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Internationally recognized biosafety expert Margaret-Ann Armour, cited as a "superb role model for women in science," was awarded the 2001 Sarah Shorten Award at the CAUT Council meeting in November.
The University of Alberta scientist, who was nominated by CAUT's Status of Women Committee, has dedicated her career to advocating for women in science.
Dr. Armour is a founding member of WISEST (Women in Scholarship, Engineering, Science & Technology), a mentoring program for the promotion of science, and over the years she has received numerous awards and citations, including a 1990 YWCA Tribute to Women Award, the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal, the 1994 McNeil medal of the Royal Society of Canada, and in 1996 was the recipient of a 3M teaching award.
SWC chair Edith Zorychta said Dr. Armour has given more than 40 talks aimed at encouraging women into science, particularly in the fields of chemistry and engineering, where women have long been under-represented.
In 1970, Dr. Armour graduated with a PhD in organic chemistry and "set out in what was, at the time, a non-traditional career for women," Zorychta said. "For many years she was the only woman in her department."
According to faculty colleagues, Dr. Armour has contributed in a major way over many years to the furtherance of women in universities and worked tirelessly in her local academic staff association.
"Margaret-Ann has been a member of and/or chaired all of the major committees in the university engaged in equity issues," said Margaret Haughey, chair of the University of Alberta's Association of Academic Staff Equity Committee.
"As well as being instrumental in securing campus daycare, Dr. Armour has served on the AASUA Women's Issues Committee, Executive, Council, and Employment Equity Committee. She has also served on the Women's Studies Advisory Committee and the Academic Women's Association."
Numerous testimonials from Dr. Armour's students reveal she was a pivotal force in their decisions to pursue a career in science.
According to Brianne Hudson, a third-year science major at the University of Alberta, who first met Dr. Armour at a high school science conference sponsored by WISEST, "I was fascinated. Dr. Armour had everything: bananas frozen with liquid nitrogen, orange peel rinds that could dissolve Styrofoam. That day, science became something more than thermometers and salt solutions; it became something I could identify with."
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– Radiation leaks force transfer of nuclear waste from New Mexico to Texas (RT, March 21, 2014):
The cause of the radiation leaks at the United States’ first nuclear waste repository are still under investigation, but in the meantime government officials have decided to move a stalled shipment of waste to a private dump in Texas.
According to Reuters, the shipment of approximately 1,000 barrels of radioactive leftovers to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, was put on hold when the facility began leaking radioactive material in February. On Thursday, the Department of Energy announced it would temporarily relocate those barrels to a rural site in western Texas.
Beginning in April, shipments from Los Alamos National Laboratory will commence as officials hope to remove the barrels – currently stored outside and potentially at risk of a wildfire – by the original June deadline. The waste includes items contaminated with low level radiation such as clothing, tools, soil, rags, and other items. These barrels will be held in Andrews County until the WIPP reopens.
“Removing waste from the mesa in Los Alamos before fire season is critical to ensure safety in the greater Los Alamos community,” Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.) said in a statement, according to the Associated Press. “I’m pleased we have a temporary solution that will ensure there will not be any significant disruption in cleanup efforts.”
However, the move has not been greeted positively by Greg Mello of the watchdog Los Alamos Study Group, who dismissed the risk of wildfire to the AP and said shipping the barrels twice poses more of a danger.
Although this is the first time the WIPP has reported a leak since it was established in 1999, a series of incidents beginning in February have raised concerns regarding the plant’s safety. Before radiation levels rose at all, a salt truck caught fire at the facility, though it’s not believed to be related to the current predicament.
Still, when the WIPP may actually reopen remains unclear. Federal officials are still trying to determine exactly what caused the spike in radiation levels on February 14, but have pinpointed the location of the leak to one of the underground storage tunnels sitting about 600 meters underground. As reported by Reuters, at least 17 workers have been exposed to radiation.
Meanwhile, a second release of radiation was detected by air monitoring stations in the surrounding area, but officials have cautioned throughout this episode that the radiation does not pose a threat to public health.
“We are doing ongoing monitoring of air, soil, water and vegetation, and we are seeing nothing that indicates any health impacts to workers, the public, or the environment,” said Energy Department spokesman Brad Bugger said to the Wall Street Journal.
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Sagittarius Full Moon
The Full Moon in Sagittarius on June 17, 2019 illuminates the intersection between our beliefs and ideals with the reality of our current experience. It’s a perfect time to take a contemplative look at oneself and one’s behavior in the world to note however we can make changes to be more aligned with the values that are most important to us. If we are undergoing any disillusioning experiences, the lunation can also bring light to how our personal vision and perception needs to be readjusted in order to flow in greater harmony with the life around us. The Sagittarius Full Moon can also help open a wider view of anything we have been struggling with in our day to day efforts at survival and managing the difficulties of life. Rather than denying the suffering happening around us, the lunation can facilitate acknowledgment of present struggles within a larger perspective of the greater cycles of time we are traversing. Let your mind wander beyond the short term goals of the moment in order to envision ideas of what you want to create and where you wish life to lead you in the next few years.
The Sagittarius Full Moon is at a pivotal point within the Jupiter and Neptune cycle, as Jupiter retrograde will form its second exact last quarter square aspect with Neptune on June 16. Previously, Jupiter and Neptune formed the first of three square aspects in the sequence on January 13, 2019 at 15° with both direct; Jupiter and Neptune will do so again a third and final time on September 21 at 17° with Neptune retrograde. Jupiter and Neptune form a conjunction once every thirteen years within their cycle, typically in a successive sign of the zodiac, with their last conjunction occurring in 2009 between 24º – 27º Aquarius. Viewing the 2009 alignment as a seed of the new vision being birthed by Neptune and Jupiter, we are now at the point of harvesting the meaning of their cycle and utilizing the knowledge gained from our experience to reorient and reorder our vision for the future. Dane Rudhyar believed that the Jupiter and Neptune cycle is one of the most important cycles to pay attention to, as it reveals the ripple effect that comes from changes in individual perception and meaning-making impacting the wider collective.
While the Jupiter and Neptune cycle is being amplified by the Sagittarius Full Moon, it is taking place within a wider context of Saturn and Pluto coming together at the end of their cycle while forming an opposition with Mercury and Mars in Cancer alongside the transiting lunar nodes. Following the Full Moon, the moon will begin waning toward the Total Solar Eclipse in Cancer that will occur on July 2, bringing us into the strange quality of time found in eclipse season and a further intensification of the polarity between Cancer and Capricorn. The divisiveness and acrimony in global politics, the decay of old societal structures, the obsessive attempts to consolidate greater power by those in power, the heartfelt anger and outrage over the myriad forms of oppression and injustice occurring, are all outer signs of deep internal changes beginning to take shape. Allow the light of the Sagittarius Full Moon to show you what elements of life need your full engagement, what needs to be protected and nurtured, and where you need to share and be more giving.
Jupiter in Sagittarius rules the Full Moon while forming its catalytic square aspect with a stationing Neptune in Pisces. Neptune will station retrograde about four days after the full moon on June 21, which means that the archetypal influence of Neptune will be saturating the astrological landscape in the days surrounding the Sagittarius Full Moon. Moreover, while the Full Moon is separating from a conjunction with Jupiter, the true node of Black Moon Lilith is within five degrees of Neptune in Pisces. Altogether this points to the necessity of contemplating the bedrock of our thoughts, the oftentimes hidden beliefs that source the way we imagine and perceive the possibilities available. It’s clear in current events that many people around the world are clinging to old, outdated beliefs about the past they have distorted in their minds such as those consumed with nationalistic and racial pride and hubris. At the same time, there are traditional elements of our past and ancestry that can help us mediate strife and create a healthier and more fruitful lifestyle.
Allow the light of the Sagittarius Full Moon to shine upon your inner convictions, those ideas and ideals you are usually unwilling to question and tend to self-righteously act from. Do you wish to harness the power of creation for your own benefit or instead attempt to flow with natural forces in a way that can help others as well as yourself negotiate challenges? In the season ahead, with the intensity of the coming eclipses aligning with Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn, there is no doubt that there will be tumult to contend with. In many situations it will be necessary to fight with resistance in order to protect what is held most dear. Let the Sagittarius Full Moon illuminate what will be worth fighting for and whatever can be let go and released.
Following the peak of the Full Moon on June 17, the waning Moon will occult Saturn in Capricorn on June 18 and then occult Pluto in Capricorn on June 19. This is due to the Moon aligning with its own south node while Saturn and Pluto are also aligning with their own south nodes. Simultaneously, Mercury will form an exact conjunction with Mars in Cancer on June 18, with both Mercury and Mars forming an exact opposition with Pluto on June 19. The volatility of this configuration will be amplified due to the fullness of the Moon, as the silvery Moon is the ruler of Mercury, Mars, and the North Node of the Moon. Thoughts can be irrational, dreams more intense, emotions more unhinged and exacerbated when the Moon is at its peak light, even more so when the Moon is ruling Mars and Mercury as they conjoin the North Node and oppose Saturn and Pluto. The loosening of passions can become difficult due to the widespread destruction signified by the rancorous configuration assembled around the lunar nodes.
The gift of having Mercury as an Evening Star aligning with Mars in Cancer is the wry wink and smile of the trickster Hermes. Moreover, the union of Mercury and Mars with the North Node of the Moon is also forming a flowing trine with Neptune stationing in Pisces. The more we can have a sense of humor about what’s happening, the more we can be willing to put our ego and pride aside when it is drawing us into petty conflict, the more smoothly we will be able to navigate the swirling tides that will be following in the wake of the full moon. In fact, the volatility of these aspects also makes this an incredibly creative time in which breakthrough ideas can be dislodged from stuck and stagnant places. If possible, find a creative outlet through which to transfigure fraught or explosive emotions into transmission of artistic expression, or take on a challenging physical expedition. There has been so much emphasis on the Capricorn side of the lunar nodes for so long with Saturn and Pluto camped out there, the dynamic onrush of Mercury and Mars across the North Node of the Moon can bring a productive jolt forward.
Around the time of the Summer Solstice in the northern hemisphere and the Winter Solstice in the southern hemisphere on June 21, Venus in Gemini will descend under the beams of the sun into its invisible phase. As a result Venus is on the precipice of descending into the Mysteries of its upcoming underworld phase at the time of the Full Moon. Venus will eventually be re-seeded in the sacred heart of the Leo Sun on August 13 at 21º07′ Leo, and then will re-emerge in visibility as an Evening Star around the end of September. At the same time as the solstice, Neptune will station retrograde in Pisces while Venus in Gemini simultaneously forms an opposition with Jupiter in Sagittarius and a first quarter square with Neptune in Pisces. Adding to the mystery being nurtured by Venus, Venus in Gemini is forming a shadowy antiscia aspect with the Mercury and Mars conjunction as well as a contra-antiscia aspect with Saturn in Capricorn in the days surrounding the Sagittarius Full Moon.
Drink in the final light that Venus has to offer as a Morning Star in the days following the Sagittarius Full Moon. In Gemini, Venus promotes holding a multiplicity of perspectives and a willingness to question and contest dogmatic diatribes and stubborn viewpoints. Venus in Gemini finds depth in the connections found between what appear to be differences on the surface. Listen as closely as possible to your inner voice, the nudges of your intuition, the signs and omens of nature that cross your path, for the current phase of Venus signals a shedding of the values that have been prioritized and an expansive revisioning. Ask yourself what you can do differently, what potential path is available that up until now you have believed to be impossible due to your old conception of circumstances. Venus entering its invisible phase brings us into a long period of regeneration in which we can reconceptualize how we have been engaging in our relationships and work. Rather than seeking rapid success in the season ahead, focus instead on sustaining effort that will rebuild and reconfigure the foundation you launch yourself from.
The third face of Sagittarius where the Full Moon in Sagittarius culminates is associated with the Ten of Wands card illustrated above by Pamela Colman Smith. Human toil, endurance and perseverance are some of the immediate associations evoked by the image of determination, and so there is strong alignment between the 10 of Wands with the astrological atmosphere of Mars and Mercury opposing Saturn and Pluto during the Sagittarius Full Moon. In tarot this card has been associated with oppressive dynamics and limitations, and in fact is called Oppression in the Thoth deck. Fittingly, the third decan of Sagittarius is ruled by Saturn, a planet that involves the type of difficult circumstances that force us to cultivate endurance and new structures of support.
Austin Coppock ascribed the image of “A Horse’s Skull” to the third face of Sagittarius in his book 36 Faces, describing how it reveals the unification of mind, body, and spirit through committed work and effort yoked to a goal. Coppock also wrote that the final face of Sagittarius brings a reckoning regarding whatever needs to be sacrificed in pursuit of desires, noting that “those who walk this face must choose which burdens they will bear to the bitter end, and which are not worthy of such feats of will and endurance.” Both the Picatrix and Agrippa’s Three Books of Occult Philosophy warn of the “evil inclinations” that can be harbored within this decan for those overly desperate to achieve objectives. Coppock described the intoxicating pursuit of victory that is found in this face, noting a need to realize when the “desperate fervor” of this decan’s power is appropriate and when it is inappropriate and will exact “a heavy toll.”
The Hellenistic text The 36 Airs of the Zodiac placed Ananke, the primordial goddess of Necessity, within the third face of Sagittarius. Ananke is the mother of the Fates and the overseer of souls incarnating in Plato’s Myth of Er and is the primordial mother of creation in some strands of Orphic cosmology who governs the cyclic nature of the cosmos. Ananke’s presence in the third face of Sagittarius which holds the full light of the Moon further amplifies the fateful feelings incited by Saturn and Pluto in Capricorn aligning with the lunar nodes and the season of eclipses on the horizon. It will not be possible to hide from the watchful eye of Ananke, meaning that whatever life dictates needs our attention we must do and follow through with full consciousness. Though there are things to do we simply must do, issues to face we simply must face, there can also be revelation and insight discovered through the effort of will applied diligently to the task at hand. As the traditional Irish blessing goes, “May the road rise up to meet you.”
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What is protein?
Protein is found throughout the body—in muscle, bone, skin, hair, and virtually every other body part or tissue. It makes up the enzymes that power many chemical reactions and the hemoglobin that carries oxygen in your blood. At least 10,000 different proteins make you what you are and keep you that way.
Protein is made from twenty-plus basic building blocks called amino acids. Because we don’t store amino acids, our bodies make them in two different ways: either from scratch, or by modifying others. Nine amino acids—histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine—known as the essential amino acids, must come from food. (Harvard School of Public Health)
How much protein do I need?
This all depends on the person and their goals, hence the importance of a macro calculator! Once you begin tracking macros, the most common observation is you have not been eating enough protein. Increasing your protein intake can make huge changes over time with muscle development and fat loss. | <urn:uuid:b5834f7f-8923-40b8-b2bf-392b867caf26> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ccfit.home.blog/2020/10/14/protein/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.956904 | 239 | 3.109375 | 3 |
Do you ever have those moments, talking to someone, whether at the grocery store or waiting in line somewhere and strike up a conversation that can totally shift your day? Well, today I had such a conversation. I was with my teenage daughters, a friend, and her daughter, selling beautiful flowers a Girl Scout fundraiser for a service award they are earning.
Here we were, in a parking lot with blooming potted plants, flowers, and hanging baskets, in hues of pink, fuchsia, purples and oranges trying to sell the flowers. I asked an older woman nearby if she’d like to purchase some flowers, and she politely declined but would let her children, now grown, know about the plant sale.
I thanked her, and she said to me, “You know for Mother’s Day don’t we all just want our children, no matter what age they are, to be happy?”
“Yes, I completely agree, healthy and happy children are a gift.”
She agreed and said, “You know as moms, we can’t put our happiness on our children. I’ve learned, I have to find and create my happiness Children grow up, you have to find what makes you happy.”
I responded, “I love your perspective. You just gave me a gem of wisdom today, thank you!”
We waved and off she went.
Her words stayed with me, and her wisdom inspired me to ask this question:
How do we create and find happiness in motherhood?
Perhaps the first place to start in answering this question is to understand what gets in the way and blocks our happiness.
Here are a few things that I believe get in the way of happiness:
- Believing happiness is something that happens automatically
- Unmanaged stress
- Thinking too much
- Life events related to loss, illness, change and loneliness.
- Not knowing what brings you happiness
- Multitasking and not being in the moment
As a mother to four girls, my daughters bring happiness to my life in ways I could never have imagined or anticipated. And, I also know, the wisdom of the woman at the plant sale, was incredibly true.
Mothers have to create personal happiness separate from her children.
I think that’s the challenge when you’re in the midst of raising a family, it’s hard to ever imagine the pace of motherhood being something different than it is today. Which is why I do believe in working to create happiness in motherhood, separate from children, even in small amounts.
Here are some suggestions on how to cultivate happiness as a mom:
- Reflect on What Brings You Happiness. What makes you happy? What brings you joy? Spend a few minutes thinking about each and either make a mental list of such activities or write down several ways you experience or would like to experience joy and happiness in your everyday life.
- Create moments of Joy. One obstacle to experiencing happiness is thinking that it just happens passively. Create moments of happiness by scheduling it in your day. If happiness to you would be a vacation, try to scale back to an achievable moment you can incorporate into your daily routine. For example, look through photos of the vacation you enjoyed, listen to music that lifts your energy, or spend time in an activity you’ve been meaning to do but haven’t set aside the time. We often put ourselves last on the to do list of the day. Schedule small amounts of time, even fifteen minutes a day, and engage in activities that create happiness.
- Look for Happiness in Small Moments. There are big events in life when we experience joy; the birth of a child, an achievement of a hard-earned goal, a relaxing vacation or trip. Becoming aware of smaller moments of happiness can significantly increase one’s sense of happiness and contentment. Perhaps a moment of joy is watching your children play or going for a walk and noticing nature around you or simply sitting in quiet enjoying a cup of tea. However you define happiness, slow down and look for the small examples of happiness in your life.
- Create Happiness for Someone Else. Giving to others and those we care about often brings about joy and a sense of happiness. When we care for other people we feel good about bringing something positive to someone else’s life.
- Experience Life. Many of us get caught up in being so productive, we leave little time to enjoy and experience life. Slow down, take a deep breath and allow yourself to be in the moment without being overly productive. Instead of using your smart phone when ever there is down time or filling every waking moment with productivity, allow yourself to connect to the important people in your life. Allow yourself to eat slowly and enjoy a meal or savor a piece of chocolate or embrace in a hug with a loved one more than a moment. Instead of rushing on to the next moment or thing to do, take in the moment in front of you.
- Learn From Your Children. Have you ever noticed how children are fantastic about being in the moment? Watch your children and follow their lead. Observe how they can be in the moment enjoying only what is in front of them. Children have an innate ability to be in the moment and experience joy, wonder and awe, in ways that are challenging to do as we grow older.
- Keep Track of Your Happiness. Whether you journal, write it in the notes section of your smart phone, take a photo or simply allow the moment to sink in for later recall, find a way to hold onto the joyful moments. Over time, small positive moments add up and can change the way you perceive happiness.
- Limit Multitasking. A sure way to reduce happiness is through the distractions of multitasking. When we are engaged in another activity, it is hard to be present and attuned to other events unfolding around us. By limiting multitasking, we can create opportunities to allow our senses to take in fully moments of joy and happiness.
Be sure to take some time and reflect on how you create happiness in your life. If you have ideas or suggestions for us moms, please share in the comment section!
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Victory | October 26, 2016
The Honourable Minister LeBlanc Announces a Big Step Forward for More Transparent Fisheries Management in Canada
For the first time, the Canadian government has released key information on the status of the country’s fish stocks. The government has also shared the results of an annual Sustainability Survey for Fisheries and invested additional funds to increase the science capacity of the department managing Canadian fisheries. The Honorable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, announced these changes at Oceana Canada’s symposium, Rebuilding Abundance: Restoring Canada’s Fisheries for Long-Term Prosperity. Oceana Canada was credited for providing the impetus for releasing this information, after campaigning for increased transparency and public access to Canadian fishery information since it began operations in 2015. | <urn:uuid:7bfdfff1-1636-499e-af52-732ed08525a9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://oceana.org/victories/honourable-minister-leblanc-announces-big-step-forward-more-transparent-fisheries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.935615 | 175 | 1.898438 | 2 |
The Iraq Inquiry Report (2009-2016) documents how Tony Blair committed Great Britain to war early in 2002, lying to the United Nations, to Parliament, and to the British people, in order to follow George Bush, who had planned an aggression on Iraq well before September 2001.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard conspired with both reckless adventurers, purported ‘to advise’ both buccaneers, sent troops to Iraq before the war started, then lied to Parliament and to the Australian people. He continues to do so.
Should he and his cabal be charged with war crimes? This, and more, is investigated by Dr George Venturini in this outstanding series.
Australia’s involvement in Iraq
On 2 August 1990 Saddam Hussein ordered his army – then the world’s fourth largest standing military – to invade oil-rich Kuwait.
In response, the United Nations Security Council imposed sanctions on Iraq, before finally authorising a US-led military coalition – including Australia – to eject the Iraqis from Kuwait.
Operation Desert Storm commenced with a one-month air bombardment campaign followed by a swift ground assault in February 1991, which was dubbed the ‘100-hour war’.
Iraq suffered about 100,000 casualties, while fewer than 200 coalition troops were killed in combat – several by ‘friendly fire’.
Australia’s main contribution was naval support in the northern Persian Gulf. Three guided missile frigates, a destroyer, and two support ships were deployed during the campaign. An Army air defence detachment was also sent to sea to protect the supply ships from possible air attack. Royal Australian Navy special forces clearance diving team was also sent for de-mining and demolition tasks. Australian medical teams served aboard U.S. navy hospital ships, and a small number of R.A.A.F. photo interpreters were dispatched to Coalition headquarters in Saudi Arabia. This is referred to as Australia’s First Gulf war.
Coalition aircraft continued to patrol the northern and southern No Fly Zones. Australians served on U.N.-sanctioned inspection teams which searched for weapons of mass destruction.
Economic sanctions were imposed on Iraq, enforced by a naval blockade which included Australian warships; the sanctions were frequently violated, including by Australia as will be seen.
Australia returned to Iraq in March 2003.
The official entry was announced by Prime Minister John Winston Howard before Parliament on 18 March 2003. The gist of the speech follows:
“We reject totally the argument put by France and by some other countries that the presence of inspectors will lead, over the passage of time, to disarmament. We cannot and will not ignore the experience of the last 12 years. We believe that the time has come to disarm Iraq, by force if necessary. We are participating in the US-led coalition to achieve this objective.
It is important to understand that the decision taken by the government is in accordance with the legal authority for military action found in previous resolutions of the Security Council. We supported, and would have preferred, a further Security Council resolution specifying the need for such action. We did so to maximise the diplomatic, moral and political pressure on Iraq, not because we considered a new resolution to be necessary for such action to be legitimate.
Our legal advice, provided by the head of the Office of International Law in the Attorney-General’s Department and the senior legal adviser to the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, is unequivocal. The existing United Nations Security Council resolutions already provide for the use of force to disarm Iraq and restore international peace and security to the area. This legal advice is consistent with that provided to the British government by its Attorney-General.
Security Council resolution 678, adopted in 1990, authorised the use of all necessary means not only to implement resolution 660, which demanded Iraq withdraw from Kuwait, but also to implement all subsequent relevant resolutions and to restore international peace and security in the area. Resolution 687, which provided the cease-fire terms for Iraq in April 1991, affirmed resolution 678. Security Council resolution 1441 confirms that Iraq has been and remains in material breach of its obligations, a point on which there is unanimous agreement, including by even the Leader of the Opposition.
Iraq’s past and continuing breaches of the cease-fire obligations negate the basis for the formal cease-fire. Iraq has by its conduct demonstrated that it did not and does not accept the terms of the cease-fire. Consequently, we have received legal advice that ‘the cease-fire is not effective and the authorisation for the use of force in Security Council resolution 678 is reactivated’. It follows, so I am advised, that referring to the use of such force against Iraq as ‘unilateral’ is wrong. Any informed analysis of the Security Council resolutions leads to this conclusion.” (Australia, Hansard, House of Representatives, 12505, 18 March 2003).
Australia’s military commitment to the initial invasion, codenamed Operation Falconer, was larger than in the 1991 conflict.
The Navy deployed three ships and a clearance diving team in the northern Persian Gulf. The Army sent a 500-strong special forces task group supported by three Chinook helicopters.
The R.A.A.F. deployed 14 FA-18 Hornet fighters, three Hercules transport aircraft and two Orion maritime surveillance planes.
The U.S.-led Coalition failed to find any weapons of mass destruction, but in less than a month it had captured Baghdad, destroyed the Iraqi military and deposed Hussein.
Most of the Australian forces involved in the initial invasion returned home, although small contingents were sent to Baghdad airport and to protect diplomats.
In 2003 the Australian contribution was re-named as Operation Catalyst, and an Army training team was deployed to assist in rebuilding the Iraqi military which had been disbanded following Saddam’s defeat. The complete dismantling of Saddam’s forces had further destabilised the security environment.
What followed were a steady slide into civil war between various Iraqi Sunni and Shia militias, an increasingly bloody insurgency campaign directed against the occupying Coalition forces, and a futile attempt to install governments which would at the same time try an experiment in democracy as understood by the occupiers, and compliance with their ideology – mainly neoconservatism.
In 2005 the Australian government committed troops to the reconstruction phase, a 500-strong Army task force was sent to the relatively peaceful Al Muthanna Province in the south of Iraq, on the border with Saudi Arabia, to protect a contingent of Japanese engineers.
When the Japanese left, the Australian task force relocated to Tallil Airbase in a neighbouring province.
By 2006, 1,400 Australians were serving in Iraq. Australia began withdrawing its troops in 2008, finally ending operations in July 2009. No Australian personnel were killed in action during the Iraq campaign.
The Iraq Inquiry Report contains scarce references to Australia – understandably. The automatic adherence by Australia to the policies of Great and Powerful Friends – Great Britain from the original invasion and the United States since after the end of the second world war keeps it in a position of vassal, a client state.
The powerful force of a Deep State seems to have been operating since the ambush of the Whitlam government in 1975.
But assumptions about Australian ‘patriotism’ go much further back and are a combination of a proclivity for violence which goes way back from the setting up of the first colony, has continued ever since and seems rather unexplainable in a populace largely indifferent but always ready ‘to solve a problem’ with a brawl. ‘Overseas’ is for that type of ‘adventure’, the purpose often escapes the participants – problems are simplified, no questions are asked.
What were Australians doing in Arkhangelsk in 1918-1919 ? “The remedy for Bolshevism is bullets.” was the blunt message of the editorial in Britain’s establishment newspaper, The Times, in 1919 as military forces from sixteen countries invaded Russia after the 1917 revolution. Among the invaders were about 150 Australian soldiers, as recounted in Michael Challinger’s history of the Australian role in the invasion.
Nine Australian soldiers were part of a British secret mission in 1918, the Elope Force, the apparent aim of which, that of countering a German foothold in the northern Russian port city of Arkhangelsk was soon dispensed in favour of the real purpose – to train and organise the counter-revolutionary Russian Army of the north and link up with the other White Russian armies to overthrow the Bolshevik government.
The British-led invaders had seized the city, and were running it as a military dictatorship under a puppet local government. By 1919 reinforcements of 15,000 foreign troops had joined the war against the Sixth Red Army. (M. Challinger, ANZACS IN ARKHANGEL:The untold story of Australia and the invasion of Russia 1918-1919, Richmond, Vic. 2010).
After the glorious retreat from Gallipoli in 1915, and the unmitigated slaughter at Fromelles in 1916, there is where Australians went in 1918 and 1919.
The Arkhangelsk adventure left 327 British, 244 American, 2 Australian and countless Russian soldiers dead.
Tomorrow: Australia’s involvement in Iraq (continued)
Dr. Venturino Giorgio Venturini – ‘George’ devoted some sixty years to study, practice, teach, write and administer law at different places in four continents. In 1975, invited by Attorney-General Lionel Keith Murphy, Q.C., he left a law chair in Chicago to join the Trade Practices Commission in Canberra – to serve the Whitlam Government. In time he witnessed the administration of a law of prohibition as a law of abuse, and documented it in Malpractice, antitrust as an Australian poshlost (Sydney 1980). He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.
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Competition: US & Canada
Ron Tarver received a BA in Journalism and Graphic Arts from Northeastern State University and an MFA from the University of Arts. He serves as Associate Professor of Art at Swarthmore College. Before Swarthmore, Tarver was a photojournalist at the Philadelphia Inquirer for 32 years, where he shares a 2012 Pulitzer Prize and numerous international, national, and state awards. He is co-author of the book We Were There: Voices of African American Veterans, published by Harper Collins, which was accompanied by an exhibition that debuted at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.
In addition to his career in photojournalism, Tarver has distinguished himself in the field of fine art photography. He is a recipient of Pew Fellowship in the Arts, and has received grants from National Geographic, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and two Independence Foundation Fellowships.
His work is including the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg, Oklahoma Museum of History, Studio Museum in Harlem, and the National Museum of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC. You can find him on Instagram at @rontarver.
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The Startling Reality
Counterfeit medicine is fake medicine, and they are a threat to the health and safety of patients around the world.
Counterfeit medicines are dangerous by their very nature – they are not produced under safe manufacturing conditions and they are not inspected by regulatory authorities. It is impossible to know what ingredients counterfeit medicines contain. Sophisticated counterfeiters will put some of the active ingredient in the fake medicine and make it look very similar to the real medicine.
The primary danger in taking a counterfeit medicine is that you are putting something into your body that not only may not help your current condition, but more alarmingly could result in harmful effects to your overall health.
No country or product is immune to the threat of counterfeit. Even in countries generally considered "safe," such as Canada, the United States, and many in the European Union, counterfeit medicines have entered the supply chain. The types of counterfeit medicines offered for sale without a prescription include, but are not limited to, lifesaving medicines such as those to treat cancer, bacterial infection antibiotics, diabetes, and anti-inflammatory medicines.
Reputable online pharmacies will ask for a prescription issued by a relevant healthcare professional and provide adequate warnings about the possible side effects of the drug.
Pfizer’s Anti-Counterfeiting Program
It is precisely because of the threat that counterfeit medicines pose to patients that Pfizer has implemented an aggressive and focused campaign to detect, disrupt and deter major manufacturers and distributors of counterfeit Pfizer medicines.
We work with wholesalers, pharmacies, customs offices, and law enforcement agencies worldwide to increase inspection coverage, monitor distribution channels, and improve surveillance of distributors and re-packagers. Most significantly, we conduct and manage pro-active investigations and refer the cases we develop to enforcement authorities. Our investigations are initiated in response to “leads” from a variety of sources, including complaints from patients and healthcare professionals, observations by members of our sales force, information concerning changes in sales volume and patterns from confidential informants and intelligence from enforcement authorities. | <urn:uuid:93235830-f38e-46e2-bcc0-f8520b9c02b5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pfizer.com/products/medicine-safety/counterfeiting | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.951805 | 416 | 2.4375 | 2 |
- Dr. Md. Motiul Islam
Coronaviruses are important human and animal pathogens. At the end of 2019, a novel coronavirus was identified as the cause of a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China. It rapidly spread, resulting in an epidemic throughout China, followed by an increasing number of cases in other countries throughout the world. In February 2020, the World Health Organization designated the disease COVID-19, which stands for coronavirus disease 2019. The virus that causes COVID-19 is designated severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2); previously, it was referred to as 2019-nCoV.
Globally, over 80 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported.
Since the first reports of cases from Wuhan, a city in the Hubei Province of China, at the end of 2019, cases have been reported in all continents, except for Antarctica.
The reported case counts underestimate the overall burden of COVID-19, as only a fraction of acute infections are diagnosed and reported. Seroprevalence surveys in the United States and Europe have suggested that after accounting for potential false positives or negatives, the rate of prior exposure to SARS-CoV-2, as reflected by seropositivity, exceeds the incidence of reported cases by approximately 10-fold or more.
We at Asgar Ali Hospital have been getting COVID-19 patients from as early as March, 2019 and we were not reluctant at all to treat COVID patients. As patient count was rising in the community, we couldn’t sit still watching our patients suffer around us, going door to door for proper medical care. Asgar Ali Hospital jumped in action from the very first day. A special task force was formed led by the head of the institution and other senior consultants of different specialties and a “Standard Operating Procedure (SOP)” was implemented to manage COVID patients. We came up with a plan lock stock and barrel to continue serving our patients, both COVID and non COVID alike. From emergency room to out-patient department to dialysis room, from operating room to intensive care unit to in-patient departments, everywhere we made separate “Red” and “Green” zones for both our COVID and non COVID patients. All necessary infrastructural changes were done almost overnight, including separating the “red” and “green” zones by physical barrier, ensuringadequate negative pressure ventilation areas for our COVID patients, setting up state of the art dedicated PCR lab for COVID testing etc. Our existing infection control team had to keep a third eye open specially to ensure that virus contamination does not occur from COVID zone to non COVID zone. Cleaning, waste disposal everything has been taken care of as per local and international guidelines. Extreme precaution has been taken from the very first day regarding health care workers’ safety, particularly ensuring adequate supply of high quality masks, respirators and other personal protective gears.
It is said that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. But COVID-19 has killed us and made us stronger at the same time. Many of our team members got affected by COVID despite taking all precautions but fortunately all of them got better and returned work in due time with full enthusiasm.
Intensive care unit (ICU) can be regarded as the nucleus of a hospital. If the nucleus functions properly, rest of the parts follow. The Department of Critical Care Medicine (ICU) of Asgar Ali Hospital is no exception to that. Asgar Ali Hospital proudly claims to be the pioneer in building up of one of the largest (in terms of bed capacity) intensive care unit (ICU) of the country with 40 COVID beds and 12 non COVID beds, from as early as June, 2019. Our COVID ICU is fully negative pressure ventilation area equipped with all the standard equipments needed to run a state of the art ICU. The hospital had central oxygen supply and all beds were oxygen therapy enabled from day 1 of its inauguration, a blessing in treating COVID patients specially in a pandemic scenario. Moreover, we are among the pioneer users of “High Flow Nasal Cannula”, a devise that has come to the lime light in the COVID era but we have been using them from as early as 2016 and that gave us an extra edge, undoubtedly. Whenever we talk about ICUs we talk about the machines but often forget to mention the brains behind the machines. Our ICU team is a highly motivated, experienced, dynamic and talented team, one of the best in the field. Treating the critically ill is not only our noble profession but at the same time our passion. At the start of the pandemic when many of the ICUs of the country were facing “lockdown”, Asgar Ali Hospital ICU team was working their hearts out. When other hospitals were compelling their ICU physicians to take forced leave, we at Asgar Ali, were recruiting so that we could face the pandemic boldly!
