The program also provides training to law enforcement responding to mental health crises.
ODMHSAS used the $10 million to fund 175 residential substance abuse treatment beds across the state, which are expected to shorten the state waiting list for those beds by 75%, according to the agency’s fiscal year 2021 budget request.
In the agency’s request, the ODMHSAS originally requested $80.2 million to implement Smart on Crime programs, which include treatment and diversion services. The agency later amended the request to about $115.7 million in order to fund misdemeanor diversion programs.
“We have not given mental health and substance abuse issues due attention. In the end, this has led to a fractured and fragmented system of care,” the request stated.
State leaders determined that putting the funds into the initiative would “best achieve everyone’s shared vision,” said Baylee Lakey, a spokeswoman for Stitt, in an email. The program, among other initiatives, aims to expand mental health services and drug courts in each of the state’s 77 counties, she said.
“Both the governor and the Legislature shared a goal of increasing support for programs that give Oklahomans a second chance, that expand access to alternative programs, and that address our high ranking in incarceration,” Lakey said.
Lakey said largely because of SQ 780 reforms, the Department of Corrections has seen a 7.6% decrease in the prison population.
Dewey County Sheriff Clay Sander is on a 22-member council that is chaired by Attorney General Mike Hunter. The council recently recommended SQ 781 funds be distributed on a county level.
“I can tell you in Dewey County we have not seen any benefits from that program,” Sander said of the Smart on Crime Initiative.
The Dewey County jail typically houses 20 to 30 inmates on any given day, Sander said. About half of them have mental health or substance use problems. The county has no treatment facilities, he said. The closest is almost a 40-minute drive away.
“(State Question 781) was supposed to be available locally, but we’re finding it’s not there to provide it locally,” he said.
Between 700,000 and 900,000 Oklahomans need behavioral health services, according to ODMHSAS. However, only one in three accesses treatment.
There are 632 state-operated crisis and inpatient mental health beds across Oklahoma, which are considered the mental health system’s safety net, advocates say. The state also has about 670 inpatient substance use treatment beds. The wait time for those beds recently has stretched up to six months, according to ODMHSAS.
About 10 years ago, ODMHSAS requested state funding for five additional crisis units. So far, the agency has been able to fund three. However, as funding has diminished for outpatient services, the demand for crisis care has grown. The state could now use three more facilities, agency officials have said.
Meanwhile, there are 16,106 spots in the state’s 131 city and county detention and lockup facilities.
“I only speak for myself, but like any sheriff on the face of earth that has the responsibility of running a jail will tell you, jail is the biggest mental health facility in any community,” said Rogers County Sheriff Scott Walton.
“And I certainly don’t like that.”
Agencies offer little information related to Given’s death
Ronald Given lived in Shawnee, a city of a little more than 30,000 people located 40 miles east of Oklahoma City.
His friends called him “Happy” because of the loud, deep laugh and boisterous voice he had, said Glenn Blankenship, director of the Shawnee Rescue Mission, a nonprofit Given received services from.
“He laughed at everything all the time,” Blankenship said. “Everyone loved him.”
The pair met about 10 years ago while Blankenship was running a day center in Shawnee for people experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Throughout the years, Blankenship said, his friend struggled with mental health problems and substance misuse, but for months, Given seemed to be on the road to recovery, only drinking alcohol maybe once per month.
His death “came out of nowhere,” Blankenship said.
It’s unclear what happened to Given at the jail.
A report from the state’s medical examiner found Given died from organ failure caused by cardiac arrhythmia from struggling as officers restrained him. Given became ill or injured at the jail and the death was ruled a homicide, the report stated. The report noted he had a violent mental disorder.
The Frontier requested video and incident reports for Given related to any injury or use of force at the jail, but the jail refused to provide any records other than Given’s booking and release reports, claiming all others were exempt from the Oklahoma Open Records Act.
The jail staff did not report his death or injuries to the state health department’s jail inspection division. The jail was not required to report the incident because Given did not die at the jail, said health department spokeswoman Jamie Dukes.
Breonna Thompson, director of the Pottawatomie County jail, did not return multiple messages from The Frontier requesting an interview.
Cpl. Vivian Lozano-Stafford, a spokeswoman for the Shawnee Police Department, said the department was told there was a struggle between Given and jail staff.
Asked how often mental health facilities are full, Lozano-Stafford said: “There are many times that there is no mental health facility available in the state.”
She added that officers will wait with someone at a hospital as long as necessary until a bed is available.
“It might be several hours,” Lozano-Stafford said in an email.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation opened an inquiry into Given’s death in 2019 and passed the findings along to Pottawatomie County’s district attorney.
District Attorney Allan Grubb refused to release the investigation’s findings after a spokesman for his office initially offered to let a Frontier reporter review the document.
Grubb has not filed criminal charges in connection with Given’s death.
Many people come into detention centers with serious untreated medical and mental health issues that few Oklahoma jails are equipped to treat.
State jail standards require facilities to complete intake screenings on inmates using at minimum, a medical and mental health questionnaire approved by the Oklahoma State Department of Health. The process does not require medical personnel.
When an inmate shows “significant” signs of mental illness, jail staff are required to monitor them “frequently,” the standards state, and the inmate must be evaluated by a medical professional.
Few Oklahoma jails have in-house health care delivery services, but some have nurses that will visit periodically, advocates and experts say.
Jail standards require facilities to have a plan for medical emergencies, such as identifying a designated emergency room or ambulance service. Determining what constitutes a medical emergency frequently falls to jail staff.
Diana Ortega is a licensed practical nurse and the medical supervisor at the Comanche County Detention Center in Lawton, a city with a population of about 93,000 people in southwest Oklahoma. She said the jail typically houses more than 300 inmates. About half of them receive treatment for mental health issues.
“We’re the last resort,” Ortega said.
Inmates with mental health issues there used to receive free medication from the Jim Taliaferro Mental Health Center, but following budget cuts to ODMHSAS, the clinic stopped in 2017.
Ortega said she and a medical assistant provide the only health care within the facility. It’s difficult to get doctors outside the jail to see inmates, she said. The jail often has to send them to the emergency room.
She gave an example of a mentally-ill man who was awaiting sentencing at the jail who refused to eat. Ortega had to send him to the hospital several times.
“Now it’s back in my lap of taking care of someone who is mental health,” she said. “My thought is, ‘please don’t let him die on my shift.’ I want someone to help me take care of him. I’ll send him back (to the hospital) every day if I have to.”
In 2019, 20 people died after becoming injured or ill in Oklahoma jails, records show. Of those, only one was in jail as a result of being convicted of a crime. The rest were either being held in pre-trial detention or had yet to be formally charged.
The Frontier reviewed five years of jail incident and inspection reports and found many inmates reportedly showed signs of mental health or substance use problems before their deaths.
However, it’s impossible to say exactly how many.
Detention centers are required to report deaths and serious injuries to the state’s jail inspector, but the agency does not require jails to report whether the inmate had mental health issues.
The jail inspection division investigates deaths and may issue reports citing any violations of state jail standards. However, it cannot issue fines or carry out any other punitive action.
Christina Tahhahwah was in the middle of a mental health episode when she was taken to the Lawton city jail in 2014, according to records filed in a lawsuit Tahhahwah’s family brought against the city of Lawton.
Tahhahwah, who had bipolar disorder, was at her grandfather’s home in Lawton when her family called 911 after Tahhahwah threw a cup of milk at a relative on Nov. 13, 2014. Her family, Tahhahwah’s father testified in the federal lawsuit, had asked police to take her to a nearby community mental health center.
Instead, officers took her to jail.
Tahhahwah, 37, was “banging and kicking” the bunk in her cell, court records show. The morning after Tahhahwah was booked into the jail, at about 11:48, officers cuffed her to the cell’s bars with her hands above her head, records show.
Just over an hour later, officers found Tahhahwah unresponsive, according to records. Emergency responders transported her to a local hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Dr. John Buck Hill, an anesthesiologist hired by Tahhahwah’s family to testify in the case, stated in a report that the position Tahhahwah was restrained in likely reduced her lung capacity and left her struggling to breathe. Hill noted that Tahhahwah was severely obese, which made the posture particularly dangerous for her.
The position likely led to a buildup of carbon dioxide in her body that caused her to go into sudden cardiac arrest, he said.
The medical examiner found Tahhahwah died after going into cardiac arrest. The medical examiner’s report noted that she was restrained, but stated it was unclear how it contributed to her death.
Tahhahwah’s family sued the city of Lawton for negligence, failing to provide health care and using excessive force. The case settled for $275,000 in 2018.
The city of Lawton did not return a message seeking comment.
Brose, the CEO of Mental Health Association Oklahoma, said Tahhahwah’s death was “tragic.”
“It represents things that happen in incarcerated settings,” he said. “And it’s a horrible situation, but make no mistake — variations of these happen and we can do a lot better with what we have at our disposal.”
Damion Shade, a criminal justice policy analyst at Oklahoma Policy Institute, a think tank, said the state particularly lacks resources in rural areas and was critical that law enforcement officers are expected to be the first responders to someone in the midst of a mental health crisis.
“A lot of times, it’s very unfair what we do to police. … Many of them want to do the right thing for their community,” Shade said. “They want to do good.”
Shade said there are many cases when officers are “forced” to take people to jail when there are a lack of treatment options in the area.
“If we really value our police officers, if we really value our law enforcement, we should not force them to have to decide what to do with someone who needs treatment when their only option is jail,” he said.
In some cases, advocates and experts say, it’s easier for resource-strained law enforcement agencies to take a person to jail instead of transporting them hours away to a state mental health facility that has a vacant space.
“I know law enforcement doesn’t always like to do transportations across the state because they might not have a bed space available in their region, but we have a bed space available in Ft. Supply or we have a bed space in Muskogee or wherever the place is,” said Durand Crosby, chief of staff and operations at ODMHSAS.
“And I actually get law enforcement’s trepidation to that. They’re tasked.”
‘The system is not equipped’
The Oklahoma Criminal Justice Reclassification Coordination Council, chaired by Attorney General Mike Hunter, released a report on December 31 that listed recommendations on how to improve the state’s criminal justice system, including increased mental health and diversion program access.
Mental health and substance abuse issues were two of the main focuses of the council, which met throughout 2019.
“Throughout the meetings, it became clear the criminal justice system is becoming saturated with individuals with mental health and addiction issues,” the report states. “and the system is not properly equipped to meet all the needs.”
County jails were especially not equipped, the report noted, and council members recommended the state explore diversion programs that would help people avoid jails entirely.
“Cleveland County Sheriff Todd Gibson presented to the Council and explained that the counties are not financially equipped to provide the mental health and rehabilitative services required for inmates at the county level,” the report said.
Gibson also noted in the report that jails were housing an influx of people with mental health and substance misuse issues in jails because of fewer felony possession arrests and more misdemeanor possession arrests following the passage of SQ 780.
The Office of Management and Enterprise Services estimated SQ 780 reforms saved the state $26.8 million in fiscal year 2019. The agency faced criticism when it projected $63.5 million in savings in FY 2018. At the time, the Department of Corrections and others called the estimate calculations flawed and inflated.
Ryan Gentzler is the director of Open Justice Oklahoma at the Oklahoma Policy Institute. He said the FY 2019 calculation was “much closer to reality.”
“But we believe it still overstates the savings associated with SQ 780,” Gentzler said.
He added: “That said, we know that SQ 780 is averting many prison days associated with low-level offenses, and funding treatment services through SQ 781 at a significant but realistic level should be a priority for the Legislature this year.”
When presenting the new calculation at a House interim study at the Capitol in October 2019, OMES acknowledged the actual savings are difficult to measure.
Shade said although counties would likely see some benefits from ODMHSAS’ initiative, much of the programs aim to divert people from going into the Department of Corrections’ system.
Voters passed SQ 780 and SQ 781 because they wanted people struggling with addiction or mental health to get treatment before law enforcement involvement, Shade said. Because the counties were promised those funds, the money should be invested in treatment, he said.
“Because that’s what people voted for,” Shade said. “In the process of decriminalizing, we’re creating a system where more people are in the county jail structure.
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The psychiatric assignment helps determine the patient's mental status. Recently, as a psychiatric nursing student, you have to take the mental status exam of your patient. You have to write your evaluation based on your analysis, intervention, and evaluation. I understand the first time must be difficult for you. So, you can take Innovation management assignment help from experts online. If you lack time and want it to be done fast, they can help you.
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As a psychiatric nursing student, you can only write the paper when you know what is exactly asked. So make sure you have clarity. When conducting the mental status exam, take note of responses and behaviour. Then, make a rough report draft of what you observed. When you write your final draft, you can take commercial law assignment essay help help from experts.
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As you are irregular in conducting the psychiatric test, be to the point. Your points should include prompts to direct evaluators to the patient's mental condition. If the condition is serious, highlight it. You should identify their state of mind through adequate identification. Do point out the same in your writing. Follow the format that the university has directed. If not, seek employment law assignment help online. This can be very helpful in the nick of time.
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You are just a step away from writing the perfect paper. Mental health patients tend to be self-centred and self-protective. Make sure that your words don't hurt them paraphrasing tool. You have to be friendly to understand their state of mind for your homework.
Understand that they are also a part of society. They are just mentally weak to deal with a situation they are trapped. It would help if you had a mutual communication for the progress of their mental health. When you make reports, and you are unclear about your patient's situation, then take essay editing from professional writers.
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Over the next few years, NASA is prepared to return to the moon with the Artemis program. And to celebrate the (still delayed) launch of Artemis 1, The Whisky Barrel has launched a single cask from Islay to mark our return to the Moon: Bunnahabhain Artemis 30 Year Old 1990, 54.8% – The 1st Launch Edition.
“The Artemis program is the final result of a number of failed NASA projects going back to the early 2000s,” explained The Whisky Barrel. “To cut a long story very short, after years of political rankling and financial promises, the Artemis program was named in 2019 and the lengthy plans and development began to focus on a first launch plan. Artemis 1, an non crewed lunar orbit and return was (very early) scheduled for 2017 but successive delays saw late 2021 as a likley date. However, this was further delayed with February 2022, or even Summer 2022 now the likley launch date. However, in November 2021 the Orion spacecraft of Artemis 1 was stacked in October 2021. We await launch. As planning goes, this superb whisky has not fallen to quite the same level of delay so in full anticipation, and so you can have it in your hand when the day of launch arrives, The Whisky Barrel presents Bunnahabhain Artemis First Launch Edition , 30 Year Old 1990.”
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So recently my three year old has decided that being a princess is the way to go. She has princess pants, princess dresses, princess skirts, and best of all, a princess dance. (None of these clothes actually have princesses on them. It’s just a matter of what she feels like wearing that day that makes it princess or not.)
It is fitting that I’m sitting by and watching the transformation of my regular old daughter into mini royalty as I am currently reading a book called “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture” by Peggy Orenstein.
I’m only shortly into the book but I’ve already read some fascinating information. Here are two studies by researchers that really caught my attention.
The First Study
Researchers took two groups of middle school age girls and showed them a series of commercials and then had them fill out a survey asking them what they wanted to be when they grow up.
One of the groups watched commercials of neutral things like phones and pens.
The second group of students watched the same commercials but this time they added two commercials that showed women in traditional gender roles. The commercials were for things like acne medicine or brownies with images of women smiling over the stove.
After the kids watched the commercials they had them fill out a questionnaire asking them about what careers they might be interested in.
The girls that watched the commercials that had the women doing things like fretting about their skin or cooking brownies showed less interest in science and math based careers.
Think about this outcome. What does t.v. and the media do to our children and specifically to our little girls and women of the future?
The Second Study
Researchers took two groups of college students and had them try on either a sweater or a bathing suit before taking a math test. These were all students that were good at math. They then looked at the scores to see if there were any differences that would not be due to chance.
This is what they found.
The young women who took the math test after trying on the bathing suit did worse than the group of women who tried on the sweater before taking the math test.
The boys did the same on the test regardless of whether they tried on a bathing suit or a sweater.
Body image. Self esteem. How we feel about ourselves.
It can affect how one performs on a math test.
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Individuals who have assets in excess of the allowable Medicaid limits have limited options today when it comes to qualifying for Medicaid. This most often comes up when older folks are trying to qualify for nursing home or other long-term coverage, since even those with a fair amount of assets can't afford the high cost of nursing homes.
The obvious option of giving away assets to others will result in Medicaid transfer penalties that will prevent the individual from qualifying for Medicaid for a period of time. This is true with giving away assets to most trusts as well.
Many people are under the mistaken belief that a transfer of an asset to a revocable trust will help the individual qualify for Medicaid. Assets held in a revocable trust are always treated as still being owned by the individual for purposes of Medicaid eligibility. The reason these transfers do not help with eligibility is because the individual still controls the asset in a revocable trust, either by retaining the right to revoke the trust or by retaining the power to control the disposition of the assets (for example, being able to spend the money), such as by acting as trustee of the revocable trust.
Before 1993, individuals trying to get Medicaid often created what were referred to as "Medicaid Qualifying Trusts." These were irrevocable trusts created by the individual and funded with the individual's assets. In some cases the individual was both the trustee and the beneficiary of the trust, and distributions to the beneficiary were to be made in the discretion of the trustee.
In cases where the trustee and the beneficiary were the same, the trust assets were treated as if there was no trust at all. Even though these trusts were irrevocable, the trustee had discretion to use the trust assets for the benefit of the beneficiary or the spouse of the beneficiary. This attempt to "control" assets after transferring them to the irrevocable trust resulted in Medicaid's disqualifying the beneficiary.
The name "Medicaid Qualifying Trust" is actually a misnomer, because such trusts actually serve to disqualify the individual from Medicaid. Many people, however, still think that putting assets into an irrevocable trust can qualify you for Medicaid. This is only true in some narrow circumstances (discussed below).
The basic rule for irrevocable trusts created today is that any asset in an irrevocable trust that the trustee can choose to give to the beneficiary will be treated as a countable resource by Medicaid. To the extent the trust does not allow for any distribution to the beneficiary, it will be treated as a transfer of resources subject to Medicaid's transfer penalty.
So while irrevocable trusts can protect assets from being counted by Medicaid (depending on whether the trustee has discretion to spend the assets), Medicaid will still count the transfer of the assets to the trust as a disqualifying transfer. Here's how it works.
Whenever there is an irrevocable trust with a discretionary clause established by the individual or the individual's spouse, and where the individual or the individual's spouse is a beneficiary, Medicaid will count some or all of the assets in the trust as available to the individual.
The assets that Medicaid will deem available to the beneficiary and/or the spouse are those that are subject to the trustee's discretionary power (Medicaid will assume the trustee will exercise maximum discretion to distribute the assets to the beneficiary or the spouse). Where the trustee lacks discretion to distribute assets, those assets will not be counted as resources for Medicaid purposes.
Unfortunately, however, the assets not counted as resources will be subject to a transfer penalty that will disqualify the beneficiary from Medicaid for a period of time. And since 2005, this penalty period starts when the individual applies for Medicaid, not when the transfer was made. Read about how long the Medicaid transfer penalty lasts.
Note that some irrevocable trusts contain assets of the individual and a spouse along with resources that belong to other individuals. In these situations, Medicaid will determine the individual's proportionate share. Any distribution that is not made to others that is not for the benefit of the individual will be considered to be a transfer of resources, and Medicaid will impose a penalty period.
Medicaid rules does allow some irrevocable trusts to own assets transferred by an individual even if the individual is also a beneficiary. In other words, assets in these irrevocable trusts will not subject the individual to a transfer penalty and the assets will not be counted as available resources. These irrevocable trusts are referred to as "special purpose trusts."
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This FreeRTOS Labs
project is adding multiple interfaces and multiple endpoint support to the currently single interface only FreeRTOS+TCP TCP/IP stack. While the resultant multiple interface version is fully functional, it is still undergoing optimisation, test coverage and documentation improvements, and memory safety checks. Until that work is complete the code is available as a branch of the FreeRTOS+TCP GitHub repo
FreeRTOS+TCP Mulitple Interface Demo Project
For the FreeRTOS Windows Simulator
On this page:
This demo application is available in the
labs/ipv6_multi branch of the FreeRTOS+TCP repository. It can be found in the
demos/Multi_interface_demo directory of the above repository.
This demo demonstrates the multiple interface (or rather the multiple endpoint) functionality of the FreeRTOS+TCP IPv6 and multiple interface library.
When a device has multiple interfaces, a generated IP packet can be sent to any of those interfaces. But choosing the correct one is important since the packet might not get through to the desired destination in case of separated subnets. Additionally, sending the packet to all interfaces will only create unnecessary network traffic.
The demo uses two different classes of IP addresses. Since the Windows Simulator environment does not have multiple interfaces which can be used by FreeRTOS, the demo is configured to use just one interface: Ethernet. The IP addresses can be changed according to your needs by modifying the below macros:
#define configIP1_ADDR0 192
#define configIP1_ADDR1 168
#define configIP1_ADDR2 0
#define configIP1_ADDR3 200
#define configIP2_ADDR0 10
#define configIP2_ADDR1 0
#define configIP2_ADDR2 1
#define configIP2_ADDR3 6
The demo shall attempt to ping the two different IP address present on different subnet masks which are configured in
as shown below. Using a network analyser such as Wireshark
you should be able to see that the IP addresses used to ping the below IP address belong to the same subnet. That is,
will be used to ping
will be used to ping
#define democonfigCLASS_A_IP_ADDRESS "10.0.1.10" /* IP address of another device on the network with configured static IP that can be pinged. */
#define democonfigCLASS_C_IP_ADDRESS "192.168.0.1" /* IP address of the router. */
The project uses the
FreeRTOS Windows simulator
The Windows simulator provides a convenient evaluation platform, but it
does not exhibit real time behavior. Simulated time is much slower than
The project is pre-configured to build with the
free Express edition of Microsoft Visual C++
(MSVC). MSVC Express Edition 2010 was used.
The demo includes the following standard demo configurations:
Two sets of tasks which try to ping the class A and class C IP addresses as
configured using the macros
democonfigCLASS_C_IP_ADDRESS as shown above.
Download the source code via cloning the
branch of the FreeRTOS+TCP repository.
Open the Visual Studio solution file Multi_interface_demo.sln
from within the Visual Studio IDE. The solution file is located
in the "demos/Multi_interface_demo" directory.
The demo uses WinPCap to create a virtual network connection by
accessing raw Ethernet data on a real network connection - so can only work with wired network interfaces. Many
computers have more than one real network interface. Set
configNETWORK_INTERFACE_TO_USE in FreeRTOSConfig.h. to tell the demo which real interface
should be used to create the virtual interface.
Available interface numbers are displayed on the console when the
application is executed (See the image below).
You will need to configure another device to use a different class of IP address than
the one your router uses. That is, if the router uses 192.x.x.x (Class C), then the
other device should use 10.x.x.x (
democonfigCLASS_A_IP_ADDRESS) and vice versa.
Using a PC
If you are using a PC as a second device, you need to go to "
Control Panel > Network and
Sharing Center > Change adapter settings". There you can see all the adapters your PC has.
Choose the one which you want to use for this demo. Right click on it and choose "
You will be shown a window as shown below.
Select the "Internet Protocol Version 4 (TCP/IPv4)" and click on Properties. A new
window should open. Make the changes so that it looks like the below image.
Note that the IP address shown in the image (and the one you put in the settings)
should be same as democonfigCLASS_A_IP_ADDRESS.
The virtual interface has its own MAC address.
Set the constants configMAC_ADDR0 to configMAC_ADDR5 to ensure
the MAC address used by the virtual network connection is unique on the network. The constants
are located at the bottom of FreeRTOSConfig.h.
IP address assignment is done statically in this case. It is not managed by a
The IP address configured will be valid if the first three
octets of the IP address match the first three octets of other
IP addresses on the same network - each IP address must be unique
on the network.
Select "Build Solution" from the IDE's Build menu (or press F7)
to build the application.
The standard Visual Studio
key used to start a debug session and break on entry to main() is F10.
The same host computer is used to build the application, debug the application,
and (because the Win32 simulator is used) run the application.
There are no special debugging instructions.
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We all have different ways of getting around London. Some people like to take the the tube or bus, others enjoy walking, and still, others prefer biking or driving. But for those who want to read a good book while travelling to their destination, here are 10 quick reads books that would be ideal for short daily journeys. Reading a book, a day would add up to 300 books a year! So get reading!! These books are short and sweet so that you can read them without compromising your daily journey.
