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The symptoms and signs of depression are varied and appear very differently from person to person. For example, there are sufferers who feel a deep sadness – others report indifferent numbness. It is not uncommon for somatic complaints, such as headaches and back pain or social withdrawal, not to be addressed or ignored – and thus not recognized as symptoms of depression. In men, too, depression often manifests itself in different ways than in women.
There is no one cause that triggers depression. Depression results from the interaction of various factors. In scientific research, various models exist that show how these factors interact so that the onset of a depressive episode occurs. Such factors can be genetic, biological, psychological or social. This means, for example, that inherited predispositions or disorders in the complex system of neurotransmitters in the brain may be involved. An unbalanced diet and prolonged stress, for example, are among such risk factors. Examples of psychological or social factors include negative thinking patterns, lack of social support and critical life events.
If one or more of these aspects coincide in one phase of life, this constellation can trigger depression. One risk factor is considered to be particularly significant: negatively experienced, chronic stress. Researchers assume that for most of those affected, there was an extended period of time during which they were heavily burdened by stress before the onset of depression. The cause of depression therefore lies in the complex interplay of various factors – it is highly individual. | <urn:uuid:f75db0c7-a572-4cc1-8dcd-be351e52c4d4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.limes-schlossklinik-fuerstenhof.de/en/fields-of-treatment/private-clinic-for-depression/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950478 | 480 | 2.296875 | 2 |
By Robert Mitchum
Shortages of freshwater used for irrigation may double the detrimental effects of climate change on agriculture, according to a new analysis that combines climate, agricultural, and hydrological models.
Researchers say a warmer world may have severe consequences for global agriculture and food supply, reducing yields of major crops even as population and demand increases.
Given the present trajectory of greenhouse gas emissions, agricultural models estimate that climate change will directly reduce food production from maize, soybeans, wheat, and rice by as much as 43 percent by the end of the 21st century.
But hydrological models looking at the effect of warming climate on freshwater supplies project further agricultural losses, due to the reversion of 20 to 60 million hectares of currently irrigated fields back to rain-fed crops.
“It’s a huge effect, and an effect that’s basically on the same order of magnitude as the direct effect of climate change,” says Joshua Elliott, a research scientist with the Computation Institute’s Center for Robust Decision Making on Climate and Energy Policy (RDCEP), Argonne National Laboratory, and lead author of the paper.
“So the effect of limited irrigation availability in some regions could end up doubling the effect of climate change.”…
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All 50 Republicans in the U.S. Senate, except five, backed Donald Trump in a key vote on Tuesday, suggesting the former president is unlikely to be sentenced for inciting a violent insurgency on Capitol Hill.
Forty-five Republicans, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted in favor of the “point of order” brought forward by Rand Paul, the GOP senator from Kentucky, who said an impeachment trial would be unconstitutional because Mr. Trump is no longer president.
Five Republican senators voted against Mr. Paul’s motion: Susan Collins of Maine; Lisa Murkowski from Alaska; Mitt Romney of Utah; Ben Sasse from Nebraska; and Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania.
Explaining her decision, Ms Collins said: “I have spent a lot of time talking to constitutional scholars and other legal experts and have concluded that the text of the constitution, the purpose of these provisions and the precedent of the Senate all meant that the trial had to take place. forward, especially since the House acted while the Speaker was still in office.
In another development on Tuesday evening, Patrick Leahy, the Democratic senator who is expected to preside over the trial, was taken to hospital after falling ill. A spokesperson for Mr Leahy, 80, said he was admitted for assessment “as a precaution”. He was then released from the hospital after performing tests and sent home.
Tuesday’s vote will not prevent the trial from taking place next month as a majority in the Democratic-controlled Senate rejected the point of order. But the result was hailed by Republicans who opposed the impeachment process against the now former president. Seventeen Republican senators are expected to vote against Mr. Trump to condemn him.
“This is one of the few times in Washington where a loss is actually a victory,” Paul told reporters on Capitol Hill. “Forty-five votes means the impeachment trial is dead on arrival.”
The vote also renewed control over Mr McConnell, who was demoted from majority leader to minority leader when the Senate passed to Democrats last week. The Senate is now divided, 50-50, with Kamala Harris, the vice-president, able to cast a deciding vote.
Mr McConnell this month left open the possibility that he would vote to sentence Mr Trump to trial, and used his last day as majority leader to say that the crowds of Presidential supporters were “fed on liesAnd “provoked by the president” before the January 6 attack.
Mr Trump this month became the first president in U.S. history to be twice impeached, when the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives voted to charge him with inciting insurrection for its role in the January 6 siege which killed at least five people, including a Capitol policeman. All House Democrats supported the motion, which was supported by 10 Republicans.
Chuck Schumer, the Democratic majority leader in the Senate, said last week that he had reached a deal with Mr McConnell to have an impeachment trial in earnest in the upper house of Congress on February 9.
On Monday, House impeachment officials – Democratic lawmakers who will act as prosecutors in the trial – delivered the indictment article in the Senate, triggering the start of work.
On Tuesday, all 100 senators were sworn in as jurors, before Mr. Paul brought down his point of order.
Mr Trump is the first former president tried in the Senate impeachment procedure, but several other federal officials in US history have been charged with impeachment in the upper house of Congress after leaving office.
Ms Collins said Tuesday’s vote made the former president’s conviction unlikely, given that two-thirds of the Senate are expected to vote against him.
“I think it’s pretty obvious from today’s vote that it’s extremely unlikely that the president will be convicted,” Ms Collins said. “Just do the math.”
Other Republicans were less certain. John Thune of South Dakota, who voted with Mr Paul, said: “I don’t think it binds anyone once the trial begins. . . Like most jurors, I will wait until the trial begins and hear arguments from both sides.
Mr Thune added that he believed Mr McConnell would take a similar approach.
Democrats were also determined to see the trial go ahead.
“Pessimists may regard this vote as the high watermark. But all of this before the evidence has gone to the jury, and before any of our fellow Republicans have to publicly justify their vote, ”said Richard Blumenthal, Democratic Senator for Connecticut. “I still believe these videos and Trump’s incendiary incitement will be very powerful.” | <urn:uuid:da225c3e-13b3-4757-a4ba-de051744fcf9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://twournal.com/almost-all-republicans-back-trump-in-early-impeachment-test/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973927 | 970 | 1.804688 | 2 |
The Network and Information Systems (NIS) Directive is the first piece of EU-wide legislation on cybersecurity. It provides legal measures to boost the overall level of cybersecurity in the EU. For the last 2 years this has served as a foundation for good cyber hygiene which was only applicable to Operators of Essential Services (OES).
During 2020 we became depended on more essential services due to COVID-19, realising that not only did we need power, water, healthcare and digital services to work remotely, but other forms of transportation were essential to move goods around as well. Food and beverage production increased as well as our reliance on other sectors often overlooked such as manufacturing, the supply chain for medical devices, pharmaceutical and wider logistical operations such as postal service to mention a few.
Review of the NIS Directive
Article 23 of the Directive requires the European Commission to review the functioning of this Directive periodically. As part of its key policy objective to make “Europe fit for the digital age” the Commission announced in its Work Programme 2020 that it would conduct the review by the end of 2020.
NIS Directive V2
As a result of the review process, the new legislative proposal concluded on 16th December 2020. The proposal is part of a package of measures to improve further the resilience and incident response capacities of public and private entities. The new EU cyber strategy confirms that a revised NIS Directive is necessary to increase the level of cyber resilience across all relevant sectors “that perform an important function for the economy or society” and to reduce inconsistencies across the internal market by aligning scope, security and incident reporting requirements, national supervision and enforcement. These include:
- More stringent supervision measures and enforcement are introduced
- A list of administrative sanctions, including fines for breach of the cybersecurity risk management and reporting obligations is established
- Establishment of European Cyber crises liaison organisation network (EU- CyCLONe) to support coordinated management of large-scale cybersecurity incidents and crises at EU level
- Increased information sharing and cooperation between Member State authorities with enhanced role of the Cooperation Group
- Coordinated vulnerability disclosure for newly discovered vulnerabilities across the EU is established
Cybersecurity risk management
- Strengthened security requirements with a list of focused measures including incident response and crisis management, vulnerability handling and disclosure, cybersecurity testing, and the effective use of encryption
- Cybersecurity of supply chain for key information and communication technologies will be strengthened
- Accountability of the company management for compliance with cybersecurity risk-management measures
- Streamlined incident reporting obligations with more precise provisions on the reporting process, content and timeline
Read more from the European Commission
Sectors that perform an important function for the economy or society
What does this mean for UK companies?
The government has posted details on 30th December 2020 for guidance on NIS regulations for UK digital and non UK digital service providers on their website. The links are below for further reading
It is unclear at this point in time how NIS2 regulations will affect the UK in other areas, however these proposals have been passed before the formal leave date of the 31/12/2020. If these changes come into effect then this will include a number of sectors that were previously not covered by the original NIS directive. If 2020 has taught us anything it's that we can adapt to change quickly and bounce back.
According to global legal law firm White and Case, they cite “Perhaps unsurprisingly, the UK Government has confirmed that the NIS Regulations will continue to apply in the UK after Brexit".
“In practice, unless and until the NIS Regulations are repealed, the essential requirements of the NIS Directive will continue to apply to in-scope organisations in the UK through the application of the NIS Regulations".
What does seem to be clear is that through the Network and Information Systems (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 is that “These amendments include the removal of obligations on the regulatory authorities and the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to liaise, co-operate and share information with the European and authorities in other Member States. Where appropriate, co-operation and information sharing could still be conducted. NCSC is designated as the computer security incident response team and single point of contact under the NIS Regulations".
Business as usual
As the fallout from Brexit continues so will come clearer guidance on the UK’s pathway into the global and EU market and how UK PLC will address the security needs for a digital United Kingdom. For now, we continue with business as usual.
SolutionsPT will continue to track and monitor the changes to the NIS directive to ensure that we can deliver the appropriate advice and guidance to our customers. The changes that the EU are making to the NIS directive is proportionate in many ways to address the changing threat landscape and the reliance on essential businesses over and above those that originally indicated in the first directive.
In discussions that we have had with the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) they have already indicated that food and beverage along with strong transportation and logistics were verticals of interest along with UK datacentres.
2021 is continuing to be challenging and we’re now entering another total lockdown like we saw in March 2020, the need for robust and secure digital services along with stable remote access is paramount.
Happy new year everyone!
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Sir Adrian Blennerhassett, 7th Baronet, died 9 April, 2022. He was 81, and had held the baronetcy since his posthumous birth almost eighty two years ago.
Marmaduke Adrian Francis William Blennerhassett was born 25 May, 1940, son of Lieutenant Sir Marmaduke Blennerhassett, 6th Baronet [1902-40], RNVR, who was killed in action on HMS Greyhound at Dunkirk on the day his son and heir was born. His mother was the former Gwenfra Mary Morgan [who died 21 December, 1956].
He was educated at McGill University, Imperial College London [MSc] and Cranfield Business School [MBA]. Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society.
He married 23 September, 1972, Carolyn Margaret Brown, daughter of Gilbert Brown, of Marston Magna, Somerset, by whom he had issue, a son, Charles Henry Marmaduke [born 18 July, 1975], and a daughter, Celina Mary Charlotte [born 15 October, 1973].
The son, Charles, now succeeds to the baronetcy [created UK, 1809] awarded to his ancestor, Rowland Blennerhassett. The family name is derived from the township of Blennerhassett in Cumberland. Members of the family represented Carlisle in every Parliament from Richard II to James I, and later represented Kerry or the borough of Tralee, Ireland | <urn:uuid:7dcc2198-5306-4c9d-8bda-064bb761a6cd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://peeragenews.blogspot.com/2022/04/sir-marmaduke-adrian-francis-william.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.971855 | 311 | 1.71875 | 2 |
As the American humorist, Mark Twain used to say:
“There Are Lies, Damn Lies, and Then There Are Statistics”
…and in the financial world, few things are more dangerous than the statistic known as “Average”.
Here are two examples of the folly attributed to Average.
Can you drown in a lake whose average depth is 6 inches? Yes, you can. If the center of the lake’s depth is 40 feet and the depth at the shore is less than an inch, the AVERAGE depth may be 6 inches.
Can your body temperature be 98.6 but still die from heat? Yes, if you had your head in the freezer and your feet in the oven, you may die with an AVERAGE body temperature of 98.6
These are some silly examples to make a point. The statistic, AVERAGE, can hide many a dangerous situation and obscure the real facts.
Economically speaking, we often rely on averages to get a sense of how the economy is doing, how well the labor force is doing, for example.
For example, the average rate of economic progress looks pretty healthy at the moment, but a deeper dive into the numbers shows a wide disparity between the rich and middle-income Americans. On average, things are looking better but only because the average numbers are overwhelmed by the gains made for the wealthier among us. So once again, by wading in a little deeper, you can see through the distortion the word average conceals. For those reading this commentary online, I have provided the chart from Yahoo Finance.
The Chart shows the lowest 25% of wage earners have experienced living expenses growing faster than their income. Middle-income earners are basically treading water, meaning their income growth has just kept pace with higher costs. The biggest winners are the highest 10% of wage earners. Yet, on average, the numbers look rosy.
The statistics measuring household borrowing are also subject to the discrepancy. Decent Debt to Income numbers was hailed as good news because, although households borrowed more, consumers’ income rose alongside of it as well.
This made it seem that consumer debt was under control and stood at a reasonable percentage relative to the income needed to pay it off. The so-called debt-to-income ratio stood at 86%, significantly lower than its all-time high of 116% in 2008 at the peak of the housing bubble. Thus, American households were financially healthy and were not experiencing levels of stress covering their payoff of the debt.
Once again, these average numbers don’t highlight the difficulty lower income households have to pay off that debt.
According to the Yahoo Finance article, a more sophisticated analysis found that when comparing people’s net worth against their income, rich households who have benefitted from a rising stock market and rising home prices show healthier balance sheets. These same ratios have fallen for households at all income levels except for the top 10%. The report goes on to say that these lower-income families are more fragile than ever, suffering from increased debt, stagnant or declining wages, and lack of assets.
There are differing opinions as to whether the economy is in for some economic peril or things are alright, but it is never a good sign to see a large number of already vulnerable people making decisions which, if the economy turns sour, may blow up in their faces and cause the poverty cycle to repeat once again.
Anyway, getting back to today’s theme, remember that any statistic that uses the average or the mean rate of something needs to be looked at more carefully if only because the underlying numbers may tell the truer story.
So, if you can’t swim, make sure the depth of the lake you are venturing into is proportionate to the average depth and something you can handle. If it is in fact too deep in some parts, wear a life jacket, stay in the boat, or at the very least, wear some water wings.
Investing involves risk and investors should carefully consider their own investment objectives and never rely on any single chart, graph, or marketing piece to make decisions. The information contained herein is intended for information only, is not a recommendation to buy or sell any securities, and should not be considered investment advice. Please contact your financial advisor with questions about your specific needs and circumstances. There are no investment strategies, including diversification, that guarantee a profit or protect against loss. Past performance doesn’t guarantee future results. Equity investing involves market risk, including possible loss of principal. All data quoted in this piece is for informational purposes only, and author does not warrant the accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or any other characteristic of the data. All data are driven from publicly available information and has not been independently verified by the author. | <urn:uuid:e883194e-6596-4d8e-b49c-ed18d2b8b887> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://stevepomeranz.com/radio/steves-commentary/average-returns/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961942 | 985 | 2.5 | 2 |
January 17, 2018 / Original Source
Unruptured intracranial aneurysms (IAs) are typically asymptomatic and undetected except for incidental discovery on imaging. Blood-based diagnostic biomarkers could lead to improvements in IA management. This exploratory study examined circulating neutrophils to determine whether they carry RNA expression signatures of IAs.
Blood samples were collected from patients receiving cerebral angiography. Eleven samples were collected from patients with IAs and 11 from patients without IAs as controls. Samples from the two groups were paired based on demographics and comorbidities. RNA was extracted from isolated neutrophils and subjected to next-generation RNA sequencing to obtain differential expressions for identification of an IA-associated signature. Bioinformatics analyses, including gene set enrichment analysis and Ingenuity Pathway Analysis, were used to investigate the biological function of all differentially expressed transcripts.
Transcriptome profiling identified 258 differentially expressed transcripts in patients with and without IAs. Expression differences were consistent with peripheral neutrophil activation. An IA-associated RNA expression signature was identified in 82 transcripts (p<0.05, fold-change ≥2). This signature was able to separate patients with and without IAs on hierarchical clustering. Furthermore, in an independent, unpaired, replication cohort of patients with IAs (n = 5) and controls (n = 5), the 82 transcripts separated 9 of 10 patients into their respective groups.
Preliminary findings show that RNA expression from circulating neutrophils carries an IA-associated signature. These findings highlight a potential to use predictive biomarkers from peripheral blood samples to identify patients with IAs.
Read more by click here: Original Source
Circulating neutrophil transcriptome may reveal intracranial aneurysm signature
Tutino VM, Poppenberg KE, Jiang K, Jarvis JN, Sun Y, et al. (2018) Circulating neutrophil transcriptome may reveal intracranial aneurysm signature. PLOS ONE 13(1): e0191407. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0191407 | <urn:uuid:58e41b54-dd8f-4ea6-91f5-b38acb38511e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.nvdiag.com/preliminary-results-published/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9096 | 456 | 2.25 | 2 |
The wild domestic pigeon, or rock dove, a native of Europe and Asia exists in wild flocks throughout most of Michigan. Although an interesting addition to both urban and rural areas, its numbers can increase to the point where its droppings create a nuisance and potential health hazard, deteriorate structures and equipment, and contaminate stored foods and feed. At this point damage control is often desired.
Pigeons often become a problem on homes and other building when the architecture of the building or improper maintenance creates ideal roosting and nesting spots. Pigeons often roost and nest on ledges where roofs and eves join and sometimes on wide window sills. Prevent roosting and nesting by boxing in these areas with plywood or lumber, or by enclosing them with hardware cloth to eliminate roosting sites. In many older buildings, grain elevators and feed mills, broken windows, doors, and damaged wood work and roofing allow pigeons into buildings where they roost and nest. The only solution is to make the necessary repairs.
Many of the materials available for repelling pigeons from buildings are usually worthless. In general, any auditory or visual repellent for pigeons will only be effective for a few days. Pigeons soon learn that plastic owls, aluminum foil twirlers and flashing lights are harmless or can be avoided. Pigeons do not seem to respond to exploding noises, flares or electronic calls. The one exception is a simulated electronic call which after a period of time will drive pigeons away. However, this device is quite expensive, limited in range and affects human beings as well as pigeons.
Several commercially available wire barriers will prevent roosting and nesting. Stiff wires project in various directions, making it impossible for pigeons to land where the wire barriers are affixed. If roosting surfaces are numerous, however, installation costs can be quite high.
Glue-like, sticky repellents are applied to roosting and nesting surfaces. Their extremely sticky, gluey consistency makes such surfaces unpleasant to pigeons, and they abandon them. Sticky repellents come in spray, aerosol and tube jelly forms, and can be applied to metal, stone, wood, masonry, and vegetation. The spray is best suited to use on vegetation; the tube form may be best on rafter or ledges.
Pre-treat porous material with silicone or strips of tape to prevent absorption. It is essential to treat all roosting surfaces. Otherwise, pigeons may be repelled from one roosting surface to another on a partially treated structure. Where roosting surfaces are extremely numerous and access is difficult, application costs can be quite high. In dusty areas, application may be necessary as often as every six months.
Population Reduction - Trapping
Pigeons are easily trapped by a wide variety of traps, but the most effective is the walk-in trap with a one-way wire bob door. This trap may be large or small, but in general, large traps are most effective because both grain and water can be used as bait and the large number of already trapped pigeons will decoy additional pigeons. The trap may be of any desired design, shape or size large enough for pigeons as long as it includes a one-way bob-wire door.
Bobs are individual, free-swinging, heavy-gauge 8 inch long wires or metal rods spaced 1 1/2 inches apart and suspended from the top of the door into the trap. The bottom ends of the bobs rest against the inside edge of the sill on the bottom of the door so that they swing freely and easily inward, but not outward. Pigeons will walk into the trap, pushing the bobs inward as they go. When the bobs drop back into place, the pigeon is trapped.
Placement of the trap is extremely critical. Place it where pigeons normally feed. If this is not possible, prebait the pigeons to a trap site. Once the pigeons begin to feed heavily on the prebait, place and bait the trap on that site, but wire up the bobs so that the door is always open. This accustoms the entire flock of pigeons to going in and out of the trap to obtain food. As soon as the pigeons feed heavily in the trap, unfasten the wire bobs so that they now swing down into place. The entire flock should be caught within one or two days.
If all the pigeons are not trapped, wait two or three weeks and repeat the entire operation. Trapped pigeons can be destroyed by quickly wringing their necks or by drowning in a small cage or burlap sack. It is futile to transport the birds to a new locality and release them, since they probably will return to the capture site before the person who released them.
Several cities have found that a strictly controlled shooting program manned by carefully selected volunteers can quickly reduce pigeon populations at the minimum cost with minimum hazard. Operations in large cities have had no accidents or damage other than a few broken windows due to falling pigeons shooting is usually done early on weekend mornings, however, public acceptance of such a program is highly variable.
In smaller areas, such as a farm, a shooting should be done quickly and intensively by several shooters. Occasional shooting soon makes the surviving pigeons extremely wary and difficult to eliminate.
A commercial chemosterilant, trade name ornitrol, is available to government agencies and pest control operators in grain bait form. When ingested by the pigeons, the chemosterilant prevents them from reproducing, thus allowing natural mortality to reduce the pigeon population gradually over a period of a year or two. This method is most applicable where residents desire pigeon control, but strongly object to any direct, lethal control.
A chemosterilization program must be conducted on a total area basis, such as an entire town, city or even a township, because it is futile to sterilize one flock. The natural mortality in the treated flock will be quickly replaced by juveniles produced from surrounding flocks. Thus, it is absolutely imperative that all flocks within the given area of control, such as a city, be fed the chemosterilant treated bait.
Pigeons must feed for 10 days twice a year on the preparation before it takes effect. Site prebaiting is necessary, and a chemosterilant control operation may require intensive and widespread baiting. Unfortunately, such an intensive widespread program, if not carefully regulated, may be more dangerous to non-target species than an intense, localized, lethal control that can more easily be confined to the pigeon population. A permit is required from Law Enforcement Division, Michigan DNR. | <urn:uuid:3098430a-1c63-4579-a71c-e0f404a5ea4e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oldhouseweb.com/gardening/pigeon.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943585 | 1,409 | 3.40625 | 3 |
After days of staring each other down over whether and how to improve the way the State funds its public schools, the Texas House and Senate both blinked Monday, with each passing the other’s priority school finance bill.
With two days left in the 30-day special legislative session that began July 18, the House passed Senate Bill 16 to create a commission to study future school funding reform. The Senate later that night voted 25-6 to pass House Bill 21, which would put $351 million into public schools immediately to help struggling small, rural schools and students with special needs and put $212 million into a health insurance program for retired teachers.
Legislators in both chambers portrayed the immediate reform as a “bridge” before the study to provide long-term change for public education funding.
The chambers also made some progress on figuring out how to fund education, with the House planning to consider the Senate’s proposal to defer payments to health care companies providing Medicaid.
“The House has expressed to the Senate that the House will consider the [health care] deferral if the Senate will do something meaningful to help public education,” said Jason Embry, House Speaker Joe Straus’s spokesman, in a statement Monday evening.
Both bills still require final votes before heading back to the originating chamber. The chambers are then expected to appoint legislators to iron out the details of each bill.
The House and Senate have been at odds on how best to reform the state’s troubled school finance system. The House wants to put more money into public schools immediately, arguing the issue has been studied to death. Senate Education Committee Chairman Larry Taylor (R-Friendswood) likened the House’s plan to driving a broken down car into the ground. Gov. Greg Abbott initially only included establishing a school finance commission in his special session priorities before expanding them to allow lawmakers to consider major reforms.
House Public Education Committee Chairman Dan Huberty (R-Houston) called the two bills a “package deal” Monday, saying the House wouldn’t take a final vote on the study unless the Senate passes immediate reform.
Taylor made it clear Monday that he didn’t know exactly what the compromise versions of these bills would look like. “I wish I could tell you right now I already got a deal, but I don’t,” he said.
The Senate passed a version of HB 21 that stripped it of more than $1 billion intended to go into public schools and of the updates to the outdated formulas for directing that funding. The version passed Monday would direct $120 million to charter schools and traditional school districts to pay for new facilities. It also includes a $150 million transitional grant program to help small, rural districts struggling with the loss of a state aid program in September and $41 million to remove an existing financial penalty for small districts.
In a letter delivered Thursday, nearly 1,500 local school superintendents and trustees urged Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick to keep the funding and support the bill as passed by the House.
Taylor accepted amendments Monday that added $40 million in grants for some public school students with dyslexia and autism and put $212 million into TRS-CARE to make the state-run health insurance program more affordable for retired teachers over the next two years by lowering their deductibles and premiums. The chambers have argued throughout the special session about how to fund fixes to the insurance program.
The Senate on Monday also voted 26-5 to pass House Bill 30, delineating that the $563 million for the bill would come from deferring a payment to health care companies that provide Medicaid. The House had proposed deferring a $1.8 billion payment to public schools from 2018 to 2019 to pay for an immediate infusion. (Update Aug. 15: The Senate finally passed HB 21 and HB 30 in the early hours of the morning.)
Taylor said House leaders have not agreed on the specific amount of the deferral. He criticized the House’s $1.8 billion funding plan as being unrealistic Monday. “What happens two years from now when the economy has taken a downturn?”
With this pared-down version, many school districts, especially large urban ones, would see no increase in funding.
“We will do everything we can to make sure that no school is harmed by this bill,” Taylor said.
He also touted the Senate’s proposed study as a necessary step for future reform. “To keep going with the same inefficient system we have on into the future just does not make sense,” he said.
Earlier Monday, the lower chamber voted 142-2 to tentatively pass Senate Bill 16, which tasks a 15-member commission of legislators and educators with figuring out how to relieve financial pressure on public schools and better fund the education of certain disadvantaged student groups.
The study would create a plan for a long-term redesign of a beleaguered funding system that has been the subject of several court cases. In the meantime, HB 21 would make some immediate, necessary changes, said State Rep. Phil King (R-Weatherford) the House sponsor of SB 16.
King accepted several amendments from other House members designed to broaden the commission’s scope to study more issues including teacher pay and recruitment, the cost of special education services, and public education revenue sources other than local property taxes. He also accepted an amendment requiring the commission to hold some public meetings outside of Travis County.
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TAIPEI – Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. said Tuesday that it will build a research and development center in Japan as demand for advanced semiconductor materials has been increasing amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In a statement issued after a board meeting, TSMC, the world’s largest contract chipmaker, said it will invest 18.6 billion yen ($186 million) and set up a wholly owned company in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, to expand its research and development of three-dimensional integrated circuit materials.
TSMC has moved aggressively into high-end IC packaging and testing services to provide one-stop shopping services for clients who buy chips and require advanced 3D IC packaging and testing technology.
It has become a hotly sought-after supplier of advanced semiconductor equipment around the world amid the pandemic.
In November last year, TSMC’s board of directors approved a plan to invest $3.5 billion in a wholly owned foundry in the U.S. state of Arizona in a move backed by Taiwan’s government.
Last month, Japan asked Taiwan to beef up production of semiconductors amid a serious global shortage that has affected businesses such as automakers, forcing Honda Motor Co., Subaru Corp., Toyota Motor Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. to cut or halt output this year.
The United States and Germany have also asked for Taiwan’s cooperation to beef up semiconductor production in response to supply disruptions.
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The completely justified shooting by Officer Darren Wilson of black 18-year-old cigar thief Michael Brown set in motion a chain of events culminating in a de facto black takeover of the St. Louis Police Department and brawls during city council meetings. It seems strangely fitting these events are taking place just as the American Main Stream Media uneasily commemorates D. W. Griffith seminal movie, The Birth of a Nation, [Watch it here] which premiered 100 years ago tonight (February 8) [‘Writing History With Lightning': The Birth of a Nation at 100, by Rachel Janik, Time, February 8, 2015].
Black St. Louis Aldermen, led by Terry Kennedy, have been pushing for a police oversight board to investigate so-called police misconduct for more than a decade. Of course, the real reason is that black men like Brown and the late VonDerrit Myers frequently engage in unlawful actions requiring police to use deadly force.
In Myers’s case, his family claimed the 9 mm he pointed at a police officer was nothing more than a sandwich [VonDerrit Myers Jr.’s family responds to police version of fatal shooting, St. Louis American, by Rebecca Rives, October 16, 2014]. As with Michael Brown and the footage that emerged of him stealing cigars, in the case of VonDerrit Myers pictures on social media accounts soon emerged of him brandishing his (stolen) 9mm pistol [Vonderrit Myers, Jr. showed off his guns before shooting, by Chris Hayes Fox2Now, October 13, 2014].
But with St. Louis being a 49 percent black city, the black aldermen aren’t happy to see white cops like Darren Wilson being found innocent of wrongdoing by grand juries. The idea behind a civilian review board is to make sure that any future Darren Wilsons will not be allowed to escape.
