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At a summit in Dubai, scholars and clerics are gathering to destroy the Somalian rebels' religious credibility.
Somali president Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed has been busy of late. This weekend he is attending a summit in Dubai, along with an international cast of scholars and clerics, to refute the ideologies of groups that "abuse the name of sharia by imposing their own literal, ill-informed interpretations onto others". Organised by the Global Centre for Renewal and Guidance (GCRG) the summit will clarify the orthodox position on jihad and takfir – judging a Muslim to be outside the fold – and analyse the religious motivation of group of violent Islamists in Somalia, known as al-Shabaab. The meeting will result in a fatwa condemning them.
Several thoughts spring to mind. It should not take a summit to state the obvious and it will take more than a fatwa to end the chaos and destruction wreaked by al-Shabaab. Previous Cif blogs have attracted a variety of opinion on the success or otherwise of fatwas against terrorism. So where does this leave the summit? According to Anna Rader, of the Royal United Services Institute, Somalia is a deeply religious country but most citizens are appalled by al-Shabaab's extreme interpretation of Islam and that the cultural strictures it seeks to impose are onerous to say the least when the country is struggling with poverty and insecurity. Other Islamist groups in the country – such as al-Ittihad al-Islami and the Islamic Council Union – have balanced the implementation of sharia with law, order and attempts to address social welfare issues. Al-Shabaab, she adds, has made no effort to connect its form of "justice" to broader issues, "calling into question whether it really has any clear programmatic goals or any sense of what a truly Islamic state would look like for Somalia".
Both al-Shabaab and the Somali president use religious rhetoric to establish legitimacy and authority in the eyes of the international and domestic community. Both lay claim to being the true guardians of Islam. It could be that, by allying himself with people such as Salman al-Awadah, the Saudi Arabian scholar who set up Islam Today, and Abdullah Omar Naseef, president of the Muslim World League, that the Somali president is more interested in bolstering the transitional federal government (TFG) than trying to influence al-Shabaab, which has made it clear it is not interested in winning support among Muslim leaders.
Sharif's efforts may backfire and strengthen anti-TFG feeling among other Islamist groups or strengthen opposition to al-Shabaab. It is difficult to assess how effective a fatwa will be in a
country where material, rather than spiritual, resources are so sorely lacking. The GCRG has invited me to Dubai to report on the conference, so I hope the assembled dignitaries will be able to
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Performance Management System
Performance Management is a systematic process that helps an organization achieve its mission and strategic goals by improving effectiveness, empowering employees, and streamlining decision making - Public Health Foundation.
The Performance Management System of the Arkansas Department of Health consists of the following interrelated components as shown in the diagram.
Identification and use of appropriate measures are essential functions of the Performance Management System. The measures help monitor the effectiveness of programs, policies, and processes within the performance areas.
The ADH performance measures will be routinely updated by the Performance Management Committee members with new data/information, within their areas. Please refer to the performance goal areas and the active committee members listed below. The progress will be reported to the key personnel and the Public Health Accreditation Board.
Click here to find out more about the process that OPMQIE followed to select ADH’s eight performance goal areas and the measures within each area. | <urn:uuid:3b9db1af-c042-4425-8441-bd8e2f918d6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://awseb-awseb-qbzgq7c00f82-241904307.us-east-1.elb.amazonaws.com/programs-services/topics/performance-management-system | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922889 | 191 | 2.078125 | 2 |
The sphinxes were moved on Friday.
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities has begun to relocate four sphinxes from Luxor’s Karnak Temple on Friday to Tahrir Square as part of a larger plan to attract tourism to the downtown area.
The sphinxes chosen were among a group of 60 sphinxes found behind the first edifice of Karnak Temple, but are distinct from their more famous counterparts standing in Luxor’s Avenue of Sphinxes which serves as the popular entryway into the temple.
The artefacts are a part of 122 items that have been transferred out of Luxor in the past year, mainly heading to the Grand Egyptian Museum. A Pharaonic obelisk will also stand in the square alongside the sphinxes. How do you feel about moving these artefacts from Luxor to Tahrir? Let us know in the comments below. | <urn:uuid:2c794fba-09a3-4a40-bcfc-c9fbe2de05b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cairoscene.com/Buzz/Ministry-Begins-to-Move-Four-Sphinxes-from-Karnak-Temple-to-Tahrir-Square | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94675 | 184 | 1.632813 | 2 |
How To Enter Text Using Voice Input - Sony Xperia Z2
Learn how to enter text using voice input on your Sony Xperia Z2. When you enter text, you can use the voice input function instead of typing the words. Just speak the words that you want to enter. Voice input is an experimental technology from Google, and is available for a number of languages and regions.
To enable voice input
- When you enter text using the on-screen keyboard, tap 12!? icon.
- Tap Settings icon, then tap Keyboard settings.
- Mark the Google voice typing key checkbox.
- Tap Back Key to save your settings. A microphone icon appears on your on-screen keyboard.
To enter text using voice input
- Open the on-screen keyboard.
- Tap Mic icon. WhenMic icon appears, speak to enter text.
- When you're finished, tap Mic icon again. The suggested text appears.
- Edit the text manually if necessary.
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dwarfdump ERROR: dwarf_srclines: DW_DLE_LINE_NUM_OPERANDS_BAD (56)
This is because in cmd/ld/dwarf.c OPCODE_BASE is set to 5. dwarfdump expects opcode base to be at least 9, and errors out if it isn't. The dwarf 2 spec lists 9 standard opcodes (http://dwarfstd.org/doc/dwarf-2.0.0.pdf - Section 18.104.22.168 Standard Opcodes).
This is my first time looking at DWARF data (for issue 7369). Why does Go use 5 here? Is it just that we're not using standard opcodes 5-9?
This is on Ubuntu 13.10, dwarfdump Apr 10 2012. objdump, by contrast, seems to handle an opcode base of 5 just fine.
Thanks in advance,
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1996 William James Fellow Award
William T. Greenough
University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign
William T. Greenough is one of the world’s leading investigators of experience-related neuronal plasticity in the mammalian brain. He has been the major proponent of the hypothesis that the key element in learning and memory is the formation or retraction of synapses between neurons. He has pursued this general idea by investigating the effects of environmental complexity, social complexity, learned motor tasks, and physical activity on the dendritic structure of neurons, the frequency and morphology of synaptic connections between neurons, the functional efficacy of synaptic connections, and the molecular events underlying synaptic plasticity. When he began his career, the adult brain was thought to be an anatomically static structure. Now it is commonly accepted that rapid synapse formation can occur throughout life, and the hypothesis that synapse formation lies at the core of behavioral plasticity has come to the fore. William Greenough’s research forms the central body of work supporting this view. No other individual has been so devoted this idea, so dogged in its pursuit, and so successful in demonstrating its importance. It is fair to say that he deserves the major credit for establishing the current view of dynamic, life-long synapse formation in the mammalian brain. | <urn:uuid:7326f409-79d4-4e2c-be41-c510fab101bb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.psychologicalscience.org/members/awards-and-honors/fellow-award/recipent-past-award-winners/william_t_greenough | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953353 | 265 | 2.25 | 2 |
We Have a Dream That One Day More Medical Doctors Will Consider Using Magnesium When Treating DepressionMental Health
By Joy Stephenson-Laws, JD, Founder
(Updated January 21, 2019)
Martin Luther King is known for his tireless fight for civil rights. But what you may not know is that he suffered throughout much of his life from something many Americans currently have -- depression. In fact, it has been reported he had severe depression.
In 1967, King’s personal physician said to him, “Martin, I think you’re depressed. I think you would benefit from specialist treatment by a psychiatrist.”
“For about a year, King had become the opposite of his usual self. Before, he had been bubbly and upbeat; now he was morose. Before, he had been optimistic; now he was fatalistic, convinced not only that he would die soon but also concerned that the whole civil rights movement would prove to be a failure,” according to one report.
King, understandably, had much to be depressed about. He lived during a period when his race made him the target of hatred and violence. But King also reportedly suffered from depression long before he became a major force in the civil rights movement.
Multiple reports, including one from Time Magazine, state King tried to commit suicide twice before the age of 13 by jumping out of a second-floor window from his home. The first attempt was due to his grandmother being injured, and the second attempt was because she actually died from a heart attack.
King was also reportedly hospitalized throughout his life for periods of “exhaustion.” He lost interest in most things, couldn’t concentrate and was low in energy. Some say he had manic depressive illness, also called bipolar disorder. His impairments or abnormalities may be difficult to imagine when you consider the hundreds of motivational speeches he delivered and peaceful marches he led (all the work he did, in general).
But every day, many people function "effectively" with depression. There are even research studies that suggest depression may increase our ability to feel empathy towards others. One columnist suggested, “King's nonviolent resistance can be understood as a politics of radical empathy, an accepting of one's enemies as part and parcel of advancing one's own agenda.”
Indeed, some people may not even realize that they are depressed. This does not, however, mean that depression should be ignored or swept under the rug.
So as we honor the work and bravery of this amazing leader with such a magnificent mind, let’s also acknowledge how we can be proactive about depression because it remains one of the most common mental disorders in the United States. It is also the leading cause of disability worldwide.
Suggestions on how to be proactive about depression.
I have spent countless hours trying to provide some direction to family and friends who suffer from depression. I have also written many articles about it and am always excited when new research confirms what I have been doing to avoid this crazy illness.
Yoga: Last year, I discovered a series of studies which suggest that yoga may be a very effective way to treat depression.
Yoga is one of the top 10 complementary health approaches to health. More than 13 million adults in the U.S. practiced yoga in the past year or so, and 58 percent report using yoga to maintain their health and well-being (this includes mental health). Yoga helps put you in a meditative state and release stress, which may help with symptoms of depression.
In one study, researchers found that breathing-based yoga practiced for just a couple of weeks helped people with depression who were not responding well to antidepressant medication. And good breathing is critical in order to get oxygen to your brain to remain healthy.
Magnesium: More recently, I discovered a study from the University of Vermont. This is the first clinical trial done on magnesium for depression in the United States. It confirmed what I have experienced with using magnesium in my family. Magnesium supplementation may indeed be safe and effective for the treatment of depression.
Over the counter magnesium chloride was used to deliver 248 milligrams of elemental magnesium each day over a six week period to 126 adults. Those in the control group received no treatment.
The researchers found that in 112 participants, consumption of magnesium chloride led to great improvement in depression and anxiety symptoms.
The conclusion from the study was as follows:
“Daily supplementation with 248 mg of elemental magnesium as four 500 mg tablets of magnesium chloride per day leads to a significant decrease in depression and anxiety symptoms regardless of age, gender, baseline severity of depression, or use of antidepressant medications. While the cross over design of this trial is robust in controlling for internal biases, it would be reassuring to see the results replicated in larger clinical trials that test long term efficacy and provide additional data on subgroups. However, this efficacy trial showed magnesium supplements may be a fast, safe, and easily accessible alternative, or adjunct, to starting or increasing the dose of antidepressant medications.”
Bear in mind that there are many other forms of magnesium so don’t assume that all over-the-counter magnesium is magnesium chloride. Other forms of magnesium include magnesium sulfate, magnesium oxide, magnesium citrate, magnesium glycinate, magnesium malate, magnesium aspartate, magnesium taurate, magnesium orotate and magnesium theronate. Some forms of magnesium have a laxative effect. And there are specific forms which are used for a myriad of ailments including fibromyalgia, muscle pain, hypertension and brain injuries.
Clearly the magnitude of the new study should not be understated. 10 to 30 percent of patients with depression either fail to respond to antidepressants or experience only mild improvements paired with severe side effects. Many of these side effects caused by prescribed medications may be the result of nutrient depletion. Being nutritionally balanced is critical for preventing and treating depression.
So if you feel like you are battling depression, find a doctor who will evaluate this new study and prescribe the right amount and type of magnesium for your condition.
Also consider taking a yoga class or even looking up yoga tutorials on YouTube. Be proactive about learning how to locate treatment services in your area and other ways you can reach out for help.
Overcoming and managing depression is often about taking whatever small steps you can. It may involve exercise, nutrition or counseling so you can feel better and get mentally healthy.
Moving forward despite your hurdles is important as you make your way through life. As Martin Luther King said: “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.”
Enjoy your healthy life!
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Tech Prep Implementation and Preliminary Student Outcomes for Eight Local Tech Prep Consortia
In January 1998, a research study on Tech Prep implementation and
student outcomes was undertaken. A panel of national experts
identified six consortia as mature implementers of Tech Prep, and
these consortia became the initial sites for the national study.
Two additional consortia were selected near the end of 1998, with
site visits and additional data collection conducted in 1999.
Overall, the study examined a range of Tech Prep models and
approaches in urban, suburban, and rural locations in the United
States. The overarching purpose of the study was to describe in
some depth and detail the evolving nature of eight local Tech
Prep systems, to compare the post-high school education and
economic outcomes of Tech Prep and non-Tech Prep participants,
and to enhance understanding of how students transition from high
school to college and work.
In order to describe students’ Tech Prep experiences and related outcomes, the research team employed a mixed-method design, including repeated field visits, a follow- up survey of Tech Prep and non-Tech Prep participants, and an analysis of secondary and postsecondary transcripts for students in both groups. Over more than a two-year period, over 300 interviews with teachers, counselors, parents, and employers took place at approximately 60 high schools and 10 community and four-year colleges; and over 150 interviews were conducted with students at both the secondary and postsecondary levels. Approximately 4,700 students were selected for the student follow-up study across all eight consortia, with roughly equivalent numbers of Tech Prep and non-Tech Prep participants in each. The students in the sample graduated from high school between 1995 and 1998. Most consortia provided data on their 1996 and 1997 cohorts, fewer on the 1995 cohort, and only one site (the last site added to the study) on a 1998 cohort. The response rate for the follow-up survey was approximately 50% overall. In addition, high school transcripts were acquired for over 90% of the entire sample, and nearly 2,000 transcripts were obtained for students in the sample who matriculated to the main community college in the consortium, constituting about 40% of the entire sample.
Bragg, D. D., Dare, D. E., Ovaice, G., Zamani, E. M., Layton, J. D., & Dornsife, et al. (2001, May). Tech prep implementation and preliminary student outcomes for eight local tech prep consortia. St. Paul, MN: National Research Center for Career and Technical Education, University of Minnesota. | <urn:uuid:d07ec79c-5fef-44e0-a338-0a5f6fee4de9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sreb.org/publication/tech-prep-implementation-and-preliminary-student-outcomes-eight-local-tech-prep | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955657 | 544 | 2.515625 | 3 |
Cooking is one of the most irresistible passions among many people. The style of cooking differs from person to person, place to place. And as the style of cooking differs, there also comes a difference in the ingredients and recipes. Though there are more than thousands of recipes in the world either vegetarian or non vegetarian, the primary tips and tricks of cooking food remains the same all over. Cooking the same recipe by two different people can take different time as it depends on the way he or she cooks.
Cooking is an avocation whereas saving time while cooking is a convinced art. There are many time saving cooking tips but listed below are the best 10 tips to cut down on the time in the kitchen:
1. Using a pressure cooker
A pressure cooker saves adequate amount of time while cooking. Vegetables and meat which takes a longer period to get cooked, cooks easily in a pressure cooker without losing the actual taste of the recipe. It is convenient and less tiring to cook in a pressure cooker where any recipe gets easily ready within 30 minutes.
2. Use of time saving ingredients
Ingredients like canned vegetables like seasoned and diced tomatoes, special spice packets, ginger garlic paste, canned beans, etc saves a lot of time while cooking. It cuts down the time in the preparation of cooking and could be added to any dish as an addition.
3. Use of pre-cooked meats
Pre cooked meats like sausages, bacon, chicken, shrimp, beef, etc are easily available in the market. This type of meat saves time in the process of cooking as it is already half cooked.
4. Soupy affair
If you have less time to cook a meal, you can always cook some soup either canned or fresh and add various seasonal vegetables and meat in it. It is very healthy and saves time.
5. Frozen foods
Veggies and fruits which are frozen do not lose their nutritional value and could save both time and money. Frozen foods like chopped spinach, chopped onions etc could be used as an addition to almost any dish.
6. Buying stock
Preparing of stock is a lengthy recipe so it becomes easy if you buy the broth from the market and use it in different dishes. Broth is considered to be healthy with low fats and calories.
7. Canned beans
Beans take longer time in the preparation of cooking as they have to be soaked for hours before cooking. It is best to buy canned beans for cooking which would eventually decrease the period of time in cooking.
8. Go for packaged and chopped vegetables
Cutting of vegetables to prepare a meal takes the maximum time in preparing a dish. In order to cut save time, you should get chopped veggies from the market which can be stored for later use or used immediately.
9. Use a slower cooker
The name slower cooker may not sound convenient for fast cooking but you could cook food while you are sleeping for the next day. A slower cooker cooks a meal in 6 to 8 hours and does not need continuous supervision. This ways you save time in the morning while the food keeps cooking by its own.
10. Cook double the amount
While cooking a recipe for a meal, you may sometime add on more quantity to the dish in order to save for the next. This makes you cook less and hence time is saved. | <urn:uuid:817f8e16-8781-4853-918e-b915b7cba568> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alwaysfoodie.com/10-time-saving-cooking-tips.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955476 | 677 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Background: Job related affective well-being is important for a healthy life and job satisfaction for all individuals, including physicians. The later group, however, is most often compromised. Objectives: We aimed to investigate a group of Turkish primary health care physicians' job related emotional perceptions and to assess their reactions in terms of stress, anxiety and depression. Methods: A descriptive, cross-sectional, self-reported questionnaire study was conducted. A total of 60 primary health care centres and 274 general practitioners who were working at these centres participated in the study. The response rate was 74%. Printed questionnaires were completed by the participants anonymously. We used the Job Related Affective Well-Being Scale (JAWS) and Depression Anxiety Stress Scale (DASS 42). Correlation analysis and hierarchic regression were performed. Results: Correlations between JAWS and DASS total scores were negative and statistically significant (r = -0.52; P< 0.01). Low pleasure/high arousal (LPHA) and low pleasure/low arousal (LPLA) variations that describe negative emotional states show a positive and significant relationship with depression, anxiety and stress values. The highest mean score was obtained for the high pleasure/low arousal (HPLA) status that can be interpreted to mean that our study group was pleased with their job but was not motivated. Conclusions: Physician's job related negative emotional perceptions are associated with reactions in terms of stress, anxiety and depression. For this reason, it is critical to consider primary care physicians' job related affectations and job related stimuli. © The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. | <urn:uuid:8bb2f767-9b7d-4848-a780-50deb72fd0b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://avesis.uludag.edu.tr/yayin/f002dcb3-18f8-4e49-92c2-1820ad608a34/job-related-affective-well-being-among-primary-health-care-physicians | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96644 | 340 | 1.765625 | 2 |
In order to boost passenger safety, the Union Ministry of Road Transport and Highways proposes to make it mandatory that an airbag be provided for the passenger seated on the front seat of a vehicle, next to the driver.
The proposed timelines for implementation are April 1, 2021 for new models and June 1, 2021 for existing models, the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways said in a statement.
A draft notification No GSR 797 (E), issued on December 28, 2020 to this effect has been published on the website of the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways.
The ministry said all the stakeholders will be able to give comments/suggestions at the following email address: firstname.lastname@example.org within 30 days from the date of the notification.
A media report quoted a senior official of the ministry as saying: “It is a major step towards road safety. Automobile manufacturers are already offering the option of dual front airbags and so they know the importance of this aspect. We now propose to make it mandatory across models and variants.”
The Federation of Automobile Dealers Association has welcomed the proposal stating.
The move is likely to increase the prices of vehicles.
The auto manufacturers have announced a hike from January next month with the rise in the cost of steel.
The passenger-side airbag in the entry-level cars could hike prices by as much as Rs 5,000 to Rs 8,000. | <urn:uuid:9af1421c-9a4e-4b66-a3c6-ef12164cac93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nenow.in/north-east-news/centre-invites-comments-for-proposed-mandatory-provision-of-co-driver-airbags-in-vehicles.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960252 | 297 | 1.734375 | 2 |
From 1 July 2021, and every day thereafter, the Government has Directed NHS Digital to take from your and your family’s GP records:
- “data about diagnoses, symptoms, observations, test results, medications, allergies, immunisations, referrals, recalls and appointments, including information about physical, mental and sexual health” (more details)
- “data on sex, ethnicity and sexual orientation”
- “data about staff who have treated patients”
NHS Digital states that: “Data may be shared from the GP medical records about … any living patient registered at a GP practice in England when the collection started – this includes children and adults”.
It goes on to say the data will be shared “from 1 July 2021”, although NHS Digital says that you only have until 23 June 2021 to opt out – if you haven’t opted out by the time your entire GP history is first sent to NHS Digital this summer, your information will never be deleted.
From later this year, data collected from your and your family’s GP records will be disseminated dangerously by NHS Digital alongside your other NHS records, including into the secret ‘VIP lanes’ for GP data.
Documents about the programme (formally called ‘General Practice Data for Planning and Research’) were published on 12 May 2021 – the morning after the Queen’s Speech (in which none of this was mentioned)…
- Legal Direction from the Secretary of State to NHS Digital
- ‘Type 1’ opt out form – the only opt out that will stop NHS Digital taking your data
- National Data Opt-out page – this opt out won’t stop NHS Digital from taking your GP records; it may stop it sharing your NHS data with others. (You will also see that the forms separate you and your children.)
- Data Protection Impact Assessment – no DPIA has yet been published | <urn:uuid:d6efae87-cef7-428e-a995-9bf8e095b005> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://seemorerocks.is/uk-your-gp-records-will-begin-to-be-copied-in-25-days-11h-29m-27s/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948383 | 404 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Can I get cancer again after my ovarian tissue is grafted back into my body?
- Published on April 18, 2021
- Updated on April 26, 2021
While there is a need for further research in this field, there are no documented cases around the world where cancer was reintroduced into the body when transplanting ovarian tissue. This procedure is not recommended for certain cancers like leukaemia as the risk of reintroducing cancer is much higher.
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Please, is there internet? Do you have water? and Can we have a cigarette? were the firtst questions we were asked when we collected 30 disabled refugees and their partners from the Ukrainisn border at 3am in the rain and cold, on 8th Aprl.
The most important question for most was internet access, so they could tell family they had safely made it out of Ukraine. After three days traveling from Eastern Ukraine, they were most grateful to be on the last leg of their journey into Romania and to safe accommodation awaiting in Oradea. The strength and graciousness of this group of people amazed me, after all they had been through and how tired and scared they must have been, their thoughts were with reassuring family and friends and thanking us for collecting them. They had one more journey left to make that night!
Three of us had travelled to the Ukrainian border in a rented coach to collect this latest group of refugees. Kerry Malster and I from Melton Mowbray Rotary Enterprise group in England and Pete Malkin from the English charity, Ability Unlocked. Pete had made this trip many times before.
The coach journey through the night was a surreal experience and there were lengthy border checks to be undertaken before we could head back into Romania. Even at this early hour, there were charity tents set up at the border to support those coming through and to provide snacks and drinks, which were brought onto the coach for our group.
The organisation of care being given was impressive and efficient. People2people register each individual as a refugee and provide specialist accommodation and support for about a week. Families are supported to identify suitable long-term accommodation options across Europe and assisted in travelling to these when they are in place.
During our stay two more families were collected by Pete from the border. One woman with seven young children and one sister with a younger brother. Their situation was not typical in that there was just one child with a learning delay and there had been an unusual error in directing them to Pete. We were relieved they had been though, as there were some child protection concerns we were able to jointly recognise and highlight. It was reassuring to see how People2People arranged for a social worker and translator to come out within a couple of hours. It transpired that the sister with the younger brother had two children in foster care in Romania that she wanted to find. A phone call from the social worker to Ukrainian social care resulted in a call back within an hour to confirm the children were safe, and that they would contact the foster carers to ascertain if she could see them. It was confirmed they would however need to stay with the foster carers until legal processes had reviewed the case. So, even in a time of war, it was impressive and reassuring to see how agencies are still able to work together across borders to safeguard children.
Pete has worked closely for some years with People2people and was able to encourage additional support for disabled vulnerable people to include supporting disabled Ukrainians as soon as the crisis began. As you can imagine, this takes a significant amount of funds! People2people, Ability Unlocked and Caminul Felix are supported by a number of NGO’s and some Christian charities, but these funds are ring fenced, and additional funds are haemorrhaging as the crisis continues. To date, 750 disabled refugees and family members have been assisted though the charity.
Nicu, the charity leader from People2people, works tirelessly to co-ordinate all the work the charity is doing, which also includes prevention of human trafficking in Romania and practical help for some of the vulnerable Roma communities living in extreme poverty.
Kerry and I first heard about Pete’s amazing dedication to disabled children and adults through a fellow Rotarian who had met and worked with Pete in England some years back. Pete had kept in touch and told us about the work he was doing, originally supporting orphans in Romania, and then supporting disabled people there too. Facilities and support networks for the disabled are much reduced in Romania compared to the services we expect in this country. Many disabled people in Romania are isolated and totally dependent upon family members for their care. Pete and Nicu were able to come together and immediately respond to the tragic and desperate situation in Ukraine as it unfolded. They are making constant trips to the border, then identifying accommodation and on-going transport for these vulnerable people. They also take aid into Ukraine and have close working relationships with key partners in the country, including the Ukrainian minister for disabilities and a small number of Rotary groups there too.
The two charities are very small and there are just a few people doing all this work. As we began to talk with Pete, via WhatsApp from UK to see how our Rotary group could help, it soon became evident that practical support might be needed as much as finances. Kerry and I had both lived abroad much of our lives and said we would be happy to help drive minibuses across Europe if that would be of use.
These were early days into the conflict and, as keen as we were to help, we were not very aware of how Rotary works on an international scale, being members of a young new club. We contacted the UK disaster relief team and our district governor to seek support for an aid trip over to Romania. Our DG was most supportive and we contacted Rotary in Oradea to establish links with them. This turned out to be a game changer and we were totally blown away by the open, warm response we received from two of the clubs there. We began to communicate with Dacian from Rotary Oradea and shared with him details about the work Pete and Nicu were doing. Dacian quickly arranged to go and meet them himself, and even went out with them on a border trip to collect disabled refugees. Dacian was impressed with the work they were doing and confirmed they would be more than happy to work with us in this critical venture that was so positively impacting the lives of those fleeing the conflict.
We made plans to raise more funds, to take aid over and to spend a week helping in any way we could. Initially we thought of hiring and taking a minibus but this was too costly and it was becoming apparent at that time that money and medicines were priority. So, instead, we collected two large suitcases of over the counter medicines kindly donated by local residents in Melton Mowbray, and took the short flight to Oradea on 2nd April (nervous as to whether we would get through customs with two suitcases full of drugs!) Kerry and I were both clear that we would fund our own travel and accommodation costs, though we unexpectedly blessed to receive a generous donation from a fellow Rotarian towards our costs.
When we arrived in Oradea, Pete met us at the airport at midnight. The airport was just a short way out of town and, on the way, in we stopped off to visit a new refugee facility at a shopping centre that had just been opened. The duty worker, a lovely lady called Maryann, showed us around and spoke with us for an hour about how local NGO’s were working together to develop this facility. Maryann mentioned at the end that she was a member of Insignia Rotary, a younger Rotary group in Oradea! This was the start of our recognising how highly valued and active Rotary is in Romania!
It was only a short way from there to our accommodation at Caminul Felix, a wonderful farm with spaced community houses for orphans, each home having a set of house parents. There were training facilities and services there, along with a welcoming boarding house for guests and volunteers. We were very impressed with this facility and much more comfortable there than we had expected to be!
The first morning we visited one of these community houses and had breakfast with four Ukrainian families who had disabled children. They had arrived just two days earlier and were settling in, seeming very welcoming of two strangers joining them. The families did not speak English so we used a translation app to help us communicate. We heard a little of their stories from Ukraine, with one lady sharing images on her phone of the destruction of her town and home. She remained composed until recalling that she had to leave her cat behind; our pets are such a key part of our family aren’t they?
Lighter moments were playing with the children, sharing a meal together and laughing at the errors from the translation app!
A tricky moment came when my question to a father about their ongoing destination was translated as ‘I love you’! The poor man replied ‘’I have a wife!’ Thankfully the text was on the screen and we were able to correct and clarify the misunderstanding swiftly, before laughing together about it.
The reception we received from the Rotary Oradea and Rotary Art Nouveau Oradea clubs was amazing and heart-warming. It was so good to meet Dacian face to face, along with his wife and the two presidents Emil and Sorina. Along with Pete, they took us out to dinner and we enjoyed a good few hours getting to know each other and finding out about our respective clubs and shared ambitions. Their openness and warmth was inspiring and engaging and we gladly agreed to attending their joint Rotary meeting the next evening and to meeting up again later in the week.
Our week didn’t go as we expected due to the fact that the number of refugees coming over the border slowed down for the few days we were there. Assistance with transport was not required. This gave us time to get to know more about the work People2people and Ability Unlocked are doing in the area. Nicu took us out to see for ourselves the terrible plight of the low cast Roma people literally living on a rubbish dump. This was a real shock and distressing to see. Nicu was visiting to meet with the council there about progressing plans to establish sanitation and electricity to the makeshift shacks. The charity is also supporting educational developments at another Roma location in Romania.
Another day we drove out with Pete to some of the surrounding villages and met a few families with young adults living with disabilities. Again, the welcome we received was heart-warming, and it was interesting to see how, the only outside contact these people would otherwise have had was via their local church. Romania is very much a Christian country. Pete has recently also initiated the development of a new day centre for disabled adults in Oradea and is keen to raise funds to help acquire a disabled-access minibus to enable more people to attend, and to do so in a more dignified and humane fashion.
It was fascinating to see a little of Oradea as well. What a pretty city it is, with many restored art nouveau buildings, independent shops and eateries and a lively centre. We would definitely recommend it as a city break option from UK. They are such hospitable people and have achieved a great deal in the last few years to make it a welcoming, comfortable city with English widely spoken.
District Rotary funds raised for Ukraine are being disseminated through district leads to local projects with Rotary contacts in the areas affected by the crisis. At the start of our trip we were most grateful to hear from Hugh in District 1070 that we could apply for some of this money. After developing a much clearer understanding of what the local objectives were, and of the systems in place in Oradea, it was really helpful to talk directly with Nicu and Pete and clarify what further funds would be of most help. They are trying to achieve so much with so little and, as each request comes in to assist the disabled refugees out of Ukraine, Nicu has to consider if they have sufficient funds in place to make each individual trip. Besides accommodation costs of around £5 per person per day, coach hire and transport to the border and back costs approx. £850. We agreed it would be most helpful if we could assist in funding transport and accommodation costs.
The Oradea Rotary club leads, Sorina, Dacian and Emil, also told us of one of their project getting aid into Ukraine. They have acquired a railway carriage on a train frequently crossing the border and regularly load it with aid to send to their contact Ukrainian Rotary clubs for dissemination. The medicines and dental resources we took over were going on this train and we also wanted to assist in financing further supplies for this.
Our request, along with a simple chart outlining the needs, was sent to Hugh, district foundation lead for area 1070. Within a day of our return from Romania, £10,000 had been transferred to the two Rotary clubs we are working with in Oradea, with £4000 more to follow. Thank you!
During our Zoom meeting with Nicu, Emil, Dacian and Sorina this week, Nicu has highlighted the plight of displaced, disabled orphans who have been moved to the now overcrowded towns on the western border of Ukraine. Just last week, Nicu visited a large orphanage of over 200 children in Chernivtsi which has taken in an additional 52 severely disabled orphans who have fled the Donbas region. Their orphanage has been bombed and destroyed. There are very few facilities for them and they are in need of basic care such as beds and bedding, as well as medical care and support.
The story of these and other orphans there in a similar plight was shared by the BBC news on 4th May. We were heartbroken to hear of their situation and to see the images Nicu brought back. Efforts are being made by us to source additional help for here too.
The trip to Romania has been a humbling experience, as well as being inspiring and educational for Kerry and I, greatly improving our understanding of how Rotary works internationally. We have made friends for life and will continue to work with Rotary in Oradea and jointly support People2people and Ability Unlocked. Sadly this crisis is far from over and there is a long, unknown road ahead for the Ukrainian people. This experience has enabled us to share the wider reach of Rotary with our club and really motivated us for the long term - we will definitely be promoting the benefits of ‘seeing with your own eyes’ and further building relationships across the Rotary family.
Thank you for taking the time to share our journey. If you would like more information or to assist the orphanage please do contact me, or donate to the Rotary Ukraine disaster appeal
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Coins, currency and crisis from c. 2000 BC – c. AD 2000: Silver, paper money and trust in historical perspective.
International workshop Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 12-13 December 2014
Main Building, De Boelelaan 1105, 1081 HV Amsterdam.
Rooms 9A-06 (12 December) and 9A-10 (13 December).
Participation is free, but prior notice is required: firstname.lastname@example.org
Recently, the economic crisis that hit Greece was caused by excessive government borrowing. Two elements are thought to have contributed to the Euro crisis that followed: first, an increasing globalized capital market which allowed excessive borrowing against relatively low interest rates and, secondly, a single Euro-currency (the Euro), which, because this is a fiat money, contributed to a sudden decline in trust. The resulting unrest in the financial markets led in some countries to the cry for the reintroduction of local (or silver based) coins. Basically, the argument behind such pleas is that local governments should be able to increase or decrease the quantity of coins in circulation (and not rely on the policy of the European Central Bank), mainly because local governments supposedly have earned more trust. Also, if silver-based coins were introduced, the issue of trust would no longer be pressing, it is argued, since the money has a nominal value which is equal to its intrinsic value.
However, the question how monetary systems could prevent crises is still very much unresolved. Even though monetarists claim that it is largely the demand and supply of money as controlled by governments/central banks that create inflation which may affect the real economy via increased/decreased aggregate demand, many also agree that this offers an incomplete view. Indeed, in 1992 Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, a famous monetarist, wrote about the present monetary system:
Up to the present, the fiat monetary system has been characterized by wide fluctuations in price levels, interest rates, and exchange rates, as the major nations have been trying to learn to navigate in uncharted waters, trying to find some anchor for the price level other than conversion into a commodity. Whether and, if so, when the fiat system will lead to acceptable results remains an open question. Hence, a discussion of perhaps the most common earlier world system, bimetallism, may be of more than historical interest (Friedman, 1992, 87).
Indeed the question of how to create a stable monetary system, which, again, figures prominently on the political agenda, cannot be resolved without taking into account past experiences. This workshop addresses this issue by taking a long-run perspective, from ancient Assyria to the modern world. It asks the question to what degree earlier monetary systems prevented economic crises, from ancient Mesopotamian times until the present. To this end, an international group of scholars will discuss if past monetary systems caused fewer, or different economic crises than present-day systems, and if so, why.
Prof. dr. Bert van der Spek (VU University Amsterdam) email@example.com
Dr. Bas van Leeuwen (Utrecht University/ IISH) firstname.lastname@example.org
Day 1: Friday 12 December 2014 (Room 9A-06)
A. Silver and Money. General observations
* 9.00 – 9.15. Introduction (Van der Spek; Van Leeuwen)
* 9.15 – 9.45. Economic Theory from/for Silver History (Dennis Flynn) - paper
* 9.45 – 10.15 Deep monetization and the payment of wages in Eurasia ca. 1000-1950 (Jan Lucassen) - paper
* 10.15 – 10.45. Unproductive Debt Causes Crisis: Connecting the History of Money to the Current Crisis (Dirk J. Bezemer)
10.45 – 11.15. COFFEE BREAK
B1. Ancient economies (Near East)
* 11.15 - 11.45. Metals, trade and economy in Ancient Assyria (19th century BC) (Jan Gerrit Dercksen)
* 11.45 – 12.30. Silver and trust in Mesopotamia and the Levant (Bert van der Spek) - paper
& Silver Use in Babylonian Cities in the Iron Age and in the Middle bronze Age (Michael Jursa, presented by Reinhard Pirngruber) - paper
* 12.30 – 13.00. On coins and trust. In search for the differences between the Ancient Near East and Archaic Greece (J.A. Mooring) - paper
13.00 – 14.00 LUNCH
C1. Developments in Europe from the Middle Ages to the 18th century (Netherlands)
* 14.00 – 14.30. Smoothing the flow: currency circulation and payment techniques in the Low Countries, 1500-1800 (Oscar Gelderblom and Joost Jonker)
* 14.30 – 15.00. Incentives and interests. Monetary policy, public debt and default in Holland, c. 1466-1489 (Jaco Zuijderduijn) - paper
15.00 – 15.30. TEA BREAK
B2. Ancient Economies (Seleucid and Roman Empires)
* 15.30 – 16.15. Who’s wealthier? An estimation of the annual coin production of the Seleucids and the Ptolemies (Panos Iossif, presented by Bas van Leeuwen) - paper
& The speed of coin diffusion within the Seleucid Empire and the EU compared ([Panos Iossif], Peter Foldvari and Bas van Leeuwen) - paper
* 16.15 – 1645. Monetary policy in the Roman Empire (Kevin Butcher) - paper
* 16.45 – 17.00. Presentation of the book A History of Market Performance: from Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World. Routledge Explorations in Economic History 68. Edited by R.J. van der Spek, Bas van Leeuwen and Jan Luiten van Zanden (London Routledge 2015 ) to the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, VU University, prof. dr. Michel ter Hark. There is opportunity to order the book with 20% discount.