1) We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The book is about two sisters, Merricat and Constance, who live in a large house on the outskirts of town with their Uncle Julian. The book takes place shortly after the death of their parents. Both girls have very different personalities: Merricat is an extremely imaginative girl hounded by her superstitions, while Constance struggles to maintain order within the walls of their home. When many members of the family begin dying off, Constance is forced to confront her sister, Merricat. The book was Jackson’s last book published in her lifetime. It is a compelling quick read and would be perfect for people that prefer creepy stories with an ambiguous ending.
You can purchase We Have Always Lived In The Castle here.
2) A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid
This book is written in the form of an essay about Kincaid’s native country of Antigua, which was once a British colony. This small place is now suffering under the weight of mass tourism, and Kincaid offers a satirical exploration of how the West treats its colonial outposts. It would be perfect for people who want to make a difference in this world without committing too much time or effort. It’s a short read and would be perfect for people who prefer non-fiction.
You can purchase A Small Place here.
3) Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster
In this book, a nameless writer visits an old friend, a retired detective named William Wilson. Their meeting starts out cordial enough, but it soon becomes apparent that something is wrong with Wilson. When the writer finds notes for a novel written by his friend, he learns that it is actually about himself – and so begins the unravelling of one man’s identity. The book would be perfect for people who are interested in detective stories. The book is perfectly paced, so it won’t take you long to read at all!
You can purchase Travels in the Scriptorium here.
4) The End We Start from by Megan Hunter
The End We Start From follows a mother and her infant son as they leave their home in London due to an apocalyptic event that causes something called ‘the flood’. The book follows their journey as they try to stay alive during a time of uncertainty. It would be a perfect read for people who fantasize about running off and living in the wild. The book also has a really interesting style of narration, so it would be perfect for people who like unique writing styles.
You can purchase The End We Start here.
5) Tokyo Ueno Station by Yu Miri
This short book follows the life of a young couple as they navigate adulthood and parenthood in contemporary Japan. It’s about the day-to-day struggles that people face as they grow up, e.g. loss of freedom and romantic partners, as well as the need to provide for a family. It would be perfect for people who enjoy daily life stories set in other countries. As a result of its short length, it’s perfect if you don’t have much time on your hands. The writing is really beautiful, so it would be perfect for people who like reading short stories.
You can purchase Tokyo Ueno Station here.
6) Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
This book is framed as a conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan about the cities Polo has seen in his travels. The book is set up as a series of imaginary dialogues between the Venetian adventurer and the emperor who imprisoned him. It would be perfect for people that prefer fiction or philosophy. The book is really short, so it won’t take you very long to read at all!
You can purchase Invisible Cities here.
7) Wildlife by Richard Ford
Wildlife is narrated by Joe Brinson, whose family relocates from Chicago to Montana in order to run a ranch. The book follows the Brinson family as they try to adjust to life on the ranch, as well as their relationships with each other and those around them. It is a perfect read for people who enjoy coming of age stories set in wilder environments. The book is really short, so you can read it in a day or so. The book itself is also pretty interesting, so it’s perfect for people who like reading coming-of-age stories.
You can purchase Wildlife here.
8) The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
The book narrates the story of Maggie and her partner, Harry, through an unconventional lens, interspersed with different forms of academic writing. It would be the perfect read for anyone who wants to understand queer families and relationships better. As a result of its short length, it’s perfect if you aren’t looking for a very involved read. The book also has really interesting content, so it’s perfect for people who enjoy reading non-fiction books about sexuality and gender.
You can purchase The Argonauts here.
9) The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
The book follows a young Pakistani man who has moved to New York City in order to become a financial analyst. On his way there, though, he meets an American woman on a plane and begins to question his life choices. It would be perfect for people who are interested in immigrant experiences. The book is really short, so you can finish it in one or two sittings. Since the book has an interesting storyline, it would be perfect for people who enjoy reading fiction novels about immigrants’ lives.
You can purchase The Reluctant Fundamentalist here.
10) The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vegetarian follows Yeong-hye, a Korean woman who is married and has a child. Due to dreams that she has about becoming a tree, then, she decides that she no longer wants to eat meat or be involved in the processes of killing animals. It would be perfect for people interested in reading feminist narratives from different cultures. The book is also pretty short, so you should be able to read it in a day or two. Since the book is really interesting, it’s perfect for people who are interested in feminist narratives from different cultures.
You can purchase The Vegetarian here.
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Nature reclaims what is hers. Whether by destructive or creative measures, nature repurposes. In the two-woman exhibition, Ebb & Flow, abandoned spaces become renewing entities and collage landscapes become sites of infinite possibilities. Through photographs and mixed media collages, Ebb & Flow celebrates nature’s force and vitality.
Sarah R. Bloom’s excursions to abandoned spaces capture growth among the rubble and hope amidst the decay of manmade structures. By exploring these places and staging her photographs, Sarah R. Bloom forms a sense of kinship with the space and captures the comforting process of the earth reclaiming what is hers. Her photographs form a bridge to Rosalind Bloom’s work which present natural elements abstracted into beautiful collages, the very work a repurposing of the old. Rosalind Bloom’s mixed-media collages of nature acknowledge and celebrate nature’s force, its antic energy, and its mystery. She restructures and reclaimes the boundaries of the image, while demonstrating the inevitability of the earth reclaiming her space. Ebb & Flow reminds us that we are all here temporarily, and that nature will always prevail.
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Exploring Alex Garland’s “Devs”
with James Peat Barbieri
Sunday December 13, 2020 at 9:00am PST | 12:00 pm EST | 6:00pm CET
James Peat Barbieri will explore the ideas that arise from Alex Garland’s Devs (2020). This 8-part series follows the story of the secret department of a high-tech company, which is developing a quantum computer that will be able to determine the past and the future by analysing data from the present. This session will take a look at the ideas in physics used in the show, such as Bohm and Everett’s interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, the philosophical implications of living in a deterministic world, and the meaning of faith in science and in the creators of visionary technologies.
The session will be followed by Q&A and discussion.
What do Films and Television say about our world? What ideas can be examined through the moving image? From Science Fiction, to Comedy, Drama and Documentaries, the Seventh Art has been a mirror of our society, from the stories they portray to the method in which they’ve been produced, a mirror that is sometimes difficult to understand.
This monthly series will reveal the message behind different Films and TV Series, exploring the themes through the lens of physics, psychology, philosophy and sociology. Each session will have a guest speaker who will analyse these themes, which will then be discussed with our community, and lead us to a better understanding of film and reveal the deeper truths of our world. | <urn:uuid:76b55867-5168-4097-9940-3f0d65e6b183> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://paricenter.com/event/flickering-reality-exploring-alex-garlands-devs-with-james-peat-barbieri/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.925669 | 320 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Study reveals: Eleven diet mistakes are responsible for millions of heart dead
Cardiovascular diseases are cause of death number one. Almost half of all cardiac deaths, according to the US nutrition scientists on the account of unhealthy eating habits. In a large study to show which foods we should and what we eat less, to protect the heart.
- Most nuts and seeds for heart and vessels.
- Sugar-sweetened drinks dead for most of the Heart responsible.
- Vegetables and whole-grain health not conscious.
Our food will kill us. In the U.S. alone, 400,000 people died in the year 2015, a cardiovascular disease, triggered by an unhealthy diet. Extrapolating the number to all industrial countries, millions of heart dead to harmful eating habits. A too Much or too Little of certain foods is especially crucial. What a Central role to play, researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle calculated.
You put the data in a long-term diet study in connection with the deaths by heart and vascular diseases. Study Director Ashkan Afshin came to the conclusion: “Nearly half of all cardiovascular deaths in the US were through a healthier diet to avoid.”
The risk for heart and blood vessels is increasing, when we stay with these good foods for a longer time under the daily limit amount:
- 340 – 500 Grams Of Vegetables
- 200 – 300 Grams Of Fruit
- 100 – 150 Grams Of Whole-Grain Products
- 16 – 25 grams of nuts and seeds
- 19 – 28 Grams Of Fiber
- 200 – 300 Milligrams Of Omega-3 Fatty Acids
- 9 – 13 percent of energy needs by polyunsaturated fatty acids.
So many heart healthy foods you come up with this menu-for example:
On about 500 grams a big Dose of peppers and tomatoes brings it-Zucchini Mix, and a baked potato. The fruit-Ration with two Apples and a bowl of strawberries.
With fruit and vegetables the fibre is reached. A handful of cereal and two slices of grain bread meet the requirement for whole-grain products.
With two tablespoons of almonds, the nuts-and-goal. For the Omega-Three fatty acid a small Serving of fish is enough. The amount of fat varies with the number of calories. At 1800 kilo calories daily requirement equivalent to ten percent fat, about 20 grams of walnut, safflower or olive oil, two tablespoons.
Dangerous for the heart and circulation, it is when we consume of the bad foods every day, more than for the heart-friendly quantity:
- 5 grams of sugar sweetened drinks
- 4 grams of processed meat
- 1 percent of the energy demand through TRANS-fatty acids
- 1 – 5% of salt of the 24-hour urine value.
The extremely small daily quantities of the risk of food means nothing else than that we should put lemonade (sugar), sausage (processed meat), ready meals, French fries and Chips (TRANS-fatty acids, salt), only very sporadically on the dining plan.
Most damaging combination: To little nuts, too much salt
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There are no prevention guidelines for the most common type of hair loss, male-pattern baldness. However, the following tips may help you avoid other types of hair loss:
- Do not pull your hair tightly into a ponytail, cornrows, or curlers.
- Learn and practice stress-management techniques.
- Obtain medical care for acute illnesses and to manage chronic conditions.
- Eat healthy, well-balanced meals.
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The study included 42 men and women with a history of heroin abuse who were not current users. Heroin is an illegal opioid. Other opioids include powerful prescription painkillers such as oxycodone (OxyContin).
The researchers found that, compared to a placebo, CBD reduced drug cue-induced craving and anxiety in the participants.
The report was published May 21 in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
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Gaming is one of the most popular activities on both PCs and mobile devices these days, and it is taking over the world, especially among gamers. However, gamers are also facing performance issues, since most modern PC games are becoming more and more demanding.
Windows is one of the most powerful operating systems on the market. However, with all this power comes a tradeoff in performance, and many users don’t know how to optimize their Windows systems. This is especially true for users on laptops, since Games and other Apps tend to eat up the system resources, resulting in lower performances.
Every gamer knows that PC gaming can be expensive, but it doesn’t have to be. There are plenty of free tools out there that can help you game your PC to its full potential. One of the most useful tools is called TweakUI, which is available for free. TweakUI is an extremely useful utility that allows you to tweak Windows to give you everything you need to game the way you want.
In today’s world, computer games are one of the most popular and enjoyable pastimes. Windows 10 is one of the most popular operating systems, and Windows 11 will soon take its position. However, some people say that games on Windows 10 are sometimes sluggish and want to know how to make them run faster. Continue reading to find out How to Optimize Windows for Games and Applications.
In general, the game’s performance has a direct effect on the graphics card, CPU, hard drive, network, and other components of your system, implying that a large part of the game’s smoothness and optimization is due to the physical power of your system. However, by making these little changes, you may improve the performance of your games and system.
Steps to Make Windows More Game-Friendly and App-Friendly
- Visual Effects in Windows are disabled.
- Switch to Game Mode.
- Drivers for your graphics card need be updated.
- Turn on Focus Assist.
- Current services should be disabled in the background.
- Set the Graphics Card’s Preferences
1. Turn off the visual effects in Windows.
Frame drop (FPS) in high-end games is caused by Windows interface animations, which may slow down your computer’s performance. Because these visual enhancements may eat up your graphics card’s and RAM’s resources. The aesthetic options in Windows 10 are set to “best performance” by default, but turning them off improves system speed.
To make changes, open the run dialog box and type sysdm.cpl, then hit enter. Go to the Advanced tab and click on the performance settings once the system properties are open. A new window will appear, allowing you to customize the performance parameters as desired. Instead of letting Windows decide what is best for you, the best performance is chosen by default in Windows 10. So, modify it to your liking.
System Performance Should Be Adjusted
2. Select Game Mode from the drop-down menu.
Enabling “Game mode” in Windows is perhaps the simplest and most apparent method to improve your computer’s performance. This option helps you improve your game’s FPS by turning off background activities like Windows updates and application alerts. This option is enabled by default, but it’s never a bad idea to double-check.
Open Windows Settings, go to the game category, choose Game mode, and check its state.
Activate Game Mode
3. Make sure your graphics card driver is up to current.
The GPU is at the heart of your computer’s gaming experience, and it needs the most recent Windows driver and graphics card to operate quicker and provide a better gaming experience. Furthermore, an out-of-date driver may create software issues and game frame drops.
As a result, you may upgrade your GPU driver to enhance game performance. Updating GPU drivers may occasionally fix problems like crashes, freezes, and other difficulties with gaming frames, reaction times, and other things. You should, however, make sure that your GPU drivers’ update mode is set to automatic.
To get your graphics card driver, go to Google and type in the model of your graphics card followed by the phrase Download driver. Then attempt to download the driver from your graphics card manufacturer’s website. If your graphics card driver has already been installed, you may update it by using a specialized graphics card program installed on your PC.
4. Turn on Focus Assist.
Notifications and alerts from Windows may disrupt your game, which is where the Focus Assist function comes in useful. In Windows, Focus Assist allows you to customize how and when you get alerts. So, enter the settings and go to System -> Focus Assist to prevent irritating notifications and pop-ups while playing. To conceal all unneeded windows, choose “Alarms Only.” If you don’t want any alerts to appear, turn this option off.
You may also access the notification center and activate the focus assist by pressing Windows + A.
Turn on Focus Assist.
5. Turn off any running services in the background.
First and foremost, you should be aware that this option is only accessible in Windows Settings in Windows 10, since this function is not available in Windows 11.
You can halt the execution of certain background applications, including some Windows services. Background services often use extra system resources, obstructing your main tasks, including gaming.
Go to Settings -> Privacy -> Background Apps to turn off background services. To prohibit programs from consuming system resources in the background, switch off the “Let apps run in the background” button in the right pane. If you wish to keep any of these applications or services running, you may do so by turning on the Allow apps to run in the background option first.
6. Customize the Graphics Card’s Options
Graphics drivers from Nvidia and AMD each have their own control panels where you may adjust the graphics settings. You must enter the settings menu and adjust options such as Maximum Pre-Renderered Frames, Threaded Optimization, Vertical Sync, and other options that you believe are appropriate for your games.
These are the techniques that I’ve found to be useful for improving gaming performance on Windows. I hope you found this article useful, and please share your views on How to Optimize Windows for Games and Applications.
In Windows 10, Microsoft has implemented a new gaming mode that lets you enable Game Mode to improve performance for games and games-intensive applications. We may also see the introduction of a new gaming mode in the upcoming Creators Update, which will give users a lot more control over how their PCs handle games.. Read more about game settings optimizer and let us know what you think.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I optimize my PC for gaming 2021?
You can use a program like MSI Afterburner to optimize your PC for gaming.
How do I make my PC run games better?
There are many ways to make your PC run games better. Some of these include using a graphics card, upgrading your RAM, and installing an SSD.
How do I make my games High Performance Windows 10?
To make your games run faster on Windows 10, you can use the Game Mode option in the Task Manager.
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Lindal in Furness WM Chapel was erected in 1872 at an unknown cost. There were 160 sittings in 1873. In 1940 the chapel had 95 sittings on pews and there was a schoolroom. The number of sittings had risen to 114 by 1980 but the chapel had closed by 1991 and is now in residential use.
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Can You Get Rid Of Freckles. Vitamin e and a enriched almond oils also play an important role in reducing the freckle marks as well. If you’re seeking answers on how to get freckles removed, note that there is currently no way to completely eradicate all freckles.
According to a study published in the. It can be used to clear up freckles and attain a uniformly toned skin fast. Once the skin absorbs the oil, wash the area with warm water.
Topical Retinoid Creams Are Most Often Used To Prevent And Reduce Signs Of Skin Aging, But They Can Also Be Used To Diminish The Appearance Of Freckles.
Depending upon the type of freckles, it might take 1 to multiple sessions to remove the same. Vitamin e and a enriched almond oils also play an important role in reducing the freckle marks as well. Once the skin absorbs the oil, wash the area with warm water.
The Same Properties That Help Reduce Signs Of Skin Aging Can Help Reduce The Appearance Of Freckles.
Your dermatology provider can help you navigate the potential pros and cons of both options. Effective for many pigmentation irregularities, laser therapy can zap away freckles as well. The lactic acid (an alpha hydroxy acid) in buttermilk can help you tackle freckles.
However, You Can Reduce Their Appearance By Limiting Your Exposure To The Sun, As Sun Exposure Can Cause Them To Develop Over Time.
Which is the best laser treatment for freckles? Let the experts at north pacific dermatology help you free. It corrects and prevents freckles, hyperpigmentation, as well as.
To Get Rid Of Freckles Using Natural Lightening Methods, Start By Dipping A Cotton Ball In Lemon Juice And Applying It To Your Freckles Daily.
This can be done in a dermatology office or by a reputable esthetician. Mint offers an ample supply of antioxidants effective against fighting freckles, whereas nutrients in banana keep the skin hydrated. So, yes, freckles can disappear without intervention.
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Writing a nursing resume is not just about providing information about your background and experience but doing it with the right words and in the right way. Of course, experience and skills are still the most important matter that will be considered by a recruiter, but the candidate should manage to provide this information in a clear and concise way. Find a few helpful recommendations and explanations on how to write such as a resume below.
The standard fields to add in such a document include the following:
Depending on the candidate’s experience in a certain field, it’s possible to highlight particular points relevant to the job position. So, read the job description to get a full understanding of what is expected from you. Particularly, pay attention to the level of education, experience, skills, and traits required by the employer.
On condition that you’ve had previous experience, you can write a chronological resume where you will list the job positions one by one starting with the latest one.
If this is the first job you are applying for, try to find something relevant for it, such as coursework that you have written during studying, volunteer works, internships, etc. In this case, think of preparing a functional resume (a skill-based paper where you will need to highlight your abilities rather than experience).
First of all, determine what type of resume you are about to prepare and conduct a search on the Internet in order to find suitable templates. Since you are about to apply for a nursing position, no one will require creativity from you. However, using templates will allow choosing the right layout of the paper and will also give new ideas of what to add to the paper.
Prepare a draft of the resume and compare it with the requirements of the potential employer. Try to make sure that you have included only relevant information in the paper, which highlights your advantages. Use the same words used in the job description. Also, you can search on the Internet for action words that can be included in the resume to make it stand out from the competition.
Candidate can do this by editing and proofreading the writing. When editing, make sure that the text flows smoothly and logically, leading the reading through your career path while giving a clear image of what you’ve done in the previous positions.
If you have no previous experience, check that you’ve provided enough information proving to be an ideal candidate for the job position. Also, check word choice in your work so that your writing looks professional. Proofread the paper to eliminate all mistakes or errors.
Find out what the key points to pay attention to in order to check that the resume is of high quality:
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Publishers are experimenting with a new format for audiobooks: Oral guides who lead listeners through activities such as cooking, gardening, and live meditation.
In Seeds From Scratch, for example, gardener and novelist Alice Vincent guides budding gardeners through the process of growing their first plants. Shorter than traditional audiobooks and just under 90 minutes in length, each chapter of the Live Gardening audiobook is designed to be listened to throughout the process of sowing, germinating, sprouting and transplanting.
In the second chapter, Mrs. Vincent asks the listener to carefully remove the leaves from the small seedlings or place fingers and thumbs under the base of their stems and pull them out.
Hodder Studio, a brand of British publisher Hodder & Stoughton, ordered scratch seeds last April when an embargo was imposed in the UK to stop the spread of Covid-19 and people started growing DIY products.
Seeds from Scratch was purchased in one month by Hodder Studio and Alice Vincent.
Hodder and Stoughton.
The manuscript was turned into an audiobook within a month – because we didn’t know how long the embargo would last, says Harriet Poland, editor-in-chief of Studio Hodder. But in audio, it’s a good thing: You can be very receptive to her, especially in this area where the content is shorter, she said. Hodder and Stoughton is part of
The SCA Hatchet Unit.
So-called active audiobooks, which supplement or replace the usual verbatim reading of book texts, are appearing as audiobooks become more popular.
According to the Association of American Publishers, the U.S. publishing industry sold $553.6 million worth of downloaded audiobooks between January and October 2020, up 17.3% from the corresponding 10 months of 2019. In contrast, sales of all book categories fell 1% to $12.4 billion in the same period, the association said.
In May last year, Deloitte predicted that global audiobook sales would increase by more than 25% from the previous year to reach $4 billion by 2020.
Publishers want to guarantee their share, says Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the Publishers Association of Britain. The growth of audiobooks and print books in recent years has made it easier for them to fund innovations in audio, including the shift to an active or interactive format.
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Macmillan Publishers Ltd. has added additional fitness and mental health guides to the audiobooks. For example, in last year’s book on mindfulness, Real Change, author Sharon Salzberg included short guided meditation exercises during the narration of the book, according to Mary Beth Roach, president and publisher of Macmillan Audio.
According to Roche, active audiobooks are no more expensive than traditional recordings and are no more difficult to edit. But it was a challenge to figure out where to place the assets, she said.
When you have these guided meditations that are long in the middle of each chapter, it’s not a good experience for someone listening during a race, Roche said.
Broken Eggs, to be released in March, is designed to help listeners understand the basics of real-time cooking.
Hodder and Stoughton.
Macmillan’s producers try to keep the interactive elements that appear in the middle of chapters short so as not to interrupt the narrative flow, and place expanded versions of the instructions at the end of the message, she says.
Other publishers produce original active audiobooks, solely to accompany a particular activity. Often it means cooking.
Hodder Studio plans to release Breaking Eggs, a live cooking audio guide written and narrated by Ruby Tandoh, food journalist and participant in the Great British Baking Show, in March. While Seeds of Scratch was recorded in Vincent, Broken Eggs was recorded in the studio, according to Ms. Poland, chief editor of Hodder Studios.
We thought about recording in the kitchen with pots and pans clattering, but we realized that in this act of listening, you need a minimum of distractions, and instead, just that voice you’re listening to, takes and answers almost as normal, she says.
Last spring, Penguin Random House LLC also acquired Getting Started with Sourdough, a crash course on fermented bread taught by Tartine Bakery chefs Chad Robertson and Jennifer Latham.
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The vast majority of our consumer surveys show that the amount of time people spend multitasking and listening to audiobooks is fairly consistent, but the amount of time people use to relax is increasing, said Amanda D’Acierno, President and Publisher of Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group.
And some authors at Penguin Random House have come up with their own ideas for active audiobooks. Russell Gins, creator of the Samantha Spinner children’s book series, has developed puzzles and audio exercises for listeners of the audiobook versions to unravel the average story.
Active listening makes an audiobook just as engaging as reading or watching a video, Mr. Hewlett said. Adding audio puzzles and other listening tips requires the listener’s full participation, he said.
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Today is the birthday (1628) of Marcello Malpighi, an Italian biologist and physician, who is sometimes referred to as the “father of microscopical anatomy, histology, physiology and embryology”. Malpighi was born in Crevalcore near Bologna, son of well-to-do parents. He studied a variety of subjects including Aristotelian philosophy, physics, and medicine at the University of Bologna, and took positions in both Bologna and Pisa teaching philosophy and physics before settling to the study of anatomy in 1660.
Although he conducted some of his studies using vivisection and others through the dissection of corpses, his most productive efforts appear to have been based on the use of the microscope. Because of this work, many microscopic anatomical structures are named after Malpighi, including a skin layer (Malpighi layer) and two different Malpighian corpuscles in the kidneys and the spleen, as well as the Malpighian tubules in the excretory system of insects. Although a Dutch spectacle maker created the compound lens and inserted it in a microscope around the turn of the 17th century, and Galileo had applied the principle of the compound lens to the making of his microscope patented in 1609, its possibilities as a microscope had remained unexploited for half a century, until Robert Hooke improved the instrument (https://www.bookofdaystales.com/robert-hooke/ ). Following this, Malpighi, Hooke, and two other early investigators associated with the Royal Society, Nehemiah Grew and Antoine van Leeuwenhoek were fortunate to have a virtually untried tool in their hands as they began their investigations.
