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Hamstring Tendinitis – The Clinical Syndrome
Hamstring tendinitis is occurring with greater frequency as a result of the increased interest in jogging and the use of exercise equipment for lower extremity strengthening. The onset of hamstring tendinitis is usually acute, occurring after overuse or misuse of the muscle group. Inciting factors may include long-distance running, dancing injuries, or the vigorous use of exercise equipment for lower extremity strengthening. The pain is constant and severe, with sleep disturbance often reported. The patient may attempt to splint the inflamed tendon by holding the knee in a slightly flexed position and assuming a lurch-type antalgic gait. In addition to the pain, patients with hamstring tendinitis often experience a gradual decrease in functional ability with decreasing knee range of motion, making simple everyday tasks, such as walking, climbing stairs, or getting into an automobile, quite difficult. With continued disuse, muscle wasting may occur and a stiff knee may develop.
What are the Symptoms of Hamstring Tendinitis
Patients with hamstring tendinitis experience severe pain on palpation over the tendinous insertion, with the medial portion of the tendon more commonly affected than the lateral portion. Crepitus or a creaking sensation may be felt when palpating the tendon while the patient flexes the affected knee. No mass in the popliteal fossa is present as is seen with Baker cyst. The neurological examination of a patient with hamstring tendinitis is normal.
How is Hamstring Tendinitis diagnosed?
Plain radiographs are indicated in all patients with posterior knee pain. Based on the patient’s clinical presentation, additional tests, including complete blood cell count, erythrocyte sedimentation rate, and antinuclear antibody testing, may be indicated. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasound imaging of the knee is indicated if internal derangement, occult mass, Baker cyst, or strain or partial tendon disruption is suspected. Injection of the hamstring tendons serves as a diagnostic and therapeutic maneuver.
The most common cause of posterior joint pain is a Baker cyst. It is a herniation of the synovial sac of the knee. It may rupture spontaneously and may be misdiagnosed as thrombophlebitis. Occasionally, injury to the medial meniscus may be confused with hamstring tendinitis. Primary or metastatic tumors in the region, although rare, must be considered in the differential diagnosis.
Initial treatment of the pain and functional disability associated with hamstring tendinitis should include a combination of nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) or cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors and physical therapy. Local application of heat and cold may be beneficial. Patients with hamstring tendinitis should avoid the repetitive activities responsible for the development of this painful condition. For patients who do not respond to these treatment modalities, injection of the hamstring tendons with a local anesthetic and steroid may be a reasonable next step. Ultrasound guidance may improve the accuracy of needle placement and decrease the incidence of needle related complications.
Complications and Pitfalls
Failure to diagnose primary knee pathological processes (e.g., tears of the medial meniscus) may lead to further pain and disability. MRI should help identify internal derangement of the knee. The possibility of trauma to the hamstring tendon from the injection itself is ever present. Tendons that are highly inflamed or previously damaged are subject to rupture if they are directly injected. This complication can be greatly decreased if the clinician uses gentle technique and stops injecting immediately if significant resistance to injection is encountered. The proximity to the common peroneal and tibial nerve and the popliteal artery and vein makes it imperative that this procedure be done only by clinicians well versed in the regional anatomy and experienced in performing injection techniques. Many patients report a transient increase in pain after the injection technique. Although rare, infection may occur if careful attention to sterile technique is not followed.
The musculotendinous insertion of the hamstring group of muscles is susceptible to the development of tendinitis for two reasons. First, the knee joint is subjected to significant repetitive motion under weight-bearing conditions. Second, the blood supply to the musculotendinous unit is poor, making healing of microtrauma difficult. Calcium deposition around the tendon may occur if the inflammation continues, complicating subsequent treatment. Tendinitis of the musculotendinous insertion of the hamstring frequently coexists with bursitis of the associated bursa of the knee joint, creating additional pain and functional disability. This injection technique is extremely effective in the treatment of pain secondary to hamstring tendinitis. Coexistent bursitis and arthritis may contribute to knee pain and may require additional treatment with a more localized injection of a local anesthetic and depot steroid. This technique is a safe procedure if careful attention is paid to the clinically relevant anatomy in the areas to be injected. The use of physical modalities, including local heat and gentle range-of-motion exercises, should be introduced several days after the patient undergoes this injection technique. Vigorous exercises should be avoided because they would exacerbate the symptoms. | <urn:uuid:16cfb0e3-bb8a-4760-8724-7bcb1f0ef1b8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seekhealthz.com/health/hamstring-tendinitis/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.90285 | 1,080 | 2.359375 | 2 |
I am fond of recording videos in my spare time and keeping them on my phone or posting them on social media sites. However, my phone does not have enough space to store them and some of the videos cannot be uploaded onto the social media sites due to their large file sizes. Can you give me a guide about how to compress 4K video?
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PS2PDF MP4 Video Compressor
PS2PDF MP4 Video Compressor is an Online MP4 Video Compressor. You can use it to compress 4K MP4 files without any file size restrictions. Furthermore, you can also resize your video and select any output format and preset resolution such as 1080p, 720p, 480p, 360p, 240p, etc. to compress 4K video online. To start to use this compressor, check out the procedure below.
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Above are the tools that can help you compress 4K video to 1080p. Without losing quality, your video will be just compressed safely and easily. However, if you need a converter that can help you convert your video file to a specific preset size, try to use ApowerCompress or Video Converter Studio. | <urn:uuid:6919b9b0-1295-43f0-add6-a733706b2091> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.apowersoft.com/compress-4k-video.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.891164 | 1,016 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Futures Trading with the Hull Moving Average
What you'll learn
- How the Hull moving average works.
- The benefit of reducing indicator time lag.
- Back testing comparing the Hull moving average to the Exponential moving average
- Compared use in directional signal trading vs. moving average cross over trading.
- Some trading experience.
- Familiarity with basic futures trading terms, concepts, and risks.
Welcome to this course. Here you’ll learn about a unique indicator; the Hull moving average.
Moving Averages are one of our most basic and popular trading indicators. They flatten out erratic price changes, and smoothly outline broader market movement. But they have a disadvantage; Time lag.
There’s a delay between the time a price changes, and the reaction time of the moving average. By the time a traditional moving average signals a new trend, it’s already several price-bars old. And you’ve missed out on some of the opportunity. Exit signals are delayed as well.
Alan Hull, an Australian mathematician and trader, devised a way to greatly reduce this lag time, while maintaining the smoothing effect.
By the end of this course you’ll understand the Hull moving average and know how it’s built.
More importantly, you’ll see back-testing results from 12 futures markets comparing it to the more popular exponential moving average.
As you’ll learn, the Hull moving average can provide a unique perspective to the market.
Please look through the course description, and we hope you’ll join us.
Who this course is for:
- Existing futures traders looking for a new trade idea.
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 ============================ Glock internal locking rules ============================ This documents the basic principles of the glock state machine internals. Each glock (struct gfs2_glock in fs/gfs2/incore.h) has two main (internal) locks: 1. A spinlock (gl_lockref.lock) which protects the internal state such as gl_state, gl_target and the list of holders (gl_holders) 2. A non-blocking bit lock, GLF_LOCK, which is used to prevent other threads from making calls to the DLM, etc. at the same time. If a thread takes this lock, it must then call run_queue (usually via the workqueue) when it releases it in order to ensure any pending tasks are completed. The gl_holders list contains all the queued lock requests (not just the holders) associated with the glock. If there are any held locks, then they will be contiguous entries at the head of the list. Locks are granted in strictly the order that they are queued, except for those marked LM_FLAG_PRIORITY which are used only during recovery, and even then only for journal locks. There are three lock states that users of the glock layer can request, namely shared (SH), deferred (DF) and exclusive (EX). Those translate to the following DLM lock modes: ========== ====== ===================================================== Glock mode DLM lock mode ========== ====== ===================================================== UN IV/NL Unlocked (no DLM lock associated with glock) or NL SH PR (Protected read) DF CW (Concurrent write) EX EX (Exclusive) ========== ====== ===================================================== Thus DF is basically a shared mode which is incompatible with the "normal" shared lock mode, SH. In GFS2 the DF mode is used exclusively for direct I/O operations. The glocks are basically a lock plus some routines which deal with cache management. The following rules apply for the cache: ========== ========== ============== ========== ============== Glock mode Cache data Cache Metadata Dirty Data Dirty Metadata ========== ========== ============== ========== ============== UN No No No No SH Yes Yes No No DF No Yes No No EX Yes Yes Yes Yes ========== ========== ============== ========== ============== These rules are implemented using the various glock operations which are defined for each type of glock. Not all types of glocks use all the modes. Only inode glocks use the DF mode for example. Table of glock operations and per type constants: ============= ============================================================= Field Purpose ============= ============================================================= go_xmote_th Called before remote state change (e.g. to sync dirty data) go_xmote_bh Called after remote state change (e.g. to refill cache) go_inval Called if remote state change requires invalidating the cache go_demote_ok Returns boolean value of whether its ok to demote a glock (e.g. checks timeout, and that there is no cached data) go_lock Called for the first local holder of a lock go_unlock Called on the final local unlock of a lock go_dump Called to print content of object for debugfs file, or on error to dump glock to the log. go_type The type of the glock, ``LM_TYPE_*`` go_callback Called if the DLM sends a callback to drop this lock go_flags GLOF_ASPACE is set, if the glock has an address space associated with it ============= ============================================================= The minimum hold time for each lock is the time after a remote lock grant for which we ignore remote demote requests. This is in order to prevent a situation where locks are being bounced around the cluster from node to node with none of the nodes making any progress. This tends to show up most with shared mmaped files which are being written to by multiple nodes. By delaying the demotion in response to a remote callback, that gives the userspace program time to make some progress before the pages are unmapped. There is a plan to try and remove the go_lock and go_unlock callbacks if possible, in order to try and speed up the fast path though the locking. Also, eventually we hope to make the glock "EX" mode locally shared such that any local locking will be done with the i_mutex as required rather than via the glock. Locking rules for glock operations: ============= ====================== ============================= Operation GLF_LOCK bit lock held gl_lockref.lock spinlock held ============= ====================== ============================= go_xmote_th Yes No go_xmote_bh Yes No go_inval Yes No go_demote_ok Sometimes Yes go_lock Yes No go_unlock Yes No go_dump Sometimes Yes go_callback Sometimes (N/A) Yes ============= ====================== ============================= .. Note:: Operations must not drop either the bit lock or the spinlock if its held on entry. go_dump and do_demote_ok must never block. Note that go_dump will only be called if the glock's state indicates that it is caching uptodate data. Glock locking order within GFS2: 1. i_rwsem (if required) 2. Rename glock (for rename only) 3. Inode glock(s) (Parents before children, inodes at "same level" with same parent in lock number order) 4. Rgrp glock(s) (for (de)allocation operations) 5. Transaction glock (via gfs2_trans_begin) for non-read operations 6. i_rw_mutex (if required) 7. Page lock (always last, very important!) There are two glocks per inode. One deals with access to the inode itself (locking order as above), and the other, known as the iopen glock is used in conjunction with the i_nlink field in the inode to determine the lifetime of the inode in question. Locking of inodes is on a per-inode basis. Locking of rgrps is on a per rgrp basis. In general we prefer to lock local locks prior to cluster locks. Glock Statistics ---------------- The stats are divided into two sets: those relating to the super block and those relating to an individual glock. The super block stats are done on a per cpu basis in order to try and reduce the overhead of gathering them. They are also further divided by glock type. All timings are in nanoseconds. In the case of both the super block and glock statistics, the same information is gathered in each case. The super block timing statistics are used to provide default values for the glock timing statistics, so that newly created glocks should have, as far as possible, a sensible starting point. The per-glock counters are initialised to zero when the glock is created. The per-glock statistics are lost when the glock is ejected from memory. The statistics are divided into three pairs of mean and variance, plus two counters. The mean/variance pairs are smoothed exponential estimates and the algorithm used is one which will be very familiar to those used to calculation of round trip times in network code. See "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1", W. Richard Stevens, sect 21.3, "Round-Trip Time Measurement", p. 299 and onwards. Also, Volume 2, Sect. 25.10, p. 838 and onwards. Unlike the TCP/IP Illustrated case, the mean and variance are not scaled, but are in units of integer nanoseconds. The three pairs of mean/variance measure the following things: 1. DLM lock time (non-blocking requests) 2. DLM lock time (blocking requests) 3. Inter-request time (again to the DLM) A non-blocking request is one which will complete right away, whatever the state of the DLM lock in question. That currently means any requests when (a) the current state of the lock is exclusive, i.e. a lock demotion (b) the requested state is either null or unlocked (again, a demotion) or (c) the "try lock" flag is set. A blocking request covers all the other lock requests. There are two counters. The first is there primarily to show how many lock requests have been made, and thus how much data has gone into the mean/variance calculations. The other counter is counting queuing of holders at the top layer of the glock code. Hopefully that number will be a lot larger than the number of dlm lock requests issued. So why gather these statistics? There are several reasons we'd like to get a better idea of these timings: 1. To be able to better set the glock "min hold time" 2. To spot performance issues more easily 3. To improve the algorithm for selecting resource groups for allocation (to base it on lock wait time, rather than blindly using a "try lock") Due to the smoothing action of the updates, a step change in some input quantity being sampled will only fully be taken into account after 8 samples (or 4 for the variance) and this needs to be carefully considered when interpreting the results. Knowing both the time it takes a lock request to complete and the average time between lock requests for a glock means we can compute the total percentage of the time for which the node is able to use a glock vs. time that the rest of the cluster has its share. That will be very useful when setting the lock min hold time. Great care has been taken to ensure that we measure exactly the quantities that we want, as accurately as possible. There are always inaccuracies in any measuring system, but I hope this is as accurate as we can reasonably make it. Per sb stats can be found here:: /sys/kernel/debug/gfs2/<fsname>/sbstats Per glock stats can be found here:: /sys/kernel/debug/gfs2/<fsname>/glstats Assuming that debugfs is mounted on /sys/kernel/debug and also that <fsname> is replaced with the name of the gfs2 filesystem in question. The abbreviations used in the output as are follows: ========= ================================================================ srtt Smoothed round trip time for non blocking dlm requests srttvar Variance estimate for srtt srttb Smoothed round trip time for (potentially) blocking dlm requests srttvarb Variance estimate for srttb sirt Smoothed inter request time (for dlm requests) sirtvar Variance estimate for sirt dlm Number of dlm requests made (dcnt in glstats file) queue Number of glock requests queued (qcnt in glstats file) ========= ================================================================ The sbstats file contains a set of these stats for each glock type (so 8 lines for each type) and for each cpu (one column per cpu). The glstats file contains a set of these stats for each glock in a similar format to the glocks file, but using the format mean/variance for each of the timing stats. The gfs2_glock_lock_time tracepoint prints out the current values of the stats for the glock in question, along with some addition information on each dlm reply that is received: ====== ======================================= status The status of the dlm request flags The dlm request flags tdiff The time taken by this specific request ====== ======================================= (remaining fields as per above list) | <urn:uuid:e4cfbeef-579f-4ec9-bb71-172e7dc75937> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/filesystems/gfs2-glocks.rst | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.848306 | 2,751 | 1.882813 | 2 |
Joseph Brophy, solicitor specialising in Court of Protection Disputes, considers the recent guidance issued by the Office of the Public Guardian in relation to requests for medical records and the hurdles which attorneys and deputies can face in relation to Subject Access Requests.
The Office of the Public Guardian (OPG) has recently published guidance around disclosure of medical and care information to attorneys and deputies to enable them to make best interest decisions.
There are a variety of justified reasons why a Property and Financial Affairs attorney or deputy might require sight of a protected party’s (“P”) medical records.
They might be necessary for non-contentious issues, for example for an expert opinion on P’s capacity to manage their property and affairs or to understand the implications of appointing an attorney (a prerequisite requirement of the Court of Protection is for a prescribed form medical capacity assessment to be undertaken).
Access to records might be required for a variety of other more contentious reasons, such as to make a will where P lacks capacity, known as a “Statutory Will” application (to establish P’s “testamentary capacity” otherwise known as the Banks v Goodfellow test from the 1870 case of the same name). Similarly, medical records might be crucial in establishing the merits of a challenge to the appointment of a Property and Financial Affairs attorney based on P’s lack of capacity to sign a lasting power of attorney at any given date.
The Mental Capacity Act 2005
Indeed, the five key principles of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 govern how the OPG and other authorities (including health and social care agencies) support individuals who lack mental capacity. These are that:
- every adult has the right to make his or her own decisions and must be assumed to have capacity to do so unless it is proved otherwise;
- people must be supported as much as possible to make a decision before anyone concludes that they cannot make their own decision;
- a person should not be treated as incapable of making a decision because their decision may seem unwise;
- anything done for or on behalf of a person who lacks mental capacity must be done in their best interests; and
- anything done for, or on behalf of, people without capacity should be the least restrictive of their basic rights and freedoms.
This includes an obligation on institutions in assisting attorneys deputies in the exercise of their duty in supporting P, by providing relevant information in a timely manner.
As set out above, there are various reasons why a Property and Financial Affairs attorney or deputy might need P’s records to make best interests decisions on P’s behalf. Using the Statutory Will example, the prospects of such an application might only properly be considered upon a review of P’s medical records. If P’s attorney or deputy considers that P has been coerced into making a will at a time when they might have lacked testamentary capacity, then no doubt the records will help determine whether it is in P’s best interests to pursue the application any further (principle 4).
General difficulties an attorney or deputy will often face
As solicitors and representatives for vulnerable clients and indeed the wider legal community will well know, obtaining medical records is not always as straightforward as it could or perhaps should be.
Indeed, many institutions will often refuse to recognise or even understand the authority of an attorney or deputy even if presented with evidence of such authority in the form of the lasting power of attorney or deputyship order.
There is a general misunderstanding not only in respect of an attorney or deputy’s role, but also an additional unnecessary weight given to the fact that a Property and Financial Affairs appointment does not extend to health and welfare. The latest guidance from the OPG echoes the Information Commissioner’s Office advice that “it is reasonable to assume that an attorney with authority to manage the individual’s property and affairs, or a person appointed by the Court of Protection to make decisions about such matters, will have the appropriate authority”.
A good example of this is a request by an attorney or deputy to the NHS for continuing healthcare funding assessments to ensure that P has been properly assessed for NHS funding that might be available. Such a request is clearly so relevant to P’s finances and obligation for care fees but, without either a lasting power of attorney or deputyship order for Health and Welfare (the latter of which are less commonly ordered than a Property and Financial Affairs deputyship order), an attorney or deputy will often be told that they do not have permission to access such information when, clearly, they do.
On one hand, one can understand an institution’s reluctance to produce P’s personal information given the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”). There must be a protocol to handle requests for such sensitive information with checks in place to ensure the authority of those requesting. Sadly, recent high-profile stories, including, in particular, Sienna Miller’s claim that the Sun illegally tried to access her medical records, also do not help.
However, the common misconception that an attorney or deputy requires additional legal authority to obtain such information can come at significant expense to P. In extreme circumstances, P’s representative might even contemplate the necessary application to compel an institution to provide relevant information together with an order the costs of such an application be met by that institution. I have previously recovered significant sums from just such an institution for the costs incurred by P part of which was due to the institution’s failure to understand or recognise a deputy’s authority.
Ultimately, a line needs to be drawn as to how satisfied an institution must be that a request for information is genuine before they are able to release it. It is therefore little wonder why the OPG has sought to reaffirm the position that an attorney or deputy should be provided with access to medical records.
The guidance also provides a useful link for institutions to follow should they wish to seek confirmation that the person requesting the information is an attorney or deputy from the OPG direct. No doubt a representative might wish to highlight this guidance and link if any difficulties are experienced and hopefully medical records or other requested documents are made more readily available as a result, if difficulties do arise. | <urn:uuid:e13efa9c-5b9b-42aa-b4d3-74880ce5960e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.hughjames.com/blog/office-of-the-public-guardian-issues-new-guidance-on-the-disclosure-of-medical-records-to-attorneys-and-deputies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954174 | 1,286 | 1.5 | 2 |
Study results suggest nationwide protests by young people urging action to tackle global warming could influence the views of adults
By Sebastien Malo
NEW YORK, May 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Teenagers in the U.S. coastal state of North Carolina who were schooled in the basics of man-made climate change saw their parents grow more concerned about the issue, scientists said on Monday in the first study of its kind.
The results suggested nationwide protests by young people urging action to tackle global warming could influence the views of adults at home, researchers told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Danielle Lawson, lead author of the study published by the journal Nature Climate Change and a researcher at North Carolina State University, said the findings could "empower" ongoing efforts by students, such as the "Fridays for Future" marches.
That movement has seen school children around the world walk out of classes on Fridays, including in the United States, in protest at government inaction on climate change.
In the study, parents whose middle school-age children followed a curriculum that included learning about climate change increased their own level of concern by nearly 23 percent on average, the researchers found.
For conservative parents, the rise was significantly higher, averaging 28 percent.
The two-year experiment, involving about 240 students and nearly 300 parents, was the first to demonstrate that climate change education for children promotes parental concern, a North Carolina State University statement said.
But the results could only be generalized to North Carolina coastal counties, where the experiment took place, said Lawson.
In the research, teachers gave some students lessons on climate change, including classroom activities like mapping data and field trips to places experiencing degradation linked to global warming.
Another group did not follow that curriculum.
Parents of both groups shared their level of preoccupation about global warming in surveys administered before and after the experiment.
Brett Levy, an assistant professor of education at the New York-based University at Albany who was not involved in the study, said the results potentially spoke to dynamics at play as students skipped school to demand climate action.
"Sometimes people who participate in protests learn about the issues involved," he said. "This study suggests that young people involved in these climate demonstrations could influence the views of their parents."
Currently, 37 of 50 U.S. states, plus Washington D.C., have adopted science education guidelines that include learning about climate change as a result of human activity, said Glenn Branch, deputy director of the National Center for Science Education.
Thirteen states do not mention climate change as man-made, describe it only as a possibility, or misrepresent the scientific consensus about the phenomenon, he added.
(Reporting by Sebastien Malo @sebastienmalo, Editing by Megan Rowling. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers climate change, humanitarian news, women's and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking and property rights. Visit http://news.trust.org/climate)
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RALEIGH – The statue of Josephus Daniels has been removed from a public park in Raleigh because he was a White Supremacist. On it’s surface, that is par for the course in 2020.
A lot of the mainstream media obviously pander and push toward the Left, and in so doing helping to advance the mob justice campaigns against designated boogeymen, like statues of antebellum era figures associated with slavery and racism. Except, sleuths though they are when it comes to unearthing and erasing symbols of hate when it benefits their political cause, they’re much more hesitant to address the skeletons in their own closet.
The Daniels statue is a prime example.
The News & Observer, in particular, has published plenty to reinforce the anti-racist narrative, celebrating mobs tearing down ‘Silent Sam’ on the UNC campus, while their founder and publisher, a Democrat icon, was himself a White Supremacist that pushed supremacist propaganda in the News & Observer and spurred a militant wing of the Democratic Party to storm the burgeoning town of Wilmington where they burned the black-owned businesses and led a coup to snuff out the emergent black/white fusion happening there. This was decades after the Civil War.
Daniels stellar actions on behalf of White Supremacism got the attention of other leading Democrats, who were documented White Supremacists, like Woodrow Wilson. President Wilson, fond of screening KKK movies in the White House, appointed Daniels as undersecretary of the U.S. Navy.
From the Observer:
“[…] In his book released in January called “Wilmington’s Lie,” Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David Zucchino of Durham documented Josephus Daniels’s role in orchestrating the overthrow of Wilmington’s “fusionist” government two days after helping Democratic leaders steal back control of the state legislature.
Throughout the summer and fall of 1898, Zucchino wrote, Daniels had run “race-baiting editorials and newspaper cartoons and sensational, fabricated news stories” to generate fear and anger toward Blacks.
On Nov. 10, more than 2,000 heavily armed “Red Shirts,” a terrorist arm of the 19th-century Democratic party, descended on Wilmington, setting fire to the newspaper office and other black-owned businesses, “terrorizing women and children and shooting at least 60 black men dead in the streets,” Zucchino wrote. Elected city officials were forced to resign at gunpoint. […]”
Wow. Media blowing up a race riot to burn down a town and take over the heretical local government. Sounds like Democrats haven’t changed much.
So, as you can see Daniels was pretty awful in this respect, but for all the stoking of flames the N&O has continued to do with respect to Confederate/Supremacist statues, this statue comes down quietly after having sat right out front of the paper’s offices for years during the social justice statue removal squads. Not a scratch or mark of grafitti on it.
While many of the statues targeted by activists were erected nearly 100 years ago, in the early 1900s, the Daniels statue only went up in 1985.
“[…] The statue, which had stood for more than 34 years, came down after more than two weeks of protests, including in downtown Raleigh, that have followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis after a police officer pressed his knee on Floyd’s neck for nearly nine minutes. Demonstrators have railed against police brutality and systemic racism in nearly every aspect of American society.
Statues of Confederate soldiers and monuments to, or memorializations of, segregationists and white supremacists have been targeted in protesters’ speeches and by vandals’ spray paint.
The statue of Josephus Daniels had been spared any serious damage, and the Daniels family has been under no direct pressure from the city or from activists to remove the statue, Frank Daniels III said. […]”
So, everywhere else with suspect statues gets the mob treatment, but the News & Observer hides a prime suspect in the very shadow of their headquarters for years. There was no direct pressure, because there was probably little awareness among the mob, and special treatment by the media, of the paragon North Carolina Democrat & White Supremacist.
At least it does provide an example of removing a statue discretely, lawfully, without making a big riot out of it. Some may have forgotten that is possible. In addition to the Daniels statue coming down, there is a petition for a middle school named after him to adopted a new moniker to disassociate from Daniels’ legacy of racism.
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This post is Day 13 in a series of studies about “The Fig Tree”. I strongly suggest you begin with the introduction to this study, please click here to read it.
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The Fig Tree – Day 13
King Solomon likens looking after a fig tree to protecting the person you work for. What we do for Jesus must be bringing Him a good reputation. A good harvest for the end time harvest coming soon. Jesus says He will repay each of us according to our deeds.
Whoever takes care of a fig tree can eat its fruit, and whoever protects his master is honored.
This verse speaks of worthwhile labour. If you are a gardener, even an amateur one you will know the thrill of eating home grown fruit and vegetables. They taste better and eating them gives great satisfaction.
Here the writer of Proverbs (King Solomon), likens looking after a fig tree to protecting the person you work for. Both bring great reward. We have learned how important fig trees were to the ancient Israelites, and they are still important today. The demand for figs world wide is enormous, and it is a responsible job to produce a good fig harvest.
In a similar way those of us who work for the Lord, have a great responsibility to produce a world wide harvest. Each one of us needs to do be doing the right thing in the right place. It takes much more than one gardener to produce a supply of figs for the world market.
In this proverb looking after the tree is likened to protecting the master; his reputation, his income. What we do for Jesus must be bringing Him a good reputation. A good harvest for the end time harvest coming soon.
Ask yourself if you are working for the Lord and doing what He has called you to do? If so you can be sure that He will reward you for every effort you have made to bear fruit for His kingdom.
In Revelation 2:23 we read the Lord’s words to the church in Thyatira “I am He who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.”
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It is common for disagreements to arise between taxpayers and Inland Revenue on the GST treatment of land transactions, but less common for these disputes to arise between a vendor and purchaser. However, this was the case in a recent High Court case, Holdaway v Ellwood (2019). The case highlights the importance of completing the GST disclosures in the Sale and Purchase Agreement (S&P) correctly.
The standard ADLS S&P agreement includes provision for both vendor and purchaser to disclose whether they are GST registered in respect of the transaction. The responses determine whether the sale is subject to GST at 15%, 0% or not subject to GST at all. If the purchaser changes their position before settlement, clause 15.5 of the S&P requires them to notify the vendor of the change.
Where both parties are GST registered, transactions are often zero-rated. Conversely, where the vendor is not GST registered, but the purchaser is and intends to use the land to make taxable supplies, the purchaser is entitled to make a “second hand goods claim”, allowing them to make a GST claim.
In this case, both the vendor (Mr Ellwood) and purchaser (the Holdaways) had stated on the S&P that they were not, and did not intend to be, GST registered in respect of the transaction, with the purchase price stated as $355,000 ‘inclusive of GST, if any’. On the basis of the disclosures, GST did not need apply.
On the advice of their accountants, one week before settlement the Holdaways registered for GST without informing Mr Ellwood. Relying on Mr Ellwood’s statement that he was not GST registered, the Holdaways subsequently lodged a second hand goods claim. However, Inland Revenue rejected the GST refund claim on the basis that Mr Ellwood was in fact GST registered, such that the transaction should have been subject to GST at 0%.
The Holdaways claimed damages against Mr Ellwood for the denied GST refund. The District Court initially ruled in favour of Mr Ellwood. However, on Appeal, the High Court overturned the District Court’s decision, requiring Mr Ellwood to compensate the purchasers for an amount equivalent to the value of the denied secondhand goods credit, plus accounting and interest costs.
As a GST registered person, Mr Ellwood should have accounted for GST on the sale of the land. The disclosure by Mr Ellwood comprised a warranty that they were not GST registered, and it was reasonable to anticipate the purchasers might make a second hand goods claim. Mr Ellwood’s breach of warranty meant the Holdaways did not receive the input credit they anticipated, hence they were worse off than expected. The fact that the Holdaways did not notify the vendor of their change in GST position was not considered to be a valid defence, given the vendor himself was at fault.
The outcome in the High Court aligns with the “common sense” outcome, and is a warning for both parties to ensure they complete S&P agreements correctly. | <urn:uuid:85ae6b22-d808-4994-bb84-fbf60df12451> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pkfh.co.nz/gst-on-land-holdaway-v-ellwood/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96216 | 624 | 1.625 | 2 |
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- Green hydrogen costs will fall by up to 64% by 2040
- Over the past decade, global demand for hydrogen has only grown by 28%, peaking in 2020 at 111.7 million metric tons or 320Mtoe. Despite the buzz, that is small compared to many other new technologies.
- The top 10 countries account for 70% of global hydrogen demand. China and the United States each account for 21% and 19% of demand, respectively. Refining and ammonia dominate two-thirds of all demand uses. Despite the continued discussion on mobility, it is a miniscule share of the market.
- While a few countries and sectors constitute the majority of 2020 global demand, 85 countries require hydrogen. However, individually, 61 countries make up less than 1% of global demand. This shows the potential to make in-roads in many markets at low stage usage.
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Blue is undoubtedly the most popular color. Blue skies, seas, eyes, and clothes have all been admired for centuries. It is not surprising then, that art makes use of this beautiful color and all its shades. Today, it is easy to take for granted the ubiquity of dyes of all colors for use in fashion and art. In Japan’s yesteryear, like many other nation’s history, blue dye was heavily sought after and people went to great lengths to create everyone’s favorite color.
Ukiyo-e, which approximately translates as “pictures of the floating world”, is a well known artform that utilized wood block printing. Its origins lie in the early Edo Period (17th century) and its end roughly corresponds to Taisho and Early Showa Periods (20th). The subjects of ukiyo-e are wide ranging, from landscapes to Geisha, but because it often focused on the new and bustling world of Edo and its pleasure districts filled with kabuki theaters and prostitution, the artform was monikered the “floating world”. The artists like Hokusai who created works like “Great Wave off of Kanagawa” have become iconic and still influence Japanese art.
From July 2nd to July 28th, the Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art is hosting an exhibit called “Life with Blue”, showcasing ukiyo-e works that utilize blue.
During the Edo period, blue dyes became extremely popular for use in kimono and yukata. This is reflected in many ukiyo-e prints which show men and women alike dressed in vibrant indigo patterned clothing. The craft of making those dyes exploded across the country, and its rich shade is still known to this day as “Japan Blue”. This popularity was reflected in the clothing of kabuki actors and geisha alike.
In the 1820s, a synthetic pigment that came to be known as “Prussian Blue” was introduced to Japan through Dutch traders. This pigment was a major improvement on previous organic pigments used for ukiyo-e prints and allowed for innovation in the craft. Because Prussian Blue is water soluble, more vibrant, and longer lasting a wider range of pictures were able to be depicted. The works by the legendary artists Hokusai and Hiroshige would not have been possible without this new blue dye. Prussian Blue could be used to create gradients of blue, allowing for the skylines and oceans of now classic landscape ukiyo-e prints to be printed.
The Ukiyo-e Ōta Memorial Museum of Art is located in Harajuku, so it’s a perfect place to appreciate the craftsmanship of centuries past after a day of shopping.
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Healthy employee sleep is important for occupational safety, but the mechanisms that explain the relationships among sleep and safety-related behaviors remain unknown. We draw from Crain, Brossoit, and Fisher's (in press) work, nonwork, and sleep (WNS) framework and Barnes' (2012) model of sleep and self-regulation in organizations to investigate the influence of construction workers' self-reported sleep quantity (i.e., duration) and quality (i.e., feeling well-rest upon awakening, ability to fall asleep and remain asleep) on workplace cognitive failures (i.e., lapses in attention, memory, and action at work) and subsequent workplace safety behaviors (i.e., safety compliance and safety participation) and reports of minor injuries. Construction workers from two public works agencies completed surveys at baseline, 6 months, and 12 months. Our results suggest that workers with more insomnia symptoms on average reported engaging in fewer required and voluntary safety behaviors and were at a greater risk for workplace injuries. These effects were mediated by workplace cognitive failures. In addition, workers with greater sleep insufficiency on average reported lower safety compliance, but this effect was not mediated by workplace cognitive failures. These results have implications for future workplace interventions, suggesting that organizations striving to improve safety should prioritize interventions that will reduce workers' insomnia symptoms and improve their ability to quickly fall asleep and stay asleep throughout the night.
- Safety behaviors
- Workplace cognitive failure
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Applied Psychology
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Small molecule and macromolecular crystallographers use the same technique, often work in close proximity, and sometimes collaborate on the same projects, yet they are mostly separate in practice, many times even using separate diffractometers in the same room. Our newest diffractometers were designed around the concept of synergy of techniques. Here, we use our newest hybrid photon counting detector, the HyPix-Arc 150°, to demonstrate this synergy. We use the same instrument to collect atomic resolution data sets of lysozyme with and without sucrose bound and of sucrose by itself. We also solve all three structures by experimental phasing. | <urn:uuid:a22347ff-59dd-4ff1-a928-bf285bf5dd5b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.rigaku.com/applications/crystallography/px027 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939954 | 130 | 2 | 2 |
Mental Health in the Media
The last week has proven to be a busy ‘media’ time for psychiatrists, psychiatry and the College in print, broadcast and social media. Many items were covered this week: Youth Mental Health, CAMHS, General Mental Health Services, Recruitment, Retention, Resourcing, Work Environments, and Attitudes and Processes in the HSE. The College contributed to a number of media outlets on these topics.
Dr Maeve Doyle Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist, spoke on behalf of the College to Mary Wilson on RTÉ Radio One’s Drivetime show, 21/06/18.
Over 6,000 children are waiting for a Child and Adolescent mental health appointment, 1186, waiting over a year. The recent resignations of Consultant psychiatrists in the south east region have exacerbated the situation.
On the programme the previous day, Minister Jim Daly, discussed the possibility of ‘telepsychiatry‘ as one solution for the current crisis; “an opportunity to deliver mental health services online”.
Dr Maeve Doyle, said she “finds it difficult to see how this would work, particularly with children aged 5 – 18… where therapeutic engagement is very important”. CAMHS is multidisciplinary, normally two people meeting with the family, for example an occupational therapist. To involve telepsychiatry would lose the multidisplinary service, and inhibit exploring “all facets of the child’s presentation.”
Dr Doyle said there are huge pressure points around the country, and not just in the south east due to lack of investment in child psychiatry. What investment there has been is ‘not sufficient’. Only 6% of the budget for health goes to mental health, and less than 10% of that budget goes to CAMHS, when CAMHS makes up 25% of the population now. Teams for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services work under pressure due to under staffing, leading to insufficient services and treatments.
Dr Maeve Doyle said there are a number of factors regarding the recruitment of psychiatrists: “The College of Psychiatrists of Ireland has done an extraordinary amount of work in order to recruit to psychiatry.” Child Psychiatry is a “very difficult area to work in../ is reliant on other tiers of service being populated” and due to shortages in other areas the work lands on the Child psychiatrists to manage.
President of the College, Dr John Hillery spoke about his reasons for resigning from the HSE after 30 years.
Dr Hillery spoke at a Family Carers of Ireland conference. A press statement, which you can read here, was issued highlighting some aspects of his presentation including his reasons for resigning from the HSE after 30 years. This was picked up by several media outlets.
