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A spinal cord injury (SCI) can occur when there is damage to any part of the spinal cord or the nerves located at the end of the spinal canal. SCI can often cause permanent impairment in strength, sensation and the ability to use other body portions below the injury. At Delray Medical Center we offer some of the latest treatments and specialized rehabilitation care for spinal cord injury.
How do Spinal Cord Injuries Occur?
A spinal cord injury can occur when one or more vertebrae are fractured, compressed or crushed due to a sudden impact or blow to the spine. Bleeding, swelling, inflammation and fluid accumulation near or around the spinal cord can also cause a spinal cord injury. Other causes of a SCI are arthritis, cancer, inflammation, infections or disk degeneration within the spine.
Symptoms of a spinal cord injury may include:
Problems or difficulty breathing or coughing and clearing mucus
Loss of movement
Loss of sensation, including the ability to feel heat, cold and touch to affected areas
Loss of bowel or bladder control
Intense stinging sensation or pain caused by damage to nerve fibers
A spinal cord injury can be divided into two main types of injury:
Complete injury.Complete injury means that there is no function below the level of the injury, neither sensation or movement, and both sides of the body are equally affected.
Incomplete injury.Incomplete injury means that there is some function below the level of the injury such as movement in one limb more than the other, feeling in parts of the body or more function on one side of the body than the other.
A spinal cord injury is classified according to the person’s type of loss of motor and sensory function. The main types of classifications are:
QuadriplegiaInvolves loss of movement and sensation in all four limbs.
TriplegiaInvolves the loss of movement and sensation in one arm and both legs and usually results from incomplete spinal cord injury.
ParaplegiaInvolves loss of movement and sensation in the lower half of the body only.
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Osibodu Receives 2021 Pat Clifford Award
Oyemolade (Molade) Osibodu, Spring 2020 graduate of the PRIME mathematics education doctoral program, is a 2021 recipient of the Pat Clifford Award. Dr. Osibodu is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, Ontario.
The Pat Clifford Award is a Canadian award that recognizes the work of emerging researchers – their research contributions, their promise, and their commitment to breaking new ground or revisiting commonly held assumptions in education policy, practice or theory in Canada.
Dr. Amber Moore, at Simon Fraser University, also received a 2021 Pat Clifford Award.
Osibodu and Moore were selected based on the potential of their research to make a big impact in K-12 education, ensuring classrooms become more inclusive and responsive to students’ major challenges.
Dr. Osibodu explores how K-12 mathematics can be more inclusive of racialized communities and help foster important discussions about social justice. Broadly, her research lies at the intersection of mathematics and social justice. More specifically, Dr. Osibodu explores equitable approaches to ensure Black students feel seen and valued in their learning; interrogates how mathematics can be leveraged as a space to discuss local and global issues of (in)justice in the classroom; and, as Canada continues to be a hub for many African immigrants and refugees, she examines how they negotiate learning in mathematics spaces while also navigating racialization often for the first time.
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A study by ESI Thoughtlab estimates AI projects take 17 months to break even
While fewer than a third of businesses consider themselves to have reached advanced stages of AI deployment, the majority will reach ‘advanced’ by 2023, according to a study by ESI Thoughtlab.
For most companies, adoption is a work in progress, with 20 percent having AI projects in widespread deployment.
The study comprised a survey of senior executives in 1,200 organizations across 12 industries in 15 countries, with combined revenue of $15.5 trillion.
It was conducted by the research firm and a coalition of AI-focused companies including Appen, Cognizant, Cortex, Dataiku, DataRobot, Deloitte, and Publicis Sapient.
Each of the firms surveyed invested an average of $38 million in AI, with plans to increase spending by eight percent a year, even with 40 percent of AI projects showing no positive returns.
“AI is a slow-burning process that takes time, expertise, and scale to unlock its full potential and ROI,” the report stated.
The ROI for organizations that lead in AI is four percent on average, while the results of organizations in the earlier stages of AI adoption tend to be flat.
For the typical firm, reaching the break-even stage takes 17 months on average.
Earlier stage companies start with automating internal processes, boosting productivity, and increasing staff and customer engagement, according to the study.
They move to using AI to generate strategic gains as AI leaders, with 31 percent increasing revenue, 22 percent increasing market share and adding new products and services, 21 percent gaining faster time-to-market and increasing global expansion, 19 percent creating new business models, and 14 percent creating higher shareholder value.
The AI-enabled functions providing the highest return for enterprises are supply chain management, strategic planning, product development, and distribution and logistics.
While 29 percent of businesses are currently advanced in adopting AI, 63 percent are estimated to move to that stage by 2023.
Businesses also are increasingly leveraging data, with 74 percent of companies expected to become advanced in data management by 2023, increasing from 37 percent today.
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Wellington business Munch Cupboard is leading an exciting and innovative new silicone recycling scheme. The Silicone Send Back is a pilot recycling program that will collect and repurpose post-consumer silicone products in New Zealand and is the first program of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere.
Any food-grade silicone products that are no longer being used can be sent to Munch in Wellington which is the first collection point for the Silicone Send Back. The team at Munch are proud to be leading this new product stewardship project, with support from the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) as part of The Aotearoa Product Stewardship Campaign.
Silicone Send Back is an extension of the product stewardship Munch has been doing for several years already. Munch was founded over 5 years ago to offer families safe, eco-friendly plastic-free products for baby feeding, food storage, lunch boxes and for sustainable kitchens. They consider the environmental impact of their products and where possible aim to make as many of their products in New Zealand.
“The whole product lifecycle is looked at to be sustainable and ethical. It’s about how products are made and how we dispose of them,” said founder of Munch Cupboard, Anna Bordignon.
“We are so excited to lead this silicone recycling pilot for New Zealand. We can avoid silicone going into landfills right now. Currently, there are no silicone recycling options. Even in the USA, the recycling options are limited and are still in early stages.”
The first stage for Silicone Send Back is collecting silicone no longer in use around the country. The second stage will be repurposing it to make silicone products using the recycled silicone right here in NZ.
The public is encouraged to get involved to help launch this recycling project by sending in any food-grade silicone items no longer in use. In return, participants will receive a $10 credit to spend on the Munch website - a thank you for helping launch the project and for helping our environment.
Silicone can be posted in or can be dropped off directly at the Munch Showroom at 471 Adelaide Road, Wellington. Silicone Send Back drop off points will also soon be set up in partnering retail stores.
Food grade silicone is used for anything storing or involving food, so is often found in everyday kitchen items or baby-feeding products.
“The reason we use silicone at Munch is because of its functional properties - its thermal stability and durability. It is non-toxic and ideal for baby and food storage products. It is a great alternative to plastic,” explained Bordignon.
Kiwis are encouraged to look around in their home, the back of the cupboard - it could be an old silicone spatula or a silicone sippy cup lid no longer in use. Send these items in for this new recycling pilot, instead of sending them to landfill.
For over 5 years, Munch and its sister brand nil products, have been empowering Kiwi’s to be more eco-friendly with their wide range of plastic-free and sustainably made products. Their products are always eco-friendly in some way - from being reusable and durable, or organic and biodegradable. Their products are now sold in many mainstream supermarkets and retail stores across New Zealand and Australia.
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Standing genetic variation enables or restricts a population’s capacity to respond to changing conditions, including the extreme disturbances expected to increase in frequency and intensity with continuing anthropogenic climate change. However, we know little about how populations might respond to extreme events with rapid genetic shifts, or how population dynamics may influence and be influenced by population genomic change. We use a range-wide epizootic, sea star wasting disease, that onset in mid-2013 and caused mass mortality in Pisaster ochraceus to explore how a keystone marine species responded to an extreme perturbation. We integrated field surveys with restriction site-associated DNA sequencing data to (i) describe the population dynamics of mortality and recovery, and (ii) compare allele frequencies in mature P. ochraceus before the disease outbreak with allele frequencies in adults and new juveniles after the outbreak, to identify whether selection may have occurred. We found P. ochraceus suffered 81% mortality in the study region between 2012 and 2015, and experienced a concurrent 74-fold increase in recruitment beginning in late 2013. Comparison of pre- and postoutbreak adults revealed significant allele frequency changes at three loci, which showed consistent changes across the large majority of locations. Allele frequency shifts in juvenile P. ochraceus (spawned from premortality adults) were consistent with those seen in adult survivors. Such parallel shifts suggest detectable signals of selection and highlight the potential for persistence of this change in subsequent generations, which may influence the resilience of this keystone species to future outbreaks.
Schiebelhut, L. M., Puritz, J. B., & Dawson, M. N. (2018). Decimation by sea star wasting disease and rapid genetic change in a keystone species, Pisaster ochraceus. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA, 115(27), 7069-7074. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1800285115
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A new study says the number of low-income Kentuckians without health insurance declined by 68 percent in the first year of the state’s Medicaid expansion.
The research was conducted by the University of Louisville’s School of Public Health and Information Sciences Department of Health Management and Systems Sciences by faculty members Joseph Benitez, Liza Creel and J’Aime Jennings.
It was published Wednesday in Health Affairs.
The study said 35 percent of low-income Kentuckians were uninsured at the end of 2013, and 11 percent were uninsured in late 2014. The research aligns with past studies that show sharp drops in the rate of uninsured in Kentucky since the Affordable Care Act was implemented.
Benitez and his colleagues also found declines in the number of people lacking a regular source of health care and those with unmet medical needs.
“We do find large up upticks in coverage among people under $25,000 of annual income as well as large improvements in having an unmet medical need because of cost,” Benitez said.
Researchers focused on adults between 25 and 64-years-old who earned an annual household income up to $25,000, using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The Medicaid Expansion Report, compiled by Deloitte Consulting and commissioned by then-Gov. Steve Beshear, said a total of 310,887 people enrolled in Medicaid in 2014.
The implementation of the Affordable Care Act was done under former Beshear, a Democrat, by executive order. Under the ACA, Beshear expanded Medicaid to residents who earned 138 percent of the federal poverty limit.
Current Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, is moving forward with plans to dismantle Kynect, the state’s health care exchange, and reform the state’s Medicaid system. Recently, Bevin announced the creation of Benefind, a website that will replace Kynect as the way for Medicaid beneficiaries and other welfare recipients to apply for services starting Feb. 29.
But Benitez said those transitions could reverse the progress the state has made in lowering its uninsured rate. Before the ACA, Kentucky’s uninsured rate was 20.4 percent. Now, it’s 7.5 percent.
“It does seem like a large segment of people, not just among the low-income group but even some incomes … above $25,000 or even higher incomes are engaged in using Kynect … as a way to identify coverage,” he said.
Beshear recently launched the non-profit Board for Save Kentucky Healthcare. In a statement, he said “this recent analysis highlights a long and successful track record of providing sustainable healthcare coverage to Kentucky residents most in need.”
The state’s new Medicaid commissioner recently told legislators that the expansion will cost the state about 20 percent more over the next two years, to $3.7 billion. Bevin has said the Medicaid expansion and Kynect are too costly for the state. | <urn:uuid:43da39af-9f9a-4ade-9782-f3a8c15f98b0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wfpl.org/low-income-medicaid-study/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961538 | 621 | 1.796875 | 2 |
SymMover: How I moved my installed computer applications from one hard drive to another without breaking it
Recently I was faced with a situation where I needed to transfer my installed computer applications from one hard drive to another because my computer was broken and I got a new one and didn’t want to transfer the old hard disk to the new computer because the new one has a higher capacity, now I was faced with how to transfer my installed computer applications from my old computer to the new one without breaking them.
Without being told I knew I had a serious situation on my hands, how am I going to transfer my installed applications to a new hard drive without breaking it? I have always known that sometimes when you install an application its files are shared in different locations, so I may never be able to copy the application without breaking it.
You may be running low on disk space and may need to transfer your installed computer applications from Drive C to Drive D without breaking the application so as not to render them useless especially those you do not have their installation CDs any longer. The best way you can carry out this task is by using a neat utility called SymMover.
SymMover is a Windows application that can move a folder from one disk to another without losing its connectedness using the concept of Symlinks. SymMover only works on Windows Vista and Windows 7 only for now.
How to use SymMover to transfer installed computer applications:
1. Download SymMover and install the application on your computer.
2, Run the program in admin privileges.
3. Specify the path on the new hard disk where we will like to transfer the folders or installed applications.
4. Next is adding the programs or installed applications you will want to transfer. Click on the blue plus button to add the applications.
5. After you have chosen all the applications you want to transfer, click on the green forward arrow button to start the transfer. It may take some time to transfer the files depending on its size.
After the transfer has been completed you will see the old folders in the explorer as shortcuts linking to the new destination. This is the Symlink method.
Though there are so many ways to save disk space on your Drive C like using CCleaner to wipe files you don’t need, sometimes it is not enough. SymMover is a better option to achieving this.
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Learning how to caulk a shower is a worthwhile DIY skill to have because it's likely you will have to repeat it year after year to keep your bath or shower area looking fresh. Over time, grime and dirt can build up in the angles of the bath or shower enclosure or the caulk itself can simply break down, with leaks making their way into the fabric of your home.
The good news is that caulking a shower is a simple task and fixing faulty or dirty caulk really won’t take long. It's also a job that can be done at the same time as grouting tiles if you are refreshing those, too. Take a chunk out of your weekend for an easy caulking job.
How to caulk a shower
If you already know how to caulk a bathtub, you're set. If you are tiling in a shower for the first time, it's likely you will need to learn how to caulk a shower, too. All you need is a little patience, a few DIY tools and some handy tips. Bear in mind though that you won’t be able to hop into the shower until the caulk has cured, which can take a day or two.
You will need:
- Utility knife or box cutter
- Razor scraper
- Tweezers or needle nosed pliers
- Clean cloths
- Paper towels
- Methylated spirit (denatured alcohol)
- Bleach solution or mold remover solution
- Painter’s tape – Scotch General Use Masking Tape is highly rated on Amazon (opens in new tab)
- Caulk scraper – we like this General Purpose Plastic Razor Blade Scraper (opens in new tab)
- Caulk remover – Orange-Sol De-Sovl-it Contractors Solvent (opens in new tab) is very effective
- Non-abrasive pad
- Bathroom caulk (silicone) and cartridge gun
- Sealant scraper, smoother and profile tools
- Protective gloves (goggles – optional)
- Dust sheet
1. Prepare the surface
It’s best to work on a completely dry shower so after you’ve used it, open the window to let any moisture escape the room. Wipe the surfaces thoroughly with a cloth or paper towels and leave it to dry completely, overnight if possible.
If you’re in a hard-water area, limescale may have built up around the joints. Put on your protective gear and deal with this first by soaking paper towels in vinegar and leaving them in place for around half an hour – cleaning with vinegar saves you buying more chemical cleaners. Check a few times while waiting in case the vinegar is damaging the surface. Rinse and wipe dry.
2. Strip off the old caulk
Next put a dust sheet in the shower to catch the old caulk and ensure it doesn’t get into the drain. This will also ensure your shoes don’t scratch the shower tray. To strip off the old caulk, use a sealant remover. Apply it to all the previously caulked areas – inside and outside the shower – following the instructions on the pack, wait the recommended time (which could be up to three hours) then use a plastic scraper tool to scrape it away.
You can also tackle old caulk with a utility knife, box cutter or razor scraper, but angle the knife carefully to avoid cutting into the surfaces, or use the plastic razor we have recommended above. Pull off any remaining bits with pliers or tweezers or if they’re stuck fast, soften them up with sealant remover and scrape with the smoother tool. Finish off with a non-abrasive pad or, on delicate surfaces, a cloth dipped in denatured alcohol (methylated spirits).
3. Prep for caulking
If there’s any mold or mildew along the joints, this will come back to haunt you, so douse a cloth with a little bleach mixed with water and apply it, then rinse off. When dry, wipe all the joints with denatured alcohol on a cloth. To ensure you can apply the sealant neatly, stick strips of painter’s tape along the joints with a narrow gap between them to run the caulk.
4. Caulk the shower
The caulking area needs to be completely dry. Trim off the end of the silicone sealant cartridge. Carefully cut the nozzle at a 45 degree angle. ‘Start by cutting off a small amount,’ says Beth Pearce, Category Manager for Construction and Internal Building at B&Q (opens in new tab). ‘You can always cut more afterwards if you find you need a bigger bead.’
Screw the nozzle to the cartridge and insert in the caulking gun. 'Using a sealant gun is easy, but you might want to practice a little first to get an even bead of sealant,’ says Beth. 'A few squeezes of the handles and you’ll be ready to go.’
Run sealant along the joints, squeezing the handles evenly to release it. Run the smoothing tool along the seam or use a finger dipped in dish detergent, then remove the painter’s tape. Although it quickly forms a skin, silicone caulk may need longer than one day to fully cure. Follow the pack instructions on when you’ll be able to use the shower again.
What happens if you caulk over old caulk?
If the shower is old and hasn’t been cared for in the past, there may be layers of lumpy, bumpy built-up caulk. This may have broken up in places where water can collect and it can harbor areas of mold and grime. Covering it up is a bad idea. It’s far better to strip off the old caulk, giving an even, clean surface for the new caulk.
What to use to seal around a shower?
The most suitable caulk for a bath or shower area is silicone. This sealant is waterproof – essential for a showering area – but that also means that when applying it the surface must be completely dry or the silicone won’t stick. For a pristine result, pick out a silicone caulk that’s labelled for bathroom use and it will resist mold, too.
Lola Houlton is H&G's long-term intern. Currently student of Psychology at the University of Sussex, she began writing content for Real Homes around the subjects of children's and teenagers' bedroom, in particular covering the psychology of teens and their approach to tidiness. From there, Lola expanded her knowledge of a broad range of subjects and now writes about everything from organization through to house plants while continuing her studies.
What colors make a room feel happy? Color psychologists say these shades boost well-being
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Homemade kitchen cleaner – an easy eco step-by-step
Creating your own homemade kitchen cleaner needn't be a chore – here, author Jen Chillingsworth shows us how; it can be used in bathrooms, too
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Most of us have forgotten the true purpose of living, instead of masking it with a complex assortment of work, chores, and duties, and then complaining about how difficult life is. However, you can just as easily create a simple life as you can a complex one; it just takes some time to reflect on what you can change, and actually going through with it.
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” – Confucius
Do you make your life harder than it has to be? Here are 10 ways to find out:
1. You compare yourself to other people.
“The only person you should try to be better than is the person you were yesterday.”
Don’t subject yourself to measuring your life against other’s lives; not only will this distract you from improving your own life, but it will likely make you feel bitter and jealous. People take a multitude of paths in life, and no one’s journey will look quite like yours. It doesn’t mean you should feel threatened or inferior based on how other people live; you should instead compare yourself only to the current version of you, and use that as an incentive to become better.
2. You let fear make decisions for you.
As children, we might have feared the Boogieman hiding under our bed after our parents turned out the lights, or maybe the overly nice clown at the county fair. Gradually, we added more fears to the list as we got older. Fear of not earning enough money to survive. Fear of failure. Fear of rejection. Fear of other’s opinions. Fear of making a big change. And the list goes on.
However, remember that fear is just like the Boogieman; it only exists in our minds. The more you tell yourself that, the more your fears will dissipate, and you can start really enjoying life again.
3. You buy things you don’t really need.
In a comprehensive report written by experts from the American Psychological Association, a survey found that money remains the leading cause of stress for Americans, with 3 in 4 adults feeling stress about money at least some of the time. While money does somewhat determine our standard of living, we shouldn’t abuse its power; we should use it to buy things we actually need, not just want.
Excessive spending largely contributes to the financial stress so abundant in society today, and you can easily nip it in the bud by scaling down what you purchase on a regular basis.
4. You say “I’ll start tomorrow,” but never do.
You want to go on a diet, but you’ll start tomorrow. You want to quit your job, but you’ll wait until you feel more prepared to tell your boss. You want to take a vacation, but you’ll do it later when you have more money saved. You want to start your own website, but you’ll start when you have more time. Does any of this sound familiar?
When you procrastinate, your goals only become more unattainable as time wears on, because your excuses will only pile up higher and higher. Today is as good a day as any to start, otherwise, you will have a long list of regrets about the things you never set out to do.
5. You live your life betting on some future moment instead of being here now.
This moment is the only one we have, so putting all your stock in future events will only lead to anxiety about the present. You will miss everything going on around you by living in a reality that doesn’t yet exist. Instead, consciously create your future each day, and adopt an attitude of gratitude about your life in the moment. Then, you can enjoy both the present and the future, instead of betting all your happiness on future conditions.
6. You talk down on yourself daily.
Pay attention to your self-talk; it determines everything else about your life. We belittle and berate ourselves so much, and then wonder why our outer world is in shambles. We are usually our toughest critics, so start giving yourself more positive reviews. Remember that you’re only human, and everyone else has flaws and fears just like you.
Rise above your limiting, negative beliefs about yourself, and use these affirmations to help you build positive self-talk.
7. You care a great deal about what others think.
Some people will always love you, while others will never like you. That’s just how life works, but spending all your time trying to convince others to like you or putting all your worth in their perception of you will always lead to disappointment. Validate yourself, and you won’t need others to approve your life any longer.
8. You rush from here to there every day and have very little time to relax.
One of the biggest stressors in life continues to be a constantly hectic schedule. However, remember that you created the life you live today. You can control how much downtime you have, and how much time you spend attending to responsibilities. Nothing else in nature rushes around in a constant frenzy, so why do we?
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Before embarking on a new project, it is important to have a few certain, clear, and established points to make it profitable, sustainable, and scalable.
Before embarking on a new project, it is important to have a few certain, clear and established key points since we cannot forget that any new business must be profitable, sustainable, and scalable.
That is why we leave you with 9 key elements of a business model created by Osterwalder & Pigneur, “The Business Model Canvas”:
- Ask yourself, who are you creating value for? Make sure you have a strong, established, and clear niche to establish your objectives and strategy around them.
- Where will you connect and communicate with your target? The way you communicate with your target will strongly depend on where you connect with them. May it be through social media or massive advertising channels like television and radio. This is a key element in how you develop a relationship with them beyond just buying your services.
- What’s your promised value? Think of what you’re offering your clients and if you’re fulfilling their needs accordingly.
- What are your resources and key services? Before starting and exposing your business, always make sure that you have the necessary resources (physical and human) to establish yourself on the market.
- Where’s your income coming from? Will you earn project by project or will you have a set price for your clients? In order to stay afloat, this is an important question to have in mind from the very beginning.
- Think of key partnerships. Who are those key people in your life that could provide you some key resources? Or who can you partner up with to help strengthen your value and what you can offer consumers?
- Don’t forget your humanity. Keep in mind that your clients, just like you, are also people. They have needs, desires, objectives, and also have their clients to deal with. Treat them all equally as you want to be treated.
- Your team above all. A connected team is what will push your business and elevate it to places you’ve never even dreamed of. Make sure that you have people on your team that not only know what they’re doing but are also willing to learn and work with others to help grow the business; as it is also theirs.
- How’s your chain of value built? This is how you assure success to your business: having a strong chain of activities and a clear path of how your business model will work to ensure your promised value.
We hope these 9 key elements of a business model help you to have greater clarity while embarking on the trip to starting a new business!
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Bidwell House Museum's Second Summer History Talk
MONTEREY, Mass. —Bidwell House Museum will be having its second history talk of the summer "Murder and Mercy on the Susquehanna: Captain Civility of Conestoga Teaches Pennsylvania Colonists New Principles of Justice" at 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, July 9 at Tyringham Union Church with a Zoom option.
Pulitzer Prize winner and New York University Professor Nicole Eustacea will discuss a forgotten murder of a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania by two white fur traders on the eve of a major treaty between Iroquois leaders and European colonists.
According to the press release, this attack set into motion a series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations that challenged the definition of justice in early America with lessons that remain relevant to debates about criminal justice reform today.
Tickets for members who wish to attend in-person cost $10 or $15 for non-members. The zoom option is free for members free or $10 for non-members $10.
Tickets for this event can be purchased here
UPDATE: Due to a positive COVID diagnosis with the speaker there will no longer be an in-person option. The lecture will now be solely on Zoom.
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As of this writing, the United States has had 22,000 deaths from coronavirus.
Italy, France, Britain, and Spain have had 61,000 deaths. But these four countries have a combined population of only 238 million compared to 323 million in the United States.
If our mortality rate were the same as these European countries, we would have 83,000 corpses on our hands.
This vivid, although gruesome, comparison illustrates the superiority of the American healthcare system, of President Trump's response to the coronavirus, and of the discipline of the American people.
Together they saved 61,000 lives and counting.
It's fashionable these days to lament the state of the American healthcare system and, as Bernie Sanders did, speak of the superiority of the single-payer European model.
But no comparison could possibly be as vividly different as the way in which these two systems handled the COVID 19 pandemic.
At the start, the U.S. closed its borders first to China, then to Europe, and finally to Britain.
Realizing that the pandemic was spread by global migration, President Trump knew that to protect America we had to seal our borders.
By contrast, the ideology of globalism was so strong in Europe that it resisted any action to contain the virus and keep it from European shores.
Instead this virus, which originated in China, was allowed to enter and to savage the continent. Lacking the mechanism or the political will to protect its people, the EU opened its frontiers to death.
But in the United States — despite accusations of isolationism and xenophobia — national frontiers inhibited the virus’ spread.
By cordoning off America, President Trump saved tens of thousands of lives.
Once people became ill with the virus the superiority of the American healthcare system kicked in and produced a death rate far below that which prevailed in Europe.
In Italy, 12.7% of those infected have died. In the UK, it has taken the lives of 11.7%. In Spain, 9.9% and in France 9.6% of those infected have passed away.
But, in the U.S., only 3.4% have died.
The virus is, of course, the same on either side of the Atlantic.
There has been no medical breakthrough in treating or curing it unique to the United States.
Rather, our relative success is due to the skill, dedication, and efficiency of the American healthcare system over the single-payer systems that predominate in Europe.
It remains to be seen whether a third factor was involved: the discipline of our people.
It's unclear whether lockdown and social distancing measures we're more successful in achieving mitigation in the U.S., because the the willingness of our people to obey quarantine guidelines.
Has the United States, been better able to enforce mitigation guidelines than Italy, Spain, France, or the U.K.?
As we go forward to reverse quarantines and reopen our countries, we must not lose sight of the enormous lessons the coronavirus teaches. With all of its defects, the American healthcare system — and our doctors and nurses — deserves plaudits for the way it responded and coped with this international emergency.
Lets not be so quick to replace it with European models that have failed so spectacularly.
DickMorris is the author of the best-selling book "Armageddon: How Trump Can Beat Hillary," written with Eileen McGann and published by Humanix Books, available at Barnes & Noble and Amazon. to read more of Dick Morris's Reports — Click Here Now!
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Many mixed-status households with undocumented family members are now eligible for stimulus checks under a $900 billion coronavirus relief package signed by President Donald Trump on Sunday night.
Excluded from stimulus relief up until now, US citizens and permanent residents who filed a joint tax return with an undocumented spouse will receive a check for $600, as well as $600 per dependent child. The benefits phase out for individuals making more than $75,000 and couples making more than $150,000.
The impact is significant: An estimated 16.7 million people live in mixed-status households nationwide, including 8.2 million US-born or naturalized citizens. That number includes those who have been shielded from deportation under the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, children and young adults whose parents often don’t have legal status.
The law also allows households with at least one family member who has a Social Security number to retroactively receive checks for up to $1,200 and an additional $500 per child under the last round of stimulus relief enacted in late March.
But many undocumented immigrants and other taxpaying noncitizens who do not have a Social Security number are still barred from receiving stimulus checks under the law.
That carries public health consequences. Undocumented immigrant workers are particularly vulnerable to Covid-19 due to inadequate access to health care. Noncitizens are significantly more likely to be uninsured compared to US citizens, which may dissuade them from seeking medical care if they contract the virus. And compounding matters are the Trump administration’s hardline immigration policies — including wide-scale immigration raids and a rule that can penalize green card applicants for using Medicaid — which have made noncitizens afraid to access care.
Some Democratic lawmakers have consequently argued that while the new relief package represents progress, it still does not go far enough in delivering much-needed aid to immigrant families.
“I’m glad the relief package allows mixed-status households [with] undocumented family members to receive relief checks,” Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA) tweeted. “We must now provide relief for ALL tax filers, regardless of immigration status, including brave first responders on our front lines.”
This spring’s CARES Act had excluded mixed-status families from relief
The CARES Act, which was enacted in March, barred those in households with people of mixed immigration status — where some tax filers or their children may use what’s called an Individual Taxpayer Identification Number (ITIN) — from receiving stimulus checks.
The IRS issues ITINs to unauthorized immigrants so they can pay taxes, even though they don’t have a Social Security number. If anyone in the household had used an ITIN — either a spouse or a dependent child — that meant no one in the household will qualify for the stimulus checks under the CARES Act unless one spouse served in the military in 2019.
The exclusion for mixed-status households defied current practices: Many other federal programs are designed in such a way that US citizen children of unauthorized immigrants can access necessary benefits, including the child tax credit, food stamps, housing assistance, welfare benefits, and benefits from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
But there is a precedent for this kind of exclusion. Amid the global financial crisis in 2008, Congress handed out tax rebates to most American taxpayers, except for the spouses of immigrants who didn’t have Social Security numbers.
Advocates from Georgetown Law and Villanova Law nevertheless filed a class action lawsuit in the spring challenging the CARES Act on behalf of seven US citizen children of unauthorized immigrant taxpayers. They argued that it unfairly discriminated against these children based on their parents’ immigration status, and denied them equal protection under the law in violation of the US Constitution’s due process clause.
That lawsuit is still pending, but the new aid package signed on Sunday could render that challenge moot since it makes mixed-status families retroactively eligible for CARES Act stimulus checks.
“The refusal to distribute this benefit to US citizen children undermines the CARES Act’s goals of providing assistance to Americans in need, frustrates the Act’s efforts to jumpstart the economy, and punishes citizen children for their parents’ status — punishment that is particularly nonsensical given that undocumented immigrants, collectively, pay billions of dollars each year in taxes,” Mary McCord, legal director of Georgetown Law’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, said in a statement when the lawsuit was filed.
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New Website Evaluates Online Pharmacies to Aid Consumers
WHITE PLAINS, NY -- April 7, 2003 PharmacyChecker.com, a new website that evaluates online pharmacies and compares their prices, finds that only 50% of the pharmacy sites it has evaluated dispense through a licensed pharmacy. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cautioned that consumers using unlicensed online pharmacies may receive poor quality or incorrectly dispensed medications.
Tod Cooperman, M.D., President of PharmacyChecker.com said, "Americans are flocking to foreign online pharmacies to save money but often without knowledge of who these companies are, how they operate, and whether they offer the best prices. PharmacyChecker.com's information will help consumers avoid unnecessary risks and maximize their savings." Dr. Cooperman is also the founder ConsumerLab.com, a popular site for evaluating brands of dietary supplements and nutritional products.
PharmacyChecker.com evaluates pharmacy sites based on five objective criteria. Among the twelve sites already evaluated, only five have received the highest rating. The following shows the percentage of sites satisfying each of PharmacyChecker.com's criteria:
- Verified pharmacy license (50% are not licensed)
- Verified, posted physical address and telephone number (42% don't provide these)
- Security of online financial transactions (17% are not secure)
- Requirement of an original prescription (33% don't require it)
PharmacyChecker.com also maintains a continually updated, comparative database of drug prices from the pharmacy sites it evaluates. Analysis of current prices shows:
- Among sites requiring a prescription, Canadian prices average 49% lower than U.S. prices for brand-name drugs (excluding shipping charges).
- U.S. sites that don't require prescriptions (and, consequently, are not licensed) charge an average 54% more than U.S. sites that do require prescriptions.
- Mexican sites typically don't require a prescription and their prices are generally the same as U.S. sites that require a prescription.
Dr. Cooperman offered the following tips to consumers: "Canadian pharmacy sites can save Americans a great deal of money, particularly when an order includes multiple prescriptions. However, some Canadian sites are more qualified than others. If you want to stay with U.S. sites, it pays to compare prices, even among well-known, licensed sites. If you are seeking medication without a prescription, which is risky, there are unlicensed Mexican sites with prices comparable to licensed U.S. sites and there are many heavily promoted, unlicensed U.S. sites but their prices are the highest of all."
Price comparisons on over 1,500 medications as well as pharmacy ratings and 40-item profiles are available at www.pharmacychecker.com on a subscription basis. Customer ratings of pharmacies will also be available shortly on PharmacyChecker.com's Web site.
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Expectations about the performance of the Ecuadorian economy, for the remainder of 2022, have been diluted by factors such as lack of confidence in economic policy and corruption.
The business climate in Ecuador continues to deteriorate, according to the latest report of the Economic Climate Index (ICE) from the Brazilian center for economic studies of the prestigious Getulio Vargas Foundation (FGV).
The indicator went from 93.7 points in the first quarter of 2022 to 72.1 points in the second quarter—it fell 21.6 points.
The fall relates to two factors. The first is the uneasiness in the face of the current political, economic and social situation in the country. And the second, to the negative expectations for the remaining months in 2022, says the report.
This is evidenced by the drop in the Current Situation (ISA) and Expectations (IE) indicators, by 9.1 points and 36.4 points, respectively.
In an unfavorable business climate, so-called external shocks also affect a country’s business climate, in other words, negative events that occur outside of Ecuador, can affect the country’s situation.
For this reason, what Ecuador is experiencing is not isolated, explains Fidel Jaramillo, a professor at the University of the Americas and a former official of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
The business environment in other Latin American countries has also deteriorated due to the gloomy global economic outlook.
Inflation in the United States and the new lockdowns in China, to curb the spread of Covid-19, have contributed to this scenario.
Instability and investment
Expectations about the performance of the Ecuadorian economy in the remainder of 2022 are characterized by uncertainty associated with factors such as:
- Lack of confidence in the country’s economic policy.
- Greater social inequality, due to the deterioration of the labor market and the loss of purchasing power of households, due to inflation.
- Corruption. Ecuador loses nearly $1.5 billion per year due to fraudulent public purchases.
The markets have less confidence in Ecuador’s economic policy due to the Government’s limited ability to generate structural reforms, as it does not have a majority in the Assembly. An example of this was the blockade by the Legislative of the Law for the Attraction of Investments.
Added to this is Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has important consequences for the Ecuadorian economy. One of the collateral damages of the war is the increase in the prices of fertilizers and vegetable oils that Ecuador imports. Russia and Ukraine are the main suppliers of these products.
Another consequence is the loss of market for 4.5% of Ecuador’s exports, which were destined for the Eurasian zone.