Working on frogs and extrapolating to humans, Malpighi demonstrated the structure of the lungs, previously thought to be a homogeneous mass of flesh, and he offered an explanation for how air and blood mixed in the lungs. Malpighi also used the microscope for his studies of the skin, kidneys, and liver. For example, after he dissected a black male, Malpighi made some groundbreaking headway into the discovery of the origin of black skin. He found that the black pigment was associated with a layer of mucus just beneath the skin. Malpighi seems to have been the first author to have made detailed drawings of individual organs of flowers. In his Anatome plantarum is a longitudinal section of a flower of Nigella (his Melanthi, literally, honey-flower) with details of the nectariferous organs. He adds that it is strange that nature has produced on the leaves of the flower shell-like organs in which honey is produced.
Malpighi had success in tracing the ontogeny of plant organs, and the serial development of the shoot. He specialized in seedling development, and in 1679, he published a volume containing a series of exquisitely drawn and engraved images of the stages of development of Leguminosae (beans) and Cucurbitaceae (squash, melons). Later, he published material depicting the development of the date palm. Linnaeus named the genus Malpighia in honor of Malpighi’s work with plants; Malpighia is the type genus for the Malpighiaceae, a family of tropical and subtropical flowering plants.
Because Malpighi was concerned with teratology (the scientific study of the visible conditions caused by the interruption or alteration of normal development) he expressed grave misgivings about the view of his contemporaries that the galls of trees and herbs gave birth to insects. He conjectured (correctly) that the creatures in question arose from eggs previously laid in the plant tissue. Malpighi’s investigations of the lifecycle of plants and animals led him into the topic of reproduction. He created detailed drawings of his studies of chick embryo development, seed development in plants (such as the lemon tree), and the transformation of caterpillars into insects. His discoveries helped to illuminate philosophical arguments surrounding the topics of emboîtment, pre-existence, preformation, epigenesis, and metamorphosis.
In 1691 pope Innocent XII invited him to Rome as papal physician. He taught medicine in the Papal Medical School and wrote a long treatise about his studies which he donated to the Royal Society of London.
Marcello Malpighi died of “apoplexy” (probably stroke) in Rome on 29th September 1694, at the age of 66. In accordance with his wishes, an autopsy was performed. He is buried in the church of the Santi Gregorio e Siro, in Bologna, where nowadays can be seen a marble monument to the scientist with an inscription in Latin remembering – among other things – his “SUMMUM INGENIUM / INTEGERRIMAM VITAM / FORTEM STRENUAMQUE MENTEM / AUDACEM SALUTARIS ARTIS AMOREM” (great genius, honest life, strong and tough mind, daring love for the medical art).
Given Malpighi’s studies of Leguminosae and Cucurbitaceae here is a recipe for an Italian bean and squash soup.
Tuscan Bean and Squash Soup
1 lb dried borlotti beans
3 quarts beef stock
½ cup chopped canned tomatoes
2 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced
¼ cup chopped celery leaves
½ cup extra-virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, peeled and chopped
2 lb butternut squash, peeled and cut into 1-inch chunks
crushed red pepper
Soak the beans overnight.
Drain and rinse the beans, then transfer them to a stock pot. Cover with stock and bring to a simmer over moderate heat. Cook the beans until almost tender, about 1 hour. Add the tomatoes, garlic, celery leaves, oregano to taste, and ¼ cup of the olive oil. Season to taste with salt. Continue cooking until the beans are very tender, about 1 to 1 ½ hours longer.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet, heat the remaining ¼ cup of olive oil. Add the onion and cook over medium heat until softened but not browned. Add the squash and 1 cup of water, cover and simmer over low heat until the squash is barely tender, about 10 minutes.
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Secondary Education Directorate of Karditsa Prefecture (Education Authority) is a decentralized service of the Greek Ministry of Education, Research, and Religious Affairs. Secondary Education Directorate of Karditsa is mainly responsible for the operation of all secondary educational institutions (lower and upper) within its area of operation, namely the prefecture of Karditsa. This covers a number of about 40 institutions (Gymnasiums, lyceums, and VETs) in a total of 7.000 students and about 1.000 teachers. Its main duties are implementation of central & regional educational policies, the appointment of new or substitute personnel, educational guidance and counseling, coordination of initiatives and innovations viable in the school classroom, the promotion of excellence and competence among pupils and teachers, and the implementation of school curricula.
Within its area of responsibility lies a vast number of educational resources (libraries, computer labs, physics and chemistry labs, offices for sustainable, ICT, and special education) along with the accumulated experience of its many tutors. It is, therefore, a specifically large and rather versatile organization that can achieve the right balance between size and performance. Communication networks available include fiber optics, private networks, and satellite signal reception. Collaboration with peer institutions and other educational governmental and NGO's (national and Εuropean) is also a standard characteristic. All systems used are qualified.
Our students have repeatedly competed and won prizes in competitions involving Science, Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics, and they have been chosen to represent our region in European programmes such as ‘'Euroscola." Moreover, several of our schools have participated in Debate competitions on a national level and won prizes. A teacher training on ‘'Rhetoric Education" was also held this year, and an increasing number of schools have expressed an interest in participating and forming debate teams. For the past two years, the Karditsa Directorate of Secondary Education has hosted a student conference at which students have had the floor. They submit their papers, which are reviewed by a committee comprised of teachers and education specialists, and then present their ideas to an audience simulating a ‘'adult" conference.
Furthermore the Directorate of Secondary Education of Karditsa operates the following distinctive departments
EU projects department
Counseling Youth Station
Laboratory of Natural Sciences Centre
Guidance and Professional Orientation Center
EU projects department is an entity which operates under the supervision of Secondary Education Directorate's Director. Its' responsibilities are:
The promotion of modernisation & internationalization of secondary education in Karditsa prefecture.
The enhance of European cooperation in vocational education and training
To establish and develop cooperation with institutes, organizations, training centres.
The submission and implementation of EU projects
To provide assistance and guidance to schools in order to make them able in proposals writing.
To inform and support schools in funding opportunities seeking through their participation in EU projects
To support them in finding EU partners
To provide all the necessary information in order to organise teaching or training abroad for their teachers, staff and students
To provide advice in administration & management of EU projects.
To promote and transfer good practices that have been implemented by EU consortia under EU programmes and Frameworks, organizing, conferences, seminars, training activities and case studies workshops
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The seminar "Implementation of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled by the Republic of Belarus" will be held at the National Library of Belarus as part of the 8th International Congress "The Library as a Phenomenon of Culture" on 22 October 2021.
The event has been organized by the World Intellectual Property Organization, the National Centre of Intellectual Property of the Republic of Belarus and the National Library of Belarus.
Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired or Otherwise Print Disabled for the Republic of Belarus entered into force on October 22, 2020. Its main task is to establish limitations and exceptions to copyright for the benefit of persons with visual impairments and other physical disabilities that prevent them from holding or handling a book. Copyright changes are made for the purpose of reproducing published works in accessible formats, their distribution and cross-border exchange of these works, which authorized bodies are entitled to do. In Belarus, libraries, educational institutions and public associations of people with disabilities have been designated as authorized bodies.
Representatives of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, the National Intellectual Property Centre of the Republic of Belarus, the National Library of Belarus, the Accessible Books Consortium (ABC) Global Book Service, the non-profit organization Electronic Information for Libraries, as well as teachers teaching blind students and staff from other libraries, are scheduled to speak at the seminar.
The seminar will take place in two formats – in-person and online.
Registration for the event is required by 20 October 2021.
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Grow to be a part of the IT revolution that influences the way in which folks live, work and play. Effectively-trained professionals with broad expertise are in excessive demand, significantly in enterprise, defence, mining, and software and software program development. Auditors assist this communication from the top down via participation in conferences with know-how management and thru overview of the current implementations of insurance policies, standards and guidelines. Chief info officer : This person is chargeable for IT and pc methods that assist the enterprise’s goals.
Be taught from world-class2 researchers in Artificial Intelligence and Picture Processing, Laptop Software and Information Methods. This main focuses on the network infrastructure of a company, which includes the storage, retrieval, transmission and protection of knowledge, and the hardware and software program involved in these processes. This infrastructure might also provide the means for effecting actual-time transactions and make intermediaries reminiscent of sales clerks, inventory brokers and journey brokers, whose function is to offer a necessary info hyperlink between patrons and sellers, redundant.
These POS terminals not only print a gross sales receipt for the customer but additionally send information to a pc database when each item is sold to take care of a list of items readily available and objects to be ordered. Expertise has advanced to seize issues of innovation, improvement as effectively adaptation of current know-how. An infrastructure of computing and communication know-how, offering 24-hour access at low value to virtually any kind of value and product info desired by patrons, will reduce the informational limitations to efficient market operation.
You will discover ways to manage information systems, enhance their efficiency and deal with points – for private companies, government and municipal agencies, and nonprofit organizations. With an info expertise major from Southern New Hampshire College, you will have the skills and information to operate as both enterprise skilled and technologist. Info Know-how Tasks fail for quite a lot of reasons, and the duty for failure can fall on all or any of The Players.
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Speaking to the Welt am Sonntag newspaper, Guttenberg admitted that he had used other texts as sources for the piece. However, he pointed out that it had not been an academic work but a foreign policy paper. “Self evidently existing sources were used, which were simply intended to back up the political opinion,” he said.
However, members of the GuttenPlag platform, a website dedicated to uncovering plagiarism, accused the aristocratic former minister of using similar methods to those he employed in his 2006 doctoral thesis. The plagiarism activists told Welt am Sonntag that they had found passages lifted from newspaper articles, EU papers and parliamentary documents on 13 of the 23 pages of the paper.
The paper entitled “Relations between Turkey and the EU – a ‘privileged partnership’” appeared in a magazine published by the Hanns Seidel Foundation, which has links to Guttenberg’s party, the Bavaria-based Christian Social Union (CSU). Guttenberg said that the essay had been prepared with the help of employees in his parliamentary office and was originally intended as an internal party paper.
Nine months ago Guttenberg, savaged in the press as “zu Googleberg,” resigned as defence minister after it emerged that passages of his doctoral thesis were the work of other authors. The University of Bayreuth then rescinded his doctoral title.
Last month he appeared to be staging the beginning of a comeback with a speech in Canada lambasting European politicians, prompting some in his former party to revive calls for his return to the political stage.
German prosecutors had investigated the baron for violating copyright but closed their case against him in November after he donated €20,000 ($26,800) to a children’s cancer charity. The disgraced politician has always insisted that he had lost the overview of his dissertation and had not intended to plagiarize.
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Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2020, $458,936)
This program aligns with the Departments priorities to combat victimization and enhance public safety. This solicitation provides funding to develop intervention and supervision services for adolescent sex offenders and children with sexual behavior problems, and to provide treatment services for their victims and families/caregivers. This program is authorized by Department of Justice Appropriations Act, 2020, Pub. L. No. 11693; 133 Stat. 2317, 2410.
The goal and purpose of this project is for Crown Counseling to provide further services to youth who sexually offend, children with problematic sexual behaviors (PSB), and their nonoffending family members. This will take the form of individual therapy for victims and multiple weekly therapeutic groups. Groups will consist of 13- to 17-year-olds who sexually offend, 8- to 12-year-olds who exhibit PSB, and nonoffending parents or guardians of these clients. The main goal of these services will be to provide psychoeducation to help promote prevention or reduction of offending or problematic behaviors to impact public safety.
Crown Counseling will use trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy as the main curriculum for groups with Functional Family Therapy for further family support. In order to study the effect of the groups, there will also be pre- and post-test surveys for the client and family groups. These surveys will gather data about the success of the groups and the level of knowledge, confidence, and skills gained by the clients and their families. They will also measure the level of problematic behaviors the clients are exhibiting at the end of group; the clients should exhibit either a reduction or elimination of sexual offending or PSB. The parents should leave having gained more knowledge and coping skills, feel more confident in their parenting skills, and understand how to support their adolescent or child appropriately.
Crown Counseling has an extensive multidisciplinary team that consists of the Indiana Department of Child and Family Services, Lake County Juvenile Probation, Lake County Juvenile Court, Lake County Juvenile Detention Center, multiple school districts covering all grade levels, Lake County CASA, and the Lake County sheriff. Crown Counseling has worked with these organizations and officers for 11 years to provide individual, group, and assessment services. This program would benefit all of these organizations in Lake County as well as surrounding counties. CA/NCF | <urn:uuid:7cdd21a1-0979-45c4-a710-035a9c5f3253> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ojjdp.ojp.gov/funding/awards/2020-mc-fx-k033 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952134 | 490 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Keep Damaging Rodents & Wildlife Out Of Your Elkton Home
Pests come in all shapes and sizes, but it stands to reason that the larger the pest, the larger the damage they can cause. Rodents and other wildlife, such as bats, pigeons, squirrels, and raccoons, can and do get into homes in the Elkton area. Once they’ve invaded your home, rodents will cause substantial damage to your property and belongings and will introduce diseases that can make your family sick.
Getting rid of a rodent or wildlife infestation requires the expertise of professional pest control technicians in Elkton. Abracadabra Pest Solutions has over 20 years of experience solving common pest problems. We know how rodents and wildlife behave and how to eliminate an infestation and ensure it doesn’t return.
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Knowing what animals have gotten into your house is vital to the effective elimination of your pest problem. We’ll begin by inspecting your home to identify the species. Once we know what type of pest has gotten inside, we’ll further examine to identify entry points, signs of activity and damage, and conducive conditions.
When our inspection is complete, we’ll create a treatment plan that targets the pests in your house and provides protection from future problems. For most wildlife, we will set humane live traps. We’ll check these traps regularly and remove any pests they catch.
- If rodents are in your home, we offer you the choice of lethal or non-lethal trapping. We’ll also put bait stations in strategic locations around the exterior of your house.
- If bats have gotten into your home, we’ll put up a one-way door or net so that the bats can get out but won’t be able to come back inside.
- If pigeons or other birds have gotten into your house, we’ll set bird guards or spikes to stop them from roosting on your home.
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Brownfield remediation always involves various types of risk. Financial, environmental, or health-related, these risks can potentially undermine the success and completion of remediation and redevelopment projects. However, thanks to high-tech innovations and advancements in analytics, new tools attempt to minimize risk and propel successful remediation and redevelopment projects. Morgan Abele from Puls, Inc., Chris Gibson from VideoRay, and Zain Iqbal from JLT Specialty USA provided info to BCONE on robots, superdata and droned at a recent session at NSCW moderated by Skelly Holmbeck from Advanced GeoServices.
Brownfields are beginning to capture the benefits of the technology age. Robots, drones, and data analytics all interact to provide more in-depth, precise assessments than ever before. Morgan Abele of Puls, Inc. described the benefits of technology-based site analysis including non-intrusive services such as ground penetrating radar and aerial drones to assess site characteristics. Aerial drones equipped with various forms of imaging hardware are able to access high-risk areas unsafe for direct observation. The different capabilities of various drones can generate 3D maps, modeling information such as contour and vegetation. This means sites remain undisturbed during the assessment, preventing further disturbance or destruction of the on-site resources and reducing risks
Aerial drones are not the only new tool in the remediation arsenal. Chris Gibson of VideoRay discussed many ways remote operated vehicles are changing site assessment. Underwater robots equipped with sonar, video, and GPS have proven valuable throughout remediation and redevelopment. Compact enough to fit in your luggage, these robots are highly mobile, quickly deployable, and affordable. By accessing areas unsafe or inaccessible otherwise, underwater robots and underground imagery provide a window into the unseen. The ability to increase our understanding of a site reduces uncertainty in a remediation plan.
These technologies greatly reduce uncertainty by improving our ability to assess a site,. Compiling the improved site assessment data together for holistic analysis provides a clearer picture of all potential risks. As a result, remediation and redevelopment are safer and more efficient. All of this is made possible by data analytics from robots, drones, cameras, and sonar. These technologies generate huge amounts of data. Zain Iqbal of JLT Specialty explained how the combination of improved site assessment and data analytics helps projects confront the challenge of risk assessment and safeguarding their redevelopment investment. Predictive analytics actually translates data into knowledge. This doesn’t just help project assessment and planning; it is now used to generate characteristic comparisons between sites. By targeting specific risks and potential losses, predictive analytics helps tailor the insurance options specifically to the optimal level for each project. This reduces unnecessary costs, decreases inefficiencies, and provides comprehensive risk analysis in conjunction with project planning.
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We Are Here Because We Are Strong
The Stories of Congolese Refugees in Angola
“It was all very quick. I heard very loud shooting. My husband was away working. I was confused and terrified so I ran with nothing but my baby in my arms. When we escaped to the bush it was as if my baby knew our lives depended on it because she never once cried. I had no milk to give her but she never cried.” – a young Congolese woman on arriving at the UNHCR reception centre in Angola
In modern conflict it is often women who carry the greatest burden. Wars no longer have front lines. Civilians are increasingly targeted. Rape and sexual violence continue being used as a weapon of war, and when forced to flee homes, it is women that take charge to hold families together and support children.
The viciousness against women was particularly brutal in the recent outbreak of violence that began in March 2017 in the Kasai region of Democratic Republic of the Congo. It triggered the internal displacement of some 1.4 million persons and the flight of over 34,000 refugees into Lunda Norte Province, in North East Angola. The newly arrived reported widespread violence, mass killings, mutilations, burning of property, destruction of villages, schools and churches and human rights abuses, as well as food shortage and the lack of access to basic services and goods
Most specifically the refugees arriving in Angola spoke of Government forces and militias deliberately targeting women in some of the worst gender based violence the region has seen. As families fled across the border to neighbouring Angola, the medical staff that received them were shocked by the stories and medical condition of many of the women and girls arriving.
“Refugees were arriving in terrible condition, some with machete injuries, many hungry, exhausted and traumatised” – Philippa Candler, Representative, UNHCR Angola
Many of the Congolese refugees that arrived in Angola have been relocated to the UNHCR settlement of Lóvua. Currently there are over 9,000 Congolese refugees there, but the settlement has a capacity of 30,000. In Lóvua, 75% of the Congolese living there are women and children. With men often missing, dead, or unable to work, it is the women who have to try and rebuild shattered lives, and support families.
“Victims are those who were unable to escape and died in this atrocious conflict. Refugees are survivors. They lost all but their lives and their dignity. We [UNHCR] are here to pull them back up and help them recommence. Refugee women mirror that incredible strength better than most. Their ability to adjust, keep the family together and cope adversity with a smile strikes me every time. They are not made of steel; they are human beings made of all-hearted muscle.” – Margarida Loureiro, UNHCR External Relations Officer, Angola
When I visited the settlement, I was immediately drawn to join two women who were sat outside their tent. Rose (who would soon became Aunty Rose to me), her sister Mimi and Bernardette. We sat all day telling stories, laughing and sharing food.
Together we decided to do a series of portraits of just the women, for them to tell the stories. When I returned the next day the scene was more like a party. No children or men were allowed; food was prepared, new batteries bought for the radio. We danced, we ate and we made portraits. It was truly the most memorable photo shoot of my life – it was in many ways a celebration, a celebration of life.
Resilience is a word used too easily, but with Aunty Rose and Mimi, and later, all the women I met in the camp, I found its true meaning. The women I got to know and visited each day were full of life and joy, despite all they had endured, and radiated a deep strength that rooted their whole families.
Though I am also aware that we must be careful not to romanticise resilience. By its nature, resilience is a necessity born of suffering. It is not a virtue one aspires to, because its journey is hardship and pain. So whilst I admired the strength and resilience of the women I met, it was impossible not to be impacted by the terrible violence that they had witnessed and suffered on that journey. For some those experiences were still too raw and violent for them to cope with, which is reflected in their words and the eyes of the portraits.
These portraits show the strength of women. But they also a reminder of the terrible gender based violence, rape and sexual abuse of women in conflicts around the world.
On the first day, sitting with Rose, Mimi and Bernardette I asked them how they had endured and survived.
“That’s simple” was the reply, “we are here because we are strong”
CCOCO MAWA, 35, FROM KAMAKO
“Life in the camp is not easy. It is the woman who works, who cooks, who looks after the children. Sometimes when I go into the woods to gather leaves to cook with, I dream of my past life.”
ROSE LUSANDA, 46, FROM KAMAKO
“A woman is a helper. We carry the strength. The women hold the community together,” explains Rose, or Aunty Rose, as she is known. She is in many ways the matriarch of the group. “In the markets, they would charge us more because we were Luba. They would say ‘kill all the Lubas.’ Then when the soldiers came, we escaped. They were killing everybody. Threatening the people, raping our daughters. They were forcing fathers to sleep with their daughters, and if the men refused, they were shot. Being a woman we were stripped of our strength by their threats. Kabila made us suffer.” Then Rose pauses and looks at me as she raises her finger. “But we cannot be weak. We escaped the war. No other human will give you that strength. I had that strength inside of me. I had the courage to do whatever has to be done. Sometimes I say to my daughter, now we are here [in the camp]. I tell her to feel the courage. To find the calm, be calm, stay calm.”
THÉRESE MANDAKA, 19, FROM KAMAKO
“Here we suffer a lot. For us women, we were particular targets. The biggest suffering was kept for us. When the soldiers came, I was separated from my husband. He’d gone to look for work; I was home and sick. I was pregnant. But my strength comes from my home. Even though I was sick, I knew I would have to escape. I thought they would kill the baby inside me—that’s where I found my strength, nobody else but me. “Now here in the camp I am a mother, so I must be strong.” Thérese pauses and gathers herself. She has not seen her husband since she fled to Angola. He hasn’t seen their child, Munduko, who’s now 4 months old. “I just want us to be together again.”
MIMI MISENGA, 45, FROM KAMAKO
“Sometimes I am very sad at all we have lost. Other times we let it go, we have our lives. They killed my uncle, his sons. We couldn’t even bury them. It was too much. My neighbor, they made him rape his daughter. Then the troops raped the daughters in front of the family. I was so afraid for my children. We escaped barefoot into the bush and then found a way to escape. I had nothing. Then I looked at my children. They gave me strength. I am never tired. I am so strong. My body is always moving, ready to work, even when I sleep! Honestly, I don’t know where that strength comes from. I am never tired. I say to my daughters, ‘Stay calm, find a good husband and follow my example. Follow my strength.’ ”
CARINE ROLENGA, 20, FROM KAMAKO
“When we heard gunshots in the village we knew it was time to leave. As a woman I felt particularly under threat. At night they would take the men and rape the women. In truth I don’t understand why people would do this. It’s beyond me.”
MUZI KINGAMBO, 26, FROM KAMAKO
“It is not easy. I suffer here. I have many pains in my back, my bladder—pains women shouldn’t have. In Congo I lived with my husband. I want that life again.”
ANI TCHEBA, 19, FROM KAMAKO
“We left our village in Congo on a Monday morning at 6 a.m. I remember I had no strength. I was heavily pregnant. It had been a difficult pregnancy and I was so worried I’d lose the baby. My husband pulled me. As a refugee it is harder as a woman, as we have the responsibility for food and the children. But here the women have given me inspiration. We share food. When I am missing something they give it to me and vice versa. We help each other with the hardships. We are stronger together.”
GERMAINE ALONDE, 25, FROM KAMAKO
“We had good land at home, a good life. Then the militias and the armies came. They took everything. They killed my older brother. It was terrible. We saw so much blood, and each time my heart would stop. I couldn’t sleep. Then one day they came near to our home to start their killing and we all fled. We were terrified; everyone was running. We knew what they would do. My oldest daughter, Therese [who was 7], took my baby Helene [who was just 2 years old] whilst I ran back to the home to gather what I could and get the other children. At the border everybody was pushing and shoving. It was chaos. I couldn’t see Therese; we were all separated. And in that chaos she dropped the baby. We lost her. It was the worst moment, but I couldn’t be angry with Therese. How could I be? My oldest child is just a child. It wasn’t her fault. For two weeks we thought Helene was lost. Then one day in the camp my neighbor came up to me and said she’d seen my baby. I couldn’t believe her! But she had-—she’d been walking past a center for unaccompanied children and she’d seen Helene! We went straight away and were reunited. There was so much joy.”