As of today, we have treated a total of around 3,000 COVID patients in our in-patient departments and countless ones at out-patient departments and emergency rooms. Among the admitted patients approximately 1,000 were critically ill and around 2,000 were not so critical. During the pandemic we continued to conduct our academic activity to increase general awareness and physician training through webinars, podcasts etc to keep ourselves at the edge of emerging medical practice. In the face of the initial COVID attack we had the vision in our eyes and knew the mission at our heart by the grace of the Almighty. We want COVID to disappear from the face of the earth for good and we want all the people around us to stay as healthy as ever but at the same time we want to assure that Asgar Ali Hospital is here to stay, to continue to serve and to create new hope when it is needed the most.
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Jesus gives life. Jesus invites us into life. This invitation is rooted in knowing and following. Jesus calls us into an interactive relationship. He beckons us, “Come! Follow me.” The language he used in his invitation consists of phrases like “good news” and “kingdom”.
The good news is that there is a new way to be human; we are called to be and become more like Jesus. More like God, more human. One of the early observers of the Jesus story wrote what happened when people accepted this new invitation,
“Christians are not distinguished from the rest of mankind by country, or by speech, or by dress. For they do not dwell in cities of their own, or use a different language, or practice a peculiar life . . . but while they dwell in Greek or barbarian cities according as each man’s lot has been cast, and follow the customs of the land in clothing and food, and other matters of daily life, yet the condition of citizenship which they exhibit is wonderful, and admittedly strange . . . every foreign land is to them a fatherland and every fatherland a foreign land. They marry like the rest of the world, they breed children, but they do no cast their offspring adrift . . . they exist in the flesh, but they live not after the flesh. They spend their existence upon earth, but their citizenship is in heaven. They obey the established laws, and in their own lives they surpass the laws . . . In a word, what the soul is in the body Christians are in the world”
This letter from Diognetus explains how these young communities of Jesus followers grew into rhythms that at the same time resounded with the local cultures (Jesus described this as being in the world) but at the same time created an offbeat (Jesus described this as not being of the world).
I am in Brazil this week and my good friend Eduardo invited his community to stop three times a day during the coming week to pray “fix this world'” and to read through John 17 and notice how many times Jesus talks about the world. Because I am part of his community this week I am praying these prayers too. The praying reminded me of the fact that the kingdom we are invited into is an invitation of creating new wild spaces. Or to use a phrase that comes from the South African theologian David Bosch, become “experimental gardens”. He writes,
“We still live in the unredeemed world, but we may walk with our heads held high; we know that the kingdom is coming because it has already come. We live within the creative tension between the already and the not yet, forever moving closer to the orbit of the former. We Christians are an anachronism in this world: not anymore what we used to be, but not yet what we are destined to be. We are too early for heaven, yet too late for the world. We live on the borderline between the already and the not yet. We are a fragment of the world to come, God’s colony in a human world, his experimental garden on earth. We are like crocuses in the snow, a sign of the world to come and at the same time a guarantee of its coming.”
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A raft of several major initiatives are to be rolled out to boost micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) while bringing more of them into the formal economy, Minister of Small Business, Entrepreneurship and Commerce Dwight Sutherland has promised.
Declaring the Mottley administration’s commitment to the notion of stimulating the economy by spreading and creating new wealth, Sutherland announced a “comprehensive suite of policy and legislative initiatives” would be rolled out through his ministry to create a better enabling environment for entrepreneurship and small businesses in Barbados.
“The ultimate aim is to create wealth through the empowerment of local entrepreneurs and in doing so, cultivate an entrepreneur ethos that is nationally pervasive and driven by international foresight,” said Sutherland. “This is our way of transforming the Barbadian economy – using an innovative strategy that is centred around investment in the skills, ideas and the endeavours of the ordinary Barbadians.”
He said the Trust Loan Fund was only one of the “enablers” that Government had implemented to help grow the MSME community.
He said the Mottley administration was hoping to roll out a promised financial literacy bureau initiative with the scheduling of several financial literacy clinics at schools and community centres to help Barbadians improve their money management.
Sutherland said: “It will target the youth from as early as primary school, the households and businesses, through training. And it will promote financial literacy as a way of life among all Barbadians and as a means of charting a path for the creation of sustainable businesses and intergenerational wealth for time to come.”
He said a consultation was held with stakeholders and private sector figures to review a proposed implementation plan and once that plan was approved later this week by Cabinet, the literacy bureau would be promoted during the month of August with training to begin in September.
The development of the much-talked-about junior stock market was still on the cards, as well as establishment of a collateral registry that would allow for moveable assets to be listed as collateral, he said.
“So when we create this collateral registry you have the opportunity then to become formal. You can apply for a loan,” said Sutherland.
He further pointed out that a “micro, small and medium-sized enterprise cluster strategy” was being developed “to encourage related businesses to network, collaborate and mitigate the inherent challenges currently experienced by stand-alone businesses that often result in business failure.
The Minister for Small Business said: “As you cluster and as we bring forward (that) collateral registry whereby your equipment and moveable assets can be seen as collateral, that is about building business and bringing you from the informal to the formal sector where you are recognized as a viable entity and you can take your rightful place in the economic landscape in this country.”
Government is also in the final stages of repealing the Liquor Licence Act to shorten the time it takes to obtain a liquor licence and to offer seasonal licences, he added.
Sutherland said he was confident that the SME could become a “catalyst in the recovery of our economy and as the engine of growth to propel the country on a sustainable growth path during the rest of the COVID-19 and post COVID-19”.
He said prior to COVID-19 there were about 9,700 small businesses here employing about 48 per cent of the labour force.
And while he was unable to say how many of those businesses had closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Sutherland said: “There is no reason the economic landscape going forward cannot continue to reflect the critical contribution that the small businesses are making to the Barbadian economy”.
He said Government’s aim was to have a strategy to recover and rebuild the economy “and even making it better than what we did before COVID-19.
At the same time, Sutherland said it was critical for MSMEs to take advantage of opportunities to position themselves to grow while using up to date technologies to become more competitive.
He was speaking on Monday during the official opening of the first in a series of customer service and debt and money management workshop put on by the Barbados Trust Fund Ltd in association with the National Conservation Commission.
The two-day workshop is being held at the Christ Church parish church under strict COVID-19 protocols.
Officials said while the first training was primarily for those in the Berinda Cox Fish Market and wider Bay Garden, Oistins area, several participants from other communities were allowed to take part due to the overwhelming demand.
Stressing that training was especially important at this time, Sutherland said he found that one impediment that made small businesses less resilient to crisis was a deficit in financial literacy.
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ASTM International - ASTM D4595-86(1994)
Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Geotextiles by the Wide-Width Strip Method
|Publication Date:||24 September 1986|
1.1 This test method covers the measurement of tensile properties of geotextiles using a wide-width strip specimen tensile method. This test method is applicable to most geotextiles that include woven fabrics, nonwoven fabrics, layered fabrics, knit fabrics, and felts that are used for geotextile application.
1.2 This test method covers the measurement of tensile strength and elongation of geotextiles and includes directions for the calculation of initial modulus, offset modulus, secant modulus, and breaking toughness.
1.3 Procedures for measuring the tensile properties of both conditioned and wet geotextiles by the wide-width strip method are included.
1.4 The basic distinction between this test method and other methods for measuring strip tensile properties is the width of the specimen. This width, by contrast, is greater than the length of the specimen. Some fabrics used in geotextile applications have a tendency to contract (neck down) under a force in the gage length area. The greater width of the specimen specified in this test method minimizes the contraction effect of those fabrics and provides a closer relationship to expected geotextile behavior in the field and a standard comparison.
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All animal worry and fresh processes comprise in accordance with the EU Directive 2010/63/EU advice for pet experiments and authorized by the Animal Ethics Committee within University of Lleida (CEEA 02/06-16). Your panels authorized (CEEA 02/06-16) allowed the overall performance of a parallel learn, described quickly on Fig. S1. However, from the same job, a group of remains healthier mature men Wistar mice considering between 200 to 250 g and kept for the animal amenities from the University of Lleida were utilized for primer validation as an essential earlier action to perform a gene phrase research. The creatures were housed in polyvinyl cages at a controlled temperature (21 A°C A± 1A°C) and moisture (55percent A± 10per cent RH), maintained under a consistent 12 h light-dark cycle. The pets are given with h2o and a general diet plan for rats or rodents (Envigo Teklad worldwide eating plan 2014, batch 3201, Settimo Milanese, Italy) post libitum. Three randomly-selected creatures had been forfeited by intracardiac puncture after isoflurane anaesthesia (ISOFlo, Veterinaria Esteve, Bologna, Italy). Distal colon tissue (the quintessential pertinent part in CRC research with DMH/AOM induced versions) (Megaraj et al., 2014) ended up being removed and right away frozen in fluid nitrogen then saved at a?’80 A°C until it had been analysed.
RNA isolation & cDNA synthesis
Cells Lyser LT (Quigen, Hilden, Germany) was utilized as a muscle homogenizer (four cycles of 50 Hz for 30 s. with a-1 min. stop within each period). Total RNA got extracted utilising the Trizola„? Plus PureLinka„? package RNA Mini package (Invitrogen, American) adopting the system information. RNA amount and purity (260/280 and 260/230 percentages) had been examined with a ND-1000 Nanodrop spectrophotometer (temperature Fisher medical, Waltham, MA, USA). Moreover, the ethics in the full RNA acquired is assessed through 1percent agarose serum (Derveaux, Vandesompele & escort Lubbock Hellemans, 2010).
Reverse transcription got sang using Maxima H Minus 1st Strand cDNA Synthesis package with dsDNase (Ref. K1682; temperature Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, United States Of America) according to the manufactureraˆ™s directions (a‰¤ 5 Aµg of complete RNA as template and ultizing 100 pmol haphazard hexamer primer). The resulting content got diluted with nuclease free drinking water (BP561-1; Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, United States Of America) when it comes down to qPCR reaction.
Primer sets style
Primer sets for seventeen different CRC connected family genes (Apc, Aurka, Bax, Bcl2, I?-catenin, Ccnd1, Cdkn1a, Cox2, Gsk3beta, IL-33, iNOs, Nrf2, p53, RelA, Smad4, Tnf I± and Vegfa) and two prospect guide family genes (Actb and B2m) were designed and evaluated for viability through some bioinformatics tools described in Fig. 1A.
Figure 1: Flowchart suggesting the approach implemented to create and verify the candidate primers.
PCR effect & empirical recognition
PCR reactions comprise carried out in an overall response level of 25 Aµl containing 2.5 Aµl of 10X fantasy Taq Buffer, 0.5 Aµl of dNTP combine (R0191; Thermo Fisher medical, Waltham, MA, USA), 0.5 Aµl of gene-specific primer set at 10 AµM, 2 Aµl of cDNA template, 0.625 U desired Taq DNA Polymerase (EP0701; Thermo Fisher medical, Waltham, MA, American) and chock-full to 25 Aµl with nuclease complimentary liquids (BP561-1; Fisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, American). The PCR conditions made use of were 3 min of polymerase activation at 95 A°C accompanied by 35 rounds of denaturation at 95 A°C for 30 s, an annealing step at 57 A°C (or between 51 A°C and 61 A°C regarding a gradient) for 30 s and expansion at 72 A°C for 30 s. last expansion (72 A°C) was actually carried out for 5 minute followed by an infinite 4 A°C step.
Following the previous in silico methods explained above, most of the primer pairs happened to be published to more investigations (Fig. 1B). Although the specificity of a set of primers and absence of primer dimers try assessed in a very painful and sensitive means by using the melting bend inside the qPCR effect, it was furthermore regarded opportune to evaluate they through PCR. | <urn:uuid:0fc51057-0a9a-4a25-aeb5-9695f5eb8692> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://cheapfootballjerseyswholesale.com/three-randomly-selected-pets-were-forfeited-by/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.876572 | 1,103 | 1.546875 | 2 |
I know nothing about teaching. Nothing. But I hear that Michael Gove is terrible. Really terrible. He is possibly the worst Education Secretary that Britain has had since all the others. As far as I can tell, all teachers have been perpetually on strike since I went to school, and their reason for striking is a lot of bad government, as routinely elected by voters who (ahem) learned how to reason when they went to school. Teachers only ever strike because of bad bad bad government, because almost every teacher is a wonderful human being and doing a fine job. So if I remember that some of my teachers were lousy, and that I had to correct the mistakes they made, or had fun by getting different teachers to contradict each other, then we should still be careful not to throw away the bath water because of a few rotten apples etc etc. (Note the use of the word ‘some’ which, as even Sesame Street will tell us, is not the same as ‘none’ or ‘all’. This is an important distinction that some teachers may struggle with.) Now, because I know nothing about teaching, but I keep hearing how terrible Michael Gove is, I have been itching to find a pithy test case of Gove’s rightness and wrongness. And, by extraordinary good fortune, thanks to Gove’s entertaining and sometimes neo-Clarksonesque way of expressing himself, an example came along…
One set of history teaching resources targeted at year 11s – 15 and 16 year olds – suggests spending classroom time depicting the rise of Hitler as a ‘Mr Men’ story.
If I may quote – “The following steps are a useful framework: Brainstorm the key people involved (Hitler, Hindenburg, Goering, Van der Lubbe, Rohm…). Discuss their personalities / actions in relation to the topic. Bring up a picture of the Mr Men characters on the board. Discuss which characters are the best match.â€
I may be unfamiliar with all of Roger Hargreaves’ work but I am not sure he ever got round to producing Mr Anti-Semitic Dictator, Mr Junker General or Mr Dutch Communist Scapegoat.
But I am familiar with the superb historical account Richard J Evans gives of the rise, rule and ruin of the Third Reich and I cannot believe he could possibly be happy with reducing the history of Germany’s darkest years to a falling out between Mr Tickle and Mr Topsy-Turvy.
Now, on the face of it, describing the rise of Hitler by using Mr. Men characters would seem to be a bad idea. And easy to mock. And rightly deserving of being mocked. But I claim no expertise on this subject (neither teaching, nor the rising of Hitler). I just know how to read, so this little headline-generating example of Goveism at its best/worst (delete according to your own taste) does lend itself to a test case, especially when the author of the Mr. Men ‘rise of Hitler’ teaching resource stepped up to defend himself. So we heard what Gove had to say… what did Russel Tarr, the teacher in question, write in response?
On Thursday of this week I was the subject of an attack by the Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, in what’s being called his “Mr. Men†speech. According to Mr. Gove, my approach to teaching is apparently symptomatic of all that is wrong with UK secondary education in general, and history teaching in particular.
Straight away, alarm bells are ringing. Did Gove really say that the Mr. Men lesson plan was symptomatic of all that is wrong blah blah? Maybe he implied it, though. Let us move on.
The following morning I found the story all over the national newspapers including the front page of The Times. Today, Mr. Gove repeated his criticisms on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show.
Mr. Gove focuses on a particular activity on my website www.activehistory.co.uk in which students are required to produce children’s stories in the style of the well-known ‘Mr. Men’ books to explain the rise of Hitler. For Gove, this provides irrefutable evidence of the ‘infantilisation’ of history teaching and a ‘culture of low expectations’…
Gove did not use language like ‘irrefutable evidence’. On the other hand, I think it would be strange to argue there is no prima facie evidence to support his observations. The reason why Gove’s speech is being quoted is because it does sound infantile to try to explain the rise of Hitler by analogy to Mr. Men.
… (although as AaronStebbings puts it, “I imagine Michael Gove would have a go at George Orwell for using farmyard animals to explain the rise of the Soviet Union”).
So far, so many (low) blows to Michael Gove for things he did not say. Tut tut – can we actually analyse what Gove did say? Or should we get bogged down in straw man arguments about what Gove thinks about Animal Farm (a book which is not very like a Mr. Men story).
Gove and his advisors – either through stupidity or mischievousness – failed to place me, my website, or the lesson into its appropriate context.
Lack of context? Is that really the way Tarr wants to defend himself against Gove’s accusation? Rather than putting Gove’s argument into context, it has been wildly exaggerated so far (‘symptomatic of all that is wrong’, ‘irrefutable’, ‘Gove would have a go at George Orwell’, etc etc). Now seems like an appropriate time to put Tarr’s own arguments into context. Alongside his words, he placed on his website an animated graphic of Michael Gove, in which Gove spouts (in a voice nothing like Michael Gove’s voice) the following words:
Hello, my name is Michael Gove and if, like me, you prefer to have your opinions unfiltered by rational arguments and evidence, then I suggest you read no further into this piece by Russel Tarr of activehistory
Seriously? This is the ‘context’ provided by a man trying to make an intelligent argument about context? Is this an example of the sophisticated reasoning and language skills that teachers encourage in their pupils? But back to what Tarr wrote…
His criticisms betray a lack of knowledge, understanding, and interpretation that would make a GCSE History student blush with shame.
Also Michael Gove is worse than Hitler. Stupider than an ox. Has more ear wax than an earwig. Various other insults. Antichrist. More insults. Snooze… zzzzzz… Sorry, I nodded off. Where were we? Oh yes, we were in the middle of a ‘rational’ argument.
Ironically, given Mr. Gove’s supposed commitment to rigorous academic standards, it appears that much of his research comes from dodgy marketing surveys from Premier Inn and UKTV Gold (I kid you not)!
That seems to be the first genuinely good and accurate point that Tarr has made. Though it is not, strictly speaking, a defence of using the Mr. Men to explain the rise of Hitler.
Moreover, other commentators have inferred that these books address “Nazi Germany” and thereby repackage World War Two and the Genocide into bedtime stories for primary school children. Not so. To clarify, I do not teach the Third Reich – with all its attendant horrors – through children’s storybooks. The actual topic in question is “The Weimar Republic 1918-33†with a focus on why democracy failed in Germany after World War One: in other words the topic does not begin, but instead ends, with the declaration of the Third Reich. This is not a ‘lesson about Hitler’ in that sense and I think this is an important point.
This is an important point, in so far as it relates to flawed criticisms of Tarr. But it is not an important point in response to Gove’s criticism of Tarr. Gove stuck to the facts. Tarr’s intention was to encourage children to use Mr. Men analogies as a way to understand the rise of Hitler.
Tarr’s own point is undermined because he deliberately misquotes himself. The lesson plan that Gove discussed does not cover “The Weimar Republic 1918-33”. The lesson plan covers “The Rise of Hitler”. Here I am using the same words that Tarr uses to describe his own lesson plan. To my ears, it sounds pedantic to insist that a lesson called the “The Rise of Hitler” is not a ‘lesson about Hitler’.
General Points about the website Mr. Gove is attacking, and its author
ActiveHistory is a well-established and highly respected website which has been in continual development for more than 15 years. Its resources and interactive simulations have been praised in the press, used by tens of thousands of teachers all over the world, many of whom have provided glowing testimonials about its effectiveness. It was awarded first prize in the previous Guardian/BECTA Awards as early as 2002 for its innovative Head2Head interviews with historical characters.
I am sure this is all true. On the other hand, it feels odd that a historian is actively encouraging his audience to pretend that there is no such thing as bias in the world. Tarr is well-respected because Tarr says so. Gove is a prat when Tarr says so. Hence we have eliminated any bias? On the contrary, Tarr’s glowing account of himself is so gloriously one-sided that it makes me blush as a reader (and yes, I have a GCSE in History). Gove attacked a lesson plan which involved Mr. Men and Hitler, and Tarr is defending himself by pointing out he helps old ladies to cross the road and he diligently recycles. Why not stick to the point, which is the appropriateness of using Mr. Men to form analogies to German politicians of the 1920s and 30s?
Russel Tarr graduated from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, in 1993 with a 2:1 in Modern History (in a strange quirk of fate, this is also Mr. Gove’s old college – perhaps I knocked over his gin and tonic in the college bar back in the day…). I have been a full-time teacher of History since 1997, mainly in the UK (at Wolverhampton Grammar School) and more recently in France (at the International School of Toulouse). I’ve written plenty of academic articles (e.g. for History Review, the Times Educational Supplement, IB World Magazine) and also authored a textbook for A-Level on Luther and the German Reformation.
Gove once used the words ‘yadda yadda’ to put down an opponent on Question Time. The phrase seems oddly appropriate here. Presumably if somebody attains a 2:1 from Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford University, we should all shut up and stop being critical of anything they do. Following that logic, we would all have been forced to agree with Hitler’s plan for the Third Reich, if only Adolf had earned a 2:1 from Oxford, before embarking on his rise to power.
Particular Points about the “Mr. Men” activity
At long last. Tarr finally gets around to defending himself for doing the thing that Gove actually criticized him for doing. At long long last.
The creation of children’s storybooks is an excellent revision exercise, but not the primary method by which I teach any topic whatsoever.
Oh no. More digression. More feeble straw man antics. Gove’s argument is straightforward: using Mr. Men to learn history is, on the face of it, so daft that it can never be acceptable. He may be wrong. But that is the argument. He was not making an argument about whether this is Tarr’s ‘primary’ method, ‘secondary’ method or even his ‘tertiary’ method.
My students spend six solid weeks, plus homework time, studying the Weimar Republic through an academically rigorous unit of study. They then write a 1000-word, externally moderated coursework essay (without further assistance and during their holidays) analysing the causes for Hitler’s election as German Chancellor in January 1933.
Yadda yadda, I am sorry to say.
Only then do they (and, indeed, can they) consolidate their knowledge as a revision exercise by converting this sophisticated story into a children’s book.
As Gove put it: “one set of history teaching resources targeted at year 11s – 15 and 16 year olds – suggests spending classroom time depicting the rise of Hitler as a ‘Mr Men’ story.” So Gove has not taken anything of context. On the contrary, he states a fact, and lets everybody draw their own inference. Not surprisingly, many people draw an inference that Tarr does not like. So Tarr ignores that inference and just bangs on as if Gove said something different to what he actually said.
I totally agree that the ability to read in depth, take effective notes and memorise facts is an essential part of every child’s education. However, I utterly reject the idea that these skills are an end in themselves, and that effective learning should be measured by a teacher’s ability to cram as much information, in as dry a manner as possible, into a student’s head.
Interesting point. Unfortunately, it seems to bear no relationship to what Gove said. I hope teaching has not been reduced to two alternatives, where either teachers insist that ‘the rise of Hitler must be taught using analogies to the Mr. Men’ or else they must ‘cram as much information, in as dry a manner as possible, into a student’s head’. Maybe Tarr thinks those are the only two options. Arguably he is the one who is reluctant to embrace a middle ground, with less dry cramming, and less Mr. Men.
The memorisation of dates, events, people and places is merely the first step in helping students to form valid opinions, make substantiated judgements and to argue a viewpoint effectively. The joy of History is its focus on debate, discussion, interpretation and personal reflection. Any teacher worthy of the title knows that the best learning takes place when students are engaged, interested and stimulated in lessons. It is a terrible mistake to assume that academic rigour and creative teaching are mutually exclusive.
Yadda yadda. False dichotomy. Yadda yadda. This guy has a 2:1 from Oxford, apparently.
The “Mr. Men” approach is highly effective…
Great! Is there where Tarr shows some evidence to defend himself?
… but does not provide a ‘typical’ example of how history lessons are taught in my classroom or anyone else’s.
No. No evidence. Just take it on trust. Mr. Men are highly effective. So highly effective that they are highly atypical of the other highly effective techniques that Tarr advocates.
The whole idea of taking one activity and using this to illustrate how children are taught in general is laughable.
Anyone who has got this far has long stopped laughing. Tarr has made his point, as much as he ever will. Gove was wrong to imply that every lesson involves Mr. Men doing algebra, Mr. Men teaching French and Mr. Men explaining sexual reproduction. But then, Gove did not say that. He just picked a laughable example of one loony teacher who clearly went too far with his creative approach to teaching history. And who is actually undermining himself, because he does not defend what he did. On the contrary, he defends himself by pointing out that how extreme it is to teach about the popularity of Nazism by analogy to the Mr. Men.
My students will use the Mr. Men approach on just two occasions in their seven years with me: once when revising the rise of Hitler, and once when outlining the Causes of World War One.
‘Just two occasions’. Tarr needs a defence lawyer. He is not a good advocate for himself. One the one hand, he is keen to admit that using Mr. Men to teach history is not normal. Phew. We can breathe a sigh a relief, because Tarr must be faintly self-aware. On the other hand, it is not a one-off fluke either. The mind boggles at how the causes of World War One can be related to the Mr. Men. Were the many conflicting ethnic groups in Austro-Hungary personified by the naive Mr. Multiculturalism?
The approach is easily transferable to other subjects such as science, politicians in general and Mr. Gove in particular.
Hitler’s approach to the Jews was transferable to gypsies and disabled. Just because something can be transferred, does not mean it should be transferred.
Outside of this they will have an endless range of other experiences designed to appeal to as broad a range of learning styles as possible, at different ability levels, for the appropriate age range under consideration. It’s a little trick we in the teaching procession call ‘differentiation’, Mr. Gove!
The argument for differentiation, when used like this, could be used to justify anything. Imagine taking one student at random, and gassing them, in order to explain the holocaust. That technique would be ‘different’ but still ‘wrong’.
This exercise is highly challenging and in no way represents the ‘infantilisation’ of students ‘on the verge of university’…
Here comes the good bit, that you have all been waiting for…
These are Year 10 students (14 years old).
This is factually incorrect. Incredibly, in an argument defending his own lesson plan, as published on the internet, Tarr misrepresents his own lesson plan. This is what Gove said:
…targeted at year 11s – 15 and 16 year olds
And this is what Tarr’s lesson plan states:
Pre-activity preparation for Year 11
Prior to this activity, Year 11 students should have finished studying the Rise of Hitler.
Year 10 versus Year 11. This is a simple matter of fact. For a man who wasted so many words lecturing Gove about the importance of context, and a supposed overemphasis of facts, it beggars belief that Tarr misrepresents which age group he wrote the lesson plan for. Gove quotes Tarr correctly: he wrote a plan for year 11s, who are 15 to 16 year olds. Tarr misquotes himself: this is not a plan for year 10s (14 year olds).
For me, an error like this suggests Tarr’s pompous arguments have no credibility whatsoever. He does not respect the most basic facts, and changes them to suit his point of view.
Beyond that important clarification,…
Err… that would be a misclarification. Or we could call it lying. You pick.
it is anything but ‘infantilisation’ to get secondary school students (or indeed adults) of any age to produce an effective children’s storybook on a complex topic.
Tarr is so right. Here is my children’s storybook version of this spat between Gove and Tarr:
The nasty funny clever politician, Mr. Horrible Gove, came along and pointed out silly boy Tarr had pooed his own pants and was smelly. Everybody laughed. Tarr was deeply upset and argued that pooing his own pants was a good thing to do because he only did it twice a year.
But back to Tarr’s never-ending saga…
The process of YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDAYADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA who regard Hitler’s speechmaking skills and charisma as the key to his rise to power will choose a different character to represent the Nazi leader YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDAYADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA and so on.
Sorry. He did not actually write the yaddas, but I lost respect for someone who admires the pithiness of the Mr. Men books, but takes several years to make his own, deeply flawed, arguments. Also, his argument is boring.
Yes he really needed to make yet more remarks. They were:
This week has been the strangest YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA For anyone out there who still doubts the literary power and gravitas of the Hargreaves canon YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA And just in case you’re reading, Mr. Gove, I’d be more than happy to engage in a direct debate if you are ever interested in shedding your reputation as “Mr. Point”. YADDA YADDA YADDA YADDA
Yes, Tarr wants to engage ‘Mr. Point’ in debate on the merits of using Mr. Men to explain the rise of Hitler. Of course, Gove will not be entering into debate, and the reason why is straightforward. Adolf Hitler was a very evil man. He and his Nazi henchmen were responsible for some of the most terrible crimes in human history. It is distasteful and unhelpful to compare the top Nazis to characters from children’s stories aimed at five year olds. Rather than stimulating children by teaching them how to use metaphor, using the Mr. Men as analogies can only over-simplify the moral and personal flaws of the leading Nazis. As such, this is a deeply mistaken way for children to think about the Nazis and what motivated their rise to power.
I tried to make the argument in simple language, as might be appropriate to a 15 year old. But try telling this argument to a blowhard schoolteacher with a few hundred years experience and a 2:1 from Oxford. When you point out their mistakes, they simply cannot comprehend your criticism. Instead, they remark their own work, giving themselves an A+.
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A few weeks ago, the East Coast of the United States of America (and parts of Canada) rock ‘n rolled to the tune of a 5.8 earthquake.
I know that doesn’t mean much to most people, but it means a lot to us.
One reason is just the make up of our dirt. Everything comes back to dirt, right? I happen to like science, but to keep from being real technical or anything – just trust me. It’s our dirt. (Or as we like to call it, ‘good ol’ Virginia red clay’.) Our dirt just carried that shifting and shaking for hundreds of miles. Even if it wasn’t a super high magnitude quake, that’s pretty interesting.
I think most people don’t realize what that quake meant to those of us close to the epicenter where it rocked the most. We’re not Christchurch after their 6.3 or Haiti after their 7.0. We’re not even Japan after the 9.0 that gripped the world in a state of disbelief earlier this year.
Lucky for us, the epicenter of our quake was a more rural community. That said, it was only a few miles from a nuclear power plant and in a region with very old buildings.
Those that grew up here, we know we live on a fault line, albeit it a fairly quiet one. We know that roughly every 100 years (as close as one can truly estimate Mother Nature’s tantrums) we get an earthquake worth writing about. We expected this one (as much as one can expect any natural disaster).
In historic Fredericksburg, childhood home to George Washington and a site of multiple bloody battles during the Civil War, are buildings whose structural integrity is equivalent to popsicle sticks held together with scotch tape. Makes you feel safe when contemplating the rocking we just went through. (*Note, I promise, they WERE safe before the quake. Engineers made sure of it.*)
DC landmarks made the news. I’m still scratching my head over the Washington Monument. The mere thought of that gives me the willies. Standing under the tall obelisk, or sitting for a picnic in its shade is just normal to me. Now closed due to quake damage at the tip, it leaves one imagining part of the monument tumbling to the ground below. That’s like the alien invasion movie or something. Yikes! The National Cathedral also sustained major damage with shocking photographs.
One site that I expected better footage on was the Washington DC Temple for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. I received word shortly after the quake that spires fell from the force of the temblor.
Most people not from DC don’t care, but for those of us living here, the Temple is a landmark. It is used in every single traffic report. You can see the spires from several miles away as you drive down the beltway. I remember the first time I saw it, I thought it looked like a castle in the sky. (*Note – I was not a Mormon at the time.*)
Here’s a real no-brainer though. Those spires are gold and pointy. Multiple spires broke off and fell to the ground, one taking out chunks of marble from the facade of the Temple.
Hello, scary? It’s probably a miracle that no one was seriously hurt. At least one length measured four feet. Wow.
So where’s the impressive footage? The news reports?
Lady Ozma wants to know, but maybe I’m the only inquiring mind.
Off I went last week, leaving early enough to ensure a proper amount of daylight and photography time.
When I pulled into the parking lot, I realized why there was almost no mention of the spires.
YOU COULD NOT TELL.
The DC Temple is actually the tallest of all US Temples (take that Salt Lake!) and the easternmost spire is 288 feet tall. (That’s 88 meters for my international friend.)
Well gee whiz. What’s four feet?
Still, looking through my zoom lens, I could see the blunt end of the spires. I will admit to you, just looking at the Temple from the ground? You really need to stare at the Temple to notice this. A crane stood in front of the building, apparently removing a leaning spire tip and assessing the situation. I decided to forgo a full Temple photo. However, I did snap some of the spires through the zoom lens. Just for you.
The Angel Moroni stands with his trumpet, and I always like to think he’s calling people to the Temple. That’s how it felt for me when I saw the DC Temple for the first time. He needed a little bit of shoring up, but he’s still standing there, overlooking the Capitol Beltway. | <urn:uuid:a2a6d345-b0da-44dc-af64-c131fc83497b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ladyozma.info/2011/09/12/spires-down/?like_comment=6640&_wpnonce=342276ab8c | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.960006 | 1,044 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Consider this conundrum: the moment a person experiences even COVID-19-related symptoms, they are told to seek medical testing or treatment, and, in the earlier stages of the outbreak, such may have even made national news! Meanwhile, not one word is uttered when 10,000 become infected with the virus that “can kill both soul and body
Category: Tidbits of Truth
There are two things in this world that don’t mix: Pop Rocks and Dr. Pepper, but that’s not important right now. I’m talking about infection and indifference. As these words are written, there is panic in the streets. We are experiencing the effects of an outbreak. It is an epic epidemic at epidemically epic proportions.
One final thing we will consider in this series on sound reasoning and objective logic in Bible interpretation. Consider this statement: “Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he FALL.” 1 CORINTHIANS 10:12 Questions: Who is writing? What did he say? To whom did he say it? Why did he say
So what is the point of all this talk about “believing” and “obeying”? There is a particularly powerful OT passage about Abraham, so much that it is quoted three separate times in the NT (Rom. 4:3; Gal. 3:6; Jas. 2:23): “And [Abraham] believed in Jehovah, and [Jehovah] counted it to him as righteousness” (Gen. 15:6).
Recently, we have seen this spiritual truth illustrated in both Testaments: In the holy, sovereign eyes of Jehovah God, to “BELIEVE” = to “OBEY.” We will now look at a final example further demonstrating this truth, found in Hebrews 3. In Heb. 3:7ff, the inspired writer is recounting some OT history—particularly how Jehovah had said He
The logical conclusion we drew from Num. 20:10-12 last week was this: TO “BELIEVE” = TO “OBEY.” But does the New Testament agree with this conclusion? Indeed, it does. Let us consider John 3:36, for instance: “Whoever BELIEVES IN the Son has eternal life; but whoever DISOBEYS the Son shall not see life…” It must be
So many times in the Bible, man is admonished or expected to “believe in” something or someone. In John 3:16, for instance, we are informed that whoever “believes in” Jesus Christ will have eternal life. Such statements seem as plain as could be—but are they? Here is the question we must ask: What does it
One of the most popularly debated verses in the New Testament is Mark 16:16. After giving the great commission—that followers of Christ are to preach the gospel to all peoples as they go about in their everyday lives (15)—the Lord answers, as it were, an unspoken question: “OK, so as we are going and preaching the
“PROVE ALL THINGS; HOLD FAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD.” 1 THESSALONIANS 5:21 As we have emphasized in the last few installments, one of the keys to correct Bible interpretation is the use of valid logic and reasoning, just as we would (and do) in normal, everyday conversation. Consider, for instance, Acts 2:38: “And Peter said to them,
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good” (1 Thess. 5:21). That’s what the apostle Paul admonished the Christians at Thessalonica to do. “Beloved, do not believe every spirit [i.e., teacher], but prove the spirits [i.e., teachers], whether they are of God [i.e., whether they are speaking the truth]” (1 John 4:1a). That’s what | <urn:uuid:7b5d62f6-64a0-41db-9c0a-f50582110c0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hwycoc.com/category/tidbits-of-truth/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.958182 | 854 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Our leather – tried and tested
We buy all leather for our Senmotic barefoot shoes in Germany.