All the factors mentioned deepened social discontent in Ecuador, leading to an internal clash: a national strike that broke out on June 13th and lasted 18 days.
After the demonstrations, which generated losses of $1.0 billion to the economy, the country was immersed in deep political and social instability, which delays or drives away the arrival of investors.
The limited capacity of Ecuador to attract investment, due to its environment, is evidenced in the latest study by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and The Economist, published on July 13th.
The report analyzes the capacity of Latin American countries to attract private investment through Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
Ecuador obtained a rating of 48.7 out of 100, which makes it ‘emerging,’ says the report.
The reason for the low rating is that it faces important challenges, especially related to its institutional policies, says the document. For example, the cancelled Investment Law addressed changes to improve the mechanisms and regulation of PPPs.
Even so, Fidel Jaramillo believes that the lack of a reform should not be an obstacle to attracting investment and boosting the economy.
“The State is in crisis and the private sector has little work. The alliances between the two parties will allow the development of projects to rehabilitate the road network and improve the conditions of water supply and sanitation,” says Jaramillo.
In an effort to improve the investment environment in recent years, Ecuador has enacted new legislation and signed several international agreements, says the IDB.
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The World Beyond The Horizon
Guest Blog – The World Beyond The Horizon
We are living in very uncertain times – Brexit talks have just begun, we have a minority government looking to form a coalition, tensions between Russia and the US lead coalition in Syria are growing, North Korea are testing missiles and we have Donald Trump as US President!
Technology is advancing faster than we could ever imagine – There are now over 20Bn devices connected to The Internet. Even well-established businesses are finding themselves now out of favour or in administration, think Kodak, HMV, Blockbuster Video, Jessops, Comet, Clintons Cards and more.
We asked Professor Joe Nellis, Professor of Global Economy at the School of Management Cranfield University to summarise a recent presentation he did for The BVAA and are happy to include his Guest Blog below:
“In recent decades the business environment nationally and internationally has been transformed by unprecedented economic and political developments. A new world order is shaping up with the establishment of new markets and growth opportunities. The globalisation of trade and finance has brought about fundamental paradigm shifts alongside the rapid development of some emerging and frontier economies such as China and India. At the same time, globalisation has also brought about an increasing interdependence between nations, institutions and people.
In tandem, we are witnessing some major social trends including, for example, the ageing of populations in the most developed economies – including the UK. This contrasts sharply with the rapid expansion of young populations, the growth of urbanisation and a long-awaited and much needed expansion in educational investment in many developing countries.
Innovations in technology have connected people in radically new ways. We all now have access to an almost infinite volume and range of information and knowledge -at little or no cost. The internet has truly killed distance! And in the coming years even more far-reaching technological innovations involving for example artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and the gig economy will profoundly change the way we all shop, travel, live and work.
In a nutshell, the world is becoming ever more diverse and complex – and riskier. This makes it increasingly challenging and imperative for everyone to respond appropriately and sooner rather than later. Government, business and society must be prepared to face up to ‘new normals’- there will be no hiding places for those who try to cling to the past and who ignore the new realities.
Charles Darwin wrote a long time ago that:
It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself.
The dinosaurs became extinct because of their failure to evolve in a slowly changing environment. Today, many well-known and long established companies have joined the ranks of the dinosaurs. The world is changing at break-neck speed – and many of us in terms of our skill sets will also become extinct sooner than previously thought possible. But winners of the future will be those who identify and adapt to the new ‘World Beyond the Horizon’.”[caption id="attachment_901" align="aligncenter" width="240"] Professor Joe Nellis, Professor of Global Economy at the School of Management Cranfield University[/caption] | <urn:uuid:c8181b4d-5c87-41f5-8dbc-f12075f60ad5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.zoedale.co.uk/blog/world-beyond-horizon/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.948812 | 677 | 1.726563 | 2 |
A new study finds that women with recorded exposure to domestic abuse or violence were at an increased risk of contracting COVID-19 during the first two waves of the pandemic in the UK.
The national eLearning programme, SCRIPT, is now being used in 30 of the 43 medical schools in the UK to support undergraduate training in prescribing and therapeutics.
A new University of Birmingham-led research project has been launched to examine the impact of psychological support on the mental wellbeing of people affected by modern slavery.
Informal carers who looked after people that died from a terminal illness at home during the COVID-19 pandemic are being asked to take part in a research project led by the University of Birmingham.
A licensed drug normally used to treat abnormal levels of fatty substances in the blood could reduce infection caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus by up to 70%.
A major study led by the University of Birmingham has revealed that a lack of available specialist consultants in hospitals at the weekend is not the cause of the so-called 'weekend effect'.
Dr Melissa Grant is the winner of The Microbiology Society's 2021 Microbiology in Society Award for her engagement project Beyond Blue Skies Biology.
The Universities of Birmingham, Leicester and Nottingham have launched a partnership training the next generation of leading researchers the skills required to transform our understanding and treatment of disease.
A University of Birmingham student has won an award for her work to help young aspiring students from low income backgrounds to apply for degrees in medicine.
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The Issues behind “Community Game Projects”
March 6, 2010
Across several Game Maker forums we have seen the creation of “Community Game” projects. The most widely-participated in of these by far has been the “GMCG”, started by grimmjow. Other smaller-scale projects include NOD‘s still unnamed Game Project, NODs first game project which died and 64 Digits’ (now dead) game.
Although the idea is plausible and there are always lots of volunteers in the beginning the initial thrill wears off in just a few short weeks. If a strong group is not built up by then the projects slowly deteriorate until it is just a small group of elite leaders that are talking to the wall. Here is a look at just a few of the many problems that plague these so called “Community Games”.
1. Lack of proper leadership
Although from the outside it just looks like the position with all the glory and the honor (and the mod powers!), the leadership position plays a very critical role in the overall out come of the game. Too often the leaders of these projects are relatively inexperienced in creating games, much less leading a group of lots of people. More experienced members who would have the knowledge and technical know-how to run such a project realize all the responsibility involved and generally tend to run in the opposite direction.
2. If you want it that way then why not you do it?
A problem I have encountered in many of the games out there is large groups making decisions, that are generally not their business. For example, why should the sprite makers and artists choose what program the sound and music crew must use to make music? It doesn’t really affect them. The musicians, who are hopefully experienced in their field should be able to make a decision themselves, independently from the rest of the community. Why should the people outside the music department get a say in something that does not affect them, but it will affect the musicians, and possibly make them leave.
3. Activity Levels
The activity and devotion of members in the project is easily one of the top deciding factors in the overall speed of the game. As with most projects (including community games) activity and enthusiasm is always exuberant in the beginning of the game. Unfortunately after the initial rush activity levels start to diminish. This is partially because people get bored with the game or perhaps just wanted to see how it is progressing without contributing. It could also be because at the beginning of the project, there is not a lot which can be done. Leadership roles are still being established and story lines are being written. The challenge is having something for everyone at all times that people can work on.
Another interesting angle that the GMCG is taking is to name a weekly “Top Contributer”. They are also thinking of awarding actual prizes to members as a way of saying thanks as well as an incentive to other members. However, we have yet to see a prize given out. I find this also very true with media groups that try to produce weekly or monthly projects. Viewers like the idea initially, but since they only want to tune in (or read it as the case may be) now and then, the people that run it get discouraged after and give up.
4. Group Decisions
Although some game projects just set up a monarchy and have one person call all the shots, that doesn’t really hold with the spirit of a community game. Alternatives include having a small group of “leaders” that make decisions for members, or having all-out community votes. Unfortunately community votes take lots of time and that can bore members that just want to work on the game. One of the alternatives to having votes or monarchs is to have community discussions or “meetings” if you will. The people that are working on the game will all go on a set chat room at a predetermined time and discuss the aspects of the game, as well as the pros and cons of new ideas. One of the downfalls though is that people are spread out over many timezones and have different schedules which makes it hard for everyone to get their fair say.
As with many group events, there are always people that sit on the sideline and watch before they jump in and do it. While having “contributor of the week” and giving out cash (or other forms of) prizes are good, that is not always enough to get people to join in. Group leaders need to think of creative ways to get these people “off the bleachers” (or computer chairs in this case) and into the project. | <urn:uuid:fedde308-5f28-43b2-8d9b-913b0ab837c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://gamemakerblog.com/2010/03/06/the-issues-behind-community-game-projects/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.978633 | 972 | 1.695313 | 2 |
I was reading about SSH key authentication and setting it up with my 3 computers at home.
I have one main computer, call it "A", and two others, call them "B" and "C".
Now based on the documentation I've read, I would run ssh-keygen on B and C and put the public keys on computer A assuming I will always SSH into computer A, if I'm on B or C.
But, I think the documentation examples I've read assumes only 1 home computer will be used with lets say some other outside computer. In my situation, does it make sense to just run ssh-keygen on one computer and copy the files over to the others? This way I only need to back up one set of keys? And when I log into an outside computer, I only have to set it up with 1 set of keys as well as opposed to setting it up with all three computers.
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You might have seen those cute videos of puppies eating ice cream on your social media page. Or how about videos of dogs chasing ice cream trucks and getting a dollop of a vanilla swirl? All those viral videos can make anybody go “aww” and wonder if they can feed their pooch too.
Ice cream is a tasty treat that anybody can enjoy, no matter what age they are. Around 291.09 million Americans consumed ice cream last 2020, and the number does not stop rising. Many kids and adults enjoy a bowl of ice cream on a hot summer day. So if people can enjoy a serving of cold, creamy goodness, can dogs have a taste too?
Can Dogs Eat Ice Cream?
If you pay close attention to those viral videos of dogs eating ice cream, you might notice a pattern. Most, if not all, dogs are served vanilla ice cream.
Some dogs, especially younger pups, can tolerate plain vanilla ice cream. Granted, not all vanilla ice creams are safe. Owners still need to be cautious of what ingredients are in their treats (more on that later.) So serving a small amount of vanilla ice cream to your dog won’t immediately cause any adverse side effects.
But don’t give them their own bowl just yet! While a spoon of ice cream won’t do any long-term harm to your dog, it’s also inadvisable to give them a large amount of dessert. We compiled 3 reasons why you should never feed your dog ice cream. These reasons can discourage owners, especially beginners, from giving dangerous human food to their dogs.
But don’t be upset that your furry friend isn’t getting a treat. At the end of this article, we will also give 3 alternatives that are safe for your pooch. And not only are they healthier, but they’re also chilly and perfect for a summer day.
3 Reasons Why You Should Never Feed Your Dog Ice Cream
Sorry buster, but the sweets are reserved for the owners.
1 Dogs Are Lactose Intolerant
According to the American Kennel Club, when a puppy is weaned, its body produces fewer enzymes that can break down lactose. Thus, adult dogs are naturally lactose intolerant to some degree.
Ice cream is rich in dairy, thus making it a big source of lactose. Unfortunately, that also means that it can potentially upset a dog’s stomach. More specifically, dogs can experience side effects like vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence, and stomach pain. That’s why it’s important to limit dairy consumption in your pooch’s daily diet, especially if it’s ice cream.
Which begs the question: what about vegan ice cream? While vegan ice cream is dairy-free, it’s still not a good option for dogs. Vegan ice cream is made of nut-based milk, which might cause allergies in canines. So it’s always important to read the label.
2 Certain Ingredients Are Toxic to Dogs
Let’s say that your dog can tolerate dairy. Does that mean that ice cream is safe? Not necessarily. You also have to consider the ingredients of the ice cream that you’re getting.
When it comes to flavors, we already established that vanilla is the safest bet. But what about other flavors? The biggest no-no for dogs is chocolate. Chocolate contains two compounds, namely theobromine, and caffeine, and both of these are dangerous in dogs. The richer and bitter the chocolate is, the more toxic it is for dogs. Any form of chocolate on ice cream, be it the flavor, topping, or sauce, can cause unfavorable reactions in your pooch. Chocolate toxicity is a major problem that needs immediate veterinary treatment. Common symptoms of chocolate poisoning include vomiting, diarrhea, high blood pressure, tremors, high heart rate, and heart failure.
Nuts are also something that you should look out for, especially if you’re feeding something to your dog. Common nuts that are harmful to dogs include walnuts, pistachios, macadamia, and pecans. Nuts are high in fat and can lead to pancreatic problems in dogs. Certain nuts, like macadamia, can cause disruptions in your dog’s muscles and nerves. Plus, small slices of nuts are also potential choking hazards. So avoid anything with nuts if you want to give your dog a treat.
Finally, we need to talk about xylitol. Xylitol is an artificial sweetener used in a lot of ice cream. For humans, xylitol is a fairly harmless additive. For dogs, however, xylitol can cause low blood sugar and liver failure. Just a small amount of xylitol can cause massive problems for your pet. Look out for signs like panting, collapsing, and staggering. Like other toxic ingredients in this article, immediate medical attention is needed.
Dogs’ bodies are more sensitive compared to humans, so they can’t eat the same food as we can. And these ingredients aren’t the only things you should look after when reading the labels.
3 Ice Cream is Full of Fat, Sugar, and Preservatives
It’s no secret that ice cream is not the healthiest food in the world. That’s because ice cream is loaded with fat, sugar, and preservatives. And just like humans, too much of those things can be harmful to your pet.
All these things combined can lead to different health complications in dogs. Too much of them can cause obesity, heart disease, and diabetes in dogs. And even if it’s not ice cream, any food that lacks nutrients should never be given in excess to dogs. What our canine friends need is a balanced diet of healthy and nutrient-dense food.
It’s not to say that dogs should never have fat nor sugar. In fact, they are also necessary for keeping a dog alive. But a diet of only these two, plus preservatives, is a recipe for disaster. And so, it’s important to never include ice cream in your dog’s diet in the first place.
Safer Alternatives for Dogs
It feels unfair to keep your dog away from the fun, though. It’s so tempting to give them a taste, especially when they bring out those adorable puppy eyes.
We all can’t resist giving our pups a treat once in a while. The good news is that you no longer have to feel guilty! Your dog can also enjoy a refreshing cold treat that is safe and just as delicious.
Here are 3 safer alternatives to ice cream that your dog can have:
One of the easiest ways to cool your dog off is by giving them frozen, fat-free plain yogurt. According to the AKC, yogurt contains less lactose because of fermentation, making them more tummy-friendly for your dog. Plain yogurt is also healthier since it’s rich in calcium and protein.
When buying yogurt, avoid getting commercialized frozen yogurt with flavorings. Like ice cream, these yogurts are full of sugar and can cause problems with indigestion. It’s also a good idea to read the label before buying to avoid any allergies. Also, if your dog can’t handle dairy products like yogurt, it’s best to try out other options.
Frozen Fruit Popsicles
Homemade popsicles (or popsicles) are a safe treat that you can easily make at home for your pooch. You only need a few ingredients and a popsicle mold to make this yummy dessert today.
Fruit popsicles are healthier than ice cream because they provide more nutritional value to your dog. And because they’re homemade, you can control what ingredients go into your popsicles.
This simple recipe from Cook It Real Good is so delicious that you and your dog will both enjoy it. (But make sure you don’t accidentally eat the dog biscuit.) You can also try out different fruits with your popsicles, like apples, blueberries, or cantaloupes.
Finally, we have something delicious that both you and your dog can enjoy. A great alternative for ice cream is the creatively named “nice cream.” And the best part is that it only needs one ingredient: bananas.
You can make nice cream at home today. Just freeze some ripe bananas, blend them in the food processor, and scoop. It’s that simple! And because it’s made out of bananas, your dog can safely eat them along with you.
Bananas are one of the few fruits that are safe for dog consumption. Bananas are rich in potassium, fiber, and both vitamins B6 and C. They are a great fruit if eaten in moderation.
Those are just some examples of tasty treats that you can prepare for your little furry pal. Of course, the Internet is full of other creative snacks that are great ice cream alternatives. But we focused on the desserts that you can easily afford and prepare in the kitchen. And best of all, these recipes are all edible for you and your pup!
Ice cream is a tasty treat that humans love. Unfortunately, the story is different for your dog. But while dogs can’t enjoy the creamy goodness of ice cream, there are still other ways that they can cool off in the summer. But owners should always remember to have these treats in moderation. Not only for their loyal pals but for themselves as well. | <urn:uuid:ed780136-7223-46be-a6d6-0f921bfc6aab> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dogscream.com/ice-cream/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938173 | 1,996 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Chapter 15: P1
1. Pretty Lady Cosmetic Products has an average production process time of forty days. Finished goods are kept on hand for an average of fifteen days before they are sold. Accounts receivable are outstanding an average of thirty-five days, and the firm receives forty days of credit on its purchases from suppliers.
a. Estimate the average length of the firm’s short-term operating cycle. How often would the cycle turn over in a year?
· Cash conversion cycle CCC = DIO + DSO – DPO
· CCC = 15+35-40 = 10 days
· Operating cycle CC starts from the day the firm raw material for production till realization of sales.
· So OC = 40+15+35-40 = 50 days
b. Assume net sales of $1,200,000 and cost of goods sold of $900,000. Determine the average investment in accounts receivable, inventories, and accounts payable. What would be the net financing need considering only these three accounts?
· Annual Sales = $1200,000
· COGS = $900,000
· Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO): This addresses the question of how many days it takes to sell the entire inventory. The smaller this number is, the better.
· DIO = Average inventory/COGS per day = Average inventory/($900,000/365) = 15days
· So Average inventory = $36,986.30
· Days Sales Outstanding (DSO): This looks at the number of days needed to collect on sales and involves AR. While cash-only sales have a DSO of zero, people do use credit extended by the company, so this number is going to be positive. Again, smaller is better.
· DSO = Average AR / Revenue per day = Average AR/($1200,000/365) =35 days
· So Average AR = $115,068.50
· Days Payable Outstanding (DPO): This involves the company’s payment of its own bills or AP. If this can be maximized, the company holds onto cash longer, maximizing its investment potential; therefore, a longer DPO is better.
· DPO = Average AP / COGS per day = Average AP/($900,000/365) =40 days
· Average AP = $98,630.14
· So net financing needs = Average Inv + Average A/R – Average A/P = 36986.30+115068.50-98630.14 = $53,424.66
Chapter 16: P1
A supplier is offering your firm a cash discount of 2 percent if purchases are paid for within ten days; otherwise, the bill is due at the end of 60 days. Would you recommend borrowing from a bank at an 18 percent annual interest rate to take advantage of the cash discount offer? Explain your answer.
Nominal Rate = 2/(98*50/365) = 14.9%
Effective Rate = (1.1490)^(50/365) – 1 = 19.2%
Yes, I would recommend borrowing from a bank at an 18 percent annual interest rate because the effective rate of the cash discount is greater than the interest rate charged by the bank. | <urn:uuid:f7408c42-21e3-4586-9b79-c05b6f247d81> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onlineessayhelp.net/principle-of-finance-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.922437 | 687 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Yangon, Myanmar, Jan 30 (efe-epa).- Myanmar’s armed forces on Saturday said they would respect the country’s constitution amid mounting concerns the military might attempt a coup.
“Since the Tatmadaw (armed forces) is the armed association, it must obey the constitution. Our soldiers must obey and respect the constitution,” the military establishment said in a statement.
It added that media had misinterpreted a speech given by the armed forces chief on Wednesday about abolishing the constitution.
The statement dampened the coup rumors that intensified since Tuesday when military spokesman Zaw Min Tun refused to rule out the army’s seizure of power after alleging irregularities in the Nov. 8 general election.
The following day, Tatmadaw chief Min Aung Hlaing said in a speech to military personnel that the constitution should be abolished if it is not complied with and recalled coups of 1962 and 1988, interpreted as a veiled threat in a country ruled by a military dictatorship between 1962 and 2011.
Coup concerns gained traction Friday when military tanks appeared in a street near Yangon’s airport and in another central street, a scene not seen in many years.
About a dozen embassies on Friday urged Myanmar to “adhere to democratic norms.”
The Electoral Commission has denied fraud in the November election, which Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy won by a landslide, gaining 83 percent of the 476 seats in parliament.
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By John Crockford
Though there seems to be a sufficient pool of tech people working and living in this area, I’ve recently learned that a handful of local progressive organizations have had some difficulty finding volunteers to help maintain their respective Web sites and provide help with other information technology (IT) matters.
Although some organizations have the ability to pay for tech services (for anything from Web site maintenance to servicing onsite computer networks), those without the funds to pay have had to rely on companies that were willing to provide some of their tech needs for free—though I suspect these services were often limited in one form or another. Ideally, an organization would have available to it—either on staff or as a volunteer—someone who would be able to provide the tech help it needed.
Often, the tech help that an organization needs is not particularly complex or requiring a vast set of skills—just help with an issue (like a software problem) or a function of the organization (like maintenance of its Web site).
Though it may be a bit simplistic, sometimes just having a bit of conversation can lead to getting the help that’s needed. For example, in a conversation among friends over a cup of coffee, if one were to ask a question about, for instance, how to do something particular using Microsoft software, you would likely find someone in the group who “knows just how to do that.” It’s not always that easy, however, for help with tech matters such as fixing a broken Web site.
Because there seems to be a need in some organizations for help with tech matters that isn’t being fulfilled otherwise, then perhaps just beginning a conversation about technology among the local progressive community can help. The solution, perhaps, is to create a conversation using a widely used and familiar platform—maybe an e-mail listserv—through which questions are posed, answers are considered, tried and tested, and the results of which are shared as common knowledge. If a volunteer is needed to perform specific technical functions for an organization, then hopefully one would be found from among the participants or an acquaintance of someone in the group.
If the participants included a sufficient number of members with varying degrees of skill and experience (from none to a ton), then perhaps this “tech collective” would help greatly enhance the work done by progressive groups and individuals in the area.
If you have skills in building Web sites (using HTML and CSS) and working with Web site software such as WordPress and you are interested in providing free, volunteer tech services, the author will put you in touch directly with organizations that can use the help. If you are interested in discussing the issues presented here or participating in such a discussion group or “tech collective,” contact the author at email@example.com.
John Crockford, a self-described “geek with Luddite sympathies,” is an independent Web site designer and consultant. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.org or follow the Crockford Files (@crockfordfiles) on Twitter (https://twitter.com/crockfordfiles). | <urn:uuid:7a784605-a36c-47e1-8449-e14a8f18dd38> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fresnoalliance.com/the-crockford-files-a-tech-collective-for-the-fresno-progressive-community/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96688 | 649 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Like many policies, procedures, and programs designed and implemented in the corporate environment, workplace violence plans are typically designed by individuals, groups, or committees with absolutely no knowledge, understanding, or background in handling violence or aggression. And, as any self-protection expert, police officer, or soldier will tell you…
…what seems logical, rational, and sounds like it should work in a planning session, is usually exactly the opposite when the brown stuff is hitting the fan!
Here are 7 reasons why most workplace violence action plans are all-but worthless, especially when actual violence is occurring.
1. The individual or group charged with creating the plan has no background in the subject of effectively dealing with violence and aggression. As a result, their plan includes ineffective training or, worse yet, no training at all!
2. Everyone assumes that irrational and violent people can be rationed with.
3. Plans and policies like this are often nothing more than feel-good, cover-our-butt maneuvers designed to garner a promotion, a feather in someone’s cap, or as a company’s PR move.
4. Everyone’s focus is on prevention and not on troubleshooting. As a result, attention is placed on the prevention at the front-end and the reporting and disciplinary procedures at the back-end – leaving a huge hole in the middle!
5. Consultants are hired based on their own company size and prestige, rather than their background in dealing with danger and violence
6. Plans are limited to passive elements like banned weapons lists, zero-tolerance statements, and reporting policies, and totally avoid physical response in the case of an incident that was beyond prevention, and…
7. Workplace violence plans, like many elements of the business world, are governed and limited by budgets… until it’s too late!
The good news is that, for most companies, your workplace violence plan doesn’t need to be scrapped. Chances are, it just needs to be completed. And once it has the necessary elements to balance it out, you will really have what you set out to have in the first place – a “liability-control” device.
While it may seem to be cheaper and more cost-effective to only focus on what everyone else is doing, it’s not everyone else’s business we’re talking about – it’s yours! And the cost, financially and otherwise, that can result from a workplace violence incident, can devastate a company. Sometimes for permanently. | <urn:uuid:41c65d78-ad3e-49e2-9137-63d7073523e2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://conversationblog.com/2020/03/15/7-reasons-why-most-workplace-violence-plans-are-flawed-from-the-beginning/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.95203 | 526 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Sometimes you have a bad day. And sometimes your tuned 1,800 horsepower supercar catches fire at 200 plus mph. That day is both awesome (for onlookers) and catastrophic (for you).
This fantastic video shows one of the things that can happen when you tune a car to extremes, particularly when that car is made by the Italian auto industry. At least it wasn’t made by British Leyland; there probably would have been electrocution to go with the burns.
The video shows a race between two tuned Lamborghini Gallardos. The star of the show is an appropriately flame orange car developed by Underground Racing. Everything is going well when, something – probably a turbo – producing a bright orange ball of flames. For a few moments it looks like the car is literally trying to outrun its own explosion.
Fortunately for everyone, the tuners were smart enough to install a fire suppression system which meant that instead of the car blowing up at 200 mph the fire was out within seconds. Thankfully, this means that the people involved can live on to tune again, after having hopefully learned a few things about forced induction … and how much cooling it requires.
Regardless, the driver of that Gallardo can now say something that very few alive people with all of their skin can say: that they have driven 207 mph in a car that was on fire.
- CES is hosting a high-speed autonomous car race today. Watch it here
- 2022 Toyota GR 86 first drive: Old-school thrills meet modern tech
- Lamborghini brings back a legendary supercar as an 803-hp hybrid
- Watch Ford’s robot test drivers take a car for an on-the-spot spin
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The Rehabilitation Aide works in conjunction with the Nursing Assistants to provide rehabilitation and restorative services to prevent decline in and increase skills in Activities of Daily Living (A.D.L.) for the residents in the facility. He/She is knowledgeable of restorative and rehabilitation processes and programs as well as the residents’ needs for each program. He/She will assist the other team members throughout their tour of duty to assure residents A.D.L. programs are carried out to the resident’s maximum capabilities and as outlined on the Interdisciplinary Care Plan. He/She works in conjunction with the Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapist to assure A.D.L. potential is assessed appropriately and needs are met on a daily basis. He/She will assist the other team members to assure the residents are well groomed and clean, well nourished and assists to meet their psychosocial needs. He/She assists to keep the resident care areas clean, in good working order, and a home-like atmosphere for the resident. He/She communicates with the Licensed Staff and Director of Nursing/Assistant Director of Nursing of resident’s needs. He/She reports all relevant observation in a timely manner. He/She documents information timely on all pertinent records. He/She attends in-services and staff meetings as required.
The Rehabilitation/Restorative Aide is responsible to the Assessment Nurse or other Nurse in charge of the Restorative Program and the Director of Nursing and/or Assistant Director of Nursing.
Must be able to read, write, and follow oral instructions. High school education or equivalent is preferred. Must be a Certified Nursing Assistant and have completed requirements for becoming a Rehabilitation Aide in the desired State of practice.
l. Has the ability to work with the Nursing Assistants and Licensed staff of the facility to provide a team work atmosphere. The Rehabilitation/Restorative Aide must be willing and able to help the Nursing Assistants while having other direct responsibilities.
2. Has the ability to organize and provide specialty restorative care with assistance of the Director and Assistant Director of Nursing and the Therapists. Has the ability to assist the Nursing Assistants, Licensed Staff and Therapist with the day to day reinforcement of restorative concepts as A.D.L. tasks are actually being done providing a functional meaning to rehabilitation programs.
3. Maintains effective interpersonal relationships.
4. Is of good emotional, mental and physical health having sound judgment and high standards.
5. Is willing and capable of providing emergency care as needed for any resident in the facility.
6. Is courteous in working with resident, families, and employees.
7. Maintains a neat, well groomed appearance at all times. Keeps personal appearance appropriate for resident care.
8. Has a desire to work with the geriatric resident and their current and prospective needs.
9. Must be in the facility ready to begin assigned duties on time and as scheduled.
10. Must have the ability to function productively without direct supervision at times.
11. Must be willing to work preferred shifts as scheduled and assist on other shifts as needed to assure
adequate staffing to meet the needs of each resident.
12. Must have the ability to provide the care as outlined on the Interdisciplinary Care Plan and other assigned duties.
13. Must demonstrate ability to function as a cooperative team member with each member of the Nursing Department and other departments.
14. Must have ability to provide related bedside resident care services as per facility policy and procedures.
15. Must display ability to adapt to on-the-job training and adhere to standards of the facility providing personal care services, assisting residents, caring for equipment and supplies and developing good understanding of basis of aseptic and sterile techniques.
16. Must be able and willing to function appropriately in a disaster or evacuation of the facility.
17. Must demonstrate ability to follow direction of supervising staff.
18. Must have the ability to communicate, stimulate and provide restorative concepts of geriatric care to/with other team members.
19. Must have a pre-employment and an annual Tuberculosis screening examination.
1. Signs in on Unit Assignment Sheet or other as per facility protocol.
2. Receives report from the Licensed Staff noting changes in resident status, etc.
3. Prepares specialty area for resident services.
4. Works with residents in the specialty area as outlined on Interdisciplinary Care Plan and Therapy orders and as per schedule outlined by the Director/Assistant Director of Nursing.
5. Assists with meal services each day to assure restorative processes are reinforced.
6. Assists with care on the units each day to assure restorative programs are understood and followed as care is provided.
7. Assists with rounds to assure restorative processes are reinforced.
8. Assists with the assessments of residents as indicated by the Director/Assistant Director of Nursing to determine restorative needs and progress/lack of progress of residents.
9. Assists with in-services as indicated by the Director/Assistant Director of Nursing.
10. Documents action throughout the shift.
11. Communicates pertinent findings to the Licensed Staff, Director/Assistant Director of Nursing.
12. Assists other staff members as needed throughout the shift.
13. Adds information to the “Working Copy” of the Interdisciplinary Care Plan as outlined by Director/Assistant Director of Nursing and following the Care Planning calendar.
14. Performs other tasks as assigned.
15. Attends required staffing-services, meetings, orientation, and continuing education activities as required.
16. Is aware of and adheres to Patients Bill of Rights and confidentiality of patient information including HIPAA regulations.
17. Interacts with patients and family members, co-workers, clinical and ancillary staff in a nonjudgmental,supportive and calm manner.
18. Is aware of Patient Abuse Reporting Law.
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HAMLIN, Pa. - Here in the rolling country of the northern Poconos, Marlon Brando is trapped in a metal canister, in a room as stark and gray as a prison cell.
So, too, is his "Godfather" co-star Al Pacino, locked in a vault maintained at a bone-chilling 36 degrees. And just a stone's throw away, down a gravel road that curves around a broad, sloping meadow, Lillian Gish and Charlie Chaplin sit, neatly stacked, in a building where the air conditioning thrums at a constant 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
Of course, these fabled movie thespians and other legends from the 100-year history of the medium aren't really here. But their images are, captured on acetate, polyester and old nitrate film stocks and preserved in an elaborate climate-controlled environment in a spanking-new $11.2 million complex built by the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
With more than 13,000 titles representing every style and format of the moving image, the invaluable MOMA collection stands as one of the most important in existence. Buster Keaton and Cecil B. DeMille . . . Russian masters and French New Wave . . . surrealist shorts by Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp . . . Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in "It Happened One Night," Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep in "The Bridges of Madison County." They're all here.
And outside little Hamlin, population 892, in two sleek buildings ringed by woods full of deer and birds and even a few bears, is where MOMA decided to put it.
"As long ago as 1980, when I came to the film department, I realized we had this huge collection, not well-stored, and we had to do something about it," said Mary Lea Bandy, chief curator of the museum's film and video archive. "We couldn't do it in Manhattan. Technically and mechanically it's too difficult, and it was certainly too expensive."
Bandy's realization and 15 years of research and innovative design have led to the Celeste Bartos Film Preservation Center. Named after the chairman of the museum's trustee committee on film, the facility - which was dedicated June 20 - is 150 miles north of Philadelphia and 100 miles northwest of Manhattan.
More than a warehouse, it's a high-tech complex designed by Davis, Brody & Associates to forestall the deterioration of the MOMA collection. (Nitrate stock, used until 1950, is notoriously volatile, and even the newer "safety" films made with acetate or polyester wear over time.) The center, staffed by six people, is not open to the public, and apart from hosting a few conferences with other preservation teams - the Sony studios' archivists met here recently - it is not going to be crawling with visitors. Scholars, screenwriters, institutions and others seeking access to the collection and its databases will continue to use the MOMA offices in Manhattan.
The center's larger building, with 28,000 square feet, contains 22 vaults and stores black-and-white and color safety film, as well as videotapes, film stills and posters. The second structure, with 8,000 square feet, houses nitrate originals. At the heart of this collection are almost 1,000 silent-era Biograph titles, including 400 shorts by D.W. Griffith, and such landmark works as Thomas Edison's 1890s Kinetoscopes "The Barbershop" and "The Blacksmith Scene" - the oldest of the MOMA pieces.
Linked by computer to the museum's Manhattan offices on 53rd Street, the center maintains a database of filmographic information "on every title in our collection," Bandy said. "That catalog will probably never be finished. . . . It's an ongoing process."
The archive's inventory is also cataloged by computer and bar-coded by can, shelf and vault, so that "for the first time, we have major communication between our storage facility and the museum," Bandy said. "Eventually we'll be able to hook up with other archives around the country (to share) cataloging, descriptive information."
There is also a shipping database that keeps track of every can of film, every reel, as it goes in and out, and every title added to the collection.
The museum began acquiring titles in the early '30s, when studios typically discarded films after their runs. Lillian Gish was responsible for obtaining D.W. Griffith's films; Turner Entertainment donated more than 600 titles released by the Warner Bros. and RKO Studios in the '20s, '30s and '40s. Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola have also donated their collections to the museum. Many reels are the sole remaining copies of the films. | <urn:uuid:bc20a669-4140-423f-819d-84f55de4a62b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=19960818&slug=2344682 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961713 | 1,016 | 1.515625 | 2 |
GenoType® MTBDRsl assay for resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs
Grant Theron1, Jonny Peter2, Marty Richardson3, Rob Warren4, Keertan Dheda5, Karen R Steingart3
1. Stellenbosch University, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Tygerberg, South Africa
2. University of Cape Town, Division of Clinical Immunology and Allergology, Department of Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa
3. Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Cochrane Infectious Diseases Group, Liverpool, UK
4. Stellenbosch University, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence for Biomedical Tuberculosis Research, SAMRC Centre for Tuberculosis Research, Division of Molecular Biology and Human Genetics, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Matieland, South Africa
5. University of Cape Town, Lung Infection and Immunity Unit, Department of Medicine, Cape Town, South Africa
Theron G, Peter J, Richardson M, Warren R, Dheda K, Steingart KR. GenoType® MTBDRsl assay for resistance to second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs. Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2016, Issue 9. Art. No.: CD010705. DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010705.pub3.