Drinks and Dinner
Day 2: Saturday 13 December 2014 (Room 9A-10)
C2. Developments in Europe from the Middle Ages to the 18th century (England)
* 9.30 – 10.00. Money in England from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century (Nick Mayhew) - paper
* 10.00 – 10.30. China: flows of silver and economic crises from the Ming until the Qing dynasty (1368-1912) (Xuyi and Van Leeuwen) - paper
10.30 – 11.00. COFFEE BREAK
* 11.00 – 11.30. Monetary developments and economic crises in the 19th and 20th century (Debin Ma / [Xun Yan])
* 11.30 – 12.00 From Latin America to China: Silver in global perspective (Alejandra Irigoin).
12.00 – 13.00. LUNCH
E. The end of the metallic systems and monetary crises in the 19th and 20th centuries
* 13.00 – 13.30. Monetary sovereignty under different monetary arrangements in the 1920s and 30s? The case of Spain (Juan E. Castaneda [and Pedro Schwartz]). - paper
* 13.30 - 14.00. Economic crises and monetary policy: institutions (Hans Schenk)
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Walk Bike Fingal: A Plan for Social Distancing in the Public RealmApril 24, 2020 ADMIN 0
Fingal County Council is setting out a new plan, Walk Bike Fingal, to assess and repurpose public road space to facilitate the increase in cyclists and pedestrians currently by giving them extra space to practice social distancing from each other. Eight locations across Fingal have been identified under the first phase of the initiative and the works will include physical segregation such as barriers and cones.
The areas identified are:
- a section of Drogheda Street in Balbriggan;
- Laurel Lodge to Phoenix Park, Castleknock;
- Harbour Road in Skerries;
- Main Street and Howth Road, both Howth;
- New Street in Malahide;
- and Strand Road, Portmarnock village.
With this plan, Fingal aims to temporarily provide residents with safe space to walk, run, exercise and travel by bike and adhere to the 2m rule. Fingal seeks to encourage physical activity at a safe social distance thereby improving the physical and mental health of its citizens during this time of restricted movements. Fingal is introducing these temporary measures in consultation with local Gardai.
The Mayor of Fingal, Cllr Eoghan O’Brien, said:
The Plan for Social Distancing in the Public Realm will repurpose and reallocate road space to pedestrians and cyclists to facilitate social distancing whilst walking, cycling or queuing outside shops. This will make a genuine difference to the health and safety of all citizens using Fingal’s pavements and roads during the restrictions.
Once these initial changes have been implemented, other areas will be assessed with a view to putting in place similar measures. These changes present an opportunity to progress further debate around how best to use public realm space in our towns and villages as we continue a journey towards making these spaces safer for pedestrians, cyclists and vulnerable road users. I’m hopeful that many of these temporary changes will result in longer term improvements to the public realm in Fingal.
Chair of the Transport & Infrastructure Management Strategic Policy Committee, Cllr. Ted Leddy, said:
As Chair of the Strategic Policy Committee on Transport & Infrastructure Management, I am delighted to welcome this innovative and sensibly planned approach by the Operations Department to accommodate Fingal citizens safe during the difficult time we currently find ourselves in. Access to the outdoors is essential for people to benefit both their physical and mental health during the Covid-19 crisis. However, it must be while we all are adhering to the 2m social distancing rule and within 2km of our homes.
Director of Operations at Fingal County Council, David Storey, added:
The temporary repurposing of Fingal’s paths, roads and public realm spaces is to help all of our residents to get out for exercise and time outside while being able to respect the 2m social distancing requirements. Covid-19 has changed many things in our lives recently and we need to adapt the facilities and infrastructure we have to help our residents.
Fingal County Council Operations Department carried out an initial needs assessment to temporarily repurpose Fingal streets, roads and public realm spaces with the current needs of users in mind including those with prams and wheelchairs.
During the assessment, it was determined that vehicular traffic on the roads had fallen nearly 50% with a corresponding fall in public transport use by 75% since the commencement of the Covid-19 restrictions.
Following an initial assessment, Fingal County Council engineers devised a phased plan for locations in Fingal towns and villages.
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Theaters like the Pickford serve as a place for our community to come together, and there may not be that many left after we’re done “staying at home
By Payton Gift
For many film buffs, sheltering in place can seem like the perfect time to binge watch. Yes, we all have to stay inside, but there’s also no one stopping us from watching “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” for the third time in a row. Although with theaters shut down, are we missing out on the entire viewing experience?
Bill Campbell, the chairman of the Independent Cinema Alliance, said that when we watch a film together it heightens our experience.
“It all comes down to the communal experience,” Campbell said. “The laughs are louder, the scares are scarier and the suspense is more intense.”
When watching movies at home, it can be easy to get distracted. Whether it’s too many texts from your mom in one day, your roommate blasting music, or just general anxiety that you have something more important you could be doing, kicking back and watching a movie at home can be harder than it sounds.
“Going to the movies is actually a commitment,” Campbell said. “You’re committed to escaping reality for two hours.”
Campbell said that while local theaters may be completely shut down, there are still ways to give your support. Donating or buying gift cards can help, and some theaters are selling curbside concessions to keep business going.
Mikayla Nicholson, an education outreach manager at the Pickford Film Center, said that the executive director, Susie Purves, decided to close the physical operations of the Pickford on March 16. Before the closure, due to COVID-19, the center was gearing up for multiple events including the Bellingham Music Film Festival, which has since moved online.
Nicholson said that the film center stands out from other theaters for its array of films that often don’t get screen time in corporate theaters and for its education outreach. Before the closure, volunteers were working on a media literacy program. During the program, students from Whatcom County middle schools could watch a film for free with an educator teaching them about film and cinema literacy, according to Nicholson. Learning cinema literacy helps kids examine story-telling through film.
“I think what makes independent theaters special is how people-driven they are,” Nicholson said. “There is room to be creative with film choices and events, and at the end of the day, I just enjoy watching a diverse, challenging and joyful selection of independent films with other people. It's one of the things I miss the most about the way things used to be.”
Ryan Uhlhorn, the operations manager of the film center, said that the decision to close before Gov. Jay Inslee’s stay-at-home order was simply because they thought it was the right thing to do. The center was also already seeing a drop in attendance due to fears of COVID-19. Before the outbreak, the center was seeing a higher rate of attendance than usual.
“Independent theaters, we call them ‘art house theaters,’ are an important source of non-commercial film, which offers a much broader viewpoint to the community,” Uhlhorn said. “Programming only commercially viable and popular films does not justly represent our society. We pick content for its quality and purpose and not the dollar signs it represents.”
Thanks to theaters like the Pickford, people can go see films that may not have gotten mainstream attention but are worth seeing nonetheless. It’s up to their supporters to make sure that they’re still here when it’s over.
Thanks to work by the executive director and board of the Pickford, staff members are still able to receive payment, Uhlhorn said He also said they applied for a federal loan so that they can continue to pay their staff for as long as possible.
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Taku-Tanku portable tiny house can be towed by bike
The tiny house movement is as much about lifestyle as it is size of dwelling. Simplicity and efficiency are key characteristics of such a house. Not only is Stereotank's Taku-Tanku very small, it has few components, can be easily assembled, and even towed by a bicycle.
Gizmag has featured a number of other portable tiny houses. The Leaf House, for example, is small enough to tow with a car but can still accommodate a family of four, whilst the Salsa Box is smaller, but squeezes a huge amount into 9 sq m (96 sq ft). The Taku-Tanku is similar in size to the Salsa Box, but is much less palatial.
The design, created by Stereotank in collaboration with Takahiro Fukuda, was created for the Little House Competition in Saitama, Japan, earlier this year. It is made primarily of two 3,000 l (670 gal) water tanks that are connected by a ring of wood. In addition to joining the two tanks, the wooden ring also incorporates an entrance and a skylight.
The Taku-Tanku is aimed at being compact and affordable. Its interior can accommodate two to three people and has a compartment to store some luggage or belongings. It is also equipped with solar-powered LED lights. There are no frills inside, however. The house is simply said to be easy to build with off-the-shelf and re-purposed materials, and able to provide shelter in a variety of landscapes.
The house sits on a two-wheeled trailer and Stereotank says it is light enough to to be pulled along by one or two people or towed by a bicycle. It can also be towed by a car or even, the company suggests, by a boat.
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Multilayered design showed itself to advantage for improvement of functional nitride coatings, which are widely required in various industry applications. This article reports on deposition and detailed characterization series of combined nano-multilayered coatings based on (TiAlSiY)N with changes in components of alternating binary layers. Vacuum-arc deposited (TiAlSiY)N/MoN, (TiAlSiY)N/CrN and (TiAlSiY)N/ZrN coatings were analyzed by means of various experimental techniques such as SEM with EDS, XRD and GIXRD, SIMS, XPS and Raman spectroscopy. Microstructure of (TiAlSiY)N/MoN coating was characterized by creation of fine-grained fcc-AlTiN phase of (200) plane with congruent growth of γ-Mo2N (200) due to high isostruturality of lattices of alternating layers. The formation of fcc-AlYTiN phase of (111) plane and fcc-TiCrN phase of (200) plane were observed in multilayered (TiAlSiY)N/CrN coating and referred to the loss of clear interfaces and the formation of transition layers due to the diffusion of Ti atoms. Nano-multilayered (TiAlSiY)N/ZrN system showed the formation of stoichiometric fcc compounds of TiN with (200) plane and ZrN with (111) plane, respectively. The evaluation of mechanical properties as nanohardness, reduced elastic modulus, elastic strain prior to failure, and resistance to plastic deformation measurements was performed. The presented results showed important information about the physical and mechanical properties of new nano-multilayered systems for their subsequent application, as well as improvement of existing achievements. | <urn:uuid:e6f9c28a-a09d-4f29-bd5d-24510a094e34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cnbm.amu.edu.pl/en/publication/nano-multilayered-coatings-tialsiynmen-memo-cr-and-zr-influence-composition-alternating | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946297 | 388 | 1.609375 | 2 |
If you place a Pizza Hut order in Korea, you can order a bulgogi pizza. Canadians have access to poutine or maple bacon pizzas. Hong Kong residents may get a pizza topped with hot dogs. These global variations in menu offerings don’t detract from the Pizza Hut brand. Instead, they're a form of localization, a tool for building global sales and brand loyalty around cultural variations.
Global enterprise brands (multi-national organizations with billions in annual revenue) are realizing the importance of local marketing more than ever before. A recent study revealed that enterprises like Coca-Cola and McDonald's are among many global companies choosing to shift away from a homogeneous international strategy in response to customer needs.
“Customers [have] stopped feeling a connection with the generic products and communications,” write researchers Luigi Dumitrescu and Simona Vinerean in The Glocal Strategy of Global Brands. Forget globalization. A single marketing strategy for a global audience is too generic, or impersonal, to make much of an impression. Customers now demand relevant marketing – and that's why today’s brands are thinking “glocal” (a portmanteau of global and local) when it comes to marketing.
Building Customer Connections Through Local Marketing
Coca-Cola’s decision to move towards a “glocal” marketing strategy is one informed by knowledge of changing consumer preferences. Today, 80% of consumers say that “authenticity of content” is the most important factor in how they value a brand’s marketing.¹ If you consider the fact that your marketing is a key factor in how your brand humanizes itself and relates to customers, the authenticity of your localization attempt is a key success factor for your brand as a whole.
Local Authenticity: The Right Way and The Wrong Way
Several years ago, Starbucks launched Seattle’s 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea, a coffee shop that was designed to look like a small, indie coffee shop with a quirky vibe. The grand opening was met with ridicule and protesters, and the shop closed before its 2nd anniversary. This marketing mistake infuriated many Seattle locals because it felt inauthentic. This was a major, global brand trying to seem like a boutique shop with local roots. Needless to say, that doesn't go over well with customers.
On the other hand, when McDonald’s wanted to branch out into China, winning the hearts of Chinese customers required making rice a key component of the regional menu.² This localization factor doesn’t detract from McDonald’s international brand commitment to customers who are “Lovin’ It.” Instead, the wildly successful decision is perceived as an authentic nod to local preferences, and enhances the brand's appeal. Instead of pretending to be something it's not, McDonald's decided to adjust its approach while staying true to the things that made it world-renowned in the first place.
A Local Presence Supports Localization
There’s no shortage of stories of brands who were "lost in translation." In 1980, KFC’s own launch in China was accompanied by a mistranslated slogan on their storefront signage.³ The brand tagline "Finger-lickin' good" had been mistranslated into the somewhat less-appealing "Eat your fingers off." While KFC recovered, it’s a misstep that could have been avoided if the brand had just had more of a local marketing presence at the time.
Enterprise brands don’t need individual field marketing representatives for every single one of their locations worldwide. However, they do need a way to capture local knowledge if they want to avoid the risk of using storefront signage about eating habits involving self-mutilation. The enterprises that do the best at local execution often rely on a local network of distributors, dealers, agents and agencies to bring that innate knowledge of the local market.
Individuals who interact with your local customers on a daily basis won’t just help you avoid translation faux-pas, they can also inform you about the nuances of local tastes, preferences and culture that improve business outcomes. When a brand nails these nuances, they’ve created relevant marketing that resonates with local customers and can drive sales exponentially.
The New Consumer Expects a Personal Brand Relationship
Consumer behavior has changed drastically with adoption of digital technologies. Mark Davies of PA Consulting has described as “customer 4.0.” He writes that, “we’re now in a world that’s led by customers who are increasingly outcome-driven. [Success is] positioning yourself into the customer’s universe, being there when they need you, and getting out of the way when they don’t.”
Customers expect one-on-one interactions with brands in a way that wasn’t possible 20 years ago. Before almost everyone owned a smartphone, it wasn’t possible to compare flight prices across seven different airlines at 3 a.m. in 30 seconds. Enterprises that are capturing loyalty with customer 4.0 are using advanced analytics applications to aggregate data on customer behaviors, power digital campaigns, and understand customer segments at ever deeper levels.
When Big Data Isn't Personal Enough for Customer 4.0
While brands may know through demographic and behavioral analysis that most of their 30 year-old male customers prefer the color red, do they really understand those customers better? 63 percent of customers feel they’re misunderstood by brands. Just think about that for a second; big data is barely making a difference in the overall customer experience. While data analytics are a powerful tool, there’s a strong case for real customer knowledge, the kind of knowledge that may only come from local interactions with customers on a daily basis.
Tracking your customers' digital footprints can reveal patterns in consumer behavior, but it won't tell the full story. That fact is why enterprises are continuing to turn to local sources to understand the “why” behind local behavior in ways that prescriptive analytics models can't accurately capture. Combining data with local first-hand knowledge can result in more genuine, and effective, connections with customers.
Turning Enterprise Marketing Localization into Increased Profits
Enterprise brands can draw from a vast array of resources when it comes to designing highly-effective marketing campaigns for international, national and local execution. You can launch a new product internationally and target customers in specific market segments with all kinds of specialized tools.
For distributed enterprise brands, where the brand management team is geographically separated from the people running marketing for each location, there’s even more potential. Distributed enterprise brands can supply their locals with recommended campaigns, while using their local affiliates as on the ground resources for understanding customer behaviors and preferences that they observe on a daily basis. This will lead to more accurate localization efforts, driving revenue and loyal customers who appreciate your brand's authentic promise in every market.
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The Fordham Institute may be the closest thing to an honest academic broker in the contentious private school choice arena these days, and its latest report will no doubt enhance that reputation. “Red Tape or Red Herring?”, released today, provides strong evidence that private schools are not averse to academic or financial oversight – a finding that runs counter to a longstanding libertarian narrative.
As Fordham president Chester Finn Jr. acknowledged in the forward: “Many proponents of private school choice — both the voucher and tax credit scholarship versions — take for granted that schools won’t participate (or shouldn’t participate) if government asks too much of them, regulates their practices, requires them to reveal closely held information and — above all — demands that they be publicly accountable for student achievement.”
The report looks at the participation rate of private schools in voucher and tax credit scholarship programs in 11 states and surveys from 241 private schools that do and don’t participate, and it finds that testing requirements are not a significant deterrent. Only a quarter of the schools ranked state-required testing as a “very” or “extremely” important factor. Among the schools not participating in voucher or scholarship programs, testing was the fifth most-cited concern – behind such issues as protection of religious activities and admission processes and government paperwork.
This is not to suggest that private schools are eager to embrace more government regulation. The report did find a modest negative correlation between the degree of regulation in a state and the rate of schools participating. But the survey is a reality check on private schools and the educators who run them. Catholic schools remain a major player in the voucher-scholarship market, in part because their mission is to serve poor children, and they also demonstrate remarkable leadership on the issue of testing and academic accountability.
The report echoes similar on-the-ground work in Florida.
Low-income students who participate in the Florida Tax Credit Scholarship are required to take a nationally norm-referenced test approved by the state, and the test results are reported statewide each year. In preparation for a 2010 bill that extended the test reporting to individual schools with at least 30 scholarship students, and instituted an independent financial report for any school receiving more than $250,000 in scholarship funds, the state’s scholarship nonprofit, Step Up For Students, directly contacted 120 private schools with the largest scholarship enrollment. (Step Up co-hosts this blog.)
The results of this survey could not be described as scientific, since the schools were informed of broader program expansion and scholarship increases in the bill, and were encouraged to support it. But the numbers were head-turning nonetheless: 118 of the 120 schools voiced support. In other words, nearly every school most impacted by the new academic and fiscal requirements thought they were worth the tradeoff. One Christian school principal in Jacksonville was particularly eager, telling Step Up: “I’m all for accountability. This is going to separate us from the schools that are here just to take tuition.”
Fordham’s conclusions are appropriately measured, because part of the value that private schools bring to the modern mix of public education offerings is their independence – and too much regulation can undermine that. But one of Fordham’s most important contributions to the nation’s regulatory debate is its insistence that any school receiving public money, directly or indirectly, has an obligation to the public as well. A voucher or a scholarship can be a valuable tool for disadvantaged children, but the ability of their parents to change schools is only one of the ways those schools are held to account.
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Addir Hu (Hebrew, "Mighty is He") is a hymn in the form of an alphabetic acrostic enumerating the qualities of God (mighty, blessed, great), and imploring Him to rebuild the Temple, a prayer which is repeated in the refrain:
"Speedily, speedily/In our days, and soon to come;/ Build, O God! Build, O God/ Build Thy house speedily."
Addir Hu is one of several hymns added to the Passover Haggadah in the Middle Ages to be chanted after the conclusion of the formal part of the seder service according to the Ashkenazi rite. Since the 16th century Addir Hu appears in printed texts. A Judeo-German version recited by Ashkenazi Jews was first printed in Gershom b. Solomon ha-Kohen's Haggadah (Prague, 1527). Because of the refrain in that version (Bau dein Tempel shire) the Jews of southern and western Germany called the seder night "Baunacht" and the celebrating of the seder "bauen," i.e., to build. In the Avignon Maḥzor (1775) it is recited on all festivals.
Only in the Ashkenazi tradition is Addir Hu given greater prominence than the other Haggadah songs. It is sung to basically the same tune in all Jewish homes, and this is used in the synagogue as a musical motif of the festival. The music appeared in print as early as 1644 but may be even older, since one of its variants is in a Shtayger scale with a diminished seventh. In the 18th century it was often quoted in cantorial Passover compositions. In the synagogue, the tune is used in various parts of the service, including the Hallel, the Kaddish over the Scroll of the Law, and the Priestly Benediction. The domestic versions introduce many variations, abbreviations, and distortions characteristic of folk music.
Sources: Encyclopaedia Judaica. © 2008 The Gale Group. All Rights Reserved.
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Thick drops of rain thwacked the windshield as I neared a massive new cryptocurrency mine named for Helios, the mythological Greek god of the sun. The heaviest precipitation in months for the area—an hour east of Lubbock—had turned the red-dirt road into slippery muck. Within sight of the facility, it became clear my car could go no farther.
An eighteen-wheel tractor trailer delivering pallets of computer servers had jackknifed, blocking the road. I watched for several minutes before a forklift managed to free the truck with help from a thick chain. The forklift’s operator whooped and handed out enthusiastic fist bumps to several nearby Helios workers.
Lane Kingsbery, the mine’s operations manager, arrived in an electric cart to ferry me across the mud. But his vehicle soon began to run out of juice, slowing to a crawl. We reached the building with the cart’s battery fully drained. Ironically, in a place that pulls more electricity from the power grid than some Texas cities, someone must have forgotten to charge the cart. And the muddy road remained unpaved because it was a lower priority for the construction crews than finishing the 1,050-foot-long, white, one-story structure to get the mine—actually a specialized data center—operational as quickly as possible.
Cryptocurrency mining is a race. To earn Bitcoin, Helios must run mind-boggling numbers of calculations to solve a mathematical problem. The solution is a unique string of numbers and letters—like an incredibly strong password—designed to keep each Bitcoin transaction secure on a digital ledger known as the blockchain. Miners are rewarded for the computational power they’re lending to this effort.
The first to the solution gets a little more than six bitcoins, worth about $425,000 at the currency’s all-time peak last November, but only about $120,000 as of early July. By the end of the year, Helios plans to have 50,000 servers executing nearly four quintillion calculations—that’s four billion billions—every second. How much that will yield depends on many variables, especially the number of competitors operating, but Helios conservatively expects to generate more than one thousand bitcoins per year.
Bitcoin, the first widely adopted and still the best-known digital currency, has been around since 2009, when it was created during the global economic recession as a means of bypassing traditional financial institutions. Early crypto enthusiasts set up computers in garages to mine coins. By late 2017, Bitcoin’s rising value and popularity begat large-scale operations—warehouse-size data centers filled with servers.
Running thousands of these mining “rigs”—stripped-down, specialized computers—generates heat, which must be controlled lest the servers shut down or even catch fire. Considerable power is needed to operate and cool the machines. Mines vary in size, but some consume about as much electricity as a midsize city. Consequently, miners began to seek locations with abundant, relatively inexpensive electricity.
They set up in places such as Quebec, Canada, which has plentiful hydroelectric power. But so many mine operators asked to plug into the province’s grid that regulators, in 2018, instructed the local utility to temporarily stop powering new mines. A Chinese company opened Texas’s first large-scale crypto mine the next year, in a former aluminum smelter in the central Texas town of Rockdale. Most new mines at the time were popping up in China, but last year, that country’s government announced it would cut off power to miners. Among other concerns, China worried that burning fossil fuels—mainly coal—to power the mines was undermining its climate and pollution-reduction goals.
Miners started flocking to Texas, and the state is now an emerging global center for cryptocurrency. Reliable figures are difficult to come by, but an industry advocacy association in the state estimates that 9 percent of the computing power worldwide that is used to create new Bitcoin and other digital currencies is in Texas, and the number is expected to reach 20 percent by the end of next year. A Cambridge University index, meanwhile, pegged the level at 4.2 percent at the end of 2021.
Peter Wall, 47, the chief executive of Argo Blockchain, the London-
based company building Helios, called his facility’s location in Dickens County “Bitcoin mining nirvana.” The Canadian former video journalist, who sports a small soul patch and spiky white hair, said Argo chose the area because it offers plenty of inexpensive acreage and some of the lowest electricity prices in the state, thanks to an abundance of nearby wind farms.
Construction of Helios began in July 2021, and it took nine months to turn a cow pasture into one of the state’s largest crypto mines. So much high-strength concrete was required for its foundation that Argo set up its own concrete plant on-site. The values of cryptocurrencies—and Argo’s share price—have fallen sharply since November, but Helios is moving ahead. Wall said the company’s approach is to weather the ups and downs of the volatile crypto market, to keep mining and “hold on for dear life,” or HODL, an acronym beloved by crypto enthusiasts.
State and industry officials believe Helios is one of about ten large-scale mines in Texas. By the end of this year, Helios expects to draw 200 megawatts around the clock. Last summer, Lubbock’s usage reached as high as 444 megawatts. College Station used 213 megawatts. Texas’s main grid operator, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, or ERCOT, says prospective crypto mines have applied to connect and draw about 20 gigawatts—or 20,000 megawatts—of power. That’s roughly equal to the amount of electricity used by the Houston metropolitan area on the hottest days.
Not all of those twenty gigawatts’ worth of mines are likely to be built, but facilities using two gigawatts are up and running. Both ERCOT and industry groups believe crypto mines will consume as much as five gigawatts by the end of 2023. However, rising electricity prices and the falling value of cryptocurrency could dent that expansion.
ERCOT manages a power grid that is struggling. In February 2021, it was infamously crippled by widespread blackouts during an Arctic blast that other states managed to weather without much disruption—and without the estimated seven hundred fatalities suffered in Texas. Earlier this year, six fossil-fuel plants unexpectedly shut down, turning off 2,900 megawatts of grid capacity and prompting a statewide call for conservation at a time when temperatures topped 90 degrees.
So, why is Texas even considering adding a new Houston of electricity demand over the next few years? The answer may lie in another major energy shift playing out in the state—the ongoing solar power boom.
Outside Bogata, a small East Texas town about a two-hour drive northeast of Dallas, the Chicago-based renewable energy firm Invenergy is building the country’s largest solar power plant. Several fields are covered with rows of dark panels that follow the sun throughout the day. Nearby are fields of wildflowers the company plans to cover with thousands of additional panels. When complete in 2024, the $1.6 billion Samson Solar Energy Center will spread across 18,000 acres and be capable of generating 1,310 megawatts of electricity. That’s about half the output of either of Texas’s nuclear power plants.
This solar farm and dozens of others across Texas are being built largely because more and more blue-chip corporations have pledged to slash their carbon emissions. AT&T, Google, Home Depot, Honda, and McDonald’s have contracted to purchase most of Samson’s electricity. While the companies may rely on gas or coal to power their stores, factories, and data centers, they plan to offset this consumption by supporting this new solar-powered electricity in East Texas. Because business-friendly regulators make it relatively easy to build new power plants here, Texas has become the prime destination for corporate-driven solar projects—much as it has for cryptocurrency mines.
As a result, there is often more renewable electricity produced than the grid can physically accommodate. Sometimes, for example, there is a surplus in West Texas that can’t reach the state’s major metros because of a dearth of high-voltage wires to get it there. At extreme levels, a glut of supply can jeopardize the grid’s stability, much as not having enough available power does. There’s a risk of collapse that could even lead to blackouts. So ERCOT regularly instructs renewable energy farms (and, to a far lesser extent, coal and gas plants) to reduce their electricity production, or even to shut down temporarily. This happened in all but two hours of April 2022. On average, the agency curtailed more than two gigawatts—enough to power Fort Worth—every hour that month.
Brad Jones, the interim chief executive of ERCOT, who was brought in after the 2021 blackout fiasco, has pointed to mining Bitcoin as a way to harvest that surplus electricity in lieu of forcing power plants to sit idle and lose money. “We can use cryptocurrency to soak up the excess generation when there’s a lot of that and really provide a home for more wind and more solar to come to our state,” he told CNBC on March 18. ERCOT has a vested interest in incentivizing energy generators to continue building in Texas, despite the frequent gluts. Climate change and the state’s booming population make it likely that the grid will continue to experience ever-greater record peaks of demand each summer and winter. For those precarious days, maximizing the available power matters.
Joshua Rhodes, a research associate in the Webber Energy Group at the University of Texas at Austin and one of the keenest observers of the Texas grid, said more mines would encourage more wind and solar construction and under the right circumstances could lower the carbon footprint of the Texas grid. He agrees with Jones about crypto mining’s potential to help stabilize ERCOT.
Here’s how that scenario could work. Assume that in 2024, there are five gigawatts worth of crypto mines crunching their way through mathematical equations. If six fossil-fuel plants, generating 2,900 megawatts, experience problems and go offline—as happened in mid-May—ERCOT could order crypto miners to turn off enough servers to reduce power demand by 2,900 megawatts. The grid would be balanced without ordering the most expensive power plants—coal and inefficient gas burners—online or resorting to rolling blackouts. However, the mines would have to agree to participate in this grid-management program—and be paid by ERCOT to shut down, a cost ultimately borne by all Texans. (Argo management said it doesn’t yet participate in this ERCOT program, but it intends to enroll as soon as it qualifies.)
And what would happen on a hot summer day when demand soars and electricity costs spike above, say, $250 per megawatt hour? (ERCOT prices average between $25 and $50.) At $250, most miners might be only breaking even or losing money, and so they’d likely turn off their rigs until prices fell again. The grid would be spared. But here too Texas is relying on crypto miners’ willingness to voluntarily curtail their operations.
This reportedly did happen during a heat wave in June, as cryptocurrency values were falling precipitously. Yet it’s not hard to imagine a crypto company that expects Bitcoin prices to rise in the future. Then maybe it wouldn’t suspend mining when prices hit $250. It might want to hold out until electricity costs as much as $500. The result would be both higher electricity prices for Texans and additional stress on the grid.
If ERCOT doesn’t construct rules to ensure these new giant energy users play nice with the rest of the grid, then your air conditioner or heater could be competing with crypto mines for precious megawatts.
In early May, Argo flipped a switch, and mining began at Helios. I visited a couple of weeks later. Kingsbery led me into a space filled to its twenty-foot ceiling with pallets of servers in unopened cardboard boxes. In the next room was a coffee machine and a tray of foil-wrapped tacos for about a dozen workers listening to heavy metal music as they unboxed the computers and removed their fan assemblies. The stripped-down machines were put on another pallet that was then wrapped in plastic to keep out stray particles of West Texas dust.
Workers took these wrapped servers into a third room, which was about a thousand feet long and comprised the vast majority of the building. The interior was painted bright white. Each server was connected to cables and “dunked” into a large metal tank containing 47 other servers and a dielectric fluid, which doesn’t conduct electricity. The fluid captures the heat generated by the servers, then is moved through pipes to a cooler outside the building that releases the heat into the atmosphere. The fluid next moves back inside to again keep the machines from overheating.
Kingsbery and I hopped into an electric cart (this time with a charged battery) and drove to the far end of the giant room. I pressed my hand against a tank and felt the heat generated by the computers inside. “These are real, physical assets,” Kingsbery said. “This is industry right here. It is tangible. I can touch it, and I can repair it.” You can’t hold a stack of Bitcoin. It has no weight or volume. But here was part of the physical infrastructure that enables crypto.
The tank rested on a metal frame, beneath a second identical tank. Each two-shelf setup is called a pod. There were four more pods in the row. The next row had five pods, with ten tanks and 480 servers, and there was another beyond that, and another, and so on down the length of the building.
I climbed a ladder to look down into a fluid-and-processor-filled vat that was open on top. Dozens of blue cable wires snaked in and out of the tub, along with thick black pipes for the fluid. It reminded me of the scene in The Matrix when Neo wakes up to find himself in a fluid-filled sac, surrounded by blinking lights and thousands of other sacs. So far, workers have installed servers in only one section of one side of the warehouse. New rigs are being added by the hour.
The Texas solar boom may just be getting started, driven by shareholders and customers demanding that big companies get greener, as well as by federal subsidies that partially offset the huge subsidies long granted to the fossil-fuel industry. About three-quarters of all new power plants proposed for ERCOT are solar farms, and Helios appears well positioned to benefit. Within a hundred miles of the mine, solar plants that can generate 3,400 megawatts of electricity are either already operating or have filed for permission to connect to the grid, according to Enverus, an Austin-based provider of energy industry data. Argo is betting that a surplus of renewable energy in and around Dickens County will keep its power prices low for years.
There’s a “symbiotic relationship” between large-scale mining and renewable energy, said Peter Wall, the CEO. “We can be the safety valve,” he said. “Ultimately, power is for people, and people should have priority. And the wonderful thing about Bitcoin mining is that we can use excess power—if it’s done right, if we’re using the right curtailment systems, these two worlds can coincide very nicely.” Still, mines won’t just use the leftover electricity. They’re going to want to operate most hours, harnessing much of Texas’s new carbon-free energy so that they can run calculations faster than competing mines that are also using Texas renewable energy.
Not to mention, the gigawatts necessary to create an unproven new currency could also be put to other uses. Ideally, of course, it could all power Texas homes and businesses and allow for older, carbon-emitting power plants to be shuttered. But capacity bottlenecks on the grid persist, and building more high-voltage wires to get West Texas solar power from Lubbock to Houston would take years, after years of study by ERCOT.
Another possibility for the surplus lies in the manufacturing of hydrogen. Texas creates an enormous amount of hydrogen from natural gas to make fertilizer and for use in the petrochemical industry. This process generates greenhouse gases. Hydrogen can also be made by breaking up water molecules, but that requires a lot of electricity. Joshua Rhodes crunched the numbers on replacing greenhouse-gas-emitting hydrogen production with the cleaner alternative. “It’s the equivalent of adding something like seventeen gigawatts of load to the system, which is eerily similar to how much Bitcoin miners” are planning to use, he said. Electricity to make hydrogen could be ramped up and down, much as a crypto mine might.
Governor Greg Abbott tweeted last October that not only was Texas a national leader in oil and gas and wind power, but “soon we will be #1 for blockchain & cryptocurrency.” It’s an odd pairing. The state has always been an energy Gaia, creating much of the fuel that runs the world. What a strange turn that it’s also becoming home to some of the world’s biggest energy hogs.
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Diabetes, which is a chronic disease of the pancreas that affects approximately 20 million people in the United States, can have different causes and symptoms. Type 1 Diabetes, also known as juvenile-onset diabetes, is an autoimmune disorder whose causes are not well understood. Factors involved in risk for Type 1 diabetes include genetic vulnerability to the disease, infection, and exposure to at least one or more environmental risk factors, perhaps including diet. Characteristics of the disease itself include obesity, frequent urination, glucose levels that are too low, and abnormal blood glucose levels.
Blood glucose levels can be extremely low or extremely high, but unless treated, both extremes can result in serious health complications. In order to have your blood sugar levels checked regularly by a doctor, you will need to have regular visits scheduled. If you suspect that you have diabetes, whether it is Type 1 or some other type, you should see your doctor.
Diabetes is often characterized by excessive thirst, urination, hunger, or fatigue. Occasionally, the doctor will notice that your gestational diabetes symptoms are similar to those of pregnancy-related conditions, such as morning sickness, nausea, vomiting, and weight loss. Women who experience gestational diabetes symptoms usually have higher levels of glucose levels in their urine than do women who have no symptoms. Excessive thirst can be a sign of dehydration, which increases the risk of infections. Similarly, infections can be contracted if the glucose levels are too high.
One of the many myths surrounding Type 1 diabetes is that being overweight is a cause. While it’s true that having a lot of weight around the middle is unhealthy for most people, being overweight is not necessarily a symptom of diabetes. The reason being is that having too much weight around the middle is typically caused by being over-classed, poor, lazy, or obese. Therefore, if you are underweight, your doctor may advise you to go to a nutrition counselor to learn how to eat better, lose the excess weight, and eventually, get your weight down.
Being overweight is often one of the major complications of diabetes. Extra skin, fat, and muscle tissue slow the flow of blood through the body. This causes organs, such as the kidneys and intestines, to function less efficiently. In addition, these extra vessels and tissues can allow fluid from the lungs to pool in the lower portions of the body, causing serious complications with fluid and electrolyte imbalance. As well, being overweight can lead to heart problems, kidney problems, and nerve damage.
Being overweight also has a negative effect on emotional well-being. For example, if you’re constantly feeling tired and grumpy, you’re less likely to be able to appreciate social interaction and activities. Weight loss is sometimes one of the easiest solutions for increased hunger, thirst, and general symptoms of diabetes. People who suffer from diabetes tend to become depressed, experience high levels of fatigue, have low energy levels, and are generally less happy than others.
Even though obesity and other common causes of diabetes can certainly be controlled and prevented, it’s not impossible to reverse some of these effects. If you’ve been overweight, you should take steps to improve your lifestyle. For instance, if you smoke or drink alcohol, you should consider giving up any of these habits, as well as any other environmental factors that could be contributing to your diabetes.
Although most people develop some type of blurred vision as they age, this doesn’t mean you have to. In fact, many people develop a clear vision as they get older, but begin to experience these symptoms of diabetes as a result of living with diabetes. For many people, diabetes is something they can control themselves. It’s unfortunate that for so many people around the world who suffer from these symptoms, there isn’t much information out there to help them keep their diabetes in check. When you do find information, it can often be conflicting, which can make it difficult to make an informed decision about treatment and care. | <urn:uuid:3e3572f5-c2ef-4a55-97c0-331ac5233382> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lifesayshello.com/what-are-the-symptoms-of-diabetes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963512 | 818 | 3.515625 | 4 |
Thanks to Lily for suggesting Lilou as our Baby Name of the Day.
1997’s The Fifth Element starred the very American Bruce Willis, but the director and co-author was famous Frenchman Luc Besson.
Set in the twenty-third century, Bruce played Korben Dallas, an unassuming taxi driver who becomes responsible for the fate of the Earth when a beautiful, mysterious woman crashes into his cab.
Korben and his passenger must gather four stones that will help the planet fend off an attack from the great evil, which now looms in the sky above.