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VISITORS to Tower Bridge this summer can enjoy a celebratory round-the-world tour of the ‘Cities of the Modern Games’, a fascinating exhibition of stunning photographs of past host cities. Featuring 26 colourful cityscapes, this absorbing and interactive display on Tower Bridge’s West Walkway will appeal to all the family and runs from 2 May to 30 September 2012.
• ‘Cities of the Modern Games’ exhibition features 26 large-scale (117cm x 82cm) full-colour images of all past host cities of the Modern Olympic Games, from Athens in 1896 to Beijing in 1996. The world’s most famous cities take centre stage in this display of superb photography, which includes stunning views of the Champs-Elysées in Paris and Red Square in Moscow by night, the iconic Sydney Opera House from the air and the imposing sight of Mount Fuji near Tokyo.
• Glorious cityscapes of past host cities. These include: Athens, Paris, St. Louis, London, Stockholm, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Berlin, Helsinki, Melbourne, Rome, Tokyo, Mexico City, Munich, Montreal, Moscow, Seoul, Barcelona, Atlanta, Sydney, Athens and Beijing.
• Fun facts and figures to be discovered about the Modern Games and the host cities. For example, did you know that Amsterdam is also called the Venice of the north? Or that Melbourne is home to the world’s largest Greek population outside Greece? Or that Henry Pearce won gold in rowing at the 1928 Games in Amsterdam despite slowing down to allow a family of ducks to swim past him!
• Internationally accessible. All the information about the photographs is available in French, German, Spanish and Japanese.
• Horace Bear children’s competition for younger visitors. Named after the Bridge’s architect, Horace Jones, Tower Bridge’s delightful new children’s character makes his debut at the ‘Cities of the Modern Games’ exhibition. On arrival, children will receive a Horace Bear Scorecard and then they can hunt for free stickers that are hidden in locations along the exhibition, answer a fun fact quiz and try their hand at Tower Quoits and Bascule Hoopla. At the Finishing Line, they hand in their Scorecard and depending on their score they will receive a gold, silver or bronze chocolate coin. So everyone’s a winner!
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If you’re planning to get fit, or maybe even want to train to do a charity bike ride, consider how you are going to monitor the intensity of your workouts. The Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE) is the easiest way to measure exercise intensity – and it’s free! In the table below I have added in the heart rate percentages as well. The RPE table used here is a simplification of the Borg Perceived Scale of Exertion.
Aerobic Training Zones: Rate of Perceived Exertion (RPE), and Related Heart Rate Percentages
|1 (Recovery)||1 to 2||Very light||I'm so comfortable I could do this all day!||40% to 45%|
|2 (Endurance)||3 to 4||Light||I'm a bit sweaty, but I feel good and can easily carry on a conversation||46% to 50%|
|3 (Tempo)||5 to 6||Moderate||I am a bit breathless now, but I can still talk||56% to 60%|
|4 (Lactate Threshold)||7||Somewhat heavy||I guess I could talk if I had to, but I really don't want to, plus I'm sweating like a race horse||61% to 67%|
|5 (Above Threshold)||8||Heavy||If you must ask me a question, don't expect me to do more than grunt. I need to stop soon.||68% to 75%|
|6 (Aerobic Capacity)||9||Very heavy||I am probably going to die||76% to 80%|
|7 (Anaerobic Capacity)||10||Very, very heavy||I think I just died||81% to 85%|
Using the above scale, an exertion level from 1 to 3 will keep you in the low middle of your aerobic training zone, and would be a good place for a beginner to start with aerobic exercising such as cycling. As you progress, you can start exercising in higher levels of perceived exertion.
Generally speaking, Level 4 of RPE is enough to get average cyclists fitter. You should only use higher levels that that if you are planning to do competitive cycling, or want to achieve peak levels of fitness for other reasons.
If you want to have higher levels of precision than just your self-perception, consider using equipment such as a heart rate monitor, a fitness tracker, or a smart watch, such as the top-rated Garmin Vivoactive HR.
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What Is Cerenia For Cats And Is It Safe
Cats are good for people who do not have allergies to their saliva or fur. They are known to provide companionship and entertainment that improves mood and emotional health. Cats also have a positive impact on blood pressure and other aspects of human health. People love their cats and worry about them as they would any other member of the family. When the family cat shows signs of illness, most pet owners schedule an appointment with the local veterinarian to investigate the problem early. Your vet may prescribe a medication called Cerenia for your cat. If youre not familiar with this drug and its effects, you likely have many questions this guide will inform you about the purposes, effectiveness, and safety of Cerenia with other interesting facts that every cat owner should know.
What To Do In Case Of A Cerenia Overdose
If there is an accidental Cerenia overdose, you should take your dog to the vet for medical attention. It should be safe, but some dogs can react badly to an overdose of Cerenia. Effects of overdosing can include irregular breathing, diarrhoea, bloody stool or tremors, among other effects. If you suspect an overdose, it is always best to seek medical advice and take your dog to the vet.
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Is Cerenia Fda Approved For Cats
Cerenia injectable is FDA approved for use in cats. The tablets are approved only for use in dogs, but some research advises that the tablets may also be given safely to cats, at the discretion of the prescribing veterinarian. These situations are referred to as off-label prescriptions. The term describes prescribing a medication for a purpose other than its original recommendation and approval. Pet owners need to understand that the physical bodies and internal systems of dogs and cats are different. Drugs may not work the same way for both animal species. A drug may be beneficial for one species, yet toxic for another. Testing for Cerenia in dogs is more intensive than for cats.
How To Give Cerenia To Your Dog
The amount of Cerenia you give to your dog relates to the age that you can give it to them and the reason behind administering it. As we mentioned above, if you are using Cerenia to treat acute vomiting relating to a disease or as a side effect to another medication, the earliest you can give the drug to them is 2 months old. If you are using Cerenia to treat motion sickness however, your dog must be 4 months old.
Cerenia in oral tablet form comes in different preparations 16-, 24-, 60- and 160-milligrams. Cerenia tablets should be given two hours before travelling and it should mixed with some food, although your dogs stomach should be empty an hour before you administer Cerenia.
The amount you give your dog relates to their body weight. Currently, the dose is set out at roughly 2mg/kg body weight, given once a day and can be repeated again the following day. If it is needed again, you must wait 3 days before administering Cerenia again over a 2 day period. Below, we have set out the dosage amount based on your dogs size.
Size & Weight
Size & Weight
- 2.2 to 8.8 pounds 1/2 of 16-mg tablet
- 8.9 to 17.6 pounds one 16-mg tablet
- 17.7 to 26.4 pounds one 24-mg tablet
- 26.5 to 52.8 pounds two 24-mg tablets
- 52.9 to 66.0 pounds one 60-mg tablet
- 66.1 to 132.0 pounds two 60-mg tablets
Side Effects Of Cerenia For Dogs
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For many, dogs are like another member of the family and rarely are left behind regardless of the destination. However, long road trips, airplane travel, or other modes of transportation may cause your pet to get motion sickness, which then leads to vomiting. Rather than leave your dog at home when you hit the road, Cerenia may be prescribed by your veterinarian to help avoid this problem.
For Prevention Of Vomiting Due To Motion Sickness In Dogs 4 Months And Older
For Prevention of Vomiting due to motion sickness in dogs 4 months of age and older: Administer Cerenia Tablets orally at a minimum dose of 8 mg/kg body weight once daily for up to 2 consecutive days .
|Prevention of Vomiting Due to Motion Sickness in Dogs 4 months of age and older: Dispense whole or half tablets in strengths that most closely result in an 8 mg/kg dose once daily for up to 2 consecutive days:|
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About Dr Pete Wedderburn Dvm
Dr Pete Wedderburn qualified as a vet from Edinburgh in 1985 and has run his own 4-veterinarian companion animal practice in County Wicklow, Ireland, since 1991. Pete is well known as a media veterinarian with regular national tv, radio and newspaper slots, including a weekly column in the Daily Telegraph since 2007. Pete is known as “Pete the Vet” on his busy Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages, regularly posting information on topical subjects and real-life cases from his clinic. He also write a regular blog at www.petethevet.com. His latest book: Pet Subjects, was published by Aurum Press in 2017.
Symptoms Of Motion Sickness In Dogs
We know that dogs aren’t able to tell us if they are sick with words. Most pet owners only suspect that their dogs are afflicted with motion sickness after they have thrown up in the vehicle.
However, there are some signs and symptoms to look for when traveling with your pet that may help you in figuring out if there is motion sickness involved.
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Are There Potential Drug Interactions With Cerenia
Cerenia is in a class of drugs known as protein-bound. There are no known research reports to consult for information on its use with other medications, as is the case for most protein-bound drugs. Because of a lack of information on the subject, pet health care professionals recommend close monitoring of cats being given Cerenia with any other medications including anticonvulsant, cardiac, and NSAID medications.
What Other Drugs Will Affect Cerenia
Consult your veterinarian before giving Cerenia to pets also being given NSAIDs, heart, anticonvulsant, and behavioral medications since interactions may occur. Drugs other than those listed in this guide may also interact with Cerenia. Talk to your veterinarian or pharmacist before giving any prescription or over the counter medicines, including vitamins, minerals, and herbal products.
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How To Give Your Cat Cerenia: Different Methods Of Administering Medicine
Also known as maropitant citrate, Cerenia can be administered to cats in two different ways. There is an injectable solution or a tablet form of Cerenia. For a look at maropitant citrate available dosages, consult your vet for educational purposes and ask about the products discussed at your pet’s appointment. Replace discussions about a related company in different countries and focus on how to prevent vomiting.
If you are more comfortable having a professional give Cerenia to your cat, you can schedule an appointment for your cat to receive a shot of Cerenia at the veterinarians office. On the other hand, if you are comfortable with giving Cerenia to your cat, you can do so from the comfort of your home.
But dont worry! You dont have to become an expert on how to give your cat a shot in order to go with the at-home option. If you opt in to this method, you will receive a prescription for pills that you can give to your cat. Not to worry. No needles involved! These Cerenia tablets for cats are easy to administer.
Like any pills designed and intended for cats, giving pills to your furry feline friend can sometimes pose a bit of a challenge. Cats are very set in their ways and this stubbornness presents itself like nobodys business when it comes time to give Cerenia tablets to cats. But not to fret! While it can be difficult, its not impossible.
Some things to be aware of before administering Cerenia include:
Cerenia Dosages For Cats
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The standard dose of Cerenia for cats who are vomiting is 1 mg per pound of body weight. For example, if your cat weighs 12 pounds, the appropriate dose would be 12 mg. Depending on your cats condition, your cat may be prescribed less or more than this dosing.
With the injectable form, dosing can be very specific. However, if your cat receives the tablet form, your cats dose depends on the size of the tablet. The most common sized tablet of Cerenia used in cats is 16 mg. If your cat weighs 12 pounds, your veterinarian may prescribe 8 mg or 16 mg .
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What Exactly Is Cerenia
The drug Cerenia is the first and the only FDA-approved medication for veterinarians to offer cats and dogs to prevent acute vomiting and nausea as a prescription. It can also be prescribed to prevent vomiting in dogs that may happen with pets prone to motion sickness.
As a first step, we will go over the ways that Cerenia can benefit your dog and then go over how they may help your cats. We will first discuss all of the ways that Cerenia may help your dog and then move on to how your feline may also benefit from Cerenia.
While Cerenia is prescribed for vomiting in cats and dogs, there are vital differences that a pet owner should take note of and understand as well as possible before making any decisions.
What Are The Possible Side Effects Of Cerenia
If any of the following serious side effects occur, stop giving Cerenia and seek emergency veterinary medical attention: an allergic reaction sudden onset of diarrhea vomiting shock seizures coma. Other less serious side effects may occur. If any of the following side effects occur, continue to give Cerenia and talk to your veterinarian: drooling, lethargy, drowsiness. Side effects other than those listed in this guide may occur. Talk to your veterinarian about any side effect that seems unusual or that is especially bothersome to your pet.
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What Is The Dosage Of Cerenia Tablets
Cerenia tablets come in a range of strengths and include 16 mg, 24 mg, 60 mg, and 160 mg tablets with 10 mg/ml injectables. Dosage amounts depend on the size, weight, and health condition of each cat. Injectable vials are good for three months after opening if kept in a refrigerator. Cerenia injections are given once daily at a dosage of 1 ml for every 1 ml of body, administered subcutaneously. It may also be administered as an intravenous injection. This drug may be given for up to five days consecutively, once daily, in both forms.
Severe And Acute Vomiting
Veterinarians can prescribe Cerenia to alleviate acute and severe vomiting in dogs. Dogs experiencing acute vomiting can happen for several reasons that will be gone over in more detail in this article. The number one reason why veterinarians prescribe Cerenia is to try and put an immediate end to the vomiting so that they can then work and diagnose the reason it is occurring.
Severe and constant vomiting can lead to worrying dehydration and gastrointestinal problems that could worsen without relief. Cerenia is able to help with these upsetting symptoms and even prevent some others from developing if given quickly enough.
There are many reasons that your pet could be experiencing persistent and severe vomiting. Some of the most common reasons will be discussed below. Showing a list of causes or concerns to a veterinarian can assist them in diagnosing and treating your dog.
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What You Should Tell Your Vet Before They Prescribe Cerenia
Cerenia can be great at relieving vomiting, but there are a few situations in which you need to mention previous diagnoses to your vet. If your dog has been diagnosed with liver dysfunction, kidney disease, seizures, epilepsy or cardiovascular problems, you will need to tell your vet. You should also let your vet know if your dog is already taking medication of some sort, because certain medications can interfere with Cerenia.
If your dog is pregnant, lactating or nursing, this is another thing to point out to your vet. There have not been many studies on the effects of Cerenia on pregnant, lactating or nursing dogs, so you will want to be safe. Also, if your dog has also ever ingested a toxic substance they may be given a different form of an antiemetic drug, instead of Cerenia.
These points above are not meant to scare you, and we can confirm Cerenia is still safe. However, it is always best to be on the side of caution and tell your vet if there is anything you think may interfere with the use of Cerenia within your pup. You want them to be safe, after all!
When To Use Cerenia For Cats
Cerenia should be used as the prevention of vomiting due to motion symptoms of nausea due to motion sickness. There are parameters that you should follow in terms of the doses of Cerenia and how often you should give them the medication for their vomiting. Cerenia is a medication that you must only use in a specific, appropriate situations with close attention to prescribing information.
According to the drugs official website, Cerenia is an effective solution for vomiting, and it happens to also be the only FDA-approved treatment for vomiting in dogs. Sometimes, vomiting is the problem in and of itself, and in these cases, the vomiting can be treated with Cerenia. In other cases, vomiting due to motion is merely a symptom of something more. But Cerenia can still help with the situation by ceasing the vomiting in cats and allowing the vet to determine whats lying underneath the surface.
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Vomiting Related To Diseases
Acute vomiting can be brought on by a number of diseases such as gastorenteritis, acute pancreatitis, renal failure and cholangitis, as well as chemotherapy. Cerenia can be used to treat the vomiting caused by these, and it can also be used to prevent vomiting in dogs that are given opioid pain relief. Cerenia can also be used to stop vomiting through drug overdose, gastrointestinal obstruction, central nervous system disease, hypercalcemia and uremia.
Tips To Prevent Motion Sickness In Dogs
Cerenia is available in different tablet sizes depending on the size of your dog and generally is prescribed with minimal risk. However, there are other ways your pet may have a more comfortable ride when traveling as well.
Make sure there is good ventilation for your pet, as this can help him feel better when in the car. Double check that theres enough space in his crate and enough air getting to him while riding.
Dont let your pet travel on a full stomach or bladder. Take your dog for a walk and let him get out his energy prior to traveling, especially if youre going to be on a long flight or on a tight schedule when driving. Also, while its good to pack snacks and plenty of water for your pet, allocate these in the appropriate amounts. Overeating plus continued movement can lead to an upset stomach for your dog. Also, dehydration can lead to other side effects that can make for one long ride for both you and your pet.
Try to keep your pets diet as all-natural as possible. While it might be tempting to share your snacks when on the road, it might not be the healthiest for your pet, especially if his stomach is more sensitive when traveling. Hemp-based treats are good options when traveling because they dont affect other foods or medications you may be giving your dog. Theyre easy on the digestive system and can also potentially help with other disorders like anxiety in dogs.
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What Does Cerenia Look Like
The tablet form of Cerenia is a small oval peach-colored tablet scored in the middle. A scored tablet is meant to be easily broken into two pieces with your hands, not requiring the use of any special tools. Each tablet has the letters MPT and the milligrams of medication stamped on it.
Cerenia also comes as an injectable medication. The liquid is clear and not very viscous .
Cerenia Tablets For Cats
Cerenia tablets are also available, formulated for oral use in dogs. Although Cerenia tablets arent licensed to be given to cats, some DVM texts advise that this is possible for certain selected cases. Cerenia should only be given to cats in this way when recommended by the consulting veterinary surgeon.
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Hog Farmers Worry They'll Be Further Squeezed By China's Pork Tariffs
As China and the United States continue to lob threats over new import tariffs, farmers in the Midwest are already adjusting to the first shots in what could become a trade war.
China imposed new tariffs on pork this week, pressuring producers who already are barely making ends meet, and now the two countries have released lists for the next group of products each would hit if disputes over intellectual property and other issues aren't resolved.
In Nevada, Iowa, Howard Hill has a farm with corn, soybeans, cattle and hogs. He markets 7,000 hogs each year and about a quarter of them will end up overseas.
The National Pork Producers Council says about 26 percent of total U.S. pork production is sold in export markets, and China is a major buyer. Last year, spokesman Jim Monroe says, China bought about $1.1 billion of pork from the United States.
China even offers a market for parts of the pig that don't make money in the U.S., says Hill, like organs and skin.
"They value some of those variety meats that we don't and it adds quite a bit to the value of each hog that we sell," Hill says.
Farmers, therefore, are worried about the tariffs because undoubtedly lower sales follow. Hill says he has seen hog prices drop to the point where it may cost some farmers more to raise a pig than they can sell it for.
The U.S. and China are continuing to draw battle lines for the next round in this fight. China has put soybeans on the potential list for a 25 percent tariff increase, and many more farmers grow soybeans than raise pigs.
"That's going to have a huge impact on the farm economy," Hill says, if it goes through.
But Wendong Zhang, an economist at Iowa State University, says talk about a big soybean tariff may prove to be bluster because the Chinese really don't want to make soybeans more expensive to import.
"It will hurt them a lot," he says. "I feel that could be one of the nuclear options that they reserve as a last resort. They don't want to use it because it's hard to find substitutes."
But Zhang says at $12 billion a year, soybeans are a juicy tariff-target — right up there with airplanes and cars.
President Trump insists these moves don't constitute a trade war. He says he's only trying to protect American intellectual property and manufacturing. But some Midwest lawmakers wonder why farmers are always in the cross-hairs.
"I support the president's efforts to protect American jobs," says Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, but she's concerned the president isn't keeping the promises he made to farmers. "I do wish that the tariffs move would be in a more subtle approach, where we're maybe phasing it in, we're trying to protect the interests of the American farmer. And that's not what has occurred."
Instead, farmers are, once again, on the front lines of a trade dispute. Threats to agriculture were an opening salvo in the ongoing negotiations over NAFTA, the free trade agreement with Mexico and Canada.
But the way commodity markets work, if the cost of soybeans tanks in response to possible Chinese tariffs, the cost of raising hogs will drop. And Howard Hill, the Iowa farmer, says while some farmers may be anxious over all of this, few are surprised.
"Farmers are used to volatile markets, so you have to learn to live with it and do the best you can," he says.
Still, volatility is one thing. Talk of a trade war upsets lots of farmers here in Iowa, and they're hoping for a trade armistice before anybody has to sell the farm.
"I don't think right now anybody is thinking they are going to exit the market because of this," Hill says. But if high tariffs on farm products get imposed over a long time, with a significant impact on the markets, "there will be people who go out of business."
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New local history resources on the York County Heritage Trust website
The York County Heritage Trust Library and Archives has recently added four databases to the YCHT website.
For nearly 15 years YCHT has been entering cataloging and description information for its vast collections of manuscripts, photographs, postcards, books, objects and other items, such as architectural drawings, into PastPerfect. This software was developed for archival and museum collections and is used by thousands of institutions worldwide. For nearly as long, staff and volunteers have also been scanning the individual items and adding the digital images to the records.
These finding aids have only been available in house, but a recent grant from the Anne M. and Philip H. Glatfelter, III Family Foundation has made possible the purchase of on-line components needed for sharing many of these images with the world.
The first four collections, now available at www.yorkheritage.org are York City Streets and Alleys, Family Bible collection, the Dempwolf Architectural Drawing collection and the York County Postcard collection, four of the most used visual collections at YCHT.
The York City street scenes include streetscapes, individual buildings and events taking place on identified streets. The photos date from the 1870s until present, older ones being in the majority.
The postcard collection is a nice complement to the street scenes. They date from the late 1800s to well past the middle of the 20th century. Some are in color, showing some street scenes, landscapes, buildings, monuments and other items of interest throughout York County long before the widespread use of color photography.
The YCHT Library and Archives accepted large family Bibles until the 1970s, when it ran out of space to properly house them. Now YCHT is just as anxious to receive the family information, usually recorded on special pages at the center of the hefty volumes, but asks instead for photocopies, readable photos or transcriptions of that information. The digital images now on the website are from the Bibles presented before the 1970s. They include the title page of each Bible, as well as any births, baptisms, marriages and deaths recorded therein.
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Asian-Americans Facing Staggering Levels Of Income Inequality In The U.S.
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Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are facing staggering levels of income inequality in the U.S. That's according to a recent report by the Pew Research Center. In fact, people of Asian descent have displaced black people as the most economically divided racial or ethnic group in the U.S. NPR's Hansi Lo Wang reports on a food pantry in New York City that is seeing the growing needs among some Asian Americans firsthand.
HANSI LO WANG, BYLINE: A small storefront office in Flushing, Queens, is home to the only food pantry in New York City specializing in South Asian ingredients.
SUDHA ACHARYA: We have rice, atta - it's wheat flour. And toor dal is very good protein.
WANG: Sudha Acharya helped start this food pantry at the South Asian Council for Social Services in 2016. Back then, her staff used to distribute hand-packed bags of rice and spices like coriander powder and red chili powder to about 50 families a week.
ACHARYA: Rajesh, can you help me for a second? Yeah. Thank you.
WANG: But now they serve more than 300 families each Friday. An assembly line of workers has taken over the office's basement. Bags of sweet potatoes and Shanghai bok choy are piled on the floor next to some New York bagels.
MAHBUBA AKHTER: And do you want peanut butter?
UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Peanut butter, no. I have.
WANG: Many in line speak Mandarin or other Chinese dialects and little or no English. Sudha Acharya remembers the program's early days, when her staff found a man who had started waiting on the sidewalk almost six hours before the food pantry opened. Acharya says he wanted to make sure he would get enough to eat.
ACHARYA: You can imagine if that is how they feel - they're afraid that the food won't be there - the need is very big.
WANG: Some people may be surprised to hear that there is a great need in an Asian community.
ACHARYA: I know. It's - you know, we're always thought of as the model minority. That's really not true. There are people who don't have jobs. There are people who are really underemployed, underpaid.
CHANDRA KUMAR: My name is Chandra Kumar. Born in Trinidad. I'm West Indian, my ancestors from India. And I'm over 50 years old, and I work in a hospital facility.
WANG: Kumar stopped by the South Asian food pantry during her lunch break, wearing her light blue scrubs. The food she picks up here helps cut down on grocery costs for her mother and at her own home, where she lives with her retired husband, adult son and grandchild.
KUMAR: I don't buy rice anymore in the grocery. I don't buy dal anymore.
WANG: You save that money.
KUMAR: And I - yeah. There's so many other bills in New York. And you think about all your bills to pay. You can't cover all your bills. Sometime you're back-to-back on a paycheck.
WANG: Around the country, more Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are feeling that financial pressure. A gap between those at the top of the income ladder and those at the bottom has almost doubled since 1970. That's according to Rakesh Kochhar.
RAKESH KOCHHAR: I'm senior researcher at the Pew Research Center.
WANG: He says this income gap is largely driven by immigration patterns that began in the 1970s. That's when the share of immigrants from Asia working in high-skill jobs started to drop because more newcomers with lower education levels were coming.
KOCHHAR: Some are refugees. And many have come for family reunification reasons.
WANG: Kochhar says many of them are facing different outcomes in the U.S. than those who came mainly for economic reasons. For example...
KOCHHAR: There's an Indian who came to study in graduate school and then went on to work in technology or healthcare or somebody like me, in research.
WANG: Sudha Acharya says focusing on top-earning Asian Americans in high-skill jobs obscures the need she sees every week in Flushing, Queens.
ACHARYA: At present, we need to take care of the people who are suffering, who are needy.
WANG: And at New York's South Asian food pantry, that means helping to make sure everyone in line has enough to eat. Hansi Lo Wang, NPR News, New York.
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A retrospective study was carried out in 110 cadaveric kidney transplant recipients to compare the effects of low doses of cyclosporine (CsA), azathioprine (AZP) and steroids (triple-drug therapy) with those of higher doses of steroids plus AZP (conventional immunosuppression). Graft survival rate in the triple-drug therapy was 77%, 69%, and 69% at 1, 3, and 5 years, respectively. This was significantly better than 48%, 34%, and 29% in conventional immunosuppression. The incidence of acute rejection episodes was significantly lower in the triple-drug therapy than in conventional immunosuppression (25% vs 58%). In conclusion, our study shows that triple-drug therapy using low-dose cyclosporine is the safest of the immunosuppressive regimens and provides a beneficial effect on the long-term survival of cadaveric kidney transplants.
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|Journal||Acta medica Okayama|
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Tanner Todd, Untitled, 2020, digital photograph, post-processing in photoshop
This media file is attached to: Paragon Arts Gallery Student Exhibition Online 2020
This photo was produced for a class project on portraits/self portraits where I explored applying conventional portraiture techniques to non-human creatures. The goal with this project was to use the techniques I'd learned photographing people and use them to portray a lizard. By carefully applying composition, color and lighting, the photograph attempts to establish a sense of personality and emotion in the same way a portrait of human would. | <urn:uuid:f96961d5-b39d-4572-94c8-48eaf0d23c54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcc.edu/galleries/cascade/studentexhibitiononline2020/todd-tanner-untitled3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946418 | 117 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Agriculture Colleges In Tripura
Updated on: May 9, 2013
Here, we have made the best effort to provide accurate information on agriculture colleges in Tripura. The list is compiled from various authentic sources and hence can be relied upon. Still if there are any errors, please do let us know. Remember, www.Tripuraeducation.net is your best source for all educational information in Tripura.
Agriculture is offered as both Bachelor's degree course of three to four years duration and Masters degree of two years duration. One can also opt for research work in agriculture.
Following are major careers in the field of agriculture:
- Agricultural Research
- Agro Industry
- Agricultural Education
- Agricultural Journalism
- Services in Agriculture
- Agricultural Engineering
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Ceiling Painting Dos and Don’ts
There’s more to painting a room than adding color to the walls. Ceiling painting is a must if you want a cohesive appearance from a newly painted room.
Done with expertise, a well-painted ceiling can add polish and sophistication to any space. But there are some common pitfalls to avoid when planning and completing a ceiling painting project.
Here's what the professional house painters at TRICO PAINTING recommend doing (and not doing) when painting interior ceilings.
Do: Use the Right Tools and Materials
Before you start painting, get all your paints, primers, and painting materials together. Be sure you have enough paint and primer to completely cover the surface, and to get the finish you want, without over-applying. You'll want to have brushes on hand for smaller and more detailed areas. And choosing a roller is important, too. Different rollers have different textures, so you want to choose a paint roller that will give you the texture and finish you're looking for.
Do: Choose a Color That Suits Your Space
Ceiling paint colors can make or break the aesthetic of an entire room. Here are some guidelines to follow to feel more confident about ceiling paint color selection:
- Matching the Walls: Painting ceilings and walls the same color is always a safe bet. However, design experts like Custom Home Group recommend using half strength for ceilings: "If you do end up choosing the same color as the walls for the ceiling, go with half-strength for the ceiling. Since ceilings tend to look darker than the walls because of their placement, going half-strength on the color will offer a slight contrast. This also ensures it doesn’t end up being too dark in comparison to the walls. This rule usually does not apply with dark colors or very pale colors."
- Go Light, White, or Neutral: If you do change the color, we recommend lighter shades. They are more reflective and give the room a more open feeling. Whites and light neutrals do this well.
- Use a Color Wheel or Palette: Rather than choosing on a whim, or by what you think will look good, we suggest using a color palette or color wheel, so you can be certain to use truly complementary colors that won't clash.
Don't: Forget Safety
Ceiling painting has safety risks, as does any painting or home improvement project. Any time your work requires a ladder, additional attention to safety is necessary. Be sure your ladder is sturdy, and that you, or whoever is painting the ceiling is comfortable working on a ladder.
Extension poles are a convenient way to paint hard-to-reach areas on a ceiling without reaching or stretching to paint them in a way that feels uncomfortable or unsafe. You'll also want safety glasses or goggles to protect your eyes from paint particles or drips.
Do: Consider Popcorn Ceiling Removal
Textured, "popcorn" ceilings are not only notorious for being hard to clean and paint, they date a room immediately. If you're repainting ceilings to match a more modern, updated room, popcorn ceiling removal is a solid first step.
The resulting ceiling will be cleaner, smoother, and more likely to render a seamless paint finish. Some popcorn coatings are harder to remove than others, and some might contain traces of asbestos depending on their age, With these risks, we recommend hiring a local painting contractor who can remove popcorn ceilings safely and completely, without damaging the surface itself.
Do: Prepare and Repair
As tempting as it is to get done with a project sooner, simply painting over ceilings won't do. You'll have problems with your paint finish, and have to repaint ceilings much sooner than you planned, unless the surface is properly prepped and repaired. That includes:
- Removing all old and damaged paint
- Sanding and smoothing the surface
- Patching and repairing drywall of any holes or imperfections
Level, clean, and free of paint and debris: that's how you want your ceiling to look before you begin painting it.
Do: Remove Hangings and Fixtures
Remove anything hanging from or attached to your ceiling before you start painting. Take down any light fixtures, remove light bulbs, and cover anything electrical. You don't want errant paint to damage lighting features or electrical systems in your home.
Of course, you can't avoid 100% of paint drips. But there are a few things you can do to minimize their impact on your finished product.
- Remove everything you can from the room before you start painting
- Cover all surfaces you don't plan to paint with drop cloths and other protective coverings
- Don't overload brushes and rollers with primer or paint
- Paint using fluid motions and complete strokes
- Clean brushes properly when you're done using them
Do: Allow Time for Drying
One of the biggest issues DIY ceiling painting projects have is that the finish doesn't look how you envisioned. Sometimes it's too dark, or discolored in places, and sometimes it's not smooth. All of these problems can be avoided by allowing primers and paint coats to dry before applying more. How long you allow for drying depends on the type of surface, the size of the area you painted, and what products you used.
Don't: Let DIY Ceiling Painting Overwhelm You
If all of this seems overwhelming, don't let it stop you from getting the beautifully painted ceilings your rooms need to look their best.
TRICO PAINTING offers wall and ceiling painting services to homeowners and HOAs as part of our comprehensive interior painting services. We never skip a step or cut a corner when painting ceilings, removing popcorn ceilings, or painting the surrounding moldings and trim. Get ceiling painting done without having to worry about the stress or the mess. Get an interior painting estimate from TRICO PAINTING today! | <urn:uuid:80090b4e-3a7a-4bc2-b058-5e427d63e26c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tricopainting.com/trico-painting-blog/ceiling-painting-dos-and-donts | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936949 | 1,224 | 1.617188 | 2 |
We are ready for the smartbike
Has the time come for our bikes to be a lot smarter – so smart they could defeat bike thieves, tell us exactly what’s wrong with them and even take control to avoid an accident? Is it time for the smart motorcycle to arrive?
It’s rare for me to be jealous of cyclists, but when I read about the VanMoof ‘smart bike’, complete with smartphone connectivity, theft detection and fingerprint unlocking, all for a retail starting price of just $1,000, I had to wonder why motorbikes are lagging behind.
We’ve already said motorbikes should by now be using the same technology as smartphones to reduce theft, but Marc Ryan’s article on motorcycle technology got me thinking that it’s about time manufacturers started delivering technology with more comprehensive and arguably real-world benefits.
As Marc pointed out, “It would make my life slightly easier if I could wake up in the morning, glance at my phone, which is connected to my bike and see whether I need to get petrol, put air in the tyres, how long it is to the next service, what the condition of the battery is, or how many more years it’ll take to finish paying for it.”
The technology is already here
When you hire a Mini Cooper using the Drive Now app, you can use either a smart card or the Drive Now app to both unlock and start the car. To finish your rental, you just tap a button on the app and then your account is charged – unless the vehicle’s parking sensors feel the car is parked too close to the car in front, in which case you’ll need to move the car accordingly.
If you are confused or concerned by anything, you can be patched through to a call centre who can immediately see what is happening with the car and where it is, and take you through a remedy. They can presumably also remotely disable the vehicle when they can see it’s stationary. App, customer service centre and car are completely connected.
Using this as an example, it is currently entirely possible to install devices on a motorcycle that will allow the bike to collect data and share it with a central database; to improve the owner’s knowledge and interaction with the vehicle, and to monitor its use to reduce the potential for theft. It’s exactly the same technology as after-market trackers connected to call centres, only this time hardwired into the bike and its ‘brain’.
So, if it’s all possible, we only need the manufacturers to rise to the challenge, because as bikers/consumers/customers I think we are more than ready to embrace data-driven technology.
BMW is close, with its optional Motorad Connected system that links bike, smartphone and helmet via apps, but as you’ll see in the video below, the emphasis is on media – making calls, listening to music and navigating maps – rather than useful tools for motorcycle use and ownership.
Yamaha has gone down the security route with its top-of-the-range TMAX DX and My TMAX Connect app, where you can remotely manage your bike and help to keep it secure. Features include an engine lock (immobilises the engine when the bike is stationary), bike finder, usage data, geofence and theft management functions. Bike and app are connected to Vodaphone’s Stolen Vehicle Tracking and Recovery Service operating centres, which manage alerts 24/7 and liaise with the police.
ECU + SIM
So here’s the first challenge for the motorcycle manufacturers: When are you going to equip ALL bike management systems with a SIM card, as standard? This simple step would mean the bike can be connected to both the owner’s app and a central operating centre who can step in during an adverse event, such as theft.
The engine management system could report richer diagnostics than just service intervals. It could indicate potential problems looming, such as problems with fuelling. A really smart system would tell you, via your app, how much a repair would be and go on to book the bike in with your preferred dealer.
Open up the data
Here’s the second challenge for the bike makers: Make the data available.
Using ‘old thinking’, manufacturers like to get a leap on their competitors by creating their own new, innovative technology. But the process is slow because they are each working on their own development, generally with small teams. This slows progress down.
For example, BMW was the first to introduce ABS braking to motorcycles, over 25 years ago, but anti-lock brakes are still not fitted to every new bike as standard. Instead of sharing the knowledge, other companies had to play catch up. As well as taking longer to see a universal application of the technology, this makes the overall industry cost of developing that technology much higher than it needs to be.
‘Open source’ is the term the IT industry uses to describe software where the original developer who designed the software’s code makes it freely available so that others can not only use it but improve on it. They might monetise their work by offering support to anyone who wants to use the code, seeing as they’ll know it best.
Open source systems have a considerable benefit over closed or proprietary systems that are designed and developed by a single person or company: the core software can be expanded upon and improved at a much faster rate, by the community of developers who adopt and run with the new software.
For bike manufacturers using the same principle and applying it to the data a bike can produce, they would likely see rapid advancement in the technologies that would make ownership easier and more enjoyable – making their products and motorcycling as a whole more attractive.
By making the data that the bike can produce available, even if it has to be on a licenced basis, smart startups can use that data to develop new ideas, tools and products. It would be a similar ecosystem to the app developers who are given access Apple and Google’s tools and data for making apps. Bike technology would be freed up to accelerate at an astonishing rate compared to today’s advances.
Make yourself more visible
Cars are moving towards dispensing with the driver, and while there is seemingly no point in having the same aim for motorcycles, bikes will start adopting the C-ITS [Cooperative Integrated Transportation Systems] technology cars will use.
So the last challenge is less for manufacturers, but more for us: would you be willing to lose some of your privacy, in return for making your ride much safer?
Many motorcyclists, myself included, have deep misgivings about digitally-connected lanes on motorways, where vehicles can be electronically ‘hitched’ via the cloud, to run at the same speed in a connected line of vehicles. Motorcyclists naturally wonder what happens when a non-connected bike wants to move through a vehicle line that is preventing access to a junction exit.