To read the full review please follow this link: DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD010705.pub3
Different drugs are available to treat tuberculosis (TB), but resistance to these drugs is a growing problem. People with drug-resistant TB require second-line TB drugs that, compared with first-line TB drugs, must be taken for longer and may be associated with more harms. Detecting TB drug resistance quickly is important for improving health, reducing deaths, and decreasing the spread of drug-resistant TB.
Multidrug-resistant TB (MDR-TB) is caused by TB bacteria that are resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampicin, the two most potent TB drugs.
Extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) is a type of MDR-TB that is resistant to nearly all TB drugs.
What test is evaluated by this review?
GenoType® MTBDRsl (MTBDRsl) is a rapid test for detecting resistance to second-line TB drugs. In people with MDR-TB, MTBDRsl is used to detect additional drug resistance. The test may be performed on TB bacteria grown in culture from a patient specimen (indirect testing) or on a patient specimen (direct testing), which eliminates delays associated with culture. MTBDRslversion 1.0 requires a specimen to be smear-positive by microscopy, while version 2.0 (released in 2015) may use a smear-positive or -negative specimen.
What are the aims of the review?
We wanted to find out how accurate MTBDRsl is for detecting drug resistance; to compare indirect and direct testing; and to compare the two test versions.
How up-to-date is the review?
We searched for and used studies that had been published up to 21 September 2015.
What are the main results of the review?
We found 27 studies; 26 studies evaluated MTBDRsl version 1.0 and one study evaluated version 2.0.
MTBDRsl version 1.0 (smear-positive specimen) detected 86% of people with fluoroquinolone resistance and rarely gave a positive result for people without resistance (GRADE, moderate quality evidence).
Second-line injectable drugs
MTBDRsl version 1.0 (smear-positive specimen) detected 87% of people with second-line injectable drug resistance and rarely gave a positive result for people without resistance (GRADE, low quality evidence).
MTBDRsl version 1.0 (smear-positive specimen) detected 69% of people with XDR-TB and rarely gave a positive result for people without resistance (GRADE, low quality evidence).
For MTBDRsl version 1.0, we found similar results for indirect and direct testing (smear-positive specimen).
As we identified only one study evaluating MTBDRsl version 2.0, we could not be sure of the diagnostic accuracy of version 2.0. Also, we could not compare accuracy of the two versions.
What is the methodological quality of the evidence?
We used the Quality Assessment of Diagnostic Accuracy Studies (QUADAS-2) tool to assess study quality. Overall, we considered the included studies to be of high quality; however, we had concerns about how the reference standard (the benchmark against which MTBDRsl was measured) was applied.
What are the authors' conclusions?
MTBDRsl (smear-positive specimen) identified most of the patients with second-line drug resistance. When the test reports a negative result, conventional testing for drug resistance can still be used. | <urn:uuid:301534a6-c2bd-4f2c-9869-f4f80b6ddd9e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://archive.evidence4health.org/publications-and-multimedia/cochrane-reviews/cochrane-reviews-2016/genotype-mtbdrsl-assay-for-resistance-to-second-line-anti-tuberculosis-drugs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.899116 | 1,101 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Who's in and who's out: Tribal courts and boards feud over membership
This story has been edited to correct the dates of enrollment and dis-enrollment.
It’s a long walk for Debi Anderson to the podium. She’s come to the Grand Ronde tribal council meeting to address her tribe, and the sound of her cane keeps the beat of her journey to the front of the chamber.
Every member of the tribe is granted five minutes to speak, but Anderson — who was cast out of the tribe after almost 30 years — will now have to ask permission of the tribal vice chairman before she delivers a speech the packed room has been waiting months to hear.
Anderson and her family were part of an enrollment purge that removed 86 people from the official tribe rolls. She and all descendants of Chief Tumulth had been ruled ineligible for tribal membership in 2013, but a recent tribal appeals court overturned that decision. Anderson and her kin were back in the fold.
Except they weren't, yet.
A month after the appeals courts' ruling, Anderson and her relatives had still not been re-enrolled — which means they still cannot vote, receive elder pay or apply for hunting tags.
When she finally reaches the podium, Anderson tells the council that the family has followed the process for more than two years. She tells them she has family members who are suffering financial and cultural setbacks. She asks the tribal council to call an emergency meeting, as it has done in the past, to reinstate the family in time to vote in the September 10 elections for tribal council.
Anderson's case has grabbed the attention of Indian Country as Oregon's Grand Ronde tribe has found itself fighting an internal war that has become the primary source for election fodder: who belongs and who doesn't.
Root of the issue
The U.S. Department of the Interior does not have a uniform policy to verify Native American status. All 567 federally recognized tribes, according to the agency, are responsible for creating and enforcing their own enrollment requirements. To qualify as a member of Grand Ronde, individuals must have a 1/16 blood quantum, a parent on the roll at the time of the applicant's birth and an ancestor who was on the official roll at the time of their application. Neighboring tribes differ in enrollment requirements. The Siletz tribe, for example, does not mandate that a parent be on the role at the time of birth. The Klamath tribe requires a 1/8 blood quantum or an ancestor listed on its 1954 roll.
Anderson has a 1/8 blood quantum but it was questions surrounding her ancestor that divided the tribe.
"We are descendants of Chief Tumulth and he signed the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855. That's the original Grand Ronde document," Anderson said.
Under the treaty, native tribes in the Willamette Valley ceded land to the U.S. in exchange for reservations around the state, including Grand Ronde.
However, Tumulth never made it to the reservation; he was executed by the U.S. Army in 1856 after being accused of taking part in the Fort Rains Massacre. He was never placed on the original roll and was long deceased at the time the tribe was terminated in the 1950s and subsequently restored in 1983.
But because tribal laws stated a roll or record of native ancestry could be used to apply for enrollment, Anderson’s great aunt and uncle presented the Willamette Valley Treaty as a record of Tumulth’s lineage. They were enrolled in 1984.
In 1999, however, the tribal council changed the law and no longer gave applicants the option of submitting a record. The treaty with Tumulth's signature was no longer a qualifying document.
The issue came to light during a 2013 roll audit. A total of 86 people from Anderson's immediate and extended family were dis-enrolled. They lost elder housing, elder pay, hunting and fishing rights, drumming rights, ceremonial salmon distribution and casino payments. Two college students attending Cornell and Vanderbilt lost part of their funding. Anderson's daughter was denied when applying for a federal program that offered Native Americans enrolled in federally recognized tribes a lower interest rate on mortgages.
A growing trend
"Dis-enrollment is an epidemic right now in Indian Country," said Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Policy Director and Senior Researcher at the Center for World Indigenous Studies in California. "In the last 10 years it has been increasing and it's sort of a crisis." Gilio-Whitaker said the phenomenon seems to be linked to successful gaming tribes. "The problem is there is no way to prove it, but it does seem to be correlated to successful gaming, indicating a motive of greed."
Grand Ronde members currently receive a quarterly payment; the most recent, issued in September, was for $1,100. But the tribe is facing a 41 percent revenue loss due to an incoming casino in southern Washington. Tribal council has not offered a solution to the revenue shortfall, but tribe lobbyist Justin Martin has said Grand Ronde is looking into every available option to continue offering services such as health care, elder care and education to tribe members; services that will otherwise have to be provided by the state of Oregon.
Grand Ronde is one of Oregon's most successful gaming tribes with 6 percent of its gaming revenue going to nonprofits per state law. Since Spirit Mountain Casino began operation, the tribe has donated $71.6 million. In January, Grand Ronde wrote checks totaling $1.5 million. The Siletz tribe runs Chinook Winds casino in Lincoln City and said it has never had a mass dis-enrollment to the scale of Grand Ronde's.
On August 5, the tribal appeals court ordered that 66 of the 86 dis-enrolled individuals be re-enrolled; 13 of the 86 had dropped their appeals and seven had passed away during the process.
The decision by the appeals court sharply divided the tribe and became the center of campaigns throughout the reservation. Members of the enrollment board — a board separate from the council and charged with overseeing enrollment issues — came out publicly against reinstating the family. Tribal chairman Reyn Leno questioned the appeals court decision on social media and the August 31 council meeting where Anderson spoke descended into a heated debate over why the board had yet to act. Council members said they were removed from the process and the decision was for the enrollment board to make.
According to tribal counsel Robert Greene, the enrollment board is, in fact, responsible for handing the re-enrollment. However, the tribal council has stepped in before, according to councilman Chris Mercier. He said in 2013 council vice president Jack Giffen requested that the enrollment board meet outside of its schedule to re-enroll members of the tribe in time to vote. He was running for re-election at the time.
The enrollment board is not scheduled to meet until the end of the month, 16 days after the September 10 elections and 52 days after the appeals court ordered the family to be re-enrolled.
Grand Ronde officials declined to comment on the matter.
A nation divided
Dividing casino revenue and legislating blood quantum has become an issue facing tribes nationwide.
"Imposing blood quantum has always been a problem," said Gilio-Whitaker. "It's the opposite of the 'one-drop' rule. We call it statistical genocide."
Tate Walker is the editor for Native Peoples magazine and a citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe.
"Personally, I’m not a fan of blood quantum," she said. "Traditionally, our tribes were constantly marrying outside our communities and making relatives in other ceremonial ways."
Census data shows the largest portion of those who identify as multi-racial in the U.S. identify in some part as Native American.
"This is where tribal identity gets messy; unlike other people of color, our identity is political," Walker said.
As for the issue of blood quantum and which tribes will continue to use it as a measure of Native heritage and which tribes will not, Walker said the debate will rage on.
"While this issue of enrollment and Native identity may seem new, I promise this has been an issue since colonizers came upon our shores. What’s different now is social media – the folks being dis-enrolled have a court of public opinion to take their cases to and I guarantee this issue won’t go away anytime soon."
It's what worries Anderson.
"They say the tribe will self-terminate in 20 years because of blood quantum," she said.
September 21 will mark three years since the Anderson family was dis-enrolled. Three family members are headed to college without the help of state and federal grants reserved for Native Americans. They will have to wait for the next application cycle if they are re-enrolled. Anderson’s daughter is still house hunting, hoping to obtain a lower interest rate when re-enrolled. The family was unable to vote in the September 10 elections and they still cannot apply for their hunting and fishing tags.
During the August 31 meeting, several members used their five minutes to speak on Anderson's behalf. Tribe member Monty Herron polled the council, asking if they would be in favor of requesting an emergency meeting of the enrollment board. The response is mixed with the majority of the council saying they would not make the request.
Mercier is one of the few who spoke in favor of the emergency hearing and tells Anderson he doesn't envy her situation.
"There are members of the committee (enrollment board) that have made statements about how they feel about this case," he says. "I wonder if there is a little political bias? Of course it is elections and has it been the cleanest election? I'll say candidates have been clean but not their supporters."
No council member requests more information on calling an emergency meeting of the enrollment board. There is no instruction to place an item on the next agenda.
Anderson embarks on the long journey back to her seat.
What is blood quantum?
The Bureau of Indian Affairs does not perform blood tests to verify Native identity. Private companies conduct blood and/or DNA tests to determine the percentage of blood that is considered tribal due to inherited markers. Once the test is completed, BIA will issue a Certified Degree of Indian or Alaskan Native Blood which can be used in combination with official tribal rolls to apply for enrollment in a federally recognized tribe. Each tribe has its own set of requirements for enrollment. Blood quantum has been used by tribes nationwide to verify Native heritage but many tribes are doing away with the requirement in favor of exclusive use of certified tribal rolls while others are relying solely on the genetic test. Grand Ronde currently requires a minimum blood quantum of 1/16, a parent who was on the roll at the time of the applicant's birth and an ancestor who is on an official tribe roll at the time of application.
Grand Ronde enrollment numbers
At restoration (1983): 1,101
A year before the dis-enrollment (2012): 5,111
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The role of heparan sulfate deficiency in autistic phenotype: potential involvement of Slit/Robo/srGAPs-mediated dendritic spine formation
Neural Development volume 11, Article number: 11 (2016)
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are the second most common developmental cause of disability in the United States. ASDs are accompanied with substantial economic and emotional cost. The brains of ASD patients have marked structural abnormalities, in the form of increased dendritic spines and decreased long distance connections. These structural differences may be due to deficiencies in Heparin Sulfate (HS), a proteoglycan involved in a variety of neurodevelopmental processes. Of particular interest is its role in the Slit/Robo pathway. The Slit/Robo pathway is known to be involved in the regulation of axonal guidance and dendritic spine formation. HS mediates the Slit/Robo interaction; without its presence Slit’s repulsive activity is abrogated. Slit/Robo regulates dendritic spine formation through its interaction with srGAPs (slit-robo GTPase Activating Proteins), which leads to downstream signaling, actin cytoskeleton depolymerization and dendritic spine collapse. Through interference with this pathway, HS deficiency can lead to excess spine formation.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are a set of neurocognitive developmental disorders that are associated with substantial deficits in social interaction. It is the second most common developmental disability in the United States, with approximately 16 out of 10000 people amongst the general population and 14.7 out of 1000 amongst children under eight having an autism spectrum disorder [1–3]. Amongst children under eight have autism there is a higher prevalence of autism amongst boys than girls (one in 42 boys, one in 189 girls) . The associated cost of autism in the United States is approximately $2.4 million . With the stark increase in the prevalence of ASD (269 % from 1996 to 2010) and the associated cost of treatment, there has been an increased interest in the study of ASD pathophysiology . Amongst the many potential causes of ASD, deficiencies in Heparan Sulfate (HS) have garnered interest.
Along with the social deficits displayed in ASD, substantial structural changes are observed in the autistic brain. Autistic infants have normal brain size at birth, but following birth their brains grow faster than normal . After the first critical period in postnatal brain development, the brains of autistic patients were 10 % larger . Conversely, during the second and third period of growth, at ages 2–5 and 5–11, respectively, the brains of autistic patients experienced delayed growth. Along with these macrostructural differences, there are also microstructural differences in ASD brains. These differences include disturbances in axons and dendrites as well as in the number of neurons present. The cerebrum of ASD patients had excess cortical neurons when compared to the non-ASD brain. In contrast, the cerebellum displayed a lower number of neurons, in particular Purkinje cells. The white matter of the cerebrum also exhibited abnormalities, such as thin axons and less myelinated axons than controls . Both of these morphological changes are associated with increased short distance connections, accompanied by decreased long distance connections. The white matter of ASD patients displayed high levels of GAP-43 (growth associated protein-43), a substance associated with cell proliferation, suggesting excess neurogenesis. This supports past findings of excess neurons in the cerebrum of patients with ASD.
Various abnormalities in dendrite morphology are observed in the autistic brain. For a normal child the frontal cortex does not reach its full level of dendritic arborization until the end of childhood, with 3 % of its size present at birth and only 48 % present at 2 years . The cerebral cortex develops more slowly than other brain areas . The extended time it takes for the frontal cortex to develop makes it especially vulnerable to disruption. One study on postmortem brain tissue showed significant differences between the dendritic spines of ASD brains and controls . ASD brains had a higher average density with the difference most apparent in the second layer. Layer V also had a significant relationship with diagnosis, with ASD brains having higher densities in the temporal lobe. In addition to the increase in spine density, shorter spines were also observed in ASD brains. There was also notable differences in the type of dendritic spines present. There were more oblique spines in ASD patients than in controls. The oblique spines also had a greater spine density than either apical or basilar spines did within ASD brains, in controls the spine densities were more similar across type. The density of apical spines within Layer II was found to be higher in ASD subjects than in controls .
Exposure to valproic acid, an anticonvulsant in utero has been linked to autism and other cognitive deficits [9, 10]. A study on rat embryos exposed to valproic acid has led to insight into the structure of ASD brains. Pregnant rats were exposed to valproic acid at gestational day 11.5 . The rats were sacrificed 2 weeks after birth and the microcircuitry of the rats was examined. Synapses showed reduced maximum activity and a weaker excitatory synapse response. The experimental group had an average maximum synaptic output of 3.3 ± 0.3 mV compared with an average of 4.2 ± 0.4 mV for control synapses. Greater current was needed to produce an action potential for Layer V neurons 400 ± 16 pA, n = 51 were needed for the control group, and 444 ± 16 pA, n = 31 for the experimental group. There was also a possible increase in local wiring. The number of direct connections increased 50 % at short distances (~50 μm), while there was no difference for long distance connections (100–200 μm) . There was also an increased probability of interneuron connections. Accompanying this increase there was hyperactivity at the local level with an increase in the synaptic release of excitatory neurotransmitters. In all there appeared to be more connections and neurotransmitter release, but weaker signals and communication.
Together, these findings suggest that the ASD brain never progresses past the early part of brain development, which is characterized by excess neurogenesis and immature synaptic connections. While the structural changes in the ASD brain have been characterized, it is unclear what causes these changes. There is some suggestion that Heparan Sulfate deficiencies may play a role.
Heparin Sulfate (HS) is a proteoglycan that has a variety of biological roles. Proteoglycans are made of chains of highly charged glycosaminoglycans (GAGs). There are five classes of HS which include: membrane syndecans, glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol-anchored (GPI-anchored) glypicans, perlecan, agrin, and hybrid HSPG/collagen type XVIII . Most of the cell-surface HS is in the form of syndecans, which are integral membrane proteins . There are six glypicans in vertebrates, and glypicans may play a role in growth factor signaling pathways [11, 12]. Perlecan and agrin are two of the three proteoglycans of the basement membrane . Perlecan is important in cell differentiation and embryogenesis . Agrin is the main proteoglycan at the neuromuscular junction and causes the aggregation of acetylcholine receptors .
HS is formed in a multiple step process which includes: the formation of a membrane bound protein core (in the case of membrane bound HS), initiation/elongation of the GAG, and various sulfation or de-acetylation steps. HS synthesis is a highly evolutionarily conserved synthesis pathway consisting of 14 steps [11, 12]. The process requires several enzymes making it vulnerable to mutations, being that a mutation of one enzyme could prevent subsequent steps. The first step, mediated by peptide-O-xylosyltransferase, initiates the GAG chain on the protein core . The GAG chain constituents themselves are formed in the Golgi apparatus by various enzymes . HS GAG chains consist of repeats of 2 N-Acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) units and 1 Glucuronic acid (GlcA) unit . The 2 GlcNAc units are added to the chain by galactosyltransferases-I and –II and the GlcA is added by Glucuronyltransferase I . GlcA is donated by UDP-glucuronic acid which is produced by UDP glucose dehydrogenase (UDPGDH) . Continued elongation of the GAG chain is accomplished by exostosin (EXT)-family co-polymerases (EXT1, EXT2, EXTL1, EXTL2 and EXTL3), a family of proteins with highly conversed C-terminals, which are thought to be involved in HS synthesis [14–16]. A heteroligomeric complex of EXT1 and EXT2 polymerizes the GAG chain in HS, the roles of EXTL1, EXTL2, EXTL3 are still unknown, although sequence homology suggest that there function is similar to that of EXT1 and EXT2 [14–16]. Once elongation is completed HS chains are typically ∼ 5 to ∼ 70 kDa in GAGs attached to the protein core . Following the formation of the GAG chain, the proteoglycan undergoes several modifications including: C5 epimerization of GlcA, de-acetylation and multiple sulfation [14, 15]. The C5 epimerization of GlcA is mediated by heparan sulfate C5 epimerase (HS C5-EP) . The multiple sulfation steps lead to many different patterns, which are regulated in a cell specific way . The sulfation patterns of HS modify cellular activity and signaling in different ways, such as providing different axonal guidance cues . The multiple sulfation steps are mediated by several different enzymes: HS 2-O-sulfotransferases (H2ST) which transfers sulfate to GlcA/IdoA residues, 6-O-sulfotransferases (H6ST-1, −2, −2S and −3) which catalyzes GlcN 6-O-sulfation, and 3-O-sulfotransferases (H3ST-1, −2, −3A, −3B, −4, −5 and −6) which catalyzes GlcN 3-O-sulfation [12, 15].
The biological roles of HS have been known to include the mass migration of cells, the protection of FGF from proteolysis, and the formation of the extracellular matrix (ECM) [12, 17]. It is well known that HS has a role in neural development, through the modulation of neurogenesis, axonal guidance, and synaptogenesis . HS has regulated neural connectivity since cnidarians and it is thought to have appeared around the time that the first nervous systems did [14, 19]. This suggests that HS is necessary for proper neural development. Its role in the protection of FGF-2 is critical to neurogenesis, since FGF-2 is a critical growth factor in neural stem cell (NSCs) differentiation and proliferation . Also glypican-4 (K-glypican) is highly expressed in the developing brain of embryos . Furthermore, glypican-4 is expressed primarily in the ventricular zone of the telencephalon, suggesting that it plays a role in cerebral neurogenesis . Glypican-4 was found to be expressed with nestin, a marker for neural progenitor cells, further suggesting its role in neurogenesis . Perlecan also interacts with FGF-2 by acting as its co-receptor . Syndecan-3 has been found on growth cone surfaces and implicated in axonal guidance . Syndecan-3 also interacts with the post synaptic protein CASK, possibly contributing to synapse formation [15, 18]. HS also plays a role in the activity of neurotropic factors, ECM, cell adhesion molecules (CAMs), morphogens, and chemotropic factors . HS has also been shown to facilitate axonal growth, but the associated increase of HS at the sight of injury has been shown to inhibit axonal regrowth . HS is necessary for Slit, Ephrin-A3, and Semaphorin 5A axonal guidance signal pathways [14, 15]. It is thought that the sulfation of HS creates a code that modifies the activity of these signaling pathways . Furthermore, Syndecan-2, another type of HS, has been linked to dendritic spine maturation . HS’s role in neurodevelopmental processes has made it of interest in the study of neurodevelopmental disorders, in particular autism.
HS deficiencies have been linked to autism . In one study, conditional EXT knockout (KO) mice were shown to have many of the stereotyped behaviors associated with autism . The conditional KO did not have EXT in neurons, an enzyme vital in the polymerization of HS, making the conditional KO mice HS deficient [23, 24]. The HS deficiency was at its greatest in the amygdala and hippocampus, regions important to memory and leaning . The brains of the mice showed no structural, tract abnormalities or myelination abnormalities observed in ASD brains [7, 23]. There was also no difference in dendritic spines as is typical with ASD [7, 23]. This can be explained by the late onset nature of the conditional knockout .
There were no observed motor function deficits, but there were significant social deficits observed . EXT KO mice displayed reduced nest building, a stereotyped behavior associated with autism. The mice also showed behavior associated with autism during the Separation-reunion test, Resident-intruder test, Social dominance tube test, and Holed-board test. The KO mice had ultrasonic vocalizations (USV) that were reduced in number, amplitude, and duration. The mice also had hypersensitivity to a hot plate. Mapping of neuronal activity was conducted with Neuronal c-Fos induction as an activity marker. Activity was found to be lower in the basolateral and medial amygdala as well as the ventral orbitofrontal cortex of KO mice when compared to controls. Similar to other autism studies, the KO mice brains showed inhibited synaptic response to excitatory stimuli [9, 23]. This decrease in response could be due to the associated decreased level of AMPA . Furthermore, two brothers with mental retardation associated autism, were shown to have EXT mutations . Suggesting disruptions in EXT mediated GAG chain elongation can play a role in ASD pathogenesis. In addition, these studies suggest the social behavioral abnormalities associated with HS deficiency can begin long before morphological changes are noticeable.
The BTBR mouse model of autism has shown a reduction in HS associated in fractones in the subventricular zone (SVZ) . The number of fractones in the control brain was an average of 1080 for two brains, while the BTBR mice had an average 345 for two brains. Along with the reduction in HS fractones there were noticeable structural differences. Agenesis of corpus callosum was observed as well as reduced size of latent ventricular cavities. There was a 40 % decrease in the length of the SVZ measured in the midline of the HS-ir, suggestive of a decrease in neurogenesis.
In the brains of autistic individuals HS was deficient in the Hypocellular Layer (II) region of the SVZ of the lateral ventricle (LV-SVZ) . It is worth noting that this deficiency disappeared with age. This lack of HS deficiency in older ASD brains may be explained by the natural decrease in HS in the aging brain. The brains of 5–6 years old ASD patients showed an increase in cell proliferation. This seems to contradict research on BRBR mice suggesting decreased neurogenesis, but is consistent with other postmortem studies on human brain tissue which suggest that early in development the ASD brain undergoes excess neurogenesis [6, 26, 27]. The increased neurogenesis was colocalized with the HS deficiency, suggesting HS can decrease neurogenesis . The discrepancy between studies could have to do with the differences in HS levels. The colocalization of GFAP with neurogenesis is consistent with the presence of Type I progenitors. The cell proliferation was localized with the HS deficiency, implying that HS inhibits neurogenesis. The increased neurogenesis dissipated with age, which is curious being that HS deficiency also dissipated with age.
It has also been shown that ASD patients have a sulfate metabolism impairment as evident by reduced levels of sulfates in the plasma of ASD . One study on 38 ASD participants and greater than 25 age matched (ages 2–16) controls, showed that along with reduced levels of plasma sulfate ASD patients also showed reduced transulfation metabolites such as: taurine, glutathione and cysteine . The average total plasma sulfate of ASD patients is 934 ± 252 μmol/l versus an average of 1,930 ± 184 μmol/l for controls . ASD patients were also shown to have increased plasma oxidative glutathione, which is indicative of cell damage . In addition to having low plasma sulfate levels, sulfate was excreted at a higher level in ASD individuals: 6819.0 nmol/ml and 3030.8 nmol/ml in controls . This is of particular interest because peptidoglycan sulfation patterns affect HS activity and function [19, 30]. One type of HS sulfotranferase, Phenol Sulfotransferase, has been linked to autism . An autism genetic study found an abnormality on chromosome 16p12.1-11.2, the location of the Phenol Sulfotransferase gene . Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) detected a microdeletion of 16p11.2 that was not present in any of the controls . A second study found that deletion or duplication of 16p11.2 is found in 1 % of those with autism and 1.5 % of those with developmental delays . Along with excess sulfate excretion in patients with ASD there is also evidence of a threefold or greater increase of GAG excretion in ASD patients . This points to HS defiency as a potential cause of autism.
It is unclear how a deficiency in HS can lead to autism, but it is known that HS has a role in the early development of the nervous system. HS is involved in synaptogenesis, axonal guidance, neural migration, and dendritic spine formation in the developing brain [14, 18, 35]. It appears that axonal guidance disruptions and dendritic spine deformation are the most likely candidates, because both have been shown in autism cases [36, 37]. This along with the HS deficiencies in rat models of autism makes the role of HS in the regulation of these processes a good target for autism research.
One way in which HS regulates these processes is through its interaction with the Slit/Robo signaling pathway. Slit/Robo regulates thalamocortical projections, forebrain commissure formation, axonal guidance, and dendritic spine formation [38–40]. Robo is a cell-surface receptor and Slit is one of its ligands. Robo is a CAM in the immunoglobulin super family . There are four members of the Robo family present in mammals, all of which have five immunoglobulin-like (IG) domains and three fibronectin-like repeats [42–44]. IG1 and IG2 of the five IG domains have been shown to be necessary for Slit/Robo interaction . Slit is known for its four leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domains located in the N-terminus, which are labeled D1-D4 . Studies on Slit have shown that Slit can function without the C-terminus in vitro; hence, the LRR domain is necessary for Slit/Robo signaling while the C-terminus is not, but this has yet to be tested in vivo . The Slit/Robo interaction is a high affinity interaction . Much work has gone into understanding this interaction. Through work with xenopus it was found that the highly conserved D2 domain is the binding site for Robo . It appears that the D2 domain of Slit binds with the IG1 domain of Robo . The residues that mediate this interaction are Thr-74, Phe-114, and Arg-117 of IG1 . While the IG2 domain of Robo is not the binding site of Slit, it appears to be necessary for the proper folding of the IG1 domain .
HS has been shown to affect Slit’s affinity to Robo [41, 46]. In one study, HS was removed from the cell surface of Robo1 expressing cells and Slit2 binding was reduced by threefold . It was also found that the repulsive effects of Slit2 on the cellular projections was abolished in vitro when cell surface HS was removed by heparinase III . Slit’s interaction with HS is mediated by the D4 domain of Slit . The D4 domain has five LRRs with one cysteine-rich domain on each end . These domains together form a seven stranded β-sheet . The interaction between D4 and HS is mediated by three highly positive basic patches at the bottom of the D4 . Specifically, it has been shown that sulphate forms hydrogen bonds with the Tyr 810 and His 833 residues . This is a highly conserved pattern across Slit domains . The D4 domain is also involved in the dimerization of Slit . It is believed that the Slit dimer, Robo, and cell-surface HS form a tetrameric complex .
HS’s pivotal involvement in the Slit/Robo interaction, and furthermore, Slit/Robo involvement in axonal guidance and dendritic spine formation, make this signaling pathway of interest when exploring the pathogenesis of autism. Robo1 and Robo2 has also been shown to be deficient in some cases of autism, suggesting that this pathway may be a possible mechanism by which HS deficiency could cause autism [37, 48]. Furthermore, in one study the Robo2 deficiency was associated with the anterior cingulate cortex, an area of the brain associated with social cognition . Slit expression was found to be increased in ASD group in comparison to the control group . In addition, a role for Slit/Robo malfunctioning in autism, dyslexia and other speech disorders is supported by a recent study showing that vocal learning birds (songbird, parrot and hummingbird) make a relatively rare connection between vocal learning circuits of the forebrain and brainstem vocal motor neurons, not seen in vocal nonlearning bird species or mice, mediated by specialized regulation of SLIT-ROBO genes . The role of Slit/Robo in autism is clearly an important area for further study.
If Slit/Robo signaling leads to autism, does it do so through its role in axonal guidance or through its role in dendritic spine formation? Both changes in long-distance connections and dendritic spine morphology are present, so presumably either is possible. It seems that a connection to dendritic spines is more plausible, when you consider that several autism related disorders have been linked to dendritic spine dysgenesis . Syndycan-2 also is expressed in high levels in dendritic spines and has been linked to spine maturation . A female with mental retardation, multiple exostoses, and autism was shown to have an X;8 translocation, involved in the GRPR gene, and the SDC2 gene which codes Syndecan-2 . This suggest that Syndecan-2 and dendritic spine dysgenesis are related to autism. Furthermore, it has been shown that Slit1 treated neurons had morphological changes in dendritic spines . This suggest Slit plays a key role in dendritic spine formation.
Slit/Robo regulates the formation of dendritic spines through an interaction with srGAPs (slit-robo GTPase Activating Proteins) [38, 51]. srGAPs are a family of small guanine triphosphatase activating proteins, which act on the Rho GTPase family . Rho GTPase family members include Rac, Cdc42 and Rho, all of which are members of the RAS superfamily [53–55]. srGAPs are regulators of the actin cytoskeleton, which has been shown to be involved in the formation of growth cones of the neural cytoskeleton [38, 53, 55, 56]. There are three forms of srGAPs identified in humans: srGAP1, srGAP2 and srGAP3 . srGAP1 lessens the formation of cellular protrusions, while srGAP2 and srGAP3 increase the formation of cellular protrusions [38, 57]. All the srGAPs are highly expressed in the brain, especially in the forebrain [52, 58]. All three srGAPs are mainly located in the neurons, but not the glia . Robo1, srGAP1 and srGAP2 were found in the anterior SVZ, suggesting that the Robo1/srGAP interaction plays a role in either neurogenesis or the migration of newly formed neurons . Of greater interest is the localization of srGAP1 in the nuclei of neurons in the cerebral cortex layers II–VI . Abnormal increases in the densities of dendritic spines in ASD patients have been noted for these layers. In light of the role of srGAP1 in lessening cellular protrusions, autism may be linked to disturbances in this pathway. To answer this question, the processes of how srGAPs mediates dendritic spine ormation must be explored.
srGAPs has been found to be collocated with synapses and the heads of dendritic spines . Immature spines are observed when srGAPs is inhibited . Also KO mice had immature and more numerous spines . srGAPs has been shown to interact with Robo during the process of dendritic spine formation [38, 59]. srGAP and Robo receptors have been found to be collocated in rat brain samples, suggesting that the srGAP/Robo relationship may mediate the dendritic spine formation . Robo has also been shown to have an effect on dendritic spine formation .
Slit regulates this interaction between srGAPs and Robo . To understand the srGAPs/Robo interaction we must first understand the structure of srGAPs. srGAPs consist of a RhoGAP domain, a SH3 domain, and a Fes/CIP4 homology (FCH) domain . The Slit/Robo interaction is mediated by the SH3 domain of srGAPs and the proline-rich CC3 motif of Robo1 . The SH3 site of srGAPs is contained in several different proteins and is involved in many signaling pathways . The SH3 region has a hydrophobic cleft that acts as a recognition site. This hydrophobic cleft recognizes proteins that have a PXXP motif, in which X is usually arginine or a hydrophobic residue. This PXXP motif forms what is known as a collagen chain conformation. The hydrophobic cleft of SH3 interacts with Robo. Robo has four motifs: CC0, CC1, CC2, and CC3. CC3 is a proline rich motif that mediates Robo’s interaction with the PXXP recognition site of srGAPs. CC3 has a highly conserved sequence of TYTDDLPPPPVPPPAIKSP [PIR: Q1RMC8], which interacts with the hydrophobic cleft of SH3.
It is believed that Slit binds to Robo1 enhancing the ability of srGAP1 to bind to Robo1 . This activates srGAP1 which inactivates Cdc42 (a Rho GTPase), which phosphates N-WASP and activates it . Inactivating Cdc42, therefore decreases the activation of N-WASP, which decreases activation of Arp2/3 . Arp2/3 promotes actin polymerization and its deactivation causes dendritic spine collapse . In this way Slits repulsive effects may cause the collapse of dendritic spines. The malfunctioning of this pathway may increase dendritic spine formation, mediated by the increased activity of Arp2/3.
As noted earlier a disruption of Slit/Robo signaling could also lead to autism, by affecting axonal guidance. Disturbances of axonal guidance have been shown in valproic acid treated mice and postmortem ASD studies, suggesting that disruptions in axonal guidance may contribute to the etiology of autism [7, 9]. One problem with this mechanism is that Slit is a repulsive guidance cue, which leads to growth cone collapse. Axons in ASD make fewer long distance connections [7, 9]. The opposite would be expected if Slit/Robo signaling was reduced.