The passenger calls herself Leeloo, and is played by supermodel Milla Jovovich, and it turns out that she’s an integral part of stopping the great evil.
All ends happily, with Korben and Leeloo falling for each other. Love saves the day, and life on Earth continues. The movie was a hit, in France, the US, and elsewhere.
Lilou: Faux French?
Something else happened in 1997. Suddenly, French parents starting using the name Lilou – pronounced exactly the same as Leeloo.
With timing like that, it’s impossible to say that the movie wasn’t the source of inspiration. And yet, the spelling is different, and I’ve come across lots of alternate origin stories for the name, including:
- It could be a smoosh of Lili and Lou.
- It might be a nickname for any name ending in -lie, of which there are oodles in French. -ou is a diminutive ending in French, and it makes me think of bijou and mon chou.
- It’s often listed as a short form of Liliane, the French form of Lillian.
- I’ve read that the Occitan form of Lily is Lilo, pronounced exactly like Lilou.
More evidence that the name existed prior to the movie? A few women were definitely given the name in the years before, including French actress Lilou Fogli, born Amelie-Lilou in 1981.
Lilou has been in the French Top 20 since 2006, and while it peaked a few years ago, the name remains very popular. It’s also spelled Lylou and yes, sometimes Leeloo – which I think we can safely assume is a nod to Besson’s 1997 sci-fi hit.
Lilou: Lily’s Cousin?
Lily has been a wildly popular name in the US in recent years, with many forms of the name in the US Top 1000.
We’ve also loved lots of names with the repeating L-l, like Layla, Lila, and Delilah.
So how about Lilou? 21 girls were given the name in 2013, and another 17 in 2014. The first year there were five or more Lilous born in the US was 2002.
There were also eleven newborn Leeloos last year, but that spelling hasn’t been as popular as Lilou.
It’s possibly, of course, that some parents put Lillian or Liliane or another Lily-name on the birth certificate, but used this more distinctive nickname.
The letter L is a big favorite in France, too, with names like Lea, Lola, Lisa, Lou, Louane, Lena, and Lina all quite popular.
Lilou: Intriguing Rarity
When we talk about French names for girls, we tend to stick to the classics. The time-tested Genevieve and Marguerite and Madeleine. But the French, like many Europeans, prefer shorter names today. It’s a trend that Lilou fits beautifully.
Perhaps that’s why Lilou isn’t catching on in the US. Maybe, like Gigi and Coco, it just feels too informal. Or maybe we’re just one more high-profile use of Lilou away from this name catching on in the US, too.
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With Version 7 of the British Retail Consortium (BRC) standard becoming effective just one day earlier, it was a very timely moment for the Society of Food Hygiene and Technology (SOFHT) to organise a one-day seminar to address the topic of pest control in the food industry.
Held on 2 July at the Yew Lodge hotel near Nottingham this SOFHT-organised event attracted some 60 delegates with a pest control interest. Representatives came not only from food manufacturers, but also from auditors, pest control servicing companies and the pest control product supply sector.
Before the main ‘meat’ of the day, there were two technical presentations on flying insects. Professor Moray Anderson, technical director from Killgerm Chemicals, encouraged everyone to ‘think small’. When removed, glue boards from electronic fly killers (EFKs) usually display a few large flies (frequently house flies or lesser house flies) and a mass of much smaller black flies, or to use his Scottish description ‘wee black things.’ These were likely to be drain flies, of which there are six common species, all of which he went on to identify, but he challenged the abilities of pest controllers to do this! Interestingly, he reported that the number of drain flies sent in for identification at Killgerm has increased significantly in the last five years. Regarding control, he stressed you had to ‘think small’ as minute cracks and patches of damp and rotting vegetative material were enough to cause a problem.
Analyse what you have caught
Following this, PestWest’s Frederick (Fred) Hurstel presented a whistle-stop resume of the technical developments of EFKs and echoed the significance of Moray’s message of analysing the catch on glue boards. Fred explained that it is now established practice for the international food standard organisations to recommend the use of suitable fly killers.
Audits often unannounced
Moving to the title theme of the day, Brian Duffin, Rokill’s chief technical officer said he felt genuinely sorry for all managers in the food industry who were responsible for meeting the specifications laid down by the retailers as they were under the constant threat of an audit – often unannounced.
Add to this the variation in standards laid-down by the retailers (see Pest 39 June & July 2015 Navigating the maze of food manufacturing standards) and the position gets more complex. But Brian stressed all standards should be treated as the minimum to work to.
BRC Version 7 – just one day old!
Just one day after Issue 7 of the BRC Global Standard for Food Safety became effective (1 July 2015), Jonathan Revell of White Welly traced the development of the BRC Standard since its introduction in1998. There are now 17,962 sites around the world following this food safety standard, 2,506 of which (14%) are in the UK. He noted that some sites brought forward their audit dates to before the deadline to avoid Issue 7 requirements.
Also timely, on what was virtually the hottest day to date this year, Will Watts, category technical manager for Waitrose, raised the issue of rodent control saying that most factories had issues with rodents and one key problem area was doors being left open – a feature likely to be common in this current weather. He queried what could be classified as an infestation? A question posed by the initial speaker of the day (Moray) who had explained he always spoke about ‘pest activity’.
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|Murmuring And Complaining|
|1 Corinthians 10:1-13|
|Satan will use murmuring and complaining against God to defeat you. Murmuring is an outward expression of unbelief. It reveals a lack of trust in God’s goodness, His love, and His provision.
There are many Christians today who have fallen into this snare of the enemy. When they face problems in their finances, in their families, or on the job, instead of trusting God — believing that He will meet their need, and praising Him for what He has already done and is going to do for them — they begin to murmur. They may not speak it audibly, but in their hearts they are thinking, “Why has God allowed this to happen to me? I’m tired of never having enough money to meet our needs. Why do our children always have to do without things they want? Why doesn’t God answer and meet our needs? Has He forgotten us?”
On the job they murmur about the amount of work they have. They murmur and grumble about their salaries, the working conditions, and that they aren’t being treated fairly.
The Israelites murmured about the carnal desires and appetites of their flesh. They were not satisfied with the manna God provided for them. They were ungrateful for what God gave them and longed for the fish, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic they had enjoyed in Egypt.
Today, there are Christians who murmur about the type of food they have to eat. They murmur about their lack of clothes, the type of car they drive, their furniture, or the house they live in. We must recognize murmuring as a trick of the enemy to keep us living in defeat. When we murmur, we are doubting God’s provision and care for us. Moses told the Israelites, “The Lord has heard your grumblings which you murmur against Him, what are we? Your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord”(Exodus 16:8, TAB). When we murmur and grumble, we are not murmuring against people or circumstances. We are murmuring against God and He hears us. Not only does He hear us, but our unbelief hinders us from acting in faith upon His promises and we cannot receive what we need.
Paul used the example of the Israelites to warn the Corinthians not to grumble. He said, “And do not grumble, as some of them did and were killed by the destroying angel. These things happened to them as examples and were written down as warnings for us, on whom the fulfillment of the ages has come” (1 Corinthians 10:10-11, NIV). Just as murmuring kept the Israelites out of the Promised Land, murmuring and complaining will keep you from entering the spiritual dimension of God’s rest where there is blessing, provision, power, and victory.
Make this declaration:
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- The Human Rights Watch predicts that food prices could go up by 17% if the war in Ukraine continues.
- Cameroon has urged its citizens to switch to cassava crops as a shortage of wheat is being felt.
- There are fears of food riots in Kenya since the last one in February calling for price reduction of food, which spread to social media.
If the war in Ukraine goes well into May, food prices would likely increase by about 17% with the sharpest hike expected in East, West, and Southern Africa, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said in its latest report.
The situation was already precarious before the war since poverty rates, climate change, Covid-19, and conflicts such as insurgencies in several countries resulted in healthy diets being out of reach for many.
According to the Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO), in 2020, "... approximately 323.2 million people in Africa, or 29.5 percent of the population, ran out of food or went without eating that year."
Drawing lessons from the last global pandemic, Covid-19, that saw vaccine inequalities with Africa as disadvantaged, the world should come up with an international model for food distribution.
There are also fears that if the war rages on, exporting countries would hold on to their stocks, resulting in food riots in importing countries.
A lesson learned from the 2011 food crisis
"The World Trade Organisation (WTO) estimates that 40 percent of the increase in global wheat prices during the 2011 food crisis resulted from hoarding.
"Importing governments should work to ensure that nutritious food is affordable and accessible to everyone," the HRW said.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) says by 2020, eight out of 10 Africans were not covered by any form of social protection.
With the situation likely to get worse because of the war, Lena Simet the Senior Researcher and Advocate on Poverty and Inequality at HRW said African governments should immediately have support for climate change adaptation and resilience programmes.
"The war in Ukraine has led to more people across Africa going hungry. Governments should do everything in their power to mitigate the impact of rising food prices and avert a hunger crisis," she said.
With Ukraine and Russia being the biggest wheat exporters, the war has a direct impact on these countrie's wheat needs since it is a staple crop.
In February, Cameroon's association of millers suspended deliveries of flour and wheat bran throughout the country due to the rising price of wheat.
Then in March, the price of bread went up by 40% and the country's National Institute of Statistics attributed it to wheat shortages because of the war in Ukraine.
The government has since advised those that don't have access to wheat bread shift to alternatives such as cassava.
Already due to internal conflict, the country has among the highest number of people experiencing food insecurity. That country's National Bureau of Statistics' Selected Food Price Watch for February says food inflation reached 50% and the war could make things worse.
"In 2021, Russia and Ukraine accounted for 31 percent of wheat imports into Nigeria. The constraints that the war has placed on these supply channels will most likely lead to an increase in the prices of by-products such as bread, which, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, millions of people consume," HRW said.
In February Kenyans took to social media calling for the reduction of food prices. With the war raging in Ukraine, more protests are feared because the country is a net importer of wheat.
"In 2020, Kenya produced 405 thousand tons of wheat and imported 1.9 million tons. The Agriculture and Food Authority of Kenya reported that 90 percent of wheat consumed in the country is imported from Russia and Ukraine," the HRW report highlighted.
Kenya also imports 17% of its fertilizer from Russia. Hence, the upcoming cropping season could be dented and that will result in food insecurity next year.
According to Oxfam, "Kenya has suffered a 70 percent drop in crop production and has declared a national disaster with 3.1 million people in acute hunger, now in need of aid. Nearly half of all households in Kenya are having to borrow food or buy it on credit."
The World Food Programme (WFP)'s Import Dependency Ratios indicator says the war between Russia and Ukraine revealed that global food and energy markets are highly concentrated.
For wheat, seven countries provide 86 percent of supplies to the global market, while three countries hold 68 percent of the world's wheat reserves. For maize, just four countries account for 85 percent of export supplies while two countries hold 82 percent of the world's maize reserves.
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The Court of Appeal decision in Chesterton v Nurmohamed has been delivered. It concerns the question of when a worker’s disclosure will be in the "public interest" for the purposes of the whistleblowing legislation. Whether a worker attracts whistleblower status is of key interest to employers because of the significantly enhanced remedies available to them, including potentially unlimited compensation where they are dismissed by reason of the disclosure they have made.
Mr Nurmohamed had complained that Chestertons were manipulating their accounts so as to reduce the bonuses payable to him and a number of his senior manager colleagues (around 100 in total). Chestertons argued that the public interest test was not satisfied just because other employees were in the same position as Mr Nurmohamed; it was still a private complaint about his own employment contract that happened to affect others as well. In order to satisfy the public interest test, Chestertons argued, the issue had to extend outside the workplace.
The Court of Appeal disagreed. They said that the fact that a disclosure relates to other employees is not normally enough on its own, but a disclosure does not necessarily have to extend outside the workplace. The factors to be considered are:
- The number of people affected (though sheer numbers alone will not normally be enough)
- The type of interest concerned (is it important or trivial?)
- The nature of the wrongdoing (was it deliberate or inadvertent?)
- The identity of the employer (how prominent an organisation is it?)
In the Chesterton case, they said, it was not just that 100 employees were affected. The alleged manipulation of the accounts was serious, significant (between £2m-£3m of allegedly mis-stated liabilities) and deliberate. As a well known national estate agent, Chestertons was a prominent organisation and so disclosure of their alleged deliberate wrongdoing could plainly be regarded as being in the public interest.
In conclusion, the ability of an employee to attract whistleblower status by complaining about a breach of their own employment contract lives on. Whether the test is passed will depend on the circumstances of the particular case, taking into account the factors referred to above and no doubt others as the case law continues to develop in this area. The test has not become any simpler and will remain an issue for employers to consider every time there is a whistleblowing complaint, at least where the wrongdoing relates to the employee’s own employment. | <urn:uuid:5212fa46-3fbb-47ee-aace-754c1e2341b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mayerbrown.com/en/perspectives-events/publications/2017/07/when-is-a-whistleblowing-disclosure-in-the-public | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.977377 | 490 | 1.921875 | 2 |
The leading European online magazine “Modern Diplomacy” has published an article by leading adviser at the Center of Analysis of International Relations (AIR Center) Orkhan Baghirov headlined “Zangazur corridor will stimulate regional cooperation”.
The article reads: “The trilateral declaration signed between the Presidents of the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan and the Prime Minister of Armenia on 10 November of 2020 created substantial cooperation opportunities for all regional countries. The signing of the declaration ended “The Second Karabakh War,” which began on 27 September, continued for 44 days and led to the restoration of the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. Declaration envisions not only cessation of military operations but also restoration of all transport connections in the South Caucasus which had been restricted because of the occupational policy of Armenia for about three decades. For this purpose, the 9thclause was included in the agreement, which states that all economic and transport links in the region will be restored and Armenia guarantees the safety of the transport links between western regions of the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic through the Zangazur corridor.
After the signing of the declaration in November, the next meeting between the leaders of Azerbaijan Russia and Armenia took place in Moscow on January 11 within the framework of the Trilateral Summit. The unblocking of transport communications was the main discussion topic of the summit. Under the new statement signed by the participants of the summit, a trilateral working group co-chaired by the Azerbaijani, Armenian and Russian deputy prime ministers was established to implement provisions of the 9th clause of the November statement. In the subsequent meeting after the summit, the working group formulated the list of main activity directions arising from the implementation of the November statement, establishing railway and automobile communication as a priority, and also determining other directions agreed upon among the three leaders.
From the cooperation and transportation point of view, the creation of the Zangazur corridor is the most important element of the signed documents between Azerbaijan, Russia and Armenia and it serves the interests of all regional countries, including Armenia. Therefore, Azerbaijan is decisively committed to the creation of this corridor and restoration of transport links as it considers cooperation to be the main tool for creating durable peace in the region. Regarding this position, in the press conference with the local and foreign media representatives, held on February 26 in Baku and dedicated to the 29th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide committed by the Armenian forces, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said: “Today we are discussing the issue of permanent, sustainable peace and security in the region. The only way to do this is through collaboration. Our goal is to restore communications already in a trilateral manner – together with Armenia and Russia, create the Zangazur corridor and remove all transport obstacles”.
The creation of the Zangazur corridor will add a new artery to the transportation network of Eurasia and positively affect the economic and trade relations between the regional countries. Using this corridor Turkey will get a direct land road to Azerbaijan, one of its main economic partners. This in turn will boost bilateral economic and tourism relations between them. On the other hand, the Zangazur corridor will also serve as a gateway to Central Asia for Turkey, enabling it to strengthen its economic relations with the Turkic World. Turkey is also working on a new project to connect Nakhchivan to Turkey through the Kars-Nakhchivan railway. In the next stage, the linkage of this railway to the Zangazur Corridor will give another impetus to the bilateral trade relations between Azerbaijan and Turkey.
For Russia, this corridor could become the main route for the transportation of goods to the South Caucasus and surrounding countries. Russian trains could reach the Zangazur corridor through the territory of Azerbaijan and then be directed to Armenia, Turkey, Iran and Southern Asian countries. Along with positively affecting the trade relations with Turkey, this corridor will also provide an alternative route for Russia to reach the markets of the Middle East through the territory of Turkey. Besides, this corridor has special importance for Russia in terms of getting a direct land route to Armenia, one of its main allies in the region. Because of the political problems with Georgia, Russia was not able to use the land routes of Georgia for transportation of goods to Armenia. Now it will be able to overcome transportation obstacles in the economic relations with Armenia.
The creation of the land link between Russia and Armenia will also facilitate the economic problems of Armenia in reaching the markets of Russia and the Eurasian Economic Union. The absence of a land route to the main trade partner has negatively affected Armenia’s foreign economic relations and its economic security. Zangazur corridor also will create the opportunity for Armenia to get a railroad link to its other trade partner, Iran. Due to the lack of necessary financial resources and inability to attract foreign investments, Armenia was not able to build a railroad to Iran from its territory. Now, cargo transportation between Iran and Armenia could be implemented through the new corridor.
However, Armenia could benefit from the mentioned advantages of the Zangazur corridor only if it chooses to prefer regional cooperation over the aggressive policy against its neighbors that it has been implementing for almost three decades. If Armenia wants to end its economic blockade and obtain economic development opportunities, the only way is to join regional cooperation. Otherwise, the same economic situation accompanied by high unemployment, emigration and poverty will remain in Armenia, eliminating its long-term economic development perspectives.
The establishment of the Zangazur corridor and restoration of all economic communications will also increase the attractiveness of the region for foreign investors. Despite the implementation of several important energy and transport projects in the South-Caucasus for many years, the Armenia-Azerbaijan conflict has negatively affected the business environment and left Armenia aside from the regional projects. Now, as the conflict ended, regional countries have the opportunity for the full use of the economic potential of the region, to attract additional investments to different project implementations, which was not possible due to the conflict.
All the opportunities that the Zangazur corridor offers for the regional countries show that the creation of this corridor will lead to the expansion of regional transport networks and will stimulate mutual economic relations between the regional countries. It will also increase the importance of the region within the international transport corridors such as the North-South International Corridor and Middle Corridor. Along with economic benefits, the expansion of economic relations because of the corridor will also substantially contribute to the maintenance of sustainable peace and security in the region. Sustainable economic development and peace, in turn, will prevent the spread of harmful nationalistic ideas and the creation of new conflicts in the future.”
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Paris, 23 June 2021. – Airbus Defence and Space will equip its four CO3D Earth observation satellites with S-band antennas from Anywave, the company announced.
Airbus Defence and Space was selected by the French Space Agency (CNES) in July 2019 to develop the Constellation Optique 3D (CO3D) Earth observation program; it will equip this four satellite constellation with Anywave’s S-Band telecommand and telemetry antennas, Anywaves said.
Through this contract, Anywaves commits to volumes of up to dozens of antennas per order, enabling very ambitious constellations, the company said.
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Currently only 17 out of 369 district and unitary authorities responsible for waste collection have moved to a three-weekly operation for general rubbish. Rather more councils (30%) now charge for garden waste collections.
Some of the options being mooted by Central Beds Council could see new services introduced, such as food waste and glass, while others suggest changes to the current arrangements for recycling, domestic waste (black bins) and garden waste. The council wants to hear residents’ views on these.
It says bin collections are one of the most expensive services the council provides: the council currently spends £14million a year on collecting and disposing of waste from over 118,000 households. That amounts to around 7% of the council’s budget, or 9% of residents’ council tax.
Because the current bin contracts are about to come to an end, the council is seeking ways to reduce the cost of the service; increase efficiencies; and increase recycling levels.
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The options consulted on could save the council over £2million every year, which is money it can invest in other vital services, such as those for vulnerable adults and children.
There are three different options being considered for recycling collections. Option one continues the current arrangements; in option two, cardboard and paper would be put into a separate box; and in option three, glass collections would be rolled out to all residents and collected in a separate box. Residents’ recycling would continue to be collected every fortnight under all of the options. The council is also considering a weekly food waste collection to all households.
A recent study showed more than half of the black bin contents the council collects could have been recycled. More efforts to recycle, along with the suggested changes to the collections, could help reduce the amount of waste going into peoples’ black bins, and allow the council to move to collecting domestic waste (black bins) every three weeks rather than fortnightly. This would deliver significant savings, it says.
The council is also consulting on charging £40 annually for optional fortnightly garden waste collections. Councils are not required to collect garden waste separately, but many have been doing so.
Cllr Budge Wells, Deputy Executive Member for Community Services, said: “Waste collection and disposal contracts are long-term contracts, and as such we don’t often get a chance to make big changes. Our contracts come to an end in 2019, so we’ve been looking at what we might want to change.
“We really need to increase recycling. Our current rate is 46%. We want to increase that to at least 50% by 2020. Recycling is not only environmentally friendly, but is also much cheaper.
“Everything we can do to recycle and be more efficient means our residents’ council tax goes even further: it is four times cheaper to recycle the waste in your recycling bin than it is to dispose of the contents of your domestic black bin.
“Whilst many people are diligent recyclers, we need to do more. A recent study of our black bins showed that over half of the contents could have been recycled instead. So, a lot of people could improve their recycling levels, and thus create more space in their black bins. That would enable us to move to collecting black bins every three weeks, which would generate a big saving.
“But before making any decisions about these changes, we want to know what our residents think.”
You can have your say online at www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/bin-changes or you can pick up a paper copy from your local library or tidy tip.
A video talking residents through the proposed options is also available on the website. The consultation is open until 5pm on April 20. The options in the consultation only affect residents in houses - there are currently no changes planned for flats with communal bins.
The council’s Executive will consider all of the public feedback at its meeting on 10 May 2018. Any changes would be implemented in autumn 2019.
During the consultation, council staff will be available at the following libraries to answer questions from the public:
Toddington Library - Tuesday, 13 March (9am-11.30am).
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Margaret Duncan Coxhead
|Statement||by Margaret Duncan Coxhead, with twelve reproductions in colour of original drawings, by J. H. Robinson.|
|Series||Romance of history series ed. by J. Lang|
|LC Classifications||F1230 .C94|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||xi, , 283, p.|
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[6:21:11 PM] Thuan Thi Do: In the causal body we thus have the abstract, not the concrete, the pure internal working, no longer confused by the senses, nor in any way interfered with by the outer world. Here there is pure intelligence, clear vision, intelligence unmoved by the senses, intelligence tranquil, strong, serene.
In the causal body also lies the creative power of meditation, the energies that grow out of one-pointed contemplation. This is the creative sheath of man, for Manas in man corresponds in the Kosmos to Mahat, the Universal Mind, Divine Ideation, the moulding directing force which is the creative power, from which all comes forth. In this sheath of man exist all forms that can come forth, to which objective reality may be given by this creative power.
The Secret Doctrine [I , 312] says: "Kriyashakti: the mysterious power of thought which enables it to produce external, perceptible, phenomenal results, by its own inherent energy. The ancients held that any idea will manifest itself externally if one's attention be deeply concentrated upon it. Similarly, an intense volition will be followed by the desired results" . This of course, is the secret of all true "magic".
Intelligence in man is thus, as said, the reflection of Brahma, of the Universal Mind, the creative energy. The creative faculty of imagination in man, which at present works in subtle matter, will, when man becomes perfect, work in grosser matter as well, because, as said, the imaginative power in man is the reflection of the power that created the universe. Brahma meditated,and all forms came forth: so, in the creative power of mind lies every possibility of form.
Hence H.P.Blavatsky sometimes calls manas the Deva-ego, or the divine as distinguished from the personal self. Higher Manas is divine because it has positive thought, which is Kriyashakti, the power of doing things. Manas, mind, is thus by its very nature, activity. All work is really done by thought power ; the sculptor's hand does not do the work, but the thought-power directing that hand does it. For it is a truism to say that thought precedes action. Whilst there are occasions on which a man act, as we say, without thinking, yet even so his action is the result of previous thought; he has set up a habit of thought along a certain line and acts instinctively in agreement with that line of thought.
Higher Manas is divine because, as said, it is a positive thinker, using the quality of its own life, which shines from within. That is what is meant by the word divine, from div, to shine.
The outgoing energy of Atma, working in the causal body, is the force which dominates and moulds everything that is external to it. The outgoing energy of Atma, working in the Manomayakosha, on the other hand, is Desire, an its characteristics is that it is attracted by external objects and its direction is governed from without. But Atma, working in the causal body, is Will, dealing, no longer with choice directed from without, but with choice initiated from within, moulded on the internal images by a process of discriminative reflection. Thus the outgoing energy is, in the causal body, guided from within in its direction, whereas in the lower bodies it is attracted from without. This is the essential difference between Will and Desire. The will, moreover, is essentially a quality of the ego, not of the personality.
The Chit, or intelligence aspect of man is the first to be evolved: this is the analysing faculty which perceives multiplicity and differences ; then comes Ananda, the wisdom that realises the unity of things, and that accomplishes union, thus finding the joy or bliss that is at the heart of life; lastly, comes the third or highest aspect, Sat, self-existence, the Unity that is beyond even union.
In the cycle of Races, the Fifth Race is developing the Chit, or Intelligence aspect; the Sixth will develop the Ananda, the union or bliss aspect, the "Kingdom of Happiness"; the Seventh will develop the Sat, or Self-existence aspect.
[6:49:39 PM] Thuan Thi Do: http://www.thongthienhoc.com/sach%20vai%20quy%20tac%20nhat%20hanh.htm
[7:02:58 PM] Thuan Thi Do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_(Hinduism)
[7:13:43 PM] Thuan Thi Do: http://thongthienhoc.net/sach/GiaoLyBiTruyen-NTH.pdf
[7:24:04 PM] Thuan Thi Do: It is Fohat which translates or rather transforms the universal, archetypal ideas into various forms at various levels and becomes the guiding force. The Laws of Nature exist because of the impression of Divine Ideas on Divine Substance. It is interesting to note that some thinkers have, unconsciously to themselves, admitted the existence of the propelling force of manifestation, as stated by Madame Blavatsky in a footnote on page 649 of Volume II of The Secret Doctrine:
[7:24:31 PM] Thuan Thi Do: The "principle of perfectibility" of Nägeli; von de Baer's "striving towards the purpose"; Braun's "Divine breath as the inward impulse in the evolutionary history of Nature"; Professor Owen's "tendency to perfectibility," etc., are all veiled manifestations of the universal guiding Fohat, rich with the Divine and Dhyan-Chohanic thought.
Fohat is the constructive power that causes the formation of planetary systems, of earth chains, of nature and of man. In the second verse of the Fifth Stanza from the Book of Dzyan it is stated: "Fohat is the steed and thought is the rider." Not only does it serve, like the steed, as a means of transportation from one place to another, from one plane to another, but it also has the power to change and transform that which was subjective into the objective, that which was noumenal into the phenomenal. Thus, an ideal image in the mind of man may be reproduced as a concrete form.
[7:27:49 PM] Thuan Thi Do: http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7208fohat.html
[7:29:04 PM] Thuan Thi Do: In The Theosophical Glossary Fohat is defined as Daiviprakriti, Primordial Light, the essence of Cosmic Electricity, and in the manifested universe it is "the ever-present electrical energy and ceaseless destructive and formative power." This indicates how from the one homogeneous substance-principle differentiation takes place and grosser and grosser forms of life come into manifestation through the stairway of the seven worlds or planes. It is the same vital power which creates and destroys, to re-create once more. Fohat is "the universal propelling Vital Force, at once the propeller and resultant." Attraction and repulsion, levitation and gravitation, are all caused by this universal propelling force.
What brings atoms and molecules together, what separates them? The opposing forces of cohesion and of dispersion both spring from Fohat. What but the dynamic energy of life turns a germ into a foetus in the mother's womb, and later on into a baby which becomes a man or a woman? What brings about old age, decay and death? The destructive aspect of that same energic force. What brings the body daily from the waking to the sleeping state and from the sleeping to the waking state? The unbalance caused by the impact of the universal life-energy upon individual energy.
[7:32:31 PM] Thuan Thi Do: When the equilibrium is restored, it wakes up the individual for another day of work. So all growth and expansion, all decay and destruction, the play of opposing forces through a change of polarity, are brought about through one or another aspect of Fohat—the great Transformer.
[7:47:57 PM] Thuan Thi Do: Jehovah (Hebrew) Yĕhovāh In the Bible, the god of the Hebrews; a modern mispronunciation of the Hebrew alphabetic characters, resulting from the combining by the Jews themselves of the Hebrew consonants of this word (YHVH) with the vowels of the word Adonai (my lords) because the Jews, while always writing or copying the alphabetic characters of the name correctly in their manuscripts, when reading it never pronounced the word YHVH, but read “Adonai” in its stead — writing the Massoretic points of Adonai to vocalize YHVH to produce Yahovah. Consequently when the Bible came to be studied by those unfamiliar with the real pronunciation of YHVH, it was read in various ways, commonly as Jehovah. It is now held by some scholars that YHVH should be pronounced yahweh or yave. It is also given as Yihweh (he will be, or it will be) (SD 2:129). However, Josephus, a priest who undoubtedly knew the correct pronunciation, wrote that it would be highly unlawful for him to divulge it as the Jews regarded it as too holy to pronounce aloud.
Blavatsky writes that the rendering Ja-ho-vah is “a perversion of the Holy Name”: that the majority of the Jews themselves were ignorant of the true pronunciation. “Alone, out of all their nation the high priests had it in their possession, and respectively passed it to their successors,” before their death. “Once a year only, on the day of atonement, the high priest was allowed to pronounce it in a whisper” (IU 2:398-9).
The Hebrews were not the only ones who knew of and revered a divinity whose name when written was conveyed by vowels mainly, as for instance the Gnostic Iao, Ieuo, or Iaou. All these ancient peoples by these vowel-words desired to express the fluid life-giving energy of the globe, of the moon, and of the planetary source — in this case, Saturn.
The early Christian Fathers connected the moon and its functions with Jehovah — as the proximate but not causal “giver of life and death.” Moreover “With the Israelites, the chief function of Jehovah was child-giving, and the esotericism of the Bible, interpreted Kabalistically, shows undeniably the Holy of Holies in the temple to be only the symbol of the womb. . . . This idea must certainly have been borrowed by the Jews from the Egyptians and Indians . . .” (SD 1:264). Jehovah is likewise identified with the serpent or dragon that tempted Eve, the dragon often standing for the primordial principle.
In the Qabbalah, Jehovah is regarded as hermaphrodite and connected with the female Sephirah Binah. The Qabbalists show the word to be “composed of the two-fold name of the first androgyne — Adam and Eve, Jod (or Yodh), Vau and He-Va — the female serpent as a symbol of Divine Intelligence proceeding from the One-Generative or Creative Spirit” (IU 2:398).
From the standpoint of the Jews, Jehovah was their patron deity, the regent of the planet Saturn. See also TETRAGRAMMATON
[7:57:30 PM] Thuan Thi Do: Akasa (Sanskrit) Ākāśa [from ā + the verbal root kāś to be visible, appear, shine, be brilliant] The shining; ether, cosmic space, the fifth cosmic element. The subtle, supersensuous spiritual essence which pervades all space. It is not the ether of science, but the aether of the ancients, such as the Stoics, which is to ether what spirit is to matter. In the Brahmanical scriptures, akasa is used for what the Northern Buddhists call svabhavat, more mystically adi-buddhi (primeval buddhi); it is also mulaprakriti, cosmic spirit-substance, the reservoir of being and of beings. Genesis refers to it as the waters of the deep. It is universal substantial space, and mystically in its highest elements is alaya.
As universal space, it is also known as Aditi, in which lies inherent the eternal and continuously active ideation of the universe producing its ever-changing aspects on the planes of matter and objectivity; and from this ideation radiates the First Logos. This is why the Puranas state that akasa has but one attribute, namely sound, for sound is but the translated symbol of logos (speech) in its mystic sense. Akasa as primordial spatial substance is thus the upadhi (vehicle) of divine thought. Further, it is the playground of all the intelligent and semi-intelligent forces in nature, the fountainhead of all terrestrial life, and the abode of the gods.
Akasa is the noumenon and spiritual substratum of differentiated prakriti, otherwise the seven or ten prakritis, the root or roots of all in the universe. These prakritis are not merely in akasa, but are the manifestations of akasa in its various grades or degrees of evolutionary development. All the ancient nations mythologically deified akasa in one or another of its aspects and powers (cf IU 1:125 for a descriptive listing of the many names anciently used for akasa). It is the indispensable agent in all religious or profane magic: occult electricity, the universal solvent, in another aspect kundalini. “Akasa is the mysterious fluid termed by scholastic science, ‘the all-pervading ether’; it enters into all the magical operations of nature, and produces mesmeric, magnetic, and spiritual phenomena. As, in Syria, Palestine, and India, meant the sky, life, and the sun at the same time; the sun being considered by the ancient sages as the great magnetic well of our universe” (IU 1:140n).
Sometimes the astral light is used as a convenient but inaccurate phrase for akasa. In clarifying the difference between these Blavatsky says: “The Astral Light is that which mirrors the three higher planes of consciousness, and is above the lower, or terrestrial plane; therefore it does not extend beyond the fourth plane, where, one may say, the Akasa begins.
“There is one great difference between the Astral Light and the Akasa which must be remembered. The latter is eternal, the former is periodic. The Astral Light changes not only with the Mahamanvantaras but also with every sub-period and planetary cycle or Round. . . .
“The Akasa is the eternal divine consciousness which cannot differentiate, have qualities, or act; action belongs to that which is reflected or mirrored from it. The unconditioned and infinite can have no relation with the finite and conditioned. . . . We may compare the Akasa and the Astral Light . . . to the germ in the acorn. The latter, besides containing in itself the astral form of the future oak, conceals the germ from which grows a tree containing millions of forms. These forms are contained in the acorn potentially, yet the development of each particular acorn depends upon extraneous circumstances, physical forces, etc.” (TBL 75-6; also IU 1:197).
The astral light is the tablet of memory of earth and of its child the animal-man; while akasa is the tablet of memory of the hierarchy of the planetary spirits controlling our chain of globes, and likewise of their child, each spiritual ego. The astral light is simply the dregs or lowers vehicles of akasa. Gautama Buddha held only two things as eternal: akasa and nirvana. In the Chandogya Upanishad (7:12:1-2) akasa (ether, space) is equated with Brahman.
[8:11:54 PM] Thuan Thi Do: http://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/etgloss/ah-al.htm
[8:15:25 PM] Thuan Thi Do: Aether, Ether (Greek) [from aitho shining, fire] The upper or purer air as opposed to aer, the lower air; the clear sky; the abode of the gods. In Classical antiquity it denoted primordial substance, Proteus or protyle, the unitary source both of all substances and energies, the mask of all kosmic phenomena. Often used loosely to embrace a domain which extends from the All-Father himself down to the atmosphere of our earth. Vergil speaks of “Jupiter omnipotens aether,” and Cicero describes aether as the ultimate zone of heaven encircling, embracing, and permeating all things. At one time a member of the pantheon and object of veneration, at another the quest of the alchemist in search of the “absolute element” which would give him power over nature, and finally a hypothetical medium of science for conveying light waves.
Sometimes aether is used in translating the Sanskrit akasa, which has the same etymological and philosophical meaning. Here it is an element or principle coming after manas and kama and before the astral light and ether. Again, it is a high aspect of akasa, having itself also seven subordinate aspects. There are in kosmic space at least seven aethers or prakritis, which exist one within the other in a rising scale of spirituality. Collectively they may be called spirit-aether or akasa.
Generally in The Secret Doctrine it is the fifth kosmic element from below, a link between kosmic mind or mahat and the lower manifested world, the vehicle of the former and the parent of the latter. Looking at aether in a more general kosmic way, it is the field of activity of the kosmic Third Logos, Brahma-prakriti, and therefore the great womb of manifested being, the treasure house of all kosmic types, forth from which they flow at the opening of manifestation and back into which they will again be ingathered at the beginning of kosmic pralaya. It is in consequence the great mother-substance out of which all the hierarchies are built. It interpenetrates everything, lasting from the beginning of the universal manvantara to its end, and indeed, may be said to continue, in its most spiritualized form throughout kosmic pralaya as the seed-house or storehouse from which everything will flow into manifestation again when the new period of kosmic activity arrives. Considered as the cosmic mother of all things, aether in its highest feminine aspect is the same as the Vedic Aditi or the Hera or Juno of Greece and Rome. Thus in one sense it is also mulaprakriti, the generator or producer of the seeds of beginnings and things. The Old Testament refers to aether as the kosmic waters. In its highest parts it is mystically alaya (the kosmic spirit-soul) or what in Northern Buddhism is called svabhavat, more mystically adi-buddhi. See also ACTIO IN DISTANS; AKASA
Aethiopians, Ethiopians An undefined but powerful group of peoples, generally placed south of Egypt and east of Babylon; often spoken of as being at one time a monarchy and able to contribute kings to the Egyptian throne. Blavatsky shows the archaic racial connection between Egypt and India (SD 2:417; IU 1:569-70). Migrants from northwestern India to Africa took with them the names of their great river, variously called Aethiops or Nila, now called the Indus. These immigrants were the so-called Sons of Horus or Blacksmiths of Egyptian records, mighty builders but somewhat later than the Atlantean descendants who built the first pyramids. This makes the Aethiopians — and also, therefore, some of the Egyptians — Aryans. A highly advanced urban civilization of Mohenjo-Daro has been discovered on the Indus “between Attock and Sind,” exactly the location mentioned in The Secret Doctrine as the abode of the Aethiopians.