But take the SMIDSY, for example.
If a connected network was in place, two vehicles heading for a collision could be prevented from doing so by computers in the cloud taking each vehicle’s movement data. Working out an accident was imminent, each vehicle could be provided with an automatic strategy to at least reduce or hopefully completely avoid the impact of the collision.
That cloud technology is currently entirely possible, but some way off implementation, not least because of drivers’ reticence to be continuously monitored. Motorists can already install insurance apps and black boxes that record and report their journeys to central databases. Understandably, the vast majority of road users have not adopted the technology for fear of having their driving behaviour too closely analysed.
Yet many drivers are already being monitored, with whole fleets of commercial vehicles tracked using GPS to improve logistics and vehicle security. Their exact locations and speeds are known all of the time. Many of these truck and van drivers are bikers themselves, but I suspect it will be some time before the majority of them will be prepared to have their private journeys monitored, even if it could lead to safer roads.
The motorcycle industry itself is interested, with seven major manufacturers supporting the Connected Motorcycle Consortium, whose stated aim is for every manufacturer to, ‘introduce at least one of their PTW models equipped with C-ITS functionality by the year 2020’.
As of Spring 2018, very little info has broken through to show that they may be likely to hit this target, although again it is BMW who are leading the way, having demonstrated its ConnectedRide technology in Autumn 2017.
In an unconnected world
Right now, this all feels a long way off. It’s doubtful that we are going to see a fully connected vehicle-to-vehicle system in place anytime soon, at least not in the UK where we can’t even build train lines and runways without 20 years’ hand-wringing.
So it’s back to challenges for the manufacturers; to put in place the technology that will improve safety for the motorcyclist. Seeing as we are currently stuck with old thinking, here’s the final challenge to the industry: You know what to do, can you do it quicker, please?
Radar equipped cars can already detect an accident in the making, by assessing the change in vehicle movement ahead. They can apply brakes and disengage cruise control automatically. Without stabilisers like Bosch’s recently announced pressurised gas anti-slide technology, it’s going to be difficult to achieve full safety on a motorcycle, but not impossible.
By simply linking radar to an audible warning system, or even directly to the throttle and ABS-equipped brakes, the chances of being injured in a SMIDSY incident could be significantly reduced. Linking to the bike’s ECU would mean the system could detect town or country use and be sensitised accordingly so that the anchors aren’t applied every time you pull up behind a bus.
That’s not even ‘smart’ technology. It’s fairly basic stuff, and we should have it on our bikes already. Both Ducati and Suzuki have patented technologies that can pretty much do this, but it will be 2020 at the earliest before we see them on actual production bikes.
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Tech Entrepreneur Sean Parker’s Donation to Fund Cancer Immunotherapy Research
NEW YORK, October 16, 2013—The Cancer Research Institute (CRI), a New York-based nonprofit committed to developing immune system-based cancer treatments, was given a $1 million donation from tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Sean Parker at CRI’s 27th annual awards gala on Sept. 30.
At the dinner, Parker also received the organization’s highest honor for lay individuals, the Oliver R. Grace Award for Distinguished Service in Advancing Cancer Research, for his outspoken endorsement of cancer immunotherapy and substantial financial support of the Cancer Immunology Translational Research Dream Team that is jointly funded by CRI and Stand Up To Cancer, an organization to which Parker has strong ties.
“I’m truly honored to have an opportunity to work with all of you at this pivotal moment in history. It is my firm belief, and a belief that I think is shared by most people in this room, that the end of cancer is actually closer at hand than anyone outside of this room even realizes,” Parker said at the gala.
Cancer Research Institute distributed $14.6 million in grants and fellowships in FY 2013, and Parker’s donation will extend their ability to fund groundbreaking research.
In his acceptance speech, Parker praised scientists and clinicians for work that went unrecognized until recently when cancer immunotherapy started showing very promising treatment results. Having an organization driving collaboration and funding is also key to advancing research, he said about CRI’s 60 years of leadership in the field.
“It’s in large part due to that early vision that we find ourselves here, tonight, at the epicenter of a movement in cancer research that I think many of us believe actually has the best chance of eradicating cancer once and for all,” Parker said at the gala.
“This is an extraordinary gift, and we are deeply honored by Sean’s generosity,” said Dr. Jill O’Donnell-Tormey, CEO and director of scientific affairs at CRI. “Cancer immunotherapy is making huge leaps of progress right now in our ability to fight cancer, and this gift will help us fund research to save lives.”
For more information about Cancer Research Institute, visit www.cancerresearch.org. Parker was also featured as the Wall Street Journal’s “Donor of the Day” because of his support of CRI and cancer immunotherapy.
Presentation of the Grace Award to Sean Parker by Dr. James P. Allison:
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Since the dawn of the millennium, the world has changed at a faster rate than any previous time in human history. Culturally, climatically and in just about every other guise, a sweeping global transition has been underway. However, the Russian Tundra seems so far-flung and impenetrable that its place in the global consciousness as the world’s last outpost of the past has wrongfully remained.
It is a measure of our current interconnectedness and the binding ties of climate change that even the Tundra is a region in rapid transition.
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Major Pharmaceuticals Boost for Africa with Bank’s Creation of New Foundation Africa CDC 07/07/2022 • Ochieng’ Ogodo Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to print (Opens in new window) Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank, visits the ‘Mother and Child’ Hospital of Bingerville, Côte d’Ivoire, in 2020 The African Development Bank is establishing a foundation with the aim of spending at least $3 billion over the next decade to boost Africa’s access to technologies needed to make medicines, vaccines, and other pharmaceutical products. The bank’s board approved the establishment of the African Pharmaceutical Technology Foundation with an eye to towards creating what the bank described in a statement on June 27 as “a new groundbreaking institution” for Africa’s 1.3 billion citizens. AfDB President Akinwumi Adesina said Africa “must have a health defense system” that revamps its pharmaceutical industry while also building up its capacity to make vaccines and provide quality healthcare. “Africa can no longer outsource the healthcare security of its 1.3 billion citizens to the benevolence of others,” said Adesina, a Nigerian economist. AU priority to improve healthcare sector Medium Conference Hall (NCC), African Union Headquarters The need for a foundation featured prominently at the African Union summit in February at Addis Ababa, where leaders called on AfDB to help Africa’s health care sector become more independent in light of the challenges it has faced from several devastating diseases and the COVID-19 pandemic. The foundation’s creation signals a major shift in efforts to address inadequacies in the sector, including limited capacity to produce its own medicines and vaccines in part due to the intellectual property barrier. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), said it “is a game changer on accelerating the access of African pharmaceutical companies to IP-protected technologies and know-how in Africa.” Medicines and vaccines gap The pandemic exposed Africa’s lack of capacity to manufacture and supply essential drugs and personal protective equipment (PPEs) needed to control the coronavirus. Soon after the pandemic began in early 2020, many of the world’s top scientists scrambled to find a vaccine but government and business leaders paid less attention to how it would be made and delivered to low- and middle-income countries. More focus was put on rapidly increasing supply to meet the surging demand, in a process largely driven by wealthier nations with greater purchasing power. In Africa, as in most other developing nations, citizens’ health care became dependent on the generosity of others. Nigerian pharmacist Ezinne Victoria Chinemerem Onwuekwe, who works as a public health fellow for the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, said the main problem is that Africa’s pharmaceutical industry lacks manufacturing capacity. “There are a few production companies here and there, and for it to be able to produce for these citizens, it will require the effort of public and private sector to bring together both the technical [and] financial support needed to push this forward,” she said. The shortage of medicines and other pharmaceutical products has been a challenge to effective delivering quality healthcare services in Africa. Pharmaceuticals are made in South Africa, Kenya, Morocco and Egypt, yet Africa spends US$16 billion to import 94% of its pharmaceutical and medicinal needs, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). As of 2019, the continent had roughly 375 pharmaceutical manufacturers, compared to about 5,000 and 10,500, respectively, in China and India. And a 2019 study found many life-saving drugs are still inaccessible and unaffordable in low- and middle-income countries. Game changer for medicines The new foundation, which will raise its own funds and operate independently of AfDB, will be hosted in Rwanda and deal with IP rights and health policy. One of its chief responsibilities will be mediating interests between Africa’s pharmaceutical sector and global companies with the aim of sharing IP-protected technologies, know-how and patented processes, according to documents on its establishment. It also is being asked to prioritize technologies, products and processes aimed primarily at diseases widely prevalent in Africa, or those that involve current and future pandemics. And it is expected to help build up the ranks of health care professionals and others who conduct research and development while upgrading manufacturing plant capacities and regulatory quality to meet WHO standards. Challenges in the healthcare sector Small fragmented markets and weak regulatory frameworks, inadequate human resource capacity, poor procurement and supply chain systems, and policy incoherencies in countries’ trade, industry, health, and finance departments are some of the impediments to the growth of Africa’s pharmaceutical sector. The continent is also burdened with fake and falsified medical drugs. In 2017, WHO revealed an estimated 116,000 additional deaths a year from malaria could be tied to substandard and falsified antimalarials. To counter that, the foundation is being asked to help local pharmaceutical companies boost home-grown production with better technology in their manufacturing plants and to work with governments, research and development centers to improve their innovation capacities. Onwuekwe said part of the problem is a lack of political will in some countries. “This is about finding African solutions to African problems. That is the new public heath order,” Onwuekwe told Health Policy Watch. “The leadership of the countries have to invest financially and politically for there to be any progress in the sector.” But the foundation, she said, also must become adept at negotiating with global pharmaceutical companies and must be “able to foster collaborations” with WHO, the African Union and other international organizations. Image Credits: AfDB Group, IAEA. 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Customary Use committee seeks common ground
The Customary Use of Beaches Committee held its fourth meeting Monday night in its quest to find common ground.
The 11 members of the committee were all present and vocal as they debated the issues from their differing viewpoints.
Committee Chair Tom McGee said he did not know if the committee will reach consensus on anything, but he believed they may be able to get their teeth into the issue of types of uses of the beach.
"Some land owners would not be opposed to some uses by the public on their beaches. I think the core is the kind of uses," he said.
The committee discussed those uses and made some progress as all agreed on at least one point: that no one likes to see tents on the beach as they are an obstruction.
"Most beachfront owners acknowledge they don't have a problem with someone fishing on their beach," said vice chair Mike Huckabee.
As they found that common ground, the committee then attempted to define what the problem is.
Huckabee described the problem as a "taking," adding that property owners need to feel they have some control of their property.
"Everyone has an absolute right to traverse the sand, but once they are into deeded area, that's different," he said.
Tami Mims reminded the beachfront owners that they knew when they bought property on the beach that they had to share it with the public.
"Customary use is not what it once was, though," said Lisa Boushy. "Now it's tents and camps. Buy more beach access and take away the fee for state parks. What is it that people want to do on the beach that they cannot do now?"
Celeste Cobena answered that the BCC is looking at the issue in a forward manner as all beachfront owners could potentially say they don't want people on their beach.
Huckabee asked how many incidences there had been of someone being run off a beach.
Assistant County Attorney Sydney Noyes said people usually don't call to say they have been asked to leave a beach. Noyes told the group that Code Enforcement has more than doubled its number of officers and beach ambassadors to help.
However, Brenda Rees said she had witnessed people being told to get off private beach.
Boushy may have honed in on the main issue though when she noted that the big thing going on is fear -- fear of no access and what property rights might be given up.
"It may start with very simple things that no one objects to, and then customary use comes down and there is no governance. That is a genuine fear," she said. "So there has got to be something we can do. We have got to come up with solutions. We all agree that you can walk on the wet sand. I think we can come up with ideas we can live with without a customary use ordinance."
"It's not about whether you own the property, but if it is illegal, it is illegal," said Cobena.
Rees noted the TDC brings in $20 million a year in bed taxes with most of that spent in advertisements.
"Instead of spending that in Atlanta and Dallas, spend it here informing people," she suggested.
Another point of contention is the 15-foot buffer.
Huckabee said the 15-foot line should be from what is deeded to the property owner. "When we bought, we knew we had it to the mean high-water line," said Huckabee. "We spent hundreds to have it surveyed so we know where the mean high water line is. It determines where private property is and public begins."
While Cobena noted there is an environmental reason to have 15 feet, Boushy agreed with Huckabee that it all comes down to property-owners' rights.
"I don't know what is going to happen on April 1 and if the sheriff will put my staff in handcuffs," said Rosemary Beach's David Bailey, who said they leave a 12-foot buffer. "I am left in the dark as to what it is I will be able to deliver to the many homeowners we serve. I cannot wrap my head around what (the Customary Use Ordinance) was created to solve. What is the problem you are trying to solve?"
McGee answered that the county has simply recognized that the beaches of South Walton are subject to customary use.
"I was hoping to do something here to avoid litigation," said McGee. "I would like to see us agree on something."
Huckabee was not as hopeful.
"There may be no other way," he said. "It will be very expensive for tax payers and the only winners are the attorneys."
McGee instructed the group to go home and write down ideas.
"We have got to make a decision on whether we can come to some sort of consensus or agreement," he said.
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It's a tight labor market and you need employees. Worse, the company that's bidding against you outweighs you by a billion dollars or so. Is this a lost cause? Not necessarily.
You may look at that billion-dollar Goliath and see a competitor that's too large to beat. However, employees look at the matter through entirely different eyes. And in the case of employment, they are the ones with the deciding vote.
I interviewed a range of employees who chose a small company when a larger company was bidding as well (and often was offering more money). These are some of the factors that tipped the balance: ``You actually make a difference.'' In a big company, people get lost. They may end up in a backwater department where no one even cares that they show up. Employees find this depressing. It hurts their pride.
In contrast, there are no backwaters in a small company. All employees are needed, or they wouldn't be there.
The boss is not a stranger. When employees aren't grousing, they often idealize authority figures: ``If management knew what was going on around here, they'd set things right.'' In a large company, management never can keep track of what's going on. Management is isolated on a different floor or even in a different city.
In a small business, the boss is 20 feet down the hall. The owner personally can pass along a good word or stop to talk about your kids. And if something wrong is going on, the boss is on hand to take care of it.
``They did it for us.'' One small business had hired three new employees, then offered them a week's vacation within the first nine months. The owners decided they didn't want their people working a solid year with no vacation.
``That never would have happened at a big corporation,'' one of the employees said. ``They never would have known we were there, much less that we needed a vacation. These guys actually saw us as live human beings, like we were people that mattered.''
The lack of bureaucracy. Highly skilled, highly motivated people need the chance to be effective. A technical designer in high demand put it this way: ``I won't consider working at a big company. Everything gets bogged down. You wait on approval from some mucky-muck, and you can't get anything done.''
Even salary didn't outweigh this: ``Salary is a consideration, but how much do you want? Now me, I want more time.'' The designer felt that she could go to a smaller company and negotiate for extra vacation time - even buying an extra week if she needed. Only a small company would be flexible enough to consider it.
Variety is life. Highly skilled people often got that way because they love challenges. In a large company, that same expertise gets them pigeonholed doing the same things over and over again. In a small company, they get to do everything in the graphics department because they are the graphics department.
Don't discourage your prospects. One future employee was bright and sports-minded and applied for a position at a sporting goods franchise. She took the required test, and the owner said: ``This is the highest score I've ever seen. Why would you want to work for a place like this?''
Maybe the owner meant well, but it sounded terrible. Until that moment the employee was thinking of the easy commute and discount buying. Suddenly she wanted to slip out the door. The tone of voice said that only losers worked there, that her future co-workers were a bunch of dummies and that she was about to make a colossal mistake. She made her excuses and never went back.
It would have been so easy to make this a flattering remark, and instead it left her feeling unappreciated.
There's an extra lesson to be found in this. If you pride yourself on doing business just like the big guys, you may do yourself out of your competitive advantage. Perhaps it's less important that you be formal and impressive and more important that you be flexible and attentive.
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Fashion is a complicated mnemonic of expressing oneself through clothes. It is a language that everyone speaks but only a few values. A lot of people would deny that they know fashion or that they do fashion. However, even the combination of a plain white shirt, a pair of jeans, and old sneakers is already fashion.
This common styling phenomenon is a daily expression of how we feel or what we want to be. Most of us might not admit it, but your styling sense profoundly affects your emotions.
A simple hoodie with a comfortable pair of pants gives off warm security around an individual. It may also indicate that you are not up for a strenuous and active day. Noticeably, introverts are often attracted to hoodies with dull colors. Meanwhile, extroverts are frequently portrayed with vibrant and light-colored tops.
Some say fashion is hard, but in reality, fashion is non-discriminatory and easy to understand. For starters, here are 12 tips to help you know the basics of mix-matching. At the end of this article, you’ll find doing your own “fashion” is just as easy as pie.
1. Know your Skin Undertone
For starters, knowing your skin tone is a basic essential. There are mainly three skin undertone categories grouped under warm-tone, cool-undertone, and neutral-tone.
Geographically speaking, most light-skinned Europeans fall under the cool-undertone skin tone. California girls who enjoy tan skins fall under the warm-tone category. People who are somewhere in between are neutral-toned individuals, mostly people from Northern Europe or Northern Asia.
The point of skin tones is it makes your color coordination easier. When you are with the appropriate color for your skin, you can glow brighter and more energized. Here are a few things to consider to know your skin undertone category.
A warm skin tone is identifiable with veins that are in a shade of blue-green. Blue-green veins reflect under the light of an olive and yellowish colored skin. Most individuals who have been under the warm skin tone category are usually in tropical countries. South and Southeast Asians fall under the warm skin tone classification.
This type of skin tone is the best skin to portray the autumn look. Because of the olive-like color of warm skin tone people, they shine brightly with gold jewelry and red accessories. No wonder, a red dress paired with a red lipstick would make them look popping.
People would say that cool undertones are the opposite category of warm tones. While that is not entirely wrong, it is not necessarily correct either. Individuals with visible purple or blue veins are characterized under cool undertones. Although most people with cool-undertone are Europeans, Asians can also fall under this category.
If you have a peachy and purple-ish complexion, you can fall under the cool-undertone category. A cool-undertone type of person can enjoy the peak of their beauty during the winter season. Colors of gray and white paired with silver jewelry can make them look so stunning.
The final skin tone category is the neutral tone which may be hard for some. People who have neutral tones are those mixed up between being a warm tone or cool-undertone. It gets confusing for individuals who are in this situation since they are the ones in the middle. But being a neutral-toned individual is very beneficial.
A neutral tone character is not limited to having a golden hue or peachy hints. The natural skin tone is more evident, and they are stuck with both colors of veins – blue-green and purple ones. While it gets confusing to identify neutral-toned individuals, they are the ones with the most choices in terms of mix-matching.
Since neutral tone is the category stuck in between the warm and cool undertone, you can basically wear an autumn theme color or a winter fashion and slay it. Your jewelry wouldn’t have to be limited to gold or silver because both colors can make you look good.
2. Know color coordination
Color coordination is the backbone of every fashion style. Knowing which color goes well with the other color is your key to not being a fashion terrorist. Every single color in your wardrobe can make or bend your mood for the day.
Colors, in general, have different meanings, and they may induce various emotions. For a little fun fact, restaurants use the colors yellow and red often because these colors can cause a feeling of hunger.
Understanding the color theory is an edge for those who have learned it. But this lesson is a complicated one and may not be friendly to general audiences. The basics of color-coordinating involve dark and light color schemes. Technically, when you wear a light top, you can pair it up with a deeper shade of skirt or pants.
It is also cute to wear clothes of the same family colors in different hues. For example, a purple-blue necktie will go decent with a pastel purple inner dress shirt. This basic mix-matching tip will save you from all the wardrobe mishaps that you might have in the future.
3. Know the Fit-to-Lose Rule
After knowing color coordination, another rule that you should know is the fit-to-loose rule. Every outfit stands out with the right pairing. This rule will help you figure out how to wear your favorite cargo pants, and how to pair them up the next time.
The point of fit-to-loose is pairing up an article of tight clothing with a loose one. For example, you can wear a loosened printed shirt over tight skinny jeans or a pencil skirt. Wearing baggy pants with a fitting shirt, crop top, or halter-backs is also very cute.
This rule would not only emphasize and boost the shape of your body but would also make your outfit pop out. If you are more confident with your upper figure, you can opt for the tight-upper and bottom-loose outlay. If you are more satisfied with the lower half portion of your body, then you can totally slay the top-loose bottom-tight style.
4. Know Your Spirit Fashion
From simple shirts and jeans to avant-garde fashion, every wardrobe has a specific theme. Just as every skin tone matches a particular season, every personality can bloom the brightest when they know their fashion spirit.
Each of us has a unique taste. Some of us are comfortable in the winter season, while others enjoy the heat of summer. Just as we differ in that sense, we can also vary in fashion preference. Although fashion sense is extensive and vast in nature, we can narrow down the categories to four main fashion themes.
Earth musk is a famous fragrant theme. While it’s renowned among types of scent, the earth musk fashion spirit is also a thing. People who fall for the Coachella fashion and the different themes of brown paired with boots and cute bonnets fit in this theme.
Staple clothing wears for those possessed by the Earth Musk fashion spirit includes brown boots both ankle-length and knee-high types. Jeans will and always be favorites paired up with a cream-colored top. To complete the look, finish it off with a trench coat.
For the Earth musk spirit, autumn is the best season. The bonnets, boots, and coats will do you the beauty trick. During summer or hot days, you can enjoy a light patterned dress with a pair of gladiator sandals, and you’re ready for a party. Colors of orange and brown are the best colors for this spirit fashion.
Still staying close with nature, a much more feminine fashion spirit is the Floral Fairy theme. If you are obsessed with daisies, sunflowers, roses, lavender, and just anything botanical, you will have a soft spot for this fashion theme. Bright flowy dresses are the main topic for this theme. Any clothing that seems to be friends with the wind is a staple clothing for this type of wardrobe.
The free-spiritedness of the fairy should be visible in the clothing line. In this case, flowy maxi dresses and maxi skirts are must-haves. Off-shoulder tops of colors pink, green, and white decorated with small flower patterns are essential. Make sure you also have a pair of cute light-colored flats, flatforms, and gladiator sandals.
Summer is the best season for the floral fairies. The sun, the beach, they all speak of a carefree spirit. During the winter season, a floral dress would look cuter over some plain coats. Maxi skirts paired with a plain black sweater and ankle boot would also save you from fashion terrorism and the cold.
While the first two categories are for individuals who are in love with intricate designs, a more formal fashion theme is the nude professional. And as the section spells out, the wardrobe of someone who is under this influence would be filled with cream-colors, white, and black.
Pencil skirts, black stilettos, and suits are necessary items. The power of the nude professional fashion spirit lies in the authority that the clothing line offers. This authority is not intimidating because of the creme palette that dominates this fairy.
Cream-colored coats, white tops, and black jeans paired with black stilettos will never be a mistake. Light pink blazers and blouses are also additional members of this family.
The nude professional spirit isn’t picky when it comes to seasons. Trying to win winter? Grab those khaki trench coats, cream-colored sweaters, white pants, and black boots. Worried for summer? A light pink or nude color tank top with white shorts and gladiator sandals is a good choice.
Black and White
Black and white never gets old. It’s the most basic fashion color theme and the hardest to mess up. When in doubt, pulling off a black and white outfit is a life-saver. This theme is so versatile that you can enjoy its color scheme in both formal meetings and after-parties.
Needless to say, you have to own black and white to qualify for this spirit. Loose shirts of the stated colors are the most essentials. It’s also securing to hold onto black pants, black leggings, and black skirts.
When pairing things up, it would always look cute to alternate colors. A white shirt, black pants, and white shoes will always be a classic look. Black stilettos and white doll shoes are also essential footwear. Hoodies paired with gray leggings and white rubber shoes can be part of this fashion-theme.
During winter, black tops are more optional since it absorbs more heat. Summer days can be spent with white shirts and denim shirts. One fact that black and white fashion theme points out is that playing with colors is also essential to help survive a few degrees higher or lower.
5. Collect Accessories
People take accessories for granted. What such people miss is that accessories can be very impactful. The type of watch you wear with your suit and tie or gym outfit can make a different vibe. The right hat can make an entire costume difference. Small accessories such as bracelets, anklets, and a pair of earrings can mend aura as a person.
While there are tons of accessories that you can enjoy, the three main accessories that you should have are, namely: hats, watches, and bracelets. These three are the basic ornaments that every individual already has or must-have. These three, although minimal, can make or bend your whole character expression.
Back in the 16th and 17th centuries, hats were essential fashion items. It is the social status bearer in those days – it’s like the iPhone of the old times. However, due to practicality, the fame of hats died down.
In modern times, hats no longer bear social status. Everyone is no longer obsessed with the idea of getting the finest hats. But even when that is the case, hats remain as one of the essential accessories to date.
Apart from the fashion support that this headgear can provide, it is inevitable to note that a hat is an indispensable protective gear against harsh weather. Since you are going to use it for protection, why not be protected while being stylish?
The primary type of hats that everyone should have are ball caps and bonnets. You can match ball caps with casual wear, not to mention they protect your face from all those sunburns during summer. Bonnets, on the other hand, can be your favorite autumn and winter buddy.
When wearing hats, remember to as much as possible coordinate the colors of the clothing and the theme. Ball caps would look good when paired with plain shirts and denim. Men also look dashing on a sweatshirt, jeans, white shoes, and a color-coordinating ball cap.
Another accessory that not many pay attention to is the watch. A watch is a very crucial accessory as it not only completes the look but also states something about your personality. Research has it that most individuals who wear watches look better than those who preferred not to wear one.
According to watchshopping.com, a simple classic watch or a fancy watch can bring some difference in your whole look. People of fame, royalty, and of high importance always wear a timepiece around their wrist. Perhaps one point in nobility fashion is that time is of the essence to them. While that remains true, such fact tells something about your personality.
A time-conscious man can be subtly perceived as someone who is in control of his schedule — someone who knows what he wants and when he needs it. Realistically, it always looks fancier when you check a classic watch than relying on your phone.
In your collection of accessories, make sure that you have a couple of watches intact. A classic looking watch that you can rely on the go like the OMEGA Seamaster watch of James Bond will never be a mistake. While we want a wide array of choices, a versatile watch that can fit with almost every outfit will always win the fashion competition in your wardrobe.
People of all gender, color, and race needs a couple of bracelet collection with them. From Coachella parties to casual everyday fashion, bracelets are necessary pieces. Even before the time of civilization, wrist accessories have been with men.
The thing with this hand accessory is that it can boost your outfit from one fashion genre to another. In an instance where an individual is wearing a classical watch, topping it up with a dark-colored braided bracelet would accentuate the clock.
Silver watches would be an excellent pair of black bracelets. Gold timepieces would be better off with brown wristbands. Keeping a couple of metal or rope bracelets in your drawers will save your typical fashion. Even when with a plain white shirt and a pair of jeans, you’ll look different when wearing the perfect bracelet-watch accessory match.
Although these fashion tips are highly recommendable, it doesn’t have to rule out everything. You can pair a loose shirt with baggy pants or whichever creativity suits you. Any rules do not limit fashion. Standards inspire fashion to break them and get out of the usual box.
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Community- and individual-level factors associated with smoking and heavy drinking among Aboriginal people in Canada
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OBJECTIVES: 1) To examine the association between place of residence (i.e., on- versus off-communities and between provinces) and daily smoking and heavy drinking among Aboriginal people in Canada; and 2) to identify community- and individual-level factors that may account for these associations. METHODS: Data were from the Aboriginal Peoples Survey (2001). The sample included 52,110 Aboriginal people (≥ 15 years of age). Community-level variables included: place of residence, community socio-economic status (SES) and perceived community social problems. Individual-level variables included: age, sex, education, income, employment status, marital status, Aboriginal heritage and social support. Multilevel logistic regressions were conducted to analyze the data. RESULTS: Living in First Nations communities (compared with living off-communities) was associated with daily smoking, and this association was accounted for by perceived community social problems. However, the association between Inuit communities and daily smoking remained after controlling for all covariates (odds ratio (OR) = 1.97, 95% confidence intervals (CI) = 1.44-2.70). Residence in First Nations communities was associated with heavy drinking (OR = 1.54, 95% CI = 1.17-2.04), however this risk became evident only after controlling for community SES, which was also positively associated with heavy drinking (OR = 1.46, 95% CI = 1.26-1.69). Compared with Saskatchewan, Aboriginal people in Atlantic Provinces (OR = 2.80, 95% CI = 2.08-3.78) or Territories (OR = 1.39, 95% CI = 1.01-1.92) were more likely to engage in heavy drinking. CONCLUSION: Studies are needed to better understand the increased risk for smoking in Inuit communities and heavy drinking in First Nations communities, Atlantic Provinces and Territories, and to identify possible reasons for the positive association between community SES and heavy drinking among Aboriginal people.
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Israel’s quarrying industry, which provides gravel and other raw materials to the construction industry and for infrastructure projects such as roads, is in the hands of a relatively small number of companies, enabling them to hike their prices, argue some of the consumers of the product. The industry itself pleads its innocence, though, saying it is a diverse industry with low profit margins.
The issue is presented in a number of position papers submitted to a panel looking into government policy on the exploitation of the country's natural resources. The committee is headed by Prof. Eytan Sheshinski, who also chaired a previous panel that explored government policy on oil and natural gas royalties.
Between 2006 and 2012, the price of materials produced at the quarries soared by nearly 70%. Because they are used in the production of asphalt, construction blocks and materials used to build bridges and other structures, the increased cost also bumped the cost of building and road construction, at least to some extent. However, the Manufacturers Association - which lists the quarry owners among its members - says that 18 companies operate 36 gravel mines across the country.
Quarry industry representatives are eager to appear before the committee out of concern that it will embrace a proposal to hike the government royalties the quarries pay from the current NIS 4.39 per ton. They say the government fee, which includes 36 agorot per ton that goes into a fund for the rehabilitation of the quarries, constitutes 14% of the price they get for the final product, and the price barely exceeds the cost of production. The association is proposing actually lowering the royalty component to 4% of the average price to the end user.
The Sheshinski committee, which initially convened about two months ago and will resume its sessions this week, is due to recommend government royalty policy for the extraction and sale by the private sector of the country's natural resources more generally, but including quarry production.
For its part, the Manufacturers Association claims an increase in state royalties would only strengthen economic concentration in the sector into the hands of a small number of players and further bump prices, in turn pushing up construction costs.
Over the past 20 years, only five government tenders were issued for new gravel and chalk mines, and none of those five are still in operation today. At the same time, the sector here has undergone consolidation. Shapir Engineering acquired the Roichman quarries in 2005 and Readimix bought a full interest in Lime & Stone in 2008. As a result, three companies — Hanson, Shapir and Readimix—not only control 17 of the country's quarries, but also supply 65.6% of their production, including the West Bank. And their share of production from quarries within Israel proper, excluding the West Bank, is 83%, according to industry sources.
The prices that mines have been getting for quarry material have been particularly volatile over the past 15 years. Compared to 1998 prices, they have actually declined somewhat, sources say, but between 2006-2012, shot up by almost 70%. Although some sources involved in the purchase of the gravel attribute that 70% increase to a relative lack of competition, they also acknowledge that factors such as an increase in trucking costs, due to increased fuel expenses, have also had a major affect on what the end user pays.
Plans for the sector are largely based on a national master plan from 2010, which notes that quarry production of raw materials such as gravel and marble is a minor component in the cost of homes, meaning that a 10% drop in gravel prices would only result in a 0.5% drop in the cost of residential construction. On the other hand, the weight that such raw materials have in the paving cost index issued by the Central Bureau of Statistics is considerably higher — 21.7%.
A 10% increase in the price of gravel and other quarry products would generally translate into an increase of 2.2% in the cost of building a highway. And as noted in the master plan: "If we take into consideration the fact that annual expenditure on roads alone came to more than NIS 5 billion in 2008, a price increase of 10% would require additional annual funding of a quarter of a billion shekels or a similar cut in investment in infrastructure."
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Whats Involved In Taking Hormonal Therapy For Acne
These medications must be prescribed by a doctor. Each is a pill that you would take daily.
If youre wondering whether hormonal therapy could help clear your acne, you may want to make an appointment to see a dermatologist. After examining your acne and gathering the necessary information about your health, this doctor can tell you if hormonal therapy may be an option.
Before you see a dermatologist, it helps to prepare for your appointment. Youll want to be able to tell your dermatologist the following:
Medical conditions you have , including high blood pressure, heart disease, blood clots, migraines, or cancer
Medications you take
Supplements and other natural products you take
Surgeries youve had
Medical conditions of close blood relatives, including cancer, kidney disease, or heart disease
If the pill is an option for you, you will have your blood pressure taken to rule out high blood pressure. You dont need a Pap smear or pelvic exam before a dermatologist can prescribe the pill to treat acne.
Before your dermatologist prescribes spironolactone, you will need some blood tests.
If you begin hormonal therapy, you will need to keep follow-up visits with your dermatologist. Spironolactone requires that you gradually increase the dose, so youll need to see your dermatologist every 4 to 6 weeks when you start taking it.
The Top 4 Brands Of Birth Control Pills For Acne
There are only 4 brands of birth control pills that are approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for preventing pregnancy AND treating acne. The FDA is the federal organization that must approve all prescription drugs, both brand-name, and generic brands, for their intended use.
That said, doctors will tell you that almost any combination birth control pill should help with acne.
However, these 4 birth control pill brands are special because the chemicals and specific hormones that they contain have been shown to help with acne.
The 4 FDA-approved brands of birth control pills for acne are the following:
Beyaz®: Drospirenone/ethinyl estradiol/ levomefolate calcium tablets
Estrostep® Fe: Norethindrone acetate and ethinyl estradiol tablets, USP and ferrous fumarate tablets
Yaz®: Drospirenone and ethinyl estradiol tablets
If you’re interested in any of the above 4 brands for acne, let us help you pick the best option for you.
Ive Been Thinking About Going On The Pill To Help With The Cramps
If youre already on birth control, you probably already know how fuss-free and effective it is in preventing pregnancy. But what about its other non-contraceptive benefits?
Hormonal birth control is one treatment method used to ease menstrual cramps. Primarily, oral birth control pills contain hormones such as estrogen and progestin which deter ovulation and the production of prostaglandins, thus lowering the severity of period pain.
A randomised controlled trial conducted in 2012 revealed the effectiveness of taking combination birth control pills cyclically and those taken continually. The latter involves the continuous administration of active pills during all 28 days, without any placebo at all. As continuous OCP means that users only take the hormone pills and skip the inactive pills, they forgo the monthly bleeding altogether. Both methods were successful in treating primary dysmenorrhea.
Alternatively, other birth control methods such as patches, the ring, intrauterine devices and implants are also able to alleviate cramps, and even cause periods to become lighter and more predictable.
By using these prescribed birth control methods, you can also safely skip your periods altogether. To postpone or skip your period, you should immediately start on a new pack of active pills right away without taking the sugar pills .
Its best to speak with a doctor before trying any new birth control methods or making major adjustments.
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What If My Period Is Very Light While Im Taking Birth Control Pills
Your period may be so light when you are taking birth control pills that you may have only a brown smudge on a tampon, pad, panty shield or underwear. The hormone doses in birth control pills are very low. This means that the lining of your uterus doesnt become very thick so very little blood needs to come out each month.
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Should I Avoid Certain Medications While Taking The Pill
You should always check with your healthcare provider before taking any new medications or herbal supplements. Certain drugs can make the pill less effective and increase your chances of getting pregnant. These products include:
- Antiseizure medications.
- Herbal supplements, such as St. Johns wort.
- Medications used to treat HIV.
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Types Of Acne That Birth Control Can Treat
Acne can take the form of a blackhead, whitehead, a small mark, or even a cyst, but it’s the underlying cause of your acne that determines whether birth control might be an effective treatment. “While teenage or inflammatory acne is commonly treated with oral antibiotics if appropriate for hormonal acne, the failure rate of antibiotics is 70 to 80 percent,” Levin says.
That’s where hormonal medication, such as birth control, can come into play. If home treatment doesn’t help your breakouts, or if you’re finding yourself with large, hard, or pus-filled bumps, you may want to consult your doctor to learn if you’re experiencing hormonal or cystic acneboth of which may be treated with birth control. Other signs that you’re dealing with hormonal acne rather than good old-fashioned inflammatory acne include breakouts that follow a cyclical pattern with your menstrual cycle and acne that pops up mainly along your jawline or chin.
What Is The Best Birth Control For Acne And Weight Loss
The estrogen component of birth control is the main source of weight gain. While progesterone-only birth control pills can reduce the effects of weight gain, they are generally not effective for acne. The best birth control for both acne and weight loss would be a combination pill with the lowest dose of estrogen i.e. ultra low-dose pills.