We got a look at how this would play out with a hearing held in St. Louis on the civilian review board. During the hearing, Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the city’s police union, attempted to speak on the dangers of a civilian oversight board. Roorda is a Democrat, but he is also a white man who was wearing an “I am Darren Wilson” bracelet.
Thus, when he attempted to speak, an unidentified black person in attendance shouted, “You white supremacist mother****er. Get the f*** out of here” [St. Louis Meeting on Cop Oversight Erupts into Brawl: ‘White Supremacist Motherf*cker’, by Evan McMurry Mediate, January 29, 2015].
A brawl immediately ensued:
But the crowd became unsettled when police officers began testifying in opposition to the bill. At times, Alderman Terry Kennedy, who chairs the committee, struggled to keep order. The noise in the room spiked as police officers attempted to testify.
At that point, Jeff Roorda, the business manager of the city’s police union, stood and called for order. Roorda was wearing a wristband in support of Darren Wilson, a former Ferguson police officer whose fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown last summer sparked months of civic unrest.
After Roorda stood up, the crowd grew louder.
“Excuse me, first of all, you do not tell me my function,” responded Kennedy, who has championed the issue of civilian review for more than a decade.
Standing in the aldermanic hearing room packed with people shoulder-to-shoulder beneath a ceiling painted with allegorical images of Western democracy [PK: my emphasis], Roorda shouted back at Kennedy.
Others began yelling, then pushing and shoving as officers struggled to maintain control. Some in the crowd scrambled to leave the packed room, which has only two exits.
The commotion lasted for about 15 minutes until order was restored.
[Public hearing on civilian review board for St. Louis police erupts in chaos, by Nicholas J.C. Pistor St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 28, 2015].
The St. Louis brawl, taking place “beneath a ceiling painted with allegorical images of Western democracy,” is a reminder of not only the fragility of race relations in America, but of the unmentionable fact that the scenes portrayed in the movie are just as pertinent today.
And as the civilian oversight board looks to become a reality, there is every sign that things will only get worse. Roorda himself predicted that white officers will quit the department or do only the bare minimum on patrol if the city creates the kind of civilian oversight board currently being proposed.” As he put it,
“They’d answer their calls when they got them, but as far as interrupting criminal behavior on their own, why in the world would they do that when their employers aren’t even supporting them?” Roorda said.
“They would be incredibly reluctant to do their jobs and St. Louis would be a much more dangerous place than it is now. Nobody wants to be the next Darren Wilson”
[Civilian oversight board appears headed for passage, despite police union opposition, by Nicholas J. C. Pistor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 30, 2015].
Why doesn’t anyone want to be the next Darren Wilson? The answer lies in the continuing importance of Birth of a Nation and the ability of the MSM to create reality. Steve Sailer’s concept of the “megaphone” only begins to explain the ability of the MSM to shape the very consciousness and political realities of entire societies.
Think about it this way: prior to February 8, 1915, “the megaphone” was a newspaper. With Birth of a Nation, “the megaphone” evolved.
The Birth of a Nation was a brief moment in history when “the megaphone” was controlled by people outside of New York City and Hollywood [“Birth of a Nation” at 100 Years Old, by Andrew Joyce, The Occidental Observer, February 6, 2015].
What was the result? Supposedly, according to PBS,
African-American audiences openly wept at the film's malicious portrayal of blacks, while Northern white audiences cheered. The film swept the nation. Riots broke out in major cities (Boston and Philadelphia, among others), and it was denied release in many other places (Chicago, Ohio, Denver, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and Minneapolis). Gangs of whites roamed city streets attacking blacks.
[D.W. Griffith’s Birth of a Nation, by Richard Wormser, PBS]
Of course, today gangs of blacks are already roving across the country and beating white people, as described in books like Colin Flaherty’s ‘White Girl Bleed A Lot.’ And they have much more than one film egging them, on as television and Hollywood executives continually produce shows and movies depicting white people as the perpetual oppressors of blacks.
The commanding heights of the culture also seem eager to promote racial strife, from the loftiest academics to black men of the cloth like the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Thus, it’s not surprising that even the President of the United States sides with black rioters and almost seems to egg them on.
We’re witnessing the birth of a new nation 100 years after Griffth’s film. We can see its birth throes in the riots and fights taking place beneath the “allegorical images of Western democracy” in St. Louis.
And rather than E Pluribus Unum, this new country has its own immortal motto—“You white supremacist mother****er. Get the f**k out of here.”
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Maurice White, founder, producer and co-leader of the legendary R&B group Earth, Wind and Fire, told RollingStone.com today that he is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease. Although the fifty-eight-year-old musician was originally diagnosed with the degenerative neurological disease eight years ago, he opted to keep his condition a secret. But now, with his band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame only a week away, White feels that the time has come to set the record straight.
“I just got tired of not talking about it,” White said. “I had pretty much disappeared from the scene; a lot of people had not seen me in a long time, and they started wondering what was happening.”
Indeed, rumors about White’s ill health have swirled throughout the music industry since 1995, when he announced that he would no longer tour or perform with the group, which is best known for such hits as “Shining Star” and “After the Love Has Gone.” But White, who is currently hard at work on finishing Earth, Wind and Fire’s twenty-third album (due late summer from Refugee Camp/Sony), insists that Parkinson’s was only one of the motivating factors for his retirement from the road.
“With Parkinson’s, you do need more rest,” White explained. “But part of it was the everyday travails of the road — I’d been on the road for thirty years, and it just gets to you, you know? It was really just time for a change, so I built a recording studio and started to work on my label [Kalimba Records], which was something I needed to do anyway.”
Parkinson’s disease is a non-fatal neurological disease that affects the part of the brain that produces the vital chemical dopamine; sufferers typically experience bodily tremors, stiff joints and muscles, or have difficulty moving. Though a cure is currently still as baffling as the cause, the symptoms can be effectively controlled and minimized through the use of medication.
White first noticed tremors in his hands during the late Eighties, but continued to tour and perform with Earth, Wind and Fire after being diagnosed with the disease. “I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson’s,” he said. “I was treating it with medication then, and I still have it under control. It’s not taking anything away from me.”
White, who expects to join his bandmates onstage at the Hall of Fame ceremonies, has been talking with the National Parkinson Foundation about helping to raise funds to battle the disease, which currently afflicts nearly 1.5 million Americans, including actor Michael J. Fox and boxing great Muhammad Ali. “We’re figuring out some stuff that I can do for them,” said White of the Foundation. “They’re really trying to help increase awareness, and they’re working really hard. I think they’ll have a cure within five years.” | <urn:uuid:04f8a580-a1d1-4482-b55d-3b6248d892dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/earth-wind-and-fire-founder-stricken-with-parkinsons-disease-243722/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.983252 | 655 | 1.53125 | 2 |
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Probiotics were first introduced as a functional ingredient in whole grains, dairy products, and snacks. They initially skeptical of ingesting live bacteria, their benefits far outweighed any reserves, leading to rapid sales of probiotics at Healtheries.
Most people who take probiotic supplements/drinks do so solely for digestive health. It also increases the colonization of beneficial bacteria in the gut and limits the spread of pathogenic bacteria.
Consumer interest in probiotic products and nutritional supplements continues to grow as research shows their benefits Probiotics are unknown to many and offer health benefits in addition to supporting digestive health.
Recent studies have shown that certain strains of probiotics can be used to treat certain diseases. It has also many benefits that have scientific support:
As part of a regular healthy diet, probiotics can support the immune system and relieve disease. Immune cells are certainly stimulated by probiotics. This can help prevent respiratory and stomach infections in children, as well as skin infections.
Probiotics can be used to improve oral health by preventing tooth decay, especially in children. Although this concept is relatively new, scientific support suggests that probiotic therapy may have a future for oral health.
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Hi Guys, Philip English here from RoboPhil.com. In this video, we are looking at the Laevo Exoskeleton and see what comes inside the box.
The Laevo is a wearable chest and back support that adapt to every posture. Everywhere you go you can lean against the chest pad. The Laevo transfers force from the rest to the thighs. Due to the leverage the force on your chest is 10 times less than what your spine or back muscles have to endure. Every time you experience pressure, your back is saved.
Unboxing Laevo Exoskeleton
Alright, guys! Now, let’s see the unboxing or this time an un-bagging. So, let’s take it out. This is a one-piece unit. There it is. So, let’s see what we have, we have a seat belts or system here have to figure that out we’ve got to some pads for the legs and I guess that’s pads for the bottom and this must be the hydraulic spring that the guys talking about where all the actual weight goes, but there is fresh out the box this is a small weight version of it. I believe there is a few different versions and you’ll see, you can have many different types of sizes for depending on the user and the applications.
Right! So, that’s what we’ll see, you see what else we have in the bag. Let’s put this little fellow down here for a second and we’ve got some instructions so this is just the guide of how to use the Laevo, how to set up and put in your Laevo, which going to go into the next video and this is what we get you laid out. Alright! let’s pick it up properly and instructions.
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Which insects are present on a human corpse has been of great interest to detectives and pathologists for many years because it helps them to establish the time of death of a deceased person. One of the earliest researchers in this area (a subject that is part of the wider field of “Forensic Entomology” – Box 6.1) was Jean Pierre Mégnin (1828–1905), a French veterinarian and entomologist. He published many articles and books on his research, especially on the succession of insects that occurs on corpses. One of the main conclusions from his research was that unburied corpses experienced eight waves of insect succession. This illustrates nicely what we’d expect following our studies of corpse microbiology – the environment of the corpse is largely responsible for dictating which insects can live there. In other words, the timing of the appearance of different insects on a corpse is another example of ecological succession. But how do insects know when a corpse is suitable for them? This is largely due to their ability to detect particular chemicals produced by the corpse at the different stages of decomposition. When the corpse is above ground, its appearance and colour are additional indications of its suitability for colonisation by a particular type of insect. | <urn:uuid:d487b42e-05be-4109-825e-7c7b607076a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-83036-6_6?error=cookies_not_supported&code=4b7df69f-f341-484e-89d5-5c47a19295e5 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969414 | 253 | 4.0625 | 4 |
On May 22, students at both Quest Forward Academies in Omaha and Santa Rosa participated in the 2019 Gallery Walk, the first such event of its kind. This virtual event, held as a real-time video conference, provided students with the opportunity to showcase and celebrate the artifacts they produced this year. The Gallery Walk connected the two Academy campuses, bringing together students, mentors, Opportunity Education team members (curriculum directors, managers, and quest designers), as well as other interested guests.
Students presented the artifacts they created and talked about the skills associated with each artifact. Not only did they represent a wide array of subjects and interests, but they also practiced and demonstrated their creative abilities and communication skills. Each Academy selected 10-12 students to present within a specific time frame. Because Academy students are at the core of the Opportunity Education mission, this event provided a forum for students to come into contact with the wider OE community and to celebrate their accomplishments.
“As I was watching this live, the quality of the work the students were showing was striking to me. Really impressive for 9th and 10th graders. Just as impressive, I think, was their ability to articulate why they produced their artifacts — why they chose to do what they did. They are mature, confident, capable presenters at 9th and 10th grade. They were reflective about their own strengths and limitations, spoke to how they could grow further and revise their work product to be even better, and talked about the habits and skills they gained while creating this work. It was incredible to see.”
– Manuel Mattke, President and COO, Opportunity Education
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230. Editorial Note
After his meeting with Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin on May 24, 1971, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs Henry Kissinger sent a special channel message to Ambassador to West Germany Kenneth Rush in Bonn with the following instructions on his linkage strategy:
“We would like to keep the Berlin talks and SALT in some sort of balance. This means that we want to make progress in Berlin and show good faith. At the same time, we want to keep open some recourse for the contingency that the Soviets go back on the understanding with the President regarding SALT. This may not be manageable because we do want to keep the Berlin talks moving forward for other reasons. So perhaps my only useful advice is to avoid being stampeded into too rapid a pace.” (National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Kissinger Office Files, Box 59, Country Files, Europe, Ambassador Rush, Berlin, Vol. 1 [1 of 2])
On May 28 Rush reported by special channel that the second meeting of the “Bonn triangle” the night before had “proceeded in the same amicable, cooperative manner as our previous one.” According to Rush, Soviet Ambassador Falin not only was “thoroughly familiar” with the subject but also had “full authorization” to negotiate an agreement. After providing details from the discussion, Rush replied to the strategic concerns Kissinger raised in his last message: “It is very difficult to say to what degree the Berlin talks can by synchronized with SALT. Judging by Falin’s approach yesterday, there is a fair probability that the Berlin talks [will] move ahead quite rapidly by virtue of the Russians [Page 682] taking an easy position on all the remaining issues.” (Ibid.) Both messages are printed in full in Foreign Relations, 1969–1976, volume XL, Germany and Berlin, Documents 241 and 244.
The White House, meanwhile, also reconsidered its position on trade restrictions with the Kremlin. In a May 24 memorandum to Kissinger, Ernest Johnston of the National Security Council staff delivered a status report on several export control cases, including the application of the Gleason Works of Rochester, New York, to sell truck manufacturing machinery to the Soviet Union. Although the initial application had been rejected in September 1970, the company had been pressing the Nixon administration to reconsider. “[I]f the President wishes to use relaxation of export controls as a signal to respond to the arms control developments,” Johnston explained, “we are in a good position to have some cases move very fast.” (National Archives, Nixon Presidential Materials, NSC Files, Box 402, Subject Files, Trade, Vol. IV [2 of 2]) During a telephone conversation with Secretary of Commerce Stans on May 25, Kissinger reported: “If you will send the Gleason case over now we will approve it.” In addition to Gleason, Stans agreed to forward several of the “least sensitive” export control licenses for Kissinger’s approval. (Ibid., Henry Kissinger Telephone Conversation Transcripts, Box 10, Chronological File) Johnston advised Kissinger on May 26 that Stans had not only resubmitted the Gleason case but also forwarded $30–40 million in additional applications. According to Johnston, the Department of Commerce understood that, due to the sensitivity of the issue, “it should make no dramatic announcements when these projects are approved and there should be no public linking with any improvements in U.S./Soviet relations.” (Ibid., NSC Files, Box 402, Subject Files, Trade, Vol. IV [2 of 2]) | <urn:uuid:98e7c3a1-3f58-498d-86ae-a8c62f45e547> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1969-76v13/d230 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949605 | 759 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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Every winter, hundreds of cats are treated for ethylene glycol toxicity. Although ethylene glycol is used primarily in antifreeze, it also can be found in cosmetics, paints and snow globe toys. Cats, other animals and children are attracted to ethylene glycol because of its sweet taste.
Antifreeze usually is found in sheds and garages, but sometimes can leak under cars, where cats often hide. Ethylene glycol causes acute kidney failure and death. It is highly toxic and only a small amount needs to be ingested to be fatal. Less than half a tablespoon can be lethal to a 10-pound cat. Cats typically develop symptoms of ethylene glycol toxicity within 30 minutes, and their kidneys can stop functioning within 6 hours of ingestion.
In order to decrease the number of poisonings, manufactures have developed safer antifreeze products containing propylene glycol or methanol–instead of ethylene glycol. To keep your cats, neighborhood cats and wildlife safe, do the following:
If you think your cat has been exposed, time is of the essence. Take your cat to your veterinarian or the nearest emergency clinic for immediate treatment. Any delay in treatment can be fatal.
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Excerpt from the eBook "IBM i Security: Event Logging & Active Monitoring - A Step By Step Guide."
Active monitoring and log collection are at the top of the list of effective security controls. IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) users have to solve some special challenges to implement this critical security control. The IBM i server is a rich source of security information. Unlike many Windows and Linux server deployments the IBM i platform can host a complex mix of back-office applications, web applications, and open source applications and services. For convenience we will address these various log sources in terms of primary sources and secondary sources. Primary sources should be given priority in your implementation processes, as the most critical events are likely to be found in primary event sources.
IBM Security Audit Journal QAUDJRN
When configured properly the IBM i server records a wide variety of security events in the security journal QAUDJRN. Events such as password failures, network authentication failures, failed SSL and TLS network negotiations, application and database authority failures, and many others go straight into the security audit journal QAUDJRN. This would naturally be the first focus of your event monitoring strategy. We discuss the setup and configuration of the QAUDJRN journal below.
System History File QHST
The system history message file QHST (actually a collection of files that start with the name QHST) is also a repository of important security information. All job start, job termination, and abnormal job termination events are recorded in the QHST files. Additionally, important operational messages are written to QHST files and should be collected and monitored.
The IBM i operating system provides a number of “hooks” for network and other services on the IBM i platform. These hooks are referred to as exit points. IBM i customers or vendors can write applications that collect information and register them for the exit points. Once registered an exit point monitoring application can collect information on a wide variety of activities. These include information on inbound and outbound FTP sessions, TCP sockets activity, network authentication, administrative commands through Operations navigator, and many other core operating system services. A good active monitoring strategy should collect information from exit points and pass the information to the centralized log collection server.
Most IBM i customers do not deploy the server as a primary web server, but selected web applications and services are often incorporated into a customer’s primary web deployment. The IBM i supports a rich set of web server platforms including IBM Websphere, PHP, Perl, Python, and traditional HTML/CGI services. When web applications are deployed on an IBM i server they are a target for traditional attacks. Web logs should be included in your event collection and monitoring strategy.
Open Source Applications
For some years IBM has been bringing a wide variety of open source applications to the IBM i platform. This includes applications like OpenSSH with Secure Copy (sCP), Secure FTP (sFT) and remote command shell. Many other application frameworks have
been added like Perl, PHP, and Python. All of these applications provide entry points and potential points of compromise for attackers. If you deploy these types of solutions you should enabled and collect their logs.
System and Applications Messages in QSYSMSG AND QSYSOPR
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This value system of J. Although core values and beliefs held by society are quite persistent, secondary cultural values are more open to change. Through our commitment to quality, constant innovation and respect for the planet, we aim to exceed expectations and be rewarded with a smile.
Newspapers once carried many pages of job adverts but now this business is conducted by online recruitment companies such as Seek. Technological environment Toyota must be aware of and keep up with the technological environment which includes the forces that create new technologies, creating new product and market opportunities.
Toyota has responded to this by introducing the Toyota Prius onto the market.
Toyota dealt with their customers by setting up website to educate the customers about the Toyota Prius. In order of a company to be successful in the market place a competitors most grain a competitive advantage over its competitors.
Tight lending conditions, government regulations and competition are some of the external factors that affect virtually BOC bank. A cutthroat culture where every employee competes with one another creates a different environment from a company that emphasizes collaboration and teamwork.
The Multinational Corporation The Internal Environment An organization's internal environment is composed of the elements within the organization, including current employees, management, and especially corporate culture, which defines employee behavior.
The value system of an organisation means the ethical beliefs that guide the organisation in achieving its Management internal external factors and objective. Proper ethical behavior is generally demonstrated and facilitated by top- level manager as a working example for other employees to adopt and cultivate within the organization.
Due to its value system a business firm may refuse to produce or distribute liquor for it may think morally wrong to promote the consumption of liquor. Tata, the founder of Tata group of industries, was its self-imposed moral obligation to adopt morally just and fair business policies and practices which promote the interests of consumers, employees, shareholders and society at large.
Information, facilities, machinery equipment, materials, supplies, and finances are supporting, nonhuman resources that complement workers in their quests to accomplish the organization's mission statement.
In some others share-holding pattern is quite diversified among the public. Tips External factors that affect a business include competition and the economy. It explains the overall purpose of the organization and includes the attributes that distinguish it from other organizations of its type.
When your cash resources are too limited, it affects the number of people you can hire, the quality of your equipment, and the amount of advertising you can buy. While it is practically impossible to control forces outside the business like world economic conditions and capital availability, management must guide and inspire internal operations to ensure a competitive position in the marketplace.
Another proven strategy for forcing a competitor out of the market to gain market share is to temporarily price a product or service artificially low. The hourly workers are not the only ones seeing these cutbacks, several prenominal FedEx Freight offices will be reducing their personnel and salaries by 7.
With technology these days watching over or supervising a group, ever over a vast area, is not that difficult. Climate change Climate change is an insidious threat because the pace of change may be recognisable only if considered on a decade-by-decade basis.
On the other hand, some things can be easier to get by management, like time working on a project, than if it was all in one building. With the invention of video conferencing and things like databases and dashboards, managers are able to see and control a wide variety of things.
Customers Customers are anyone who buys or rents from the company.
Leading can be another way that this can be advantageous because a manager can really play on the emotions of their diverse employees by really respecting their beliefs and morals so that the manager can gain respect. Factor 2 Mission and Objectives: With the global market expanding annually, exchange rates can encourage or discourage business growth.
Toyota studies their customers and saw that they wanted a car with better fuel consumption and as a result Toyota decided to make the Prius, their first hybrid car. Just as each person has a distinct personality, so does each organization.
The manager may pay little attention to the technical details of the job done by a group and encourage group cooperation in the interests of a company. When an organisation is a for-profit business that operates in a very competitive environment, its organisation structure may help or hinder the ability of the organisation to react to change.
As a result, among lower level managers and workers there is no sense of belongingness to the company.
When guided properly, an empowered workforce may lead to heightened productivity and quality, reduced costs, more innovation, improved customer service, and greater commitment from the employees of the organization.
Labour unions are other factor determining internal environment of a firm. Globalization is another one of the major factors that can influence the way that a company manages itself.
On the contrary, in an open and participatory culture, business decisions are taken at lower levels of management, and top management has a high degree of trust and confidence in the subordinates.
When interest rates are high, and capital is expensive to borrow, businesses may stop expanding. Within the walls or more correctly the parameters of this flat company, teams are made up of members with equal authority and certain level of autonomy is maintained.
This analogy can not be more evident than with or organization, Google; founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in while still at Stanford pursuing graduate degrees. Organisation structure means such things as composition of board of directors, the number of independent directors, the extent of professional management and share -holding pattern.
SWOT Analysis is an universal analytical technique focusing on the evaluation of internal and external factors affecting the success of a organization or any other evaluated system.
Most often, SWOT analysis is used in the strategic management of an organization in the evaluation of a strategic intention. 1. THEORETICAL BACKGROUND It is widely acknowledged that internal and external factors are important determinants of human resources management policies and.
INTERNAL & EXTERNAL FACTORS 3 Otherwise globalization can have a negative impact on the planning, organizing, leading, and controlling aspects of management.
Technology Technology is an internal factor that causes management to evaluate the four functions of management carefully. The internal analysis of your organization should include its culture, expertise, resources, and unique qualities within the market place. The extent to which your organization could adapt to changing circumstances is also a factor that needs to be considered.
These factors are classified as internal and external. Later in the project, we have tried to come up with a framework which tries to simplify the market entry decision process for a firm.
We analyze all the factors and try to find out the combinations which are suited to different modes of entry. Internal and external factors have a huge effect on the success or failure of a business. Business owners can’t control external factors, but they must be able to anticipate and adjust to these factors to keep their organizations on track.
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This essay entails a research paper on Community health simulation and the procedures of epidemiology and health determinants. Community health simulation helps to identify the causes, extent and control of any disease or infection occurences in any place.
Community health simulation epidemiology and health determinants
Firstly, acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized. In this task, you will engage in a Community Health simulation to gather information about a virtual community. Sentinel CityTM Community Health Simulation is a virtual city developed by Healthcare Learning Innovations to represent what you may find in any real United States city. You will be able to take a virtual bus trip and/or walk around the city while observing the environment and people of Sentinel CityTM.
Also, through your observations, you will gather information to assess potential health issues and risks within this online virtual learning environment. You will assess different factors that may contribute to or detract from the health and wellness of the community and its citizens.
Furthermore, your keen observations will be the foundation to successfully completing assignments within your course. The simulation website will automatically log your hours and produce a special report at the end of each session. Be sure to have a notepad to record your observations of Sentinel CityTM in preparation for this task.
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Augmented reality is increasingly being used in scholarly publishing — in expected and unexpected ways. Learn how Springer Nature has been experimenting with it in this interview with their Senior Manager of Semantic Data, Markus Kaindl, and Head of Innovation, Martijn Roelandse.
As 2009 ends, its trends will propel change into 2010 and beyond.
Do stickers point to integrated data in the real-world? Or is augmented reality easier to accomplish? What could data integrated into the real world mean to science and research?
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Energy systems based on fuel cells technology can have a strategic role in the range of small-size power generation for the sustainable energy development. In order to enhance their performance, it is possible to recover the “waste heat” from the fuel cells, for producing or thermal power (cogeneration systems) or further electric power by means of a bottoming power cycle (combined systems). In this work an advanced system based on the integration between a HT-PEMFC (high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell) power unit and an ORC (organic Rankine cycle) plant, has been proposed and analysed as suitable energy power plant for supplying electric and thermal energies to a stand-alone residential utility. The system can operate both as cogeneration system, in which the electric and thermal loads are satisfied by the HT-PEMFC power unit and as electric generation system, in which the low temperature heat recovered from the fuel cells is used as energy source in the ORC plant for increasing the electric power production. A numerical model, able to characterize the behavior and to predict the performance of the HT-PEMFC/ ORC system under different working conditions, has been developed by using the AspenPlusTM code.
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It has been over one and a half years since the global pandemic, and our professional world has physically and literally invaded our homes. The demarcation between our homes, schools, and offices has vanished, clubbing them into a single entity operating under one roof. Owing to the pandemic, we are caught up in the web of multi-tasking, parallelly managing our households and jobs, striving to achieve a balance in schedules, only to notice that we spend almost eight to ten hours per day in front of the laptop/computer screens and our physical fitness has gone for a toss. Poor posture, sleep deprivation and lessened energy levels, lack of physical activities and stretching, and improper hydration have impacted our general and physical fitness during the pandemic and given rise to exhaustion and fatigue.
The wellness webinar session conducted by CecureUs with fitness expert Mr. Avinash has enlightened the audience on the need for physical fitness and activities to achieve physical fitness during the pandemic and the correct postures to maintain during work-from-home times.
Physical fitness is the state of well-being that helps us perform our day-to-day activities with minimal exhaustion. According to Wikipedia, physical fitness can be obtained by proper nutrition and hydration, moderate to strenuous exercises, and adequate rest. The global pandemic and the continuous work-from-home culture have crashed the physical fitness of many, no denying it. But how many of us have understood the depth of the issue and have taken steps to overcome it?
If you are one of those who do not know the impact of the lack of physical activities and have not taken that first step to physical fitness during the pandemic, act now. Because this is the right time to change your lifestyle, incorporate activities to raise your energy levels to achieve that physical fitness.
One of the primary reasons for low energy levels is the lack of oxygen supply to various body parts. Posture directly impacts the blood supply to organs and physical fitness. The dictionary definition of posture is how or in what position a person holds their body while sitting, standing, or moving. Our human body is designed with symmetry to achieve equilibrium and proper blood circulation throughout the body, which is prime to physical fitness. Essentially, our spine should always be erect, and our body should be aligned with it for physical fitness. Poor postures like drooping shoulders, forward head, hunching spine, or bent knees disturb the balance of the body and lead to improper weight distribution and pressure on the spinal cord and limbs, leading to a lack of energy and several issues, including disc compression, nerve pinch, joint discomfort, and many more. One of the impacts of the pandemic and the continuous work-from-home culture is that, along with other physical activities, posture has gone for a toss.
Tips to achieve the correct posture while working with systems:
- Every few minutes, consciously and cautiously watch out and correct the posture by aligning the limbs, neck, and hips with the spine.
- Maintain ergonomics by using chairs and tables with proper lumbar support, feet and hand support, and correct viewing angles and distance for the eyes, neck, and shoulders to relax.
- Avoid prolonged sitting as it leads to diminished physical fitness, discomfort, and pain due to modified postures, herniated discs due to excess pressure on the spine, reduced thoracic and hip mobilities, and reduced blood circulation to lower limbs.
- Practicing yoga postures regularly, like Svanasana, Sarvangasana, Upavishta konasana, and Buddha konasana, helps correct postures and ups the physical fitness game.
Mobility is the active movement of our limbs achieved by flexing our respective joints. Our lifestyles and comfort achieved through modern-day appliances have impacted our flexibility to a great extent. Repeatedly practicing stretching exercises of the whole body, investing 15 minutes in a day for the same, can improve the range of motion of various body muscles and helps us achieve flexibility.
How does mobility help?
Mobility helps in physical fitness by keeping our body active and aids in correcting postures. The more we move, the more flexible we become. Most of us who adhere to an active lifestyle take up walking as an everyday habit. But walking should not be confined to the one-hour early morning or evening walks. One should walk about 10000 to 12000 steps a day by distributing the steps throughout the day. This helps immensely in avoiding prolonged sitting and its associated health risks. One of the best ways to achieve physical fitness, energy spike, and mobility during the pandemic would be to take a brisk 2-minute walk every now and then and between work. Stretching the spine, neck, hands, and legs frequently aids in improved blood circulation throughout the body, especially for those working for long hours with laptops/computers during this pandemic.
