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New York Project
New York Mammal Atlas
September 2020 - April 2023
- New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
The New York Mammal Atlas seeks to provide data on the distribution of mammals in New York State and to evaluate the population status of selected mammals which are
rare or of particular management interest. Research from the mammal atlas will inform the status assessment updates of mammalian Species of Greatest Conservation Need and Species of Potential Conservation Need (SPCN). Distribution data will help evaluate whether SPCN may warrant some other status, and if other native mammal species may merit additional protections. Distribution and population status information is needed in order to determine specific conservation actions that could be taken to improve the population status of selected mammal species.
The Mammal Atlas will involve both small mammal trapping as well as the use of remotely activated trail cameras. The use of citizen science approaches is increasing, and the NYCFWRU developed the iSeeMammals App specifically for black bear research. However, there is great opportunity to expand the utility of iSeeMammals to
allow citizen scientists to contribute camera trapping images to help collect data for the Mammal Atlas. NYCFWRU will design a statewide camera trap survey to detect mammal species in New York. Citizen science data projects collect hundreds of thousands of images, which require identification, often using humans and hundreds of hours of staff time. Recent approaches using machine learning can identify species using an automated process. NYCFWRU may develop an automated species identification algorithm for camera trap images in New York that will significantly reduce staff time in tagging images. NYCFWRU will evaluate data collected from the central NY fisher study and previous black bear research that used camera trapping and estimate occupancy of the following species: Virginia opossum, coyote, red fox, gray fox, black bear, striped skunk, raccoon, marten, fisher ermine, long-tail weasel, mink, bobcat, deer, chipmunk, woodchuck, gray squirrel, fox squirrel, red squirrel, flying squirrel (N & S), beaver, eastern cottontail, New England cottontail, snowshoe hare. | <urn:uuid:3d9705d6-3996-4056-8c5a-aacec54a86d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www1.usgs.gov/coopunits/project/209761898496/angela.fuller | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.837639 | 451 | 2.734375 | 3 |
Sound shapeThis project has been conducted through a series of research based on form finding through sound wave analysis.A set of chess has been developed through this experiments based on their sound waves in English pronunciation.This whole research is trying to investigate on other areas of metaphisycal events. For instance what would happen if sound had physical appearances! What would happen if Earth was not rotating and the rotation would not have affected all the phenamena! "Maybe what we see is only an illusion because of our limitations and natural phenomena!"This is a conceptual mock of chess nuts sound wave with physical characteristics in a rotational planet … شکل صوتاین پروژه در مسیر تحقیقاتی روی آنالیز ماهیت فرمی صوت شکل گرفته.یک ست مهره های شطرنج در مسیر این تجربه بر اساس شکل موج صدایشان در زبان انگلیسی بوجود آمده اند.کل این تحقیقات سعی دارد تا وقایعی را در زمینه های ورای ماده بررسی کند. برای مثال چه اتفاقی می افتاد اگر صوت مشخصات ظاهری داشت! چه اتفاقی می افتاد اگر زمین نمی چرخید و این چرخ روی تمام پدیده ها تاثیر نمی گذاشت.شاید چیز هایی که ما می بینیم فقط تصوری هستند که از محدودیت ها و پدیده های طبیعی اطراف ما نشات گرفته اند.این یک فرم مفهومی از شکل صدای مهره های شطرنج در دنیایی چرخان است که در آن صدا ماهیت فیزیکی دارد!
"New solutions" by @madeinma.irMA is happy to announce; our first line of product is pet houses and their prototype files are ready to create them! This series has been designed with the aim to develop environmental friendly beauty with recycle-able or recycled materials …Pets are becoming more popular with emerging lifestyles, therefore; solutions should be taken care of regardingly. Rapid prototyping and file sharing is also a possibility of contemporary lifestyle and human development. Considering design to be tectonical , user experience is highly appreciated. This manual is gathered by madeinma.ir in terms of a movement to increase human awareness of design and beauty and environmental awareness with means of today technologies and materiality. This platform is inviting every individual and team to be a part of this and add to its values with their own credit and ideas … The aim is to de-bug files and projects with crowd wisdom and user experience as much as possible. This is what has developed other fields of science ; a step by step procedure to idealize cognitive science! Some of these prototypes has been once produced and debugged ; the files are based on our experience and economic solutions with available facilities and they can be more personalized. "We take no responsibility regarding these files and strongly advise you to re-check before use". In addition to that we ask your kind assistance by joining MA culture and inform us about any problems regarding files and manual.A variety of techniques and materials has been included to be accessible.Laser cutters , CNC milling machines and industrial press brakes , 3D printers are commonly used in RP systems. Please use and share this with #madeinma.ir or www.madeinma.ir tag so everyone can keep in touch with us and update us about its status. "These are made on earth by humans"
This tool has been developed through analysis of sound form characteristics;An algorithm has been established based on sound wave unconventional presets.All of these experiments are struggling to investigate events on metaphysical basis! For instance; what would happen if sound had appearances! What would happen if the Earth would not rotate and this rotation have not had affected all the natural phenomena. Maybe; the un-rotated sound would not have sounded like it does! Maybe; if sound was the only rotational element and all the other things were stable it would have other characteristics. Maybe what we see is only illusion , which is rooted in our limitations and natural surrounding phenomena. Their reality differs!This is a conceptual kinetic form of music, conversation or any kind of sound in a rotational world, that sound has different characteristics in it.In this process sound is being collected from environmental sensors and analyzed in periods which length 1.5 seconds and converts to motion.This kinetic-responsive Installation contains reels, motors, controllers and processors and struggles to illustrate a choreography of sound frequencies.“This time it appears as if; sound, itself, has gone out of control!”
"Sama"The design process of this light is derived from the analysed geometry of Sama dance. Elegance, purity and simplicity are the keywords to describe Sama. The nature of Sama is engaged with minimal and organic stable curves. All of those twists, bends and transitions are the abstract translation of maturity in form. These curves contain a high level of information when studied in detail. Developing a conceptual geometry based on the properties of the analysed choreography has been the main challenge in designing this product. In addition to proportions of human body an extra element of unity had been added to the object to elevate its legibility. While metal and concrete has always been good matches in combination, they can also represent art in the roughest and purest way. Therefore; a casting technique has been developed to produce the lower part while the hyper curve is made by copper foundry. The upper piece is a folded sheet of (matted) copper with a faded cut to drag light outside. The object is meant to be a decorative stand light which is 90*30*9 cm in dimensions.
Considering now and the near future of transport, after "Uber"s and before "Hyperloop"s, there is a sweet moment of small scale transport systems; a trend of eco-electro-customizable vehicles which is quite appreciated! Apps like "Lime", "Bird", "Baunce" & … are sponsoring this idea with the help of electro-bikes and scooters. Xiaomi , Segway, BMW & … are now investing on production of personalized public transporters. The idea of eco-sharing and eco-production is the main reason to develop these transportation systems.The main advantage of these scooters, is pollution and traffic reduction hence speeding up transportation.In addition to the above said; Scooty scooter is electrically controlled and fully adjustable to urban life style!This device uses the User smartphone as the main controller core with personalized data. (That means every individual can use his/her smart phone to customize cruise controller, distance smart brakes, weight of the carriee , light , app visualization , navigation & … )Yet sharing no personal information with the next user.This scooter can be used both public and personally. Therefore; a set of add on features are let to be designed, 3d printed and added to the device (open-source) to let every user with certain needs be happy with its personalized platform.The motion system is being designed to use both in-wheel (optimized) and normal electro motors with gearbox (higher power).The main body has a casted aluminum structure and the side flaps. These side flaps and the deck can also be customized with free source files, materials, colors and designs.The front wheel is thinner but bigger in diameter to increase the handling and the back wheel is thicker but smaller to increase the power and balance. The honeycomb tires increase the suspension & flexibility while eliminating the need of springs.The body form is subordinated from the caster angle, therefore; the structure is very stable even in case of critical forces.The handlebar has been replaced with an electric command-grip which allows a 60 degrees rotation angle of the wheel. This is done with a joy-stick grip placed on the fixed handle-grip.All the other grips can be removed/added or repositioned for comfort or further adjustments. | <urn:uuid:9133bd99-31ba-4658-bb95-ca94631fcc1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://madeinma.ir/EN/category/projects/industrial-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.908024 | 2,103 | 2.65625 | 3 |
5 Myths About Testosterone
Testosterone has become an increasingly popular topic for medical professionals and lay people alike. While many still have the unfortunate misunderstanding of this powerhouse hormone, some have discovered its versatility in treating a myriad of symptoms caused by low testosterone levels.
1. Its only for men
Testosterone is responsible for more than just male sex drive! Women need testosterone too. Yes, males have higher concentrations of this hormone naturally, but women also naturally produce it. Both sexes will naturally produce less testosterone as a part of aging, but that doesn’t mean they need to live with the symptoms.
2. It causes cancer
There is an important distinction to make with hormone therapy methods; there are synthetic hormones and bioidentical hormones (natural). Bioidentical hormones have not been proven to cause any kind of cancer with appropriate treatment. In fact, men with low levels of testosterone are at higher risk for prostate cancer.
3. It will make me more “manly”
While some men might think this would be a great side effect, it’s simply not true. Many women are concerned that taking testosterone will make their voice deeper, make them grow facial hair, or give them Schwarzenegger-like muscles. This is not the case, and well-optimized hormone replacement will not cause “manly” side effects.
4. It will make me feel angry or mad
Testosterone can actually help with depressive mood or mood swings related to hormone decline. Not only will testosterone supplementation boost your mood, but it will also give you more energy and improve cognition.
5. Its only good for low sex drive
Conversely, testosterone positively impacts muscle mass, fatigue, mood, bone density, energy levels, and so much more!
|For Women||For Men|
|Improves well-being, energy, strength, and endurance||Increases muscle mass, strength, endurance, and exercise tolerance|
|Improves sexual function and clitoral sensitivity.||Improves libido, erectile function, and sexual performance.|
|Decreases visceral fat||Reduces fat, both visceral and subcutaneous|
|Improves body composition by maintaining muscle mass and bone density||Lowers cholesterol and improves lipid parameters.|
|Increases collagen, skin thickness, and improves skin tone||Improves lean muscle mass, bone density, and promotes healing|
|Reduces fat deposition, and cellulite||Protects against cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and arthritis.|
Testosterone Replacement Therapy at Central Wellness
Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy can be a wonderful treatment for anyone experiencing hormone decline. At Central Wellness our providers determine the best treatment plan by assessing your blood test results and optimizing your hormones for a healthier, happier life. If you’ve got questions about Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, give us a call to chat with one of our board-certified providers or schedule a consultation below! 406.869.1066 | <urn:uuid:2911213b-b8c9-4f36-8831-ec9fbd954f4c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://centralwellness.com/5-myths-about-testosterone/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.880007 | 614 | 2.234375 | 2 |
High efficiency illuminator for transmitted light fluorescence
- High efficiency with standard objectives: no need for dedicated fluorescence lenses.
- Fits on existing bright field microscopes: no need for reflected light illuminator.
- Good price/performance ratio.
FLUOLED for transmitted light fluorescence
FLUOLED® Easy is an optical solution for fluorescence microscopy on transparent samples consisting of a unique, proprietary illumination system with a high power solid-state (LED) source replacing mercury and xenon arc-lamps found in reflected light microscopy.
The fluorescence light source is used in transmission mode.
FLUOLED® Easy is designed to attach to a standard bright field microscope, where halogen white light function remains intact; this means transmitted light observation is possible without major changes in the optical configuration.
FLUOLED® Easy is ideal for those applications on transparent samples where low to medium power lenses are used and cost savings on optics are important.
- IFA (Immunofluorescence Assays- autoimmune diagnostics)
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Type 410 martensitic stainless steel is typically used in highly corrosive environments within petrochemical installations due to its resistance to halide stress corrosion cracking, hardenability, and low cost compared to austenitic stainless steel. However, the industry has experienced difficulties in meeting the ASME toughness, and NACE hardness requirements for wet sour services of Type 410 steel welds. Recent studies have shown that these problems are related to the wide compositional ranges of Type 410 base metals and welding consumables, leading to exceeding the A1 temperature during postweld heat treatment (PWHT) and formation of fresh martensite, and to retention of significant amount of delta ferrite in the final weld metal and heat affected zone microstructures. These studies have identified two Type 410 optimized weld metal compositions that met the specified hardness and toughness requirements.
The objective of this work was to quantify the tempering response in one of the optimized welding consumables and in two Type 410 base metals. Samples of these materials were subjected to a series of PWHTs at temperatures corresponding to the lower and upper limits of the ASME code recommended temperature range (760 C and 800 °C) and at 10 °C below the A1 temperature of each material. The PWHT durations were 5 and 30 minutes, and 1, 2, and 4 hours. The hardness values related to all PWHTs performed below the corresponding A1 temperatures were used to generate Holloman–Jaffe type equations for all tested materials. As expected, the PWHTs performed above the A1 temperatures resulted in the formation of fresh martensite. | <urn:uuid:692e1eec-e07b-46e9-bfcf-f3b0bd2535cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://risk.asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/PVP/proceedings-abstract/PVP2020/83860/V006T06A067/1089541 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.917054 | 329 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Our New Society: Social Media Results In Judgement By Mobs
Today everyone has a smartphone and videos; Instagram and Snap Chat are a common communication source.
The growth of social media has given birth to a more underhanded form of mob mentality that responsible for ruining the lives of strangers for some perceived injustice.
These videos are often used to bully someone by giving a false impression of a situation. What happens when those posts go viral? The effects can have horrible results. It happened to a college student in St. Paul Minnesota who had taken a job to make some additional money.
Although the video shared on social media depicted an incident that did happen, the commentary and rush to judgment were misleading and left out a majority of the story. The company folded to the social pressure and fired their employee, although she had done nothing wrong.
We are living in a day when a social media post can go viral in a matter of minutes. People fail to realize that the original post is only the opinion of a single person, but the mob mentality that follows can result in damaging consequences.
Studies have shown that it only takes as little as 5% of people to influence a crowd allowing the other ninety-five percent to follow them blindly. In fear of being called out, no one dare’s to disagree with the herd.
If we continue to conform without thinking or considering the long-lasting impacts of our actions, we will be controlled by these toxic mobs who are using social media to force their societal opinions and their political views on everyone. | <urn:uuid:d9b365a3-380d-41ab-bfdf-b7cf0bc4537f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://craigpeterson.com/radio-show/our-new-society-social-media-and-social-judgement-by-mobs/34947/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965555 | 317 | 2.15625 | 2 |
By A. K. Thompson
Are you taking up, or are you taking orders?
Are you going backwards, or are you going forwards?
White riot—I wanna riot.
White riot—a revolt of my own.
—The conflict, "White Riot"
Ten years after the conflict in Seattle sparked an ancient fight opposed to the forces of firm conglomeration and American imperialism, the anti-globalization iteration is able to contemplate a decade of organizing that modified the face of mass motion round the globe.
Scholar and activist AK Thompson revisits the struggles opposed to globalization in Canada and the us on the flip of the century, and he explores the relationship among political violence and the white heart classification. equivalent components sociological learn and activist instruction manual, Black Bloc, White Riot engages with the main debates that arose within the anti-globalization stream over the process the earlier decade: direct or mass motion? Summit-hopping or neighborhood organizing? Pacifism or variety of tactics?
Drawing on move literature, modern and significant concept, and useful investigations, Thompson outlines the impression of the anti-globalization circulate at the white, middle-class little ones who have been swept up in it, and he considers how and why violence needs to once more turn into a important type of activist politics.
AK Thompson is a author and activist dwelling and dealing in Toronto, Canada. presently finishing his PhD in sociology at York collage, Thompson teaches social conception and serves at the editorial committee of Upping the Anti: A magazine of thought and Action. His courses contain Sociology for altering the area: Social Movements/Social Research (Fernwood Publishing, 2006).
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The demonstration, which was called in opposition to the provincial government’s war on poor people, proceeded despite widespread uncertainty about the prospects for militant action in the aftermath of September 11. For MacDonald, there was no doubt that dissent was a cover for terror. “The way it works,” he pointed out with more than a hint of xenophobia, “is that the demonstrators first simply urge peace and disarmament. indd 35 7/27/10 6:29:57 PM 36 Black Bloc, White Riot But subsequent ‘spontaneous’ rallies and demonstrations are joined by more violent elements—perhaps even some Muslim groups” (October 17, 2001).
Citing liberally from the visual history of lynching, the last scene of the film sees Ben shot dead by the vigilantes. According to Dyer, Night of the Living Dead yields both horror and catharsis for white viewers who must confront their own ambivalent proximity to death. The political implications of Dyer’s analysis become explicit when one remembers the tremendous debt Romero’s film owes to the political climate— Black Power and civil rights—of the period in which it was made. Lest this foray into the overgrown (and over-fertilized) fields of psychoanalysis and cultural studies be dismissed as fanciful or idiosyncratic, it’s useful to remember the many antecedents to Dyer’s analysis.
I knew were he was, he insisted. If I grew a beard I would look like Bin Laden. I was holding back on telling him why I was going to the university and who I was going to meet there. If I didn’t want to go to jail, it was time to tell him the real story” (Clarke 2002). Although Austin and Clarke’s cases became frequent topics of conversation during this period, their experiences were far from unusual. From the beginning of the anti-globalization movement to its rapid demise, countless radicals (and many others besides) became familiar with the repressive capacities of state organizations. | <urn:uuid:208fa95c-c4ec-47fc-8019-7f08a4ec6f7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inuuniqvillage.com/read/black-bloc-white-riot-antiglobalization-and-the-genealogy-of-dissent | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.937695 | 1,084 | 1.890625 | 2 |
The 1995 agricultural forecast will be presented in Sevier County, sponsored by the Utah State University Extension Service.
County Extension Agent Clyde Hurst said emphasis will be on the 1995 Farm Bill. Mark Drabenstott of the Federal Reserve Bank will attend. Questions will be answered by specialists in dairy, wheat, forage, feed grains and beef cattle production.
When: Thursday, 2 p.m.
Where: Sevier County Courthouse in Richfield.
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2013 Canadian Computing Competition, Stage 1
Problem S2: Bridge transport
A train of railway cars attempts to cross a bridge. The length of each car is 10 m but their weights might be different. The bridge is 40 m long (thus can hold 4 train cars at one time). The bridge will crack if the total weight of the cars on it at one time is greater than a certain weight. The cars are numbered starting at 1, going up to N, and they cross the bridge in that order (i.e., 1 immediately followed by 2, which is immediately followed by 3, and so on).
What is the largest number T of railway cars such that the train of cars 1…T (in order) can cross the bridge?
The first line of input is the maximum weight W (1 ≤ W ≤ 100000) that the bridge can hold at any particular time. The second line of input is the number N (1 ≤ N ≤ 100000) which is the number of railway cars that we wish to move across the bridge. On each of the next N lines of input, there will be a positive integer wi (1 ≤ i ≤ N, 1 ≤ wi ≤ 100000) which represents the weight of the ith railway car in the sequence.
Your output should be a non-negative integer representing the maximum number of railway cars that can be brought across the bridge in the order specified.
Sample Input 1
100 6 50 30 10 10 40 50
Sample Output 1
The first four railway cars have total weight 50 + 30 + 10 + 10 = 100, which is not greater than what the bridge can hold. When the first railway car leaves, and the next comes on, we have a total weight of 30 + 10 + 10 + 40 = 90, which is not greater than what the bridge can hold. The last four cars would cause the bridge to break, since 10 + 10 + 40 + 50 = 110 which is greater than the bridge can hold. So, only the first 5 railway cars can be taken across the bridge.
Sample Input 2
100 3 150 1 1
Sample Output 2
When the first railway car enters the bridge, its weight of 150 will exceed the maximum weight the bridge can hold. Thus, we cannot bring any railway cars across the bridge.
Point Value: 5
Time Limit: 2.00s
Memory Limit: 16M
Added: May 19, 2013
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If you are an amateur woodworker and you do not have plans in front of you, how will you ever know which plans to start with? With Do It Yourself jobs, there is always a ready-made or pre-made kit. Nevertheless, if you are looking for something a little more special and you don’t understand where to begin, why not search for free Woodworking Strategies?
There are a variety of different kinds of complimentary Woodworking Plans to pick from. There are even some free patterns offered online that you can download and print out. For instance, if you are thinking about making a small bench, you may wish to look at totally free woodworking plans that feature guidelines for building an easy bench. You can likewise have a look at complimentary pattern websites that provide free patterns for benches. If you have a bit more understanding in woodworking, you can most likely determine what sort of bench you require to make without any problem.
If you aren’t rather as well-informed in woodworking, there are a number of diy jobs you can discover on the internet. There are woodworking strategies for all kinds of kitchen area tools, such as a small table saw for cutting down the ends of wood boards, and a hand saw for the manage and blade. There are likewise prepares for making birdhouses, furnishings, shelves, and so on. There are likewise prepares for decorating your home, such as prepare for a good garden or outside patio.
If you have actually never ever tried to build your own DIY projects, I recommend you begin with a free set of plans or a totally free pattern website. By using totally free strategies and patterns, you can save yourself a bunch of money on needing to pay someone to develop it for you. If you do not understand where to begin, you can merely search for totally free pattern websites or search for totally free strategies online.
If you are not really into Do It Yourself jobs, you may wish to look at the more customized packages readily available. There are various types of woodworking plans, so if you desire an unique bench or a really particular type of table, you might want to take a look at kits that provide whatever.
Before buying any plans or a kit, you ought to constantly ensure that they are safe to use for Do It Yourself jobs. There are certain kinds of wood that can not be utilized with particular Do It Yourself tasks. You need to check out the instructions to make certain that the plan works with the type of wood you are dealing with. If you are utilizing oak for your bench, you will not be able to utilize a plan for a pine bench.
You also require to take a look at the guidelines of the strategies prior to you begin the project. Read all the guidelines thoroughly, specifically the section on sanding and ending up the wood.
When searching for a complimentary woodworking strategy, make sure to check out other people’s jobs initially, particularly if you are new to DIY tasks. These people may have built the same type of bench that you are thinking about. You might be able to take some useful info from them and then develop it from their strategies.
When planning your strategies, you need to likewise think about the material you will use for your DIY tasks. Different types of wood will require various amounts of tools, depending upon what kind of task you are developing. The most costly wood is typically the hardest wood to deal with, and wood like oak can take a great deal of abuse without breaking down.
You may likewise wish to look at the size of the tasks before you purchase the strategies. Some plans are big enough to include numerous projects in a single book. The smaller plans might only include a few, so make sure you have a good concept of what size projects you wish to make prior to buying the strategies.
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I’ve had a copy of Lafcadio Hearn’s Kwaidan: Stories And Studies Of Strange Things lying around my room for a while now, but I thought I’d finally crack it open and give it an honest read for Halloween (which, as we know, is Oct. 1 – Dec. 31).
Kwaidan is, simply put, a collection of old Japanese ghost stories and folklore. “Ghost stories” isn’t the most accurate term for Kwaidan, but essentially, yeah, it’s a bunch of ghost stories. There are 17 stories, ranging from spooky to funny to sad to just kind of mundane. In any case, I love a ghost story and looking at old horror is fun because you can’t help but notice how we’ve never stopped conjuring the same strange things. We’re going to take a look at each story, one-by-one, from beginning to end. I’ll recap each one followed by some thoughts and maybe some extra research into things that cross my mind or pique my interest (and hopefully yours.) It’s public domain so you can read along if you’d like. Some of the stories I highly recommend you read before reading my thoughts, and I’ll label them as such!
Buuut, before we get into the actual stories, I want to talk about the writer Lafcadio Hearn for a second. So our guy Lafcadio was born in 1850 to an Irish father and a Greek mother. He grew up in Greece and Ireland before moving to the U.S. in 1869 (age 19). He worked as a journalist and translator wrote, and eventually ended up in Japan (1890, age 40) pursuing another reporting gig. His original job didn’t pan out, but he married Koizumi Setsu, a Japanese native, and found various teaching jobs teaching English and English Literature and schools and universities. In addition to Kwaidan (which he finished right before his death in 1904), he penned a bunch of other works on Japan and Japanese culture at a time when the West didn’t know too much about “the East” in general.
Of course, there’s a lot more to this guy’s life. You can read about that on your own time. I, however, only want to touch upon one point.
I’m not trying to put this dude on blast, but like c’mon. He did important work, was apparently a beloved figure, penned what became much of the West’s first encounter with Japan, and lived way before the age of the weeb, but also take a look at how the publisher foreward describes him:
“Lafcadio Hearn is almost as Japanese as haiku. Both are an art form, an institution in Japan. Haiku is indigenous to the nation; Hearn became a Japanese citizen and married a Japanese, taking the name Yakumo Koizumi. His flight from Western materialism brought him to Japan in 1890. His search for beauty and tranquility, for pleasing customs and lasting values kept him here the rest of his life, a confirmed Japanophile.”
. . . and the introduction from 1904:
The Japanese, on the other hand, have possessed no such national and universally recognized figures as Turgenieff or Tolstoy. They need an interpreter. It may never be doubted whether any oriental race has ever had an interpreter gifted with more perfect insight and sympathy than Lafcadio Hearn has brought to the translation of Japan into terms of our occidental speech.
Look, I’d be remiss to not at least touch on 1.) how these stories come from a white dude and 2.) how it’s considered a canonical Japanese text despite . . . not being written in Japanese or by a Japanese writer and 3.) how he’s talked about. Sure, these excerpts reflect more on those writers and not Hearn, but they’re indicative of how he’s received and how we’ve placed him in the literary canon (specifically spooky folklore, specifically Japanese spooky folklore). While I can’t claim to have read all his work and definitively say that he is in fact exoticizing Japan, I don’t think it’s particularly unreasonable of me to be a little skeptical? wary? of his perspective. It’s a collection of Japanese folklore written in English for an English-speaking audience, after-all.
You could say it doesn’t matter all the much because these aren’t his “original” stories, but ghosts, spirits, and supernatural folklore are so wrapped up in people and live-storytelling that it’s always worth looking at the different players of the telephone game we’re [currently] the last leg of. So, for some more context: his wife Koizumi told him many of the stories he recounts. The various random people he met on his travels who took the time to regale this guy with their folk stories are worth mentioning too. Even if their stories weren’t actually transcribed or adapted, I’d still say they all play a part in how Hearn ended up writing Kwaidan. And of course, much of Kwaidan finds its roots in old Japanese texts, such as Hyaku-Monogatari, a supernatural bestiary (!!!) from 1841, and Kokon-Chomonshu, a collection of poems, stories, and paintings compiled in 1254 (!!!).
Anyway, truly the whole point of this little series is to just, have some fun reading some strange stories. I had to get [gestures to the last few paragraphs] all this out there first. So now, let’s just get into it!
Tale I: The Story Of Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi
Once there was a blind man named Hoichi who was given free lodging at a temple for his exceptional biwa skills. One night while the temple priest is out, a samurai summons Hoichi to play for his traveling lord. Hoichi isn’t sure where he’s being led, but he finds himself in some noble household and delivers a stunning lyrical performance of “The Battle At Dan-No-Ura.” So stunning, in fact, that it moves his audience to tears and the lord demands he secretly perform every night. On the second night, the priest gets suspicious about Hoichi’s night-time activities and sends two acolytes to follow him. They find him furiously playing his biwa in a nearby cemetery, utterly surrounded by oni-bi (ghost flames) in front of the tomb of Antoku Tenno, the child emperor of the losing side of the aforementioned battle. The acolytes drag Hoichi back to the temple, where the priest informs him the spirits intended to eviscerate him on the final night. He paints entire Hoichi’s body with holy scripture and instructs him to remain perfectly silent and still when the “samurai” comes to summon him next. Hoichi does just that, and the scripture renders him invisible to the spectral figure; however, the priest forgot to cover Hoichi’s ears with scripture, so the samurai tears them off to take back to his lord. Thus, Hoichi becomes known as Mimi Nashi Hoichi, or “Hoichi The Earless.”
Our first story! Pretty straight forward and even has a wildly happy ending, with Hoichi gaining immense fame and wealth for performing his story for actual living nobles. What’s the point of going through something traumatic if you can’t monetize it?
Anyway, I’m not sure if Hearn was particularly interested in the order he presented these stories in, but “Mimi-Nashi-Hoichi” is a good opener and introduces two big features we’ll see in the following stories. The first is the religious aspect. Buddhist mythology and ethics are going to feature prominently in these stories, usually with a priest or holy figure playing a central role. Priests in ghost stories isn’t very surprising, but what I do think is interesting is that the priest is the be-all-end-all expert on all things Strange and Supernatural. Hoichi, through no fault of his own, would have just straight up died without the priest’s interference. There’s probably a “Hey, Listen To And Respect Priests / Holy Men / Authority” subtext to these stories, but I also just like the idea of priests being Spectral Ecologists who just, know all there is to know about the Weird.
Which leads me into the second feature. In Kwaidan, the Strange and the Human worlds are one and the same. For example, the description when the acolytes enter the cemetery is a really laid back “yeah there are ghost fires flitting about but they’re always here.” No big deal, love those guys! The term “supernatural” as we typically use it almost isn’t applicable to these stories because everything that happens and everything we meet is very much natural. What’s scary here isn’t the presence or existence of ghosts and spirits that want to kill people, but their treachery and trickery. Even then, when the priest reveals the truth, it’s kind of as if he said “yeah, the spider is gonna kill the fly that got stuck in its web.” The description of the ghost-fires is as mundane as a description of fireflies in a field. The narrator casually mentioning Heike crabs, crabs with human faces on their backs, is like me just telling you a strange bug fact for no reason other than it being neat. Sure, it’s strange and sometimes scary, but it’s all out in the open. We can name the things that haunt us and skulk around in the shadows, and we don’t have to waste our energy pretending like they don’t exist.
Tale II: Oshidori
Sonjo was having bad luck hunting until he came across a pair of oshidori, or mandarin duck. As everyone knows, it’s “not good” to kill oshidori, but Sonjo was hungry. He shoots the male with an arrow, but the female duck flies away. That night, he has a very strange, gloomy dream of a bitterly sad woman. She approaches Sonjo, sobbing about how he cruelly killed her husband. She tells him to go back to the lake he was hunting by the next day and he will see her sorrow. Sonjo returns, and sees a solitary oshidori swimming. It begins swimming toward him, and proceeds to eviscerate itself with its beak. Sonjo becomes a priest soon after this encounter.
Some of the stories in Kwaidan are simply, sad! What’s striking about this story to me is that there’s no bad guy. An act of apparent necessity to Sonjo was one of wanton cruelty to Miss Duck. I’m curious about the translation here, because all the information we’re given on oshidori lore is in the following line:
“To kill oshidori is not good.”
Not good! That could mean anything! I was inclined to believe Sonjo invited misfortune or a curse into his life, but the truth seems way simpler. Apparently, in Japanese, Chinese, and Korean folklore, mandarin ducks are a symbol of everlasting love because they were thought to mate for life (similar to the perception of swans in Europe.) So, I suppose, in this way oshidori aren’t normal animals. They’re characterized with being able to love like humans do. It’s anthropomorphism not in behavior or appearance, but in soul. Miss Duck appears as a human to Sonjo in his dream because what’s more human than being in love and mourning a loved one?
His punishment isn’t 7 years of bad luck; it’s being intimately aware of the pain he’s inflicted upon another being. It’s guilt! And as we see, this drives him to a life of atonement as a holy man. Alas, poor Sonjo would have been fine if he killed like a mallard or something, because fuck those loveless monsters.
Tale III: The Story Of O-Tei
Nagao and O-Tei had been bethrothed from an early age, but O-Tei’s health was failing fast. On her deathbed, O-Tei declares that the two of them will meet again . . . not in the afterlife, but in this world. She tells Nagao that she’ll be born again, and once she turns 16, they’ll be reunited. Nagao truly did love O-Tei, and in hopes of pleasing her spirit, made a written promise to marry her if she does return and set it beside her mortuary tablet. While Nagao does remarry and have children, he is struck by tragedy and finds himself alone in the world with his wife, children, and parents dead. He begins wandering the land and finds himself in a mountain town where he meets a girl who bears an uncanny resemblance to O-Tei. He approaches her, and as if possessed, she states that she is in fact O-Tei and, in honor of Nagao’s written promise, she has come back. They marry and lived happily ever after, but this woman could never recall what she said to him when they first met, nor could she recall her supposed “past life.”
Wow, I’m really having a hard time thinking of another “My Partner Came Back From The Grave” that’s not played for laughs?? Way more common is the “Botched Resurrection” kind of story a la Pet Sematary, but the sincere “yeah I loved my partner so much I willed myself back into existence and it’s chill” kind of story? I suppose we needed a Perfectly Fine Resurrection GF before we could start telling stories about Botched Resurrection GF.
Does true love exist? Idk guys, I got nothing.
Tale IV: Ubazakura
Tokubei, the wealthiest man in the district of Onsengori, and his wife fervently prayed to the god Fudo Myo O for the ability to conceive a child. Eventually their prayers were answered, and they had a healthy daughter named Tsuyu. Tsuyu was attended by the milk nurse O-Sode, who loved her as if she were her own daughter. When Tsuyu turned 15, she fell deathly ill. O-Sode prayed to Fudo-Sama every day for 21 days, and Tsuyu miraculously recovered. Tokubei threw a feast to celebrate his daughter’s recovery, but O-Sode fell deathly ill on that same night. On her death-bed, she revealed she asked Fudo-Sama to allow her to die in Tsuyu’s place. Her request was granted, but in return, Fudo-Sama asked her to plant a cherry-tree as an offering of gratitude. The tree Tsuyu’s parents planted in O-Sode’s stead bloomed for 254 years, always on the anniversary of O-Sode’s death. Because its flowers were pink and white “like the nipples of a woman’s breasts, bedewed with milk,” the tree was called Ubazakura, the Cherry-tree of the Milk Nurse.
Look, I’m just wondering why uhhh Tsuyu’s actual parents weren’t praying every day for 21 days that their lives be sacrificed in exchange for their most beloved daughter. O-Sode declares she “was happy to die for O-Tsuyu’s sake” but something about this . . . I suppose piety and duty to your noble household’s name plays a role here. Service industry people have always been expected to do The Most and receive little in return, huh?
O-Sode is at least honored, both by the physical planting of the cherry-tree and by its supernatural qualities. Long after Tokubei and Tsuyu are dead and gone, the monument to O-Sode’s selfless love continues to blossom and bless those who behold it. It’s her name that we remember. I guess that’s something, hmph!
An Aside, re: Fudo-Myo-O a.k.a. Fudo-Sama a.k.a. Acala: In Japanese Buddhist mythology, we’ve got the “Myo-O” class of divine entities, also referred to as the Great Wisdom Kings. They’re protective deities, representative of Buddha’s wisdom, that watch over the faithful and look absolutely terrifying to ward off evil spirits and scare off ignorance.
There are five Wisdom Kings, but Fudo-Sama is the central and most powerful. He’s not specifically attuned to fertility or families, so I guess O-Sode, Tokubei, and the others beseech him specifically because of his power and importance. I wonder if, while this story was being passed around, the deity changed depending on who was telling it and where. I specified “Japanese Buddhist mythology” because while the name Fudo-Sama is unique to Japan, the deity itself can be found all over. Annnnd that’s about as deep as I can get into it without embarrassing myself / doing weeks of research. On to the next one!
Tale V: Diplomacy
Right before his execution, a condemned man argues he did not willingly commit his crime because it was born out of his “very great stupidity.” He says “to kill a man for being stupid is wrong,” and if they go through with the execution, his ghost will wreak vengeance on them all. The samurai tasked with the execution isn’t impressed. He tells him if he really wants them to be afraid of this ghostly revenge schtick, the condemned man should give them some sort of sign of his power after he dies. Mr. Samurai suggests the man try to bite the stepping-stone in front of him after his head is cut off. Then, he says, they’ll be properly frightened. The man fervently agrees, and after Mr. Samurai decapitates him, his head does in fact manage to bound forward and bite the stone. Everyone, except the samurai and his master, look on in absolute horror; however, several months pass and the executed’s promised vengeance has not come to pass. The witnesses ask Mr. Samurai why he is not afraid, and he responds there’s no need to be afraid. While the desire of a dying man holds power, it is “only the very last intention of that fellow [that] could have been dangerous.” Our condemned man’s last thought was of Mr. Samurai’s task: biting the stone. Once he accomplished that task, he was unable to do anything else.
Our man got SCAMMED. I love this story because we have Mr. Samurai using what’s almost like a loophole in The Ghost Rulebook to his advantage. The story posits that the ghost of someone who dies with a grudge has immense power as A Given, and hey, we’ve seen this before!
The “twist” here is that Mr. Samurai reveals there are certain conditions to that. Namely just that it’s only the deceased last thought that holds any sort of power. Here, the spectral and the supernatural is very precise and scientific. It’s like I mentioned earlier: the strange isn’t unknowable in Kwaidan, it’s just strange. Mr. Samurai knows the intricacies of The Ghost Rulebook like a herpetologist might know a certain snake’s venom is absolutely harmless to humans. There’s also a sense of balance here too. I suppose everyone has it in them to manifest a powerful, dangerous spectral entity to follow through on their threats after they die. On the other hand, you can easily sidestep this by getting the soon-to-be-dead to think about literally Anything Else right before they die. There’s probably an intensity threshold your feelings have to reach first (as suggested by the continued use “strong” to qualify the condemned man’s resentment), so this dude really must have wanted to bite that stone too. Funnily enough, he could have gotten his revenge if he just, didn’t care about the samurai’s challenge. His downfall is that he’s more concerned about them being afraid of his threat than he is about actually just following through. Truly just, finessed.
Also, on the case the condemned man makes for himself:
“Honored Sir, the fault for which I have been doomed I did not willingly commit. It was only my very great stupidity which caused the fault . . . But to kill a man for being stupid is wrong, — and that wrong will surely be repaid.”
I’m curious about the translation here. Reading this in 2019, it’s just, wildly funny. On the other hand, words like “stupid,” “idiot,” “dumb,” and the like have roots in what passed as early medicine and psychiatry. Is the condemned making an insanity plea? Or pointing to neurodivergence? I did some digging into the story and I can’t really be sure. Based on a later (rather . . .unfortunate) story that does have a character coded autistic, along with the nonplussed attitude of literally every other character in “Diplomacy,” I think it’s safe to assume that the condemned in this story is sort of just spinning his wheels. Sort of a last-ditch “Your Honor, I was out of my mind!” defense. Alas, it didn’t work. But I guess we can’t blame him for trying.