Hormonal Contraception As A Hirsutism Treatment
Hirsutism is excessive male-pattern hair growth in certain areas of a woman’s face and body such as the mustache and beard area. Androgens, the dominant sex hormones in men, can be responsible for these conditions. Women normally have low levels of androgens, but abnormally high levels of androgens can lead to excess hair growth. Given that hormonal contraception can reduce the levels of free androgen in your system, certain combination birth control pills can be a helpful hirsutism treatment.
If you use this type of birth control, you may not even be aware of its non-contraceptive benefits. Certain hormonal contraceptives have been shown to diminish the effects of hirsutism. It is important to note that women may react differently to specific contraception, so this information is intended as a general overview. Please keep in mind that hormonal contraception is meant to be used for birth control potential non-contraceptive benefits can be considered when determining which hormonal birth control method to use.
What Helps Get The Best Results
When taking hormonal therapy for acne, it helps to:
Give the medication time to work
Take the medication at the same time every day
Use everything on your acne treatment plan
Keep all follow-up appointments with your dermatologist
Contact your dermatologists office right away if you experience signs of a serious side effect, such as cramping in your leg or arm
Hormonal therapy is an option for many women with stubborn acne, but its not always the only option. A dermatologist can tell you what can help clear your stubborn acne.
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An Acne Story By Emily
I havent let someone take my picture in over 3 years, 26-year-old Emily confessed at her first visit. She came to see me with one burning question What’s the best birth control for acne, can birth control pills help acne or am I doomed to have hide from every camera I see?
Emily had tried several pills with varying degree of success. And while some had reduced the number of breakouts, none of them gave her the clear skin her doctor had promised.
Like many women, Emily was prescribed the pill to treat a symptomher acne. Her acne was a symptom of something deeper, I explained.
Her doctor had told her that the pill would help her balance the hormones he believed was causing her to break out.
But the pill doesnt balance hormonesit masks them.
What Are The Best Forms Of Birth Control For Acne
Different birth control pills contain different forms and concentrations of hormones, so it can be difficult to know which type of pill will be most effective in treating acne.
Large scale research from the Cochrane Collaboration offers some answers. This collaboration is an extensive network of thousands of doctors, researchers, and specialists who review the available research to answer specific medical or clinical questions.
In 2012, they reviewed the research on birth control pills as a treatment for acne. The team looked at a total of 31 studies that included 12,579 people.
The authors concluded that combined oral contraceptives that contain chlormadinone acetate or cyproterone acetate seem to improve acne more significantly than those that contain levonorgestrel . In addition, they advised that birth control pills containing drospirenone may be more effective than those with norgestimate or nomegestrol acetate .
However, they noted that there is limited evidence to confirm these results and that further research is necessary.
The following brands contain these hormones:
- Androcur Depot contains CPA
- Yasmin and Yaz contain DRSP
- Ortho Tri-Cyclen and Previfem contain NGM
- Lutenyl, Naemis, and Zoely contain NOMAC/E2
The side effects should lessen or go away entirely after a few months of taking the pill. If they do not, and they are especially bothersome, it is important to speak with a doctor. The doctor may recommend switching to a different pill.
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How The Pill Works On Symptoms
Because the pill delivers everything in steady doses, it can make your hormone levels more predictable and your period symptoms less unpleasant.
Taking the birth control pill can get rid of many unpleasant symptoms, including:
Irregular periods. Many women donât have regular cycles. If you arenât producing enough progesterone, for example, your cycle could be a few days longer. With the pill, thereâs no more guessing when your period might start. Itâll be the same day every month.
Heavy periods. The progesterone in the pill thins out the uterine lining, making your periods lighter.
Cramps. This is the most common menstrual symptom. Cramps are caused by too much of the hormone prostaglandin, which makes the uterus contract. The pill can get rid of this issue.
Endometriosis. The birth control pills help control estrogen, which causes the buildup of endometrial tissue each month. Itâs the pillâs exact dose of progesterone that helps reduce or even eliminate endometriosis, and the pain that comes with it.
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Whats The Deal With Adult Acne
Acne might be most common during our teenage years, but many of us still battle pimples well into our 20s and beyond. For those of us navigating adult acne , the condition can cause a major hit to our mood and self-confidence.
Women are more likely to encounter adult acne than men, which leads researchers to believe that hormonal changes linked with our menstrual cycle have an important role to play in causing adult acne. But there is a range of factors that can cause adult acne including stress, anxiety, lack of sleep, lifestyle factors, and even some medications .
In more severe cases, adult acne presents as a type of inflammatory acne that causes redness, swelling, irritation, and deep cysts . However, some adult acne presents as milder forms of blackheads, whiteheads or papules.
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I Started Birth Control But My Skin Is No Better
Whenever you start combined birth control pill, there can be some side effects that take a month or two to resolve.
One of these can actually be a flare up of your acne. This is only temporary and should improve as hormone levels become more regulated. Combined birth control does not tend to make acne worse.
As a rule, a minimum of three to six months of therapy is required in order to evaluate whether birth control is going to work for your acne or not.â
The Best Types Of Birth Control For Acne
Levin, who also works as a clinical instructor at Mount Sinai, says Ortho Tri-Cyclen, a popular brand of birth control, has been cleared by the Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of acneic skin. Along with Ortho Tri-Cyclen, Estrostep, and Yaz are two other brands of birth control cleared by the FDA for acne treatment. Yaz contains the hormone progestin drospirenone that is known to be especially effective in the reduction of hormonal acne.
While certain brands of birth control carry the FDA’s approval as an acne treatment, others are still prescribed off-label with some success. Other times, people who are prescribed oral contraceptives for other indications find that a bonus “side effect” is an overall reduction in their acne symptoms. OB/GYN Sara Twogood, MD, notes that all oral contraceptive pills can have the effect of being anti-androgenic, meaning that they can lower the level of androgens like testosterone in the body. Androgens are one factor that leads to the development of hormonal acne, so blocking them can help to improve acne over time.
“There are no set requirements or parameters for starting birth control pills for acne. The decision about when or if starting the pill to help control acne should be individualized,” says Twogood.
Nava Greenfield, MD, of Schweiger Dermatology Group, agrees: “Each person may respond differently to different forms of oral contraception, so finding the one that works for you is important.”
Acne Birth Control And Hormone Levels
Acne is a skin condition characterized by blackheads, whiteheads, and pimples. It can either be inflammatory or non-inflammatory. One of its main causes is the increase in androgen hormone levels like testosterone, during puberty, in both women and men .
Menstrual cycles may also cause acne due to hormonal changes. During puberty, increased androgen levels enlarge the follicular glands. The androgens most linked to acne are testosterone, dihydrotestosterone, dehydroepiandrosterone, and insulin growth factor. High levels of these androgens may lead to acne breakouts. They may also occur if the estrogen and progesterone levels are lower than normal androgen levels. Prepubertal girls also may suffer from acne due to high levels of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate .
Acne mostly occurs during adolescence. But it can also occur in older women and pregnant women. Those with Cushings syndrome, hirsutism , or polycystic ovary syndrome may also experience acne breakouts . The skin condition can also occur during menopause . It happens when testosterone levels are greater than estradiol and progesterone levels. Women also experience acne during their late reproductive years due to decreased estrogen levels and no change in androgen levels.
Hyperandrogenemia is a disorder seen in 5-10% of women during their reproductive ages . It occurs due to androgen levels or impaired inactivation of androgen. Polycystic ovary syndrome can be a cause of this disorder.
What’s The Best Birth Control For Acne
Quite frankly, there isn’t one.
Emily was experiencing the symptoms of low testosterone and lab testing showed that she was indeed lacking adequate amounts. But her acne persisted.
Thats because the pill doesnt fix acne or regulate hormones for that matter. It simply suppresses it.
And for some women, acne is worse after stopping birth control.
Over 2 years Emily had been on 5 different birth control pills and felt like her skin was getting worse. So, instead of reaching for another new prescription, it was time to take a holistic approach to her skin.
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So What Birth Control Should You Use If You Have Acne
Though there are certain guidelines, you can follow the above when considering birth control and acne. If you struggle with acne, it’s recommended that you choose an option known to help balance acne-producing hormones or, at least, one that is known to have little or no effect on acne. This category includes various options, from hormonal pills to vaginal implants, patches, and others. Before consulting with your OB/GYN, read through the above, and create a list of questions and concerns to help you both identify the best birth control choice for you! As always, monitor any symptoms or side effects and discuss them with your provider. Sometimes it takes trying a couple different birth control options to find a good fit.More info: | <urn:uuid:c30d37a1-85b3-46ce-855e-27763fa714c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthyhormonesclub.com/does-birth-control-help-hormonal-acne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916638 | 3,949 | 1.554688 | 2 |
You’re probably getting ready to sort out last year’s financial records and prepare for this year’s record keeping. But what should you keep and what can you throw away? Here are some suggestions.
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For expense items, keep documentation that supports any itemized deductions you claim. This includes acknowledgments from charitable organizations and backup for taxes paid, mortgage interest, medical deductions, work expenses, and miscellaneous deductions. Even if you don’t itemize, keep records of expenses for child care, medical insurance if you’re self-employed, and any other expenses that appear on your return.
The IRS can audit you routinely for three years after you file your return. But in cases where income is underreported, they can audit for up to six years. To be safe, keep your tax records for seven years.
Keep certain other records even longer. These include records relating to your house purchase and any improvements you make. Also keep records of investment purchases, dividends reinvested, and any major gifts you make or receive. And finally, keep copies of all your tax returns and W-2s in case you ever need to prove your earnings for social security purposes.
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Philosophical Service Project
For this assignment, you will perform some “philosophical community service.” The service you will provide is demonstrating to some members of your community how to think critically about moral issues using the logical methods we've practiced in this class. So, you will model thinking in systematic ways about moral issues, engage some arguments from your audience, and help them evaluate these arguments.
Here's what to do:
1. Pick a "practical" or "applied" topic: Polyamory and Monogamy
2. Develop at least 5 arguments in logically valid form on this topic.
Recall that the pattern here is:
A is an X.
All things that are X are Y.
Therefore, A is a Y.
A is an X.
If something is an X, then that something is a Y.
Therefore, A is a Y.
3. Find an audience of at least 3 people, not from this class. This can be three people from "real, in-person" life, or people online, say via Zoom or Skype or the like.
4. Present your arguments to this audience. Given them an introduction to what you will do in your presentation. Explain to them what you will do and how you will do it: tell them what arguments are and what makes arguments good and bad and how you can tell (explain - with examples - the concepts of arguments logical validity, soundness, counterexamples). State and explain your five arguments in logically valid form and fully evaluate them as sound or not: explain whether each and every premise is true or false and why. Do not present any "question-begging" arguments, where the premises assume the conclusion; if your audience offers any question-begging arguments, you will need to identify those as question-begging and explain why they are inadequate.
5. Get at least 3 (ideally, at least 5) new arguments, or premises, on the same topic from the audience.
6. With the audience, formulate these arguments in logically valid form and determine whether they are sound or not: address each and every premise.
7. Formulate any conclusions from your discussion and conclude your discussion, reviewing what you did.
8. Write up a report on what happened, using the headings below: cut and paste the text below into a document to use. Your final report here should be organized, clear, and easy to read.
Philosophical "Community Service" Project:
Your Class: Philosophical EthicsYour Name: Gerren WhitlockYour topic: Polyamory and MonogamySummarize the introduction to what you will do in your presentation. You will need to explain to the audience what you will do and how you will do it: you need to explain the methods that you will use to identify and evaluate moral arguments.Present at least 5 arguments on that topic, stated in logically valid form.Evaluate those 5 arguments as sound or not. Fully explain why they are sound or not: by explaining whether each and every premise is true or false (Note: merely stating whether an argument is sound or not does not explain why it is sound or not: explanations of whether each and every premise is true or false and why is needed).Your audience members’ names:Your audience’s reactions to the arguments that you presented and your evaluation of them:The 3-5 arguments from the audience:These arguments stated in logically valid form:Your, and the audience’s, evaluations of these arguments as sound or not:Your conclusions and summary of this activity that you presented to the audience.Your individual or group’s reflections on this experience: what went well? What was interesting? What was surprising? What was challenging? How was this experience, overall?This assignment results in students going all sorts of interesting places (bookstores, coffee shops, restaurants, etc.) to talk with interesting people (sometimes people they know, other times new people), to discuss all sorts of interesting topics. Typically, students appreciate the opportunity to "be the teacher" and confirm that they really learned something in the class, and they find their audiences appreciate learning some new, systematic ways of thinking about moral issues.
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There is a great new blog post on SEOmoz – When Is My Tweet’s Prime of Life?
If you use Twitter for business or even for personal reasons you’ll want to give it five minutes of your time. The blog post features a study that looks into how tweets are retweeted. Lots of considerations are given including the number of followers a user has and how often that user tweets.
There was one surprising finding in the study. A tweet has a relative lifespan of about 18 minutes.
That actually seems to be pretty long relative to what most people might think. If you think about your own Twitter feed it would be easy to assume that a tweet doesn’t last that long.
I would venture a guess that you might follow 100 or so people on Twitter. Maybe it’s 200 or 500 or 1,000.
Either way, you’re looking at probably 10-20 updates per hour with that kind of stream unless you have a few heavy users. So a tweet can live for a long time and 18 minutes doesn’t seem so unreasonable.
My stream is a little different. I follow anywhere between 10-15 people depending on what day it is. There are 1 or 2 that are heavy users that update probably 20-50 times per day. I see their tweets quite often.Others I still see even though they tweet as much because I have a low number of people I follow.
Now, on the other side it’s important to think about how your tweets are seen by your followers. If you’re looking to get a message out to people you can now feel comfortable knowing that your tweet will last for about 18 minutes.
Here are some tips for using Twitter that might work to prolong your tweet’s lifespan.
1. Tweet Less Often
This was mentioned in the study. If you tweet less and really focus on tweeting something interesting the tweet will have a longer lifespan. The thought is that when people visit your Twitter profile they’ll see your most recent tweets. If you’re constantly updating your tweets will get buried and lost forever.
On the flip side, though, if the fact that if you don’t tweet often you’ll get lose in the regular feed of your followers. If you’re not tweeting there will be a smaller chance of people seeing your updates.
2. Reply to People
Depending on who the person is the chances of them seeing your tweet if you include their Twitter handle or if you reply to them in a tweet is better. For example, when people use @dayneshuda in their tweet there is a really good chance I’ll see it.
Now, this is treading on a tricky issue because you don’t want to spam people. Don’t go overboard with it, but when you include people in your tweets they are more likely to see it.
Some Thoughts on Tweeting Vs. Blogging
I always hit this one each time something comes up in the discussion of social media.
A tweet now lasts about 18 minutes.
A blog post lives forever. You might get more traffic early on in the life of a post, but in many cases a post will continue to get traffic from SEO and social sources forever. In some cases your post might actually get more traffic the longer its been online. That’s how search algorithms work and if your blog brand gets more recognition down the road people will look through your archives sharing the posts they really find useful.
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The Dowry and other Japanese Stories is a translation of stories, literally handpicked from the Japanese sources for its universal appeal. The practice of Dowry, Divinity, Animal deity, lighting of incense in temple, priests etc. remain embedded in Indian mind set. These are quite akin to Indian culture and beliefs and draw the curiosity and interest of the readers. The same is true about each and every story of this collection. These Indian elements, presented in a different cultural dimension will bring out subtle similarities in the two cultures.
Anita khanna has been teaching Japanese language and literature at Jawaharlal Nehru University for nearly three decades. She has also been a researcher at Osaka University, Japan foundation Fellow and national Institute of Japanese Literature Fellow. She has authored books like ancient Japanese Literature, A Critical Survey etc.
This collection of modern Japanese stories displays reflections of Indian concepts and manners in a subtle yet definite way. As a student of Japanese literature, while reading the works in original, I came across a number of such cases. It encouraged me to translate some and offer as specimens of the long cultural heritage which we have shared with Japan.
Needless of say that these stories could have been dismissed as chance occurrences with little significance. However, considering the age-old culture relations between the two countries based on Buddhism, such reflections of Indian culture, obvious and subtle, do draw a reader’s attention and cater to their inquisitiveness. The translator felt the same while working on some of the classical works of Japanese literature; so she tried to find out the how and why of it.
Various pieces of modern literature evoke similar reflections though on a different scale. A selection of such pieces is presented here in translation. As the very title connotes, there is the presence of Indian elements, though presented in a different culture dimension and locale. I hope the readers can savour the Indianness of Japanese literature.
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The 1,635km-long, upcoming Dhamra–Numaligarh project will be operated by Numaligarh Refinery. This onshore, oil pipeline, with a maximum diameter of 28 inches, will start in Orissa (India) and ends in Assam (India).
The Dhamra–Numaligarh project is expected to commence operations in 2024 and will be owned by Oil India, Engineers India, and others.
During the period 2021-2025, the Dhamra–Numaligarh project is expected to witness an estimated capex of $699.17m.
Contractors involved in the Dhamra–Numaligarh project:
Some of the key contractors for the Dhamra–Numaligarh include –
Main EPC: Engineers India.
About Numaligarh Refinery
Numaligarh Refinery Ltd (NRL) refines and markets crude oil and petroleum products. It is a subsidiary of Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL). Apart from BPCL, Government of Assam and Oil India Limited (OIL) also have stakes in NRL. The company offers light distillates, middle distillates, heavy ends, and fuels, and lubricants. Its product line includes naphtha, motor spirit, LPG, high speed diesel, aviation turbine fuel, raw and petroleum coke, paraffin wax, and sulphur. The company operates a marketing terminal equipped with Terminal Automation System (TAS) that dispatches products through road and rail across the country. NRL is headquartered in Guwahati, Assam, India.
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Joint motions don’t have an escape. It’s just your joint moving back and forth. The same joint motion can have different escapes depending on the rest of your technique.
The Al Di Meola motion you’re pointing out is just the wrist moving in what we call a “reverse dart throwing” motion. Slighly up and to the right with respect to its own axis.
If you do this on a guitar with the arm planted relatively flat, you get downstroke escape. Cameron Cooper on YouTube is a really great textbook example of what this looks like:
Notice there is little or no upward pickslant. When the arm is held this way the pick is not really slanted compared to the strings, which is why we don’t call this “upward pickslanting”. It is downstroke escape (DSX), yes — but it is very often not upward pickslanting.
However if you were to place your arm on the guitar like Albert Lee and make the same exact motion, you would get a trapped motion or a USX motion. Because the arm is rotated.
There are several reasons we have the table tapping tests:
- To show you that most people have at least one, and sometimes many, joint motions they can make that are fast — even people who have never played fast on a guitar before
- We want to get a reading on that speed so we can make sure it’s “normal”, i.e. not super slow like 120bpm or something
- We want you to feel what “fast and easy” feels like, so you can shoot for that when you have an actual guitar in your hands
The table tapping tests aren’t really there to help you learn specific joint motions. Meaning, we don’t want you to learn “Al Di Meola”-style motion from tapping on a table. But… doing any joint motion fast, and feeling that it’s fast, is a huge help in figuring out what it’s supposed to feel like when done correctly on an instrument. So in that sense, I actually do consider the table tapping tests and important learning opportunity, in the general sense.
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A couple describing the depths of their love to each other just gets us every time. Not the love of butterflies and stomach knots—but more the blurring of self and the entanglement with another soul. Love is a word that is much too soft and used far too often to ever describe the fierce, infinite and blazing passion that I have in my heart for you. You are a million dreams and a million prayers of a little girl come true. You are kind. You are silly. You are intelligent. Your laugh is contagious and you can put away an entire Baskin Robbins ice cream cake in one sitting like nobody else can. You acknowledge my strengths and accept my faults.
Greg Brady met my teenage sister around, and they started dating. The act playing in my head was accordingly detailed and entertaining that it lasted 45 minutes. Another day, I imagined myself as the actress who played the seventh Brady sibling. I met all the other young actors arrange the set, and they commented arrange my cute outfit and amazing amateur dramatics skills. A few years later, my neighbors saw me pacing with my string and gave me a bizarre look. I moved my game after my bedroom door, hiding my imaginings from everyone, including my parents, who believed I had outgrown the action. Eventually I learned to daydream devoid of moving. But something was wrong along with me.
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Instructions bottom of the attached document. (CTI Sharing Instructions) We need to continue with the previous assignment (attached).
The task entails CTI Sharing that you have already written. I added to what needs to be done on this dox and at the bottom where it says “NEXT PART†Those are the next steps. Please get back to me as soon as possible. So all the files you would need is the files that I provided plus the assignment you worked on last time. This assignment is not very specific apart from the docx intructions that I provided. So it will be up to you to use the example that I provided or other similar examples. You can decide on the word count/ pages. I don’t want you to fill out a bunch of words or fill a bunch of pages. Include stuff that is relevant and important. But it should be a couple of pages. SO…. pretty much:
- Instructions to form to CTI Sharing Framework/Program for Independent Health Systems.
- Use the Cybersecurity Program EXAMPLE docx to see how it should be structured or other good Framework/Program Examples.
- Use the CTI SHARING FUNCTION docx to help you build this Framework and other resources.
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Third party liability insurance provides coverage in the event that you’re found responsible for damages to a third party – whether it’s related to business, auto, or home.
Liability is a word people throw around a lot, but what does it actually mean?
Let’s start with a little vocab lesson. 🤓
Here’s what our friends at Merriam-Webster have to say:
Basically, to be held liable in an insurance claim means that you’re the party being held responsible.
Now that we’ve got that covered, what is liability insurance?
Liability insurance is a baseline coverage that’s automatically included in most insurance policies.
In short, it covers you for claims in which you’re responsible for bodily injury and/or property damage to a third party.
It works this way in Ontario, and Canada-wide.
Below, we’re explaining everything you need to know about third party liability insurance, from what it is, to what it covers, and why you need it.
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Jump ahead to learn:
- What is third party liability insurance?
- Why do I need third party liability insurance?
- How much does third party insurance cover?
- What does third party liability insurance not cover?
- What are the benefits of third party liability insurance?
What is third party liability insurance?
Third party insurance protects the insurance client from claims made against them by a third party.
In super simple terms, liability insurance will protect you if someone else tries to sue you because you caused them bodily injury or property damage.
To put this into context, here are the different “parties” that are involved in an insurance claim.
- 1st party = The insurance client (you)
- 2nd party = The insurance company
- 3rd party = Individuals/businesses making a claim against the insurance client (you)
For example, say you’re involved in a car accident in which you’re held liable (aka: responsible).
Remember that little vocab lesson we went over? 😉
If you’re sued for bodily or property damages related to the accident, your third party coverage will kick in.
If this happens, your liability insurance will pay out to the third party, and not to you, the policyholder.
Remember: Liability insurance is a baseline coverage that you’ll see in every kind of insurance policy, from home, to car, to business, and so on.
Because of this, there are several different kinds of liability insurance coverages – depending on the assets you need insured.
For example, the different types of liability insurance include:
- Home liability insurance
- Auto liability insurance
- Commercial liability insurance
- Professional liability insurance
To summarize, liability insurance covers you for legal fees and payouts if you’re found responsible in a claim for damages to a third party.
Make sense? Good.
Now, let’s move on to why you need third party liability insurance in Ontario. 🙂
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Why do I need third party liability insurance in Ontario?
Liability insurance is important because it covers you in situations where you’re found responsible for damages to a third party.
It’s also the law to carry car liability insurance while driving!
Depending on the circumstance, you could be held liable for a huge sum in legal, replacement, and medical expenses.
So, liability insurance pays out for things like:
- Legal fees
- Replacement costs
- Other payouts (medical bills, rehabilitation costs, etc.)
Without liability insurance, you’d be required to pay out of pocket, and most people don’t have the cash on hand to do so.
Which is why being properly insured is so important.
Need home, car, or business insurance?
How much does third party insurance cover?
In general, third party liability insurance has two main components:
- Bodily injury liability coverage
- Property damage liability coverage
However, the minimum amount that you’re required to be covered for depends on the type of insurance you’re getting, and the province you live in.
Let’s take car insurance for example.
Drivers in Ontario have to carry a minimum of 200k in third party liability car insurance, whereas Quebec drivers are only required to carry 50k in liability.
See the difference?
And most drivers opt to be covered for much more than this – because 200k in third party liability often isn’t enough to cover you in an accident involving bodily injury or property damage to others.
Claims like this can easily cost several hundreds of thousands of dollars – especially if they happen outside of your home province or in the USA.
This factor plays into why third party liability is mandatory automobile coverage throughout Canada.
And automobile third party liability insurance covers damages related to:
- Bodily injury
- Property damage
Ready to get insured?
Give the team at KBD a call.
What does third party liability insurance not cover?
Remember, third party liability insurance covers payouts and legal fees for claims made against you by a third party.
Third party liability insurance does not cover your own damages, whether bodily injury or property damage or loss.
Still have questions?
Give us a call.
What are the benefits of third party liability insurance?
Third party liability insurance coverage can be especially beneficial if you have a lot of assets.
Basically, the more you have, the more coverage you’ll need.
The same goes for companies that service or sell products to a large clientele; the bigger your client base, the more chance there is of there being a third party claim.
Think about it: If you run a big business and people are constantly coming in and out, the risk goes up.
In both cases, having the right amount of liability coverage in place is a smart way to protect your personal and business assets.
Need liability coverage?
Give us a call.
There you have it: Insurance basics 101.
You’re now officially schooled on third party liability insurance. 🤓
IQ point earned.
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- intention to harm or deprive in an illegal or immoral way. To take pleasure in anothers misfortune.
- 1981, Philip K. Dick, Valis, ISBN 0-553-20594-3, p. 67
- :... not only was there no gratitude (which he could psychologically handle) but downright showed itself instead. Fat had noted this but had written it off as nothing more than irritability, a form of impatience.
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Chapter 1: The Corporation and Its Stakeholders
Business and the society are interrelated enterprises that work together to achieve their desired goals and objectives. Members of the society engage in business activities in their daily endeavors through being social. We engage between each other through products and currencies in which we interact with each other. All over the world, organizations are created by human beings, which make it relative to the society, but separated by boundaries. As mentioned in the textbook “business activities impact other activities in society and actions by various social actors and governments continuously affect business.” Theories have been used to explain the interdependence between the society and businesses.
According to the traditional Ownership Theory, the firm is the property of the owners, the shareholders. The main purpose of the firms is to maximize the returns on shareholder capital because their interests take precedence over all other interests. On the other end, the stakeholder theory of the firm argues the corporation serves a broader purpose, to create value for society. Must make profit for owners to survive and creates other kinds of values too. Corporations have multiple obligations; all stakeholder groups must be taken into account. Supporters of the stakeholder theory of the firm make three core arguments for their position: descriptive which is a more realistic description of how companies really work, instrumental is more effective corporate strategy and normative is that stakeholder management is the right thing to do. The term stakeholder is not the same as a stockholder. The words sound very similar but are not the same. Stockholders are one of several kinds of stakeholders.
Different Kinds of Stakeholders
Stakeholder groups can be divided into two categories, market stakeholders and non-market stakeholders. Market stakeholders are sometimes referred to as primary stakeholders because of their primary purpose of providing society with goods and services. Non-market stakeholders are people that do not engage in direct economic exchanges with the firm and sometimes called secondary stakeholders.
Stakeholder Analysis is part of every manager’s job and asks 4 questions about whom, what and how. The relevant stakeholders are some businesses that sell directly to the public and will have retailers. A certain stakeholder may not be relevant to a particular decision or action. Analyzing stakeholder interests include addressing what the groups concerns are and what relationship is expected from the firm. Stockholders have an ownership interest and they expect to receive dividends and capital appreciation. Customers are interested in gaining fair value and quality in goods and services they purchase. Stakeholder power is the ability of a group to use resources to make an event happen or to secure a desired outcome. There are 4 types of stakeholder power: voting, economic, political and legal. Stakeholder groups often have common interests and will form temporary alliances to pursue these common interests. Coalitions are very dynamic and can change at any time and are increasing international. International alliances coupled with media interest can be a very power strategic force for companies.
Stakeholder Salience and Mapping
Stakeholders stand out to managers when they have power, legitimacy and urgency. Managers can use the salience concept to develop a stakeholder map which is a picture representation of the relationship of stakeholder salience to a particular issue. A stakeholder map is a useful tool, because it enables managers to see quickly how stakeholders feel about an issue. Building positive and mutually beneficial relationships across organizational boundaries is a growing part of management’s role. The external environment of business is dynamic and ever-changing. The purpose of the firm is not to just make a profit, but to create value for all of its stakeholders. A successful business must meet both its economic and social objectives.
- Textbook definition
- Online dictionary definition
- Personal definition
- Refers to human beings and the social structures they collectively create; specifically refers to segments of humankind, such as members of a particular community, nation or interest group.
- An organization to which people who share similar interests can belong
- A social group having cultural and economic interests
- Stakeholder Analysis
- An analytic process used by managers that identifies the relevant stakeholders in a particular situation and seeks to understand their interests, power and likely coalitions.
- Stakeholder analysis is a term that refers to the action of analyzing the attitudes of stakeholders towards something (most frequently a project). It is frequently used during the preparation phase of a project to assess the attitudes of the stakeholders regarding the potential changes.
- Ways a manager identifies a stakeholder’s level of involvement and how they can influence the project.
- Stakeholder map
- A graphical representation of the relationship of stakeholder salience to a particular issue.
- Stakeholder Mapping is a process and visual tool used in strategy and in particular in stakeholder analysis to clarify and categorize the various stakeholders
- Stakeholder mapping is part of stakeholder management that is visual and allows you to see a visual of a stakeholder’s level of interest
- An organization that is engaged in making a product or providing a service for a profit.
- An organization or enterprising entity engaged in commercial, industrial or professional activities.
- Main activity in life you do to earn money
- Stakeholder power
- The ability of one or more stakeholders to achieve a desired outcome in their interactions with a company. The five types are voting power, economic power, political power, legal power, and informational power.
- Stakeholder power is an element of analyzing how certain people use powers and authority to affect policy formulation and implementation in institutions. It is useful in identifying the top achievers and the under achievers and in highlighting the challenges that need to be faced in order to develop capabilities and tackle inequalities.
- People working towards a share goal, contribute to the company and make profits
Bloomberg Business Week: Provides information about what is happening in the business world, published monthly and discusses updated information about companies, finance and technology.
Fortune: A bi-weekly magazine and home of Fortune 500. The magazine and website discuss the world of business, investments, career management and small business information
*Note: I find it very interesting and did not know that both of these organizations started within weeks before or after the great stock market crash of 1929
Wall Street Journal: Daily newspaper discussing business and economics. It has several regularly scheduled sections and features designated to a certain day of the week. It is the largest in the United States by Circulation.
Discussion Case: A Brawl in Mickey’s Backyard
- The focal issue on this case centers on a conflict between real estate developer SunCal and the Walt Disney Company. The issue is that the pricing of the housing around Disney Land is far too expensive for the employees of Disney Land and can’t afford to stay there.
- The relevant market stakeholders in this case are Disney World and SunCal and the non-market shareholders are the employees.
- Walt Disney Company is against SunCal’s proposed development and thinks that the land should be only used for tourism only.
Disney Employees are for because they need affordable housing near work
SunCal- (Of Course) in favor of because they want to build condominiums and set a low percentage aside for below market rate apartments
Affordable Housing Advocates were for because it included for a percentage of the units to be priced below the market and housing in Anaheim is very expensive
- Disney employees and unions representing them (M to Disney; NM to SunCal) – political power (protest skit in front of City Hall is aimed at influencing Council members). Normally, employees and unions have economic power, but in this instance their adversary is not their employer (Disney).
Disney company (NM to SunCal) – political power (as a major taxpayer, can influence local politicians); legal power (to block SunCal on the grounds that development would violate local ordinances restricting development in the resort area)
Chapter 3: The Corporations Social Responsibilities
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has gradually become part of the vision and mission of several organizations. Apart from their economic responsibilities to the shareholders, companies today have responded to the concerns of their stakeholders including their hosting communities on the need for social responsibility. Even though most of the corporate social responsibility activities do not have economic models, they have been incorporated with economic objectives in order to maintain the economic and social objectives and primary missions of organizations. This papers examines how social responsibility has grown to help businesses in their economic endeavors in the business world today.
Arguments against Corporate Social Responsibility
According most of the arguments in this chapter, the major responsibility of businesses is to use their available resources effectively and participate in the activities that are aimed at increasing the profits for the company. According to most shareholders of different companies, they need the highest possible returns on their investment capitals. Some people maintain that by focusing on social goals, businesses might divert their attention to social activities, which might deprive the society of the important goods and services that they need from these companies. The major arguments made in this chapter against Corporate Social Responsibility include imposing unequal costs among competitors, lowering the profits and economic efficiency of the company due to increased costs in participating in such activities, and imposition of hidden costs, which are passed on to the beneficiaries such as the stakeholders including customers since most of these social activities are not self-sustaining.
The Aspects of Social Responsibility and Corporate Power
The legal, economic, and social obligations of corporations have the ability to determine the influence that corporations have in the society. Most corporations today have a higher social influence than governments because of their economic power. Since the beginning of the 20th century, the idea of social responsibility has significantly taken its effect in the United States. The idea evolved from both stewardship and strategic responsiveness to understanding business ethics that are ultimately found in the culture and practice of corporate citizenship (Lawrence, Weber, Kahn, 2013). In order to ensure that all the stakeholders and shareholders of corporations enjoy the existence of these corporations in the society, managers need to practice the balance between economic, social, and legal obligation and reduce inclination toward either obligation.
Most of the successful corporations today have very strong corporate powers. In some cases, some corporations have outputs, which are equal to the output of an entire country. For instance, the economic output of Toyota Motors and Hong Kong are equal. Just like government departments, corporations create jobs, offer well-being to the members of the society, offers goods and services including entertainment and healthcare as well as food. Their resources are influential in the things of interest to their stakeholders such as managing the political terrain. This is only possible through the corporate power, which is consistent with the fulfillment of social and economic obligations of the corporations. However, there are both sides of corporate power. Since bigger corporations can provide more resources, produce at lower costs, and plan for the future effectively, they have advantages over small businesses.
- Book Definition
- My Interpretation
- The capability of corporations to influence government, the economy, and society, based on their organizational resources
- The intentional or incidental ability of a business enterprise to play significant role in every aspect of the society including the social, economic, and legal perspectives.
Corporate Social Responsibility
- A corporation should act in a way that enhances society and its inhabitants and be held accountable for any of its actions that affect people, their communities, and their environment
- Since corporations operate within the society, they need to be sensitive of the needs of these societies. CSR is the act of giving back to the community for their support. For instance, Coca-Cola is a MNC, which has some of the CSR activities including water harvesting and dam maintenance in countries such as India. Such activities are aimed at ensuring continuity in the relationship between the interdependent companies and the society.
- The view that holds it is in a company’s self-interest in the long run to provide true value to its stakeholders
- Every corporation has an enlightened self-interest, which is aimed to benefit the society and the corporation in different ways. The organizations gains by increasing its popularity and the society gains from the proceeds of these interests. The best example is used in the book about Avon, which collects money through its Cancer Foundation for cancer and tragic events victims.
- The desirable or undesirable qualities associated with an organization or its actors that may influence the organization’s relationships with its stakeholders.
- Reputation builds the basis for success of a business. It contributes to the continued attachment between the stakeholders and the corporation. The activities done on by or on behalf of the organization by its agents influence the decisions of the stakeholders about the importance of continued relationships between the two entities.
- A business that adopts social benefit as its core mission and uses its resources to improve human and environmental well-being.
- Even though these enterprises aim at earning profits, they do not emphasize on maximizing shareholder returns on investment, but on improving the well being of the members of the society.
“Timberland’s Corporate Social Responsibility—Under New Ownership”
- Timberland’s mission is to equip people to make a difference in their world by creating outstanding products and trying to make a difference in the community where it works. The company competes in a global economy. Through incentives such as using 4 percent of its operating income in charity, the company has gained corporate power, which it uses responsibly. For instance, the company successfully reduced carbon emissions by 38 percent in 2010 though installing LED lighting in stores across the U.S.
- Timberland balances its social and economic responsibilities through its various programs such as the annual Serv-a-Palooza event and sustainability goals, which are aimed at increasing profits and improving the well being of the members of the society. Some of the activities include creation of a new outdoor community gathering and performance space, building an outdoor classroom at a local elementary school, and improved the high school athletic facilities in New Market, New Hampshire which is where Timberland first started.