Many of us believe that eating well leads to an increased energy level. However, we need to deeply understand our energy and how it manifests itself to help our mobility and physical fitness. Our energy levels are proportional to the nutrient content of our bodies. To feel energetic and active, we should maintain an above-average nutrient level by consuming a healthy balanced diet. Our human body is a hub of fuel reserve. But for that energy to be released appropriately, physical activities are a must. Yoga, running, walking, cycling, dancing, etc…, are a few physical activities. So, a balanced diet combined with an active lifestyle boosts our metabolism and makes us feel physically fit and active. Physical activities, breathing, hydration, and emotional wellness contribute to fitness. Breathing should always be diaphragmatic and not shallow. Drinking 3 litres of water every day keeps us well hydrated. Mindfulness and a stress-free lifestyle can be achieved through yoga, physical activities, and meditation.
Here are the responses of Mr. Avinash to the audience questionnaire.
How do we achieve correct posture during this pandemic, with the furniture available at home?
Mr. Avinash: You must invest in a chair that provides good lumbar support. However, be aware of your posture at all times. Your feet should be placed on the ground, and you should maintain the correct angle with the keyboard and monitor. Avoid cushiony chairs and sofas, and opt for hard ones to support correct postures.
How to maintain an above-average nutrient level for good energy?
Mr. Avinash: Nutrition levels are subjective to every individual. Take the help of a nutritionist to access your diet. Incorporate more fruits and vegetables to get the micronutrients needed by the body. We should Plugin the nutrition gap by opting for plant-based supplements if required.
I follow intermittent fasting, but I don’t have an exercise regimen. Will I still lose weight?
Mr. Avinsh: Intermittent fasting helps our body function efficiently with the available energy, and it is beneficial to rid the body of its toxins. However, for weight loss, it is not a long-term solution. Weight loss by intermittent fasting depends on how overweight the individual is, and it differs from one person to another. An individual who is 25kgs overweight cannot achieve the ideal weight by intermittent fasting alone.
Can sitting in Vajrasan be beneficial?
Mr. Avinash: Sitting in Vajrasan temporarily reduces the blood supply to the lower body, which leads to an increased blood supply to the abdominal region. So, sitting in Vajrasana post-heavy meal can help in digestion and metabolism. In general, all yoga postures help physical fitness.
I feel worn out after exercise rather than feeling energetic. How can I overcome this?
Mr. Avinash: Strenuous exercise can be tiring. But if you feel tired with regular training like a 20-minute treadmill or an hour walking, your nutrition quotient and hydration are low. You have to bring up your micronutrients by consuming a balanced diet.
How to bring our gut health back on track?
Mr. Avinash: Gut imbalance can be corrected by consuming a variety of fiber-rich foods. Include more herbs like thyme, basil, mint, etc., in your diet. Stay hydrated and avoid overly spicy foods that will harm the good bacteria in the gut. As much as possible, bypass stress and adapt ways to overcome and tackle emotional issues.
Habits are not a finish line to be crossed; they are a lifestyle to be lived – James Clear.
Physical fitness is a habit to be cultivated rather than a goal to be achieved. So get started today! Let us utilize this pandemic work-from-home as an opportunity to progress towards physical and mental fitness.
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Recorder in the Classroom/Beginning Instrumental Music
Available for graduate credit under course number: MUSC 691 – Seminar in Music Education (3 credits)
Date & Time: July 9 – July 20; Monday through Friday 8:30 am to 4:30 pm
Instructors: Mr. Terrence Bacon, Churchville-Chili High School, Churchville, NY and Dr. Jennifer McDonel, Radford University
Instrumental Music - Overview
Instrumental Music Level 1 Professional Development Course (PDLC) is based on contemporary experimental and practical research in Music Learning Theory, audiation, and beginning instrumental music instruction. Fundamental to the program is the belief that a music instrument is an extension of the human mind and body. In other words, singing in tune and moving one’s body in consistent tempo are prerequisite to playing in tune, and performing rhythmically and expressively on a music instrument. Students learn two instruments: 1) audiation instrument (instrument in the head) and 2) executive skill instrument (instrument in the hands). Certification faculties focus on teaching performance on an instrument that is an extension of audiation.
Level One PDLC
Level One PDLC consists of two parts: 1) Study of Music Learning Theory and 2) Practical Application of Music Learning Theory for instrumental instruction. Teachers gain an understanding of how students learn music and how to uncover individual differences among students during Study of Music Learning Theory.
Teachers learn to teach students through Jump Right In: The Instrumental Series for Recorder, in Practical Application of Music Learning Theory. Students who use the series begin to perform and improvise with their voice and instrument without notation. Through an emerging process similar to learning language, students continue to play by ear and improvise while learning to read and write notation with comprehension. As a result, they are motivated to continue performing on an instrument with enjoyment and impressive musicianship. They become intelligent music makers during and beyond their formal education.
This course is intended to help you:
o Understand a sequential approach to teaching recorder or beginning instrumental music through audiation development
o Develop teaching skills that honor the ways students learn music
o Understand and teach to individuals’ musical and developmental learning differences
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On Friday, a putative class action against Kraft over the alleged presence of phthalates in its Kraft Macaroni & Cheese products was transferred from the Northern District of California to the Northern District of Illinois — joining an Illinois suit with similar allegations. Similar cases filed in Massachusetts and New York may similarly be transferred to Illinois.
The suit transferred from California (Clarke v. The Kraft Heinz Co.) was filed in April 2021, alleging that Kraft’s Macaroni & Cheese products have contained ortho-phthalates (more commonly known as “phthalates”), which are synthetic chemicals that are used to make plastics flexible — and “can migrate into food products during processing, packaging, and preparation.” Plaintiffs allege that because phthalates are endocrine disruptors, they can increase the risk of cancers, increase likelihood of asthma, allergies, bronchial obstruction, obesity, brain development, motor delays, and behavioral problems.
In 2006, the California complaint notes that the European Union “banned the use of certain phthalates in toys that may be placed in the mouth by children younger than 3 years old.” And in 2008, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act banned certain phthalates from children’s toys and child-care products as of February 2009.
The Clarke plaintiffs allege that “eight of the nine Kraft Macaroni & Cheese products tested” contained phthalates — and powdered-cheese samples contained “average phthalate levels … more than four times higher … than in hard blocks and other natural cheese.”
The two claims at issue in the California case are breach of implied warranty under California law, as well as fraud.
The California suit was filed just one day before a similar action in the Northern District of Illinois, Stuve v. The Kraft Heinz Co., No. 1:21-cv-01845. In June 2021, Kraft moved to transfer the California case to the Northern District of Illinois, prompting plaintiffs to amend their complaint to represent a California class only.
But on September 8, Judge Richard Seeborg granted Kraft’s motion to transfer the case, holding that both “private factors” and “public factors” weighed in favor of transfer, and “[t]he public factors scale is thus tipped most strongly by the possibility of consolidation, which weighs heavily in favor of transfer because the Stuve action is already pending in the Northern District of Illinois.” Those other, similar cases include Francione v. Kraft Heinz Foods Co. (D. Mass.) and Tarantino v. The Kraft Heinz Co. (E.D.N.Y.). The California court also noted that “Kraft asserts it is ‘in the process of seeking to transfer all of these cases’ to the Northern District of Illinois.”
The California court also noted that given the presence of Stuve in Illinois — and the potential that Francione, Tarantino and other similar cases might also be transferred there — could permit “disposition of two, or potentially four, cases revolving around the alleged presence of phthalates in Kraft Macaroni & Cheese [that] will be coordinated in some way.” | <urn:uuid:e04725ea-6bc5-439e-b8c2-047c8dd740ab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://lawstreetmedia.com/news/agriculture/class-action-against-over-mac-cheese-and-phthalates-transferred-to-n-d-illinois/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943716 | 671 | 1.59375 | 2 |
The oral menin inhibitor SNDX-5613 (Syndax Pharmaceuticals) demonstrated promising antileukemic activity and an acceptable safety profile in patients with heavily pretreated acute leukemias with specific genetic mutations, according to results from phase 1 of the AUGMENT-101 trial (NCT04065399).
Overall, more than half of patients with mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL) rearrangements or NPM1-mutant (mNPM1) leukemia responded to the drug. The overall response rate was 55%, observed in 28 of 51 efficacy-evaluable patients. To date, nine responding patients have proceeded to allogeneic stem cell transplant. (1)
On December 13, 2021, I presented these results at the American Society of Hematology’s Annual Meeting and Exposition on behalf of my colleagues from eight collaborating cancer centers. Based on these encouraging findings, we are now testing the drug in phase 2 of the AUGMENT-101 trial among expanded cohorts of patients with MLL-rearranged acute myeloid leukemia (AML), MLL-rearranged acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), and NPM1-mutant AML.
At MSK, I established the Program for Drug Development in Leukemia (PDD-L) to offer patients the most advanced therapies for acute leukemia, myeloproliferative neoplasms, myelodysplastic syndromes, and chronic myeloid leukemia through participation in phase 1 clinical trials. We partner with the Center for Hematologic Malignancies (CHM), which includes clinical investigators and researchers from the Human Oncology and Pathogenesis Program and the Sloan Kettering Institute. Trialists with expertise in each hematology subspecialty work together with CHM scientists to rapidly translate preclinical science to novel therapies for first-in-human clinical studies.
MLL-Rearranged and NPM1-Mutant Acute Leukemias
MLL rearrangements are found in about 5% to 10% of AML cases and more than 70% of infant ALL. They arise de novo or after exposure to topoisomerase 2 inhibitors like etoposide or, less frequently, anthracyclines. (2)NPM1 mutations in AML are the most frequent genetic abnormalities in adult AML, found in about 35% of cases. NPM1 mutations are far less frequent in children, occurring in about 8% to 10% of AML cases. (3)
MLL-rearranged leukemia is characterized by chromosomal translocations involving the MLL gene on chromosome 11q23. Translocations with 10 or more other genes result in chimeric proteins that form complexes upregulating transcription of the leukemogenic HOX and MEIS1 genes. The protein menin plays an essential role in these complexes, locating them to chromatin. Similarly, in NPM1-mutant AML, an interaction between wild-type MLL protein and menin results in leukemogenic transcription mediated by HOX and MEIS1. (1)
Previously, groundbreaking preclinical models of MLL-rearranged and NPM1-mutant leukemias determined that inhibiting the interaction between MLL and menin downregulated HOX and MEIS1 transcription and reversed the development of leukemia. (4), (5)
The initial research for menin inhibition was initiated at MSK more than five years ago by Scott Armstrong, MD, PhD, formerly Director of our Center for Epigenetics Research who subsequently became Chairman of the Department of Pediatric Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in 2016. (2), (6)Ross Levine, MD, Chief of the Molecular Cancer Medicine Service in MSK’s Human Oncology Pathogenesis Program and Laurence Joseph Dineen Chair in Leukemia Research, also participated in the foundational research.Back to top
Study Design and Results
Our phase 1 study of SNDX-5613 included patients with MLL-rearranged or NPM1-mutant leukemias in two parallel dose-escalation cohorts: those not taking and those taking strong CYP3A4 inhibitors. The primary objectives were to evaluate the safety, maximum tolerable dose, recommended dose to advance to phase 2 study, and the drug’s pharmacokinetic profile. Antileukemic activity and pharmacodynamics were exploratory endpoints. (1)
At the end of October 2021, a total of 59 patients had received at least one dose of the drug, and 10 remained on treatment. The median age of study participants was 47 years. They had received a median of three previous therapies: 42% had previously received venetoclax or transplant. (1)
SNDX-5613 demonstrated dose-proportional pharmacokinetic activity, which increased two- to threefold when administered together with a strong CYP3A4 inhibitor. An assessment of the molecular mechanism of action found that the novel drug disrupted menin binding to chromatin and decreased gene expression associated with leukemia development, consistent with findings established in earlier lab research. (1)
The only dose-limiting toxicities were a grade 3 prolonged QTc interval observed in seven patients (13%), and all were clinically asymptomatic. No ventricular arrhythmias were reported, and no study participants discontinued treatment due to a treatment-related event. Common treatment-related adverse events affecting more than 10% of participants were nausea (27%), vomiting (17%), differentiation syndrome (14%), and diarrhea (12%). (1)
We defined composite complete remission as inclusive of complete remission, complete remission with partial hematologic recovery, complete remission with incomplete platelet recovery, complete remission with incomplete hematologic recovery relative, and a morphologic leukemia-free state. The overall response rate was 61% among patients with MLL-rearranged leukemia (23 of 38 patients) and 38% among those with NPM1-mutant leukemia (3 of 13 patients). (1)
The median time to complete response or complete response with partial hematologic recovery was two months. The median duration of response for patients achieving a complete response or complete response with partial hematologic recovery was not reached.Back to top
Highly Specialized Care
MSK patients participating in PDD-L phase 1 trials receive care from nurses with specialized training within the Developmental Therapeutics Unit in the David H. Koch Center for Cancer Care. Review our list of phase 1 trials currently recruiting at MSK, including the phase 2 trial of SNDX-5613.
For more information or to refer a patient to a PDD-L trial, please call 646-608-3749.Back to top
Learn More About How MSK Is Advancing Leukemia Research and Treatments
MSK researchers recently received a prestigious SPORE (Specialized Programs of Research Excellence) grant from the National Institutes of Health to leverage translational efforts to develop targeted therapies and immunotherapeutic approaches for several molecular subtypes of AML with poor prognoses or no treatment options. Led by physician-scientist Omar Abdel-Wahab, MD, Director of MSK’s CHM and the Edward P. Evans Endowed Chair for Myelodysplastic Syndromes, and Martin Tallman, MD, Chief of the Leukemia Service and the Cassidy Family Endowed Faculty Chair at MSK, the SPORE research team will focus on developing targeted therapies for resistant leukemias and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapies.
The SNDX-5613 trial was funded by Syndax Pharmaceuticals.
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The boondoggle of the week award goes to the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Defense Department.
The Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General (IG) determined “collectively, the DEA and DOD spent more than $86 million to purchase and modify a DEA aircraft with advanced surveillance equipment to conduct operations in the combat environment of Afghanistan, in what became known as the Global Discovery Program. We found that more than 7 years after the aircraft was purchased for the program, it remains inoperable, resting on jacks in Delaware, and has never flown in Afghanistan.”
In a report released Wednesday, the IG delivered a list of problems with the program, including repeated missed deadlines and vastly blown budgets. Even if the plane magically flew tomorrow, it would be too late for the DEA mission in Afghanistan. The agency ended its aviation operations there in July. Now DEA plans to use the aircraft in less hostile places like the Caribbean, Central America and South America, with June being the earliest projected date.
“However, even if they can meet that new target date, DEA and DOD officials estimate that the aircraft will not be completed with all previously agreed-upon modifications,” Christine Hinton-Martinez, leader of an IG team of auditors based in San Francisco, said in a podcast.
Army Lt. Col. Valerie Henderson, a Pentagon spokeswoman, said DOD “eliminated funding for the program in the Fiscal Year 16 budget, however we continue to manage a firm-fixed-price contract that requires the upgraded aircraft be delivered by June of this year.”
When the Federal Insider asked DEA to comment, the response was short boilerplate: “Reviews by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) are necessary and important, and DEA welcomes recommendations that make us better. DEA agrees that it can and should provide better oversight of its operational funding. We are reviewing policies and procedures to ensure the limited resources allocated to DEA are utilized in the most responsible and effective way possible.”
In a more detailed response to the inspector general’s office, DEA pointed its finger at DOD, which supported the program with $29 million.
DEA said it “had previous positive experiences utilizing DoD contractors for modifying DEA aircraft.” The “significant difference” this time was previously “DEA utilized its own funding, and therefore, had the latitude to be more involved in the modification process. Based upon that previous experience, DEA had no indication that the Global Discovery modification would encounter the significant delays and problems that ultimately occurred.”
DEA must have had a clue at some point. The report says the project was to have been finished in December 2012, “but it has missed every intended delivery date that has been established.”
Problems with the project go beyond the delays and cost overruns and start with the airplane’s purchase. The IG said DEA did not fully comply with acquisition regulations and did not consider “the time and cost it would incur to establish an infrastructure of pilots, mechanics, trainers, and spare parts required to operate the aircraft.”
DEA awarded a $1.9 million contract in December 2012 to build a hanger specifically for the ATR 500 at the Kabul International Airport, but the IG said the plane “will most likely never be housed in the hanger.”
By October 2014, DOD officials considered dumping the program, according to the report. About $65.9 million had been spent at that point and another $6 million in repairs was needed.
“Yet, at that time,” said the IG report, “the market value of the ATR 500 was only $6 million.”
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Epson users commonly ask why is my printer printing blank pages, Epson? Today, printers are almost everywhere, in households, offices, and schools. There are several brands in the market, however, Epson ranks among the best.
Epson’s popular for providing the best printing services worldwide. But despite being a top printer brand in the market, Epson has its fair share of flaws. One of the most disappointing issues of the Epson printer is suddenly printing blank pages.
The article has more information about this error and how you can solve them. But first, find out,
Why Is My Printer Printing Blank Pages Epson?
Well, many Epson users experience the issue of blank pages. Several factors can make your Epson print blank pages, such as low ink, print settings, etc. This section mentions the few major factors behind your Epson printer printing blank page.
- Low ink or old ink cartridges
- You haven’t removed the yellow tape from the ink cartridge.
- The printing papers don’t meet the product’s specifications.
- The printer is placed on a tilted base or at an angle. It affects ink flow.
- Incorrect layout, orientation, and paper size settings
- Your document has blank pages.
- Clogged nozzles
- Software issues
- Incorrect cartridge installation
How To Fix The Blank Pages Issue?
The above section mentions the few main factors behind the blank page error. After identifying the specific cause of your Epson printer’s blank page error, it’s time to solve it. Here are the quick and easy fixes to all of the above factors.
1. Clean Your Epson Printer’s Blocked Nozzles and Print Head
If your Epson printer is still printing blank after refilling or changing cartridges, you should check for clogging.
The check is usually straightforward. Command the printer to “print a nozzle check pattern.” You should ensure the LCD isn’t indicating any error before initiating the test. Here are the steps on how to do this test.
- Press the “Home” button and select the “Setup” option.
- Go to “Maintenances” and choose “Print Head Nozzle Check.”
The Epson printer will check the nozzles and print a page. The page will show shaded networks that inform you about the blocked nozzle. If there are several blackout lines or holes, click “Clean the print head” then “Proceed.”
Note that shutting down your Epson printer during the cleaning cycle can harm the printer and the cleaning process. If this fix doesn’t work, contact Epson customer support for help.
In addition, you can’t do the cleaning cycles continuously. The printer has a minimum of 6 hours of rest after cleaning. Repeatedly doing it aggravates your stop-up and uses too much printer ink.
2. Update Your Printer’s Firmware
An outdated firmware version can cause your Epson printer to print blank pages. Therefore updating your Epson firmware can have it functioning smoothly again. There are several ways to update the software.
In Windows 10, click on the “Start” menu, then go to “Epson software updater.” It’s still possible to update the firmware if you haven’t installed the Epson software updater utility. Here are the steps:
- Download the Epson software from their official website. You’ll do this by choosing your printer model from the available list.
- Choose your system updater by clicking on the checkbox and then “Install.”
- Update the firmware by following the instructions on your computer screen.
- After a successful update, click on “Finish.”
This fix is that easy; you can’t have trouble initiating it.
3. Update Your Printer’s Driver
Your Epson printer will only function efficiently with updated drivers. If the drivers you use are wrong or obsolete, it might lead to issues and errors.
The best place to download Epson’s drivers that are compatible with your PC is the Epson website’s support page.
It’ll ask you to enter your operating system and choose compatible drivers. Note that updated printer drivers will prevent your printer from many other issues.
4. Check Your Printer’s Ink Cartridges
There are three conditions you should check on your printer’s ink cartridges. They include:
- Ink level: If your printer has a low ink level, refill the ink cartridges.
- If your ink cartridge is empty, you’ll have to refill it or exchange it with an unused cartridge.
- Suppose the new ink cartridge isn’t working. You should check if it has protective tape and remove it to allow it to evacuate ink. The function of the protective tape is to prevent ink from leaking and protect the print nozzles.
Don’t use a sharp object to remove the tape. It can break or create a hole in the ink cartridge. Be careful of additional tapes or the transparent plastic on your cartridge. Removing them will cause your cartridge to leak or malfunction.
5. Restart The Printer
It’s one of the simplest ways of fixing blank pages error. Restarting your Epson printer shouldn’t be hard, but here are the steps.
- Shut down the printer using the “Power” button.
- Unplug your Epson from the power source and wait for 3 minutes.
- Plug in the printer and turn it on. It should resolve the issue; run a test page to confirm.
6. Skip The Blank Page In Your Document
You can create a document with additional blank pages. However, it’s easy to skip these blank pages from your PC. Here’s how:
- If you use a Windows PC, press the window button.
- Go to “Settings” and then “Devices” and click on “Printers and Scanners.”
- Choose your “Printer” and then “Manage.”
- Go to “Printing Preferences” and skip any blank page in your document.
7. Printing Papers
You might have made a mistake when selecting printing papers by choosing a paper type not supported by your Epson printer. It could make your Epson printer perform tasks unexpectedly.
Therefore always make sure your Epson printer supports the papers you use. Note that Epson doesn’t support vellum and transparent papers.
What Are The Other Common Problems In Epson Printers?
Epson printers are high-performance, reliable, and easy to use until you experience their issues. Despite being a major printer brand, it also has its bad days.
Therefore you should know some common Epson problems and how to fix them. That’s because you’ll have to deal with either of them now and then.
Having this knowledge will help you save some time and money. That’s because you won’t have to contact Epson support or an expert for repairs. Here are some common problems that users face with their Epson printers and how to fix them.
It’s a common problem in Epson printers in busy settings such as offices, where workers print loads of documents.
They might be in a hurry to complete work nearing a deadline or when preparing for meetings. Most of these paper jams are due to paper misalignment.
Therefore always ensure your printing papers are well in the tray. You should also avoid overfilling the tray. However, printers come with guides informing about the right paper amount. For example, the Epson Eco Tank 475o has an ADF (Automatic Document Feeder) with a 30-sheet capacity.
Its paper tray can hold 250 pages. If you read through your printer’s manual, you’ll be able to avoid this issue.
Other than durability, the Epson brand is popular for its speed. The average print speed across all brands is 11-13 PPM (Pages per Minute). The Epson EcoTank line has an average of 15 PPM, which is quite much.
You can increase your print speed by avoiding two-sided printing, commonly known as duplex printing.
However, most of Epson’s printers feature automatic two-sided printing to keep up with its regular print speed. Regardless, flipping papers over to print on both sides will affect the printing time.
Low Ink – Not Printing
It’s not much of a problem; if you’re a printer owner, you’ve been here. Printers do come with a low ink warning feature.
The feature offers low ink alerts hence giving you time to replenish your ink cartridge reserve before it entirely runs out.
However, some Epson models refuse to print when the ink level is low, which is ridiculous. There’s a way to bypass this issue, though.
Amazingly some Epson models don’t utilize ink cartridges. Instead, they have supersized ink tanks which you can easily and quickly fill when low.
Other Epson models have a 2-year worth of ink; thus, you won’t have worries dealing with cartridges. You’ll also save some money during this period.
Do you now have the answers to why is my printer printing blank pages Epson? Many factors are behind this issue, but the article only highlights the major ones. It also offers troubleshooting methods to help you fix the blank page error.
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The Davis Museum's Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons, curated by Amanda Gilvin, was an important exhibition that gave viewers an insight into the multifaceted yet interconnected aspects of Tuggar's practice, which not only includes the digital montages for which the artist is most well known, but also sculpture, video, and installation. Accompanied by a catalogue of the same name, with contributions by Gilvin, Delinda Collier, Nicole R. Fleetwood, Jennifer Bajorek, and an interview with the artist, this publication is the first monograph on Tuggar's practice. The publication is long overdue, as evidenced by each contributor's call to consider the artist's work beyond the lens of Afrofuturism, a designation the artist herself cautions against. Indeed, once you descended the staircase to Home's Horizons exhibition space and entered into Tuggar's world, inhabited predominantly by women who labor and entertain through the mediation of various technologies, you soon realized that it did not...
Fatimah Tuggar: Home's Horizons
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Who really understands the art of effective sales? The difference between effective sales people versus the typical plaid jacket, wide tie wearing, sleazy sales person in your mind is often inconceivable. An inconceivable difference … except for the results.
Because new and tech are often equated with money, it should come as no surprise that many startup CEO’s and senior team members have little regard for sales. As a previous sales trainer and as an entrepreneur, I’ve always held that sales is the lifeblood of your company. We can debate all day whether there are successful companies without sales people, but we could likely agree that without profitable revenue your business won’t survive.
As I return fresh from facilitating quarterly planning sessions with two very different companies – one tech and one a service organization, I’m affirmed that without a sale (funds collected and in the bank) you don’t have revenue. And, without revenue you can’t have margin or profit. Without margin or profit, you’ll either be spending time raising money (most often too early) or closing your doors. As a result of this recent experience, I asked Jack Daly to address the issue of selling profitably in a multi-part series.
Here’s Jack Daly’s first of three installments for sales success:
Start immediately with each sales person listing his or her top 30 prospects in the order of priority. In the next column, indicate the status of the account and what has been the sales prospecting activity over the prior 90 days. In an additional column, list the top hurdles in the way of winning over the account, and some possible cures to leap the hurdles. Now add a column of targeted timeline for the win. The final column on this analysis should indicate next the action steps – the who will do what, by when column.
For an immediate jump in business, take the above approach with your existing customers and clients, making sure to look at other locations and product lines that can be won over with those all important "inside referrals."
Now that you have the activities identified as to what's needed, role play each scenario as if the desired appointment was obtained. One person in the role practice will be the sales person, one will be the prospect, and one will be the observer. Suggest doing each scenario three times, with each individual wearing a different hat. This should cut down on the surprises and add to the confidence level on the real calls. On the pro golf tour, the pros try to draw on as many shots as possible from their practice and memory stores, such as "I've been here before, this is how I hit this one." To get top results, they certainly aren't "winging it."
To conclude, how about a short term contest? If you are the CEO/business owner/Sales Manager, step up with a 60-day duration contest offering a couple of solid prizes tied to results. If you are doing this on an individual salesperson level, set a special reward for yourself upon accomplishment of some predetermined result.
Here are a few Jack Tips to Increase Sales and Profits
- Be unique - from reception to voice mail.
- Never make a call without a purpose.
- Ask questions and listen.
- Selling is the transfer of trust.
- Never quote price until you establish value.
- Goals not in writing are dreams.
- People like to buy, not be sold. Help them buy.
- Trust trumps price all day long.
- Things that get measured get done.
- The best salespeople are canned. Don't wing it.
- Model the masters. Learn from the best.
- People are different. Sell accordingly.
- We are what we think we are. Raise the bar!
As you wrap up a season of relaxation, fun and holidays with your family and friends, it’s time to get serious about goals for next quarter, next year, and beyond. I’ll bring Jack Daly back soon for the second part in this series. Meanwhile, remember the old adage I heard in my first year of business: revenue is vanity, profit is sanity, but cash is king. Go rule your kingdom.
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Ceria based catalysts are very effective for the synthesis of cyclic carbonate such as ethylene carbonate (EC) and propylene carbonate (PC) by the reaction of CO2 with ethylene glycol and propylene glycol. In these reactions, polycarbonate and ethers (diethylene glycol and dipropylene glycol) were not detected under optimum reaction conditions. This indicates that the PC and EC formation over CeO2-ZrO2 catalysts is highly selective. Catalytic activity was much dependent on the composition and calcination temperature of catalysts. On the basis of catalyst characterization by means of surface area measurement, X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetric analysis, and temperature programmed desorption of NH3 and CO2, the relations between catalytic performance and properties are discussed.
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Pilates has been helping people get healthy and fit since 1910. Any exercise routine that is still hot 90 years after its introduction is something worth checking out. Pilates is a low impact workout that is easy to learn and will get you incredibly fit. Looking for a way to flatten your abs, strengthen your core, and maybe even make you look taller? Try checking out the next Pilates class at your gym, and reap a few of the following benefits.
Work every muscle
Instead of doing an exercise routine that just works your arms, legs, abs, whatever, why not try something that works every muscle you have? (And you’ll feel that after the first session.) Pilates stretches and challenges every muscle, letting you firm, strengthen and tone all of your lovely parts.
Firm that butt
Pilates works the core muscles the most, and those are your abs, pelvis, and the body part almost every girl wants to firm up a little more, the butt. The exercises will work every muscle in your body, but the core muscles will get the most attention. Pilates focuses on your gluteus maximus in a way that will make it more of a gluteus minimus in no time!
You don’t have to be told how much stress affects the body “ it makes you tired, wrecks your diet, gives you headaches, yadda, yadda, yadda. Pilates will help reduce stress, and so reduce all those other negative effects on your body. You’ll be calmer, sleep better, and not feel so stressed out all the time! Pilates has even been shown to reduce blood pressure.
By working every muscle group and training your muscles to move from one exercise to another, you will reduce injuries from other sports and, well, life itself! If you have ever tripped over your own feet, knocked into your desk, or twisted an ankle on the stairs, you’ll appreciate this benefit. Pilates can give you smoother moves in a whole new concept of the phrase.