This is,,, already a way longer post than I thought it’d be, and that’s after I cut two more stories from this one. So let’s call it here! Stay tuned for the next post, which will include a big excuse for me to start talking about Pokemon as well as the story that inspired me to do these posts in the first place. Thanks for reading. | <urn:uuid:6b4e68ae-5c12-4173-a87a-d3f32d760df2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://transmissionsfromshw.com/2019/11/07/lets-read-kwaidan-stories-and-studies-of-strange-things-part-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969779 | 4,816 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Why We’re Staying in EducationFebruary 8, 2022
Silvia Miranda works with students in Clovis, New Mexico
There’s no doubt: The pandemic has tested educators’ resolve, patience and limits. According to a January 2022 poll, 55 percent of teachers are considering leaving the profession earlier than planned, with even higher rates among Black and Latino educators. Between remote and hybrid instruction, staff shortages due to illness and concern for students’ academic and emotional well-being, many teachers have reached their breaking point.
But the pandemic has also caused many educators to reaffirm their commitment to their profession. In a recent Zoom meeting and on social media, Milken Educators talked about why they’re staying in education. Without exception, it came down to people—students, families and colleagues.
If you’re an educator in need of inspiration and motivation right now, take a few minutes to listen to why Milken Educators are staying. We hope their “why” will help you rediscover yours.
Ben Nguyen (NV ’19)
Robotics teacher, Sunrise Mountain High School | Las Vegas, NV
The pandemic threw a wrench into Ben’s robotics program, which traditionally relies heavily on in-person collaboration and connects Sunrise Mountain students with their counterparts from other Nevada schools. Remote instruction was challenging, but Ben and his colleagues were determined to do whatever they could to keep students learning. “We’re always there for them,” says Ben. “Now that we’re back in person, my students are so thankful to be able to work on projects together and see others in the robotics community.”
Ben knows he is steering students towards life-changing experiences. Thanks to Ben’s robotics program, one student got a job at Tesla right out of high school. Despite the interruptions in instruction and the stress COVID-19 had put on Sunrise Mountain families, “we were able to help something good come out of the pandemic,” says Ben. “Students come back and tell us that remote college classes have been hard, but they’re sticking with it. I don’t need any more motivation than that.”
Nardi Routten (FL ’14)
Fourth grade teacher, Creekside Elementary | New Bern, NC
Nardi was in her 24th year of teaching when the pandemic shuttered school buildings and virtual instruction began. The transition was hard, and she contemplated retiring. But when she asked herself whether she could actually give up teaching, she realized there was no way: “I had to make it work.” She figured out how to lead virtual science experiments and, later, used a Swivl Robot camera to optimize her hybrid classroom. A teammate reminded her that these hurdles wouldn’t last forever: “You can do anything for a year.”
To remind herself why she’s staying in the classroom, Nardi watches her Milken Award notification video and makes a point of avoiding social media groups for teachers where negative comments dominate. Her biggest motivation: notes from students, which she keeps in a box and pulls out when she needs a pick-me-up. “I have the opportunity to profoundly impact the lives of my students,” she says. “I’m doing what I’m meant to be doing. I’m meant to continue lighting their fires.”
Jane Ching Fung (CA ’02)
Pre-K teacher, Belvedere Elementary | Los Angeles, CA
Every year, Jane invites guests into her classroom to share stories with her young students during Read Across America, a national celebration of reading. She was determined not to let the pandemic disrupt that annual tradition. She turned to a special group: her former students, many of whom she hears from often.
One participant, now in his forties, was a student in the very first class Jane taught. “At his master’s graduation, he told me that I was the reason he was obsessed with going to school,” says Jane, now in her 35th year of teaching. “I told him in third grade that he was a good writer, and he believed it.” Another former student read onscreen sitting next to another of Jane’s former students: the girl’s mother, now an attorney.
Jane’s ongoing relationships with her students keep her going. Sebastian, an artist, read to Jane’s class as he sat outside in the gardens of the Huntington Library in San Marino. Students held their drawings up to their laptop cameras to share their artwork with him. Jane has attended Sebastian’s exhibits and has one of his paintings hanging in her living room. “I see his work every day and am reminded of how wonderful it is to watch kids grow and know that you are part of their lives forever,” she says. “Kids come back and tell me that school was the only place where they felt happy. I’m reminded every single day that what I do makes a difference.”
Sarah Powley (IN ’93)
Instructional coach, Tippecanoe School Corporation | Lafayette, IN
This is Sarah’s 47th year in education, with the past decade as an instructional coach. Recently, she found the journal she kept in 1968, her second full year teaching middle school English. She laughed at the funny stories and comments she’d recorded and cringed at her inexperience. But on the third read, reliving the weekly “experiment in self-governance” she created—what today might be called project-based learning—she finally saw the seeds of the educator she ended up becoming.
“Teaching calls for persistence and sacrifice,” Sarah says. “But the stress, the anxiety, the heartbreak when you realize what happens to some students outside school—they’re all outweighed by the rewards. The challenge. The satisfaction of getting things right. And, most of all, the love.”
Meghan LeFevers (NC ’17)
Principal, Tryon Elementary | Bessemer City, NC
Meghan and her staff take pains to celebrate every victory. A recent win: Every teacher at Tryon Elementary met or exceeded growth expectations on assessments. “The assessments didn’t count for state measures, but we were able to do this during a pandemic—we’re doing something right,” says Meghan.
Seeing her teachers putting students’ needs first reminds Meghan why she’s an educator. At a burial for a family member of a student, Meghan spotted a first-year Tryon teacher sitting next to the child throughout the service. “He came back to school and said, ‘I’m going to be OK—I love this place,’” says Meghan. “I can’t imagine what he’s been through. His family suffered great loss. But this brand-new teacher has been with him through the whole thing. She reminds me that even when life gets busy and school is hectic, he knows that someone loves him.”
Hailey Couch (OK ’18)
Second grade teacher, Adams Elementary | Norman, OK
For Hailey, her long-term impact on students stays top of mind. A decade ago, one of her kindergarten students lost his father. Hailey held the little boy at the funeral and shared with the family the tradition she has for marking the date of her mother’s death. “Every year,” she says, “they send me pictures from their balloon launch—10 years later!”
Hailey may leave the classroom, but she’s absolutely staying in education. “There’s so much more work to be done,” she says. “More students to inspire. More teachers to impact, motivate, advocate for.” Hailey plans to move into administration to provide the leadership and mentoring she is grateful to have received: “We have the potential to impact others’ futures, and that’s a precious gift.”
Michael Rafferty (CT ’99)
Interim principal, Schaghticoke Middle School | New Milford, CT
At nearly 75 years old and in his 54th year as an educator, Mike says he has no plans to stop working. Though he retired in 2013, he still serves as an interim principal throughout the state and teaches college classes. “I still believe in kids,” he says. “I believe in teachers. I believe in the process of learning.” Rigor, relevance, reflection, and relationships: Those are the tenets that support Mike’s work.
P.S. Mike helped reaffirm educators’ purposes right in the Zoom room. Linda Sarver (MO ’03) had been thinking it was time to step back. After hearing Mike talk about his continued commitment to teaching, she realized she wasn’t done either: “You’ve convinced me to keep going!”
Wade Whitehead (VA ’00)
Fifth grade teacher, Crystal Spring School | Roanoke, VA
While Wade wishes the pandemic were making more large-scale lasting changes in the education ecosystem, he focuses on tangible victories. One morning, he wished a student happy birthday. The boy’s family hadn’t mentioned it, and the student had no idea that day was his birthday, says Wade. “I’m still here because every kid deserves somebody who knows when their birthday is. I think about giant missed opportunities, and then I think about kids like him. Teachers who care are going to make a difference for him. We sow seeds for harvests unseen.”
Silvia Miranda (NM ’18)
Reading specialist, Clovis Municipal School District | Clovis, NM
It’s Silvia’s first year outside her classroom, and she has questioned her “why” during the transition. But a recent interaction with a former student put things in perspective and reminded her that coaching colleagues is another way to make a difference for students. “He came into my office and said, ‘I get math now!’ because I helped his teacher understand his learning style,” says Silvia. “I may not have my own classroom, but I’m still making an impact.”
Liz Landes (PA ’19)
Science teacher, Marple Newtown High School | Newtown Square, PA
Last year, during hybrid teaching, Liz felt disconnected. Half of Marple Newtown’s students were learning at home and “I was teaching to a screen of black boxes,” she says. On the last day of school, a student Liz didn’t recognize brought her a beautiful handwritten card with a message about what an impact Liz had made on her throughout the year. “I thought the card was for someone else, but it turned out this young woman had been in my biology class all year,” says Liz. “Without knowing what she looked like, I felt like I had no connection—but whatever I was doing, it worked.”
Now that students are back in the building, Liz is hyper-focused on being present with them, reading their emotions and assessing their understanding: “I want to take things to a better level for them.”
Dr. Jane Foley (IN ’94)
Senior Vice President, Milken Educator Awards
As leader of the Milken Educator Network, Jane knows very well the impact teachers have on students. She thinks often about Mr. Dystrup, the high school government teacher who pushed her to excel by giving the always-conscientious student a C on her first assignment. “He knew I could do so much more,” Jane says. “After that, I worked harder. Mr. Dystrup sparked a drive for excellence in me. I think about him all the time. He changed the trajectory of my education, career and life.”
Jane reminds Milken Educators that talking about their “why” inspires everyone around them. “We were called to education,” she says. “We spend our lives helping others succeed. By sharing our motivations, we’re helping each other help ourselves.”
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Plurilingual and intercultural competences: descriptors and teaching materials (FREPA)
Drawing on the recommendations of the Council of Europe, many countries advocate the development of plurilingual and intercultural competences as key objectives of school education. In this context language education in the 21st century approaches languages not as separate universes independent from one another. Integrated and interdependent parts of one overall language competence enable individuals to move around in, and integrate into, a multilingual and multicultural environment. It is the “integrated” language repertoire which organises the relationships between all the varieties internalised in the individual’s competences. Thus, efficient and effective management of a range of languages is a characteristic of plurilingual speakers of which modern societies are in need.
Plurilingual and intercultural education does not replace existing language learning, but facilitates it by helping learners to establish links with what they already know or can already do.
But how is this to be achieved? How can relevant competences be defined? How can curricula target at the development of those competences? Which school subjects are concerned? How to train teachers for this purpose? The set of instruments developed by the FREPA team opens ways for developing plurilingual and intercultural competences of learners of all ages, from early learners and adult learners – and in all contexts, e.g. “normal” schools, bilingual schooling, minority language contexts, (re-) migrant learners, European schools, vocational training.
Based on the needs expressed by the partners in the member states the team offers training and consultancy for enhancing plurilingual and intercultural education at grassroot level (teacher training and classroom teaching) or at a policy level (curriculum design, reform of educational policies) or any level in between. The team will help identifying relevant elements of the FREPA instruments, adapting them to the context and will show examples of use.
As a result of the activities:
- Teachers should be able to identify objectives pertaining to plurilingual and intercultural education, to select, adapt and use relevant teaching materials;
- Teacher trainers should be able to design training modules presenting key aspects of pluralistic approaches for the development of plurilingual and intercultural competences;
- Textbook writers should be able to develop context adequate relevant teaching materials;
- Decision-makers should be able to identify areas where FREPA instruments can be usefully exploited for further developments; new initiatives supported by FREPA concepts should be launched.
- teachers of languages and other subjects;
- teacher trainers;
- curriculum developers;
- textbook writers;
- policy makers, decision takers.
Envisaged results and impact of the ECML training and consultancy
The immediate result/benefit will be that the participating education professionals are supported in their effort to review existing practice in (language) teaching and to identify areas where materials and approaches presented by the team will be of use.
The impact/long term-benefit will be that
- the need for coherent development of plurilingual and intercultural education is understood and widely accepted by relevant stakeholders;
- priorities are set for areas of development and
- practical instruments are made available to implement the new approaches.
- Anna Maria Curci, LEND (Movimento di Lingua e Nuova Didattica), Italy
- Jean-François de Pietro, Institut de recherche et de documentation pédagogique (IRDP), Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Brigitte Gerber, University of Geneva, Switzerland
- Petra Gilliyard Daryai-Hansen, Roskilde University, Denmark
- Ildikó Lörincz, University of West Hungary, Hungary
- Danièle Moore, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
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CEDAR email: IAGA 2017: Scientific results from the Swarm constellation mission (A09)
cstolle at gfz-potsdam.de
Mon Jan 23 14:48:22 MST 2017
We solicit your abstracts for session A09 - Scientific results from the
Swarm constellation mission (DIV I - DIV VI) during the next
IAPSO-IAMAS-IAGA Joint Assembly from Aug 27 to Sep 1, 2017 in Cape Town,
South Africa. The session description is provided below and at
The deadline for abstract submission is March 12, 2017.
Looking forward seeing you in Cape Town.
With kind regards,
Patrick Alken, Ciarán Beggan, Claudia Stolle
*A09: Scientific results from the Swarm constellation mission
*Convenors:* Patrick Alken*, *Ciarán Beggan, Claudia Stolle
Swarm, a constellation mission comprising three identical satellites,
was launched in November 2013. It has been used to survey the
geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution to an unprecedented level
of accuracy, and to investigate the interaction of the geomagnetic and
electric fields with the Earth system and near-Earth space.
The three Swarm satellites make high-resolution measurements of the
strength, direction and variation of the magnetic field, complemented by
precise navigation, accelerometer, plasma and electric field
measurements. Its constellation configuration has enabled observations
of the gradients within the geomagnetic field, ionospheric and
thermospheric parameters, and the gravitational field. Since 2013 the
two lower satellites flying side-by-side with an initial altitude of 460
km have decreased in orbital height. The third satellite, at a higher
altitude, has separated from the lower two in local time by few hours.
This session solicits contributions about recent scientific results from
the mission in terms of data analysis and Earth science applications
with a focus on the exploitation of the gradient information and
diverging local time measurements achieved by the Swarm mission. General
contributions on results using Swarm data, in combination with other
satellite missions or ground observations are also very welcome.
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- Sixty percent of elite athletes don't consider themselves financially stable.
- Unless they win, USA Olympians don't get paid for competing at the Olympics.
- The pay structure has left many athletes broke, driving for DoorDash, or crowdsourcing.
Following is a transcript of the video.
Narrator: Some Olympians make millions of dollars. But a recent global study of 500 elite athletes found that nearly 60% did not consider themselves financially stable. We're not sponsored athletes on cereal boxes and Gatorade bottles. I started driving for DoorDash. I worked at Panera, a bank. The financial strain is huge.
Narrator: That's because unless they win a medal, Olympians don't get paid for competing at the games.
Lauryn Williams: You see someone that's on television all the time and assume all Olympic athletes are famous, all you have to do is get a medal and you'll be rich. And nothing could be further from the truth.
Narrator: They also have a long list of expenses to train for their sport.
Lauryn: And you also are responsible for your coach, making sure that they are paid and compensated accordingly. Massage therapists, nutritionists. Something like a $250,000 earning turns into $125,000 really quick.
Narrator: So how do Olympians make money, and why isn't it enough? Unlike countries such as the UK or Singapore, American Olympians don't get paid to attend the Olympics.
Moinca Aksamit: If you're not going to be able to afford it, and if you're not doing well, there's like six other people waiting in line just to have the opportunity. We are the only major country in the world, and one of very few countries period, where the government does not get involved in funding its Olympic team.
Narrator: But there are three main ways they can make money for being an athlete. The first, stipends. Athletes can get stipends directly from the US Olympic & Paralympic Committee or from the groups that run the Olympic sports teams, called the national governing bodies. We pay to our very top athletes around $4,000 a month, plus performance bonuses.
Narrator: An Olympic gold-medal rower told USA Today she receives $2,000 a month. Monica won bronze at the Rio 2016 Olympics. We get a stipend, and it is $300 a month.
Narrator: How much funding an athlete gets depends on performance, and ...
Lauryn: Their ability is to be able to earn medals. So it's a tough kind of balancing act that the NGBs are doing to figure out, how do we support the athletes that are up-and-coming, but then also how do we make sure that those who are doing awesome right now are well cared for?
Narrator: Lauryn Williams competed in Olympic track and field and bobsled. She was the first American woman to win medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Lauryn: The funding was quite different between the two. Bobsled is a much smaller Olympic sport, and so there's three medals that we can earn.
Narrator: Compare that to track and field, where 128 American athletes are headed to the Olympic Games competing for 48 gold medals. Swimming, there's a lot of money, gymnastics, there's a lot of money. NBA, I mean, we don't even have to cover that one. It's the niche sports that really struggle the most.
Narrator: Athletes can also make money through sponsorships. A company covers some of their athlete's expenses in exchange for its logo on the athlete's uniform. More often, these sponsorships are performance-based, meaning an athlete has to win a certain number of competitions. Athleta now sponsors Simone Biles. TYR Sport sponsors Katie Ledecky for $7 million. 2K Sports and Nike sponsor Kevin Durant, who rakes in $40 million in sponsorship money every year.
Maggie Steffens: Some of us as athletes have been really fortunate to gain individual sponsorships. That's been hard to come by because people don't know water polo.
Narrator: Sponsorship deals among athletes are inconsistent, ranging from hundreds of dollars to millions.
Lauryn: I've seen athletes get very upset because they've performed really well, better than their competitor even, but the competitor has a lot more sponsorship opportunity.
Narrator: That's because sponsorships don't just depend on the sport. They also depend on the athlete's popularity.
Lauryn: When sponsors and brands are looking at athletes, they're looking at marketability, the return on investment they're going to get. It can literally be you have a huge following on Instagram, or you can just be so good that it's undeniable.
Michael Phelps: Ultra chocolate.
Narrator: Nailing a coveted sponsorship is hard. Athletes have to go out and get their own sponsors. Finally, athletes can win prize money. Competitions leading up to the Olympics, like the Diamond League meets, can have $10,000 first-place prizes.
Aaron: For me, when I get prize money, I have to immediately disburse that to bills and savings, and also I have to think about, I can't lose, or I can't come in a certain place because I have to make a certain amount of money to either break even or to gain a profit. So always going into a race with that is an immense amount of pressure.
Narrator: The International Olympic Committee doesn't award athletes cash prizes for medals. But some countries do. The United States is one of them.
Lauryn: The USOPC has something called Operation Gold. So if you earn a medal at the Olympic Games, there's prize money for the top three places there.
Narrator: In every sport, the USOPC awards a $37,500 medal bonus for gold, $22,500 for silver, and $15,000 for bronze. But the USA's medal bonuses are lower than what other nations offer.
Lauryn: It's a one-time payment.
Narrator: And those bonuses are only up for grabs every four years when the Olympics come around again. So what kind of consistent salaries do athletes get? Well, it's hard to say. But we do know in 2012, half of the US track and field Olympic team made $15,000 or less a year from the sport, including stipends, prize money, and sponsorships. Compare that to the salary of USA Track & Field's CEO, who earned $1.2 million in 2018. Plus, there are also hefty costs associated with competing at this level.
Lauryn: 15% to 20% generally goes to your agent. So that's money that doesn't exist anymore. And then you also have to pay taxes.
Narrator: Coaches can cost more than $100 an hour. That bobsled Lauryn competed in costs about $30,000.
Aaron: If I got to get shoes every two to three months, that's $200, $300.
Narrator: There's the price of gym time, massage and sports medicine appointments, dieticians, lots of healthy food, you name it. In 2012, US News & World Report found it costs up to $100,000 a year for athletes to be Olympians.
Lauryn: During the course of my career, I was really fortunate. I never earned less than $250,000. But there's a lot of expenses associated with being an athlete, because you are in fact a business, and a business has overhead. Something like a $250,000 earning turns into $125,000 really quick.
Narrator: Many athletes have turned to crowdsourcing to supplement their incomes. Monica started one to fund her way to Tokyo. It's now up to $30,000. Aaron's GoFundMe helped finance his way to the Olympic track and field trials in July.
Aaron: In a matter of 22 hours, I want to say it was, I had all the money that I needed, and it was such a wild moment for me.
Narrator: But most athletes have to take on part-time work. Working a part-time job at Scheels, which is an all-sports store here in Iowa City.
Maggie: You know, a lot of girls on our team are coaches. I own a business.
Narrator: And the pay gap among athletes has only worsened during the pandemic. A lot of hourly jobs went away for a good period of time during COVID. And then there was training facilities being shut down.
Monica: I would ref competitions here in New York City, but all of them were canceled, so I wasn't making money from that. I didn't even have ways of making money for rent. Everything was shut down. Like, even social media companies weren't even paying for us to be putting out different campaigns. So it was definitely rough.
Aaron: There was meets that I thought I would be able to get in and clean up and make money I didn't have. It really set me back financially.
Narrator: It's left Olympians and their families struggling to make ends meet. I've been raised by a single mother since I'm 8 years old, so she definitely was funding everything when I was younger. She went into credit card debt because of me. I feel like I am one of the best in America. So if I can do that while I'm at one point working two jobs and DoorDash and everything like that, then I can't imagine what I can do if I didn't have to do that. There's times where I don't even have money in my bank account.
Narrator: Things have shifted a bit to help athletes. At the 2018 games, the USOPC upped the medal bonuses by 50%. They changed the rules so athletes won't be taxed on their medal bonuses if they make under $1 million annually. US Olympians used to have to pay as much as $8,900 in taxes on a gold medal bonus. The IOC has recently eased Rule 40, which prohibited athletes from making money off their image rights before, during, and after the Olympics. But now, athletes' sponsors can run certain ads during the Rule 40 period. And in 2020, the USOPC launched the Athlete Marketing Project, which better connects athletes with sponsors. But the moves haven't been sweeping enough. Phil thinks that some of the funding for Team USA should come from the US government.
Phil: That money could ensure that our US Olympic team are treated equally to the level of achievement or treated to a salary that is appropriate for them representing this country.
Narrator: Across America, athletes are facing a decision. Is it all worth it? Twenty-seven times over, yes, yes, and yes. Even if it was half the income, I don't think that I would for regret one moment having participated in sport. I get to play the sport I love every single day. That's wealth. That's being rich. But I wouldn't be upset if in the future, we were able to make some more money and not necessarily have to have two jobs.
Aaron: It kind of puts a chip on my shoulder to go even harder, to compete at the best and compete with the best so that I can take myself out of this position.
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Category 2 Centres under the auspices of UNESCO form an important part of UNESCO’s network, constitute considerable resource of the Organization and represent an effective partnership model. They assume increasing importance in achieving the organization’s programme priorities and serve in their fields of specialization as international or regional centres and poles of expertise/excellence to provide technical assistance and services to the Member States, partners and UNESCO-IOC networks in the regions. The centres provide a response to the increasing demand for regional marine research and education and assists in meeting national and regional priorities.
The IOC works closely with 3 Category 2 Centres. They contribute to the objectives of IOC related to reduction of the impacts of natural hazards, adaptation to climate change and variability, safeguarding the health of ocean and coastal ecosystems, and contribution to the sustainability of the coastal and ocean environment. The Category 2 Centres in oceanography contribute to the Commission’s priorities with a focus on capacity development. They support the objectives of the Commission’s sub-commissions/committees and are instrumental in the major initiatives of IOC such as the second International Indian Ocean Expedition, the Global Ocean Science Report and the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030).
Regional Research Centre on Oceanography for West Asia (RCOWA) - Iran (Islamic Republic of) (2015, extended until 31 January 2023)
The centre is established under the auspices of UNESCO in the Iranian National Institute for Oceanography and Atmospheric Science (INIOAS). The centre creates the basis for the best scientific understanding of the processes going on in the marine and coastal environment of the geographical area covering the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and Caspian Sea. It assists Member States of the region in achieving sustainable development and facilitating regional partnership and co-operation. The centre develops regional marine and coastal management policy, by identifying and meeting national and regional priorities through sharing knowledge and experience, by operating education and training programmes and raising public awareness concerning the need for sustainable management of sea and coastal areas. In its regional dimension, the centre assists the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) in meeting its objectives, especially in the area of data and information collection and management by the formulation of the ODINCINDIO programme (Ocean Data and Information Network for the Central Indian Ocean Region).
INIOAS website: http://www.inio.ac.ir/Default.aspx?tabid=2768
International Training Centre on Operational Oceanography - Hyderabad, India (2018)
The centre is hosted by the Indian Centre for Ocean Information (INCOIS) of the Ministry of Earth Sciences. The mission of the Centre is to assist the countries on the Indian Ocean Rim (IOR), African countries bordering the Indian and Atlantic Oceans and small island countries in the development and optimization of oceanographic scientific base, related technology and information systems and to create a vast pool of trained ocean scientists to cater the growing demands of operational oceanography services. The Centre contributes to define regional and global problems and priorities, the solution of which requires regional and international cooperation and assist in the identification of training, education, and mutual assistance needs, particularly those related to IOC and Centre programmes. In its regional dimension, the centre assists the IOC Regional Committee for the Central Indian Ocean (IOCINDIO) in meeting its objectives, especially in the area of data and information collection and management by the formulation of the ODINCINDIO programme (Ocean Data and Information Network for the Central Indian Ocean Region).
INCOIS website: https://incois.gov.in/ITCOocean/index.jsp
International Centre for Capacity Development: Sustainable Use of Natural Resources and Societal Change (GRÓ) – Fisheries Training Programme (FTP) – Reykjavik, Iceland (2020) (First UNESCO cross-sectorial Centre)
GRÓ comprises four training programmes which aims at strengthening organizational, institutional and individual capacities in developing countries. Fisheries Training Programme (FTP) is one of them. GRÓ-FTP is hosted within the Icelandic Marine and Freshwater Research Institute. It aspires to contribute to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by promoting the sustainable use of living aquatic resources in less developed countries. Its objectives are to strengthen capacities by providing excellence in training, education, and research opportunities, by facilitating the professional growth of fisheries professionals and by placing cooperation, capacity building, knowledge-sharing and research at the forefront of its mission. The core activity of GRÓ-FTP is an annual six-month training programme in Iceland which aims to strengthen the professional capacity of GRÓ-FTP Fellows to actively contribute to work done in their organisations and to recognise development potential in their home countries. FTP has since 1998 trained over 400 fellows from more than 60 countries and conducted short courses and workshops all over the world. GRÓ-FTP looks forward to working closely with UNESCO and the IOC to strengthen cooperation on capacity development in fisheries and the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.
Other UNESCO sector concerned: Natural Sciences
GRÓ-FTP website: https://www.grocentre.is/ftp
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How to manually texture microfoam milk
Before you dive into latte art, you have to create perfectly textured milk, reaching the optimal temperature and texture to achieve a silky smooth mouthfeel. To texture milk using the Breville Bambino®: 1) Start by pouring fresh, cold milk into the milk jug to just below the spout mark. 2) Point the steam wand down towards the drip tray and press the 'Steam' button to purge any condensed water and set the desired steam temperature. 3) Press the 'Steam' button again to pause. 4) Place the steam wand immediately into the milk, with the tip of the wand just below the milk’s surface. 5) Press the 'Steam' button again to start the flow of steam into the milk. The milk will begin to spin clockwise, producing a 'whirlpool.' 6) Lower the jug slowly to keep the steam tip just below the surface. This introduces air into the milk, creating texture and volume. 7) Continue texturing the milk until you reach the desired temperature and volume. You’ll know the milk is at the correct temperature when the milk jug is hot to the touch. 8) Press the 'Steam' button to stop steam delivery before removing the jug. 9) Set the jug aside and wipe the steam wand with a damp cloth. 10) Point down towards the drip tray and press the 'Steam' button to purge excess milk. You’re now ready to create latte art. | <urn:uuid:9144ac9d-762e-4541-8612-11d47d309923> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.breville.com/us/en/inspiration/tutorials/the-bambino/latte-art/how-to-manually-texture-microfoam-milk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.851829 | 308 | 1.546875 | 2 |
1. The rate of delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients is significantly reduced by hypothermia prior to implantation.
2. Kidney transplant recipients that benefit most from hypothermia prior to implantation are those from the “expanded-criteria” donation category.
Evidence Rating Level: 1 (Excellent)
Study Rundown: Therapeutic hypothermia has been previously shown to have neuroprotective effects in post-arrest and stroke patients. Some of these patients that do not regain neurologic function eventually become organ donors. The theoretical benefits of hypothermia include reducing metabolism as well as free radical production; however, it is widely debated whether these effects actually have clinical significance when it comes to management of donor organs.
This study randomized donor organs from declared deceased patients as per neurologic criteria into mild hypothermia (34-35 degrees Celsius) or normothermia (36.5-37.5 degrees Celsius) prior to implantation. The primary outcome of delayed graft function – defined as recipients requiring dialysis within 7 days after transplantation – occurred in only 28.2% versus 39.2% (hypothermia vs. normothermia, odds ratio=0.62, p = 0.008). Secondary outcomes included individual organ transplant in each treatment group and the total number of organs transplanted in each donor.
Since donor intervention frequently occurred before organ allocation, there was a statistical difference in cold-ischemic time noted between the hypothermia versus normothermia groups (p=0.02). This could potentially explain the difference seen between the groups. Furthermore, the protective effects of hypothermia noted in this study are only applicable to recipients of renal transplant since cooling could also impair function in other organs being considered for donation in the same deceased body. However, this study provides valuable insight into how interventions in the donor (before implantation) can preserve graft function downstream in transplant recipients. The effects of hypothermia in long-term graft function will be a future area of interest.
In-Depth [randomized controlled trial]: This was a prospective multicenter randomized trial. It was terminated early due to the overwhelming benefit of hypothermia on reducing delayed graft function in kidney transplant recipients. At termination, the primary endpoint of delayed graft function occurred in 79/280 (hypothermia; 28.2%) versus 112/286 (normothermia; 39.2%) (p = 0.008). Subgroup analysis including the expanded-criteria donors reported a 31.0% delayed graft function in the hypothermia group compared with 56.5% in the normothermia group (adjusted odds ratio, 0.31; 95% CI, 0.15 – 0.68; p = 0.003). Therefore, renal grafts from expanded-criteria donors and other high-risk subgroups benefited from hypothermia.
The study is limited by the fact that the healthcare provides of the donors were aware of the group assignments. However, the transplantation centre was different from the centre the donor was treated which aided in blinding the group assignment.
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Coral calcium comes from naturally fossilized coral beds. Coral calcium comes from coral animal structures and it is easier to absorb than inorganic calcium carbonate. Coral calcium powder can be used to strengthen bones and teeth. It can also be used to support heart health.
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What is a good salary in Indonesia?
What is the average salary in Indonesia? People working in Indonesia make an average gross salary of $13,436 a year, $1,120/month, and $6.46 an hour. These numbers differ between cities, industries, and job titles.
How much does a teacher earn in Bali?
How Much Can Teachers Expect to Make? The average salary of an English teacher in Bali is $650 – $1,050 USD (9,300,000 – 14,700,000 IDR) per month. Some teachers report earning slightly more, but don’t hold your breath.
How do I become a teacher in Indonesia?
According to Law Number 14 (2005), general requirements for becoming a teacher in Indonesia include completing a four year university degree or four years of higher education, obtaining a teacher certificate, and demonstrating professional, pedagogical, personal, and social competencies.
How much money do you need to live in Indonesia?
The cost of living in Indonesia is quite low, so it’s possible to live comfortably on a surprisingly small amount of cash. A recent survey found that a single person can live comfortably on Rp 13,415,843 (about $900) a month. A family of four would need about Rp 29,846,962 (about $2,000) to live comfortably.
What is the basic salary in Indonesia?
Minimum Wages in Indonesia averaged 3.17 IDR Million/Month from 2012 until 2021, reaching an all time high of 4.42 IDR Million/Month in 2021 and a record low of 1.68 IDR Million/Month in 2012.
Can I teach English in Bali?
It is very possible to teach English in Bali. Most schools and programs will require a TEFL or TESOL certification.
Which country is best to teach English?
The Best Countries To Teach English Abroad
- South Korea. South Korea has one of the largest English teaching markets in the world. …
- Japan. Japan has one of the longest traditions when it comes to hiring English teachers. …
- China. China’s English teaching market is also flourishing. …
- Thailand. …
- Czech Republic. …
- Saudi Arabia. …
Is it hard to find work in Bali?
In many cases, expatriates choose to live in Bali because the cost of living is cheaper than other destinations in South East Asia, but Bali can be a tough place for expats to find employment – even for those who hold an excellent track record of skills and experience because finding skilled locals costs far less.
Do you need a degree to teach in Indonesia?
As it stands today, to qualify to teach in Indonesia you need a degree (any as long as you have transcipts), and at least 1 years teaching after graduating, a teaching certificate, and a medical check from a hospital in Indonesia.
Is it easy to get a job in Indonesia?
However, do not despair, as finding a job in Indonesia might be challenging, but not impossible. For its population size of over 259 million, there is only a 6.6% rate of unemployment, which speaks for itself.
Can a foreigner be a teacher?
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Set in the Depression-era 1930s in Chicago's Bronzeville neighborhood, The Adventures of Minnie: Minnie Saves the Day
takes place during a time of unyielding segregation with rigid boundaries separating white neighborhoods from black.
Where are the cartoon characters imprisoned in Buster Saves The Day
The story gets more and more twisted until a little parasite (Meat Child) grows on the branches of one of the "parents" and eventually saves the day
If that angle reaches either 0[degrees]161[degrees] or 90[degrees]161[degrees], the ball will be missed, except for rare instances in which a heroically outstretched hand or leg saves the day
. "The [formula] fielders use to intercept the ball is one that ensures they arrive at the right place at the right time but does not tell them where or when that is," McLeod and Dienes assert.
Dave saves the day
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The first thing you should know is that taking the exam can be very stressful for people who are not used to studying. Before you take any exam, you should make sure that you have plenty of time to study. For most exams, you’ll get about 7 days to study before you have to go take them. If you don’t have time to spend studying, it’s really worth your while to hire someone to help you study.
Make sure that you have access to someone who can help you take your HESI exam. You should have a tutor or teacher that you can ask questions to who can give you good advice. Of course, your local school district may have a qualified teacher available to help you as well. But generally speaking, if you cannot afford to hire someone to help you study, you should get your study guide from the library. It should only cost a few dollars and will give you some excellent practice tests to help you get ready for the real thing.
Now, let’s talk about some of the questions you will face on the exam. One of the most important things to remember when preparing for a licensing exam like this is that you want to get as many HESI exam answers as possible. If you don’t have the answers, you’ll be at a serious disadvantage. This is especially true if you’re taking the exam in an unfamiliar area of nursing.
Also, you’ll want to go over all of your materials very carefully before you even begin studying for the exam. You need to know exactly what kind of information you’re going to need in order to pass and understand everything you read. Of course, if you do not have enough information to pass, you may find that you end up getting more study material than you really need which can cost you time and money.
When you first start studying, it’s best to start by reviewing the materials that you already have sitting around in your house. You should go through these first and make sure that you understand them. Reviewing materials is a good way to become familiar with the topics that you’re going to be covering on the exam. As you become more comfortable with the material, then you can move on to more difficult questions. At the very least, make sure that you understand the concepts behind each question before you answer it.
HESI exam answers are available online so you will want to make sure that you take full advantage of this resource. There are many sites online that offer test preparation material, but there are also many sites that offer practice exams and practice sheets. This will give you the opportunity to study for the test without wasting any time getting ready.
One of the most important things that you should remember when studying for the exam is that it doesn’t matter how you study. It’s just as important to be disciplined as it is to get all of your questions answered. If you study well but don’t pay attention, then you will not be as prepared as you could be. If you focus your time and effort and pay attention, however, you will be able to ace the exam. Of course, it’s up to you to find the right HESI exam answers to nail the test. | <urn:uuid:03dba139-e566-4cd0-b030-96dc8f94b536> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://domyhesiexam.com/how-to-find-hesi-exam-answers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973205 | 676 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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Money Guru: Income tax payer? Expert reveals why TDS is deducted from salary
The responsibility lies with employer not with employee to submit TDS, according to Income Tax norms, and in lieu of that a certificate is issued to the employee.
When we hear about TDS or tax deducted at source, common impression is that of money being taken from your earnings. This is deducted by employer from employee's income or by payer from payment amount being given to a payee. Thus, it is an advance tax submitted with the government. The responsibility lies with employer not with employee to do so according to Income Tax norms, and in lieu of that a certificate is issued to the employee, all these details are discussed on Zee Business show Money Guru with Tax expert Manish Gupta.
According to Gupta, when we hear about TDS, it appears as if amount is being deducted from our income, but this system has been evolved by the government to deduct a particular amount an employee's salary in advance and submit it with the Income Tax department so that the burden is reduced.
While filing Income Tax returns, employee needs to either show that TDS certificate or in the new system Form 16 is available online whose record is available with the I-T department and while submitting the TDS details, the deducted amount is compared and ITR is filed accordingly.
— Zee Business (@ZeeBusiness) May 21, 2019
Suppose, your total tax liability is Rs one lakh and Rs 80,000 has already been deducted as TDS from your salary, then you just need to submit the Form 16 and you will have to pay merely Rs 20,000 because rest has already been paid, according to Gupta.
According to him, there are certain other categories, barring salary, including contract payment, services payment, professional service and payment on assets or rent, or house or any other property. Further, Manish Gupta also informs that apart from this, if you purchasing any property, you can cut TDS; if you are an employee and paying rent of over Rs 50000 to your house owner, you have right to deduct 5% TDS, besides this can also deducted on royalty and in loan payment.
TDS can further be deducted by those individual whose books of account are audited, therefore, the responsibility of lies with payer or employer to deduct this amount and submit it with the income tax department.
Manish Gupta also informs that in case of winning a lottery, winning contest like Kaun Banega Crorepati, the winners receive the amount after TDS deduction.
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Foreign Minister Hayashi will visit Indonesia from the 7th to attend the first G20 = foreign ministers' meeting of 20 major countries after Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
We reiterate that the Russian invasion is a violation of international law and emphasize the importance of the rule of law.
Foreign Minister Hayashi will visit Bali, Indonesia from the 7th to the 2nd and attend the G20 Foreign Ministers' Meeting.
This meeting will be held for the first time after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and 8 Japanese-style discussions will be held, and opinions will be exchanged on how to respond to the global food crisis and rising energy prices.
Minister Hayashi reiterates that Russia's military invasion is a clear violation of international law, and emphasizes the rule of law and the importance of sovereignty and territorial integrity.
He will also explain Japan's efforts, including food aid to Ukraine and developing countries.
Then, on the 8th, Minister Hayashi is coordinating to hold a foreign ministers' meeting between Japan, the United States and South Korea with Secretary of State Antony Blinken of the United States and Foreign Minister Park Chin of South Korea, and is coordinating the issue of nuclear and missiles by North Korea. I would like to confirm the cooperation in response.Keywords: | <urn:uuid:2be9f60c-c608-4353-8e06-de5e6866355a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tellerreport.com/news/2022-07-06-to-attend-the-g20-foreign-ministers-meeting-foreign-minister-hayashi-visited-indonesia-today.Hk-beSv7o5.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.926701 | 260 | 1.546875 | 2 |
The “New York Post” has compiled a list of jobs that celebrities supposedly had before they were famous.