- The main argument against the company’s CSR initiatives is that, the company focuses more on social aspects of the community and neglects the economic obligations. On the other hand, proponents argue that the company is successfully implementing its self interest to create a rapport with the society. This improves reputation and consequently the economic obligation to the shareholders and social responsibility to the stakeholders
- If I were an executive of VF Corporation, I would support the continuation of these initiatives because they create a link between the stakeholders and the corporation, which in turn increases the return on shareholder capital
Chapter 10: Sustainable Development and Global Business
Business practices today have become conscious of the need to conserve the natural environment. One aspect of the natural environment is its irreparability. While doing business in the local and global perspective, businesses are concerned about their existence tomorrow, which equally depends on the existence of the natural environment. Corporations strive to ensure that they have the best strategies to find alternatives to the naturally available resources, or work toward ensuring continuity of these naturally available resources. As mentioned in the book, “we don’t think of our own natural environment might be one of the largest determining factors in the future of doing global business.” Without the environment, there could be no continuity of business.
While doing business, it is important to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future access to the resources for meeting similar needs. Businesses have found ways of sustaining and staying afloat through using alternative resources or technology. In 1997, an international treaty was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan aimed at reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases. This was aimed at ensuring that business activities are sensitive of the natural systems. In rising to the challenge of depletion of natural resources, the industrial ecology has helped in ensuring that resources are utilized to give maximum satisfaction without have dire consequences on the environment.
Technology and Sustainability
In order to ensure sustainable development, corporations have engaged in long term partnerships aimed at transferring environmental technologies. Technology has shown evolving trends, which have been used to solve evolving trends in business activities. In most cases, businesses have become sensitive of the importance of embracing technology savvy production in order to increase profits and minimize the effects of production to the environment. Additionally, technology has become an alternative to the natural system, which ensures that the future generations will have similar or even greater opportunities to meet their business needs. In the future, given the prevailing technology and the available resources, production will be more reflective of sustainable development as corporations will be aimed at implementing alternative means of production in order to ensure continuity of business.
- Textbook definition
- Online definition
- My interpretation
- development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs
- Recognizes that growth must be both inclusive and environmentally sound to reduce poverty and build shared prosperity for today’s population and to continue to meet the needs of future generations.
- The ability to produce goods and services with the aim of ensuring that the business will continue to produce similar or better products with the available resources. While organizations might be concerned about the future generations, the main aim of sustainable development is the continuity in production
- Designing factories and distribution systems as if they were self-contained ecosystems, such as using waste from one process as raw materials for another
- Conceptualizes industry as a man-made ecosystem that operates in a similar way to natural ecosystems, where the waste or by product of one process is used as an input into another process
- Aims to reduce environmental stress caused by industry whilst encouraging innovation, resource efficiency, and sustained growth
- long-term partnerships between companies to transfer environmental technologies to attain sustainable development
- effective cooperation between business or industry parties which develop, hold, and use environmentally sound technologies, and counterparts which wish to do the same for the purpose of business development
- Inter-business technological relationship aimed at ensuring that the environment benefits from the technological improvements on production without depleting the natural system.
- the amount of land and water an individual or group needs to produce the resources it consumes and to absorb its wastes, giving prevailing technology
- Is a measure of human demand on the Earth's ecosystems
- Business aim to maximize production with the available resources. However, they are faced with the dilemma of extinction of the natural system. Production depends on the natural environment to maximize profits. Therefore, businesses strive to maximize their dependence on the natural ecosystem
- Household contribute to environmental degradation without knowing the consequences of their actions. Due to environmental unfriendly cooking practices, there are emissions that are dangerous to the environment. This provides a business idea to investors such as Suraj Wahab. This implies that individuals and organizations such as the United Nations have the interest of sustainable development through environmental conservation initiatives such “100 by 20”, which means that 100 million households adopt clean and efficient cook stoves and fuels by 2020.
Chapter 11: Managing Environmental Issues
It is the joint responsibility of the government and corporations to ensure that there is sustainability for the planet and the business enterprises. Through its different departments, the government provides regulations, which are aimed at ensuring that, while businesses create and sustain profits, they should follow the government regulations, which when ignored, can lead to fines or termination. However, organizations that are aware of the environment are ecologically sustainable businesses. According to Ahmad, “it’s important that companies understand the advantages and disadvantages of different regulatory approaches, and how their business can best manage environmental issues where it’s in the best interest for the environment and the company.” This implies that while conducting business activities, it is equally important to take care of the environment, where the business operates.
The Role of the Government in Environmental Regulation
There have been different environmental degradation practices by corporations, which require regulation including water, air, and land pollutions. Due to emissions from factories during production, and waster depositions, the governments of different nations and environmental organizations have crafted laws that govern the business practices, especially those related to protection of the environment. In response, businesses have also embraced clean technology in their production, which provide environmental benefits and support sustainability. This also befits businesses through cost savings.
a. Textbook definition
b. Online definition
c. My interpretation
Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO)
- manager responsible for the organization’s sustainability activities and performance
- the executive in an organization that is in charge of the corporation's "environmental" programs
- These executives should put sustainable development as the core principle of organizational operations
- when an organization misleads consumers regarding the environmental benefits of a product or service
- where green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly
- The public might lack the relevant information and knowledge to understand the insights of the organizational information about environmental issues. The government should step in to protect the public
Ecologically Sustainable Organization (ESO)
- a business that operates in a way that is consistent with the principle of sustainable development
- an organization whose operations are aimed at promoting sustainable development
- Being ecologically sustainable is what businesses strive for. Having organizations that focus on this illustrates their development in sustainability
- the efforts to prevent inequitable exposure to risk, such as from hazardous waste
- focus is on the fair distribution of environmental benefits and burdens
- Every member of the society has equal rights to healthy environments. Therefore, governments should strive to provide equal environmental conditions to all citizens through regulations on business activities
- Regulations are very important in protecting the environment. In developing countries, “laws are often weaker and regulations are poorly enforced” (Lawrence and Weber P.257). This has resulted in environmental degradation practices. While businesses aim at maximizing profits, the governments of different nations need to strengthen laws and regulations as well as their implementations in protecting the environment.
- Even though land and air pollution lead to global warming, which has several disadvantages, water pollution in this case was the most dangerous pollution. Water is widely used in all communities. Therefore, infecting water with chemicals such as Cyanide exposes the community to dangerous consequences
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"School District possesses full authority to act unilaterally with respect to any matter not expressly set forth in this Agreement."
Perhaps a few quick highlights will be illuminating:
• All salaries will be reduced, with those making the most money to be losing 13% of what they earn. I imagine a wave of retirements and resignings from the veteran cohort of teachers. Say what you will about the stereotypical image of the old-school teacher not doing a good job - but know that the majority of them are good teachers and would continue for years unless this kind of things takes hold.
• Increase in time for school day from 7 hours, 4 minutes to 8 hours. While I understand the desire to increase the number of minutes in high-quality learning environments, the people who are crafting these policies seem unaware of modern biology and psychology. People can only focus for a certain amount of time and after that there is diminishing marginal utility.
• Increase teaching load to six classes per day (from five). As teachers (and friends/family thereof) know, class sizes have ballooned to such a number that each teacher easily sees 150-160 students per day. If another classes were added on top of that, we would be pushing 180 per teacher. If any assignment were given more than 1 minute of time for assessment, that would be 3 hours of work! How could any teacher give reasonable feedback with that load? Answer: they couldn't.
• Elimination of copy machines and textbooks. Not only are teachers supposed to teach 180 students per day, but they are also supposed to do it without resources. It is easy to save money by not providing paper or machinery to copy. It is also easy to eliminate learning by not actually teaching.
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On March 16, Robert Aaron Long killed eight people, 6 of which were women of Asian descent. Long's action has not yet been classified as a hate crime because the motive, he states, was his sex addiction. The women in the spas were merely collateral damage in Long's effort to eliminate his temptation and guilt. Sex addiction, however, is not a medically recognized diagnosis. And, research has proven there is no correlation between sex addiction and killing.
Nonetheless, in looking for an explanation for Long's action other than a hate crime, his church's "purity culture" is being called into question as a possible motive. Perhaps during this high holy week of Passover and Easter, it might be a good time to examine one's theology.
Purity culture became a fast-growing and popular movement in the 1990s in white evangelical churches, like the Crabtree First Baptist Church, to which Long belonged. "Purity culture "purportedly assists teens and young adults in practicing abstinence before marriage. "Believing that true love waits, I make a commitment to God, myself, my family, those I date, and my future mate to be sexually pure until the day I enter marriage," the True Love Waits pledge reads. Purity rings are outward symbols of upholding the pledge. Pop stars once wore them like Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez, the Jonas Brothers, and Miley Cyrus before they caved in.
Understandably, Long, like many teens and young adults, would wrestle with their sexual urges and purity culture tenets. Given its compulsory heterosexual mandates, its denunciation of present-day gender theories, and its denunciation of the fluidity of human sexuality, purity culture's laundry list of dos and don'ts create an untenable environment. The psychological toll and spiritual harm have made many teens, and young adults like Long leave these churches. While the suffering and confusion in these rigid church environments are undeniable, there is no correlation between purity culture and acting out violently or killing.
Looking for an explanation for Long's action other than a hate crime, his church's "purity culture" is being called into question as a possible motive.
Since no one yet wants to call Long's killing of six Asian women a hate crime, mass shootings are predominately within a specific demographic group— young white men. The problem of young white males and mass shootings has been screaming out at us for some time. Getting to the why for these specific types of shootings predominately from this demographic group is not as mysterious or elusive as it is purported to be. Neither mental illness nor addiction has been the principal cause. Long, like many of these young men, has made his private hell a public massacre.
"I think we need to examine critically the fact that most mass shootings are done by young, white, relatively economically privileged males. What is it about their socialization that results in the manifestation of their mental illness in a rage-fueled carnage of this magnitude? If we don't ask these questions, along with all the others, I fear we are missing an important factor in this and other mass shooting tragedies," wrote an academic administrator from UMASS Boston in an email to me.
Entertaining Long's sexual addiction as a believable explanation for the killings diverts attention from his acts of intentional xenophobia and racialized misogyny. The fetishization of Asian American and Pacific Island women has constantly made their lives expendable to sex traffickers and men's violent fantasies. Long's killings could have been part and parcel of a snuff film porn fantasy disguised as removing the source of his sex addiction temptations.
"Racism and sexism are partners that stoke each other with frightening ease," Anne Anlin Cheng, a Princeton professor, told The Atlantic. "Here's the thing that many people find hard to accept: Hatred does not preclude desire."
As a result of Long's act, six women of Asian descent are no longer with us: Xiaojie Tan, 49; Do you Feng, 44; Soon C. Park, 74; Hyun J. Grant, 51; Suncha Kim, 69; and Yong A. Yue, 63. This recent attack highlights the expanse of racist violence in this country on people of color.
Also, with Covid-19 derisively called the "China flu" and the "Kung flu," these killings are the consequences of the yearlong verbal and physical attacks ignored by our AAPI brothers and sisters across the country.
Sadly, laws in this country have never protected POC until we fought that they do. Hate crimes are challenging to prove. In Long's case, it would have to be proven that he committed the crime solely because the women were Asian. I, however, see Long's actions as similar to that of Dylan Roof's hate crime. In 2015, Roof went into Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in SC and killed nine black parishioners during Wednesday Bible Study.
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A Million Wild Acres
200 Years of Man and an Australian Forest
by Eric Rolls
Thomas Nelson, 1982, b/w plates, hardcover, dustjacket, ISBN 0170053024
Very Good Condition, previous owners inscriptions on inside front cover and front flyleaf
'A Million Wild Acres is a contentious story of men and their passion for land; of occupation and settlement; of destruction and growth. It is the story of the Pilliga scrub.
By following the documented tracks of men who crossed the Blue Mountains into northern New South Wales, Eric Rolls has re-written the history of settlement and destroyed the argument that Australia's present dense eucalypt forests are the remnants of 200 years of energetic clearing.
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The city of Brewer will pay a $35,000 fine after a pump station clog sent more than a million gallons of wastewater into the Penobscot River, violating the city’s discharge permits.
The agreement with the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, which is not yet finalized, comes more than two years after the December 2018 violation, when pumps at Brewer’s wastewater treatment plant became clogged with wet wipes, rags and other debris. The clogging caused the pump station to fail, sending about 1.2 million gallons of untreated wastewater into the Penobscot River before the pipes were unclogged about a week later.
The city needed an outside contractor to drain the pumping station’s wet well — a chamber that collects wastewater before processing — and give employees access to the pipes, said Brewer Director of Environmental Services Ken Locke. He said rain and high temperatures that caused snowmelt worsened the situation.
The Brewer City Council approved the consent agreement on April 13. Locke, who has worked for the city for decades, said it was Brewer’s first settlement with the DEP since 1992.
People flushing non-dissolvable materials down toilets has long been an issue for wastewater systems nationwide. While toilet paper dissolves, materials such as rags and flushable wipes can easily plug up pipes. There were reports of an uptick in backed-up sewer lines amid a shortage of toilet paper at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020.
The agreement has been a long time coming. Locke said he called the DEP the day the pump station failed and first received the consent decree from the agency around May 2019. Negotiations to lower the city’s fine have delayed its signing. The DEP originally wanted Brewer to pay $45,280, but lowered the fine by more than $10,000 after negotiations, Locke said.
Brewer installed a new $1.2 million pump station in May 2020 and has not had any problems with clogging since then, Locke said. While the city had set aside money for the new station, the city accelerated its design and construction process by two years after the December 2018 clog. The new pump station has a specific system in place to eject wipes before they can clog the system.
The consent agreement will now go before the Board of Environmental Protection, Locke said. The board is a seven-member panel that is part of the DEP, though it maintains independence from that agency.
After the board signs the agreement, it will put new requirements on Brewer officials, Locke said, such as that they report when pump stations become plugged and record how long it takes employees to respond.
Brewer is not the only Penobscot River community that has experienced sewage overflow problems. Bangor is in the midst of a multi-year project to install underground sewage overflow tanks to reduce raw wastewater overflows into the Penobscot River. The city is doing that work under a 2015 consent decree with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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…as value of transactions processed through NPS surges by 31%
National Payment Systems (NPS) comprising RTGS, POS, ATMs and mobile and internet based transactions for the quarter ending 30 September 2021 rose 31% to ZWL$2.085 trillion from ZWL$1.594 trillion in the previous quarter, latest data shows.
NPS ensures finality and irrevocability of settlement, while facilitating the circulation of money in the economy.
According to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe RTGS transactions increased by 21% to ZWL$1.25 trillion accounting for 60.20% of the value of transactions processed through the NPS. RTGS allows for large values unlike other payment systems. RTGS transaction volume was up 7% to 3.26 million from 3.05 million.
An acute shortage of bank notes in the southern African nation has forced Zimbabweans to resort to electronic means of payment.
Internet based transactions went up 64% to ZWL$485.42 billion from ZWL$295.19 billion in the previous quarter.
Mobile based transactions surged 26% to ZWL$182.61 billion from ZWL$145.31 billion.
Point of Sale (POS) transactions were up 43% to ZWL$150.92 billion from ZWL$105.37 million.
The value processed through Automated Teller Machine (ATM) transactions registered a 17% increase to close at ZWL$10.75 billion compared to ZWL$9.2 billion in the previous quarter. This comes as the economy is going cashless due to Covid-19 pandemic. The public transport system has introduced tap cards as a way of addressing cash shortages.
In volume terms, NPS transactions increased by 3% to 365.85 million from 354.73 million previously. But, these are small volumes with large values.
Of the total volume of transactions, mobile-based transactions accounted for 85.29% while POS took up 12.30%. Internet, RTGS and ATMs claimed 1.10%, 0.89% and 0.42% respectively.
Majority of the people own a phone and make use of it to do small transactions like buying airtime despite transaction limits cap and charges continues to be a hurdle.
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More than 32 million workers impacted by Covid-19: GSO
The pandemic has been the major factor that took away work opportunities of 1.6 million people.
Up to 22.2 million people have received less income than before the Covid-19 outbreak while the services sector was hit the hardest with nearly 72% of its workforce directly affected.
|Overview of the press conference.|
More than 32 million workers aged 15 and over in Vietnam have been hit by the Covid-19 pandemic, either becoming unemployed, being forced to take unpaid leave or having their working hours reduced, according to the General Statistics Office (GSO).
“Of the sum, 22.2 million people, or 69.2% of the affected ones, have received less income than before the Covid-19 outbreak; 40% with less working hours and 14% laid off,” said Vu Thi Thu Thuy, head of GSO’s Department of Population and Labor Statistics at a press briefing hed in Hanoi on January 6.
The services sector faced the most severe impacts with 71.6% of its workforce directly stricken, followed by the industry and construction sector with 64.7%; and agro-forestry and fishery with 26.4%, she noted.
Overall, the workforce aged 15 and over in 2020 totaled 54.6 million, down 1.2 million against the previous year, while the figure expanded by an average of 0.8% during the 2016-19 period. "If Vietnam had maintained such a growth rate in 2016-19 without Covid-19, the country would have had an additional 1.6 million workers," added Mrs. Thuy.
In other words, the pandemic has been the major factor that took away work opportunities of 1.6 million people.
There have also been changes in the number of seasonal workers during each quarter in the year. For the past three years, the number of workers in the first quarter had been the lowest and then gradually increased in subsequent quarters, eventually reaching its peak in the fourth quarter. However, in 2020, the labor force started shrinking in the first quarter and hit bottom in second quarter, but then recovered in the last two quarters.
“Despite the recovery trend, the number of workforce in the fourth quarter has not been at the pre-Covid-19 level,” stated Mrs. Thuy, adding that the figure was 200,000 lower than that of in the first quarter.
GSO Vice Director Pham Quang Vinh said the Covid-19 pandemic is leaving severe consequences on the economy, forcing businesses to streamline their operation and employ seasonal workers to lower operational expenses.
In 2020, the number of workers unable to find works stood at 1.2 million, up 277,000 against last year.
The monthly income of workers in 2020 averaged VND5.5 million (US$240), down 2.3% year-on-year, in which those working in services sector suffers the sharpest decline in income, followed by the agro-forestry-fishery sector.
To mitigate severe impacts of Covid-19 on the labor market, the GSO’s representative urged Government agencies to continue administrative reform and provide stimulus packages for the economy, including labor-intensive sectors.
At a time when the Covid-19 pandemic remains complicated globally, the Government should encourage workers to enhance their skills and knowledge to meet market’s demands in a new normalcy, Mr. Vinh suggested.
"Additionally, employers should also adopt to new business and production methods in the post-Covid-19 pandemic and devise their strategies accordingly," he said.
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This post outlines a fairly simple workflow from annotated corpus to topic model, with a focus on the exploratory utility of topic models. We first consider some text structures relevant to topic modeling in R, and then demonstrate some approaches to visualizing model results, including variation in topic prevalence over time for a diachronic corpus. Lastly, we consider methods for visualizing relatedness among topics.
For demonstration purposes, we utilize a set of corpora made avaiable via the
library(tidyverse) library(topicmodels) library(tidytext) library(spacyr) library(corpusdatr)#devtools::install_github("jaytimm/corpusdatr") library(corpuslingr)#devtools::install_github("jaytimm/corpuslingr")
Very quickly, topic modeling is an unsupervised text classification methodology in which
- documents are modeled as composites of topics, and
- topics are modeled as composites of features/words.
The approach to topic modeling employed here is latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA); to fit our models, we use the
LDA function from the
topicmodels package (Hornik and Grün 2011).
In our first example, we investigate topics in the annotated Slate Magazine corpus (ca 1996-2000, 1K texts, 1m words), available as
cdr_slate_ann from the
corpusdatr package. The corpus has been annotated using the
spacyr package, and is functionally a synchronic (or static) corpus by virtue of not containing publication date information.
The first step in building the model is to summarize our corpus; here, this means representing each document in the corpus in terms of its constitutent features and feature frequencies, ie, as a bag-of-words (BOW). To accomplish this task, we use the
clr_get_freq function from the
corpuslingr package. We set the lemma as our feature unit, and limit feature composition to nouns and entities.
dtm <- corpusdatr::cdr_slate_ann %>% spacyr::entity_consolidate() %>% filter(tag %in% c("NN", "NNS") | pos =='ENTITY')%>% corpuslingr::clr_get_freq(agg_var=c('doc_id','lemma'), toupper=FALSE)%>% arrange(doc_id)
Example portion of the corpus-as-BOW:
## doc_id lemma txtf docf ## 1 1 noise 14 25 ## 2 1 lip 9 24 ## 3 1 talk 7 150 ## 4 1 walk 6 24 ## 5 1 one 5 874 ## 6 1 service 5 177
Like most topic modeling functions,
topicmodels::LDA requires a document-term matrix (DTM) as input. A DTM is a sparse matrix and, as a data structure, is awkward to work with. Conveniently, the
cast_sparse function from the
tidytext package allows us to get from corpus-as-BOW to formal DTM quite easily.
Per the output of
clr_get_freq, we filter out features with extreme document frequencies (ie, features with limited utility in classification), and then build the DTM with
static_DTM <- dtm%>% filter(docf < 500 & docf > 5)%>% tidytext::cast_sparse(row=doc_id,column=lemma,value=txtf)
Which has the following structure:
## Formal class 'dgCMatrix' [package "Matrix"] with 6 slots ## [email protected] i : int [1:161352] 0 18 20 104 191 197 229 254 280 291 ... ## [email protected] p : int [1:5435] 0 25 49 199 223 400 540 596 1001 1067 ... ## [email protected] Dim : int [1:2] 1000 5434 ## [email protected] Dimnames:List of 2 ## .. ..$ : chr [1:1000] "1" "10" "100" "1000" ... ## .. ..$ : chr [1:5434] "noise" "lip" "talk" "walk" ... ## [email protected] x : num [1:161352] 14 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 ... ## [email protected] factors : list()
Lastly, we fit the model, specifying an eight topic solution:
static_topic <- topicmodels::LDA(static_DTM, k = 8, control=list(seed=12)) #11
We extract the
terms object from the
LDA output using the
topicmodels::posterior function; output includes the posterior probabilities of the terms for each topic. Focusing on the six highest probability terms per topic, the plot below summarizes model results for the Slate Magazine corpus (ca 1996-2000).
library(ggthemes) topicmodels::posterior(static_topic)$terms %>% data.frame() %>% mutate(topics = row.names(.))%>% gather(key="term",value="beta", noise:wool) %>% group_by(topics) %>% top_n(6, beta) %>% ungroup() %>% arrange(topics, beta)%>% mutate(order = row_number(), term=factor(paste(order,term,sep="_"), levels = paste(order, term, sep = "_")), topics = as.character(topics))%>% ggplot(aes(x=term, y=beta, fill=topics)) + geom_col(show.legend = FALSE) + facet_wrap(~topics, scales = "free_y", ncol = 2) + scale_x_discrete(labels = function(x) gsub("^.*_", "", x))+ theme_fivethirtyeight()+ scale_fill_stata() + coord_flip()+ theme(plot.title = element_text(size=14)) + labs(title="Topic composition by feature") #
So, some curious times, the close of the 20th century: A lame-duck president in some hot water, presidential primaries, a war abroad. The model seems to paint a fairly clear picture of the socio-political happenings of the time period, and provides a nice macro-vantage from which to view/explore corpus content.
Next we explore topics in a diachronic corpus, and demonstrate a straightforward approach to visualizing variation in topic prevalence over time. Here we use the
cdr_gnews_historical corpus from the
corpusdatr package for demonstration purposes.
Corpus and some descriptives
The corpus is comprised of web-based news articles published during a three-week time period (11-27/17 to 12/20/17). Articles were retrieved using my
quicknews package, which leverages Goggle News’ RSS feed to direct search, and annotated using the
For the sake of avoiding copyright issues, each constituent article in the corpus has already been reduced to a BOW. The corpus is comprised of ~1,500 texts, ~1.3 million words, and ~200 unique media sources.
Example corpus metadata:
head(cdr_gnews_meta)[1:4] ## doc_id pubdates source ## 1 1 2017-11-27 New York Times ## 2 2 2017-11-27 New York Times ## 3 3 2017-11-27 Washington Post ## 4 4 2017-11-27 CNN ## 5 5 2017-11-27 CNN ## 6 6 2017-11-27 Washington Post ## titles ## 1 2 Bosses Show Up to Lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ## 2 Meghan Markle Is Going to Make History ## 3 Trump could personally benefit from last-minute change to Senate tax bill ## 4 Melania Trump unveils White House holiday decor ## 5 Trump's latest conspiracy? The 'Access Hollywood' tape was a fake! ## 6 Trump attacks media in his first post-Thanksgiving tweet
Some basic corpus descriptives:
cdr_gnews_meta%>% group_by(pubdates) %>% summarize_at(vars(docN),funs(sum))%>% ggplot(aes(x=pubdates, group = 1)) + geom_line(aes(y=docN), size=1.25, color = 'steelblue') + labs(title="Daily corpus size", subtitle = "11-27-17 to 12-20-17")
The corpus is comprised predominantly of articles from the Washington Post, CNN, and the New York Times. It is unclear if these sources generate the most content, or if this is a bias of the news aggregator, or if these sites care less about folks scraping content from their sites.
cdr_gnews_meta %>% group_by(source) %>% summarize_at(vars(docN),funs(sum))%>% top_n(10,docN)%>% ggplot(aes(x=reorder(source, docN), y=docN)) + geom_col(width=.65, fill='steelblue') + coord_flip()+ labs(title="Top ten news sources by text frequency", subtitle = "11-27-17 to 12-20-17")
We follow the same procedure to fitting the topic model as we did previously:
hist_topic <- corpusdatr::cdr_gnews_historical %>% filter(tag %in% c("NN", "NNS") | pos =='ENTITY')%>% group_by(doc_id,lemma) %>% summarize_at(vars(freq),funs(sum))%>% tidytext::cast_sparse(row=doc_id,column=lemma,value=freq)%>% topicmodels::LDA(., k = 12, control = list(verbose = 0, seed=999))
Extract the topic summary of the model:
topic_summary <- data.frame(topicmodels::terms(hist_topic,7)) %>% gather(key='topic',value='val',Topic.1:Topic.12) %>% group_by(topic)%>% summarize (dims = paste(val,collapse=', '))%>% mutate(topic = as.numeric(gsub('Topic.','',topic)))%>% arrange(topic)
Topics over the three week period:
## # A tibble: 12 x 1 ## dims ## <chr> ## 1 tax, bill, Senate, Republicans, House, vote, rate ## 2 Moore, Alabama, woman, voter, election, Republican, Trump ## 3 woman, allegation, harassment, story, time, statement, people ## 4 film, time, first, one, people, movie, way ## 5 North Korea, missile, snow, U.S., weapon, North Korean, report ## 6 company, deal, Fox, market, price, time, Disney ## 7 EU, deal, government, trade, Yankees, time, Britain ## 8 fire, wildfire, home, man, photo, Ventura, people ## 9 Iran, Yemen, CNN, people, coalition, missile, time ## 10 game, team, time, coach, player, first, NFL ## 11 Trump, president, Russia, Trump_'s, official, Mueller, Flynn ## 12 police, Jerusalem, Israel, officer, death, city, people
So a busy three weeks. The special Senate election in Alabama (and surrounding controversey), wildfires in California, North Korea, the Mueller investigation, tax reform, the #MeToo movement.
Topic prevalence historically
In order to quantify the prevalence of these topics over time, we shift focus from topic composition in terms of words/features to document composition in terms of topics. So, we first extract the posterior probabilities of the topics for each document; then we join corpus metadata and topic summary details.
hist_beta <- topicmodels::posterior(hist_topic)$topics %>% data.frame() %>% mutate(doc_id = row.names(.))%>% arrange(as.numeric(doc_id))%>% left_join(cdr_gnews_meta) %>% gather(key="topic",value="val",X1:X12) %>% mutate(topic = as.numeric(gsub('X','',topic)))%>% left_join(topic_summary)
Based on this set of model results, each document in our corpus can be represented as a composite of the sixteen topics summarized above; topic composites for an example set of texts are illustrated in the figure below. Per the figure, text 183 is comprised (in varying degrees) of topics 2, 3, 4, and 9.
hist_beta %>% filter(doc_id %in% c('183', '631','896')) %>% ggplot(aes(x=reorder(paste(topic,dims, sep=" - "), -topic), y=val, fill = dims)) + geom_col(width=.85) + coord_flip()+ scale_fill_stata() + theme(axis.text.x = element_text(angle = 90))+ xlab ("topic") + ylab("beta") + facet_wrap(~doc_id)+ labs(title="Text by topic") + theme(legend.position="none")
Topic prevalence over time, then, is simply the aggregate of these topic probabilities for each document by publication date.
agg_hist_beta <- hist_beta %>% group_by(pubdates,topic,dims) %>% summarize_at(vars(val),funs(sum))%>% ungroup()
Finally, we plot the results. The size of plot points represents aggregate posterior probabilities, which can be interpreted as the likelihood that some article a written on day d was about some topic z.
The top six words associated with each topic are displayed as well. For a relatively small corpus (comprised of a wide range of content), the plot provides a nice overview of variation in topic prevalence over time.
p <- ggplot(agg_hist_beta) + geom_point(aes(x = pubdates, y = reorder(topic,-topic), size = val, color=dims)) + theme_fivethirtyeight() + scale_color_stata() p + geom_text(data = agg_hist_beta[agg_hist_beta$pubdates == "2017-11-27",], aes(x = pubdates, y = reorder(topic,-topic), label = dims), vjust=-1, hjust=0) + labs(title="Topic prevalence over time", subtitle="11-27-2017 to 12-20-2017")+ theme(legend.position="none", plot.title = element_text(size=14))
Lastly, we consider the relationship among topics in the
cdr_gnews_historical corpus via cluster analysis. The first step in this process is to create a correlation matrix of the beta values for constituent topic features.
cor_mat <- data.frame(posterior(hist_topic)$topics)%>% `colnames<-`(paste(topic_summary$topic,topic_summary$dims, sep=" - ")) %>% cor(.)
Next, we compute the distances (ie, dissimilarities) between topic-pairs, and perform hierarchical clustering analysis on the resulting matrix. We use the
ggdendro package to plot results. Per plot below, some intuitive relationships, some less so.
library(ggdendro) hclust(dist(cor_mat)) %>% ggdendrogram(., rotate=TRUE) + theme_fivethirtyeight()
A brief outline for quick topic modeling, with some different applications for synchronic and diachronic corpora. For a smarter discussion of underlying assumptions and maths, see Hornik and Grün (2011).
Hornik, Kurt, and Bettina Grün. 2011. “Topicmodels: An R Package for Fitting Topic Models.” Journal of Statistical Software 40 (13). American Statistical Association: 1–30. | <urn:uuid:577ea8eb-7077-4ccf-b289-439b1dea8e6b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.r-bloggers.com/2018/02/topic-models-for-synchronic-diachronic-corpus-exploration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.729474 | 3,607 | 1.953125 | 2 |
"This book is about much more than just Promise Keepers. It offers critical insight into shifting ideas about masculinity, family, multiculturalism, fraternal associations, men and sports, subcultural boundary work, and grassroots social movements."--Sally K. Gallagher, author of Evangelical Identity and Gendered Family Life The evangelical men's movement widely known as the Promise Keepers--"PK" for short--captured America's imagination and generated intense controversy during the 1990s. PK promoted adherence to a strict code of conduct that masculinized conservative religious and social values. However, the movement now evokes little more than a hazy memory of football stadiums teeming with tear-stained faces and clasped arms that signaled spiritual transformation. What factors contributed to their demise, and what broader insights can be gleaned from the rapid rise and fall of the movement? This is the first book to consider the turbulent forces that contributed to the group's wild popularity, declining fortunes, and subsequent efforts to reinvent itself. John P.
Bartkowski provides a broad and balanced portrait of the movement while evaluating its impact on the landscape of American religion. He argues that there is much to be learned about the changing contours of religion, culture, and social life through a study of the Promise Keepers. By carefully examining the character and contagious appeal of the movement, he sheds new light on evangelicalism, gender, family, therapeutic culture, sport, and multiculturalism. John P. Bartkowski is an associate professor of sociology at Mississippi State University. He is the author of Remaking the Godly Marriage: Gender Negotiations in Evangelical Families and the co-author of Charitable Choices: Religion, Race, and Poverty in the Post-Welfare Era.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Number of pages: 200
Weight: 450 g
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The Maroochy air crash was an aircraft accident that occurred at 11.10am on 30 December 1950 at Maroochydore beach, Queensland, Australia. Three children were killed and fourteen others were seriously injured as a result of the accident.
|Date||30 December 1950|
|Summary||Beach air crash|
|Site||Maroochydore, Queensland, Australia|
|Aircraft type||CAC Wirraway|
|Operator||Royal Australian Air Force|
|Flight origin||Redcliffe, Queensland|
|Fatalities||3 (on beach)|
|Injuries||14 (on beach)|
|Survivors||2 (flight crew)|
CAC Wirraway Serial Number A20-212 of the Royal Australian Air Force had been circling between Maroochydore and Alexandra Headland during a routine shark patrol when it suddenly banked steeply and crashed onto the crowded beach in front of the Maroochydore Surf Life Saving Club. The pilot and his observer survived the impact of the crash.
On 9 March 2013, a 2.4-metre 'Maroochy Air Crash Memorial' was erected at the site in memory of those killed and injured.
- Memorial details
- Sunshine Coast set to have memorial to RAAF aircraft Wirraway after plane crash 60 years ago
- Shirley remembers day she lost young brother (Graham Blair)
- Headstone for Pauline Probert, located in old Nambour Cemetery
- Photo of Liam O'Connor on a camping holiday at Maroochydore, December 1950
- Map of location of air crash
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859 - 12/12 - Iron Ore fines that may contain DRI (C) - International Group of P&I Club's recommendations
This cargo was not specifically included in previous editions of the Bulk Cargo Codes. Following extensive discussion, a new schedule was drafted to encompass this material and was included in the 2009 edition of the IMSBC Code, which became mandatory on 1 January 2011 (the latest version of the Code was issued this year). The entry is DIRECT REDUCED IRON (C) (By-product fines), and the definition of the material is based only on its production, particle size and density, without reference to the metallic iron or moisture content.
Despite extensive publicity, cargoes are still being offered and shipped that do not have DRI in their descriptions, but which in fact are blends that contain a significant proportion of DRI (C) fines. Descriptions have included re-oxidised iron fines, iron fines (blend), iron ore pellet chips, oxide fines, pond fines, sludge fines, remets, clarifier slush and dust, spent iron fines and lodos. Other similar cargoes include DRI in the description, but are offered on the basis that they are not DRI (C) and therefore do not need to be carried in accordance with the DRI (C) Schedule of the Code. Members should also be aware that, even if the cargo offered is not DRI (C), in some instances stockpiles are adjacent and non DRI cargo can become contaminated with DRI fines. This circular provides guidance to Shipowners, Masters and Charterers on the information to be requested to assist in the identification of DRI cargoes and the correct, safe practices for carriage.
For the avoidance of doubt, it is the position of the International Group of P&I Clubs (IG) that cargoes with DRI in their descriptions should be declared using the appropriate Bulk Cargo Shipping Name (BCSN) for a DRI (C) cargo and prepared, loaded and carried in accordance with the provisions of the IMSBC Code.
INFORMATION TO BE OBTAINED
Cargo blends containing DRI (C) can be identified by their chemical composition, details of which must be requested. The chemical composition must include the total iron content (Fe), the metallic (or free) iron content (Feo) and the moisture content. This information should preferably be supported by a certificate from an independent testing laboratory and must relate to the cargo that is being offered for shipment: in other words, a "generic" analysis is not acceptable. The certificate should state the method and standards that have been followed when obtaining the samples that have been tested (preferably ISO 10835: 2000) and the standards that have been followed to determine the metallic iron content (preferably BS ISO 5416: 2006). The date on which the sampling took place should also be checked to ensure relevance.
The iron in a cargo of iron ore is chemically bound with other elements and therefore it contains no metallic (or free)iron. If the cargo contains any metallic iron (Feo), then it must be a DRI derivative: DRI (A) and (B) cargoes typically contain about 85% metallic iron,whereas in blends containing DRI (C) it can be as low as1% or 2%. Such blended cargoes should be regarded as the hazardous commodity DRI (C) and be carried in accordance with the provisions of the Code. If in doubt, Members should consult their Association.
Having identified the cargo as DRI (C), the IMSBC Code sets out the information that must be provided to the Master. In addition to the general requirements, the entry for DRI (C) specifies the following:
"Prior to loading the cargo, the shipper shall provide the master with a certificate issued by a competent person recognised by the National Administration of the port of loading stating that the cargo, at the time of loading, is suitable for shipment; that it conforms with the requirements of this Code; that the moisture content is less than 0.3%; and the temperature does not exceed 65oC. The certificate shall state that the cargo meets the loading criteria in regards to ageing and material temperature."