SYLVIE KAPENGA, 26, FROM TCHISSENGUE
“Being a woman and a man is the same. They were killing us all the same. Where we were we caught between two sides. Everybody wanted us to die. I have four children, two girls and two boys. It’s tough here—little food, no clothes, just what we have. As a woman, I am the one that works. To be honest, I am not that strong. I lost everything. I am not sure how to carry on.”
BERNADETTE TCHANDA, 42, FROM KAMAKO
“I ran from Kabila’s war [Joseph Kabila, president of DR Congo]. We saw the troops come. They killed many people. They pointed a gun at my husband, but we managed to escape with our two children. As a woman I was particularly afraid. The sounds of weapons, the sound of death. I was afraid. The troops would rape, they would kill women. This happened to my friends. I feel protected here, in the camp. In the past, my husband would beat me, but not here, they have laws and he is scared. I have a lot of joy…” At this point Bernardette breaks from the interview and begins to dance. “I get a lot of strength when I dance. Women get strength from dance.” She stops dancing for a moment and looks at me. “Women suffer the most, so they have the most strength.”
LINA MANANGA, 18, FROM KAMAKO
“Here,” she tells me, pointing at the camp around her, “each day we wake in the morning, we collect water, we clean clothes, we look for what we can eat, we cook. This is our day. It is tough, physical work. When we fled Kamako, I remember the day; the children were dressed in red when the troops started arriving. As soon as they arrived they started shooting, cutting people’s heads. I was repulsed. As a woman I felt in a lot of danger. I was with child and I knew that even if I gave birth that day, they would kill the child. I have seen this. I have one child. Because of this violence, I had a miscarriage with the other. I am young, so I have to be strong. But some are not.”
CHANTAL KUTUMBUKA, 45, FROM KAMAKO
“I used to be a farmer. I’m used to working with my hands. So it’s hard for me to be here. I just want to work. We had land, we could sell things. I could look after my children. When the violence started I lived in fear. The militia would go to a house and I would see them carry out the woman. I knew what they were doing. I was afraid—I couldn’t have endured that. Then one day they killed my husband, who was a policeman, and we fled. We abandoned everything. It’s hard. I’ve lost weight, the children cry. At times I don’t know what to do. But I carry on.” | <urn:uuid:1fb892aa-fd35-4d80-82fe-69ee67012176> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legacyofwar.com/we-are-here-because-we-are-strong/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.985746 | 2,988 | 2.421875 | 2 |
by Arendt, Hannah (1963)
In On Revolution Arendt argues that the French Revolution, while well studied and often emulated, was a disaster and that the largely ignored American Revolution was a success, an argument that runs counter to common Marxist and leftist views. The turning point in the French Revolution came when the revolution's leaders abandoned their goal of freedom in order to focus on compassion for the masses. In America, on the other hand, the Founding Fathers never betrayed the goal of Constitutio Libertatis. Yet Arendt believes the revolutionary spirit of those men was later lost, and advocates a "council system" as an appropriate institution to regain it. In an earlier book, The Human Condition, Arendt argued that there were three states of human activity: labor, work, and action. "Labor" is, essentially, a state of subsistence—i.e., doing what it takes to stay alive. For Arendt, this was the lowest form of human activity (all living creatures are capable of this). "Work" is the process of creating—a painter may create a great work of art, a writer may create a great work of fiction, etc. For Arendt, "working" is a worthwhile endeavor. Through your works, people may remember you; and if your work is great enough, you may be remembered for thousands of years. Arendt notes that people still read the Iliad, and Homer will be remembered for as long as people keep telling his stories. However, Arendt argues the Iliad is only still read because of its protagonist: Achilles. For Arendt, Achilles embodies "action." Only by interacting with others in some sort of public forum can your legacy be passed down through the generations; only by doing something truly memorable can a person achieve immortality. Arendt believed that the leaders of the American Revolution were true "actors" (in the Arendtian sense), and that their Constitution created "publics" that were conducive to action. The leaders of the French Revolution, on the other hand, were too focused on subsistence (what Arendt called their "demands for bread"), as opposed to "action." For a revolution to be truly successful, it must allow for—if not demand—that these publics be created. The leaders of the American Revolution created "a public" and acted within that space; their names will be remembered. The leaders of the French Revolution got their bread; their names have been forgotten.
What were absent from the American scene were misery and want rather than poverty, for 'the controversy between the rich and the poor, the laborious and the idle, the learned and the ignorant' was still very much present on the American scene and preoccupied the minds of the founders, who, despite the prosperity of their country, were convinced that these distinctions - 'as old as the creation. and as extensive as the globe' - were eternal. Yet, since the laborious in America were poor but not miserable - the observations of English and Continental travellers are unanimous and unanimously amazed: 'In a course of 12oo miles I did not see a single object that solicited charity' (Andrew Burnaby) - they were not driven by want, and the revolution was not overwhelmed by them. The problem they posed was not social but political, it concerned not the order of society but the form· of government. (p.68)
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Water Polo Canada (WPC) is pleased to launch our NEW Concussion Education Toolkits!
These are IMPORTANT resources for all WPC stakeholders, especially athletes, coaches and parents. They will allow stakeholders to be proactive in the prevention, recognition and management of concussions. Even though concussions are not visible on x-rays, CT or MRI scans, we know now that the damages are serious and that they can have long term consequences. This is one of the many reasons why proper concussion education is important to WPC!
These Concussion Education Toolkits go above and beyond our previous concussion resources. They have been developed as turn-key guides that can be used during each water polo season's preparation. These toolkits include information adapted with permission by Parachute and by the Institut National du sport Québec (INS Québec) in collaboration with WPC.
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Today the Catholic Church celebrates the memorial of St. Joseph the Worker, one of two days in the church calendar on which we honor St. Joseph. The memorial was instituted by Pope Pius XII, some say in response to Communist-sponsored May day celebrations for workers. It is a day dedicated to the dignity of labor and to honoring workers.
Work is central to who we are as human persons. As my friend Randy Lee once put it, “man does not work because he does not have the wealth stored up to be constantly at rest; man works because his dignity is in creating.” Gaudium et spes speaks of work as the means by which humans develop themselves and in Centesimus Annus, Pope John Paul II observed that humans express and fulfill themselves by working.
This view of work stems from our creation in the image of God; created in the image of God, human are called to co-create the world with God. We participate in the act of creation, we share in God’s creative activity, through our work.
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We have come a long way in the world of mobile gaming. From simple games that could be played on basic phones, to the complex and graphically stunning games available today, mobile gaming has evolved into a powerhouse industry.
Many experts had believed that 5G would be the next big step in mobile gaming, as it has allowed for even more realistic graphics and faster gameplay, indeed, those who use the internet to play at sites including Casumo will have noticed a difference compared to the 4G and 3G networks that were once used to power our data connections.
But what else can we expect from the future of mobile gaming? In this blog post, we will explore some of the possibilities that are available that could have an impact on the industry, and potentially change the way gamers can enjoy their favorite titles in the future!
Augmented reality (AR)
Augmented reality, or AR, is one area that is ripe for exploration in the world of mobile gaming. Pokémon Go was one of the first games to really utilize AR, and it was a huge success. Imagine being able to walk around your city and catch virtual creatures that appear in the real world!
Indeed, it really would not be a surprise if we were to see this technology truly enter the mainstream market in the near future and become widely available for a number of titles. There is no doubt that it will immediately enhance the overall gaming experiences that can be enjoyed on a portable device in the future.
Virtual reality (VR)
Another exciting possibility for mobile gaming is virtual reality, otherwise known as VR.
While VR headsets are not as widespread as smartphones, they are becoming more and more popular. And with the release of new headsets continuing to be made available to purchase that include some rather technical and innovative features, we can expect even more people to jump on the VR bandwagon.
VR takes the gaming experience to an entirely different level to those that are enjoyed when playing titles that use AR, as players will be able to feel as though they are completely immersed in the action that has been created.
With gamers continuing to look for the best way to play games, immersion is a factor that is always near the top of the requirements and demands that they have for the latest titles, therefore it really would not be a surprise to see this form of technology be brought to more playable options soon.
Gaming on wearable devices
Gaming on wearable devices is another trend that is starting to gain traction and it could be one of the next big steps to take place across the mobile gaming industry.
While smartwatches are not as powerful as smartphones, they are much more convenient. Indeed, this convenience that has been offered has meant more and more people have decided to purchase one, and with mobile gaming a popular pastime, perhaps we will see developers look to try and take advantage of the device’s success with the population.
Cloud gaming is another exciting possibility for the future of mobile gaming. With cloud gaming, you would be able to stream games from a remote server straight to your device. This would eliminate the need for powerful hardware, as all the processing would be done on the server.
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Special cat Jemima Puddleduck is searching for a quacking home after waddling her way into The Mayhew Animal Home for the second time.
Ten year old Jemima Puddleduck was born with a limb deformity in her front right leg, which she is able to walk on painlessly. Despite her disabilities, Jemima has always lived life to the full and can get around just fine – and now she’s waiting to be third time lucky and find her loving forever home.
Jemima first came into The Mayhew two years ago after our Animal Welfare Officers found her living as a stray in someone’s back garden. Our Officers brought her straight back to The Home where our Vet Team could health check and assess her and our Cattery Staff could settle her into a cosy, warm cat cabin.
She became an instant hit with all our staff and volunteers; it was clear that she is one of a kind with her little waddle and cute meow that makes her sound like a duck – hence why she was aptly named Jemima Puddleduck.
In no time at all, Jemima found a loving home with a caring owner, but sadly after two years her owner unexpectedly became ill and could no longer care for her.
At The Mayhew we will take back any ex-Mayhew animal that the adopter is unable to care for, and so we brought Jemima back into our care. Now we are hoping to find this little girl the happily ever after she so deserves.
Jemima is truly one of the sweetest cats in the world, who is ever so affectionate and could quite happily sit on laps having cuddles all day.
Our Cat Adoption Officer, Matthew Pearson, said: “Jemima Puddleduck is such a special girl who will make a fantastic companion for that lucky person or family. She’s charismatic, friendly and absolutely loves company, and we would love to find her a loving forever home soon.”
“Despite her leg deformity, Jemima can walk about and can even get up and down steps. As she gets older she may get a bit of arthritis in her other legs, but she’s gets around just fine. She can sometimes get a bit tired when she walks about, so it would be ideal if her new owners could provide her with plenty of spots to rest her paws.”
“We are looking to find Jemima a loving home where she will be the only pet. She can live with children who are used to cats and it would be ideal if her new owner had some outside space like a roof terrace or balcony as she loves to sprawl out and relax in the sun.”
Rehoming special girl Jemima Puddleduck will be an incredibly rewarding experience – and we think you’d be quackers not to love her!
If you’d like to give Jemima a forever home then find out more about her here. To adopt her you will need to come into see our Cat Adoption Officer – you can walk in from Tuesdays to Fridays 12 till 3:30pm or you will need to call us on 020 8962 8000 to book an appointment for the weekend or Monday.
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The 40[SUP]th[/SUP] SPIE Advanced Lithography conference will be at the San Jose Convention Center 22-26 February. Over the past few years, this conference has grown in scope to include emerging patterning technologies, like directed self-assembly (DSA) and design-process-technology co-optimization.
Underlying all the presentations, posters, panels, and hallway chatter are common goals and challenges: keep the fabs working and yields high, while controlling cost and turn-around time as the law of physics work against you.
One key component of managing modern manufacturing is computational lithography, which includes:
- Optical proximity correction (OPC) and resolution enhancement technology (RET) software and methodologies that achieve the maximum possible lithography entitlement
- Software, applications, and methodologies that allow foundries to increase their productivity and thus reduce development cycle times and associated costs
- Manage the post-tapeout flow
You will see plenty of this type of technology presented at the SPIE Lithography conference. There are papers on incorporating DSA in multipatterning, analyzing litho hotspots with pattern matching software, enhancing local printability in sub-14nm nodes, model-based mask preparation, new modeling of 3D effects, and managing OPC jobs for better productivity and use of resources. These technologies help maintain reasonable turnaround times for the entire post-tapeout flow and manage foundry production costs.
The importance of modeling
I talked to John Sturtevant, the director of modeling and verification solutions at Mentor Graphics about some of the hot topics in computational lithography. He said that there are significant modeling challenges associated with the 14 and 10 nm manufacturing process nodes, particularly the need for accurate and fast simulation of three-dimensional phenomena associated with the mask, wafer, and resist.
“3D EMF effects associated with mask topography have been effectively modeled for many years,” Sturtevant said, “and to support 14 nm, we added refinement of edge to edge crosstalk signals in DDM.” This enhancement leads to significantly better matching to rigorous simulation with very little runtime impact. Using the crosstalk DDM library results in better wafer fitness, especially when the mask absorber sidewall is optimized in conjunction with mask bias, he said.
Sturtevant points out that formerly “non-critical” implant layers now pose a significant OPC challenge. Underlayer topography models, which capture the complex array of wafer topography effects, have been deployed for 14 nm. These models are being expanded to better represent the impact of active FinFETs and the results for pre- and post-poly layer implant models have been excellent.
There is also new focus on the photoresist model. The 14 and 10 nm nodes feature extensive use of negative-tone develop (NTD) resist processes for the patterning of metal and via layers, due to the intrinsic aerial image advantage of a bright field mask. These NTD resist processes have unique shrinkage and develop rate properties compared to the traditional positive-tone processes. Sturtevant says Mentor has modified the CM1 model to support new NTD-specific modelforms, with a 40-55% improved accuracy in predicting wafer results. They have also rolled out improvements in the prediction of resist toploss and scumming as well as SRAF printing for both PTD and NTD cases.
DSA is now on the near horizon, and compact models predicting the assembly of vias inside of guiding patterns are already available to assist in development efforts. An important consideration for these models is to ensure the proper 3D formation of the vias. You can expect to hear a lot about DSA, and computational platforms for DSA, at SPIE Advanced Lithography this year.
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Step One: Adjust the endpin so that your right hand touches the bridge somewhere between the tips of your fingers and your knuckle while the bass is facing you. For the teacher: This will vary depending on the physique of the student and dimensions of the instrument.
Step Two: Hold the bass at arm’s length with your left hand. The side of the bass should be directly in front of your left leg with the bridge of the bass pointing directly to your right.
Step Three: Bring the bass in toward your body and lean it on your left upper thigh. Then, turn it at a 45° angle to the left so that the top back edge of the bass is resting on your pelvis just above your left inner thigh and somewhere on or below your waist. For the teacher: These contact points will vary depending on the physique of the student and dimensions of the instrument.
Step Four: While transferring your weight on to your right foot, turn your right heel slightly in to the left, turning your foot to the right, and take one step forward with your left foot. For the teacher: This is just a good starting position for the student. Flexibility and freedom of movement should be encouraged. While playing, it is entirely acceptable to shift weight from leg to leg.
Step Five: To check the height of the bass, hold the neck with a fist in your left hand just below the peg box and nut. Point toward your head with your index finger. If your finger is pointing into your left ear, the height is approximately correct. For the teacher: The height of the bass also will vary depending on the student and the bass. There are two general guidelines for the height. First, the student’s left elbow should not be higher than the shoulder while playing in the lower positions, and, secondly, the student’s right hand should be able to hold the bow comfortably between the fingerboard and bridge without bending at the waist or bending the elbow at an acute angle. | <urn:uuid:d5c2eaeb-3df4-4665-b4d5-8d2bfe40a264> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://idoublebass.com/standing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.913968 | 407 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Landscape of Hate
Landscape of Hate is an improvised multimedia project with the objective of promoting and favouring the public voice in framing pluralistic dialogues about how we negotiate various forms of hate in our society. Our events typically consist of a combination of panel discussions, debates, art expositions and performances. Landscape of Hate performances include a combination of original compositions of electronic music, audio samples, social media feeds, soundscapes and video projections. The lyrical materials are derived from data collected from the Internet, research interviews and other public sources. Each performance is unique. Landscape of Hate played its debut show on May 9, 2017. A second concert was held on September 15, 2017 in Québec City. The third concert was held on May 26, 2018 in Bergen, Norway. On June 22 we held a performance in Montreal at COOP Katacombes as part of the Concordia University Interdisciplinary Summer Institute. Landscape of Hate then performed on October 12, 2018 as part of the annual conference of Associate of Internet Researchers in Montreal at O Patro Vys. Most recently Landscape of Hate performed at the Corona Theatre on 26 July with US grindcore band, Pig Destroyer.
Landscape of Hate has been created as part of the Grimposium festival and conference series and the SOMEONE (Social Media Education Every Day) initiative. The project is funded by grants to Vivek Venkatesh’s multi-disciplinary research and practitioner team.
Vivek Venkatesh and Owen Chapman are the creators and curators of Landscape of Hate. Vivek is responsible for the live vocals and improvised noise electronics. Vivek and Owen also source the social media and pre-recorded public voices and nature-based soundscapes using the custom-made Plural mobile application. Vivek is an Associate Professor of Art Education at Concordia University, and UNESCO co-Chair for Prevention of Radicalisation and Violent Extremism. Owen is an Associate Professor of Sound Production and Scholarship at Concordia University.
Vivek Venkatesh, Owen Chapman, Jason Wallin, anabasine and Leticia Trandafir (aka softcoresoft), and Annabelle Brault compose original music, deejay and improvise soundscape materials during Landscape of Hate performances. Jason is an Associate Professor of Media and Youth Culture in Curriculum at University of Alberta. Leticia is a deejay, music maker and scholar of media studies. anabasine is a deejay, producer and composer. Annabelle is a music therapy Lecturer in the Creative Arts Therapies Department at Concordia University.
David Hall creates the logos, branding and the visual representations to accompany the music of Landscape of Hate. David, Martin Lalonde and Jessie Beier improvise visuals based on the content of the public materials being used in each Landscape of Hate performance. David is an accomplished filmmaker with over two decades of experience; he is also the director of the critically acclaimed concert documentary Blekkmetal. Martin is a visual artist, academic and youth educator. Jessie is an academic, teacher, artist and writer.
In this video, Vivek Venkatesh and Owen Chapman explain Landscape of Hate.
Here is a video of the panel from 26 July.
Video of Bergen panel was produced by Festspillene i Bergen.
Released September 13, 2019, and co-produced by Vivek Venkatesh, Owen Chapman and Danji Buck-Moore, Landscape of Hate, recorded the Blekkmetal soundtrack over a four-day period this past June. You can listen to the album on Bandcamp, Spotify, Tidal or Apple Music. For more information see here.
Landscape of Hate in the Norwegian Media
The Bergen Landscape of Hate performance was covered in the Norwegian media here:
Vårt Land “Støykunst mellom hat og håp” (Strong art between hatred and hope) by Camilla Helen Heiervang, May 28, 2018
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The Picoeconomics and Neuroeconomics of Disordered Gambling: Economic Theory and Cognitive Science
An analysis of how economic theories can be used to understand disordered and pathological gambling that calls on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain and argues that addictive gambling is the basic form of all addiction.
The explanatory power of economic theory is tested by the phenomenon of irrational consumption, examples of which include such addictive behaviors as disordered and pathological gambling. Midbrain Mutiny examines different economic models of disordered gambling, using the frameworks of neuroeconomics (which analyzes decision making in the brain) and picoeconomics (which analyzes patterns of consumption behavior), and drawing on empirical evidence about behavior and the brain.
The book describes addiction in neuroeconomic terms as chronic disruption of the balance between the midbrain dopamine system and the prefrontal and frontal serotonergic system, and reviews recent evidence from trials testing the effectiveness of antiaddiction drugs. The authors argue that the best way to understand disordered and addictive gambling is with a hybrid picoeconomic-neuroeconomic model.
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(See also Metabolic Acidosis Metabolic Acidosis Metabolic acidosis is primary reduction in bicarbonate (HCO3−), typically with compensatory reduction in carbon dioxide partial pressure (Pco2); pH may be markedly low or slightly... read more , Acid-Base Regulation Acid-Base Regulation Metabolic processes continually produce acid and, to a lesser degree, base. Hydrogen ion (H+) is especially reactive; it can attach to negatively charged proteins and, in high concentrations... read more , and Acid-Base Disorders Acid-Base Disorders Acid-base disorders are pathologic changes in carbon dioxide partial pressure (Pco2) or serum bicarbonate (HCO3−) that typically produce abnormal arterial pH values. Acidemia is serum... read more .)
Lactate is a normal byproduct of glucose and amino acid metabolism. There are 2 main types of lactic acidosis:
Type A lactic acidosis
Type B lactic acidosis
D-Lactic acidosis (D-lactate encephalopathy) is an unusual form of lactic acidosis.
Type A lactic acidosis
Type A lactic acidosis, the most serious form, occurs when lactic acid is overproduced in ischemic tissue—as a byproduct of anaerobic generation of ATP (adenosine triphosphate) during oxygen deficit. Overproduction typically occurs during global tissue hypoperfusion in hypovolemic Hypovolemic shock Shock is a state of organ hypoperfusion with resultant cellular dysfunction and death. Mechanisms may involve decreased circulating volume, decreased cardiac output, and vasodilation, sometimes... read more , cardiogenic Cardiogenic shock Numerous complications can occur as a result of an acute coronary syndrome and increase morbidity and mortality. Complications can be roughly categorized as Electrical dysfunction (conduction... read more , or septic shock Sepsis and Septic Shock Sepsis is a clinical syndrome of life-threatening organ dysfunction caused by a dysregulated response to infection. In septic shock, there is critical reduction in tissue perfusion; acute failure... read more and is worsened by decreased lactate metabolism in the poorly perfused liver. It may also occur with primary hypoxia due to lung disease and with various hemoglobinopathies Overview of Hemoglobinopathies Hemoglobinopathies are genetic disorders affecting the structure or production of the hemoglobin molecule. Hemoglobin molecules consist of polypeptide chains whose chemical structure is genetically... read more .
Type B lactic acidosis
Type B lactic acidosis occurs in states of normal global tissue perfusion (and hence ATP production) and is less ominous.
Causes include local tissue hypoxia (eg, as with vigorous muscle use during exertion, seizures, hypothermic shivering), certain systemic and congenital conditions, cancer, and ingestion of certain drugs or toxins (see table Causes of Metabolic Acidosis Causes of Metabolic Acidosis ). Drugs include the nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors and the biguanides phenformin and, less so, metformin; although phenformin has been removed from the market in most of the world, it is still available from China (including as a component of some Chinese proprietary medicines). Metabolism may be decreased due to hepatic insufficiency or thiamin deficiency.
D-Lactic acidosis is an unusual form of lactic acidosis in which D-lactic acid, the product of bacterial carbohydrate metabolism in the colon of patients with jejunoileal bypass or intestinal resection, is systemically absorbed. It persists in circulation because human lactate dehydrogenase can metabolize only L-lactate.
Symptoms and Signs
Symptoms and signs of lactic acidosis are dominated by those of the underlying disorder (eg, shock in Type A, toxin ingestion in Type B). Neurologic symptoms, including confusion, ataxia, and slurred speech, occur after a high-carbohydrate ingestion and are characteristic of D-lactic acidosis.
Arterial blood gas (ABG) and serum electrolyte measurements
Anion gap and delta gap calculated
Blood lactate level
ABG values in types A and B lactic acidosis are as for other metabolic acidoses Diagnosis Metabolic acidosis is primary reduction in bicarbonate (HCO3−), typically with compensatory reduction in carbon dioxide partial pressure (Pco2); pH may be markedly low or slightly... read more . Diagnosis requires blood pH < 7.35 and lactate > 45 to 54 mg/dL (> 5 to 6 mmol/L). Less extreme lactate and pH changes are referred to as hyperlacticemia.
In D-lactic acidosis, the anion gap is lower than expected for the decrease in bicarbonate (HCO3−), and there may be a urinary osmolar gap (difference between calculated and measured urine osmolarity). Typical laboratory lactate assays are not sensitive to D-lactate. Specific D-lactate levels are available and sometimes needed to clarify the cause of acidosis in patients with multiple potential causes including bowel problems.
Treatment of cause
Treatment of types A and B lactic acidosis is similar to treatment of other metabolic acidoses Treatment Metabolic acidosis is primary reduction in bicarbonate (HCO3−), typically with compensatory reduction in carbon dioxide partial pressure (Pco2); pH may be markedly low or slightly... read more .