Increased dendritic spine formation is a feature of autism . The relationship between Slit/Robo and srGAPs with excess spine formation suggests a potential mechanism by which a HS deficiency can cause autism. The deficiency of HS could lead to a decrease in the interaction between Robo1 and Slit, and this in turn will decrease the binding of Robo1 and srGAP1. Ultimately, this will lead to an upstream increase in actin polymerization. This also suggests a mechanism by which decreased Robo1 could lead to autism. The Robo1 deficiency leads to decreased interaction with srGAP1, leading to upstream actin polymerization. Disruptions in this pathway could also be related to the presence of excess sAPPα in autistic brains . sAPPα is linked to increased neurite formation and is also known to bind HS [62, 63]. It is possible that this binding could interfere with Slit/Robo signaling.
While the interaction of srGAPs with Slit/Robo has been investigated, it has not been investigated in a Robo deficient environment or HS deficient environment. An investigation of how these deficiencies affects the interaction of srGAPs with Slit/Robo and the downstream dendritic spine formation could provide insights into autism. It could be insightful to study the Slit/Robo activity of EXT KO mice to determine if this pathway is indeed affected by HS deficiency. Furthermore an investigation on Robo KO mice might help determine if this pathway effects dendritic spine morphology.
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This work was supported by the Silver Endowment. JT holds the Sliver Chair in Developmental Neurobiology.
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
CP reviewed the literature, wrote and edited this article. DS edited this article. JT contributed to the initial idea of the review. All authors read and approved this article.
CP has an MS in Aging and Neuroscience from the University of South Florida. DS is an assistant researcher and professor of psychiatry at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine. JT is the Silver Endowment Chair and a professor of psychiatry at the Morsani College of Medicine.
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Pérez, C., Sawmiller, D. & Tan, J. The role of heparan sulfate deficiency in autistic phenotype: potential involvement of Slit/Robo/srGAPs-mediated dendritic spine formation. Neural Dev 11, 11 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13064-016-0066-x
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Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. J. W. Rohen
On May 26, 2022, the Anatomist Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h.c. Johannes Wilhelm Rohen passed away.
Johannes W. Rohen was born on 18.9.1921 in Münster, attended the grammar schools in Oldenburg and Cologne. From 1940 to 1946 he studied human medicine in Cologne, Freiburg, Breslau and Danzig. After obtaining his doctorate in Tübingen and various clinical activities, he decided to pursue a scientific career at the Institute of Anatomy in Mainz, where he habilitated in 1953. Here he was able to deepen his interest in the functional view of the structures of the human organism. In 1963 he was appointed to an associate professorship in Giessen, and in 1964 to a chair of anatomy at the University of Marburg.
In 1974 he moved to the Friedrich Alexander University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, where he held the chair of anatomy until his retirement in 1991. His work as a teacher was characterized by his functional perspective and was reflected in the textbooks “Functional Human Anatomy”, “Functional Histology”, “Functional Neuroanatomy” and “Functional Embryology”. With the “Photo Atlas of Anatomy” he edited together with Chihiro Yokochi an anatomical standard work was created that was translated into over 20 languages. He continued to work scientifically until he was 90 years old and up to this time he was still asked by students to give the traditional introductory lecture for students of human medicine.
Scientifically, he concentrated mainly on the elaboration of the functional morphology of the visual organ and larynx. Research visits took him to the Department of Ophthalmology at Washington University in St. Louis, USA, to Ahwaz, Iran and to Kampala, Uganda.
He described the three-dimensional structure of the iris-ciliary muscle system and its influence on the resistance of aqueous humor outflow and found that the outflow resistance for aqueous humor is mainly localized under the inner wall of Schlemm’s canal (in the subendothelial region of the trabecular meshwork). These findings were the basis for the development of the glaucoma surgeries trabeculectomy and trabeculotomy. Electron microscopic and histochemical workup of the surgical material from trabeculectomies sent to him internationally then enabled him to differentiate the various forms of glaucoma. He was one of the first to culture trabecular cells to further investigate the causes of glaucoma.
With the advent of scanning electron microscopy, he was able to extend Helmholtz’s theory of accommodation by describing new zonular systems and made significant contributions to the nonlenticular region of presbyopia, which played an important role in the development of intraocular lenses. His work on the functional morphology of the ciliary epithelium and conjunctiva was also of clinical importance.
His research has been recognized by highly prestigious awards, including the Albrecht von Graefe Award of the German Ophthalmological Society, twice the highly endowed Alcon Research Award, USA and the prestigious Helen Keller Award, USA as well as the Anton Waldeyer prize of the Anatomische Gesellschaft (German Anatomical Society).
In addition, he obtained a honorary doctor of the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and he was member of the Leopoldina (German Academy of Sciences) in Halle (Saale) and the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (Germany).
We coworkers, students and friends remember our revered teacher with heartfelt gratitude.
Prof. Dr. med. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll
(Emerita of the Institute of Anatomy, Chair II),
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When you play music with someone who has a heart rather than playing with someone who is just doing it for money or is cynical it makes all the difference.
When you are in a band for a number of years you loose your identity in a way. You become a part of that band and then all of a sudden you are not part of that band. You are still the band without the other two members.
When we made that album with Gary Moore, I was still kind of searching for the right direction for myself. Although the music is quite good the direction was like a box of fireworks that caught light all at the same time.
Unless you go forward then you are going back.
There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
Moving Forward quotes
The greatest music is made for love, not for money.
The early ELP albums were pioneering in a way.
Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.
Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.
I would like to involve myself in some black music. I would like to do some blues and some gospel music. I want to try stuff from other genres and try to widen my musical base.
I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.
I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.
I don't think art is a goal orientated business. I don't do things for the challenges, I only do them because I love them, I'm not really a goal orientated, achiever type of person.
As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.
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Written with Carroll Shelby's full collaboration and with a foreword by Edsel B. Ford II, the great-grandson of Henry Ford, this is the definitive record of America's preeminent twentieth century sports car builder and racer—now in paperback.
It was motoring author Rinsey Mills' passion for AC cars and motorsports history that led to his first meeting with Carroll Shelby. His suggestion that they should collaborate in order to create an accurate record of Shelby's life and achievements at first was rebuffed but later taken up with enthusiasm. This authorized biography is the result.
Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography was a long time in the making, as Mills left no stone unturned in his quest to produce the complete study of Shelby's remarkable life. He carried out extensive research and conducted numerous interviews, fully capturing the narrative of Carroll Shelby within and outside of the automotive racing world, including his:
Fascinating photographs from Shelby's personal collection complete a book whose original hardcover edition was published mere weeks before his passing, making Carroll Shelby: The Authorized Biography a magnificent and lasting tribute to one of the greatest automotive figures of the twentieth century.
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Brian Levin is director of the Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism at California State University San Bernardino; James J. Nolan is a professor of sociology at West Virginia University; John David Reitzel is an assistant professor at California State University San Bernardino.
Published FBI data currently covers hate crimes only up to 2016, when totals increased across the nation for the second year in a row.
Our team of academic researchers specialize in analyzing and forecasting hate crime trends. We have collected new police data from 2017, ahead of the FBI totals, and performed the first analysis of that year's hate crimes, with a particular emphasis on the 10 largest U.S. cities.
Our investigation found that hate crime totals for the 10 largest cities rose for four straight years to the highest level in a decade. Within these data are intriguing signs about the timing and direction of this bigotry.
Over the past several years, hate crimes have been on the rise in America's largest cities. According to the FBI, a hate crime is a "criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender's bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender or gender identity."
Nationally, levels in 2014 were the lowest since national reporting began in 1992, according to the FBI. Since then, hate crimes have steadily increased. In 2016, the last year with FBI totals available, hate crimes were up 11.7 percent compared to 2014.
We see three factors behind the moderate overall increases in 2016. First, there was a precipitous spike around the election. Second, on top of sustained levels of hate crimes against African-Americans, and a small increase against Jews, were larger percentage increases against other groups. Third, hate crimes increased by double-digit percentages in several large states, including New York, California, Florida and Illinois.
In 2017, our data show that hate crimes rose 12 percent over 2016 levels in 38 of the largest cities. There were 1,038 hate crimes in the nation's 10 largest cities – the highest in more than a decade.
In contrast, overall crime dropped slightly in the first half of 2017, according to preliminary FBI figures which show a 0.8 percent drop in violent crime and a 2.9 percent decrease in property crime.
The six most frequently targeted groups in 2016, according to the FBI, were African-Americans; lesbians, gays and bisexuals; whites; Jews; Latinos; and Muslims. Race continued to be the most common category, comprising 57 percent of all hate crimes. Although African-Americans remained the most targeted group, they were at their lowest proportion of all hate crimes since 1992.
Twenty percent of all hate crimes in 2016 targeted religion, driven by increases in anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic attacks. Anti-Muslim hate crimes increased 99 percent between 2014 and 2016 with assaults rising to a record in 2016. Still, religion hate crimes overall remain below previous records.
Our 2017 data from the 10 largest cities, derived mostly from public records requests, reveals that motivation for hate crimes varied in significant ways between the 2016 FBI totals and our later city sample.
Anti-Black, anti-Semitic, anti-gay and anti-Latino were the most common type of hate crimes, but there was some variation. For instance, Jews were the primary target in New York, while lesbian, gay and bisexual persons were the most targeted in Los Angeles.
Hate crime hotspots
Despite consecutive annual increases in hate crimes reported to the FBI, hate crimes in 2016 were still far below 2001's record high. There were 9,730 incidents in 2001, including a record spike tied to the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Hate crimes in 2016 were down 19.7 percent over the previous 10 years. Meanwhile, overall serious property crime declined by 20 percent and serious violent crime by 12 over the same period.
In 2016, over half of all hate crimes reported to the FBI came from just six states. Only 1,776 of roughly 17,895 police agencies reported at least one hate crime. Many states with the highest percentages of African-Americans – such as Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama – barely reported any incidents.
In our 2017 hate crime study, we also uncovered several large cities with unusually low numbers of hate crime reports. Miami, Florida reported no hate crimes. Honolulu, Hawaii reported one, while Orlando, Florida reported five and Houston, Texas 11.
Analysis from the Anti-Defamation League found similar reporting disparities. More than 90 of the 307 largest U.S. cities either reported no hate crimes or did not participate in 2016. These variations may have been caused in part by differences in the way cities categorize crimes as hate crimes or by inadequate training and procedures.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds that hate crimes are considerably underreported, particularly among vulnerable populations such as disabled Americans. The bureau estimates that the overall frequency of hate crimes is far higher than FBI figures, constituting 3.7 percent of all violent crime.
Our analysis of FBI data revealed that there were 735 hate crimes in November 2016, the most since 2007 and the most for the month of November since 1992.
Hate crimes more than doubled the day after the 2016 election, with a 92 percent spike in average daily hate crimes in the two weeks following the election compared to the daily average from the beginning of the year. Crimes against Latinos increased by the greatest percent, followed by Muslims and Arabs and African-Americans.
In 2016, the federal government first become aware of a massive effort by Russian operatives to affect the electoral process by manipulating social media around the presidential election.
What's notable about Russian interference was their focus on sowing racial discord. In May, USA Today published an analysis of 3,517 Facebook ads placed by the indicted Russian Internet Research Agency between June 2015 and August 2017. They found that 55 percent of ads "made express references to race." There were 25 million ad impressions, with placement tripling in the months immediately before election time.
We think that this behavior is noteworthy. Further research is needed, but there appears to be a correlation between the rise in targeted racially divisive social media ads and a near contemporaneous rise in hate crime. This may mark a new era, where the salvos are virtual and the systematic targeting of domestic social cohesion is all too real.
This article was originally published on The Conversation.
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In the midst of widespread drought across the world, putting your clothes in the wash can inspire a lot of guilt. Older washing machines can use up to 40 gallons of water per full load, and even new, efficient washers use somewhere in the range of 13 gallons. A company called Xeros has figured out a way to dramatically reduce the amount of water wasted in the never-ending battle against dirty laundry. Its machine uses plastic beads to decrease water usage by as much as 80 percent.
The beads mix with the laundry in the washer, absorbing and massaging out stains from clothes, reducing the need for detergent as well as water. When the wash cycle is done, the beads drop to the bottom of the machine and are funneled through special openings in the drum so that they can be used again. A supply of recyclable beads lasts 500 to 1000 washes.
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Fire In The Paint Locker Meaning. At the fire point, the combustion sustains at least for 5 seconds after the flame is removed. Every member of the crew was intensively trained in fire safety and damage control.
Now it just means to work hard without rest. The fire point of a substance differs from the flash point in that it is a lower temperature and ignites briefly, but cannot sustain the fire. In this bit of mythology we find the fire element as a symbol of communication and immortality.
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If Heavy Smoke Is Coming From The Paint Locker, The First Firefighting Response Should Be To _____.
He ran around yelling, fire in the hatch!! Fire in the paint locker, a posthumous retrospective currently on view at wichita state university’s ulrich museum of art, demonstrates how mullins took the words to heart: Spaces open to the atmosphere c.
After Extinguishing A Paint Locker Fire Using The Fixed Co2 System, The Next Action Is To Have The Space _____.
Everyone knows that literally setting the rain ablaze is an impossible task. Fire in the paint locker !! At the fire point, the combustion sustains at least for 5 seconds after the flame is removed.
The Doors Come In A Wide Range Of Colours And Materials Including Perspex, Laminate And.
We are of the stars and suns. In addition to assisting you with fire extinguisher sales, we also provide fire extinguisher training, installation, inspections, and more. It originated from usa miners, who needed to warn their fellows that a charge had been set.
188.8.131.52 On A Cargo Vessel Of 500 Gross Tonnage Or More, If One Of The Means Of Escape Required By Regulation 184.108.40.206 Or 220.127.116.11 From A Restricted Space Or Group Of Spaces Connects More Than Two Decks, One Of Those Means Must Be A Readily Accessible Stairway Enclosure That Provides Continuous Fire Shelter From The Space Or Group Of Spaces To.
Steel is not highly combustible, but the metal probe lockers are the only type to be certified to fire zero standards. Simply put, “set fire to the rain” is used figuratively throughout the song. Fire in the hole is an expression indicating that an explosive detonation in a confined space is imminent.
Signal Green Is Used For Starboard Side Light And For Lifebuoys And Fire Appliances, Totally Opposite To Signal Red Since The.
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There are a range of potential outcomes for High BMI life insurance in terms of the possible loading that can be applied to your premium. Your policy is mainly dependent on your BMI (Body Mass Index) reading. Other factors that providers will take into consideration when reviewing your application are:
- Any other pre-existing medical conditions i.e. diabetes, heart conditions etc.
- Any treatment or surgery that you have had or are awaiting
- Your waist/dress size
- Your general health
The other key point to consider is that underwriting and premium loadings for High BMI life insurance will vary from one insurance provider to another.
Underwriting can also change for each provider over time, so if you have been declined previously but have managed to change certain aspects of your lifestyle or lose weight, it is worth applying for life insurance again.
It is possible to get High BMI life insurance at standard rates where the BMI levels are within a certain tolerance level with no further medical or health issues. The other thing to consider for High BMI life insurance is that you may be classed as having a higher than normal BMI but be perfectly fit and healthy. This is often the case for people who are particularly tall or muscly, such as bodybuilders or rugby players.
Applications for High BMI life insurance where your BMI is considered to be more severe can vary widely. If you have other health issues then you will generally find that decisions vary from different providers.
There are certain circumstances where it may be more difficult to get High BMI life insurance. If your BMI is over 53 or you have more serious medical complications, you may find that your application results in being declined.
We will always check all possible providers for you to try and give you the best possible outcome. Everyone’s circumstances are different and we understand that, so will never turn you away before all routes have been explored.
How much does High BMI Life Insurance cost?
Every circumstance and every application is different. We would never be able to give you a cost without looking at your personal details, medical history and BMI.
In general, if you apply for life insurance when you have a high BMI but your body mass index does not exceed 40, you may be eligible to pay standard rates for most insurance policies. However, this would be down to the individual insurance company, as some offer an increased premium below this threshold. Anyone with a BMI of over 36 could be quoted a higher monthly premium.
Typically a life insurance premium is based on several ‘standard’ factors that help to determine your monthly payment, including:
- Sum assured (amount of cover)
- Term (years)
- Smoker status
You will always be asked your BMI too, to determine whether a specialist policy needs to be put in place, along with if you have any medical conditions. All the information you give needs to be open and honest, to avoid any issues down the line.
Speaking about your weight can often be a sensitive subject, but please don’t worry! We will aim to make sure you are at ease throughout our discussions and would never pass judgement – we just need to know to ensure we’re getting you’re the best policy that you deserve!
It is worth noting that life insurance premiums are generally lower for younger lives, so it’s always wise to explore getting cover as young as possible. There are a number of reasons why you might want to look at cover later in life, such as:
- Moving house
- Changing jobs
You should shop around to get the best deals for life insurance and make sure that you ideally speak to an expert like The Insurance Surgery if you have a high BMI.
Getting cheaper life insurance with high BMI
If you have been quoted for a life insurance policy that is slightly too expensive, there are ways in which you can reduce your premiums and save money if your BMI is considered “high”.
You can potentially save a considerable amount of money by following a few simple steps:
Speak to an expert
You can save money on your life insurance by getting free advice from an expert or specialist broker
Apply to the right insurer
The market is incredibly varied in terms of the limits in which an insurance broker classes as too high of a risk. An expert, whole of market broker should be able to identify which insurer will be cheapest for you.
Manage your BMI
Reducing your BMI is much easier said than done, but is an option if you’re looking to reduce your premium. Making small changes can all add up, and you can speak to your GP for support.
At The Insurance Surgery, we have helped thousands of people with special circumstances and medical conditions get an insurance policy in place. Over 70% of people who have been declined elsewhere can secure life insurance through us.
We know exactly which providers to go to for your personal circumstances and all of our agents are highly experienced insurance experts. If your BMI is high, we can go to the providers that we know you have the best chance to get insurance through, so you do not have to search the market yourself.
High BMI Life Insurance rates
Most applications for High BMI Life Insurance are considered as ‘non-standard’ and subsequently incur higher rates. This is because obesity and high BMI can often lead to serious illnesses and many people with a high BMI go on to develop a medical condition.
If you are told your life insurance is non-standard it could mean that your rates are slightly higher, depending on your BMI. Underwriters could identify additional risks and your premium will be raised because of this,
Insurance companies use a risk-based scheme to determine the extra cost of life insurance cover. They may add an additional percentage or per mille loading to your premium. Guidelines vary for different insurance providers, which is why you may have received different quotes elsewhere. At The Insurance Surgery we compare these rates for you and approach the insurance providers that we know will cover you for your circumstances.
What should I expect to be asked when looking for High BMI Life Insurance?
If you are overweight or obese, you will be asked a series of questions to help find you a life insurance policy that covers you. Some of the questions below are what you may expect to be asked:
- What is your current weight?
- What is your height?
- Are you experiencing any weight-related health conditions?
- Do you have high cholesterol?
- Do you have a high blood pressure?
- Do you have Type 2 Diabetes?
- What is your general health like?
- How much is left to pay on your mortgage?
- How much cover are you aiming to take out?
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People with a mental illness experience a significant burden as a result of cancer and other chronic diseases, contributed to by an increased prevalence of health risk behaviours such as smoking, nutrition, alcohol over-consumption, and physical inactivity (SNAP). Despite evident need for preventive care within health services to address such risk behaviours among this group, little research internationally has investigated its provision.
This study investigated the prevalence of SNAP risks, the receipt of preventive care for these risks, and acceptability towards receiving such care among a sample of Australian community mental health clients.
A cross-sectional telephone interview study was conducted within one local health district in Australia. Clients (n=558) of community mental health services were asked about their engagement in SNAP health risk behaviours, their receipt of preventive care (assessment, advice, and referral) for SNAP risks, and their acceptability towards receiving such care. Associations between receipt of care and client and service characteristics were explored.
Alcohol consumption was most commonly assessed (76%), followed by smoking (73%), physical activity (57%), and nutrition (26%). Smokers were most commonly offered referral for treatment (42%), compared to alcohol overconsumption (32%), inadequate physical activity (35%), and inadequate nutrition (19%). Preventive care was more likely provided to clients who reported a greater number of appointments in the previous 12 months.
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It’s no secret – South East Queensland is currently one of the hottest property markets in Australia, with residential property values increasing by more than 30% per annum (and in some parts of the Gold & Sunshine Coasts it’s been much higher!).
Have you missed the boat to buy more property? Well, with record levels of interstate migration expected to continue on for the foreseeable future, combined with an ongoing shortage of supply, you’ll be hard-pressed to find a property pundit, demographer or economist, who’ll forecast any headwinds for SEQ – even though they’re talking about that for the southern states.
I could carry on all day about macro-economic factors that drive the property market, but I’ll leave that for another day. The question being answered today is:
How can you leverage the equity you’ve built up in your home during this boom, to buy an investment property?
If you own your home, there’s a pretty good chance it’s now worth a fair bit more than what you bought it for. Let’s do some simple maths:
- Own a property somewhere in SE Qld? If yes, it’s probably gone up in value by at least 30% in the last year…
- Let’s say you bought your home only 12 months ago, let’s say for $1,000,000…
- It therefore may well now be worth at least $1,300,000…
- So you have at least an extra $300,000 in equity in your home, versus 12 months ago (bought more than 12 months ago and it could easily be a much bigger number!)…
- For most residential properties, the standard maximum LVR is 80% (or 90+% with Lenders’ Mortgage Insurance), so:
- If got your loan 12 months ago at an 80% LVR, and your property has gone up in value by $300,000, you can theoretically borrow an extra $300,000 x 80% = $240,000.
- That $240,000 could be the 20% equity contribution to your next purchase, so the calculation for that could be:
- $240,000 divided by 20% =
- The 20% deposit on a $1,200,000 purchase (slightly less if you also want to borrow for the stamp duty on the purchase)
That’s right. Even if you only bought your house 12 months ago, you probably have enough equity to be the deposit on an investment property that’s worth even more than your current home!! Owned longer than 12 months ago and/or had a lower LVR on your loan than 80% = you can probably do even more.
But can I afford the Mortgage on an Investment Property?
This is definitely the key question that you should be thinking about. Rest assured, it’s the one that we as brokers – as well as the lender that you decide to go with – have a legal obligation to assess in detail, to make sure that you don’t get into something you can’t afford.
You’re naturally going to rent out the investment property you buy – which will of course go towards paying the new mortgage.
The law requires us and the lender to assess your ability to meet the repayments when interest rates are significantly higher than what they are today (as high as about 6% actually!); even if you get an interest-only loan, the assessment has to be done as if it were on P&I (principal & interest) repayments.
Owning a property also comes with expenses – e.g. council rates, insurance, the rental agent will take a clip. If you buy an apartment or townhouse, you’ll also be up for body corporate; if you buy a house you might save on that, but if it’s an older house then you’ll sooner or later be up for repairs & maintenance bills.
What exactly all of these numbers add up to, depends on the property you look to buy. Generally speaking, high-end properties (over say $1.5m in value) tend to get lower yields (rental income relative to property value), but they often go up in value more amidst a strong market – so these types of investments are often preferred by people that have high incomes, but aren’t so well suited for investors who are heavily reliant on the rental income.
That all goes to say – there is no single best investment strategy – it really is a case of working out what is most appropriate for your personal circumstances.
This is where we can help, by looking at your own financial situation and running the numbers.
With clarity as to what you can afford to borrow, you can then work out what to buy!
Next question is – what do you buy, and how? Amidst such a strong market, we’ve been seeing a significant increase in the number of people using Buyer’s Agents to help them buy a property. We have relationships with some really good ones, so don’t hesitate to ask.
Once you have added to your portfolio, you can then use any further valuation increases to “rinse & repeat” with further purchases. If the market’s current rate of growth continues, you may find you’re able to access more equity quicker than you think.
You may of course also be able to leverage your equity to improve your existing home, further improving its value (and of course being able to personally enjoy the benefits!).
There are numerous strategies you can utilise when leveraging your equity, and our team can assist you in not only understanding them but also executing them.
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The origins of this vegetable’s reputation as an aphrodisiac are obvious. A slender shaft, it was used as a treatment for lagging libido for centuries. But celery holds many aphrodisiac powers beyond its phallic form. That’s why we’re exploring celery benefits sexually.
The history of celery as an aphrodisiac
Our forefathers didn’t need a scientist’s explanation to realize this vegetable’s potential when it comes to games of love. Interestingly, the power of this unusual vegetable was well understood as far back as the Middle Ages.
According to a quote unearthed in the Eighteenth Century by Grimod de la Reyniere, “It is enough to stress that [celery] is not in any way a salad for bachelors.” And speaking of the Eighteenth Century, in the same period, the French believed eating celery soup could increase sexual desire.
Celery benefits sexually
Many sexual benefits of celery have to do with the surprising nutritional punch this low-calorie vegetable can offer. You may be surprised to learn some of the reasons we link aphrodisiac celery and sex.
Does celery increase pheromones?
According to National Geographic, it is believed that celery smells like androstenone, the primary male pheromone.
As a quick refresher, pheromones are those “invisible” scents we all give off. They give anyone within sniff range information about us on an unconscious level. Read more about pheromones and how they impact sexual attraction.
Although the natural conclusion would be that eating celery will increase a man’s pheromone production, that’s not quite what happens.
According to Dr. Allen Hirsch of Chicago’s Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation, “When you chew a stalk of celery, you release androstenone and androstenol odor molecules into your mouth. They then travel up the back of your throat to your nose. Once there, the pheromones boost arousal, turning you on and causing your body to send off scents and signals that make you more desirable.” This alone should be a good reason to link celery and sex.
Is celery juice an aphrodisiac?
It is not just the slender stalks but celery juice that has a reputation as an aphrodisiac. Many believe that if eating celery can cause your body to send off scents of attraction, then drinking celery juice must intensify the effect.
It’s a great thought. Unfortunately, according to National Geographic, this theory doesn’t really pan out in practice. But celery juice does offer many nutritional benefits, so don’t dismiss it entirely, if you enjoy the flavor.
In fact, the benefits of celery juice include several that may help you sexually. According to the USDA, celery juice is a good source of potassium, a key nutrient for both men and women’s sexual health. Celery juice is also a source of magnesium, vitamin A and vitamin C, all of which are linked with sexual health.
Celery benefits for men
While the celery pheromones link is obviously one-way celery can benefit men, there are also nutritional attributes to celery that may boost men’s sexual health.
Celery contains phthalides. According to the Cleveland Clinic, these active compounds are known to relax artery walls to increase blood flow. Now, this is not only good news for your heart. Good blood flow is also necessary for sexual arousal and maintaining an erection.
This low-calorie vegetable also contains key nutrients for supporting heart health, thereby supporting sexual health. As you might expect since celery juice is loaded with nutrients for sexual health, celery is a source of both potassium and manganese.
An additional benefit of celery that might surprise you. One large stalk of this crunchy green offers over 20% of your daily intake of vitamin K.
Vitamin K is believed to protect against the hardening of arteries. And healthy arteries are key for sex. Why is that? Because good blood flow is crucial for men when it comes to achieving sexual arousal.
Will it increase testosterone levels?
There is a line of thought that because androsterone, the pheromone I mentioned earlier that links celery with sex, is a weak steroid metabolite of testosterone, celery should increase testosterone levels. (It even sparked a celery juice craze a few years back.) However, I can find no studies to substantiate the claim that eating celery will increase testosterone production.
But there are more ways celery benefits sexually.
Celery benefits for sperm production
Celery may have one additional benefit for men in a couple that is trying to conceive. According to a study conducted in 2014, celery may increase sperm count.
Celery is also a source of vitamin C, vitamin A and folate, which benefit women’s health as well as men’s health.
Does celery work like Viagra?
One more benefit you may have heard that celery can offer when it comes to sexual health. And this one can benefit both men and women! Celery contains arginine, also called l-arginine. Arginine is an amino acid important to regulating blood flow. More specifically, arginine creates nitric oxide, which widens and relaxes blood vessels similarly to erectile dysfunction medications like Viagra.
So can celery have the same effect as Viagra? Well, yes and no. Eating celery is definitely beneficial to blood flow. However, unlike with a scientifically measured prescription medication, there’s no way to predict how much celery you would need to eat to help with achieving sexual arousal or climax.
Which has more benefits, raw celery or cooked?
Although modern science has yet to reach a conclusion on the potency of raw versus cooked, raw celery root was used for centuries as a cure for impotence.
Yet some historians say that the ancient Romans cooked the root to use in their love potions, as, in their opinion cooking increased potency.
Clearly, it is up to you to decide how best to enjoy celery sexual benefits.
Cooking and recipes
This article was written in 2010 and most recently updated in January 2022.
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Due to Omicron's higher transmissibility, the number of Covid-19 infected individuals with severe symptoms could be higher than what was experienced during the preceding Delta variant wave in Singapore.
Omicron highly transmissibility could strain healthcare resources again
In a press conference on Jan. 21, the Multi-Ministry Taskforce (MTF) cautioned that this could once again strain healthcare resources in Singapore.
In response, the Ministry of Health (MOH) urged those who are unvaccinated to get vaccinated as soon as possible, and for the vaccinated to register and receive their booster jabs.
MOH said this will help to maximise an individual's protection against Covid-19 as the number of cases increase in Singapore.
Cases on the rise and could reach 10,000 to 15,000 daily
The number of cases who test positive on Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) tests have increased from around 800 daily last week to 1,472 cases on Jan. 20, 2022, according to MOH.
Of the 1,472 cases, local cases — at 1,133. — formed a "large and growing majority" as opposed to the 339 imported cases.
With regard to the number of cases who tested positive on Antigen Rapid Tests (ARTs), MOH said there was a daily average of around 800 patients who tested ART positive at healthcare facilities in the past week.
This number has similarly been climbing upwards with the expanded use of Protocol 2 to include individuals who are at low-risk and with mild symptoms.
Under the protocols, ARTs are also used more pervasively in lieu of PCR tests.
As a result, MOH said it will be "timely" to publish the number of ART positive cases, alongside the number of PCR positive cases.
MOH expects the number of infected cases to rise sharply, and cases could double every two to three days, and potentially reach 10,000 to 15,000 cases daily.
Focus on ICU numbers
While the number of infections is set to increase, MOH said:
"We should focus our attention on the numbers in ICU care instead of case numbers."
MOH said Singapore's Covid-19 hospitalisations and deaths are expected to rise slower than the rate of increase in the overall Covid-19 case numbers.
In that regard, the ministry said: "Our local Covid-19 situation remains under control".
This is because international and local data has proved that the Omicron variant is less severe than the Delta variant.
However, MOH cautioned that an uncontrolled rise in overall case numbers could still push hospital and ICU admissions to unmanageable levels.
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How anti-gun are groups like Everytown for Gun Safety and Students Demand Action? Enough that they’re objecting to a series of recommendations from the Arkansas School Safety Task Force put together by Gov. Asa Hutchinson because the experts have recommended that there be an armed presence on every school campus in the state.
The recommendation is just part of a proposed $50-million school safety grant that would also direct money to schools for security upgrades, expanding mental health access in schools, and establishing behavioral threat analysis teams in each school district, but it’s the armed presence in schools that has the gun control groups crying foul.
Both groups, who are a part of the Everytown for Gun Safety network, noticed an absence of policies that they say would prevent guns from entering Arkansas schools.
“Students deserve to learn without fearing for our lives, and that means real gun safety solutions, not more guns and more officers in our halls,” said Jayce Pollard, a volunteer with the Arkansas Students Demand Action chapter.
Anna Morshedi, a volunteer with the Arkansas Moms Demand Action chapter, said that “increasing the presence of armed personnel in schools does little to prevent gun violence” and that it would be another risk “to the wellbeing of students of color.”
The recommendations from the governor’s task force don’t explicitly talk about armed school staff members, but even the presence of school resource officers is a no-go for the anti-gun groups.
We can argue about whether or not armed security in schools actually prevents violent crime on campus, but if a student or stranger shows up at the school doors with murder on their mind there’s no doubt that the faster an armed response, the better. Having an SRO (or yes, a trained and vetted staff member) who’s willing and able to quickly respond to the first shots fired saves lives, but for the anti-gun activists in Arkansas that’s a risk they’re willing to let others take.
Next week, the Arkansas legislature will return to Little Rock for a special session, during which lawmakers will consider providing $50 million for a school safety grant.
This funding, the group said, could be used to support policies that can help keep guns out of schools— including secure firearm storage and threat assessment programs.
Clarksville superintendent, David Hopkins says it was after the Sandy Hook school shooting almost a decade ago that they knew they needed to do more to keep their students safe.
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When travelling overseas, and in 2016 1.2 billion of us did this, we all want a comfortable and pleasurable stay. This involves packing the right clothes for the right conditions and bringing a good book or music playlist. But what medicines should you take?
The medicines you need will depend on what your expected needs are and what is available in the country being visited. Common medicines you may need to take include those for sleep, diarrhoea, malaria, pain and anxiety.
When deciding what to take, it’s also important to remember that even if a medicine is available at home, its supply may be restricted or even prohibited in the country you are visiting. So, you should check beforehand.
Read more: Which medicines don’t go well with flying?
Medicines for sleep
Sleeping on an aeroplane, while wedged in a tiny chair listening to a crying baby in the distance, can be very difficult for many people. As such, prescription sleeping medicines may be recommended by a doctor for short-term use.
You should also consider whether you actually need to sleep. If the flight is too long, then being asleep or sedated may prevent you from moving around while flying. Leg movement and stretching is recommended when flying to improve blood flow and protect against blood clots.
Medicines for diarrhoea
Hyoscine is a medicine that may help relieve cramps by relaxing the stomach muscles.
Loperamide is useful in helping to stop diarrhoea, altogether. This may be particularly important if you’re stuck on a ten-hour flight, or have just set off on that once-in-a-lifetime jungle safari.
Otherwise, medical advice often recommends not stopping the diarrhoea. Why? Because this stops your body from flushing out the pathogen that is causing the problem, and keeps the runny poo in, neither of which is a good thing.
It’s best to let the diarrhoea pass and remain hydrated, which may include drinking more than just plain water; oral rehydration products may also be needed. These work by replacing all the lost sugars and salts in your body due to diarrhoea. They are available in sachets or effervescent tablets which can be mixed with water, making them easy to carry and use.from www.shutterstock.com
Sometimes, treatment of diarrhoea will require additional medicines such as antibiotics. Either way you should consult a doctor or pharmacist before using medicines for diarrhoea, especially if it is persistent, if you experience fever, or if you see pus or blood in your wee or poo.