"Prior to shipment, the cargo shall be aged for at least 30 days and a certificate confirming this shall be issued by a competent person recognised by the National Administration of the port of loading."
"Shippers shall provide to the master, prior to loading, comprehensive information on the cargo and safety procedures to be followed in the event of emergency."
"The cargo temperature shall be monitored during loading and recorded in a log detailing the temperature for each lot of cargo loaded, a copy of which shall be provided to the master. After loading, a certificate shall be issued by a competent person recognised by the National Administration of the port of loading confirming that throughout the whole consignment of fines and small particles the moisture content has not exceeded 0.3% and the temperature does not exceed 65oC".
EXEMPTIONS FROM THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE IMSBC CODE
For cargoes that are listed in Appendix 1 of the IMSBC Code, such as DRI (C), Section 1.5 allows a competent authority to authorize any other provision or exemption if satisfied that such alternative provision is at least as effective and safe as that required by the Code. Three competent authorities are recognised: the port State of departure, port State of arrival and the flag State. Prior to any shipment covered by such an exemption, the recipient of the exemption must notify the other competent authorities concerned, who may or may not accept that exemption.
The IG is aware of at least three countries that are offering DRI (C) cargoes with moisture contents up to 12% and with metallic iron contents ranging from 1% to 60% for shipment under exemption certificates issued by the competent authority of the port State of departure, namely Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago and Mexico. It is not known whether any Tripartite Agreements have been made between any of the other competent authorities (port State of arrival and flag State).However, the IG is aware that at least two flag States do not permit any exemptions from the requirements of the IMSBC Code in respect of the carriage of any form of DRI.
The Association recognises that the Code permits an exemption but strongly advises Members to adhere to the carriage requirements as detailed in the IMSBC entry for DRI (C). If Members choose not to follow this advice, they should satisfy themselves that all of the three competent authorities named above have been notified and have accepted the exemption, that the rules of the flag State Administration are not breached and that the exemption certificate is maintained on board each ship transporting the solid bulk cargoes in accordance with the exemption.
For cargoes that are offered for transport in accordance with an exemption as described above, the loading, carriage and safety procedures must be clearly stated. In particular, the master must be advised of the ventilation rates and durations for each cargo space; the required standard of explosion protection of the ventilation fans; details of the arrangement of ventilation ducts into the holds; the method and frequency of monitoring the hydrogen concentrations in each cargo space; the method and frequency of monitoring the cargo temperatures in each cargo space; the criteria defining an emergency; the procedures to follow in the event of emergency; shipper's contact numbers in the event of emergency; and the procedures to follow before and during discharge.
The IMSBC Code schedule for DRI (C) sets maximum allowable moisture content as 0.3% for carriage. When cargoes are offered with moisture content in excess of this then they are not compliant, and at higher moisture contents they may additionally pose a realistic risk that they may liquefy in a similar manner to certain iron and nickel ore cargoes. Therefore, any Declaration relating to such cargoes must classify the material as Group A and B and the accompanying test certificate(s) must state the Transportable Moisture Limit and actual moisture content of the shipment. The certificate(s) should also refer only to the cargo that is being offered for shipment, i.e. not a generic measure obtained from previous shipments, and the standards that have been followed when obtaining the samples that have been tested.
The IMSBC Code also addresses cargoes that are not listed in Appendix 1 of the IMSBC Code and provides that such cargoes can be carried under conditions which are defined by and subject to a tripartite agreement between the competent authorities of the ports of loading and unloading and the flag State. However, if a cargo is described as iron ore fines, or one of the other descriptions contained in the background section of this circular, and is found to contain any metallic iron content (Feo), then it should be regarded as DRI (C) and be carried in accordance with the provisions of the Code as the tripartite agreement procedure is for cargoes not listed in Appendix 1 of the Code.
All Clubs in the International Group of P&I Clubs have issued similar circulars.
Source of Information:
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September 05, 2013
MISSOULA, Mont. — Hunting season is well under way. You finally tag an elk or deer but now the local butcher is swamped, forcing you into a crash course in processing your own meat.
Fear not, says the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, which offers the following tips and diagram to guide you.
“Many hunters don’t venture into butchering until they’re forced, either by economics or necessity,” said P.J. DelHomme, hunting editor of Bugle, the Elk Foundation’s member magazine, “but once they try it, it often becomes an enjoyable extension of the hunt. Converting a game animal into food is another way to connect with land and habitat and wild places.”
- Consider getting the meat cut, packaged and into the freezer ASAP. Hanging meat for aging and tenderizing is usually preferred but if you don’t have a temperature-controlled environment between 35 and 50 degrees, the process can be risky.
- Wild game can be aged and tenderized later using an alternative process. Remove a package of meat from the freezer and allow it to partially thaw. When the meat is beginning to soften and covered with slushy ice crystals, put a tally mark on the package and refreeze. Then repeat. When a package has three tally marks, it’s ready for cooking.
- The four basic tools for butchering are simple around-the-house tools. You will need a good sharp knife, a whetstone to keep the knife sharp, a hacksaw and a cutting board. You may also wish to use rubber gloves.
- Cleanliness is crucial. Rinse the skinned carcass (or quarters) and pat dry before you begin cutting. Wash your tools with soap and water before you start and clean your knife after each sharpening. If it’s not too cold, set up a cleaning table outside and use a hose with a high-pressure nozzle.
- The goal is to simply reduce the animal to individual muscles or groups of muscles, per the diagram. Start by removing the legs. Rear legs are jointed and fit into a socket in the hip. Front legs fit onto the chest mainly with muscles and tendons. The rest of the animal basically is ribs, neck and spine, and meat can be filleted from these areas. Remove back straps by slicing down the center of the back and boning along spine outward onto ribs. Don’t forget to take the tenderloins from the inside spine.
- Don’t try to make chops. Without professional-grade saws and butchering tools, consider simply cutting meat off the bones to make steaks, roasts, stew meat and jerky. When cutting a muscle into finished pieces, remember to cut across the grain of the meat.
- Trim away bloodshot meat, connective tissue, membranes, cartilage, fat — anything you don’t want to eat — and toss it into a bucket or trashcan lined with a plastic bag. Use another bag or tub for clean trimmings or cuts for grinding into burger. Freeze this bag of meat and take it to your butcher for grinding later when he or she isn’t swamped.
- If you have a vacuum-type food sealer, use it. Otherwise, wrap meat in cellophane and then butcher paper. Double wrapping is better. Mark each package with the date and type of cut. Expect finished meat to weigh less than 50 percent of the animal’s live weight.
- If your deer or elk came from a CWD area, special instructions may apply. Refer to the web site of the RMEF-supported Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance, www.cwd-info.org, for information.
For more information, photos, charts and breakdowns of cuts, go to the RMEF web page www.rmef.org/hunting and click on “Carnivore’s Kitchen.”
Hunter's Meat Map
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(Pictured above: an Operation Eyesight-trained community health worker from India)
In poverty-stricken areas of developing countries, women are often expected to assume traditional gender roles, looking after the household and raising children. They are often less respected than men. They have few opportunities to pursue education and a career. Even if they dream of a more fulfilling job like Amita in Nepal (see Amita’s story on our International Women’s Day page), they are often restricted to staying at home to look after their families.
Our Hospital-Based Community Eye Health Program model educates mostly women as community health workers (CHWs). These CHWs are fully trained to organize screening programs, conduct door-to-door surveys and get help for those who need it. They hold educational sessions about issues like maternal and pre- and post-natal health and teach people good eye health-seeking behaviour.
It’s a unique opportunity for women to work outside the home, earning an income and the trust and respect of people in the community as experts in their field. It’s also a great example for young girls in the community to see women succeeding in a career that makes a real difference.
Since the start of this program, hundreds of women have made an impact on their communities as CHWs. It’s because of their diligent work that we have been able to declare over 1,000 villages
avoidable blindness-free… and counting!
Your support for this program has empowered women in these villages to become eye health experts and transform their communities. Thank you so much!
March 8th is International Women’s Day, and people like you are making a huge impact in the lives of women and their communities through your support. Since March 3rd, we’ve posted a story each day about a woman whose life was changed thanks to people like you. You can read those stories here.
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Conferences Presentations and Symposiums
Paul, E., Archibald, J. & Martin, G. (2019). Indigenous Storywork and Storytelling Traditions Public Talk, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, BC.
Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval, Marissa Munoz, Susie M. Abajian, Man-chiu Lin, Julia Gutierrez (presenters), Georgina Martin (discussant), (April 2016). Re-Creating and Reimagining Spaces for Indigenous Feminisms: Case Studies from Five Cultural Contexts, Curriculum Studies Symposium, American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.
Martin, G. & William, A.J. (July 2015). Collaborating to Self-Actualize and Reclaim Secwepemc Cultural Identities Through an Indigenous Knowledge Framework. Presentation at the He Manawa Whenua Indigenous Research Conference, Hamilton, NZ.
Martin, G. (June 2015). Drumming My Way Home: An Intergenerational Narrative Inquiry About Secwepemc Identities. Presentation at the Academic Homeplace: An International Community in Teacher Education Conference, Edmonton, AB.
Lester-Smith, D., Martin, G., Parent, A., & Price, R. (April 2012). Collaboration is an Olive Branch: Hold it out and Offer your Unconditional Support. Paper presented at the American Educational Research Association Conference, Vancouver, BC.
Martin, G. (June 2012). Drumming My Way Home: An Intergenerational Narrative Inquiry About Secwepemc Identities. Paper presented at the 12th Annual National Gathering of Graduate Students in Aboriginal Health Research and 2nd Annual AHRNetS Conference, Montreal, QC.
Martin, G. (June 2012). Presentation of PhD Intergenerational Secwepemc Identity research focus at the 1st Annual Inter-University Graduate Seminar in Educational Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Martin, G. (May 2012). An intergenerational Narrative Inquiry About Secwepemc Identities. Presentation at the Eighth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Urbana-Champaign, IL.
Martin, G. (December 2010). Drumming My Way Home: A Secwepemc Perspective. Presentation at the 6th International Conference on Indigenous Education: Pacific Rim, Cairns, Queensland, AU.
Martin, G. (June 2010). Drumming My Way Home: A Secwepemc Perspective. Research intent presented at the International conference, Celebrating Indigenous Knowledges: Peoples, Lands, Cultures, Trent University, Peterborough, ON.
Archibald, J. & Martin, G. (April 2009). The Intergenerational Transfer of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Panel discussion at the American Educational Research Association Conference 2009, San Diego, CA.
Commodore, H. & Martin, G. (November 2008). Indigenous Elders’ Protocol. A project presented at the Indigenous Knowledge Mobilization Symposium, Vancouver, BC.
Martin, G. (April 1998). Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples Report “Rebirth and Renewal”. Paper presented at the British Association for Canadian Studies 25th Annual Conference on Nation Building, University of Edinburgh, SCT.
Martin, G. (January 2020). Panelist for “Enacting the TRC and UNDRIP in Post-Secondary Education”. Hwulmuxw Mustimuxw Siiem – Indigenous Learning Partners and Vancouver Island University Retreat, Parksville, BC.
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Permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia in children: a multicenter experience
BACKGROUND: Permanent junctional reciprocating tachycardia (PJRT) is an uncommon form of supraventricular tachycardia in children. Treatment of this arrhythmia has been considered difficult because of a high medication failure rate and risk of cardiomyopathy. Outcomes in the current era of interventional treatment with catheter ablation have not been published. OBJECTIVE: To describe the presentation and clinical course of PJRT in children. METHODS: This is a retrospective review of 194 pediatric patients with PJRT managed at 11 institutions between January 2000 and December 2010. RESULTS: The median age at diagnosis was 3.2 months, including 110 infants (57%; aged <1 >year). PJRT was incessant in 47%. The ratio of RP interval to cycle length was higher with incessant than with nonincessant tachycardia. Tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy was observed in 18%. Antiarrhythmic medications were used for initial management in 76%, while catheter ablation was used initially in only 10%. Medications achieved complete resolution in 23% with clinical benefit in an additional 47%. Overall, 140 patients underwent 175 catheter ablation procedures with a success rate of 90%. There were complications in 9% with no major complications reported. Patients were followed for a median of 45.1 months. Regardless of treatment modality, normal sinus rhythm was present in 90% at last follow-up. Spontaneous resolution occurred in 12% of the patients. CONCLUSION: PJRT in children is frequently incessant at the time of diagnosis and may be associated with tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy. Antiarrhythmic medications result in complete control in few patients. Catheter ablation is effective, and serious complications are rare.
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For CCTV cameras
We must have reconnaissance cameras in large sunlight hours locations on account that they assure public wellbeing. Seldom will everyone enterprise to harm you once they comprehend their sports are being recorded on digital digicam. Cameras shield you and your property. The police can distinguish crooks recorded with cameras. Through statement cameras, the police can each hold violations from taking place and may hastily cope with crook instances with fabric evidence.
Click Here . Accordingly, the crook will often get located out. Observation cameras get the crook previously, or throughout the maximum, not unusual place manner of perpetrating the wrongdoing. On the off danger that no person is aware of approximately the wrongdoing till later it’s been carried out, the reconnaissance movie is continually a pressing piece of evidence throughout a police examination. Observation cameras have and could solution for a few wrongdoings.
Individual protection measures
Certain people may say that we ought now no longer to have reconnaissance cameras brazenly put. They assure that they assault protection. The rivalry here, in any case, is the motive to be out in large sunlight hours in case you want protection? Observation cameras are supposed to defend you and different property, now no longer to observe you. Cameras are there now no longer to assault a person’s safety but to make certain fashionable society through dissuading crime and through giving fabric evidence whilst wrongdoing has been gotten on the movie.
Crooks are much less willing to perpetrate violations close by if they comprehend they’ll be recorded the whole time. Corrupt sporting activities like shoplifting scarcely appear well worth the attempt whilst set in competition to the danger of going to prison.
Cameras, thru video examination, currently can zoom in to find somebody’s persona which may be precious to wrongdoing counteraction whilst applied withinside the proper manner. The crook may be stuck hastily. Particularly in snatching instances, a video could be an awesome technique of locating a person hastily and possibly forestalling a demise. The improvement of facial acknowledgment and clinical programming empowers lots greater noteworthy prescient studies into crook behavior and greater specific announcing.
The contentions in opposition to CCTV cameras
A digital digicam anyplace is now no longer an obstacle as all this is required is a cover. It will allow states to observe us, which won’t make any distinction now, however, in a few unacceptable hands, may be disastrous. We don’t advantage being watched at the same time as sporting on with our lives.
In New York, a person was given wounded and become handed directly to chunk the dirt earlier than 3 reconnaissance cameras. It took the ambulances 2 hours to get to the harmed man, and he gave up the ghost earlier than attending the emergency clinic. The statement cameras by no means helped the man.
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LOOKING FOR AN ICE HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP?
Ice hockey is not an easy sport but for athletes who have the coordination, strength and ability then an ice hockey scholarship is a great option. Universities and colleges award ice hockey scholarships to very talented ice hockey athletes, which enables the athlete to participate in collegiate, intercollegiate matches and national championships. If you are a male athlete you are able to gain ice hockey scholarships.
Ice hockey Scholarships – When is the best time?
The best time to go to the USA with an ice hockey scholarship is right after graduation from high school or up to two years after. Only athletes ages 18 – 24 can compete within the college leagues, any older and you will be looking at competing in the NAIA. Coaches are increasingly committing to younger athletes as this gives them the opportunity to work with the athletes for a longer period of time. It is also possible to go to the USA for one, two, three or four years, it depends on if you wish to seek a bachelor’s degree from your time there. We would recommend going to America as early as possible because this will give you the best chance of gaining a sports scholarship and turning professional after college.
Ice hockey scholarships – How good do you have to be?
Athletic ice hockey scholarships can be achieved if you are at the right level. For good ice hockey players on the level of the Division I the chances to receive a full scholarship are relatively high if you know who to contact.
In order to gain the most opportunities from your profile and thus receive higher scholarship offers, it is important that you try to participate more in national tournaments in the time prior to starting U.S college. This will show college coaches that you are able to compete at a high level
If you are competing at national level then you have a great chance of receiving a 100% ice hockey scholarship. Coaches will also look at an athlete’s potential, it’s a vital aspect, as coaches know from experience that even moderate athletic performance can be boosted immensely with their intensive training methods. A college recruitment coach will look at a sport CV or the athlete, photographs, video and our staff advice regarding the athletes ability.
To find out whether you have what is takes in obtaining a ice hockey scholarship and therefore being placed in a college team, please complete our free application form.
Ice hockey training on a ice hockey scholarships program
If you gain an ice hockey scholarship you will be expected to practice with the team for around 4 hours a day 5 times a week. This would consist of ice hockey training and then you would be expected to take part in additional strength and conditioning training. If you feel you are currently lacking strength in muscle and size then don’t worry, Athletes USA works with leading sports nutrition brands that supply our athletes with leading sports nutrition products and information on how to reach your potential in the gym.
Ice hockey practice can seem tough to an international athlete because you may not be used to the hard workouts and training. This hard training often allows ice hockey athletes to reach previously unattained levels of fitness and performance while playing at college. Many college ice hockey athletes participate in the Winter Olympics, which clearly demonstrates that the college level can help you reach the top level.
The ice hockey season
The ice hockey season always begins in winter (Fall Term/ August). If you are looking to join a ice hockey college team you need to be signed to the college team around a year before.
Hockey national championships
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Are you looking for penguin activities for your preschoolers? Then, you’ll want this Penguin Number Words Book! This reading activity is a simple way for your pre-readers and beginning readers to practice concepts of print and read number words.
Penguin Number Words Book:
Simple printable books like this one can be used to teach and practice the concepts of print with your kids. They can work on holding the book correctly, turning the pages, following the text from left to right as your read, and much more.
Why Do Kids Need To Learn Number Words?
Did you know that number words are some of the first sight words that your kids will learn to read and recognize? Many of the number words like one and two do not fit normal sound or spelling patterns.
Your kids should memorize these words so they can recognize automatically when they are reading. Seeing the number words in this counting book and connecting them to a picture will help your kids to learn these tricky words.
Getting Ready To Use The Penguin Number Words Book:
- Penguin Number Words Book
This free printable book includes a total of 12 pages (6 pages to print) including the cover.
What Else Is Needed:
To prepare this free printable, click on the pencil below to automatically download and print the reproducible book. Next, cut the pages apart and stack them together in order. Finally, staple the pages of the book together.
How To Use The Penguin Number Words Book:
When first introducing a new reading book to your kids, you can ask them to use the illustrations to guess what the book is going to about and have them point to the title.
Then, you can have them turn to the first page and point to the words as your read. They can continue following along as your read aloud.
After reading the story, your kids can work on reading the book independently, trace the number words with a pencil, and color the pictures of the penguins.
Then, you can send the book home with your students so they can read it with their families for even more practice.
This Penguin Number Words Book is a simple way for your pre-readers to practice concepts of print and reading number words which are some of the first sight words that they will learn!
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Are you teaching your students all about penguins? These Penguin Activities are a must have! This packet is full of resources to help you teach and your students learn all about the life cycle and parts of a penguin. From a penguin science experiment to a simple craft, there are a variety of activities your students will love. Click on the picture to learn more about all of the activities included in this bundle!
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LiFePO4 Battery, with the full name of lithium iron or lithium ferro phosphate battery. It is a high-power lithium-ion rechargeable battery for energy storage, EV, electric tools, yacht, solar systems that uses lithium iron phosphate as the positive material. LiFePO4 Cells have excellent safety and cycle life performance advantages and are the most critical technical index of power batteries.
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Have you heard that turmeric may help protect you against cancer? According to many scientists, this cooking spice contains ingredients that fight cancer development through many ways.
Modern medicine is still requiring more studies about turmeric and cancer, but you may try adding some turmeric to your dishes if you wish. As little as one teaspoon of turmeric a day is all it takes.
What Is Turmeric?
Turmeric is a yellow-orange spice that is related to ginger. It is used as a seasoning in Asian cuisine and is the main ingredient in curry powder. This spice has long been used in a wide range of herbal treatments.
How Can Turmeric Help Fight Cancer?
Turmeric contains phytochemicals and nutrients with several beneficial effects such as protecting body organs from damage, reducing cholesterol levels, improving blood-vessel health, controlling inflammation, combating infection, and more.
Curcumin, turmeric’s most precious component, is very effective against cancer, too. It prevents the formation of, and neutralizes free radicals, or molecules that destroy other molecules in healthy cells and tissues.
It enhances the effect of antioxidant enzymes in the body and also acts as an antioxidant itself. It stops DNA changes that lead to cancer, as well as interfere with enzymes that are needed for cancer progression.
To Give You An Idea
Research shows that there are low incidences of certain cancer types in countries where people eat 100 mg to 200 mg of curcumin daily. This implies that eating turmeric may have helped reduce their risk of getting cancer. (1)
In one study of chronic smokers, those who took curcumin have significantly lower levels of mutagens (substances that cause cell mutation) in their urine. This means that their bodies handled these cancer-causing substances better than chronic smokers who didn’t take curcumin. (2)
In another study, 25 pre-cancer patients who were given curcumin experienced improvements in their health status. This points out to curcumin’s ability to stop pre-cancerous changes from developing into cancer. (3)
Cancer patients who have received chemotherapy and turmeric had fewer cancer cells than those who got chemotherapy alone. Radiotherapy patients also benefitted from the experiment because turmeric protected their healthy cells from radiation. (4)
One study in 2008 says that among 25 cancer patients who were treated with curcumin, two of them had tumors that shrank, while the others exhibited increased levels of immune system substances that neutralize cancer cells. (5)
In experiments done with mice exposed to carcinogens (cancer-causing substances), curcumin stopped the spread of breast, skin, stomach, and colon cancer. Tumor cells in Petri dishes stopped replicating when curcumin was directly applied to them. (6)
Curcumin’s ability to reduce inflammation is seen as a contributing factor to its effectiveness against cancer. Some observations link inflammatory responses to cancer development. Aside from this, it also blocks toxic compounds from reaching and interacting with bodily tissues.
Turmeric is useful against cancer because of the following reasons:
- It contains phytochemicals and nutrients that have several health benefits.
- It fights against free radicals that damage cells.
- It increases the strength of cancer-fighting substances in the body.
- It stops healthy cells from transforming into tumors.
- It slows down the growth and spread of cancer cells.
- It manages inflammation.
- It shields cells and tissues from toxins.
And these are only a few examples of the power of turmeric as it comes to preventing and fighting cancer.
FYI: if using turmeric make sure to add a healthy fat or some black pepper to increase curcumin’s bioavailability. Click here for more info.
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With the in-depth study of protein and amino acid nutrition, people have gradually realized the importance of peptide nutrition. Protein degradation in the animal intestines must be to free amino acid or small molecular peptides can be absorbed by the intestines. The absorption of small molecular peptides in total fodder plays an important role in the absorption of protein. Its absorption use not only in the digestion, absorption and metabolism of amino acids play a crucial role, but also in maintaining the animal's intestinal health, the body's immune function is of great significance.
Absorption mechanisms of small molecule peptides
The protein digestion and absorption of traditional theory, the protein within the lumen, generated by trypsin and chymotrypsin role of free amino acids and oligopeptide (2 ~ 6 amino acid residues), oligopeptide under the action of peptide enzyme was hydrolyzed into free amino acid, and enter the blood circulation in the form of free amino acid, protein is amino acid nutrition. But as people to the research of protein digestion, absorption and metabolism of rules, the theory of protein digestion, absorption, gradually formed a new point of view, the protein within the lumen of the hydrolysis product, in addition to the amino acid, there are some small molecular peptide, and small molecular peptides and free amino acid is absorbed by the intestinal mucosa and transfer into the circulation of the blood.
Newey and Smith (1960) first presented a convincing argument that oligopeptides can be fully absorbed, and people gradually accepted the idea that peptides can be directly absorbed and utilized by animals. Since then, the transport mechanism of oligopeptides in animals has been studied extensively. These studies suggest that there may be a variety of oligopeptide transport systems in animals. The transport modes of oligopeptides in different animal species may be different, and the same animal species may have concentrated different transport modes of oligopeptides.
i. Absorption mechanism of small peptide in monogastric animals
The protein in the diet in the animal after A series of enzymes in the digestive tract, degradation into free amino acid (FAA) and oligopeptide (OP), one of the oligopeptides in the small intestine chorionic brush border by aminopeptidase A and aminopeptidase N, eventually to the free amino acid (FAA) and the form of small molecular peptide (SP) is absorbed by animals. The transport mechanism of small peptides may have the following three forms.
A pH dependent H+-Na+ exchange transport system that does not consume ATP.
Active transport processes, which depend on hydrogen or calcium concentrations, require ATP consumption, and this mode of transport is inhibited in the presence of hypoxia or the addition of metabolic inhibitors.
Glutathione (GSH) transport system. It was found that the transmembrane transport of GSH was related to the concentration gradients of Na+, K+, Li+, Ca2+ and Mn2+, but not to the concentration of H+.
ii. Absorption mechanisms of small molecule peptides in ruminants
Unlike monogastric animals, the absorption of small peptides in ruminants can be divided into mesenteric and non-mesenteric systems. Small molecule peptides absorbed by jejunum, colon, ileum and cecum enter the mesenteric system. However, small peptides absorbed by the rumen, reticulum, omomasum, abomasum and duodenum enter the non-mesenteric system. The non-mesenteric system is the main pathway of small molecule peptide absorption. The absorption of small peptides by ruminants occurs either in the form of passive diffusion or in the form of active transport mediated by carriers.
iii. Characterization of small peptide transporters
At present, at least five kinds of small molecule peptide transporters have been found in animals, among which PepT1 and PepT2 are the most widely studied vectors. Both PepT1 and PepT2 are members of the proton-dependent oligopeptide transporter (POT) family. PepT1 is a low affinity, high capacity peptide carrier, mainly expressed in the digestive tract, but also weakly expressed in the kidney. Pe pT2 is a high affinity, low capacity peptide vector, mainly expressed in the kidney. The factors affecting the transport of small molecule peptide transporters are as follows:
i). Nutrient level. Malnutrition will significantly affect the absorption of small peptides by animals.
ii). Insulin. Insulin promotes the transport of dipeptide by PepT1. Insulin mobilizes PepT1 stored in the cytoplasmic pool, thereby increasing the amount of PepT1 and thus the transport of dipeptide.
iii). The intracellular cAMP level can inhibit the transport of small peptides. Small molecule peptides combined with different carboxyl fatty acids can significantly increase the hydrophobicity of the substrate, thus increasing the affinity of PepT1. In addition, circular dipeptide can be transported more efficiently and stably than linear dipeptide.
Factors affecting the release and absorption of small peptides
i. Factors affecting the release of small peptides
i). The content and quality of dietary protein. The activity of intestinal brush border peptidase increased when animals were fed diets with high protein content. The activity of peptidase and the absorption of peptide were decreased when the diet was fed with low protein or no protein. During digestion, the quantity and proportion of small molecule peptides formed are also related to the quality of dietary protein. Protein with balanced amino acids can produce more small molecule peptides. Poor quality protein produces a large number of free amino acids and a small number of large molecular weight peptide fragments. Not only the proportion of amino acids in the diet affects the release of small peptides, but also the type of amino acids. It was found that the release of protein peptide was positively correlated with the available lysine.
ii). Processing and storage conditions. Processing and storage conditions are important factors affecting the release of small molecular peptides during protein digestion. It was found that the peptide release of soybean meal after heating or long-term storage was only 63% of that of fresh soybean meal with high available Lys content. The reason may be that Maillard reaction occurs, which makes the peptide bond between Lys residue and its adjacent amino acid residue difficult to break, thus affecting the digestibility of protein. In vitro hydrolysis experiments showed that the small molecule peptides released from steamed meat were less, while frozen, dried or fresh meat released more small molecule peptides.
iii). Protease in digestive tract. Protein ingested by animals is hydrolyzed by proteases in the digestive tract to produce peptides and free amino acids. Trypsin and hydroxypeptidase act only on peptide bonds composed of the carboxyl groups of lysine and arginine; Pepsin hydrolyzes several different peptide bonds and degrades most proteins into polypeptides and a few amino acids. In different intestinal segments, lumen and intestinal cells, the amount, relative proportion and activity of these enzymes are different, which affect the release of small-molecule peptides to different degrees.
ii. Factors affecting the absorption of small peptides
i). Protein quality in feed
During digestion, the amount and proportion of peptides formed are related to protein quality. The results show that protein can be easily hydrolyzed into oligopeptides with low molecular weight and large quantity in the diet with high balanced content of essential amino acids. But the essential amino acid deficiency, the imbalanced feed protein produces the quantity small, the molecular mass large peptide fragment. Animal proteolysis produces a higher proportion of small molecule peptides, while plant proteolysis produces more free amino acids, and the release of small molecule peptides is directly proportional to the content of available basic amino acids (such as lysine).
ii). Physical and chemical properties of small peptide
One is the length of the peptide chain. Current studies suggest that dipeptides and tripeptides can be fully absorbed, but whether oligopeptides above tripeptides can be fully absorbed remains controversial. Two is the configuration. In general, L-type is more easily absorbed than D-type, and neutral amino acid residue configuration is more easily absorbed than acidic and basic amino acid residue configuration peptide. The third is the affinity of small molecule peptide and carrier. Peptides composed of hydrophobic amino acids with large side chains are easier to absorb, while hydrophilic peptides with small charged molecules are more difficult to absorb.
iii). Feed processing and storage conditions
Processing and storage conditions are important factors affecting the proportion of small molecular peptides released to free amino acids during protein digestion. The Maillard reaction during protein processing and storage also has a certain effect on the absorption of small molecule peptides.
iv). The physiological state of an animal
The physiological state and metabolic changes of the animal can also affect the absorption of small peptides. Animals have different ability to utilize small molecule peptides at different growth stages. Age, health status and so on will affect the absorption and utilization of small molecule peptides.
v). Metabolic regulatory factor
Recent studies have shown that small peptides are not only substrates for protein metabolism, but also important physiological regulators. Such as growth hormone, stimulant and other regulatory factors can be directly as neurotransmitter, but also indirectly stimulate the secretion of intestinal receptor hormone or enzyme and play a role. Similarly, metabolic changes of growth hormones, stimulants and other regulatory factors will in turn affect the efficiency of protein utilization.
vi). Use of protective agents
Since there is non-mesenteric absorption of peptides in ruminants, and peptides can be used by rumen microorganisms and tissues, the absorption of small molecule peptides can be changed by adding protective agents. The rumen peptide concentration increased by 19.69% after adding sodium acetate in Hu sheep diet. When ionophore was added to goat diet, peptide protection in the rumen was increased by 20%, and the overall nitrogen digestibility was also significantly improved.
In recent years, great progress has been made in the study of oligopeptides. As mentioned above, the absorption mechanism of small peptides plays an important role in the utilization of proteins by animals. This mechanism allows the absorption of amino acids faster than the degradation to free amino acids for reabsorption, thus improving the utilization of protein in animals. In addition, some oligopeptides can be used as physiological active substances, which can be directly absorbed by animals and participate in physiological function and metabolic regulation of animals. Therefore, the absorption of small peptides is of great importance to animals. | <urn:uuid:a1b4ec75-cce9-4783-8cf1-d6ea97b68816> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.realclearbio.com/learn-small-molecule-peptide-nutrient-absorption-mechanism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.916495 | 2,297 | 2.75 | 3 |
Race is a dangerous and difficult topic to broach in academic circles, and there was always a suspicion that Philippe Rushton was attracted to a subject most wise people avoid precisely because of the do-not- enter signs an egalitarian society placed in his path.
"I do enjoy intellectual excitement," he confessed to a colleague, who questioned whether Rushton actively sought the sensationalism that came his way after he unveiled his theories of racial differences at a major American science conference in 1989. They ended up being denounced by Ontario Premier David Peterson, investigated by the Ontario Provincial Police, derided by geneticist David Suzuki in a public debate, and booed as a guest on the Geraldo tabloid-TV show.
But for the studiously formal and emotionally controlled psychology professor at Western University, who has died of cancer at the age of 68, the motivation for ranking racial groups by methods that presented blacks as intellectually inferior and sexually unrestrained came from the purer intentions of science: to take the evidence of research to its most logical and unavoidable conclusion.
"If the differences between groups are not just cultural but somehow hooked up to biological factors," says Danish researcher Helmuth Nyborg, a long-time friend, "then we are talking against nature if we say everybody's equal. It tried his patience to see people arguing against Darwinism by means of ideology – that's not a fair match, he would say."
Rushton saw himself as a lonely empiricist in a world of mental make-believe: Data determined his views, or so he maintained. His less charitable critics suggested that he went searching far and wide for studies that would support his thesis – his investigations into the race-based variability of cranium size and penis length prompted then Ontario attorney-general Ian Scott to declare that his theories were "loony but not criminal." He was censured by Western for conducting a paid survey at Toronto's Eaton Centre mall on sexual matters without getting permission from the university's ethics board.
For Rushton, it was all part of pushing the limits of an academic discourse that he found to be too polite and sentimental.
"Rushton knew a great deal about human intelligence and he made his case by marshalling rational arguments based on empirical data," says Eric Turkheimer, professor of psychology at University of Virginia. "His knowledge and his empiricism earned him a legitimate place at the scientific table. He was no crank. Nevertheless, there is no escaping the fact that the case he made was literally racist, and in my view no appeal to empirical data can rescue his hypotheses from their dubious origins and destructive consequences."
His research provided source material for white-pride groups and supplied academic heft to the racially charged culture wars that erupted in the United States in the 1990. The authors of the controversial 1994 book, The Bell Curve, were heavily influenced by Rushton's work on the genetic determination of intelligence in their assertion that social programs and political correctness cannot resolve inequalities bequeathed by heredity.
His earliest academic work was on altruism among children, which surprised his antagonists, who wondered whether this interest was evidence of a gentler side that was later repressed. The mature Rushton prided himself on a tough-minded willingness to see truths that a soft-hearted world ignored for reasons he thought were more political than scientific.
A dogged devotee of Darwin who was fascinated by theories of scientific eminence, he hoped that his wide-ranging synthesis of behavioural genetics, evolutionary psychology, studies of group differences and measurements of intelligence would place him among the world's great discoverers. His supporters thought he deserved a Nobel Prize for his willingness to abandon the prevailing scientific view on the universality of the human species to describe the ways human groups were designed to diverge, divide and seek out their "own kind."
What made Rushton stand out from his peers was the utter confidence with which he talked about huge differences he said had arisen among Asians, whites and blacks in a very short period of evolutionary history. Most scientists would hesitate and equivocate at every stage of his argument, denying the existence of race as he defines it, quarrelling with his arbitrary creation of three groupings, questioning his capacity to draw socially divisive conclusions from apparent genetic differences among groups that are not yet understood by experts in the field.
"The field of modern genetics is really exciting but you have to proceed with caution," says Fred Weizmann, a psychology professor at York University. "It's so far removed from this crude genetic reductionism. There are genetic differences between groups, so you might have Ashkenazi Jews more subject to a variety of genetic diseases. But that's not enough to define a race."
Rushton's views on racial differences achieved notoriety in part because he seemed like such a throwback, a 19th-century cranium-measurer who invoked the charged language of racial superiority and eugenics in a culture that had taught itself not to hear such views. Yet he was also a reminder that race-based judgments remain inescapable in the modern world: His research gave them legitimacy through the revolution in DNA studies that suddenly made arguments for genetic determinism look more credible.
Science supplied much of his confidence – the data-don't-lie serenity that deflected almost any attack.
"Phil was wonderful for TV," says Prof. Weizmann. "He was cool and dispassionate and steady."
He was often compared to Clark Kent, with the understanding that the glasses, formal dress sense and carefully composed manner hid a different Philippe Rushton underneath. Many colleagues found him to be aloof and private, and his isolation became more acute after the 1989 controversy when his academic freedom was under attack and defenders weren't exactly rallying round. He essentially stopped teaching, buying out his classroom time with grants from the controversial Pioneer Fund, a backer of race-based research which he headed from 2002 to his death.
But he didn't hide or shy away from his subject matter even after he was investigated by the Ontario police and the Ontario Human Rights Commission. In 1995, he published Race, Evolution and Behaviour, which linked racial differences in parental care to degrees of evolutionary development, placing blacks and Asians at the two extremes of the continuum. In 2000, he brought out an abridged version intended for a wider audience.
It says something about Rushton's bravado that he accepted an invitation from The Globe's Jan Wong to have an on-the-record lunch that year. He chose the Royal Canadian Military Institute in Toronto as the venue, an old-fashioned private club that suited his blue blazer, grey flannels and polished loafers better than Wong's journalistic backpack. She described him as charming, offered him a ruler so he could measure his own penis in the interests of celebrity-profile science, and persuaded him to admit that his three wives were all white-skinned, contrary to rumours that even he had heard.