Treatment of the cause is paramount. In treating inadequate tissue perfusion, pressors should be omitted when possible because they may worsen tissue ischemia. Bicarbonate is potentially dangerous in high anion gap acidosis but may be considered when pH is < 7.00, with a target pH of ≤ 7.10.
In D-lactic acidosis, treatment is IV fluids, restriction of carbohydrates, and sometimes oral antibiotics (eg, metronidazole) for short bowel syndrome and bicarbonate for severe acidosis.
There are 2 main types of lactic acidosis, type A and type B; type A is more serious because it is caused by ischemia.
Diagnosis requires blood pH < 7.35 and serum lactate levels > 45 to 54 mg/dL (> 5 to 6 mmol/L).
Avoid pressors when possible for types A and B lactic acidosis because they worsen tissue ischemia.
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Our philosophy stems from a belief that wealth indirectly comes from good health. That view is articulated in our payoff-line and its rationale.
In Africa, it is often said that “an ailing hunter cannot catch a wounded buck”. From ancient African generations to modern times, this indigenous wisdom on health has always rung true.
Our early patriarchs lived out this proverb with an understanding that the foundation of success begins with the sustenance of good health.
So the men and women of old invested their valuable time and wealth to seek out rare herbs and remedies from the lands of their communities. Leaves were crushed, seeds were sifted, and wild plants with medicinal properties were grown. This produced lush fields for the healing of their communities.
Today, that timeless principle has not shifted. RH Bophelo takes that ideology to heart. We understand that without health, children will not rise in the early hours of the morning and go to school to secure their future. Without health, a worker cannot lay a brick and build a high-rise. Without health, the fastest runner could never win the lowest-ranked medal. Without health, the breadwinner cannot bring back home the bread. Without health, there can be no prosperity.
And for these reasons and more, we do our best to invest our time and our WEALTH in HEALTH.
Because ultimately, Health is Wealth.
To improve the reach of healthcare services to South Africans ranging from middle to low-income earners, and to achieve clinical excellence. Our vision stems from the belief that wealth indirectly comes from good health.
RH Bophelo is a healthcare investment company dedicated to working closely with entrepreneurs, medical professionals and experienced business partners to service the gap between public and private healthcare sectors in South Africa. We achieve this by making acquisitions that can support our vision of providing affordable quality healthcare services for lower to middle income earners, whilst offering superior value to our stakeholders.
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South Australia records six new COVID-19 cases as Modbury cluster grows to 12
South Australia announced six new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday afternoon, with the Modbury cluster now at 12 infections.
South Australia has recorded six new COVID-19 cases, Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier announced on Wednesday afternoon.
Five cases are linked to the Yattalunga Tenafeate Creek winery.
"We have a woman in her 50s, a man in his 50s, a woman in her 60s, a man in his 40s and also a woman in her 80s that have tested positive," Dr Spurrier said.
"One of the things to say about this is... the exposure was fairly recent, which was Sunday afternoon."
The exposure time was 1.45pm to 4.30pm on Sunday, July 18.
â COVID-19 HEALTH ALERT 21 July 2021â— SA Health (@SAHealth) July 21, 2021
SA Health has identified exposure locations associated with positive cases of COVID-19.
Action is required by the community.
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The other case announced is linked to the Greek on Halifax restaurant in Adelaide, a young child aged under five.
Dr Spurrier was asked by a reporter: "Is this is a super-spreading event and how concerned are you?".
She replied: "I would say that both the Greek on Halifax is this winery are examples of super-spreading events".
"Yes, it is very serious. I am concerned. I am also very pleased that we were able to put a lockdown in place so quickly. Again, I thank all South Australians for following these rules. It is a time to stay at home and not move.
"If you don't need to go out, don't go out. Stay at home. I know that we have reasons to leave the home, but just minimise those reasons."
Premier Steven Marshall announced earlier in the day South Australia had recorded one new locally acquired case, a woman in her 20s who has also been linked to the Modbury cluster.
Dr Spurrier said South Australia should brace for more infections.
"I think people in South Australia do need to prepare themselves for more cases - that is certainly my expectation - and the important thing is if we can make sure that everybody is in quarantine from the moment that they have had that SMS that they have been at a potential exposure site," she said.
Dr Spurrier said it was "difficult to say" if the state's seven-day lockdown will be extended.
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The Guardian has a number of short pieces from economists on the likely economic effects of the coronavirus, and what should be done about it. Here’s mine
The government has finally recognised the correctness of the Rudd government’s response to the GFC
The Australian economy was slowing even before the bushfire catastrophe and the arrival of coronavirus. The economic costs of the bushfires, including damage to property and infrastructure, long-term health effects of smoke exposure and ecosystem destruction were massive, but the main effects on GDP will be felt by the tourism sector. The damage to Australia’s international image from widespread vision of the fires, accompanied by critical commentary to the effect that, as a climate laggard, we have brought this on ourselves, will be long-lasting.
The arrival of the coronavirus, just as the last bushfires were extinguished will have a greater short term impact on economic activity, almost certainly resulting in two or more quarters of negative growth. With an underlying growth rate of 0.5% per quarter, a 5% contraction in the 10% of the economy most exposed to the effects of coronavirus would be sufficient to reduce growth to zero.
It appears that the government has finally recognised the correctness of the Rudd government’s response to the GFC, and will follow that path, with some marginal attempts at product differentiation. It is likely that the effect on the budget balance will be substantially greater than the $10bn currently being discussed, and that the recent decline in the ratio of public debt to GDP will be reversed. In these circumstances, the massive tax cuts for high income earners, legislated for 2024-25 will probably prove unaffordable. | <urn:uuid:f624a1c9-c927-4fb6-8ad6-135805413ebc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://johnquiggin.com/2020/03/11/how-coronavirus-will-wallop-australias-economy-and-what-the-government-must-do/comment-page-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963797 | 347 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Minimizing Risk Of Loss In Penny Stock Trading
Nobody becomes a master trader overnight. It takes a process of growth and evolution to become a highly profitable trader. More and more people are making money from penny stock trading but the majority is still taking more than their fair share of losses. The following tips will help you to limit your trading risk.
1. Don’t trade against the market
Study the market until you have a clear picture of the market direction. Absolutely do not enter the market and risk your money if the signals are not clear.
2. Establish an entry point
Make a definite decision of the point at which you will enter the trade for any penny stock .This is a very important part of your trading strategy. You might use the plain vanilla stock quotes or candle stick charts but the most important point is that you have an entry point.
3. Look out for serious buyers
The presence of serious buyers is one of the indications of a penny stock’s potential. Look at the Open Book or Market Maker window and Tape. Don’t trade if there is no order flow on the Tape or the order sizes are small (less than a 1000 shares).
4. Have an exit price.
As with the entry point the exit point is very important in a good penny stock trading strategy. Before purchasing a penny stock, you need to decide what constitutes good profit for you. This is the point where you sell and get out of the trade.
5. Use a protective stop loss
This is the most important part of any penny stock trading strategy. Every trade position you take comes with a measure of risk. A stop order can protect a trading position in case it is unprofitable. Do not wait until you get into a trade before deciding how much risk to take. Determine the amount of risk beforehand by using and sticking to a ‘Maximum Define Loss’.
Ideally a maximum risk is set at about 3.5% for a day trading and about 10% for long term trading. For example a day trader trading with 00 should not risk more than 5 on any trade. Do not overlook this important component of your trading plan to keep loss at the minimum.
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For many years, medical devices played second fiddle to medicines in the pharmaceutical industry. Their role was to facilitate the use of the “star” products, the drugs. However, the sector’s low profile became increasingly problematic. There was often confusion about the vast range of products falling under the medical devices umbrella, and, perhaps more importantly, there was clearly a need for tighter oversight when it came to safety compliance.
Consider the fact that a simple band-aid, electronic thermometers, and diagnostics software all fell under the classification of medical devices and it’s clear that a one-size-fits-all regulation doesn’t work for such a diversity of products. In response to this challenge, medical devices were divided into classes, predominantly based on their risk: class I, Is, Im, IIa, IIb and III. However, as technology advanced, so too did medical devices, resulting in active devices, software, in vitro diagnostics, self-diagnostics, etc., and once again adding to confusion as to how these should be managed and regulated.
While the need for a tougher regulation was well-understood (and underway), it took a worldwide catastrophe like the COVID-19 pandemic to highlight the risks of an “easy” and confusing regulation for medical devices in the European Union (EU). Nowhere was this more apparent than with surgical masks, a class I medical device.
EU Market Context
In response to the misalignment between rapidly evolving medical device technologies and the EU’s Medical Device Directive 93/42/CEE (MDD) a new EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR – Regulation EU 2017/745) was approved in May 2017, and the industry was preparing to implement it by May 2020. But then COVID-19 arrived in Europe in February 2020, changing our lives and plans and, as the virus spread through the EU, implementation plans were put on hold.
The MDR will now come in force on 26 May 2021, according to the provisions of articles reported on Regulation (EU) 2020/561 of The European Parliament & of the Council of 23 April 2020 amending Regulation (EU) 2017/745 on medical devices, as regards the dates of application of certain of its provisions.
As we prepare for this important new regulation, it’s important to understand why it is so important.
Directive vs Regulation
The first aspect to consider is the regulation discrepancies across countries on how European legislation is structured. In the EU there are different kinds of legal acts, such as EU treaties, regulations, directives, decisions, recommendations, opinions, delegated and implementing acts.
The two legal acts that directly impact medical devices are:
A – EU Regulations: “… legal acts that apply automatically and uniformly to all EU countries as soon as they enter into force, without needing to be transposed into national law. They are binding in their entirety on all EU countries.”
B – EU Directives: “…require EU countries to achieve a certain result, but leave them free to choose how to do so. EU countries must adopt measures to incorporate them into national law (transpose) to achieve the objectives set by the directive. National authorities must communicate these measures to the European Commission. Transposition into national law must take place by the deadline set when the directive is adopted…”
What this means is that with a directive, such as Medical Device Directive 93/42/CEE, each country can interpret and apply it locally, creating regulatory differences and market gaps between countries. Each country will also issue local decrees on the applicability of the directive.
On the other hand, when a regulation enters in force, each country must apply it in full, without any local exceptions.
CoViD-19: The perfect storm
When COVID-19 started spreading across Europe and all countries realised the urgent demand for medical devices and personal protection equipment, the EU regulators quickly formed temporary regulations to make it possible to import these from foreign countries, contrary to the normal process. The decision was understandable. The demand was so great that doctors and nurses were caring for patients using plastic bags and fabric masks for protection.
Meanwhile in China, the world’s largest manufacturer of medical devices began full production again after a two-month lockdown, just as lockdowns started in every European country. It was the perfect supplier for Europe just as internal production shutdown.
In addition, there were other challenges that Europe was facing, such as forgery of CE compliance certificates and counterfeit medical devices (masks, individual protection devices, hydroalcoholic gel). COVID-19 test kits also became a serious issue when it came to reliability. This is a critical consideration given that the difference between a negative and a positive result could impact hundreds or even thousands of lives. Before COVID-19, we might never realised that the sensitivity of a medical device diagnostics kit could put so much at stake.
To respond to the dramatic increase in requests for COVID-19 first aid medical devices, The European Commission has temporarily allowed the marketing of non-CE marked products in some categories, such as personal respiratory protective equipment, under Recommendation (EU) 2020/403. The marketing of these devices is permitted if a number of criteria are met, but this only applies to equipment intended to protect healthcare professionals from the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
Moreover, to increase production capacity of protection devices and disinfectants, on 20 March 2020, the European Commission and the European Standardisation Organisations agreed that all the relevant European harmonised standards would exceptionally be made freely and fully available for all interested companies. This action allowed manufacturers to place on the market high-quality devices to protect patients, healthcare professionals, and citizens in general, including:
• medical facemasks
• protective clothing
• surgical drapes
• disinfectant and sterilisation agents
• personal eye protection
• medical gloves
• respiratory protective devices
Under the same considerations, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) extended the scope of the EUA “Emergency Use Authorization ” to medical devices and in vitro diagnostic applications.
“On the basis of this determination, the Secretary of HHS has subsequently declared that circumstances exist justifying the authorization of emergency use of in vitro diagnostics for the detection and/or diagnosis of COVID-19 (February 4, 2020), personal respiratory protective devices (March 2, 2020), and other medical devices, including alternative products used as medical devices (March 24, 2020), for use during the COVID-19 outbreak pursuant to section 564 of the Act and subject to the terms of any authorization issued under that section….” ( Notice of Declaration under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act for medical countermeasures against COVID-19 (February 4, 2020).
In the EU, the Notified Bodies have also been encouraged to speed up evaluations of urgently required medical devices, such as ventilators, oxygen chambers, and surgical masks.
In response, new players have entered the market, such as automobile manufacturers, which have leveraged their expertise in designing engines and vehicles to start producing medical devices. This is reminiscent of World War II, which is the last time multiple industries responded to an urgent global need.
Now, one year on from the start of the pandemic, EU regulators must urgently apply the new MDR to fix the gaps and prevent future exposure. What will happen to the “Emergency Use” approvals and new players on the market? Are they prepared to meet a regulation that medical device manufactures have been preparing for since 2017? We will be watching carefully to find out what unfolds in the months ahead.
One thing we’ve learned with the pandemic: you can never be overprepared.
Preparing for the future
In recognition of the challenges faced, ProductLife Group has established the PLG MedTech Centre of Competencies to help companies in areas ranging from clinical evidence, to post-market surveillance, to quality management and risk management, to finding and working with a Notified Body.
The team is led by Paolo Guerra, an expert in the medical devices industry across quality, manufacturing, risk management, and project development of all classes of medical devices, including digital apps and SaMD.
As the date of MDR implementation draws closer and as its implications become clearer for the industry, PLG will continue to expand its team of experts to support customers in a flexible, customised, yet cost-efficient way.
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Before launching anything, you have to have a certain level of buy in. Whether it is a small group, discipleship group, evangelistic event, or a leadership group you need kids to buy in. You have to have kids who are interested, that have some want to. How do we get that? How do we do that? We have to get students to buy in with:
- Hearts (they have to feel it)
- Minds (they have to think it will be worth it, and t will be)
- Souls (they have to believe it will affect their walk with Christ and could have a greater impact on the youth group and the Kingdom of God)
- Bodies (they have to show up, sometimes just by faith)
So, what can we do to help our kids buy into the next level of their spiritual growth?
1. Make it a practice of telling kids you believe they can make it to the next level.
The students may not be ready now, but they can be and will be if they know someone believes in them.
2. Invite kids to taste the next level.
Jesus invited Peter, James, and John on special trips where they experienced things (mount of transfiguration, personal prayer time with Jesus in the garden). Find ways to invite kids to experience that next level of maturity.
3. Cast a vision of what life could like for them at the next level.
Kids need to see what’s in it for them and for the Kingdom. I know we want every choice to be altruistic, but most kids don’t have that. Their choices can be Spirit prompted, if they can see it with the heart and their imagination.
Jesus painted great pictures. We can too.
- Paint a picture of the rewards at the next level (eternity, crowns, presence of God)
- Paint a picture of the consequences at the next level (they will reject or persecute you)
- Paint a picture of the dangers at the next level (most guys are enticed by an element of danger)
- Paint a picture of the joy they will experience at the next level (the positive emotions will keep them coming back to that level)
4. Tell them there is a task custom made for them at the next level.
Jesus told Peter “Feed my sheep”. You have to show young people that their are important things to be done at the next level and they can do them if they step out in faith.
5. Let them know they will learn something they do not know at the next level.
We have a responsibility (on a program level) to make each level interesting, challenging, and educational. The disciples went from fishermen to walking on water, healing the sick, experiencing the power of the Spirit, proclaiming the gospel to Gentiles, and ultimately, giving their life. We have to make sure each level is not just fishing in different lake but deeper lakes with bigger fish to be caught.
6. Pursue and Live At Your Next Level
Before we invite kids to the next level, let’s make sure we are heading to the next level God has for us. We can’t invite kids where we have not been or are not heading. They will know if we are stuck at or scared of the next level in our own lives.
- Take your program apart into small pieces.
- Divide it into levels of deeper maturity (where do you want them to go?)
- Decide which kids to invite to which level. (invite them consistently)
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M-Commerce Application is a must Have in 2021
An M-Commerce application is not the same as an E-Commerce
Mobile Commerce application is specially designed for mobile devices to interact with the users. E-commerce focuses on selling products or services through computers, laptops, and more. There lies a great difference in purchasing things through mobile phones as the gestures users perform are different, compact space to make an impression, access to user’s information more easily, and many more.
Let us give you some strategies to help gain success through M-Commerce:
Focus on providing the best User Experience
M-Commerce development services focus on making the app User-Friendly and faster response time. There can be various challenges like slow internet connection, less space, app loading time, content display format, and more that needs to be optimized efficiently. You will need a great team of developers, designers, and quality analysis to increase your success in the digital world.
Make the M-Commerce Application Simple
It must give a clear view of your business, and even the functionalities should be understood easily. The complexity of mobile applications depends on the data, targeted audience, engaging UI, and processes done within the application. Add relevant information about your products and services while keeping it to the point.
Scalability of Application
Choose the technology wisely, as some might not give you updates in the future that can affect your business. It is a hard task, but there is a bundle of technologies that support the platform with new additional features and security patches regularly. The scalability of the application is essential for the growth of business and increase the profit gain.
Why is M-Commerce Application a better Choice for Online Businesses?
- Mobile applications perform actions faster than e-commerce websites.
- Personalization is easy through mobile applications as it can gather user data like their online behavior, interest, location, and more. This data can be used in customizing the platform for the users and increase customer engagement.
- Some applications support the offline mode that means users don’t require an internet connection to access the application. It helps in decreasing the bounce rate and improve ranking on SERPs.
- Utilization of various device features like Camera, GPS, payments, and more.
- Send push notifications and reminders easily about the updates in your application. This helps the users to get information regularly and stay connected with your application easily.
- Authentication can be done easily and faster through OTP or text messages
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Polanyi, Michael (1891-1976)
born physical chemist who came to the University of Manchester in England in
1933. In 1947 he moved from the faculty of science to the faculty of humanities
where he developed his philosophy of science and of society. Polanyi argued
that knowledge was neither objective nor subjective but personal in that all
knowledge required the commitment of the knower to some community of knowers.
He also developed the idea of "tacit knowledge," knowledge that was
incapable of full explicit express, which underlies all explicit knowledge. Two
of his dictums are: We say more than we know that we say. We know more than we
can say that we know.
Contributed by: Dr. James Miller
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ISO 17069:2014 specifies considerations to be taken, as well as support and assistive products that can be used when organizing a physical meeting in which older persons and persons with disabilities can actively participate.
Teleconferences and web conferences are important methods that can be used to include older persons and persons with disabilities in meetings.
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What yarn is waterproof?
Kathleen and Nick Greco, partners in Dimensional Illustrators, Inc., developed Jelly Yarn® to create waterproof durable creative crafting projects. The yarn is a round pliable waterproof 100% vinyl strand, not fiber.
What is the best yarn for crocheting clothes?
Top 12 Best Yarn for Crochets to Buy in 2021
- Red Heart Super Saver Jumbo Yarn.
- Mira Handcrafts 40 Assorted Colors Acrylic Yarn.
- Red Heart Super Saver Yarn.
- Caron Simply Soft Solids Yarn.
- Lion Brand Yarn 135-308 Hometown Yarn.
- Bernat Baby Blanket Big ball.
- TYH Supplies 20-Pack 22 Yard Acrylic Yarn.
- Caron One Pound Solids Yarn.
What is the smoothest yarn?
Cashmere: The softest and fluffiest yarn of them all, but is also rather expensive and not that strong.
Is acrylic yarn water resistant?
Acrylic fibers are made from a polymer and they were first developed by DuPont back in 1941. … Additionally, acrylic fibers have really good moisture wicking properties. They are often spun together with natural wool, in order to increase the water resistance of the wool.
Is acrylic yarn washable?
Acrylic and other synthetic yarns can be washed and dried with your regular laundry because they don’t shrink.
What is acrylic yarn?
What is Acrylic Yarn? Acrylic yarns are a replica of natural cotton and wool yarns. It is manufactured to mimic its natural fiber cousins, such as wool or cotton, at a lower cost and higher quantity. … Acrylic fibers are manufactured from petroleum products by melting and extruding the materials into long, thin fibers.
Is cotton or acrylic yarn better?
Both Acrylic and Cotton yarns are extremely durable, but cotton is more durable of the two. With cotton, the more the yarn is used and washed, the more comfortable it becomes. This does not happen with acrylic yarn, because time and multiple washes doesn’t affect acrylic yarn much.
Is acrylic yarn good for crochet?
Acrylic yarn: Overall, acrylic is a popular fiber with crochet enthusiasts; acrylic is widely available, it comes in a variety of colors, and it is usually one of the more affordable choices for yarn. Acrylic yarn is a more-than-acceptable choice for beginners.
Is cotton yarn good for clothes?
These are the advantages of knitting with cotton yarn: Cotton is a relatively lightweight fiber that is good for summer clothing and accessories. It is quite breathable and comfortable to wear next to the skin. … Cotton is strong, durable and machine-washable.
What brands of yarn are softest?
Check out our list of the softest, dreamiest yarns available from Lion Brand, LoveCrafts, Red Heart and Yarnspirations!
- Debbie Bliss Paloma.
- The Yarn Collective Bloomsbury DK.
- Red Heart: Hygge.
- Dreamy Stripes.
- Yarnspirations: Bernat Blanket.
- Bernat Velvet.
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The workplace has changed a lot, in the last 20 years. Today, there’s some form of computer at every desk, telecommuting is common, and traditional cubicles have given way to more collaborative work spaces.
Where do we go, from here?
Well, PSFK, a popular blog that also acts as a consultancy, has come up with its own version of the future of work, based on ideas that are already gaining ground. Their report runs to 138 pages (and costs around $150), but I’ve summarised several of the main points (and some input from other sources) below.
A recent LSE/PSI project suggests the existence of a digital divide, with manual workers having less opportunity to learn and exercise new information-based skills – even though their knowledge of IT is substantial, from using computers at home.
At government level, there’s a widespread belief that the key to genuine improvements lies in encouraging more skills training among employees – especially in the areas of information and telecommunications technology. Policy-makers see raising the level and value of formal educational qualifications as vital to improving competency at work, and promoting more innovation and creativity.
In future, learning initiatives for young entrepreneurs will become common. In the Enstitute model, university students are matched with start-ups, where they learn the ins-and-outs of a company, take relevant Skillshare classes, work on projects, and sit in on panels.
Virtual learning libraries will abound, where entrepreneurial experts can leave advice in written and video form. There’s a precedent for this, in today’s online education industry.
Rise of the Machine
In the 19th and 20th centuries, waves of automation eliminated jobs in key economic sectors like agriculture. Yet, when workers learned the necessary skills, new opportunities were identified, and labour could be redeployed.
Automation is here to stay, and will continue to sweep across nearly every vertical industry and market sector. It’s believed that the new trend in Labour Force Innovation will create more time for workers to think creatively, innovate, and be more stimulated and engaged in their work, after repetitive tasks are reduced.
· The rise of wearable devices with built-in sensors will usher in the Quantified Worker. Analysis of data from badges, name tags, wristwatches and other gadgets worn by employees will give management new insights into who’s interacting with whom, and which environments are most innovative and productive.
· Social prestige will become more integrated into working life. A video game company called Valve already uses a peer ranking system, to keep track of employee skill levels, contributions, and overall “value”.
· An office feedback culture will develop, where employees can post ideas in real-time to online suggestion boxes. There may be “workplace sentiment readings,” and anonymous feedback systems which block the identity of giver and receiver.
· Skills marketplaces – social tools allowing employers to quickly assess an applicant’s skills – will become popular. Mozilla’s Open Badges project, which lets people display their skills via badges on social media profiles, is an example.
· Social communication tools like Yammer, Instant Messenger, Dropbox, and Google Docs make telecommuting possible, and will become more sophisticated. Tools like Shift will let workers collaborate across different companies, and virtual collaboration spaces will also emerge.
· Industrial Colour has already rolled out a digital table app that works with Samsung’s Touch Table, while the design software developer Sunglass has created a program similar to AutoCAD which engineers, designers, and architects can use online.