Have better posture
Having better posture does more for your body than just make you look taller and slimmer. It can help prevent neck and back problems, caused by slumping and poor posture. Pilates strengthens and lengthens your body, especially your back muscles, helping you to stand taller and look slimmer and more graceful, even when just standing there.
Be better at sports
Whether you are a golfer, dancer, runner or tennis player, Pilates will improve your performance at whatever sport you prefer. By helping your muscles become stronger, more flexible, and more coordinated, Pilates helps you to excel at every sport you play. Joseph Pilates, the creator of this form of exercise, was a boxer, diver, gymnast and skier, and used his exercises to help injured World War I soldiers recover. Imagine what it can do for you! | <urn:uuid:0dfd694b-6e6e-44b6-bf25-d26c3f65781a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://29secrets.com/wellness/why-you-should-do-pilates/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948163 | 613 | 1.757813 | 2 |
This paper presents upstream nozzle trailing edge coolant ejection on downstream uncooled blades. Pressure sensitive paint (PSP) mass transfer technique provides detailed phantom cooling effectiveness distribution on a modeled land-based turbine rotor blade surfaces. Cavity purge and tip leakage flows are excluded, and a uniform blade inlet temperature is adopted in the current study. Experiments have completed in a low speed wind tunnel facility with a five blade linear cascade. The inlet Reynolds numbers based on chord length are 100,000 and 200,000. Nozzle trailing edge coolant ejection on rotor blade is simulated by a spoked wheel-type rotating facility with 32 hollow rods equipped with coolant ejection from 128 holes per rod. Coolant to mainstream density ratio maintains at 1.5 to match engine conditions. Nozzle coolant discharge velocity to nozzle mainstream velocity ratio varies from 0.4 to 1.4. Velocity ratios from 0.4 to 0.6 are closest to typical engine conditions. Coolant to mainstream mass flow rate ratio (MFR) is from 0.67% to 2.94%. Higher phantom cooling effectiveness occurs on suction and pressure surfaces at the velocity ratio from 0.4 to 0.6 and over 1.0, respectively. Velocity ratio effect impacts on phantom cooling effectiveness distribution more than MFR effect. Most of trailing edge coolant migrates toward blade inner and outer spans than blade mid-span. Further investigation of the trailing edge coolant ejection including cavity purge and tip leakage flows is essential for understanding real applications.
Turbine Blade Surface Phantom Cooling From Upstream Nozzle Trailing Edge Ejection
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Every tax season, many taxpayers play the guessing game of when they will get their refund deposited into their bank account. The “IRS cycle code”, hidden on your tax transcript, can help to uncover the direct deposit date.
If you have looked over your tax transcript in the past and tried to decipher it, you may have noticed an eight-digit code. This code is more than just a seemingly random selection of numbers, it can help you determine when you might get your tax refund.
While this is a helpful guide for 2022, it also will not account for unforeseen delays or other reasons your refund might be getting delayed by the IRS.
What is an IRS Transcript Cycle Code?
A tax transcript cycle code is an eight-digit code that can be found on your account transcripts. There is a way that the code is set up that tells you information. The cycle code represents the day that your account was posted to the IRS Master File. If you are able to see a cycle code on your tax transcript, then this means that your return has arrived at the IRS and is likely being processed.
The cycle code and tax topic need to be used together to give you the most accurate return or refund status. You will need to wait until your 846 code has been shown on your transcript, indicating that you will be getting a refund and your direct deposit date has already been determined.
Deciphering the Cycle Code
You will be able to see your cycle information via your IRS transcript. Many taxpayers want to decipher their transcript cycle code because this will give them better insight into when they might receive their tax refund. Deciphering the cycle code can help to inform you of which batch you are currently in. The code follows a format that is year-week and day of the week.
An example of an IRS transcript cycle code for 2022 would be 20220504.
First 4 digits
The first four digits represent the current tax processing year. In the example used above, the tax processing year would be 2022.
Digits 5 and 6
The fifth and sixth digits represent the week of the tax processing year. The example used above has a “05” after the processing year. This means that it would be the fifth week of the calendar year. Months are not considered for processing codes. Instead, you will need to use a calendar and count the weeks.
Digits 7 and 8
The seventh and eighth digits represent the day of the week that your account was uploaded to the IRS Master File. Processing is indicated differently than you might expect. The daily processing begins on Fridays. Friday is relative to 01. Monday is 02. Tuesday is 03. Wednesday is 04. Thursday is considered weekly processing. For the example above, the account was uploaded on a Wednesday.
How Do I Find My IRS Cycle Code?
Your cycle code will be updated regularly and will be combined with any tax transcription codes. While the IRS typically updates cycle codes regularly to help disclose specific details, updates are usually done in batches. The cycle code, as well as the tax transcription code, can tell you important information about your refund status, processing cycle, and your potential direct deposit date.
To view your IRS cycle code you will need to get access to your official IRS transcript. It’s free to obtain! Near the top of your transcript, under “Transactions”, you will see another heading titled “Cycle”. Here, you will be able to see your eight-digit cycle code.
Weekly vs Daily Processing Cycle
There are four daily processing days for the IRS per week. They are as follows:
- 01 = Friday
- 02 = Monday
- 03 = Tuesday
- 04 = Wednesday
- Thursday is usually for weekly processing.
In the example above, the account was posted on a Wednesday. This means that the return was filed successfully and it is now in a daily batch cycle.
Status updates for daily accounts happen on Wednesdays. Accounts that are considered weekly accounts, which are those with an 05 cycle code), are usually updated on Saturdays.
Confirmation of Refund
The cycle code and tax topic need to be combined for you to learn your refund status. You will need to keep in mind that your cycle code can change throughout the processing cycle.
To check the status of your refund, the IRS has suggested using the Where’s My Refund? portal through IRS.gov. You will need to provide some identifying information to see the status of your refund. This includes your Social Security numbers, filing status, and your refund amount. After the IRS has received your return, you will be able to check the status.
Here are the answers to some common questions about the IRS cycle code.
The IRS daily processing cycle is indicated by the last two digits of your eight-digit cycle code. Digits 01 through 04 are typically indicative of a daily cycle, while digit 05 means you are on a weekly cycle.
The processing date represented by your cycle code informs you when your tax transcript will be updated.
The IRS will update your refund status information once a week and it takes place on Wednesdays. Once the IRS confirms receipt of your return, you will need to wait at least 24 hours if you e-filed and four weeks if you mailed your return before you can check your status.
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Major Midstream Gas Processing & Pipeline Operator
November 2015 thru April 2016
Turnkey storage/regas solution
Operations & maintenance labor
LNG FOR TEMPORARY & REMOTE POWER
Many remote power projects are temporary in nature where the customer has off-grid operations requiring power from generators or turbines to supply electricity or needs operations ahead of the availability of line power from the regional electricity provider (as is described in the actual case study below). Increasingly however, we are seeing new power project opportunities in very remote areas that will not have line power for the foreseeable future or some utilities focusing on smaller scale “distributed power grids”. Off grid, remote power applications are typically associated with oil and gas E&P, mining, remote communities and areas with limited infrastructure and increasing power demand.
Remote Power Challenge:
The client was in the final stages of completing a large gas processing and compression plant for Bakken basin gas. As the startup date approached, the customer was informed by its local electric utility that the installation of the transmission lines to the facility would be delayed by four to six months. The company’s lost opportunity value was close to $1 million per day in the event of a project delay.
The customer contacted a large, international prime power rental company to provide a 16-MW interim solution. The client initially considered a diesel solution as well as one using purified gas from the gas processing section of the plant. The diesel permit process of the State of North Dakota requires extensive paperwork and public hearings. The gas solution would have required a small design change to the processing plant, but procurement of additional equipment had an unacceptable lead time.
Stabilis was contacted in mid-October and had its solution on site by early December with full commissioning and start of operations beginning before the Holidays.
Stabilis provided approximately 4,800 dekatherms of LNG storage (approximately two days of gas demand) with approximately 140,000 scfh of LNG vaporization using electric vaporizers energized by the on-site prime power solution.
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WATERTOWN, Mass.—You’ve probably heard that Armenia Tree Project (ATP) has planted nearly 5 million trees over the past 21 years. Tens of thousands more trees are being planted this spring.
What you probably don’t know is how this program operates. “We have three nurseries where we grow all of the trees that ATP plants in communities around Armenia and Artsakh,” explains ATP Executive Director Jeanmarie Papelian. “Our fruit and decorative trees are grown in nurseries in the villages of Karin and Khachpar, while our reforestation seedlings are grown in the Mirak Family Nursery in Margahovit Village. These nurseries provide full-time employment for 35 people, creating important co-benefits for the community.”
For years, visits to the ATP nurseries have been one of Armenia’s “best-kept secrets,” but the new leadership team has opened up the organization to the public more and more each year. “For 2016, we are planning a series of tours to our flagship nursery in Karin Village, where guests can tour the site, meet our committed staff, and even learn how to graft a fruit tree,” says ATP Country Director Lucineh Kassarjian. “We’re excited to open our doors to the public, whether it’s a family visiting Armenia, a young volunteer in the Birthright program, or a local resident who has lived in Armenia all her life.”
“We want everyone to join us to learn, enjoy, and ask questions. Our team is very skilled and personable, and anyone who has visited leaves inspired,” notes Papelian. “Our theme for this year is ‘Get Rooted,’ and it is centered around these visits and planting trees either on the ground or virtually via our website.”
The next ATP tours are scheduled for April 29, May 30, June 5, Sept. 5, Oct. 1, and Nov. 1. Other dates may be available. ATP encourages readers to contact its Watertown or Yerevan office to join these Get Rooted tours, and to be a part of this movement to create a green future.
Since its inception in 1994, ATP has planted more than 4.9 million trees, established 3 nurseries and 2 environmental education centers, and has greened villages, churches, parks, and open spaces throughout Armenia. In the process, the organization has provided employment for hundreds of people and provided vital resources to thousands of villagers.
For more information, visit www.armeniatree.org.
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Rains bring a breath of fresh air and excitement to a mundane routine. Although monsoons in India are known to wreak havoc in some cities, they also bring the much-needed respite from the extreme summer heat. At the same time, there are also risks of vector-borne diseases and other ailments linked to rainy months. So, it becomes essential to take the necessary precautions to stay healthy in monsoon.
Having a healthy diet in the rainy season is crucial to prevent falling sick. Eating home-cooked meals is safe. Besides, following hygiene, such as regularly washing hands, is a habit that will stop the spread of germs and viruses. Keeping the immune system strong is equally necessary. Also, one should avoid consuming fried foods or anything that can upset the stomach.
So, if you are searching for the best monsoon recipes, we simplify things for you and list down some healthy foods items you must include in your diet this monsoon.
For Indians, the rainy season is synonymous with a hot cup of tea served with delicious onion pakoras. However, you can give a modern twist to this traditional recipe with baked pakoras. It is a healthy evening snack to have in the rainy season.
Fruits like pomegranate, pineapple, papaya, pears, and apples are foods rich in nutrients. They are good sources of fibre which aids in digestion. Also, they have specific properties that are good for immunity. For instance, litchi and pears are rich in Vitamin C, which helps the body fight the common cold.
Preparing chilla with lentils, namely Green Moong, Urad Dal, and Toor or Arhar Dal, is easy. They are a perfect breakfast option, although you can have them as snacks in between meals. This way, you also get the required dose of proteins. Instant dosa or chilla made with oats and sooji or semolina also make for a nutritious meal option.
Butter sweet corn is a snack relished by most of us. Boil Sweet Corn kernels and create this recipe by sprinkling salt and pepper. Another commonly-found spice in Indian homes, black pepper is rich in antioxidants and has good anti-inflammatory properties. This quick snack is a healthy option in the rainy season.
Turmeric is a panacea for many health problems. Turmeric latte is becoming quite popular. However, Indians have a long association with turmeric spice. It is available easily in every Indian kitchen. Most importantly, it contains antioxidants and anti-inflammatory properties. Having a cup of warm turmeric milk will bring many health benefits; it will mainly boost the immune function and protect the body against illnesses.
The incidences of diarrhoea, stomach infections, cold and flu, malaria, and dengue usually increase during the monsoon months. It is vital to safeguard your health, and the best way to ensure that is by consuming foods rich in nutrients.
You must include certain ingredients in your diet like turmeric, ginger, garlic, pepper, etc. which are readily available in your kitchen. For monsoon diseases prevention and cure, having healthy foods and good eating habits are crucial. It is also important to stay hydrated. So, drink plenty of water. Skip junk foods that ruin health and instead switch to nutrient-rich foods, as mentioned above.
Stay safe and protect your finances by opting for a health cover. Choose the best medical insurance from Care Health Insurance (Formerly Religare Health Insurance) and avail of benefits such as annual health check-up and no claim bonus.
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Our last article looked at the issue of control of copyright on social media platforms following the recent case, Sinclair v Mashable.
Only 2 months after the Sinclair decision, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has revised its position in a new case, McGucken v Newsweek.
A tale of two cases
In very similar conditions to Sinclair, Newsweek had published an article featuring an embedded Instagram post of photographer, Elliot McGucken, without his permission.
Relying on the ruling in Sinclair, Newsweek argued that because the image was posted to McGucken’s ‘public’ profile, it could rely upon Instagram’s terms of service.
However, despite the Sinclair decision, the court refused to dismiss McGucken’s case. While the court did accept that Instagram has the right to sublicense publicly posted photographs to other users, it concluded that there was insufficient evidence to prove that Instagram had sub-licensed the photo to Newsweek.
Instagram weighs in
Instagram has released a statement clarifying its position on the issue, stating:
“While our terms allow us to grant a sub-license, we do not grant one for our embeds API… Our platform policies require third parties to have the necessary rights from applicable rights holders. This includes ensuring they have a license to share this content, if a license is required by law.”
So, the court’s decision combined with Instagram’s statement on the issue has now emphatically altered the legal position set out in Sinclair.
What does this mean for you?
Photographers and other creators wishing to have stronger control over their copyright when sharing their photographs online will welcome this development.
However, this decision also serves as a strong warning to businesses (especially digital media outlets) to ensure they obtain the correct permissions before using or embedding a photographer’s work onto their website.
Earlier last month the European Parliament voted in favour of the EU
Copyright Directive (known more formally as ‘Directive on Copyright in the
Digital Single Market’), proposed legislation designed to better meet the needs
of copyright protection in the Internet age.
The directive is an attempt at amending the imbalances between the large
digital corporations and the content creators who use these platforms to share
their work. The aim is to implement a more rigorous process for protecting
works against copyright infringement, while also providing a more efficient way
to distribute earnings to rightsholders and reduce the ‘value gap’ between
creatives and the big players in the tech world.
With piracy and the misuse of copyright being one of the ubiquitous
consequences of the digital era, updating copyright protection laws would be
something to get behind and celebrate, right?
While those in the creative industries, such as publishers, music
labels, and individual creatives have thrown their support behind the
Directive, many others, especially those in Silicon Valley, are rallying in
strong opposition of the proposed laws; extreme opposers even heralding the
“death of the Internet” as we know it.
Two specific articles of the directive find themselves at the heart of
the polarising debate, namely, Articles 11 and 13.
Article 11, aptly nicknamed ‘the Link Tax’, is designed to allow
publishers of news content to request online platforms and news aggregators to
obtain licences before they are able to share any of their publications. The
obvious players finding themselves in the cross-hairs of this article are the
larger platforms such as Google and Facebook. However, while individual and
non-commercial use has been exempted from the law, there is concern the article
will have broader implications, especially on smaller websites who wish to
publish snippets and links to articles and who may be unable to afford the
Article 13, dubbed the “upload filter”, is the more controversial of the
The article is aimed at holding platforms that host user-generated
content (such as YouTube) liable for any misuse of copyright that may result
from any material uploaded by their users. Essentially, it means these
platforms can be sued directly by rightsholders for infringement.
While the current method of policing the misuse of
copyright is by responding to complaints by rightsholders, and removing any
infringing content accordingly, the directive will require these platforms to
take “effective and proportionate” measures to prevent unauthorised
works from being uploaded.
“But YouTube has over 300 hours’ worth of video content uploaded every
hour. How could they possibly find and stop all the infringing content from
being uploaded?” you ask. It is exactly this practicality of complying with
Article 13 that has proved one of the more contentious points of the debate.
It is argued that the only possible way to
implement this process of prevention is by using automatic filtering technology
capable of scanning through every single piece of content and
stopping any content it recognises as copyrighted material in its tracks. Easy
While it might not be a significant burden for the giants of the tech
world, like Google, YouTube, and Facebook, who have the finances to develop and
implement such technologies, its effect on smaller platforms appears to be more
problematic; with some contending it will hinder the growth of digital
platforms in the EU which will be unable to cope with the article’s
Just as concerning is just how efficient such filtering technology can
be. It has been queried how the technology will be able to recognise and
distinguish copyright infringement from other authorised or legal uses of
copyright, such as parody or satire. This worry has given the article another
common nickname: the “Meme Ban.”
For those not familiar, memes are often created by using still images
(commonly taken from copyrighted works such as photographs, films, or
television shows) and layering text over the top for comedic effect or
expression of an idea. While they are most often created without the author’s
consent for use of an image, they are still currently considered legal under EU
law. Accordingly, there are serious concerns that if the filtering technology
required by Article 13 is unable to distinguish legal use from infringement,
content such as memes will mistakenly be flagged as infringement.
So, while memes may not be technically banned as the nickname suggests,
they may likely still be flagged and killed off amongst the other infringing
What happens next?
The proposed legislation still faces one more round of voting in January
2019 before it will receive final approval. Many believe that, after the
successful vote last month, it is very unlikely the legislation will be
defeated in the new year.
What remains to be seen is in fact, however, is just much of a
disruptive impact the directive will have on the Internet both in the EU and
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The story of a teenage science whiz who used free information sources to create a novel cancer screening test may be full of holes. Whether it is or not, it no longer seems the clear, happy story the media wanted to tell.
TED Talks are nearly always fascinating to watch. But are they accurate?
The limits of tax breaks for the rich and the myth of “job creators” are examined in this excellent TED Talk.
Using your brains to think of an idea and your skills to implement it? That’s the old-fashioned way.
Can the Internet create a new and more cooperative way of arguing?
A new high-speed camera has the potential to reveal the world of light in completely novel ways. This video is amazing from start to finish.
This fascinating TED talk will resonate on many levels with people who read this blog — study design, arrogance, vindication, creativity, inspiration, complexity, evolution, and authority are all dealt with. The topic is “the God complex” — the tendency for […]
Not all conflicts are monetary. Sometimes, the pressure to do something good can lead to biased behavior.
The downside of silent filters becomes crystal clear in this important talk.
What motivates us? Do we respond better to carefully constructed reward systems? Or do we just want to be smarter, get smarter, and figure things out on our own?
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(WOMENSENEWS)–Title IX defenders are sending the latest "don’t mess with success" message to President Bush.
Their target: a Department of Education letter and model survey announcing new guidelines for collegiate compliance with Title IX, quietly sent out to colleges on March 17.
The Department called it a "letter of clarification." It said that a college or university could be deemed in compliance with Title IX if the new survey is e-mailed to current students to determine if their interests and abilities are being met. A non-response is considered a lack of interest.
Critics call that too weak a means of upholding a law that many say granted girls and women athletic equality.
Courts have ruled that colleges and universities are in compliance with Title IX if they meet any one of these three tests: participation opportunities are "substantially proportionate" to enrollment; the institution has a history and continuing practice of program expansion for women and the institution is fully and effectively accommodating the interests and abilities of women.
In legal battles, some have argued that colleges and universities should be judged in compliance if they can demonstrate that they provide athletic opportunities to all female students who are interested in sports. The rebuttal by Title IX champions is that female high school students do not have the same encouragement to play sports as their male counterparts and thus an accurate measure of college women’s interests is difficult, if not impossible, to gather.
As to the specific idea of an e-mail survey, non-legal critics interviewed said that surveying the general female student population presently enrolled at a school does not accurately assess potential interest in a sport because female student athletes gravitate toward a school that has the programs that interest them.
"The pool of students you need to survey are not the ones who are currently on your campus, because if they were really interested in a sport, they wouldn’t come to your campus if you didn’t have the sport," said Carolyn Schlie Femovich, executive director of the Patriot League, a Division I athletic conference based in Center Valley, Pa., that includes schools in Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts, Washington, D.C., and Maryland.
Schlie Femovich says the Department of Education should have provided an opportunity for public comment on the clarification. "Had they done that, they may have learned or understood why this approach is not a practical one if you’re truly interested in determining interest in a particular sport or sports."
Donna Lopiano, executive director of the Women’s Sports Foundation, based in East Meadow, N.Y., founded in 1974 to promote opportunities for girls and women in sports, says the survey could let schools with weaker compliance off the hook.
"Institutions that are close to compliance would probably not use the survey. The institutions that are in financial straits and don’t want to add another sport for women have nothing to lose," Lopiano said. "Especially since e-mail responses are so poor and they’re allowed to count a non-response as a lack of interest."
Pelosi Joins Outcry
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other Democrats joined the outcry.
On June 22, the 33rd anniversary of Title IX, Pelosi, other politicians, athletes and representatives of various women’s organizations joined in Washington, D.C., to honor the anniversary and remember the bill’s co-sponsor, Congresswoman Patsy Mink of Hawaii, who died in 2002.
On the same day, Pelosi and 140 Democrats from the House and Senate sent a letter to President Bush pressing him to withdraw the clarification.
"We strongly believe that use of a survey alone, let alone an e-mail survey, cannot accurately determine student athletic interest or ability," the letter said.
In the letter, the politicians noted that while previous policies allowed the use of surveys in determining compliance, schools also had to look at input from coaches and administrators and interest in the surrounding schools and community sports leagues, which together provide a more comprehensive and accurate reflection of student interest.
"Under the new clarification, the department will allow schools to simply interpret a lack of response to the survey as evidence of lack of interest," Pelosi and others wrote.
Pre-Title IX Days
Before the passage of Title IX, female athletes rarely received college athletic scholarships. There were almost no full-time coaches for female teams. Funds were scarce for uniforms, equipment and transportation, and girls grew up knowing their options to compete in sports were limited.
But then came the 1972 federal mandate that any program receiving federal funds must provide equal opportunities for both females and males.
Since then female participation in sports has risen nine-fold in high schools, fivefold in college and producing magnificent teams such as University of Connecticut women’s basketball, Stanford women’s volleyball and University of Georgia track All-Americans.
Over the past 33 years, Title IX has survived many challenges. Those fought in public forums have all ultimately supported the law.
Most recently, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to consider the case of National Wrestling Coaches Association v. United States Department of Education, which alleged that Title IX had unfairly caused the elimination of numerous men’s college teams.
Public Comment Missing
Government officials say the survey does not represent a significant change and was only provided to help schools do a better job in assessing athletic interest on campus and perhaps add emerging sports, such as archery, badminton, bowling, rugby and team handball.
Chad Colby, deputy press secretary for the Department of Education, said that the use of surveys pre-dates March 17.
"This goes back prior to the Bush administration," Colby said. He said the purpose for this clarification was to standardize the survey because oftentimes schools sought to use a survey, but it was completely disorganized and ill prepared. "They need to be formatted in a way where you’re going to get reliable information."
David Black, deputy assistant secretary for enforcement at the Office of Civil Rights, said, "The model survey is not required to be used. It’s merely an additional tool to assess the interests and abilities of the students on campus."
Black added that the intent of the model survey is to evaluate adding sports not subtracting. "The purpose is not to be able to drop an existing sport," he said.
Commissioner Sees No Reaction Yet
Bob Oliver, commissioner of the Central Athletic Collegiate Conference, a Division II conference based in New Haven, Conn., comprised of 13 schools located in five states, said he has seen no reaction to the new survey to date.
"The schools in our conference really go with the intent of Title IX–providing females and under represented populations with opportunities," he said.
The Patriot League’s Schlie Femovich is less sanguine.
"I think our institutions have done an excellent job, but it is an ongoing challenge. It’s something that needs constant monitoring with respect to participation opportunities for women and obviously the number of sports that are offered for women vs. men."
Lois Elfman is a freelance writer who frequently covers women’s sports. She is the former editor in chief of Women’s Basketball and International Figure Skating magazines.
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President University held "Magang Penyusunan Dokumen SPMI"
Wednesday, 17 July 2019 12:07 by Administrator
To be able to implement the PPEPP cycle, besides requiring knowledge, it is necessary to develop skills to use instruments, analyze results, and design follow-up. By holding an internship, it is expected that participants have the skills and habits that lead to the formation of a quality culture.
In order for participants Satuan Penjaminan Mutu Internal (SPMI), Auditor Mutu Internal (AMI) and Gugus Kendali Mutu (GKM) of Study Programs to master skills and be familiar with SPMI implementation. In addition to producing a draft SPMI document, each participant uploaded a draft SPMI document which was the result of individual tests on Google Drive as an initiation of the practice of making Document Management System (DMS). The documents contained in the DMS will facilitate PT Asuhan in fulfilling data input for SPMI Mapping in a short time.
The Mechanism and Internship Design is carried out for 5 (five) working days, namely on July 1-5, 2019: Preparation of the SPMI Document which was attended by participants originating from 5 (five) Universities. Participants practice making SPMI documents consisting of "Kebijakan, Standar, Manual and Formulir SPMI".
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- STMIK Kharisma Karawang
- Sekolah Tinggi Manajemen Informatika dan Komputer Mercusuar Bekasi
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- Sekolah Tinggi Teknologi Bina Tunggal Bekasi
- Institut Ilmu Sosial dan Ilmu Politik YAPIS Biak
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What’s God got to do with it?
The preamble of the Charter clearly states that Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the Supremacy of God. Canada's heritage as a nation under God is plainly carved on the walls of our Parliamentary buildings. They serve as a rebuke, as well as encouragement, to all Canadians, that God continues to call His people to covenant faithfulness. Canada has lost its moral and ethical compass. It's time to restore our country back to its founding principles.
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Last Updated on March 10, 2020, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 326
David Storey's play The Changing Room is a somewhat formless story that depicts a group of men on a rugby team and their interactions in the locker room prior to and following each of their games. The story has little in terms of definitive plot; instead, it decides to show the characteristics of the men and their responses and adaptations when engaging in physical sport.
Sport as a Stand-In for War
At many points in the play, the preparation for the rugby match is compared to a battle. The men act as if they are going into a war zone, and upon completion, they tend to their wounds and lament their loss or celebrate their victory in much the same way soldiers do. The purpose of this battlefield imagery is to call back to days of war, when men were required to go out and fight. Now, with no outlet for violence and rage, the men turn their attention to games like rugby and football.
While all the men in the story come from different backgrounds and walks of life—some wealthy, some poor, some young, and some old—they are all unified for the game. There is brotherhood in the game, just as there was historically in battle: differences ceased to matter when people fought together for a common purpose.
This final theme stretches over all the others, as Storey uses this play to comment on human nature and the need for an outlet for humanity's more violent tendencies. The men, he tacitly argues, need war, or a display of it, to show their ferocity and dominance, release their aggression, and unify themselves with those around them. He argues that it is in our nature to revert back to more animal and ritualistic instincts, and this game is a way to express those. The changing room serves as the ritual training ground and celebration room for the wars that people can no longer participate in.
Last Updated on May 7, 2015, by eNotes Editorial. Word Count: 562
One of the functions of The Changing Room is to mark, and perhaps to lament, the passing of a way of life. This is expressed in several nostalgic monologues, phrased by stupid or inarticulate characters. In one outburst in act 2, Harry expresses the opinion that the world is degenerating: The players are not the men their fathers were; increased prosperity has not been distributed fairly; it would be as well if the communists invaded and took over. No one shares his political views, but Fielding, a senior player, remarks in act 1 that the extra money he has earned, and which his wife has made him use to buy a house in the country, has left him less happy than he was when he lived in the dirty, cramped, industrial center of town. In act 2, Kendal, dazed and in pain from his broken nose, seems to regret having come up from the coal mines and the amateur game. Several characters regret the passing of old days, finding in them community, friendship, and certainty—if also drunkenness, poverty, and hardship.
Not all agree, though, and this disagreement creates much of the play’s tension. A few players are clearly on their way up. Patsy, some of them remark after he has left, saves all of his money and has a schoolmistress as a girlfriend. Trevor, the team’s fullback, is himself a schoolteacher in daily life. Attending to a cut on Trevor’s ear, Mackendrick remarks that they have to take care of “professional men,” unlike the others, who are “ten a penny.” The rest of the team laugh and jeer, but they have been put on the defensive. In ten years’ time, perhaps, some of them will be well-off and the others poor, too old to play and too unskilled for anything else. The team’s solidarity is strong, but it is also temporary. It is not only clothes that are changed in The Changing Room.
