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An analysis of data from the UK Biobank comparing exome data with phenotype data about common conditions such as asthma has revealed multiple new associations, many previously unknown, including links between rare genetic variants and common disease.
Although many studies have detailed how common genetic variants impact common diseases, the effects of rare variants have mostly been linked to rare disease and not studied extensively in the context of common disease.
The UK Biobank has collected detailed phenotypic data on around 500,000 participants and also has whole-exome sequencing data for many participants. For this study, researchers from AstraZeneca and the University of Melbourne carried out an analysis of genome and phenotype data to assess potential links.
As described in the journal Nature, Slavé Petrovski, the Head of AstraZeneca’s Centre for Genomics Research and Discovery Sciences in Cambridge, UK, and colleagues analyzed whole exome data from 281,104 Biobank participants and looked for links between rare genetic variants and more than 18,500 complex traits such as asthma that are influenced by multiple factors.
Overall, 46,837 variant and 1703 gene associations were found by the researchers. Some associations were previously known, but some were not. For example, around 12.1% of the those with European ancestry had one of 373 variants in the filaggrin gene FLG. Carriers of these variants were more likely to have dermatitis, asthma and also basal cell carcinoma and melanoma. “Concomitant increases in vitamin D levels suggest that the increased risk of skin cancer may be attributable to increased sensitivity to ultraviolet B radiation,” write the authors.
Notably, the researchers observed multiple examples where individual rare variants and common risk variants both appeared to contribute to the burden of disease. “This is consistent with our previous work demonstrating common and rare protein truncating variants in FLG have similar effect sizes for the risk of early asthma,” they conclude.
A problem with the UK Biobank, is that most participants have white European ancestry, although a small percentage of the genomes analyzed (around 12,000) were non-European. Overall, 5714 people of South Asian, 4744 of African and 1475 of Asian ancestry were included.
The only study-wide significant individual trait association among the non-European populations was between HBB gene variants and incidence of thalassemia in South Asian individuals, although 26 gene-phenotype associations were found in the non-European ancestry group that were not significant in Europeans. Similarly, 20 associations were only found in the European ancestry group.
The researchers believe their findings could be useful for target identification and drug development. “These associations were significantly enriched for targets of FDA-approved drugs, reinforcing the importance of human genetics in target identification,” write the authors.
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While there is no denying the fact that education builds the foundation of a good life; there however is big confusion about what is the best definition of education. How do you define education? Is it A for achievement for career and J for job? Or is it about enhancing one’s capabilities to earn name, fame, and money? Is it about getting a degree and getting a job or is it about achieving something so very special like Sundar Pichai? So what actually is education and how can we define it.
Before we define it, we need to understand that it is education that has been the foundation of all development that has been happening in civilization and all around. Without education we would still have been living in Stone Age; we would not have discovered wheel and we would have certainly not used our mobile phones for e-commerce, for e-learning and whatever exciting is happening in the world. So definitely, one meaning of education is innovation and anything that sparks your creativity and potential and makes you think new is education.
Books alone do not make education comprehensive. We need to understand that reading more books does not make a person smart enough to do new things for the society. The right kind of education opens your mind and makes you think in terms of how to use this knowledge in real world. That’s why the leading universities of the world now follow the holistic concept of education by organizing industry-oriented workshops and sessions by industry experts for their student of B.Tech, MBA, hospitality etc.
Education is a lot about opening your conservative thinking and thinking the new especially keeping the social relevance concept in mind. In last few decades, there was a trend of Indian youth going abroad for education but with the emergence of private universities like MMDU and educational institutions like MM Engineering College, the process of brain drain has slowed down a bit. Indian students are getting world-class education right here and contributing to nation building with their out-of-the-box ideas. And that’s the main purpose of education. Universities like MMDU are fast emerging as the first choice of Indian as well as youth from other countries who seek quality education and intellectual growth. | <urn:uuid:2870721b-2cb9-497d-bbe2-549f61ba1279> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.mmumullana.org/what-is-the-best-definition-of-education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.970408 | 442 | 2.859375 | 3 |
IDENTIFICATION of a plant is critical for appropriate treatment and data collection. At the seedling stage, plants look quite alike. After weeks in the field, your eyes get familiar to the appearance for a given plant by its leaves, stem, shape, color, and texture. Also, some have a distinctive smell such as the peppery Coronopus didymus (CORDID, lesser swinecress). You would be amazed how much your brain can register. Memory after the 20-year mark does not decline that much! Of course, some questions come up. Any hesitations are relayed to our field camp leaders who master the plant populations. I cannot stress enough that a 20/20 color vision is a major requirement for this work! Talking about vision, the vegetation often obstructs a plant-from some invasive ground covers like Lobularia maritima (LOBMAR, Sweet Alyssum), to the native Kawelu (Eragrostis variabilis, ERAVAR), and trees with their full attire – branches and leaves. And let us not forget insects that can easily divert your attention-such as spiders, beetles, wasps, and ticks. Nature does not offer you the red carpet, for sure. Some trails were cut to access an RA or others were made from the last visit, but you often end up making your own path. Paths quickly disappear weeks after, filled up by some new growth. Which is good news for us because the new growth offers shade to the ground which slows down invasive plants. You also educate your eyes to look in every single direction, from the right to the left, from the top to the ground, under grasses, leaves, and branches-where invasive plants often hide. After some weeks in the field, you kind of feel where they would find refuge. To fight the enemy, you need to understand its strengths! The wildlife also makes obstacles. Look before you step on the ground if there is an accumulation of branches that could indicate a Wedge-tailed shearwater nest, or look for some Sooty tern eggs that lay bare on the ground. Look for burrows, underground nests made by Bonin petrels which are easily identified by a simple hole in the ground and a pile of fresh sand, which indicates the “entrance”. You should ALWAYS step in front of the hole, or you would inevitably drop into the unseen tunnel that can extend 6 feet long and get as deep as your knee! At head’s height and above, watch for White tern eggs and chicks that live on a branch without any nesting material. If you slightly move it, they can fall! Often, you hear the bird before you come too close to them such as the piercing noise of the Red-tailed tropicbird (even a chick!). You sense the decayed egg-like smell of the Red-footed booby nest covered by their white poop. Look also up in open areas to avoid the Laysan Albatross flying low when the winds are weak. They will not stop for you and you better freeze or squat down fast! You should always keep a wide berth around any bird. Some are more docile than others. All your senses are always on constant alert, everything is somehow unexpected out here where Nature reigns. It teaches you to proceed with tasks slowly to process your surroundings and act accordingly. Before Kure, I was always on the fast line and multi-tasking. I still catch myself walking too fast, but the Albatross reminds me to walk like a bird, slowly but surely!
ORIENTATION is key while working in the field where vegetation can easily obstruct the horizon and your coworkers. Cardinal points and target locations such as the Main House, the Runway, such tree, or birds nest, help to describe where you are located. Forget about right or left, they are meaningless here. Technology comes in very handy in the name of a handheld GPS unit with an integrated GIS software. You better love this new gadget! It has in its memory each RA’s borders and waypoints. These waypoints refer to different events such as invasive plant outbreaks, a bird nest or any unusual wildlife activity recorded in the last seasons and can modify your work. The data uploaded to provide a map distribution of such events. When treating an RA, each person spreads out at an even spacing along one of its borders. The two furthest persons will frame the portion covered, and determines the workflow. The Leader is always at the border of an RA. The Flagger marks the coverage of the treated area with stake flags, only if the RA isnʻt done in one sweep. Otherwise, that person follows the border opposite to the Leader. Parameters such as the shape, size, terrain, dirtiness, number of persons involved, or the weather have an impact in strategizing the coverage of an RA. Each person is responsible for the line that they walk in within these portions and transects, checking each portion of ground, zigzagging between his two side limits. It is recommended that you overlap your neighbor’s line. Typically, we overlook things right where we stand! As a team, we always got each other’s back! In dense vegetation, where you can barely see one another, COMMUNICATION using personal radio plays a crucial role. We are constantly checking on each other. Good news is when you hear: “Roger”, “Copy that”! Your orientation is challenged when everything around you is trees. Your GPS records your track, which helps to go back to the location you stopped or makes sure to not miss any seed bank waypoints or a portion of land. Remember also that your next visit will be more likely in four to six weeks, you do not want to miss an invasive plant that will flower and eventually drop seeds! If the population of an invasive plant is dense or “dirty” and/or the terrain is difficult to maneuver, the spacing between each other will be tighter than wide. When arriving at an RA, we first discussed the treatment strategies and make sure that everyone connects by radio, got its direction and orientation right.
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MobileMuster Manager Spyro Kalos talks to Waste Management Review about the recycling process for smartphones and their reuse potential.
With recycling across the board gaining significant attention due to China’s National Sword and resulting policy changes, public trust in the process has been challenged.
“Plastic not so fantastic”, a recent 60 Minutes report, further complicated matters by suggesting the public’s recycling efforts were being wasted on dubious resource recovery.
While waste industry associations say the report didn’t paint a full picture of the Australian recycling industry or its processes, public discussion around China’s National Sword policy continues.
MobileMuster, the federally accredited product stewardship program of the mobile phone industry, is focused on educating the public about the mobile phone recycling process to further confidence in the e-waste resource recovery market and increase mobile phone recycling.
It’s a significant goal given 89 per cent of Australians own a smartphone, according to a 2018 Deloitte Mobile Survey, and many hoard their devices.
Since the product stewardship program began in 1998, MobileMuster has collected and recycled over 1400 tonnes of mobile phone components including handsets and their batteries, chargers and accessories.
To date the program has recycled over 13 million handsets.
MobileMuster works to provide free mobile phone recycling in Australia and is voluntarily funded by all major handset manufacturers and network carriers such as Apple, Google, Telstra and Samsung.
MobileMuster’s 2018 Annual Report estimates that e-waste is growing three times faster than any other waste stream in Australia. It is no surprise then that MobileMuster Manager Spyro Kalos estimates 25 million unused mobile phones are currently sitting dormant in Australian homes.
“While we know less than two per cent of mobile phones are being thrown into the general waste stream, we need to work to reduce the number of mobiles lying dormant in storage,” Spyro says.
“There is certainly value in recovering the materials inside those phones to reduce wasted resources.”
According to Spyro, what many people don’t know, or rather don’t think about, is their smart phone contains untapped precious metals and raw material, most of which has been mined.
Additionally, smartphones contain many of the materials the waste industry and public at large are accustomed to thinking about, plastic, glass and aluminum, making them full of untapped reuse and recycling potential.
“I am a strong believer in transparency. When someone recycles their mobile phone with MobileMuster, I want them to know exactly what happens and how the various components are being processed,” Spyro says.
“We need to increase the trust of consumers because without their participation, the circular economy breaks down. The industry has an obligation to all its stakeholders to ensure best practice is used when collecting and processing products.”
MobileMuster’s recycling partner is TES, a global electronic waste recycler and lifecycle management service. The two groups have been working together for six years.
According to Spyro, they work to maximise recovery rates and ensure all mobile components are correctly processed.
“Through our recycling process, over 95 per cent of a mobile phone’s material re-enters the supply chain and is used for the fabrication of new products,” Spyro says.
“We transform the device’s waste components into valuable materials for reuse, which means fewer raw materials need to be extracted.”
Spyro says that when someone leaves their old device at one of MobileMuster’s 3500 public drop off points, it is collected and transported to a TES recycling facility in Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane.
“The device is then disassembled into individual components including batteries, printed circuit boards, casing, screens, accessories and packaging,” Spyro says.
“None of the phones are resold, and any data left on the device is destroyed during the disassembling process.”
Spyro says components are then further processed though shredding and sorting techniques to maximise resource recovery.
“In 2017, TES started using Envirostream to process smartphone batteries, which is a difficult waste stream. At TES facilities in Melbourne, the batteries are granulated and sorted in materials for recycling,” Spyro says.
“The process recovers copper, aluminium, cobalt, nickel, lithium and plastics. The onshore solution also reduces the need to transport the batteries internationally for processing.”
In the age of smartphones and touch screens, glass is another core material in the recycling process.
“Glass from smartphones is crushed and melted before being reused for new products or as a replacement material in construction elements like roadbase.
“Aluminium is another significant component of mobile phones, and one of the most easily recycled materials. The recycling process uses considerably less energy than producing new aluminium.”
Aluminium is melted in a furnace, with the resulting liquid aluminium placed in moulds to create new products like drink cans, bikes and car bodies.
MobileMuster recycled one million handsets last year, and according to Spyro, the organisation needs to keep that momentum going if they hope to continue effectively tackling e-waste.
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How To Pack a Home Entertainment System
China packed? Check. Picture frames packed? Check. Clothes packed? Check. Suddenly, you look into your family room, the music from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho plays in your head. The stereo and home theater glare back at you, taunting you – “Go ahead pack us, we will never come back to life again.”
Electronics are some of the last things to be packed before a move. No one wants to disconnect their entertainment lifelines. You’re filled with the dread of trying to fit each electronic piece into boxes and the terror of not being able to set them all up correctly in your new place. Thankfully, with these tips your entire stereo and home theater system will fit into boxes properly. You can put an end to the scary visions of endless tangled wires and the confusion of not knowing where to plug each cord. Simply color-code your wires and use your cell phone camera to document the process. Here is how to tame your electronics when packing for a move:
Step 1: Prepare and Pack Your Electronics
- Get the Proper Gear– Visit your local office supply store and purchase colored dot stickers and colored Velcro cord wraps.
- Label– BEFORE unplugging your stereo systems and home theater wires: neatly wrap each wire with a different color cord sticker. Label each corresponding input with a colored dot. Match the color of the sticker wrapped around the cord to the color of the input dot. For example, place a green dot next to your mouse input on your computer and place a matching green sticker wrap around your mouse cord. You simply match the colors when you are setting your electronics back up. Always label both ends of each cord with the same color dot.
- Photograph-BEFORE you unplug. Use your camera and snap a shot or two of your color-coded work.
- Unplug– After you have colored labels on all of your cords and inputs, properly shut down your electronics. Then unplug all of your cords from all inputs.
- Organize– Before packing up a cord, place a Velcro colored wrap around one end of the cord. Use the same color Velcro wrap as the dot sticker already placed on the cord. Then gently and loosely wrap the cord in a circle around your hand. Once you have wrapped it, secure it with the Velcro wrap. Using Velcro cord wraps will better secure your cords during your move as well as prevent them from tangling.
Now you will be able to channel your inner geek and set your electronics back up like a nerdy pro! Next up, packing your electronics.
Step 2: Pack Your Electronics
- Proper Gear– If possible, pack your electronics in their original cartons. If you did not keep their original boxes, use a dishpak box. Dishpaks are specially designed boxes to handle and protect fragile items. You can find dishpaks at moving companies, box stores and home improvement stores. If you can’t find dishpaks, use double corrugated boxes. You will also need lots of recyclable packing paper, bubble and packing tape.
- Assemble– Put the boxes together. Place double packing tape on the bottom of each box over the opening and across the middle. Then double tape the perimeter for extra support.
- Pad– After taping, pack the bottom of each box with crumbled packing paper for padding.
- Wrap– Always pack your heaviest items first. Wrap all electronic items separately. Lay your bubble on a flat surface with the pop side facing up. Place your stereo, DVD player, etc. standing up right on top of the bubble. Pull the wrap over and tape it all together. Repeat by laying the item on its side and pulling the bubble over the sides. Keep taping until the wrap is securely tight to the item and on all sides. Make sure the item is completely covered. Place it up right, vertically in the box. Repeat this process for the next big item then place it vertically in the box next to the first item.
- Stuff– Before packing smaller items like your speakers and remotes, stuff packing paper in open spaces between the bigger electronics such as the DVD player to ensure they cannot shift. Pack some paper on top for extra cushion.
- Park Accessories– Wrap your remotes and accessories in packing paper before placing them in the top of the box. Then wrap up your carefully color coded wires in packing paper. Tape the paper around the wires to secure them and then place them on the very top of the box. Fill the rest of the box with crumpled packing paper. Be sure to label the wrapped up items with a pen: so they don’t get mistaken for the crumbled up packing paper.
- Tape & Label– Tape each box shut by double taping over the opening and across the middle. Then double tape along the top perimeter of the boxes for extra security. Label the outside of the box with the contents and the room the electronic should be moved into. Make sure to mark FRAGILE on all sides of the box.
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This seminar aims to excavate six distinct modalities of attention and attentiveness within the visible arts from Middle Ages to Modernity . While emphasizing European developments, close consideration might be given to the function of visible attention in Hindu and Islamic visual cultures, offering the chance for cross-cultural comparability. Finally, we are going to ask whether the historic examine of attention can counsel analytical fashions or moral lessons for the mobilization of attentiveness in our personal art-historical methods. This seminar scrutinizes the issue of periodization between the Middle Ages and the Early Modern interval (or, the “Renaissance”). Readings include Panofsky, Belting, Nagel & Wood, Nagel, Campbell, Gombrich, Da Costa Kaufmann, and Kubler. This research seminar surveys the rich history of manuscript painting within the Middle Ages by way of the lens of patronage.
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5 edition of Play & learn with rubber stamps found in the catalog.
Play & learn with rubber stamps
Contains activities for many areas of the preschool curriculum using rubber stamps as a tool to stimulate student interest in learning.
|Other titles||Play and learn with rubber stamps., Rubber stamps.|
|Statement||compiled by Elizabeth McKinnon ; illustrated by Gary Mohrmann.|
|LC Classifications||LB1140.35.C74 M34 1994|
|The Physical Object|
|Pagination||61 p. :|
|Number of Pages||61|
|LC Control Number||93061083|
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ave you ever wondered how to become a stock photographer?
If so, you're in luck. Today, it's easier than ever to sell your photos online and earn some extra money for doing something that you love to do. But before you can start selling photos online, there are several things that you'll need to know about this business.
How to become a stock photographer
Stock photography is a great way to earn some extra cash on the side. It's also a great career if you're just starting out and don't have the funds or connections to get into the traditional jobs of photography, such as event photography or wedding photographer.
What is stock photography?
Stock photos are pictures that are licensed for use by other people, companies and publications as part of their own content. This can include things like websites, advertisements, brochures and even social media posts (like Facebook ads). Stock photo agencies sell these images via online galleries to clients who need them for their own projects — it’s how they pay for your work!
How do I make money from stock photography?
The process of selling your photos online through stock agencies isn't difficult but there are a few steps involved. Let's dive in.
Understand the market demand by researching the top-selling photos and subjects on current stock photography websites
One of the best ways to get an idea of what people are looking for is by studying the top-selling photos on different sites.
- Visit a few stock photography websites and look at their most popular images, photographers, subject categories and sizes.
- Take note of themes that are repeated in each category. Do you see any commonalities? For example, if you visit Shutterstock and see that their “People” category has lots of photos with water drops on faces or hands; this may be a good sign that waterdrops will sell well too!
Learn more about copyright law and pick out a safe place to upload your photos.
If you’re going to be a stock photographer, you need to know the basics of copyright law. It’s your responsibility to make sure that people who use your photos are doing so legally.
That means understanding what fair use is and how it affects how people can use your photos in their projects. A good rule of thumb: if someone is using one of your pictures, they should have permission from the owner (that means you!) first.
Also learn about licensing so that when someone wants to use one of your images, they will know exactly which license applies in each case. This might seem confusing at first but once you get used to it, it gets much easier!
Finally, pick a safe place where people can download or purchase rights-managed images from you (like Shutterstock). You don’t want everyone stealing them from Facebook because there isn't any way for anyone else besides yourself or maybe another photographer with whom there's no real relationship between them or their work except through social media sites like Instagram where there are no guarantees against this happening regularly enough that any potential losses would be worth worrying about due at least partly depending upon how long ago said theft occurred before discovery took place!
Know what to take photos of and how to take them.
Your photos should be clear and easy to understand. They should tell a story, even if it's not the one you intended.
Make sure your subject is in focus and that the lighting is good—you don't want shadows or glare obscuring important details. If your subject is moving, make sure there are no blurs or motion blurriness in the photo. In other words: take your time!
Anyone can make money from their photographs today, but it takes dedication and hard work.
It’s true that anyone can make money with their photography these days—but only if they put in the effort. Work hard on building up your portfolio of stock photos. Learn how to take criticism on board; don’t throw a tantrum when someone gives you constructive feedback! Go on courses and workshops if they are available near where you live – this will improve both the quality of your work and also help with marketing yourself.
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I seem to have a lot of battery-operated gadgets in my home. Should I switch over entirely to rechargeables?
–Laura, Vineyard Haven
The short answer to your question is — yes, switch out those disposable batteries for rechargeable ones, so long as you actually recharge them!
Like many other waste-reducing innovations, whether or not they achieve their potential is a matter of human behavior. I called up Dr. Yinghe He, Professor at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia. His advice to you — buy those rechargeable batteries. If you throw them out after only a couple of uses, however, it defeats the purpose. “If the user does not use the rechargeable batteries as intended, of course it is going to cause problems,” Dr. He tells us.
It’s crucial that you dispose of any batteries appropriately, though. Martha’s Vineyard Refuse District offers four drop-off locations in Edgartown, West Tisbury, Chilmark and Aquinnah. There is a special container at each of these facilities where residents can leave their rechargeable batteries. The facilities then transfer battery waste to Fall River to be recycled. The great news — dropping off your used rechargeable batteries won’t cost you a dime!
Martha’s Vineyard Refuse District does not, however, offer recycling services for disposable batteries. These days, most disposable alkaline and zinc carbon batteries do not contain hazardous material and, according to the state of Massachusetts’ Recycle Smart initiative, throwing these in the trash is the best option.
Some types of disposable household batteries — such as the lithium batteries found in watches, cameras and remote controls — do contain hazardous material. As these batteries decay in the landfill, they leak toxic heavy metals into the soil, which can eventually contaminate our water supply.
Using rechargeable batteries can actually be worse for the environment than disposable ones if you do not reuse them enough, according to a 2016 study. These reusable iterations contain more toxic material than their disposable predecessors. Researchers found that using rechargeable batteries 20 times or less can lead to more polluting acidification, human toxicity, and particulate matter escaping into the environment.
The most urgent goal is keeping as much of this toxic material out of landfills as possible, which you will do if you use rechargeable batteries enough times. But, because rechargeable batteries retain the same amount of toxic material no matter how many times you use them, Dr. He notes, “Make sure to recycle rechargeable batteries too.”
Though it might be a while before you bid your rechargeable batteries adieu — some rechargeable batteries can be recharged up to 1,000 times.
Does this mean fewer trips to the store and some spare change? This is yet another example of how ditching single-use items can do your wallet some good. “If you use them as intended, you should be coming out on top in terms of cost as well,” says Dr. He.
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How can you let go of control and trust God? Here are five healthy, practical ways to live an out-of-control life.
When I was a senior in college, my professors went on strike less than a month before graduation. The campus shut down. Classes stopped. Even the theater’s spring production of Guys and Dolls ended after only one performance.
I have to admit I panicked a little … okay, maybe a lot.
My educational plans didn’t include a faculty strike. I was on track to start grad school in mere months, and I needed my transcript and my degree. There wasn’t time in my well-laid educational blueprint for this unexpected delay. Yet here I was, face to face with a strike. Suddenly, my carefully calculated endgame met a situation I couldn’t control. Would I graduate on time?
I honestly didn’t know.
The Master of Your Fate
In our goal-oriented, success-driven culture, we may find ourselves obsessing over five-year plans and bucket lists. As a result, it’s easy to believe that we are, as poet William Ernest Henley once penned, masters of our own fate. Yet there’s nothing quite like plans gone awry, dreams unrealized, or even faculty on strike to remind us that we aren’t ultimately in control — and we never have been.
If each of our lives is a story with God as the author, then He’s in charge of the narrative. He carefully and lovingly crafts each of our individual stories with the very best in mind. So how can you and I learn to be okay with not being in control of our lives, not only day to day, but also when our five-year plans fail and our bucket lists go unchecked?
I believe it starts with our destination.
What’s Your Destination?
In her Forbes article “3 Mistakes You Make When Planning,” Ann Latham asserts that the first step is to choose a destination. You and I must determine what we want to accomplish and then “create a clear objective, destination, outcome — whatever you want to call it — before you try to pave the shortest path to that destination.”
As followers of Jesus, your destination and mine are the same when it comes to planning our lives. Our objective is to follow Jesus wherever He leads, through the adventures of this life and then onward and upward to the afterlife. The everyday details of our paths will look different from each other, but our ultimate destination is the same: to follow Him faithfully toward eternity.
The problem for all of us is that we sometimes make our own specific goals our primary destination instead. Our most important ambition becomes to achieve them, whether it’s a career or a relational aspiration. We invest all of our energy and focus into arriving at these objectives — as good as they may be — that sometimes we fail to consider if God’s plans and timing may look different from our own.
When His storyline seems to deviate from our ideal, it’s tempting to see God as a threat to what we want. This is when we tend to cling even more tightly to our desire to be in control.
Of course, we aren’t the first of Jesus’ followers to struggle with this. If we could chat with Peter, one of Jesus’ disciples and close friends, I think he’d relate.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Peter Would?
When Jesus called Peter to follow Him, Peter didn’t hesitate. At the same time though, Peter continually attempted to control situations and even corrected Jesus. Here are just a few things we read about Peter:
- Jesus told His followers He would be killed and raised again. Peter’s response? He “took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, ‘Far be it from you, Lord! This shall never happen to you'” (Matthew 16:22).
- When Jesus attempts to wash Peter’s feet, Peter objects saying, “You shall never wash my feet” (John 13:8).
- As Jesus talks about each of the disciples falling away, Peter adamantly objects, saying, “Though they all fall away because of you, I will never fall away” (Matthew 26:33).
- During Jesus’ arrest, “Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant and cut off his right ear …. So Jesus said to Peter, ‘Put your sword into its sheath; shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?'” (John 18:10).
In each instance Peter thought he understood God’s plan. The truth is he didn’t have the complete picture. Only Jesus did. As a result Peter was continually reminded that what he believed to be best often wasn’t.
Peter eventually learned to be okay with living an “out-of-control” life and yielding to God’s narrative. God wants us to learn to do the same.
Living Out of Control
So how can you learn to let go of control and instead trust your present and your future to God? Here are some healthy, practical ways to live an out-of-control life.
1. Be flexible. An out-of-control life doesn’t require you to tear up your five-year plan or shred the bucket list. Living with intentionality and purpose is wise. At the same time, Scripture reminds us that we plan, but God establishes (Proverbs 16:9). So face each day with determination, but also approach your plans with flexibility.
What does flexibility look like for you? Maybe it’s how you respond if you aren’t accepted to your dream graduate program or if you have to move far away from family for work. Or perhaps it’s how you proceed when your boss changes or reduces your hours at work. It may even be the decision to let go of how you think the dishwasher should be loaded or the towels folded.
When you are flexible, it’s easier to navigate the unexpected and, like the woman in Proverbs 31:25, laugh “without fear of the future.”
2. Stop comparing. A healthy characteristic of an out-of-control life is celebrating, rather than envying, others’ victories and successes. Comparison fuels control. When we fixate on our desire to emulate or outdo someone else, it’s easy to lose our ability to be flexible. We instead hold tightly to how we believe our lives should look.
A friend’s marriage or coworker’s promotion might make you pause with sadness if you’re still waiting for these things. But try not to live in your pain. Instead, make regular, intentional efforts to praise and rejoice with the exact person whose life you are comparing yours to (Romans 12:15).
3. Allow others freedom. Have you ever noticed that when we seek to be in control, this often extends beyond our own daily decisions and actions? We also want to command those around us — say, in how our husband organizes the refrigerator or in what we allow our family members to know or say about us — because it gives us a sense of security and predictability.
If you’ve had someone else try to control you, you know how suffocating this can feel, right? When you live an out-of-control life, you allow others freedom to be themselves. You invite them into your life without expecting them to follow specific rules to stay in your good favor.
4. Remember God is for you. It’s impossible to live an out-of-control life if you think God is against you. To trust Him you have to believe He is for you. But it’s hard when it feels like the story He’s writing for you isn’t a good one.
Nine years ago my family entered what I call our “weeping years,” a two-year period marked by job losses, panic attacks, antidepressants, cross-country moves and a miscarriage. What sustained me during this out-of-control season was remembering God was for me.
How? I took inspiration from Joshua 4:19-24 and constructed “memorials” or visual reminders of God’s past faithfulness to me. This included framing photos of significant moments in my life where God’s love was evident, as well as writing down specific stories of times God protected, guided or cared for me.
If you have a favorite song that reminds you of God’s unwavering faithfulness, play it on repeat. Or maybe you were wearing a piece of clothing or jewelry when God came through for you in a memorable way. Make those your go-to wardrobe pieces on days when you doubt God is for you.
5. Dig for the good. It’s much easier to live an out-of-control life when God gives our heart’s desires. It’s much harder to trust Him when devastating loss hits or heartbreaking difficulty happens. But it’s in these situations and seasons that we can actively dig for the good.
I had to do that during our weeping years. Some moments I felt forgotten by God. Some days I wondered where the good was in the midst of all the bad. This is when I began to make a conscious effort to note every instance, no matter how small, where God’s love was evident. It didn’t take long for my list to grow:
- Friends who helped us pack for our move
- The pot roast someone surprised us with — and I’d actually been craving pot roast
- The song on the radio that encouraged me in my sadness
- The person in line in front of me who paid for my meal
As I dug for the good, my focus shifted. Instead of seeing what I couldn’t control, I recognized the loving ways God — who was still in control — cared for me.
So back to the story of the teacher strike at the very end of my senior year. How did things go? It turns out I did graduate on time. The strike ended after 13 days. Classes went back to normal, and we were no worse for the time lost.
There was nothing to worry about after all. Even though I’d lost control, God never had.
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On Monday, in a now-deleted Tweet, writer Hanna Rosin criticized Hulu’s popular new film “Fire Island” for its so-called failure of the Bechdel test. Rosin wrote that the movie “gets an F- on the Bechdel test in a whole new way. Do we just ignore the drab lesbian stereotypes bc cute gay Asian boys? Is this revenge for all those years of the gay boy best friend?”
By the next day, the Tweet was gone and a whole new string of Tweets had appeared, with an apology. Rosin wrote: “My tweet was careless and thoughtless. Truly. The movie was telling a story about queer AAPI [Asian American Pacific Islander] men, whose experiences don’t show up enough in movies or anywhere else … What I had to say was beside the point, not to mention a buzzkill on a fun summer movie.”
The “fun summer movie” in question was written by its star, Joel Kim Booster, and centers the experiences of queer Asian men. In doing so, it’s a rarity in Hollywood where the majority of stories are still told by and about straight people, especially cishet white ones. When characters are queer, they’re usually white. In 2019, GLAAD found that only 34% of queer characters were characters of color, a small percentage that kept decreasingdown from 42% the year before and 57% in 2017.
But Rosin focused her Tweet on the film’s lack of women characters and cited a long-standing measurement of women’s roles in cinema: the Bechdel test. What is the Bechdel test and what does the person it’s named for have to say about all this?
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The Bechdel test comes from the comic “Dykes to Watch Out For” by Alison Bechdel, MacArthur Fellowship winner and author of the graphic memoir “Fun Home,” which was turned into a 2015 Tony Award-winning musical. Bechdel and friend Liz Wallace created the test in 1985 (sometimes it’s called the Bechdel-Wallace test) when a character tells another she only goes to see a movie if it features two female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man.
Easier said than done. In the comic, it’s only “Alien” that fulfills those qualifications. The website bechdeltest.com has included a database since 2013 of movies that pass and movies that fail miserably. Recent movies that fail to complete three components of the Bechdel test (two female characters, talking to each other, not just talking about a man) according to the website include “Ambulance,” “Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore” and “The Northman.”
Does “Fire Island” pass? Well . . . the Hulu film, a loose updating of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice,” is focused on a found family of queer friends determined to have one last wonderful summer on Fire Island, New York’s famous gay mecca. All the friends are male except one, Erin (Margaret Cho). Her role is not the largest or most developed: Erin is older, partner-less and losing her home. The movie’s only other woman? A very minor, very angry lesbian on a boat.