As an evolution from many of today’s tech company offices, we’ll have the pop-up workplace:
· modular work pods
· attractive sound-absorbing booths
· mobile workstations that roll around
· “pink noise” systems that block out nearby conversations (already developed by Autodesk)
· a serious consideration of the effects of long hours of sitting on the human body – which means standing furniture (like Focal’s), chair-based exercise systems (e.g. the OfficeGym), and treadmill workstations
New Digital Frontiers…
· With current advances to in-home high-definition video conferencing, desk-lamp shaped projection devices, and haptic remote robots (which mirror a user’s body reactions on a robot located elsewhere), telepresence looks to be the wave of the future. Though it has a long way to go before it’s useful for office work, it may have more immediate applications in medicine, education, and retail.
· Quantum computers have the potential to be millions of times faster than even our most powerful supercomputers. Super-secure transactions will result from quantum cryptography, and quantum data storage will achieve unparalleled densities. This new technology is expected to begin affecting our daily lives within a decade.
· Quantum technology will accelerate the potential for genomics and nanotechnology to cure disease. Synthetic blood has already been developed, while synthetic organs and programmable cell therapies will soon be able to extend longevity, and restore bodily functions. Nanoparticles are currently being engineered to deliver drugs to specific receptors on specific cells.
· Apple’s Siri, the conversational interface available on iPhones and iPads; and Watson, the IBM supercomputer that competed and won on the game show “Jeopardy!”, may herald the arrival of strong artificial intelligence (AI). With developments in processing capacity and storage, it’s projected that a human-like AI could develop as early as 2030.
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The following is an excerpt from the Marcus Garvey and Universal Negro Improvement Papers Volume 2 pages 245 & 246. It presents a speech given by James Wormley Jones. Jones addressed his audience on his having the appearance of a “white” man. He denied being who he appears to be to calm the audience. As the…… Continue reading EX-CAPTAIN JONES, U.S.A., SPEAKS
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The European Commission has proposed a compromise which would effectively retain fixed sizes for a limited number of prepackaged goods until 2013 or 2014. [article originally drafted by Robin Paice for UKMA News]
In 2005 the European Commission published a proposal which would have deregulated package sizes (aka “prescribed quantities” or “PQs”) for most goods, with the exception of wine and spirits, sugar and instant coffee. This proposal would have ended the nonsense whereby jam packed in the UK must be sold in the UK in multiples of 57 g (e.g. jars of 454 g), whereas jam imported from France may be sold in jars of 400 g or 500 g.
However, in February 2006, led by Conservative MEPs, and egged on by British tabloid newspapers, the European Parliament proposed a series of amendments which would have retained a range of fixed sizes for a variety of goods – notably the venerable “pint” of milk. The same newspapers portrayed this vote as a defeat for the Brussels Bureaucrats’ attempts to abolish the good old British pint – although actually the Commission’s proposals posed no threat to the pint.
Following a series of negotiations involving the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament, a compromise has emerged which would achieve the Commission’s original intention of general deregulation (with limited exceptions) but with a delay of 5 years for milk, butter, pasta and coffee, and six years for sugar. It now appears that this revised proposal will be adopted by the three legislative institutions of the EU. For full details see http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/com/2006/com2006_0811en01.pdf
One of the Commission’s arguments for abolishing fixed sizes was that “unit pricing” (per kg, L, etc) enables consumers to compare value for money, and therefore fixed sizes are unnecessary. Unfortunately, neither the Commission nor the UK Government has attempted to explain or popularise the little understood concept of unit pricing – the small print which appears at the bottom of price labels. So whether the consumer will be well served by this decision is debatable.
In the meantime, the UK Government is now faced with a dilemma. In 2005 it proposed that the various Food Orders (as they are called), which regulate the sizes of packages which may be manufactured and sold in the UK, should be consolidated into a single Order – albeit without changing the content of the Orders. (These are the Orders which determine that, for example, jam must be sold in multiples of 57 g but instant coffee in multiples of 50 g).
Assuming that the Commission’s proposals come into force in 2008, and that the Food Orders also could not be revised until the same year, the revised Orders would only be in force for a maximum of five years – and only for the limited range of products listed above. This may not be enough to warrant the expense of churning out the necessary secondary legislation and occupying scarce Parliamentary time.
What about the pint of beer?
There remains, however, one minor but iconically important issue raised by the DTI in its consultation paper but not covered by the Commission’s proposal: the pint of beer. UKMA had proposed that draught beer and cider should be permitted (not required) to be dispensed in metric quantities, as long as the price per litre was displayed. As this would be an additional option and not a new and onerous regulation, there should be no problem about introducing this measure immediately.
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In a business scene, we often need to deal with something more complex than some of introductory "business English" texts. More often than not, it isn't as simple as
John: Would Tuesday suit you?
Paul: That's fine with me. Thank you.
John: Thank you. Talk to you then.
For example, suppose I'm arranging a phone call with someone outside our company, possibly in another continent. I have to tell (perhaps via email) when I'll be available for a call and the condition can easily be as complex as:
- It's Wednesday afternoon right now here in Tokyo.
- I'll be available for a phone call for the rest of this week and the next week. (I'm not sure about my schedule for the week after next.)
- I'll be available only after 1pm every day.
- Except, I'll be only available after 3pm this Friday and before 5pm on Tuesday next week.
How do native speaker write for this? In case we use email for arrangement, a single, long and detailed email is preferred over exchanging short ones over and over again.
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REV. RICHARD BAXTER.
THE MISCHIEFS OF SELF-IGNORANCE, AND BENEFITS OF SELF-
THE ISSUE OF GOSPEL INVITATIONS.
11. It makes men quarrel with God's word and ministers ibid.
4. By men's partiality 65—5. When every man would
3. And be surprised to find themselves in a mistake..... 132
Exhortation to the Regenerate.
1. 1. To know their sins, 2. Their
1. For want of
1. You confess not sin as you ought to God or man 169–
2. You pray not against it, or for grace as you ought
170-3. You are negligent in your watch ibid.
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Name of the PhD in English: Philosophy: Forms and History of philosophical Knowledge
Name of the PhD in Italian: Filosofia: Forme e storia dei saperi filosofici
Language: Italian, German, French
Doctorate coordinator: Prof. Maria Cristina Fornari
Places available: 4
Joint Programme: Yes
Partners: Sorbonne Université (Ecole Doctorale 5, Concepts et languages) and Universität zu Köln (Philosophische Fakultät, a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School).
The PhD programme offers advanced training in the areas of philosophy and history of philosophy, with a particular focus on medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy. The program also aims to offer specific training in the reading and editing of medieval and modern manuscripts, philological study of texts, with a particular focus on the sources used. Also important is the training in theory, with the discussion of the most urgent ethical and theoretical issues.
- Medieval Philosophy
- Critical Editions
- Manuscript tradition
The PhD in Philosophy provides a professional profile that can find an ideal career in philosophical, theoretical or historical research, in university teaching or high school, in the field of historical-critical edition of philosophical texts, in the field of information and knowledge organisation, in the field of bioethics, philosophical consulting, web-managing, specialised scientific publishing and high dissemination.
All students enrolled in the PhD have to pay annually the "Regional tax for the Right to Education" in accordance with the amounts set annually by the Puglia region Right to Education agency (ADISU). This may vary from a minimum of 120,00€ to a maximum of 160,00€ per year. Further details, including the amount of any due stamp duty, are available in the "Call for applications" documents.
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The Lonely Hearts Killers, aka Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez, are executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in New York. The couple had schemed to seduce, rob and murder women who placed personal ads in newspapers. Beck and Fernandez boasted to killing as many as seventeen women in this manner, but evidence suggests that there may have been only four victims.
Martha Beck was an extremely overweight, and by all reports, unattractive woman when she joined a lonely hearts club advertised in a romance magazine. Her first letter came from Ray Fernandez in Brooklyn. After World War II, he suffered a serious head injury in an accident that left him bald and with serious headaches. He became a petty criminal and wore a cheap black toupee to cover up his baldness. He convinced himself that he had a power over women that could turn them into his sexual slaves.
In 1946, Fernandez found his first mark in a lonely hearts club. He dated the older woman until he had gained enough of her trust to loot her bank account.The next year, he took the latest in a line of victims to Spain, where she turned up dead in a hotel room. Fernandez responded to Beck’s note with the intention of conning her, but after a brief affair, Fernandez and Beck apparently fell in love. When he confessed his original idea, Beck liked his scheme so much that she decided to join him.
Over the next two years, Beck posed as Fernandez’s sister as he seduced older women before stealing from them. By 1949, they had murdered one victim and killed another accidentally with an overdose of sleeping pills. The end came when Fernandez hooked up with a younger woman in Michigan. The woman was a bit suspicious of the “brother and sister,” and although she allowed them to move into her home, wouldn’t marry Fernandez immediately and provide him access to her funds. When the jealous Beck got tired of waiting, the pair killed the woman and her two-year-old daughter and buried them in the basement.
Police officers, challenged by Fernandez himself, searched the home and found the makeshift grave. Beck and Fernandez confessed readily in the belief that their lives were safe in the non-capital punishment state of Michigan. But they didn’t count on being extradited to New York, where the electric chair was an option. At the last minute they attempted an insanity defense, but were unable to convince the jury.
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As a nation, we’re sicker than ever, but so many health problems that people deal with every day have simple dietary solutions. The key is making people aware of them. So today, I’m going to share seven tips that everyone should be following for optimal health—tips that will have you feeling so great, you’ll never have to hire me.
Listen in to learn how to take care of your body and eliminate problems like diarrhea, nausea, heartburn, constipation, bloating, etc. You’ll learn which foods we should all avoid, common habits that actually hinder digestion, and ways to improve overall digestion to have your body performing at its best.
What You’ll Learn In Today’s Episode:
- The five belly busters that give people the most problems.
- What makes pork hard for humans to digest.
- Why it’s so important to chew your food—and your liquids.
- The consistency to aim for when chewing.
- How many grams of carbs to eat each day.
- What happens when you drink alcohol around a meal.
- Why icy drinks near food are problematic.
- A trick for prepping your body for digestion.
- Why everyone should take a digestive enzyme.
- The problem with antibiotics.
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The Lubelskie Voivodeship is a self-government responsible for regional development and planning, transport, education, energy, culture and protection of culture in the Lubelskie region in the eastern part of Poland. The organisation is also responsible for elaboration, implementation and monitoring of the Regional Operational Programme for Lubelskie Voivodeship 2014-2020 which defines actions for low carbon economy and climate change.
The Lubelskie Voivodeship is a typically agricultural region. The agri-food industry, including agriculture and agri-food processing, forms one of the largest, dynamically developing segments of the economy of the Lubelskie Voivodeship. Agricultural land in the region constitutes 68% of the total area (first place in Poland), and the voivodeship is one of the largest domestic producers of cereals, ground vegetables, fruit from trees and fruit from bushes. A feature of the Lubelskie Voivodeship is also the high level of development of organic farming as well as agri-food processing, which employs over 25% of all employed in industry and is one of the main branches of the region's economy.
Thanks to its geographical situation and favourable geographical and natural conditions, the Lubelskie Region demonstrates high potential in terms of producing bio-fuels and developing green energy. Every year the region increases its share of renewable energy resources in the overall energy production. In 2012-2013 it recorded the highest increase in this respect among all voivodeships in Poland, achieving 24.9% while the national share of renewable energy in gross final energy consumption in Poland is currently 13.7%.
However, again this excellent data is mainly based on big RES plants while small installations are scarce. In addition, the rapidly growing costs of energy carriers used in the agriculture and food sectors are unfavorable and make it difficult to compete on global markets. The solutions currently available to support enterprises in the transition to energy from renewable energy sources should be used. There is also a need to work on improving them and looking for completely new tools based on cooperation with other regions.
Lubelskie Voivodeship will integrate the lessons learned during the AgroRES project into the revision of regional policies and the action plan will lead the region to potential changes in different levels and improvements in the governance and management of the policy (Regional Operational Programme for Lubelskie Voivodeship 2014-2020) by adoption of better methodologies. Currently agriculture and promotion of RES in all its production chains is largely under supported and, therefore, the policy requires revision.
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Drought-like conditions worrying Minnesota farmers
Dusty Zander walks a cornfield in Maple Lake as he checks out his crop.
"It’s all wrinkled up, it’s just putting itself into a protection mode," he said.
He’s a sixth-generation farmer and was about his son Simon’s age in 1988, about 3 years old, a year many around keep talking about.
"I was … pretty little in 1988, so I don’t remember, but that’s what everybody’s dad, everybody’s grandpa, everybody’s uncle talks about," Zander said.
They’re comparing the conditions, saying these are the worst since that summer more than 30 years ago.
"They say as dry as it is, as early as it is, it could be like 1988," Zander said.
That’s when sprinkling bans, low water levels and dry fields captured the headlines.
The lack of moisture and hot dry weather now is impacting corn.
"Where we stand it isn’t that bad, but if you go that way 30 feet you can see how it changes and the corn is half as tall because it ran out of moisture quicker," he said.
Zander said what started out this spring with great planting conditions has changed quickly just this month.
"Everything got off to a really great start but then, it’s really only been the last two weeks because it’s been so hot and it hasn’t rained. It’s really turned around fast," he said.
While the lack of moisture is certainly concerning, Zander said, if we get some rain in the next week, things could still be OK.
"You look at the forecast, have you seen any rain in the next 10 days? There are small chances at the end of the week and first part of next, but none of them are real promising. But you’ve got to stay optimistic, like Simon with his rain boots on today," he said.
Wright County and much of the state is considered abnormally dry based on the state drought monitor, but some areas in northwestern and southern Minnesota are facing severe drought conditions where crop yields are low.
Zander is preparing for yield impacts here but said he’s also learned a few things from the generations before him.
"My dad always said, ‘You’ve got to manage the things you can manage,’ and this isn’t one of them," he said. "You’ve just got to be smart with what you can be smart with, and if it doesn’t rain, you’ve got to stay sane too." | <urn:uuid:8f338e68-9b86-43a9-937b-a42b8057a87b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/drought-like-conditions-worrying-minnesota-farmers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971287 | 574 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Día de la Chanfaina (Chanfaina Day). Totalán. November. Unique Festival
This festival has been declared to be of Tourist Interest by the Provincial Council of Málaga.
Please check with the local Town Hall or Municipal Tourism Office for the festival date before planning any sightseeing activities.
Totalán sits under the shade of the Montes de Málaga, on a little hill in the centre of the valley. This municipality has a beautiful landscape of gentle slopes covered with olive, carob and almond trees, and displays a white maze of narrow, steep streets revealing its Arabic background.
Its cuisine is closely linked to the Mediterranean diet, as can be seen in many of its dishes including fried pumpkin, tomato soup, gazpachuelo, zoque, ajoblanco, and chanfaina.
The latter is the prime dish of the locality. According to historical records, it has been feeding every farmer who harvested olives in the winter for years.
Chanfaina is low-priced and easy to prepare. It contains ingredients such as potatoes, oil, vinegar, and a varied range of spices—oregano, saffron, and bay leaf. If desired, it can be complemented with offal or sliced black pudding.
The festival begins on the last Sunday in November with the opening of tasting stands for typical local delicacies (olive tree, vineyard and cold meat products). At midday, the exquisite chanfaina dish is offered to all visitors.
An extensive programme of activities rounds off the celebration, featuring the unmistakable chords of the “pandas de verdiales”, some orchestra music, exhibitions of old farm implements, and the Chanfaina Awards, granted by the Town Hall.
This municipality of the Axarquía region is a must-see, especially on Chanfaina Day. Not only will visitors enjoy a unique event, but they will also be delighted to experience monuments from the 16th century. For example, the Santa Ana Parish Church, the Salazar Tower, and the Cerro de la Corona Dolmen (built in the 4th and 3rd millennium BC). Not to mention the residents' hospitality and joy, as well as its proximity to Málaga city and the seaside. | <urn:uuid:97cc2046-1b66-459c-a13a-2838987b1854> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.malaga.es/en/turismo/tradiciones/lis_pg-1/bs-totalan/tp-Fiestas/lis_cd-1647/dia-de-la-chanfaina-chanfaina-day-totalan-november-unique-festival | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.919924 | 476 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Chinese VP stresses strengthening China-US ties
Updated: 2012-07-25 20:58
BEIJING - Vice-President Xi Jinping said Wednesday the United States and China should strengthen mutual trust, cooperation and friendship, and properly handle differences.
In this way, the two countries can push forward bilateral relations toward the direction of cooperative partnership featuring mutual respect and mutual benefit set by the two heads of state, and explore a new model of relationship between major powers like China and the United States to benefit the two peoples and the world, Xi said.
Xi made the remarks during a meeting with US National Security Advisor Thomas Donilon, noting that China-US relations have been moving ahead on the whole through the last four decades.
"As times change, China and the United States are both growing, and bilateral relationship is standing at a crucial historical juncture," Xi said.
He called on the two sides to view bilateral ties from a long-term perspective and enhance exchanges in various fields and at a range of levels.
Donilon, who is on a three-day trip to China, said current US-China ties are positive, stable and fruitful.
He highlighted frequent high-level contacts, effective mechanisms for communication and dialogue, as well as expanding and deepening cooperation.
The United States will enhance contact, mutual understanding and cooperation with China to jointly build a new model of relationship between the major powers of China and the United States, he told Xi.
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The former director of a Pentagon unit that studied UFOs called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program said that recently declassified reports showing a connection between sightings and burns, paralysis and brain damage is likely the result of contact with “advanced technology.”
“I think it’s fair to say at this point … [that] this is probably not some sort of adversarial technology we’re dealing with,” Luis “Lue” Elizondo said Wednesday on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
Elizondo likened the biological damage apparently connected to UFO encounters to getting too close to the engine of an airplane.
REDACTED CLASSIFIED UFO REPORT REVEALS NEW INFO ON ‘SHAPES,’ INVESTIGATION INTO ‘UNEXPLAINED’ PHENOMENA
“If I’m in the cockpit or … in the aircraft, there’s no real threat. But if I stand behind the engine when the engine is firing up, chances are I’m going to get burned, I’m going to lose my hearing. There are medical consequences,” he said.
“The question is, is it deliberate? Is it a product of the technology or is it a product of something else? And we think right now and again, let me just preface preliminarily speaking, it’s probably just a consequence of the advanced technology.”
Elizondo cautioned that the UFO sightings listed in the reports were not just “grandma saw some lights in the backyard.”
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“These are military eyewitnesses, in some cases, their fighter pilots or their security personnel that have come up close and personal with a … UFO,” he told host Tucker Carlson.
“This isn’t pseudoscience,” he said. “I was part of the program. I ran the program for a better part of eight years on this topic, it is absolutely real.”
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The former director said that it is because of “pressure” from Congress and the media that the reports were declassified.
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According to the United States National Cancer Institutes, core needle biopsy (or core biopsy) is the removal of a tissue sample with a wide needle for examination under a microscope.
I feel it’s imperative to explain a breast biopsy before diving deep into a core needle biopsy. A breast biopsy is a test carried out to remove tissue or, sometimes, fluid from the suspicious area of the breast. The removed tissue or fluid are then examined under a microscope and further tested to check for the presence of cancerous cells.
There are three types of biopsies, namely
- Fine-needle aspiration
- Core-needle biopsy
- Surgical biopsy
A core needle biopsy uses the procedure of removing a small amount of suspicious tissue from the breast with a large core (that is, hollow) needle. It is usually performed while the patient is under anaesthesia, meaning the breast is made numb. The procedure may require the doctor to insert a very small marker inside the breast to mark the location of the biopsy. The marker makes it easier for a surgeon to locate the abnormal area if surgery is later required, and even if no further treatment, like surgery, is needed, the marker makes it easier for a breast imaging radiologist to see on future mammograms the location where the biopsy was done.
Sometimes, no imaging equipment is needed, but this is only in cases where the lump can be felt through the skin.
The core needle biopsy procedure can be used on most parts of the body. However, the most commonly used areas are – Lymph nodes, Breast, Prostate and Bone.
The core-needle biopsy procedure is associated with fewer side effects and can be used for
- Palpable mass. That is lumps that can be felt.
- Non-palpable abnormal finding. That is suspicious areas that can only be seen on a mammogram or other imaging test.
Types of Core Needle Biopsy.
There are a couple of core needle biopsy procedure – stereotactic core needle biopsy, and Vacuum-assisted core needle biopsy
Stereotactic core needle biopsy.
For the stereotactic core needle biopsy procedure, a mammogram is used to take pictures from different angles in other to be able to pinpoint the biopsy site. The X-ray pictures of the breast are then analysed with the aid of a computer to know where exactly the needle tip needs to go in the abnormal area. This type of core needle biopsy procedure is usually used to biopsy suspicious tiny calcium deposits, small masses or other abnormal areas that can’t be clearly seen on an ultrasound.
Vacuum-assisted core needle biopsy, VAB.
As regards the vacuum-assisted core needle biopsy, a hollow probe is inserted through a small cut into the abnormal area of breast tissue. The probe is guided in using an imaging test. A core of tissue is then suctioned into the probe, and a rotational knife inside the probe cuts out the tissue sample from the rest of the breast.
For this procedure, several samples can be taken from the same cut and it usually removes more tissues.
Why you may be required to do a Core Needle Biopsy
You may be required to carry out a core needle biopsy for several reasons, some of which are –
- To diagnose a medical condition, or to rule out a disease or condition
- To assess the progress of a treatment
- If there are changes in your nipple, like a discharge or puckered skin
- To establish the cause of an irregularity close to the chest wall, the nipple, or the surface of the breast
What you should likely expect during a core needle biopsy procedure
During a Core Needle Biopsy Procedure:
The first step is to properly position you to either sit up, lay flat or on your side, or lay facing down on a special table with openings for your breasts to fit into. However, you must be still while the biopsy is being done. After which a local anaesthesia is applied to numb your breast.
A small cut (of about a quarter, ¼, inch) is then made in the breast, through which the biopsy needle is put into the breast tissue to remove the tissue sample. Some pressure might be felt as this happens. However, to guide the needle to the right spot imaging tests may be used.
A clip (a tiny tissue marker) is then put into the area where the biopsy is done. This marker guides the mammograms or other imaging tests to aid the location of the exact area for follow up or further treatment, if needed. You, however, can’t feel or see the marker. It stays in place during the MRIs, and it will not set off metal detectors.
Once the tissue needed is removed, the needle is then taken out, and the area is covered with a sterile dressing. If need be, pressure may be applied for a short time to help reduce bleeding.
The core needle biopsy procedure itself is usually quick. The actual insertion and removal of the needle takes roughly about 1 minute but may be done more than once. The entire procedure usually takes about 15 to 30 minutes.
However, it may take a longer time if imaging tests are needed.
After the core needle procedure.
The first thing you may experience is some feeling of discomfort. This happens as the numbing medication starts to wears off.
You may have to limit strenuous activities for a day or two. After which you will be able to go back to your usual activities. A small amount of bleeding may occur at the site of the biopsy.
In some cases, there may be a collection of a pocket of blood (that is, hematoma) in the area of the biopsy. This may be uncomfortable but it usually resolves in a couple of days.
You may likely develop some bruises or swelling after the procedure, and this may make it seem like the breast lump has become larger. There is no cause for alarm, and any bruising or swelling that may occur will go away over time, as a core needle biopsy doesn’t usually leave a scar.
Whatever the case might be your doctor or nurse will give you detailed information and necessary instructions.
After the core needle biopsy procedure, a pathologist (a doctor who specializes in the study of cells and tissue samples for signs of disease) will study the biopsy sample in the laboratory to make a diagnosis and create a pathology report for your doctor.
The pathology report may include:
- A description of the biopsy sample: that is, a description of the biopsy sample in general. For example, a description of the colour and consistency of the tissues or fluid collected by the core needle biopsy procedure and an account of the number of slides were submitted for laboratory analysis.
- A description of the cells: that is, a description of how the cells appear under the microscope, the number of cells seen and what types of cells were seen. Also, it captures information on the special dyes that were used to understudy the cells in order to gather more information about the diagnosis and the best treatments regimen.
- The pathologist’s diagnosis: This lists the pathologist’s diagnosis. This may include comments, such as other tests that may be recommended.
These findings will determine the next steps to be taken in your medical care.
Advantages and limitations
- There’s accessibility to all breast areas.
- It does not use ionizing radiation.