For our Senmotic barefoot shoes, we use only materials of proven quality. We make the shafts and linings for all our barefoot shoes from leather at our own workshop. We have good reasons: Leather adjusts to your feet, creates a healthy foot climate and is breathable. As a natural product, leather is bio-degradable and does not harm the environment. That’s why we chose leather. We buy all our leathers in Germany. Preferably whole hides. As a natural product, leather can feature differences in color and structure. Small scars are also normal. If a cow gets a scratch from a thorn or rubs against a tree, the leather will show it. If leather looks all smooth and one shoe looks like the next, it’s a bad sign. This means the leather was “treated to death” with chemicals and plastered with dyes. People think they buy quality leather, when it has no scars or cracks. But the opposite is the case. Such leather is full of chemicals and looks like plastic.
Senmotic FX 10 outsoles – German quality engineering
While many manufacturers source Vibram soles for their barefoot shoes, we worked on our expertise and chose to develop our own product. The shoes were designed in Italy and the outsoles developed in Germany. Manufacturing a regular sole with 3 cm heels is often a routine job.
But for a 2.9 mm sole like the Senmotic FX, you need specialists. Height and design of the profile, abrasion, flexibility, slip resistance and protective qualities require a delicate balance. In the nearly 12 months which it took us to find the perfect mix, we wore down plenty of soles and prototypes.
This allowed us to amass heaps of experience with outsoles. Therefore our soles resist regular wear far longer than similar products. As the No. 1 for hand-made barefoot shoes from Germany, we were also the first ones worldwide to develop a completely new technology for outsoles.
Innovation: One 1.6 mm insole made of two components
For our insole (called “insock” by experts), we use a two-component sole which is only 1.6 mm thick. The underside is made of Poron. This very resilient material returns to its original shape even after enduring massive tension. Poron is available in various thicknesses and degrees of hardness. We tested for several months and used up hundreds of insoles and countless barefoot shoes to find the ideal mix ratio for our barefoot shoes. We have a special microfiber laminated to the Poron for our insoles. Here we use the highest available fiber density, i.e. maximum quality. Microfiber is very delicate. Microfiber weighs between 0.5 to 0.7 dtex (= 0.5-0.7 g per 10,000 m) and is far thinner than silk, for example (1.38 dtex). These extremely thin materials have the advantage of gathering many, many fibers on a very small surface, so they can best develop their qualities.
The Senmotic FX10 sole is glued to the shaft. If sewing is the more durable and modern method, why don’t we sew together cars and airplanes? But heavy-duty parts are glued together in engineering. Nowadays, adhesives are so highly developed, that bonds are harder and more durable than the glued materials, even heavy-tensile steel. We had our barefoot shoes tested in a lab. The leather tore before the glue bond fully separated.
Laces – Made in Germany
Our laces were originally made of cotton. Unfortunately, natural cotton breaks very fast, so we switched to synthetic material. We source or laces from Germany, from a company near Düsseldorf. Our loops and rivets are nickel-free. We source these metal parts from a company near the town of Zweibrücken. | <urn:uuid:26d9ca14-f7a0-4e8c-b2f9-1dc440309013> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.senmotic-shoes.com/information/materials/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952299 | 852 | 1.53125 | 2 |
What You Need to Know
- Using one system to monitor many different types of claim information at the same time has been hard.
- AI is good at doing that.
- One benefit: AI can help companies do more to prevent problems.
The United States spends an average of $3.8 trillion per year on health care. Some estimate that fraud, waste, and abuse cost the nation at least $114 billion annually — more than 3% of overall health care spending.
It’s time for change.
Historically, health insurers, benefit plans, pharmacy benefits managers and other players focused on identifying problems after claims were paid.
Now, organizations are focusing more on pre-claim and pre-pay cost containment initiatives.
Part of that effort involves giving many different cost containment stakeholders, in many different departments, an integrated view of medical, facility, pharmacy and even dental claims.
So, what are the five best practices that health care organizations can use to create a holistic unified cost containment program?
- Adopt self-learning artificial intelligence tools.
- Create a unified view.
- Enable better detection of exposures.
- Create value-driven holistic reporting.
- Empower all players in the system to work together.
Much of this is easier said than done.
Health care payers, in particular, still face the challenges of siloed data, organizational dynamics, rigorous compliance mandates, and outdated technology. Payers also face an increase in the number of compliance mandates and audits and dependence on resource-intensive processes.
As a result, payers have fragmented views of their health care payment spectrum, reporting gaps between different departments, provider abrasion, and duplicated efforts.
All of these problems lead to missed opportunities and waste.
Self-learning systems can help, by helping organizations monitor many different information streams at once, and by uncovering existing problems and detecting emerging problems before they hit the bottom line.
It’s All in the AI
In a 2020 KPMG study on AI in the health care industry, 89% of respondents said AI is creating efficiencies.
For unified cost containment programs, AI can:
- Process large volumes of disparate data, such as claims data, and derive the insights needed to create a unified view.
- Identify behavior-based patterns and detect outliers and potential exposures as they emerge.
- Quickly identify practices that intentionally or unintentionally waste money.
- Explain new fraud schemes to the user, while gathering supporting evidence automatically.
- Build connections across data to provide actionable insights.
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• Most TB patients could not fend for their families due to sickness, loss of livelihood
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She looked frail, tired and weary. She is only 30 years old, a mother of one, but she can easily be mistaken for a woman who has been around for so many years.
I knew Millicent Anna during her days in primary school. She was a bubbly girl, a favourite of many teachers and boys around the school because of her beauty.
After so many years of not seeing each other, as fate would have it, I met her last December. She did not immediately recognise me, maybe due to the face mask I had on, or that I had grown into a ‘big’ man.
I had not anticipated to meet her in this condition. Anna is battling tuberculosis. We went to her single-roomed rented house in the sprawling slum of Maweni in Nyali constituency.
Amref Health Africa and the Kenya Aids NGOs Consortium (Kanco), through support from the Global Fund, have been running a campaign to help TB patients and Community Health Workers by sending them a monthly stipend during this time of Covid-19.
I met Anna through this programme alongside other journalists and a Kanco official.
A trained salonist, Anna says at first she did not know she had contracted TB. Around March last year, when the country had just reported the first cases of Covid-19, Anna developed a persistent cough, which she believed would clear after some time.
“I have gone through hell,” she begins her story. Her daughter, oblivious of what her mother has been going through, kept interrupting our interview. She kept moving from one place to another, trying to catch our attention.
“I started with a small cough, went to several hospitals and chemists to try and get medications. It did not help, until I noticed some blood stains on my sputum,” she says.
Most of the time she became fatigued and could not continue working.
“One day, while working on my client, I became so weary and collapsed,” she says.
She went home after taking a few tablets from a nearby chemist.
Her husband, a boda boda rider, took her to a private clinic in the locality and soon she was feeling better and resumed her work.
However, in June, as Covid-19 ravaged the country, the Mombasa government ordered the closure of all salons and barber shops. A national 7pm-5pm curfew was also in place.
This meant her husband could not get enough money from his boda boda business because of curfew and most of his clients were working from home.
Anna’s single source of livelihood, the salon, had also been closed. “It reached a time I could not raise Sh700 for medicine,” she says.
To make matters worse, their landlord issued several eviction notices.
On August 20, Anna went to Kongowea Dispensary after she noticed the cough was still persistent and her daughter had also started coughing.
“We were both tested and I was found to be TB positive. My daughter was, however, okay. We were placed on six months medication,” she says.
On reaching home, she found that the landlord had already kicked them out.
“I had received bad news about my health. At home, we had been kicked out. Where will I start from?” she wondered.
A lady friend of hers took her to her cousin’s house, where they were given a room that acted as a store to stay there until December.
“January is here, I do not know what will happen to us,” she says.
Several kilometres south of Mombasa, we met Zuwa Nyawa, 36, from Viburungani in Kinango, Kwale county.
Nyawa says he started coughing in November 2019, while working as a butcher in Ukunda town.
“However, I did not go to hospital immediately. I thought it was a normal cough that would clear within some days,” he says.
In January last year, he went to hospital and a sample of sputum was taken for testing and unfortunately, it came back positive for TB.
He was found positive with the Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) TB and placed on 18-month medication.
Health experts say MDR TB is caused by an organism that is resistant to at least isoniazid and rifampin, the two most potent TB drugs.
These drugs are used to treat all patients with the normal TB. The normal TB is treated for six months and the MDR TB is treated for 18 months.
“I have been taking my TB drugs from February. It is now 10 months since I started using the TB drugs and I now feel much better,” Nyawa says.
The father of two had to return to his rural home in Kinango after the MDR TB diagnosis because he could no longer work.
In March, Covid-19 struck and things changed from bad to worse. He could no longer provide for his family and for this reason and fear of infection, his wife and children had to leave for their maternal rural home in Kinango.
However, in May, when he was about to give up, his doctor informed him of donor support from Amref Health Africa and the Kenya Aids NGOs Consortium (Kanco).
“I was asked to register my details and told that every month, I would be receiving Sh6,000 for upkeep during the period I was under medication,” he says. He also gets a daily supply of medication.
“I had lost weight and could not walk for long distances. Therefore, I was asked to stay at home as I got my daily supply of medication delivered at my place.”
Nyawa says when Covid-19 struck, he was hell-scared and confused because TB has almost similar symptoms with those of coronavirus (lingering cough, fever, fatigue).
“I was afraid my neighbour would isolate me because of the daily coughing, confusing my condition with coronavirus,” he says.
Nyawa cannot explain how he got TB, but he believes that working as a butcher in Ukunda could have exposed him to the highly infectious disease.
However, according to the World Health Organisation, economically poor and vulnerable groups are at greater risk of infection with tuberculosis compared with the general population because of overcrowded and substandard living or working conditions.
At Kikoneni Dispensary, deep in the border town of Lunga Lunga in Kwale, we met Pius Mbuvi and his wife Alice Mwikali. They are both TB patients.
Mbuvi sat pensively under a tree, perhaps trying to figure out how he can fend for his family during this time of increased cases of Covid-19.
This is the second time in two years Mbuvi is sick with TB. He was first diagnosed with the infectious disease in late 2018, and he took the TB drugs for six months before he was declared TB-free.
However, in October last year, he was back to the hospital with the same infection. He has now taken the drugs for two months.
“I have a challenge in taking the drugs, they affect my diet. I lose appetite. Sometimes, I’m forced to skip the drugs so I can at least have a meal,” he says.
However, doctors said the TB drugs do not affect patients’ appetite. Even though Mbuvi did not mention it, doctors at Kikoneni Dispensary said he is battling with alcoholism, the reason behind his poor feeding behaviour and lack of adherence to medication.
Mwikali, who in 2018 was the one taking care of her sick husband, is now also a TB patient. However, she cannot explain why her TB is different from that of her husband.
She has been diagnosed with the multidrug resistant (MDR) TB. Mwikali says she first had fever symptoms that led to vomiting and coughing around March 2020, just when the first case of Covid-19 was being reported in Kenya.
She was jittery that she could have been infected with the novel coronavirus.
“I came to hospital and I was confirmed to be TB positive,” she says. Contact tracing was done and her husband was to be tested. Even though Mbuvi had already suffered TB in 2018, he was confirmed to be positive again.
Mwikali is enrolled in the stipends programme, while her husband’s application is pending. While she gets Sh6,000 a month, they are largely depending on well-wishers and their savings to survive during this period when Covid-19 has ravaged the nation.
“We can no longer go to the farm,” Mbuvi says. “Our children are at home. We largely depend on our food reserve from the previous harvest and well-wishers.”
Margaret Dama, 52, a mother of four, is a TB champion in Kwale county. She is the one who has been visiting Nyawa, Mbuvi’s family and a host of other TB patients in Kwale region, encouraging them to adhere to medication and doctors’ advice.
She has been a Community Health Volunteer since 2018 and is affiliated to Kinango Subcounty Hospital.
“We go round the region, collecting sputum samples from suspected TB patients and taking them for testing,” she says.
She is supposed to visit at least three hospitals and have four community engagements on TB every month, according to her job description as a TB champion.
Due to the risk involved in handling samples from suspected TB patients and interacting with many people, Dama has to test for TB every six months.
She gets Sh4,000 stipend from Amref and Kanco to facilitate her movement in Kinango.
Dr Lawrence Tanui, who is in charge of TB and Leprosy in Kwale county, says every year they register at least 1,200 TB patients in the region. However, this number went down during the Covid-19 period.
“This was largely because patients were afraid of coming to hospital because of Covid-19 and the stigma around it,” Tanui says.
In June and July last year, Amref Health Africa and Kanco did a survey on impact of Covid-19 on the TB epidemic in 89 countries.
Rahab Mwaniki, the campaign manager at Kanco, says 50 per cent of people interviewed said they had trouble accessing medical services during Covid-19 pandemic.
“Most TB patients cited difficulty finding transport to access TB care, changes in TB services, and fear of contracting Covid-19 during a healthcare visit,” Mwaniki says.
People with TB also reported experiencing increased stigma due to the similar symptoms of both respiratory diseases.
While most people with TB were given additional medicines to continue treatment at home, they expressed a clear and urgent need for immediate non-medical support, including nutritional, economic and psychosocial support.
Most people with TB surveyed in Kenya receive treatment in public hospitals (56 per cent), followed by public clinics (28 per cent), and private hospitals (13 per cent).
Only 3 per cent obtain TB care in private clinics, and 0.6 per cent sought care in an NGO or charity clinic.
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Genomes.io harnesses whole genome sequencing, secure encrypted genomic data storage and blockchain technologies to give users true ownership, security and control over the most valuable and powerful personal dataset they will ever have — their DNA.
As soon as an individual has their genome sequenced they lose control over what happens to the data. It is owned and controlled by third-parties (such as DNA testing companies, national sequencing initiatives, etc) and stored and shared in models that do not ensure security, privacy or equitable compensation for the individual.
Putting the power back into the users hands. This means individuals can have their genome sequenced without ever compromising security, privacy or ownership of their data. They are able to privately learn about their own genome, but most importantly contribute anonymised ‘snippets’ of their data to scientific and medical research, and can earn from doing so.
In our technological solution there are 3 key entities all which communicate with each other to provide fully user-controlled genomic data security to Genomes.io users.
● DNA Vault (container)
● Mobile Application (mobile authenticator)
This is where user genomic data is stored. These ‘DNA Vaults’ are fully virtualised containers that run all processes in encrypted memory, encrypting user provided genomic data in storage with private keys provided by their mobile device. These user keys are never stored outside encrypted memory and are only available to the user. The tech stack is built in such a way that means no one, not even Genomes.io as a technology provider, is able to access user ‘DNA Vaults’ and the user always retains full control over their genomic data stored within.
Currently data that is stored in the cloud, especially sensitive personal data (e.g. genomic data), is insecure and liable to data breach/hacks. The data is stored inside virtual machines at data centres hosted by cloud data storage providers (e.g. AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure). As neither the memory nor hard drive are encrypted, this means these providers have access to the data and can view anything and everything stored within. Secure encryption virtualisation (SEV) technology solves this issue by increasing the level of security in the cloud by providing better security isolation, rooted in the hardware itself. SEV protects data-in-use enabling customer workloads to be protected cryptographically from each other as well as protected from the hosting software. SEV technology is built around a threat model where an attacker is assumed to have access to not only execute user level privileged code on the target machine, but can potentially execute malware at the higher privileged hypervisor level as well. Hackers or even an administrator with malicious intentions at a cloud data center or anyone at Genomes.io are not be able to access the data in a hosted virtual machine.
While no security system is 100% secure, SEV significantly reduces the attack surface of VMs in the cloud by encrypting a VM’s memory with a key unique to that VM and unknown to the hypervisor. Many secrets and important information are typically stored in a VM’s memory space and encrypting this content helps prevent attacks and leakage of sensitive data. SEV with Encrypted State (SEV-ES) represents an additional security feature by encrypting and protecting all CPU register contents when a VM stops running. This prevents the leakage of information in CPU registers to components like the hypervisor, and can even detect and prevent malicious modifications to CPU register state. SEV-ES builds upon SEV to provide an even smaller attack surface and additional protection for a guest VM from the hypervisor. Our ‘DNA Vaults’ harness SEV technology, which represents the current gold-standard of cloud-based genomic data storage security. This gives users the ability to securely store their genomic data in the cloud, with confidence that it is never exposed to cloud-computing attacks or administrators with malicious intentions at cloud data centres or even Genomes.io. Our collaboration with Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) will allow us to take advantage of the latest security components available in AMD EPYC processors, such as SEV-ES (when released) to enable full user controlled security of their DNA data. Although there are other solutions (e.g. Intel SGX) that have been developed, harnessing SEV technology permits no application software changes to be required, and with the appropriate operating system or hypervisor modifications, all applications in a system can be protected. Through the use of the hardware VM constructs, SEV is built around the idea of secure sandbox environments where software can execute and is protected from all other software on the system. These sandboxes can be as big as a full VM with its own disk and OS, but they can also be small and used for more fine- grained isolation.
This means genomic analysis software can run inside our ‘DNA Vaults’ without needing to recreate all software into one unified package.
Our mobile application enables users to communicate with their ‘DNA Vault’ and control all processes on genomic data stored within. Booting a container, running genomic queries and updating the code inside a container all request user permission on their mobile device, and only when permission is provided from the user do they get executed.
The mobile application acts as an user-controlled authenticator for these processes by containing various private keys including Ethereum, PGP and SSL Certificates. All of which are based on a master seed key generated from 12 keys words, which are given to the user for backup on traditional media during mobile application set up. The mobile application uses these keys for identification, message signing, as well as encryption/decryption of messages and genomic data.
This represents a decentralised solution to user key management with each user actually owning their own private keys, rather than user keys being stored in a centralised system (e.g. Amazon key store, or hardware-based key store), in which anyone in the network can request keys from the store without much effort, and no way for a customer to know this has happened. Our solution relies on the user allowing the system to use those keys should they want to.
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In a Mississippi car accident involving a driver making a left turn, the driver making that turn is usually considered to be at fault. That’s because Article § 63-3-803 of the Mississippi Code requires drivers making a left turn to yield the right of way.
However, other drivers or pedestrians involved in a left-turn accident can also be held responsible. An analysis of the circumstances that caused the accident can be carried out to determine the fault of each driver or pedestrian, which will factor into any compensation.
Mississippi Is an At-Fault State
Mississippi is an at-fault state, which means that everyone who contributed to the accident can be held liable to the extent of their role in it.
An at-fault or tort insurance system allows for insurers to pay for damages or injuries in an accident according to the degree of fault of each party. If one driver is determined to have been wholly responsible, they will have to compensate all other parties involved.
A left-turn accident is one example of an at-fault accident. If you have been involved in an accident of this kind, get in touch with a Mississippi car accident lawyer as soon as possible.
For a free legal consultation, call 800-537-8185
Why Are Left-Turn Accidents the Responsibility of the Driver?
Since Mississippi law requires drivers making left turns to yield the right of way, the driver is responsible for making sure it is safe to turn. They are also required to signal before making the turn and obey traffic lights.
Left turns are dangerous traffic maneuvers, as you cross more active lanes of flow than most other turns. Because of this, the driver making the left turn should take reasonable care to make sure the road is safe and clear before turning. That includes using the turn signal, not speeding into the turn, and not turning when their vision is obstructed.
Who Is at Fault?
Despite the responsibility of the driver making a left turn at an intersection, they are not always held fully liable. The other driver can also be held responsible for a left-turn accident, depending on the circumstances of the accident.
Here are some of the most common examples of when the other driver can be held partially or wholly at fault for a left-turn accident.
The Other Driver Ran a Red Light
When the other driver ran a red light or stop sign, you (as the driver making a left turn) may not be considered at fault. There is a reasonable assumption that the other driver would obey traffic rules and yield to you.
There Is Evidence that the Other Driver Was Speeding
If the driver going straight was significantly over the speed limit, they may be held partially or wholly at fault. However, cases like this often require solid proof of speeding, including traffic cameras or dash cams recording just before the accident happened.
A car being driven illegally and not adhering to road rules can still cause an accident even if the driver making a left turn judges the road to be safe. This is also true if the other party was driving under the influence or while distracted.
In this case, the driver making a left turn may be found partially or wholly not at fault.
When There Is a Green Left-Turn Arrow
Vehicles making a left turn have right of way when there is a green left-turn arrow. This is considered a protected turn, and other vehicles should be stopped by a red light or a stop sign.
If there was a green left-turn arrow, the driver making the turn is generally not considered to be at fault unless there were other circumstances regarding the accident.
When the driver making a left turn followed all traffic laws, but unforeseen circumstances caused an accident, they may not be at fault.
For example, debris falling from a vehicle, an animal or pedestrian darting suddenly into the road, or a dangerous driver can cause an accident even if you signal and wait as required.
How Fault Is Determined After a Left-Turn Car Accident
Insurance company adjusters determine who was at fault in a car accident. They rely on hard evidence, witness reports, police reports, and technical analysis to determine the degree of liability assigned to each party.
Photo and video evidence collected at the scene will be critical in determining fault. Ideally, you should also have the names and contacts of witnesses at the scene, as well as a police report.
Vehicle Damage Can Also Help Determine Fault
Sometimes there isn’t enough evidence collected at the accident scene. In this case, technical analysis of the car damage patterns and other indications can be used to determine fault.
The location and extent of the damage are useful in helping adjusters determine what actions drivers took. For example, damage on the right side of the car heading straight could indicate the driver tried to swerve. In this case, the driver making the turn could be liable.
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Had a Left-Turn Accident in Mississippi?
As Mississippi is an at-fault state, if you are the party partially or fully at fault in a left-turn accident, it is important to find an attorney who has the experience to defend your case in a lawsuit. A car accident attorney from Morris Bart can guide you in collecting evidence, witness statements, and more.
If you or a loved one have been a victim of a left-turn accident, an experienced car accident attorney at Morris Bart can help you prove fault. The attorney can also help you pursue additional compensation if the driver’s insurance policy isn’t enough to cover your injuries or damages. Call us now for a free consultation so that we can get started on your case.
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You might think that you feel fine following a car accident. As the hours and days after your accident wear on, however, it’s not uncommon to experience delayed symptoms. Certain car accident injuries, like whiplash, can have a delayed onset. Delayed symptoms can be a sign of a serious medical condition or an injury that may get worse without treatment – in any case, it’s never something you should ignore. Here’s what you need to know about delayed symptoms after a car crash and what to do next.
Types of Injuries with Delayed Onset
There are several types of symptoms that may occur hours or even days after a crash. These symptoms are your body’s way of telling you to see a doctor. Keep an eye out for these delayed symptoms, which could be indicative of a serious injury:
- Sometimes a headache is simply a headache, but you should never ignore one after a car accident. These could be indicative of a concussion, an early sign of a brain injury, or a warning sign of a blood clot.
- Back pain. Lower back pain may signal whiplash, a herniated disc, sprain, or soft tissue damage.
- Neck or shoulder pain. Delayed neck and shoulder pain is usually indicative of whiplash, but it might also be due to a herniated disc.
- Tingling, numbness, or pinching. These sensations often signal nerve damage, which can take a while to manifest.
- Stomach pain. Abdominal or stomach pain might be a sign of internal organ damage or internal bleeding, which a seatbelt may cause. This is a medical emergency and necessitates immediate treatment.
- Nightmares, emotional stress, or anxiety. These symptoms may not appear immediately but can be signs of post-traumatic stress disorder.
What to Do
It’s essential to take the appropriate steps following an accident with delayed symptoms. First, seek appropriate medical care. If you’re experiencing pain of any kind, even if it’s not the kind listed above, make an appointment with your doctor. It’s better to be safe than sorry.
Next, don’t sign any release of liability or papers from the at-fault driver’s insurance company. Signing these papers too soon – i.e., before your doctors have the opportunity to identify the full extent of your injuries – could seriously harm your ability to collect compensation. A personal injury attorney will tell you to wait until your condition reaches a state of “maximum medical improvement,” which means you’ve stabilized and your doctors do not expect any further injuries to surface.
If you notice any delayed onset symptoms following a car accident, contact a personal injury lawyer as soon as you can. Our attorneys can effectively negotiate with the at-fault insurance companies and help you gain compensation for the full extent of your injuries, lost wages, pain, and suffering.
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In a book I’m reading, I came across the story of an evangelical woman who one day realized she didn’t believe in hell. I found this interesting, particularly because a former student recently emailed me that he had come to the conclusion that there is no hell, and had in fact been drifting away not just from evangelical but Christian orthodoxy.
Now, clearly hell, and other nasty bits in monotheistic traditions, bother many people. Some occasionally decide they can’t believe in all that any more. I’m not sure how to interpret such events, however. I can see it as a kind of secularization, in that there’s a kind of individualism and dropping out of organized religion involved. But people who let go of hell typically don’t give up on supernatural convictions. A more common result seems to be drifting in the direction of an individualized spirituality, keeping God but rejecting hell, and maybe the Devil.
I guess in the long term, the result may be more secularization. After all, hell does have its place in the monotheistic intellectual economy. Without hell, there’s less of a motivation to believe at all costs, or, more importantly, to evangelize others. An individualized smattering of supernatural beliefs is less easy to reproduce in the next generation. Certainly it’s hard to make a coherent political force out of a diffuse, newagey supernaturalism. But I can also see this sort of pick-and-choose spirituality remaining as a kind of social default. I don’t know.
In any case, rejecting hell alone doesn’t turn anyone into any sort of nonbeliever. This is one problem I have with moral critiques of religious doctrines in general. The obvious solution is to make up a kinder and gentler religion. Which is fine with me, but it has no bearing on the truth of anything.
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DTD has finished a 2 week soil sampling project at a Superfund site on the west coast. A total of 12 samples were retrieved under 10 separate residences in an area spanning nearly 1 square mile. Each sample was required to be taken under an occupied residential building, 6′-15’ from the building edge, and at a depth no greater than 3′. The samples were then analyzed in a lab and the data will be used to characterize the extent of the contaminates of concern.
A Vermeer 24x40A drill rig was mobilized to the job and proved to be a perfect fit. The rig supplied the sufficient amount force required to advance the sampler into the undisturbed material and retrieve a sample. Site restrictions also required a rig with a small footprint to minimize disturbance to the residents and was capable of steering through a sharp bend radius to achieve the shallow sample depths.
Access to residences and their back yards were not permitted throughout this project thus walkover navigation was limited to pitch data. DTD utilized a DCI F5 navigation system which is capable of transmitting pitch data up to 80’. Using pitch data collected outside the building’s footprint and DTD’s custom bore planner, each sample could still be collected from a known depth below ground.
HDD sampling has been available for a number of years (DTD began soil sampling before year 2000), but the technology tends to be overlooked. The process is relatively time consuming, due to the number of round trips that must be made in the bore in order to drill to the desired interval and then retrieve the sample. Despite this, HDD soil sampling provides a solution to sampling in areas otherwise inaccessible to any other method. | <urn:uuid:647aa020-1084-46d6-af05-de0871aa0f75> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://horizontaldrill.com/hdd-soil-samples-from-beneath-occupied-residences/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.952917 | 346 | 2.171875 | 2 |
by Herb Parker
Performing the work of William Shakespeare can be daunting to new actors. Author Herb Parker posits that his work is played easier if actors think of the plays as happening out of outrageous situations, and remember just how non-realistic and presentational Shakespeare's plays were meant to be performed. The plays are driven by language and the spoken word, and the themes and plots are absolutely out of the ordinary and fantastic-the very definition of outrageous. With exercises, improvisations, and coaching points, Acting Shakespeare is Outrageous! helps actors use the words Shakespeare wrote as a tool to perform him, and to create exciting and moving performances.
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An Apple patent published on Tuesday could potentially be applied to building touch-sensing surfaces, including screens, using material concepts first developed by Liquidmetal Technology.
Originally filed in 2012, the patent describes a way of using "bulk-solidifying amorphous alloys" in substrates and arrays. "Discrete areas of crystalline alloy" could be used to form sense, drive, and/or multi-function circuit elements.
The patent is credited to five people, at least two of whom — Christopher Prest and Joseph Poole — were formerly with Liquidmetal before joining Apple. Years ago a licensing agreement gave Apple access to Liquidmetal's patents, presumably including today's. Another credited inventor though is Steve Zadesky, formerly an iPhone and iPod designer and briefly the head of the "Apple Car" project.
It's not clear how or even if Apple might make use of the patent, at least in any noticeable manner. In fact the company has made very little use of Liquidmetal's technology so far, the only known one being pins for iPhone SIM card trays. In 2013 Apple won a patent on a mass-manufacturing technique, but building larger parts out of Liquidmetal material is likely still difficult in terms of scale and cost, even if it could result in tougher devices. | <urn:uuid:19834281-c9d5-447a-84f1-23d4c6376801> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://appleinsider.com/articles/16/08/30/new-apple-patent-would-allow-touch-sensing-surfaces-made-using-liquidmetal-tech | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.945618 | 298 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Tax Audit Lawyers in Clayton
A "tax audit" in California is the process by which the appropriate tax authorities (either the IRS, at the federal level, or its state equivalent) investigate a tax filing in more detail than they do for ordinary filings, normally because there appears to be a discrepancy, or some other suspicious item, in somebody's tax returns. However, the IRS (and state tax authorities) sometimes do rounds of random audits, where they audit taxpayers at random, without necessarily suspecting them of any wrongdoing.
The process of a Clayton, California tax audit is normally pretty straightforward. If and when you are faced with a tax audit, you'll receive a letter from the IRS, or its state equivalent, telling you that you're being audited. However, you should not assume that this letter is authentic, because con artists will sometimes send fake audit letters to squeeze money out of innocent taxpayers. You should obtain independent confirmation of the letter's authenticity by searching the Internet for the name of the government agency in question, and contact them for more information.
Once you have confirmed that your audit is authentic, you will be required to meet the auditor at an agreed-upon time and place. The auditor will normally inform you about what documents and other evidence you need to take to the meeting. At the meeting, they will ask you a long series of questions about your taxes, to clear up the thing they're uncertain about.
Reasons For a Tax Audit in Clayton, California
There are many reasons why the federal government, or the government of California may want to audit a taxpayer.
A taxpayer can be chosen for an audit at random, even if the tax authorities don't suspect any wrongdoing. The idea behind these random audits is to keep taxpayers on their toes. So, if you are audited for this reason, and know that you've done everything properly in filing your taxes, you will probably be fine.
But, some Clayton, California tax audits occur for a certain reason. This is normally because the IRS or your local tax authority suspects that you have not reported all of your income on your tax return. For example, suppose that, last year, you bought an expensive new luxury car. But say you only claimed ,000 in total income that year. As you might imagine, the IRS is going to be extremely interested in finding out where the money for that car came from, and, if you have enough money to buy it, why you aren't paying taxes on that money.
It is also common to be audited in Clayton, California if you claim a huge number of deductions. A tax deduction is simply a legal subtraction from one's taxable income. Many different expenses, including charitable donations, interest paid on mortgages, and others, are deductible from one's taxes. If you claim so many deductions that you have negated almost all of your tax liability, you can bet that the government is going to be suspicious.
How Can A Clayton, California Tax Lawyer Help?
If you are audited in Clayton, California, and believe that you have done everything right in gathering and filing your tax return, you probably don't have much to worry about. If there is anything wrong with your tax return, it was probably the result of an honest mistake, which will result in light penalties - normallyy just an order to pay any back taxes you owe, plus interest.
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Credit reports are a history of how a person manages their credit. They are used by creditors considering loaning you money to evaluate the likelihood you will pay them back.
There are three main credit bureaus: Equifax, Trans Union, and Experian.
The information in your credit report includes your name, current and previous addresses, current and prior employers, and your payment history on non-private loans, credit cards, and leases. Most information falls off your credit report after seven years. Certain serious delinquencies like foreclosures and bankruptcies will stay on your report for ten years. Credit bureaus assemble data on the name of the company who have lent you money, the highest balance or potential balance for the account, the current balance on the account, and how you have paid the account. They have information on whether your payments were on time, 30 days late, 60 days late, 90 days late, or more. Some reports include detailed information about your account balances for the last 24 months and the amount you paid each. This information is called trended data.
What is not included in your credit report are things that are not loans. For example, your utility bill, phone bill, and subscriptions like Netflix, rent, insurance, and medical bills.
Your creditworthiness is based on a number called your credit score. Each credit bureau calculates your score differently. Almost 50 different credit scoring models are used for various lending institutions, for example, mortgages, credit cards, auto loans, and insurance policies. There’s also a generic version to which the layperson has access. Most credit scores range between 350 and 850. Your credit score is based on how many accounts you have, the types of accounts you have, the length of time you’ve had those accounts, your payment history, and your utilization of credit. The utilization of credit is for credit cards. They calculate what percent of your available credit you have used. The closer you are to the limit, the greater your risk of missing a payment, so the lower your credit score.
The companies who have access to your credit information are lending institutions and insurance companies with a “permissible purpose.” That is only with your permission.
Inquiries affect your score but not as much as the commercials would have you believe. They want to sell their services, so fear is a motivating factor in getting you to use their app. The effect of a credit inquiry is minimal, between 2-10 points, and short-lived, about 3-4 months. Once you have one, you can have many more for mortgage inquiries within 30 days, which will not further affect your score. The real danger with credit inquiries is when many are made in a short period of time; for example, a person applies for two credit cards, shops for a car, and has two more inquiries from auto dealers. You can improve your score by paying bills on time, maintaining low usage on your credit cards, preferably under 25%, and paying the balances in full every month.
There are two types of credit inquiries, a “hard” and a “soft” credit pull or report. The hard inquiry leaves a record of the investigation and can be used to determine final credit approval. The soft pull does not leave an inquiry on your report and is only supposed to be used for previewing credit. The hard pull can also trigger lender competitors to see that you are in the market for a loan so that you may get a flurry of contacts/advertisements for similar loans. The companies have to pay for the trigger leads, so it’s not usually overwhelming.
You can get a copy of your credit report and credit score annually from each credit bureau for free.