Rushton took it surprisingly well. When asked for his reactions by The Globe a year later, he declared that "Jan Wong was like an ungovernable teenager." He liked her opinionated side, while suggesting impishly that she shared many of his views. He even supplied his own Lunch With riposte: "Every now and again, Jan would delicately skewer a morsel of food on the end of her fork, flutter it in a refined manner and demurely throw out a softly curved question. Some seemed contrived to throw me off-balance, as when she asked what I liked sexually or temperamentally in a wife. Nonetheless, I think she overstated it when she characterized me as a man of 'unlimited paranoia.' When it was time to leave, I felt I hadn't done so badly. She seemed slightly more worn out than I was."
The indefatigable Philippe (pronounced "Philip") Rushton was born in 1943 in Bournemouth, England, where his building-contractor father was repairing Spitfire planes that had been damaged in dogfights. In an interview with Nyborg, he made it sound like his contrarian career was preordained.
Most of his ancestors were dissenters and anti-establishment types, he said. The most famous ancestor he knew of was Samuel Crompton, inventor of a spinning machine that transformed the English textile industry but threatened the original Luddites – workers who smashed new inventions because they preferred the existing order. Crompton, Rushton noted, was ultimately hailed as a benefactor.
The election of the Labour Party in 1945, Rushton said, made the family's future look bleak – a small businessman such as his father couldn't compete in a nationalized economy with state-run housing projects. So they moved to South Africa in 1948, only to return to Britain. In 1956, his father found his dream job as a designer for the CBC in Toronto, where Rushton continued his education before returning to Britain for university studies in the 1960s.
Even as a teenager, he was actively reading psychology books written by Hans Eysenck, an eminent but controversial academic commentator who linked race and IQ levels and was famously beaten up by angry demonstrators during a lecture at the London School of Economics in 1973. Rushton, then a 29-year-old researcher studying generosity in children, was in the audience.
The visceral nature of the attack heightened Rushton's perception of a lingering Luddite society where scientific truths were taboo – and only hard-nosed thinkers could withstand the official fantasies of social harmony and equality.
The publication a few years later of E.O. Wilson's book Sociobiology supplied a theoretical template for his shifting worldview by describing the biological roots of behaviours previously thought to be determined by cultural influences. In any analysis of life forms, evolution now became the beginning of understanding. Well-meant social programs, in this deterministic analysis, weren't likely to change or challenge more deep-seated genetic influences.
Rushton became fascinated with the idea of genetic causation, even though he recognized the race-related dangers that went with the theory. In 1981, he met educational psychologist Arthur Jensen, another eminent controversialist on the race/IQ connection, and as he describes it, "we hit it off." Jensen exerted a powerful influence on his Canadian protégé for the rest of his career: He was nicknamed "Jensen's bulldog" for his willingness to argue anyone, anywhere.
This is the Philippe Rushton that emerged in the 1989 controversy. But there was once a different Philippe Rushton, to judge from blog entries and photos posted by a girlfriend from his London days and now being recirculated by his amazed supporters: A 1970s rocker, hair down to his shoulders, fringed hippie bag brushing against his bell-bottomed trousers as he poses amid the tourists in St. Mark's Square.
In those far-off student days, Rushton had been living in near-poverty and was raising his son on his own after a breakup. "He was incredibly romantic," wrote the blogger. "…The love between father and son, the caring, was amazing."
What the blogger may not have known, and what Rushton's colleagues were surprised to find out at his funeral, was that he also had a daughter, who'd been taken back to Canada by her mother, only to disappear into the foster care and adoption systems. Because of a name change, she remained out of touch from her father for decades: The two only reconnected in 2001.
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How Section 179 Could Save You Big on Taxes
If you run a business, you may have heard the term “Section 179 deductions” thrown around from time to time during tax season. While most people view it as some sort of mysteriously complicated tax jargon, it is not as complex as it seems. With taxes being one of the most significant expenses for many business owners, taking a little bit of time to understand how to leverage this tax code to cut down on tax expenses every year is more than worth it. Let’s go ahead and break it down.
What is Section 179 Exactly?
Simply put, Section 179 is an ongoing tax deduction created by the U.S. government. It is designed for encouraging businesses to either purchase or finance equipment for business use by allowing them to deduct its costs from their taxable income. This means a lower taxable income and ultimately more money in your pocket.
Pretty cool right? The thought of claiming all your purchases as business expenses in order to pay fewer taxes seems like the ultimate tax code. Well, not so fast. While it definitely has its perks, the Section 179 tax code is reserved specifically for “depreciating assets,” meaning actual assets purchased and used for your business 50% or more of the time.
Here are a few popular examples:
- Office Furniture
- Office Equipment
- Computer Software
- Tools (i.e. chainsaws, welding equipment, pulley systems etc.)
- Improvements specifically for your business’ building (i.e. HVAC, roofing, security systems, fire hydrants, water heaters, etc.)
- Business-related property attached to your building (i.e. large printing presses, manufacturing & machinery equipment, etc.)
- Business Vehicles with a 6,000+ lb gross weight
It is necessary to note that, whether they are new or used, the examples of qualifying equipment above still are valid. The catch is that they must be new to you, meaning that their purpose was mainly for business use at the time of purchasing, leasing, or financing them. The entire idea behind promoting tax breaks for these depreciating assets is to spread the cost of these assets over a certain number of usable years. As the assets depreciate over the years, so will the tax deduction benefits that you will be able to capitalize on.
How Does Section 179 Work?
In the eyes of the IRS, property qualified for tax code Section 179 must be “tangible, depreciable, personal property acquired for use in the active conduct of a trade or business.”
Section 179 deductions are designed to essentially speed up the deduction process on your business equipment assets, taking all the cost as a deduction in the first year. Not only do you get the full cost deduction benefits, but there are also additional first-year depreciation bonuses available to you as well. We will explain this more in-depth shortly, but for now, let us understand more about Section 179.
The single most common misconception regarding this deduction is that you can claim your personal vehicle as qualified property for a deduction – in most cases this is false. Section 179 deductions only apply to property used for business purposes for 50% or more of the time it is in use.
For example, if you purchased a van specifically for food deliveries for your restaurant, and use it 75% of the time for food deliveries or other restaurant-related activities, then you can safely apply a 75% Section 179 deduction of the full price that you purchased the van for. If you purchased qualified property, such as a van, for business purposes, but ended up using it for less than 50% of the time for actual business, no deductions can legally be applied.
So how do you do the math?
While your accountant or tax preparer will do the bulk of the calculations for you, here is what the process typically looks like.
First, you will need to purchase the qualified property and start using it for your business during the tax year that you would like to have it qualify under.
Keep your records of the purchase. They should comprise your date of purchase, the date that you began using it, your estimated amount of usage, and all the costs associated with the qualified property
You will provide all the documentation with your tax preparer or accountant, who will do the bulk of the calculations for you
Expect the deduction amount to equal the cost of the qualified property times the percentage that it was used for business. For example, a 20,000-dollar van used 50% of the time for business during its first year in use, will equal a 10,000-dollar deduction
Your tax professional will have you fill out the form to make the deduction, which currently is IRS Form 4562
If you only ended up deducting part of the cost of the property, you may be eligible to depreciate the cost that you did not deduct, meaning you will be able to spread out the remaining amount over the usable life of the asset.
What is the Difference Between Section 179 and Bonus Depreciation?
While both Section 179 and Bonus depreciation deductions provide tax benefits to business owners, using them both synchronically will provide you with the greatest deduction benefits. The thing most people enjoy about bonus depreciations is that they are generally easier to understand; however, it is important to note that the IRS typically requires most businesses to capitalize on Section 179 tax deductions first before combining them.
So what are bonus depreciations exactly? According to Investopedia, a bonus depreciation is “a tax incentive that allows a business to immediately deduct a large percentage of the purchase price of eligible assets, such as machinery, rather than write them off over the “useful life” of that asset.” In previous years, this tax break was capped at 50% of the total qualified asset cost, however, after the American Taxpayer Relief Act was implemented, the total cap was raised to 100%. This immediate high percentage deduction is what makes them so attractive to business owners.
How can Section 179 and Bonus Depreciations Work Together?
Now that we have an idea of how bonus depreciations work, let’s compare them with the coveted Section 179 tax code.
Section 179 Annual Limit
As of 2020, the Section 179 maximum deduction for an individual business asset is $1,040,000, with an overall cap per business at $2,590,000.
Section 179 Flexibility
One of the key benefits is the ability to choose specifically which purchases to claim for the current tax year and which ones to hold off on for future tax deduction benefits. In addition, you can actually split up the deduction amount for a qualified asset so that its benefits can be spread out evenly for its operational years. An example would be to claim half of a company van’s purchase price for this year, and the remaining half of its cost among the next 5 years.
Bonus Depreciation Annual Limit
The single biggest difference between the two is that there are currently no annual limits, meaning that the entire costs for qualifying properties can be deducted regardless of a company’s annual spend.
Bonus Depreciation Flexibility
The downfall for bonus depreciations is the lack of flexibility to only partially claim tax break benefits.
After understanding some of the pros and cons of both tax breaks, it is clear why you would want to consider using both deductions cohesively. While Section 179 offers more flexibility and customization, it has annual limits. Whereas bonus depreciations have no annual limits but offer limited flexibility. If you are a larger business, you will reap much more bonus depreciation advantages when spending over 2.59 million dollars on qualifying assets due to no annual limitations.
Despite their key differences, it can still be confusing on how to specifically maximize the benefits of both tax deduction benefits for your business. A good tax preparation professional will be able to walk you through your most optimal options.
Bringing Everything Together
By now you know more than most about Section 179 tax deductions as well as bonus depreciations, but in case you skipped to the bottom, let us summarize each tax benefit for you.
Section 179 allows business owners to deduct the full cost of qualified assets, such as business vehicles, furniture, and equipment, from their taxes as a business expense. Qualified property is generally limited to tangible, depreciable, business assets acquired specifically to be used for business purposes 50% or more of the time during its operational lifespan. To claim this deduction, you will need to fill out part 1 of IRS Form 4562.
Bonus depreciation accelerates depreciation of business assets by allowing a business to write off the full cost of the qualified asset within the same year that the company begins utilizing it. One of the biggest advantages of bonus depreciation is the fact that it does not have any annual limits to the amount you can claim.
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More bird species under threat
Country News, Other, 06/12/2021, Nathan Burdziejko
A new report released by BirdLife Australia and Charles Darwin University shows a worrying number of Australia’s birds are closer to extinction than they were a decade ago. The Action Plan for Australian Birds 2020 shows there are now 216 threatened bird species in Australia compared to 195 species 10 years ago. […] Last released in 2011 and published by CSIRO Publishing, the updated and revised action plan was written by more than 300 experts. | <urn:uuid:00a68078-b6be-49fb-8c5a-fe0f538ebf93> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alumni.csiro.au/more-bird-species-under-threat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.94107 | 109 | 3.015625 | 3 |
- Flower nameHylomecon japonica
- Scientific nameHylomecon japonica
- AliasHylomecon japonica, タイリクヤマブキソウ, 大陸山吹草
- Place of originJapan and China
- Place of floweringGarden, Park, Potted flower
- Flowering seasonApril, May, June
What is Hylomecon japonica
Hylomecon japonica or yamabukiso (scientific name: Hylomecon japonica) is a perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the Papaveraceae family native to Japan and China. It grows in clusters in deciduous forests in the mountains and fields of Honshu, Shikoku, and Kyushu. The leaves have both rootlets and stems. It has an odd pinnate compound leaf and a tridentate compound stem leaf. Two to three four-petaled flowers bloom from the upper leaf axils of the stem in spring or early summer.
A similar flower Japanese kerria or yamabuki (scientific name: Kerria japonica) is a flower of a different genus (Rosaceae) , has five petals and is a tree, not a grass.
Common Name:Hylomecon japonica or yamabukiso, scientific name: Hylomecon japonica, Locality: Japan, China, Life-type: Perennial, Grass height: 30 to 50 cm, Leaf color: green, [Radical leaves] Leaf shape: odd pinnate compound leaf consisting of 5 or 7 leaves; lobes: oval; petiole: long; leaf margin: incised + serrated, [Leaves and stems] Leaves: Leaf shape: 3-depressed compound leaf, leaf order: alternate, Flowering season: April to June
Flowering place: 2-3 in the upper leaf axils; corolla: 4-petaled; diameter: 3-5 cm; flower colour: yellow/orange; number of petals: 4; number of stamens: many; fruit type: capsule; propagation: seedling; planting; use: garden planting, potted planting, park, container, medicinal use. | <urn:uuid:088d1b67-d393-4073-8314-7aaa495a1d37> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.flower-db.com/en/flowers/hylomecon-japonica | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.801753 | 479 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Spiranthes romanzoffiana (Hooded Lady's Tresses) is a species of perennial herb in the family orchids. They have a self-supporting growth form. They are listed in cites appendix ii. They are native to Canada, Saint-Pierre Et Miquelon, The Contiguous United States, and Alaska. They have simple, broad leaves and white flowers. Flowers are visited by Panurginus cressoniellus, alfalfa lygus, Small garden bumblebee, and Junonia grisea. Individuals can grow to 2.5 feet.
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Now, New York magazine’s Science of Us blog reports (by way of a new article in Behavioral Ecology) that researchers spent seven years observing a mostly male tortoise population on a Macedonian island.
They discovered that the tortoises were copulating with not only female tortoises but also one another.
They were also having sex with juvenile tortoises and dead male tortoises. In fact, they’d even try mating with empty tortoise shells.
In short, they’re positively wild.
Researchers theorized that the male tortoises were so polymorphously perverse because, to quote Science of Us, “When the male tortoises got sexually excited, couldn’t find a female, and needed an outlet, they were less discerning, and there’s been no good evolutionary reason to ‘correct’ this behavior.”
The article continues:
In other words, from an evolutionary perspective, it’s useful for sexually aroused male tortoises to be aggressively trying to copulate with anything that looks like a female tortoise, because generally speaking the end result will be, well, copulation with a female tortoise who will, if all goes well, end up laying some eggs. And in situations where there aren’t a lot of females around anyway, there’s no real downside to them messing around with other males.” | <urn:uuid:886fe186-e900-4c24-94de-ffe84f55a0e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2016/03/study-explains-why-so-many-male-tortoises-are-having-sex-with-one-another/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.954158 | 294 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Peter spoke about some of the things that re required to get a vehicle like this approved for road use. The batteries must be well anchored so they can't move (or fly) around.
There must be a functional window de-mister and he had to purchase heating elements to warm the air to meet this requirement.
This car is front wheel drive and the motor used is a 9" 22Kw, 120V device that draws a peak of 500A.
He's using Trojan wet cell batteries (16kWhrs) that allow him to drive to and from work - a daily commute of 35Kms with a 4.5 hour recharge time at each end.
It's been on the road since February 2008 and has travelled 10,000Kms.
The charger is built in so, as you see in the top photo, the car simply needs to be plugged in to the mains to recharge.
The main presentation of the day was a continuation of the "using valves" series by Stephen Lowing VK2BLQ.
On show were some more projects by Stephen and also a run through of the useful components that can be stripped from radio and TV chassis that can be sometime found on the curb during council cleanups.
This valve talk has prompted me to retrieve a "Panda Cub" transmitter I purchased many years ago that got left behind in Melbourne many years ago. I'm off to collect it next week and hope to get on air with a valve rig very soon.
Thanks to Dave VK3ASE and Dallas VK3EB for taking care of it! I last saw Dallas setting up a 160 portable station in a park. | <urn:uuid:c85587d0-c4ab-49e8-8a7e-065f80470e14> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://blog.marxy.org/2008/12/impressive-nsw-home-brew-meeting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973828 | 338 | 1.789063 | 2 |
By Grace Bondad Nicolas
Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) Provincial Officer Glenn Quidayan recently discussed at the regional office of the Philippine Information Agency the importance of cooperatives in the community. As part of a new Memorandum of Agreement, DAR provided Coco Coir machines to the The Imok ARC Women and Farmers Multi-Purpose Cooperative (IARCWFMPC cooperative) in Barangay Imok at Calauan for its Coco Coir Processing Project.
With a population of less than 600 families and voting population of less than 200, Barangay Imok is the highest point in the municipality of Calauan, with farming as the main source of income. This place is a Special Agrarian Reform Community (SARC), specially classified as a Peace Development Zone.
Quidayan explained that the cooperative will be trained in coco coir processing, so that its members will be prepared to start an agri-business enterprise on their own. Right now, the cooperative is producing tons of products and they have a direct person marketing the output. This is a first in the municipality.
The cooperative continues to produce brooms for the cooperative, and the new DAR MoA has given them another avenue for the future of their children. The majority of the barangay population is poor, but because of the cooperative, they have a viable source of income.
The products that have since been made from coir dust are alternatives for plastics, which are not advisable for use nowadays because of their long-term decomposition and the hazards they present to our environment. Among the products produced by the cooperative are coco pots, coco twine, Christmas ornaments, and coco log sheets, all made of coconut coir dust. Nothing in the process is wasted, from the raw materials to the finished products, so this is also an eco-friendly livelihood program for the cooperative.
Presently, the cooperative is looking for sponsors for the flooring they need for the production site, and if possible an extension of the roof for the stock in order to improve the production and storage facilities they use.
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Squeezed states of harmonic oscillators are a central resource for continuous-variable quantum sensing, computation, and communication. Here, we propose a method for the generation of very good approximations to highly squeezed vacuum states with low excess antisqueezing using only a few oscillator-qubit coupling gates through a Rabi-type interaction Hamiltonian. This interaction can be implemented with several different methods, which has previously been demonstrated in superconducting circuit and trapped-ion platforms. The protocol is compatible with other protocols manipulating quantum harmonic oscillators, thus facilitating scalable continuous-variable fault-tolerant quantum computation.
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Gibraltar International Airport is among the few airports on Earth whose runway crosses a major road. The traffic on Winston Churchill Avenue must come to a standstill whenever a plane takes off or lands, but an underground tunnel - currently under construction - will eventually end this problem. By September 2012, all flights are expected to take off from a brand new terminal.
Gibraltar International Airport’s only non-stop flights are to UK cities. British Airways, EasyJet, and Monarch offer non-stop flights to London (Heathrow, Luton and Gatwick), while Monarch also offers non-stop flights to Manchester. Passengers wishing to fly to Spain must use Jerez Airport or the larger Malaga Airport in Spain.
Club Class passengers receive complimentary newspapers and cocktails at the Peninsula Lounge, but drinks are also served with cold and hot snacks at the Departures and Upper Level lounges. The airport has two cafés and duty-free shops in both terminals.
Avis, Europcar, and two local companies named Nisa and Auriga have car rental at the airport. Visitors taking cabs directly to Gibraltar can pick one up directly outside the terminal building, but those headed for Spain must walk across the border to another taxi stand to the right of the airport. Tour buses also stop regularly at the airport, as well as Gibraltar’s public bus line. Passengers headed to Spain by bus must make a brief walk across the border for connections to nearby cities and resorts in southern Spain.
Malaga Airport, Spain
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Experiment with the possibilities offered by Cubic Right Angle Weave (CRAW) in this advanced level project for a dramatic pendant or hanging ornament with moving parts.
Together we will create rings which move independently around a central bead. There is a choice when it comes to the final outer ring; whether you choose to use 2-hole Czech 2-hole Triangle beads or a slightly easier option of texture with Pips or Mini dagger beads.
The possible design variations for this project are numerous and it’s a great one for growing your confidence with CRAW. If you have already taken my Celestial Armilla or Cogs of Time class you will enjoy exploring the possibilities opened up with Astronomical Clock.
Some experience of CRAW is a must for this class. You can use Toho or Miyuki beads.
Online Workshop Requirements
The class will be taught using Zoom online meeting software. This will allow you to see me and your fellow classmates (you will have the ability to mute or turn off your camera at any point if you wish). We can also share photos as we work.
You will need a computer/laptop, smartphone or tablet with camera and audio capabilities. You will need to download the free Zoom software or app to your computer, phone or tablet in advance of the meeting. Full details of how to join the online meeting will be sent to you upon booking. The app/software is free and you do not need to create an account to attend the class.
Materials are not included. You will be sent a full requirements list upon booking. I have the clock beads available here in a choice of three colours. All other supplies can be purchased from Tanzee Designs (UK) or Jill Wiseman Designs (USA) if required. Old Bicycle Shop stocks the lovely etched Triangle beads. You will need:
- Size 8, 11 and 15 Japanese seed beads in a selection of colours
- 3mm firepolish beads
- 3mm glass pearls
- 3mm crystal bicones
- Clock bead or 16mm coin bead
- CzechMates 2-hole triangles or Mini Daggers or Pips
- Size 8 Toho Demis or 3mm x 1.3mm Miyuki Spacer beads
- Assorted beads, charms and tassel to accessorise
About the class
Class sizes are kept small so you can be guaranteed plenty of help and support. I will have two cameras in use during the class so you will be able to see my demonstrations up close in high definition as well as my face! There is a messaging function in addition to the meeting audio as well so plenty of opportunity to ask questions and discuss the project. My classes are fun and informal with plenty of opportunity for discussion and general chatter.
Unfortunately due to the nature of the session and the fact you will be sent the full pattern upon booking refunds cannot be given if you are unable to make one or both of the sessions. If you cannot make one/both of the sessions I will try to swap you to another date for the same project if available but this cannot be guaranteed. I am always available if you have any questions on the project after the workshop.
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From Technology to Talk: Digital Resources for Deeper Classroom Conversations
Monday, March 14, 2016 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm EDT
Presented by Kevin Baird, Chairman of the Board at the nonprofit EdCenter: The Center for College & Career Readiness
Sponsored by Ed Center
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Move beyond one-to-one digital content to leverage existing resources to deepen classroom conversations, engage students in accountable talk, and develop language skills including vocabulary, speaking, and listening.
In this research-driven webinar, Kevin Baird, Chairman at the nonprofit Center for College & Career Readiness, presented practical, pragmatic methods to use digital content in groups to drive deeper accountable conversations. Student-to-student talk is a critical element for accelerated language development, the critical foundation for reading comprehension and effective writing skills.
As schools move into the critical spring assessment window, increasing usage of existing tools while focusing on foundational language and comprehension skills is the key strategy to making a difference in student performance in a compressed timeframe.
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Freezing is one of the easiest ways to preserve a batch of carrots. Frozen carrots can be used all winter in soups, stews, stir-fries, and casseroles. Learn how to blanch and freeze carrots with this easy step-by-step guide.
When it comes to fresh produce, carrots are one of the most versatile vegetables around. They can be enjoyed raw, boiled, roasted, or stir-fried. You can add carrots to soups, stews, casseroles, and puree them into smoothies. But what do you do if you have an abundant harvest, or find a great deal on carrots at the farmers’ market?
Go ahead and stock up! You can preserve carrots for up to a year by blanching and freezing.
Tips for Freezing Carrots
Choose carrots that are fresh, firm, and healthy for freezing. If you are not able to preserve your carrots right away, trim off the greens, and store in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator for several weeks.
If you have never thought of freezing carrots before, you may have questions. Here are some tips and answers to frequently asked questions about freezing carrots:
Can you freeze carrots?
Yes, carrots are an excellent vegetable for freezing. They will last up to a year when blanched, preserved, packaged well, and stored in the freezer. The cold temperature reduces the growth of bacteria that causes produce to spoil.
Fresh carrots do last a long time in the crisper drawer of your refrigerator, but freezing them will help save space, and ensure that they will stay good for longer. Since they are already peeled and cut, frozen carrots can be a convenient way to add vegetables to your meals.
Why blanch carrots?
When you blanch food, you partially cook it in boiling water for a brief time, and then plunge it into an ice bath to stop the cooking process. The blanching process helps slow the enzymes that cause lost nutrients, flavor, color, and texture. It also washes off any bacteria that might be on the surface of the carrots. This will help the carrots taste good, and last longer in freezer storage.
Can you freeze raw carrots?
Yes, you can. They will not last as long, but if you are pressed for time, you can skip the blanching step and freeze raw carrots. You’ll need to use them within 3 months for the best quality. After that, the flavor and quality degrades. If you skip the blanching step, be sure to rinse and peel your carrots before freezing, and cook before eating to kill any bacteria that may be present.
If you want your carrots to last longer in the freezer, go ahead and blanch them before freezing. Properly blanched, packaged, and frozen carrots will maintain a higher quality for approximately 12 months.
Do I have to peel the carrots?
I know peeling carrots can be time consuming, especially when you are working with small carrots. Removing the peels before preserving reduces the surface bacteria that can cause spoilage even in the freezer. First wash the carrots well under clean running water, remove the skins with a vegetable peeler, and then rinse again before cutting and blanching.
Ways to Use Frozen Carrots
Having plenty of carrots in the freezer makes it so easy to prepare them for hot dishes. Carrots are the one vegetable that everyone in my household will eat. So I try to include it as a side dish on the table at most meals.
Keep the carrots frozen until you are ready to cook them. To use frozen carrots, just reach into the bag, grab what you need, and cook the way you like.
- Boiled Carrots: Place the frozen carrots into a small pot, fill with water, and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Cook until tender, about 6-minutes, and season with salt, pepper, and butter.
- Oven Roasted Carrots: Frozen carrots are a great shortcut for making oven-roasted vegetables. Try this recipe: Rustic Roasted Root Vegetables
- Stews and Soups: Frozen carrots can also be used for making beef stew, and soups. Since they are partially cooked, add the carrots at the end, and heat until tender.
How to Freeze Carrots
A summarized, printable recipe can be found at the bottom of this article, but here are the illustrated steps to blanch and freeze carrots:
Step 1: Gather your equipment
Simple kitchen equipment is all you’ll need to freeze carrots. Gather the following kitchen gear, set up your work area, and prepare your carrots for freezing:
- Large pot
- Colander or mesh strainer
- 2 large prep bowls
- Vegetable peeler
- Cutting board
- Slotted spoon
- Baking sheets
- Parchment paper
- Zipper type freezer bags, or freezer container of choice
- Kitchen towels
Step 2: Prepare the carrots
Cut off the greens, and scrub the carrots well under clean running water to remove dirt. Use a vegetable peeler to remove the peels. Trim the ends, and rinse the carrots again. Cut into 1/4-inch slices, cubes, or lengthwise strips. You can leave small carrots whole.
Step 3: Blanch the carrots
Bring a large pot of water to a rapid boil, and fill a large bowl with ice water.
Lower the prepared carrots into the boiling water, and blanch small whole carrots for 5-minutes, and boil carrot slices, 1/4-inch cubes, or strips, for 2-minutes. Work in batches to keep the water boiling at all times.
When the blanching time is complete, remove the carrots from the boiling water using a slotted spoon, and plunge into the bowl of ice water to cool for about 5 minutes. Once the carrots have cooled, scoop them out using the slotted spoon, and dry on a clean kitchen towel.
Step 4: Flash freeze the carrots
Flash freezing, also called tray-packing is the process of pre-freezing the carrots in a single layer on trays before storing in freezer bags. This helps prevent the pieces from sticking together, and will allow you to grab a handful when needed for meals.
To flash freeze, layer your baking sheets with parchment paper. Spread the blanched carrots out on the lined baking sheet, so they are not touching. Place in the freezer, and freeze until the carrots are frozen solid, about 1-hour.
Don’t let the carrots stay on the trays for longer than 2-hours, or too much moisture will evaporate, giving the carrots a rubbery texture.
Step 5: Package into freezer bags
Place the frozen carrots into freezer bags, remove as much air as you can using a straw to prevent freezer burn, and seal the bag. Label, date, and store the carrots in the freezer until you are ready to use in your favorite recipes. Use within 12 months for the best quality.
How to Freeze Carrots
- 4 pounds carrots
- plenty of ice cubes
- Cut off the tops and rinse the carrots well under running water, peel, trim off the ends, and rinse again.
- Trim the ends, and cut into 1/4-inch slices, cubes, or lengthwise strips. You can leave small carrots whole.
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat.
- Fill a large bowl with ice cubes and cold water.
- Once the water is boiling, add the prepared carrots and blanch small whole carrots for 5-minutes, and boil cut carrots for 2-minutes. Work in batches to keep the water boiling at all times.
- Remove the carrots with the slotted spoon, and plunge into the large bowl of ice water to cool for about 5 minutes.
- Once the carrots are cool, scoop them out of the ice water, drain, place them on a clean kitchen towel, and pat dry. Replenish ice as needed, and repeat with the remaining carrots.
- Layer several baking sheets with parchment paper, and spread the blanched carrots on the trays so they are not touching.
- Place the baking tray in the freezer and freeze until the carrots are frozen, about 1 to 2-hours.
- Transfer the frozen carrots to freezer bags, squeeze to remove air, and seal the bag. Label, date, and store in the freezer until ready to use in your favorite recipes. Freeze for up to 12 months at 0˚F or below. Yields about 2 quart-sized bags depending on the size of your pieces.
Freezing carrots is a great way to preserve them, and make your own homemade convenience food. Follow the steps above to blanch and freeze your carrots, and you will have them readily available to add to your favorite meals.
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The big new climate bill's most important provisions
The climate and energy provisions in the Senate's revenue and spending deal cover everything from incentives to buy electric vehicles to spurring the development of next-generation climate technologies, such as direct air capture.
The big picture: The draft bill would bring U.S. carbon dioxide and methane emissions down and dramatically scale up the development and deployment of new technologies.
Here are the biggest changes, if the bill passes.
Clean energy tax credits: Several climate policy experts told Axios Thursday that these provisions taken together would make the biggest difference in cutting emissions.
- These include a decade of tax credits that would apply broadly to zero carbon technologies including existing nuclear power plants and advanced nuclear technologies, clean hydrogen, carbon capture and storage as well as wind and solar power. The bill would also provide incentives for deploying direct air capture technologies.
- The Biden administration has already been funding demonstration projects for everything from clean hydrogen to long duration energy storage. The proposed bill would provide a path for some of these projects to be deployed.
- Incentives would also be directed to battery manufacturing and the domestic mining of critical minerals.
- Consumers could qualify for tax credits or rebates for making their homes more energy efficient by adding heat pumps and electric stoves, among other steps.
Electric vehicle incentives: These provisions would speed the wider adoption of clean technologies and help reduce transportation emissions, which are the largest contributor to U.S. annual emissions.
- Specifically, the bill provides up to a $7,500 clean vehicle tax credit for EVs that are built in North America, with added incentives for having battery components largely manufactured or assembled in North America. The credit could be applied as a rebate at the point of sale.
- The bill would also provide $4,000 in tax incentives for the purchase of used clean vehicles.
- The EV incentives would be subjected to annual gross income limitations, to direct the benefits to mass market customers, rather than wealthy buyers.
Methane fee: Another provision that would have a big impact, according to policy analysts and scientists, is a methane fee program that would make it increasingly costly for the energy industry to emit this powerful greenhouse gas.
- The fee would begin at $900 per metric ton of emissions above federal limits in 2024 and increase to $1,500 per metric ton in 2026 and thereafter.
What's not in the bill: The deal leaves out some elements of previous climate proposals, such as incentives to build new electric transmission lines to support the broader deployment of renewables.
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- He said the draft bill would go about as far as necessary to help meet the U.S. target, and it is now up to federal agencies, state lawmakers, cities and private industry to do the rest. Other analysts agree.
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What is a Pole Saw
Simply, a pole saw is a saw on the end of a pole. Either powered or not for Tree trimming.
If powered it will probably take the form of a small powered saw (chainsaw) on a pole. Power source can be Gas (Petrol) engine, battery or mains electric. A non-powered pole saw has a pruning saw attached to the end of a pole, thus being a manual action pole saw.
Some confusion is created by a few manufacturers, Stihl being one, referring to pole saws as pole pruners. In the main, pole pruners are considered to be ‘loppers’ at the end of a pole.
Honestly, it’s not as daft as it sounds.
Some time back and probably first contrived by an individual, I mean some bright spark, that was trying to prune branches higher than head height realised – Attach a small saw on the end of a pole and I do not need to keep running up and down a ladder to reach – A strong case for necessity (the necessity in this case, less hard work) being the mother of invention. And whilst this notion of a chain saw on the end of a pole may seem odd at first, it has proven to be a very handy addition to the professional landscaper or home gardener tool box.
So, what’s a pole saw for?
Tree Trimming – The pruning of trees and large shrubs. A Pole Saw will give you the reach to remove those branches that would normally require you to use a step ladder, in fact a pole saw not only helps do away with the continual up and downing but can also be used very effectively to reach across an object, like a hedge for instance. It’s all much less effort with a pole saw, especially a powered pole saw. So, if your garden or your work area has any trees in it, the pole saw will most certainly help you out. No more continually repositioning your ladder, the job will become far easier.
Spoilt for pole saw choice.
When it comes to choosing your powered pole saw the first question to ask yourself is – Which kind of powered pole saw will best meet my requirements. Price and size will probably be top of the list along with power type. Just like hand saws, pole saws are available in very many different designs and types, saw blade length, pole length, power type and power size. The length of the bar (the steel plate the chain spins around) is a rough guide to the size of branches it can cut. Some pole saw machines can be used for sawing at ground level. The chainsaw can simply be detached from the pole.
What are your pole saw requirements?
Small spindly twigs and general light pruning, although above head height could probably be done with a simple non powered pole saw or pole pruners (loppers at the end of a pole) and would not require a powered pole saw. If your area is fairly large and does have some largish trees then a suitably powered pole saw will most likely be required – Petrol (Gas) powered or electric.
Choosing your Pole Saw
Your powered pole saw considerations.
- The power source will determine whether or not there is enough power to cut through your tree branches.
- The cutting blade will need to be of sufficient length.
- What length is the pole? Watch out for this:- Some manufacturers are giving a pole reach length and normally include an average person height. The pole can actually be a fair bit shorter than the given reach length.
- Weight is another important consideration. Most electric powered pole saws are under 10/12 pounds (approx 5 kilos) and often very much lighter than the petrol/gas models. Don’t forget – They can over extended periods of use prove very tiring to work with.
- Another consideration, petrol powered machines often require more maintenance.
- Some models come with detachable heads, meaning, you can use the cutting saw free of the pole in a traditional chainsaw manner.
The poles come in various lengths and can be made from fibreglass or steel. Sometimes a single length but also available extending (adjustable, telescopic) The length of the pole is important to you. The longer the pole can sometimes make usage more cumbersome and will equate to a higher price. There is no point in having a pole length of 15″ if the tallest branch you will be cutting does not exceed 10″. Having an extending pole not only makes storage and transporting easier it can also be a blessing when working on trees of varying heights, you are able to extend when working on higher branches. Don’t forget, some manufacturers will state pole reach and not pole length. This leads to confusion and can be misleading as the pole reach can include the users height.
Bar length is measured mostly in inches (sometimes centimetres) and refers to the length of the bar. 8″ being the more regular size but other sizes are available 6″ – 10″ – 12″ The longer bars enables larger (thicker) branches to be cut. Always choose a bar length that is greater than the thickest branches to be cut. The longer the bar length means the greater the power needed to drive the chain, the cordless versions having the shorter bars. The Gas (petrol) versions being most powerful normally have the longer bars.
Battery cordless pole saws are great for the smaller gardens with few trees with large branches that need pruning. Considered the least powerful of all pole saws. You will not have the inconvenience of running power cables around the garden or work space or making sure you always have gas available. They run on rechargeable batteries and are the least noisy. A single charge should last for about an hour of cutting. They normally have a shorter cutting bar length, around 8″ max. The batteries are either Ni-Cad or Lithium-Ion, the latter offers better performance, have a longer life and more importantly the performance will not degrade as the battery discharges with use. Battery technology is changing and improving all the time and you should look out for any new developments in this area. Other than the requisite chain sharpening there is little maintenance needed with battery powered pole saws. Fully portable. Shorter bar lengths – 6″ 8″ are best.
Electric corded pole saws are considered easy to use because all you need to do is plug them in and away you go, you can start trimming your trees. Portable with limitation (cable length). More powerful than the cordless version with cutting blades going up to about 10″. Also as with its cordless cousin the required maintenance is minimal. Electric corded pole saws are generally lighter than the cordless versions as there is no battery. Common sense will tell you that usage would be restricted in wet weather. Bar length no greater than 10″ is best.
Gas petrol powered pole saws are more powerful than either of the electric versions. With this increased power comes many advantages, increased cutting bar length and better cutting capabilities all round. Noisier but not necessarily heavier than the electric types they are considered a better option especially if you have larger areas to maintain with more trees. They are often built to a higher specification and this means they will probably last longer. Fully portable. Typically preferred by the professionals. Bar length any size up to 12″.