- There’s low incidence of complications and discomfort for the patient.
- It’s cost friendly.
- It provides accurate diagnosis.
- There’s a very little chance for infection or bruises.
- It provides real time imaging.
- When cancer is diagnosed, the procedure provides important information such as tumour type and grade, hormone receptor status and HER2 status. This information provides vital guide for treatment.
Drawback or limitations
- There may be difficulty in visualising the findings.
- The patient may be allergic to the anaesthesia given.
- The need for a new biopsy may arise. However, this happens only in selected cases.
- The needle may miss the tumour and take sample of normal tissue instead. In this case, it gives a false negative result and delays diagnosis. However, this only happens when the procedure is done without an ultrasound, MRI or stereotactic mammography.
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In regard to diseases of the respiratory system of the horse, of course we have the usual “run to shade”. Occasionally we get a regular epidemic of equine influenza and in times past, when the horse population was much more abundant, great economic losses occurred. In place of the various serums and bacterins Homoeopathy has a vast number of curative remedies to offer.
The patient improved visibly from week to week; in about ten weeks all her troubles had gone. By examining the patient I found that the womb was still in the same position, but it was entirely decongested and it was not sensitive to any pressure at all. The patient was quite another human being; she was happy and cheerful, able to do her housework and laughed about her previous suicidal thoughts.
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In those cases of shock usually due to loss of much blood, with profound collapse, coldness, sweating and smothering with desire to be fanned, there are two remedies that are life savers- Carb. veg. and China. If one knows the previous history of menstruation, it will help to differentiate these remedies. In Carb. veg. the menses are premature and profuse, of pale blood, or thick with a pungent smell.
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This patient was suffering from muscular imbalance. When she tried to focus on any given point, near or far, there was a distinct oscillation in one or other eye, depending on which eye happened to be trying to focus at the moment. She needed much persuasion to take up a new treatment as she had always been given to understand that her condition was incurable, but to please a friend she agreed to consult us.
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How Safe Can be Online Dating?
While some expresses may seem to be safe for online dating, there are a few red flags that you can be on the lookout designed for. While 1 or 2 red flags should be harmless, https://yourmailorderbride.com/moldovan-women/ a number of them needs to be cause for matter. Listed below are some red flags to watch out for:
Steer clear of giving out financial information over email. This is a common scam tactic, so if you face such an email, do not send out any money towards the person. Moreover, avoid handing out your location based mostly photos or perhaps videos. Also, keep an updated anti virus program and firewall cover on your computer. Finally, stay away from using sexting applications. You do not ever know who might want to employ your data to deliver you damaging messages.
If you would like to make an effort online dating, you must avoid towns with a excessive STD cost. This type of risk can be increased by the city’s large number and substantial STD rates. For example , Ny is one of the biggest cities for online dating, nevertheless STD cost is much above the national ordinary. The same goes for Detroit. The main factor that puts urban centers in danger designed for online dating is a STD pace. Knoxville recieve more than 860 cases, over the 13% higher rate than Orlando.
Whilst online dating usually is safe, there are many things that you should be careful regarding. Many people who choose to perform their seeing lives internet are more likely to reveal their personal details to strangers. In a the latest survey of 2000 lonely women, 12-15 percent of people distributed embarrassing or exclusive photos with their online dates. These kinds of photographs can pull in unwanted interest and even provide for blackmail. To avoid any kind of risk of undesired attention, it is best to use a web page that has a large safety rating and has a good reputation.
When online dating services is safe, it still features its own set of risks. Occur to be meeting a stranger who have may not contain any biochemistry with you. And, in the worst case scenario, the two of you will probably be in a scary relationship. To prevent this, usually meet in a public place, and let somebody meet you afterward. At a minimum, check within your friend 20 moments into the time frame.
As with some other form of online dating sites, it is wise to check a site’s account with the Online safety Association. This association can help protect consumers from bogus scammers. The security software recommends simply registering on sites with a seal of approval. It’s not substitute for personal supervision or law enforcement. Remember that these firms are there to help clients meet and get together. There are plenty of online dating scams out there, consequently don’t the fall season prey to these.
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There is a need for the Kenyan government to come to the aid of the local poultry industry as farmers protest an influx of hugely discounted poultry imports, including suspected transhipment alleged to be from Uganda.
The Kenya Poultry Breeders Association chairman, Humphrey Mbugua said illegal imports from the neighbouring country that has flooded the market threatens the local production, thereby pushing them out of business.
According to him, processed chicken from Uganda has flooded the market at nearly half price. Chicken is imported and sold at Sh250 against a local production cost of Sh250 a kilo, reports say.
Speaking further, Mbugua said unscrupulous traders were repackaging poultry products from the United States and Turkey to show they come from Uganda, in order to take advantage of the fast-growing local market. “These challenges have made it hard for our farmers to grow chicken because they cannot compete with Ugandan imports because they are way cheaper than locally produced chicken,” said Mbugua.
Processed chicken in Kenya is being imported from Uganda in quantities of between 225 and 40 tonnes a week, according to Mbugua, while animal feed in the market accounts for up to 70 percent of poultry production costs.
This issue led many farmers to abandon their poultries when they could no longer afford animal feeds, poultry farming equipment and loss of market compounded by the cheaper imports.
Kenya’s poultry industry contributes about 2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. The impact is bigger given that most households in rural areas rear chickens for commercial purposes and their activities are not recorded. The industry’s growth is powered by health-conscious consumers who prefer poultry meat to red meat, with an average of Kenyans eating 2.6 kilograms of poultry meat in 2018, a slight increase from 2.3 kg in 2017.
The association has called on the government to intervene in the matter to avert job and tax revenue losses as well as prevent waning relevance of local food supplies in regional markets. “We hereby urge the government to consider the plight of Kenyan farmers, employees and the economy as a whole by restricting chicken imports from Uganda as this is going to destabilize the industry and economy as a whole,” Mbugua wrote in a letter dated March 18.
Kenya has always protested what it sees as the lack of a level playing field in its poultry deal with Uganda. Last December, Nairobi protested to Kampala over levies charged on its poultry exports, taxes it does not impose imports from its neighbour. According to the State Department of Livestock, Uganda has an 18 percent VAT on goods from Kenya.
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Bitcoin. Dogecoin. Ethererum. Cryptocurrencies are all the buzz, and not going anywhere anytime soon. As cryptocurrencies enjoy their spotlight, how can brands take advantage? Are there opportunities for everyday companies to cash in on the world’s latest currency trend — or is it still the Wild West?
The short answer is that many already have. In the luxury market in particular, some fashion brands have capitalized on the lure of crypto for several years. In 2018, Luxury Swiss watchmaker Hublot made a splash when it released its Big Bang Meca-10 P2P timepiece that could only be purchased using Bitcoins. Another watchmaker, Chronoswiss has also had success with crypto in the luxury timepiece market, and their CEO reports it has even brought in a new sect of clientele.
Earlier this year, PayPal announced it would allow customers in the U.S. to check out with cryptocurrency alongside other payment methods in the PayPal wallet. According to the company’s announcement about the offering, this move significantly increases cryptocurrency utility by making it available at checkout at millions of businesses.
And just this September, El Salvador adopted cryptocurrency as legal tender. Indeed, crypto is seemingly everywhere these days. But it’s also not without its risks. Let’s take a look at the pros and cons.
Crypto offers protection from inflation. Cryptocurrency offers some protection that other forms of currency can’t—like the fact that it’s widely considered unaffected by inflation. With a fixed supply that is free from government manipulation, crypto offers companies some advantages over cash during uncertain times (you know, like say… a pandemic).
In this way, businesses looking to wade into the crypto market can consider converting some cash assets to crypto to take advantage of inflation protection—but they can stop short of accepting it as a customer payment method. For small businesses in particular, this might be a lucrative move, as their own expenses can likely not yet be paid in crypto, meaning they still require traditional cash flow to effectively manage operations.
Crypto provides some universality for international payments. Cryptocurrency can help alleviate the sometimes cumbersome logistics of international payments, particularly for companies and brands with a global presence. In addition to providing seamless conversions among global currencies, crypto gives businesses an opportunity to avoid transactional banking fees and exorbitantly long processing times, which can hurt business.
Cryptocurrency is not great for the environment. The computing power required for mining digital currency consumes an incredible amount of energy. Unfortunately, to get that energy, most of the mining facilities rely heavily on coal. In fact, according to research by the website Digiconomist, the entire Bitcoin network now consumes more energy than several countries.
With China’s recent exodus from the market, this has actually improved in recent months, however, brands seeking to align their values with sustainability and carbon-neutral initiatives may find cryptocurrency at odds with their reputation goals and their customers’ expectations.
Crypto volatility is real and can be risky. Ironically, the very appeal of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Dogecoin is also one of the biggest risks. The same reason that $100 of Bitcoin a few years ago is now worth so much more than that is the same reason businesses should proceed with caution. Unless you immediately cash in your cryptocurrency upon receipt, you run the risk of the currency greatly affecting your bottom line. While crypto is currently enjoying a race to new heights in value, the flip side of the coin is a hard downward slide many small and medium businesses could not weather.
Crypto charges are irreversible. Unlike payment processes for credit cards and PayPal where an organization is managing the transaction and often a mediator in customer disputes, cryptocurrency can only be refunded by the seller. This complicates issues in two ways. First, the value of the currency may change between the purchase and return request, which requires a great deal of records analysis. Two, it puts the onus of trust on the buyer-seller relationship, forcing retailers to manually handle returns and refund requests in-house.
Whether you’re interested in diving head-first into cryptocurrency as your exclusive method of payment, or just want to dip your toe in the water, it’s absolutely critical to first establish your goals for doing so. Are you trying to elevate your brand? Secure business finances? Reach more customers? All of the above?
Knowing what your goals are with crypto will help you understand how and when to roll it out, whether you should accept payments, which currency (or currencies) you should consider, and more. There’s nothing wrong with participating in new global trends, but it’s of vital importance that you don’t dive in without a plan.
If you’re interested in learning more about how crypto fits into your eCommerce plan or want to learn more about Performance Branding, let’s talk.
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Cleveland School Wins 2009 School of the Year
in Tomorrow’s Technician/Chicago Pneumatic Competition
Whether consumers are driving sports cars, hybrids, electric vehicles or motorcycles, there is always going to be a need for qualified automotive technicians.
And, Ohio Technical College (OTC), a Cleveland-based school providing technical training in a variety of transportation industries, is currently teaching 1,000 future techs how to service the many vehicles on today’s roads, as well as those still on the horizon.
To recognize their commitment to the industry, Chicago Pneumatic a global leader in the design, manufacture and distribution of high-performance aftermarket tools, accessories and compressors and Tomorrow’s Technician magazine have awarded Ohio Technical College as the 2009 School of the Year in the 2nd annual Tomorrow’s Technician/Chicago Pneumatic competition.
As the top school, Ohio Technical College received $10,000 worth of Chicago Pneumatic tools and an awards presentation at the school, among other prizes. OTC President Marc Brenner accepted the award from Beth Skove, publisher of Tomorrow’s Technician, during a May 7 awards event.
“We are extremely honored to receive the 2009 School of the Year award on behalf of our dedicated staff and hard-working students, who have all become a part of the OTC family,” said Brenner. “Our team is committed to providing students with the advanced education and specialized skills such as our alternative fuel vehicle, high performance and power generator system courses that will help lead the transportation industry into the future.”
Babcox Publications’ Tomorrow’s Technician magazine and Chicago Pneumatic created the School of the Year contest to recognize top technical colleges
dedicated to innovative training programs that
prepare students for real-world careers. Ohio Technical College was selected from more than 170 entries nominating 80 schools across the country.
“We had so many amazing entries into this year’s School of the Year competition that it was hard to narrow it down to the finalists,” said Skove. “What really made Ohio Technical College stand apart was the variety and innovation of their programs as well as the staff’s passion for their students. The OTC team doesn’t treat the college like a business; they treat it as an opportunity to inspire students to become leaders in our industry.”
Skove also pointed out that Ohio Technical College currently has 19 instructors, each boasting an average of 20 years experience, which is proof of their dedication to their selected fields.
“The instructors are great and they create a good working environment here at the school,” noted Cristian Porczan, an OTC student who started in the Automotive program last year. Originally from Romania, Porczan came to Ohio five years ago and decided to explore his interest in the automotive and engineering fields. “I like working on cars and I also really like the classroom instruction at OTC. My goal is to get into the BMW STEP program.”
As one of only eight BMW training centers in the country, the BMW Service Technician Education Program (STEP) class is one area that sets Ohio Technical College apart from other schools. Also setting the school apart, according to current student James Lee, was the size of the campus.
“This facility is three to four times larger than other schools I’ve looked at, and the breadth of programs was exactly what I was looking for,” said Lee, a Pittsburgh native who has already completed the Auto-Diesel program.
“Now I’m studying in the High Performance and Racing program because I like building race cars. Here at OTC, the teachers want us to know everything we can about a car, so we actually get to work in-depth with them, taking the cars apart and putting them back together.”
After he graduates this summer, Lee would like to stay at OTC to participate in the school’s three-month Custom Paint and Graphics program, which would allow him to secure side jobs painting cars and motorcycles.
A Milestone Year
In addition to the School of the Year award, 2009 also marks Ohio Technical College’s 40th anniversary. The family-owned school was founded in 1969 by Julius Brenner. It originally began as the Ohio Diesel Mechanics School, conducting six-week diesel training courses in Cleveland’s Warehouse District.
The school began hitting its many growth spurts in 1971 as the demand for diesel tech training grew at a rapid pace and students moved into a larger facility to accommodate proper equipment. From that day in the early 1970s, the school hasn’t stopped expanding, changing its name several times first to the Ohio Diesel Technical Institute, then to Ohio Auto/Diesel Technical Institute and the Ohio Auto Diesel Technical College before deciding on Ohio Technical College in September 1997 to reflect its mission to provide premier technical training in the world of modern mechanics.
As an Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges of Technology (ACCSCT) college, Ohio Technical College draws students from all over the country to study a wide variety of technician training programs in Automotive, Diesel, Auto-Diesel, Collision Repair, Classic Car Restoration, High Performance and Racing, Welding and PowerSport Technology as well as specialization in BMW, Alternative Fuel Vehicles, Custom Paint and Graphics, CDL Truck Driver Training and Power Generator Systems.
“Ohio Technical College focuses on classroom training as well as hands-on training using the latest vehicles and equipment because it is important for our students to learn up-to-date, specialized skills so they can to graduate as an asset to the automotive industry,” Brenner said. “We’re not only proud of our students’ technical knowledge, we’re very happy about their professionalism and attitude as they start their careers.”
More than 190 full-time employees work at the college, which continues to expand its campus footprint by converting nearby buildings and houses into classrooms and parking lots. Most recently, the school’s branch campus PowerSport Institute (PSI) has moved into a 210,000-square-foot facility in nearby North Randall, Ohio, to provide technical training on motorcycles, snow-mobiles, personal watercraft, ATVs and more.
The partnership between Chicago Pneumatic and Babcox was built from a mutual desire to assist in the education of young technicians and to recognize the efforts of teachers, students and schools nationwide.
“The entries and finalist packages from across the United States blew us away with both their depth of information and originality in form,” said Jay Lewis, general manager for Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, LLC.
“Ohio Technical College should be very proud of their achievement, which they won based on their distinctive programs, specialized training opportunities, dedicated teachers and administrators, and passionate students.”
In addition to the award presentation at Ohio Technical College, students and staff celebrated their win with automotive designer and TV personality Rich Evans, owner of Huntington Beach Bodyworks. Throughout the day, Evans who has appeared on “Monster Garage,” “Pimp My Ride” and other TV series answered student questions, participated in an interactive tire changing competition and signed autographs for students.
Evans has deep roots in the automotive repair industry. His father was a mechanic and shop owner in California, and Evans grew up in the shop fabricating, doing mechanical work and building hot rods. He later worked at his grandfather’s auto body repair shop before starting his own business.
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With the rise of fintech trends such as cashless payments, online transactions, and mobile trading, we are seeing a corresponding rise in the uptake of digital wallets amongst businesses and consumers.
Digital wallets are fast becoming the preferred method of payment amongst consumers, both online and in brick-and-mortar stores. Some of the biggest names in tech, such as Google and Samsung, have spawned wildly successful wallets, with many others are attempting to follow suit. This is because the popularity of digital wallets is undeniable – by 2024, 4 billion people will be using digital wallets, and the global mobile wallet market size is anticipated to hit USD3.6 billion.
What are digital wallets?
Digital wallets, or e-wallets, are virtual mobile wallets. It is essentially the same as carrying around a physical wallet, except without the hassle of a bulky wallet filled with cash, cards, old receipts and other paraphernalia. They are mobile apps that serve as online payment tools, and securely store your cards virtually so that you can make payments any time, anywhere.
Why bother with digital wallets?
One of the most obvious and immediate benefits of e-wallets is the convenience. With just one app, you can instantly transfer money from your bank account to your digital wallet, have your credit cards stored, and make instantaneous contactless payments anywhere and at any time of the day. This makes for a smoother e-commerce experience.
Mobile wallets are also highly secure. Most digital wallets contain several layers of security and encryption so that only you can access and make use of your sensitive financial information. In fact, digital wallets are much safer than physical everyday wallets because no one can gain access to your e-wallet but you.
Many e-wallets even provide rewards and savings such as cashback, lower exchange rates and lower transaction fees than many consumer banks.
Merchants who often struggle with consumer cart abandonment can rest easy knowing that digital wallets offer a solution to that problem. With digital wallets, consumers no longer need to go through the cumbersome process of re-entering credit card details and shipping information. Now, with just one button, consumers can effortlessly and securely enter into any transaction.
In short, digital wallets are secure, convenient, easy to use, and easy to implement. These are just some of the factors contributing to the increasing global adoption of e-wallets.
Who are digital wallets for?
Whether you are a consumer or a merchant, digital wallets are a great payment tool to get involved in.
As a consumer, digital wallets allow you to consolidate all manner of finances, such as payments, credit cards, expenditure tracking, and in some cases, even stocks and crypto trading!
If you are a merchant, the increasing adoption of digital wallets will make your business more accessible, especially as the global population grows more tech-savvy. When it comes to online transactions, consumers demand ease, convenience and security – and digital wallets offer all of these benefits.
Where and when can I get started?
Digital wallets can be found on all app stores. They are easy to download and set up, so you could even become the proud owner of a digital wallet within the next hour! Once you have your wallet set up, it will always be at your fingertips.
If you are a business owner looking to create a digital wallet, doing so might not be the most straightforward process.
Developing a mobile wallet from scratch is an expensive and laborious process. For starters, building a mobile wallet requires a great team of developers that understands your business vision and can execute it perfectly. As any business owner knows, putting together such a team is no easy feat. Once you secure your unicorn team, it could take you up to two years to finalise your prototype digital wallet and eventually go to market.
For these reasons, a good place to start would be white label digital wallet solution. That way you leave the mobile wallet development to the experts who have already developed a mobile wallet solution, while you and your team can carry on providing unique value to your business and its customers.
With a white label digital wallet solution, you can tailor an e-wallet to your business’s exact needs. You get the benefits of an e-wallet, but without having to hire and pay for a brand-new team of fintech developers and experts. The beauty of white label digital wallets? You can have your very own digital wallet product in a matter of months or even minutes.
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RECONSTRUCTED EPIDERMIS AND FULL-THICKNESS SKIN FOR ABSORPTION TESTING: INFLUENCE OF THE VEHICLES USED ON STEROID PERMEATION.
This study by researchers at the Free University of Berlin demonstrated that MatTek’s EpiDerm in vitro human skin tissue equivalent and EpiDermFT full-thickness in vitro human skin tissue equivalent can be used in the development of topical dermatics and for hazard analysis of toxic compounds and their formulations. A protocol for percutaneous absorption studies has been validated, based on the use of reconstructed human epidermis (RhE) and aqueous solutions of test substances. However, it is often the case that it is more-complex formulations of drugs or chemicals which will make contact with the skin surface. To investigate whether reconstructed human epidermis (EpiDerm) and the reconstructed full-thickness skin model (EpiDerm-FT) can be used to predict uptake from formulations, we compared the permeation of hydrocortisone and testosterone when applied in emulsion form and as a solution containing the penetration enhancer ethanol. Human and pig skin and a non-cornified alveolar model served as references. The results were compared with steroid release from the formulations. The permeation rates of the steroids were ranked as: alveolar model >> RhE > FT-model, pig skin > human skin. In accordance with the rapid hydrocortisone release from the formulations, the permeation rates of this steroid exceeded those of testosterone. Only minor differences were observed when comparing the testosterone formulations, in terms of release and permeation. However, the ranking of the permeation of the hydrocortisone formulations was: solution > w/o emulsion > o/w emulsion, which permitted the elucidation of penetration enhancing effects, which is not possible with drug release studies. Differences in penetration were most obvious with native skin and reconstructed tissues which exhibited a well-developed penetration barrier. In conclusion, reconstructed human epidermis (RhE) and skin preparations may be useful in the development of topical dermatics, and in the framework of hazard analysis of toxic compounds and their various formulations.
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Gallery of universal triangles.
Hexagram i-jing 45.
1. Perfect world.
LIBRA - cardinal sign and third quarter of zodiac.
AQUARIUS - firm sign and fourth quarter of zodiac.
VIRGO - mutable sign and second quarter of zodiac.
CRAB - cardinal mark and elements of water.
LEO - firm mark and elements of fire.
GEMINI - mutable mark and elements of air
3. Imperfect world - unconscious sphere.
CRAB - initial third of astrological circle and symbol of water element.
LEO - middle third of zodiacal circle and symbol of fiery element.
AQUARIUS - last third of astrological circle and symbol of air element.
4. Imperfect world - conscious sphere.
PISCES - third segment of zodiacal chart and water natural elements.
LEO - second segment of zodiacal chart and fire natural elements.
GEMINI - first segment of zodiacal chart and air natural elements.
5. Discrete world - astral sphere.
PISCES - area of slow planets - water elemental nature.
ARIES - area of less rapid planets - fiery elemental nature.
GEMINI - area of fast heavenly bodies - air elemental nature.
6. Discrete world - ethereal sphere.
SCORPIO - slow heavenly bodies and water elementals.
LEO - less rapid heavenly bodies and fire elementals.
GEMINI - fast planets and air elementals.
Ratio of hexagrams i-jing of the Chinese Book of Changes with triangles within the shown formal-symbolical models of world reality can be considered as spatial figures which symbolize mathematical parities of physical sizes, if to correlate zodiacal signs to weight and energy, or with geometrical measurements of space and parameters of time, or with density of a matter and speed of movement, that can be interesting to physicists and mathematicians, and also other researchers and scientists who study natural laws of universe and principles of human existence.
Next 46 hexagram.
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Methodologies in Musicology - 1st semester
a) To offer conceptual and methodological tools, as well as developing high-level critical skills in the fields of Historical Musicology and Ethnomusicology;
b) To provide bibliographic/documentary guidance, as well as promoting skills in information retrieval and processing, according to standards of up-to-dateness and scientific relevance;
c) To develop the ability to conceptualize, problematize and elaborate any relevant topic of musicological research with an interdisciplinary outlook, in connection with the students specific doctoral dissertation topic and area of interest;
d) To develop skills in oral and written communication, in accord with international academic standards of clarity and rigour;
e) To provide detailed information about some of the most relevant contemporary tendencies in musicological research.
Manuel Pedro Ferreira
Weekly - 2
Total - Available soon
Note: A good knowledge of written English is required.
Barz, G. & T. J. Cooley (Eds.) (2008). Shadows in the Field: New Perspectives for Fieldwork in Ethnomusicology. Oxford: OUP.
Clayton, M., T. Herbert & R. Middleton (Eds.) (2012). The Cultural Study of Music. New York: Routledge.
Cook, N. & M. Everist (Eds.) (2001). Rethinking Music. Oxford: OUP.
Goehr, L. (2007). The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works: An Essay in the Philosophy of Music. Oxford: OUP.
Hooper, G. (2006). The Discourse of Musicology. Aldershot: Ashgate.
Kramer, L. (1995). Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge. Berkeley: UCP.
Monelle, R. (2000). The Sense of Music: Semiotic Essays. Princeton: PUP.