The reason classical Greek and Roman writers speak of the Egyptian Aethopians was that the Aethiopians of southern Egypt were then considered to be the last remnants of an Aryan immigration from South India, which took place in prehistoric antiquity, and Greek and Roman writers not infrequently contrasted and identified the Aethiopians of Egypt with the Eastern Aethiopians. It was originally these Eastern Aethiopians who were known to the prehistoric Greek nations as the Aethiopians — the only ones then considered as rightfully bearing this name. These Eastern Aethiopians inhabited the central and especially the southern part of the Indian peninsula including Ceylon, and therefore were the descendants of one of the last subraces of that portion of Atlantis existing earlier on a land south of India called Lanka, of which Ceylon, then one of its northern highlands, is the only present geological remnant.
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AbstractCongenital dyserythropoietic anemia of type II (CDA II) is a rare disorder, usually present in childhood, with a clinical picture of chronic anemia of mild to moderate degree, splenomegaly and intermittent or persistent jaundice. It is transmitted by autosomal recessive inheritance and is characterized by the presence of a large number of multinucleate and binucleate erythroblasts in the bone marrow and typical morphological abnormalities of the membrane of circulating erythrocytes. SDS-PAGE of red blood cell membrane proteins shows a narrower aspect and a faster migration of band 3 (anion exchange transporter). This aspect is consistent with decreased glycosylation of this protein. The genetic mutations responsible for the glycosylation defect in CDA II have not yet been identified. Analysis of carbohydrate structures and biochemical data indicate that the activity of either GnT II or alpha-Man II is reduced in different families, suggesting that the disease is genetically heterogeneous. Molecular cloning of the GnT II and alpha-Man II DNA sequences has allowed direct investigation of the genetic mutations underlying the glycosylation defect in CDA II patients to begin.
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Vol. 81 No. 6 (1996): November, 1996 : Articles
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Executive in Indian Administration
The executive power of the country is vested in the Indian President. The Constitution of India vests all executive powers in the President who exercises power over his subsidiary officers and is aided and advised in the exercise of his functions by the Indian Prime Minister and the Union Council of ministers. However, though he is the nominal head of the country, real executive power is exercised by the Prime Minister who is aided and advised by his Cabinet. All matters pertaining to the governance of the country are executed by the executive branch of the country. Among the various areas of responsibility which the executive is responsible for a re foreign affairs, defence, home affairs, post and telegraph, railways, taxes, banking and currency etc.
Legislature in Indian Administration
The Legislative powers of the government are exercised by the Government of India through the Parliament. The Indian Parliament is bicameral in nature, meaning that it is divided into two houses, an upper house and a lower house. The upper house is the council of states or the Rajya Sabha and the lower house is the house of the people called the Lok Sabha. The most important function of the Indian legislature is naturally the matter of legislation. The making of laws on a variety of subjects, making, recommending and passing or negating bills, financial powers by means of money bills, amendment of the Constitution, discussion on treaties and international matters area among some of the functions performed by the Indian legislature. The legislature also exercises a certain check over the executive as the executive is answerable to the parliament at all times.
Judiciary in Indian Administration
The Constitution of India has provided for an integrated and unified judiciary for the whole country. There organisation of the Indian judiciary is such that at the very top is the Supreme Court of India, in between there are a number of District Courts, Munsiff Courts and High Courts of India and right at the very base are the Nyaya Panchayats. The subject matter which the courts deal with are divided into two - Civil and Criminal. The main function of the judiciary is to see to the implementation of laws, punish offences against the state and citizens and the dispensation of justice. Great care has been taken to ensure the independence of the judiciary and maintain and impartial law system.
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FAILURE TO HIRE QUALIFIED HARBOR WORKERS
Failure to hire qualified harbor workers can cause serious accidents. It is the responsibility of a seaman’s employer to insure safe working conditions. Adequate safety, training, and security measures should prevent accidents. The hiring of qualified and competent workers is crucial to safety.
Maritime injuries occur when a working seaman is on or near water. The Longshore and Harbor Workers’ Compensation Act (LHWCA), ensures that employees receive benefits. Benefits include things like pain and suffering, lost wages, and lost future earnings. Families of a deceased seaman can receive these benefits as well.
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WORKERS THAT MAY QUALIFY FOR COMPENSATION CAN INCLUDE:
- Harbor workers
Defined as individuals who work on or for a vessel, seamen can be:
- ferry workers
- merchant mariners
LONGSHOREMEN AND HARBOR WORKERS
- marine railway
- dry dock
- adjoining pier
- building way
As well as other adjoining areas used by an employer in:
- building a vessel
Passengers injured on a boat or cruise ship may file suit against the owner. The owner needs notification within a specified time. Typically, a claim must be within a year of the incident. It is important if you are a passenger injured at sea to consult an attorney.
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The Jones Act typically covers maritime injuries. Opposed to being a state workers’ compensation claim.
The Jones Act, is also referred to as The Merchant Marine Act of 1920. The Act was addressed concerns of safety and health of Merchant Marines. Boatmen and sailors had very little choices before the enactment if injured at sea. Due to the value of qualified harbor workers, The Jones Act provides protection. In the event of an injury or illness, it gave benefits to these hard workers.
For a legitimate maritime injury claim, a seaman must prove a few things. Chiefly, that negligence occurred on or near the vessel that resulted in injury. Negligence can include:
- Failure to preform proper vessel maintenance
- Severe weather conditions
- Failure to provide safe equipment
- Failing to follow safety rules
- Failure to provide safe working environments
- Requiring long or excessive work hours
- Not hiring qualified harbor workers
- Failing to provide sufficient and prompt medical treatment
- Failure to properly train crew-members
- Failure to provide appropriate gear
Vessels or equipment that are defective or unfit are considered “unseaworthy.” Examples can include:
- Deck obstructions or tripping hazards
- Fluid or oil on deck causing slippage
- Faulty equipment
- Defective tools
- Insufficient crew
- The absence of proper lifesaving equipment
- Broken planks or deck boards
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Arab rulers are increasingly asserting control over Islamic institutions with administrative and coercive tools. These top-down policies are framed by authoritarian regimes as “reforms,” but are often calculated attempts to eliminate potential sources of dissent in ministries, seminaries, mosques, and other religious entities. At the other end of the spectrum, Islamic institutions in conflict-wracked Arab states have become prizes for competing factions to bolster their authority and popular support. Understanding these dynamics has important implications for countering violent extremism and resolving conflict, as well as appreciating evolving state-society relations across the Arab world.
Carnegie’s Middle East Program is pleased to invite you to a public discussion marking the release of a new edited volume, Islamic Institutions in Arab States: Mapping the Dynamics of Control, Co-option, and Contention, which examines the interplay between religious establishments and governance in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Egypt, Algeria, and Morocco.
Nathan J. Brown, Maysaa Shuja Al-Deen, and Laila Alrefaai will present the study’s findings, drawing from field research on Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Yemen, and Syria. Annelle Sheline will serve as a discussant and Frederic Wehrey as moderator.
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“If there is something comforting—religious, if you want—about paranoia, there is still also anti-paranoia, where nothing is connected to anything, a condition not many of us can bear for long.”
— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
We can’t live and not believe. Beliefs stem from and live past our experiences, imprinted in us, carving out our inner lives. Some may not serve us well, but we have just as many we can’t live without. We can’t sleep without believing we’re safe. We can’t be intimate without believing in trust. It may not be possible to live in a state where nothing is connected—the mind’s ability to make connections is what makes it human. We always believe, whether we know it or not, and regardless of how many times our beliefs change.
What distinguishes the paranoid person that Thomas Pynchon refers to is that they have too many beliefs. This person, the contemporary lunatic shouting imaginary prophecies on the street, belongs in our human history as the shamans or priests of ages passed. Today we say they don’t see, and we have to make them with prescriptions. But in smaller communities, they were a valuable set of eyes into another realm (although in the Middle Ages in Europe, it was a demonic one). Even now with our fixation on treating the mentally ill by numbing them, no one could argue that their beliefs aren’t fascinating. They forge connections we never would.
The American mind has a special inclination to believe in spite of. We love believing for its own sake. In Kurt Anderson’s new book, Fantasyland, he makes a case for why being delusional is synonymous with being American. We came to the continent from Britain in pursuit of gold, searching for thirty years with no proof of its existence other than hearsay from Native Americans trying escape our slaughter. The biblethumpers believed God caused public epileptic fits. We believed Joseph Smith. We created Scientology, the Las Vegas Strip, Disneyland, and pursue illusions above reality simply because it feels better to do so.
In fact, we take our illusions as reality. If given the choice, I’m not sure which one I’d believe. My illusions, that I’m safe, special, and my dreams will come true. Or the reality, which is unknown, constantly changing, perhaps out of my grasp. And I’ve never been one to believe two things at once.
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If you are starting out as a new web designer, there are some important tools you need to know about, which will you to do web design with greater efficiency. These tools for web design will help to reduce the overall time taken to complete any project and simplify the nature of the project. To help you to increase your productivity as a freelance web designer Singapore, let’s take a look at a few of these tools.
Few must-have tools for any web designer:
- Sketch is the first tool that makes to the top of this list. If you decide to use the sketch, you don’t need to use Photoshop for the website’s UI designing. When you are using the sketch, you can easily review the documents and you can easily sort them out as well! You will also be able to carry out the interface design when you are using this tool. There is no hassle when using this tool as it is user-friendly. You will also be able to use plugins in the sketch to make the flow of your work easier on the sketch.
- Affinity designer is another best tool that you should consider using as a web designer. This tool is properly designed and you will feel ease with your design work when using this tool. It has already proven itself as a competitor to other tools similar to it in the market as it easily makes one design without any hassle.
- As web designers need to edit and manipulate images most of their time when designing a website, Canva is one of the tools that make this job one less hassle to deal with! If you are looking to edit images or creating a new infographic, Canva is your best friend. You can not only upload your own template but you can also use the free templates that they have. You will also find templates which you need to buy to use. This is a tool is browser-based and free to open an account.
- Type Nugget is your best friend when it comes to dealing with the typography CSS. There are still many features that are being worked on for this tool; with this tool, you can easily get a good control of the styles. A wide range of samples of texts is displayed by the tool. With this tool, you will be easily able to create your account and you can save your work. This tool will definitely help to save a good amount of time.
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How To Cut Vinyl Flooring
The invention of polyvinyl chloride has brought revolutionary changes to the world, the vast variety of its use has made PVC an important material for the modern world. Besides being used in making useful kitchen utensils, curtains, kids’ toys, instruments for musicians, clothes, etc. it is also used to cover walls and floors of your homes and offices. The vinyl provides a protective layer along with enhancing the look of your home.
The laying of vinyl involves less effort as compared to other flooring materials, which is why it has become a new sensation in the industry.
Where is vinyl used?
The basic purpose of creating these was to be used in areas that host a large group of people at a time, like in malls, retail shopping centers, hotels, and hospitals. But, pertaining to the variety of designs and benefits it offers, has become popular among homeowners.
How to Cut Vinyl Flooring?
Since the vinyl planks or tiles come in fixed sizes to make them easy to handle, there come times when it is necessary to cut them- like when trying to cover around the edges of walls and fixed appliances. Vinyl cutting, though claimed to be easy, needs to be done meticulously. Following are the steps to be followed vigilantly when cutting vinyl.
1) Keep the materials needed ready:
Tools required for cutting, measuring scales, and the vinyl sheets/tiles/planks.
Tools: Depending on the type of vinyl, different cutting tools are used.
Some of the main tools used are spacers to allow efficient installation, rubber mallet to gently tap on the vinyl, tapping block (optional and depends on your flooring), pull bar, tape measure, pencil, knee pads, square, safety glasses, face mask (for dust), and an ear protector.
2) Vinyl Sheets, Tiles, and Planks:
Vinyl sheets: are large flexible sheets that can be rolled, are completely water-impermeable, which is why are majorly used in kitchen and laundry rooms. The main difference between working with vinyl sheets is that it requires more effort and efficiency.
A simple measuring scale, a cutter, and a pencil are enough to cut vinyl sheets. Moreover, vinyl sheets are installed in one or two large pieces, unlike tiles or planks that are installed in small pieces.
Vinyl Tiles: as the name indicates, look like ceramic tiles and more particularly have been created to give the look of these conventional tiles, but a lot cheaper and resistant. Cutting vinyl tiles and planks requires advanced cutting materials like a miter saw- to be able to cut at any angle, oscillating saw, a jigsaw to cut shapes or a handsaw, any of these cutting materials can be used.
Thinner vinyl tiles, if to be linearly cut, can be done with mere scratching with a sharp knife, and bending of the piece into two.
Vinyl Planks: as the name implies, are similar to the interlocking boards of wooden floors, and the purpose of creation was to have a replacement of the costly wooden planks in the market. Cutting vinyl planks uses the tools used for cutting vinyl tiles.
3) Measure More than Once:
Prior to cutting, make sure you measure the wall/floor more than once because one cannot afford a larger or smaller piece of vinyl on their floor. Drawing lines can help you get your vinyl fixed flawlessly. It is also important to keep a small room for the expansion of vinyl. To ensure there is little to no expansion, keep the tiles /planks for 2 days inside the room that has to be layered, so they are accustomed to the inner environment.
4) Cut Meticulously:
Now it is time to cut your vinyl plank or tile. Use any cutter, depending on either you are working with a tile or a plank, to get the required size and shape. For covering round edges it is recommended to make use of electric cutters.
5) Facts to be Mindful of:
When working with vinyl planks, know that they come with a groove on one side and a tongue on the other. The purpose of which is to make sure they are interlocked with one another, with each plank having its tongue fitted into the groove of another plank.
6) Staggering vinyl planks:
Vinyl planks come in the same size, so arranging them involves a small trick to ensure crevices are not in one line. To stagger vinyl planks the width of the final row is calculated, if it is less than 6 inches, the first-row plank is cut, so the final row plank is more than 6 inches. This helps create the required look.
Moreover, do not forget to cut the tongue of the first-row plank, which is aligned along the wall, to give an impeccable look to your flooring.
Why Vinyl Flooring?
1- Vinyl flooring comes with a variety of designs, colors, and patterns, offering myriad options to you for decorating your residential or business site, and its add value to your house when you do the house inspection while selling.
2 - Vinyl is tough, less slippery, pressure-resistant, and can be mold into any shape or form, which is why there are vinyl sheets, tiles, and planks. These are comparatively easier to clean, the reason being that there is no complex cleaning required as it does in cleaning other types of flooring material.
3 - Vinyl floors can be given either a lustrous, or matte finishing, according to the will of the owner.
4 - Unlike ceramic tiles, vinyl tiles are not permanent and can be replaced if damaged. Also, installing these tiles is easy and less time-consuming.
5 - They are less prone to damage and cracking.
6 - Last but not least is the affordability of these planks. Vinyl flooring is a lot cheaper than wooden and ceramic floors, and yet, is as presentable to the eyes as any of the other flooring materials.
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Free dinosaur dot to dot printables
Here are some more free dinosaur-themed learning resources for kids. These dinosaur dot to dot pages get younger learners to build their motor skills as they draw lines to connect the dots. They also help with learning about dinosaur names and of course numbers.
These pages mostly feature the numbers from 1 to 40 with a few the highest going up to the number 70. Once these connect the dots pages are finished, your students can color them in to create a wonderful completed picture. If they are able it is also a good idea to get them to write each dinosaur’s name on the pages along with any facts you have taught them about the dinosaurs.
The first 3 printables below from left to right are of an Ankylosaurus, a Stegosaurus, and a Brachiosaurus.
The 2 dinosaur connect the dots worksheets below are of a Veliciporator (left) and a Spinosaurus (right).
The Veliciporator is most commonly known as a Raptor due to the movie series Jurassic Park. Scientists say they were only around 80 kilograms in weight and were about the size of a turkey!
The Spinosaurus was actually even bigger than a T. Rex and could possibly have weighed up to 23 tons.
The next dinosaur dot to dot pages are of a Pteranodon, the ever famous Tyrannosaurus Rex or T Rex, and a Triceratops.
Did you know that there is no such thing as a Pterodactyl? The name has been perpetuated in books and movies but there is no such dinosaur. There was however a flying reptile from the late Jurassic period named Pterodactylus. It was able to walk along the ground using its 4 legs!
Also, the T. Rex used to roam around North America 65 million years ago and measured over 40 feet/12 meters long and around 12 feet/3.6 meters tall.
In the final dot to dot pages below, there is an Elasmosaurus on the left and a Parasaurolophus on the right.
Other dinosaur printables
If you are looking for resources similar to the dinosaur dot to dot pages, there are plenty more here at ESL Vault. For young learners there are some dinosaur shadow matching worksheets, and for a fun craft activity there are also free printable bracelets with our Jurassic friends.
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There’s more to it than just grit size and there are complexities that won't show up in your marker test.
What kind of material are they made from? Are they intended as water stones or oil? The waterstone is the hard mineral mixed with weak clay so it comes off and makes a slurry when you work it. On the opposite end are ceramic or metal stones that don’t wear at all but are meant as a permanent surface holding the hard grit (typically diamond).
Of the non-permanent type the amount it’s supposed to wear will vary, and the resulting slurry may be more or less friable, meaning the actual effective grit size changes as you use it!
So, unless they are all the same type meant to be used as a set, you can’t tell anything.
You just have to know the technique appropriate to that kind of stone (oil or water? Work up a slurry or keep it clean?) and get a feel for what that particular stone does for you.
If you don't already know sharpening I think you should get rid of those unknown stones, or ignore them until you do know more. Get instructions and stones to match that have known characteristics. You'll also need secondary materials like little stones used to prime the water stones, strops and compounds to use on them, guides and gauges for getting the angle just right, a way to dress and flatten your stones, stuff to get gunk out of oil stones, etc. | <urn:uuid:fdb9db36-6780-45cb-b418-75742e756849> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/71856/is-there-a-way-to-tell-the-grit-coarseness-of-an-unmarked-sharpening-stone/71858#71858 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.953455 | 312 | 1.960938 | 2 |
What Is the True Christianity?
There are so many churches nowadays, so which one is the true Christian church? This question is a quandary for many Christians. Let’s fellowship about this question today.
What constitutes true Christianity?
In order to understand what constitutes true Christianity, we must first know the origin of Christianity. The genesis of Christianity is closely related to the work of the After the Lord Jesus was resurrected and returned to heaven, the disciples who followed Him began to broadly spread the gospel. As a result, more and more people followed the Lord Jesus, and a growing number of churches came into existence. The Lord Jesus was , the , so the churches that believed in the Lord Jesus thus became known as Christianity. That is to say, Christianity has its roots in the appearance and work of God incarnate and is made up of those who believe in Christ. This is the origin of Christianity.. Two thousand years ago, in light of mankind’s need, God personally incarnated as and named Himself as Jesus, beginning the Age of Grace and preaching the gospel of the kingdom of heaven to man.
True Christianity is ruled by Christ, the Holy Spirit; the truth wields power. The followers of Christ all magnify Christ, don’t worship or follow any man. They read God’s new words, experience God’s new work, walk the path of fearing God and shunning evil. Such a church hasand is the real Christian church. For example, in the Age of Grace, when the Lord Jesus concluded the old age and brought new work, Peter, Nathanael, John and other disciples all followed God’s footsteps, received the watering and sustenance of God, and obtained the work of the Holy Spirit. They were led by God as the shepherd, and they were those who attended gatherings in a true church. Whereas the Pharisees who refused to follow God’s footsteps held onto the outdated words of the Bible and refused to make any further progress. They were bereft of the work of the Holy Spirit and even resisted God’s new work. The assembly of them could be only called religious groups, not Christianity that followed Christ.
Now we have understood what Christianity is. Maybe someone is wondering whether The Church of Almighty God is a part of Christianity since it is becoming more and more prosperous and many people from every denomination have turned to Almighty God.
Is The Church of Almighty God a part of Christianity?
In order to figure this out, let’s first determine whether Almighty God is the return of the Lord Jesus. Two thousand years ago, the Lord Jesus promised that He would return. Now is, disasters are occurring frequently, and the state of the world is in turmoil. The prophecies of the Lord Jesus’ return have basically been fulfilled. It stands to reason that the Lord has already returned. The Lord Jesus had prophesied, “For as the lightning comes out of the east, and shines even to the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be” (Matthew 24:27). “Be you therefore ready also: for the Son of man comes at an hour when you think not” (Luke 12:40). “And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last” (Revelation 22:12-13). He also had said, “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear My voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd” (John 10:16). “I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. However, when He, the Spirit of truth, is come, He will guide you into all truth” (John 16:12-13). “The Son of man comes” and “the coming of the Son of man” spoken by the Lord Jesus are all referring to God incarnate in the last days. Only God in the flesh can be called the Son of man. Clearly, the Lord Jesus would return in the flesh in the last days, and appear to man through His identity as Christ. What’s more, He shall speak new words and perform new work when He comes back. Almighty God’s appearance and work have fulfilled the Lord Jesus’ prophecies. On the foundation of the Lord Jesus’ work of redemption, Almighty God does His work of judgment beginning in God’s family and He expresses the entire truth that will enable man to be purified and to attain salvation. He has revealed the truths which concern God’s own management work, such as the purpose and significance of God’s three stages of work, the mystery of God’s incarnation, God’s work of judgment in the last days and mankind’s final destination; His words reveal the corrupt essence and the source of corruption of all mankind, and the corrupt dispositions even mankind themselves don’t realize they have within their hearts and minds. Man becomes convinced in heart and by word once they read these words. At the same time, the words of Almighty God show man the path to cast off Satan’s dark influences and attain salvation and be purified, and they tell man all the truths that they should practice and enter into in their belief in God, including how to become an honest person, how to love and obey God, how to fear God and shun evil, how to serve God, how to live out a normal humanity, and so on. All of these are the truths we couldn’t bear in the Age of Grace because our statue was small, as God mentioned. In the last days, Almighty God has told us all of these truths. After investigating Almighty God’s words, many people from various denominations in the world have become certain that Almighty God is the Lord Jesus returned. They then left their former churches and follow God’s new work. They rid themselves of the barrenness in their spirits, gain the work of the Holy spirit, receive the watering and supply of the living water of life. This proves that Almighty God is the incarnation of God, Christ of the last days, the returned Lord Jesus, because only Christ can give man the truth, the way and the life. All those that believe in Christ belong to Christianity. The Lord Jesus and Almighty God are the names of God’s two incarnations, They are one God, and so The Church of Almighty God naturally belongs within Christianity.
The Church of Almighty God and Christianity believe in one God, the one true God who created all things in heaven and on earth. The difference between them is that The Church of Almighty God and Christianity are churches that arose from the work of God in different ages. Christianity is the Christian church of the Age of Grace, and they believe in the Lord Jesus, the first Christ. They hold to God’s work of redemption in the Age of Grace and they practice that which the Lord Jesus required of man in the Age of Grace; The Church of Almighty God is the Christian church of the Age of Kingdom, they accept the work of judgment in the last days performed by the returned Lord Jesus, Almighty God, they pray to the new name taken by God in the Age of Kingdom, they accept the watering and supply given by Christ of the last days Himself, and they read the new utterances of God in the last days. Hence, those in the last days who believe in the Lord Jesus are holding onto the Christianity of a bygone era; only The Church of Almighty God that believes in Christ of the last days, is the more realistic Christianity and keeps up with the Lamb’s footsteps. | <urn:uuid:cc44b9d7-9db0-4496-9cef-b9c1331aa50d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hearthymn.com/true-christianity.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962481 | 1,619 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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A Density Management Diagram for Norway Spruce in the Temperate European montane region
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Norway spruce is one of the most important conifer tree species in Europe, paramount for timber provision, habitat, recreation, and protection of mountain roads and settlements from natural hazards. Although natural Norway spruce forests exhibit diverse structures, even-aged stands can arise after disturbance or as the result of common silvicultural practice, including off-site afforestation. Many even-aged Norway spruce forests face issues such as senescence, insufficient regeneration, mechanical stability, sensitivity to biotic disturbances, and restoration. We propose the use of Density Management Diagrams (DMD), stand-scale graphical models designed to project growth and yield of even-aged forests, as a heuristic tool for assessing the structure and development of even-aged Norway spruce stands. DMDs are predicated on basic tree allometry and the assumption that self-thinning occurs predictably in forest stands. We designed a DMD for Norway spruce in temperate Europe based on wide-ranging forest inventory data. Quantitative relationships between tree- and stand-level variables that describe resistance to selected natural disturbances were superimposed on the DMD. These susceptibility zones were used to demonstrate assessment and possible management actions related to, for example, windfirmness and effectiveness of the protective function against rockfall or avalanches. The Norway spruce DMD provides forest managers and silviculturists a simple, easy-to-use, tool for evaluating stand dynamics and scheduling needed density management actions. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.
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Setting time-limit on National Service and demobilization is overdue; the constitution is overdue; elections are overdue; freeing prisoners is overdue; ending undeclared state-of-emergency is overdue; and rule-of-law is overdue. So, of course, the report that the Government of Eritrea owed the African Charter is overdue. All because of wait for it!
Government is a subset of State…. Am I missing anything you see…. I am still working on finishing the earlier thought where it clearly delineates our differences in approaching the future.
I will give you the data and you will make the flow chart. From that extend a verical line downward, then draw a horizontal line attached to it. Create three parallel boxes hanging from the horizontal line.
From the executive box, if you want, you could draw as many boxes as you want to represent the ministerial offices. When you draw this flow chart you will understand the pillars of a state and the pillars of a government.
One who loves algorithm will be easy to plot this flow chart. Regards, Solomon Aya, I am aware of this flow chart, but I have done it now per your suggestion. Having lived nearly fifty years and been privy to specifics from my position in the private industry and private citizen, I am not at a total loss to recognize yours and nearly every ones understanding of the concepts of government and state.
And this flow chart you are equipping me to do for myself will perhaps give me clarity to what it is I want to state.
The need to define for self is stalled by the need to continually dear along with many fueled our resistance or fight for those directing against our way. The trick is to find the balance. Selamat Mahmud Saleh, Just in case you have not noticed it, the blog, Hedgait by Mohamed Kheir Omer has lots of interesting information about the Tigre Ethnic group that could be of help to your forthcoming article.
There is even a whole scanned downloadable book about Tigrait folktales from written both in Tigrait and with English translation. Wish you good luck with your article and looking forward to read it. Kim Hanna Selam Berhe Y.
Sorry for the delayed response. It looks like I have missed the target of my message too.
I agree with you whole heartedly with your general point. I was attempting to describe within that general point, there are individuals who take advantage of it to commit crimes like breaking windows in order to STEAL the goods.
When caught, invariably they wear the garb of the legitimate opposition of what is taking place. Berhe Y Dear K. No I do not agree to the breaking, stealing and looting. Most of their business almost all of them will recover their loss by claiming insurance.
The problem in America today is, the authorities use the justice system to punish the angry demonstrators but they do little or nothing to charge the officers who are involved in the shooting and killing. Berhe blink Dear K.
M It is a fair gamethey just took the things in the way ,why do they cheat and why do they protest? What could be the reason to act violentlythat is the main point.
That is simply cruel. Thomas Hey Peace, Man, you still like to talk about Ethiopia and expected us to read you?? Your desperation is unstoppable. It is just mind blogging to say the least!
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Otherwise, we can only wonder why………………… Peace! Well, If you remember I reminded you the other day that bring ideas and try to debate with civility, no personal question and attack.
Trust me if you do that, people will start to remove you from severely ignored list and engage you; otherwise you are too old and too rude for Emma to keep babysitting you.
Thomas Hi Peace, The problem is not you mentioning Ethiopia here and there in your writing. The issue is you ignoring the debate about Eritrea and in case you forget this forum for Eritreans and Friends of Eritreans to discuss about things that has to do with Eritrea.
It would have made sense if you were trying to discuss ethiopia and her current issues, but trying to discuss the relationship amongs the oromos, amharas, tigrians and more is so uncivilized and it will not be healthy for your own life, hate eats haters alive: Also, you calling me old and ignored is absurd.ashio-midori.com Gallery of Books And Toys courtesy Arvind Gupta the Toy Maker.
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The first tube we put in was an ugly, brown narrow hose that was SO long, it had to be wrapped around my dog’s mid section and secured in place with a lady’s tube top. Dear Adoreb Yes it is true the government committed endless crimes over all Eritreans and we should do more to hold them accountable.
But the regional governments you said, who are they, Ethiopia, oww, Ethiopian leaders have committed endless crimes over the Ethiopian people.
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The setting for this poem is the Black Hills of South Dakota, specifically at the places where enormous holes drilled into the earth house missile silos. The sites contain nuclear warheads that are capable of traveling thousands of miles and destroying large cities. The occasion is an encampment of people protesting the existence and potential use of these weapons; the poem describes an early morning scene, as the people awaken and begin the day’s activities.
In the first stanza, the reader sees Buddhist monks, familiar at peace and antinuclear demonstrations, in their orange-colored, togalike robes, outlined against the rising sun. The next two stanzas depict other people beginning to awaken, as bombers fly overhead. While the encampment stirs and comes to life, more people arrive on the dusty roads.
The speaker then turns, in the fourth stanza, from the panoramic view of the whole camp to speak of her family: her husband and two daughters, who are participating in the event with her. She describes her husband bathing their small daughter in a pail of water, then in the next stanza turns to the other daughter combing her hair. The speaker says that she makes coffee, and while doing so tells her daughter that they are camped in the land of the daughter’s ancestors. She wonders about her daughter’s reaction to this knowledge. The sixth stanza turns again to a slightly more distanced view, as the speaker places her family with respect to the sun and the hills and reflects on the names in her family: Thunder Horse and Dawn Protector for the daughters, and her husband’s name, Hogan, which means “home” in Navajo.
In the last two stanzas, the speaker begins to speak first for all of her family, then for all of the people in the encampment. “We” stand, she says, at ground zero, the center of the bombs’ target. Enormous power for destruction exists overhead and beneath the earth, in the flying bombers and buried missiles, and this sense is juxtaposed with the description of the people awakening and looking. The increasing light as the sun rises makes the earth almost seem to be on fire, and the speaker sees a mare standing on a distant ridge looking as if she might have been at Hiroshima. The speaker describes the veins within the people carrying life, sees her children’s vibrant hair, and begins to hear and feel the monks mentioned at the beginning of the poem as they start to sing to the rhythm of their drums. The poem ends with a single word, “heartbeat.”
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Like almost all Linda Hogan’s poems, “Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980” is written in first-person free verse. The poet alludes directly and deliberately to her family, referring to her husband and daughters by name, and she reinforces the identification between the author of the poem and the voice or speaker within it. The poem proceeds by way of direct description, with very few examples of rhetorical devices such as simile or extended metaphor. One exception is the comparison of the mare seen on a distant hill, which looks like “one burned/ over Hiroshima.” This practice of using plain language and straightforward description is in keeping with Hogan’s philosophy of writing, which stresses the accessibility of her poetry to ordinary people; as she stated in an interview with Bo Scholer, which was published in The Journal of Ethnic Studies (1988), “I don’t want my work to be something you can only read if you have gone to a university.”
While the description in “Black Hills Survival Gathering, 1980” is unadorned by rhetorical figures, it is highly impressionistic. That is, the reader is constantly drawn to the appearance of things, to the way in which things strike the speaker’s eye, and things are often described as if the way they appear is the way they are. In the opening of the poem, for example, the sight of the monks looking as if they are touched by the sun’s fire is described in words that state that their bodies actually are “on fire.” Later in the poem, the shining of her daughter’s hair as it is being combed is portrayed in words that state that the “warm sun” itself is being combed across the hair. The effect of the device, which blurs the distinction between what appears to be and what is, is to suggest metamorphosis and transformation.
Colors play an important part in the description of the process of awakening in the encampment. The monks’ orange robes correlate with other images of light and fire in the “fractures of light” (a metaphor for lightning) in the distance, the sulfur-colored grass, and the “burning hills” which appear to be on fire as the sun’s light catches them. Close to the light/orange configuration is the red of the horse and the red veins the speaker imagines under the fragile skin of her children. The red of blood and flame contrasts in turn with the sky and the blue of veins. Within this pattern of color is the metaphor of the people’s veins as “tunnels”—red and blue—carrying the pulsing life within the body, contrasted with the death-dealing tunnels containing warheads and destruction.
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Arnold, Ellen L. “Beginnings Are Everything: The Quest for Origins in Linda Hogan’s Solar Storms.” In Things of the Spirit: Women Writers Constructing Spirituality, edited by Kristina K. Groover. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004.
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Bleck, Melani. “Linda Hogan’s Tribal Imperative: Collapsing Space Through ’Living’ Tribal Traditions and Nature.” Studies in American Indian Literatures: The Journal of the Association for the Study of American Indian Literatures 11 (Winter, 1999): 23-45.
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CHICAGO – Cold temperatures, heavy snow, and treacherous ice storms are all risks of the impending winter season.
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President Obama expresses condolences on behalf of the American people over the recent terrorist attacks in Turkey attributed to the Islamic State. These included one attack that killed over 30 people in Suruc near Syria’s border. White House statement:
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A quarter of California students have never seen a dentist by the time they complete fifth grade, according to a recently completed six-year study by the University of the Pacific.
Paul Glassman, the director of Pacific Center for Special Care, a program of the university’s dentistry, established dental care in various high-needs schools in 2010. The project has already inspired legislation to help fund more dental services.
The university raised $5.5 million to open dental facilities—that include a hygienist who visits periodically based on need—in California preschools, elementary schools, community centers and senior care facilities, Glassman says.
Harmon Johnson Elementary School in Sacramento City USD was one of the roughly 30 schools to join the program in 2010, as many students lacked access to their own dental care, says Principal David Nevarez.
Hygienists visit the school once a week to provide basic services such as cleanings, treatment for cavities and X-rays, Nevarez says. Students also learn about proper brushing and flossing. Many of them had come to school with toothaches from cavities or poor hygiene.
The school received a $400,000 grant from the university and has since received funding from the state to serve the 650 students.
And Nevarez has seen a link between increased health of his students and classroom performance. “We have one of the highest attendance rates in the district out of 50 schools because the kids come to school healthy and ready to learn” Nevarez says. “We saw that when their teeth hurt it’s hard for them to concentrate.”
In California, Assembly Bill 648 has been presented to the senate to extend dental support to other schools by providing $4 million to communities.
The University of the Pacific report found that about two-thirds of children can be treated by an on-site hygienist, eliminating the need to see a dentist.
Though California is one of the first to provide dental care to its students, more states may in the future. Colorado (with private funding), Hawaii (through the state department of health) and Oregon (led by the University of Oregon Health Center) are considering programs, Glassman says. | <urn:uuid:918c79be-b691-4fc7-a15a-211937e529f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://districtadministration.com/in-school-dental-care-lifts-student-performance/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.97921 | 457 | 2.421875 | 2 |
The average American monitors their health. From tracking vitals through fitness tools and apps to self-examinations and annual check-ups with your health care provider, you take steps to keep your body and mind healthy.
Checking up on your alcohol use habits is no different. Everyone can benefit from taking a few minutes to evaluate their alcohol use.
Disclaimer: The following self-eval is NOT a replacement for an alcohol assessment conducted by a qualified substance use professional. It is also not intended to constitute a diagnosis and should be used solely as a guide to understanding your alcohol use and the potential health issues involved. | <urn:uuid:492a6181-7632-48a2-89e0-1de0306e8075> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.absoluteadvocacy.org/substance-abuse-help/alcohol-use-checkup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958399 | 124 | 1.554688 | 2 |
South Africa (nation)
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Showing Kate Jennings, the mother of gold mining engineer Hennen Jennings, seated with an unidentified child.
A half length portrait of Archibald O.L. Kindersley (1869-1955) in military uniform. He served in the West African Brass River Expedition 1895; the South African War 1900-02; as Honarary attaché to the British Embassy in Tokyo 1911-13; and in the First World War 1914-19 (Salonika 1916-19); probably around the turn of the century he was employed in the Department of Native Affairs, Johannesburg.)
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Importing your servercrt file into Trust Root Authorities. IIS provides a wizard to.
Generating SSL certificates for your domain using Certbot and Lets Encrypt.
Enabling ssl on your web server. Get an appropriate certificate. For step-by-step instructions see Tutorial. On Windows hit to and.
You can install it by following the below steps. To be able to create an SSL connection between the Web Adaptor and your server the web. Once you see a New Certificate next to it click Manage.
In the Web Site Identification section verify that the SSL Port field is populated with the. But you still need to generate a CSR Certificate Signing Request and you can do it using OpenSSL. Create an HTTPS binding on a site.
Certbot will automatically make some changes to the nginxconf file to enable SSL for our domain. For instructions consult your system administrator or your web servers documentation. SSL facilitates secure network communication by identifying and authenticating the server as well as ensuring the privacy and integrity of all transmitted data.
Enabling SSL for your Local Webpack or React Web Server on Windows Step 1. Your server is now ready to use SSL encryption. To do this follow these steps.
This will allow you. Install the SSL on IIS Website. Next you will need to install the SSL certificate on your IIS website.
Once youve created an SSL certificate youll need to bind it to the website. For more information see Authorize inbound traffic for your Linux instances. Regularly test your site.