But the film is a showcase for queer Asian men and those specific experiences that have been hugely absent from popular fiction. Objecting to one missing story is not taking into account the other marginalized stories it does bring to light. DR Medlen of The MarySue wrote: “Instead of being excited about a mainstream movie providing a platform for a traditionally underrepresented group, we get a hot take from the school of white feminism that no one asked for . . . White feminism has a long history of making arguments about inclusion or visibility only if specifically white women are included.”
So, the short answer is no, it doesn’t pass. However, perhaps it’s time for other, different measures. Valid criticisms can be made about the film, including about its portrayal of Black queer characters. But as for its lack of women, it’s not about them. Actor and producer Emerson Collins tweeted, “‘FI’ fails [the Bechdel test] rather intentionally. . . gay Asian men are rarely/never centered this way.”
And the answer could be simple: we need more movies. As Rebecca Sun writes, “Stories about one historically excluded identity do not have to be about all of them.” It’s past time for more, different and diverse stories by and about multiple kinds of communities and underrepresented experiences.
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The definite response? From the test creator herself, Alison Bechdel, who tweeted: “Okay, I just added a corollary to the Bechdel test: Two men talking to each other about the female protagonist of an Alice Munro story in a screenplay structured on a Jane Austen novel = pass.” The movie’s official Twitter feed expressed excitement in a reaction worthy of a “Fire Island” summer:
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Formulation and Evaluation of Fast Disintegrating Tablet of Solid Dispersion of Carvedilol A Research
The aim of the present work is Formulation and Evaluation of Fast Disintegrating Tablet of Solid Dispersion of Carvedilol. The solid dispersions of Carvedilol were prepared with PEG6000 and PVP K30 in 1 1, 1 2, 1 3 by using Kneading method. The prepared solid dispersions were analyzed for FTIR. Solid dispersions showed a better dissolution compared to the pure drugs and among all the other formulations. The F3 formulation shows high percentage drug release i.e. 96.61 in 40 min and selected as an optimized formulation for the preparation of fast disintegrating tablets of Carvedilol. Crosscarmellose sodium and Crospovidone used in the preparation of fast disintegrating tablets prepared by direct compression method. The post compression parameters of all the prepared tablets were within the limits. FD6 was selected as optimized formulation based on its highest disintegration time 48 sec and drug release 94.87 in 40 min. Hence it concluded that solid dispersions incorporated fast disintegrating tablets is very useful approach for fast disintegration of Carvedilol to treat high blood pressure.
Solid dispersion, Carvedilol, Kneading method, Bioavailability
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A floating floor usually means "floating" on top of the floor below it and also isn't directly secured to the ground (i.e. no nails and no glue). As an alternative, it's held down or secured across the borders of the room – that the bottom molding/shoe molding and adjustments.
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Iodine is a dietary mineral required for the production of thyroid hormones, which are necessary for brain development in utero and during early childhood. Iodine deficiency is associated with thyroid dysfunction, and frank iodine deficiency during pregnancy can result in irreversible brain damage and other neurological abnormalities in infants. Scientific evidence pertaining to the consequences of mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency is less consistent, but emerging signals suggest that even moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy and/or lactation is clinically meaningful. Clinicians who advise pregnant and lactating women play a key role in facilitating public health efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency in North America.
Iodine is a dietary mineral required for the production of thyroid hormones, which are necessary for brain development in utero and during early childhood. Iodine deficiency is associated with thyroid dysfunction, and frank iodine deficiency during pregnancy can result in irreversible brain damage and other neurological abnormalities in infants. Scientific evidence pertaining to the consequences of mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency is less consistent, but emerging signals suggest that even moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy and/or lactation is clinically meaningful. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey intake data demonstrate that pregnant and lactating women in North America are at risk of insufficient iodine intake. For these reasons, the American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society, and American Academy of Pediatrics recommend that all pregnant and lactating women supplement with a daily multivitamin that contains 150 µg iodine. This recommendation is supported by guidelines established by the dietary supplement industry to urge supplement manufacturers to include 150 µg iodine in multivitamins intended for pregnant and lactating women. Clinicians who advise pregnant and lactating women play a key role in facilitating public health efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency in North America by echoing the aforementioned recommendation and ensuring that products they recommend are compliant with industry guidelines.
Iodine is a dietary trace mineral required by the thyroid gland for the production of the thyroid hormones triiodothyronine and thyroxine (T4). Thyroid hormones play a central role in regulating metabolic processes and as important determinants of health throughout life.1 Fetuses, newborns, and young children are particularly vulnerable to sequelae of low maternal thyroid hormone production because thyroid hormones are necessary for brain development in utero and during early childhood.
During pregnancy, normal maternal thyroid production will increase almost 50%.2 Sufficient iodine intake from diet and/or supplementation is necessary to support this increased demand.3 Several coinciding physiological changes increase iodine requirements during pregnancy.4 Increased thyroid hormone production is necessary to maintain maternal euthyroid state. The fetus is totally dependent on maternal transfer of T4 until about 20 weeks of gestation.5 Later in pregnancy, direct transfer of iodine to the fetus is required to support fetal thyroid hormone production and to meet nutritional requirements for growth and development. Concurrent with the increased physiological demand for iodine throughout pregnancy, there is also evidence of amplified maternal iodine excretion via increased renal clearance.6 Iodine requirements remain increased throughout lactation to support neurodevelopment in nursing infants. For these reasons recommended intake levels for iodine are higher for women who are pregnant and lactating. The Institute of Medicine recommends iodine intake at 150 µg per day for nonpregnant adults, 220 µg per day for pregnant women, and 290 µg per day for lactating women.7 The World Health Organization (WHO) similarly recommends 250 µg of iodine daily for pregnant and lactating women.8
Healthy growth and development of fetuses and breastfed infants are dependent on sufficient maternal intake of iodine. When physiological requirements for iodine are not met during pregnancy and the first 2 to 3 years of life, a variety of functional and developmental abnormalities can occur. Conditions that result from inadequate iodine intake are grouped together as iodine deficiency disorders (IDD) and include hypothyroidism and goiter. IDDs that result from severe deficiency during pregnancy include cretinism and increased neonatal and infant mortality.9 Mild deficiency during pregnancy is associated with low thyroid function, learning impairment, and other minor neurocognitive defects that have been described in the literature (Figure 1).10,11
Figure 1. Iodine deficiency disorders.
As recently as 2011, the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders estimated that more than 2 billion people globally have insufficient iodine intake, including one-third of school-age children. Iodine deficiency remains the most prevalent, yet preventable, cause of irreversible cognitive impairment worldwide and is considered a public health problem in at least 32 countries.8 Iodine deficiency is more common in populations that live in isolated and mountainous regions of the world that are known to have low iodine levels in the food supply. North Americans are generally considered iodine sufficient; however, emerging evidence suggests that clinicians should be aware of the possibility of mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency in women capable of becoming pregnant.
Urinary iodine concentration (UIC) is a biochemical indicator of recent iodine intake, with median UIC used to assess the iodine status of a population. Threshold values for median iodine concentrations have been established to classify iodine status of populations and to identify populations at risk of deficiency. WHO defines adequate intake and adequate iodine nutrition as having a median UIC greater than 100 µg/L for nonpregnant women and greater than 150 µg/L for pregnant women. Mild-to-moderate deficiency during pregnancy is defined as having median UIC of 50 µg/L to 150 µg/L, and frank deficiency is defined as having median UIC below 50 µg/L.8
The recognition of trends toward reduced dietary iodine intake combined with increased physiological requirements during pregnancy and lactation have raised concerns about mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency impacting women of childbearing age in the United States.
Clinical use of UIC to evaluate individual iodine status in patients is not reliable due to diurnal variation in urinary iodine excretion. There is no clinical test that is considered a valid measure of individual iodine status. Some practitioners use other available tests, such as the 24-hour iodine/iodide challenge, the iodine skin test, or hair mineral analysis, but these tests have not been validated as reflecting iodine status of an individual and are based on several unproven assumptions.1,12
Overall data show that the US adult population is iodine sufficient; however, a subset of pregnant and lactating women may be at risk of deficiency. Intake data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 2005 to 2008 suggest that iodine intake has decreased dramatically over the past several decades and by as much as 50% since the 1970s.13,14 During this period, the percentage of women of childbearing age with iodine deficiency rose from 4% to 15%. The NHANES data also indicate that over 35% of pregnant women have iodine levels considered to be moderately deficient,15 possibly placing their offspring at risk for IDD. Other studies of iodine status in pregnant US women have also reported marginal iodine deficiency during the first and second trimester (median UIC of less than 149 µg/L) and deficiency in 9% of pregnant women with UIC less than 50 µg/L.16 Apparently healthy pregnant women with UIC of 50 µg/L or less during the third trimester are significantly more likely to have infants who are small for gestational age than healthy women with UIC between 100 µg/L and 149 µg/L.16
The decline in iodine intake in the United States may have resulted from public health efforts control blood pressure by reducing sodium intake. Iodine has also been reduced as a dough conditioner and in dairy products, and the salt used in processed and convenience foods does not contain iodine. It is not uncommon for patients monitoring total salt intake to forgo using table salt—the most prevalent source of iodized salt—as a way to reduce overall sodium intake. Clinicians may consider other dietary variables that influence iodine intake. For example, a vegetarian or vegan diet can result in inadequate iodine intake unless adequate amounts of seaweed, a source of iodine, are consumed.17,18
Environmental chemicals also play a role in the decline of iodine intake. They interfere with iodine assimilation by competing for transport by the sodium iodide symporter (NIS) in the thyroid gland and lactating mammary gland. The NIS transports iodide into thyroid follicular cells for thyroid hormone synthesis, and in the lactating mammary gland it transports iodide into milk. Other strong anions found in the environment—such as thiocyanates, nitrates, and perchlorates—can compete with and replace iodine as a substrate for NIS transport across plasma membranes. Perchlorate’s affinity to NIS is 30 times greater than that of iodide, and perchlorate exposure raises concerns with regard to competitive inhibition of iodide uptake and decreased thyroid function.19 Ensuring adequate iodine intake in mother and child may reduce vulnerability to environmental agents that interfere with iodine uptake, which is in part why the American Academy of Pediatrics and Council of Environmental Health recommend a prenatal and lactation supplement with adequate iodide.20
Consequences of Iodine Deficiency
The consequences of severe iodine deficiency include adverse obstetric outcomes (ie, premature birth, spontaneous abortion, stillbirth), congenital anomalies, decreased intelligence, and neurological cretinism. Iodine supplementation during pregnancy in populations with prevalent severe iodine deficiency has been shown to improve outcomes, such as decreases in fetal mortality and endemic cretinism.21 Iodine deficiency has also been correlated with a general intellectual impairment across populations. An analysis of data from Chinese studies demonstrates that children with iodine deficiency have an average intelligence quotient (IQ) score 12.5 points lower than that of children with normal iodine levels.22 A separate combined analysis of several observational studies conducted in children indicates that chronic iodine deficiency is associated with impaired intellectual function, diminished fine motor skills, and reduced IQ scores.23 These data are observational and do not establish causality, but the totality of evidence and concerns about preventable causes of low intelligence have mobilized the scientific and public health communities to prioritize iodine deficiency as a health concern requiring attention.
The adverse effects of mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency during pregnancy and breastfeeding relating to cognitive outcomes in infants and children are not supported by rigorous randomized placebo-controlled clinical trials (RCTs). Experts have noted that conducting RCTs to establish a link between marginally inadequate iodine status in pregnant women and adverse cognitive outcomes in offspring would be unethical because RCTs, by design, would randomly assign some women at risk for mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency to the placebo group, which would not take iodine during the trial. In the absence of data from large scale RCTs, the totality of available evidence informs recommendations by medical organizations for iodine supplementation during pregnancy and lactation as a preventive public health measure to avoid consequences of mild-to-moderate deficiency.
Evidence to support iodine supplementation in pregnant and lactating women includes basic science and emerging clinical evidence. Clear evidence demonstrates that iodine, as a major structural component of thyroid hormones, plays a role in neuron and brain development during fetal and early postnatal life.7 Mechanistic data are further supported by evidence that mild hypothyroidism during pregnancy, characterized by low T4 and elevated thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) levels, may result in delays in cognitive development in the offspring.24,25 Intervention studies have shown that iodine supplementation during pregnancy increases maternal iodine status, reduces maternal and neonatal thyroid volume, and reduces maternal TSH levels.26,27 It is noteworthy that not all trials have shown that perinatal iodine supplementation improves biomarkers of thyroid function,28 but evidence suggests improvement in measures of infant neurocognitive function when women living in geographic areas of mild iodine deficiency take an iodine supplement.29,30 Overall, the emerging evidence of benefit—considering the large margin of safety of the recommended iodine supplemental intake of 150 µg per day and in light of the median dietary iodine intake in women (190 µg-210 µg per day) and tolerable upper intake level for iodine (1,100 µg per day)—makes recommendations for perinatal iodine supplementation a prudent public health measure (Table).
Dietary iodine intake
(median intake for women)
190 µg/d- 210 µg/d
RDA: nonpregnant females
RDA: pregnant females
RDA: lactating females
Recommendation for pregnant and lactating females
Tolerable upper level: (includes adult pregnant and lactating women)
Table. Considerations for Iodine Supplementation in Women
Abbreviations: IOM, Institute of Medicine; RDA, recommended dietary allowance; WHO, World Health Organization.
Iodine Supplementation for Pregnancy and Lactation
The impact of iodine deficiency on intelligence has been recognized for more than 150 years. Publications dating as far back as the 1830s suggested that salt fortified with iodine was necessary for good health in people living in mountainous regions of Europe.21 Pioneering work of Swiss doctors established that iodine deficiency was the cause of endemic goiter and its clinical manifestations.31 The effect of iodine deficiency on children’s intelligence and subsequent effects on the workforce and economy in various regions of the world have led to international public health efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency worldwide.
Over the past 75 years, the international public health community has reduced the global burden of IDD through coordinated programs aimed to control and prevent iodine deficiency. As early as the 1960s, WHO developed programs to characterize the extent of the problem and engage governments of impacted regions, but these efforts were not well coordinated, so the problem of iodine deficiency was not addressed in a consistent way. In the late 1980s, as policymakers became better informed about the significance of iodine deficiency and its preventable nature, support for global initiatives increased. A turning point in the global efforts to eliminate IDD was the 1990 United Nations (UN) World Summit for Children, which resulted in strategies and goals to eliminate iodine deficiency. These strategies were approved by 159 countries at the joint Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN/WHO International Conference on Nutrition in 1992. In 2002, the prevention of iodine deficiency was still a public health priority as the UN General Assembly’s special session on children endorsed the goal of IDD eradication by the year 2005. Despite the success of these coordinated efforts, iodine deficiency and its complications still affect about 30% of the population globally, and iodine deficiency remains the leading preventable cause of mental retardation worldwide.32
The US population is generally sufficient in iodine15; however, the recognition of trends toward reduced dietary iodine intake combined with increased physiological requirements during pregnancy and lactation have raised concerns about mild-to-moderate iodine deficiency affecting women of childbearing age in the United States. The prevalence of marginal iodine deficiency in United States and the potential for avoidable adverse health and socioeconomic consequences have resulted in public health efforts by several US medical organizations to recommend that pregnant and lactating women supplement with a daily multivitamin with enough iodine. The American Thyroid Association,33 Endocrine Society,34 and American Academy of Pediatrics,20 have engaged in public health efforts to eliminate iodine deficiency during pregnancy. These groups have established policies and practice guidelines recommending that women in North America receive a dietary supplement containing 150 µg iodine daily during pregnancy and lactation. They also called on the dietary supplement industry to join their efforts by formulating multivitamins intended for use during pregnancy and lactation to contain daily doses of 150 µg iodine.
Survey data demonstrate that currently few US women adhere to iodine intake guidelines, with only 20% of pregnant and 15% of lactating women taking a dietary supplement with the recommended level of iodine.14 The high number of women not supplementing with enough iodine is due, in part, to lack of iodine in multivitamins. It is estimated that approximately 50% of prescription and nonprescription prenatal multivitamins do not contain iodine as an ingredient.14 Furthermore, a published analysis of the iodine content of prenatal products that included iodine as an ingredient shows that some products did not contain the amount listed on the label, with most variability found in products that used kelp, as opposed to potassium iodide, as the source of iodine.14 These data not be valid, however, because the application of analytical methods validated for testing iodine levels in urine to the testing of iodine levels in finished dietary supplements may not be appropriate.35 The author’s personal communications with experts in dietary supplement manufacturing and quality control confirm that the iodine content of kelp can fluctuate depending on growing conditions but also affirm that the iodine content of kelp can be standardized. This means that kelp can be used as a reliable source of iodine if proper quality controls are applied during manufacturing.
The American Thyroid Association’s advocacy efforts include outreach to the dietary supplement industry to explore ways to ensure that multivitamins intended to meet the nutritional needs for pregnant and lactating women contain 150 µg of supplemental iodine. The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), the leading trade association for the dietary supplement industry, recognizes the importance of supporting efforts to improve iodine intake in populations at risk for deficiency. CRN supports the science-based recommendations of the American Thyroid Association, Endocrine Society, and American Academy of Pediatrics and also recognizes that the federal Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program recommends that all prenatal multivitamins provided by its program contain 150 µg of iodine per daily serving. In alignment with these organizations, CRN developed guidelines recommending that all manufacturers and marketers of multivitamin/mineral supplements for pregnant and lactating women in the United States include enough iodine to achieve supplemental iodine intake of 150 µg per day to support normal cognitive development in children (Figure 2).36
Dietary supplement manufacturers and marketers should include a daily serving of at least 150 µg iodine in all multivitamin/mineral supplements intended for pregnant and lactating women in the United States.
Any safe and suitable iodine-containing dietary ingredient may be used as the source of iodine in such products when used in accordance with current Good Manufacturing Practice regulations for dietary supplements that ensure that the product consistently meets label claim.
Figure 2. Council on Responsible Nutrition recommended guidelines for iodine quantity in multivitamin/mineral supplements for pregnancy and lactation.
Ensuring sufficient iodine intake in pregnant and lactating women is an important public health goal in the United States. To accomplish this goal in the absence of valid clinical tests for individual iodine status, all clinicians should adhere to current clinical guidelines and recommendations from authoritative medical organizations. Clinicians should advise pregnant and lactating women to take a dietary supplement containing a daily dose of 150 µg iodine. These efforts are supported by dietary supplement industry guidelines aimed at ensuring that dietary supplements intended for pregnancy and lactation contain sufficient iodine. Healthcare providers can further support public health efforts to ensure adequate iodine intake in pregnancy and lactation by insisting that any dietary supplement or prescription prenatal product they recommend contains a daily serving of 150 µg iodine.
The authors thank Alex Stagnaro-Green, MD, MHPE, and the American Thyroid Association for their iodine advocacy. Stagnaro-Green encouraged the Council for Responsible Nutrition to develop iodine guidelines as part of a collaborative public health effort to ensure that pregnant and lactating women supplement with iodine.
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Cork gaskets are used in many engineering industries where they are used underneath compressors and heavy plant machinery to control and reduce noise and vibration. Cork is chemically inert, resistant to fungus and mold growth, flame retardant, anti-static, flexible, and durable.
Cork Gaskets are water-resistant, fire-resistant, buoyant and highly impermeable. Cork is stable and light-weight, and composite cork (cork blended with rubber) offers flexibility and high moisture resistance. Additionally, composite cork can withstand extreme temperatures and offers excellent sound-resistant properties.
With a wide range of uses in both commercial and consumer applications, composite cork gaskets are key where compressibility and flexibility are required, sometimes due to poor bolt loading or uneven sealing surfaces. WIth it’s impressive qualities, composite cork is used widely in the automotive, HVAC, marine, aviation, agricultural, transformer, shipping, and electrical equipment industries. Some applications include bumpers, stripping, spacers, anti-vibration, and electrical transformers.
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The Comparative Functional Genomics G5 group investigates how evolutionary innovations arise in vertebrate genomes through changes in gene sequences, gene expression and gene regulation. Our main model is the evolution of menstruation, a reproductive trait which was acquired during the evolution of primates, which we investigate by comparing primate uterus samples with a combination of single-cell functional assays and computational analysis. We also develop bioinformatics models and frameworks to study how gene expression and regulation changes through time, and cellular models to test how evolutionary changes in gene function result in measurable molecular phenotypes.
Endometriosis is a chronic gynecologic disease that occurs when endometrial tissue, which normally lines the inside of the uterus, grows outside of the uterine cavity. Endometriosis is thought to develop when endometrial fragments contained […]
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Decoding the genetics of menstruation evolution in primates The shedding of the superficial endometrium (menstruation) is a recent evolutionary attribute. It occurs only in few placental mammals (including humans and baboons), when in most […]
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2019Adaptation of Proteins to the Cold in Antarctic Fish: A Role for Methionine?, Genome Biol Evol 2019 01; 11(1): 220-231.
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- Managing Economic Reforms in Post-Mao China
In his Managing Economic Reforms in Post-Mao China, Kuotsai Tom Liou, an associate professor of public administration at the University of Central Florida, examines the economic reform process and its ramifications in post-Mao China. His particular focus is on the government's role in managing the recent reforms. The book's targeted audience includes those interested in public management and policy as well as those concerned about governmental efforts to promote economic development. The fundamental economic reform policies of the post-Mao era include gradually introducing private market mechanisms into the agricultural and industrial sectors, decentralizing decision-making power to local administrators and business managers, encouraging foreign investment and linking the Chinese economy to the world market, and establishing the infrastructure needed for a market economy.
The book can conveniently be divided into two parts: the first part, over three chapters, examines economic reforms since 1976, and the second part, also over three chapters, considers three major issues related to these reforms.
The first chapter on economic reforms, "Background of China's Economic Reforms," begins with a brief, cursory description of the policies that guided economic development from 1949 through the Fifth Five-Year Plan of 1980. This is followed by a statistical survey of the economic results in the early periods. Liou chooses national income, industrial production, agricultural production, and foreign trade as the benchmarks to assess economic performance. His survey primarily utilizes the rates of growth of these variables and includes very little economic analysis beyond presenting the data. The author's probe into the causes of economic problems during these periods is rather conventional and elementary—for example: "there were major differences in economic development strategies between the right-line and left-line policies" (p. 23).
The second chapter on economic reforms concentrates on the policies of the post-Mao period. Liou breaks this period into the following stages: the rural-agricultural reform, 1978-1984; the urban-industrial reform, 1985-1988; the slowdown of economic reforms, 1989-1991; the macroeconomic-structural reform since 1992; and the open-door policy since the 1970s. The breakdown and descriptions are again conventional and offer no particular insights not found in many other research reports. Oftentimes statements are general and vague—for example: "Production decisions [which ones?] were made by a higher authority and often did not consider local conditions [such as?]" (p. 31). This chapter relies chiefly on [End Page 478] description, reporting the findings of others, and offers little in terms of rigorous analysis.
The third chapter of the first part evaluates the output and effects of the post-Mao reforms. In addition to national income, industrial output, agricultural output, and foreign trade, the author also presents statistics on gross national product, gross national output per capita, unemployment, sectoral changes in agriculture, enterprises by type, foreign loans, and direct foreign investment. Unfortunately, output and income data are given in nominal values; hence, the high rate of inflation experienced throughout the entire post-Mao period has not been removed from these data. Gross national product increased at an annual rate of 9.8 percent between 1978 and 1995, whereas retail prices grew at an annual rate of 7.5 percent. As a consequence, the growth in real, inflation-adjusted output and income was modest. The author's conclusion that "The record of economic growth is very impressive" (p. 51) is not warranted. In addition, although there is a discussion of urban unemployment, joblessness in the countryside is left out of the analysis. This would have been a valuable addition.
This chapter also suffers from other shortcomings. For example, the data used to measure economic performance come exclusively from the 1996 edition of the China Statistical Yearbook, issued by the State Statistical Bureau. Reliance on this source alone is dangerous and raises questions about why the author did not pursue other estimates and analyses. In the chapter's first footnote, Liou acknowledges that "many researchers have noticed some problems... | <urn:uuid:35d71d90-f5d6-4c55-b237-d170ef51f39e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://muse.jhu.edu/article/8536/pdf | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939498 | 827 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Ants nest in a compost bin more often than you think. It’s not an entirely bad thing. Ants can benefit your compost pile in many ways. But if you allow your ant population to get out of hand, it can ruin your compost, and all your hard work goes bye-bye.
In this guide, you’ll learn how ant colonies affect the composting process and how you can use ants to work for you and not against you.
How Do Ants Colonies Affect The Composting Process?
Ants contribute to good quality compost in the following ways:
- Ants increase biodiversity by bringing fungi and other beneficial organisms into the compost.
- Ant tunnels aerate composts, which speeds up the composting process.
- Ants prey on harmful pests and larvae in the compost, which will benefit your garden in the long run.
But having too many ants in your composting bin can wreak havoc. Here are the following reasons why:
- Ants compete with the worms. Compost is an excellent food source for ants and worms. Too many ants will consume much of the worm’s food, affecting the nutritional content in the compost.
- Some ants will even eat the worms. Poor worm production equals poor soil product.
- Ants protect against the aphid population that can harm plants.
- It will be very annoying to handle compost with a lot of ants.
The best way to make sure ants aren’t doing more harm than good is to check the compost bin often.
How Can I Control an Ants Nest In My Compost Bin?
Below are a few tricks to keep your ant population down.
Don’t Let Your Compost Become Too Dry
Large numbers of ants indicate that the compost heap is very dry. Moisten the pile with water when it starts to dry. Be careful not to soak the pile, only add enough water to keep the material damp.
To check whether you have moistened the compost correctly, follow these easy four steps:
- First, look at the compost material — it should look like a wrung-out sponge. Put the material in your hand and squeeze it into the shape of a ball. Make sure you squeeze as much water out as possible.
- Next, you want to observe if the moisture is absorbing into the compost or not. Sprinkle some water on top of the compost. If the compost doesn’t absorb the water, you want to insert the water into the soil than on top of it.
- To keep moisture, add fresh green materials such as kitchen waste, grass clippings to the compost heaps regularly. Don’t apply brown materials such as cardboard, shredded papers, twigs, and wood chips. These materials will dry out your heap.
- Cover the compost pile with plastic or bin cover to avoid moisture from evaporating. Use the plastic or bin cover sparsely. Good air circulation is vital in the composting process. Only cover your compost when it is too hot and sunny to prevent excessive evaporation.
Avoid Accidentally Introducing The Ants Into Your Compost
Check the plant debris for ants before introducing the new batch into the composting material. Turn the new batch upside down a couple of times and see if it contains ants or not.
If you see ants, spread the batch in the open air under the sun for some time so that ants can leave. Once you get rid of them, you may add the fresh material into your compost bin.
Mix the Compost on a Regular Basis
Ants are excellent sniffers and easily get attracted to the scent of fresh and rotting food. Turn and mix the decaying organic matter daily with a pitchfork or a shovel to expose the ants to the surface.
Disrupting the existing colonies will compel them to find a new home. This process will bury the fresh food under the old layers and cut down the odor. And there will be less of a chance to attract new ones.
Regulate The Compost Pile Temperature
Temperature plays a crucial role in the composting process and the nesting of ants in the compost bin. Insert a thermometer into different layers or parts of your compost. A temperature below 60 ºC is cool enough for insects to seek shelter in your compost.
Try to maintain the temperature between 60 ºC and 72 ºC.
Any temperature above 60 ºC, ants will not be able to survive. You can easily attain this temperature by placing a covered bin directly in the sunlight.
Apply Parasitic Nematodes
In the late spring, add parasitic nematodes into your compost heap. Parasitic nematodes are tiny worms that attack ants. Introducing these worms into your compost will deter ants from nesting inside.
These small roundworms are used for biological insect control to attack and kill soil insects. While they’re a nightmare to insects, parasitic nematodes don’t attack plants, birds, or mammals.
Parasitic nematodes are readily available at most garden centers and suppliers of wormeries. Use them to fend off many turfgrass and garden pests and have been recommendable for years.
Is It Safe To Apply Chemical Ant Repellent To Compost?
Chemicals are available in powder or spray form to stop ants from building their nests in a pile. But they can harm your compost. Be sure to read the label of chemical substances before applying these to your compost pile. The wrong substance in your compost will affect your soil, which affects your crop.
Compost treated with pesticides will cause damage to plants in your garden and may kill some beneficial insects. Instead of providing any nutritional value, all it does is kill the insects and harm your soil. According to expert’s advice, such chemicals are not a preferred control option.
Safest Ways To Treat Ants Nest In A Compost Bin
There are various means to kill ants quickly. But some may also damage the decaying material and alter the composting process. Below are some of the safest and cost-effective ways to get rid of ants nest in a compost bin. These techniques will not damage the microenvironment of your compost.
Coldwater: Douse the nest of ants with cold water. Target the ant queen, who is bigger than the workers — when the ant queen dies, the colony dies. Within no time, you will see ants leaving the compost. But there is no guarantee that the migration is permanent. After some time, another colony may move in.
But whatever you do, don’t use boiling water. Steaming hot water is harmful to compost ingredients.
Crushed limestone: Too much fresh food will decrease the pH level of the compost bedding. Ideally, the pH of the bedding should be close to the neutral pH of 7. The acidic pH below 7 is a welcoming sign for ants. To bring the pH too neutral, add crushed limestone. This will deter ant colonies from setting up their nests in the compost.
Coffee grounds: If used in a large amount, coffee grounds discourage ants from getting their feet into the compost heaps.
Cornmeal: Sprinkle some cornmeal around the compost bin and let ants eat this. Ants can not digest this grain. Having this meal inside the ants will kill them without posing any threat to your compost.
To Sum Up
Although having ants nest in a compost bin is irritating, you should have a few ants. If under control, ants add nutritional benefits to your compost and soil.
But if you leave the ant colonies unchecked, it could be very disastrous. Applying the methods above will help you control the population of your ant colony.
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It’s well known that the right lighting can set the mood for any circumstance. This is also true when you’re setting the stage to sell your home. Lighting can be vastly important to specific areas and can accentuate aspects of the home you want to bring more attention to. By improving the lighting of the home, you can make it far more appealing to those who are looking to buy. What can you do to improve the illumination? 1. Brighter Bulbs – Many people prefer to use lower wattage bulbs as a softer light. However, you could lose some of the appeal of the room if it’s too dark to your prospective buyers. You may want brighter bulbs than the 40 or 60 watt bulbs that you’re currently using. Many professionals prefer the natural light of a 100 watt white compact fluorescent bulb. These units use less power and provide ample light to brighten virtually any room. 2. Enough Light Per Room – You want to make sure you’re providing enough light for the room that is being staged. Even a 100 watt bulb may have a difficult time illuminating a room that is 300 square feet. Some will go so far as to provide one 100 watt bulb for every 50 square feet of space within the area. This provides enough light to detail the entire staging. For instance, you would need six bulbs if you are lighting a 15-foot by 20-foot basement living space. 3. Accent Lighting – For areas that are intended to be darker such as a personal study or library, many people will have accent lighting installed in order to display works of art hanging on the wall or displayed on pedestals. In a room that is intended to be of less luminosity, you don’t want to use the method of lighting mentioned above. However, you want to make sure that the track lighting is shining on objects worth looking at. Otherwise, the entire motif of the room could be lost to the potential buyer. There is nothing wrong with a dimly lit room as long as it’s on purpose. However, do have enough lighting available at the switch in order to illuminate the entire area should the individual want to see what it would look like with optimal lighting. 4. Lamps – Lamps are relatively cheap and are easy to set up if you need additional lighting in a room where a socket does not exist. Many people will place floor lamps, but there is nothing wrong with a nice coffee table supporting a lamp using a 100 watt CFL bulb. Depending on the size of the room, you could need two or three lamps in order to illuminate the area. This should provide ample light for your staging as you want to appease your potential buyer. There are many things to consider when staging your home. Everything from the decor to the lighting can affect how long the house stays on the market. Even the asking price could increase just from having a pleasant look and feel when a buyer examines the home for the first time. Make sure you have enough lighting in order to make your home seem more “alive” than it would if it were empty. Author Bio: This post is contributed by Christine Maddox. Currently she is pursuing her Master’s degree from University of Texas as well as blogging for www.4nannies.com. She loves to write anything related to parenting, kids, nanny care etc. | <urn:uuid:68781166-c330-496f-90eb-eac24ea23af7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pages.stagedhomes.com/guest-blog-post-using-the-right-lighting-can-improve-your-staging/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96663 | 686 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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Corporate Governance, Economic Entrenchment and Growth
Around the world, large corporations usually have controlling owners, who are usually very wealthy families. Outside the U.S. and the U.K., pyramidal control structures, cross shareholding and super voting rights are common. Using these devices, a family can control corporations without making a commensurate capital investment. In many countries, such families end up controlling considerable proportions of their countries'' economies. Three points emerge. First, at the firm level, these ownership structures vest dominant control rights with families who often have little real capital invested creating agency and entrenchment problem simultaneously. In addition, controlling shareholders can divert corporate resources for private benefits using transactions within the pyramidal group. The result is a poor utilization of resources. At the economy level, extensive control of corporate assets by a few families distorts capital allocation and reduces the rate of innovation. The result is an economy-wide misallocation of resources, and slower economic growth. Second, political influence is plausibly related to what one controls, rather than what one owns. The controlling owners of pyramids thus have greatly amplified political influence relative to their actual wealth. They appear to influence the development of both public policy, such as property rights protection and enforcement, and institutions like capital markets. We denote this phenomenon economic entrenchment. Third, we conceive of a relationship between the distribution of corporate control and institutional development that generates and preserves economic entrenchment as one equilibrium; but not the only one. Based on the literature, we identify key determinants of economic entrenchment. We also identify many gaps where further work exploring the political economy importance of the distribution of corporate control is needed.