However, upward social mobility may also have its price. Wives and girlfriends are a constant subject of conversation in the play, much of it less than serious. Characters accuse one another freely, and without meaning it, of having affairs with any woman they have ever met. Some of these accusations, though, may be true. Whereas Fielding has been bullied by his wife into living somewhere he does not like, and Trevor and Patsy are quietly rising in status along with their relatively well-educated partners, Kendal is presented as an increasingly tragic figure. He is trying to rise from the coal mines and has married a woman with social and literary pretensions. She is notoriously unfaithful, however, as Luke and Mackendrick remark. Kendal’s purchase of an electric tool set, so he can make bookshelves for her, appears more and more to be a pathetic gesture of love and respect that will gain nothing; he will end the day in the hospital, probably lose his place on the team, and fail in his social aspirations. His fate will be shared, to greater or lesser extent, by at least some of his teammates, such as Fielding or the cheerful but barely literate Walsh. With him will fall, one may imagine, Harry and even perhaps the lonely and well-meaning Sir Frederick. All are attached to a way of life and a local culture that Storey feared could not long survive. | <urn:uuid:65a6b6ed-c4f8-433d-85a5-234a5807c4bd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enotes.com/topics/changing-room/themes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.983635 | 1,133 | 3 | 3 |
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You may get maximum of 4 or 3 marks based on your content it’s better to make more effort in writing Part – B.
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Mouse Moth Amphipyra tragopoginis
Wingspan 33-38 mm.
A very plain-looking moth, with three dark dots on the forewing, the ground colour is dark brown with a distinct glossy sheen.
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In a pre-Christmas issue of OnBeing’s newsletter, The Pause, Padraig O’Tuama tells a story from his late teens, a period of his life that he describes as “too interested in religion” and “too much zeal.” Working for a church in Dublin, he encountered an elderly woman in chapel nearly every day for five years. And every time, she would say, “I’m praying for you; for your conversion.”
He goes on to say how his initial dismay (“I was already converted”) evolved over time to a deeper understanding of conversion: “It is an embrace of the possibility of change and future. … It calls us again and again throughout a life.”
He might have said, It calls us to life—to a deeper, richer, more genuine life.
In some contexts, conversion is seen in binary terms: yes or no, before or after, saved or not saved, sheep or goat. St. Paul is the prototypical example, to the extent that “Damascus Road experience” is a familiar idiom, even in the secular world.
In others, the pattern is more like that of St. Peter, conversion on conversion on conversion. Even after his uncomfortable post-Resurrection “little chat” over breakfast (“do you love me … feed my sheep”), even after Pentecost, we have the story of his dream on the rooftop in Joppa.
I have been blessed with many conversions over the course of my life. But I say “blessed” only after the fact. Conversion, in my experience, is not a pleasant thing to go through. Most of the time, when we say we are praying for someone, we pray for favorable external circumstances: May you get well, may you get the job, may you win the lottery, may your pain go away. To pray for another’s conversion is to wish pain onto them. Granted, a necessary pain that will lead to that deeper, richer, more genuine life, but pain, nevertheless.
What a startling, presumptuous prayer! And one fraught with pitfalls for the pray-er. If I pray for your conversion, am I ignoring my own need to change? (E.G., May all you folks who voted the “wrong” way in the recent election come to see the light.) If I pray for your conversion, am I assuming that I know what you are in need of? I have repeatedly made the mistake of thinking I knew the particular way my spouse or child needed to change. And yet, more than one of my own conversions came at a wise and loving challenge from Nancy.
On another front, signs of spring are all around. Shoots of the spring ephemerals are popping up through the leaf litter. The woods are full of birdsong. Nancy spotted a pair of red-shouldered hawks in the big pine tree below us.
As usual, the list of tasks we were going to accomplish over the winter is barely diminished. We did spend two afternoons crawling around under some rhododendron, pulling out the English ivy—a task I am only willing to do when it is too cold for the snakes and other critters to be active. In our observation, the ivy does not climb and cling onto the rhododendron and azaleas. And under the rhodies, the ivy was far less thick than just outside their reach. Too shady? Or does that genus somehow suppress ivy?
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Q&A: Bishop Zavala of Cono Sur
- Monday, April 29, 2013
The Most Rev. Héctor (Tito) Zavala is Bishop of Chile and Presiding Bishop of the Southern Cone: Iglesia Anglicana del Cono Sur de América (the Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of America). Elected in November 2010, he is the province’s first Latin American primate, as well as Chile’s first Latino bishop. Sue Careless interviewed him in April at the Eastern Assembly of the Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC), where he was the keynote speaker. (n.b. no connection with the official Anglican Church of Canada: ed.)
Your province covers the lower half of the continent of South America. Is it growing numerically?
Yes. We have about 25,000 members in a continent of 110 million people. The Province of the Southern Cone is made up of six nations and seven dioceses: Chile (with about 100 parishes), Northern Argentina (200), Argentina [from Buenos Aires south] (30), Peru (60), Bolivia (10), Paraguay (50), and Uruguay (20). This November we will meet to decide on whether to form two provinces.
How do you reach your people when they are spread over such a vast expanse?
I live in the middle of Chile, in Santiago, so I travel by car to reach congregations nearby and take the overnight bus to reach more distant parishes. However, I fly to Arica at the top of Chile and to visit the most southerly Anglican parish in the world in Punta Arenas. Every May and November I fly to chair meetings of the executive committee of the province, which moves its meetings around the six nations.
In 2003, after the Episcopal Church consecrated the first openly gay bishop within the Anglican Communion, the Province of the Southern Cone severed its relationship with the Episcopal Church. It also broke communion with the Anglican Church of Canada after one of its dioceses in 2002 authorized a rite for blessing same-sex unions. Are you still in broken communion with these two provinces?
Yes. In 2010 when an earthquake struck in Chile, I received many, many phone calls from [the Episcopal Church Center in] New York offering us money. But I said no; not out of arrogance but because we had broken communion with TEC and it would not be right to accept their money.
Did you ask permission of the local Anglican Church of Canada bishop to visit here?
No, because I am coming to another, different Anglican church.
In 2003, the Province of the Southern Cone offered Episcopal oversight to conservative Anglicans who had left the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada but who wanted to realign with another province. Does this make you a primate of the Anglican Church in North America along with its elected primate, Bob Duncan?
No. That is over. We provided temporary supervision. When ACNA was founded in Texas in 2008 the very next day I had breakfast with Bishop John Guernsey and said, “My churches in the States will now be under your supervision. Let me know what I should do to pass them to you.” Others like [Bishops] Frank Lyons of Bolivia and Greg Venables may have taken a bit more time but the Southern Cone decided to pass the [North American] churches to the new ACNA primate.
Yet you have access to the Archbishop of Canterbury and Duncan does not. You were invited to Welby’s enthronement but Duncan was not. You can speak on behalf of ACNA in those places where ACNA is not invited.
Yes, of course. The protecting body for ACNA now is GAFCON [the Global Anglican Future Conference]. There are two bodies. The Global South is just for southern provinces in Africa, South America, and Asia. But GAFCON is more a doctrinal group than a geographical one. ANiC and ACNA cannot belong to the Global South but they can be part of GAFCON. Theologically we are together. GAFCON was an event [in Jerusalem in 2008], and the group that it created is called the Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans (FCA). Now it is more than just the Southern Cone supporting and speaking on ACNA’s behalf when necessary. It is primates from Africa and Asia as well. ACNA is recognized by the majority of Anglicans and primates in the world.
Do you or GAFCON have any plans to reconcile ACNA with the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada?
We don’t see our role in that way. The new Archbishop of Canterbury wants to work for the reconciliation of the church around the world. I don’t know how he will do it. I don’t know if TEC or the ACC will change. We will not renounce what we believe. Our understanding in GAFCON is that TEC and the ACC have another gospel; it is not the biblical gospel of Jesus Christ. If they move back to the Bible we can be in communion.
Isn’t the [conservative] Diocese of Recife in Brazil also under your jurisdiction?
Yes and no. According to our canons our province cannot have dioceses apart from the Southern Cone. Recife cannot be part of us but the last Archbishop of Canterbury [Rowan Williams] said, “You can go to Recife and provide pastoral supervision. ” I have no authority in Recife to call for a synod. I can preach and greet the people and provide pastoral care but I cannot perform confirmations or ordinations”.
You have spoken of “the heavy machinery” or bureaucracy behind the Archbishop of Canterbury. How much does it run things?
I met the last Archbishop of Canterbury. Rowan Williams is a very nice man. But all the machinery behind him, the bureaucracy, is led by liberals; the Anglican Consultative Council is controlled by liberals; the Anglican Communion Office is controlled by liberals as well.
There are four instruments of unity: the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Anglican Consultative Council, the primates’ meetings, and the Lambeth Conference. The Archbishop of Canterbury calls and leads the primates’ peetings and is a member of the Anglican Consultative Council but does not call its meetings. He does call the meetings of the Lambeth Conference.
Would you like to see the position of the Archbishop of Canterbury opened up to any bishop in the Anglican Communion?
That is not possible because of his many responsibilities within England.
Do you think there is a desire in the FCA to have a second leader from outside of Britain who can represent the Anglican Communion?
There was talk of a parallel [non-British] archbishop but that idea died a few years ago. We don’t see our role in that way. We are true Anglicans because we believe and respect the Thirty-nine Articles. And the Prayer Book of 1662 is our doctrinal basis. We want to work within the Anglican Communion.
Don’t we really have two separate international entities now, the FCA and the more liberal rest of the Communion? And the Archbishop of Canterbury is trying to straddle them both. Do we really have a global Communion anymore?
Anglicans are one universal body. We have internal tensions. That is happening now. Maybe we will have to live forever with those tensions. We had that issue in the Southern Cone in 2003. Why not leave the Communion? We decided no, because we are true Anglicans. Instead we broke communion with the ACC and TEC.
You haven’t had a primates’ meeting for some time. Did you have one after the new Archbishop of Canterbury’s enthronement since you were all invited?
We had an informal Primates’ Meeting in three different groups with the archbishop. I was in a Global South one. The last formal primates’ meeting was in January 2011. Probably the new Archbishop will call another Primates’ Meeting in the next 12 months. The agenda is set by the liberal Anglican Communion Office but it should be set by the Primates themselves.
The Anglican Church of the Southern Cone of South America, once led by Bishop Greg Venables – a noted member of the GAFCON (mainly African) group of Anglican Provinces that have elected to break relationship with TEC and the Anglican Church of Canada, on grounds of their inclusivity on matters of gender and sexuality – is now under the Episcopal Presidency of Bishop Hector (Tito) Savala, of Chile.
From this Question and Answer Session – reported on the ‘Living Church’ conservative web-site in North America – it may be noted that Bishop Savala, is following closely in the footsteps of his predecessor, Greg Venables, in cosying up to the dissident A.C.i.C. and ACNA churches in North America, while still maintaining ostensible links (like GAFCON) with the See of Canterbury.
Interestingly, Bishop Savala was invited to, and attended, the recent Enthronement of the new Archbishop Justin Welby at Canterbury – even though his confreres from ACiA and ACNA (with whom GAFCON and the Southern Cone Province has fraternal relationships) were not invited.
This outlines the tricky situation of relationships within the Communion at the present, where ACiA & ACNA both seek relationship with Canterbury, via the various GAFCON Provinces – like Southern Cone – which have planted these dissident, quasi-Anglican, churches in the USA and Canada; while the local National Anglican Church (TEC and the AC of C) are the only official Anglican Communion Churches in North America.
This situation highlights the fact that there are ‘Cuckoos in the Nest’ of mainstream Anglicanism in North America, which have no official status of themselves within the world-wide Anglican Communion – having been incubated under the piratical provenance of official (though dissident) Provinces of the Communion, like Southern Cone & the GAFCON Provinces.
One of the questions, in the article above, sets the scene of this other-worldly situation:
Q: “Did you ask permission of the local Anglican Church of Canada bishop to visit here?”
Bishop Savala – “No, because I am coming to another, different, Anglican church”.
The only sense one could possibly make make of such ‘Border-Crossing’ would be – if the GAFCON Provinces were officially intending to set up a totally different Anglican Church from that residing at present under the provenance and oversight of the Lambeth Conference and the See of Canterbury. If this indeed is going to be the case, then the sooner GAFCON declares its true intent, the better for all concerned. GAFCON will be able to pursue its ‘sola-scriptura’ mission, and the rest of us will be free to proclaim The Good News of Our Lord Jesus Christ, inclusively, to ALL the world.
It is already well-known that the GAFCON Provinces have set up their own regional organisation, seemingly in opposition to the Lambeth Conference. Their piratical setting up of rival churches within the territories of TEC and The Anglican Church of Canada – which occurred soon after TEC ordained their first openly Gay Bishop; and the AC of C provided a form of Same-Sex Blessings – provided the first schismatic pseudo-anglican church bodies within the Anglican Communion in 2003. These new churches have never been formally accepted as part of the world-wide Anglican Communion – in communion with Canterbury. It remains to be seen what will become of their future – whether within the Communion or as part of the GAFCON.
Let us pray that this stand-off situation in the Communion will not continue for too long. It is too debilitating for the historic calling of the inclusive Anglican Witness in and to a world crying out for Love, & the Forgiveness and Mercy of a Long-Suffering, Holy God.
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Ways for Bank Managers to Find New Business
Finding new business can be a challenge in a competitive industry. Bank managers may have a difficult time persuading potential customers to move their hard-earned money from their current financial institutions to a new one. A 2011 survey by J.D. Power and Associates found the number of customers who chose a new bank in the last year increased. If a marketing campaign shows that depositing money at your bank is more beneficial for customers than using a competitor, you may be more successful at attracting new business.
Making a profit by having your money sit in a bank account is desirable for customers. Financial institutions entice new depositors by offering higher interest rates than other banks. Banks earn revenue when they lend money and make a higher interest rate than what they pay. A certificate of deposit, where clients must keep their money for a designated period or risk a penalty, may offer the highest rates to ensure that the money is available to be used by the bank. Managers can advertise their current interest rates on their websites and on banners outside the bank to gain new business.
Offering instant cash, which is not earned over time like interest, may encourage new customers to open an account with your bank. Financial institutions that deposit money in a newly opened account or credit card can attract new business. The amount may vary depending on the balance and type of account. In addition, the J.D. Power and Associates survey found that bank managers offering gift cards as advertising strategies can attract new customers.
Banks can earn revenue by charging fees for various services, such as maintaining accounts with low balances or allowing customers to use debit cards at their automatic teller machines. If a bank charges a monthly fee of $15 on each account with a balance of less than $5,000 and a customer has two of them, it can cost $360 a year just to keep the accounts open at the bank. Low-balance accounts may be an expense for the institution, but if the customer also has a credit card and loan at the same bank, the cost involved is less than the income generated. If a competing bank offers free accounts, it can gain profitable business from new customers because it may save them hundreds of dollars a year.
Word of Mouth
A current happy customer can be the best source of free and effective advertising. Telling friends and relatives about the level of satisfaction with your bank is a recommendation that can be trusted. Train your employees to provide excellent customer service, so prospective clients inquiring about your bank may consider opening accounts based on their experience with the representative who answers their questions. Have enough tellers during busy times and ensure that their greetings are cheerful and the customer is satisfied upon leaving the bank. A positive reputation compared with your competitors is a good way to increase your business.
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Bin Packed was cited saying, “If the idee for jihad against the Jews and the Americans…is considered a crime, then permit history be considered a witness that I am a criminal (Lansford, Watson & Covarrubias, 2009). ” With this foundation of hatred to Western influence in the modern world, Osama bin Laden and his major group al-Qaeda instigated a War up against the world. The group al-Qaeda has considered responsibility of numerous terrorist disorders against the United States and its sibling countries. From your World Trade Center attacks of 2001, to the Spain subway bombings of 2005, al-Qaeda have been at the center of those terrorist disorders. Unfortunately, contrary to most wars declared against a country, al-Qaeda has beginnings in many countries.
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While using attacks of September 11th, a new overseas policy referred to as, “Bush Regle, ” was implemented by the Bush government. The “Bush Doctrine, ” which the Rose bush administration hardly ever called the new foreign policy was based about four ideas: to make no distinction between terrorist and the countries holding them, take the fight to enemies international before they can attack the United States, confront risks before they may become threats, and promote democracy instead of terrorist ideology (Holloway, 2008).
At the start of the war, the American people becoming full of patriotism and seeking revenge for the 9/11 attacks had been in 100% agreement with this coverage, but as time passed and the years that the “war” moved on, a growing number of are in less support and just desire the United States armed service to be provided home to. Towards the end of Chief executive Bush’s second term, started to be under constant attack due to the battle in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was charged of entering Iraq under false pretenses of: guns of mass destruction, and a direct influence of 9/11 by Saddam Hussein’s plan (Holloway, 2008), a level that our current President, Barack Obama, accustomed to his benefit during his initial plan.
Yet, despite the fact that Former Chief executive Bush was attacked and scrutinized about his procedures, he was standing by his initial perception that his “Global War on Terror” was against an ideology, and not a certain region. Whether or not the current 10-year conflict was actually waged against Osama Bin Packed, Saddam Hussein, Muammar al-Gaddafi, or any different tyrant is actually unknown, of course, if the September 9/11 disorders were hoaxed and just a coercion intended for the American people to always be tricked into war, who have knows.
What can be noted is this; the War on Dread is the new that the Usa has declared war on a thought, a way of your life, and not against a country of its own, and because of this, the true length of this kind of war has the capacity to last forever. Holloway, D. (2008). 9/11 as well as the war on fear [electronic resource] / david holloway.
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Photo series of the exhibition The Archive of the Forgotten by John K. Raustein
Throughout his whole artistic practice, John K. Raustein has explored the textile tradition as a starting point for associative objects and social commentary. He uses this understanding of materials and craft knowledge as the basis for three-dimensional and conceptually rooted textile sculptures and room installations.
The Archive of the Forgotten by John K. Raustein can be experienced at the North Norwegian Artists' Centers gallery in Svolvær, Lofoten. From Nov 6, 2021 To Jan 9, 2022.
John Raustein (born in 1972 in Stavanger) lives and works in Oslo. He studied at Bergen National Academy of the Arts and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation in Copenhagen. Raustein has held solo exhibitions at institutions such as Kunstnerforbundet (Oslo), Trøndelag senter for samtidskunst (Trondheim) and KRAFT Bergen. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Norway and abroad, among others, at Zhejiang Art Museum (Hangzhou, China) and in the exhibition Nålens Øye (The Needle’s Eye), which was shown at KODE (Bergen) and the former Kunstindustrimuseet in Oslo (now part of the consolidated Nasjonalmuseet). Raustein’s works have been purchased for the collections of Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum (Trondheim), Nasjonalmuseet (Oslo), KODE (Bergen) and Sørlandets Kunstmuseum (Kristiansand).
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The journey behind the Kia instrument.
To build the Kia instrument we recorded the sounds of movement in nature all over the world.
Here you can explore the places where those sounds were captured.
The science behind the Kia instrument.
The sounds of movement in nature produce what’s known as pink noise. This increases the alpha waves in the brain, inducing the flow state of consciousness, the state in which the brain is at its most creative. These natural sounds were recorded all over the world and used to develop a one-of-a-kind instrument. To induce the flow state further, every composition should be arranged following these 4 neuroscientific parameters:
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Different Types of Pumps – Peristaltic Pumps
A Peristaltic Pump is a type of Positive Displacement Pump. A rotor is used to squeeze a leak-proof tube or hose, thereby forcing the pumped fluid through the hose. The fluid being transported does not come into direct contact with any parts of the pumping mechanism. This makes it ideal for pumping fluids that either need to be sterile or should not leak into the environment.
Principle of Operation
There are two primary components to the pump: the hose and the rotor. The hose, which must be made of a tough, chemical-resistant material that allows no leakage of air or liquid, runs along the outer wall inside the circular pump chamber. The rotor sits in the middle of the pump chamber and moves in a circular motion. As the rotor turns, rollers or shoes that are attached to the rotor compress the hose, thus forcing the fluid toward the outlet of the pump while creating a vacuum that draws more fluid into the pump inlet. Most peristaltic pumps are electrically powered. Depending on the size of pump and the method that is used to squeeze the hose, there may be oil inside the pump chamber to lubricate the outside of the hose as it is squeezed.
The selection of the correct hose type and material is the most critical aspect of the proper application of peristaltic pumps. The hose must be of the correct material for the particular application, so that it won’t corrode or wear prematurely as the hose is squeezed, which could cause a leak in the hose. Normally, the hose can be replaced when it is worn. It is important to select tubing with appropriate chemical resistance towards the liquid being pumped. Types of tubing commonly used in peristaltic pumps include:
- Polyvinyl chloride
- Silicone Rubber
Peristaltic Pumps provide complete contact isolation between the pump and the process media. Consequently, this type of pump is often the chosen pumping solution for applications where there is a necessity to ensure there can be no cross contamination and complete isolation from the fluid and the surrounding environment is required. This is particularly important where the end user is working with aggressive fluids or perhaps even sterile fluids where such media must not be allowed to come into contact with the surroundings.
Peristaltic Pumps tend to be used in a wide variety of industrial applications as they lend themselves to being particularly suited to pumping abrasive and viscous fluids. They are also often used for chemical metering applications and for pumping chlorine in swimming pool applications. Perhaps the most common applications occur in the medical field where they are often used for circulating bloods or IV fluids.
Take a look at this video showing Peristaltic Pumps in wastewater treatment:
Advantages of Peristaltic Pumps
- One of the greatest advantages of Peristaltic Pumps is the isolation between the pump moving parts and the process media, thereby removing any risk of cross contamination.
- The pump is easy to clean and to sterilise as the only part of the pump coming into contact with the fluid being pumped is the interior of the tube.
- The pump has a relatively low cost of maintenance as it employs no valves, no seals and no glands.
- The pump is suitable for aggressive fluids and can readily handle slurries and aggressive fluids.
- The simplistic pump design inherently prevents backflow and the syphoning effect.
Disadvantages of Peristaltic Pumps
- The flow characteristic of the pump is not a smooth and consistent flow but more of a pulsed flow. This means that where a smooth flow characteristic is required then an alternative solution should be considered
- The flexible tubing is being systematically compressed and decompressed with each and will often tend to degrade with time. It will therefore require periodic replacement.
Peristaltic Pumps are generally available across the following ranges:
- Flow rate ranges between .8 and 750 lpm
- Total head (pressure) ranges between 0.7 and 17 Bar
- Horsepower ranges between 0.2 and 40 hp
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The life stories of Jakob von Uexküll and Alfred Nobel are curiously intertwined, even if starkly different. Mr. Nobel was born in 1833, Mr. von Uexküll 111 years later, in 1944. While Mr. Nobel was the inventor of dynamite and an arms manufacturer, Mr. von Uexküll was a professional stamp collector and journalist – the latter profession a key link between the two men and the prizes each established. In 1888, a French newspaper, mistakenly thinking the inventor and industrialist had died, published Alfred Nobel’s obituary, headlining it “The Merchant of Death is Dead.” The obituary read: “Dr. Alfred Nobel, who made his fortune by finding a way to kill the most people as ever before in the shortest time possible, died yesterday.” Actually, Alfred’s brother Ludvig was the one who had died. Mortified upon seeing how he would be remembered posthumously, the (younger and then still alive) Mr. Nobel reconsidered his impact on the world and decided shortly thereafter to establish the now-world-famous set of international awards. | <urn:uuid:013e9c01-a6ba-40fe-bd7d-5fe22e5f0931> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://projourno.org/tag/alfred-nobel/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.974125 | 243 | 2.765625 | 3 |
We are a full week into the season, and baseball has taken over my life. Each evening I watch my favorite team—the Texas Rangers—slug it out with their opponents. Surprisingly, they have taken both of their opening series from teams who were expected to dominate them—the Chicago Cubs and the Houston Astros. I relish the fact that the Rangers are in second place in the American League West while the dis-Astros, odds-on favorites to win the division (and the World Series), find themselves in fourth place. Yes, the season is early, and the game will straighten out the standings as it always does. But for now, I will enjoy the early season returns.
Several years ago, the Texas Rangers had one of the most colorful managers in the Majors. His name was Ron Washington. “Wash,” as he was known around these parts, is a master of the infield, elevating the play of young infielders to All-Star levels. As a manager, Wash was known for his exuberance in the dugout and his head-scratching explanations for the way baseball is played. One of his most endearing phrases that he rolled out to describe the everyday oddities of the game is “That’s the way baseball go.” When asked what that phrase means, Washington described it this way:
It means that the game never changes. There are certain things in baseball that will always happen and if you’ve seen it one time, you will see it again. Always remember that.
Washington’s homespun logic relates to the idea that baseball plays itself out naturally. Even though you think what has just happened is unusual, you have to remember that it is part of the game. You can play the game a thousand times before something unusual happens. But when it does, you have to remember that the unusual is part of the usual. It’s a natural part of the game. “That’s the way baseball go” inspired many people to roll with the punches and see life through a different lens. Washington’s memorable phrase even inspired an update to Merle Haggard’s Grammy Award-winning hit, “That’s the Way Love Goes.”
Speaking of the natural part of the game, today’s ethical theory under consideration is natural law. Natural law can be a confusing theory, just like some of the calls made by umpire Joe West. Steve Wilkens offers a helpful explanation of the theory as he writes, “Natural, in this case, refers to how things ought to be, not how they are. When something functions the way it was designed to work, it functions naturally. . . . The ‘law’ part of natural law ethics tells us that there is consistency in the way the world ought to work.”
Thomas Aquinas is the Great Bambino of natural law theory—both in influence and girth. Aquinas was perhaps the greatest theologian of the Middle Ages and one of the two or three greatest theologians of all time. In fact, one could make the case that he was the greatest mind of his day. Aquinas used natural law theory to explain many aspects of the universe from morality to everyday relationships. Specifically, Aquinas believed that we could discern moral truth embedded in the natural law through reason. He states, “It is that all those things to which a man has a natural inclination, are naturally apprehended by reason as being good, and consequently as objects of pursuit, and their contraries as evil, and objects of avoidance.”
From Aquinas’ perspective, our reason is sufficient to determine what we ought to do and who we ought to be because God created us in a certain way. Aquinas does not believe that nature is the ultimate source of our morals because morality is rooted in God. However, God has written his moral law into creation, and we can discover it there.
The epitome of natural law from Aquinas’ viewpoint is to become like God and be united with him. He recognizes that such will not happen in this life due to sin, but he longs for the “beatific vision” of union with Christ in eternity. This is the purpose of natural law—to point us to our Creator. That is the summum bonum (the greatest good). It’s like a walk-off grand slam with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 7 of the World Series.
Circling back to baseball, I see the natural law argument applying most directly to the infamous Designated Hitter (DH) debate. After you give your eyes a chance to roll back into place, let me tease this out. The anti-DH folks make the case that the game is supposed to be played by the nine guys on the field. To have a guy come off the bench only to hit for the pitcher is a violation of the purity of baseball. It’s only natural for the pitcher to be required to hit. If he isn’t any good, that’s the fault of the player, not the game.
On the other side of the debate, the pro-DH proponents (also known as fans of the American League) argue that the most natural thing to do is to allow pitchers to pitch and hitters to hit. Who wants a guy up at the plate who doesn’t know which end of the bat to hold? Bring in the DH to make sense of the different elements of the game.
Both sides appeal to natural law to make their case. Of course they can’t both be right, and that shows one of the weaknesses of natural law. Both sides employ reason to make a rational case for their side. Then we are left with the struggle to figure out who is right. This is why the DH debate will never be solved. Both sides have an element of reason on their side. If only the Angelic Doctor were still alive to navigate this debate for us. Despite the fact that he has been enjoying the beatific vision for more than 7 centuries, we might be able to glean a clue from his own life about where Aquinas would stand on the DH debate. He had many nicknames, just like some of the greatest baseball players in history. His most famous one is the “Dumb Ox” because of his size. He was a notoriously large man. If he were alive today and playing baseball, maybe we would call him “Big Papi.” Case closed.
*Image credits to Wikimedia Commons.
Evan Grant, “Ron Washington: OK with viral use of ‘That’s the way baseball go,’” Sportsday, The Dallas Morning News, October 26, 2010.
Steve Wilkens, Beyond Bumper Sticker Ethics, 2nd ed. (Downers Grove: IVP, 2011), 178-179.
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The researchers and the institutions in the race for “Clusters of Excellence” grants have been determined: 36 consortia with proposals amounting to more than one billion euros are taking part in the selection procedure for Austria’s future beacons of basic research. An overview of all the submissions is now available online—and highlights the areas of strength of cooperative cutting-edge research in Austria.
In the end, they will be Austria’s largest cooperative research projects in the area of basic research, which are scheduled to begin with excellent=austria grants in 2023. The overview of the researchers submitting proposals reads like a who’s who of Austrian cutting-edge research: 36 teams including practically all national universities and other renowned research institutions are competing in the international selection procedure for a “Clusters of Excellence” grant.
“Clusters of Excellence provide researchers with unprecedented opportunities to answer pioneering research questions. Successful clusters integrate researchers from several institutions, as well as perhaps industrial partners; win the support of an international group of peers; and receive long-term funding both through the FWF as well as their own institutions. This in turn increases Austria’s attractiveness internationally as a location for research”, says Austrian Minister of Science Heinz Faßmann, expressing his satisfaction with the great interest in the first excellent=austria grants.