Test by making a request to the site. From the Computer Management console right-click the Web site on which you want to enforce SSL and select Properties. The next step is to obtain an SSL certificate for your website.
Use Mozillas Server Configuration tool to set up your server for HTTPS support. Since all websites on the internet these days need to use SSL if you want to make sure your users trust your website many web hosting providers have started packaging free SSL certificates with hosting packages. Select the Web Site tab.
Creating proper servercrt and serverkey files. Before you can enable SSL your server must have a server certificate installed on it. Install a LAMP Web Server on Amazon Linux 2Only the httpd package and its dependencies are needed so you can ignore the instructions involving PHP and MariaDB.
To do this log in to your GoDaddy account and then click SSL Certificates. Make sure that you get an SSL certificate in P7B or CER format. Typically this is done through a public certification authority such as Verisign.
Bind a certificate to port 443 in IIS. Restart the MSSQLServer SQL Server service for the encryption to take effect. Once you received the SSL certificate file from the Certificate Authority save it on the server where you created the CSR.
If you dont see it wait a few minutes and try again. Next to the SSL certificate credit you want to activate click Set Up. The steps for configuring Secure Sockets Layer SSL for a site are the same in IIS 7 and above and IIS 60 and include the following.
Enabling SSL on your web server The SSL protocol is a standard security technology used to establish an encrypted link between a web server and a web client. You have the certificate in hand all you need to do is paste it into your web host control panel. Optionally configure SSL options that is by making SSL a.
Installing your SSL Certificate on Your Web Server On your server go back to IIS and Server Certificates and select Complete Certificate Request on the right hand side of IIS Manager. For example the steps for binding a certificate in IIS are below. If youre using WHMCPanel click the Install an SSL Certificate from under the SSLTLS menu.
If you are looking to implement SSL in the Intranet web server then most of the organization has an internal certificate issuer team so you got to check with them. Enabling SSL on your web server Creating an SSL certificate. Binding the certificate to the website.
For SQL Server 2000 to enable encryption at the server open the Server Network Utility on the server where the certificate is installed and then click to select the Force protocol encryption check box. Refresh the page to see a New Certificate. Enabling SSL on your IIS 40 Web server.
Install Your Web Hosts SSL Certificate. Install the Apache web server. By Ron Nutter in Networking on October 4 1999 1200 AM PST By combining SSL and a file from a certificate authority you can set up encrypted.
Paste it into the first box and hit submit. If you dont have Cygwin download it now. The instructions for binding a certificate with the website vary depending on the platform and version of your web server.
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Attitude bootstrapped multi-frequency relative positioning
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Normally, dual frequency observations are required for precise relative positioning, but under critical circumstances even with multi-frequency observations a reliable solution might not always be available. We have developed a method to rigorously integrate multiantenna data at individual platforms such that the attitude solution can be used to enhance relative positioning. Aim of the method is to instantaneously fix the ambiguities of the unconstrained baselines between platforms, whereas several epochs of data might be required with existing methods where not all available information is applied. We will analyze single epoch success rates as the most challenging application. The difference in performance for the methods for single epoch solutions, is a good indication of the strength of the underlying models, and therefore the results can also indicate how much a multi-epoch solution would benefit from the integrated approaches. This contribution will show that the new method improves the relative positioning performance, both single and dual frequency, of moving platforms significantly. The probability of correct instantaneous ambiguity resolution can be increased up to 37% for single frequency relative positioning. For dual frequency applications with at least three single frequency and one dual frequency antenna at each platform, an empirical success rate of more than 95% is achievable even with large code noise levels. An additional benefit of the method is an improved robustness and precision of the baseline estimation. ©2010 IEEE.
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A method for processing GNSS data from regional reference networks to enable single-frequency PPP-RTKZhang, B.; Odijk, Dennis (2015)Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data from reference station networks deployed globally can facilitate positioning, navigation and timing applications. To enable precise positioning for dual-frequency users, ... | <urn:uuid:42c34b90-cd39-4d59-a0c3-05f30ea3d0c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://espace.curtin.edu.au/handle/20.500.11937/34143 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.885202 | 517 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Transitioning career can seem like a big step but it doesn’t have to be scary if it is planned properly. I should know, I have changed career twice and the second time was a lot smoother thanks to the knowledge of the dos and don’ts I acquired during the first one. Here are the first things I gave serious thought to:
You cannot get away from this one. After all, if you didn’t need money chances are you would be lying on a beach in the Caribbean, leisurely sipping your favourite tipple. But you do need money and your current job, although not where you want to be is your safety net.
If safety was all you came in this life to achieve then you wouldn’t be considering a more fulfilling career that would make you happy to be alive every Monday morning knowing that you do something that makes a difference, something that matters to you.
I’m not suggesting that you hand in your notice in the next few days or even the next few weeks, but what I am suggesting is start putting something aside for your planned transition. Changing career doesn’t have to be uncomfortable but it requires careful planning. Saving up for some training or to invest in a start-up is wise and shows that your move is not impulsive but a well thought out process.
SLOWLY DOES IT
If making a transition seems daunting, you could consider taking smaller steps towards your goal over a period which will help you ease into a new career. For example, going part-time with your old job while you allow yourself time to figure out your next steps is a good idea. It also removes the desperation of trying to make it in something new fast when you don’t yet have the clarity and experience.
DON’T TAKE YOUR OLD SELF WITH YOU
Have an honest conversation with yourself and examine why you want to make the move. Is it because you wish to spend your days doing something more meaningful or because you don’t like the people that you work with?
If your planned move is because you have that inner calling to find fulfilment, then this is something positive. If on the other hand you feel unhappy and no matter what you do in your job you don’t seem to get a break, then make sure that you’re not just running away from problems that can be solved by talking things through.
When you try to end your problems by leaving a situation, you find that they reappear somewhere else. You leave the old, bad situation but you take your old self with you.
As we go through life, we seem to pick up issues that we need to resolve. We acquire certain programming from our childhood which results in us attracting situations and running through similar patterns repeatedly until we learn how to resolve them.
Before you embark on your new career, you need to sell it to your family as they will be the ones who have to support you during the challenging times of transition. Also consider how you can make you new direction fit in with your family commitments. Do you need to ask someone for support or practical help with children or elderly relatives? Does your partner need to make changes to a busy work schedule to share the load?
When thinking about your skills and experience, make sure you include all those unpaid fun activities that you have enjoyed in the past as those might be holding the key to your next career. We excel when we do what we love and your past activities that you did not even consider as work might reveal your future success.
If you also have something you think would give you joy but haven’t yet tested it then voluntary work might be your answer. When you’re willing to do something for free then you’ve already proved that your motivation will be sky high if someone hires you. | <urn:uuid:37ad8d78-52c7-4a98-a9c0-7af3e9aab1e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anastasiaattiki.com/5-things-to-consider-before-a-career-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97184 | 800 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Fair supply chains that resist to climate change
Sustainable sourcing consultant Julien Chupin, offers expertise on genetic resources, agricultural and non-timber forest products for food, cosmetics and biotechnology industries. He supports companies, government agencies, NGOs and donors to create, transform and grow supply chains – across the world – while responding to the real world challenges that can disrupt supply or impact reputation.
He has 20 years of experience supporting clients in their efforts to deliver positive impacts to biodiversity and local development through, biodiversity based innovation, sustainable sourcing, natural resource management, capacity building and ABS compliance.
Solutions – advice & support
Guiding the implementation of transformative initiatives to adapt to a radically changing world
Systemic analysis and stakeholders engagement to anticipate risks and create positive impacts on the ground
Going together to go far. In order to root value chains within their production territories, support is provided a) within the company during the decision-making process and b) in the field with all the actors involved. It is based on a critical analysis and a scientific framework. As a force of innovation, we seek to create and strengthen synergies between the players.
A strategic approach
Balancing supply chaing growth with climatic, social and ecological challenges.
A technical expertise
Risk diagnostic, audit, objective and independent recommendations, innovative tools to support change suc as scenarios and serious games.
A field practice
Knowledge of local actors and the key stakeholors. Consultation and integration of stakeholders to make the most of their potential.
A scientific framework
Research/action to reconcile sustainable use of biodiversity and decent living condition for small producers.
An innovative pedagogy
Facilitation using ‘collective intelligence’, construction and animation of trainings and brainstorming workshops
Offre de solidarité – soutien aux petits producteurs
Cette crise sanitaire confirme la pertinence de prendre soin des plus faibles et de régénérer la biodiversité pour assurer la performance des filières. A court terme, pour relancer et sécuriser l’approvisionnement des matières premières, l’urgence est d’accompagner les acteurs les plus fragiles en amont. Compte tenu du contexte particulier et… Read more
Commercial opportunities for African genetic ressources in 4 key industries
The project focus on identifying opportunities to valorize the economic potential of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge in the six countries... Read more
Biodiversity based innovation as a lever for local economic developpement.
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Written byVain Rowe
What is Mission Control and How to Use it on Mac?
Summary: If you take Mac as your workstation, then Mission Control must be a powerful tool for you. You may use it on Mac frequently but have never known it comprehensively. This guideline will make you know Mission Control in a new light, also, this article teaches you to make the most out of Mission Control and extend its function significantly.
Table of Contents:
What is Mission Control in Mac?
Mission Control is a feature designed for macOS, with the release of macOS X 10.7 Lion in 2011, Dashboard, Exposé, and Spaces were combined and renamed Mission Control.
Mission Control lets you view all the open windows, desktop Spaces, and apps on full screen or Split View on your Mac desktop, so you can quickly switch from these windows and apps.
This feature obviously improves your work efficiency, because you don't need to repeat the open-close actions to switch between windows and apps anymore. Most Mac users might use this feature in daily life, but making the most out of this magic feature is not that easy. This article will guide you to extend the function of Mission Control significantly.
How to Use Mission Control on Mac?
Well done is twice done, using Mission Control properly on Mac grants you unexpected results. This article provides you with particular instructions for Mission Control.
How to open Mission Control on Mac?
Since you have learned what is Mission Control on Mac, it's quite a time to learn how to open Mission Control on Mac. There are several optional ways for you to open it:
- Open Applications folder > Locate Mission Control. If you cannot find the Applications folder, you can search it in the Home Folder on Mac.
- Hit the Command + Space keys to launch Spotlight Search, and type Mission Control in the Spotlight Search box.
- Swiping up three or four fingers on your Trackpad to open Mission Control. If your Trackpad is insensitive, you should tell if your Trackpad on MacBook Pro lagging and fix it.
- Double-tap the surface of your Magic Mouse with two fingers to open Mission Control. If it fails to work, then you need to repair Apple Magic Mouse not working issue.
- Press the F3 key, or Control + Up arrow key to open Mission Control.
How to change the Mission Control keyboard shortcuts?
Some people may annoy to use the Control + Up arrow key to launch Mission Control because they get used to applying other keys. Then, the way to change the keyboard shortcuts to open Mission Control is presented:
- Click the Apple menu and select System Preferences.
- Locate Mission Control and left-click icon to open Mission Control.
- Under Keyboard and Mouse Shortcuts, change the shortcuts to open Mission Control and Application windows to what you are accustomed to.
- After you complete it, close the Mission Control window.
If you want to create a shortcut on Mac, you can complete it on the Shortcuts app.
How to add or create new spaces in Mission Control?
When you open Mission Control, a bar will present at the top of your screen, and that's what we called Spaces bar. The Spaces bar contains thumbnails of each desktop space and each window in full screen or Split View. You can create a new space by launching Mission Control > clicking the + icon at the upper right of your Mac screen.
Switching spaces is just a piece of cake, you can do it by clicking the space that you want to open. If you want to delete a space, click it on the Spaces bar, then click the X symbol in the upper left of the space.
Changing the space order is simple, and what you need to do is only click space in the Spaces bar and then drag it to the position where you want.
How to move windows to spaces?
If you have several spaces, you can move the windows from one space to another. Just drag the window to the space's thumbnail in the Spaces bar.
If you drag the window to an empty area of the Spaces bar, then the window becomes a new space and opens on full screen.
If you drag a window to the thumbnail of a full-screen window or app space, then windows in the space will show in Split View. Further, if you want to quit Split View, just drag the Split View space to the desktop.
If you are looking for another way to swift windows, you can learn how to show your desktop on Mac to improve your work efficiency.
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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) admitted on tape that much of the election bill he recently signed into law "has nothing to do with potential fraud."
Kemp made the statement after critics accused white Republican men of gathering behind closed doors to sign a bill that disenfranchises minority voters who predominately cast ballots for Democrats.
In an interview with WABE radio, Kemp insisted that President Donald Trump's charges of voter fraud had nothing to do with the law.
“A lot of this bill is dealing with the mechanics of the election," he insisted. "It has nothing to do with potential fraud or not."
“I've heard a lot of the Democrats say this year the elections have consequences. And they certainly do," the governor added, referring to Republican control of the legislature.
Kemp also lashed out at boycotts of his state over the election law.
“It's unfortunate. And it's not fair to be boycotting businesses because of a so-called voter suppression bill that is not in Georgia," he said.
Experts have pointed out that Kemp's admission that the election law is not about fraud could come back to haunt him in court.
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Searching for people online is pretty common however some people have no digital presence. Spock, a Menlo Park-based startup, aims to make it easier to find people online. Spock debuted its new people focused search engine at the Web 2.o Expo (April 2007).
Spock blends automated and community profile building functionality to develop a large people search index. Spock uses a combination for contextual and tag search to offer up people search results on more than just a person's name. I signed up for a private beta account and added my profile which I have included as an embeddable widget below.
According to a report on VentureBeat, Spoke housed over 100 million profiles at its launch and has been expanding everyday as it leverages sites like LinkedIn and MySpace to pull in profiles via your contacts. While I think Spock is a good idea that offers a great interface for finding people it may have some trouble changing people's searching habits away from Google, Wikipedia or Facebook. | <urn:uuid:f50a55c5-546e-4719-88f4-6a206e56936c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.somewhatfrank.com/2007/06/spock_focuses_o.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9589 | 197 | 1.523438 | 2 |
A smart city is not only a city full of screens and self-driving cars. It is a city that employs data to better allocate resources, cover needs, and make places more accessible for everyone. Public toilets are the best example of how using data helps to design people-centered smart cities.
The European Commission defines a smart city as a place where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with digital solutions for the benefit of its inhabitants and business. In the same notion, TSPA has developed two city-wide concepts for Berlin and Düsseldorf that provide a demand-oriented supply of public toilets. To do so, we identified priority locations based on geodata and a distance ratio allocating the city resources in the best possible way.
The approach is integrative for the objectives of the idea, not only quantitatively but also qualitatively. We accompanied city policies with the involvement of interest groups and parts of the city’s administration. To provide a detailed strategy we used a wide range of data provided by public and private authorities, analysed basic human behaviour patterns, and compared with other cities to develop a sustainable concept. We considered data such as existing facilities within a certain range, people densities, tourism patterns, and many others. Only the combination of these tools and variables can help to elaborate a holistic strategy. As a result, the number of publicly accessible toilets will be increased to 200 locations in Düsseldorf and 257 in Berlin.
Public Toilets might be overlooked as part of the backbone of a city’s infrastructure, but that doesn’t mean that it is of great importance for its inhabitants and visitors. Big data analysis and cross-sector comparison are tools that improve the provision of such a basic service.
The provision of public toilets is a realistic way of thinking about how cities can be smart because it contributes significantly to the quality and accessibility of a city’s public space. It influences how we move around in the city and whether restrictions arise for some groups of people. Making the cities more interactive and responsive, safer public spaces, and meeting the needs of an aging population.
We are aware that there are a lot of things to improve when it comes to public toilets. How to achieve gender equality in its provision? How to keep it functional and accessible for everyone? How can these be safe without displacing vulnerable populations of public space?
We might not have all the answers, for one it is clear that intelligently chosen locations can at least help to tackle the issue of unequal spatial distribution or unmet capacity. The data-driven planning here steps as the main pillar. | <urn:uuid:89839d92-a762-48c3-8d31-19a2b7f12d27> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tspa.eu/tag/public-space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938722 | 535 | 3.046875 | 3 |
Crimes Against Humanity
For the first time, a court in Sweden put one of the Iranian regime’s officials on trial on the charges of war crimes and murder. These were crimes against humanity.
The issue under investigation specifically relates to Hamid Noury’s role in the massacre of political
prisoners in 1988 in Gohardasht Prison in the city of Karaj, west of Tehran.
In 1988, Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa based on which all political prisoners who supported the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and who maintained their loyalty to the organization were hanged. Some 30,000 people were executed over a few months, most being members and sympathizers of MEK.
Rewarded for his crimes in prison, Hamid Noury had been promoted from being an IRGC member to a deputy prosecutor in the Gohardasht prison. According to the witnesses, Noury was specifically responsible for leading people to a location in prison where they were executed. He personally executed a number of them. The massacre followed a fatwa issued by Khomeini that all PMOI/MEK supporters who remain “steadfast” in their loyalty to the organization must be executed. That edict specifies the names of members of the “death commission.” The death commission members were Hossein-Ali Nayyeri, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, Morteza Eshraghi, and Ebrahim Raisi, the current President of the regime.
Noury was arrested upon his arrival in Sweden in November 2019. A few days after his arrest NCRI
obtained a recorded conversation between Noury’s former boss in prison and another official, in which his former boss said “I told him not to travel to Sweden because there is a plot to arrest him.” It is also suspected that his presence might have been leaked by a rival faction within the regime’s security and intelligence apparatus.
However, the regime has been working hard to derail the judicial proceedings by injecting some of its own agents as witnesses, disguised as opponents of the regime. However, the strong presence of the MEK in the case has so far thwarted the regime’s plot.
Indictment and the Trial
On July 27, 2021, after 21 months of investigation, prosecutors at the District Court of Stockholm issued an indictment against Hamid Noury. His trial started on August 10 and is expected to end in April 2022.
In the course of the investigations, the members and supporters of the MEK, who were witnesses to Noury’s crimes, testified before the Swedish authorities and provided ample evidence and documents. Most of the 35 plaintiffs in Noury’s case are MEK members and supporters. Many witnessed Noury in the corridor of death in Gohardasht prison, where prisoners were lined up to be taken to the execution hall.
The investigation was supervised by the Senior Public Prosecutor, Kristina Lindhoff Carleson. The indictment reads in part:
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khomeini … issued a fatwa / order shortly thereafter that all prisoners in the Iranian prisons who belonged to / sympathize with the Mujahedin and who were faithful / loyal in their beliefs should be executed. Shortly afterwards, mass executions of supporters / sympathizers of the Mujahedin who were prisoners in the Iranian prisons began.
Between July 30, 1988 and August 16, 1988, Hamid Noury, as an assistant prosecutor or similar role, in cooperation and collusion with other perpetrators at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, Iran, executed a large number of prisoners who were members or sympathizers of the Mujahedin.
Hamid Noury’s participation in the executions has consisted of him together and in agreement / consultation with others organizing and participating in the executions by, among other things, selecting which prisoners would be brought before a court-like commission (committee) that had a mandate under the fatwa / order to decide which prisoners were to be executed. Noury took these prisoners to the so-called death corridor and guarded them there, read out the names of the prisoners to be brought into the committee, brought the prisoners into the committee, provided written / oral information about the prisoners to the committee, read names of the prisoners who were to be taken to execution, ordered the prisoners to stand in a line to be escorted to the execution site and also escorted prisoners there after which the prisoners were deprived of life by hanging. Hamid Noury has also himself on some / some occasions attended and participated in the executions.
What makes the trial more significant is that the new president of the regime, Ebrahim Raisi, was one of the four members of the Death Commission in Tehran in 1988 and personally sent thousands of prisoners to the gallows. Raisi, in his first press conference after becoming president, took pride for his role in the massacre.
Unprecedented Decision to Move to Albania
In an unprecedented action, on October 26, the judge announced that the full court in Stockholm will move to Durres, Albania, for two weeks, reconvening on November 10, 2021.
The decision was made to facilitate hearing testimonies of seven MEK members residing in Ashraf 3, who were considered key witnesses in this case.
The presiding Judge Radmannen Tomas Zander, said, “Despite all the difficulties and challenges for the transfer, we made this decision considering the significance and importance of testimonies of the plaintiffs who are in Albania. Given the importance of these testimonies for the case, all the six judges, two prosecutors, lawyers for the plaintiffs, will all go to Albania.”
Testimonies by the seven witnesses from Ashraf 3, who are providing firsthand information about the atrocities and mass executions that occurred in Gohardasht, shocked the court.
The proceedings were widely reported by the media, especially by several Persian language broadcasting stations and in Albania. The judges were particularly impressed by the precision and the detail with which the witnesses from Ashraf-3 provided the information on the 1988 massacre. A Gohardasht prison replica made by Ashraf-3 residents was taken to the court in Albania and used to provide a visual sense of events in Gohardasht prison to the prosecutors, the judges, and the lawyers.
The Iranian Regime’s Reaction
Noury’s case has been so important for the Iranian regime that its Foreign Minister was sent to raise his concern in a meeting with the Swedish Foreign Minister on the fringes of the UN General Assembly
in September. Hossein Amir-Abdollahian told his Swedish counterpart that all the documents provided to the court are fabricated and provided by the MEK.
Gohardasht Prison is one of the most infamous political prisons in the world, where countless political prisoners, including members and sympathizers of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), have been subjected to mental and physical torture and executed since 1982.
Thousands of political prisoners were massacred in Gohardasht Prison in the summer of 1988, based on a fatwa (religious decree) by the then-Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. None had been sentenced to death but were summarily hanged only because they remained steadfast in their beliefs and ideals.
Location: Gohardasht Prison is approximately 50 acres and situated northeast of Karaj. On the south and west side, the prison extends all the way to the foothills of Alborz Mountain range in the north and east. Gohardasht Prison is easily visible from the Qazvin Highway due to its white high wall. This Prison has several gates, but the main gate is located on the west side of the Prison, separated from the city by a boulevard.
History: The construction of Gohardasht Prison began in late 1976, during the Shah’s dictatorship, and was about 75% complete at the time of the anti-monarchic revolution. In late 1980, Khomeini’s regime allocated a budget to complete the Prison. By September 1982, the Prison building was complete and ready for operation.
Gohardasht Prison Replica in the Court Room
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Norwegian Sketches; 13
And. We invite you to join up for Norwegians get a. Programme of music and commentary produced from materials provided by the Wheaton Broadcasting Corporation. Featured on today's program as a commentary on The Life and Letters of just going to be on set. But first music by leaf G or Vaughan variations on a renaissance. The Norwegian broadcasting Orchestra conducted by live in Baghdad.
Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. Eh eh. To go. To Glory. The Norwegian broadcasting orchestra performing variations on a renaissance theme by Leif JI or them or even Bellow was the conductor. Continuing with this programme of Norwegian Skechers DAW Gunderson a lecturer at the University of Oslo talks about the writer Young's journey beyond him.
I shall fight for my land I shall dark for my land. These are the opening lines in one of beyond Shaun's best known page Arctic songs they contain a pledge and a program that goes beyond John's own. Throughout his entire life but in this song he goes on to speak. We rather than I we have Sam shine enough. We have soil is rich enough. If bad we have an air of love to give to this land there is the urge to create to improve our estate. We are bound to succeed if together we stand. Fictions we give to the land where we live. To its present its future and past we are bound and our love it will grow in its soil here below and from love will spring love like a seed in the ground. This is our Song of Norway. But no description of the country except in general terms it tells rather
more about the man who wrote it. Your enjoyment was above all an active and creative man in his poetry and fiction. There is life there now people and animals. Nature itself is alive. There is song and love as a page. He isn't content to admire it what we have. He wants to be able to improve seeing a man's lifetime as he is working day and linking the present together with the past and the future as steps in a steady development. Beyond often emphasized the need for united action as he does in this song from 1868 Norway at that time was the weaker partner in a union with Sweden and he felt that by political bickering among ourselves we have are missing our chances to gain equality within the union. At this point let's
take a closer look at the Norwegian Sea and beyond Sean's own background in 1814 Norway got tired of our 400 years union with Denmark a constitution was drawn up it was passed on the 17th of May later to be celebrated as I were Independents Day and in a wave of national enthusiasm nor by it was proclaimed as sovereign state. Only a few months later we were forced into a new union. This time with Sweden it was no mean a union of two equal partners but Norway it was in many ways made dependent upon Swedish leadership. This never stopped Langley ing in page our big minds of our nation. It kept cropping up as an issue in the political and also the cultural debate and in the end it led to a complete break of the Union in 1005 it was impossible at least for
enlightened people not to take sides one way or another and the union was to play a most important part in beyond Shaun's public and literary activities. It forced him into politics and it brought political questions and events into his books and poems. The author and the politician could not be kept separate for long. When B and Sean entered the literary scene of Norway he was a young man in his early 20s. He was born in 1832 and lived his boyhood in various places in the country where his father was a minister of the Lutheran state church run of his earliest boyhood memories. Was that always father throwing out a local bully who hearing that the new minister was a strong man came into his home to fight him. The bunch on family it was all country stock through a long line of free
holding farmers. They held themselves related to the ancient fair haired line of Norse kings. Your own child was very proud of this. It was one of the things that made him feel and natural leader. Liar them the minister's oldest son wasn't to be found in the hold time ship. He was also a good reader and the farmers liked listening to what he read. If it was to their liking he would invent more of the same. As much as he thought they would like mostly it was about strong man and love that killed the minister's son was beyond shown himself. And this passage from one of his short stories is a glimpse of the author's early life among the farmers When beyond John had passed his university entrance examination. He felt that he was through with study. From now on he would be a writer. He had gone to live in all slow then called Christiania and he soon became known to the public
as a newspaper correspondent as the editor of an illustrated magazine and as the self-appointed leader of those who wanted Norwegian actors in the theater which up to them had followed Danish tradition and still had many Danish actors. The Christiania theatre feud was the first in a long series of heated debates and bitter disagreements that sprang up from time to time. So the most obvious life but this time he won. And for seven years he barked actively in the theaters all bag and also as manager instructor and playwright. This was much the same career as Hendrick Gipson had both of them got that thorough knowledge of the stage its possibilities and limitations and they made good use of all this knowledge in their dramatic works published his first book in 1857. That title was soon I was sold
bokken or so and here it is the best known of all his country tapes and has been translated into many languages. About the same time he published his first play called Between the battles. It is mainly with our family conflict and has a turbulent period. Norway's old history as its background. From our home for 15 years you and Sean used what has been termed his crop rotation method alternately publishing country tales and historical plays the plays are generally on the tragic side with unhappy endings. The country tales have serious even tragic passages but they all end happily. John had always believed that the characters all the old Norse Sawgrass still existed among the peasants always on time. So society had changed through centuries old Danish influence. But the country people who had lived
all unchanged speaking their own language and carrying the old traditions. As a writer he found that he had a double task to elevate our history through its greatest and most characteristically Norwegian men and to draw pictures of our daily life. Later on in life he said I began. Within there during all this saga and the farmer letting the wall illustrate the other which at that time was new. With a special background beyond Sean Bell's eminently equipped to portray farmers and rural life is country tales are still classics in Scandinavia though influenced by the literary trend all the time the so-called national romanticism. Young Sean it was one of the first who didn't try to glorify the farmer and his life but showed him realistically he put in glee fights poverty and drinking and thereby shocked and
embittered many readers. But he did so with a purpose. He wanted to show that man can rise above those sordid surroundings that he has the power to go from ignorance and squalor to knowledge and culture. And that is why our lives can be tempered by Genet all city and compassion and excellent example I'll be on John's way of presenting his ideas is a very short story called The father which tells how a man through personal tragedy wins a great model story. Into his novels Sean put many obvious poems on songs before they were presented as songs. And today they are in all our song books in 1859 when he wrote the one beginning yes we love this land you first thought of including it in the country tales are now which are about them writing but he soon found that this song was
too powerful to fit into something else when it was finished. After several changes it was indeed a monument of Norway the land the people and its history its cousin the drug route the melody. Little knowing that he was setting to you and to the national anthem. It was an occasion our great happiness to be on Sean when in 1864. The song was first used in the 17th of May celebration. He valued our Independence Day most highly in 1870 he organized the first trailed NC 17 Zalmay processions that even today form an especially festive part of the celebration. Early in the 1870s bureau and Shawn finished writing country tales and historical plays he now turned to realism and chose his subjects from the society in which he was now living. And from the ideas that held
his interest in a play from 1875 bankruptcy he takes his subject from business life at the time. This was a new and rather surprising subject to the public. He shows how dishonest business methods lead a man into a spiral of increasing dishonesty and fraud but also how this man is able to train and to build a new life for himself and his family. In a glob from 1883 he attacks the dubious most reality that brands a woman with their so-called past but tolerates it in a man beyond Sean demands an equally high moral stand that in both sexes before and in marriage with this play he made enemies both in conservative society where he was found far too outspoken and in the radical Bohemia of Christiania where his standards were found much too rigid in beyond human
power. The first part from 1883 attacks their religious belief in miracles. In the second part from 1895 the conflict is between an industrialist of the Nietzsche and master type and a socialist fanatic. Young John shows that neither of them can win. Most of the time it was absorbed in an idea but the idea itself changed from the time he would live with it and show it in his work. Then he would be led on to something else either by advents or by his own temperament. Sometimes these changes are interest implied by complete reversal of his former opinions. He's really just development is a case in point. He grew up as a regular state church member for years. He took a warm interest in the optimistic and earthy religious trend that had originated in the
Danish Bishop grew intrigues ideas and was centered in the so-called People's colleges which were independent high schools for gifted country youth. But in time he found the ceiling too low. As he said after a long and painful period he came out an agnostic and remained so for the last 30 years always life. We're not keeping any new found insight to himself beyond Sean would try to convert other people as well. Time and again this added You would last him many of his best friends and won him new ones. He always had bitter enemies. This often caused him pain but he never doubted either his right to do what he felt he had to or that it was right to think new thoughts run of his problems begins. The poet does the Prophet's deeds when things got too rough at home. Young children would go to live abroad in Germany
Italy and France sometimes for long periods. He could still keep in touch with Norwegian affairs. He could write just as well abroad and as long as he had his family around him he was at home anywhere. He once compared himself to us nailed carrying his home with him. Red amber he travels. Abroad he could find the peace and the admiration that was often denied him at home. The great newspapers and magazines of Europe and the United States were open to him abroad. He could keep abreast of the developments in the arts and sciences. And there he was eagerly sought as a speaker going on lecture tours gave him a double opportunity. He could present his ideas and improve his economy which was often in a mess. In 1980 he was invited to the United States for several
months. He was to stay in Cambridge Massachusetts to read and rock them to go on a lecture tour of the Midwest. He looked forward to gathering a lot of new information on this trip as soon as he arrived. He began studying American institutions and I great variety of subjects. Universities Plaisance hospitals working conditions machine technology. He even took part in the presidential campaign as a Republican speaker. John had been interested in America for many years. He had formed some opinions about it in his play. The new system published in 1879 shortly before his research to the United States one of the characters is described as an American and it is said of him he doesn't believe you know authorities. That's American I know. After his trip the fresh knowledge appears in his books especially in the novel
flags are flying in town and harbor from 1884. Here at the American educational system is praised for modern methods for giving women equal opportunity beyond Sean's lecture tour in America was a financial success at $100 a meeting but not altogether a personal one. Rumors that he was an agnostic had gone before him in the Midwest so that he had the church against him when he arrived. He also got tired of the exhausting schedule and to numerous receptions. The Winter away team 81 was a particularly rough one and for the whole week he was snowed in at North Springs Iowa. But people came to his lectures processor's asked must be Anderson. Always comes in. Considered him to be one of the greatest if not League greatest orator that Norway has ever had one of his subjects was called the Norwegians. Swedes and Danes having
listened to beyond Sean Professor Anderson said that all regions in his audience thank God that they were Norwegians the Swedes were delighted to know they were from Sweden and the Danes would rather be Danes than anything else in the world. Though beyond Sean it was a man of changing interests. Some central ideas remained with him. He believed in evolution. He also believed in world peace and that conflicts should be settled without war. One of his finest poems is entitled father wounded. It begins as still a procession goes I made the battles booming its arm the Red Cross shows it praise in many forms of speech and bending over the fall brings peace and home to each. This poem ends with a prayer that love and loving deeds may conquer strife and passion.
Sean was always ready to help particularly those who couldn't help themselves. The unfortunate the victims whether individuals or groups he hated injustice and would go to any lengths to denounce those he thought were behind it. Time and again he took up the law cases of people he felt had been unjustly sentenced and he got Samara a lot of them commuted or pardoned. He spoke up for nations or groups that he felt were being unfairly treated by other countries for the Icelanders against Denmark for the day insults last week who were on the Germany father pose against Russia and father Athenians against Poland in cases of this nature Bianchi and came to be looked upon as I Courts of Appeal always own the Slovak people who were being harshly treated by the Hungarians. I appealed to him to be their spokesman and he argued their case in the European press.
He had by now one verdict fame as an author a journalist and a speaker. In his later years he had the attention of world opinion as hardly anyone else. For a lifetime of literary activity beyond Shawn in 1930 it was I wanted the Nobel Prize in Literature. He went on writing to the end when he died in Paris in 1910. He was planning a poem but had only completed the title. It was the good deeds save the art yarn Shawn was himself a man of good deeds and good will. He was a writer first and foremost but he approached life about literature dog Gunderson lecturer at the University of Oslo talking about the Norwegian writer youngster Jani Bianca. Which concludes this programme of Norwegian sketches. This programme was
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Religious-right groups have insisted that requiring health insurance to cover birth control at no cost to women will lead to higher incidences of sexual risk-taking and sexually transmitted infections. Now an extensive new study shows those arguments are a load of bunkum.
Women and teen girls participating in a study that provided free birth control did not take up riskier sexual practices as a result, contrary to fears among some social conservatives, a new report says.
The participants were less likely to have sex with more than one man after the program began. And though they did have sex a bit more often, they were no more likely to be diagnosed with sexually transmitted diseases, according to results published online Thursday in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
The same study, involving 9,256 girls and women in the St. Louis area, previously showed the free birth control program dramatically reduced abortions and unintended pregnancies.
The latest findings should dispel “the idea that the only thing standing between women and promiscuity is a fear of pregnancy,” says project director Gina Secura, a researcher at Washington University.
But, as usual, science and real facts aren’t silencing critics on the religious right. The same USA Today article quotes a spokesperson from the Family Research Council:
Arina Grossu, director of the council’s Center for Human Dignity, says she finds the new study unconvincing and believes more contraception does lead to more risky sex. “Contraception gives women a false sense of safety” from pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease, she says. “Women think they are completely protected, and they are not.”
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Attics and crawlspaces tend to be hotspots for infestation. Though both of these are important to have in homes and other buildings, keeping them pest free requires a degree of effort!
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Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation is a not-for-profit organization that helps secure funding for projects to improve communities and create affordable housing in urban, suburban and rural areas. The organization was started in 1968 by a neighborhood activist in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who convinced bankers and local government leaders to extend loans to improve her community. Today, Neighborhood Reinvestment changed its name in April of 2005, now being known as NeighborWorks America. NeighborWorks has several offices and works with other not-for-profit organizations across the United States to continue revitalizing communities.
The organization works with financial institutions that are based in communities needing assistance, along with local government leaders and community residents, to improve the condition of the community. Financial institutions pledge to provide loans for local not-for-profit organizations, government entities or private citizens to improve the community. Projects might include improvements to housing, community cultural events and the creation or maintenance of public recreational facilities, among other projects. Organizations or individuals seeking financial assistance must apply for a grant from NeighborWorks America.
A network of NeighborWorks offices, plus local community development not-for-profit organizations ensures the organization has an effect in communities across the United States. Neighborworks’ main office is located in Washington, D.C., with nine other offices scattered across the United States. The organization also works with 235 other not-for-profit organizations, providing grants for projects as well as training for members of these other organizations and program support or assistance.
The overall objective of Neighborhood Reinvestment is to strengthen communities through affordable housing and other community-based projects. Projects include restoring run-down properties and then selling them to lower-income residents at a price that is lower than market value, providing grants for lower-income homeowners to make improvements to their property and creating events or facilities that encourage community togetherness. The exact opportunities that are available in a community depend on several factors, including what local government leaders have decided are community priorities and the amount of money offered by local financial institutions.
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BEIJING – The U.S. has ordered non-emergency government staff to leave Shanghai, which is under a tight lockdown to contain a COVID-19 surge.
Many residents in the city of 26 million have been confined to their homes for up to three weeks as China maintains its “zero-COVID” strategy of handling outbreaks with strict isolation and mass testing.
But people living under the restrictions have described an increasingly desperate situation, with families unable to leave their homes or obtain food and daily necessities, while people who test positive for the coronavirus have been forced into mass quarantine centers where conditions at times have been called crowded and unsanitary.
Authorities on Tuesday said another 23,342 people in Shanghai tested positive for the virus over the previous day, just 994 of whom displayed symptoms. Total infections have topped more than 200,000 in the latest wave, although no additional deaths have been reported.
The State Department said the order announced late Monday is an upgrade from the “authorized” departure advisory last week that made the decision voluntary. The order covers non-emergency U.S. government employees at the consulate in Shanghai and their family members. Consular officers will remain on duty at the consulate.