Medicines for malaria
For particular countries, there are medicines you may need to take before your journey to prevent you from getting sick while on vacation.
If you are going to certain areas in Africa, India and Central America, for example, you may need to take an antimalarial medicine, such as the antibiotic doxycycline. To be effective, these types of drugs need to be taken before, during, and after your travels, so it’s advisable to plan in advance with your doctor when travelling to areas with malaria.
Medicines for pain
Many of us use paracetamol and ibuprofen for short-term pain relief. Even though they may be available from a pharmacy in some countries, like Australia, they can sometimes be hard to obtain overseas due to language barriers or different rules about how they can be supplied.
Codeine is also often found in pain relief preparations. Some countries have restrictions placed on the supply of codeine. For example, in Australia, codeine-based medicines can only be obtained with a prescription
Medicines for anxiety
Some people experience anxiety when flying. A doctor may recommend prescription medicines like diazepam, along with psychological therapy for those who experience anxiety when flying. A side effect of diazepam is sedation, but this may be welcomed by travellers trying to sleep on a flight.
Restrictions on medicines when travelling
Some countries require documentation if travelling with certain medicines.
For example, in Singapore, a license is needed for larger quantities or doses of codeine. If travelling to Indonesia with codeine, you may need to apply for a letter from the embassy or high commission to bring such medicines into the country.
What to remember
It’s important to check with your doctor or pharmacist if a medicine is suitable for your needs. Each person is different and not all medicines are safe, especially among children, pregnant or breastfeeding women, and the elderly.
It is also a good idea to ask your pharmacist about the storage requirements for any medicines you’re taking with you.
And remember, regardless of how you purchase the medicine back home, it’s important to check the requirements in your destination. As a general rule, it’s advisable to check with the relevant embassy or high commission and to take your doctor’s prescription or letter, as well as the labelled medicine box with you when travelling.
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Year 3 began their term asking themselves “what is the chance …?” What is the chance it will rain? What is the chance I will roll a two on my die? What is the chance Mr Gosper will score a three pointer in basketball? They found themselves creating games of chance and discussing outcomes with peers. What was the expected outcome of their game of chance? What was the real outcome? Boys have become confident in using this language. Continue to encourage your son to use the following language when discussing chance: chance, event, possible, impossible, likely, unlikely, less likely, more likely, most likely, least likely, equally likely, experiment, and outcome.
This week we move on to our fraction’s unit. In our lessons students will learn that fractions are used in different ways. They can be used to describe equal parts of a whole; to describe equal parts of a collection of objects; to denote numbers (eg 1/2 is midway between 0 and 1 on the number line); and as operators related to division (eg dividing a number in half). They will focus on fractions with denominators of 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8. Boys will become confident in using the following language: whole, part, equal parts, half, quarter, eighth, third, fifth, one-third, one-fifth, fraction, denominator, numerator, mixed numeral, whole number, fractional part, number line. At home ask your son where he sees fractions in his environment. Can he cut a cake into eighths? Can he share a bag of lollies into fifths?
In writing, we have spent a few more weeks on Informative texts. Boys have been either focusing on procedures or information reports in their classes. They have used their research skills to find out about natural disasters and used this to create information reports. I wonder if they would be able to tell you all about the natural disaster they researched. Boys have also used their procedural writing skills to help their peers with completing a task, for example tying a tie. Were their instructions clear enough to achieve the desired outcome?
Next, we will move our focus to poetry where boys will plan, draft, and publish pieces of work. They will use their skills to create poems that represent ideas, feelings and mental images in words. Boys will also understand, interpret and experiment with a range of devices and deliberate word play for example nonsense words, spoonerisms, neologisms and puns.
It has been a busy start to the term as boys continue to learn all about natural processes, disasters and phenomena. Week one saw Year 3 with an incursion from Fizzics Education, where the expert, Peter, was able to answer many of the burning questions boys had on their minds. He answered questions on black holes, earthquakes, pandemics, and gravity. He was full of knowledge about everything science. Boys were also able to get hands on with experiments and activities that Peter had brought. As we come to an end of our unit, boys will be able to tell you about the natural processes, disasters, and phenomena they have learnt about.
In Week 5 we will begin our next unit ‘Where we are in place and time’. Students will look at how exploration can have an impact on cultures through the concepts of change (how is it changing?), causation (why is it like this?), and perspective (what are the points of view?).
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Iddhipāda (Pali; Skt. ṛddhipāda) is a compound term composed of "power" or "potency" (iddhi; ṛddhi) and "base," "basis" or "constituent" (pāda). In Buddhism, the "power" referred to by this compound term is a group of spiritual powers. Thus, this compound term is usually translated along the lines of "base of power" or "base of spiritual power." In the Buddhist pursuit of bodhi (awakening, understanding) and liberation, the associated spiritual powers are secondary to the four "base" mental qualities that achieve such powers. These four base mental qualities are: concentration on intention; concentration on effort; concentration on consciousness; and, concentration on investigation. These four base mental qualities are used to develop wholesome mental states and rid oneself of unwholesome mental states.
In the "Neglected" discourse (Viraddha Sutta, SN 51.2), it states:
- "Bhikkhus, those who have neglected the four bases for spiritual power have neglected the noble path leading to the complete destruction of suffering. Those who have undertaken the four bases for spiritual power have undertaken the noble path leading to the destruction of suffering."
The four bases of such power are concentration (samādhi) due to:
- Intention or purpose or desire or zeal (chanda)
- Effort or energy or will (viriya)
- Consciousness or mind or thoughts (citta)
- Investigation or discrimination (vīmaṃsā)
Corequisites: concentration and striving
In most canonical discourses these four bases of power are developed in tandem with "volitional formations of striving" (padhāna-saṅkhāra). For instance, in the "Concentration due to Desire" discourse (Chandasamādhi Sutta, SN 51.13), it states:
- "Bhikkhus, if a bhikhu gains concentration, gains one-pointedness of mind based upon desire, this is called concentration due to desire. He generates desire for the nonarising of unarisen evil unwholesome states; he makes an effort, arouses energy, applies his mind, and strives. He generates desire for the abandoning of arisen evil unwholesome states ... for the arising of unarisen wholesome states ... for the maintenance of arisen wholesome states ...; he makes an effort, arouses energy, applies his mind and strives. These are called volitional formations of striving. Thus this desire and this concentration due to desire and these volitional formations of striving: this is called the basis for spiritual power that possesses concentration due to desire and volitional formations of striving."
This discourse similarly analyzes the latter three bases of powers as well.
Associated spiritual powers
In terms of the spiritual powers associated with the development of these bases, the "Before" Discourse (Pubba Sutta, SN 51.11) states:
- "When the four bases of spiritual power have been developed and cultivated in this way, a bhikkhu wields the various kinds of spiritual power: having been one, he becomes many; having been many, he becomes one; he appears and vanishes; he goes unhindered through a wall, through a rampart, through a mountain as though through space; he dives in and out of the earth as though it were water; he walks on water without sinking as though it were earth; seated cross-legged, he travels in space like a bird; with his hands he touches and strokes the moon and sun so powerful and mighty; he exercises mastery with the body as far as the brahmā world."
- Abhijna - six types of higher spiritual knowledge found in the Pali Canon.
- Bodhipakkhiyādhammā - seven sets of 37 mental qualities conducive to Enlightenment
- Four Right Exertions - four aspects of "volitional formations of striving"
- Iddhi - spiritual powers discussed in canonical Buddhism
- Kevatta Sutta
- See, e.g., Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), pp. 120-1, entry for "Iddhi" at (retrieved 2008-02-07).
- E.g., see Bodhi (2000), pp. 1718-49; and, Thanissaro (1997). Bodhi (2000), p. 1939, n. 246 notes that the post-canonical Pali commentaries state that this compound term could be translated as either "base for spiritual power" or "base which is spiritual power."
- For a discussion of Buddhist means for developing wholesome qualities and removing unwholesome qualities, see, for instance, the Four Right Exertions.
- Bodhi (2000), p. 1718.
- The English translations here are based on: Bodhi (2000), ch. 51, pp. 1718-49; Brahm (2007), p. 394; and, Rhys Davids & Stede (1921-25), pp. 120-1, entry for "Iddhi".
- "Volitional formations of striving" is Bodhi (2000)'s translation of padhāna-saṅkhāra. Alternatives include Thanissaro (1997) translation of "fabrications of exertion." The Pali term padhāna is the same as that found in the Four Right Exertions (Pali: sammappadhāna; Skt.: samyak-pradhāna or samyak-prahāṇa), which is another of the bodhipakkhiyādhammā sets.
- Bodhi (2000), pp. 1729-30.
- Bodhi (2000), p. 1727.
- Bodhi, Bhikkhu (trans.) (2000). The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Samyutta Nikaya. Boston: Wisdom Publications. ISBN 0-86171-331-1.
- Brahm, Ajahn (2007). Simply this Moment!. Perth: Bodhinyana Monastery.
- Rhys Davids, T.W. & William Stede (eds.) (1921-5). The Pali Text Society’s Pali–English Dictionary. Chipstead: Pali Text Society. A general on-line search engine for the PED is available at http://dsal.uchicago.edu/dictionaries/pali/.
- Thanissaro Bhikkhu (trans.) (1997). Iddhipada-vibhanga Sutta: Analysis of the Bases of Power (SN 51.20). Retrieved 2008-02-07 from "Access to Insight" at http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn51/sn51.020.than.html. | <urn:uuid:57c6d862-a275-4340-a290-7930134196f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iddhipada | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.889581 | 1,549 | 2.515625 | 3 |
There are 6 species of Mosaic Hawkers in the UK.
One of the more useful distinctions is the pattern on the side of the thorax IF you can see it. [If you can’t see the thorax, try these alternative features.]
I’ve tried to keep similarly marked species together. Some have restricted ranges, notably the Azure Hawker (Aeshna carulea) which is limited to western parts of Scotland. Likewise, the Southern Migrant Hawker/Blue-eyed Hawker (Aeshna affinis) has a stronghold in East Anglia but is spreading whilst the Common Hawker (Aeshna jumcea) famously isn’t, being absent from several parts of the country. | <urn:uuid:16a03d75-6eba-484f-947b-63ce6594480a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.odonata.org.uk/id-aids/visual-key/damselfly-or-dragonfly/dragonfly-eyes/aeshnidae/mosaic-hawkers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.942497 | 153 | 1.75 | 2 |
Teens with ADHD and Driving
Your Teen and Driving
When your teenaged son or daughter starts driving, it will be the greatest risk to your teen’s health and safety is a motor vehicle. Of all possible risks—including illness, substance use and violence—none has the greater potential to cause serious injury or even death to a young person than a motor vehicle accident. Motor vehicle accidents are the biggest killer of young people aged 16 to 24 in the United States, accounting for more than 7,500 deaths and 350,000 injuries in 2010.
Talking with your teen driver about the risks of driving and making a plan for safe driving that takes ADHD symptoms into account is one of the most important things you can to decrease some of these driving-related risks.
The risks are greater for teens with ADHD
Young drivers with ADHD are more likely to have poor driving than other teenagers, caused by ADHD’s core symptoms of distractibility, inattention and impulsivity. Compared with his peers, your teen with ADHD is at greater risk for vehicle accidents and is more likely to receive traffic tickets for speeding, failure to obey traffic laws, and reckless driving. Teens with ADHD are more likely to drive on a suspended license or without a license when there has been a problem. In a striking comparison, the untreated symptoms of ADHD in a teen driver can impair the driver’s ability so much that resembles intoxicated driving. Most sobering is the fact that young people with ADHD are overrepresented among crash and fatality statistics than their non-ADHD peers.
Difficulties in executive function and other symptoms, including poor judgment, risk-taking and thrill-seeking tendencies, all contribute to these increased risks. Inattention can lead to distraction and impulsivity can lead to poor reactions to other drivers or traffic conditions. Your teen might overestimate how well she drives, even though she may have poorer driving experiences than other teenagers.
Treatment improves safety
Helping your teen develop safe driving habits, including following a comprehensive treatment plan, is essential for his or her safety, as well as the safety of his passengers, other drivers and pedestrians.
Research shows that teens who are treated for ADHD are better drivers than teens receiving no treatment. Teenagers who have never been treated with stimulant medication are involved in more vehicle crashes than those who had medication treatment for at least three years.
Your teen needs to remember that driving is a privilege, not a right. It’s a privilege regulated by states to ensure that everyone who gets behind the wheel knows how to operate the vehicle and has passed a licensing exam. You should discuss your teen’s privileges to drive within the context of overall his ADHD treatment. Co-existing disorders, changes in medication effectiveness throughout the day, and issues with alcohol and substance use should all be considered before your teen gets the keys to the car. You can and should set expectations and rules for your teen to follow for safe driving.
Know your state’s law
States have different licensing requirements, so you should know the specifics of your state law regarding driver education, learner’s permits, provisional licenses, and other limits on teen licenses. Operating a vehicle safely requires a set of skills that teens generally learn from an experienced adult, often a parent or a driving instructor. Don’t rush your teen to get a driving permit or a driver’s license if he has shown or said he’s not ready to drive; some teens with ADHD delay driving. Many driving-aged teens affected by ADHD lack the maturity needed to drive safely and could benefit from waiting to learn to drive or taking the driving exam. How long your teen should wait depends on you and your teen, but your teen should demonstrate sufficient maturity in other areas of life before taking to the road.
New drivers benefit from driving courses that teach traffic laws and reinforce driving skills. For teens affected by ADHD, a driver education program designed for their specific needs is especially helpful. Check with your local school district for driver education courses or look in your community for driving schools that are familiar with the needs and requirements of a young person affected by ADHD. Many states have graduated or tiered licensing programs for all teen drivers and you, the parent, will be expected to enforce the law’s requirements.
Starting to drive
The ADHD Safe Driving Program developed by researchers Russell Barkley, PhD, and Daniel Cox, PhD, offers a step-by-step approach for teens to earn driving privileges and for you, the parent, to keep a careful eye on your teen’s developing driving skills. The following is adapted from the ADHD Safe Driving Program:
Three levels of independence:
- Level one (0 to 6 months): Drive only during daytime.
- Level two (6 to 12 months): Extend driving time through the evening hours.
- Level three (12 to 18 months): Drive freely while following agreed upon rules.
How to get the keys:
Have your teen driver keep a log of each driving experience. Entries include medication (if prescribed), destination, route/miles, contact name and phone number, time/out and time/returned, and odometer. They must also follow the Everyday Rules:
- Take medication as prescribed
- Fill out the log every trip
- While driving…
- Keep music low
- Use preset radio stations only
- No eating
- No texting or mobile phone use
- No other teens in the car
- Absolutely NO alcohol or other intoxicants
Steps to get started:
- You and your teen enter into a contract that spells out each of your sets of responsibilities. Your teen accepts ADHD as a neurobehavioral disorder that affects his driving.
- Your teen agrees to abide by the driving rules and understands that she can move to the next level only when she succeeds for six months in a row at her current level.
You agree to allow your teen to continue to drive if rules are followed. You both agree that you as the parent have the responsibility to check the accuracy of your teen’s driving log, to find out whether rules were followed, and if not, to give appropriate consequences and that can mean your teen loses driving privileges if agreements are broken.
Becoming easily distracted is a big risk for your teen driver affected by ADHD. Most states and local communities have distracted driver laws, along with laws forbidding texting and talking on a hand-held mobile phone while driving. In 2010, over 3,000 people died in what the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration describes as “distraction-affected” crashes, a measurement of crashes caused by texting, phoning or answering a call while driving.
Safe driving requires focus and concentration, the exact things that are challenges for people with ADHD. Your teen can find distraction in simple things—changing radio stations, checking make-up, eating, talking with another person in the car and even daydreaming. When your teen is coping with the symptoms of ADHD, these behaviors increase the risks of poor driving and can lead to car accidents.
Your teen should limit the distractions before starting the engine. Cell phones and other devices should be turned off and put away. Food or drink should also be put away so that he or she can completely focus on operating the vehicle safely. You and your teen should map driving routes and agree on them ahead of time. Make your expectations clear for your teen’s driving behaviors and set reasonable limits.
Safe driving begins before your teen gets behind the wheel. You and your teen driver should do the following to help promote safe driving:
- know state traffic laws
- attend and pass a driver education program that addresses ADHD concerns
- follow an ADHD treatment plan and consider the role medication has been shown to play in improved driving ability
- limit passengers while your teen is learning to drive or has just received his license
- reduce distractions within the car
- select a vehicle that has few exciting options on the dashboard. You may want to consider research showing manual transmission to be a better choice for teens with ADHD because of the need for increased attention in driving habits.
Both teens and adults affected by ADHD need to be aware of inattention, impulsivity and distractibility and create a driving environment that allows them to better focus on the task of driving safely. As a parent, you can start modeling good driving habits for your children when they are young even before they reach the teenage years.
Before your teen receives his or her learner’s permit, you should know the insurance laws for your state and find out if your teen driver will need additional insurance coverage. You and your teen should meet with an insurance agent or representative from a reputable insurance company to discuss all aspects of liability and collision insurance. Including your teen in this conversation helps reinforce that driving a car is serious business. The needs of your family as well as your teen driver should be considered. Additional umbrella liability policies can offer protection from personal injury lawsuits. You and your teen should discuss insurance issues and costs at length and decide on a family plan for insurance costs.
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). National Center for Statistics and Analysis, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. Department of Transportation, Washington, DC. 2010.
Cox DJ, Merkel RL, Moore M, et al. (2006 September). Relative benefits of stimulant therapy with OROS methylphenidate versus mixed amphetamine salts extended release in improving the driving performance of adolescent drivers with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder attention-deficit/ hyperactivity disorder. Pediatrics. 118(3), pp. e704–10.
Katz, Mark, PhD. ADHD Safe Driving Program: A Graduated License Plan (2007 December). Attention. pp 6–7.
Tison, J., Chaudhary, N., and Cosgrove, L. (2011 December). National phone survey on distracted driving attitudes and behaviors. (Report No. DOT HS 811 555). Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Cox, Daniel; Mohan, Punja; Powers, Katie;et al. (2006 November). Manual transmission enhances attention and driving performance of ADHD adolescent males: pilot study. Journal of Attention Disorders, 10(2), pp. 212–6.
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Good day everybody and welcome to drawing tutorial on how to draw Wolverine from X-Men! In fact we already have a few lessons about the most charismatic character of the X-Men – classic Wolverine and original Wolverine (yes, the differences in these lessons are more than may appear at first sight) and lego Wolverine.
The main backbone of a human is his skeleton. The wolverine skeleton is covered with a layer of adamantium – the hardest metal in the Marvel universe. But besides this his skeleton is no different from the skeleton of an ordinary man. So we sketch the skeleton as our example and move on.
If you look at this step, you will find that there are so many new lines and shapes that you can get confused. But do not be afraid, everything is much easier than it seems. In fact, we just need to give volume of each part of the body using ordinary geometric shapes. We advise you to draw from the top down, in this lesson it is especially convenient, because Wolverine here is standing straight (but of course you can choose another pose).
Here we draw one of the most distinctive parts of Wolverine suit – its ears (horns?) which are somewhat like horns on costume of Batman. By the way if you want to learn more visit the lesson on how to draw Wolverine’s head.
We continue drawing Wolverine’s head. If you have already visited the lesson about the head of wolverine and have studied it, then in this and next step you will not find anything new. So draw eyes of Wolverine and his mouth. Also you can add lines of cheekbones.
Here we finish drawing Wolverine’s head. Before we draw the entire head, remove all the extra lines and strokes from the previous step. Carefully draw wrinkles that are located around the mouth and between the eyes.
We finished the head and go to the body. After the head draw the neck sketch out the lines of the muscles of the neck. Erase the lines of the “spine” and circle the lines of the torso. Draw the pectoral muscles and sketch the lines of the muscles of the abdominals. At the same step draw a belt (note that in many costume designs there is a sign of X-Men in the center of the belt).
So, we continue drawing Wolverine and go to the arms. Mark the muscles of the arms, that is deltoids, biceps, triceps and forearm muscles. Continue the line from the chest that is edging the deltoids. Sketch out the lines of gloves and move on to the most distinctive part of Wolverine – his claws. Draw fists and long and sharp claws (visit the lesson on how to draw Wolverine’s claws).
We continue to draw Wolverine. Draw Wolverine shorts (why do superheroes wear shorts over the pants?) and move to the legs. Carefully draw out the legs drawing the lines of muscles, such as quadriceps and calf muscles. Draw very strange and unusual boots of wolverine that are very similar to his own mask.
Here we finish the lesson on how to draw Wolverine from X-Men. The last steps in all lessons about superheroes are very similar to each other, because here we draw shadows. First we draw out the outlines of the shadows and then paint over the outlines of the shadows.
As you know, we like comics very much and we have many drawing lessons on how to draw comics. So do not forget to visit lessons dedicated to the Amazing Spider-Man, Superman, Thor and The Incredible Hulk. And of course share this lesson. | <urn:uuid:6888f47a-9395-43aa-8d2c-c4a84b6eec13> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.drawingforall.net/how-to-draw-wolverine-from-x-men/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934471 | 764 | 3.140625 | 3 |
It’s every Muay Thai fighter’s dream to be immersed in the culture that birthed the art of eight limbs. If you’re planning to undertake this journey, congratulations on what is potentially the best decision you’ll ever make in your life. But before you go, what can you expect to see and experience upon your arrival to Thailand?
Fighter Diets Vary According to Region
The regular diet of Muay Thai fighters depends on the fresh meat and produce that’s available at the local markets, typically paired with rice. As Natalie B. Compton of Vice News found out in her visit to Thailand, the Thai fighter’s diet is very similar to what most Thais eat. Instead of obsessing about supplements, local fighters go for street food classics like khao man gai – rice with roasted or fried chicken seasoned with ginger, garlic, soy sauce, chili peppers, and other local spices. In places like Isan, fish soup with som tam salad is more common as fish is more available in the area. Meanwhile, because eggs are both easy to find and are a complete protein, they’re common throughout gyms in the country. Fighters who like tropical fruit smoothies will find lots of fresh produce for making healthy shakes.
Although this wasn’t the case a decade ago, the people of Thailand today enjoy one of the fastest average broadband Internet speeds on the planet. An article in The Asean Post notes that Thailand’s Internet speed averaged 76.6 Mbps in 2019 – the 27th fastest in the world. For visitors, this means that it’s easier than ever to live and train in Thailand while maintaining connections back home.
A Very Spiritual Culture
Over 95% of the Thai population are Theravada Buddhists, although no one – apart from the Thai king – is required to be one. The strong spirituality of the Thai people is also evident in the country’s many towering and ornate temples, the spirit houses that protect certain buildings and regions, and the very rituals surrounding Muay Thai fights. Being a Muay Thai fighter living and training in Thailand means embracing this spirituality and letting it be part of your journey as a fighter.
Thais Love to Wager on Muay Thai
Being an active Muay Thai fighter in Thailand means being part of the country’s strong wagering economy. In fact, Expatbets’ guide to Thai living and culture indicates that although the country has strict laws regarding gambling, an estimated 70% of the population engage in betting activities that are exempt from these regulations. Apart from horse racing and the state’s lottery, this includes Muay Thai fights at the country’s stadiums. Places like The Lumpinee Stadium, also known as the mecca of Muay Thai, are full of bettors during regular matches. Betting is done through a series of hand signals between bettors and bet takers, a language that even western fighters eventually pick up with enough time in the stadiums. This is vital for fighters who want to understand not just the techniques of Muay Thai, but the culture that surrounds it. By taking part in this aspect of Muay Thai you will also further improve your understanding of the sport.
Rent is Affordable
For $250 to $400, you can live comfortably in a fully furnished place in Thailand. This is why many visitors choose to rent long-term in the country. If you’re planning to live permanently in Thailand – including owning your own house – that’s a little more complicated as there are strict real estate limitations for foreigners. Our own Paul Banasiak can give you more details not just on owning property in Thailand, but also on the visa requirements you need to be aware of, and other living essentials for foreigners seeking to live and train in the country. | <urn:uuid:e2f3d6dc-8041-43f2-a29c-d7b6dcb32557> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.muaythaitechnician.com/5-things-muay-thai-practitioners-need-to-know-about-living-in-thailand/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944973 | 800 | 1.609375 | 2 |
According to a new report from MSNBC, Attorney General Bill Barr privately advocated against the idea of commuting the prison sentence of longtime Trump ally Roger Stone. President Trump did so this week, which means that Stone will not have to report to prison on Tuesday as had previously been scheduled. He’d been set to serve an over three-year prison sentence over his obstruction of justice scheme meant to conceal some of his attempts to coordinate the Trump campaign and foreign election meddlers like WikiLeaks. Barr has often stumped for the president in the past, so if even he broke with the idea of commuting Stone’s prison sentence, it’s even more clearly a brazenly corrupt political act.
An anonymous administration official claimed to NBC that the “Justice Department had nothing to do with President Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of Roger Stone,” as reported in a weekend MSNBC segment.
NBC reporter Josh Lederman explained:
‘That official also [said] that Attorney General Bill Barr actually spoke with President Trump about Roger Stone and encouraged him not to do what the president ultimately went ahead and did anyway, which was cut that sentence short and offer that clemency to Roger Stone. So what we may start to see happening here… is the Justice Department trying to distance itself from this decision, which is already shaping up as the latest blow to morale at the Justice Department, an agency already demoralized by other interventions by the administration.’
Check out the coverage below:
It’s worth noting — Barr had himself previously intervened to lower the federal government’s sentencing recommendation for Stone. In the process, he overruled the federal prosecutors who’d been on the case, who subsequently left the case in apparent protest. One of those prosecutors — Aaron Zelinsky, who also worked on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation — eventually testified to Congress that it was his understanding that Stone had gotten the special treatment because of his relationship to the president.
In the White House’s original statement revealing that Stone’s sentence had been commuted, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany went to great lengths to try and depict Stone as some kind of victim of political retribution against Trump and his allies. There’s no evidence for this conspiracy theory, though — there’s no deep state sitting around plotting how to make Trump look bad.
McEnany belligerently and self-confidently claimed:
‘As it became clear that these witch hunts would never bear fruit, the Special Counsel’s Office resorted to process-based charges leveled at high-profile people in an attempt to manufacture the false impression of criminality lurking below the surface. These charges were the product of recklessness borne of frustration and malice.’
That’s a flatly incorrect assessment of the situation. As CNN explains, there’s “no proof whatsoever that Mueller’s team brought charges because they were biased against Trump or had “malice” against his aides.” The problem, of course, is that Trump and his allies have yet to indicate that they’re interested in letting reality get in the way of them trying to score political points. | <urn:uuid:73e25e0a-58b8-4e61-8ecd-85dec9b601eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bipartisanreport.com/2020/07/11/bill-barr-privately-turned-on-trump-over-roger-stone-clemency/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.97776 | 658 | 1.5 | 2 |
Looking for ways to encourage your toddlers and preschoolers to sit and listen to stories? One of the ways I was able to get my young son to listen to stories was to set up activities for him to do while I was reading! Below you will find Children’s Book Activities for Learning and Play, including sensory bins, art projects and more!
Children’s Book Activities
We have enjoyed many children’s book activities over the years! Here are some of our favorites for toddlers, preschoolers and big kids! Check back often for more ideas!
You will also find more on our children’s book activities board on Pinterest!
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Georgia became a member State of in 2016 and is particularly active in promoting the programme. The country has established its own Board for Strategic Development and Certification of Cultural Routes of Georgia, an advisory body of the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth, to support the development of local Cultural Routes.
The 10th Annual Advisory Forum on Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe will take place online from 29 September until 1 October 2021. It is organised in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, Sport and Youth of Georgia and the Kutaisi City Municipality.
Currently, Georgia is crossed by five certified Cultural Routes of the Council of Europe, which incorporate its beautiful landscapes and rich and diverse cultural heritage: The European Route of Jewish Heritage, Iter Vitis, Prehistoric Rock Art Trails European Route of Historical Thermal Towns and European Route of Historic Gardens.
The Jewish people are an integral part of European civilization. Over the millennia, they have made a significant contribution to the development of European culture. The Jewish Heritage Route of the Council of Europe, certified in 2004, reflects the fascinating history of Jews in Europe. Georgia joined the Route in 2017.
The Jewish Diaspora is one of the most ancient in Georgia. Jews came to Georgia after Nebuchadnezzar raided Jerusalem and destroyed the first temple in 586 BC. The Georgian-speaking Jewry is a community with the highest number of surviving Jewish heritages in the world. Nationwide, the Jewish cultural heritage includes synagogues, Jewish heritage monuments, museums, graves, and archaeological artifacts.
Winemaking and viticulture is an important part of the culture of Europe and the countries of the Mediterranean basin. Wine production has always been a symbol of European identity. In 2009, Iter Vitis became a Cultural Route of the Council of Europe. Georgia joined the Route in 2017.
The oldest trace of winemaking was found on the territory of Georgia, from where it spread throughout the world and had a major impact on the formation of agriculture and civilizations in general. In Georgia, wine was already produced some 8,000 years ago.
Prehistoric rock art is one of the most ancient forms of cultural heritage. Around 40% of the prehistoric rock art artifacts are concentrated on the European territory. The Prehistoric Rock Art Trails of the Council of Europe were certified in 2010. Georgia joined the network in 2018.
The Prehistoric Rock Art Heritage in Georgia is represented by the complex of Trialeti (Patara Khram) petroglyphs. The Trialeti petroglyphs are located in Kvemo Kartli, near the town of Tsalka. These petroglyphs appear in the form of small panel pictures on the rocks. They mostly represent the images of local fauna and hybrid animals. Among the geometrical images, square meshes, crosses and the shining sun are depicted.
The therapeutic use of hot springs has been prevalent throughout Europe since ancient times. The political and cultural circles traveling to Europe's spas were creating centers of cultural exchange. The European Route of Historic Thermal Towns was certified in 2010 and Georgia joined it in 2017.
The State Representative’s Administration in Imereti in Georgia is an associate member of the European Historic Thermal Towns Association. Rich in , Imereti is a region with a long history. As one of is not only popular for the quality of its waters, but also for its beautiful built heritage, its green landscapes and its fascinating local caves.
Historic gardens have shaped European culture and identity throughout times. In different moments in history, the garden culture has been established and different plants, forms of parterres and cultivation habits have become a living proof of a common European culture. The European Route of Historic Gardens became a certified Cultural Route of the Council of Europe in 2020.
Georgia joined the European Network of Historic Gardens in 2019. Georgia is presented with 5 historic gardens: Tbilisi Botanical Garden, Batumi Botanical Garden, Zugdidi Botanical Garden, Kutaisi Botanical Garden and Tsinandali Chavchavadze Historic Garden. | <urn:uuid:cf10e6ca-e76f-4f6d-8081-640ea310200f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.coe.int/en/web/cultural-routes/-/cultural-routes-of-the-council-of-europe-in-georgia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947182 | 835 | 2.90625 | 3 |
The Space is a sustainable smart home with fully autonomous utilities that mix modern know-how with new requirements of consolation.
Every day advances in smart know-how help redefine what it means to live within the modern world. Setting new requirements for a way we talk, devour, and study, smart know-how brings us nearer and nearer to the longer term we envisioned again once we have been dreaming of flying vehicles and jetpacks. Seeping into the home house, Stockholm-based iOhouse developed The Space, a sustainable smart home full with fully built-in utilities that require nothing from “the grid.”
Completely autonomous by design, the utilities that comprise The Space solely require a smartphone for operation. Including water, electrical energy, heating, and wifi, the designers from iOhouse outfitted The Space with the entire modern facilities one would possibly want to live comfortably and free.
From the skin, The Space dons a modern, futuristic facade that embraces an industrial tech look whereas staying shut to nature with floor-to-ceiling home windows. Inside, an open-floor structure retains cozy with subdued tones of grey and unstained, pure wooden flooring.
The Space generates electrical energy from a photo voltaic panel roof and generator that runs on a 220V electrical system. Then, an air warmth pump and included local weather controls keep the home’s inside temperatures throughout hot and cold seasons. Complete with a built-in water and sewer system, irrespective of the place residents of The Space select to live, clear water and plumbing are assured.
Spurred by the liberty that modern know-how can supply, iOhouse built-in smart know-how into the very construct of The Space in order that owners can transfer wherever and relaxation assured that their facilities gained’t keep behind.
Designed for individuals who need to immerse their home lives in nature whereas staying shut to modern know-how, the creators behind The Space say, “Every detail – from the fittings and fixtures to the shape of the rooms – has been carefully considered and designed to maximize the comfort and the aesthetics of the home.” | <urn:uuid:94b13c60-904f-468c-92b8-c1820c497366> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://plustechnews.com/2021/12/14/this-smart-home-is-a-modern-living-solution-designed-with-fully-autonomous-utilities-to-help-you-live-anywhere/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.934295 | 448 | 1.992188 | 2 |
There will be 40 North Texas hospitals that will be getting cases of the antiviral drug Remdesivir to help treat coronavirus patients.
Clinical trials show the drug sped up recovery time by four days compared to those taking a placebo.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services worked with state agencies to bring the cases to Texas.
This will be the largest Remdesivir distribution for North Texas hospitals from the federal government.
There will be 99 cases of the drug distributed, which health officials said is enough medicine to treat close to 1,800 people.
It will be distributed to hospitals in Collin, Denton, Ellis, Grayson, Hunt, Johnson, Rockwall, and Tarrant counties. | <urn:uuid:3e13b37e-c039-4c35-a4e6-683858542a56> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fox4news.com/news/40-north-texas-hospitals-receiving-additional-cases-of-remdesivir-to-treat-covid-19-patients | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.902498 | 159 | 1.695313 | 2 |
The story of the arrest of Huawei company official Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer, in December 2018 at the request of the US and her release in September 2021, reflects the larger concerns of many nations as they grapple with a decision to accept or reject technology being provided by this leading Chinese company. In some countries, Huawei faces product and 5G wireless-network bans, security scrutiny and related pushback. Many countries allege that the company’s products may contain security holes that China’s government could use for spying. Furthermore, some countries allege that Huawei steals intellectual property from foreign technology companies. Despite such obstacles, many countries have proceeded with Huawei as a potential or confirmed choice for 5G wireless network projects and associated infrastructure.
A Council for Foreign Relations (CFR) Report (29 March 2021) on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) shows that, in addition to the United States, eight other countries, close allies of the US, have issued outright bans of the company. Still, others have chosen to use Huawei’s competitors without taking a public stance. In Belgium, Croatia, Finland, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Singapore and Spain, telecommunication companies have all contracted with Nokia or Ericsson to build their networks. In May this year, Canada announced that it was banning both Huawei and ZTE, a Chinese telecommunication company based in Senzhen, from working on its 5G networks. However, it has not always been a win-win for the US in the war against Huawei. The company is involved in 5G networks in NATO members, Hungary, Iceland, the Netherlands, and Turkey. Likewise, some of the US’ closest partners in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, are also using Huawei.