“The opportunity to expand cooperation within science is very promising for a small research country like Austria. The Clusters of Excellence offer attractive conditions to encourage close collaboration and to gain forward-looking insights. The research proposals submitted lead us to expect top scientific achievements”, says FWF President Christof Gattringer in reference to the first submissions.
Close ties between universities and other research institutions
The consortia submitting proposals are coordinated on the top level by 14 public universities, two non-university research institutions, and one private university. In total, the consortia bring together 32 institutions and 180 individual participations. The amount of funding requested by all clusters totals a little more than one billion euros. These figures impressively highlight the enormous potential for innovation and cooperation of Austrian cutting-edge research.
Those who can convince on the international stage receive funding
“Clusters of Excellence” grants are awarded based on the bottom-up approach, and the researchers and their institutions are free to decide which research questions they wish to pursue. Those who can convince on the international stage receive funding. The distribution of expressions of interest by research field underscores the wide variety of cutting-edge research in Austria: 10 proposals focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, 11 on Biology and Medicine, and 15 on the Natural Sciences and Engineering.
You can find an overview of all the consortia here (pdf, 136KB) (in German)
Next step: International review of the research proposals
The next step for the consortia submitting proposals is to translate their research projects into a detailed pre-proposal. These pre-proposals will then be evaluated by international leading researchers with respect to their excellence, potential for innovation, and synergies in the summer of 2022. All teams that emerge successful from this initial review will then be eligible to submit a full proposal as the final step before the award of funding. The first clusters will be able to begin their research in March 2023.
Clusters of Excellence: A new dimension of research funding
The amount and flexibility of research funding are critical for competing with the best researchers in the world. In the Clusters of Excellence, which form the first pillar of the excellent=austria funding initiative, a total of up to €70 million (over ten years) is available to research teams to conduct forward-looking large-scale projects in basic research—the volume exceeds all previous funding programmes in the area of basic research in Austria. To make the scale clear: a Cluster of Excellence involves large teams, with outstanding research infrastructure, working together for several years. At the same time, the Cluster grants also allow for the dynamic use of funds to account for the progress of the research. Long-term collaborations between leading researchers will also be expanded across regional, institutional, and thematic boundaries.
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Relief From Leg Pain Due to Peripheral Artery Disease
After surviving breast cancer and a life-threatening bout of sepsis, Gabrielle thought her worst days were behind her.
At age 52, Gabrielle, an artist and mother, enjoyed a healthy lifestyle. She no longer ate meat or dairy, and the highlight of every day was a brisk 7 kilometer walk with her husband around Lake Maschsee, a large lake located close to where she lives in Hanover, Germany.
Battling Mysterious Leg Pain
“My husband and I were used to walking quite quickly, but suddenly I wasn’t able to do it without stopping.”
What she thought were harmless leg cramps at first seemed to get worse every day. “I had to stop more and more often. The pain became so bad, I had to stand still and hold my legs with my hands. I thought, ‘Oh. What is happening to me?’”
Soon she could no longer walk more than a few hundred feet without collapsing. “I was scared the cancer was back or something else really bad. I didn’t want to go to the doctor. I put it off for months,” Gabrielle says.
Her Diagnosis: Peripheral Artery Disease
Gabrielle was diagnosed with Peripheral Artery Disease (PAD), a common circulatory problem in which plaque builds up inside the arteries and obstructs blood flow to the lower limbs and feet. Patients who develop PAD usually notice hip, leg or calf pain (called "claudication") when walking. This pain occurs because the peripheral arteries are not able to deliver enough blood flow to the surrounding muscles.
Though PAD, by definition, refers to the peripheral arteries, the process of atherosclerosis(the widespread accumulation of arterial plaque) is systemic and affects the entire body. Approximately 40-60% of patients with PAD also suffer from coronary artery disease.
Gabrielle’s biggest fear was that she might lose the use of her legs and no longer be able to walk with her husband around their beloved Lake Maschsee — or anywhere else.
New Treatment Offers Hope
A variety of treatments were offered to Gabrielle, ranging from surgical bypass on both legs to balloon angioplasty. Unfortunately, her vascular surgeon, Dr. Arne Schwindt advised her that both of those treatments “have a high rate of recurrent disease. Since she was only 52 years old, we wanted a therapy with a longer lasting effect.”
Luckily for Gabrielle, Dr. Schwindt was now offering a minimally invasive technology called the Pantheris lumivascular atherectomy system. “The device offers me surgical precision in plaque removal, something I do not have in any other endovascular treatment modality,” Dr. Schwindt explains.
The Pantheris tool removes plaque from the artery, and the Lumivascular procedure allows the doctor to see a three-dimensional view inside the artery. “This allows me to see the structure of the vessel wall,” he says.
In the past, atherectomy, a technique to remove plaque from the blood vessel was dangerous for patients because of the risk of injuring the vessel wall, causing bleeding, he explains. “That’s all avoided with the Patheris tool. It allows me to remove the diseased parts of the vessel without injuring the healthy parts. That’s why I offered it to Gabrielle.”
While Gabrielle she had a lot of fear initially, Dr. Schwindt explained the procedure so well that it gave her the confidence needed to proceed. “He gave me so much hope. I trusted him from the start.”
Success: Lumivascular Procedure Restores Blood Flow
"Suddenly I had warm feet, which I never had in my life.”
Following the 2.5 hour procedure, Gabrielle woke up surprised that she could feel the blood flowing to her feet once again. "Suddenly I had warm feet, which I never had in my life.”
The pain relief was immediate.
If she’d opted for a bypass, Gabrielle was afraid that she would have spent several weeks recovering, but with Pantheris, she was released from the hospital after just one day. She returned a month later to get the same procedure for her other leg.
The day after the second procedure, Gabrielle and her husband were back to walking around the lake. “At last, I was pain-free and didn’t have to take any stops.”
Now she walks so fast her husband can barely keep up with her. “My legs are working so properly as they never did in my life before. I’m so grateful. I feel like the sun that’s come out after a long, dark winter.”
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In the 1990s, neuroscientist Kevin Dunbar aimed to understand how scientific breakthroughs are reached in serious life. He executed a longitudinal research of a number of investigate laboratories and measured which laboratories managed to use surprising findings (anomalies) to deliver exceptional knowledge—a scientific breakthrough.
What he observed was that the most imaginative laboratories were being the types that used to the difficulty at hand a ton of analogies from various scientific domains. The only laboratory in the experiment which did not produce any new findings was a single in which everybody had very equivalent and highly specialized backgrounds—in this lab analogies have been just about in no way utilized.
“When all the customers of the laboratory have the exact knowledge at their disposal, then when a problem occurs, a group of equivalent-minded people today will not deliver a lot more details to make analogies than a single individual” – Kevin Dunbar
Dr. Dunbar’s examine indicates that scientific breakthroughs happen additional usually when experts with various backgrounds exchange tips informally. In other text, artistic issue fixing thrives in groups with diverse backgrounds.
In a way, this is not incredibly shocking – considering outside the box is simpler when your full team does not come from the identical box.
The natural way, this obtaining is really relevant to early-stage startups. In the strategy era and validation startup phases, functioning a startup is 50 % enterprise and 50 % science. What matters most is obtaining products-sector match, and this can take place only by building imaginative answers to the difficulties you are facing and tests your hypotheses against the market place.
In remarkably-predictable environments, specialization makes it possible for you to clear up issues extremely successfully. In unpredictable environments, on the other hand, efficiency is not as critical as creative imagination. And the natural environment of innovative startups is nearly anything but predictable.
Since of this, the great early-stage startup staff should consist of folks with diverse qualified backgrounds. Ideally, this does not signify just people today coming from unique disciplines – marketing and advertising, finance, sales, development, but also from distinct industries. This would permit you to use analogies from vastly different domains, which the analyze indicates is the important to inventive difficulty-solving.
“You have individuals walking around with all the expertise of humanity on their phone, but they have no strategy how to integrate it.” – David Epstein
In this context, the major position of the founder and CEO would be to combine the awareness commonly readily available in the team and to channel it to creating artistic methods to the customer difficulties the startup is addressing.
This also suggests that when you are picking out your early personnel as a founder, you want to take into consideration not only their competencies but also their backgrounds. Relying just on your very own expert community to find potential clients might restrict your choices. Your community is likely biased towards your have industry. Relying on it would crank out a workforce with similar backgrounds, which could hinder the resourceful ability of your startup a great offer.
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During her Saturday Night Live monologue last week, Sarah Silverman had deep thoughts. “I was thinking like an hour ago, ‘Wouldn’t it be great that told you when all your friends are making a doodie?’” she said. “But then somebody told me they had that. I think it’s called ‘Words With Friends.’”
Well, it’s been five years of friends telling each other when they’re pooping, as Zynga’s wildly popular app just reached that anniversary milestone. It’s celebrating with a new version of its game, New Words With Friends, and by sharing with us some interesting facts about how we’ve played the game over the years.
So just how much time have we spent engaged with the Scrabble-like word game? It turns out that a chain of the letters that we’ve played would wrap around the earth 5.4 times, or travel halfway to the moon. So…a lot of time.
From the number of times we’ve played the word “selfie” to the words that have been used only once in five years and 58 billion words played, here’s a look at Words With Friends, by the numbers.
58 billion words have been played
1.2 trillion points have been scored
217 billion letters have been played, a chain of which would wrap around the earth 5.4 times or travel halfway to the moon)
7.7 million games have been played
5,478 words have only been played once
9,678 games is the longest winning streak by one player
13.5 billion feet of tiles have been played
The top 5 words played over the past 5 years are qi, it, he, re, and jo.
Of six-letter words, “hoagie” is only in the Top 50 in Pennsylvania
The top 5 scoring cities, based on average score per word, around the world are: Makati, Phillipines; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia; Kingston, Jamaica; and Santa Cruz, CA
“Selfie” has been played 18,619 times
“Twerk” has been played 31,518 times (both were only recently added)
Words that have been used only once: alphabetize (how ironic), cockalorum, diphthongal, goobledegook, lopsidedness, micromanagers, overanalysis, paparazzi, rubberneckers, sociocultural, videocassette, zyzzyvas. | <urn:uuid:f5ed84d4-29fe-454a-bedf-b4e744ac6717> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thedailybeast.com/selfie-has-been-played-18000-times-on-words-with-friends | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964749 | 550 | 1.765625 | 2 |
NOPEC to Host Energy-Efficiency Financing Workshop
By Rachel Duthie on August 28, 2018
It’s every contractor’s biggest headache: After quoting a business on a property improvement, the owners come back only to say that they cannot afford it. The process is tiring and can waste valuable time and resources.
However, making energy efficient upgrades -- like new windows, solar panels, and air conditioners -- can save money on energy bills, increase a property owner’s home value, and make property improvements affordable for the business owner.
The Northeast Ohio Public Energy Council (NOPEC), in conjunction with Bricker & Eckler Attorneys at Law, will be hosting a one-day Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) loan workshop. There, contractors will learn about the PACE loan that can help commercial property owners finance energy projects up to $500,000.
PACE is a mechanism that allows property owners to finance energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements through assessments on their real property tax bills. NOPEC’s program is designed to meet the needs of owners by providing up-front capital to complete these improvements, in a structure that provides stable, predictable payments over the term of the loan.
At the workshop, participants will discover how low-interest financing can fund up to 100% of energy-efficiency projects for commercial properties. Plus, they will find out how businesses can pay the property improvements through savings generated by these energy efficiency upgrades.
Most commercial properties are eligible if they are located within a NOPEC member community. This includes for-profit and non-profit, multi-family (more than four units), retail, commercial, industrial, and government properties. Some efficiency improvement examples are lighting, HVAC, windows, doors, roofing and insulation. Renewable examples include geothermal, wind, solar-photovoltaic (roof-top or ground-mounted), solar-thermal water heating systems and biomass energy or gasification projects.
The workshop will take place at the Hilton Garden Inn at 8971 Wilcox Drive in Twinsburg on September 26 from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Lunch will be provided. To register, go to nopec.org/workshop.
Not sure if your commercial property is in one of NOPEC’s 220 member communities? Check out our community map.
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SOURCE: The Nation
by Danielle Carr
Hannah Zeavin's book traces the roots of the contemporary surge in mental health apps and pandemic-driven teletherapy, arguing that psychiatry has always relied on a fantasy of unmediated communion between two separate people that doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
SOURCE: Boston Review
by Marco Ramos
A historian of mental health reviews two new books and concludes that pharmaceutical and neurological approaches to mental health have failed and it's time to turn the lens onto society.
SOURCE: New York Times
"Critics operating both inside and outside the A.P.A. say that it still must overcome high hurdles to truly address its issues around racial equity — including its diagnostic biases, the enduring lack of Black psychiatrists and a payment structure that tends to exclude people who can’t afford to pay out of pocket for services."
SOURCE: Black Perspectives
by Natalie Shibley
Wendy Gonaver's book traces the relationiship between slavery and modern psychiatric medicine.
SOURCE: Nursing Clio
by Kylie Smith
Emotionally Disturbed: A History of Caring for America’s Troubled Children explores the development of Residential Treatment Centers (RTCs) for “emotionally disturbed” children.
SOURCE: New Yorker
Challenges to the legitimacy of the profession have forced it to examine itself, including the fundamental question of what constitutes a mental disorder.
SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
Crossrail archaeologists have unearthed the remains of patients from the infamous Bedlam Hospital, the world's first psychiatric asylum.The skeletons, unearthed in the UK's largest archaeological site, belonged to a few of the 20,000 people interred in a burial ground established adjacent to the psychiatric asylum.Crossrail's lead archaeologist Jay Carver said: "we've got a sixteenth century burial ground existing right below our feet in the road here, about two metres from where we're standing are the skeletons of perhaps up to four thousand people who live and died in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries."...
- What Happens When SCOTUS is This Unpopular?
- Eve Babitz's Archive Reveals the Person Behind the Persona
- Making a Uranium Ghost Town
- Choosing History—A Rejoinder to William Baude on The Use of History at SCOTUS
- Alexandria, VA Freedom House Museum Reopens, Making Key Site of Slave Trade a Center for Black History
- Primary Source: Winning World War 1 By Fighting Waste at the Grocery Counter
- The Presidential Records Act Explains How the FBI Knew What to Search For at Mar-a-Lago
- Theocracy Now! The Forgotten Influence of L. Brent Bozell on the Right
- Janice Longone, Chronicler of American Food Traditions
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We present a case of successful living donor liver transplantation (LDLT) for liver cirrhosis caused by hepatitis B virus with severe autoimmune hemolytic anemia (AIHA) using an ABO-incompatible (ABOi) graft. The patient was a 47-year-old woman who had a history of ruptured esophageal varices, accumulation of intractable ascites, frequent hepatic encephalopathy and severe anemia, with a hemoglobin value of approximately 3 g/dL due to AIHA. We treated the patient by LDLT using an ABOi liver graft. The treatment strategy included anti-CD20 antibody, plasma exchange and transfusion before LDLT. The patient's anemia improved after surgery; she required only 2 units of irradiated red blood cell concentrates-leukocytes reduced. The patient was discharged from the hospital on postoperative day 35. Two years after surgery, the patient still shows normal hepatic and hematological findings. The immunomodulation protocol for ABOi LDLT was effective not only to avoid humoral reactions associated with ABOi LDLT, but also those associated with AIHA.
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Situated on the banks of the Oise, Jouy-le-Moutier is a village rich in History which dates back to neolithic times, as is witnessed by the menhir of Jouy-la-Fontaine and a number of polished stone axes which have been found on the site.
From the 12th Century onward these lands were cultivated by small winegrowers who produced « le ginglet », a local wine sold to café owners in the area and in Pontoise. Until the 19th Century Jouy was a typical small Vexin village. Its living space was concentrated in a series of small hamlets aligned along the Oise and separated by agricultural areas.
The commune has been radically transformed since its integration in the new town of Cergy-Pontoise. The population grew in less than five years. This mutation, however, has affected neither the past nor the rural environment. If the history of the village is still visible today it is thanks to the promotion and preservation of its ancient buildings. | <urn:uuid:2a8726dc-4209-41e9-8fae-c9d6e51eb240> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ot-cergypontoise.fr/en/the-cergy-pontoise-agglomeration/jouy-le-moutier/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972414 | 223 | 2.671875 | 3 |
We need to save our venues. And we need to do it now.
London, Monday 27th April – Music Venue Trust has announced #saveourvenues, a new national campaign to save hundreds of grassroots music venues at imminent risk of being closed down – permanently.
Without these independent venues the live music scene in the UK will die. These grassroots venues play a crucial role in the development of British music, nurturing local talent, providing a platform for artists to build their careers and develop their music and their performance skills. These venues also play a vital role in the cultural and economic vibrancy of any village, town or city.
Currently 556 venues are at risk including The Sugarmill in Stoke-on-Trent. “We’re extremely proud to be a grassroots music venue. These spaces are pipelines for talent and absolute lifelines for the communities they serve and the talents therein. We cannot allow them to be consigned to the past. UK music culture as we know it will simply not exist without these spaces, so it is vital to protect them” said Danni Brownsill, the venue’s chief booker and promoter.
Artists will be performing ‘at home’ gigs in support of their local venues, chosen from a list of venues currently in crisis which can be found at the campaign website www.saveourvenues.co.uk. Each venue will have their own fundraising page with a clear target of the funds it needs to raise to stay afloat throughout this difficult period. Once a target is reached any excess revenue will go to the central #saveourvenues fund to help the wider grassroots music venue community.
How can music fans get involved?
1. Donate to a specific venue’s fundraising page by clicking this link www.saveourvenues.co.uk to see a list of local venues that urgently need help.
2. Watch ‘at home’ shows by artists supporting the #saveourvenues campaign. Click here www.saveourvenues.co.uk to see a list of shows coming up.
3. Donate to the national #saveourvenues fund via the website www.saveourvenues.co.uk
4. Help spread the word on social media using the hashtag #saveourvenues and the campaign link www.saveourvenues.co.uk.
One of the main drivers of this initiative is the musician Frank Turner whose recent series of ‘Independent Venue Love’ shows for local venues Nambucca (London), The Joiners (Southampton) the Railway Inn (Winchester) and The Forum (Tunbridge Wells) raised thousands of pounds and provided a major inspiration for this campaign.
Frank Turner said, “The UK live music industry is staring into the abyss right now. I’m not able to save the whole thing on my own, but I decided to do a series of livestream shows to raise money for specific independent venues that I know and love, and that are in serious risk of disappearing right now. The success of these shows demonstrated the love that exists between music fans and their favourite grassroots music venues so the #saveourvenues campaign is a brilliant way of building on that and hopefully giving artists and music fans a chance to get involved and play a big part in helping them survive.”
One venue saved from closure by Frank’s fundraising gigs is Tunbridge Wells Forum. Co-founder Jason Dormon said “Frank Turner has always championed the grassroots sector, having grown up and learnt his craft in these venues. His generosity and commitment is truly admirable, he inspires live music fans to come together and unite in raising awareness and funds for the UK’s grassroots music venues. We were totally overwhelmed and heartened by Frank’s help and the support and generosity of the local community.”
Music Venue Trust’s CEO Mark Davyd said, “Without the support of music fans and artists literally hundreds of the UK’s grassroots music venues could go out of business, never to return, in the coming months. Please help to save every single grassroots music venue in the UK so that it can reopen after this crisis and continue to be a home to our musicians and our communities.” | <urn:uuid:690ef45e-056f-4445-8310-22ec20d48b9c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://50gigsinaday.home.blog/tag/jazz/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948434 | 894 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Skin problems in the dog can express themselves differently. You can hop over to this website to know more about it.
- Itching – scratching
- Flapping the ears – shaking the head-scratching the ears
- Licking the legs – biting the legs
- Flakes in the coat – greasy coat
- Bald spots
- Black discolored bald skin – elephant skin
- Redness or discoloration of the skin
- Odor – smelly skin
Thickenings due to tumors
There are a number of causes for skin problems in the dog. The most important are discussed on this page, namely:
- Food allergy
- Bacteria, fungi and yeasts
- Endocrinological disorders
The most important parasites that are bothering the dog are fleas, mites and ticks. A dog with severe itching problems suffered from flea allergy.
Fleas cause an annoying itch, if the fleas bite then it irritates. You see that the dog suddenly turns around and bites the fur or scratches itself with the hind legs.
Some animals are sensitive to the flea saliva. After a number of bites, a certain limit is exceeded, causing an allergic reaction. Older bites are also activated, causing the animal to get a lot of itching. They scratch and bite themselves until they bleed. One bite per week is then sufficient to maintain this process.
The following mites play a role as the cause of skin problems in the dog: ear mite, scab mite, fur mite and autumn mite. If young dogs shake their heads and scratch their ears a lot, an ear mite infection should be considered. You often see black earwax in the ears.
Demodex or young mange is a mite that occurs naturally in the skin of the dog. In young dogs and dogs with less resistance, it can expand unbridled and cause irritation. Demodicosis is often localized on the head and legs. It starts with bare, some red spots that may itch. Occasionally, itching is not required. At a later stage, scabs may form and the skin may flake. And there is extensive baldness and inflammation.
When it gets cold, swelling of the nose and soles of the feet can occur. We call this flaky hard skin hyperkeratosis. Think of calluses on people’s hands or feet. We have this hard flaky nose ointment (1-2x daily) with Bio Balm. This softens and restores hard flaky skin. This Bio Balm can also be used for hard surface problems such as elbows. So there are many reasons to get skin problems in a dog. Sometimes miserable skin problems just arise tumors.
Scabies or real scabies are caused by the sarcoptic mite, which digs holes in the skin. This causes a lot of itching. In the dog, the problems mainly occur at the heels, armpits, elbows and hips. The eyelid edges may also be involved. At a later stage the entire body can become infected. Think of a dog with bald spots and a lot of itching scabies.
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Learn how to draw sushi for kids step by step with this elementary drawing tutorial for beginners, schoolers, and kindergarteners.
In this step-by-step instruction, you will learn how to draw sushi for kids. Sushi is a traditional Japanese dish that consists of rice and a filling made from various ingredients: seafood, vegetables, and even fruits. The dish is quite popular and widespread all over the world. In many countries of the world, this type of food has become even more popular than many national dishes in this country.
Externally, sushi rolls are small rounded pieces, inside of which the filling of fish, rice, vegetables are clearly visible. An artist with any drawing skills, and even kindergarteners and schoolchildren, can draw this sushi. Enjoy drawing!
Time needed: 25 minutes.
How to Draw Sushi for Kids
- Draw a circle.
Begin by drawing a circle that is the shape of the side of the sushi roll.
- The shape of the second roll.
Now draw the oval shape of the second roll.
- Draw nori.
From the circle you sketched, draw two parallel lines, at the end of which draw a connecting curved line.
- Second roll.
Draw two wavy lines, parallel to each other, and connect them below with one curved line.
- Circle of filling.
Draw a small circle inside the lying piece for the shape of the filling. Also, draw a small oval inside the second roll of the piece.
- Details of the rolls.
Texture the rolls by adding details as in the example.
- Draw a chopstick.
Draw the first chopstick near the sushi rolls. The end of the stick should be pointed, and the opposite part will be slightly wider.
- Add a second chopstick.
Now draw a second chopstick in the same way.
- Color the sushi.
It remains to color the sushi rolls and the drawing process can be considered complete. Before coloring in, you can trace the contours of the drawing with an ink pen or marker.
Excellent! We hope that we helped you create a cool artwork of sushi that you can share with your friends. And you can also share this simple instruction with your friends on social networks, and we advise you to sketch this food with friends together! Thank you for being with us, and we will be glad to see you again. | <urn:uuid:7b5b4317-34eb-4848-aca5-673420e87212> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://howtodraweasy.net/how-to-draw-sushi-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938203 | 493 | 3.6875 | 4 |
East Asian Review
In-depth studies on issues related to East Asia, especially on the Korean peninsula and the surrounding powers.
Journal of Korean Religions
Divinity School Library BL2230 .J68
*Online full text available from 2010-present, peer-reviewed and published twice yearly, in April and October.
Journal of Korean Studies
Perkins/Bostock DS901 .J68
Outstanding articles from all disciplines concering Korea.
A peer reviewed journal, it contains articles, book reviews, and other editorial matters on all aspects of politics, economics, societies and culture relevant to Korea.
*Online full text available from 1998-present
A variety of scholarly topics through interdisciplinary and multicultural articles, book reviews, and essays in the humanities and social sciences.
*Online full text available from 1997-present
The Review of Korean Studies
*Free full text available at the Academy of Korean Studies website.
*Online full text available from 1998-present through DBpia database.
Sungkyun Journal of East Asian Studies
Perkins/Bostock DS501 .S86
Multi-disciplinary journal dedicated to East Asian Studies.
*Free online full text available from the first issue, 2001-present
Journal of economic research
Provides theoretical and empirical aspects of economics, financial economics and related area.
*Free online full text available from 1996-present
International Journal of Buddhist Thought & Culture
Divinity B162 .I58
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2005: Mensch und Kosmos – Präkolumbische Kunst aus Mexiko/ Humans and the Cosmos
On show from March to September 2005
With the “Mexico – Humans and the Cosmos” exhibition, the Kunsthalle Leoben not only continued the tradition of its own large-scale exhibitions exploring the importance, diversity and fascination of various advanced cultures of the world, it also added an significant milestone to the previous exhibitions on pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica that had been shown in Austria.
Micro- and macrocosm intertwine
In an unprecedented density, the exhibition revealed the interweaving between microcosm and macrocosm mentioned in the title of the exhibition, the incorporation and reproduction of the human being in artistic creations typical of Mexico, and above all the relationship to the cosmic world view of pre-Hispanic cultures. Whether they were made of stone, clay, bone, obsidian or gold – these depictions and artworks all served to express the relationship between human and cosmic events.
Objects from more than 40 Mexican collections
The exhibits were drawn from over 40 Mexican museums and collections, many of them on public display for the first time. These impressive documents of Mexican archaeological research of the past few years revealed the diversity, the religious will to create art, and the quality of pre-Hispanic cultures. | <urn:uuid:66366b7c-79e9-446d-bd32-4478157b4d46> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kulturquartier.leoben.at/en/museum/kunsthalle/exhibition-archive/cosmos/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.9474 | 277 | 2.359375 | 2 |
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The photo above is of a male donkey early twenties who suffers from insulin resistance. If he was a female many new donkey owners could think he was pregnant.
Donkeys can trick owners into believing they are pregnant even when they are not pregnant. I have met so many donkey enthusiasts who were sold the story take this donkey she is pregnant and the new owner is excited for a new baby donkey. In fact, the new owner starts feeding grain thinking the baby needs the grain. Only to end up with an obese donkey who is now suffering from obesity and the side effects. Obesity in donkeys causes hoof abscesses, insulin resistance, laminitis, hyperlipaemia (fat in the blood), kidney failure, and extremely painful death.
How Can I Know For Sure My Donkey Is Pregnant?
An ultrasound is the best way to ensure your donkey is pregnant. It is really important to not feed grain to the desert equine the donkey as the side effects from being fed to rich of a diet are serious. If you are want to give a supplement to a pregnant donkey you are 100% sure is pregnant I would look for a vitamin supplement low in sugar. I would avoid grain.
Stay On Donkey Time ® when training and caring for donkeys. Meaning, have a plan, become educated, and enjoy your donkey.
GOD bless you and your family two and four-legged!
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Lemons aren't just for enjoying in our favorite beverages, they also make an excellent household cleaner. According to Readers Digest there are 34 Uses of Lemons. Some of the most commonly asked questions include:
- Can you clean with lemon juice?
- How do I clean my counters and appliance surfaces with lemon juice?
- Are there homemade lemon juice cleaners?
Cleaning With Lemons
Check out our awesome video, and read even more info below!
Refreshing the Refrigerator
Easily remove odors from your refrigerator by dabbing lemon juice on a cotton ball or sponge. Leave it in the fridge for several hours. Be sure you toss out any foul-smelling items that have caused the original stink.
Refresh dull pots and pans with a sparkle that shines inside and out. Simply rub the cut side of half a lemon all over them, then buff it down with a soft cloth.
Freshen Your Cutting Board
Cutting boards are used to chop onions, crush garlic, cut raw and cooked meat and chicken, and to prepare fish. Get rid of the smells and help sanitize your cutting board by rubbing it all over with the cut side of half-a-lemon. Also wash it in undiluted lemon juice straight from the bottle.
Banish Insects from a Refreshed Kitchen
Forget insecticides or ant traps. To properly ant-proof your kitchen, just deliver the lemon treatment.
- First squirt some lemon juice on door thresholds and windowsills.
- Then squeeze lemon juice into any gaps or holes where ants are coming in.
- Finally, spread small slices of lemon peel around the outdoor entrance.
Lemons are also effective against roaches and fleas: Simply mix the juice of 4 lemons (along with the rinds) with 1/2 gallon (2 liters) water, and wash your floors with it; then watch the fleas and roaches flee.
For Cleaning the Microwave
No need to worry about scratching the surface with harsh cleansers or using too much elbow grease. Place 3 tablespoons lemon juice into 1 1/2 cups water. Use a microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 5-10 minutes, allowing the steam to condense on inside walls/ceilings of your oven. Then just wipe away the softened food with a sponge.