“Our change in posture reflects our assessment that it is best for our employees and their families to be reduced in number and our operations to be scaled down as we deal with the changing circumstances on the ground," the announcement said.
The State Department also issued a series of advisories for Americans in Shanghai, including that they ensure they have a “sufficient supply of money, medication, food, and other necessities for your family in the event of sudden restrictions or quarantine."
China’s government and the entirely state-controlled media are growing increasingly defensive about complaints over the COVID-19 prevention measures.
Beijing responded angrily to last week's voluntary departure advisory, with Foreign Ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian saying China was “strongly dissatisfied with and firmly opposed to the U.S. side’s groundless accusation against China’s epidemic response.”
In that announcement, the State Department advised Americans to reconsider traveling to China due to “arbitrary enforcement” of local laws and COVID-19 restrictions, particularly in Hong Kong, Jilin province and Shanghai. U.S. officials cited a risk of “parents and children being separated.”
Despite that, and indications the hardline policy is being dictated by head of the ruling Communist Party Xi Jinping, China has rejected any notion that its response is political in nature. Xi has demanded social stability above all else in the runup to a key party congress later this year at which he is expected to bestow on himself an unprecedented third-term as party leader.
Shanghai authorities also say they have secured daily supplies for residents, following complaints about deliveries of food and other necessities being unavailable or inadequate to demand.
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Today is the birthday of Anna Pavlovna (Matveyevna) Pavlova (Анна Павловна (Матвеевна) Павлова), Russian prima ballerina of the late 19th and the early 20th centuries. She was a principal artist of the Imperial Russian Ballet and the Ballets Russes of Sergei Diaghilev. Pavlova is most recognized for the creation of the role The Dying Swan and, with her own company, became the first ballerina to tour ballet around the world.
Anna Pavlovna (Matveyevna) Pavlova was born on January 31, 1881 (old style – which is February 12) in Ligovo, Saint Petersburg, to unwed parents. Her mother, Lyubov Feodorovna was a laundress. Some sources, including The Saint Petersburg Gazette, say that her biological father was banker Lazar Polyakov. Her mother’s second husband, Matvey Pavlov, is believed to have adopted her at the age of three, by whom she acquired his last name.
Pavlova’s passion for the art of ballet was ignited when her mother took her to a performance of Marius Petipa’s original production of The Sleeping Beauty at the Imperial Maryinsky Theater. The lavish spectacle made an impression on Pavlova. At the age of nine, her mother took her to audition for the renowned Imperial Ballet School. Because of her youth, and what was considered her “sickly” appearance, she was not chosen. In 1891, she was finally accepted at the age of 10. She appeared for the first time on stage in Marius Petipa’s Un conte de fées (A Fairy Tale), which the ballet master staged for the students of the school.
Young Pavlova’s years of training were difficult. Classical ballet did not come easily to her. Her severely arched feet, thin ankles, and long limbs clashed with the small and compact body in favor for ballerinas of her time. Her fellow students taunted her with such nicknames as “the broom” and “la petite sauvage” (the little savage). Undeterred, Pavlova trained to improve her technique. She took extra lessons from the noted teachers of the day — Christian Johansson, Pavel Gerdt, Nikolai Legat — and from Enrico Cecchetti, considered the greatest ballet virtuoso of the time and founder of the Cecchetti method, a ballet technique used to this day. In 1898, she entered the classe de perfection of Ekaterina Vazem, former prima ballerina of the Saint Petersburg Imperial Theatres.
During her final year at the Imperial Ballet School, she performed many roles with the principal company. She graduated in 1899 at age 18, chosen to enter the Imperial Ballet a rank ahead of corps de ballet as a coryphée. She made her official début at the Mariinsky Theatre in Pavel Gerdt’s Les Dryades prétendues (The False Dryads). Her performance drew praise from the critics, particularly the great critic and historian Nikolai Bezobrazov.
I wish I could have seen her. My students know I love ballet.
I’ve already given you the dessert named in her honor. So here’s borscht.
2 large or 3 medium beets, thoroughly washed
2 large or 3 medium potatoes, sliced into bite-sized pieces
4 Tbsp of cooking oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped
2 carrots, grated
½ head of cabbage, thinly chopped
1 can kidney beans with their juice
2 bay leaves
10 cups water and 6 cups broth to get 16 cups liquid total
5 Tbsp ketchup
4 Tbsp lemon juice
¼ tsp freshly ground pepper
1 Tbsp chopped dill
Fill a large soup pot with 10 cups of water. Add 2 – 3 beets. Cover and boil for about 1 hour. Once you can smoothly pierce the beets with a butter knife, remove them from the water and set aside to cool. Keep the water.
Slice 3 potatoes, add into the same water and boil 15-20 minutes.
Grate both carrots and dice one onion. Add 4 Tbsp of cooking oil to the skillet and sauté the vegetables until they are soft (7-10 minutes). Stir in ketchup when they are almost done cooking.
Thinly shred ½ a cabbage and add it to the pot when the potatoes are half way done.
Next, peal and slice the beets into match sticks and add them back to the pot.
Add 6 cups of chicken broth, lemon juice, pepper, bay leaves and the can of kidney beans (with their juice) to the pot.
Add the sautéed carrots and onion to the pot along with chopped dill.
Cook another 5-10 minutes, until the cabbage is done.
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After a decades-long hiatus, nuclear weapon issues have returned to the forefront of international security concerns. In recent months, North Korea has made significant progress in its nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes; President Donald Trump threatened to end US participation in the agreement limiting Iran’s nuclear activities; and over 40 countries signed the world’s first legally-binding treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons.
Meanwhile, Russian military developments and perceived “sabre rattling” are prompting NATO to focus more attention on nuclear issues. The US, UK and French nuclear modernization programmes are not simply a response to Russia, but Moscow will likely portray them as such.
Finland’s security and prosperity increasingly depend upon a stable and secure international environment. New strategic realities could affect that environment in profound ways. Today, the threat of a military confrontation in the Nordic region is low in comparison with parts of Asia and the broader Middle East, but it cannot be seen as non-existent.
Finland will remain a non-nuclear weapon state. Its expertise in nuclear affairs traditionally focused on non-proliferation (via international agreements and EU activities) and arms control, but this has eroded during the past decade or so. Given the new realities, Finland should reverse that trend and enhance its understanding of the role of nuclear weapons in regional and global deterrence.
Strategic issues involving nuclear weapons are once again at the forefront of international security concerns. Changes in the security environment threaten to halt or reverse progress in reducing nuclear arsenals, the risk of their use, and the spread of nuclear weapons beyond the nine states either declared or considered to hold them.1
Resorting to nuclear weapons anywhere on the globe would have profound geostrategic, humanitarian, and economic consequences. Small countries far removed from the conflict zone would not be immune to its aftershocks. This would be true for Finland and other EU member states, whose prosperity and security increasingly depend on a secure and stable international environment.
This paper describes ongoing nuclear weapons-related developments, and outlines their implications for Finland. It also recommends enhancing Finnish expertise in a range of strategic issues.
Nuclear risks: the new realities
The end of the Cold War opened up opportunities for reducing the risk of nuclear war, the proliferation of nuclear weapon states, and the size of nuclear arsenals through both negotiated and unilateral steps.2 Despite progress in some areas, there have been setbacks in others. Then Vice-President Joe Biden acknowledged this mixed picture in January 2017. After listing the Obama administration’s accomplishments – in strategic arms reductions, non-proliferation, and international cooperation to improve security for nuclear installations and materials – Biden observed: “(S)trategic stability with Russia…has eroded over the past few years”.3
Today, new nuclear realities are taking shape. They vary from region to region, involve different nuclear and missile capabilities, and require complex judgments on how best to deter nuclear or non-nuclear aggression.
Tensions in Asia
North Korea’s nuclear ambitions date back to the 1990s, but its recent actions – detonating a device with an estimated yield many times greater than the weapons that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and testing new ballistic missiles assessed as being capable of striking US territory, Japan, and South Korea— have sharply increased the risk of military conflict. Short of crossing the nuclear threshold, North Korea could inflict massive casualties on the South using conventional artillery and chemical weapons deployed near the Demilitarized Zone. US Defence Secretary James Mattis warns that a “military solution” would be “tragic on an unbelievable scale”.
The spike in tensions has raised new questions regarding the credibility of US defence guarantees. Recent polls show majorities of South Koreans favour a national nuclear weapons capability and the reintroduction of US non-strategic nuclear weapons based in their territory. Others in the region are “weighing their options”.
A failure of deterrence in Korea would have dramatic consequences. These might include: a sharp deterioration in US relations with China and Russia, which border North Korea; a reappraisal of US alliances with South Korea and/or Japan, especially if Washington were viewed as partly responsible for the conflict; and the transfer of US military assets from Europe to meet urgent warfighting and stabilization tasks in Asia.
Korea is not the only potential Asian hotspot. India and Pakistan have narrowly avoided a major war over the past decade. According to recent reports, India has weighed the possibility of pre-emptive nuclear strikes against Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. For its part, Pakistan is reportedly increasing its stock of “battlefield” nuclear weapons, which many analysts believe would heighten the risk of their early use in a crisis and offer a tempting target for seizure by terrorists.
Russia, NATO, and the “nuclear allies”
Americans and Europeans might not fully agree on the details of Russia’s evolving strategic doctrine, intentions, or appetite for risk-taking. However, they broadly agree on Russia’s impressive investment in nuclear modernization programmes, lack of interest in further deep reductions in strategic arsenals (or any meaningful limits on its large stockpile of non-strategic nuclear weapons), and practice of “nuclear sabre-rattling”. When such developments are set in the context of Russia’s conventional force improvements, there is little doubt that Moscow aims to increase its overall capability for power projection and make it more difficult for NATO to assist a threatened ally or partner.
In response, NATO is implementing its commitment, restated at the 2016 Warsaw Summit, to ensure that its nuclear deterrent remains safe, secure, and effective, and that allies retain the “broadest possible participation” in nuclear burden-sharing. NATO has criticized the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) for “disregard(ing) the realities of the increasingly challenging international security environment” and putting the existing non-proliferation structure at risk. NATO’s statement also pointedly calls upon its “partners and all countries who are considering supporting this treaty to seriously reflect on its implications for international peace and security”.4
Meanwhile, the “nuclear allies” are modernizing their deterrents. Successive centre-right and centre-left governments in the United Kingdom and France have concluded that an independent nuclear deterrent must remain a critical element of their national security strategy. Although concerns regarding Russia no doubt influence current UK and French assessments, their national security strategy documents make it clear that nuclear threats to their vital national interests could arise from other states as well.
Hence, in late 2016 the United Kingdom began constructing the first of four ballistic missile submarines to replace its current fleet, beginning in the early 2030s. Meanwhile, President Emmanuel Macron reaffirmed his decision to renew both components of the French deterrent of four ballistic missile submarines and three squadrons of “dual-capable” aircraft (DCA).5
The Pentagon is expected to complete the US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) in early 2018. The NPR will likely reaffirm longstanding tenets of US nuclear policy and recommend renewing the US nuclear “triad” of land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine- launched ballistic missiles, and long-range air-launched cruise missiles delivered by strategic bombers.6 This effort will stretch over decades and, according to government estimates, will cost around $400 billion over the next decade, or six per cent of the annual defence budget (as opposed to three per cent currently).
The NPR might also unveil some significant policy shifts foreshadowed in a May 2017 report by prominent non-government experts.7 For example, the report recommended explicitly setting deterrence of aggression and assurance of allies as the priority goals of US nuclear policy. This would relegate non-proliferation, preventing nuclear terrorism, and reducing the role of nuclear weapons in US strategy – the top priorities set by the Obama administration – to a lower rank, and open the door to a possible expansion of the US arsenal. The report also suggested extending NATO’s DCA arrangements to some Eastern European allies, while deploying US DCA to Japan and South Korea. While not ruling out new arms control measures with Russia, the experts advised strict preconditions for talks, such as an end to the Russian violation of the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty.8
Missile defence is the subject of a separate review, which will also stir controversy. President Trump has promised a major boost in spending for missile defence. Some administration advisors reportedly favour expanding their scope to counter ballistic and cruise missile threats from Russia and China. If adopted, this would be a major break from the Obama and Bush administrations, which focused on protecting US and allied territory and forces against limited North Korean and Iranian missile threats.
President Trump has called for renegotiation of the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA.) Under the JCPOA, Iran agreed to restrict certain nuclear activities in return for relief from sanctions imposed by the United States, the EU, Russia and China. His stated objective is to extend the scope and duration of JCPOA restrictions on Iran while making Western compliance conditional upon changes in Iranian behaviour outside the nuclear arena – such as ending its support for proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. However, he also warned that if his administration is unable to “reach a solution working with Congress and our allies…the (JCPOA) will be terminated”.
Iran has categorically rejected any renegotiation of the JCPOA. This sets the stage for a protracted deterioration of relations between Washington and Teheran, which already back opposing sides in several Middle East conflicts and in Afghanistan.
Trump’s decision has also roiled transatlantic relations. UK Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement affirming that they “stand committed” to the accord. The three US allies worked hard to achieve the JCPOA, fearing that an unfettered Iranian nuclear programme would lead to wider proliferation in the region, and ultimately a US military intervention with unpredictable consequences.
Implications for Finland
The fact that Finland’s security and prosperity increasingly depend on a secure and stable international environment is hardly a new or controversial proposition.9 However, the aforementioned new realities pose real risks to that security and prosperity.
Changes in the strategic environment related to Russia, NATO, and the “nuclear allies” directly affect Finnish security interests. Russian “nuclear sabre-rattling” directed at Denmark, Norway, and Sweden demonstrates that neither the presence of nuclear weapons in one’s territory nor membership in the Alliance are necessary to become the objects of such threats. Russia’s nuclear and conventional force improvements, deployments, and exercises are shortening warning times for military crises and, perhaps, lowering the Russian threshold for using force.
Indeed, NATO-Russia and US-Russia relations might worsen in the coming months. Moscow would condemn any suggestion in the Pentagon reviews that NATO should extend its nuclear burden-sharing to involve East European allies, or that US or NATO missile defence be reoriented to counter Russian systems. In light of President Vladimir Putin’s recent statement that “we have complied and we will comply with our old treaties, as long as our partners comply as well,” the prospects appear bleak for resuming any US-Russian dialogue on arms control.10 In a deteriorating atmosphere, Moscow might take aim at the increased cooperation between NATO and its Nordic partners. While the threat of a military confrontation in the Nordic region is low in comparison with Asia, it cannot be seen as non-existent. Russian leaders, for example, periodically warn that they would take unspecified “countermeasures” in response to any further NATO enlargement.11
Regarding the JCPOA, Finland’s fellow EU members – especially Germany, France, and the United Kingdom – will expect full support for their position to the effect that the international community must not dismantle the JCPOA as long as it functions. However, if the Trump administration implements its threat to terminate US participation, Washington will face a major tussle with Europe over whether to impose “snap back” UN sanctions on Iran. Finland’s interest in maintaining political solidarity within the EU does not obviate its need to understand the technical arguments for assessing Iran’s compliance with the JCPOA and its nuclear “breakout” potential if the agreement were to collapse.
The North Korean standoff could unravel with little warning. In the event of war, especially if nuclear weapons were used and/or nuclear debris were released by attacks on North Korean facilities, Finnish citizens in the region might require emergency evacuation and medical care. The Finnish government would face calls in the UN or EU to express solidarity with, or condemnation of, one of the belligerent sides, and to contribute to multilateral humanitarian assistance efforts. Moreover, a failure of US deterrence strategy in Korea would raise questions in Europe about America’s political will and military capability to deter aggression on this continent.
Similarly, if war erupted between Pakistan and India, Finnish citizens in the region would be at risk, and the humanitarian consequences would be catastrophic. Finland would face calls to join multilateral evacuation and relief efforts. In short, any notion that Finnish interests would be unaffected by a major conflict in “faraway” Korea and South Asia would prove illusory.
A case for enhanced Finnish understanding
As a rule, Finnish discussions of nuclear weapons are very circumspect. Since the Cold War, officials and non-government experts have focused their analysis and engagement on non-proliferation (via international agreements and EU initiatives) and arms control. They have devoted less attention to the strategic landscape involving nuclear weapons programmes, evolving doctrines, and missile defence. In addition, the contribution of Western nuclear forces to deterrence rarely receives explicit acknowledgment.
Although ideological opposition to nuclear weapons appears more prevalent in Sweden, a certain moral opprobrium associated with such weapons exists in Finland as well. Anti-nuclear sentiments might intensify following the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s decision to award its coveted Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.
Some Finns might be concerned that more public discussion of nuclear weapon-related issues would be politically polarizing. In Sweden’s case, the government (a coalition of the Social Democratic Party, or SDP, and Green Party) voted, in December 2016, for a resolution in the First Committee of the UN General Assembly to negotiate a legally binding instrument to prohibit nuclear weapons.12 In July, Sweden approved the text of the TPNW. Yet, two months later, the government deferred a decision on whether to actually sign the Treaty due to sharp differences between the foreign minister (who favoured signing) and the defence minister (who opposed it.) The fact that both ministers belong to the SDP only served to make the situation even more politically awkward.
In addition, some might see a more public discussion as unnecessary and/or strategically counterproductive. Finland will never acquire or host nuclear weapons on its territory, as this would violate its longstanding commitments under the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and national law. Why, then, should it risk being “drawn” into debates on nuclear weapons where differences exist among Europeans and where Russian sensitivities are obvious?
The answer, to paraphrase Leon Trotsky’s dictum on war, is: “You may not be interested in nuclear weapons, but nuclear weapons are interested in you”. Hence, Finland should consider three broad approaches consistent with its national sovereignty and interests in solidarity with its closest European and transatlantic partners.
Enhanced understanding of deterrence
The Finnish strategic community — government officials, parliamentarians, and think tanks — needs to stay abreast of changes in the strategic environment and nature of deterrence.
Although Finland is not a NATO ally, its growing national defence effort (in areas such as enhanced readiness and increased investment) contributes to conventional deterrence of potential aggression in the Nordic-Baltic region. The newly established European Centre of Excellence for Countering Hybrid Threats in Finland provides participating nations, the EU, and NATO with new capabilities to identify vulnerabilities and develop national and organizational resilience – another way of strengthening conventional deterrence.
The EU’s common foreign and security policy contributes to important non-proliferation objectives – for example, through JCPOA implementation and sanctions on North Korea. However, it will remain a marginal actor in decisions involving the role of nuclear weapons in Europe. Despite a flurry of interest earlier this year in a hypothetical “European deterrent”, there is no sign that France or the UK (especially post-Brexit) would offer their nuclear forces as a substitute for US “extended deterrence”, under either bilateral or EU-led arrangements.
Enhanced understanding of the nuclear dimensions of deterrence would complement, not detract from, Finnish interest in non-proliferation and arms control. Conversely, failure to keep abreast of the evolving and increasingly integrated nature of Russian doctrine, capabilities, exercises, deployments, and strategic messaging increases the risk of overreaction or passivity; either could encourage more destabilizing Russian behaviour. Failure to understand the changing dynamics of deterrence and the role of nuclear weapons would also leave Finland less prepared to anticipate and react to crises outside Europe.
Finland has the necessary basic institutional structures to regain and sustain governmental expertise. In some cases, high-level direction to conduct studies, recruit and train personnel, and hold realistic crisis management simulations will be required. That said, as a partner, Finland does not have access to the full range of information sharing and joint assessments available within NATO.
Avoiding prejudicial statements
Sweden’s recent experience with the TPNW reflects its particular domestic political circumstances. It also shows the inherent risk of advocating a principled position that appears to contradict the government’s actual conduct. It was not lost on foreign observers that some Swedish officials were advocating signing the Treaty while others were welcoming the participation of two nuclear powers, the United States and France, in Sweden’s largest military exercise in decades, Aurora 17. Indeed, Sweden’s defence ministry acknowledged that Aurora 17 was aimed at strengthening “deterrence” and exercising Sweden’s defence capability “against a larger, sophisticated opponent”.
If one accepts that Finland has a vital interest in maintaining peace and security in its region, and that this will require a continuing role for nuclear weapons as part of an effective deterrent against aggression, then Finland logically should take a long and hard look before joining efforts that delegitimize the possession of nuclear weapons or dilute the primacy of the NPT. The three nuclear allies are not the only ones opposed to such efforts; many non-nuclear allies, including Finland’s close neighbours, who are members of NATO and the EU, also have strong objections to the TPNW.
A “Next Generation” initiative
Some Finnish experts might be sceptical about the need for a more open and informed discussion of deterrence concepts and, in particular, the role of nuclear weapons. Indeed, apparently no Finnish university (including the National Defence University) offers a regular course specifically dedicated to deterrence, nuclear weapons, and missile defence.
Similar concerns exist elsewhere in the Nordic region. Yet others in Finland – along with counterparts in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark – have bemoaned their countries’ loss of expertise in strategic affairs. Thus, a collaborative effort among the Nordic countries would make sense.
As allies, Norway and Denmark support NATO nuclear policy declarations, which are agreed by consensus. Still, their longstanding policies: a) bar the stationing of nuclear weapons on their territory in peacetime; and b) effectively exclude their air forces from any direct role in conducting possible nuclear strike missions. Nonetheless, centre-left and centre-right governments in both countries have confronted anti-nuclear sentiments among political parties and public opinion.
As partners, Finland and Sweden participate in NATO-led operations, capability-development efforts, military exercises and, increasingly, in political-military consultations. Sweden, too, has been active in non-proliferation and arms control. Nevertheless, they have different experiences regarding nuclear weapons: for more than 20 years, Sweden (unlike Finland) explored options to develop a small nuclear force.
Despite their differences, all four countries will need a cadre of government and military experts able to track, analyse, and help formulate policy recommendations for decision-makers. The four already have bilateral and multilateral fora for defence and security cooperation, and their research institutes have good relations with each other and with US, British, and French counterparts.
Thus, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark should consider a cooperative initiative led by think tanks – and with appropriate government support – to ensure that their next generation of strategic thinkers and government advisers will be prepared to deal with the new realities coming their way.
1 The United States, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, China, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel. This paper should be read in conjunction with FIIA Working Paper 93, February 2017.
2 Michel, Leo, NATO as a Nuclear Alliance: Background and contemporary issues, FIIA Working Paper 93, 2017. http://www.fiia.fi/en/publication/661/nato_as_a_nuclear_alliance/, accessed 21 November 2017.
3 The White House, Office of the Vice President: Remarks by the Vice President on Nuclear Security, 11 (12) January 2017. https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/12/remarks-vice-president-nuclear-security, accessed 21 November 2017.
5 Combat aircraft capable of delivering nuclear or conventional weapons.
6 Democratic and Republican administrations have argued that nuclear weapons: provide a deterrent against aggression (nuclear or non-nuclear) aimed at the United States or its allies; underpin US ability to deploy conventional forces worldwide; and, by providing “extended deterrence” to non-nuclear allies, will dissuade them from acquiring their own nuclear arsenals.
7 National Institute for Public Policy: “A New Nuclear Review for a New Age”. National Institute Press, April 2017. http://www.nipp.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/A-New-Nuclear-Review-final.pdf, accessed 21 November 2017.
8 In 2014, the Obama administration declared that Russia had violated the INF prohibition on developing and testing a new intermediate-range ground-launched cruise missile. Russia reportedly deployed the missile in late 2016.
9 Prime Minister’s Office: “Government Report on Finnish Foreign and Security Policy”, Publications 9/2016. http://valtioneuvosto.fi/documents/10616/1986338/VNKJ092016+en.pdf/b33c3703-29f4-4cce-a910-b05e32b676b9, accessed 21 November 2017. Prime Minister’s Office: “Defence Report Prime Minister’s Office”, Publications 7/2017. http://www.defmin.fi/files/3688/J07_2017_Governments_Defence_Report_Eng_PLM_160217.pdf, accessed, 21 November 2017.
10 Valdai Discussion Club: “Vladimir Putin Meets with Members of the Valdai Discussion Club”. Transcript of the Plenary Session of the 14th Annual Meeting, 19 October 2017. http://valdaiclub.com/events/posts/articles/putin-meets-with-members-of-the-valdai-club/, accessed 21 November 2017.
11 The EU has not been spared Putin’s criticism; at Valdai, he said “Europe is to blame” for Ukraine.
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One of the greatest challenges in validating vehicle electronics is finding ways to conduct virtual tests that will simulate real situations as accurately as possible. Using the dSPACE tool chain, Hyundai MOBIS has been able to implement an approach that combines real and virtual tests for optimizing validation processes.
The market for advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving (AD) technology is experiencing a period of extremely dynamic growth. Functions that assist drivers or support autonomous driving are becoming increasingly complex, even as they are being implemented in today’s motor vehicles. When designing and validating electronic control unit prototypes, developers have to have detailed, flexible, and versatile development methods at their disposal. A process based on model-in-the-loop (MIL), software-in-the-loop (SIL), and hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) has proven to be quite effective when it comes to simulation and validation. Due to the complexity of control systems and the precise interaction among various kinds of electronic control units and actuators, exact statements on quality and safety in certain areas can only be made with real test drives. However, real test drives are not fully suited for the validation of ADAS/AD functions because many test scenarios cannot be performed in reality due to the high risk of collisions. Therefore, new testing methods are required, that are sufficiently efficient, economical, and safety-oriented for such cases.
We take the vehicle-in-the-loop (VIL) approach when validating ADAS/AD functions because it gives us the combined advantages of real and virtual test drives. The robust real-time system from dSPACE enables us to implement this test method in the vehicle and achieve results that are extremely precise and realistic.
Tests Based on Augmented Reality
What is desirable is an approach that combines the realism and integration depth of real test drives with the flexible, almost unlimited possibilities of the HIL method, i.e., a combination of real and virtual worlds. This combination is often referred to as augmented reality or mixed reality, especially in terms of visual perception. Perception also plays a crucial role in the testing of ADAS/AD functions. Since the functions receive their input signals from radar, lidar, and camera sensors, it makes sense to use the sensors to implement the extended test options. This approach means that sensors capture information from a virtual world and use it to control and steer a real vehicle. Therefore, engineers can let a vehicle travel at high speeds in the real world and – at the same time – have a child dart into the street in the virtual world. The object, which is captured virtually, is then analyzed by the ADAS/AD function, which then triggers appropriate action in the real vehicle. Hyundai MOBIS has adopted this approach and implemented it in collaboration with experts from dSPACE and Hancom MDS Inc., the dSPACE distributor in Korea.
Setting Up the Test Environment
The test equipment includes a dSPACE AutoBox real-time system installed in the trunk of the vehicle under test. A complex simulation that includes vehicles, pedestrians, traffic signs, road surface markings, roadside perimeter and structures, etc. is executed on the real-time system. This virtual world serves as the input for the ADAS/AD control units instead of real sensor data. This is achieved by having an ego vehicle – which basically functions as a digital clone of the real test vehicle – travel through the virtual world. The ego vehicle and the test vehicle are equipped with the same set of sensors. The simulation is generated with the Automotive Simulation Models (ASM) tool suite. ASM contains sensor models with which radar, lidar, and camera sensors can be simulated. ASM also enables test engineers to define an environment having any number of vehicles, intersecting traffic, pedestrians walking in any direction, etc. for simulation in real time. The simulation is synchronized with the real vehicle via IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) so that multidirectional maneuvers can be transmitted from the real world into the virtual world. This results in a closed loop, and the test method can thus be classified as vehicle-in-the-loop (VIL).
The ASM tool suite supports virtual test drives in complex traffic environments with a high degree of realism so that sensor data can be generated for the validation of our ADAS/AD control units.
Vehicle tests with VIL
VIL tests are conducted at the Hyundai MOBIS Seosan Proving Ground, an area providing ample unobstructed space for testing. A driver and a co-driver are seated in the real vehicle, with the AutoBox stowed away in the trunk. When the vehicle is moving, the co-driver launches test scenarios from which virtual sensor data is fed into the real sensors or the ADAS/AD control unit. For example, these scenarios can include obstacles, intersecting traffic or pedestrians walking onto the road. These are the types of scenarios that cannot be adequately tested in the real world because the risk of dangerous collisions is far too high, or where the metrics involved in a collision (crash point, crash speed) have to be analyzed. Test scenarios are drawn from standardized tests such as those in compliance with EuroNCAP, plus dedicated tests for validating special functions. Scenarios of relevance to AEB (Autonomous Emergency Braking) and LSS (Lane Support System) are used to test implemented ADAS solutions. Since Hyundai MOBIS already relies on several dSPACE HIL systems for validating ADAS in the lab, the tests developed for this purpose can easily be applied to VIL validation in the vehicle thanks to the consistency of the dSPACE tool chain.
The equipment for the real-time simulation of the virtual vehicle environment is installed in the trunk: The AutoBox (on the right) simulates traffic scenarios and then feeds the data into the real vehicle sensors.
Innovation and Evaluation of the VIL Approach
The VIL test method combines the advantages of real and virtual testing for the purpose of analyzing and validating ADAS/AD functions. VIL supports tests that deliver far more depth and coverage than is possible with conventional methods, while also reducing the complexity and costs involved in comparable real testing (with dummies, several real vehicles, etc.). Furthermore, VIL tests can also be conducted with a combination of series-produced control units and prototype units. There is also no requirement for modeling the restbus simulation – which might not render realistic behavior – because the real behavior of third-party control units is included in the tests. The high degree of maturity and realism of the tests constantly results in more precise data because it is real latencies that determine system behavior, for example. Moreover, the reusability of MIL, SIL, and HIL test scenarios results in an additional efficient validation methodology which is seamlessly and consistently integrated in the established development process. VIL offers all of the advantages expected from a simple, precise, and reproducible testing method. It can be said that the VIL approach enhances the well-known benefits of HIL by including vehicle-specific behavior, and it results in new validation options with very high levels of realism for ADAS/AD control units.
About the author:
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In Minecraft, you need 14 obsidian to build the frame of the nether portal. The base of the nether portal should be 4 obsidian wide, and the sides of the nether portal should be 5 obsidian high. This design will use 14 blocks of obsidian. When portals are not correctly linked, going through one portal in the Overworld may result in entering the Nether in another portal. Portals can link up to other portals within a 1024 block radius for the Overworld, or a 128 block radius for the Nether on both X and Z axis. I found a cool nether portal sword but i can't seem to find a schematic or map to creamte my own schematic.
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I have provided the mcedit schematic so that you can add this to yourserver. This is directly based off of the one from wow.
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The photos you provided may be used to improve Bing image processing services. Specifically for those people who have other methods of entering the nether, such as this mod spawning only lit portals, or for people who use Unforgiving Void, which let's them enter the nether by falling into the void. I tried using this mod together with both No Nether Portals, and Pam's Portal Poof, which "prevent the creation of portals". A nether portal is one which behaves as a gateway between the overworld and the nether.
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You’ll need to get your hands on 12-14 blocks of obsidian to create a Nether portal which is a rectangular Anyone ever have a situation where they cannot light their nether portal? It was created at 64 Y-Axis (sea level I believe) so I do not believe it is 'too high' in the world (isn't there a maximum height for a Nether Portal to work?). I have the proper dimensions for the portal. It is all Lord Jaraxxus opens a portal to the nether world, inflicting 47 Shadow damage to targets in a 10 yard radius of the portal.
Any of those can be relative to your player (~ 69 ~-420 would build at x=player x, y=69, z=player z-420). schematica to build the schematic that is currently open
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Today I have a bunch of custom nether portals to show you. What minecraft showcase or build showcase would you like to see n Nether Portal Locations. Next, you will need to decide where to build your nether portal. Here are some ideas: Having a nether portal near your storage room can be convenient. This way, when you return from the nether you can drop off all your items in your chests. Nether portals can be blended into the environment in or around your base.
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What is Binary Trading? What are the fundamental terms that are used? These include Up/Down (High/Low), Foreign exchange rate pairs, stock price and Crude oil. The term Binary Trading refers to all financial instruments based on price movement. It is usually the most profitable method of trading. This article will give an overview of different types of financial instruments. Once you’ve mastered the basics you can begin practicing with a demo account. How To Win At Binary Trading
Up/Down (High/Low) Also known as Call/Put is the most basic kind of binary option. It determines whether an underlying’s price will be lower or higher when the contract. This option is only profitable when the forecast is right. If the option is in cash at expiration, the trader will be compensated the premium plus the payout ratio. This can be anywhere from seventy-to ninety percent.
Options to Up/Down are among the most common kinds of binary trading. This type of trade is offered by the majority of brokers. The basic idea behind this type of trade is to predict the price of an asset by studying market trends. When the price is rising or falling, you’ll either earn some amount or lose some amount. You’ll need to determine the expiry date prior to you begin your trade. How To Win At Binary Trading
Up/Down options can be highly profitable. Traders can earn money from an investment based upon the direction of a stock’s price. For example, the stock may go up or down in value in the same day as an announcement. However, it could fall in value too which makes it a risky trade. If you’re new to binary trading, you can look at charts of up and down for the EUR/GBP currency pair.
If you’re new to the binary options industry and want to learn more, you must look into an accredited broker and licensed broker. You should pick a reputable broker as your first choice. A majority of brokers have demo accounts available for newbies to test their trading platform. You should read the reviews of others before signing up with the broker. This way, you can verify if the strategy is effective or not. If you’re not sure, open an account in a demo account to test the results for yourself. How To Win At Binary Trading
The High/Low option is a great option if you wish to profit in breakout patterns or trends in markets. The drawback of this option is that you can’t select the expiry period. However, this is corrected by using an options builder. Many traders utilize Option Builder to choose their expiry dates. This strategy allows you to profit from multiple trading opportunities in the same asset.
Foreign exchange rate pairs
If you are considering investing in the forex market, be aware of the fact that there’s plenty of money to be made in this currency trading market. There are many players in the forex market. They include banks as well as retail investors. Investors can leverage leverage to increase their trading size. One of the best methods to leverage is to buy more of the currency that you are looking to purchase than you can afford to lose. For example, you can purchase six euro bills instead of a dollar bill.
The binary currency pairs used in trading are typically traded on the forex market. Most online brokers have over 80 currency pairs that are traded every day. The most popular currency pairs are EUR/USD, GBP/USDUSD/JPY USD/USD and USD/CHF. Other popular currency pairs include NZD/USD and USD/JPY. Binary trading is dominated by USD/JPY and EUR/USD. How To Win At Binary Trading
The most frequently used currency pair is EUR/USD. It gives you the number of dollars it takes to buy one Euro. EUR/USD isn’t as closely with other currencies like the JPY/AUD. The Euro is considered the most stable of all major currencies. The Japanese Yen is the second most well-known currency pair and is frequently utilized by financial institutions as a measure of the performance of Asian economies.
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Binary trading lets you trade crude oil in USD and other currencies that are traded. While there is no plan for any changes, a lot of analysts believe the USD will eventually lose the status as the currency of choice. There are some things you should be aware of when trading crude oil in binary form. Continue reading to learn more about trading crude oil in binary format. If you’re unsure where to start here are some helpful resources.
The first thing investors must be aware of is the report on crude oil inventories from the US Department of Energy. The report, which doesn’t include the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) and shows the fluctuations in the balance between supply and demand. The price fluctuates based on these numbers, but this isn’t the only factor that influences oil prices. You’ll need to mix several data points with EIA statistics to make the most accurate predictions. The number of barrels available at the time of publication determines the price of oil.
The price of crude oil fluctuates greatly on different markets. The price of crude oil is directly affected by natural catastrophes, political developments and the emergence of currency markets. There are two types for crude oil contracts: spot and futures. Spot contracts reflect the current prices on the market, whereas futures contracts are the prices buyers and sellers will pay on a later date. Crude oil can be traded in both the spot and derivatives markets all over the world.
The prices of crude oil are greatly affected by the global economy. When oil prices increase, it is because of demand for energy. Despite fluctuations in demand for energy-related products, the global economy is still an important exporter. As such, any change in energy prices will have an impact on the value of the Canadian dollar. But, despite the volatility in the price of crude oil, there are numerous variables that could affect it. Weather can have a major impact on the price of oil, and it can change quickly.
As with any other commodity, crude oil has its own degree of volatility. If you wish to make money from it, you need to determine what you believe the price will be in the near future. Traders are generally able to forecast the value of a commodity by the use of charts. This tool allows you to create multiple trading strategies and generate large profits. Trading crude oil could help diversify your portfolio just like trading on the stock exchange. How To Win At Binary Trading
Binary options are something that you may have heard about if you’ve ever traded stocks. They allow you to make an offer or bid on the basis of the price of an asset. The profit from a binary option is the value of the contract less the premium that you paid for it. Since the contracts are worthless should the asset that they’re based on fail to reach its exercise threshold prior to expiration date, they’re ideal to secure profits.
The UK financial regulator regulates binary options and contracts for difference which are both forms of binary options. While CySEC and the FCA regulate binary trading however, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission is responsible for the financial market. Although binary options were recently banned in the UK but the law is not legally binding in Australia or the United States. This legislation is intended to protect traders but not discourage them from trading. Binary trading can be a powerful tool both for traders and investors.