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Friday, Dec. 31, 1965: THE ECONOMY
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.
—The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Concluding his most important book with those words in 1935, John Maynard Keynes was confident that he had laid down a philosophy that would move and change men's affairs. Today, some 20 years after his death, his theories are a prime influence on the world's free economies, especially on America's, the richest and most expansionist. In Washington the men who formulate the nation's economic policies have used Keynesian principles not only to avoid the violent cycles of prewar days but to produce a phenomenal economic growth and to achieve remarkably stable prices. In 1965 they skillfully applied Keynes's ideas—together with a number of their own invention—to lift the nation through the fifth, and best, consecutive year of the most sizable, prolonged and widely distributed prosperity in history.
By growing 5% in real terms, the U.S. experienced a sharper expansion than any other major nation. Even the most optimistic forecasts for 1965 turned out to be too low. The gross national product leaped from $628 billion to $672 billion—$14 billion more than the President's economists had expected. Among the other new records: auto production rose 22% , steel production 6% , capital spending 16% , personal income 7% and corporate profits 21%. Figuring that the U.S. had somehow discovered the secret of steady, stable, noninflationary growth, the leaders of many countries on both sides of the Iron Curtain openly tried to emulate its success.
Basically, Washington's economic managers scaled these heights by their adherence to Keynes's central theme: the modern capitalist economy does not automatically work at top efficiency, but can be raised to that level by the intervention and influence of the government. Keynes was the first to demonstrate convincingly that government has not only the ability but the responsibility to use its powers to increase production, incomes and jobs. Moreover, he argued that government can do this without violating freedom or restraining competition. It can, he said, achieve calculated prosperity by manipulating three main tools: tax policy, credit policy and budget policy. Their use would have the effect of strengthening private spending, investment and production.
From Mischief to Orthodoxy. When Keynes first propagated his theories, many people considered them to be bizarre or slightly subversive, and Keynes himself to be little but a left-wing mischief maker. Now Keynes and his ideas, though they still make some people nervous, have been so widely accepted that they constitute both the new orthodoxy in the universities and the touchstone of economic management in Washington. They have led to a greater degree of government involvement in the nation's economy than ever before in time of general peace. Says Budget Director Charles L. Schultze: "We can't prevent every little wiggle in the economic cycle, but we now can prevent a major slide."
A slide, of course, is not what the U.S. Government's economic managers have been worrying about in 1965; they have been pursuing a strongly expansionist policy. They carried out the second stage of a two-stage income-tax cut, thus giving consumers $11.5 billion more to spend and corporations $3 billion more to invest. In addition, they put through a long-overdue reduction in excise taxes, slicing $1.5 billion this year and another $1.5 billion in the year beginning Jan. 1. In an application of the Keynesian argument that an economy is likely to grow best when the government pumps in more money than it takes out, they boosted total federal spending to a record high of $121 billion and ran a deficit of more than $5 billion. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve Board kept money easier and cheaper than it is in any other major nation, though proudly independent Chairman William McChesney Martin at year's end piloted through an increase in interest rates—thus following the classic anti-inflationary prescription.
Why They Work. By and large, Keynesian public policies are working well because the private sector of the economy is making them work. Government gave business the incentive to expand, but it was private businessmen who made the decisions as to whether, when and where to do it. Washington gave consumers a stimulus to spend, but millions of ordinary Americans made the decisions—so vital to the economy —as to how and how much to spend. For all that it has profited from the ideas of Lord Keynes, the U.S. economy is still the world's most private and most free-enterprising. Were he alive, Keynes would certainly like it to stay that way.
The recent successes of Keynes's theories have given a new stature and luster to the men who practice what Carlyle called '.'the dismal science." Economists have descended in force from their ivory towers and now sit confidently at the elbow of almost every important leader in Government and business, where they are increasingly called upon to forecast, plan and decide. In Washington the ideas of Keynes have been carried into the White House by such activist economists as Gardner Ackley, Arthur Okun, Otto Eckstein (all members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers), Walter Heller (its former chairman), M.I.T.'s Paul Samuelson, Yale's James Tobin and Seymour Harris of the University of California at San Diego.
First the U.S. economists embraced Keynesianism, then the public accepted its tenets. Now even businessmen, traditionally hostile to Government's role in the economy, have been won over—not only because Keynesianism works but because Lyndon Johnson knows how to make it palatable. They have begun to take for granted that the Government will intervene to head off recession or choke off inflation, no longer think that deficit spending is immoral. Nor, in perhaps the greatest change of all, do they believe that Government will ever fully pay off its debt, any more than General Motors or IBM find it advisable to pay off their long-term obligations; instead of demanding payment, creditors would rather continue collecting interest.
To a New Stage. Though Keynes is the figure who looms largest in these recent changes, modern-day economists have naturally expanded and added to his theories, giving birth to a form of neo-Keynesianism. Because he was a creature of his times, Keynes was primarily interested in pulling a Depression-ridden world up to some form of prosperity and stability; today's economists are more concerned about making an already prospering economy grow still further. As Keynes might have put it: Keynesianism + the theory of growth = The New Economics. Says Gardner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "The new economics is based on Keynes. The fiscal revolution stems from him." Adds the University of Chicago's Milton Friedman, the nation's leading conservative economist, who was Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater's adviser on economics: "We are all Keynesians now."
Within the next two weeks, Ackley and his fellow council members will have to give President Johnson a firm economic forecast for the year ahead and advise him about what policies to follow. Their decisions will be particularly crucial because the U.S. economy is now moving into a new stage. Production is scraping up against the top levels of the nation's capacity, and federal spending and demand are soaring because of the war in Viet Nam. The economists' problem is to draw a fine line between promoting growth and preventing a debilitating inflation. As they search for new ways to accomplish this balance, they will be guided in large part by the Keynes legacy.
That legacy was the product of a man whose personality and ideas still surprise both his critics and his friends. Far from being a socialist left-winger, Keynes (pronounced canes) was a high-caste Establishment leader who disdained what he called "the boorish proletariat" and said: "For better or worse, I am a bourgeois economist." Keynes was suspicious of the power of unions, inveighed against the perils of inflation, praised the virtue of profits. "The engine which drives Enterprise," he wrote, "is not Thrift but Profit." He condemned the Marxists as being "illogical and so dull" and saw himself as a doctor of capitalism, which he was convinced could lead mankind to universal plenty within a century. Communists, Marxists and the British Labor Party's radical fringe damned Keynes because he sought to strengthen a system that they wanted to overthrow.
Truth & Consequences. Keynes was born the year Marx died (1883) and died in the first full year of capitalism's lengthy postwar boom (1946). The son of a noted Cambridge political economist, he whizzed through Eton and Cambridge, then entered the civil service. He got his lowest mark in economics. "The examiners," he later remarked, "presumably knew less than I did." He entered the India Office, soon after became a Cambridge don. Later, he was the British Treasury's representative to the Versailles Conference, and saw that it settled nothing but the inevitability of another disaster. He resigned in protest and wrote a book, The Economic Consequences of the 'Peace, that stirred an international sensation by clearly foretelling the crisis to come.
He went back to teaching at Cambridge, but at the same time operated with skill and dash in business. The National Mutual Life Assurance Society named him its chairman, and whenever he gave his annual reports to stockholders, the London Money Market suspended trading to hear his forecasts for interest rates in the year ahead. He was also editor of the erudite British Economic Journal, chairman of the New Statesman and Nation and a director of the Bank of England.
Keynes began each day propped up in bed, poring for half an hour over reports of the world's gyrating currency and commodity markets; by speculating in them, he earned a fortune of more than $2,000,000. Money, he said, should be valued not as a possession but "as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life." He took pleasure in assembling the world's finest collection of Newton's manuscripts and in organizing London's Camargo Ballet and Cambridge's Arts Theater. Later, the government tapped him to head Britain's Arts Council, and in 1942 King George VI made him a lord.
Part dilettante and part Renaissance man, Keynes moved easily in Britain's eclectic world of arts and letters. Though he remarked that economists should be humble, like dentists, he enjoyed trouncing countesses at bridge and Prime Ministers at lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death of a heart attack, was that he had not drunk more champagne.
The Whole Economy. The thrust of Keynes's personality, however strong, was vastly less important than the force of his ideas. Those ideas were so original and persuasive that Keynes now ranks with Adam Smith and Karl Marx as one of history's most significant economists. Today his theses are the basis of economic policies in Britain, Canada, Australia and part of Continental Europe, as well as in the U.S.
Economics is a young science, a mere 200 years old. Addressing its problems in the second half of its second century, Keynes was more successful than his predecessors in seeing it whole. Great theorists before him had tried to take a wide view of economic forces, but they lacked the 20th century statistical tools to do the job, and they tended to concentrate on certain specialties. Adam Smith focused on the marketplace, Malthus on population, Ricardo on rent and land, Marx on labor and wages. Modern economists call those specializations "microeconomics"; Keynes was the precursor of what is now known as "macroeconomics"—from the Greek makros, for large or extended. He decided that the way to look at the economy was to measure all the myriad forces tugging and pulling at it—production, prices, profits, incomes, interest rates, government policies.
For most of his life, Keynes wrote, wrote, wrote. He was so prolific that a compendium of his books, tracts and essays fills 22 pages. In succession he wrote books about mathematical probability (1921), the gold standard and monetary reform (1923), and the causes of business cycles (1930); each of his works further developed his economic thinking. Then he bundled his major theories into his magnum opus, The General Theory, published in 1936. It is an uneven and ill-organized book, as difficult as Deuteronomy and open to almost as many interpretations. Yet for all its faults, it had more influence in a shorter time than any other book ever written on economics, including Smith's The Wealth of Nations and Marx's Das Kapital.
Permanent Quasi-Boom. Keynes perceived that the prime goal of any economy was to achieve "full employment." By that, he meant full employment of materials and machines as well as of men. Before Keynes, classical economists had presumed that the economy was naturally regulated by what Adam Smith had called the "invisible hand," which brought all forces into balance and used them fully. Smith argued, for example, that if wages rose too fast, employers would lay off so many workers that wages would fall until they reached the point at which employers would start rehiring. French Economist Jean Baptiste Say embroidered that idea by theorizing that production always creates just enough income to consume whatever it produces, thus permitting any excesses of demand to correct themselves quickly.
Keynes showed that the hard facts of history contradicted these unrealistic assumptions. For centuries, he pointed out, the economic cycle had gyrated from giddy boom to violent bust; periods of inflated prosperity induced a speculative rise, which then disrupted commerce and led inexorably to impoverished deflation. The climax came during the depression of the 1930s. Wages plummeted and unemployment rocketed, but neither the laissez-faire classicists nor the sullen and angry Communists adequately diagnosed the disease or offered any reasonable remedies.
By applying both logic and historical example to economic cycles, Keynes showed that the automatic stabilizers that economists had long banked on could actually aggravate rather than prevent a depression. If employers responded to a fall-off in demand by slicing wages and dumping workers, said Keynes, that would only reduce incomes and demand, and plunge production still deeper. If bankers responded to a fall-off in sayings by raising interest rates, that would not tempt penniless people to save more—but it would move hard-pressed industrialists to borrow less for capital investment. Yet Keynes did not despair of capitalism as so many other economists did. Said he: "The right remedy for the trade cycle is not to be found in abolishing booms and keeping us permanently in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom."
Management of Demand. The key to achieving that, Keynes perceived, is to maintain constantly a high level of what he called "aggregate demand." To him, that meant the total of all demand in the economy—demand for consumption and for investment, for both private and public purposes. His inescapable conclusion was that, if private demand should flag and falter, then it had to be revived and stimulated by the only force strong enough to lift consumption: the government.
The pre-Keynesian "classical" economists had thought of the government too. But almost all of them had contended that, in times of depression, the government should raise taxes and reduce spending in order to balance the budget. In the early 1930s, Keynes cried out that the only way to revive aggregate demand was for the government to cut taxes, reduce interest rates, spend heavily—and deficits be damned. Said Keynes: "The State will have to exercise a guiding influence on the propensity to consume partly through its scheme of taxation, partly by fixing the rates of interest, and partly, perhaps, in other ways."
A few other economists of Keynes's time had called for more or less the same thing. Yet Keynes was the only one with enough influence and stature to get governments to sit up and pay attention. He was the right man at the right time, and his career and fame derived largely from the fact that when his theories appeared the world was racked by history's worst depression and governments were desperately searching for a way out.
Contrary to the Marxists and the socialists, Keynes opposed government ownership of industry and fought those centralists who would plan everything ("They wish to serve not God but the devil"). While he called for conscious and calculated state intervention, he argued just as passionately that the government had no right to tamper with individual freedoms to choose or change jobs, to buy or sell goods, or to earn respectable profits. He had tremendous faith that private men could change, improve and expand capitalism.
Perhaps Immoral. Like any genius, Keynes had plenty of faults and shortcomings. Even his admirers admit that he could be maddeningly abstruse and confusing. MJ.T.'s Paul Samuelson, for example, thinks that Keynes downplayed the importance of monetary policy. His few outright critics feel that, while he knew how to buoy a depression-stricken industrial economy, he offered little in the way of practical information about how to keep a prosperous modern economy fat and secure. Keynesian theories are certainly unworkable in the underdeveloped nations, where the problem is not too little demand but insufficient supply, and where the object is not to stimulate consumption but to spur savings, form capital and raise production.
Such critics as former U.S. Budget Director Maurice Stans still worry that Keynes makes spenders seem virtuous and savers wicked, and thus subtly threatens the nation's moral fiber. Other doubters contend that earlier obscure economists originated some of the ideas that Keynes popularized, and that all he did was wrap them up in a general theory. But even his severest de tractors bow to his brilliance, use the macroeconomic terms and framework that he devised, and concede that his main theories have largely worked out in practice.
What Did He Say? Though Keynes's gospel has only recently come to full flower, a school of fervid apostles has been preaching it in the U.S. for more than a generation. Harvard's Alvin Hansen, the first great Keynesian teacher, taught it to hundreds of economists, many of them now in high positions. Hansen's brightest student was Paul Samuelson, who later wrote a Keynesian-angled college textbook on economics that has gone to 2,000,000 copies and influenced the thinking of count less teachers and students.
Franklin Roosevelt was at first no fan of Keynes — "I didn't understand one word that man was saying," he sniffed after being lectured by Keynes at the White House in 1934 — but some of his economists gradually began to lean on Keynesian language and logic to rationalize huge deficits. In World War II, Washington planners used Keynesian ideas to formulate their policies of deficit spending.
Congress adopted the Keynesian course in 1946, when it passed the Employment Act, establishing Government responsibility to achieve "maximum employment, production and purchasing power." The act also created the Council of Economic Advisers, which for the first time brought professional economic thinking into close and constant touch with the President. Surprisingly it was Dwight Eisenhower's not-notably-Keynesian economists who most effectively demonstrated the effi cacy of Keynes's antirecession prescriptions; to fight the slumps of 1953-54 and 1957-58, they turned to prodigious spending and huge deficits.
J.M.K. & L.B.J. Still, Keynesianism made its biggest breakthrough under John Kennedy, who, as Arthur Schlesinger reports in A Thousand Days, "was unquestionably the first Keynesian President." Kennedy's economists, led by Chief Economic Adviser Walter Heller, presided over the birth of the New Economics as a practical policy and set out to add a new dimension to Keynesianism. They began fo use Keynes's theories as a basis not only for correcting the 1960 recession, which prematurely arrived only two years after the 1957-58 recession, but also to spur an expanding economy to still faster growth. Kennedy was intrigued by the "growth gap" theory, first put across to him by Yale Economist Arthur Okun (now a member of the Council of Economic Advisers), who argued that even though the U.S. was prosperous, it was producing $51 billion a year less than it really could. Under the prodding and guidance of Heller, Kennedy thereupon opened the door to activist, imaginative economics.
He particularly called for tax reductions—a step that Keynes had advocated as early as 1933. The Kennedy Administration stimulated capital investment by giving businessmen a 7% tax kickback on their purchases of new equipment and by liberalizing depreciation allowances. Kennedy also campaigned for an overall reduction in the oppressive income-tax rates in order to increase further both investment and personal consumption. That idea, he remarked, was "straight Keynes and Heller."
Lyndon Johnson came into the presidency worrying about the wisdom of large deficits and questioning the need for a tax cut, but he was convinced by the Keynesian economists around him, and hurried the measure through Congress. The quick success of the income-tax cuts prompted Congress to try a variant: the reduction this year of excise taxes on such goods as furs, jewelry and cars.
Nowadays, Johnson is not only practicing Keynesian economics but is pursuing policies of Pressure and persuasion that go far beyond anything Keynes ever dreamed of. In 1965 Johnson vigorously wielded the wage-price guide-lines" to hold wages and prices down, forced producers of aluminum, copper and wheat to retreat from price hikes by threatening to dump the Government's commodity stockpiles and battled the nation s persistent balance-of-payments deficit ,with the so-called "voluntary" controls on spending and lending abroad. Some Keynesians believe that these policies violate Keynes's theories because they are basically microeconomic instead of macroeconomic —because they restrict prices, wages and capital movements in some parts of the economy but not others. Businessmen also complain about what they call "government by guideline or "the managed economy, but not with total conviction-Business after all, is booming, and besides the Government is a big customer with unbounded retaliatory powers. _
Imitation Behind the Curtain. While the U.S. has been accepting the idea of more and more Government intervention within the bounds of private enterprise, many other nations are drifting away from strong central controls over their economies and opting for the freer American system. Britain's ruling Labor Party has become practically bourgeois, and this year scrapped almost all notions of nationalizing industry; West Germany's Socialists have long since done the same in an effort—so far unsuccessful—to wrest power from the free-enterprising Christian Democrats; and traditionally Socialist Norway in 1965 voted a conservative government into power for the first time in 30 years.
Piqued by the ideas popularized by Soviet Economist Evsei Liberman, the command economies of Communist Europe are openly and eagerly adopting such capitalist tenets as cost accounting and the profit motive. East Germany, Czechoslovakia and other formerly Stalinist satrapies are cautiously granting more powers to local managers to. boost or slash production, prices, investments and labor forces. State enterprises in Poland, Hungary and Rumania this year closed deals to start joint companies in partnership with capitalist Western firms.
Near the Goal. The U.S. right now is closer to Keynes's cherished goal of full employment of its resources than it has ever been in peacetime. Unemployment melted during 1965 from 4.8% to an eight-year low of 4.2%. Labor shortages, particularly among skilled workers, are beginning to pinch such industries as aerospace, construction and shipbuilding. Manufacturers are operating at a ten-year high of 91% of capacity, and autos, aluminum and some other basic industries are scraping up against 100%. Contrary to popular belief, industrialists do not like to run so high because it forces them to start up some of their older and less efficient machines, as many companies lately have been obliged to do.
The economy is beginning to show the strain of this rapid expansion. For the first time in five years, labor costs rose faster than productivity in 1965: 4.2% v. 2.5%. Consumer prices last year jumped 1.8% , and wholesale prices rose 1.3%, the first rise of any kind since 1959. This is already threatening the nation's remarkable record of price stability. The economy cannot continue its present growth rate at today's productivity level without serious upward pressure on prices.
Growth v. Stability. The economic policies of 1966 will be determined most of all by one factor: the war in Viet Nam. Barring an unexpected truce, defense spending will soar so high —by at least an additional $7 billion—that it will impose a severe demand upon the nation's productive capacity and give body to the specter of inflation. Keynes feared inflation, and warned that "there is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of a society than to debauch the currency." Once chided for undertipping a bootblack in Algiers, he replied: "I will not be party to debasing the currency."
The immediate problem that Viet Nam and the threat of inflation pose to Washington's economic planners is whether they should aim for more growth or more stability. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz argues that the Government should continue pushing and stimulating the economy, even at the risk of some inflation, in order to bring unemployment down to 3%. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler's aides argue just as firmly that the Government should tighten up a bit on spending and credit policy in order to check prices and get the nation's international payments into balance.
The man whose counsel will carry the most weight with Lyndon Johnson and who must make the delicate decisions in the next few weeks is the President's quiet, effective and Keynesian-minded chief economic strategist, Gardner Ackley. "We're learning to live with prosperity," says Ackley, "and frankly, we don't know as much about managing prosperity as getting there."
The Sword's Other Side. Prosperity will bring the Government an extra $8.5 billion in tax revenues in the next fiscal year, and that means the U.S. can afford to boost its total federal spending by $8.5 billion without causing significant inflationary pressure. If spending bulges much higher, the economists can fight inflation by brandishing the other sides of their Keynesian swords. Though Keynes spoke more about stimulus than restraint, he also stressed that his ideas could be turned around to bring an overworked economy back into balance. Says Walter Heller: "It should be made entirely clear that Keynes is a two-way street. In many ways we're entering a more fascinating era than the one I faced. Essentially the job is to maintain stability without resorting to obnoxious controls as we did in World War II and Korea."
In the event demand heats up too much, Lyndon Johnson's economists will recommend one or more restrictive moves, probably in this order: cutbacks in domestic spending, still-tighter money, higher withholding rates for income taxes (up from 14% to 20%), and lastly, temporary tax increases. The step that businessmen fear most—general , and deflationary controls on prices, wages, profits, materials, mortgage and installment credit—would be taken only as a desperate final resort. Johnson almost surely will not turn to controls for the key reason that defense spending is unlikely to amount to more than 8.5% of the G.N.P. as against 13% during the Korean War. Ackley says that controls are "very remote."
Better than '65. Next year's challenge will be more easily manageable because business and Government pursued intelligent policies this year. The Labor Department reckons that businessmen's exuberant capital spending—they have invested $190 billion in new plants and machines in the past five years—will pay off with a 3% productivity gain in 1966. That will serve to temper inflation, and so will the fact that the medicare bill will lift social security taxes $5.5 billion yearly beginning Jan. 1. As of now, Government economists expect that consumer prices will rise about 2.5% and wholesale prices will increase 3%—which is not bad enough to require stern corrective measures.
Economists in and out of Government are much more bullish than they were a year ago. The economy is not only running close to optimum speed, but has no serious excesses and few soft spots. Says Economic Adviser Okun: "It's hard to find a time when the economy has been closer to equilibrium than it is today." Orders are rising faster than production; wages are rising faster than prices; corporate profits are now rising faster than the stock market, even though the Dow-Jones average has jumped more than 400 points since mid-1962 and last week closed at an alltime high of 966. Businessmen plan in 1966 to increase capital spending 15% ; automakers and steelmakers expect to top this year's production records. Ackley and his colleagues anticipate that the gross national product will grow another 5% in real terms during 1966, to $715 billion—or perhaps more.
The Feeling Is Mutual. More meaningful than breaking records is the fact that the U.S. economy is changing for the better. In Lyndon Johnson's profit-minded Administration, Government planners have come to appreciate the importance of helping private business to invest in order to create jobs, income and demand. Johnson knows that he must have a vigorous economy to support his Great Society programs as well as the war in Viet Nam and the U.S.'s reach for the moon. To further that aim, he has more day-to-day contact with businessmen than any President since Hoover; he telephones hundreds of them regularly and invites scores to the Oval Room to hear their opinions. Under the atmospherics of the Johnson Administration, the U.S. has a Government whose economic policies are simultaneously devoted to Keynesianism, committed to growth, and decidedly probusiness.
Businessmen, for their part, have come to accept that the Government should actively use its Keynesian tools to promote growth and stability. They believe that whatever happens, the Government will somehow keep the economy strong and rising. With this new confidence, they no longer worry so much about the short-term wiggles and squiggles of the economic curve but instead budget their capital spending for the long-term and thus help to prolong the expansion.
If the nation has economic problems, they are the problems of high employment, high growth and high hopes. As the U.S. enters what shapes up as the sixth straight year of expansion, its economic strategists confess rather cheerily that they have just about reached the outer limits of economic knowledge. They have proved that they can prod, goad and inspire a rich and free nation to climb to nearly full employment and unprecedented prosperity. The job of maintaining expansion without inflation will require not only their present skills but new ones as well. Perhaps the U.S. needs another, more modern Keynes to grapple with the growing pains, a specialist in keeping economies at a healthy high. But even if he comes along, he will have to build on what he learned from John Maynard Keynes.
Letters: Feb. 4, 1966 - TIME: Friedman & Keynes
Sir: You quote me [Dec. 31] as saying: "We are all Keynesians now." The quotation is correct, but taken out of context. As best I can recall it, the context was: "In one sense, we are all Keynesians now; in another, nobody is any longer a Keynesian." The second half is at least as important as the first.
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KABUL, 7 June 2007 (IRIN) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is under pressure from the USA to implement a controversial counter narcotics plan that should eradicate Afghanistan's poppy fields by spraying chemicals, officials confirmed on Thursday.
"We are under pressure to use chemicals for the eradication of poppy fields," Habibullah Qadiri, Afghanistan's minister of counter narcotics, told IRIN in the capital, Kabul.
In 2006, a US government plan to aerial spray poppy fields to stop opium production in Afghanistan was rejected by President Karzai, following health concerns raised by the country's Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) over the possible side effects on farmers and local residents.
"In rural areas people use stream water for drinking, washing and other purposes. The use of chemicals against poppy fields will contaminate water and that can cause grave consequences for many rural residents," the ministry warned.
"There are also risks of other useful plants being poisoned by the chemicals or farm animals being affected by them," MoPH reported to a government committee on counter narcotics.
However, according to one western diplomat, a US delegation is expected, in the very near future, to present to the Afghan authorities fresh proposals, including a safe spray that will not have side effects.
Opposition to spray weakening?
The UN Office on Drugs and Crimes (UNODC) estimates that Afghanistan's opium production will increase in 2007 from the record level of 6,100 metric tonnes it produced in 2006.
"The government has virtually failed to counter narcotics and the boom in opium production every year is confirmation of that," a senior official at the Ministry of Counter Narcotics (MCN) who preferred anonymity, conceded.
With increasing poppy cultivation and continued pressure from the USA, some Afghan officials have now changed their "no to chemical spray" thinking.
"If we realise that Taliban insurgents and terrorists continue to profit from narcotics and we find that our strategy cannot tackle the problem then, as an ultimate option, we will use chemical spray," Minister Qadiri confirm to IRIN.
UK diplomat sceptical
Meanwhile, a British diplomat in Kabul dealing with counter narcotics doubted the usefulness of aerial or land chemical spray on poppy fields.
"It will not be an Afghan solution to their problem and, meanwhile, it will not be a sustainable solution either. Britain does not support it," added the diplomat who did not want to be named.
The US embassy in Kabul preferred not to comment on the issue until an American delegation visits Afghan officials in the coming two weeks.
Counter narcotics fund
Almost half of Afghanistan's national economy is based on illicit money earned from opium.
According to the UNODC, the country produced US$3.1 billion worth opium in 2006 alone. Although a small fraction of opium money actually remains in Afghanistan, many Afghan farmers say they need tangible assistance in terms of alternative livelihoods in order to stop cultivating poppy.
In an effort to address such demands, the Afghan government, supported by the UN and other donors, established a counter narcotics trust fund in late 2005 which, however, managed to spend less than $800,000 on alternative livelihoods in 2006.
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In response to public health and safety issues related to COVID-19, WCRC’s building is closed and we are not providing in-person services. This means that our patient navigation support is being offered by telephone or videochat.
The Women’s Cancer Resource Center’s (WCRC) patient navigation program strives to reduce medical and treatment barriers via culturally-centered communication about a cancer diagnosis and treatment options; reducing loneliness and isolation through ongoing emotional support; empowering our client to be advocates by working with their doctors and medical team. We assist clients with cancer care coordination throughout their cancer experience.
What services Patient Navigation services at WCRC include:
- Building a trusting and respectful relationship with each client
- Accompaniment to medical and treatment appointments (service is on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
- Coordinating cancer care (case management)
- Empowering clients to communicate with their doctors
- Collaborating with social workers
- Transportation in conjunction with navigation (service is on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
- Home visits as needed (service is on pause due to the COVID-19 pandemic)
- Helping clients process and adjust to life-changing experiences
- Support throughout the cancer journey (including survivorship)
Who can benefit from patient navigation?
WCRC is open to all women of all ethnic backgrounds with a cancer diagnosis. Individuals who believe they are unable to maneuver the medical system within Alameda and Western Contra Costa County will benefit from having a patient navigator. Additionally, studies have shown that marginalized populations encounter barriers and access to quality medical care after a cancer diagnosis. Thus, our African American and Latino Services programs strive to reduce the negative impacts affecting both ethnic groups.
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Step 11: Use the triangle shape as a guide to draw the swallow's beak. Draw a long line near the middle of the shape that extends toward the head for the mouth opening. Draw a curved line and a circle to the top of the beak for the nostril and a few quick, short strokes to represent the bird's feathers. Draw the bottom part of the beak as a short line close to the mouth.
Step 12: Use the circle and neck lines as guides to draw the rest of the swallow's head. Follow the path of the circle and neck lines toward the body as you darken them. The head should be a little flatter than the original circle.
Step 13: Draw the wings using the curved lines as guides. Darken the guide line on the left side and use small curved lines as you follow the path of the guide on the right side. The small, curved lines on the left don't need to be perfect. Just add them randomly to represent the swallow's feathers. Draw the wing on the bottom using the same technique. Notice that the top left part of this wing overlaps the body unlike the top wing, which is behind the body. Draw the small curved lines on this wing for the feathers, too.
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Couple Term Life Insurance. A common type of life insurance for newlyweds is term life insurance. A joint life insurance plan can be either an endowment policy or a basic term plan, wherein two lives are covered instead of one.
A term insurance plan for couples implies that it would provide a cover for the couple along with the equivalent terms and conditions, which is offered in an individual term insurance policy. According to experts, a working couple must buy term insurance policies to cover their family and dependants.
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Alternatively, you can opt for two separate term insurance plans. Another advantage of joint life term insurance policy is the waiver of premium feature.
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Decide on permanent or term life insurance.For married couples, a term insurance plan makes all the more sense.Hdfc life insurance company limited.Here are some reasons to consider life insurance when you’re a married couple and some options for policies.
How does joint life insurance work?How much life insurance do married couples need?I told him, let me tell you the difference between a joint term insurance plan and two separate term plans.If a couple decided to get life insurance for married couples, both can name each as the beneficiary so that if one dies, then the other will have financial support from the life insurance pay out.
If the insured person dies within the term, the beneficiary is paid the amount of the policy.In addition, in the unfortunate case that both die and they have children, then the children can be named as the beneficiaries, giving financial security to the children.In most cases, joint life term insurance will cost you comparatively less than buying two separate term insurance policies.In this type of joint life insurance, both individuals pay a single premium for a fixed period.
In this type of joint life insurance, if one of the partners passes away, the surviving partner can claim for the life cover amount, after which,.It is a pure protection plan, which will help either of the survivors as a source of funds when an emergency strikes.It is also easy to keep track of the plan when both the husband and wife are covered under a single policy.It is usually taken out by two people with shared financial interests, such as spouses, partners or de facto partners.