Nettl, B. (2006). The Study of Ethnomusicology: Thirty-One Issues and Concepts. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Small, C. (1998). Musicking: The Meanings of Performing and Listening. Hanover: University Press of New England.
Williams, A. (2001). Constructing Musicology. Farnham: Ashgate.
Zbikowski, L. (2002). Conceptualizing Music. New York: OUP.
30% theoretical exposition and 70% practical work. Practical work consists mainly of oral presentations of individual work by students, followed by group discussion, including the regular participation of guest specialists (according to the relevant research areas).
Assessment is based on the quality of the oral presentations and the participation in group discussions (30%) and at least one extended essay about a topic of particular relevance to the students dissertation project or research area (70%).
To be determined each year according to the students specific research areas, in connection with the extended reading programme established at the beginning of the semester.
Typical topics for discussion include the following:
Information retrieval and management in contemporary musicology
What is \"new musicology\" and what comes after?
The conceptualization of music
Issues of canon, value and ideology
The writing of music historiography
Problems of critical music editing
Analytical models and their uses
Historically informed performance: the debates on authenticity
Ethnomusicology between representation and experience
New perspectives on fieldwork: the evolving role of the ethnomusicologist
Musicology and difference
The ethics of musical scholarship
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The NutrientStar Review Panel is an independent group of scientists responsible for reviewing and approving NutrientStar field trial results and NutrientStar assessments of models, products and tools based on those results. The Panel also reviews assessments based on company-submitted data and literature reviews. Once the review panel is satisfied that an assessment is complete, the data are posted on the NutrientStar website. The Review Panel operates on a consensus process, and signs confidentiality agreements in order to serve on the panel.
Appalachian Laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Eric Davidson researches biogeochemical processes including the exchange of plant nutrients from the land to streams and groundwater and the exchange of greenhouse gases between the soil and the atmosphere. He works in a variety of ecosystems including forest and agriculture lands in North and South America. He has served as Senior Scientist and as President and Executive Director at the Woods Hole Research Center. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and President-Elect of the 60,000-member scientific society, the American Geophysical Union. He served as the Coordinator of the North American Center for the International Nitrogen Initiative and is the leader of a Research Coordination Network on Reactive Nitrogen in the Environment. Davidson has written a popular book, You Can’t Eat GNP, which explores the links between economics and ecology for students and laypersons.
Ph.D., Forestry, North Carolina State University
Post-doctoral positions, soil microbiology and biogeochemistry, UC-Berkeley & NASA Ames Research Center
Certified Crop Adviser/Agronomist
Cedar Basin Crop Consulting
Shannon Gomes has more than three decades of consulting experience and a deep knowledge of soil and nutrient management. As an agronomist and crop adviser, he provides services like soil testing, remote sensing, and precision farming application. He has long tested nutrient management tools through rigorous field trials, searching for the best ways to monitor nitrogen availability and provide nutrient recommendations to his clients. He is a Certified Crop Adviser and an ARCPAC Certified Soil Scientist.
B.S., Soil Science, Cal Poly State University
M.S., Soil Fertility, Iowa State University
USDA Agricultural Research Service
Jerry Hatfield joined the Agricultural Research Service in 1983. Since then, he has served as USDA-ARS representative on a number of initiatives and task forces related to the interactions between soil, plants and atmosphere, and to the quality of soil, water and air. His research evaluates nutrient and water management systems, as well as the use of remote sensing methods to help farmers determine which systems to use and how to manage risk.
B.S., Agronomy, Kansas State University
M.S., Agronomy, University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Agricultural Climatology and Statistics, Iowa State University
Iowa Soybean Association
Peter Kyveryga helps farmers improve their economic and environmental performance through the use of data and advanced technologies. At the Iowa Soybean Association, he provides leadership for developing and executing best practices for data collection and analyses from different on-farm agronomic and environmental studies, as well as for communicating study results to farmers, industry professionals and the scientific community. He serves as technical editor for the Agronomy Journal of the American Society of Agronomy.
B.S., Agrochemistry and Soil Science, National Agricultural University of Ukraine – Kyiv
Ph.D., Soil Science and Soil Fertility, Iowa State University
Continuing Education: Graduate Courses in Statistics, Iowa State University
University of Connecticut
Tom Morris, a soil scientist and professor specializing in nitrogen studies, has worked with the Iowa On-Farm Network and similar efforts in other states to find, through the use of precision agriculture tools, best practices for nutrient use to improve profitability and environmental health. He has also conducted research projects in Connecticut, the Chesapeake Bay region, and the Mississippi River Basin related to the loss of nutrients from cornfields to bodies of water.
B.S., Agronomy, Delaware Valley College of Science and Agriculture
M.S., Soil Science, University of Connecticut
Ph.D., Soil Science, Iowa State University
Kansas State University
A university distinguished professor, Charles Rice specializes in soil microbiology, carbon and nitrogen cycles and the intersection of agricultural and grassland systems with climate change. He served as president in 2011 of the Soil Science Society of America; he is a fellow in that and other professional societies. He was also a member of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
B.S., Geography – Natural Environmental Systems, Northern Illinois University
M.S., Soil Science, University of Kentucky
Ph.D., Soil Microbiology, University of Kentucky
Former USDA Agricultural Research Service Supervisory Soil Scientist
Professor Emeritus, University of Nebraska
James Schepers, long-time soil scientist for the Agricultural Research Service, directed a team of researchers to develop agricultural practices that would allow farmers to be profitable while conserving natural resources, particularly groundwater. As early as the 1990s, he led studies related to nitrogen management via tools that would detect the onset of nitrogen deficiencies so that farmers could adjust nitrogen levels more precisely. He later coordinated a multi-state effort to assess the potential of remote sensing for crop monitoring.
B.S., Agronomy, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
M.S., Soil Chemistry, University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Ph.D., Soil Physical Chemistry, University of Illinois – Urbana
Wade Thomason has focused his career on extension, outreach and research programs. For the past decade, he’s worked closely with Virginia grower associations and extension agencies to develop innovative, highly visible programs to promote profitable production and management of corn and other grains. He previously served as a soil fertility and crops specialist in Oklahoma, where he worked with a team of agricultural specialists to provide technical assistance and consultation to farmers and ranchers.
B.S., Animal Science, Oklahoma State University
M.S., Plant and Soil Sciences, Oklahoma State University
Ph.D., Soil Science, Oklahoma State University
University of Nebraska – Lincoln
Kenneth Cassman researches methods to increase crop yields without compromising the quality of soil, water and other natural resources. He has contributed to the development of the Global Yield Gap Atlas, a state-of-the-art resource for estimating the gap between current average farm yields and potential yield ceilings for major food crops. A supervisor for graduate students and postdocs, he also takes part in extension education programs related to the use of crop models as decision-support tools.
B.S., Biology, University of California – San Diego
M.S., Agronomy and Soil Science, University of Hawaii
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A field experiment was conducted under rain-fed conditions on the research farm of Savanna Agricultural Research Institute, Nyankpala, during the 2007 and 2008 seasons. The objective was to study the response of three new groundnut varieties (Jenkaar, Kpanieli and Nkosuor) to row intercropping with maize. The experiment was laid in randomized complete block design with four replicates. Treatments comprised sole groundnut, sole maize, single row groundnut alternated with single row maize (G1M1), single row groundnut alternated with double row maize (G1M2), double row groundnut alternated with single row maize (G2M1) and double row groundnut alternated with double row maize (G2M2). The population densities of groundnut and maize in the intercrops affected their yield performance. Row intercropping arrangement that encouraged large leaf area in groundnut supported the formation of more pods per plant and subsequently larger dry pod yield. The highest groundnut and maize yields in the intercrop in both years were obtained respectively from G2M1 and G1M2. The G1M1 and G1M2 row intercropping arrangement was therefore the most advantageous in both years, achieving a land equivalent ratio values greater than 1. Combinations of the Kpanieli variety and maize which achieved land equivalent ratio greater than 1 was also more advantageous than intercropping maize with the Jenkaar and Nkosuor varieties in both years.
Key words: Guinea savanna, rain-fed, row intercropping, yield performance, land equivalent ratio.
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Chris Dyson Architects have borrowed a trick from the Far East to renovate and expand a Victorian terraced house in London’s Hackney.
The firm created a timber-framed extension – clad in charred cedar boards made using the Japanese technique of ‘yakisugi’ – to contrast with the brick facade of the existing building.
‘As well as being beautiful, charred cedar is natural, and this treatment also extends the life of the cladding by creating additional resilience to insect attack, decay and increased resistance to fire,’ says Gideon Purser, the project architect and partner at Chris Dyson Architects.
‘Now, there’s a good distinction between the two buildings. The brickwork and charred cedar create a clear separation.’
In addition to designing the extension, the practice also refurbished the existing residence and reinstated original materials wherever possible, including exposing brickwork inside the house.
It slotted a new double-height entrance between the Victorian structure and the charred cedar addition, blurring the boundary between the two buildings.
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Dear IgorWe now have the long-waited MATLAB implementation of our compressed sensing solver. It works fine and is fast (i.e. way better than L1 in most cases) with random matrices in general, and it is therefore a very good solver for compressed sensing problems (i.e. robust to noise, etc...) Of course, it can also be used with our 'magic' matrices that allows to perform optimal compressed sensing. The distribution is at: http://aspics.krzakala.org/BestFlorent
Thanks Florent! If you recall ASPICS is this AMP solver built by Florent Krzakala, Marc Mézard, François Sausset,Yifan Sun, Lenka Zdeborová.which, when coupled with specific sensing matrices brought up a stunning development in breaking the Donoho-Tanner phase transition ?
As it turns out, Christoph Studer sent me the following
Dear Igor,we just submitted our paper "VLSI Implementation of Approximate Message Passing for Signal Restoration and Compressive Sensing," where we develop two architectures and corresponding ASIC/FPGA implementations of the AMP algorithm:We would really appreciate it if you can feature it on Nuit Blanche.Thank you and best regards,Christoph
Thanks Christoph ! The paper is: VLSI Implementation of Approximate Message Passing for Signal Restoration and Compressive Sensing by Patrick Maechler, Christoph Studer, David Bellasi, Arian Maleki, Andreas Burg, Norbert Felber, Hubert Kaeslin, and Richard G. Baraniuk. The abstract reads:
Sparse signal recovery finds use in a variety of practical applications, such as signal and image restoration and the recovery of signals acquired by compressive sensing. In this paper, we present two generic VLSI architectures that implement the approximate message passing (AMP) algorithm for sparse signal recovery. The first architecture, referred to as AMP-M, employs parallel multiply-accumulate units, which are suitable for recovery problems based on unstructured (or random) matrices. The second architecture, referred to as AMP-T, takes advantage of fast linear transforms, which arise in many real-world applications. To demonstrate the effectiveness of both architectures, we present corresponding ASIC and FPGA implementation results for an audio restoration application. We show that AMP-T is superior to AMP-M with respect to silicon area, throughput, and power consumption, whereas AMP-M offers more flexibility and can be reconfigured at run time.Looks like the de-clicking AMP solver has already been implemented.
I note from the paper:
"...The main bottleneck of the AMP-M architecture is the memory bandwidth required to deliver the entries of D to the parallel MAC units. For unstructured (e.g., random) matrices, (multi-port) LUTs, ROMs, or on-chip S-RAMs can be used for small dimensions (in the order of a few hundred kbit). For large-dimensional problems, external memories (e.g., offchip D-RAMs) become necessary, which shifts the memory bottleneck to the bandwidth of the external memory interface. Fortunately, in many real-world applications, the matrix D is highly structured; hence, it is often possible to generate its coefficients on the fly at very high throughput. The following paragraph discusses a corresponding solution for audio restoration.."
Then maybe the 'magic' matrices that Florent alluded to may not need external memories for bigger problems as these measurement matrices are sparse. The same goes for the random Count-Min sparse measurement matrices of Piotr Indyk, Radu Berinde., Milan Ružić.
- TurboGAMP: by Phil Schniter.
- Approximate Message Passing (AMP) Code for Compressive Sensing by Ulugbek Kamilov
- The Generalized Approximate Message Passing (GAMP) by Sundeep Rangan, Alyson Fletcher, Vivek Goyal, Ulugbek Kamilov, Jason Parker, Phil Schniter.
- EM-BG-AMP:: Expectation-Maximization Bernoulli-Gaussian Approximate Message Passing by Jeremy Vila and Philip Schniter.
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Carson was born near Fannin County, Georgia, in 1868 and grew up on a farm there. In his teens, Carson learned to play the fiddle, using an old Stradivari-copy violin brought from Ireland in the early 19th century. When he was eleven years old, he roamed the streets of Copperhill playing for tips.
In 1894, Carson married, and a couple of years later, in 1900, he began working for the Exposition Cotton Mills in Atlanta, followed by work in other cotton mills of the Atlanta area for the next twenty years. In 1914, the workers of the cotton mill went on strike for their right to form a union, and Carson had nothing else to do but to perform for a living in the streets of North Atlanta. In these days, he wrote many songs, and he used to print copies and sell them in the streets for a nickel or a dime. Some of the songs he wrote dealt with real-life drama like the murder ballad "Mary Phagan".
On April 1, 1913, Carson performed at the first annual "Georgia Old-Time Fiddlers' Convention", held at the Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, where he came in fourth. Between 1914 and 1922, he was proclaimed "Champion Fiddler of Georgia" seven times. The governor of Tennessee, Robert L. Taylor, dubbed him "Fiddlin' John". In 1919, Carson began touring, mostly the areas north of Atlanta, with his newly formed band the Cronies. He became associated with many politicians of Georgia, like Tom Watson, Herman Talmadge, and Eugene Talmadge, relations that gave rise to new songs like "Tom Watson Special". Carson and his daughter Rosa Lee began a series of performances for different political campaigns: for the Tom Watson U.S. Senate Campaign in 1920, for all of the Gene Talmadge campaigns, and for the Herman Talmadge for governor campaign. On September 9, 1922, Carson made his radio debut at the Atlanta Journal's radio station WSB in Atlanta, It was reported by the Atlanta Journal that Carson's fame quickly spread all over the United States following his broadcast at WSB.
In early June 1923, Polk C. Brockman, an Atlanta furniture store owner, who had been instrumental in the distribution of records for Okeh Records, went to New York City to work out a new business deal with Okeh Records. Later, in New York, he was asked if he knew of any artist in Atlanta that could justify a recording trip to Georgia. Brockman promised to return with an answer. A few days later, he was watching a movie followed by a silent newsreel at the Palace Theater in Times Square. The newsreel contained footage of Fiddlin' John Carson from an old time fiddlers’ contest in Virginia. Brockman wrote in his notebook: "Record Fiddlin' John Carson". At his next meeting with Okeh Records Board, he persuaded Ralph Peer to go ahead and record Carson.
On June 19, 1923, Carson made his recording debut in an empty building on Nassau Street in Atlanta, cutting two sides, "The Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane" and "The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Going To Crow." The recording was immediately sold out from the stage of the next Fiddler's convention on July 13, 1923. Peer, realizing Carson's potential, immediately invited Carson to New York City for another recording session. His recordings of "You Will Never Miss Your Mother Until She Is Gone" and "Old Joe Clark" both sold over one million copies, and each was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA.
Between 1923 and 1931, Carson recorded almost 150 songs, mostly together with the "Virginia Reelers" or his daughter Rosa Lee Carson, who performed with him as "Moonshine Kate". He wrote more than 150 songs in his life, but only nine were ever copyrighted.
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Everyone, big and small, dreams of being a wizard. And you can become one by taking up an amazing 4D-book with augmented reality. Now you can find such a miracle book in the National Library!
We invite children and their parents, as well as grandmothers and grandfathers to an interactive excursion Animated Books ! During an exciting cognitive journey, you will learn how the "diamond of knowledge" is arranged and how the book developed and changed from a manuscript to modern 4D. Also you will be able to choose and order your favorite books, and then trace their delivery from the crystal store.
You will meet with a book-baby and a book-giant, but most importantly, you'll see how the heroes "come to life" in the pages of 4D-books! With the help of electronic tablets with augmented reality, you will animate the books illustrations and immerse yourself in the world of magic. Join with us in this amazing process!
At the event’s end, you will enjoy an unforgettable climb to the observation tower of the library, which offers beautiful views of the capital from a height of 73 meters.
The cost of a tour is 40 BYN (a group of up to 10 people).
And more, good news! You can join the interactive tour Animated Books alone or with a friendly company! We offer a family ticket at discount for a group of up to 6 people, which includes at least one adult and at least two children under 16. A family ticket with 35 % discount (26 BYN) is given for visiting the interactive excursion Animated Books.
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What is an NFT? Non-fungible tokens explained
Christie's CEO: NFTs and blockchain authenticate digital artReplayMore Videos ... (16 Videos)Christie's CEO: NFTs and blockchain authenticate digital artElon Musk set to purchase Twitter for $44 billionWatch SpaceX and Axiom land first civilian crew back on EarthA quarter of all the electricity in this county is powering Bitcoin miningLamborghini's last Aventador Coupé with an NFT sold for $1.6MMother describes son's social media addiction that 'led to his death'Scott Galloway: The metaverse could give more power to tech giantsSpot can paint! Watch the robotic dog collaborate with artistDyson's new headphones double as wearable air purifiersHackers try to break through Putin's digital iron curtainNew tech in Walgreens brings mixed reactions, confusion onlineSee Volkswagen's iconic hippie microbus, but electricSee Apple's 5G budget smartphoneNY Times faces controversy after making changes to WordleCryptocurrencies take Hollywood, sports and politics by stormSee Samsung's Galaxy S22 smartphone lineupNew York (CNN Business)Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are the latest cryptocurrency phenomenon to go mainstream. And after Christie's auction house sold the first-ever NFT artwork — a collage of images by digital artist Beeple for a whopping $69.3 million — NFTs have suddenly captured the world's attention.
So what are NFTs?In the simplest terms, NFTs transform digital works of art and other collectibles into one-of-a-kind, verifiable assets that are easy to trade on the blockchain.Although that may be far from simple for the uninitiated to understand, the payoff has been huge for many artists, musicians, influencers and the like, with investors spending top dollar to own NFT versions of digital images. For example, Jack Dorsey's first tweet sold for $2.9 million, a video clip of a LeBron James slam dunk sold for over $200,000 and a decade-old "Nyan Cat" GIF went for $600,000. A CryptoKittyBut NFTs aren't exactly new. CryptoKitties, a digital trading game on the cryptocurrency platform Ethereum, was one of the original NFTs, allowing people to purchase and sell virtual cats that were both unique and stored on the blockchain. Read MoreSo why is the NFT phenomenon taking off now? "Some of that interest is from people who enjoy supporting the work of independent creators by purchasing their works," Artsy CEO Mike Steib told CNN Business. "Others are intrigued by the idea of taking a digital asset that anyone can copy and claiming ownership of it. The recent headline price records for NFTs seem to have been largely driven by newly minted crypto millionaires and billionaires looking to diversify their bitcoin holdings and more interest to the crypto ecosystem."Here's what else you need to know: What are NFTs?Non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, are pieces of digital content linked to the blockchain, the digital database underpinning cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum. Unlike NFTs, those assets are fungible, meaning they can be replaced or exchanged with another identical one of the same value, much like a dollar bill. Move over, bitcoin. Ether is back and nipping at your heelsNFTs, on the other hand, are unique and not mutually interchangeable, which means no two NFTs are the same. Think of Pokémon cards, rare coins or a limited-edition pair of Jordans: NFTs create scarcity among otherwise infinitely available assets — and there's even a certificate of authenticity to prove it. NFTs are typically used to buy and sell digital artwork and can take the form of GIFs, tweets, virtual trading cards, images of physical objects, video game skins, virtual real estate and more. How to buy NFTsEssentially, any digital image can be purchased as an NFT. But there are a few things to consider when buying one, especially if you're a newbie. You'll need to decide what marketplace to buy from, what type of digital wallet is required to store it and what kind of cryptocurrency you'll need to complete the sale. OpenSea's marketplaceSome of the most common NFT marketplaces include OpenSea, Mintable, Nifty Gateway and Rarible. There are also niche marketplaces for more specific types of NFTs, too, such as NBA Top Shot for basketball video highlights or Valuables for auctioning tweets such as Dorsey's currently up for bid. A beginner's guide to crypto lingoBut be wary of fees. Some marketplaces charge a "gas" fee, which is the energy required to complete the transaction on the blockchain. Other fees can include the costs for converting dollars into ethereum (the currency most commonly used to buy NFTs) and closing expenses. If you're curious and want to know more about what it's like to purchase an NFT, we went ahead and bought one. (And yes, it is a cat.) How to sell NFTs?NFTs are also sold on marketplaces and the process can vary from platform to platform. You'll essentially upload your content to a marketplace then follow the instructions to turn it into an NFT. You'll be able to include specifics such as a description of the work and suggested pricing. Most NFTs are purchased using ethereum but can also be bought with other ERC-20 tokens such as WAX and Flow. How to make an NFT? Anyone can create an NFT. All that's needed is a digital wallet, a small purchase of ethereum and a connection to an NFT marketplace where you'll be able to upload and turn the content into an NFT or crypto art. Simple, right?-- CNN's Oscar Holland and Rishi Iyengar contributed to this report. Click Here To Get Funded! | <urn:uuid:0989e67c-af41-4f98-b7d1-50acd50427e7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://apextraderfunding.com/news/2022/05/04/business/what-is-nft-meaning-fe-series | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942987 | 1,234 | 2.03125 | 2 |
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International Happiness Day: What Makes (And Keeps) Us Happy At Work?
March 5, 2018
Six years ago, March 20th became The International Day of Happiness. A United Nations resolution emphasized the need for leaders to move beyond the constraints of GDP as a measure of a country’s well-being, and so declared this day a time to do so.
Earlier in the year, the UN released its first World Happiness Report as a part of a larger initiative to define a new economic paradigm that would include people’s happiness, not just their adjusted annual income.
Gallup’s World Poll and Global Emotions Report has provided most of the raw data behind efforts to capture a deeper understanding of what they call, “life’s intangibles … [that give] leaders a picture of well-being in their country and quantifies ‘what makes a life worth living.’”
There is a great deal of commensurate attention in the leadership and organizational culture genre about the role of happiness in nurturing high-performance cultures. This is clearly a move in the right direction, but I would argue that most leadership pundits have it backwards.
Is there a correlation between employee engagement and happiness? Sure, but happiness should never be the primary goal. Instead, by focusing on engagement, leadership can achieve employee happiness as well. While there is no question that happy employees are more likely to be satisfied at work, it is no guarantee that they will be fully engaged.
Leaders who try to make staff happy in order to improve performance will be disappointed in the long-term results. Many companies take the approach of fun company perks, like game zones, open bars, and wellness retreats. While it is exciting to offer fantastic benefits to employees, it is misguided to think “fun” by itself can nurture a healthy culture where employees are both productive and engaged.
Happiness is an Attitude, not a Behavior
Satisfaction and happiness are attitudes. Attitudes are mercurial and, as a result, they are not predictive of future conduct. Engagement, on the other hand, is a behavior that portends predictable performance over time. The goal should not be happy or satisfied staff, it should be engaged employees. Happiness and satisfaction are natural outcomes of engagement. A worker who is engaged is happy as a result of a felt sense of connection, fulfillment, and meaning derived either from the work itself or their connection to co-workers, their leader, and the mission and vision of the organization.
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Strategically, a focus on the happiness construct must include a look at the relationships and emotional connections employees feel from their daily experience in the workplace, not simply from tactical steps to have more fun.
We all want employees who are working close to their full potential, a condition that results from workplace conditions that are fulfilling, have meaning, feel safe, and include predictable and consistent levels of validation and recognition.
The Workplace as Tribe
Engaging workplace conditions strongly influence us in many ways because most of us spend the majority of our waking hours at work. It looms large in our well-being. The job site can be a place where we feel physically and emotionally safe and secure, or it can be an emotional minefield, filled with dread and stress and psychic pain.
Leaders at every level of the enterprise have an immense opportunity to support a workplace that offers a rich source of social proximity, interaction, even friendships. A high-performance work culture is also a prosocial environment where employees feel a sense of teamwork, accomplishment, and meaning.
The people we work with are the new tribe for 21st century Homo sapiens, and our most effective allies in achieving positive personal and organizational outcomes. You could say that the way you calibrate happiness is equivalent to how you lead.
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