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Everyone is born into this life with a destiny. We all come here with a special purpose. We are born at a specific time on a particular day in a given year; we arrive in a certain city and are born to a set of parents—and we all have a time we will pass away. These are the circumstances of our lives on Earth. So when we speak about longevity, all of these elements come into play. From our individual vantage points we cannot see the greater Universal pattern; we only see our portion of it from our limited perspective on Earth.
Longevity refers to the length of a human life. For millennia Chinese medicine has understood that the lifespan of each individual is determined by the quantity and quality of his or her Inborn Qi. This is the part of your energy foundation that is inherited from your parents—half from your father and half from your mother. And therefore the quantity and quality of their Qi as well as the nature of your mother’s pregnancy and the factors surrounding your birth directly impact your Inborn Qi.
The Nei Jing, a classical Chinese medicine text, states that “Men are born on the Earth, but life itself (spirit) is held in the hands of Heaven. When the Qi of Heaven [the source or origin of all life] and Earth harmonize, it is called a human being.” So traditionally, Chinese medicine has held the belief that the length of your life is unchangeable.
This means your Inborn Qi—your energy foundation—cannot be changed. The life that you build upon your energy foundation depends on the quality of that foundation. Put another way, your energy foundation is like land you inherit from your parents. It may be two acres or two thousand; its soil may be incredibly fertile or dusty and full of stones. What you inherit you cannot change.
What you can work with is how you care for your legacy. This is totally under your control. The way you manage the time and health given to you is completely up to you. Do you ever stop and think about how you care for your gift of life? Are you maximizing it or living in a way that depletes it? These are the two basic roads you can travel. One conserves Inborn Qi and can make your life journey healthy and peaceful; the other runs through the legacy with illness, stress and unhappiness at its side.
Chinese medicine has thousands of years of experience treating a wide range of health problems. The essential framework of this ancient medicine is a holistic model of human health that includes body, mind, and spirit, and the understanding that we are inseparably connected to nature and we must follow the laws of nature to remain well.
Thousands of years before modern physicists made their discoveries about the fundamental nature of matter and the physical world—that everything at its core is energy—Chinese medicine was operating from this framework. It knew that in order to have good health and the potential for longevity within your particular fate, your energy must flow and your internal organs must work together in harmony—and you must be in harmony with nature. Acupuncture, acupressure, and herbal therapies have been effective “tools” to help build, balance, and maintain health and make the life journey a fulfilling one. Yet as powerful as Chinese medicine is at creating health and wellness, this is only one side of the total picture.
What is the other side? Spiritual practice—Qigong, meditation, Taiji—connects you with the Universal source, the unlimited, eternal energy source. Do you know what’s happening when you meditate or practice Qigong? The inside function of your body doesn’t age! A practice that generates longevity allows the cells in your body to continually grow and thrive. Aging isn’t about moving further and further into the future. It’s about the quality of the function of your interior environment—body, mind, and spirit—and harmony with all that is.
With his Theory of Relativity, Einstein changed how we think about time. No longer is it a constant measurement and independent of motion—time changes. As you get closer to the speed of light, the slower time becomes. This space-time continuum describes the workings of the entire universe. Time is not a steady movement along an imaginary timeline. Time is based on feeling; it’s related to perception.
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The development of painting in the USA. The Colonial Period. The First American Revolution and the young republic. The Era of Jacksonian Democracy. The main genres of painting and their representatives. Landscape painting, still life and history painting.
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Homeopathic Care Frequently Asked Questions
Homeopathy is a holistic natural therapy individualised to stimulate the body's immune system and restore health.
A first consultation involves, going through a detailed medical and personal history to understand the patient’s illness and match their symptoms to a homeopathic medicine. Homeopathy does not involve massage, testing equipment, acupuncture or injections. General health such as blood pressure, pulse, respiratory rate and body temperature may be measured when relevant.
Follow up consultations involve assessing the progress of the treatment. As treatment progresses symptoms need to be monitored and adjusted accordingly, such as the dose and potency of the homoeopathic medicines. The patient’s symptoms and recovery will dictate the requirements, often new symptoms will mean a new better matching medicine to be prescribed.
Following the patient’s progress and fine tuning the prescribed medicine is important after the first consultation. Each patient’s health needs are different and changes in physical and emotional symptoms will indicate how to continue the treatment at the pace most suited to their present health needs.
The biggest difference between conventional medicine and homeopathy is how the medicine is selected.
Homeopathy is based on treating the patient as a whole person – physical, mental and emotional. Homeopathic medicines are individually matched to the patient’s unique symptoms of their illness. The aim of homeopathic treatment is to remove the underlying imbalance and restore health in a safe, gentle and side effect free way.
Conventional medicines are based on treating the physical symptoms of the patient and do not take in to consideration other individual aspects that may be contributing or causing the illness. Many conventional medicines while helping to control symptoms, suppress the illness as they do not address the underlying cause.
Homeopathy uses many plant products which are prescribed in a homeopathic potency. This means that they are dilute and void of any toxicity, making them safe for anyone to take, even pregnant women and babies. Diet and lifestyle are also considered, but it is the prescribed homoeopathic medicine that is used to directly treat the patient’s illness.
Naturopathy combines many natural therapies, such as herbal medicine, massage, nutrition and can include a basic homeopathic 6 month course. Naturopaths are like the general practitioners of the natural health field, they look more at diet and lifestyle factors contributing to illness. Herbal medicines have physical properties similar to conventional medicines and are made directly from plant substances without any dilutions. Herbal medicines, vitamins and minerals are not always safe for children or during pregnancy and the dosage and quantities need to be carefully monitored by a professional.
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§ 1051.720 - How do I calculate my average emission level or emission credits?
(a) Calculate your average emission level for each type of recreational vehicle or engine for each model year according to the following equation and round it to the nearest tenth of a g/km or g/kW-hr. Use consistent units throughout the calculation.
(1) For exhaust emissions:
(i) Calculate the average emission level as:Where:
(ii) Use U.S.-directed production projections for initial certification, and actual U.S.-directed production volumes to determine compliance at the end of the model year.
(2) For vehicles that have standards expressed as g/kW-hr and a useful life in kilometers, convert the useful life to kW-hr based on the maximum engine power and an assumed vehicle speed of 30 km/hr as follows: UL (kW-hr) = UL (km) × Maximum Engine Power (kW) ÷ 30 km/hr. (Note: It is not necessary to include a load factor, since credit exchange is not allowed between vehicles certified to g/kW-hr standards and vehicles certified to g/km standards.)
(3) For evaporative emission standards expressed as g/m 2/day, use the useful life value in years multiplied by 365.24 and calculate the average emission level as:Where:
(4) Determine the FEL for calculating credits under paragraph (a)(3) of this section using any of the following values:
(i) The FEL to which the tank is certified, as long as the FEL is at or below 3.0 g/m 2/day.
(ii) 10.4 g/m 2/day. However, if you use this value to establish the FEL for any of your tanks, you must use this value to establish the FEL for every tank not covered by paragraph (a)(4)(i) of this section.
(iii) The measured permeation rate of the tank or the measured permeation rate of a thinner-walled tank of the same material. However, if you use this approach to establish the FEL for any of your tanks, you must establish an FEL based on emission measurements for every tank not covered by paragraph (a)(4)(i) of this section.
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Gemalto has revised the number of records compromised in the first half of 2018 from 4.5 billion to 3.3 billion. The change is a result of the company’s decision to exclude records from an alleged breach of the Indian Government’s Aadhaar ID system due to “new elements of information brought to Gemalto’s knowledge”.
The original article follows.
Over 4.5 billion data records were breached in the first half of this year, according to a report from Gemalto’s Breach Level Index released this week. That’s the highest number of breaches ever in a single six-month time period, but a deeper dive reveals an even more worrying trend.
Gemalto, which sells authentication and data storage products, produces an analysis every six months of the reported breaches from each period. This total number of breached records in this year’s first half (1H) report equated 291 breached records every second, on average.
Records-per-breach is growing
The general rise in the volume of lost records is alarming enough (1H 2018’s figure is up 1,751% on 1H 2015), but what’s really scary is the average number of records per data breach incident. It’s growing quickly.
2015: 245.9m records across 999 incidents. That’s 276,936 records per incident.
2016: 554.5m records across 974 incidents. That’s 569,255 records per incident.
2017: 2.6bn records across 1765 incidents. That’s 1.47m records per incident.
2018: 4.5bn records across 945 breaches. That’s 4.8m records per incident.
The distribution of these compromised records on a per-breach basis isn’t equal, of course. There were some absolute whoppers in early 2018.
Gemalto has a risk scoring system for breached companies, with 9 or 10 rated ‘catastrophic’. There were four breaches in this category in 1H 2018: Facebook, Aadhaar, Exactis, and Under Armour.
Facebook’s social media scraping breach, in which most of its 2.2bn users could have had their personal information scraped, scored a 10, as did Aadhaar, India’s government-backed citizen ID system. It saw its 1.2bn citizens’ records accessible via an anonymous service that would give it access to information including their name, address, photo, phone number and email address.
Under Armour fell victim to a malicious hacker and lost up to 150m accounts. In this and the other breaches, malicious outsiders were to blame. No wonder, then, that malicious outsiders topped the list of breach sources, accounting for 56% of reported incidents and four in five breached records. It knocked accidental loss from the top spot as a source of data breaches, accounting for 34% of losses and just one in five (19%) of affected records.
Accidental loss was responsible for the other catastrophic-level breach in 1H 2018, though. Floridian data broker Exactis left 340m records about US citizens and businesses on an Amazon S3 server. Every record had information on over 400 variables, including whether they have pets, what their religion is and whether they smoked.
The sheer volume of breached records in some of the more significant incidents can skew results dramatically between time periods. For example, the reason that accidental loss held the top spot last year was because a handful of firms didn’t configure their software correctly and exposed unencrypted records online.
The number of accidental loss incidents was small that year, accounting for just 18% of incidents, but the companies that fouled up exposed billions of records online (72% of the 1H 2017 total) between them. All it takes is a few poorly-prepared sysadmins or developers to change the breach landscape.
River City’s 1H 2017 breach single-handedly pushed ‘nuisance’ breaches to the top spot by data breach type that year, with more than 1.5 billion compromised records, but that type of breach accounted for less than 1% of breached records (1.69 million) this time around.
A few breach incidents can also change the performance of entire vertical sectors. On a per-sector basis, social media topped the list at 2.6 billion records (56%) in 1H 2015, thanks mostly to Facebook’s scraping SNAFU. This was followed by government, with 27% of the lost records.
When it comes to the number of breach incidents, though, healthcare is a perennial winner. H1 2018 was no exception, with 256 incidents in the healthcare industry, far outpacing all others. This was interesting, as the number of breached records in the healthcare sector accounted for less than 1% of the total, indicating that in H1 2018 the number of records per breach in the healthcare sector was relatively low.
Walk back to 1H 2015 though, when health insurer Anthem lost nearly 80m customer records, and healthcare accounted for 34% of the total records breached, hitting the top spot.
What does this tell us, besides the fact that a lot of records are being compromised? It tells us that breaches are getting bigger, which means whichever handful of companies get hit by mega-breaches in any given period will sway the results.
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The creator of Ethereum being jailed for sanctions breaches was newsworthy. But Syed Rahman of business crime specialists Rahman Ravelli argues that much more needs to be done to tackle cryptocurrency-related crime.
The name Virgil Griffith was already fairly well-known before his appearance in Manhattan federal court. He did, after all, develop the decentralised, open-source blockchain Ethereum. But his court appearance has given him added recognition for all the wrong reasons – and highlighted an issue that is worthy of attention.
Griffith was sentenced to 63 months in prison over a lecture he gave in North Korea. The sentence was handed down after the programmer pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the legislation that is at the heart of the US sanctions regime.
Prosecutors say Griffith assisted the North Korean state by giving a presentation in its capital Pyongyang about how digital currency could be used to both launder money and evade sanctions. This, prosecutors stated, amounted to evading the sanctions of his own country to provide services to a hostile foreign power.
In this case, Griffith’s emails appear to have been the modern-day equivalent of the smoking gun. They showed his interest in expanding Ethereum to North Korea, his willingness to put money up “for internet/bribes” towards this goal and his belief that setting up decentralised networks could be “a mildly lucrative little business for whoever does this”. Prosecutors said that Griffith had anticipated US sanctions problems and planned to handle the project via Singapore, where he lived, or China.
Crypto And The Authorities
It is a case that has a number of news-friendly elements. It is high-tech, involves one of the US’ biggest foes and has at its centre a clean-cut, all-American star of emerging technology. But while the case is a dramatic one it is not, I would argue, a total shock. Crypto-related matters are relatively new arrivals in the courtrooms of the US and anywhere else. This is due simply to the fact that crypto assets are a fairly new phenomenon. But as the crypto sector has grown and more individuals and organisations have become involved in it, there was always the likelihood that some would see the potential for using it illegally. And that, if the authorities have their way, was always going to make more crypto-related investigations and prosecutions a possibility.
Crypto may be the new kid on the block, but the authorities – in the US at least – have noted its arrival. Three weeks after the conviction of Virgil Griffith, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it would be almost doubling the staff who are responsible for protecting investors in cryptocurrency markets. The SEC’s Crypto Assets and Cyber Team will see its headcount rise from 30 to 50, with many of the new faces being investigative staff attorneys, trial lawyers and fraud analysts. Senior figures within the SEC have both welcomed the appointments and called them overdue – a clear indicator that the regulator has both an awareness of the problems associated with the developing crypto sector and an eagerness to bring the perpetrators to book.
The SEC’s actions are proof – if any were needed – that Virgil Griffith may be one of the first in an increasingly long line of defendants brought before the courts for using crypto assets as a tool for wrongdoing. But this has never been – and will never be – an issue that is unique to the US. There is a need for UK law enforcement to take similar steps to those being taken in the US. The past 12 months have seen the US being increasingly vocal about the need to regulate cryptocurrency – while also putting the tools in place to take action against those who are using it for illegal means. But it should not be doing this in isolation.
Given that cryptocurrency can cross borders in milliseconds, there is a clear need for a global effort to tackle these issues. The fact that Griffith’s case referenced at least four countries is a sign of this. There does, at least in some countries, appear to be an increasing awareness of the problems posed by crypto assets and the need to address them. The main issue at this point is when and how such recognition of the situation translates into real, worthwhile action.
A concerted worldwide response to the illegality that the crypto sector is helping facilitate is required. Nobody could argue against that. Having a high-profile figure going to jail for his crypto-related misdemeanours is one notable success for the authorities. But Virgil Griffith, those who prosecuted him, and their counterparts around the world will all know that, in theory at least, many more could and should face a similar fate. | <urn:uuid:087f7fad-fecd-482b-a436-1fef8eef8326> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.lawyer-monthly.com/2022/05/virgil-griffith-understanding-crypto-crime-and-the-need-for-concerted-action/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.973684 | 948 | 2.09375 | 2 |
If you are an architect, or anyone else proposing a living wall as part of a concept, you and your client will want to know what to expect from it in terms of coverage throughout the year and what benefits the chosen vegetation will have. At ANS, we design, grow, integrate, and maintain living wall systems to support architects in not only creating beautiful walls that will have full coverage all year round, but will also achieve ecological and regulatory requirements. So, as experts in our field, we are going to share with you what each season will bring for your ANS living wall.
Each ANS living wall design is unique with different choices of vegetation on every wall to suit its location best. However, we will give you an idea of what plant life your wall may see each season based off one of our largest living wall designs currently in progress.
Living wall backdrop vegetation:
Our living walls will always have backdrop vegetation which will be present all year round to ensure a fully structural planted wall, and ecological habitats for sheltering wildlife in the colder seasons. These evergreens also play a big role in purifying the surrounding air, protecting infrastructures from dust and weather damage, and controlling internal and external temperatures. Here are our frequently used evergreen backdrop species, and their individual benefits:
- Buxus Sempervirens (Common Box) – A green bush like evergreen that is perfect for providing winter shelter to insects.
- Sarcococca Confusa (Sweet Box) – An evergreen species providing dense foliage for hibernating insects.
- Heuchera ‘Marmalade’ (Coral Bells) – An orange evergreen that offers an ecological habitat to butterflies.
- Heuchera ‘Purple Petticoats’ (Coral Bells) – A purple shrub which provides an ecological habitat for insects and butterflies.
- Heuchera ‘Lime Ricky’ (Coral Bells) – A bright green shrub offering an ecological habitat for insects and butterflies.
- Blechnum Spicant (Hard Fern) – A spikey evergreen habitat for various species.
- Pachysandra Terminalis (Japanese Pachysandra) – Evergreen species with bright green leaves providing ecological habitat.
- Carex Morrowii ‘Variegata’ (Japanese Sedge) – Can act as a filter to remove pollutants.
- Euonymus Microphyllus (Japanese Spindle) – An evergreen habitat, providing insects shelter in the winter.
- Hedera Helix ‘Green Ripple’ (Common Ivy) - Native cultivars providing evergreen shelter for local insects. Has dust absorbing properties.
Throughout the year, these evergreens will keep the living wall looking ‘green’, with each season bringing added colour to this backdrop.
What to expect from your living wall in the winter:
In the winter, your living wall will be mostly made up of the backdrop evergreens, which will keep the wall looking full, provide shelter for hibernating insects and wildlife, and will regulate the internal temperature of the building. There are, however, a few seasonal plant species that you may see during the winter. These include:
- Viola Odorata (English Violet) – A native English species which provide for the local flora (If your wall is UK based).
- Galanthus Nivalis (Snowdrop) – White petaled plants providing an early source of nectar to bees and other pollinators.
What to expect from your living wall in the spring:
In the spring, some seasonal yellows and purples will start to appear through a range of flora plants. Here are our recommended spring time plants:
- Rosmarinus Officinalis (Rosemary) – These purple plants will provide a source of nectar and provide habitats for insects.
- Viola Odorata (English Violet) (also common in winter) – A native English species which provide for the local flora (If your wall is UK based).
- Narcissus ‘Tete a Tete’ (Daffodil) – A bright yellow flower, a symbol of UK springtime, these will provide an early source of nectar to pollinating bees.
- Primula Veris (Cowslip) – Another yellow flower, also providing a source of nectar whilst also being a habitat for insects.
- Armeria Maritima (Sea Thrift) – Perfect foraging plant and a source of nectar.
- Hyacinthoides non-scripta (Bluebell) – A bright plant that provides an early source of nectar.
- Vinca minor ‘Bowles Purple’ (Bowles Periwinkle) – An evergreen plant with continual flowers through the spring and summer.
- Bergenia Cordifolia (Elephant Ears) – an evergreen ecological habitat and source of nectar & forage.
- Hebe Pingufolia ‘Pagei’ (Shrubby Veronica) – An evergreen ecological habitat.
- Alyssum Spinosum (Spiny Madwort) – A bushy plant with pink flowers which provides a source of nectar.
- Fragaria Vesca (Woodland Strawberry) – A native UK species providing fruit for birds and flowers for insects.
What to expect from your living wall in the summer:
In the summer, a range of flowering seasonal plants will appear, providing nectar and habitats for insects and wildlife. Here are our frequently used summer plants, and their benefits:
- Hypericum Hidcote (St John’s Wort) – A source of berries for birds and a nectar for pollinators.
- Hyssopus Officinalis (Hyssop) – A purple flowered shrub that provides a source of nectar.
- Luzula Nivea (Snow-white Wood-rush) – A local northern English flora plant which provides nectar and habitats to insects.
- Mentha Spicta (Spearmint) – Provides forage for bees and other pollinators, and also provides a natural habitat.
- Thymus Vulgaris (Common Thyme) – A bushy flora plant providing forage and natural habitat.
- Hebe Pingufolia ‘Pagei’ (Shrubby Veronica) (Also common in spring) - An evergreen ecological habitat.
- Armeria Maritima (Sea Thrift) (Also common in spring) – Perfect foraging plant and a source of nectar.
- Vinca minor ‘Bowles Purple’ (Bowles Periwinkle) (Also common in spring) – An evergreen plant with continual flowers through the summer.
- Geranium Macrorrhizum (Bigroot Geranium) – Excellent habitat for butterflies and local UK ecology.
- Hebe ‘Red Edge’ (Shrubby Veronica) – An evergreen species that provides an ecological habitat.
- Primula Chungensis (Candelabra Primula) – A yellow flora plant that provides a source of nectar and insect habitat.
- Geranium Rozanne (Cranesbill) – A vibrant purple flora plant that provides habitat for butterflies and local UK ecology.
What to expect from your living wall in the autumn:
In the autumn, the vibrant floral summer species will slowly come out of season and more leafy or white floral plants will come through. These species will be vital in providing shelter and ecological habitat in preparation for winter. Here are our recommended autumn species:
- Hebe Salicifolia (Willow Leaf Hebe) - This bushy evergreen with white blooms will provide ecological habitat.
- Hyssopus Officinalis (Hyssop) (also common in the summer)– A purple flowered shrub that provides a source of nectar.
- Vinca minor ‘Bowles Purple’ (Bowles Periwinkle) (Also common in spring and summer) – An evergreen plant with continual flowers through the summer into the autumn.
- Hebe ‘Red Edge’ (Shrubby Veronica) (Also common in the summer) – An evergreen species that provides an ecological habitat.
What will each season bring for your ANS living wall: key takeaways
Although this list is not a be-all and end-all, it will give you a good idea of what sort of plants to choose and how they will each provide habitat, nectar, and coverage over each season of the year. If you want more guidance on which seasonal plants are best for your living wall, seasonal plants, get in touch with our expert team today.
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Every year, the Catholic Communion and Liberation movement organizes a meeting in Rimini, in Northern Italy. This year, the Holy Land has come to Rimini, with a pictorial exhibit on the Holy Land. Speaking to the crowd on August 20 regarding the 800 years of Franciscan presence in the Holy Land, the Custos of the Holy Land, Fr. Francesco Patton, inaugurated the exhibit, stating that its theme was, “The Land Beloved of God: The Custody of the Holy Land.”
The common theme of the week was “What you inherit from your fathers, earn it again so as to possess it,” said Fr. Patton. “The theme intends to bring the need to combine the memory of the past with personal responsibility for the present, which is also a way to make a contribution toward building a different future.” The photographic images of the exhibit refer to memory, but the eight-century Franciscan presence in the Holy Land is also related to memory, explained the Custos.
Fr. Patton invited listeners “to come as pilgrims to the Holy Land, to share the experience of being in those places and regain in a very personal way the sense of being there as pilgrims and foreigners,” in addition to “regaining the daily living memory of faith through our existential attachment to Him.”
“Our presence in the Holy Land is primarily related to staying in those places of memory that are sanctuaries,” continued Patton. “Today we keep about 70 shrines and live in 50 of them. This is our way of being friars minor, and therefore it is a way of giving praise to God in the liturgy.” It should not be forgotten, however, that the history of the Franciscan presence in the Holy Land is also a history of ecumenical and interreligious dialogue, which was possible eight centuries ago and which lasted for eight hundred years… Dialogue is never easy but it is necessary,” said the Custos.
Discussion moderator Roberto Fontolan, Director of the International Center for Communion and Liberation, asked the Custos how the Holy Land has impacted him personally. “As a pilgrim in 1994 I was impressed by the Holy Sepulcher and by Mount Tabor,” replied Patton. “Last year, however, I became more aware of the complexity and the charm of this land.” In order to experience this complexity, Fr. Francis emphasized the importance of dialogue that happens through both small and large encounters with Muslims and Jews and with all of the realities that are present.
After the Custos of the Holy Land spoke, many visited the Custody’s Exhibit, which was on display at the meeting through Saturday, August 26. Ultimately, the images of the exhibit will published in a catalog by Edizioni Terra Santa, which will be sold in Rimini.
Alessandra Vitez, Rimini’s exhibit manager, explained where the idea for the exhibit came from: “For so many years, the friendship between this meeting and the Custody has been very active. Thinking about the 800-year presence of the Custody in the Holy Land, we wanted to celebrate this moment through images and texts.” | <urn:uuid:8e369add-924f-4e81-ad33-90684864f0b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ffhl.org/pictorial-exhibit-in-rimini-italy-celebrates-800-years-of-franciscans-in-the-holy-land/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.969221 | 678 | 1.992188 | 2 |
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Walking this year’s Mobile World Congress I am no longer thrown by the devices, gadgets and flashy booths, but completely mystified at how we as an industry continue to hype up the idea of a truly connected world without addressing one of the most important pieces – security.
As someone who’s been in the industry for almost 20 years, you’d expect me to be shocked that many businesses still aren’t addressing something so key, especially as consumers are starting to question it. In the last year, more people than ever have started asking me: “So Raj, what about my security?”
Hurrah – finally – some people are catching on, and at least asking the question. But whether or not they’ll act upon it is what concerns me…
Don’t get me wrong. Whilst it’s great some people are waking up to the realities that come with a connected lifestyle which, let’s admit is everyone at this stage, there is still a lot of work to do. Ultimately, it’s the industry’s – that’s right, every single person at MWC and beyond – job to lead this.
Because at the moment we’re failing. Our recent survey, for example, found half of us have no idea how to check if our devices have ever been compromised and a third are unsure how to check if a device has been breached. So although many may be starting to consider device security, it doesn’t mean they necessarily know how to manage it. Yet, here we are at MWC giving these same people even more technologically advanced devices to play with – when we know most are unsure how to protect themselves – whether that’s with their phones, computers, kids toys, or now – connected homes and cars.
The truth is that with awesome technology comes great responsibility. So what do we – both consumers and businesses alike – do to ensure that such technology coming out of big shows like this are safe?
- Put security first: security cannot be an afterthought in any device manufacturing process. It must be considered upfront by manufacturers in order for any underlining issues to be addressed and catered to
- Be transparent: enough of the hiding, let’s be honest with consumers about the risks associated with using certain technology. Instead of hiding away and hoping it’s all ok, vendors must at least educate and advise the user on how to best protect themselves including recommending security software suitable for that technology
- Take control: whilst I want to see manufacturers leading the way when it comes to security, consumers can and should do their bit too. Take device security at home for example where the home network is the hub for all connected devices. New solutions, such as McAfee Secure Home Platform, will help people easily manage and protect devices connected to this network while providing parental controls with permissions that can be tailored to the entire household
We must be able to trust the new technology that’s making our world a hyper-connected one – as inventors, product developers, manufacturers, technology leaders from the word ‘go’ in our development cycles, through to the consumers’ lives when they use it. Trust has fallen down across our societies because of all the security hacks, risks and wider vulnerabilities that technology has opened up. It’s our job – each and every one of us – to help change that via our actions as an industry. Let’s continue producing amazing and innovative technology that helps change and advance our lives, but let’s protect ourselves – our friends, our economies, our neighbours and the wider industry – while we do. The more we can work together to build this trust, the better off each technology will be for everyone.
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The demand on labs throughout the world to run their triple quadrupole mass spectrometers to maximum capacity is ever increasing. Instruments are often operated continuously to ensure regulatory screening requirements are satisfied for targeted pesticides, mycotoxins, and veterinary drugs. Whether you are a commercial lab or a food manufacturer, the quality of the data you acquire is vital to your business. You must be certain that the last batch of strawberries you tested conform to pesticides regulations—your targeted list of usual suspects. However, what if a farming practice is using alternative pesticides or others not within your analytical suite? Unless you are informed, you are left in the dark and have to trust the data from your targeted list. With this inherent uncertainty, is the data you are reporting to your customer at risk? Does a contaminated batch go out into supply?
Targeted analysis has been the benchmark for GC-MS and LC-MS methods for years. Samples are extracted using robust and efficient practices, such as QuEChERS. LC gradients provide excellent reproducibility regarding retention time drift. Therefore, sample prep and LC conditions are rock solid. Pesticides, mycotoxins, and veterinary drugs are easily seen by the mass spec if you use these parameters. However, triple quad mass spectrometers will only see what they are setup to see. The MRM’s you have entered into the acquisition software will only search for that particular transition. Running the mass spec in full scan mode will not suffice, as you won’t have the desired sensitivity to detect nor will you be able to satisfy regulatory compliance with ion ratio measurements (IRM).
There is a solution to overcome this tunnel vision limitation. SWATH Acquisition is an advanced workflow born from the world of genome mapping where the technique has led to breakthroughs in precision medicine for the treatment of cancers. SWATH has evolved to address small molecule compounds making it ideal for routine pesticide, mycotoxin, and veterinary drug analysis. SWATH sees almost all—quite literally. This intuitive scan type is unique to SCIEX and is a key feature of the X500R QTOF system and SCIEX OS (data acquisition, data processing, and data reporting software).
So What Does SWATH Do?
SWATH Acquisition acquires MS/MS of all detectable compounds in your sample. Therefore, it is looking for everything all the time. It will detect the required pesticides, antibiotic veterinary drugs or mycotoxins in your targeted list, plus you can scan for other contaminants that may be in your sample. Using this approach enables you to attain a comprehensive profile of your food sample.
The MS/MS data you acquire using SWATH acquisition allows you to see those compounds in your targeted list which you can still process and quantify with SCIEX OS, and you can also cross reference any detected unknowns against a reference library. What if the detected compound is not in your library? You can cross reference the acquired spectra from your data with ChemSpider which is integrated into SCIEX OS and interpret your acquired spectra using that database.
You can still do all the targeted quantitation you require and need, plus in the same injection, you are also building a complete profile of what else is hiding in your sample.
One of the unique features for the SWATH screening workflow on the X500R is the ability to measure the ion ratios of the detected unknowns. The ion ratio is crucial for regulatory compliance in the identification of analytes. For example, in the Europe Union – Guidance Document on Analytical Quality Control and Method Validation Procedures for Pesticides Residues Analysis in Food and Feed (SANTE/11945/2015) states in Section D, Table 4 Identification requirements for different MS techniques, the SWATH workflow conforms to the “requirements of identification.”
The accumulation of SWATH-MS/MS data is extremely fast and reduces the significance of missed peaks. Therefore the excellent quality of the MS/MS data you get along with confident ID using ion ratio and quantitation, are not a problem. Having variable windows in a SWATH workflow enables a greater selectivity factor in a wider m/z detection range. You now have the power to build a comprehensive profile of what is in your sample.
There is no need to alter existing sample preparation or LC conditions to run SWATH. However, only with a SCIEX X500R QTOF can you get this ultra-comprehensive study of what is present in your sample.
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3.5 billion years old
embedded in rocks in western Australia: stromatolites(fosilized bacteria)
Prokaryotes dominated from 3.5 to 2 billion years ago.
During this time, the first divergence occurred:Bacteria and archeae
5. First photosynthetic organisms around 3.5 billion years but Oxygen began accumulating in the atmosphere about 2.7 billion years ago. Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic prokaryotes that are still present today → produced oxygen. Sequestered carbon dioxide in organic molecules.
These bacteria changed the Earths atmosphere.
6. The oldest eukaryotic fossils are ~2 billion years old.
Symbiotic community of prokaryotes living within larger prokaryotes.
The first eukaryotic cells-theory of endosymbiotic
8. The oldest fossils of multicellular organisms are ~1.2 billion years old.
The c elegans and volvox colonial algae
10. The oldest animal fossils are ~700 million years old
Mamals 50-60 million years ago. | <urn:uuid:1e215d40-b47a-4a28-8e4a-ae87cccc0dca> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.wikiteka.co.uk/document/time-consciousness-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.838714 | 235 | 3.328125 | 3 |
In English usage, a finca ([ˈfiŋka]; Spanish for 'an "estate"') refers to a piece of rural or agricultural land, typically with a cottage, farmhouse or estate building present, and often adjacent to a woodland or plantation.
Especially in tourism, the term has recently gained the colloquial meaning of a holiday home in a rural setting, situated on the Spanish mainland, the Balearics, and the Canary Islands, and throughout the countries of Spanish-speaking Latin America.
Fincas can typically look back on an extensive development history, and are often older than 300 years. In some regions, however, especially on the Balearics, new buildings are erected.[clarification needed] | <urn:uuid:0bc41233-89a8-4aaa-ac89-86fb742f8092> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knowpia.com/knowpedia/Finca | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.959918 | 156 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Lodging a Complaint
Any person who feels that any of his rights under the Equal Opportunities Act has been infringed may lodge a written complaint with the Commission. In order to assist the aggrieved person, a Complaint Form requiring the complainant to specify the grounds on which he felt discriminated and to explain the circumstances that led to same has been designed by the Commission.
Complaints can be lodged-
- in hard copy dispatched to the Commission; or
- by sending a duly signed scanned copy of the form by email to the Commission; or
- via the Commission’s website.
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Revenue from fisheries in St. Vincent and the Grenadines moved from EC$8.9 million in 2012 to EC$21.5 million in 2020, says Minister of Finance, Camillo Gonsalves.
“That’s before Rainforest got here,” he said Friday at the opening of Rainforest Seafood SVG Ltd.’s processing plant in Calliaqua.
He said that the fisheries sector showed a trajectory of growth unlike other industries in the court.
“… there’s not many industries that I could brag about as a minister of finance or that Saboto [Caesar] could brag about, as a minister of agriculture, to say that between 2012 and 2020 you have grown 125%, you have more than doubled. But seafood is one of those areas.”
He said that the Rainforest Seafood plant was not fully operational but had been “going strong for about four months.
“At this facility, they have purchased seafood from 150 local fishers and in those four to six months, they have already paid to those local fishers over EC$3 million,” Gonsalves said.
“Do the math: 150 fishers put that into $3 million, you get about $20,000 per fisherman. And if you divide it by about four months, this is, obviously, on average, you’re talking about $5,000 a fisherman in the last four months.”
The finance minister said this was “an incredible contribution” to fisheries and the growth of the sector in SVG.
“So we have 80 to 100 people working inside. I spoke to them,” he said of the workers at “Big Blue”, the processing plant’s nickname.
“They are happy, they’re well trained, and they’re well paid for the work that they’re doing,” the finance minister said.
“You have 150 fishers, you have $3 million already spent in the community, the fishing community, and that fishing community runs from Union Island all the way up to Owia.
“You have conch being processed, lobster being processed, ballyhoo being processed, snapper being processed, tuna being processed, and they’re just getting started.”
Rainforest SVG is part of Rainforest Caribbean, a Jamaican company that also has processing plants in Jamaica, Belize, St. Lucia, and Barbados and exports to over 30 countries across the world.
The finance minister said his government has signed with Rainforest Seaford a contract that says, “they plan to put into the hands of local fishers not $3 million, but $20 million annually.
“Imagine the wealth that that will create for fisherfolk all across St. Vincent and the Grenadines. What we’re doing with this $3 million so far is scratching the surface.”