1. Wyclef Jean was a gypsy cab driver. Kids, that’s like an old-school Uber.
2. Nicole Kidman was a massage therapist in Australia.
3. Jennifer Aniston was a bike messenger and a waitress.
4. Julia Roberts was a Baskin-Robbins ice-cream scooper.
5. Beyoncé used to sweep up hair at her mother’s salon.
6. Demi Moore was a debt collector.
7. Meryl Streep was a high school cheerleader. Rumor has it she was also nominated for Homecoming Queen every year, whether she deserved it or not. (???)
8. Bill Murray used to sell chestnuts outside a Chicago grocery store.
9. Gwen Stefani mopped floors at a Dairy Queen in Southern California.
10. Matthew McConaughey cleaned chicken coops.
11. Martha Stewart used to baby-sit Mickey Mantle’s four boys.
12. Rod Stewart was a soccer player.
13. Whoopi Goldberg worked in a mortuary, making up dead people’s faces.
14. Elvis Costello worked at a bank as a data entry clerk.
15. Jay-Z was a drug dealer.
16. Morgan Freeman was a “radar technician” for the U.S. Air Force.
17. Eddie Vedder worked nights as a hotel security guard.
18. Channing Tatum was a male stripper, obviously.
19. Patrick Dempsey was a juggler.
20. Victoria Beckham appeared on a BBC sex-education show.
21. Ozzy Osbourne worked a daily 9-to-5 in a slaughterhouse.
22. Mick Jagger was a porter in a mental hospital.
23. Mark Wahlberg modeled Calvin Klein BVDs, as EVERYONE knows by now.
24. Cyndi Lauper was a pop singer known for songs like “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” and “Time After Time”. Oh, wait! That was her famous period. So let’s see . . . before that she cleaned the cages at a dog-kennel.
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – HelixBind will receive up to $2 million in funding from public-private partnership CARB-X to develop antibacterial products and rapid diagnostics, the company announced today.
The funding is for development of a culture-free diagnostic platform called RaPID and the first test to be implemented on the platform, a bloodstream infection (BSI) assay that aims to provide identification of pathogens and drug resistance within hours, directly from blood samples.
"We believe RaPID will enable clinicians to place patients on targeted antimicrobial days sooner, leading to better outcomes, reduced time in the hospital, and improved antibiotic stewardship," said the Boston-based firm's founder and CEO, Alon Singer.
The diagnostic is molecular in nature, and includes technologies for pathogen isolation and selective lysis, according to the company. Specifically, it uses PCR to amplify 16s and 18s ribosomal RNA from bacteria, and species-specific artificial nucleic acid probes for post-amplification detection.
CARB-X, short for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria Accelerator, is a nonprofit partnership headquartered at Boston University comprising a portfolio of about 20 antibacterial products in clinical development.
Over a five-year period from 2016 to 2021, the organization plans to invest $455 million in innovative antibiotics and other therapeutics, vaccines, rapid diagnostics, and devices to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections. The monies come from the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) and the Wellcome Trust, with in-kind support from the National Institute of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Other CARB-X partners include RTI International, the Broad Institute, MassBio, and the California Life Sciences Institute.
The organization will specifically fund innovative antibiotics and other therapeutics, vaccines, rapid diagnostics, and devices to treat drug-resistant bacterial infections.
"HelixBind's diagnostic project is an exciting addition to the Powered by CARB-X portfolio, building the number of diagnostics in the portfolio and enhancing its diversity," Kevin Outterson, Executive Director of CARB-X said in a statement. "The ability to identify infections and drug-resistant bacteria in a timely manner will enable doctors to treat patients more effectively and save lives." | <urn:uuid:468a11be-523c-4336-b383-2d312a8d312e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.360dx.com/pcr/helixbind-awarded-2m-carb-x-funding-culture-free-bsi-test-development | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.905033 | 475 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Sunday Jul 29, 1883 to Saturday Apr 28, 1945
ItalyBenito Amilcare Andrea Mussolini was an Italian politician and journalist who founded and led the National Fascist Party. He was Prime Minister of Italy from the Fascist coup d'état in 1922 to his deposition in 1943, and Duce ("Leader") of Italian Fascism from the establishment of the Italian Fasces of Combat in 1919 to his execution in 1945 during the Italian Civil War. As dictator of Italy and founder of the fascist movement, Mussolini inspired other totalitarian rulers such as Adolf Hitler, Francisco Franco, and António de Oliveira Salazar.
Mussolini was born on 29 July 1883 in Dovia di Predappio, a small town in the province of Forlì in Romagna. Later, during the Fascist era, Predappio was dubbed "Duce's town" and Forlì was called "Duce's city", with pilgrims going to Predappio and Forlì to see the birthplace of Mussolini.
On 5 December 1914, Mussolini denounced orthodox socialism for failing to recognize that the war had made national identity and loyalty more significant than class distinction. He fully demonstrated his transformation in a speech that acknowledged the nation as an entity, a notion he had rejected before the war.
On the morning of 28 October, King Victor Emmanuel III, who according to the Albertine Statute held the supreme military power, refused the government request to declare martial law, which led to Facta's resignation. The King then handed over power to Mussolini (who stayed in his headquarters in Milan during the talks) by asking him to form a new government.
On 31 December 1924, MVSN (Milizia Volontaria di Sicurezza Nazionale) consuls met with Mussolini and gave him an ultimatum: crush the opposition or they would do so without him. Fearing a revolt by his own militants, Mussolini decided to drop all pretense of democracy.
A law passed on 24 December 1925—Christmas Eve for the largely Roman Catholic country—changed Mussolini's formal title from "President of the Council of Ministers" to "Head of the Government", although he was still called "Prime Minister" by most non-Italian news sources.
In 1926, Mussolini ordered every Italian woman to double the number of children that they were willing to bear. For Mussolini, Italy's current population of 40 million was insufficient to fight a major war, and he needed to increase the population to at least 60 million Italians before he would be ready for war.
In July 1932, Mussolini sent a message to German Defense Minister General Kurt von Schleicher, suggesting an anti-French Italo-German alliance, an offer Schleicher responded to favorably, albeit with the condition that Germany needed to rearm first.
Italy finally declared war on Nazi Germany on 13 October 1943 from Malta. Thousands of troops were supplied to fight against the Germans, while others refused to switch sides and had joined the Germans. The Badoglio government held a political truce with the leftist partisans for the sake of Italy and to rid the land of the Nazis.
The fascist republic fought against the partisans to keep control of the territory. The Fascists claimed their armed forces numbered 780,000 men and women, but sources indicate that there were no more than 558,000. Partisans and their active supporters numbered 82,000 in June 1944. | <urn:uuid:8fb592e0-3b1f-465a-bf60-0701e6e735f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://historydraft.com/story/benito-mussolini/timeline/762 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974391 | 711 | 3.53125 | 4 |
Making Duaa in One’s Own Language in Sujud
Is it allowed to make duaa (supplication) in my own language during sujud (prostration) of prayer?
Almighty Allah says:
And your Lord says, “Call upon Me; I will respond to you.” Indeed, those who disdain My worship will enter Hell [rendered] contemptible. (Ghafir 40:60)
Abu Huraira narrated that Allah’s Messenger (peace be upon him) said that Allah thus stated: “I am to my servant as he thinks of Me and with him as he calls Me.” (Muslim)
An-Nu`man ibn Bashir narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “Indeed, supplication is worship.” (At-Tirmidhi)
Abu Huraira reported that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “The nearest a servant comes to his Lord is when he is prostrating himself, so make supplication (in this state).” (Muslim)
Ibn `Abbas (may Allah be pleased with them) narrated that the Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said: “Glorify your Lord in ruku` (bowing posture) and exert yourself in supplication in prostration. Thus your supplications are liable to be accepted.” (Muslim)
It is recommended for every one to make supplication while offering sujud in prayer. If he/she does not know how to make supplication in Arabic, then it is permissible to make supplication in their own language. There is a comprehensive supplication mentioned in the Qur’an which is preferred to be invoked:
“Our Lord, give us in this world [that which is] good and in the Hereafter [that which is] good and protect us from the punishment of the Fire.” (Al-Baqarah 2:201)
To know more about the rulings of making du`aa during prostration, watch this interesting talk with Dr. Muhammad Salah.
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Cropping a video stream
An alternative to cropdetect filter
Sometimes a 16/9 movie is recorded within a 4/3 window. Therefore the video player cannot zoom the video to full screen, even if the Display Aspect Ratio is 16/9. This is due to existing black areas in the upper and lower part of the video.
Standard procedure to eliminate these black areas is to run first the cropdetect filter and then run the crop filter. In some cases, the drawback of cropdetect is that it needs a log analysis when a human eye give a better result quicker.
An alternative to this procedure is to run first the fillborders filter with blue color and evaluate the result in an iterative manner.
ffmpeg -i "INPUT.mp4" -vf fillborders=top=84:bottom=56:mode=fixed:color=blue "OUTPUT.mp4"
The resulting crop filter is then this one :
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Household smoke may be the world’s deadliest environmental hazard
Global campaigns have failed to change how poor people heat their food
| SOKONE, SENEGAL
IMAGINE building a small pile of wood and kindling in the smallest room in your house, and setting fire to it. You can keep the door open, to let out some smoke, but cannot switch on an extractor fan. You must tend the fire for an hour. Repeat the process three times a day.
This is how Fatou N’Dour lives. Her kitchen, separate from her home and built of mud bricks, measures roughly two metres by two. She usually cooks indoors because of the winds that whip across Lambayene, the village where she lives in central Senegal. Asked about ventilation, she points to a hole in one wall, which is about ten centimetres square. Other women in the village cook rice, couscous and meaty sauces in similar conditions, using wood from a nearby forest.
Wood and charcoal in Africa; coal in East Asia; wood and animal dung in South Asia—in much of the world, food is heated by burning primitive solid fuels. Each fire is tiny, but the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris-based research group, estimates that 5% of the world’s primary energy demand in 2016 was supplied by “traditional solid biomass”. Wind turbines and solar panels combined generated less than half as much energy.
The awful effects of these fires begin with their impact on human health. Household smoke is thought to be the world’s most lethal environmental problem, killing 2.6m people a year. Where wood and charcoal are burned, trees often disappear. Africa loses some 0.5% of its forests every year, a higher rate of destruction than South America’s. Soot from domestic fires also warms the planet, particularly when it settles on snow. Black carbon like that from dirty cookstoves is thought to be the third most important cause of climate change after carbon dioxide and methane.
Governments, aid agencies and charities have for decades tried to coax people towards cleaner fuels like liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and electricity. Those who must burn wood and dung are prodded to do so in more efficient stoves.
Progress has been astoundingly slow. Since 2000 the number of people living in extreme poverty has plunged from 1.7bn to about 600m. Neonatal deaths have fallen by 49%. Yet the number of people heating their food with dirty fuels has stuck at 2.5bn-2.8bn, according to the IEA, largely because of growth in Africa (see chart). The Global Alliance for Clean Cooking, which uses a slightly different measure, estimated in 2015 that the number might even have risen. As for those improved cookstoves, researchers who hand them out in a village almost invariably find, when they return several years later, that people have gone back to cooking over handmade mud stoves or large stones.
That efforts to change how people cook have fallen so short for so long can be blamed on weak markets, unco-ordinated charity interventions and muddled priorities. It also illuminates why development is so much harder in Africa than in Asia.
Cooking over an open fire is no fun, especially if you have to do it every day. In another village in western Senegal, Felane, women complain that their kitchens are always hot and smoky. The smoke stings and irritates—one woman blames it for colouring the whites of her eyes. Firewood is becoming ever harder to find. A local man, Cheikh Diouf, who has nine children, says that wood-collecting may take four trips a week, each one of up to four hours.
Those who have a simple metal cookstove with a clay liner, known as a jambaar, say it is better than the traditional method of balancing a pot over three big stones atop a fire. The jambaar is more efficient, needing less wood. Surveys in other countries show that many poor women realise this. A jambaar can also be moved outside when the weather allows. And it just feels superior: one woman in Lambayene describes it as “civilised”.
Yet jambaar stoves are seldom on sale at the weekly markets. People seem not even to know how much they cost. Gunther Bensch and Jörg Peters, both of the Leibniz Institute for Economic Research in Germany, gave jambaar stoves to Senegalese villagers in 2009. When they checked, in 2015, almost all had worn out. Hardly any had been replaced.
The problem is not only poverty. Mr Bensch and Mr Peters have tried auctioning jambaar stoves. They found that villagers often bid more than they would pay in nearby towns. Perhaps they do not buy them in markets because shopping is seen as women’s work, and women are not allowed to spend much without consulting their husbands. Or perhaps it is too difficult to carry stoves from town to village. One urban stove vendor, Malick Niang, says he would not try to sell the stoves in villages. They are heavy and breakable, and demand there is uncertain. Another problem is that, being safe, poor and French-speaking, Senegal attracts charities and aid agencies. Some at times hand out stoves for little or nothing. That confuses people about their true value, and can wreck markets.
Even better cookstoves may not do much to improve health. The linkage between household smoke and harm seems not to be linear, says Kevin Mortimer of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Above a certain level, breathing more smoke might not make a person much sicker. Even the most efficient wood stoves expose cooks to many times the level of smoke that the World Health Organisation regards as safe. Mr Mortimer was involved in a large trial in Malawi, using a top-of-the-line stove, which found no evidence of an effect on rates of childhood pneumonia.
Perhaps it is better to pick a genuinely clean fuel (clean to cook with, not necessarily in the planet-preserving sense) and promote it hard. Brazil, Ecuador and Indonesia, among others, have all subsidised LPG. Since 2016 the Indian government has made LPG available to 34m households, giving them gas stoves and one cylinder free. The petroleum ministry says that four-fifths of the newly connected households have bought a replacement cylinder. On average, they buy four cylinders a year, which implies they get at least half of their cooking energy from wood, dung and the like. Still, this is rapid progress.
So switching fuels rather than stoves seems the more hopeful approach. “We were fooling ourselves, thinking that we could pick any old fuel off the ground and make it burn cleanly,” says Kirk Smith, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, who is involved with India’s programme. Not only is LPG much cleaner than solid fuel. It also feels like a step up in the world and is easier to use (even men can cook with it).
Subsidies make for poor policy tools. They are snaffled by wealthy, well-connected people. They create lobbies supporting them, and become hard to cut. Particularly in small countries, subsidised goods are likely to leak over borders. Subsidies may also vary from year to year with the government’s budget. That is a particular danger in the case of cooking fuel, because cooks prize reliability. If people cannot always obtain clean fuel, they will probably revert to dirty stuff, says Radha Muthiah, the departing head of the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves.
These are mighty problems even for large middle-income countries with more-or-less competent governments. India, which for years frittered away money on LPG for the middle class, has managed to steer the subsidies—the world’s biggest cash-transfer programme—more accurately towards the poor, partly thanks to the Aadhaar biometric-identity scheme. But in smaller, poorer, more corrupt countries, LPG subsidies are probably out of the question. India has found a tricky, costly way of clearing the air. In sub-Saharan Africa, the smoke lingers.
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It’s no big secret that American transportation infrastructure is falling apart and sorely underfunded. In 2014, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHA) labeled more than 61,000 U.S. bridges as "structurally deficient." There is currently a $1.4-trillion deficit between transportation funding and spending needs for the next 10 years, according to a May 2016 report by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE). That gap will increase to $5.18 trillion by 2040, the ASCE estimates, if something isn’t done soon about the way the United States funds its transportation projects.
Recent legislation, such as the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act, provided $305 billion in funding for repair and maintenance, but those who have to use our nation’s highways, waterways, and rails every day are left wondering how much longer they can go on like this.
Total U.S. freight shipments will increase 45 percent by 2040, according to the FHA. This means that, without some sort of fundamental change in the way we pay for infrastructure maintenance and improvement, damage to the nation’s infrastructure will continue to outpace federal funding.
In our January 2016 issue, Inbound Logistics looked at where each presidential candidate stood on infrastructure funding. As the general election approaches, it’s now time to examine where the major party nominees stand.
Hillary Clinton: Infrastructure Is In a ‘Sorry State’
On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton has begun to focus on infrastructure. "I don’t have to tell you what a sorry state we’re in. Our roads and bridges are potholed and crumbling," Clinton said in speech on June 22, 2016. "Our airports are a mess. Our ports need improvement. Our rail systems do, as well."
Clinton’s solution to fix these problems, which she has vowed to implement within the first 100 days of her presidency, involves a five-year, $275-billion plan that would be paid for by an undefined "business tax reform," according to her campaign website.
Of the $275 billion, $250 billion would be invested directly to public projects, while the remaining $25 billion would be socked away in a national infrastructure bank. This bank would use the $25 billion as capital to support an additional "$225 billion in in direct loans, loan guarantees, and other forms of credit enhancement," to bring in more private capital investment as well, the campaign website says.
As such, in total, Clinton’s plan aims to address U.S. infrastructure with about $600 billion in public funds. It also aims to save money through cutting red tape. Infrastructure projects often get mired down in bureaucracy, and take years to get started. If a future President Clinton could fast-track those projects, a substantial amount of money could be saved. Additionally, Clinton proposes reauthorizing the Obama administration’s Build America Bonds to funnel more money into infrastructure.
It all sounds good on paper. However, the downside for the transportation industry is that the plan isn’t limited to transportation infrastructure. The funding is also earmarked for projects designed to move the United States into the future, such as electrical grid improvement projects, updating sewage and water infrastructure in American cities, and bringing reliable high-speed internet infrastructure to the entire nation. Right up front, any transportation projects will have quite a bit to compete with, and the funding is likely to fall far short of what would be needed.
Donald Trump: Dreaming Big
Donald Trump often talks about failing U.S. infrastructure in online videos and on the campaign trail, but has failed to release any sort of infrastructure plan on his campaign website.
Though he hasn’t released a plan of his own, Trump says that Clinton’s proposed plan isn’t nearly enough. "Her number is a fraction of what we’re talking about. We need much more money to rebuild our infrastructure," the Republican nominee said in a Fox Business Network interview. "I would say at least double her numbers, and you’re going to really need a lot more than that."
Trump’s campaign has said he will release a plan to this effect in the near future, but they had no specific timeframe. Even so, the idea is clearly on his mind. "We will build the roads, highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, and the railways of tomorrow," Trump said during his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention.
Trump’s willingness to spend on infrastructure hasn’t been popular with his fiscally conservative party. He has even likened his infrastructure ideas to President Franklin Roosevelt’s: "If we do what we have to do correctly, we can create the biggest economic boom in this country since the New Deal, when our vast infrastructure was first put into place," Trump wrote in Crippled America, his 2015 campaign book.
All we know at this point is that Donald Trump is dreaming big about fixing American roads, rail, and waterways, but it remains difficult to fairly compare the plans of two people when one hasn’t actually released a plan. Until there is a plan in place to hold him accountable, the Republican nominee can say pretty much whatever he wants about his intentions for our nation’s infrastructure.
Stakeholders in the transportation industry will want to keep a close ear to the ground from now until the election to see if the Trump campaign follows through on releasing its plan as promised.
Honey, I Shrunk Our Carbon Footprint
We don’t all drive the trucks, but we all depend on them for products we consume daily. Every retailer, manufacturer, and consumer uses products or materials every day that at one point moved by truck. So when it comes to the emissions caused by freight, everybody is a little responsible for the damage to the environment.
New Clean Truck standards from the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation aim to change all that. "The new fuel standard means continued progress in tackling this significant source of emissions," says Jason Mathers, director of supply chain for the Environmental Defense Fund, in a blog post. "This progress will reveal itself in lower carbon footprints for every product brought to market. It will be apparent through lower freight and fuel surcharge fees—saving large consumer brands millions annually."
The standards require new tractor-trailers to emit 25 percent less carbon emissions in 2027 than they do in 2017, with standards increasing incrementally toward that goal in 2024 and 2027. Trucking stakeholders at all levels—from owner-operators to large fleet managers—can expect to benefit from new technologies within the next few years.
"With the certainty of long-term standards, manufacturers will make the needed investments to introduce new engine platforms, better integrate powertrains, and take advantage of other cost-effective choices," Mathers says.
A number of green leaders in the freight movement industry, including PepsiCo, Walmart, and General Mills, had a say in the new standards. The new rules are expected to be critical in the battle against global climate change, so it isn’t surprising that companies already aiming to reduce their carbon footprint are on board. Freight movement accounts for more than 10 percent of U.S. carbon emissions.
"Making heavy trucks more fuel efficient is the single most important step to reducing freight emissions," says Mathers. "The program announced will be crucial to build a low-carbon future that enables the free flow of freight. That is an outcome every business should celebrate."
Amazon shook up the retail sector in ways that nobody predicted, changing how the world shops forever in the process. So when the company spent the past six months leasing and purchasing assets to begin dabbling in the freight sector, transportation and logistics providers got nervous.
The retail giant now wants to shake up the freight sector, which has trouble keeping up with the high expectations consumers have developed thanks to Amazon Prime. Seeking to support the one-day and two-day Prime shipping options that have made the service so popular, the company plans to ramp up cargo operations over the next several years.
"Our operations teams have been focused on our fulfillment centers and core supply chain processes, creating the capabilities required to enable the world’s largest selection with fast, free shipping for Prime members," says Dave Clark, Amazon’s vice president of worldwide operations. "Now we see the same opportunity to innovate in transportation."
Amazon unveiled its newly branded aircraft in grand style, flying it over Seattle’s Seafair summer festival before the Blue Angels performed. The Boeing 747-300 is only the first of many that will bear the Amazon logo. The company plans to release an entire branded fleet in the near future. "We’ll roll out 40 planes just like this one," Clark says.
Amazon has said previously that it doesn’t intend to replace partners such as FedEx or UPS for package delivery, only to supplement them with its own assets. Yet, the concern of many in the logistics sector is that Amazon will eventually cut out partners, or begin offering its own contract logistics services in competition. With Amazon, anything is possible.
A key supplier goes out of business. Global standards and regulations change. Consumer demand shifts. Any of these scenarios can put your supply chain at risk. But you can mitigate the impact of global supply chain disruptions, and protect your supply chain against future threats. For some expert advice, Inbound Logistics spoke with Bob Gazdik, risk control national director, and Mike Thoma, chief underwriting officer, global technology at insurance company Travelers.
IL: When building, adapting, or expanding a supply chain, what is the most practical way to research industry-based standards and their accompanying legal obligations?
BG: It’s best to start by identifying the widely recognized industry organizations that set industry consensus-based standards. Companies can use those resources to help understand the best practices within an industry. Some examples of organizations that provide quality criteria for electronic components include the Independent Distributors of Electronics Association, SAE International, and the Federal Defense Logistics Agency.
Understanding suppliers is one step, but understanding the seller is crucial to protect the supply chain. This goes beyond simply finding out who will give you the lowest bid. It is typically safer to purchase from Original Equipment Manufacturer-approved distributors and source references from other companies that have had experience with the seller.
IL: What should companies look for when conducting due diligence on the potential liabilities associated with their supplier partnerships?
BG: When you’re thinking about working with a supplier, try to understand their track record, financial resources, and customer base, as well as their proactive and reactive tactics for limiting business disruption. At the product level, there are some protocols, such as verifying specifications, that may help decide whether to start a business partnership . You can help ensure suppliers’ specifications match your needs by reviewing the bidder’s documentation, quality control and testing procedures, and contractually requiring the bidder to notify you in advance of any changes they make to product design or suppliers.
If you decide to work with a particular supplier after you have completed your due diligence, anticipate that your company will be the primary contact to handle customers’ technical questions or complaints.
That’s why it’s important to know as much about product design and safety features as possible. The contractual agreement with the foreign manufacturer should be written to allow you access to pertinent information you might need to address customer questions or complaints.
Q: How can companies with international supply chains consistently verify that their suppliers’ products and practices meet previously agreed-to safety standards and reliability specifications?
BG: Continually reviewing quality control processes for parts, products, and services contracted from suppliers, no matter where they are located, is critical. Knowing how each supplier produces materials or components and conducts on-site inspections and independent testing will help you validate that products and practices meet established specifications.
Creating a formal product safety committee to oversee regulatory compliance of products is a good way to help ensure it’s done right. This committee should include senior management, legal counsel and team members responsible for product design, manufacturing quality, and product safety codes and designs.
Q: How can companies with global supply chains transfer risk to avoid the complications of litigating against foreign manufacturers responsible for product liability issues?
MT: Strategies to help avoid the complications of litigation with foreign manufacturers include an effective risk transfer program that involves diligent record documentation, careful selection of shipping companies, and close reviews of shipping practices and shipment itineraries. Minimizing the number of parties who come into contact with overseas products can also help.
Because it can be difficult to litigate against foreign manufacturers, domestic handlers of foreign-made products can be held accountable. This is why it is so important that you regularly assess product liability exposures—including raw materials, components, and sub-assemblies.
To help in doing that, you can draft an agreement that allows you to access pertinent information that may help defend against potential product claims. The agreement should include statements of responsibility, such as a Certificate of Insurance, and writing "hold harmless" or indemnification provisions into contracts.
These contracts may also include a "choice-of-venue" clause in which the supplier agrees to address disputes within the U.S. court system.
A robust and growing economy offers rewards for everyone, but often involves growing pains as well. In logistics and supply chain management, one of these growing pains is the changing nature of the workforce.
"Right now we’re in a transition point," says Tom Gimbel, CEO of the LaSalle Network, a Chicago-based provider of staffing and recruiting services. "We still have a number of older supply chain professionals who came up in the procurement side of the business, while at the same time we’re getting recent graduates of supply chain management programs. They generally combine distribution and finance expertise, and are proficient in much of the new software being developed."
This changing of the guard is largely driven by huge leaps in technology and ERP software development impacting the industry.
These changes have reoriented the ideal career path of someone entering the field. Supply chains once were managed by finance or accounting veterans, but organizations now recognize the value offered by people who can get products from Point A to Point B. This emphasis has led to the birth of new college curricula.
"Supply chain management has emerged as a new business-related field of study," says Tisha Danehl, vice president of New York-based employment agency Ajilon Professional Staffing. "As a staffing company, we’re anxious to place graduates of these programs because there is currently a shortage of qualified people."
Both LaSalle and Ajilon see increased demand for supply chain professionals, and are devoting more resources to meeting it.
The evolution of college curricula is largely technology driven. Cloud computing and robotics courses are part of the Business Analytics and Information Technology (BAIT) umbrella. Meanwhile, people in academia are developing closer relations with industry leaders to best coordinate courses with business needs.
Colleges are beginning to help bridge the gap between school and future career by offering to set up summer internship programs, beginning as early as the student’s sophomore year. Students who participate enjoy a post-graduation placement rate of approximately 90 percent.
"At our company, we partner with colleges to offer seniors workshops in resume writing and interviewing skills," Danehl says. "We also provide a salary guide so students can estimate how much they’ll earn."
Despite the change in demand for the type of supply chain candidate, the net number of new people needed is unpredictable, based on the economy and the pace of corporate mergers, Gimbel notes. A slowing economy means less product is being transported, so fewer people are needed, while a merger can have a surprising effect.
As an example, he cites the proposed merger of The Hershey Company with Mondelez International. "The new company could let go of current staff and bring in more software-focused people to reengineer their distribution system," Gimbel says. The deal is on hold due to resistance from the Hershey board, which is closely allied with the philanthropic causes in its Pennsylvania host city.
The speed with which the field is changing may be the reason the experts disagree with the latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report, which forecasts annual job growth of just two percent from 2014 until 2024. The BLS does not estimate starting salaries, but does list $74,260 as a "median" annual pay.
Given the highly impactful role supply chain engineers and logisticians play in an organization, they may well be underpaid because their importance is hard to overemphasize. "Changing the structure and operation of procurement and supply chain technology can hugely impact a company’s P & L," says Gimbel.
And perhaps mean the difference between survival and failure.
Logistics, transportation, and supply chain professionals can best identify the insurance products that apply to their business or industry, according to Mike Thoma, chief underwriting officer, global technology at Travelers.
Talk with an agent, broker, or legal counsel to develop the right combination of local and global policies to cover your insurance needs, Thoma recommends. Primary coverages to consider include:
- Global Product Liability: Protects against foreign claims or lawsuits for bodily injury or property damage resulting from the use of a business’s product.
- Global Property Business Interruption: Covers lost income due to damage by a covered cause of loss that forces a business to temporarily shut down a portion of its overseas operations. Policies may also cover funds to meet fixed costs, relocation expenses and other extra expenses.
- Global Property Transit: Covers damage to property in-transit overseas.
- Foreign Voluntary Workers Compensation: Provides equivalent of workers compensation benefits to employees injured abroad who are not covered under a domestic policy.
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year – for all those except students, that is. Christmas exams and assignments are just around the corner, and it’s like you don’t feel too prepared for them rn.
The good news is – there’s still time! You may not have opened a book yet, or maybe you have but the information just isn’t absorbing in your brain, don’t worry.
So you haven’t studied yet?
The exams are looming and you haven’t done a tap. You’ve got months/years of stuff to revise and quite frankly the thought is giving you The Fear. But fear not! Here’s a list of our top tips, giving you the ultimate study guide to get you through the upcoming exam season!
We know the stress…
If you’ve got exams coming up right now you are probably thinking Oh. My. God. You shouldn’t even be reading this. You should be above in that bedroom chained to your desk, your eyes going blurry from over-kill of information, and the heat from your desk lamp making you even more flushed than you were when you got not yet another panic about how much there is to do.
You’re probably wishing you could go back to September, plan your study guide again and take everything nice and handy, allowing all those facts to sink slowly and satisfyingly into that already bulging brain. But unless you have some time machine in your garden shed, it ain’t going to happen. Some girls in your class are quite obviously studying like mad yokes and don’t they just love texting you all about it? “Well, I’ve already done all my poetry” one particular brain box will say smugly, while you sit there thinking “It’s over”.
We’d love to start telling you off by “Don’t panic” but we’re assuming those sweat patches under your arms were a sign that you’re in a bit of a state, so it’s a bit late for that. However, with our advice, we are hoping that you can clear your mind enough to focus on all the information in a logical and calm manner. We don’t mind telling you that by fifth year we were so inundated with facts that we couldn’t think straight, so if it’s happening to you, read on. We have compiled a guide to help you at least get your head together and gain some calm perspective. Now breathe….
It’s easy to get so caught up in the hysteria of exam pressure that you forget the most logical of details. You think you need to know every single textbook back to front to have all the possibilities covered. What you really should be doing now is getting to know the past papers. They’ll give you an insight into how you should answer the questions, how each answer is marked, and what you should be revising.
For each subject you study, you should check past exams for similar questions and then answer them. This is a great way for recognising trends in questions ie; how regularly similar questions are asked.
If you have a quick look at how papers are marked, this will help you see what the examiner is looking for in your answers. Knowing how each area is marked will help you revise the most important areas.
Time yourself on sample answers. Not only are you training yourself to complete them in the correct time, you are getting to know type of question that could come up, and this will only build your confidence. By the time you get into that exam you’ll be raring to go!
Top 5 Revision Tips:
Set goals but make sure they are realistic. If you know you can achieve something you are less likely to freak out about it.
Revise in sections. Break up each subject into sections that you can look at frequently. Follow this by actively revising. Use a pen and paper to write down the main points and answers, then check if you’re right! Just reading is not a good way to revise.
Grasp the main idea, then work downwards with the details. Having a logical knowledge of what something is about is most important. Once you understand a subject the details will come much easier.
Use a system. If you can’t find things, and your notes are all over the place, this will NOT help you feel in control of you study. Start with a simple filing system. Get your subjects, folders and notes organised immediately. Have a separate folder for each subject, and keep a ‘current’ folder to keep track of what you’re working on.
Relax. If you set aside certain hours to study, and you stick to them, then you won’t feel guilty about watching TV or hanging out with your mates. You should study for around four hours on weeknights (including homework) and at the weekends set aside a whole day when you don’t have to study at all. For example, you could do it like this:
Mon-Thurs: 5-7 pm homework then an hour for TV and 8-10pm Revision
Friday: 5-7pm homework
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Miles DavisMiles Dewey Davis III (May 26, 1926September 28, 1991) was an American trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th-century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in a five-decade career that kept him at the forefront of many major stylistic developments in jazz.
Born in Alton, Illinois, and raised in East St. Louis, Davis left to study at Juilliard in New York City, before dropping out and making his professional debut as a member of saxophonist Charlie Parker's bebop quintet from 1944 to 1948. Shortly after, he recorded the ''Birth of the Cool'' sessions for Capitol Records, which were instrumental to the development of cool jazz. In the early 1950s, Davis recorded some of the earliest hard bop music while on Prestige Records but did so haphazardly due to a heroin addiction. After a widely acclaimed comeback performance at the Newport Jazz Festival, he signed a long-term contract with Columbia Records and recorded the album '''Round About Midnight'' in 1955. It was his first work with saxophonist John Coltrane and bassist Paul Chambers, key members of the sextet he led into the early 1960s. During this period, he alternated between orchestral jazz collaborations with arranger Gil Evans, such as the Spanish music-influenced ''Sketches of Spain'' (1960), and band recordings, such as ''Milestones'' (1958) and ''Kind of Blue'' (1959). The latter recording remains one of the most popular jazz albums of all time, having sold over five million copies in the U.S.
Davis made several line-up changes while recording ''Someday My Prince Will Come'' (1961), his 1961 Blackhawk concerts, and ''Seven Steps to Heaven'' (1963), another mainstream success that introduced bassist Ron Carter, pianist Herbie Hancock, and drummer Tony Williams. After adding saxophonist Wayne Shorter to his new quintet in 1964, Davis led them on a series of more abstract recordings often composed by the band members, helping pioneer the post-bop genre with albums such as ''E.S.P'' (1965) and ''Miles Smiles'' (1967), before transitioning into his electric period. During the 1970s, he experimented with rock, funk, African rhythms, emerging electronic music technology, and an ever-changing line-up of musicians, including keyboardist Joe Zawinul, drummer Al Foster, and guitarist John McLaughlin. This period, beginning with Davis's 1969 studio album ''In a Silent Way'' and concluding with the 1975 concert recording ''Agharta'', was the most controversial in his career, alienating and challenging many in jazz. His million-selling 1970 record ''Bitches Brew'' helped spark a resurgence in the genre's commercial popularity with jazz fusion as the decade progressed.
After a five-year retirement due to poor health, Davis resumed his career in the 1980s, employing younger musicians and pop sounds on albums such as ''The Man with the Horn'' (1981) and ''Tutu'' (1986). Critics were often unreceptive but the decade garnered Davis his highest level of commercial recognition. He performed sold-out concerts worldwide, while branching out into visual arts, film, and television work, before his death in 1991 from the combined effects of a stroke, pneumonia and respiratory failure. In 2006, Davis was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, which recognized him as "one of the key figures in the history of jazz". ''Rolling Stone'' described him as "the most revered jazz trumpeter of all time, not to mention one of the most important musicians of the 20th century," while Gerald Early called him inarguably one of the most influential and innovative musicians of that period. Provided by Wikipedia | <urn:uuid:e794634f-56d2-414f-982a-a262b1ef0edb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://find.mtsu.edu/vufind/Author/Home?author=Davis%2C+Miles. | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96778 | 813 | 2.4375 | 2 |
HB2: Stuck between state law and federal guidelines, schools aren't rushing to make policy
The fight over House Bill 2, now commonly known as the bathroom bill, continues.
While the state involves itself in dueling lawsuits with the federal government, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction stated earlier this week it is up to local school boards to decide where transgender students use the bathroom while at school.
On Friday, the federal government weighed in not just in North Carolina, but nationally.
Friday morning, the United States Department of Justice released a letter to schools in all 50 states regarding the government’s interpretation of sex and gender and how it applies to Title IX — a law that states no person in the United States can be discriminated against on the basis of sex.
According to the letter, “The Departments interpret Title IX to require that when a student or the student’s parent or guardian, as appropriate, notifies the school administration that the student will assert a gender identity that differs from previous representations or records, the school will begin treating the student consistent with the student’s gender identity.”
The letter also states that if a student identifies as transgender, schools must allow them access to any gender-segregated facilities or programs that are consistent with their gender identity.
Violation of Title IX can result in a loss of funding for a school or, as could be the case with North Carolina, an entire state school system.
“If you include the university system, that is well over $1 billion,” Sen. Deputy President Pro Tempore Louis Pate, R-Wayne, said.
The Department of Justice agreed this week not to pull any education funding from North Carolina until after the ongoing legal battle is over.
Rep. John Bell, R-Wayne, said that while he is concerned about the government’s action regarding HB2, his focus has been elsewhere.
“We are going to try and roll out a budget for the House (of Representatives) next week, and that’s where our focus is right now,” he said. “I think this is a political agenda they are pushing, and there are lawsuits out there and I’m sure there will be more as more states push back against this.”
In Lenoir County, there has only been one instance of a transgender student needing an accommodation at school.
Patrick Holmes, spokesman for Lenoir County Public Schools, said the situation arose this school year when a transgender student brought a concern about bathroom use to a principal.
“The principal suggested — and the student accepted appreciatively — the student use a staff bathroom in a private location,” he said in a statement to the Free Press. “We think the State Board of Education and Department of Public Instruction would like to see a consistent policy in response to the apparent confusion about bathroom use. When we get that, we will conform to the policy they give us.”
While school board chairman Jon Sargeant could not be reached for comment, multiple board members told The Free Press they were not aware if the school board will create a plan for student bathroom use.
“I would say follow the law, but that’s where the conflict is coming from,” board member W.D. Anderson, said. “I believe that’s got to be settled before we do anything.”
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Nursing is a noble profession that is emotionally rewarding and personally satisfying. This profession has great job prospects and endless areas of specialization.
Pros and cons of being a nurse
It is not easy to choose a career which is so diverse and energetic like nursing, whether its working with doctors in different fields, to planning and carrying health programs and undertaking health issues. Nursing involves lots of health care activities which are quite challenging at times. Nurses also have to interact with patient at times, have to closely listen to their problems, try to engage in meaningful conversation with patients, dealing with patient’s family and comforting them and follow the rules of privacy.
At the same time being a full-time nurse can offer many advantages. Most of the times its emotionally rewarding which is not present in most of the other professions. They serve as a beneficial bridge between doctors and patients and also with the patient’s families, which is emotionally rewarding. There are many jobs associated with this profession which makes it beneficial for future prospects.
More about RNs
RNs stands for registered nurse. RNs have larger responsibilities as compared to LPNs. They even have to adjust the complicated parts of treatment and medical doses. RNs possess more knowledge than LPNs. They often have to take critical decisions when necessary.
People who aim for nursing career generally look for courses that helps them to be the best LPNs and RNs.
LPN stands for licensed practical nurse. The main responsibility of LPN is to fulfil various health care duties like, observing the patients, undertaking regular vital checks, keeping health professionals updated on patient’s condition and so on. There are variety of LPN programs, some of them are online LPN programs which helps the student to complete the course, while staying at home. They conduct online LPN classes, and also ensure the students with extraordinary rate of success.