Deodorizer for Garbage Disposals
Save leftover lemon and orange peels. Toss them down the drain, and turn on the disposal. To keep it smelling fresh, repeat this action once a month.
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For me, the technology behind how this has happened is incredible, however as a creative myself, Beeple’s back story is super inspiring. For many, who haven’t heard of Beeple, this may have come out of nowhere, an unknown suddenly making it big. But Beeple has been building up to this for years.
On May 1st 2007 Beeple posted his first piece of everyday digital art online. For him it was just part of his own personal development, learning new software and crafting his creative skills as he continued to work as a digital designer during the day on more corporate client based work. This was just a way for him to explore his creative side, and be free to create stills and animation without rules or guidelines. Everyday since that date he’s posted a new piece of digital art, never skipping a day, never creating more than one piece in a day. Everyday, means everyday, during holidays, birthdays, even on the days his children were born, spending anywhere from 5 minutes to a few hours on each piece, and usually after a full days work. Over time his work became more noticed, building up to having over 2 million followers on Instagram, creating concert visuals for Justin Bieber, One Direction, Katy Perry, Deadmau5 and many more, and working for corporate clients like Louis Vuitton, Space X, Apple, Nike, and Adobe, in fact you name them, he’s probably worked for them.
Thirteen and a half years later, his discipline in creating the everydays, and love for digital art has resulted in those first 5000 pieces, being brought together as one giant piece of bizarre, hilarious and some would say disturbing art, entitled: ‘Everydays: The first 5000 days’ and selling at Christie’s for over $69 million. For some that seems a crazy number for what is essentially a giant jpg. There’s no physical print, no framed piece you can hang on your wall. Just pixels on a screen, 100% digital, and the new owner has the original and complete ownership of it. But, surely you can just copy it, duplicate it, re-post it 10,000 times on Insta? Well yes, you can, and obviously this piece is all over the Internet, so what have they actually bought? Well that’s where the technology comes in, why this has been labelled ‘crypto art’, and why a price tag, however wild, can be placed on digital items. And the answer behind all of that, is blockchain.
Blockchain is the backbone of crypto currencies like Ethereum and Bitcoin (which you can now use to buy our services here at PinPoint by the way! #shamelessplug) It’s a way of recording information so that it’s near impossible to change, hack or cheat the system. Essentially it’s like a digital spreadsheet that retains data added to it, but it isn’t in one central location, it’s copied across entire networks of computer systems. Digital art in itself can’t be added to a blockchain, however a ‘token’ with all the information about that art can be. This token is called an NFT – a ‘non fungible token’, and it’s this that makes the Ethereum blockchain so great. It uses that token to authenticate and identify a single, unique item, in this case, digital art. And that means you can prove ownership.
So yes, anyone can view it on Instagram, but using blockchain to prove ownership, suddenly makes it collectible. And that is where the value and worth comes in, just like any piece of physical art, if there’s a uniqueness, a ‘one of a kind’ to something, then it can be collectable. Whether it will be or not depends on so many different factors though, not least popularity of the artist, or how big your social following is. Personally, I have so much respect for Beeple, he’s been doing this for years, creating original, unique digital art, that’s why i think his pieces will always be profitable NFT’s, however in a world where any social media influencer with a few million followers can knock something out, register it as an NFT, and sell it instantly for $1000’s, thats where i think the bubble is eventually going to burst. In the world of social media, fame can be temporary, in 50 years time, will people be buying NFT’s that Youtuber Logan Paul had someone else create? Or will they be fighting over a unique piece of art by the likes of Beeple, Grimes or WhIsBe? But don’t get me wrong, i think the opportunities behind NFT’s are endless, and maybe this is just the beginning of seeing digital art turn into a multi-trillion dollar industry.
As for this particular sale, I’ve heard that one of the buyers of Beeple’s everyday art, was an early investor in Ethereum, the crypto thats behind the surge in NFT’s and digital art being sold, so maybe this is one massive marketing campaign, indeed everyone is talking about digital art and NFTs, and the more popular it is, the more digital items will be worth. It will be interesting to see where it all goes over the next few years, will the popularity of Etherium and NFT’s continue to soar, or will the bubble burst seeing prices plummet? Time will tell, but whatever happens it’s safe to say that creative digital art and video is certainly here to stay. | <urn:uuid:7efa8a97-28ad-4a41-b9b7-6a800bb06d2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pinpoint-media.global/insight/digital-art-beeple-and-blockchain-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961451 | 1,185 | 1.773438 | 2 |
There are various chemicals that every pool owner must use to keep their pool water crystal clear.
Below is a list of the most common ones, why they are important, how to use them, as well as advice for the different types of pools.
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Chlorine is one of the most important chemicals used to keep water clean and clear. It is responsible for breaking down organic contaminants, killing algae, and most importantly it kills germs that can cause waterborne illness.
Learn more about keeping your water, family and friends safe with chlorine.
If pH is too low it can damage pool (or spa) equipment and it could cause swimmers to have irritated or itchy skin and cause their eyes or nasal passages to sting and become irritated.
Check here for more pH Up tips on how to protect your investment and your guests.
Learn more about pH Down and how to keep everyone comfortable.
Shock can be used when water is cloudy, algae are present, or there is a strong chlorine smell.
Shocking helps keep water clean and clear when chlorine has been overloaded by increased bather load or if has been allowed to drop below recommended levels.
Here is some more information on shocking water into shape.
Alkalinity is a measurement of water’s ability to counter acidity or neutralize acids and bases and it is important because maintaining the correct level keeps pH from bouncing.
Discover how to raise alkalinity in pools.
Stabilizer (CYA) is like sunscreen for chlorine, it prevents UV light from destroying chlorine. Without enough CYA, chlorine will be ineffective at proper water sanitization. Learn more about keeping your chlorine safe from the sun so it can kill unwelcomed guests.
Baking soda raises alkalinity, and is the same chemical as alkalinity up. Read more about how baking soda can be used for more than baking cakes here.
Muriatic acid is used to lower pH and alkalinity and is known as the “bad boy” of all chemicals because it has to be handled carefully to prevent damage to anything it touches, including people. Learn more about how muriatic acid helps maintain water clarity and how to handle it safely.
Borate has several benefits when used in pool water. It helps with pH bounce, has algaecidal properties, and gives water a wonderful sparkle in direct sunlight. Borate is one of the best kept secrets for that sparkle and extra buffer to pH. Be a 10 percenter and learn more here to take your water to the next level.
Clarifier is used to remove finer contaminants from water and can be used for a quick boost before parties. It typically isn’t needed for routine maintenance, but it can be used to do a quick clear if needed.
Find out how clarifier works and why it is important for your pool’s safety.
Enzymes break down non-living organic contaminants and can help minimize scum lines and foam. Learn how enzymes can be an ally to your sanitizer and prevent that “yuck, did you see all that nasty in the hot tub” or just give chlorine a helping hand.
Flocculant is more potent than clarifier and can be used for immediate clarification during algae treatment or heavy contamination. We hope you don’t need to use flocculant, but if you do here’s some information that can help you understand what it does.
Phosphates are a hot topic in pool water management and are widely misunderstood. They are basically food for some types of algae and can be managed by phosphate reducing agents to help reduce the load on sanitizer. Learn more about phosphate insurance and why you may or may not want it here.
Mineral sanitizers are a secondary sanitizer that use silver and/or copper to help sanitizer to fight bacteria and algae. Learn more about this thousand year old sanitizer and how it can help keep water safe and clear.
Hardness increaser helps make sure plaster cures properly and is important to water clarity, but it can also cause calcium deposits and scaling. Read more about why it’s important to manage calcium hardness and how to avoid unwelcome calcium deposits.
Pool salt is the key component in keeping salt water chlorine generators fed so they can create chlorine. Despite the name, salt pools are basically pools that use salt to generate chlorine to keep water clean and clear. Read more about salt and how it’s more than what you add to your food.
Scale is a big problem for owners that have a high calcium content in their water and fail to maintain pH. When scale forms it can be a real pain to remove, but it can be done. Here is some information for tips on how to tip the scale when battling scale deposits.
Sequestrants and chelators are a class of ingredients found in stain removers or preventers and help prevent metal ions from staining surfaces. Water that contains metal or high calcium will benefit from this class of chemical and they can be used as a maintenance dose if needed. Check out this article to keep stains away and understand how these agents work. | <urn:uuid:6a8a621a-0937-4423-8c70-571ae1b8a9c3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shop.mysutro.com/blogs/pool-chemicals/pool-chemicals | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942043 | 1,116 | 2.515625 | 3 |
When you think about losing weight, math can be a helpful tool. You lose weight when you burn off more calories than you’ve eaten. You gain weight when you eat more calories than you’ve burned off. Of course, that isn’t the whole story, so read on.
Plan sensible, healthy meals instead of relying on diet shakes and meal replacement bars. These items are filled with calories and will not sate your hunger. They can lead to irritability and hunger shortly after eating. Many of these foods are also have a great deal of sugar, causing a spike in blood sugar, leaving you unhappy.
Turn your time on the phone into a weight loss workout. When you are talking on the phone, move around to burn calories. You don’t have to run in place. All you have to do is stay active and do some chores; you will be burning calories in no time!
You should find alternative ways of transporting yourself rather than driving in order to lose weight. Walking, running, biking, skating and other modes that require physical movement burn calories. When you aren’t active during the day, the calories you consume are stored as fat. If these calories are burned instead, then they won’t be stored.
You will achieve the best weight loss when you determine what works best for you. For example, if you are someone who enjoys waking up early, set your alarm clock for one hour earlier and workout during this time. Those who enjoy nighttime can exercise in the later hours. If you don’t like getting up, you probably won’t want to get up super early.
Six smaller meals spaced throughout the day are better for weight loss that 3 big meals per day. You’ll eat less, yet not feel hungry. Your overall caloric intake for the day will be much lower, and you will be one step closer to your weight loss goals.
If you consider losing weight to be your primary goal, your should do more cardiovascular exercises as opposed to weight training. Although it is good to use weight training for building muscle, cardio exercise is what actually burns fat and aids in weight loss. If you want to lose weight cardio exercises are better than weight lifting.
One good way to lose weight is to simply stay so busy that you don’t have time to eat! When we are just sitting around, food tends to pop into our minds and then the cravings happen because it’s just something to keep us occupied. If you keep yourself busy, you will not resort to this kind of behavior.
Be sure to have your breakfast prior to going to work. When time is of the essence,it is not difficult to get a practical breakfast pastry when going to work. However, these items contain lots of empty calories. A better solution would be to try some oatmeal with some fruits mixed in.
Take “before” and “after” photos to illustrate your progress. You will be able to notice the amount of weight you are losing in visual form as opposed to just seeing the loss on the scale. It’s also tangible proof that you can share with others.
Make sure you have plenty of other things to enjoy besides food. A lot of people love to cook and eat. There’s nothing wrong with that. Eating food can be a great experience. Just be sure you also have other passions and hobbies. Seek new hobbies, particularly active ones.
After you serve your dinner, put the rest of the food away. This is simpler to do for people with one or a couple people in a home. You can keep food on your kitchen counter so you have to get up to get more food.
Once you slim down and can no longer fit into your larger clothes, don’t keep them around as a memento! Letting go of these items gives you incentive to continue to lose weight, while forcing you to go back to dieting should you slip up. When your clothing starts to become snug, you will take notice, and you are more likely to make the effort to lose weight if you no longer have the larger sized clothing to wear.
Choose a 2,000 calorie daily eating plan as a starting point when you wish to commence dieting. You should carefully analyze each meal to ensure you’re getting the right mix of nutrients, including vitamins and minerals. If you find gaps, try to fill them with multivitamins or diet alterations.
Request your dressing to be included in a dish on the side if you order a salad at a restaurant. This allows you to moderate the amount of dressing you consume and can help you avoid consuming too many calories. Keep yourself from abusing the salad dressing by lightly dipping the fork in it instead of spreading it all over your salad. After you see the weight loss, you will be happy that you made these changes.
You should first start watching the amount of food you are taking in before you start counting calories. Now a days people become obsessed with the chemistry of ingredients in food. Reducing the amount of food you consume can go a long way. Just reducing the size of your portions can dramatically improve your health and help you lose weight.
You gain more weight from fat calories than you do protein calories, and certain foods actually take more calories to digest than you get from eating them. The glycemic index is a great reference tool. The guide can help you decide what foods to include in your diet. | <urn:uuid:030d578a-fc95-43b0-9b6f-de30c00e6b99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sugarblockerz.com/take-it-off-keep-it-off-the-weight-that-is/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956922 | 1,130 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Objectives: This study investigated whether mathematical models using calendar variables could identify the determinants of emergency department (ED) census over time in geographically close EDs and assessed the performance of long-term forecasts.
Methods: Daily visits in four EDs at academic hospitals in the Paris area were collected from 2004 to 2007. First, a general linear model (GLM) based on calendar variables was used to assess two consecutive periods of 2 years each to create and test the mathematical models. Second, 2007 ED attendance was forecasted, based on a training set of data from 2004 to 2006. These analyses were performed on data sets from each individual ED and in a virtual mega ED, grouping all of the visits. Models and forecast accuracy were evaluated by mean absolute percentage error (MAPE).
Results: The authors recorded 299,743 and 322,510 ED visits for the two periods, 2004-2005 and 2006-2007, respectively. The models accounted for up to 50% of the variations with a MAPE less than 10%. Visit patterns according to weekdays and holidays were different from one hospital to another, without seasonality. Influential factors changed over time within one ED, reducing the accuracy of forecasts. Forecasts led to a MAPE of 5.3% for the four EDs together and from 8.1% to 17.0% for each hospital.
Conclusions: Unexpectedly, in geographically close EDs over short periods of time, calendar determinants of attendance were different. In our setting, models and forecasts are more valuable to predict the combined ED attendance of several hospitals. In similar settings where resources are shared between facilities, these mathematical models could be a valuable tool to anticipate staff needs and site allocation.
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New Climate Modelling Suggests the ?Asian Haze? Has Affected Australian Rainfall
New research suggests that elevated particle emissions resulting from increased economic activity in Asia may have increased Australia?s tropical rainfall. Until now, there has been ample evidence that these particles have important effects on climate in the Northern Hemisphere but little such evidence in the Southern Hemisphere. Because the sky is generally blue over Australia, climate scientists have tended to assume that these particles (called aerosols) are essentially a Northern-Hemisphere problem.
Recent simulations using the CSIRO climate model suggest that the ‘Asian haze’ is having an effect on the Australian hydrological cycle and has generated increasing rainfall and cloudiness since 1950, especially over northwest and central Australia. The effect occurs because the haze cools the Asian continent and nearby oceans, and thereby alters the delicate balance of temperature and winds between Asia and Australia. It has nothing to do with Asian pollution being transported directly over Australia.
This implies that decreasing pollution in Asia later this century could reverse this effect and lead to an increase in Australian drying trends. We are only at the beginning of understanding the trends but sooner or later these emissions will be cleaned up and then a trend of increasing rainfall in the northwest and centre could be reversed. This is potentially serious for Australia, because the northwest and centre are the only parts of Australia where rainfall has been increasing in recent decades.
An aerosol is a haze of small particles or droplets suspended in the atmosphere. Representing aerosols in climate models and understanding their influence on cloud formation and rainfall is one of the biggest challenges facing climate scientists. Climate modelling is a valuable tool for teasing out what is actually causing climatic changes, rather than simply assuming that future trends will be an extrapolation of existing trends.
This research, to be published early in 2007 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, increases confidence in the accuracy of future climate simulations for Australia, because it improves the simulation of 20th century rainfall trends over Australia. Since the cooling effect of aerosol pollution is possibly comparable to the warming effect of increased levels of carbon dioxide, one message from this research is that aerosols are an essential inclusion if we are to accurately describe present and future Australian climate.
The new research is based on simulations performed with a new low-resolution version of CSIRO’s global climate model – including a treatment of aerosols from both natural and human-induced sources. The work was done in collaboration with scientists from the Cooperative Research Centre for Greenhouse Accounting at the Australian National University; the University of Michigan’s Department of Atmospheric, Oceanic and Space Sciences, and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory in Princeton. A copy of the full paper can be downloaded from the following website: http://www.csiro.au/resources/pfoq.html .
Journal of Geophysical Research (to be published)
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Kermit Warren shined shoes at a hotel and collects scrap metal for a living. Besides serving in the Army Corps of Engineers, he is a deacon at his church and is a proud grandfather. None of that mattered to the Drug Enforcement Administration which used civil forfeiture laws to swipe his life savings that he was going to use to buy a truck. Now Warren wants his savings back, but the government would like to keep them.
From Institute for Justice:
Kermit Warren is a hardworking grandfather and the head deacon of his church in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. After losing his home to Hurricane Katrina, Kermit managed to rebuild his life. Thanks to a dogged work ethic, frugal lifestyle, diligent saving, and a small inheritance, Kermit managed to build a nest egg of nearly $30,000 in cash over several years. When Kermit lost his job due to the COVID-19 pandemic, he tried to use his savings to purchase a tow truck that he could use to support himself. But, on a trip to Ohio, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) officers took Kermit's much-needed life savings. Now, the federal government is trying to keep his money using the abusive practice of civil forfeiture, which does not require charging Kermit with any crime, let alone securing a conviction.
Kermit and his youngest son, Leo, lost their hotel jobs when the pandemic began. They decided to turn Kermit's longtime side gig of hauling scrap metal into a fulltime, father-son enterprise. But they needed a tow truck for the business to support them. In early November 2020, with Kermit's cash life savings in hand, they flew to Ohio, where they had arranged to look at a truck that they hoped to buy and drive home. But when the truck turned out to be too large for their needs, they had to fly back to New Orleans.
At the Columbus airport, TSA screeners noticed that Kermit had a large amount of cash in his bag. They asked him about it but let him continue to his gate. Later, as Kermit and Leo were waiting to board their flight, DEA agents approached them and asked questions about Kermit's cash. The officers were uninterested in Kermit's and Leo's evidence about the source and purpose of the money; it was clear the officers were simply there to take it. Kermit panicked and did something he greatly regrets: In a last-ditch effort to avoid losing his hard-earned life savings, he told the agents that he was a retired New Orleans police officer and showed them his other son's old badge, which Kermit keeps for sentimental reasons. The officers saw through this right away and Kermit admitted that he was not a former cop.
The DEA agents took all of Kermit's money. But they did not arrest Kermit or Leo or charge them with any crime. Instead, the agents let them board their plane to New Orleans without Kermit's life savings.
About six months later, the government filed a civil forfeiture complaint in federal court, arguing that Kermit's money should be permanently taken because it is somehow connected to drug activity. But the government's allegations do not connect Kermit or his money to any crime. Instead, the government contends that Kermit vaguely fits the profile of a drug courier. But the government should not be able to take property forever with flimsy evidence; it should have to prove someone's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.
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Created in 2000 by Gilles Fuchs, Founder and president of ADIAF, the Marcel Duchamp Prize aims to highlight the creative abundance of the French scene at the beginning of the 21st century and to support artists in their international career.
Each year, this collectors’ prize distinguishes one laureate among four French artists or artists living in France, working in the field of plastic and visual arts: installation, video, painting, photography, sculpture, performance and so on. Like the important artist who lends his name to it – and with the complicity of the Marcel Duchamp Association, which supports this initiative – it distinguishes the most significant artists of the French scene of their generation and encourages all new artistic forms that stimulate creation.
At this time, 85 artists, laureates and nominees, have been honoured by the Marcel Duchamp Prize, which over the years and exhibitions has become a true ambassador of the French scene. They represent unique insight into the vitality of French creation and offer an open vision of contemporary art in France.
The result of a unique private/public collaboration, the Marcel Duchamp Prize has been organised from the outset in partnership with the Centre Pompidou. It enables a new generation of artists to benefit from a framework that promotes their reputation and helps them to make themselves known worldwide.
For fifteen editions, the Centre Pompidou invited the laureate for a solo exhibition that gave the artists of the French scene an exceptional showcase in the Musée National d’Art Moderne. The visibility of the Marcel Duchamp Prize increased considerably in 2016 when the Centre Pompidou opened its doors to the four nominated artists, who now benefit from a three-month group exhibition in Galerie 4 and are able to express themselves over a 650 m2 surface area with the help of a museum curator.
This major development makes it possible to pay tribute to the finalist artists and enhances the international prestige of the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
1 – Exhibition of the four nominated artists at the Centre Pompidou for a three-month period in the “Galerie 4” of the Musée National d’Art Moderne. On average 100,000 visitors and a major publicity campaign.
2 – ADIAF grant of to the galleries for the scenography of the exhibition .
3 – Organisation of an event to announce the laureate, bringing together the major players in the art world on the French scene: collectors, professionals, institutions, museums, press.
4 – Publication by the ADIAF of a Marcel Duchamp Prize catalogue dedicated to the four artists and the exhibition.
5 – ADIAF provides the laureate with a €35,000 grant.
6 – Two-year residency in Sèvres – Manufacture and Musée Nationaux for one of the artists of the prize (specific call for projects).
7 – Participation in international exhibitions organised by ADIAF with the support of the Institut français. More than 50 artists of the Marcel Duchamp Prize, nominees and laureates, have been invited to take part in these exhibitions (more than twenty to date).
The Marcel Duchamp Prize is awarded to French and foreign artists living and working in France. All disciplines of “plastic” creation are eligible: painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, film or video, performance.
The distinctive feature of the Marcel Duchamp Prize lies in the method of selection of the nominated artists who are chosen by ADIAF collectors, committed figures in the art world.
The long selection process of the artists takes place in several stages:
Artist meetings and studio visits
Throughout the year, ADIAF collectors are invited to meet artists to learn about their work. Nearly 60 studio visits are arranged each year. At the end of this stage, the ADIAF Artistic Committee draws up an initial list of artists eligible for the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
An internal vote open to all ADIAF members
The list drawn up by the Artistic Committee is sent to the members who are asked to vote for 4 artists. This vote enables a second list to be drawn up which will be submitted to a Selection Committee.
An ADIAF Selection Committee to select the 4 nominated artists
Chaired by the ADIAF President, composed of collectors from the association and renewed every year, the ADIAF Selection Committee chooses the 4 finalists. Over the past 20 years, more than 130 collectors from the association have thus participated directly in the choice of artists for the Marcel Duchamp Prize.
“Reporters” to present the artists to the jury
A novel process has been put in place whereby artists are introduced to the panel of judges through “rapporteurs” chosen by the artists. | <urn:uuid:a40f203b-ceca-4c1e-afe0-3215a93b29a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.adiaf.com/en/the-prix-marcel-duchamp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948249 | 982 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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You can’t get there from here: Why New England COVID travel quarantines vary
Shannon Hardy’s restaurant in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is less than 800 feet from Attleboro, Massachusetts.
But it might as well be a world away for some customers, who see the state line as an impenetrable barrier thanks to coronavirus-related travel restrictions that require anyone returning to the Bay State from Rhode Island to quarantine for 14 days.
“There’s customers who can’t come in anymore because they live in Massachusetts,” said Hardy, owner of Shannon’s Place, on Broadway. “At least a third of my business is from South Attleboro.”
The pandemic had already taken away half her business, she estimated. The recent travel restrictions have left her with only a third of what her 30-year-old restaurant once had.
When Massachusetts first issued its travel restrictions July 24, it was easy to think of New England as a single place where interstate travel was easy.
The map that accompanied Baker’s order showed New England — plus New York and New Jersey — as a cluster of “COVID-19 lower risk“ states cut off from the rest of the country by surrounding ”restricted“ states.
National news reports touted New England, New York and New Jersey as places that had, if not conquered the virus, held it in check.
But, on Aug. 4, the illusion was burst, revealing the six-state region had a patchwork approach to travel restrictions.
On that date, New York, New Jersey and Connecticut — quickly followed by Massachusetts — required travelers from Rhode Island to quarantine. That included Rhode Islanders leaving the Ocean State and residents of those four states returning from Rhode Island.
All six New England states have different travel policies:
* Connecticut requires a 14-day quarantine for travelers from states with an average of more than 10 cases per 100,000 residents over seven days.
* In Massachusetts, it’s 6 per 100,000. (Though Rhode Island’s cases quickly dropped to a level that doesn’t trigger a quarantine in Connecticut, travelers from the Ocean State still must quarantine for travel to Massachusetts.)
* Vermont looks at the calculation of active cases in the county from which a traveler comes, as determined by Johns Hopkins University. If a county has more than 400 active cases per million residents, travelers need to quarantine for 14 days. As of Wednesday morning, that included most of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island and a few counties in New Hampshire and Maine.
* Rhode Island requires a 14-day quarantine for travelers from states where the coronavirus positive testing rate is more than 5%. (Massachusetts also has this requirement; travelers to the Bay State have to clear both hurdles.)
* New Hampshire allows travelers from all five other New England states to visit without quarantining, but requires a 14-day quarantine for those coming from outside New England.
* Maine allows visitors from states with a “prevalence of active cases of COVID-19 ... similar or better to that in Maine” to travel without quarantining. Currently, that includes all New England states except Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Some New England states will grant an exemption to travelers who have a negative test for the coronavirus, while others will not.
And each provides exemptions under certain circumstances, such as travel for medical treatment or passing through the state, though the exemptions vary from state to state.
In contrast to New England, in the tri-state region of Connecticut, New York and New Jersey, each has a virtually identical policy, allowing restriction-free travel.
“Our focus with New York and New Jersey arose from the early days of the pandemic,” said Josh Geballe, Connecticut’s chief operating officer, who added that the arrangement was born of economic necessity, with high numbers of commuters regularly crossing the densely populated borders between those states.
How was the patchwork of travel policies stitched together in New England?
“We all just decided to be in a different place. I don’t think it was purposeful,” said Rhode Island Gov. Gina M. Raimondo. “Every governor is having to make judgment calls on our own.”
She was echoed by New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu: “While the response efforts of New England states have remained on similar paths, each governor has recognized the need to respond in a way best suited to the situation on the ground and unique factors within their state.”
Connecticut’s Geballe said that, while a uniform policy would make travel easier, states would lose the flexibility they need to respond to often rapidly changing conditions with the pandemic. “The more people involved, the slower the decision making could become.”
Ted Brady, deputy secretary of Vermont’s Agency of Commerce and Community Development, said a uniform policy was quickly abandoned as unworkable.
“We’d love to have a regional approach, but that wasn’t possible,” Brady said. “It became more complicated than having our own policies.”
How does a policy account for densely populated cities such as Boston, Providence, Worcester and Hartford while including the woods and mountains of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont?
“We all had different COVID realities, so we weren’t in a position to create a one-size-fits-all policy,” Brady said. “In the end, New England doesn’t look the same right now.”
Vermont even struggled to come up with a policy that treated individual states as single units, Brady said. Should Boston, once a national hotspot for coronavirus infection, drag down the bucolic communities of Western Massachusetts?
“It wasn’t apples to apples,” Brady said.
So the Green Mountain State decided to consider which county travelers call home, Brady said. “Because of the different regional hotspots, we were going to have to have regional differences anyway.”
While faulting the federal government for not developing national guidelines for travel restrictions, state policymakers in New England acknowledged the patchwork can be confusing for travelers.
Connecticut’s Geballe listed the simplicity and consistency among the pluses to a unified regional policy.
“We’re aware that all travelers need to do a little bit of homework,” said Brady, who added that this includes checking the policy in the state where travelers are headed as well as their home state to see whether out-of-state travel triggers a quarantine or other restrictions.
Enforcement of the travel policies varies from Vermont, which has no penalty attached to violations, to Connecticut, which calls for a $1,000 fine, which has been levied in several cases.
“Like most laws, we do rely heavily on voluntary compliance, people doing the right thing,” Geballe said, while noting half a dozen cases where fines were imposed. “These rules are for real.”
Brady said that just trying to comply with the policies has changed people’s behavior for the better. “Everybody’s doing something different, so we’re mitigating risk.”
But having different policies from one state to the next is not good for businesses near state lines.
“We have to try a little harder to get our cases down so we can travel more freely between here and Massachusetts,” Rhode Island’s Raimondo said at a news conference Aug. 19. “I’m making a point of that because it’s hurting a lot of our businesses.”
“It is heartbreaking to hear from these small businesses that they’re barely getting by and, now they’ve lost a lot of business on account of this Massachusetts travel ban,” she added.
Raimondo made clear she’s not criticizing judgment calls made by her fellow governors, such as Massachusetts’ Baker. “They’re staying firm on that rule and I absolutely respect that.”
But that leaves people like Shannon Hardy, who bought her business when she was 21, struggling to survive. She has had to lay off staff and step up her takeout operation.
“We’re just doing what we can.”
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4 Things You Definitely Won’t Find in a Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg Cabin
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Here at Visit My Smokies, we’ve noticed that there have been a lot of rumors lately about what you will find at cabins in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Some of these myths go back decades and have resurfaced in the past few months, while other stories have recently cropped up on the internet. As the leading source of information about the Smoky Mountain area, we feel compelled to address this misinformation. In the interest of setting the record straight, here are four things you definitely won’t find in a Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg cabin:
As you may know, the first permanent settler in Gatlinburg was William Ogle. Legend has it that Ogle came to the Smokies in the early 1800s to fulfill his lifelong dream of opening up a successful chain of pancake restaurants. Supposedly known as “Flapjack” to his friends and family, Ogle jealously guarded the details of his secret pancake recipe from the prying eyes of his neighbors back in South Carolina. Sadly, William Ogle died from malaria in 1803 before he could launch his pancake franchise.