He noted the traditional way of fishing in SVG, where crews go out to sea on mornings, spend a few hours and rush back to shore to catch people as they are going home.
The finance minister said that the fisher catch enough to cover the cost of fuel and to make a couple dollars extra.
“What the demand created by Rainforest Seafood is going to do is catapult fishing from an artisanal profession to an absolute money earner for fishers all around St. Vincent and the Grenadines, because now we have a level of demand that we’ve never had before in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” Gonsalves said.
He said that Rainforest Seafood wants to buy $20 million worth of fish a year.
“So I went from $8.9 to $20 million and Rainforest now wants to add another $20 million on top of that 20 million.
“That is a doubling, again, of the fish production here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines. And we have the fish in our waters and we have the talented fisher folk. All we need now is to build capacity.”
The finance minister said the government has been doing a lot of work to build capacity to meet the demand created by entities like Rainforests Seafood.
Gonsalves said that the government has repaired and enhanced the Calliaqua Fish Market and partnered with the Kingstown Co-operative Credit Union to ensure that fishers … will have low-interest loans without having to put down a deposit to expand their fleet, to get another engine, to build a bigger boat.
He also said that Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves has partnered with the Government of Venezuela, through the ALBA Bank for a substantial loan through which the government will purchase commercial fishing vessels to train Vincentian fishers how to fish commercially.
“And that capacity building means more and more local Vincentians making more and more money from selling fish in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” the finance minister said, adding that the good thing about fishing is that it is far more inflation-proof than agriculture.
“Because, yes, the price of your gas goes up. But you don’t have to pay for more fertiliser, you don’t have to feed it, the fish is in the water. The fish isn’t jumping into your fish pot differently, because inflation is 9% or because gas costs $190. It’s still going to jump into your fish pot, and you’re still going to get a good price for it here in St. Vincent and the Grenadines,” Gonsalves said.
He said that in addition to creating demand, “you’re going to create more fisher folk and creating more fisher folk means greater training and greater efforts by the government to make sure that those fisher folk are healthy and safe and doing a good job”. | <urn:uuid:3ce608ce-45eb-4d89-ac02-7563cc030645> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iwnsvg.com/2022/07/19/svgs-fisheries-earnings-doubled-between-2012-and-2020-camillo/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.963666 | 1,249 | 1.6875 | 2 |
In her first meet on June 23, 1927, she won the 60-yd hurdles, the 50-yd, 100-yd and 200-yd dashes as well as the running long jump. By the end of 1927, she held Canadian records in the indoor 50 and 220. In 1928, she repeated these victories and added a first in javelin. At the Olympic trials, she won the 220-yd and placed second by inches in the 60-yd.
The 1928 Olympics saw women’s first foray into track and field. Gertrude Phinney did not attend due to the prevailing attitudes of the times regarding women in sports. However, a comparison of winning times from those Amsterdam Olympics clearly indicates that Gertrude would have probably have captured one or more gold medals.
In the Maritime Championships in 1929, she won gold in all three sprints, the relay and the standing long jump. By the end of the year, she held Canadian records in the indoor 50-yd, the outdoor 60-yd and the indoor 220-yd dashes.
Gertrude was also an excellent tennis player. She graduated from Acadia with her B.Sc. and 50 years later received her B.Ed. also from Acadia. She worked as a dietician for a time and also taught Home Economics in Lawrencetown. Gertrude Phinney Young Beattie is also a member of the Nova Scotia Sports Hall of Fame. | <urn:uuid:c2544b9a-131f-49aa-8c27-552fea208ef9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.middletonshwof.com/?product=gertrude-phinney | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.981698 | 305 | 2.328125 | 2 |
Labour Call For A Longer School Day In Education Overhaul
Pupils should be required to remain in school long after the conventional 3.30pm finishing time to acclimatise them to a “work-like timetable”, it is claimed.
Stephen Twigg, the shadow education secretary, says an extended day would keep children off the streets, stop them being sucked into local gangs and give the most deprived pupils a place to study away from “chaotic” home lives.
In a speech on Thursday, he will also suggest that pupils should be grouped by ability or interests within schools – rather than age.
The comments are made as he announces a Labour review into the relationship between schools and the world of work.
The project – led by Barry Sheerman, the Labour MP for Huddersfield and former chairman of the Commons education select committee – will investigate the extent to which education meets the needs of the modern economy.
It comes after a survey by business leaders found that as many as a third of young people were not fit for the workplace.
Launching the review at the North of England Education Conference in Leeds, Mr Twigg will say that 21st century schools are often “still organised like factories”.
“The workers down tools when they hear the bell ring, and are strictly separated into production lines, focussed on building the constituent parts of knowledge, maths, science etc,” he says.
“At the same time, students are rigidly separated. Taught in batches, not by ability or interest, but by their own date of manufacture.
“While noble in its origins, this 19th century form of industrial education feels distinctly ill at ease with the demands of a modern, globalised economy, which demands collaboration, innovation, entrepreneurship, and an appreciation that developing value comes not from a more efficient forms of production, but more skilled ones.”
Some of the Government’s flagship academies and free schools have already taken advantage of powers to shake up the academic year by axing traditional holidays and staging booster lessons outside the normal timetable.
One school in Norwich is open for six days a week – 51 weeks of the year. Others are planning to keep pupils in school until at least 5pm or stage regular weekend lessons.
In his speech, Mr Twigg suggests a longer school day for all pupils, saying it “appears to be a smart way forward for a number of reasons”.
“First, for secondary pupils it would mean getting used to a work-like timetable,” he says. “A long hours culture has its drawbacks, but how many employers expect their workers to leave the office at 3.30pm?
“Second, a longer day can be progressive in nature. Too many pupils who suffer from poor housing conditions struggle to find a quiet place to study or do their homework.
“Providing a longer school day will give these students a haven away from what in some cases can be chaotic and troublesome home lives.
“Third, it can take young people, quite literally, off the streets. Numerous studies have shown that gang activity is often most prevalent in the hours immediately after schools close, and providing longer school based activities may prevent some from getting into trouble.”
He also praises some schools that extend the number of years they run GCSEs – from two to three. It allows pupils to start exam syllabuses at an earlier age if they are ready.
Mr Twigg says it represents a “realisation that effective collaboration must reflect a pupils’ stage, not their age and enabling both academic and practical learning”.
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A genetic fluke two to three million years ago turned humans into the best endurance runners around.
A new paper published by researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine reports that our ancestors’ functional loss of one gene called CMAH dramatically shifted our species’ evolutionary path. The loss altered significant metabolic processes, with impacts on fertility rates and risk of developing cancer.
The same change may have also made humans one of the best long-distance runners on Earth, the team adds.
These genes were made for runnin’
Our ancestors were presumably quite busy two to three million years ago transitioning from living in trees to live on the savannah. They were able to walk upright by this time, but they weren’t particularly good at it.
However, soon after this, some of our ancestors’ physiology starts undergoing some striking changes. Most relevant are shifts we see in their skeletons, resulting in long legs, big feet, and large gluteal muscles (butts) — all very good for walking around. These shifts were also accompanied by the evolution of sweat glands with much the same layout and capacity as ours which, according to the team, is quite expansive and much better at dissipating heat than that of other large mammals.
In other words, humanity received powerful legs and one of the most solid cooling systems in one fell swoop.
Our ancestors proceeded to use their new toys to hunt and eat anything they could bring down. They did so by adopting a hunting pattern unique among primates (and very rare among animals in general) known as persistence hunting: they would go out in the heat of the day, when other carnivores were resting, relying on their legs and sweat glands to chase prey until — exhausted and overheated — it couldn’t physically run away anymore.
We didn’t know much about the biological changes that underpinned this radical change, however. The first clues were uncovered around 20 years ago — when Ajit Varki, a physician-scientist at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and colleagues unearthed one of the first genetic differences between humans and chimps: a gene called CMP-Neu5Ac Hydroxylase (CMAH). Other species of primates also have this gene.
We, however, have a broken version of CMAH. Varki’s team calculated that this genetic change happened 2 million to 3 million years ago, based on the genetic differences among primates and other animals.
More recent research has shown that mice models with a muscular dystrophy-like syndrome exhibit more acute symptoms when this gene is inactivated. This hinted to Varki that the faulty gene might be what led to the changes our ancestors experienced in the savannahs.
“Since the mice were also more prone to muscle dystrophy, I had a hunch that there was a connection to the increased long distance running and endurance of Homo,” said Varki.
UCSD graduate student Jonathan Okerblom, the study’s first author, put the theory to the test. He built mouse running wheels, borrowed a mouse treadmill, and pitted mice with a normal and broken version of CMAH to the task.
“We evaluated the exercise capacity (of mice lacking the CMAH gene), and noted an increased performance during treadmill testing and after 15 days of voluntary wheel running,” Okerblom explained.
The two then consulted Ellen Breen, Ph.D., a research scientist in the division of physiology, part of the Department of Medicine in the UC San Diego School of Medicine. She examined the mice’s leg muscles before and after running different distances, some after 2 weeks and some after 1 month.
After training, mice with the human-like version of CMAH ran 12% faster and 20% longer than the other mice, the team reports. Breen adds that the mice displayed greater resistance to fatigue, increased mitochondrial respiration and hind-limb muscle, with more capillaries to increase blood and oxygen supply. Taken together, Varki says the data suggest CMAH loss contributed to improved skeletal muscle capacity for oxygen utilization.
“And if the findings translate to humans, they may have provided early hominids with a selective advantage in their move from trees to becoming permanent hunter-gatherers on the open range.”
The most likely cause of this change was evolutionary pressures associated with an ancient pathogen, the team explains.
The version of the gene we carry determines the loss of a sialic acid called N-glycolylneuraminic acid (Neu5Gc), and accumulation of its precursor, called N-acetylneuraminic acid or Neu5Ac, which differs by only a single oxygen atom. Sialic acids serve as vital contact points for cell-to-cell interaction and cellular interactions with the surrounding environment. This change likely led to enhanced innate immunity in early hominids, according to past research.
Sialic acids may also be a biomarker for cancer risk, and the team has also reported that certain sialic acids are associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes; may contribute to elevated cancer risk associated with red meat consumption, and trigger inflammation.
“They are a double-edged sword,” said Varki. “The consequence of a single lost gene and a small molecular change that appears to have profoundly altered human biology and abilities going back to our origins.”
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When the clock strikes midnight, are you usually burrowed into a blanket, deep in a dream, or are you tossing and turning, unable to put aside the stresses of the day and just go to sleep?
If you have sleep problems, you have plenty of bleary-eyed company. The National Sleep Foundation estimates that 60% of adults have trouble sleeping at least a few nights a week.
Everyone’s sleep requirement is unique, but most people need at least eight hours a night to feel refreshed. Interestingly, tests of people who claimed to function well on much less shut-eye showed that very few actually could.
Too little sleep makes concentration difficult. In your exhausted state, you’ll find it harder to make decisions, solve problems, and listen attentively. Lack of sound sleep will also affect your mood, contributing to irritability and depression. Being exhausted can weaken your immune system as well, making you vulnerable to cold and flu bugs when the season for respiratory infections arrives.
And now we can add weight gain to the list. A16-year study (part of the famed Nurses Health Study) followed the sleep habits of 68,000 women and linked weight gain to those getting five hours or less sleep per night.
Telltale signs of too little sleep The most obvious is the willingness to give up everything you own just to sleep a few more hours when the alarm clock goes off in the morning. In fact, just needing an alarm clock to force yourself out of bed is a sign you’re not getting enough sleep. In a perfect world, you should wake up without mechanical assistance, feeling refreshed.
Be alert (if you can manage alertness) for these other signs:
• Feeling tired throughout the day.
• A need for caffeine-containing stimulants to get you started and keep you going.
• Falling asleep when you should be awake, such as during a movie or driving.
• Being barely able to drag yourself to bed at night because you’re so tired.
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In the US, many health care woes are blamed on the federal or state government. Whether there is too little oversight and lack of transparency or too much interference and regulation, it seems that policy and politics often end up getting blamed for health care system troubles. But what happens when one lives in a country with no functioning government? As one of the poorest countries in the world, with little to no government structure, Nepal has learned that health-related needs depend on local communities as well as international aid. Despite the vast differences between our countries, we have a lot to learn from one another about the underserved, health and decreasing disparities in access and outcomes.
Even with Nepal’s reliance on foreign assistance and continual poor health rankings, the US could learn a lot about a return to local or “community care.” Those in developing countries like Nepal have no alternatives. With poor infrastructure, unpredictable electricity and heat, and mountainous geographic barriers, the people of Nepal depend on local leaders and village health providers to care for the country’s millions of people. While Americans grapple with government involvement in the health sector, the Nepalese are now well versed in the pros and cons of no government organization.
In contrast, the Nepalese are looking to their allies from the States to help facilitate safe and fair democratic elections by the end of 2013.
In Nepal, the Constituent Assembly functioned in place of Parliament for many years, until its dissolution in May of 2012, often leaving health decisions and progress at a standstill. The developing country, which sits in the Himalayas and is home to eight of the world’s ten tallest mountain ranges, ranks 157 on the World Health Organization’s overall 2013 human development index. Moreover, Nepal has recently emerged from a decade-long armed insurgency creating an environment of insecurity and conflict that has only intensified poverty.
At present, the average Nepali spends only 5% of their annual income on health-related needs. According to the US State Department, “Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world ... The country faces several medium- and long-term development challenges, including strained capacity in government, civil society and the private sector to drive the development agenda, high vulnerability to climate change and a massive youth bulge.” Although surprisingly, despite economic troubles, Nepal has used its international aid partners and community-based health structure to become one of very few countries in the world on target to meet several Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
The immobility of government has lead to geographical pockets where resources are almost nonexistent and dependency on foreign aid is great. Both the State Department and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) are working diligently in the capital of Kathmandu to create sustainable health care programs that foster education, improve health outcomes and promote financial independence. However, it is difficult to see vast improvements in health outcomes and health equality without an active role by the people’s own government.
One of the added difficulties for health advancement is the country’s overwhelming number of natural disasters. Nepal is one of the most disaster-prone countries on earth. Annually, people experience floods, landslides, droughts, epidemics and persistent seismic activity. Due to these extreme difficulties, in tandem with direct health efforts USAID has created programs unique to Nepal, like the Program for Enhancement of Emergency Response (PEER) which aims at improving education on how to appropriately carry out activities such as search and rescue efforts in collapsed buildings and reduce health risks during disasters.
In addition to USAID, there are several local and international organizations that concentrate on improving health in Nepal and meeting MDGs. One specific organization that has focused on health and care in rural areas for more than 20 years is Himalayan Healthcare, a non-profit organization that specializes in creating viable programs in regions where health posts go unstaffed and undersupplied by the local government. “Rural Nepal, almost universally, has mostly rudimentary health care services which are inadequate but still go a long way if caring village health providers are available,” says Anil Parajuli, Himalayan Healthcare’s co-founder and Nepal-based Program Coordinator.
Like many community health centers in the US, serving both rural and urban communities, the Himalayan Healthcare model is not based on one’s ability to pay. Their mission is to treat anyone regardless of his or her gender, sex, caste, profession, or ability to pay. The President of the Himalayan Healthcare’s Board, Dr. Robert McKersie, believes that the US and Nepal have a lot to learn from one another. He claims that what makes a community center successful in either country is, “having input from the local stakeholders from day number one. Before this can happen the providers have to be accepted by, and have legitimacy with, the stakeholders.
Dr. McKersie contends this acceptance does not always come easily. “Many of these communities (both Nepalese and underserved communities in the States) have historically been used or misled by ‘outsiders’. The buy in process for us was health care. After Himalayan Healthcare proved itself, we were ‘invited’ to help with what became the other two tenets of our community development model, namely education and income generation.” He goes on to say that, “organizations in the States that have done good community medicine know this model of having the community members have a stake in their healthcare.”
With so many differences, yet so many similarities in our underserved populations, it is no wonder health care providers in the US and Nepal view one another as a source of knowledge and inspiration.
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Texas state legislation enacted in 1923 tasked the members of the Port of Houston Authority’s Port Commission to provide oversight of the Houston Pilots.
In 2019 the legislation was amended to create a new and independent Pilot Board.
The Board of Pilot Commissioners for Harris County Ports, also known as the (“Pilot Board”), is composed of the following Commissioners:
- Two Commissioners appointed by a majority of the City Council of the City of Houston.
- Two Commissioners appointed by a majority of the Harris County Commissioners Court.
- One Commissioner appointed by the City Council of the City of Pasadena, who must reside in the City of Pasadena.
- One Commissioner appointed by a majority of the Harris County Mayors’ and Councils’ Association, who must be a resident in Harris County that is located adjacent to the Houston Ship Channel and has a population of less than 100,000.
- Two Commissioners appointed by the Governor.
- The Chair of the Board appointed jointly by the City of Houston Mayor and City Council and the Harris County Commissioners Court.
The Pilot Board has exclusive jurisdiction over the piloting of vessels in Harris County Ports, including intermediate stops and landing places for vessels on navigable streams wholly or partially located in the board’s jurisdiction.
The Pilot Board shall:
- establish the number of pilots necessary to provide adequate pilot services for each Harris County port;
- accept applications for pilot commissions and certificates and determine whether each applicant meets the qualifications for a pilot;
- submit to the governor lists of applicants the board finds to be qualified for appointment as pilots;
- establish pilotage rates;
- approve the locations for pilot stations;
- establish times during which pilot services will be available;
- hear and determine complaints relating to the conduct of pilots;
- recommend to the governor each pilot whose commission should not be renewed or should be revoked;
- adopt rules and issue orders to pilots or vessels when necessary to secure efficient pilot services;
- institute investigations or hearings or both to consider casualties, accidents, or other actions that violate this chapter; and
- provide penalties to be imposed on a person who is not a pilot for a Harris County port who pilots a vessel into or out of the port if a pilot offered those services to the vessel.
The Pilot Board Executive Director serves as Secretary and Compliance Coordinator to the Pilot Board.
David McNeal serves as General Counsel to the Pilot Board.
The Pilot Board Executive Director works with the Pilot Board appointed Application Review Committee. The committee includes voting members from the Houston Pilots Association, the Port of Houston maritime industry, the Harris County community at large, and the Port of Houston Authority. The committee conducts the preliminary review of Pool applicant, Deputy Branch and Branch Pilot applications.
The Pilot Board Executive Director also works with the Pilot Board appointed Investigation and Recommendation Committee. The committee includes voting members of the Houston Pilots Association, the Port of Houston maritime industry, the Port of Houston Authority, and nonvoting members from the United States Coast Guard. The committee institutes investigations or hearings or both to consider casualties, accidents, or other actions that violate the Act or Rules, and recommend action to the Pilot Board.
Captain Stephen Polk (Director of Maritime Education and Training for the Seamen’s Church Institute) chairs the ARC and Captain David Foret Jr. (President of the ACTion Group Companies) chairs the PBIRC. | <urn:uuid:6b31bc48-1b16-4a5e-867b-51fe104806e6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://houstonpilotboard.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938709 | 701 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Tulip Blue Diamond
£4.50 – £17.50
Tulip Blue Diamond. Fully hardy. Perennial. Thrives in full sun or partial shade. This is a beautiful old fashioned double flowering tulip that has has been around for many years and is still a very popular choice among growers. Ideal for front borders, large pots and containers.
Large Bulbs, Size 12 up.
10 bulbs, 30 bulbs, 50 bulbs
Plant: Late October to November. 15 cm deep. Flowers April Height 35 cm
Hardy. Perennial. Requires a sunny position that is sheltered from the wind, well-drained soil is needed so the bulbs do not sit in water after heavy rain. Ideal for planting in front borders, large pots and containers. Feed with a slow release fertilizer when growing. Once flowers start to fade, dead-head (remove the flower) this will allow the foliage to feed the bulb, if the flowers are left on, the energy will be spent on producing seed and the bulb will reduce in size.
Propagate: By lifting bulbs early summer, once the foliage has completely died back, remove bulblets, and store in a cool dark place until planting time. | <urn:uuid:b6b111c4-6939-4688-aca0-c24bc8b99d6e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.angliabulbs.com/product/tulip-blue-diamond/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.928005 | 292 | 1.578125 | 2 |
While planning our trip to Rwanda a few years ago, we came across an article about a special school run by a Canadian woman. The school was located near one of the villages we planned to visit so we emailed asking if they accepted donations and if yes, which items were most needed. We brought small but hard to find items, mostly medical, from home and simply purchased everything else there to support the local economy. The entire experience was an eye-opener…kids were actually excited to receive pens and notebooks!
We were fortunate to randomly read about the school but two non-profits aim to make it easier for well-meaning travelers and local communities to connect:
Pack for a Purpose
Use available space in your luggage to bring needed supplies. Although they recommend bringing 5lbs of supplies any amount is welcome. Pack for a Purpose even shows you how to pack your items efficiently.
- Find an accommodation or tour company and a project it supports.
- Choose the supplies you wish to bring from the specific items requested.
- Drop off the supplies at the accommodation or tour company.
- The supplies will then be delivered to the community-based project.
- Please note you do not need to be a guest at the listed accomodations for them to accept your donation.
GlobeDrop is a free web and mobile application that connects travelers to verified social organizations. Immersion is encouraged, as donors usually purchase locally and hand-deliver supplies.
- Donors set a delivery date, select what and how much goods they want to directly deliver to the charity establishment.
- Once the delivery request has been approved, the donor receives an address and map to the location.
- GlobeDroppers are encouraged to buy locally.
- Donor personally transports supplies.
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17 November 2021, Geneva, Switzerland - On 12 November 2021, David Dao stepped on the stage of the CICG, in Geneva, to deliver a powerful message to an audience of 300 people: developed nations must work alongside indigenous communities, who are the stewards of the world’s forests, to halt deforestation and reward those who work tirelessly to preserve the planet’s natural resources. David, who is a scientist at ETH Zurich and the son of two Vietnamese refugees rescued by a German ship in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, believes that indigenous people and refugees play a crucial role in fighting climate change but are often overlooked.
David Dao was part of the line-up of The Tide Is Rising, a TEDx Geneva event supported by UNITAR, WMO and UNFCCC, which brought six youth speakers, a slam poetry artist, and a musician to Geneva, Switzerland, to deliver TEDx Talks on how changing the climate change language can lead to enhanced climate action among broader audiences. The Tide Is Rising was the culmination of 8 months of work, which included several planning and coaching sessions, and was the second TEDx event co-organized by UNITAR.
The event, which happened against the backdrop of COP26, aimed to spark a discussion on how changing the climate change language could reach and engage more people. Despite being the most important challenge humankind has ever faced, climate change is often perceived as a technical, unrelatable issue, which often hinders understanding and action. The TEDx-style talks, with presentations carefully developed in partnership with a group of volunteer coaches from TEDx Geneva, helped inspire the audience on-site, but will also be turned into videos and made available for everyone on the TED website.
In addition to David Dao, the line-up featured other youth engaged in climate action, such as Léa Geindreau, who is a full-time climate activist based in Paris, and Susana Hancock, an activist and linguist who believes effective climate change communication is all about “how you say it, not what you say”.
‘’Words matter. They create our reality. Metaphors are not working when it’s about climate change’’ – Susana Hancock at The Tide Is Rising.
Art proved to be a compelling way of getting the message across, with slam poetry artist and activist, Florent Mariaud, and West African musician, Djeli Moussa Condé, delivering inspiring performances that got the audience hooked. Youth scientists Dimitrios Terzis and Stephen Bell walked the audiences through their innovative solutions and confirmed that climate change action and innovation walk hand in hand. The power of language and young people as catalyzers of change was highlighted by Amy Meek, a 18-year-old activist who founded “Kids Against Plastic”, a UK-based charity working with over 1,000 schools to address the plastic waste issue.
After the event, guests were invited to attend a post-event reception at CICG itself, where they met and interacted with the speakers, and got an opportunity to network with the rest of the audience. | <urn:uuid:c5d9380d-2e1a-4484-8483-ba957451e545> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://unitar.org/about/news-stories/featuredarticles/geneva-becomes-brewing-ground-innovative-ideas-how-mainstream-climate-change-language | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.966646 | 644 | 2.296875 | 2 |
What are the basics of digital marketing?
Digital marketing is a job that requires a wide range of abilities and capabilities. Some areas of the job need in-depth expertise, while others are talents that you can learn and enhance as your career progresses. The talents you’ll need to succeed will also be determined by where you work and what you’re doing.
What are the strategies of digital marketing?
I am responsible to help you make strategic marketing decisions that enhance customer experience, find new markets, and provide new customer value in ways that lead to growth. This is accomplished by analyzing your digital marketing strategies and generating optimization recommendations based on customer data and marketing statistics.
I can assist you with:
- Improve the effectiveness of marketing operations
- Determine which opportunities are the most profitable.
- Create innovative offers that are both attractive and profitable.
Create engaging consumer encounters across the appropriate channels and at the appropriate times.
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Salinas woman in ag sales making tracks for others to follow
Abigail Tiscornia has gotten used to being in a field where few women have thus far ventured. When she graduated from the University of Arizona last fall, the young woman returned to Salinas to find a job. At the time she never imagined she'd soon be working for a nationwide John Deere equipment dealership.
Tiscornia explained that one of the reasons she elected to major in Ag Economics is because she believed there would be jobs available when she graduated. That turned out to be a correct assumption.
While in college Tiscornia had an internship as a food safety coordinator and she worked briefly in that position after she left school. Her present position was the result of attending an open house last September at the RDO Equipment Co.'s showroom just south of Salinas off Highway 101.
"I stopped by to see the company and they were doing job interviews that day," she explained. "I talked to a few people and was offered a job as sales trainee."
As far as she knows, Tiscornia was the first woman hired at this location to work in sales. She smiled and admitted that she had never driven a tractor before and accepting the position was a bit of a risk. But Tiscornia also stressed that she saw this as a great opportunity to work with a good company.
Her reservations were tempered by the fact the company would be providing training so she would be knowledgeable of the equipment they were selling. Needless to say, Tiscornia feels comfortable talking about the tractors and other equipment now, and she's been up in the operator's seat of various John Deere tractors as well.
Focusing on inside sales, Tiscornia handles walk-in customers, though she does now have some outside accounts. Although it didn't happen too often, Tiscornia admitted that a few times when she offered to assist a customer, the person asked to speak to a man instead.
Shrugging her shoulders she said, "That was perfectly fine and I called over someone else." Although she was handling lawn equipment and small tractors originally, Tiscornia has more recently worked with some local growers who were either renting or purchasing larger ag equipment.
Since joining RDO Tiscornia has also done some recruiting for the national company at the University of Arizona and recently she helped develop a training program for new employees and conducted a session for a new hire.
Another responsibility that has been given to the young woman is event planning and sponsorship coordination. In January, there was a trade show event in Sacramento that Tiscornia worked on.
"As a woman in this industry, I think it took me longer to prove myself than it would have if I were a male," Tiscornia said. She still feels she has to show she is a credible salesperson but that is just part of job now. Most males are respectful but it sometimes takes awhile to establish that credibility.
In March, Tiscornia attended a John Deere new equipment sales conference in Florida and she said that she was one of only four women there. She recalls being asked by some of the male attendees how they could recruit women for their dealerships' sales departments.
Tiscornia senses that the door is opening wider for women in this area of the agriculture sector but it may take awhile to attract women interested in equipment sales. Looking ahead, Tiscornia hopes more women test the waters and consider a career in this retail arena of the ag business.
RDO Equipment was launched in the late 1960s when Ron Offutt purchased a John Deere dealership in North Dakota. He grew that original dealership over the years to where it now encompasses 60 dealerships in nine states. Today RDO operates the largest John Deere network of dealerships in the United States.
Since 2001, Ron's daughter, Christi Offutt, has served as the company's COO and CEO while his son, Ryan, is the executive vice president in charge of international operations in Russia, Ukraine and Australia.
• AGE: 24
• OCCUPATION: Transactional sales/account manager Ordo Equipment Co., Salinas.
• WORK: 2013-present, RDO Equipment.
• EDUCATION: Graduated from Salinas High in 2008. Received degree in Ag Economics from the University of Arizona in 2013.
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Submitted by Brainerd Memorial Library
Culinary Club, Wednesday, August 10, 2022, 6:30 p.m
. We are back and we are cooking!! In this unique book club, we gather together to talk about our favorite recipes and the dishes we have brought to the meeting. If you need inspiration, we have plenty of cookbooks to help. The theme for August 10th is Farmers Market: make a dish with any ingredient from a farmers market or your garden. (Hint: the Higganum Farmers Market
runs Fridays from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. at the former Haddam Elementary School). A requirement of the club is to bring a dish to the meeting. We will meet on the back lawn. Click to register
Crafting Connections: Mandala Sea Star, Monday August 22, 2022, 6:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m
: A mandala is a complex abstract design that is usually circular in form. In fact, “mandala” is a Sanskrit word that means “circle.” Mandalas generally have one identifiable center point, from which emanates an array of symbols, shapes and forms. In this class, we will be using art canvases, acrylic paints and mandala dotting tools to create a sea star shape. Space is limited to 24 participants.This program is limited to participants ages 16 and up. Please click to register
or call (860) 345-2204.
Steamboats on the Connecticut River, Wednesday, August 24, 2022, 6:30 p.m.
Local author Erik Hesselberg will discuss his new book Night Boat to New York: Steamboats on the Connecticut, 1824-1931
, a meticulously researched account of steamboat days on the Connecticut River, and their circuit from Hartford to New York City. Unlike the steamboats of Western waters, these vessels “were long, sleek craft, with sharp prows cutting a neat wake” as they traveled down the river at night to make port in New York by daybreak. CLICK TO REGISTER
Erik Hesselberg has been writing about the Connecticut River for more than 20 years as an environmental reporter for the Middletown Press and as executive editor of Shore Line Newspapers in Guilford. He was a regular contributor to the Hartford Courant and continues to write about the Connecticut River on his blog, voicesontheriver.com.
Save the Date! Saturday, September 24, 2022, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Brainerd Library fundraiser: Swallows Cruise returns. Join us on Connecticut River Tours to witness the amazing tree swallows migrating flocks. Gourmet snacks and adult beverages will be included. More details and tickets on sale soon.
For our young patrons…
- Build a Model Boat: Tuesday, August 2, 2022 at 3:00 p.m.
- Meigs Point Nature Center Touch Tank: Thursday, August 4, 2022 at 11:00 a.m.
- Drop-In Lego Club: 1st & 3rd Monday of every month at 5:00 p.m.
- Story Time: Tuesdays at 10:00 a.m. — on our back lawn
- Toddler Tunes: Thursdays at 10:00 a.m.– on our back lawn
- Brainerd Library vs. Killingworth Library Mini Boat Race: Saturday, August 6, 2022 at 11:00 a.m. (at the Killingworth Library)
- Teen Advisory Board (at the H-K Dairy Barn): Wednesday, August 3, 2022 at 5:30 p.m.
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As ultrawide monitors are growing popularity, would you consider buying one? Read this article and find out if you really need an ultrawide.
Whether you are a designer or a video editor, multitasking is part of your everyday work scenario: communicating with your clients and coworkers, image-referencing via a web browser, working on your project with Photoshop or Adobe Premiere, and checking your own image gallery, etc.
If you own a standard monitor, squeezing different applications into one screen and flipping between various applications become a large part of your work routine and this might greatly reduce your productivity. If you happen to have a dual monitor setup with enough screen real estate, then you would need to face issues like poor monitor uniformity, inconsistent color accuracy and uneven image brightness. These are pretty obvious around the corners. If the monitors you have are not bezel-less, this means the bezel gap in the middle of the two monitors would interfere with your creation. What’s more, two monitors take up too much workspace and the result is often a messy desk with cluttered cables. An ultrawide comes in handy to solve these issues.
A monitor with the aspect ratio of 21:9 or above is called an ultrawide, while that of a standard one is 16:9. To give you a better idea, a 34” 21:9 ultrawide monitor equals to a 27” 16:9 monitor with an additional 5:9 screen space. You can start with a 34” ultrawide monitor. To sum up, this extra screen space has made all the difference.
33% extra screen real estate makes multitasking even more convenient with displaying multiple applications on one display at the same time. The need to switch between different applications also declines. Unlike the dual monitor setup, one single large monitor offers great color and brightness uniformity, there would be no color and brightness difference when comparing two images side by side. Without two monitor stands to take up the work space, an ultrawide also guarantees a decluttered desk to give you a clear train of thought when working on your Wacom or sketchbook.
Extra workspace also means that an ultrawide is also suitable for video editing. To see the timeline at a glimpse or gain extra room to open other materials for references assists in saving time and increase productivity. Also, its 21:9 aspect ratio can display video clips in its Cinemascope format (2.35:1) without letterboxing, or the black bars, on the top and bottom. As for designers, various work windows gain enough space to be well arranged on one screen for reference and comparison. Both video editors and designers can work not only with great efficiency but also with superior color performance.
Be sure to find ultrawides with well-designed apps and software, they assist in best utilizing their extra screen real estate. For example, the ultrawides for BenQ DesignVue series offer PBP (picture-by-picture), which can divide the screen into two: 16:9 and 5:9, allowing to display the content from the two sources. Equipped with software Display Pilot, BenQ DesignVue series ultrawides can use Desktop Partition to display the content with the predefined or customized templates, saving your time to resize or drag work spaces. Last but not least, the KVM* function works to switch between two sources with a mouse and keyboard set without effort. Connecting to two operating systems, with one workstation rendering and on the other PC or laptop referencing data and video resources or dealing with any work routine, you can boost productivity without wasting time moving from one operating system to another.
*Only certain models have the KVM function
After delving into the benefits of ultrawides, it’s your call to evaluate whether getting an ultrawide for your creativity is worth it or not. Still, bear this in mind: not just any ultrawides will do. Be sure to find one that provides features to assist in designs and suit your creative purposes well. Then you will greatly benefit from it.
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Updated: Jan 11, 2021
March is coming and so is Wauchope's annual Lasiandra Festival where everything goes all fun and purple-ly! At TG's we love getting involved in the different festivals in our communities and the children get all excited and have something to look forward to throughout the year. TG's has been taking part in Wauchope's Lasiandra Festival every year without fail, and on 12th March we are all going to dress up for Purple People Day!