In September 2019, Huawei’s founder Ren Zhengfei dismissed US accusations that the company was helping China to spy on Western governments. Huawei said it was willing to sign “no-spy” agreements with governments, including the UK, amid US pressure on European countries to shun Huawei over espionage concerns. The US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Huawei with bank fraud and stealing trade secrets. In a 13-count indictment, the DOJ charged Huawei, its chief financial officer, the afore-mentioned Meng Wanzhou, and two affiliated firms with crimes including conspiracy, money laundering, bank and wire fraud, flouting US sanctions on Iran and obstruction of justice. The US had alleged that Meng misled the HSBC bank over the true nature of Huawei’s relationship with a company called Skycom, putting the bank at risk of violating US sanctions against Iran.
Globally, multiple factors have heightened media coverage and discussion about Huawei. Questions about its business practices intensified amidst the US-China trade war. Also, numerous countries and companies worldwide are considering 5G wireless network rollouts. The US DOJ case against Huawei provides the legal basis for a ban by many countries. US government officials say Huawei is dangerous in part because it uses its growing share of the telecom equipment market to spy for the Chinese government.
As far back as 2012, a US House Intelligence Committee report had tagged Huawei and ZTE as potential security threats. Concerns about Huawei drove the 2018 decision by then-President Donald Trump to block a hostile takeover bid from Broadcom, based at the time in Singapore, for the US chipmaker Communal. The deal could have curtailed American investments in chip and wireless technologies and handed global leadership to Huawei, which allegedly circumvented sanctions imposed on North Korea and Iran, by providing them with telecom equipment that can be used for extensive spying on populations, essentially dual use technologies.
Several countries have warned against using Chinese hardware because of security concerns, which stem from the Chinese government’s use of Huawei’s products to spy on people around the world. In the Pacific region, Australia blocked Huawei and ZTE from providing equipment for its 5G network. At the same time, Australian media reports suggest that government officials had advised India to ban Huawei from supplying parts for a rollout of a high-speed telecommunications network. India has not formally banned the company but has phased out the use of Huawei equipment in future projects. Other countries have also taken a similar cautious approach in their attitude towards Huawei. For instance, France had announced telecommunications operators would not be able to renew licenses for Huawei equipment when they expired, effectively phasing out the company’s presence. Vietnam has not barred Huawei, but its service providers have avoided using its equipment in both their 4G and 5G networks.
Sweden’s ban was amongst the most direct in Europe. As the South China Morning Post recently noted, “Sweden’s ban…of Huawei Technologies and ZTE Corp from its 5G networks…did not surprise observers. It is the blunt reference to China as a threat to national security that did.” Other countries, like Italy, have avoided a confrontation with China by adding bureaucratic and financial hurdles that would incentivize firms not to work with Huawei, rather than instituting an outright ban. Italy’s government vetoed a deal between the Chinese company and telecommunications provider Fastweb that would have used Huawei as the sole supplier of its 5G network.
Huawei continues to operate around the world. Significantly, soon after Meng Wanzhou’s return from Canada it was reported that she would have a new position as rotating chairwoman of the company. Meng is the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei and will act as the head of Huawei’s board of Directors for six months, when it is her turn. The rotating chairmen are Eric Xu and Ken Hu. This indicates that the Chinese state continues to see Meng and the company as a useful asset in its efforts to globally dominate the 5G market. The commercial and strategic battle for the world’s 5 G networks is thus far from over. | <urn:uuid:13bc1e46-f3c1-4f76-bcb6-4da4989058e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.geopolitica.info/huawei-networks-to-ban-or-not-to-ban/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965572 | 1,200 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Starting next year, the use of smokeless tobacco and the use of electronic cigarettes will not be allowed anywhere on University of California property. These bans will accompany a ban on the use of cigarettes and all other tobacco products on the 10 campuses in the UC system.
According to an article in the Daily Nexus: "UCSB is currently making the shift to going totally
smoke-and-tobacco-free, as all universities in the 10-campus UC system
will be officially designated as non-smoking beginning Jan. 1, 2014. On the first day of the new year, any tobacco and tobacco-free
products smoked through cigarettes, pipes, water pipes and hookahs used
on campus — in addition to smokeless tobacco and unregulated nicotine
products such as “e-cigarettes” — will be in violation of the
policy. Adoption of the policy will join the UC with 1,100 other
colleges and universities throughout the U.S. that have already
implemented such regulations to limit second and third-hand smoke
exposure on campus. The UC system’s transition to becoming completely
smoke and tobacco-free was first announced by former UC President Mark
G. Yudof back in January 2012."
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This policy makes little sense. First of all, while I recognize the need to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke exposure, it hardly seems necessary to ban smoking everywhere on the entire campus to accomplish this goal. Banning smoking in all indoor areas, in outdoor areas where people congregate or cannot easily avoid exposure, and within a reasonable distance of doors and entrance ways seems reasonable. But it is not necessary to completely ban smoking, even in private cars and remote areas of parking lots and open fields, in order to adequately protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke.
Second, even if we acknowledge a rationale for banning smoking, why would we want to also ban electronic cigarette use? The overwhelming majority of smokers who use electronic cigarettes are trying to quit smoking. Why would we want to deter this? Why punish these smokers for making a wonderful health decision? Why provide a disincentive for smokers to quit, while providing an incentive for them to return to cigarette use? How does this make any kind of health statement?
Third, while banning smoking protects the health of others, banning smokeless tobacco use is purely paternalistic. But if the university is going to set paternalistic policies to protect students' health, then how can it ban smokeless tobacco use but not alcohol use? To be sure, alcohol will cause more death and destruction on these university campuses than smokeless tobacco. Even worse, by banning smokeless tobacco but leaving alcohol untouched, these policies represent the worst form of hypocrisy.
You either decide to promote a healthy campus or you don't. And if you believe that promoting a healthy campus means being paternalistic and regulating the behaviors that people can or cannot do (even if they don't affect others), then you can't be selective and just cut out the behaviors that you personally don't approve of.
The rest of the story is that the UC smoke-free policy reeks of hypocrisy, intolerance, and moral judgment of others. It is by no means a public health policy. Instead, it is a statement of a warped ideology, by which getting drunk is fine, but using a little dip is not, and by which trying to quit smoking via hypnosis is A-OK, but trying to quit using electronic cigarettes is a no-no. | <urn:uuid:08c60b75-8791-4cd7-a6b5-f6a6b47c43dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2013/10/university-of-california-system-to-ban.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951078 | 724 | 2.375 | 2 |
Why do the police impound cars?
Car insurance is mandatory to drive in any states across the world. It acts as financial protection against physical damage and other liability that could arise in a vehicle. It also offers financial protection against theft of the vehicle. You will insure your car, and after that, you might not check their validity. There are many reasons for your car seized by the people. Whatever may be the circumstances, you have to get impounded car insurance for releasing your car from the police compound.
Driving without a proper license or insurance policy:
The police have the power to seize any of the vehicles that are driven without proper insurance. You require to have a proper insurance policy when driving the car. You will get a warning for the first offence, however, in serious situations police would impound cars.
If you are caught driving a vehicle without the proper insurance, police seize and arrange for it to be impounded. Sometimes you have the insurance policy cover, but without realizing the invalidation you might drive the car. If you allow someone else to use your vehicle without analyzing their insurance policy. Likewise, it might be for any reasons that you drive a car without insurance. The police will seize the vehicle instantly if you don’t drive it with insurance cover. To collect your vehicle take out the impounded car insurance from the police compound.
Also, a license is Important for driving a vehicle. When you don’t hold the license or the existing license expired your vehicle can be seized and impounded. One of the other offence is when you don’t stop the vehicle to the signal of police or take too long for stopping, your car can be impounded. You will be liable to storage fees as releasing a seized vehicle can be costly. You have to take temporary insurance for collecting your vehicle.
You have only 14 days period take the vehicle from the police compound. If you failed to do it, either car will be destroyed or given to the car auction. Your car will be stored securely for 14 days, so you have to collect the vehicle as soon as possible.
The surveys show that many thousands of people are wasting money by not shopping or using an inexperienced broker when taking the impound insurance policy. When you search online you might get a list of insurance providers. Don’t pick the one as you see the first. Even you are in a hard situation, you should compare the quotes with as many insurance providers as possible. Also, it is not easy to find the insurer as if you request the quote they will ask whether it is currently in a police compound. Many would refuse to offer, so find the one that designed to provide for an impounded vehicle. | <urn:uuid:2369c0bd-c01c-4678-bc90-6d3d8dcbf67f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.daltonfury.com/auto/why-do-the-police-impound-cars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.962855 | 552 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Palliative Care Standardized Curriculum – Translating International Recommendations into Undergraduate Palliative Care Curriculum (EDUPALL) – Erasmus+ Project Strategic partnership Ref. no.: 2017-1-RO01-KA203-037382
Project Lead: Transilvania University, Brasov, Romania
Project Director: Assoc. Prof. Daniela Mosoiu
Grant: €294, 956 – ERASMUS + Programme of the European Union
Project length: 1 September 2017- 31 August 2020
Partners: Transylvania University, Brasov-applicant, EAPC, Belgium, Aachen University, Germany, All Ireland Institute of Hospice and Palliative Care, Medicine and Pharmacy University, Timisoara, Medicine and Pharmacy University, Targu-Mures, Medicine and Pharmacy University Grigore T. Popa, Iasi, HOSPICE Casa Sperantei, Brasov. Read more about partners
The aim of the project is to develop a undergraduate palliative care standardized curriculum, diversification of teaching and assessment of educational programs methods, but also training the faculty. Complex activities are included in the project, such as: developing a curriculum, materials for faculty who will teach the theoretical and practice courses, developing interactive teaching/learning methods, using technology during the educational process, mentoring students and innovative assessment process. All these materials will be developed with support from national and international experts with experience in development of educational programs, teaching to undergraduate level in palliative care. This curriculum will be piloted in 4 university centres in Romania (Brasov, Targu-Mures, Timisoara and Iasi) and 2 university centres in Ireland. Materials will be available in three languages: Romanian, English and German.
The success of this project will create at country level an unitary curriculum which would offer basic palliative care knowledge to students, but also it would be a model for other countries in the region. | <urn:uuid:55026b5e-aa8b-48d7-931a-9f2792e6ae1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://edupall.eu/about-edupall/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.898227 | 418 | 1.8125 | 2 |
The USA and Southeast Asia: a new deal
The beginning of XXI century is characterized by the rise of the role of East Asia in the contemporary world. The rivalry of great powers embraced all region, included Southeast Asia, which for a long time was at the forefront of development and regional integration initiatives, especially with the ASEAN. It became the area of interventions and influences of major external powers such as the United States, China, India, Japan, Australia, and the EU and Russia. Unfortunately also old local animosities included unresolved territorial disputes and new challenges like terrorism and pandemics, affect Southeast Asia. The American presidential election campaign in 2016 and particularly campaign of Donald Trump exerted great influence on situation in Southeast Asia. Some controversial decisions of Donald Trump such as withdrawal from Trans Pacific Partnership and the absence of the clear policy in the region, after the policy of “pivot/rebalance” of president Obama, almost completely changed political situation in Southeast Asia. The immediate consequence is the rise of the Chinese position in the area and extraordinary activation of diplomacy of Japan, Vietnam and some other countries, making attempt to stop Chinese influence. The political situation in the region turned more dynamic, unforeseeable and complicated. The countries of Southeast Asia sooner or later will face the crucial choice between the United States and China. | <urn:uuid:a58e4621-39ad-470b-9ac6-f7aea478c3dc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://czasopisma.marszalek.com.pl/component/tags/tag/nowe-tendencje-w-azji-poludniowo-wschodniej | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.943741 | 268 | 2.921875 | 3 |
Active older women prefer wearable sensors over smart home sensors
“Our findings that younger, more active older adult women prefer wearable sensors for themselves and smart home sensors for their parents is important to tailoring technology research for independent ageing,” said Blaine Reeder, the lead author of the study.Reeder conducts informatics research to connect the contexts of personal health and public health with a focus on three areas: ageing in place, organisational information systems, and research tools.
The study aimed to characterise perceptions of wearable and smart home technologies for older women. Consumer-grade wearable activity monitors include fitness trackers as well as smart watches with accelerator sensors; smart home technologies include sensors installed in the residential environment that allow for passive monitoring of health. Home sensors include bed and chair pressure sensors, activity sensors, video sensors, door and window sensors, and leak detection sensors.
“Given the greater number of women who will live into old age and their specific age-related risks, such as high-risk for fracture due to low bone mass, there is a need to identify approaches that help women to age independently. Sensor-based technologies show promise, but their acceptability with older adult women must be understood to promote adoption into daily life,” said Reeder.
This study showed that in general, wearable sensors were perceived as more useful than smart home sensors because most participants had high levels of activities outside their homes. In addition, both technologies were acceptable for personal activity data collection, and participants had few concerns about data sharing. | <urn:uuid:53d62fae-700d-41e7-a205-9a56f44b8200> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sylhetmirror.com/2019/05/01/active-older-women-prefer-wearable-sensors-over-smart-home-sensors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.964973 | 312 | 2.3125 | 2 |
WHAT bitter sorrow courses down|
Yon mourner’s faded cheek?
Those scalding drops betray a grief
Within, too full to speak.
Outspoken words cannot express
The pangs, the pains of years;
They’re ne’er so deep or eloquent
As are those silent tears.
Here is a wound that in the breast
Must canker, hid’n from sight;
Though all without seems sunny day,
Within ’Tis ever night.
Yet sometimes from this secret source
The gloomy truth appears;
The wind’s dark dungeon must have vent
If but in silent tears.
The world may deem from outward looks
That heart is hard and cold;
But oh! could they the mantle lift
What sorrows would be told!
Then, only then, the truth would show
Which most the bosom sears:
The pain portrayed by burning words
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Although the NHS is ranked as one of the institutions that makes people ‘most proud to be British’1, a new poll commissioned by Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd, highlights that 91% of people feel that the health service is in need of change2. In particular, shorter waiting times (36% of respondents) and improved access to medicines (30%) rank most highly as the areas in need of greatest reform.
With only 1 in 4 of respondents agreeing that the Government currently spends enough on health, the survey reveals that those polled would be willing to accept an average charge of £10 for a missed GP appointment in order to improve service levels. The people polled also said they would be willing to pay an average of £170 per year in additional income tax for healthcare funding – which could result in approximately £5 billion in additional tax revenue for the Treasury3. In addition to these charges, 39% of those polled would be willing to accept an additional charge if it meant quicker access to healthcare services and 44% of those polled would be willing to accept additional charges if it meant access to newer and potentially more effective medicines.
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Filtration Water Treatment
Forming a barrier using water filtration treatment processes, physically separating solids from water.
Used to produce drinking or process water, filtration water treatment processes ground, surface or wastewater using many technologies. These include fine mesh screening, media filtration and membrane filtration. Each method effectively separates solids from water.
What is Filtration Water Treatment?
Many industries need a constant stream of portable drinking or process water. For example, operations such as food manufacturing and automotive assembly uses process water, whilst sewerage treatment plants require effective wastewater filtration processes.
Using filtration in water treatment, solid particles are entirely removed from the water. This can be from ground water, surface water or even pre-treated wastewater.
These processes in water treatment have a clear objective: to provide the correct quality of water for the specific industrial application.
The Filtration Water Treatment Process
Filtration is an important stage when treating water. Firstly, multiple methods of pre-treatment are common. This could include flocculation, coagulation and sedimentation.
Following pre-treatment, various forms of water filtration can be used. For fine screening, drumfilters and discfilters are common. They remove suspended solids from the water and polish effluent from wastewater treatment plants.
Should media filtration be chosen, pressure gravitational filters can be used. These work by the media forming a barrier to the passage of suspended solids, absorbing some compounds contained in the liquids.
Finally, membrane technologies can be used. These include ultrafiltration, microfiltration, nanofiltration, and reverse osmosis. They will retain different sizes of particles and ions, whilst allowing pure water to flow through.
It is also wise to use water filter cartridges. Acting as protection barriers, they retain solids and particles upstream.
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For businesses making the transition to the cloud, security is vital. Our Cloud Security experts can help you build security into your cloud infrastructure, providing the peace of mind your organization needs to push forward.
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Ho Chi Minh City mesmerizes tourists by its modern skyline & colorful lights. Although the đô thị has been recently renewed with a lot of magnificent buildings and trendy lifestyle, Saigon has still retained a visible & distinctive sầu history. When it comes to lớn Independence Palace or (Reunification Palace), its name does say what you want lớn know. As one of the finest colonial buildings in Saigon, it is considered not only the symbol of Vietnam giới national independence, but also a special national relic for its architectural và historical values.
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Built by the French during the period of 1868 and 1871, it originally served as the trang chính and comm& center of Governor General. The palace was then taken over by Saigon government in 1954 (represented by President Ngo Dinh Diem) as well as renamed the Independence Palace. After being demolished by bombs in 1962, it was replaced by a new building.
Inaugurated in 1966, the new palace quickly became the major headquarter of Saigon government. It is quite proud to say that Independence Palace witnessed many significant historical events, especially the rise & fall of other 3 presidents of Southern Vietphái mạnh. On April 30, 1975, a Vietnamese army tank crashed through the palace’s gates, creating the way for Communist forces khổng lồ occupy it. Literally, the photograph of this major event has become emblematic of the country’s reunification.
Designed by Ngo Viet Thu – a noted Vietnamese architect, the palace will make your eyebrows raised by its imposing architecture, which features a harmonious combination of Western and Eastern styles. Today, it functions as a museum. Though the building has gone through a lot of renovation since its construction, the working office & living chambers of presidents remain unchanged.
Of course, tourists are allowed to visit most areas of the palace, ranging from the upstairs reception rooms, the downstairs meeting rooms to the President’s chambers. Constructed around a sunny atrium, the living quarters are also appointed with appealing antiques and glittering chandeliers. Cthua khổng lồ the Reunification Hall, it is easy to recognize a green park with lush trees, which gives a cool place to walk around and relax. Nearby is the Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica & Saigon post office.
Although you have permission lớn take photos around the palace, it is also a wise idea to lớn buy a book bought at the gate, since it shows you pictures and basic information about the museum. Don’t forget khổng lồ show your respect and follow all instructions on the signboards.
After all, Independence Palace has strongly stayed in the mind of many Vietnamese generations. It is known as the popular and must-see historical witness which travelers should spend time dropping by when setting foot in Ho Chi Minh City.
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Latitude: 54.6911 / 54°41'28"N
Longitude: -3.3082 / 3°18'29"W
OS Eastings: 315774
OS Northings: 533684
OS Grid: NY157336
Mapcode National: GBR 5GB6.L4
Mapcode Global: WH6ZR.4CY1
Plus Code: 9C6RMMRR+FP
Entry Name: Stable Flats and Former Carriage House at Isel Hall
Listing Date: 5 September 1986
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1145216
English Heritage Legacy ID: 72546
Location: Blindcrake, Allerdale, Cumbria, CA13
Civil Parish: Blindcrake
Traditional County: Cumberland
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Cumbria
Church of England Parish: Binsey Team
Church of England Diocese: Carlisle
Tagged with: Stable
NY 13 SE
6/21 Stable flats and
House at Isel Hall
Stables and Carriage House, now flats and garages. Mid C17 and early C19.
Stables have mixed sandstone rubble walls with eaves cornice, under graduated
greenslate roof with coped gables; calciferous sandstone chimney stacks.
Carriage House of similar rubble walls with flush quoins, under graduated
greenslate roof. 2 storeys, 5 bays with lower right 4 bays and right
right-angled lower carriage house. Plank doors in Tudor-arched surrounds.
Diamond leaded-paned casement windows, some in original 2-light stone-mullioned
surrounds under hoodmoulds. Lower portion has original loft doorway and small
flanking windows. Stepped mounting block against front wall. Carriage house
has 4 segmental doorways. Lower right wing has plank doors and casement
windows. Left open-fronted shed linked with stables. Listed for group value
with Isel Hall.
Listing NGR: NY1577433684
External links are from the relevant listing authority and, where applicable, Wikidata. Wikidata IDs may be related buildings as well as this specific building. If you want to add or update a link, you will need to do so by editing the Wikidata entry.
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If you are someone with no sense of fashion, this article can help. You don’t need to feel like a fashion misfit. It is actually very easy to improve your appearance.Keep on reading to learn some great fashion tips.
Sheer clothing can be sexy, but too much sheer in too many places can create the wrong look. Wearing see-through items will make you appear to be more trashy than classy.
A nice purse is a great accessory to your outfit, but always make sure it matches your other bags too.Avoid carrying more than one bag at any time.
If your hair tends to frizz, avoid vigorously rubbing it with a towel after a shower. This will only exacerbate your problem. Try patting your follicles instead. When you are happy, brush and comb your hair.
Don’t buy an item of clothing just because they’re on sale for a great price. If the item does not fit with your overall style or does not look good on you, it’s not worth it no matter how great a deal it is. It will simply gather dust on a hanger and money.
A lot of people think fashion is just about clothes. What they do not know is that your hair can ruin your outfit if you do not keep it looking fabulous. You need to invest in proper hair care products and put plenty of time into your hair style to get the look that perfectly complements your daily style.
Long hair is sometimes a busy day. If you’ve no time to primp, pull it up.
You should wear white any time of year, Labor Day or otherwise! Any color, as long as it is flattering, is appropriate. If you look great in it, pull it out of your wardrobe at any time! Times have evolved and nobody is going to point a finger at you.
Don’t keep a bunch of makeup inside your beauty kit with makeup. Choose things that you really love with a selection of season-specific colors. Think about what you need for day look and your evening look. Makeup does not last forever once it is opened.Germs can even grow in the cosmetics if you used it a few months or years ago and left it sitting.
Add color to your hair if you want to have a vibrant look during the summer. But you should be extra careful in maintaining your colored hair. Select hair products that are color-safe.
Wear darker blouses and pants if you’re overweight. Dark colors help emphasize your good parts and tone down any bulges that you don’t want to draw attention to.
Good fashion is not all about finding a great outfit, it is necessary for you to find matching shoes. Generally, just make sure that your belt matches your shoes in color tone. This gives you a tried and true classic look. You can never go wrong with this rule.
Fashion is typically viewed as being about more than the clothing. What some don’t realize is that lackluster hair can ruin your outfit if you do not keep it looking fabulous.
Teasing your hair to add volume should be avoided as it can cause damage and brittleness to your hair. You should avoid hairstyles that combine multiple textures. You may think it is an edgy look, but in actuality, it will just look indecisive.
Subscribe to fashion magazines and newsletter to stay current with some of the latest fashion trends. This will help to give you up to date on fashion as each season changes.
Use your style of dress to accentuate your assets and hide your flaws. Much to your dismay, a low-cut blouse may not be the best choice for you, but maybe you’ve got killer legs. For example, you can wear short skirts and high heels; that’s fashion success. Use your assets to your best advantage.
Stay away from floral patterns if you are overweight.Larger shapes can hurt your size and do not flatter you.
During the fall and winter, opt for quilted fabrics. This fabric is being used in all sorts of clothes, including jackets, blouses and skirts. The best way to adorn yourself in this fabric is by wearing it slightly loose, without going overboard.
Let friends know if you’re in need of the latest trends. This is a wonderful way to get fashionable clothes for free.
Look at what the clothing you’re buying is made from. It is important that you look at the materials listed on the tag. While it may fit you well in the store, certain types of material doesn’t wash well. Do not spend your hard earned money on clothes that will shrink, lose shape or fray easily after purchase.
A great touch is making sure that their belt matches their shoes. This gives you a classic look that will help you rise in the fashion world.
Do not forget about your hairstyle because it defines you. So it is very important that your hairstyles reflect your personality and where you are in your life. For example, a shoulder-length bob is a good classic style for a woman who plans on going corporate. If you’re a mom trying to keep pace with the kids, a wash and go style is probably the best.
You may want to hire someone who is a fashion consultant when shopping with you. You are probably don’t have enough time to keep up with the latest fashions if you have other priorities.
Someone who specializes in color can let you know what colors work best for your type of body. It all depends on what kind of skin tone you have as well as eyes and hair which determine how the colors appear to people. Pick colors that make you stand out and look your best when deciding on which clothes to get.
Keep your style updated without spending a lot by using a resale store to sell or trading the clothes you no longer wear. Some will buy your clothing outright or allow you trade for items in their store.
Compensate your weight using solid colors. In fact, dark shades slim your body. Yet, smaller people should wear lighter and brighter colors to appear larger to people that view them.
Just use it cautiously or you could risk yellowing your clothing items up and bleach the wrong clothes on accident.
If you’re a business traveler, make anti-wrinkle and easy-care clothing a major part of your wardrobe. Although most hotels have ironing supplies available, it is better to not need to iron at all. You should automatically hang up all your clothes when you get to your hotel room.
Spend time with a professional color consultant and find out the colors that flatter you. The consultant can help you choose the colors that are right for you based on your individual skin tone, eye color and your hair.
Wear modern glasses. Many people overlook eyewear as a basic part of their fashion budget. Your glasses are the first thing people see, so have fun with them! Try a variety of styles and trends to see which frames are most flattering to your face shape and features.
Compensate your weight by wearing solid colors.Dark colors will make you visually shed pounds.If you are petite, choose lighter colors and ample clothes.
An outfit is never complete without accessories. These types of accessories include bracelets, necklaces, earrings, watches, and more. Think about the proper shoes for the outfits you buy. Have a nice hairstyle. Check out fashion magazines to get a sense of how to accessorize different outfits.
There is no need for surgery to give your lips appear fuller short of going under the knife. Stick with a shiny gloss.Do not wear dark lipstick because it thins your lips out.
Don’t shy away from adding color to your look. Don’t you look twice at guys in pink. Purple, pink, dark blue, yellow, orange or red can all add a bold pop of color to plain jeans or black trousers. Save the more muted hues for business or the office.
Remember, there is no good reason to feel like a fashion misfit. You can enjoy wearing head-turning outfits by just working a little smarter when putting your wardrobe together. Use the tips you’ve learned here and you’ll be on your way to looking great!
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Early career women understand that building a career and life they thrive in is no small feat. Instead, they find they are navigating a labyrinth of obstacles, twists, turns, and often dead ends. They desire to learn from the stories of triumph, defeat, and resilience of those who have gone before them as they chart their own paths. Research from QUEST identifies six mindsets that high-powered women leaders display. This article outlines how senior women leaders think and provides a roadmap for early career women for how they can flex different mindsets to build careers they thrive in.
“How do successful women leaders build careers they thrive in?”
This is the question that is top-of-mind for early career women who desire to learn from the journeys of the accomplished female leaders who have come before them. Beyond seeking inspiration, the next generation of women leaders are asking for practical advice on the capabilities they need to navigate tough choices, tradeoffs, disappointments, and adversities in their quests to build careers they thrive in.
When answering this question, the senior women leaders we interviewed spoke both of the skill sets that have contributed to their rise and of the mindsets that have shaped their overall outlook and approach to building meaningful careers and lives.
When it comes to skill sets, these women display deep technical expertise. Their day-to-day activities and responsibilities showcase their mastery of their fields, whether it be human resources, legal affairs, risk management, operations, or other areas. They also possess a high level of industry knowledge coupled with an understanding of their organisational contexts and cultures. They have a breadth of functional business knowledge and display broad-based business acumen. They understand the core business functions that drive bottom line impact. In addition, they are highly-skilled communicators, strategic thinkers, problem solvers, and people motivators.
About the Authors
Christie Hunter Arscott is a leadership advisor and researcher, specialising in gender and generational strategies. She serves as Principal of QUEST – a global leadership institute for early career women. In 2017, Christie was selected for the Global Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organisations are managed and led.
Lauren Noël is the Managing Director of QUEST, ICEDR’s global leadership institute for early career women. The International Consortium for Executive Development Research (ICEDR) is a global consortium of 30 world-class companies and 15 business schools. In 2017, Lauren was selected for the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organisations are managed and led. | <urn:uuid:cfd10b98-411a-4d76-b19e-11836315ee10> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://politicalanthropologist.com/2018/10/12/women-leaders-build-careers-thrive/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960073 | 534 | 1.523438 | 2 |
E. S. Gosney Papers And Records Of The Human Betterment Foundation, 1880-1945
The Human Betterment Foundation (1929-42) was established by Ezra S. Gosney (1855-1942) for the purpose of advocating and researching the sterilization of the socially and mentally unfit according to eugenic principles. Upon the death of Mr. Gosney, his daughter, Lois Gosney Castle, liquidated the assets and donated the proceeds to Caltech. The collection contains correspondence, administrative records, manuscripts, clipped articles, research data (mainly survey data), and pamphlets. The complete finding aid is available at the Online Archive of California.
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Scientists and clinicians who study genetic alterations and disease have traditionally described phenotypes in natural language. The considerable variation in these free-text descriptions has posed a hindrance to the important task of identifying candidate genes and models for human diseases and indicates the need for a computationally tractable method to mine data resources for mutant phenotypes. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that ontological annotation of disease phenotypes will facilitate the discovery of new genotype-phenotype relationships within and across species. To describe phenotypes using ontologies, we used an Entity-Quality (EQ) methodology, wherein the affected entity (E) and how it is affected (Q) are recorded using terms from a variety of ontologies. Using this EQ method, we annotated the phenotypes of 11 gene-linked human diseases described in Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man (OMIM). These human annotations were loaded into our Ontology-Based Database (OBD) along with other ontology-based phenotype descriptions of mutants from various model organism databases. Phenotypes recorded with this EQ method can be computationally compared based on the hierarchy of terms in the ontologies and the frequency of annotation. We utilized four similarity metrics to compare phenotypes and developed an ontology of homologous and analogous anatomical structures to compare phenotypes between species. Using these tools, we demonstrate that we can identify, through the similarity of the recorded phenotypes, other alleles of the same gene, other members of a signaling pathway, and orthologous genes and pathway members across species. We conclude that EQ-based annotation of phenotypes, in conjunction with a cross-species ontology, and a variety of similarity metrics can identify biologically meaningful similarities between genes by comparing phenotypes alone. This annotation and search method provides a novel and efficient means to identify gene candidates and animal models of human disease, which may shorten the lengthy path to identification and understanding of the genetic basis of human disease.
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Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi found his way to the summit of Egypt and the member states of Visegrad (Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia), which was held during the past two days in the Hungarian capital Budapest, where he took the opportunity to meet with European countries known for their hostility to immigrants to promote his theories on human rights and irregular migration.
Al-Sisi’s press statements during the summit were sharp, as he appeared angry at the European criticism directed at his regime over human rights violations, the latest of which was the European Parliament’s adoption of a resolution criticising the deteriorating human rights conditions in Egypt, urging a deep and comprehensive review of the European Union’s relations with Cairo, and calling to consider taking restrictive measures against high-ranking Egyptian officials implicated in serious human rights abuses.
Sisi links human rights with illegal immigration
Al-Sisi spoke more than once about unregulated immigration, stressing that his regime succeeded in preventing the exit of any illegal immigration boat from Egypt to Europe, and did not use the migrants’ file as a pressure card, calling on European countries to provide more support to Egypt, and to countries that suffer from unstable conditions that have left its citizens wanting to emigrate. Al-Sisi tried to link irregular migration to human rights, stressing that Egypt’s dealings with migrants came from a “human rights” and a “moral and humanitarian perspective,” and that Egypt does not have refugee camps, but rather leaves refugees living among the general citizens.
The Egyptian president criticised European countries that criticise the human rights situation in his country, stressing that he “does not need someone to tell him that human rights standards in his country have been violated,” because he is responsible for “reviving and preserving 100 million lives, which is not an easy matter.” Al-Sisi called on European countries to adopt a different perspective on human rights, saying: “I imagine illegal immigration as a title that reflects a form of human rights that is missing in our region, but from a different perspective, not only the expression of opinion and political practice, but also many other rights that are not available yet in our area.”
Al-Sisi added: “Are European countries ready to contribute and participate with these countries to improve their political, economic and cultural conditions, so that we can reach a different approach to understanding human rights, which is always a controversial issue between us? I am talking about Egypt, for example, and our European friends. I do not refuse to discuss this issue and talk about it, but from what approach? From the approach that you provide a decent life for 100 million Egyptians?”
President Sisi made many inaccurate statements during his speech about human rights and the number of refugees in Egypt, which appear to be deliberate inaccuracies to cover up human rights violations in Egypt. Sisi has repeatedly spoken of the universality of human rights and that they should not be coerced into political and civil rights, but should be expanded to include the right to life, economic and social rights, and dealing with migrants.
First, who limits the concept of human rights to political and civil rights only? All the literature of human rights movements affirms that economic rights and the right to education, housing, and health care are all at the core of human rights. Secondly, Sisi is making the same mistake he is talking about, as he is trying to limit the concept of human rights to economic, social and cultural rights, and exclude political and civil rights from them so as not to receive criticism. Third, if Sisi is sincere about the “comprehensive vision of human rights,” why does he not give Egyptians their political rights as he says he gives them their economic and social rights?
Speaking about irregular migration and refugees, Sisi said that Egypt has “more than 6 million refugees,” a number he often repeats in his statements to show himself as an honest guard at the southern gateway to the Mediterranean, and to send a veiled threat to European countries of the possibility of a tsunami of illegal immigration if the conditions of his system worsened. This is an inaccurate statement and an exaggeration.
Sisi deliberately confuses the definition of a foreigner legally residing and working in Egypt for one reason or another with a refugee as defined by the 1951 United Nations Convention relating to the Status of Refugees, which is: “Everyone has a well-founded fear of being persecuted because of race, religion, or nationality” or belonging to a particular social group or political group, while he is outside the country of his nationality and is unable or unwilling – because of this fear – to benefit from the protection of his country. Officially, there are no accurate figures for the number of foreigners or refugees in Egypt, as no official body has issued a scientific census on the matter, but evidence indicates that the number of refugees in Egypt, according to the definition of the United Nations, is much lower than Sisi’s claims.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Egypt hosts about 254,000 registered asylum seekers, while the World Bank estimates the number of refugees in Egypt at about 273,000. Assuming that these numbers pertain to registered refugees only, and that there are unregistered refugees, at best it can be said that there are a million or a million and a half refugees in Egypt, while the rest of the foreigners are legal residents and working people who benefit the Egyptian economy. | <urn:uuid:0bbddb87-2f42-47e1-b2a4-5f5689f268b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://egyptwatch.net/2021/10/18/sisi-barters-with-europe-human-rights-violations-in-exchange-for-preventing-irregular-migration/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972397 | 1,136 | 1.742188 | 2 |
On the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, James Melton reflects on the strength and influence of the legal document, but also its weaknesses and negative aspects.