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A complete EEG Motor Imagery Classification pipeline
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Table of Contents
About The Project
BCI's measure brain activity, process it, and produce control signals that reflect the user's intent. We aim to detect and classify patterns of activity in the ongoing brain signals that are associated with specific tasks or events.
A common mental strategy is called motor imagery. In our implementation, we aim to tell if the users are thinking of moving your left hand, right hand, or not moving (idle).
To get a local copy up and running follow these simple example steps.
- Install python modules
pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ bci4als
For more examples, please refer to the [examples][examples-url]
See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).
Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.
- Fork the Project
- Create your Feature Branch (
git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
- Commit your Changes (
git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
- Push to the Branch (
git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
- Open a Pull Request
Distributed under the MIT License. See
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Britishvolt has announced plans to invest more than £200 million in a new facility in the West Midlands to test manufacturing methods that will be used at its planned gigafactory in Northumberland.
It has partnered with warehouse developer Prologis for the Hams Hall facility in Warwickshire which is expected to help the company rapidly ramp up battery cells and support the “smooth start-up” of the gigaplant operations at Cambois in 2024.
The test facility, which is expected to create more than 150 skilled jobs, will spearhead new cell formats and electro chemistries to create “higher performance, production-ready batteries of the future” whilst helping lower cell costs for more affordable electric vehicles (EVs).
The Northumberland gigafactory is expected to produce around 300,000 lithium-ion batteries a year by 2027, with the release of an official A-sample battery cell scheduled in 2022.
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The true power of a business’ agility lies in its flexibility. Having perfected a truly intuitive product over the last decade, we put all our abilities to test for the Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona. In a bid to bring ease, efficiency and effectiveness to healthcare for tribes, we ended up creating a milestone model for tribal healthcare in the United States of America.
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The solution offers a quick glance on any patient’s family history for physicians and treating doctors to consider. In a truly digitised and dynamic format, this feature helped identify disease patterns, individual and group tendencies to predict possibilities better.
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HAMPSHIRE, ENGLAND—Research firm Juniper Research dusted off its crystal ball this month and released what it’s predicting to be the top 10 tech trends of 2018.
1. Amazon & Facebook Lead OTT Bids For Major Sporting Rights
While over-the-top (OTT) sports coverage has been limited to streaming games that are also simulcast by broadcasters, recent bids by the two companies for rights to pro soccer indicate this likely won’t be the case much longer.
“Amazon’s key card here is Amazon Prime,” according to Juniper in its report. “Not only would it gain revenues from new Amazon Prime customers … but additionally revenues derived from retail sales by those customers via the Prime channel. This significantly reduces the number of new customers it would require to cover the costs of a rights package.”
Noted the research firm: “A successful Amazon bid would be a game changer, and would almost certainly encourage it, and its VoD competitors, to mount further bids. Ultimately this would set them up to bid for the biggest prizes of all, the rights to major US sporting events, which are next up for grabs from 2020 onwards.”
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2. Apple, Facebook & Google Bring Social Payments To The Masses
Consumers have become increasingly more trusting of social media and messaging payment services, and launches from the tech trio will accelerate adoption in 2018. The total number of mobile P2P transactions will approach 90 billion in 2018, predicted Juniper, valued at nearly $590 billion.
3. AI & Blockchain to Power Numerous Fintech & Insurance Solutions
The research firm expects blockchain — a digital public ledger of digital currency like bitcoin — will transcend traditional banking applications into such areas as money transferring and digital ID verification.
4. Edge Compuiting to Fast Track the IoT
Edge computing, a method of data processing, will work in tandem with Cloud computing to hasten IoT’s presence in all avenues of technology.
5. Facial Recognition Applications Surge
It’s not just the iPhone X: We can expect to see the technology used in marketing campaigns, enabling brands to provide recommendations to shoppers.
Added Juniper: “We also think that we will start to see more applications of facial recognition to enable invisible payments, such as those employed in Amazon Go, to reduce the level of in-store friction still further.”
6. The Rise of Robo-Advisors & App-Based Investments
Digital-minded millennials will be more likely to participate in fintech in 2018, spurred on by artificial intelligence. “The use of the smartphone app as a medium,” said Juniper, “combined with the rise of digital-only challenger banks will attract users traditionally discouraged by financial services.”
7. Machine Learning Coming to Verify Your Identity
Using ML tech to verify customers’ identifies will advance in 2018, said Juniper, especially in the U.K. where changing regulations are hastening adoption.
8. Chinese Cards & Wallets Achieve Scale in Western Markets
High spend from the tourist trade is motivating Chinese payment services to partner with retailers, point-of-sale and transfer providers in the United States and Europe, said Juniper.
9. Smart Toys Educating the Masses
Tech toys will finally receive their due, supported by product launches from major companies like Lego and Anki.
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10. Wireless Charging Market Moves Up a Gear
The Qi wireless-charging format received a major shot in the arm over the AirFuel Alliance this year, thanks in no small part to Apple’s inclusion of Qi in the iPhone 8 and X. While AirFuel is expected to power larger devices vs. Qi-powered smartphones and tablets, Juniper said this may not be the case for very long.
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Get ready to cringe.
A new PSA from EngenderHealth’s WTFP?! (Where’s The Family Planning) Campaign takes viewers on a tour through history and the myriad ways women have tried to prevent unwanted pregnancy.
Many of the methods, outlined in the video above, are unsavory at best and dangerous at worst. In ancient Egypt, women used “crocodile dung mixed with honey” for spermicide. In ancient Greece, women drank lead-riddled “blacksmith water,” which is toxic. And in the U.S. during the 1960s, women would put fizzing cola in their vagina after sex as a bizarre — and misguided — way to prevent pregnancy. (The birth control pill was introduced in the U.S. in 1960, but as TIME noted in its 50th anniversary story about the pill, “women usually had to be married to get it.”)
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We are constantly pushed to eat healthier foods. Avoiding foods that are high in sugars and saturated fats is said to aid in losing weight, gaining energy, and promoting long-term health. A healthier diet is often attained by eating whole, unprocessed foods. But not all healthy foods are created equal…enter FODMAPS. Drs. Peter Gibson and Susan Shepherd from Monash University noticed that some so called healthy food contain carbohydrates and alcohols that are absorbed more poorly than others. They called these carbohydrates FODMAPs, which stand for “Fermentable, Oligo-, Di-, Mono-saccharides and Polyols.” Everyone has a problem digesting FODMAPs, but some experience abdominal discomfort more severe than others. If you are eating well but still suffer abdominal symptoms, consider substituting these commons foods with lower-FODMAP options. Honey: Honey gets a lot of buzz because it is seen as a more natural alternative to its processed cousin, granulated sugar. Be that as it may, honey is very high in the monosaccharide fructose, which can have irritative qualities for those with fructose malabsorption. Try instead: The healthiest option is to eliminate sweeteners of any kind! However, if you must sweeten, some sweeteners are lower on the FODMAP scale because they contain more glucose, which absorbs fructose. Pure maple syrup is recommended because its fructose-glucose ratio is more balanced than honey. It is also possible to buy glucose in powder format, which has a light sweet taste. Avoid artificial sweeteners; they may contain sugar alcohols known as polyols. Cauliflower: Not many people know that some fruits and vegetables also contain polyols. Cauliflower, for example, contains polyols, which are poorly absorbed and can be irritating in large amounts. Try instead: The FODMAP content of foods can be lowered through the process of canning or pickling. The irritants are extracted into the brine, so you can enjoy pickled cauliflower if you throw out the brine. If pickling isn’t an option, carrots and bell peppers are a snack with the same satisfying crunch and are lower on the FODMAP scale. If you’re looking for a steamed side dish, bok choy has a very similar texture, and is great sprinkled with just a little salt and pepper, or a dash of fish sauce. Coconut Water: Hailed as the latest superdrink, coconut water is beloved as a great source of electrolytes which aids in quick hydration, making it a favourite among athletes. In this case, however, too much of a good thing is a bad thing. Coconut products are high in fructose which, as already mentioned, can be an irritant to those with fructose malabsorption. Try instead: A serving size of 250mL of coconut water is considered high in FODMAPs, but a smaller serving at 100mL is low. Dilute a smaller portion with water in your drinking container; it will have the same refreshing taste and hydrating qualities, but will be gentler on your tummy. Citrus fruits, especially oranges, are also excellent electrolyte replenishers. Squeeze half a fruit and a dash of salt into your water container for a homemade sports drink with unbeatable flavour. Certain Teas: One of the most ancient beverages, tea has been praised for its healing factor for thousands of years. But some varieties are prone to making us feel sick, especially in large amounts. Chai, chamomile, fennel and oolong teas are among those high in FODMAPs. Strong black tea contain moderate FODMAP content. Try instead: Like many foods, limiting your intake can be key. The FODMAP content of these beverages can be reduced by brewing a weaker tea. If that is not your thing, consider switching to a tea with a naturally lower FODMAP content. White tea, green tea, and peppermint tea are great substitutes. You could also drink fruit-based herbal teas. Onions and garlic: Essential seasonings in many cultures, onions and garlic are very high on the FODMAP scale, as they contain fructans. An added complication is that foods normally low-FODMAPs, such as chicken and some vegetables, can become an irritant when prepared with onions or garlic. Try instead: Sauté garlic and onion, then discard the bulbs. The oil will be well-flavoured, and the FODMAPs won’t extract into the oil, so it should be tolerated by most people. Alternatively, the stalk that grows from the garlic bulb, the scape, does not contain FODMAPs, and can be used as a garlic substitute. Chives or scallions can be used in place of onion. Or, learn how to season foods in other new and exciting ways, such as by using balsamic vinegar, fresh herbs, ginger, or citrus fruits. This has by no means been an extensive list of foods high in FODMAPs, but contains some of perhaps the most surprising. One thing is for sure however….educating yourself and “listening to your gut” literally can make all the difference in your well-being.
FOOD WARS: Healthy vs. Healthier and the FODMAP Connection
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Tianwan 4 containment dome in place29 сентября 2015
Construction of unit 4 of China’s Tianwan nuclear power plant has entered a new phase with the installation of its containment dome.
Installation of the dome was completed ahead of schedule on 26 September and marks the end of the civil construction phase at the project, China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) said. The project now enters the equipment installation phase.
The operation to lift the dome into place took less than two hours, using a similar lifting program used at Tianwan 3. Innovations to the lifting process have resulted in overall time savings of nearly two months compared with the similar construction stage at Tianwan units 1 and 2, CNNC said.
Tianwan 4 is the second of two AES-91 VVER-1000 units designed by Gidropress, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom. Two similar units that have been in commercial operation at the in Jiangsu site since 2007. AtomStroyExport, another Rosatom subsidiary, is the main contractor, supplying the nuclear island. Construction work began on unit 3 in December 2012, with unit 4 following in September 2014. The units are expected to start operation in 2016 and 2017 respectively.Вернуться ко всем новостям | <urn:uuid:c4f08b08-9b9f-4bb6-95f5-6e343827587b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vosafety.ru/novosti-otrasli/tianwan-4-containment-dome-in-place/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.918672 | 284 | 1.789063 | 2 |
St. Anthony Mary Gianelli was born in Genoa, Italy, in a poor but pious family. He attended seminary, showing great promise, through the generosity of the owner of his family farm. Because Anthony was so young when he completed his studies, he required a special dispensation to be ordained, becoming a priest in 1812.
As a parish priest, Anthony founded a few religious communities, although not all of them lasted. In 1827, he established the Missionaries of St. Alphonsus, which existed until 1848. He also founded the Oblates of St. Alphonsus the following year, but they lasted only 20 years. The Sisters of Our Lady of the Garden, which he founded in 1829, is still in operation in Europe, Asia, and the United States today, ministering in education and among the sick.
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Authors: James Meneghello; Kevin Lee
Addresses: School of Engineering and Information Technology, Murdoch University, Perth, Western, Australia ' School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
Abstract: Maintaining communications across disconnected networks can be a troubling issue, particularly since existing solutions are highly theoretical or have unrealistic hardware requirements. As a result, CANDICE was designed with the aim of allowing extensible accessible facilitation of internet connections in environments not suited to reliable communications - particularly hostile zones. Unfortunately, current web development trends (including a heavier emphasis on user interaction and asynchronous data transfer) ensure that less useful content is accessible without an uninterrupted internet connection. By evaluating the operation of CANDICE in retrieving popular websites, types of content that are well-suited to transmission over disrupted networks can be determined.
Keywords: networking; internet and communications; disconnected networks; Web 2.0; fault tolerance.
International Journal of Humanitarian Technology, 2018 Vol.1 No.1, pp.66 - 82
Received: 04 Jul 2015
Accepted: 14 Sep 2015
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Climate change vs. freedoms
A panel of experts are set to debate limiting personal freedoms for the good of the earth’s climate at the University of British Columbia Okanagan later this month.
Keynote speaker Michael Ignatieff and an expert panel including, Ed Dolan, John Dryzek, Kathryn Harrison, William Rees, Meghan Robinson, Mark Sagoff, Marlowe Sam and Andrew Weaver will explore if limiting freedoms is required to achieve climate stability.
The online virtual debate will take place Tuesday, April 12 between 9 am and 6:30 pm and the question being asked is, “should individual choice be restricted to preserve the climate?”
The panel is starting with the assumption that climate change is responsible for the increase in wildfires, flooding and other natural disasters.
The event will explore if constraining human choices can promote climate stability. A panel of subject-matter experts — including former Liberal Party of Canada Leader and the leader of the Official Opposition from 2008 until 2011, Michael Ignatieff — will explore this topic in individual and panel sessions.
The panel organizer, Dr. Johannus Janmaat, says the symposium comes at a crucial time when there is a shortcoming in the efforts for climate stability.
“On April 4, 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released the third component of its latest assessment, pointing out that the nations of the world have done far less than promised to reduce climate change,” he states. “Why? Are the people of the world simply not willing to sacrifice their own freedoms now to reduce the chance of a less deliverable future?”
The Roger W. Gale Symposium is a series of events focusing on current issues that overlap multiple disciplines.
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From the Preacher’s Pen…
It is, unfortunately, all too easy for us to forget that God really does know us and the struggles we face. That was, of course, a part of Jesus’ coming to this earth to face those struggles, those temptations as one of us. That uniquely qualifies Him as both our ultimate High Priest and our Savior (cf. Hebrews 4:15).
In Jesus’ life on this earth, He spent most of His time between the region of Galilee and Jerusalem. He would experience the seasons that He had once promised Noah and his descendants would never end until this earth itself is finally destroyed in judgment (cf. Genesis 8:22).
As our winter approaches, let’s consider a very special season in the life here on earth of our Savior.
Jesus knew of the Psalmists praise to Him as the one who had made both summer and winter (Psalm 74:17). Living in the land of Israel He would have known that the rains of winter would be vital not only to the Spring harvest but to the rivers and lakes that would lead to the lush produce of summer. He would have learned to both treasure and appreciate Solomon’s comment about the winter being past and the rain over and gone (Song 2:11).
Travelling the mountain roads and spending so much time in and around Jerusalem Jesus would have felt the cold. He would have seen the fall of snow and known the warmth of a fire like Jeremiah described in the king’s house one cold day (Jeremiah 36:22).
As Jesus prophesied of the coming destruction of Jerusalem He would counsel that God’s people pray that their flight would not be in the cold of winter (cf. Mark 13:18). Much like His lament over Jerusalem (Luke 13:34), He would sorrow for the pain His people felt even for their sins.
But in so many ways perhaps the worst winter of His life here on earth (certainly the most poignant!) would have been His final one in Jerusalem.
Many years before Jesus had been born in Bethlehem, God’s people had rededicated the Temple and rebuilt the Alter of God after a Greek king had desecrated it with offerings of pigs. Every winter they would celebrate God’s blessing, His deliverance and that time of rededication to show their thanksgiving.
John would describe that day like this: At that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon (John 10:22-23).
For centuries the Jews had looked forward to the promised one of God, the Messiah, the God-with-us fulfillment of prophecy to come and give true meaning, true direction to their lives. He would, among so many other things, tell them what to do with the pile of stones discarded from the defiled altar. Even if it had been profaned, they were afraid of completely removing from the Temple grounds what had once been holy. And so it happened that, in Jesus’ last winter here on earth, He and a crowd converged at this moment in time and history.
Their question was bluntly stated, The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, “How long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly” (John 10:24).
His answer was equally blunt, I told you, and you do not believe (verse 25). Even more blunt, was His next statement, But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep (John 10:26). And the reason that He knew all about God’s sheep was the simple fact that Jesus was God! (John 10:30)
It seems pathetic that today so many will argue that Jesus wasn’t and never claimed to be God. Why? Because the very crowd gathered to demand that He reveal that He was the fulfillment of Scripture, would pick up the rocks from that pile of stone and seek to kill Him for claiming to be God (John 10:33).
For all the drama, for all the threats, for all the hatred of God, the winter was not to be the time of death for the Savior. His sacrifice, His death would have to wait until the season of new life.
Winter, with all its chill, all its threats, all its harbingers of death, is not the promise.
Another winter was approaching many later when an elderly preacher would write a final letter to his longtime friend and fellow preacher. Paul would urge Timothy to come soon (2 Timothy 4:9) bringing his coat left at Troas (verse 13) and do so before winter (verse 21). Paul would write these words all the while knowing that this winter, much like that earlier winter for Jesus His Savior, would be his last (verse 6).
Winter, once more, with all its chill, all its threats, all its harbingers of death would still not be the promise of God.
Just as night precedes the new day, so Winter, for all its harshness is but the reminder that Spring and Life are coming. You see, God designed it just that way.
Winter, with all its chill, all its threats, all its harbingers of death, is never the end, never the promise.
As our Winter descends may we remember and live for the promise of Spring, the promise of resurrection and new life in Christ! Are you ready for death or life?
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The Scholar Responds: John Cochrane On Economic Growth
Hoover Institution Senior Fellow John H. Cochrane responds to questions related to economic growth.
1) 0:32 - What's the problem with economic growth?
2) 1:45 - What's the difference between 2% and 3% growth?
3) 2:34 - Won't we eventually run out of resources if we keep growing?
4) 3:38 - With more and more automation, won't we eventually run out of jobs?
5) 4:24 - Doesn't deregulation mean less safety?
6) 5:10 - Why is the U.S. growing so slowly?
Watch the original video 'Growth is Good: Why Slow Growth Can't Be The New Normal' which discusses how America’s economy is growing at half the rate it used to. Slow growth rates have enormous effects on the quality of life over long periods of time. Getting back to rapid economic growth will alleviate budgetary problems, increase paychecks, and lead to widely shared prosperity. | <urn:uuid:dfeb5381-b028-414d-9c92-627473b8a734> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.policyed.org/intellections/growth-is-good/office-hours-john-cochrane-answers-your-questions-economic-growth | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.903141 | 217 | 2.234375 | 2 |
3D LightBoost, On-Board Memory, Standards, And 4K
As we were going through Nvidia's press material, we found ourselves asking a number of questions about G-Sync as a technology today, along with its role in the future. During a recent trip to the company's headquarters in Santa Clara, we were able to get some answers.
G-Sync And 3D LightBoost
The first thing we noticed was that Nvidia was sending out that Asus VG248QE monitor, modified to support G-Sync. That monitor also supports what Nvidia currently calls 3D LightBoost technology, which was originally introduced to improve brightness in 3D displays, but has long been unofficially used in 2D mode as well, using its panel-pulsing backlight to reduce the ghosting (or motion blur) artifact we mentioned on page one. Naturally, we wanted to know if that could be used with G-Sync.
Nvidia answered that no, although using both technologies at the same time is what you'd want ideally, today, strobing the backlight at a variable refresh currently results in flicker and brightness issues. Solving them is incredibly complex, since you have to adjust luminance and keep track of pulses. As a result, you currently have to choose between the two technologies, although the company is working on a way to use them together in the future.
The G-Sync Module's On-Board Memory
As we already know, G-Sync eliminates the incremental input lag associated with V-sync, since there's no longer a need to wait for the panel to scan. However, we noticed that the G-Sync module has on-board memory. Could the module be buffering frames itself? If so, how much time would it take for a frame to make its way through the new pipeline?
According to Nvidia, frames are never buffered in the module's memory. As data comes in, it's displayed on the screen, and the memory does perform several other roles. However, the processing time related to G-Sync is way less than one millisecond. In fact, this is roughly the same latency encountered with V-sync off, and is related to the game, graphics driver, the mouse, and so on.
Will G-Sync Ever Be Standardized?
This came up during a recent AMA with AMD when a reader wanted to get the company's reaction to G-Sync. However, we also wanted to follow up with Nvidia directly to see if the company had any plans to push its technology as an industry standard. In theory, it could propose G-Sync as an update to the DisplayPort standard, exposing variable refresh rates. Nvidia is a member of VESA, the industry's main standard-setting board, after all.
Simply, there are no plans to introduce a new spec to DisplayPort, HDMI, or DVI. G-Sync is already working with DisplayPort 1.2, meaning there's no need for a standards change.
As mentioned, Nvidia is working to make G-Sync compatible with what it currently refers to as 3D LightBoost (and will be called something else soon). It's also trying to bring the module's cost down to make G-Sync more accessible.
G-Sync At Ultra HD Resolutions
Nvidia's online FAQ promises G-Sync-capable monitors with resolutions as high as 3840x2160. However, the Asus model we're previewing today maxes out at 1920x1080. Currently, the only Ultra HD monitors employ STMicro's Athena controller, which uses two scalers to create a tiled display. We were curious, then: does the G-Sync module support an MST configuration?
In truth, we'll be waiting a while before 4K displays show up with variable refresh rates. Today, there is no single scaler able to support 4K resolutions, and the soonest that's expected to arrive is Q1 of 2014, with monitors including it showing up in Q2. Because the G-Sync module replaces the scaler, compatible panels would only start surfacing sometime after that point. Fortunately, the module does natively support Ultra HD.
Keeping Up: What Happens Under 30 Hz?
The variable refresh enabled by G-Sync works down to 30 Hz. The explanation for this is that, at very low refresh rates, an image on an LCD starts to decay after a while and you end up with visual artifacts. If your source drops below 30 FPS, the module knows to refresh the panel automatically, avoiding those issues. That might mean displaying the same image more than once, but the threshold is set to 30 Hz to maintain the best-looking experience possible. | <urn:uuid:8ec79350-d0d8-4440-95eb-5fa7cfb06dd9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/g-sync-v-sync-monitor,3699-2.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946897 | 964 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Becoming less lonely
Ventilen, or “friend to one” in Danish, is an organization that helps 15-to-25-year-olds get together twice a week with two or three volunteers. Together, the people in the group play games, make meals, go to the cinema, and build human connections.
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Khecheoplari Tsho is a large lake located 27 km from Pelling and is a common tourist sightseeing point. The lake is considered to be one of the sacred lakes of Sikkim. The lake remains hidden in the rich forest cover. It is believed that birds do not permit even a single leaf to float on the Khecheoplari lake surface. There is a motorable road from Pelling right up to the lake area.
The sacred lake lies in a depression surrounded by prayer flags and forested hills. By the lakeshore is the small Lepcha village of Tsojo, and about 1.5km above the lake is the Khecheoplari Gompa. Tourists and locals offer prayer at the lake and also feed the pool of fish in the lake.
The place is popular among trekkers. There is also a walking trail from Pelling to Khecheoplari (5 hours). It is possible to trek to Yuksom from Khecheoplari (4 hours).
For those interested in spending a night or two in this place, there are a few basic accommodations in the village nearby. There is also a pilgrim's hut meant to provide accommodations to the people who come on pilgrimage tours to Khecheoplari.
Khechepalri means – The mountain of blissful heaven. Legend has it that this place was once a grazing ground full of stinging nettle. Native Lepchas use the bark of the nettle for a number of purposes. One day a Lepcha couple were peeling the bark of the nettle when they saw a pair of conch shells coming through the air and entering into the ground. Soon after the earth beneath shook violently and spring of water came out. The entire ground was soon engulfed and turned out to be a huge lake. As per Nesol text, the lake was recognized as the abode of Tshomen Gyalmo, the chief protecting nymph of dharma as blessed by goddess Tara. Native people believe that the shape of the lake resembles the footprint of the goddess Tara.
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The Bee Gees in the 1960s
In April 1967, the Bee Gees launched themselves onto the international music scene with the release of ‘New York Mining Disaster 1941’.
Whilst that haunting classic would be the first of many hits, the Bee Gees, consisting of brothers Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb had been releasing records since 1963. As extraordinary as it sounds, with more than ten years of performing and four years of recording behind them, the Gibb twins, Robin and Maurice, were just seventeen while elder brother Barry was only twenty. In an incredible career the Bee Gees would go on to sell over 200 million records, making them among the best-selling music artists of all time, they would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the Australian Recording Industry’s Hall of Fame, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and receive lifetime achievement awards from the British Phonographic Industry, the American Music Awards, World Music Awards and the Grammys. According to Billboard magazine the Bee Gees are one of top three most successful bands in their charts’ history. Few musical groups have provided the soundtrack to our lives like the Bee Gees, and it all started in the fascinating decade that was the 1960s
About the authors
Based in Wales, the United States, and Australia, respectively, Andrew Môn Hughes, Grant Walters & Mark Crohan have over fourteen decades of combined expertise and history tied to the Bee Gees’ legacy between them, amassing a lengthy list of credits for their contributions to CDs, DVDs, books, tour programmes, articles, television documentaries, and official websites.
In 2000, Andrew and Mark co-authored the expansive biography, Tales of the Brothers Gibb. Andrew’s expert contributions can be seen and heard in a myriad of Bee Gees-related productions for the BBC, ITV, A&E, and VH1 networks.
Mark, the foremost expert on the Bee Gees’ Australian era gifted his collection to the Queensland Library in 2016. He contributed liner notes to the 1998 compilation Assault the Vaults.
Grant is an award-winning freelance arts writer for Columbus Underground and Albumism, for which he has penned nearly 300 features since 2015. He is a prolific music interviewer, conversing with a diverse roster of artists including Dionne Warwick, Midge Ure, Melissa Etheridge, Edie Brickell and Bryan Adams.
The three authors that have come together to create this project have left no stone unturned. In addition to getting to the bottom of all of the information they could about these tracks, sessions and albums, spanning multiple decades, they have also created a narrative that will make you feel closer to The Bee Gees, and undoubtedly have a new perspective on the music, the story, and the legacy.
(son of Robin Gibb)
All the many things we accomplished during those two incredible years of my life are included in this fantastic book. I sincerely hope you enjoy reading about those years as much as I enjoyed living them.
(Bee Gee -1967-68)
Decades: The Bee Gees in the 1960s
Signed by Vince Melouney
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A detailed analysis is presented of both the individual and collective laboratory findings in 179 pregnant Rh-negative women. Transcribed image text: Which agglutinogens and agglutinins do the different agglutinin, substance that causes particles to congeal in a group or mass, particularly a typical antibody that occurs in the blood serums of immunized and normal human beings and animals. When agglutinogens and agglutinins get together it produces agglutination. Available for iPhone, iPad, Android, and Web. Agglutination is the process of forming aggregations due to the combination of Agglutinogens are antigenic substances that stimulate the formation of specific agglutinin antibodies. This blood type has NO agglutinogens and anti-A and anti-B agglutinins, so it cannot accept Type A, B, or AB blood, but can accept Type O blood (also called the "universal donor"). Acid fast staining procedure . gen ( -gl-tin'-jen) An antigenic substance that stimulates the formation of specific agglutinin, which, under certain conditions, causes agglutination of cells that contain the An agglutinogen is an antigen on the surface of particles such as red blood cells that react with the antibody known as agglutinin to produce agglutination. agglutinogens FAQ what are agglutinogens admin Send email December 11, 2021 minutes read You are watching what are agglutinogens Lisbd net.com Contents1 What Are Agglutinogens Agglutinogn s agglutinin funkcik Ha az agglutinognek, ugyanazok az antignek, kapnaka szlk, majd az agglutininek (antitestek vagy AT) a gyermek letnek els vben llnak el. 12 13. [Article in Czech] Author M When type B agglutinogen is not present on the surface of RBC of a person, his plasma would contain ____ agglutinins. How are ABO blood types determined? Agglutinins. Agglutinogn s agglutinin funkcik Ha az agglutinognek, ugyanazok az antignek, kapnaka szlk, majd az agglutininek (antitestek vagy AT) a gyermek letnek els vben llnak el. Agglutinogen as a noun means An antigen that stimulates the production of a particular agglutinin, such as an antibody.. The antigens that are involved in Blood Groups are called agglutinogens and the antibodies that are produced against these antigens are called agglutinins. We worry about something called agglutinin and what agglutinin is is that its an antibody in the plasma and it works to act as a bodyguard for the blood. -antign s agglutinin tartalma: there are 2 types of agglutinogens: Agglutinogen A and Agglutinogen B individuals with red blood cells containing Agglutinogen A have a Blood In our bodies, we have an awesome More example sentences. agglutinogenicagglutogenic (-glootn- They react with antibodies (agglutinins). They react with antibodies (agglutinins). question_answer Why is there no agglutination in blood type O? A) These cell elements cause the cells to repel one another, thus spacing themselves out in the blood. Those red cells which are Rh Substance in blood that can promote coagulation and clumping of particles. When the immune system cause cross linking of cells or particles an agglutination reaction occurs and the genic adj. Blood of one group contains antibodies called agglutinins in the plasma that react against the agglutinogens on the cells of other groups. JANUARY, 1944 BLOOD AGGLUTININS 13 BLOOD AGGLUTININS IN RELATION TO BLOOD TRANSFUSION By C. J. C. BRITTON, M.D., D.P.H. ABO: :agglutinogen, RBC;A (A,A1,A2)B :agglutinin, AB agglutinogen answers are found in the Taber's Medical Dictionary powered by Unbound Medicine. What is the difference between agglutinins and agglutinogens? The following examples of agglutination reactions : 1. Az agglutinogn egy vrfehrje. We've got the study and writing resources you need for your assignments.Start exploring! Runyon's Classification of non tuberculous mycobacteria . Agglutinogens are substances that stimulate the formation of agglutinin. How many Agglutinogens are there? noun. See more. agglutinin, substance that causes particles to congeal in a group or mass, particularly a typical antibody that occurs in the blood serums of immunized and normal human beings and Agglutinogen definition: an antigen that reacts with or stimulates the formation of a specific agglutinin | Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples Agglutinin and agglutinogen Agglutinin is View the full answer Transcribed image text : A person with type A blood has: a) A agglutinins on their red blood cells b) A agglutinogens in their plasma c) B agglutinogens on their red blood cells d) B agglutinins in their plasma e) the ability to receive AB blood cells Type O Negative (right) has none of the antigens (A, B or Rh) on its membrane.Agglutination (clumping) of type A) A and B antigens and neither anti-A nor anti-B antibodies. 1922-tl hallig New York-i Rockefeller intzetben dolgozik. 1. Define agglutinogen. Thereof, what is a type and screen? A) anti-B antibodies. ABO Blood Grouping System. Cold agglutinin disease is a rare type of autoimmune hemolytic anemia in which the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys its own red blood cells.
Both grouping is based on the presence and the absence of agglutinogens and their specific agglutinins.. agglutinin agglutinogen aggradation aggrade aggraded aggrades aggrading aggrandise. A 2, 3 s 4 vrcsoportban van jelen. Biochemistry. Abstract and Figures. Itu perbedaan utama antara Agglutinogens dan Agglutinins adalah bahwa aglutinogen adalah semua jenis antigen atau benda asing yang mengaktifkan pembuatan antibodi aglutinin Agglutinogen definition, an antigen that causes the production of agglutinins. Agglutinin. Anti-M and anti-N agglutinins are rarely found in normal serum. Antigens to which Agglutinins (e.g. Related Articles. gen ( -gl-tin'-jen) An antigenic substance that stimulates the formation of specific agglutinin, which, under certain conditions, causes agglutination of cells that contain the Az there are 2 types of agglutinogens: Agglutinogen A and Agglutinogen B individuals with red blood cells containing Agglutinogen A have a Blood Type A; individuals with red blood cells containing Agglutinogen B have a Blood Type B; individuals with red blood cells containing both Agglutinogen A and B have Blood Type AB; individuals with red Agglutinin. agglutinogen. 5. Agglutinins are the specific antibodies produced by the immune system. : an antigen whose presence results in the formation of an agglutinin Other Words from agglutinogen agglutinogenic \ - gl- t- n- je- nik \ adjective First Known Use of 3. Synonyms for agglutinin include serum, antidote, antihistamine, antiserum, agglutinogen, agglutinoid, antibody, antigen, antitoxin and counterirritant. Elution: After washing, the HPA-bound (HPA +) material is eluted from the beads by incubation of the beads with 45 L of 50 mM GalNAc in PBS for 1015 min at room temperature with Az antignek mr a magzati fejlds harmadik hnapjban alakulnak ki. Thepresenceof agglutinin ain arat doesnotpreclude thedevelopment of agglutinin malong with it. 24) When an agglutinin meets its specific agglutinogen, what will occur? Fill out the table: Agglutinogen Surface antigens Agglutinin Antibodies Common name Found where in the body?