The Lasiandra Festival traditionally takes place from the second Saturday in March because that is when the Lasiandra flowers are blooming in all its glory. This is a festival celebrating flowers, nature and growth and it is when plantings take place about the town. At TG's, the children are given responsibilities in taking care of TG's beautiful gardens and natural playspaces. There are also gardens and natural areas in their communities and we are always looking for opportunities for the children to connect, experience and use what they have learnt at TG's and share them in their communities. In fact, one of the objectives of the Wauchope Lasiandra Festival is to encourage the plantings and maintenance of Lasiandras in the community. The Purple People Shopping and Market Day is part of this festival and the community knows that TG's is always a happy presence on this special day! We expect lots of family fun and friends from all over to join in as well! You can imagine all three TG's centres in Wauchope are already busy making plans. We love this anticipatory buzz in the air whenever we begin to prepare for a festival! The children are going to dress up in purple on 12th March, so they have been looking through their wardrobes with the help of mum and dad. A big floppy purple sunhat, happy purple socks, a fun purple boa feather scarf … let your imagination flow and anything goes (as long as it is purple)! Or perhaps the children are also helping out the rest of the big people in the family with their fashion choices! TG's children are going to explore the Lasiandra Tree through language, literature and technology. And little hands love getting busy, messy and mucky at TG's, so we are going to get the children involved in lots of purple-themed art and crafts, as well as sensory and creative experiences. One of their favourite activities in previous years was to prepare purple decorations for a little competition! There is so much we can expand on here and just one single festival opens up so many Playing is Learning for Life opportunities! Our educators go into overdrive whenever we have a special festival as there is so much they can milk to get the children experiencing, exploring and learning! Everything that is learnt and created by the children gives them an empowering sense of ownership and pride. It allows them to use their gifts and feel proud of themselves for playing a part in their community. Going even further, we encourage the children to develop a deeper awareness of their local Wauchope community. They get to know, get curious about, understand and appreciate the presence of all the different people in this beautiful community. It allows the children to broaden and strengthen their understanding about the community in which they live in. Collective thinking naturally falls into place when the children can see the bigger picture of how everyone contributes to making the community a loving, safe, kind and respectful place to grow in. As this is a festival that is for the entire family, TG's is inviting family members into TG's happy spaces throughout the week to join in and share in our fun and games! This is a wonderful opportunity for families to share their gifts and build relationships! The children adore such moments as they get to see another side to their families when they share their occupations and skills. It opens up amazing opportunities for conversation and curiosity! Knowing how much TG's children and educators love fun and play, we can expect quite a bit of spontaneity amongst the planned activities. We keep our eyes and ears open to what comes up and if exploring, playing, fun are the ingredients, we can guarantee lots of learning is happening too! We can't wait to meet different people and get together with families and friends at the Lasiandra Festival! See you all there! Don't forget to come dressed in purple! | <urn:uuid:8c625fce-1417-4c05-acb7-5ca077201c84> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tgschildcare.com.au/post/tg-s-child-care-goes-purple-in-march-lasiandra-festival | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.972222 | 877 | 1.59375 | 2 |
|"Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face."|
Probably not. But underactive thyroid can cause depression.
"Fluoride could be causing depression and weight gain and councils should stop adding it to drinking water to prevent tooth decay, scientists have warned.
A study of 98 per cent of GP practices in England found that high rates of underactive thyroid were 30 per cent more likely in areas of the greatest fluoridation.
It could mean that up to 15,000 people are suffering needlessly from thyroid problems which can cause depression, weight gain, fatigue and aching muscles.
Fluoride is a naturally occurring mineral found in water in varying amounts, depending on the region and it is also found in certain foods and drinks, including tea and fish. It helps combat tooth decay by making enamel more resistant to bacteria.
But previous studies have found that it inhibits the production of iodine, which is essential for a healthy thyroid.
The thyroid gland, which is found in the neck, regulates the metabolism as well as many other systems in the body.
An underactive thyroid can lead to depression, weight gain, fatigue and aching muscles and affects 15 times more women than men, around 15 in 1,000 women.
The researchers say councils must rethink public health policy to fluoridate the water supply in a bid to protect the nation’s tooth health.
However Public Health England said that previous evidence overwhelmingly showed that fluoride in water was safe.
Dr Sandra White, Director of Dental Public Health at Public Health England, said: “Public Health England regularly reviews the evidence base for water fluoridation.
“The totality of evidence, accumulated over decades of research, tells us that water fluoridation is a safe and effective public health measure, and shows no association with reduced thyroid function.”
Other experts also warned that the study may have been skewed by population bias, a claim denied by the authors.
Prof David Coggon, Professor of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of Southampton, said: “It is quite possible that the observed association is a consequence of other ways in which the areas with higher fluoride differ from the rest of the country.
“There are substantially more rigorous epidemiological methods by which the research team could have tested their idea”"
General Jack D. Ripper: Mandrake, do you realize that in addition to fluoridating water, why, there are studies underway to fluoridate salt, flour, fruit juices, soup, sugar, milk... ice cream. Ice cream, Mandrake, children's ice cream.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: [very nervous] Lord, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: You know when fluoridation first began?
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: I... no, no. I don't, Jack.
General Jack D. Ripper: Nineteen hundred and forty-six. 1946, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Uh, Jack, Jack, listen... tell me, tell me, Jack. When did you first... become... well, develop this theory?
General Jack D. Ripper: [somewhat embarassed] Well, I, uh... I... I... first became aware of it, Mandrake, during the physical act of love.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: Yes, a uh, a profound sense of fatigue... a feeling of emptiness followed. Luckily I... I was able to interpret these feelings correctly. Loss of essence.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Hmm.
General Jack D. Ripper: I can assure you it has not recurred, Mandrake. Women uh... women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I, uh... I do not avoid women, Mandrake.
Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: No.
General Jack D. Ripper: But I... I do deny them my essence. | <urn:uuid:590b302e-1177-4b08-8ff1-d2886969f2a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://clinicalpsychreading.blogspot.com/2015/03/was-jack-d-ripper-right-about.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.946865 | 899 | 2.75 | 3 |
Consequent to an uncertain McCarthy-era accusation of Qian’s affiliation with the Communist Party USA, Eisenhower deported Qian back to China where the MIT- and Caltech-trained engineer, who had been developing rocket engines in Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, went on to boost China’s space and ballistic missile technologies.
Tianyu M. Fang, a 2020 graduate of The Governor’s Academy, is a first-year student at Stanford University and a freelance journalist based in Beijing and California. His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, South China Morning Post, SupChina, and other publications around the world.
To register for this program, go to the Museum’s website at www.NewburyHistory.org and click on the calendar page. There will be a link to Eventbrite to reserve your ticket. All those making a reservation will receive a Zoom link to the program. There is no charge for this program, although donations to the museum are gratefully accepted.
The Museum of Old Newbury preserves and interprets the history of Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury from pre-settlement to the present and carries out its mission through the administration of the Cushing House, the Perkins Engraving Plant, and other historic structures on its High Street campus and furthers its purpose through lectures, exhibitions, educational programs, publications, and research.
Photo caption: Qian Xuesen, left, confers with counsel during a deportation hearing in 1950. Courtesy photo | <urn:uuid:71b0dadb-372d-4223-80ec-ed6014650c00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://towncommonmedia.com/2021/04/19/museum-of-old-newbury-presents-chinas-rocket-man-a-deportee-from-the-us-launches-china-into-space/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.921948 | 312 | 2.1875 | 2 |
This online Disability Awareness training is designed to help candidates understand more about working and communicating with people with disabilities. All workplaces should have an equal opportunities policy that means people with disabilities are given the same chances as anyone else.
This course explains more about the different types of disabilities you may encounter, how disabilities can impact on people’s work.
Developed by experienced business professionals.
Instant PDF Certificate of Completion upon successfully passing the online training course multiple choice assessment.
Approximate duration: 2-3 hours.
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access.
Please note, each course section must be completed before you can view the next course section.
Who Should Take Course?
This online Disability Awareness Training course is suitable for employees who need to have a better understanding about their responsibilities regarding disability in the workplace. The course is written at an introductory level and no previous knowledge is required. | <urn:uuid:08202176-cc8a-4e0b-8ebe-31a0be28548d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://compliancestandardgroup.co.uk/courses/disability-awareness-course/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944911 | 185 | 2.09375 | 2 |
¿Cómo el entorno influye en la decisión de compra de un adolescente frente al consumo de tecnología? : Proyecto de Grado
Valdés Pérez, Sara
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The environment is one of the factors that affect a person when buying a product, the adolescent consumer is exposed to technology, information and advertising, making them want to buy certain products and be aligned with the new market trends. In order to see the impact that the environment has on the decision to purchase a consumer, an investigation was conducted on how this affects adolescents in the cities of Miami and Medellín against technological consumption. As cities are completely different culturally and socially, market strategies should be focused on understanding the environment and the needs that the consumer has to meet their needs. To validate the hypothesis raised in this work of how the environment influences the purchase decision of adolescents against technological consumption. There will be an investigation about the consumer, which influences him to make a decision, what the environment consists of and what aspects are relevant when defining a market strategy in a globalized world. Finally, mixed surveys will be applied to adolescents in these cities to determine if the environment (reference groups, sensory experience, family, culture and technology) influences their decision. | <urn:uuid:bb8b860d-c04c-4997-9000-4e4ecca009c7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dspace.marymount.edu.co/handle/4444.1/125 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.914223 | 274 | 2.78125 | 3 |
In June 2020, protesters toppled the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston from its plinth in Bristol and debates about controversial statues became front-page news in Wales and around the world. Twelve months on, those issues are the focus of a major international conference organised by academics at Swansea University.
On 28 and 29 June, Swansea University will host researchers from around the world in a conference entitled ‘Contested Histories: Creating and Critiquing Public Monuments and Memorials in a New Age of Iconoclasm’. The conference aims not only to discuss the history of statues and memorials, but also to pose questions about what the events of 2020 might tell us about the future. What purpose do statues and memorials hold in modern society and what do they reveal, or conceal, about our past?
The conference will host 180 delegates from more than 20 nations including Australia, China, Chile, America, Japan, and several European countries.
The conference will feature more than 40 talks by international academics on subjects including:
- The representation of women in statues.
- The US Civil War and the legacy of slavery.
- What might the future of statues look like?
- War memorials in Wales, Croatia, Belgium and Italy.
- Statue case studies from Turkey, Israel, the US, India, Italy, Sweden, Cyprus, and others.
- Instances of statue toppling in the distant past.
Academic speakers represent a range of expertise, including history, architecture, art history, heritage, philosophy, sociology, political science and anthropology.
Dr Simon John, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Swansea University and conference co-organiser, said: “A key aim of this conference is to explore how societies at different times in the past and in different settings around the world have approached the creation, alteration and destruction of monuments. The discussions that we will have will show how important historical perspective can be to the live, pressing debates about controversial monuments unfolding across the world today."
The conference is not just a conversation between academics. A key role will be played by people actively involved in campaigns of different types. Delegates will hear from campaigners trying to bring public awareness to controversial statues. Speakers will also discuss their efforts to erect new statues to historically neglected figures. Attendees will also hear from artists who have the challenging task of giving artistic representation to complex histories.
Dr Tomás Irish, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Swansea University and co-organiser of the conference, said: “This conference demonstrates that Swansea University, and the members of the Conflict, Reconstruction and Memory Research Group, are at the centre of cutting-edge research into some of the most urgent contemporary issues in Wales and the wider world. We are excited about hosting this important event and hearing from a wide range of international experts as well as highlighting our dynamic research in this area.” | <urn:uuid:3da3ba10-9791-494d-b302-e48c47e665fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://complexfluids.swansea.ac.uk/press-office/news-events/news/2021/06/swansea-university-hosts-major-international-conference-on-statues-and-monuments.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.938774 | 590 | 2.375 | 2 |
Exporting to iOS – Three Things Newbies Panic Over
February 13, 2013
If you own a copy of GameMaker: Studio Professional, chances are you’re into mobile development. Statistically, new developers are more likely to move towards Apple’s mobile platform, iOS, as it is “easier” to sell copies of your software through their online app store, despite the higher entry barriers.
If you are new to iOS development, there is no doubt you’ll run into problems quickly. Fortunately this is all part of the learning process, and the issues you’ll experience have already been solved by developers just like you.
A very common issue developers encounter is codesigning errors when exporting the app. This means the certificates you obtained to digitally sign your software were not able to successfully bind themselves to your IPA. Your app therefore has no identity.
Codesigning is one of the final steps in the process, and it can be frustrating to see an error appear in the console just when you think you’ve successfully compiled it. An incorrectly codesigned IPA is completely useless.
Last year, finding information on how to setup Xcode when exporting with GameMaker: Studio was a difficult task. One important step seemed to be missing: the installation of Command Line Tools. This additional package for Xcode is crucial in successfully exporting your app to IPA format. It can be downloaded for free through Apple.
It was previously suggested that the GameMaker: Studio iOS module would work in harmony with Mac OS X Snow Leopard (version 10.6), but this isn’t true. Installing the latest Xcode with Command Line Tools on Snow Leopard is simply not possible. A copy of Lion or Mountain Lion (which you can cheaply purchase via the Mac app store) is required instead.
The Command Line Tools are the final piece of the puzzle in allowing Studio to correctly prompt codesigning. Make sure your Xcode folder is in the ‘Applications’ directory on your hard drive, and not in the ‘Developer’ folder. Unlike previous versions of the development tool, Xcode is now bundled and self-contained.
Though this issue is far less prominent now that GameMaker: Studio’s iOS runner has improved, having blurry graphics in your game is a common problem. Some newbie developers build their game to the literal resolution of an iPod/iPhone screen. While this isn’t a problem with the latest iPhones, iPods, and iPads which use retina screens, older non-retina devices require graphics that are double the size of the listed resolution.
The screens have lower pixel counts and try to make up for this by ‘faking’ extra pixels. This causes sprites to look stretched. The solution? If you’re making a game for a 1st, 2nd, or 3rd generation iPod, avoid a 480 x 320 resolution and instead opt for 960 x 640. Sure, your game will never look as flash as it will on the sleek screen of an iPhone 4G, but it’ll be looking as good as it can on those old displays.
At this point you have finished your game and you are now uploading it to the app store. All seems to be going well but… wait! Not another last minute error!
“Required file not found directly under the app wrapper: embedded.mobileprovision”
This issue is one you can turn a blind eye to. Its not something you can fix yourself, but you don’t need to anyway. Many, if not all GameMaker users uploading to the app store, have experienced this error up to the publishing of this article. Not one of them has had their app denied because of it. It is a trivial issue that poses no problem to your app being distributed. If it did, it would have been fixed it by now. | <urn:uuid:a9791e16-7a54-48c1-a5b5-e4722e3c655a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gamemakerblog.com/2013/02/13/exporting-to-ios-three-things-newbies-panic-over/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.947035 | 812 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Flea pest control is one of the biggest expenses for American pet owners. We collectively spend about $9 billion a year on flea control products and services. Discovering fleas on a beloved cat or dog often sends people into a frenzy of flea dipping their pets and obsessively vacuuming the home. But knowing where in the home you are most likely to find fleas is an important piece of information in your war against fleas. Here is how to effectively enact flea pest control practices in your home.
Where In the House Do Fleas Like to Hide?
Fleas don’t only hang out on your cat or dog’s fur. They will most often be found on and around pet beds, and under furniture, cushions, chairs, beds, and along baseboards. If your vacuum uses bags, be sure to discard these bags every week. Fleas can lay eggs in vacuum bags, which will perpetuate the cycle of infestation.
How Long Can Fleas Live?
Right after eating blood from its host animal, a female flea begins laying eggs within two days. She can produce 27 eggs per day and consume 15 times her body weight in blood every single day. Flea larvae feed on adult flea excrement, along with other organic matter such as food particles, dead skin, or feathers. Larvae develop in five to 11 days.
The larva spins a cocoon and develops into a pupa. After about a week or two, the pupa becomes an adult flea. However, the adult flea can survive in the cocoon for up to five months if necessary. When it is stimulated by a passing animal, the adult flea can emerge from the cocoon within seconds and jump onto the animal. Thanks to these “hiding” fleas, vacant homes can suddenly become infested when new tenants move in.
How Can Fleas Affect My Family?
Flea bites result in itchy red bumps on humans and animals alike. Continually scratching these bites can cause skin infections on dogs and cats. Some types of fleas can also carry dangerous diseases, including the plague and murine typhus.
It’s important to follow a thorough flea pest control plan when these blood-sucking bugs are discovered in your home. A reliable pest control company can help you quickly and effectively reduce fleas in your home for your entire family’s safety, health, and comfort. | <urn:uuid:449d5e37-d579-4dc0-b3b3-89b7177fd3f2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.northfultonexterminating.com/flea-pest-control-services/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.941071 | 505 | 2.34375 | 2 |
1524, thats a pretty long time ago! The Oldest Colonial City in the Continental Americas has seen much more than Nicaraguan Cigars. From Imperial Spanish soldiers to the crazed and self-proclaimed president from Tennessee, to becoming Nicaragua's most visited city, Granada, Nicaragua is truly a world treasure and travelers favorite. We like to think our humble contribution of being Granada's only cigar factory, the only cigar factory in Nicaragua to call a colonial mansion home, adds to the unique flavor of this incredible town. Mansión Mombacho is blessed to host tons of travelers and cigar lovers alike as Trip Advisors #1 Destination in Granada. But its not just our walls that serenade you with stories of the past. Think of the oldest church, La Merced, sheltering folks within her walls to safely pass times of war. Or, the walls of the town square which lead to Parque Central, which over the centuries has hosted bull fights, world dignitaries and the famed market, present in Central Park for more than four centuries.
Nothing accompanies the silent stories of the walls of Granada, Nicaragua like leaning along side of them and slowing time down to the speed of a 100% Hand Made Mombacho cigar. A cigar and a story is a wonderful past time, and we've got plenty of them here in Granada. We'd like you to join us in Granada for this past time, and see our city come alive with every puff! | <urn:uuid:eada1214-05b0-45e3-a63c-53d73e2091c1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mombachocigars.com/blogs/mombacho-moment/if-the-walls-of-granada-could-talk | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.936081 | 302 | 1.726563 | 2 |
*Civilizations were destroyed worldwide by climate change in the "Meghalayan," but had no idea what was gong on.
Collapse of civilizations worldwide defines youngest unit of the Geologic Time Scale
The Late Holocene Meghalayan Age, newly-ratified as the most recent unit of the Geologic Time Scale, began at the time when agricultural societies around the world experienced an abrupt and critical mega-drought and cooling 4,200 years ago. This key decision follows many years of research by Quaternary scientists, scrutinized and tested by the subcommissions of the International Commission on Stratigraphy under the chairmanship of Professor David Harper, Durham University, UK.
Agricultural-based societies that developed in several regions after the end of the last Ice Age were impacted severely by the 200-year climatic event that resulted in the collapse of civilizations and human migrations in Egypt, Greece, Syria, Palestine, Mesopotamia, the Indus Valley, and the Yangtze River Valley. Evidence of the 4.2 kiloyear climatic event has been found on all seven continents.
The Meghalayan Age is unique among the many intervals of the Geologic Time Scale in that its beginning coincides with a global cultural event produced by a global climatic event, said Dr. Stanley Finney, Professor of Geological Sciences at Long Beach State University and Secretary General of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS).... | <urn:uuid:f0b2396d-383f-476b-ab92-3307645aa627> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wired.com/beyond-the-beyond/2018/08/collapse-civilizations-worldwide-defines-youngest-unit-geologic-time-scale/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.949874 | 298 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Packet Tracer – Investigating the TCP/IP and OSI Models in Action
Part 1: Examine HTTP Web Traffic
Part 2: Display Elements of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
This simulation activity is intended to provide a foundation for understanding the TCP/IP protocol suite and the relationship to the OSI model. Simulation mode allows you to view the data contents being sent across the network at each layer.
As data moves through the network, it is broken down into smaller pieces and identified so that the pieces can be put back together when they arrive at the destination. Each piece is assigned a specific name (protocol data unit [PDU]) and associated with a specific layer of the TCP/IP and OSI models. Packet Tracer simulation mode enables you to view each of the layers and the associated PDU. The following steps lead the user through the process of requesting a web page from a web server by using the web browser application available on a client PC.
Even though much of the information displayed will be discussed in more detail later, this is an opportunity to explore the functionality of Packet Tracer and be able to visualize the encapsulation process.
Part 1: Examine HTTP Web Traffic
In Part 1 of this activity, you will use Packet Tracer (PT) Simulation mode to generate web traffic and examine HTTP.
Step 1: Switch from Realtime to Simulation mode.
In the lower right corner of the Packet Tracer interface are tabs to toggle between Realtime and Simulation mode. PT always starts in Realtime mode, in which networking protocols operate with realistic timings. However, a powerful feature of Packet Tracer allows the user to “stop time” by switching to Simulation mode. In Simulation mode, packets are displayed as animated envelopes, time is event driven, and the user can step through networking events.
a. Click the Simulation mode icon to switch from Realtime mode to Simulation mode.
b. Select HTTP from the Event List Filters.
1) HTTP may already be the only visible event. Click Edit Filters to display the available visible events. Toggle the Show All/None check box and notice how the check boxes switch from unchecked to checked or checked to unchecked, depending on the current state.
2) Click the Show All/None check box until all boxes are cleared and then select HTTP. Click anywhere outside of the Edit Filters box to hide it. The Visible Events should now only display HTTP.
Step 2: Generate web (HTTP) traffic.
Currently the Simulation Panel is empty. There are six columns listed across the top of the Event List within the Simulation Panel. As traffic is generated and stepped through, events appear in the list. The Info column is used to inspect the contents of a particular event.
Note: The Web Server and Web Client are displayed in the left pane. The panels can be adjusted in size by hovering next to the scroll bar and dragging left or right when the double-headed arrow appears.
a. Click Web Client in the far left pane.
b. Click the Desktop tab and click the Web Browser icon to open it.
c. In the URL field, enter www.osi.local and click Go.
Because time in Simulation mode is event-driven, you must use the Capture/Forward button to display network events.
d. Click Capture/Forward four times. There should be four events in the Event List.
Look at the Web Client web browser page. Did anything change?
Step 3: Explore the contents of the HTTP packet.
a. Click the first colored square box under the Event List > Info column. It may be necessary to expand the Simulation Panel or use the scrollbar directly below the Event List.
The PDU Information at Device: Web Client window displays. In this window, there are only two tabs (OSI Model and Outbound PDU Details) because this is the start of the transmission. As more events are examined, there will be three tabs displayed, adding a tab for Inbound PDU Details. When an event is the last event in the stream of traffic, only the OSI Model and Inbound PDU Details tabs are displayed.
b. Ensure that the OSI Model tab is selected. Under the Out Layers column, ensure that the Layer 7 box is highlighted.
What is the text displayed next to the Layer 7 label?
What information is listed in the numbered steps directly below the In Layers and Out Layers boxes?
c. Click Next Layer. Layer 4 should be highlighted. What is the Dst Port value?
d. Click Next Layer. Layer 3 should be highlighted. What is the Dest. IP value?
e. Click Next Layer. What information is displayed at this layer?
f. Click the Outbound PDU Details tab.
Information listed under the PDU Details is reflective of the layers within the TCP/IP model.
Note: The information listed under the Ethernet II section provides even more detailed information than is listed under Layer 2 on the OSI Model tab. The Outbound PDU Details provides more descriptive and detailed information. The values under DEST MAC and SRC MAC within the Ethernet II section of the PDU Details appear on the OSI Model tab under Layer 2, but are not identified as such.
What is the common information listed under the IP section of PDU Details as compared to the information listed under the OSI Model tab? With which layer is it associated?
What is the common information listed under the TCP section of PDU Details, as compared to the information listed under the OSI Model tab, and with which layer is it associated?
What is the Host listed under the HTTP section of the PDU Details? What layer would this information be associated with under the OSI Model tab?
g. Click the next colored square box under the Event List > Info column. Only Layer 1 is active (not grayed out). The device is moving the frame from the buffer and placing it on to the network.
h. Advance to the next HTTP Info box within the Event List and click the colored square box. This window contains both In Layers and Out Layers. Notice the direction of the arrow directly under the In Layers column; it is pointing upward, indicating the direction the information is travelling. Scroll through these layers making note of the items previously viewed. At the top of the column the arrow points to the right. This denotes that the server is now sending the information back to the client.
Comparing the information displayed in the In Layers column with that of the Out Layers column, what are the major differences?
i. Click the Outbound PDU Details tab. Scroll down to the HTTP section.
What is the first line in the HTTP message that displays?
j. Click the last colored square box under the Info column. How many tabs are displayed with this event and why?
Part 2: Display Elements of the TCP/IP Protocol Suite
In Part 2 of this activity, you will use the Packet Tracer Simulation mode to view and examine some of the other protocols comprising of the TCP/IP suite.
Step 1: View Additional Events
a. Close any open PDU information windows.
b. In the Event List Filters > Visible Events section, click Show All.
What additional Event Types are displayed?
These extra entries play various roles within the TCP/IP suite. If the Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) is listed, it searches MAC addresses. DNS is responsible for converting a name (for example, www.osi.local) to an IP address. The additional TCP events are responsible for connecting, agreeing on communication parameters, and disconnecting the communications sessions between the devices. These protocols have been mentioned previously and will be further discussed as the course progresses. Currently there are over 35 possible protocols (event types) available for capture within Packet Tracer.
c. Click the first DNS event in the Info column. Explore the OSI Model and PDU Detail tabs and note the encapsulation process. As you look at the OSI Model tab with Layer 7 highlighted, a description of what is occurring is listed directly below the In Layers and Out Layers (“1. The DNS client sends a DNS query to the DNS server.”). This is very useful information to help understand what is occurring during the communication process.
d. Click the Outbound PDU Details tab. What information is listed in the NAME: in the DNS QUERY section?
e. Click the last DNS Info colored square box in the event list. Which device is displayed?
What is the value listed next to ADDRESS: in the DNS ANSWER section of the Inbound PDU Details?
f. Find the first HTTP event in the list and click the colored square box of the TCP event immediately following this event. Highlight Layer 4 in the OSI Model tab. In the numbered list directly below the In Layers and Out Layers, what is the information displayed under items 4 and 5?
TCP manages the connecting and disconnecting of the communications channel along with other responsibilities. This particular event shows that the communication channel has been ESTABLISHED.
g. Click the last TCP event. Highlight Layer 4 in the OSI Model tab. Examine the steps listed directly below In Layers and Out Layers. What is the purpose of this event, based on the information provided in the last item in the list (should be item 4)?
This simulation provided an example of a web session between a client and a server on a local area network (LAN). The client makes requests to specific services running on the server. The server must be set up to listen on specific ports for a client request. (Hint: Look at Layer 4 in the OSI Model tab for port information.)
Based on the information that was inspected during the Packet Tracer capture, what port number is the Web Server listening on for the web request?
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“ How would it feel to have someone who listens to you and empowers you to make changes in your life that are sustainable and lead you towards your health goals?”
Health Coaching is a process of empowering and educating people to reach their own health goals. Coaching is thus about teaching, guiding and providing social support to people to make changes that will inspire behaviour change. Coaching is about collaborating with clients to make lasting changes for better health and well-being. Health coaching is gaining momentum around the world and we have started hearing about it more and more.
But what is Health Coaching?
Health Coaching is a process by which a person is empowered to make better choices and change habits that can improve health outcomes. As the world struggles with a rising number of chronic, complex diseases, a different healthcare system is needed which can provide the much needed support to people as they embark on their journey back towards good health. The sheer number of people who have type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance, autoimmune conditions, cancer and other chronic conditions outnumber the number of health professionals and doctors required to treat them. Fortunately, nutrition professionals and health coaches can fill that gap.
Functional Medicine Health Coaching
Functional Medicine Health Coaching is a particular type of Health Coaching which incorporates the principles of Functional Medicine along with Health Coaching. Functional Medicine is a way of treating chronic conditions by getting to the root cause of the disease. The management of patients using this approach involves a personalised programme in the areas of nutrition, stress, movement and activity. Thus Functional Medicine is by nature personalised, preventive and participatory and engages both the client and health coach in a therapeutic relationship.
This is a field that is growing rapidly across the world and the healthcare industry is now incorporating health coaches into various settings including but not limited to hospitals, clinics, corporate wellness programmes, spas and private practices.
Functional Medicine Health Coaching blends the principles of Functional Medicine along with that of Health Coaching and focuses on food as medicine, the concept of mind body medicine and positive psychology. Functional Medicine Coaching Academy or FMCA was formed in collaboration with the Institute of Functional Medicine (IFM) which is the global leader in Functional Medicine education.
A Functional Medicine Health Coach collaborates with a client and helps to set his or her health goals through an inquiry process using the motivational interviewing technique. Using a client centered approach, the coach helps the client brainstorm and arrive at their own conclusion and embark on their health journey with the coach acting as a guide. This empowers the client to take charge of their health and work towards their health goals by making the necessary changes in their life. This discovery of the client’s own power to make changes is a key part of the coaching process and is made using the tools of positive psychology.
A Functional Medicine certified Health Coach is trained in the science based principles of Functional Medicine as well as health coaching
Using this approach, the coach focuses on what is going right with the client and helps the client discover their signature strengths and use them to change behaviours and help them to thrive again. Health Coaches can help people build a bridge between where they are currently and where they want to be in terms. This is done by providing the much needed support and accountability required to achieve their health goals.
As they start believing in themselves once again, they can once again regain their “spark”.
You can expect customised guidance on
- Nutrition and hydration– eliminating inflammatory foods and adding in quality foods filled with macro, micro and phytonutrients
- Exercise and movement– daily movement can reduce the risk of many health conditions including mental health and also improve energy levels
- Sleep and relaxation– Restorative activities which promote resilience and relaxation as well as adequate and quality sleep are critical for your journey towards wellness
- Social relationships and connections– Social connections and a sense of belonging can transform stress by reducing the sense of suffering in isolation; often this can be one of the biggest obstacles towards reaching one’s health goals
- Mindfulness and stress management- Chronic stress over time can lead to impaired immunity and inflammation leading to chronic health conditions; it is imperative to find and practice any form or stress reduction like deep breathing, yoga, mindfulness meditation
Individual Coaching sessions
One on one coaching sessions are coaching sessions done with the client so that each session is completely customised for that person. There is a minimum of 8 sessions that the client would be required to sign up for initially. This is to ensure connectivity and a high level of commitment on both the client’s side and the coach’s side. Since chronic conditions do not have a pill as a cure, dietary and lifestyle changes are the major focal points. This takes time and effort and needs to be built upon gradually, step by step. For more details about these sessions, please use the contact form provided below.
Group Coaching can be carried out in small groups of anything from a minimum of 5 or 6 to 10 people and even on a much larger scale. The benefit of a group coaching session is the collective wisdom and the shared experiences that each one of the participants has access to. By sharing and discussing with a small community that is nonjudgmental and empathetic, it is easier to make changes as a group and it also helps to be held accountable towards others.
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Ahead of his visit to Cyprus and Greece, Pope Francis said on Saturday his thoughts were with those fleeing wars and poverty who died in the sea or who were met with hostility instead of hospitality when they managed to reach a shore.
In a message ahead of his visit to the island on Thursday, Pope Francis said Europe cannot ignore the Mediterranean, the sea that accommodated the dissemination of the Gospel and the development of great civilisations.
“Mare Nostrum (as the Mediterranean was called by the Romans), our sea, which connects so many countries, urges us to sail together and not follow separate ways, especially at this moment when fighting the pandemic continues to require a common pledge and the climate crisis is imminent,” he said.
“The sea, which embraces many peoples, reminds us with its open ports that the sources of coexistence are found in mutual acceptance.”
He said he already felt welcome and thanked everyone who prepared his visit.
“But I also think of those who in recent years, today even, flee war and poverty, land on the shores of the continent and elsewhere, and find no hospitality but hostility, even exploitation,” he said.
“They are our brothers and sisters. How many have lost their life at sea? Today, our sea, the Mediterranean, is a big cemetery.”
Pope Francis said he was going to Greece and Cyprus as a pilgrim, following the footsteps of the first great missionaries, especially Apostles Paul and Barnabas.
“It is good to return to our roots and it is important for the Church to rediscover the joy of the Gospel.”
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At the heart of the uncertainty is China’s commitment to carbon neutrality by 2060. President Xi Jinping has repeatedly used the slogan “clear waters and lush mountains are priceless assets”, highlighting an intimate relationship between China’s decarbonization policy and underlying economic benefits.
“Changing China’s energy mix is the most feasible way to reshape its carbon emissions trajectory, as the energy sector is the biggest emitter of carbon. “
The obstacles China faces to cut carbon dioxide emission are high. It is the largest contributing country in the world carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. International experience suggests that developed economies typically take 50 to 60 years on average to achieve carbon neutrality after peaking in emissions.
Even so, the impact will be felt almost immediately. the 14 of Chinae The five-year plan set a binding target of reducing carbon emissions per unit of gross domestic product (GDP) by 18% between 2021 and 2025, the same as over the past five years.
Changing China’s energy mix is the most feasible way to reshape its carbon emissions trajectory, as the energy sector is the most important carbon emitter. However, the associated policies will have a broader impact for the commodity complex.
China’s energy imports have exploded in recent years. Coal and petroleum imports jumped to 304 million tonnes (mt) and 542 mt in 2020, from 2 mt and 70 mt, respectively, in 2000. ANZ Research analysis shows that in the scenario of 1 , 5 ° C, China will likely reduce its overall energy imports by 95%. in 30 years.
Coal, which accounts for 63 percent of electricity production and 57 percent of China’s primary energy mix, contributed 7.5 billion tonnes (bnt). However, clean energy, particularly natural gas, only accounted for 7.8% of its total energy mix, compared to a global average of 24.2%. | <urn:uuid:d3b188db-3742-4cca-b311-8861479d1681> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cimarronalliance.org/products-from-china-clear-waters-lush-mountains/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.929978 | 397 | 2.765625 | 3 |
The story of the Bloomington dentist killing the “beloved” lion Cecil on a hunt in Zimbabwe is revolting on several levels. The report that he paid more than $54,000 for the opportunity, according to the London Telegraph, makes me think about his use of the word “legal,” along with his expressing regret.
I cannot help thinking of the many who cannot afford dental care even with insurance while this man, Walter J. Palmer, makes so much that he can pay to hunt and kill a lion in Africa for sport. I certainly hope this behavior qualifies as a strong-enough ethical lapse to revoke his license, since being convicted of poaching a bear in Wisconsin several years ago was not enough.
Regret, Mr. Palmer, is when you break a plate or have to carry bad news, but regret for killing any lion, especially a beloved and collared one, is reprehensible. The havoc that being in the news will bring to your life pales in comparison to havoc in the life of the pride of lions and those who honored Cecil’s life.