One can start the career in this noble profession easily by choosing the right program options offered online and in person at various institutes established by the experts of this field.
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It is important for nearly ever business in the digital environment of today to have a great web presence in order to thrive. That will likely mean something different to everyone, but most can find great value in a great website. However, no matter how well designed it might be, it is important to use tools for backlink tracking or website benchmarking in order to make sure that the site is operating at its highest potential. Although backlink tracking is just one of the ways for a business to monitor the success of its web site, doing so is a great way to make sure that no problems are being overlooked.
Even the best websites might require tweaks and alterations in order to consistently function as well as possible. If it is not, they might use a webgrader to help point out flaws in order to quickly overcome them and improve the site. Since backlink tracking monitors the amount of websites that are citing a specific web site, it can help a business to know whether or not their site is as effective as possible and is a valuable tool. Although, backlink tracking is just one of many tools of a website grader it can be very useful to a business.
In the same way that a great website will use backlink tracking and other tools in order to monitor its success, so too will a great SEO campaign. SEO benchmarking can help an individual or a business figure out why their SEO strategies are not working as well as anticipated and, as a result, prove to be very valuable. SEO benchmarking will likely use backlink tracking in order to make sure that an optimized web site is consistently achieving the reach that its owners expect.
Today, having a strong web presence is nearly a necessity for any business looking to increase its performance in the digital marketplace. Tools like backlink tracking and others make that more feasible by monitoring how successful a campaign might be, and pointing out problems that are limiting its potential. Consequently, investing the amount of time and resources needed to install and take advantage of tools like backlink tracking programs, in order to make sure that a web site or SEO campaign are as successful as possible, can go a long way towards helping a business thrive and grow in the business environment of today. | <urn:uuid:49af6c09-b8be-47a5-bd57-1fb95657fbde> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://4newsgroups.com/premium-reporting-tools-help-businesses-build-a-stronger-web-presence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.964594 | 446 | 1.632813 | 2 |
What is it?
The feet are the roots that connect us firmly to the ground. They have to bear our full weight and easily get tired. They are also often covered by footwear. This is why it is good to take care of your feet and give them the treatments they deserve – a short foot bath and elaborate nail and cuticle care. This treatment is finished with a nourishing foot massage and the application of a semi-permanent nail polish of your choice. | <urn:uuid:bc90c0e3-f242-42c9-b9b9-19659dd066a5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://spachezvous.it/en/servizi/aesthetic-pedicure-with-semi-permanent-nail-polish-application/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.984583 | 95 | 1.523438 | 2 |
Day 2 - the German defence plan:
1/32 will dig in on Dog Hill - first priority for pioneers
2/94 will dig in on Artillery Hill (should be able to reuse some of the French defences) - second priority for pioneers
1/94 will dig in on Telegraph Hill - third priority for pioneers
Own positions are also pre registered in the event of a counterattack - Dog, Artillery, Telegraph.
Fire called by telephone ideally, or if needed by flare.
If the guns need to be on table, just back in the valley somewhere one gun behind each regiment, ideally where they can see the ridgeline if direct fire is required.
French PLAN B
Clear I/211 (Artillery Hill) position first, using all artillery, then take on I/215 (Dog Hill)
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Exploring Illinois’ Zero Tolerance Laws for Underage DUI Offenders
In the United States, drinking is a sort of rite of passage for many teenagers, though it is illegal. One of the worst things a teenager can do when they have been drinking is get behind the wheel of a car. Driving while you are under the influence of alcohol, or any other drug for that matter, is illegal for anyone, no matter your age. For those who are under the age of 21, drinking and driving is a much more serious offense, and young offenders face harsher penalties.
Zero Tolerance Laws
Most states have developed some form of zero tolerance laws for underage DUI offenders. These laws have helped underage DUI offenses become less common, but they still happen and they are still punished accordingly.
In Illinois, if a person under the age of 21 is pulled over on suspicion of intoxicated driving and their BAC is more than .00, he or she will face penalties in alignment with the zero tolerance laws. For a first offense, driving privileges will be suspended for three months for a BAC over .00. If the offender refuses to submit to a chemical test, driving privileges are suspended for six months.
Underage DUI Penalties
If a person under the age of 21 is convicted of DUI, they will receive all of the same penalties as someone who is over the age of 21. This means that for a first offense, underage DUI offenders face up to one year in prison and up to $2,500 in fines. Since they are under the age of 21, offenders will also face a minimum of two years of driver’s license revocation and will not be eligible for a restricted driving permit (RDP) until the second year of the revocation. In addition, a judge can also order an underage DUI offender to participate in the Youthful Intoxicated Driver’s Visitation Program.
A DuPage County Underage DUI Defense Attorney Can Help
No parent wants to receive a call from a police officer telling you your child has been arrested for DUI. This can be a scary experience for both you and your child, but with help from a knowledgeable Wheaton, IL underage DUI defense lawyer, you can be certain you are receiving the best help possible. At the Davi Law Group, LLC, we understand the complexities of underage DUI charges, and we can help you and your child form a solid defense. Call our office today at 630-580-6373 to schedule a free consultation. | <urn:uuid:efa731fa-1bfb-4406-a18c-1e1f67403b14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dupagecountycriminallawyers.com/wheaton-defense-attorneys/exploring-illinois-zero-tolerance-laws-for-underage-dui-offenders | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949321 | 538 | 1.671875 | 2 |
HH, Sir Godfrey Gregg D.Div
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad. Genesis 31:24
This visitation of God made a deep impression on Laban. He refers to it afterwards as restraining him from injuring his runaway son-in-law. Jacob, too, was struck by it. It is very wonderful to find the Holy God casting the mantle of His protection around this crafty and deceitful soul. No doubt it was due to His covenant relationship with the family and race, of which Jacob was a most unworthy member (Genesis 30:13, and Genesis 30:42). But if God thus interposed for Jacob, will He not much more interpose for those who desire to be His obedient children? Where do you fit in in this order of protection?
God will lay an arrest on your persecutors. – Israel was rebuked because the exiles in Babylon thought they would perish before a man that could die, and the son of the man who was as grass and forgot their Maker, the Lord of heaven and earth. All around you, the fire may rage; but you shall walk amid it unscathed, if only you trust. No weapon formed against you shall prosper. Too often times we quote the word but without any understanding. We have to have a claim on something to reap the benefits and this is a particular area that we have to follow.
God will lay an arrest on trial. – His finger is always on our pulse, and the moment the pain becomes more than we can bear, He will stay it. His eye is ever upon His own.
God will lay an arrest on the power of the evil one. – We shall not be tempted beyond that we are able to bear. There is always thus far and no farther. “The Lord maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters.” The Only-begotten of the Father keeps the sheep whom His Father has entrusted to Him. Not one of them can be devoured by the lion of hell. If only we believed this, we should be calmer, happier, even though circumstanced as Jacob. No need to altercate with Laban, but to look beyond him to the “Fear of Isaac.”
All these are promises of the Father to His children and He will honour His word and bring them to pass. David said he has never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed beg for bread. Are you one of the seeds David is talking about? | <urn:uuid:bdfda8b6-c39c-408b-ab49-2ace3fcdf0a6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mysticalorderinc.org/2020/11/17/watch-what-you-speak/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975572 | 538 | 1.773438 | 2 |
It’s back-to-school time, which means the advertisements are everywhere: Buy! Buy! Buy! Pencils and gadgets. Backpacks and sneakers. And, yes, heaps and piles of brand-new clothes.
Fast-fashion trends, driven by consumer taste and innovations in textile manufacturing, have overstuffed American closets. Clothes shopping has emerged as a weekly habit, and people are constantly clearing out and buying new.
It’s a big problem. In 2019, Americans will throw away more than 35 billion pounds of textiles, according to the Council for Textile Recycling. That’s nearly double the number from 1999.
It’s more important than ever, environmental advocates say, to keep that clothing out of landfills.
“We’re trying to take responsibility,” said Eileen Fisher, whose eponymous fashion brand buys back its garments from customers at $5 each and reworks the material into new merchandise, under its Renew brand, at factories in Irvington, N.Y., and Seattle. It bought back its millionth garment in May. Fisher lives near the former printing warehouse in Irvington that the company converted into its Renew sewing factory. She walked through its clothing-intake center, wearing a gray and white kimono coat made from patches of Eileen Fisher clothing scraps that were turned into felt.
At an early stage in her 34-year-old company, Fisher said she and her co-workers grew alarmed at the environmental toll of clothing manufacturing — from depleted farm fields to dye pollution in rivers. Her company’s reuse efforts have expanded into its Circular by Design mission, in which today’s clothes become tomorrow’s raw materials.
“We need to move from a use-and-discard economy to a reuse economy,” she said. Its remade clothes are specially tagged and sold in Eileen Fisher stores, pop-up shops and on its Renew website. A $250 jacket gets a second life at $90. “As manufacturers, we want to treasure the resources we’re using, to make clothing that lasts and can be repurposed. We want customers to value our clothes.”
Patagonia, the Ventura, Calif., based outdoor clothier, has for decades been a worldwide leader in this closed-loop system of manufacturing and reuse.
“As individuals, the best thing we can do for the planet is to buy less and keep our stuff in use longer,” said Rose Marcario, Patagonia’s president and CEO. “The simple act of extending the life of our garments through proper care and repair reduces the need to buy more over time.”
It’s estimated that the global textile industry uses 98 million tons of resources a year, chiefly water and energy. Fabric dyes have polluted major rivers in India, Bangladesh, China and other countries. The plight of underpaid workers producing fast fashion in unsafe factories has sparked outrage expressed in documentaries and books.
The large and ambitious buyback, repair and repurpose operations signal a fundamental shift in consumers’ relationship with clothing.
One vision of the future works like this: Brands manage the products they make after consumers use them. Consumers buy garments with the idea of keeping them as long as possible, and then the brand repairs and resells them. If garments are too damaged to be donated or resold, they will be “upcycled” into new clothing or recycled into fibers. So, for instance, a favorite shirt may one day provide the fiber that insulates a home. Or the fabric of a sofa. A garment might have six or seven life cycles.
Repurposing “can be made into a business that’s profitable,” Fisher said, noting that her company’s Renew operation brings in $3 million of the company’s $450 million in annual sales.
To amplify the philosophy that resource stewardship can be profitable, the Eileen Fisher company is an active member of Business for Innovative Climate and Energy Policy and the American Sustainable Business Council, joining like-minded ventures such as Nike, Seventh Generation and Starbucks. “We don’t want sustainability to be our edge,” Fisher said. “We want it to be universal.”
The art of repair
At its huge service center in Reno, Nev., Patagonia houses a repair facility where 70 full-time employees replace zippers, patch rips and renew and return items that customers may have bought decades before. The company’s Worn Wear program, begun in 2005, includes cute clapboarded rigs that make regular tours to U.S. college campuses and ski resorts and to international locations, teaching customers how to repair items. Shoppers can sell used Patagonia items in good condition back to the company and buy “certified, pre-owned” Patagonia gear at discounted prices online.
To further the cause, Cynthia Power, facilities manager for Eileen Fisher’s Renew, is kept busy showing other clothing manufacturers how its 40 employees mend, overdye, resew or felt (a way of processing fabric) buyback silk, wool, cashmere and cotton.
“This is where our industry is going,” Powers said, watching as head designer Carmen Gama pinned a jumpsuit for Renew’s fall 2019 line using fabric from five pairs of used black jeans. The recycled textiles also are turned into wall hangings, pillows, coats, vests and kimono jackets.
“Waste can be art,” said Sigi Ahl, creative director of DesignWork, the Eileen Fisher felted collection. The pillows are sold at ABC Home stores, and a Paris gallery sells the wall art. Both types of product were displayed in June at the American Institute of Architects’ sustainable exhibit at the Javits Center in New York.
The Renew program also studies fiber wear and clothing-construction techniques to generate performance data — such as how well a particular material held up — that it puts on Excel spreadsheets, Fisher said. The information “inspires the main fashion line” to do better, she said.
Todd Copeland, Patagonia’s environmental responsibility manager, said the company, a founding member of the Sustainable Apparel Coalition, has long turned yarns made from plastic bottles into fleece, for example, and made fabric from plant fibers such as eucalyptus.
He said Patagonia has relationships with at least 85 finished goods factories in 17 countries, at least 150 material suppliers in 25 countries and at least 200 farms, and the company examines them all for business capability, quality, environmental impact and social impact.
He said the efforts help the company: “Customers are looking for a brand with values that resonate with them.”
The rise of resale
It’s back-to-school time, and Kidding Around, a children’s resale shop in Clive, Iowa, has been hopping for weeks. July, August and September are the store’s busiest months, and there is brisk turnover of the 18,000 secondhand clothing items for sale.
The 4,000-square-foot store, outside Des Moines, is open seven days a week. A staff of nine keeps up with the flow of garments coming in and going out. Parents drop off lightly worn clothing and never-worn garments — “new with tags” in resale parlance — and receive cash or store credit.
The appeal of resale?
“People have so much stuff it’s unbelievable,” owner Diane Fitzgerald said. “And they like the concept that they can reuse and recycle their items.”
The number of thrift, consignment and resale businesses has exploded in recent years, growing by 7 percent annually, according to trade association figures.
Online, a new crop of resale shops such as ThredUp and Vinted has emerged, as well as Internet-only sales platforms sponsored by traditional thrifts such as Goodwill and the Salvation Army. These time-honored nonprofits face increased competition because of the nationwide expansion of for-profit chains such as Clothes Mentor, Buffalo Exchange and Plato’s Closet.
Clothing rental companies such as Rent the Runway, another form of recycling, have also been booming.
Now, one out of six Americans shops for resale clothing. But only about 15 percent of clothing in America is recycled.
The textile summit
At a textiles summit in New York in October, Ben Rose, representing the city’s Sanitation Department, disclosed a stunning figure. Each year, on the day of the New York City Marathon, runners shed as much as 100 tons of clothing. His department places collection bins inside apartment buildings. Most of the textile waste it collects goes to salvage and is turned into such products as wiping cloths, auto insulation and carpet padding.
Worldwide, less than 1 percent of the material used to produce clothes is eventually recycled, according to an Ellen MacArthur Foundation report. The waste causes major environmental damage and the annual loss of about $100 billion of potentially useful textiles that are burned or buried in landfills.
Some industries are stepping up. Airlines such as Southwest, Jet Blue, Delta and KLM are recycling uniforms, blankets and cushion fabrics, which are turned into totes, luggage tags and stuffed animals.
Unlike recent changes in the food industry, where restaurants and corporations responded to consumer demands for more healthful food, much of the initiative on combating textile waste is coming from forward-thinking clothing companies and industry associations.
The summit in New York on innovations in textile manufacturing, waste reduction and reuse brought together a large roster of groups working on the problem, including the Product Stewardship Institute, Textile Recovery, the New York State Pollution Prevention Institute and the New York Product Stewardship Council.
College students have been early adopters of the waste-reduction issue. A campus-based nonprofit, the Post-Landfill Action Network, has chapters at about 100 universities across North America. The group promotes plastic-free campuses, food recovery and composing programs, efforts to salvage items students discard when they move out at the end of the year and campus thrift stores.
“It’s a young people’s movement,” said Ahl, the designing artist at Eileen Fisher. “They’re rethinking consumerism. Just like in fast food, things must change.”
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(by Murray Brown, ICTC Secretary General)
An international conference on cultural tourism was held on November 7/8 2012 in the World Heritage city of Vigan, capital of the province of Ilocos Sur on the west coast of the Philippines island of Luzon. The event demonstrated both the rising influence of the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee (ICTC) and the energy and sophistication of the ICOMOS Philippines organising team.
Billed as ‘cultural tourism for community development’ and part of the 40 year celebration of the World Heritage Convention, the two day conference attracted more than 200 delegates from around the world, including a large contingent of students from local universities.
Held in the Ilocos Sur Provincial Capitol building facing St Paul’s Cathedral across Vigan’s Plaza Salcado, the conference heard a wide variety of speakers whose subjects reflected the broad range of projects and experience encompassed by the cultural tourism industry.
In his welcome to delegates ICOMOS Philippines President Augusto Villalon, who is also Vice-President of the ICTC, said that 20 years ago Vigan was a provincial backwater whose colonial buildings were regarded as an impediment to future economic prosperity. As a result of the persistent advocacy of a small group of heritage enthusiasts and the adoption of consistent pro-heritage policies by the provincial and city governments, Vigan had won World Heritage recognition in 2007 as the best preserved Spanish colonial city in Asia. Heritage conservation and tourism are now the foundation on which its future economic growth is based.
Extending this theme, Hon. Felipe de Leon, Chairman of the Philippines National Commission for Culture and the Arts, noted that pride in Filipino culture is a relatively recent phenomenon; it will be a few decades yet before the country shakes off the attitudinal residue of centuries of foreign domination. He advocated fostering the arts as the generator of cultural and economic development, citing the European Renaissance as a model. There is a need to promote the unique qualities of the best the Philippines has to offer, including dissemination of inspiring national stories like that of the revolutionary hero José Rizal.
In her opening address, ICTC President Sue Millar described cultural tourism as the world’s greatest education program, involving millions of travellers eager to explore and explain the world they live in. She said that cultural tourism already constitutes 40% of the total world tourism industry, and its share continues to grow. She praised her ICTC predecessors for the development of the Cultural Tourism Charter, which had become an influential set of principles for tourism planners.
While noting that the industry faces many challenges, such as the over-development of infrastructure and the intrusion of mass tourism into sensitive heritage sites, she said it was important to focus on how the benefits of tourism are spread to local people. Without a continuing focus on the unique qualities of each heritage place the industry is in danger of destroying the source of its strength, and of its very existence. Noting the presence of a large group of students at the conference, she promised that the next stage of the committee’s development would be centred around destination planning, training and capacity building.
Her immediate ICTC predecessor, President Emeritus Graham Brooks, delivered a practical presentation on the benefits of merchandising, reminding delegates that products that seem mundane and everyday in their local context can be highly prized by travellers, who take them home as reminders of their visit and as gifts for friends and family. He said these souvenirs do not need to be cheap tourist rubbish, but should instead be simple and honest products that reflect the artistic and craft skills and way of life of the host country.
With merchandising based on the labour-intensive production of inexpensive but quality products there is then room to develop a higher level of product with goods that, while based on national traditions, can be targeted to the more discerning and well-heeled tourist. The Jim Thompson silk brand in Thailand was a good example of how local traditions can be revived for the benefit of local artisans and the tourism market. He said the crucial distinction was that artisans need to be empowered to determine how the products are produced and sold, rather than relying on an outmoded model of exploitation and lowest-common-denominator marketing.
Other international speakers offered a wide range of observations:
- Michèle Prats (France) on the economic and social impacts of heritage conservation;
- Gurmeet Rai (India) on the Punjabi Grand Trunk Road;
- Randy Durband (USA) on the tourism boom and bust life cycle and the importance of developing management policies to control visitor numbers;
- Kwangsik Kim (Korea) on the development of sites honouring prominent local writers;
- Hong Kong academic Hilary du Cros’s research into cultural heritage tourist profiles;
- Siegfried Enders (Germany) – President of the Shared Built Heritage International Scientific Committee – on the committee’s studies in Poland, Suriname, South Africa and China;
- Peter Ross (United Kingdom) on the importance of telling human stories at heritage sites and recruiting staff as the key interpreters of the site for visitors;
- Ian Kelly (Australia) on place-based interpretation in Sydney’s convict-era Rocks precinct;
- Suzanne Bott (USA) on the role of heritage in peace-making and re-building post-conflict communities;
- Celia Martinez (Spain) on World Heritage properties featuring traditional agricultural practices;
- Nur Al Din, Dean of Faculty of Archaeology and Tourism Guidance, Misr University for Science and Technology, University of Egypt, Cairo on the corrosive effects of congestion on iconic archaeological sites and the lack of official interest in addressing the problem;
- Jaturong Pokharatsiri (Thailand) on the similarity between Vigan and the heritage towns of Hoi An (Vietnam) and Luang Prabang (Laos) and the opportunity for their tourism managers to learn from each other;
- Sharon Brown and Alan Oliver’s on the role of Hillsborough Castle in cultural tourism in Northern Ireland; and
- Jim Donovan (USA) on his analysis of small town heritage tourism in the USA using the principles of the Cultural Tourism Charter.
The presentations by local speakers were of particular interest to the international delegates:
ICTC Vice-President Augusto Villalon described the plans for developing tourism in the historic Intramuros district of central Manila, the scene of devastation following World War II, where a streetscape project involving architecture students and local people provides the basis for a ‘museum of the streets’ concept aiming to engage with residents and visitors in a 21st century manner. Construction guidelines aim to create ‘porous’ ground floors throughout the district, encouraging street level activity and easy people movement; new housing is a fundamental consideration in developing residents’ pride in this forgotten quarter of the country’s capital city.
Joy Gerra, from the Ramon Aboitiz Foundation, spoke about a successful project in Cebu City. Gabii sa Kabilin is modelled on the German Lange Nacht der Museen (Long Night of Museums) and provides a number of bus tours linking museums and heritage sites in the city. Based on the principles of ‘learning by doing’ and cultural inclusiveness, it has led to increased museum visitation and a greater sense of community ownership of local heritage sites. Food vendors and horse-and-cart transport operators have done well; the Foundation has also observed a substantial increase of involvement by young people in the city’s heritage programs.
Carlo Ebeo and Charisse Aquino-Tugade described their low-key small group tours to remote areas of the country that enable tourists to learn first-hand of local arts, crafts and culture. The activities are organised by the local communities, who are given training and logistical support. These low-impact, locally organised tours have influenced the way local politics is conducted and have revived a sense of pride in the local culture. The presentation acknowledged the importance of building community support before encouraging a broader take-up of these kinds of locally-directed programs. International delegates congratulated the speakers on devising an exemplary form of community-based tourism.
Jeremy Barns, Director of the Philippines National Museum, who had hosted a reception for the ICTC earlier in the week, gave an account of the extraordinarily broad reach of his institution’s activities, which include the recently re-opened National Art Gallery, the national Planetarium, regional museums and key national heritage sites. The museum’s enabling legislation gives it the power to declare national treasures and movable heritage items. He said his key tasks are to promote understanding of national collections and to develop museums into attractive tourist sites.
Rosario Dizon described how the Mindanao peace agreement had opened the way for tourism development in that island after years of conflict with armed rebels. The History & Culture Studies Centre for the Southern Islands has been established at Mindanao State University to help define and manage cultural and tourism projects. Natural sites such as waterfalls and caves have the most obvious potential for development as tourist sites in the short term.
The discussion of security in former war zones extended into the Open Forum following the conference presentations. It was agreed that patience and a welcoming attitude by local people will develop long-term rewards. There was concern that in the end the interests of local people will always take second place to the demands of a free market world economy. The forum ended, appropriately enough, with a discussion of fundraising mechanisms to support the conservation efforts of property owners in the host city.
The two day event gave local tourism planners and operators plenty of ideas and overseas examples to inspire their future activities. The international delegates, for their part, were impressed by the energy and imagination of their Filipino hosts; their presentations provided ample evidence of a cultural tourism industry with potential for substantial development. The key is to cleverly build empowerment in local communities, so that the industry serves local cultural and economic needs as well as providing memorable and meaningful experiences for local and international travellers. (by Murray Brown, ICTC Secretary General) | <urn:uuid:ed56c06f-486d-45d0-9deb-dc8360237812> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://philippines.icomos.org/index.php/2012/11/08/international-cultural-tourism-committee-holds-its-2012-annual-meeting-and-conference-in-the-philippines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941694 | 2,088 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Domestic violence is an attempt to control the behaviour of another person. It is a misuse of power which uses the bonds of intimacy, trust and dependency to make a person vulnerable.
If you or someone you know is in a relationship where there may be domestic violence, please take a few moments to learn more about abuse.
Signs of Domestic Violence
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A sure-fire way to cause employee distrust is to give her a raise and then rescind it. In most cases, employers hold the cards when it comes to job offers, employment status and compensation rules. An employer can increase an employee's pay and then take back the increase, but communication can help ease the frustration and soften the blow that an employee's paycheck is going to return to its old rate.
Employment At Will
Most employers embrace the employment-at-will doctrine that says the employer or the employee have the right to end the working relationship at any time, for any reason or for no reason, with or without advance notice. Without an employment agreement or labor union contract that sets out the terms and conditions of employment, employees accept at-will terms when they sign the application form that contains this important disclaimer. Employment-at-will terms also apply to pay, demotions and scheduling.
Salary increases usually occur when the employee's tenure increases or when her performance is such that the employer rewards her with a bump in pay. These aspects of employment and the effect they can have on pay may be valid points an employee raises if the employer decides to take back the salary increase. If it was a merit increase, the employee could argue that her tenure didn't reverse and somehow justify taking back the raise. And if the employer bases a salary increase on a performance appraisal for the preceding 12 months, taking back the raise can't nullify the employee's performance during the past year. Nevertheless, it's well within the employer's rights to take back an increase in pay.
Clear communication can prevent the disruption to the employer-employee relationship that rescinding a pay raise creates. Although there might not be a proactive solution, such as warning an employee ahead of time that the raise could be taken back, it's wise to tell the employee why the company is taking back the raise and when. Avoid having the employee discover for the first time that her raise has been taken back when she looks at her pay stub. Employers who find themselves in this predicament might offer an alternative. Additional time off might compensate for losing the raise or giving the employee the option to telecommute can result in more money in the employee's pocket because she can cut back on commuting costs.
Like most practices and rules, there are exceptions. An employer can't take back an employee's raise if there's an existing employment agreement that sets out compensation and the amounts and terms of salary increases. Also, many labor union contracts contain wage rates and increases to which both the labor union and the employer mutually agreed to during the contract negotiation process. Taking back a union member's increase would be in violation of the collective bargaining agreement. | <urn:uuid:894afda2-93a7-42f7-8f43-274cae204524> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bizfluent.com/13361564/giving-an-employee-a-raise-then-taking-it-back | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959865 | 556 | 1.710938 | 2 |
There are always a variety of thefts reported from cars and people’s homes during the holiday season. Sometimes surprising items are taken from other locations as well. The Albany Democrat-Herald reported on November 30, 2012 that thieves made off with some interesting items that belonged to the Linn County Historical Museum in Oregon.
The museum is now on the hunt for missing items that were stored in a deep freezer owned by the city. Described as irreplaceable to the museum, but not terribly valuable to the thieves, various historical clothing pieces were taken from the city owned freezer which was locked up tight.
The historic clothing pieces date back to World War I and the Spanish-American war. The items were placed in the freezer to kill the cloth moths and carpet beetle larvae that were nibbling away at the museums treasured items. Unexplained holes were found in the various pieces of fabric and a further investigation revealed that insects are the cause of the problem.
Cloth moths and carpet beetle larvae will cause significant damage to fabric items from all time periods. Cloth items that contain food particles or perspiration may not be detected by humans, but these critters find them to be a feast. It should be noted that these pesky bugs are not attracted to the synthetic components found in many modern day fabric pieces, but fabrics that contain a combination of synthetic fabrics as well as natural fabrics can harbor these pests.
Reports are that some of the items have been found in a local park and in a trash can, but some are still missing. Perhaps the thieves played dress up and encountered the larvae crawling on their skin. Now that would be a great pay-back for their thieving behavior!
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Fly in to Hallie Q. Brown Food Shelf with your donation today and help us knock out hunger!
Hallie Q. Brown’s goal is to raise 60,000 pounds and dollars for our food shelf this March Campaign. It will take a hero to make this happen. It will take you. Dust off that cape and get flyin’ to your local grocery store, collect food, and please give to Hallie Q. Brown Food Shelf.
Help Hallie Q. Brown Community Center fight Professor Poverty and the forces of H.U.N.G.E.R (Hindering Upstanding Neighbors Giving Efforts and Resources) by becoming one of Hallie’s Heroes and organizing a food drive, forming a team to collect donations or even donate yourself. Just click this link to join Hallie’s Heroes!
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March is the best time to give. Your tax deductible financial gift will go further. Each dollar and pound you donate will receive a cash match through the Minnesota FoodShare March Campaign, so there is no better time in the year to make your contribution count. the more donations we raise, the greater the match will be. Please make a financial gift today.
East Metro Community Centers
Community Discussion Series
Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Neighborhood House, Keystone Community Services and Merrick Community Services have partnered to present this Community Discussion Series.
Join us for three-part PBS documentary and discussion about race, privilege, policy and justice.
Through this discussion series, we will bring people together to reflect on race and culture, understand how our community centers are working to improve the quality of life in St. Paul and Ramsey County, and learn how to engage more with each other in our communities.
Your active participation in this series will to help us all confront our myths about race and explore the causes of inequities within our communities. This event is free and open to the public but spaces are limited, reservations required.
RACE: The Power of an Illusion
Episode 1: The Difference Between Us
Everyone can tell a Nubian from a Norwegian, so why not divide people into different races? Race may not be biological, but it is still a powerful social idea with real consequences for people’s lives.
Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Hallie Q Brown Community Center
270 N. Kent Street, St. Paul 55102
5:30 pm Dinner
6:00 pm Screening
7:00 pm Discussion
Community Discussion Series
Episode 1: The Difference Between Us, Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Hallie Q Brown Community Center
Episode 2: The Story We Tell, Thursday, May 4th, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Neighborhood House @ Wellstone Center
Episode 3: The House We Live In, Thursday, Nov. 2nd, 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm, Keystone Community Services @ West 7th Community Center
We need volunteers for our food shelf, clothing closet and for our upcoming events (holiday baskets and toys for tots). I know that a lot of college kids will be off the month of January and we could use volunteers in January as well. Click here to volunteer online now.
We are also in need of donations that include hats, mittens, gloves, and scarves. Just drop them off at the Hallie Q Brown Community Center.
Construction Zone! Capital Improvements Continue
Visitors to our building in the coming weeks will notice a bit more commotion and noise in and around the space, with the end result being some fantastic improvements. Over the past year and a half construction has been going on to renovate parts of the Center including some of these recent updates to the Early Learning Center. Our signature project, the kitchen in the canteen is proceeding apace; once completed, the space will be a fully functional commercial kitchen, usable not only for HQB educational programs but also for external events. Alongside the structural improvements, new security cameras have been installed, and volunteers are tackling interior painting work. Please excuse any chaos you may encounter as we gear up for a new and improved space. We’ll share pictures as the work progresses.
P.S. I welcome your input and questions at email@example.com. In addition, Hallie Q. Brown is a 501©3 tax-exempt organization. Your contribution is tax deductible and very much appreciated in these challenging economic times. Thank you.
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Is your child afraid of visiting the dentist? It’s common for children to be afraid of or worried about seeing a dentist. There is hope, though, for parents who want their child to feel at ease. With pediatric dental sedation in Houston, your child will feel relaxed and worry free during any procedure.
Do All Procedures Need Sedation?
Most of the time, pediatric dentists want to prevent cavities and diseases. For this reason, most pediatric visits are non invasive and only include a dental checkup, x-rays, cleaning, and dental sealants.
Should a cavity, disease, or damage occur, a pediatric dentist can still take care of that. The latter category of visits tend to be more worrisome for the child, making pediatric dental sedation a viable option.
The sedation helps calm their fears and also reduces the sensation of pain and discomfort. Many patients also report that sedation makes the visit seem to go by faster.
Some children may need sedation for reasons other than fear and anxiety. They may be restless and always moving around. This kind of behavior makes the procedure harder since the dentist is trying to perform very fine movements.
With pediatric dental sedation, your child is calm and relaxed, keeping them nice and still in the dental chair.
The sedation relaxes all their muscles and lulls them into a calm state whereby they remain still as the dentist works. This method works for just about any procedure, including those that are non invasive.
Is Pediatric Dental Sedation Safe?
Pediatric dental sedation is just as safe as it is for adults. In fact, sedation for kids requires more certifications than they would need for adult sedation.
The dentist always monitors sedation to ensure the child is only getting the lowest dose necessary. With laughing gas (nitrous oxide) or an IV sedative, the levels are adjusted throughout the procedure to maintain a balance.
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The winds of change are blowing in Saudi Arabia, carrying the potential to dramatically shift the investment climate there. One of the most anticipated financial events in the Middle East region seems as if it could finally come to pass in the near future — the opening of the Saudi Arabian stock market to foreign investors.
The origins of Islam trace back to Saudi Arabia, a place where the world’s Muslims seek spiritual refuge in the holy cities of Mecca and Medina. The country has been considered by many as impenetrable in the past due to its harsh, dry desert with extreme temperatures. The investment climate may become more hospitable though to foreign investors after the Kingdom’s financial regulator, the Riyadh-based Capital Market Authority (CMA), announced foreigners would be able to buy and sell shares on Saudi Arabia’s Tawadul All Share Index starting in 2015. Until this landmark decision is implemented, investors from outside the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) now have only indirect market access – namely through swaps and exchange traded funds.
Saudi Arabia’s accession into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2005 helped lay the groundwork for opening the Kingdom to wider foreign investment, encouraging the Saudi Arabian government to continue engaging in economic reform and diversification.
From my point of view, the CMA’s announcement is a game-changer for the region. The US$745-billion1 Saudi economy dwarfs many others in the region, and its market is well-capitalized and mature. Trading liquidity in the Saudi Arabia stock market is the highest in the region, and Saudi Arabia has the strongest pipeline of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the region as well. Some pundits are speculating that Saudi Arabia could receive an emerging market classification from index provider MSCI within the next two years, leapfrogging the “frontier” classification and likely drawing more investor interest as a result.
Saudi Arabia is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries’ (OPEC) biggest producer. Oil has been a huge driver of government revenues as well as GDP. However, in our view the Saudi economy has more to offer investors than just its oil riches. We have found the management of many Saudi companies to be impressive, and not only within the energy sector. We favor banks as well as consumer-oriented companies, like retailing or food and beverage, that cater not only to the Saudi market but also the wider Middle East market. There are a lot of potential opportunities in Saudi Arabia, in our view, and we are eagerly seeking them out. Important for us—particularly in light of the market excitement the news of potentially allowing foreign direct investment generated—is finding shares at attractive prices too. Over the medium term, we would expect foreign investor interest to steadily rise in preparation for Saudi Arabia’s likely eventual inclusion in global indices. However, there could be some speculative excess akin to what we saw in the United Arab Emirates and Qatar when MSCI announced these markets would be moved up from frontier to emerging market status, both of which subsequently experienced sharp corrections. Hopefully, the Saudis will work to help prevent that type of market volatility with the proper framework for investors and perhaps a more gradual foreign integration.
Saudi Arabia saw a strong current account and fiscal surplus in 2013 as a result of high oil revenues – both production and price-led. There has been robust government spending in recent years on a number of projects to diversify its economy and to encourage economic growth. In our view, Saudi Arabia is in a strong position to continue to spend, with foreign exchange reserves currently above 100% of GDP.2 The country’s growth rate has been impressive as well; GDP growth has averaged above 6% in the past four years, although for 2014 the pace of growth looks to be a little slower. 3
Challenges in Saudi Arabia
While the economic and investment climate appear positive to us, a few clouds hang over the country, particularly the high rate of youth unemployment. The median age of Saudi Arabia’s population is 26.44, and as of 2010, there were roughly 8.5 million expatriate workers in the Saudi economy, nearly a third of the total population.5 You can thus see why employment has been an important issue among its locals. Officials have been attempting to address the challenge; the government has helped promote job training and education by launching the King Abdallah University of Science and Technology. In my chats over the past couple years with Saudi officials, it seems there has been an increased focus on training and hiring efforts aimed at its large youth population, which generally lack the education and technical skills the private sector needs. In the short- to medium-term, a mismatch between the output of the national education system and the requirements of the private sector could continue.
Overall, we think more private sector employment is needed; two-thirds of Saudi citizens work in the public sector. And, in our view, the youth need more incentive and training to work in a wider variety of skilled jobs the economy needs. Interestingly, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Labor recently announced it has teamed up with Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to launch an online education venture in the country this fall. The effort includes a unique pilot program directed to Saudi women, youth, the disabled and citizens in rural communities, who have often had less access to education and employment opportunities.
Of course, geopolitical concerns are an ongoing issue in the region. The Arab Spring, a pressure point for some countries in the Middle East, saw limited calls for protests in Saudi Arabia. This was partly due to the strengthening economy and overall rise in living standards, along with the popularity of the King and his reforms. More recent tensions in the region so far haven’t had a significant impact on Saudi Arabia’s economy, other than perhaps creating some oil price volatility.
We view Saudi Arabia a good proxy for growth in the Gulf region, and think increased investor interest in Saudi Arabia is likely to have a spillover effect. We are optimistic more foreign investment could bring long-term benefits to the country and region, and are excited about the potential opportunities this watershed event could provide us as investors.
Dr. Mobius’s comments, opinions and analyses are for informational purposes only and should not be considered individual investment advice or recommendations to invest in any security or to adopt any investment strategy. Because market and economic conditions are subject to rapid change, comments, opinions and analyses are rendered as of the date of the posting and may change without notice. The material is not intended as a complete analysis of every material fact regarding any country, region, market, industry, investment or strategy.
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All investments involve risks, including possible loss of principal. Foreign securities involve special risks, including currency fluctuations and economic and political uncertainties. Investments in emerging markets, of which frontier markets are a subset, involve heightened risks related to the same factors, in addition to those associated with these markets’ smaller size, lesser liquidity and lack of established legal, political, business and social frameworks to support securities markets. Because these frameworks are typically even less developed in frontier markets, as well as various factors including the increased potential for extreme price volatility, illiquidity, trade barriers and exchange controls, the risks associated with emerging markets are magnified in frontier markets. Currency rates may fluctuate significantly over short periods of time and can reduce returns. | <urn:uuid:ae03e29b-766e-4e1b-bf7b-2dde996a06f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://emergingmarkets.blog.franklintempleton.com/2014/08/11/winds-change-saudi-arabias-investment-climate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961853 | 1,514 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Click below to hear 3 problems you’re facing when lesson planning for ells:
Do you feel like you are spending so much time planning lessons or that you’re on a hamster wheel of lesson planning? If that sounds like you, this episode is one you don’t want to miss! I am diving into three common problems I see when it comes to ESL teachers and lesson planning.
In today’s episode, I am talking about one of the biggest stressors for ESL teachers – lesson planning. I am breaking down the three types of lesson planners and how to avoid spending all your time lesson planning, how having clear goals can ensure you are meeting each students’ needs, how to move away from planning only one day ahead and bringing your work home with you, and why you don’t need to plan different lessons for each grade and language level you work with. I am giving you examples and practical tips to reduce the stress of lesson planning and regain your time while still meeting your students’ needs.