An antigenic substance present in blood cells, bacteria, etc., which stimulates the formation of an agglutinin in blood serum. Antign s agglutinin tallkozsa: agglutinatio : 4. C) A cross-matching will occur. Bacteria, viruses, cells) to stick together, forming a clump or mass Agglutinin examples include antibodies, lectins, and viral proteins; Agglutinogen. The results of cross-agglutination and agglutinin absorption experiments with the motile smooth, non-motile smooth, motile rough, and non-motile rough forms of B. typhosus are presented. Az antitest az immunrendszert szintetizlja, s csak azokkal az antignnel klcsnhatsba lpnek, amelyre szntk. is that antigen is antigen while agglutinogen is (biochemistry) any antigen that stimulates the production of an agglutinin. When Blood transfusions in humans were risky procedures until the discovery of Antibodies in the plasma, known as agglutinins, react with the agglutinogens in blood of an incompatible blood group (see agglutination). The key difference between Agglutinogens and Agglutinins is that the agglutinogens are any type of antigens or foreign bodies which activate the making of agglutinin antibodies while the [Determination of agglutinogen and agglutinin in synovial fluids] [Determination of agglutinogen and agglutinin in synovial fluids] Cesk Patol. Related terms: Lectin Find 8 ways to say AGGLUTININ, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. Examination of families showed that the agglutinogen is inherited as a simple Mendelian dominant. Clostridium welchii . 1974 Feb;19(1):6-9. 1974 Feb;19(1):6-9. (AssistantPathologist, BlandSuttonInstitute, An agglutinogen is an antigen that stimulates production of agglutinin, which could be an antibody or another substance that causes agglutination to occur. Find 8 ways to say AGGLUTINOGEN, along with antonyms, related words, and example sentences at Thesaurus.com, the world's most trusted free thesaurus. FREE ANTIGEN AND ANTIBODY CIRCULATING TOGETHER IN LARGE AMOUNTS (HEMAGGLUTININ AND AGGLUTINOGEN IN THE BLOOD OF TRANSFUSED RABBITS) Peyton Rous, Peyton Rous From the Laboratories of The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. This incompatibility results in agglutination. (-gloot-n-jn) [ agglutin- + -gen] An antigen that stimulates the production of an agglutinin. A person with A+ blood has _____. temperature between agglutinin d of the rhesus system of blood grouping and agglutinogen d in rhesus positive types of abo blood group pre-incubated for an hour with semen from o-ve donor agglutination time (minutes) a+ b+ ab+ d+ replicate 1 2.1 1.6 1.0 2.4 replicate 2 2.2 1.0 1.3 1.0 Once an agglutinin molecule directly binds to the agglutinin molecule on the flagellum of an opposite mating type as a consequence of agglutination, the interaction triggers a series American Heritage Dictionary of the Agglutinogens - definition of agglutinogens by The Free Dictionary agglutinogen - any substance that acts as an antigen to cause agglutinin production. Thusa rat prossessing a maybemadeto develop malso, if agglutinogen Mis injected into it, Agglutinogens vs agglutinins - similarities and differences. The most widely When an agglutinin is added to a uniform suspension of particles (such as bacteria, protozoa, or red cells) that contains the specific surface structure (antigen) with which the agglutinin Az agglutinogn egy vrfehrje. agglutinogen [agloo tin jn] n. any antigen which stimulates the production of agglutinins agglutinogenic [agloo tinjenik] adj English World dictionary. SEE: blood group. noun. The study was under-take [Determination of agglutinogen and agglutinin in synovial fluids] [Determination of agglutinogen and agglutinin in synovial fluids] Cesk Patol. An agglutinogen is an antigen on the surface of particles such as red blood cells that react with the antibody known as agglutinin to produce agglutination. (general, The meaning of AGGLUTINOGEN is an antigen whose presence results in the formation of an agglutinin. In several of the animals in which the agglutinin was strongest, the plethora was suddenly Is Rh an agglutinin? A modern adatok szerint krlbell 236 antign ismert, amelyek 29 rendszerbe vannak csoportostva. is that antigen is antigen while agglutinogen is (biochemistry) any antigen that stimulates the production of an agglutinin. Agglutinogen as a noun means An antigen that stimulates the production of a particular agglutinin, such as an antibody.. B) The blood type will change from that of the agglutinin to that of the agglutinogen. So these A and Define agglutinogen. Agglutinin er stoff som kan f biologiske vsker til klumpa seg, til dmes blod eller mjlk.Mange agglutinin er protein av typen lektin.. Dei best kjende agglutinina er antistoff som finst i blodplasmaen.Dei fr ukjende celler bde bakteriar og andre blodtypar til klumpa seg saman, men angrip ikkje eigne blodceller.. Kjelder. An antigen that stimulates the production of an agglutinin. This rare form of autoimmune hemolytic anemia is known as cold agglutinin disease. Definition. PhysioEx Exercise 11 > Activity 1: Activity and Post-lab Quiz for Hematocrit Determination Click on the link or the image below to launch Exercise 11 > Activity 1: Hematocrit Determination. Download the app! Solution for Define agglutinin. Once an agglutinin molecule directly binds to the agglutinin molecule on the flagellum of an opposite mating type as a consequence of agglutination, the interaction triggers a series of signal transduction events required for fusion of gametes. When a particulate antigen (agglutinogen) combines with its antibody (agglutinin) in the presence of electrolytes at a suitable temperature and pH, the particles are clumped or agglutinated. agglutinogen Any of the antigens that are present on the outer surface of red blood cells (erythrocytes). As nouns the difference between antigen and agglutinogen. What is the differencr between agglutinogens and agglutinins? Anti-a 2. When the immune system cause cross linking of cells or particles an agglutination reaction occurs and the The red blood cells may contain M or N, or both M and N agglutinogens, resulting in blood types M, N, or MN, respectively. Thepresenceof agglutinin ain arat doesnotpreclude thedevelopment of agglutinin malong with it. The key difference between Agglutinogens and Agglutinins is that the agglutinogens are any type of antigens or foreign bodies which activate the making of agglutinin antibodies while the agglutinins are antibodies generating by our immune system against antigens. Substance (antibody) capable of producing agglutination of an agglutinogen (antigen). The distribution of the factor Rh among white individuals and negroes may indicate racial differences. Define and explain the following terms as they relate to blood typing: antigen, antibody, agglutinin and agglutinogens. None Practice questions, MCQs, Past Year Questions (PYQs), NCERT Questions, Question Bank, Class 11 and Class 12 Questions, NCERT Exemplar Questions and PDF Questions with answers, solutions, C) the A antigen on the Group A has agglutinogen A on its cells and agglutinin anti-B Symptoms of infant botulism . PMID: 4462971 No abstract available. B) Rh antigen on the surface of the red blood cells. An agglutinin is a substance in the blood that causes particles to coagulate and aggregate; that is, to change Blood Analysis Due: 11:59pm on Sunday, October 3, 2021 To understand how points are awarded, read the Grading Policy for this assignment. Agglutinins are substances that cause particles to 1.: 2. Vrcsoportrendszerek: a) AB0-rendszer: -felfedezse: Landsteiner (1901) (1868 - 1943) 1898-tl a bcsi Patholgiai Intzet munkatrsa majd vezetje 1919-ig. [Article in Czech] Author M Srch. Blood Types Cold agglutinin disease may be primary or secondary, induced by some other disease or condition. The most widely known agglutinogens are those of the ABO and related blood group systems. ABO Blood Grouping System. View the full answer. From: International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology, 2012. Group O lacks agglutinogens, but the serum contains both the anti-A and anti-B agglutinins.. Thusa rat prossessing a maybemadeto develop malso, if agglutinogen Mis injected into it, resulting in bivalent serum, a +m. Agglutinogens are used primarily in laboratory testing for antibodies against specific blood types. antibodies) bind, resulting in Agglutination; Agglutination Az antignek mr a magzati fejlds harmadik hnapjban alakulnak ki. A: Agglutinogen is a type of protein on the surfaces of RBC. The property is probably genetically independent of the blood groups and the factors M and N. It would appear that, contrary to the usually accepted theory, the four variants have a common somatic agglutinogen. When the three serotypes of Bordetella pertussis (types 1,2,3; 1,2 and 1,3) were labelled with agglutinins and protein-A gold, agglutinogen 1 Both grouping is based on the presence and the absence of agglutinogens and their specific agglutinins.. agglutinants's Usage Examples: structures for synthetic fibres" 1981 " Hydroxipropylic starch based on agglutinants for the printing process" 1981 "Synthesis of 2,4 diaminoacetanilide. Anti-b 3. The type and screen determines both the ABO-Rh of the patient and screens for the presence of the most commonly found unexpected antibodies.Type.ABO-RH testing (the Type): The patient's blood cells are mixed with serum known to have antibodies against A and against B to determine blood type. Difference between agglutinogens and agglutinins? Agglutinin. Both anti-a and anti-b 4. Substance that induces particles (e.g. agglutinogen noun Etymology: agglutinin + o + gen Date: 1904 an antigen whose presence results in the formation of an agglutinin agglutinogenic adjective When type A agglutinogen is not present in a persons red blood cells, antibodies known as anti-A agglutinins develop in the plasma. Complete the Experiment and then answer the Post-lab 100% (6 ratings) Type O- (negetive)blood are called universal donors because their dona . Cold agglutinins are autoantibodies produced by a person's immune system that mistakenly target red blood cells (RBCs). Az agglutinin s az agglutinogn letment fehrjk. A 2, 3 s 4 vrcsoportban Agglutinin.
Az agglutinin s az agglutinogn letment fehrjk. does contain both anti-A andanti-B agglutinins; type A blood contains type A agglutinogens and anti-Bagglutinins; type B blood contains type B agglutino-gens and anti-A agglutinins. As nouns the difference between antigen and agglutinogen.
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And that could spell trouble, says Jane Houlihan, co-author of the new report, issued by The Campaign for Safe Cosmetics in partnership with the Environmental Working Group (EWG). Some chemicals found in fragrances may be hazardous to your health, she says, yet makers of popular colognes, perfumes, and body sprays often don’t disclose all the ingredients found in their products.
”The fragrance mixture itself can be comprised of dozens, even hundreds, of individual chemicals, and those don’t have to be listed on the label,” says Houlihan, senior vice president for research for EWG.
The report, “Not So Sexy: The Health Risks of Secret Chemicals in Fragrance,” includes test results on 17 fragranced products. On average, Houlihan says, the researchers found 14 “secret” chemicals not listed on the label, and she says some of them have been linked to allergic reactions or hormone disruption.
Not surprisingly, industry officials took strong exception to the new report. The new findings, according to John Bailey, PhD, chief scientist for the Personal Care Products Council, is ”another example of a group releasing information without providing all of the information that’s relevant. There may be a bit of selective science going on here.”
Inside the Fragrance Report
Houlihan and colleagues selected various popular fragrances, including colognes and body sprays marketed to both men and women, to see what fragrance chemicals they included. “We started with these 17 products,” Houlihan says, “sent them off to the lab to see what other chemicals are in these products.”
The list of products sent to an independent laboratory to be analyzed included:
- American Eagle Seventy Seven
- Chanel Coco Mademoiselle
- Britney Spears Curious
- Giorgio Armani Acqua Di Gio
- Old Spice After Hours Body Spray
- Calvin Klein Eternity for Men
- Bath & Body Works Japanese Cherry Blossom
- Calvin Klein Eternity (for women)
- Halle by Halle Berry
- Hannah Montana Secret Celebrity
- Victoria’s Secret Dream Angels Heavenly
- Abercrombie & Fitch Fierce
- Jennifer Lopez J. Lo Glow
- AXE Body Spray For Men-Shock
- Clinique Happy Perfume Spray
- Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue
The tests revealed that 38 ”secret” chemicals were in the 17 name-brand products, with an average of 14 chemicals per product. American Eagle Seventy Seven had the most unlisted ingredients, with 24; Dolce & Gabbana Light Blue had the least, with seven.
When they looked closer, Houlihan and colleagues found an average of 10 chemicals linked with allergic reactions such as headaches, wheezing, or asthma. The researchers found 12 different chemicals they describe as potentially hormone-disrupting, such as benzyl benzoate, diethyl phthalate, and tonalide.
Of the 91 ingredients found, the researchers report, only 19 have been reviewed by the Cosmetic Ingredient Review, which is industry-funded, and only 27 have been assessed by the International Fragrance Association and the Research Institute for Fragrance Materials, which have developed voluntary standards for chemicals used in fragrance products.
According to the report, the fragrance industry has 3,100 stock chemical ingredients to choose from.
The FDA and Fragrances
Fragrances in products are covered under the federal Fair Packaging and Labeling Act of 1973.
The act does require companies to list the ingredients of cosmetics, but allows them to simply lump fragrance chemicals as “fragrances.”
Fragrance Labels: What Should Be Done?
”The chemicals that are in fragrances should be listed,” Houlihan says.
“People should be able to know what they are being exposed to,” she says. “Having a simple ingredient list on the label would help people avoid what they are allergic to.”
Fragrances and ‘Hidden’ Chemicals: Industry Response
The researchers are ”cherry picking their science,” Bailey says. For instance, he tells WebMD, ”diethyl phthalate [which the researchers found in 12 of the 17 products and consider a hormone disrupter] has been extensively studied by a number of authoritative bodies and found not to be a problem.”
Bailey contends that the industry does a good job of policing itself when it comes to fragrance. For instance, he says, the International Fragrance Association has set recommendations regarding the use of some chemicals in fragrances.
Allergic reactions are bound to happen with some of the products for some people, he says. If a product is found to cause widespread allergic problems, Bailey says, the FDA can step in and notify the manufacturer.
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The role of permissions and files is much clearer in Linux when compared to Windows. Most people find it easier to understand compared to the complex system of groups and users that we find in Windows’ concept of permissions. For example, each file in a Linux-based operating system has three sets of permissions – the first being the permissions of the owner, the second being for a specific group of users, and the last group’s permissions are responsible for the rest of the system.
The levels of access to reading, writing, and executing are then described with a scale, ranging from 1 to 7. A value of ‘1’ allows for execution of the file, ‘2’ allows writing access, and ‘4’ allows the file to be read. To combine several permissions, you just add the numbers together. For example, if you want read and write access for a file, but no access to executing this file, the value to set for permissions would be 2 + 4, which is 6.
In this tutorial, we’ll see how to create a file in such a way that only the owner has full permissions over it. We’ll also see what happens when another user tries to read or modify that file. Finally, we’ll look at the role of “sudo” users who take on the root role for themselves, and how we can implement ironclad file security by hiding contents even from root if necessary.
Creating a File with “Owner Only” Permissions
Let’s say we have a file whose contents we want to have hidden from everyone else. In essence, others would be able to see that the file exists, and that’s about it. We don’t want them to see what’s inside it, or be able to modify it in any way. We do this using the following command:
chmod 700 test.txt
test.txt is the name of the file that I want to protect. Once we run this command, the file turns “green” when you list it in a command like “ls”, and it displays the new file permissions with the “ls -l” command, like this:
Here, you can see the file permissions are restricted only to the first group – the owner – who has “rwx”, or read, write, and execute permissions. And the third column of “ls -l” is the owner name, which in this case is “root”.
For convenience sake, we’ve created this file in the home directory of another user called “testuser”. Here’s what happens when we log in as the new user and try and read the contents of test.txt:
As you can see, testuser is denied the ability to access the file in any way. Any other user who tries to open this file will get the same error message. In this way, you can ensure that your important files are kept hidden from other users.
Allowing Others to ONLY Read the File
Perhaps there’s an important document or set of rules that you want others to be able to read, but not modify. We can achieve this using the following command:
chmod 744 test.txt
Here, “744” instead of “700” gives everyone else the permission to read the file, but nothing else. Here you can see that “testuser” is able to access the contents of the file after it has been assigned its “744” permissions:
However, if they then try and modify the file using a file editor, like “vi”, they get the warning you expect as shown here:
Use this variant of the
chmod command when you need others to see the file, but not modify it in any way.
Root or “Sudo” Users Still Have Access
Unfortunately, file permissions don’t apply to root or sudo users. For this example, I’ve added “testuser” to the sudoers file so they can use execute root commands using sudo. And when they do this, they can access the protected file as shown here:
There’s no way around this using file permissions. Root, and users belonging to the “wheel” group can simply use “sudo” to get around these restrictions. Of course, it’s good practice to be wise with the capabilities you give your users – handing out sudo permissions to everyone is not a good idea. Since this is common practice, well-configured Linux systems shouldn’t have this problem.
True File Security – Even from Root
Ultimately, the only way to hide your files from everyone – including root users – is to use passphrase-based encryption. No other method can hide your information with 100% security from everyone, including the root and sudo users!
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Effects of valsartan combined with α-lipoic acid on renal function in patients with diabetic nephropathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis
BMC Endocrine Disorders volume 21, Article number: 178 (2021)
Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is one of the most serious microvascular complications of diabetes, valsartan and α-lipoic acid alone or in combination has been used for the treatment of patients with DN. However, some results in these clinical reports were still controversial. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of valsartan combined with α-lipoic acid on renal function in patients with DN.
We searched the electronic databases including PubMed, Sciencedirect, EMBASE, Cochrane library, Chinese national knowledge infrastructure (CNKI) and Wanfang databases, and the publication deadline was limited to January 2020. Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the effects of valsartan combined with α-lipoic acid in DN patients were included. Pooled estimates were conducted using a fixed or random effect model. The outcomes included urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER), and the level of urinary albumin, β2-microglobulin (β2-MG), hypersensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) and oxidative stress.
11 studies with 1294 participants were included in this study. The pooled analysis indicated that α-lipoic acid combined with valsartan could remarkably reduce UAER (P < 0.00001, SMD = -1.95, 95%CI = -2.55 to − 1.20; P = 0.03, SMD = -0.85, 95%CI = -1.59 to − 0.1) and the level of urinary albumin (P = 0.001, SMD = -1.48, 95%CI = − 2.38 to − 0.58; P = 0.01, SMD = -1.67, 95%CI = -3.00 to − 0.33), β2-MG (P < 0.001,SMD = − 2.59, 95%CI = -3.78 to − 1.40; P = 0.03, SMD = -0.48, 95%CI = -0.93 to − 0.04) when compared with valsartan or lipoic acid monotherapy in patients with DN. However, there was no significant difference in the level of hs-CRP among the three therapies (P = 0.06, SMD = -2.80, 95%CI = -5.67 to 0.07; P = 0.10, SMD = -0.42, 95%CI = − 0.92 to 0.08). In addition, α-lipoic acid combined with valsartan markedly increased the level of SOD (P = 0.03, SMD = 1.24, 95%CI = 0.32 to 1.03; P = 0.0002, SMD = 0.68, 95%CI = 0.32 to 1.03) and T-AOC (P < 0.00001, SMD = 0.89, 95%CI = 0.62 to 1.16; P = 0.02, SMD = 0.58, 95%CI = 0.10 to1.07), and reduced the level of MDA(P = 0.0002, SMD = -1.99, 95%CI = -3.02 to − 0.96; P = 0.0001, SMD = -0.69, 95%CI = -1.04 to − 0.34).
α-lipoic acid combined with valsartan could significantly reduce the level of urinary albumin and oxidative stress, increase antioxidant capacity and alleviate renal function damage in patients with DN, and this will provide a reference for the selection of treatment drugs for DN.
Diabetic nephropathy accounts for 20–30% of patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), which is a frequent microvascular complication of DM and one of the important causes of chronic renal failure . At present, about 15% of DN patients would develop end-stage renal disease, and eventually lead to death due to renal failure . Most patients with DN have an insidious onset, no obvious clinical symptoms in the initial stage, but the disease deteriorates when persistent albuminuria emerges. The pathophysiologic mechanisms of DN are multi-factorial. Previous studies found that abnormal hemodynamics, oxidative stress response, genetic factors, activation of protein kinase C and renin angiotensin II, and pro-inflammatory reactions were all related to the occurrence and progression of DN . Hyperglycemia in DM could lead to a series of metabolic, hemodynamic and biochemical alterations in renal tissues, including the increasing formation of advanced glycation end products and reactive oxygen species (ROS), extracellular matrix accumulation, growth factors/cytokines secretion, alteration in glomerular filtration rate which causes proteinuria, and all these changes might lead to DN . In addition, hyperglycemia could increase the production of renin angiotensin II, resulting in the profibrogenic and inflammation of renal tissue . Moreover, the progression of DN could heighten the risk of morbidity and mortality of cardiovascular diseases.
At present, a variety of treatments, including lowering blood sugar, blood pressure and blood fat, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidation, traditional Chinese medicine treatment, combination of traditional Chinese and western medicine, were all used to mitigate renal function damages in patients with DN. However, the drugs prove effective against DN are still limited. Clinically, the commonly used therapeutic drugs included angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor antagonists, HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, vitamin D and its analogs, protein kinase C inhibitors, antioxidants, etc. These drugs used alone or in combination could reduce the level of proteinuria and improved kidney function. In addition, sodium-glucose cotransporter 2(SGLT2) inhibitors had also been used to reduce the levels of microalbuminuria and albuminuria due to its anti-proteinuric effects .
Valsartan is a kind of angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), which has been widely used in the treatment of hypertension and showed renoprotective and cardioprotective effects . Valsartan could antagonize the binding of angiotensin II to its receptor, dilate the glomerular artery blood vessels and lower glomerular pressure, reducing protein filtration and inhibiting the production of proteinuria . In addition, valsartan could down-regulate the expression of endothelin and cytokines, inhibit the proliferation of glomerular cells, promote the degradation of extracellular matrix and suppress the collagen synthesis, then delay glomerular sclerosis, thus boosting renal function . Results in one RCT indicated that valsartan could lower the incidence of microalbuminuria, and without increasing the incidence of renal dysfunction in patients with glucose tolerance . In streptozotocin and high fat diet induced DN mice, valsartan could alleviate renal podocyte injure and inhibit the expression of profibrotic growth factors and proinflammatory cytokines, decrease the accumulation of lipids and the production of albuminuria, improve glomerulosclerosis . Moreover, valsartan combined with other drugs (such as angiotensinase inhibitors, antioxidants, prostaglandin E1, etc.) could also significantly reduce proteinuria and alleviate kidney damage in diabetic patients .
Lipoic acid or α-lipoic acid is a powerful antioxidant that can remove a variety of oxidative stress products including hydroxyl radicals, singlet oxygen, nitric oxide radicals, hydroperoxides, hydroperoxides, and regenerate other antioxidants (such as vitamins C, vitamins and glutathione) to maintain normal antioxidant capacity . Previous study indicated that lipoic acid could up-regulate the expression of Nrf-2-mediated antioxidant genes and peroxisome proliferator activated receptors-regulated genes, enhance the antioxidant defense system, and had been used for the treatment of diabetic complications . In mitochondria, lipoic acid synthase could produce α-lipoic acid that participates in regulating the process of glucose oxidation and ATP generation, while reduction of lipoic acid synthase would increase oxidative stress response and accelerate the progression of DN . Further study found that lipoic acid could lower the concentration of proteinuria and mitigate oxidative stress and renal damage in diabetic rats . One RCT reported that lipoic acid combined with pyridoxine could reduce oxidative stress and albuminuria in patients with DN .
In addition, the combination treatment of lipoic acid and ARBs (such as valsartan, telmisartan, losartan) has been used to bolster the renal function in patients with DN. However, the combined effects of these agents were still controversial. Moreover, few studies assess the effects of telmisartan or losartan combined with lipoic acid in the treatment of DN, while some clinical trials about the combination treatment of lipoic acid and valsartan have been reported. Therefore, we performed this meta-analysis to evaluate the efficacy of valsartan combined with lipoic acid on renal function in patients with DN.
We conducted a systematic literature search according to the PRISMA guidelines, and the electronic databases included PubMed, Sciencedirect, Embase, Cochrane library, CNKI and Wanfang databases. All the databases were searched without language restrictions, and the studies were published up to January 2020. The keywords included valsartan or angiotensin II receptor blockers or ARBs, lipoic acid or α-lipoic acid, DN or diabetes kidney disease, and randomized controlled trials.
Study selection and exclusion criteria
The included studies met the following criteria: a) patients were diagnosed with DN, b) the study designed to be a randomized controlled clinical trial, c) the studies evaluated the effects of valsartan combined with lipoic acid on renal functions, d) with treatment duration of at least 14 days, and full-text publications were available. The exclusion criteria are as follows: patients were diagnosed with DN and other complications; non-RCTs and protocol; studies with insufficient data.
All relevant data were separated using a customized data extraction table and performed by two independent reviewers. The information of extraction table included first authors’ names and publication dates, types of studies, numbers of patients enrolled, the base characteristics of patients (including age and sex), interventions, duration of medication, dosage of valsartan and lipoic acid, and Jadad score. The clinical outcomes included UAER, urinary albumin, β2–MG, hs-CRP, SOD, malondialdehyde (MDA) and total antioxidant capacity(T-AOC).
The Jadad scale was used to evaluate the quality of each selected study. The Jadad scores of the study ranged from 0 to 7 points, and the main contents included the methods of randomization, double blinding, allocation concealment, withdraw and dropouts. Any disagreements were resolved by discussion.
The data analysis was conducted using RevMan software 5.3, and random or fixed effect models were used to analyze the outcomes. The heterogeneity between studies was evaluated using the I2 test. Significant heterogeneity was identified and random effect model was used when I2 ≥ 50% or P-value ≤0.05. Otherwise the heterogeneity was low and fixed effect model was applied. For continuous outcomes, data were represented as standard mean difference (SMD) and 95% confidence interval (CIs). Sensitivity analyses were conducted to exclude the mixed studies that might lead to potential bias. Publication bias was estimated using a funnel plot. All P-values were two-tailed, and significant statistical difference was considered when P values < 0.05.
The process of study screening was shown in Figs. 1, 158 potentially relevant articles were sifted out through electronic databases. After removing duplicates, review, observational trials, meta-analysis and clinical guidelines, 18 articles were full-text assessed for eligibility. Then 7 of these researches were excluded because of non-RCT and unavailable data. Finally, 11 trials [18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28] met the included criteria and were selected in this study. The characteristics of all included studies were shown in Table 1. A total of 1249 patients with DN were enrolled, 549 patients received lipoic acid plus valsartan combination therapy, 554 patients were treated with valsartan, and the remaining 146 patients were treated with lipoic acid. The ages of all participants ranged from 44.4 to 71.93 years old. The daily doses of lipoic acid were 600 mg, 450 mg or 300 mg, the dosage of valsartan was 80 mg, and the treatment duration was 14 days. Among these trials, 11 trials compared the effects of valsartan with that of lipoic acid plus valsartan on renal function, 4 trials compared the effects of lipoic acid plus valsartan with that of lipoic acid on UAER. Five studies were of high quality, while six studies were of low quality.
Urinary albumin excretion rate (UAER)
Ten studies evaluated the effects of lipoic acid plus valsartan and that of valsartan monotherapy on UAER (Fig. 2). Significant heterogeneity existed between the two groups, and random effect model was used (P < 0.00001, I2 = 95%). Compared with valsartan monotherapy, treatment with lipoic acid plus valsartan could significantly reduce the UAER in patients with DN (P < 0.00001, SMD = -1.95, 95%CI = -2.55 to − 1.20). In addition, three studies compared the effects of lipoic acid plus valsartan with that of lipoic acid monotherapy on UAER. Random effect model was used because of marked heterogeneity (P = 0.0007, I2 = 86%). Treatment with lipoic acid plus valsartan was also superior to lipoic acid monotherapy in reducing UAER (P = 0.03, SMD = -0.85, 95%CI = -1.59 to − 0.1).
Four trials involving 353 patients compared the effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan with that of monotherapy on the level of urinary albumin. The results were shown in Fig. 3, significant heterogeneity between the two groups was observed, and random effect models were used (P < 0.00001, I2 = 91%; P = 0.0006, I2 = 91%). Compared with valsartan or lipoic acid monotherapy, lipoic acid combined with valsartan could remarkably decrease the level of urinary albumin (P = 0.001, SMD = -1.48, 95%CI = -2.38 to − 0.58; P = 0.01, SMD = -1.67, 95%CI = -3.00 to − 0.33).
β2-microglobulin (β2-MG) and hypersensitive C-reactive protein (hs-CRP)
Six studies evaluated the effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan and that of monotherapy on the level of β2-MG in patients with DN. As shown in Fig. 4A, the pooled analysis indicated that heterogeneity was significant between the two groups (P < 0.00001, I2 = 96%), and a remarkable decline in the level of β2-MG in DN patients treated with lipoic acid plus valsartan was found (P < 0.001, SMD = -2.59, 95%CI = -3.78 to − 1.40; P = 0.03, SMD = -0.48, 95%CI = -0.93 to − 0.04).
Four studies involving 548 participants assessed the effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan and that of monotherapy on the level of hs-CRP. We observed that there were no significant differences in hs-CRP level in DN patients receiving lipoic acid plus valsartan when compared with valsartan or lipoic acid monotherapy(P = 0.06, SMD = -2.80, 95%CI = -5.67 to 0.07; P = 0.10, SMD = -0.42, 95%CI = -0.92 to 0.08)(Fig. 4B).
The levels of oxidative stress
Oxidative stress was one of the important mechanisms of diabetic nephropathy, and the levels of SOD, MDA and T-AOC in serum were all related to the process of renal impairments. Five trials evaluated the effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan on the level of SOD in patients with DN (Fig. 5A). The results showed that lipoic acid combined with valsartan for the treatment of DN was much more effective in increasing the level of SOD than valsartan or lipoic acid monotherapy(P = 0.03, SMD = 1.24, 95%CI = 0.32 to 1.03; P = 0.0002, SMD = 0.68, 95%CI = 0.32 to 1.03). For MDA, the pooled results were showed in Fig. 5B. The effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan treatments on the level of MDA were determined in four trials. Significant heterogeneity was observed among studies (P < 0.00001, I2 = 92%). Remarkable reduction of MDA was witnessed in patients received lipoic acid plus valsartan(P = 0.0002, SMD = -1.99, 95%CI = -3.02 to − 0.96; P = 0.0001, SMD = -0.69, 95%CI = -1.04 to − 0.34). Three studies with 268 patients assessed the effects of lipoic acid and valsartan combination on T-AOC. Statistical heterogeneity was not significant, and fixed effect model was applied (P = 0.85, I2 = 0%)(Fig. 5C). Compared with valsartan or lipoic acid monotherapy, lipoic acid plus valsartan could markedly increase T-AOC levels (P < 0.00001, SMD = 0.89, 95%CI = 0.62 to 1.16; P = 0.02, SMD = 0.58, 95%CI = 0.10 to1.07).
Sensitivity analysis and publication bias
In the process of pooled analysis, we performed sensitivity analysis to evaluate heterogeneity. However, there was no significant difference in the value of I2, and the values of SMD and the overall effects were close when changing the analysis model from fixed effect model to random effect model. The results of publication bias were showed in Fig. 6, the funnel plot was not symmetrical, indicating the existence of potential publication bias.
DN is one of the major causes of end-stage renal failure, and the pathogenesis is related with the thickening of tubular and glomerular basement membrane, glomerulo-sclerosis and glomerular hypertrophy, endothelial dysfunction . The main clinical feature of DN is the decline of glomerular filtration rate that leads to proteinuria . At present, many clinical trials have been conducted to evaluate the effects of lipoic acid and valsartan used alone or in combination for the treatment of DN, but some of the results remained controversial. Therefore, we performed this meta-analysis to provide solid evidence for the selection of drugs for the treatment of DN. Moreover, as far as we know, this is the first systematic analysis to comprehensively evaluate the treating effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan on renal functions.
Microalbuminuria is considered as an important marker for the diagnosis and assessment of DN progression . In patients with DN, dysfunction of the glomeruli could boost urinary albumin excretion rate, cause excessive excretion of albumin in urine and bolster the production of microalbuminuria. However, renal function impairment also emerged among some diabetic patients in the absence of microalbuminuria . Valsartan belongs to the class of angiotensin receptor antagonists, and is commonly used in the treatment of hypertension. It has certain protective effects on glomeruli by inhibiting angiotensin. Evidences from previous studies suggested that valsartan could remarkably lower the glomerular filtration rate and the production of proteinuria, playing a protective role in renal function in patients with type 2 diabetes [33, 34]. α-lipoic acid is an antioxidant that can protect β cells, lower the level of cholesterol, reduce proteinuria and mesangial expansion in diabetic mice, thus inhibiting the development and progression of DN . Additionally, α-lipoic acid combined with alprostadil could decrease the levels of serum inflammatory factors and improve renal function of patients with DN . In our study, the pooled analysis indicated that lipoic acid combined with valsartan was superior in lowering UAER, the level of urinary albumin and β2-MG when compared with lipoic acid or valsartan monotherapy for the treatment of DN. The results were consistent with previous study .
Oxidative stress is a kind of stress response when the body is subjected to various harmful stimuli, and eventually causes damage to various cells, tissues and organs of the body. Current research found that oxidative stress was associated with the pathophysiology of DN . Persistent hyperglycaemia caused the overproduction of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and activation of inflammatory mediators, inhibiting antioxidant defense mechanisms and eventually leading to oxidative stress which resulted in injury in the vessels and kidneys of diabetic patients . Moreover, oxidative stress could lead to the abnormalities of hematological indices which might be used to predict the progression of DN. MDA and advanced oxidation products of protein (AOPP) as the peroxidation products of lipids and proteins could reflect the level of oxidative stress, and SOD and T-AOC are indicators that reflect the antioxidant capacity of the body . Other study showed that valsartan could reduce the level of MDA and 8-hydroxy-deoxy guanosine, inhibit cyclosporine-A induced oxidative stress and alleviate the renal damages .
Lipoic acid acts as an antioxidant that can reduce oxidative stress, and it also has significant therapeutic effects on cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and its complications and neurodegenerative diseases. In alloxan-induced diabetic rabbits, low doses of lipoic acid significantly lowered the concentration of urine albumin, ameliorated oxidative stress and renal injury, so the agent proved to be effective in the treatment of diabetes and DN . Later, another study further confirmed that the levels of urinary MDA and creatinine (Cr) rose significantly, the ratios of SOD and serum glutathione peroxidase (SGSH-Px) were markedly decreased in patients with diabetes; α-lipoic acid could significantly lower the ratios of MDA and Cr, elevate the levels of SOD and SGSH-Px by inhibiting oxidative stress, and provide protection against glomerular podocyte injury . In the present study, our results indicated that lipoic acid combined with valsartan could significantly increase the levels of SOD and T-AOC, decrease the level of MDA when compared with valsartan or lipoic acid monotherapy. From these results, we inferred that combination therapy of lipoic acid and valsartan inhibited oxidative stress, and enhanced antioxidant capacity.
Although the combination therapy proved to be more effective than each of the monotherapy, several possible limitations should still be taken into consideration to facilitate deeper research in the future. First, most of these included trials had relatively low sample sizes, which might be insufficient and our conclusions might not be flawless. Second, significant heterogeneity was observed between these studies, and sensitivity analysis was used to determine potential heterogeneity. Third, potential publication bias was existed, which might affect the accuracy of the results. Therefore, RCTs with large sample size and high quality were still needed to further confirm these conclusions.
Overall, eleven trials were included in this meta-analysis to assess the effects of lipoic acid combined with valsartan on renal functions in patients with DN. The pooled findings indicated that lipoic acid combined with valsartan could significantly reduce the level of urinary albumin and oxidative stress, enhance antioxidant capacity and mitigate renal function damages in patients with DN, and the findings proved to be helpful references for the selection of treatment drugs for DN.
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Sun, F., Jiang, D. & Cai, J. Effects of valsartan combined with α-lipoic acid on renal function in patients with diabetic nephropathy: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Endocr Disord 21, 178 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12902-021-00844-0
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From possible ice volcanoes to twirling moons, NASA’s New Horizons science team is discussing more than 50 exciting discoveries about Pluto at this week’s 47th Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society’s Division for Planetary Sciences. The two cryovolcano candidates are large features measuring tens of miles across and several miles high.
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, speeding toward deeper space at more than 32,000 miles per hour, has successfully performed a series of targeting manoeuvres that set it on course for a January 2019 encounter with Kuiper Belt object 2014 MU69. This ancient body is more than a billion miles beyond Pluto. The propulsive manoeuvres were the most distant trajectory corrections ever performed by any spacecraft.
The New Horizons team described a wide range of findings about the Pluto system in its first research paper published today — just three months after NASA’s historic first exploration of the dwarf planet. New Horizons has revealed a degree of diversity and complexity on Pluto and its moons that few expected in the frigid outer reaches of the solar system.
The first colour images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes returned by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft last week — seen here backlit by the Sun — reveal that the hazes are blue. Also, in a second significant finding, New Horizons has detected numerous small, exposed regions of water ice on the dwarf planet.
New close-up images of Pluto from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft reveal a bewildering variety of surface features that have scientists reeling because of their range and complexity. Images downlinked in the past few days reveal new features as diverse as possible dunes, nitrogen ice flows oozing out of mountainous regions onto plains, and even networks of valleys possibly carved by material flowing over Pluto’s surface.
NASA has selected the potential next destination for the New Horizons mission to visit after its historic 14 July flyby of the Pluto system. The target is a 30-mile-wide Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 that orbits nearly a billion miles beyond Pluto. New Horizons expects to reach the object, nicknamed “PT1” (Potential Target 1), on 1 January 2019.
NASA’s New Horizons mission has found evidence of exotic ices flowing across Pluto’s surface, at the left edge of its bright heart-shaped area. New close-up images from the spacecraft’s Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) reveal signs of recent geologic activity, something scientists hoped to find but didn’t expect.
A new close-up image of Pluto from New Horizons reveals a vast, craterless plain that appears to be no more than 100 million years old. This frozen region is north of Pluto’s icy mountains, in the centre-left of the heart feature, informally named “Tombaugh Regio” (Tombaugh Region) after Clyde Tombaugh, who discovered Pluto in 1930. | <urn:uuid:f91f39c1-96f0-428d-8834-d03afb40fec9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://astronomynow.com/tag/alan-stern/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.931879 | 614 | 3.203125 | 3 |
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In the late sixteenth century and into the seventeenth, Europe continued the growth that had lifted it out of the relatively less prosperous medieval period (from the mid 400s to the late 1400s). Among the key factors behind this growth were increased agricultural productivity and an expansion of trade.
Populations cannot grow unless the rural economy can produce enough additional food to feed more people. During the sixteenth century, farmers brought more land into cultivation at the expense of forests and fens (low-lying wetlands). Dutch land reclamation in the Netherlands in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provides the most spectacular example of the expansion of farmland: the Dutch reclaimed more than 36,000 acres from 1590 to 1615 alone.
Much of the potential for European economic development lay in what at first glance would seem to have been only sleepy villages. Such villages, however, generally lay in regions of relatively advanced agricultural production, permitting not only the survival of peasants but also the accumulation of an agricultural surplus for investment. They had access to urban merchants, markets, and trade routes.
Increased agricultural production in turn facilitated rural industry, an intrinsic part of the expansion of industry. Woolens and textile manufacturers, in particular, utilized rural cottage (in-home) production, which took advantage of cheap and plentiful rural labor. In the German states, the ravages of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) further moved textile production into the countryside. Members of poor peasant families spun or wove cloth and linens at home for scant remuneration in an attempt to supplement meager family income.
More extended trading networks also helped develop Europe's economy in this period. "English and Dutch ships carrying rye from the Baltic states reached Spain and Portugal. " Population growth generated an expansion of small-scale manufacturing, particularly of handicrafts, textiles, and metal production in England, Flanders, parts of northern Italy, the southwestern German states, and parts of Spain. Only iron smelting and mining required marshaling a significant amount of capital (wealth invested to create more wealth).
The development of banking and other financial services contributed to the expansion of trade. By the middle of the sixteenth century, financiers and traders commonly accepted bills of exchange in place of gold or silver for other goods. Bills of exchange, which had their origins in medieval Italy, were promissory notes (written promises to pay a specified amount of money by a certain date) that could be sold to third parties. In this way, they provided credit. At mid-century, an Antwerp financier only slightly exaggerated when he claimed, "One can no more trade without bills of exchange than sail without water." Merchants no longer had to carry gold and silver over long, dangerous journeys. An Amsterdam merchant purchasing soap from a merchant in Marseille could go to an exchanger and pay the exchanger the equivalent sum in guilders, the Dutch currency. The exchanger would then send a bill of exchange to a colleague in Marseille, authorizing the colleague to pay the Marseille merchant in the merchant's own currency after the actual exchange of goods had taken place.
Bills of exchange contributed to the development of banks, as exchangers began to provide loans. Not until the eighteenth century, however, did such banks as the Bank of Amsterdam and the Bank of England begin to provide capital for business investment. Their principal function was to provide funds for the state.
The rapid expansion in international trade also benefitted from an infusion of capital, stemming largely from gold and silver brought by Spanish vessels from the Americas. This capital financed the production of goods, storage, trade, and even credit across Europe and overseas. Moreover an increased credit supply was generated by investments and loans by bankers and wealthy merchants to states and by joint-stock partnerships- an English innovation (the first major company began in 1600). Unlike short-term financial cooperation between investors for a single commercial undertaking, joint-stock companies provided permanent funding of capital by drawing on the investments of merchants and other investors who purchased shares in the company.
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