Rosemary Rocco, Maple Grove
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I think this man should be helping the children in Africa with dental issues instead of murdering innocent animals. I hope you folks who let this man in your mouth will realize what kind of a person he really is and will stop funding his sick entertainment. Your insurance payments are funding his tools of death.
As a society, we should reject and shun this cruelty. There is no valid reason for such murderous activity except a perverted and sadistic sense of fun, which is nothing to brag about. Palmer’s trophy photos are those of an egomaniac with too much money, and his regrets are meaningless. Cecil’s life has no price tag.
Carolyn Niesen, Duluth
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Palmer will wish he’d never heard of Africa when social media is done with him. His dental practice will be dead in a matter of days. The circumstances of Cecil’s death were particularly despicable. According to Johnny Rodrigues, who heads up the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force, the lion was lured out of a national park with food, shot with a bow and arrow, tracked for 40 more hours, then finished off with a gun. Nice going, Palmer.
David Larousse, Lafayette, La.
Sorry, skeptical letter writer; you’re grasping at straws
A July 28 letter writer disagrees with Pope Francis’ assertion that “a very solid scientific consensus indicates that we are presently witnessing a disturbing warming of the climatic system,” an assertion made in the recent encyclical “Laudato Si.” The letter writer claims there are “many thousands of scientists in the relevant disciplines” who do not agree that global warming, or climate change, is a scientific fact. He then goes on to name four such scientists, one of whom is deceased and two of whom are retired. The fourth, the astrophysicist Dr. Sallie Baliunas, has indeed suggested alternative causes such as sunspot activity and ozone depletion, but has not denied climate change.
The fact is that few, if any, active climate scientists deny that the planet is warming or that human activity is the principal cause. Francis’ encyclical on this important subject, unlike the July 28 letter, is accurate in its assessment of the latest scientific research.
Allan Campbell, Minneapolis
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I think the letter writer missed the simple message the pope gives us: We are given this beautiful world (air, land and water), and we are to be good stewards of all. Personal responsibility is foremost in managing all of what we have. Life is not without rules to live by for the common good. When we abuse, we take from others. This pope is learned in science as well as religion and is leading us to see things we have been too selfish to see and do.
Mary Dosan, Eveleth, Minn.
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Apart from the flawed analysis of how scientists arrive at conclusions (it’s based on evidence) and despite the reported effects of climate change (based on verifiable news reports, weather data and observable phenomena), the July 28 letter writer, like many others, will not be persuaded by any means or reason.
Holdouts may think that they do the rest of us a service by adopting a skeptical attitude in the service of reasonable doubt, but at the end of the day it is simply naked stupidity, intransigence and stubbornness — human traits that are as evident today as throughout history. Galileo faced the same crowd back in his day, and it didn’t change the “facts”; it just made life more difficult for the “consensus” seekers who were guided by belief. Either way, the planet is heating up, and those who are aware of this are obligated to do something about it.
George Hutchinson, Minneapolis
Utilitarianism cannot justify it; unborn babies’ value is intrinsic
It’s hard to agree with the logic Dr. Steven Miles uses in his July 28 commentary singing the praises of fetal research (“This work saves and betters lives”). His premise is that it’s necessary, indeed commendable, to use parts and pieces of aborted babies to better or save the lives of others, including unborn babies whose mothers want them. He also justifies that practice on grounds that women donate their babies’ bodies to researchers only after making the decision to abort. Implicit in this logic is that a mother’s desire for her baby to go on living is the only determinant of that baby’s worth and that donating someone else’s body to science is ethical and praiseworthy.
An unborn human is a separate being, not part of his or her mother, and the value of a baby before birth is intrinsic, not dependent on someone else’s attitude. Everyone can support procedures Miles references that are used to save the lives of wanted babies in the womb. But many object to treating other babies merely as sources of spare parts just because those babies happen to be unwanted by their mothers.
Nancy Koster, Edina
Limit of one purchase a month could help fight trafficking
The front-page story listing all of the problems caused by the Burnsville woman’s straw purchases of guns (“Guns bought by woman are linked to crime spree,” July 28) points to some obvious and much-needed remedies.
Minnesota needs to pass an anti-trafficking law that limits purchases to one firearm per month per person. While 12 new firearms a year should be more than enough for any law-abiding gun owner, a trafficker would not be able to make a living from the sale proceeds of just that number.
And laws prohibiting straw purchasers need to be strengthened and enforced. “Charges are fairly uncommon against straw buyers, people who buy guns legally on behalf of people who cannot,” the article reports. “But gang-related crimes involving guns bought that way are a recurring theme.”
Mary Lewis Grow, Northfield
To me, it seems the answer to a number of problems
Recently, I’ve read several articles that seemed remarkable in juxtaposition. One spoke of a number of countries that were combating their declining birthrates. Another was related to the damage caused by global warming. The third referred to a number of countries working to stem the flow of illegal asylum seekers. In the U.S., there is real concern about who will care for the aging baby boomers and sufferers of Alzheimer’s disease, yet there is a call to build an enormously expensive wall to keep people seeking work from entering the country.
It seems that the obvious solution would be to embrace immigration, which would eventually increase the tax base and workforce. This seems far better than encouraging a higher birthrate increasing the pressure on global resources.
Priscilla Elwell, Minneapolis
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An organization evolves
As a parent of a Cub Scout and as a former member myself, I am so proud and pleased that the Boy Scouts of America voted to allow gay Scout leaders. This has been a progression since the organization voted two years ago to allow gay Scouts. Far from changing its mission, the BSA wisely reviewed itself and realized it would lose its membership and meaning if it did not make such changes. Sometimes the world changes for the better, and this is such an occasion.
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Source: Studying Teacher Education, Volume 5, Issue 1 May 2009, pages 21-31
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This study describes how one teacher educator used metaphor as a self-study tool over an eight-year period. This study considers critical use of a variety of metaphors that helped the author better understand her practice.
The author gathered information about her practice in teaching journal and in notes from discussions in her self-study group, work with individual colleagues, and ad hoc discussions with peers and students. Institutional Teaching Evaluations (ITE) provided additional student perspectives.
Several methods of eliciting metaphors are discussed and the effects of multiple metaphors on the educator's perspectives on practice are highlighted.
The interplay among the metaphors and their meaning is described and used to provide additional insights.
Cook-Sather (2003) explores how metaphors function systemically in education. Within these metaphorical frameworks, there is a space for idiosyncratic and personal metaphors that capture our individual contexts. Miller et al. (2002) suggest exploration of individual metaphors as a useful tool for educators wishing to examine their personal practice.
The literature contains many references to using such an approach with teacher education students, a few instances of using it with in-service teachers, and a very small number using it with teacher educators, but all report on the use of a single metaphor over a limited time.
This study adds to that research by considering how metaphors used intentionally over an extended period of time influenced the practice of one teacher educator.
The work demonstrates how long-term use of metaphors can be a way to step back from practice, take a new look at the meaning of the particulars of practice, and reframe events of practice. Potential avenues for improvement of practice emerged from these interpretations, and the effects of these changes and possible future efforts are discussed.
Cook-Sather, A. (2003) Movements of mind: The matrix, metaphors, and re-imagining education. Teachers College Record 105 , pp. 946-977.
Miller, C., East, K., Fitzgerald, L. M., Heston, M. L. and Veenstra, T. B. (2002) Visions of self in the act of teaching: Using personal metaphors in a collaborative study of teaching practices. Teaching and Learning 16 , pp. 81-94. | <urn:uuid:1609414f-c016-466a-b637-69161b774c2c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://education.eng.macam.ac.il/article/1450 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.910224 | 482 | 2.765625 | 3 |
DACA Debate Dominates Supreme Court’s Week
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in one of the most significant cases of the term this week. In Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, the Court must decide the fate of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration policy.
The suit involves the lawfulness of the Department of Homeland Security’s decision to phase out DACA, which allows undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to apply for protection from deportation. The Ninth Circuit previously ruled that the rescission was arbitrary and capricious.At this point, it is unclear how the Supreme Court will rule, with the justices asking tough questions of all the parties. It is also possible that the justices won’t reach the merits, instead deciding that it lacks jurisdiction to consider the case in the first place.
DACA wasn’t the only controversial issue before the justices. They also considered the following cases:
Hernandez v. Mesa: The closely-watched case involves the fatal shooting of a Mexican teenager by United States Border Patrol from across the U.S. border onto Mexican soil.The Court previously considered the case in 2017, but remanded it back to the Fifth Circuit without reaching the merits. This time around the Court will consider the following question: “Whether, when the plaintiffs plausibly allege that a rogue federal law-enforcement officer violated clearly established Fourth and Fifth amendment rights for which there is no alternative legal remedy, the federal courts can and should recognize a damages claim underBivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics.”
Comcast Corp. v. National Association of African American-Owned Media: Entertainment Studios Networks (ESN)’s suit alleges that Comcast’s decision to not carry ESN’s networks was racially-motivated in violation of 42 U.S.C. § 1981. The Ninth Circuit reversed the district court’s dismissal of the suit, ruling that Section 1981 does not require but-for causation and that ESN only needed to show that race was one “motivating factor” in the company’s decision. The Ninth Circuit’s decision deepened the split among the other courts of appeals on the issue, prompting the Supreme Court to intervene. It will decide the following question: “Whether a claim of race discrimination under42 U.S.C. §1981fails in the absence of but-for causation.”
Ritzen Group Inc. v. Jackson Masonry, LLC: In bankruptcy, parties must appeal final orders within 14 days of the court’s ruling. The Court has agreed to consider the following question: “Whether an order denying a motion for relief from the automatic stay is a final order under28 U.S.C. § 158(a)(1).”
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As you continue to learn new songs on your guitar, you’ll encounter chords or strum patterns you’ve never played before. In these videos, you’ll find Peter Vogl’s game plan for efficiently practicing new chord progressions. We use a basic strum and chords in these songs, but these exercises can be applied to any new song or advanced technique that you’re learning.
By isolating the chords, changes, and pattern, you can really focus on your technique and make sure you’re playing everything correctly. Trying to jump into each piece of music at full speed can cause you to develop bad habits. This type of focused and detailed practice will allow you to identify trouble areas to work on and improve as a guitarist. | <urn:uuid:168f3710-16f2-4600-be29-11c8e1cd984c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://guitartreats.com/2015/05/how-to-practice-chord-progressions-strum-patterns.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940803 | 158 | 1.804688 | 2 |
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Is it possible to have the flu without a fever, i keep sneezing have a sore throat, itchy eye, dry cough, back pain, headach & runny nose?
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Pediatric Allergy and Asthma 37 years experience
Mgt: From your description, another possible cause is an allergic reaction. I would recommend a dose of an over the counter antihistamine to assess if it helps.
Have you had your flu vaccination? If not, I would recommend it unless otherwise contraindicated.
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We all know traveling is so much more than just switching cars and taking pictures.
It contributes a lot to well being of physical and mental health as well. While you can see wonderful destinations on a trip, you will feel touched by its benefits over your overall health.
Discover seven reasons why traveling affects your health in this piece and get ready to come visit us in Langhe!
1. It Relieves Stress
Traveling is a real stress-buster for those who have taken a break from their nine to six jobs or 24*7 businesses.
Not only it keeps you away from the daily life hustles but it also helps you feel relaxed, getting recharged, and return rejuvenated.
A study on Americans showed how 89% of them observed a fall in stress level only after traveling for a day or two!
2. It Makes You Happy and Fulfilled
That busted stressful thoughts on a trip bring down your cortisol levels and thus, make you happy. Cannabis has elements like CBD and tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) that can help to treat anxiety, depression, and similar mental disorders.
So, if you carry CBD oils, gummies, or twisted extracts Cara melts with you on a trip, it can help you improve mental health. Traveling makes you happy and fulfilled, and a happy soul is the healthiest soul!
3. It Gives You Confidence
How will you feel after hiking a thousand feet worth of mountain alone or sky diving from the deadliest height? Confident, right?
Everything from planning the trip to performing the itinerary gives you self-confidence.
You believe in yourself more than ever, and it helps you elevate mental health.
4. It Boosts Creativity
Exploring unknown destinations often results in boosting self-creativity.
You dive into the local culture, know their food and beliefs, and make your move to reinvent yourself while matching with them.
Thus, you become healthier from both body and mind.
5. It Enhances Brain Cognition
Traveling involves a lot of planning and plotting. It can get mentally and emotionally challenging for you.
When you overcome all those uncertainties on your own, your brain cognition reaches cloud nine.
And if instead you don’t feel like planning at all, no worries, we can do it for you! :-)
6. It Keeps You Physically Fit
While there’s a lot of juggling going on in your mind, your legs are doing plenty enough on a trip, too.
Walking down the destinations, exploring the town streets, hiking the mountains, trailing the forest, and similar travel experiences demand a lot of energy.
Traveling makes you physically fit though!
7. It Resolves Sleep Irregularities
Hectic lifestyles and modern days don’t allow humans to sleep sufficiently.
While they skip their ideal seven to eight hours of sleep at home, they can easily achieve it while on a trip.
A vacation also allows taking a quick nap in the afternoon when all the tourists are probably doing the same in their hotel rooms!
Now you know how traveling positively affects your overall health.
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Turn Up the Heat! Hot Peppers
Are you one of those people who like peppers so hot they make your eyes water, your throat close, and your hands shake? Then Thai chili peppers, habanero peppers, or even the infamous ghost pepper will have you reaching for the milk. Stop by your local farmers’ market for a wide selection of hot peppers. They have everything from mildly warm to 5-alarm, blistering hot peppers during the summer months.
Call them chili peppers or hot peppers, they come in lots of varieties, with many only found at your farmers’ market. The heat you feel from eating a hot pepper is determined by the amount of capsaicin in the pepper. These levels of capsaicin are measured on the Scoville scale to determine how hot you can expect a pepper to be. Developed by Wilbur Scoville in 1912, Scoville Units measure pepper heat in multiples of 100.
Bell peppers and sweet Italian peppers stand at zero, jalapeños at 5,000, cayenne peppers at 50,000, and habanero peppers at 300,000 units. Thai chili peppers that have names like Volcano and Scorpion come in at 115,000 Scoville units. With new hotter varieties of habaneros named Carolina Reaper, Devil’s Tongue, and Komodo Dragon at over 1.4 million Scovilles, you know they’re going to make you sweat!
What is the hottest part of the pepper? There are many who say the seeds are what makes a pepper hot. Others say it’s the white pith inside that’s the hottest – these folks are correct. The inner wall of the pepper is what gives the pepper its heat, not the seeds, which only contain a small amount of capsaicin. If you want the taste of pepper flavor while avoiding most of the hotness, remove the pithy inner wall of the pepper.
Finally, the amount of heat in a pepper depends on when the pepper is harvested during the growth cycle. Peppers that are harvested while still green have less heat, while those harvested when they have begun to ripen to a red, orange, or golden color are hotter. Even hotter are peppers that have been left to fully ripen on the vine.
Try these easy ways to prepare and enjoy peppers to fire up your taste buds:
- Stuff jalapeños with cream cheese and herbs, top with shredded cheddar, and broil.
- Add chopped and seeded jalapeños to your cornbread for an extra zip.
- Add finely chopped habaneros to your 5-alarm chili recipe.
- Stir fry vegetables with pork or chicken. Add Thai peppers*. Kung Pao chicken, anyone?
- Add finely chopped habanero* peppers for homemade pepper jelly. Serve with a cream cheese block. *Use a milder pepper for a not-so-spicy version.
*When preparing very hot peppers like habanero or ghost, it is wise to use gloves and eye shields when working with them. We’re not kidding! It’s also advisable to open windows or put on a fan. Do NOT put your hands in your eyes and thoroughly wash your hands when you’re finished.
Now that you’re ready to cook with delicious, hot, chili peppers, stop by your farmers’ market and pick up some Thai peppers, jalapeños, or habaneros and ask your farmer how to prepare and cook with them. See how hot you can go! Visit Bautista Ranch in Stockton, Franklin Thor Farm from Fresno, Borba Farms in Aromas, and many other farms at your local farmers' market. | <urn:uuid:3eb5afdc-c2e7-4d20-a4de-b22eb27b8c20> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcfma.org/blog/turn-heat-hot-peppers | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.910164 | 779 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Facilitative v. Evaluative v. Hybrid
The facilitative mediator structures the process to assist the parties in reaching a mutually agreeable resolution. The facilitative mediator does not make recommendations, give his/her advice or opinions as to outcomes or predict what a court or jury may do.
The evaluative mediator assists the parties by pointing out the strengths and weaknesses of the respective parties’ case. He/she may make formal or informal recommendations.
Hybrid-Every mediation should start out as facilitative. It is important for the mediator to LISTEN, LISTEN, LISTEN to counsel AND their client. Frequently, a party simply wants some third person to LISTEN to them. Therefore, I will start every mediation LISTENING AND LEARNING from each side. The process then frequently evolves into more evaluative. Attorneys and their clients frequently want my input and recommendations. It is important in the LISTENING process that I can assess if and when to make this transition from facilitative to evaluative.
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The Neverending Story is a testament to the importance of imagination and the power of stories. When life seems to be closing in around us, the story reminds us that imagination can be the force needed to start anew and lift ourselves up. It makes sense, then, that director Jillian Keiley’s production for the National Arts Centre – adapted by David S. Craig from Michael Ende’s popular novel – uses a number of different techniques to showcase imagination on stage, almost all of them visual. It’s clear that no expense was spared in creating the visually slick world, filled with magical creatures and highlighter-toned colors. It’s certainly visually striking. Unfortunately, the core story often feels forgotten at the service of the visuals, making the emotional impact of its message fall flat.
The story is about a young boy, Bastian, who escapes the struggles of the real world, including bullying and the emotional upheaval of losing his mother, by losing himself in books. One day, as he is running away from his tormentors, he accidentally stumbles into a bookstore, where a mysterious bookseller, Coriander, tells him about The Neverending Story. The idea of it captivates Bastian so much that he steals the book while Coriander is distracted and spends the rest of the school day and night reading it hidden in the attic of his school. As he continues reading, he gets drawn into the story and starts identifying with Atreyu, a young hunter on a quest to save the Childlike Empress and his world from “The Nothing,” which threatens to ease all the stories from the land of Fantastica.
The set design, lighting, and puppetry are the true stars of the Keiley’s production and work together to create the world of Fantastica. The design and puppetry is whimsical and perfectly in line with the feel of the story. It’s obvious that much time and care went into crafting every creature in the fantasy world and the creativity in presenting Atreyu’s wise and kind horse companion Artax, Falkor the Luck Dragon, Morla the Turtle, and the creepy spider Ygramu bring the world of Fantastica to life. The design elements are additionally enriched by the use of lighting. The production is built around an ever-present tension between light and dark as brought to life by lighting designer Leigh Ann Vardy. As “The Nothing” leaches into and through Fantastica, it spreads with it an ominous sense of stillness and emptiness. Stars, presented by pin-pricks of LED lights on a light-absorbing black curtain, flicker and disappear as the plight of the land grows more serious and its stories die out one by one. Likewise, the interplay between light and dark allows Keiley and Vardy to create a richer, more layered world.
The work is technically as near perfection as possible, yet there is something jarring about the harsh, cold fluorescent lights that seem in direct contrast to the emotional feel of the story. The show, including Hawksley Workman’s music, create a 1980s synth-pop fever dream music video atmosphere, which comes off as sterile when presented as part of the warm, cozy world of Fantastica. It’s jarring and unfortunate, as the two aspects end up undermining each other.
Andrew Iles is excellent as the hero Atretyu and manages to convey bravery, as well as fear and child-like wonder all rolled into one realistic character. Roy Lewis as the bookseller Coriander is the most memorable performance, despite his small role. He was completely comfortable in the character and delivered an expressive performance full of depth and joy. Andrew Robinson’s Artax was a comforting, calming presence and he delivered the role with conviction and softness.
In The Neverending Story Jillian Kieley shows us a world as it could be, and throws her full force at the visual aspects of the play. While enticing in its own right, the visuals are often at odds with the spirit of the story, taking away from its emotional impact. However, despite that, this was a fun production, with lots for both children and adults to take in.
This post was written by the author in their personal capacity.The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not reflect the view of The Theatre Times, their staff or collaborators.
This post was written by Maja Stefanovska.
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Sabanci Space House, which attracted children to astronomy with the workshops they organized for children in the past years, is holding its activities online this year due to the pandemic.
The center, which has been closed to visitors for a long time, recently attended the Fun Astronomy workshop, which was held online, by Şehir College Primary School students.
The Science Experiment Center and Sabancı Space House, which were opened with the slogan 'The Future Will Pass Through Eskişehir' and visited by thousands of people every year, have not been able to receive visitors since March due to the pandemic. The center, which organizes many events and workshops every year for children to spend their semester holidays efficiently, is organizing its workshops online this year due to the epidemic. Sehir College Primary School students enjoyed learning while having fun in the last workshop of Sabanci Space House, which also increased the number of online activities due to the schools continuing their education online. Children were given information about space, the universe and astronomy in the online workshop, which was held in 2 different sessions and attended by a total of 70 students.
Stating that this and similar workshops organized by the Metropolitan Municipality are very valuable for children to enjoy online education, Şehir College Primary School Teacher Nur Özge Menşan thanked the authorities of the Science Experiment Center and Sabancı Space House for the workshop.
Metropolitan Municipality officials stated that they organized more than 200 workshops and events during the pandemic process as the Science Experiment Center and Sabancı Space House, and stated that they reached nearly 8 thousand people in these events. Stating that parents and teachers can reach them via 444 8 236 or 0534 011 72 78 to get information about activities and workshops, the officials stated that the workshops will continue to be held online throughout the pandemic. | <urn:uuid:9f7c95b2-99f2-4ecf-9622-fa7a8a07b4d8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.raillynews.com/2021/02/sabanci-space-house-continues-to-meet-with-children-in-online-events/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571987.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813202507-20220813232507-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.979573 | 380 | 1.96875 | 2 |
When his ship is wrecked in a storm, Robinson Crusoe finds himself stranded on a desert island with no-one to help him and no chance of rescue. Scared and alone, he tries to make a life for himself: building shelters, hunting food, taming animals, crafting boats and making clothes. But just as his life appears to be settled, he sees someone else’s footprint on the beach and a different struggle for survival begins, this time against cannibals and pirates. Roy McMillan combines an abridged version of Defoe’s novel with his own helpful explanations to retell the story for younger listeners.
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Family law is a complicated business. There are several legal implications part of the proceedings. The complexities arise due to financial and emotional toll. The situation makes it difficult for lawyers to provide clients with resolutions. But they make a strategy to help with the subjects.
The thing is not unusual for the attorney as they have the experience to handle such cases. The law school teaches them the art of making representation.
They conduct interviews and negotiate terms with the party. The legal profession has intelligent individuals. They have to be good. ‘The most important thing is that a system has some limitations beyond the individual’s control,’ says the separation lawyer in Toronto. Yes, we find it hard to deal with some situations, but through negotiations, it becomes a little bit easy.
It’s essential to understand the challenges and overcome the issues. Many states have court systems that judge a case differently. The lawyers need to show proof and get justice based on that. So many people come to resolve their family issues in court. The lawyers’ support makes it easy for the family to find a path. Those hit hard cannot recover, or it takes time when a case is lost.
Some lawyers have the necessary family law training but not to that level that could help their clients. They know the legal implications but do not stand a chance when facing their opponent.
The law school offers general training. There are courses related to family law.
Some current issues or challenges part of the family law are transgender issues. The parents face legal discrimination. There are areas of law that impact a person’s life. Here, transgender parents face huge barriers to getting justice and exercising their rights in the family court. With the lack of information on the transgender community. They do not get the support to get navigated across the justice system. There is misinformation about transgender people. It isolates them from the rest of the folks. The lawyers find it hard to prove a cause.
Transgender is an umbrella term for people with gender identity issues and expression. They feel the gender assigned to them is not matching their feelings.
The medical definitions have identified a person’s sex. For example, a child’s sex at birth is identified after observing that child’s physical characteristics. They follow certain socially constructed gender norms, displaying masculine traits and appearances. They have feelings that do not align with their gender identity.
Gender identity means the internal feelings or individual experience of the gender which does not coincide with the sex assigned at birth.
A person’s gender identity is different, which does not determine sexual orientation. Gender expression is the external attribute, behaviour, appearance, and dress, where people express themselves through other genders.
Transgender parents face significant barriers to exercising family law rights. They experience employment discrimination that makes them lose their economic power and social status. They cannot pay for legal fees and child support.
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Devil's Advocacy and Cyber Security
This blogpost, based on a forthcoming article, emphasizes the need for reliable decision support in today’s cyber sphere, where decision makers must benefit from assessments and advice based upon differing points of view.
This blogpost, based on a forthcoming article, emphasizes the need for reliable decision support in today’s cyber sphere, where decision makers must benefit from assessments and advice based upon differing points of view. Devil’s advocacy, which criticizes established positions, and offers alternative perspectives to a given argument based upon the same inputs, is one instrument to try to achieve this. Israeli decision makers have been able to use this instrument since the Yom Kippur war of 1973, when a Devil’s Advocate office was established within Israeli military intelligence.
Enter the Devil’s Advocate
A Devil’s Advocate is anyone with a dissenting view (authentic or non-authentic) that takes a contrary position. Devil’s advocacy is an established contrarian technique within the growing research body of Structured Analytic Techniques (SAT). Its aim is to test the validity of propositions by seeking to prove the opposite of the challenged view. It serves as a check on groupthink, which otherwise would dismiss contradictory evidence leading to poor assessments. Dissent – even when it is wrong – stimulates divergent thinking and the consideration of alternatives, which ultimately improves the quality of decisions.
Devil’s advocacy also helps tackle the neglected, but fundamental problem of the so-called ‘Alpha and Beta Chance.’ The alpha-chance is the chance of incorrectly concluding that there is a significant relationship between phenomena. The beta-chance is the chance that a relationship between phenomena is overlooked. The alpha-chance is usually placed at 5%, i.e. evidence of the relationship between described phenomena is only accepted if observed in at least 95 out of 100 instances. The beta-chance is usually positioned between 20-90%, which indicates the likelihood of missing weak, but existing, relationships.
These percentages are inacceptable in many risk calculations and assessments, including war. Here, the beta-chance should be put lower (in order not to miss a weak, but vital relationship), and the alpha-chance higher (making a relationship significant sooner). An analytic technique such as devil’s advocacy appears to minimize the margin of error when it comes to the Alpha-Chance, while maximizing the chance of discovering significant relationships (Beta Chance).
The aftermath of Yom Kippur
Yom Kippur had shown poor comprehension on all executive levels despite the wealth of intelligence available. As a result, decision making suffered badly. The shock of the Yom Kippur war spurred the creation within Israeli military intelligence of the Mahleket Bakara (Department of Control), or Ipcha Mistabra. The concept of Devil’s Advocacy was introduced for quality assurance when producing intelligence assessments. The new office sought to stimulate openness, allowing dissenting opinions to be voiced in accordance with the agency’s slogan: ‘Freedom of opinion, discipline in action.’
In several instances the contradictory opinion of the Israeli Devil’s Advocate has made an impact. One of the best known concerns the 2006 Lebanon war against Hezbollah, when an Israeli naval vessel sailing off the coast of Lebanon was hit by a missile killing four people. The ship’s anti-missile system had not been activated since navy intelligence denied that Hezbollah possessed this kind of capability. The devil’s advocate had argued – contrary to the position of naval intelligence – that reports showed that Hezbollah possessed Iranian surface-to-sea missiles.
Does the Israeli experience with Devil’s advocacy support its efficacy? The available sources (e.g. 1, 2). Show that institutional groupthink, organizational obstacles and clashing egos have not disappeared, but are partly contained due to the existence of this form of ‘control’. As a safeguard against group think, the Devil’s Advocate has instilled an atmosphere of accountability within the analytical process. Analysts have to argue their analysis and be prepared to deal with critique, making it more difficult for individuals to act as a ‘single point of failure’. Overall, the contradictory stance of the Devil’s Advocate has served as a check on organizational tunnel vision. Decision makers can be provided with additional points of view, which reduces information gaps and makes their choices more robust.
Devil’s Advocacy on the cyber horizon?
What Devil’s Advocate lessons are in store for the cyber future? Many cyber concepts are new, their possible consequences unknown, and (technological) development is moving at break neck speed. The information gap is increasing, which makes it more difficult to balance Alpha and Beta chance considerations and reach informed decisions.
In practice, decision makers will always be imperfectly informed, either about the outcomes that will occur (prospective uncertainty) or about what has transpired (retrospective uncertainty). However, cyber developments have multiplied this problem exponentially. Controlling the current information deluge requires self-regulation through institutionalized feedback mechanisms such as devil's advocacy. This minimizes the discrepancy between the organisation’s goal(s) and its performance by feeding back information to the decision makers.
Successful use of a Devil’s Advocate demands unrestricted access to source material. This effectively equals a paralyzing data deluge for any Devil’s Advocate. The available data is of such magnitude today, that it can only be handled ‘industrially’ through automated processing, i.e. software algorithms.
Consequently, devil’s advocacy within the cyber domain will have to understand software and hardware processes and concentrate, first of all, on algorithm reviews. These reviews can serve as a check on correlations that hide themselves within algorithms. Correlation is often mistaken for causation, although it only implies probability and even strong correlations might be coincidence. It should be realized that - by definition – an analysis based on statistical probabilities will always produce false positives (criminalizing innocent people) and false negatives (unnoticed security risks).
The need for decision support in today’s cyber sphere appears obvious. The (cyber) decision maker can use a differing point of view, a clear voice that can act as an intellectual sparring partner. Devil’s Advocacy can test the validity of cyber propositions and prevent cognitive pitfalls. It can also challenge algorithmic decisions and prevent them from being taken at face value. By changing perspective, battling group think, assigning Alpha and Beta chance problems their proper place, and reducing the information gap, the quality of cyber assessments will improve and thereby the cyber decision making process overall. | <urn:uuid:0150a9a7-fb20-4ccb-9129-0403de65c774> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.leidensecurityandglobalaffairs.nl/articles/devils-advocacy-and-cyber-security | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.940658 | 1,378 | 2.125 | 2 |
A deal at last
Camdessus spots his billions
AFTER months of opposition, Congress has at last agreed to replenish the IMF's coffers. As part of a giant spending package negotiated with the White House, it is approving $3.4 billion towards a new emergency credit line, as well as $14.5 billion in new capital. Within weeks, the capital increase could bring in a further $74 billion from the IMF's other members.
In return for their belated largesse, America's legislators claim to have extracted substantial concessions from the administration. It will have to certify that the IMF imposes stiff lending terms on crisis-hit borrowers, and it must secure greater transparency in decision-making. The loans would pay interest at least three percentage points above broader market rates and be repaid within 30 months. But the tough talk masks a climbdown by the Republicans who dominate Congress. Far from marking the “radical overhaul” of the IMF that conservatives have sought, several of the conditions simply restate existing IMF policy. Exceptional lending, for instance, already carries the maturities and interest rates that Congress demands. And although greater openness is welcome, it is hardly a root-and-branch reform. After the months of blustering, reason has prevailed on Capitol Hill.
Not a moment too soon. The clock on a support package for Brazil is ticking. On October 8th Brazil issued a joint statement with the IMF, laying out the broad goals of economic policy that both supported. Brazil would aim for a “primary” budget surplus (excluding interest payments) of between 2.5% and 3% of GDP in 1999; it would stabilise the ratio of debt to GDP by 2000. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the newly re-elected Brazilian president, has promised to flesh out details of how these targets will be met by October 20th. Brazilian officials have spent the week haggling with lawmakers about politically feasible options. Though the details may not emerge until after Brazil's second round of elections on October 25th, the country is getting close to an agreement on a fiscal package.
That is more than can be said for the international lenders that might reward such belt-tightening. Rumours are rife that the amount on offer might total $30 billion, or even more. Market expectations are such that without a rescue package on this scale, confidence will not return. Unofficially, the IMF has long offered support of around $15 billion. Even after its capital increase, that is unlikely to rise by more than a few billion dollars. The World Bank, which already had plans to lend around $1 billion a year to Brazil, may provide an extra $4.5 billion over three years, linked to longer-term reforms. The InterAmerican Development Bank could chip in a similar amount.
Bilateral contributions are harder to pin down. Spain has already offered $5 billion for the Latin American region; Portugal might offer special help to Brazil. But the G7 rich countries are holding their cards close to their chest. It is hard to see how America could avoid contributing bilaterally, but administration officials refuse to offer details.
Insiders make clear that there will not be a support package without some private-sector involvement, but this could mean merely that banks agree to roll over their short-term credit lines. Publicly, at least, the banks seem reluctant to commit any more. For now, the financial negotiations are staying behind closed doors—not much sign of transparency there. Once Brazil explains its plans, and the support package is announced, the newly endowed IMF will face its first major challenge: making good use of all that money.
This article appeared in the Finance & economics section of the print edition under the headline "A deal at last"
From the October 17th 1998 edition
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In a simple one-sentence order today, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling in favor of transgender Virginia student Gavin Grimm being able to access the bathroom that accorded with his gender identity. It instead instructed the Fourth Circuit to reconsider the case in light of the Trump administration’s withdrawal of its predecessor’s interpretation of federal anti-discrimination laws.
The nondecision comes as no great surprise, since the Fourth Circuit made deference to the U.S. Department of Education’s “guidance” central to its ruling in favor of Grimm last April:
“At the heart of this appeal is whether Title IX [governing sex discrimination in education] requires schools to provide transgender students access to restrooms congruent with their gender identity,” the court’s opinion said. “We conclude that the Department’s interpretation of its own regulation . . . as it relates to restroom access by transgender individuals, is . . . to be accorded controlling weight in this case.”
The Trump administration knocked the props from beneath that decision on February 22:
In the two-page letter to public schools, the Trump administration said the Obama-era guidance did not provide “extensive legal analysis” of how its position was consistent with Title IX.
The letter cited “significant litigation” caused by the guidance, showing the need for “due regard” of the role of states and local school districts in shaping education policy.
“As President Trump has clearly stated, he believes policy regarding transgender bathrooms should be decided at the state level,” the White House said in a statement. “The joint decision made today by the Department of Justice and the Department of Education returning power to the states paves the way for an open and inclusive process to take place at the local level with input from parents, students, teachers and administrators.”
In theory, the Fourth Circuit and ultimately the Supreme Court could independently determine that there are federal rights for transgender students in public schools, whether or not the administration agrees with that position. But such a finding is unlikely, and students like Grimm will have to hope for vindication in that “open and inclusive process to take place at the local level” instead of the federal courts. Otherwise they are just another example of collateral damage from the events of last November 8. | <urn:uuid:077e036a-2924-43f9-add5-add9721b5cd8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/03/scotus-defers-to-trump-on-transgender-student-rights.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.950377 | 502 | 1.734375 | 2 |
The town of La Sombra is located in the Municipality of Comitán de Domínguez (in the State of Chiapas). There are 50 inhabitants. It is the most populated town in the position #134 of the whole municipality. La Sombra is at 2,306 meters of altitude.