If you would like to save more time lesson planning and preparing materials and activities, check out the Equipping ELLs membership!! Inside, you’ll be part of an amazing community of ELL teachers from around the world PLUS have access to lessons, activities, and tons of resources, join us! We’d love to see you inside!
Topics discussed in this episode:
- How to use clear goals based on standards to ensure you are planning lessons to help them reach those goals
- Why you should be planning more than one day ahead and tips for implementing routines for the week to avoid having to plan your lessons at home
- Why you don’t need to plan new lessons for every grade level and language level you work with and how to use materials for multiple grade levels
- Want to save even more time and have readily available resources and curriculum you need for newcomers and intermediates? Join Equipping ELLs where you can be part of an incredible community and feel empowered to equip your ELLs wherever they are at!
- Download the ESL Teacher Toolkit (includes a year long editable scope and sequence)
- Join the Equipping ELLs Membership
- Check out the ELL Strategy Academy
- Shop TpT resources that help with supporting your ELLs
Related episodes and blog posts:
- Episode 28: Save Planning Time by Creating Teaching Templates
- Episode 26: Setting Up Quarterly Goals
- Episode 24: 6 Ways to Prepare for Back to School Now!
- 5 ways to use pictures to scaffold content
Connect with Beth:
- Join the Facebook group: Inspiring Young Learners Engage!
- Follow her on Instagram @inspiringyounglearners.
More about Equipping ELLs:
We all know that teaching isn’t easy, but it doesn’t have to be this hard. Equipping ELLs is a podcast for both ESL specialists and homeroom teachers who are looking for effective and engaging ways to support their English Language Learners without adding to their endless to-do list. Tune in each week to hear tips, strategies, and inspirational stories that will empower you to better reach your ELL students, equip them with life-long skills, and strengthen relationships with colleagues and parents.
Your host, Beth Vaucher, is the founder of Inspiring Young Learners. She is an ESL certified homeroom teacher with over 10 years of experience teaching in the US and internationally. Her background of M.Ed in ESL and Curriculum and Instruction combined with her experience has led her to develop a bestselling newcomer curriculum that has sold in over 90 countries around the globe. She brings a different perspective to teaching ELLs from her years teaching and living abroad and working with ELLs from around the world. You will walk away from each episode with the ideas and tools you need to transform your experience as a teacher and cultivate a thriving and welcoming environment for your ELL students. | <urn:uuid:c440a8ed-9153-49c6-8edb-307be615bece> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.inspiringyounglearners.com/lesson-planning-for-ells/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933539 | 830 | 2.46875 | 2 |
From the broadleaf rain forests of its lowlands to vast tracts of montane cloud forests in the highlands, Borneo harbors some of the most biodiverse ecosystems on the planet. Orangutans, pygmy elephants, clouded leopards, and more than 15,000 plant species — 6,000 of which are native only to Borneo — rely on these forests as vital sources of shelter and nourishment.
But against the backdrop of this ecological trove looms an imminent threat, as palm oil companies clear land to expand their plantations, often without legal sanction to do so.
The island’s rapid deterioration from fragmentation and intentional forest fires could have long-lasting and irrevocable impacts on the entire region’s climate.
Borneo is the third largest island in the world, and one of two remaining islands in Southeast Asia with its forests intact. Together with neighboring Sumatra, it accounts for the overwhelming majority of palm oil production for Indonesia, a sovereign state that produces the most palm oil of any player in the global market.
In recent years, scientists have begun to better understand how the island’s trees directly contribute to rainfall and weather patterns that sustain the health of endemic flora and fauna. As such, the island’s rapid deterioration from fragmentation and intentional forest fires could have long-lasting and irrevocable impacts on the entire region’s climate.
Palm oil’s ubiquity in common consumer products — including hair conditioner, ice cream, and chewing gum — encourages producers to increase output to meet growing global demand. Controversy arose around Nutella’s use of palm oil in Jan. 2017, followed by concerns that palm oil might contain carcinogenic contaminants. With debate around production and health risks, it is hard to determine any true benefits from the product beyond its value to developers, industry moguls and undiscerning consumers.
Southwest of the Heart of Borneo, oil palm plantations have proliferated in Central Kalimantan and destroyed abundant native wildlife.
The Indigenous Battle Against Industry
Territorially speaking, Borneo is split among three countries: Malaysia, Brunei, and Indonesia. The Indonesian territory is more prominently known as Kalimantan. Palm oil plantations have mostly proliferated in and around Central Kalimantan, just southwest of a vast area known as the Heart of Borneo — about 220,000 km (or 22,000,000 hectares) of land that was barred from development through an agreement presented by the WWF.
The Dayak represent the human element at stake in the struggle against industrial forces.
A 2016 report by the Center for International Forestry Research claims that the past four decades have been marked by an increase in the number of plantation industries encroaching upon Malaysian Borneo, but that only since 2005 has there been an increase of plantations in Indonesian Borneo.
Despite the efforts of the island’s indigenous peoples — called the Dayak — to combat industry expansion, tribes endure increasingly arduous living conditions and face difficult decisions. Originally headhunters, the Dayak are now known for sustainable planting and gathering customs that help preserve the region’s remarkable biodiversity.
As cohabitors with Borneo’s unique wildlife, they represent the human element at stake in the struggle against industrial forces. All Dayak tools and food come from the forest; all knowledge arises from deep generational connections to the land. The exploitation of resources therefore means that their natural methods of subsistence must change alongside their native environment.
Some tribes have attempted to push back on land-clearing agents, such as the Parigi Dayak of Pa’ Unga, who refuse to surrender land and continue their traditional practices in the village. Others have surrendered their land to palm oil companies in exchange for payoffs and guaranteed work opportunities. But this isn’t exactly a fair tradeoff.
The long-term detrimental impacts of palm oil plantations on the land itself will pose insurmountable hazards to the sustainability of the island’s natural resources.
Kent Wagner of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting claims that while the immediate economic benefit of the industry to Dayak tribes may seem obvious, the long-term detrimental impacts of palm oil plantations on the land itself will pose insurmountable hazards to the sustainability of the island’s natural resources.
When developers clear land for plantations, they displace diverse endemic wildlife that has occupied the area for thousands of years. In a recent study, Washington-based nonprofit Forest Trends found that much of Indonesian Borneo’s land clearing has been conducted under illegal circumstances by private investors and international development banks. But a 2014 article in Tempo claims that Indonesia Agriculture Minister Ir. H. Suswono has denied any such activity.
The Borneo Pygmy Elephant faces critical threats to its survival as its habitat is destroyed to support encroaching oil palm plantations. Only 1,500 individuals remain on the island.
The Destruction of More Than Land
Piggybacking off the claims of oil-palm executives, government officials subvert the narrative by touting the industry’s sustainability and denying any illegal activity. It comes as no surprise, then, that other wealthy executives can easily conduct their business by regularly evading the law.
An April 2018 report by Indonesian consulting firm Aidenvironment assessed the sustainability of two palm oil companies run by industry mogul Anthoni Salim. These plantations occupy nearly 20,000 hectares of forest in West Kalimantan. About 10,000 of those hectares consist of protected rainforest in the Ketungau peat swamp, yet palm oil production steadily continues.
As primarily tree-dwelling animals that rarely touch the ground, orangutans are deeply threatened by deforestation.
In a recent video from International Animal Rescue, a hopelessly dystopian scene unfolds as an orangutan attempts to stop a digger from razing a tree by pounding its fists against the machine, oblivious to the futility of its efforts.
As primarily tree-dwelling animals that rarely touch the ground, orangutans are deeply threatened by deforestation. Other species in the region face similar threats of displacement and extinction. According to the WWF, only about 1,500 Bornean pygmy elephants remain on the island as a result of habitat encroachment.
Efforts to save orangutan populations have emerged thanks to organizations such as the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation, the Great Orangutan Project and International Animal Rescue. Sustainable palm oil development initiatives are also underway such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which is dedicated to plantation reform.
In a May 2018 press release, the organization addressed a recent collaboration between stakeholders for the Salat Island Orangutan reserve. But this once again seems like a half-measure, as the orangutan’s original habitat remains a breeding ground for increased production of an environmentally insidious product.
While nonprofits intervene in the hopes of preserving what remains, the Dayak people struggle to remain at all. Development is already underway to construct a road system connecting East and West Kalimantan, ushering in greater opportunity for the private sector to pave the way for hyper-industrialization and tourism.
If anyone with enough money and political acumen can legally or illegally develop plantations, then what really stops palm oil companies from moving further into protected territories? To curb deforestation, citizens must hold elected officials accountable to ensure that corporations cannot exploit natural resources and pocket profits behind the veil of the private sector.
Until then, the fate of Borneo’s last remaining forests — and the survival of its indigenous tribes and wildlife — hang in the balance. | <urn:uuid:f1cf3b5b-19f3-4c57-b345-fef42a4ac215> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unreasonablegroup.com/articles/palm-oil-industry-threatens-the-future-of-borneos-wildlife/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928679 | 1,583 | 3.5 | 4 |
Will human beings evolve or degenerate after one million years? The simulation is too real!
Many people’s subconscious has always believed that human beings are much more advanced than other creatures. The main reason is that human beings have independent thinking brain, and the brain also has consciousness. Many behaviors made by human beings are directed by the brain. In fact, every creature is unique on the earth. In order to adapt to the natural environment, many creatures are forced to change their body functions in order to survive.
Starting from the extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, dinosaurs are regarded as a kind of giant with fierce face and sensitive limbs. But no one thought that this kind of self respecting creature did not succeed in evolution and disappeared overnight. For a long time, people have been speculating about the real reason for the extinction of dinosaurs. The most convincing argument is the impact of an asteroid. Of course, some people think it’s a volcanic eruption. As for how it happened, it’s still unknown. Will human beings evolve or degenerate after one million years? The simulation is too real!
In addition to the extinction of dinosaurs, there have been many mass extinctions since then. Fortunately, human beings have finally become the masters of the earth, and are also the most successful creatures in evolution. Compared with the ancient apes hundreds of thousands of years ago, there is no comparability. From Darwin’s theory of evolution, we know that humans evolved from apes. Since entering the modern society, human beings no longer have so much thick hair. Many people think that this is the final form of human beings. Is this really the case?
Many scientists have expressed different ideas and even simulated the face of human beings after one million years. Many people are very curious about what kind of human beings will be after one million years? There is no doubt that human nutrition will be improved in an all-round way. With the emergence of all kinds of food, height and weight will be generally increased. But there is a big problem, that is, the impact of the Internet, the emergence of mobile phones, computers, tablets, many people are almost playing games from morning to night, the future appearance of mankind will change greatly.
Not only will five fingers become two, but eyes will become very big and limbs will be short. This is the impact of the Internet. Technology has both advantages and disadvantages. Although human beings have enjoyed the convenience brought by technology, there are also many potential impacts. If human beings can’t allocate time reasonably, future human beings will develop towards this trend. It should also be noted that artificial intelligence is in the stage of development and will become more mature in the future. It can replace all human behaviors.
The only difference is that it does not have the ability to think independently and can only be carried out under the control of human beings. Scientists are worried that one day artificial intelligence will get rid of the shackles of human beings and possess the consciousness and wisdom of independent thinking. At that time, human beings will face unprecedented challenges, or may be dominated by artificial intelligence. At that time, human beings will not know where to go. Seeing the simulation picture after one million years, many people are completely shocked. I thought that human beings would become better after one million years, but I didn’t expect that they would become this terrible look. What do you think of this? You can leave a message for interaction. | <urn:uuid:b13c8abd-a189-40ae-bb6b-31d1aed95e22> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://recordunknown.com/what-will-human-beings-become-in-a-million-years-scientists-release-simulation-map-refresh-cognition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966769 | 707 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Otolaryngology - Pediatric Unit
Tonsillectomy with/without adenoidectomy
Tonsillectomy is surgery to remove the tonsils.
Depending on the reason for the removal, it may also require that the adenoids be removed.
This type of intervention is suitable for those patients who have recurrent tonsillitis, overly large tonsils or who have sleep disorders due to respiratory failure caused by the tonsils.
This procedure is normally performed under general anaesthesia and usually requires between 30 and 60 minutes.
The surgery consists of;
– Cutting the tonsils (and adenoids if required) with a scalpel or with a radiofrequency device.
– If it is done with scalpel, pressure is applied to the wounds and sutured with absorbable stitches.
– If it is done with radiofrequency, the waves that resect the tonsils (and/or adenoids) close the wound itself.
After their stay time in the recovery room, your child will be taken to a room where they will remain for a few hours, to allow for recovery and where you will be given the necessary guidelines with regards to after care.
After two weeks you will notice the improvement in your child’s breathing, their apneas will disappear and they will have no difficulty swallowing.
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For Department of Homeland Security Boss, Black Cuban Lives Don’t Matter
“If you take to the sea, you will not come to the United States,” proclaims Department of Homeland Security boss Alejandro Mayorkas, directing his remarks to Haitians, whose president Jovenel Moïse was recently assassinated, and Cubans protesting the Communist regime. News reports on developments there have overlooked a few realities.
Cuban president and Communist Party chief Miguel Diaz-Canel was not elected by the Cuban people. He is a successor to Raul and Fidel Castro, the Sado-Stalinist who ruled the island since the 1950s without a single election. His Communist regime was so oppressive that many Cubans fled in anything that floats. Many perished at sea but those who made landfall in Florida were accepted as refugees.
In April of 1980, Fidel Castro suddenly announced that all Cubans wishing to emigrate could board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana. Some 125,000 Cuban “Marielitos” as they became known, made it to U.S. shores. Many were Afro-Cubans and they referred to Cuba’s Isla de la Juventud, formerly the Isla de Pinos, as the Isla de la Esclavitud, which could apply to the entire nation.
An Afro-Cuban Marielito had worked the cane fields for months and was given the right to purchase a bicycle. Afro-Cuban Marielito Eduardo Rodriguez, a teacher, had established that African slaves during the Spanish colonial period ate better than Cubans under the Castro regime, known for strict rationing.
The Mariel boatlift was a one-off and Cubans continued to flee. As the New York Times reported in 2014, after eight failures Leonardo Heredia and friends cobbled together a boat using a Toyota motor, scrap stainless steel, and plastic foam and made it on their ninth attempt. Cubans continued to flee but U.S. policy changed.
As Keysweekly reported on July 2, since October, the U.S. Coast Guard has interdicted 512 Cubans. The would-be refugees are “held at an undisclosed location and returned in groups to the island nation.” What happens to them on return is not disclosed but it is possible to guess.
For Joe Biden, Cuba is only an “authoritarian” regime, but as their signs proclaim, Cubans are protesting el comunismo, la dictadura and demanding libertad. If they take to the sea, Alejandro Mayorkas will not allow them into the United States. The DHS boss, incredibly enough a Cuban immigrant, recalls the bounty hunters who returned slaves to their masters.
Cuba’s 800,000 African slaves were more than twice the number in the United States. Cuba did not abolish slavery until 1886 and there was no Cuban equivalent of the historically black colleges in the USA. By some estimates, only one-third of Cubans are whites, like the Castros and Miguel Diaz-Canel. Two-thirds of the Cubans population is composed of blacks and those of part African ancestry. DHS boss Alejandro Mayorkas must believe that black Cuban lives don’t matter. | <urn:uuid:b20ac2fe-340c-4c1c-b578-f21c89f05deb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.independent.org/2021/07/23/for-department-of-homeland-security-boss-black-cuban-lives-dont-matter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972293 | 680 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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There are lots of varieties of alternative medicine. Acupuncture and chiropractic maintenance are types of strategies that a number of people use whenever they actually feel suffering. Chinese treatments and holistic treatments have already been used for many millennia. Other types of alternative treatment are asian medication, homeopathy and Reiki and Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). All these procedures has been discovered to become useful in distinct circumstances.
Most practitioners of TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) think that disease arises from an discrepancy from the vitality circulate in the human body. They often use distinct acupressure strategies and pure organic formulas to take care of these instability. Because Traditional Chinese Medicine will depend on a complete existence vision, it really is deemed as a controversial method of remedy. Some experts argue that this method of treatments are unreliable as it relies upon guesswork and anecdotal facts. Many people who put it to use declare that there are aided them.
Some pundits also point out that the majority of professionals of TCM are practitioners of a Western treatment tradition that have very little exposure to, or familiarity with, the strategies of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Oriental medication has become traditionally used to manage numerous ailments for years and years. Modern Western medical doctors are often not really acquainted with these procedures. The lack of health schooling and instruction for TCM professionals makes the potential risk of complications even greater.
Another division of controversy encompasses the utilization of natural herbs to manage cancer. The thought is herbal plants can protect against or simply get rid of tumors tissue without the need of hurting healthy tissues. The use of natural herbs to treat cancer is not really new. One example is, Dandelion is believed to be a good many forms of cancer mma fighter. The argument involves no matter if Dandelion root is hazardous to human beings.
Some critics talk about that Dandelion cause is made up of cyanogenic glyco-aphtyl ester, which is actually product that has potentially harmful unwanted effects. On the other hand, other specialists claim that Dandelion use will not enhance a person’s probability of cancer. Ultimately, the disagreement will likely proceed until additional scientific studies are carried out.
There are various other a example of alternative healthcare that fall season beyond the arena of standard treatment. For example, homeopathy could be used to treat some sorts of depression. Ayurvedic herbal remedies could be used to address joint disease and various other digestive system problems. You should keep in mind that there is no shortage of specialist support, no research evidence exists to verify these strategies do the job.
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By Jenna Tatum, Director, Building Electrification Institute September 24, 2021
Across the U.S., a growing number of cities have committed to ambitious climate goals to help avert the worst impacts of climate change and demonstrate successful models for action. Many of these cities have begun efforts to transition buildings away from fossil fuels and toward high-efficiency electric options that can use increasingly clean and renewable power. The experiences of these cities can help inform the efforts of other local governments, as well as approaches at the state, regional, and federal levels of government, whose efforts will eventually be required to transition the entire U.S. economy off fossil fuels.
Today there are over 70 million homes and businesses in the U.S. that burn fossil fuels, including natural gas, oil, or propane, to provide space heating, cooking, and hot water. This on-site fossil fuel combustion currently makes up the majority of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from buildings in the U.S.1 In some North American cities, on-site building fossil fuel use can account for the largest source of citywide GHG emissions, particularly in heating-dominated climates like those in the Northeast.2
Cities have found that to meet their ambitious climate goals, reducing GHG emissions from the building sector will require more than basic energy efficiency measures. Instead, it will require transitioning building systems completely away from fossil fuels and toward options that can use renewable energy. While recent innovations in electric generation and transportation are driving down emissions in these sectors, the building heating and cooling industry has remained largely unchanged for decades, and building-based GHG reductions are lagging. New policy innovations are needed to accelerate the transition of buildings away from fossil fuels and toward clean energy.
According to a recent analysis by RMI, installing heat pumps today reduces GHG emissions versus gas heating systems in states representing 99% of the U.S. population. © infogram.com
New approaches are also needed to ensure that this transition is equitable and does not worsen the current equity and affordability crises in the U.S. Without thoughtful planning, well-meaning policies to transition buildings off fossil fuels could result in unintended harm. Cities, in particular, are on the front lines, as the populations of many cities have increased rapidly in recent years, but their housing supply has not kept pace with this demand, and incomes have stagnated despite a staggering rise in housing costs and other expenses. Many cities are now facing an increasingly severe crisis of affordability. In New York City, for example, rents increased by nearly 60% between 2012 and 2020; in San José, rents nearly doubled in the same period.3 In 95% of U.S. counties, a minimum wage worker is now unable to afford a one-bedroom rental.4 Moreover, the economic impacts of COVID-19 have deepened existing inequities, causing millions of job losses and threatening evictions and homelessness for thousands of Americans.
The most viable option to move buildings away from fossil fuels today is to convert their heating and cooling systems to high-efficiency electric air source heat pumps (ASHPs) and heat pump water heaters (HPWHs). These technologies use a compressor to pump heat from the outdoor air to provide indoor space heat or hot water. Because these technologies are so energy efficient, heat pumps reduce emissions in most parts of North America today, and have the potential to dramatically reduce emissions over the long term by using increasingly clean electricity powered by renewable sources.5
Converting buildings to heat pumps can also provide health, safety, resiliency, and cost-saving benefits to communities, and with intentional planning, these benefits can be delivered first to those who need them most. During warmer seasons, ASHPs can provide cooling (in addition to heating), which is a growing need as cities across North America experience increased heat and heatwaves due to climate change. Low-income communities and communities of color face disproportionate health impacts from higher temperatures and heat waves because they tend to live in areas with higher “urban heat island” effects and are more likely to lack air conditioning in their homes.6
Converting away from fossil fuels in buildings will also help reduce both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Air pollution also disproportionately impacts low-income communities and communities of color, who in the U.S. are exposed to 30% higher levels of pollution than wealthier white communities.7 Outdoors, nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from fossil fuel appliances in buildings often contribute far more emissions than power plants in many states.8 Dangerous levels of air pollutants have also been found indoors, which has been linked to gas appliances including gas stoves and wall furnaces, and the impacts are worst in smaller homes where low-income residents are more likely to live.9
Moreover, electrifying building systems will also improve public safety by reducing the risks of fire and deadly gas explosions, such as those experienced in San Bruno, California and Lawrence, Massachusetts in recent years.10,11
Building electrification also has the potential to reduce housing and energy costs, although the local climate and utility rates will affect the outcomes. That said, all-electric new construction is lower cost to build than mixed fuel construction for most types of buildings, which is why more than 40 California cities have already enacted all-electric requirements for new buildings, and dozens of additional cities around the country are doing the same.
Retrofitting oil, propane, and electric resistance heating systems to heat pumps will also reduce energy costs in most cases. Retrofitting gas systems can reduce energy costs in many cases, especially when paired with weatherization and other envelope improvement measures. Still, the upfront costs of electrification retrofits can be high, and public investments will be needed to ensure these costs are not passed on to low-income renters and others who can least afford them.
Realizing an equitable transformation across millions of buildings will be an enormous challenge, but we cannot allow the challenges we face to halt our efforts to avert climate disaster and equitable electrify our buildings. The good news is that cities are already leading the way in developing and implementing policies and strategies to scale up building electrification and to prioritize benefits for those who currently suffer disproportionate housing, economic, and health burdens.
About BEI and Our Cities
The Building Electrification Institute (BEI) envisions a world where we no longer burn fossil fuels in our buildings, and as a result, we will have cleaner air, safer and more affordable housing, and healthier, more livable communities.
With this transition, it is also possible to create good local jobs for those who need them and most equitably share the benefits of transitioning away from fossil fuels across all communities.
BEI views cities as agents of change that can accelerate this transition by launching innovative policies and de-risking approaches for others at the state, regional, and federal levels of government. BEI was founded in 2018 and now assists twelve leading cities across the country. BEI supports the vision of equitable and scalable building electrification by working directly with these cities across three strategic priorities:
1. Local and Regional Market Development
Market development activities create customer demand while also building local and regional supply chains. The simultaneous focus on demand and supply is key since increased customer demand must be met with a sufficient supply of trained contractors to drive down costs and ensure high-quality installations of the systems. At the same time, engaging and training contractors will be successful only if there is sufficient customer demand to justify the time and new skill development that will be required.
2. State and National Partnerships and Policy Change
To enable a widescale transition, cities cannot simply act on their own and will need to partner with states, utilities, the private sector, community-based organizations (CBOs), and many others. Partnering with states and utilities will be particularly critical since states typically regulate energy infrastructure and utilities will need to change their operations and business models to support building electrification. Over the long term, these partnerships will help lay the foundation for more ambitious regional and national policies that will be necessary for transitioning the entire economy off fossil fuels.
3. Enabling an Equitable Transition
An equitable transition will require major investments into low-income communities and communities of color to help mitigate past harms and to ensure equitable access to the benefits of building electrification. This focus is even more critical in light of the public health and economic crises resulting from COVID-19, which has disproportionately impacted these communities. Key opportunities for equitable building electrification include co-creating solutions with frontline communities, prioritizing investments based on public health and safety needs, investing in workforce development and improving job quality, and ensuring strategies reduce housing and energy costs and prevent displacement of low-income people and people of color.
Since 2018, BEI’s cities have been setting the standard for equitable building electrification across the country. In 2019, Berkeley, California enacted the first law in the nation eliminating fossil fuels in new construction, which lowers the costs of both housing construction and gas infrastructure maintenance. Dozens of cities in California and elsewhere have since followed suit and enacted similar codes. New York City enacted a policy in 2019 that requires GHG emissions reductions from large existing buildings that will accelerate electrification over time, which dozens of other cities are now seeking to replicate. And Washington, D.C. recently eliminated all incentives for gas appliances from the DC Sustainable Energy Utility, which other states and utilities will hopefully soon pursue.
More details on the progress of two additional BEI cities—Salt Lake City, Utah and Burlington, Vermont—are highlighted in the case studies below.
Case Study: Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City has long been a leader in environmental action and is committed to achieving an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2040. The city is also experiencing rapid growth as it attracts new residents and businesses from across the U.S., which presents both opportunities and challenges for reducing building emissions. Many of Salt Lake City’s efforts to date have focused on improving air quality while also reducing GHG emissions since the region’s rapid growth combined with its geography presents significant air quality challenges.
Fire Station No. 14 in Salt Lake City, Utah uses high-efficiency design, on-site solar, and ground-source heat pumps to cut energy bills and pollution. © Blalock and Partners
To help counteract these issues, the city has moved forward with a number of innovative new policies and programs. Since 2013, Salt Lake City has required net-zero carbon emissions in newly constructed municipal buildings, thereby leading by example in its own facilities. The city also led successful efforts to enact the Community Renewable Energy Act of 2019, which is statewide legislation that sets Salt Lake City and other municipalities in Utah on course to achieve net-100% renewable electricity by 2030. To continue its progress, Salt Lake City is now focused on electrifying buildings to take full advantage of its increasingly clean electricity.
Analysis of local conditions in the region found that all-electric new residential construction is less costly to build and can be more affordable to operate— one reason why a growing number of local developers in Salt Lake City are already building all-electric. These insights are informing the efforts of the City and several partners to evaluate state code opportunities that ensure new buildings in Utah are built “Electric Ready,” with the necessary wiring and electrical capacity for all-electric appliances and electric vehicle charging. Salt Lake City is also now exploring opportunities to partner with its electric utility, Rocky Mountain Power, as part of its transition to a more electrified community.
Case Study: Burlington, Vermont
In 2014, Burlington became the first city in the country to source 100% of its electricity from renewable sources. Following that accomplishment, Burlington is now committed to achieving net-zero energy by 2030 in the building and transportation sectors.
Because Burlington has a very cold climate, wintertime heating in buildings is a very large source of the city’s GHG emissions, and roughly 95% of buildings use natural gas for heating and hot water. In 2019, the Burlington Electric Department (BED) launched a cold-climate heat pump rebate program to help reduce these emissions, which includes a combination of weatherization services and installations of high-efficiency electric heat pumps. BED prioritizes low- and middle-income customers for this program by providing enhanced incentives so they better afford energy-saving heat pumps, which provide both heating and cooling, a key benefit as Burlington experiences hotter summers. In 2020, BED expanded this program under a “Green Stimulus” to help counterbalance the economic impacts of COVID-19, which dramatically increased customer uptake of heat pumps in Burlington—in total, more than 1,000 customers have now installed heat pumps using BED incentives.
Burlington has seen exponential growth in the installation of heat pumps after offering enhanced incentives under a local Green Stimulus program. © Burlington Electric Department
Burlington has also pursued policies changes to accelerate building electrification. In 2020, the City updated its existing housing code to require the installation of weatherization measures in rental properties to help prepare its existing building stock for electrification. Additionally, after completing an analysis that found that all-electric buildings can be constructed at similar or lower costs to mixed fuel buildings even in its cold climate, Burlington enacted a policy in 2021 that requires all new buildings to have heating systems that can serve at least 85% of the space heating load with high-efficiency electric options, such as air source or geothermal heat pumps—which will provide a clean source of heating for these buildings even during Burlington’s coldest winter days.
Learn more: beicities.org
About the Author
Jenna Tatum, Director, founded BEI in 2018 to build an organization that advances the leadership of cities in order to accelerate an equitable transition away from fossil fuels. Prior to BEI, Jenna served in the NYC Mayor’s Office of Sustainability where she designed programs to accelerate energy upgrades in buildings and assisted with the development of the City’s building sector strategy to achieve its ambitious climate commitments. Jenna previously served in the U.S. House of Representatives and has a Master of Public Administration degree from Columbia University.
1. RMI, The Economics of Electrifying Buildings https://bit.ly/2WlKnd7
2. In New York City, for example, on-site fossil fuel use in buildings accounts for 42% of the city’s GHG emissions, which is the largest single source of citywide emissions. See New York City’s Roadmap to 80×50 https://on.nyc.gov/3mCbvQg
3. Based on average rents reported on rentjungle.com.
4. National Low Income Housing Coalition, Out of Reach: The High Cost of Housing https://bit.ly/3mHeR4B
5. Sierra Club, New Analysis: Heat Pumps Slow Climate Change in Every Corner of the Country https://bit.ly/2WkFx0d
6. See the University of Southern California’s report, The Climate Gap https://bit.ly/38ntSQl
7. American Public Health Association, Disparities in Distribution of Particulate Matter Emission Sources by Race and Poverty Status https://bit.ly/3kt0Aph
8. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 2014 National Emissions Inventory Report https://bit.ly/3BfYuzT
9. California Energy Commission, Emissions, Indoor Air Quality Impacts, and Mitigation of Air Pollutants from Natural Gas Appliances https://bit.ly/3znyL7Z
10. Over the past two decades, there were more than 640 gas distribution accidents, resulting in 221 fatalities across the U.S. https://reut.rs/3jiJv1L
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Hunterdon Art Museum & Peters Valley School of Craft are pleased to present, “From the Ground Up,” the first-ever exhibition examining Peters Valley‘s fifty-year history and key moments that have defined the institution – from its earliest formation as an experimental craft colony, to the building of its renowned Japanese wood-fired or Anagama kiln in 1980, to the prominence of women blacksmiths at Peters Valley in the early 2000s.
The exhibition will run in the galleries of the Hunterdon Art Museum from October 4, 2020 – January 10, 2021.
The exhibition is curated by Elizabeth Essner. “From the Ground Up” will combine historical ephemera with significant works in fiber, jewelry, ceramics, wood, photography, and metal by artists involved at Peters Valley, as well as on-site artist residencies to allow further engagement with artists working in craft-based materials.
Selected artists whose work will be in the exhibition are Vivian Beer, Bruce Dehnert, Fawn Navasie, Luci Jockel, Kirk Mangus, Emil Milan, Shiro Otani, Malcolm Mobutu Smith, Stephen Shore, Toshiko Takaezu, Louise Todd Cope, MJ Tyson, and Andrew Willner.
Set in the wooded landscape of the Delaware Water Gap National Park in Layton, NJ, Peters Valley was first proposed in 1970 as a planned colony of artists and craftspeople. The resident blacksmiths, ceramists, fiber artists, metalsmiths, woodworkers, and photographers who populated the site’s 18th and 19th-century buildings created a vibrant community engaged in creating. Over time, as Peters Valley’s educational mission moved from the margins to the center, it grew into the craft school it is today, which brings together artists of local, national, and international renown with students for immersive materials-based workshops.
This exhibition was made possible in part by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this exhibition do not necessarily represent those of the NEH or NJCH. Additional support for this exhibition was provided by the Windgate Foundation, the Marie and John Zimmermann Fund. The exhibition catalogue was funded by the Windgate Foundation and John Sheridan and Andrea DuFlon.
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In its first “News Feed FYI” post of the year, Facebook announced some changes to how it ranks content in users’ News Feeds. After surveys and research, Facebook has decided that it will now aim to rank stories more highly that users are likely to rate highly if asked, and likely to engage with.
“The goal of News Feed is to show you the stories that matter most to you,” says Facebook in it’s blog post. “The actions people take on Facebook—liking, clicking, commenting or sharing a post – are historically some of the main factors considered to determine what to show at the top of your News Feed. But these factors don’t always tell us the whole story of what is most meaningful to you.”
“As part of our ongoing effort to improve News Feed, we ask over a thousand people to rate their experience every day and tell us how we can improve the content they see when they check Facebook – we call this our Feed Quality Panel. We also survey tens of thousands of people around the world each day to learn more about how well we’re ranking each person’s feed. We ask people to rate each story from one to five stars in response to the question “how much did you want to see this story in your News Feed?” From this research using a representative sample of people, we are able to better understand which stories people would be interested in seeing near the top of their News Feed even if they choose not to click, like or comment on them – and use this information to make ranking changes.”
Facebook says that they saw through their research that people reported having a better News Feed experience when the stories they see at the top are stories they are both likely to rate highly if asked and likely to engage with.
As a result Facebook News Feed will begin to look at both the probability that you would want to see the story at the top of your feed and the probability that you will like, comment on, click or share a story. Facebook will rank stories higher in a feed which they think people might take action on, and which people might want to see near the top of their News Feed.
How will this affect a Page?
Facebook say, “The impact of these changes on a story’s distribution will vary depending on the composition of an audience and their posting activity. In general this update should not impact reach or referral traffic meaningfully for the majority of Pages; however, some Pages may see some increases in referral traffic, and some Pages may see some declines in referral traffic. Pages might see some declines in referral traffic if the rate at which their stories are clicked on does not match how much people report wanting to see those stories near the top of their News Feed. This update helps rebalance those two factors, so people are seeing relevant stories to them.”
They continue, “Pages should avoid encouraging people to take an action (such as encouraging lots of clicks), because this will likely only cause temporary spikes in metrics that might then be rebalanced by feed’s ranking over time. Overall, Pages should continue to post things that your audience finds meaningful and continue using our Page post best practices.” | <urn:uuid:e5589126-8313-43c2-8c14-f6e2855d1035> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dwdc.co.uk/facebook-news-feed-ranking-adjustments/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965885 | 670 | 1.953125 | 2 |
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Halff collaborated with Harris County to create the master plan for Atascocita Park, a 21-acre park immediately west of Lake Houston. The destination park, which was completed in March 2020, was featured in Landscape Architect and Specifier News magazine.
The master plan celebrated the park’s natural conditions and addressed challenging drainage situations. The plan identified natural opportunities and incorporated a variety of recreational elements such as a playground, dog parks and a boardwalk without impeding drainage conditions or unnecessarily removing existing vegetation. Halff’s services included landscape architecture, park master planning, construction documentation, civil and structural services, MEP, surveying and environmental services.
Read all about the project’s background, preservation, resilience and more in the magazine’s digital edition.
The City of Tallahassee and Halff have been recognized with a Grand Award in Transportation from the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC) Florida for the Florida A&M University (FAMU) Way project.
This premier Tallahassee and Blueprint Intergovernmental Agency project was unanimously approved by the City of Tallahassee Commission to enhance transportation and serve as a major community investment in the southern side of the City.
The City of Tallahassee’s goal was to develop a seamless connection between Florida State University and Florida A&M University by providing a safe and beautiful mobility corridor for all forms of transportation. Coined “the most beautiful road in Tallahassee,” Halff commenced with FAMU Way corridor planning in 2007. Construction was completed on the third phase of the project in early 2021.
Read more about the project’s recent awards from Civil + Structural Engineer magazine here.
Central Texas Section of the American Planning Association 2021 Comprehensive Plan Award
The City of Temple Comprehensive Plan takes an innovative approach by targeting four major focus areas (smart growth, public safety, places and spaces, and high-performing organization) while setting eight overarching community goals for the future. It details 171 actionable commitments that support each of the eight goals.
The plan’s goals and vision inform the desired framework for future development regarding land use, transportation and development character.
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I love for someone to reach out to me and smile and exhibit kindness and consideration and concern!
Have you ever interacted with someone who captivated your attention from the moment that you met them? This person simply engaged your mind and emotions and you thought that… what is it about them that is so interesting and intriguing?
I remember assistant pastor Beyler in the early days of our attendance at First Presbyterian Church in Carbondale. She customarily read a body of scripture at the beginning of Sunday service. I do not recall anyone that brought more life and meaning to scripture, simply by reading it to the congregation, than pastor Beyler. As I listened to her read…I felt that what she was reading had either happened recently or that I was part of the drama of the passage!
I was visiting with a friend of mine recently and we were discussing the fact that many people are in the wrong profession. A leader of others must seek to care for the people that they are charged with leading.
‘Leadership is not being in charge, it is about taking care of people in your charge.’ Simon Sinek
Politicians reach their constituents by touching something inside of them that resonates with their bedrock beliefs. Whether you are a fan of our current president or not…he dramatically connected with enough voters, in the last election, to win the electoral college.
I remember JFK! This man had a charisma that excited and energized the country! When he proclaimed, ‘Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country’…thousands joined the peace corps…or entered government…or were inspired to become the best that they could be!
I remember president Reagan…I voted for him twice! I was inspired by his vision of America!
My mother loved FDR! President Roosevelt told out country in the midst of the Great Depression that, ‘The only thing that we had to fear…was fear itself!’
I recall Pastor West inspiring me to think more about and write about the homeless and the indigent and the immigrant and she gave me a love and appreciation for the Gay community…that I had formulated in my mind…but had not verbalized!
Pastor John Somers taught me the true meaning of humility. John was a pastor of a long-standing career and some significant notoriety in the Southern Illinois region. Yet he was the most humble minister that I have ever known!
Pastor Archer took a great interest in me when I was a young man. He mentored me and taught me what it was to be a gentleman. I have endeavored to follow his example up until and including this day.
English professor Carol Burns inspired me to attain an academic degree. She was my professor for English Composition 101…and she counseled me that I could attain any academic success that I sought! We read George Orwell’s ‘1984’…in 1984!
Chancellor Jo Ann Argersinger inspired me and thousands of other Southern Illinois Carbondale community members! She loved the University with a vitality that was palpable! She believed that all members of the University were equally important to the success of the institution! Her brief time as chancellor was a breath of fresh air for our school!
There is a spark of inspiration or charisma…or anointing…that is present in the most successful leaders of our churches or our government or our dramatic performers or our teachers!
It is incumbent upon us to recognize the same flame of inspiration that touched the early christians is still accessible today…to those who seek it!
Do we want God’s will for our brief journey in this life….or do we want to stick…rigidly to the script or our mission statement and our rigid formulaic dogma that we have been involved in for 50 years?
Do we desire a political leader who is compassionate toward all of God’s creation and is grounded in logic and science and truth…or do we want to let our bias and our prejudice and our misogyny and our xenophobia…rule our actions and our, at one time, soft and pliable heats?
The $1000,000 question is….are you a member of a church that you are comfortable with their basic tenants and teachings? Are you convinced that your minister cares about you and empathizes with your needs and concerns and is there for you when you need spiritual counseling?
Is the political rhetoric that you hear on a daily basis…consistent with the concrete reality that you observe with your eyes and hear with your ears?