Joint life insurance normally works much the same as regular life insurance:Joint life insurance works in much the same way as standard life insurance, which pays out to dependents in the event of the policyholder’s death.Joshi marg, mahalaxmi, mumbai 400 011.Let’s look at what these are, their positives and negatives and finally, which one is better.
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Opting for the best term insurance plan for couples is beneficial as it would provide a cover for the husband and wife within the same policy and likewise, it will be simpler to keep a track of it.Or if you are looking to buy term insurance for your aging parents then you can also help them get one.Securing the lives of their partners with the right policies will make their future less.Some methods for offering term life insurance to couple there are numerous ways in life when people consider paying for lifestyle insurance coverage.
Term life insurance is a great choice for couples to ensure all their temporary financial obligations are met in such dire circumstances, but there are choices when it comes to joint coverage.Term life insurance is the simplest form of life insurance.Term life insurance would ensure your loved one would be safe from financial disaster if you died unexpectedly.Term life policies typically feature very affordable premiums (or payments) and if you apply when you’re still young, you could also benefit from lower premiums than if you put it off for several more years.
The biggest advantage of buying a joint term life cover is that you get a single cover for both yourself and your wife.The dilemma whether a joint term insurance or two separate term insurances got him even more confused.The most expensive type of life insurance policy, but will pay out whenever the first person dies.The shorter policy term cuts back on the cost of monthly premiums.
The sum assured should be 10 times their annual income.The term can be anywhere from a year to thirty or more.There are a number of insurance.They are planning on the future and what would eventually the living through loved one if on the list of husband and […]
This is called a ‘first death’ policy.This is usually the cheapest type of life insurance policy, as the payout you choose reduces each month until the end of the term.This offers a fixed payout, but you can only claim if you die during the term of the policy.Types of joint life insurance.
Under a joint policy, the.We will guide you both through the process of getting term life insurance so your loved one will not feel financial struggle in the wake of unexpected loss.When you buy a term insurance plan for couples, you get the following benefits:With joint cover, two people are covered (usually a couple, this doesn’t have to be the case) by the same policy.
Yes, as a married couple, you can opt for a joint life insurance plan.You and your partner agree to pay a small monthly premium for a set period of years, and if you die during that time, the survivor receives a lump sum of money.You can buy a policy for yourself or ask your children to help you buy one.You do not need to buy two separate covers.
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New York state environmental conservation officers were called to a woman’s Erie County home to remove a turkey that crashed into the house through a second-story window. Photo courtesy of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation said officers was dispatched to the home of a woman who discovered a wild turkey had crashed through a window into her home.
The DEC said an environmental conservation officer was dispatched to the home of a woman who heard a loud noise inside her Erie County residence and discovered a turkey had crashed through a second-floor window.
The woman was able to confine the turkey in an upstairs bathroom before the officer arrived. The officer summoned a second officer for assistance, and the two were able to pin the turkey down with a neighbor’s fishing net and take it outside.
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The District considers concussions and head injuries serious matters, and will follow all laws and regulations regarding the identification and management of such injuries. The District shall provide annually to each parent or guardian of each student in grades seven through twelve a concussions and brain injury information sheet, as provided by the Iowa Department of Public Health, the Iowa High School Athletic Association, and the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. The student and the student’s parent or guardian shall sign the sheet and return it to the District prior to the student’s participation in any extra-curricular interscholastic activity.
If a student’s coach or activity sponsor observes signs, symptoms or behaviors consistent with a concussion or brain injury during an extra-curricular interscholastic activity, the student shall be immediately removed from the activity. Extra-curricular interscholastic activity means any dance or cheerleading activity or extracurricular interscholastic activity, contest or practice governed by the Iowa High School Athletic Association or the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union that is a contact or limited contact activity as identified by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The student’s parent or guardian shall be contacted as soon as possible following the injury, and told that the student cannot return to participate in the activity until evaluated by an appropriate health-care professional. The student shall not return to participate in the activity or practice on the same day of a concussion.The student shall not return to participation in an extracurricular interscholastic activity, contest or practice until a written clearance to participation signed by the appropriate health care provider is given to the district. The student shall be examined by an appropriate health-care professional the same day the injury occurs. A licensed health care provider means a physician, physician’s assistant, chiropractor, advanced registered nurse practitioner, nurse, physical therapist or licensed athletic trainer. There may be situations when the Iowa High School Athletic Association, Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union and/or the District specifically designates individuals to act as the health-care professional during an activity or event. In such situations, the Iowa High School Athletic Association’s, the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union’s, and/or the District’s decision regarding the designation of the health-care professional is final. The written release shall be maintained as part of the student’s cumulative record.
For students who participate in an extracurricular interscholastic activity which is a contest in grades seven through twelve, the District shall adopt a return to play protocol consistent with the Department of Public Health’s rules and a return to learn plan based on guidance developed by the Brain Injury Association of America in cooperation with a student removed from participation in an extracurricular interscholastic activity and diagnosed with a concussion or brain injury, the student’s parent or guardian, and the student’s licensed health care provider to accommodate the student as the student returns to the classroom. | <urn:uuid:bb1357ac-c892-4663-b9bf-7f3e24975462> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://centraldecatur.org/district/board-of-education/board-policies/500-student-policies-goals-and-guiding-principles/550-2-concussion-management/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922983 | 610 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Today more than ever '"sustainability" is a prerogative of vital importance within a company. Precisely for this Farms Novella trails, as well as raising a pig of great quality with maximum respect for animal welfare and to produce healthy and wholesome, with emphasis also to ecological and environmental protection.
Confirming the direction of "green" undertaken by the company, they were built two biogas plants from one mega each, which only in 2014 produced 16 million and 750,000 kw of clean energy, equal and 395mila 1 million liters of fossil fuel traditional .
Not only. The company was also equipped with 2 thousand square meters of area entirely covered with photovoltaic panels, through which they were produced 382mila kw of clean energy from renewable sources, or as much as 32 thousand liters of traditional fossil fuel.
The company also Homesteads Novella Paths decided to enter into a contract for the supply of electricity with repower to supply only clean energy and renewable.
In 2014 all the electricity purchased comes from Repower wind farm in Corleto Perticara Basilicata. For 2015, however, the energy comes from the plant water system of Grand Vert (AO).
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Generators are the go to for most Nigerians following the consistent rise in pump price and electricity tariffs over the years.
The varying sizes of generators make them very easy to purchase. Different houses have different sizes of generators ranging from the miniature size which is popularly known as ‘tiger Gen’ to much bigger sizes used to power heavy appliances such as air conditioners.
For a businessman who deals in electronics, selling generators has been a big win. As Nigerians over the years, have taken to upgrading the sizes of the generators or replacing them. This makes the market a lucrative one.
However, the health concerns a generator sets poses cannot be ignored. Here are 3 dangers a generator set can pose to your health
1. Carbon Emissions
Over the years, the carbon foot print has increased in folds as many developing countries opt for generator sets as they seem inexpensive as compared to electricity from the grid. The implication of this are not only pollution, but increased danger to the health of many.
2. Air Pollution & respiratory diseases
Another danger a generator set poses is air pollution which can bring about respiratory diseases. In 2019 a report on the guardian newspaper showed Onitsha as the most air polluted city in Nigeria. A major contributor to this are the carbon emissions from the exhaust pipes of both commercial and residential generators. This is asides the burning of fossils which is a regular occurrence in the city and Nigeria generally. An effect of this is the respiratory issues a good number of Nigerians face.
In 2020, a World Bank study revealed that respiratory infections caused by air pollution caused 11,200 deaths that year in Lagos alone. This was the highest number in West Africa.
3. Noise Pollution
This health danger might not seem like much but will certainly cause lots of concerns in the long run. Noise pollution is not a new issue in Nigeria from horns blaring in traffic jams to loud music from clubs, churches and even small parties and a generator’s loud humming only comes to compound issues.
In a quiet neighborhood, a loud generator will definitely cause a lot of unrest particularly at night leading to disturbed sleep and stress.
In summary, generator sets are not the best option for Nigerians as not only are they costly to maintain (when purchasing, upgrading, or servicing), they also pose health issues.
A quick track on expenses will show that the average Nigerian spends a lot more on fueling and servicing a generator set quarterly than he/she realizes. Similarly, people succumb to serious health issues that could be avoided by using a different source of power.
Solar power systems are set to greatly reduce carbon emissions worldwide and leave the atmosphere green and livable. They are also noiseless and do not pose any risks to general health.
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The European Researchers' Night aims to bring researchers closer to the general public and to increase awareness of research and innovation activities, with a view to supporting the public recognition of researchers, creating an understanding of the impact of researchers' work on citizen’s daily life, and encouraging young people to embark on research careers.Scope:
The European Researchers' Night takes place yearly, typically on the last Friday of the month of September, and is the occasion for a Europe-wide public and media event for the promotion of research careers, in particular towards young people and their families. Supported events can start early Friday afternoon and last until early morning the following day.
Activities focus on the general public, addressing and attracting people regardless of the level their scientific background, with a special focus on pupils and students. Activities can combine education aspects with entertainment, especially when addressing young audience. They can take various forms, e.g. hands-on experiments, science shows, simulations, debates, games, competitions, quizzes, etc.
Where appropriate, engagement with educational institutions should be sought in order to encourage formal and informal science education with the aim to improve the scientific knowledge base.
Each proposal should set up at least one European corner. Activities should be organised with researchers actively involved and directly in contact with the public. They should promote the European dimension and gender balance in research and innovation. Involvement of researchers funded by Horizon 2020, including the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions, is encouraged.
Participants can be any legal entity in the EU Member States and Associated Countries, and/or if relevant, constitute a partnership at regional, national or international level. The maximum duration of support will be two years from the starting date specified in the grant agreement. Proposal should cover two editions of the Night, in successive years. One single edition of the Night may also be considered.
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Volume Management Using the UI¶
This topic describes how to create and delete a MetalK8s Volume using the MetalK8s UI.
Creating a Volume¶
Click Nodes on the sidebar to access the node list.
On the node list, select the node you want to create a volume on.
Go to the Volumes tab and click + Create Volume.
Fill in the respective fields, and click Create.
Name: Denotes the volume name.
Labels: A set of key/value pairs used by PersistentVolumeClaims to select the right PersistentVolumes.
Storage Class: Refers to StorageClass Creation.
Type: MetalK8s currently only supports RawBlockDevice and SparseLoopDevice.
Device path: Refers to the path of an existing storage device.
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Also see nullroute hosts.
Nullroute doesn't run anything serious, it is just a place for experiments; infrastructure for the sake of infrastructure. This means that servers come and go, the services are often misconfigured, the only account is "
grawity", and there really isn't anything worth offering.
But I've learned a lot by simply tinkering around with various network services. And it's much easier to study a working implementation than hundreds of pages of RFCs, so that's what I'm doing here.
I sometimes grab copies of various old websites or FTP sites (frequently just weeks before they go down). A few of those are accessible as mirrors.
There is a local Git server hosting some of my hobby projects (mainly ones which are not fit for GitHub) as well as various infrastructure and this website itself.
Also a few miscellaneous webapps:
Other things that may or may not be running at any particular moment:
A few services in detail:
/afs/nullroute.lt. It has almost no files (unlike many other AFS cells that have publicly accessible homedirs with 3 decades' worth of files), it's just… there, primarily as an exhibit of late 1980s infrastructure. I would really like to get DCE DFS (aka AFS4) working as well.
imap://anonymous@<host>/Public/Unix(similar to the IETF list archive), but it was shut down to simplify things. This service worked through a combination of a "public" namespace being present in the IMAP tree and the SASL ANONYMOUS mechanism being listed in Dovecot's | <urn:uuid:c4dc4024-4822-45db-8ae2-e185f6f792c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nullroute.lt/services.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.957084 | 412 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Projects in theme 4
Interim theme leader: Yannick Huot, Université de Sherbrooke
Project leader: Roxane Maranger, Université de Montréal
Main objective: Develop an ecosystem services framework to assess the vulnerability of different lake types to anthropogenic drivers (land use and climate change) based on simple biophysical measures.
Lakes are iconic features on the Canadian landscape that in some way define our national identity. They provide Canadians with a number of different ecosystem services such as drinking water, water for irrigation, hydropower, provide fish, act as sites for recreational pleasure and spiritual enjoyment. They also serve to mitigate climate and cycle nutrients among other regulatory ecoservices. The ecoservice concept was developed to better communicate the valuable commodities ecosystems provide humanity while simultaneously offering us a framework to better understand social-ecological interactions with the aim of supporting conservation and policy efforts. The approach has come under some scrutiny as it can be considered rather descriptive and in some cases restrictive in that some ecoservices are inherently less valued then others as a function of stakeholder bias. Our aim is to develop an integrative evaluation of lake ecoservices across several regions in Canada with the goal of providing policy makers with some simple biophysical metrics that could be used to assess lake vulnerabilities related to ecoservice tradeoffs. This innovative approach to the ecoservice concept will ideally serve as an effective and unbiased communication tool aimed to protect Canadian lakes now and under different landuse and climate change scenarios.
Project leader: Rolf Vinebrooke, University of Alberta
Summary: The earliest and most sensitive responses of lake ecosystems to environmental change typically occur at the species level within lower trophic levels. Therefore, algal and zooplankton communities are solid prospects as bioindicators of the past, present, and future cumulative impacts of multiple environmental stressors (e.g., climate change, human land-use activities) on lake ecosystems. To translate environmentally induced changes in taxonomic diversity to ecosystem functioning, a functional approach must be adopted in which species traits are considered that affect their ecological performance. Changes in the taxonomic diversity and functional structure of algal and zooplankton communities based on comparison of assembled historical Canadian lake-monitoring and paleolimnological databases with those generated by Lake Pulse will be used to deliver forecasts of changes in biodiversity, function, and ecosystem services within lakes across Canada based on different potential multiple-stressor scenarios. This project fits well with the Network as it integrates many of its environmental and biological sampling efforts so as to provide predictions of the cumulative impacts of global change on the health of Canadian lakes over the next century. | <urn:uuid:b512c802-5162-40db-b51b-78b8f8f3ab11> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lakepulse.ca/lake-pulse-theme-4/?lang=fr | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.924412 | 551 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Wisdom tooth extraction is a surgical procedure in which dentists remove the third set of molars, which typically appear between 17 to 25. According to orthodontic specialists of Florida, most people have at least one impacted wisdom tooth. By removing your wisdom tooth either because of impaction or their potential to cause issues, you can ensure that they don’t damage the surrounding bones and teeth. Wisdom tooth removal surgery is an outpatient surgical procedure typically performed by an oral surgeon or dentist.
In this procedure, dentists will cut into the gums and remove the tooth, either whole or in pieces. You’ll be under anesthesia which could include intravenous sedation or nitrous oxide. Your dentist will decide which sedation to use based on your level of comfort as well as the complexity and number of extractions required.
How to prepare for wisdom tooth recovery?
Ask a cheap orthodontist near me if you have any concerns before the wisdom teeth extraction surgery. They’ll be able to tell you about the anesthesia they will use and how you will feel after the surgery. You can prepare for wisdom tooth extraction healing by buying soft or liquid-based food that is easy to eat after surgery. These could include applesauce, smoothie, yogurt, oatmeal, and other food that are easy to swallow without chewing. Other preparation factors may include
- The surgery will occur at the dentist’s or oral surgeon’s office.
- Food and drink. Follow your surgeon’s instructions regarding the food you eat before and after the surgery. The instruction will depend on the anesthesia they’ll use.
- Let your healthcare provider know about all the medicines you take before dental surgery.
- What to wear, Wear loose and comfortable clothes for the procedure. You don’t need to change into anything for the surgery.
How long does it take for wisdom tooth extraction pain to go away?
How long does wisdom tooth pain last? Most people ask us this question, and the answer to this question is two to three days. Most people feel slight pain after the surgery. They may feel a swelling and little discomfort at the extraction site. If you feel severe pain and discomfort, you can take over-the-counter pain medicines. Use an ice pack or cold compress to reduce the swelling. You will recover fully in a week after the surgery. It would be best to take medicines as prescribed by your doctor for a short period. Avoid eating anything extremely hot or cold and smoking cigarettes for some time. Consult a pediatric orthodontist near me if the pain, swelling, or bruising does not heal even after a week.
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For the ease of extracting and analyzing our experimental results, some basic operations upon pandas dataframe are recorded here. We assume a dataframe where each row corresponds to one kind of configuration, and each column corresponds to either one dimension of hyper-parameter or one kind of metrics.
load a csv file:
df = pd.read_csv("agg/test_best.csv")
select the row whose value at a given column is the smallest in the dataframe:
groupby on a column and aggregate the rows by a given operator:
in case rows that take a certain value on a column should be removed at first:
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Here, we will focus more on Muhammad's relation with the Qur’an, presenting many reasons why Prophet Muhammad could not be the author of the Qur’an.
Abraham (peace be upon him) is a key figure in history, an honored and respected prophet by many of today’s major religions: Islam, Judaism and Christianity. These are all called Abrahamic religions, but did Abraham have three religions, or only one? What was Abraham’s religion? What was his creed and what did he call for? […]
People have many disagreements in this life. Disagreements in nearly all matters that you can think of. Yet, one of the facts that no one can deny is the same fact that most ignore. This makes you wonder; why do people ignore such a critical fact in our lives? And are you conscious and preparing […]
If you ask any Muslim today “Do you love Jesus?”, the answers will be very revealing as all the answers will be about how Muslims honor Jesus deeply and see in him God’s Miracles, from the moment of Jesus’ birth till God raised him to heavens and until his coming back to earth before the Day […]
Thanksgiving that is celebrated in each and every home in the US and Canada has a bloody story that no one will ever tell you. If you think that Thanksgiving was a celebration from the pilgrims with the Indians, then you may want to read this article. Many British Christians had so many concerns and […]
Have you ever wondered what it takes to become Muslim? If such questions have ever passed by your mind, then this post is perfectly for you!
We all know Zombies. We all feel scared while watching their movies. Dead people raise from their graves with horrible looks. They return to life by black magic and incantations. So weird, right? Do you think that Zombies are here on the earth? It’s out of the question. But in fact one day there were […]
Abrogation is one of the main issues used to attack Islam, attribute contradiction to Quran and give doubts about Quran’s authenticity. Al-Nasekh and Al-Mansoukh are two Arabic words having the same root word meaning: to abolish, lift, replace, remove, withdraw or abrogate. The first word means “The abrogate” and the second is “The abrogated”. It […]
Do Christians and Muslims have the same God? Is the name Allah as for the common suggestion by Christians in the West simply is the Arabic meaning of “Satan”? Thousands of years before prophet Muhammad was born, Arab Christians and Jews were already referring to God as Allah, and millions continue to do so today. Allah […] | <urn:uuid:34c53863-800d-44cb-8a6f-f5e10449d382> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://explore-islam.com/tag/the-truth/page/2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974041 | 570 | 2.125 | 2 |
Represents the state of the art in carbon laminate construction, merging two of the best manufacturing techniques: filament winding and Pre-preg.
These are the steps of the construction process:
Conventional unidirectional aerospace pre-preg fibers are winded by an automatized table rolling machine.
Biaxial aerospace pre-preg fibers are winded at 45° using a pre-preg filament machine.
Finally, a last WIND-PREG™ layer is cross winded to give the best strength to the product.
Before polymerizing, we apply a special thermo-reactive film which compresses the lamination a 40% more than any other product on the market.
Everything is then polymerized in a special autoclave which takes out all the scraps and gives a perfect surface finishing to the final product.
Thanks to this technology, products don’t need any finishing materials, such as textiles, paint, coatings or varnish.
The process also includes the exclusive nano-core winding with its special winding design.
Substantial weight reduction on all products.
40% increase in strength, that make WIND-PREG™ products a choice for a lifetime.
Substantial performance improvement given by the total of the performances of each technologies
A unique look at any carbon products
While Windpreg is a woven material with 45° crossfibers orientation, the Xpreg has a lower amount of 45° fibers but it features a 90° full yarn. Thus, Xpreg is less expensive than Windpreg. And that’s why the Xpreg technology is used for a bigger range of products, considering that its weight and strength are really similar to those of Wind-preg. | <urn:uuid:00045008-65dc-4ac4-b4aa-a0896d15830d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.italicaspa.com/wind-preg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.907633 | 367 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Also known as: Emamzade Cheltan (Farsi: Local Usage)
Other mausoleum and Imamzadehs are : Imamzadeh Zeydeh, Seyed Vali, Imamzadeh Seyed Al Haq, Imamzadeh Hassan, Chehel Tan, Imamzadeh Mohammad, Imamzadeh Ruhollah-ebne-Moosa Kazem, Imamadeh Saleh, Imamzadeh Qasem, Imamzadeh Zeyn Ali and Ein Ali, Imamzadeh Abdollah, Safi Ali Shah Mausoleum, Sheikh Hadi Najm Abadi Mausoleum and Sardar Firooz Koohi Mausoleum in Tehran.The mausoleum of Shahzadeh Hossein and the tomb of Kowkabodin in Varamin. Mausoleum of Immzadeh Hashem in the Haraz Road and mausoleum of Imamzadeh Hadi in Ray.
Varamin is believed to be the ancient city of Varena, which is mentioned in Avesta. The four-cornered citadel near the city is known as Citadel of Iraj by locals, Iraj was son of Thraetaona and that improves the city's relation to the ancient Varena.
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Masses This free online course covers Marx and his historical materialist theory that highlights two social classes: the bourgeois ruling elite and the proletariat working masses. We explore concepts such as alienation and exploitation through the lens of a critique of capitalism.Rating: 4/5
History It is powerful in providing in one package a description, an explanation, and a prediction of contemporary problems, and a remedy. 2. Introduction "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles." –Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883). Karl Heinrich Marx (1818–1883) was the most important of all theorists of
Particular The theory of class is at the centre of Marx's social theory, for it is the social classes formed within a particular mode of production that tend to establish a particular form of state, animate political conflicts, and bring about major changes in the structure of society.
April Karl Marx and the state David Adam addresses Marx’s concept of a socialist society in relation to various concepts of the state. In April 1917, the Russian anarchist Voline met Leon Trotsky in a New York print works.
Theory 1. Karl Marx’s Conflict Theory is a theory about how people within societies fight for power. Karl Marx’s conflict theory is a theory that explains the struggles between social classes. He believed that society was fueled by class struggle, which would lead to issues like economic exploitation, political oppression, and cultural hegemony. The conflict theory is a perspective that focuses on the social, economic, and political aspects of society. It was developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
2. Karl Marx Social Class argues that there are two different types of groups: 1. The wealthy who control resources and means of production (making them the bourgeoisie) 2. The lower-class workers or proletariatdo not have access to these resources (and use their skills in exchange for wages). These two groups are constantly vying for dominance over one another because each wants what they don’t have: Wealth. This type of struggle can lead to economic exploitation, political oppression. Karl Mar
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Social 122 experts online. Theory of social change Mar’s focus on the process of social change is so central to this thinking that it informs all his writings. The motor force of history for Marx is not to be found in any extra-human agency, be it “providence” or the “objective spirit. ” Marx insisted that men make their own history.
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Consisting Marx’s conflict theory focuses on the reasons for the occurrence of social conflicts and their consequences (Crossman). In this theory, there are two opposing parties, namely, bourgeois (or the upper class consisting of capitalists) and the proletariat (or the working class consisting of poor people).
Capitalist In terms of social class, Karl Marx thought that the capitalist society is basically divided into two socioeconomic classes: the capitalist class …
Class The worker is exploited when he does not keep or control the value created by his own labor power. Marx argues that the capitalist system forces people into one of two classes: the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. This class dichotomy did not describe accurately social structure in Marx time, when a sizable class of self-employed existed.
Online The Online Books Page. Online Books by. Karl Marx (Marx, Karl, 1818-1883) Online books about this author are available, as is a Wikipedia article.. Marx, Karl, 1818-1883: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy (3 volumes; Chicago: Charles H. Kerr and Co., 1906-1909), ed. by Friedrich Engels, trans. by Samuel Moore, Edward B. Aveling, and Ernest Untermann
The ideas of both class consciousness and revolution are also central to Marx's theory of social change. Under the continued exploitation of a capitalist regime, Marx believed that eventually the working classes would become aware of their plight (class consciousness). Once aware of their situation, Marx theorized that the oppressed working classes would then organize and gain the motivation to rebel, thus taking steps to truly control their own lives by overriding capitalism as the dominant ...
Karl Marx believed that in any system there were two types of people: the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. The proletariat consists of the working, or labor, class. The bourgeoisie can be through of as the idle, or management, class. In Karl Marx's theory of class conflict, he provided very clear definitions for these two classes.
Karl Marx, was a very bitter and somewhat unintelligent man, who wrote and collaborated with Friedrich Engels, in part as a means to vent their resentment towards the capitalist system that they deemed was “unjust” to the working man (proletariat). Meaning that they were not getting a slice of the pie, and were jealous.
How did Karl Marx define social class? Class, for Marx, is defined as a (social) relationship rather than a position or rank in society. The structure and basis of a social class may be defined in objective terms, as groups with a common position with respect to property or the means of production. | <urn:uuid:f7c039df-219e-4fc9-a26f-e194ce16f9d6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://education-online-courses.com/karl-marx-on-social-class/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.926525 | 1,192 | 3 | 3 |
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The Data Depth is used to measure the depth or area of any variation according to the distribution base. This results in the average natural centre-outer of the sample points. The essence of the deep procedure in multivariate analysis is to measure the degree of centrality of points associated with assumptions or probability distributions. This working data examines in-depth methods for determining the size of the site, ie. deepest or focal point. In addition, various in-depth procedures are studied in real and simulation contexts using R software. The performance of various data-depth processes is analyzed with numerical description by calculating the average misclassification error as part of a discriminative analysis. | <urn:uuid:ab74ec40-f096-4cc7-846a-c8b4f60951a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.publishoa.com/index.php/journal/article/view/840 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.896989 | 139 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Since the entry into force of the UN truce in Yemen, the Houthi siege on the city of Taiz has returned to the spotlight as a humanitarian issue that topped the international community’s priorities, and the UN envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, began negotiations in Jordan to open major corridors to Taiz between the delegations of the Yemeni government and the Houthi militia.
However, weeks after the end of the first truce and its renewal for an additional two months, and the continued opening of the Hodeidah port and Sanaa airport by the government, the Houthi militias continue to besiege the city and refuse to implement their commitments, so what do the people of Taiz want today from the UN envoy to Yemen?
In response to this question, the head of the Taiz Human Rights Center, Mazen Aqlan, believes that what the people of Taiz want from the envoy and the international community is a genuine humanitarian entitlement to open all the main roads leading to Taiz governorate, the “Taiz-Hodeidah” road, the “Taiz-Sana’a” road. Taiz – Aden” in implementation of the declared UN armistice.
In an interview with Al-Sahwa Net, he said, “The difficult humanitarian conditions experienced by the residents of Taiz make it imperative for the UN envoy to deal with the issue of the siege more seriously and responsibly, and to implement urgently to open the main roads leading to the governorate, as happened with the rest of the other issues within the humanitarian truce from Fatah to Sana’a airport. and the port of Hodeidah.
Aqlan stressed the need for the envoy and the nations to stop deporting suffering and evading the implementation of the full entitlements of the declared armistice clauses, and making the Houthi militia the only beneficiary of it, without bringing any benefit to civilians and mitigating the effects of the war on them.
The UN envoy demanded that real efforts be made and pressure on the Houthi militia to implement the opening of the main roads in Taiz, based on the armistice and the outcomes of consultations. JordanAnd not to be satisfied with consuming statements that have no effect on the ground, his credibility is at stake.
For his part, Moaz al-Sharabi (a resident of the governorate) said, “The UN envoy announced the truce last April, and the legitimate government accepted it and made great concessions, and Sanaa airport and the port of Hodeidah were opened, and despite the end of the first truce and entering into a second truce, the Houthi siege still exists, and may end without lifting it. “.
Al-Sharabi questioned how to renew the truce for two additional months without making any progress during the first truce in the issue of lifting the siege, calling on the UN envoy to reveal and identify the party obstructing the lifting of the siege on the city, pointing out that the silence of the UN envoy is unjustified, and is not neutrality, but rather a bias towards the militias.
Photojournalist Ahmed Al-Basha confirms that what the people of Taiz want from the UN envoy is to use pressure to open roads in Taiz and other governorates. Other According to the proposal, the implementation of the entire provisions of the armistice, or a press conference to reveal the party obstructing peace efforts in Yemen.
Al-Basha added, “What is happening so far are just skits and the complicity of… Nations The United States is witnessing all that evasion, procrastination and procrastination without making the slightest effort to stop or end this absurdity.”
In the same context, journalist Taha Saleh called on the UN envoy to pressure the Houthi militia to abide by its commitments to open ports and implement the agreement, as it is the sponsor of the armistice and agreement and is able to put pressure on the Houthi militia.
He added, “Currently, there is no real pressure exerted on the militias, and what is happening is a farce, and all that is being implemented by the United Nations or its envoy is an attempt to keep the Houthi militias.”
As for the citizen, Hajj Muhammad Ali, he accused the UN envoy of applying double standards and adopting a contradictory principle based on selectivity in humanitarian files and exerting pressure on the government to implement its obligations, without any pressure in return to oblige the militias to implement what is agreed upon.
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Launched in 2007, Hyatt Hotels Corporation-owned lifestyle hotel brand, Andaz Hotels has grown rapidly across leisure destinations worldwide.
A total of 17 properties across Asia, Europe and America, each premise has been inspired by the cultural and social life of the locale it is based in. The hotel promises to welcome guests ‘to create inspiring experiences through a kaleidoscope of local culture’.
Eric Brun, Senior Vice President Brands and Marketing at Hyatt, based in Zurich, responsible for developing and managing the regional brand and marketing strategy in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and South West Asia says for the One Planet Rating.
OPR: What about other environmental factors? In 2014, Hyatt committed to measurable and actionable use of resources across its properties (Hyatt Vision 2020). How can we see this adopted in Andaz hotels today?
Eric: At Hyatt, our purpose is to care for people so that they can be their best. Our purpose inspires how we engage with our guests, colleagues, owners and communities, and makes a definitive statement about the difference we are trying to make in the world. Our Hyatt Vision 2020 – our set of environmental goals for the year 2020 – is a significant aspect of this.
“We aim to implement this environmental vision across all Hyatt hotels, including the Andaz brand. To give just two examples within the Andaz hotels themselves: Andaz London recently entered into a collaboration with Quimera Energy (QE) by utilizing QE’s Monitor & Save service. This aims to significantly cut energy and gas expenditure, by monitoring and managing hotel consumption in real time. Our Andaz hotel in Amsterdam has likewise been awarded a Green Globe certification for its efforts to reduce energy and water consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, and waste sent to landfills.”
For full article please visit: https://www.oneplanetrating.com/single-post/andaz-hotels-hyatt
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The next generation of agricultural crops capable of resisting the effects of climate change and increasing food security will be identified at a major new research center based at the University of Queensland.
Federal Education Minister Dan Tehan MP announced $ 35 million in funding to establish the Australian Research Council (ARC) Center of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture.
UQ Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Peter Høj AC said the center would make an important contribution to Australian agriculture.
âIt will provide innovative and cutting-edge research to improve crop resilience and increase yield, which will help provide solutions to critical issues of climate change and food security,â said Prof Høj.
âWe are excited about this announcement – it highlights our exceptional researchers and the quality of the research undertaken at UQ.
“The ARC Centers of Excellence program funds highly innovative and transformational research and this is the ninth center of excellence established at UQ, which is an exceptional achievement.”
The director of the new UQ Center, Professor Christine Beveridge, said the team will identify nature’s successes and translate them into opportunities to improve the yield and resilience of agricultural crops.
“About two-thirds of the world’s human calorie intake comes from just three plant sources – wheat, rice and corn,” said Professor Beveridge.
“The sustainability of these crops against various climates, including drought, and the expansion of gains in various plants are essential in order to improve food security for the expected 25% increase in the world’s population over the next 30 years. years.
âBy predicting which plant varieties are best suited to particular environments, we can help farmers choose which plants to grow in which areas for each season for the best yield.
âAn important part of the Center is the focus on regulatory requirements that will allow new technologies to be scaled up globally for future-proof agriculture in Australia and around the world. ”
The Center will lead a global research network to translate new genetic discoveries into on-farm crop productivity.