This article is based on a new volume co-edited by Robert Hazell and James Melton Magna Carta and Its Modern Legacy.
Today Magna Carta (1215) celebrates its 800th birthday. We celebrate this historic event for two reasons. First, the Great Charter is one of the oldest in force legal documents in the world, as four lines from the original charter are still on the statute books in the United Kingdom. Second, and more importantly, Magna Carta has become a symbol of limited government that is recognised all over the world. However, when celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta’s birth, one should not forget about the 800th anniversary of its death on 24 August 2015. Magna Carta (2015) died when it was annulled by Pope Innocent III, just two months and nine days after it was sealed. The Great Charter was subsequently amended and reissued in 1216, 1217, 1225 and 1297, but its early death serves as a reminder that, in 1215, Magna Carta was a failure. It was completely ignored by King John and, ultimately, led England into the very civil war which it was meant to prevent.
In our new volume, Magna Carta and Its Modern Legacy, Robert Hazell and I have put together a collection of essays that both commemorate Magna Carta’s 800 year history and provide a balanced assessment of the Great Charter’s legacy. The volume is divided into three sections: 1) Magna Carta’s influence in the UK, 2) its influence abroad and 3) 21st century reflection on Magna Carta. While the scholars who have contributed to our volume all recognize the symbolic importance of Magna Carta, they all also realise that many of the claims made about Magna Carta are grossly exaggerated. As a result, the account of Magna Carta told by their chapters is more realistic than the account told by many commentators. Instead of unbridled enthusiasm for the Great Charter, our contributors recognise that its influence has not been wholly positive.
For example, in Chapter 6, Derek O’Brien explains how Magna Carta was used by settlers in the Commonwealth Caribbean to justify the use of slavery. To this day, many commonwealth countries (e.g. New Zealand and many Caribbean nations) claim Magna Carta as part of their legal code. This was no different during the colonial era, when settlers claimed the liberties set forth in Magna Carta as part of their birthright as Englishmen. Dr O’Brien explains how, during the abolition debates in late 18th century England, this birthright was used by proponents of slavery to claim that slaves were similar to the `villeins’ in medieval England, whose liberties were not protected by Magna Carta. They also argued that slaves were the property of their masters, attempting to draw on the sacred place of property rights in both Magna Carta and English law more generally. Such arguments were successful in delaying emancipation in the Commonwealth Caribbean and in securing compensation for slave owners who lost their `property’ after emancipation was achieved in 1833.
Dr. O’Brien is not the only contributor to highlight Magna Carta’s shortcomings. Most chapters in our volume find that the effect of Magna Carta is not as positive as the 800th Anniversary Committee would lead us to believe. For instance, Chapter 4 demonstrates, using polling data, how little UK citizens actually know about Magna Carta. Chapter 7 demonstrates the trouble Pacific Island nations have had living up to Magna Carta’s promise of a timely trial. Chapter 10 argues that the Charter of the Forest, which was sealed in 1217, was more consequential in medieval England than Magna Carta.
The theme which emerges from these chapters is that the Great Charter’s story is complicated. On the one hand, Magna Carta provides hope that citizens can rise up against an oppressive executive. On the other hand, it has frequently been ignored by numerous English Monarchs and sometimes even used to justify egregious human rights abuses. So, at this monumental time in Magna Carta’s history, one should not only celebrate Magna Carta’s birth, but also its death. Its death is important because it serves as a reminder that parchment alone is insufficient to constrain executive authority. It was not sufficient in 1215, when King John ignored the promises he made upon sealing Magna Carta, and by itself, parchment remains unlikely to serve as such a constraint in 2015.
This article originally appeared on CUP’s fifteeneightyfour blog.
About the Author
James Melton is Senior Lecturer in British and Comparative Politics and leads the Comparative Constitutions project at the Constitution Unit. | <urn:uuid:01cdc8ef-e408-43b9-ad44-93cba1f0f6aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://constitution-unit.com/2015/06/15/celebrating-the-birth-and-death-of-magna-carta/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965431 | 1,027 | 3.53125 | 4 |
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Target groups are those in the world of music, arts, fashion and films
NEW DELHI: With reports of alleged cocaine abuse circulating in the Rahul Mahajan- Bibek Moitra case, an international drug expert said on Saturday India was emerging as a major market in the sub continent for cocaine.
The market in Europe was saturated and international drug cartels were exploring new markets in Central Asia, India, Pakistan, Singapore and Thailand, said Ramachandra Sundaralingam, who spent over 15 years with Interpol, told The Hindu. Mr. Sundaralingam, now in India on an assignment, said that while the United States continued to be a high market for cocaine, the demand in Europe had reached saturation point. "The drug inflows into Russia, Central Asia, Pakistan, India, Singapore and other areas have gone up." Reports with Interpol indicated that countries with growing economies were emerging as new markets.
"Cocaine is the drug of high society," he said. The target groups were those in the world of music, arts, fashion and films. However, a proper study of drug abuse was not possible because "unlike conventional crime, the victim in this case does not complain."
Although it was for the Narcotics Control Bureau to make an assessment of user pattern in the country, there were reports indicating that besides Mumbai and Delhi drug abuse was travelling to Bangalore and Hyderabad. Conservative estimates indicated that there was around 14 million cocaine users worldwide and the global turnover of the trade around $200 billion. The trade was controlled by the Colombian cartel, while Afghanistan controlled 80 per cent of heroin trade in the world.
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VIN(i) 1 The oracle that Habakkuk the prophet saw. 2 How long, O LORD (YHWH), will I call for help and you do not hear? I cry out to you, save me from violence! And yet you do not save. 3 Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up. 4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails; for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore justice comes out perverted. 5 Look among the nations and see, and be amazed. Be amazed! For a work is working in your days which you will not believe, though it be told to you. 6 Watch out! For I am bringing in the Chaldeans, that cruel and impetuous people, who sweep across the earth dispossessing people from homes not their own. 7 "They are feared and dreaded. Their justice and dignity are of their own being. 8 Their horses are more swift than leopards; they are more menacing than wolves at dusk. Their horsemen gallop; their horsemen come from afar; they fly like an eagle that is swift to devour. 9 All of them come for violence. Their hordes face the desert. He gathers prisoners like sand. 10 "They scoff at kings, and princes are derision to them. They laugh at every stronghold, for they build earthen ramps and capture them. 11 Then he sweeps by like the wind, and goes on. He is indeed guilty, whose strength is his god." 12 Aren't you from everlasting, LORD my God, my Holy One? We will not die. LORD, you have appointed him for judgment. You, Rock, have established him to punish. 13 Your eyes are too pure to see evil, and you are not able to look at wrongdoing. Why do you look at the treacherous? Why are you silent when the wicked swallows up someone more righteous than him? 14 You have fashioned mankind like fish in the ocean, like creeping things that have no ruler. 15 He takes up all of them with the hook; he catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad. 16 Therefore he sacrifices to his net, and burns incense to his dragnet, because by them his life is luxurious, and his food is good. 17 Will they keep on emptying their nets and keep on destroying nations without mercy? | <urn:uuid:cc811d6d-1383-44fb-8ba3-9788675d1229> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://studybible.info/VIN/Habakkuk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.975973 | 515 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Do you have a Places or Community page for your business? If so you may be at risk of your information being hijacked.
A couple of weeks ago my wife and I were looking for a place to eat on Lake Lanier, a lake just North of Atlanta. I went to Google and searched eventually clicking on a Facebook page link for Pelican Pete’s (PP’s). I went to their page to find out more information on PP’s and in the process discovered a potential flaw or potential issue to businesses relying on Places and Community pages on Facebook.
As you can see in the video below I had the ability to go into the PP’s page and edit the basic information including Tags, Address, Phone Number, and URL. Why is this an issue?
For starters let’s look at a hypothetical situation that is reasonable. Let’s suppose that I make money by using Google AdSense to display relevant ads on pages. With the ability to go into certain Facebook pages and customize the URL, I can set up a number of money making pages in Facebook by hijacking ignored Facebook Places pages and placing links to my pages with AdSense running on it.
In the case of PP’s, I simply would create a website called LakeLanierToDos.com. Under the domain I could then create a page called /pelicanpetes and place the relevant information about PP, but in the sidebar include Google Ads for other Lake Lanier businesses. Something like this:
Now imagine if you did that across 1,000 sites how much revenue you might generate by hijacking ignored Facebook places pages. Watch the Video.
Think its just the little guys who could be hijacked? Here is a Facebook Places page for a local Starbucks in Alpharetta, GA that I was able to go in and edit their info.
So what can you do to avoid your Facebook presence being hijacked:
- Create a Company, Brand, or Product page that you have 100% control of. Avoid Community and Places accounts.
- Claim you Place. If you look below the photo in the left bar on the Places Page you will see a text link that asks “Is this your business?”. Click on the link and claim your business. From what I have seen verifying the business doesn’t prevent the ability of someone else editing your info and URL.
- Merge the Places Page with Your Company, Brand, Product, etc. page. This appears to be a good idea that has disappeared for the time being. Facebook may be changing the process and planning on reinstating the process once completed. Last info I saw (on 8/2/11) was that Facebook was not responding to questions sent on this topic. Google+ anyone?
- Create a Company, Brand, Product page, then claim your Places page and delete it. If you can’t merge the Places page then kill it.
I’d like to think that Facebook would see this post and correct the issue. But in the real world Facebook likely knows about the issue, has decided it doesn’t really care or that it isn’t a big enough issue, and has no plans to address it. Social networks move at their own speed, based on their own priorities, and I’ve yet to see one that really cares what their users think. They may exist to help the rest of us be social, but they themselves really are more interested in figuring out how to make money rather than having a conversation with you or me.
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Cleaning for Health
Daniel Bernazzani PhD
Sr. Vice President
YOUNG & Associates Environmental Division
With Coronavirus (Covid – 19) so widespread, I thought it might help to understand the role disinfectants and cleaning plays. Much attention is devoted to disinfectants and hand sanitizers, but cleaning with detergent and water should not be dismissed or overlooked. Today, Coronavirus (Covid-19) is widespread. In our built environments, exposure can be great and health impacts serious. To reduce the likelihood of spread, clean and disinfect touched surfaces frequently (i.e., tabletops, counters, doorknobs, touchpads, etc.) If surfaces are dirty, clean them first with detergent and water. Bar soap, liquid soap, laundry detergent and more are very effective at breaking apart the virus. Viruses can be cleaned from surfaces, that is why you wash your hands thoroughly, at least twenty seconds. Soap dissolves the fatty layer that protects the virus and prevents it from infecting a cell. If you want to be most effective with disinfectants clean the surface first. Disinfectants use chemical action to kill or inactivate a virus.
In my years in the restoration industry I have learned that hidden and viable microbes remained when they were presumed to have been removed during the cleaning process. While indoor environments are cleaned to protect people and contents – good health is today’s primary concern. There is no doubt that businesses that emphasize cleaning for health will be in strong demand.
To evolve and advance our understanding of cleaning contaminated surfaces followed by effective disinfection requires the individual performing the cleaning to carefully follow directions. For example, some “disinfecting wipes” have the statement to clean and remove allergens: Wipe surface clean and let it air dry. That’s great but read on – the same label states: To disinfect hard, non-porous surfaces: “Wipe surface, use enough wipes for treated surface to remain visibly wet for 4 minutes. For highly soiled surfaces, clean excess dirt first.”
So, while you can use the wipes to remove allergens, to disinfect the surface you should start with a clean surface and the surface (non-porous) should remain visibly wet for 4 minutes. Why – it takes time for disinfectants to inactivate microorganisms.
Our ability to have control over our environment sets us apart from other species. We can all control disease by life-saving hygiene done properly and often fall into the aforementioned criteria. These products may be on hold under the DOA rejection of the site. The determination on the status of these goods often establishes the size of the contents loss. Obviously, nobody wants contaminated goods released into the consumer marketplace. If goods are determined to be potentially contaminated, the optimum place to contain their disposition is where they are situated in a storage facility, and prior to potential distribution into the retail world. The highly trained DOA rep can make these decisions based on learned criteria, and apply them to the product and packaging involved. The DOA rep will outline, if any, the acceptable treatment procedures to be implemented to save the products in question from destruction.
Following these guidelines recently led to a positive conclusion on a sizeable contents loss. The DOA approved the retention of the sealed products by the insured, thus allowing their buy-back. The effect was increasing the salvage sale, and placing the goods under a salvage title. This action produced immediate raw materials for the insured, reduced the loss of existing customer orders, allowed the insured to retain their employees, and minimized the BI period to no more than the time required to clean the facility and pass inspection. It was truly the best possible outcome for all involved. | <urn:uuid:4a87f027-0908-4e0d-a790-924d076922b9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://southernloss.com/cleaning-for-health/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.939153 | 768 | 3.109375 | 3 |
1. To best protect yourself from Zika, which scenario should you avoid?
a. jogging on a treadmill at the gym in the spring
b. relaxing with friends by a pond in the summer
c. reading a book in an old library on a fall day
d. walking along the beach on a windy, wintry day
2. What is the main reason federal regulators want to ban swimming with dolphins?
a. to reduce boat pollution
b. to help the dolphins stay healthy
c. to increase tourism in other states
d. to encourage other daytime activities
3. What is making the rescue effort difficult after the earthquake in the town of Amatrice, Italy?
a. the weather
b. the mountains
c. the stories of hope
d. the time the quake struck
4. When did NASA lose contact with STEREO-B?
a. when it was launched into space
b. when it left Earth’s atmosphere
c. when it went toward the sun
d. when it went behind the sun
5. Which of the following are currently proven successful uses of stem cells?
a. growing replacement hearts
b. bone marrow transplants
c. growing replacement livers
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The latest figures show that capacity utilization is almost back up to its long-term average level of just above 80 percent, and yet as you can see, industrial production is nowhere near having caught up to its long-term trend.
This highlights the very real and very high costs of achieving economic recovery by simply letting things run their course. What’s happened is that with demand too low and thus capacity utilization low, we haven’t been adding capacity at our customary rate. Soon in industrial production terms we’ll have gotten out of the recessionary episode of idle resources and excess capacity. But we’ll do so by having taken a vacation from adding capacity. By the same token, people departing from the labor force will continue to excercise downward pressure on the unemployment rate. A meager but real and positive level of economic growth will eventually get you to full recovery by precisely this mechanism. One problem with this approach is that it takes a very long time and leads to a lot of avoidable human misery in the interim. Another problem is that it means we’ll be quasi-permanently poorer than we could have been in an alternate reality where we engaged in more forceful stimulative fiscal and economic policies. | <urn:uuid:dcf492a2-9a23-4ddd-8ae7-a7c0b74eafaf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://slate.com/business/2012/08/slouching-toward-recovery.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959101 | 250 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Undercar: CV Joint Replacement Tips
Understanding VW Glow Plug Diagnostics
e has cooled off sufficiently or is cold (typically below 9° C or 48° F), the engine computer turns on the glow plug relay and control module. The module then routes voltage to the glow plugs, causing them to rapidly heat up. On older VW diesel engines, just a relay was used to power on the glow plugs (no separate module).
The glow plugs are located in the cylinder head and the tips extend all the way into the combustion chambers in the TDI engine. This allows the heat to be quickly absorbed by the incoming air charge. In the older VW diesel engines with prechamber heads (1.9L and 1.6L), the glow plugs extended only into the prechambers and are just below the fuel injector.
This setup takes more heat because much of the heat is absorbed by the prechamber itself. Eliminating the prechambers and extending the glow plugs into the combustion chamber significantly reduces the warm-up time, and also allows the glow plugs to continue to assist the ignition process after the engine starts and is warming up.
On the 1980s vintage VW diesels, the glow plugs were turned off once a predetermined starting temperature was reached. Starting in the 1990s, the glow plugs were kept on while the engine was cranking, and for a brief period after the engine began to run, to prevent the engine from stalling. A thermo time switch or the engine control module turned off the glow plug relay when the supplemental heat was no longer needed.
On the latest generation of VW TDI diesel engines, the glow plugs remain on for up to four minutes after the engine starts to smooth the idle, and reduce noise and hydrocarbon emissions. Exhaust emissions are highest following a cold start, so keeping the glow plugs on during a “post-glow” period allows the engine to meet lower emission standards.
In this respect, the glow plugs act almost like spark plugs to keep the fire lit until the engine’s temperature stabilizes and emissions taper off. If engine speed goes above 2,500 rpm during the warm-up period following a cold start, the computer will shut off the glow plugs.
The latest VW glow plugs are made of more durable materials, and are designed for a longer service life. On the Bosch glow plugs, the tube that extends into the combustion chamber is made of Inconel 601 steel, which is highly corrosion resistant.
A pair of high-temperature Viton seals are used to seal the tube and internal heating coil to the gas-tight tube, and a ceramic powder is used inside the tube to provide good thermal conductivity. The glow plugs are designed to last upward of 100,000 miles, and most do but some do not.
Did You Know…
When glow plugs fail, the heating element inside typically burns out and goes open. Testing the glow plug with an ohmmeter (with the wiring harness disconnected and power off) will show if the plug has any resistance.
Zero resistance would tell you the glow plug has burned out and needs to be replaced. A good glow plug should have a resistance between 0.5 to 1.0 ohms.
If the glow plug system is not working correctly, the most common symptom is typically hard cold starting, which may be accompanied by a rough cold and/or white smoke (unburned fuel vapor) in the exhaust. Just remember that these same symptoms can also be caused by other things such as incorrect injector timing, worn or clogged fuel injectors, or poor fuel quality during cold weather.
The resistance of the glow plugs is critical for proper heating and operation. The resistance of the glow plugs will change as they age, but as long as they stay equal and do not exceed specifications (typically 0.5 to 1.0 ohms), they should continue to function normally. Also, the wiring harness and connectors that supply voltage to the glow plugs must be tight and corrosion-free.
On the newer VWs, the onboard diagnostic system monitors the operation of the glow plug system, and may set one or more fault codes if a problem is detected.
On the older VW prechamber non-TDI diesel engines, a problem in the glow plug system will often set a P0380 fault code. Unfortunately, there are no additional codes on these applications to help you figure out where the problem is, or which glow plug may be at fault. On the newer diesels, the diagnostics is better.
Glow Plug ‘Tips’
In rare instances, a glow plug may short to ground when it fails. Because the glow plug circuit is a high-amperage circuit, a shorted glow plug will overload the circuit and may cause the fuse (or fusible link on older VWs) to blow.
Here’s a tech tip from the www.TDIclub.com website: If the check engine light comes on approximately 30 seconds after starting the engine (and there are no obvious driveability problems other than hard starting), the cause may be a bad glow plug or a fault in the glow plug circuit.
If you find a “glow plug monitoring” fault with a VAG-COM or other scan tool, remove the wiring harness from the glow plugs and measure the resistance between each glow plug terminal and the engine block. All four glow plugs should measure between 0.5 to 1.0 ohms, with no more than 0.2 ohms difference between all of the plugs. If any glow plugs are outside this range, or vary more than 0.2 ohms from the others, consider replacing all four glow plugs with new ones.
Also, check the main glow plug fuse (it’s visible under a small clear plastic cover in the engine compartment usually near the battery or firewall). If the fuse is okay, and the glow plugs pass a resistance check, the most likely problem would be a poor electrical connection between the harness and the glow plugs. Remove the glow plug connectors and clean the contacts, or replace the harness.
VW usually recommends replacing the glow plug relay, but only in rare instances does the relay go bad.
Volkswagen has a special glow plug tester, VAG 1527B, for testing the glow plugs. To use the tester, unplug the connector from each glow plug, attach the tester positive lead to battery positive, and the negative lead to the glow plug.
If the LED on the tester lights up, the glow plug is okay. If the LED on the tester does not light up, replace the glow plug.
You should also test to see that the glow plugs are receiving voltage when the ignition is turned on, and that the voltage continues during cranking and for a short time after the engine has started. No voltage to the glow plugs would indicate a bad control module, relay, fuse or wiring fault.
Another way to quick-check the glow plugs without having to use a voltmeter or ohmmeter is to use an infrared thermometer (Note: This works only on a cold engine). Cycle the ignition on and off a couple of times to heat up the glow plugs. Then aim the infrared thermometer at each glow plug so see if all the plugs are generating heat. If you find a cold plug that isn’t heating up, the glow plug or wiring connector is bad and needs to be replaced.
Popping In Plugs
The worst thing that can happen when a glow plug burns out is for the tip to break off inside the engine. The tight clearances in the combustion chamber don’t allow any room for chunks of metal to bounce around. This may damage the piston, valves or cylinder head.
Sometimes the tip of a glow plug will mushroom when it fails, making it nearly impossible to remove. Replacement may require removing the cylinder head and drilling out the glow plug. Thread repairs may also be required depending on what’s needed to extract the old plug.
In most instances, the glow plugs can be changed just like a spark plug. Use a deep well socket to unscrew the old glow plugs and to install the new ones. Be careful not to overtighten the glow plugs or you may damage the glow plug or strip the threads in the cylinder head.
Thread the glow plug in by hand, turn it a couple of times to make sure the threads are aligned properly, then hand-tighten to the recommended torque (15 Nm or 11 ft.-lbs.). The threads on the glow plug can be lightly coated with anti-seize to make future replacement easier.
Also, compare the old and new glow plugs before you install the new ones to make sure they are the same length. If the replacement plugs are too short on a TDI engine, they won’t extend into the combustion chamber to provide adequate heat. And if they are too long, they may hit something.
The part number for Bosch glow plugs that fit the 1996 to 2007 1.9 TDI engines is 0-250-202-022. The part number for the glow plugs that fit the 1979 to 1996 diesel engines is 0-250-201-032.
Glow Plug P-Codes
There are more codes, including ones for individual glow plugs:
P0671 Cylinder 1 glow plug circuit
P0672 Cylinder 2 glow plug circuit
P0673 Cylinder 3 glow plug circuit
P0674 Cylinder 4 glow plug circuit
P1616 Glow plug indicator lamp circuit shorted to positive
P1617 Glow plug indicator lamp circuit shorted to ground
P1618 Glow plug relay shorted to positive
P1619 Glow plug relay shorted to ground
P3000 Glow plug indicator lamp circuit on CAN bus fault
If the glow plug indicator light on a TDI diesel flashes while driving, it doesn’t indicate a fault with the glow plug system. For some reason, VW decided to use the glow plug light as a “bulb out” indicator lamp if a brake light has burned out. A bad brake light switch can also cause the same thing to happen. Wouldn’t it have been less confusing to warn the driver with a “lamp out” light or icon? Go figure.
The vehicle owner may also complain of clicking noises coming from the vicinity of the glow plug relay located in the fuse panel near the base of the steering column. The noise is from the relay switching on and off as supplemental heat is used during engine warm up to reduce emissions. The high current drawn by the glow plugs may also cause the lights to dim slightly when the relay clicks on.
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Teachers help shape the minds of the future of our society, while also providing non-academic support to students in whatever form students need—someone to talk to about stress at home, their dog being sick, how to manage upcoming college apps, tips for de-stressing before tests, etc. Teachers also have the opportunity to be innovative about the ways we teach content and emphasize different ways of thinking and learning.”
“I want to create a learning environment where mistakes are encouraged, respected, and learned from. A place where students feel comfortable to try new things and focus on the conceptual understanding rather than the answers.”
Micaela spent three summers teaching incoming seventh-and ninth-grade students Pre-Algebra, Algebra 1, and Geometry through summer intensive programs.
For two and a half months, Micaela worked as a teacher’s assistant at a special education school in Valparaiso, Chile.
Micaela began teaching at Fremont High School during the 2017–2018 school year.
Micaela enjoys running and has read the Harry Potter series in its entirety over 20 times.
- Stanford University (Master of Arts in Education)
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Where? Gallery 153 of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
What do you see? Looking from a boat on the sea, we can see a green and blue rocky sea that makes up most of the painting. The large ship in the center background is the CSS Alabama. A lot of smoke is rising from the ship as the USS Kearsarge has just hit its engine. The rear of the ship is already sinking. Crew members of the ship are jumping into a small lifeboat in front of it.
On the left side, behind the CSS Alabama, you can see part of the USS Kearsarge. We can see the U.S. flag on the top left, but most of the Kearsarge is hidden behind the smoke. The boat on the top right is the Deerhound. It is an English ship that is on its way to rescue some of the survivors on the CSS Alabama. It carries a red flag to indicate that it belongs to the British Royal Mersey Yacht Club.
The small boat in the foreground is a French pilot boat, Les Deux Jeunes Soeurs, which is also on its way to rescue some of the survivors from the CSS Alabama. The boat has three flags: A French flag in the back, a regulation blue and white flag of pilot boats in the middle, and a white flag in the front to indicate that it is neutral in this conflict. It also carries a small boat to rescue more people. To the right of this ship is a mast in the water with a surviving sailor holding on.
Backstory: During the American Civil war, the Confederate States had no navy to defend themselves against the Union States. The Union States blocked the export of cotton by ship from the Confederate States, and so the Confederate States decided to buy a series of warships from England.
The CSS Alabama was a ship of the Confederates and was built in 1862. In its first two years, it had already sunk 65 ships of the Unionists throughout the world. On June 11, 1864, the ship anchored at the entrance of the harbor of Cherbourg, in the North of France. On June 19, 1864, the CSS Alabama got into a fight with a warship of the Union States, the USS Kearsarge. While the CSS Alabama had heavier firepower, the USS Kearsarge was a more advanced ship with more precise firepower.
Thousands of French spectators witnessed the fight between the two ships from the coast, and the USS Kearsarge defeated the CSS Alabama, which sank. The fight was widely covered in the newspapers, as can be seen by the illustration below in the Illustrated London News.
The American Civil War: The American Civil War took place between 1861 and 1865 in the United States during the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It was a war between the Confederate States, representing the Southern states of the U.S., and the Union, representing the other U.S. states. The Confederate States were supporting slavery, while the Union States followed the U.S. Constitution and were against slavery. The Union States won the war, and the slaves in the South were freed. About 700,000 people died during this war.
Who is Manet? Édouard Manet was born in 1832 in Paris and died there in 1883. When Manet was 18 years old, he spent about one year on a ship going to Brazil. While he failed the examination for the naval academy, he remained always fascinated by the sea. About ten percent of his paintings were about the sea, including Rochefort’s Escape in the Kunsthaus Zurich.
Manet is also the principal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism. During the 1860s, he became friends with painters such as Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir, and under the lead of Manet, they developed the Impressionist art style. An example of an Impressionist painting by Manet from 1878 is The Rue Mosnier with Flags in the Getty Museum.
Fun fact: Manet did not witness the fight himself. He learned about it from the newspapers which were full of information and drawings about this fight. Within 26 days of this fight, this painting by Manet was already exhibited.
It is likely that Manet did not know the details about the USS Kearsarge and that this was the reason that he hid a large part of that ship behind the smoke. He only saw the USS Kearsarge after he finished this painting and in another painting in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, entitled The Kearsarge at Boulogne, he depicted this ship.
Interested in a copy for yourself? Poster or canvas.
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Based on its rate of growth, the management at a large internet service provider (let’s call them … Definity) thinks they’ll need a certain amount of the latest wireless modems for their customers. Definity orders that amount (plus a few extra just in case) from a major manufacturer (OEM) like Cisco. However, their customer base doesn’t end up growing as fast as they thought, and now the OEM is releasing new technology Definity knows their customers will want … leaving them stuck with a ton of brand new wireless modems they’ll never use. In order to cut their losses, there’s only one thing to do–offload all of their extra product to a vendor in the secondary market. (Thanks, Definity!)
This is one way Inteleca gets a hold of brand new, in-the-box computer hardware, and can then turn around and sell that hardware for considerably less than it costs to buy it straight from the OEM. (Yey for us! … and you.) Another way secondary vendors get a hold of new hardware is by buying overstocked products from distributors.
How Much Less Is This Hardware?
Just as in any market, price differences will vary depending on the demand for the product. New hardware products sold by secondary vendors can be an average of 40-50% off, but can sometimes be sold at up to 80% off the OEM sticker price. No matter what the price tag, it’ll always be considerably less than for what the manufacturer will charge, which is great news for you.
Good Things Come to Those Who Wait
While you can always buy brand new technology from the manufacturer, you’ll typically have to wait a little while longer to buy it new from the secondary market. Most new products in the secondary have been on the market for at least a year and usually between two to five years.
If a product was released at least three years ago, you can definitely find it in the secondary market and Inteleca has it available for sale. If it’s been at least a year since it’s release, we may have it in stock, but if not, we can still source it, meaning our reps will do your homework for you, find it, and then sell it to you (whatever you want, we “gotta’ guy”). Sourcing a product does require a little time; it normally takes about a week, but could need up to a three-week lead time if it’s an item that’s harder to locate.
No Sup for You!
The other main difference is that new products from the secondary market may not be eligible for support from the manufacturer. However, secondary vendors like Inteleca will still sell them with a warranty in case there are any issues. Inteleca even provides lifetime warranties on many products.
Not having support may not be a big deal since you can research the reliability of the exact product because it’s been on the market for a while. Suppose the people who bought a piece of hardware when it was newly released then had issues with it (like all those who waited in line to buy the latest iPhone). By the time that hardware hits the secondary market, enough time has passed that product reviews and online forums would be buzzing about glitches, drawbacks, and errors, giving you the opportunity to be aware of them. Additionally, the OEM has had time to respond to the issues people have been reporting and provide a solution. When it comes to technology, sometimes the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.
If you have your heart set on new hardware, but don’t want to pay new prices, finding it in the secondary market is the way to go, especially if you’re willing to be a little patient. If you’re looking for something specific and you don’t see it in our shop, contact us and we’ll work on finding it for you. | <urn:uuid:d13c3a76-b797-4435-bb83-d45692555f8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inteleca.com/2021/05/13/why-you-can-buy-new-hardware-from-the-secondary-used-market/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.965173 | 831 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Each business or organization acquires essential data that, once exposed, can bring a huge impact on the organization as a whole. Therefore, your service providers should enhance their MSP cyber security practices as a countermeasure to cyber attacks in the future.
But how can we say that an MSP upholds the utmost data integrity cybersecurity? How efficiently are they protecting your data and information system against a security breach?
The first step you need to do is to understand what MSPs can do with your data and information system. Here’s some information that can help you understand this topic better.
How does MSP cyber security help you reduce the risk of security breaches?
Managed service providers (MSPs) are organizations or entities that are providing services that address the vulnerabilities in your network and strengthen their lines of defense against cyberattacks and security breaches. They act as your trusted advisors where you rely on your intellectual properties and confidential information.
Lack of manpower and financial resources is one of the reasons why businesses rely on MSPs. This makes MSPs the third party in the business organization and, thus, brings with them a higher risk for a security breach. Thus, improving cybersecurity of managed service providers should be an utmost priority.
Reasons why an MSP cyber security is more prone to a security breach
Being the holder of valuable information from different businesses and organizations, a compromised MSP can lead to a domino effect in society. To further explain, one MSP cybersecurity breach can give the attackers vast information of essential data of those entities partnering with them.
There are two possible reasons why an MSP cyber security is more prone to a security breach. These are either to make a political statement or to obtain intellectual properties and confidential information to use or monetize. Thus, a successful breach in any MSP can pose a huge effect on every organization partnering with them.
Preventing MSP cyber security attack
With all the essential and confidential information at risk, it is best to make sure that the MSP security framework of the one you choose is based on the framework provided by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and other authoritative sources.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) provides a framework for both government and private entities relying on outsourcing some IT services from MSPs. This MSP security framework includes the best practices and considerations which ensure the reduction of the overall risk incurred in third-party agreements.
Using the NIST MSP framework, service providers can draft and implement strategic approaches to preventing an MSP cyber security attack.
Approach to consider in preventing MSP cyber security breach
In dealing with MSP cybersecurity, strategic approaches that abide by the NIST data protection best practices are quite helpful for data protection. It is important to strategically plan out the necessary advancements to maximize the results you wish to acquire.
To garner successful results in protecting your data, make sure to map your security investment with the current business and technical risks. Being well informed about the current risks can provide you with more insights on how to combat any security breach effectively.
At the same time, MSPs must avoid blind spots in approaching business and technology risks. It is also helpful to make use of some devices that can provide complete visibility in your network. Preventing an MSP cyber security breach can be efficient only by continuous improvement in all factors, may it be in manpower or technological advancements. | <urn:uuid:336f2f48-b59d-416e-88fb-a6aae83bd465> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.getsecuretech.com/protecting-managed-service-providers-from-cyber-attacks/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.933164 | 702 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz party retained a comfortable majority in Hungary’s parliament in national elections in April and received more than 50 per cent of the Hungarian vote in the European Parliament elections in May. Johannes Wachs writes that while Fidesz has received criticism from a number of actors within the EU, including the European Commission, the European People’s Party (EPP) has consistently defended Viktor Orbán’s policies. He argues that with Fidesz now opposing the selection of Jean-Claude Juncker as Commission President, it is time for the EPP to take a stronger line against Orbán’s government.
The unique nationalist stance of Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party has been a difficult subject for its parent European People’s Party (EPP). While some EPP members have already made clear they disapprove of the way Fidesz governs, the EPP has continued to support their Hungarian colleagues, as demonstrated through President Joseph Daul’s ringing endorsement at a rally a week before the Hungarian Parliamentary elections in April, and his warm congratulations shortly after their victory. Now, after winning 12 of Hungary’s 21 seats in the European Parliament, Fidesz has come out against the EPP’s preferred candidate for the Commission Presidency, Jean-Claude Junker. In doing so, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has risked alienating those who have supported him in his previous fights with the EU.
Four years of antagonising the EU, four more to come?
Fidesz’s previous four years in government saw numerous conflicts between Hungary and international organisations like the EU and the IMF. Examples include the Venice Commission’s critique of amendments to the constitution, Green MEP Rui Tavares’ report on the situation of fundamental rights, and the European Commissioner for Justice, and EPP member, Viviane Reding’s activities to censure the government for new laws concerning, among other issues, the media and the judiciary.
Fidesz and nominally independent pro-Fidesz civil organisations like the Civil Union Forum (CÖF) have reacted to these criticisms by designating them attacks on Hungarian sovereignty and on the Hungarian people. This discourse nourishes the growth of the national-conservative and far-right rhetoric embraced by Jobbik, the far-right party which came second in the European Parliament elections with 14.7 per cent of the vote, as shown in the Table below.