We were at the Orthopedic Institute this morning and Mary Jane had the most delightful Physician’s Assistant examine her regarding progress resulting from a medical procedure. This young woman, Misha, had a natural affinity and charisma for patients and her interaction with my wife was some of the nicest that I have witnessed. We both left her office upbeat and encouraged!
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No matter whether you are only just beginning with your performing job, or whether you are seeking a modify in path from your present profession to go into acting, everyone will have to go by way of the same studying procedure.
The most significant and most basic tip that you can be offered, is to first of all set your expectation stage about breaking into the performing industry.
If you want to become an actor or actress, you must be geared up that you will be entering into a really reduce throat sector, and the chance of you turning out to be a Hollywood star overnight is virtually zero. Consequently, if you can begin an acting profession with an open up thoughts, and with the expectation that your journey is going to be extended and challenging to turn out to be an proven and nicely-recognized actor, you are previously on your way to becoming successful.
If you are not certain no matter whether you will get pleasure from performing as a complete-time profession, the 1st recommendation is that you search for a part as a movie extra. There are a lot of sites on the Net where you can enroll to acting web sites for free, and there are always lots of options of turning into a film further. You will not be compensated a wonderful deal of funds (close to £50 per day), but it will give you an perception and a truly feel of what functioning in the film sector is actually like.
The times will be prolonged, and there will be a lot of waiting all around till you are prepared for your five seconds of ‘fame’, but if you take pleasure in the knowledge of getting a movie added, you will be much a lot more very likely to carry on pursuing an performing job.
When you have recognized regardless of whether the performing business is for you, it would then be recommended to enrol in a number of acting lessons, just to understand the essentials needs of acting. Once again there are many performing schools or drama faculties, which can be found in your neighborhood location, who do not cost the earth (amongst £70-£100 for up to eight classes). If you are critical about turning out to be an actor, then this would be a effectively value investment and a excellent foundation for your performing profession.
When you are starting a new profession in performing, it will take time to develop an acting design of your personal. To be a profitable actor, you have to offer some thing distinctive, so that you will stand out from other people.
So while you are establishing your very own design of performing, it could be well worth while researching other profitable actors to create what can make them so effective.
For example, you can start off with your favorite actor. Look at as numerous motion pictures starring your favourite actor as you can. Get careful interest to how they go, what their posture is like and how they produce their strains in every single movie. Ask your self why you in fact like the actor, what draws you to them? Do they use the exact same acting design in each and every of their films or do they differ the acting style?
As portion of the analysis into successful actors, it truly is also essential to set up how prolonged have they been profitable for. Have they been acting for many years, or are they new to the performing scene?
There will be some actors who will be quite productive, but only for a quick while. Julian Brand actor This could be simply because they have been discovered purely for their appears, and not for their performing capability. Then when the appears begin to fade, there is nothing at all left to protected a profitable or lengthy job.
It is crucial to review as numerous different variations of acting as you are capable – it is surprising how significantly information you can glean, basically by seeing other actors. Nonetheless, you have to bear in mind to get noticed in the performing sector, you will have to be first. For that reason, it is no point copying an individual else’s acting design and mannerisms, as you will not be special.
Making use of the over techniques will aid you to start off getting performing knowledge. Once you have acquired encounter and are experience a lot more confident, then you can choose which route your want your career to just take and which fits in with your job strategy.
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Home Daycare Insurance Massachusetts. A child care insurance policy will include comprehensive general liability insurance. According to a june 2020 survey by care.com, the national average weekly child care cost for an infant child in 2019 was $201 for a family care center.
Bodily injury, damage to property, medical emergencies, and the legal costs that may arise for such incidences. Both types of daycare have specific coverage they require, and jmg’s daycare insurance is here to help.
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Child care insurance covers the child care center, or day care home, when an injury occurs. Childcare insurance will include coverage’s such as:
Home Daycare Insurance Massachusetts
Daycare insurance is a specialized commercial insurance for child care providers.Daycare insurance is a specialized type of commercial insurance that’s specifically designed for childcare programs.Daycare insurance policies are specialized commercial policies that have been carefully designed to meet the needs of childcare programs.Daycare insurance policies are specially designed commercial policies that have been crafted to meet the risk mitigation needs of childcare programs.
Daycare insurance policies tend to be robust and specialized commercial policies.Daycare insurance won’t prevent an accident from occurring, but it may provide childcare programs in massachusetts with financial protection if they suffer a covered loss or are named in a covered liability lawsuit.Daycare insurance won’t prevent something bad from happening, but it may help protect massachusetts child care providers from the financial consequences that follow a covered incident.Daycare staff are considered educators and should be trained in appropriate interactions between caretakers and children to promote growth, assess child development and respond to special needs.
Eec licenses or approves group, school age, and family child care programs;Factors affecting the cost of home daycare insurance.Family child care programs are small in size and have no more than 10 children.Family child care, sometimes referred to as home daycare, is child care provided in someone’s home where the caretaker is not related to the children.
Getting a home daycare license in massachusetts might seem complicated, but with the right resources, you’ll be on track in no time.Getting your daycare insurance quote, buying and owning liability insurance for your daycare has never been easier.Home care insurance helps massachusetts businesses that provide in home health care shield themselves from a number of the perils they face.Home daycare endorsements can be quite restrictive.
How much does daycare insurance cost?In order to offer providers protection from multiple risks, these policies usually come as package policies that bundle individual coverages together.Just as day care and child care programs have unique licensing requirements, they also have particular insurance needs.Learn about the department of early education and care’s (eec) licensed child care programs and how to apply for or renew a program license.
Most customers can buy a policy in under 10 minutes.Most policies are set up as package policies, coming with multiple coverages that work together to create a robust network of protections.Most policies are underwritten as package policies that come with multiple coverages, and.Policies are normally underwritten as package policies that contain multiple individual coverages within them.
Prices start at just $33 per month, and you can do the whole thing whenever you want, 24/7, online.State requirements or insurance company guidelines usually dictate strict limits on the number of children (not including your own) that can be under your care.The cost of your daycare insurance policy can vary greatly, depending on several factors.The eec has a form for the physician to complete.
The health of safety of children attending daycare is a top priority within the industry.The two types of home daycare insurance.There are two types of general liability coverage you can buy.This article will explain the purpose and coverage of daycare insurance and who needs it.
This figure represents a 58% increase from the average cost per child in 2013.While fully insulating childcare programs from all potential risks may not be practical, daycare insurance gives programs in massachusetts a way to protect themselves from many of the risks that they face.While it may be impossible to fully insulate a childcare program form all risk, daycare insurance often offers programs in massachusetts with robust protection against a variety of potential risks.While supplemental coverage added to your regular policy does offer you some protection should a child be injured in your care… it will not protect you in the event of a lawsuit.there are many companies that offer daycare insurance to child care providers.
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The Culture, the galaxy
-spanning pan-species civilization
around whom the science fiction books of Iain M. Banks
are set, is a utopia in the purest sense of the word.
It is a society in which all sentience is respected, whether it be humanoid, alien or machine. The Culture has no rulers or actual system of government. The only holders of power are the Minds, incredibly intelligent sentient machine intelligences. The Minds are the minds of entire ships, space stations, planets. The Mind will take care of all of the sentient beings living on it, if it chooses to have any beings live on it.
The fact that a Mind, even one of a space station purpose-built to house humans, can choose not to have any beings living on it, is a part of the beauty of the Culture. The Culture stands for absolute freedom. Anything is permitted; the citizens of the Culture barely know the meaning of the word "forbidden". The only act which is truly not permitted in the Culture is murder, although if a person commits it there is no penalty. They are merely observed closely enough so that it is impossible for them to kill again.
The futuristic technology of the Culture is amazing. Classical advances, such as greater-than-light speeds and super-intelligent AIs, are alongside more original concepts such as the amazing genetic alterations (geno-fixing) which all Culture citizens undergo. A huge variety of recreational and useful drugs can be produced inside the average Culture citizen's body, and one is even able to change gender autonomously, via a virus which changes the person's sex in a gradual process, taking around 15 months to completely change gender.
The Culture takes the general view that, although it realizes that its collective view of morality is completely subjective, it should try to do the best that it can to help less developed societies in a covert way, and to ameliorate the effects of dictatorships and the like. The sections of the Culture which deal with these sensitive matters are known as Contact and Special Circumstances.
The human inhabitants of the Culture have no need to concern themselves with anything but enjoying themselves, and living their life to the utmost fulfillment. This may sound reminiscent of such "utopias" as the Brave New World, but the Culture's is an infinitely more pleasant concept. Citizens, being geno-fixed, have a natural lifespan of about 300 years. If they so wish, their age can be stabilized so that they are immortal, barring violent death(rare) or euthanasia.
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The drastic architecture construction of Sony's PlayStation 4 console makes it the most powerful and sleek video game console ever developed by the Japanese platform holder. Apparently hundreds and hundreds of programmers, developers and designers worked hard over at Sony to bring the PlayStation 4 console into existence. Mark Cerny, an American video game industry figure who has worked as a game designer, programmer and producer, is one of those people who brought the pieces together to give life to the PlayStation 4 console.
Sony's Andrew House and PlayStation 4's Father Mark Cerny Will Talk About the Latest Console's Potential at Develop Conference
Mark Cerny, who was announced as the lead architect of the Sony PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita consoles back in 2013, has apparently decided to come on stage and discuss the future and upcoming offerings of Sony's latest video game console. Wednesday, July 9th will mark the beginning of Develop Conference that has been held yearly in Brighton, UK since 2006, and Cerny will have the pleasure to kick off the celebrations.
The President and group CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment, Andrew House, will accompany Mark Cerny and will host the opening keynote titled “20 Years of PlayStation, 40 Years of Console Games, and 100 Years to Come” starting at 9:30 AM according to UK time. According to the official Develop Conference website, Here is a brief description of what we can expect from the conference.
"It’s hard to believe it’s 20 years since the arrival of PlayStation. And looking today at the ubiquitous popularity of games across a multiplicity of devices, it’s equally astonishing it had taken 20 years since the pioneering 1970s consoles before a manufacturer had dared again to aspire to take console gaming truly mainstream."
"PlayStation didn’t do it all, of course – no single product, game, or game designer could claim that. But with its pop culture sensibilities, 3D graphics, CD quality nightclub-friendly soundtracks, and adult-orientated attitude, Sony’s debut console surely marked a turning point for our industry, and our aspirations."
"What have we learned so far on this incredible journey? What new doors will PlayStation 4 open in the next few years – and where do we go after that? We could hardly have two more illustrious speakers to tease out the future of our industry, and to fire us up as the conference gets underway!" | <urn:uuid:068da8c7-bbd9-49df-8f17-55a1af44a8f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wccftech.com/lead-architect-ps4-mark-cerny-talk-consoles-potential-develop-conference/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947976 | 489 | 1.617188 | 2 |
- Idaho allows for discretionary parole. See Idaho Code § 19-2513.
- Idaho allows for mandatory LWOP and JLWOP. See Idaho Code § 18-4004.
- Idaho does not provide a minimum age for juvenile transfer to adult court. See Idaho Code § 20-509(4).
Idaho Const. Art. I, § 6 (2012)
§ 6. Right to bail -- Cruel and unusual punishments prohibited
All persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties, except for capital offenses, where the proof is evident or the presumption great. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excess fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
NOTE: The Eighth Amendment and Art. I, § 6 require very similar proportionality tests. Art. I, § 6 tracks the Eighth Amendment.
- Sentencing Guidelines System – Idaho does not have sentencing guidelines
- Habitual Offender Act – Idaho Code § 19-2514 (2012)
§ 19-2514. Persistent violator -- Sentence on third conviction for felony. Any person convicted for the third time of the commission of a felony, whether the previous convictions were had within the state of Idaho or were had outside the state of Idaho, shall be considered a persistent violator of law, and on such third conviction shall be sentenced to a term in the custody of the state board of correction which term shall be for not less than five (5) years and said term may extend to life.
- Post Conviction Relief Act – Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act, I.C. § 19-4901
The Uniform Post-Conviction Procedure Act, I.C. § 19-4901, provides a civil remedy for criminal offenders sentenced to cruel or unusual or illegal sentences. The offender must prove, by a preponderance of evidence, the allegations upon which the request for post-conviction relief is based. I.C. § 19-4907; Evans v. State, 127 Idaho 662, 664 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995)(citing Russell v. State, 118 Idaho 65, 67 (Idaho Ct. App. 1990)).
To determine what constitutes cruel and unusual punishment under the Uniform Sentencing Act, Idaho courts treat “the minimum period of incarceration as the duration of confinement.” State v. Shanahan, 133 Idaho 896, 899 (Idaho Ct. App. 1999) (citing State v. Matteson, 123 Idaho 622, 62 (Idaho 1993); State v. Daniel, 127 Idaho 801, 804 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995)).
- Death Penalty Proportionality –
Under I.C. § 19-2827 (review of death sentences), the Supreme Court is required to “independently review the sentence and determine (1) whether the sentence of death was imposed under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor; (2) whether the evidence supports the judge's findings of a statutory aggravating circumstance; and (3) whether the sentence of death is excessive or disproportionate to the penalty imposed in similar cases, considering both the crime and the defendant.” State v. Card, 121 Idaho 425 (Idaho 1991); see also State v. Dunlap, 125 Idaho 530, 537-538 (Idaho 1993); State v. Lankford, 116 Idaho 860, 877-878 (Idaho 1989).
Regarding the third prong of the death sentence review, the court makes a de novo determination of the proportionality of the sentence after reviewing the (1) nature and motive of the defendant; (2) heinous nature of the crime; and (3) nature and character of the defendant. State v. Dunlap, 125 Idaho 530, 538 (Idaho 1993).
"When a sentence is within the statutory limits, we will review the sentence for an abuse of discretion." State v. Farwell, 144 Idaho 732, 734-35 (Idaho 2007) (citing State v. Knighton, 143 Idaho 318, 319 (Idaho 2006)).
State Constitution & Proportionality
Generally, the issue of excessiveness may not be considered for the first time on appeal. Evans v. State, 127 Idaho 662, 664 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995) (citing State v. Fodge, 121 Idaho 192, 195 (Idaho 1992); Sanchez v. Arave, 120 Idaho 321, 322 (Idaho 1991)).
Nevertheless, the Idaho Supreme Court “has customarily and routinely considered claims that sentences violate the Eighth Amendment because of excessive length where that constitutional challenge was not presented to the trial court.” State v. Jensen, 138 Idaho 941, 945-946 (Idaho Ct. App. 2003); see also, State v. Shanahan, 133 Idaho 896, 899 (Idaho Ct. App. 2000); State v. Thomas, 133 Idaho 682, 688 (Idaho Ct. App. 1999); State v. Rogerson, 132 Idaho 53, 57 (Idaho Ct. App. 1998).
The burden of demonstrating that a sentence is cruel and unusual is on the person asserting the constitutional violation. Gibson v. Bennett, 141 Idaho 270, 275 (Idaho Ct. App. 2005)(citing State v. Clay, 124 Idaho 329, 332 (Idaho Ct. App. 1993)).
Ordinarily, if a sentence falls within the statutory limits, the sentence will not be considered cruel and unusual punishment. State v. Kelly, 106 Idaho 268, 279 (Idaho Ct. App. 1984) (citing Watkins v. State, 101 Idaho 758 (Idaho 1980)).
The Idaho Supreme Court’s “analysis of whether a sentence violates Article I, Section 6, has traditionally tracked the U.S. Supreme Court's Eighth Amendment jurisprudence.” State v. Draper, 151 Idaho 576, 599 (Idaho 2011).
The “gross proportionality” test is equivalent to the test under the Idaho Constitution, which asks whether the defendant’s punishment is “out of proportion to the gravity of the offense committed and such as to shock the conscious of reasonable people.” State v. Brown, 121 Idaho 385, 394 (Idaho 1992); Gibson v. Bennett, 141 Idaho 270, 275 (Idaho Ct. App. 2005); State v. Olivera, 131 Idaho 628 (Idaho Ct. App. 1998); State v. Matteson, 123 Idaho 622, 626-627 (Idaho 1993).
If an inference of “gross proportionality” is found, the court must conduct a subsequent proportionality analysis. Id. See also State v. Matteson, 123 Idaho 622, 626, 851 P.2d 336, 340; State v. Olivera, 131 Idaho at 632, 962 P.2d 399, 403.
An "intra- and inter-jurisdictional" analysis is "appropriate only in the rare case" where the sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crime committed. State v. Wright, 147 Idaho 150 (Idaho Ct. App. 2009) (citing State v. Grazian, 144 Idaho 510, 517 (Idaho 2007); State v. Matteson, 123 Idaho 622, 626 (Idaho 1993)).
“To establish that the sentence imposed was improper, the defendant must show that in light of the governing criteria, [the] sentence was excessive under any reasonable view of the facts.” State v. Brown, 121 Idaho 385, 392-393 (Idaho 1992)(quoting State v. Broadhead, 120 Idaho 141, 143-145 (Idaho 1991)).
The objectives of sentencing, against which the reasonableness of a sentence is to be measured are: (1) the protection of society; (2) the deterrence of crime; (3) the rehabilitation of the offender; and (4) punishment or retribution. State v. Wright, 147 Idaho 150, 161 (Idaho Ct. App. 2009). In examining the reasonableness of a sentence, we conduct an independent review of the record, focusing on the nature of the offense and the character of the offender. Id.
"A sentence is reasonable if at the time of imposition it appears necessary to achieve 'the primary objective of protecting society and to achieve any or all of the related goals of deterrence, rehabilitation or retribution applicable to the given case.'" State v. Draper, 151 Idaho 576, 599-600 (Idaho 2011) (quoting State v. Lundquist, 134 Idaho 831, 836 (Idaho 2000)).
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Where reasonable minds might differ regarding the appropriateness of a sentence, the discretion vested in the sentencing court will be respected. State v. Brown, 121 Idaho 385, 393 (Idaho 1992).
Idaho courts perform proportionality analysis in death penalty cases and “to those cases which are ‘out of proportion to the gravity of the offense committed’ in the cruel and unusual punishment setting similar to the ‘grossly disproportionate’ analysis” of Kennedy in Harmelin. The court must compare defendant’s crimes and the sentence to determine if gross disproportionality exists, a threshold question. State v. Moore, 127 Idaho 780, 783-784 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995); State v. Shanahan, 133 Idaho 896, 899 (Idaho Ct. App. 1999); State v. Jenkins, 133 Idaho 747 (Idaho Ct. App. 1999); State v. Toney, 130 Idaho 858, 861 (Idaho Ct. App. 1997); State v. Robertson, 130 Idaho 287, 289 (Idaho Ct. App. 1997); State v. Pugsley, 128 Idaho 168, 179 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995); State v. Schneider, 126 Idaho 624 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995).
When conducting a proportionality analysis, consideration must be given to the youth and immaturity of the offender, as teenagers are less able to evaluate the consequences of their actions and are must more likely than adults to be motivated by peer pressure. State v. Moore, 127 Idaho 780, 783-784 (Idaho Ct. App. 1995).
Under the Idaho Constitution, a court may sentence a defendant to a penalty for a lesser included offense that exceeds the maximum penalty authorized for a greater offense. State v. Goodrick, 102 Idaho 811, 813 (Idaho 1982).
Leading Court Discussions of Graham and Miller
State v. Windom, 150 Idaho 873, 253 P.3d 310 (March, 2011) (Graham does not apply to non-homicide cases so LWOP is proper; dissent does not agree, arguing court should apply the principle of Graham, i.e. juveniles are less culpable than adults.)
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When it comes to big tech and their data, know what to expect if and when restrictive privacy rules go into effect.
In part one of this article posted last week, I wrote about how data is used for personalization and how personalization benefits numerous aspects of user experience. I also used Cambridge Analytica’s misuse of Facebook data to highlight the need for a thoughtful, comprehensive and well-defined framework of regulation.
But with all of that said related to questionable corporate data privacy decisions, bad actors, naïve consumers and the clear need for a regulation, I wanted to loop back on what I said about a risk of overcompensation that could negatively impact businesses and consumers alike. For this reason, I believe it’s important for those of us in the industry — agencies, clients, media companies, marketers — to educate ourselves on this issue, make our voices heard and help our industry advocacy groups align on appropriate action.
WHAT’S THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?
In this next section, I’ve provided a series of scenarios related to what could potentially happen if U.S. lawmakers went so far with privacy regulations that it limited or eliminated the use of non-personally identifiable data, or broke up tech giants in a way that limited their data collection and mining capabilities now accessed and leveraged by a large portion of the marketing industry.
Sales Cycles and Cost Per Sale
The efficiencies gained over the last 10 or 15 years related to data-driven marketing would absolutely be at risk. Think about the evolution in this time period to more and more targeted marketing, some of it highly audience-specific and served to users who actually have an interest in that particular product or service.
If, due to restrictive privacy laws, we could no longer measure what content resonates with a potential customer, the ability to match content and message to every point in the customer’s online journey would be compromised. This would prevent us from creating multi-touch attribution modeling and media mix optimization. Sales cycles could increase; sales revenue could decrease.
Basically, marketers could expect increased time and costs to meet the same marketing objectives.
The Google Bounty of Investment
So, what happens if privacy regulations, or even a breakup of Alphabet, prevent Google from using data in advertising as it currently does? Could there be a reduction in revenue? And if so, would it be enough to impact the availability of Google’s suite of free software?
In short, I doubt it. Google’s advertising business produces a staggering amount of revenue. In Q3 of 2018, $24.1 billion of Google's $27.77 billion revenue for Q3 2018 was from advertising. So, I really don’t think there’s much risk of Google pulling back on all of the free software (like Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Drive, Docs, Sheets, Slides and many more) it provides to businesses and consumers. And thank goodness for that. I don’ think I could go back to the days of worrying about version control for collaborative documents stored on a server.
But what about Google’s investment in innovation? Would Google moonshot projects (defined as the intersection of a big problem, a radical solution and breakthrough technology) become a thing of the past? If so, projects like Wing (a drone delivery service) and the Loon project (attempting to beam the Internet to the entire world via router-equipped hot air balloons) may never come to fruition. And while you might be thrilled with these ideas, think about the ideas that haven’t been discussed yet. The next idea equal to Google’s driverless car may never make it off the drawing board.
What Consumers (B2C and B2B) Can Expect
Prices will rise. When it is less efficient — i.e., more expensive — for a marketer to reach a given audience, those costs are logically passed on to customers as a cost of doing business.
Also, the online search and shopping experience — which has become easier and more seamless with each passing year — will slow down. It will take more clicks to get to information a user is looking for, with online marketing messages showing up that are less relevant to the user.
What Media Companies and Publishers Can Expect
Advertisers would probably be looking at a trip down memory lane on this one. Without the ability to use data to “find” targeted audiences anywhere they might be browsing online, advertisers would be forced to pursue audiences based on contextual relevance alone. Broad-based publishers and channels would suffer, as advertisers would no longer have a way to split out or target defined subsets of users and viewers. And highly niche publications and media channels with content developed for defined audiences would likely come out ahead. This means one-to-one ad buys, requiring a substantial amount of incremental time, as well as an equally high increase in media cost.
The Impact on Our Economy
Severely limiting the ability of the tech companies to monetize their user data could certainly have a potentially massive, negative impact on the entire martech and adtech industries. These companies (hundreds and perhaps thousands) exist with business models partially or wholly dependent on targeting users based on data. DSP/programmatic ad markets and ad buying would be especially hard hit, as would small publishers that depend on programmatic ads for a sizable portion of their revenue.
Jobs at risk. Companies at risk.
What We Can Do
I’m sounding this alarm because, as a professional who has seen the evolution of data-based marketing, I know it has benefited companies and individual people in ways we do not even think about any more.
The marketing success of almost every company in every industry is dependent on understanding customers’ wants, needs and behaviors. This has become so much easier and more efficient over time with the advent of the tools and data made available by the tech companies that are being vilified based on the actions of a small number of bad actors. Having a firmer grip on what customers are interested in and making it easier to help them find it is a good thing.
Yes, we need privacy protections. Yes, the tech companies themselves need to take their heads out of the sand. And yes, an appropriate level of regulation would be welcomed. But all of us in marketing need to understand how dependent this industry is on access to customer data. Once hampered or stopped, we will see a ripple effect on business, our own industry and pretty much everyone who uses a digital device.
Get educated. Get involved. Be sure our collective voices are heard. If we are silent and our industry remains sidelined, we will not like the results of what could be a data disaster.
Mark Robinson has been a part of the digital marketing industry since the mid-90’s when he became an early employee of one of the most successful Silicon Alley startups in NYC. Since that time, he’s held client-side digital strategy leadership roles for well-known companies in the financial services, retail and education industries. Most recently, his roles have been agency-side, delivering digital marketing and media services for both B2B and B2C clients, including his current role as Director, Integrated Media and Digital Analytics at CBD Marketing in Chicago. | <urn:uuid:89ef1790-5cf0-4cb9-84e9-80595d0e3f2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cbdmarketing.com/uncategorized/part-ii-dont-cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-facebook/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95223 | 1,505 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Apple Acquired The Self-driving Car Startup Drive.ai
Apple has lauched self driving vehicle in the market with new features for better response.
Apple is putting its efforts and moving ahead to widen its engineering talent to boost Apple?s own self-driving efforts. Apple Inc confirmed that it has acquired self-driving shuttle firm Drive.ai. According to current information sources, startups are chasing autonomous vehicles, Drive.ai had been running a small fleet of test shuttles in Texas.
Apple is competing against rivals such as Alphabet Inc's Waymo to develop self-driving independent vehicles. In the last year, Apple has to renovate its efforts to give the best services regarding the production of autonomous vehicles. Key components like sensors are also being included in their services.
Drive.ai had raised $77 million in venture capital at a $200 million valuation for autonomous vehicles. Apple is continuously showing its interest in autonomous vehicle technology. Apple has hired dozens of Drive.ai engineers as well and purchased the car assets. Apple is embedding the machine learning and artificial intelligence based features also in the self-driving cars.
The deep learning features to recognize, sense and detect the objects on the road by the company has been also appended and integrated into the new autonomous vehicle. LED screens are also featured for the pedestrians one at the front and the other at rear for conveying a message to the other vehicles on road.
Drive.ai appeared to be one of the most promising startups to be working on autonomous cars. The technical challenges and timelines are very important aspects considered for the deployment of autonomous self-driving cars. Meanwhile, many of the bigger firms working on technology are eyeing partnerships in the interest of spreading the huge costs across many companies. | <urn:uuid:7ee7917c-c4e0-41f4-8646-02bc9e37cbef> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.autocarbazar.com/car-news/apple-acquired-the-self-driving-car-startup-drive.ai-2348.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.976193 | 354 | 1.695313 | 2 |
On September 8th 2021 I discovered a backdoor in a Composer package for generating QR codes in the Laravel framework. The package
laraveli/qr-code contains malware that attackers can use to remotely execute code on a compromised website or install and access a web shell. The code was traced back to a second package which also contains malware,
Fortunately, the package doesn't even work if you follow the installation instructions because it's missing a dependency,
werneckbh/qr-code. More on that in a minute. Once I added the required package I was able to explore how this backdoor is intended to work. The malware is contained in the
boot() method of the
Because Laravel calls the
boot() method of this service provider automatically, the backdoor can be accessed on any page of the site by simply appending
?run=[command] to the URL. The result is unrestricted remote command execution.
Additionally, if you pass
console as the command a web shell gets retrieved from a Gist on GitHub and installed in the site's web root directory. The shell requires a login (thankfully), but that can be found in the shell's source code. Getting the password correct required cracking the MD5 hash or, you know, Googling it.
So where did this code come from? First, let's talk about the legitimate code the package is based on. If you look at the code comments and README they contain this copyright:
Copyright 2018 Bruno Vaula Werneck. It turns out Bruno Werneck is the author of two QR code packages:
werneckbh/qr-code (the missing dependency mentioned above) and
werneckbh/laravel-qr-code, which contains the exact same code as
laraveli/qr-code (minus the malware).
So where did the malware come from? The package was published by a shell account with no other activity or author information, however the shell login username and the user's GitHub avatar both provide a clue: fr3on.
According to GitHub, fr3on is a handle for an Egyptian PHP developer named Ahmed Mardi. Ahmed's Facebook account even includes the same fr3on avatar we saw on laraveli's GitHub profile.
Looking through Ahmed's GitHub account it became clear that he likes web shells, but I also discovered a second Composer package he published that contains malware:
fr3on/neutron contains no legitimate or useful code, but it does include a variant of the backdoor we saw initially.
This backdoor provides remote command execution via the same
?run=[command] URL parameter, but it also beacons back to
hxxp://insta.fr3on[.]info/ with information about the compromised website including the hostname, URL, server OS and architecture, and the user that's executing the PHP script. The C2 domain is flagged as malicious by one vendor on VirusTotal.
I notified Packagist.org about these two malicious packages on September 11th, 2021. Both packages were removed on September 12th, 2021.
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Award Presented by AAPG’s Petroleum Structure and Geomechanics Division
Each year, the Petroleum Structure and Geomechanics Division (PSGD) of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists recognizes papers that are seminal to their field.
On October 2, PSGD presented the 2020 Best Seminal Paper Award to John Suppe, distinguished professor at the University of Houston’s Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, Dan Davis of SUNY Stony Brook, and the late Tony Dahlen of Princeton University. The award was presented online by the PSGD as part of the AAPG Annual Meeting.
The award recognized three of their classic papers from the 1980s on the mechanics of fold and thrust belts and accretionary wedges. This work showed that the mechanics and kinematics of mountain belts is akin to that of a wedge of soil or snow that forms ahead of a bulldozer blade.
Papers Recognized with Best Seminal Paper Award
- Davis, D., Suppe, J., and Dahlen, F., 1983, Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 88, p. 1153-1172.
- Dahlen, F., Suppe, J., and Davis, D., 1984, Mechanics of fold-and-thrust belts and accretionary wedges: cohesive Coulomb theory: Journal of Geophysical Research, v. 89, p. 10087-10101.
- Dahlen, F. and Suppe, J., 1988, Mechanics, growth and erosion of mountain belts: Geological Society of America Special Paper 218, p. 161-178.
The papers were nominated by Peter Hennings of The University of Texas at Austin.
Hennings wrote the following citation for the award presentation:
Occasionally the steady cadence of science leaps forward when the fundamental building blocks of hypothesis, observation, and physical relationships are brought together forcefully. This occurred in the 1980s when Dan Davis, John Suppe, and Francis Dahlen Jr. collaborated to propose that controlling mechanics of thrust belts and accretionary wedges could be elegantly explained by invoking a combination of effective stress and frictional mechanics within a simple geometric configuration akin to a wedge of sand or soil being bulldozed. Their first paper, in 1983, observations of crustal-scale examples, including the neotectonics of Taiwan, and physical models, coupled with effective stress from Hubbert and Rubey (1959) and frictional strength from Byerlee (1978) and Jaeger and Cook (1969) provide us with the “frictional wedge” that so many of us envision when interpreting contractile systems in the field or subsurface. Here we learn that contractile wedges grow self-similarly, the degree of variation in taper angles from global examples, and what the internal and external controls are. A year later in 1984 the authors extended the work by determining the state of stress everywhere within a critical wedge and considering cohesion, which gives rise to variation in the shape of the wedge envelope and affects the orientation of the principal stresses within it. Finally, in 1988 Dahlen and Suppe provide the third installment where they investigate the kinematic development of the wedge, how material moves and deforms within it, and the significant impact of erosion.
A couple of months ago I was working with a UT PhD student who was adding kinematic analysis of a regional thrust belt cross section to help explain some zircon provenance data. The student was rightfully alarmed that there was no constraint on the eroded domain, and therefore no means to validate the section by restoration. I recommended review of the 3 papers highlighted here. The student came back to me with elation and gratitude, misplaced of course. My gratitude to Dan Davis, Francis Dahlen, and John Suppe for helping me understand thrust belt mechanics!
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- RESEARCH BULLETIN NO. 34
The hazards of vague communication
By Gaetano Gaballo
When market participants are uncertain about the content of an announcement, they may interpret market movements as an indication of the interpretation of others. As a result, releasing news that is open to subjective interpretation may increase uncertainty rather than reducing it.
In an environment of very low interest rates in all major economies, central banks have come to rely on communication more than they did before with the aim of better anchoring agents’ expectations about future policy actions. However, this strategy has sometimes seemed to backfire with market uncertainty sometimes rising in response to important policy communications. One example is the “taper tantrum” episode during which the stock market uncertainty index in the United States reached a historical high after a speech by Ben Bernanke, Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, on the possibility of a future tapering of the Federal Reserve’s programme of asset purchases. How is it possible that uncertainty can rise after the provision of truthful information?
Communication and financial markets
This research bulletin article shows that, when information is prone to subjective interpretation, an announcement can generate more uncertainty than clarity as agents need to interpret the content of the information. In this process, they will look at movements in market prices to check how other recipients have interpreted the same piece of information, unintentionally amplifying financial noise.
Markets are important aggregators of information and their reaction to announcements matters in assessing the value of transparency in central bank communication. Nevertheless, the previous literature has studied the effects of communication abstracting from this role of markets. The seminal contribution by Morris and Shin (2002) stresses how noise in public announcements makes agents’ forecast errors correlate, leading to inefficient fluctuations. To overcome this problem, Sims (2005) suggests that authorities release multiple sources of detailed information so that agents – having limited attention – will focus on different pieces of information; in this way, agents’ forecast errors are likely to be uncorrelated and to smoothly vanish in the aggregate.
The research described in this article contradicts that view. It shows that even if policy announcements result in uncorrelated (mis)understandings, as Sims suggests, the presence of noise in financial markets can still induce correlated forecast errors, because agents look to market prices to improve their forecasts.
The analysis is based on a simple model where agents need to forecast the future price level to optimally save in a nominal asset. In the model, agents cannot distinguish whether price fluctuations are caused by an exogenous shock or by the market’s expectation of the future price level. In this context, a policy authority releases its own forecast of the future price level in the benevolent attempt to improve agents’ forecasts. However, its communication is imperfect, meaning that agents have different interpretations of the announcement. The less precise are the announcements, the more this is the case.
Therefore, while the policy authority announces its forecast about the future state of the economy to the best of its knowledge, agents disagree about the actual informational content of the announcement. The extent of disagreement varies with the precision of the news: less precise news is more prone to subjective interpretation. Precision may depend on the language used by the authority, or the ability of agents to understand policy announcements, or the extrinsic uncertainty surrounding the news.
Learning from prices leads to higher uncertainty
Agents’ private understanding of an announcement is not the only piece of information that they have. Agents also observe the current price level, which is a noisy public signal of the aggregate expectation of the future price level. It is noisy because the current price level is subject to a shock which is not observed by agents and is assumed to be unrelated to the future price level. The presence of such an exogenous shock implies that the market price does not perfectly reveal how the market overall interpreted the information provided by the authority. Nonetheless, the market price contains information that can help agents to infer how others have interpreted the announcement.
Depending on the precision of the announcement, agents will use the information directly to form their own expectations, or will see how it has been interpreted by others by looking at (and thus reacting more to) the market price. A key result of this research is that agents react most strongly to the market price when the news has intermediate values of precision. When the announcement has no precision (“no news”), agents react neither to the announcement nor to the market price: they understand that the price does not contain any relevant new information because there was no new information. When the announcement has full precision (“precise news”), agents react fully to the announcement but do not react to the market price, as they do not need any information other than the announcement. When the announcement has only partial precision (“vague news”), however, agents react to both the announcement and the market price, as both signals are useful to refine their expectations.
This last scenario could explain experiences like the “taper tantrum”. Although every agent was individually uncertain about the correct interpretation of the announcement, all were interpreting market price movements as a signal of the average understanding. By moving their beliefs closer to the average, agents created momentum in the financial markets, triggering excess volatility and making the future course of prices less predictable.
Therefore, although agents, as individuals, have an incentive to condition their expectations on market prices, their collective reaction inefficiently amplifies the impact of the noise that is reflected in market prices because of the presence of the unrelated shock. Imprecise announcements may then decrease agents’ forecasting ability. Chart 1 shows that the forecast error variance may increase with the release of vague news with respect to the benchmark of no release (which is equivalent to a release of information with no precision). However, as the news approaches full precision, forecast errors will eventually vanish.
Chart 1: Forecast error variance as a function of the precision of news.
This article highlights recent research showing the importance of considering how financial markets aggregate information when assessing the effects of public announcements. It suggests that releasing information that is open to subjective interpretation may increase market uncertainty, especially in periods of already high financial turbulences. In such a case, communication may not improve on silence.
Angeletos, George-Marios, and Alessandro Pavan. 2007. Efficient Use of Information and Social Value of Information. Econometrica 75 (4): 1103–42.
Gaballo, Gaetano 2016. Rational Inattention to News: The Perils of Forward Guidance. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, Vol. 8, Issue 1, Pages 42-97.
Morris, Stephen, and Hyun Song Shin. 2002. Social Value of Public Information. American Economic Review 92 (5): 1521–34.
Sims, Christopher A. 2005. Rational Inattention: A Research Agenda. Deutsche Bundesbank Discussion Paper 34/2005.
Svensson, Lars E. O. 2006. Social Value of Public Information: Comment: Morris and Shin (2002) Is Actually Pro-Transparency, Not Con. American Economic Review 96 (1): 448–52.
- Disclaimer: This article was written by Gaetano Gaballo (Economist, Directorate General Research, Monetary Policy Research Division). The author thanks Katrin Assenmacher, Luca Dedola, Paul Dudenhefer, Michael Ehrmann, Geoff Kenny, Silvia Margiocco and Stefano Nardelli for their comments. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the European Central Bank and the Eurosystem.
- The Chicago Board Options Exchange volatility index (VIX) increased by about 50% in one month after 22 May 2013, the day of Ben Bernanke’s testimony before the Joint Economic Committee.
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It shouldn’t have come to this. Roe v. Wade shouldn’t have ever been the last barricade for women and people with uteruses to be able make the most intimate and private decisions about their bodies, their health, and their futures.
But it was. And now the majority of the Supreme Court have ruled states can take away our fundamental rights to bodily autonomy.
It shouldn’t have come to this. But here we are.
The overturning of Roe v. Wade will usher in more regressive policies, racism, and tyranny. The Supreme Court has now opened the floodgates to a multi-front war and not just on women’s bodies. Below are just two examples:
- Many states, such as Arkansas and Mississippi, have trigger laws which have taken effect, laws that outlaw abortion with no exceptions. According to Heather Cox Richardson, “Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) is backing federal legislation to punish corporations who pay to fly their employees to different states for abortion care and gender-affirming care for their children.” She cited that some Texas pharmacists are refusing to fill prescriptions for medications prescribed for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.