As the name suggests a simple long reach manual saw. Easy to use. Very light weight. Cutting blades can be much longer than the powered versions. No maintenance needed except for a little cleaning and re sharpening. Can cut fairly large branches. Fully portable. Probably a better choice for the home gardener. A great alternative if you don’t mind a little more work. Don’t forget, if you are reaching across something, in order to cut you will be moving your arms backwards and forwards…a lot.
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PROJECT #1: Bookshop
A secondhand bookshop in central Athens, appealling to locals and foreigners alike. Selling books, and handmade products. The shop is run by volunteers, and legally employs survivors of exploitation in support roles, who receive on the job training in a safe environment. Proceeds from sales of gift items are directed to anti-trafficking projects or individuals who are recovering from abuse.
COMING SOON! PROJECT #2:Cleaning Company
A mobile team of cleaning ladies, working in the city of Athens, which will serve anything from private homes to office buildings. The team will include both experienced professionals and trainees who have survived exploitation and are re-entering the job market. They will be carefully trained and supervised.
Employees are legally employed with social security in the Greek system. They will work through a four phase system, moving to more shift hours and responsibilities as they readjust to a regular work environment, and develop their capacity and abilities.
No matter their previous experience, at the end of a couple of years' employment at an Ek Neou project, an employee should have sufficient skils and understanding to be employable in a 'normal' company.
As well as a shadowing system, where each employee works alongside a trained volunteer to learn their job, there is also a day a week of training included in their paid work hours, in which they take part in language and literacy classes, as well as job skills workshops, and classes in other practical skills.
Where possible, employees will be encouraged to get recognised accreditation for learned skills.
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Why Failing Is Good — And how to encourage it in higher education
Even though we should know better, failing is still looked down upon. This needs to change. Especially in higher education.
There is a myth about failing
There is a myth about failing: that failing is bad. But it’s not. In fact, it can be a good thing.
When we fail, we learn and grow. We may also be motivated to try something new or different next time around. Failure can help you develop resilience and perseverance — and those are skills that are essential in the workplace and beyond.
The stigma of failing in Higher Education
Failing is a bad word in our society. It’s seen as negative, shameful, and something to be avoided at all costs. But failing can also be a good thing — especially in higher education!
Why? Failure is part of life’s learning process. Failing gives you the opportunity to learn from your mistakes so that next time around you’ll do better or know how not to make the same mistake in the first place. It’s through trial and error that we grow into better people and become successful at what we do — so why should it stop once we’ve graduated college?
We need to stop stigmatizing failure in higher education because failing can lead us down new paths that could change our lives forever if we let them (which will ultimately make us happier).
Failing is good and it shouldn’t be seen as something to be ashamed of
Let’s get one thing straight: failing is good.
Failing can be a great learning experience for both students and educators, and it shouldn’t be seen as something to be ashamed of. In fact, we should encourage it!
If you want your students to come up with innovative solutions or if you want them to take risks in their learning and career choices, then they need to know that failing is okay — actually, it’s even more than okay — it’s necessary!
It’s time to change the culture around failing in higher education.
Let me say that one more time: It’s time to change the culture around failing in higher education.
It’s important for students to know that failing is not just a process, it is also a positive outcome. It isn’t a negative experience if you learn from it; in fact, it can be incredibly helpful. We should be teaching students how to fail and then build from there.
It is important that students understand that failure helps people to grow, learn and find new opportunities. People learn more when they focus on success, so don’t be happy or congratulate yourself; instead, focus on what can go better next time. For students, failure tends to hold them back and can discourage them from following their dreams or breaking new ground and trying multiple times.
Failures happen, and the most important thing about these events is that the review inspires deep reflection, so whether you are talking about success or failure, both are important.
How higher education can embrace failing
If you’re a teacher, encourage your students to embrace failure and be transparent about it. In order to do this, you’ll need to challenge the idea that failure is shameful. Encourage your students to talk about their failures, and what they can learn from them. Teach them that failing at something doesn’t make you a complete failure as a person; if anything, it makes you more human!
The inclusion of failure in class design prevents students from being afraid of the answers. Failure works because research shows that teachers and parents need to encourage students to figure out what went wrong and to try to improve it.
Students are often so afraid of failure that they neglect their studies or stop trying, in the hope that they will not feel bad if they do not try. Educators can help students overcome their fear of failure by reminding them that they can learn from failure if they experience it.
For some students, their failures tend to linger and create a negative attitude that impedes their learning. It is important to encourage students to learn from their mistakes and to see them as opportunities for improvement. Due to lessons learned, setbacks and failures can often be catalysts for future success.
This is called productive failure, a process that encourages collaboration and deep, long-term learning. It teaches students to stand on their own two feet, to solve problems and to find solutions that they would not otherwise have been able to achieve.
While educators must ensure that students have the right content and the right support to avoid chronic failure, it is also important to accept mistakes as an inevitable part of education. Flexibility to persevere, and the willingness to fail head on, are fundamental to long-term student success.
One of the best ways to help students recognize their mistakes is to teach them a growth mentality. Students with aspirations for growth tend to view their mistakes as a valuable part of the learning process, not something for which they should be ashamed.
Learning is the result of mistakes, mistakes, experiments and explorations. We should encourage students to learn from the constant stream of small problems and successes that result from doing the things that everyone is talking about.
We know from our own life experiences as teachers and administrators that learning from failure can lead to an excellent GPA. A growing body of research literature reminds us that it can lead our students to develop resilience and problem-solving skills that are indispensable to the life.
This encourages students to remember that what matters is improvement, and to do their best even though they did not do it right the first time. To lift the intellectual baggage that hinders learning, we must address failure directly, encouraging students to accept failure as a natural part of education. By helping students redefine “mistakes,” we teach them valuable lessons about improvement and learning.
Students should learn to receive feedback and use it to improve to help students achieve the kind of gains they need to master skills and leadership. Such failures are not only achieved, but students are able to become close friends throughout high school and college.
It is important that pupils realise that they should not see themselves as competing with their peers when it comes to exam results or assignments. In this sense, competition is good, but it can be difficult to draw a line.
Angela Lee Duckworth, developmental psychologist and associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, notes that grit is a personality trait, but it is also a character trait that can be learned over time when students see the relationship between practice and failure not only as an end result, but as a fruitful endeavor.
Just when we fail we can improve. To err is human — and to recognize, allow, and embrace it is not only necessary but one of the most important changes higher education needs to make! | <urn:uuid:ed509209-774c-4583-bb6a-fe95c0324ef6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sayfun.medium.com/why-failing-is-good-and-how-to-encourage-it-in-higher-education-97946520afbd?source=user_profile---------2---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966835 | 1,411 | 2.546875 | 3 |
New Delhi : National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), an autonomous organization under the Ministry of Culture, Govt. of India, has developed a chain of science museums and science centers throughout the Country including Science Cities through Scheme for Promotion of Culture of Science (SPoCS) for portraying the growth of science and technology and their application in industry and human welfare, with a view to develop scientific attitude and temper in the country as also to conduct research in science and technology in the areas pertaining to the activities of the Council.
NCSM has taken up projects for setting up of new science centres under SPoCS Scheme of Govt. of India as per list attached at Annexure-‘I’.
Currently, 25 Science Museums/Science Centres in the country are functioning under the administrative control of National Council of Science Museums (NCSM).
NCSM in collaboration with State Governments and UTs have set up 22 Science Centres and handed there over to respective State Government for subsequent operation and maintenance.
New Science Centre projects taken up by NCSM under SPoCS Scheme of Govt. of India
|Names of the new science centre projects taken up by NCSM under SPOCS Scheme of Govt. of India||Located in
|01||Science City, Guwahati||Assam|
|02||Regional Science Centre, Kottayam||Kerala|
|03||Sub-Regional Science Centre, Palampur||Himachal Pradesh|
|04||Sub-Regional Science Centre, Gaya||Bihar|
|05||Sub- Regional Science Centre, Almora||Uttarakhand|
|06||Sub-Regional Science Centre, Udaipur||Rajasthan|
|07||Sub-Regional Science Centre, Mayabundar||A&N Islands|
|08||Sub-Regional Science Centre, Kokrajhar||Assam|
|09||Science Centre, (Category-II) Rajahmundry||Andhra Pradesh|
|10||Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam Science City, Patna||Bihar|
|11||Science Centre (Cat-II), Ambala||Haryana|
|12||Science Centre (Cat-II), Srinagar||Jammu & Kashmir|
|13||Science Centre (Cat-II), Ujjain||Madhya Pradesh|
|14||Science City, Dehradun||Uttarakhand|
|New Projects Approved by MoC|
|01||Science Centre, (Cat-II) Jabalpur||Madhya Pradesh|
|02||Science Centre, (Cat-II) Ajmer||Rajasthan|
|03||Science Centre, (Cat-II) Kanyakumari||Tamil Nadu|
|04||Science Centre, (Cat-II) Bikaner||Rajasthan|
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The Journal of Writing Research is a relatively new journal, but is already abstracted and indexed in a series of databases. The editors will make every effort to get the journal included in the most relevant databases in the domain of writing research.
At the moment the journal is listed or indexed by:
- listed in the SCOPUS, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: SCImago journal rank (2021): Cite Score: 4.1
- listed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index - Web of Science (ESCI) (Clarivate; formerly Thomson Reuters) - JCI: 1.16 (2021);
- included in ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and the Social Sciences);
- indexed by ResearchGate
- listed in ROAD Directory of Open Access scholarly Resources providing free access to bibliographic records which describe scholarly resources in Open Access;
- listed in the DOAJ, the international Directory of Open Access Journals for quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals;
- listed in the ICO Journal-list, the official journal list of the Dutch Interuniversity Centre for Educational Research;
- indexed by Compile, an inventory of publications in post-secondary composition, rhetoric, technical writing, ESL, and discourse studies.
- indexed by EBSCO (EssentialsTM), a database that provides an integrated service combining several reference databases.
- listed by Genamics JournalSeek, the largest completely categorized database of journal information available on the internet.
- listed by VABB, the official list of journals indexed by the Flemish interuniversity consortium with participation of all Flemish universities
- indexed by Open Academic Journals Index (OAJI), a full-text database of open-access scientific journals.
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- indexed by MLA International Bibliography, the leading index for books and articles published on modern languages, literatures, folklore, and linguistics.
- indexed by CNKI, one of the largest academic repositories in China | 写作研究杂志 | <urn:uuid:8efb52a7-1c1d-420f-bedf-1db76a932473> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jowr.org/index.php/jowr/impact | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.840556 | 450 | 1.710938 | 2 |
No scientific medical basis exists for refusing to allow unvaccinated personnel to travel to offshore platforms in Norway, the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway said recently, citing a conclusion from the Rogaland county governor.
"Some offshore employers are considering whether a coronavirus vaccination or Covid-19 certificate should be mandatory. But the government believes no medical basis exists for banning unvaccinated personnel from traveling offshore," the PSA Norway said.
According to the PSA, supervisory responsibility for health and hygiene in petroleum activities on the NCS rests with the county governor of Rogaland.
"The PSA has accordingly asked this office to assess the content of the control measure concerned – in other words, whether a medical basis exists for requiring vaccination or a Covid-19 certificate. The conclusion from the county governor is that no scientific medical basis exists for refusing to allow unvaccinated personnel to travel offshore," the PSA said late in January.
Providing the rationale for behind the conclusion that there was no scientific basis to prevent unvacinated workers from traveling offshore in Norway, the Rogaland county governor said:"...The vast majority of people of working age who are diagnosed with Covid-19 will not need health care beyond diagnostic testing, and such testing is offered offshore. Patients who develop a severe course of Covid-19 disease will most typically have mild symptoms initially, before a more severe disease development occurs several days after the onset of symptoms. [...] For people working offshore, the serious illness will in most cases only occur in good time after the person has been sent ashore.
"Thus, the prognosis for covid-19 will not usually be worse for people who are diagnosed with the infection during a stay offshore, compared with those who are diagnosed with the disease on land. "Our assessment is therefore that, based on medical professional considerations, there is no basis for refusing unvaccinated people to travel offshore."
In Norway, oil company Aker BP had reportedly planned, from February 1, to require that all offshore workers at their installations must be vaccinated against Covid-19. However, after workers' union SAFE reacted strongly to the proposal, and following the Rogaland county governor assessment, this requirement was removed, according to SAFE. | <urn:uuid:1e6d311c-0bc9-4484-9f5f-2b54f496334e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.oedigital.com/news/494024-norway-no-scientific-basis-to-ban-unvaccinated-workers-from-offshore-rigs | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966892 | 459 | 1.929688 | 2 |
goals support LWIS Hazmieh’s philosophy, purpose and direction.
ARE ALL COMMITTED TO
THE JOY OF LEARNING
We aim to help every learner feel intrinsically motivated,
discover his/her interests, grow his/her passions, love what he/she is doing in
class, and think of school as an exciting place not only to acquire knowledge
and skills, but also where learning is fun.
AN INVITATIONAL ENVIRONMENT WITH INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
offer our learners a safe, supportive, and an engaging learning environment
within and outside school campus, that connects with the learners’ real life,
and equips them with skills that ensure their success in school and life.
community members bring a broad range of cultural perspectives to the learning
environment, and this diversity has the capacity to enrich teaching and
learning in our school. Our teachers use a wide variety of strategies and
global resources to work creatively with different cultural worldviews, and
bring an international perspective into our curriculum.
DIVERSITY THROUGH DIFFERENTIATION
value diversity and the unique contributions each learner brings to the
classroom and the school community. Through differentiation, we thrive to
engage and motivate all learners in the classroom, thereby enhancing their
learning. We believe that differentiation is the way of being in the classroom
and not just a strategy that you use in your classroom today.
A CULTURE OF THINKING
our quest to build a culture of thinking in our community, we aim to make
thinking more visible in our endeavor to understand what, how, and why our
children are learning. In parallel, we strive for the development of a
professional community in which deep and rich discussions of teaching,
learning, and thinking are a fundamental part of our teachers’ ongoing
aim to develop successful learners, confident individuals, responsible
citizens, and effective contributors to society. We strive to accomplish that
by enabling our learners to find out about their world for themselves. In
addition, we support them as they learn to assess evidence, negotiate and work
with others, solve problems, make informed decisions, and become more skilled
in evaluating the ethics and impact of their decisions. We encourage our
learners to think deeply and critically about what is equitable and just, and
we prompt them to take action in real life situations.
promote the responsible use of technology by instilling in learners digital
ethics, etiquette, and knowledge about online safety, as they acquire digital
skills and participate in today’s world.
A GROWTH MINDSET
believe that fostering a growth mindset at the learner, teacher, and parent
level is the foundation of every great achievement, and that the path to a
growth mindset is a journey, not a proclamation. We aim to exhaust our search
for practices to cultivate a growth mindset within our school by focusing our
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A group of 47 researchers, overwhelmingly from UK-based institutions, have laid out a list of 40 “key unanswered questions” in science policy, published on March 9 in PLoS One.
By “identifying key unanswered questions on the relationship between science and policy,” the researchers hope to help “improve the mutual understanding and effectiveness of those who work at the interface of science and policy,” they wrote in the paper.
At a workshop in Cambridge, the group members were asked to submit their top questions—totaling 239—which were then whittled down to a list of 40, and divided into six categories. The questions are abstract, considering the relationship between science and policy, rather than asking straightforward questions about particular scientific questions or fields.
“We don’t claim it’s definitive. It’s an open invitation for a wider discussion of this area,” Robert Doubleday of the University...
The uninvolved policymakers that Nature spoke with for comment were, overall, unimpressed by the list, however. “The big challenge is that most scientists and policymakers remain blissfully unaware of all that we do actually know,” said Harvard’s Sheila Jasanoff. “This is a failure of education, and maybe also of science communication.” | <urn:uuid:46b75ab2-fb78-4fe3-a0fb-e0e14ae466e3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.the-scientist.com/the-nutshell/top-science-policy-concerns-41248 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960084 | 281 | 2.484375 | 2 |
MPO-LC Harness Breakout Cables
MPO-LC Harness Breakout Cables As we know, harness cables are generally used to connect high-density switches with LC serial transceivers installed. The transition harness connects to the pre-installed MPO backbone trunk cable and then furcates to LC connectors entering the switch. This kind of MPO-LC harness cables are usually supplied in short lengths because they are normally only used for “in-rack” connections. Transition harnesses are available for Base-8, 12 and 24 backbones and the LC tails are numbered for clear port identification and traceability.
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The world is changing rapidly. Until not long ago, the United States of Barack Obama, in the role of the virtuoses, pressed on India and China, the “big polluters”, to renew their environmental policies and join the ranks of countries engaged in combating climate change. The Paris COP 21 agreement, which was signed in 2015 by all the major players in the game, had, despite the many downward compromises, represented a favorable outcome for environmental issues and a success of the American democratic administration.
Less than two years later, Trump is ready to get out of the agreement, and India and China are willing to lead the fight against pollution, without saving sharp criticism to the new presidency’ choices.
None of the two countries, however, seems to be ready to assume a real leadership in the fight against global warming and fill the void that will inevitably be left by USA discharge.
The two Asian governments are gradually taking on more strong positions, on the public level as well, against fossil fuels, as their respective populations are going to directly suffer, more and more, from the adverse effects of climate change and poisoning of natural resources. Beyond reassuring positions, China and India are, at least for now, unable to offset the strong weakening of the economic incentive system the US offered to developing countries in exchange for a greater control over their levels of pollution.
The change of route in Asia is, however, evident and should not be underestimated. For decades, the governments of India and China had looked with suspicion and annoyance at the appeals of the first world countries for a reduction in polluting emissions. The countries which have based their development on wild industrialization without posing too much doubts about the climatic consequences, asked the poorer countries to limit their growth capabilities to preserve the health of the planet. What pulp came from the sermon?
Today, however, both Indian President Modi and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping seem to have adopted a different vision of the world. Modi called a “morally criminal act” to not stick to the commitments assumed on the climate front. Jinping addressed all signatories to the COP 21, recalling that it represents “a responsibility we must assume for future generations”.
Trump’s choice could have dramatic consequences for that same future. In addition to the reduction in economic incentives and technological equipment supplies (the US alone would have to contribute for about 20% of the total), American withdrawal could entice other countries to do the same. The Paris agreement, moreover, had been considered by many to be a downward result, unable to effectively contain global warming in the coming years. There would be much more substantial emissions cutbacks in order to reverse the route, but the American turnaround may also weaken the current deal, encouraging more hesitant states to loosen the ties of their engagement.
The United States is also the second most polluting country in the world, and with the Paris agreement they pledged to reduce 26 to 28% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2025. Without their contribution, experts are asking, will it be possible to meet the objective of limiting the rise in temperature, compared to the pre-industrial era, below the two degrees, as established by the Paris Agreement?
It’s hard to say, but things are neverthless moving. If India is committed to meeting its objectives, despite the fact that 240 million people in the sub-continent still have no access to electricity, China seems to have rapidly traveled to its commitments and started a financing project on the renewable energies ($ 360 million by 2020) that makes the Asian giant the new industry leader, globally.
New environmental policies, according to scholars, have already begun to have some tangible consequences in the two countries. China has slowed down its consumption of carbon and India is about to reduce its construction projects for new coal-fired power plants. New Deli then accelerated investments in wind and solar energy, moving to the target set for 2022: to bring its capacity from renewable sources to 175 gigawatts.
The words of Indian Energy Minister Piyush Goya sound clear and strong: “We are not addressing climate change because somebody told us to do it, it is an article of faith for this government .”
The jibe for the most industrialized countries is also a paradigm shift: “Sadly the developed world does not show the same commitment to fulfill their promises, which could help speed up the clean energy revolution .”
Will the Asian powers therefore be able to fill in the American shortages and load this revolution on their shoulders? The commitment is evident but the economic problem remains. American leadership on the environmental front, in the Obama era, was expressed through a $ 3 billion loan in favor of the poorest countries to support them in the development of alternative energies. This fund has been reduced by two-thirds by Trump and neither Beijing nor New Delhi intend to put all this money on the table. Rather, the two giants seem willing to play a coordinating and addressing role, strengthening the sharing of technology-based knowledge among the nations involved.
Using the words of Varad Pande, an ex-consultant at the Indian Ministry of Energy, the one that is being built today “will be a different flavor of leadership“.
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‘Bhagwati Vindhavasini’ is a super power. Vindhyachal has always been his residence. Jagadamba’s constant presence has made Vindhyagiriko Jagarat Shaktipeeth. In the Viraat festival of Mahabharata, Dharmaraj praises Yudhishthar Devi, saying: Vindeichavanov – the best place to live in heaven O mother! You are always on top of the best Vindhyacha in the mountains. In Padmapuraan, Vindhyachal-Nivasini has been associated with the name of Vindhavsinini, the super power of this Vindhyvindhidhasini. The story comes in the Dasam Skand of Shrimdev Bhagavat, when Brahma ji first creates Swayambhavvammanu and Shatruupa with his mind. Then after marriage, Swayambhav Manu made a statue of Goddess with his hands and performed harsh tenacity for a hundred years. Satisfied with his austerity, Bhagwati blessed him with a state of deserving state, family growth and the highest post. Mahadevi went to Vindhyachalvarvata after giving his blessing. From this it is clear that from the beginning of creation, the worship of Vindhyaswini is being done. His expansion of the universe came from his own good wishes.
How to Reach:
The nearest Airport is Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport, at Babatpur, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, which is approximately 72 Kilometres from Ma Vindhyavasini Temple, Vindhyachal.
The nearest Railway Station is ‘Vindhyachal’ (Indian Railway code-BDL), approx one Kilometre from Ma Vindhyavasini Temple, Vindhyachal. ‘Vindhyachal’ Railway Station is located on very busy Delhi-Howrah route and Mumbai- Howrah Route. Although not all, but reasonable number of trains have stoppage at ‘Vindhyachal’ railway station. For more options of Trains, choose Railway Station ‘Mirzapur’ (Indian Railway code-MZP), approx nine Kilometre from Ma Vindhyavasini Temple, Vindhyachal.
The most convenient way to reach Vindhyachal by Road is through National Highway 2 (NH 2), popularly known as Delhi- Kolkata Road. On the National Highway 2 (NH 2) road, which is incidentally part of Asian Highway 1 (AH1), take turn Southward, either at Gopiganj or Aurai, both places between Allahabad and Varanasi. After crossing Holy River Ganga, through Shastri Bridge, via State Highway 5, you will easily reach Vindhyachal. We want to specifically alert you about the pathetic condition of the State Highway 5 road, which connects National Highway 2 (NH 2) to Shastri Bridge. The distance between Aurai and Ma Vindhyavasini Temple, Vindhyachal is only approx 19 Kilometres; and distance between Gopiganj and Ma Vindhyavasini Temple, Vindhyachal is approx 25 Kilometres, but these small distances take approximately one hour due to bad condition of road. The distance between Varanasi and Ma Vindhyavasini Temple, Vindhyachal is approx. 63 Kilometres, and it takes around one and half to two hours of drive. If you want to use Public Transport, sufficient number of Uttar Pradesh State Transport Buses is available from Allahabad and Varanasi, the exact timings of the same may be ascertained from UPSRTC contact numbers. | <urn:uuid:9deeaf54-b537-4f53-b629-aefecc54bcc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mirzapur.nic.in/tourist-place/vindhyachal-dham/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940983 | 832 | 1.664063 | 2 |
If you’re committed enough, you can make any story stick. I once convinced a woman I was Kevin Costner, and it worked, because I believed it. — Saul Goodman, Better Call Saul
Back in the 1960’s they called it “the liberal CIA” – that was the faction around the Congress of Cultural Freedom – that funded and publicized a “cultural left” that all of a sudden made Communism uncool.
In Italy, they had to do it the old fashion way: terrorism. The Commies were using terrorism, so the Liberals would use terrorism too, and blame it on the Commies. Hence, Operation Gladio. But for the rest of Europe cultural liberalism worked far better and with less bloodshed – no need to literally plant explosives in the railway stations.
Marx wrote the Communist Manifesto in London and what the John Birch Society never understood is that the capital of the Worldwide Communist Conspiracy was not Moscow – it was New York.
So now this quite interesting article from Counter-Currents gives a glimpse into how the Liberals did it:
I think it was Yarvin that said Joe McCarthy thought he was just attacking a few Commie spies in the State Department. What McCarthy didn’t know is that he was attacking the root of the Liberal establishment.
The smarter of the right-wingers, like Leon Skouson after reading Carrol Quigley, did finally realize that Liberalism always had the upper hand and the Communists were the “outer party” – the Liberals were the Harlem Globetrotters and the Communists were the Washington Nationals.
You know who else knew it? Mikhail Bulgakov. In The Master and Margarita, Wotan’s Ball is based on the real life American embassy party in 1935:
Critics believe Bulgakov drew from this extravagant event for his novel. In the middle of the Great Depression and Stalinist repression, Bullitt had instructed his staff to create an event that would surpass every other Embassy party in Moscow’s history. The decorations included a forest of ten young birch trees in the chandelier room; a dining room table covered with Finnish tulips; a lawn made of chicory grown on wet felt; a fishnet aviary filled with pheasants, parakeets, and one hundred zebra finches, on loan from the Moscow Zoo; and a menagerie including several mountain goats, a dozen white roosters, and a baby bear.
The Communists had been in power for well over a decade at that point, and the workers in the Worker’s Paradise were toiling away in slave conditions while the American Liberals were hosting their Russian counterparts at parties that would make John D. Rockefeller blush with envy. As for the Soviet ruling class, well – the anti-semites are correct, as usual – there was a Jewish class ruling Russia and a Jewish class ruling America, and in realpolitik, Capitalism vs. Communism is basically Coke vs. Pepsi: two names for brown sugar water that differ in branding more than substance.
But “the Jew thing” isn’t enough to understand it – it’s necessary for that particular situation, but not sufficient to understand the phenomenon generally, and you can see the same basic Imperialist pattern even where no Jews are present.
Sometimes people get hung up on whether or not political actors “really mean it.” This is sort of like getting hung up about the car dealer – does he really think this car is a good fit for me, or is he just lying to make a sale?”
When Lenin and his compatriots were planning their revolution, I am sure they – more or less – convinced themselves that they were the true representatives of the Working Class. Lenin was not one to get into arcane arguments with ideologues either – Lenin’s “democratic centralism” made it clear. The Ruling Class is a specialization of the Working Class – “Intellectual Workers” – therefore the Will of the Working Class is to have a dictator that is one of them, and Lenin is not just one of them, but the best representative of the Russian Working Class.
And so were all of his friends.
In fact, at least until 2010, this was the official ideology of whichever Maoist sect is still active on the fringes of American leftism. The Chairman was selected by a Democratic process based on Marxist-Leninist-Maoist theory, therefore whatever decisions he makes are the best decisions possible, proven by Scientific Socialism.
No need to really delve too deeply into the psychology either. Marxist intellectuals, betraying their Talmudic roots, love “pilpul.” It’s not just Jews either. You really want a good time? Go read an early 20th Century Scottish Presbyterian explaining presuppositional apologetics.
Thank God they invented computer programming to give these high-functioning autistics something useful to do.
And they tell me racism is dead!
The basic selling point of Communism was, “hey, all you factory workers, why should that snooty family over there own the factory? We’re the ones who built it and we’re the ones who do all the work. We should own it.”
As usual, it’s even easier to understand in American:
“They did not find the gold, they did not mine the gold, they did not mill the gold, but by some weird alchemy all the gold belonged to them!” – Big Bill Haywood
The reason why Communism was ever taken seriously is because – well, how can you argue with it?
For much of my lifetime, and the lifetime of my father, US foreign policy in Latin America was based around something called “Land Reform.”
The specifics of land reform are not important, instead what is important is understanding how “Land Reform” shows how Libertarianism – and, by extension, all Capitalism – is absurd, ridiculous even.
1950, some unnamed Latin American country. Half the country are farmers, living on land owned by a guy who inherited the land from his father, who in turn … etc., etc., … going all the way back to when the land was granted to Great-Great-Great Grandfather – who was a general in Cortez’s army – by King Spaniard himself.
I mean, just put yourself in the shoes of some Latin American peasant hearing this. “I have to pay 20% of my crops to this guy, because some guy named “King Something” somewhere across the ocean somehow came to own the land my ancestors have worked since the Sun was born and gave it to those guys?”
I can already hear the right-wing loons, from the libertarian cranks to the racists, cracking their knuckles in preparation for the blistering debunking they will type in the comment box. Incentives! IQ!
And sure, a lot of those brown peasants are perfectly good farmers, but not necessarily the kind of competent bureaucrats that it takes to run an enterprise. Farming is planting seeds and harvesting crops. Managing agricultural enterprise is a completely different set of skills. In fact, the best managers would likely be better served learning subjects other than horticulture.
The worst people on earth are Republican-affiliated interns working at “Free Market” think tanks in Washington DC. If the Democrats really worship Satan while raping and cannibalizing children in the basement of Comet Ping-Pong, they STILL could not be as evil as a 20 something white farm boy from Indiana who somehow managed to snag a summer trip to DC in return for writing a bunch of self-justifying gibberish based on fantasy accounting – i.e., selling his soul to the Devil.
If you want to see True Evil, in the flesh, just find Paul Ryan’s official publicity photo. The Bible says that even the Devil can quote Scripture, but Ryan’s Bible has always been Atlas Shrugged. While normal human beings – the kind with souls – were in college discussing the Great Ideas, Ryan – by his own admission – was reading Ayn Rand and fantasizing about throwing old people off of Medicare.
Really if the Republicans had won in 2008, Paul Ryan would have probably done a Photo Op personally pulling the plug on some old lady’s life support after giving a lecture about actuarial tables.
So forgive me if I simply don’t take Satanic High Priest Paul Ryan at face value when he tells me how “socialism” has “ruined” Venezuela. First thing, define “Venezuela” – it’s a lot harder than you think. Hugo Chavez, Brown Strongman, took control of the oil revenues and passed out a bunch of graft and welfare to his people, the poor brown people of Venezuela. The Venezuelan equivalents of Paul Ryan complained.
I don’t need some White ideologue telling me that Chavez’ brown thugs are not particularly competent at running an oil enterprise. I know that. All I’m saying is, if I were a brown Venezuela peasant, I’d be voting for Chavez too – and then his brother, and then his son, etc.
My Great Aunt and my Uncle never spoke for years, because at some point in the 1980’s, my Uncle, a Young Ronald Reagan Republican, went on a tirade against FDR to my Great Aunt, saying that FDR was just a no good commie. My Great Aunt tried to explain – you don’t understand. We lived in a shack and couldn’t afford shoes until FDR.
No, my Uncle insisted, the Free Market would have done it better!
You know why the Christians lost the Culture War? Because all they did was whine about the “bad morals” in the movies, but they never bothered to make any themselves – and when they did, they sucked.
The same “limited government conservatives” who complain that welfare should be the province of the civil society, not the government, are the same people who stripped mined every social institution in the name of Capitalism to the point that none of these Civil Society Institutions work anymore.
They say that “Communism doesn’t work.” Nonsense. Sure, Communist doesn’t “work” at establishing the Worker’s Paradise. One man’s Utopia is another man’s Dystopia.
But Communism was never about the Utopian vision. In reality, “Scientific Socialism” was really a tactic – one that the Liberals finally perfected in the 1990’s and now goes under the name “Color Revolution.”
Communism, in its own context, and in its own time, perfectly found the weak point in existing societies that were transitioning from Agriculture Feudalism to Industrial Capitalism: “ownership of the means of production.” By using the thin end of that wedge, Communists were able to transfer legal ownership of the Factories from a small group of Capitalists to a small group of Communists.
It was merely an exchange of paperwork, a deed transfer.
Now when the Commies were unable to get the Germans to turn over their newly built industrial wealth to a bunch of Jewish Communists, and in fact, would much rather rally behind a White German version of Brown Hugo Chavez – you know who – well, all the Commies fled to New York.
Obviously, the Rockefellers were not going to pay a bunch of Jewish Marxists to organize Labor Unions and convince Americans to transfer the ownership of factories from the Rockefellers to Jewish Communists. So instead the Jews said, “you know, there are other fracture points in a society. Instead of a class war between Capitalists and Proletarians, we could create constant civil war based on ‘Social Class’ – White vs. Black, Men vs. Women, Urban vs. Rural, Straight Vs. Gay – really, the combinations are infinite!”
This actually worked really, really well for Capitalists. Instead of the workers meeting to plan the next Sit Down Strike and demand better wages, they could instead spend all day, every day, arguing about which pronouns to call each other.
You want to talk oppression? Forget the Wall Street 1% that owns everything and how the 99% has to work all day making the rich richer. What about fat girls? All the models on TV are skinny and pretty. Now THAT is oppression! What about some Equality over here? Down With Skinny Privilege!
The John Birchers were convinced that Eleanor Roosevelt was just a dupe of the Commies. Has anyone ever thought that maybe the Liberals around FDR were, in fact, far more savvy than the Communists?
Is it possible – maybe, just maybe – that the Roosevelts KNEW that the American Youth Congress was a Communist front? We see what happened when they booed Lady Eleanor – they got replaced quickly with another front group, one likely not controlled by the Communist party, the International Students Service.
As a long time fan of David McGowan, I love the Laurel Canyon stories of the 1960’s Rock Stars and their spooky connections to the CIA and drug cartels. Was Jim Morrison of the Doors REALLY Military Intelligence?
Was the entire “Hippie Peace Thing” really just a way to make the real Anti-War movement look bad? Surely, that would take a mind so devious it begs for a supernatural explanation.
But if you look back at the FDR years, and what the Communist party was doing in the Arts at the time, you see something really interesting.
Woody Guthrie was a popular folk singer. The story says he never joined the Communist party, but no one even pretends he wasn’t a Fellow Traveler. To suggest that Communist party officials wrote his lyrics would be considered a “conspiracy theory” but YOU try to write an Anti-War Folk song about the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, then two years later start writing Pro-War Anthems about “Bashing the Fash.”
Back during the Cass Sunstein days the “Crisis Actor Conspiracy Theories” were spammed all over the Internet, and I’m not going to say that Woody Guthrie was a “Crisis Actor.”
But he wasn’t a farmer. He wasn’t a factory worker. He grew up middle class in New York City and traveled the country on the Communist Party’s dime – dressed up like a factory worker, or a farmer.
Americans are really gullible when it comes to costumes. Look how Americans have all decided that wearing a thin piece of cloth on their face makes them a microbiologist! I’ll never forget how, after the 9/11 attacks, Israeli Jews put turbans on their heads and claimed to be “Al Qaeda” and ABC, CBS, and NBC played along, giving them free publicity to rile up the public like Professional Wrestling Heels. Only FOX spilled the beans – figure that one out, Progressives, it was FOX News that finally put an end to the constant Islamophobia being pushed by the liberal networks ABC, CBS, and NBC. You want to know why, progressives? Just look at how many open Zionists run your “progressive movement.” That’s why the Palestinian cause “just never seems to catch on, Gosh darn, we just can’t figure out why!”
After the war, the dumber faction of the Liberals, called “Conservatives,” would freak out about folk groups like The Weavers. Look – McCarthy was right. The Weavers were Commies. The Weavers were singing and writing overt Communist propaganda.
So, what did the Conservatives want to do? Conservatives were so worried that the public would be “tricked” by the Communist propaganda of the Weavers they wanted to ban them. Conservatives – remember, the dumber faction of Liberalism – even wanted to ban It’s A Wonderful Life because “Ayn Rand” – real name, “Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum” – told them a movie about a White small town finding something more important than money was “Communist propaganda.”
The smarter faction of Liberalism – called “Liberals” – scoffed. You think The Weavers are going to convince people to join the Communist party? You think our Capitalist Empire can be felled by folk music?
Would you rather sing folks songs about The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, or about The Beautiful People sunning themselves on California Beaches in the Promised Land of Free Love?
You know, they even got Woody’s Guthrie’s son. His folks songs weren’t about his father’s Communist struggle for the workers – no, Guthrie Jr.’s songs were about pot smoking hippies fighting the Man giving them tickets for littering.
In the 1980’s Conservatives also went ballistic about “Rap Music.” It was getting political. Public Enemy was making music videos lionizing the Black Panthers and anti-white violence, and Ice Cube was rapping about police brutality.
The conservatives shouldn’t have worried – Hollywood had it in hand. Sure, Public Enemy was like intellectual and all, but what would you rather do, talk about some weird political shit, or smoke Chronic with Dr. Dre while rocking these bad ass Nikes?
You can call it a “conspiracy” or even “MK-Ultra Mind Control,” but normal people call it “marketing and advertising.”
And the proof is in the pudding. The USSR is long gone, no one has said the phrase “international proletariat” in decades, and even Communist China is Capitalist – just plain old Coke repackaged in Pepsi bottles.
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