UQ will collaborate with four Australian universities and CSIRO, as well as 12 other academic and industry partner organizations from Australia, Europe, Asia, the United States and Canada.
Together, they will provide an additional $ 75.2 million in cash and in-kind to the ARC Center of Excellence for Plant Success in Nature and Agriculture.
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A cool new viral trend promoting awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), called the Ice Bucket Challenge,” has spread to Victoria.
The challenge involves the participant dumping a tub of icy water over their own head, and started appearing online late last month.
For those who take part, it’s customary to issue the challenge to others, which has helped it spread across Hollywood, with many celebrities taking up the challenge on television and online.
Ellen Mahoney, president of the ALS Society of B.C.’s Victoria chapter, and Rasool Rayani, co-coordinator of Victoria’s annual Walk for ALS took the plunge themselves Friday to bring attention to the Walk.
“It doesn’t matter how we do it, we just want to raise awareness for ALS,” Mahoney said. “We definitely want a cure for the 3,000 Canadians living with the disease.”
Mahoney and Rayani issued the challenge to 11 others, including Victoria Mayor Dean Fortin and Saanich Mayor Frank Leonard.
The society managed to raise $55,000 through last year’s Walk for ALS, and are hoping the Ice Bucket Challenge will bring more people to the walk and help them raise even more.
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Novichkova A.A.1,2, Kotov A.A.1, Chertoprud E.S.1,2 2020. Freshwater crustaceans of Bykovsky Peninsula and neighboring territory (Northern Yakutia, Russia) // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.29. No.1: 1–12 [in English].
1 A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Leninsky Prospect 33, Moscow 119071, Russia. E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
2 Department of Hydrobiology, Biological Faculty, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskie Gory, Moscow 119991, Russia.
ABSTRACT. Numerous water bodies in the northern portion of Eastern Siberia are poorly studied both in their species composition and community structure. The aim of this study is to provide an inventory of the freshwater microcrustaceans of Bykovsky Peninsula and neighboring territory (North Yakutia, Russia) and to analyse the community structure in the studied water bodies with the aim of revealing separate environmental factors affecting it. In toto, we identified 19 copepod species (belonging to 14 genera) and 16 branchiopod species (12 genera). Seven species were first records from this area of NE Siberia, namely calanoid copepods Acanthodiaptomus denticornis, Arctodiaptomus wierzejskii cyclopoid copepods Acanthocyclops venustus, Diacyclops crassicaudis, D. languidoides; cladocerans Eurycercus cf. glacialis, Pleuroxus cf. trigonellus. The fauna of Bykovsky Peninsula and neighbouring territory is very poor and mainly represented by eurybiotic taxa with wide Palearctic or Holarctic ranges. Differences in community structure of different water bodies could be explained mainly by abiotic preferences (i.e. in conductivity/salinity and temperature) of dominant species.
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Voters aren’t convinced the U.S. border with Mexico is secure, and they still put that goal far ahead of legalizing illegal immigrants already in the country. A majority of voters also continue to favor a welcoming immigration policy.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey of Likely Voters shows that 64% believe gaining control of the border is more important than legalizing the status of undocumented workers living in the United States. Thirty-one percent (31%) share the opposite view and believe legalizing those already here should be top priority. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Voters have strongly supported border control as a legislative priority for years. Last month, 63% placed higher importance on border security.
But most voters (54%) also favor an immigration policy that welcomes all immigrants except for national security threats, criminals and those who come to the United States to live off the welfare system. Twenty-nine percent (29%) oppose this type of welcoming policy, while another 16% are undecided. These findings, too, have remained fairly consistent for several years.
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What do you put at the end of a gutter downspout?
Extending Gutter Downspouts: 6 Ideas for Better Downspout…
- Aluminum Extension. This one’s a popular solution for a few good reasons.
- Buried Drain Pipe.
- Decorative Splash Blocks.
- Roll-Out Drain Sleeves.
- Rain Barrel.
How do I hide my gutter downspout?
Grow vines over the downspouts to blend them in with surrounding plants. To subtly disguise your downspouts with nearby plants, choose a small vine variety to trail down each downspout. Wrap the vines around the downspouts in the direction you want them to grow, which will train the plant to grow over the downspout.
How can I make my downspouts look better?
Enjoy and have fun!
- Build a Dry Creek Bed and Enhance Your Front Yard.
- Make an Artistic Pebble Mosaic to Decorate Your Downspout Landscape.
- Repurpose Watering Cans and Rain Gutter to Form a Wall Landscape.
- Decorative Splash Blocks Turn Into a Water Feature.
- Build a Decorative Rain Barrel with a Planter.
What is the end of a downspout called?
elbow – a bent piece of pipe which goes on the end of a downspout. The elbow can either be at the top of the downspout to join the gutter opening to the downspout opening, or placed on the bottom of the downspout to direct water away from the home’s foundation.
How far should gutter downspout extend from house?
A good rule of thumb: One downspout should not drain more than 35 feet of gutter. The gutters must be clean to prevent clogging. The downspouts need to be extended away from the home a minimum of four feet, with six feet being preferred.
How do you deal with a downspout runoff?
10 Gutter and Downspout Runoff Drainage Tips
- Inspect & Clear Out Your Gutters Regularly.
- Install Gutter Guards.
- Landscape Plants.
- Extend Your Downspouts.
- Route the Water into a Storm Drain or Dry Well.
- Improve Your Grading & Slope.
- Check for Low Spots Around Your Home.
- Consider Installing “french drains,”
How do you bury gutter drains?
TIP: Make sure your downspout extension and connector fit together and on your gutter.
- STEP 1: DIG A TRENCH. BEFORE digging, CALL 811 to have utility lines marked.
- STEP 2: DISMANTLE OLD GUTTER SPOUT.
- STEP 3: CONNECT NEW EXTENSION TO GUTTER.
- STEP 4: ADJUST THE DOWNSPOUT INTO THE TRENCH.
- STEP 5: FILL THE TRENCH WITH SOIL.
What connects a gutter to a downpipe?
Offset Bend This is where the gutter begins to connect to the downpipe in which the water runs through from the gutter length to the drain pipe. Two offset bends are normally used and connected together.
What are gutter corners called?
The corner of a guttering run is often called a miter.
Can a downspout be used as a rain gutter?
Decorative downspout extensions offer a fun and attractive way to deal with both. So here’s your all-in-one guide to them. When your rain gutters fill with water, that water is carried away from your home by your downspouts. However, if the water is not directed far enough away it can cause flooding, and lead to costly structural damage.
What do you call an extension to a downspout?
Normally they come in the form of a statue and are designed to attach over the end of your current downspout. They are often also called decorative downspout extenders, or simply ornamental downspouts.
What kind of material is a downspout made of?
Decorative downspouts, like many garden statues, are typically made from resin. This is because resin is durable along with weather and waterproof. (For added strength many resin downspouts may be made of a combination of resin and other materials such as crushed stone.)
Can a downspout be used in a flower garden?
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Saigo is a monster from the planet Kodon, that appeared in episode 38 of the original Ultraman series.
Living on the mysterious planet Kodon, Saigo apparently being the natural enemy of Kiyla is first seen battleing the space louse on the planets surface as observed by the Science Patrol from their jet, and after a long battle Saigo attempts to retreat after being blinded by Kiyla's eye flashes, into the undergrond but Kiyla grabs his tail, Saigo deataches the tail letting Kiyla fall and Saigo to flee. Later on when the Science Patrol had landed on Kodon's service Saigo comes up from the ground and attacks Ide and Hayata after their veichle had gotten grounded, the two unleash all their fire power on the beast covering it in dry ice were the beast shatters and dies.
- There are a few toys of Saigo.
- Saigo is one of several monsters Ultraman had never faced.
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Sensory Experiments: Psychophysics, Race, and the Aesthetics of Feeling
In Sensory Experiments, Erica Fretwell excavates the nineteenth-century science of psychophysics and its theorizations of sensation to examine the cultural and aesthetic landscape of feeling in nineteenth-century America. Fretwell demonstrates how psychophysics—a scientific movement originating in Germany and dedicated to the empirical study of sensory experience—shifted the understandings of feeling from the epistemology of sentiment to the phenomenological terrain of lived experience. Through analyses of medical case studies, spirit photographs, perfumes, music theory, recipes, and the work of canonical figures ranging from Kate Chopin and Pauline Hopkins to James Weldon Johnson and Emily Dickinson, Fretwell outlines how the five senses became important elements in the biopolitical work of constructing human difference along the lines of race, gender, and ability. In its entanglement with social difference, psychophysics contributed to the racialization of aesthetics while sketching out possibilities for alternate modes of being over and against the figure of the bourgeois liberal individual. Although psychophysics has largely been forgotten, Fretwell demonstrates that its importance to shaping social order through scientific notions of sensation is central to contemporary theories of new materialism, posthumanism, aesthetics, and affect theory.
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If you are not one of those people who have a natural eye for design and decoration, we have put together some of the decorating tips that come from the specialists, in an effort to help you with all your decorating needs and make decorating more fun and accessible.
Have a look at our 6 decorating tips revealed from interior designer gurus!
Make A Plan & Do A Research
Before you begin buying and decorating, you need to consider your budget and focus on items and rooms that you will use the most.
Making a checklist can be very helpful in this case.
Give thought to used items as well, especially when it comes to art, decor, mirrors, etc.
Repurpose, Reuse, Remodel
Now that you have planned everything, you don’t have to go on a shopping spree just yet!
The Internet is filled with DIY tips for decor and furniture face lifting.
Make good use of them, have fun revamping, and save a small fortune!
Not to mention that repurposing old things is the super-conscious and eco-friendly thing to do.
Carved animal skulls
If you are looking for something different and extraordinary, carved animal skulls can be the right choice.
Carved animal skulls are craftsmanship masterpieces that will last forever.
It is said that the skull symbolizes mortality, and having a carved animal skull on your wall can remind you that you shouldn’t take things for granted in your life.
There are many prejudices towards carved animal skulls.
However, if they are ethically sourced (used in farming or collected from butchers) they can be a good way of recycling, given that most of the animal skulls would go to waste or become ground for animal food.
It is also a good way to honor every part of the animal body and turn it into a real piece of art.
If you aren’t familiar with carved animal skulls, hop over to Skull Bliss and learn more.
‘Plants make people happy’
Plants are an ideal mixture of purposeful and aesthetically pleasing things that you can use for decorating.
Not only do they look nice, but plants also have great benefits such as reducing toxins in the air, improving the air quality, lowering stress levels…
Whether you go for floor plants, succulents, cacti, or short-term solutions such as cut blooms, plants will make your living space feel lively and appealing.
Paint can be a very budget-friendly way to decorate your home.
Even so, you need to make sure to make the right choice regarding color.
Each color creates a different emotion and mood, so choose thoroughly.
With the help of modern tech, you can use certain apps to test how your walls would look with a different color, without actually painting them.
Good lighting can bring about real change in your home, but choosing the right light bulb can be a huge hassle. Not every type of light bulb works in every room.
Make sure to use LED or CFL light bulbs, as they are the most energy-efficient types.
- For bedrooms and living areas, warm/soft light bulbs (2,700K-3,000K) are top-notch choices since they provide a traditional, pleasant and cozy vibe.
- For kitchens, bathrooms, and work areas of your home, the ideal light bulbs are cool/white (5,000K-6,5000).
- For basements, garages, sheds, etc. Daylight/Natural White bulbs (5,000K-6,5000) are perfect because they provide the greatest contrast.
Regardless if you want to refresh your home or you have just moved and want to decorate your new home, making good decorating decisions can last for years, if not forever.
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This is a summary ((for the sidebar menu) of five posts on whether Christians can rightly celebrate Christmas, addressing some arguments often used. Some arguments have better Biblical basis than others. I’ve also included links to a few other related articles.
Silly Reasons to Abandon Christmas #1 — “Christ-Mass” — This argument is historically bankrupt, and the error of doctrine by etymology violates the sufficiency of Scripture.
Related: Puritans, Huguenots, “Christ-Mass,” and “Immanuel’s Day” — an interesting historical note on how believers from different nations viewed Christmas.
Flawed Reasons to Abandon Christmas #2 — “It is Pagan / Catholic” — This argument has historical doubts AND significant doctrinal problems. It institutes two new doctrines not found in the Bible — doctrine by speculative history, and the doctrine of discernment by origins. Dead gods are dead, and have no power over us.
Misused Reasons to Abandon Christmas #3 — “God Didn’t Command It” — The principle is correct — we are not free, in worship, to do whatever we want. But Scripture clearly gives freedom in commemorations / holidays. Jesus observed one that was not commanded by God, the Feast of Dedication, now know as Hanukkah.
Related: Happy Feast of Purim! — Some interesting parallels between the Feast of Purim and Christmas.
Silly Reasons to Abandon Christmas #4 — “It’s the Wrong Date” — The date of God-ordained commemorations doesn’t matter, so it certainly doesn’t matter whether we celebrate this one on the “right date.” (Besides, there is reason to believe the date might actually be close — if we fight geographical myopia, and don’t let Internet experts who know nothing about sheep in Israel tell us about, well, sheep in Israel. 🙂 )
Solid Reasons to Scrutinise Christmas — There are some solid Biblical reasons to examine how we celebrate Christmas, reasons which might cause some to consider whether they should even celebrate at all.
Related: The Slavery of Christmas Spending — Challenging the current societal trend, which may catch Christians in its trap, of excessive / irresponsible spending on Christmas.
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Enlargement of Gwenda Wilson, playing Margaret the nurse in the 1946 JC Williamson production of John Patrick‘s The Hasty Heart. Via the National Library of Australia’s Trove. The original photograph is part of the JC Williamson Collection of Photographs.
The five second version
When Melbourne-born Gwenda Wilson died in 1977, fans of the BBC radio series The Archers mourned the actor’s passing. For twenty years she had played Aunt Laura, a “crusty, bossy, but lonely widow,”The Guardian 19 August 1977, P 14 via Newspapers.com a New Zealand interloper who had moved into the village of Ambridge, having inherited Ambridge Hall. One correspondent felt it would be difficult to find a replacement actor “who could exactly imitate (her) distinctive Antipodean whine and put such righteous indignation into the part.”Birmingham City Post 23 August 1977 P4. Via British Library Newspaper Archive
In addition to her role in The Archers, she appeared occasionally on the British stage, on TV and in a handful of British films. Before she left for London in late 1948, she had enjoyed six busy years on the stage and in radio in Australia. She was aged only 55 at the time of her death.
Gwenda Olive Wilson was born in September 1921,Gwenda Wilson, UK Death Certificate in Melbourne, Australia, to Albert Wilson, a furniture manufacturer, and Elsie nee Field. She grew up in the inner eastern suburb of Kew, and attended nearby Methodist Ladies College, where she developed a passion for performance. She won a scholarship to study music at the University of Melbourne, (she later said that her father had dreams of her being a soprano) but it is clear that her passion from a young age was acting. While at the University she regularly featured in amateur performances, including with the University’s Tin Alley Players. She also studied with speech and drama teacher Maie Hoban, in company with Patricia Kennedy, Coral Browne and others.The Australasian (Melb), 24 Feb 1945 P16, Via National Library of Australia’s Trove
In 1942, having saved £20, she moved to Sydney. After some radio performances she won a breakthrough role as Janie, in the new US play of the same name, which opened at the Minerva Theatre in 1943.ABC Weekly, Vol. 10 No. 21, 22 May 1948, P30. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove
Janie concerned a small town girl who hosts a party for US servicemen that gets out of control while her parents are absent – perhaps the idea was a novelty for Australian audiences at the time. On stage with Gwenda were well established Australian performers like Fifi Banvard, and new faces including Margo Lee and Betty McDowall.It was directed by Melbourne-born Alec Coppel, who already had experience as a writer in England and had come back home in 1940. He later went on to a Hollywood career – writing numerous … Continue reading The play found an audience and it ran for two months – thus establishing Gwenda’s credentials, but it was generally dismissed by most as lightweight entertainment. One newspaper wrote that it was without “real character development, plot construction… (and had) the appeal…of a nice whopping chocolate soda.”The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 1943, P23, Via National Library of Australia’s Trove
In October 1943, she took a leading role in Kiss and Tell, another play about modern youth from the US that had opened on Broadway only a few months before. It enjoyed a record 53 week run in Melbourne, and long runs in other Australian cities.Viola Tait (1971) A Family of Brothers. P165 Heinemann 21 year old Gwenda gave a “finished and charming interpretation” as Corliss Archer.The Argus (Melb) 13 Dec 1943 P6, Via National Library of Australia’s Trove It was while working on this play that she was caught up in the 1944 “theatrical dispute,” between JC Williamsons, the Australian theatrical monopoly, and Actor’s Equity, over conditions and the use of non-union performers. Gwenda was one of the striking performers issued with a writ to prevent them appearing in an Equity fund-raising performance. The strike was resolved after three weeks and the principle of the “closed shop” for the Australian theatre firmly established – so Equity succeeded.For a contemporary account of the strike see The Age (Melb) 29 May 1944, P3. For a management view of the strike see Viola Tait (1971) A Family of Brothers. P172-175
In January 1945, Gwenda married former serviceman and Tasmanian-born actor Don Sharp.Births Deaths & Marriages Victoria, Marriage certificate 1945/4791 The couple announced their plans to go to London to perform, even though the war was still on.The Argus (Melb),13 Mar 1945, P7. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove In the meantime, there was no shortage of opportunity to perform in radio and on the stage, with Gwenda being heralded as “the new find.”(see Note 1)
In mid 1947, Gwenda and Don joined a company formed to take The Hasty Heart and While the Sun Shines, to occupation forces in Japan. Don Sharp used his service connections to help establish the tour, John Wood, 2 years after his release from a Japanese POW camp, produced and took a leading role. Gwenda reprised her role as nurse Margaret. Also in the company was Wood’s English wife Phyl Buchanan. By late 1947 the Japan tour had concluded and the company returned to Australia. However, as Don Sharp explains in his 1993 interview with the London History Project, instead of returning, he made his way to England, by finding passages on various interconnecting cargo ships. Although Gwenda and Don seem to have maintained an cordial relationship in later years, this was apparently the end of the marriage.
Gwenda, as a leading young performer in Australia, had little trouble finding more work in Australia. She appeared on radio again, and in two Fifi Banvard productions at the Minerva Theatre in Sydney in 1948, Ah Wilderness and Philadelphia Story. But the truth was, as Don Sharp remarked, that the choice for post-war Australian performers was stark. They could either stay – meaning they would continue to work for JC Williamsons, or on radio, or if they were lucky in a rare Australian film. Alternatively, they could try their luck overseas – where the opportunities seemed boundless. Not surprisingly, in December 1948, Gwenda boarded the Shaw Saville ship Arawa for England, joining the great post-war exodus of Australian performers.
Newspaper reports of the doings of Australians in London were usually celebratory, sometimes tinged with nationalistic patter. After all, who wanted to read that someone, well known in Australia, struggled to find work in the heart of the Empire. In March 1949, Truth newspaper reported Gwenda as one of a number of “Sydney actors having a busy time in London,” while she lived with old friends John Wood and Phyl Buchanan.Truth (Syd) 20 March 1949, P35. Via National Library of Australia’s TroveFor other articles like this see The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Aug 1950, P3, Australian Actor Praised, The Newcastle Sun, 14 Jul 1951, P4 Film Role For Young Australian Actor, The Sun (Syd) 12 Nov … Continue reading
But an unusually frank report in a 1965 newspaper finally acknowledged that for many Australian actors, finding work in London was a constant challenge. Gwenda’s friend Betty McDowall described it as “tough as hell.”The Canberra Times, 24 Apr 1965, P9. The struggle from Down Under to acting up top. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove All the same, records show Gwenda found small roles in films and on stage not long after she arrived. One of her first outings was a minor role in Ha’penny Breeze (1950). In his 1993 interview, Don Sharp outlined the extraordinary effort required to make this, his very first British film, which he helped write, produce and took a leading role in. Despite the effort, and Sharp’s later reputation as a British director of note, this film met with a mixed response. Gwenda also appeared in rep with Robert Raglan, touring Britain in Summer in December and Born Yesterday. She then had a small role on stage in London as a nurse in the farce To Dorothy a Son at the Savoy Theatre,Theatre World, 1951, Vol 47, issue 313, via the Internet Archive and in the film Gift Horse, where she played a WREN.The Sun (Syd)18 Oct 1951, P36, Film news from Hollywood and London, via National Library of Australia’s Trove
In May 1952, she married again, to Malcolm Halkeston MacDougal, a lawyer.Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 9 May 1952, P1, Via British Library Newspaper ArchiveButterworth’s Empire Law List, 1961, P32. Butterworth’s. Via Google Books MacDougal, an Australian-born man standing well over 6 feet in height, gained some notoriety in 1953 when he was taken to court for “lightly boxing the ears” of several British Union speakers in Chelsea, apparently while in the company of Gwenda.Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 3 July 1953, P1 The Shutterstock Photo Archive holds a photo of Gwenda on her wedding day, here. But it appears this marriage ended sometime in the late 1950s.Eric Lambert’s 1965 book MacDougal’s Farm is apparently based on MacDougal’s experience as a wartime POW. Known in the army as “Big Mac,” MacDougal died suddenly in … Continue reading
There was coincidentally, another role in a film scripted by Don Sharp – Conflict of Wings in 1954, but it appears much of Gwenda’s modest output in the 1950s was on radio and in TV guest roles. While the reviews of her work are sparse, a few film roles are still accessible to us today – including the thoroughly unpleasant character Jean in the enjoyable and well acted B-film Dangerous Afternoon (1961).
Gwenda first appeared as the character Aunt Laura on The Archers in May 1957. Non-Britons (including the present writer) are at a decided disadvantage regarding The Archers – for the simple reason most of us have not heard it. This radio drama of English rural life in the fictional village of Ambridge began in 1951, and is still running today, in 12 minute daily episodes on the BBC.See the BBC’s website devoted to the Archers The series was broadcast for a while in Canada, Australia and other Commonwealth countries, but appears to have been dropped by most in the late 1960s.William Smethurst (1988) The Archers. The true story : the history of radio’s most famous programme. P97-101. Michael O’Mara, London For those not familiar with the show and who cannot understand its popularity for 70 years, Lyn Thomas from the University of Sussex provides an explanation, here at the Conversation.com
Gwenda’s death from lung cancer in August 1977UK General Register Office, Death Certificate Gwenda Olive Wilson or MacDougal was quite sudden and apparently unexpected. BBC producer Tony Shryane recalled losing a much loved colleague, mid show: “Gwenda and I had been friends for many years, even before she joined The Archers… She was a delightful artiste whose infectious gaiety made her popular with everyone and she had that indefinable Australian quality that kept her going at parties when everyone else was beginning to fade. When she died, I could not believe that her energy and enthusiasm would no longer be there to enliven our rehearsals and recordings.“William Smethurst (1988) The Archers. The true story : the history of radio’s most famous programme. P148-149. Michael O’Mara, London
Many might have expected Aunt Laura would now be written out of the series, but fans need not have worried. Another Australian born actor, Betty McDowall, the same one who had appeared with Gwenda in Janie back in Sydney in 1942, immediately took over the role. Aunt Laura lived on for another eight years.
Note 1 – Some recipes from Gwenda.
A lengthy article in Melbourne’s Argus newspaper in 1946 presented Gwenda as the “new theatrical find” and reported that her passions were cooking and gardening. Also listed were some of her favourite recipes which are included below. (The author has tried the Ham and Macaroni pie)
“With nightly performances, matinees, and rehearsals, the Don Sharps naturally have little time for entertaining, but they love having people in for Sunday night supper. Here are some of the dishes Gwenda serves her guests on such occasions:
HAM AND MACARONI PIE
Line a pie dish with macaroni which has been cooked till soft. Cover with minced ham (or any meat) and chopped parsley. Season to taste. Then layer of tomatoes. Moisten with a little stock or gravy. Cover with mashed potatoes to which has been added a little butter and milk. Glaze top with beaten egg and bake 15 to 20 minutes in hot oven.
RABBIT IN ASPIC
One rabbit, cut up and cooked with enough water to cover. Add few bacon rashers and small chopped onion. Season to taste. When cooked remove all bones. Measure liquid and dissolve 1 dessertspoon gelatine, 1 cup liquid. Place hard-boiled eggs and green peas around inside mould, then arrange cooked rabbit and pour over liquid, and leave to set. Turn out and garnish with parsley or chopped mint.”The Argus (Melb) 8 Jan 1946 P8 Young Actress is Hostess at Sunday Night Suppers
- Eric Lambert (1965) MacDougal’s Farm. Frederick Muller Ltd, London.
- Teddy Darvas and Alan Lawson. (2 November 1993). London History Project – Film, Television, Theatre, Radio. “Interview with Don Sharp” (8 parts)
Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University
- John Rickard (2007) ‘Hoban, Mary Elizabeth (Maie) (1887–1984)’.
Newspaper & Magazine Sources
- National Library of Australia’s Trove
- National Library of New Zealand, Papers Past
- British Library Newspaper Archive
- Lantern, the Media History Digital Library
- Victoria, Births, Deaths and Marriages
- New South Wales, Births, Deaths and Marriages
- General Register Office, HM Passport Office.
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|↑1, ↑7||ABC Weekly, Vol. 10 No. 21, 22 May 1948, P30. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑2||The Guardian 19 August 1977, P 14 via Newspapers.com|
|↑3||Birmingham City Post 23 August 1977 P4. Via British Library Newspaper Archive|
|↑4||Gwenda Wilson, UK Death Certificate|
|↑5||The Australasian (Melb), 24 Feb 1945 P16, Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑6||The Australasian 24 Feb, 1945. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑8||Smith’s Weekly 5 June 1943, P19. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑9||It was directed by Melbourne-born Alec Coppel, who already had experience as a writer in England and had come back home in 1940. He later went on to a Hollywood career – writing numerous screenplays, including Vertigo (1958)|
|↑10||The Daily Telegraph, 9 May 1943, P23, Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑11||ABC Weekly 27 May 1944, P12. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑12||Viola Tait (1971) A Family of Brothers. P165 Heinemann|
|↑13||The Argus (Melb) 13 Dec 1943 P6, Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑14||For a contemporary account of the strike see The Age (Melb) 29 May 1944, P3. For a management view of the strike see Viola Tait (1971) A Family of Brothers. P172-175|
|↑15||Births Deaths & Marriages Victoria, Marriage certificate 1945/4791|
|↑16||The Argus (Melb),13 Mar 1945, P7. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑17||ABC Weekly 18 Sept 1948, P14 Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑18||Truth (Syd) 20 March 1949, P35. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑19||For other articles like this see The Sydney Morning Herald, 14 Aug 1950, P3, Australian Actor Praised, The Newcastle Sun, 14 Jul 1951, P4 Film Role For Young Australian Actor, The Sun (Syd) 12 Nov 1953, P39 ACTOR SAYS OPPORTUNITY IN ENGLAND, News (Adel)10 Nov 1954, P2 SA actor gets film contract. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑20||The Canberra Times, 24 Apr 1965, P9. The struggle from Down Under to acting up top. Via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑21||Theatre World, 1951, Vol 47, issue 313, via the Internet Archive|
|↑22||The Sun (Syd)18 Oct 1951, P36, Film news from Hollywood and London, via National Library of Australia’s Trove|
|↑23||Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 9 May 1952, P1, Via British Library Newspaper Archive|
|↑24||Butterworth’s Empire Law List, 1961, P32. Butterworth’s. Via Google Books|
|↑25||Chelsea News and General Advertiser, 3 July 1953, P1|
|↑26||Eric Lambert’s 1965 book MacDougal’s Farm is apparently based on MacDougal’s experience as a wartime POW. Known in the army as “Big Mac,” MacDougal died suddenly in September 1962, without recounting his experiences himself. Lambert’s book was not well received|
|↑27||See the BBC’s website devoted to the Archers|
|↑28||William Smethurst (1988) The Archers. The true story : the history of radio’s most famous programme. P97-101. Michael O’Mara, London|
|↑29||UK General Register Office, Death Certificate Gwenda Olive Wilson or MacDougal|
|↑30||William Smethurst (1988) The Archers. The true story : the history of radio’s most famous programme. P148-149. Michael O’Mara, London|
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Media campaigns on yoga from June 10 to June 25 will be considered for International Yoga Day Awards.
"One of India's gifts to the world is yoga. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi proposed to celebrate June 21 as International Day of Yoga (IDY), the United Nations and all countries responded positively," he said.
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"We have observed that many media houses are also doing their bit to propagate the message of healthy life and healthy living through yoga... They are carrying out their own campaigns. We have decided to recognise the services and (yoga) campaigns of the media," the minister said.
This year, the government has shortlisted Delhi, Shimla, Mysore, Ahmedabad and Ranchi to hold national programmes to mark the International Yoga Day.
Last year, the main IDY event was held at the ground of Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, in which Prime Minister Narendra Modi participated.
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In this section, Dr. Leigh Hafrey shares how his experience growing up in several cultures helped him understand how story serves as a useful foundation for teaching a course about leadership in corporate settings.
I was obsessed with books as a child. I read tons and tons. And I think that sort of became reality for me. I’ve never broken free.
My parents both immigrated to the United States, and my father became a diplomat, so we reverse-immigrated when we were posted abroad. I spent much of my childhood and teen years traveling. I think what I saw in that process, aside from being exposed to a bunch of different cultures, was the reality that people do things differently and still succeed. So there’s no one right way to do anything. I asked myself, “How do I make sense of these differences across cultures?” And the short answer was story. How do people build a narrative that explains what they’re doing, why they’re doing it, where they think it’s going to take them?
The Sloan population is full of people who speak at least two languages and are part of, or at the very least familiar with, a number of different cultures. In every culture, people tell stories. In many cultures, they tell the same stories that people tell in other cultures. I spend a lot of time in my courses here at Sloan arguing that we do, in fact, share values and share perspectives, and we modify them, reshape them, redirect them, in order to sync with whatever culture we have grown up in. This makes story a natural starting point for discussing leadership and is the reason I use it as the foundation for teaching 15.269 Leadership Stories: Literature, Ethics, and Authority.
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The Last Days of MLK
The Last Days of MLK must always punctuate the annals of American history, injustice and periodic triumph. For in death, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. achieved more human and labor rights breakthroughs than he could in life. His posthumous civil and labor rights achievement was a lightening rod that spread to other municipalities of the South, rooting out Jim Crow in months and years, that otherwise would have taken years and decades.
Though Dr. King is the largest icon of the Civil Rights Movement, other key parties involved in the events surrounding his death in Memphis were Rev. Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb, Memphis City Council, Memphis Department of Public Works, American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), AFL-CIO, Memphis Minister’s Association, A. Philip Randolph Institute, NAACP, SCLC, FBI, U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Undersecretary of Labor, President Lyndon Johnson and Coretta Scott King.
One day in late January 1968, 21 African-American sanitation workers were sent home due to rainy weather. They only received two hours of show-up pay. Meanwhile their Anglo-American counterparts were permitted to remain the entire day without working, yet earning a full day’s wage. This civil and labor rights indignity along with reprisals against union activity were common practice in Memphis. It persisted because a 1966 court injunction prohibited city employees from striking and picketing.
Then on 1 February 1968 two black sanitation workers were killed when a packer blade on a truck accidentally activated.
Risks associated with the packer blade had been previously reported by sanitation workers, but ignored by city management. That event combined with the other grievances compelled the public workers union into action. After many attempts to resolve grievances with the Department of Public Works, on 12 February, 1,200 out of 1,300 public works laborers went on strike. Their official demands were for pay raises, overtime pay, union recognition, open check-off of union dues and improved safety conditions. Their unofficial demand, as the “I Am A Man” signs they wore attested, was for human dignity. Only 34 of the city’s 180 garbage trucks operated on the first day of the strike.
Despite the anti-strike court injunction, on 13 February sanitation workers marched to City Hall to attempt a peaceful resolution to their grievances. But in the days following, the mayor and city council would not agree to any demands by the sanitation workers, since they considered the strikers to be lawbreakers. The mayor hired 51 temporary workers and ordered police to supervise garbage pick-up. In response, the AFSCME urged the strikers on.