- Clarence Thomas wrote in his concurring opinion that the Supreme Court should reconsider the decisions in Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell—which are the rulings that protect contraception, same-sex relationships, and marriage equality. As Professor Anthony Michael Kreis, from Georgia State University College of Law stated, “The danger of overturning Roe is in the fact that you’re tipping a major leg of the right-to-privacy-stool out from underneath it.”
No one is coming to rescue us. Yes, we have been failed and we are the only ones that can fight back and remake this country into one we can believe in. The time to be unreasonable has come. This is the fight of our lifetime and for our future.
Inclusive Life’s Strategies for Ground War Ahead:
Being polite won’t save us.
No one is getting free alone. Listen to the voices of folks who have been organizing within communities particularly Black women who have been fighting unsung battles like this for generations.
Be a part of coalitions
Stay in them even if you’re angry, tired, or frustrated.
Show up for women and gender expansive folks in need of contraception and abortion services. Show up for folks who need healthcare and ability services.
Keep a steady pace
Stay in it for the long haul.
This is happening because of and in collusion with voter suppression. Work locally to support free and fair elections to local, state, and federal offices. Support organizations like Black Voters Matter.
Desiree Adaway has this to say:
“Taking away access to abortion will not stop us from loving each other, and caring for each other and fighting for each other. That’s what we have always done and what we will always do.”
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Choose a Good Natured Gift this Christmas
Press Release 2nd November 2012
It’s hard to believe but it is coming towards the end of the year and Christmas is on our doorstep. Christmas is a time for families and friends to reunite and celebrate. It is time when we exchange gifts to loved ones, socks for Dad, perfume for Mum, a box of chocolates for your work colleagues and a bottle of wine for your neighbours. This year why not choose a gift that will have a lasting impact far beyond Christmas. The Irish Peatland Conservation Council (IPCC) have a selection of good natured gifts on offer for you to choose from. Good natured gifts are a donation towards wildlife. This donation goes towards maintaining and restoring habitats and monitoring wildlife in Ireland. Nuala Madigan Education Officer with the Irish Peatland Conservation Council commented ‘there is nothing better than hearing the sound of croaking frogs on a Spring morning as they lay spawn in wetlands, a €15 good natured frog gift would support the IPCC in maintaining and restoring wetlands and allow the IPCC to continue to monitor frog populations nationally’.
There are many different types of good natured gifts. The Bog of Allen Nature Centre offers family passes for the year for only €25. This pass supports the conservation of peatlands in Ireland and gives your family free entrance to the centre throughout the year. Adults can explore the gardens and peatland exhibitions while younger visitors get a hands on experience of Irish wildlife through pond dipping for minibeasts and searching for newts and frogs. The Marsh Fritillary is a butterfly that is endangered throughout Europe, for €20 you can adopt a Marsh Fritillary butterfly. Your adoption will help the IPCC to manage a site in Kildare where the butterfly is breeding and where we monitor the number of nest sites of the butterfly on the site. Joining the IPCC as a Friend of the Bog for €40 for a year will ensure that you get IPCC’s Peatland News twice a year and free entrance to the Bog of Allen Nature Centre.
When Christmas is over, the wine has been drunk, the chocolates have been eaten and the perfume bottle is empty a good natured gift will keep on giving. Come June young froglets will be emerging from the ponds onto the land around us eating those slugs and snails that may be attacking your vegetable patch, the Marsh Fritillary will be fluttering past as you enjoy a walk in the countryside, in Spring and Autumn you will be settling down to read your Peatland News magazine with a cup of tea or you will be enjoying a day out at the Bog of Allen Nature Centre with family or friends. Christmas is a time for family and friends but this year why not choose a gift that will keep on giving throughout the year in a very enjoyable way.
If you would like to purchase a good natured gift you can choose your gift by visiting the website of the IPCC at www.ipcc.ie/nature-shop and make your purchase through our secure paypal account or alternatively you can e-mail the IPCC at email@example.com or phone 045-860133 and we will send you a catalogue. | <urn:uuid:55f1d75c-feaf-488f-b8f5-f0c380fc6722> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ipcc.ie/choose-a-good-natured-gift-this-christmas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938773 | 660 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Laugh Meaning in Hindi
What is the translation of word Laugh in Hindi?
Defenition of word Laugh
- an act of laughing.
- a thing that causes laughter; a source of fun, amusement, or derision.
- make the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of contempt or derision.
Other Meanings of Laugh
Antonyms for Laugh
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has been part of the therapeutic lexicon since the 1980s, when PTSD was added to the third edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as a response to the biological, psychological, and social impact of catastrophic events such as war, rape, natural disasters and surviving prisoner-of-war or concentration camps. Symptoms include nightmares, avoidance of reminders of the event, and reliving the event when triggers are present. An example is a combat medic in Vietnam who believed his family was under attack and threw his wife onto the ground when he heard a helicopter sound outside his window. When she struggled, the violence escalated until he had his hands around her throat in an attempt to subdue her. He was involuntarily committed to an inpatient psychiatric hospital for stabilization. Once he could speak logically, he reported what he’d seen in the field as the one whose job it was to, in his words “collect body parts.” In tears, he said, “I was a healer, and the war turned me into a killer.” His prognosis wasn’t positive, partly because the symptoms had been left untreated for decades.
Hope for Healing from PTSD
Others might have a more hopeful outlook. The field of Positive Psychology, which offers a strengths-focused perspective to recovery from traumatic experiences, was pioneered by psychologist Martin Seligman, who directs the Positive Psychology Center at the University of Pennsylvania. One concept in this approach is post-traumatic growth, which reflects counterintuitive responses to horrific circumstances. Research from Lawrence G. Calhoun and Richard G. Tedeschi of the University of North Carolina Charlotte found that survivors of trauma often experienced profound healing, a stronger spiritual faith and philosophical grounding. The 21-item Post-Traumatic Growth Inventory examines responses to painful event in five areas:
- Relating to others
- New possibilities
- Personal strength
- Spiritual change
- Appreciation for life
Resilience is powerful factor in post-traumatic growth that often precedes the life-altering events. It helps people create a sense of stability, bond with caregivers, communicate needs and emotions, regulate themselves, and feel a higher level of self-worth. If adults model resilient responses, children are more inclined to emulate those qualities, making them better able to cope with trauma.
Setting Yourself Up for Resilience
A poignant example of the power of the human spirit and post-traumatic growth is psychiatrist Viktor E. Frankl. He wrote Man’s Search for Meaning, in which he shared: “We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms — to choose one’s own attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.” When people perceive themselves as victims of circumstance, their ability to bounce back from trauma is impaired. Once they see themselves as resilient thrivers who’ve created meaning from their challenges, they become more inclined to have a post-traumatic growth experience and rebound more readily, with longer-term positive outcomes. From the tradition of Buddhism comes a story of two arrows called Sallatha Sutta. It explains that physical and emotional pain is inevitable. That’s the first arrow, which might pierce us. The second arrow, which might cause even more lasting harm, is the one with which we continue to stab ourselves. Those are thoughts of blame and victimhood, which lead us to carry wounds as if they’re our identity. When we recognize the role suffering might play in developing compassion for self and others, we’re better able to stop the second arrow from reaching its target. By Edie Weinstein, LSW Follow Eddie Weinstein on Twitter @EdieWeinstein1 | <urn:uuid:2e1988f9-ffb3-4819-b53e-cc794b73ff7b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.promises.com/addiction-blog/post-traumatic-growth-healing-from-ptsd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96384 | 814 | 2.703125 | 3 |
It’s now a huge source of pride to be part of the LGBTQ+ community — but it hasn’t always been that way.
Today, we can celebrate our identity with rainbows, parades, and freedom, but history hasn’t always been so kind to members of our community. Even now, it can be hard to belong to a part of society that’s often misunderstood.
But time and time again, LGBTQ+ people have stood up for what they believed in and left their mark on the world, showing everyone how to make a positive difference. So let’s celebrate our identities and the people who pioneer change.
LGBT Historical Figures
Over the years, thousands of LGBTQ historical figures have had an impact, but in my opinion, these seven deserve an extra dose of recognition. If you don’t already know these leaders, you really should so enjoy!
1. Barbara Gittings
Born in 1932, Barbara Gittings is one of the historical LGBT figures who paved the way for our freedom. She was open about her sexuality and a huge advocate for the rights of homosexuals.
She has a lengthy list of work, including heading up the USA’s first every lesbian civil rights organization and fighting with the American Psychiatric Association (APA) to stop classing homosexuality as a psychiatric disorder. She’s an absolute queen and was even given the first every civil rights award from the APA.
When it comes to our rights, we owe Barbara Gittings a whole lot.
2. James Baldwin
Born in 1924, James Baldwin struggled growing up as an African-American gay man in an America that was both racist and homophobic. If you ever feel like an outsider, look to Baldwin for inspiration.
But, rather than letting the countries attitudes crush him, he ran to France where he took on their opinions. Using the power of words, he wrote incredible essays that shone a light on how life was for black and LGBTQ+ people at the time. He looked at sexuality, race, and class, highlighting the challenges for everyone to see.
His bravery to stand up for who he was is something we should all take inspiration from.
3. Alan Turing
If you haven’t heard of Alan Turing, you need to look him up. This man was a legend who was treated cruelly by the world, but whose work we should always remember.
During the Second World War, Turing’s code-cracking skills helped the Allies defeat the Nazis. He intercepted their secret messages and was able to unveil their plans, saving countless lives. A man from humble beginnings saved so many, and he was never even acknowledged for his work.
Turing was also a gay, which at this time was a big problem. When it was found out Turing was forced to undergo chemical castration. He later took his own life.
In 2013, Turing was officially pardoned and in a BBC public vote he was awarded ‘The Greatest Person of the 20th Century’. To me, he will always be one of the greatest LGBT people in history.
4. Magnus Hirschfeld
When it comes to people who changed the world for the better, no list is complete without Magnus Hirschfeld. He’s believed to have invented the term ‘Transvestitism’ and led the way for queer and gender non-conforming (GNC) people around the world.
Living as an openly gay man in the late 1800’s, Hirschfeld researched sexuality and campaigned endlessly for gay rights. But his work went further than that. He opened the world’s first-ever gender identity clinic, allowing people to become the gender they truly are. He even helped Einar Wegener to become Lili Elbe, as seen in The Danish Girl.
He pioneered rights for gender non-confirming (GNC) individuals and supported the ability to change gender. For anyone who wants freedom for gender and sexuality, Hirschfeld should be considered an icon.
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette was often known simply as “Colette”, and she became an icon for queer ladies in the 20th century. As a very openly bisexual woman, she was proud of who she was and often defied what was ‘normal’ at the time.
She switched between masculine and feminine clothing, had relationships with many other women — including the niece of Napoleon, Mathilde de Morny — and kissed them in public. In one famous event, she even kissed Mathilde, also known as Missy, on stage at the Moulin Rouge, prompting the police to be called.
Unabashed, unashamed, and incredibly talented, she wrote incredible novels and lived as herself. If we could all be a little more like Colette each day, the world would be a better place.
6. Audre Lorde
When it comes to famous LGBT activists, Lorde is an icon. Fearless, legendary, and a self-described Black lesbian mother warrior poet, you can’t do anything but love her.
She worked as a librarian before turning her attention to poetry. In 1968, she published her first volume, First Cities. In her poetry, she spoke strongly about sexuality, civil rights, and what it was like to be a black lesbian woman living in America.
Between 1991 and 1992, the year of her death, Lorde was the Poet laureate for New York State. There’s also an Audre Lorde Award dedicated to honor lesbian poetry.
7. RuPaul Andre Charles
Not all people who changed the world are in the past – some are living among us right now. One of those is RuPaul, a legend in the making.
While he isn’t the conventional heroic character, RuPaul has done an amazing job of showing the world that sexuality is a spectrum and gender is a performance. In Rupaul’s own words, “We’re all born naked an the rest is drag.”
His show RuPaul’s Drag Race has become an epic success, normalizing an array of sexual orientations and genders. He has also lifted up 12 seasons of drag queens to heroic levels of fame, with Season 12 completing its run this week.
Plus, the queens he has had on his show are amazing. We could all learn something from their fierce behavior.
Get Inspired by LGBT Historical Figures
There have been countless LGBT historical figures who have changed the world. While there are far too many to mention, I hope the ones highlighted here have provided you with your daily dose of LGBTQ inspiration.
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Community Resources & Support
MassChallenge is a non-profit organization on a mission to help startups win without taking equity. They envision a creative and inspired society in which everyone recognizes that they can define their future and is empowered to maximize their impact. They also give out over $2M in equity-free cash prizes globally every year—all to help high-impact and high-potential startups win.
Since 2016, Suffolk University has been a proud sponsor of MassChallenge’s Annual Event, selecting competition finalists who will participate in MassChallenge’s Accelerator Program.
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC)
ICIC's mission is to drive economic prosperity in America’s inner cities through private sector investment to create jobs, income, and wealth for local residents.
Since 2016, Suffolk University has been a proud sponsor of ICIC’s Inner City Capital Connections (ICCC) event in Boston, which helps existing local small businesses realize their economic and community aspirations.
Businesses United in Investing, Lending, and Development (BUILD)
Through entrepreneurship-based, experiential learning, BUILD ignites the potential of youth in under-resourced communities and equips them for high school, college, and career success.
Since 2011, Suffolk University has been a proud partner of BUILD, which helps high school entrepreneurs realize their aspirations of advancing their education or launching their careers. Suffolk University provides a $5,000 annual, renewable scholarship for the student selected as the BUILD/Suffolk Entrepreneur.
Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
NFTE's mission is to provide programs that inspire young people from low-income communities to stay in school, to recognize business opportunities, and to plan for successful futures.
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Pentagon officials assess the operation military Russia’s plan to control the Donbass region in eastern Ukraine is behind schedule.
Russia’s Defense Ministry said April 29 that the Russian military had fired missiles from a submarine to attack Ukrainian military targets for the first time.
Reuters cited a statement that a Russian diesel-electric submarine fired several Kalibr cruise missiles at Ukraine from the Black Sea.
Pro-Russian forces in Mariupol
On April 29, a Pentagon representative told reporters that strong resistance by Ukrainian forces and caution after the Kyiv operation led to a delay in Russia’s operation in Donbass.
According to AFP, the official said that Russian forces are mainly creating the conditions for a larger and longer offensive. The Russian side initially carried out mainly air raids and artillery fire on Ukrainian positions and then let the infantry advance.
However, these attacks were not as effective as desired, leaving Russia little progress on the ground. “They are also a little scared of going off the supply line. They don’t want to repeat the mistake in Kyiv,” the US official said.
According to him, the Pentagon believes that Russian forces in Donbass are several days behind schedule.
|Brief Overview: On the 65th day of the Russian campaign, the US increased its military support to Ukraine|
In the near future, the Russian military is said to be trying to adopt a pincer stance on the battlefield to encircle Ukrainian forces at the front. Analysts say Russia’s short-term goal is to control the regions east of the imaginary Kharkiv-Donetsk link.
According to the Pentagon, Russia has 92 battalion-level tactical groups (BTGs) in eastern and southern Ukraine and several others on the border.
The British Ministry of Defense said on April 29 that Donbass remains the center of Russia’s strategy to control the two regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. However, due to strong resistance from Ukraine, Russia is expected to gain limited control and suffer heavy casualties in return.
The US and some European countries supply Ukraine with heavy weapons, but logistical problems and the training of soldiers to use them make combating these weapons almost impossible.
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The constant barrage of news, cloaked in attention-getting words and images, is playing havoc with instinctual behavior that is millions of years old. There is, for me, a direct connection between fight or flee, chronic stress, and how we have chosen to use the medium of digital communication. Digital media is an out-of-control fear machine.
Stress increases cortisol, in turn, raising blood glucose. If acute stress can raise your blood sugar, what are the effects of chronic stress? Here's what a group of veterans with PTSD are showing us about Type 2 diabetes.
Should we turn our nose up at using a dog's keen sense of smell as a cancer screening tool? Or to help identify relevant biomarkers that scientists should be isolating for diagnostic purposes?
Twitter, the social media device that often produces a toxic mixture of snark and narcissism, rarely bringing out the best in people. But scientists studying the platform are searching for a useful signal: A predictor of mental illness.
Depression and anxiety, as well as severe mental disorders such as schizophrenia, have become more openly discussed. Yet, one aspect of mental health remains largely in the shadows: Nightmares. A new study builds on previous data and examines their relationship to suicide.
There's an ever-growing body of evidence that reinforces the health benefits of being with animals. A new study published in BMC Psychiatry explores the role pets had with those suffering from bipolar disorder, schizophrenia and other significant, long-term mental illnesses.
http://acsh.org/news/2016/10/25/kathleen-gyllenhaal-health-meets-hollywood-qa-10351Welcome to our three part series discussing the science behind director Kathleen Gyllenhaal's latest documentary, IN UTERO. This article takes a deeper look at the health ramifications of toxic stress in prenatal life and its role in contributing to adult disease. Part I of our Q&A with Gyllenhaal emphasizes health, Hollywood, how a story gets told and the parallels between funding for film and scientific research. In the concluding Part II Q&A, we explore her insights into motherhood and the impact of her recent film.
The type of cognitive strategy chosen could help protect an individual from the negative sequelae of traumatic events. A new study reveals that a technique called "concrete information processing" could be used to prevent intrusive thoughts (a hallmark of PTSD), and blunt emotional responses to subsequent distressing situations. | <urn:uuid:a0ae37ec-cf29-461c-b522-54569025f803> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.acsh.org/tags/ptsd | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.920519 | 513 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Introduction • The Works • Golden Slumber, Constantin Brâncusi; Floaty Fantastical, Wassily Kandinsky; Scary Scrawls, Jean-Michel Basquiat; Bottled Up, El Anatsui; Mellow(ish) Yellow, Pierre Bonnard; Gone to Pieces, Georges Braque; Stretching the Truth, Amedeo Modigliani; Love and a Huge Chicken, Marc Chagall; Wheely Unusual, Marcel Duchamp; Swirling Swine, Robert Delaunay; Sssnaky Stuff, Meret Oppenheim; Wrestling With Art, Natalia Goncharova; Tied Together, Sheila Hicks; Me, Me, Me, Frida Kahlo; Mirror Bowl, Anish Kapoor; Blue Butt Boogie, Yves Klein; An Eye for a Fly, Martial Raysse; Dingy Dreams, Joan Miró; Good Grid!, Piet Mondrian; Cow of Wonders, Niki de Saint Phalle; Cut into Colour, Henri Matisse; All Lined Up, Aurelie Nemours; Not A-Muse-d, Pablo Picasso; What a Drip, Jackson Pollock; Argh, My Eyes!, Victor Vasarely; Looking A-Head, Sophie Taeuber-Arp; Play Time, Jean Arp; On Repeat, Andy Warhol; Flashy Dresser, Atsuko Tanaka; Great Wall of Trash, Louise Nevelson • Timeline, Glossary, List of Artworks
About the Author
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Could Executive Orders on Immigrants, Refugees Threaten National Security?
Catholic immigration and refugee leaders express concerns at a Feb. 1 press conference in Washington, D.C.
WASHINGTON — Rather than protecting U.S. interests, recent executive orders restricting immigrants and refugees could actually pose a threat to national security, warned a group of Catholic leaders on Wednesday.
“These refugees are victims of the same violence we are trying to protect ourselves from,” said Jill Marie Geschütz Bell, senior legislative specialist for Catholic Relief Services, criticizing what she called a “disproportionate security response.”
“It’s time to be the Good Samaritan,” she urged.
Geschütz Bell and other Catholic immigration and refugee leaders spoke at a Feb. 1 press conference in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Don Kerwin, executive director for the Center for Migration Studies, contended that by limiting refugee protection, the United States would actually harm its security goals.
“Refugee protection actually advances and furthers security,” he said, because when refugees are left in unstable situations, terrorist organizations such as ISIS have a “potent” recruiting opportunity.
In addition, the executive orders may damage alliances — both present and future — with other nations, Kerwin said, echoing similar statements by former CIA Director Michael Hayden.
During his first week in office, President Trump signed three executive orders addressing a range of issues concerning immigration, refugees, border enforcement and vetting of immigrants to the country.
One of the orders halts refugee admissions for 120 days — until further notice for Syrian refugees — and temporarily bans visa permissions for people seeking entry to the United States from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen.
The effective travel ban quickly caused chaos at airports around the country, as travelers already en route were told upon arrival that they would be sent back and would not be allowed into the United States for 90 days.
The same order also caps the number of refugees that will be allowed to enter the United States in 2017 at 50,000. In comparison, the 2016 cap was placed at 117,000 people, although only around 85,000 refugees actually entered the United States.
The executive action says that priority will be given to “refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution” for members of minority faiths in the refugee’s country of origin.
While the order does not mention Christianity, Trump has told media such as Christian Broadcasting News that the order would prioritize Christian refugees.
President Trump said the ban was put in place to stop “radical Islamic terrorists” and to allow time for agencies to develop stricter screening programs for those coming into the country.
Two other orders the same week focused on addressing undocumented migrants already in the country and increasing border security. They included plans to build a wall along the Mexican border, increase the detention and deportation of undocumented immigrants, and penalize jurisdictions that do not comply with federal immigration laws — called “sanctuary cities” — by withholding federal grants and other funds.
Kerwin argued that while the executive orders are framed as a matter of national security, in fact, the order “exaggerates the threat from refugees in the United States beyond recognition.”
He pointed to research by the Cato Institute, which found that between 1975 and 2015, the United States admitted 3.2 million refugees, and only three people have been killed by refugee attacks — a minuscule risk that also doesn’t fully incorporate new, more restrictive protections already in place, he said.
“The overall point is that refugees themselves do not threaten security — terrorists do — and the failure of states to address this crisis also undermines security,” Kerwin stated. “We’re facing not a refugee crisis, but a crisis in refugee protection, which the executive order makes far worse.”
“More broadly,” he continued, by stepping back, the United States might be providing a troubling example for other nations. “It’s really impossible to think how the greatest refugee crisis in history since World War II could be resolved without the U.S. playing a leading role as it has in past refugee crises.”
Speakers at the press conference emphasized that current U.S. security vetting for refugees is already very strong, and while vetting concerns are always valid, the actions taken by the executive orders are disproportionate to the threat presented.
Jeanne Atkinson, executive director for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, worried that the new orders would make Americans less safe by making immigrants less likely to report crimes for fear of deportation, thus allowing perpetrators to evade justice.
She also argued that the United States does not have the resources to carry through on the orders, noting there are simply not enough immigration officers and judges to review each of the 11 million cases in the country.
“What we’re going to see is the long-term detention of immigrants,” she warned. “People waiting for their day in court may languish in prison for years,” a move that she said will be costly to taxpayers and will violate the dignity of the persons detained.
Geschütz Bell added that the funds that will go into building a wall and hiring new border and immigration officers could instead be used to examine the root causes of migration. She pointed to Catholic Relief Services’ investment in and work with Honduran schools, work that undermines the gangs and resultant violence that has lead people to flee Honduras in the first place.
Within three years, she said, the program has already had immense success in educating people and stabilizing the area. “Enabling people to thrive where they are is not only more humane, but it is a cheaper option for the American people.”
Bill Canny, executive director of Migration and Refugee Services for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, voiced hope that, as time passes, implementation of the executive orders will become more “humane.” He noted that the Trump administration has already agreed to allow in more than 8,000 people who have already left refugee areas, as well as Iraqis who have provided aid to the U.S. military.
“We’re getting some indications of the humane implementation of the order,” he continued, and he asked Catholics to use their influence to continue to push the administration towards more humane actions.
Geschütz Bell advocated for the humane protection of other vulnerable communities that need special consideration, such as female-headed households, children and people with medical needs.
At the root of the idea of humane treatment, added Dominican Sister Donna Markham, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, is the understanding that refugees are human persons with dignity.
She urged Catholics to remember that “they are people like ourselves, who woke up one morning and learned everything they had was destroyed,” and who feel depressed, downtrodden and rejected by those who turn them away in their time of distress.
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Buying a house can be stressful, depending on the approach you use. The process entails interaction with the seller and other professionals to find the right location, negotiate the offer and ensure the house systems are in good condition before moving in.
Given your busy family or work schedule, it can be impossible to follow up on a house purchase; therefore, hiring an agent to do the job for you is feasible. A good agent should guide you through the home purchase process, from mortgage application to seal the deal.
Read on to find out how a real estate agent can help you buy a beautiful home.
As you work with a real estate agent, you will tell them where you desire to live and the features you want in a home. Upon gathering relevant details from you, a real estate agent will alert you of a neighborhood with the features you want. This includes the amenities, neighborhood, and details about taxes and zoning that you may not know despite living in the surrounding.
In addition to their ground research, a house agent will liaise with their network to find pending lists. This in-depth knowledge in the sector will give you an upper hand over other buyers and speed up your purchase.
Besides getting a beautiful location and home, a house agent will also evaluate the house’s potential for you. For instance, if your family is likely to grow over time, you will outgrow a bungalow, and thinking ahead is advisable. Your agent will have an eye for the future and advise you to get a bigger home, something you would otherwise neglect out of excitement.
Negotiating a Fair Price
As you look for home listings, you will want to buy a home at a fair market price. However, this may not be easy to tell unless with the help of a house agent. A real estate agent will negotiate your offer with the listing agent or seller and settle on the best prices.
Real estate agents will also draft a comparative market analysis of the house you are interested in to ensure you understand how they settle at a fair price. They will also advise how the property differences, including renovations, lot size, and view, affect the house value to ensure you are satisfied with the offer.
Once you settle an offer, a real estate agent will alert the seller and inform you of their response. They will advise you whether to accept the counter offer or negotiate terms.
While you can get a beautiful home scrolling through listings online, this is not enough. Visiting the actual home before a purchase is necessary to get a feel of the space. Working with an agent simplifies this process as they can schedule a showing with the owners or home listing agent.
Real estate agents have a trained eye to see structural faults and other issues you may not see at first glance. Hence, during the house show, your agent will inspect the house for proper remodeling and other issues and advise you on whether to buy. A good agent will also inform you of any controversial information they learn about the property sellers from their interactions.
Agents recommend you get a preapproval before shopping for a home. This way, you can set a budget, and drafting your offer will be immediate upon getting a home. Instead of undergoing a lengthy process from the mortgage broker to the loan originator, contacting a house agent will be ideal, as they know brokers and loan officers who could speed up the process for you.
Working with your agent’s contacts in the mortgage process is advantageous as the communication will remain open, preventing last-minute frustrations.
Buying a home entails legal and technical processes requiring professional approvals. Working with a real estate agent will ease the burden of looking for a real estate attorney or home movers who charge you more if you directly approach them.
You can also ask your agent for a home inspection or get an independent party for a quality report.
House purchase is a tedious and lengthy process comprising highs and lows from approval and rejection of offers. As such, getting a good agent is necessary to get the best support and advice.
A good agent will do much more than looking for convenient homes for you to settle in. They will walk the journey professionally with you from the day you express interest in a home to the day you hold your keys. With a house agent, you can remain calm amid negotiations as they do their best to ensure you get a beautiful home. | <urn:uuid:c43d01e3-b2c5-436c-b283-f4ddc8e3be21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://theartofhomerenovations.com/real-estate-agent/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949346 | 898 | 1.5 | 2 |
CONGRESSWOMAN ELISE STEFANIK
On Monday, May 23, 2011, the House is scheduled consider H.R. 1627 under a suspension of the rules, requiring a two-thirds majority vote for passage. The resolution was introduced by Rep. Jeff Miller (R-FL) on April 15, 2011, and referred to the Committee on Veterans Affairs. The full Committee considered the bill and held a mark-up session on May 12, 2011, with the bill passing by voice vote.
H.R. 1627 would allow a monument other than one containing or marking interred remains to be placed in Arlington National Cemetery (Arlington) only if the monument commemorates: (1) the military service of the individual or group whose memory is honored by the monument, or (2) a particular military event.
The bill would prohibit any monument from being placed in Arlington until the end of the 25-year period beginning on the last day of the service or event commemorated.
The bill would also allow a monument to be placed only in those sections of Arlington designated by the Secretary of the Army and only on land determined by the Secretary as unsuitable for burial.
The bill would allow a monument to be placed in Arlington only if an appropriate non-governmental entity has agreed to act as a sponsoring organization to coordinate the monument's placement and: (1) monument construction and placement are paid for using only private funds, (2) the Secretary consults with the Commission of Fine Arts before approving the monument's design, and (3) the sponsoring organization provides for an independent study on the availability and suitability of alternative monument locations outside of Arlington.
Additionally, the bill would authorize the Secretary to waive the 25-year requirement when the monument would commemorate a group of individuals who the Secretary determines: (1) has made valuable contributions to the Armed Forces that have been ongoing and perpetual for longer than 25 years and are expected to continue indefinitely, and (2) has provided service that is of such a character that failure to place a monument to the group in Arlington would present a manifest injustice.
Finally, the bill would also require the Department of the Army to submit a report within 180 days detailing the number of reservation requests made to Arlington before January 1, 1962; the number of gravesites that were reserved because of such requests; the number of reserved gravesites that are unoccupied; the number of reservations approved by Arlington management; the measures being taken to improve transparency and accountability regarding gravesite reservations at Arlington; and recommendations for possible legislative action to improve transparency and accountability.
H.R. 1627 would codify current practice at Arlington National Cemetery (ANC) regarding the type, placement, and funding of commemorative monuments, and the current prohibition on the reservation of gravesites. Under the legislation, no gravesite could be reserved for any individuals before their death unless the request was submitted prior to January 1, 1962.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates that implementing H.R. 1627 would cost less than $500,000 in 2012, assuming availability of the necessary appropriations. Enacting H.R. 1484 would not affect direct spending or revenues; therefore, pay-as-you-go procedures do not apply. | <urn:uuid:be31f70c-51d6-4f57-8024-d87f33dc2508> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gop.gov/bill/h-r-1627-to-amend-title-38-united-states-code-to-provide-for-certain-requirements-in-arlington-national-cemetery/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.944836 | 668 | 1.804688 | 2 |
When we were preparing to adopt little M, we learned that for every three months a child spends in an orphanage, they are one month behind developmentally and emotionally.
Since little M was almost thirty months old when she was adopted, she would have been about ten months behind, which would have put her at an age equivalent of twenty months.
Little M has caught up in so many areas, and is on target in many of those areas. In some areas, though, she is farther behind. In some areas, she is testing at a two year old level.
Sometimes, though, she seems so much older. She has seen more, and had more changes in her life than most adults have, and that has aged her in a way I can’t explain. Sometimes, she acts like she is equal to us. She sees herself as, or equal to, an adult. She doesn’t understand that we are the boss of her, and it is our job to take care of her.
Other times, little M seems much younger than her almost three years. Sometimes, she seems like she is about to turn two, and even if she was turning two, she would still be behind in some areas.
We are so pleased with how little M has settled in and how she is adjusting. I love to watch her learning and I love to see how she is really starting to be able to talk and communicate.
Little M has some things going on with her hearing that may be preventing her from learning to speak. Maybe nothing is wrong with her hearing, and the speech will come slowly, and that is ok. If something IS wrong with her hearing, we want to make sure we give her every opportunity to succeed. We love this little girl, and we are so proud of her and we are so proud of the way she has worked so hard to learn so many new things. I love her determination, and I know she is going to do great things. | <urn:uuid:05a2cf97-d655-4a81-afbe-ba568c69a4f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.craftynester.com/younger-and-older/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.994172 | 404 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Having your houseplant stop growing can be incredibly frustrating – especially when it feels like you’re doing all the right things. Here, we ask plant expert Dr Katie Cooper to outline the most common reasons why plants stop growing, and what you can do to fix it.
One of the best parts of taking care of plants has to be watching them grow.
Whether you’re the proud owner of one or 100 plants, you’ll know what we’re talking about: there’s something special about seeing your hard work pay off and produce life in the form of a new leaf, shoot or stem.
With that being said, when a plant stops growing, it can be pretty frustrating – especially when, on the surface, there doesn’t seem to be anything wrong with it. When it comes to plant care, a lot of the focus often seems to be on what you can do to stop your plant from dying – but what about when a plant just seems to… stop?
As annoying as it can be to have one of your plants slow down or stop growing, it’s actually surprisingly common – and there are a number of easily rectified reasons why it happens.
So, to find out more about what you can do to address this problem in your plants, we asked Dr Katie Cooper, founder of the online plant shop Bloombox Club, to tell us more about the four most common reasons why plants stop growing, and how to fix it. Here’s what she had to say.
1. It’s getting insufficient nutrients
It may seem obvious, but one of the most common reasons why your plant might have stopped growing is because it’s not getting enough of what it needs to thrive.
“We don’t just mean fertilizer when we say nutrients – if your plant is getting insufficient natural light or warmth (and during winter, they probably won’t be) it will conserve all its energy so it can stay alive,” Dr Cooper explains. “When plants are in ‘panic mode’ they may drop leaves and extremities so their food doesn’t have to travel far – so they definitely won’t be growing!”
Other signs that your plant may not be getting the nutrients it needs include yellowing or thin leaves and a loss of variegation in variegated plants.
If you think a lack of or insufficient nutrients could be to blame for your plant’s slowed growth, the obvious solution is to ensure they’re getting what they need.
“If your plant is in a cool, shady patch, try moving them nearer an east or south-facing window,” Dr Cooper suggests.
And remember, while it’s normal for plants to produce lots of new growth during spring or summer (also known as growing season), come winter, it’s also normal for your plants to go into a state of dormancy and stop growing altogether, so don’t worry too much if you get to that time of year and things slow down a little.
2. It’s got pests
Dealing with pests is every plant parent’s nightmare, but if your plant has stopped growing, then one of the common houseplant pests could be to blame.
“If your plant has suddenly taken a turn for the worse, it could be infested with common houseplant pests like aphids or fungus gnats,” Dr Cooper explains.
“Some bugs are more troublesome than others, but as a first point of call, you can try wiping the plant’s leaves down with diluted washing up liquid, neem oil or Bloombox Club’s naturally bug-repellent Aomori Hiba spray.”
3. It’s root bound
If you’ve had your plant for a while and have yet to change its pot, then it may have stopped growing because it’s rootbound.
“After many years in one pot, plants will have exhausted their soil’s nutrients and may have filled every available space with their expanding roots,” Dr Cooper explains.
“Some plants can happily be rootbound for years, but others will struggle to keep themselves upright and be less able to suck up moisture from the soil.”
There are two key steps you can take to tell whether or not your plant is rootbound – both of which are seriously easy.
“Number one, you’ll probably see roots coming out of the holes in the bottom of its growing pot,” Dr Cooper says. “Secondly, if you lift your plant gently out of its growing pot, you’ll be able to tell immediately if its roots have swelled to the shape of the pot or not.”
If your plant is showing signs of being rootbound, you’ll need to transfer it to a bigger pot where it can spread its roots and continue to grow. To follow a step-by-step guide on how to do this, you can check out our guide to repotting here.
4. It’s reached its full potential
If you’ve worked through all the causes above and can’t seem to find anything wrong with your plant, chances are it’s just reached its final size.
“Much like humans and other animals, houseplants can have an upper limit when it comes to growth,” Dr Cooper explains. “In fact, some houseplants are specially bred to be slow-growing so that they can be used as décor and won’t take over your living room.”
However, just because your plant has stopped growing, doesn’t mean your only job is to give it water every now and then.
As Dr Cooper explains: “All that matters now is maintaining the houseplant and giving it an occasional pruning so it can replace older branches with new.”
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Sermon Theme: A WORD that Sustains the Weary. (Isaiah 50:4-10)Mark Bernthal, September 5, 2021
Part of the Post-Pentecost series, preached at a Sunday Morning service
Sermon Theme: A WORD that Sustains the Weary.
I: We see how the Lord God sustained His Suffering Servant.
II: We are encouraged to trust that He will sustain us too!
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National Park Sallandse Heuvelrug is one of the biggest uninterrupted nature reserves in Europe. The park’s high points offer beautiful views throughout the year. In the Visitor Centre Sallandse Heuvelrug, which is the gateway to the national park, you can find information on the diverse flora and fauna in the park. You can also visit the extraordinary observatory with its telescopes, Sky Walk and planetarium. The Toeristenweg road leads you from Nijverdal to Holten through the Sallandse Heuvelrug. Be aware, though, that this is only possible during the road’s opening hours.
The park, which is around 35 square kilometers, is owned and managed by Staatsbosbeheer, Natuurmonumenten and a few private owners. All owners work together in managing and planning the area. The IVN organisation coordinates and implements most of the communication and education for and about the national park, as it does for the other national parks in the Netherlands.
Access to the Area
National Park Sallandse Heuvelrug has several points of entry. Information points with parking can be found at the following locations:
There is dedicated parking for those with a parking permit for disabled drivers at local information point Noetselerberg (viewpoint). Drivers aged 65 and up are permitted to park here as well if they have a permit. There are two types of permits; a permit for one day and a permit for a whole year. For more information or to obtain a permit please contact the Visitor Centre Sallandse Heuvelrug.
We can also highly recommend a ride on the Heideslak vehicle! This is a unique opportunity to enjoy the woods and the beautiful views on the Noetselerberg for those who have walking difficulties.
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Whether you dictate 12 hours a day or 12 minutes a week, a digital voice recorder is a great way to remain mobile while recording your important dictation and notes. Digital voice recorders are more popular today than ever because of their inherent ability to provide a better, more efficient workflow through transcription and capture crystal clear sound quality. Also aging cassette equipment is getting harder and harder to find.
Key General Features:
Professional users such as Doctors, Lawyers, or any profession that requires large amounts of recording should be aware of the material the device is made out of. Mobile dictation devices, just like cell phones, are handled constantly and can easily be dropped. Professional grade dictation machines are generally made out of metal or aluminum for durability. Casual notetakers or lesser-priced dictation machines are generally made out of plastics and are more vulnerable.
Look for quality components around the buttons and try out the switches if you can. They should feel smooth to depress and operate.
Four-position slide switch or push button operation? If the author has been using dictation equipment for more than 10 years, he or she may only know the four-position slide as it’s the most popular. Professional grade machines almost always offer a model with this configuration as many find it comfortable and familiar. Push button operation is more common as manufacturing costs are less, and generally can be found at a lower price point. If you’re buying a handheld for someone else to use, we strongly encourage you to purchase whichever configuration the author is accustomed to. This will be familiar for the user and increase the overall satisfaction he or she will have with the device.
A feature that’s often overlooked is the LCD size on the recorder and some professional models even go as far as to offer backlit LC-Displays. When shopping for a recorder, think about how often you’re going to interact with the recorder and the features that you will use. If you plan to pick up the recorder, hit record and that’s it, then a large LCD is far less important. However, if you intend on using the insert/overwrite functions, rewinding or reviewing your dictation or even using file demographics, then a device featuring a larger LCD will provide you with a much better experience.