Data: In La Sombra, 14% of the inhabitants are catholic and 8% of the dwellings are equipped with a washing machine. At the bottom of this page you will find more information.
To locate this beautiful town within the municipality, you must know that La Sombra is located at 29.1 kilometers (in direction Southwest) from the locality of Comitán de Domínguez, which is the one that has more inhabitants within the municipality. Thanks to our webpage and the satellite map that you can locate at the bottom, you can see the position and visit the surroundings of La Sombra.
Where is La Sombra? How to get there? Map
Online map of La Sombra (Chiapas) to be able to get to and make trips around this town. With the zoom controls you can zoom in (+) or out (-) to locate the village.
Want to view a satellite photo of La Sombra? In this link you can see a satellite image of the area, completely updated, to locate your house, for example..
The population of La Sombra (Chiapas) is 50 inhabitants
|Year||Female Inhabitants||Male inhabitants||Total population|
|Fertility rate (children per woman):||2.94||0.00|
|Population coming from outside the State of Chiapas:||0.00%||0.00%|
|Illiterate population (men):||0.00%||0.00%|
|Illiterate population (women):||4.00%||22.22%|
|Schooling level (men):||6.5||4.55|
|Schooling level (women):||5.27||3.57|
|Percentage of indigenous population:||14.00%||0.00%|
|Percentage speaking an indigenous language:||2.00%||0.00%|
|Percentage who speak an indigenous language and do not speak Spanish:||0.00%||0.00%|
Find out more interesting facts about all the towns in the Municipality of Comitán de Domínguez (statistics, photos, maps, restaurants...) at this link.
|Employed population over 12 years:||30.00%||35.48%|
|Employed population over 12 years (men):||56.52%||84.62%|
|Employed population over 12 years (women):||7.41%||0.00%|
|Number of inhabited private dwellings:||13||10|
|Homes with electricity:||100.00%||100.00%|
|Housing with piped water:||0.00%||0.00%|
|Dwellings with toilet or sanitary facilities:||0.00%||100.00%|
|Dwellings with radio:||84.62%||75.00%|
|Housing with television:||61.54%||37.50%|
|Housing with refrigerator:||30.77%||25.00%|
|Housing with washing machine:||7.69%||0.00%|
|Housing with automobile:||23.08%||50.00%|
|Households with personal computer, laptop or tablet:||0.00%||0.00%|
|Homes with landline telephone:||0.00%||0.00%|
|Dwellings with cellular phones:||23.08%||0.00%|
|Homes with Internet:||0.00%||0.00%|
Satellite photo of La Sombra
With the satellite map of La Sombra will I be able to look for my location? Yes, access the map, zoom in and see the surroundings of this town and the municipality of Comitán de Domínguez. Get free live access to satellite views of 2022 of La Sombra.
Population pyramid of La Sombra (Chiapas)
In La Sombra there is a very characteristic age structure of the population, which you can see in the following population pyramid, with data from 2005. After analyzing the demographic data of La Sombra, separated by men and women, and also by age groups, we can analyze what the future of the population in this town will be like.
|Age range||Number of women||Number of men||Total population|
|Infants (0-5 years)||5||7||12|
|Youth (6-14 years)||7||4||11|
|Adults (15-59 years)||13||12||25|
|Elderly (60+ years)||2||0||2|
Photos of La Sombra
In order for you to enjoy nature around La Sombra, we have compiled a collection of sightseeing and monument photographs of the town and its surroundings. Access a completely free online image gallery of La Sombra, so you can even use it as a wallpaper to always remember this beautiful town.
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Schools in La Sombra
Other towns in the Municipality of Comitán de Domínguez
- Agua Escondida (28 inhabitants)
- Chitjá (408 inhabitants)
- Dos Arbolitos (13 inhabitants)
- La Cabaña (2 inhabitants)
- La Esperanza el Vivero (28 inhabitants)
- La Peña (6 inhabitants)
- La Sombra (50 inhabitants)
- Las Vegas (1 inhabitants)
- Los Mangos (13 inhabitants)
- San Antonio Buenavista (3 inhabitants)
- San Antonio Copalar 2da. Sección (93 inhabitants)
- San Francisco el Desengaño (211 inhabitants)
- San Francisco la Primavera (79 inhabitants)
- Santo Domingo (9 inhabitants)
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(28 mins) In this episode, hosts Katherine Cody, Psy.D. and Becca Lory, CAS, BCCS speak with Barb Cook. Barb was diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome in 2009 and is Founder and Editor in Chief of Spectrum Women Magazine. She is a highly committed Autism/Aspergers advocate, keen motorcyclist and web/graphics guru. Barb has made numerous appearances on Australian television and radio, in national newspapers and magazines, was part of a documentary The Chameleons: Women with Autism. She is also the Founder and Director of Bikers for Autism Australia and Co-Founder/Director of the Australian Autism Aspergers Network Inc. Barb discusses her personal diagnosis, the autism gender gap in Australia, and how she developed a hyper interest in motorcycles.
Spectrumly Speaking is the podcast dedicated to women on the autism spectrum, produced by Different Brains®. Each week, join our hosts Becca Lory, CAS, BCCS (a Life Coach, Certified Autism Specialist, and Autism advocate that is herself on the spectrum) and Katherine Cody, Psy.D. (a licensed clinical psychologist specializing in people on the autism spectrum) as they discuss topics and news stories, share personal stories, and interview some of the most fascinating voices from the autism community.
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7. To ask the Scottish Government how it will raise awareness of the water safety action plan ahead of the summer to ensure that people stay safe in and around Scotland’s waters. (S6O-01258)
As the minister said, this is drowning awareness week 2022. It is one of the largest summer water safety campaigns across the United Kingdom, which is a great opportunity for organisations to educate the public to enjoy water safely. What impact has the £60,000 funding grant for Water Safety Scotland in March had on organisations that have an interest in water safety?
4. To ask the Scottish Government what impact the reported labour shortages and significant cost increases on materials will have on social housing construction in Scotland. (S6O-01226)
Scottish National Party MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh
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Adolescent evaluation is completed by a board certified psychiatrist who is fellowship trained in child and adolescent psychiatry. Typically, the child referred for a psychiatric evaluation is not asking to be evaluated. Rather, it is the family, or very often the child’s school, that is requesting the evaluation. Some of the common symptoms that drive the request for an evaluation are that the child is disruptive in school, oppositional at home, withdrawn, aggressive, defiant, fearful, intellectually impaired, or acting-out. The evaluation of the child is developmentally appropriate, and begins with an observation of the child’s behavior in the office and waiting room. Included in the interview is an assessment of the child’s awareness of the social, behavioral or academic difficulties reported by parents and teachers. Throughout the interview, the child’s comfort level, social interaction and the presence or absence of odd behaviors are appraised. It is important to be aware that symptoms may not be present in the structured setting of an office, and occasionally it is useful to observe the child in the classroom and on the playground. Given the issues presented during these interviews and observations, treatment options will be discussed. If applicable, this can include psychotherapy options as well as medication evaluation and management. | <urn:uuid:351ebfd3-930d-4bb2-85fd-94f8771eda25> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.waynebehavioral-nj.com/child-adolescent-psychiatry/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.961163 | 254 | 2.1875 | 2 |
From the Journal of International Climatology and the “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em” department.
To me, this feels like vindication. For years, I’ve been pointing out just how bad the U.S. and Global Surface monitoring network has been. We’ve seen stations that are on pavement, at airports collecting jet exhaust, and failing instruments reading high, and right next to the heat output of air conditioning systems.
We’ve been told it “doesn’t matter” and that “the surface monitoring network is producing good data”. Behind the scenes though, we learned that NOAA/NCDC scrambled when we reported this, quietly closing some of the worst stations, while making feverish and desperate PR pitches to prop up the narrative of “good data”.
Read my report from 2009 on the state of the US Historical Climate Network:
That 2009 report (published with the help of the Heartland Institute) spurred a firestorm of criticism, and an investigation and report by the U.S. Office of the Inspector General who wrote:
Lack of oversight, non-compliance and a lax review process for the State Department’s global climate change programs have led the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) to conclude that program data “cannot be consistently relied upon by decision-makers” and it cannot be ensured “that Federal funds were being spent in an appropriate manner.”
More recently, I presented at AGU15 : Watts at #AGU15 The quality of temperature station siting matters for temperature trends
And showed just how bad the old surface network is in two graphs:
Now, some of the very same people who have scathingly criticized my efforts and the efforts of others to bring these weaknesses to the attention of the scientific community have essentially done an about-face, and authored a paper calling for a new global climate monitoring network like the United States Climate Reference Network (USCRN) which I have endorsed as the only suitable way to measure surface temperature and extract long term temperature trends.
During my recent trip to Kennedy Space Center (Thanks to generous donations from WUWT readers), I spotted an old-style airport ASOS weather station right next to one of the new USCRN stations, at the Shuttle Landing Facility runway, presumably placed there to study the difference between the two. Or, possibly, they just couldn’t trust the ASOS station when they most needed it -during a Shuttle landing where accurate temperature is of critical importance in calculating density altitude, and therefore the glide ratio. Comparing the data between the two is something I hope to do in a future post.
Here is the aerial view showing placement:
Clearly, with its selection of locations, triple redundant state of the art aspirated air temperature sensors, the USCRN station platform is the best possible way to measure long-term trends in 2 meter surface air temperature. Unfortunately, the public never sees the temperature reports from it in NOAA’s “State of the Climate” missives, but they instead rely on the antiquated and buggy surface COOP and GHCN network and it’s highly biased and then adjusted data.
So, for this group of people to call for a worldwide USCRN style temperature monitoring network, is not only a step in the right direction, but a clear indication that even though they won’t publicly admit to the unreliable and uncertain existing COOP/USHCN networks worldwide being “unfit for purpose” they are in fact endorsing the creation of a truly “fit for purpose” global system to monitor surface air temperature, one that won’t be highly biased by location, sensor/equipment issues, and have any need at all for adjustments.
I applaud the effort, and I’ll get behind it. Because by doing so, it puts an end to the relevance of NASA GISS and HadCRUT, whose operators (Gavin Schmidt and Phil Jones) are some of the most biased, condescending, and outright snotty scientists the world has ever seen. They should not be gatekeepers for the data, and this will end their lock on that distinction. To Phil Jones credit, he was a co-author of this new paper. Gavin Schmidt, predictably, was not.
This is something both climate skeptics and climate alarmists should be able to get behind and promote. More on that later.
Here’s the paper: (note they reference my work in the 2011 Fall et al. paper)
Towards a global land surface climate fiducial reference measurements network
P. W. Thorne, H. J. Diamond, B. Goodison, S. Harrigan, Z. Hausfather, N. B. Ingleby, P. D. Jones, J. H. Lawrimore, D. H. Lister, A. Merlone, T. Oakley, M. Palecki, T. C. Peterson, M. de Podesta, C. Tassone, V. Venema, K. M. Willett
There is overwhelming evidence that the climate system has warmed since the instigation of instrumental meteorological observations. The Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that the evidence for warming was unequivocal. However, owing to imperfect measurements and ubiquitous changes in measurement networks and techniques, there remain uncertainties in many of the details of these historical changes. These uncertainties do not call into question the trend or overall magnitude of the changes in the global climate system. Rather, they act to make the picture less clear than it could be, particularly at the local scale where many decisions regarding adaptation choices will be required, both now and in the future. A set of high-quality long-term fiducial reference measurements of essential climate variables will enable future generations to make rigorous assessments of future climate change and variability, providing society with the best possible information to support future decisions. Here we propose that by implementing and maintaining a suitably stable and metrologically well-characterized global land surface climate fiducial reference measurements network, the present-day scientific community can bequeath to future generations a better set of observations. This will aid future adaptation decisions and help us to monitor and quantify the effectiveness of internationally agreed mitigation steps. This article provides the background, rationale, metrological principles, and practical considerations regarding what would be involved in such a network, and outlines the benefits which may accrue. The challenge, of course, is how to convert such a vision to a long-term sustainable capability providing the necessary well-characterized measurement series to the benefit of global science and future generations.
INTRODUCTION: HISTORICAL OBSERVATIONS, DATA CHALLENGES, AND HOMOGENIZATION
A suite of meteorological parameters has been measured using meteorological instrumentation for more than a century (e.g., Becker et al., 2013; Jones, 2016; Menne, Durre, Vose, Gleason, & Houston, 2012; Rennie et al., 2014; Willett et al., 2013, henceforth termed “historical observations”). Numerous analyses of these historical observations underpin much of our understanding of recent climatic changes and their causes (Hartmann et al., 2013). Taken together with measurements from satellites, weather balloons, and observations of changes in other relevant phenomena, these observational analyses underpin the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change conclusion that evidence of historical warming is “unequivocal” (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2007 2007, 2013).
Typically, individual station series have experienced changes in observing equipment and practices (Aguilar, Auer, Brunet, Peterson, & Wieringa, 2003; Brandsma & van der Meulen, 2008; Fall et al., 2011; Mekis & Vincent, 2011; Menne, Williams Jr., & Palecki, 2010; Parker, 1994; Sevruk, Ondrás, & Chvíla, 2009). In addition, station locations, observation times, instrumentation, and land use characteristics (including in some cases urbanization) have changed at many stations. Collectively, these changes affect the representativeness of individual station series, and particularly their long-term stability (Changnon & Kunkel, 2006; Hausfather et al., 2013; Karl, Williams Jr., Young, & Wendland, 1986; Quayle, Easterling, Karl, & Hughes, 1991). Metadata about changes are limited for many of the stations. These factors impact our ability to extract the full information content from historical observations of a broad range of essential climate variables (ECVs) (Bojinski et al., 2014). Many ECVs, such as precipitation, are extremely challenging to effectively monitor and analyse due to their restricted spatial and temporal scales and globally heterogeneous measurement approaches (Goodison, Louie, & Yang, 1998; Sevruk et al., 2009).
Changes in instrumentation were never intended to deliberately bias the climate record. Rather, the motivation was to either reduce costs and/or improve observations for the primary goal(s) of the networks, which was most often meteorological forecasting. The majority of changes have been localized and quasi-random in nature and so are amenable to statistical averaging of their effects. However, there have been regionally or globally systemic transitions specific to certain periods of time whose effect cannot be entirely ameliorated by averaging. Examples include:
- Early thermometers tended to be housed in polewards facing wall screens, or for tropical locales under thatched shelter roofs (Parker, 1994). By the early 20th century better radiation shielding and ventilation control using Stevenson screens became ubiquitous. In Europe, Böhm et al. (2010) have shown that pre-screen summer temperatures were about 0.5 °C too warm.
- In the most recent 30 or so years a transition to automated or semi-automated measurements has occurred, although this has been geographically heterogeneous.
- As highlighted in the recent World Meteorological Organization (WMO) SPICE intercomparison (http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/www/IMOP/intercomparisons/SPICE/SPICE.html) and the previous intercomparison (Goodison et al., 1998), measuring solid precipitation remains a challenge. Instrument design, shielding, siting, and transition from manual to automatic all contribute to measurement error and bias and affect the achievable uncertainties in measurements of solid precipitation and snow on the ground.
- For humidity measurements, recent decades have seen a switch to capacitive relative humidity sensors from traditional wet- and dry-bulb psychrometers. This has resulted in a shift in error characteristics that is particularly significant in wetter conditions (Bell, Carroll, Beardmore, England, & Mander, 2017; Ingleby, Moore, Sloan, & Dunn, 2013).
As technology and observing practices evolve, future changes are inevitable. Imminent issues include the replacement of mercury-in-glass thermometers and the use of third party measurements arising from private entities, the general public, and non-National Met Service public sector activities.
From the perspective of climate science, the consequence of both random and more systematic effects is that almost invariably a post hoc statistical assessment of the homogeneity of historical records, informed by any available metadata, is required. Based on this analysis, adjustments must be applied to the data prior to use. Substantive efforts have been made to post-process the data to create homogeneous long-term records for multiple ECVs (Mekis & Vincent, 2011; Menne & Williams, 2009; Rohde et al., 2013; Willett et al., 2013, 2014; Yang, Kane, Zhang, Legates, & Goodison, 2005) at both regional and global scales (Hartmann et al., 2013). Such studies build upon decades of development of techniques to identify and adjust for breakpoints, for example, the work of Guy Callendar in the early 20th century (Hawkins & Jones, 2013). The uncertainty arising from homogenization using multiple methods for land surface air temperatures (LSAT) (Jones et al., 2012; Venema et al., 2012; Williams, Menne, & Thorne, 2012) is much too small to call into question the conclusion of decadal to centennial global-mean warming, and commensurate changes in a suite of related ECVs and indicators (Hartmann et al., 2013, their FAQ2.1). Evidence of this warming is supported by many lines of evidence, as well as modern reanalyses (Simmons et al., 2017).
The effects of inhomogeneities are stronger at the local and regional level, may be impacted by national practices complicating homogenization efforts, and are more challenging to remove for sparse networks (Aguilar et al., 2003; Lindau & Venema, 2016). The effects of inhomogeneities are also manifested more strongly in extremes than in the mean (e.g., Trewin, 2013) and are thus important for studies of changes in climatic extremes. State-of-the art homogenization methods can only make modest improvements in the variability around the mean of daily temperature (Killick, 2016) and humidity data (Chimani et al., 2017).
In the future, it is reasonable to expect that observing networks will continue to evolve in response to the same stakeholder pressures that have led to historical changes. We can thus be reasonably confident that there will be changes in measurement technology and measuring practice. It is possible that such changes will prove difficult to homogenize and would thus threaten the continuity of existing data series. It is therefore appropriate to ask whether a different route is possible to follow for future observational strategies that may better meet climate needs, and serve to increase our confidence in records going forwards. Having set out the current status of data sets derived from ad hoc historical networks, in the remainder of this article, we propose the construction of a different kind of measurement network: a reference network whose primary mission is the establishment of a suite of long-term, stable, metrologically traceable, measurements for climate science.
Each site will need to be large enough to house all instrumentation without adjacent instrumentation interfering with one another, with no shading or wind-blocking vegetation or localized topography, and at least 100 m from any artificial heat sources. Figure 2 provides a site schematic for USCRN stations that meets this goal. The siting should strive to adhere to Class 1 criteria detailed in guidance from the WMO Commission for Instruments and Methods of Observations (World Meteorological Organization, 2014, part I, chap. I). This serves to minimize representativity errors and associated uncertainties. Sites should be chosen in areas where changes in siting quality and land use, which may impact representativity, are least likely for the next century. The site and surrounding area should further be selected on the basis that its ownership is secure. Thus, site selection requires an excellent working and local knowledge of items such as land/site ownership proposed, geology, regional vegetation, and climate. As it cannot be guaranteed that siting shall remain secure over decades or centuries, sites need to be chosen so that a loss will not critically affect the data products derived from the network. A partial solution would be to replace lost stations with new stations with a period of overlap of several years (Diamond et al., 2013). It should be stressed that sites in the fiducial reference network do not have to be new sites and, indeed, there are significant benefits from enhancing the current measurement program at existing sites. Firstly, co-location with sites already undertaking fiducial reference measurements either for target ECVs or other ECVs, such as GRUAN or GCW would be desirable. Secondly, co-location with existing baseline sites that already have long records of several target ECVs has obvious climate monitoring, cost and operational benefits.
For a reference grade installation, an evaluated uncertainty value should be ascertained for representativeness effects which may differ synoptically and seasonally. Techniques and large-scale experiments for this kind of evaluation and characterization of the influences of the siting on the measured atmospheric parameters are currently in progress (Merlone et al., 2015).
Finally, if the global surface fiducial reference network ends up consisting of two or more distinct set-ups of instrumentation (section 4.1), there would be value in side-by-side operations of the different configurations in a subset of climatically distinct regions to ensure long-term comparability is assured (section 3). This could be a task for the identified super-sites in the network.
There are many possible metrics for determining the success of a global land surface fiducial reference climate network as it evolves, such as the number and distribution of fiducial reference climate stations or the percent of stations adhering to the strict reference climate criteria described in this article. However, in order to fully appreciate the significance of the proposed global climate surface fiducial reference network, we need to imagine ourselves in the position of scientists working in the latter part of the 21st century and beyond. However, not just scientists, but also politicians, civil servants, and citizens faced with potentially difficult choices in the face of a variable and changing climate. In this context, we need to act now with a view to fulfilling their requirements for having a solid historical context they can utilize to assist them making scientifically vetted decisions related to actions on climate adaptation. Therefore, we should care about this now because those future scientists, politicians, civil servants, and citizens will be—collectively—our children and grandchildren, and it is—to the best of our ability—our obligation to pass on to them the possibility to make decisions with the best possible data. Having left a legacy of a changing climate, this is the very least successive generations can expect from us in order to enable them to more precisely determine how the climate has changed.
Read the full open access paper here, well worth your time: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/joc.5458/full
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Large appliances such as dishwasher/portable dishwashers, dryers and washing machines are not allowed in residence halls. The drain system cannot support a dishwasher or washers and dryers in places outside their designated area.
Barbeque grills may not be used inside the residence halls because of the open flame and carbon monoxide produced. The storage of grills, charcoal, lighter fluid or propane tanks (full or empty) inside a residence hall is also prohibited. Barbeque grills may be used on the patios outside residence halls provided they are attended and closely monitored, and provided all fire and/or smoldering charcoal is extinguished completely at the end of use.
Refrigerators and Microwaves
The University will provide access to a refrigerator and microwave in the residence halls. Each non-suite/apartment room will have one refrigerator and microwave. Each suite which does not contain a full-sized refrigerator as part of the standard furnishings of the unit will have one refrigerator and microwave per suite. Suites and apartments which contain a full-sized refrigerator will not have any additional university-provided refrigerators. Due to these appliances being provided by the University, student-owned refrigerators and microwaves are prohibited in the residence halls.
Candles and Incense
Candles of all kinds (including birthday cake candles) and incense are a fire hazard and are prohibited in residence halls by Rhode Island fire safety regulations. Candles will be confiscated when found and subjected to a fine of $100 per candle.
Ceiling canopies and tapestries are not allowed. Large combustible wall coverings over 1600 square inches and unframed are prohibited in any residence hall room or sleeping quarters because of their potential ignition and rapid burning. Likewise, do not cover or hide your ceiling light with fabric. Under no condition is any tapestry or cloth covering to be within 12 inches of an electrical outlet.
It is important to remember not to disturb walls or ceiling material with hooks, nails or other materials, nor scrape or sand any painted surfaces in your living space.
Possession, use and/or distribution of fireworks, explosives, or other types of incendiary devices are prohibited.
Prohibited items include the following:
- Fireworks of all kinds
- Incendiary devices
- Flare guns
Home-style extension cords are not allowed in residence halls. By fire safety regulation, grounded 15-ampere rated surge protectors are the only type of extension cord allowed in residence halls. This is a very important fire safety rule - overloaded extension cords can cause fires! We will confiscate "octopus plugs" and extension cords that do not fit the approved ratings. Surge protector-type power strips are available from local office supply stores and the Brown Bookstore. Appliances (e.g., refrigerators) should be plugged directly into existing electrical outlets, not into a surge protector.
For fire safety and insect control reasons, firewood may not be stored anywhere inside or immediately adjacent to a residence hall.
By fire safety regulation, halogen torchière floor lamps and halogen desk lamps are prohibited in residence halls. The biggest safety concern is the open top design and the intense heat generated by the halogen bulb. These lamps have been the cause of a number of fires largely by coming into contact with cloth of some sort and igniting it.
Halogen torchière floor lamps found in residence halls will be removed immediately.
Because of the fire risk involved, possession or storage of flammable chemicals, spray paints/solvents or any similar hazardous materials in residence hall rooms or storage areas is absolutely prohibited. Consult Residential Life staff with any questions or concerns.
Holiday decorations can make the residence halls more festive in addition to providing for the expression of religious practice. If you choose to decorate for any holidays, the following guidelines must be followed:
- No open flames, no candles, no Sterno (food warming-pan fuel cans).
- No real trees or wreaths. Artificial trees and wreaths are acceptable as long as they are non-combustible.
- Any lights must be UL-approved and in good condition. Lights must be kept clear of other combustibles. LED lighting is preferred.
- No lights may be used on building exteriors.
- Do not hang lights (nor anything else) near or on any fire safety equipment (sprinklers, alarms, et cetera)
Lofts, Platform Beds
Lofted bed frames are not permitted. See below for instructions on safely adjusting the height of your bed.
Bed frames in residence halls can be self-adjusted by residents themselves. Generally, beds are left at the height preferred by the last resident. The highest position often allows for dressers and/or bookcases to be positioned under the bed, to allow for maximum floor space.
If a resident wishes to change the position of the bed, the recommended approach is for two people to adjust as follows:
- Remove the mattress.
- Push up on the frame from the bottom, to loosen the hooks from the bed ends (some residents have found it easier to turn the bed upside down, in order to push the bed frame down and loosen the frame from the ends).
- Position the hooks on one end into the new slots for the preferred height, then repeat at the other end, taking care to be at the same height on both ends.
Motor Vehicles (motorcycles, mopeds, etc.)
Motor vehicles, including motorcycles and mopeds, are not allowed inside residence halls because of the potential fire and health hazards posed by the fuel and the combustion engines. All motor vehicles are subject to the rules concerning parking.
Pets are absolutely not allowed in the residence halls. The one exception is aquarium fish; tanks and aquariums may be no larger than 10 gallons. This restriction on pets is strictly enforced for public health and safety reasons. Violation of this regulation will result in a fine and/or other disciplinary action.
Platforms, partitions, and walls
Residence hall rooms are configured in compliance with local building and fire codes - this includes having appropriate ventilation, electrical fixtures, fire alarm devices and egress (i.e. a way out).
Platforms, partitions, or walls restrict egress, add to the fire load in the building, and restrict both ventilation and access to fire alarm systems; thus these items are strictly prohibited. In addition, Brown-approved contractors are the only ones authorized to perform construction or renovation work of any kind in University buildings.
The Rhode Island Fire Safety Code requires strict enforcement of postering regulations in the residence halls.
Posters, signs, and notices may be placed only in bulletin boards that have safety glass. Any posters, signs, or paper on corridor walls, doors, stairwells or other public areas are subject to removal without notice. Remember: paper is fire fuel.
Students may place posters, decoration, and artwork inside their residence hall rooms (please note restrictions on wall coverings).
Residents are accountable for damages due to taping or stapling on interior or exterior doors, walls and ceilings.
Smoking is prohibited in all University buildings. Students are permitted to smoke outside, at a distance of at least 35 feet from the entrance to any University building, provided that there will be no migration of smoke into a University building. E-Cigarettes are included in this definition.
Evidence of smoking within the residence hall will result in a $100 fine and tampering with any fire equipment within a residence hall will result in a $300 fine.
Because of the fire and life safety hazard they pose, portable space heaters are strictly prohibited from use in residence halls. Remember, fire safety regulations that govern a building of college student rooms are much more restrictive than those for family living situations.
While there are many things you can do to personalize your room, there are also some things you cannot do because of the fire and safety hazard they pose to you and to the other students living in your building. Large pieces of cloth on the ceiling or walls fall into the "no can do" category.
Tapestries and large combustible wall coverings over 1600 square inches unframed are prohibited in any residence hall room or sleeping quarters because of their potential ignition and rapid burning. Tapestries, flags and other coverings are not allowed on ceilings and shall not be hung horizontally below ceilings.
Under no condition is any tapestry or cloth covering to be within 12 inches of an electrical outlet.
Waterbeds are prohibited.
Possession, use and/or distribution of firearms, ammunition, explosives, or other weapons are prohibited.
Prohibited items include the following:
- Firearms (defined as any projectile-firing device)
- Guns (all types)
- Incendiary devices
- Flare guns
- Air rifles (including paint ball rifles)
- Guns using BBs or pellets or darts
- Any slingshot device
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Moonstone has an affinity for many of the sun signs, including Libra. Its inner structure bends light, giving the polished stone an undulating, shimmering iridescence. This quality results from the minute inter-layering of different feldspars that develop by chemical separation during the process of crystallization, enabling the layers to catch and reflect the light in a magical way. It is found in brown, yellow, grey, green and pink but the white, rainbow moonstone is the most sought after, with its gorgeous, blue and rainbow-coloured light, playing and dancing on the surface of the stone.
The moonstone has been associated with clairvoyance and mediumistic abilities throughout history. Gypsy races believed it was the best stone to use in foretelling future events. For the layperson that doesn’t aspire to crystal ball gazing, it can simply enhance intuition and lucid dreaming, particularly at the time of a full moon. It not only helps you remember your dreams but is said to help control sleep walking, which is worth a try if you have a child who suffers from that.
Moonstone can open our field of perception, helping us notice synchronistic signs and patterns, thereby showing us that there is a greater intelligence at work in the universe than the small consciousness we often limit ourselves to in our daily routine. It also bestows depth of feeling and empathy, which can make us more open to spontaneous impulses. This can bring about happy coincidences, but sensitive souls must be careful while wearing moonstone, not to get caught up in illusions, or to become over-stimulated by their emotions or those picked up from other people.
Physically, moonstone stimulates the pineal and pituitary glands, which have a great sensitivity to light. Because of the increased functioning of these master glands centered in the brain, important regulatory systems in the body can be balanced. It helps get the endocrine system back in tune with nature and can be used for all complaints caused by a disruption to the central regulation of hormones, easing the path of any hormonal changes. This stone is a friend and helper to women, throughout all stages of life and rites of passage. In puberty it reduces fluctuations in emotions and helps with acne. It helps painful, irregular, or too light or heavy menstruation. It helps with infertility and then reduces the impact of complaints in early pregnancy (food cravings, nausea, colonic inertia, oedema, tiredness and disturbed sleep). After birth, it helps with fear, anxiety and depression. In menopause it can reduce hot flushes, palpitations, migraines and mood swings.
Article by Donna Mills
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Truvada (Tenofovir) has been hailed as a miracle drug in the fight against HIV. The drug is taken ahead of time to prevent sexually active people from contracting HIV during sexual activity. While Truvada is not a vaccine, it functions as a preventative drug. Truvada has certainly rang the cash registers for Gilead Sciences, the company that makes and sells the drug. However, there are some key facts about Truvada that Gilead has been alleged not to have told consumers taking the drug, namely that it can cause serious health problems by causing
- Bone density loss
- Kidney failure
- Bone fractures
Gilead Has Made Billions off Truvada Sales
Gilead began selling Truvada back in 2004. The drug is also known by consumers as PrEP. This drug is viewed as a revolutionary drug that has reduced the rate of HIV transmission. Gilead books between $4-5 billion in HIV sales each quarter. Even though the company has now lost its exclusivity on Truvada, sales still remain strong, as the company has built up brand value in this lucrative market.
However, there is an unpleasant truth lurking under the surface. Lawsuits have alleged that Gilead has known of the dangerous side effects of the drug dating back to practically the time when it began selling the drug.
Truvada’s Effects on Bones and Kidney Function
Customers need to take a certain dosage of Truvada in order to achieve protection from HIV transmission. However, that dosage can present serious problems for the bones and kidneys. Some customers who have taken the drug have developed osteoporosis because of the loss of bone density. Others have been far more likely to suffer broken bones because Truvada has been shown to cause bone density loss.
There have been studies that have linked Truvada usage to bone density loss. One of the main studies was released in 2018. However, this is something that a company that should routinely test its own products and monitor side effects should have known.
The other major side effect of Truvada is kidney damage. The kidneys are responsible for filtering toxins and other materials out of the body. Many drugs have had a particular impact on the kidneys because the substances can build up there with regular use. In the case of Truvada, the kidneys have not been completely able to filter out harmful substances from the body. Thus, there has been a track record of patients suffering a loss of kidney function from the buildup in the kidneys after routine use of Truvada. Some patients have even suffered complete kidney failure, requiring them to wait on long lists for life-saving transplants.
There were initially reports of potential kidney damage linked to Truvada the same exact year that the drug went on the market for the first time. These conclusions have been repeated in numerous research studies since then. Gilead should have known of the potential danger of its drug and performed its own investigation. It should have shared the information with the public and let them make their own decision in consultation with their physicians.
Gilead Allegedly Knew of These Dangers and Did Not Warn the Public
Product liability lawsuits have alleged that Gilead has sold a defective product in numerous respects. First, the design of the drug itself is alleged to be defective because of the impact that it has on the bones and the kidneys. Second, manufacturers have a legal obligation to warn the general public of any dangers of their product about which they knew or should have known. Instead, Gilead kept on selling Truvada without any warnings on the label because it was making so much money off the product.
This is far from the first lawsuit that Gilead has faced related to injuries caused by its product. The company has a very checkered safety record to say the least, with scores of product liability lawsuits and those that allege profit-maximizing sales practices that come at the expense of your health and finances.
What makes the facts of these lawsuits look even worse for Gilead is that the company had a second HIV prevention drug waiting in the wings that was far safer for consumers. However, Gilead continued to sell Truvada for years while withholding the new drug from the marketplace. Gilead finally decided to sell the safer drug when its exclusivity for Truvada expired. The company apparently saw no reason to stop selling Truvada, even though the company was obviously receiving many reports of injured consumers.
The First Truvada Cases Are Going to Trial Soon
As of this writing, there are over 2,000 cases against Gilead in federal court in California. The first trials in these cases are expected to happen in the summer of 2022. Gilead has not yet settled these cases, in spite of their large potential liability.
In addition, there are many cases in California state courts, where juries have been known to harshly punish companies like Gilead that put profits over people when they sold dangerous products with the knowledge of the potential harms. If juries rule against Gilead, there is a possibility that the company may then try to settle the rest of the cases. Gilead had tried unsuccessfully to have these claims dismissed from state court.
Damages in a Truvada Product Liability Lawsuit
If you have suffered kidney failure or osteoporosis after regularly taking Truvada, you may be entitled to the following potential damages:
- The full cost of your medical bills
- Lost wages if your medical condition kept you from working
- Pain and suffering for the ordeal that is associated with your injuries
- Loss of enjoyment of life
- Emotional trauma and distress
In cases like these, juries will often assess punitive damages against companies like Gilead when there is clear evidence that the company knew of the dangers of its product and withheld information that the public needed to know. Here, the fact that Gilead waited to introduce a new and safer product may work against the company when the case goes to the jury.
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