NAACP Memphis branch and union leaders organized a small boycott of downtown businesses until the strike ended, and a thousand sanitation workers held peaceful marches and sit-ins at City Hall. But on 23 February, policemen maced the peaceful marchers, which included children, women and ministers. In response, black leaders of all stripes joined the ministers to form COME (Community On the Move for Equality) and call for a general business boycott, until the strike ends.
On 29 February, the mayor offered better pay, but without union recognition. So the union filed suit in federal court. In the weeks ahead, police arrested strikers and African-American students who participated in the march. On 14 March, Roy Wilkins of the NAACP and Bayard Rustin of the Asa Philip Randolph Institute addressed more than 10,000 people at Mason Temple Church of God in Christ in support of peaceful protest.
On invitation, Dr. King addressed 17,000 Memphians at Mason Temple COGIC and calls for a citywide march to be held on 22 March. The march was deferred due to a record snow storm, while strike negotiations continued. On 27 March, SCLC leader Ralph Abernathy addressed a strikers rally at Mason Temple, as negotiations collapsed. The two sides were no longer meeting. During that time, Clayborn Temple AME Church became a focal point. As the closest and largest church near downtown, it was the site of many rallies, the principal march staging area and pastored by a white minister at the time.
On 28 March, Dr. King led a gathering of 15,000 people at Clayborn Temple who intended to conduct a non-violent march to City Hall. The gathering consisted of organized, marchers and many opportunistic youths, who had no affiliation with the objectives of the marchers. Dr. King slowly led the procession across Hernando Street, then made a left on Beale Street, continuing up to Main Street where he made a right, heading towards City Hall. But only 7 blocks and 25 minutes into the march, disgruntled youths shattered windows, looted Beale Street merchants and clashed with police. During the ensuing melee, Dr. King and organized marchers were persuaded to return home or to Clayborn Temple for their own safety.
The day saw 280 arrests, 60 injured and one youth shot before 4,000 National Guardsmen moved in. It would be years before commerce on Beale Street recovered. It was the lowest point of Dr. King’s leadership in the Civil Rights Movement. He had never led a march where its organizers were loosely associated with others responsible for triggering violence. Consequently, Dr. King returned to Atlanta that day with his leadership reputation severely tarnished.
On 29 March, 300 sanitation workers and ministers, escorted by armored personnel carriers, marched peacefully from Clayborn Temple to City Hall. President Lyndon Johnson and AFL-CIO president George Meany offered assistance to resolve the dispute, but were both rejected by Memphis Mayor Loeb.
From 1966-1968, Dr. King’s reputation as a national leader able to get results was declining. Old Jim Crow practices proved resilient against Civil Rights legislation and peaceful SCLC demonstrations. Some black human rights organizations believed that non-violent principles were outdated, so they jockeyed to fill what they perceived as a leadership vacuum. Some other black-led organizations and the white establishment who once embraced his non-violent principles, perceived Dr. King as leading Negroes astray with “Stop The Vietnam War” rhetoric.
Concerned that he needed to restore his reputation as an effective non-violent leader, on 31 March, Dr. King canceled his trip to Africa to lead another peaceful Memphis march in hopes that it would reopen negotiations.
Upon return to Memphis on 3 April, Dr. King faced an injunction by city officials preventing him from leading another march, because they thought it would trigger violence. That night he delivered what Dr. Michael Eric Dyson and others describe as his greatest speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop”. For one brief moment at Mason Temple, Dr. King pierced through the prism of the future, foreseeing his own death and our progress towards social equality. His closest associates say he had no wish to be a martyr, but in that final perfect speech he preached the fear of death out of himself.
Early morning 4 April 1968 SCLC lawyers got the injunction against King overturned. Dr. King heard the good news, but strangely remained in a somber mood. King, Abernathy, Young and Jackson spent the day strategizing Later that day, he and several associates were planning to leave the Lorraine Motel to meet with march organizers. King washed and dressed for dinner. King walked out of Room 306 onto the 2nd floor balcony of the Lorraine Hotel to take in the evening air.
As Time magazine reported, leaning casually on the green iron railing he chatted with his co-workers readying his Cadillac in the dusk below. To singer Ben Branch below, who was to perform at a Claiborne Temple rally later that evening, Dr. King made a special request, “I want you to sing that song Precious Lord for me — sing it real pretty.” Then Baruch said, “O.K., I will.”
A heartbeat later at 6:01pm Central Standard Time, Dr. King was mortally wounded by a single rifle shot from a building across Mulberry Street. Ralph Abernathy, Andrew Young and Jesse Jackson rushed to the side of their fallen leader, even as they pointed at the direction of the gun shot. Though he had a pulse when they took him to St. Joseph’s Hospital, 39-year old Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was pronounced dead at 7:05pm.
On 5 April, federal troops arrived, President Johnson sent the US Attorney General to Memphis and pressured the FBI to conduct an international manhunt for the killer. To his credit, President Johnson also assigned U.S. Undersecretary of Labor James Reynolds, to mediate the strike settlement. On 8 April, Coretta Scott King led dozens of national figures in a peaceful memorial march through downtown to Memphis City Hall in tribute to Dr. King. With Undersecretary Reynolds turning up the heat, on 16 April 1968, AFSCME leaders announced an agreement had been reached. Union members ratify it. Ralph Abernathy described the agreement as a “Significant and just breakthrough for labor and unions in the South”.
Despite riots around the nation, Dr. King’s reputation was elevated to martyrdom as the symbol of America’s Civil Rights Movement. He achieved posthumously more than he ever could in life. All over the nation, municipalities called on the memory of the Dr. King, “The Drum Major for Peace”, as they finally began implementing Civil Rights legislation in deed, not just law. That is when many boulevards nationwide were renamed in his honor.
The tale of Dr. King’s assassination does not close neatly. For many years thoughtful, but legally powerless Americans questioned how James Earl Ray, an escaped convict of limited intelligence and even less money, could singularly perpetrate the assassination, escape to two cities in Europe until capture in June 1968 with an unexplainably large amount of money in his possession, then be quickly convicted as the sole assassin without an accomplice(s).
Access to FBI documents after the 1993 Freedom of Information Act reveals much of what was hidden from government officials and the media for 25 years. Official documents having the signature of the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover reveal that he instructed FBI agents to publicly and privately destroy the reputation and influence of Dr. King using a variety of illegal and immoral means. Those were wiretaps, tampered voice-over recordings to imply that Dr. King was a sex addict, paid informants, false mailings to the media, wrongfully branding him a communist, and tracking his every move without just cause.
Moreover, Hoover did nothing to ensure Dr. King’s safety despite repeated evidence from wiretaps and tracking, that certain parties had the motivation and means to assassinate him. Police that normally surrounded his hotel when in Memphis were inexplicably pulled away that fateful day. Though it happened in Memphis, his assassination could have been anywhere in America.
Broader implications of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI directive, even if unintentional, have recently emerged. One FBI agent is linked to having knowledge of critical events surrounding James Earl Ray just prior to the assassination. After several meetings with James Earl Ray, new evidence and testimony, the King Family believed that others were involved in Dr. King’s assassination. For concerned citizens however, there is incontrovertible evidence that treatment of Dr. King was one of the most unlawful episodes ever committed by America’s top law enforcement officer — the dastardly J. Edgar Hoover who deserves part of the blame for the 1968 riots that engulfed America.
There is insufficient evidence to pinpoint James Earl Ray’s assistants or handlers, nor can we adequately characterize the FBI’s complete role in this sordid matter. But a taste of retribution came in 1983. The federal holiday bill honoring Dr. King passed the U.S. House of Representatives by a veto-proof count of 338 to 90. When President Reagan signed the bill in November 1983, it officially restored the good name of Dr. King.
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June 19, 2012
EDITOR'S ADVISORY: This news release has been updated with the correct dates for Operation Dry Water, which will take place June 22-24.
MADISON -- Boaters will see Wisconsin's conservation wardens and local boat patrols on the water looking for impaired boat operators whose blood alcohol level is over the state limit of 0.08 percent as part of the national Operation Dry Water campaign slated for June 22 through 24.
"We want to enhance everyone's safety by removing intoxicated boat operators from the water. We hope to educate as many boaters as possible about the hazards of operating while intoxicated," said Roy Zellmer, Department of Natural Resources boating law administrator.
A boat operator or passenger with a blood alcohol concentration above the legal limit runs a significantly increased risk of being involved in a boating accident. When impaired by alcohol, boating accidents are more likely and more deadly for both passengers and boat operators, many of whom capsize their vessel or simply fall overboard.
Operating while intoxicated is a primary contributing factor in nearly one in five boating fatalities nationwide, and Wisconsin's conservation wardens and boat patrols are committed to enforcing laws against this high-risk behavior to protect everyone on the water. Boaters found operating a recreational vessel with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or higher will find their voyage terminated and they will be removed from the water for everyone's safety.
Last year, Wisconsin's conservation warden service and local water patrols dedicated 1,684 hours and contacted 1,870 boaters during Operation Dry Water. There were 14 arrests of boating under the influence and 162 other boating citations issued along with 599 boating-related warnings.
Operation Dry Water, a multi-agency, education and enforcement initiative launched by the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators in 2009 in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard, puts thousands of local, state and federal marine law enforcement officers on the water nationwide the last weekend in June to give operating while intoxicated enforcement high visibility during the peak boating season.
"Boaters who choose to operate while intoxicate will face the consequences of that decision," Zellmer said. "We want recreational boaters to enjoy themselves, but there will be zero tolerance for boating under the influence."
Operation Dry Water is a joint program of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, the National Association of State Boating Law Administrators and the U.S. Coast Guard. For more information, visit www.operationdrywater.org. For more information on boating in Wisconsin, search for "boat" on the DNR website.
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Do you wonder how the music apps recommend music based on your personal interests? Or you might get curious about how the least used mails are moved in spam folders. If yes, then the answer to all of these queries is machine learning.
According to Gartner, around 37% of all companies are utilizing some type of ML in their business. It is now clear that Machine learning is one of the best career choices for professionals. In this article, we will discuss how to start a career in Machine Learning. Let’s get started.
How to Start a Career in Machine Learning?
1. Be curious
Sometimes, curiosity is the root cause of any profession. When an individual is curious, they are automatically keen to know more about it. Hence it makes them move towards more efficient work and deliver a high-quality performance. The key is to stay curious as far as possible because it will help you brainstorm different business challenges.
Machine learning is a blend of statistics, mathematics, and technology. So make sure you gain proficiency in all of these aspects. The reason is that all are correlated with each other, which directly influences the quality of results also.
3. Machine learning basics
Whenever you start any new stream of your career, the very initial step is to familiarize yourself with the basics. Since it set the foundation for all aspects of the career, it is very important for the professional to gain expertise in this aspect.
4. Learn programming and libraries
Programming languages play an important role in developing machine learning algorithms. Python, R, TensorFlow, and ScikitLearn are majorly used for this purpose.
5. Data analysis
Data analysis can surely help the professional to identify the patterns of data. Also, it helps you to differentiate between the data that works well or not.
6. Industry knowledge
Different industries offer a variety of opportunities, so it is important for the professional to do the research well enough. Professionals should do their research deeply to know what exactly machine learning can offer in different areas.
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Modern day life can often be so busy and stressful, that we forget to take time out to enjoy all that we are working for and achieving. Even when we do take time to sit down and relax, we’re frequently found scrolling through social media sites, browsing the Internet or catching up on emails.
However, there is a lot to be said for taking time out to just sit, relax and switch off the mind from outside distractions. This kind of relaxation is great for your mind and body, reducing stress levels from your mind and body.
Some people think that meditation is this magical thing which you need to learn to do. In truth, it really is just about taking time out to unwind and relax. Find somewhere peaceful and relaxing for you and sit or lay in a comfortable position where you will not be temped to fidget. Allow your eyes to close and take the awareness to the breath. Allow your breath to be free, and watch as it naturally deepens as your body remains still and your mind quietens.
By using your breath as your focus, you encourage yourself to remain in the present moment, instead of planning what you are going to have for dinner, or mentally scribing a to-do list. Remain focused on the breath and allow your mind to begin to scan down over your body, releasing any tension which you find in your muscles or joints with each exhalation. Notice how you feel, notice what you hear.
It is perfectly natural for your mind to wander during your meditation. When this happens, don’t be annoyed with yourself, just take the awareness back to the breath and begin to rescan the body as soon as you realise your concentration has drifted.
If certain noises or disturbances occur, again, let them pass and return to your calm. Distractions can in fact, help you to strengthen your mind; they encourage you to focus more deeply within.
The benefits of meditation are limitless. Meditating helps us to understand our own mind and the way we work. It can help us to transform how we feel in any situation, from negative, to positive, purely by being aware of the way we act and react. By practising meditation regularly, you will be able to begin applying it to your everyday life. Being aware of you and your surroundings, preventing you from making rash decisions, getting upset over something trivial, or losing your temper frequently.
Research shows that there are multiple proven benefits of regular meditation, on both our mood and our health. It is suggested that 10-15 minutes of mindful meditation, is equivalent to one hour’s sleep. Our body relaxes so completely, releasing tensions from within, that we ‘awaken’ feeling refreshed and relaxed. Also, meditating before falling asleep can improve the quality of your whole nights sleep.
Medical benefits include reduced blood pressure, improvement of asthma and other respiratory problems, depression and anxiety management, prevents signs of ageing, improves skin condition and so much more. As discussed, it can also create an improved mood and lasting feelings of happiness. From this, willpower, confidence and success all follow.
In short, meditation can improve, pretty much, every aspect of your life, as it changes your perception on things in a positive way. By taking 10-15 minutes each day for you, changes will happen. And don’t worry about doing it wrong, there is no secret formula. Like anything, with practice, it will come.
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YANGON Aung San Suu Kyi's first anniversary as Myanmar's de facto leader should have been the celebration of a glorious beginning. The year started with the handover of power on March 30, 2016, by the military-backed government of President Thein Sein to her National League for Democracy. Months earlier, the NLD had swept national elections, winning nearly 80% of contested parliamentary seats.
Yet the state counselor, as composed and elegantly attired as ever, displayed a curious blend of defiance, defensiveness and rare humility on her government's anniversary. In a televised address from Naypyitaw, the capital, she acknowledged public criticism of issues ranging from the inexperience of cabinet ministers to human rights and a perceived lack of economic progress. But one year was "not a very long time," she said. "When we speak of changing the system, we need to understand that it involves changing the old system that has been deeply entrenched in our society for over 50 years." | <urn:uuid:fe788ff5-cc42-47cf-9e54-5e206bc44e71> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defiant-and-defensive-Suu-Kyi-struggles-to-bridge-Myanmar-s-divisions | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975958 | 203 | 2 | 2 |
By James Robertson and Julie Power
Reg Mombassa, the artist behind Sydney's 2013 New Year's Eve, said he wanted to use this year's fireworks to look inside people's heads.
But before he painted the sky with an absurdist vision of celestial shapes and movement, what people were thinking was as clear as the day that had burned bright and long. Sydney was a city getting ready to celebrate, closely, together.
By the early morning on December 31, the prime spots were completely full of people in outdoor chairs congratulating themselves on their early thinking. By mid-afternoon, many more were being turned away.
Eight areas around the Royal Botanic Gardens, Circular Quay and the north shore were full by 5pm and closed to more people, a spokeswoman for the Transport Management Centre said.
Visitors were being turned away from Blues Point Reserve, which looked like ''tent city'', local residents said. Those heading to the reserve at McMahons Point were being redirected to Bradfield Park under the Harbour Bridge at Kirribilli.
At Pyrmont, revellers face a cruise boat jam as boats try to reach the pier.
Mick Schwag, with six-year-old daughter Jenny in tow, had beaten a retreat from Mrs Macquarie's Chair after showing up at 11.30am. ''There were about 2 million people there,'' he said.
On the other side of the harbour, west of the bridge, there was some room amid the crowds.
''It's about family and friends and peace but not quiet,'' said Franklin Luzuriaga as he waited for the fireworks at Balmain's Thornton Park.
Mr Luzuriaga had come to Sydney from Manila with a desire to see the fireworks that he had seen beamed to the rest of the world as he prepared for his own celebrations hours later.
But family was a bigger pull. His daughter Sheila got married five years ago to an Australian, Greg Galea, from Lismore. On the Sydney foreshore, their two families and eight people played, joked and waited together.
Louis Galea, 73-year-old patriarch of his clan from Cobbitty, handed fruit to his Asian relatives. ''We've been coming here 15 years and to have everyone here makes it such a special night,'' he said.
About 1.6 million people were expected to flood the harbour foreshore to catch a glimpse of the eight-hour show. It culminated at midnight: blinking over the harbour was an enormous ''all-seeing eye'' designed by the event's creative ambassador, Mombassa, which was the centrepiece light effect on the bridge.
The theme of Sydney's New Year's Eve celebration was ''Shine''. It lived up to its name.
The first big bang of the evening was the kid-friendly fireworks at 9pm when the bridge was decorated by a lighting show of two little aliens taking off in a space craft.
But the epic display at midnight was the main act, being seen by more than one billion people around the world.
At 12 storeys high and 72 metres across, the eye weighed 60 tonnes and required 16 kilometres of light rope, four kilometres of electrical cable and 10,000 cable ties.
For the first time this year, a brief 10.30pm fireworks display was added to bridge the gap between the traditional 9pm and midnight explosions.
The one-minute addition was inspired by one of Mombassa's artworks, Cranium Universe, which depicts the inside of his head filled with stars and planets.
Mombassa, who was watching from the Sydney Opera House, said he was looking forward to seeing how his artwork was interpreted on such a large scale.
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What can I make with wood for Christmas?
- Advent Calendar. 1/13.
- Peppermint-Striped Candlesticks. 2/13.
- DIY Birch Vase. 3/13.
- No-Melt Snowman. 4/13.
- Wood Slice Ornament. 5/13.
- Card Holder. 6/13.
- Wood Wreath. 7/13.
- Nativity. 8/13.
How do you make outdoor wood Christmas decorations?
How do you make wood ornaments for Christmas?
How do you make Christmas wooden signs?
What can I make with wood for Christmas? – Additional Questions
How do you write Merry Christmas with lights?
What is the best Christmas message?
- “Best wishes for a joyous Christmas filled with love, happiness and prosperity!”
- “May all that is beautiful, meaningful and brings you joy be yours this holiday season and throughout the coming year!”
- “Merry Christmas!
- “May your holidays sparkle with joy and laughter.”
What do you say when someone dies at Christmas?
God bless your family and grant you peace and comfort during this Christmas season. Sending our love to your family. We wish you the comfort of the Christmas blessing of hope and faith. May this Christmas bring you comfort and love.
What is a unique way to wish Christmas?
- get into the Christmas spirit – wine or beer.
- have you been naughty or nice.
- ho ho ho-liday greetings.
- jingle all the way.
- keep calm and Christmas on.
- keep calm and enjoy Christmas.
- let’s rock around the Christmas tree, you and me.
- may Santa work his magic to the nth degree.
Is it politically correct to say Merry Christmas?
“It’s considered politically correct to say Happy Holidays, so it’s just considered insensitive to say Merry Christmas to other people who aren’t from this country that don’t celebrate it,“ said senior Miguel Montano, Div. 022. “Merry Christmas” is a traditional saying that’s been around for centuries.
How do you say Merry Christmas to someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas?
The solution of some well-meaning people who want non-Christians, or Christians who don’t celebrate Christmas, to feel included is a tweak in language: In mixed company, say “happy holidays” instead of “merry Christmas.” Other people, who feel that this erases the holiday, call this the “war on Christmas.”
Where does Merry Christmas you filthy animal?
The famous quote, “Merry Christmas You Filthy Animal” is from a scene in the 1992 movie, Home Alone 2. In the movie, Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) is separated from his family during their Christmas vacation.
What should I say on a Christmas card?
Heartfelt Christmas card messages
Holidays like Christmas remind me what I’m grateful for: you. The holidays are extra magical this year because I get to spend them with you. I know this past year has been tough, but I hope this holiday season brings you joy and happiness. I’m wishing you all the best in the New Year.
What is Christmas spirit quotes?
“The Christmas spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.” “Unless we make Christmas an occasion to share our blessings, all the snow in Alaska won’t make it white.” “The world has grown weary through the years, but at Christmas, it is young.” “Christmas is a piece of one’s home that one carries in one’s heart.”
How do I wish my friend a Merry Christmas?
“May the true spirit of Christmas shine in your heart and light your path.” “Wishing you a season that’s merry and bright with the light of God’s love.” “Christmas gives us an opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us.” May this season be full of light and laughter for you and your family.
What do you write in a Christmas card 2021?
- It’s time for the holidays again!
- Best wishes this lovely Christmas!
- Wishing you a very Merry Christmas.
- Warmest wishes to you this Christmas.
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
- Season greetings this Xmas, have a great one.
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Just ahead of its annual WWDC conference, Apple has announced a series of changes to its App Store, aimed at improving the experience for both developers and consumers alike. According to Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, who took over the App Store in December, the company is working to speed up the time it takes apps to go live, revamp how it splits revenue with developers, as well as improve app discovery. The latter will include the introduction of ads in App Store search, among other things.
The improvements, many would argue, are long overdue. Developers have been struggling to get their apps noticed, downloaded and installed – and consumers are growing tired of trying new apps. In fact, most don’t even download a single new app in a month, studies have shown.
The overall goal with the changes, it seems, is to make the App Store feel fresh, put the right apps in front of the right users, and help App Store developers maximize their revenue in a market where acquiring and retaining users is growing ever more difficult.
To start, Apple says that it has sped up the App Store review process, which used to take five days to complete. This is the period when Apple reviews apps before they’re allowed to go live, making sure they adhere to the developer guidelines, aren’t breaking any laws, and are safe for consumers to use. In the past month or so, App Store review has dropped to one day for many apps, Schiller told The Loop.
He noted that Apple reviews 100,000 apps per week, but it has now figured out how to make those reviews go faster. Now, it has a sustained rate of reviewing 50 percent of apps in 24 hours, and 90 percent in 48 hours.
Not delaying app launches was one advantage Google Play had on the App Store – because it largely relied on algorithms, not humans, to scan its apps, they could launch quicker. (Google has since introduced human-powered app reviews, but this has not appeared to impact approval times).
Subscriptions and a new 85/15 split
In addition, Apple is introducing a new business model for developers who use subscriptions to generate revenue. Today, Apple uses the traditional 70/30 split – something that was introduced back when developers were largely monetizing through app sales. But times have changed.
Now, apps using subscriptions will still see the 70/30 split in year one, but this will become an 85/15 split in subsequent years. Subscriptions will be available to all apps across all categories, including games, where before it was limited to categories like cloud services, streaming media, news, and dating services.
Apple says that subscription-based apps will need to either offer content that is updated or delivered on a regular basis, or they can provide paid access to an ongoing service in an app, like cloud storage or massive multiplayer online games (MMOGs).
Apple tells us all current subscriptions are eligible—if developers have subscribers they have already retained for over a year, the 85/15 split starts immediately, effective Monday, June 13.
Developers will also be able to set territory-specific pricing, and they’ll be able to increase prices for new subscribers while keeping loyal customers at the older, lower pricing, we’re told.
Subscription management for consumers will be easier, too, with an improved way to access, upgrade, downgrade and otherwise change subscriptions.
Above: App Store search ads (via The Loop)
App Discovery & Ads
Finally, and perhaps most notably, Apple will try to address the app discovery issue.
The App Store has been plagued by discovery issues for years, according to many developers, who complain that it’s too hard for users to find their apps.
To fix this, Apple will change its “Featured” section on the App Store this fall so that it won’t recommend any of the apps you already have installed, only new apps. (It began testing a similar solution on Apple TV earlier this month, but there it also affected the Top Charts.)
Apple is also bringing back the Categories tab in the App Store, for easier navigation, and it’s rolling out a 3D Touch-enabled means of sharing apps with friends. That is, if you press on an app on your iOS device’s Home screen, you’ll be able to share it with friends via social networks – a handy use case for the somewhat under-utilized 3D Touch “shortcut” feature on apps.
The App Store is also going to be refreshed more often with new content, instead of just on Thursdays, Apple told iMore.
The biggest change of all is that Apple is rolling out App Store ads in search. That means when users search for an app by name or keyword, developers can bid on an advertising slot at the top of the search results lists – similar to how Google search works.
Search is a critical way apps are discovered these days, as there are now 1.5 million apps on the App Store. That’s why this change, above all, is so important. Apple tells us that over 65 percent of apps downloaded on the Store come from a search query.
The company stresses that there will only be one ad per search, it will be clearly labeled as such (with a blue background and an “Ad” icon), and it will have the same content as the app’s App Store listing. Apple will also not share data about users’ ad clicks with developers – they will get reports, but not user data. And ads will not be shown to users under 13, if Apple can determine that, Schiller told The Loop.
Search ads will be handled through an auction system, with no minimums and no exclusives in order to make it accessible to smaller developers as well.
Ads will launch into beta first in the U.S. on Monday before rolling out more broadly this fall.
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A two-day national holiday to honor and remember our love ones who departed this world before us.
Even though this holiday is officially a two-day celebration, the whole ritual takes a little bit longer. Everything starts days before November 1st. When people go to the market to buy what their love ones liked the most when they were alive, all the ingredients to prepare a mole or the cigarette package that she loved.
Of course, the altar has some elements that you can not miss, such as the candles, the cempasuchil flowers or the sugar skulls with the name of your relative or friend that will return from the underworld.
The main idea behind the holiday is that we expect our love ones to come back from the death in those two days, first the youngest ones (November 1st), followed by the adults (November 2nd). Some people stay awake the whole night dancing and singing, some at home and others at the bottom of the grave. We believe we are surrounded by our friends and relatives that died. Because we believe they are visiting us and, of course, we are great hosts, we set the table with everything they liked while living. After the festivity we eat all those delicious dishes, sweets, and snacks.
The altar can be dedicated to one person or many, even dogs are invited to the party.
Mexican people is very spiritual and devoted, the day of the death is not the exception, in fact, it is one of the most important rituals we have in the whole country. As we mentioned before, Mexico is a mix of the mix, that´s why you will find different altars, meanings and themes depending the state you are, however, there are some musts that you will find everywhere.
The candles guide our love ones during the journey, normally placed simulating a path for them to find their way from and back the underworld. The same purpose has the flowers, that drive the souls with their intense smells and vivid colors. We can see this in the Disney Movie “Coco”.
I am still impressed by this movie, the designing and production teams captured Mexican people and customs almost perfectly. How they portrayed the traditional Mexican family, the streets and atmosphere; I haven´t seen a movie like that before, full of realism.
The design of the altar do not have any rules, your final choice depends entirely on your own personal taste and the space you have available, however the altar normally has 2 or 3 steps, this is because we believe the underworld is also arranged in that way (in steps). Our prehepatic merriment also includes the cross, this element was introduced by the spaniels after the colonization and once again we see how the elements from two different worlds are fused harmoniously.
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Across the American political spectrum there is higher appreciation of China’s momentum in artificial intelligence and different know-how and heightened concern about its financial and national security implications. The New Year will see an extended debate on potential new U.S. export controls on synthetic intelligence and different rising technologies... Read More
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A few examples of those apps embody Postmates, Uber Eats, and DoorDash. When it involves shopping, these units let you create a buying record out loud after which have it mechanically transferred to your cellphone.
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The historian of technology should be prepared to make use of all these sources, and to call upon the skills of the archaeologist, the engineer, the architect, and different specialists as appropriate. Another side of the cumulative character of technology that may require further investigation is the style of transmission of technological improvements. This is an elusive problem, and it is needed to just accept the phenomenon of simultaneous or parallel invention in cases in which there is inadequate proof to point out the transmission of concepts in one direction or another.
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Driving On Wet or Slippery Pavement
Do not attempt to use the engine brake system on wet or slippery roads until you have some experience with it on dry pavement.
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To avoid injury from loss of vehicle control, do not activate the Engine Brake system under the following conditions:
Note: On single trailers or combinations, a light air application of the trailer brakes may be desirable to help keep the trailer stretched out. Follow the manufacturer’s recommended operating procedure when using your trailer brakes.
On wet or slippery pavement, start with the master switch in the OFF position and use the gear you would normally use under these conditions.
If the vehicle is maintaining traction, place the selective braking switch in the LOW position and turn ON the engine brake system. If the drive wheels are maintaining traction and you desire greater slowing power, move the braking switch to the next highest position.
However, if the tractor drive wheels begin to lock or there is a fishtail motion, turn the engine brake system OFF immediately and do not activate it until road conditions improve.
Check your progressive braking switch often for proper position, since road conditions can change quickly. Never skip a step when operating the progressive braking system. Always go from OFF to LOW and then to a higher position.
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For stimuli modeling stop consonants varying in the acoustic correlates of voice onset time (VOT), human listeners are more likely to perceive stimuli with lower f0's as voiced consonants - a pattern of perception that follows regularities in English speech production. The present study examines the basis of this observation. One hypothesis is that lower f0's enhance perception of voiced stops by virtue of perceptual interactions that arise from the operating characteristics of the auditory system. A second hypothesis is that this perceptual pattern develops as a result of experience with f0-voicing covariation. In a test of these hypotheses, Japanese quail learned to respond to stimuli drawn from a series varying in VOT through training with one of three patterns of f0-voicing covariation. Voicing and f0 varied in the natural pattern (shorter VOT, lower f0), in an inverse pattern (shorter VOT, higher f0), or in a random pattern (no f0-voicing covariation). Birds trained with stimuli that had no f0-voicing covariation exhibited no effect of f0 on response to novel stimuli varying in VOT, For the other groups, birds' responses followed the experienced pattern of covariation. These results suggest f0 does not exert an obligatory influence on categorization of consonants as [VOICE] and emphasize the learnability of covariation among acoustic characteristics of speech.
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Imagine making your living by hunting, fishing, and collecting wild plants and insects. Imagine having to worry about being attacked by a jaguar or some other wild animal. This is how our ancestors lived for hundreds of thousands of years, but only a few peoples carry on this ancient lifestyle today. One of the few are the Ache, hunter-gatherers living in Paraguay, a country in South America. Magdalena Hurtado is an anthropologist who has been studying the Ache for fifteen years. She has spent years living with the Ache people: learning their language, observing their history. The photographs and text offer invaluable insight into the work of an anthropologist. | <urn:uuid:a405fe6b-442e-42d9-8e9b-3aec245f384d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://myhero.com/anthropologist-scientist-of | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969532 | 142 | 2.875 | 3 |
30 October 1942
Atlantic Ocean : Convoy SL 125 heads home from Freetown with 37 cargo ships, and runs into a U-boat wolfpack northeast of Madeira, opening a seven day battle with 10 U-boats. The Germans eagerly tear into the convoy, sinking the President Doumer with 174 seamen drowned. As the Germans pour their undersea resources into the SL 125 battle, they ignore the massive Allied convoys bearing down on French North Africa.
Those convoys, in fact, are now at sea. 600 vessels carrying an assault force of 90,000 men (with 200,000 follow-up) are bearing down on French North Africa. The convoys have sailed 1,500 miles from Britain and 3,000 from the United States. The only Allied airbase in the area is Gibraltar, which is still 500 miles from Algiers. The small strip there is overcrowded with P-38s and Spitfires (in American and British service) - 350 aircraft all told. All these aircraft and ships in Gibraltar’s harbor are visible and continuously studied by German Navy Lt. Hans Redl in Algeciras.
This first Anglo-American invasion of World War II is very much a patchwork affair. There are 370 merchant ships and about 300 warships. Many of the latter have been yanked from the Royal Navy’s Home Fleet, which has reduced convoy escorts in the Atlantic and suspended convoys to Russia. Allied shipping programs around the world have been disrupted by the call-up of tugs, trawlers, tankers, transports, and store ships.
American troops headed for North Africa have rehearsed in Chesapeake Bay or Scotland. The Army Air Force has not been able to spare aircraft or men to train with the ground troops in ground-air cooperation. The training has been rushed. The 39th US Infantry Regiment, for example, has sailed from America with 60 days supplies and 10 units of fire for all weapons. Its vehicles have to be landed for waterproofing and re-stowing in tactical order on arrival in Scotland - with only two weeks before leaving for war.
The British forces earmarked for Torch are equally green, having spent most of the war in home defense. Their exercises in August have shown that more training - for which there is no time - is needed.