Nevertheless, many people believe that before he passed, Ogle buried his recipe for the perfect buttery pancakes somewhere in the Smoky Mountain area. Some so-called “experts” insist that the recipe can be found beneath the floorboards of a cabin in Gatlinburg. Should Ogle’s flapjack recipe come to light, they claim it would turn the Sevier County pancake world on its head, surpassing even the most beloved hotcakes served on the Parkway.
We would like to remind readers that this story is patently untrue. There is absolutely no way that a long-lost pancake recipe valued at $10 million is hidden under a Gatlinburg cabin.
Nearly 40 years after his death, there is still a vocal group of passionate fans who believe that Elvis Presley never truly left the building. Now more than ever, the Smoky Mountains are a hotbed of supposed sightings of the King. The dominant conspiracy theory is as follows:
Having tired of fame, Elvis faked his own death in 1977 in Memphis, Tennessee and immediately drove six hours east to the Smoky Mountains. For the next four decades, Presley has lived under the radar, breaking into unoccupied cabins and sleeping there for a few nights at a time. When he gets the urge to perform, Presley earns a little extra money by working as an aging Elvis impersonator at the Memories Theatre.
On the internet, a few vacationers claim to have found evidence that Elvis stayed in their cabin: his signature sunglasses on a nightstand, sparkly capes on the floor, half-eaten peanut butter and bacon sandwiches on the kitchen table, etc.
Visit My Smokies would like to reiterate that this story is completely bogus. Even if you think you heard someone humming the first few bars of Heartbreak Hotel at 3:00 in the morning, Elvis Presley is not in your Pigeon Forge cabin.
It is no secret that the Smoky Mountains used to be home to a thriving illegal moonshine trade. Distilling and selling unlicensed liquor was the only way to make ends meet for many disadvantaged people living in Sevier County. Moonshiners in the area used a number of furtive paths through the mountains to smuggle their white whiskey into town.
Today, the internet is abuzz with rumors that moonshiners dug a series of underground tunnels throughout the foothills of the Smokies that lead to Pigeon Forge. Supposedly, some people have found secret entrances to the tunnels in their cabins and have used these passages to sneak into Dollywood. The most common claim is that the tunnel’s Dollywood exit is located in the Rivertown Junction section of the park, behind The Back Porch Theater.
This is most definitely a hoax. Please do not waste your vacation moving around the furniture in your cabin in hopes of finding any trap doors or secret passageways that lead to one of the most popular theme park in the Southeast.
4. The Ghosts of Civil War Soldiers/ Passengers on the Titanic
Ghost stories are some of the most enduring myths related to cabins in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge. During the Civil War, a battle broke out in Gatlinburg when Union army troops took back the city from the occupying Confederate forces. Some people say that the restless souls of the soldiers who died during the attack on Burg Hill still haunt the Smokies, unaware that the Civil War ended 150 years ago.
Another group of ghosts rumored to reside in the Smokies are those who perished during the sinking of the RMS Titanic in 1912. The theory behind their presence in Sevier County is that the spirits lost track of the actual Titanic when it sank to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean, so they decided to haunt the area surrounding the Titanic Museum Attraction in Pigeon Forge instead. The ghosts supposedly visit Pigeon Forge cabins in the dead of night and begin repeatedly chanting the words “iceberg” and “Kate Winslet”.
Like all of the other rumors mentioned in this blog, these ghost stories are totally fabricated. If you hear anyone who is spreading this misinformation, please share this blog with them so they know the facts.
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A careful review of his personal history and decisions affecting criminal law may give us some insight as to how Judge Gorsuch would rule as a Supreme Court Justice.
Nominated in 2017 by President Trump to replace Justice Antonin Scalia, Gorsuch was appointed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals by President George W. Bush in 2006. He is a graduate of Harvard Law, a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, and has clerked for Justice’s Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. Turning 50 in 2017, he is young, an energetic and clear writer, and has ideological beliefs that mirror Scalia’s own.
Gorsuch, like Scalia, is considered a textualist, meaning he interpretes the law based on the ordinary meaning of the statute, without regard to the legislative intention, the issues or social remedies the law is meant to provide, or even the fundamental justice or fairness that the judicial interpretation could address. A broad and simplistic definition of this philosophy as it relates to the United States Constitution is often spoken as “originalism,” or reliances on the original meaning of the Constitution as the founders intended at the time it was written.
When it comes to criminal law, Gorsuch’s opinions paint him as an individual who is assuredly consistent with his philosophical beliefs. The same ideology of strict textualism favored by Judge Gorsuch is found in his opinions regarding criminal law. Contrary to most people’s definition of “conservative” as a social construct, Gorsuch will often favor the defendant over the government when interpreting statutes. The prosecution often finds itself on the wrong side of conservatism in his Court, as he will hold the Government to every element of a criminal statute, including notice or “mens rea.” From United States v. Games-Perez, 667 F.3d 1136, Gorsuch writes:
“For current purposes, just stating Capps‘s holding makes the problem clear enough: its interpretation—reading Congress’s mens rea requirement as leapfrogging over the first statutorily specified element and touching down only at the second listed element—defies grammatical gravity and linguistic logic.”
Any potential Supreme Court Justice nomination creates a healthy debate among both politicians and citizens. No matter your political views, Gorsuch’s qualifications are not in dispute, as he is a well respected intellectual. Whether he will be elevated to the highest court in the United States or not is a political question beyond the scope of this writer. However, the top rated trial lawyers at Garrett, Walker, Ayocth and Olson respect and will defend the free speech of every individual, no matter where on the political spectrum they fall. | <urn:uuid:c6051903-0add-4ff4-bca3-15cfacafea1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.garrettandwalker.com/what-would-neil-gorsuchs-confirmation-as-supreme-court-justice-mean-for-greensboro-criminal-attorneys/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959624 | 551 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Intermec CK3 Battery Tips and Tricks
Batteries are a crucial aspect of the day to day functionality of your handheld mobile computer. The following article will help you with any questions regarding Intermec CK3 battery usage as well as helping to identify common icons related to battery health.
Your Intermec CK3 can come with a standard battery or an extended battery. While the extended battery may increase the length of time between charges, several factors determine the life of your battery such as extreme temperatures, input devices and overall usage.
A few key points to note about batteries and usage of your Intermec CK3 :
- You must fully charge the battery before you can use your device.
- When you change your battery, an internal back up battery will maintain your status, memory and real time clock for 10 minutes.
- If you fail to replace a low battery, you may lose important data, applications or settings.
- When the CK3 is not using external power and you remove the battery, the unit will go into suspend mode.
Charging the Battery
Before using your Intermec CK3 , make sure to fully charge the battery. Whether you are using the standard or extended battery, it will take 4-7 hours to completely charge your battery. There are two ways to charge your battery:
- Insert the battery into a battery bay of either a single or four slot battery charger.
- Install the battery into the CK3 and insert the unit into either a single slot or four slot cradle.
Charging Times for Intermec CK3 Batteries.
Removing and Installing the Battery
In an effort to maximize the time allowed to replace your battery, and save important data and settings, place the CK3 in suspend mode before removing the battery pack.
- Press and hold the power button for about 2 seconds. When you release the power button the CK3 will go into suspend mode.
- If necessary, disconnect the hand strap form the bottom of the device.
- Press the battery release tab toward the battery until it releases, and then lift it away from the CK3.
- Insert the battery back into the unit and press down on the battery until it clicks.
Battery Conservation Tips
Checking the Battery Status
One easy way to check the status of the battery in your CK3 is to look at the battery icon in the status bar.
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Bankruptcy is a complex process handled in the federal courts which can provide substantial benefits to people with serious debt problems.
Bankruptcy is usually a voluntary process in which an individual chooses to seek the protection of the bankruptcy court from the collection efforts of creditors.
Because most bankruptcy cases are successful in getting debts discharged many people have come to believe that it is a simple matter of filing out forms and completing a simple process, something that they can do without the assistance of an attorney. You probably don't change the oil in your car without assistance, you would not consider operating on yourself, and you should not consider doing a bankruptcy without the assistance of an attorney.
More in depth information is available in a forthcoming book I have written on consumer bankrutpcy. Once it is published a link to it will be available here.
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Scientists just found out that Saturn’s moon Enceladus has the very basic building blocks of life. A recent analysis of NASA data has revealed that organic compounds are present in the jets of water that shoot from Enceladus’s icy crust.
These organic compounds are composed of Nitrogen and Oxygen which are vital ingredients in the formation of Amino Acids, the building blocks of proteins. A rough inspection of life on Earth reveals that if life has to exist, it cannot do so without proteins.
Scientists have long suspected that the ocean underneath Enceladus’s surface could be harboring such organic materials. Data had previously revealed the presence of other organic compounds in Enceladus, but this is the first time organic compounds have been found dissolved in water.
This discovery is crucial as it means that the compounds could potentially undergo deep-sea chemical reactions necessary for producing amino acids. These findings were published last Wednesday in the journal ‘Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.’ This discovery is also a green light to the global effort to find life and investigate the habitability of other heavenly bodies.
NASA’s spacecraft Cassini collected this data some time ago as it passed through the jets of water Enceladus spews into space. This unusual and exciting phenomenon has enabled us to analyze the chemical composition of Enceladus’s subsurface ocean.
Scientists suspect that there are hydrothermal vents in the subsurface ocean of Enceladus, just like on Earth. The heat from these vents, combined with the presence of Organic water-soluble materials, might be able to provide the necessary conditions for life to originate as they did on Earth.
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By Carolyn King
The pollen beetle larvae feed inside the canola bud. Photo by CÉROM.
The pollen beetle may look like a cute little bug, but it’s one of Alberta’s “most unwanted” pests. “It is one of those pests that we don’t have now but could have a fairly major impact on the canola industry,” says Scott Meers, insect management specialist with Alberta Agriculture and Forestry.
In Europe, this beetle species (Brassicogethes viridescens) can cause serious yield losses in spring-planted canola crops. The adult beetles feed on canola pollen and buds, and the larvae feed inside the buds and open flowers, destroying the ability of the flowers to produce seeds.
So far in Canada, the pest is found only in the Maritimes and Quebec, but climate models show it could survive and even thrive in canola-growing regions across the country.
The good news is that researchers in Eastern Canada are already tackling the pollen beetle problem. “We’re actively working on this problem, and our goal is to try to have the tools ready to manage the pest before it becomes a crisis in Canada,” says Peter Mason, an entomologist with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) in Ottawa.
The adult pollen beetle is about the size of a flea beetle and is black with a metallic greenish tint. It was first recorded in Canada in the 1940s in Nova Scotia. In a study in the mid-1990s, scientists found numerous pollen beetles in patches of wild radish (a cousin of canola) in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. By 2001, the pest had spread into Quebec as far west as Saint-Hyacinthe.
In P.E.I., the beetle’s recent population levels appear to be linked to the amount of canola grown there. “A few years ago, canola production started increasing on the Island and we started to see more beetles. But canola production has really gone down now, and although we still have quite a few pollen beetles, the populations are not overly high,” says Christine Noronha, an entomologist with AAFC at Charlottetown.
When the beetle populations were very high, Noronha observed serious damage on infested canola crops. She adds, “One of the crops that can be grown to reduce wireworm populations is mustard, which belongs to the same family as canola. Because of the wireworm problems that we have, we might see an increase in pollen beetle populations because of increased mustard acres.”
In Quebec, other factors in addition to the number of canola acres may be playing an important role in the beetle’s population levels. According to Statistics Canada, the area seeded to canola in Quebec has fluctuated up and down over the past 10 years, ranging from 15,200 to 48,200 acres, with 29,700 acres in 2015. However, only recently has the beetle’s population surged.
“We began to see the pollen beetle in high numbers only in the last two or three years. Before that, it was just a species that we observed,” notes Geneviève Labrie, an entomologist with the Centre de recherche sur les grains Inc. (CÉROM). She suspects this recent population increase might be associated with warming climatic conditions that favour the beetle.
Her research shows the beetle is most common in the Bas Saint-Laurent area, a region in eastern Quebec along the St. Lawrence River. This is the third-most important canola production area in the province. Labrie says, “About 2011, the pollen beetle appeared for the first time in that area, and now there’s a huge population. Between 2012 and 2015, we observed a 58 per cent increase in population in that area.”
The pollen beetle is also in the Saguenay–Lac Saint-Jean canola-growing region, which lies about 200 kilometres north of Quebec City. However, the pest is not yet in Abitibi–Temiscamingue, the province’s most important canola production area. Labrie notes, “The beetle could cause big problems if it arrives there.” Abitibi–Temiscamingue is in northwestern Quebec and is adjacent to Ontario’s Temiskaming area, another region where canola is grown.
Mason led a study published in 2003 that modelled the beetle’s potential distribution across Canada. Using long-term average weather data from 1961 to 1990, the model showed that Canada’s canola-growing regions have suitable to very favourable conditions for the beetle.
“Under present climate conditions, there is great potential for the beetle to move west into canola-growing regions in Ontario as well as the Prairies and, of course, that is what we really fear,” Mason says.
AAFC’s Owen Olfert and Ross Weiss have evaluated the effects of a range of possible future climate scenarios on the pollen beetle’s potential distribution and abundance. The modelling results indicate that if Canada’s climate were a few degrees warmer, then conditions would be further improved for the beetle in many areas, including much of the Prairies.
Given that the beetle could survive in Ontario and the Prairies, how might it get there? Mason says the possibility of storm events carrying the beetles westward is remote because our weather events generally move from the west to the east. He thinks the most likely pathway would be human-assisted transfer, with the beetles hitchhiking on plant materials being carried on trucks or trains.
At present, the beetles don’t seem to be migrating into new areas very quickly under their own power, possibly because Eastern Canada doesn’t have the large expanses of canola production that are common in parts of the Prairies.
Mason notes, “The beetles have the potential to disperse on other species of brassica that they might feed on or if canola areas are kind of connected. For example, at the present time not much canola is grown from Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu in southern Quebec through to south of Peterborough in Ontario. So there is really no way that the beetle can move from canola crop to canola crop.”
Other brassica species include weeds like wild radish, stinkweed, shepherd’s purse and wild mustard, and crops like mustard, broccoli and Brussels sprouts. Labrie notes that a four-year survey on wild brassica plants along roads in western Quebec and southeast of Ottawa in June and July did not find any pollen beetles on the wild plants. Noronha is planning to examine the role of other brassicas in the beetle’s life cycle and population patterns in P.E.I.
Noronha and Labrie are studying the beetle’s life cycle and how it relates to canola growth stages in P.E.I. and Quebec. “The adults come out of hibernation early in the spring and feed on the pollen of different plants, but the larva can only survive on brassicas. The adults come into the canola crop only when they are ready to lay their eggs,” Noronha explains. “[In P.E.I.], the arrival of the pollen beetle in the canola crop is usually synchronized with the time when the flower buds are just forming on canola. Once the adults come into the canola crop, they will stay there and start feeding.”
The females lay their eggs in the flower buds, usually about two to three eggs per bud. After hatching, the larvae feed in the bud. Noronha says, “The larvae are really tiny. They have two larval stages, or instars, compared to some insects that can usually have four or more instars. So the [pollen beetle] larvae have quite a fast development.” The mature larvae fall to the ground and then pupate in the soil. They emerge as adults later in the summer and feed on the pollen of various plant species until they go into hibernation for the winter.
In Quebec, the beetles arrive in the canola crop a little later than in P.E.I. Labrie says, “Fortunately, in Quebec at present, the pollen beetle’s life cycle is not synchronized with the sensitive stage of canola [which is during stem elongation as the buds appear]. The canola plants are very sensitive to pollen beetles at that stage because the beetle puts the eggs inside the bud, and the larva will feed inside the bud and there will be no flowers at all.”
Instead, the beetles tend to arrive in Quebec canola fields between 10 and 30 per cent flowering. At that crop stage, a lot of pollen beetles would be needed to cause significant yield losses. However, Labrie worries that warming climatic conditions might enable the beetle to adjust its life cycle so that it would arrive in canola fields right at the sensitive crop stage, with the potential for very significant crop damage.
Noronha and one of her graduate students have been examining the effect of temperature on the timing of the insect’s life cycle. “We’re trying to develop a degree-day model to see when the beetles emerge from hibernation and when they come into the canola crop, and whether that is related to temperature. We got some really good results [in 2014]. We did it again last year, but it was a strange year – we still had snow on the ground into May and June. So we’re going to do it again in 2016 to make sure our degree-day model is correct.”
Developing control options
Labrie, Noronha and Mason are collaborating on a number of studies to develop integrated pest management strategies for controlling the beetle.
No insecticides are currently registered for use on pollen beetles in Canadian canola crops, so Labrie and Noronha have been testing different active ingredients to see which ones are most effective. Labrie adds, “The pollen beetle is a species that can become insecticide-resistant very rapidly; in Europe, it is resistant to a lot of insecticide products. So insecticide rotations will be important.”
Insecticide timing is also a crucial issue. Noronha explains, “You have to use the insecticides very judiciously because bees forage in flowering canola crops. So you cannot apply the insecticides when the flowers are open. We’re trying to figure out the very short application window to reduce bee exposure.”
Labrie is leading a study to determine the economic threshold for controlling the beetle. Results so far indicate that about three to nine pollen beetles per plant would be needed at the sensitive crop stage to cause serious yield impacts. In Quebec at present, the beetle numbers at the sensitive crop stage are not that high.
In some preliminary observations, Noronha has noticed that larval damage seems to be causing increased green seed counts, rather than outright yield losses. Noronha explains, “If some of the buds die, then canola could compensate by developing more buds. But because those buds are developing later, they won’t mature at the same time as the rest of the crop.” Labrie observed a similar type of response from canola when she introduced pollen beetles into cages at the beginning of the flowering period. Green seeds are a downgrading factor for canola, so Noronha is planning to look into the green seed counts in infested plants.
The researchers are also assessing possible non-chemical control options, such as using trap crops or the beetle’s natural enemies.
Labrie and Mason have been investigating parasitoid and predator species in canola fields in Quebec and Ontario. Mason says, “A number of parasitic wasps attack the pollen beetle in Europe. Geneviève’s work has demonstrated that we do not have any parasitic wasps attacking the beetle’s larval stages here. So there is a good prospect to import a natural enemy from its native range and introduce it here to assist in control of the beetle. However, that process will take some time because we have to make sure the parasitoid is not going to attack our native species, and there are some very rigorous studies that are required.”
The researchers have identified a long list of predator insects and spiders in Quebec and Ontario canola fields. Ground beetles are a key group. “Ground beetles are voracious predators. They are in all of our agricultural systems and in native habitats as well,” Mason explains. “When the mature larvae of the pollen beetle drop to the ground and pupate in the soil, these ground beetles will feed on them.”
The researchers are in the process of evaluating how much impact these predators are having on pollen beetle populations. Labrie says, “My master’s student did lab trials with three ground beetle species: Pterostichus melanarius, Harpalus rufipes and Clivina fossor. The first two are big generalist predators observed in every field, while the third lives in the soil. These three species consumed larvae of the pollen beetle; however, the first two were better at consuming the larvae at the soil surface, while the third one consumed them at a low level under or at the surface. In fact, the pollen beetle larvae go under the soil surface between two and eight minutes after falling off the plant to pupate, so they are well protected from generalist predators.”
Meers suggests that Prairie crop growers and agronomists keep an eye out for the pollen beetle. If you see an insect that could be a pollen beetle, capture it in a container and freeze it, and record where you captured it. Then contact your provincial pest lab or an entomologist to have the specimen identified. Early detection of the beetle’s arrival on the Prairies could help in controlling the little beetle before it becomes a big problem. | <urn:uuid:4732b988-9de8-41d8-b732-8a320b2965c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.topcropmanager.com/warming-climate-new-pest-threat-19478/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.955185 | 2,959 | 3.328125 | 3 |
The gene causing brachydactyly type E (BDE) is PTHLH (the abbreviation stands for parathyroid hormone like hormone), and belongs to a group of genes that regulate the development of cartilage and determine subsequent skeletal structure. The researchers investigated two families with BDE. The patients exhibit shortened metacarpals, involved in forming the hands and feet, but had no other clinical symptoms.
Up to now, more than ten different forms of brachydactyly are known. The features of the hands and feet are variable depending upon which type of brachydactyly a patient has. Sometimes, the brachydactyly can be associated with hypertension, mental retardation, or other medical problems.
Several new findings
The gene PTHLH is located on chromosome 12, one of the 46 chromosomes of the human genome. The gene exerts considerably influence on cartilage during development and early life. However, little was known about the regulation of this gene. Now, Dr. Maass, Dr. Bähring and Professor Luft have detected an epigenetic regulator for the gene PTHLH on chromosome 12 and in the course of their research made several new findings.
First, they could show, that the gene regulator interacts with genes over very long distances on the same chromosome (cis) and that it also is able to regulate genes on other chromosomes (trans). Thus, the tongue-twister name for this regulator: cis and trans-chromosomal communicator acting through DNA and noncoding RNA (CISTR-ACT).
Second, the team showed that because of a balanced translocation, CISTR-ACT is misplaced, so that the regulator no longer can properly influence PTHLH function.
Third, CISTR-ACT encodes a so-called long noncoding RNA that participates in the regulatory functions. This finding encompasses a new principle in gene regulation. Epigenetics refers to inherited mechanisms that occur without alterations in the DNA gene sequence. In this form of BDE, no change in the DNA sequence of coding genes is responsible for the condition.
Back to the first finding, the epigenetic regulator CISTR-ACT on chromosome 12 manages to get in touch with the gene PTHLH over a distance of 24 million base pairs. “The largest ever measured distance between a gene regulator and a gene on the same chromosome was around one million base-pairs”, explains Dr. Maass. Furthermore, CISTR-ACT regulates another developmental gene (SOX9) on chromosome 17. “This finding is extraordinary,” comments Dr. Maass.
How is this regulation possible? The researchers found the solution at the chromatin level, in which the chromosomes are densely packed. “Just imagine a ball of wool in which different threads actually touch each other at special points. At one point you have the gene, the other point symbolizes the gene regulator. “It is through this physical contact that CISTR-ACT regulates certain genes such as PTHLH very precisely in a specific tissue,” Dr. Maass and Dr. Bähring explain. The researchers could thus show that huge chromosomal loops build up on chromosome 12. Moreover, the epigenetic regulator, CISTR-ACT on chromosome 12 is somehow able to get in touch with its target SOX9 on chromosome 17.
Translocation on different chromosomes
Furthermore, Dr. Maass and Dr. Bähring could show that due to the balanced translocation involving chromosome 4, breakpoints result in patients with BDE so that the gene PTHLH is translocated far away to chromosome 4 in one family or to chromosome 8 in another. Such chromosomal rearrangments or translocations as geneticists say, can be inherited and are not that uncommon. They are often associated with cancer in which they are acquired (somatic mutations) or they can be a congenital (genomic) disorder. Translocations change the architecture of the genome. Genes can part from their regulator and be located at different places in the genome.
Translocations also influence gene expression, that is the production of proteins which built up and maintain the body`s tissues. Dr. Maass and Dr. Bähring found out that in their patients with BDE these translocations separate the gene PTHLH from its regulator CISTR-ACT, which reduces the expression of the gene during the development of cartilage. This state-of-affairs results in the premature maturation of the cartilage cells during the development of the extremities, leading to single shortened bones in the hands or feet of the patients with BDE.
New insights into the dogma of gene regulation
“We could also enlarge the dogma of gene regulation in monogenic diseases, that is in diseases which are caused by one single gene,” Dr. Maass and Dr. Bähring explain. Up until recently, scientists believed that DNA regulators residing in close proximity to their targets regulate genes.
The researchers in Berlin also showed that CISTR-ACT not only functions as a DNA-regulator, but also encodes a long non-coding RNA (lncRNA). Recently, researchers have begun looking at these lncRNA, because they appear to play an important role in organ development. Contrary to protein-coding genes these lncRNA do not produce proteins but instead serve their function in an epigenetic fashion. lncRNAs are distinguished by their length (greater than 200 nucleotides). Often, lncRNAs are encoded in many exons spread over large, intergenic DNA regions. Various diverse functions have been proposed for lncRNAs, including roles in regulating DNA metabolism, chromatin structure, and gene expression.
*A misplaced lncRNA causes brachydactyly in humans
Philipp G. Maass1,2, Andreas Rump3, Herbert Schulz2, Sigmar Stricker4, Lisanne Schulze1,2, Konrad Platzer3, Atakan Aydin1,2, Sigrid Tinschert3, Mary B. Goldring5, Friedrich C. Luft1,2 and Sylvia Bähring1
1 Experimental and Clinical Research Center (ECRC), a joint cooperation between the Charité Medical Faculty and the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Lindenbergerweg 80, 13125 Berlin, Germany
2 Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany
3 Institute of Clinical Genetics, Faculty of Medicine Carl Gustav Carus, Technical University, Fetscherstrasse 74, 01307 Dresden, Germany
4 Development and Disease Group, Max-Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestrasse 73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
5 Hospital for Special Surgery, Laboratory for Cartilage Biology, Weill Cornell Medical College, Caspary Research Building, 535 E. 70th Street, New York, NY 10021, USA
Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch
in the Helmholtz Association
Robert-Rössle-Straße 10; 13125 Berlin; Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 30 94 06 – 38 96
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- pvlib.scaling.wvm(clearsky_index, positions, cloud_speed, dt=None)#
Compute spatial aggregation time series smoothing on clear sky index based on the Wavelet Variability model of Lave et al. 1, 2. Implementation is basically a port of the Matlab version of the code 3.
clearsky_index (numeric or pandas.Series) – Clear Sky Index time series that will be smoothed.
positions (numeric) – Array of coordinate distances as (x,y) pairs representing the easting, northing of the site positions in meters [m]. Distributed plants could be simulated by gridded points throughout the plant footprint.
cloud_speed (numeric) – Speed of cloud movement in meters per second [m/s].
dt (float, default None) – The time series time delta. By default, is inferred from the clearsky_index. Must be specified for a time series that doesn’t include an index. Units of seconds [s].
smoothed (numeric or pandas.Series) – The Clear Sky Index time series smoothed for the described plant.
wavelet (numeric) – The individual wavelets for the time series before smoothing.
tmscales (numeric) – The timescales associated with the wavelets in seconds [s].
M. Lave, J. Kleissl and J.S. Stein. A Wavelet-Based Variability Model (WVM) for Solar PV Power Plants. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 501-509, 2013.
M. Lave and J. Kleissl. Cloud speed impact on solar variability scaling - Application to the wavelet variability model. Solar Energy, vol. 91, pp. 11-21, 2013.
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Rav Yisrael, Epidemics, and Priorities
On the topic of people insisting on maintaining risky behaviors during the corona pandemic…
Too many of us are placing minyan, attending weddings or funerals, and other such mitzvos ahead of safety. Despite the fact that we all know, that risk to life comes first. “וחי בהם – ולא שימות בהם”. (“‘And you shall keep My statues and My law] and you shall live by them’ [Vayiqra 18:5] — and not die by them.” –Sanhedrin 74a)
And many people responding to this reality invoke the famous story about Rabbi Yisrael Salanter encouraging eating on Yom Kippur during a cholera epidemic. That R Yisreal stood up at the bimah in Vilna and declaring it permissible not to fast today, invoking the above about “וחי בהם”.And then, to set an example, he made Qiddush and ate.
(At least, that is the more popular version, testified to by students of R Yisrael and found in most academic versions. In another version, he left food available in the shul, but didn’t go so far as to eat himself.)
But Rav Yisrael Salanter didn’t apply this principle about safety to overriding every mitzvah.
Because Rabbi Dov Katz records that during the same epidemic, Rabbi Yisrael and the members of his kollel taking care of those who got the disease. Rav Yisrael even rented a building to set up a 1,500 bed hospital, and raised other money in addition to tend to their patients.
Yes, it’s true that “וחי בהם” places life ahead of mitzvos. It is also true that we follow Rabbi Akiva, that if lost in a desert with someone else, and you has enough water that you somehow (miraculously) knew was only enough to save one of you, that “חייך קודמים” (your own life comes first – BM 62a).But when it comes to the mitzvah of saving others’ lives, risking your life is not only permitted, it is meritorious. (Although admittedly not obligatory.)
And in reality, that is what we are speaking about here too. Most of the people attending unsafe minyanim and otherwise ignoring medical guidelines are only adding a minimal risk to their own lives. It’s the lives of those more medically fragile who are facing the real risk when their community becomes the local hotspot.
And so, the message Rav Yisrael left us is even more poignant. While our own lives are a higher priority than eating on Yom Kippur, we are allowed and encourage (although again, not obligated) to make others’ lives even a higher priority yet! | <urn:uuid:33279e41-ad75-43b3-8f50-55ea284e496d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aspaqlaria.aishdas.org/2020/10/23/rys-epidemics-priorities/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936798 | 653 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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