Table: Result of the 2014 European Parliament election in Hungary
Note: Fidesz and the Christian Democratic People’s Party (KDNP) form an alliance. For the other parties see: Jobbik; Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP); Democratic Coalition (DK); Together 2014 (Együtt); Dialogue for Hungary (PM); Politics can be Different (LMP). For an explanation of the parliamentary groups, see here.
Recent history does not look better. Fidesz and Jobbik’s increasingly close relationships with Russia sit awkwardly next to the EU’s attempt to resolve the Ukrainian crisis. The controversy over the nearly completed monument commemorating the German occupation of Hungary and the election, with Fidesz votes, of former skinhead and current Jobbik MP Tamás Sneider as a deputy speaker of parliament, are dangerous signs.
Fidesz and the EPP
Over two years ago, the German news magazine Der Spiegel ran a piece questioning the European People’s Party’s unwillingness to criticise Hungary’s political situation. Officially, the EPP opposed the Tavares report, but mathematically, assuming that Eurosceptic MEPs did not endorse the report, some EPP MEPs must have abstained or voted for it. A more important institutional example is Commissioner Reding’s procedures against Hungary. Not only is she a member of the EPP, she was appointed and supported by Jean-Claude Junker while he was the Prime Minister of Luxembourg. The conservative Hungarian press cites this fact and Junker’s federalist view as the reason for Prime Minister Orbán’s refusal to support his candidacy for the presidency.
Individual figures in the EPP have been critical of Fidesz. Recently, German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticised Prime Minister Orbán, albeit in rather vague terms. This challenge is especially muted compared with Orbán’s previous rhetoric on Germany’s involvement in Hungarian affairs. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was much harsher in response to his Hungarian counterpart’s call for autonomy for the Hungarians living in Ukraine. Yet these exceptions only underline the general policy of tolerance for Fidesz within the EPP. Indeed, Orbán has enjoyed the confidence of the EPP for over a decade. He served as an elected vice president of the EPP following his electoral defeat in 2002 and was re-elected to this post in 2006 and 2009.
Other political parties in the European parliament have increasingly pressed the EPP on their tacit acceptance of Fidesz. During the debates between the lead candidates for Commission President, Guy Verhofstadt of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe attacked Juncker for the EPP’s support of Orbán, describing him as a politician who “is changing the constitution every five minutes when he needs to be re-elected.”
The head of Germany’s SPD, Sigmar Gabriel, also suggested after the elections that Fidesz and Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia do not belong in the EPP. Gabriel is of course highly interested in weakening the position of the EPP and their lead candidate as the negotiations for the Commission Presidency begin. If Fidesz and Forza Italia are removed from the EPP caucus, Gabriel’s Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats (S&D) would be the largest group in the European Parliament.
Orbán’s Hungary represents a novel challenge for the EU from an institutional perspective. There is no clear mechanism to censure a member state short of the application by the European Council of Article 7 of the Treaty of the European Union, which, subject to unanimous agreement to discuss and qualified majority to confirm, suspends a Member State’s voting rights. The EPP’s defence of Fidesz during the proceedings around the Tavares Report blocked any attempt to create new mechanisms.
A dangerous form of nationalism
Hungary’s current political situation cannot be simply compared with previous problem governments, such as the Wolfgang Schüssel’s coalition with Jörg Haider’s Freedom Party in Austria, or Vladimír Mečiar’s Slovakian governments. Besides the strong legislative majority and centralised power it has, and beyond the support the party receives from the EPP, Fidesz’s fight with the EU has taken on an ethnic-nationalist tone that makes it especially dangerous.
The anti-EU sentiment in Budapest does not focus on bureaucrats, regulations or economic burdens, but rather interference in the areas of constitutionality, democracy and the rule of law. As Csaba Tóth argues in a recent Financial Times article, in this sense Orbán does not fit the mould of other Eurosceptic party leaders like Marine Le Pen or Nigel Farage.
Slavoj Žižek recently cited Hungary as an example of the retreat of fundamental rights to freedom, equality, education and healthcare. He quotes Prime Minister Orbán in 2012: “Let us hope, that God will help us and we will not have to invent a new type of political system instead of democracy that would need to be introduced for the sake of economic survival.” This kind of ideology is a new problem for the European Union, closer to the ethnic nationalism Ian Buruma attributes to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Unfortunately it seems this outdated mentality already has an important foothold in the EU and the EPP’s continued tolerance grants it undue legitimacy.
Note: This article gives the views of the author, and not the position of EUROPP – European Politics and Policy, nor of the London School of Economics. Feature image: Viktor Orbán, Credit: European People’s Party (CC-BY-SA-3.0)
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Thought traveler was always spelled with one l? Think again.
Most Brit and American teachers are all too aware of the differences between our deceivingly similar languages.
We share a sarcastic disdain for each other’s pronunciation of ‘tomato’ and have long argued about the difference between ‘biscuit’ and ‘cookie’ or ‘chip’ and ‘crisp’. There is always a right or wrong answer- it just depends on who’s being asked.
Pettiness aside, these inconsistencies pose a few questions when faced with a class full of ESL students, particularly when those students are schooled in British grammar and combine this with phrases learnt from American TV shows and movies.
Often teachers are hired based on their nationality. I found my niche in Buenos Aires teaching Business English to students dealing regularly with Europeans, whereas international companies with New York headquarters opted for my American friends.
The best advice is to stick to what you know. As a British native, I teach British English but I allow students (especially beginners) to use American conjugations and pronunciation if they find it easier to do so.
Try to resist the urge to make generalizations about whether something is right or wrong.
I once had students bring in American advertisements to prove me wrong on a grammar point I had made and it’s not a good way to gain their trust!
Never underestimate your students’ ability to catch you out – many take great pleasure in doing this. Keep it simple and make it clear that you are teaching only one style of English.
As a starting point, here are six of the most common differences you may encounter whilst teaching:
The most notable difference between American and British grammar is their inability to agree on whether verbs follow regular or irregular conjugations.
The past tense and past participles of the verbs learn, burn, dream, smell, spill, leap, lit, spit and saw amongst others, are all irregular in Britain (learnt, burnt) but regular in America (learned, burned) and many others follow similar patterns.
Confusingly, despite having regular past participles, irregular adjectives may still be used in American English. ‘Burnt toast’ for example.
American English is generally easier to teach owing to its greater concentration of regular verbs, however it could be argued that if you teach the irregular patterns then students will understand both.
Any Brit who has inadvertently subjected their writing to an American spell-check will already be familiar with their annoyingly similar yet different spellings.
After hours spent agonizing over whether to use a ‘z’ or an ‘s’ or whether travelling is correctly spelt with one ‘l’ or two, I lost all memory of what I was taught in school.
The main differences are that American English omits extra letters and favours phonetic spellings – ‘traveller’ becomes ‘traveler’, ‘colour’ becomes ‘color’, ‘centre’ becomes ‘center’ and ‘recognise’ becomes ‘recognize’.
I let my students use whichever spelling they are familiar with but I always check for consistency – whichever method they prefer, they have to stick to it!
The present perfect is one of the most difficult tenses for foreign students to grasp, a problem unaided by its different uses overseas.
Whereas Europeans would say, “I’ve already eaten”, an American may simply use the past tense and say, “I already ate”, a phrase that is deemed grammatically incorrect in England.
When teaching, particularly with beginners, it’s best to give clear examples that clearly follow the grammatical ‘rules’.
For this reason I teach students to use the present perfect with prepositions such as ‘already’, ‘yet’, ‘never’ and ‘ever’ and would disallow the use of the past tense.
In the UK we tend to use more modals than our American peers. On numerous occasions I’ve overheard American teachers dismissing expressions using ‘shall’, ‘shan’t’ or ‘ought to’ as out-of-date, unaware that they are still used in England.
Students benefit greatly from a few pointers on modern language usage (I would definitely discourage the use of ‘how do you do?’, for example) but make sure you are aware of international variations before you make these statements.
If unsure, simply state: ‘In America, we say it like this…’.
These basics are the bane of early language learning, as anyone trying to master their telephone number in a new country will agree.
Most significant is the order of dates – 25th January 2009 would be expressed 25/01/09 in the UK but 01/25/09 in America.
Numbers may be pronounced differently too – ‘twelve hundred’ is more common in America than in England, where ‘one thousand two hundred’ is preferred. Similarly the Americans often drop ‘and’ when reading numbers – ‘two thousand and three’ might become ‘two thousand three’.
Students often struggle to distinguish these differences in conversation and benefit from exposure to as many variations as possible.
English speakers have plenty of disagreements over vocabulary, with each country, and often region, renaming common items.
A British duvet is an American comforter, a lift is an elevator, and the boot of a car is a trunk. The list is endless.
With vocabulary, I try to teach as much as possible without baffling the student. The more words they know the better.
When dealing with a special case then I refine my selections – a student moving to the UK will obviously benefit from English phrases and colloquialisms whereas a salesperson who deals with US representatives would need to familiarize themselves with American speech.
Teaching slang is always a popular lesson choice but be careful of words with double meanings. ‘Fanny’ springs to mind, as do ‘fag’, ‘rubber’ and ‘pants’. You have been warned!
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Counseling for Codependency—Relationship Coaches and Therapists in Harrisburg, PA
Clichés often become common terms because they capture a truth of our experiences. Take, for example, the idea of too much of a good thing. We know that too much ice cream, too much vacation, even too much exercise can cause trouble. The same holds for helping out our friends and family members. How can that be when help and support are integral parts of any healthy relationship? When help becomes unbalanced, when one person shields another from their own actions, when one person enables another’s bad behavior, helping may have become too much of a good thing. It’s such a common occurrence that there is even a term for it: codependency. Think about Annie’s story.
Annie’s pride and joy in life is being a mother. Regardless of how her son grows, he will always be her little boy. Annie prides herself on being there for her son—no matter what. He’s in his young 20s now, and having a hard time. Annie is paying his rent and tuition. He could have finished his degree, but every time he nears graduation, he changes his major. Annie is frustrated, but she tells herself that he is just finding his way. If she were not there to support him, who would be? He has expressed a desire to become a ski instruction, but Annie wants to give her son opportunities she never had. She wants him to get his degree.
Without question, Annie loves her son. Her actions, however, may not be helping him. Annie may be codependent, and her help may be too much of a good thing. Despite her good intentions, Annie may be hurting her son and herself. Codependency is an unhealthy way of relating to loved ones, but healthier, more positive ways of relating can be learned. Many people are working with a therapist or a counselor to learn how.
“A codependent person is one who has let another person’s behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person’s behavior.”
—Melody Beattie, Codependent No More
Thriveworks Harrisburg offers counseling for codependency. We have helped many clients learn how to help without hurting their loved ones or themselves.
What Are Codependent Behaviors?
People who are codependent may subconsciously or intentionally choose to enter into relationship with others who have a record of irresponsible choices, an addiction, or a serious medical illness. Codependent people find others who have high needs, and they may try to fix them. As codependents focus upon other people, they usually neglect their own emotional, physical, or financial health, putting themselves at risk.
Codependency can form in any kind of relationship—marriages, friendships, parent-child relationships, and even at work. When parents are co-dependent, they may teach their children to need them instead of encouraging them to be independent.
When first in a relationship, codependents may seem kind and selfless. They form connections based upon how they can serve and help other people, but their actions are often motivated from their deep sense of shame and feelings of incompetency. Fixing other people becomes a way for codependent to distract themselves from their own problems. Thus, they are rarely able to truly help their loved ones or themselves. Codependency can cause deep wounds, and it is important to recognize it. Here are some red flags for codependency:
- People-pleasing tendencies: Codependents take responsibility for how other people feel. If their loved ones are upset, angry, or disappointed, they will feel responsible. If their loved ones are happy, satisfied, or content, they will take credit.
- Low self-esteem: Shame, inadequacy, guilt, and incompetency are feelings that plague codependent people and drive their actions. Codependents may respond to these feelings by telling themselves that what they do for others will lead to feeling loved, accepted, and competent.
- Poor communication skills: Fear can keep codependent people from sharing their true thoughts, feelings, and needs. They often have difficulty communicating because they are afraid that they will upset their loved ones.
- No/few boundaries: Codependent people rarely say, “no.” Even when requests are inappropriate or put them at risk, codependents may honor anything requested.
- Caretaking: While codependents neglect their own needs, they often fulfill others’ needs, even without being asked. Helping is a codependent’s identity. If people refuse their help, codependents may take it as a personal rejection.
- Dependency: Codependent need their loved ones. They greatly fear abandonment and rejection. The song lyrics describe this well, “I need you to need me.” Barbara Johnson described the dependency this way, “Being codependent means that when you die, someone else’s life passes before your eyes.”
- Minimization: Fixing other people is fundamentally a way for codependent people to minimize and deny their own personal problems. Instead of acknowledging and working through their own issues, they distract themselves with other people’s problems. They often have difficulty seeing the harm this can cause in their own lives and in the lives of their loved ones.
Appointments for Codependency at Thriveworks Harrisburg
When you read through the description of codependency, did you recognize any of the signs? If you did, know that it is possible to find healthier ways to relate. Know that self-care is not selfish. Know that your thoughts, feelings, and needs are important. Thriveworks Harrisburg has helped many people find healing from their codependency, and we have appointments available.
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- Widespread. Australia (Western Australia); NOT in Pacific island countries.
- Major invasive pest with wide host range.
- Eggs (plus bacteria) laid in flowers and fruits giving a characteristic ‘sting’. Bacteria rot flesh providing food for maggots, and the fruits fall. Adults, slightly smaller than a house fly, mostly black scutellum, two light bands on abdomen, and wings with brownish-yellow bands across the middle. Life cycle 2-3 months.
- Spread on the wing (weak flier), and as larvae in infested fruit.
- Bicontrol: Fopius species, Diachasmimorpha longicaudata, Psyttalia uncisi effective in Hawaii only because of alternative host (oriental fruit fly).
- Biosecurity: technologies and schemes to facilitate trade including:
- post-harvest measures: HTFA (high temperature forced air); low temperature; insecticide dips; irradiation.
- area freedom, or area-wide management.
- consider in-country quarantines where Med fly is not widespread, or where countries free from Med fly border those infested.
- Cultural control: (i) monitor - trap male flies with pheromone (trimedlure or Biolure Unipak®); regularly check ripe fruit; (ii) proteins baits – use yeast autolysate and insecticide as a spot spray; (iii) hygiene – bag fruit; harvest early; pick up fallen fruit and remove those damaged but still on the crop, and destroy; (iv) destroy remains of harvest – crush, burn, bury, freeze, plough.
- Eradication: define quarantine area; control fruit movement; remove fruit from trees and collect fallen fruit, protein bait/insecticide sprays; male annihilation; possibly SIT (sterile insect technique).
- Chemical control: Protein bait (yeast hydrolysate) plus insecticide spot sprays, or lure-&-kill traps with attractant and insecticide.
Pacific Pests, Pathogens, Weeds & Pesticides
Med fly (506)
Photo 1. Adult male Med fly, Ceratitis capatata. Note the two hairs with flattened tips (arrowed), yellowish wing patterns, and two light bands across the abdomen.
AUTHORS Graham Walker & Grahame Jackson
Information from Waterhouse DF, Sands DPA (2001) Classical biological control of arthropods in Australia. ACIAR Monograph No. 77, 560 pp.; and CABI (2020) Ceratitis capitata (Mediterranean fruit fly) (https://www.cabi.org/cpc/datasheet/12367); Broughton S (Undated) Fruit fly monitoring in commercial orchards. Agriculture and Food Division, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. Government of Western Australia. (https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/medfly/fruit-fly-monitoring-commercial-orchards). and Broughton S (Undated) Controlling Mediterranean fruit fly in orchards: mass trapping and attract-and-kill devices. Agriculture and Food Division, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. Government of Western Australia. (https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/medfly/controlling-mediterranean-fruit-fly-orchards-mass-trapping-and-attract-and-kill-devices); and Broughton S, McCarthy A (Undated) Mediterranean fruit fly life cycle & biology. Agriculture and Food Division, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. Government of Western Australia. (https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/medfly/mediterranean-fruit-fly-life-cycle-biology); and The Australian Handbook for the Identification of Fruit Flies (2018) Plant Health Australia. Canberra, ACT. (Version. 3.1). (https://www.planthealthaustralia.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/The-Australian-Handbook-for-the-Identification-of-Fruit-Flies-v3.1.pdf); and from Yates. Fruit fly control in your garden (https://www.yates.com.au/plants/problem-solver/pests/fruit-fly/). Photos 1-5 Walker K (2006) Mediterranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata). Museum of Victoria: PaDIL - http://www.padil.gov.au. Diagram McDougall S, et al. (2013). Tomato, capsicum, chilli and eggplant: A field guide for the identification of insect pests, beneficials, diseases and disorders in Australia and Cambodia. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). (http://aciar.gov.au/files/mn-157/index.html).
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Tax Lien Lawyers in Raton
A "lien" in Raton, New Mexico is a property right that a person or entity has in property owned by someone else, created by law, for the purpose of enforcing a debt. A lien gives its holder various rights in the property of another person, including the right to seize the proceeds of a sale of the property, and, if the debtor files for bankruptcy, the right to go to the front of the line among other creditors, making it more possible that the lien holder will collect something.
In Raton, New Mexico, a "tax lien" is simply a lien imposed by the government to compile back taxes from a citizen or corporation, when other methods for collecting have failed.
Tax liens in Raton, New Mexico are ineffective if the taxpayer doesn't have any property to place the lien on. However, practically any property, including that which the taxpayer acquires after the lien goes into effect, can be affected by a tax lien.
Tax Lien Procedure in Raton, New Mexico
In Raton, New Mexico, the procedure for imposing a tax lien is relatively simple. First, the IRS makes a decision that a person is delinquent in their tax requirement.
At this point, they will send the taxpayer a written notice stating that they owe a some amount of money in back taxes, and that they have a small window of time (commonly 10 days or less) to pay it.
If the deadline passes without payment, most tax liens in New Mexico take effect automatically, giving the tax collectors all of the options in your property that any other lien holder would have.
But, under federal law, there are limits to how tax liens can be enforced in Raton, New Mexico, and elsewhere. Typically, the IRS has 10 years to try and enforce a tax lien. If no effort is made to enforce a tax lien for 10 years, the lien is automatically lifted, and the lien holder loses all rights in it. This rule exists to ensure that the government collects its taxes in a reasonable time period, and it prevents valuable property (which could otherwise be contributing to the economy by being bought and sold) is not laded with a lien for an indefinite period of time.
How Can a Raton, New Mexico Tax Lien Lawyer Help?
If the federal government, or the government of New Mexico informs you that they intend to place a tax lien on your property, you will likely face some pretty difficult and daunting legal issues.
Fortunately for you, tax lawyers in Raton, New Mexico are experts at dealing with matters such as these, and can make sure your rights are safeguarded, and advise you on the best way to proceed, if you are facing the prospect of a tax lien. | <urn:uuid:73860fb0-52c2-4ae5-a614-fa5a949992ee> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://taxattorneys.legalmatch.com/NM/Raton/tax-lien-lawyers.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938567 | 584 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Over the last two years, an incredible wave of innovation has taken both the business and private consumer worlds. The desire for IoT (Internet of Things) devices and smart-home automation has skyrocketed from minimal interest from only the nerdiest consumers to a worldwide desire for voice controlled wifi-gadgets. It started with the smart lights, both more energy efficient and controllable from a mobile app, quickly followed by things like the smart thermostat and integrated home security systems. With the introduction of the Google smart home assistant and the notorious Amazon Alexa along with smart home hubs that listen and talk to you, the nation went wild. We simply have to have smart-everything.
Smart EverythingWhat do we mean by everything? Surely there are some things that can't be made smart, right? Think again. There are already smart ovens and refrigerators, smart dog collars, smart egg cartons, and smart potted plants. There are smart coffee machines,
We don’t know about you, but we’re relieved that the race for the white house is finally over and we can all take this opportunity to cool off for a bit. With most of the country still dealing with end of summer heat, we’ve been making videos to help you see how your back yard or outdoor event can benefit from all our amazing misting and shade gear… Our high pressure fogging systems are extremely popular around the end of the year, perfect for grottos and anywhere you want to add a cooling fog, these systems now include our newest high pressure misting pumps. | <urn:uuid:e2cc7deb-61e3-41f2-8c4f-515407beee0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cool-off.com/blog/tag/misting-fan?page=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945699 | 330 | 1.5 | 2 |
Shoulder arthritis and rotator cuff injuries are two of the most common shoulder complaints seen in in the office of an orthopedic sports medicine surgeon every day.
The rotator cuff is the main tendon in the shoulder that helps keep the ball in the socket, and assists in elevating the arm.
Shoulder arthritis occurs from wear and tear over time. This happens when the cartilage or shock absorbing part of the ball and socket are degraded, leading to pain and stiffness. Once the degeneration is bad enough, patients are left with bone on bone. A decision is made to live with the pain, try temporary fixes like cortisone injections, or eventually consider a conventional shoulder replacement, surgery where the ball and socket are replaced with metal and plastic.
Shoulder joint replacement surgery can effectively ease pain from shoulder arthritis. Most people experience improved shoulder function after this surgery.
To have a good result from a shoulder replacement, the shoulder needs a functioning rotator cuff to remain stable. A shoulder without a functioning, intact rotator cuff can develop lead to the shoulder joint or a shoulder replacement wearing out due to the abnormal motion and wear and tear over time. This type of wear and tear arthritis with a torn rotator cuff in the shoulder is called (rotator) cuff tear arthropathy.
So what is a patient or their doctor to do, when the rotator cuff is torn, and a patient has developed arthritis? What is a patient to do when a standard shoulder replacement will not work, since there is no rotator cuff to keep the ball and socket in the normal position?
The answer was to design a shoulder replacement that worked differently than the real shoulder joint. A new shoulder replacement was developed, one where the socket and metal ball are reversed, placing the ball portion of the shoulder where the socket use to be and the socket where the ball or humeral head use to be. Thus, the name of a REVERSE SHOULDER REPLACEMENT
This is a newer procedure that can help many of these patients with rotator cuff arthropathy (arthritis of the shoulder without a working rotator cuff) and provide pain relief as well as reestablish a stable functioning shoulder.
A reverse total shoulder replacement works for people without an intact rotator cuff because it relies on different muscles to move the arm. In a patient with a large rotator cuff tear that can not be fixed, who also has arthritis, these rotator cuff muscles no longer function. The reverse total shoulder replacement relies on the deltoid muscle, instead of the rotator cuff, to power and position the arm.
When a patient presents to the office with shoulder arthritis and a rotator cuff tear, conservative measure are tried first. A trial of anti-inflammatories, a cortisone injection, lubricant injections, and physical therapy are attempted prior to considering surgery.
Reverse total shoulder replacement may be recommended if you have, a completely torn rotator cuff that cannot be repaired, a rotator cuff tear with arthropathy (arthritis), a previous shoulder replacement that was unsuccessful, and severe shoulder pain and difficulty lifting your arm away from your side or over your head
This procedure to replace your shoulder joint with an artificial device usually takes about 2 hours. Your surgeon will make an incision either on the front or the top of your shoulder. He or she will remove the damaged bone and then position the new components to restore function to your shoulder.
Most patients are admitted to the hospital, placed in a sling, and get out of bed the day after surgery. Patients will most likely be able to go home on the first or second day after surgery. Rehabilitation is started within the first four weeks and full recovery is expected within four months.
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China’s Vice Minister of Health says the country will abolish harvesting organs from executed prisoners within three to five years.
Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu made the announcement at a conference on Thursday, saying a national organ donation system would be set up to replace the lost source of organs for transplants. Huang says that high bacterial infection rates among prisoners make their organs less than suitable for people who receive the organs.
According to The World website, 10,000 transplants are performed in China each year, with two-thirds coming from executed prisoners.
But it’s not yet clear how authorities would change China’s cultural resistance to donating organs.
Huang told the state-run Xinhua News Agency it is (quote) “the traditional Chinese way” to harvest organs from executed prisoners, and says the move away from such a practice would pose “challenges.”
Earlier this month, Professor Arthur Caplan, head of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, said Huang might have confirmed the Chinese regime has been harvesting organs from imprisoned Falun Gong practitioners as part of the regime’s persecution of the spiritual practice.
[Professor Arthur Caplan, Director, Center for Bioethics, Univ. of Pennsylvania]:
“Look, I think you can make the connections that…they are using prisoners, and they need prisoners who are relatively healthy, they need prisoners who are relatively younger. It doesn’t take a great stretch of the imagination to assume that some Falun Gong [practitioners] are going to be among those who are going to be killing for parts. It just follows, because remember you can’t take very old people as sources of organs and you can’t take people who are very sick. They, Falun Gong, are in part younger, and by lifestyle, somewhat healthier. I would be astounded if they weren’t using some of those prisoners as sources of organs.”
But with the abolishment of using executed prisoners, this may not help the Falun Gong practitioners. Many Falun Gong practitioners are also incarcerated in labor camps and mental institutions.
The issue of Falun Gong organ harvesting was brought to light in a 2006 report by former Canadian MP David Kilgour and rights lawyer David Matas. It claims a large number of Falun Gong practitioners are victims of systematic organ harvesting—their whereabouts are often unknown by family members, making them a particularly vulnerable group. | <urn:uuid:a9bd8143-dfd3-4ca3-9985-bb76e13754b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thewatchtowers.org/china-says-will-end-organ-harvesting-of-prison-inmates/?amp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96137 | 511 | 1.953125 | 2 |
An ingenious brand-new choice that’s getting popularity throughout the cryptocurrency community. Native Domain…While at first thought you might be tempted to dismiss them as just another “trend” that will fall out of favor quickly, you may not wish to be so fast to judge.
Whether you have your own cryptocurrency wallet or are simply beginning to find out about cryptocurrencies, providing some fascinating benefits that you need to take advantage of for your site.
For anyone who already owns a website or is considering purchasing one in the future, it’s likely a great concept to a minimum of purchase so that you have it just in case this brand-new tech goes really traditional. Before making any final decisions, ensure to check out this post where you’ll find out all about this subject, including things like:
When sending out cryptocurrencies to yourself or others, the concern that frequently arises is confirming that you have the best address, due to the fact that it is a complicated string of letters and numbers, even doing a copy and paste likely results in you carefully verifying that everything pasted properly, even though it must have.
This is where intends to help drive adoption of crypto with their blockchain domains. These can not only be utilized as fully practical web pages, with decentralized applications (dApps) integrated, however also as a payment hub address where users can receive over 275 different coins and tokens. By providing complicated crypto addresses a human readable name, to be the domain addresses of the future.
The cost of depends upon a 2 primary factors, though it ought to be noted that getting is a one-time expense and requires no yearly renewals of any sort.
The first aspect is the expense of the itself, this can vary from $20 USD to well over $1000 USD depending on the you pick, as expense is based on type (. crypto is more than.wallet for instance), and the length of the name, with shorter costing additional. In addition, there are premium domains that cost tens of thousands.
The next aspect is the gas charges related to using the Ethereum blockchain to claim your domain, due to the fact that the domains are kept on the Ethereum blockchain, the deal to declare them is available in ETH and is not included in your preliminary purchase. The gas fees you will pay will depend upon the existing expense of ETH and the network congestion at the time of the deal. In general you can get likely yourself a cheap.crypto domain and claim it for under $50 overall.
There always seems to be a great deal of disputes and disputes when it concerns which updates need to take place to which networks and why. However if there is one update needed for the entire space that I think we can all settle on, it is that we all require a simpler method to communicate with addresses and be confident of where we are sending crypto deals, not to mention a simpler way to share our public receiving addresses to others wishing to send us crypto.
a few months ago i created a video on ens which is a complicated idea for beginners and isn’t really a stylish subject so it just had 5 000 views just recently the protocol behind ens actually did an airdrop resulting in me and a ton of other people earning over 11 000 just for my preliminary financial investment of 60 to register the name i’m here to share something more recent and quite perhaps even much better than ens welcome to the primary youtube channel for education and here we describe topics of the cryptocurrency world using examples stories and examples so that you can easily understand them in this video we are going to be discussing is how they might be better than ens and what that indicates for people entering the complicated before we actually get to comprehending the power of the first thing we’ll require to do is comprehend dns here at
utilizing examples so that’s precisely what we’re going to be using to help you comprehend dns so dns stands for domain service which is a fancy method of stating that it is a practical service which allows us humans to key in human readable addresses into the search bar and then it will immediately turn them into machine understandable addresses so most of you are probably acquainted with ip addresses and those are exactly how a computer at one end of the internet understands how to talk specifically to another computer elsewhere and not just scream it into the void that is the web when you type in google.com and you struck enter your computer system sends a message to your internet service provider stating yo where’s google the internet service provider discovers and goes to where google is tells them
that you are searching for them and then gets a bundle back to send out to you now the package is then unpacked by your computer to show you the whole of the google.com web page using complex mathematics and software all of this communication occurs behind the scenes however to you it’s easy and user friendly in fact if we needed to key in 22.214.171.124 into the url bar instead of google.com a lot more people would be puzzled right we don’t speak in numbers or ip addresses we speak in dot coms dot orgs and webs since it makes good sense to us so that’s basically what a dns is a translator for humans to speak machine code next up let’s see how this works for crypto ens is basically the same thing that i just pointed out other than it’s for ethereum ens stands for
ethereum name service and practically lets me tell you that whiteboardcrypto.eth is my wallet address so you can just type that in and pay me 20 if you want by the way if you don’t have 20 and you wish to support the channel do not hesitate to leave a like below it’s complimentary and it rewards all our effort on this video and the past hundred that we have actually been really hard at work developing but anyways if you’re not utilized to understanding the option to sharing white boards crypto.eth with someone is i ‘d have to share them this i can’t inform someone that and i couldn’t dependably type that into a computer you have to copy and paste it and that is basically what ens does is translate
As you most likely currently understand, crypto transactions are irreparable. So, when you send character, unbelievably long ERC-20 address and paradise forbid you screw up one character, you could be sending your preciousinto oblivion never to be seen again. All of us know the painstaking moments in between when you send out crypto, to when it gets to the location, praying to the that the address was proper.
The reverse is likewise true, say someone wishes to send you some and they screw up even a single digit, best of luck inquiring to resend more after they just lost their funds. This is extremely problematic, specifically if you are trying to run a company and are counting on payments, with your customers all risking of entering your getting address improperly. | <urn:uuid:305811f5-35ef-4d80-883c-bf6444b9c13e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ilgc-group.com/native-domain/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950816 | 1,420 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Introduction: Arduino Night Light
I edited from Arduino Turn on Led Using Button by mehmetsukru
Originally, you hold the button (there's only one) the light will be on, and it will not light when released. I change to two buttons. One is for turning on the light, and another is for turning off, like a night light.
- Light bulb x1
- Male to male breadboard jumper wires
- Resistors x1
- Arduino Leonardo
- Buttons x2
- A bag
Step 1: To Get Started
This is very simple!
- Connect one button to pin 2 and positive electrode (+)
- Connect another button to pin 3 and +
- Connect 5v to the +
- Connect GND to the negative electrode (-)
- Connect one foot of the light to the negative electrode (-) , insert resistor's one foot on the same row (straight row).
- Connect to pin 9 with the other foot of the resistor (straight row)
- Use a bag to cover the wires
Step 2: Code
Participated in the
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In the life of Oui Osterkamp was a black stripe. He lost his multimillion-dollar business and became homeless. But instead of succumbing to despair, he found a way to help others.
Oui, Osterkamp — a man who lives by faith: “Every morning when you get up and put your feet on the floor, you start to preach. Each day you have to decide what is to become of this sermon,” he says.
Oui, Osterkamp runs a shelter “Ronald McDonald house” in Durham, NC. Here provide free accommodation and meals to families with children staying at the world famous children’s hospital at Duke University such as Susan brown, whose son Howell is here for several months.
“It revealed a tumor of the pineal body, a brain tumor fourth degree, is very rare. Son underwent brain surgery. The money for the hotel we didn’t have,” says Susan brown.
“It is very good. Every evening at six o’clock dinner, and on weekends Breakfast. Everywhere nice and clean,” says the son of Susan Howell brown.
“Many of them come here without knowing where they will live. Many families gave the doctors all of her money just one chance that their child will be better. They are ready to sleep in the hospital or in the back seat of his car, if necessary, shares of Oui Osterkamp. — Crossing the threshold “Ronald McDonald house”, where people feel loved. We are striving for. Our goal is to give love, comfort, peace and rest.”
Oui, understands people who are under pressure. Many years ago crashed his multi-million dollar company, as well as his marriage. Becoming homeless and unemployed, he learned otherwise to look at it: “So often we pray, “God, give me this, give me that.” I believe that change I started after I changed his prayer and began to speak: “God, what do You want me to learn from that? God, what can I do in this situation that will bring You the most glory?”, says Oui.
He found that by helping others, he found a way out of despair. His experience he described in his book titled “Be cavadini in the world of greedy persons”.
“I grew up in Eastern North Carolina, and my mother taught me: “Better to be cavadini than greedy”. She was a very unselfish man, and said, “the more you give, the more you get in return,” almost as much as the Bible says. And I was convinced that the way it is” — says, Oui Osterkamp.
For example, almost all the money needed for the operation of the shelter, “Ronald McDonald house”, coming from local territorial communities, whose members also generously donate their time.
“One of our local Church decided that its members throughout the year will be coming here every Monday night to cook dinner for everyone at the shelter,” says Oui Osterkamp.
In addition to helping families here in North Carolina, Oui is also changing the lives of people two thousand miles to the South of the orphanage in Honduras, one of the poorest countries in the world.
Six years ago, during a Church mission trip, he realized that the vicious circle of poverty is supported by illiteracy. Since then, his team has been that opens and contains a full-fledged school in remote villages. This service is called “Sharpish” before he got here the locals were doomed all his life to collect sugar cane or melon. Now they have the confidence that I can do anything.
“We, the graduates, had four. We are very happy and serve as an example for other children to go down the same path,” says the graduate “Serves” Ricky Rodriguez.
The Honduras government provide free education for children up to sixth grade, but they have to purchase all of the accessories and form. It’s too expensive for those families who earn just three dollars a day.
“One man asked Jesus, “What is the greatest commandment?” Jesus replied: “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, and with all your mind and love your neighbor as yourself.” We believe that these people represent a beautiful example of this in the middle, because they remain unnoticed even in their own country,” says Oui Osterkamp.
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