So far, Britain’s two invasions of the war are Madagascar and Dieppe. The first was sucessful for British but it was against an isolated Vichy French force, distant from its homeland, under complete air and sea superiority. The French are still holding out. Dieppe has been a ghastly failure.
The British techniques and equipment are a fairly proven force, hardened by repeated defeats. Nonetheless, their tactics and weaponry - the Lee-Enfield rifle and Bren gun - are capable and tried. The American tactics are poor - textbooks say that troops are to move through valleys and make hilltops the flanks - and their weaponry - M-1 rifles and M-3 Stuart tanks - untried.
The French defenders, however, are a known factor. There are 55,000 of them in Morocco, 50,000 in Algeria, 15,000 in Tunisia. Most are native infantry units with French officers, leavened with Foreign Legion regiments, Chasseurs d’Afrique, and colorful Zouaves. These forces, left out of the 1940 defeat, are veteran troops, at home in North Africa, experienced at desert war. Veteran outfits like the Foreign Legion are the stuff of legends. Even so, their rifles and equipment are obsolescent. They will have to rely on discipline to make up for technical deficiencies.
They are backed up by 12 units of motorized field artillery, and about 270 tanks in Morocco and Algeria, mostly Hotchkiss H35s and Somua S35s, armed with 37 mm guns. In 1940, these were among the best tanks in Europe. But they are outclassed by the British and American Sherman.
The French deploy about 500 planes, including a few Dewoitine 520s, which are outstanding fighters, able to take on the German Me 109. The rest are a mix of elderly MS 406s and Curtiss Hawks. Even so, they are equal to or superior to the British Sea-Hurricane and the American F4F. Until the Americans and British can seize airfields for their Spitfires and P-38s, the French will be able to seriously interfere with the Allied invasion.
The French Navy is another intangible. France’s most powerful battleship, Richelieu, is at Dakar, too far away to intervene. But her sister, Jean Bart, uncompleted, has been towed to Casablanca to avoid German or British seizure. She cannot move, but her 15-inch guns are operating. The other French ships in North Africa are light cruisers and destroyers. The main fleet, led by the modern battlecruisers Strasbourg and Dunkerque, are poised to intervene, and could do so with deadly effect.
Behind the French defenses lurk the 100-lb. gorilla - German and Italian forces in Sicily and Italy. The Nazis have 298 planes in Sardinia and Sicily, and the Italians deploy 574, all 200 miles from Tunis or Bizerte. If Hitler chooses to intervene in French North Africa, he can do so quickly.
Seventy miles north of the Nile Delta, four British destroyers wage a 16-hour chase of the German U-559, finally catching her. U-559’s skipper scuttles his damaged sub, but before it goes to the bottom, Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier, and Canteen Assistant Tommy Brown enter the submarine and unscrew its Enigma machine from its mount.
With water streaming in, Fasson and Grazier hand up the machine to Brown, along with its documents, keypads, and ciphers. Brown grabs the Enigma and hurls it into his whaleboat. Seconds later, the U-boat, with Fasson and Grazier aboard, goes to the bottom. Both receive posthumous George Crosses. Brown receives the George Medal.
In a bizarre follow-up, British authorities learn that Brown is only 16 years old, having lied about his age to join the Royal Navy. He is immediately discharged and sent home. Two years later, he is killed while trying to rescue his two sisters, who had been trapped in their slum tenement during a fire.
The U-559 seizure is critical to the Royal Navy. The soaked and priceless Enigma machine contains the keys to the major German U-boat codes Shark and Triton.
Stalingrad , Russia : At Stalingrad, fighting dies down as both sides are exhausted. Chuikov’s men still hold the Mamayev Kurgan, a few factory buildings, and a narrow strip of the Volga Bank. The Swastika flies over the rest of Stalingrad.
German quartermasters start issuing winter kit to their troops, fearing a repeat of the previous winter’s horrors, which caught the Germans to thinly clad. The 1942 German winter kit includes reversible trousers and jacket, field gray, and white.
German troops also fight another fierce battle against a determined enemy - lice. “For a time being there was no point in even thinking of washing,” writes a German soldier. “Today I killed my first batch of eight lice.”
Russian Hiwis tell the Germans what to do - bury each article of clothing under the ground with just one corner left above the ground. The lice will move there and can be burned off.
German troops are suffering from lice and many other ailments - jaundice, dysentery, typhus, and paratyphus. 55 percent of 6th Army’s deaths in the age groups 17 to 22 are caused by disease. Doctors in Berlin are puzzled that well-trained soldiers eating balanced rations, and engaged in physical activity, could be dropping so quickly.
The doctors attribute the high sickness and death rate to cumulative stress and short rations.
El Alamein , Egypt : At El Alamein, RAF Desert Air Force P-40s and Hurricanes continue to dominate the skies. Both aircraft are inferior technically to the German Me-109, but the Germans are outnumbered, outgunned, and short on fuel and pilots. Desert ir Force has total air dominance over Alamein battlefield thanks to great organisation of RAF Vice Marshal Mary Conningham and Tommy Erhearst and excellently equipped Egyptian airbases. At the other side of hill though Rommel and Panzer Army Afrika feel like they have been complately abandoned by Kesselring and Luftwaffe.
Montgomery spends most of the morning writing out his directive for Operation Supercharge. Its object is to “destroy the enemy armored forces” and “bring about the disintegration of the whole enemy army.”
All day long, British troops maneuver in their rear areas, while commanding officers and adjutants visit the front, planning the next moves.
On the German side, 600 tons of fuel arrives in Tobruk with last Italian tanker, enough for 24 hours of operations. Axis truck convoys head east along the Via Balbia - the Coast Road - and immediately come under heavy bombing from RAF air raids , slowing their advance. Rommel orders his staff to prepare a withdrawal plan.
That evening, the battle resumes. The Australian 20th Brigade is assigned with driving north to the sea to finally eliminate the Axis salient, held by the 1st Battalion, 361st German Infantry Regiment and the 125th Regiment.
The Australians plan to send three battalions north to grab a point called Barrel Hill. From there, two battalions will turn right and cut of the German strongpoint, called Thompson’s Post, while everyone else heads for the sea.
Behind them, the 24th Australian Brigade will advance, backed by the 2nd/3rd Pioneer Battalion, to cut off the pocket, hopefully sealing off the enemy. The Australians receive support from British 23rd Armoured Brigade’s Valentine tanks and Australian, New Zealand, and Highland Division artillery - a grand total of 312 field guns and 48 medium guns, hurling 64,000 rounds. Overhead, three squadrons of A-20s Boston bombers from Desert Air Force drop 85 tons of bombs into the area.
The bombardment has the desired effect. 2nd/32nd Australians covers the 2,000 yards to the railway line with little resistance. They take 175 prisoners from the 1st Battalion of the 361st German Regiment. 400 yards further, the Australians reach just south of Coast Road, and set up their 500-yard diameter position called Saucer, encountering three German doctors and their orderlies, with their wounded. The doctors stay in the Australian area, and tend both sides’ wounded.
As 2nd/32nd digs in, 2nd/48th and 2nd/24th Australian Battalions move up, followed by the Pioneers. In the dark, the Australians lose track of each other, and identify themselves with profanity.
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When the Day of Silence takes place one week from tomorrow, Religious Right groups are urging parents to keep their children home from school if students decide to participate. During the Day of Silence, sponsored by the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN), students take a vow of silence in solidarity with closeted and bullied LGBT youth.
The groups organizing the “DOS Walkout” include the American Family Association, Liberty Counsel, state chapters of Concerned Women for America and the Coalition of African-American Pastors, a front group for the National Organization for Marriage.
They have joined forces with smaller groups such as Scott Lively’s Abiding Truth Ministries, Brian Camenker’s MassResistance, Peter LaBarbera’s Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, Janet Porter’s Faith 2 Action and Linda Harvey’s Mission America in urging parents to “actively oppose this hijacking of the classroom for political purposes” by “calling your child out of school if your child’s school allows students and/or teachers to refuse to speak during instructional time on the Day of Silence.”
Harvey penned a WorldNetDaily column warning that the Day of Silence is a Satanic (and Marxist!) plot to destroy America:
The “Day of Silence” is a stunning example of the widespread indoctrination of youth culture with trashy, deviant behavior masquerading as acceptable conduct. The GLSEN-sponsored pro-homosexual event is a well-developed exercise in cultural Marxism and, I have come to believe, a tragic symbol of the rapid demise of America.
And ironically, it poses as a protest of “bullying.” Satan is laughing as he messes with the minds and bodies of our dear children. This event is a blatant exercise in mental, emotional, physical and spiritual molestation as our children become apologists for sodomy and gender confusion.
Instead of discussing LGBT themes with students, Harvey recommends that school officials simply declare that gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people don’t exist:
What if we declared that there are, or shouldn’t be, any such students? That no one is born this way? That these are destructive behaviors that no conference should ever, ever be detailing to our precious kids? And these are identities that no day of silence should ever honor?
She said on her daily radio broadcast yesterday that “it’s a really sad situation when impressionable kids are manipulated” by those who “promote homosexuality and gender confusion.”
“No one, especially young people, should take on this identity and behavior,” she said of homosexuality, while claiming that the event persecutes opponents of gay rights.
Laurie Higgins of the Illinois Family Institute accused GLSEN of “silencing” conservatives:
“They’re exploiting legitimate, anti-bullying sentiment to achieve their ultimate goal of eradicating conservative, moral, social, and political beliefs about homosexuality, or at least silencing them,” she adds.
She says parents who keep their children home on that day should tell school administrators they’re doing so because schools participating in Day of Silence are allowing classrooms with captive audiences to be politicized.
In it, she lamented that there are children who are “mentally being raped by this effort” and claimed that it “should be criminal for schools to promote such a behavior that is life threatening.”
As someone who had been in homosexual behavior for almost ten years and was no longer a part of that sinful behavior, my heart went out to the unsuspecting children who were mentally being raped by this effort to normalize a behavior that the three major religions of the world call abominable.
Let’s look at this through Heaven’s eyes. Jesus made it very clear how He felt about harming the children when He said if one harmed one of the little ones who believed in Him, it would be better for them for a millstone to be tied around their neck and thrown in the river.
What must Jesus think about this Day of Silence occurring in the schools? What must He think about Christian parents who send their children to school on that day? What must He think about Christian school teachers who attend school on that day? Each year there is a counter event occurring on The Day of Silence called Day of Silence Walkout.
Homosexuality is one of the numerous sexual perversions spreading through society like an out of control California brush fire. It destroys everything in its path. I know this because I was a part of it until I reached the end of my “rope of homosexuality”. A day did come that I realized I was wrong, I needed forgiveness and I needed the Lord Jesus Christ.
Just a few days ago I received a call from a Massachusetts mother, weeping over her son. She explained that her son became involved in homosexuality in high school after joining the school [endorsed?] gay club (Gay Straight Alliance). When he went to college he took every ‘gender’ course they offered. He is twenty two now and his mom said, “the schools destroyed him”. She is so fearful that his life will be ended early by one of the many diseases associated with his homosexual behavior that her heart is broken.
On April 15th the schools in this country will once again be celebrating the Day of Silence. Why are schools allowing a behavior that shortens one’s life span by 20 years and opens the door to 30 health risks (CDC) to be celebrated in their schools? It is reckless and should be criminal for schools to promote such a behavior that is life threatening. | <urn:uuid:d065ff4d-6ea7-4d3b-8f5e-bb6cf1f4b400> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/anti-lgbt-activists-mobilize-to-protest-satanic-day-of-silence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96506 | 1,188 | 1.828125 | 2 |
iwspy is a linux utility to check the link quality by checking against an IP Address or a Hardware address (MAC-Address) or DNS hostname (resolved through DNS) that is attached to the same Wireless network as the host itself. The reason being it depends on the ARP cache on the system. So, if there is an addresses not in the ARP cache you can then ping once before trying. iwlist can help you to set upto 8 addresses which can be monitored and read back the quality of the link.
This utility is again based on the driver support and the /proc/net/wireless where the quality of link, signal strength and noise levels are updated each timea packet is received. This means, more the number of addresses montiored the more is the overhead on the driver. I didn’t have much of a luck with my Intel 3945 wireless card with Compat drivers.
The syntax is
iwspy interface [+] DNSNAME | IPADDR | HWADDR […]
iwspy interface off
iwspy interface setthr low high
iwspy interface getthr
opensuse11:~ # iwspy wlan0 192.168.0.1
opensuse11:~ # iwspy wlan0 00:11:22:33:44:55
To turn off monitoring
opensuse11:~ # iwspy wlan0 off
Set/Get Signal threshold values
To display the current threshold values
opensuse11:~ # iwspy wlan0 getthr
To set the value
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Huge forest fire in Aegean paradise brought under control
The cooling works are currently ongoing in the area on land and from the sky, according to Demirören News Agency.
The residents of Ayvalık residents were the first batch to intervene, as the fire, which started on Sept. 19, in a nature park was the result of an electric cable breaking.
But the flames spread in a short time with the effect of the strong wind and moved from the lower part of the Devil’s Table and reached Badavut Beach.
Firefighter crews, 60 waterjet engines, 63 fire trucks, 12 construction vehicles and a total of 500 personnel throughout Balıkesir participated in efforts to extinguish this year’s largest fire in the northern Aegean region.
In the fire, which was brought under control on late Sept. 19, nearly 40 hectares of forestland burned.
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Machine (data-driven learning-based) decision making is increasingly being used to assist or replace human decision making in a variety of domains ranging from banking (rating user credit) and recruiting (ranking applicants) to judiciary (profiling criminals) and journalism (recommending news-stories). Recently concerns have been raised about the potential for discrimination and unfairness in such machine decisions. Against this background, in this talk, I will pose and attempt to answer the following high-level questions: (a) How do machines learn to make discriminatory or unfair decisions? (b) How can we quantify unfairness in machine decision making? (c) How can we control machine unfairness? i.e., can we design learning mechanisms that avoid unfair decision making? (d) Is there a cost to fair decision making? | <urn:uuid:4cc2bd91-6468-4d08-82be-08ec35bf9cfb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coll.mpg.de/events/13692?location=MPI&speaker=Krishna+Gummadi | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937984 | 167 | 2.234375 | 2 |
If we encounter an equality in mathematics, we consider each variable of the equality
to have equal weight. That is, each variable can be expressed in terms of other variables.
However, an equality becomes significant in mechanics only if we express a
physical quantity that is difficult to measure in terms of physical quantities
that are easy to measure. For example, [Zem, p.227, (9-20)] is a mathematical
equality. In contrast, [Zem, p.228, (9-21)] is a mechanical equality [Zem, p.228, l.1-l.12].
How we extract useful information from the sublimation equation given in [Zem, p.264, l.4].
Vapor pressures of solids are usually measured over only a small range of temperature
[Zem, p.260, l.1]. Using these measurements and the sublimation equation, we can
obtain the vapor-pressure constant i' [Zem p.264, l.20]. Then we are able to calculate the vapor
pressure of a substance at temperatures at which P is too small to measure [Zem,
To sharpen an equality requires a more refined theory. The equation given in [Zem, p.289, l.-13]
contains an unknown constant s0. This constant
cannot be specified within the theory of thermodynamics. It requires a more
refined theory, statistical mechanics, to find its value [Zem, p.289, (11-29)].
(The law of corresponding states)
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People who live in hot climates prefer a cool interior atmosphere, whereas those who live in cold climates prefer a warmer interior atmosphere. However, we know that heat is transferred from hotter to colder places. As a result, there is a loss of heat. Thermal insulation is supplied to overcome this loss in buildings and to maintain the proper temperature inside the building. The goal of thermal insulation is to reduce heat transfer from the outside to the inside of the building.Building Thermal Insulation Building Thermal Insulation Materials and Methods The following are some of the different types of thermal insulation materials available on the market: insulation slabs or blocks Insulation blankets Insulation with loose fillings ting materials for bats Boards for insulating Sheet materials that reflect light Materials that are light in weight.
What is Thermal Insulation of Buildings
Blanket insulation materials come in blanket form or in the form of paper rolls that are directly applied to the walls or ceilings. They are flexible, with a thickness ranging from 12 to 80mm. Animal hair, cotton, wood fibres, and other materials are used to make these blankets. Insulation blankets Insulation with loose fill Where windows and doors are to be installed, stud space is provided in the wall. A loose fill of some insulating materials is put in that studding space of the wall. Rock wool, wood fibre wool, cellulose, and other materials are used. Insulation Materials for Bats These are also available as blanket rolls, however the thickness of bat insulating rolls is greater than that of blanket materials. These can also be used to cover walls or ceilings.Insulating Materials for Bats.
Wood pulp, cane, and other materials are used to make insulating boards. To manufacture solid boards, the pulp is pressed forcefully with some stress at a sufficient temperature. They come in a variety of sizes on the market. And these are commonly used for interior wall lining as well as partition walls. Boards for insulating Materials for Reflective Sheets Aluminum sheets, gypsum boards, and steel sheets are all reflective sheet materials. Materials with higher reflectivity and lower emissivity will be used. As a result, these materials are extremely heat resistant. When sun energy strikes and is reflected, the heat is diminished. These are installed on the outside of the structure to prevent heat from entering. Materials for Reflective Sheets. Materials that are light in weight By employing light-weight aggregates.
Slab or Block Insulation
In terms of preventing heat loss, the results are positive. Light weight aggregates such as blast furnace slag, vermiculite, burnt clay aggregates, and others will increase the heat resistance of concrete. Other Common Building Thermal Insulation Techniques The following methods can be used to achieve thermal insulation without the use of any thermal insulating materials, as stated above. By supplying roof shade By ensuring that the building’s ceiling height is appropriate and that the building’s orientation is correct, and by providing roof shading. We can lower the heat by sheltering the roof of the building at the point where the sun directly reaches the building during peak hours. To protect from the sun’s rays, a precise angle for shading should be supplied. By a Ceiling Height That Is Appropriate The heat is absorbed by the fabric.
ceiling and emitted downwards into the structure However, the vertical gradient of radiation intensity is not considerable beyond 1 to 1.3 m, which should be observed. It can descend between 1 and 1.3 metres from the ceiling. As a result, having a ceiling that is 1 to 1.3m higher than the occupant’s height will help to prevent heat loss. Building Orientation The building’s orientation in relation to the sun is critical. As a result, the structure should be constructed in such a way that it does not experience additional heat losses. When there is a temperature differential between the inside and outside of a building, or between various components of the building, the rules of heat transfer state that.
The capacity of a building material or building unit to transmit heat, such as a wall, floor, roof, doors, windows, and so on, determines the rate of heat flow from one part to another. Thermal transmittance, indicated by the letter ‘U,’ is used to measure this attribute. The basic goal of ‘thermal insulation’ is to maintain a consistent heat or temperature inside a building, regardless of outside temperature variations.Thermal Insulation’s Benefits The following are some of the benefits of thermal insulation: In the summer, thermal insulation keeps the room cool, and in the winter, it keeps the room warm. The demand for heating in the winter and refrigeration in the summer is significantly decreased as a result of thermal insulation. This saves a lot of money on gas and maintenance. When you use a thermal insulating material within a room, you get.
They’re called blocks or boards, and they’re 2.5 cm thick and 60 cm × 120 cm in size. Cork board, mineral wool, verimiculite, cellular glass, cellular rubber, saw dust, asbestos cement, and other materials may be used. There are several that are affixed to walls or roofs. Blanket insulation is a type of insulation that is used to keep things warm. They come in rolls and are made of a flexible fibrous fibre. Mineral wool, wood fibre, cotton, animal hair, and other fibrous materials are used to create these products. The blanket insulations come in rolls with thicknesses ranging from 1 to 8 cm and are applied directly to the surface of walls and ceilings. Loose Fill Insulation is a type of insulation that is made up of small particles. Fibrous materials such as rock wool, slag wool, cellulose, or lumber fibre wool, among others, may be used to fill these.
Loose Fill Insulation
They’re soft fabrics that seem like blanket insulation but are smaller and thicker, usually 5 to 9 cm thick. They’re also strewn across the walls and ceilings. Insulating Boards: an insulation board is a type of material that is used to insulate These are used for both the inner and exterior lining of walls, as well as partition walls. Structural insulating boards are made by first producing a pulp of wood, cane, or other materials, then pressing it into boards with the addition of appropriate adhesives. They come in a variety of sizes and thicknesses. Reflective sheet materials have a high reflectivity and low emission rate, making them heat resistant. Solar radiation impacting reflecting surfaces is reflected, reducing the amount of heat that can be conveyed. Insulation that reflects light could be useful.
The insulating value of cement and concrete products is lower. However, heat resistance can be enhanced by using light weight elements such as blast furnace slag, burnt clay aggregate, porous aggregates, or concrete. Different Thermal Insulation Techniques Apart from putting thermal insulating material on walls, roofs, doors, and windows, there are other things you may do. The following approaches can also be used to achieve thermal insulation: Roof Heat Insulation Methods: Heat insulating materials can be applied to the roofs from the outside or from the inside. Internally, heat insulating materials can be applied to the underside of roofs using glue or other methods from within the rooms. Heat insulating materials may be put above the roof but below a waterproof membrane in the case of an external application.
Insulation products are designed to frustrate the transfer of heat across the material itself.
Insulation refers to an energy savings measure, which provides resistance to heat flow.
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- Hello Researchers!
Sharing Substrates and Genomes:
- Generally we use Dropbox for substrate and genome hosting, but Google Drive can be used if absolutely necessary; this is because Dropbox it doesn't delete the ".substrate" at the end of the file when uploaded.
- * Dropbox has a paid as well as a free account system, but since the substrate files are really light a free account is more than enough space to save tons of substrates and genomes.
To use Dropbox you'll need to create an account if you don't already have one and upload the files in your dropbox space (depending if you're using the Desktop version or mobile this might be slightly different but the essentials are the same).
Then to share the subtrate you need to find the file uploaded to Dropbox (the file has to have the extention .substrate or .genome to be open by the CL app.) and press Share.
This will open a window to detail the way to share the file. You need to press Create Link.
Then Copy Link.
Now the link is on the clipboard ready to be pasted in your posts
* Google Drive works with a Google Account and its very much the same system (selecting the file in the drive you press the option to create a sharing link), but with the issue that Google doesn't support .substrate and .genome files; so there's a couple extra steps and frankly is quite annoying.
- More often than not, organisms only behave the way you want in certain substrates, or only one, and not others. Uploading a .genome file forces the user that wants to look at it to guess and open a random substrate and make all sorts of tests to your organism to finally find the substrate you wanted it to live in, and then observing your showcase. This is a cumbersome task that will make users evaluate if your organism is worth it. To make it faster for the user that wants to check out your creation, share the substrate that you're using with the genome in it. It works the same way (while also making sure they are watching the same behavior as you) but avoiding the guessing of the substrate part.
Image Hosting and Sharing
- Sadly, neither Dropbox nor Google Drive works as an image host, so uploading images there and sharing links won't work the same way as posting an image directly. The Image Hosting site most used around here is Imgur; although if that one doesn't work for you I recommend Postimage.
- The formating to upload images in the forum is pretty straightforward. You need to get a direct link to the image (usually a long link that ends up with a .jpg or .png) and selecting that link and pressing the "Img" button. It should look like this: [img ]imagelonglink.jpg[/ img] without that last spaces between the [img with ] and the [/ with img]
- To pique the interest of the reader, start with a short sentence that explains the very general concept or central feature of you're about to show, then below you can add a longer explanation which states what let you to the organisms, how it works in more detail, etc.
- Go crazy with how you present ideas and creations, but avoid writing in colors such as White, Light Yellow, Cyan or Light Orange since they are difficult to read.
- If you want to refer to a Youtube video, the normal url doesn't work with the "[youtube][youtube]" format, but instead you need to use the "Share" link which looks like https://youtu.be/blockofletters, like this for example
Notice that if I use the direct url it doesn't work:
To get that usable link, you need to press Share on the video and copy that link.
Have in mind that Mods aren't very fond of Spam or going very off topic so use those video links related to your topic
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Worldwide Fund for Nature India (WWF India) has partnered with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in an effort to build a circular system for plastics.
The two organisations have launched the India Plastics Pact, which aims to equip businesses, governments and the plastics value chain to move towards a circular plastic economy by 2030.
The pact is the first of its kind to be launched by an Asian country and is supported by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Waste and Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and the British High Commission in India.
WWF India president Arvind Wable said: “The India Plastics Pact provides a strong platform for Indian businesses to drive actionable, sustainable solutions and accelerate the transition toward a circular economy.”
CII director-general Chandrajit Banerjee said: “I am certain that the founding members and supporter businesses and organisations present here will lead the way towards better use of plastics and create [a] large impact that will benefit all sections of society and industry in our country.”
Following the launch, 17 businesses, including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) brands, manufacturers, retailers and recyclers, pledged to join as founding members of the pact.
Members will focus on both long and short-term projects, including detecting barriers to integrate recycled content in packaging, designing reusable packaging and eliminating unnecessary plastic packaging.
UKRI India director Rebecca Fairbairn said: “Plastics pollution is a global issue and the opportunity to reorient plastics as a resource in the value chain is a global opportunity.
“What is most exciting about the Plastics Pact is that it brings together governments, businesses, researchers and non-government organisations (NGOs) to create sustainable, unified, national frameworks for circular economies that work specifically for each country.”
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As it is with other systems, the controller is the primary user interface for the Dreamcast. The standard Dreamcast controller has 11 buttons plus an analog joystick. The buttons include:
- four buttons arranged as a directional pad on the top left
- Start button in the top middle
- four action buttons on the top right
- one analog trigger on the front left
- one analog trigger on the front right
- analog joystick on the top left
Although each button can be configured to perform a specific and distinctive action, all of the buttons, except for the two analog triggers and joystick, work on the same principle. In essence, each button is a switch that completes a circuit whenever it is pressed. A small metal disk beneath the button is pushed into contact with two strips of conductive material on the circuit board inside the controller. While the metal disk is in contact, it conducts electricity between the two strips. The controller senses that the circuit is closed and sends that data to the Dreamcast. The CPU compares that data with the instructions in the game software for that button, and triggers the appropriate response. There is also a metal disk under each arm of the directional pad. If you're playing a game in which pushing down on the directional pad causes the character to crouch, a similar string of connections is made from the time you push down on the pad to when the character crouches.
The analog joystick and triggers work in a completely different way from the buttons described above. The triggers each have a tiny magnet attached to the end of the trigger arm. When the trigger is depressed, the magnet is pushed toward a sensor mounted on the controller's circuit board. Through the process of induction, the magnet creates resistance to the current passing through the sensor. On the bottom of the magnet is a layer of foam padding. Pushing harder on the trigger compresses the padding, which brings the magnet closer to the sensor. The closer the magnet is to the sensor, the more resistance is induced. This variable resistance makes the triggers pressure-sensitive!
The joystick also uses a magnet, along with four small sensors. The sensors are arranged like a compass, with one at each of the cardinal points (north, south, east, west). The base of the joystick is shaped like a ball, with tiny spokes radiating out. The ball sits in a socket above the sensors. Spikes on the socket fit between the spokes on the ball. This allows for an extraordinary amount of movement without letting the joystick twist out of alignment with the sensors. As the joystick is moved, the magnet in the base moves closer to one or two of the sensors, and farther from the others. The system monitors the changes in induction caused by the magnet's movement to calculate the position of the joystick.
The controller has two expansion ports where memory cards, tremor packs, Visual Memory System (VMS) devices and other system additions can be inserted.
A popular option is the tremor pack, which provides force feedback. This feature provides a tactile stimulation to certain actions in a game. For example, in a racing game, you might feel a jarring vibration as your car slams into the wall. Force feedback is actually accomplished through the use of a very common device, a simple electric motor. The shaft of the motor holds an unbalanced weight. When power is supplied to the motor, it spins the weight. Because the weight is unbalanced, the motor tries to wobble. But since the motor is securely mounted inside the tremor pack, the wobble translates into a shuddering vibration of the controller itself.
While standard memory cards can be used with the Dreamcast, the VMS units are unique to this console. The VMS is actually a tiny Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) that fits into the upper expansion port of the controller.
About the size of a business card, each VMS unit contains:
- 8-bit Hitachi CPU
- 128 K memory (Flash RAM)
- Monochrome LCD panel, 48 pixels wide by 32 pixels high
- Two button (watch) batteries, with auto-off function, to provide power
- One-channel sound
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Researchers are believing that Kanna is affecting amygdala suggesting that it might help with stress. It is influencing the emotions processing center through the following mechanisms of actions.
Blocking reuptake of Serotonin
Serotonin is the major mood-enhancing neurotransmitters. Kanna is inhibiting the serotonin transporters and working in the same way as SSRI antidepressants. This will result in decreasing in the reuptake of serotonin and will increase its bioavailability.
Blocking the phosphodiesterase 4
Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) is an enzyme responsible for the breakdown of
Phosphodiesterase 4 i.e. PDE 4 is an enzyme, which is responsible for the breakdown of the cyclic adenosine monophosphate i.e. cAMP. The cAMP is the molecule, which is playing the key role in various vital processes which include the functioning of the brain. Kanna inhibits the PDE4 and reduces the activity of this enzyme and thus producing the effect that is beneficial for anxiety, depression and various other mental issues.
The researchers believing that Kanna is offering a wide range of health benefits related to relief in stress and has the potential to be used as the medicine consider these modes of action. Today various people are using Kanna benefits for the reduction in stress and anxiety, general relaxation and mood enhancement. Kanna is particular very beneficial in the cases of depression.
Kanna, when taken in the form of hot drink, will help in easing the stress and tension, relieving the pain and relaxing the body. When it is taken as the natural chew then it is suppressing the hunger and improving the digestion.
Not only this, but it is also decreasing the threat circuitry response in the brain by reducing the subcortical threat reactions. The researchers are believing that this herb does not only act as the 5-HT reuptake inhibitor and PDE4 inhibitor but it is also promoting the release of monoamines and then improving the behavior and mood.
Kanna herb side effects are very less. Kanna Plants are helping in minimizing the inferiority complex, minimizing the insecurities and inhibitions. IT will thus provide consumers with considerable relief from anxiety and stress. Some users are better able to focus on the inner thoughts and experiencing the meditative tranquility. Others are finding themselves appreciating the beauty of nature after making use of Kanna. Kanna is also very special for people who are doing Yoga.
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Geogebra is a great tool for exploring geometric concepts. While I have used it for years, I really became a fan during distance learning. In the classroom, it is easy to help correct misconceptions about graphing or using the geometry tools (compass, protractor). But online it becomes next to impossible. And students did not have access to those tools at home. So Geogebra to the rescue.
My district is using Illustrative Mathematics curriculum which has numerous activities for Geogebra to accompany their curriculum. All of these activities are freely available on the internet. IM Geometry Activities by Unit Here are some of my favorite.
Note: Some of the online activities use a “classic” version of Geogebra. The tools are in a different format. It still works the same, all the tools are still there, the settings are the same but because it looks differently students need some modeling to show that it is the same program and how to use the tools in a drop down box opposed to being in a left hand side bar.
Construct a Square
One of the best uses in Geometry is to perform Geometric constructions with Geogebra. The first few of copying a segment, constructing a perpendicular line, parallel line need to be practiced enough to be able to perform easily. Once that is done, I like to have students to construct a square, which requires all of those basic skills.
Building a House
Building on the skills we learned about constructing a square, students were asked to complete a house. This requires students to build a house of a specific dimension in a specific place. We need to have our roof on top of the house and it needs to cover the house–otherwise we get wet when it rains.
Despite having a discussion about houses and roofs before the activity began, I still got a few houses with the roof on the side of the house, or the house was way too small or too big. But the practice was invaluable and told me where to address misconceptions.
I remember doing transformations in the coordinate plane and even the simple activities would take the entire period. Plotting points on graph paper takes forever and students tend to slow down and take their time instead of focusing on the activity. Using Geogebra means that students will get to the activity right away instead of slowly plotting points, finding an error and then starting over.
In this activity, Students need to use their transformation skills to find a sequence. These types of activities allow creativity and options because there are several possible solutions. Once the activity is completed, students should discuss their approach and compare with other students.
As mentioned before, graphing takes time. And the time saved by using Geogebra is time in a more rigorous portion of the lesson. In this case, graphing a circle given in a standard form requires students to understand where the center of the circle is placed as well as the radius. And then students are expected to know whether additional points are located on the circle, outside the circle or inside the circle.