Do you need to protect your dictation and notes from unauthorized users before they leave your handheld? Dictations that contain medical or legal information may need to be protected and if that’s the case, you’ll want to consider a Philips or Olympus professional grade dictation machine. These machines feature pin lockout features and some also offer biometric finger print scanners.
New legislation on state levels could require you to protect the content on your voice recorder. Check on your state’s website to find out if there is an legislation pending or that has been passed.
How intuitive is the menuing system in the recorder? If you’re a casual dictator, this may not be important at all, but a power user will want to find a recorder that has an easy to use menuing system. This menuing system is how the user interacts with the recorder and can greatly affect the user’s experience. Premium voice recorders typically offer more features, a larger LCD and a menuing system that is well thought out and easy to experience. Some of the most difficult to use recorders I have used have been the inexpensive notetakers.
Some features that one would normally assume are standard on all digital voice recorders won’t be found on most casual notetakers. One of the biggest surprises many will experience is the lack of incremental rewind. While many note takers will have a rewind button, it really just places you back at the beginning of the file. From there, you need to fast forward to the area you would like to review.
Did you leave something out of a note you wish you hadn’t? With the “Insert” function on a professional grade dictation machine, you simply use incremental rewind to back up, ensure you’re in “Insert” mode, and hit record. Your notes are now being placed exactly where you stopped the recording. Hit stop when you’re done and fast-forward to the end to continue on with your dictation.
If you dictated something incorrectly, simply change your record mode from “Insert” to “Overwrite”, rewind to the place where you would like to copy over the audio, hit record and speak. You’re now overwriting the voice file. Hit stop and fast forward to the end to continue with your dictation.
If you’re a serious dictator, you’ll want to consider the use of file demographics in your dictation. While today you may dictate a case number, patient number, etc, using file demographics enables software to route and prioritize your dictation quickly and without any effort.
Some dictation machines want text characters from the user while others simply provide a folder structure and you place dictations into the appropriate folders.
Casual notetakers do not offer file demographics. It is also important to note that you will want to make sure your transcription software can identify these demographics.
Make sure you’re aware of what software your handheld comes with. Some software is basic offloading software to get the voice files onto your PC. However, once they are on your PC, you still need to do something with them. Professional grade dictation machines often give you a basic utility for transferring voice files via Email or FTP. Some of the highest end recorders will come with some encryption tools; however, take note that to use that encryption software, you generally need to buy the companion transcription software, which can increase the overall cost of your solution.
Some voice recorders will come complete with a printed manual for general operation, others come with electronic PDFs on CD. If you’re a paper kind of person, be prepared to print yours as many manufacturers are no longer including that paper manual we’re all familiar with.
Every digital voice recorder creates digital voice files on its internal memory. Each brand such as Sony, Philips or Olympus creates its own unique file type. If you have transcription software in place, find out what brand it is and consider purchasing a voice recorder around the transcription software you own. If you don’t own any or would like something more up to date, then just ensure both the digital voice recorder and the transcription software you’re considering are compatible with one another.
As with anything designed to integrate with software, sometimes questions or issues arise. When that happens, make sure your vendor offers technical support. The folks at TranscriptionGear.Com offer technical support for free.
A products warranty will vary from brand to brand and vendor to vendor. Buy a product with a warranty that puts your mind at ease, from a vendor that will stand behind your purchase with a satisfaction guarantee. A 1-year parts and labor is standard for a professional grade machine. Some vendors even offer extended warranties to provide you with extended protection.
Dictation machines and notetakers can vary greatly in price. While we’re all concerned about cost, we are also well aware that you get what you pay for. If you need a serious dictation machine, you should seriously consider buying the right machine for the job. I’ve spoken to many people who purchase a notetaker to do serious dictation tasks. Some are frustrated by the lack of features, others at the idea they are throw away machines as they don’t offer a long life in this demanding environment. Simple features like a docking station and recharge capabilities are often overlooked as unneeded accessories; however, the rechargeable batteries alone will pay for the recorder over a short period of time.
Professional grade digital voice recorders cannot be found in OfficeMax or stores like it. They must be purchased from a qualified dealer as manufacturers place high demands on those reselling professional grade machines such as on-site technical support for end-users.
If you’re considering a purchase online, you should investigate the e-retailer first. How fast do they ship? How long have they been in business? Do they have on site service and support? Do they carry inventory or is someone else drop shipping it for them? Ensure your e-retailer is reliable and has a good, solid reputation. It’s not uncommon to find very small organizations that do not stock product or provide adequate service and support. This could lead to problems in the event you needed assistance with the product or needed to return it for any reason up to and including repairs in the future.
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Bronze Roman sculpture god warrior statue signed drouot art deco figurine. This product sheet is originally written in English.Please find an automatic translation in French below. If you have any questions please contact us. Condition: This sculpture is in perfect condition. Bronze dimensions with marble base: height 16 \"x width 10\" dimensions of marble: 10 \"x 4 1/2\" height without base: 15 weights: 17 lbs inventory: 14b37110041 the Spartan warrior description: this is a bronze statue of an ancient Greek warrior signed by e. Cast in a dark brown patina. He represents a proud warrior on his knees bent after a victory in battle. He greets his country with joy with his high spear. The subtleties of her knitwear and armour, in addition to the fine details of her helmet and shield, to the delicate patterns of her sandals that go up to her leggings, contribute to the intense royal behavior of this piece. It's definitely one of a kind. About the artist: Edouard drouot , born in Sommevoire, France, April 3, 1859; died in Paris on May 22, 1945. It is amply described in the \"dictionary of sculptors\" of kjellberg stone. His exhibitions at the salon began in 1889 born in sumvoire, drouot studied in Paris with emile thomas and mathurin moreau, working as both a genre painter and sculptor. He received a medal at the 1892 show and an honourable mention at the 1900 World's Fair. Drouot had a vast repertoire, a variety of themes and a sense of movement and expression that made this artist an exceptional member of the sculpture community. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Most orders are shipped within 24 to 48 hours of purchase. Please contact us before making any purchases in these areas. Please refer to the \"shipping and handling\" table for rates for each area. Condition: This sculpture is in perfect condition. Bronze dimensions with marble base: height 16 \"x width 10\" dimensions of marble: 10 \"x 4 1/2\" height without base: 15 weights: 17 lbs inventory: 14b37110041 the Spartan warrior about the artist: edouard drouot, born in sommevoire, France, April 3, 1859; died in Paris on May 22, 1945. Increase your overseas sales with the global webinterpret list solution. The item \"bronze sculpture Roman god warrior statue signed drouot figurine art deco\" is on sale since Tuesday, January 26, 2021. It is in the category \"art, antiques-art of the xxe, contemporary-sculptures, statues\". The seller is \"think_bronze\" and is located in westbury, New York. This item can be delivered anywhere in the world. | <urn:uuid:dcb744d8-bdea-4e01-b5ad-f573da3bf507> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sculpturebronzeart.com/en/bronze-sculpture-roman-god-warrior-statue-signed-drouot-figure-art-deco.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95326 | 594 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Five things to know about the ZMapp Ebola drug
In the wake of an Ebola outbreak in West Africa that has resulted in nearly 900 deaths, a tiny pharmaceutical maker has allowed an experimental treatment to be used for two Americans infected with the deadly virus.
California-based Mapp Biopharmaceutical has released its experimental ZMapp drug, which had only been tested on infected animals, to treat Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, according to Bloomberg News. The two health workers were infected while working in Liberia. The treatments for now appear to be working, Bloomberg said, citing relatives and supporters.
Here are five things to know about Mapp and its efforts to develop a potential treatment for the Ebola virus.
1) The Ebola virus has no cure. The disease is a severe illness in humans, with a fatality rate of up to 90%. Outbreaks often occur in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rain forests, according to the World Health Organization. It is introduced into the human population through close contact with blood or other bodily fluids of infected animals, WHO says.
2) Mapp, which was founded in 2003, has no commercially available treatments on the market. The company focuses on “unmet needs in global health and biodefense,” and currently has 10 antibody product development programs, with one of those focusing on the Ebola virus.
3) Mapp and a few other biopharmaceutical companies earlier this year were awarded a five-year grant of up to $28 million for a project to fight the Ebola virus. The grant, awarded by the National Institutes of Health, is meant to be a global collaboration to develop cocktails to fight Ebola and other hemorrhagic fever viruses such as Marburg, Sudan and Lassa viruses. The program is meant to encourage all participates to contribute antibodies to develop the best possible treatment.
4) That grant was awarded after research from the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases showed that a mix of antibodies can stop the Ebola virus. Scientists were able to successfully treat infected primates following the onset of disease symptoms. Around that time, Mapp had consolidated its antibody programs with Canada-based Defyrus, aiming to streamline the development of more potent treatments.
5) The potential success of Mapp’s drug in treating Americans infected with the disease does raise questions about the limited use of experimental treatments after hundreds of Africans have died. Bloomberg reported the Food and Drug Administration can approve an emergency application to provide access to unapproved drugs, a request that can be granted within 24 hours. | <urn:uuid:23badcee-bc5a-45ee-853c-4eb9126e69f9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fortune.com/2014/08/05/ebola-experimental-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969208 | 526 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Song Formats for Mp3 Players Explained, Part I
By Tha Mp3 Doctor
I have seen quite a few threads around Fixya in which the stated problem is that the Mp3 or Digital Audio Player will not load the songs; will appear to load the songs but will not actually play them in the Mp3 player once disconnected from computer; will skip the songs on the player, or show only “0:00” for file length; songs “disappear” all of a sudden (although this particular problem can be caused for many reasons not covered in this article); your store-bought/burned/ripped CD’s will not load into your Mp3 player; or get the error message “File Format Not Supported.”
All of these problems occur because the user is trying to download a song format that the player does not recognize.
Every music file is in a certain format.
The most common music file formats are Mp3, WMA, AAC, WAV, RA, etc.
Each Mp3 player only recognizes a certain number of these formats.
Every Mp3 Player is different.
You will have to check your Mp3 player’s product specifications (specs) or user’s manual to find out which formats your particular Mp3 player recognizes.
When you try to download or sync the wrong file format, you will get one of the errors that I mentioned above.
First things first.
If you want to know what file type you have, then you must find the location of the individual music file on your computer, right click the title of the song, and select the option “Properties” from the menu.
If you do not know how to do this, you will need to contact the manufacturer of your computer or go to www.microsoft.com
For all types of file except RA, RAX, and WMA, the “General” Tab under Properties will auto-populate. If your computer recognizes the file format, it will say something like “MPEG-3,” “Windows Media Audio” (Windows Media Player), “Real Audio” (Real Player or Real Network’s Audio), or “Advanced Audio Coding” (iTunes) or some other such designator.
If your computer does not recognize the format, then you will just see a generic “Audio File,” and will have to download additional software.
With WMA and some RAX files, there will also be a “License,” “Digital Rights Management,” or “Media Usage Rights” tab. I will explain these licensing tabs later, in the discussion on WMA files.
For every type of file other than WMA, the format error is pretty straightforward.
You are trying to load a completely incompatible file format that is not recognized by the Mp3 player.
To give you an example, there are currently no Philips GoGear Mp3 players that will load songs from the iTunes music service.
The reason they will not transfer or play correctly is that the GoGear is that iTunes gives the users their songs in .AAC format.
The GoGear cannot recognize .AAC format. To resolve this problem, you will have to convert the AAC song file into Mp3 format, or some other format that the GoGear recognizes (Note to the law-abiding: converting a copyright protected file into another format might be illegal. If you are concerned, I would just re-download the same song in Mp3 or another recognized file format – this will require a separate music service other than iTunes, in this example).
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How to Keep Your Holiday Spending in Check We’ve got 4 tips to help you plan for your holiday season spending. The holiday season is fast approaching and with it are the parties, presents, and family get-togethers. After the holiday season, many people make New Year’s resolutions to spend less and save more. Consider committing now to staying disciplined with your spending this holiday season. These four simple steps may help you prepare financially and stay out of debt before the new year approaches. 1. Have a “Good” Plan A bad plan is often better than no plan, but a good plan can make a huge difference. There are many reasons to think ahead for your holiday spending: Last minute travel is significantly more expensive than if you book in advance. Sale prices can make a big difference in how much you spend. Hot-ticket items get sold out before the holidays. It is easy to make impulse buys if you do not know what you are looking for. Many people plan on getting these tasks done early but often end up waiting until the last minute. This is known as the planning fallacy, i.e. the tendency for people to be overly optimistic about how long it will take them to complete a task or how much money they will spend. To overcome the planning fallacy, write down when you think you will have the tasks on your plan completed. Then, look up when you completed the tasks on your plan last year. Your actual outcomes will more likely be closer to last year’s numbers than your guess for this year. For example, if you realize last year you bought flights at the last minute, chances are you will be closer to buying flights last minute than buying early. Think about setting calendar reminders to buy your flights early or, better yet, consider buying now to save money. 2. Have a Budget If you are trying to stay disciplined with your money this holiday season, a budget is a must. However, following through on your budget is another matter. Again, comparing what you actually spent last year to what you think you will spend this year is a good start to determine if your budget is unrealistic. Another strategy is to budget all of your expenses and leave some money for last minute expenses, the unexpected or impulse buys. Having a buffer in your budget will make it easier to not exceed your limit. It is important to note that while budgets can feel limiting, they can also open your mind to opportunities you did not consider. While presents are nice, they are quickly forgotten. Science has shown that quality time and experiences make people happier both in the moment and in the long run. Not only is having a budget a key money saving tip for the holidays, it could lead to some creative gift-giving. 3. Check Online for Coupons It used to be that you had to get the Sunday newspaper to find coupons. Now you can use websites such as RetailMeNot.com or Coupons.com to find coupons for both online and in-person shopping. Also, if shopping online, many stores offer single item 20% off discounts or similar if you sign up for their email newsletter. 4. Use Cash Another way to stay disciplined, and stay out of debt, is to keep your holiday budget in cash in an envelope. Studies have shown that you are less likely to overspend paying with cash, as handing over paper bills makes your spending feel tangible. Just make sure you use a bank with no-fee ATMs so withdrawing that cash does not cost you anything. With all of your holiday budget in one place, you can easily see when you are running low. When the envelope is finally empty, you know it is time to stop spending. With a little planning ahead, you may be able to save money this holiday season and help your dollars go a little further. | <urn:uuid:057808e2-1616-4bb2-b374-60b3ee5ffbf8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.discover.com/online-banking/banking-topics/?p=1243&help=0&_wpnonce=a12bc313be | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960306 | 772 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The condom is still the most used form of contraceptive amongst teens – used by 66% of sexually active females and 71% of males – and the pill is the second most common, however the more risky method of rhythm birth control is becoming increasingly popular in sexually active teenagers between the ages of 15 – 19 (thanks to the iPhone app?). A recent government survey found that there is an increasing number of teenage girls in the U.S who say they rely on the rhythm method of birth control. The survey also reveals why teen pregnancy rates are no longer dropping. Young adult attitudes since 2002 have not changed much concerning pregnancy and birth control, but there are some notable differences in the survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Rhythm birth control is essentially a way of tracking the period and noting days of ovulation and high conception risk. The idea is not to engage in sexual activity on days of ovulation. However this method is only 25% reliable as ovulation does not always occur according to a set schedule. About 17 of sexually experienced girls say they have used the rhythm method compared to the 6% back in 2002. Although they may have also used another form of birth control, it is still a concern considering that a sexually active teen who does not use contraceptives has a 90% chance of becoming pregnant within 12 months.
The survey was based on interviews with 2,800 teens 15 – 19 years old. About 42% of unmarried teens had had sex at least once in their lifetime, and of those teens, 98% reported using a method of birth control. Although these findings were the same as a survey in 2002, they do not explain why teen birth rate rose in 2005 – 2007. The only possible reason must be because of the increase in the use of rhythm method birth control, and a change in teen’s attitudes towards teen pregnancy. About 64% of teenage boys believe its okay for an unmarried girl to have a baby. This shows an 50% increase from the statistic in 2002. 70% of girls agreed that it is okay for an unmarried girl to get pregnant compared to the 65% who agreed in 2002.
One possible reason for the more liberal approach to sex and pregnancy amongst teens is that the survey was conducted in the year of several publicized pro- pregnancy incidents including Jaimie Lynn spears’ pregnancy, Sarah Palin’s daughter Bristol’s pregnancy, and the release of the movie “Juno”, where a teen accidentally becomes pregnant.
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TYLER, Texas — **EDITORS NOTE: The above video explaining what to do in the event of a tornado is from January 2020.
Knowing what to do when you see a tornado or when you hear a tornado warning can help protect you and your family.
During a tornado, people face hazards from extremely high winds and risk being struck by flying and falling objects.
After a tornado, the wreckage left behind poses additional injury risks. Although nothing can be done to prevent tornadoes, there are actions you can take for your health and safety.
To stay safe during a tornado, prepare a plan and an emergency kit, stay aware of weather conditions during thunderstorms, know the best places to shelter both indoors and outdoors, and always protect your head.
Tornadoes continue to impact locations across the country every year, bringing massive winds and destruction in their paths.
The 2016 tornado season claimed the lives of 18 individuals and injured another 325. Seventy-eight percent of those victims were in a mobile home or trailer park at the time of the tornado. These storms caused an estimated $183 million in property damage.
According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) there is no guaranteed safety during a tornado. Even the possibility of a tornado must be taken seriously. Although the most violent tornadoes can level and blow away almost any house and those within it, extremely violent EF5 tornadoes are very rare. Most tornadoes are much weaker. You can survive a tornado if you follow safety precautions.
Below are important tips to help keep you safe.
TIP 1: BE PREPARED
The best way to stay safe during a tornado is to be prepared with:
- Fresh batteries and a battery-operated TV, radio, or internet-enabled device to listen to the latest emergency weather information
- A tornado emergency plan including access to a “safe shelter” for yourself and for people with special needs
- An emergency kit (including water, non-perishable food, and medication)
- A list of important information, including telephone numbers
Be sure your children know what a tornado is, what tornado watches and warnings are, what county or parish they live in (warnings are issued by county or parish), and what makes a location a “safe shelter,” whether at home or at school.
TIP 2: STAY AWARE OF WEATHER CONDITIONS
To protect yourself and your family from harm during a tornado, pay close attention to changing weather conditions in your area. If you know thunderstorms are expected, stay tuned to local radio and TV stations or an NOAA weather radio for further weather information. Some tornadoes strike rapidly without time for a tornado warning. The following weather signs may mean that a tornado is approaching:
- A dark or green-colored sky
- A large, dark, low-lying cloud
- Large hail
- A loud roar that sounds like a freight train
If you notice any of these conditions, take cover immediately, and keep tuned to local radio and TV stations or to a NOAA weather radio or check the internet.
TIP 3: KNOW WHERE TO SEEK SHELTER
Falling and flying debris cause most deaths and injuries during a tornado. Although there is no completely safe place during a tornado, some locations are much safer than others.
The most important things to remember are:
- GET IN - If you are outside, get inside. If you're already inside, get as far into the middle of the building as possible.
- GET DOWN - Get underground if possible. If you cannot, go to the lowest floor possible.
- COVER UP - Flying and falling debris are a storm's number one killer. Use pillows, blankets, coats, helmets, etc to cover up and protect your head and body from flying debris.
IF YOU'RE IN A HOME
Again, the key to tornado survival is a safety plan. Your plan at home should be known by everyone in the home and practiced at least twice each year. Children who may be at home alone should know what to do and where to go even if no adults are there.
Your selection of a tornado shelter in your home will depend on many factors. Use the basic guidelines and the information below to find your tornado safety area.
When selecting your shelter area, remember that your goals should be:
- Get as low as possible - completely underground is best.
- Put as many barriers between you and the outside as possible.
It is not the wind inside and around a tornado that kills and injures people - it's the flying debris that's in the wind. Items can fly through the air (broken glass, etc) or fall down (could range from small objects to objects the size and weight of cars)
Being completely underground is the best place to be in a tornado. If you have an underground storm cellar, use it. Make sure the door is securely fastened.
If the entrance to your storm cellar is outside, you should allow plenty of time to get to the shelter before the storm arrives. If you wait until the storm is upon you, you may be exposed to wind, hail, rain, lightning and maybe even flying debris as you go to the cellar.
A basement is also a good shelter in most cases. If your basement is not totally underground, or has outside doors or windows, stay as far away from them as possible. Items from above could fall into the basement, so it's a good idea to get under a stairwell or a piece of sturdy furniture. If possible, avoid seeking shelter underneath heavy objects on the floor above. Use coverings (pillows, blankets, sleeping bags, coats, etc) and helmets to shield your head and body and to protect yourself from flying debris.
A reinforced safe room (or above-ground tornado shelter) is as good as an underground shelter in most situations. Safe rooms are specially-designed reinforced tornado shelters built into homes, schools and other buildings. The Federal Emergency Management Agency, in close cooperation with experts in wind engineering and tornado damage, has developed detailed guidelines for constructing a safe room. For more information, go to the FEMA Saferoom website.
If you're like most people, you don't have an underground shelter.
In this case, you need to find a location that is:
- As close to the ground as possible
- As far inside the building as possible
- Away from doors, windows and outside walls
- In as small a room as possible
If you don't have a safe room, basement or underground storm shelter, what should you do? Remembering the basics of tornado safety, you should look around your home to determine the best place.
Bathrooms may be a good shelter, provided they are not along an outside wall and have no windows. Contrary to popular belief, there is nothing magically safe about getting in a bathtub with a mattress. In some cases, this might be a great shelter. However, it depends on where your bathroom is. If your bathroom has windows and is along an outside wall, it's probably not the best shelter.
Bathrooms have proven to be adequate tornado shelters in many cases for a couple of reasons. First, bathrooms are typically small rooms with no windows in the middle of a building. Secondly, it is thought that the plumbing within the walls of a bathroom helps to add some structural strength to the room.
However, with tornadoes there are no absolutes, and you should look closely at your home when determining your shelter area.
A small interior closet might be a shelter. Again, the closet should be as deep inside the building as possible, with no outside walls, doors or windows. Be sure to close the door and cover up.
If a hallway is your shelter area, be sure to shut all doors. Again, the goal is to create as many barriers as possible between you and the flying debris in and near a tornado. To be an effective shelter, a hallway should as be far inside the building as possible and should not have any openings to the outside (windows and doors).
The space underneath a stairwell could also be used as a shelter.
Generally speaking, you should not leave your home in your vehicle when a tornado threatens. In most cases, you will have a better chance of surviving by staying put in your home. Every home is different - there is no absolute safe place in every home. Use the guidelines. Unless you are deep underground, there is no such thing as a 100% tornado-proof shelter. Freak accidents can happen.
IF YOU'RE IN AN APARTMENT
The basic tornado safety guidelines apply if you live in an apartment. Get to the lowest floor, with as many walls between you and the outside as possible.
Apartment dwellers should have a plan, particularly if you live on the upper floors. If your complex does not have a reinforced shelter, you should make arrangements to get to an apartment on the lowest floor possible.
In some cases, the apartment clubhouse or laundry room may be used as a shelter, provided the basic safety guidelines are followed. You need to have a shelter area that's accessible at all times of the day or night.
IF YOU'RE IN A MOBILE HOME
Even an EF1 tornado, typically considered a "weak tornado", will most likely severely damage a mobile home and/or roll it over. This is why tornado safety plans are so crucial for residents of mobile homes!
Mobile homes are especially susceptible to high winds from severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. You will likely not be safe in a mobile home, whether you’re in a hallway, a closet or a bathroom. Mobile homes cannot stand up to even a weak tornado, and you should make plans BEFORE the storm arrives to get to a safe shelter. Due to the potentially short amount of time between a warning and the arrival of a tornado, people should consider executing their safety plans when a tornado watch is issued - do not wait for the tornado warning.
Taking cover under sturdy furniture, in a bathtub or closet or under a mattress will be meaningless in a mobile home if the home itself is destroyed, blown over, or rolled over by tornado or severe thunderstorm winds. Get out of mobile homes and find a more substantial shelter as quickly as possible.
Again, you need to have access to a shelter that is available at any time of the day or night.
IF YOU'RE OUT IN PUBLIC
A detailed home tornado safety plan won't help you much if you're away from home when the tornado threatens. You need to think about what you will do if a tornado threatens you while you're away from home - at work, church, school, while shopping, dining out, on vacation or participating in outdoor activities.
Danger is higher when you're away from home, when you may be unfamiliar with the area and away from your usual sources of weather information. It is important for business owners, and those responsible for safety in all types of public buildings and venues to think about and plan for tornado safety for all employees, occupants and potential visitors.
There is a myth that tornadoes don't hit urban areas, but this is false. Even if you are away from home in a large city, you should stay alert when severe weather threatens. More information can be found at the bottom of this page.
IF YOU'RE IN A HOTEL OR MOTEL
Think about tornado safety in hotels, motels. Some lodging establishments have safety plans for guests, but others may not, and you may be on your own. Some establishments suggest guests seek shelter in hallways. However, you should remember to avoid open hallways - hallways that have doors and/or windows on either end. These can become wind tunnels and send debris flying down the corridor. Interior bathrooms and closets near the center of the building may be good shelters in this situation. Again, wherever you are forced to seek shelter in a tornado, cover up with pillows, heavy blankets or whatever you can find.
IF YOU'RE IN A PUBLIC BUILDING
The same basic tornado safety guidelines apply in any public building, whether it's your local shopping mall, a hospital or nursing home, a grocery or discount store, a church, a hotel, convenience store, truck stop or restaurant.
If a tornado threatens, you should not leave in your car. Being in a sturdy building is most likely safer than being in your vehicle on the road if a tornado hits. Stay calm and cool and try to find a safe shelter wherever you are.
IF YOU'RE AT AN OUTDOOR EVENT
Being exposed outdoors is one of the worst places to be in a tornado or severe thunderstorm. Being involved in outdoor activities can sometimes put you at increased risk, because you're exposed outdoors and possibly in an unfamiliar area.
Organized outdoor events, including sporting events at all times of year, should have weather safety plans. People at large sporting events are especially vulnerable because of the difficulties involved in moving large numbers of people. Event coordinators or managers should have a detailed severe weather safety plan in place and practice it. People at large outdoor gatherings or events should listen when severe weather information is conveyed and follow instructions if a safety plan is put into action.
IF YOU'RE IN A VEHICLE
Vehicles - cars, trucks, sport utility vehicles, RVs, 18-wheelers, boats, trains, planes, etc. - are terrible places to be when a severe thunderstorm threatens. Fortunately, these situations can be avoided most of the time by being alert to the possibility of severe storms and tornadoes.
All types of vehicles can be blown over, rolled, crushed, lifted or otherwise destroyed by even a weak tornado. People have been hurt or killed when large trees crushed their cars.
Below are some safety tips:
- Consider delaying your trip if severe thunderstorms are in the area or along your path of travel.
- Monitor television, radio, NOAA weather radio, and the internet for storm location information.
- Be familiar with the area where you're traveling. Keep a highway map handy, one that includes the county names and boundaries. NWS severe weather warnings are issued based on counties. If you do not know what county you're in you could miss life-saving information
- If you're in your car, find a station broadcasting weather information. Some radio stations will interrupt programming to broadcast warnings and other information. Others are automated stations and may not. Search for a station with local weather information and listen for details. A battery operated weather radio is essential for travelers. Remember you will not get any warnings if you are listening to CD's or satellite radio in your vehicle.
- The chances of being hit directly by a tornado in your car are very small. However, severe thunderstorms contain other deadly and destructive elements that can threaten your life in your car, such as hail, wind, heavy rain and flooding.
Every situation is different, and if faced with a tornado threat while on the road, your best course of action will depend on your exact location, the tornado's location, speed, and direction of movement, road options available to you, nearby structures, time of day, traffic and weather conditions you're experiencing.
If the tornado is far enough away and road options and traffic allow, you should try to find a substantial building for shelter. Follow the basic tornado safety guidelines (get in - get down - cover up). Motorists have found truck stops, convenience stores, restaurants and other businesses to be adequate shelters in a tornado situation. Walk-in coolers can sometimes make a good shelter.
While you should never try to outrun a tornado in your vehicle, you may, in some situations, be able to get out of the tornado's way by driving out of its path, or simply stopping and allowing the tornado to pass. Again, this can be extremely dangerous unless traffic, time of day and road options allow you to see the tornado, determine which way it's moving (and how fast), find a road option that will take you out of its path (while avoiding other storms) and to safe shelter.
The worst-case scenario for motorists would be to be trapped in your vehicle on the road with no escape possible. This scenario could occur in more densely populated areas, in metropolitan areas at rush-hour or in high traffic situations, or on limited access roadways, such as interstates or turnpikes, where it might not be possible to quickly exit and find safe shelter. It is in these situations when it may become necessary to leave your vehicle and seek shelter in a ditch, culvert or low spot.
Highway overpasses are not tornado shelters, and these should be avoided.
TAKING SHELTER OUTDOORS
Ditches, culverts and ravines should be used only as an absolute last resort. You will be exposed to flying debris, rain and hail, lightning and extreme wind. People have survived by seeking shelter in ditches, but people have also died. If you must leave your vehicle to seek shelter in a ditch, you should try to get as far away from the vehicle, as well as any other potential "missiles" as possible.
AFTER A TORNADO OCCURS
- STAY INFORMED: Continue to listen to local news or a NOAA Weather Radio to stay updated about tornado watches and warnings. Multiple rounds of thunderstorms capable of producing tornadoes are possible during severe weather outbreaks.
- CONTACT YOUR FAMILY AND LOVED ONES: Let your family and close friends know that you're okay so they can help spread the word. Text messages or social media are more reliable forms of communication than phone calls.
- ASSESS THE DAMAGE: After the threat for tornadoes has ended, check to see if your property has been damaged. When walking through storm damage, wear long pants, a long-sleeved shirt, and sturdy shoes. Contact local authorities if you see power lines down. Stay out of damaged buildings. Be aware of insurance scammers if your property has been damaged.
- HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR: If you come across people that are injured and you are properly trained, provide first aid to victims if needed until emergency response teams arrive.
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Frequently Asked Questions
It is important that the early childhood community be involved in this decision because this is an early childhood intervention embedded in a system of care. Child First does not stand apart from other community resources but works collaboratively with others to serve the most vulnerable children and families as a part of a continuum of supports and services. Child First prioritizes replication in states or other defined geographic areas (e.g. counties) where agencies are in the best position for sustainable, successful operations. Key factors considered by the NPO when investigating the viability of Child First replication in a given state or geographic area include:
- Level of need of targeted population
- Level of interest in early childhood mental health and understanding of the effects of trauma and adversity
- Potential for multiple, sustainable funding sources
- Interest from state leaders of child welfare, education, public health, social services, or other relevant state agencies to support a program like Child First
- Identifiable state champions and leadership to promote Child First
- A strong early childhood system that can support the families to be served
Most of the cost to implement Child First is at the agency level - for the staffing and related program operations costs. Agencies in partnership with local and state champions have the responsibility for identifying and securing funding for a minimum of three years and developing a long-term sustainability plan.
The typical implementation scenario is for an affiliate agency implementing Child First to commit to hiring a minimum of four teams, each with a licensed, Master’s level Clinician and a Bachelor’s level Care Coordinator. A full-time affiliate site Clinical Director/Supervisor oversees the Child First program within the agency, provides the necessary reflective clinical and administrative supervision, and serves as the primary contact within the regional Child First Network. Costs will vary depending on local salaries and the nature of the geographic region to be served (affecting mileage and numbers served).
Child First affiliate agencies also must budget for fees due to the Child First National Program Office. Currently, these include start-up fees, training fees, and annual support fees. Additional information can be provided upon request.
Private and public funding play an important role to establish new service areas, but public funding streams are necessary to sustain services. Potential sources for both start-up and sustainability funding include, but are not limited to:
State Agency Funding (e.g. Child Welfare, Public Health, and Education)
Federal Grants and Funding Streams
For more details on the funding sources, see Our Network/Funding Page.
Child First has developed a process to ensure fidelity to the model for new and existing sites which includes:
- Monitoring process data and clinical fidelity, on a monthly basis, beginning at the time of training within the Learning Collaborative.
- During the first year of training, Child First sites receive weekly reflective consultation by an experienced Child First NPO Clinical Director (progressing from weekly to biweekly), including review of videotapes of the home visits.
- Analyzing outcome data based on the completion of baseline and discharge assessment measures for all families served.
- Clinical Supervisors lead quality improvement efforts at their sites and provide feedback on these initiatives to the Child First NPO.
- Accreditation is granted based on fidelity to the Child First model.
Yes, the home-based intervention makes it very accessible for families in rural communities, who would otherwise find it extremely difficult to get to mental health and family support services. Most importantly, it is necessary for all service providers from the region to come together and assess the resources available for families with young children, looking at both gaps in services and barriers to access. Together, providers may come to collaborative solutions that help extend their resources and better serve families.
Yes, families are almost always involved with Child First and other community agencies. Referrals usually come from other service providers and Child First almost always refers families to new community resources to address unmet needs. A close collaborative relationship and communication among providers is an essential component of the Child First model. Child First may partner flexibly with other home visiting models to insure efficiency of services. For example, if a home visiting program has identified depressive symptoms in a mother or a child has behavioral problems, Child First may provide either consultation or ongoing home-based services in collaboration. However, it is important to ensure that Child First is not duplicating an existing service that the family is receiving. For example, a child should not be receiving outpatient mental health services and Child First simultaneously.
No, Child First frequently works with IDEA early intervention and multiple other service providers. Frequently, in this partnership, the outcomes desired by the other interventions are enhanced as well. For example, Child First concentrates on the emotional/behavioral component by intervening with the parent-child relationship. As a result of increased positive interaction and communication, not only do behavioral problems resolve, but language development is very often significantly enhanced. Maternal mental health is very frequently improved as well. It is recommended that the outcomes desired by the family be carefully assessed to see what array of services will accomplish these most effectively and efficiently.
Yes, there is a national Child First Network, with significant opportunities to share new ideas, problem solve, and share data within each state. The National Program Office facilitates strong in-state networking, and dialogue nationally across states.
Child First currently has affiliates in North Carolina, Florida, and throughout Connecticut.
(See the list of current Child First Network)
- Analyze aggregate data to understand the children and families served, level of services provided, and outcomes.
- Ensure that each site maintains fidelity to the Child First model.
- Identify programs that might be in need of technical assistance to improve outcomes.
- Examine success with subpopulations of families, where large numbers are important for analysis (e.g., ethnic groups, rural population, adult psychopathology).
- Examine successful innovations by local sites for further evaluation and dissemination.
Yes, in multiple ways. By decreasing the stress experienced by the child and enhancing the parent-child relationship, the Child First intervention can prevent damage to the child’s developing brain in very important ways. 1) It can prevent emotional and behavioral problems, which directly interfere with the child’s ability to concentrate and learn; and 2) It can directly impact the development of executive functioning (located in the prefrontal cortex of the brain), which is responsible for such functions as working memory, attention, impulse control, cognitive flexibility, and self-regulation, all necessary for successful learning. 3) Further, with improvement of the parent-child relationship, there is increased communication and language development, which is the foundation for literacy. As the child’s sense of security increases, so does exploration, mastery, and self-esteem. The family may also be directly connected to services that impact school readiness, like early intervention, early care and education, or adult literacy. | <urn:uuid:e290cf1e-6cd6-4d29-aaae-576f19d8089c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.childfirst.org/about-us/faqs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939881 | 1,422 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The neck is made up of bones, ligaments, and muscles that help to support the head and allow it to move. Occasionally, we experience pain and lack of mobility in the neck (also called the cervical region) due to:
- Muscle Strain or Tension
- Sleeping in a strange or unusual position
- Using a workstation that doesn’t allow for your shoulders, arms, and hands to be properly aligned for typing
- Sitting and working for too long without changing position
- Poor posture
- Injury or Accidents
- Car accident
- Sports injury
- A fall
- Twisting or jerking your neck during exercise
When neck pain isn’t serious, it usually goes away within a few days. If it persists, you may choose to visit a neck pain chiropractor for a spinal adjustment or other form of treatment.
To begin addressing your neck pain, chiropractors start by asking these questions:
• When did you first notice the pain?
• Have you had any kind of prior treatment for the pain?
• Does it feel like the pain is traveling or radiating from your neck to other parts of your body?
• Do you notice if anything you do makes the pain better or worse?
When you first come into our practice, your chiropractor will examine your neck to look for signs of physical or neurological symptoms through:
- General Observation. Your chiropractor will check your physical condition, posture, and range of motion, and make note of any kind of movement that causes pain.
- Spinal Exam. He or she will determine your curvature and alignment by feeling your spine, checking for muscle spasms, and examining your shoulders.
- Neurological Exam. They may also test for reflexes, muscle strength, and to see how and where pain has spread
Occasionally, your chiropractor may order tests like x-rays or scans to help diagnose your condition. Or if they suspect nerve damage, a test called electromyography (EMG) can measure the rate at which your nerves respond. Your chiropractor will let you know if you need to be checked out by a doctor or other medical professional.
When the chiropractor has gathered the necessary information about your condition, they’ll treat your neck pain by performing a cervical manipulation, also called a neck adjustment. You will typically lie on your back for this procedure while the doctor puts his hands on your neck and, using a controlled motion, rotates your head from side to side.
During the adjustment by your chiropractor, popping neck noises may be heard, but it’s nothing to be alarmed about. After the adjustment, a patient usually has increased range of motion, can more easily turn and tilt her head, and feels less pain, stiffness, and soreness.
Your treatment may also involve massage or rehabilitative exercises, depending on the program of care designed for your individual needs.
Does Seeing a Chiropractor For Neck Pain Really Work?
Patients with chronic neck pain have experienced significant improvement in their pain levels after spinal manipulation and chiropractic care, but ultimately it will depend on your individual case and the cause of your pain.
Seeing a chiropractor for neck pain can be more effective than narcotics and muscle relaxants, especially for long term results according to a study conducted by the National Institute of Health. This study found that fifty-seven percent of participants who were drug-free reported at least a 75% reduction in pain after twelve weeks compared to only 33% of those who took medication for pain-relief. The findings were also very similar a year after the study had ended.
Should You visit a Doctor or Chiropractor for Neck Pain?
If you are in severe pain or have been in an accident, you should always consult a doctor to ensure your spine and vertebrae are not damaged. However, if your condition is less severe, mainly muscle-based or needs assistance healing, your doctor may not be able to do much more than recommend an over-the-counter pain reliever. A chiropractor can then offer relief beyond these medications and help your body heal with a neck or spinal adjustment.
The Best Chiropractor For Neck Pain in Austin
For neck pain relief, Austin area residents can trust First Wellness Family Chiropractic to deliver comprehensive care to relieve your pain and provide ongoing wellness support. We’ll create a custom plan to fit your unique needs and goals, whether your pain is due to fractured cervical vertebrae from an injury or from using a workstation that’s not ergonomic, causing neck pulled muscle.
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