Yes, they can just plot points to determine the location of additional points, but they will need to prove their answer and that will require the distance formula.
This is an activity I used at the beginning of the year. It is a discovery activity about the sum of the angles in a triangle. It is also a review of construction techniques because it requires students to use the midpoints and extend the sides, and create a parallel line. Activities that are rich in content that use the prior skills to build new content are the goal.
I hope you will try some of these activities. In the early years of teaching, those of us in the math department would beg, borrow, and steal to get enough graph paper to last the entire school year. Quite often, we would start to run out and then have to make trades to get more.
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Science and know-how present many societal benefits, such as the enhancement of financial progress or quality of life. 1Each of the Analysis Councils shall furnish the F20 Secretary of Statewith such returns, accounts and different information with respect to its property and actions as he may infrequently require, and shall put together programmes and estimates of expenditure in such kind and at such instances as he may require.E+W+S+N.I.
JDST covers scientific and clinical aspects of diabetes technology, the event and use of cell purposes and wi-fi communication, in addition to bioengineered tools. We specialise in Biosciences , Chemistry , Computing and Expertise , Engineering , Forensic Science , Arithmetic , Physics and Sport Science This mixture of conventional and modern science topics encourages and evokes our future innovators.
Going by that, STEM activities carried out in a science camp would be simply remembered and the precept behind those actions would be understood without difficulty. Graduation with a level in Science and Expertise Studies requires completion of introductory courses within the social sciences and humanities, in the pure sciences, and introductory, laboratory and seminar courses in STS.
The advancements of each science and know-how have resulted to incremental improvement and disruptive expertise. Since the numbers of women in STEM are still small, girls have only a few opportunities to see female position models solving science, expertise, engineering or math issues.
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According to sources close to Pakistan Christian Post PCP, The Christian leaders in Europe staged protest in front of EU Parliament Building in Strasbourg France on June 6, 2016, for rights of Pakistani Christians.
More than one dozen Christian leaders and activists gathered in front of EU Parliament from UK, Italy, Denmark, Germany and other EU countries waving one Pakistani National Flag with Banners of their respective Christian’s organizations and submitted signed memorandum to EU office.
Pakistan Christian Post contacted organizers of protest of June 6, 2016, for press release but none was issued except posting of some pictures of social media which was picked by only one Christian media out let in Pakistan which left impression that organizers of protest were only interested in coverage of their own choice of media.
Whenever, there is any protest of Pakistani Christian Diaspora in EU and North America it provides it provides great support to Christian activists in Pakistan who are facing hardship in struggle to achieve equal basic democratic rights in Islamic Republic of Pakistan as well as creates ray of hope among oppressed and persecuted Christians.
Whatever situation may be, protests of Christians in EU and NA never became as disputed as it was of June 6, 2016, protest in front of EU Parliament Building in France.
Mostly Christian political activists complained that Church leadership highjacks their protests while majority of protestors were congregates not political activists in New York, Toronto, London, Brussels, Washington or any other EU or NA city but any of protest remained “Protest of Christians by Pakistani Christian Diaspora”
When Christian leaders started their journeys to France to participate in June 6, 2016, protest, their ultimate goal was to raise voice for rights of Pakistani Christians not to support any Muslim political party in Pakistan.
It must be considered that host or organizer of June 6, 2016, protest in France have invested some funds to entertain participants in his home but to put struggle of community in bag of his favorite Muslim political party PPP cannot be justified.
It is noted that host of this EU protest have joined Pakistan Peoples Party PPP few months back unless he always kept his NMA flag high for demands of Pakistani Christians.
As some section of Pakistani electronic media have portrayed June 6, 2016, protest of Christians is not fair and disinformation by tools of PPP.
Such tactics will damage Christian cause and spirit of Christian leaders in EU and NA who spare time in busy life style of these developed countries to rally for rights of their brothers and sisters in Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
Pakistani Christian nation pays homage to Sarwar Bhatti, JJ George Advocate, Shamas Advocate, Nawaz Salamat and other leaders who travelled to participate in June 6, 2016, protest in front of EU parliament Building for their rights.
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Donald Trump has successfully bolstered the U.S. economy, fought for American workers through trade deals, projected strength on the international stage, protected the nation’s borders, and safeguarded religious freedom. Attacks against his character and capabilities have been hysterical and unfounded. Joseph Biden would be an ineffectual leader who would leave the country vulnerable to rising crime and disastrous socialist policies engineered by the extreme left.
Joseph Biden is a capable, experienced political leader with a long record of public service and pragmatic bipartisanship. His presidency would restore democratic norms, expunge the incompetence and corruption of the Trump administration, unite the country, fight climate change, and enact economic policies that truly help American workers instead of merely benefiting the wealthy. The United States cannot take four more years of the disastrous Trump presidency.
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Although an individual may have a genetic weakness for high cholesterol and it runs in their family, a plant-based diet is capable of lowering cholesterol to an acceptable level. Dr. Joel Fuhrman uses a nutrient-dense, vegetable based plan to reverse heart disease and lower cholesterol in his patients. Dr. Fuhrman emphasizes that, "Nutrition is such a powerful regulator of disease incidence that when an optimal diet is consumed through much of life, genetics will have little effect on contributing to the appearance of the common causes of death we see in our society today. We all have different genetic weaknesses. We all have various susceptibilities to various diseases. Family history is almost meaningless when individuals utilize superior nutrition to avoid the nutritional causes of illness. What is not meaningless is risk factors and risk factor reduction. When we look at people living a lifetime on healthy, natural vegetable and fruit predominant diets, none of them get heart attacks, period. Family history only matters when you follow the same disease-causing diet-style that your family did."
What's the Most Effective Cholesterol Lowering Treatment?
Dr. Fuhrman goes on to say that, "A high nutrient diet is by far the most effective method of reducing cholesterol while avoiding side effects. Compare the effects of various 6-week dietary interventions on cholesterol levels published in medical journals: After just six weeks of following a high nutrient diet, subjects' LDL cholesterol decreased by 33%. No other dietary intervention was nearly as effective. What about cholesterol-lowering drugs? Drugs are not as effective for reducing cholesterol as a high nutrient diet. After six weeks of taking cholesterol-lowering statin medications, cholesterol levels decreased by 26% compared to a 33% with a high nutrient diet. Furthermore, not only will a high nutrient diet lower cholesterol, it will also decrease heart disease risk by improving other factors such glucose levels, blood pressure, and body weight."
During his 30+ years in treating patients with his starch-based lifestyle and diet program, Dr. John McDougall has also witnessed this fact. He concludes that, "Heredity may play a role in the development of atherosclerosis and associated complications (heart attacks and strokes), but little attention should be given to this factor when planning therapy. First of all, heredity is obviously not an overriding factor, since whole populations of people in the non-American world (as in most Asian and African countries) show no clinical evidence of atherosclerosis--and do not suffer heart attacks or strokes. Their genes are not protecting them--if they change to an American diet, they soon develop this disease in epidemic proportions, just as Americans do. (Another important reason why heredity should be given little or no attention is the obvious one: you can't do anything about it.)"
Dr. John McDougall explains in this short video clip how he observed this truth when he was a plantation doctor on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The starch-based nutritional approach that Dr. McDougall recommends also demonstrates similar results. He concludes, "You can expect a 30 mg (1.1 IU) reduction in your cholesterol level in 2 weeks, beginning with an average cholesterol of 220 mg/dl (5.79 IU). The higher the initial cholesterol level, the greater the reduction experienced on average." Therefore, a patient eating Dr. McDougall's starch-centered diet can "expect a reduction in cholesterol by 20% to 45% with strict adherence."
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A Novel Coronavirus from Patients with Pneumonia in China, 2019
Human airway epithelial cells were used to isolate a novel coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, which formed a clade within the subgenus sarbecovirus, Orthocoronavirinae subfamily, which is the seventh member of the family of coronaviruses that infect humans.
Genomic characterisation and epidemiology of 2019 novel coronavirus: implications for virus origins and receptor binding
Detection of SARS-CoV-2 in Different Types of Clinical Specimens.
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Genome Composition and Divergence of the Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Originating in China
In Vitro Antiviral Activity and Projection of Optimized Dosing Design of Hydroxychloroquine for the Treatment of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
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It is proposed that the immunomodulatory effect of hydroxychloroquine also may be useful in controlling the cytokine storm that occurs late-phase in critically ill SARS-CoV-2 infected patients.
Susceptibility of ferrets, cats, dogs, and other domesticated animals to SARS–coronavirus 2
It is found that SARS-CoV-2 replicates poorly in dogs, pigs, chickens, and ducks, but ferrets and cats are permissive to infection and Additionally, cats are susceptible to airborne transmission.
A noncompeting pair of human neutralizing antibodies block COVID-19 virus binding to its receptor ACE2
In isolation of four human-origin monoclonal antibodies from a convalescent patient, all of which display neutralization abilities, a therapeutic study in a mouse model validated that these antibodies can reduce virus titers in infected lungs.
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Seven compounds were identified as broad-spectrum inhibitors according to their strong inhibition of replication by four CoVs in vitro at low-micromolar concentrations and emetine blocked MERS-CoV entry according to pseudovirus entry assays and lycorine protected BALB/c mice against HCoV-OC43-induced lethality by decreasing viral load in the central nervous system.
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The structural and accessory proteins M, ORF 4a, ORF 4b, and ORF 5 of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are potent interferon antagonists
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George is from a wealthy family and is a possible suitor for Beneatha.
Joseph Asagai This character is referred to as Asagai and is a student from Nigeria. He is depicted as optimistic in his idealism and he hopes for independence from colonialist rule. He proposes that Beneatha comes to Africa with him to help in the fight for equality.
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Cotterell’s White Enamel
This old tin of white enamel has been on display at the museum for years. It is passed by visitors who barely notice it. But we do, at the museum, and we are keen to know more about it. All our records, at the museum say is,
‘can of Ideal White Enamel made by Cotterell Brothers Ltd, Bristol, Avon early 20 century’.
Who were Cotterell Brothers? The only information we find on the web suggests they were makers of wallpaper and the like. They may have had paper hangings at the 1851 Great Exhibition. They may have been involved with stately home restoration in the late nineteenth century.
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I wish to inspire readers, teachers, and book clubs to bake along with their reading and promote discussion about the books we've enjoyed.
Emma Woodhouse has just lost her former governess and favorite friend to marriage, and she is now a bored, lonely matchmaker looking for her next project. Harriet Smith is an agreeable, obedient acquaintance attending the local boarding school, with no known family or influences—the perfect pliable pupil. Emma tries to set her up for a man a bit out of reach, not realizing his own affections for her, despite the fact that she is determined not to be married. Then a handsome young man with a sharp tongue and wit comes to town and has Emma reconsidering her own resolve.
Emma is a funny, cute book about love, couples, matchmaking failures, and the interesting way life sometimes works out, with answers we seek being right next door. Perfect for fans of Jane Austen or other romantic books about couples.
Perfect for fans of
- Jane Austen
- Romantic dramas
- Romantic comedies
- English country life
- Mr. Woodhouse had a habit of “never being able to suppose anyone could feel differently from him.” How did this lead to complications sometimes for Emma, or anyone who wanted to do anything contrary to what he wished? Do you know anyone like this?
- Mr. Knightley “was one of the few people who could see faults in Emma Woodhouse, and the only one who ever told her of them.” Why do you think this was? What were they?
- Harriet was “only desiring to be guided by any one she looked up to.” Why was this a problem? Was Jane Fairfax the same when it came to Mrs. Elton?
- Emma thought that if a woman doubted whether or not she should marry a man, then it was a sign not to marry him. Did this turn out to be wise advice for Harriet regarding Mr. Martin? Do you agree or disagree with her advice unilaterally, or is it dependent on the case? What about her advice that she should marry a man whom she thought was “the most agreeable man you have ever been in company with, and if you prefer him to every other person”?
- How did Emma’s advice to Harriet about Mr. Martin’s proposal differ from Mr. Knightley’s advice to Mr. Martin? Why? Who was ultimately right and wisest?
- Til Emma chose to be her friend, Harriet’s mind “had no distaste for her own set, nor any ambition beyond it. She was as happy as possible...she had no superiority then.” Does that mean Emma was a bad friend to her? Is contentment one of the secrets to happiness? Might Harriet have been happier if Emma hadn’t interfered?
- What was the answer to Mr. Elton’s riddle, Charade? For whom was it really intended?
- Why is it that “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasure of the other”?, for example, the poor and the wealthy?
- What sorts of things made Frank’s aunt Mrs. Churchill so disagreeable (“expecting everything to be as she likes,” her temper, and her “illnesses for her convenience”)?
- How could Mrs. Churchill “make no sacrifice for the comfort of her husband, to whom she owes everything, while she exercises incessant caprice towards him, she should frequently be governed by the nephew, to whom she owes nothing at all”?
- Do you agree with Mr. Knightley that Frank Churchill has learnt to “be above his connections, and to care very little for anything above his own pleasure, from living with those who have always set him the example of it”?
- Why didn’t Emma like Jane Fairfax? What changed her mind?
- Is it accurate that as Frank Campbell said to Emma, “One cannot love a reserved person”, or as Emma replies, “not till the reserve ceases towards oneself”?
- Do you think that Emma’s “sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing’s being dull and insipid about the house” was as a result of true feelings of love for Franck Churchill? What made her think she was “not very much in love”?
- “They say everybody has been in love once in their lives, and I have been let off easy” Emma stated about Frank. Do you think at any point he loved her as well? Do you think this quote of hers is accurate in general? Why did she later say that “the fever was over”?
- Of whom in this novel is it true that “...it is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best”?
- What did Mr. Knightley mean by “No, Emma, I do not think the extent of my admiration for her will ever take me by surprise. I never had a thought of her in that way, I assure you”?
- With whom did Mr. Knightley choose to dance first? Why do you think that was?
- What items from Mr. Elton did Harriet keep? Why? Have you or anyone you’ve known kept mementos from a boyfriend or girlfriend?
- If you were asked by Emma to say “one thing very clever, or two things moderately clever, or three things dull,” what would you say? What awful thing did this game lead Emma to say about Miss Bates?
- Is it true what Frank said about the Eltons, that “It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck...How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life”? Have you known anyone who jumped into a relationship or infatuation too soon and got hurt? Are exceptions to this rare?
- Which characters was it true of them that “...it can only be weak, irresolute characters, (whose happiness must always be at the mercy of chance,) who will suffer an unfortunate acquaintance to be an inconvenience, an oppression for ever”? Is this a true statement in life, and have you known anyone who fit this description?
- What was Frank Churchill’s secret?
- What did Mrs. Elton have to say about Emma’s engagement? Why do you think she behaved this way?
The Recipe: Vanilla "Cake Mix" Cookies with Fresh Strawberries
Typical wedding cakes of the time, like what was served for Miss Taylor’s wedding to Mr. Weston, involved a LOT of butter, sugar, eggs, dried fruits, almonds or other nuts and spices, almost like an American pound cake.
Rout-cakes were often served at the Highbury card parties. These were a drop-biscuit, cake-like cookie, often made with currants or oranges.
At tea, biscuits or cookies were often served, as well as baked apples and tarts.
Strawberries were plucked by the picnic group at the Abbey, said to be “the best fruit in England—everybody’s favorite.”
To combine these elements, I’ve made an easy cake mix cookie with fresh strawberries.
Tips for recipe variations:
You can add any fresh or dried fruit you prefer, although any dried fruit or citrus shouldn’t need the added sugar.
For a lemon, lime, or orange variation, zest one whole fruit and add all the juice of the fruit to the mix.
For a hard fruit like apple or pear, cook down the fruit first in a microwave or pan on low heat with a bit of butter until soft.
For a stone fruit like peach or plum, be sure to peel the ripe fruit completely first before dicing.
If you want to make this with a chocolate cake mix, you could, or with a strawberry cake mix for double the strawberry flavor. A lemon cake mix would also go well with fresh strawberries.
Easy Vanilla Cake Mix Cookies with Fresh Strawberries
- 1 box vanilla or white cake mix
- 1/2 cup melted butter or oil (vegetable, canola, coconut, or a very light olive)
- 2 large eggs, at room temperature
- 1 tsp vanilla extract, (optional, if using white cake)
- 1 cup fresh strawberries, diced tiny
- 2 tbsp granulated sugar
- In the bowl of an electric mixer, or using a hand mixer, cream together cake mix, melted butter, and vanilla (if using, but don't with a vanilla cake mix) on medium-low speed. In a separate small bowl, toss the strawberries with the sugar. When the cake mix is combined, add the eggs to the mixer, one at a time. Add the diced strawberries and mix on low for one minute. Then place the bowl in the fridge for half an hour.
- Preheat the oven to 350° Fahrenheit and line baking sheets with parchment paper, or lightly spray them with nonstick cooking spray. Scoop dough using a small ice cream scoop into 1 inch balls and place at least 2" apart on baking sheets.
- Refrigerate or freeze dough for 5-10 minutes before baking. Bake for 10-12 minutes. Allow them to cool slightly (roughly 5 minutes) on the baking sheets before moving them to a cooling rack. Makes 30-34 small cookies.
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Other completed books by Jane Austen are the most popular Pride and Prejudice, as well as Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and the unfinished work, Sanditon.
Books mentioned within this one are The Vicar of Wakefield, The Romance of the Forest, Adelaide and Theodore, and The Children of the Abbey.
Lark Rise to Candleford is a trilogy by Flora Thompson that begins with the book Lark Rise about a tightly knit community and its dramas as seen through the eyes of a young woman. It also paints a vivid picture of English country life.
The relationship of Polly and Fanny in Louisa May Alcott’s An Old-Fashioned Girl is similar to that of Emma and Harriet in this novel.
Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy is also about a stubborn, opinionated young woman who is a bit snobbish, and her social misunderstandings, especially regarding love. She inherits and maintains her family farm, doing the job a woman usually wouldn’t and upending customs in the process, and often ignoring the kind, wise advice of a local shepherd, her oldest friend. She also spurns to be married or engaged, until an alluring man changes her mind. The character Gabriel is also a little like Mr. Martin.
- “I must indeed [make matches] for other people. It is the greatest amusement in the world!”
- “How delightful a well-judging and truly amiable woman could be, and must give the pleasantest proof of its being a great deal better to choose than to be chosen, to excite gratitude than to feel it.”
- “The older a person grows, the more important it is that their manners should not be bad; the more glaring and disgusting any loudness, or coarseness, or awkwardness becomes. What is passable in youth is detestable in later age.”
- “Perhaps no man can be a good judge of the comfort a woman feels in the society of her own sex, after being used to it all her life.”
- “It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her.”
- “Vanity working on a weak head produces every sort of mischief.”
- “One half of the world cannot understand the pleasure of the other.”
- “It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible to a generous public! A single woman, with a very narrow income, must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid...but a single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else.”
- “There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.”
- “Everything I have said or done, for many weeks past, has been with the sole view of marking my adoration of yourself.”
- “...a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs...soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again.”
- “It is very unfair to judge of any body’s conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation.”
- “There is one thing which a man can always do, if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvering and finessing, but by vigor and resolution.”
- “Their affection was always to subside into friendship. Every thing tender and charming was to mark their parting; but still they were to part.”
- “There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart...Warmth and tenderness of heart, with an affectionate, open manner, will beat all the clearness of head in the world, for attraction.”
- “...it is not every man’s fate to marry the woman who loves him best.”
- “There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort.”
- “Oh! The comfort of being sometimes alone.”
- “You had, somehow or other, broken bounds yesterday, and run away from your own management; but today you are got back again.”
- “I can have no self-command without a motive. You order me, whether you speak or not. And you can be always with me. You are always with me.”
- “It is only by seeing women in their own homes, among their own set, just as they always are, that you can form any just judgment. Short of that, it is all guess and luck...How many a man has committed himself on a short acquaintance, and rued it all the rest of his life!”
- “...it can only be weak, irresolute characters, (whose happiness must always be at the mercy of chance,) who will suffer an unfortunate acquaintance to be an inconvenience, an oppression for ever.”
- “When one is in great pain, you know one cannot feel any blessing quite as it might deserve.”
- “To understand, thoroughly understand her own heart, was the first endeavor.”
- “Till now that she was threatened with its loss, Emma had never known how much of her happiness being first with him, first in interest and affection. Satisfied that it was so, and feeling it her due, she had enjoyed it without reflection; and only in the dread of being supplanted, found how inexpressibly important it had been…”
- “...if Harriet were to be the chosen, the first, the dearest, the friend, the wife to whom he looked for all the best blessings of existence…”
- “I was tempted by his attentions...he was continually here...my vanity was flattered, and I allowed his attentions.”
- “A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals.”
- “He stopped in earnestness to look the question, and the expression of his eyes overpowered her.”
- “...dearest you will always be, whatever the event of this hour’s conversation, my dearest, most beloved.”
- “Seldom, very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.”
- “He had ridden home through the rain; and had walked up directly after dinner, to see how this sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all if her faults, bore the discovery."
- "Oh I always deserve the best treatment, because I never put up with any other."
- "What had she to wish for? Nothing, but to grow more worthy of him, whose intentions and judgment had been ever so superior to her own."
© 2020 Amanda Lorenzo
Liz Westwood from UK on February 19, 2020:
This takes me back to my Jane Austen studies many years ago. The baking looks great too.
Pamela Lorenzo on February 18, 2020:
Great story! The characters are so interesting for that time period.
Naude Lorenzo on February 17, 2020:
I love Emma's story, I could almost re-lived my youth, for sure I will read the book, very interesting. The recipe sound easy to make and delicious, Thanks Amanda. | <urn:uuid:23f3a861-320b-4629-86f3-1c6725f8e5fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://discover.hubpages.com/literature/Emma-Book-Discussion-and-Recipe | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976347 | 3,716 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Recently, I notice many articles and reports on insular mindset of Japanese youth in Japanese media. Is this really so?
The other day, I attended a symposium, and here again, the topic was discussed. I said that my view was a bit different. The content of my lecture overlaps with my lecture at my Keio SFC class. Mr. Koiwai at JST kindly summarized my speech well. The title of my lecture is ‘Recommendation to Take a Leave of Absence from School ? What Are the Characteristics That Japan Seek in Its Human Resource?’ (in Japanese).
People have different views on this issue. I am not surprised. For instance, I agree with the view expressed in the article; “The Deceit in ‘Japanese Youth are Insular Minded’” (Ref.1, 2)(all in Japanese).
Are current employment systems in big industries (such as notifying students that they have been hired in the 3rd year in college) (cf. Pasona case) good today? It seems to me that too many institutions are unable to shift from conventional practice.
As I always say, I think the number of people who left Japan as an individual, free from institutions, is very limited amongst the generation of our current university students’ parents. The same, I suppose, can be said with the generation before them. The majority of people who went abroad for business or for international study were, I assume, supported by their companies or government offices.
It is so important to encourage and support youth to develop their career in global settings, to help them find things they truly want to do, and to assist in building human networks within this rapidly changing world. It is our responsibility to help the young who have our future to see, feel, and think about the outside world. They need to do this as independent individuals, even for just a short period of time.
As I have seen, I think ‘Recommendation to Take A Leave of Absence From School’ (Ref.1,2) might be the best advice. | <urn:uuid:068f1295-6b68-4663-a475-20fe480ff1b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kiyoshikurokawa.com/en/2011/01/a-recommendation-to-take-a-leave-of-absence-from-school-are-japanese-youth-insular-minded.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975496 | 436 | 1.828125 | 2 |
New York is one of the most popular destinations in the world. There are many places which a tourist can visit in the city. Indeed, I was able to visit beautiful and famous places. A visit to these places went way beyond my expectations and imagination. On that account, I will describe my amazing visit to New York in this paper.
A visit to New York certainly gives one insight into why o many people go there each year. In fact, statistics depict that more than one million people visit New York each year (Plunz, 15). The first place that I toured was midtown so that I could get a view of the city’s impressive skyline. New York is usually described in terms of its skyline, and the skyline of all cities across the world are always measured against New York’s. My tour of Manhattan revealed that silhouette developed by the building is simply iconic. There were so many tall buildings that gave to the justification to the fact that the city has more than 100 buildings that 500 feet and above (Plunz, 56). Whereas I felt this immensity everywhere, my best experience of its was at the Top of the Rock at Rockefeller Center and observatory at the Empire State Building. After relishing the views on top of a skyscraper, I decided to take a vantage point from the ground in Midtown and Lower Manhattan.
My next visit was walking through the Times Square. Admittedly, I have been waiting for a chance like this for nearly my whole life since I have admired the views of the location by watching it in films since I was a child. The tour revealed that Times Square is where all the magic happens. No matter what time of the day, the place is always alive and crowded with people; it is epitome of a city that never sleeps. To get the greatest effect of this location, I decided to visit it after sunset so that I could be mesmerized by the big screens and bright lights. The wattage that I saw made me think that it was still daytime. I was impressed by learning that most of the area is closed to vehicles thus enabling me to walk safely across the street. Whilst there, I decided to take my dinner at an Italian restaurant located in the Ninth Avenue. I also popped in at one H&M store and was pleasantly surprised to see that the store has its own runaway. I then took a short stroll to the Sixth Avenue where I visited the Radio City Music Hall and the Museum of Modern Art where I saw some of the most impressive collection of modern art in the world.
The last place that I visited in New York City was the Statue of Liberty. This place is iconic and a tour of the site demonstrated why it is ranked so highly. The actual statue was so impressive and one can clearly see its value to American society as a whole. The guide who took us through the site was very informative and gave me insights that I was not familiar with. Overall, I can firmly assert that New York is one of the most impressive cities in the world. I will certainly return for a more comprehensive tour.
Plunz, Richard. A history of housing in New York City. Columbia University Press, 2016. | <urn:uuid:46a05aac-3726-4044-9afa-772047176279> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bestessayservices.com/blog/sample-english-essay-paper-on-description-of-my-field-visit-to-new-york/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.98328 | 652 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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Increasingly, gardeners are using parthenocarpic varieties and hybrids of cucumbers for planting in their plots. One of these varieties is Mamen's favorite cucumber. It bears fruit well in closed greenhouses and in open areas.
Mama's pet is a hybrid from crossing two different varieties. The bush is determinate, parthenocarpic, therefore it grows and bears fruit in the open field and in the greenhouse. There are few leaves, so the plants do not shade each other. Early ripening, after planting the seeds in the ground, the first fruits ripen in 45 days. Limited in growth, few shoots. With bundle formation of ovaries.
In greenhouses, it is grown vertically for the convenience of inspecting plants for diseases. Also, when growing vertically, it is convenient to care for plants. Grow horizontally in open beds. A peculiarity of the hybrid is that it can be grown on a balcony and even a windowsill, since it does not need insect pollination. It blooms mainly with female flowers, therefore the variety is high-yielding.
Description of the fetus
The fruits of the gherkins are small. An adult fetus weighs only 90 grams and is 8-10 centimeters long. The cucumbers are neat, light green, slightly ribbed. The entire surface of the fruit is covered with sharp white thorns. On the side of the flower, they have light stripes that do not reach the middle of the fruit. The taste is sweet; when cut, the fruit lacks a seed sac and voids. With proper watering and feeding, the cucumber lacks the taste of bitterness.
The fruits are suitable for universal use - they can be pickled, salted, used fresh. Also, Mama's pet is often used for growing on an industrial scale, due to keeping quality and resistance to transportation over long distances.
Hybrid growing methods
Since Mamen's pet f1 cucumbers are bred for cultivation in indoor and outdoor areas, as well as at home, there are many cultivation methods:
- growing in open beds;
- on the balcony or loggia;
- in a greenhouse under temporary shelter;
- in a closed greenhouse.
Outdoor cultivation involves sowing seeds and caring for growing plants.
Before sowing, the seeds are disinfected, soaked for germination and planted in the ground. Planting times vary from region to region, but weather conditions should be appropriate for the variety. So, the daytime air temperature should not drop below 22 degrees, and the nighttime below 16 degrees. If this condition is met, delicious cucumbers will surely grow on the beds.
Plants are planted in the greenhouse earlier, in late April, early May, provided that the night frosts have passed. If frosts are still expected, it is better to play it safe and heat the room where the seedlings grow with a heater.
At home, cucumbers are planted on the windowsill all year round. Since this plant is thermophilic, therefore, it is necessary to prevent drafts, waterlogging or drying out of the soil, provide access to lighting for the plants, otherwise the seedlings will get sick and develop poorly.
Feedback from amateurs who planted Mama's favorite
Nina: “In the winter I decided to grow cucumbers on the windowsill, after reading the reviews of gardeners, I bought the seeds of Mama's pet. Planted before the New Year. In February, the whole family ate cucumbers. Zelentsy are tasty, small in size. The main requirement of this variety is proper care and watering, as well as creating conditions at home suitable for growing cucumbers. In April I will put them in a garden bed and see how they behave there. "
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Docker is a software technology that provides operating-system-level virtualization. In this page, we present some tools that are specifically designed to use docker on Grid'5000.
Installing Docker from a node
You can install and use Docker from a node with the standard environment by following these instructions:
- Reserve a node
(you can also use option
-t deploy and Kadeploy if you prefer)
- Install Docker
The script g5k-setup-docker, available from the standard environment, installs Docker locally. Option -c makes docker command available without needing to log out and reconnect to the node
- Run docker
You can now check that docker is up and running
Using docker-machine and docker-g5k
The Spirals Team in Lille developped two tools to ease Docker usage on Grid'5000:
- a docker-machine driver
- the docker-g5k program
- Manage a node with docker-machine
The driver for docker-machine allows you to reserve a node on Grid'5000 and to install a Linux image and Docker Engine on it, from your computer and in one single command.
The reserved node is then available from commands like
docker-machine ssh (standard ssh commands don't work when nodes are reserved with docker-machine).
- Create a Swarm with docker-g5k
The docker-g5k program allows you to reserve several nodes, possibly on different sites, and to install a Linux image and Docker Engine on each node, in one single command. This command configures a Swarm, i.e. a set of Docker containers distributed over several nodes that communicate with each other.
Managing Docker images ?
We recommend the following ways to manage Docker images on Grid'5000:
- Use docker load/save
You can use
docker load and
docker save commands with .tgz docker images stored in your home (or elsewhere). Each user's home is available (NFS mounted) from any node deployed with the standard environment.
- Use Inria private registry
- Use a persistent VM
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EdgeWave, a leading firm providing protection against email account takeover and other social engineering attacks, released a new report entitled “How to Fight the Phishing Epidemic and Win”. The report provides new data to enterprise businesses about inbox threats including spear phishing, business email compromise, and more.
Employees Are Huge Risk for Firms
The most shocking finding is internal data showing that 56% of organizations don’t have any IT policies to guide employees on how to protect their email inboxes. In addition, the research shows that companies very often give their workers little, or unhelpful, instructions for how to avoid getting tricked into clicking phishing attack links.
“Most often companies tell their employees not to click on links or open attachments in suspicious emails,” the report states. “But this advice goes against how technology works for employees to get their job done. Employees are desensitized to all the noise and are often much more willing to click on links, which can prove dangerous.”
The report also cites data showing that 50% of employees reported not clicking a phishing link they had actually in fact clicked. The report claims this lack of awareness is one reason phishing attacks have turned into a multi-million dollar problem not just for the overall ecosystems, but for individual merchants as well.
“On top of investigation costs, organizations are hit with the remediation costs from successful phishing attack,” the report states. “According to the Ponemon Institute, the average recovery cost to businesses from a phishing threat is $300,000. Plus, the cost to contain the malware infection (introduced by the phishing threat) is $1.9 million annually.”
5 Key Phishing Attack Challenges Enterprise Businesses Face
Overall, the report identifies five areas companies should pay attention to when it comes to phishing attacks:
- The scale of the problem
- The Security Gap
- Employee Vulnerabilities
- Security Awareness Training
- IT Resource Constraints
The report provides details and data about fraud prevention best practices for each area. For example, 95% of attacks happened despite a corporate firewall, and the estimated cost of IT remediation after an attack is $52,500. | <urn:uuid:e933e65e-4f9e-4fc7-a926-c6d2b44aafb2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.merchantfraudjournal.com/edgewave-fight-phishing-epidemic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945582 | 467 | 1.757813 | 2 |
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